All Books

London: Printed for T. Longman et al.. 1794.Four volumes. 8vo. 200x120mm. pp. iv, 3-4, 436; v, [1], 431, [1bl]; [4], 409, [1bl], [1p adverts for recently published works by Johnson]; [4], 452. Full tree calf, spine decorated in gilt and with three red morocco labels lettered in gilt. Wear to corners. Internally very good.

Cambridge (vol. 1) and London (vol.2): Printed by J. Bentham (vol. 1) and J.Bettenham (vol. 2). 1744.Two volumes. First Zachary Grey edition. 8vo. 220x135mm. pp. Vol. 1: [2], xiv, xxxvi, [42, list of subscribers], 424, [16, index]. Vol. 2: [2], 446, [24, index]. With frontispiece engraved portrait of Butler and sixteen plates engraved by Mynde after William Hogarth. Contemporary quarter calf, marbled paper covered boards. Pages uncut. Rubbing and wear to boards and slight scuffing to spine. Internally very good. A very nice copy of the edition regarded as the best and the most scholarly.

London: Printed for T.Lowndes. 1775.First edition. 4to. 265x210mm. pp. iv, 764, [10, index]. Ten engraved plates (frontispiece portrait of the author and a further nine). The verso of the second leaf of preliminaries is numbered vi. Some foxing in places but otherwise, internally very good with the plates in excellent condition. Handsomely bound in slightly later red straight-grained morocco, upper and lower covers decorated with two double fillet borders in gilt enclosing a continuous "drawer-handle" design in blind and framing a continuous swag and drop border in blind.

London: Austin/Desmond Contemporary Books. October 1989.Printer's proof, limitation page marked "pp" and signed in pencil by Terry Frost. Eleven poems printed in Spanish and English on Velin Arches Blanc 270gsm paper folders (575x385mm). The title page is designed by Frost and printed by lithography. The colour etchings which are loosely inserted into the folders are printed on Somerset Satin 300gsm paper, some hand-coloured by Frost. All are signed in pencil by Frost and marked "pp". Housed in a black cloth covered Solander box designed by the artist. Issued in an edition of seventy-five.

London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd. 1953.Two bound volumes. Volume 171 (January 3 1953 to June 27 1953) and Volume 172 (July 4 1953 to December 22 1953). Bound in maroon (vol. 171) and brick-red (vol. 172) cloth, spine lettered in gilt. In very good condition. Front pastedown has the bookplate of Worthing Public Library and title page of volume 172 (and verso of volume 171) has a small round Worthing Public Library stamp. The papers are as follows: 1. Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid, by J.D.Watson and F.H.C. Crick. Nature, Volume 171, No.

London: Published and Sold by Edward Orme.. 1817.Two volumes. 4to. 270x205mm. pp. viii, 296; 294. Seventy-one engraved plates. Contemporary straight-grained dark blue morocco, borders in gilt and blind to upper and lower covers. Spine with four raised bands, decorated and lettered in gilt. Small round shelf label to foot of spine of volume one. All edges gilt. Seventy-one plates. Additional engraved illustrated title page to volume two. Slight scuffing to boards in two places and minor rubbing to extremities. Internally some browning and foxing but overall a very good copy in a handsome binding.

Verona: Officina Bodoni.. 1968.First Bodoni edition, one of ten copies for presentation, this copy with the printed presentation: "This copy has been printed for David Earl of Crawford", and with an autograph card from the printed Giovanni Mardersteig "for David from GM. Verona, September 1969" and a pencillled presentation note to the front free endpaper. A further 180 numbered copies were also issued. Folio, 310x225mm. pp. xxxviii, 155 leaves of upright Roman and Italic typefaces and 28 leaves of Greek; xli-iii index, colophon.

