| | Dear Customer Welcome to our last newsletter of 2018.
Apart from our usual quality offerings in rare books and prints, we have a Woodcut Workshop next Saturday (details below), and on Thursday we have two extra reasons to come to the shop: | |
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Thursday 6th December Sotheran’s Christmas Fair 1pm-8pm at Sotheran’s, 2 Sackville Street, London, W1S 3DP
Drinks & Mince Pies from 1pm Personalised Hand Calligraphed Note Cards with every book purchase over £50
Japanese Winter Landscape Prints Private View6–8 pm. The exhibition will continue until 24th December The Bookshop Band will be playing a selection of folksongs with a bookish theme from 6pm
RSVP: Richard Shepherd
Tel: 020 7439 6151
Email: richard@sotherans.co.uk
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| | Learn how woodcuts are made and used at our Woodcut Workshop with Richenda Court to be held in the Print Department on Saturday 8th December at 11.00am. (2 hour session).
Places available on first come first serve basis. Please contact Katie for further details if you would like to attend.
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| | Print of the monthArtist: KOITSU, Tsuchiya (1870-1949).
Title: Snow at Nezu Shrine.
Description: Original woodblock, printed in Japan. Printed Posthumously.
Date: c.1956.
Size: 590 x 420 mm.
Price: £1,600
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Poster of the monthArtist: SCHLATTER, Ernst Emil (1883-1954).
Title: Arosa, 1800m. Suisse.
Description: Original lithograph with colour, printed by Wolfsberg-Druck, Zürich, Switzerland. Date: 1936.
Size: 1025 x 640 mm.
Price: £2,400
This print is included in our catalogue — Vintage Travel Posters
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Map of the Month
Artist: MOULE, Thomas.
Title: Surrey.
Description: Original steel engraved map with later hand colour. The county of Surrey with London and the Thames at the top of the map. With inset views of Dulwich College and Richmond Bridge, armorials and a highly decorative border with allegorical figures. From Moule's English Counties. Date: c. 1840.
Size: 200 x 258 mm.
Price: £145 | |
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| | | Literature & Modern Firsts | |
| | RUSHDIE, Salman. The Satanic Verses. London: Viking, 1988.
Dust wrapper very lightly nicked, small tear to front flap fold. Otherwise fine. First edition, signed by the author to the title page. A lovely, fresh copy of this incredibly important banned book … more… | | | |
| | HUGHES, Ted Early Manuscript Poetry. [Yorkshire]: n.p., n.d. [c. 1946]. One page of lined paper, (approximately 150 words) of a manuscript poem. Having contributed a few early poems to the Mexborough School magazine, Hughes published nothing until he left Cambridge in 1954. Any work from this period is rare.
Provenance: Frieda Hughes … more… | | | |
| | LAWRENCE, D.H. Lady Chatterley's Lover. Florence. Privately Printed. 1928. 8vo., a very good copy, unopened, scarce plain paper dust wrapper missing substantial portion from bottom fore-edge of lower panel and other chips.
First edition, number 892 of 1000 copies numbered and signed by Lawrence … more… | | | |
| | SELBY, Hubert Jr. Last Exit to Brooklyn. London: Calder & Boyars, 1968. 8vo., burgundy canvas boards with lettering; original dust jacket; a fine copy.
Inscribed by the author on the half-title to his British co-publisher, Marion Boyars. Laid-in are four letters and cards to Boyars. … more… | | | |
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| | Travel Department Contact Georg for more details
The Travel Department's last newsletter of 2018 does not require a long introduction, just a headline: LOST EXPLORERS | |
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| | CHARCOT, Jean Baptiste. Le Pourquoi-Pas? dans L'Antarctique.
Journal de la Deuxième Expédition au Pole Sud, 1908-1910, suivi des
rapports scientifiques de l'état-major. Avec Préface de M. Paul Doumer.
Paris, E. Flammarion, [1910]. 4to; 300 illustrations from
photographs, charts, maps; a very good copy.
First edition … more …
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| | HORNEMAN, or HORNEMANN, Frederick The Journal of Frederick Horneman's Travels, from Cairo to Mourzouk, the Capital of the Kingdom of Fezzan, in Africa. In the years 1797-8. London, W. Bulmer and Co., 1802. 4to; very clean and fresh; bookplate Arthur Kelly Kelly inside front cover.
First English edition. … more …
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| | | SCOTT, Captain Robert Falcon.. Scott's Last Expedition … Arranged by Leonard Huxley with a Preface by Sir Clements Markham. London, Spottiswoode & Co. Ltd. for Smith, Elder & Co., 1913. 2 volumes, 8vo; original blue cloth.
First edition, first printing of the official account of the expedition … more …
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| | RITCHIE, James Ewing. The Pictorial Edition of the Life and Discoveries of David Livingstone, LL.D., F.R.G.S. Embellished with Well Executed wood Engravings, a Series of Portraits, Printed in Colours and a Coloured Map, Shewing the Region of His Latest Labours. London and Edinburgh, [c. 1876]. Two volumes in five original parts, 4to. Original green cloth, overall a good set … more … | | | |
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| | | SEETZEN, Ulrich Jasper. A Brief Account of the Countries adjoining the Lake of Tiberias, the Jordan, and the Dead Sea … Published for the Palestine Associaton of London. Bath, printed and sold by Meyler and Son … and in London by Hatchard, 1810. 4to. Modern calf-backed marbled boards; a good copy of a great rarity.
First edition of this travel account by an unsung hero of early travel on the Arabian peninsula.
Not in Atabey or Blackmer … more … | | | |
| | SIMMONDS, Peter Lund. The Arctic Regions and Polar Discoveries During the Nineteenth Century: With the Discoveries Made by Captain McClintock as to the Fate of the Franklin Expedition. London, Routledge, Warne, and Routledge. 1860. Small 8vo; large folding lithographic map with the location of Franklin's remains marked in red; a very good copy.
Very rare. … more … | | | |
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| | Natural History & Science Contact Chris for more details
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| | CHOPPING, Richard Twenty original botanical watercolours. No publisher. [c. 1945]. Folio (225 x 375 mm). Album in half tan morocco and patterned boards.
Unpublished. Chopping is now best-known for his exuberant dust jacket designs for the James Bond novels. He was, however, primarily a natural history artist and illustrator … more … | | | |
| | PASS, J et al. Botanical plates. J. Wilkes. [n.d., c. 1820]. 4to. 2 vols. Quarter vellum, marbled boards, bound by Ralph Partridge; 128 hand-coloured botanical plates after J. Pass and others, extracted from Wilkes's Encyclopedia Londinensis. Provenance: ffep of vol 1 with ownership signature of Frances Partridge. This set of beautiful plates was used by Frances as part of her research for a project with the artist Richard Chopping to publish an definitiive modern British flora. Alas, their "modern Sowerby" never materialised after the publisher Allen Lane withdrew his support due to the ever-spiralling costs. … more … | | | |
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| | | MILLIGAN, Spike. "Rommel?" "Gunner Who?" SIGNED BY STEPHEN HAWKING. Michael Joseph. 1974. 8vo. Original cloth and wrapper; pp. 192, illustrations throughout; very good. Provenance: signed by Stephen Hawking to dedication page. The occasion of this signing was extremely light-hearted. Hawkins was reading this copy of Milligan's book when Hawking commented on how funny the dedication was. In a sprit of joie de vivre and perhaps recognising that he would not be able to sign his name for much longer, Hawking scrawled his autograph beneath the dedication.
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