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1. STATIUS, Publius Papinius. [e Works: e ebaid, e Achilleid, and the Silvae]. Statii Sylvae cum
Domitii Commentariis et avancii sui Emendationibus, Statii ebais cum Lactantii Commentariis, Statii Achil-
leis cum Maturatii Commentariis, Domitii Alie annotationes. Venice: Per Petrum de Quarengiis, 1508.
Folio (30 x 20 cm). ll.203+[1, bank]. Title-page printed in Gothic type, text printed in two sizes of roman type
with surrounding commentary. Full eighteenth-century vellum, marbled endpapers, speckled edges. Collates
complete. Decorative woodcut initials throughout. Ex libris Antonia Suardi Ponti with their bookplate to y-
leaf, along with additional old ownership inscription dated 1736. Small (2x5 cm) loss to bottom corner of leaf
92 (m8) due to damp staining with minor loss of marginal commentary, tiny wormhole to margins of rst 17
and last 8 leaves, generally a ne, well-preserved copy.
e scarce rst sixteenth-century folio edition of Statius (the rst being Aldus’s octavo edition of 1502), com-
prising the Silvae, the ebaid, and the Achilleid, with commentaries by Domizio Calderini, Lactantius Placi-
dus, and Francesco Maturanzio.
e rst complete edition of the works of Statius was published in 1483; the Silvae being rediscovered by Pog-
gio Bracciolini in 1417.
Apparently a reprint of a 1498 printing (Go S694) by the same Venitian printer. Adams S-1671; a scarce edi-
tion not in the BL Italian STC.
(Adams, S-1671)
€3,000 / £2,500
[F58740]
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2. (BIBLE). MARESCHAL, Jean (publisher). (Bi-
ble in Latin). Bibliorum opus sacrosanctum Vulgatis
quidem characteribus, sed incredibili studio diligen-
tiaque ad primaeuum receptem per Ecclesiam Roma-
nam aeditionis candorem revocatum...Que praeterea
modum in tam arduo negocio tenuerimus, primus
statim quaternio patefaciet. Lugdunum [Lyon]: Jean
Mareschal, 1532.
Large folio (43.5 x 23 cm). .[8]+276+[24]. Full eight-
eenth-century bluish green French morocco, sides
ruled with gilt foliate border, spine with raised bands
and lavishly gilt in compartments, each with central
euron device, red morocco label lettered in gilt, the
edges of boards decorated with gilt roll, marbled end-
papers, all edges gilt. Title-page printed in red and
black along with the tables of canons. Latin text print-
ed in double and triple column within printed bor-
der. Title-page with elaborate woodcut borders and
vignette of St. Jerome in his study, full-page woodcut
illustration of God creating the earth at the head of
the Old Testament (captioned ‘Opus sex dierum’),
three-quarter woodcut depicting the Nativity scene at
the head of the New Testament, half-page woodcut of
King Solomon at the head of proverbs, 112 woodcut
vignettes and numerous additional woodcut initials
in the text. Engraved bookplate of “L’Olivette” with “G.O.” monogram to front pastedown, the bookplate en-
graved by Silvain Guillot (a Parisian armorial engraver) to front pastedown along with a small library shelf
mark. Title-page bears the old ownership inscription of the Jesuit College in Antwerp; in the same hand are an
additional 5 instances of marginal annotations (on . 2r, 57v, 141v, 156v, and 175v). Minor shelfwear, internally
generally very good but with some light occasional damp-staining, four small marginal holes on E7 (not aect-
ing the text), and some repairs to edges of the last few leaves, overall a well-illustrated edition of the Vulgate in
a superb French binding.
Mareschal’s Bible was the rst to include the ird Book of Maccabees, an addition which resulted in his later
condemnation by the Council of Trent (which declared the book to be apocryphal), forcing him to ee to Swit-
zerland and subsequently to take up permanent residence in Heidelberg.
e woodcut of the Nativity scene is a close copy of Hans Springinklee's woodcut which rst appeared in a
1517 prayer book before being used for the 1520 Lyon edition of the Bible (Mortimer, Harvard French 63) as
well as Luther’s 1524 German Translation of the Old Testament, with a dierent artist's monogram. e smaller
woodcuts are more simplistic copies of those found in other Lyon bibles from this time produced by Mareschal,
Crespin and Sacon (such as Mortimer, Harvard French 66, Crespin's 1529 Bible).
USTC locates 15 copies, all in Europe save for 2 copies in the UK.
(Adams, 1012)
€12,000 / £10,000
[F59948]
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THE FIRST TRANSLATION OF A MAJOR POEM FROM ANTIQUITY INTO ANY FORM OF ENGLISH
3. VIRGILIUS MARO, Publius & DOUGLAS, Gavin
(translator). [e Aeneid]. e xiii Bukes of Eneados of
the famose Poete Virgill Translatet out of Latyne verses into
Scottish metir, bi the Reverend Father in God, Mayster Gaw-
in Douglas Bishop of Dunkel & unkil to the Erle of Angus.
Every buke having hys perticular Prologe. London: [William
Copland], 1553.
FIRST EDITION. 4to. (21.5 x 14.5 cm). Title, B-U8, X9,
Y-Z8, a-z8, aa8, bb7. Black letter, woodcut initials, title and
imprint within illustrated woodcut border (McKerrow &
Ferguson 49), with the additional inserted leaf in quire x,
nal (bbvii) leaf headed "Ane exclamacion aganis detrac-
touris", and front and rear blanks on later old paper. Full
19th century crimson morocco by Riviere & Son, sides
ruled with french llet, spine with raised bands and richly
gilt-decorated compartments, inner dentelles gilt, marbled
endpapers, all edges gilt. A few very minor repairs and light
staining to title, some inconspicuous worming, rust holes,
and a few pin-prick holes to text, a few inconspicuous mi-
nor repairs sometimes with very minor loss, ink smudge or
printing aw not compromising legibility on verso of Cccxii.
Withal a superlative copy.
is translation of Virgil's Aeneid by Gavin Douglas (c.1476-
1522), the bishop of Dunkeld, is the rst into Scots English,
and the rst into any vernacular British tongue, predating by
some years the earliest English translation. Earlier vernacu-
lar Virgilian versions, such as Chaucer's Legends of Dido and
Caxton's Eneydos, were more like free adaptations of Vergil's
text. "In the early 1500s no major classical work had been
translated into English, and Douglas's Eneados was a pio-
neering work... Douglas shared the values of the humanists:
an antipathy to scholasticism, respect for classical authors,
and a zeal for education. He wished to communicate to his
countrymen a knowledge of the Aeneid, and also to enrich
his native ‘Scottis’ tongue with something of the ‘fouth’, or
copiousness, of Latin" (ODNB).
According to Pforzheimer, "by an oversight of the print-
er some lines at the end of the prologue and beginning of
the text of the seventh book were omitted necessitating the
insertion of the extra leaf in quire X [chi1]. is leaf...is...
much more common than is the leaf Sig [bb7] containing
'Ane exclamacion agains detractouris' and the anagram on
the translator's name."
(STC 24797; Pforzheimer 1027; ESTC S119190)
€72,000 / £60,000
[F58881]
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4. THE HOLY BIBLE BOUND BY THE SQUIRREL BINDER. e Holy Bible, Containing the Old Testa-
ment and the New [bound with] e Book of Common Prayer [and] e Book of Psalms [and] e Geneal-
ogies. London: BIBLE: Robert Barker, (Old Testament dated 1631, New Testament and colophon dated 1630);
BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER: Bonham Norton, and John Bill, 1629; BOOK OF PSALMS: For the Company of
Stationers, 1630; GENEALOGIES: [F. Kingston, 1630-31].
Four works bound in one volume. 8vo. (17 x 11.5 cm). Contemporary English full black morocco by the “Squir-
rel Binder”*, sides and spine intricately tooled with gilt foliate, insect, and scroll motifs, gilt inner dentelles,
traces of two pairs of ties, all edges gilt. A later issue of the so-called Wicked Bible, rst published by Robert
Barker in the same year, this copy with ‘not’ reinstated. Anonymous round wood-engraved armorial with the
head of a bull and the motto ‘Non Nobis Nati’ (Born not for ourselves) to front pastedown. Upper inner hinge
splitting with some surface loss but holding strongly on cords, tips of corners bumped and rubbed, some slight
surface cracking of spine, lacking ties.
e works bound in the following order:
1) e Booke of Common Prayer and Administrations of the Sacraments: And other Rites and Ceremonies
of the Church of England. Engraved title-page within border, printed in two columns, red ruled throughout;
unpaginated but A-F8, G4 complete. Title-page loosening; a few rust spots, else very good. [ESTC 93880, STC].
2) e Genealogies recorded in the Sacred Scriptures, according to every Family and Tribe. e e Line of
our Saviour Jesus Christ, observed from Adam to the blessed Virgin Mary. by J.S. cum privilegio. Title-page
within border, unpaginated but A-B8, C2, D2 complete, including double-page engraved map of Canaan by
John Speed with inset plan of Jerusalem. [STC 123008].
3) e Holy Bible, Containg the Old Testament and the New. Newly Translated out of the Originall Tongues,
and with the former Translations diligently compared and revised: by his Majesties speciall Commandement.
Appointed to be read in Churches. Both engraved title-pages within borders, red-ruled throughout. Unpagi-
nated but A-Kkk8 complete. Two small tears in upper margin of OT title-page; paper aw in margins D3, G1,
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L1, S2, Nn2, Qq1 and 2, Aaa4, Ccc1, Kkk3; small tear Pp8 but no loss; some pale stains at the bottom of some
gutter margins and, occasionally, the printed notes in gutter margins; printer’s small ink stains Nn4b and Pp8b
partly aecting a few words. [STC 90518].
4) e Whole Book of Psalmes: Collected into English Meeter by omas Sternhold, John Hopkins, and others,
conferred with the Hebrew, with apt notes to sing them withall. Title-page within border, red ruled throughout,
signed A-F8, G4. Pagination: [x], 91, [3] complete. Paper aw in margin C4; short tear without loss D1; print-
er’s ink blot F2 partly obscuring one word. [STC 1198].
“Nearly all (copies of Bibles of this date) dier in parts from one another, but probably the majority are mixed
copies” (Darlow & Moule/edited by A.S. Herbert 449). is issue has the error at Exodus XX.14 (”ough shalt
not commit adultery”) corrected, and the other points mentioned.
*e tools of this binding, especially the scroll and “yin yang” foliate device, can be attributed to Nixon’s “Squir-
rel Binder”, who was active from 1610-1635 working for English nobles and members of the royal court, in-
cluding James I and Charles I; he has also been identied as being Lord Herbert’s and John Bill’s binder (Mir-
jam Foot). e Squirrel Binder produced marvellous bindings in the style of sixteenth-century French bindings
“à la fanfare.” In addition to the sixteen bindings recorded by Nixon, Mirjam Foot records another 37 examples
from the same shop, of which at least sixteen were made for the royal family (“Lord Herbert and the Squirrel
Binder”, e Henry Davis Gi, i, pp.51-58).
e tooling on this binding includes several distinct examples, most notably the scroll and seven petal oral
devices, which can be most closely matched with another devotional volume bound by the Squirrel Binder in
the British Library (e Booke of Common Prayer, 1607, also bound with Bible and Psalter), which forms part
of the Henry Davis Gi (Shelfmark Davis 97). Similarly, both books also display the traces of silk ties. As Nixon
points out, the accounts of the Earl of Northumberland reference to 'Bill, the bookbinder' should not be taken
“as conclusive evidence that he had his own binding sta working on his premises”, but given the frequency
with which John Bill is associated, as publisher, with attributed Squirrel Binder examples one has to wonder if
Bill commissioned bindings for presentation, or perhaps even for sale on the market as luxury copies.
(H.M. Nixon in 1970, "English Bookbindings 62: A London Binding by the Squirrel Binder, c. 1620", e Book
Collector, Spring 1970)
€10,200 / £8,500
[F59334]
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5. HERBERT, omas. Some Years Travels into Afri-
ca & Asia the Great. Especially Describing the Famous
Empires of Persia and Industant. As also Divers oth-
er Kingdoms in Orientall Indies, and I’les Adjacent.
[Letterpress Title]: Some Yeares Travels into Divers
Parts of Asia and Afrique. Describing especially the
two famous Empires, the Persian, and great Mogull:
weaved with the History of these later Times. As also,
many rich and spatious Kingdomes in the Orientall
India, and other parts of Asia; Together with the ad-
jacent Iles. Severally relating the Religion, Language,
Qualities, Customes, Habit, Descent, Fashions, and
other Observations touching them. With a revivall of
the rst Discoverer of America. Revised and Enlarged
by the Author. London: Printed by R. Bishop for Jacob
Blome and Richard Bishop, 1638.
Second edition. Small folio (27.5 x 18 cm). Engraved
title, [8], pp. 364, [14]. 19th century half black mo-
rocco over pebbled cloth boards by Hersant (their
stamp to verso of yleaf), spine with raised bands and
gilt-decorated compartments, marbled endpapers.
Fully illustrated with extra engraved title and 45 cop-
per engravings including 6 maps. Ex libris John Co-
pleston with his signature repeated three times on one
endpaper, along with those of three others on the fol-
lowing two endpapers. Copleston was a 17th-century
English army ocer, a supporter of the Parliamentary
cause in the English Civil War and Interregnum. Some sunning to upper portion of cloth, contents clean save
for some light toning and occasional faint spotting, generally a very good copy.
Sir omas Herbert (1606-1682), courtier to Charles I, traveller and author, made an extensive tour in Persia,
Cape of Good Hope, Madagascar, Surat, and coasted the Eastern shores of North America on his return to
England from a diplomatic mission headed by Sir Dodmore Cotton in 1926. First published in 1634, this work
is one of the best records of 17th-century travel, including remarkable illustrations of Persepolis, cuneiform
inscriptions, and the dodo. It was expanded by Herbert in many editions over his lifetime.
"e book had great vogue in its time. Written in a lively and agreeable style, it contains much that is interest-
ing and curious, particularly a dissertation to prove that America was discovered three hundred years before
Columbus by one Madoc ap Owen" (DNB IX 667).
(Wing H1534; Sabin 31471)
€4,200 / £3,500
[F60139]
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THE FIRST MODERN HISTORY OF THE CRUSADES IN ENGLISH
6. FULLER, omas. e Historie of the Holy Warre
[with] e Holy State [and] e Profane State. Lon-
don: Printed by Roger Daniel [and] by R. D. for John
Williams, 1647 & 1652.
ird edition of both works. 2 works bound in one vol-
ume. Folio (27.5 x 18 cm). Declaration of frontispiece,
engraved title, letterpress title, pp.[xi]+286+28+[1, -
nal blank]; engraved title, letterpress title, pp.[iv]+510.
Full nineteenth-century polished calf, sides ruled
with two gilt llets, spine with raised bands and rich-
ly gilt-decorated compartments, two brown morocco
labels lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers. Separate ti-
tle-page for the Profane State. 2 additional engraved
title-pages (one to each work), engraved folding map
of Palestine to e Holy Warre, 20 engraved portraits
to e Holy State, plus engraved initials and head- and
tail-pieces throughout. e portraits depict: Ferdi-
nand Alvarez, Joan of Arc, Nicholas Ridley, Jane Grey,
William Cecil, St. Augustine, William Perkins, Francis
Drake, Philip Paracelsus, Julius Scaliger, Hildegard of
Bingen, St. Paula, Monica (mother of St. Augustine),
William Whitaker, William Camden, omas Wolsey,
Queen Elizabeth I, Gustavus Adolphus, Edward
Prince of Wales, and Joan (Queen of Naples). Ex libris
George F. Timpson with his engraved armorial book-
plate to front pastedown. Some light minimal shelf-
wear, small marginal loss to p.385 just barely aecting
text, generally a very good copy, sound and fresh and in a handsome leather binding.
omas Fuller (baptised 19 June 1608 – 16 August 1661) was an English churchman and historian. A prolic
author, he was one of the rst English writers able to live by his pen (and his many patrons).
In 1639 Fuller's rst major literary and historical work, e Historie of the Holy Warre, was published by the
university press at Cambridge. e book was prefaced by commendatory verses by friends at Sidney Sussex,
Queens', Corpus Christi, Jesus, and Trinity colleges. It was the rst modern history of the crusades in English,
aside from the account in Richard Knolles, Generall Historie of the Turks (1603), and was based on Fuller's
extensive reading in medieval sources. He was sharply critical of the papacy for promoting the wars in the Holy
Land and he analysed shrewdly the reasons for the movement's eventual failure. n his judgement, the Papacy,
in waging them, had spent European lives and wealth for nothing more than a faraway plot of land and a few
relics.
One of Fuller's most important and popular literary works, e Holy State, was published in London in May
or June 1642. It was a rich collection of characters illustrating professions and states of life, along with short
biographies of historical gures from Queen Elizabeth and Sir Francis Drake to St. Augustine and Joan of Arc.
Allibone calls it, "Perhaps... the best of his works; and certainly [it] displays to better advantage than any his
original and vigorous powers of thinking."
[F62938 ]
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7. BERNIER, F[rançois]. Histoire de la derniere rev-
olution des estats du Grand Mogol...edition nouvelle.
Paris: Claude Barbin. 1671.
3 vols bound in one. Vol. 3 being Suite des Memoires..
sur l’Empire du Grand Mogol, published in the Hague
by Arnout Leers, same year.
12mo.(13 x 7cm.) pp.[viii]+182; [2]+101; 252 Con-
temporary red morocco-backed boards, spine gilt.
Folding map of China. Bookplate of Colonel Hely
Hutchinson, Upper Brook Street, to front paste-down.
A very nice copy.
Epicurean, traveller and philosopher, François Berni-
er (1620-1688) oers here his observations made dur-
ing his trip to the Mughal empire, undertaken the day
aer the death of his friend Gassendi. He mentions in
particular the struggle between the sons of Emperor
Shâh Jahân and the victory of Aurengzeb, following
which he succeeded in gaining admission.
€570 / £475
[F57958]
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8. MALLET, Allain Manesson. Description de l’Uni-
vers, contenant les dierents systemes du monde, les
cartes generales & particulieres de la Geographie An-
cienne & Moderne: les Plans & les Prols des prin-
cipales Villes & des autres lieux plus considerables
de la Terre; avec les Portraits des Souverains qui y
commandent, leurs Blasons, Titres & Livrées: et les
Moeurs, Religions, Gouvernemens & divers habille-
mens de chaque Nation. Paris: Chez Denys ierry,
1683.
FIRST EDITION. 5 vols. 8vo. (21x12 cm). Full
18th-century mottled calf, spine with raised bands and
gilt in compartments, complementary red and green
morocco labels, marbled endpapers. 5 engraved ad-
ditional titles, 2 engraved portraits and 681 engraved
plates (668 numbered plates, occasionally mis-num-
bered, and 12 "additional plates" bound at the end of
volumes 2 & 3). Provenance: Gravier (signed in all vol-
umes, dated 1684 in volume 5); ex libris Bibliotheque
de Monsieur le Comte Godefroy de Montgrand, with
his bookplate to paste-down of each volume. Inner
hinges of vols. 4 and 5 strengthened with cloth tape,
joints and extremities rubbed with some small partial
losses, spine of volume 5 perished, contents toned but
generally clean from further blemishes.
First edition of this famed geographical guide known
for its wealth of accurately delineated maps and views,
most aer the author, a skilled draughtsman with a
background in mathematics and military engineering.
In 1668, aer serving Alfonso VI in Portugal, Mallet
became mathematics master at the French court. His
earlier Travaux de Mars (two editions, 1671 and 1684)
was a treatise on fortication.
Vol. I of the Description outlines the planetary sys-
tem, vol. II is on Asia, III Africa, IV and rst part of
V Europe. e last volume is more of a catch-all, also
having the ‘terres Australes’ and ‘L’Amérique’ as its
subject. Volume 5 has dozens of views and maps of the Americas including Canada, Virginia, Florida, Mexico,
California, and city views of Quebec and Havana among others.
(Brunet, III, 1343), (Sabin, 44130)
€12,000 / £10,000
[F61189]
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9. [PLINY]. Plinius Secundus. Caii Plinii Secundi Naturalis Historiae Libri XXXVII. Interpretatione et Notis
Illistravit Joannes Harduinus Soc. Jesu, Jussu regis Chistianissimi Ludouici Magni, in usum Serenissimi Del-
phini. Paris: Apud Franciscum Muguet, 1685.
5 vols. 4to (24.5 x 18.5 cm). Complete with engraved title by Moreau, pp.[68]+815+[1]; 657+[1]; 645; 927+[1];
101. Eighteenth-century black morocco, spines with raised bands, gilt decorated compartments, twin red la-
bels, gilt decorated inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Armorial bookplates of “Wimbledon”
plus those of Robert Welch of urland Castle, Lanca-
shire and later one of Robert J. Hayhurst. Spines a little
faded, generally a very good set, in strong handsome
bindings.
“...un des meilleurs ouvrages de la collection ad usum, et
même on la préfére généralement à la suivante, qui con-
tient cependant des augmentations” (Brunet 4, 716)
e Delphin Classics - Ad usum Delphini - were started
in the 1670s for Louis, le Grand Dauphin, heir of Lou-
is XIV (“Delphini” is the genetive Latinization of Dau-
phin), and were written entirely in Latin. irty-nine
scholars contributed to the series, which was edited
by Pierre Huet with assistance from several co-editors,
including Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet and Anne Dacier.
e main features included the main Latin texts, a par-
aphrase in the margins or below in simpler Latin prose
(an ordo verborum) and extended notes on specic
words and lines, mainly about history, myth, geography,
or natural sciences plus indices.
€1,800 / £1,500
[F63230]
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10. FOSSATI, Giorgio. Raccolta di Varie Favole delineate,
ed incise in Rame da Giorgino Fossati architetto &c. Venezia
[Venice]: Carlo Pecora, 1744.
FIRST EDITION. 6 vols. 4to. (30 x 20.5 cm). Text printed
in two columns (Italian and French), each volume with ti-
tle-pages in French and Italian (each with engraved vignette),
title-pages in vol. 1 with engraved border printed in red, vols.
1 and 2 with 8pp. explanatory "Allegorie," bound at the rear
(the allegories in vols. 3-6 printed aer the text of each fa-
ble),* vols.1 and 3 with author's note to the readers,Contem-
porary full vellum, each spine with gilt-lettered red morocco
label. In total 216 copper-engraved plates (36 to each vol-
ume), 3 vignettes in the text, and 12 title-vignettes, all print-
ed in various colours: bistre, black, green, grey, sanguine,
and light blue. Numerous woodcut and engraved head- and
tail-pieces. Old ownership inscriptions in vols. 1 and 6.
An extensive illustrated edition of fables culled from Aesop
and La Fontaine, printed on ne handmade paper. Giorgio
Fossati (1705–1785), born in Switzerland but active in Ita-
ly, was a practising architect, writer, stage designer, dras-
man, and printmaker who experimented with a wide range
of coloured inks. Fossati's etchings depicting the fables of
Aesop and Jean de La Fontaine targeted an international
audience with text written in Italian as well as French—the
cosmopolitan language of the 18th century. Some of Fossati's
images reference earlier printed works, including Albrecht
Dürer's woodcut e Rhinoceros (1515).