Verona: Officina Bodoni. 1971.First Bodoni edition, one of ten copies for printed "ad personam", this copy with the presentation: "This copy has been printed for David Earl of Crawford". A further 160 numbered copies were also issued. Folio, 345x250mm. pp. 121, [1bl], 1 colophon. Original quarter vellum, spine lettered in gilt with the Bodoni device in gilt on upper cover. With plastic wrapper, housed in a custom green cloth slipcase. Woodcut illustrations by Fritz Kredel after Albrecht Dürer. A fine copy.

n.p. n.d [mid-late 18th century].An album of hand-drawn maps with handwritten notes in an attractive italic. 230x180mm. Unpaginated, 137 pages of maps (84 maps) and text: pp. 89, 24bl, 48 (including 4 blank pages), 14bl. The maps are beautifully drawn in pen and ink with borders in coloured ink and watercolour. Tan half calf, rebacked and corners repaired, eighteenth-century marbled paper covered boards. Raised bands, burgundy morocco label lettered in gilt "Maps J:R". Some scuffing and staining to the boards. A repair tear to the first page of text but otherwise in very good condition throughout.

London: Printed for J.Whiston and B.White. 1758.First edition. 4to. 210x130mm. pp. vii, [i], 99, [1bl]. Modern speckled calf, borders to upper and lower covers decorated in blind, spine lettered in gilt. Some foxing and browning but overall a very good copy of a scarce and ground-breaking book on madness and mental health. William Battie (1703-76) was a Fellow of the Royal Society and President of the Royal College of Physicians. His principal medical interest was in what he called "the mad business".

New York: Clover Hill Editions and Chilmark Press. 1971.Limited edition. XXI of 135 copies numbered I-CXXXV, signed by Anthony Gross and containing a set of signed prints in final state. 330x240mm. pp. xv, [3], 54, [2]. Illustrated with eight etchings by Anthony Gross. Designed and printed by Will and Sebastian Carter at the Rampant Lion's Press, Cambridge. Brown quarter morocco, beige cloth. Line drawing of a bull's head in gilt to upper cover, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt. Issued loose in a separate box is another, signed set of these etchings.

n.p. 1794.Unpublished manuscript translation into English of Huetiana ou Pensees Diverses de M. Huet, Evesque d'Avranches. 257x190mm. pp. [1], lxviii, 376, [8, Table of the Articles], [1, Approbation]. Contents: An Historical Eulogium on the Author by the Abbé Olivet; Life of Huet from Bayle; Huet's Life from the New and General Biographical Dictionary 1761; A Tour to Stockholm translated from the Latin of M. Huet by J. Duncombe; Anecdotes from the Latin of M. Huet. The Historical Eulogium and the Huetiana themselves are translations from the French published in 1722 as Huetiana ou Pensees Diverses de M.

Pasadena: Twelvetrees Press. 1988.Schles's own inscribed copy. First edition. Limited to 2000 copies. Unpaginated. 233x176mm. Midnight blue cloth, blind stamped to upper cover and spine. Dust jacket is a photocopy as explained in the inscription by Ken Schles on the title page. The inscription reads: "For years I held this copy and showed it until the dust jacket disintegrated - I'm sorry - I had to put this xerox copy on the cover but it's a good book, no? This [the photograph on the title page] is in my apartment on Mott many years ago. LA 2009".

1971. Eight telegrams from Curt Claudio in America to John Lennon at Tittenhurst Park, Ascot. The telegrams are pasted as a group onto red card and framed. Most are in good condition although two are water stained and two others have some staining to the edges but all eight are clear and legible. They are part of a strange and fascinating story. In May 1971, a young man from California was found in the grounds of John Lennon’s house, Tittenhurst Park, Ascot. His name was Curt Claudio and he had been sleeping in the garden for a few days.

London: Thames and Hudson. 1995.Description:Signed first edition. 250x222mm. pp112. Colour illustrated card cover. In excellent condition with only a little shelf wear. Illustrated throughout with 78 colour illustrations from various countries and war-zones where Page had worked. The text is a mixture of autobiographical essay and commentary on the images. Signed by Page, "Manchester, April '95".

