Peter Harrington. ABA member

Description du livre: New York: Crosby Gaige, 1928, 1928. Octavo. Original black cloth, device to upper board gilt, titles and decoration to spine gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. An excellent copy. Frontispiece and seven photographic illustrations including Virginia Woolf as Orlando. First edition, first printing (preceding the UK edition by 9 days). One of 861 numbered copies signed by the author. N° de réf. du libraire 82475

Description du livre: London: John Van Voorst, 1843, 1843. 3 volumes, octavo (215 × 134 mm). Finely bound by W. Pratt in green morocco, titles and decoration to spines in compartments separated by raised bands, elaborate cornerpieces and filets to boards, decoration to turn-ins, floral decorative endpapers, gilt edges. Bookplate to front pastedowns, the occasional minor blemish, an excellent set. With black and white illustrations. First edition. A beautifully bound copy of Yarrells' British Birds. N° de réf. du libraire 82687

Description du livre: Boston: The Beacon Press, 1957, 1957. Octavo. Original yellow cloth, spine lettered in black. With the printed dust jacket. An excellent copy in the jacket with spine very lightly tanned, spine ends a little worn. Inscribed by the author to the Harvard professor of philosophy, Willard Van Orman Quine, "To Van from Karl". First U.S. edition of Popper's third book. In The Open Society and Its Enemies and the present work, "Popper applies his theory of knowledge to man and society in the form of an attack on historicism, the doctrine that there are general laws of historical development that render the course of history inevitable and predictable. In The Open Society historicism is examined in three influential versions, those of Plato, Hegel, and Marx. In The Poverty of Historicism, historicism is formally refuted and attributed to two oppositely mistaken views about the nature of social science. The formal objection is that since the growth of knowledge exercises a powerful influence on the course of history and itself depends on the anomalous initiatives of original scientific genius, neither the growth of knowledge nor its general historical effects can be predicted Popper asserts that scientific method applies both to nature and to society, and in the same way ? to particular isolable aspects of the whole. Social science can discover laws that make clear the unintended consequences of the consequences of human action, but there can be no laws of the whole system" (Anthony Quinton in The Encyclopedia of Philosophy VI, 400). The work was first published in three parts in Economica, 1944?5, and an Italian translation (1954) and a French translation (1956) were made before this English publication. The work was also published in the U.K. in 1957 by Routledge & Kegan Paul. N° de réf. du libraire 83197

Description du livre: London: Richard Bentley, 1885-6, 1885. 6 volumes, octavo (183 × 120 mm). Finely bound by Bickers and Son in tan half calf, brown and green morocco labels, elaborate decoration to spines in compartments separated by raised bands, marbled boards, endpapers and edges. Bookplate to one pastedown, spine labels a little faded, an excellent set. Engraved frontispieces. New edition. This set also includes a sixth edition of of A Memoir of Jane Austen by her nephew J. E. Austen Leigh together with Lady Susan. A particularly handsome set. N° de réf. du libraire 82890

Description du livre: London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1929, 1929. Octavo.Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in grey morocco, titles and decoration to spine, raised bands, single rule to boards, twin rule to turn-ins, burgundy endpapers, gilt edges. A fine copy. First English language edition, first impression, published March 1929, originally published in Germany in January 1929. N° de réf. du libraire 83025

Description du livre: London: Chapman and Hall, 1843, 1843. Small octavo. Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in crimson morocco, titles and decoration to spine, raised bands, single rule to boards with cornerpieces, onlay to front board reproducing the frontispiece to centre of front board, roll to turn-ins gilt, dark green endpapers, gilt edges. Some mild browning and staining to a few leaves, an excellent copy in a fine binding. With colour illustrations by John Leech. First edition, first issue. Dickens's lavish gift book was one of his biggest publishing triumphs and the foundation of many of the elements of the modern Christmas festival. This copy has the crucial first issue points: the half-title in blue, the title page in red and blue, and "STAVE I" at head of text. N° de réf. du libraire 83151

