Sale 2865B November 15, 2015 Boston

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Fine
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Manuscripts
Sale 2865B
November 15, 2015
Boston
Fine
Books &
Manuscripts
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Lot 632 Of 689 - Alexander Calder (American, 1898-1976) Red Circus Horse
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Auction & Specialist Information
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Web Site & Online Bidding
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Provenance
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Lots 1–408
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Selected Provenance
The Estate of Samuel Parkman Shaw, Jr., Brookline, Massachusetts
The Collection of Robert F. Morey, former U.S. Marshall and Kennedy aide
Property of an Independent Audubon Society
The Collection of Percy MacKaye (1875-1956), by descent to Marion MacKaye Ober
Ex libris Charles S. Dixwell (1868-1934)
The Estate of Stratford W. Carter, Boston, Massachusetts
Documents
1
Armstrong, Neil (1930-2012) Typed Letter
Signed, 7 May 1979, with Additional
Material.
Single sheet typed on University of Cincinnati
letterhead. To Buck Rogers, regarding pilots
from the X-15 program, 8 1/2 x 11 in. [with]
additional material, including patches, first
day covers, and facsimile copies of other
documents.
$2,000-2,500
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Arnold, Henry Harley “Hap” (1886-1950)
Signed General Pass to the Quebec
Conference, August 1943.
Printed card with Arnold’s name typed, signed
by S.T. Wood, Commissioner of the Royal
Canadian Mounted Police and by Arnold, 4
1/2 x 2 3/4 in.
In the first Quebec Conference, a secret
military summit, Churchill and FDR met for
the first time to discuss a joint attack on
the German forces in France, which would
eventually become the Normandy Invasion.
Canada, Britain, and the U.S. agreed to
concentrate on the development of the atomic
bomb in earnest, and Churchill and Roosevelt
also secretly signed the Quebec Agreement
vowing to share nuclear technological
developments.
$1,500-2,000
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Artists and Illustrators, Signed
Correspondence and Sketches, Three
Pieces.
Ernest H. Shepard (1879-1976) Pen and ink
drawing on board, signed, additional signature
on verso, an original sketch for an illustrations
in Everybody’s Boswell; William Merritt Chase
(1849-1916) autograph note signed to a
Miss Woodruff, quoting prices for two of his
paintings at the Corcoran; one he calls “the
Young Man Picture,” $750, the other he calls
“The Turn of the Road,” pricing it at $400; and
George Cruikshank (1792-1878) signed pencil
sketch titled “The Phoca vol. 6 page 127”;
various sizes. (3)
$450-650
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Autographs and Signed Material.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
clipped signature, dated 1876, and engraved
portrait with facsimile signature; Thornton
Wilder (1897-1975) autograph letter signed,
1973, and short inscription with signature;
Richard Nixon (1913-1994) typed letter
signed, on White House stationery, 18
October 1972; William Jennings Bryan
(1860-1925) typed letter signed (toned, tape
discoloration); P.G. Wodehouse (18811975) typed note signed 15 January 1971;
Ferdinand de Lesseps (1805-1894) autograph
letter signed 31 May 1862; and Eugène
Soubeiran (1797-1859) autograph note
signed, 11 July 1832.
$500-700
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Balloon Mail, France, 21 October 1870, Par
Ballon Monté.
Pre-printed lightweight stationery with the
words, “Par Ballon Monté” in the address
panel, letter contents inscribed on two pages,
To Madame Pierrot in Lascelle, Aurillac, with
postmarks and stamp, old folds, 8 x 5 1/4 in.
$200-400
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Barbé-Marbois, François (1745-1837)
Letter Signed, 7 September 1803.
Laid paper bifolium, engraved official stationery
of Le Ministre du Tresor Public, inscribed on
one and a half pages. To an unnamed minister
of the United States [U.S. Minister to France
Robert Livingston?] concerning the Louisiana
Purchase, payments, and the negotiations
made by Monroe. Old folds, some tears with
loss, not affecting content, old mount on
verso, 9 x 7 1/2 in.
“Lorsque nous avons signé les conventions et
la traité pour la cession de la Louisisanne, je
me suis reservé de m’expliquer ulterieurement
touchant l’offre que vous et M. Monroe
m’aviez fait d’une avance sur la compensation
de cette cession.”
$800-1,200
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Briggs, Caroline Louise (b. circa 1875)
Archive of Photographs, Including a Group
from Brown University, c. 1899.
A collection of late 19th century school, club,
family, and personal photos, including several
taken while Briggs (class of 1899) and her
sister Martha Shepard Briggs (1897) were
students at Brown University; including a
group photo of the charter members of the
Kappa Alpha Theta at Brown, most mounted
on mat board, various sizes, approximately
eighteen photos.
$300-500
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British Authors, Five Signed Pieces.
J.M. Barrie (1860-1937) clipped signature;
Agatha Christie (1890-1976) typed letter
signed, with manuscript address and closing,
September 1970; George Bernard Shaw
(1856-1950) autograph note signed 16
February 1928; Max Beerbohm (1872-1956)
undated autograph letter signed; and Vita
Sackville-West (1892-1962) typed note signed
with manuscript post script and holograph
addressed envelope; various sizes. (5)
$750-850
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Browning, Elizabeth Barrett (1806-1861)
The Island, Original Holograph Manuscript
Leaf, [pre-1838.]
One leaf of Barrett Browning’s working
manuscript, wove paper, inscribed on both
sides, containing nine stanzas (stanzas eight
through nineteen) of her poem, The Island,
with corrections and changes in Barrett
Browning’s hand; bound after a calligraphic
manuscript of the entire poem, in full crushed
navy blue morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe,
tooled, ruled, and lettered in blind in a style
reminiscent of William Morris’s Craftsman
aesthetic, in a custom buckram folding
case; the leaf itself 9 x 7 1/4 in., hinged and
recessed into heavy card, bound at the end;
the binding 11 1/4 x 9 in. overall.
$12,000-18,000
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California Pictorial Letter Sheet,
Tremendous Conflagration of Columbia,
July 10th 1854. San Francisco: Britton & Rey,
[c. 1854].
Uncolored lithograph printed on pale blue
wove paper, the image depicts the fire that
ravaged Columbia, California, in 1854, with
effective use of contrast; old folds, some water
stains, 8 1/2 x 11 in.
$800-1,000
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Carte-de-visite of an Enslaved Man with
Whipping Scars, Escaped Slave Known as
Gordon or Peter.
Abolitionist image sold as a carte-de-visite in
the 1860s showing a shirtless man, seated
sideways in his chair, with his back to the
camera, his left hand on his hip with elbow
out to the side, his face in profile; a spidery
network of thick knotty scar tissue covers his
back; a short printed account of his ordeal
in his own words is pasted onto the back of
the card; stamped beneath by A.I. Blauvelt,
Photographer, Port Hudson, Louisiana; very
small spot of marginal damage along top
edge, 4 x 2 1/4 in.
“Baton Rouge, LA, April 2, 1863. Ten days
from to-day I left the plantation. Overseer
Artayou Carrier whipped me. My master was
not present. I don’t remember the whipping.
I was two months in bed sore from the
whipping and my senses began to come—I
was sort of crazy. [...] My master’s Capt. John
Lyon, cotton planter, on Atchafalya, near
Washington, Louisiana. Whipped two months
before Christmas.”
$6,000-8,000
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Chaffee, Roger Bruce (1935-1967)
Childhood Book with Signature.
R. Sidney Brown’s Dave Dawson on the
Russian Front, Akron, Ohio: Saalfield
Publishing, [1943]; part of the War
Adventure series; with Chaffee’s signature
on ffep; the book browned throughout, on
brittle paper; 8 x 5 1/4 in.
Chaffee was a NASA astronaut who died
on January 27, 1967, along with fellow
astronauts Gus Grissom and Edward H.
White during a pre-launch test for the
Apollo 1 mission at Cape Kennedy in
Florida.
$200-300
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Churchill, Winston (1874-1965), Franklin
Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), and
Others. Signed Menu from the Atlantic
Conference, 9 August 1941.
Folded menu printed in red, blue,
and copper-colored metallic ink,
commemorating the dinner served
during the historic meeting of Churchill
and Roosevelt aboard the U.S. Flagship
Augusta where the Atlantic Charter was
drafted; dignitaries present are listed inside
on the verso of the cover, each has signed
over his name: Franklin D. Roosevelt;
Sumner Welles; Admiral Harold R. Stark;
General George C. Marshall; Admiral
Ernest J. King; Major General Henry H.
Arnold; Harry L. Hopkins; Averill Harriman;
Winston Churchill; Sir Alexander G.M.
Cadogan; Admiral Alfred D.P.R. Pound;
General John G. Dill; Air Chief Marshal
Wilfrid R. Freeman; and Lord Cherwell;
slight foxing to cover, a little stronger
foxing on blank outside back, contents
and signature page not affected, 9 x 7 in.
[Together with] a black-and-white
photograph of nine military men, including
Archibald Wavell (1883-1950) and James
Somerville (1882-1949), all signed, but
most unidentified, the signatures faded
away, 8 x 10 in.
[and] H.V. Morton’s Atlantic Meeting,
London: Methuen & Co., 1944, third
edition, in publisher’s cloth. (3)
$20,000-25,000
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Clinton, DeWitt (1769-1828) Autograph
Letter Signed, 22 March 1815.
Single sheet of wove paper watermarked C.
Wilmott, 1809, inscribed on one page. To a
Navy Commodore John Rodgers (1772-1838),
asking for a midshipman’s warrant on behalf
of his son James H. Clinton. Old folds, minor
short tears, 9 1/2 x 7 3/4 in.
$200-300
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Collection of Ships’ Papers and Related
Documents 18th and 19th Century.
Archive of printed and manuscript material
related to American shipping.
$300-500
16
Coolidge, John Calvin Jr. (1872-1933)
Signed School Notebook, c. 1890.
Quarto format notebook associated with
students from the Black River Academy in
Ludlow, Vermont, including minutes of various
meetings, and notes concerning the formation
and subsequent minutes of meetings of the
Adelphic Union, of which Coolidge was a
member, and president in the 1890s; signed
by Coolidge in several places, some entries
may be in his hand as well, in contemporary
half sheepskin, worn, binding becoming
detached, 8 x 7 in.
$400-600
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Crawford, William H. (1772-1834)
Autograph Letter Signed, 9 April 1846.
Large wove paper bifolium with self-envelope,
holograph address, and postmarks, the letter
inscribed over two pages. To his cousin,
Georgia Governor and U.S. Secretary of
War, George Walker Crawford (1798-1872)
concerning the painting of a portrait; old folds,
some faint discolorations; small hole from the
original opening of the letter, 9 3/4 x 7 1/2 in.
$200-300
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Darwin, Charles Robert (1809-1882) Partial
Legal Document Signed, 27 November
1855.
Fragment of a document, with closing
paragraph, date, signature, and witness
signatures, and Darwin’s own, the sheet
inscribed on one side. The legal matter
involves stocks and shares in companies
associated with Robert Darwin’s estate.
Witness signatures of Henry Allen Wedgwood
(1799-1885) and Catherine Ann Thorley
identified only as “Spinster,” who may
be the Miss Thorley often mentioned in
correspondence between Darwin and his wife,
and described as a longtime governess of the
family. Old folds, edge toning, yellowish mat
burn affecting a band across the document
four inches above the bottom edge, where
formerly folded, and the vertical left edge, 12
3/4 x 12 in.
$1,500-2,000
19
David, Jacques-Louis (1748-1825)
Autograph Letter Signed, undated.
Single leaf, with holograph self-envelope,
inscribed on one page. To an unnamed
recipient, reminding him that he needs the
necessary materials to do the portrait of
their famous friend. Wear to envelope side,
old folds, stain in center, clear legible writing
and signature, matted and framed, with a
reproduction of David’s portrait of Ingres, 8 x 6
1/2 in. (sight).
“Et bien, cher ami, est-ce que vous avez
oublie l’amiable promesse que vous
m’aviez faites de ma procurer les materiaux
necessaires pour la portrait de notre celebre
ami?”
$800-1,200
20
Declaration of Independence and Portraits
of the Presidents, Broadside, c. 1857.
Philadelphia: Ulman and Sons, [c. 1857].
Engraved broadside on paper incorporating
the text of the Declaration at the center,
with facsimile reproductions of the original
signatures; a reproduction of the painting
of the original signing; surrounded by oval
portraits of the presidents from Washington
through Buchanan; mounted, 23 1/4 x 18 in.
$400-600
21
Dickens, Charles (1812-1870) Autograph
Letter Signed, 26 March 1844.
Two leaves, each inscribed on one side.
To Frederick Oldfield Ward (1817-1877)
concerning Thomas Hood’s (1799-1845)
magazine, and Dickens’s intention to
contribute a “very short” piece to the next
number, as assistance to Hood; promising
to do so “with sincere pleasure.” Toning, old
folds, some foxing, the ink dark and legible, 7
1/4 x 4 1/4 in.
Dickens’s characterization of the piece he
promises to write is especially apt, as his
satirical contribution, a “Threatening Letter to
Thomas Hood” published in Hood’s Magazine,
volume one, January to June 1844, refers to
the Tom Thumb craze sweeping England at
the time, and describes a method that parents
are currently employing to stunt their children’s
growth.
$1,500-2,000
13
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Early Boston, Massachusetts Documents:
1692 and 1771.
Indenture regarding the Town or Bendall’s
Dock in Boston, and its ownership transfer
from Elizabeth Wensley to John Holbrook,
signed by Hensley, sealed, with old folds,
strengthened on verso, 19 x 14 1/2 in. [and]
the 1717 petition of Thomas Boyleston of
Boston regarding the width of Peirce’s Alley,
adjacent to King Street in Boston, signed by
110 Boston residents of the day, 18 1/2 x 14
3/4 in. (2)
$200-400
25
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Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan (1859-1930)
Autograph Postcard Signed, 27 February
1928.
Pre-printed postcard with short inscription
on the message side and address on verso,
with stamp and postmark. To the librarian
at the London Library, asking for a copy of
Curiosities of London by John Timbs (18011875). Message side slightly toned, matted,
with a portrait, 4 1/2 x 3 1/2 in.
$200-300
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Dufy, Raoul (1877-1953) Signed Receipt,
Paris, 11 December 1921.
Single leaf, punched with two holes, inscribed
on one side. Receipt for two watercolors sold
to a Monsieur Rosenberg. The sheet toned,
with some reverse mat burn, fifty centime
stamp affixed to the paper below Dufy’s
signature, 7 x 5 1/4 in.
$300-500
25
Edison, Thomas Alva (1847-1931) Signed
Portrait.
Photographic reproduction of an artist’s
portrait of Edison, in black and white,
inscribed in the margin, “To R.Y. O’Leary Thos.
A. Edison,” framed, 9 3/4 x 7 3/4 in.
$800-1,000
26
Elizabeth I, Queen of England (1533-1603)
Clipped Signature.
Parchment with signature cut from a
document, pasted to card, 5 1/2 x 2 1/4 in.
$1,000-1,500
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Faraday, Michael (1791-1867) Autograph
Letter Signed, Edinburgh, 28 July 1847 [or
1867].
Single sheet, paper with mourning
edge, inscribed on one page. To British
mathematician and logician Augustus de
Morgan (1806-1872) declining a look at de
Morgan’s paper, citing memory loss and an
inability to consider philosophical subjects. Old
folds, closed tear to top edge, hole punched
through the sheet just above the first line,
touching the top of the word “I”; 7 x 4 1/4 in.
“I really do not know where to refer you to, for
one part of my trouble is loss of memory and
that makes all matters of reference misty &
uncertain to me.”
For more on Faraday’s malady, see Dr. E.H.
Hare’s “Michael Faraday’s Memory Loss,”
published in the Proceedings of the Royal
Society of Medicine, July 1974, pp. 617-618.
$350-550
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Ferdinand V, King of Spain (1452-1516)
Document Signed, January 1515.
Three separate laid paper leaves; one
inscribed on one page; one inscribed on both
sides; the third a later docket, inscribed on
one side. Signed “Yo el Rey,” with old folds,
some spotting, two leaves 8 1/4 x 12 in., the
docket irregularly torn, approximately 7 1/2 x
8 in.
$3,000-4,000
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Gragg, Samuel (1772-1855) Archive of
Documents Related to Gragg and His
Descendants.
Approximately fifty separate documents,
including 18th century receipts signed by
Gragg, and other 18th and 19th century
material related to descendants.
Gragg was a noted 18th century Boston
furnituremaker most famous for his “Elastic
Chair” design.
$400-600
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Hancock, John (1737-1792) Document
Signed, Boston, 18 January 1792.
Warrant on laid paper, partially printed,
fulfilled by hand. Ordering the payment of
one quarter’s salary (fifty pounds) to Colonel
Lewis de Maresquelle [aka Lewis Ansart]
(1742-1804), inspector of the foundries of
Massachusetts. Countersigned by State
Secretary John Avery Jr. (1739-1806) and
State Treasurer Alexander Hodgson, matted
and framed, with a portrait of Hancock,
splitting along old folds, inscriptions on verso,
8 1/4 x 7 1/4 in.
$2,000-3,000
31
Hancock, John (1737-1793) Signed
Document Fragment.
Military commission printed on laid paper, with
seal, the leftmost portion only, with Hancock’s
signature and a bit of the printed section, the
section with countersignature by John Avery
separated as well, with a note on the verso of
the section with Hancock’s signature, noting
that Jesse Davenport appeared and swore
before the court qualifying him before the
court, the Hancock section with old folds,
dusty, closed tears, separated along the folds,
8 1/8 x 7 3/4 in.
$700-900
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Hemingway, Ernest Miller (1899-1961)
Signed Check, 24 December 1954.
Check drawn on the First National Bank of
Boston, Havana, Cuba; fulfilled and signed by
Hemingway to Roberto Herrera, for $100; with
accompanying envelope addressed to Herrera
in Hemingway’s hand, “Merry Christmas,
Roberto, Happy New Year.” The check
endorsed, cashed, stamped, and perforated
by the bank; envelope with stain, 6 1/4 x 2
3/4 in.
$900-1,200
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Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Senior (1809-1894)
Signed Poetry Transcription, 27 April 1868.
Single page laid paper inscribed with the first
and last two stanzas of “The Boys,” three
four-line stanzas; old folds, fragmentary along
folds; 9 1/4 x 7 in.
$400-600
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Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Senior (1809-1894)
Signed Poetry Transcription, 5 April 1890.
Single page. Fair copy of the final stanza of
Holmes’s poem, “The Chambered Nautilus,”
that begins: Build thee more stately mansions,
O my Soul,” matted, with engraved portrait, 7
x 4 1/2 in.
$300-500
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Houdini, Harry (1874-1926) Signed Society
of American Magicians Card, c. 1919.
Membership identification card issued to
Elmer Gail Ekman, number 615, valid until
June 1920, with Houdini’s signature as
President, 4 x 2 1/2 in.
[Together with] a receipt for payment of
dues (also issued to Ekman) to the Society
of American Magicians for 1922; and a preprinted postcard sent to the same recipient
regarding a membership drive, September
1921.
$1,500-2,000
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Howe, Richard, Viscount (1729-1814) By
Richard Viscount Howe of the Kingdom
of Ireland, and William Howe, Esq;
General of the King’s Commissioners
for Restoring Peace to His Majesty’s
Colonies and Plantations in North-America.
Proclamation.
[New-York] Printed by Macdonald & Cameron
in Water-Street, between the Coffee-house
and the Old Slip, 30 November 1776.
Typographically printed broadside on laid
paper; mounted, damaged along old folds
with loss of text, some dark discoloration, 15
1/2 x 13 in.
One of a series of threatening broadsides
issued by Howe in July, September, and
November of 1776, trying to induce the
colonists to come back to the British side.
“All persons speedily returning to their just
allegiance were promised a free and general
pardon, and were invited to accept, not
only the blessings of peace, but a secure
enjoyment of their liberty and properties,
upon the true principles of the Constitution,
notwithstanding the said Declarations
[...] several bodies of armed men in open
contempt of His Majesty’s proffered clemency,
do still continue their opposition to the
establishment of legal government and peace
[...] to prolong the unnatural war between
Great Britain and her colonies.”
$8,000-10,000
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Hugo, Victor (1802-1885) Autograph Letter
Signed, 18 June 1874.
Bifolium mourning stationery, inscribed on
one page, with holograph envelope. To a
male recipient at the Bibliotheque Nationale,
authorizing the publication of two extracts.
Old folds, corners of bifolium tacked at the
corners, small fabric tape fragments adhering
to verso of letter and envelope, the letter 8 x
5 in.
This letter was written in while Hugo was in
mourning for his son Francois-Victor, who died
the previous December.
$500-700
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Indenture, Savannah, Georgia, 13 August
1773.
Large format two page document on paper,
with two smaller sheets appended, signed and
sealed. concerning an Indian trading business
owned by James Jackson and Andrew
McLean, and transfer of the ownership of
that business, with a delineation of its assets,
including enslaved people. Old folds, tears
and breaks along folds, old repairs on verso,
delicate, 21 1/2 x 15 1/4 in.
$200-300
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Isabella, Queen of Spain (1451-1504)
Document Signed, December 1501.
Single page document on paper. With “La
Reyna” at the top, signed “Yo la Reyna.”
Docketed on the verso, old folds, some light
foxing and ink penetration to the sheet, two
glassine repairs on verso, 8 1/2 x 11 in.
$3,000-4,000
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Johnson, Andrew (1808-1875) Signed
Military Commission, 1867.
Parchment document engraved and fulfilled
by hand, appointing Eugene A. Woodruff
(d. 1873) first lieutenant in the Corps of
Engineers, with navy blue seal, countersigned
by Edwin McMasters Stanton (1814-1866),
old folds, slight losses along folds, with the
original mailing envelope, 19 1/2 x 15 3/4 in.
$400-600
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Jones, Anson (1798-1858) Document
Signed, Texas Land Deed, 14 February
1845.
Pre-printed land deed on parchment, sealed,
signed by Jones as President of Texas and
countersigned by Thomas William “Peg Leg”
Ward (1807-1872), second commissioner of
the General Land Office, three-time mayor
of Austin. Granting John H. Standish 1,280
acres of land in Colorado County, docketed
on the verso, with embossed stamp, and a
finely drawn map of the properties outside
of Columbus, Texas, between the Colorado
River and Skull Creek, on the verso, with
approximately twenty land owners’ properties
identified. Old folds, large brown stain down
the center of the document; Texas seal
detached, 14 1/2 x 16 3/4 in.
$300-500
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Keller, Helen (1880-1968) Signed Photo of
the Augustus Vincent Tack (1870-1949) Oil
Portrait.
Inscribed by Keller in her distinctive
handwriting to Dr. and Mrs. Nicholas Alter,
framed; signed in pencil by Tack on the mat;
rippled, 9 x 6 1/2 in.
$300-500
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Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963)
Academic Hood Worn During Harvard
Commencement, 14 June 1956.
Academic hood with crimson and black
stripes, and purple velvet lining worn by
Kennedy as he delivered the Commencement
address at Harvard University in 1956, with
the tag of Cotrell and Leonard, Albany, New
York, sewed inside.
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Kelvin, Lord William Thomson (1824-1907)
Autograph Letter Signed, 15 October 1900.
Bifolium, Kelvin’s Netherhall Largs., Ayrshire
letter paper, inscribed on two pages, with front
panel of holograph envelope. To Miss Mary
St. John-Mildmay in Milan. Stating that Kelvin
received her letters, passing along regards to
Mary’s uncle, Gisbert Kapp, and wishing him
well in Germany. Blank back of writing paper
with old glue; envelope back trimmed away,
glue remnants on verso of envelope front, 9
x 7 in.
$200-300
Provenance: From the collection of Robert
F. Morey, former U.S. Marshall and Kennedy
aide; sold in these rooms on November 15,
1997.
$6,000-8,000
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and Lyndon B. Johnson (1908-1973)
Approximately 210 Slides.
The slides housed in six aluminum trays, each
in its own cardboard box; including thirty-six
slides from the Kennedy administration, mostly
official photographs including state visits,
family portraits, images of Kennedy and family
on the tarmac, and similar subjects; sixtyseven slides of Kennedy’s funeral procession,
hearse, family at flag-draped coffin, Arlington
National Cemetery, and other related subjects;
thirty-six slides labeled “McKee” taken at
Andrews Air Force Base, documenting an
official event and air show; and seventy-one
slides of Johnson’s inauguration, including
shots of the parade floats, the governors in
attendance, and others from the Johnson
administration, including White House
interiors, and other subjects.
$3,000-4,000
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Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963) Harvard
Commencement Address with Handwritten
Notes, 14 June 1956.
Twenty-six pages, consisting of two complete
carbons of typed drafts of the twelve-page speech
Kennedy delivered, and a third copy of pages five
and six; all but two pages (the two copies of page
eleven) with notes in Kennedy’s hand, including
revisions of the text, additional words, notes to self,
sections crossed out, phrases added, and other
revisionist work; some pages with wear, primarily
the draft Kennedy likely brought with him to the
podium, because it notes the names of the other
honorees and officials seated on the podium on
the day; despite wear (the pages look like they may
have been stepped on in the floorboards of a car),
all pages still legible and sound, 8 x 10 1/2 in. (26)
A review of the published copy of JFK’s address
reveals that the manuscript revisions added to this
draft, which he presumably incorporated into the
speech he delivered, have not been included in the
official record and are not reflected in the transcript
currently available.
Provenance: From the collection of Robert F.
Morey, former U.S. Marshall and Kennedy aide; sold
in these rooms on November 15, 1997.
$6,000-8,000
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Springfield College Commencement
Address Notes, Academic Hood, and
Mortarboard, 10 June 1956.
Two typed sheets, carbons, with one sentence
crossed out and rewritten in Kennedy’s hand,
the remaining portion of the speech crossed
out, 8 x 10 1/2 in.
[Together with] the academic hood and
mortarboard worn by Kennedy during
commencement, the hood in black and
crimson fabric with purple velvet lining, with
Bentley & Simon Inc. tag; mortarboard is
black, size 7 5/8, with tassel, made by E.R.
Moore Company, with their tag.
1997.
$4,000-6,000
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Typed Boston College Commencement
Address with Handwritten Notes; and
Academic Hood, 13 June 1956.
Five typewritten pages, carbons, each with
notes added in Kennedy’s hand in blue
ballpoint ink, including the addition of missing
words, emphasis points, notes to self,
amendments of the typed text, and other
refinements; with a copy of the introduction
that proceeded Kennedy’s address.
[Together with] the academic hood presented
to Kennedy on the occasion of the Boston
College commencement speech, with the tag
of E.F.P. Burns Inc., of Summer Street, Boston
hand-sewn into the collar, and “JK” written on
the tag in ballpoint ink.
Senator Kennedy was awarded an honorary
degree of Doctor of Laws when he presented
this commencement address at Boston
College in 1956, years before his Presidency.
In his remarks, he openly refers to his own
Catholic faith, and that of Boston College and
its students, urging the graduating class to
become involved in politics and governance in
whatever capacity they can.
1997.
$7,000-9,000
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Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963) Typed
Mimeographed Notes for a Speech with
Sections Crossed Out, 13 April 1956.
Six legal-sized sheets, the reproduction of a typed
copy Kennedy had with him in Los Angeles,
California on 13 April 1956, when he delivered
remarks at the Town Hall Luncheon in that
city; with the first paragraph crossed out, one
underlined section at the foot of the first page, and
another at the top of the second page; otherwise
unmarked, 14 x 8 1/2 in.
[Together with] a typed press release, four pages,
14 February 1956, recounting the statement
of Senator Stuart Symington (Democrat,
Missouri) to President Eisenhower, bemoaning
the underfunding of the military; with notes in
Kennedy’s hand on the verso of the last page,
approximately eleven lines, 8 1/2 x 11 in.
Kennedy’s talk in Los Angeles is entitled,
“Colonialism and American Foreign Policy.” He
begins by citing press accounts of growing
anti-American and anti-Western sentiments in
Ceylon, Lebanon, South Africa, Indonesia, Cyprus,
and Algeria, and goes on to tackle the problem
head on. “We fight to keep the world free from
Communist imperialism -- but in doing so we
hamper our efforts, and bring suspicion upon our
motives, by being closely linked with Western
imperialism. [...] We have permitted the reputation
of the United States as a friend of oppressed
people [...] to be hitched to the chariot of the
conqueror; because we have believed we could
have it both ways. [...] If we are to secure the
friendship of the Arab, the African and the Asian,
we cannot hope to accomplish it solely by means
of military pacts and assistance [...] the strength of
our appeal [...] lies in our traditional and deeply felt
philosophy of freedom and independence for all
peoples everywhere.”
Provenance: From the collection of Robert F.
Morey, former U.S. Marshall and Kennedy aide;
sold in these rooms on November 15, 1997.
