Antiquarian and Collectors’ Books

KIPLING, Rudyard. The Sin of Witchcraft. London: The Imperial South African Association, 1901. 8pp., 8vo (218 x 142mm.) (A few minor finger-marks.) Original printed wrappers (text now detached from wrappers). [Bound with:] The Science of Rebellion: A Tract for the Times. London: Vacher & Sons, 1901. 10pp., 8vo (218 x 142mm.) (A few finger-marks, two creases and toning to margins.) Original wrappers (text now detached from wrappers). Both contained within later cloth-backed library boards (the two pamphlets taped within, titling in ink to the cloth spine). Provenance: Manchester Library (inkstamps to verso of first title and to first page of second work). Note: scarce; originally published in 'The Times' in March, 1900. Kipling visited South Africa in 1900 and spent time in Bloemfontein writing for 'The Friend', published by the British Army. He also wrote these two articles. The 'Science of Rebellion' (listed in ORG as 'Uncollected No. 237') was written for the Imperial South African Association. It is collected in the Sussex Edition vol. 30 and the Burwash Edition. Kilping also wrote 'The Sin of Witchcraft' at this time (Uncollected No. 230) which was not included in the Sussex Edition.

DETMOLD, E.J. (Illustrator). Fabre's Book of Insects. London: Hodder & Stoughton, [n.d. but 1921.] 4to (283 x 224mm.) Tipped-in frontispiece, 11 colour plates all by Detmold, all with tissue-guards. (Occasional spotting.) Original cream cloth blocked in gilt (some browning to spine, bumped to spine ends).

RACKHAM, Arthur (illustrator). - William SHAKESPEARE. A Midsummer-Night's Dream. New York & London: Doubleday, Page & Co, [and] William Heinemann, 1911. Second impression, 4to (256 x 191mm.) 40 mounted colour plates with captioned tissue-guards. (Occasional light spotting to most tissue-guards.) Original cloth, gilt design and titles (some browning to spine, bumped to spine ends). Provenance: gift inscription dated 1914 to front-free endpaper.

RACKHAM, Arthur (Illustrator). - J.M. BARRIE. Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. London: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd., [n.d. but circa 1920]. 8vo (222 x 58mm.) 16 tipped-in colour plates with captioned tissue-guards. Original red cloth blocked in gilt and blind (bumped to extremities), dust-jacket with mounted colour illustration (torn to top of the spine with minor loss). Provenance: presentation inscription dated 1928 to half-title and an anonymous bookplate verso of frontispiece.

CLARKE, Harry (illustrator). Hans Christian ANDERSEN. Fairy Tales. London: George G. Harrap & Co., [n.d. but 1916]. Limited edition, of 125 copies, this number 78 signed in ink by Harry Clark, 4to (283 x 186mm.) 16 tipped-in colour plates with tissue-guards (p.33-34 missing, a few leaves completely torn, large orange crayon marks over several pages, damp-staining to some margins.) Original vellum covers, art nouveau vignette in gilt to upper cover (creasing to vellum and some soiling, text block now detached). Note: Andersen's Fairy Tales was Harry Clarke's first completed commission as a book illustrator.

POUND, Ezra. Gaudier Brzeska... a Memoir by Ezra Pound including the published writings of the sculptor, and a selection from his letters. London: John Lane, the Bodley Head, 1916. 4to (245 x 177mm.) Portrait frontispiece, 38 plates. Original green cloth, embossed Brzeska design to upper cover (extremities bumped). Provenance: Manchester Library (labels to preliminaries, small library stamp to each plate, gilt library stamp to upper cover and reference to foot of spine).

HERODOTUS. The History of Herodotus of Halicarnassus… the translation of G. Rawlinson, revised and annotated by A.W. Lawrence. Bloomsbury, London: The Nonesuch Press, 1935. Limited edition of 675 copies, this number 449, folio (300 x 219mm.) Title in red and black, 9 wood-engravings by V. Le. Campion, 1 colour plate, 9 double-page maps by T. Paulton to rear. Blue stained vellum-backed cloth gilt, t.e.g. (minor scuffing, lightly browned to margins, adhesive tape residue marks to the endpapers).

COMPUTING. Manchester University Computer, Inaugural Conference, July 1951. Bolton & London: Tillotsons (Bolton) Ltd., [dated 1951 in ink to title ]. First edition, 4to (280 x 215mm.) Illustrations throughout. (Occasional pencil annotations.) Original thin card covers (slightly faded). Provenance: Institute of Computer Science Library (inkstamp to cover and title); The Lyon Playfair Library, Imperial College (bookplate). Note: a scarce program for the conference which centred on the Ferranti Mark I computer, with contributions by Alan M. Turing, Professor F.C. Williams, Dr T. Kilburn, E.A. Newman, T.J. Ray, M.H.A. Newman, Dr J.C.P. Miller and others.

COMPUTING. - Arthur W. BURKS, Herman H. GOLDSTINE, and John von NEUMANN. Preliminary Discussion of the Logical Design of an Electronic Computing Instrument. [Princeton: Institute for Advanced Studies, September 1947.] Part I, vol. I, 4to (280 x 215mm.) Reproduced typescript throughout. (Light creasing to latter leaves.) Original wrappers (backstrip replaced and subsequently covered in adhesive tape). Provenance: Imperial College London (library labels, inkstamp and ink markings to cover and title, inkstamp to fore-edge). Note: the first major publication on the design and architecture for stored program computers, also known as the von Neumann or Princeton architecture, and considered the foundation for modern general-purpose digital computing. This paper was preceded by Von Neumann's 'First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC' but the present is the first regularly distributed work.