Description du livre: London: Chapman and Hall, Limited, 1886, 1886. 2 volumes, octavo. Original dark green morocco-ribbed cloth, spine lettered in gilt, front cover stamped in black with design running round onto spine, back cover with publisher's device stamped in black at centre, plain cream endpapers, top edge untrimmed. Covers rubbed, headcaps and corners rather worn, spines slightly rolled, inner hinges with superficial cracks but holding firm, one or two minor blemishes internally, still a good set of this exceptionally rare title. Bookplates of Edmund Beckett Faber, 1st Baron Faber (1847?1920). First edition of Gissing's scarcest novel, his first novel of upper class life. The inspiration was Mrs Elizabeth Sarah Gaussen, a society hostess to whom he had been introduced as a potential tutor for her son. Gissing enjoyed the leisurely atmosphere of the Gaussens' home at Broughton Hall, Lechlade, Gloucestershire, where he felt his intellectual distinction recognised, and he temporarily plunged into a social whirl on the strength of her patronage. The publication of the book caused Gissing great anxiety over rewriting and financial reward, fearing that "the half-profit system, agreed upon by Gissing for the last time, favoured dishonesty" (Coustillas). Chapman and Hall never revealed how many copies were published, and Gissing's 1895 analysis of his literary income noted that he had earned precisely nothing from this book. Coustillas notes that "For decades the novel was to be forgotten by the general reader, copies being even scarcer than the notoriously scarce first edition of Workers in the Dawn" (p. 45). The novel's rarity is indicated by the fact that the last copy in commerce we can trace was Michael Sadleir's copy, sold at auction as long ago as 1958, and that Wolff never found a copy. Coustillas A4.1; Sadleir 968; not in Wolff. N° de réf. du libraire 83262

Description du livre: London: Hodder & Stoughton, c.1912, 1912. Quarto. Recent burgundy morocco, titles to spine, raise bands, single rule to boards, marbled endpapers. An excellent copy. With 22 coloured plates and printed tissues and further line drawings throughout. First Hatherell edition. N° de réf. du libraire 82937

Description du livre: London Macmillan 1905, 1905. Octavo (204 x 135 mm). Original cloth, spine lettered gilt. Ownership inscription to the front free endpaper dated 1908. One corner bruised, else a very good copy. First edition. With a page of notes, apparently in the hand of Herbert Somerton Foxwell, loosely inserted. N° de réf. du libraire 82455

Description du livre: London: Remington and Co., 1880, 1880. 3 volumes, octavo. Original olive cloth, spines lettered in gilt, spine and covers with ornamental patterns stamped in black, dark blue endpapers, all edges cut. Housed in a red morocco-backed solander box, spine lettered in gilt. Bookplates, as noted below. Rubbed in places, traces of shelf-labels removed from centre of spines, rear hinge of vol. I cracked, a very good copy of this notable rarity. No half-titles, as issued. Inscribed by the publisher's clerk at the head of the first title, "Charles Bradlaugh, Esq., M.P., with the Publishers' Compliments". First edition of Gissing's first published novel, publisher's presentation copy to Charles Bradlaugh, the radical atheist MP whose stubborn refusal to take the parliamentary oath was an inspiration for freethinkers throughout the 1880s, and with an inserted autograph letter signed to C. W. Tinckam, dated 28 October 1895. Gissing admired Bradlaugh and the publishers evidently hoped for a favourable review in his National Reformer. But Bradlaugh passed it on to his friend Annie Besant, who gave it a stinker: "This book, from beginning to end, is a book as inartistic as I have ever read It begins in a garret in Whitecross Street and ends in the Falls of Niagara, but the garret and the falls might change places and the story be no loser. It is named 'The Workers in the Dawn,' but who the workers are, what they work for, and how they are concerned with the dawn, is a riddle whose answer remains within the breast of Mr. George R. Gissing I cannot recommend this book to anyone either for amusement or for instruction. It is very dull, very prosy, very useless. Requiescat in pace on Mudie's top shelf." The current consensus is that "Despite some obvious flaws Workers offers a notable picture of lower-class London life as seen by a young déclassé idealist divided between social and artistic commitments. Because publishers spurned his manuscript, he had to bring it out at his own expense, a bold venture made possible by a small legacy from a great-aunt" (ODNB). The legacy provided enough to pay for 277 copies only, the first bound copies likely reaching Gissing on 27 May 1880. By early October, 29 copies were sold, and only 20 more at the end of the year. It was remaindered as a single volume in blue cloth. As a result of its very small print run and complete commercial failure, Workers in the Dawn is one of the rarest of Victorian three-deckers. This is a famous association copy with a notable provenance: (1) inscribed to Bradlaugh at the head of the titles, and with his posthumous bookplate, dated 1891; (2) with the bookplates of the English designer and collector Pickford Waller (1849?1930), subsequently sold twice at Sotheby's, 2 July 1929 (to Halliday), and 20 February 1933 (to Moore); (3) a later collector's bookplates (Halsey?); (4) sold at auction, Jolly's of Bath, 16 September 1976. The letter inserted in the book is a two-page autograph letter signed to C. W. Tinckam, Gissing's landlord in his Brixton days, dated "Oct. 28. 95" (not 1891 as the Sotheby's catalogues twice had it) from Eversley, Worple Road, Epsom. In it Gissing tenders his former landlord sympathy for "the sad trouble you have been going through" and practical advice: "Get as much variety into your life as health and circumstances permit do not neglect meals." Coustillas A1a (p. 5 for a note on this copy). N° de réf. du libraire 82939