*In the preface to vol. 3 Fossati states that the rst two vol-
umes have received censure from the public due to the
meanings of the fables not being readily apparent (‘un des
plus grands défauts remarquez dans ces Fables, étoit de n’y pas
trouvez la sentence, ou pour mieux dire, leurs explications’).
Indeed in the preface to vol.1 he explains that he deliberate-
ly omitted written explications because it would narrow the
range of possible interpretations inherent in each fable, not
to mention diminish the pleasure of allegorical discovery. In-
stead he explains that it is within his illustrations themselves
the sentence of the fables can be found: ‘Je te dois encore aver-
tir, mon cher Lecteur, que je n’ay point mis sous les Fables l’explication de l’allegorie, je l’ay fait à dessin, aïant pensé,
que c’est presque ôter le fruit de l’ouvrage, que d’ôter le plaisir de l’interpretation; je dirai même, que les Apoloques
ont divers aspects, & en expliquant l’allegorie, il auroit fallu m’en tenir à un seul point, tandis qu’on en auroit pû
faire allusion a un nombre inni de sujets’. However, aer the publication of the rst two volumes Fossati clearly
felt the need to assuage the displeasure of his readership and has therefore provided the explications directly
aer the fables in the following volumes (i.e. vols. 3-6). Apparently he also went as far as to retrospectively in-
clude these as a kind of index at the end of vols. 1 and 2.
(Cohen-de Ricci, 410)
€42,000 / £35,000
[F60919]
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11. POPE, Alexander. (An Essay on Man). Essai sur
l’Homme, par Monsieur Alexandre Pope. Traduction
Françoise en Prose, par Mr. S. Nouvelle Édition. Avec
l’Original Anglois; ornée de Figures en Taille-douce.
À Lausanne & À Genève: Chez Marc-Michel Bousquet
& Compagnie, 1745.
FIRST EDITION THUS. Folio (26 x 20 cm). pp.xx-
iv+116. Full 19th century crushed brown morocco,
sides decorated with prominent intricately tooled gilt
border, spine with raised bands and richly gilt in com-
partments, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all
edges gilt. Title-page printed in red and black, paral-
lel text in French and English throughout. Engraved
frontispiece, 4 full-page engraved plates, 8 engraved
vignettes and 7 culs-de-lampe by Belamonce en-
graved by Soubeyran and Galimard, engraved portrait
vignette of Pope to title-page by Kneller and engraved
portrait of Prince Charles Frederic (to whom this edi-
tion is dedicated) by Guillibaud, both engraved by
Will. Occasional light browning and some faint isolat-
ed foxing, minimal shelfwear, generally a superb copy
in an excellent full morocco binding.
A beautiful bilingual edition of Pope’s Essay on Man,
rst published in 1733-1734, oering the original
English text accompanied by the accomplished French translation by Étienne de Silhouette (1709-1767).
One of Pope’s most celebrated works, An Essay on Man is philosophical essay written in heroic couplets of
iambic pentameter which consists of four epistles. e rst epistle surveys relations between humans and the
universe; the second discusses humans as individuals; the third addresses the relationship between the indi-
vidual and society; and the fourth questions the potential of the individual for happiness. A masterpiece of
philosophical poetry, it was one of the most important and controversial works of the Enlightenment, and one
of the most widely read, imitated, and discussed poems of eighteenth-century Europe and America.
Upon its publication, An Essay on Man received great admiration throughout Europe. Voltaire called it "the
most beautiful, the most useful,
the most sublime didactic poem
ever written in any language". In
1756 Rousseau wrote to Voltaire
admiring the poem and saying
that it "soens my ills and brings
me patience", and Kant was fond
of reciting long passages of it from
memory to his students during his
lectures.
(Cohen 815-816)
€1,800 / £1,500
[F59435]
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"ONE OF THE MOST SPLENDID EDITIONS OF HOMER EVER DELIVERED TO THE WORLD"
12. HOMER. Iliados... Odysseias... [e Iliad and the
Odyssey]. Glasguae [Glasgow]: In Aedibus Academicis,
Excudebant Robertus et Andreas Foulis, Academiae
Typographi, 1756-1758.
FIRST EDITION OF THE FOULIS PRESS HOMER.
Together two works. 4 volumes bound in 2. Folio (32
x 20.5 cm). Handsome full 19th century vellum, sides
ruled with twin gilt llets intersecting gilt roundel at
each corner, spines with raised bands and gilt lettered
green morocco labels, the year of publication gilt to
bottom of each, compartments stamped in gilt with
elegant euron device, marbled endpapers, all edges
gilt. Text in Greek. Old presentation inscription from
“R.” to A.O.M. Mackenzie, dated 14th April 1903 to
yleaf in both volumes, along with the addresses of
“26 Geo. Sq. Edinburgh” and “Adriehill, Airdrie”. Gen-
erally an excellent set.
"One of the most splendid editions of Homer ever de-
livered to the world."
First edition of the Foulis Press Homer, described by
Edward Harwood as "One of the most splendid edi-
tions of Homer ever delivered to the world... its accu-
racy is equal to its magnicence" (Harwood, 4-5). e
text was carefully edited by the Glasgow professors
James Moor and George Muirhead (Moor was Robert
Foulis's brother-in-law) and the book was printed in
a new fount of Greek type designed and cut by the
Glasgow typefounder Alexander Wilson, the fount
being noted for its beauty and regularity. e broth-
ers jointly won the silver medal of the Select Society
of Edinburgh for the best-printed and most correct
Greek book. "As the eye is the organ of fancy, I read
Homer with more pleasure in the Glasgow edition.
rough that ne medium, the poet's sense appears
more beautiful and transparent" (Gibbon, Miscellane-
ous Works).
(Gaskell 319)
€6,300 / £5,250
[F62644]
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13. BOCCACCIO, Giovanni. Le Decameron de Jean
Boccace. Londres [Paris]: [Prault], 1757-1761.
5 vols. 8vo. (20 x 13 cm). Full 19th century crushed
blue morocco by David, sides ruled with French l-
lets, spines with raised bands and intricately gilt-dec-
orated compartments, gilt inner dentelles, marbled
endpapers, all edges gilt. Engraved portrait frontis-
piece and engraved title-page to each volume, 110
full-page engraved plates, engraved chapter titles, en-
graved cartouches and 97 culs-de-lampe by Lemire,
Legrand and others, aer Gravelot, Boucher, Eisen
and Cochin. An exceptionally ne, superlative set in
mint morocco bindings.
A ne edition illustrated in large part by Gravelot:
"one of the most accomplished illustrated books of
the 18th century" (Cohen-de Ricci 158-61); "one of
the masterpieces of the illustrated book" (Ray 15). e
imprint is false; the book was published in Paris by
Prault. e French translation is by Antoine Jean Le
Maçon. e French translation is by Antoine Jean Le
Maçon. Prault published an Italian version the same
year, with the same illustrations, which is dated 1757
throughout and is usually regarded as taking prece-
dence.
“Cette traduction, publiée par les mêmes éditeurs que
ceux de l’édition italienne, est plus recherchée et se paie
souvent plus cher...” (Cohen).
“ough other artists participated in its illustration,
the Decameron belongs to Gravelot. He designed
89 of its 111 plates and 97 of its tailpieces, the most
extensive undertaking of his career as an illustrator.
Boccaccio’s lively tales of varied action and amorous
intrigue were well suited to Gravelot’s temperament.
e convention by which he transposed their settings
and costume to the France of his own day made it pos-
sible for him to exercise his special talent for depicting
the social world around him...e human condition
has rarely been so attractively displayed...Gravelot
explores with unfailing subtlety the psychological im-
plications of each situation that he selects for illustra-
tion” (Ray).
(Cohen 160-171; Ray 15)
€4,500 / £3,750
[F59434]
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ENTIRELY ENGRAVED
14. LA FONTAINE, Jean de. Fables choisies, mises en vers par J. La Fontaine, nouvelle edition gravée en
taille-douce, les gures par le sr. Fessard, le texte par le sr. Monulay, dediées aux enfans de France. À Paris: Chez
l’Auteur, 1765-1775.
FIRST EDITION THUS. 6 vols. 8vo (20 x 13 cm). Entirely engraved. Uniformly bound in polished French
contemporary mottled calf, sides ruled with three gilt llets, at spines ruled in compartments enclosing gilt
euron devices, red morocco labels, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. In total 254 engraved
plates comprising 7 engraved titles, engraved frontispiece, engraved dedication, and 245 engraved plates, plus
243 vignettes, and 226 culs-de-lampe by Bardin, Bidault, Caresme, Desrais, Houël, Kobell, Leclère, Leprince,
Loutherbourg, Meyer and Monnet. e text engraved by Montulay and Drouët. Ex libris Michel Cail with their
book plate to each volume. Some trivial shelfwear, contents clean, generally an excellent set.
“is work was the creation of the engraver Fessard, who dedicated it to the Dauphin. He evidently hoped to
rival the great edition illustrated by Oudry, and in this eort he didn’t altogether fail. With regard to profusion
of illustrations, indeed, he far surpassed the edition of
1755-1759. ere are a plate and a headpiece for each
of the 243 fables, and a tailpiece for all but seventeen.
Moreover, since the text, like the designs, is engraved,
the ensemble is as harmonious as it is elegant” (Ray).
*Cohen-de Ricci calls for 243 plates; there seem to be
varying plate counts from copy to copy but in any case
this example is more than complete.
(Cohen-De Ricci 551; Ray 61)
€5,700 / £4,750
[F61693]
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A RARE HAND-COLOURED COPY
15. HANCARVILLE, Pierre-Francois Hugues d'. Veneres uti observantur in gemmis antiquis. Lugd. Bata-
vorum [i.e. Leiden - but actually Naples], [c.1771].
FIRST EDITION. Two volumes bound in one. Small 4to. (20.5 x 14.8 cm). Fully engraved throughout.
Hand-coloured title numbered 1, 10 pp. preface printed in red within black borders, plates numbered 2-30, all
hand-coloured, each with a leaf or two of text in red within red border; hand-coloured title and 35 hand-colour-
ed plates with text leaves as before. In all 66 hand-coloured plates including two titles. Later, nineteenth cen-
tury, half black half morocco over marbled paper covered boards, spine with raised bands and gilt, green silk
page marker. An excellent copy.
A ne hand-coloured copy of this fully engraved work, – 'rarissimes exemplaires dont les gures, chefs-d'oeuvre
de gravure, ont été peintes dans un coloris d'une beauté surprenante' (Pia).
Hancarville catalogued Sir William Hamilton's collection of ancient vases in Naples in 1764, from which it
is likely he took some inspiration for these images showing a collection of classical erotica, supposedly taken
from actual medallions. In 1777 he travelled to London, where he arranged the second edition of this work
with the text also in English.
(Cohen 476; Pia Enfer 1487-1488; Karen A. Sherry, Winterthur XXX)
€12,000 / £10,000
[F47889]
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ADAM SMITH SUBSCRIBED
16. VIRGIL [Publius Virgilius Maro]. [e Works]. Publii Virgilii Maronis Bucolica, Georgica, et Aeneis. Ex
editione Petri Burmanni. Glasguae [Glasgow]: In Aedibus Academicis, Excudebat Andreas Foulis, Academiae
Typographus, 1778.
FIRST EDITION THUS. 2 volumes bound in 1. Folio (38 x 23.5 cm). Full 19th century straight-grained navy
morocco, sides ruled with elaborate gilt borders of llets and quatrefoil tools, spine with raised bands and let-
tered in gilt, blue-coated endpapers, all edges gilt. Half-titles to both volumes and subscribers list present. Ex
libris William Markham, Esq. of Becca Lodge in Yorkshire, and Gervase H. Markham (a presumed relation)
with their book plates to front pastedown, and a manuscript note from the latter concerning his reading of
the volume beneath his bookplate. William Markham, Archbishop of York from 1777 until his death in 1807,
was one of the leading scholars of his day. Some trivial isolated spotting, generally an excellent copy in a most
handsome binding.
A beautiful and nely bound copy of the Foulis folio Virgil, an edition to which Adam Smith subscribed.
(Gaskell, 639)
€4,200 / £3,500
[F58760]
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17. LEEMPUT, J.H.J. [Greek Language]. Institutiones
linguae graecae, ad analysin potissimum compara-
tas, edidit J.H.J. Leemput, in universitate Lovaniensi
S.T.D., et linguae graecae professor. Prostant Lovanii
(Louvain), 1782.
FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (19 x 11 cm). pp.[vi]+167+[1].
Contemporary full red morocco, sides ruled with gilt
foliate border, spine with raised bands and gilt-dec-
orated compartments, marbled endpapers, all edg-
es gilt. Text in Greek and Latin. Two folding charts,
head- and tail-pieces. Ex libris Jacques Laget with his
bookplate to front pastedown, two old Jesuit library
stamps to title-page. Lightly rubbed, some browning
to contents, generally a very good example in a lovely
contemporary binding.
€1,140 / £950
[F60015]
18. PLATO; ROUTH, Martin Joseph. Platonis Eu-
thydemus et Gorgias. Recensuit, vertit, notasque suas
adjecit, Martinus Josephus Routh, A.M. Collegii d.
Mariae Magd. Oxon. Socius. Oxonii [Oxford]: E Ty-
pographeo Clarendoniano, 1784.
Large 8vo. (23.5 x 15 cm). pp.xix+[1]+575+[5, index].
Greek text with Latin translation below it on each
page in double columns. Contemporary full dark blue
straight-grained morocco, spine decorated with gilt
llets and eurons, sides framed with double gilt l-
lets surrounding large central diamond motif, inner
dentelles gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Minor
marginal repair to lower part of title, small marginal
tear without loss to Hh3, generally a very good copy in
a handsome binding.
Martin Joseph Routh (1755-1854) was an English
classical scholar and President of Magdalen College,
Oxford (1791–1854). A remarkable daguerreotype
survives showing him in very old age adorned in wig
and in full regalia. Truly remarkable considering that
he would have been a young man during both the
American and French Revolutions.
€1,080 / £900
[F61573]
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19. [BODONI]. TASSO, Torquato. Aminta. Favola
Boschereccia di Torquato Tasso ora per la prima volta
alla sua vera lezione ridotta. Crisopoli [Parma]: Impresso
co’caratteri Bodoniani, 1789.
FIRST BODONI EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, ONE OF
ONLY 50 COPIES ON VÉLIN PAPER. 4to. (29.5 x 21.5
cm). 7 ., 14 pp., 1 f., 142 pp., 1f. Printed in italic an
roman type. In a sumptuous Parisian binding by Jo-
seph ouvenin l'Aîné (c.1820 or before)* of dark blue
straight-grained morocco elaborately tooled in gilt and
blind; the sides ruled with broad border of arabesques,
stylised owers and acanthus leaves, the four corners
with quatrefoil ornaments; inner blind-stamped border
of palmettes enclosing fan-shaped pointillé corner pieces
composed of arabesques, acanthus and foliate tools, the
centres with large lozenge shaped ornament; the spine
with ve double-raised bands, the second compartment
lettered in gilt, the others richly gilt with foliate tools on
pointillé backgrounds, ouvenin’s name gilt to foot of
spine “R.(ELIÉ) P.(AR) THOUVENIN”; gilt inner den-
telles, doublures and endleaves of pink watered-silk sur-
rounded by gilt borders, all edges gilt. Housed in a silk-
lined cloth drop-back box. Engraved portrait vignette
and engraved coat-of-arms. A ne copy in a sumptuous
binding.
A magnicent copy of this celebrated typographic masterpiece by Bodoni. Brunet cites this as "une des plus
belles éditions de Bodoni" produced by the legendary printer-typographer. Dedicated to the Marchesa Donna
Anna Malaspina della Bastia with a poem by Vincenzo Monti, printed in Bodoni's elegant italics, underneath
her engraved coat of arms and with a preface by the Abate Pierantonio Serassi. While it was subsequently re-
printed in 1792 with a frontispiece bearing the original printing date of 1789, this example is identiable as the
rst issue (with the small signature number on p. 13 of the preface, and the correct "novi snow" is p. 38).
e sumptuous binding, by Joseph ouvenin l'Aîné, was likely executed before 1820. Born In 1791, the son
of a bookseller, he learned bookbinding from 1802-1813. He started to work with Bozerian and had acquired
great competence by 1806. He set up on his own in 1813, apparently to learn the gilding which Bozérian Jeune
had been unwilling to teach him. His submission of 11 bindings at the Exhibition of 1819 was rewarded with an
honourable mention while at that of 1823, he gained a silver medal. He became one of, if not the most respect-
ed and sought-aer binders of the period but died in his binding prime in 1834. “is binder shows rst class
technical skills: he pays attention producing fashionable bindings provided with llet borders, French Restora-
tion panel stamps of little, middle and big sizes and à la cathédrale. He is one of the rst workers to adopt the
retrospective style, which appealed to Nodier” (BL). His name has been immortalised by mentions in the pages
of Balzac and Stendhal, and his connection with Charles Nodier has added a lustre to both their names, oen
inscribed on shields on the sides of books bound for and by them respectively.
*According to the British Library: “e signature R.(ELIÉ) P.(AR) THOUVENIN appeared on works produced
before 1820; aer this date, it became THOUVENIN”.
(Brunet, 673)
€14,400 / £12,000
[F60882]
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20. DONOVAN, Edward. e Natural History of British Insects; explaining them in their Several States, with
the Periods of their Transformation, their Food, Oeconomy, &c. Together with the History of such Minute
Insects as require Investigation by the Microscope. e Whole illustrated by Coloured Figures, designed and
executed from Living Specimens. London: Printed for the Author, and for F. and C. Rivington, 1792-1813.
FIRST EDITION. 16 volumes bound in 8. 8vo. (23.5 x 14 cm). Contemporary full calf richly gilt, sides ruled
with wide gilt foliate borders, spines with raised bands and richly gilt in compartments, gilt inner dentelles,
marbled endpapers and edges. 576 ne hand-coloured engraved plates by and aer Donovan. Some light shelf-
wear to bindings, contents clean and crisp save for the odd occasional spot and one example of a brown splash
in Vol. 16 aecting pp. 33-37, generally an excellent set in particularly handsome bindings.
Fine, complete set of rst issues of Edward Donovan’s comprehensive guide to the complex and diverse world
of insect life in Britain. is handsome work was originally intended to be published in ten volumes in 1801.
However, with Donavan’s acquisition of additional specimens and two complete cabinets of insects, the deci-
sion was taken to continue the series and a further 6 volumes were published from 1806 onwards. Organised
into sections that cover various habitats and environments found around the British Isles, each description
is accompanied by a highly detailed engraving, that provides
visual illumination of the species’ physical characteristics, be-
haviour and ecological role. Donovan’s comprehensive work
not only reects the growing interest in the natural world
from the general public, it equally reects the emergence of
the eld of entomology as a distinct scientic discipline.
(Nissen ZBI 1142)
€8,700 / £7,250
[F61694]
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21. TENCH, Watkin Capt. Geschichte von Port Jack-
son in NeuHolland von 1788 bis 1792, Nebst einer
Beschreibung der Insel Norfolk. Hamburg: Homann,
1794.
FIRST EDITION IN GERMAN. 8vo (20.2 cm x 12
cm). 1 . + vi + 244 + folding map. Contemporary
half German calf over boards, raised bands to spine
ruled in gilt, lettering label perished, all edges dyed
red. Folding map of Port Jackson, with 5.5cm tear,
without loss at fold. Front pastedown with a contem-
porary inscription, two later library stamps to title,
Stadtarchivs Straslund and Bibliotek Gymnasiums
zu Straslund. Binding rubbed and scued, lower cov-
er with minor worming aecting last 4 leaves, some
foxing and browning; overall a good copy with wide
margins and generally very clean.
“Regarded by the best authorities as the most accurate,
orderly, vivacious and valuable description of life in
the colony in its rst years” (Hill). Tench (1758 – 1833)
sailed on may 1787 towards Botany Bay, making port
there in 1788; shortly thereaer, he was transferred to
Port Jackson where he deployed his exploring curios-
ity discovering the local ora and natural resources,
as well as the locals of the region. Hill’s note, made for
the rst edition published a few years earlier, clearly
states the importance of Tench’s work for the newly
founded Port Jackson. e folding map “Charte von
Port Jackson” was not included in the rst edition, and
is one of the earliest available on Port Jackson. First
published London 1793.
€600 / £500
[F60869]
22. [NEEDLEWORK BINDING BINDING -
GEORGE III]. Koniglich Gross-Britanischer und
Churfurstlich Braunschweig-Luneburgischer Staats
Kalendar auf das Jahr 1801. Lauenburg, 1801.
8vo. (18 x 11 cm.) pp.[xxxii]+264+34+[16]. Contem-
porary needlework binding of white gold silk twill,
with borders of gold sequins and foliate border of green
silks issuing in red owers, upper cover with crowned
monogram of George III to the centre, monogram
in gold sequins, the crown worked in coloured silks,
the lower cover with a central cornucopia worked in
gold threads with owers and leafy sprays in colour-
ed silks, corner pieces of owers worked in sequins
and gold threads, gilt edges, bright green endpapers,
slightly rubbed, the binding preserved in its original
red morocco slipcase with crowned gilt monogram of
George III to upper cover and star emblem to lower
cover, gilt border to sides, spine richly gilt. Slipcase
a little rubbed at extremities, the binding remarkable
well preserved, overall in excellent condition.
€4,500 / £3,750
[F61172]
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23. SPILSBURY, Francis B. Picturesque Scenery in
the Holy Land and Syria, delineated during the Cam-
paigns of 1799 and 1800. London: Published by Ed-
ward Orme, 1803.
FIRST EDITION. Large folio (47 x 33 cm). Later half
burgundy morocco by J. May, spine with gilt-decorat-
ed raised bands, gilt-decorated compartments and gilt
lettering, all edges gilt. Mezzotint portrait frontispiece
of Sir William Sydney Smith, title, dedication, iv, 42,
(i) pages and illustrated with 19 ne hand coloured
aquatint plates and a small oval aquatint portrait of Sir
John Douglas on page 26, complete. e earliest issue
with the rst two leaves watermarked “J. Whatman
1801”. Some spotting to the frontispiece and plate 5
repaired in the inner margin by the binder. General-
ly a very good clean copy with the exceptionally ne
hand colouring associated with the rst edition.
First edition, with subsquent editions being issued in
1819 (without the portrait) and a third in 1823. e
quality of the plates in this rst edition is far supe-
rior to that of the later issues. ey include views of
Acre, Sidon, Tyre, Beirut, Jaa, Mount Tabor, Tripo-
li, Caeserea and also ne genre scenes showing cos-
tumes, etc., etc. In the later editions of 1819 & 1823
which were published by omas M'Lean, the plates
were closely copied, reduced in size, and were uni-
formly in aquatint, but with nothing like the subtilty
of technique of the rst edition of 1803 which was
published by Edward Orme. e portrait of Sir Syd-
ney Smith was also omitted.
