Précieuses reliures d’une bibliophile — Collection Georgette J. Salles 

Ernst, Max — Lewis Carroll Logique sans peine. Paris, Hermann [Pierre Berès], 1966. In-8 (194 x 145 mm). Plats rigides en veau noir imprimé de rayures, large bande oblique de veau rose gaufré "grands carrés" partant de l'angle supérieur pour s'appuyer sur une étiquette demi-circulaire mosaïquée de box jaune et rose, lignée tel un cahier d'écolier, titrée à l'oeser noir et rivetée d'ébène du Gabon sur un petit demi-cercle de zinc insolé, pièces d'attache en box rouge gaufré "petits carrés" inégalement prolongées sur les plats et terminés chacune d'un demi-cercle de zinc insolé, attaches en box rouge, couture sur deux lanières de veau rose, dos de box jaune gaufré "grands carrés", doublure et gardes de box rose, emboîtage de papier anthracite, titre à l'oeser gris au dos en veau rouge (Jean de Gonet, 1985). Joyeuse reliure aux couleurs acidulées en parfait accord avec ce livre plein d'humour. Première traduction française par Jean Gattegno et Ernest Coumet des écrits de mathématique et de philosophie de Lewis Carroll : l'auteur d'Alice au pays des merveilles fut un brillant logicien et c'est avec humour qu'il décrit et explique les principes parfois rébarbatifs de la logique. Nombreuses reproductions in-texte ou à pleine page de dessins en noir de Max Ernst. Un des 5 exemplaires d'essai sur papier rose (n° V), justifié à la main par Pierre Berès, éditeur du livre. La couleur du papier rose du volume et vert pomme de la couverture ont inspiré les couleurs de la reliure.

View 1 of Lot 64: Logique sans peine. 1966. Joyeuse reliure de Jean de Gonet, en veau de couleurs acidulées. Un des 5 exemplaires d'essai sur papier rose.

logique sans peine. 1966. joyeuse reliure de jean de gonet, en veau de couleurs acidulées. un des 5 exemplaires d'essai sur papier rose.

Pre-publication presentation first edition, first issue of Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There inscribed by Carroll.<ul><li>Lewis Carroll [Charles L. Dodgson] (English).</li><li>Illustrated by Sir John Tenniel (English).</li><li>London: Macmillan &amp; Co., 1872.</li><li>Inscribed by Dodgson on the half-title "Joanna de Morlot Pollock / from the Author / Christmas 1871" in purple ink.&nbsp;</li><li>Bound in full red morocco, ribbed gilt decorated spine, spine panels tooled with characters from Alice, covers ruled in gilt, covers center panel tooled with the queens, gilt dentelles, all edges gilt, original cloth covers and spine bound in rear by Bayntun.</li></ul>

Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There (Signed Pre-publication Presentation First Edition, First Issue)

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Lewis+Carroll&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Lewis Carroll</a>, <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;Book%20Type=Signed%2520and%2520Inscribed" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">inscribed</a> to political cartoonist <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=John+Proctor&amp;pfilters.dateRange=past" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">John Proctor</a>.<ul><li>Lewis Carroll (English).</li><li>Illustrated by John Tenniel.</li><li>London: Macmillan &amp; Co., 1868.</li><li>Thirteenth thousand.</li><li>Inscribed by Dodgson in black ink on the half-title "John Proctor, Esq/ from the Author/ Oct. 1868".</li><li>Bound in the publisher's gilt stamped red cloth, dark green pastedowns and endpapers, all edges gilt, Burn binders ticket to rear pastedown.</li></ul> Proctor was a political cartoonist, working profusely for Judy and later Fun. John (Puck) Proctor was mentioned as an artist approached by Dodgson to illustrate Through the Looking-Glass after Tenniel's initial refusal (he finally relented). There is a letter from Proctor to Dodgson (Carroll) turning down the offer in the Dodgson Family archives.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Presentation Copy to John Proctor

