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first edition of the first book of poetry by an African-American author, almost certainly signed by her during her London visit in the summer of 1773 when the book was originally published. Susanna Wheatley commissioned Scipio Morehead, a Boston artist, also a slave, to provide a portrait of Phillis for the frontispiece. £50,000

Maggs BrosSomething to Chew Over THE CANNIBAL INCIDENT [1] FARRAN (Assad). [EMIN PASHA RELIEF EXPEDITION]. Printed Facsimile of an Autograph Deposition by Assad Farran, an interpreter with the rear-column, outlining Barttelot’s oppressive regime and giving scandalous details of the behaviour of James Jameson, a big-game hunter, artist and

traveller, who had bought a ten-year-old girl, expressly so he could witness her being killed and eaten by cannibals: ‘Mr Jameson said that he was very anxious to see a man killed & eaten by cannibals . . . [they] told Mr Jameson that if he wants to see a thing like this, he should buy a slave, and which he can present to the cannibals & they will eat him before him.’ 1890. £1,200

Sims Reed Modern Masters HOCKNEY [WITH ORIGINAL DRAWING] Baggott, Brian (preface). Off the Wall. Hockney Posters. London. Pavilion Books Ltd. 1994. Illustrated in colour throughout. Cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Full page colour

illustrations of 38 of the most striking posters produced since 1987 and small colour reproductions of over 200 posters including Hockney’s whole output since 1962. With a large original drawing running across the end paper and half title in red ink and ballpoint of Hockney’s Studio with his signature as a name card on his desk, with a wicker chair, jar full of paint brushes and an easel. There is a glimpse of his WC in the background. A delightful drawing made for Brian Baggott whose collection of Hockney posters illustrates this book. £5,000

Stephen Avedikian East meets West PHILBY, H St JB, A Pilgrim in Arabia. The Golden Cockerel Press, [March, 1943]. Original full Niger morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, a near fine copy with numerous relevant newspaper cuttings loosely inserted. First edition, one of 30 copies from a total issue of 350, signed by the author to the colophon. Philby was the first Englishman to make an east-west traverse of the region and his

knowledge of its politics – he became an unofficial counsellor to Abdul Aziz ibn Saud and in 1930 embraced the Moslem faith – resulted in several works. Philby was also father of Harold (Kim) Philby, the spy. A Pilgrim in Arabiaoffers first hand accounts of the Pilgrimage to Mecca, of the cities of Madina and Riyadh, and of a journey through Persia. £2,950

Bernard Shapero Sweet Thames PARROTT, W[illiam]. London from the Thames. Henry Brooks, London [18401841]. First edition. Landscape folio (38 x 56 cm), title-page slightly spotted in

margins, twelve tinted lithographed views, apart from some minor marginal spotting all views clean and fresh. Parrott (18131875) was a successful and talented landscape artist who exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy. His fine lithographs depict a lively and vivid picture of London as he was able to control the transfer of his work on to stone like Thomas Shotter Boys. This work was published in the same year as Boys’s Original Views of London as it is but Abbey states that this work is ‘far rarer’. The superb views include Saint Paul’s, Old Westminster Bridge, Greenwich Hospital and Somerset House (all from the river viewpoint). No text accompanied the plates. ‘The book itself is a great rarity’ (Adams). £7,500

Paul Foster Twentieth Century Hit Ulysses by James Joyce. Shakespeare and Company. Paris. 1922. First edition. Large 4to. One of 150 numbered copies on large paper (from a total edition of 1,000 numbered copies, Numbers 1-100 were signed by Joyce, 101-250 on Verge D’arches, & 750 copies on hand made

paper). Finely bound in recent full dark blue morocco, raised bands, gilt. Triple gilt ruled borders on boards. Gilt inner dentelles. Marbled endpapers. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Housed in blue cloth, leather entry slip case. A lovely clean copy in a fine binding by The Chelsea Bindery of London. One of the 20th century’s most important and famous books.

Antiquariaat Papyrus Flower Power (Papercuts) ANON Album. Coloured papercuts. No date, but between 1845 and 1847. § 4to, album containing 17 papercuts on coloured paper, depicting flowers: three pasted on front free leaf, 14 pasted on 12 cardboard leaves. Each leaf in colour and decorated with a beautiful embossed frame, a garland of

stylised leaves, shells and grapes. Two blanks on common paper, one at the beginning and one at the end. Original red morocco, richly gilt; gilt dentelles inside plates; gilt spine, edges and plates edges. Small stamp on front free leaf (Bound by Nichols Birm(ingha)m) and on last free leaf (Sold by Nichols 1 New St Birm(ingha)m). Embossed signature (Dobbs) on each frame. These kind of albums were manufactured as blank books, to be used as a scrapbook or for any similar purpose. € 5,000

Roger Treglown Strange and Weird goings-on GILES and OSBORNE. Guide to the construction of erections on allotments. London. 1934; MEYER, Kathleen. How to shit in the woods. An environmentally sound approach to a lost art. Berkeley [California ]. 1989; PRICE, HP When men wore muffs. The story of men’s clothes. London. 1936; ANON. Tea planting as a career. London. 1935; ROLLS-ROYCE LIMITED. Two men

came together. Derby. 1954; HAWKINS, Richmond Laurin. Newly discovered French letters of the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Cambridge, Massachusetts. 1933; BENEDICT, Francis G; and MEYER, Mary Henderson. The Basal Heat Production of Elderely Women. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Vol. LXXI. 1932

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