English naval surgeon Francis B. Spilsbury's account
of his travels in the Holy Land and Syria during the
Napoleonic campaigns there. Spilsbury was surgeon
on board the newly commissioned HMS Tigre (French
prize Tigre 74) during the campaigns of 1799 and
1800. e Tigre brought Sir William Sidney Smith to
defend Acre against Napoleon's siege, and led a naval
force in support of Turkish armies which nally relieved Acre, and his text gives some account of the military
campaigns and the Turkish dignitaries. In his reminiscences Napoleon accused Smith of making him miss his
destiny, as Smith's timely appearance thwarted Napoleon's drive to invade Syria and forced him to retreat to
Egypt. “Spilsbury was the surgeon on board H.M.S. Tigre, commanded by Sydney Smith, the hero of Acre, to
whom the work is dedicated. H.M.S. Tigre took part in the English campaigns against the French in Egypt and
Syria. Spilsbury’s plates include views in Syria and Palestine and genre scenes, several of which depict ocers
of the expedition” (Blackmer).
(Abbey Travel, 381; Blackmer, 1585)
€5,400 / £4,500
[F62722]
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ONE OF THE RAREST BOOKS ON ARABIA
24. [MAURIZI, Vicenzo]. History of Seyd Said, Sul-
tan of Muscat; together with an Account of the Coun-
tries and People on the Shores of the Persian Gulf,
particularly of the Wahabees. By Shaik Mansur, a Na-
tive of Rome, who aer having practised as a Physi-
cian in many Parts of the East, became Commander
of the Forces of the Sultan of Mascat, against the Ge-
ovasseom and Wahabees Pirates. Translated from the
original Italian M.S. hitherto not published. London:
Published by John Booth, 1819.
FIRST EDITION. Large 8vo. (22.5 x 14 cm). Title+1
errata leaf+[20, preface]+pp.174+[1, folding table]+[1,
colophon]. Sometime reacked with half brown sheep-
skin (preserving original vellum corners) over speck-
led paper boards, smooth spine with gilt rules and red
morocco title label. Engraved folding map entitled
“Map of the City of Muscatt and adjacent Country”,
small diagram of a pyramid in the preface, and folding
table “On the Climate and Atmosphere of the City of
Muscat, during the Twelve Months of the Year”. Small
tear in the margin of the map without loss, occasional
light foxing, generally a very good copy.
One of the rarest books in English on Arabia and the
earliest extensive source on Oman, the present work
played an important part in informing western opin-
ion about the country, and is especially signicant due
to its account of early Wahhabism. e author was an Italian, Vincenzo Maurizi "a native of Rome who having
practised as a physician in many parts of the East, became a commander of the forces of the Sultan of Muscat,
against the Geovasseon and Wahabee Pirates".
Maurizi was one of the earliest European visitors to spend a considerable period of time in Oman. He visited
Greece and Constantinople, practised medicine in Anatolia, Egypt and Yemen, and arrived in Muscat in 1809.
He remained there for a year and was nicknamed “Sheik Mansur” by the ruler Seyd Said, with whom he was
closely associated as his personal physician and as commander of his artillery. In 1810 Maurizi proceeded to
Baghdad and Persia, but returned to Oman in 1814 before travelling to India. His book, “e History of Seyd
Said,” is the rst European account of Oman and provides a fascinating study of daily life in Muscat and the
personality of the Sultan. It is an extraordinary tale, told with a brio unusual in the travel literature of the time.
It is full of incident and anecdote, intrigue and opinion, and while entertaining has much interesting material
not found elsewhere. For instance his long interview with the Wahabi emissary from Saud, to whom the Sultan
paid tribute, gives a colourful account of life in Derrieh, not only a description of the country but also how
Maurizi, as a physician, might get employment and what he might expect as an indel, together with a short
account of the overland journey from Katif to the Wahabi capital. e hardships of this journey put Mansur o
the venture and it was not undertaken by a westerner until Sadleir (qv) made his Trans-Arabian crossing. Of
particular interest too, is his interview with the Nubian assassin of Seyd Said's predecessor, whose ulcer Maurizi
treated at the behest of the Sultan.
According to Robin Bidwell, “[Maurizi’s] is the only account ever given by a participant in the coup in which
Sayyid Said seized power and his eye-witness reporting of the Omani army in action is well worth reading.
However, the most important contribution that Maurizi makes to knowledge of Arabia is his record of a long
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conversation with a Wahhabi envoy who explained the basis of his beliefs” (Bidwell, introduction to History
of Seyd Said, reprint 1984, p.xi). e envoy, sent to Muscat by Saud II bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud (1748-1814),
not only outlined his faith (Wahhabism), but also described the Saudi capital Diriyah, his route to Muscat and
his people’s resistance to the Ottoman Egyptian army: “Toson Pascià [Tusun Pasha]... has a sucient force to
conquer all of the cities and villages situated on the shores of the Red Sea, but we shall always be masters of the
desert, from our superior ability of enduring fatigue and privations” (p.45).
Gay 3688 (under 'Mansur'); Robin Bidwell, "Bibliographical Notes on European Accounts of Muscat 1500-
1900", in Arabian Studies, IV, 1978, pp.123-160; Ibid. Introduction to the facsimile reprint of "History of Seyd
Said" (Cambridge: Oleander Press, 1984)
€42,000 / £35,000
[F62021]
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25. GERNING, J.J. [Johann Isaac] Von, Baron. A
Picturesque Tour along the Rhine, from Mentz to Co-
logne: With Illustrations of the Scenes of Remarkable
Events, and of Popular Traditions...Embellished with
Twenty-Four Highly Finished and Coloured Engrav-
ings, from the Drawings of M. Schuetz; and Accompa-
nied by a Map. Translated from the German by John
Black. London: R. Ackermann, 1820.
FIRST EDITION. Folio (33.5 x 28 cm). Title, verso
blank; Dedication, 1 leaf; List of Subscribers, pages
(v) to viii; Preface by the Translator, pages (ix) to xii;
Preface of the Author, pages (xiii) and xiv; Contents,
1 leaf, verso with List of Plates; Text, pp. 1-178. Peri-
od style half red morocco over marbled boards, spine
with raised bands and intricate gilt tooling, all edg-
es gilt. 24 aquatinted plates D. Havell and T. Suther-
land aer C.G. Schutz with original hand-colouring,
engraved folding map with colour highlights at rear
entitled “Map of the Course of the Rhine from Mentz
to Cologne; And of the Course of the Maine and the
Lahn”. Minor scattered spotting, slight osetting to
map, generally an excellent copy.
One of Ackermann's major colour plate books and
apparently the rst in his "Picturesque Tours" series,
others of which explore the Seine, the Ganges, and the
ames. e book describes a trip down the Rhine on
that part of the river generally considered most ro-
mantic and charming, “from Mentz to Cologne, and
of the Bathing-Places of Wiesbaden and Embs”. e
account contains not only topographical descriptions,
but considerable historical information and details
of popular traditions, the book being written "with a
view chiey to the information of travellers of culti-
vated minds who may be induced to visit this inter-
esting portion of Germany (Preface of the Author)".
e original German edition was published in Wies-
baden in 1819 as Die Rheingegenden von Mainz bis
Cölln, without illustrations.
e third issue, with the plates numbered in top right
corner.
(Abbey Travel, 217; Tooley, 234)
€3,600 / £3,000
[F57598]
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26. GIRONI, Robustiano. Saggio di Robustiano Gironi intorno alle costumanze civili dei Greci. Milan: Dalla
Tipograa del Dottore Giulio Ferrario, 1823.
FIRST EDITION LIMITED TO 80 COPIES. PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR dated
1839.. Folio (38 x 27 cm). pp.133+[2]. Contemporary green papered boards decorated in blind, smooth spine
with gilt rules and gilt oral devices. 19 nely hand-coloured aquatint plates, engraved by Gallina, Fumagalli,,
Raineri etc., each with small circular e blind stamp to margin reading “Il costumi anitico e moderno”. Presn-
tation from “L’autor al chiarissimo...architetto Gilardoni il 4 marzo 1839”. Ex libris William St. Clair with his
pencilled ownership dated june 1998. Binding rubbed along corners and spine with small partial losses along
joints, some light scattered foxing, generally a very good copy of this scarce work.
Rare, one of only 80 copies, and not in Blackmer. e plates in this work,
culled from Choiseuil Gouer, Dodwell et al, published by Giulio Ferrar-
io, appeared later in Ferrario's magnum opus, Il costumi antico e moder-
no (rst Italian edition 1827, see Blackmer 588).
Gironi, librarian of the Brera in Milan, but also an archaeologist and bibli-
ographer produced two other related works on Greek costume and music,
both also very scarce.
(Colas, 21254)
€6,300 / £5,250
[F62950]
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27. LEOPARDI, Giacomo (1798-1837). Opere di Giacomo Leopardi. Vol. I. Canti...edizione corretta, accre-
sciuta, e sola approvata dall’ autore [with] Prose di Giacomo Leopardi, edizione corretta, accresciuta, e sola
approvata dall’ autore. Napoli: Presso Saverio Starita, Strada Quercia n.14 [and second part] Italia, 1835.
Two works bound together in one volume. 12mo. (14 x 9 cm). Half-title, title, indice, notizia and pp.7-177; title,
pp.7-198. Later full vellum, yapp edges, broken ties, old booksellers label of F. Casella, Naples to front paste-
down., spine simply titled in gilt. Intermittent light foxing throughout, second title page remargined at outer
edge, generally very good.
Giacomo Leopardi is one of the best-known Italian authors. He was born in Recanati, a small town in the cen-
tre of Italy, in 1798 and died in Naples in 1837, two weeks before his 39th birthday. Since the very beginning of
his childhood, he showed huge intellectual abilities, having learned Greek,
Hebrew, and other languages alone by reading the so-called Bibbia Poly-
glotta, the English edition of the Holy Scriptures published in London in
the XVII century. He was a philologist and a prose writer, but he is known
mostly for his poetry which has been translated into more than twenty
languages.
€4,200 / £3,500
[F62868]
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28. LABORDE, Léon [Emmanuel Simon Joseph] de.
Journey through Arabia Petraea, to Mount Sinai, and
the Excavated City of Petra, the Edom of the Prophe-
cies. London: John Murray, 1836.
FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. 8vo. (21.5 x 13.5 cm).
pp.xxviii+331+[1]. Contemporary full tan calf, sides
ruled with gilt llets, spine with raised bands and
richly gilt in compartments, burgundy morocco label
lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers and edges. Com-
plete as called for with 65 illustrations comprising en-
graved plates, vignettes in the text, and a folding map.
Some very light rubbing to corners and edges, con-
tents remarkably clean and fresh, generally an very
nice, handsome copy.
First English edition of "an important work" (Black-
mer), rst published in French in 1830. “Laborde trav-
elled with the well known Linant de Bellefonds, who
at the time was in service with Mehmet Ali as an hy-
draulic engineer. ey set out from Cairo in Febrary
1828, where Laborde had established himself aer his
long journey in Asia Minor and Syria (1826-7), and
made their way to Petra via Suez and Mt. Sinai. Both
Burckhardt and Irby and Mangles had Explored Petra
before Laborde, but Laborde was the rst to be able to
make plans, views and maps of the area. An important
work. e plates are aer drawings by both Linant de
Bellefonds abd Laborde” (Blackmer).
(Cf. Blackmer, 929)
€900 / £750
[F61657]
33Stuttgart Rare Book Fair 2025
29. BEATO, Antonio; BONFILS, Félix; LANGAKI,
Peridis. Égypte & Syria. [A Collection of 60 Photo-
graphic Prints on Syria, Egypt, and the Middle East].
[c.1880].
A collection of 59 original album prints (c.21 x 28 cm.)
in black & white except for one in colour, most titled
and signed in the negative, each laid onto thicker card
(27 x 35 cm.), the ensemble housed in a contempo-
rary portfolio of blue pebbled cloth with red morocco
title-label to upper cover (”Syrie-Égypte”), marbled
endpapers, and original green ties. Additional manu-
script captions in French to some prints. Some occa-
sional light fading, one print with scattered spotting
to card only, generally a wonderfully preserved collec-
tion of photographs handsomely presented in a con-
temporary portfolio.
An impressive collection of albumen prints of the
Middle East by Bonls, Beato, and Langaki. e ma-
jority are of Egypt and include a selection of ancient
Egyptian monuments and scenes from contemporary
life. In addition there are photographs of Syria and
Lebanon. e photos depict a wide variety of subjects,
including exterior and interior views of Mosques,
portraits, antiquities, views, etc. etc.
€3,600 / £3,000
[F62187]
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30. ROBERTS, David. e Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia...from drawings made on the spot by David
Roberts, R.A. With historical descriptions, by e Revd George Croly, L.L.D.. Lithographed by Louis Haghe.
London: F.G. Moon., 1842-49.
FIRST EDITION. 3 volumes bound in 2. Large elephant folio (62.5 x 46.5 cm). Handsome contemporary half
red morocco over red cloth boards by J. Rimmel, spines with raised bands and gilt-decorated compartments,
titles gilt to spine, all edges gilt. Booksellers green ticket of J. Rimmel, 400 Oxford Street.* Complete with lith-
ographed portrait of Roberts by C. Baugniet, 3 lithographed titles with vignettes, map and 120 plates of which
60 are full-page and 60 half-page. Contents in near immaculate condition, the only exceptions being in rst
volume verso of two plates Fountain of Job (half page) and Sabaste (full page) with slight light foxing, and Ly-
dda (half page) slightly foxed to recto, and in volume two verso of Citadel of Sidon lightly foxed.
*400 Oxford Street is the current address of Selfridges, the great department store. Founded by James Rimmell,
his son joined the rm in 1861“It was James Rimell & Son who were Major J. R. Abbey’s principal agent in
gathering together his extraordinary collection of English colour-plate books in the 1930s.” (Laurence Worms).
e label here is in the name of J. Rimmell implying that this set was sold by Rimmel prior to 1861.
“One of the most important and elaborate ventures of 19th-century publishing... the apotheosis of the tinted
lithograph” (Abbey Travel).
(Abbey Travel 385)
€24,000 / £20,000
[F61995]
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A SCARCE WORK ON THE JEWISH COMMUNITIES IN THE PERSIAN GULF
31. SAMUEL, Jacob. Journal of a Missionary Tour through the Desert of Arabia to Bagdad. Edinburgh, Lon-
don, and Aberdeen: Maclachlan, Stewart & Co. 1844.
FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (20 x 12 cm). pp.xiv+323+[1, ads]. Publisher’s original blind-stamped purple cloth,
spine with gilt lettering, yellow-coated endpapers. With a nice old gi inscription to front free endpaper dated
1847. Cloth a bit faded especially to spine, some minor shelfwear, contents clean, generally a very good copy of
this scarce work on the Middle East.
e present work is a ‘faithful narrative of a missionary tour’ undertaken by the author, who had converted
from Judaism to Christianity in 1828, throughout the Middle East and India. e expedition was intended to
explore the possibilities of bringing Middle Eastern Jews and Muslims into the Christian fold, and took Samuel
from Bombay to Arabia, Muscat, Bandar Abbas, Jerusalem, Baghdad, Bushire, and back to India. e Jewish
communities which Samuel visited were at rst unaware of his intentions and so gave him a cordial reception -
which provided Samuel with an early 19th century view of Jewish congregations in India, Arabia and Iraq not
recorded by other western travellers. Samuel also makes several interesting disquisitions including pirates in
the Persian Gulf, Arab horse dealers, venomous serpents, the Sabians, the tenets of Islam, the Bedouins, coee
houses in Arabia, etc. etc.
A rare book, with only 35 names included on the list of subscribers (48 copies in total), and just 6 copies re-
corded at auction by Rare Book Hub since 1895.
€4,800 / £4,000
[F61569]
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“THE VERY THOUGHT OF GRANDVILLE” (RAY)
32. GRANDVILLE, J.J. (Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard Grandville). Les Fleurs Animées par J.J. Grandville, in-
troductions par Alph. Karr, texte par Taxile Delord. Paris: Gabriel de Gonet, 1847.
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE WITH THE CORRECT PAGINATION. 2 vols. Large 8vo. (27 x 18.5 cm).
pp. 262; 263-364+iv+132. Near contemporary straight-grained blue morocco over marbled boards by Emile
Carayon (his signature to front endpapers), original pink-decorated paper wrappers bound in, smooth spines
lettered and decorated in gilt, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt. 52 hand-coloured plates comprising 50 an-
thropomorphic steel-engraved plates and two wood-engraved frontispieces, plus an additional 2 black and
white botanical plates in vol. 2. Octagonal navy bookplate with a wild boar to marbled yleaf of vol.1. A ne
copy.
A lovely set of one of Grandville's best works, a true classic of oral surrealism, in a handsome French binding
by Carayon. "e Fleurs Animées are the very thought of Grandville; they were his favorite work, the work into
the execution of which he put all that was in him of poetic and gracious originality, of dexterity of mind and
observation, of that prodigious perspicacity which made divine anities hitherto unperceived by anyone and
discover new worlds" (Ray, e Art of the French Illustrated Book 1700-1914, 198).
(Carteret III. p.286)
€2,940 / £2,450
[F59954]
37Stuttgart Rare Book Fair 2025
33. HEUER, Wilhelm. Erinnerung an Hamburg. Hamburg: Carl Gassman, [1853-73].
Oblong folio (28 x 36 cm.) Original imitation red morocco cloth, stamped in blind and gilt, white moire end-
papers. Foxing and light dampstaining conned mainly to outer blank margins and just the very occasional
spot in the images, one plate (no.20) more heavily foxed. Binding a little rubbed and slightly soiled, spine and
coners neatly repaired. 24 original hand-coloured lithographs with decorative borders abstracted from Heuer’s
“Hamburg und seine Umgebungen” comprising:
1. Hotel de l’Europe
5. Flottbeck
6. Der Hafen
11. Alster-Arkaden und Alter Junfernstieg
13. Die Borse und Bank
20. Neuerwall
22. St. Paul (spielbudenplatz)
24. Der Zoologische Garten
25. Hopfenmarkt
26. Dammthor-Strasse
37. pferdemarkt
39. Altona
51. Blanenese
€3,000 / £2,500
[F55249]
53. Botanischer Garten
54. Der Schaarmarkt
59. Hamburg und seine Umgebungenorsetzen u.
Hafen
61. Alter Jungfernstieg.
63. Der Zoologische Garten
66. Das Neue Seemannshaus
73. Uhlenhorst
79. Das Rathaus
91. Die Borse
92. Aussicht vom Stintfang
93. Kunsthalle und Schiller-Denkmal
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34. MOLIERE, Jean Baptiste de. Œuvres complètes
de Molière avec des notes de tous les commentaires,
les variantes et la préface de 1682. Paris: Librairie de
Firmin Didot Frères, 1854.
4 vols. 8vo. (21.5 x 13.5 cm). Bound by Leighton in full
green morocco, sides ruled with triple gilt llets en-
closing euron devices to corners, spines with raised
bands with richly gilt-decorated compartments, red
and tan morocco labels, inner dentelles gilt, marbled
endpapers, all edges gilt. Ex libris Leopold de Roth-
schild, with his bookplate to front pastedown of each
volume. An excellent set, nely bound.
Major Lionel Nathan de Rothschild, OBE (1882 - 1942)
was a British banker and Conservative politician best
remembered as the creator of Exbury Gardens by the
New Forest in Hampshire. He was the eldest son of
Leopold de Rothschild (1845–1917) and a part of the
prominent Rothschild banking family of England. In
1910, he was elected to the House of Commons. In
1917, he co-founded the anti-Zionist League of Brit-
ish Jews which opposed the Balfour Declaration.
€1,020 / £850
[F62932]
39Stuttgart Rare Book Fair 2025
35. MARTA, Luigi. Costumi della Festa data da S. Maesta’ il di 20 Feb. 1854. Nella Reggia di Napoli. Paris, 1854.
FIRST EDITION. Oblong folio (41.5 x 58 cm). Tinted lithograph pictorial title incorporating numerous coats-
of-arms, lithograph dedication leaf, 31 hand-coloured lithograph plates heightened with gum arabic, one leaf
of letterpress. Contemporary red morocco over marbled boards, smooth spine decorated in gilt. Some scung
to boards, spine rubbed along upper joint, small partial losses to foot of spine and corners, some occasional
scattered foxing, generally a very good example.
A scarce work on Neapolitan costumes dedicated to the Infante di Spagna D. Sebastiano Gabriele. e work
depicts the splendid personages who took part in the ball given by King Ferdinand II in his Neapolitan palace
during the Carnival of 1854. e plates, each of which is captioned with the names of the persons represent-
ed, were designed by Luigi Marta and engraved by Provost, Lacauchie, Coindre, Donjean, Lamy, Henry Emy,
Greppi, Grenier, Janete, Loutrel Hue and Didier.
(Colas 1994; Lipperheide 2781; Bobins 589)
€3,000 / £2,500
[F62874]
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A FINE AND RARE COPY PRINTED ON PAPIER VÉLIN
36. BALZAC, Honoré de & DORÉ, Gustave (illus-
trator). Les contes drolatiques colligez ez abbayes
de Touraine et mis en lumière par le sieur de Balzac
pour l’esbattement des pantagruelistes et non aultres.
Cinquiesme édition. Illustrée de 425 dessins par Gus-
tave Doré. Paris: Bureaux de la Société générale de li-
brairie, 1855.
FIRST EDITION THUS. PRINTED ON PAPIER VÉ-
LIN SATINÉ. 8vo. (20 x 12.5 cm). pp.xxxi+[1]+614+[1].
Contemporary full red morocco signed by David, sides
richly tooled in gilt with inlaid green morocco border
and owers, four gilt cherubs to corners reecting “la
victime de l’amour” vignette to covers and title-page,
spine with raised bands and gilt-decorated compart-
ments, green morocco doublures stamped with gilt
cherubic motifs, decorative silk endpapers and addi-
tional marbled endpapers, all edges gilt (some pages
uncut), with the original wrappers dated 1856 bound
in. 425 illustrations by Gustave Doré engraved on
wood by Lavieille, Rouget, Pisan, Brévière and Piaud.
An extremely ne copy printed on immaculate papi-
er vélin satiné and with particularly ne impressions
throughout.
First illustrated edition of the Contes drolatiques with
425 illustrations by Gustave Dore, praised by Ray
(”Doré’s early masterpiece”), Carteret ( “le chef-d’œu-
vre d’illustrations de Gustave Doré”), and Beraldi who
though it the most likely to endure of all Doré’s books
- “S'il n'en reste qu'un seul, ce sera celui-là !” (Béraldi).
Although the title refers to this edition as the
“cinquiesme édition”, it is actually the fourth edition
of Les contes drolatiques, which was rst published
between 1832-1837. It is well recorded that Balzac’s
widow granted permission for the illustrated edition
only on the condition: “that no artist but Doré should
be allowed to illustrate her husband’s works” (Antho-
ny North-Peat, Gossip from Paris 1864-69, p. 324).
According to Carteret there were probably 25 copies printed on chine, of which he lists 7 copies to have ap-
peared in commerce. It is likely that copies printed on vélin are equally rare, with Carteret again citing just 7
copies.
