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The First Psycho-geographer? London: John Murray. 1851.First edition. In three volumes. 12mo (197x120mm). pp. xx, 360, 32pp ads; xi, 1bl, 366, 32pp. ads; xi, 1bl, 426. Engraved frontispiece in volume 1. Half titles in all three volumes and advertisements as called for. Original green/blue cloth with ribbed pattern to the borders of the upper and lower covers. White paper labels to the spines with the title and author printed in black. The label on volume two is torn at the head with some loss.

Paris: Au Cercle du Livre Précieux. 1962.Limited edition. 645 of 700 on Vélin d'Arches, with original engraving by Hans Bellmer. 242x160mm. pp. xx, [2bl], 110, [1], [1bl], [4]. Bound in moiré cloth. Title in blind at centre of upper cover and stamped in gilt to spine. Very slight marking to upper cover but otherwise in excellent condition and internally near fine. The slip case is covered in the same material and has some soiling and a red mark on one side.

Paris: n.p.. From 1897/1898.First edition of Storck's dictionary of carpentry, woodworking and cabinet-making. Issued in nineteen instalments (fascicules). 310x230mm. pp. 972. The pages are unopened and are loose in fifteen green paper wrappers on the front of which is the title page information and on the back, advertisements for other work by J. Justin Storck. Housed in the original folder of green quarter linen and green paper-covered boards. The front board has the title page information printed in black on pale green paper and pasted on.

Paris: Mulhouse. 1952. Large octavo, (255x195mm). pp48. Original plain beige card wrappers. Original black dust-jacket printed with white and yellow lettering. Booksellers small ticket to front flap of dust-jacket. Dust-jacket slightly rubbed at extremities. A near fine copy in a near fine dust-jacket. First edition, collecting essays (text in French) on jazz and blues by various writers, including Big Bill Broonzy, Michel Perrin and Paul Andreota.

Paris: Editions Mana & Editions Tiranty. 1949.1st edition, small 4to, 36pp, illustrated throughout, VG in plain card in fold-round illustrated card wraps. Worn and rubbed to extremities with some light creasing. With text by Marcel Natkin on various technical and aesthetic aspects of nude photography, this includes works by Boucher, Brassai, Jahan & Sougez.

Paris: Aux Éditions Tiranty. 1945.265x189mm. pp. 40, [2]. XXXII black and white photographs. Card covers with illustrated paper wrappers. Foxing and marking to the covers but overall a very good copy and internally in excellent condition, especially the photographs which are by Laure Albin Guillot, Pierre Boucher, Man Ray and Roger Schall. The first half of the book is a brief history of the nude in art from antiquity to the 20th century and there isa chapter at the end on the technique of nude photography.

Paris: Gabriel Aubert. 1830-1835.Lithograph with hand colouring (255x190mm) by A. Menut. The image, from the satirical journal "La Caricature" shows a young woman at her dressing table looking towards the window with a closed curtain across it. The curtain opens to reveal a young man climbing in through the window. A rather naughty looking cat gives us, the viewer, a knowing look. These prints containing a door or window which opens to reveal a visual joke not anticipated by the principal image are a feature of "La Caricature". Mounted on white card but unframed.

[London]: Secker and Warburg. 1929.Number 43 of 125 copies printed on vellum. 268x170mm. Unpaginated. Illustrated dustjacket with some damage and a tear (with loss) to the top edge of the front cover and about 40mm missing from the foot of the spine and 10mm from the top but it is rare to find this book with a pristine jacket.

Dublin: Andrew Milliken. 1841.Presentation copy from author to the Earl of Rosse. First edition. 8vo. 222x140mm. pp. i-iv, 5-89 [1]; 83 [1]. Two folding engraved plates. Original green cloth, paper label to spine. Staining to covers, spine faded, corners bumped. Internally very good. A nice copy of an important book creating an interesting link between two leading Irish scientists of the nineteenth century. The first part is a reprint of the six lectures given by Lloyd on unpolarized light in 1836 while the second part (on polarized light) appears for the first time. Rare in commerce.

Leipzig: bei Adam Friedrich Böhme. 1799.106x64mm. Additional engraved title page and engraved frontispiece, 16pp, title page, [2 contents], 282, two folding leaves of music, fourteen engraved plates including one coloured showing a hairy spider eating a bird. Green pictorial wrappers, worn and creased and split to upper joint. Internally very good with slight browning. The first sixteen pages contain information about seasons, lunar movements, star signs, Saint's days. The main part of the book is a collection of poems, stories and advice for ladies, for their "use and pleasure".

Par Le Marquis de Sade. Édition critique, établie sur le manuscript autographe par Maurice Heine Paris: Par S&C., aux dépens des bibliophiles souscripteurs.. 1931-35.PORNOLOGYThe first critical edition. Number 197 of 300 copies (numbered from 61-360) on vélin de Rives paper. Three volumes in the original grey wrappers. Title printed in black and red to upper covers and spines. 275x210mm. pp. Tome Premier, xvi, 218; Tome Second, [iv], 219-402; Tome Troisième, [iv], 403-498, [1]. Frontispiece in volume one is a photograph of the original manuscript scroll with de Sade's minuscule writing. Introduction by Maurice Heine.

Paris: Bernard Grasset. 1936-1939.First editions. Four volumes. 8vo, 182x115mm. Les Jeunes Filles : pp, 297, [3]; Pitié pour les femmes. pp. 286, [2]; Le Démon du Bien: pp. 281, [3]; Les Lèpreuses: pp. 332, [2]. Original wrappers bound into near contemporary red half morocco, marble covered boards. Four raised bands, spine lettered in gilt, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Some very minor rubbing to spine but otherwise a near fine set. Internally fine. Les Jeunes Filles and Pitié pour les femmes are exemplaires de presse (review copies).