$1,500-2,500
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Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865) Autograph Note
Signed, 16 October 1861.
Small card with envelope, inscribed on one side,
one corner folded, ink in bottom left corner a little
light, thumbing, 3 3/8 x 2 in.
“Sec. of State please see the Lady and gentleman
bearing this-- A. Lincoln, Oct. 16, 1861.”
$3,000-4,000
51
Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865) Document
Signed, 1 April 1863.
Single sheet of wove paper, partially engraved text
fulfilled by hand. Appointing Charles F. Williams
(1807-1865) Surveyor of Customs for the District
of Salem and Beverly, Massachusetts, signed by
Lincoln in full at the bottom, countersigned by
Treasury Secretary Salmon P. Chase (1808-1873),
with embossed seal, breaking slightly at folds, 16
3/4 x 11 in.
$3,000-4,000
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Lister, Joseph, 1st Baron Lister (1827-1912)
Letter Signed, 18 May 1889.
Single leaf of 12 Park Crescent, Portland
Place stationery, inscribed on one page. To
Charles Meaburn Tatham Esquire (1828-1924)
accepting inclusion on Tatham’s list of patrons.
Some old adhesive to verso, old folds, with
a photogravure portrait by Emery Walker, the
letter 7 x 4 1/2 in.
$100-200
26
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Mary I, Queen of England (1516-1558)
Signed Land Deed with Great Seal, c. 1554.
Single page parchment document, in a formal
secretarial hand, the bottom portion folded
up, in the normal fashion, the seal suspended
from a strip of parchment laced through the
folded portion bearing Mary’s signature, the
seal itself round, of a pale wax with reddish
brown surface, depicting Mary seated on the
throne, flanked by her coat of arms and the
Tudor rose; slightly flattened along Mary’s
knees and hands, approximately 5 inches in
diameter; the document with slight spotting;
housed in a modern archival shadow box
frame, the document 15 x 6 1/2 in., 19 1/2 x
19 1/4 in. overall.
$4,000-6,000
54
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Matisse, Henri (1869-1954) Autograph
Letter Signed, Issy, 1 February 1911.
Bifolium mourning letter paper, inscribed on
three and a half pages. To Auguste Bréal
(1875-1938) reporting his return to Issy, some
photographs, and personal news. Slightly
toned, old folds, 8 3/4 x 7 in.
“I have been back here in Issy since Saturday.
I found the weather here beautiful, but the cold
excessive -however, the sun has not stopped
shining, and for Paris, that is superb. You can
well imagine, everyone has been happy to see
me again. I am delighted that the beautiful
days in Seville cause you to look forward to
the spring. I recall them very well and enjoy
them in recollection. And that Imperio, does
she really dance so very, very well? As well as
Dora? I would have liked to have seen her to
make comparisons. I looked around for new
dances in Madrid, but there were nothing but
commonplace offerings -just as in Barcelona.
I found this latter city quite ugly, in spite of the
magnificent landscape that surrounds it. It is
in Barcelona that I came across the ugliest
house I have ever seen. You cannot imagine
anything so obviously hideous. It made me
think of ‘Le Gran Catalan du Cercel’ which
Barcelona regretted. How different Andalusia
is from all that!”
$1,500-2,000
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Musicians and Composers, Four Signed
Pieces.
Arthur Fiedler (1877-1949) autograph
postcard signed, 29 September 1945; John
Philip Sousa (1854-1932) signed portrait
taken from a periodical, 1922; Aaron Copland
(1900-1990) typed letter signed, 22 October
1969, with accompanying typed envelope;
and Leopold Stokowski (1882-1977) typed
note signed, 7 October 1922, various sizes. (4)
$300-400
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Napoleon Bonaparte I (1769-1821) Letter
Signed, 18 November 1811.
Single sheet of wove paper, inscribed on
one page. To Eugène Rose de Beauharnais
(1781-1824), Napoleon’s stepson, Josephine’s
biological child, and Viceroy of Italy, advising
specific troop movements; some spotting and
foxing, old folds, matted, with a portrait, 9 x
7 1/4 in.
“My Son, looting is increasing in the vicinity
of Rome. Organize as many mobile columns
as necessary-both of Italians and of Frenchtogether with cavalry detachments. Place
active and intelligent officers in charge of these
columns and have them march on the Roman
states. They will be joined with those under
General Miollis’s [Sextius Alexandre François
de Miollis (1759-1828)] command in order
to stop this plunder. Take care of all this with
speed. The Grand Duchess will also send
some mobile columns from Tuscany.”
$1,500-2,000
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Mencken, Henry Louis (1880-1956)
Approximately Fifty Letters Signed, 19211941.
Most letters with their original envelopes,
some handwritten, some typed, including an
invitation to Mencken’s wedding in 1930, all
personal and addressed to pathologist Dr.
Nicholas M. Alter (d. 1970), various sizes;
some with water staining.
Dr. Alter performed surgery on Mencken’s dog
and contributed a short piece that appeared in
the Spring 1969 edition of Menckeniana.
$2,000-2,500
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Mencken, Henry Louis (1880-1956) Signed
Photo, 1920.
Black-and-white photo, signed by the
photographer in pencil and by Mencken in ink,
both on the mat, stain in upper right corner of
mat, framed, 9 x 5 1/2 in.
$300-500
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Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Autograph
Letter Signed, 15 December 1896.
Bifolium Giverny writing paper, inscribed on
two pages. The sheet toned, writing faded,
with a later portrait, 8 1/4 x 6 1/2 in.
$1,000-1,500
60
Peary, Robert Edwin (1856-1920) Typed
Letter Signed, and The North Pole. New
York: Stokes, 1910.
First trade edition, with an autographed
sentiment in Peary’s hand tipped onto the ffep
on his Eagle Island, South Harpswell, Maine,
note paper; with the map; badly water stained.
[Together with] a large frame containing the
following documents: a typed letter signed
9 October 1910 to assistant editor of the
Boston Evening Transcript, Frank L. Welt,
thanking him for a positive review, and
mentioning the autograph currently laid into
the book described above; the typed portion
of the letter faded and very light; with the
accompanying typed envelope, a telegraph
from Peary to Welt, and its envelope; and
a typed letter signed by Ernest W. Roberts
(1858-1924) member of the House of
Representatives from Massachusetts, stating
his tendency to believe that Peary had not
successfully reached the Pole, despite his
claims. (2)
$400-600
63
Puccini, Giacomo (1858-1924) Signed
Photograph, 19 July 1905.
Black-and-white photograph mounted on the
contemporary mat of Studio Bertieri in Turin,
inscribed to Argentine composer, conductor,
and pianist Alberto Williams (1862-1952), the
photograph 7 3/4 x 4 1/4 in.; 12 1/2 x 7 1/2
in. overall.
$5,000-7,000
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Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919)
Autograph Letter Signed, 9 November
1912.
Single folded bifolium, Les Collettes,
Cagnes, inscribed on one page, in French.
To an unnamed male recipient, extending
an invitation to stay chez Renoir, noting that
the artist had a bout of pneumonia, and
mentioning that he has much to say, although
it is difficult for him to write. Toned, with a few
minor smudges, old fold, 6 3/4 x 4 1/4 in.
This letter was composed in Renoir’s latter
years, after his stroke.
$2,000-2,500
65
Resnik, Judith A. (1949-1986) Signed NASA
Photograph.
Full color photograph of Resnik wearing a blue
NASA jumpsuit with a model of the Space
Shuttle in the background, inscribed in top left
corner to Steve and Jacquelyn in black felt-tip
marker; with printed biography and NASA
branding on verso, 8 x 10 in.
NASA Mission Specialist Resnik died tragically
on the Space Shuttle Challenger. She was the
second woman and the first American Jewish
astronaut to travel in space.
$100-150
64
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Perpetual Almanack. Portland, Maine: G.
Goold, 1805.
Engraved broadside with tables to allow the
calculation of the day, week, and month in
any year to come, framed, the sheet toned,
stained, torn with loss at the top (repaired), 14
x 19 in.
$150-250
62
Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973) Signed
Exhibition Catalog.
Title page signed by Picasso in red colored
pencil, with added spiral designs in blue,
green, yellow, and red colored pencil
decorating the title page: Picasso 1966-1967,
Saidenberg Gallery, Madison Avenue, New
York; December 11, 1967–January 31, 1968;
small square-format catalog illustrated with
twenty-nine plates of Picasso’s works printed
in black and white and color; original printed
paper wrappers, saddle-stitched, 6 1/4 x 6
1/4 in.
$400-600
66
Revolutionary War, Four Documents.
Including a receipt from the state of
Massachusetts with an engraved Paul Revere
border, dated 1 December 1777, obliging
to re-pay Joanna Alford the ten pounds she
gave to the state by 1 March 1781, signed by
Massachusetts Treasurer Henry Gardner; and
three other American documents of the same
era. (4)
$300-500
67
Rodin, Auguste (1840-1917) Autograph
Note Signed, undated.
Bifolium letter paper, inscribed on one page.
To an unnamed female recipient, accepting
an invitation. Reverse mat burn to letter, slight
spotting, 7 x 4 1/2 in.
$300-500
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Roosevelt, Franklin Delano (1882-1945)
Archive Containing One Presidential Typed
Letter Signed and Signed Material Related
to Members of his Presidential Cabinet.
Letter signed by F.D.R. on Navy Department
letterhead, 3 May 1919, to James Jackson
of Boston, regarding logistics of meeting;
and typed letter signed and typed letter with
rubber stamped signature of Secretary of
State Cordell Hull (1871-1955); card signed
by Vice President John Nance Garner
(1868-1967); signed card and typed letter
signed by Secretary of War Henry Woodring
(1890-1967); typed letter signed by Attorney
General Homer Stille Cummings (1870-1956);
card signed by Secretary of State James
Francis Byrnes (1882-1972); and card signed
by Attorney General Francis Beverley Biddle
(1886-1968).
$200-300
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Ruth, George Herman “Babe” Jr. (18951948) Autographed Olympiad Stamp, 1932.
Five-cent postage stamp with Ruth’s
autograph, 1 x 3/4 in.
$1,500-2,000
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Spectacle Island, Boston Harbor, Land
Deed: 1684 and Hand Drawn Chart: 1703.
Large handwritten deed on laid paper
30 April 1684, signed and sealed by four
Native Americans: Josiah (sometimes called
Charles Josiah Wompatuck), son of Josiah
also called Wompatuck, late Sachem of the
Massachusetts Country; William Ahoton
Senior; William Ahoton Junior; and Robert
Mamentaug; selling the island for “a valuable
consideration of money” to Samuel Bill (c.
1654-1705) a butcher of Boston; the Indian
signatures witnessed by William Stoughton;
the original document signed by George
Minott and Experience Fisher; the sheet toned,
with marginal chips, spotting, professional
repairs along splitting folds and holes on
verso, 18 3/4 x 12 3/4 in.
[Together with] Manuscript map of Spectacle
Island, in pencil and brown ink on laid paper,
with a compass rose, a scale of sixty poles
or rods, and a hand-drawn cartouche citing
Samuel Bill as the owner, dated 1703; with
trees drawn on both parts of the island, and
two buildings on the northernmost portion of
the island: a house and a barn; with a note
stating that the whole island is thirty-eight
acres; the chart made up of three sheets of
paper pasted together, staining, spotting,
fragmentary along folds, chipped; splits along
folds archivally repaired on verso, remnants of
sealing wax on verso, 18 1/4 x 13 1/2 in.
$2,000-3,000
71
Stoker, Bram (1847-1912) Autograph Letter
Signed, 20 October 1889.
Bifolium folded Lyceum Theatre writing
paper, inscribed on one page. To the Cassell
publishers accepting the terms for their
publication of the souvenir of The Dead Heart,
on behalf of Henry Irving (1838-1905). Old
folds, some signs of handling along folds,
mounted in a mat by cloth tape, 8 x 5 in.
$225-325
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Toombs, Robert Augustus (1810-1885)
Autograph Letter Signed, Washington,
Georgia, 7 March 1870.
Lined wove paper bifolium, inscribed on three
pages. To an unnamed “Captain” discussing
the particulars of the resolution of a legal issue
concerning some land in Texas. Old folds,
short tears along folds, outer blank page with
discolorations, 8 x 5 in.
$250-350
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Swinburne, Algernon (1837-1909)
Autograph Letter Signed, 19 August 1902.
Bifolium writing paper, inscribed on one
page. To a Mr. Kilton, thanking him for the
gift of a Life of Dickens, and hoping that the
correspondent will like Swinburne’s article.
Reverse mat burn, fold, 7 x 4 1/2 in.
Swinburne’s article, “Charles Dickens,”
appeared in the July 1902 issue of the
Quarterly Review.
$225-325
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Travel Journal, 1865.
Quarto journal, written by hand in English
on ruled paper, ownership inscription of
William H. Allen, 69 Grove Street, New
Haven, Connecticut on ffep; recounting a
journey from Panama to Central America
in 1865, the trip departing from New York,
and including stops in Guatemala, a voyage
of 7,000 miles, that took three months and
fourteen days to complete; the journal writer
returned to the States on Wednesday, April
26, 1865, and mentions being informed of
Lincoln’s assassination, “the announcement
of the surrender of Lee’s army, otherwise so
important, was hardly noticed in view of the
great calamity”; inscribed over approximately
120 pages, contemporary half leather,
marbled paper boards, 7 3/4 x 6 3/4 in.
$300-500
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Tissot, James (1836-1902) Autograph
Letter Signed, undated.
Single page, inscribed on Tissot’s personal
stationery. To an unnamed male recipient
regretting that his correspondent could not
see the picture while in London, and asking
whether it would be better to wait or to send it
along. Lightly toned, 4 1/2 x 7 in.
$200-300
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Washington, George (1732-1799)
Autograph Receipt Signed, Philadelphia,
June 1787.
Single page of laid paper inscribed on one
side. Stating that Washington received a
draught of financier and Founding Father
Robert Morris, Jr. (1734-1806) from Virginia
politician Doctor David Stuart (1753-1814) for
1,401 and 60/90th of a dollar from the annuity
due to him from the estate of Parke Custis,
deceased. The sheet lightly toned, with old
folds, notes on verso, 7 1/4 x 4 1/2 in.
Bartholomew Dandridge, Martha Washington’s
brother, had been in charge of the late John
Parke Custis’s (1753-1814) estate until his
own death in April 1785, when Stuart, who
had married Custis’s widow, Eleanor Calvert
Custis (1758-1811), took over. Washington
was in Philadelphia for the Constitutional
Convention in June of 1787. On 5 May 1787,
Washington writes to Stuart. “On Monday
after an early dinner, or on Tuesday morning,
I shall commence my journey to Philadelphia.
It would therefore suit me very well to receive
the Sum mentioned when you were here
last, at that place; and probably as you are
going to Richmond, it may be so ordered.
Alexanders Bills on Mr. Morris would answer
well--doubtfull Bills, or Bills which would be
accompanied with delay, would by no means
suit me, because the money would be applied
1st towards paying a debt there--and 2d in
the purchase of some Goods for the family, if I
can get them cheap there.”
Morris was a signer of the Declaration of
Independence, the Articles of Confederation,
and the United States Constitution; he
contributed vast sums of his own money in
support of the American Revolution and the
fledgling American government.
This receipt was collected at Dr. David Stuart’s
former Virginia plantation home, Hope Park,
during the Civil War by Pennsylvania Cavalry
Volunteer Captain Martin L. Stone, likely in late
summer of 1862 while he was on picket duty.
Family documents from Stone’s descendants
relate that Stone entered the home and
found the library floor scattered with papers.
He picked up two receipts on that day, one
signed by George, the other signed by Martha
Washington.
$4,000-6,000
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Washington, George (1732-1799) Engraved
Presidential Invitation c. 1790, Unsigned.
Unfulfilled printed invitation, mounted and
framed, 4 1/2 x 3 in.
“The President of the United States and
Mrs. Washington, request the Pleasure of. . .
Company to Dine, on. . . next, at. . . o’Clock. . .
179. . . An Answer is requested.”
$400-600
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Washington, Martha (1731-1802) Signed
Receipt, 17 April 1800.
Single piece of laid paper, inscribed on one
side. Signed by Martha upon receipt of 435
pounds from Dr. David Stuart (1753-1814)
“in full for the annuity due me for the 1799.”
The sheet browned, old folds, a rectangular
section in the bottom left corner detached
along fold lines, some fragmentary writing on
verso, 7 1/2 x 3 in.
This receipt was collected at Dr. David Stuart’s
former Virginia plantation home, Hope Park,
during the Civil War by Pennsylvania Cavalry
Volunteer Captain Martin L. Stone, likely in late
summer of 1862 while he was on picket duty.
Family documents from Stone’s descendants
relate that Stone entered the home and
found the library floor scattered with papers.
He picked up two receipts on that day, one
signed by George, the other signed by Martha
Washington.
$4,000-6,000
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Whistler, James Abbot McNeill (1834-1903)
Autograph Note with Butterfly Signature
and Holograph Envelope, 7 September
1886.
Single embossed card, Beaufort Grill Club,
inscribed on both sides. To Edward HeronAllen (1861-1943) accepting an invitation and
referring to a letter Whistler wrote to Henry
Labouchere (1831-1912) that was published
in the periodical Truth. Signs of handling and
old adhesive, the note toned, with some old
labels on one edge, light reverse mat burn, 3
1/2 x 4 1/2 in.
Whistler addressed a letter to Labouchere,
editor of Truth, critical of the latter’s opinions
on fine art. When published (2 September
1886), Whistler’s use of the word “Sapeur,”
was misspelled as “Sapem,” a nonsense
word, to which typographical error he alludes
in this short letter. The entire exchange is
recounted and detailed in Whistler’s The
Gentle Art of Making Enemies, 1890, pp.
169-172.
$500-700
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Whitman, Walt (1819-1892) Signed
Photograph, 1871. New York: V.W. Horton for
J. Gurney & Son, 1871.
Albumen photograph, signed and dated in
the right margin, mounted, the end of the “n”
in Whitman trailing from the surface of the
photograph onto the mount; 7 1/2 x 5 3/4 in.
$1,000-1,200
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Wright, Frank Lloyd (1867-1959) Signed
Check, 18 November 1947.
Perforated Wright Foundation Check, drawn
on the Farmer’s State Bank of Spring Green,
Wisconsin, printed in red and black, typed,
with Wright’s signature at the bottom. To
Commonwealth Telephone Co., for $14.37;
tape discoloration to top margin, 8 x 3 1/2 in.
$300-500
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Books
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19th Century Plates Books, Three Titles in
Five Volumes.
Sir Walter Scott’s Provincial Antiquities and
Picturesque Scenery of Scotland, London:
Arch, 1826, in two volumes, full-page
illustrations throughout, small folio, bound
in uniform half morocco, worn; Rudolf von
Osterreich’s Eine Orientreise, Vienna: Hof,
1884, folio, in publisher’s cloth, damaged,
staining and foxing to contents, fine
etchings throughout; [and] Cesar Daly’s
Motifs Historiques: Decorations Exterieures
Empruntees a des Monuments Francais,
Paris: Daly, 1881, in two volumes, large folio,
half red morocco, hundreds of engravings
throughout both volumes. (5)
$300-500
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African American History, Six Titles in
Seven Volumes.
William Hannibal Thomas’s The American
Negro, New York: Macmillan, 1901, octavo,
publisher’s brown cloth; I Garland Penn’s
The Afro-American Press and its Editors,
Springfield, Massachusetts: Willey, 1891,
octavo, illustrated, bound in publisher’s
ochre cloth, stamped in red and black, worn,
folding facsimile plate torn; Marsh’s The
Story of the Jubilee Singers, London: Hodder
& Stoughton, 1886, octavo, in publisher’s
dark blue cloth, stamped in black and gold;
John G. Van Deusen’s The Black Man in
White America, Washington, D.C.: Associate
Publishers, 1938, signed by the author on
the title, large octavo, green publisher’s cloth;
Durham & Jones’ The Negro Cowboys, New
York: Dodd, Mead, & Co., [1965], octavo, in
publisher’s binding and original dust jacket;
[and] The Anti-Slavery Papers of James
Russell Lowell, Boston & New York: Houghton
Mifflin, 1902, limited edition, one of 500
copies, two octavo volumes, designed by
Bruce Rogers, in publisher’s gray cloth. (7)
$200-300
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Alberti, Leon Battista (1404-1472)
L’Architecture et Art de Bien Bastir. Paris:
by Robert Massellin for Jacques Kerver, 1553.
First French edition, folio, translation by Jean
Martin, title page printed within elaborate
woodcut compartment incorporating Kerver’s
initials at the top; illustrated with woodcuts
throughout, woodcut portrait of Alberti on
verso of title; large woodcut printer’s device of
unicorn on verso of last leaf; some thumbing,
slight chipping, and minor water stains; bound
in full 17th century French sponge-decorated
sheepskin; decased, covers heavily worn, 13
1/2 x 9 in.
$2,000-2,500
85
Alexander, William (1767-1816) Picturesque
Representations of the Dress and Manners
of the Turks. London: [by Bulmer] for John
Murray, 1814.
Octavo, illustrated with sixty hand-colored
plates, bound in full contemporary straightgrained morocco, a.e.g., with pink endleaves,
joints rubbed, some spotting to contents, 9 x
6 1/4 in.
$600-800
86
Allom, Thomas (1804-1872) China its
Scenery, Architecture, Social Habits, &c.
Illustrated. London: H. Fisher & Son, 1843.
Three volumes bound as one, general title
only, illustrated with approximately eighty-nine
steel engravings, later half leather and marbled
paper boards, spotting to contents, 10 3/4 x
8 in.
$300-500
87
Andreae, Jakob (1528-1590) Colloquium
Mompelgartense. Tubingen: Gruppenbach,
1587.
First German edition of Andreae’s account
of the Colloquy of Montbeliard, text in fraktur
throughout, in contemporary blind tooled
alum-tawed pigskin over wooden boards,
hardware removed, binding damaged, 7 3/4
x 6 in.
Andreae and Theodore Beza led the Colloquy,
which served as a forum for theological
debates between Calvinist and Lutheran
theologians.
$400-600
88
Angling, Two 18th Century English Titles.
Robert Brookes’s Art of Angling; London: for T.
Lowndes, 1774, with frontispiece, rebound in
full modern red morocco, in custom slipcase;
[and] The Angler’s Vade Mecum, London: for
Battersby and Brown, 1700, in full modern calf
and custom case; both volumes octavo. (2)
$150-250
89
Annual Report of the Croton Aqueduct
Department, Signed Presentation Copy
to Samuel F.B. Morse. New York: Edmund
Jones & Co., 1863.
Inscribed by Myndert Van Schaick
(1782-1865) President of the Board of
Commissioners of the Croton Aqueduct
Department to Morse (1791-1872); first
edition, octavo, in a presentation binding, with
Morse’s name tooled in gilt on the front board,
illustrated, with four tinted folding lithographs,
8 3/4 x 5 1/2 in.
$200-300
84
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Artistophanes (c. 446-c. 386 BC) Lysistrata,
Illustrated and Signed by Pablo Picasso.
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1934.
Limited edition, copy number 1,197 of 1,500;
signed by Picasso on the limitation page,
bound in full red morocco by Bayntun Riviere,
tooled in gilt, inner gilt dentelles, a.e.g., with
the original soft covers bound in at the back,
in a custom slipcase; some thumbing and
slight foxing, 11 x 8 3/4 in.
$5,000-7,000
91
Audubon, John James (1785-1851) and
Reverend John Bachman (1790-1874) The
Quadrupeds of North America. New York:
Published by V.G. Audubon, 1854.
Three octavo volumes, illustrated with 155
full-page color lithographic plates; the plates
in volume one variously signed, some reading,
“Drawn on Stone by Wm. E. Hitchcock” and
“Lith. Printed & Col[ore]d. by J.T. Bowen,
Philadelphia,” others signed, “Drawn on
Stone by R. Trembly” and “Printed by Nagel
& Weingaertner NY,” and others with the
latter imprint, “Colored by J. Lawrence”;
volumes two and three with Hitchcock/Bowen
plates; half-titles present in volumes one
and two; imprint date in volume one with the
typographical error: M DCCC LIVI; volume
three undated; index leaves in volume one
with marginal staining; plate 141, American
Black Bear, with one blank corner torn away,
the torn piece present, tucked into the gutter;
the set uniformly bound in publisher’s pebbled
brown sheepskin, elaborately blocked in blind
with titles within ornate borders, spine lettered
in gilt; a.e.g., the set structurally intact, lightly
rubbed, 10 1/2 x 7 in. (3)
$4,000-6,000
90
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Quadrupeds of North America. New York:
Published by V.G. Audubon, 1854.
Three octavo volumes, illustrated with 155
full-page color lithographic plates; the plates
in volume one variously signed, some reading,
“Drawn on Stone by Wm. E. Hitchcock” and
“Lith. Printed & Col[ore]d. by J.T. Bowen,
Philadelphia,” others signed, “Drawn on
Stone by R. Trembly” and “Printed by Nagel &
Weingaertner NY,” and others with the latter
imprint, “Colored by J. Lawrence”; volumes
two and three with Hitchcock/Bowen plates;
half-titles present in all three volumes, no
tissue guards throughout, list of subscribers
in volume two only; quite clean, bound in later
half crushed dark brown morocco and cloth,
a.e.g., 10 1/4 x 6 1/2 in. (3)
$3,000-5,000
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Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America.
New York: by J.J Audubon and V.G. Audubon,
1845-1851. Three imperial folio atlas volumes
and three octavo text volumes.
Atlas volumes illustrated with 150 handcolored lithographs of the four-footed
mammals of North America (fifty in each
volume), first edition, with the title page for
volume three present; the three bound in
uniform half red morocco and corners with
gray buckram sides, 27 1/4 x 20 3/4 in.
Text volumes bound in uniform gray buckram,
volume two title page inscribed by Victor
Gifford Audubon (1809-1860) to a Dr. A.V.
Williams; half-title present in volume one; title
page of volume three replaced by another
title page for volume one, the volume number
changed by hand; marginal water stains to
volume one, 11 x 7 1/4 in. (6)
One of the most notable and successful
American illustrated book projects of the
19th century, this copy of the Viviparous
Quadrupeds is complete as issued with all
150 hand-colored lithographs. The illustrations
were based on John James and John
Woodhouse Audubon’s original paintings,
sketches, and notes taken in the field. The
atlas volumes are bound in three, with
separate title pages for each; later editions
were bound up in two, with inferior coloring,
and without the title-page for volume three.
The Quadrupeds expedition and publishing
project were funded with profits from The
Birds of America. Printed by subscription
and produced entirely in the United States,
Audubon employed color lithography for
the images, a relatively new technology that
he felt would most accurately represent the
subject animals, without costing as much as
the hand-colored copper-plate engravings
he used in The Birds. Audubon the father
contributed seventy-seven drawings himself.
The remaining art was executed by his sons,
John Woodhouse and Victor Gifford, as their
father’s infirmities made his full participation
impossible. The Reverend John Bachman
composed the material for the text volumes,
describing each animal and its habits in great
detail. The Quadrupeds originally appeared in
thirty numbers: ten dollars for five plates.
Provenance: Property of an independent
Audubon Society.
$200,000-300,000
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Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Ornithological
Biography, with the Prospectus for The Birds
of America. Philadelphia: Judah Dobson and H.H.
Porter, 1831.
First American edition, octavo, with Audubon’s
prospectus for The Birds of America at the end,
including an early subscriber list; ex library copy, in
contemporary half red morocco, cloth boards, worn,
printed on inferior paper, as usual, 9 3/4 x 6 in.
Audubon published the text for The Birds of America
in this country to secure the U.S. copyright for the
material.
$700-900
95
Audubon, John James (1785-1851) The Birds of
America, Abbeville Press Facsimile. New York:
Abbeville Press, 1985.
Four atlas portfolio volumes containing 435 double
elephant folio unbound color plates; seven octavo
text volumes bound in the original green leather
gilt; consisting of: a facsimile edition of Audubon’s
1831-1849 Ornithological Biography, in five volumes;
a facsimile edition of Waldemar H. Fries’s 1973 The
Double Elephant Folio; and Roger Tory and Virginia
Marie Peterson’s Commentaries on Audubon’s Birds
of America.
[Together with] The Audubon Society Baby Elephant
Folio Audubon’s Birds of America, edited by Roger
Tory Peterson and Virginia Marie Peterson, New
York: Abbeville Press, [1981], illustrated in color
throughout, bound in half leather, buckram boards, in
the original illustrated publisher’s slipcase.
This limited edition full-size facsimile with fullcolor reproductions of the complete set of original
ornithological illustrations is one of 350 sets printed;
it is a reproduction of the National Audubon Society
copy.
$6,000-8,000
95
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Audubon, John James (1785-1851) The
Birds of America. New York: J.J. Audubon
[and] Philadelphia: J.B. Chevalier, 1840-1844.