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition?locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first edition</a> presentation copy of Notes by an Oxford Chiel by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Lewis+Carroll&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Lewis Carroll</a>.<ul><li>Charles L. Dodgson [Lewis Carroll] (English).&nbsp;</li><li>Oxford: James Parker and Co., 1865-74.</li><li>6 parts in 1.</li><li>Inscribed on the front pastedown "General Rigaud / from the Author. / March. 1882", with Gibbes Rigaud ownership stamp below inscription and to front endleaf.</li><li>Bound in the original publisher's gilt stamped green cloth, all edges gilt.</li></ul> The work includes 1) Evaluation 2) Dynamics 3) Facts, &amp;c. 4) New Belfry 5) Three T's 6) Blank Check. Major-General Gibbs Rigaud, served in the Kaffir War and in China.&nbsp;Dodgson from time to time applied to John Rigaud, Gibbs' brother, who was a Fellow at Magdalen College for permission to take visitors to Magdalen Chapel.&nbsp;Gibbs on one occasion called on Dodgson with a niece to look at photographs.&nbsp;There is also one letter, dated 1875, to John inquiring about his brother who hearing he had some "beautiful Indian (or Japanese?) shawls or other articles of dress" that he would like to borrow.

Notes by an Oxford Chiel | Inscribed First Edition

First edition, first issue presentation copy of Phantasmagoria and Other Poems signed by Lewis Carroll.<ul><li>Lewis Carroll [Charles L. Dodgson] (English).</li><li>London: Macmillan &amp; Co., 1869.</li><li>Inscribed from Dodgson to his friend Duckworth "Rev R. Duckworth, with the Author's sincere regards. Jan 1869."</li><li>The chapter "Melancholetta" is incorrectly numbered 78 in the Table of Contents, with no cancel title page and without "Author of Alice in Wonderland" to the title page.</li><li>Bound in the publisher's original gilt stamped blue cloth with all edges gilt.</li><li>Housed in half red morocco slipcase with ribbed gilt lettered spine.</li></ul>

Phantasmagoria and Other Poems (Signed First edition, First issue)

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition?locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first London edition</a> of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Alice%27s%20Adventures%20in%20Wonderland&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Alice's Adventures in Wonderland</a> by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Lewis%20Carroll&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Lewis Carroll</a>.<ul><li>Lewis Carroll (English).</li><li>Illustrated by John Tenniel (English).</li><li>London: Macmillan &amp; Co., 1866.</li><li>Final 'S' on the contents page inverted, page '30' numbered '3.'</li><li>Bound in fine full red morocco, in the style of the original cloth, gilt Alice and pig to front cover and the Cheshire cat to rear cover, covers ruled in gilt, gilt dentelles, all edges gilt, marbled pastedowns and endpapers, both blue endpapers bound in, the front blue endpaper with a gift inscription dated Christmas 1866, original cloth covers and spine bound in the rear, by Bayntun.</li></ul>

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland First Edition

A limited edition of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Alice%27s+Adventures+in+Wonderland&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Alice's Adventures in Wonderland</a>, <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;Book%20Type=Signed%2520and%2520Inscribed" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">signed</a> by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Salvador+Dali&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Salvador Dali</a>.<ul><li>Lewis Carroll (English).</li><li>Illustrated by Salvador Dali.</li><li>New York: Maecenas Press - Random House, 1969.</li><li>Complete with frontis and 12 illustrations.</li><li>The frontispiece is an original signed etching by Salvador Dali limited to 2500 numbered copies on Mandeure paper of which this is #564.</li><li>Signed by Dali on the title-page.</li><li>Original tan leather backed clamshell box, gilt lettered spine, with the original gilt stamped brown cloth chemise,</li></ul>

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Signed by Dali

Inscribed first edition, first issue presentation copy of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland as the first foreign language translation of the work.<ul><li>Lewis Carroll [Charles L. Dodgson] (English).</li><li>Illustrated by Sir John Tenniel (English).</li><li>Alice's Abenteurer im Wunderland.</li><li>London: Macmillan &amp; Co., 1869.</li><li>Inscribed on the half-title "Georgina Balfour from the Author."</li><li>Bound in the publisher's original gilt stamped green cloth, all edges gilt, with the original "Burn" binders tick to lower corner of rear pastedown.</li></ul> Georgina Balfour belongs to the northern Balfours who had been family friends since Dodgson's boyhood.

