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CONTENTS
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2 1920s Paris
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famous owners
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americana
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Travel & Exploration
166
66 literature
125 Art & ILLUSTRATION
98 Children’s LitERATURE
143 Science & Economics
102 HIstory, Religion & Philosophy
Cover illustration from Ze’ev Raban, The Song of Songs, 1923, Item 173
151 Index
1920s Paris
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or a brief time, Paris had everything a struggling artist could possibly want—cheap lodging, cultural
sophistication, bookstores and cafés on every corner, splendid cityscapes, and legal alcohol—all suffused
with a romantic haze of Great War disillusionment strangely coupled with a sense of renewed possibility. It is no
wonder that writers, musicians, and artists from virtually all of Europe and America flocked to the City of Light
at this time: Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Joyce, Stein, Ford, Pound, Dalí, Matisse, Picasso, Man Ray, and Cocteau are
just a few of the literary and artistic greats who lived in Paris in the legendary twenties.
james joyce
“The Most Influential Work Of Modern Times”:
A True Rarity And A Centerpiece Of Any Great Modern Literature Collection:
First Edition Of Ulysses, One Of Only 100 Signed By Joyce—
An Excellent Unrestored Copy In The Original Wrappers
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JOYCE, James. Ulysses. Paris, 1922. Quarto, original blue paper wrappers. $268,000.
First edition, one of only 100 copies signed by Joyce and printed on Dutch handmade paper (out of a total edition of 1000
copies). An excellent unrestored copy in the fragile original wrappers.
After working seven years on Ulysses, Joyce, desperate to find a publisher, turned to Sylvia Beach of Shakespeare and Company
in Paris. “Within a month of the publication, the first printing of Ulysses was practically sold out, and within a year Joyce had
become a well-known literary figure. Ulysses was explosive in its impact on the literary world of 1922… Then began the great
game of smuggling the edition into countries where it was forbidden, especially England and the United States. The contraband
article was transported across the seas and national borders in all sorts of cunning ways…
So many copies left Sylvia Beach’s bookshop for dissemination abroad in surreptitious ways
that eight months after the initial printing of one thousand copies a second printing
appeared” (de Grazia, 27). “The novel is universally hailed as the most influential work of
modern times” (Grolier Joyce 69). The first printing consisted of 1000 copies, divided into
three limitations. The first 100 copies were printed on fine handmade paper, numbered
1-100, and signed by Joyce—the present copy, number 91, is one of these, noted in
Woolmer’s 1996 census as having been originally sold to “Monsieur Quex” but unlocated at
the time of the census. Copies 101-250 were also printed on handmade paper, though of a
lesser grade than the first 100, and were not signed by Joyce. The final 750 copies were numbered 251-1000, printed on the
least expensive stock of paper, and like the previous limitation, were not signed by Joyce. The present copy has been in private
hands for more than 50 years. Slocum A17. Interior clean and fine, fragile original wrappers with a bit of minor edge-wear, three
tiny spots to rear cover, and chipping to spine ends, but overall clean, fresh, and quite lovely, completely unrestored. A splendid
copy of the very rare and desirable signed issue of Joyce’s masterpiece.
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“and his heart was
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going like mad and yes
I said yes I will Yes”
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Portrait from Berenice Abbott's Faces, item 8
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f. scot t fitzgerald
Inscribed By Fitzgerald, In First-Issue Dust Jacket
2. FITZGERALD, F. Scott. Tender is the Night. New York, 1934. Octavo, original dark bluish green cloth, dust jacket. $38,000.
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First edition, third printing (only one month after the first), in scarce original first-issue dust jacket, boldly inscribed by the author:
“Souvenir of Wilmington from F. Scott Fitzgerald to J. Stuart Groves.”
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“For the title of his favorite among his books, the one he had wrought most painfully and carefully from his costly experience, Fitzgerald
hit on a phrase from the ‘Ode to a Nightingale,’ evoking that poem’s timeless images of flight, dissolution, and the sweetness of death…
it was Fitzgerald’s most ambitious work, his intended masterpiece… Everything hinged on Tender is the Night… He had Gatsby to his
credit, but he wasn’t sure about Gatsby” (Turnbull, 241-6). This
third printing occurred one month after the first printing. Firstissue dust jacket, with blurbs by Eliot, Mencken and Rosenfeld
on front flap. Dust jacket price-clipped. Bruccoli A15.I.c.
Fitzgerald’s inscription refers to the move he and Zelda made to
the mansion of Ellerslie in Wilmington, Delaware in 1927.
Maxwell Perkins had suggested it because he thought “that the
kind of feudality that existed there under the DuPonts would interest Fitzgerald and give him material for future work” (Turnbull,
171). They lived there until 1929. Bookplate. Book fine. Scarce
unrestored first-issue dust jacket extremely good with several
small chips to spine and minor edge-wear, split along front spine
fold, bright and unfaded. A near-fine inscribed copy.
“Later she remembered all the hours
of the afternoon as happy—one of those
uneventful times that seem at the moment
only a link between past and future
pleasure, but turn out to have been
the pleasure itself.”
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henri matisse
“Matisse Was Evolving Methods He Would Use For The Rest Of His Life”:
Cinquante Dessins, 1920, With A Lovely Original Etching Signed By Matisse—
This Copy Presented By His Youngest Son Pierre, Beautifully Bound
3. MATISSE, Henri. Cinquante Dessins. Paris, 1920. Quarto, period-style full dark red morocco gilt; original printed paper
wrappers bound in. $13,500.
First edition, one of only 1000 copies with a
lovely original etching by Matisse of a woman’s
face, entitled “Mlle. M. M,” signed by him.
Presentation copy from Matisse’s youngest son,
Pierre, and his first wife Alexina “Teeny” Sattler,
inscribed: “For Dr. Bartlett from Pierre and Teeny
Matisse.” Beautifully bound.
Matisse himself edited and printed this lovely suite
of 50 photo-lithographic reproductions of his
drawings of women to accompany his exhibition at
Bernheim-Jeune in 1920. Matisse’s youngest son
Pierre, who has inscribed and presented this copy,
exhibited an early interest in the art market, and as
a young man took a job at the Galerie BarbazangesHodebert in Paris. In 1924, he came to New York,
where he began a distinguished career of 65 years
as an art dealer. He married Alexina “Teeny”
Sattler in 1929; they separated in 1949. Text in
French. Duthuit 68. Ink gift inscription. A fine
signed copy, scarce and desirable.
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“At The Forefront Of Radical Modernism”:
First Edition Of Krull’s 100 X Paris, 1929
4. KRULL, Germaine. 100 X Paris. Berlin, 1929. Quarto, original cream
stiff paper wrappers, dust jacket. $3500.
First edition of Krull’s pioneering photobook of
Paris in the 1920s, with 100 sepia-toned photogravure plates, including luminous views of
the Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame, crowded street
markets and Parisians strolling on the Bois de
Boulogne.
Positioned “at the forefront of radical modernism… Germaine Krull worked in Berlin, Russia,
Holland and Paris during the 1920s… Her views
of industrial structures in Holland and Paris—including as a leitmotif that icon of modern engineering, the Eiffel Tower” show a photographer
whose vision sought ever new horizons for the
medium (Parr & Badger I:78, 95). Images clean
and bright, light edge-wear, minor tape repair to
verso of photographic dust jacket. A striking,
near-fine copy, very scarce in original dust jacket.
Wonderful Surrealist Original Drawing By Cocteau
For The Title Page Of His Le Mystère Laic
5. COCTEAU, Jean. “Le Mystère Laic.” Paris, 1928. Original penand-ink design for a title page, handsomely framed. $7200.
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Cocteau’s original design for the title page of Le Mystère Laic (The
Secular Mystery), his treatise on the art of de Chirico.
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This original design was produced by Cocteau as a title page for his
Le Mystère Laic, “a fine treatise on the art of the Italian painter
Giorgio de Chirico… In this work Cocteau extended himself into the
area of aesthetic theory that he had explored in Le Coq and his
exegesis of Picasso… De Chirico was grateful for Cocteau’s
understanding and support and some years later did a series of fine
lithographs for Cocteau’s book Mythologie” (Emboden, 44). From
the collection of George Verdak, who danced with the Ballet Russe
de Monte Carlo from 1942-51. Accompanied by a copy of the first
edition of Cocteau’s Le Mystere Laic (The Secular Mystery), with five
drawings by Giorgio de Chirico, one of 3000 numbered copies.
Cocteau’s design does not appear in the final version of the book,
though the first copy in the limitation was issued with an original
drawing by Cocteau, most likely from the same series from which
this drawing comes. Light stain to top margin, not affecting drawing.
A splendid original drawing, larger than most.
1920s Paris
“April Is The Cruellest Month…”: The Most Important Poetic Work
Of The 20th Century—First Issue Of Eliot’s The Waste Land
6. ELIOT, T.S. The Waste Land. New York, 1922. Octavo, original flexible black
cloth gilt, custom clamshell box. $9500.
First edition, first issue, of this undisputed landmark of modern poetry, one of
only 1000 copies and one of the first 500 copies printed, in the earliest binding.
Arguably the most important poetic work of the 20th century, The Waste Land
“came as a profound shock… Within less than a decade, [it] had attained a kind
of eminence from which it has never been dislodged” (Ackroyd, 127-28). Without
scarce glassine and dust jacket. Gallup A6a. Sackton A6a.3-4. Interior generally
clean, tiny hole toward gutter of front free endpaper, spine slightly toned with light
wear to ends, light soiling to edges of rear board. An extremely good copy of a
modern masterpiece.
“. . . The nymphs are departed.
Sweet Thames, run softly, till I end my song.”
With A Full-Page Heliogravure By
Man Ray: Cocteau’s Hallucinatory Poem
L’Ange Heurtebise, 1925
7. (MAN RAY) COCTEAU, Jean. L’Ange Heurtebise. Paris,
1925. Folio, modern white paper boards; original wrappers
bound in. $4800.
Limited first edition of Cocteau’s masterpiece, one of only
50 copies on Vélin Blanc (of a total edition of 355 copies), marked “H.C.” (not for sale), with a magnificent heliogravure of the angel Heurtebise by Man Ray.
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Of his poem Cocteau declared that, “If someone proved to
me that I would be signing my death sentence if I didn’t add
or subtract one syllable, I could not touch it” (Steegmuller,
352-53). As a frontispiece to this first edition, Surrealist
photographer Man Ray has been able to capture the angel’s
“mass of invisibility” in one of his famous “Rayogrammes.”
Text in French. Crossland, 223. Not in Mahaffey. Light,
inoffensive toning to margins of text, corners restored on
original wrappers. A near-fine copy. Scarce.
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berenice abbot t
Fine Portfolio Of 12 Folio Exhibition-Size Gelatin Silver Prints,
One Of Only 60 Issued, With Iconic Images Of Joyce, Atget And Others,
Each Portrait Signed By Abbott On The Matt
8. ABBOTT, Berenice. Faces of the 20s. Portfolio of 12 Signed Gelatin Silver Prints.
New York, 1981. Folio, original portfolio of 12 gelatin silver prints, loose as issued, each
measuring 10 by 13 inches; matted on heavy stock, entirety measures 16 by 20 inches,
clamshell box. $18,000.
Rare limited portfolio of 12 large gelatin silver prints, one of only 60 issued, each
impressive print signed and numbered in pencil on the mat by Abbott—”the dean of
American photographers”—featuring her legendary 1920s portraits of James Joyce,
Eugène Atget, Janet Flanner, Jean Cocteau, Edna St. Vincent Millay and others, in the
original clamshell box.
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Faces of the 20s is especially significant for its inclusion of Abbott’s 1925 portrait of Atget
and her iconic 1928 portrait of Joyce—images that define the genius and humanity of
these two legends. Also herein are portraits of André Gide, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Janet
Flanner, Solita Solano, Jean Cocteau and an image of his hands at rest, of Princess
Eugène Murat, drummer Buddy
Gilmore, Mrs. Raymond Massey
and Princess Marthe Bibesco.
With laid-in original 1981 prospectus from Parasol Press. An
impressive suite of 12 signed
prints in fine condition.
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james joyce
“Humptydump Dublin Squeaks Through His Norse Humptydump Dublin Hath A Horrible Vorse And
With All His Kinks English Plus His Irismanx Brogues Humptydump Dublin’s Grandada Of All Rogues”:
Beautiful First Edition Of Joyce’s Haveth Childers Everywhere, One Of Only 100 Signed Copies
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JOYCE, James. Haveth Childers Everywhere. Fragment from Work in Progress. Paris and New York, 1930. Slim folio,
original printed paper wraps, glassine, cardboard slipcase.
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This is one of several fragments from Work in Progress (published in 1939 as Finnegans Wake) that Joyce issued to raise money
while working on the mammoth project. One of the publishers, Jack Kahane, who idolized Joyce, had originally asked Sylvia
Beach to allow him to take over publication of Ulysses. Instead, she introduced Kahane to Joyce, who then agreed to let him
publish Haveth Childers Everywhere. The effort nearly ruined Kahane, and only by selling the American rights to the work were
he and co-publisher Henry Babou able to save themselves from bankruptcy. Without rare gilt chemise, as sometimes. According
to Slocum and Cahoon, only some copies are found with this chemise; copies without are considered to be complete as issued.
Slocum and Cahoon A41. Tape repairs to slipcase, mild toning to glassine, book fine. A beautiful signed copy in exceptional
condition. Rare.
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First edition, one of only 100 signed copies on “Imperial Hand-Made Iridescent Japan” paper, out of a total edition of 685
copies. An exceptional copy.
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ernest hemingway
“From One Who Saw The Sun Also
Rise”: Scarce First Issue Of The Sun
Also Rises, Inscribed By The Dedicatee,
Hemingway’s First Wife, Hadley
Richardson
10. HEMINGWAY, Ernest. The Sun Also Rises.
New York, 1926. Octavo, original black cloth,
custom clamshell box. $25,000.
First edition, first issue, an extraordinary association copy, inscribed by Hemingway’s first wife,
Hadley, to author and interviewer Lawrence
Broer: “Best wishes to Larry & Kris from one who
saw the Sun Also Rise. Sincerely, Hadley R.
Mowrer.” Hadley was, of course, the dedicatee of
the novel; Broer was a noted Hemingway
scholar, who apparently asked Hadley
to inscribe his own copy (a second inscription identifies this copy as originally his). Accompanied by Stanley
Kimmel’s book of verse and an issue of
Lost Generation Journal containing
Broer’s signed article on Kimmel. The
Kimmels were close friends of the
Hemingways in Paris.
In The Sun Also Rises, “the post-war disillusion and the post-war liberation are united in the physical enjoyment of living and
the pains of love. Perhaps that is what expatriation was about” (Connolly 50). Hemingway’s first wife, Hadley Richardson (now
Mowrer), describes Sun as “my book,” as she is not only the dedicatee, but “had been Hemingway’s constant companion
during perhaps the most important formative years of his career”
(Broer, 16). These were the Paris years, when the Hemingways made
friends with Stanley and Elsie Kimmel. In 1975, Hemingway scholar
Lawrence Broer arranged through the Kimmels to interview Hadley
Mowrer for an article in the Lost Generation Journal, featuring the
Kimmels (present here). In it Broer describes the Kimmels’ relationships
with the Hemingways and poet Carl Sandburg. Also included in this
grouping is a first edition of Stanley Kimmel’s book of poetry, The
Strange Voyage (1921). Sun Also Rises also inscribed: “To Dr. Broer, In
appreciation for the many ways you have helped me in the past year.
Sincerely, Irma B.” Without extremely scarce dust jacket. Rubbing to
paper label, light wear to original cloth, renewed endpapers. An
extremely good and exceptional presentation copy, with superb
ancillary material and distinguished provenance.
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“The sun also ariseth,
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and the sun goeth down,
and hasteth to his place
where he arose.”
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charles ii
Bound By Samuel Mearne For King Charles II And From His Royal Library
11. (CHARLES II) SCALIGERI, J.J. Opuscula Varia Antehac Non Edita. Paris, 1610. Large octavo, early full crimson morocco
rebacked with original spine laid down, covers and spine panels tooled with Charles II’s cipher, custom chemise and slipcase.
$15,000.
Lovely volume of the works of “the greatest scholar of modern times,” bound for King Charles II by royal bookbinder Samuel
Mearne, with the king’s cipher in gilt on the spine and covers. Books bound by Mearne for Charles II almost never appear on
the market.
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This volume, a posthumous collection of works of Joseph Justus Scaligeri, edited by Isaac Casaubon, was quite possibly handed
down to Charles from his grandfather, James I, with Charles then having it rebound for his royal library. Includes linguistic and historical writings on Aeschylus, Euripides and Caesar, among others, as well as Scaligeri’s poems and letters. Scaligeri expanded the
notion of classical history from Greek and ancient Roman history to include Persian, Babylonian, Jewish and ancient Egyptian history as well. “The greatest scholar of modern times… revolutionized all the received ideas of ancient chronology—to show that ancient history is not confined to that of the Greeks and Romans, but also comprises that of the Persians, the Babylonians and the
Egyptians, hitherto neglected as absolutely worthless, and that of the Jews, hitherto treated as a thing apart, and that the historical
narratives and fragments of each of these, and their several systems of chronology, must be critically compared” (Encyclopedia
Britannica, 11th edition). Samuel
Mearne was named Bookbinder
to the King in 1660 and held that
position until his death in 1683, at
which point it passed to his widow
and son Charles. Text in Latin,
with the final three works, pp.
539-82, in French. With British
Museum stamp on verso of title
page and on final leaf, in both instances counterstamped “duplicate.” Because almost all of the
books Mearne bound for Charles
II ended up in the British Library,
they very rarely appear on the
market. Interior quite clean; a few
minor rubs to extremities, gilt
quite bright. An excellent royal armorial binding from the library of
Charles II.
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Bound For King Charles II, In The Year Of His Death,
With Astrological Material
12. (CHARLES II) LILLY, William, et al. Sammelband of Almanacs for 1685,
including Merlini Anglici Ephemeris, et al. London, 1685. 12mo, contemporary
full crimson morocco, corners and spine panels tooled with Charles II’s cipher,
custom chemise and slipcase. $8500.
Collection of ten English Almanacs published in the year of King Charles
II’s death, with numerous woodblock illustrations, bound for the king’s
personal library with his cipher on the spine panels and the corners of
the covers.
Includes: William Lilly’s Merlini Anglici Ephemeris; John Gadbury’s Ephemeris
(“with some further Remarques upon the late Triple Regal Conjunction of
Saturn and Jupiter, not the Destroyer (as some have idly written) but great
Advancer of Monarchy”); both parts of Philoprotess’ The Protestant
Almanack, with a disquisition on “Popish Fopperies”; Lancelot Goelson’s
Almanack; John Tanner’s Angelus Britannicus: an Ephemeris; Henry Coley’s
Nuncius Uranius: or, the Starry Messenger; John Partridge’s Merlinus
Redivivus; Thomas Streete’s A Compleat Ephemeris; Richard Saunders’
Apollo Anglicanus, the English Apollo; and Poor Robin’s An Almanack. Front
joint broken, one cord just holding, a bit of minor age-wear to extremities. A
very good royal armorial binding from the library of Charles II.
Beautifully Bound For The Future Louis XVI With His Coat Of Arms:
Superb 1772 French Royal Almanac
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(LOUIS XVI) FRENCH ALMANAC. Almanach Royal, Année Bissextile
M.DCC.LXXII. Paris, 1772. Octavo, contemporary full crimson morocco gilt,
gilt arms of Louis XVI dauphin. $25,000.
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1772 Royal Almanac, bound for Louis XVI dauphin two years before he would
inherit the throne of France, in a lovely binding designed by the royal
bookbinder Pierre-Paul Dubuisson.
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Louis-Auguste of France was the third son of Louis, the dauphin, and the
grandson of Louis XV of France and of his consort, Maria Leszczynska. On his
father’s death in 1765, Louis became dauphin, and on May 10, 1774—not yet
20 years old—Louis-Auguste succeeded his grandfather as Absolute Monarch
of France, Louis XVI. The elaborate decorative gold tooling has been
accomplished with the use of a single large plate or “plaque.” The invention of
gold tooling by plaque is often attributed to Pierre-Paul Dubuisson, one of the
most famous bookbinders of his time, who needed an economical way to richly
decorate similarly sized volumes, especially when he became official
bookbinder to King Louis XV in 1758. Twelve such plaques have been identified
by Edouard Rahir; the border on this covers of this volume is Rahir’s plaque ‘a.’
This yearly almanac records births, marriages and deaths in the royal family.
Text in French. Rahir, 184a. This volume sold in the 1909 Paris sale “Précieuse
collection d’almanachs royaux,” April 3, 1909. Fine condition. A splendid
volume bound with a Dubuisson-designed plaque and with superb royal
provenance.
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Marie Antoinette’s Copy,
Beautifully Bound With Her Gilt Arms
14. (MARIE ANTOINETTE) LAFOREST, Nicholas-Laurent. L’Art de Soigner
les Pieds. Paris, 1782. Small octavo, contemporary full brown morocco gilt,
gilt arms of Marie Antoinette. $16,500.
Second edition (first published in 1781) of this classic podiatric work,
written by the chiropodist of Louis XVI and the royal family, with the gilt
arms of Marie Antoinette, beautifully bound.
In the list of 24 books of “Natural history, medical and physical sciences of
Marie Antoinette,” drawn up by Quentin-Bauchart (1886, II, p. 239, No. 49
of Les Femmes Bibliophiles de France), this volume was one of the five still
in private hands and came from the collection of Baron Pichon. This work
by Nicholas-Laurent Laforest is one of the early classics on podiatry, this
second edition containing an additional chapter on the care of the feet of
soldiers, and also with two folding engraved plates depicting podiatric
instruments and various deformities of the feet. Text in French. Armorial
bookplate of the Marquis de Fortia [d’Urban], owner of the Château Fortia
and its vinicultural interests. Armorial bookplate and armorial paper
bookmark of Alain de Rothschild, a 20th-century member of the prominent
pan-European Rothschild banking family. An about-fine copy, in beautiful
armorial binding of Marie Antoinette.
From The Library Of Madame De Pompadour
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(POMPADOUR, MADAME DE) DE SALES, François. Abrégé du
Traité de L’Amour de Dieu. Paris, 1756. 12mo, contemporary red morocco
gilt.
$8000.
Later French edition of de Sales’ Treatise on the Love of God, from the
library of Louis XV’s powerful mistress, Madame de Pompadour, in her
armorial binding.
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“Treatise on the Love of God, an authoritative work which reflects perfectly
the mind and heart of Francis de Sales as a great genius and a great saint”
(Catholic Encyclopedia). First published in 1616. Text in French. From the
library of Madame de Pompadour, in her armorial binding; this copy is
described in Catalogue des Livres de la Bibliothèque de feue Madame la
Marquise de Pompadour. Jeanne-Annette Poisson “first met Louis XV at a
masked ball in 1745… he ennobled and settled her at Versailles in the
same year,” bestowing upon her the title Madame de Pompadour. “She
collected works of art of every kind and formed a superb library… her own
books were bound by the leading binders of the time, especially Padeloup
and Louis Douceur. After her death in 1764, her library [of more than
3500 volumes] was dispersed” (Pearson). Armorial bookplate of Franz
Johann Hieronymus [Jerome] Innocent, grafen von Spreti of Bavaria.
Interior fine, light rubbing to extremities of handsome binding. A fine copy,
with outstanding provenance.
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frederick the great
“Narrow The Enemy’s Front”: An Extraordinary Association Copy Of Frederick The Great’s Secret Instructions,
1811, Historian Thomas Carlyle’s Copy, Which He Inscribed To Sir Colin Campbell
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FREDERICK, King of Prussia (SMITH, Charles Hamilton, translator). Secret Strategical Instructions, of Frederic the Second,
for His Inspectors General. Coventry: R. Pratt et al., 1811. Slim quarto, early 20th-century three-quarter red polished calf gilt; original
front wrapper bound in). $9800.
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First translation into English of Frederick the Great’s Secret Instructions, intended to complement Foster’s 1762 translation of
Frederick’s Military Instructions, with 31 hand-colored copperplates by Smith of fortifications and strategic formations (five folding),
Frederick’s biographer Thomas Carlyle’s copy, inscribed: “To Major Genl. Sir Colin Campbell G.C.B &c &c, with many kind regards,
T. Carlyle, Chelsea, Decr 1853.” With an additional gift inscription to Major-General Clayton Bissell, Assistant Chief of Staff for
Intelligence in World War II.
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In the turbulent 18th century, the small state of Prussia was led by a man “of high military genius, capable of infusing into others his
own undaunted spirit” (Britannica). In the Seven Years War, which pitted Prussia against an overwhelming Continental alliance of
Austria, Russia, France, and Saxony, Frederick the Second “distinguished himself by continually keeping at bay much more powerful
antagonists” (Encyclopedia of World Biography). This translation of the King of Prussia’s commentary on the plates for his famous
military handbook is intended as a supplement to Foster’s English translation of Frederick’s Military Instructions (1762), which “relates
chiefly to strategies.” This work focuses rather on his military tactics— his “manner of misleading the enemy respecting the real point
of attack— even the art of rapidly passing from the defensive to the offensive state, keeping in view all the chances of success. By
these principles, peculiarly his own, he was enabled often to accomplish great actions with small comparative means.” This copy
belonged to Thomas Carlyle, whose last major work was the epic life of Frederick the Great, History of Friedrich II of Prussia (1858-65).
“He set out with the object of demonstrating the heroic in Frederick, of illustrating his thesis of ‘the hero as king” (Cambridge History).
This is Carlyle’s own copy of Frederick’s Secret Strategical Instructions, which he presented to Major General, Sir Colin Campbell, who
after having fought in the Sikh Wars in India eventually resigned his command and in March 1853 returned to England. Carlyle saw
him in December, when he gave him this book. Light scattered foxing. A near-fine copy with extraordinary provenance.
Fa mous Ow ners
Boldly Signed By Ulysses S. Grant In The First Weeks Of His
Famous World Tour, Presented To Him And Beautifully Bound
For Him By The Publisher
17.
(GRANT, Ulysses S.) TAIT, John. Directory, For the City of Glasgow… From
The 15th May 1783, to the 15 May 1784. Glasgow, 1783 [i.e. 1877]. Small octavo,
contemporary full navy morocco gilt. $6800.
1877 facsimile of the 1783 first Glasgow Directory, “Presented by the publisher
to General U.S. Grant” early in his world tour, boldly signed by Grant on this copy’s
special bound-in presentation leaf beneath an inscription to
the U.S. Consul to Glasgow, Samuel F. Cooper. Handsomely
bound in full crushed morocco by Bickers & Son, with the front
board gilt-stamped “General U.S. Grant” beneath the Glasgow
coat of arms.
Ulysses S. Grant, along with his wife Julia and son Jesse, sailed for
Europe on May 17, 1877, ten weeks after the inauguration of President Hayes, and
arrived in Liverpool on May 28 to begin his world tour. This copy contains a bound-in
leaf printed: “Presented by the Publisher to General U.S. Grant, Ex-President of the
United States of America, On the occasion of his Visit to Glasgow. 13th September,
1877.” Below, in an unidentified hand on the same leaf, is written: “Presented to S.F. Cooper by,” followed by the signature of U.S.
Grant with his bold flourish. Samuel Freeman Cooper fought in the Union army in the Civil War, where he achieved the rank of
Lieutenant Colonel. In 1876 Grant appointed him the U.S. Consul to Glasgow, Scotland. A fine signed copy.
Christmas Blossoms For 1848 And
1851, Illustrated With 12 Sartain
Mezzotints, Both Inscribed By And
From The Library Of FDR, One Dated
During His Presidency
18. (ROOSEVELT, Franklin D.). Christmas
Blossoms, and New Year’s Wreath, for 1848.
WITH: Christmas Blossoms, and New Year’s
Wreath, for MDCCCLI. Boston and
Philadelphia, 1848, 1851. Two volumes.
12mo, original gilt-stamped cloth, custom
chemise and slipcase. $12,000.
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These anthologies—two from an 1847-54 series of annual children’s gift books—feature the character of Uncle Thomas, a Santa-like
figure whose Christmas visits bring the gifts of story and verse. Each volume illustrated with six mezzotints by John Sartain. Both
volumes belonged to and are inscribed by Franklin D. Roosevelt. The 1848 volume bears an additional note, apparently in his hand,
“Rare—Sartain Plates.” Roosevelt was an ardent bibliophile. He was a member of such book collectors’ organizations as the Club of
Odd Volumes and the Grolier Club. At his death, his personal library numbered more than 21,000 volumes. 1848 volume with expert
restoration to cloth, both spines slightly rubbed, cover gilt bright. A delightful pair of volumes, with desirable and distinguished
presidential provenance.
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1848 and 1851 editions of the “Christmas
Blossoms” gift books for children, illustrated
with mezzotint plates by John Sartain, with
the ownership inscriptions of President and bibliophile Franklin D. Roosevelt: “Franklin D.
Roosevelt, Hyde Park, 1930” (in the first volume), “Franklin D. Roosevelt, Hyde Park, 1936”
(in the second).
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“These Books Are All Survivors”: Presentation First German
Edition Of The Sun Also Rises, Hemingway’s Own Copy With His
Ownership Signature, Additionally Signed And Inscribed By Him
19. HEMINGWAY, Ernest. Fiesta [The Sun Also Rises]. Berlin, 1928. Octavo,
original blue cloth, dust jacket. $20,000.
First edition in German, Hemingway’s own copy with his ownership signature
on the front free endpaper, presentation copy additionally inscribed and signed:
“For Frazer [sic] Bragg Drew wishing him good luck always, Ernest Hemingway.
It’s hard to keep books in decent condition in a country where they have
hurricanes. These books are all survivors.”
As a young teacher, Drew wrote
a letter to which Hemingway
responded with uncharacteristic kindness, signing six of
Drew’s books and presenting
him with six more “as an act of
contrition” for taking so long to
return the books. Hemingway
then invited Drew to visit, and on April 8, 1955, one year after Hemingway won the
Nobel Prize, they spent a long afternoon discussing literature, later recounted by
Drew in his article “Unedited Notes on a Visit to Finca Vigia” (in Bruccoli, 89-98). At
the end of Drew’s visit Hemingway said “Let’s go up to the house and sign those
books of yours.” Hemingway inscribed all the books Drew had brought with him and
presented him with many others from his own collection; this volume was undoubtedly one of those books. Scattered light foxing to text, scarce original dust jacket with
mild toning to spine and extremities, only minor shallow chipping to spine ends. An
extremely good copy with a wonderful Hemingway inscription.
First Edition Of The Collector,
John Fowles’ Own Copy Of His First Published Novel
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FOWLES, John. The Collector. London, 1963. Octavo, original russet
cloth, dust jacket. $6000.
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First edition of Fowles’ highly acclaimed first published novel, in scarce firstissue dust jacket, with Fowles’ signature and his blind-embossed ownership
stamp.
“There is not a page in this first novel which does not prove that its author is a
master storyteller” (New York Times). Although Fowles wrote The Collector after
his magnum opus The Magus, The Collector was accepted for publication first.
In scarce first-issue dust jacket, without reviews. The blind embossing that
appears in this book carries Fowles’ name and “Lyme Regis,” the
town on the English seacoast that was his final residence. A fine
copy with exceptional provenance.
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the federalist
Very Rare And Important First Edition Of The Federalist:
“The Most Famous And Influential American Political Work,” Association Copy
Signed By Samuel Boyd, Prominent New York Federalist And Powerful Colleague Of Hamilton
21.
(HAMILTON, Alexander; MADISON, James; JAY, John). The Federalist. New York, 1788. Two volumes. 12mo, contemporary
full tree calf gilt rebacked.
$225,000.