COMPUTING. - Haskell B. CURRY. Naval Ordnance Laboratory Memorandum 9805… On the Composition of Programs for Automatic Computing. Maryland: 26 January 1949. 4to (267 x 207mm.) Reproduced typescript throughout. (Occasional pencil inscriptions throughout.) Stapled (final leaf detached). Provenance: ex-library copy with labels and inkstamps and inscriptions to title. - And two others on computing ('Review of Electronic Digital Computers, Joint AIEE-IRE Computer Conference February 1952'; and 'Ferranti Features of the Ferranti Atlas Computer… May 1962') (3).

QUETELET, Adolphe. Letters addressed to H.R.H. The Grand Duke of Saxe Coburg and Gotha on the Theory and Probabilities as Applied to the Moral and Political Sciences… translated… by Olinthus Gregory Downes. London: Charles & Edwin Layton, 1849. First edition in English, 8vo (220 x 135m.) (Occasional light spotting or browning.) Later morocco-backed cloth, t.e.g. (extremities rubbed and somewhat scuffed, endpapers replaced and slightly creased). Provenance: Griffith Davies Esq (presentation inscription 'with the Translator's kind regards'); Institution of Civil Engineers (bookplate to front pastedown and binding).

GUYOT, Jules. De La Télégraphie de Jour et den Nuit. Paris: chez tous les Marchandes de Nouveautés, 1840. 8vo (204 x 125mm.) 3 folding lithographed plates at rear. (Minor light browning, folding plates torn at folds and sections now loosely inserted.) Later morocco-backed cloth, t.e.g. (extremities scuffed, upper cover detached). Provenance: 'A. M'r Brunel esq' (presumably either Isambard Kingdom Brunel or Sir Marc Isambard Brunel, presentation inscription signed by the author); Library of the Civil Institute of Engineers (inkstamp verso title, binding and bookplate obscured by:); The Lyon Playfair Library, Imperial College (bookplate, labels and inkstamps to front-free endpaper).

TURCK, J.A.V. Origin of Modern Calculating Machines. Chicago: The Western Society of Engineers, 1921. 8vo (224 x 142mm.) Plates and illustrations. Original cloth (spine darkened). Provenance: City and Guilds Engineering College Library (inkstamps throughout and remnants of shelf reference to spine).

MATHMATICS & TELEGRAPHY. - A.M. LEGENDRE. Essai sur la Théorie des Nombres… seconde edition. Paris: 1808. 4to (243 x 187mm.) 1 folding plate. (Occasional minor spotting and browning.) Late 19th century calf-backed boards (somewhat rubbed and scuffed, joints splitting). Provenance: W.H. Spiller (signature to half-title dated Paris 1837); Institute of Civil Engineers Library (inkstamp verso of title, bookplate to front pastedown and binding). - And sixteen other volumes, mostly on maths and telegraphy (17).

PARDOE, Julia. S.H. Les Beautes du Bosphore… orne d'une Suite de Vues de Constantinople et de ses Environs, d'Apres les Dessins Originaux de W.H. Bartlett [translated from the English.] London: George Virtue, 1838. Large 4to (273 x 207mm.) Engraved frontispiece of author with tissue-guard, bound with the title in English, 79 steel engraved plates, most with tissue-guards (some spotting to front and verso of every plate.) Contemporary red straight-grain morocco-backed paper-covered boards, elaborate foliate gilt design to the spine (bumped to extremities, some rubbing to lower cover).

SPORT. - Geoff HURST. The World Game. London: Stanley Paul, 1967. First edition, 8vo (208 x 136mm.) Signed by the author and dedicated 'To Kevin' to title-page, occasional illustrations. Original boards (softening to head and foot of spine), dust-jacket (minor nicks and scuffing, slight soiling). - And sixteen other autobiographies and biographies mostly by or on sportsmen, all signed (17).

FOLIO SOCIETY (publisher). - Edward THOMAS. These Things Also Are Spring's… selected and introduced by Patrick Garland, Wood-engravings by James Bostock. London: The Folio Press, 1988. 8vo (246 x 160mm.) Numerous illustrations by Bostock. Moiré silk-backed boards. - And a quantity of approximately 100 others, all published by the Folio Society (a quantity).

KHAYYAM, Omar. The Rubaiyat… the Astronomer Poet of Persia, translated into English by Edward Fitzgerald. London: The Folio Society, 2009. Limited edition of 1030 copies, this number 836 of 1000, folio (330 x 256mm.) Original signed etching by illustrator Niroot Puttapipat, mounted colour frontispiece, 15 mounted colour plates, all by Niroot Puttapipat. Vellum-backed decorative cloth, t.e.g., original cloth slip-case (minor scuffs to the slip-case). Note: this is the collector's edition published on the 150th anniversary of Edward Fitzgerald's translation.

IACOVLEFF [or Jacovleff], Alexandre. Dessins et Peintures D'Afrique Executes au cours de l'Expedition Citroen Centre Afrique. Deuxieme mission Haardt Audouin-Dubreuil. Paris: Jules Meynial, 1927. Limited edition of 1020 copies, this number 327 of 750 copies, folio (384 x 280mm.) 49 mounted colour plates numbered I-L (including one double-page). (Occasional minor spotting.) Text in reverse-leather-backed silk stencilled with an abstract design in red and white (slightly rubbed), plates unbound in bifoliums as issued, all contained within a single morocco portfolio with leather ties (slightly soiled and discoloured).