Description du livre: London and New York: George Routledge and Sons Limited, [c.1900], 1900. Octavo (183 × 120 mm). Mid twentieth-century burgundy half morocco, titles and decoration to spine, raised bands, marbled boards and endpapers. Calling card pasted to verso of front free endpaper, spine rubbed, a very good copy. Black and white vignette. Part of Sir John Lubbock's hundred books. N° de réf. du libraire 83336

Description du livre: Florence: privately printed for subscribers by G. Orioli, 1930, 1930. Octavo. Original gold lamé vermiculated cloth, black leather title label to spine. Minute chipping to the title label, slight rubbing to ends and corners. An excellent copy. Illustrated half title. First edition, first impression; from a limited edition of 250 copies numbered and signed by the author. Paneros is no. 5 in the Lungarno Series. This copy is inscribed at the time of publication by Norman Douglas to Nancy Cunard on the front free endpaper, "For darling Nancy from Uncle Norman, 6 Dec. 1930". Nancy Cunard was a great friend of Norman Douglas, who wrote a memoir of him entitled Grand Man, in which she writes of Paneros, "the little volume, in the perfect taste of its dull gold paper boards, lies on my table - as pretty an object as some 18th-century gilt box. Open it anywhere and you find surprising items of expected erudition, nicely woven about with wit, all candidly presented, and that can be put into anyone's hands too!" This beautiful book is one of the smallest and the most expensive books in the Lugarno Series. Wolf A34. N° de réf. du libraire 82580

Description du livre: London: Chatto and Windus, 1883, 1883. 3 volumes, octavo (215 × 135 mm). Contemporary tan pebble-grained half morocco, titles and decoration to spines, raised bands, marbled boards, endpapers and edges. Some occasional light foxing, spines a little faded and rubbed, a very good set. Engravings throughout. An attractive library set. N° de réf. du libraire 83334

Description du livre: London and New York: George Routledge and Sons, [c.1890], 1890. Octavo (184 × 120 mm). Mid-twentieth century burgundy half morocco, titles and decoration to spine, raised bands, marbled boards and endpapers, top edge gilt. Bookplate to front pastedown, spine faded and rubbed, a very good copy. Part of Sir John Lubbock's hundred books. An attractively bound copy. N° de réf. du libraire 83335

Description du livre: London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1895, 1895. Slim octavo (168 × 112 mm). Finely bound by Relfe Brothers in burgundy calf, black morocco label, elaborate tooling to spine in compartments seperated by raised bands, roll to boards with crest to front board, roll to turn-ins, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. School prize inscription to binder's front blank, spine a touch faded and rubbed, excellent condition. With 2 coloured illustrations and further black and white line drawings throughout. A handsomely bound copy. N° de réf. du libraire 79566