First edition of The Federalist, one of the rarest and most significant books in American political history, which “exerted a powerful
influence in procuring the adoption of the Federal Constitution,” this exceedingly rare association copy signed on the title page of
each volume by ardent Federalist Samuel Boyd, a close colleague of Hamilton. A very handsome copy in rich gilt-tooled contemporary
tree calf.
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“When Alexander Hamilton invited his fellow New Yorker John Jay and James Madison, a Virginian, to join him in writing the series of
essays published as The Federalist, it was to meet the immediate need of convincing the reluctant New York State electorate of the
necessity of ratifying the newly proposed Constitution of the United States. The 85 essays, under the pseudonym ‘Publius,’ were
designed as political propaganda… In spite of this, The Federalist survives as one of the new nation’s most important contributions to
the theory of government” (PMM, 234). The Federalist is without question the most important commentary on the Constitution and
among the most important of all American works. This rare copy is especially noted for its important provenance to a close associate
of Hamilton. Samuel Boyd, an ardent Federalist whose signature appears on each volume’s title page, was a prominent New York
businessman and was among a powerful group of Federalists, led by Hamilton, who would found the New-Evening Post (now New
York Post) as the principal organ of the party following the rise of the Democratic-Republicans. Volume II with early ink correction to
page 193 (leaf R1). Text generally fresh and clean with occasional light foxing, Vol. I with faint offsetting to title page, light marginal
dampstaining (27-32), minor expert archival paper repair to one leaf (107-8). A highly desirable near-fine copy of this extraordinarily
rare and important American landmark.
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“At Once Acclaimed A Classic”: First Edition Of Blackstone’s Commentaries
22.
BLACKSTONE, William. Commentaries on the Laws of England. Oxford, 1765-69. Four volumes. Quarto, contemporary
full tan calf rebacked.
$22,000.
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Rare first edition of Blackstone’s landmark Commentaries, perhaps the single most important legal work in Anglo-American
history.
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“The Commentaries are not only a statement
of the law of Blackstone’s day, but the best
history of English law as a whole which had yet
appeared… the skillful manner in which
Blackstone uses his authorities new and old,
and the analogy of other systems of law, to illustrate the evolution of the law of his day, had
a vast influence, both in England and America”
(NYU, 34). “Until the Commentaries, the ordinary Englishman had viewed the law as a vast,
unintelligible and unfriendly machine…
Blackstone’s great achievement was to popularize the law and the traditions which had influenced its formation” (PMM 212). Without
the rare “Supplement to the First Edition,” often not present. Sweet & Maxwell, 27. Marvin
122. Armorial bookplates (in three volumes).
Occasional pencil marginalia. Scattered light
foxing, a few leaves expertly cleaned, expertly
restored contemporary calf boards with light
abrasions. A handsome copy.
“The First Modern Attempt To Analyse Human Knowledge”:
Locke’s Essay Concerning Human Understanding, 1694
23. LOCKE, John. An Essay concerning Humane Understanding.
In Four Books. London, 1694. Folio, period-style full paneled calf
gilt.
$7500.
Second edition of Locke’s remarkable study of the nature of knowledge, a fundamental work in the history of Western thought.
“Locke was the first to take up the challenge of Bacon and to attempt
to estimate critically the certainty and the adequacy of human
knowledge when confronted with God and the universe” (PMM 164).
Locke’s conclusion—that while man can never attain a perfect and
universal understanding of the world, he can gain sufficient knowledge
to secure his own well-being—became a touchstone for the Age of
Enlightenment. Second issue, with imprint of Awnsham and John
Churchill on title page. First published in 1690. Yolton 62B. Wing
L2740. PMM 164. Pforzheimer 601. Interior fine with only light
cleaning to frontispiece. Beautifully bound.
“The Very Tone And Footfall Of Thucydides”:
1634 First Edition Of Hobbes’ Esteemed Translation Of The Peloponnesian War
24.
THUCYDIDES. Eight Bookes of the Peloponnesian Warre…
Interpreted with Faith and Diligence Immediately out of the Greeke
by Thomas Hobbes. London, 1634. Folio, contemporary full mottled
brown calf gilt. $9000.
First edition, second issue, of Thomas Hobbes’ important and
admired translation of Thucydides, with engraved title page, three
maps (one folding and two double-page) and two engraved plates.
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Thucydides wanted to preserve an accurate record of the
Peloponnesian War, so the facts might be permanent sources of political teaching for posterity. “The standards and methods of
Thucydides as a contemporary historian have never been bettered”
(PMM 102). “The translation by Thomas Hobbes… with miraculous
accuracy catches the very tone and footfall of Thucydides, and the
texture of his prose” (Levi, 292). First issued by Henry Seile in 1629;
in 1634, Seile apparently sold remainder copies of the first edition (as
here) to Richard Mynne, which he reissued with a title page cancel
bearing his imprint. STC 24059. Lowndes, 2680. Armorial bookplate
and ownership signature. Other scattered old ink annotations. Light
dampstaining throughout, closed tear to leaf A2, loss to lower corner
of H2, minor marginal wormholing to H3-[H4], spine restoration to
beautiful contemporary mottled calf. A near-fine copy.
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“One Of The Greatest Masterpieces Of Political Theory”
25. MONTESQUIEU, [Charles Louis] de Secondat, Baron de. The Spirit of Laws. London, 1750. Two volumes. Octavo, period-style
full red morocco gilt.
$16,000.
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First edition in English of Montesquieu’s classic De L’Esprit Des Loix, an enormous influence on American and French revolutionary
thought, translated by Thomas Nugent and published just two years after the first French edition.
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“One of the most remarkable works of the 18th century… Spirit of the Laws consists of six main sections, the first dealing with law in
general and different forms of government, and the second with the means of government, military matters, taxation and so on. The
third deals with national character and the effect on it of climate; a subject of peculiar originality… The fourth and fifth deal with
economic matters and religion; the last is an appendix on law… The scheme that emerges of a liberal benevolent monarchy limited by
safeguards on individual liberty was to prove immensely influential… his theories underlay the thinking which led up to the American
and French revolutions, and the United States Constitution in particular is a lasting tribute to the principles he advocated” (PMM 197).
“One of the greatest masterpieces of political theory and a pioneering work in sociology… its emphasis on the separation of powers of
government and on a system of checks and balances profoundly influenced constitutional thought in both America and France”
(McNamara, France in the Age of Revolution). Advertisement leaf at rear of Volume II. Kress 5057. CBEL II:800. Goldsmiths 8571.
Interiors generally fresh with light occasional marginal dampstaining, title pages professionally cleaned with some early ink remaining,
minor ink stains to one page (II:453).
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“The Crown And Flower Of English Medieval Jurisprudence”
26.
BRACTON, Henrici de. De Legibus & consuetudinibus Angliae, Libri Quinq. London, 1569. Small folio, early full tan calf
rebacked with original spine laid down. $22,000.
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Composed between 1250 and 1256, De Legibus was cited in the courts well into the 18th century, and remains an established
legal literary prototype. “Bracton’s position in the history of English law is unique. The treatise De Legibus is the first attempt to
treat the whole extent of the law in a manner at once systematic and practical… Through Coke, who had a high respect for
Bracton, and frequently cited him, both in his judgments and in his ‘Commentary’ on Littleton, his influence has been effective in
molding the existing common law of England” (DNB). “The largest and most important institutional work that our law knew until
Coke’s Institutes” (NYU, 35). Beale T323. Discreet notation to title page; early marginalia to some leaves. Signature excised from
upper corner of title page, which has been restored (no loss of text), marginal restoration to F7, occasional very faint dampstaining,
early binding near-fine. An exceptional copy of this medieval classic of English law.
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for legal literature until the present day” (P.M. Barnes), and “the crown and flower of English medieval jurisprudence” (Pollock
& Maitland I: 206).
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“Anyone Who Studied Present And Ancient Affairs Will Easily See How In All Cities And All Peoples
There Still Exist, And Have Always Existed, The Same Desires And Passions”
27.
MACHIAVELLI, Niccolo. Discourses. upon the first Decade of T.
Livius. London, 1636. Thick 12mo (3-1/2 by 6 inches), contemporary
full tooled brown calf rebacked and recornered. $8000.
First edition in English of Machiavelli’s commentaries on the work of
the Roman historian Livy, a founding document of modern
republicanism, read and quoted by John Adams in his great work, The
Defence of the Constitutions, scarce in contemporary calf boards.
Discourses on Livy “is as essential to an understanding of Machiavelli as
his famous treatise, The Prince… Machiavelli’s close analysis of Livy’s
history of Rome led him to advance his most original and outspoken view
of politics—the belief that a healthy political body was characterized by
social friction and conflict rather than by rigid stability” (Oxford University
Press). Two title pages are found for this edition: one with the word
‘animadversions’ in roman letters, and one with it in italic (as here); no
priority given (STC 17160). With cancel leaf B1; containing rarely found
initial blank A1 and final blank Ee12. Text generally fresh with light
scattered foxing, very tiny bit of marginal dampstaining to a few early
leaves not affecting text. A highly desirable extremely good copy of this
landmark translation.
“Nothing Can Be Of So Much Consequence To Us As Liberty”:
Price’s Civil Liberty, 1776, A Key Influence On American Independence
28. (AMERICAN REVOLUTION) PRICE, Richard. Observations on the
Nature of Civil Liberty, The Principles of Government, and the Justice
and Policy of the War in America. London, 1776. Slim octavo, modern
gray paper boards; pp. [viii], [1]-128, custom folding box. $3200.
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Second edition, issued within days of the first, of Price’s powerfully influential British defense of the American revolution, a work of crucial
importance in “determining the Americans to declare their independence” (DNB).
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A close friend of Benjamin Franklin and John Adams, Richard Price “was
the most influential British advocate of American independence” (Howes
P586). His Observations on the Nature of Civil Liberty stands as the most
important writing by an Englishman sympathetic to the American cause.
This scarce second edition, which precedes the first American edition,
was issued within days of the first edition. With half title, rarely found.
Adams, American Independence 224b. Sabin 65452. Kress 7244. ESTC
T41824. Howes P586. Bookplate to inner front cover of box. Only very
lightest scattered foxing. A fine copy.
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“Among The True High Points Of Man’s Efforts To Bring Reason And Dignity To His World”:
Large-Paper First Edition In English Of Plato’s Republic
29.
PLATO. The Republic of Plato. Glasgow, 1763. Thick quarto, period-style full speckled brown calf gilt. $25,000.
First edition in English of the greatest of Plato’s dialogues, printed at the Foulis Press, one of a scant number of large-paper
copies published by Glasgow’s renowned Foulis brothers, a handsome copy.
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“Of all Plato’s works, this is perhaps the most important and widely read. Ranging from a discussion of the ‘Good’ to an examination
of the nature of the State, it remains among the true high points of man’s efforts to bring reason and dignity to his world” (Jenkins
404). “That Plato should be the first of all the ancient philosophers to be translated and broadcast by the printing press was
inevitable. Plato’s central conception of a universe of ideas, Perfect Types, of which
material objects are imperfect forms, and his ethical code based on action according
to human nature, developed by education, which represents the authority of the
“It has been truly said
State, fitted in as well with the philosophical, religious and political thought of western
Europe in the 15th century” (PMM 27). “The Republic is the model for all ideal
that the germ of all ideas
commonwealths, e.g. More’s Utopia [and] Bacon’s New Atlantis” (Harris, 115). “The
can be found in Plato.”
preface alone is worth the purchase of the book to a curious reader” (Brueggemann,
154). Bound without advertisement leaf at rear. Moss II:450. Contemporary owner
—Printing & the Mind of Man
signature on title page. Only a few stray spots of foxing. A crisp and clean, very
handsome large-paper copy in fine condition, handsomely bound.
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The Birth Of The Scientific Method: Rare First Edition Of Francis Bacon’s Novum Organum, 1620
30.
BACON, Francis. Novum Organum. London, 1620. Folio, contemporary sprinkled brown calf skillfully rebacked and
recornered.
$25,000.
First edition of Bacon’s Novum Organum (a “new instrument” to replace the old Organon of Aristotle), which had a revolutionary
impact on early modern science by laying the foundation of the inductive method.
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Bacon’s “insistence on making science experimental and factual, rather than speculative and philosophical, had powerful consequences. He saw clearly the limitations of Aristotelian and scholastic methods... As a philosopher Bacon’s influence on Locke and
through him on subsequent English schools of psychology and ethics was profound. Leibniz, Huygens and particularly Robert
Boyle were deeply indebted to him, as were the Encyclopédistes, and Voltaire, who called him ‘le père de la philosophie experimentale” (PMM). Although the engraved allegorical title gives the title as the “Instauratio Magna”, the book constitutes the planned
second part of Part II of the Instauratio (the first part having already appeared as De Augmentis and Book I of The Advancement
of Learning). The Novum Organum remains its most influential part. As usual, this copy is the second state. Text in Latin. Gibson
103b. Grolier/Horblit 8b (1st issue). Norman I:98. PMM 119. Ownership inscription at head of title; 18th-century manuscript notes
on both sides of the initial blank; some underlining and marginal marks in the preface. From the library of the Irish classical
scholar John Walker (17691833), with his ownership inscription at the head of the engraved title “John Walker,
T.C.D.” (retrospectively dated 1815), and with his manuscript notes in Latin about the book on the initial blank
leaf. Walker founded a group called the Church of God
(his followers were known pejoratively as Separatists or
Walkerites). Very infrequent scattered light foxing, with
occasional marginal pinpoint wormholing, not affecting
readability. Age-wear to contemporary calf boards, with a
few cuts, wormholes on rear board. A desirable copy in
very good condition of this landmark.
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benjamin franklin / poor richard
Franklin’s “Poor Richard Helped Make One Of The Grandest Claims About The New Sciences:
They Made Visible The Invisible”: Franklin’s Poor Richard’s Almanack For 1751, Rare In Original Wrappers
31.
(FRANKLIN, Benjamin). Poor Richard Improved… For the Year of Our Lord 1751. Philadelphia, 1750. 12mo, (3-1/2 by
6-1/2 inches), original printed self-wrappers, custom clamshell box. $22,000.
Rare first edition of Franklin’s famed “Poor Richard’s Almanack” for the year 1751, with his fascinating essay in praise of “that
admirable Instrument the MICROSCOPE” (emphasis in original), containing the famed woodcut of anatomical man “govern’d”
by constellations and 12 woodcut panels,
uncut in fragile original wrappers.
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Franklin published his first Poor Richard’s
Almanack in 1732 and in 1748 “renamed his
expanded product Poor Richard Improved.
The new version gave greater room for…
Franklin’s publication of new developments
in the sciences.” Franklin introduced his
readers to Isaac Newton, Robert Boyle and
others, and with that glimpse into “the drama
of discovery in the sciences, Franklin followed
up with content. In 1751 [this copy], he included a long description of the microscope,
probably taken from a popular text by English
author George Adams, Micrographia Illustrata
(1746)” (Chaplin, First Scientific American,
59). “With his microscope, Poor Richard
helped make one of the grandest claims
about the new sciences: they made visible
the invisible… If Newton achieved fame because of his mathematically dense Principia
(which Franklin never read), it was his carefully named Opticks (which Franklin did read)
that put the human eye at the center of the
sciences” (Chaplin, 60). Poor Richard “is
beyond question the most famous of almanacs” (Ford, 11). Like other colonial almanacs, Franklin’s were “compact little wonders,
they were printed on cheap paper and had
no real binding. They were meant for daily
use, and surviving examples are often… torn
apart” (Chaplin, 62). Contemporary owner
signature, marginalia. Only one less important leaf provided in very expert facsimile.
Text generally fresh with a few corners expertly restored, expert restoration to leaf folds
and resewn per original. An extremely good
copy of an American classic.
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“They Fought For Their King, Their Laws And Constitution”
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32.
REVOLUTION. Contemporary broadside describing the Battle of Bunker Hill. Boston, 1775. One broadside leaf
measuring 6 by 12 inches; matted and framed, entire piece measures 12-1/2 by 19 inches. $21,000.
Scarce and important original 1775 broadside offering a Loyalist account of the Battle of Bunker Hill, printed a week after
the fighting.
The first major battle of the American Revolution, the Battle of Bunker Hill, saw the revolutionaries defeated; however, their
“skill and tenacity reassured colonists everywhere that the Revolution would not be strangled in its cradle” (Oxford Companion
to United States Military History). This contemporary broadside describes the conflict from a Loyalist perspective, praising the
British victory. John Howe, the same Loyalist printer who published General Gage’s account of the events of April 19, 1775,
printed and circulated this document. While it accurately describes the action, the casualty count it contains has been heavily
embellished by the British for propaganda purposes, emphasizing their troops’ fierce bravery and courage. Streeter 760.
Evans 13842. Ford 1801. A fine broadside, rare and desirable.
“ the
magna carta of the united states”
Rare First Edition Of Constitutions Of The Several Independent States Of America, 1781,
With The “First Authorized” Printing In Book Form Of The Declaration Of Independence,
One Of Only 200 Copies
33.
(CONSTITUTION) (DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE). The Constitutions of the Several Independent States of America.
Philladelphia [sic], 1781. Small octavo (4-1/8 by 6-1/2 inches) rebound in contemporary full brown tree morocco gilt. $25,000.
Exceedingly rare and important first collected edition of the Constitutions of the 13 American states, one of only 200 copies printed
for Congress, containing the “first authorized reprint in book form of the Declaration of Independence,” along with key early
printings of the Articles of Confederation and major early treaties, handsomely bound.
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Published by order of Congress, this exceedingly rare and important volume assembles the first authoritative and original printed text
of the constitutions of the 13 states, and most notably “contains the first authorized reprint in book form of the Declaration of
Independence. Two hundred copies were printed” (emphasis in original, Matyas 81-01). Also included are early printings of the
Articles of Confederation, the 1778 treaty of amity and commerce with France (the first treaty between the United States and another
country) and the treaty of alliance with France. “It is, in short, the book which may be considered the Magna Carta of the United
American States” (Monthly Review). While the imprint reads Philadelphia, this volume was actually published by Bailey in Lancaster,
where he had moved with Congress after the British occupation of Philadelphia began in September 1781. Contemporary owner
signature on first page of text inked out, affecting text on verso. Text expertly cleaned, with occasional faint marginal dampstaining. A
beautifully bound copy of this important cornerstone of American constitutional history.
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“The Best Contemporary Account Of
The Revolution From The British Side”
34.
STEDMAN, Charles. History of the Origin, Progress, and
Termination of the American War. London, 1794. Two volumes.
Quarto, contemporary full diced brown calf gilt.
$23,000.
First edition, wide-margined copy, of Stedman’s massive contemporary two-volume History of the American Revolution—“the
standard work on the subject”—containing 15 military maps and
plans (11 folding, the largest nearly 20 by 30 inches).
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Philadelphia-born military historian Charles Stedman was a Loyalist
who served “with the British at Lexington and Bunker Hill, later
became commissary to the army of Sir William Howe, and was with
Cornwallis in the South” (New International Encyclopedia 21:485).
Taken prisoner by American forces, he was sentenced to be hanged
as a rebel but escaped. At war’s end Stedman moved to England
where he authored this authoritative two-volume History—
“considered the best contemporary account of the Revolution from
the British side” (Sabin 91057). As “the standard work on the
subject,” Stedman’s History especially benefits from eyewitness
accounts of many campaigns (DNB). In addition, “the military maps
and surveys in the History are of great interest and value” (Allibone,
2231). Armorial bookplates. Usual light foxing to text, expert
restoration to calf joints. A beautiful copy, especially scarce complete
and in contemporary calf.
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marshall’s life of washington
“The Only Comprehensive Account By A Great Statesman Of The Full Founding Of The United States”
35.
MARSHALL, John. The Life of George Washington. Philadelphia, 1804-07. Six volumes. Thick octavo, period-style full
speckled calf gilt. Quarto atlas volume, contemporary marbled boards rebacked and recornered to period-style in calf. $15,000.
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When Marshall’s Life of Washington appeared, it quickly gained such authoritative status that Washington scholar Jared Sparks
suggested any new biographical undertaking would be “presumptuous” (Sparks, Washington I:12). The work “is political history as
well as biography… the only comprehensive account by a great statesman of the full founding of the United States— of the
founding of an independent people as well as of its government… There is no other concentrated history of the essentials by such
an authority on American institutions” (Robert K. Faulkner). Without engraved frontispiece portrait of Washington. Early owner ink
signature to upper margin of title pages of Volumes III-V; presumed owner signature excised from upper margin and remargined
on Volume II title page, not affecting letterpress. Scattered foxing and occasional marginal soiling to text volumes, expert paper
repair to final two leaves of text in Volume III and V. Map volume expertly cleaned; plate VIII with renewed loss near fold, last leaf
of subscriber’s list torn off and remargined, affecting maybe a dozen names on page 21 (blank on verso). An exceptionally good,
beautifully bound set of this classic biography.
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First edition of Marshall’s magisterial biography of Washington, with the companion atlas of ten strategic maps (eight double-page)
depicting Washington’s major Revolutionary War campaigns. A beautifully bound and most desirable set, with scarce atlas volume
in original boards.
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“ I Believe In The Equality Of Man…”
36. PAINE, Thomas. The Age of Reason. Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous
Theology. New York, 1794. Small octavo (4-3/4 by 7 inches), 19th-century full crimson
morocco gilt rebacked with original spine laid down. $8500.
First American edition of Paine’s landmark Age of Reason, “his great work of this period”
(ANB), published only a few months after the Paris and
London first editions; all early editions in English are highly
desirable.
Part I of Paine’s Age of Reason “was written in Paris in
1793—in haste, because although Paine had originally
been lionized by the French… he soon became disillusioned
by the increasing violence of the revolution… Arrested on
Robespierre’s order, Paine was able to deliver the manuscript
to his friend Joel Barlow, a close friend of Jefferson’s, while
en route to the Luxembourg Prison on December 28, 1793”
(Jacoby). A virtually unobtainable edition in French was
published in March 1793 and immediately suppressed, with only one known copy found; the first
edition in English was published in Paris in March 1794. Gimbel-Paine, 24. Bookplate. Text fresh with
only light scattered foxing, half title expertly reinforced at gutter’s edged. A very scarce about-fine copy
of a seminal Paine work, handsomely bound.
John Reid’s Scarce 1796 Plan Of The City Of Washington
37.
REID, John. Plan of the City of
Washington in the Territory of Columbia.
New York, 1796. Broadside, image measures
21 by 16 inches; matted and framed, entire
piece measures 30 by 25 inches. $12,000.
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Lovely copy of John Reid’s finely engraved
1796 map of the city of Washington, DC, “a
copy of the classic Ellicott plan of 1792,”
originally issued as part of Reid’s American
Atlas, only the second American atlas ever
published in America.
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John Reid’s American Atlas was originally designed to accompany the 1796 American
edition of Winterbotham’s Historical View of
the United States, but was also sold separately; most copies of the Atlas did not include
this plan of Washington, DC, and the plan was
not mentioned among the maps on the title
page. “Reid’s atlas enjoys the priority of being
the first atlas to include a plan of the city of
Washington [in those relatively few copies of
the atlas where the plan was present], a copy of the classic Ellicott plan of 1792” (Schwartz & Ehrenberg, 215). Probably a later issue,
with Reid’s original partners’ names (L. Wayland and C. Smith) as well as the publication date (1795) removed from the imprint at the
lower left, leaving only “Published by J. Reid.” One tiny quarter-inch hole in the center of map expertly restored. A lovely copy of this
scarce map, handsomely framed.
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n many ways, the literature of American exploration is
American literature—an attempt to answer the question
“What is America?” that is simultaneously physical and philosophical. Distances, weights, sizes, populations, mountains and
plains, flora and fauna combine with culture, diplomacy, economics and politics in one long parade of unexpected, contentious, and always fascinating discovery.
“One Of The Standard Books On Early Virginia” And One Of The
First Colonial Histories Written And Published In The Colonies
38.
STITH, William. The History of the First Discovery and Settlement of
Virginia. Williamsburg, 1747. Two volumes bound as one, as usual. Octavo,
contemporary full brown sheep. $16,500.
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“This is, and is always likely to be, one of the standard books on early Virginia” (Osgood). “An important and valuable part of the work
is found in the Appendix of original documents, embracing the three Virginia charters” (North American Review). Stith had intended
to carry it beyond 1624, “but no more was published. Its value is based chiefly on the manuscript sources at his command [including]
documents collected by his uncle, Sir John Randolph, in preparation for writing an historical ‘Preface’ to the Laws of Virginia, and a
transcript of the records of the Virginia Company lent by Colonel William Byrd, also copies of records of the Virginia courts” (Sabin
91860). Robinson, the esteemed Stith bibliographer, identifies two 1747 issues: a “Fine Paper Edition, so called” and a “poor Paper
Edition, so called” (Complete Index, 6); there is, again, no agreement on priority. Streeter 1100. Interior fresh and clean, with only light
mottling to last few leaves; expert restoration to rare contemporary sheep.
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First edition, rare Fine Paper issue, of one of the first colonial histories written and published in the colonies, and the first history
published in Virginia. Printed by Parks, “the most important colonial printer after Benjamin Franklin” (ANB), this is one of the
earliest obtainable Virginia imprints, exceptional in contemporary sheep.
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First English Translation Of Hennepin’s New Discovery, 1698,
With Two Folding Maps And Six Plates, Including The First View Of Niagara Falls
39.
HENNEPIN, Father Louis. A New Discovery of a Vast Country in America. ISSUED WITH: A Continuation of the New
Discovery. ISSUED WITH: An Account of Several New Discoveries in North-America. London, 1698. Small thick octavo, 18thcentury full brown calf rebacked with original spine laid down. $30,000.
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First edition in English of Hennepin’s two important accounts (in three parts) of his American exploration, with additional engraved
title page, two large folding maps and six folding copper-engraved plates, including the first view of Niagara Falls. Jefferson owned
copies of Hennepin’s works, and his maps influenced the planning of the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
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Hennepin was sent to Canada in 1675 as a member of expedition under the command of René-Robert La Salle. In 1680 he was
dispatched by La Salle to navigate down the Illinois River and then up the Mississippi River as far as possible. On April 12th they were
captured by a band of Issati Sioux, only released after the intervention of French explorer Daniel Graysolon Du Lhut. Hennepin’s first
published work was Description de la Louisiane (1683), which brought him instant fame. Many years later he published his second and
third works, Nouvelle Decourverte (1697) and Nouveau Voyage (1698). Both
works were translated immediately into Dutch, German, Spanish and English. In
addition to the two important maps, New Discovery includes two folding plates,
“And because they think all
one of an American bison and one of Niagara Falls—the first published image of
sensible things have Souls,
the Falls. “Hennepin’s maps of the French territories were among the best of the
period” (America Explored, 155). “Thomas Jefferson owned first editions of all
therefore they reckon that after
three of Hennepin’s works and consulted them in preparing his western treatise
An Account of Louisiana, which he presented to Congress in November of 1803”
Death, men hunt the Souls of
(University of Virginia). This is the so-called “Bon” issue (probably the first), with
Beavers, Elks, Foxes, Otters,
the first line of the imprint statement ending with “Bon-” (for Bonwick); another
issue ends with “Ton-” (for Tonson). Wing H1450. Text and plates quite fresh and
and other Animals…”
clean, minor expert archival repair to folding maps, lightest edge-wear, rubbing to
boards. A splendid about-fine copy.
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thomas jefferson
“One Of America’s First Permanent Literary And Intellectual Landmarks”
40.
JEFFERSON, Thomas. Notes on the State of Virginia. Philadelphia, 1788. Octavo, contemporary full brown tree sheep. $22,000.
Rare first American edition of the only book-length work by Jefferson to be published in his lifetime, with a preface written expressly
for this edition, with folding chart listing Indian tribes and eight full-page charts. An exceptional copy with a rare provenance
featuring a gift inscription: “John Henry, the Gift of Colonel Willett,” exceedingly scarce in contemporary tree sheep.
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“Modeled on Enlightenment philosophy, Notes is one thing on the surface—geography, products of nature, customs and manners of
the inhabitants—and quite another as one reads into it: an inquiry into the human condition, an exploration of social policies, a work
meant to illuminate… The Virginia of his imagination was indisputably his idealized America” (Burstein & Isenberg, 120-21). First
published in Paris in 1785 (in only 200 copies), then in French translation in 1786, and again in English in London in 1787. Early owner
signature of Louis Bache, likely the grandson of Benjamin Franklin and younger brother of famed Philadelphia printer Benjamin Franklin
Bache. This provenance is enhanced by the title page gift inscription, “John Henry, the gift of Colonel Willett”—with the recipient
possibly the U.S. Senator and Governor of Maryland, John Henry. Governor Henry and Louis Bache, in turn, share an association to
Jefferson and his Notes that might have been forged when Benjamin Franklin Bache
was asked by Jefferson to publish, for private circulation only, a December 31, 1797
“Subject opinion to coercion:
letter from Jefferson to Governor Henry (Evans 48485) dealing with the Notes. An
additional gift inscription also offers pertinent information on this provenance:
whom will you make your
“Brookfield, Aunt Mary Paxsen [sic] gave me this book saying—‘You will care for
this more than anyone I know of’—Katharine T [?] Paxsen, 1877.” This copy might
inquisitors? Fallible men;
have come into the Paxson family through John Paxson, one of the executors named
men governed by bad
in the will of Colonel Augustine Willett, who fought in the battles of White Plains,
Trenton, Brandywine and Germantown. The Willett-Paxson association indicates
passions, by private as well
the title page gift inscription to “John Henry” from “Colonel Willett” is likely from
Colonel Augustine Willett. Text generally fresh with only light scattered foxing, minor
as public reasons.”
marginal dampstaining. Contemporary tree sheep with expert restoration.
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“It Would Ensure Him A Permanent Place In American Natural History”
41. BARTRAM, William. Travels through North & South Carolina,
Georgia, East & West Florida. London, 1792. Thick octavo, early
20th-century full polished tan calf gilt.
$7200.
First English edition (published the year after the extremely
scarce American first edition) of Bartram’s “unrivaled” account
of life on the southern frontier, with frontispiece portrait of the
chief of the Seminoles, folding map of East Florida, and seven
engraved botanical and zoological plates (one folding),
handsomely bound by Frost.
This illustrated masterpiece of 18th-century American travel is one
of the most lively and informative works published on the South.
Bartram traveled from Georgia and South Carolina as far north as
Tennessee and west to modern-day Louisiana. His account is
notable for its literary style (Coleridge drew from Bartram’s
descriptions of the lush southern landscape for his celebrated
“Kubla Khan”). “Bartram’s account of the remote frontier, of the
plantations, trading posts, and Indian villages at the end of the
18th century is unrivaled” (Streeter II: 1088). “A work of high
character well meriting its wide esteem” (Howes B223). Sabin
3870. Contemporary owner initials on title page. Text and plates
with only light occasional foxing. Handsome binding fine.
One Of The Basic Books On Western Exploration, With Important Map Not Appearing In All Copies
42.
HEAP, Gwinn Harris. Central Route to the Pacific, from the Valley of the Mississippi to California. Philadelphia, 1854.
Octavo, original dark green cloth. $11,000.
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First edition of this fundamental exploring narrative, with large folding map (present in only
some copies) and 13 tinted lithographic plates. One of the first works to show the Middle
Rocky Mountain region and to indicate the 1849 Death Valley pioneer route.
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This 1853 expedition was under the command of Edward Fitzgerald Beale, the legendary
frontiersman and close friend of Kit Carson and John Fremont. The expedition was to explore
the central route to the Pacific Coast. Leaving Westport, Missouri, in May, with 12 riflemen,
Beale went first to Council Grove. He passed up the Arkansas River to the mouth of the
Huerfano, about 20 miles east of present-day Pueblo, Co., and thence to the San Luis Valley,
and from there to the coast (Blackmar). “Some of the areas explored are here described for the
first time” (Graff 1837). “Heap accompanied his journal with a very interesting map… This
map was not issued with all copies of Heap’s book, and has received less attention than it
deserves… This is the first attempt on a published map to show the 1849 Death Valley pioneer
route” (Wheat 808). Faint dampstain affecting corner of plates, skillful repair to spine ends. An
extremely good copy.