First octavo edition, in seven volumes,
illustrated throughout with 500 hand-colored
lithographs after Audubon’s drawings, printed
in color in Philadelphia by Bowen, portrait of
Audubon inserted in volume one; half-titles
and subscribers’ lists present in each
volume; tissue guards present throughout;
occasional spotting most noticeably in volume
two; plate 341 trimmed close with loss of a
wing tip; the set bound in uniform blue half
morocco by Stikeman & Co., a.e.g., spines
faded, rubbed, and other wear, 10 1/8 x 6 1/4
in. (7)
$30,000-35,000
41
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Birds of America. New York: V.G. Audubon,
1856.
Second octavo edition, in seven volumes,
illustrated throughout with 500 colored
lithographs after Audubon’s drawings, plates
printed in Philadelphia by Bowen; notice of
works by Audubon available for sale through
C.S. Francis inserted in volume one; bound
in full uniform publisher’s sheep over beveled
boards, boards blind block-stamped with titles
within ornate compartments; a.e.g.; bindings
rubbed, joints, heads and tails intact; water
stain to title in volume one, continuing to
about page thirteen; occasional reinforcement
of margins to several leaves throughout the
set; some spotting and staining to contents;
tissue guards present throughout; half titles in
volumes one through five; no subscriber lists;
10 1/2 x 6 1/2 in. (7)
$10,000-12,000
42
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Back, George, Sir (1796-1878) Narrative of
the Arctic Land Expedition to the Mouth of
the Great Fish River. London: Murray, 1836.
First edition, octavo, illustrated with folding
map and sixteen plates, in later buckram,
spotting, 8 1/2 x 5 in.
$300-500
99
Bacon, Sir Francis (1561-1626) The
Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall,
Newly Enlarged. London: by John Haviland
for Hanna Barret, and Richard Whitaker, 1625.
First complete edition, with title-page bearing
the Barret and Whitaker imprint and the words
“newly enlarged,” this twelfth edition is the
first complete edition and the last to appear
in Bacon’s lifetime; quarto, ex libris Thomas
Dawes Jr. (1757-1809), in later half leather,
a.e.g.; trimmed down, with marginal loss of
printed borders, 6 3/4 x 5 in.
$800-1,200
99
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102
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100
Bay Psalm Book, The Psalms Hymns,
and Spiritual Songs of the Old & NewTestament: faithfully translated into
English meeter for the use, edification and
comfort of the saints in publick and private,
especially in New-England. Boston: Printed
by B. Green, for Benjamin Eliot, and Nicholas
Boone. Sold at their shops, 1705.
Twelfth edition, 16mo, A-Q12, lacking A1: the
title page; 505 numbered pages followed by
seven pages of music; rare, ESTC locates
one copy worldwide, at the University of
Virginia library; bound in full contemporary
paneled sheepskin over scabbard, rolled tool
used inside the central panel on both boards,
with blind-tooled ornaments at the corners,
unrepaired, with the original metal clasp,
marked “SP” inside the catch, decorative
engraving to outer surfaces of each catch
and clasp piece; ex libris Fitchburg Historical
Society, with their withdrawal stamp overlaying
the paper bookplate pasted inside the front
board; some contemporary inscriptions on
pastedowns; small spot where leather was
torn away on front and back boards, the
binding otherwise intact and structurally
functional; text leaves delicate, with marginal
chipping, tears, and losses; some pages torn
with loss, 4 x 2 3/4 in.
The Bay Psalm Book was pressed into
constant use by the colonial religious
population of New England, as a result, all
early copies are worn, rare, or nonexistent.
The seven editions printed in Boston between
1702 and 1716 are represented by a total of
twelve copies only worldwide. The present
copy is a rare survival, in an unsophisticated
contemporary binding, with printed music.
$15,000-20,000
101
Bayle, Pierre (1647-1706) The Dictionary
Historical and Critical of Mr Peter Bayle.
The Second Edition. London: for J.J. and P.
Knapton, D. Midwinter, et al., 1734-1738.
Five folio volumes, titles printed in red and
black, lacking the portrait frontispiece;
bound in uniform 19th century half morocco,
edges vibrantly marbled, these volumes not
collated, some volumes decased or becoming
decased, 14 x 8 1/2 in. (5)
$700-900
102
Beale, Thomas (1807-1849) The Natural
History of the Sperm Whale. London: van
Voorst, 1839.
Second, expanded edition, the one used by
Melville while working on Moby Dick, octavo,
with half-title, illustrated with three full-page
plates, 393 pages, no publisher’s advertising,
bound in full modern leather, elaborately
gilt-tooled; some staining, signs of wear, 7 x
4 1/4 in.
$1,000-1,500
105
103
Bennett, Arnold (1867-1931) Journals
1896-1928, with Three Autograph Letters
Signed by Bennett. New York: Viking Press,
1932-1933.
First edition, three octavo volumes, all in
publisher’s bindings and original dust jackets,
each volume with an autograph letter or note
laid in at the front, 9 1/2 x 6 in. (3)
$350-550
104
Bishop, Elizabeth (1911-1979) North &
South. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1946.
First edition of Bishop’s first book, in
publisher’s blue cloth, with the original dust
jacket, slightly worn, with wear to back, 9 x 5
3/4 in.
$400-600
105
Blue Book, [Directory and Guide to
Prostitutes in the Sporting District of New
Orleans]. [New Orleans: no printer, no date, c.
1905], Tenth edition.
Small octavo, original tan wrappers printed in
blue, text pages printed on coated stock in
red and black, stapled; paper wraps breaking
along joints, old tape repairs, 5 1/2 x 4 1/4 in.
“Why New Orleans should have this directory:
First- Because it is the only district of its kind
in the States set aside for the fast women by
law. Second- Because it puts the stranger on
a proper and safe path as to where he may go
and be free from “Hold Ups,” and any other
game usually practiced upon the stranger.
Third- It regulates the women so that they may
live in one district to themselves instead of
being scattered over the city.”
$800-1,000
45
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106
Blundeville, Thomas (act. 1561) His
Exercises, Containing Eight Treatises.
London: Stansby, 1613.
Quarto, title page lacking (provided in
facsimile), incomplete, not collated, at least
nine other text leaves lacking and supplied in
facsimile, stain on outer corner of final leaves,
bound in modern calf, antique style, 7 1/4 x
5 1/4 in.
$300-500
108
Brookes, Richard (act. 1721-1763) The Art
of Angling, Rock and Sea-Fishing: with
the Natural History of River, Pond, and
Sea-Fish.
London: by and for John Watts, 1740.
First edition, 12mo, illustrated with text
woodcuts, title page printed in red and black,
bound in full modern period-style calf, in a
custom slipcase, 6 1/4 x 3 1/2 in.
$200-300
107
Brooke, Rupert (1887-1915) Two First
Editions.
Poems, London: Sidgwick & Jackson,
Ltd., 1911, first edition, in original dark blue
publisher’s cloth, with paper label on spine,
t.e.g., housed in custom chemise and dark
blue half morocco slipcase, 7 1/4 x 4 3/4 in.
[Together with] 1914 and Other Poems,
London: Sidgwick & Jackson, Ltd., 1915,
first edition, with portrait frontispiece, in the
original publisher’s printed dust jacket, bound
in full dark blue publisher’s cloth, bright paper
label on spine; housed in buckram chemise
and custom half blue morocco slipcase,
dust jacket toned, with surface wear, small
hole, slight losses at corners; some foxing to
endleaves, 7 1/2 x 5 in.
$2,500-3,000
109
Four First Editions.
The Seraphim, London: Saunders & Otley,
1838, octavo, in publisher’s violet cloth,
partially sun faded; Poems, London: Edward
Moxon, 1844; in two octavo volumes, in green
publisher’s cloth; Poems before Congress,
London: Chapman & Hall, 1860, octavo, red
publisher’s cloth, first signature becoming
detached, contemporary pencil notes; Last
Poems, London: Chapman & Hall, 1862,
octavo, bound in publisher’s violet cloth, spine
faded; sizes of volumes varies; each is housed
in a custom chemise and half morocco case
in leather. (4)
$600-800
46
110
Her Copy of Drummond’s Poems, Signed.
The Poems of William Drummond, of
Hawthornden, London: for J. Jeffery, 1790,
octavo, untrimmed, in boards, with Browning’s
signature in top right corner of title, and a
quote from Michael Drayton in her hand, “And
my dear Drummond to whom much I owe/For
his much love, and proud I was to know,/His
poesy, for which two worthy men,/I Menstry
still shall love, and Hawthorn-den- Drayton to
Reynolds”; front board detached, housed in
custom chemise and slipcase, 6 3/4 x 4 1/4
in.
$1,000-1,500
111
Browning, Robert (1812-1889) Parleyings
with Certain People, Author’s Presentation
Copy, Signed. London: Smith, Elder, & Co.,
1887.
First edition, octavo, inscribed on half-title to
“Miss Emily Harris, with the best regards of
Robert Browning,” bound in publisher’s brick
red cloth, housed in custom chemise and
slipcase, 6 3/4 x 4 in.
[Together with] Men and Women, London:
Chapman and Hall, 1855, first edition, in two
octavo volumes, bound in uniform publisher’s
green blind blocked cloth, 6 3/4 x 4 in. (3)
$1,200-1,500
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112
Browning, Robert (1812-1889) The Ring
and the Book, Author’s Presentation Copy.
London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1872.
Second edition, four octavo volumes,
inscribed on the title page of volume one to
William Harcourt Hooper by Browning 8 March
1885, “with every feeling of admiration for the
ability, and of gratitude for the kindness of
W.H. Hooper, Esq. this is inscribed by Robert
Browning,” with Hooper’s bookplates in each
volume; very good, in publisher’s cloth, gray
coated endleaves, in custom slipcase, 6 3/4
x 4 in. (4)
$1,200-1,800
113
Browning, Robert (1812-1889) Three
Inscribed First Editions, Presentation
Copies.
Pacchiarotto and How He Worked in
Distemper, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1876;
The Agamemnon of Aeschylus, London:
Smith, Elder, & Co., 1877; and La Saisiaz: the
Two Poets of Croisic, London: Smith, Elder,
& Co., 1878; each inscribed by Browning
to Mrs. Charles Skirrow and dated with the
publication date of each volume; bound in
matching red morocco, joints rubbed, housed
in a custom slipcase, each volume octavo, 6
1/2 x 4 in. (3)
$2,000-3,000
114
Burnett, Frances Eliza Hodgson (18491924) Three First Editions.
Sara Crewe or What Happened at Miss
Minchin’s [later titled A Little Princess],
New York: Scribner’s Sons, 1888, quarto,
in publisher’s brown cloth boards, blocked
in red, black, and gold, housed in custom
slipcase; Edith’s Burglar, Boston: Jordan,
Marsh, & Co., 1888, quarto, in publisher’s
brown cloth boards, blocked in black and
gold, housed in custom slipcase; [and] Little
Saint Elizabeth, New York: Scribner’s Sons,
1890, quarto, illustrated, bound in publisher’s
brick red cloth, stamped in black, red, and
gold. (3)
$200-300
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Burton, Richard Francis (1821-1890) First
Footsteps in East Africa; or, an Exploration
of Harar. London: Longman, Brown, Green,
and Longmans, 1856.
Octavo, illustrated with four lithographs (the
first bound as the frontispiece) and two maps;
Appendix IV omitted; without the advertising
leaf at the end; bound in publisher’s full violet
textured cloth, stamped with a gilt cartouche
on the front board with a crocodile and a
giraffe; borders and back board done in blind;
spine blocked in gold, a.e.g., 8 1/2 x 5 1/4 in.
$600-800
48
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Byron, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron
(1788-1824) Marino Faliero. London: [by
Thomas Davison for] Murray, 1821.
First edition, large copy, with half title, and
single page of adverts at end, in contemporary
boards, with later spine, housed in custom
chemise and green half morocco case, 9 x 5
1/2 in.
$200-300
117
Capote, Truman (1924-1984) In Cold Blood,
Signed Copy. New York: Random House,
[post-1965].
Eleventh printing, in publisher’s cloth binding
and dust jacket, signed by Capote on half-title,
8 1/4 x 5 1/2 in.
$200-300
118
Carr, John, Sir (1772-1832) The Stranger in
Ireland. London: Phillips, 1806.
First edition, quarto, illustrated with
frontispiece, folding and full-page illustrations
throughout, water stained, contemporary
leather, boards detached, 10 1/4 x 8 in.
$200-400
119
Carroll, Gladys Hasty (1904-1999) Six
Signed and Inscribed Volumes with a
Collection of Signed Letters.
All six titles variously inscribed and signed
to Earnest Elmo Calkins (1868-1964) a
pioneering advertising executive and deaf
American; with letters, Christmas cards, notes,
and other types of correspondence signed by
Carroll inserted, including the following titles:
One White Star; Sing Out the Glory; West of
the Hill; Only Fifty Years Ago; [all four in original
dust jackets] Neighbor to the Sky; and A Few
Foolish Ones; all octavo. (6)
$300-500
113
120
Catlin, George (1796-1872) Letters and
Notes on the Manners, Customs, and
Condition of the North American Indians.
London: by the Author, by Tosswill & Myers,
1841.
Second edition, two octavo volumes,
illustrated, bound in contemporary half leather,
damaged, large dent to front of volume one,
internal spotting, 9 1/2 x 5 3/4 in. (2)
$300-500
121
Cervantes, Miguel de (1547-1616) The
History of the Most Ingenious Knight
Don Quixote de la Mancha. London: for R.
Chiswell, J. Sprint, et al., 1706.
[Together with] A Continuation of the Comical
History of the Most Ingenious Knight, Don
Quixote, by Alonzo Fernandez de Avellaneda,
London: for Wale and Senex, 1705; three
octavo volumes, illustrated throughout, bound
in uniform calf, rebacked, worn, lacking one
label, not collated, 7 1/4 x 4 1/2 in. (3)
$400-600
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Chalcocondyles, Laonicus [aka: Laonikos
Chalkokondyles] (c. 1430-c. 1470) Histoire Generale
des Turcs. Paris: Cramoisy, 1662 [engraved titles dated
1663].
Two folio volumes, half-titles and added engraved titles
present in each; typographical title pages printed in red
and black, volume one illustrated with twenty engraved
text portraits; volume two illustrated with five text
portraits, a folding woodcut plate of the Turkish army, a
large folding engraving of Constantinople (mounted), and
approximately eighty-one full-page engravings (printed
on text leaves) mainly depicting various characters and
types from the Middle East and North Africa; one plate
defaced with obscene pencil modifications, two torn and
unrepaired, one with a hole, repeat of the Berber woman
in the place where the print of the Persian woman should
be; toning to volume one, intense at times; slight water
stain to part of volume two; bound in full uniform French
speckled calf, gilt-tooled spines; some repairs to spines
and corners, boards rubbed, 14 x 9 in. (2)
This collected edition contains additions to
Chalcocondyles’s original text by Thomas Artus (d. 1614)
and François de Mezeray (1610-1683), bringing the
account up to date. The large number of engravings in
the second volume depicting different religious and ethnic
types are after Nicolas de Nicolay (1517-1583).
$3,000-5,000
50
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Clapin, Sylva (1853-1928) A New Dictionary
of Americanisms. New York: Louis Weiss &
Co., [1902?].
First edition, large octavo, bound in publisher’s
dark brown morocco spine, lettered in gilt and
blind-tooled, red buckram boards, t.e.g., 8 3/4
x 5 3/4 in.
Clapin was a Canadian bookseller and linguist
with a special interest in the way languages
in the New World developed independent of
their European roots. This dictionary includes
much of amusement and interest, for example,
“Choke off. To forcibly obstruct or stop a
person in the execution of a purpose. A slang
and figurative expression, borrowed from the
act of choking a dog to make him loose his
hold,” and “Scoot. In parts of New England,
to move or run away swiftly. To slide or glide;
to dart. No idea of running away, and by no
means limited to persons.” Clapin includes
French Canadian, and Southern terms, and
those used in African American communities.
Provenance: The collection of Percy MacKaye
(1875-1956), by descent to Marion MacKaye
Ober.
$200-300
123
Chastellux, Francois Jean, Marquis de
(1734-1788) Travels in North-America in
the Years 1780, 1781, and 1782. Dublin: for
Mssrs. Colles, et al., 1787.
Two octavo volumes, bound in contemporary
uniform marbled calf; spotting to contents,
volume one with an old rebacking, volume
two with boards detached, these volumes not
collated, 7 3/4 x 4 3/4 in. (2)
$250-350
124
Children’s Books, American, 19th Century,
Three Volumes.
Including: Very Little Tales for Very Little
Children; in Single Syllables of Three and Four
Letters, First Series, Philadelphia & New York:
Appleton, 1844, first American edition, small
square format, with uncolored wood engraved
vignettes, bound in contemporary cloth, spine
perished, boards detached, 5 x 4 in.
[Together with] The American Toilet, New
York: Imbert’s Lithographic Office, [c. 1827],
twenty numbered pages (including the title)
with nineteen flaps revealing moral lessons, all
intact, in original marbled paper wrappers, 4
1/2 x 3 1/2 in.
[And] A series of chapbooks bound together,
with hand-colored illustrations throughout,
printed in Philadelphia: by Morgan and Sons;
Morgan and Yeager; and others, several titles
bound together, engravings printed on one
side only, contemporary half leather, boards
detached, 5 x 4 1/4 in.
$400-600
126
Colman, Benjamin (1673-1747) A Discourse
Had in the College-Hall at Cambridge,
March 27, 1722. Before the Baptism of R.
Judah Monis. Boston: for Daniel Henchman,
1722.
First and only 18th century edition, octavo,
containing four separate discourses, each
with its own title page; bound in later
sheepskin boards; front board detached,
spine fragmentary, last text leaf torn with loss
to bottom corner, affecting eleven lines of text,
spotting and toning to text leaves, 6 1/4 x 3
3/4 in.
Judah Monis (1683-1764) was the first Jewish
person to receive a college degree from a
university in North America, graduating M.A.
from Harvard in 1720. He was subsequently
hired as an instructor in Hebrew at the same
institution, although he was required to
convert to Christianity to do so. He was the
first person to be a professor of Hebrew in
this country, and wrote and published the first
Hebrew grammar textbook in the States.
$3,000-5,000
51
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127
Cooper, James Fenimore (1789-1851) The
Last of the Mohicans; a Narrative of 1757.
Philadelphia: Carey & Lea, 1826.
First edition, octavo, two volumes bound as
one; pages 275 through 282 in volume one
supplied from a smaller copy; lacking blanks
at end of volume one and beginning of volume
two and title page to volume two, which
begins with chapter one; page number vii in
volume one marked vi; page number present
on page 71; page 89 misnumbered 93; page
243 chapter XVI is misnumbered XIV; last leaf
of volume two mutilated at the gutter and
amateurishly repaired, bound in half leather
and boards; text not collated, 6 3/4 x 4 in.
$600-800
128
Craig, Edward Gordon (1872-1966) On the
Art of the Theatre, Signed First Edition.
Chicago: Browne’s Bookstore [London:
Heinemann, 1911].
Large quarto, first edition, signed by Craig
on the limitation page, copy number 68 of
the 75 copies for sale in the United States,
inscribed by bookseller Waldo R. Browne to
Percy MacKaye on ffep, with an original blackand-white photograph of Craig [?] pasted
on the following preliminary blank; bound
in publisher’s half vellum and brown paper
boards, dirty, gouge to edge of back board, 9
3/4 x 7 1/4 in.
[Together with] Craig’s The Art of the Theatre,
Edinburgh & London: Foulis, 1905, in
publisher’s black cloth, lettered in gilt, ex libris
Percy MacKaye, with his signature on linen
endleaf, 8 1/2 x 6 3/4 in.
[and] two unopened copies of A Living
Theatre, Florence, 1913, both in the original
orange wrappers, 9 x 6 1/4 in. (4)
Ober.
$300-500
52
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Cruikshank, George (1792-1878) Greenwich
Hospital, a Series of Naval Sketches.
London: by James Robins, 1826.
Large quarto, illustrated with hand-colored
plates, bound in full crushed green morocco
by Riviere, a.e.g., custom slipcase, 11 x 8
3/4 in.
$200-300
130
Dapper, Olfert (1636-1689) Description
Exacte des Isles de L’Archipel et de
Quelques Autres Adjacentes; dont les
Principales sont Chypre, Rhodes, Candie,
Samos, Chio, Negrepont, Lemnos, Paros,
Delos, Patmos, avec un Grand Nombre
d’autres. Amsterdam: George Gallet, 1703.
First French edition, folio, with half-title, added
engraved title, title page printed in red and
black, illustrated with thirty-four engraved
plates extraneous to the text (some folding)
and approximately forty-three text engravings,
bound in full contemporary sponge-decorate
calf, gilt spine, all edges red; somewhat worn,
structurally sound, contents generally good,
14 1/4 x 9 in.
$3,000-5,000
131
Dartmouth College v. Woodward. Report
of the Case of the Trustees of Dartmouth
College against William H. Woodward.
Portsmouth, New Hampshire: by John Foster
and West, Richardson & Lord, 1819.
First edition, octavo, in boards, untrimmed, 9
x 5 1/2 in. [and] another copy, in half calf with
marbled boards. (2)
Prepared by Timothy Farrar, Jr. (1788-1874)
this case is one of the most important
Supreme Court rulings, strengthening the
Contract Clause and limiting the power of
the states to interfere with private charters,
including those of commercial enterprises.
$200-400
132
Decorative Bindings, English Literature,
Sets, Twenty-nine Volumes.
Late 19th and early 20th century imprints, in
full and half-leather bindings, spines decorated
in gilt, including Clarendon’s History of the
Rebellion, Oxford, 1849, in seven volumes,
bound in full red morocco; Collected Poems of
Arthur Upson, 1909; Riston’s Ancient English
Metrical Romances, 1885, and others, various
formats, occupying approximately 3 feet of
shelf space. (29)
$400-600
133
Decorative Bindings, Fifty-five Volumes,
William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863)
The Works. London: Smith, Elder, & Co.,
1879.
Limited edition set, one of 1,000 printed,
bound in uniform half dark green morocco,
t.e.g., in good shape, 10 1/4 x 7 1/4 in. each;
occupying approximately 5 1/2 feet of shelf
space. (55)
$400-600
134
Decorative Bindings, Sets, Works in
French, Thirty-five Volumes.
An assortment of French works mostly from
the late 19th and early 20th century in full and
half-leather bindings, tooled in gilt, in good
condition, including works by Guizot, Balzac,
Flaubert, Fontaine, Guy de Maupassant, and
others, various sizes, occupying approximately
3 1/2 feet of shelf space. (35)
$400-600
135
Decorative Bindings, Sets, Works of John
Fiske in Twenty-four Volumes. Cambridge:
Riverside Press, 1902.
Octavo volumes, limited edition set number
214 of 1,000 copies printed; uniformly bound
in half red polished morocco with attractive
gilt tooling on spines; appearance is good
from spines, some water damage to a
board or two, 8 3/4 x 5 3/4 in., occupying
approximately 3 feet of shelf space. (24)
$300-500
136
Decorative Bindings, Shakespeare, Fifteen
Volumes.
The Plays of William Shakespeare in Fifteen
Volumes, edited by Samuel Johnson and
George Steevens, fourth edition, London:
Longman et al., 1793, one of twenty-five fine
paper copies extra-illustrated with engravings
published by E. and S. Harding; octavo
volumes bound in uniform contemporary full
dark blue straight-grained morocco, a.e.g.,
spines ruled and lettered in gilt; bindings
rubbed, with some chips to heads and tails, 8
1/2 x 5 1/4 in. occupying approximately 2 1/2
feet of shelf space. (15)
$400-600
137
Delacroix, Henry (1907-1974) and A.
Lezine (fl. circa 1930) Boutiques 2. Paris:
Bonadona, (c. 1930).
Oblong folio, title, introduction, and forty-eight
of forty-nine numbered plates, twenty-nine
of which are enhanced with color pochoir
printing; plate number 32 is lacking; all
contents loose separate sheets housed in the
publisher’s portfolio, titled in raised red letters
on a textured cream-colored paper; spine
perished, ties intact, toning to paper covering,
top outside corner of back board damaged,
12 3/4 x 9 3/4 in.
[Together with] Herbst, Rene (1891-1982)
Devantures Vitrines Installations de Magasins
a L’Exposition Internationale des Arts
Decoratifs, Paris: Moreau, 1925, oblong folio,
illustrated with sixty-seven photographic
plates of modernist Parisian Art Nouveau store
fronts and interiors, plates numbered 1-54,
(the same number used for two different plates
on thirteen occasions), title printed in red and
black, conjugate with contents, all illustrations
on separate sheets, loose, housed in original
boards, spine and ties perished, chipping to
contents, 12 3/4 x 10 in. (2)
$900-1,200
138
Dickens, Charles (1812-1870) A Christmas
Carol. London: Chapman & Hall, 1843.
First edition, first issue, with “Stave I” on the
first page of text, illustrated with four fullpage hand-colored illustrations and four text
vignettes by John Leech; lacking half-title;
with green endleaves, bound in publisher’s
terracotta ribbed cloth, stamped in gold
on front board and spine, with blind tooled
borders to both boards, a.e.g.; the binding
slightly cocked, with some discoloration to
boards, scribble inside back board, thumbing
to text leaves, contemporary signature of
Augustus Jocelyn to title; ex libris Adelaide
Livingstone, with her bookplate by Rex
Whistler pasted inside the front board, in a
custom red half calf case, 6 1/2 x 4 in.
$2,000-2,500
139
Dionysius of Halicarnassus (c. 60 BCafter 7 BC) Responsio ad Gn. Pompeii
epistolam, in qua ille de reprehenso ab
eo Platonis stylo conquerebatur. Eiusdem
ad Ammaeum epistola. Paris: Charles
Stephanus, 1554.
Small octavo, printer’s device on title, text in
Greek, with some marginal notes in Greek,
lacking final ?blank, in modern buff morocco,
gilt-tooled, 6 1/4 x 3 3/4 in.
$300-400
53
140
Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge [aka] Lewis
Carroll (1832-1898) Alice’s Adventures in
Wonderland, First American Edition. New
York: D. Appleton, 1866.
This octavo edition with the New York imprint
consists of the sheets of the suppressed 1865
London printing (first edition) with a new title
page; this copy is the variant with the “B” in
“By” above and very slightly to the right of the
“T” in “Tenniel” on the title page and without
the hyphen in “Rabbit-Hole” on the contents
page, no priority; 1,000 unbound copies of
the London first edition were sold to Appleton
in New York after Lewis Carroll decided to
cancel the edition in July 1865 because he
was dissatisfied with the illustrations; Appleton
issued the purchased London sheets as is and
released them in this edition with a new title
page inserted; with forty-two illustrations from
the woodcuts by Dalziel after John Tenniel;
this copy is bound in full crushed red morocco
by Bayntun-Riviere, with an inlay in ivory,
yellow, red, gray, and green leather of the
White Rabbit as he appears in chapter eight,
as herald of the King and Queen of Hearts;
large gilt-tool of Alice talking to the Queen
of Hearts on back board, spine tooled and
lettered in gilt; original cloth from boards and
spine bound in at the back, the spine without
mention of publisher; housed in a custom
slipcase; original binding pieces stained, 7 1/4
x 4 3/4 in.
$3,000-5,000
140
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141
Carroll (1832-1898) Alice’s Adventures
in Wonderland, Presentation Copy with
Autograph Letter Signed, 9 July 1888.
London: Macmillan, 1883.
Octavo, with author’s presentation in purple
ink on half-title, “Rosamond Sophie Fellowes
from the Author, Ap. 27, 1885,” according to
a note on ffep, Rosamond Fellowes (18781944), daughter of the Reverend Edward Lyon
Fellowes (1845-1896) was a second cousin
of “the real Alice,” Alice Liddell Hargreaves
(1852-1934); bound in full red morocco by
Sangorski and Sutcliffe, tooled in gilt with
images from the story, original cloth bound
in at end, housed in a custom slipcase, 7 x 4
3/4 in.
[Together with] Autograph letter signed by
Carroll, 9 July 1888, tipped onto the original
black endleaf, written on Christ Church Oxford
letter paper, two inscribed leaves. To Anne
Symonds (1823-1910), explaining that he and
Isa Bowman (1874-1958) should be arriving
in Oxford on Wednesday evening, noting the
train they’ll take, and hoping that they won’t
be late. Written in purple ink, signed C.L.
Dodgson. Rosamond Sophie Fellowes was
Anne Symonds’s granddaughter, by way of
her daughter Margaret Rosamond Fellowes’s
marriage to Reverend Edward Lyon Fellowes.
$3,000-5,000
141
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142
Carroll (1832-1898) Alice’s Adventures
in Wonderland, Signed by John Tenniel.
