Winston Churchill: The Struggle for Survival, 1940-1965. Taken from the diaries of Lord Moran -
Lord Moran
1966 - Constable, London - First Edition
Finely bound, illustrated with 15 black and white photographic plates, some double-sided, including a frontispiece.
Selections from the diaries of Winston Churchill's doctor, devoted friend, and confidant, Lord Moran, which form a frank and intimate portrait of the Prime Minister from the tumultuous post-World War II years all the way up to his death in January 1965.
Presenting an invaluable picture of a complicated, contradictory individual: stubborn, defiant, prideful, yet possessing an undeniable strength and nobility. Moran chronicles not only the key political events of Churchill's last twenty years—his legendary Iron Curtain speech, his triumphant return to power in 1951 and his ensuing role in the unfolding political landscape of the Cold War era—but also Churchill's place as a Nobel Prize winning historian, voracious traveller, and enigmatic father and husband.
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1966 - Constable, London - First Edition
Finely bound, illustrated with 15 black and white photographic plates, some double-sided, including a frontispiece. Selections from the diaries of Winston Churchill's doctor, devoted friend, and confidant, Lord Moran, which form a frank and intimate portrait of the Prime Minister from the tumultuous post-World War II years all the way up to his death in January 1965.
Presenting an invaluable picture of a complicated, contradictory individual: stubborn, defiant, prideful, yet possessing an undeniable strength and nobility. Moran chronicles not only the key political events of Churchill's last twenty years—his legendary Iron Curtain speech, his triumphant return to power in 1951 and his ensuing role in the unfolding political landscape of the Cold War era—but also Churchill's place as a Nobel Prize winning historian, voracious traveller, and enigmatic father and husband.
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Burgundiae [Burgundy] Comitatus Recentiss. Descriptio D -
Abraham Ortelius
1585Antwerpen
A handsome early and large map of Burgundy by the great engraver ad cartographer Abraham Ortelius [map size 36.5 x 50.5 cm], based on the 1563 map of Ferdinand de Lannoy that was suppressed by the Spaniards for political reasons. With place names mainly in French, some in Latin, titles and scale in Latin.
With contemporary hand colouring, and embellished with elaborate strapwork title cartouche and coat of arms. Showing rivers, mountains, forests, fortifications, towns and cities. From Ortelius’ ‘Theatrum Orbis Terrarum’.
The orientation is from Oriens or East (top) to Occidens or West (bottom), Septemtrio (the seven stars of Ursa Major) or North (left) to Meridies or South (right).
Finely framed in gilt wood, acid free boarder and backing, and Tru-Vue 98% UV glass [frame size 57 x 71 cm].
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1585Antwerpen
A handsome early and large map of Burgundy by the great engraver ad cartographer Abraham Ortelius [map size 36.5 x 50.5 cm], based on the 1563 map of Ferdinand de Lannoy that was suppressed by the Spaniards for political reasons. With place names mainly in French, some in Latin, titles and scale in Latin.With contemporary hand colouring, and embellished with elaborate strapwork title cartouche and coat of arms. Showing rivers, mountains, forests, fortifications, towns and cities. From Ortelius’ ‘Theatrum Orbis Terrarum’.
The orientation is from Oriens or East (top) to Occidens or West (bottom), Septemtrio (the seven stars of Ursa Major) or North (left) to Meridies or South (right).
Finely framed in gilt wood, acid free boarder and backing, and Tru-Vue 98% UV glass [frame size 57 x 71 cm].
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Life and Writings of Thomas Paine -
Thomas Paine, Daniel Edwin Wheeler (editor)
1908 - Vincent Parke and Company, New York - Independence Edition of the Centenary Issue
‘These are the times that try men's souls’
Elegantly bound ten volume set of the de luxe independence edition, number 166 of just 500 hand-numbered sets signed by the editor Daniel Edwin Wheeler, published to celebrate the centenary of Paine's death.
Included are Paine’s ‘Common Sense’, ‘The American Crises’, ‘The Rights of Man’, and ‘The Age of Reason’, as well as essays, letters and speeches. Each volume with three photogravure or facsimile plates, as well as a frontispiece, title-pages printed in two colours, autographed limitation leaf to volume one.