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Boldly Inscribed By Sam Houston: Exceedingly Rare Association First
Edition Of A Cornerstone In Western Exploration, Report Of The Exploring
Expedition To The Rocky Mountains By Frémont, “The Sam Houston Of
The Pacific,” Containing The Monumental Preuss Map
43. (HOUSTON, Samuel) FRÉMONT, John Charles. Report of the Exploring Expedition to
the Rocky Mountains in the Year 1842, and To Oregon and North California in the Years
1843-44. Washington, 1845. Octavo, original blind- and gilt-stamped brown cloth. $28,500.
First edition, Senate issue, of “one of the most important accounts in the history of the
exploration of the Rockies,” an exceptional association copy that unites two Western
icons—J.C. Frémont and Sam Houston—inscribed in ink: “Presented to Miss E.D. Burnside,
by her friend and obt. servant, Sam Houston [with his bold flourish] Washington, 19th June
[1846].” Illustrated with 22 lithographic plates and five maps, with the essential large
folding 1845 Preuss map of “the wilderness which lies between the Missouri and the
shores of the Pacific.”
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A cornerstone of early western exploration, this volume was inscribed by Houston only months
after he began representing the new State of Texas in the Senate. With America poised for
war with Mexico, “the imperial visionary, Senator Houston, was influential, and he was immediately drafted into the Senate Committee on Military Affairs… Houston moved among
giants of American history” (Williams, Sam Houston, 252). Among those monumental figures
was Houston’s good friend, Thomas Hart Benton, whose son-in-law, J.C. Frémont, was then
in the Sacramento Valley, having heard war with Mexico was imminent. “What better way for
Frémont to don a hero’s garb than by winning California for the United States? He would be
the Sam Houston of the Pacific” (Billington & Ridge, 214). Frémont’s work covers his first
expedition, in which he explored the country between the Missouri River and the Rocky
Mountains in 1842. It further includes his
1843-44 second expedition: moving to
Oregon and Northern California, traveling
from the Great Salt Lake to Vancouver,
then south to San Francisco, and finally
east over the California desert. Of special
importance is the very large folding map
by Charles Preuss, a map which made
1845 “one of the towering years in the
story of Western cartography” (Wheat
II:194). Preuss was perhaps the greatest
topographer in the history of American
map-making, and his Frémont map was
of primary importance to those hoping to
undertake the journey west. With the date
of Houston’s inscription partially eroded
by the imprint of his pen. Interior fresh
with occasional light scattered foxing,
spotting to one leaf (483), minor expert
archival repair to verso of Preuss map,
Fort Laramie plate expertly reattached,
mild edge-wear to original cloth.
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frank a . rinehart ’s sioux chiefs
Two Beautiful, Large, Vintage Photographic Portraits Of Sioux Chiefs By Frank A. Rinehart
44.
RINEHART, Frank A. Two large Native American photographic portraits. Omaha, 1896. One image measures 12-1/2
by 15-1/2 inches, the other 13 by 16 inches; both mounted on glass and framed together in old wooden frame, entire piece
measures 33 by 20-1/2 inches. $15,000.
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Two splendid large photographic portraits of Native American (Sioux) chiefs—Chief Hollow Horn Bear of the Lakota Sioux,
on the left, and Chief Afraid of Eagle, of the Oglala Sioux, who participated in the Battle of Little Bighorn, on the right—by
renowned photographer Frank A. Rinehart. Both images are vintage enlarged negatives (internegatives) that would have
been used by Rinehart or his studio for producing large prints, and show remarkable detail, clarity, and fine tonal gradation.
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In 1898 Smithsonian ethnographer James Mooney arranged for the Indian Congress to coincide with the Trans-Mississippi
Exposition in Omaha so that the delegates could serve as a living ethnographic museum for the Exposition. Photographer Frank
A. Rinehart, the Exposition’s official photographer, was commissioned to do portraits of some of the 500 Indian delegates,
“many of the most famous Indians of the day. Rinehart and his assistant and successor, George Marsden, made exquisite
prints from the negatives of the Indians” (Mautz, 179). Rinehart’s series of stunning photographs constitutes one of the most
impressive visual records of Native Americans at the turn of the century. Hollow Horn Bear (1851-1913), Lakota chief and
diplomat, was well-known for passionately defending his people’s rights in the face of repeated treaty violations, while at the
same time pragmatically preparing for adaptation to present realities; he attended the inaugurations of Teddy Roosevelt and
Wilson, and visited with both Taft and Harrison. Afraid of Eagle was a Chief of the Oglala people, and he was present at the
Battle of Little Bighorn in 1876, where General Custer met his demise. Bit of spotting and crackling to negatives, chiefly near
edges; old wooden frame showing some scratches and wear, exceptionally good condition. Very scarce and desirable.
the me xican - american war
“The Very Best American Battle Scenes In Existence”:
Kendall And Nebel’s Extremely Scarce War Between
The United States And Mexico, With Twelve Superb
Hand-Finished Large Folio Colored Plates
45. KENDALL, George W. and NEBEL, Carl. The War Between the
United States and Mexico Illustrated. New York and Philadelphia,
1851. Large folio (19 by 23-1/2 inches), contemporary marbled
boards rebacked and recornered in morocco-gilt. $32,000.
First edition of one of the most important and impressive pictorial
chronicles of the Mexican-American War, boasting 12 superb folio
hand-finished full-color lithographic plates.
Founder of the New Orleans Picayune and America’s first war correspondent, George Kendall “filed many reports… of combat during the
Mexican-American War… After the war Kendall commissioned Carl
Nebel, a noted German-born artist and resident of Mexico, to provide
12 hand-colored lithographs that would accompany Kendall’s 52
pages of battle descriptions… [Nebel] portrayed soldiers, military
units and the terrain realistically, eschewing much (but not all) of the
standard 19th century heroic and romantic styles… Kendall provided
officers’ after-action reports to Nebel, who visited the site of the battle
a few months after the event and then painted the scene” (Dawson, 38:2, 236, 237). While the work was published in New York and
Philadelphia, the lithographs were produced in Paris. The prints, three years in the making, “received good press notices even before
they left Europe. The Paris correspondent for the Herald referred to the set as ‘one of the most superb works of art ever achieved in
Paris.’ He reported that the plates were ‘colored in the highest style of art,’ and that they were so carefully done that the best artists of
London, Paris and Brussels were able to finish only one per day’” (Tyler, 77:19). “The very best American battle scenes in existence”
(Bennett, 65). Because many copies have been broken for the framing of plates, the complete work is today quite scarce. Also includes
folio map of operations. Expert cleaning to text and plate extremities not affecting images, and occasional minor marginal paper repairs;
original marbled boards expertly restored. A bright, beautiful copy, original coloring vivid.
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“Ain’t I A Woman?”
46. (TRUTH, Sojourner) (STOWE, Harriet Beecher) GILBERT, Olive. Narrative of
Sojourner Truth, A Northern Slave. New York, 1853 [Boston, 1855]. Small octavo,
period-style full straight-grain morocco gilt; original front wrapper bound in. $7000.
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Second edition, rare early issue, the first edition to contain Harriet Beecher
Stowe’s electrifying introduction to Sojourner Truth’s powerful account of the
“evangelic fervor and plain wit” that characterized her battle for emancipation
and women’s rights, with wood-engraved frontispiece portrait of Truth.
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“A legend in her own time, Truth’s indomitable will
has won her a permanent place in American
history. Her evangelic fervor and plain wit
helped to advance the causes of emancipation and women’s rights” (Blockson 29).
This [edition] is the first to contain an introduction by Harriet Beecher Stowe,
who wrote of meeting Truth in an April
1863 issue of Atlantic magazine. Second
edition; preceded by the virtually unobtainable 1850 edition. Scholars note the
1853 edition “has been overlooked, and
few copies exist. Apparently not even the
Library of Congress has one” (Washington, 435:20n). Without rear wrapper. Text and frontispiece generally fresh, with stab holes from original sewing on gutter’s edge; rarely found front
wrapper mounted with light edge-wear, faint dampstaining. An extremely good copy of this rare
work, beautifully bound.
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Rare Vintage 1864 Carte-De-Visite Of Robert E. Lee,
One Of The Famed Vanerson “Blockade” Portraits, Boldly Signed By Lee
47. (VANERSON, J.) LEE, Robert E. Carte-de-visite photograph
signed. Richmond, Virginia, 1864. Vintage albumen print, measuring
2-1/4 by 3-1/2 inches; mounted on ivory card stock, matted and
framed, entire piece measures 8-1/2 by 7 inches. $12,500.
Vintage carte-de-visite portrait of Robert E. Lee in uniform, circa
1864, boldly signed by Lee, this scarce Civil War portrait by
noted photographer Vanerson is one of the renowned “Blockade”
portraits.
Historian Garry W. Gallagher notes: “At the time of the photograph,
Lee was unquestionably the most admired figure in the Confederate
nation and just weeks away from his encounter with Ulysses S.
Grant in the Overland campaign” (Becoming Confederates, 35). It
is reported that “Richmond ladies had made for their hero a set of
shirts and had begged him to sit for a portrait. Lee, yielding, courteously wore one of the gifts. The amateur shirt-making is revealed
in the set of the collar” (Miller, Photographic History). Vanerson’s
photographs “ranked with the best Brady had to offer.” This is one
of the famous “Blockade” portraits; photographs taken at this session were secreted through a blockade to Germany so that a
Virginian, studying there, could sculpt a statue of Lee to be sold at
a benefit for Confederate soldiers (Meredith, 44-53). Meredith,
49. A fine signed print.
Exceptional Engraved Portrait Of Ulysses S. Grant
As President, Boldly Signed By Him
48. GRANT, Ulysses S. Engraved portrait signed. Washington,
circa 1869. Engraved portrait, measuring 4-1/2 by 5-1/2 inches;
matted, entire piece measures 8-1/2 by 10 inches. $6200.
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This wonderful steel-engraved portrait of Ulysses S. Grant as
President, circa 1869, was printed by the U.S. Bureau of Engraving
& Printing. The image is after a particularly well-known photograph
of Grant. Fine condition.
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signed by him below the image, matted and suitable for framing.
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“One Of The Supreme Utterances Of The Principles Of Democratic Freedom” (PMM):
First Edition In Book Form Of Lincoln’s Magnificent Gettysburg Address
49. (LINCOLN, Abraham) EVERETT, Edward. An Oration Delivered on the Battlefield of Gettysburg, (November 19, 1863). New
York, 1863. Octavo, bound period-style in 19th-century polished navy calf gilt; pp.48. $40,000.
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Rare first book-form appearance of Lincoln’s magnificent Gettysburg Address, corresponding almost exactly to the spoken version
transcribed by Associated Press reporter Joseph L. Gilbert, handsomely bound.
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The Gettysburg Address, a few short lines scrawled, according to legend, on scratch-paper and the backs of envelopes, is one of
America’s most cherished documents. As noted by David Mearns of the Library of Congress, “Touch any aspect of the Address and you
touch a mystery”—one immersed in history. Though he had had but a brief time to prepare the address, he had devoted intense thought
to his chosen theme for nearly a decade… giving truth to the phrase ‘all men are created equal… ‘Four score and seven years ago,’
Lincoln began” (Goodwin, Team of Rivals, 585-6).” The Washington Chronicle of 18-21 November reported extensively on this ceremony
and included a verbatim text of ‘Edward Everett’s Great Oration.’ On the fourth day it noted in passing that the President had also made
a speech, but gave no details. When it came to the separate publication on 22 November, Everett’s ‘Oration’ was reprinted from the
standing type, but Lincoln’s speech had to be set up. It was tucked away as a final paragraph on page 16 of the pamphlet. It was similarly treated when the meanly produced leaflet was replaced by a 48-page
booklet published by Baker and Godwin of New York in the same year” (PMM
351). This is that New York printing, with Lincoln’s Address on page 40. This
“…that the nation shall, under
edition was preceded only by the exceptionally rare 16-page pamphlet, The
God, have a new birth of freedom;
Gettysburg Solemnities, known in only three copies. This printing corresponds
almost exactly to the spoken version transcribed by Associated Press reporter
and that governments of the people,
Joseph L. Gilbert, with the omission of “poor” in “our poor power to add or
detract,” and correcting “refinished” to “unfinished work.” With tiny gutter-edge
by the people and for the people,
pinholes from original stitching. Text very fresh with only minor occasional
shall not perish fro the earth”
marginal dampstaining not affecting Lincoln’s Address. A rare about-fine copy
expertly bound to style in handsome 19th-century calf.
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CIVIL WAR ERA 1863 35 - star west virginia fl ag
The Last Civil War Statehood Flag: 1863 35-Star American Parade Flag
Commemorating West Virginia Statehood, Handsomely Window-Framed
50.
(AMERICANA). Thirty-five star U.S. flag. No place, 1863. Glazed cotton printed flag measuring 28-1/4 by 19-1/4 inches,
window framed. $18,000.
35-star American parade flag commemorating West Virginia statehood, the last official flag during the Civil War.
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“West Virginia became the second state, following Maine, to break away from an existing state, precipitated by the refusal of most of
its counties to be party to Virginia’s secession. In 1861, West Virginia found Virginia’s secession illegal and formed a new state
government in Wheeling, even electing two senators to Congress… on June 20, 1863, West Virginia became the 35th state” (Keim &
Keim, 124). The 35-star flag was officially replaced two years later, after Nevada became the 36th state in 1864 (Nevada’s flag did
not become official until July 4, 1865). Both Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson served under the 35-star flag. “While
Civil War flags escaped much of the mortal rigidity of mechanical mass production, their artistic merit was more particularly due to the
delicate design relationship of the elements and to numerous subtle details—such as the directions of the arms of the stars, which are
never entirely regimented, as they are on modern flags. And truly no modern replica can either do justice to the artistic character, or
render the ‘patina,’ of one of these antique flags” (Mastai & Mastai, 124).Smaller in size than a standard flag, “parade flags were
ephemeral—made to be used only once during a specific event and then discarded” (Druckman & Kohn, 22). Fraying and some loss
to flag hoist. Expected soiling and staining; colors bright. An exceptional Civil War flag.
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cowles’ monumental atl as of the civil war
With Hundreds Of Large Folio Maps Of The Civil War: The Atlas To Accompany The Official Records
51. COWLES, Calvin D., compiler. An Atlas to Accompany the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. Washington,
1891-95. Three volumes. Large folio (16 by 18-1/2 inches), early 20th-century three-quarter brown morocco. $12,500.
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First edition of this superb atlas, with 175 double-folio plates, containing 821 colored maps and charts, 106 tinted lithographs after
original photographs, and 209 line drawings of equipment, uniforms, insignia, and flags.
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“The most important work in the literature of the Civil War, the O.R. is the official government compilation of Civil War records, orders,
dispatches, messages and correspondence relating to the military operations of the war… The monumental task of compiling records
of the Civil War began with a joint resolution of Congress on 19 May 1864 and was continued by many individuals under the
supervision of 16 successive secretaries of war” (Eicher 863). This atlas is an indispensable part of the Official Records, yet is equally
impressive on its own as the most comprehensive collection of maps pertaining to the Civil War. It consists of four sections, the largest
of which details military operations in the field. The other sections relate to general topography, the delineation of military divisions and
departments, and other miscellaneous topics. The maps, printed in several colors, are remarkably detailed, and the superb battlefield
maps (often several to a sheet) specify troop positions and movements. Originally issued in parts, in loose sheets. Nicholson, 47.
Howes C816. Ex-libris Rochester Historical Society, with bookplates and name of donor on front boards. Expert paper repair to Plate
71, interiors generally quite clean and bright, light wear and soiling to bindings. Near-fine condition.
doris ulmann
One Of The Highlights Of 20th-Century Photography:
1933 Signed Limited First Edition Of Doris Ulmann And Julia Peterkin’s Roll, Jordan, Roll,
With 90 Superb Hand-Pulled Photogravures, With An Extra Photogravure Additionally Signed By Ulmann
52.
ULMANN, Doris and PETERKIN, Julia. Roll, Jordan, Roll. New York, 1933. Large quarto, original gilt-lettered three-quarter
linen, slipcase. $48,000.
Signed limited first edition, one only 350 copies signed by both photographer Doris Ulmann and writer of the text Julia Peterkin.
With 90 superb tissue-guarded full-page copperplate hand-pulled photogravure plates—this copy with the scarce extra photogravure
plate signed in pencil by Ulmann laid in.
“Ulmann’s photographic collaboration with Julia Peterkin… focuses on the lives of former slaves and their descendants on a plantation
in the Gullah coastal region of South Carolina… Peterkin, a popular novelist who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1929, was born in South
Carolina and raised by a black nursemaid who taught her the Gullah dialect before she learned standard English. She married the heir
to Lang Syne, one of the state’s richest plantations, which became
the setting for Roll, Jordan, Roll… Ulmann’s soft-focus photos—
rendered as tactile as charcoal drawings in the superb gravure
reproductions here—straddle Pictorialism and Modernism even
as they appear to dissolve into memory” (Roth). The extra signed
photogravure plate that was issued only with this deluxe edition
replicates the image that appears opposite page 14. This copy
from the collection of William T. Wynn, whose recollections of an
evening with Ulmann and Peterkin appear in a typewritten note
affixed to the rear pastedown. With previous owner typed
inscription tipped to rear pastedown. Scarce original cardboard
slipcase expertly restored. Original cloth slightly toned; a bit of only
the most minor marginal foxing. A near-fine copy. Rare in this
condition and with the original slipcase and the extra photogravure.
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Fine Extremely Large Etched Portrait, Inscribed By Roosevelt To Boy Scout Benefactor
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53. ROOSEVELT, Theodore. Lithograph inscribed. Boston, 1905. Single sheet, measuring approximately 18 by 24 inches. $8500.
Exceptionally large, handsome bust-length etching of Teddy Roosevelt, number 91 of an unknown limitation signed by artist Sidney
L. Smith, inscribed below the image to Boy Scout benefactor Charles D. Hart: “To Dr: Charles D. Hart with the regards of Theodore
Roosevelt. April 8th 1906.”
The inscribee, Charles D. Hart, was a Philadelphia physician best known for the important contributions he made to the Boy Scouts.
Hart was the President of the Philadelphia Council and the changes he made locally resonated nationally. He provided an endowment
that included the property for the Hart Scout Reservation (Camp Hart), now part of the Musser Scout Reservation in Marlborough
Township, Pennsylvania. Roosevelt was involved in the outdoor activities his entire life. He eventually became an honorary vice
president of the Boy Scouts, though he was often at the same events as Hart prior to that, including ones recognizing the work of the
Boy Scouts. Tiny corner repair not affecting image. A beautiful inscribed item.
“The Settlement Must Be Final.
There Can Be No Compromise”
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WILSON, Woodrow. Address of… September 4, 1916.
WITH: Address of… July 4, 1918. WITH: Typed letter signed.
November 1, 1915. Washington, 1916, 1918. Together, three
items. Slim octavo, original self-wrappers; pp. 5; 5; plus one
typed page. Housed together in a custom cloth portfolio. $3800.
First separate official printing of Wilson’s July 4, 1918 address,
signed by him and presented to English poet and playwright
John Drinkwater, together with a first separate printing of the
President’s September
4, 1916 address, inscribed by Wilson’s
secretary to Drinkwater.
With a November 1,
1915 typed letter signed on White House stationery from President Wilson to Fred Yates,
discussing receipt of a volume of Drinkwater’s poems.
In 1918 the 36-year-old Drinkwater was the general manager of the Birmingham Repertory
Theatre: “when he left Birmingham in triumph to take his own play, Abraham Lincoln, to
London and thence to New York” (ODNB). The July 4, 1918 Address revisits America’s
struggle for independence and liberty and makes clear the President’s resolve to see the
nation’s involvement in the First World War through to victory. The war would drag on for
another four months. With Drinkwater’s morocco-gilt bookplate on portfolio, as well as his
autograph initialed annotation. A bit of minor edge-creasing to 1916 Address; 1918 Address,
signed by Wilson, clean and fine. A distinguished signed association copy.
Signed By Eleanor Roosevelt
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ROOSEVELT, Eleanor and HICKOK, Lorena. Ladies of Courage. New York,
1954. Octavo, original blue cloth, dust jacket.
$2800.
First edition of Eleanor Roosevelt and Lorena Hickok’s tribute to women in America,
signed by Roosevelt.
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“Eleanor Roosevelt was a figure of considerable historical consequence on two
grounds. She embodied the aggressive spirit of feminism that began challenging
male domination of American business and politics in the 1920s and she became…
the champion of the New Deal’s liberal impulse” (New York Review of Books). Ladies
of Courage, coauthored by Roosevelt with her close friend, journalist Lorena Hickok,
honors the struggle and political achievements of women. Hickok, who “ranks
among the most important woman journalists of the 20th century… entered Eleanor
Roosevelt’s life at a pivotal moment and became her greatest source of
emotional sustenance as she began to redefine the role of First Lady” (Beasley
et al., Eleanor Roosevelt Encyclopedia, 236). Text clean, with minor spotting
to edges and endpapers only; spine mildly sunned. Dust jacket nearly fine
with mild toning to spine, a bit of wear to spine head. An attractive copy.
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franklin d . roosevelt
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One Of Only 50 Copies: Magnificent Large Limited Edition Of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s D-Day Prayer,
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56. ROOSEVELT, Franklin D. Lithographic broadside. Washington, Christmas 1944. Broadside (14 by 21 inches), printed in black
gothic type, capital letters and portions of the heading in red and blue ink, one large capital “A” in blue and gold, a single sentence in
red ink. $18,000.
Limited edition of this rare broadside of the “D-Day Prayer,” one of only 50 exquisitely printed copies issued by President Roosevelt
for his close friends, handsomely printed in gothic type with red, blue, and gold ink textual embellishments.
This limited edition broadside is very rare: only one other copy has appeared at auction in the last 40 years—the copy belonging to
Eleanor Roosevelt. The text of the broadside, now known as the “D-Day Prayer,” was originally titled “Let Our Hearts Be Stout.” On
June 6th, 1944, while American and Allied troops stormed the beaches at Normandy, Roosevelt released the text of a prayer in the
afternoon which he then delivered by radio to the nation at 10:00 p.m., Eastern time. It is estimated, according to Andrew Malcolm,
that as many as 100 million people listened to it. Minor toning at extreme edges only, one small faint spot in upper left margin. A
beautiful near-fine copy, rare and desirable.
john f. and jacqueline kennedy
Warmly Inscribed By Jackie Kennedy And Signed BY JFK As President:
The White House: An Historic Guide, Presentation Copy Specially Bound In Full Morocco
57.
(KENNEDY, Jacqueline) (KENNEDY, John F.). The White House: An Historic Guide. Washington, D.C., 1962. Large octavo,
original full dark green morocco. $20,000.
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First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy “took an interest in ‘restoring’ (as opposed to redecorating) the White House. She had it placed on the
National Register of Historic Places. She also wrote and edited the first White House guidebook, which was sold to tourists. The
proceeds from the book were used to help finance her restoration of the White House with historic antiques. She also made the White
House a symbol of American cultural renewal by scheduling performances of ballet, Shakespearean drama and classical music; the
most notable of these events was the rare live performance of cello virtuoso Pablo Casals,” here pictured on pages 80-81 (ANB).
Generously illustrated with numerous color and black-and-white photographs, the book introduces readers to the history of the
Executive Mansion and leads them on a tour of its most notable rooms. A limited number of copies of this book were specially bound
for the Kennedys to give as Christmas gifts. This second edition was published the same year as a limited first edition of 100 copies
bound in the same green morocco as the present volume; a further 75 copies are known to have been bound in red morocco.
Accompanied by a presidential card and envelope with a large golden seal. Fine condition.
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inscribed for Christmas in the year of publication: “For Paul–with all our wishes for a happy Christmas and with admiration and
appreciation, Jackie. December 25, 1962,” and signed beneath this inscription by President Kennedy. With laid-in presidential
presentation card and envelope with a large golden seal.
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“The Very Bones And Clay Of The Actual World”:
Walker Evans’ Message From The Interior,
Inscribed To Poet Richard Eberhart
58. EVANS, Walker. Message from the Interior. New York,
1966. Folio, original gray cloth. $9800.
First edition of Evans’ striking images of life in the American
heartland, with 12 wonderful full-page photogravures, inscribed: “To Dick and Betty Eberhart, with gratitude and
much affection, from Walker, Hanover, Dec. 1972.”
“The photographs of Walker Evans reproduce the very bones
and clay of the actual world… [They] persuade us that this is
just what we would have seen, and understood, and recorded,
had we been there” (John Szarkowski). Taken from 1931 to
1962, these photographs provide “emblems of home, possessions, and social status… for posterity’s sake” (Stepan,
72) and “pick up
searing little spots of
realism and underline
them” (Parr & Badger,
114). Open Book,
220-21. See Roth, 17-22. The recipients of this copy are Pulitzer-Prize-winning Dartmouth
poet-in-residence Richard Eberhart and his wife Betty. Images fine. Only the lightest rubbing
to extremities of original cloth. A fine inscribed copy, scarce with splendid association.
Signed By All 38 Members Of The House Judiciary Committee:
The 1974 Impeachment Proceedings Against President Nixon In 43 Volumes
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59. (NIXON, Richard M.). Impeachment
of Richard M. Nixon, President of the
United States. Washington, 1974. Fortythree volumes. Quarto and octavo, original
tan printed paper wrappers. $12,500.
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Original printing of the 1974 Impeachment
proceedings against President Richard
Nixon, leading to Nixon becoming the first
President in history to resign office, with the
House Judiciary Committee’s Final Report
signed by all 38 members of the committee. From the collection of the Chairman of
the Committee, Peter Rodino Jr.
The Final Report volume is signed by all 38
members of the committee including the
owner, Peter W. Rodino Jr., Charles B.
Rangel, Trent Lott, Hamilton Fish, and
many other familiar names. Accompanied
by photocopy of the September 15, 1975 letter of Congressman Peter W. Rodino, Jr. attesting to completeness and authenticity. A few
minor bumps; Book VIII of Statement of Information without rear wrapper. Near-fine condition. Most scarce and desirable, with excellent provenance.
lyndon baines johnson
Signed Three Times By President Lyndon Johnson,
His State Of The Union Messages For 1966, 1967 & 1968, Each Signed By Him
Scarce official government printings of Johnson’s State Of the Union Addresses for 1966, 1967 & 1968, each boldly signed by
him, bound together with a typed signed letter from Vice President Humphrey.
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Johnson’s 1966 State of the Union importantly conveys an early conviction Vietnam would not derail his domestic programs: “I believe
that we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam.” His 1967 State of the Union reveals an emerging pessimism: “this
is a time of testing for our nation… the question is whether we have the staying power to fight a very costly war.” In Johnson’s final
State of the Union, delivered January 17, 1968, he notes the “despair and frustrated hopes in the cities where the fires of disorder
burned last summer.” This volume also contains, bound in at the rear, a typed letter on the letterhead of Vice President Humphrey,
signed by him, saying that “The President was happy to sign his State of the Union messages for you, and they are enclosed.” A fine
collection of major signed State of the Union messages.
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60. JOHNSON, Lyndon Baines. Message from the President of the United States… January 10, 1967. BOUND WITH: Message…
January 12, 1966. BOUND WITH: State of the Union… January 17, 1968. Washington, 1966-68. BOUND WITH: HUMPHREY,
Hubert H. Typed letter signed. Washington, February 20, 1968. Slim octavo, contemporary black morocco gilt. $15,000.
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Travel & Exploration
Documentary Of The Traditional Chinese
System Of Peddling, With 61 Color Prints
And 16 Mounted Photographs
61. (CHINA) CONSTANT, Samuel Victor. Calls,
Sounds and Merchandise of the Peking Street
Peddlers. Peking, circa 1935. Oblong octavo, original
gray cloth. $4500.
First edition of this unusual documentation of
Peking street-vendors, their instruments and their
calls, illustrated with 61 color-printed lithographs,
mounted paper cut-out and 16 mounted halftone
photographs.
In China, a system of peddling grew up to bring goods
to them, each peddler announcing his presence by a
distinctive calls. The color-printed lithographs are all
two-paneled with the image of the peddler in one and either the musical instrument he used to accompany his call or the wares he
sold in the other. The halftone photographs depict actual street-scenes and peddler “performances.” Early issue, with original imprint
inked over and “The Peking Bookshop / Grand Hotel des Wagons Lits / Peking” printed in ink on title page. Occasional light foxing,
fragile original boards with only light wear to edges. A near-fine copy.
“Photographs That Are Among The Finest Made
In 19th Century Italy”: Fine Large Folio Album Of
30 Splendid Carlo Ponti Photographs Of Venice
Superb collection of 30 large albumen photographic prints of
views of Venice. Most images measure approximately 13 by
10 inches, finely printed and mounted on heavy cardstock.
Ponti was a Swiss-born photographer based in Venice (the title
page notes that he was “optician and photographer” to King
Victor Emanuel II of Italy). “Carlo Ponti’s background as an
optical-instrument maker complimented his natural artistic sensibilities, resulting in photographs that are among the finest
made in 19th century Italy” (“Images of Italy,” Mt. Holyoke College Exhibition Catalogue, 1980, 50). Text in French. A few
images with minor spotting or marginal toning, most quite clean and fine. A bit of darkening to original cloth. Near-fine
condition, a lovely collection of photographs of one of the most beautiful cities in the world.
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(VENICE) PONTI, Charles. Souvenir Photographique
de Venise. Venice, circa 1890. Oblong folio, original blue
cloth. $5200.
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“That Continent Now Call’d America…”:
Scarce First Edition Of Herbert’s Wonderfully Illustrated Travels To Persia, Africa And America, 1634
63.
(ASIA, AFRICA, AMERICA) HERBERT, Thomas. A Relation of Some
Yeares Travaile, Begunne Anno 1626. London, 1634. Small folio (8 by 11
inches), contemporary brown sheep rebacked. $6200.
First edition of Herbert’s fascinating 17th-century Travels narrating
his journeys through Persia, India and Africa, with extra engraved
title page and 36 in-text copper engravings of Persian monarchs,
native inhabitants, maps, exotic flora and fauna (including the Dodo
bird), fantastic sea creatures, and a chapter on “that Continent now
call’d America.”
As Sir William Foster notes, “Herbert’s narrative ‘is of considerable
importance from an historical point of view’” (Cox I:248). STC 13190.
Sabin 31471. Howgego H67. Signed “Lord Fauconberg his Booke
1677.” Lord Fauconberg was a “strong adherent of Cromwell… He
again became a royalist at the restoration, and was appointed a
member of the privy council of Charles II, captain of the guard, and
ambassador in [Venice]” (DNB). Bookplate of Sanskrit and Hindi
scholar Fitzedward Hall, one of the most important collaborators on
the Oxford English Dictionary. Front pastedown excised, archival tape
repairs to pages 17 and 213, very faint dampstain to top corner of
several gatherings, early repairs to scuffs on both covers. A very good
copy with distinguished provenance.
With 96 Stunning Hand-Colored Plates Of French
Costume From The Fifth Century Through Napoleon
First edition of this extraordinary collection of 96 exquisite
hand-colored plates depicting royal and aristocratic French
costume during the reigns of various monarchs and rulers from
Clovis I in the 5th century to Napoleon in the 19th century,
beautifully bound in elaborately gilt-decorated morocco.
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64. (FRANCE) PAUQUET, Hippolyte Louis Emile and PAUQUET,
Polydore Jean Charles, editors. Modes et Costumes Historiques.