Description du livre: London: Collins, 1977, 1977. Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Spine tips gently bumped and a touch of fading to head, an excellent copy in the bright dust jacket with a small crease to lower front flap and minor nick to foot of spine panel. First edition, first impression. The fourth book in the Aubrey?Maturin series. N° de réf. du libraire 80151

Description du livre: London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1912, 1912. Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine gilt, double-line rule to boards in blind continued in gilt to spine. Spine dulled and gilt faded, boards a little marked, one corner bumped, library blindstamp to title page, a little shaken, still a good copy. First edition, first impression, of Pigou's early work which formed the basis for his major work, The Economics of Welfare (1920), which virtually created the subject of welfare economics. N° de réf. du libraire 79041

Description du livre: Neumünster bei Zürich: Joh. Fr. Heß, 1842, 1842. Duodecimo, pp. 48. Original printed wrappers. Housed in a black quarter morocco slipcase made by The Chelsea Bindery. Wrappers very slightly soiled, single wormhole through most of the work yet only occasionally touching a letter, a little very light foxing, an excellent copy of this very rare work in unrestored original condition. First edition of the parodic poem that includes Engels's first published portrait of his future collaborator, Karl Marx. Extremely rare: no copy at auction, including German, since 1955; OCLC locates only four copies in libraries worldwide, all in Germany and Switzerland; no copy in the British Library, no copy in North America. In spring 1839 Engels had read David Strauss's Das Leben Jesu, and by winter 1840 had acquainted himself with Hegel's Philosophy of History. In 1841 he was (like Karl Marx) a member of the Young Hegelian club known as Die Freien. Although he had not yet formed a friendship with Marx, they were both formulating their own positions by breaking with the prevailing influence of Bruno Bauer. Writing here in collaboration with Bauer's younger brother Edgar, Engels achieves in this comic poem complex levels of satire and parody, both literary and philosophical. Engels's ironic use of parody, similar in form to Marx's use of Hegel as both the voice and the target of his satiric epigrams of 1837, was a popular mode among Young Hegelians at this time. As parody, it is itself an imitation of the parodistic style used by Bauer in 1841 to defend the radical Hegel in Die Posaune des jüngsten Gerichts über Hegel, den Atheisten und Antichristen. Similarly David Strauss, in an earlier attack on Bauer, had used this form of ironic identification with the object of his criticism. The short title of Engels's satire, Triumph des Glaubens, is reminiscent of a farce written in 1817 by the Graf von Platen, entitled Sieg der Gläubigen (Victory of the Believers), which had satirised orthodox theology and revelation. Engels also employs Goethe's Faust to ambiguous effect, transforming the battle for Faust's soul between God and the devil into a battle between pietists and Left Hegelians for the soul of the philosopher Bauer. Engels devotes eight lines of his poem to a caricature of Marx, describing him as "a swarthy chap from Trier", and emphasizing his furious energy. Shortly after this publication Engels escaped the inward-looking Young Hegelian circle by leaving Germany to work in his father's Manchester textile firm. However he and Marx would later reutilise this satiric use of parody in their first joint work, Die heilige Familie (The Holy Family), 1845. See: Margaret A. Rose, Reading the Young Marx and Engels: Poetry, Parody, and the Censor (1978). N° de réf. du libraire 81432

Description du livre: London: Chapman and Hall, c.1890, 1890. Tall octavo (240 × 175 mm). Contemporary dark brown half calf, burgundy morocco label, gilt to bands, green pebble-grained boards, plain endpapers. Some occasional light foxing and browning, spine a little darkened and rubbed, minor wear to corners, a very good copy. With black and white illustrations. An attractively bound and illustrated copy of David Copperfield, first published in 1848. N° de réf. du libraire 80719

Description du livre: London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1806, 1806. 3 volumes, octavo (226 × 132 mm). Contemporary diced tan calf, black morocco labels, elaborate decoration to spines, rolls to boards and turn-ins, marbled endpapers and edges. Some occasional light foxing and browning to leaves, spines a little rubbed and some light wear to joints otherwise in excellent condition. Engraved frontispiece to volume 1. Fifth edition. A handsomely bound set. N° de réf. du libraire 79103