London and New York: Macmillan & Co.,
1891.
Octavo, signed by Tenniel just under his
name on the title page, bound in full original
publisher’s red cloth, stamped in gilt, coated
black endleaves, spine slightly darkened,
housed in custom chemise and slipcase, 7
1/8 x 4 3/4 in.
$1,000-1,500
142
143
Carroll (1832-1898) Limited Editions Club,
One Signed by Alice Hargreaves.
Two octavo volumes: Alice’s Adventures in
Wonderland, New York: Limited Editions
Club, 1932; and Through the Looking-Glass
and What Alice Found There, New York:
Limited Editions Club, 1935; the first volume
signed by Alice on blank leaf between the
half-title and the frontispiece, and signed by
Frederic Ward on the limitation page, copy
969 of 1,500 copies; the second volume not
signed, copy 1,343 of 1,500; both bound in
publisher’s leather, a.e.g.; spine from Through
the Looking-Glass detached and chipped
with loss, leather on both volumes fragile, with
chipping, the two housed in a slipcase, 8 1/2
x 5 1/2 in. each. (2)
$2,000-2,500
144
Carroll (1832-1898) Limited Editions Club,
Signed by Alice Hargreaves.
Two octavo volumes: Alice’s Adventures in
Wonderland, New York: Limited Editions Club,
1932; and Through the Looking-Glass and
What Alice Found There, New York: Limited
Editions Club, 1935; the first volume signed by
Alice on blank leaf between the half-title and
the frontispiece, and signed by Frederic Ward
on the limitation page, copy 456 of 1,500; the
second signed by Alice on the limitation page,
copy number 861 of 1,500; both uniformly
bound in full red morocco by Bayntun (Riviere),
tooled in gilt with illustrations taken from the
book, a.e.g., housed in a custom slipcase, 8
1/2 x 5 1/2 in. each. (2)
$2,500-3,500
144
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145
Carroll (1832-1898) The Hunting of the
Snark. London: Macmillan, 1876.
First edition, octavo, with frontispiece and
single page of publisher’s adverts at end;
bound in publisher’s white cloth boards
pictorially blocked in black, a.e.g., black
coated endleaves, in custom chemise and half
morocco case, boards discolored, 7 1/8 x 4
3/4 in.
$150-250
146
Donnison, Joseph (1788-1825) Manuscript
College Mathematics Notebook from
Harvard, pre-1807.
Quarto, approximately eighty pages; laid
paper, neatly inscribed throughout with
mathematical problems, including drawings
and sketches, 7 3/4 x 6 1/4 in.
Donnison graduated with his bachelor’s
degree in 1807, and master’s in 1815.
$500-700
147
Dreiser, Theodore Herman Albert (18711945) An American Tragedy, Signed
Limited Edition. New York: Boni & Liveright,
1925.
Limited edition, copy number 356 of 795
signed by Dreiser on the limitation page, in
publisher’s half gray cloth and blue paper
boards, inner joint in volume one cracked, 9 x
5 3/4 in. (2)
$300-500
148
Dutch Engravings, Approximately Fiftyfive Broadsides and Prints, 17th and 18th
Century.
Collection of engravings, etchings, mezzotints,
and typographical broadsides from Holland,
including six religious broadsides; sixteen
portraits; fourteen genre scenes, landscapes
and engravings after paintings; twelve satirical
broadsides with images above and text
below; five typographical broadsides and
newspapers; and other miscellaneous prints;
various sizes.
$600-800
149
Earhart, Amelia (1897-1937) The Fun of
It, Signed First Edition. New York: Brewer,
Warren, & Putnam, 1932.
First edition, octavo, signed by Earhart on
ffep, with gift inscription from another person
below, with the record present in the back
pocket, seal broken, record present, no jacket,
publisher’s brown cloth, 8 x 5 in.
$500-700
150
Earle, Jabez (1676?-1768) Sacramental
Exercises. Boston: Re-printed by D.
Fowle and Z. Fowle for D. Henchman, 1756.
12mo, in contemporary half sheepskin and
scabbard, damaged, with losses, 5 1/4 x 3 in.
$300-400
145
151
Early Books, 17th Century English Imprints,
Five Volumes.
Edward Lord Herbert of Cherbury’s Life and
Reign of King Henry the Eighth, London: by M.
Clark for Littlebury et al., 1683, folio; Thomas
Jackson’s Treatise of the Divine Essence and
Attributes, London: by M.F. for John Clarke,
1628, quarto; Allestree’s Gentleman’s Calling,
London: for T. Garthwait, 1660, octavo;
Stillingfleet’s Relation of a Conference Held
about Religion, London: Moses Pitt, 1676,
octavo; [and] John Spencer’s Discourse
Concerning Prodigies, Cambridge: by Field for
Graves, 1663, quarto; all volumes with binding
problems, boards detached, et cetera; not
collated. (5)
$500-700
152
Early Books, English Imprints, 1637-1676,
Four Quarto Volumes.
John Fletcher’s The Elder Brother, a Comedie,
London: by F.K. for J.W. and J.B., 1637, red
half sheep and marbled boards, spotting
to contents, 7 x 4 1/2 in.; Three Speeches
of the Right Honorable Sir Francis Bacon,
London: by Badger for Broun, 1641, half
leather, awkwardly trimmed, 6 3/4 x 5 in.;
Bacon’s Cases of Treason, London: More,
1641, some staining to title, half leather, 7
x 5 in.; [and] Edward Lord Clarendon’s A
Brief View and Survey of the Dangerous and
Pernicious Errors to Church and State, in Mr.
Hobbes’s Book, Entitled Leviathan, Oxford:
at the Theater, 1676, the second impression,
engraved allegorical frontispiece; vignette on
title; spotting; contemporary boards, 7 3/4 x 5
3/4 in.; all volumes ex libris Hingham Library,
with bookplates. (4)
$300-400
57
160
153
Early Books, Three Volumes.
Terence [aka Publius Terentius Afer] (c.
195/185-c. 159 BC) Pars Librorum Quattour
et Viginti de Lingua Latina, Rome: Vincentius
Luchinus, 1554, octavo, defective: lacking
bifolia A2/A7 and M3/M6; in contemporary
limp parchment, ex library, with contemporary
annotations; Joseph Liesgang’s Tabulae
Memoriales Praecipua Arithmeticae, Vienna:
Trattner, 1755, quarto, illustrated with
seventeen folding engravings and a folding
typographical table, in contemporary limp
paper wrappers; [and] C. Julii Caesaris
Quae Extant Omnia, Italica Versione, Venice:
Societas Albritiana, 1737, large quarto,
engraved frontis, title printed in red and black,
text printed in parallel columns throughout:
Italian and Latin; bound in full contemporary
sheepskin, marbled in brown and green, gilt
spine with two red labels, damage to headcap
with loss, boards rubbed, 7 3/4 x 10 3/4 in. (3)
$300-500
58
154
Eckhel, Joseph Hilarius von (1737-1798)
Choix des Pierres Gravees du Cabinet
Imperial des Antiques. Vienna: Joseph Noble
Kurzbek, 1788.
First edition, folio, illustrated with forty full-page
plates of ancient carved stones, bound in full
contemporary tan calf, tooled in gilt; surface
abrasions, corners bumped; bookplate of a
Russian library pasted inside the front board,
with inked ownership stamps on title, one text
leaf, and verso of final leaf, contents otherwise
fresh, 14 1/2 x 10 in.
$300-500
155
Edwards of Halifax Binding with Fore-edge
Painting.
The Holy Bible, Oxford: Wright & Guild, 1774,
12mo, full vellum painted with scenes from
the Bible on both boards, blue underpainted
and gold tooled Greek fret Etruscan-style
border, spine tooled and lettered in gilt, with
the original green morocco slipcase, also
tooled in gilt, almost identical to the British
Library’s Davis210, a 1762 copy of the Book
of Common Prayer, a.e.g., fore-edge painting
of Nostell Priory, Yorkshire; housed in modern
red chemise and half morocco slipcase, very
good, 5 1/4 x 2 3/4 in.
$300-500
156
Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1890-1969) The
White House Years: Mandate for Change
1953-1956, Signed Copy. Garden City:
Doubleday, 1963.
Limited edition, copy number 435 of 1,500,
signed by Eisenhower on a blank leaf
preceding the title, in the original publisher’s
cloth binding, with acetate jacket and slipcase,
9 1/4 x 6 1/4 in.
$400-600
157
Erotica and Early Books, Seven Titles in
Leather Bindings.
Including: La Pucelle d’Orleans, London: aux
Depens de la Compagnie, 1764, octavo,
illustrated, bound in later full spongedecorated calf gilt-tooled spine; Demoniality
or Incubi and Succubi by the Reverend Father
Sinistrari of Ameno, Paris: Liseux, 1879,
octavo, in half dark green sheep, gilt title on
spine; Pierre Matthieu’s Unhappy Prosperity,
London: by Harper for Vavasour, 1639,
second edition, 12mo, in full brown morocco;
Memoirs of Mrs. Coghlan, London: for the
author and Dublin reprinted, 1794, 12mo, in
full burgundy calf, gilt-tooled spine; Father
Sinistrari’s Peccatum Mutum (the Mute Sin,
alias Sodomy), Paris: Liseux, 1893, 12mo,
in half leather; Robert Burns’s Not for Maids,
Ministers, or Striplings: The Merry Muses,
[No place: no printer] Privately Printed, Not
for Sale, 1827, 12mo, in half red leather, front
board becoming detached; [and] La Fontaine’s
Tales Imitated in English Verse, London: for C.
Chapple, 1814, volume one only. (7)
Provenance: Ex libris Charles S. Dixwell
(1868-1934).
$300-500
158
Erotica, Fourteen Volumes.
Including Ford Madox Ford’s Some Do Not,
New York: Seltzer, 1925, third printing; D.H.
Lawrence’s Women in Love, New York:
Seltzer, 1923, fourth printing; Edgar Saltus’s
Historia Amoris, New York: Brentano’s, 1922;
Edward Carpenter’s Love’s Coming-of-Age,
New York: Mitchell Kennerley, 1911; Jules
Romains’s The Body’s Rapture, New York:
Liveright, [1937]; Le Nismois’s The Voluptuous
Army, [no publication information]; Rosa
Fielding or a Victim of Lust, London: for
private distribution, 1856; Wake’s Sacred
Prostitution & Marriage by Capture, Privately
Printed, 1929; Colette’s L’Entrave, Paris:
Editions Mornay, 1929; The Kama Sutra of
Vatsyayana, New York: for the Society of the
Friends of India, 1925; Vautel’s Les Femmes
aux Encheres, Paris: Albin Michel, 1932;
Merrill Moore’s Illegitimate Sonnets, New York:
Twayne, 1950, in the dust jacket, inscribed by
the author; Gamiani, or Two Extra-Voluptuous
Nights, London: Thomson, 1891; [and] Contes
de la Fontaine, Paris: Lefevre, 1822. (14)
$100-150
159
Erotica, Sixty-six Volumes.
A collection of late 19th and early 20th
century erotic works, almost all in cloth
bindings, including illustrated titles, fiction, and
psychological treatises including works on
the psychology of sex, history of prostitution,
frigidity in women, psychopathia sexualis, and
others. (66)
(1868-1934).
$600-800
160
Exhibition Bindings by Zaehnsdorf, 1895,
The Poetical Works of Surrey and Wyatt.
London: Pickering, 1831.
Two octavo volumes uniformly bound in full
crushed dark brown morocco, ornately tooled
on all boards and spines, pastedowns of
green inlaid gilt-tooled morocco panels, green
morocco flyleaves, a.e.g.; joints slightly dry, 7
1/2 x 4 1/2 in. (2)
$1,000-1,500
161
Exposition Universelle de Paris, 1889.
Epreuves Photographiques Inalterables.
Paris: Phototypie Bertaud Freres, [1889].
Oblong folio, title page printed in red and
black, illustrated with ten “cliché” photographs
of buildings created for the Paris World’s
Fair taken by J. Cornetet, including two
striking views of the newly erected Eiffel
Tower, specially built for the Fair, each photo
reproduced in a red frame with caption; bound
in publisher’s red cloth, stamped in black and
gold, featuring the Eiffel Tower, back board
indicating that this souvenir of the Exposition
was presented by the Hanover Fire Insurance
Company; some spotting to contents, some
leaves becoming detached, 12 1/2 x 9 1/2 in.
$300-500
162
Exquemelin, Alexandre Olivier (c. 16451707) Bucaniers of America: or a True
Account of the Most Remarkable Assaults
Committed of Late Years upon the Coasts
of the West-Indies, by the Bucaniers of
Jamaica and Tortuga, Both English and
French. [bound with] Basil Ringrose’s (d.
1686) continuation of the same title. London:
for William Crooke at the Green Dragon, 1684
[and 1685].
First edition, two parts in one volume; part
one illustrated with two text engravings,
six full-page plates, and three folding (or
double-page) plates; part two illustrated with
two folding maps, fourteen text engraved
maps/plans, and numerous text illustrations;
a variant with same title and imprint exists
without priority; part three includes two
additional chapters concerning Captains Cook
and Sharp not previously published; bound in
full red morocco by Bedford, a.e.g., inner gilt
dentelles, housed in a custom slipcase; some
maps with breaks along the folds, the last
three leaves (printer’s ads) remargined along
bottom edge; bottom corner back board
bumped; tips rubbed, 8 x 6 1/2 in.
$4,000-6,000
163
Falckenstein, Johann Heinrich von
(1682-1760) Antiquitates et Memorabilia
Nordgaviae Veteris. Schwabach: Enderes,
1734.
Folio, added engraved title, general
typographical title printed in red and black;
printed throughout in black letter, two
columns, in German, illustrated with eight fullpage engraved plates; bound in contemporary
sheepskin, gilt spine, worn, abraded, 14 x 19
in.
$600-800
164
Ferguson, James (1710-1776) An Easy
Introduction to Astronomy. London: for
Cadell, successor to Millar, 1769.
Second edition, (first published as The Young
Gentleman and Lady’s Astronomy; octavo,
illustrated with seven folding engravings;
bound in contemporary sheep, rebacked,
some plates with repairs, 8 x 5 in.
$300-500
165
Ferguson, James (1710-1776) An
Introduction to Electricity. London: for W.
Strahan and T. Cadell, 1770.
First edition, octavo, illustrated with three
folding engraved plates after the text, bound
in contemporary boards, rebacked, sewing
structure failing, with some signatures sprung,
or thrown out, 8 x 5 in.
$400-600
166
Ferguson, James (1710-1776) Astronomy
Explained upon Sir Isaac Newton’s
Principles, and Made Easy to those who
have not Studied Mathematics. London: for
the Author, 1756.
First edition, illustrated with folding engraved
frontispiece and an additional thirteen folding
engravings in the text, as called for on the
directions to the bookbinder; bound in
contemporary calf, rebacked, 10 x 8 in.
$600-800
167
Ferguson, James (1710-1776) Lectures
on Select Subjects in Mechanics,
Hydrostatics, Pneumatics, and Optics, with
the Use of the Globes, the Art of Dialing,
and the Calculation of the Mean Times of
New and Full Moons and Eclipses. London:
for A. Millar, 1764.
[bound with] A Supplement to Mr. Ferguson’s
Book of Lectures, London: for A. Millar,
sold by T. Cadell, 1767; quarto, the first
illustrated with twenty-three folding plates, the
supplement with an additional thirteen (thirtysix plates total), contents generally good,
bound in original full calf, skillfully rebacked, 10
1/2 x 8 in.
$300-500
59
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168
Ferguson, James (1710-1776) Select
Mechanical Exercises: Shewing how to
Construct Different Clocks, Orreries, and SunDials. London: for Strahan and Cadell, 1773.
First edition, octavo, with half-title, illustrated with
nine folding engravings; in contemporary boards
rebacked in library buckram, 8 1/4 x 5 in.
$200-300
169
Ferguson, James (1710-1776) Tables and
Tracts Relative to Several Arts and Sciences.
London: for Millar and Cadell, 1767.
First edition, octavo, illustrated with three folding
engravings after the text; bound in modern
half calf, marbled paper boards, title page with
marginal discolorations and chips, 8 x 5 in.
$200-300
60
170
Ferguson, James (1710-1776) The Art of
Drawing in Perspective Made Easy. London:
for Strahan and Cadell, 1775.
First edition, with half-title, illustrated with nine
folding engravings after the text; bound in
contemporary calf, gilt-tooled spine, rebacked,
8 1/4 x 5 in.
$200-300
171
Fiddes, Richard (1671-1725) The Life
of Cardinal Wolsey. London: for John
Barber, 1724. Folio, with engraved portrait
frontispiece and engraved plates, not collated
for completeness, in contemporary boards,
rebacked, 14 x 9 1/2 in.
[Together with] The Norton Facsimile [of] the
First Folio of Shakespeare, London: Norton,
1968, prepared by Charlton Hinman, in
publisher’s half leather, with the slipcase, 14 x
9 1/2 in.
J. Alfred Gotch’s Architecture of the
Renaissance in England, London: Batsford,
1894, in two folio volumes, half leather and
buckram boards, 18 x 13 1/2 in. [and] one
other volume. (5)
Provenance: The estate of Stratford W.
Carter, Boston, Massachusetts.
$300-500
172
172
Fielding, Henry (1707-1754) The History
of Tom Jones, a Foundling. London: for A.
Millar, 1749.
First edition, six duodecimo volumes,
contemporary boards, rebacked, original
spines replaced, new lettering pieces, housed
in a custom slipcase, some minor spotting to
contents, two pages curiously trimmed at foot
of blank margin in zigzag pattern, 6 1/2 x 3
3/4 in. (6)
$4,000-6,000
173
Fielding, Henry (1707-1754) The Works.
London: for A. Millar, 1762.
Four large quarto volumes, portrait of Fielding
present in volume one, contents good, uniform
original boards recently rebacked, spines
nicely gilt, with two labels, 11 1/2 x 9 in.
$400-600
61
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Fine Bindings and Extra-Illustrated Books,
Thirteen Volumes, 1838-1906.
Mrs. Jameson’s Memoirs of the Beauties of
the Court of Charles the Second, London:
Colburn, 1838, in two volumes, portraits
hand-colored throughout, bound in half green
morocco, gilt-tooled spines; Julia Kavanagh’s
French Women of Letters, London: Hurst &
Blackett, 1862, two volumes, extra-illustrated,
bound in full royal blue crushed morocco, with
gilt-decorated boards and spines, by Bayntun,
in slipcase; Frances Elliot’s Old Court Life
in France, London: Chapman & Hall, 1873,
extra-illustrated, in full deep purple crushed
morocco by W. Root and Son, in custom
slipcase; Reminiscences and Souvenirs of
Madame Vigee le Brun, London: Long &
Grover, 1879, extra-illustrated, bound in half
dark blue morocco by Root, in buckram dust
covers, custom slipcase; Count Anthony
Hamilton’s Memoirs of the Count de Gramont,
London: Vizetelly, 1889, in two volumes,
bound in half red morocco, gilt spines;
62
The Marvellous Adventures of Sir John
Maudevile Kt., Westminster: Archibald
Constable & Co., 1895, number 96 of
100 copes, signed by the publisher on the
limitation page, in full calfskin, elaborately
gilt-tooled spine; Octave Uzanne’s Fashion in
Paris, London: Heinemann, 1898, illustrated
with color plates throughout, bound in half
crushed dark green morocco, gilt-tooled spine
(faded); John Thomas Smith’s A Book for a
Rainy Day, London: Methuen & Co., 1905,
extra-illustrated, in half dark blue morocco by
Root, in a slipcase; [and] Memoirs of Count
Gramont, London: Bickers & Son, 1906,
edited by Allan Fea, illustrated, bound in half
red morocco by Bayntun; various formats and
sizes, octavo and large quarto. (13)
(1868-1934).
$1,500-2,000
175
Fitzgerald, F. Scott (1896-1940) Flappers
and Philosophers, First Edition. New York:
Scribner’s Sons, 1920.
First edition, octavo, without the jacket, in
publisher’s cloth, titled in blind, 7 1/2 x 5 in.
$200-300
176
Fitzgerald, F. Scott (1896-1940) Tender is
the Night, First Edition, Paperback. New
York: Scribner’s Sons, 1934.
First edition, with Scribner’s letter “A” on
copyright page, in plain brown cover stock
weight wraps, inscribed with title in pencil on
spine and front, 7 1/4 x 5 in.
$400-600
177
Flamsteed, John (1646-1719) Atlas Céleste
de Flamsteed, Approuvé par l’Académie
Royale des Sciences et Publié sous le
Privilège de cette Compagnie, Seconde
Edition par M. Fortin. Paris: [Imprimerie de la
Veuve Herissant] for Deschamps, 1776.
Second edition, octavo, illustrated with thirty
double-page engraved star charts; contents
generally good in contemporary spongedecorated calf, with gilt spine, skillfully
rebacked and recornered, 8 3/4 x 6 in.
$2,000-2,500
178
Fontaine, Jean de la (1621-1695) and
Alexander Calder (1898-1976) Selected
Fables, Signed by Artist and Translator.
New York: Quadrangle Press, 1948.
First edition, in publisher’s binding and original
dust jacket, signed by Calder and translator
Eunice Clark on ffep, 12 x 8 3/4 in.
$300-500
179
Forbes, Captain Robert Bennet (18041889) The Voyage of the Jamestown on her
Errand of Mercy. Boston: Eastburn’s Press,
1847.
First edition, large octavo, with lithographic
frontispiece of the Jamestown leaving Boston
harbor on March 28, 1847, in publisher’s
brown cloth, tooled with blind corner pieces
on front and back boards, titled in gilt on
front board, rubbed, losses to head and tail
of spine, front joint starting at foot; contents
good; rare, with no copies appearing in the
auction record, 9 1/4 x 5 1/2 in.
A joint resolution of Congress authorized the
Navy to deploy the Jamestown under Captain
Forbes, to deliver food to the Irish people, who
were suffering from starvation during the great
potato famine.
$400-600
180
Fore-edge Painting, Double.
The Book of Common Prayer, Oxford:
Clarendon Press, 1817, bound in full olive
green straight-grained morocco, tooled in gold
and blind; a.e.g.; spine faded; the paintings
depicting “The Adoration of the Magi” after
Hans Memling; and “The Annunciation” after
Domenico Veneziano; the volume housed in a
custom slipcase, 8 1/4 x 5 in.
$400-600
181
Fore-edge Painting, Two Volumes.
John McDiarmid’s The Scrap Book,
Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1823; two octavo
volumes bound in straight grained burgundy
morocco, gilt-tooled, a.e.g.; each volume with
a fore-edge painting: volume one with the
Tower of London and St. Paul’s Cathedral;
volume two with Westminster Abbey, the
Houses of Parliament, and the Abbey Bridge,
but conspicuously without Big Ben, which was
not completed until 1859; the two volumes
housed in a custom slipcase, 7 x 4 1/4 in.
$300-500
177
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Forrest, Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Ramus
(1750-1827) A Picturesque Tour along
the Rivers Ganges and Jumna, in India.
London: [by L. Harrison for] R. Ackermann,
1824.
First edition, large quarto, illustrated with
engraved folding map by Neele; hand-colored
aquatint vignettes on title and last pages; and
twenty-four hand-colored aquatint plates by T.
Sutherland and G. Hunt after Forrest; bound
in full red levant, gilt-tooled Cosway-style,
by Bayntun (Riviere), featuring a miniature
painting set into the front board, with the Taj
Mahal in the center of the panel, surrounded
by eight smaller paintings of Indian historic
sites, the space between the ovals in-filled
with minute gilt floral motifs; a.e.g., watered
red silk pastedowns and flyleaves; inner gilt
dentelles with leather joints; housed in a
custom slipcase, 13 x 10 1/2 in.
$8,000-10,000
182
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183
Fourier, Charles (1772-1837) Theorie des
Quatre Mouvemens et des Destinees
Generales. Leipzig: [no printer], 1808 [i.e.
Lyon: Peizin].
First edition of Fourier’s first work, with the
folding typographical plate bound between
pages eight and nine; with the signature of
Frederick York Powell (1850-1904) on ffep;
bound in contemporary half leather, patterned
paper boards; spine missing, front board
detached, 8 1/4 x 5 1/4 in.
Fourier was a radical thinker who created
a plan for an ideal society. He respected
the industry and intelligence of children,
acknowledged the validity of same sex
relationships and androgyny, and coined the
term feminism.
$700-900
184
Fremont, John Charles (1813-1890)
Memoirs of my Life, With Two Autograph
Letter Signed by Fremont. Chicago & New
York: Bilford, Clarke, & Co., 1887
First edition, volume one (all published),
with two letters by Fremont inserted; the
text illustrated throughout, with maps (some
folding) including the large folding map pasted
inside back board; bound in publisher’s
pictorial cloth ornately stamped in red, blue,
black, gold, and silver; inner joint cracking, 10
1/2 x 7 1/2 in.
$600-800
185
Frost, Robert (1874-1963) A Masque of
Mercy, Signed Printer’s Copy and In the
Clearing, Signed Limited Edition. Boston:
Holt, [1947 and 1962]
Two large octavos, A Masque bound in half
blue cloth and paper boards; In the Clearing
bound in full cloth with publisher’s slipcase. (2)
$500-700
186
Galileo, Galilei (1564-1642) Sidereus
Nuncius, Facsimile. Oklahoma City,
Oklahoma: Byzantium Press, 2004.
Two octavo volumes, consisting of a facsimile
of the first edition of Galileo’s book, handbound in full period style calf, and a modern
Companion, to the text, housed in a custom
folding case, 9 1/2 x 6 1/2 in.
$50-100
187
Gifford, John (1758-1818) A Narrative of
the Transactions Personally Relating to the
Unfortunate Lewis the Sixteenth, Extraillustrated Copy. London: for W. Locke,
1793.
First edition, large quarto, with approximately
forty-five added illustrations, bound in full
straight green navy blue morocco by Morrell,
t.e.g., with the arms of Louis XVI tooled in gold
on front board, 11 x 9 in.
$300-500
188
Gondor, Emery I. (1896-1977) Ten
Little Colored Boys, Author’s Signed
Presentation Copy. New York: Howell &
Soskin, 1942.
Landscape format picture book, printed
in color, inscribed and signed by Gondor
inside front board, with die-cut pages, plastic
loose-leaf binding (Tauber multi-tube binding);
binding damaged, 10 1/2 x 8 1/2 in.
$300-400
189
Grahame, Kenneth (1859-1932) The Wind in
the Willows, with Clipped Signature Laid in.
London: Methuen & Co., [Printed by William
Brendon and Son, Ltd., 1908].
Octavo, with “First published 1908” on
copyright page, and clipped signature
from the closing of a letter pasted inside
front board, “Yours very faithfully, Kenneth
Grahame,” with frontispiece, bound in full
publisher’s blue cloth, blocked in gold with
title and Pan motif on front board, spine gilt
decorated with title, author, publisher, and Mr.
Toad in his motor clothes; deckle edges at
fore-edge, t.e.g., ex libris Crosby and Hilda
Gaige, with their bookplate pasted inside the
front board, housed in a custom buckram
chemise and half morocco slipcase, 7 1/2 x
5 in.
$2,500-3,500
65
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Grant, George (fl. circa 1820) An Essay on
the Science of Acting. By a Veteran Stager.
London: Cowie & Strange, 1828.
First edition, octavo, frontispiece portrait of
J.P. Kemble, 201 pages, in contemporary half
calf, gold-tooled spine, boards somewhat
rubbed, a.e.g., 7 x 4 in.
Ober.
$300-500
191
Greenaway, Kate (1846-1901) Almanacks,
Seventeen Small Volumes.
Almanacs for the years 1883 through 1895,
and 1897; mixed formats, three larger format
almanacs for 1884 in soft covers 5 1/4 x 3 1/2
in.; all others smaller, in publisher’s boards 4 x
3 in.; all with colored illustrations throughout,
housed in custom chemise and half red
morocco slipcase. (17)
$700-900
192
Hagen, Joannes van der, (1665-1739)
and Theon of Alexandria (c. AD 335-c.
405) Observationes in Theonis Fastos.
Amsterdam: Boom, 1735.
First edition, quarto, title printed in red and
black, edges untrimmed throughout, almost
completely unopened, bound in an unusual
modern leather binding, 9 x 7 in.
$400-600
66
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Hakluyt, Richard (1552?-1616) The
Principall Navigations, Voiages and
Discoveries of the English Nation, Made
by Sea or Over Land, to the Most Remote
and Farthest Distant Quarters of the Earth
at any Time within the Compasse of these
1500 Yeeres.
London: George Bishop and Ralph Newberie,
Deputies to Christopher Barker, 1589.