Paris, circa 1864. Quarto, early 20th-century full crimson
morocco gilt.
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The plates depict both women’s and men’s costume in rich color,
concentrating on the aristocracy. A number of famous
personalities are also included, such as Sainte Clotilde, Jean de
Montaigu, Anne de Bretagne, Marguerite de France, Henri IV,
Mme de Pompadour, Marie-Antoinette, Henry VIII and others.
Colas 2293. Lipperheide 1090. Hiler & Hiler, 691. Bookplate. A
splendid volume in fine condition.
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With Lovely Tinted Lithographs Of Important Sites Throughout
Jerusalem, Including A Large Folding Panorama Of The City
65. (JERUSALEM) PIEROTTI, Ermete. Jerusalem Explored, Being a
Description of the Ancient and Modern City. London, 1864. Two volumes.
Folio (12 by 15-1/2 inches), contemporary blue cloth rebacked in 20thcentury dark blue morocco. $5500.
First edition of this historical survey of Jerusalem, with 63 lithographs, most
tinted, including a large folding tinted panorama of the city as seen from the
Mount of Olives, a large folding plan of the Church of the Resurrection, and
six double-page plans and cross-sections.
Italian-born architect and engineer Pierotti served as city engineer of Jerusalem
under the Ottoman Governor. Bound with half titles and errata slip (in Volume
I). Plate XX bound in upside down. Double-page plates laid in loose, as often
found, according to Blackmer 1309. Tobler, 189. Röhricht 2406. Folding
panorama of Jerusalem (Plate I) sectioned and silked at folds, light foxing to a
few plates, bit of edge-wear to caption pages, text volume generally clean,
corners bumped, extremities darkened. A very good copy of this scarce work.
“Years Of Battle And Struggle, Of Glory And Sorrow, Of Suffering And Triumph”
66.
(INDIA) ANDRADA, Jacinto Freire de. The Life of Dom John
de Castro, the Fourth Vice-Roy of India. London, 1693. Small folio,
early full dark brown speckled calf neatly rebacked. $4500.
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Expanded second edition of Andrada’s life of the Viceroy of India,
João de Castro—dubbed “Castro Forte” by Camõens in the
Lusiads—with frontispiece portrait Faithorne and two copperengraved plates, one folding. A fine copy.
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In 1545 João de Castro was sent to the Indies. “The next three
years were the hardest and most brilliant, as they were the last,
of his life—years of battle and struggle, of glory and sorrow, of
suffering and triumph. Valiantly seconded by his sons (one of
whom, Fernão, was killed before Diu)… de Castro achieved such
popularity by the overthrow of Mahmud, king of Gujarat, by the
relief of Diu, and by the defeat of the great army of the Adil Khan,
that he could contract a very large loan with the Goa merchants
on the simple security of his moustache... in 1547 the great
captain was appointed viceroy by João III” (Britannica, 11th ed.).
Andrada’s account, translated admirably by Sir Peter Wyche,
eldest son of the English ambassador at Oporto, details the
Portuguese discovery, exploration, conquest and control of
territories in East India and the Spice Islands, and the conquerors’
continuing efforts to secure their trade routes. First published in
Portuguese in 1651; Wyche’s English translation first appeared
in 1664. Engraved bookplate and shelf label. Neat repair to verso
of folding plate. A fine, handsome copy.
17th century view of Ireland
moryson ’s travels to venice ,
constantinople , jerusalem and more , 1617
“A Valuable And Much Esteemed Work”: With Early 17th-Century Plans—
This Copy Richly Extra-Illustrated With All 19 Large Engraved Plates From The 1633 Pacata Hibernia,
Including Many Early Views Of Irish Towns
67. MORYSON, Fynes. An Itinerary… Containing his ten yeeres travell through the twelve dominions of Germany, Bohmerland,
Sweitzerland, Netherland, Denmarke, Poland, Italy, Turky, France, England, Scotland, and Ireland. London, 1617. Folio (8-1/2 by
13 inches), early 20th-century full paneled brown calf. $18,500.
First edition of Moryson’s fascinating account of travel through late 16th-century Europe, including Germany, Holland, Italy, Turkey,
France, and the British Isles, with eight half-page woodcut plans of Venice, Naples, Rome, Genoa, Paris, Constantinople, Jerusalem
and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. This copy richly extra-illustrated with all of the 19 large engravings from Thomas Stafford’s
rare and important 1633 account of Tyrone’s Rebellion in Ireland, Pacata Hibernia, including an engraved portrait of Queen
Elizabeth and 18 lovely maps and views, all but two folding or double-page, representing some of the earliest illustrations ever
printed of several Irish towns.
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“One of the most important of the Elizabethan travelers” (Atabey), Moryson made two journeys to Europe and the Levant between
1591 to 1597, visiting the Low Countries, Germany, Denmark, Poland, Austria, Italy, Switzerland, France, the Eastern Mediterranean,
Jerusalem, Tripoli, Antioch and Constantinople. In 1598 he made a tour of Scotland; in 1600 he moved to Ireland, where he assisted
in suppressing Tyrone’s rebellion. The first part of his Itinerary consists of a journal of his travels, with half-page woodcut plans of the
chief cities. “The second part is a valuable history of Tyrone’s rebellion, with documents of state” (DNB). The third part comprises
essays on the advantages of travel and all necessary preparations for a successful trip, as well as discourses on each nation’s costume,
custom, character, coin, traffic, agriculture, language, religion, women, and legal practice, with a special emphasis on regional diets
and drinks. “A valuable and much esteemed work” (Lowndes). “His descriptions of the inns in which he lodged, of the costume and
the food of the countries visited, render his work invaluable to the social historian” (DNB). Blackmer 1159. Early owner signatures to
verso of first title page, infrequent early marginalia; later bookplates. First title page soiled and remargined, second leaf of title with
small repair to lower corner, a few instances of expert repair and restoration to text leaves, chiefly marginal. Several of the large folding
plates from Pacata Hibernia have been expertly reinforced on the verso along the fold. An extremely good, attractively bound richly
extra-illustrated copy.
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pa ns ion
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“A Lion Had Been Prowling Around Us During The Night”:
James’ 1888 Travels In Somalia, With Hand-Colored Plates
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(AFRICA) JAMES, Frank Linsly. The Unknown Horn of Africa.
London, 1888. Thick octavo, original pictorial brown cloth.
$5200.
First edition, with 23 full-page plates (eight finely hand-colored) of animals, birds, plants and tribal practices, and a large folding map of
Province Ogadayn (1885).
James led a four-month caravan from Berbera on the Gulf of Aden south
through Somalia and the Harar Province of Ethiopia to the Scebeli River
and return. This is the account of that journey—over 1,000 miles by camel
and horse through hostile Somali country. Czech, 83. Armorial bookplate.
A few pinpoint spots to interior, only slight rubbing to original cloth, gilt
quite bright. A handsome copy in near-fine condition.
“Full Of Interest, Instruction And Even Romance”: Monumental History Of Canada,
In Beautifully Bound And Illustrated 23-Volume Prestige First Edition
69.
(CANADA) SHORTT, Adam and DOUGHTY, Arthur G., editors. Canada and Its Provinces. Toronto, 1913-14. Twenty-three
volumes. Quarto, original full dark green morocco gilt.
$7000.
First, “Author’s Edition,” one of
only 875 sets on handmade paper,
of this comprehensive chronicle of
Canadian history—the “most authoritative… for half a century”—
illustrated with over 275 plates,
portraits, facsimiles, charts and
maps (including numerous doublepage color maps), beautifully
bound in publisher’s deluxe levant
armorial morocco-gilt.
“The most authoritative history of
Canada available for half a century,
familiar to generations of students,
it stands as one of the most
ambitious and successful private
publication projects complete in
Canada” (Fleming & Lamonde,
177). “The Authors’ Edition, the
first, was printed and bound... in a deluxe format… Each volume was carefully finished to the highest quality possible, to give this
prestige edition of 875 sets ‘a noble and enduring attire’… For all editions, volume 23… was delayed by war until 1917” (Fleming &
Lamonde, 176). Signed by printer T.A. Constable on the limitation page in each volume. Without rare original dust jackets. A fine copy
of an altogether impressive production.
“The Evil Nights…”: Burton’s Last Major Expedition In West Africa,
With Narrative Of The Slave Trade
70. (AFRICA) BURTON, Richard F. A Mission to Gelele, King of Dahome.
London, 1864. Two volumes. Octavo, modern three-quarter brown morocco
gilt.$5500.
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In late 1863, while serving as British Consul in West Africa, Burton
traveled to the Kingdom of Dahome in order to establish trade
relationships, to protest the kingdom’s involvement in the slave trade,
and to investigate charges that King Gelele participated in ritual
human sacrifice. When he protested to Gelele, “the king had his
answers. It was the English who long ago had initiated the slave
trade… and as for the custom [of sacrifice, the king] slew only
malefactors and prisoners of war… psychologically the king had
been Burton’s master… Only Burton’s magnificent two-volume work
on his efforts served to offset his disappointments” (Rice, 380).
Penzer, 72-73. Casada 47. Ex-library, with library blind embossing to
preliminary and concluding leaves of both volumes and stamp to first
text page of each volume. A fine, handsome copy. Scarce.
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West Africa, handsomely bound.
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Egypt and the Middle East
T
he unprecedented success of David Roberts’ massive work The
Holy Land and Egypt, published in folio in 1842-49, represents
the culmination of “Egyptomania,” a passion for all things Egyptian
that swept through England and Europe in the first half of the 19th
century. More and more travelers set out to see firsthand the land of
the Pyramids and the Sphynx—and the neighboring Holy Land—
often with easel and brushes, following Roberts’ example, and then
with the new cameras as well, as evidenced by Francis Frith’s extraordinary 1858 album of Egyptian photographs.
The Book Of The Dead, 1894 Elephant Folio With 37 Double-Page Color Lithographs,
With Budge’s Comprehensive Translation
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71.
BUDGE, E.A. Wallis. The Book of the Dead. Facsimile of the Papyrus of Ani. WITH: The Book of the Dead… The Egyptian
Text with Interlinear Transliteration and Translation, a Running Translation, Introduction, etc. London, 1894. Elephant folio (16 by
21 inches) and quarto, original three-quarter black and dark green morocco. $6500.
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Second edition of the important facsimile of the Papyrus of Ani, with 37 double-page elephant folio color lithographic plates,
together with a first edition of Budge’s comprehensive analysis of including “the funereal compositions upon which [Egyptians]
depended for the means of attaining everlasting life.”
Includes the original hieroglyphic text, with interlinear
transliteration, word-for-word translation, and a broader
running interpretation and analysis.
“The Papyrus of Ani, which was acquired by the
Trustees of the British Museum in 1888, is the largest,
the most perfect, and the best illuminated of all the papyri containing copies of the Theban Recension of the
Book of the Dead.” The facsimile of the Papyrus of Ani
was first published in 1890, with an Introduction by Mr.
Le Page Renouf, but unaccompanied by a translation.
This comprehensive translation and analysis by renowned Egyptologist E.A. Wallis Budge was prepared to
accompany this second edition of the folio color facsimile of the Papyrus. Occasional scattered light foxing,
marginal tear to plate 24, marginal repair to plate 34,
just affecting image, light expert restoration and mild
wear to original bindings. A near-fine copy.
david roberts
One Of The Greatest Lithographic Works Ever Printed: Roberts’ Holy Land, Egypt And Nubia
72.
ROBERTS, David. The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, & Nubia. London, 1855-56. Six volumes in three. Quarto,
contemporary full brown blind-stamped morocco rebacked. $18,000.
First quarto edition of this monumental early visual record of the
Middle East by the first Westerner permitted to enter sacred
sites, with 250 magnificent tinted lithographs.
Inquisitive Western minds first glimpsed the mysteries of Egypt
and the Middle East in detail through David Roberts’ folio-sized
Holy Land, issued in 41 parts from 1842 to 1849 and containing
250 full-page hand-colored lithographs produced from his magnificent, on-site drawings. This is the first quarto edition of 185556, containing all 250 lithographic plates contained in the folio
edition, including a frontispiece portrait of Roberts, six pictorial title
pages, and two engraved maps. Undoubtedly the most famous of
these is Plate 240, the great sphinx, still commonly reproduced in
poster art. A considerable number of plates are printed in two tints;
plates 213 and 240 are printed in three. Light marginal edge-wear
to plates 180-82, occasional foxing affecting versos of plates only,
small and faint marginal dampstain along gutter in Volume VI, images quite clean and fine. Light expert restoration to original morocco boards. A very good set.
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collection of sketches that has ever left the
East.” —David Roberts, in a letter to his daughter
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maspero
Maspero’s Famed History Of Egypt, Illustrated With Hundreds Of Plates
73. MASPERO, Gaston Camille Charles, and RAPPOPORT, A.S. History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria. London,
1903-06) Thirteen volumes. Royal octavo, publisher’s three-quarter green morocco gilt.
$12,000.
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Deluxe limited “Connoisseur Edition” of this esteemed history of Egypt and
the Middle East, number 82 of only 200 copies printed on Japan vellum
and richly illustrated with over 1200 plates and in-text illustrations, including
dozens of fine gravures in double-suite and 26 finely hand-colored plates,
including the frontispiece of each volume. Very handsomely bound.
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The principal work of this set is an English translation of Maspero’s Histoire
ancienne des peuples de l’Orient classique (1895), here translated in nine
volumes. Three volumes are dedicated to Rappoport’s three-volume History
of Egypt from 330 BC to the modern era. With the supplemental 13th volume
History of Egypt in the Light of Recent Discovery by King and Hall, often not
present. In these 13 richly illustrated volumes, Maspero and Rappoport
present an intimate acquaintance with the history of Egypt and the Nile Valley,
Assyria and Babylonia, as well as the literature and culture of these regions.
The illustrations offer a comprehensive picture of Egyptian culture, depicting
early forms of writing and painting, ancient relief sculpture and statuary,
pottery and weaponry, and other cultural artifacts. Also with plans of the
ancient cities, diagrams of royal tombs and numerous maps of historic sites.
Issued simultaneously in three limited editions. Plates and text fine, spines
toned to brown, light expert restoration to a few spine heads and joints. Final,
supplemental volume and Volume VIII of Maspero rebacked with original
spine laids down. An exceptionally attractive set.
Egypt and the Middle East
binion ’s egypt
A Monument Among Great Egyptian Plate Books:
With 72 Superb Elephant Folio Plates,
Many In Color
74.
BINION, Samuel Augustus. Ancient Egypt or Mizraïm.
New York, 1887. Two volumes. Elephant folio (19-1/2 by 26
inches), publisher’s three-quarter brown morocco rebacked
with original spines neatly laid down. $19,500.
Limited first edition, “Edition de Luxe,” one of only 800 copies,
splendidly illustrated with 72 spectacular large folio plates of
pyramids, temples, views, the Sphinx, antiquities, mummies,
papyri, among other Egyptian subjects, including 50 beautiful
tinted and full-color lithographs.
This spectacular production by American Egyptologist Samuel
Binion was considered the height of American chromolithography.
Most of the huge plates are based on one of four major volumes
of Egyptian travel and antiquities from the Napoleonic era through
the mid 19th century: David Roberts’ Egypt and the Holy Land,
Prisse d’Avennes’ Oriental Album, Lepsius’ Denkmaler aus
Agypten und Athiopen, and the Napoleon-commissioned
Description de l’Egypte. Of particular beauty are the fully colored
architectural reconstructions of Egyptian temples, and a splendid
rendition of Cleopatra’s Needle. Mizraïm was originally issued in
12 parts in wrappers; here the parts have been bound together
into two volumes, as usually found, each with its own lithographic
title page. Blackmer 143. Plates clean and fine, original bindings
nicely restored, with just a bit of wear to corners. An exceptionally
good copy in the original bindings.
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francis frith
“One Of The Most Renowned Of 19th-Century
Photobooks”: Francis Frith’s Egypt And Palestine,
With 76 Vintage Folio Albumen Prints
75.
FRITH, Francis. Egypt and Palestine Photographed and
Described. London, 1858-59. Two volumes. Folio (13 by 18
inches), original full burgundy morocco gilt. $32,000.
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First edition of Frith’s masterful two-volume work, containing
76 vintage mounted albumen prints from wet-collodion negatives of Egyptian and Palestinian antiquities, preserving their
integrity from “the corroding tooth of Time, and the ceaseless
drifting of the remorseless sand.” Prints fine, most signed and
numbered by Frith in the negative, in handsome original morocco-gilt bindings.
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“One of the most renowned of 19th-century photobooks,” Frith’s
prints in Egypt and Palestine are “justly famous… as much for
their technical as for their artistic achievement” (Parr & Badger
I:28). The crisp quality of Frith’s images is remarkable since he
was forced to develop the negatives
in caves, tombs and temples to escape from the heat and strong light
of the desert. Subscribers List (II).
Truthful Lens 61. Gift bookplate (I).
Several embossed library stamps.
Small shelf numbers to lower margins of contents pages. Prints exceptionally fine, lightest scattered foxing
to text and mounts, slight rubbing,
mild toning to boards. Volume I text
block and inner hinges expertly repaired. A splendid about-fine copy,
rare in this condition.
Preserved
“the corroding tooth
of Time, and the
ceaseless drifting
of the remorseless
sand.”
Egypt and the Middle East
prisse d ’avennes’ oriental album
With 30 Folio Lithographic Plates Of Egyptian Costumes:
Emile Prisse D’Avennes’ Oriental Album, 1848
76.
PRISSE D’AVENNES, Emile. Oriental Album: Characters,
Costumes, and Modes of Life in the Valley of the Nile. London,
1848. Elephant folio (15 by 22-1/2 inches), contemporary half black
morocco gilt. $18,500.
First trade edition of this beautifully illustrated survey of Egyptian
“modes of life,” with lithographic frontispiece portrait of botanist
George Lloyd, to whom the work is dedicated, additional chromolithographic title page, and 30 large tinted lithographs finished by
hand of contemporary Egyptian dress.
“Few 19th-century Orientalists possessed so prodigious an intellect,
such a trove of talents, so insatiable a curiosity or so passionate a
commitment to record the historical and artistic patrimony of ancient
Egypt and medieval Islam as Emile Prisse d’Avennes… During his
early years in Egypt, wherever his work took him, the insatiably curious
young man eagerly tramped through ruins, drew maps and plans,
sketched and wrote descriptive accounts of ancient cities and modern
villages” (Mary Norton). This edition was published simultaneously
with a deluxe issue, containing hand-colored plates with additional
coloration, mounted on heavy card-stock. Plates expertly cleaned. A
beautiful copy in fine condition.
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POLAR EXPLORERS
F
or over a century, the men who explored the unknown regions at the ends of the world were international
celebrities and heroes—the astronauts of their day, combining physical strength and bravery and a thirst for
knowledge with the very latest technology available, bringing back discoveries to a public eager for their stories.
“We Are All Explorers In An Undiscovered World”:
Inscribed By Cook To Elbert Hubbard
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77. COOK, Frederick. My Attainment of the Pole. New York, 1911. Quarto,
original pictorial brown cloth. $7800.
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First edition of Cook’s version of the North Pole controversy, inscribed and
signed by Cook to Elbert Hubbard, founder of the successful and influential
Roycroft Press: “To Elbert Hubbard, We are all explorers in an undiscovered
world. May the lessons of this quest form a line in your book of destiny.
Frederick A. Cook, Cleveland, O, Dec. 2, 1913.” With an autograph letter
signed from Cook to Hubbard from the following year, thanking Hubbard
for his helpfulness, “with Cheers from the sunny south,” tipped to the
front pastedown.
Cook had accompanied
Robert Peary on two
Arctic expeditions before
leading his own team in
an attempt to be the first
man to reach the North Pole. Though Cook claimed to have reached the Pole nearly
a year before Peary, news of his achievement was delayed by his prolonged and
dangerous return journey and reached the public just five days before Peary’s muchheralded announcement. After a long and bitter controversy Peary’s achievement
was officially recognized as the first attainment of the Pole, but many still credit Cook
with the prize. Interior fine, near-fine cloth with just a bit of wear, much nicer than
often found. An exceptional inscribed association copy.
The First To Reach The South Pole: First Edition
In English Of Amundsen’s Own Account
78. AMUNDSEN, Roald. The South Pole: An Account of
the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the “Fram,” 19101912. London, 1912. Two volumes. Large, thick octavo,
original gilt-stamped maroon cloth. $7500.
First edition in English (published the same year as the
Norwegian first) of Amundsen’s memoir of the race to the
South Pole, with four maps (two folding), 138 photographic
illustrations on 103 plates, as well as numerous in-text
maps, graphs, and tables.
Scott’s expedition to the South
Pole was well-publicized, but
his rival Roald Amundsen
strategically kept the destination of his ship, the Fram, secret until the last moment. There were crucial differences in approach
from Scott’s ill-fated expedition: dogs, rather than men, provided the raw power needed to pull equipment and the Norwegian crew knew to wear fur clothing rather than wool. Amundsen’s party reached
the Pole 34 days ahead of Scott. Complete with the folding diagram of the Fram, not found in most
copies of the (later) American issue. Originally published in Norwegian in the same year as the present
English translation. Without scarce dust jackets. Conrad, 156. Armorial bookplates; contemporary gift
inscriptions. Occasional scattered light foxing to interiors, more so to preliminary and concluding leaves,
cloth fresh and bright. A fine copy.
Beautiful First Edition Of South:
Shackleton’s Own Account Of The Fate Of The Endurance
79.
SHACKLETON, Ernest. South. The Story of Shackleton’s Last Expedition
1914-1917. London, 1919. Octavo, original blue cloth.
$9000.
First edition of Shackleton’s own account of his ill-fated expedition, with folding
map at rear, in-text maps and illustrations, color frontispiece, and 87 black-andwhite plates, most after photographs by Frank Hurley, and including his image of the
Endurance “looming stark and white against the darkness of the Polar night.”
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Ernest Shackleton embarked in 1914 in the Endurance to make the first crossing of
the Antarctic continent—1800 miles from sea to sea. But 1915 turned into an unusually icy year in Antarctica; after drifting in the ice for nine months, the Endurance
was crushed on
October 27. “With
five companions
“For scientific discovery give me Scott;
[Shackleton]
made a voyage of
for speed and efficiency of travel give
800 miles in a 22-foot boat through some of the stormiest seas in
me Amundsen; but when disaster
the world... and reached a Norwegian whaling station on the
north coast. After three attempts… Shackleton succeeded (30
strikes and all hope is gone, get down
August 1916) in rescuing the rest of the Endurance party and
bringing them to South America” (DNB). Without extremely
on your knees and pray for Shackleton.”
scarce dust jacket. Conrad, 210-14, 224. Text, plates and folding
map generally fresh with front inner paper hinge expertly rein—Sir Raymond Priestley
forced. A fine copy.
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POLAR EXPLORERS
dougl as mawson
Exceptional Presentation Copy Of Sir Douglas Mawson’s Home Of The Blizzard,
Both Volumes Inscribed By Him To The Governor Of Western Australia In The Year Of Publication
80.
MAWSON, Douglas. The Home of the Blizzard: Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914.
London, 1915. Two volumes. Thick octavo, original gilt- and silver-stamped blue cloth. $17,500.
First edition of this classic account of Antarctic exploration, an exceptional presentation copy with each volume inscribed in the
year of publication to a fellow Australian, the Governor of Western Australia: “To His Excellency, Sir Harry Barron, in warm appreciation of interest and assistance in the Expedition, from Douglas Mawson, June 1915.” Profusely illustrated with 18 color plates,
hundreds of black-and-white plates, numerous in-text illustrations and three color folding maps in rear pocket of Volume II.
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Leading the renowned Australasian Antarctic Expedition of 19111914, scientist and explorer Sir Douglas Mawson proved himself
a true hero. While Mawson set up a main base in what would
become George V Land, his team “explored nearly 2000 miles of
coastline while sledge parties traversed some 4000 miles in the
coastlands and hinterlands gaining scientific information of great
value.” Mawson’s “reports on geography, oceanography, glaciology, biology, terrestrial magnetism, and other scientific subjects
proved of major importance” (Conrad, 208). Taurus 100.
Recipient Sir Harry Barron “became governor of Tasmania from
September 1909 to March 1913, then governor
of Western Australia until February 1917”
(Australian Dictionary of Biography). Text clean,
folding maps fine, front inner paper hinge of
Volume I with expert reinforcement, minor color
restoration to extremities, spines sunned, cloth
quite clean, pictorial silver-gilt bright. An excellent
copy, most desirable inscribed.
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scot t, shackleton & cherry - garrard
“Brings Out The More Human Side Of The Members Of The Expedition”: Complete Limited Edition
Of The South Polar Times, The Crew Newspaper From Scott’s Landmark Antarctic Expeditions
81.
SHACKLETON, Ernest H., editor, Volume I; BERNACCHI, Louis C., editor, Volume II; CHERRY-GARRARD, Apsley, editor,
Volume III. The South Polar Times. London, 1907, 1914. Three volumes. Large quarto, original navy cloth. $32,000.
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“An exact reproduction of the original ‘South Polar Times’
which appeared during the winters of 1902-03 [and 1911],
produced as they were for the sole edification of [Scott’s] small
company of explorers in the Discovery [and the Terra Nova]
then held fast in the Antarctic ice” (Preface, Volume I). The
original typescripts are unobtainable; the full three-volume set
is extremely difficult to find complete, given the publication
hiatus between the second and third volumes. Without very
scarce original dust jackets. Fitzgerald 670. Taurus 42, 79.
Rosove 287, 291. Conrad, 121. Foxing to endpapers only, text
and plates clean and fine. A few light rubs to cloth, gilt and
pictorial labels bright. An exceptional about-fine copy, rarely
seen in this condition.
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the complete run of The South Polar Times produced during
Scott’s two expeditions (Discovery, 1902-03; Terra Nova,
1911), richly illustrated, often in color. Volumes I and II each
one of only 250 copies and Volume III one of only 350 copies.
A beautiful copy.
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Literature
pope ’s homer
“He Made The Father Of All Poetry Live…”:
First Editions Of Pope’s Famous Translations Of Homer’s Iliad And Odyssey, 1715-26
82. (POPE, Alexander) HOMER. The Iliad of Homer. WITH: The Odyssey of Homer. London, 1715-26. Eleven volumes bound as
five. Small folio (7-1/2 by 12 inches), contemporary full paneled calf gilt rebacked.
$32,000.
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Rare first editions, folio issues, of Pope’s famous illustrated translations,
esteemed by Samuel Johnson as “certainly the noblest version of poetry
which the world has ever seen,” with frontispiece bust portraits of Homer by
Vertue and five plates (including a double-page map of Phyrgia and the often
absent “Shield of Achilles”), handsomely bound.
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“The first perfect poetry of the
western world. They spring fully
grown, their predecessors lost, and
“Idolatry of classical models was an essential part of the religion of men of
letters of the day… But a Homer in modern English was still wanting. Pope’s
their magic has persisted ever
rising fame and his familiarity with the literary and social leaders made him the
man for the opportunity… The ‘Homer’ was long regarded as a masterpiece,
since. The legends of the siege of
and for a century was the source from which clever schoolboys like Byron
learnt that Homer was not a mere instrument of torture invented by their
Troy and the return of Odysseus
masters. No translation of profane literature has ever occupied such a position”
(DNB). Samuel Johnson, in his Life of Pope, calls it “certainly the noblest
are the common heritage of all.”
version of poetry which the world has ever seen” (Allibone, 1632-34).
—Printing & the Mind of Man
“Contemporaneously with the quarto [for subscribers] [Lintot] issued the work
in two forms, a Large Paper folio and a Small (or ‘ordinary’) folio” (Griffith 39).
These volumes belong to the ordinary folio issue. The five volumes of the
Odyssey were published in quarto and large-paper folio. These volumes belong to the folio issue, here trimmed to match the Iliad’s
ordinary folio in size. With all half titles (Iliad, Volume I and Odyssey, all volumes) and privilege leaves. Armorial bookplates. Scattered
light foxing, occasional light embrowning, minor marginal worming to first few leaves of Iliad, Volume I, Odyssey frontispiece portrait
with marginal repair, contemporary paneled calf boards with light expert restoration.
T
t he Birth of the Novel
he birth of the novel as we know it is inevitably traced back to Cervantes’ masterpiece, Don Quixote. As
Harold Bloom observes, “Cervantes’ two heroes are simply the largest literary characters in the whole
Western Canon.” In England, however, things really got underway a century later with the publication of Defoe’s
Robinson Crusoe and Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels. But while all of these works employed novelistic means to satirical
and philosophical ends, perhaps Fielding’s Tom Jones (1749) is the first work that we truly recognize as a “novel”:
as he himself states in his Preface to Book Two, “I am, in reality, the founder of a new province of writing, so I
am at liberty to make whatever laws I please therein.” These “laws” are still very much in force today.
daniel defoe
“Never Any Young Adventurer’s Misfortunes…
Began Sooner Or Continued Longer Than Mine”:
Robinson Crusoe, 1719
83.
DEFOE, Daniel. The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of
Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner. WITH: The Farther Adventures of
Robinson Crusoe… London, 1719. Two volumes. Octavo, period-style full
paneled black morocco gilt. $19,000.
Third edition, first issue, of Defoe’s masterpiece, published within two
months of the extremely rare first edition, with the engraved frontispiece
portrait of Crusoe by Clark and Pine, together with a scarce first edition,
second issue of the second part, with folding map of the world,
beautifully bound.
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“Perhaps
there exists
no
other
work… in the English language, which has been more generally
read and more universally admired, than the Life and
Adventures of Robinson Crusoe” (Sir Walter Scott). The first
part was published on April 25, 1719; a second edition was
published May 9, and the third and fourth editions quickly
followed, on June 4 and August 7. This is Hutchins’ first issue
(of two) of the third edition, with tailpiece depicting a lion
instead of a phoenix and all other points. The sequel, Farther
Adventures, in which Crusoe and Friday make a return trip to
their island, was published August 20, 1719. This copy of
Farther Adventures is first edition, second issue, with
advertisement on verso of [A4]. Part I bound with final two
leaves of advertisements; Part II bound with last five leaves of
advertisements. Lovett 3. Hutchins 3T, pp. 74-78, 97-112.
Moore 412, 417. Folding map, title page, and first three leaves
of Volume II with minor expert paper repairs. A very good copy.
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henry fielding
“One Of The First And Most Influential Of English Novels”:
1749 First Issue Of Fielding’s Masterpiece, From The First Printing Of Only 2000 Copies
84.
FIELDING, Henry. The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling. London, 1749. Six volumes. 12mo, mid 19th-century
full tan calf gilt.
$11,000.
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First edition, first issue, of this classic English novel, one of a first
printing of only 2000 copies, handsomely bound.
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“The book is generally regarded as Fielding’s greatest, and as one of
the first and most influential of English novels” (Drabble, 988).
Prepublication demand for Tom Jones was so great that the first
printing of 2000 copies was immediately snapped up by London
booksellers; a second printing was completed before the official date
of publication (February 28). This is a first-issue set, with the errata
leaf in Volume I (c8) and the errata uncorrected in the text. Rothschild
850-51. Grolier English 48. Randall & Winterich, 1200. Bookplates of
Shakespearian scholar Edward Viles. Early bookseller descriptions
tipped onto preliminary blanks of Volume I. Occasional marginal
pencil markings. Scattered light foxing to text, very light rubbing to
spine ends. An exceptional about-fine first-issue copy, in very
handsome calf-gilt bindings.
“I intend to digress, through this
whole history, as often as I see
occasion, of which I am myself a
better judge than any pitiful
critic whatever; and here I must
desire all those critics to mind
their own business…”
t he Birth of the Novel
“Close In Spirit To The Original”:
1742 First Jarvis Translation Of Don Quixote,
With 69 Fine Copperplate Engravings
85.
CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, Miguel de. The Life and
Exploits of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote de La
Mancha. London, 1742. Two volumes. Quarto, contemporary full dark brown calf gilt rebacked with original spines
laid down. $7000.
First edition of Jarvis’ famous translation, with engraved
portrait of Cervantes and 68 fine full-page copperplate
engravings after John Vanderbank—“undoubtedly one
of the noblest sets of engravings ever executed for Don
Quixote.”
Jarvis’ translation, one of the earliest, is also regarded as
one of the best. “It is generally acknowledged as being close
in spirit to the original” (Oxford DNB). With a prefatory
history of chivalry and romance by Warburton, a note on the
illustrations and a life of Cervantes. “Undoubtedly one of the
noblest sets of engravings ever executed for Don Quixote;
Cohen calls them ‘belles figures” (Ashbee). Río y Rico 449.
Ashbee, An Iconography of Don Quixote 39. Two engraved armorial bookplates, early owner signatures and inscriptions. A few plates
trimmed a little closely along upper edge, just touching the border of seven plates, plate 56 (Volume II, page 318) with marginal tear
at lower corner, not affecting caption or image, plates clear and fine, impressions dark, original bindings quite lovely. A very handsome
copy of this richly illustrated Quixote, most desirable in contemporary calf-gilt.
“The Seminal Terror Gothic Romance
Of The 18th Century”
86. RADCLIFFE, Ann. The Mysteries of Udolpho.
A Romance. London, 1794. Four volumes. 12mo,
contemporary three-quarter calf gilt, marbled
boards.
$8800.
First edition of Radcliffe’s Gothic novel, a masterpiece of the genre, exceptional in contemporary
bindings.
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“The seminal terror Gothic romance and the premier
maiden-centered Gothic of the 18th century…
Udolpho’s vast influence in both its own time and
ours can hardly be overestimated.” Ann Radcliffe’s
achievement fundamentally shaped the genre, “for
she steered the tradition, as Ellen Moers has remarked, ‘in one of the ways it would go ever after; a
novel in which the central figure is a young woman
who is simultaneously persecuted victim and courageous heroine” (Tymn, Horror Literature 1-316). Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey (1818), even in its gentle satire of the genre, acknowledges the influence of Radcliffe’s popular novels: “When you have finished Udolpho,” the young Isabella says to Catherine
Moreland, “we will read the Italian together.” Contemporary owner signature on title pages of Volumes II-IV. Infrequent faint foxing.
Unrestored contemporary bindings in excellent condition. A lovely set.
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“They Will Wonderfully Mend The World”: First Edition Of Gulliver’s Travels
87.
SWIFT, Jonathan. Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World. London, 1726. Two volumes. Octavo, late 19th century
full morocco gilt rebacked with original spines laid down. $21,000.
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First edition, scarce second issue (Teerink “AA”), of Swift’s classic satire—”at once a favorite book of children and a summary of
bitter scorn for mankind”—with engraved frontispiece portrait of Gulliver, six plates (four maps and two plans), as well as numerous
woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces. Beautifully bound by Riviere & Son.
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A classic “at once a favorite book of children and a summary of bitter scorn for mankind,” Swift’s masterpiece will “last as long as the
language, because it describes the vices of man in all nations” (DNB). “For every edition designed for the reader with an eye to the
historical background, 20 have appeared, abridged or adapted, for readers
who care nothing for the satire and enjoy it as a first-class story” (PMM 185).
First published October 28, 1726. This copy is second issue (Teerink AA),
“Of so little weight are
published in mid-November 1726, with “Voyage” in title to Part IV not in
the greatest services to
capitals and with all other points, with the exception of the general title page
of Volume II only, which corresponds with the third issue, Teerinck B, issued
princes, when put into the
in December of the same year (mixed states are not uncommon). Frontispiece
in second state (Teerink’s state 2a), with Latin inscription on tablet and
balance with a refusal to
vertical chain lines, as usual. Teerink 290. Grolier 100 42. Bookplate of Mary
Augusta Elton, distinguished collector and co-author of The Great Bookgratify their passions.”
Collectors. A lovely copy of this landmark title in excellent condition.
Samuel Johnson
and his Circle
I
n just fifty years, Samuel
Johnson made an impact
that outlived him for centuries. If all he had left behind
were his Dictionary, it alone
would have altered humanity’s
samuel johnson
“The Most Amazing, Enduring And Endearing One-Man Feat”:
1755 First Edition Of Johnson’s Landmark Dictionary
88.
JOHNSON, Samuel. A Dictionary of the English Language. London, 1755. Two
volumes. Thick folio (11 by 17 inches), contemporary full brown calf rebacked to style in
brown morocco gilt and recornered. $33,000.
First edition of the first great dictionary of the English language, Johnson’s “audacious
attempt to tame his unruly native tongue… combining huge erudition with a steely wit
and remarkable clarity of thought” (Hitchings, 3)—”Johnson’s writings had, in philology,
the effect which Newton’s discoveries had in mathematics.”
language. However, Johnson
did much more. In addition to
his many notable writings, he
brought together some of the
most important writers, artists, and thinkers of his age
in his eponymous Circle. In
Johnson’s lively salons, attendees such as Boswell,
Reynolds, Garrick, Malone,
Piozzi, Burney, and others argued, collaborated, and broke
the cultural landscape of 18thcentury England.
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“Johnson’s Dictionary made him a superstar. To be sure, there had been dictionaries
before his. The difference is that, while these were compiled, Johnson’s was written… It
is also a compendium of English literature, reprinting fine examples of words from the
masters, often Shakespeare or Sir Francis Bacon. Johnson sought to ‘intersperse with
verdure and flowers the dusty desarts of barren philology’” (Smithsonian Book of Books).
“Dr. Johnson performed with his Dictionary the most amazing, enduring and endearing
one-man feat in the field of lexicography” (PMM 201). Courtney & Smith, 54. Grolier 100.
Rothschild 1237. Armorial bookplates. Scattered light foxing, occasional very minor
marginal dampstaining, marginal closed tear to leaf [12G2], Volume I, not affecting text,
only lightest age-wear to exceptional contemporary calf boards. An excellent copy of a
lexicographical and literary landmark in near-fine condition.
relationship to the English
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Samuel Johnson and his Circle
“That Dialogue Of Mind, Heart And Voice”:
Handsome First Issue Of Boswell’s Life Of Johnson
89. BOSWELL, James. The Life of
Samuel
Johnson,
LL.D.
Comprehending an Account of His
Studies and Numerous Works.
London, 1791. Two volumes. Tall
quarto, contemporary full brown tree
calf rebacked in calf-gilt.
$8500.
First edition of the greatest of literary biographies, handsomely bound
in contemporary tree calf.
“Everyone with an interest in
Johnson is very much in debt to
Boswell not only for the years of devotion he invested in the study of
Johnson’s life, but for the uncanny
skill with which he conveyed the
quality of Johnson’s personality... If
there had been no Boswell, Johnson would have been one of the most famous names in English literature; but that he has become a
household name… is due to the chance that brought Boswell into his company” (Wain, 229). Volume I is second state, with “gve”
corrected to “give” on page 135, line 10 (a change made before publication); cancel present at Volume II, Qq3. Vol. II without blank
A1, as often. With the engraved portrait of Johnson by James Heath after Sir Joshua Reynolds in Volume I and two engraved plates in
Volume II. Rothschild 463. Grolier 100. Early armorial bookplates. Interiors generally quite fresh with only light scattered foxing. contemporary tree calf boards with expert restoration.
“In A Man’s Letters, You Know, Madam, His Soul Lies Naked”:
First Edition Of Letters To And From Samuel Johnson, 1788, In Original Boards
90. PIOZZI, Hester Lynch, editor. Letters to and from the Late Samuel
Johnson. London, 1788. Two volumes. Octavo, original drab blue paper
boards, custom half morocco pull-off box.
$2800.
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First edition of Hester Thrale Piozzi’s significant selection of Dr. Johnson’s
erudite and entertaining letters—”the first publication and canonization
of a large body of his correspondence”—uncut in original boards.
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Johnson hailed Hester Thrale, later Piozzi, as “if not the wisest woman in
the world… undoubtedly one of the wisest” (Allibone, 1601). She met him
in 1765; he became a frequent houseguest, and she “was flattered by the
attentions of this literary lion who took her seriously as a poet” (DNB).
Following her husband’s death and her remarriage, Piozzi’s relationship
with Johnson became strained. Free from the inhibiting presence of
Johnson, Piozzi found her own feet as a writer. Her Letters to and from the
Late Samuel Johnson, representing the first publication and canonization
of a large body of Johnson’s correspondence (some 338 letters), also sold
well. With initial blank, errata slip (in state B). Volume II with leaf [A6]
bound before A2. Volume II with restoration to inner paper hinges.
Contemporary owner signature to Volume I title page. Old pencil
bibliographic notations. Scattered light foxing, light, expected age-wear to
boards. An excellent copy in about-fine condition, in original boards.
Samuel Johnson and his Circle
Magnificent Limited Edition Set Of Goldsmith’s Works With Photogravures After Coburn
91.
GOLDSMITH, Oliver. Works of Oliver Goldsmith. New York, 1908. Ten volumes. Octavo, original three-quarter polished
tan calf gilt. $6500.
Exquisitely bound “Turk’s Head” limited edition of Goldsmith’s Works, one of only 1000 sets signed by the publisher, and with
the perforated number on the limitation page.
Beautifully illustrated with 80 photogravure plates after original designs by Canadian artist Frederick Simpson Coburn, this
edition, with a biographical and critical introduction by Horatio Sheafe Krans, includes all of Goldsmith’s essays, poems, novels,
dramas and miscellaneous writings. Coburn’s early success came as an illustrator of literary works, including Dickens and Poe,
as well as this lovely Goldsmith edition. Bookplate. A fine wide-margined set, handsomely bound.
Beautifully Bound Set Of Smollett’s Novels Illustrated by Cruikshank, One Of Only 500 Sets
92. SMOLLETT, Tobias. The Novels. Boston and
New York, 1926. Eleven volumes. Octavo, contemporary full blue polished calf gilt. $3500.
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This lovely large paper set was printed from type at
the Shakespeare Head Press, Stratford-UponAvon. Includes Roderick Random, Peregrine
Pickle, Count Fathom, Sir Launcelot Greaves, and
Humphry Clinker. Text and plates fine and bright,
only occasional most minor marginal dampstaining
or light foxing to outer edges of a few leaves at front
and rear of some volumes, spines slightly toned,
gilt bright. A fine set, beautifully bound.
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Limited large paper set of Smollett’s novels, one
of only 500 copies produced, illustrated with numerous plates after Cruikshank and finely bound
by Riviere and Son.
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william morris
“One Of Morris’ Finest Designed Titles”:
Beautiful Kelmscott Press Edition Of Reynard The Foxe, 1892
93. (MORRIS, William) [CAXTON, William]. The History of Reynard the Foxe. Hammersmith, 1892. Tall quarto, original full limp
vellum. $8200.
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Splendid limited Kelmscott Press edition of Reynard, set from Caxton’s 1481 English translation of the ancient Dutch tale, one of
only 310 copies, in the original vellum.
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Reynard the Foxe, translated from the Dutch, was “perhaps the most popular of Caxton’s translations down the ages” (Deacon, 149).
In his preface he disclaims, “If anything be written herein that may grieve or displease man, blame me not, but the fox, for they be
his words and not mine.” The Kelmscott Press was founded in 1891 by William Morris, Pre-Raphaelite painter, designer, architect,
and printer. “Morris sought to revive what he saw as the purity of the first century of printing, and to produce what he described as
books which ‘would have a definite claim to beauty… and be easy to read” (Feather, 152). His “passionate craftsmanship was the
spark which ignited a 50-year renaissance of bookmaking in England, on the Continent, and in the United States” (Art of the Printed
Book, 36). The Kelmscott printing of Reynard contains “one of Morris’ finest designed titles” (Forman, 164). Text printed in black
and red Troy type, with full woodcut ornamental border around the title-page opening, numerous partial borders and elaborate
eight-line initial letters. This is one of 300 copies printed on paper from a total edition of only 310. Ransom 10. Small owner stamp.
A few instances of mild embrowning to text; original vellum unusually lovely. A nearly fine copy of this impressive production.
gustave fl aubert
“Bovary C’est Moi”: Scarce First Edition Of Flaubert’s Masterpiece,
In Scarce Original Wrappers
Rare first edition, first issue in book form, of Flaubert’s literary masterpiece, “the definitive model of the novel” (Émile Zola), in
exceptionally rare original wrappers. A beautiful copy.
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Upon publication of Madame Bovary, both Flaubert and his publisher were brought to trial on charges of immorality and narrowly
escaped conviction. Although purportedly based in part on the circumstances of Flaubert’s friend Louise Pradier, the author’s claim
that “Madame Bovary is myself” earned him a reputation as the great master of the Realist school. First serialized in La Revue de Paris
in October and December of 1856, this is the first issue in book form, with misspelling of “Senard” as “Senart” on dedication page.
Bound without publisher’s advertisements. Text in French. Armorial bookplate of William M. Fitzhugh, the renowned book collector,
laid in. Small closed tear to rear wrapper and glassine of Volume I and mild toning to spines. A superb copy in about-fine condition,
exceedingly rare in fragile original wrappers.
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FLAUBERT, Gustave. Madame Bovary. Paris, 1857. Two volumes. Thick 12mo, original printed pale green paper wrappers,
glassine, custom half morocco chemises and morocco-edged slipcases. $18,000.
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arthur rimbaud
“Every Image Exists In Its Own Right”: Very Rare 1886 First Edition Of Rimbaud’s Extraordinary
Les Illuminations, One Of Only 200 Copies, With Original Paper Wrappers Bound In
95.
RIMBAUD, Arthur. Les Illuminations. Paris, 1886. Slim octavo, mid 20th-century full navy morocco, custom slipcase and
chemise. $25,000.
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Limited first edition of one of Rimbaud’s important poetical works, one of only 200 copies, this copy one of 170 copies on Holland
paper, with preface by French poet Paul Verlaine. Handsomely bound by J.-P. Miguet, with original paper wrappers bound in.
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“Arthur Rimbaud, a poet of precocious genius and violent, unstable character, began writing at 15 and abandoned literature some five,
or possibly ten, years later. At 37, after years as a trader and explorer at Harar and in the interior of Abyssinia, he died unaware that
he had become a master for the Symbolists. He now counts as one of the strongest influences on modern, and not only French, poetry… Rimbaud went farther than any poet before him in the
exploration of the subconscious” (Harvey & Heseltine, 619-20).
“In the winter of 1875, [Paul] Verlaine visited Rimbaud in
“He is affection and the present since he
Stuttgart and was handed a pile of manuscripts. Verlaine gathered them together, named them Illuminations, and saw to it
opened the house to foaming winter and
they were published, a decade later… Illuminations contains
the hum of summer, he who purified
some of Rimbaud’s most vivid and direct imagery, Graham Robb
noting their ‘almost total absence of comparisons and analogies.
drink and food, he who is the charm of
Every image exists in its own right” (Mason, xxxvi). Text in
French. Laid in is an original sales receipt made out to William
fleeting places and the superhuman
Targ, the powerful editor-in-chief of Putnam’s. Targ’s authors,
included Saul Bellow, Henry Roth, Simone de Beauvoir,
deliciousness of staying still.”
Tennessee Williams, Richard Wright, Norman Mailer, and Mario
Puzo. Interior fine, expert paper repairs and tape residue to the
—“Genie,” translated by John Ashbery
versos of original paper wrappers. A fine copy of this scarce and
fragile rarity, handsomely bound.
charles dickens
Splendid 40-Volume Illustrated Limited Edition Set Of Dickens’ Works, With Dickens’ Tipped-In Signature
96.
DICKENS, Charles. Works. London, 1906-8. Forty volumes. Large octavo, contemporary full red morocco gilt. $17,500.
“National Edition” of the works, letters, and life of Dickens, copiously illustrated
and beautifully bound, with a tipped-in leaf in Volume I inscribed and signed by
Dickens: “Faithfully yours, Charles Dickens. London. Sixth July, 1850.”
—G.K. Chesterton
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“Charles Dickens was the last of the great 18th-century novelists and the first of
the great symbolic novelists, and in the crushing equilibrium between these two
forces dwells the real strength of his art” (Ackroyd, 1081). With mounted
illustrations reproducing the original plates (including plates suppressed before
publication), facsimiles of the original wrappers from the monthly parts, and
Forster’s Life of Charles Dickens. Without one plate (“Outline of the Maclise
Painting”) in Foster’s Life. A few volumes with minor expert restoration. A fine set,
most beautifully bound, with a large and bold Dickens signature.
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“Whether I Shall Turn Out To Be The Hero Of My Own Life…”
97.
DICKENS, Charles. The Personal History of David Copperfield.
London, 1850. Thick octavo, original green cloth. $6000.
First edition, first issue in book form, of Dickens’ “most popular success,”
with 40 etchings by Hablôt Knight Browne (“Phiz”), including frontispiece,
vignette title page and the second of Browne’s famous “dark plates,” in
exceedingly rare original cloth.
“With many lovers of the author’s works David Copperfield ranks as the
finest of his writings. With a book which gave to the world such characters
as Betsy Trotwood, Micawber, the Pegottys and Mr. Dick…. it would be
strange if it had been otherwise” (Eckel, 77). “Dickens and Browne are the
most celebrated author-artist team in the history of English book illustration,”
and Copperfield was their “most popular success” (Hodnett, 111-12). It
contains the second of Browne’s so-called “dark plates,” created by a
machine process that tints the etched plate so as to heighten the contrast
between black and white, anticipating some of the techniques of white-line
engraving (Johannsen, Phiz, 309). David Copperfield was originally
published in 20 parts from May 1849 to November 1850. First issue, with
date present on engraved title page, six-line errata leaf on page [xv], with all but one first-issue points listed in Smith. Without
publisher’s advertisements at rear. Rare original green cloth binding variant usually seen on copies bound from parts. Smith I:9.
Contemporary owner signature. Text fresh, some foxing to plates, as usual, with expert cleaning to preliminary leaves, original cloth
with expert restoration, spine toned to brown. An extremely good copy.
Limited Edition Set Of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Writings, Signed By The Author
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98. STOWE, Harriet Beecher. Writings. Sixteen volumes. WITH: Life and Letters. Cambridge, 1896, 1897. Together, seventeen
volumes. Octavo, contemporary full green morocco gilt. $11,000.
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Signed limited large-paper edition,
one of only 250 sets signed and
dated (“Jany 9th 1896”) by Harriet
Beecher Stowe in Volume I, with
33 illustrated frontispieces and
title pages, beautifully bound in
full morocco-gilt. Autographed on
the fly leaf by the author for this
edition “a few months before her
death.”
A collection of Stowe’s prose and
poetry, including Uncle Tom’s Cabin
and A Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin,
Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal
Swamp, The Minister’s Wooing, her
New England books, and seven first
printings of other works, with a
separate posthumously published collection of her letters with biographical commentary.
BAL 19508, 19509. Spines evenly toned to brown. A fine set, beautifully bound.
nathaniel haw thorne
“Glows With The Fire Of A Suppressed, Secret, Feverish Excitement”:
First Edition Of The Scarlet Letter With A Receipt From The Salem Customs House Signed By Hawthorne
99.
HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter, a Romance. Boston, 1850. Octavo, original blind-tooled brown cloth, custom
clamshell box. $18,000.
First edition of Hawthorne’s American classic, one of only 2500 copies
printed, in unrestored original cloth, with a 1848 Port of Salem customs
inspection receipt signed by Hawthorne tipped in.
“That blue-eyed darling Nathaniel
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The first edition of The Scarlet Letter sold out in ten days and “made
knew disagreeable things in his inner
Hawthorne’s fame, changed his fortune and gave to our literature its first
soul. He was careful to send them
symbolic novel a year before the appearance of Melville’s Moby-Dick”
(Bradley et al., 652). Clark A16.1. With tipped-in customs house receipt
out in disguise.” —D.H. Lawrence
signed by Hawthorne, printed on light blue paper and finished in
manuscript. Hawthorne was appointed to the position of Surveyor at the
Salem Custom House in 1846, the year which saw the publication of his
collection of short stories, Mosses from an Old Manse. He was fired from his Custom House position by the incoming Whig party in
1849 and began work on The Scarlet Letter; “Its introductory essay, ‘The Custom-House,’ purportedly a straightforward account of his
experience as surveyor, attacks officials who connived in his dismissal while vindicating himself” (ANB). Owner signature, book label.
Interior fine, light wear to cloth extremities, more so to spine ends, light soiling to boards. A near-fine, unrestored copy with exceptional
provenance and most scarce with a receipt by Hawthorne tipped in. A truly extraordinary copy.
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henry david thoreau
“To What End Does The World Go On,
And Why Was America Discovered?”:
Finely Bound Limited Edition Of Thoreau’s
Complete Works, With Rare Manuscript Leaf
From His Essay “Walking” Discussing The
American Landscape And Its Impact On
The American Character
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100.
THOREAU, Henry David. The Writings. Boston
and New York, 1906. Twenty volumes. Octavo, modern
three-quarter dark green morocco gilt. $25,000.
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Manuscript Edition, handsomely bound and illustrated,
one of 600 copies, with a very desirable manuscript leaf
from Thoreau’s important essay “Walking,” discussing
how the American landscape influences the American
mind and spirit, penned entirely in Thoreau’s hand, in
Volume I.
Each set in this important limited edition includes a
Thoreau manuscript leaf mounted and bound into the first
volume; the leaf in this copy is written in ink on both sides
by Thoreau with a few corrections and insertions in ink
Continued on next page
“I trust that we shall be more
imaginative, that our thoughts will be
clearer, fresher, and more ethereal,
as our sky—our understanding more
comprehensive and broader, like our
plains—our intellect generally on a
grander scale, like our thunder and
lightning, our rivers and mountains and
forests—and our hearts shall even
correspond in breadth and depth and
greatness to our inland seas.”
and pencil, and comes from his essay “Walking.” Between 1851
and 1860 Thoreau read the piece a total of ten times, more than
any other of his lectures. He considered it one of his seminal
works, and he revised the piece throughout the decade.
It was published posthumously in the June
1862 issue of the Atlantic Monthly. This
beautiful set also contains a foldout map
of Concord, reproductions of Thoreau’s
journal illustrations, and over 100 tissue-guarded illustrations. Boswell &
Crouch 1721. BAL 20145. Borst
A20.1.a. Fine condition. An important and lovely set, most desirable
with a manuscript fragment of this
favorite Thoreau essay.
The Complete Writings Of
Walt Whitman, Important
1902 Definitive Edition,
Beautifully Illustrated
101.
WHITMAN, Walt. The
Complete Writings. New York
and London, 1902. Ten volumes.
Octavo, original three-quarter
green morocco gilt. $11,000.
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This definitive edition of Whitman’s
works was issued under the supervision of three of his intimate friends: Richard Maurice Bucke,
Thomas Harned, and perhaps most importantly, Horace Traubel, whose relationship to Whitman
has been likened to that of Boswell to Johnson. A total of 1,342 sets of the Complete Writings
were produced and sold as six distinct editions. This set is the fourth such “edition” listed in Myerson, with priority assumed. Myerson
B4. Scattered light foxing to interiors, more so to preliminary and concluding leaves, one volume with expert repairs to joints, bindings
lovely. A beautiful, near-fine set. Collected works of Whitman are extremely desirable.
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“Paumanok Edition,” one of only
300 numbered sets on handmade paper, with 30 tissueguarded engravings, each volume
with a hand-colored frontispiece.
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oscar wilde
“Leave My Book, I Beg You, To The Immortality That It Deserves”
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102. WILDE, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray. London, New York
and Melbourne, 1891. Octavo, original half vellum gilt, custom clamshell
box. $16,000.
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First edition, first issue, of Wilde’s only novel, considered by many to
be his greatest work. An exceptional copy.
Dorian Gray first appeared in Lippincott’s simultaneously in
Philadelphia and London, on June 20, 1890. This publication was
immediately followed by publication of an unauthorized, pirated
version of the tale, printed June 22, 1890 in New York by M. J. Ivers
& Co. Wilde then substantially revised the work and added six new
chapters; this scarce first authorized trade edition saw publication in
April, 1891. Only light rubbing to boards, minor paper restoration to
bevels, gilt bright. A lovely copy in near-fine condition, far better than
usually found.
“Those who find beautiful
meanings in beautiful things
are the cultivated. For these
there is hope. They are the
elect to whom beautiful things
mean only Beauty.”
f. scot t fitzgerald
“For Pete Compton, A Wild Man If There Ever Was One”: F. Scott Fitzgerald’s First Book,
This Side Of Paradise, Wonderfully Inscribed By Him One Day After Publication
103.
FITZGERALD, F. Scott. This Side of Paradise. New York, 1920. Octavo, original green cloth, custom
clamshell box. $40,000.
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Although the inscription was written just one day after the publication of This Side of Paradise, Fitzgerald’s first novel,
he was already fast on his way to becoming the new literary sensation: the entire first printing of 3000 copies had
already sold out (ultimately requiring two more printings in April alone). Early printings of this novel (April 1920) are
exceedingly difficult to obtain. Without exceedingly scarce original dust jacket. Bruccoli A5.1.a. Bruccoli & Clark
I:131. A bit of light dampstaining to top margin of some leaves, one-inch open tear to bottom margin of page 177.
Some light spotting to original cloth. An exceptionally rare inscribed copy.
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First edition, first printing, of Fitzgerald’s first novel, inscribed one day after publication: “For Pete Compton, A
wild man if there ever was one — F. Scott Fitzgerald, Princeton, NJ, March 27th 1920.”
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“Few Things Seemed To Newland Archer More Awful
Than An Offence Against ‘Taste’”
104. WHARTON, Edith. The Age of Innocence. New York, 1920. Octavo,
original red cloth, dust jacket.
$15,000.
First edition, first issue, of Wharton’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, in
extremely scarce original dust jacket.
Wharton’s novel of manners and conventionality won the Pulitzer Prize in
1921 and is known for its “ironic handling of Victorian social standards in
New York high society” (Hart, 814). Garrison 30.I.a. About-fine book with
very slight rubbing, extremely scarce dust jacket expertly restored.
“There Is Nothing Funnier Than A Young Pessimist,
Except An Old Optimist”
105. TWAIN, Mark. Autograph quotation signed. New York,
November 22, 1902. White postcard, measuring 5-1/2 by 3-1/2
inches; matted and framed with portrait, entire piece measures
10 by 14 inches. $8500.
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Original autograph postcard from Cádiz written entirely in Mark
Twain’s hand, reading: “There is nothing funnier than a young
pessimist, except an old optimist,” signed, “Mark Twain, New
York, Nov. 22, 1902,” handsomely matted and framed with a
portrait of Twain.
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This autograph quotation is written on the back of a postcard from
Festival de la Caridad en Cádiz. The line quoted, “There is nothing
funnier than a young pessimist, except an old optimist,” appears
to be a preliminary version of the maxim that would later become
famous: “There is no sadder thing than a young pessimist, except
an old optimist” (Notebook, December 27, 1903; Collected Tales,
Volume II, 941, 946). Slight foxing to postcard. A near-fine
autograph item, handsomely framed. Rare.
“The Greatest Innovator In The History Of American Fiction”:
Faulkner’s The Sound And The Fury
106.
FAULKNER, William. The Sound and the Fury. New York, 1929. Octavo,
original half white cloth, dust jacket. $26,000.
First edition of Faulkner’s masterpiece, in rare unrestored first-state dust jacket.
Faulkner’s intricate masterwork began its life as an innocuous short story “about a
girl and her brothers,” gradually growing into “this radically different work, this
immense leap in technique that would contribute to one critic’s calling him ‘the
greatest innovator in the history of American fiction” (Blotner, 212). “The book
suggests Joyce in its technique and the Russians— perhaps Dostoyevsky— in its
theme. Fundamentally it owes little to any individual or to any school: it stands alone
as a unique and startling conception” (from front flap). First-state dust jacket with
Humanity Uprooted priced at $3.00 on the rear panel. Petersen A6.2a. Book nearfine, with slight toning to extremities. Fragile price-clipped dust jacket extremely
good, with shallow chipping and fading spine, as often. A desirable and completely
unrestored copy of an exceptionally rare Faulkner title.
“Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to
man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.”
Contract For The Motion Picture Rights To The Sound And The
Fury, Twice Signed And Twice Initialed By William Faulkner
107. FAULKNER, William. Typed contract signed. Beverly Hills, California,
September 1, 1956. Nine pages, plus one page with Notaries’ signatures,
measuring 8-1/2 by 11 inches. Contract with two alterations, each initialed
by Faulkner. With a 3-page carbon Synopsis of Contract. $21,000.
Typed contract twice signed by Faulkner for the sale of the rights to film his
masterpiece The Sound and the Fury to Twentieth Century-Fox for $35,000.
Twice initialed by Faulkner near corrections.
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Faulkner’s great novel—many would call it one of the most important
American novels of the 20th century—was first published by Jonathan Cape
and Harrison Smith in 1929. Radically experimental in form, with four
different narrators (including the conscious stream of a castrated idiot), each
recounting an aspect of the tragic demise of the Compson family, and
touching on the untouchable (to Hollywood) themes of race, incest, madness,
and suicide, The Sound and the Fury is quite possibly the least filmable of
any great American novels. Nevertheless, 27 years after the book’s
publication, Hollywood was clearly interested, and in this document Faulkner agreed to
sell the movie rights to Twentieth Century-Fox for $35,000, to be paid out over several
years. In 1959, Fox’s movie The Sound and the Fury—which can only be called a loose
adaptation of Faulkner’s novel—was released, starring Joanne Woodward as Quentin
Compson and Yul Brynner as Jason. Holes punched in the left margin; laid into studio’s
printed brown paper wrappers. Fine condition.
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thomas wolfe
“With Friendship, From Her Friend, Tom Wolfe”:
Presentation First Edition Of Look Homeward, Angel, Inscribed By Wolfe
108.
box. WOLFE, Thomas. Look Homeward, Angel. New York, 1929. Octavo, original navy cloth, dust jacket, custom clamshell
$16,500.
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First edition, first issue, of Wolfe’s first and most important novel, presentation copy inscribed by him to poet Helen Trafford
Moore, a longtime family friend: “For Helen T. Moore—with friendship, from her friend, Tom Wolfe, Aug 31, 1937,” in rarely
found first-state dust jacket.
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Which of us has known his brother?
Which of us has looked into his
father's heart? Which of us has not
remained forever prison-pent?
Which of us is not forever a
stranger and alone?
“Here is a novel of the sort one is too seldom privileged to welcome.
It is a book of great drive and vigor, of profound originality, of rich
and variant color… Wolfe has a great gift—the ability to find in
simple events and in humble, unpromising lives the whole meaning
and poetry of human existence” (NYT Book Review, October 27,
1929). Rare first-state dust jacket, with photograph of Wolfe on rear
panel. Only 3500 copies of the first printing were issued with the
first state dust jacket. Recipient Helen Trafford Moore was a
published poet, “an old friend of the Wolfe family in Asheville,” and
a correspondent of Wolfe’s (Nowell, 421-22). Occasional lightly
penciled marginalia. Text fine, inner paper hinges expertly
reinforced; light edge-wear to colorful dust jacket. A very scarce
near-fine inscribed presentation copy.
john steinbeck
“I’ll Be Ever’where— Wherever You Look. Wherever They’s A Fight So Hungry People Can Eat,
I’ll Be There”: Stunning First Edition Of The Grapes Of Wrath
109.
STEINBECK, John. The Grapes of Wrath. New York, 1939. Octavo, original pictorial beige cloth, dust jacket, custom
clamshell box.
