[COSTUME.]

6 Blätter Altenburger Trachten.

Altenburg, Schnuphase’sche Buchhandlung, [c. 1857].

Charming Altenburg costume plates, lacking at least one plate.

£150

COX, John Roalfe.

Horses in Accident and Disease: Notes and Sketches.

Edinburgh, George Waterston & Sons for David Douglas, 1892.

First edition of an elegantly illustrated veterinary work. An early advocate of the use of chloroform anaesthetic when operating on horses, J. Roalfe Cox here offers tender line drawings and brief descriptions of twenty-eight equine ailments.

£70

CROOKES, William, Sir.

Autograph letter, signed, to Sir John Evans.

London, 7 Kensington Park Gardens, 26 May 1892.

The scientist Sir William Crookes writes to congratulate the archaeologist and geologist John Evans on his imminent knighthood: ‘I must take this opportunity – the last perhaps in which I can call you “Mr” – to offer you my sincere congratulations on the honour which I see is to be conferred...

£250

DALI, Salvador.

Alpes: French Railways.

France, Draeger for SNCF, 1970.

A gorgeous and colourful surrealist design of delicate butterflies fluttering against a rugged Alpine backdrop, one of six designs commissioned from Dali by SNCF, French national railways, to promote travel into the Alpine region.

£250

DALI, Salvador.

Normandie. French Railways.

France, Draeger for SNCF, 1970.

Mont Saint-Michel meets stone circles, butterflies and surrealist heads in this promotional SNCF poster for train travel in Normandy.

£200

DALI, Salvador.

Roussillon. French Railways.

France, Draeger for SNCF, 1970.

Further butterfly-interspersed surrealism for SNCF, this time for the Roussillon
region, featuring a stylised cross of Languedoc above a beach scene against a
mountainous backdrop

£250

DALI, Salvador.

Alsace. French Railways.

France, Draeger for SNCF, 1970.

A striking monochrome image of the Temple Saint-Étienne, also known as the Cathedral of Mulhouse, against a murky sky. A vast butterfly blends into the foreground.

£250

DASSIER, Jean and Jacques-Antoine. 

‘An Explanation of Dassier’s Medals being a Representation of a Series of Events taken...

London, c. 1795–1800. 

An exceptionally fine illustrated manuscript, with drawings after the series of sixty medals of Roman history from Romulus to the Age of Augustus produced by Jean Dassier and his son in 1740-1743.  The drawings are executed with considerable finesse, adding detailed elements not clearly visible...

£6500

DAVY, Sir Humphry.

Autograph letter, signed, to Charles Stuart, 1st Baron Stuart de Rothesay, discussing the unrolling of papyri...

‘23 Grosvenor Street London’, 26 May 1821.

An unpublished letter in which Davy discusses his examination of papyri entrusted to him in Paris by Sir Charles Stuart, then British Ambassador to France.

£750

[DEFOE, Daniel.]

The Life and strange surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner …

London: Printed for John Stockdale … 1790.

First Stockdale edition, a unique copy, augmented with an evocative suite of original illustrations.

£7500

DICKENS, Charles.

The Nonesuch Dickens. The Complete Works of Charles Dickens.

London, The Nonesuch Press, 1937-38.

Limited edition of 877, of which 66 sets were destroyed when a bomb hit the bindery in September 1940, so at most 811 complete sets survive (Dreyfus, Nonesuch Press, 108). The steel plate included with this set is number 605, “Solemn reference is made to Mr. Bunsby” from Dombey and...

£6750

DIEDO, Antonio.

Sui Soffitti memoria.

Venice, Alvisopoli, 1838.

New edition, dedicated to Count Antonio Trissino, as copies of the original edition were unprocurable.

£45

DIODORUS Siculus.

Bibliothecae historicae libri XV. Hoc est, quotquot Graece extant de quadraginta quorum quinque nunc primum Latine...

Basel, Heinrich Petri, August 1559.

Important edition, the first to be overseen by Sébastien Castellion, of Diodorus’s influential ‘Historical library’.

£2500

DODGSON, Campbell (editor).

Woodcuts of the XV Century in the Department of Prints and Drawings, British Museum.

London, British Museum, 1934 [– 1935].

First edition, scarce, of Dodgson’s authoritative and thoroughly illustrated catalogue of fifteenth-century woodcuts in the British Museum. Published after two decades as Keeper of Prints and Drawings at the British Museum, the monumental Woodcuts of the XV Century is considerably scarcer...

£750

DOLLMAN, Francis C.

Examples of antient pulpits existing in England, selected and drawn from sketches and measurements taken on...

First edition of this scholarly study of gothic pulpits by a student of the elder Pugin.

£85

DORDOGNE.

A collection of photographs of caves in the Dordogne.

[France, c. 1900].

A collection of photographs of the Paleolithic grottes and abris of the Les Eyzies district of the Dordogne, first excavated by Lartet and Christy in the 1860s. The photographs show the hillsides where the caves are situated, with individual houses or whole villages built into the mountains, the occasional...

£150

[DOVES PRESS.] 

Pervigilium Veneris. 

Hammersmith, ‘printed by T.J. Cobden-Sanderson at the Doves Press,’ 1910. 

One of 150 copies on paper of the elusive Pervigilium Veneris, in the original Doves Bindery vellum, ‘a triumph of simplicity and restraint’ (Tidcombe). 

£950

DREYFUS, John. 

Aspects of French Eighteenth Century Typography.  A study of type specimens in the Broxbourne Collection at Cambridge...

Cambridge, The Roxburghe Club, 1982.

A history of French type design in the eighteenth century based on the author’s detailed examinations of French type ornaments and typefounding methods. 

£120

EBERSOLT, Jean.

Monuments d’architecture byzantine.

Paris, Les Editions d’Art et d’Histoire, 1934.

First edition of this classic account of Byzantine architecture, published posthumously in the series Histoire de l’art byzantin under the direction of Charles Diehl.

£250

ERNST, Max.

Une Semaine de Bonté ou les sept éléments capitaux. Roman. Premier [–Dernier] Cahier …

Paris, Éditions Jeanne Bucher, 1934.

First edition, no. 706 of 800 copies on papier Navarre from a total edition of 816.

£4500