(Carteret, III, pp. 48-53; Bulletin de la Librairie Morgand et Fatout, II, 6445; Berny, Livres anciens, romantiques
et modernes, III, 92; Rahir, VI, 1875; Ray, 244)
€16,500 / £13,750
[F58836]
41Stuttgart Rare Book Fair 2025
37. SWIFT, Jonathan. Voyages de Gulliver. Paris:
Chez Alphonse Leclere, 1860.
FIRST EDITION THUS, LIMITED EDITION
(15/150), LARGE PAPER COPY, WITH A PRES-
ENTATION FROM THE PUBLISHER. 4 vols. 12mo.
(16 x 10 cm). Title-pages printed in red and black.
Contemporary full chocolate morocco by Loisellier,
the sides ruled with french llets, spines with raised
bands and gilt-decorated in compartments with eu-
ron motif, the date gilt to bottom compartment, gilt
inner dentelles, multicolour silk page markers, mar-
bled endpapers, all edges gilt. 10 plates engraved by
L.J. Masqulier aer Le Febvre, each printed on japon
and then laid down. e engravings are those of the
Didot edition of 1797. With an inscription from the
publisher to title-page of volume 1: “à mon ami Pierre,
souvenir de l’éditeur Leclere”. An extremely ne copy,
the contents clean with only faint occasional spotting
to volume 4, generally a superb set.
€1,440 / £1,200
[F60824]
38. [DUMAS, Alexandre ls]. “Alphonse de Jalin”.
Le Filleul de Pompignac. Comédie en quatre actes, en
prose. Paris: Michel Lévy Frères. 1869.
FIRST EDITION. Presentation copy signed and in-
scribed by Dumas ls using his pseudonym “Alph- de
Jalin”. Small 4to. (19.5 x 13 cm). pp.100. Near con-
temporary half citron morocco over marbled boards
by Pagnant preserving original wrappers, spine with
raised ands and richly gilt-decorated in compart-
ments, each with elegant euron device, red morocco
label, date to bottom of spine, marbled endpapers, top
edge gilt, others untrimmed. Ex libris Jerome A. Hart
with his nautical book plate to front pastedown. Very
lightly rubbed at extremities, generally a very good
copy.
‘Représentée pour la première fois, à Paris, sur le théâ-
tre du Gymnase-Dramatique, le 7 mai 1869’.
€630 / £525
[F62645]
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39. BONFILS, Adrien & LEEMU. Photographic Album of Baalbek. Beirut, [c.1880].
Oblong folio (31.5 x 40 cm.). Original blindstamped burgundy cloth, gilt stamped title "Baalbek" on front cov-
er, decorative endpapers, marbled edges. Rear paste-down with manuscript note "Die Bilder 4, 7, 9 bis 12, 15,
20 und 23 sind Aufnahmen von Leemo, Beirut, die übrigen von A. Bonls, Beirut". 27 albumen photographs
(25.5 x c.20 cm) mounted on white cardboard with neat manuscript captions in German. Generally in excellent
condition, an exceptionally well preserved copy.
An archaeological album focused on the stunning building remains of the Baalbek temple complex from the
Roman period, housing two of the largest and grandest Roman temples, the temple of Bacchus and the temple
of Jupiter with an unusual number of photographs showing in richly detailed images from various perspectives
details of architectural structures. It was inscribed in 1984 as an UNESCO World Heritage site.
Maison Bonls was a French family-run company
producing and selling photography and photograph-
ic products from Beirut from 1867 until 1918. e
Bonls ran the rst and, in their time, most successful
photographic studio in the city. Adrien Bonls (1861-
1929) son of the founder and a prolic photographer
himself took over the business from his father togeth-
er with his mother Lydie Bonls in 1878 and working
there until the early 1890s. We couldn't nd any ref-
erence to the second photographer or studio Leemo,
Beirut mentioned in the manuscript note.
€6,000 / £5,000
[F62876]
43Stuttgart Rare Book Fair 2025
WARNER’S MAGNUM OPUS
40. WARNER, Robert; WILLIAMS, Benjamin Samuel; MOORE, omas; FITCH, John Nugent. e Or-
chid Album, comprising Coloured Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare and Beautiful Orchidaceous Plants.
London: Published by B. S. Williams, at the Victoria and Paradise Nurseries, 1882-1897.
FIRST EDITION. 11 vols. Large 4to. (30 x 24 cm). Beautifully bound in contemporary full dark green straight-
grained morocco by Charles E. Lauriat of Boston, the sides framed in gilt and blind foliate borders, spines with
raised bands and gilt-decorated compartments, titles and dates lettered in gilt directly to spines, inner dentelles
gilt, marbled endpapers, red silk ribbon page-markers to each volume, all edges gilt. 528 lithographic plates
by and aer John Nugent Fitch on 527 sheets, partly hand-colored, partly color-printed. A few minor repairs,
mostly to extremities of spines, contents completely clean, overall an magnicent, complete set in particularly
handsome bindings.
Benjaminm Samuel William's obituary, appearing in volume 9, recollects the intentions of this magnicent
work: "In 1881 he commenced his magnum opus, the Orchid Al-
bum, which was projected with the idea of supplying a demand for
illustrations of Orchidaceous plants, with botanical descriptions of
the plants gured, and notes on their cultivation... Its appearance
was hailed with great satisfaction in horticultural circles throughout
the world, and it numbers among its subscribers nearly all lovers of
Orchids and many of our leading and most inuential horticultural-
ists." e illustrator, John Nugent Fitch (1840-1927), was the neph-
ew of the equally-prolic botanical artist Walter Hood Fitsch. His
original drawings for e Orchid Album are in the Natural History
Museum, South Kensington.
(Nissen BBI, 2107; Great Flower Books, p. 149)
€30,000 / £25,000
[F61561]
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A FRENCH VIEW OF MUSCAT AND THE GULF IN 1880 - ST. JOHN ARMITAGE’S COPY
41. RIVOYRE, [Louis-Barthélémy] Denis de. Obock, Mascate, Bouchire, Bassorah. Paris: E. Plon et Cie, 1883.
FIRST EDITION. 8vo. Half-title, title, pp. 292. Near
contemporary pebbled pinkish cloth, red sprinkled
edges. Folding double-page frontispiece, 1 other dou-
ble-page and 12 full-page plates all from sketches by
Saint-Elme Gauthier and a folding map showing the
author’s route. Neat ownership inscription *H. St.J.B.
Armitage/Cambridge/28 August 1954 to f.f.e.p., li-
brary stamps of the War Oce Library and Quarter
Master General’s De[t, Intelligence Division and the
Withdrawn stamp of HMSO to title Binding rubbed,
unevenly faded and with a cup stain to verso.
Robin Bidwell gives a brief summary in translation
of de Rivoyre’s observations on Muscat (de Rivoyre’s
chapters iii & iv, comprising pp. 61-110) in his ‘Bib-
liographical notes on European accounts of Muscat
1500-1900’ in Arabian studies, IV, edited by R. B. Ser-
jeant and R. L. Bidwell, London, C. Hurst & Company,
1978, p. 155 : ‘He was received by Sultan Turki who
presented him with locally-grown roses. In the pal-
ace was a huge Persian carpet and portraits of Queen
Victoria, the Prince of Wales and the Shah. ere was
a projecting gallery around a court-yard with a small
fountain and a steep staircase. e Sultan had anoth-
er house at Sedab which was a nice oasis two hours
away. A Japanese warship arrived while he was there.
ere are about 1,200 soldiers, many of them Kurds or
Yemenis, all dressed as they wish. ey are billeted on
villages as a punishment. e Sultan kept the keys of
the arms store. e U.S. imports Omani dates.’
Lorimer, Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf, Vol. I. Histori-
cal, Part II, Appendix R. Books of Reference. I.—Pub-
lished Books and Articles, 389 [p. 2721; under Rivoyre
(D. de)]. Macro BAP 830 (under Denis de Rivoyre, B.
L. [sic]). Wilson p. 191 (under Rivoyre, Denis de).
*St. John Armitage was one of Britain’s leading Arabists. Educated St Bede’s and Bradford Grammar Schools,
Lincoln Christ’s Hospital and Cambridge University. Served in Arab Legion and British Military Mission to
Ibn Saud. Worked in desert locust control in Kenya and Aden and served 1952- 1959 in Oman’s Sultan’s Armed
Forces. Worked in Libyan oil industry and from 1962 became a business consultant in Beirut and joined the
diplomatic service. Served as in Baghdad as First Secretary (commercial) and then in Saudi Arabia followed by
the United Arab Emirates. He was British Consul-General at the British Embassy in Dubai. Awarded in 1968
OBE and in 1978 CBE. In 1956 married Jennifer Burford (one son and one daughter). Died 19 October 2005.
€360 / £300
[F52935]
45Stuttgart Rare Book Fair 2025
FINELY BOUND IN MATCHING BINDINGS BY WEBER
42. THE GREEK AND ROMAN CLASSICS. Collection of 14 classics in French translation. Paris: Maison
Quantin, 1887.
14 vols. 12mo (15 x 10 cm). Bound by J. Weber (signed in gilt at foot of spine of each volume) in half crushed
morocco by J. Weber, in various colours exactly matching the colours of the architectural borders of the texts
down to various shades of red, green, blue etc.. Spines with raised bands, gilt lettering and decorative compart-
ments, and with both marbled boards and matching colour co-ordinated end-papers, colourful silk page mark-
ers, top edges gilt. Illustrations throughout aer engravings by Méaulle, Poirson and others, many in colour
and some highlighted in gold. Ex libris Spanish bibliophile Isidor Fernandez with his ne twin gilt morocco
labels to inside front cover.
Christies 20/03/2013, £750 (est. £600-£900). Astonishing. Beautiful. Superb. Near perfect condition.
Titles comprise:
Anacreon et Sapho: Poesies, 1882, (green)
Apollonius de Rhodes: Jason et Médée, 1882, (blue)
Apulée: L’Amour de Psychée, 1878 (blue)
Catulle:Odes à Lesbie [etc.] 1889 (brown)
Horace: Odes et Épodes, 1883, (brown)
Longus: Daphnis et Chloé, 1878 (red)
Lucien: Dialogues des Courtisanes, 1881 (green)
Lucius: L’Ane, 1887 (blue)
Musée: Héro et Léandre, 1879, (tan)
Ovide: Les Amours, 1879, (pink)
Properce: Les Élêgies, 1885 (red)
Tatius: Leucippe et Clitophon, 1880(walnut)
éocrrite: Les Idylles, 1884, (light brown)
Virgile: Les Bucoliiques, 1881 (brown)
€3,000 / £2,500
[F62625]
46
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THE FIRST AUTHORISED ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO
43. MARX, Karl & ENGELS, Frederick; MORRIS, William; et al. Manifesto of the Communist Party (bound
together with 15 other Socialist Pamphlets). London: William Reeves, 1888.
THE FIRST AUTHORISED ENGLISH TRANSLA-
TION OF THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO. 8vo.
(18 x 12 cm). pp.31+[1, ads]. Bound with 15 oth-
er works on socialism* in contemporary drab plum
cloth, the spine titled in gilt “Pamphlets on Socialism”
and stamped with gilt-foliate device, decorative foli-
ate-patterned endpapers, sprinkled edges, a manu-
script index in a contemporary hand on verso of yleaf
listing the author and title of each work in the order in
which they appear. Covers lightly soiled and stained,
extremities rubbed, short split to head of both joints;
rst title page slightly dust-soiled, contents generally
very good. Acquired from the personal collection of
a bookdealer from the north of England who in turn
had found it forty years ago in the garden shed of a socialist worker along with a large collection of similar
books.
Originally published in German in 1848, the Manifesto of the Communist Party was subjected to a defective
English translation in 1850 which rendered the famous opening line, “A spectre is haunting Europe”, as “A
frightful hobgoblin stalks throughout Europe”. e present translation was overseen by Engels himself, with
the assistance of Samuel Moore, with whom he had already worked on an English translation of Das Kapital.
It remains the primary English translation of this iconic work. "is translation acquires special importance
through the fact that Marx and Engels are here named for the rst time as the authors of the 'Communist Man-
ifesto'" (cf. Die Erstdrucke der Werke von Marx und Engels).
is edition is extremely scarce: only four copies have appeared at auction since 1963.
is copy is particularly remarkable for being bound together with 15 other rare contemporaneous ephemeral
socialist pamphlets, all in English and published in the United Kingdom, some of which, such as “e Social
Evil” by Saladin (presumably the pseudonym for Scottish writer William Stewart Ross), are vanishingly scarce.
Marx’s work was an inspiration to a generation of British socialists, perhaps most notable among them the poet
and designer William Morris, whose works “e Reward of Labour” and “e Decorative Arts” appear in the
present volume in rst edition. Morris’s chief political and aesthetic motivation was a violent reaction against
the ugliness and inequality of an increasingly prot-driven Victorian society, which he saw as alienating work-
men from their cras and bringing disproportionate wealth to the few whilst inicting poverty and misery on
the many. He envisaged a society in which “there should be neither rich nor poor, neither master nor master's
man, neither idle nor overworked, neither brain-sick brain workers, nor heart-sick hand workers” (How I Be-
came a Socialist, 1894). In 1885 Morris, along with other defectors from Henry Hyndman’s Social Democratic
Federation, founded the Socialist League, an early revolutionary socialist organisation in the United Kingdom
which would eventually dissolve in 1901 due to ideological divisions and an increasing inclination towards an-
archism. Morris himself oversaw production of the Socialist League’s newspaper Commonweal, serving as its
editor for six years and paying the paper's operating decit out of pocket before going on to publish the Ham-
mersmith Socialist Record, the newspaper of the Hammersmith Socialist Society. First published in February
1885 in monthly instalments (soon to be converted to a weekly), Commonweal would contain contributions
from such prominent socialists as Engels, Shaw, Paul Lafargue, Wilhelm Liebknecht, Karl Kautsky, and Morris
himself, who contributed regular articles and poems for it. One of the pamphlets in this volume is reprinted
from the Commonweal and features Morris’ iconic artwork on the title-page emblazoned with the motto “Ag-
itate, Educate, Organize”, a slogan rst used by the Democratic Federation. e collection of socialist pamph-
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lets in this volume, dating from 1878 to 1900 and presumably bound together by a member of a socialist organ-
isation or someone with socialist sympathies, thus provides a valuable insight into early British socialism as it
appeared in the nal quarter of the 19th century.
*1. Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, “Manifesto of the Communist Party” (London: William Reeves, 1888)
2. William Morris, “e Reward of Labour: A Dialogue by William Morris” [(London: Hammersmith Socialist
Society, 1892)]; pp.12, rst edition
3. Andreas Scheu, “What’s to be Done? Agitate! Educate! Organise!” [(London: Hammersmith Socialist Socie-
ty, 1892)]; pp.12, rst edition
4. William Morris, “e Decorative Arts: eir Relation to Modern Life and Progress. An Address delivered
before the Trades’ Guild of Learning” (London: Ellis and White, [1878]); pp.32, rst edition
5. Karl Pearson, “e Moral Basis of Socialism” (London: William Reeves, [1884]); pp.32, rst edition
6. Frank Fairman and William Morris, “e Principles of Socialism made Plain; and Objections, Methods, and
Quack Remedies for Poverty Considered” (London: William Reeves, 1888); pp.148, rst edition
7. Annie Besant, “Why I am a Socialist” [(London: Printed by Annie Besant and Charles Bradlaugh, 1886)];
pp.8, rst edition
8. H. Quelch, “Trade Unionism, Co-Operation, and Social Democracy” (London: Published by the Twentieth
Century Press, September, 1892); pp.16, rst edition
9. D. Campbell, “e Unemployed Problem / e Socialist Solution” (London: Published for the Finsbury Park
Branch of the S.D.F. by the Twentieth Century Press, December, 1892); pp.16, rst edition
10. Alex Webster, “e Political Position of Labour. A Plea for a Separate Labour Party” (Kilmarnock: Dunlop
& Drennan; Glasgow: Labour Literature Depôt, London Street; Aberdeen: A. Martin, George Street, [1894]);
pp.23, rst edition
11. e Socialist League, “Revolutionary Studies. Translated from “La Revolte,” and reprinted from ‘e Com-
monweal’” (London: Oce of “e Commonweal”, 1892); pp.31+[1, ads]
12. Pierre Kroptkine, “e Place of Anarchism in Socialistic Evolution. An Address delivered in Paris...trans-
lated by Henry Glass. New Edition, Enlarged” (London: W. Reeves, [ND]); pp.16
13. Élisée Reclus, “Evolution and Revolution. Fourth Edition...fourth edition” (London: William Reeves,
[c.1894]); pp.16
14. Saladin, “e Social Evil” (London: Watts & Co. [ND]); pp.18, rst edition
15. Diderot and D’Holbach, “e Code of Nature” (London: Progressive Publishing Company, 1891); pp.16
16. J. Morrison Davidson, “Is the G.O.M. a Liberal?” (London: William Reeves, [1900?]), pp.16, rst edition?
See PMM 326 (rst edition)
€42,000 / £35,000
[F60853]
48
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FROM THE LIBRARY OF FRIEDRICH-WERNER VON DER SCHULENBURG - THE GERMAN AM-
BASSADOR TO IRAN WHO TRIED TO ASSASSINATE HITLER
44. CURZON, George N. Persia and the Persian
Question. London and New York: Longmans, Green,
and Co. 1892.
FIRST EDITION. 2 vols. 8vo. (22 x 14 cm). pp.xx-
iv+639; xii+653. 20th-century half green morocco
over green cloth boards, spines with raised bands, gilt
rules, and gilt lettering, marbled endpapers, top edges
gilt. 43 full-page plates, 10 maps (including large lin-
en-backed folding map in Vol. 1), and numerous illus-
trations in the letterpress. Ex libris Friedrich-Werner
Von Der Schulenburg (1875-1944), German ambas-
sador to Iran from 1922 until 1931, whose name was
engraved at the Gate of All Nations at Persepolis. Aer
a prolonged conict with the Nazi regime, he turned
against the main Nazi Party and joined the conspiracy
against Adolf Hitler. Aer the failed 20 July plot to as-
sassinate Hitler in 1944, Schulenburg was accused of
being a co-conspirator and ve months later executed.
His bookplate to front pastedowns in both volumes.
Additional ownership inscription of Some light shelf-
wear, contents generally clean and unmarked save for
the odd occasional spot, generally a very good set.
e most comprehensive assessment of Persia of its
day. Curzon was responsible for establishing the pre-
vailing view of the British of their on-going, pre-oil,
interest in Persia, as a boarder state to India of the
British Empire.
Following his election to Parliament, George Nath-
aniel Curzon (1859–1925) embarked on extensive
travels and research in Asia, spending several months
in Persia in 1889–90. Later viceroy of India, Cur-
zon believed that growing Russian inuence in Asia
threatened Britain's interests, and that Persia was an
important buer state. Highly regarded upon publica-
tion in 1892, this illustrated two-volume work is a mix
of history, geography, travel narrative, and social and
political analysis. Intended to educate readers at home
as to Persia's strategic signicance, the work reects
its author's staunch support for British imperialism.
Volume 1 describes Curzon's journey to Tehran, of-
fering observations on the situation in the provinces
which bordered Russian-controlled territory. Curzon
then gives an overview of Persian institutions, includ-
ing the monarchy, government, and the army.
€1,800 / £1,500
[F61689]
49Stuttgart Rare Book Fair 2025
45. TWEEDIE, W., Major-General. e Arabian Horse. His Country and People. With Portraits of Typical or
Famous Arabians and other Illustrations. Also a Map of the Country of the Arabian Horse, and a Descriptive
Glossary of Arabic Words and Proper Names. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1894.
FIRST EDITION. PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. Large 4to. (31 x 23.5 cm). pp.xix-
+[i]+411+[1, colophon]. Handsomely bound in full turquoise morocco by the Chelsea Bindery, sides ruled
with two gilt llets, upper cover with gilt vignette of Arabian horse (’Ra-Shîd’), smooth spine lettered in gilt
and decorated with palm trees, gilt inner dentelles, marbled
endpapers, all edges gilt. Inscribed by the author to Sir Al-
fred Lyall in the year of publication, also with Lyall's owner-
ship inscription and a tipped-in printed leaf of verse by him
entitled 'A Hard Bargain' about the sale of an Arab horse.
Lyall was a British civil servant, literary historian and poet.
11 plates comprising mostly chromolithographed plates of
horses, 25 illustrations and 4 tables in the text, 1 large col-
our-printed map of the Arabian Peninsula (76 x 71 cm) to
pocket at rear. Generally an excellent copy.
Major Tweedie was for many years Consul-General at Bagh-
dad, and Political Resident for the Government of India in
Turkish Arabia, but had begun his study of Arab horses
whilst serving with the British army in India, where Arab
horses were highly prized as gis amongst the native and
colonial rulers.
€9,000 / £7,500
[F62877]
50
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46. [UNDERWOOD & UNDERWOOD]. Palestine
through the Stereoscope. New York [etc]: Underwood
& Underwood. [c.1900]
100 titled and numbered black and white stereo-
graphic photographs (c. 17.5 x 9 cm) showing various
scenes and monuments in Palestine with descriptions
in up to six languages printed on the verso of each,
some with longer descriptions in English. Generally
an excellent set.
Underwood & Underwood specialised in stereoviews,
issuing sets in book form boxes. e present collec-
tion covers Palestine, with images of sites in Jaa, Je-
rusalem, Syria, and other locations, many with Bibli-
cal themes. e accompanying book - described on
the title-page as “A Tour conducted by Jesse Lyman
Hurlbut” - oers descriptions of the 100 stereoviews,
and maps keyed to the views. With the stereoviewer,
this collection provides a virtual tour of Palestine.
€1,140 / £950
[F62943]
47. [UNDERWOOD & UNDERWOOD]. HURL-
BUT, Jesse Lyman. Jerusalem rough the Stereo-
scope. London: Underwood & Underwood, [c.1900].
8vo. (19 x 11 cm). Publisher’s original mock green
book case, titled in gilt to spine, in which are housed
27 titled and numbered (9-35) bistre stereographic
photographs showing a multitude of scenes and mon-
uments in Jerusalem with descriptions printed on the
verso of each. Some light shelfwear to box, generally a
very good copy.
Separately issued and complete in itself section of Je-
rusalem from the larger (100 views) “Travelling in the
Holy Land”.
e rectos have a brief caption description of the
scene, the verso here with either multilingual transla-
tions of the titles or expanded descriptions.
€300 / £250
[F62848]
51Stuttgart Rare Book Fair 2025
A SCARCE WORK ON MECCA
48. BEL-KHODJA, M’hamed. [Mecca]. Le Pèler-
inage de la Mecque. Tunis: B. Borrel, 1906.
FIRST EDITION THUS. 8vo. (23 x 15.5 cm).
pp.45+[2]. Publisher’s original blue card covers print-
ed in red and black. With a folding, coloured map
and 14 wood-engraved illustrations in the text. Some
light toning to covers, small insignicant loss to head
of spine and back corners, faint damp stain to back
cover, generally an excellent copy of this exceedingly
scarce work.
Extremely rare: OCLC lists just one copy at the Bibli-
othèque Gernet-Glotz in Paris.