‘On January 10, 1776, an obscure immigrant published a small pamphlet that ignited independence in America and shifted the political landscape of the patriot movement from reform within the British imperial system to independence from it. One hundred twenty thousand copies sold in the first three months in a nation of three million people, making Common Sense the best-selling printed work by a single author in American history up to that time. Never before had a personally written work appealed to all classes of colonists. Never before had a pamphlet been written in an inspiring style so accessible to the “common” folk of America.’ - Jack Miller Center.
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1908 - Vincent Parke and Company, New York - Independence Edition of the Centenary Issue
‘These are the times that try men's souls’Elegantly bound ten volume set of the de luxe independence edition, number 166 of just 500 hand-numbered sets signed by the editor Daniel Edwin Wheeler, published to celebrate the centenary of Paine's death.
Included are Paine’s ‘Common Sense’, ‘The American Crises’, ‘The Rights of Man’, and ‘The Age of Reason’, as well as essays, letters and speeches. Each volume with three photogravure or facsimile plates, as well as a frontispiece, title-pages printed in two colours, autographed limitation leaf to volume one.
‘On January 10, 1776, an obscure immigrant published a small pamphlet that ignited independence in America and shifted the political landscape of the patriot movement from reform within the British imperial system to independence from it. One hundred twenty thousand copies sold in the first three months in a nation of three million people, making Common Sense the best-selling printed work by a single author in American history up to that time. Never before had a personally written work appealed to all classes of colonists. Never before had a pamphlet been written in an inspiring style so accessible to the “common” folk of America.’ - Jack Miller Center.
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Cups and Their Customs -
George Edwin Roberts
1863 - John Van Vorst, London - First Edition
First edition of this wonderful little work by George Edwin Roberts (1831-65) on ‘Bacchanology’ (his term), penned the same year as the first work on Cocktails was published in America by the great Professor Jerry Thomas, possibly in response to that growing threat to the English way of life.
In the original gilt illustrated boards, with hand coloured wood engraved title page, and wood engraved vignette of drinking skull to last page.
‘a tantalising collection of drinking lore and legend with several dozen recipes for cups and other tasty (or not so tasty) beverages as they were served in the mid-nineteenth century’ [Kalevala, Classic Cocktail Guides]
‘This history of cups and other vessels, the kinds of drinks they contained, and the various customs associated with drinking them, begins with Noah and continues through the Greeks and Romans and on to the middle ages and ‘modern times’. Personalities mentioned in the course of this very interesting commentary include Sir Kenelm Digby (1603-65). It ends with recipes for various “cups” prepared with a variety of ingredients, including honey mixed with herbs and spices (metheglin), ale and apples, punches with oranges, lemons, rum, brandy and green tea, and so on.
One particularly appetising drink, the “Wassail Bowl” (for Christmas Eve) contains beer, sugar, nutmeg, ginger, sherry, and slices of toasted bread floating on top. A typical wine drink is the “Claret Cup” which adds to a bottle of Bordeaux two glasses of sherry, one of Maraschino and some sugar. After icing, add a bottle of soda-water and two sprigs of borage. Since we know that these and similar concoctions are still happily consumed by beautiful people everywhere, we must conclude that they taste much better than they sound and no doubt their after-effects have been artfully neutralised by the judicious use of herbs and spices, from centuries of experience. An enjoyable book for anyone who has ever been happily punch-drunk at least once in his life.’ [Buehler, Viniana]
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1863 - John Van Vorst, London - First Edition
First edition of this wonderful little work by George Edwin Roberts (1831-65) on ‘Bacchanology’ (his term), penned the same year as the first work on Cocktails was published in America by the great Professor Jerry Thomas, possibly in response to that growing threat to the English way of life.In the original gilt illustrated boards, with hand coloured wood engraved title page, and wood engraved vignette of drinking skull to last page.
