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The Fables Of Aesop -
Aesop, Edward J. Detmold (illustrator)
1909 - Hodder & Stoughton, London - Number 50 of a limited edition of only 750 copies signed by the artist.
A fine and luxuriously presented collection of Greek storyteller, Aesop’s, wonderful fables, which have descended from ancient times. Tradition has it that Aesop was a freed Phrygian slave living in the 6th century BC, making this the world's oldest collection of stories.
Number 50 of a limited edition signed and illustrated with twenty-five mounted colour plates by Edward J. Detmold which are considered to be his finest work, each accompanying a separate fable.
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Price HK$ 15,000
1909 - Hodder & Stoughton, London - Number 50 of a limited edition of only 750 copies signed by the artist.
A fine and luxuriously presented collection of Greek storyteller, Aesop’s, wonderful fables, which have descended from ancient times. Tradition has it that Aesop was a freed Phrygian slave living in the 6th century BC, making this the world's oldest collection of stories.Number 50 of a limited edition signed and illustrated with twenty-five mounted colour plates by Edward J. Detmold which are considered to be his finest work, each accompanying a separate fable.
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Price HK$ 15,000
A Quaint Treatise on "Flees, and the Art a Artyfichall Flee Making," -
W. H. Aldam, James Poole (artist)
1876 - John B. Day, London - First Edition, Second Issue
One of the greatest works on fly tying, described by Hills in his bibliography as ‘the best of all, for beauty and interest... The flies in it are tied with an excellence that I have never seen beaten; and, as well as complete flies, all the materials of which they are made, silk, wool and feathers, are there displayed.’
Complete, containing 98 actual flies and materials mounted in 22 sunken mounts on thick card, together with two colour chromolithograph plates from water colours by James Poole. A superior example with very little of the foxing to which this work is prone, and bright gilt covers. Housed in a later marbled paper board slipcase.
A remarkable production, with approximately only 200 copies of both issues sold over a number of years, identical to the first issue except for the date on the title page, both issues where released at the same time in the spring of 1876.
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Price HK$ 25,000
1876 - John B. Day, London - First Edition, Second Issue
One of the greatest works on fly tying, described by Hills in his bibliography as ‘the best of all, for beauty and interest... The flies in it are tied with an excellence that I have never seen beaten; and, as well as complete flies, all the materials of which they are made, silk, wool and feathers, are there displayed.’Complete, containing 98 actual flies and materials mounted in 22 sunken mounts on thick card, together with two colour chromolithograph plates from water colours by James Poole. A superior example with very little of the foxing to which this work is prone, and bright gilt covers. Housed in a later marbled paper board slipcase.
A remarkable production, with approximately only 200 copies of both issues sold over a number of years, identical to the first issue except for the date on the title page, both issues where released at the same time in the spring of 1876.
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La Divina Commedia -
Dante Alighieri, Henry F. Cary (translator), Sandro Boticelli (illustrator)
1928 - The Nonesuch Press, London - First Nonesuch Edition. Limited to 1475 copies of which this is number 402.
‘Midway upon the journey of our life I found myself in a dark wood, where the right of way was lost.’ – Hell.
‘To run over better waters the little vessel of my genius now hoists her sails, as she leaves behind her a sea so cruel.’ – Purgatory.
‘In the heaven which most of His light I have been, and have seen things which he who descends from there above neither knows how nor has power to recount.’ – Paradise.
A gorgeous large limited edition of this medieval epic, combining Botticelli’s 42 sepia drawings (34 on double sheet, 8 on single sheet) with Dante’s Divina Commedia in both Italian and English. Showing only a modicum of the usual spine fading to which this vellum is notoriously prone, in a matching cloth and marbled paper lined slipcase.
Reportedly based on Dante’s experiences during his banishment from Florence, this reinterpretation of Christian themes had a seminal influence on philosophy, literature, and art, inspiring Chaucer, John Milton, Salvadore Dali, and T.S. Eliot, among many others.
‘Dante and Botticelli represented the Florence of two very different generations. No Renaissance artist contemplated the verities of Christianity with a deeper faith. Botticelli’s drawings are so much more than a commentary on, or a two-dimensional summation of, the Divina Commedia. They are breathtakingly beautiful. And in realising his project, Botticelli refined his own mysticisim and thus anticipated the intense lyricism of his final years’ – Francis Russell on the 2001 Botticelli exhibition at the Royal Academy (Country Life).
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Price HK$ 20,000
1928 - The Nonesuch Press, London - First Nonesuch Edition. Limited to 1475 copies of which this is number 402.
‘Midway upon the journey of our life I found myself in a dark wood, where the right of way was lost.’ – Hell.‘To run over better waters the little vessel of my genius now hoists her sails, as she leaves behind her a sea so cruel.’ – Purgatory.
‘In the heaven which most of His light I have been, and have seen things which he who descends from there above neither knows how nor has power to recount.’ – Paradise.
A gorgeous large limited edition of this medieval epic, combining Botticelli’s 42 sepia drawings (34 on double sheet, 8 on single sheet) with Dante’s Divina Commedia in both Italian and English. Showing only a modicum of the usual spine fading to which this vellum is notoriously prone, in a matching cloth and marbled paper lined slipcase.
Reportedly based on Dante’s experiences during his banishment from Florence, this reinterpretation of Christian themes had a seminal influence on philosophy, literature, and art, inspiring Chaucer, John Milton, Salvadore Dali, and T.S. Eliot, among many others.