A French translation of the author's essay on the Hajj
rst published in Arabic in the "Roznémé Tounsié"
(Annuaire Tunisien).
e folding map at the back of the volume shows the
route of the Hejaz railway, its course completed only as
far as Tabouk at the time of publication, while the re-
mainder of the line is shown in its projected state, still
planned to run as far as Mecca. Indeed, when the rails
reached Al-'Ula station very soon aer this book came
out, local tribes protested against the railroad, fearing
it threatened their livelihood as providers of transport
camels. Aerwards, Sultan Abdulhamid ruled that the
railway would only run as far as Medina, where the
line was completed on 1 September 1908.
M'hamed Bel-Khodja (1869-1943) was born into an
Ottoman and Tunisian religious dynasty that was
among the most important in the country in the 19th
century. In 1902 he became director of the govern-
ment press; in 1919 he was appointed qaid governor
of Gabès and Bizerte, remaining an inuential gov-
ernment adviser even aer retirement.
€1,800 / £1,500
[F62751]
52
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THE ORIGINS OF THE ALPHABET
49. PETRIE, W.M. Flinders. Researches in Sinai. London: John Murray, 1906.
FIRST EDITION. 4to. (25 x 18.5 cm). pp.xxiii+280+[2, ads]. Publisher’s original green cloth, gilt lettering to
upper cover and spine, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. 186 photographic illustrations (many full-page) and 4
maps (one folding). Ex libris Walter Flinn, Manchester shipping merchant, with his book plate to front paste-
down. Walter Leonard Flinn also known as ‘Tajir’ was born in 1883 in Manchester. He was educated in Germa-
ny and Switzerland. He joined the Manchester rm in which his father had been a partner, importing Persian
carpets and exporting a range of goods including cotton goods and, later, cars. Spine a bit browned and with
some professional restorations to head, light spotting to endpapers, contents clean and unmarked, generally a
very good copy of this scarce work.
A pioneering Egyptologist, dedicated to careful, methodical and economical research, Sir William Matthew
Flinders Petrie (1853–1942) made Near Eastern archaeology a much more rigorous and scientic discipline.
is 1906 publication covers Petrie's work in the Sinai Peninsula, investigating the historical and biblical sig-
nicance of the region, especially as it related to the Exodus. Copiously illustrated with photographs, the book
depicts the region's climate, geography and antiquities, recording the logistical and archaeological processes
that characterised Petrie's approach.
Notable is the material on ancient turquoise mines and a Middle Kingdom temple at Serabit el-Khadim, where
inscriptions in the previously unknown Proto-Sinaitic script were discovered. Several chapters by Charles T.
Currelly (1876–1957) record additional travels and observations.
€690 / £575
[F62887]
53Stuttgart Rare Book Fair 2025
50. HAILEY, Clarence. Padrillos de Carrera en la República Argentina por Clarence Hailey, Newmarket, In-
glaterra. Este Segundo Volúmen contiene los Grabados y Pedigrees de Padrillos Puros de Carrera por Orden
Alfabético de Haras. Newmarket: Clarence Hailey, [c.1907].
FIRST EDITION. Oblong folio (28.5 x 39.5 cm). Half-title, title, index, . 69. Original red leather binding, sides
ruled in gilt, upper cover with gilt lettering, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. 35 engraved
plates aer Hailey. Lightly rubbed, some dampstaining to upper cover, occasional foxing throughout, generally
a very good copy.
An exceptionally rare book, we can trace no copies at auction or in institutions.
e book lists 35 "race stallions in the Argentine Re-
public" each with a sheet presenting their pedigree
next to their photogravure portrait from retouched
photos by Clarence Hailey. All listed in alphabetical
order according to stud farm.
omas Clarence Hailey (1867-1949) was a highly
regarded equestrian artist and photographer and he
opened a studio in Newmarket in 1903. In 1923 he
was advertising 'Hailey's Bloodstock Agency' at 27
Cavendish Square, London W1 and he was a regular
purchaser and a visitor and a seller of racehorses as far
away as India, South America, and Australia.
€900 / £750
[F60030]
54
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51. SEM. (GOURSAT, Georges). Sem Au Bois. Paris, [1908].
Oblong 4to (34.5 x 39.5). Bound in original half green cloth over green marbled boards, title in white to upper
cover, with the booksellers' ticket of Adolphe Le Goupy Lecaplain & Vidal to front paste down. Impressive large
accordian folding panorama on 24 plates, backed on cloth, as issued, measuring nearly nine metres in length,
in full colour with captions below. is example includes, pasted to inside front cover, a typed key to the 88
characters depicted on the panorama which in turn have all been neatly numbered in pencil. Overall 900 cen-
timetres in length when opened.
e French artist Sem (Georges Goursat, 1863-1934) built his reputation in Paris on his caricatures of prom-
inent public gures. Born in Périgueux, Sem worked in Bordeaux and Marseille before traveling to Paris for
the 1900 Universal Exposition. e rst work he published in the city was Le Turf, a print album of instantly
recognisable personalities at the racecourse. He began selling the album on the day of the prestigious Grand
Prix race at Longchamp, and his de ability to capture the essence of his subjects made him a success. Even the
people he caricatured in Le Turf wanted a copy, and it quickly sold out.
Sem revisited the subject of his rst Parisian success in the Sem au Bois scroll. He drew the fashionable elite of
France (and their laughable hangers-on) en route to Longchamp. e races were social events where central
members of society were expected to put in an appearance. Sem adopted this obligatory parade down the Bois
de Boulogne as an opportunity to gently mock the celebrities of his day, caricaturing members of the aristoc-
racy, artists, politicians and socialites. Although the individuals were not identied in the chromolithograph,
a weekly newspaper, L’Illustration, published a complete list of names in its October 5, 1907 issue. e names
have also been penciled in on the Gorman Rare Art Book Collection’s copy of the scroll, possibly by a previous
owner who transferred the list from L’Illustration.
Rare album conceived by Sem in collaboration with Auguste Roubille, featuring a procession of carriages, auto-
mobiles and other means of locomotion on which are represented the main personalities of the high society of
the time such as King Leopold, the Duke of Brissac, the Prince of Arenberg, the Baron and Baroness of Roth-
schild, etc., as well as personalities from the literary and artistic world such as Henri Rochefort, Polaire, Mad-
emoiselle Othero, Willy, Colette, Robert de Montesquiou, etc., travelling to the Bois de Boulogne horse races.
At last....a copy identifying the characters. Very rare! Presumably listed by Sem, who indeed features himself in
the second carriage à la Hitchcock.
€7,200 / £6,000
[F61643]
55Stuttgart Rare Book Fair 2025
52. BARBIER, George. Falbalas & Fanfreluches. Al-
manach des Modes Présentes, Passées & Futures Pour
1922, 1923, 1924, 1925 & 1926. [with introductory
texts by] la Comtesse Mathieu de Noailles, Colette,
Cécile Sorel, Gérard d’Houville & la Baronne de Bro-
monte. Paris: Meynial, 1921-1925.
5 vols. 8vo. (26 x 17cm). Loose as issued in original
pictorial wrappers, housed within a custom made
chemise and slipcase, spine of chemise and fore-edg-
es of slipcase in chestnut morocco, lighter shade mo-
rocco title label with gilt lettering, fantaisie patterned
boards. Each volume with decorative pochoir title
page, 12 full page pochoir plates and front cover col-
our illustrations by George Barbier. Complete. A ne
set.
Georges Barbier (1882-1932) was at the forefront of
the Art Deco movement, and his images have become
icons of an era of unsurpassed glamour, elegance and
decadence. His Falbalas et Fanfreluches (1922-1926)
graphically display the artist's intense interest in fash-
ion, both of his and earlier ages, as well as his sharp
sense of humour. e issue for 1923 features the essay
'Modes' by Colette; the remaining essays are by the
Comtesse de Noailles, Cécile Sorel, Gérard d'Houville
and the Baronne de Brimont.
ere seems to be no direct translation of “Falbalas
& Fanfreluches” but perhaps “Frills and Fripperies”
works quite well.
€9,900 / £8,250
[F55724]
56
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53. [OTTOMAN WORLD ATLAS]. Ilk atlas. Ilk mekteblere mahsus. [First atlas for primary schools]. London:
Corc Filip ve Mahdumu Limited Matbaasi [George Philip & Son], 1927.
FIRST EDITION. 4to. (24 x 20 cm). pp.16. Publishers original drab boards printed in Arabic script and backed
in green cloth. 16 colour-printed maps printed recto-verso to 8 leaves, with additional maps, views, and dia-
grams printed to inside covers. One small inkspot aecting margin of 4 leaves, generally an excellent copy in a
near mint state of preservation.
First edition of this scarce world atlas for Turkish pri-
mary schools. Although printed in London, it was
produced by Turkish cartographers and geography
teachers under the editorship of Faik Sabri Duran
(1882-1943), a noted geographer and travel writer. It
was published in the early Republican period of Tur-
key, just prior to the Letter Revolution in 1928.
Duran studied in Istanbul and Paris. He worked as a
geography teacher in various high schools, then as a
lecturer and manager at Ankara Gazi Education In-
stitute. He was known for his writings on various sub-
jects, but especially for his works on geography.
Özege, Eski Harerle Basılmış Türkçe Eserler Kat-
aloğu (Catalog of Turkish works printed in Old Let-
ters), 8764.
€600 / £500
[F62760]
57Stuttgart Rare Book Fair 2025
54. [GUIDES TO THE HOLY SITES OF PALES-
TINE]. Al-Haram Al-Sharif & Al-Ibrahim Guide
Books. Jerusalem: Published by the Supreme Moslem
Council, 1928-1929.
Together two original guidebooks to the holy sites of
Palestine, al-Aqsa and the Sanctuary of Abraham. Item
1) A Brief guide to the Al-Haram Al-Sharif Jerusalem.
Jerusalem: e Supreme Moslem Council, pr. Moslem
Orphanage press, 1927. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). Publisher’s
original pale grey wrappers printed in black. pp.[1]+2-
16. Early edition, seven black and white photographic
plates, stapled, two hole punches to inner margin, sta-
ples marginally oxidised on central page, dogeared to
one corner, slight crease through the centre, in very
good condition. Author initials G.A. appear at the
end. [WITH] Item 2) Al-Haram Al-Ibrahim Al-Khal-
il - A Brief Guide. Jerusalem: e Supreme Moslem
Council, pr. Moslem Orphanage press, 1928. 8vo. (24
x 17 cm). Publisher’s original green wrappers print-
ed in black. pp.[4]+3-4,+[2]+5-6+[2]+7-8+[1]. Eight
b/w photographic plates. stapled, oxidised to the
wrappers, some sunning, with a threaded luggage tag
listing 'Burial Place of Abraham, Sarah, Patriarchs and their wives.' Author initials A. J. appear at the end. Very
good condition.
A pair of interesting Palestinian guides produced by Arab organisations within the country, Both guides give
an important notice that both of these areas are sacred to Muslims and that 'due regard should be paid,' to their
sanctity. ey are also both missing a corner from the recto which was torn deliberately to assist the Council's
internal accounting.
Initiated by an unknown writer (A.J.), the Al-Haram Al-Sharif guide commences with an historical sketch
followed by a walking tour through the compound. e author focuses on the Al-Aqsa Mosque (al-Masjid
al-'Aqsa) and the Dome of the Rock (Qubbat al-Sakhrah).
Conversely, 'G.A.' commences the Al-Ibrahim guide with a brief description of the city of al Khalil, focusing
on the holy cave resting places. Mirroring the other guide, it also contains an historical sketch which describes
from the pre-Islamic period up until the immediate period aer the Crusades (800 A.D.).
e Supreme Moslem Council was established during Mandate Palestine to have authority of the Wafs and
Sharia courts within the country. However, this delegation of power swelled, giving the council a large power
base which led to the Arab revolts of 1936-9 against the British.
Uncommon. Rare to the market in this condition, OCLC suggests that the English versions commenced from
1924.
€600 / £500
[F62696]
58
Robert Frew Ltd
55. MACKAY, Ernerts; HARDING, Lankester & PETRIE, Flinders. [Bahrain]. Bahrein and Hemamieh. Lon-
don: British School of Archaeology in Egypt and Bernard Quaritch, 1929.
FIRST EDITION. Large 4to. (30.5 x 24.5 cm). pp.vi+[i]+39+xxix (plates). Publisher’s burgundy cloth over
grey paper boards printed in black, spine lettered in gilt. Printed in Vienna by Adolf Holzhausen’s Successors.
29 plates comprising 8 dedicated to Bahrein (including photographs, weapons, plans, and pottery), and 21 to
Hemamieh (most of which are folding). Ex libris Manchester Central Library with their bookplate, reference
card, reference number to spine, and occasional circular stamps throughout. Boards lightly rubbed and soiled,
some light marginal soiling to nal few plates, generally a very good copy.
“Two new subjects are dealt with in this volume, the archaeological position of the Bahrein cemetery, and the
early local art of Egypt. For many years past, the origin of the eld of tumuli at Bahrein had been in question,
for there was the possibility of this region being connected with emigrants from the Persian Gulf going down
to the land of Punt. Taking advantage of Mr. Ernest Mackay being in Mesopotamia, the British School of Egypt
commissioned him, - with consent of Professor Langdon, - to examine the Burials of Bahrein. His results point
to a date of, at latest, 1500 B.C., and perhaps even 3000 B.C., looking at the use of bronze at Ur and the compar-
isons with early MEsopotamian forms of vessels. e islands seem to have been the place for re-interment of
bodies from the Arabian mainlnd. In the entire absence of any archaeological data for early Arabia, the result
here regarding bronze weapons and ivory carving is very welcome” (preface).
Publication number 47 in the list of publications of the Egyptian Research Account and British School of Ar-
chaeology in Egypt.
€600 / £500
[F62684]
59Stuttgart Rare Book Fair 2025
56. (BARBIER, George) & CHODERLOS DE LACLOS, Pierre A.F. Les Liaisons Dangereuses. Paris: Le Vas-
seur et Cie, 1934.
FIRST EDITION THUS. LIMITED EDITION
(155/720). 2 vols. 4to. (26 x 19.5 cm). pp. viii+218+[1];
217+[2]. Bound by Fauquenot in contemporary bur-
gundy half morocco over marbled boards, at spines
lettered in gilt and decorated with inlaid oriate de-
signs, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, others un-
cut. Original pictorial wrappers bound in. 28 pochoir
colour illustrations by Barbier consisting of 2 original
upper cover illustrations, 20 full page plates, 2 deco-
rative title pages, 2 chapter heading vignettes and 2
justication vignettes. Very occasional light spotting
or foxing, generally an excellent copy in handsome
complementary French bindings.
Choderlos de Laclos’s story of aristocratic libertines
and ex-lovers Marquise de Merteuil and Vicomte de
Valmont who compete in the cruel art of seduction, is
told through 20 magnicent pochoir illustrations by
Barbier.
Georges Barbier (1882-1932) was at the forefront of
the Art Deco movement, and his images have become icons of an era of unsurpassed glamour, elegance and
decadence.
€3,300 / £2,750
[F61660]
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RARE BIOGRAPHICAL WORK ON ARABIC MANUSCRIPTS
57. JUSTE, Francisco J. Blanco. Autores Árabes (manuscritos), Persas, Israelitas, Hispano-árabes. Autores
latino y castellanos (éstos hasta el año 1500) que tratan de cuestiones médicas-farmacéuticas. Veterinaria é
Historia Natural, que se conservan en la biblioteca del Monasterio de San Lorenzo de El Escorial. Madrid: El
Monitor de la Farmacia, 1934.
FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. Small folio (27.5
x 20 cm). pp.23. Publisher’s original orange wrappers printed in black. With a presentation inscription from
the author to the Hebrew Studies Department at the Instituto de Cordoba. 8 black & white illustrations repro-
ducing pages from some of the manuscripts included in this bibliography. Some light toning and soiling to
wrappers, contents clean and unmarked, generally a very good copy.
A decidedly rare bibliographical work on medical and pharmaceutical manuscripts in the Library of the Mon-
astery of San Lorenzo de El Escorial, with OCLC listing just two copies in Germany and Spain.
€420 / £350
[F62866]
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KARL POPPER’S FIRST WORK
58. POPPER, Karl. Logik der Forschung Zur Erkenntnistheorie der modernen naturwissenscha. Wien [Vi-
enna]: Verlag von Julius Springer, 1935 [1934].
FIRST EDITION. 8vo. 218x143mm. pp. vi+248+[2]. Original grey wrappers printed in black. Housed in a
quarter morocco black solander box lettered in gilt. Loosely inserted is a slip signed by Karl Popper. is copy
came from Popper’s secretary. A very good copy in the original wrappers, small chips to head and foot of spine,
otherwise in excellent condition. Internally near ne, some unopened pages at the end of the book, two para-
graphs (on pp37 and 67) have been marked in the margin with a red biro.
Karl Popper’s rst published work.
Popper’s Logik der Forschung (translated in 1959 as e Logic of Scientic Discovery) was published in 1934
(although given a 1935 imprint) and is regarded as one of the twentieth-century’s most important contribu-
tions to scientic and philosophical method. Popper’s argument (broadly and briey) is that science should
proceed on the basis of what is not known (”the falsication principle”) rather than what is known - a deduc-
tive, not inductive process. is brief note is not (thankfully) the place for a discursive essay on the nature of
Popperian applied methodology.
€4,800 / £4,000
[F58839]
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59. HOFMANNSTHAL, Hugo von; NOWAK, Willi; STRAUSS, Richard. Marees-Gesellscha Druck XXXIX.
Ariadne auf Naxos von Hugo Hofmannsthal. Marées-Gesellscha, 1922.
LIMITED EDITION (42/80). Folio (40 x 30 cm). 20 original mounted colour-lithographs loose as issued in
publisher’s drab cloth-backed portfolio, each illustration signed in pencil and with blindstamp of the Marées
Society to lower margin. Housed in original slipcase (worn). Portfolio lightly soiled, slipcase worn, lithographs
well preserved, a very good copy overall.
Print XXXIX of the Marées Society. e Marées Society was a bibliophilic and art society founded in 1917 as a
collaboration between inuential art historian and critic Julius Meier-Graefe and avant-garde publisher Rein-
hard Piper, named aer the now largely forgotten German realist painter Hans von Marées (1837–1887), whom
Meier-Graefe revered. As a special imprint of Piper they issued lavishly produced illustrated books and portfo-
lios reecting Meier-Graefe's taste, which was rooted in a love for French Impressionism and literary classics.
Major portfolios included Max Beckmann's Faces (1919) and Annual
Fair (1922) and Lovis Corinth's Classical Legends (1919), as well as the
group portfolios Shakespeare Visions (1918), with thirty-two prints by
various artists, including Beckmann, Corinth, and Oskar Kokoschka,
and Rembrandt: Religious Legends (1920), with prints by Beckmann
and others. Between 1919 and 1925 the society issued ve volumes of
the yearbook Ganymed (named aer von Marées's last painting, e
Abduction of Ganymede [1887]), with features on art, music, and lit-
erature, as well as original prints by various artists. e society folded
in 1929, and Meier-Graefe, who le Germany for France in 1930, was
later denigrated by the Nazis for promoting "degenerate art."
Ariadne auf Naxos (Ariadne on Naxos), Op. 60, is a 1912 opera by
Richard Strauss with a German libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal.
€1,200 / £1,000
[F62933]
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61. HASSAN, Zaky M., Dr. Hunting as Practised in
Arab Countries of the Middle Ages. Cairo: Govern-
ment Press, Bulâq, 1937.
FIRST EDITION. 8vo. pp. 15+[5]+[11, plates]+[1,
colophon]. Original pale blue card wrappers, wire-
stitched as issued, front cover lettered in blue. With
12 half-tone plates. Some light toning to covers, gen-
erally a very good copy of this scarce work.
First edition, rst printing, of this illustrated study by
the curator of the Museum of Arab Art, Cairo. Has-
san's was the rst attempt to "relate representations of
hunting scenes to their practical and social functions"
(Hillenbrand, p. 229).
With the exception of one, all the artefacts captured in
the photographic half-tones are drawn from the col-
lections under the author's care at the Cairo museum.
€360 / £300
[F62664]
60. THE LEAGUE AGAINST IMPERIALISM. Pal-
estine: An Authoritative Survey. London: Internation-
al Secretariat of the League against Imperialism and for
National Independence, July, 1936.
FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (21 x 14 cm). pp.27+[1]. Pub-
lisher’s original cream wrappers printed in black with
Arabic and Hebrew text, stable-bound as issued. Sta-
ples rusty, some light toning and light spotting to cov-
ers, generally a very good copy.
An anti-imperialist survey of Palestine around the
time of the Arab Revolts, comprised of the following
sections: “e Importance of Palestine”, “e British
Betrayal of the Arabs”, “Palestine under Turkish Rule”,
“Anglo-German Rivalry in the Middle East”, “Law-
rence of Arabia”, “e Balfour Declaration”, “Impe-
rialism and the Jews”, “Zionism as a Willing Pawn”,
“e Eect of Immigration on the Arabs”, “Arab Re-
bellions”, “e Solution of the Jewish Question in the
Soviet Union”, and an appendix which reproduces the
League of Nations Mandate. Also reproduced is part
of the Husain-McMahon Agreement of 1915 whereby
the British had pledged themselves to establish a new
Arab State which would comprise nearly the whole of
Arabia, Palestine and Syria.
€180 / £150
[F62865]
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62. HOPE, Stanton. Arabian Adventurer: e Sto-
ry of Haji Williamson. London: Robert Hale Limited,
1951.
FIRST EDITION. (22 x 14 cm). pp.335. Publisher’s
pale blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, in the original
unclipped dust-jacket with advertisements printed to
verso. 23 half-tone illustrations. Some light wear to
extremities of jacket with some minor losses, contents
clean and unmarked, no spotting to edges, generally
an excellent copy.
A fascinating biography of Haji Abdullah Williamson,
an Englishman who converted to Islam and eventu-
ally settled in Iraq, retiring to a small farm in Kut al-
Hajjaj, Basra. In covering his work as Inspector of Gulf
Agencies for the Anglo-Persian Oil Company it is an
excellent resource on the Gulf in the 1920s and 1930s.
- As a journalist and writer of adventure stories, Stan-
ton Hope (1889-1961) was instantly drawn to the pic-
aresque story of Williamson's life. Born in Bristol in
1872, William Richard Williamson escaped from his
controlling father by way of a tea clipper at the age of
thirteen. A remarkable string of voyages, schemes and
serendipities followed, taking him from San Diego to
the Caroline Islands, where the selling of ries to rebel tribesmen landed him in a Manila jail. It was aer his
escape, via Hong King and Bombay, that he rst set foot in Arabia, at Aden where he joined the constabulary.
It was during his time in Aden that he converted to Islam and eectively severed ties with his confused British
counterparts. A new life awaited him in Kuwait, and he took to it with gusto, assimilating to Arab culture and
travelling more widely in the Gulf and southern Iraq. He soon set up as a horse and camel dealer, the rst of
several trades he acquired in the Middle East. His later role as dhow master gained him intimate knowledge
of the Arabian littoral of the Gulf, which won him the aforementioned position with the Anglo-Persian Oil
Company. e chapters on those years include valuable descriptions of its principal towns and ports, including
Doha (Qatar), Dubai, Ras Al-Khaimah and Muscat.