‘a tantalising collection of drinking lore and legend with several dozen recipes for cups and other tasty (or not so tasty) beverages as they were served in the mid-nineteenth century’ [Kalevala, Classic Cocktail Guides]
‘This history of cups and other vessels, the kinds of drinks they contained, and the various customs associated with drinking them, begins with Noah and continues through the Greeks and Romans and on to the middle ages and ‘modern times’. Personalities mentioned in the course of this very interesting commentary include Sir Kenelm Digby (1603-65). It ends with recipes for various “cups” prepared with a variety of ingredients, including honey mixed with herbs and spices (metheglin), ale and apples, punches with oranges, lemons, rum, brandy and green tea, and so on.
One particularly appetising drink, the “Wassail Bowl” (for Christmas Eve) contains beer, sugar, nutmeg, ginger, sherry, and slices of toasted bread floating on top. A typical wine drink is the “Claret Cup” which adds to a bottle of Bordeaux two glasses of sherry, one of Maraschino and some sugar. After icing, add a bottle of soda-water and two sprigs of borage. Since we know that these and similar concoctions are still happily consumed by beautiful people everywhere, we must conclude that they taste much better than they sound and no doubt their after-effects have been artfully neutralised by the judicious use of herbs and spices, from centuries of experience. An enjoyable book for anyone who has ever been happily punch-drunk at least once in his life.’ [Buehler, Viniana]
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Sandow on Physical Training -
Eugen Sandow
1894 - Gale &, London - First Edition
A scarce and remarkably clean copy of the rare first edition in it’s original pictorial covers, by the ‘Father of Bodybuilding’, who still sits atop the Mr Olympia trophy. ‘Sandow The Magnificent’ also opened one of the first ‘health clubs’ in the world. He was friends with Conan-Doyle, Thomas Edison and King George V. A large volume richly illustrated from photographs, drawings and diagrams.
Sandow's resemblance to the physiques found on classical Greek and Roman sculpture was no accident, as he measured the statues in museums and helped to develop "The Grecian Ideal" as a formula for the "perfect physique." He is seen as one of the first athletes to intentionally develop his musculature to predetermined dimensions. In Strength and How to Obtain It Sandow lays out specific prescriptions of weights and repetitions in order to achieve his ideal proportion.
Sandow was the promoter and judge at the first bodybuilding contest ever held, at the Royal Albert Hall in London on September 14, 1901, and his importance was such that the trophy for Mr. Olympia is a statuette of Sandow, one could even say that Sandow was the inspiration for a later Governor of California.
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1894 - Gale &, London - First Edition
A scarce and remarkably clean copy of the rare first edition in it’s original pictorial covers, by the ‘Father of Bodybuilding’, who still sits atop the Mr Olympia trophy. ‘Sandow The Magnificent’ also opened one of the first ‘health clubs’ in the world. He was friends with Conan-Doyle, Thomas Edison and King George V. A large volume richly illustrated from photographs, drawings and diagrams.Sandow's resemblance to the physiques found on classical Greek and Roman sculpture was no accident, as he measured the statues in museums and helped to develop "The Grecian Ideal" as a formula for the "perfect physique." He is seen as one of the first athletes to intentionally develop his musculature to predetermined dimensions. In Strength and How to Obtain It Sandow lays out specific prescriptions of weights and repetitions in order to achieve his ideal proportion.
Sandow was the promoter and judge at the first bodybuilding contest ever held, at the Royal Albert Hall in London on September 14, 1901, and his importance was such that the trophy for Mr. Olympia is a statuette of Sandow, one could even say that Sandow was the inspiration for a later Governor of California.
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Maskee - A Shanghai Sketchbook by Schiff - Signed -
Friedrich Schiff
Circa 1938Shanghai - First Edition. Number A407 of an unspecified Limited Edition
A fine thus scarce example together with the rare matching silk slipcase.
Fabulously Shanghai Art-Deco 15 foot long accordion folio in original silk covers, folding out to show 21 illustrated panels each hand-coloured by Schiff. Each panel depicting a view of 1930’s expatriate life in Shanghai through the unique eyes of Schiff. More a folio of art-deco artwork than a book, although many of the panels include amusing comments and rhymes for example:
Miss Shanghai
Me No Worry– Me No Care!
Me Go Marry Millionaire!
If He Die – Me No Cry!
Me Go Marry Other Guy!!