London: Haskins Press. 1975.Limited edition. 350x270mm. Unpaginated [pp156]. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs. A seminal book in the history of photography, fashion, design, soft-focus erotica and social history.

Berlin: Oswald Arnold. 1941.A portfolio of photographs from the Atelier Manasse in Vienna run by Aderjan and Olga von Wlassics. They were the leading photographers of nude and mildly erotic studies in the 1920s and 1930s. Bound in a beige card cover with blue tasselled string. Some slight creasing and scuffing to the cover. The contents are a two page introduction on the beauty of the female body and its influence on artists. Loosely inserted is a facsimile handwritten letter from Aderjan Wlassics.

Leipzig: Ernst Oldenburg. 1931.Special issue 12 of Alfred Koch's leading naturist magazine Körperbildung-Nacktkultur. 221x142mm. pp. 54, [10]. 24pp with 43 black and white photographs. In original paper covers illustrated with a naked couple dancing on the beach. Scuffing to four of the images with a little loss but otherwise a nice copy of a rare volume. Adolf Koch was one of the leading proponents of the Freikörperkultur and developed his own method of nude gymnastics.

Paris: Ch. Mendel. [1898].First edition. 280x190mm. pp. 48. Text in French. 28 photographs included in the text and seven plates. Original illustrated paper covers, with some soiling and a tear to the joint with lower cover. Internally near fine. A nice copy of a rare book which explains the techniques of photographing the female form both nude and clothed "en plein air". Paul Bergon (1863-1912) was both a photographer and a naturalist specialising in images of orchids and nudes.

Berlin: Hergestellt von der Kulturabteilung der UFA. n.d..Revised edition. 155x235mm. pp. 32. In pictorial paper covers, some wear and a repaired tear to front cover but overall in very good condition. Bound into blue boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Ten pages of text (in German) and nineteen photographs. Undated, this appears to be an abridged, smaller version of the book that accompanied the 1925 film made by Prager in praise of the beautiful and athletic body.

London: William Heinemann. 1935.Presentation copy: 'For Juliet Foyle with the compliments of Horace Brodzky London Nov 4/35'. First edition. 4to. pp. [iv], 17, 40, recto only. Portrait frontispiece and 40 illustrations, chiefly nudes. Horace Brodzky, 1885-1969, was a student at the School of the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, but spent most of his creative life in London. He was one of the earliest Australian artists to embrace the modern style of the twentieth century. Original buff cloth with initials on upper cover and spine lettered in brown.

R.E.Pine. 1779.Mezzotint of the death mask of David Garrick against a black background with the eyes articulated. The text "Publish'd April 4th 1779 by R.E.Pine" in scratch letter on plate, within platemark below the image. Initials J.L.G.D handwritten in brown ink. Pencil inscription to lower margin: "The Death Mask of David Garrick with the eyes painted in". Platemark, 240x155mm. Sheet, 305x246mm. Some surface soiling, foxing and a small rubbed patch to the margin. The image itself is in excellent condition.

n.d. [pre-1775].Original drawing of classical capitals and urns with lines of perspective. Pen and brown and black ink, pencil and grey wash on laid paper without visible watermark, ruled border in brown ink. Sheet 302x218mm, window mount 350x275mm. Very slight soiling and foxing but overall in excellent condition. A very good, and rare, example of a study for an important book on perspective. In 1775 Thomas Malton the Elder (1726-1801) published A Compleat Treatise On Perspective, In Theory and Practice; on the True Principles Of Dr. Brook Taylor.

n.d.Original architectural drawing by Thomas Sandby showing a neo-classical domed octagonal temple with baroque details. Pen and grey and black and pale blue and grey watercolour on laid paper with watermark "C&Honig". Sheet 497x258mm, window mount support (with ruled brown ink border) 478x333mm, taped at left edge onto heavy cream card 558x404mm. Slight spotting, otherwise in excellent condition. Although there are important institutional holdings of Sandby's architectural drawings, they are rare in commerce and this is a particularly fine example.