Description du livre: London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1941, 1941. Octavo. Original blue boards, titles to spine gilt. An excellent copy. Ownership name of John R. Griffin. First edition, first impression. The work is "a major exercise in comparative statics and developed a whole family of multipliers. In the same book Pigou argued that Keynes's system was simply the classical system together with the assumption of a rigid money wage, thus laying the foundations for the later neo-classical synthesis. These were contributions of the first order by any standard" (ODNB). N° de réf. du libraire 81760

Description du livre: New York: Vincent Parke and Company, [1911], 1911. 15 volumes, octavo. Recent dark green morocco, titles and decoration to spines, brown morocco labels, raised bands, roll to boards, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. An excellent set handsomely bound. With monochrome illustrations throughout. A handsomely bound set of Verne's complete works. N° de réf. du libraire 81430

Description du livre: London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1901-1904, 1904. 5 volumes, octavo (185 × 122 mm). Finely bound by Riviere & Son in blue half calf, titles and centre tool to spines in compartments separarted by raised bands, matching cloth boards, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt. The occasional minor blemish, couple of tiny nicks to spines, an excellent set. With black and white illustrations. A handsomely bound and illustrated set of Austen's novels. N° de réf. du libraire 81834

Description du livre: London: David Nutt, 1888, 1888. Quarto. Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in red morocco, titles and decoration to spine, single rule to boards, pictorial block to front board, inner dentelles, dark green endpapers, gilt edges. Some occasional light foxing, an excellent copy finely bound. Frontispiece with tissue guard and 2 full-page plates by William Crane, head- and tailpiece vignettes by Jacob Hood. First edition, trade issue. N° de réf. du libraire 79553

Description du livre: London: Bentley and Son, 1882, 1882. Octavo (189 × 124 mm). Finely bound for Hatchards in crimson half calf, titles and decoration to spine, raised bands, matching cloth boards, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. Some occasional light foxing, spine a little rubbed and minor wear to corners, an excellent copy. Engraved frontispiece. First published in 1818. A handsome copy. N° de réf. du libraire 80138

Description du livre: Paris: Librairie de l'Art Indépendant; Elkin Mathews & John Lane, London, 1893; [and] London: Elkin Mathews & John Lane; Copeland & Day, Boston, 1894, 1894. Together 2 works, octavo. French edition: original purple wrappers, titles and decoration to upper wrapper in silver, all edges untrimmed. English edition: original blue linen, device to upper board and titles to spine gilt. Housed together in a purple morocco-backed slipcase, individual chemises. Both exceptional copies and rare thus. Attractive bookplate to pastedown of the English title. First editions, first printings, trade issues of the French and English language editions, one of 600 copies and 500 copies respectively. The play was originally written by Wilde in French and first published in that language; the English version, translated by Lord Alfred Douglas and illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley, appeared the following year. N° de réf. du libraire 82225

Description du livre: Paris: Baudry, 1825, 1825. 7 volumes, octavo (211 × 132 mm). Contemporary blue calf, burgundy morocco labels, decoration to spines in blind in compartments separated by raised bands, panelled design to boards in blind, cream endpapers, gilt edges. Bookplate to front pastedowns, some creasing to a few leaves and occasional light foxing, an excellent set. Engraved frontispiece of the author. A handsomely bound set of Byron's works. N° de réf. du libraire 78918

Description du livre: London: Published on behalf of the Royal Economic Society by Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1925, 1925. 3 volumes, large octavo. Original green-blue cloth, two narrowly spaced and two widely spaced rules in blind at top and bottom of upper and lower boards continued in gilt to spine, titles to spine gilt. Some slight fading of cloth in places, an excellent set. First edition, first impression. The three volumes constituting practically all of Edgeworth's work in economic theory. "Edgeworth's contribution to economics left their mark on the theories of monopoly, foreign trade, taxation and production. In production theory, earlier authorities had generally employed the concept of an average product to demonstrate diminishing returns. it was Edgeworth who insisted on the distinction between the average and the marginal product and who understood the significance of the latter in connection with the identification of the maximum position" (Spiegal). "Edgeworth has always been regarded as an exceptionally distinguished 'all-rounder', making major contributions to both economic and statistical theory to a degree that no one else, with the possible exception of Harold Hotelling, has ever approached. Since 1960, however, serious reappraisal of the depth and subtlety of those contributions to each discipline has shown decisively that he was indeed one of the truly great economists of his time, and one of its greatest statisticians" (ODNB). Bateson p. 16; Schumpeter p. 830. N° de réf. du libraire 81829