Signed to the first panel by Friedrich Schiff (1908-68), an Austrian Jewish artist who moved to Shanghai in 1930 after an invite to visit from a cousin and lived there for 17 years. He had worked as a newspaper cartoonist in Vienna and continued this line of work in Shanghai, soon becoming famous for his amusing caricatures of the city's inhabitants. Prolific, Schiff’s cartoons appeared in books, newspapers, magazines and advertisements throughout China and the Far East, and collaborations with Ellen Thorbecke (Peking Studies; People in China; Hong Kong; and Shanghai).
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Circa 1938Shanghai - First Edition. Number A407 of an unspecified Limited Edition
A fine thus scarce example together with the rare matching silk slipcase.Fabulously Shanghai Art-Deco 15 foot long accordion folio in original silk covers, folding out to show 21 illustrated panels each hand-coloured by Schiff. Each panel depicting a view of 1930’s expatriate life in Shanghai through the unique eyes of Schiff. More a folio of art-deco artwork than a book, although many of the panels include amusing comments and rhymes for example:
Miss Shanghai
Me No Worry– Me No Care!
Me Go Marry Millionaire!
If He Die – Me No Cry!
Me Go Marry Other Guy!!
Signed to the first panel by Friedrich Schiff (1908-68), an Austrian Jewish artist who moved to Shanghai in 1930 after an invite to visit from a cousin and lived there for 17 years. He had worked as a newspaper cartoonist in Vienna and continued this line of work in Shanghai, soon becoming famous for his amusing caricatures of the city's inhabitants. Prolific, Schiff’s cartoons appeared in books, newspapers, magazines and advertisements throughout China and the Far East, and collaborations with Ellen Thorbecke (Peking Studies; People in China; Hong Kong; and Shanghai).
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South - The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917 -
Sir Ernest Shackleton
1919 - William Heinemann, London - First Edition, First Impression
A legendary account of leadership. It was on this expedition that the marooned Shackleton made his famous voyage in a 22-foot boat with five companions through 800 miles of some of the stormiest seas in the world, finally reaching South Georgia and a Norwegian whaling station [Spence].
With 86 full page plates, and large folding map to the rear, many classic photographs existing only due to the stubbornness of Hurley, Shackleton’s photographer, in refusing to leave the plates behind to conserve energy and food.
An exceptionally fine and thus scarce first edition of this large book that is notorious for its poor quality of paper and binding, the silver to spine and covers is bright and sharp, paper toned as is usually the case. Housed in a bespoke blue cloth clamshell case with spine lettered in silver.
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1919 - William Heinemann, London - First Edition, First Impression
A legendary account of leadership. It was on this expedition that the marooned Shackleton made his famous voyage in a 22-foot boat with five companions through 800 miles of some of the stormiest seas in the world, finally reaching South Georgia and a Norwegian whaling station [Spence].With 86 full page plates, and large folding map to the rear, many classic photographs existing only due to the stubbornness of Hurley, Shackleton’s photographer, in refusing to leave the plates behind to conserve energy and food.
An exceptionally fine and thus scarce first edition of this large book that is notorious for its poor quality of paper and binding, the silver to spine and covers is bright and sharp, paper toned as is usually the case. Housed in a bespoke blue cloth clamshell case with spine lettered in silver.
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare -
William Shakespeare, William Watkiss Lloyd, Samuel Weller Singer
1856 - Bell and Daldy, London
An elegant ten volume mid-nineteenth century set of Shakespeare's works, finely bound by Bayntun-Rivière of Bath.
Illustrated with wood engravings by John Thompson from drawings by Thomas Stothard, and photographs, decorated with headpieces and floriated initials.
The text carefully revised with notes by Samuel Weller Singer, together with a biography and critical essays on the plays by William Watkiss Lloyd.
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1856 - Bell and Daldy, London
An elegant ten volume mid-nineteenth century set of Shakespeare's works, finely bound by Bayntun-Rivière of Bath.Illustrated with wood engravings by John Thompson from drawings by Thomas Stothard, and photographs, decorated with headpieces and floriated initials.
The text carefully revised with notes by Samuel Weller Singer, together with a biography and critical essays on the plays by William Watkiss Lloyd.
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