$17,000.
First edition, first issue, advance review copy of Steinbeck’s most important novel, winner of the 1939 Pulitzer Prize, with
laid-in publisher’s advance review copy card inkstamped, “Apr 14 1939,” and promotional folding pamphlet, “What America
Thinks of The Grapes of Wrath.”
“There ain’t no sin and
There’s just stuff people
do... up ahead they’s a
it’ll on’y be one.”
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there ain’t no virtue.
“It is a long novel, the longest that Steinbeck has written, and yet it reads as if it
had been composed in a flash, ripped off the typewriter and delivered to the public
as an ultimatum… Steinbeck has written a novel from the depths of his heart with
a sincerity seldom equaled” (Peter Monro Jack). “The Grapes of Wrath is the kind
of art that’s poured out of a crucible in which are mingled pity and indignation… Its
power and importance do not lie in its political insight but in its intense humanity…
[It] is the American novel of the season, probably the year, possibly the decade”
(Clifton Fadiman). Advance Review Copy with laid-in publisher’s review copy card
inkstamped “Apr 14 1939.” Goldstone & Payne A12a. Salinas Public Library, 29.
Bruccoli & Clark I:354. Containing laid-in folding promotional pamphlet titled
“What America Thinks of The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck,” with excerpts
from over 30 reviews. Clamshell box with gilt morocco bookplate. Tiny bit of tape
reinforcement to verso of bright dust jacket. A beautiful copy in fine condition.
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pearl s . buck
Warmly Inscribed By Pearl Buck: First Edition By The First American Woman To Win The Nobel Prize
110.
BUCK, Pearl S. The Good Earth. New York, 1931. Octavo, original gilt-stamped brown cloth, dust jacket. $42,000.
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First edition, first issue, of Buck’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about a Chinese farmer’s sorrows and joys during the reign of the
country’s last emperor, in rare original dust jacket, warmly inscribed: “For Judy, every good wish, Pearl S. Buck.” An exceptional
copy in lovely unrestored dust jacket.
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Her greatest novel, The Good Earth “immediately became an international bestseller,
won the Pulitzer Prize in 1921, and made Pearl Buck’s name a household word” (ANB).
She went on to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1938—”the first American woman
selected for Nobel recognition in any field. The award confounded early critical predictions of would-be publishers and literary agents, who warned that Western readers
would take no interest in her fictional accounts of the ancient lands and peoples of Asia.
Today her work is internationally acclaimed, and she remains one of America’s most
widely translated authors” (Pribic, 66). First edition, first issue, second state, with top
edge brown and copyright page reading “John Day Company” as opposed to “John Day
Publishing Company.” This change was made late in the first printing; therefore, the
second state is scarcer than the first. With “flees” for “fleas” on page 100, an error
present into at least the third printing. Book very nearly fine with fine interior, very minor
inoffensive crease to endpaper and half title, cloth lightly rubbed. Rare original and unrestored dust jacket about-fine with minute rubbing to spine edges, small closed tear to
lower left corner and minor faint discoloration to lower right corner of front panel. A most
desirable and exceptional copy, in the elusive original dust jacket and inscribed by Buck.
It was Wang Lung's
marriage day. At first,
opening his eyes in the
blackness of the curtains
about his bed, he could
not think why the dawn
seemed different from
any other.
“After All, He Said To Himself,
It Is Probably Only Insomnia. Many Must Have It”
111. HEMINGWAY, Ernest. Winner Take Nothing. New York, 1933.
Octavo, original black cloth, dust jacket. $4800.
First edition of arguably Hemingway’s finest collection of short stories,
in original dust jacket.
This distinguished collection of 14 Hemingway stories—six of which
make their first appearance here (although the dust jacket claims 9)—
includes “A Natural History of the Dead” and “After the Storm”—”more
imaginative than anything Hemingway has hitherto written” (New York
Times). Of particular importance is “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place,” the
brilliant short story that secured Hemingway’s reputation as “the modern
American master of the [form]… [The] epigraph to Winner Take
Nothing… is perhaps the finest and most accurate brief description of
Hemingway’s heroes, of what he set out to do in his best work and what
in the main he accomplished” (McCormick, 55-6). Book fine, slight
edge-wear to bright near-fine dust jacket.
“A Brilliant And Mythic Baseball Fantasy”:
First Edition Of Malamud’s First Novel, The Natural
112.
MALAMUD, Bernard. The Natural. New York, 1952. Octavo,
original gray paper boards, dust jacket. $6000.
First edition of Malamud’s first novel.
“We have two lives... the life we learn with
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“A brilliant and mythic baseball fantasy” (American Fiction, 193), The
Natural simultaneously “parodies both the pretensions of those who see
baseball as a metaphor for heroism and the idea of the existence of the
‘great American novel’” (Stringer, 427). Adapted to the screen in 1984
starring Robert Redford, Glenn Close and Robert Duvall. Issued in red,
gray (this copy) or blue boards, no priority established. Evidence of
bookseller’s sticker removal to rear flap of jacket. Cloth with most minor
wear, dust jacket lightly rubbed and soiled. Near-fine condition.
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james joyce
“Passages Of Unearthly Beauty”: Signed Limited First Edition Of Finnegans Wake
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JOYCE, James. Finnegans Wake. London and New York, 1939. Large octavo, original red cloth. $21,000.
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Signed limited first edition, American issue, of Joyce’s “inscription on the walls of eternity,” one of only 310 large-paper copies
for America (of a total edition of 435 copies) signed by Joyce.
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Finnegans Wake stands as “Joyce’s last and most innovative prose work, written in a revolutionary narrative style that approximates
the protean nocturnal dream world… [that gave] Joyce the freedom he needed to weave together archetypal and historical themes
that embrace, among other things, the creation, the fall and the resurrection of humanity” (Fargnoli & Gillespie, 74). Joyce began
writing Finnegans Wake in 1922, the same year Ulysses saw publication. Compared to that book, Finnegans Wake “took longer to
write… was conceived and executed under a greater range of symbolic and mythic guidelines, was dictated to more famous
amanuenses, among them Samuel Beckett, was used as a weapon of revenge by Joyce, who mocked in it the people who had
offended him… in short, it was the inscription on the walls of eternity of James Joyce’s feelings, his prejudices and his obsessions”
(Arnold, 55). “Joyce insisted that each word, each sentence had several meanings and that the ‘ideal lecteur’ should devote his
lifetime to it, like the Koran” (Connolly, The Modern Movement, 81). Published simultaneously with the first trade edition and the
signed limited first edition, British issue; the Viking Press “brought out and sold [this] limited edition of 310 copies [although the
limitation page states only 300], the sheets of which were imported from the English publisher Faber & Faber. [The Viking] limited
edition is identical with that of the British publisher and bears both imprints.” Without scarce original slipcase. Slocum & Cahoon
49. Light toning to spine. A near-fine copy.
james joyce /
henri matisse
Signed By Both Joyce And Matisse:
The First Illustrated Edition
Of Ulysses
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JOYCE, James (MATISSE, Henri,
illustrator). Ulysses. With an Introduction by
Stuart Gilbert and Illustrations by Henri
Matisse. New York, 1935. Large quarto,
original gilt-stamped brown cloth, custom
chemise and slipcase. $35,000.
First illustrated edition of Joyce’s landmark
Ulysses, one of only 250 copies (from a total edition of 1500) signed by both James
Joyce and Henri Matisse. One of the 20thcentury’s most desirable illustrated books,
combining the work of two great modern
artists. A fine copy.
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One of the most arresting and intriguing collaborations in 20th-century literature. “It was a great idea to bring them together; celebrities of the same generation,
of similar virtuosity” (Wheeler, 15). The 26 beautiful full-page illustrations by Matisse accompany the text of Joyce’s
Ulysses, including six soft-ground etchings with reproductions of the sketches on blue and yellow paper. “One of
the very few American livres de peintres issued before World War II. According to George Macy [this work’s designer], who undertook this only American publication of Matisse’s illustrations, he asked the artist how many
etchings the latter could provide for $5000. The artist chose to take six subjects from Homer’s Odyssey. The preparatory drawings reproduced with the soft-ground etchings
(Matisse’s only use of this medium) record the evolution of
the figures from vigorous sketches to closely knit compositions” (Artist and the Book 197). This copy is number 160 of
1500 copies, one of only 250 signed by both author and illustrator. Without original cardboard slipcase. Bookseller label
of renowned mid-20th-century New York rare bookseller
Philip C. Duschnes on rear pastedown. Fine condition. Most
scarce and desirable signed by both Joyce and Matisse.
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harper lee
First Edition Of One Of The Rarest Of American Classics, Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird
115. LEE, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird. Philadelphia and New York, 1960. Octavo, original half green cloth, dust jacket. “Mockingbirds don’t do one thing
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They don’t eat up people’s
gardens, don’t nest in corncribs,
they don’t do one thing but sing
their hearts out for us. That’s why
it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.”
$22,500.
First edition, first printing, of Harper Lee’s masterpiece, in rare first-issue
dust jacket.
Harper Lee’s portrayal of life in a small Alabama town captured the
essence of the South at one of its most trying times. To Kill a Mockingbird
became an immediate bestseller and won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize for
Fiction. It is “an authentic and nostalgic story which in rare fashion at once
puts together the tenderness and the tragedy of the South. They are the
inseparable ingredients of a region much reported but seldom so well
understood” (Jonathan Daniels). First printing, without listing of subsequent
impressions, in first-issue dust jacket with photo of Lee by Truman Capote
on back panel. Owner stamp. Book fine, with tiniest bump to top edge.
Rare unrestored dust jacket bright and near-fine, with only light wear with
extremities. A beautiful copy, most rare in this condition.
“A Roar Of Protest”:
First Edition Of One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest
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KESEY, Ken. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. New York,
1962. Octavo, original green cloth, dust jacket. $7000.
First edition of Kesey’s most “popular and enduring” work.
“Ken Kesey’s first novel remains his most popular and enduring…
Cuckoo’s Nest resonates with the classic theme of the individual rebelling against the controlling forces of society” (Books of the
Century, 98). On publication in 1962, “Time magazine called
Cuckoo’s Nest ‘a roar of protest against middlebrow society’s Rules
and the invisible Rulers who enforce them” (New York Times).
Adapted to the stage in 1963, with Kirk Douglas in the lead, the
novel was the basis for the highly successful 1975 film starring Jack
Nicholson. First issue, with “that fool Red Cross woman” on page 9,
lines 12-13, in first-issue dust jacket containing Kerouac’s endorsement on the front flap. Dust jacket with light expert restoration. Book
bright and about fine. A most desirable copy.
“Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.”
“The Fully Unleashed Heinlein”: Fine First Edition Of
His Controversial Classic, Starship Troopers
117.
HEINLEIN, Robert. Starship Troopers. New York, 1959.
Octavo, original dark blue cloth, dust jacket. $6000.
First edition, first issue, of Heinlein’s ingenious Hugo Award-winning
novel.
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“Originally written as a juvenile but rejected by Scribner’s because of
its violence, Starship Troopers is the first title in which Heinlein
expressed his opinions with unfettered vigor. A tale of interstellar war,
it won a 1960 Hugo Award but also gained Heinlein the reputation of
being a militarist, even a ‘fascist… This [novel], for good and for ill,
was the fully unleashed Heinlein” (Clute & Nicholls, 555). First edition,
first issue with “anywhen” on dedication page, in first issue dust
jacket, with $3.95 price and no mention of the Hugo Award. Currey,
193. Very lightest foxing to about-fine book; slight edge-wear, trace of
tape residue to spine ends of bright dust jacket. A near-fine copy.
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h . g . wells
“To Dear Old Griggalorums”: In The Days Of The Comet,
Affectionately Inscribed By H.G. Wells To His Very Close Friend And Scientific Advisor Richard Gregory
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WELLS, H.G. In the Days of the Comet. London, 1906. Octavo, original green cloth gilt, custom clamshell box. $17,500.
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First edition, second issue (as always), first state, presentation copy humorously inscribed by H.G. Wells to Richard Gregory, his
close friend and scientific advisor: “To dear old Griggalorums. From H.G.”
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Wells was a devoted member of the Fabian society and a utopian socialist; his novels often explore potential utopias and dystopias
of the future, and how they may be brought about. In the present work, “the wondrous change in human personality is brought about
by the gases in a comet’s tail, through which the Earth is fortunate enough to pass,” a concept that has been adopted by numerous
utopian societies in the years since this novel’s publication (Clute & Nicholls, 1314). Second issue, as usual (only one copy of the
first issue is known: the British Library copy), first state, with integral title page. Without scarce original dust jacket. Currey, 419.
Hammond B10. Inscribed to noted British scientist and Wells’ lifelong friend Sir Richard Arman Gregory. In Wells’ first work of fiction,
he dedicated the work to Gregory as his “dearest friend.” A professor of astronomy, Gregory also possessed expertise in physics,
chemistry and other disciplines; he wrote several textbooks and eventually assumed the editorship of the journal Nature, to which
Wells frequently contributed. The author often turned to Gregory, and to the experts Gregory contacted on Wells’ behalf, for insight
and encouragement when writing his famous “scientific romances.” Interior fine, only very minor wear to cloth extremities, gilt bright.
A nearly fine copy with a great association.
stephen king
“The Man In Black Fled Across The Desert, And The Gunslinger Followed”:
Complete Signed Limited First Edition Set Of Stephen King’s Epic, The Dark Tower, 1982-2004,
With Signed Limited Edition Of The Little Sisters Of Eluria
119.
KING, Stephen. The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger; The Drawing of the Three; The Waste Lands; Wizard and Glass; Wolves
of the Calla; Song of Susanna; The Dark Tower. WITH: The Little Sisters of Eluria. West Kingston, Rhode Island and Hampton Falls,
New Hampshire, 1982-2008. Together, eleven volumes. Octavo, original cloth, dust jackets, slipcases. $25,000.
Signed limited first editions, issued simultaneously with the first trade editions, of all seven titles in Stephen King’s masterful Dark
Tower series, as well as the signed limited deluxe first edition of the companion volume The Little Sisters of Eluria, each book with
full-page color illustrations and each signed by King and the illustrator.
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“The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.” With those words—
inspired by Robert Browning’s Childe Roland and Sergio Leone’s film, The Good, the Bad, and
the Ugly—King struck the initial notes of a saga 34 years in the completion. “Many of my
fictions,” King reflected, “refer back to Roland’s world and Roland’s story… My idea was to use
the Dark Tower stories as a kind of summation, a way of unifying as many of my previous
stories as possible.” “Each of the novels is a mélange of motifs and ideas borrowed from horror,
fantasy, Western and science fiction… King’s narrative strategy and plot mechanics for the
individual installments of the series show a wide variety of influences, ranging from L. Frank
Baum’s Oz novels to Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales” (Fantasy and Horror 6-194). Limitations
range in size from 500 to 1500. This set also includes The Little Sisters of Eluria, King’s revised
and expanded version of The Gunslinger, published in both a signed limited Artist’s Edition of
4000 copies signed by illustrator Whelan and a smaller signed limited Deluxe Edition, from
which the present copy hails, of 1250 copies. An extraordinary achievement, splendidly
illustrated and in fine condition, signed eight times by Stephen King.
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“The Greatest Achievement In Spanish Literature
Since Don Quixote” (Neruda)
120. GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ, Gabriel. One Hundred Years of Solitude. New
York, 1970. Octavo, original green cloth, dust jacket. $5000.
First edition in English of “one of the preeminent literary achievements of
the century.”
“One of the best-known and highly esteemed works of Latin American
magic realism, One Hundred Years of Solitude… allegorizes cosmic
questions and literary concerns while remaining an absorbing story”
(Barron, Fantasy and Horror 7-130). García Márquez’s wife Mercedes “had
to pawn her hair dryer and their electric heater to pay for the postage to mail
the finished manuscript—in two separate lots, because they couldn’t afford
to mail the whole thing all at once—to his Argentine publisher, who printed
8000 copies. They sold out in a week… Although the Boom in LatinAmerican fiction was well under way, the popular response to One Hundred
Years of Solitude was almost unimaginable… It is the most famous
manifestation of the Boom, and García Márquez is the most celebrated of
the prominent Boom writers” (Jon Lee Anderson). Pablo Neruda proclaimed
it “the greatest achievement in Spanish literature since Don Quixote” (Klein,
26). In first-issue dust jacket with exclamation point on front flap. Originally published in 1967 in Spanish. Book with minor discolored
spot to front board, light soiling to top of text block. Dust jacket flaps slightly toned. An attractive copy in very nearly fine condition.
“Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was
to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.”
“A Magnificent Classic”: Ellison’s Invisible Man
121.
ELLISON, Ralph. Invisible Man. New York, 1952. Octavo, original
black and gray cloth, dust jacket. $4500.
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First edition of Ralph Ellison’s great American novel, the only novel
published in his lifetime.
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Winner of the 1952 National Book Award, Ellison’s matchless first novel is
“one of the most important works of the 20th century” (New York Times). A
work in which Ellison’s “visionary genius achieved a perfection” (Harold
Bloom, Genius), Invisible Man is a “magnificent classic… [which] soon
became a vital and permanent contribution to American literature” (Blockson
86). Previous owner’s inkstamp to front pastedown. Book fine, bright dust
jacket very nearly so with light edge-wear. A beautiful copy in about-fine
condition.
First Edition Of Grisham’s First Novel, Signed By Him
122. GRISHAM, John. A Time to Kill. New York, 1989. Octavo, original
half plum cloth, dust jacket. $4200.
Scarce first edition of Grisham’s first novel, one of only 5000 copies,
signed by the author.
“Grisham’s first novel is his favorite” (Pringle, 25). This small edition of
only 5000 copies preceded the 1993 Doubleday edition, which was issued after the success of The Firm and
The Pelican Brief. It was made into a
movie in 1996 starring Matthew
McConaughey and Samuel L. Jackson.
Book fine, bright dust jacket with crease
to top panel, one short closed tear near
foot of spine. A nearly fine copy.
“I Caught This Morning Morning’s Minion”:
Rare First Edition Of Hopkins’ Poems, An Exceptional Copy,
In Original Glassine
123. HOPKINS, Gerard Manley. Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins, Now
First Published. London, 1918. Small octavo, original half raw linen,
glassine, custom chemise and slipcase.
$6800.
Rare first edition, one of only 750 copies, containing the first appearances
of many of Hopkins’ poems, with two photogravure portraits and two
double-page facsimiles, in scarce original glassine.
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Written in the 1870s and 1880s, “these extraordinary poems… took time
to circulate and influenced the poets of the ‘thirties… Hopkins’s poetry
with its religious faith, his experiments in versification, his ‘dark night of the
soul’ would have reduced all his Victorian contemporaries to immediate
insignificance—like Rimbaud’s in France—had they but known of him”
(Connolly, Modern Movement, 33). Hopkins, widely considered the first
modern poet, remained largely unappreciated in his lifetime. After
converting to Catholicism from the Church of England, he entered the
Jesuit order and resolved “to write no more.” Seven years later, when a
shipwreck claimed the lives of five Franciscan nuns, Hopkins’ rector
requested a poem in their honor. “The Wreck of the Deutschland” reversed
Hopkins’ self-imposed silence. Other equally startling poems followed. After Hopkins’ death in 1889, his friend, the Poet Laureate
Robert Bridges, began to publish a few of the poems individually, and in 1918, edited and published this first collected edition. Without
very scarce dust jacket. A fine copy in glassine with minor chipping to edges, glassine spine with pinprick holes and tape restoration
to ends. Exceptional in this condition.
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C hildren’s L iterature
c . s . lewis
“The Most Sustained Achievement In Fantasy For Children By A 20th-Century Author”:
Scarce Complete First Edition Set Of C.S. Lewis’ Chronicles Of Narnia
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LEWIS, C.S. Chronicles of Narnia. London, 1950-56. Together, seven volumes. Octavo, original colored cloth,
dust jackets.
$39,000.
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First editions of all seven books in Lewis’ cherished Chronicles of Narnia, “intoxicating to all but the most relentlessly
unimaginative of readers,” all in original dust jackets. Generally excellent condition.
Lewis is likely best remembered for his beloved fantasy series, the Chronicles of Narnia. Lewis was “concerned to do for
children what he had done for an adult readership in his science fiction… to re-imagine the Christian story in an exciting
narrative context… [The Narnia books are] intoxicating to all but the most relentlessly unimaginative of readers” (Carpenter
& Pritchard, 370). “The stories are unforgettable not only for the excitement and suspense of the adventures but also for
the strong emotions they describe so well… [and they are] further enriched by Lewis’ skillful use of language” (Silvey,
406). “Adored by children and academics alike, these books are extremely collectible, sought-after and scarce” (Connolly,
186). Owner signatures, gift inscriptions. Booksellers’ small tickets in Dawn Treader and Horse. Small inkstamp to rear
pastedown of Last Battle. Books near-fine to fine, a few books with light toning to spines and extreme edges of boards.
Dust jackets extremely good to fine, minor restoration to Caspian and Silver Chair dust jackets. Complete first edition sets
of the Narnia books are increasingly scarce and most desirable.
antoine de saint- e xupery
“On Ne Voit Bien Qu’avec Le Coeur”:
Signed Limited First Edition Of Saint-Exupery’s Le Petit Prince, One Of Only 260 Copies
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SAINT-EXUPERY, Antoine de. Le Petit Prince. New York, 1943. Small quarto, original salmon cloth, dust jacket, custom
clamshell box. $23,000.
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“[The name of] Antoine de Saint-Exupery… endures… because of a rather strange little book he wrote just before he died… Figuratively
speaking, the tale has something of Hans Christian Andersen in it, something of Lewis Carroll, and even, it may perhaps be said, a bit
of John Bunyan. It is often lyrical… sometimes profound… However it is classified, The Little Prince has entered children’s literature,
in the manner of quite a few other such hard-to-define works in the preceding centuries” (Pierpont Morgan, 224). Because SaintExupery disappeared in a reconnaissance flight over the Mediterranean in 1944, signed copies of The Little Prince, his most famous
work and the last published during his lifetime, are very desirable. This signed limited first edition in French is even scarcer than the
simultaneously published signed limited first edition in English, of which only
525 copies were printed. In original corresponding dust jacket, with number
written at base of spine foot. Pearlman, 27. Previous owner’s inkstamp to
page [5]. Book with light soiling to lower portion of spine. Price-clipped dust
jacket with usual light toning to spine and panels, minor rubbing, small stain
and abrasion to spine foot affecting last three letters of publisher’s imprint. A
lovely and near-fine, very desirable and rare signed copy of one of the most
famous children’s books of the 20th century.
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masterpiece, one of only 260 copies signed by him on the tipped-in limitation page, in the original corresponding dust jacket.
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“All You Have Heard About Old Narnia Is True”
126.
LEWIS, C.S. Prince Caspian. London, 1951. Octavo, original blue
cloth, dust jacket, custom clamshell box. $6000.
First edition of the second book in Lewis’ beloved Chronicles of Narnia,
with numerous illustrations by Pauline Baynes, including a color frontispiece.
Lewis’ cherished Chronicles of Narnia “must be judged the most sustained
achievement in fantasy for children by a 20th-century author” (Carpenter
& Prichard, 370). In this, the series’ second volume, the Pevensie siblings
help Narnia’s rightful ruler reclaim his throne. The Narnia tales rank
“among the great classics of the [20th] century. Book with cloth and gilt
fine, only light scattered foxing to edges. Original dust jacket fresh and very
nearly fine with only minute edgewear. An about-fine copy.
“When I am grown to man’s estate
I shall be very proud and great,
And tell the other girls and boys
Not to meddle with my toys.”
“The Whole Contour Of The Child’s Hidden World”
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STEVENSON, Robert Louis. A Child’s Garden of Verses. London,
1885. 12mo, original gilt-stamped blue cloth, custom slipcase. $5000.
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First edition of Stevenson’s delightful and influential book of children’s
verse, “the first sizable group of poems to… capture a child’s quality of
imagination, sense of wonder and intense enjoyment of experience.”
“The power of this collection of simple verses lies in the fact that it… shows
that life which a child lives within himself, and takes so completely for
granted that he seldom speaks of it, usually because he cannot… Stevenson
has here recaptured not only a part, but the whole of that hidden life, and
has set those recollections forth in just the terms that children would use,
could they put them into words at all… They were the first sizable group of
poems to… capture a child’s quality of imagination, sense of wonder, and
intense enjoyment of experience” (Meigs, 293-4, 408). Bookseller’s small
ticket. Endpapers lightly toned, cloth with only very light rubbing to spine
ends and extremities. A lovely copy in near-fine condition.
Extraordinarily Rare Inscribed First Edition Of
A Tree Grows In Brooklyn
128.
SMITH, Betty. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. New York, (1943).
Octavo, original green cloth, dust jacket. $12,000.
First edition of Betty Smith’s scarce first novel, inscribed: “To Bill with
love, Betty Smith, June 1960, Chapel Hill, N. Car.”
Betty Smith credited Thomas Wolfe’s 1935 novel Of Time and
the River with releasing her childhood memories of tenement
life in turn-of-the-century Brooklyn. Her first novel, A Tree
Grows in Brooklyn, was published in 1943. “At the time of
Smith’s death, six million copies had been produced in 37
printings, and it had been translated into 16 languages. The
novel itself is beautifully written and unpretentious, a powerful
evocation of a time and place” (DAB). Owner signature. Interior
fine, light rubbing to cloth extremities, fading to spine, mild
wear, shallow chipping to extremities of bright dust jacket. An
extremely good copy, scarce inscribed.
“Let me be something every minute of every hour of my life... And when I sleep,
let me dream all the time so that not one little piece of living is ever lost.”
“One Of The Most Endearing Books
Ever Written For Children”
129.
GRAHAME, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows. London, 1908.
Octavo, original gilt-stamped pictorial green cloth recased, custom
clamshell box. $7500.
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“Unquestionable is the permanence, as an inspired and characteristically
English contribution to children’s literature, of Kenneth Grahame’s The
Wind in the Willows… one of the most endearing books ever written for
children… Part of the secret success of the book is that its appeal is
ageless and parents never tire of reading it aloud. Like all great books it is
inexhaustible” (Eyre, 62). Grahame created his classic as a series of
bedtime stories for his four-year-old son Alastair, who was known as
Mouse; yet it also became “in many respects an elegy for the old idyllic
English rural life which Grahame could now see was passing away forever”
(Carpenter & Prichard, 218). Without extremely rare original dust jacket.
Pierpont Morgan Children’s Literature 269. Early owner gift inscription.
New front free endpaper, interior generally quite clean, coloring to cloth,
minor spotting to rear board, gilt bright. An extremely good copy.
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The Age of Elizabeth
E
lizabeth’s long and extraordinary reign, from 1558 to
1603, represented the apex of art, literature, exploration,
and intellectual genius in English history. After the incomparable Shakespeare, perhaps no man epitomizes this era more fully
than Sir Walter Raleigh, courtier, sailor and explorer, writer and
poet, perhaps the last man who could set out to write a History
of the World with a reasonable expectation of including all that
was known at the time. Though he did not live to finish the work,
it lives on today as one of the great feats of English literature.
“Among The Best Historical Productions Composed By An Englishman” (Hume)
130. CAMDEN, William. The Historie of the Life and Reigne of the most Renowned and
Victorious Princesse Elizabeth, Late Queene of England. London, 1630. Small folio,
contemporary full polished dark brown calf gilt. $6800
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First complete edition in English of Camden’s important history of Elizabeth I, “among the
best historical productions which have yet been composed by an Englishman” (Hume), with
fine engraved frontispiece portrait of the Queen.
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This “most exquisite history” (Lowndes, 358) by the greatest Renaissance historian granted
William Camden full “claim to be considered as the founder, not merely of antiquarian studies,
but also of the study of
modern history” (PMM
101). In his History of
England, Hume notes
that this work “is written with simplicity of
expression, very rare in
that age, and with a
regard to truth. It would
not, perhaps, be too much to affirm that it is among the best
historical productions which have yet been composed by any
Englishman.” Although the first part of his work was published
in Latin in 1615, the final part did not appear until 1625 due to
Camden’s request for posthumous publication. The English
translation of the first part appeared in 1625 and of the second
part in 1629. This 1630 edition is the first complete edition in
English of the entire work. Second issue, with title page cancel.
Bookplate. Interior generally fine, closed tears to leaves 3B1
and 3H4, affecting lettering but not sense of text, light expert
restoration to attractive contemporary speckled calf binding.
“All The Glories Of The Reign Of Elizabeth I”
131.
RALEIGH, Walter. The History of the World. London, 1628. Thick folio, contemporary full speckled brown calf. $4600.
Early edition of Raleigh’s important and influential history,
with splendid engraved allegorical frontispiece and eight double-page engraved maps and plans, handsomely bound.
James I imprisoned Raleigh in the Tower between 1603 and
1616, during which time Raleigh wrote his great last work. He
completed only the first volume, which began with the Creation
and ended at 130 B.C. “The success of Raleigh’s History… can
perhaps be explained by the very fact that it is not a work of
history in the academic sense but a political tract of immediate
applicability… [Raleigh] embodied all the glories of the reign of
Elizabeth I… the History provided an arsenal of political
ammunition to the Englishmen who overthrew the absolutism of
the Stewarts at home and laid the foundations of New England
beyond the seas… Sir Walter Raleigh can be taken as the
epitome of the Elizabethan idea of courtier and politician, sailor
and explorer, writer and poet” (PMM 117). The first edition saw
print in 1614. Old owner signature to engraved title page.
Occasional old underlining and marginalia. Armorial bookplate.
Both boards with small, blind-tooled monogram. Text and maps
generally clean and fresh with a few minor tears, contemporary
binding very handsome with only light age-wear. A handsome
volume in near-fine condition.
“Of Cardinal Importance For Its Influence On
The English Language, Literature And Thought”
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First published in 1560, the Geneva Bible was “achieved immediate
popularity and exerted an extremely powerful influence… It has
been more properly called the Elizabethan family Bible, since it was
this version which was the first to enter the English home” (PMM
83). “It became the textus receptus for the Puritan element in
England. It was read by Shakespeare, Bunyan and the soldiers of
the Civil War” (Great Books and Book Collectors, 105-8). Engraved
bookplate. Minor marginal reinforcement to general title page,
repaired closed tear to Nn4. Headlines of Apocrypha trimmed, just touching first line of text on one leaf (i7), a few trivial spots and
stains, three-inch split to leather on front cover, both covers show some surface wear. Still an unusually good, complete, and generously
margined copy in a nicely restored contemporary blind-tooled binding.
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likely printed later, in Amsterdam) of the Geneva Bible—popularly
known as the “Breeches Bible” and arguably the most significant
Protestant translation of Scripture prior to the King James—with
four woodcut maps and 26 in-text woodcut illustrations.
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132. BIBLE. The Bible, that is, the holy Scriptures. London,
1599. Octavo, contemporary full blind-tooled paneled brown calf
neatly rebacked. $4500.
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One Of The Great Achievements Of 16th-Century Scholarship:
Camden’s Britannia, 1695, With 50 Maps, Nearly All Double-Page
133. CAMDEN, William. Britannia, Newly Translated into English: with Large Additions and Improvements. London, 1695. Folio,
modern three-quarter calf gilt. $9500.
First edition of Edmund Gibson’s translation of the first comprehensive topographical, geographical and historical study of Great
Britain, with frontispiece portrait, 50 maps (most double-page) and numerous in-text illustrations.