‘Living “native” in a remote adobe dwelling in Iraq is an Englishman whose exploits and adventures have made
him a legendary gure in the Middle East. William Richard Williamson was born in Bristol in 1872, and in
the ‘Nineties became a Moslem and Bedouin. He has made the Haj (Pilgrimage to Mecca) three times, and is
known to the Arabs as Haji Abdullah az Zobair; and to many seamen, traders and oilmen as Haji Williamson.
Williamson le Bristol at thirteen for Australia and America as an apprentice “in sail”. In California he jumped
ship and worked as a cowboy, hold miner, actor, labourer. Shanghaied back to sea, he hunted whales in the
Arctic, traded in the South Seas, was imprisoned by the Spaniards and escaped. en at twenty he joined the
Aden Constabulary, only to make the profession of faith as a Moslem which necessitated leaving the police. But
he returned to Arabia in disguise. Subsequently he travelled thousands of miles through parts of Arabia and
Syria never traversed by a Westerner. His exploits made him a legendary gure among the Arabs. His career as
a desert ghter and camel dealer in Arabia, leader of expeditions in the wilds of Oman, pearler in the Persian
Gulf, secret agent of Iraq and representative of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, is remarkable, judged by any
standard’ (dust-jacket).
Not in Macro.
€1,500 / £1,250
[F62676]
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UNCOMMON GUIDE TO THE GULF
63. TWEEDY, Maureen. Bahrain and the Persian Gulf. Ipswich, England: East Anglian Magazine Ltd. [1952].
FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (18.5 x 12.5 cm). pp.79+[1, ads]. Publisher’s pale blue/grey cloth, spine lettered in black,
in the original unclipped dust-jacket with falconer to front ap. 3 maps (one double-page) and 53 black and
white photographic illustrations (on 16 plates). Some light wear to extremities of jacket with some very mini-
mal losses, generally an excellent copy, rare in the dust-jacket.
An uncommon short guide to the Gulf, with chapters on Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Muscat and the Trucial Coast
(now the United Arab Emirates).
While travelling through coastal Eastern Arabia, Tweedy noticed the demand for “some kind of handbook” on
the Arab States of the Gulf and the lack of such publications on oer. Bahrain and the Persian Gulf was written
in response to that need and gives short descriptions of each State and brief accounts of their histories. Each
chapter is illustrated with her own photographs, many of which are dignied and sensitive images of the local
people.
Not in Macro.
€1,500 / £1,250
[F62675]
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64. HAY, Rupert. e Persian Gulf States...With a
Foreword by E. M. Eller, Rear Admiral, USN. Wash-
ington D.C.: e Middle East Institute, 1959.
FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (23 x 15 cm). pp.xiii+[i]+160.
Publisher’s original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt,
map endpapers, in the unclipped dust-jacket. 16 full-
page black & white plates. An excellent copy with just
the slightest of wear and a few small tears to dust-jack-
et.
“Sir Rupert Hay has written a general and current de-
scription of these States. From Kuwait, to which Kai-
ser Wilhelm II's ambitions extended and which now
is the fourth oil-producing state of the world, down
the Western Coast of the Gulf - through Bahrain, Qa-
tar and the Trucial States to Muscat and Oman each
of these small countries is treated geographically, po-
litically and socially. eir special relations to Britain
and the unusual institution of the "Residency" are set
forth in detail from, naturally, the point of view of one
who was himself the Resident. e oil industry of the
Gulf is described in a separate chapter. ese pages
underline how oil has brought change to the nancial
position and the social structure of the States where it
has been found. Sixteen photographs of persons and
places little known to the Western world accompany
the text” (dust-jacket). Includes chapters on Bahrain,
Kuwait, Qatar, the Trucial Shaikdoms, and Muscat.
€510 / £425
[F62667]
65. BELGRAVE, James H.D. Welcome to Bahrain.
Manama, Bahrain: James H.D. Belgrave, 1960.
4th Edition. 8vo. (21.5 x 14.5 cm). pp.197. Publisher’s
original pictorial card wrappers.
Two folding maps* and numerous black & white il-
lustrations and advertisements throughout. Wrappers
lightly soiled and toned, minimal spotting to spine
and edges, slight shelf wear to bottom of upper joint,
generally a very good copy.
*1. e City of Manama Showing Principal Buildings
and Places of Interest (58 x 38 cm overall).
2. Guide Map of the Arabian Islands (74 x 47 cm
overall).
Fourth edition, rst printing, of the rst guide sole-
ly dedicated to Bahrain, following the rst edition of
1953. e author, known as Hamed to local Bahrainis,
was the son of Sir Charles Belgrave, the nancial ad-
visor to the ruling sheikhs of Bahrain between 1926
and 1957. For the present work, Charles Belgrave con-
tributed the cover design of a dhow enclosed within a
string of pearls.
€360 / £300
[F62854]
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THE EMERGENCE OF THE GULF STATES
66. 'ABD ALLAH, Muhammad Mursi. Imarat al-sa-
hil wa-'uman wa-l-dawla al-sa'udiyya al-'ula: 1793-
1818 ("e Coastal Emirates, Oman and the First
Saudi State: 1793-1818"). Cairo: al-Maktab al-misri
al-hadith, 1978.
FIRST EDITION. Large 8vo. (24.5 x 16.5 cm). pp.334.
Text mostly in Arabic with some English. Publisher’s
original lemon cloth, upper cover gilt-lettered in Ar-
abic. With the unclipped dust-jacket showing a map
showing the Gulf States. Book with 25 plates and 2
folding maps. Accompanied by 7 loose folding maps
and genealogical tables (ranging from 70 x 54 cm to
36 x 49 cm). Some light wear to maps and charts,
the book itself with just some trivial light spotting to
edges, generally an excellent copy in a well preserved
jacket.
First edition, rst printing, of this study of the Ara-
bian Peninsula in the late 18th and early 19th centu-
ries, examining the early history of the United Arab
Emirates and Oman, much enhanced by photographs
of the forts of the Gulf and reproductions of paintings
depicting battles, and complete with large, loose genealogical charts showing the descent of ruling families of
the United Arab Emirates and Oman including the Nahyan, Qasimi, and Busa'id families.
e period between 1793 and 1818 marks a turning point in the history of the Gulf, as the First Saudi State
expanded and came into conict with Oman and the British signed treatises with the leaders of the region. e
author begins by surveying the history of the Busa'id family in Oman, the confederation of Bani Yas, and the
Qawasim. Next, he examines the eastwards expansion of the First Saudi State and the spread of its inuence,
including the alliance between it and Ra's al-Khaima. e British decision to become militarily involved in the
Gulf is presented here as the result of a desire to limit the inuence of the Saudis and Wahhabism.
Aer studying the conict between the Saudis and the Omanis, the author discusses the fall of the First Saudi
State at the hands of the Ottomans and the lasting impact that the alliances formed during this period had on
the emirates of the UAE. e author's research is augmented with the text of the treatises signed between the
East India Company, Oman, and the Emirates between 1789 and 1820.
e author, Muhammad Morsi Abdullah, was a leading historian of the emergence of the United Arab Emir-
ates; he was awarded his doctorate at Cambridge for a thesis on the modern history of the UAE, aer which he
returned to his work in Abu Dhabi as Director of the Documentation and Studies Center in the Oce of the
President of the United Arab Emirates. In 1969, Abdullah published the book "Abu Dhabi Between Yesterday
and Today", as well as a map of the emirate of Abu Dhabi. In 1972, he participated in the crucial project of
making the rst map of the United Arab Emirates itself. Fittingly, the present work was issued with seven large
maps and charts alongside the book, which is itself illustrated with two folding maps and numerous photo-
graphic plates providing a visual history of the UAE.
€2,700 / £2,250
[F62377]
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67. ZUDA ROKASHI, Priest Hotan. Nanzenbushu Bankoku Shoka No
Zu. [Outline Map of All Countries of the Universe]. Kyoto: Bundaiken Uhei,
1710.
Original woodblock printed map, (118.5 x 144.5 cm.), folding into original
blue grey covers (24 x 18.5 cm) preserving original paper label to upper
cover. An extremely clean copy in excellent condition.
e celebrated rst Buddhist world map printed in Japan illustrating “the
fusion of Buddhist dogma and Western geographical knowledge” (Jones).
e author, Hotan (1654-1728), was a scholar-priest and founder of the Ke-
gonji Temple in Kyoto. e earliest known example in Japan is the Goten-
jiku Zu (Map of the Five Indies) by the priest Jukai dating from 1364 and
now preserved in Horyuji Temple in Nara. However Hotan’s map was rev-
olutionary in being the rst printed Oriental map to introduce detailed
Western cartographic information into this traditional Buddhist cosmological view and to attempt to merge
the two together into a comprehensible form. Europe is depicted as a series of islands in the upper le of the
image whilst South America is likewise another island in the lower right of the image. Africa is omitted com-
pletely. China and Japan are clearly dened in the upper right of the map.
“It became the prototype of other Buddhist world maps” (Cortazzi). Accordingly, China and India are posi-
tioned at the centre of the earth, and along with Japan, they occupy most of the map's surface. However, it was
also ”the rst Buddhist world map printed with European geographical knowledge” (History of Cartography),
though the Americas, Europe, and Africa are minimally represented as islands. South America, for example, is
the relatively small island below Japan. At top right, a land bridge joins Asia with another landmass, presuma-
bly North America. And the countries of Europe form an archipelago at upper le.
Although the map is notable for its groundbreaking but primitive integration of Buddhist cosmology and
Western geographic knowledge, its primary concern was Buddhist theology and history. One of the map’s main
purposes was to celebrate a most important event in Buddhist history—the pilgrimage of the famous Chinese
Buddhist priest Hsuan-tsang (602-664 A.D.), who travelled to India to collect holy Sanskrit writings and visit
the sacred places of Buddhism. e Japanese version of Hsuan-tsang’s Chinese narrative, the Si-yu-ki, was
printed as late as 1653 and was the inspiration of this map. Hsuan-tsang not only brought to China and Japan
a deeper understanding of Buddhism but also a richly detailed report of the country of its origin. His account
of India, when nally translated in the West in the 19th century (accompanied by a reduced version of this
map), formed the basis of historical and archaeological studies of India between the classical Greek period and
the 10th century period of Arabic travellers. Hence, this map has been long esteemed by European as well as
Oriental scholars as a valuable source for the early place names of India and China. Without it, many of the
original Asian place names of these countries would not have been preserved.
e map’s text, which is in Chinese, concerns historic Buddhist sites and aspects of classical learning. (Place
names of the European countries are given in both Chinese characters and Japanese kana-syllabary.) Other el-
ements of Buddhist cosmology embodied in the map are that China, India, and Japan occupy two-thirds of the
earth, and that the earth is square-shaped and centred on Mount Sumeru. Also, according to Buddhist belief,
Lake Anavatapta, shown in the centre of the northern part of India, is located south of a huge snowy mountain
chain. e lake is the source of four rivers—the Ganges, Indus, Oxus, and the Sita (Tarim or Talihue in Sinkiang
Province). Each river circles the lake once before moving o in its own direction.
(K. Unno in Harley/ Woodward, ed. History of Cartography; Cortazzi, Isles of Gold; Beans, Japanese Maps of
the Tokugawa Era; O. Jones, Chinese & Japanese maps, British Library)
€15,000 / £12,500
[F51366]
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68. SAYER, Robert. (Brussels). Plan routier de la ville de Bruxelles. London: R. Sayer, opposite Fetter Lane, Fleet
Street, 1783.
Original engraved map of Brussels (54 x 79 cm), dissected into 32 sections backed onto cloth and folding into
contemporary pink cardboard slipcase (18 x 11 cm) decorated with blind-stamped borders and manuscript
paper label covering a previous green leather label. A very nice copy of this nely engraved and detailed city
plan of the Belgian capital.
Robert Sayer (1725–1794) was a leading publisher and seller of prints, maps and maritime charts in Georgian
Britain. He was based near the Golden Buck on 53 Fleet Street in London.
€600 / £500
[F61505]
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69. ARROWSMITH, [A]aron. Asia. To Major James Rennell, Esqr. F.R.S. &c. &c. is Map is Inscribed, by His
much Obliged Humble Servant.... London: G. Allen for A. Arrowsmith, January 1st. 1801.
Large engraved map (overall c.1230 x 1450 cm) with original outline hand-colour, dissected into 36 panels
joined on 4 sheets, backed onto linen with pale blue silked edges, contained in original marbled paper cov-
ered chemise and matching calf-backed slipcase, with paper label of D’Artaria & Compagnie, rue Kohlmarky,
no.1219, Vienne, Magasin de Cartes Geographiques pasted to verso of map and similarly lettered in gilt to slip-
case spine, Some osetting most noticeable at the decorative cartouche on NW section, generally a very nice
clean and fresh copy beautifully presented.
Earliest edition of this wall map, the most accurate map of Asia published at the beginning of the 19th cen-
tury. It shows signicant advancement compared with other maps of the period, incorporating the work of
surveyors like James Rennell, to whom the map was dedicated. Rennell was surveyor-general of the East India
Company's dominions in Bengal, and the information published in his "Bengal Atlas" in 1779 appears here. Ar-
rowsmith also included remarkable topographical detail such as mountain ranges in regions as remote as Tibet.
Remarkably, the region on the shore of the Arabian Gulf is already labelled as "Bani Yas" territory. Arrowsmith
has marked the track of Lapérouse's voyage in the Indian Ocean and Far East.
€6,000 / £5,000
[F63232]
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70. ARROWSMITH, Aaron. Map of the Alpine Country in the South of Europe. London: 4 Rathbone Place.
A. Arrowsmith, 1804.
FIRST EDITION. Original hand-coloured map engraved by W.West on four sheets and joined (overall 126 x
150 cm.) dissected into 24 sections and backed onto linen with pale blue silk edging. Shows from Florence to
Regensburg and Geneva across to Vienna. Contemporary marbled slipcase (32 x 26 cm) with manuscript label
to upper cover Fine inset view by Webber taken in 1787 “ From the Village of Chamouny [Chamonix]” to up-
per le engraved by H. Wilson, and upper right dedication “To Charles Viscount Newark, Baron Pierrepont of
Holmpierrepont Ltd.”
Detailed separately issued wall map of Northern Italy, Switzerland, and Austria by Aaron Arrowsmith, pub-
lished in London in 1804.
e map was probably issued in response to Napoleonic War-related demand for detailed, accurate maps of
this pivotal theatre of the war.
€7,200 / £6,000
[F52982]
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71. BOCK, Joseph und POLACH, Joseph Ferdinand S.R. Equitis a. Totius Regni Bohemiae Mappa Choro-
graphico - Mineralogico - Hydraulico - Commercialis cum Comitatu Glacensi et Districtu Egrano. [Wien.
Vienna]: Arteria et Comp, 1808.
Large folding engraved map printed on four sheets dissected and laid whole on linen in 32 sections (c.26 x 15
cm each). Overall 108 x 107 cm. Title above the map and cartouche lower right. Highly decorative inset views
of Prague and a river scene on the Elbe upper le and right and similarly decorated table of minerals lower
right and key to cartographic symbols and manufactories lower le; scientic symbols for elements etc. listed
along lower margin. Broad decorative borders partially hand-coloured in green, outline red hand-colour to
map and towns highlighted in red. Some slightly browned patches and signs of age but overall good condition.
Beautiful hand-colored engraved map of Bohemia - the present-day Czech Republic, centered around Prague.
Highly decorative cartouches are in each of the four corners. In the upper le is a perspective view of Prague.
In the lower corners, there are two large keys listing economic products of the region.
e map is highly reminiscent of Johann Christoph Müller’s gargantuan map of Bohemia of 1720, and the 1726
version by Johann Wolfgang Wieland.
€1,620 / £1,350
[F60173]
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A “RUGGED, BUT INTERESTING RETREAT”
72. READ, R.P., Lieutenant. is Geographical Plan of the Island & Forts of Saint Helena is Dedicated by per-
mission to Field Marshall His R[oya]l Highness e Duke of Kent and Strathearn By Lieu[tenan]t R.P. Read.
London, October, 1815.
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. Engraved map of the island of Saint Helena (45 x 59 cm) with original
hand-colour, dissected into 16 sections and backed onto linen and folding into original card slipcase covered
in blue paper with title-label to front and engraving of Napoleon lounging beneath an palm tree to back. With
the accompanying “Descriptive Sketch of Saint Helena” mounted on verso. Decorated with sea galleons, cal-
ligraphic lettering, and a facsimile of Napoleon’s signature to lower hand corner. One cm. loss to top le corner
of bottom right hand section, some light tbrowning, generally an excellent copy in the original slipcase.
Saint Helena, situated in the South Atlantic, was chosen as the place for the Emperor Napoleon's second exile
because of the ring of high clis that would make escape a virtual impossibility. is is the rst issue of the
map, with Napoleon’s residence in the centre of the island labelled “e Plantation House”. It was very quickly
published to capitalise commercially on his exile to the island, where he arrived in October 1815.
Engraved by R. Kirkwood.
€1,500 / £1,250
[F58815]
75Stuttgart Rare Book Fair 2025
73. VIERO, Teodoro (publisher). [Venice]. Nuova Pianta Iconograca dell’ Inclita Città di Venezia. Venezia
[Venice]: Presso Teodoro Viero, 1816.
Original hand-coloured engraved map of Venice (49 x 57 cm) dissected into 15 sections and backed onto linen,
folding into original marbled paper slipcase with engraved title-label. Embellished with a decorative title car-
touche incorporating iconography associated with the city of Venice. Some light toning and browning, a few
brown splashes to key, generally a very good example.
Scarce iconographic plan of Venice, based upon the Lodovico Ughi plan of Venice, published in 1729.
Includes and extensive key below the map.
Teodoro Viero (1740 - 1819 ) was engraver, miniaturist, publishing and print dealer. He was the pupil of Pitteri
and Bartolozzi. Viero engraved several plans of Venice.
€1,140 / £950
[F62906]
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74. WYLD, James. Map of China. Compiled from original Surveys & Sketches. By James Wyld Geographer to
the Queen. London: Published by James Wyld, Geographer to the Queen, Charing Cross East, March 14th, 1840.
Original engraved map of China(65.5 x 84 cm.) with contemporary outline hand-colour, sectionalised and laid
onto linen, folding into publisher’s original decorative blue cloth slip-case (22 x 14.5 cm) stamped in blind with
oral patterns and title label to upper cover, publisher’s adverts to verso, small paper label to spine. Some trivial
toning and light osetting, generally a very good copy of an attractive map in an especially beautiful decorative
slipcase.
With a key showing the area in square miles and population of each major city; a further note reads: “e
length of the Great Wall is 1500 Miles, its height on the Hills is 20 feet, in the Valleys 30 . e length of the
Great Imperial, or Treasure Canal, is 600 Miles. 170,000 Men were employed in its construction.”
€1,500 / £1,250
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75. LAURIE, Richard Holmes (publisher); SPENCER, Nathaniel. Chart of the Canary Islands, with Madeira,
Porto-Santo, &c. London: R.H. Laurie, No. 53. Fleet Street, June 30, 1842.
ANNOTATED ONBOARD A CONTEMPORARY VOYAGE.
Original engraved folding map (100 x 66.5 cm) depicting the Ca-
nary Islands, Madeira and part of the West Coast of Africa, incor-
porating ve inset maps of the Islands of Madeira, the Island of
Porto Santo, the Road of Funchal, the Roadstead of Santa-Cruz,
and Great Salvage, tohether with ve engraved coastal landscape
proles of Funchal and the South Madeira, Porto Santo, Allegran-
za, the Island of Palma, Tenerife from the South-West, and the Is-
leta of the Grand Canary. Copiously annotated with printed no-
tations of settlements, landmarks, references to other maps and
books, and navigational aids ("good anchorage", "strong current",
"Shell sh abundant", "Pyramid, a high Rock frequently mistaken
for a large Ship under sail", "Beware of approaching too near the
coast hereabout, lest the Current set you aground on the Flat,
and you fall, enslaved, into the hands of the Arabs"). Additional-
ly annotated with detailed manuscript notes written in ne blue
ink relating to a two-part voyage made in 1844 aboard the Brig
'Vernon' and the Schoone 'Admiral Colpoys'. A very good copy
of a map which has seen active service, with old damp marking
throughout and a little creasing to the bottom corners.
A splendid engraved map of the Canary Islands, meticulously
annotated during a contemporary voyage. Clearly used as a nav-
igational aid, the annotations carefully chart the progress of a two-part voyage from Porto Santo, Madeira, via
Funchal, to Santa Cruz, Tenerife. First describing the progress of the initial leg from Porto Santo to Madeira
(31st January - 2nd February 1844) onboard the Brig 'Vernon', under Captain Webster, they go on to summarise
the nal leg from Funchal, Madeira to Santa Cruz, Tenerife, via the Schooner the 'Admiral Colpoys', command-
ed by Nathaniel Spencer: "19th October 1844. - Schooner 'Admiral Colpoys', Nathl. Spencer Commdr., from
Madeira to Tenerie. At 1 p.m. made sail at Noon on 20th Lat. 30. 33. 25 Miles Northward of the Great Salvage.
At 1 p.m. Gt. Salvage S. by E. 20 miles. At 7 p.m. passed the Southern Salvage. At Daylight 21st saw the Eastend
of Tenerife. At Noon East End South Distant about 4 Leagues. At 5.30 p.m. Dropped anchor in the Roadstead
of Santa Cruz". Each leg of the voyage is also accurately recorded on the map using neat ruled lines in blue
ink. e manuscript annotations additionally comment on the map's accuracy, mark further settlements and
correct information such as population statistics, noting, for example, beside the island of South Deserta: "Pop-
ulation according to Wyld's Chart, 600. Incorrect. No constant residents. A few shermen occasionally resort
there for a few months in the year and scarcely amount to y in number". In another signicant intervention,
the annotator also asserts that in the map's panorama of Funchal, the "mountains [are] scarcely loy enough in
proportion to the space occupied by the town", with the mountains' summits diligently re-drawn in ink. On the
inset map depicting Porto Santo, the mooring of the 'Vernon' o the island's coast is denoted by way of a small
hand-drawn ship, which is also accompanied by an inland route noting the location of "water", and there is a
further hand-drawn inland route on the island of Madeira, which additionally notes elevations and additional
settlements/landmarks. e Canary Islands were a popular port of call for ships travelling between Europe and
the Americas, with some transporting the islands' own products such as cochineal, sugarcane and rum to be
sold in American ports such as Veracruz, Campeche, La Guaira and Havana. An evocative map, having seen
active service aboard (at least) two contemporary voyages within the Canary Islands.
Scarcity: Only one institutional copy recorded worldwide according to WorldCat (British Library).
€2,400 / £2,000
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76. CATTANEO, Giuseppe. (Venice). Pianta della R. Città di Venezia secondo lo stato dell’anno 1849. Dedica-
ta al Nobile ed Onorevole Signore Dn. Giaccomo Poldi Pezzoli pel Generoso Patrocinio Conceduto Ai Cultori
delle Arti in Umile Omaggio di Gratitudine da Giuseppe Cattaneo. Incisore sul disegno eseguito dal geometra
Marco Perissini. Venice, 1849.