First edition, folio, lacking the map, without
the cancelled leaves recounting Bowes’s
expedition in Russia, without the added
unnumbered leaves with the account of
Drake’s circumnavigation; first and last few
leaves with marginal paper repairs; leaves
485-492 [Xx2-Xx5] supplied from a smaller
copy, remargined; in contemporary brown
calf, ruled in blind; resewn and rebacked; neat
contemporary marginal notes throughout in
the hand of Martin Fotherbye [likely Bishop of
Salisbury (c. 1560-1620)], with his signature
on the title page, 11 3/4 x 8 in.
$15,000-20,000
193
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194
Harrington, James (1611-1677) The
Common-Wealth of Oceana. London: J.
Streater for Livewell Chapman, 1656.
First edition, folio, without the portrait, title
printed in red and black, contents browned,
title mounted, in later boards, not collated, 10
1/2 x 7 in.
$700-900
195
Harris, Joel Chandler Uncle Remus His
Songs and His Sayings, Limited Edition
Large Paper Copy, Signed by the Author.
New York: Appleton & Co., 1895.
Large paper copy, number eighty-three of 250
large paper copies, signed by Harris at the
end of the preface, bound in half morocco,
spine faded, joints dry, 9 x 6 in.
$1,000-1,500
197
Hemingway, Ernest (1899-1961) The Old
Man and the Sea, First Edition. New York:
Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1952.
First edition, with the letter “A” and Scribner’s
mark on copyright page, in the original dust
jacket, the portrait of Hemingway on the back
panel with a blue cast, and without mention of
the Nobel Prize, 8 x 5 1/4 in.
$400-600
198
Man and the Sea, First Edition. New York:
Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1952.
mark on copyright page, in the original dust
jacket, the portrait of Hemingway on the back
panel with a blue cast, and without mention of
the Nobel Prize, 8 x 5 1/4 in.
$400-600
196
Man and the Sea, First Edition, Signed by
Joe DiMaggio. New York: Charles Scribner’s
Sons, 1952.
mark on copyright page, signed by DiMaggio
on the half-title; in the original dust jacket, the
portrait of Hemingway on the back panel with
a blue cast, and without mention of the Nobel
Prize, 8 x 5 1/4 in.
$400-600
68
199
Hennepin, Louis (act. 17th century) A New
Discovery of a Vast Country in America,
Extending above Four Thousand Miles,
Between New France and New Mexico.
London: for M. Bentley, J. Tonson, H.
Bonwick, T. Goodwin, and S. Manship, 1698.
Octavo, two parts in one volume, each with
its own title page; the edition with the first line
of the imprint ending with Tonson; engraved
frontispiece opposite first title, lacking both
folding maps, provided in facsimile; illustrated
with six folding plates: “Niagara Falls”;
the “Taking of Quebeck by the English”;
“Wild Bulls” (i.e. buffalo); the “Unfortunate
Adventures of Monsieur de la Salle; the
Murther of Monsieur de la Salle”; and the
“Cruelty of the Savage Iroquois”; bound in
full crushed blue morocco by Sangorski &
Sutcliffe, front board detached.
$700-900
206
200
Hobhouse, John Cam, 1st Baron
Broughton (1786-1869) A Journey through
Albania and other Provinces of Turkey in
Europe and Asia, to Constantinople, during
the Years 1809 and 1810.
London: for James Cawthorn, 1813.
Second edition, in two large quarto volumes,
illustrated with two engraved frontispieces
(one for each volume); two folding maps;
seventeen hand-colored plates (of which six
are double-page, several of the costume
plates heightened with metallic color); and
four additional full-page plates of music and
facsimiles of documents; lacking pages
between the end of volume one and the
beginning of volume two: volume one ends
on page 539, volume two picks up on page
543 in the middle of a sentence; title page
and frontispiece in volume one damaged with
loss; bound in uniform half leather, worn, front
board to volume two detached, 10 1/4 x 8
in. (2)
$700-900
201
Holbein, Hans the Younger (c. 1497-1543)
The Dance of Death. Boston: Godine,
Cygnet Press, 1974.
Limited edition, one of seventy deluxe copies
with an extra suite of fifty-eight plates, in
quarter morocco and linen boards, with the
extra prints in a custom chemise, housed in
matching quarter morocco box, 7 1/4 x 5 in.
$100-150
202
Howlet, Robert (act. 1700) The Angler’s
Sure Guide: or Angling Improved. London:
by J.H. for G. Conyers & T. Ballard, 1706.
Octavo, illustrated with frontispiece, and
full-page plate of fish types, in modern calf,
antique style, contents spotted, some edge
chipping, 6 1/2 x 4 1/8 in.
$300-500
203
Hugo, Victor (1802-1885) The Novels,
Dramas, and Selected Poems of Victor
Hugo, Edition Magnifique, One of Twelve
Copies.
Philadelphia: George Barrie & Sons, [1892].
Forty-one octavo volumes, limited edition
set, specially bound for Henry B. Williams,
set number ten of twelve, signed by George
Barrie, the illustrations appearing in four states
(printed in different colors of ink on different
paper stocks), and bound in full red morocco
by Barrie, with full morocco inner doublures
tooled in gilt, gray watered silk flyleaves,
a.e.g., gilt spines, small gilt decoration on
boards, each volume housed in a custom
slipcase, 8 1/2 x 5 1/4 in. (41)
$2,000-3,000
204
Hunting and Fishing, Six Titles in Seven
Volumes.
Frank Forester’s Field Sports of the United
States, New York: Townsend, 1864, in two
volumes, half morocco; Frank Forester’s Fish
and Fishing of the United States, New York:
Townsend, 1864, half morocco; Mayer’s Sport
with Gun and Rod in the American Woods
and Waters, New York: Century, [1883], in
publisher’s cloth, shaken; Whitehead’s The
Camp-Fires of the Everglades or Wild Sports
in the South, Edinburgh: David Douglas,
1891, publisher’s green cloth, blocked in
gold; Ducking Days, Chicago, 1919, in
green buckram; [and] Robertson’s Zambezi
Days, London: Blackie & Son, [1936], in the
publisher’s dust jacket; various sizes. (7)
$300-500
205
Huygens, Christiaan (1629-1695) The
Celestial Worlds Discover’d. London: for
James Knapton, 1722.
Second English edition, octavo, illustrated
with five folding engravings, ex libris Harriet
Anne Boone, 1787, with her notes in the text;
bound in contemporary calf, rebacked, later
label, interior leaves fresh, 7 x 4 1/4 in.
$400-600
69
208
Illuminated Manuscript Leaf Attributed to
Francesco di Lorenzo Roselli (1445-1513)
Single leaf on parchment, the initial leaf at
the opening of Matins, from the Hours of the
Virgin, large historiated initial with Virgin and
Child, full border of pink and blue acanthus
leaves, foliage, flowers, with a classical vase
and putti, three rondelles in the margins, two
with portraits, one with a knotwork design, all
with gold embellishments; with retouching,
trimmed to the edge of the border, 5 3/4 x 3
7/8 in.
$3,000-5,000
209
Islamic Manuscript, North Africa.
Folio-format manuscript on paper in a
maghribi script, approximately 350 leaves,
in signatures of ten leaves, text written in a
dark brown ink with red sections, written in
a single column, thirty-one lines per page; in
a contemporary goatskin binding, blindstamped on both boards, with the flap;
the sewing structure failing, many leaves
loose, binding very worn, boards made up
of old manuscript waste, now delaminated
and released from the binding; worming to
binding, water staining to leaves, the acrid ink
compromising the structural integrity of the
paper in some sections, marginal notations
throughout; because of the condition of the
sewing and binding, very likely incomplete, 11
3/4 x 8 1/2 in.
$400-600
211
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Hyginus, Gaius Julius (c. 64 BC-AD 17)
Fabularum Liber. Basel: Hervagiana, 1570.
Folio, third edition, edited by Jacob Micyllus
(1503-1558), with works by other writers:
Palaephatus, Fulgentius, Phurnutus, Albricus,
Aratus, and Proclus, woodcut printer’s device
on title, illustrated with forty-nine woodcuts
of constellations, bound in modern vellum,
blue paste-decorated edges, damp stain
to bottom margin; extensive annotations in
the hand of Alfred Holden, whose signature
(in the same hand) appears on the ffep, on
pages 123 through 142, making notes based
on another manuscript copy of Fulgentius’s
Mythologiarum; 12 1/4 x 8 in.
$1,000-1,500
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Hyginus, Gaius Julius (c. 64 BC-AD 17)
Mythographi Latini. Amsterdam: Someren,
1681.
Octavo, second Muncker edition, with
text engravings throughout, bound in full
contemporary parchment over stiff boards,
laced case construction, 7 3/4 x 4 1/2 in.
$300-500
210
Jefferson, Thomas (1743-1826) Notes
on the State of Virginia. Philadelphia: for
Mathew Carey, 12 November 1794.
Second American edition, lacking the map,
folding typographical table present between
pages 134 and 135; mostly printed on pale
bluish paper, bound in full contemporary
sheepskin, some spotting to contents and
a few contemporary marks in ink; ex libris
Fitchburg Historical Society, withdrawn, 8 x 4
3/4 in.
$500-700
211
Jefferson, Thomas (1743-1826) Travels
in the Interior Parts of America;
Communicating Discoveries Made in
Exploring the Missouri, Red River and
Washita, by Captains Lewis and Clark.
London: for Richard Phillips, by J.G. Barnard,
1807.
The first overseas publication regarding
the Lewis and Clark expedition, reprinted
from the 1806 Washington edition entitled
Message from the President of the United
States, Communicating Discoveries, octavo,
with folding table; bound in half brown calf,
marbled boards, 8 x 5 in.
$1,500-2,500
212
212
Jefferys, Thomas (c. 1719-1771) The Natural and
Civil History of the French Dominions in North
and South America, Sir William Johnson’s (c.
1715-1774) Copy.
London: for Thomas Jefferys, 1760.
First edition, folio, two parts in one volume;
corrected issue with added pages in part one
(*129-*138) containing information on the capture
of Quebec received after the original publication;
title pages printed in red and black, illustrated with
eighteen folding maps and plans, as called for in
the printer’s directions to the binder; four maps
with closed unrepaired tears resulting from careless
unfolding; errata slip pasted onto page 80, in part
two; ex libris Sir William Johnson, with his bookplate
pasted inside the front board and signature on the
title page; bound in full contemporary speckled calf,
with a red lettering piece; unrepaired; the binding
worn; flyleaves and final blank removed; corners
bumped and rubbed, covers stained, leather at
front joint cracked; endcaps chipped with loss, 13
3/4 x 8 1/2 in.
Sir William Johnson was an extraordinary character;
born in Ireland, he emigrated to New York in 1738
to manage an estate owned by an uncle. Johnson
made friends among the Mohawk Indians of the
Six Nations of the Iroquois League, learning the
language, and working with Iroquois leaders. He
became an honorary sachem himself, known
as Warraghiyagey: a man who undertakes great
things. He served with distinction during the French
and Indian War, serving as an important diplomat
between European and Indian ruling bodies. He
is also known to have fathered numerous children
with European and Mohawk women. He had eight
children with Joseph Brant’s sister Molly.
$12,000-18,000
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213
Kellar, Harry (1849-1922) A Magician’s Tour
Up and Down and Round About the Earth.
Chicago: Donnelley & Sons, 1886.
First edition, octavo, illustrated, bound in
publisher’s brown cloth boards, stamped
in black, back board and spine blank,
discoloration to top edge, front board, 7 x 5 in.
$300-500
214
Kelly, Patrick (1756-1842) A Practical
Introduction to Spherics and Nautical
Astronomy. London: for Baldwin, Cradock, &
Joy, 1822.
Fifth edition, illustrated, deckle edges
throughout, ex library, with stamps of the New
York Society Library; paper repairs to verso of
title, bound in half buckram, 10 x 6 1/4 in.
Lewis and Clarke brought a copy of Kelly’s
book along with them on their voyage of
discovery.
$100-150
215
Ketcham, Diana Le Desert de Retz. San
Francisco: The Arion Press, 1990.
Landscape folio format, in publisher’s case,
16 x 10 in.
$250-350
72
216
Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936) Captains
Courageous, First Regular Edition, in the
Original Dust Jacket. London: Macmillan,
1897.
Octavo, illustrated throughout by I.W. Taber,
bound in full publisher’s blue cloth, blocked
in gold, coated blue endleaves, with the
original publisher’s heathered light blue dust
jacket, illustrated and titled in blue; a.e.g.,
binding bright beneath the jacket, the jacket
fragmentary at head and along two top
corners; one corner of binding bumped,
housed in cloth chemise and dark blue half
morocco slipcase, 7 1/4 x 4 1/2 in.
$1,500-2,000
217
Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936) First and
Second Jungle Books, First English
Editions. London: Macmillan, 1894 and 1895.
Two octavo volumes, both illustrated
throughout, volume two with two pages
of printer’s ads at the end; each bound in
publisher’s original dark blue cloth, both
volumes blocked with gilt illustrations and
lettering on spines and front boards, both with
dark greenish-blue coated endleaves, a.e.g.;
slightly rubbed, housed in custom buckram
chemise and half blue morocco slipcase,
7 1/4 x 4 1/2 in. (2)
$2,000-3,000
218
Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936) Just So
Stories for Little Children, First Collected
Edition. London: Macmillan, 1902.
Quarto, illustrated throughout by Kipling,
bound in full red publisher’s cloth, with pictorial
blocking in black and white on both boards,
spine blocked in white, housed in custom
chemise and red half morocco slipcase, slight
wear to tips, 9 x 6 3/4 in.
$300-500
219
Lawrence, David Herbert Richards (18851930) Lady Chatterley’s Lover, Author’s
Unabridged Popular Edition. Paris: Privately
Printed, 1929.
Octavo, with six page introduction explaining
the circumstances surrounding the
publication, titled, “My Skirmish with Jolly
Roger” in which Lawrence refers to the many
pirated copies of his book, in modern half
leather, 7 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.
$100-150
220
220
Le Brun, Corneille (1652-1727) Voyage au
Levant. Paris: Cavelier, 1714.
Folio, illustrated with portrait and added
engraved title, typographical title printed in
red and black; illustrated throughout with
folding map, very large folding city views,
text and full-page engravings; numbered
successively with some anomalies, including
the exclusion of numbers 24 to 33, among
others; some double-page views with more
than one number; many double-page spreads
and full-page illustrations with multiple images,
each numbered; all said, this copy contains
thirty-four double-page or folding engravings,
and fifty-two full-page engravings extraneous
to the collation; in other copies, some of the
double-page images may appear bound as
two single full-page plates; full contemporary
boards, rebacked, worn; some ink stains to
contents, some large views folded imperfectly
and protruding from the binding, square piece
trimmed from title to remove old signature;
surface tear to following page with some loss;
12 1/2 x 8 in.
$1,500-2,000
221
Lecomte, Valentine (b. 1872) The Dance of
Isadora Duncan, Signed Copy Presented
by the Publisher. Paris: Raymond Duncan,
[1952].
First edition, number fifty-five of 100 copies
printed; inscribed on title page by Raymond
Duncan (1874-1966) to poet and dramatist
Percy MacKaye (1875-1956); in the original
limp paper wrapper, illustrated with forty-five
leaves of plates, some spotting to wraps, 12
3/4 x 10 in.
“An authentic document of our beloved
Isadora and my hands weaving all together, so
binding our affection together - Percy, Isadora,
and I - a good triangle.”
Ober.
$600-800
222
Les Lettres et les Arts, Eight Volumes.
Paris: Boussod, Valadon, etc., 1886-1887.
Eight uniformly bound folio volumes, in half
green morocco and marbled paper boards,
gilt-tooled spines, t.e.g.; four issues for each
year of this illustrated quarterly journal of the
arts with colored illustrations, music, poetry,
stories, and other similar material; spines
faded to tan, slight scuffs, 12 3/4 x 9 3/4 in.
(8)
$500-700
223
Letters of Application for Position of
Assistant Surgeon, U.S. Navy, c. 1840.
A series of approximately forty letters
addressed to various secretaries of the Navy,
including James Kirke Paulding (1778-1860),
George Edmund Badger (1795-1866), and
Abel Parker Upshur (1790-1844) all written in
application for or on behalf of others wishing
to be considered for the position of assistant
surgeon. (40)
$400-600
73
224
224
Lewis, Meriwether (1774-1809) and William
Clark (1770-1838) Travels to the Source
of the Missouri River and Across the
American Continent to the Pacific Ocean.
London: for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme,
and Brown, 1814.
First English edition, illustrated with large
folding frontispiece map and three full-page
engraved maps; bound in contemporary
half green calf with marbled paper boards,
contents clean, 10 3/4 x 8 1/4 in.
$10,000-15,000
225
Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865) Five Titles in
Eight Volumes, Signed.
Including: a signed copy of Ida Tarbell’s Life of
Abraham Lincoln, New York: Lincoln Society,
1909, in four volumes, burgundy publisher’s
cloth; W.A. Evans’s Mrs. Abraham Lincoln,
New York: Knopf, 1932, first, limited edition,
number nine of 195, signed by the author,
in publisher’s dark red cloth decorated with
sprayed gold shapes; Paul Angle’s Here Have
I Lived, Springfield, IL: Lincoln Association,
1935, inscribed author’s presentation copy,
in full publisher’s cloth; William Herndon’s
The Hidden Lincoln, New York: Viking,
1938, author’s signed presentation copy, in
publisher’s cloth and original dust jacket; [and]
Benjamin P. Thomas’s Abraham Lincoln, New
York: Knopf, 1952, one of 500 copies signed
by the author, in publisher’s red cloth spine
and black boards. (8)
$200-400
74
226
Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865) Four
Pamphlets.
Including: Address of Hon. Edward Everett at
the Consecration of the National Cemetery at
Gettysburg, 19th November, 1863, Boston:
Little, Brown, & Co., 1864, with Lincoln’s
Gettysburg Address printed on page eightyfour, and the folded tinted lithographic map of
the cemetery, in publisher’s limp paper wraps,
9 1/2 x 6 in.
[Together with] S.G.W. Benjamin’s Ode on the
Death of Abraham Lincoln, Boston: Spencer,
1865, in publisher’s paper wraps; George
Boutwell’s Eulogy on the Death of Abraham
Lincoln, Lowell: Stone & Huse, 1865, in
publisher’s paper wraps; [and] Andrew Stone’s
A Discourse Occasioned by the Death of
Abraham Lincoln, Boston: Wiggin, 1865,
publisher’s paper covers, partially unopened,
various sizes. (4)
$400-600
227
Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865) Gettysburg
Address; Edward Everett (1794-1865) An
Oration Delivered on the Battlefield of
Gettysburg, (November 19, 1863) at the
Consecration of the Cemetery.
New York: Baker & Godwin, 1863.
First edition, with original very pale peachcolored publisher’s printed soft covers,
the title on the front cover printed within a
compartment of typographical ornaments, the
back cover with printer’s advertisement, 48
pages, with one woodcut illustration: a layout
of the cemetery; Lincoln’s address appears on
the bottom half of page forty, 9 x 5 7/8 in.
This pamphlet marks the first appearance
of Lincoln’s immortal Gettysburg Address,
published just three days after the Cemetery
was consecrated. (A newspaper account of
the Address with some errors was the only
print account preceding this publication.) The
President’s speech is not even mentioned on
the title page; Everett overshadowed Lincoln
with bulk in 1863, Lincoln’s concise eloquence
continues to resonate today.
$4,000-6,000
228
Linderman, Frank Bird (1869-1938), illus.
Winold Reiss (1886-1953) Blackfeet
Indians. St. Paul, Minnesota: Great Northern
Railway, 1935.
First edition, illustrated with forty-nine full-page
color portraits of Blackfeet Indians by Reiss,
in original decorative publisher’s boards and
dust jacket, inscribed and signed by Yellow
Head with his pictogram on ffep and beneath
his portrait on page 22; pictogram signature of
Short Man on pages 24 and 45; 12 x 10 in.
$300-500
227
229
London Gazette, August 6-10, 1776.
Two sheets removed from a bound volume,
trimmed at the foot with loss; containing
extracts from two letters from General Howe,
dated Staten Island, July 7 and 8, 1776,
regarding British troop movements, the
promise of successful recruitment of colonials
joining the fight with the British Army, with
early mention (in passing) of the issuance
of the Declaration of Independence, “I am
informed that the Continental Congress
have declared the United Colonies free and
independent States,” 11 3/4 x 7 1/4 in.
$100-200
230
Loreau, Max (1928-1990) Jean Dubuffet:
Delits, Deportements, Lieux de Haut Jeu.
Paris: Weber, 1971.
Large quarto, in publisher’s acetate dust
jacket with the New York Graphic Society
paper band; binding in black and white based
on a Dubuffet illustration, 12 x 9 1/2 in.
$300-500
231
231
Maffei, Raffaelo (1451-1522) De Institutione
Christiana ad Leone M. X. Pont. Max. Libri
Octo. Rome: Mazochium, 1518.
First edition, folio, title page printed within
composite woodcut compartment, text printed
in a single column throughout, in roman type;
both pastedowns are manuscript waste, in the
front, a leaf from a text manuscript on paper;
in back a parchment leaf in a humanistic
hand; bound in full contemporary blind-tooled
sheep, worn, with abrasions, worming, and
other damage at head and tail, but intact,
functioning and unsophisticated; some text
leaves quite browned, closed vertical tear
down the center of leaf M3; 11 1/2 x 8 in.
$600-800
232
Manuscript Autograph Book in German
with Drawings, c. 1796-1800.
Small landscape format octavo, with the
title, “Der Freundschaft,” painted as a
stone monument, dated 1796, with various
inscriptions, mostly in German, others in
French and Latin, and the occasional drawing;
a friendship album shared by a group of
artistic friends, bound in full contemporary
sheepskin, 6 1/4 x 3 1/2 in.
$400-600
233
Manuscript Notebook with Paintings,
Joseph [or Josiah] Bartlett, 1821.
Small folio format notebook of wove paper,
with a folk art title page in the style of a
monument surmounted by the American
eagle and a fine watercolor of a ship at sail
on the third leaf, other pages inscribed with
poems (seventeen leaves); the boards are old
panels on board with oil paintings of bucolic
landscapes, alum-tawed leather spine; binding
and sewing failed, 12 x 7 1/2 in.
$300-500
234
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of
Blessington (1789-1849) The Repealers,
Author’s Presentation Copy with Autograph
Letter Signed. London: Bentley, 1833.
First edition, three octavo volumes, volume
one inscribed by Blessington, with a letter in
her hand inserted, lacking the title page in
volume two, bound in uniform half dark green
calf, marbled paper boards, 7 1/4 x 4 1/2 in. (3)
$300-500
75
237
237
Marshall, John (1755-1835) The Life of
George Washington. Philadelphia: C.P.
Wayne, 1805 [-1807].
Five octavo text volumes, with the atlas
volume from another set (and perhaps another
edition), text volumes bound in uniform
contemporary diced russia, gilt-tooled spines
with labels, scuffed, 8 1/2 x 5 in.; the atlas
volume with engraved title, and ten handcolored maps, ex library, the first map with
a library stamp, contemporary label on front
board, half leather, boards detached, 8 1/2 x
5 1/4 in. (6)
$1,000-1,500
238
Masefield, John (1878-1967) Salt Water
Ballads, Signed Author’s Presentation
Copy. London: Grant Richards, 1902.
First edition, octavo, signed by Masefield on
ffep, in publisher’s blue cloth, t.e.g., other
edges left rough, housed in custom chemise
and blue half morocco slipcase, 7 1/2 x 4 3/4
in.
$400-600
235
Marine Society, Boston, Massachusetts,
The Constitution and Laws of the Boston
Marine Society. Boston: [No Printer], 1792.
The only edition of this title listed in
ESTC, rare, with only two locations
worldwide, both at the American Antiquarian
Society in Worcester; bound in modern
boards with the original limp marbled paper
wraps still in place within, some spotting to
title and elsewhere, 5 1/2 x 3 1/2 in.
$600-800
76
236
Marolles, Michel de (1600-1681) Tableaux
du Temple des Muses Representant les
Vertus, et les Vices. Paris: [No Printer], 1655.
Folio, second edition, engraved throughout,
with engraved architectural title, full-page
portraits of Favereau and Marolles, and
fifty-seven of fifty-eight engraved plates,
lacking plate 34; the plates engraved by
Cornelis Bloemaert based on designs mostly
by Abraham van Diepenbeeck inspired by
Greek mythological subjects, some ink stains,
spotting, later parchment, 17 x 11 in.
$600-800
239
Maseres, Francis (1731-1824) An Account
of the Proceedings of the British, and other
Protestant Inhabitants of the Province
of Quebeck, in North America. [and]
Additional Papers Concerning the Province
of Quebeck. London: White, 1775-1776.
First editions, two octavo volumes, gift
inscription attributed to the author on title of
second volume, both in boards, with paper
spines, untrimmed, in custom matching
chemises and half-morocco boxes, 9 x 5 1/4
in. (2)
Maseres was attorney general of the Province
of Quebec.
$1,500-2,000
240
240
Mathews, Alfred E. (1831-1874) Pencil
Sketches of Colorado, its Cities, Principal
Towns and Mountain Scenery. [New York:
Mathews,] 1866.
First edition, oblong folio, illustrated with
twenty-three colored and lightly tinted
lithographs printed by Julius Bien after
Mathews’s original sketches; title, preface (one
leaf), and six leaves of text after the prints;
bound in publisher’s brown cloth boards with
title stamped in gilt on front board within a
decorative cartouche; tissue guards present;
finger smudging to some plates; offsetting to
tissue guards; long tear (7 in.) to the plate of
Central City, repaired on the verso; two plates
with short unrepaired tears; two other plates
with short tears repaired with old cellophane
tape on the verso, the tape yellowed, the stain
confined to the verso; three tissue guards
with short tears repaired with yellowed tape;
binding with surface wear, corners bumped,
13 1/4 x 18 3/4 in.
$15,000-20,000
241
Matisse, Henri (1869-1954) Jazz. New York:
Braziller, 1983.
Stated first edition (thus: reprint of the original
Verve edition of 1947), with color illustrations,
in publisher’s original binding, dust jacket,
slipcase and cardboard shipping box, 15 1/4
x 11 3/4 in.
$200-300
242
McCloskey, Robert (1914-2003) Lentil,
Signed First Edition of McCloskey’s First
Book, with Dust Jacket. New York: Viking,
1940.
First edition, signed by McCloskely on halftitle, under the harmonica, bound in full creamcolored publisher’s cloth, with Lentil’s head on
the front board in red; spine titled in red; the
jacket worn, with portions missing from the
front panel, surface insect damage, losses at
head and tail, 12 x 9 in.
$400-600
243
Meehan, Thomas (1826-1901) The Native
Flowers and Ferns of the United States.
Boston: Prang, [1878].
Four large octavo volumes, illustrated with
chromolithographs, publisher’s cloth, a.e.g.,
10 x 7 in. (4)
$300-500
244
Melville, Herman (1819-1891) Moby Dick,
Illustrated by Rockwell Kent (1882-1971).
New York: Random House, 1930.
First trade edition, octavo, with original
publisher’s dust jacket, in black cloth
publisher’s binding blocked in silver, 7 1/4 x
5 in.
$200-300
77
248
245
Mencken, Henry Louis (1880-1956) Six
Books Signed and Inscribed by the Author.
In Defense of Women, New York: Goodman,
1918; Heliogabalus, New York: Knopf, 1920,
one of 2,000 copies printed, with the original
dust jacket; The American Credo, New York:
Knopf, 1920; Prejudices, Second and Third
Series, New York: Knopf, 1920 and 1922;
and the Hungarian imprint, Anok Vedelmeben,
undated, in paper wrappers; all octavo, the
American imprints all in dark blue publisher’s
cloth; all volumes inscribed to Nichoals Alter
and signed by Mencken. (6)
$400-600
78
246
Merchant Ship’s Log Book, 1830-1840
Quarto format log book containing notes
from various sea voyages in the mid-1830s
taken by Captain Addison Drinkwater Fisher
(1813-1887) of Georgetown, Sagadahoc,
Maine, for various ships, including the
brig Monument; the ships Europe and
Pantheon; and the frigate Constellation for
her trip to the Mediterranean in the sprint
of 1832, commanded by George Read;
also containing the transcription of letters,
poetry, accounting of ships stores, and other
notes; approximately two-thirds of the pages
with inscriptions, inscribed from both ends,
with a blank section in the center, bound in
contemporary half leather with marbled paper
boards, with wear, 10 1/2 x 8 1/4 in.
$700-900
247
Mills, Stella Marie (1903-1989) The Saga of
Hrolf Kraki. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1933.
First and only edition, in publisher’s green
cloth, 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.
Mills was a student and lifelong friend of J.R.R.
Tolkien; this was her only published work.
Tolkien was very familiar with the Hrolf Saga,
for example Tolkien’s character Beorn, the
shape-changer, from The Hobbit, was based
on Bothvar Bjarki (little bear) and his father
Bjorn, who metamorphose into bears. This
book was dedicated by Mills to her professors
Gordon, Tolkien, and Onions.