As Elizabeth’s reign drew to an end, there was a concerted effort to document the achievements of her age, as well as the English
experience in general. “Britannia can be seen as an attempt to depict the English landscape, monumentalize its topography, and to
show how the events of national history are inscribed onto this landscape in painstaking, town-by-town detail” (Dana F. Sutton). In
1582, Camden traveled throughout England, gathering bits of folklore and teaching himself Welsh and Anglo-Saxon in order to study
ancient accounts of Great Britain. He collected a wealth of information on its languages, the origins of names and surnames, puzzles,
money, arms, costume, and poetry, and hundreds of anagrams, proverbs, epigrams, epitaphs, “wise speeches,” and other intriguing
tidbits of history. First published in Latin in 1588; the first editions in English were published in 1610 and 1637. Minor archival repairs
to title page and first leaf of preface, a few other minor marginal repairs, small nicks to upper corner pages 430-39, text and plates
generally quite clean, calf-gilt binding fine and quite handsome. An excellent copy.
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chaucer
“Foremost Among Writers In The English Language”:
Important First Speght Edition Of Chaucer, 1598
134. CHAUCER. The Workes of our Antient and Learned English Poet, Geffrey Chaucer. London, 1598. Folio, contemporary full
blind-stamped brown calf sympathetically rebacked with original spine laid down. $19,000.
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The immortal opening lines of his Prologue to the Canterbury Tales have
few equals in all of literature. This edition of Chaucer’s Workes, published at
the height of the Elizabethan era, was an important influence on many of
the day’s great writers. With double-column gothic type text, scarce copperengraved frontispiece portrait of Chaucer after Hoccleve: “the first engraved
portrait of Chaucer” (Grolier, 43). The tales preceded by the full-page
woodcut of Chaucer’s arms, and woodcut-engraving of “The Knight.” With
—Sir Walter Raleigh
elaborate woodcut title border, intricate woodcut border repeated on divisional title-pages to The Canterbury Tales (showing the houses of York and
Lancaster), The Romaunt of the Rose and The Story of Thebes. Second
issue of this edition, according to STC. First four leaves of Romaunt of the Rose (116-119) bound in inverted sequence without loss of
text. With errata leaf, initial and final blanks: half of initial blank excised. Early owner inscription. Owner signatures to general title page,
terminal blank leaf, rear free endpaper. Interior fresh with a bit of faint occasional marginal dampstaining, title page, dedication leaf and
a few text leaves with small marginal tears. An exceptional copy in nearly fine condition in contemporary calf.
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“It is difficult to pass over the name
of Chaucer without marking the
high pitch of perfection to which
he brought the art of narration in
verse… He was a great narrative
artist, incomparably the greatest
of an age that loved story-telling.”
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and last of the 16th century, and the most recent Chaucer edition
available when Shakespeare was adapting Chaucer’s Troilus to his own
Troilus and Cressida (1601-2). Featuring the first inclusion of two works,
“Chaucer’s Dream” and “The Flower and the Leaf,” now considered
apocryphal, along with the engraved title page and the often-missing
first engraved portrait of Chaucer.
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The Rare First Edition Of Pope’s
Shakespeare, 1723-25, The First Quarto
Edition Of Shakespeare’s Works
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135. SHAKESPEARE, William. The Works of
Shakespear. London, 1723-25. Six volumes. Quarto,
modern three-quarter speckled calf gilt.
$16,500.
The rare and important first quarto edition of
Shakespeare’s works, edited by Alexander Pope, one of
only 750 sets printed, in beautiful period-style binding.
Pope was the first editor to apply a serious scholarly
approach to Shakespeare, using 27 early quartos as
the basis for this grammatical masterpiece. Restoring
sections that had been out of print for nearly a century,
he guides the reader, in elegant, clear typography, to
“the most shining passages” marked by marginal stars.
Such acute attention to detail and critical opinion make this edition an outstanding example of 18th-century Shakespearean research.
“The first edition in quarto and the earliest edited by Alexander Pope. It embraces Pope’s preface, the life by Rowe, an index of
characters, sentiments, speeches, and descriptions and a list of subscribers,” as well as Shakespeare’s comedies, tragedies and
histories. Without the supplementary seventh volume, rarely present, which was issued by another publisher in 1725 and including
Venus and Adonis, the poems and an essay on the history of drama. With one of two engraved portraits of Shakespeare (often missing), the general title page for the set (dated 1725 and printed in red and black), and the individual title pages in each volume (dated
1723). With handsome woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces. Library stamps on title pages, a few other leaves, and edges. Scattered
light foxing; occasional light marginal dampstaining in Volumes II, III and VI. A beautiful set.
P
ublishers have been issuing works by and about Julius Caesar almost
from the moment they began printing, a fascination that continued
unabated throughout the Renaissance. Military, political and literary
prowess combined with moral ambiguity to make him an irresistible topic,
a modern man from over two thousand ago.
“The Most Widely Studied Military Handbook In Literature”:
1565 First Complete Edition In English Of Caesar’s Commentaries
136. CAESAR, Gaius Julius. The eyght bookes of Caius Iulius Cæsar.
London, 1565. Small octavo, contemporary full dark brown calf
rebacked, custom clamshell box. $22,000.
First complete edition in English of Caesar’s Commentaries, a landmark
translation by Arthur Golding from the original Latin, including the first
translation into English of De Bello Gallico (The Gallic Wars), in
contemporary binding.
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Caesar’s only extant work apart from his history of the Roman Civil Wars
and a few letters, his Commentaries is “the most widely studied military
handbook in literature and a model of clear, straightforward composition”
(Hornstein, 81). “There are few better models of pure narrative than
Caesar. He concerns himself almost exclusively with action. Characters
and personalities are revealed by the kinds of action his people perform.
He rarely discusses his plans beforehand with the reader. The results
reveal the plans. The consequences award praise or blame” (Rexroth,
97). The eighth book of the Commentaries was written by Aulus Hirtius,
one of Caesar’s generals and one of the consuls appointed immediately
after Caesar’s assassination. In addition to this work, Golding is also
known as the translator of the influential English version of Ovid’s
Metamorphoses. “It is quite certain that Shakespeare was well acquainted
with his work” (DNB). “The first English translation of De Bello Gallico,
with the eighth book by Aulus Hirtius” (Pforzheimer). John Tiptoft’s 1530 edition of the Commentaries in English consisted only of a
series of excerpts, and while the title page claimed it to be from the original Latin, it was actually made from a French translation of
the original. Text printed in Gothic type. STC 4335. Occasional discreet underscores and marginal markings. Slightly darkened title
page mounted and rehinged, with upper corner renewed, just touching woodcut border, marginal tear to P3, not affecting text;
dampstain to last several leaves only, expert restoration to contemporary boards. A complete copy in handsome contemporary boards.
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“Still Considered A Treasure Of Erudition”: 1644
Illustrated Survey Of The Roman Caesars And Emperors
137.
TRISTAN DE SAINT-AMANT, Jean.
Commentaires Historiques, Contenans l’Histoire
Générale des Empereurs, Impératrices, Caesars et
Tyrans de l’Empire Romain. Paris, 1644. Three
volumes. Folio (10 by 14 inches), 18th-century full
red morocco gilt.
$5200.
First edition of this French history of the Roman
Emperors and Caesars, with engraved portrait of
the author, three engraved plates by Jean Picart
(two folding, one double-page), and hundreds of
Greek and Latin medallions, cameos and coins
engraved in the text. The copy of Baron Northwick,
with his engraved armorial bookplate.
Numismatist Tristan de Saint-Amant’s historical
survey of the rulers of the Roman Empire includes
chapters on Julius Caesar, Mark Antony, Cleopatra,
Nero, Marcus Aurelius, Vespasian, Trajan, Hadrian,
and many others. Text in French. Brunet V: 954. Two engraved armorial bookplates, one of John Rushout, the second Baron Northwick,
renowned art collector and connoisseur, friend of Edward Gibbon, Horatio Nelson, and Sir William Hamilton. Old owner signatures on
title pages, one dated 1645. Large folding plate opposite page 518 trimmed a little closely, just affecting border, with paper repair on
verso. A very beautiful folio set in fine 18th-century French morocco-gilt, with distinguished provenance.
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“A Resource For Those Debating And Disputing The Values Of Monarchical Or Imperial Power”:
1672 English Translation Of Suetonius, With Bookplate Of Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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138. SUETONIUS. The History of the Twelve Caesars, Emperors of Rome.
London, 1672. 12mo, contemporary full brown calf gilt rebacked. $5500.
First edition of this anonymous translation of Suetonius’ Lives, with 13
copperplate portraits, in contemporary calf boards, bearing the bookplate of
playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Suetonius was “the contemporary of Tacitus and the younger Pliny… To us he
is known as the biographer of the 12 Caesars (including Julius) down to
Domitian. The lives are valuable as covering a good deal of ground where we
are without the guidance of Tacitus. As Suetonius was the emperor Hadrian’s
private secretary, he must have had access to many important documents in
the Imperial archives” (Britannica). “Suetonius served as a resource for those
debating and disputing the values of monarchical or imperial power, its account
of Augustus’ exemplary regime counterbalanced by the scandalous histories of
Tiberius, Caligula and especially Nero” (Annabel Patterson, MLQ 2000:61(3),
463-64). Frontispiece copperplate portrait of Julius Caesar. Suetonius was first
translated into English in 1606 by Philemon Holland (Bruggemann, 703).
Armorial bookplate of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, playwright of The Rivals and
The School for Scandal. Old owner inscriptions. Scattered light foxing, top
corner of frontispiece clipped, not affecting image, text block closely cropped,
sometimes affecting headlines, contemporary calf boards expertly restored.
william shakespeare
“How Many Ages Hence Shall This Our
ofty Scene Be Acted Over”: Rare 1691
Second Quarto Edition Of Julius Caesar
139. SHAKESPEARE, William. Julius Caesar. A Tragedy.
London, 1691. Quarto, modern three-quarter burgundy morocco. $25,000.
Rare 1691 second quarto edition of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, with a brilliance fully realized in “the extraordinary lines of
Brutus, deep in thought, as he sets in motion one of the most consequential events in Western history. It’s one of Shakespeare’s
first great soliloquies,” handsomely bound.
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“Something extraordinary was beginning to happen as Shakespeare wrote Julius Caesar in the spring of 1599… as if all his energies
were self-consciously focused on a new and different kind of invention… The result was a significant breakthrough,” one richly
expressed in “the extraordinary lines of Brutus, deep in thought, as he sets in motion one of the most consequential events in
Western history. It’s one of Shakespeare’s first great soliloquies and conveys a sense of inwardness new to the stage: ‘Between the
acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma or a hideous dream’” (Shapiro, 134-5). Julius
Caesar is thought to have been first performed in 1599 and was first printed in the 1623 First Folio. The quarto editions were the
first separate printings of the play and are enormously desirable, as very few copies exist in private hands. Sixteen of Shakespeare’s
plays were first printed in quarto form (1594 to 1622)
before they were collected in the 1623 First Folio; of the
“Men at some time are masters of their fates:
20 plays that made their first appearance in the First
Folio, only three appeared in quarto form during the 17thThe fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
century: Taming of the Shrew, Macbeth, and Julius Caesar
(its six quarto editions being a clear indication of its
But in ourselves, that we are underlings.”
immense popularity). Four undated quarto editions were
formerly thought to have been printed shortly after 1684
and before this 1691 edition; it is now believed that they were probably printed between 1695 and 1700. The first and second 1691
quarto editions have “1691” printed on the title page. This, the earlier of those two editions, has a comma after “Herringman” in the
title page imprint statement, while the later 1691 edition does not. Wing S2922. Early ink bracket and ink stain. A few short closed
marginal tears to title page. Tiny hole to B2 affecting two words, upper margin slightly worn affecting just a few page numbers, mild
embrowning to text. An exceptional and most desirable copy. Rare.
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The Stuarts
T
he United Kingdom that the Stuarts ruled was plague-ridden and war-torn. Daily life was hard, filthy,
dangerous. Stuart rule offered no special protections. In a few short nights, the City of London burned to the
ground. Yet, the Stuarts were the first to unite the English and Scottish thrones and, in doing so, created a single
center of power. That power soon gave birth to natural resistance. Cromwell fought the monarchy and won for a
time; William and Mary offered a different form of revolution when they seized power back. The people suffered
under the Stuarts, but perhaps became aware of the forms their government could take—monarchy, republic, even
Catholic or Protestant. In those struggles were the first glimpses of the constitutional monarchy Britain would one
day become. And during this Restoration period, great literature emerged as Milton, Dryden, Locke, Behn, Donne,
and others explored form and style, reflecting this ever-changing world in their masterpieces.
First Folio Edition Of The Workes Of King
Charles, The Martyr, 1662, With Three
Double-Page Copper-Engraved Plates
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CHARLES I. Basilika: The Workes of King
Charles, The Martyr. London, 1662. Folio (9 by 14
inches), late 19th-century full gilt-paneled mottled
brown calf gilt.
$8800.
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First folio edition of the works of King Charles I—the
enormously popular (and vainly suppressed) testament to the executed monarch’s political principles
and spiritual devotion—the first edition directly approved by Charles II and the first royally sanctioned
printing of the Eikon Basilike, beautifully printed
with three magnificent double-page copper-engraved plates, engraved frontispiece and title page,
handsomely bound by Mansell.
In late 1647, with tensions between Charles I and
Parliament mounting, the king fled from Oliver
Cromwell and the army. In November, he escaped “to the Isle of Wight, where he seems to have expected that Colonel Hammond,
the governor of Carisbooke Castle, would protect him… Charles became a resident, and before long a prisoner” (DNB). The next year,
he was tried and executed. “The work is a masterpiece in its expression of Charles’ principles… and by making a martyr of this Stuart
king, [it] exercised a considerable influence on English history” (Kunitz & Haycraft, 212), helping prepare the way for the 1660
Restoration of Charles II. This collection features the first royally sanctioned printing of the Eikon Basilike. Directly approved by Charles
II and licensed exclusively to London printer Richard Royston, this majestic and wide-margined folio printing was seen as the finest
production of the late king’s writings. Wing C2075. Occasional light marginal soiling, double page plate between pages 412 and 413
with expert marginal repair, marginal repair to one leaf [2R4], not affecting text, binding lovingly restored.
the end of monarchy
“Usually And Naturally Any One Person In Such Power, Makes It His Interest To Incroach Upon
The Just Freedom And Liberty Of The People”: Very Large Framed 1649 Broadside Announcing
The Abolition Of The Monarchy And The Beheading Of King Charles I
141. (PARLIAMENT). Broadside: An Act for the Abolishing the Kingly Office in England, Ireland. London, March 19, 1648 [i.e.,
1649]. Broadside; handsomely matted and framed, entire piece measures 24-1/2 by 31-1/2 inches. $17,500.
Rare and desirable broadside printed shortly
after the execution of Charles I abolishing the
“Kingly Office” in England, since “to have the
power thereof in any single person, is unnecessary, burthensom and dangerous to the
liberty, safety and publique interest of the
people,” thereby doing away with the institution of monarchy and preventing any claimants to the throne.
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The Long Parliament summoned by King
Charles I in 1640 became a revolutionary body,
and was the center of resistance to the king
during the English Civil Wars (1642-1651). By
the end of 1648, Charles I was captured by the
army and turned over to the Parliament for further trial. Colonel Thomas Pride expelled all but
about 75 members of the Parliament in “Pride’s
Purge,” and the surviving group, known as the
Rump Parliament (1648-53), brought Charles I
to trial. He was found guilty of “many treasons,
murthers, and other hainous offences,” sentenced to death, and beheaded. On January
30, 1649, the day when Charles I was executed,
the Commons passed “An Act prohibiting the
Proclaiming any Person to be King of England
or Ireland, or the Dominions thereof,” thus terminating the line of Stuart monarchs in England
and Ireland. This was soon followed by the
present Act, in effect the Parliament’s next step
toward installing a new political structure for
England. “That the Office of a King in this nation, shall not henceforth reside in, or be exercised by any one single person…” Wing E1086.
Some evidence of folds (likely from being folded
and bound into a book), part of the left margin
has been excised, not affecting the text, minor
embrowning to the lower half. Very good condition. Scarce and desirable.
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“The Spokesman Before God Of A Virile,
A Unconquerable Humanity”: 1640 First Edition
Of John Donne’s LXXX Sermons
142. DONNE, John. LXXX Sermons. London, 1640. Folio, contemporary full brown calf rebacked.
$8000.
Rare first edition of the first collection of sermons by “the outstanding preacher of his day” and one of the greatest poets in the
language (Baugh), a landmark of English literature and piety.
Donne remains a towering figure in English literature no less for his
preaching than for his poetry. “Of Donne’s estimated 180 sermons,
the extraordinary total of 160 survive— monumental evidence that
he was both a prolific and a popular preacher. The reasons for his
popularity are clear: the sermons are not only rich in learning and
curious lore; they are characteristically personal and powerful in
their phrasing… At his most characteristic, he is the spokesman
before God of a virile, unconquerable humanity” (Norton, 913,
918). Now considered “very rare,” this volume of sermons is one
of three folios issued posthumously by Donne’s son between 1640
and 1660 (Allibone, 513). Engraved title page supplied in facsimile.
STC 7038. An about-fine copy.
“Had We But World Enough And Time”: First Edition Of Marvell’s Miscellaneous Poems, 1681,
With First Printing Of “To His Coy Mistress” And Others
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MARVELL, Andrew. Miscellaneous Poems. London, 1681. Small
folio (8 by 12 inches), contemporary full brown sheep rebacked and
recornered. $18,000.
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First and only collected edition of Marvell’s poetry to be published in his
own century, containing the first printing of many poems, including “To
His Coy Mistress,” with scarce engraved frontispiece portrait, a handsome
wide-margined copy in contemporary boards.
“The finest flower of secular and serious metaphysical poetry” (Bush).
Very few of Marvell’s poems, and none of his important metaphysical
poems, were published in his lifetime. This copy is complete with the rare
engraved frontispiece portrait of Marvell, and Mary Marvell’s address “To
The Reader,” both of which are often missing. This is, as in all known copies
but two, the second issue, omitting the suppressed poems (pages 117130) in praise of Cromwell. This collection does still contain “In Effigiem
Oliveri Cromwell” and “Two Songs at the Marriage of the Lord Fauconberg
and the Lady Mary Cromwell.” Wing M872. Bookplates of bibliophile
Thomas Jefferson McKee, whose “knowledge and judgment of books were
of a rare order” (New York Times). Interior generally fresh with engraved
frontispiece portrait trimmed and mounted, occasional expert archival
marginal repair, minor edge-wear to boards. An extremely good copy of this
preeminent literary work.
Arthurian Romance
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Limited third and best edition, American issue, of Beardsley’s magnificently illustrated Morte D’Arthur, one of 1600 copies,
with 20 superb full-page illustrations and hundreds of ornamental chapter headings and decorative frames by Beardsley.
Reflecting “the late 19th-century’s darker, more decadent interpretation of the medieval world of King Arthur” (Fulton, 396),
Beardsley’s illustrations for Malory’s immortal Morte D’Arthur (first published by Caxton in 1485) “brought him instant recognition
and the artistic leadership of a decade often known as the ‘Beardsley period’… The Malory drawings are his strongest illustrations”
(The Artist and the Book 16). This edition contains all of the designs and ornaments omitted from the first edition of 1893-94, as
well as introductory notes on Beardsley’s illustrations and the publishing history of the work. Front inner hinge expertly reinforced,
one tiny split to front joint expertly repaired, gilt bright. A beautiful, near-fine copy.
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144.
(BEARDSLEY, Aubrey) MALORY, Thomas. The Birth, Life and
Acts of King Arthur. New York, London, 1927. Large quarto, original giltstamped black cloth. $3000.
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“In Many Places A True History Of A Very Brave People”
145.
JEFFREY OF MONMOUTH. The British History. London, 1718. Octavo,
modern three-quarter brown calf. $4500.
Scarce first edition in English of Jeffrey of Monmouth’s vastly influential
History of the Kings of Britain, the most important source for the story of
King Lear and the legend of King Arthur.
Jeffrey (also “Geoffrey”) of Monmouth wrote his monumental Historia Regum
Brittaniae sometime before 1139. Drawing in part from other chroniclers’
books but mostly from his own imagination, Jeffrey provided stories that
became source material for some of England’s greatest literature. The
Historia includes the earliest known story of King Lear; the book is also famous for presenting one of the earliest and most elaborate accounts of King
Arthur. “The publication of the Historia marks an epoch in the literary history
of Europe. There followed in less than half a century… the romances partly
based upon it of the Grail, Perceval, Lancelot, Tristan and the Round Table,
and Geoffrey’s stories of Merlin and King Arthur were naturalized in Germany
and Italy, as well as in France and England.” More than 200 manuscript
copies of the Historia exist, testament to its popularity and influence. Text
generally quite clean, binding fine and attractive.
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“Celestial Muse, Instruct Me How To Sing
The Generous Pity Of The British King…”
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146. BLACKMORE, Richard. King Arthur. An Heroick Poem.
London, 1697. Folio (8 by 13 inches), contemporary full blindpaneled calf rebacked. $2500.
First edition of Blackmore’s second Arthurian epic poem, in handsome contemporary calf.
Following the success of his Prince Arthur two years earlier—a
poem that contributed greatly to his receiving a knighthood from
William III—Blackmore published this sequel, which recounts
Arthur’s war against and conquest of King Clotar, who represents
Louis XIV. “Apart from the political allegory, Blackmore includes in
this poem discussions of many contemporary themes, such as
Lockean psychology and the Newtonian cosmology. He is especially
aware of Milton as a model, and although King Arthur was less
popular than Prince Arthur had been, Blackmore probably helped to
advance Milton’s reputation during the early 18th century” (Lacy).
Wing B3077. Near-fine condition.
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“A Piece Of Antiquity So Famous,
As To Have Gained The Admiration Of All Ages”
147. SMITH, John. Choir Gaur; the Grand Orrery of the Ancient
Druids, Commonly Called Stonehenge. Salisbury, 1771. Quarto, original plain paper wrappers, stab sewn, uncut; pp. [iv], 74. $2500.
First edition of Smith’s treatise on Stonehenge, with three folding
engraved plates of the ruins.
In this work Smith conclusively demonstrated that Stonehenge was a
temple erected for the purpose of observing the motions of heavenly
bodies. Much of the work is dedicated to a survey of previous important
accounts of the monument, including those of William Camden, Inigo
Jones, William Stukeley and John Wood. One of the plates features a
plan of Stonehenge as it might have looked when first erected. A nearfine uncut copy in original wrappers.
“All The Ancient Mythologies Of The World… Were Originally One”:
Higgins On The Druids And Stonehenge
148. HIGGINS, Godfrey. The Celtic Druids. London, 1829. Quarto, contemporary
full mottled calf rebacked with original gilt-decorated spine laid down. $1800.
Second edition of Higgins’ valuable survey of Stonehenge and the culture that
produced it, illustrated with 37 lithographed plates (some large folding views) and
eight maps, in full contemporary calf-gilt with the Signet Library’s famous device
in gilt on the covers.
Higgins’ “most important work, containing a most valuable collection of prints”
(DNB), is a comprehensive investigation into the origins of the Druids. Higgins utilizes archaeological, linguistic and historical evidence to treat such subjects as
Stonehenge and many other ancient stone circles, towers and temples; correlations
among the Hebrew, Sanskrit, Latin and Druid alphabets; the composition of the book
of Genesis; and parallels between Celtic religion and other traditions, including
Hinduism and Christianity. First published 1827; this revised second edition contains
a new preface. Lowndes, 1068. Some foxing to a few plates only. A very good copy,
handsomely bound.
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“Camelot… Name Of The Asylum, Likely”:
Very Scarce Signed First Edition Of Twain’s Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur’s Court
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149. TWAIN, Mark. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court. New York, 1889. Octavo, original pictorial green cloth, custom
clamshell box. $19,000.
First edition, second issue, of Twain’s comedic critique of Arthurian legend and 19th-century America. This copy signed “Mark
Twain” by the author.
After reading Malory’s Morte d’Arthur, Twain wrote this work to explore “a number of implicit parallels between Arthur’s England and
the American South: slavery; an agrarian economy which came into armed conflict with an industrial economy; a chivalric code
which, Clemens said, was secondhand Walter Scott and kept the South mawkish, adolescent, verbose and addicted to leatherheaded
anachronisms like duels and tournaments. In both frameworks a civil war
destroys the old order, and the Yankee has as acute a sense of loss as
Mark Twain did” (Kaplan). “The novel is a characteristic Twainian amalgam
“He is the master of the style that
of fantasy and fun, observation and satire, that both amuses and provokes
powerful reflection as it confronts the customs of olden times with the
escapes the fixity of the printed
brash values of the New World” (Lacy). This title is Twain’s first collaboration
with illustrator Beard. “Since Twain enthusiastically approved every
page, that sounds in our ears with
drawing in the novel, it should be read as a full collaboration between the
author and artist. The pictures are as essential to an understanding of the
the immediacy of the heard voice, the
work as are the words” (LeMaster & Wilson). Second issue, without scrollvery voice of unpretentious truth.”
like ornament between the words “The” and “King” of the caption on
page [59]. Text block neatly recased in original cloth binding, with expert
—Lionel Trilling
repair to inner paper hinges. A near-fine copy in the original pictorial cloth,
gilt bright, very scarce and desirable signed by Twain.
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caradoc ’s history of wales
150. (CARADOC OF LLANCARFAN). The Historie of Cambria, now called Wales. London, 1584. Small octavo, late 19th-century
full brown morocco gilt. $14,000.
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“The first and rarest of all the editions” (Sabin 40914) of this famous history of Wales and Welsh royalty from the 7th to 13th centuries
and the “Princes of Wales of the blood royall of England” from Edward I to Elizabeth. Caradoc of Llancarfan, a 12th-century Welsh
ecclesiastic and historian, “was a friend of Geoffrey of Monmouth, who at the conclusion of his famous British History [see above]
says: ‘The princes who afterwards ruled in Wales I committed to Caradog of Llancarvan, for he was my contemporary. And to him I
gave the materials to write that book” (DNB). David Powell, a Welsh historian, prepared an English translation for publication. “Powell’s
corrections and additions, founded as they were on independent research, made the Historie practically a new work… and later
historians of Wales have to a large extent drawn their material from it” (DNB). Of “special interest for the American collector,” this was
the first work to attribute the original discovery of America to a Welshman (Sabin 40914). A very nearly fine copy, handsomely bound.
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First edition of this rare and important history of Wales and Welsh royalty, illustrated throughout with woodcut portraits. This work
was the first to attribute the original discovery of America to the Welsh in the 12th century and contains two very early references
to King Arthur, including a description of the discovery of the bones of King Arthur and his queen: “the bones were of marvelous
bignes, and in the scull were ten wounds, of which one was great, and seemed to be his deaths wound: the Queenes haire was to
the light faire and yellowe, but as soone as it was touched it fell to ashes” (page 238), handsomely bound.
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“The First And Rarest Of All Editions”: Illustrated Historie Of Cambria, Now Called Wales, 1584,
The First Work To Claim The Welsh Discovered America, With Early References To King Arthur
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Tennyson’s Arthurian Classic Idylls Of The King,
Folio Illustrated With 37 Steel Engravings By Doré
151. (DORÉ, Gustave) TENNYSON, Alfred. Idylls of the King. London,
1868. Thick folio, 20th-century full navy morocco gilt.
$5800.
First edition of Tennyson’s Arthurian classic with illustrations by Doré,
with 37 large, lovely full-page steel engravings by him, very handsomely bound.
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“The Idylls of the King appeared in the autumn of
1859 and received a welcome so instantaneous as
at once to restore its author to his lost place in the
affections of many” (DNB). This edition is the first
to feature the engraved frontispiece portrait (depicting the poet surrounded by his Camelot characters)
and 36 other dramatic engraved plates by Gustave
Doré. “No other foreign illustrator and few native
ones of the period so completely captured the
English fancy [as Doré]… Tennyson and his publisher Moxon greatly favored Doré as an illustrator”
(Muir). The text contains the first four poems of the
epic cycle: Enid, Elaine, Vivien and Guinevere—all
the parts of the Idylls Tennyson had completed to
date (the first complete publication of all 12 poems
together would not appear until 1891). A beautiful,
large volume in fine condition.
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“The Striking Illustrations Are Among His Best”:
Howard Pyle’s Arthurian Tetralogy
152.
PYLE, Howard. The Story of King Arthur and his
Knights. WITH: The Story of the Champions of the Round
Table. WITH: The Story of Sir Launcelot and His
Companions. WITH: The Story of the Grail and the
Passing of Arthur. New York, 1903, 1905, 1907, and
1910. Together, four volumes. Large octavo, original pictorial brown cloth. $4200.
First editions of Pyle’s classic retelling of the Arthurian
legends, with numerous detailed black-and-white illustrations, all by Pyle.
“During his lifetime, Pyle raised American book and
magazine illustration to new heights and developed new
audiences for illustrative art” (ANB). “In less than 30 years,
Howard Pyle not only created the Golden Age of American
illustration, but also ensured that a large group of younger artists and disciples would carry on with similar work well into the 20th
century… In 1902 he began illustrating and writing his own version of the Arthurian legends… the striking illustrations are among his
best” (Dalby). A fine, desirable set.
“I Hope I Will Be Able To Confide Everything To You,
As I Have Never Been Able To Confide In Anyone”
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FRANK, Anne. Het Achterhuis. Amsterdam, 1947. Octavo, original white
and russet paper boards, custom clamshell box. $10,500.
First edition of Anne Frank’s diary, in the original Dutch, one of only 1500
copies printed.
Anne began her new diary on her 13th birthday, June 12, 1942. Only a month later,
Anne and her family would go into hiding. Anne envisioned the future publication of
her diary—in fact, she began editing the text before the family’s arrest on August 4,
1944 (three days after the diary’s last entry)—and chose the title Het Achterhuis
(The House Behind) herself. After its initial release, the book was translated and
published in more than 60 languages. Eleanor Roosevelt called the diary “one of
the wisest and most moving commentaries on war.” Text in Dutch. Without the
exceptionally rare dust jacket. Expected light marginal embrowning, minor marginal
staining to gutters of first few leaves, modest toning to spine, light rubbing to boards.
A rare and important first edition in extremely good condition.
“In Principio Erat Verbum…”: Magnificent First
American Edition Of The 42-Line Gutenberg Bible,
Richly Illuminated And Handsomely Bound
154.
BIBLE. Biblia Sacra. New York, 1961. Two volumes.
Folio, full oxblood morocco gilt. $10,000.
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“The first substantial book to be printed from
movable types in the western world was, appropriately, the most influential of all books—
the Bible” (PMM 1). Pioneering printer Johann
Gutenberg’s 42-line Bible, published circa
1455, is all but unobtainable by private collectors today; this facsimile edition, however (in
itself, the first American edition of the celebrated volume, and only the second facsimile
edition in the world) reproduces all the beauty
of Gutenberg’s landmark achievement. This
edition is derived from the Insel Verlag edition
itself based on the copy in the Koniglichen
Bibliothek in Berlin and the Standischen
Landesbibliothek (Fulda) copy. An exceptional
production in fine condition.
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Germany, one of only 1000 copies produced,
impressive in deluxe full morocco-gilt binding.
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“History will be kind to me,
for I intend to write it.”
—Winston Churchill
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Churchill’s Brilliant History Of The Second World War, Inscribed In The Year Of Publication
155.
CHURCHILL, Winston. The Second World War. London, 1948-54. Six volumes. Octavo, original black cloth, dust
jackets. $17,500.
First English editions of Churchill’s WWII masterpiece, part history and part memoir, written after he lost reelection as Prime
Minister, in the original dust jackets, inscribed in the year of publication in Volume I: “Inscribed for Euphemia Kenyon by
Winston S. Churchill, 1948.” With a nice autograph letter from the recipient describing
her encounter with Churchill and his inscription.