Description du livre: Paris: by Denys Langlois, 1622, 1622. Octavo (172 × 110 mm). Contemporary limp vellum. Minor repairs to closed tears along folds of plates, otherwise a well-preserved copy, very good. Engraved armorial title vignette, 2 large engraved folding plates. Manuscript ownership inscription of the Beata Maria Hamensis (Abbey of Blessed Mary of Ham, in the Somme) on title page and first leaf of main text; later ownership inscription of J. Follard to front free endpaper. Extremely rare first edition of the first manual of shipbuilding in the French language (Hoving, p. 4), illustrated with two large folding plates. Hobier's guide was inspired by the belated birth of the French navy under Cardinal Richelieu, who called for 40 galleys to establish a powerful French naval force in the Mediterranean. Having secured independence from the Hapsburgs by land, France could finally turn her attention to the ocean. It is likely that Richelieu's first 24 galleys (no more could be built) were ordered to the specification of Hobier, who held the office of Treasurer of the Navy for the Levant. The relatively late publication date testifies to the concern of all European nations to restrict the full publication of valuable technical knowledge. The earliest surviving treatise on shipbuilding are 15th-century manuscripts; the first printed work on this subject was Diego Garcia de Palacio's Instruccion Nauthica (Mexico, 1587). Aside from Garcia de Palacio, just two manuals, both Italian, pre-date the present work: those of Bartolomeo Crescentio (1602) and Pantero Pantera (1614). Hobier had evidently read both these works and refers to them in the final leaf of text, making it clear that the Italian methods have "plusieurs differences de ce qui s'observe entre nous". By his own account a resident of Marseilles, Hobier had made a detailed study of the art of ship-building before submitting his plans for a new galley to a master ship-builder who proceeded to construct the vessel. Hobier's guide is based therefore on complete theoretical and practical experience. The guide gives precise instructions, including measurements and advisory notices, on the construction of Hobier's galley, which is illustrated from several perspectives in the two folding engraved plates at the rear of the book. The guide provides a fascinating amount of circumstantial detail. Hobier freely discusses the disposition of the "forçats" (convicts) or galley slaves employed at the oars. Hobier notes that ideally 250 slaves are required for any voyage, five slaves to an oar, but complains that the king only pays for the maintenance of 200. Their regulation clothing and sleeping arrangements are described in detail, as are the roles of the various officers in charge: the "Argousin" response for chaining and unchaining the convicts (who are always kept in pairs to prevent their escape); the "Barillar" who keeps them watered; and the "Barberot" who trims their hair. Hobier reveals that a music master is kept onboard to teach some of the slaves "to play trumpets, flutes, or oboes". Other officers include the dozen or so guards required to watch over the victuals, who regulate their nightlong watch with hourglasses filled with sand, and 80 soldiers. The "rarest" officer is the "Mourgon", whose duty it is to dive into the sea to retrieve fallen items. Hobier claims that this specialist can hold his breath for up to 30 minutes. Hobier pays particular attention to nautical vocabulary, naming the most current French terms (often regional) in common use for the parts of the ship and its officers, sometimes even giving etymological derivations. The work was evidently successful: two further editions were published in 1627 and 1628. It is, however, exceptionally rare today, with no copy of any edition located in North American institutions, and no copy sold at auction in at least the past 40 years. Of this first edition, OCLC locates only the three copies in France (BNF; Bibliotheque Sainte-Genevieve; and BM Lyon). There is no copy in th. N° de réf. du libraire 81809