Original lithographed map of Venice (70 x 91 cm) dissected into 20 sections and backed onto grey cloth, fold-
ing between handsome red contemporary cloth covers with gilt decoration, several of the important buildings
with contemporary hand-colour. Embellished with decorative title and Lion of Venice, inset map titled “Regno
Lombardo-Veneto” to upper right corner, and with an extensive descriptive key to lower portion. A few isolat-
ed spots, generally a very good example.
In the upper le corner is depicted a small steam locomotive with two wagons entering the Venezia Santa Lucia
train station. ere had been rail trac in Venice since January 1846 with the completion of the rst transla-
goon railway bridge, which opened into the city through an area obtained in connection with the landlls.
Initially without a station building, the incoming trains ended up on a strip of land next to the church of Santa
Lucia. Construction of the actual station would be delayed by riots associated with the 1848 Revolution and not
fully completed until 1863, when the rst train station, Venezia Santa Lucia, was nally ocially declared open.
€1,440 / £1,200
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77. WYLD, James. [e Siege of Sebastopol]. e Environs of Sevastopol with the Batteries & Approaches by
James Wyld... London: Published by James Wyld, Geographer to the Queen & H.R.H. Prince Albert... 4th Novem-
ber 1854.
Original lithographed map of Se-
bastapol (58 x 50 cm) showing the
positions of the allied armies besieg-
ing the city during the Battle of Alma.
Laid onto linen and folding between
publisher’s original blue cloth cov-
ers, publisher’s advertisements to
verso. With original hand-colour-
ing. Some light discolouration along
folds, slightly cropped lower margin,
generally a very good example.
A detailed and very attractive plan
of the Siege of Sebastopol from this
map's 2nd edition (apparently rst
published one month earlier on the
10th of October), showing the posi-
tions of the English, French, Turkish
and Russian Armies.
e Battle of the Alma (short for
Battle of the Alma River) took place
during the Crimean War between an
allied expeditionary force (made up
of French, British, and Ottoman forc-
es) and Russian forces defending the
Crimean Peninsula on 20 September
1854. e allies had made a surprise
landing in Crimea on 14 September.
e allied commanders, Maréchal
Jacques Leroy de Saint-Arnaud and
Lord Raglan, then marched toward
the strategically important port city
of Sevastopol, 45 km (28 mi) away.
Russian commander Prince Alexander Sergeyevich Menshikov rushed his available forces to the last natural
defensive position before the city, the Alma Heights, south of the Alma River.
e allies made a series of disjointed attacks. e French turned the Russian le ank with an attack up clis
that the Russians had considered unscalable. e British initially waited to see the outcome of the French at-
tack, then twice unsuccessfully assaulted the Russians' main position on their right. Eventually, superior British
rie re forced the Russians to retreat. With both anks turned, the Russian position collapsed and they ed.
e lack of cavalry meant that little pursuit occurred.
e battle cost the French roughly 1,600 casualties, the British 2,000, the Ottomans 503, and the Russians some
5,000.
€420 / £350
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78. WYLD, James. Wyld’s Map of the Baltic or East Sea, including the Gulf of Finland, and Surrounding
Countries embracing the Present Seat of War. London: James Wyld, Geographer to the Queen and H.R.H. Prince
Albert. 1854.
Engraved map of the Baltic (48.5 x 68 cm) with original hand-colour in outline, folded in 12 sections and
backed onto linen, original red cloth covers with title-label axed to upper cover. With inset map of “Cron-
stadt and St. Petersburg with the Fortications and Batteries”. Old booksellers label of Charles urnam Sinder
(Carlisle) to front pastedown, along with old manuscript ownership inscription. An excellent copy with vivid
outline colour.
€450 / £375
[F58819]
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79. UPTON & CO. [New Zealand]. Upton & Co.’s New Map of the City and Suburbs of Auckland. Auckland:
Upton & Co., [c.1885].
Original hand-coloured lithographic plan of Auckland (57 x 91 cm), dissected into 16 sections and backed
onto linen, folding between marbled paper covers with manuscript title-label to upper cover. District names
and borders highlighted as well as several “original lots”. Lithographed in Auckland by Wilson & Horton. Some
small paper losses near title, generally a very good example.
e label gives the date as 1884, while the National Library of New Zealand and Auckland Library give uncon-
rmed dates of 1885 and 1886 respectively.
Scarce: OCLC records just three copies, all in New Zealand; no copies listed in Rare Book Hub.
€1,020 / £850
[F62908]
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80. MONTGOMERIE, omas George. Jamoo, Kashmir and Adjacent Districts. Surveyed between the Years
1856 & 1860 under the Superintendence of the Lieut. Colonel Sir Andrew Scott Waugh… Surveyor General
of India and Superintendent G.T. Survey by Captain T.G. Montgomerie Engineers F.R.G.S. 1st Assistant G.T.
Survey of India and the Assistants under his Orders. Scale: 4 Miles to 1 Inch. [Calcutta: Survey of India, January,
1861].
Original large lithographed map
(150.5 x 128.5 cm) annotated
with a route into the Himala-
yas, dissected into 80 sections
and backed onto linen, title to
top right, inset plan to bottom
le of 'Srinagar or city of Kash-
mir and environs', printed label
of Edward Stanford 'wholesale
& retail mapseller' of Charing
Cross pasted at foot printed ad-
vertisements on yellow paper for
'Stanford's Maps' and 'Stanford's
Atlases' visible to front and back
when folded. Lithographed by 'J.
& C. Walker lith.' A little foxing,
some pin holes at head, ink note
at head and route drawn out in
red ink (see below), lower quad-
rant a bit more toned than the
others, generally a very good ex-
ample.
A scarce large scale map of Jam-
mu and Kashmir in northern
India by omas George Mont-
gomerie (1830 1878), executed
as part of the Great Trigonomet-
rical Survey of India under the
superintendence of Sir Andrew
Scott Waugh (1810 1878). Mont-
gomerie gave K2 its name (K for Karakoram), and Waugh is credited with naming Mount Everest.
is particular copy was clearly used by a near contemporary French expedition to the region. It bears the
inscription 'Voyage au Cashmire [Himalaya] Légende' in red ink at the head and a route is mapped out, also
in red ink, from 'Raul Pinde' to 'Lahore' (both o the map). is runs east from Muzaarabad to Baramulla,
Wular Lake, Srinagar, Anantnag, and the Warwan Valley. Here the expedition undertook a circular loop into
the Himalayas some elevations are noted in red ink (e.g. '12000' at 'Sangam') before heading south to Jammu.
Rarity: OCLC records only one copy in the US (University of Minnesota), one in Australia (University of
Melbourne), one in Japan (National Diet Library), one in France (Bibliotheque Nationale), one in Germany
(Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin), and two in the UK (Bodleian, National Library of Scotland).
€4,800 / £4,000
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SHOWING THE SUGAR ESTATES ETC.
81. BASANTA, Joseph, Surv[eyo]r Gen[era]l. e Island of Trinidad from the latest surveys. London: Edward
Stanford, Oct. 1st. 1875.
Original hand coloured lithographed map (overall 51 x 65 cm) disected into 18 sections and folding into origi-
nal green cloth covers (18 x 12 cm.) Edward Stanford, 26 & 27 Cockspur street paper label to upper cover, their
advertising leaves to verso of upper cover and rst panel. Slight browning at folds and o-setting in marine
areas, generally very good condition.
Key showing References to colouring of Sugar Estates, Cocoa Estates, Provision Grounds, Abandoned Estates,
Crown Lands and Indian & Spanish Estates.
An uncommon separately issued map rst published 1838, reissued without the colour coding and dated 1853
in Arrowsmith’s London Atlas of 1858. Arrowsmith died in 1873 and the majority of his stock was bought by
Stanford.
€1,170 / £975
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82. WYLD, James. Wyld's Military Sta Map of Central Asia, Turkistan, and Afghanistan. London: Published
by James Wyld, Geographer to the Queen, 11 & 12 Charing Cross, 157 Strand & 2 Royal Exchange, [c.1878].
Original lithographic map (90 x 120 cm) with contemporary outline colouring, divided into 32 sections and
laid on later linen, the map with colour code indices outside the map's borders, marbled endpapers with pub-
lisher's advertisements to the verso, bound in contemporary boards with printed label to the upper cover, size
when bound 245 x 175 mm Generally an excellent, clean copy.
e colour-coded indices identify and illustrate the vast domains acquired by the Russian Empire in Central
Asia (present-day Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan) in the late 19th century, as well as
Afghanistan, eastern Persia, and parts of Baluchistan (present-day Pakistan), India, and China. e political
boundaries shown on the map delineate the khanates of Bukhara, Khiva, and Afghanistan, as well as the bor-
ders of the Russian Empire, Persia, and Baluchistan. e map was published during the Second Anglo-Afghan
War (1878 - 80) for use by army ocers
€1,800 / £1,500
[F61528]
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83. ARROWSMITH, John & STANFORD, Edward. A Chart of the World on Mercator’s Projection Shewing
the principal Ocean Steam Routes, the Submarine Telegraphs &c. London: Edward Stanford, 55 Charing Cross,
June 1st, 1881.
Original engraved map of the world (69.5 x 103.5 cm) with outline colour, dissected into 40 panels and laid
onto linen, two panels with marbled endpapers, folding into original brown cloth slipcase with publisher’s
yellow title label to upper portion. e map recording steam routes including travel times and underwater
telegraph cables; map inserts of the Arctic and Antarctica (polar projection) in lower right and lower le quad-
rants. Some occasional light soiling, generally an excellent example.
Edward Stanford, Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, acquired the plates and stock of John Arrowsmith
in 1874.
€1,500 / £1,250
[F60068]
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84. [YAMADA, Kaku]. [Kaisei shinkoku bankoku zenzu. Fu bankoku meishogairi]. [Revised and Reprinted
World Map with Illustrations of World Famous Sites]. Kyoto: Yamada Shinshindo, Meiji 19 [1886].
Original hand-coloured engraved map of the world (50.5 x 71 cm) with 9 vignettes depicting major cities in-
cluding Paris, St. Petersburg, and Philadelphia (as well as one fantastical view of a coral mountain), embellished
with decorative title and border, folding between original yellow card covers with title label to upper cover and
old ownership inscription to rear cover. Neat old paper repairs along central fold, some light wear along folds,
generally in very good condition.
€900 / £750
[F60199]
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85. JUNKER, W. [Central Africa] Originalkarte von Dr. W. Junker’s Forschungen in Central-Afrika in den
Jahren 1877/78 und 1880 bis 1885.... Gotha: Justus Perthes, 1888.
Large hand-coloured folding map (overall 104 x 158 cm) dissected into 28 sections, backed on linen and fold-
ing into original marbled paper covered slipcase, backed in blue cloth with red leather label. Covers the area
from c. 2 - 8 degrees north of the equator and from longitude 22-32 east. [With text volume] Wissenschaliche
Ergebnisse von Dr. W. Junkers Reisen in Zentral-Afrika 1880-85. Mit vier Karten [auf einer]. (Ergänzungshe
No. 92 und 93 zu “Petermanns Mitteilungen”). Justus Perthes, 1889. 4to. title + pp.114. Original cloth backed
marbled boards. Cancelled library stamp to title.
Wilhelm Junker (born April 6, 1840, Moscow, Russia—died February 13, 1892, St. Petersburg) was a Russian
explorer of the southern Sudan and Central Africa who determined the course of a major Congo River tribu-
tary, the Ubangi River, together with one of its branches, the Uele.
Aer journeys to Iceland (1869) and Tunis (1873–74), Junker went to Egypt and the Sudan (1875), where
from 1876 to 1878 he explored the lower Sobat River and the western tributaries of the White Nile. In 1879 he
went to Equatoria, the southernmost province of the Sudan, and spent part of the next several years with its
governor, Mehmed Emin Pasha. Junker made ethnographic observations in the country of the Zande, which
now lies partly within the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and South Sudan,
and he established the identity of the Ubangi and Uele rivers. Prevented from returning to Europe through the
Sudan because of the Mahdist uprising, Junker, carrying Emin’s journals, crossed the heartland of what is now
Tanzania and reached Zanzibar in December 1886. He wrote Reisen in Afrika, 1875–86 (1889–91; Travels in
Africa).
(Britannica)
€720 / £600
[F51230]
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86. PINEIDER, Giuseppe. [Florence]. Pianta di Firenze. Firenze (Florence): Giuseppe Pineider, Via Tornabuo-
ni, 20, [1896].
Original lithographed plan of Florence (64 x 78 cm) dissected into 28 sections, backed onto linen, and folding
between Edward Stanford’s original purple cloth covers (17 x 12 cm) with his title label to front cover, and
yellow adverts to pastedown and verso. With Stanford’s label to lower margin. Some light and even toning,
generally an excellent clean copy with no blemishes.
€900 / £750
[F62126]
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87. STANFORD, Edward. A Map of the Countries between Constantinople and Calcutta including Turkey in
Asia, Persia, Afghanistan & Turkestan. Scale, 1:6,969,600, 110 English Miles to 1 Inch. London: Edward Stan-
ford, July 2, 1906.
Original large format colour-lithograph map (68 x 105 cm) showing the region extending from Egypt in the
west to India in the east, with India and Arabia prominently displayed. Dissected into 24 sections and backed
onto linen, yellow publisher’s adverts to inside cover and verso, folding between original blue cloth covers with
title-label to upper cover. A descriptive key details steamship routes, railways, and submarine telegraph lines.
Old ownership inscription to advertisements. An excellent copy with attractive full colour.
An attractive pre-World War I map covering the areas where the intrigues of 'e Great Game' were played out
between Great Britain and Russia. e Turkish Empire is shaded in green and extends down the Red Sea as far
as Yemen and along the Persian Gulf until Qatar (El Bahrein). e Hejaz Railway is shown in a state of partial
completion up until Mudawwara where it becomes a dashed (rather than solid) red line. With good detail in
the Persian Gulf showing Ras-el-Khyma (Ras-Al-Khaimah), Abu ubee (Abu Dhabi), and Shardya (Sharjah).
Bahrein is shown in red.
€1,020 / £850
[F62044]
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88. WAR OFFICE. Basutoland. London: Drawn and Printed at the War Oce, June 1911.
Large colour-printed map of Basutoland (present day Lesotho) (113 x 105 cm) issued by the British War Oce
in 1911, dissected into 35 sections and laid onto linen, folding between tan cloth covers with Edward Stanford’s
label to upper cover, and housed in original cloth slipcase. e map depicts a wealth of information of this
Crown Colony, rendering elevation with ne contour lines, naming villages and small settlements, mention-
ing the existence of important residences, stores, forget, etc., as well as roads, telegraphs, mission stations, etc.
With Edward Stanford’s small label to bottom right margin. With G. Tylden’s signature on publishers label,
likely belonging to Major Georey Tylden (1883-1970), who lived in South Africa from 1903 to 1946, and who
contributed much to the study of South African military history. He was the author of three books, ‘e Rise
of the Basuto’, ‘e Armed Forces of South Africa’ and ‘Horses and Saddlery’. Each of these works constitutes
a serious and pioneering study of the subject treated. In addition to these, however, Major Tylden compiled a
book on the military forces of the British West Indies, unfortunately never published through the withdrawal of
ocial interest, and at the time of his death he was engaged in writing a further work on harness and saddlery.
Tylden’s annotations appear in the margins and on the
e map is painstaking in its treatment of the Crown colony, rendering elevation with ne contour lines, nam-
ing villages and small settlements, mentioning the existence of important residences, stores, forget, etc., as well
as roads, telegraphs, mission stations, etc.
According to a note on the map, the cartography is based on a 1904-09 reconnaissance survey made by Captain
M.C. Dobson, R.F.A.
€900 / £750
[F61213]
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89. AENISHÄNSLIN, Carlos. Plantas das Cidades de Rio de Janeiro e Nictheroy. Rio de Janeiro Central Mon-
umental. Titles to Maps: Rio de Janeiro Central Monumental [and] Cidades de Rio de Janeiro e Nictheroy.
Aarau, Switzlerand: Art. Grav. A. Trüb & Cia. 1915.
12mo. (16.5 x 11 cm). pp.42. Publisher’s original blue and yellow pictorial cloth. Text in four languages (Por-
tuguese, French, German, and English). Two large colour-printed maps (65 x 84 cm) of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,
printed onto one sheet, the recto showing a detailed map of the central part of the city, the verso with a map of
the city and its immediate environs. e map of central Rio features vignettes of the major monuments within
the City, along with the waterfront, parks and coastal mountains. e broader map shows Rio, Guanabara Har-
bor and Niteroi across the Bay in ne detail. Additional full-page engraved map of Rio de Janeiro in the text.
One small marginal tear to map not aecting image, generally an excellent copy.
OCLC returns just 6 copies, none in the UK.
€2,640 / £2,200
[F61078]
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90. STANFORD, Edward. Stanford’s Map of the Siberian Railway, the Great Land Route to China and Korea.
London: Published by Edward Stanford, 7th August, 1917.
Large colour-lithographed map (75.5 x 115.5 cm) of Russia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, northern China and Korea
with the Railway system and stations printed in red. Dissected into 28 sections and laid onto cloth, folding
between publisher’s original plum cloth with yellow title-label to upper cover. Some light toning, generally an
excellent clean copy in well-preserved cloth covers.
e 1917 edition of this long-running map, the working copy of Captain Noël Louis St Pierre Bunbury, a mem-
ber of Major-General Alfred Knox’s British Military Mission to Siberia. Bunbury travelled along the Trans-Si-
berian Railway between April and November 1919, training White Russian ocers and soldiers. Important
stops along the railway are marked in blue pencil.
Appointed by Lloyd George and Winston Churchill, Knox was a logical choice, being uent in Russian and
having served in St Petersburg in diplomatic posts before the First World War. His mission, running parallel to
the deployment of British troops, arrived in Omsk in October 1918. Knox was tasked with organizing Russian
units to ght the Bolsheviks and strategically advising Admiral Kolchak, who was installed as Supreme Ruler
of Russia at Omsk the following month.
Bunbury (1890-1971) served in several campaigns in Waziristan, received the DSO in 1937, and earned pro-
motion to brigadier in the Indian Army in 1941. Between 1943 and 1944, he was aide-de-camp to George VI.
€900 / £750
[F61698]
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91. ASSOCIATED TELEGRAPH COMPANIES. “Via Eastern”. e Eastern and Associated Telegraph Com-
panies Cable System. Submarine Cables of the World. London: Waterlow & Sons, May, 1927.
Original colour lithographed map of the world (45.5 x 99 cm) backed onto linen and folding between original
red cloth boards with gilt lettering and marbled endpapers. Submarine cables are shown in red. Light sunning
to cloth covers, map generally in excellent condition.
In 1872 the Eastern Telegraph Co. (ETC) was created by John Pender through the amalgamation and reorgan-
isation of several companies. It was to become the largest cable operating company in the world and at its peak
it operated 160,000 nautical miles of cables (Grace’s Guide to British Industrial History).
In 1925 a method of regenerating submarine telegraph signals automatically came into use which led to large
scale redundancies amongst operators at the various relay stations throughout the network. is enabled the
company to reduce costs; however, the benet was short lived. When the short wave ‘Beam’ system developed
by Marconi, and operated by the GPO, came into service during 1926-27 the E&A found itself with serious
problems. Within six months of the service (known as Empiradio) opening, it took away 65% of the Eastern
and Eastern Extension social trac, resulting in considerable loss of prot. ey were not the only ones to
suer, the Pacic cable also lost a considerable amount of trac, a case of a government owned cable system
losing business to a government owned wireless telegraph system.
Consequently at the end of 1927, the Chairman of the group, Sir John Denison Pender, approached the Gov-
ernment of the day to ask for help. e alternative was to liquidate the group and pay out the shareholders.
Negotiations took place between the cable companies, Marconi’s company and the Government. e outcome
was a merger of the two. On the 8th of April 1929 the new operating company Imperial & International Com-
munications Ltd. And the holding company Cables & Wireless Ltd., came into being.
€600 / £500
[F63039]
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92. SURVEY OF PALESTINE. Palestine Motor Map. Compiled, drawn & printed by Survey of Palestine, Nov.
1942.
Original colour-printed map of Palestine (61 x 40.5 cm) with inset town plans of Haifa, Jerusalem, and Jaa &
Tel Aviv, folding between publisher’s original card covers printed in black with a vignette of Old Jerusalem to
front cover and table of distances to back cover. An excellent copy.
is is a map showing Palestine during the period of the Mandate. Major roads, railways, cities, towns, and
rivers are all shown, and the map is shaded according to topography. e inset map of Jerusalem is particularly
detailed, labeling not only the many features of the walled city including the Wailing Wall, the Church of the
Holy Sepulchre, and the Dome of the Rock, but also features like courts, pools, and a YMCA.
e map shows Palestine at one of the key points in its history. Mandatory Palestine had been created in 1920
as a result of the Sykes-Picot Agreement following World War I, but had various deep-seated issues. At the time
this map was created, two separate revolts were occurring against the British colonial government for two very
dierent reasons. e 1936 to 1939 Arab revolt was waged due to the open-ended policies allowing extensive
Jewish migration and the goal of creating a "Jewish National Home." e Jewish insurgency, on the other hand,
was fought for exactly the opposite purpose. e White Paper of 1939, which acted as a compromise and prom-
ised independence and a binational state for Palestine and the creation of a homeland for Jewish settlers but
restricted new Jewish immigration, only acted as gasoline on this re. e compromise did not satisfy either
side, and ghting continued during and aer World War II.
€300 / £250
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THE FIRST COMPLETE GEOLOGICAL PROFILE OF SAUDI ARABIA AND HER NEIGHBOURS -
THE RESULT OF A COLLABORATION BETWEEN ARAMCO AND THE U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY
93. ARABIAN AMERICAN OIL COMPANY, U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. Geologic Map of the Arabian
Peninsula. Washington, D.C.: e US Geological Survey, 1963.
Original very large chromolithographed map of the
Arabian Peninsula (129.5 x 185.5 cm), sectionalised
and laid onto new linen, marbled endpapers. Gener-
ally an excellent copy.
is monumental wall map of the Arabian Peninsu-
la, issued in 1963, was the result of a remarkable col-
laboration. e U.S. Geological Survey and the Ar-
ab-American Oil Company (Aramco) joined forces,
sponsored by Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Petroleum
and the U.S. Department of State. is partnership
underscored the immense importance of the project,
both then and now. e map’s thematic focus is on the
geological makeup of Saudi Arabia and the states surrounding it (i.e., Oman, Yemen, Bahrain, United Arab
Emirates, Qatar, and Kuwait). e level of detail required to visualise Arabia’s complex geological composition
was immense, which is why a scale of 1:2 000 000 and Lambert’s Conformal Conic Projection was applied.
