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211.ROTHSCHILD, Walter. Extinct Birds. An attempt to unite in one volume a short account of those Birds which have become extinct in historical times - that is, within the last six or seven hundred years. To which are added a few which still exist, but are on the verge of extinction. Hutchinson & Co. 1907.
£9,500
Large 4to. Contemporary half green calf, gilt lettering and tools to spine, marbled endpapers, t.e.g.; pp. xxix + 244, 45 chromolithograph plates and 4 monochrome plates by artists including Keulemans, Frohawk, Lodge, Smit and Grönvold; binding a little sunned to spine, slight spotting to edges, very good.
Limited edition of 300, this copy out of series. This was the first work of its kind, and was hugely influential on later similar works such as that by Errol Fuller. Some of Rothschild’s entries are hypothetical species, based on paintings and oral reports rather than on actual examples; others are descriptions taken from museum specimens that have since been re-identified. Nevertheless, this was a ground-breaking work which recorded a large number of vanished or vanishing species and which incorporated the results of a huge range of scholarly work. It also represents the vanguard of the then barely nascent environmental movement: “man has destroyed and is continously destroying species directly, either for food or for sport, but also in many other ways he contributes to their destruction... The melancholy fact however remains that man and his satellites, cats, rats, dogs, and pigs are the worst and in fact the only important agents of destruction of the native avifaunas wherever they go” (p. IX) The paintings that accompany the text represent some of the finest work of the artists involved.
Nissen 795; Wood, p. 543 (“The highest authority on the subject, beautifully illustrated”); Zimmer, p. 533.
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212. RUDDOCK, E.H. The Lady’s Manual of Homeopathic Treatment, in the various derangements incident to her sex. The Homeopathic Publishing Company. 1883.
£65
Small 8vo. Original blue cloth, gilt lettering to upper with diagonal panels blocked in black, gilt lettering to spine; pp. 279 + [1]; extremities a trifle rugged, very good.
Eighth edition. A hugely popular guide - by this edition it was in its fifty thousandth printing - to home cures for such feminine complaints as hysteria and intolerable itching.
213. RUSKIN, John. The Seven Lamps Of Architecture; The Stones of Venice; Ethics of the Dust. George Allen Ltd., 1902, 1903. £445
Small 8vo. Three works in five vols. Elegantly bound in early twentieth- century full claret calf gilt, coat-of-arms blocked in gilt to the centre of the upper boards, the spines divided into six compartments with raised bands gilt, dark tan morocco and gilt labels to the second and third compartments, the remainder decorated with a gilt leaf centre-tool, gilt edges, the turn-ins decoratively stamped in blind, all edges marbled, marbled endpapers; xviii, [ii], 444pp.; xv, [i], 414pp., xiv, [ii], 397, [1]pp., vi, [ii], 538pp.; xv, [v], 269, [1]pp., the first and second works illustrated with colour and b/w plates; a fine set.
Early twentieth-century editions.
214. RUSSELL, Bertrand. Education and the Social Order. George Allen & Unwin Ltd. 1932.
£100
8vo. Original cloth and wrapper; pp. 254 + [2, ads.]; dustwrapper a little browned to spine with a little marking to back, occasional internal spots, otherwise very good.
First edition in rare dustwrapper. This is one of Russell’s most politically controversial works, espousing the idea that modern education is based on maintaining the status quo of a society based on property ownership and is, therefore, flawed, divisive and unjust. Russell instead shows qualified support for a Marxist educational system.
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215. SANDERS, T.W. Rock Gardens and Alpine Plants. W.H. & L. Collingridge.~ [n.d., c. 1930].
£30
8vo. Original cloth, lettered in black to upper and spine; pp. 205 + [7, ads], 11 coloured plates, numerous b&w and text illustrations; previous owner’s signature to ffep partially removed, occasional spots, very good.
Third edition. An attractive and exhaustive guide.
216. SARTRE, Jean-Paul. Troubled Sleep. A Novel. New York. Alfred A Knopf. 1951.
£48
8vo., original cloth with slightly nicked price-clipped dust wrapper. Neat ink name otherwise a very good copy.
First english edition translated by Gerard Hopkins.
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