Milano: Edizioni Futuriste di "Poesia". 1919.First edition, inscribed by Marinetti. 8vo. 190x120mm. pp. 107, [7 inc 3pp adverts] but lacking pp91-92 of text and the four folding plates. In fragile condition with the front cover detached and the spine broken. In glassine wrapper. Housed in a custom made box with the title and author stamped in black. The front free endpaper has the inscription "Mme C. Graetaers [?] avec sympathathie F.T.Marinetti. Corso Venezia 61 Milano".

Toulon: Hotel des Arts. n.d. [c.2000].First edition. 8vo (220x170mm). Unpaginated save for the seventeen pages of text, [pp. 136]. Number 259 of an unknown number of first printing copies of this striking and strikingly designed collection of beach photographs. The cover is card although with a faux-satin finish, decorated with a polka dot lenticular design, lettered in black. Crease to upper cover but otherwise very good. Printed on a variety of paper types from high quality gloss to soft kitchen-paper. The text, in French, is an essay by the photographer Sophie Baiss-Fabiani and, separately, an interview with her.

Paris: Editions Jardin du Luxembourg.. 1948.Limited edition, number 468 of 640First edition thus with the woodcuts by Rene Ben Sussan hand coloured "au pochoir" by Edmond Vairel. Typography by A. Tallone. Printed on BFK Rives paper. 4to. 305x205mm. pp. xx, 21-312, [4]. Fifteen full page coloured woodcuts at the beginning of each chapter, specially made for this edition. These are in immaculate condition and internally the whole book is in fine condition. Bound by Giulio Giannini in red calf.

La Habana: Editorial en Marcha. 1962.First edition. 8vo. pp. 51. Address by Prime Minister Fidel Castro at the Fifteenth Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations, Monday, September 26, 1960.

Malmaison n.p.. 1813.Letter signed "Josephine", addressed to the "Directeur Général des Postes," Malmaison, 12 February 1813.Text in French. One page, 226 x 185mm (mild creases). Seventy-seven words.In a nice example of patronage Josephine uses this letter to the Directeur Général des Postes to recommend a young man called Gaulthier for a job within the Post service.

London: London: Printed for J. Dodsley.. 1774.Two volumes. First edition, second printing ("qui auroit" correctly printed on p55 of volume 1). 4to. 295x235mm. pp. Vol.1: [4], vii [1], 568; Vol.2: [4], 606,[2]. Contemporary calf: volume 1 joint with upper cover recently repaired, wear to joint with lower cover. Some rubbing and bumping to extremities of both volumes and slight scuffing to boards. Chipping to head and foot of spine of volume 2. Spine has five raised bands, contrasting morocco labels, lettered in gilt. The text block of both volumes is very good, in clean, crisp condition.

London: Printed by W. and J. Stratford. 1790.First edition. 8vo. 200x130mm. pp. [4], 44. Plus three leaves of waxed blue card on which were mounted samples of tin foil from Banca (an island off Sumatra) and Cornwall. These samples have since oxidised to dust, leaving residues. Contemporary tree calf, rebacked to style, original metal clasps, marbled endpapers. Contemporary book label of George Croker Fox, a shipping agent and merchant from Falmouth whose father (of the same name) founded the family firm of G.C.Fox.

Göttingen: Steidl. 2004.First edition. 300x295mm. pp.256. Original grey paper covered boards, title stamped in black to spine. Illustrated dust jacket. Very slight bumping to the bottom corners. Otherwise, near fine; an excellent copy of a beautifully produced book. pp7-17: essays by Eugen Blume ("Conversation on the Beach too long") and Manfred Leve ("Photographing Block Beuys"), text in German and English. pp20-256, black and white photographs of Beuys's work.There are two short collections of photographs from exhibitions in Düsseldorf and Mönchengladbach which form part of the "Ur-history" of the Block Beuys installation.

Mallorca: En la Oficina de la Viuda Frau. 1753.First vernacular edition. 4to. 195x140mm. pp.[viii], [2] plates, 252. Folding table of contents and folding woodcut illustration preceding A1, woodcut vignettes to text. Title-page trimmed and extended at lower margin (probably to erase inscription), a couple of pages lightly browned. Contemporary Spanish limp vellum, title in ink to spine, lacking ties. Some internal cracking at the hinges and the usual warping. An excellent copy of a very rare book. First vernacular edition.

London: Chapman & Hall. 1936.1st ed, 4to. (310x250mm). pp 48, illustrated with 48 black and white plates on semi-glossy stock. Near fine in pale grey flecked buckram with blue-stamped titles and artist's signature.

London: Chatto & Windus. 1883.First edition. 8vo. (185x120mm). pp. xxv, 562, 32 [advertisements, March 1883]. First edition published in the UK a few days before the first US edition. With over 300 illustrations. Original publisher's red cloth with illustration stamped in black to upper cover and spine and with the title in gilt. Publishers' device stamped in black and red on the lower cover. Wear to the head and foot of the spine and to the corners. Attractive olive-green leaf pattern endpapers. Slight shelfwear to the edges. Contents clean and tight with only minor foxing or marking.

Wien: Verlag von Julius Springer. 1935 [1934].First edition. 8vo, 218x143mm. pp. vi, 248, [2]. A very good copy in the original wrappers, small chips to head and foot of spine, otherwise in excellent condition. Internally near fine, some unopened pages at the end of the book, two paragraphs (on pp37 and 67) have been marked in the margin with a red biro. Housed in a quarter morocco black solander box lettered in gilt. Loosely inserted is a slip signed by Karl Popper. This copy came from Popper's secretary.