$200-300
248
Milne, Alan Alexander (1882-1956) Winniethe-Pooh, Four First Edition Titles in Dust
Jackets, One Signed.
When We Were Very Young, London:
Methuen, [1924], first edition, illustrations
by Ernest Shepard, no roman numerals on
the contents page, in publisher’s blue cloth
boards, gilt-decorated, t.e.g., with the creamcolored textured paper dust jacket printed in
blue ink; dust jacket slightly worn, with finger
smudges and some ink doodles to two letters
in the title (not very noticeable); Winnie-thePooh, London: Methuen, [1926], first edition,
illustrations by Shepard, bound in publisher’s
gilt pictorial green cloth boards, t.e.g., in the
original dust jacket, slightly worn, smudged;
Now We are Six, London: Methuen, [1927],
first edition illustrated by Shepard, bound in
publisher’s red cloth, t.e.g., the binding quite
clean, in the original green paper dust jacket;
[and] The House at Pooh Corner, London:
Methuen, [1928], first edition, signed by Milne
on title page; bound in publisher’s salmon
cloth, pictorial gilt tooling to front board, in the
original dust jacket, jacket slightly worn and
frayed, all housed in a custom chemise and
blue half morocco slipcase, each volume 7 1/2
x 4 3/4 in.
$20,000-25,000
249
Möllhausen, Balduin (1825-1905) Diary of a
Journey from the Mississippi to the Coasts
of the Pacific. London: Longman, Brown,
Green, Longmans, & Roberts, 1858.
Volume one only of two, first English edition
of Möllhausen’s Tagebuch; with frontispiece,
folding map, and five full-page illustrations, not
collated, bound in full calf, 8 1/2 x 5 1/4 in.
[Together with] Gabriel Franchere’s Narrative of
a Voyage to the Northwest Coast of America,
New York: Redfield, 1854, octavo, with
frontispiece, publisher’s cloth, 7 1/4 x 4 3/4
in. (2)
$600-800
250
Nardi, Jacopo (1476-1563) Le Storie della
Citta di Firenze. Florence: Sermartelli, 1584.
Quarto, title printed in red and black, in slightly
later parchment, spotting to contents, 8 1/4 x
5 3/4 in.
$300-400
251
Natural History, Four Titles in Six Volumes.
Eaton’s Ferns of North America, Salem:
Cassino, 1879, illustrated throughout with
color lithographs, in two large quarto volumes,
bound in uniform contemporary green
morocco, a.e.g., worn, rubbed, bindings
damaged; Homer House’s Wild Flowers of
New York, Albany: State University, 1923, in
two large quarto volumes, illustrated with color
photogravures throughout, second printing, in
uniform publisher’s green cloth; Foy’s Guide
to the Orchard and Fruit Garden, New York:
Riker, 1846, octavo, folding color frontis,
bound in publisher’s full brown cloth, stamped
in gilt on front board, gilt title; [and] Lyon’s
Treatise on the Physiology and Pathology
of Trees, Edinburgh: by Stewart for the
Author, 1816, octavo, untrimmed, spotting to
contents, ex library, in worn half cloth. (6)
$300-500
252
Newton, Sir Isaac (1642-1727)
Observations upon the Prophecies of
Daniel and the Apocalypse of St. John.
London: by Darby and Browne, sold by
Roberts et al., 1733.
First edition, quarto, in a modern binding, full
speckled sheep, antique style; former owner’s
name expunged from the title with loss of
paper, 9 1/2 x 7 1/2 in.
$800-1,000
254
Pacific Northwest, Five Volumes.
Lewis & Dryden’s Marine History of the Pacific
Northwest, edited by E.W. Wright; Portland,
Oregon: Lewis & Dryden Printing Co., 1895,
small folio, in full contemporary morocco, front
joint split; Caroline Leighton’s Life at Puget
Sound, Boston: Lee & Shepard [and] New
York: Dillingham, 1884, octavo, in publisher’s
pictorial boards; Tacoma and Vicinity,
Tacoma, Washington: Nuhn & Wheeler,
1888, landscape octavo; tinted lithographic
views and advertising, publisher’s cloth spine
and pictorial boards; Ezra Meeker’s Pioneer
Reminiscences of Puget Sound. The Tragedy
of Leschi, Seattle, Washington: Lowman &
Hanford, 1905, large octavo, illustrated, bound
in publisher’s blue cloth; [and] Reverend
H.K. Hines’s Illustrated History of the State
of Washington, Chicago: Lewis Publishing,
1893, large quarto, a.e.g., later black cloth,
illustrated. (5)
$200-300
255
Painter, William (c. 1540-1594) The Palace
of Pleasure. London: Cresset Press, 1929.
Limited edition, copy number 245 of 500
printed on mold-made paper; four small folio
volumes, with an introduction by Hamish
Miles, illustrated by Douglas Percy Bliss; with
frontispieces in color in each volume, bound in
uniform publisher’s linen spines and patterned
paper boards, 11 1/2 x 7 1/2 in. (4)
$150-250
253
Noah, Mordecai M. (1785-1851) Travels in
England, France, Spain, and the Barbary
States in the Years 1813-14 and 15. New
York: by Kirk and Mercein; London: by John
Miller, 1819.
First edition, with portrait frontispiece of
Noah bound opposite title, and large folding
view of the Fortress of Goleta near Tunis, the
engraving “Merchant Slave & Arab” at page
300; and the engraving of Abdallah American
Drogman at page 317; pages 299 through
302 inserted from a smaller copy; bound in
contemporary half leather with marbled paper
boards; foxing and spotting to contents, 8 1/2
x 5 1/4 in.
$600-800
79
259
Perrine, Van Dearing (1869-1955) Studies of
Isadora Duncan Dancing and One Framed
Pastel, Inscribed.
Eighteen sketches on sixteen sheets of paper,
executed with a waxy crayon, quick gestural
drawings of Duncan dancing, with a framed
pastel derived from the sketches, signed
on by the artist on the mounted, presented
to Percy MacKaye, matted and framed; the
studies mostly 12 3/4 x 8 in., two slightly
narrower; the pastel 12 x 9 in.
Duncan, Perrine, and MacKaye worked
together in various artistic collaborations in
the early part of the 20th century. Duncan so
admired Perrine’s drawings of her that she
chose them to adorn the program for her
performance at the Metropolitan Opera House
in November of 1916.
Ober.
$2,000-3,000
264
256
Pallas, Peter Simon (1741-1811) Travels
through the Southern Provinces of the
Russian Empire, in the Years 1793 and
1794. London: by Strahan for Longman et al.,
1802-1803.
First English edition, in two large quarto
volumes, volume one illustrated with twentyfive full-page and folding plates, of which
twenty are hand-colored; fourteen vignettes,
of which thirteen are hand-colored; and three
uncolored maps; volume two illustrated with
five plates only of twenty-seven, of which
two are colored; fourteen vignettes, ten of
which are hand-colored; and one uncolored
map; bound in uniform calf, rebacked, boards
detached, sewing structure perished, some
spotting and repaired tears to contents, 10
1/2 x 8 in. (2)
$400-600
80
257
Parker, Samuel (1779-1866) Journal of
an Exploring Tour Beyond the Rocky
Mountains. Ithaca, New York: by Mack,
Andrus, & Woodruff, for the author, 1838.
First edition, octavo, with the large folding map
of the Oregon territory bound before the title
(one or two small holes along folds, spotting),
and one full-page plate of rock formations;
bound in full contemporary speckled
sheepskin, old label on spine, hinges weak,
internal spotting, 7 1/2 x 4 1/2 in.
$200-300
258
Parker, Samuel (1779-1866) Journal of
an Exploring Tour Beyond the Rocky
Mountains. Ithaca, New York: by Mack,
Andrus, & Woodruff, for the author, 1838.
First edition, octavo, with the large folding
map of the Oregon territory bound before
the title (water stains, tears, inexpert repairs
with cellophane tape); one full-page plate of
rock formations; in contemporary patterned
cloth, rebacked, the original spine replaced,
signs of old tape, housed in custom blue cloth
chemise and slipcase, 7 1/2 x 4 1/2 in.
$300-500
260
Phillpotts, Eden (1862-1960) A Dish of
Apples, Illustrated by Arthur Rackham,
Signed by Author and Artist. London & New
York: Hodder & Stoughton, [1921].
Limited edition, copy number ninety-three of
500 signed by Phillpotts and Rackham on the
limitation page, with three color illustrations,
publisher’s white cloth, stamped in gold on
front board; portrait of Rackham cut from a
magazine mounted on blank before half-title,
contemporary gift inscription on ffep, 10 x 7
1/2 in.
$350-450
261
Piccolomini, Alessandro (1508-1579) Della
Sfera del Mondo. Venice: Bevilacqua, 1561.
Quarto in eights, two parts in one, with
separate title page for second part,
typographical star charts in the text, bound in
later half parchment, marbled paper boards, 8
1/4 x 5 3/4 in.
$1,000-1,200
262
Piccolomini, Alessandro (1508-1579) La
Sfera del Mondo. Venice: Giovanni Varisco,
1566.
Quarto, illustrated with text woodcuts and
the forty-seven woodcut full-page star charts,
bound in contemporary limp parchment;
spotting to interior pages, some repairs to
pastedowns and parchment covering, 8 1/4
x 6 in.
$1,000-1,200
265
263
Poesie per le Nozze Solenni della Nobil
Donna Andriana Barbaro col Nobil Uomo
Nicolo Foscarini Dedicate a Sue Eccellenze
Giovanni Barbaro Fratello e Chiara
Barbarigo Barbaro Cognata della Sposa.
Venice: [Albrizzi?], 1766.
[Bound with] Poesie per le Fauste Nozze
della Nobil Donna Andriana Barbaro col
Nobil Uomo Nicolo Foscarini Dedicate a S.E.
Procuratessa Cecilia Emo Barbaro Madrea
della Sposa, [Venice: Antonio Zatta, 1766].
Folio, title page in the first work printed in red
and black, with engraved frontis facing; title of
second work printed in blue and red, each title
with engraved vignette, engraved head- and
tail-pieces, text printed on heavy paper, with
very large margins; bound in contemporary
mottled brown morocco, ornately tooled in
gilt, all edges gilt, marbled endleaves; endcaps
almost imperceptibly renewed, otherwise very
good, occasional spotting in the text, generally
very fresh, ex libris John Sax, with his book
label, 14 x 9 3/4 in.
These two collections of epithalamia, or
poems written in honor of the marriage of
Andriana Barbaro and Nicolo Foscarini, are
both rare. The first title is only held in one
library worldwide, according to Worldcat; no
listing exists for the second.
$2,000-2,500
268
264
Potter, Beatrix (1866-1943) The Pie and
The Patty Pan, First Edition, Inscribed
Presentation Copy. London: Frederick Warne
and Co., 1905.
First edition, signed by Potter on ffep, “For
Mrs. Cannon from Miss Potter, Jan. 13th
1906,” with ten full-page color illustrations and
uncolored smaller text illustrations throughout,
bound in publisher’s dark brown paper over
board, with decorative blocking and lettering
in white ink on the front board, and a printed
color portrait of Ribby set into the cover,
mottled lavender endleaves; the binding
sympathetically rebacked, housed in a custom
red buckram wrap and half morocco slipcase,
7 x 5 1/2 in.
$4,000-6,000
265
Potter, Beatrix (1866-1943) The Tale of
Benjamin Bunny, Presentation Copy.
London: Frederick Warne & Co. 1904.
12mo, inscribed by Potter on ffep, “For Miss
Davidson, with love from Beatrix Potter, Oct.
24th ‘04”; with “muffatees” on page fifteen,
bound in publisher’s tan boards with green
lettering and mounted color illustration of
Benjamin on front board; text and color
illustrations on coated paper with occasional
pairs of blank pages, housed in a custom
chemise and slipcase, half red morocco and
buckram; slight wear to binding, joints a bit
frail; frontispiece folding from the gutter at an
angle, 5 1/2 x 4 in.
$5,000-7,000
266
Potter, Beatrix (1866-1943) The Tale of Mr.
Tod, [and] The Tale of Pigling Bland. New
York: Frederick Warne & Co., 1912 & 1913.
First editions, two 16mo volumes, both with
color illustrations throughout, Pigling Bland in
publisher’s red paper boards with inset color
image of the pig at the crossroads; Mr. Tod
in publisher’s gray boards with inset color
plate of Mr. Tod returning from the hunt; each
housed in a custom half red morocco case, 5
1/2 x 4 in. (2)
$350-550
267
Potter, Beatrix (1866-1943) The Tale of
Timmy Tiptoes. London: Frederick Warne &
Co., 1911.
First edition, 12mo, publisher’s boards, color
illustrations, in custom half morocco case, 5
1/2 x 4 in.
$300-500
268
Potter, Beatrix (1866-1943) The Tale of Tom
Kitten. London: Frederick Warne & Co., 1907.
First edition, 16mo, printed on coated
paper, with twenty-seven color illustrations,
in publisher’s brownish gray paper boards,
lettered in white, with an inset color illustration
of Tom in his ill-fitting clothes, housed in
custom half morocco box, slightly cocked, 5
1/2 x 4 1/4 in.
$600-800
81
272
Railroad Lot, Four Titles in Six Volumes.
Including: Philip Dawson’s Electric Railways
and Tramways, their Construction and
Operation, a Practical Handbook, London:
offices of engineering; and New York: Wiley &
Sons, 1897; Corporate History of the Chicago,
Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company,
1917, with maps inside the back board and
associated documents, receipts and letters;
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad
Company Documentary History, 1928, in four
volumes; [and] Richard C. Overton’s Burlington
Route, New York: Knopf, 1965, first edition,
with the original dust jacket, signed by twenty
employees of Burlington Truck Lines, including
president, Yale James, and others. (6)
$300-500
273
Rand, Ayn (1905-1982) Atlas Shrugged,
Signed Tenth Anniversary Edition. New
York: Random House, [1967].
Octavo, signed by Rand on limitation page,
copy number 1,874 of 2,000, in acetate dust
jacket and slipcase, 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.
$1,000-1,500
271
269
Pratt, Harry E. (1901-1956) Lincoln 18091839 [and] 1840-1846, Being the Day-byDay Activities of Abraham Lincoln, Pratt’s
Copy, with Extensive Notes, Additions,
and Correspondence. Springfield, Illinois:
Abraham Lincoln Association, 1939 and 1941.
Two octavo volumes, with many hundreds of
added information, typed and handwritten,
and additional notes, clippings, and
correspondence relevant to the project, with
Pratt’s signature, in blue cloth, 9 x 6 in. (2)
$300-500
271
Qur’an, First English Translation from the
Arabic: The Koran, Commonly called the
Alcoran of Mohammed. London: by Ackers
for Wilcox, 1734.
First edition, large quarto, translated into
English by George Sale (1697-1736) title page
printed in red and black, illustrated with large
folding map of the Arabian peninsula and
adjacent land; three engraved lineage charts
(two folding, one full-page); and a folding plan/
view of Mecca; bound in full contemporary
Dutch parchment over boards, tooled in blind,
covers soiled, 9 3/4 x 8 in.
$1,000-1,500
270
Prince, Thomas (1687-1758) A
Chronological History of New-England in
the Form of Annals. Boston: Kneeland &
Green, 1736.
First edition, octavo, volume one only,
title printed in red and black, volume two
published in 1755, titled Annals, bound
in contemporary paneled calf, front board
detached, 6 1/2 x 3 3/4 in.
$250-350
82
274
Rare Books, Six Assorted Volumes.
Including: Walter R. Brooks’s Freddy and Mr.
Camphor, and Freddy and the Popinjay, New
York: Knopf, 1944 & 1945, both in publisher’s
cloth; Sichel’s Emma Lady Hamilton, London:
Constable, 1905; Victor Hugo’s Battle of
Waterloo, East Aurora: Roycrofters, 1907, in
damaged suede binding; [and] Picturesque
America, edited by William Cullen Bryant, in
two volumes, publisher’s leather, damaged. (6)
$250-350
275
Reed, John (1887-1920) Sangar: The Mad
Recreant Knight of the West, First Edition,
Inscribed Copy. Hillacre, Riverside, CT:
Frederick C. Bursch, 1913.
Octavo, limited edition, dedicated to fellow
journalist and mentor Lincoln Steffens
(1866-1936) with his portrait frontispiece;
signed and inscribed to American dramatist
and poet Percy MacKaye (1875-1956) on
ffep; with a typed letter signed by Reed to
MacKaye inserted; deckle edges throughout,
in publisher’s paper binding and slipcase, case
slightly toned with a small crack, 9 1/2 x 6
1/4 in.
Ober.
$500-700
273
276
Rowling, J.K. (b. 1965) Harry Potter and
the Goblet of Fire, Signed Copy. London:
Bloomsbury, [2000].
Stated first edition, signed by Rowling on
dedication page, in publisher’s binding and
dust jacket, 7 3/4 x 5 in.
$300-500
277
Royal Society. Philosophical Transactions
Giving Some Account of the Present
Undertakings, Studies, and Labours, of the
Ingenious, in Many Considerable Parts of
the World. Vol. L. Part II. for the Year 1758.
London: for Davis and Reymers, 1759.
Quarto, illustrated with eighteen folding plates,
including a large folding engraving of the
streets of Peking, contents generally good, 8
1/2 x 6 1/4 in.
$300-500
280
278
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Illustrated by
Elihu Vedder (1836-1923). Boston: Houghton
Mifflin, 1886.
Large quarto, pages printed on one side only,
each sheet mounted on a fabric guard, in
brown publisher’s boards, stamped in gold, 12
1/2 x 9 in.
$250-350
279
Ruzicka, Rudolph (1883-1978) Newark, a
Series of Engravings on Wood. Newark,
New Jersey: Carteret Book Club, 1917.
First edition, limited, number 138 of 200, with
five full-page illustrations printed by Ruzicka
in New York in multiple colors and all signed
by the artist in pencil, the text and illustrations
printed by D.B. Updike at the Merrymount
Press, Boston, text by Richard Prichard Eaton;
this copy unopened, in publisher’s yellow
cloth spine and marbled paper boards, in the
original (badly damaged) slipcase, which has
protected the book well for almost 100 years,
12 x 9 in.
$400-600
280
Sacrobosco, Johannes de (c. 1195-c.
1256) Sphaera Ioannis de Sacro Bosco
[bound with] Libellus de Anni Ratione [and]
Compendium in Sphaeram per Pierium
Valerianum Bellunensem. Paris: Cavellat,
1550.
Octavo, three parts in one, illustrated with
text woodcuts throughout; the first signature
misbound; last two leaves blank and present,
one as a torn stub; a few neat contemporary
marginal notes; bound in full blind rolled
sheepskin over boards, very neatly rebacked,
medieval manuscript waste used as endleaf
guards, corners bumped, some water stains
near the end of the last work, 6 1/2 x 3 3/4 in.
$400-600
83
281
281
Salten, Felix (1869-1945) Bambi, a Life in
the Woods, with Signed Photograph of the
Author. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1928.
First American edition, with a photograph of
Salten inscribed to Nelson Craig, and signed
by the author in 1935 pasted opposite the
title, on the verso of the frontis; bound in
publisher’s green cloth, illustrated throughout,
one page of publisher’s ads at the end, 8 x 5
1/4 in.
$400-600
282
Salter, T.F. (act. 1810) The Angler’s Guide.
London: for the Author by Carpenter & Son,
1816.
Fourth edition, octavo, illustrated, bound in
publisher’s printed pictorial boards, deckle
edges throughout, modern leather rebacking,
7 1/2 x 4 1/4 in.
$250-350
84
283
Sandburg, Carl (1878-1967) Signed Copies
in Dust Jackets, Six Volumes.
Including: Remembrance Rock first trade
edition; The Photographs of Abraham
Lincoln first edition; Home Front Memo, first
edition; Storm Over the Land; and Always
the Young Strangers; all signed by Sandburg,
all printed in New York by Harcourt, Brace,
& Co., regular trade editions; [and] Bronze
Wood, San Francisco: Grabhorn Press for
Gelber, Lilienthal, Inc., 1941; with original
photographic frontispiece by Henry Flannery,
copy seventeen of fifty, signed by Sandburg
and Flannery, in publisher’s half cloth. (6)
$400-600
284
Sandburg, Carl (1878-1967) Steichen the
Photographer, Signed by Sandburg and
Steichen. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co.,
[1929].
First edition, limited, copy number 587 of 925
printed, illustrated throughout with sepiacolored reproductions of Steichen’s work,
spanning the breadth of his portfolio, including
photographs of actors, intellectuals, fashion
and advertising shots, still lifes, improvisations,
close-up images of flowers, and other
subjects; in publisher’s cloth, dusty and
rubbed, small spot along top edge on ffep,
half-title, and limitation page, 12 1/4 x 9 1/4 in.
$1,800-2,200
285
Saubert, Johann (1592-1646) Historia
Bibliothecae Reip. Noribergensis, duabus
Oratiunculis illustrata, quarum altera de
ejus Structoribus & Curatoribus, altera
de Rarioribus. Nurnberg: Wolfgang Endter,
1643.
12mo, illustrated with engraved frontis and
folding engraving with views of the interior of
the library; in an unusual contemporary blindtooled sheepskin binding over thin wooden
boards, a.e.g., headcap chipped away, fabric
ties lost, surfaces scuffed, corners bumped
and chipped; ink name on verso of title rubbed
out a bit aggressively, with some loss of paper,
5 x 2 3/4 in.
This early library manual contains an account
of the invention of printing with movable type
in Western Europe in the 15th century and a
chronological list of incunabula.
$2,000-2,500
284
285
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Sewell, Anna (1820-1878) Black Beauty, First Edition,
Presentation Copy, with Two Autograph Letters Signed.
London: Jarrold and Sons, [1877].
First edition, octavo, with eight pages of publishers ads at
the end; bound in full publisher’s brick red cloth, the front
cover with rustic border, expanding letters of title, and head
and shoulders of horse facing right blocked in black; the
surrounding foliage, halter, reins, nostril and eye of horse
blocked in gold; spine with border in black; publisher’s name,
title, and foliage blocked in gold; inscribed by Sewell on
verso of frontispiece, “For Dearest Cousin Emma with the
Author’s fond love, Christmas 1877”; the binding with slight
abrasion on front board, tips rubbed; housed in a custom
slipcase; joint of inner front endleaf slightly separated, 6 1/2
x 4 in.
[Together with] two autograph letters signed by Sewell,
both addressed to her cousin Emma Curtis, author of Annie
Barclay, and Jottings of an Old Woman of Eighty, according
to family notes made in pencil on Sewell’s letter; the first
written on 26 December 1877; the other on 2 January 1878,
with its original envelope.
“I sent you a book on the 22nd which I hope arrived safely
and brought my love with it. I now only write to say please do
not acknowledge it until someone--dare I say you? has had
time to read it because I want to know your opinion of it.”
“It is impossible for me to tell you all the pleasure that your
letter gave me, but as you were an author before any of us,
you may perhaps imagine it. I am delighted that you like my
book and when I can you shall have that long letter that you
bespeak, but just now Beauty & I have so many journeys to
go together that I am hard put to it.”
$8,000-12,000
86
287
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) Mr.
William Shakespear’s Comedies, Histories,
and Tragedies. Published according to
the true Original Copies. London: for H.
Herringman, E. Brewster, and R. Bentley, at
the Anchor in the New Exchange, the Crane in
St. Paul’s Church-Yard, and in Russel-Street
Covent-Garden, 1685.
Fourth folio, engraved portrait frontispiece
of the poet by Martin Droeshout facing the
typographical title, with the ten lines of verse
by Ben Jonson beneath; with the anonymous
Epitaph by John Minton; the leaf L1 printed
in a smaller typeface; printed in two columns
throughout, within single rule borders; bound
in full brown calfskin, c. 1820, decorated in a
very spare geometric style reminiscent of
cathedral bindings, spine tooled and lettered
in gilt, inner gilt dentelles, inner leather joints,
double silk endbands, gilt and gauffered
edges, expertly rebacked, with the spine
replaced; old bookplate removed from inside
board; housed in full red morocco slipcase
by Scroll Club, New York; occasional spotting
to contents; repaired tears here and there;
generally good; scuffs and wear to slipcase,
13 3/4 x 8 3/4 in.
$40,000-60,000
87
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288
Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822) The
Cenci. A Tragedy, in Five Acts. Italy: for C.
and J. Ollier, London, 1819.
First edition, large octavo, 250 copies printed,
bound in full crushed dark brown morocco
by Riviere, the boards nicely tooled in gilt, gilt
ruled and lettered spine, a.e.g., olive green
watered silk endleaves and pastedowns, in
a custom slipcase, some light spotting to
contents, 8 3/4 x 5 1/4 in.
$2,000-2,500
289
Sinclair, Upton Beall, Jr. (1878-1968)
The Jungle. New York: Jungle Publishing,
[February 1906].
Octavo, the Sustainers’ Edition, one of 5,000
copies published as an advance order copy
at the request of the Socialist press, with label
to that effect pasted inside the front board;
bound in green publisher’s cloth, pictorial
stamping to front board and spine in black
and white, 7 3/4 x 4 3/4 in.
$200-300
88
290
Smith, William (1728-1793) The History of
the Province of New-York, from the First
Discovery to the Year M.DCC.XXXII, Ex
Dono Authoris. London: for Thomas Wilcox,
1757.
First edition, large quarto, inscribed on title,
“Abrm: Keteltas’s the gift of the Author,” with
Keteltas’s (1732-1798) red inked ownership
stamp to title; printed invitation from Thomas
Jefferson inviting William Keteltas to dine,
unsigned and undated, pasted on the verso
of the title; armorial bookplate of Abraham
L. Smith pasted at the foot of the preface;
numerous notes throughout in the hand of
Caroline Keteltas, granddaughter of Abraham
Keteltas, all circa 1839; the text illustrated with
one folding plate, “The South View of Oswego
on Lake Ontario”; bound in contemporary
boards, rebacked, 10 x 8 in.
Abraham Keteltas (1732-1798) was a
graduate of Yale University in 1752; he married
William Smith’s sister and they had eleven
children together. Smith was Chief Justice of
the Province of New York from 1783 to 1782.
This work is the first history of the state of
New York published.
$2,000-3,000
291
Sousa e Sampaio, Francisco Coelho de (fl.
circa 1790) Preleccoes de Direito Patrio
Publico, e Particular [First, Second, and
Third Parts]. Coimbra: Real Imprensa da
Universidade, 1793.
Quarto, two volumes in one; [bound with] the
same author’s Observacoes as Preleccoes,
Lisbon: Impressao Regia, 1805; first work
illustrated with an engraved frontispiece
portrait of Joao VI, King of Portugal; all parts
bound together in a full contemporary red
morocco binding from Portugal, with the
arms of Joao VI stamped in gilt on both
boards, fancy rolled-tool gilt boards, and
spine compartments decorated with swags of
garlands and urns, edges sprinkle decorated
with gold, some marginal stains, 8 x 5 1/2 in.
$700-900
292
Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894)
Treasure Island. London: Cassell & Co.,
1883.
First edition, octavo, with the following issue
points: pages two and seven, “dead man’s
chest” not capitalized; page forty, last line,
first word, the “v” in “vain” mutilated; page
eighty-three, the “8” not printed; page 127,
the “7” printed slightly higher and darker than
the other digits; page 178, first sentence of
the paragraph starting, “Well,” and ending
“opportunity” no period; page 197, third line,
“worse” instead of “worst”; and eight pages
of advertisements labeled “5R-1083”; bound
in full crimson publisher’s cloth; titled in gilt on
spine, the pages cocked, some discolorations
to boards, with black coated endleaves,
housed in chemise and red morocco
slipcase, binding/sewing structure somewhat
compromised, 7 1/2 x 4 3/4 in.
$2,000-2,500
293
Strand, Paul (1890-1976) The Mexican
Portfolio. New York: Da Capo Press, 1967.
Folio, loose sheets housed in publisher’s
portfolio and slipcase, copy number 282 of
1,000 copies, signed by Strand on limitation
page; illustrated with twenty hand-pulled
gravure plates, and eight pages of text; with
the original prospectus; damage to slipcase,
16 x 12 1/2 in.
$1,000-1,500
290
292
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294
294
Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745) Travels into
Several Remote Nations of the World.
London: for Benj. Motte, 1726.
Four parts in two octavo volumes, portrait
in volume one with Latin inscription, the set
containing five maps and one linguistic chart;
the second volume does not have “Volume
II” printed on the title page; bound in uniform
brown calf by Bayntun (Riviere), gilt spines,
a.e.g., housed in a custom slipcase, 7 1/4 x 4
1/2 in. (2)
$2,500-3,500
295
Synge, John Millington (1871-1909)
Playboy of the Western World. Boston: John
W. Luce & Co., 1911.
First American edition, octavo, ex libris Percy
MacKaye, with inscriptions on endleaves,
publisher’s white paper spine, dark green
boards titled in gilt on front board, 7 1/2 x 4
1/2 in.
