[ALEXANDRIA, Battle of, 1801.]

Plan of the action of the 21st of March fought near Alexandria by the French under Gn. Menou and...

A detailed plan accurately illustrating the movements of the British and French armies at the battle of Alexandria. In it, Sir Ralph Abercrombie was fatally wounded but the action was considered a British victory as the French were forced out of Egypt soon after. This plan is signed ‘J. W. Hamilton’.

£650

HOLLANDER, Jacob Harry.

Economic Liberalism.

New York and Cincinnati, The Abingdon Press, [1925].

First edition, dedicated ‘to the memory of Herbert B. Adams, who first taught me the meaning of liberalism’.

£50

ISHERWOOD, Christopher.

Berlin Stories.

New York: New Directions, [1945].

First American edition to combine the two Berlin novels, originally published by the Hogarth Press as Mr Norris Changes Trains and Goodbye to Berlin, in 1935 and 1939 respectively.

£150

JEFFERYS, Thomas.

The theatre of war in the Kingdom of Bohemia, drawn from the survey of J. C. Muller Captain Engineer to the Emperor:...

[London], Thomas Jefferys, 6 June 1757.

This map, issued at the beginning of the Seven Years’ War, illustrates the route taken by Frederick the Great’s Prussian forces against those of Saxony and Prussia, up to the opening of siege operations against Prague. On 18 June 1757, Count von Daun, in attempting to raise this siege, overpowered...

£500

KUNDERA, Milan.

Žert [The Joke].

Prague, Československý spisovatel, 1967.

First edition of Kundera’s first novel, The Joke, which gives a satirical account of the political atmosphere in Czechoslovakia in the 1950s.

£400

LAWRENCE, Thomas Edward.

Revolt in the Desert.

London: Jonathon Cape, 1927.

First edition of Lawrence’s popularly successful abridgement of Seven Pillars of Wisdom.

£275

[MILL, John Stuart, witness].

Report from the Select Committee on the Income and Property Tax; together with the Proceedings of...

[London], Ordered by the House of Commons, to be Printed, 1 August 1861.

First edition. This is the concluding report of the Commons Select Committee that had been responsible for investigating possible modifications to income tax policy. John Stuart Mill appeared before the Committee on the 18 June 1861, where he reiterated his central belief that the current system of income...

£175

[O’BRIEN.] NA GOPALEEN, Myles. [Pseud.] Brian O’Nolan.

The Hard Life … An Exegesis of Squalor.

London: MacGibbon & Kee, 1961.

First edition. A short comic novel described by O’Brien’s biographer Anthony Cronin as ‘a small masterpiece’, The Hard Life recounts the turn-of-the-century doings of a nameless narrator and the characters around him, with a remote, disdainful calmness and clarity. Set in the same turn-of-the-century...

£250

[O’BRIEN.] NA GOPALEEN, Myles. [Pseud.] Brian O’Nolan.

The Best of Myles.

New York: Walker & Company, 1968.

First US edition, preceded by the London, MacGibbon & Kee edition of the same year.

£150

PYNCHON, Thomas.

Gravity’s Rainbow.

New York: The Viking Press, [1973].

First edition. ‘Gravity’s Rainbow is literally indescribable, a tortured cadenza of lurid imaginings and total recall that goes on longer than you can quite believe’, wrote critic Michael Wood on first publication of this, Pynchon’s magnum opus:

£900

ROTH, Henry.

Call it Sleep.

London: Michael Joseph, 1963.

First English edition, first published in New York by Robert O. Ballou in 1934.

£250

SAY, Léon.

[cover title: ] La Société coopérative est la meilleure des caisses d’épargne.

Lille, L. Danel, [1866?].

First edition. Léon Say (1826–1896), grandson of Jean-Baptiste Say, ‘became one of the most prominent statesmen of the French Third Republic. He served as Finance Minister from 1872 to 1879, and again in 1882, overseeing the largest financial operation of the century – payment of war reparations...

£75

SCHREBER, Johann Christian.

Botanisch-Oeconomische Abhandlung vom Grasbaue. Preisschrift, welche die, in den öconomischen Nachrichten,...

Leipzig, Johann Wendler, 1763.

First separate edition of this prize-winning treatise on grass and hay, first published in the Ökonomische Nachrichten.

£75

[SINO-JAPANESE WAR, 1894–95.]

Terrible war of General Sakamoto, leader of the imperial warship Akagi.

Tokyo, Sekiguchi Masajiro, 1894.

A portrait of General Sakamoto at the battle of Yalu River (1894) executed by the Japanese artist, Toshikata Mizuno. General Sakamoto was killed in this battle.

£350

SMITH, William.

The Speeches of Mr. Smith, of South Carolina, delivered in the House of Representatives of the United States, in...

Philadelphia printed, London reprinted for John Stockdale, 1794.

First London edition, a rebuff to the punitive anti-British tariffs proposed by the future President James Madison, first printed in Philadelphia in the same year and also reprinted in Edinburgh.

£175

SQUIRES, Richard F.

Typescript letter to John Derek Smith, signed Rick,

dated Gladsaxe [Denmark], December 7, 1965.

Squires’ main research was into multiple forms of monoamine oxidases, and their inhibitors, which are nowadays used as antidepressants. Squires reports of problems not entirely unrelated with psycho-active substances:

£180

STEPNIAK, Sergius [pseudonym for: Sergius Mikhailovich Kravchinskii].

Podziemna Rosja. Obrazki z przeszłości młodej Rosji.

Lviv, [ printers of the Dziennika Polskiego] for Gubrinowicz & Schmidt, 1897.

Extremely rare first edition in Polish, anonymously translated and printed in nowadays Ukraine, of Stepniak’s most successful, translated and influential book.

£100

STEWART, Dugald.

Esquisses de philosophie morale …

Paris, A. Johanneau, 1826.

First edition in French of Stewart’s Outlines of Moral Philosophy (1793), translated from the fourth English edition of 1818, with a 152-page prefatory essay by the translator, Théodore-Simon Jouffroy.

£100

WALRAS, Léon.

Études d’économie sociale (Théorie de la Répartition de la Richesse sociale).

Lausanne and Paris, Rouge and Pichon & Durand-Auzias, 1936.

This, the second, definitive edition differs from the first (1896) in containing the ‘Souvenirs du Congrès de Lausanne’. The congress on taxation in Lausanne in 1860, at which Walras read a paper, was a climacteric in his career. In the audience was Louis Ruchonnet, who later became chief of the...

£100

[JOYCE.] ROTH, Samuel [Edits.].

Two Worlds – A Literary Quarterly Devoted to the Increase of the Gaiety of Nations.

New York: Sign of the Mockigrisball, 1925.

First edition. Unnumbered, one of 500, of which 450 numbered copies were designated for subscribers. Between September 1925 and September 1926 Two Worlds published installments of Joyce’s ‘Work in Progress’ (Finnegan’s Wake), reprinted from European publications (in this case from Criterion,...

£150