Holding the largest fossil fuel deposits on the planet, Arabia was already of considerable interest to Amer-
ican and British oil companies from the 1930s. When the U.S. Department of State and the Saudi Ministry
of Petroleum joined forces to commission this map, it was not the rst geological survey undertaken by the
Americans in Saudi Arabia. It was, however, the most comprehensive, which meant that this particular map
soon superseded all those that had preceded it. It is precisely the degree of accuracy and detail that has made
this map so collectible. Prior to this US-Saudi collaboration, many oil-related maps had been issued, including
several by the Arabian American Oil Company. Among these important predecessors was a printed map rst
issued in 1951 (and revised in 1953). ese maps were oen printed with a note of caution that the information
conveyed could be subject to continual changes and updates, reecting that the physiographic understanding
of Arabia in many places was still based on arbitrary descriptions like travellers’ accounts. However, it was
only with the involvement of the U.S. Geological Survey and the publication of this map that a complete geo-
logical prole of the Peninsula was compiled. e subsequent publication of a series of geological reports and
assessments based on this map is a testament to its seminal role in advancing our understanding of the region’s
geology. e map was issued as part of the Miscellaneous geological investigations series and was numbered
‘map I-270A’. It was initially printed as a single sheet measuring 130 by 186 cm (or 51 x 73 inches), and its high
resolution and enormous dimensions reect that it was created as a tool for remote prospecting and mapping
out potential pockets of fossil fuel. Because of its large dimensions, this map has been professionally dissected
and backed on linen, allowing for easier archiving, display, and use in the eld. e extensive colour-coded
legends running along either side of the map provide a detailed key to understanding the geological stratica-
tion of Arabia. ese also pertain to neighbouring regions such as Jordan, Oman, and Yemen. In addition to
the colourful geological proles, the map contains many place names, including cities and towns, major roads,
airports, islands, mountain ranges, and many other features. Topographic proles are provided throughout the
map, including along the oors of the Red Sea, Persian Gulf, and the Arabian Sea. All the nation-states that one
would expect to nd have been delineated. e only omission in this regard is the border between Iraq and Ku-
wait, an undened line that Saddam Hussein would use to legitimise his invasion of Kuwait three decades later.
(Powers, Ramirez, Redmond, Elberg, Geology of the Arabian Peninsula, Sedimentary Geology of Saudi Arabia,
U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper, 1966)
€11,700 / £9,750
[F61963]
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94. PIRANESI, Giovanni Battista. Veduta della Basilica e Piazza di S. Pietro in Vaticano. [St. Peter’s, with
Forecourt and Colonnades. Fountain in Foreground]. Rome: Presso l’Autore, [c.1769].
Original etching from the “Vedute di Roma”. (40 x 54 cm.; sheet 53 x 76 cm.). Very good condition with gener-
ous margins, original vertical centrefold indistinctly visible, margins slightly dust-soiled.
Life-time Rome edition on thick laid paper, fourth state (of seven) with address and price, and double-ringed
eur de lys watermark (H.9,3).
(Hind, 3 iv/vii; Wilton-Ely, 136; Focillon, 787)
€4,200 / £3,500
[F62056]
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95. PIRANESI, Giovanni Battista. Veduta interna della Basilica di S. Pietro in Vaticano. [St. Peter’s, Interior
with the Nave]. Rome: Presso l’Autore, [c.1769].
Original etching from the “Vedute di Roma”. (41 x 60 cm.; sheet 53 x 76 cm.) Good broad margins, original
vertical centrefold indistinctly visible, right margin slightly dust-soiled, diagonal crease lower le corner, gen-
erally excellent condition.
Life-time Rome edition on thick laid paper, third state (of six) with address and price, and double-ringed eur
de lys watermark (H.,9,3)
(Hind, 4 iii/vi; Wilton-Ely, 137)
€1,200 / £1,000
[F62060]
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96. PIRANESI, Giovanni Battista. Veduta dell’ Esterno della gran Basilica di S. Pietro in Vaticano. [St. Peter’s
From the Piazza della Sagrestia]. Rome: Presso l’Autore, [c.1769].
Original etching from the “Vedute di Roma”. (40 x 60.5 cm.; sheet 53 x 76 cm.) Good broad margins, original
vertical centrefold indistinctly visible, right margin slightly dust-soiled at lower corner, generally excellent
condition.
Life-time Rome edition on thick laid paper, fourth state (of six) with address and price, and double-ringed eur
de lys watermark (H.,9,3).
(Hind, 5 iv/vi; Wilton-Ely, 137)
€2,100 / £1,750
[F62061]
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97. PIRANESI, Giovanni Battista. Veduta della Basilica di S. Paolo fuor delle Mura. [St. Paul’s outside the
Walls]. [Rome: Presso l’Autore, c. 1769].
Original etching from the “Vedute di Roma”. (40.5 x 61 cm.; sheet 53 x 76 cm.) Good broad margins, original
vertical centrefold indistinctly visible, generally excellent condition.
Life-time Rome edition on thick laid paper, fourth state (of six) with signature lower le and address and price
erased, now signed Piranesi lower right.
(Hind, 6 iv/vi)
€1,980 / £1,650
[F62062]
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98. PIRANESI, Giovanni Battista. Spaccato interno della Basilica di S. Paolo fuori delle Mura. [S. Paolo Fuori
Le Mura. Interor]. Rome: Presso l’Autore, [c.1770].
Original etching from the “Vedute di Roma”. (41 x 61 cm.; sheet 53 x 76 cm.). Good margins, with original
vertical centrefold indistinctly visible, excellent condition.
Life-time Rome edition on thick laid paper, third state (of six) with address and price, and double-ringed eur
de lys watermark (H.,9,3).
(Hind, 7 iii/vii; Wilton-Ely, 138)
€1,320 / £1,100
[F62063]
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99. PIRANESI, Giovanni Battista. Vedute della Basilica di S. Giovanni Laterano. [View of the Basilica of S.
Giovanni in Laterano]. Rome: Presso l’Autore, [c.1770].
Original etching from the “Vedute di Roma”. (40 x 55 cm; sheet 53 x 76 cm.) Good broad margins, original
vertical centrefold indistinctly visible, excellent condition.
Life-time Rome edition on thick laid paper, third state (of six) with address and price, and double-ringed eur
de lys watermark (H.,9,3).
(Hind, 8, iii/vi)
€2,100 / £1,750
[F62064]
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100. PIRANESI, Giovanni Battista. Veduta della Basilica di Sta. Maria Maggiore con le due Fabbriche laterali
di detta Basilica.[S. Maria Maggiore with the Column from the Basilica of Constantine in the Foreground].
[Rome: c. 1768].
Original etching from the “Vedute di Roma”. (40 x 55 cm; sheet 53 x 76 cm.) Good broad margins, original
vertical centrefold indistinctly visible, excellent condition
Life-time Rome edition on thick laid paper, third state (of six) with address and price and double-ringed eur
de lys watermark (H.,9,3).
(Hind, 9 iii/vi; Wilton-Ely, 140)
€3,600 / £3,000
[F62066]
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101. PIRANESI, Giovanni Battista. Veduta della Facciata di dietro della Basilica di S. Maria Maggiore. [S.
Maria Maggiore with the Obelisk in the Piazza Dell’Esquilino]. Rome: Presso l’Autore, [c.1768].
Original etching from the “Vedute di Roma”. (40 x 61 cm; sheet 53 x 76 cm.) Good broad margins, original
vertical centrefold indistinctly visible, excellent condition.
Life-time Rome edition on thick laid paper, second state (of ve) with address and price, and double-ringed
eur de lys watermark (H.,9,3).
(Hind, 10 ii/v; Wilton-Ely, 172)
€2,640 / £2,200
[F62070]
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102. PIRANESI, Giovanni Battista. Veduta della Facciata della Basilica di S. Croce in Gerusalemme. [Basilica
of S. Croce in Jerusalem]. Rome: Presso l’Autore, [c.1768].
Original etching from the “Vedute di Roma”. (40 x 61 cm; sheet 53 x 76 cm.) Good broad margins, original
vertical centrefold indistinctly visible, mild angled crease le, generally excellent condition.
Life-time Rome edition on thick laid paper, third state (of ve) with address and price, and double-ringed eur
de lys watermark (H.,9,3).
(Hind, 11 iii/vi; Wilton-Ely, 173)
€2,100 / £1,750
[F62071]
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103. PIRANESI, Giovanni Battista. Veduta della Basilica di S. Lorenzo fuor delle Mura. [View of the Basilica
of S. Lorenzo outside the Walls]. Rome: Presso l’Autore, [c. 1768].
Original etching from the “Vedute di Roma”. (38 x 66 cm; sheet 53 x 76 cm.) Good broad margins, original
vertical centrefold indistinctly visible, generally excellent condition.
Life-time Rome edition on thick laid paper, second state (of ve) with address and price, and double-ringed
eur de lys watermark (H., 9, 3).
(Hind, 12 ii/v; Wilton-Ely, 186)
€2,400 / £2,000
[F62072]
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104. PIRANESI, Giovanni Battista. Veduta della Piazza di Monte Cavallo. [e Piazza del Quirinale with the
Statues of Horse Tamers in side view]. Rome: Presso l’Autore, [c.1768].
Original etching from the “Vedute di Roma”. (39 x 54 cm; sheet 53 x 76 cm.) Good broad margins, original
vertical centrefold indistinctly visible, excellent condition.
Life-time Rome edition on thick laid paper, fourth state (of seven) with address and price, double-ringed eur
de lys watermark (H.,9,3).
(Hind, 15 iv/vi; Wilton-Ely, 142)
€3,000 / £2,500
[F62075]
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105. PIRANESI, Giovanni Battista. Veduta di Piazza Navona sopra le rovine del Circo Agonale. [e Piazza
Navone, with S. Agnese on the right]. Rome: Presso l’Autore, [c.1768].
Original etching from the “Vedute di Roma”. (41 x 54 cm; sheet 53 x 76 cm.) Good broad margins, original
vertical centrefold indistinctly visible, excellent condition.
Life-time Rome edition on thick laid paper, fourth state (of six) with address and price, double-ringed eur de
lys watermark (H.,9,3).
(Hind, 16 iv/vi; Wilton-Ely, 143)
€5,100 / £4,250
[F62076]
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106. PIRANESI, Giovanni Battista. Veduta della Piazza della Rotonda. [e Piazza della Rotonda, with the
Pantheon and Obelisk]. Rome: Presso l’Autore, [c.1768].
Original etching from the “Vedute di Roma”. (41 x 55 cm; sheet 53 x 76 cm.) Broad margins, original vertical
centrefold indistinctly visible, very faint dampstain to outer edge of le margin, generally excellent condition.
Life-time Rome edition on thick laid paper, fourth state (of seven) with address and price, double-ringed eur
de lys watermark (H.,9,3).
(Hind, 17 iv/vii; Wilton-Ely, 144)
€4,800 / £4,000
[F62077]
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107. PIRANESI, Giovanni Battista. Veduta di Piazza di Spagna. [View of the Piazza di Spagna]. Rome: Presso
l’Autore, [c.1768].
Original etching from the “Vedute di Roma”. (40.5 x 60 cm; sheet 53 x 76 cm.) Broad margins, original vertical
centrefold indistinctly visible, very faint dampstain to outer edge of le margin, generally excellent condition.
Life-time Rome edition on thick laid paper, fourth state (of eight) with address and price, double-ringed eur
de lys watermark (H., 9, 3).
(Hind, 18 iv/vii; Wilton-Ely, 154)
€4,800 / £4,000
[F62078]
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108. PIRANESI, Giovanni Battista. Veduta delle due Chiese, l’una detta 1 della Madonna di Loreto l’altra 2 del
Nome di Maria presso 3 la Colonna Trajana 4 Salita al monte Quirinale. [Two Churches Near Trajan’s Column,
S. Maria di Loreto and Santissimo Nome di Maria]. Rome: Presso l’Autore, 1762.
Original etching from the “Vedute di Roma”. (43 x 69 cm. sheet 53 x 76 cm.) Broad margins, original vertical
centrefold indistinctly visible, faint dampstain to right margin, minor blotch in upper margin, generally excel-
lent condition.
Life-time Rome edition on thick laid paper, rst state (of four) with address and price, double-ringed eur de
lys watermark (H.,9,3).
(Hind, 66 i/iv; Wilton-Ely, 199)
€2,700 / £2,250
[F62082]
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109. PIRANESI, Giovanni Battista. Veduta della Fontana di Trevi anticamente della Acqua Vergine. [View of
the large Trevi Fountain formerly called the Acqua Vergine]. Rome: Presso l’Autore, [c.1768].
Original etching from the “Vedute di Roma”. (40 x 55 cm. sheet 53 x 76 cm.) Good broad margins, original
vertical centrefold indistinctly visible, faint dampstain to right margin, generally excellent condition.
Life-time Rome edition on thick laid paper, third state (of seven) with address and price, double-ringed eur
de lys watermark (H.,9,3).
(Hind, 19 iii/vii; Wilton-Ely, 145)
€3,900 / £3,250
[F62084]
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110. PIRANESI, Giovanni Battista. Veduta del Castello dell’Acqua Felice... [View of the Fountainhead of the
Acqua Felice...]. Rome: Presso l’Autore, [c.1768].
Original etching from the “Vedute di Roma”. (41 x 68 cm. sheet 53 x 76 cm.) Good broad margins, original
vertical centrefold indistinctly visible, faint dampstain to right margin, generally excellent condition.
Life-time Rome edition on thick laid paper, second state (of ve) with address and price, double-ringed eur
de lys watermark (H., 9, 3).
(Hind, 20 ii/v; Wilton-Ely, 187)
€2,700 / £2,250
[F62086]
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111. PIRANESI, Giovanni Battista. Veduta del Porto di Ripa Grande. [e Harbour and Quay, Called the
Ripa Grande]. Rome: Presso l’Autore, [c.1769].
Original etching from the “Vedute di Roma”. (41 x 61 cm. sheet 53 x 76 cm.) Good broad margins, original
vertical centrefold indistinctly visible, excellent condition.
Life-time Rome edition on thick laid paper, third state (of six), double-ringed eur de lys watermark (H.9,3).
(Hind, 27 iii/vi; Wilton-Ely, 179)
€3,900 / £3,250
[F62113]
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112. PIRANESI, Giovanni Battista. Veduta del Porto di Ripetta. [e Smaller Harbour of Ripetta]. Rome:
Presso l’Autore, [c.1769].
Original etching from the “Vedute di Roma”. (40 x 60 cm. sheet 53 x 76 cm.) Good broad margins, original
vertical centrefold indistinctly visible, excellent condition.
Life-time Rome edition on thick laid paper, fourth state (of eight), with address and price, double-ringed eur
de lys watermark (H.,9,3).
(Hind, 28 iv/viii; Wilton-Ely, 155)
€3,600 / £3,000
[F62191]
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113. PIRANESI, Giovanni Battista. Veduta del Ponte e Castello S. Angelo. [View of the Bridge and Castel S.
Angelo]. Rome: Presso l’Autore, [c.1769].
Original etching from the “Vedute di Roma”. (38 x 58 cm. sheet 53 x 76 cm.) Good broad margins, original
vertical centrefold indistinctly visible, trivial brown spot to text lower le, excellent condition.
Life-time Rome edition on thick laid paper, third state (of six), with address and price, double-ringed eur de
lys watermark (H.,9,3).
(Hind, 29 iii/vi; Wilton-Ely, 156)
€4,500 / £3,750
[F62196]
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114. PIRANESI, Giovanni Battista. Veduta del Mausoleo d’ Elio Andriano (ora chiamato S. Angelo) nelle
parle opposta alla Facciata dentro al Castello. [View of the Mausoleum of the Emperor Hadrian (now called
Castel S. Angelo) from the rear]. Rome: Presso l’Autore, [c.1769].
Original etching from the “Vedute di Roma”. (44 x 56 cm. sheet 53 x 76 cm.) Good broad margins, original
vertical centrefold indistinctly visible, small pale tan stain to right lower corner of margin, overall excellent
condition.
Life-time Rome edition on thick laid paper, rst state (of four), with address and price, double-ringed eur de
lys watermark (H.,9,3).
(Hind, 30 i/iv; Wilton-Ely, 170)
€3,000 / £2,500
[F62197]
117Stuttgart Rare Book Fair 2025
115. PIRANESI, Giovanni Battista. Veduta del Campidoglio di Fianco. [e Capitol, Seen from the Side of the
Central Steps]. Rome: l’Autore, [c.1769].
Original etching from the “Vedute di Roma”. (41 x 68.5 cm. sheet 53 x 76 cm.) Good broad margins, original
vertical centrefold indistinctly visible, overall excellent condition.
Life-time Rome edition on thick laid paper, third state (of six), double-ringed eur de lys watermark (H.9,3).
(Hind, 39 iii/vi; Wilton-Ely, 189)
€3,300 / £2,750
[F62207]
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116. PIRANESI, Giovanni Battista. Veduta di Campo Vaccino. [e Forum Romanum, or Campo Vaccino,
from the Capitol, with the Arch of Septimus Severus in the foreground]. Rome: Presso l’Autore, [c.1769].
Original etching from the “Vedute di Roma”. (41 x 68.5 cm. sheet 53 x 76 cm.) Good broad margins, original
vertical centrefold indistinctly visible, excellent condition.
Life-time Rome edition on thick laid paper, third state (of six), with address and price, double-ringed eur de
lys watermark (H.,9,3).
(Hind, 40 iii/vi; Wilton-Ely, 148)
€3,000 / £2,500
[F62208]
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117. PIRANESI, Giovanni Battista. Veduta del Tempio d’ Antonino e Faustina in Campo Vaccino. [View of
the Temple of Antoninus and Faustina in the Roman Forum]. Rome: Presso l’Autore, [c.1769].
Original etching from the “Vedute di Roma”. (40 x 54 cm.; sheet 53 x 76 cm.). Good broad margins, original
vertical centrefold indistinctly visible, insignicant very light tan stain to outer lower right corner of margin,
overall excellent condition.
Life-time Rome edition on thick laid paper, fourth state (of seven) with address and price, double-ringed eur
de lys watermark (H.,9,3).
(Hind, 49 iii/vi; Wilton-Ely, 163)
€1,800 / £1,500
[F62226]
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118. PIRANESI, Giovanni Battista. Veduta degli avanzi di due Triolini che appartenavano all Casa aurea di
Nerone, presi erroneamente per i Templi del Sole, e della Luna, o d’Iside, e Serapide... [View of the ruins of
two Triclinia (dining rooms) which belonged to the Golden House of Nero...Actually the Temple of Venus and
Rome]. Rome: l’Autore, [c.1769].
Original etching from the “Vedute di Roma”. (41 x 56 cm.; sheet 53 x 76 cm.). Good broad margins, original
vertical centrefold indistinctly visible, insignicant very light tan stain to outer lower right corner of margin,
overall excellent condition.
Life-time Rome edition on thick laid paper, third state (of ve).
(Hind, 50 iii/v; Wilton Ely, 149)
€1,320 / £1,100
[F62230]
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119. PIRANESI, Giovanni Battista. Veduta dell’Anteatro Flavio, detto il Colosseo. [View of the Flavian Am-
phitheater, called the Colosseum]. Rome: l’Autore, [c.1769].
Original etching from the “Vedute di Roma”. (44 x 70 cm.; sheet 53 x 76 cm.). Good margins, with original
vertical centrefold indistinctly visible, excellent condition.
Life-time Rome edition on thick laid paper, rst state (of four), with address and price, and double-ringed eur
de lys watermark (H.,9,3).
(Hind, 57 i/iv; Wilton-Ely, 191)
€6,300 / £5,250
[F62238]
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120. PIRANESI, Giovanni Battista. Veduta dell’ Atrio del portico di Ottavia. [e Portico of Octavia: e
entrance porch. Exterior.] Rome: l’Autore, [c.1769].
Original etching from the “Vedute di Roma”. (40 x 60 cm.; sheet 53 x 76 cm.). Good broad margins, original
vertical centrefold indistinctly visible, insignicant very light tan stain to outer lower right corner of margin,
overall excellent condition.
Life-time Rome edition on thick laid paper, fourth state (of seven), with address and price, and double-ringed
eur de lys watermark (H.,9,3).
(Hind, 58 iv/vii; Wilton-Ely, 166)
€1,980 / £1,650
[F62240]
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121. PIRANESI, Giovanni Battista. Veduta interna dell’ Atrio del portico di Ottavia. [e Portico of Octavia:
e entrance porch. Interior.] Rome: l’Autore, [c.1769].
Original etching from the “Vedute di Roma”. (41.5 x 55 cm.; sheet 53 x 76 cm.). Good broad margins, original
vertical centrefold indistinctly visible, insignicant very light tan stain to outer lower right corner of margin,
overall excellent condition.
Life-time Rome edition on thick laid paper, third state (of six ), with address and price, and double-ringed eur
de lys watermark (H.,9,3)
(Hind, 59 iii/vi; Wilton-Ely, 167)
€1,980 / £1,650
[F62241]
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122. PIRANESI, Giovanni Battista. Rovine delle Terme Antoniniane. [e Baths of Caracalla. Birds-eye
view]. [Rome: 1765].
Original etching from the “Vedute di Roma”. (44 x 70 cm.; sheet 53 x 76 cm.). Good broad margins, original
vertical centrefold indistinctly visible, insignicant very light tan stain to outer lower right corner of margin,
overall excellent condition.
Life-time Rome edition on thick laid paper, rst state (of four), with double-ringed eur de lys watermark
(H.,9,3).
(Hind, 76 i/iii; Wilton-Ely, 209)
€1,500 / £1,250
[F62244]
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123. PIRANESI, Giovanni Battista. Veduta del Pantheon d’Agrippa oggi Chiesa di S. Maria ad Martyres.
[View of the Pantheon of Agrippa, today S. Maria ad Martyres]. Rome: L’Autore, [c.1761].
Original etching from the “Vedute di Roma” (53 x 76 cm overall, plate mark 47.5 x 70 cm). Good margins,
original vertical centrefold indistinctly visible, excellent condition.
Life-time Rome edition on thick laid paper, rst state (of ve), with the address of Palazzo Tonati, Strada Felice
and price, and with double-ringed eur de lys watermark (H.,9,3).
(Hind, 60 i/v; Wilton-Ely, 193)
€6,300 / £5,250
[F62247]
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124. PIRANESI, Giovanni Battista. Avansi della Villa di Mecenate a Tivoli, costruita di travertini a opera in-
certa. [e so-called Villa of Maecenas, Tivoli]. Rome: l’Autore, [c.1763].
Original etching from the “Vedute di Roma”. (45.5 x 66 cm.; sheet 53 x 76 cm.). Good wide margins, original
vertical centrefold indistinctly visible, original paper aw crease lower right c.10cm., overall excellent condi-
tion.
Life-time Rome edition on thick laid paper, rst state (of three), with double-ringed eur de lys watermark
(H.,9.3).
(Hind, 65 i/iii; Wilton-Ely, 198)
€1,680 / £1,400
[F62267]
127Stuttgart Rare Book Fair 2025
125. PIRANESI, Giovanni Battista. Veduta della Cascata di Tivoli. [e Waterfall at Tivoli]. [Rome, 1766].
Original etching from the “Vedute di Roma”. (48 x 71 cm.; sheet 53 x 76 cm.). Good margins, original vertical
centrefold indistinctly visible, insignicant light overall excellent condition.
Life-time Rome edition on thick laid paper, second state (of ve).
(Hind, 75 ii/v; Wilton-Ely, 208)
€3,000 / £2,500
[F62274]