Ober.
$250-350
296
90
296
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord (1809-1892) Queen
Mary, Author’s Presentation Copy. London:
Henry S. King & Co., 1875.
Octavo, inscribed by Tennyson on title page,
“Blanche Vere Ponsonby from A. Tennyson,”
bound in full navy blue morocco, tooled in
gold, a.e.g., rebacked, housed in a custom
slipcase, 6 1/2 x 4 1/4 in.
Blanche Vere Ponsonby (née Guest) was
Countess of Bessborough and wife of 8th Earl
of Bessborough; she died in 1919.
$800-1,000
297
Texas, Six Titles in Eight Volumes.
Historical and Biographical Record of the
Cattle Industry and the Cattlemen of Texas,
New York: Antiquarian Press, 1959, limited
edition facsimile, copy number 28 of 500
published, in half leather, with original acetate
dust jackets and publisher’s slipcase; Carl,
Prince of Solms-Braunfels’s Texas 18441845, Houston: Anson Jones Press, 1936,
in contemporary blue cloth; Rupert Norval
Richardson’s Texas, the Lone Star State,
New York: Prentice-Hall, 1943, signed by the
author, with cards signed by John H. Reagan
and Sam Bell Maxey tipped onto ffep, bound
in publisher’s cloth with original dust jacket;
Robles’s Coahuila y Texas, Mexico: [Antigua
Libreria Robredo], 1945 & 1946, two volumes,
original publisher’s wraps, glassine covers,
unopened; Bolton’s Texas in the Middle
Eighteenth Century, Berkeley: University of
California Press, 1915, in later buckram,
partially unopened; [and] Reed’s History of the
Texas Railroads, Houston: St. Clair Publishing,
[1941], second edition, in publisher’s blue
cloth. (8)
$300-500
298
298
The Costume of the Russian Empire,
Illustrated by a Series of Seventy-Three
Engravings. London: for W. Miller, 1803.
Large quarto, text printed in English and
French throughout, illustrated with seventythree full-page hand-colored aquatints, bound
in full contemporary straight-grained morocco,
tooled in gilt; somewhat dry, rubbed, 14 x 10
1/4 in.
$400-600
91
299
300
302
299
The First Book of the Author’s Club, Liber
Scriptorum. New York: Published by the
Author’s Club [by the De Vinne Press], 1893.
First edition, limited, copy number thirty-two
of 251 copies sold, folio, containing short
pieces by 109 different authors, each of whom
has signed their name to the piece; including:
Andrew Carnegie, William Starbuck Mayo,
Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and many
others; bound in full publisher’s straightgrained brown calfskin over beveled boards,
tooled in blind and gilt, by the De Vinne Press
binders, t.e.g.; deckle edges, nicely preserved,
the binding slightly rubbed, 12 1/2 x 8 1/2 in.
The daunting process of collecting all of the
signatures is described in the preface. “Every
article, in every copy of the book is signed by
its author with pen and ink. In this feature it
is unique. The obtaining of these signatures
proved to be the most difficult problem
connected with the task. [...] [M]ore than
twenty-seven thousand signatures in all [were
collected.]”
$5,000-7,000
300
The Tres Riches Heures of Jean, Duke of
Berry; Les Tres Riches Heures de Duc de
Berry, Facsimile. New York: Abrams [and]
Lucern: Faksimile-Verlag, [1984].
Two folio volumes, limited edition of 980
copies, text volume edited by Raymond
Cazelles, bound in half red leather and green
silk boards; facsimile volume printed in full
color throughout, with metallic inks, bound in
full red morocco, tooled in gilt, in very good
condition, the two volumes housed in a Lucite
box, 11 1/2 x 8 in. (2)
$2,500-3,500
302
Timberlake, Lieutenant Henry (d. 1765) The
Memoirs. London: for the Author, sold by
Ridley, Nicoll, and Henderson, 1765.
First and only 18th century edition, octavo,
with half-title and the folding map, “A Draught
of the Cherokee Country on the west side of
the twenty four Mountains commonly called
Over the Hills,” and the folding engraved
plate depicting an encoded page from the
journal of a French officer killed by Indians;
a large copy, with deckle edges in evidence;
in contemporary dark blue straight-grained
morocco boards, decorated with rolled gilt
tooling along board edges and inner dentelles,
rebacked, tan endpapers replaced over the
original marbled ones at the same time, 8 1/4
x 5 in.
“Lt. Henry Timberlake’s Memoirs provide the
most detailed account of Cherokee life in the
eighteenth century. Timberlake visited the
Cherokee Overhill towns for three months in
1761-62 and accompanied three Cherokee
leaders to London to meet with King George
III and other political figures.” (from the
description of Duane H. King’s new edition
of the Memoirs, University of North Carolina
Press, 2007)
“[Timberlake’s] detailed descriptions of
Cherokee villages, townhouses, weapons,
and tools have helped historians and
anthropologists identify Cherokee structures
and cultural objects uncovered at modern
archaeological excavation sites throughout
the southern Appalachian region. During the
Tellico Archaeological Project, which included
a series of salvage excavations conducted in
the Little Tennessee River basin in the 1970s,
archaeologists used Timberlake’s “Draught of
the Cherokee Country” to help locate major
Overhill village sites.” (Wikipedia)
$20,000-25,000
301
Third Annual Report of the Board of
Commissioners of the Central Park. New
York: Bryant, 1860.
Octavo, illustrated with frontispiece, eight
full-page plates, three folding plates, and
the colored folding map, contents good, in
the original dark green blind stamped cloth
binding, metal foil stamped title on front board,
9 x 5 1/2 in.
Ober.
$400-600
93
303
303
Torah Nevi’im U’kethuvim. The Twenty-Four
Books of the Holy Scriptures. Carefully
Translated According to the Massoratic
Text, After the Best Jewish Authorities and
Supplied with Short Explanatory Notes
by Isaac Leeser. Philadelphia: Published
at 1227 Walnut Street, 5617 [i.e. 1856 or
1857]. Second small-format edition of the
first translation of the complete Hebrew Bible
into English by a Jewish scholar, 18mo;
improved and corrected over the previous
quarto edition; new preface signed Tebeth
29, 5616 and January 7, 1856; 1,243 pages;
text printed in double columns throughout,
bound in full black pebbled morocco, ornately
tooled in gilt on boards and spine, with inner
gilt dentelles, a.e.g., the front board tooled
with the name of Arthur T. Hendricks [likely
Arthur Tobias Hendricks (1851-1902) New
York City and graduate of the class of 1923 at
Columbia; although Hendricks held a medical
degree, he was independently wealthy
and never practiced, choosing world travel
instead]; patterned endleaves; bookplate
of Murray Sprung inside front board;
sympathetically rebacked, 6 x 3 3/4 in.
94
Isaac Leeser (1806-1868) was an Ashkenazi
Jewish, German-born American immigrant
and lay minister of religion. A noted author,
translator, editor, and publisher, he is
considered the founder of the Jewish press
in the U.S. Leeser notes in the preface to this
new edition of The Twenty-four Books that
his object was to produce a smaller-format
book. He states that he was urged “by several
eminent men [...] to make an effort to render
[the present work] more accessible to all
classes than an expensive and heavy quarto
could expect to be.”
$3,000-5,000
304
Twain, Mark (1835-1910) First Editions,
Nine Volumes.
Following the Equator, Hartford: American
Publishing Co., 1897; The American Claimant,
New York: Webster, 1892; Is Shakespeare
Dead?, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1909;
Christian Science, New York: Harper &
Brothers, 1907; A Dog’s Tale, New York:
Harper & Brothers, 1904; A Horse’s Tale,
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1907; Merry
Tales, New York: Webster, 1892; Pudd’nhead
Wilson, London: Chatto & Windus, 1894;
and The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson and
the Comedy of Those Extraordinary Twins,
Hartford, Connecticut: American Publishing
Co., 1894; all octavo, in publisher’s cloth. (9)
$400-600
305
Twain, Mark (1835-1910) Two First Editions.
A Tramp Abroad, Hartford, Connecticut:
American Publishing Co., 1880, in publisher’s
brown cloth, stamped in gold; [and] Mark
Twain’s Sketches, New and Old, Hartford,
Connecticut: American Publishing Co. 1875,
in publisher’s blue cloth boards, stamped in
black and gold, slightly cocked, inner joint
beginning to split, 8 1/2 x 6 1/4 in. (2)
$300-500
306
Uaxactun, Guatemala Group E 19261931, Author’s Signed Presentation Copy.
Washington: Carnegie Institution, 1937.
First edition, large quarto, with lengthy
inscription on ffep from Oliver Garrison
Ricketson Jr. (1894-1952), pioneer in the
study of pre-classical Mayan culture, to his
second wife, Ann Howard Riggs, thanking
her for supporting him and taking care of his
children while he was in Guatemala for five
years, in publisher’s cloth, 12 x 8 3/4 in.
$300-500
307
Updike, John (1932-2009) Five First
Editions (Two Signed).
Rabbit, Run, New York: Knopf, 1960, stated
first edition, signed by Updike on ffep, in half
morocco; Assorted Prose, New York: Knopf,
1965, stated first edition, very good, in original
dust jacket; On the Farm, New York: Knopf,
1965, stated first edition, very good, in the
jacket; Rabbit Redux, New York: Knopf,
1971, stated first edition, in the original dust
jacket; [and] Self-Consciousness, New York:
Knopf, 1989, signed and inscribed, stated
first edition, very good, in publisher’s jacket, all
octavo. (5)
Provenance: The estate of Stratford W.
Carter, Boston, Massachusetts.
$300-500
308
Updike, John (1932-2009) Hub Fans Bid
Kid Adieu, Signed by John Updike and Ted
Williams. Northridge, California: Lord John
Press, 1977.
Limited edition, copy number ninety-four of
300, in publisher’s half cloth, patterned paper
boards, 10 x 6 1/2 in.
$300-500
312
309
Van Thulden, Theodoor (1606-1669) Les
Travaux D’Ulysse. Paris: Francois L’Anglois,
1640.
Landscape-format folio, without the
engraved title; typographical title page,
“Advertissement,” and four leaves of
“Explication Morale sur les Travaux d’Ulysse,”
followed by fifty-eight full-page engravings,
plate twenty-four printed on two joined sheets,
folding; bound in contemporary speckled calf,
rebacked, front board becoming detached, 9
3/4 x 13 1/4 in.
$400-600
310
Verve: Marc Chagall (1887-1985) and
Georges Braque (1882-1963)
Verve VI, No. 24, Chagall’s illustrations to
Boccaccio’s Contes, Paris, 1950, two copies,
one in publisher’s wraps, the other in full
leather, 13 3/4 x 10 1/4 in.
[Together with] Verve VIII, No. 31/32, The
Intimate Sketchbooks of G. Braque, English
language edition, Paris, 1955, bound in full
leather, 13 3/4 x 10 in. (3)
$600-800
311
Virgil (70 BC-19 BC) Bucolica Georgica
et Aeneis. Rome: by Zempel for Monaldini,
1763.
Three folio volumes, large paper copy, parallel
text in Latin and Italian, illustrated; bound in
contemporary Italian half leather and paste
paper boards with a floral design; edges
untrimmed throughout, damp staining and
mildew, bindings failing, sewing structure
perished, 17 1/2 x 11 3/4 in. (3)
$300-500
312
Wells, Herbert George (1866-1946) The War
of the Worlds. New York: Harper & Brothers,
1898.
First American edition, octavo, illustrated with
frontispiece and fifteen additional illustrated
plates by Warwick Goble; bound in publisher’s
green cloth, front board decoratively stamped
in black and green, spine and front board
lettered in gilt; spine faded, rubbed, some
surface grime to binding, 7 1/4 x 4 1/2 in.
$400-600
95
314
313
Whitman, Walt (1819-1892) November
Boughs. Philadelphia: MacKay, 1888.
First edition, portrait frontispiece of Whitman;
140 pages, and one page of ads; with “m lee”
on page and “in the last” on page 11; bound
in burgundy publisher’s cloth over beveled
boards, with printer’s monogram and triple line
ruling at head and tail of spine; contemporary
ownership inscription on ffep, 8 3/4 x 5 3/4 in.
$200-300
96
314
Whitman, Walt (1819-1892) Leaves of
Grass. Brooklyn: [for the author by Andrew
and James Rome], 1855.
First edition, first issue, with the engraved
portrait of Whitman by Samuel Hollyer after a
photograph printed on thick paper, no tissue
guard; copyright statement on verso of title;
without the laudatory press statements that
appear in later issues; bound in full green
publisher’s cloth, the spine gilt lettered with
floral decorations, the boards triple filleted with
the title in gilt and floral tools blind blocked,
marbled endleaves, gilt edges; in a later green
buckram jacket inserted in a half morocco
slipcase; one corner of the frontispiece torn
and replaced, not affecting the portrait; title
page formerly torn and repaired on verso, the
repair crossing over the copyright statement;
title page also reinforced with narrow strips
of paper along three edges on verso; binding
feels loose in relation to text block; thumbing,
spotting, and light edge damage to leaves;
contemporary stenciled ownership mark to
title; wear to binding, 11 x 7 1/2 in.
First edition of this unprecedented work
of American poetry, sometimes called the
second Declaration of Independence, and
self-published; Whitman personally helped out
with the typesetting.
$30,000-40,000
315
Whitney, Peter (1744-1816) The History of
the County of Worcester. Worcester: Isaiah
Thomas, 1793.
First edition, octavo, with the folding map
of the county bound opposite the title
(mounted on fine linen, separating along the
folds, spotting), in contemporary marbled
calf, crudely rebacked in cloth, spotting to
contents, 8 1/2 x 5 in.
$150-200
316
Wilde, Oscar (1854-1900) The Picture
of Dorian Gray. London, New York, and
Melbourne: Ward Locke & Co., [1891].
First trade edition, first issue, octavo, with the
misprint on page 208, lacking the “a” in “and”
eight lines from the bottom, no publisher’s
ads; in an exhibition binding and custom
slipcase by Florence Walter (1884-1972), full
crushed morocco with four-color inlaid design
on both boards, with gilt-tooled lines, in a
coordinating slipcase, 7 1/2 x 4 3/4 in.
$2,000-2,500
316
317
Wilkins, John (1614-1672) Mathematicall
Magick or the Wonders that may be
Performed by Mechanicall Geometry.
London: by M.F. for Sa. Gellibrand, 1648.
Octavo, the edition with the “W” in the words
“Wonders” and “Powers” on the title (another
issue with the same date and imprint has
“VV”), illustrated with text woodcuts and
engravings; bound in contemporary boards,
rebacked, water stains with some signs of
mold; penultimate leaf torn with loss (repaired);
final leaf and ffep mounted; 6 1/4 x 4 in.
$800-1,000
318
Wilkins, John (1614-1672) Mercury; or
the Secret and Swift Messenger. Shewing
How a Man may with Privacy and Speed
Communicate his Thoughts to a Friend at
any Distance. London: Baldwin, 1694.
Octavo, second edition, lacking initial ?blank
A1, publisher’s advertisements present at
end; bound in full modern calf, pages delicate,
browning throughout, 6 x 4 in.
$400-600
320
Williams, Hugh William (1773-1829) Select
Views in Greece with Classical Illustrations.
London: Longman, Rees, et al., 1829.
Two large quarto volumes, illustrated with
sixty-four engravings printed on India paper
and laid down, as issued; bound in uniform
contemporary red sheepskin, tools ornately
gilt, with labels, marbled paper boards; the
leather peeling, spotting to contents, 11 3/4 x
9 1/4 in. (2)
$300-500
319
Wilkins, John (1614-1672) The First Book.
The Discovery of a New World. London: by
Norton for Maynard, 1640.
Third impression, octavo, lacking the general
engraved title, with two copies of page
221/222, both with and without the text
engraving; other text illustrations; bound in
later sheepskin, some contemporary notes in
margins, 6 1/2 x 4 1/4 in.
The present title is an expanded edition of
Wilkins’s The Discovery of a World in the
Moone.
$700-900
97
321
321
Williams, Tennessee (1911-1983) A
Streetcar Named Desire. New York: New
Directions, [1947].
First edition, in the original dust jacket, with
“Eunice” and “A Negro Woman” on the list of
characters and actors; and “Stella” instead
of Blanche on page 161; inner flaps of
dust jacket abraded, dust jacket spine and
front board slightly sun faded, other minor
imperfections to jacket, 9 x 5 3/4 in.
$1,000-1,500
323
Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924) A History of
the American People, Signed Copy. New
York & London: Harper & Brothers, [1902].
Five octavo volumes, signed by Wilson in
volume one while President-elect, dated 15
February 1913, ex libris Edward Mandell
House (1858-1938) Wilson’s chief advisor on
European politics and diplomacy during World
War I and at the Paris Peace Conference of
1919; with his bookplate in each volume,
bindings dusty, slightly scuffed, 8 x 5 in. (5)
$800-1,200
322
Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963) A
Novelette and Other Prose (1921-1931)
to Publishers. Toulon, France: Imprimerie F.
Cabasson, 1932.
First edition, octavo, in original limp printed
paper wraps, contents toned, 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.
$600-800
98
324
Wing, Vincent (1619-1668) Urania Practica:
or, Practical Astronomie. London: by
R. Leybourn in Monks-well street neer
Cripplegate, 1649.
Octavo, with added engraved frontispiece,
and its typographical explanation; folding table
of moveable feasts; small table showing the
parallax of the sun (extraneous to collation)
bound in after page 117; constructed volvelle
is present on page 125; contemporary boards,
rebacked, contents a bit soft, some corners
repaired, 6 3/4 x 4 1/8 in.
$800-1,000
322
325
Wood, Robert (1717?-1771) An Essay on
the Original Genius and Writings of Homer.
London: by Hughes for Payne & Elmsly, 1775.
First trade edition, half-title, frontispiece,
engraved title vignette, illustrated with four
plates (one of which is the map); bound in
full contemporary tan calf, rebacked, corners
bumped, contents crisp, 11 3/4 x 9 1/4 in.
The Comparative View of the Ancient and
Present State of the Troade (beginning on p.
307) is one of the earliest of the attempts to
work out Homeric geography.
$300-500
326
Woolf, Virginia (1882-1942) The Common
Reader. London: by Leonard & Virginia Woolf,
at the Hogarth Press, 1925.
First edition, in the original dust jacket,
publisher’s cloth spine, paper boards,
illustrations on front board and dust jacket by
Woolf’s sister Vanessa Bell (1879-1961); jacket
chipped with loss, with small water stain and
surface grime, 8 1/2 x 5 1/4 in.
$500-700
327
World’s Columbian Exhibition, Chicago
World Fair, and Other World Fairs,
Ephemera Lot.
Including thirty-four mounted cyanotypes;
and twenty-four albumen prints, all mounted
on card; twenty-eight full-color facsimile
watercolor prints mounted on mat board
from The Book of the Fair; twenty-three color
lithographs published to accompany The Book
of the Builders, 1894; official guides to the
Louisiana Purchase Exposition of 1904, in St.
Louis and the Centennial Exhibition of 1876,
held in Philadelphia; five other small pieces of
fair-related paper; approximately six issues,
eight pages each, of The Book of the Builders;
and twenty-five issues of Hubert’s The Book
of the Fair, Chicago & San Francisco: Bancroft
Co., 1893.
$400-600
99
Natural History
328
328
Audubon, John James (1785-1851)
American Cross Fox, Plate VI. [from] The
Philadelphia: J.T. Bowen, 1843.
Hand-colored lithograph, imperial folio, matted
and framed, signs of handling, sheet slightly
toned, 27 x 21 1/4 in.
Provenance: From the estate of Samuel
Parkman Shaw, Jr., Brookline, Massachusetts.
$800-1,200
100
329
American Cross Fox, Plate VI. [from] The
Hand-colored lithograph, imperial folio, toned,
reverse mat burn, some spotting and foxing,
some adhesive remnants clinging to outer
margins on verso, 27 1/2 x 20 in.
$300-400
330
Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Arctic
Fox, Plate CXXI. [from] The Viviparous
Quadrupeds of North America. Philadelphia:
J.T. Bowen, 1847.
Hand-colored lithograph, imperial folio,
unframed, the sheet evenly toned, 27 x 21
1/4 in.
$1,000-1,500
331
Black-tailed Deer, Plate LXXVIII. [from] The
unframed, the sheet evenly toned, 27 x 21
1/4 in.
$1,000-1,500
330
331
101
332
332
Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Brown
or Norway Rat, Plate LIV. [from] The
matted and framed, one small hole in blank
background (repaired), U-shaped closed tear
in same area, above the rat on the left, 27 x
21 1/4 in.
334
California Marmot Squirrel, Plate CIX. [from]
The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America.
and framed, signs of handling, spotting to
background, printing error affecting a small
area of color in hindquarters of leftmost
animal, 27 1/2 x 20 1/4 in. (sight).
$200-300
$300-500
333
Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Buff
Breasted Sandpiper, Plate CCLXV. [from]
The Birds of America, London: Havell for the
Author, 1835.
Double elephant folio sheet, hand-colored
engraving with aquatint and etching, J.
Whatman watermark, 1835; framed, some
spotting and foxing, colors faded, 37 1/2 x
25 in.
$2,000-3,000
335
Chestnut-sided Warbler, Plate 59. [from]
The Birds of America, London: Havell for the
Author, 1835.
engraving with aquatint and etching, framed,
some spotting and foxing, colors faded;
imprint of a pair of pliers and a pair of scissors
in blank margin, spotting within the plate mark,
the full sheet, framed, 38 x 23 1/4 in.
$300-500
102
336
Chipping Squirrel, Plate [from] The
Philadelphia: J.T. Bowen,
mounted, matted and framed, some slight
spotting in upper left corner, 23 x 19 1/4 in.
(sight).
$400-600
337
Columbia Pouched Rat, Plate CV. [from]
and framed, some spotting to background,
28 x 21 in.
$200-250
333
336
103
338
338
Common American Wild Cat, Plate I. [from]
and framed, some spotting, fading, 26 x 21
in. (sight).
$600-800
104
339
Common Flying Squirrel, Plate XXVIII.
[from] The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North
America. Philadelphia: J.T. Bowen, 1843.
unframed, minor spotting, bottom right corner
with glancing chip, 21 1/4 x 27 1/2 in.
$500-700
340
Common or Virginian Deer, Plate CXXXVI.
and framed, spotting to background, short
closed tear in upper left corner, colors faded,
27 1/2 x 22 in.
$2,500-3,500
341
Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Foxcoloured Sparrow, Plate CVIII. [from] The
Birds of America, London: Havell for the
Author, 1835.
Plate from the double-elephant folio trimmed
to half-sheet size, hand-colored engraving
with aquatint and etching, matted and framed,
19 1/2 x 12 in.
$1,000-1,500
340
341
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342
343
342
Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Great
Horned Owl, Plate 61. [from] The Birds of
America. London: Havell, 1827-1838.
copper-plate engraving, J. Whatman
watermark, 1829; framed; wrinkled in bottom
left corner; diagonal fold in lower right corner,
crossing the end of the lower branch, 38 1/4
x 25 1/4 in.
$10,000-12,000
343
Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Grey
Rabbit, Plate XXII. [from] The Viviparous
J.T. Bowen, 1843.
and framed, the sheet evenly toned, lightcolored line of discoloration in the background
originating at the tip of the uppermost rabbit’s
nose and going off in the direction of the plate
number, 25 1/4 x 19 1/4 in. (sight).
$2,000-3,000
344
Hudson’s Bay Lemming, Plate CXIX. [from]
matted, line of discolored adhesive along top
half-inch of margin, signs of handling, top left
corner chipped with loss, 1 1/2 inch closed
tear to left side margin, 26 3/4 x 21 1/2 in.
$200-300
107
345
108
346
345
Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Ivory
Billed Woodpecker, Plate LXVI. [from] The
Birds of America. London: Havell, 1827-1838.
copper-plate engraving, variant two, with the
title centered at the foot of the sheet; the print
mounted to board, colors faded, some water
damage, short closed tear to top margin,
toned, in a rustic wooden frame, 39 3/4 x 25
3/4 in.
$8,000-10,000
346
Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Largetailed Skunk, Plate CII. [from] The Viviparous
J.T. Bowen, 1846.
and framed, some spotting to background,
mounted on linen backing, signs of handling
along bottom quarter, 28 1/2 x 22 in.
$400-600
347
Audubon, John James (1785-1851) LargeTailed Spermophile, Plate CXXXIX. [from]
and framed, some spotting to background, 27
1/4 x 20 in.
$300-500
109
350
348
Lecontes Pine Mouse, Plate LXXX. [from]
and framed, slight toned, few spots, 22 x 16
1/2 in. (sight).
$200-300
349
Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Little
Chief Hare, Plate LXXXIII. [from] The
and framed, spotting and toning, slight loss of
sky color in one small spot, 27 1/2 x 19 3/4 in.
$250-350
350
Long-tailed Deer, Plate CXVIII. [from] The
unframed, the sheet ivory-colored, 27 x 21
1/4 in.
$1,000-1,500
353
Musk-Rat, Musquash, Plate XIII. [from] The
and framed, left margin chipped with loss, 28
x 22 in.
$800-1,200
351
Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Marsh
Hare, Plate XVIII. [from] The Viviparous
J.T. Bowen, 1843.
and framed, slight spotting to background, 26
x 18 in. (sight).
$1,000-1,500
354
Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Nuttall’s
Hare, Plate XCIV. [from] The Viviparous
J.T. Bowen, 1846.
unframed, 27 x 21 1/4 in.
$800-1,000
352
Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Moleshaped Pouched Rat, Plate CX. [from] The
and framed, the plate shifting within the mat,
light spotting to background, 27 1/2 x 20 1/2
in. (sight).
$200-250
110
353
354
111
355
355
Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Ocelot
or Leopard Cat, Male, Plate LXXXVI. [from]
and framed, 26 x 20 in. (sight).
$4,000-6,000
356
Pennants Marten or Fisher, Plate XLI. [from]
and framed, the sheet ivory, slight mat burn
along bottom edge, not visible when matted,
27 1/2 x 21 1/2 in.
$500-700
112
357
Pine Marten, Plate CXXXVIII. [from] The
and framed, spotting to white background, 27
1/2 x 21 in.
$300-500
358
Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Polar
Hare, Plate XXXII. [from] The Viviparous
J.T. Bowen, 1844.
and framed, slight signs of handling, 26 x 20
in. (sight).
$3,000-4,000
359
Pouched Jerboa Mouse [and] Canada
Pouched Rat, Plate CXXX. [from] The
and framed, signs of handling, very slight
spotting to background, 26 1/4 x 18 3/4 in.
$200-250
360
Pouched Jerboa Mouse [and] Canada
Pouched Rat, Plate CXXX. [from] The
Philadelphia: J.T. Bowen, 1847 and 1844.
Two hand-colored lithographs, imperial folio,
unframed, edges toned, each 27 1/4 x 21 1/4
in. (2)
$200-300
356
358
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361
Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Prairie
Starling, Plate CCCCXX. [from] The Birds of
engraving with aquatint and etching, matted
and framed, possibly trimmed down, not
examined out of frame, 22 1/2 x 15 1/4 in.
(sight); frame size 34 x 25 in.
$700-900
362
Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Rice
Bunting, Plate 54. [from] The Birds of
engraving with aquatint and etching, matted
and framed, possibly trimmed down, not
examined out of frame, the sheet an even
ivory, coloration different from that seen in the
Sachsen-Meiningen set, the winged maple
seeds in russet browns, the female appearing
in darker colors; this bird is more commonly
called the bobolink; 22 1/2 x 15 1/4 in. (sight).
1
361
$700-900
363
Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Shore
Lark, Plate CC. [from] The Birds of America.
London: Havell, 1827-1838.
engraving with aquatint and etching, J.
Whatman Turkey Mill watermark, 1834;
framed, spotting to margins, short closed tear
to top margin, fading, 37 1/4 x 25 in.
$1,000-1,200
364
Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Tawny
Lemming, Back’s Lemming, Plate CXX.
and framed, streak of adhesive remnant
across top edge, corners chipped, edges
toned, 26 3/4 x 22 in.
$200-300
362
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363
365
Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Tawny
Weasel, Plate CXLVIII. [from] The Viviparous
J.T. Bowen, 1848.
unframed, the sheet ivory-colored, 27 x 21
1/4 in.
$300-400
366
Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Texan
Skunk, Plate LIII. [from] The Viviparous
J.T. Bowen, 1845.
and framed, 26 1/2 x 21 in. (sight).
$400-600
367
The Camas Rat, Plate CXLII. [from] The
and framed, the print shifting in the mat, 27 x
19 1/4 in. (sight).
