[COCHRAN, Charles B.]

OSTROWSKA, Wanda and Viola G. GARVIN. London’s Glory.

London, George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1945.

First edition, a poignant collection of paintings of war-torn London by the Polish artist-in-exile Wanda Ostrowska, accompanied by extracts from her own writings and narrative by Viola Garvin.

£75

[COLOGNE.]

Hotel de Belle Vue à Deutz vis-à-vis de Cologne tenu pour J.A. Kimmel. [

Cologne, c. 1850

A ambitious lithograph advertisement for the Hotel de Belle Vue in Deutz, facing Cologne over the Rhine. The finely engraved view of the hotel shows it with its surrounding park lying on the Rhine which is bustling with barges, there is a bridge crossing the river full of promenading people. The litho...

£250

[COLUMBUS.] QUARITCH, Bernard, and Michael KERNEY.

The Spanish Letter of Columbus … A facsimile of the original edition...

[London,] Quaritch, 2006.

Over the centuries, booksellers have contributed much to the elucidation and sometimes to the falsification of historical documents. The story of the first printed account of the New World, usually known as Christopher Columbus’s Letter to Santángel or simply the Columbus Letter, illustrates...

£60

CORBOULD, Henry (illustrator). 

[Cover title:] Illustrations to Theodric, by Thomas Campbell, from designs by Henry...

London, Edward Lacey, 1829. 

Unrecorded, a suite of five engravings for Thomas Campbell’s Theodric (1824), though seemingly not intended for inclusion in any particular edition. 

£650

[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

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

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

[DRESS HABITS.]

Considerazioni d’una dama ad una sua amica intorno al vestiario odierno.

[S.l.,] Impresso dal Curti del fu Giacomo, 1810.

Extremely rare set of six pious reflections on modern dress habits, ostensibly written by an anonymous lady to her friend.

£350

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

ESTIENNE, Charles.

De re vestiaria libellus, ex Bayfio excerptus: addita vulgaris linguae interpretatione, in adulesce[n]tuloru[m]...

Paris, Robert Estienne, 1536.

A wonderful sammelband of four children’s books compiled and published by the Estiennes, covering Roman dress and vases as well as plants and trees, bound with Antonio Telesio’s celebrated treatise on colours.

£2250

FARINGTON, Susan Maria (illustrator). 

The 104th Psalm.  Illustrated by Susan Maria Ffarington.  Worden. 

London,  Vincent Brooks Day & Son, [c. 1867]. 

The Faringtons or Ffaringtons were an ancient family of Worden Hall, Leyland, Lancashire, with a substantial family archive.  Susan Maria (1808–1894) edited The Farington Papers for the Chetham Society in 1856, and made other contributions to local history, but this unusual panorama seems to have...

£650

[FASCISM.]

Ordinamento Corporativo dello Stato Fascista.

Padua, Edizione di propaganda corporative, 1935.

Italian Fascism primarily followed the economic model of corporatism to organise capital and labour interest groups into trade unions and employer associations such as agriculture, industry, commercial trade, professionals and artists, as well as banks and credit associations. These trade associations...

£2500