‘Dante and Botticelli represented the Florence of two very different generations. No Renaissance artist contemplated the verities of Christianity with a deeper faith. Botticelli’s drawings are so much more than a commentary on, or a two-dimensional summation of, the Divina Commedia. They are breathtakingly beautiful. And in realising his project, Botticelli refined his own mysticisim and thus anticipated the intense lyricism of his final years’ – Francis Russell on the 2001 Botticelli exhibition at the Royal Academy (Country Life).
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Murder Begins at Home -
Delano Ames
1949 - Hodder & Stoughton, London - First Edition
First edition of Ames’ second Dagobert and Jane Brown mystery, scarce in the bright sharp dust jacket illustrated by Nicolson.
The second case of Dagobert Brown and his wife Jane who travel to America, from New York to Detroit ending up in New Mexico...
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Price HK$ 1,400
1949 - Hodder & Stoughton, London - First Edition
First edition of Ames’ second Dagobert and Jane Brown mystery, scarce in the bright sharp dust jacket illustrated by Nicolson.The second case of Dagobert Brown and his wife Jane who travel to America, from New York to Detroit ending up in New Mexico...
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Price HK$ 1,400
Death of a Fellow Traveller -
Delano Ames
1950 - Hodder & Stoughton, London - First Edition
First edition of Ames’ third Dagobert and Jane Brown mystery in the bright sharp dust jacket illustrated by Nicolson.
The third adventure for Dagobert (She Shall Have Murder) Brown and his wife Jane (née Hamish), who travel down from London to the Cornish village of Gwink. Within a few hours of their arrival the young man with the moustache, the limp and the two Harlequin Great Danes whom they had noticed on the train was found dead...
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Price HK$ 1,800
1950 - Hodder & Stoughton, London - First Edition
First edition of Ames’ third Dagobert and Jane Brown mystery in the bright sharp dust jacket illustrated by Nicolson.The third adventure for Dagobert (She Shall Have Murder) Brown and his wife Jane (née Hamish), who travel down from London to the Cornish village of Gwink. Within a few hours of their arrival the young man with the moustache, the limp and the two Harlequin Great Danes whom they had noticed on the train was found dead...
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Price HK$ 1,800
Murder, Maestro, Please -
Delano Ames
1952 - Hodder and Stoughton, London - First Edition
A fine first edition of Ames’ sixth Dagobert and Jane Brown mystery in the bright sharp dust jacket designed by Jarvis.
The sixth adventure for Dagobert (She Shall Have Murder) Brown and his wife Jane (née Hamish). This time the travelling duo arrive on their tandem bicycle in time for a murder at Puiz d’Aze in the Pyrenees...
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1952 - Hodder and Stoughton, London - First Edition
A fine first edition of Ames’ sixth Dagobert and Jane Brown mystery in the bright sharp dust jacket designed by Jarvis.The sixth adventure for Dagobert (She Shall Have Murder) Brown and his wife Jane (née Hamish). This time the travelling duo arrive on their tandem bicycle in time for a murder at Puiz d’Aze in the Pyrenees...
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Price HK$ 1,400
Crime out of Mind -
Delano Ames
1956 - Hodder & Stoughton, London - First Edition
A fine first edition of Ames’ tenth Dagobert and Jane Brown mystery in the bright sharp dust jacket designed by Jarvis.
The sixth adventure for Dagobert (She Shall Have Murder) Brown and his wife Jane (née Hamish). This time the travelling duo head off for a “holiday” in the Austrian Tyrol...
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Price HK$ 1,200
1956 - Hodder & Stoughton, London - First Edition
A fine first edition of Ames’ tenth Dagobert and Jane Brown mystery in the bright sharp dust jacket designed by Jarvis.The sixth adventure for Dagobert (She Shall Have Murder) Brown and his wife Jane (née Hamish). This time the travelling duo head off for a “holiday” in the Austrian Tyrol...
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Fairy Tales -
Hans C. Andersen, Kay Nielsen (Illustrator)
1924 - Hodder and Stoughton Limited, London - First Edition, One of 500 ‘Edition De Luxe’
A fine ‘Edition de Luxe’ of this magnificent presentation of Hans Andersen’s Fairy Tales, number 21 of 500 examples, signed and exquisitely illustrated by Kay Nielsen.
Presented in the publisher’s deluxe gilt illustrated vellum binding, with twelve full page mounted colour plates with integrated formal and informal borders, and captioned tissue guards, seventeen full page black and white drawings, decorated initials and endpieces.
Sixteen fairy tales, including 'The Snow Queen', 'The Princess and the Pea' and 'The Hardy Tin Soldier'.
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Price HK$ 30,000
1924 - Hodder and Stoughton Limited, London - First Edition, One of 500 ‘Edition De Luxe’
A fine ‘Edition de Luxe’ of this magnificent presentation of Hans Andersen’s Fairy Tales, number 21 of 500 examples, signed and exquisitely illustrated by Kay Nielsen.Presented in the publisher’s deluxe gilt illustrated vellum binding, with twelve full page mounted colour plates with integrated formal and informal borders, and captioned tissue guards, seventeen full page black and white drawings, decorated initials and endpieces.
Sixteen fairy tales, including 'The Snow Queen', 'The Princess and the Pea' and 'The Hardy Tin Soldier'.
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Price HK$ 30,000