$200-250
115
368
368
Jaguar, Female, Plate CI. [from] The
$2,000-4,000
370
Audubon, John James (1785-1851) White
American Wolf, Plate LXXII. [from] The
and framed, two small dark spots along right
margin, near sky, thumbing, 27 1/2 x 21 in.
(sight).
369
Sewellel, Plate CXXIII. [from] The Viviparous
J.T. Bowen, 1847.
matted and frame, marginal thumbing,
spotting to sky and blank background, 27 3/4
x 20 in. (sight).
$800-1,200
$200-250
371
Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Yellowbellied Marmot, Plate CXXXIV. [from] The
and framed, some spotting to background, 28
x 21 in. (sight).
$300-500
116
372
Char de la Ville [de Paris], Hand-colored
Engraving.
Large folding hand-colored engraving by
Pierre Francois Tardieu (1711-1771) depicting
the allegorical triumphal car or pageant
wagon fashioned to represent the city of
Paris during the city-wide festival celebrating
the marriage of Louis, Dauphin de Paris
(1729-1765) and Maria Josepha of Saxony
(1731-1767) on February 13, 1747, from the
book Fete Publique donne par la Ville de Paris
a l’occasion du Mariague de M. le Dauphin,
Paris, 1747, presented in a large gilt frame
with raw silk exterior mat, not viewed outside
of the frame, 33 x 18 3/4 in. (sight).
$500-700
370
372
117
374
373
Costume Plates, Five Hand-colored
Etchings. [from] Jacques Charles Bar’s
Recueil de Tous les Costumes des Ordres
Religieux et Militaires, Paris: Chez l’Auteur, late
18th century.
Five small folio format prints, hand-colored,
depicting: Soldat de Marine Turque; Chevalier
de l’Ordre de l’Aile de St. Michel; Chevalier de
l’Ordre Royal Militaire de St. Louis; Chevalier
de l’Amarante; [and] Chevalier de l’Etoile en
France; each matted and shrink-wrapped, 13
1/2 x 9 in. (sight) each. (5)
$300-500
118
374
Cruikshank, George (1792-1878) Steel Plate
for the Illustration Election for Beadle.
Original steel engraving, with a matted print
and letter from the Deputy Chairman of
Chapman and Hall authenticating the plate,
housed in a custom box; the plate 8 x 5 in.
$800-1,000
375
Cuba and Sugar Production, Five Prints.
Vista de la Fuente de la Habana, and Vista de
la Plaza de Sn. Francisco, both after James
Gay Sawkins (1806-1878) Paris: Thierry
Freres, [19th c.] by lithographer Jean Jaccottet
(b. 1806), the former hand-colored, with some
damage, the latter tinted.
[Together with] Three hand-colored lithographs
printed within metallic gold borders, from
Justo German Cantero’s (1815-1871) Los
Ingenios, Havana, Cuba: Litografia de Luis
Marquier, 1857, after Eduardo Laplante (b.
1818); plates four, five, and nine: Ingenio Flor
de Cuba, Ingenio Flor de Cuba (Casa de
Calderas), and Ingenio el Progresso; 21 1/2 x
14 1/4 in. (5)
$1,000-2,000
375
376
De Bry, Theodor (1528-1598) Eight Handcolored Illustrations of Native American
Indians.
Eight leaves removed from German-language
editions, four printed only on the rectos, with
page numbers in roman numerals; the other
four with text on both sides of each sheet,
page numbers in arabic numerals; leaves
toned, some torn with loss, repaired, damage
affecting the text, sizes vary, each mounted in
a lightweight mat folder. (8)
$1,500-2,000
377
De Bry, Theodor (1528-1598) Four
Illustrations of Native American Indians.
Four leaves removed from German-language
editions of De Bry’s work, uncolored, each
matted, 13 1/2 x 9 1/2 in.
[Together with] Henri Chatelain’s Description
de la Pêche habillemens, habitations,
manières de vivre, superstitions et autres
usages des Indiens de la Virginie, a folding
double-page engraving with fourteen figures
depicting the customs and habits of North
American Indians, from his Atlas Historique,
illustrations are taken from De Bry, engraved
from John White’s drawings, 21 x 17 1/2 in. (5)
$400-600
378
Dutch Harbor Scenes, c. 1780 by Mathias
de Sallieth (1749-1791) and Others.
Eight hand-colored engravings of Dutch
harbor and maritime scenes, of which six are
framed; all but one engraved by Sallieth after
de Jong, and printed in Amsterdam by Yver,
Smit & Fils, and F.W. Greebe; the odd one,
depicting Rotterdam, printed in Amsterdam
by Foquet junior, after Kobel, engraved by
de Jong; other subjects include: Goeree,
the Chateau of Rammekes, the port of
Amsterdam, Veere, Dordrecht, Harlingue, and
Maaslandsluis; sizes and condition vary, some
trimmed down, other defects. (8)
$800-1,000
119
379
379
MacLellan, Charles Archibald (1885-1961)
Original Oil on Canvas, Illustration of a
Redheaded School Boy.
Signed oil on canvas, surface craquelure,
some loss of surface, 18 3/4 x 24 in.
MacLellan was a Canadian artist who was
responsible for creating forty-four original
works for Saturday Evening Post covers
between 1913 and 1936. This particular
mischievous redhead shows up in other
works. The boy’s expression is distracting,
but he clearly has a nail attached to his boot
and the boy unfortunate enough to be seated
in front of him has an unpleasant surprise
coming.
$2,000-3,000
120
380
Orsbridge, Lieutenant Philip (d. 1766)
These Historical Views of ye Last Glorious
Expedition of his Britannic Majesty’s Ships
and Forces against the Havannah, [also
known as] Britannia’s Triumph in the Year
1762. [London, c. 1766].
Large folio, engraved throughout, the contents
consisting of a double-page engraved
frontispiece with an image of Orsbridge
presenting his drawings, and twelve large
folding double-page plates of the battle based
on the original drawings made by Orsbridge at
the scene, engravings after Serres, engraved
by Canot and Mason, each plate thrown out
on a linen guard; bound in contemporary half
leather, with marbled paper boards and a large
red morocco lettering piece on the front cover;
the binding worn, with old repairs, contents
toned, light spotting, one print repaired with
yellowing cellophane tape on verso, no showthrough; the engravings printed on heavy
paper; without the six leaves of explanatory
text found with another copy, 19 1/8 x 14 in.
$6,000-8,000
381
Piranesi, Giovanni Battista (1720-1778)
Fantasy of Ruins with a Statue of Minerva,
Frontispiece from Volume II of Vedute di
Roma, Rome, c. 1748-1778.
Large folio etching on paper, matted and
framed, subtle toning, a few short closed
tears, 25 3/4 x 20 1/2 in.
$1,000-1,500
380
381
121
382
Rackham, Arthur (1867-1939) Original
Pencil, Ink, and Watercolor Drawing, Alone,
Signed, 1 June 1903.
Drawing signed in lower left corner, a
gruesome image of a derelict shipwreck
survivor adrift on a raft supported by barrels,
dressed in rags, with long hair and a tattered
flag behind him. He is surrounded by skulls
and skeletons, blood, swords, and the
aftermath of cannibalistic mayhem; matted
An old description on the back suggests that
this uncharacteristically brutal image was
produced as a response to a challenge among
several artists to create the most revolting
picture possible. It is likely unpublished and
was exhibited at the Leicester Galleries in the
spring of 1905.
$2,000-3,000
383
Rowlandson, Thomas (1756-1827) Nine
Prints.
Reigate; Saloon at the Marine Pavilion;
Cuckfield; Sutton; Bathing Machines;
Crawley; and Race Ground, London: Mssrs.
Robinsons, 1790, tinted by Alken; The Steine,
without imprint, tinted by Alken; and A College
Scene, or a Fruitless attempt on the purse of
Old Square-toes, designed by Rowlandson,
engraved by E. Williams; all with toning and
foxing, the first eight vary in size, mostly 11 x
14 in., the last 13 1/4 x 13 in. (9)
$1,000-1,500
382
384
Stavroulakis, Nikos (b. 1932) Proverbs,
Twelve Woodcuts. Athens: Gutenberg Press,
1979. Folio, limited edition copy number 161
of 500, title pages and contents pages in
English and Greek, with twelve offset versions
of the original woodcuts, each signed by
Stavroulakis in pencil, loose sheets, as issued,
in publisher’s paper wraps, 19 5/8 x 14 in.
$300-500
385
Stereoscopic Views, Approximately Fiftyeight.
Various views, mostly American, including
the following subjects: ruins of the great fire
in Boston, 1879; Boston Public Garden;
Libby Prison; Central Park, Chicago; White
Sulphur Springs, Virginia; great ice mountain
at Niagara Falls; a suspension bridge in
Cincinnati; San Francisco; Cleveland; views
of Richmond, Indiana; Ithaca, New York;
Saratoga Springs; Bellows Falls, Vermont;
Faneuil Hall; “The Bottom Couple”; Montreal;
Charlestown Navy Yard; Yosemite Valley;
Nantucket; Camp Schoeffel; and others.
$200-300
122
388
386
The Natural History of Birds, from the
Works of the Best Authors, Antient &
Modern: Embellished with Numerous
Plates. Bungay: by Brightly & Childs [and]
Kinnersly, 1815.
Octavo, defective, with text leaves lacking,
illustrated with approximately seventy-five
hand-colored plates of birds and plants
(mostly birds), incomplete, sold as a collection
of prints, 8 1/4 x 5 in.
$200-400
387
Vasi Giuseppe (1710-1782) Prospetto
del’Alma Citta di Roma Visto del Monte
Gianicolo. Rome, 1765.
Twelve etchings on laid paper, comprising:
six large format views, 31 1/2 x 22 in.; and
six smaller format index pages, 22 x 18 1/2
in. pages with deckle edges, surface grime,
fragmentary along edges; the first large view
badly stained, torn in half, with a large portion
torn away but present, in need of restoration.
(12)
$1,000-1,500
388
Wolf, Joseph Zoological Sketches. London:
Henry Graves & Co., [1861-1867].
Folio, loose sheets as issued, comprising the
illustrated color lithographic title page, list of
plates, list of subscribers, and sixteen colored
lithographs with accompanying text leaves,
titles printed in metallic ink: Stanger’s Monkey,
or Pluto Monkey; the Lion; the Painted Ocelot;
the Eyra; the Serval; the Caracal; the Grey
Fox; the Syrian Bear; the Leuoryx Antelope
(Oryx); the Saker Falcon; the Hippopotamus;
the Tylacine; the Japanese Pheasant; the
Mooruk (Cassowary Bird); Mantell’s Apteryx;
and the Black-Necked Swan; text leaves quite
chipped, with losses to margins, the text for
the Syrian Bear torn in half; title mounted
on mat board, plates better preserved, with
marginal finger smudges, edge toning, and the
occasional closed marginal tear, some edge
chipping, the plates 23 x 17 1/2 in.
$2,000-3,000
123
Maps
390
Burr, David H. (1803-1875) An Atlas of the
State of New York. New York: David Burr,
1829 [but 1840].
Large folio, Manhattan map dated 1840
and identified as the third edition, with
supplementary introduction dated 1840,
census information on page 12 referring to
the year 1839; illustrated with fifty-two large,
mostly folding or double-page hand-colored
engraved maps, including the general map
of the state, Manhattan map, and numerous
county maps; preliminaries with some damp
staining, maps generally good; bound in
original boards, water damage, with loss of
paper on front board, 22 1/2 x 17 3/4 in.
South Carolina’s was the first atlas dedicated
to a single state. This New York atlas was the
second state atlas produced, and contains
detailed maps of every section of New York by
county, including striking hand-colored maps
of Manhattan and Long Island often removed
and lacking in other copies.
$5,000-7,000
391
Camden, William (1551-1623) Camden’s
Britannia, Newly Translated into English.
London: F. Collins, for A. Swalle; and A. & J.
Churchil, 1695.
Folio, lacking title page and frontispiece and
some text leaves; attribution of edition based
on pagination, collation, column numbering,
and Churchil’s ad below the preface to the
reader; containing approximately fifty maps;
text incomplete, sold as a collection of maps,
in defective diced russia, 15 x 9 in.
$800-1,000
392
389
Bellin, Jacques-Nicolas (1703-1772)
Description des Debouquements qui sont
au Nord de L’Isle de Saint Domingue. Paris:
Didot, 1768.
First edition, quarto, added engraved title,
and thirty-four full and double-page engraved
maps of the Caribbean; in later parchment;
title stained, some toning to contents, water
stain, 10 x 8 in.
$800-1,000
124
392
Chase, Ernest Dudley (1878-1966) Eleven
Signed Maps, One Unsigned.
Including six signed full-color maps: The
Victory War Map; Japan, the Target; America
the Wonderland; The Good Neighbor Pictorial
Map of South America; A Pictorial Map of
North America; and a badly damaged Total
War Battle Map; three tinted signed maps
with red compass roses: A Pictorial Map of
the New England States; The United States of
America; and World Wonders, a Pictorial Map;
two signed black-and-white maps: A Pictorial
Map of Germany; and Europe, a Pictorial
Map; and an unsigned map of Winchester,
Massachusetts; some of the larger maps
chipped with loss, various formats and
condition, should be viewed. (12)
$2,000-2,500
393
393
China. Matthäus Seutter (1678-1757)
Opulentissimum Sinarum Imperium.
Augsburg: Seutter, c. 1760.
Large double-page folio copper-plate
engraved map printed on paper, handcolored, matted and framed, cartouche
uncolored, 19 1/2 x 23 in. (sight).
$600-800
125
394
(partial)
394
Cornwall, England. Joannes Jansson
(1588-1664) Cornubia sive Cornwassia.
Amsterdam: Jansson, c. 1650.
Folding engraved map of Cornwall, handcolored, matted and framed, the sheet toned,
20 x 15 1/4 in. (sight).
[Together with] Cambridgeshire, England.
Cambridge Comitatus quem olim Iceni
Insederunt, by Christopher Saxton (c. 1540-c.
1610), small folio double-page engraved map
on paper, hand-colored, c. 1637, matted and
framed, some fading, 13 x 11 1/4 in. (sight).
(2)
$400-600
126
395
Delisle, Guillaume (1675-1726) and Philippe
Buache (1700-1773) Atlas Geographique et
Universal, Defective Copy. Paris: Dezauche,
1781.
Two large folio volumes, containing twentyfour of eighty-four maps in volume one, and
five of sixty-eight maps in volume two, and
the catalogue (contents) page in each volume;
for a total of twenty-nine maps; one single
page, the other twenty-eight double-page,
all copper-plate engravings on paper, hand
outlined in color; the maps themselves depict
subjects in Western Europe; missing maps
have been cut from the bindings; boards and
spines still present, sold as defective, each
volume 21 3/4 x 16 1/2 in. (2)
$2,500-3,000
396
Europe, Four Matthäus Seutter (1678-1757)
Maps.
Nova et Accurata Tartariae Europae;
Dominium Venetum; Magni Tucarum
Dominatoris Imperium; and Mappa Circuli
Rhenani Superioris; all maps copper-plate
engravings on paper with hand-coloring, each
matted and framed, not examined out of
frames, some with damage at top of central
fold, overall measurements of each with frame
38 x 32 in. (4)
$1,000-1,200
397
France. Abraham Ortelius (1528-1598)
Two Maps. Gallia Vetus, ad Iul. Caesarius
Commentaria, [Antwerp, c. 1601] and Typus
Galliae Veteris, Amsterdam: Blaeu, [c. 1649];
two double-page folio maps, both handcolored copper-plate engravings with printed
text on the verso, the former framed, the latter
unframed.
$200-300
398
398
India, China, Southeast Asia. Willem
Janszoon Blaeu (1571-1638) India quae
Orientalis dicitur, et Insulae Adiacentes.
[Amsterdam]: Blaeu, [1635].
Double-page folio map, hand-colored copperplate engraving on paper, framed, 23 1/4 x 19
1/2 in.
$800-1,000
127
399
399
North America, East Coast, Maine to
Virginia. Willem Janszoon Blaeu (15711638) Nova Belgica et Anglia Nova.
Amsterdam, c. 1640.
Folding folio-format hand-colored copperplate engraved map on paper, cartouche
with Native American Indians, two images of
longhouse settlements, Native Americans in
canoes off the coast, along with European
sailing ships; the landscape includes
depictions of bears, turkey, egrets, beavers,
foxes, deer, rabbits, and other wildlife; the
colony at Plymouth is noted, along with
Manhattan, framed, 23 1/4 x 19 1/2 in.
$800-1,200
128
400
North America. Herman Moll (1654-1732)
A New Map of the North Parts of America
claimed by France under ye Names of
Louisiana, Mississippi, Canada and New
France with ye Adjoyning Territories of
England and Spain. London: Moll, 1720.
Large engraved map with hand-colored
outline, four separate sheets joined with
vertical seams, framed, 40 x 24 in.
$1,000-1,200
401
North America: Gulf Coast, Florida, and
the Caribbean. Willem Janszoon Blaeu
(1571-1638) Insulae Americanae in Oceano
Septentrionali cum Terris Adiacentibus.
Amsterdam: Blaeu, [c. 1640].
Double-page folio engraved map on paper,
typographical text on the verso, hand-colored,
the state with the names for Florida and
Virginia, framed, 23 1/2 x 17 1/2 in.
$300-500
400
401
403
130
402
North and South America. America Divided
into North and South with their Several
Subdivisions and the Newest Discoveries.
London: Laurie & Whittle, 1794.
Engraved map on paper with old color of
the two American continents; ocean color
oxidized to a dull brown, with green, red,
and yellow outline color elsewhere, marking
colonial territories, matted and framed, 21 1/2
x 20 1/4 in. (sight).
$200-300
403
Revolutionary War Map, New York and
New Jersey. William Faden (1750-1836) and
Claude Joseph Sauthier (1736-1802) A Plan
of the Operations of the King’s Army under
the Command of General Sr. Howe, K.B. in
New York and East New Jersey, against the
American Forces Commanded by General
Washington, from the 12th of October, to
the 28th of November 1776. London: Faden,
25 February 1777.
Large vertical map, copper-plate engraving,
variant with British ships in the river off
Tarrytown; mounted on old linen, with hand
tinting of the Hudson River, Long Island
Sound, and other bodies of water in an ochrecolored wash, troop movements and camps
also colored in the same ochre and red,
horizontal wrinkle obscures the legibility of the
imprint, no loss, toned, 30 x 20 3/4 in.
$4,000-6,000
131
404
132
404
Sayer, Robert (1725-1794) and John
Bennett (fl. 1770-1784) The Theatre of War
in North America, with the Roads and a
Table of the Distances. London: March 20,
1776.
Copper-plate engraved map on paper,
hand-colored in outline; with three columns
of letterpress text below; mounted, slightly
fragmentary where folds converge, colors
faded, 30 x 21 3/4 in.
This rare broadside was published just days
after the British evacuation of Boston. The
bottom text portion includes descriptions of
each of the British colonies, soon to be the
independent states.
$6,000-8,000
405
Syria. Johannes Jansson (1588-1664)
Syriae Sive Soriae Nova et Accurata
descriptio. Amsterdam: Jansson, c. 1660.
Copper-plate engraved map on paper, hand
colored, framed, somewhat faded, light foxing,
21 3/4 x 19 in. (sight).
$200-400
406
The Road From London to Lands End,
John Ogilby (1600-1676) Four Framed
Maps. London, c. 1676.
Four engraved maps printed on paper, handcolored, each uniformly matted and framed,
varying amounts of toning and damage, 17
1/2 x 12 3/4 in. (sight). (4)
$300-500
405
407
Vermont and New Hampshire. Lewis
Robinson (1793-1871) Map of Vermont &
New Hampshire. [Reading, Vermont]: Lewis
Robinson, 1832.
Hand-colored rolled wall map, printed on
paper, mounted on linen, with the original
wood moldings, slightly yellowed, fragmentary
along bottom right margin, with loss to blank
margin and break in neat lines, 30 x 26 in.
$700-900
408
Wonderground Map of London. MacDonald
Gill (1884-1947). London: Westminster Press,
1914.
Large folding map on paper printed in
full color, minor folds, slight fading, in a
contemporary oak frame, 29 x 36 1/2 in.
This boldly colored and graphic artistic
rendering of a bird’s-eye impression of
London was originally commissioned by
the Underground to be displayed in railway
stations, in a larger format, in 1913. Because
of its popularity, the publisher produced this
smaller version for sale to the public.
$600-800
End of Sale 2865B
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I wish to place the following bids in the sale listed above. I understand that Skinner, Inc. will execute bids as a convenience, and
will not be held responsible for any errors or failure to execute bids. I understand that my bids are executed and accepted as per
Conditions of Sale as printed in the catalog of this sale.
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FOR OFFICE USE
Marlborough
Boston
Phone
63 Park Plaza
Boston, MA
02116
617.350.5400
Fax 617.350.5429
Fax
Mail
Person
274 Cedar Hill Street
Marlborough, MA
01752
508.970.3000
Fax 508.970.3100
Employee:
www.skinnerinc.com
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Board of Directors
Departments
Chairman of the Board
20th Century Design
Discovery Auctions
Jane D. Prentiss
Carly Babione
[email protected]
Kyle Johnson
508.970.3253
Melanie Trottier-Mitcheson
Stephen L. Fletcher
Richard Albright
[email protected]
John Deighton
Karen M. Keane
Andrew Payne
508.970.3202
American & European Paintings & Prints
Robin S.R. Starr
Elizabeth C. Haff
Michelle Lamunière
Executive
Management
President/Chief Executive Officer
Karen M. Keane
[email protected]
508.970.3206
European Furniture & Decorative Arts
Stuart G. Slavid
Stephanie Opolski
Gwendolyn L. Smith
[email protected]
508.970.3203
American Furniture & Decorative Arts
Stephen L. Fletcher
Chris Barber
Christopher D. Fox
[email protected]
508.970.3200
Historic Arms & Militaria
Joel Bohy
[email protected]
508.970.3215
Chief Financial Officer
Don Kelly
American Indian & Ethnographic Art
Douglas Deihl
Executive Vice President
Stephen L. Fletcher
Managing Director
Marie Keep
John Colasacco
508.970.3254
[email protected]
617.874.4313
Antique Motor Vehicles
Jane D. Prentiss
[email protected]
Stuart G. Slavid
Asian Works of Art
Judith Dowling
Helen Eagles
Suhyung Kim
[email protected]
Vice Presidents
Victoria Bratberg
Eric Jones
Gloria Lieberman
Carol McCaffrey
Robin S.R. Starr
L. Emerson Tuttle
Western Massachusetts:
George Thomas Lewis
413.727.2721
[email protected]
Florida: April L. Matteini, G.G.
305.503.4423
[email protected]
Maine: Bruce Buxton
207.772.6979
[email protected]
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Kerry Shrives
[email protected]
Musical Instruments
Carly Babione
[email protected]
508.970.3216
508.970.3263
Oriental Rugs & Carpets
Books & Manuscripts
Devon Eastland
[email protected]
508.970.3293
Ceramics
Stuart G. Slavid
[email protected]
Regional Directors
Judaica
508.970.3256
Senior Vice Presidents
Kerry Shrives
Victoria Bratberg
[email protected]
508.970.3253
Marie Keep
Jewelry
508.970.3203
Clocks, Watches & Scientific Instruments
Robert C. Cheney
Jonathan Dowling
Paul Dumanowski
Lawrence Kearney
Erika Jorjorian
[email protected]
508.970.3247
Photographs
Michelle Lamunière
[email protected]
508.970.3264
Silver
Stuart G. Slavid
[email protected]
508.970.3203
[email protected]
508.970.3201
Wine, Whisky & Ale
Marie Keep
Joseph Hyman
Michael J. Moser
[email protected]
508.970.3296
Auction Services
Consignments
Marketing, Media &
Communications
Appraisal & Auction Services
LaGina Austin
Christine E. Finn
Katie Fitzgerald
Rachel Kingsley
Elizabeth Zwicker
Exhibitions & Property
Boston:
Marketing
Laura V. Sweeney
Catherine M. Weber
Benjamin Evans
Linsey MacDougall
Paige Lewellyn
Jenna Nastri
Jessica R. Lincoln
Subscriptions
Receptionist
Linsey MacDougall
Jacqueline Gray
508.970.3240
617.350.5400
508.970.3299
Institutional Relations
L. Emerson Tuttle
508.970.3130
Advertising/Production
Pamela Van de Houten
Consignment Services
Jeffrey R. Antkowiak
Patricia Walker King
Stanley P. Bystrowski
Rebecca Hamel
John Cornelius
Carol Zeigler
Kristina M. Harrison
508.970.3204
Kathleen Jones
Marlborough:
Warehouse
Frederic Trottier
508.970.3209
Samatha Heighton
Cheryl Richards Photography
Customer Relations/Human
Resources
Skinner Online
Carol McCaffrey
Kerry Shrives
508.970.3252
Receptionist
Lindsay White
508.970.3000
Daniel Bar
Judie Ochsner
[email protected]
Transportation
508.970.3279
Eric Jones
Accounting
508.970.3229
Absentee & Telephone
Bidding
Denise Johnson
508.970.3269
Boston: 617.874.4318
William Madden
Marlborough: 508.970.3211
508.970.3266
Discovery: 508.970.3208
Kevin Rota
Auctioneers
Chris Barber, John Colasacco,
508.970.3283
Stephen L. Fletcher, Karen M. Keane,
Marie Keep, Jessica R. Lincoln, Kerry Shrives,
Stuart G. Slavid, Robin S.R. Starr,
Laura V. Sweeney
63 Park Plaza
Boston, MA 02116
617.350.5400
Fax 617.350.5429
www.skinnerinc.com
274 Cedar Hill Street
Marlborough, MA 01752
508.970.3000
Fax 508.970.3100
130 Miracle Mile, Suite 220
Coral Gables, FL 33134
305.503.4423
Fax 305.709.2143
415 Madison Avenue, #1418
New York, NY 10017
212.787.1113
Fax 646.893.0179
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Directions to Skinner’s Boston Gallery/63 Park Plaza, Boston, MA 02116
617.350.5400
From the West:
Take the Massachusetts Turnpike to the Prudential/Copley exit located in the Prudential tunnel. Once on the exit ramp, stay in the right hand
lane and follow the signs for Copley. The ramp exits onto Stuart Street. Drive straight through five sets of lights and take a left onto Charles
Street South. Take your first left off of Charles St. South onto Park Plaza. Skinner is at 63 Park Plaza, one block up on the right.
From the South:
Take 93-N to Exit 20 for I-90 W toward Worcester. Follow signs for Chinatown/South Station. Bear left at the fork to continue towards Kneeland
Street. Turn left onto Kneeland Street. Kneeland Street becomes Stuart Street. Turn right onto Charles Street South. Turn left onto Park Plaza.
Skinner is at 63 Park Plaza, one block up on the right.
From Logan Airport:
Take the Ted Williams Tunnel. Take Exit 25 toward South Boston and bear left at the fork in the ramp. Bear right onto B St. Turn left onto
Northern Ave which becomes Seaport Blvd. Turn left onto Surface Rd. Turn right onto Kneeland Street which becomes Stuart Street. Turn right
onto Charles Street South. Turn left onto Park Plaza. Skinner is at 63 Park Plaza, one block up on the right.
From the North:
Take I-93 South towards Boston. Take exit 26 towards Storrow Drive. Merge onto MA-28 South via the ramp on the left. Turn left onto
Beacon Street. Turn right onto Arlington Street. Turn left onto Boylston Street. Turn right onto Hadassah Way. Skinner is on the right at 63
Park Plaza.
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Catalog Subscription Form
Prices effective October 1, 2015. Catalog subscription price includes quarterly brochure.
Subscription effective one year from date processed. No refunds for previous subscriptions. Renewal notice will be sent one month prior to expiration.
Subscriptions do not include Discovery, Estates, and other special sales. Post-auction prices are available online at www.skinnerinc.com
Please check the appropriate boxes:
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Canada
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Foreign (USD only)
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American Furniture & Decorative Arts $105
$150
$200
European Furniture & Decorative Arts
$140
$200
$270
American & European Paintings & Prints (two books)
$105 $150
$200
Fine Jewelry $140 $200
$270
20th Century Design $70 $150
$135
Asian Works of Art $105 $150
$200
Fine Oriental Rugs & Carpets
$70 $100
$135
American Indian & Ethnographic Art
$70 $100
$135
Fine Books & Manuscripts
$70 $100
$135
Historic Arms & Militaria $70 $100
$135
Fine Musical Instruments $70 $100
$135
Clocks, Watches & Scientific Instruments
$70 $100
$135
Fine Wines, Ales & Spirits $70 $100
$135
All Above Departments $900 $1300
$1725
Subtotal
MA residents 6.25% sales tax
Total
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Sale 2865B November 15, 2015 Boston

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