Alice's Abenteuer im Wunderland

<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;Book%20Type=Fine%2520Bindings%2520and%2520Sets" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Finely bound</a> edition of Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Lewis+Carroll&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Lewis Carroll</a>.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 2 volumes.</li><li>Lewis Carroll (English).</li><li>London:&nbsp;Macmillan and Co.,&nbsp;1872.</li><li>Illustrated throughout with scenes, illustrated scene frontispieces.</li><li>All edges gilt, raised bands, silk endpapers, bound by Sangorski &amp; Sutcliffe in full red Morocco with detailed leather inlays of scenes on front covers</li></ul>

Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass

First edition pre-publication presentation copy of The Hunting of the Snark inscribed by the author.<ul><li>Lewis Carroll [Charles L. Dodgson] (English).</li><li>Illustrated by Henry Holiday (English).</li><li>London: Macmillan &amp; Co., 1876.</li><li>Inscribed in black ink on the half-title "James Hessey from the Author. Mar. 19. 1876."&nbsp;</li><li>Bound in the publisher's special pre-publication binding of red cloth,&nbsp;all edges gilt,&nbsp;"Burn" binders ticket to rear pastedown.</li></ul>

The Hunting of the Snark (Signed First Edition)

An inscribed presentation copy of Lewis Carroll's Through The Looking-Glass And What Alice Found There.<ul><li>Lewis Carroll (English).</li><li>Illustrated by John Tenniel.</li><li>London: Macmillan &amp; Co., 1877.</li><li>Inscribed by Dodgson on the half-title "Mariella York Powell, from the Author. Nov. 23, 1897", in black ink.</li><li>Bound in the scarce white paper and leatherette binding, reproducing the gilt decoration of the red cloth editions, all edges gilt, black pastedowns and endpapers, housed in a quarter red morocco slipcase.</li></ul> Mariella York Powell was the daughter of Frederick York Powell who was close friends with John Butler Yeats whom the artist first met on his move to Bedford Park, London in the late 1880s.

Through The Looking-Glass And What Alice Found There (Signed)

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Thomas Middleton A game at chesse. London, 1628 4to (164 x 116 mm). Collation: π2 B–K4: 38 leaves, roman type, 37 lines plus headline, cut close (with date of publication on title cropped), worming at inner margin (repaired in places) EXCEEDINGLY RARE COPY OF MIDDLETON'S JACOBEAN SATIRICAL DRAMA, FROM THE LIBRARY OF LEGENDARY NINETEENTH-CENTURY GERMAN CHESS MASTER BARON VON DER LASA. Rare Book Hub lists only one auction record for this edition, offered in 1956. Middleton's play was perhaps the most notorious theatrical success of the day. It was a thinly veiled satire on contemporary political events in the dying days of the reign of James VI/I. Middleton, like so many other writers from Cessolis to Lewis Carroll and beyond, found chess to be a rich source for symbolism and used the game as an analogy for society. The play, which was performed by the King's Men (best-known, of course, for their association with Shakespeare), was suppressed after an unprecedented nine-day run. PROVENANCE: Baron von der Lasa (1818–1899), armorial bookplate and inventory number (No. 437), autograph bibliographical note tipped onto front free endpaper, and inkstamp to outer margin of title; Dr Robert Blass, Zurich, inkstamp to front free endpaper (beneath von der Lasa's bibliographical note), not in the 1992 Christie's sale of the Blass library LITERATURE: USTC 3011904 (5 copies); ESTC S110039; STC 17885

View 1 of Lot 50: Thomas Middleton | A Game at Chesse, 1628, von der Lasa-Blass copy

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