The six volumes of Churchill’s masterpiece were published separately between 1948
and 1954. With the Second World War, Churchill “pulled himself back from humiliating
[electoral] defeat in 1945, using all his skills as a writer and politician to make his
fortune, secure his reputation, and win a second term in Downing Street” (Reynolds,
xxiii). “The Second World War is a great work of literature, combining narrative, historical
imagination and moral precept in a form that bears comparison with that of the original
master chronicler, Thucydides. It was wholly appropriate that in 1953 Churchill was
awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature” (Keegan, 175). Although preceded by the
American editions, the English editions are generally preferred for their profusion of
diagrams, maps, and facsimile documents. A fine, fresh, desirable inscribed set.
Signed By Nelson Mandela
156.
MANDELA, Nelson. Long Walk to Freedom. Norwalk, CT, 1994.
Octavo, original full dark green morocco gilt, custom clamshell box. $9200.
Signed limited edition, one of an unknown limitation signed by the Nobel
Peace Prize winner and South Africa’s first black president.
“The Nelson Mandela who emerges from his memoir… is considerably more
human than the icon of legend… He is, to use a word unhappily fallen into
disrepute, a politician, though one distinguished from lesser practitioners of his
calling mainly by his unwavering faith in his ultimate objective, ending white
minority rule.” At Mandela’s death in 2013, thousands gathered “to celebrate
a life virtually unmatched in modern times… the last and most beloved of a
generation of leaders who liberated South Africa from apartheid” (New York Times). A fine signed copy.
“Perhaps The Most Wonderful ‘Mine Of Ideas’ In Existence”
157. NIETZSCHE, Friedrich. Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and
None. New York, 1896. Octavo, original green cloth, uncut and partially
unopened. $5900.
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“The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.”
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Nietzsche’s powerful, philosophical prose-poem ranks as “perhaps the
most wonderful ‘mine of ideas’ in existence” (100 Most Influential Books
79). In its pages Nietzsche announces the “death of God” and heralds the
advent of the übermensch, the “superman”—“not the ‘blond beast’ of later
fascism; it is a human being who has mastered passion, risen above the
senseless flux and given creative style to his or her character” (Blackburn).
Although it would become his most famous work, Nietzsche’s philosophical
prose-poem was largely unnoticed when it first appeared. Having published
Parts 1-3 in 1883-84 at his own expense, the greatly discouraged author
privately published only a few copies of Part 4 in 1891. The complete work
was first published in 1892. Advance review slip tipped in. A near-fine copy.
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in English of Nietzsche’s magnum opus, “the first comprehensive
statement of his mature philosophy” (Edwards V:509), uncut and partially
unopened in original cloth.
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An Exceptional Rarity: 1698 Complete Yemen Pentateuch—One Of The Earliest And Most Rare—
Containing The Five Books Of Moses And Rashi’s Commentary In Hebrew Along With The
Aramaic Translation Of Onkelos And Text Translated Into Arabic And Written In Hebrew Script,
One Of Fewer Than 15 Known Manuscripts By A Scribe In Yemen
158. (RASHI). Yemen Pentateuch. No place, 1698. Four volumes. Small folio (7-1/2 by 11-1/2 inches), late 20th-century
full crimson morocco gilt. $68,000.
Rare four-volume 1698 Yemen Pentateuch, containing the Five Books of Moses in Hebrew with Rashi’s Commentary, along
with translations in Aramaic and Judeo-Arabic (Arabic written in Hebrew script), one of fewer than 15 known manuscripts
by a late 17th-century scribe, this copy for his patron, Joseph ibn Avraham ibn Yosef ha-Kohn al-Araki.
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This exceedingly rare 1698 Yemen Pentateuch, containing the Five Books of Moses, is especially important in that it is, in
effect, the Hebrew Bible in three languages: Hebrew, Aramaic and Arabic. The patron of this Pentateuch was Joseph ibn
Avraham ibn Yosef ha-Kohen al Araki. The scribe was Moshe ibn Saadya ibn Yehuda al-Kata’i, who was active from 1686-
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1728 in several cities in Yemen. He produced a
Pentateuch (Genesis to Exodus extant) for the patron’s
father eight years earlier (currently at Harvard).
Approximately only 13 other known manuscripts by this
scribe are found in private and public collections. This
Pentateuch, handsomely bound in four volumes (originally in two volumes), also contains additional liturgical
readings (haftarot) at the ends of Volumes II and IV, with
the addition of two grammatical treatises and a liturgical
poem by Sa’adya (later variously published by
Derenbourg, Ginsburg and Neubauer in the late 19th
century). The central text of the Pentateuch is in Hebrew
with vocalization and cantillation. The surrounding text in
Hebrew is the Commentary of Rashi. Volume I, containing Genesis (165 pages), is bound with Grammatical
Treatise “A” of Derenbourg (33 pages preceding
Genesis); Genesis complete with partial loss to first leaf
of the commentary and the edge of the last line of
Genesis text. Volume II, containing Exodus (144 pages),
is bound with four pages of Maftir Torah readings regarding sacrifices for special days, followed by haftarot for
Genesis and Exodus and special haftarot (99 pages).
Volume III, containing Leviticus and Numbers, is bound
with an initial page of inked trials and penned notations
attributed to Reuven and Shemaryah ben Jacob. This is
followed by two pages (Psalms) traditionally placed in
front of Genesis, with the text displayed in an ornate
“carpet” design of circles and circle segments at the
center against a background of diamond-like lines.
These are followed by ten pages of Judeo Arabic
Grammatical Treatise “B” (see Neubauer, 1891), together preceding Leviticus (102 pages) and Numbers
(141 pages). Volume IV, containing the text of
Deuteronomy (120 page), bound with “Torah hashem
temimah”: continuation of Derenbourg (pp 149-150;
placed here correctly) and colophon page, followed by
haftarot of Leviticus-Deuteronomy and remaining special
haftarot (106 pages). Text in Hebrew. Scattered early
marginalia. Text generally fresh with only faint soiling,
edge-wear, select full or partial leaves expertly backed or
remargined, occasional expert archival repair minimally
affecting text. Rare and important.
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Elegantly Bound “Standard Edition,” 1762, Of The King James Bible
159. BIBLE. The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments. Cambridge, 1762. Two volumes. Quarto, contemporary
full red morocco gilt. $15,000.
1762 “Standard Edition” of the King James Bible, with engraved allegorical frontispiece, distinctively bound in contemporary,
elaborately gilt-tooled morocco.
First published in 1611, the King James version is “the most celebrated book in the English-speaking world… Other translations may
engage the mind, but the King James Version is the Bible of the heart” (Campbell). This 1762 edition marks the “standard edition”
of that magisterial translation. “In this Bible a serious attempt was made [by S.F. Parris] to correct the text of King James’ version by
amending the spelling and punctuation, unifying and extending the use of italics, and removing printers’ errors. Marginal annotations,
which had been growing in some Bibles since 1660, although excluded from others, were finally received into the place they have
occupied ever since, sundry new ones being added. Lloyd’s dates and chronological notes were also adopted and increased, and
the marginal references were much enlarged” (Darlow & Moule 854). Includes Apocrypha. Issued the same year in a folio edition,
very few copies of which now survive. Infrequent scattered light foxing. Stunning contemporary morocco in excellent condition. An
outstanding Bible, distinguished in elaborately gilt-tooled binding.
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“The Illustrations Are Among The Most Beautiful To Ever Grace Equestrian Literature”:
Cavendish’s 1737 Classic On The Schooling Of Horses, With 42 Splendid Double-Page Folio Plates
Second edition of Cavendish’s important first treatise on the horse and horsemanship, with engraved title page and 42 wonderful
double-page folio engravings of horse breeds and training methods, all pulled directly from the original 1658 copperplates, and 50
in-text woodcut diagrams, beautifully bound.
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Accomplished horseman William Cavendish produced two important books on the subject of breeding and training horses. The first,
La Methode et Invention Nouvelle de Dresser les Chevaux, was translated into French from Cavendish’s English manuscript and
published in Antwerp in two issues, 1657 and 1658 (with many of the 1657 title pages having been altered to also read “1658”). The
first printing was largely destroyed by fire in the bookseller’s shop (Brunet), and is extremely rare. Offered here is the second edition
of Cavendish’s first work, “still the only really outstanding work on the subject” (R.S. Toole-Stott). This 1737 second edition of La
Methode et Invention Nouvelle is the first to be published in England, with engravings pulled from the original 1658 copperplates,
acquired by Jean Brindley. Text in French. Bookplate. Early owner signature “Pembroke” on the title page. Minor light shallow dampstain to top margins of only first few plates and gatherings, small archival tape repair to scuff on page 108. A most handsome copy.
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160. CAVENDISH, William, Duke of Newcastle. Methode et Invention Nouvelle de Dresser les Chevaux. London, 1737. Large folio,
period-style full speckled brown calf gilt. $22,000.
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“A Luminous And Visionary Art”: Julia Margaret Cameron’s Photographic Portraits
Of Lord Tennyson And His Friends, 1893, Including Darwin And Herschel
161. CAMERON, Julia Margaret. Alfred, Lord Tennyson and His
Friends. London, 1893. Folio (15 by 18 inches), original gilt-stamped
beige cloth rebacked and recornered in brown morocco. $8500.
Limited first edition, one of 400 copies, of this collection of 26
rich photogravures, most by significant Victorian photographer
Julia Margaret Cameron, depicting such notables as Tennyson,
Browning, Longfellow, Carlyle, Gladstone, Herschel and Darwin.
“Julia Margaret Cameron was not the only Victorian woman
photographer... [Uniquely] her images are often deeply informed
by her feelings for her sitter, they go far beyond the personal to
epitomize particular qualities or essences” (DNB). This album,
published 14 years after Cameron’s death, presents many of her
finest and most famous portraits, including an iconic image of the
Poet Laureate... “It was a favorite of [Tennyson’s], and he famously
called it The Dirty Monk” (DNB). Contemporary gift inscription.
Images fine, light marginal dampstaining to Dirty Monk plate (not
affecting image), front endpapers, some rubbing and soiling to
cloth, as usual. Very good condition.
“Adams Had A Greater Impact Upon Creative
Photography Than Any Other Person In This Century”:
Beautiful Large Framed Poster, Boldly Signed By Ansel
Adams, Featuring His Famed Image Of Moonrise,
Hernandez, New Mexico
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162. ADAMS, Ansel. Poster signed. Moonrise. Images 1923-1974.
Boston, 1981. Large photographic poster (image 15 by 19-inches),
printed caption below image, signature on recto; framed, entire piece
measures 26 by 36-inches.
$5000.
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Large 1981 poster boldly signed by Ansel Adams, beautifully displaying a striking image of his famed photograph, Moonrise, Hernandez,
New Mexico, often viewed as the “the greatest photograph ever
made.” A fine exhibition-size signed poster, handsomely framed.
Near the end of his life, Adams “decided to produce a series of posters
replicating as closely as possible the quality of his originals” (Alinder,
337). This scarce signed poster, with its image of Moonrise, is within
that select group, and highlights his photobook, Images 19231974 (1974). Often viewed as “the greatest photograph ever
made… the creation of Moonrise was serendipitous” (Alinder,
185-191). Moonrise “captures the emotional feeling that Adams
first visualized when he saw the scene… It represents the essence, he felt, of a changing world” (Sayre, World of Art, 265).
Precedes the New York Graphic Society’s limited series of 350
signed photolithographs. A fine signed poster.
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163.
ADAMS, Ansel. Images 1923-1974. Boston, 1974. Large oblong folio, original half black morocco, dust jacket, mounted
gelatin silver print, half morocco clamshell box. $12,000.
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“Adams photographed landscapes with razor-sharp precision and an incomparable eye for the structure and detail of his chosen subject matter. He elevated the act of photography to a religious experience” (Stepan, 96). With
an introduction by Wallace Stegner. Copies accompanied by the separate
photograph are quite scarce, since the print was often framed rather than
kept with the book. A fine copy in a lightly worn box.
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Signed limited first edition, one of 1000 copies, with 115 extended-range photolithographs, issued with a beautiful exhibition-size
gelatin silver print, “Fern Spring, Dusk,” also signed by Adams, in pencil on the mount.
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Signed, Limited Deluxe First Edition Of Ansel Adams’ Images,
With Beautiful Folio Gelatin Silver Print, Fern Spring, Also Signed By Adams
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“Curse You, Red Baron!”:
Inscribed And Captioned By Charles Schulz
To The 87th Fighter Interceptor Squadron
164. SCHULZ, Charles M. Large hand-colored print of
Snoopy signed. No place, no date. Single quarto leaf of beige
paper, measuring 7-1/2 by 10-1/2 inches; handsomely
matted and framed, entire piece measures 13-1/2 by 16-1/2
inches. $8500.
Exceptional large printed illustration of Snoopy in his iconic
aviator’s costume sitting on top of his doghouse, handcolored by Schulz and inscribed by him: “For all our friends
in the 87th Fighter Interceptor Squadron—Best wishes,
Charles M. Schulz.” Also captioned by hand by Schulz with
the text “Curse you, Red Baron!” in a thought balloon.
The 87th Fighter Interceptor Squadron, to whom Schulz has
inscribed this illustration, is one of the oldest squadrons in the
United States Air Force, formed in Michigan during World War
I. Schulz was deeply patriotic and some of his most detailed
works reflect his heartfelt commitment to the military—
unsurprisingly as he also served in World War II. Fine
condition. Scarce.
“A Return To Architectural Principles”: First Edition Of
Edith Wharton’s The Decoration Of Houses, 1897
165. WHARTON, Edith and CODMAN, Ogden, Jr. The Decoration of
Houses. New York, 1897. Quarto, original marbled paper boards. $4200.
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First edition of Wharton’s influential first published book, illustrated with
56 plates, scarce in original marbled boards.
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Considered the first American handbook of interior decoration, Wharton’s
beautifully illustrated Decoration of Houses, her first published book (her
Verses appeared privately in 1878), contains chapters on every aspect of
interior design (including rooms in general, walls, doors, windows, fireplaces,
ceilings and floors, gala rooms, bedrooms, the dining-room and library), as
well as a survey of historical traditions and a detailed bibliography. The
indirect result of Wharton’s collaboration with Ogden Codman on the
decoration of “Land’s End,” her estate in Newport, Decoration of Houses
advocates continental rather than English models, and “remains even today
a bible for classical and elegant taste in interior decoration” (Metcalf, Ogden
Codman). Wharton notes in her conclusion: “Modern civilization has been
called a varnished barbarism: a definition that might well be applied to the
superficial graces of much modern decoration. Only a return to architectural
principles can raise the decoration of houses to the level of the past.” Without extremely rare dust jacket. Interior fine. Light wear to
extremities and repair to half-inch closed tear at spine foot; light toning to spine, as often. An extremely good copy.
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The Golden Age of Illustration
purred on in part by changes in technology that made it possible for the first time to produce high-quality color
plates in large numbers, the late 19th through early 20th centuries witnessed a Golden Age of Illustration, attracting
artists of unparalleled talent to the practice of book illustration. In the United States, N.C. Wyeth (father of Andrew)
and his many students and acolytes defined the phrase; in England, the premiere example was Arthur Rackham.
arthur rackham
Deluxe Suite Of 12 Elephant Folio Plates From Peter Pan,
The Only Work By Rackham With The Plates Issued Separately As A Portfolio
166.
(RACKHAM, Arthur). The Peter Pan Portfolio by Arthur Rackham, from Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens by J. M.
Barrie. London, 1912. Elephant folio (measuring 19-1/2 by 21-1/2 inches), original three-quarter vellum laced at spine with later
silk ribbon, publisher’s box. $18,000.
First edition, one of only 500 copies signed by the publisher
and the engraver. The only suite of Rackham’s plates to be
issued in an oversize portfolio format, with 12 beautiful folio
color prints from Rackham’s Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens
mounted on card and matted.
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These 12 pictures are considered to be Rackham’s personal
favorites from the 50 original plates he designed for Barrie’s
text. This edition was limited to 500 copies signed by the
publishers, engravers and printers, numbered 101-600 (this
copy is number 448); copies 1-100 were supposed to be signed
on every plate by Rackham, but “Mr. Rackham advises that he
signed only about twenty” (Latimore and Haskell, 39). With
descriptive tissue guards. Originally issued as a gift book in
1906 with 50 color plates but in a much smaller quarto format.
Riall, 113. Ray, 329. Plates generally bright and fresh, with
occasional light foxing, interior with expert restoration to title
page edges, leaves occasionally remargined at gutter, some
mats expertly restored, light wear to spine foot, minor bumping
to extremities. Expert restoration to scarce original cardboard
box. An extremely good copy.
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herman melville /
rockwell kent
“The Greatest Book Arts Work Ever
Produced In The United States”
167.
(KENT, Rockwell) MELVILLE, Herman.
Moby Dick or The Whale. Chicago, 1930. Three
volumes. Small folio, original black cloth, aluminum
slipcase. $16,000.
Limited first edition of Rockwell Kent’s masterpiece
and one of the most famous American illustrated
books of the 20th century, one of only 1000 copies, with 280 magnificent illustrations by Kent,
many full-page, in original aluminum slipcase.
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Spurned by critics and readers when published in
1851, Melville’s Moby Dick resurfaced in the 20th
century as one of America’s greatest novels—due in
no small part to this edition, “heralded by various
critics as the greatest book arts work ever produced
in the United States” (Stanley Collection 33). Kent
not only provided the illustrations, but also designed
this landmark edition. Without scarce acetate dust
jackets, as often. Rockwellkentiana, 62. The Artist
and the Book 140. Faint evidence of bookplate removal. Interiors fine, light rubbing to extremities and
boards; very light toning to spines. A fine, handsome
copy in original aluminum slipcase.
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“One Of The Greatest Of American Illustrated Books”
168. (PARRISH, Maxfield) SAUNDERS, Louise. The Knave of Hearts. New
York, 1925. Folio, original black cloth, mounted cover illustration. $4600.
First edition of “one of the greatest of American illustrated books” (Porter,
84), the last and most lavish children’s book illustrated by Maxfield Parrish,
with mounted cover design, pictorial endpapers, 14 full-page color plates,
and nine in-text color illustrations.
Acclaim illustrator Maxfield Parrish agreed to illustrate his friend Saunders’ play “on account of the bully opportunity it gives for a very
good time making the pictures. Imagination could run riot, bound down by no period, just good fun and all sorts of things” (Yount,
86-88). Without very scarce original glassine or box. Yount, 86-91. Silvey, 507. Previous owner’s gold-foil book sticker. Interior fine.
Light rubbing to extremities with shallow loss to spine foot and loss to top outer corner of paper cover design. An usually nice copy of
this title in near-fine condition.
Presentation Copy Additionally Inscribed BY N.C. Wyeth
To His Mother-In-Law, One Of Only 525 Signed By
Both Author And Artist
169. (WYETH, N.C.) BOYD, James. Drums. With Pictures by N.C. Wyeth.
New York, 1928. Thick octavo, original orange cloth, mounted cover
illustration. $3800.
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James Boyd served in World War I
and brought his experiences as a soldier to his two major novels, the first of which was
Drums, set during the Revolution. First published in 1925 without Wyeth’s illustrations.
Without scarce glassine or publisher’s box. Allen & Allen, 198-9. “Mother Bockius” is
doubtless Annie Brockius, mother of Carolyn Brockius Wyeth, who married N.C. in
1908. A bit of foxing to title page only, spine darkened, a bit of soiling to cloth. An extremely good copy, most desirable additionally inscribed by Wyeth.
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Limited first edition with N.C. Wyeth’s illustrations, one of only 525 copies
signed by both Boyd and Wyeth, with an illustrated title page, seven pages of
facsimile manuscript correspondence between illustrator and author, 14 fullpage color plates, and 47 in-text
pen-and-ink linecuts. This copy
additionally inscribed by Wyeth to
his mother-in-law on the limitation
page in the year of publication using his middle name: “To Mother
Bockius, from Convers, 1928.”
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leon bakst
Stunning Original Ink Drawing Of Nijinsky In The Ballets Russes Production Of Scheherazade By
Costume And Set Designer Leon Bakst, Signed And Dated 1910, The Year Of The Ballet, By Bakst
170. BAKST, Léon. Original drawing for Ballets Russes. No place, 1910. One sheet of vellum, measuring 6 by 9 inches; matted and
framed, entire piece measures 11 by 13-1/2 inches. $21,000.
Wonderful original ink-on-vellum costume drawing for the role “Nègre Argent” danced by Vaslav
Nijinsky in the Ballets Russes production of Scheherazade by renowned costume and set designer
Leon Bakst. After seeing Nijinsky’s performance for the Ballets Russes in Scheherazade in 1910,
Jean Cocteau wrote: “Nijinsky jumps like a young beast of prey that has been kept locked up in
darkness and is now intoxicated by the light.”
Russian-born Bakst “was largely responsible during his career for the revival of costume design and
theatre sets in Europe… The key to his work’s power lies… in his acute feeling for the emotional values
of color, texture and movement” (Wintle, 36-7). “Between 1909 and 1921 Bakst designed more
Diaghilev productions than any other artist… His costumes, though lavish, did not restrict the dancers’
movements. Peledan, symbolist founder of the Salon de la Rose Croix, hailed Bakst as ‘the Delacroix of the Costume’” (Norton, 28). This
particular drawing is for a costume for the role “Négre argent” danced by Vaslav Nijinsky in Scheherazade, a one-act ballet that premiered
in 1910 with music by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. “It is primarily to Bakst that we must give the credit for creating Scheherazade as a
spectacle—a wonderful spectacle to which I can hardly find a parallel. When the curtain rises over that enormous green ‘alcove,’ you are
gripped by a host of peculiar sensations—those very sensations which are caused by the reading of the Arabian Nights” (Alexandre
Benois, in Pozharskaya & Volodina, The Art of the Ballets Russes). Fine condition, a splendid original drawing.
Costumes For Tchaikovsky’s Sleeping Princess,
With 56 Mounted Color Plates By Léon Bakst And
A Portrait Of Bakst By Picasso
171.
BAKST, Léon. Designs of Léon Bakst for The
Sleeping Princess, A Ballet in Five Acts after Perrault.
London, 1923. Folio (12 by 15-1/2 inches), original half
vellum gilt, blue silk boards. $5200.
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“The original version of The Sleeping Princess, at SaintPetersburg [in 1890], was due to the collaboration of
Marius Petitpa, master of the ballet, Vsevolojskoi, the
director of the Imperial Theatres, and Tchaikovsky, the
composer of the score… Bakst’s greatest claim to theatrical
glory lies in his feeling for synthesis, in his impeccable
instinct for harmony” (Levinson). Owner signature. Short
closed tears to front free endpaper, half title, spine gilt
bright. A clean and beautiful copy of an enchanting
production in fine condition.
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Limited first edition, an out-of-series copy of 500 copies
in the British issue (total edition of 1,000), with 56
mounted color plates by Bakst (54 of costumes and sets,
with letterpress tissue-guards) and a lithographic penand-ink portrait of Bakst by Picasso.
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“You Have Made Uncle Remus Yours,
Both Sap And Pith”
172. FROST, A.B. Original drawing for Joel Chandler Harris’ Uncle Remus:
His Songs and His Sayings, signed by Frost. New York, 1895. Original penand-ink drawing on heavy illustration stock. $6800.
Wonderfully characteristic original signed pen-and-ink drawing of “the old
man,” by the “dean of American illustrators,” A.B. Frost.
“Mr. Frost’s sketches for the new edition of Uncle Remus are delicious. No
other word will do” (New York Tribune). Called the dean of American illustrators by critics and contemporaries, Arthur Burdett Frost has been described
as the most American of the American illustrators of the turn of the century.
“Frost usually treated his characters with humor, and in his drawings there
was a directness and honesty which showed his sympathetic understanding
of his subjects… He may be best remembered now for his charming illustrations for the Uncle Remus tales. In the preface of the 1896 edition of Uncle
Remus, Harris wrote of Frost, ‘you have conveyed into their quaint antics the
illumination of your own inimitable humor, which is as true to our sun and soil
as it is to the spirit and essence of the matter… The book was mine, but now
you have made it yours, both sap and pith” (Reed, 18). As a promotion for
the book, Frost’s illustrations, including this one, were exhibited in a New York
gallery. This illustration appeared on page 232 of the book. Fine condition.
“Thy Love Is Better Than Wine”
173.
RABAN, Ze’ev. The Song of Songs (Shir Hashirim). Berlin, 1923. Small
folio (9-3/4 by 13-1/2 inches), original tan cloth. $2500.
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First trade edition, issued in Berlin in 1923, of “The Song of Songs” in English and
Hebrew, with splendid mounted color frontispiece and 25 color plates by Ze’ev
Raban in the Bezalel style, “beyond question one of his best-known and beloved
works” (Library of Congress).
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“The biblical Song of Songs, or Songs of Solomon, has inspired poets,
writers, and artists through the ages. This edition of the sacred text is
illustrated by Ze’ev Raban, one of the leading Jewish artists in the early
20th century and perhaps the foremost representative of the Bezalel
style of art, which took its name from the first art academy in the Land of
Israel,” and is influenced by Willim Morris’ Arts and Crafts movement
(Library of Congress). The Polish-born Raban reached Eretz-Israel in
1912, where he became celebrated for creating “a significant opus of
paintings and decorative elements in a variety of styles, but his Song of
Songs remains beyond question one of his best-known and beloved
works.” The lovely color plates blend the Hebrew text and illustrations in
the style of illuminated manuscripts, with the English translation facing
within pictorial borders. First published in Berlin, “since in 1923 Palestine
did not yet have the facilities to produce” a volume of such quality (Karp,
From the Ends of the Earth, Issued along with a limited edition (500
copies), no priority determined. Contemporary gift inscription, faint trace
of bookplate removal. Text and plates fine with rear free endpaper
detached but intact. An about-fine copy.
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Magnificent Printmakers
I
n the late 18th century, a vogue for prints swept London. The former engraver John Boydell turned
publisher and bookseller, and began to make an empire of illustration. To compete with the steady
stream of material from the print markets in France, Boydell conceived of a truly monumental production
of English printing prowess and patriotism: the Shakespeare Gallery. Competitors soon sprang up in this
most sumptuous of book markets, among them Macklin’s Bible and Bowyer’s History of England, creating
some of the largest and most beautiful English books of all time.
“The Finest Set Of Shakespeare Illustrations Ever Made”:
Elephant Folio Collection Of Prints For Boydell’s 1803
Shakespeare, With 93 Monumental Artist Plates
174. (SHAKESPEARE) BOYDELL, John. A Collection of Prints From
Pictures for the Purpose of Illustrating the Dramatic Works of
Shakespeare, By the Artists of Great Britain. London, 1803. Two
volumes bound in one. Elephant folio (23-1/2 by 34 inches), 19thcentury three-quarter brown morocco gilt.
$18,500.
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In 1786, Boydell “embarked upon the most important enterprise of his
life, namely the publication, by subscription, of a series of prints
illustrative of Shakespeare, after pictures painted expressly for the work
by English artists” (DNB). “Each artist produced outstanding work…
the finest set of Shakespeare illustrations ever made” (Franklin, 216).
“There can be no doubt that Boydell’s Shakespeare… was the most
splendid of bibliophile editions undertaken in the 18th-century or at any
other time” (Franklin, 47-48). Originally issued with George Steevens’ revised text, the first part of Boydell’s Shakespeare was published
in 1791. Upon its completion, the whole was again issued in 1802. In the same year, the 100 magnificent plates, “the production of
which swallowed up a fortune,” were issued separately for the first time. These were again issued in 1803 and 1804 under the present
title. Sets were apparently issued with different numbers of plates, up to 100; this copy, with 93 plates (omitting Smirke’s Seven Ages
of Man plates), collates perfectly with the plate lists in each volume (Jaggard, 508). With both titles dated 1803 and dedication dated
1805. Jaggard, 508. Occasional expert paper repairs to versos, a few plates remargined, impressions unusually fresh and clean,
binding handsome. A magnificent production.
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Magnificent 1803 elephant folio issue of the prints for the sumptuous
Boydell Shakespeare, with engraved frontispieces and engraved title
vignettes for each volume and 89 splendid full-page copperplate
engravings (totaling 93 engravings) after works by the period’s most
eminent English artists—including Reynolds, Romney, Smirke,
Stothard, Fuseli and Westall.
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“Bowyer’s 1806 Edition Is A Sumptuous One, Finely Printed And Expensively Illustrated”:
Hume’s History Of England, Magnificent Ten-Volume Atlas Folio Set
175. HUME, David. The History of England.
London, 1806. Five volumes bound in ten.
Large thick atlas folio, contemporary full
straight-grain navy morocco gilt. $20,000.
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Magnificent atlas folio “Bowyer” edition of
Hume’s renowned history, originally sold only
to subscribers, with 197 lovely and finely engraved illustrations, in ten massive volumes
sumptuously bound in full contemporary
straight-grain morocco-gilt by Staggemeier
and Welcher. An extraordinary set.
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“This work has enjoyed the rank of a classic
in historical literature from the day of its
completion to the present time. In point of
clearness, elegance, and simplicity of style it
has never been surpassed” (Adams). First
published between 1754 and 1761, Hume’s
History of England was “the first significant
study to embrace all of English history and
the first broad historical survey in English
that properly rates as a work of literature”
(Day). “Bowyer’s 1806 edition is a sumptuous one, finely printed and expensively illustrated; it was sold only to subscribers” (Jessop,
31). Copies have been found with varying numbers of plates: this set has 197, the maximum found. Brunet III:377 (“Magnifique
édition”). Lowndes, 1139. Bookplates, one armorial. Occasional foxing to a few plates only, chiefly marginal, text generally clean, a few
volumes rebacked with original spine very neatly laid down, a few others expertly repaired. A very beautiful copy of this magnificent
and monumental work, most desirable in such a splendid contemporary morocco-gilt binding.
bible
“A Splendid Work… Ornamented With Fine Engravings”:
1800 First Edition Of Macklin’s Sumptuously Printed
And Illustrated Six-Volume Folio Bible
176. (BIBLE). The Holy Bible. The Old [and] New Testament Embellished
With Engravings from Pictures and Designs by the Most Eminent English
Artists. London, 1800. Six volumes. Large thick folio (15-1/2 by 18-1/2
inches), contemporary full red straight-grain morocco sympathetically
rebacked. $21,000.
Magnificently illustrated first edition of the Macklin Bible, handsomely
bound by C. Kalthoeber of London in six massive volumes and illustrated
with 70 splendid full-page copper-engraved plates after Artaud, Cosway,
Fuseli, Reynolds, Stothard, Westall and other noted artists, and over 100
additional vignette head- and tailpieces.
“A splendid work, printed in very large type by Bensley, and ornamented
with fine engravings” (Allibone, 1188). These magnificent illustrations were
designed by Britain’s greatest painters, and executed by the foremost engravers of the time. The numerous allegorical head- and tailpieces by
Philipp Jakob de Loutherbourg provide a virtual encyclopedia of JudeoChristian iconography. Without 1816 Apocrypha volume. Herbert 1442.
Darlow & Moule 982. Occasional foxing to text, far less than sometimes
found, crease to title page of Volume II, plates generally quite clean, impressions crisp, expert restoration to extremities of boards, a few minor
scuffs and marks to morocco. An extremely good, very nicely restored copy
of this splendidly illustrated Bible in contemporary morocco covers.
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Wonderful American Theatrical Broadside Collection—
Primarily Boston
177.
(DRAMA). American Theatrical Broadside Collection.
Boston, circa 1840-1880. Fifty-five individual sheets. Various
sizes, typically 8 inches wide by 20 inches high. $9000.
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Nearly all of these 55 delightful broadsides were published in
Boston in the mid 19th century— advertising various Boston
venues— romantic dramas, comedies, satires, farces, and even
lighter fare.
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During the 19th century, Boston experienced a conflict between its
Puritan background and an emerging trend toward “light”
entertainment and artistic freedom. Despite the controversy, all
theater—from Shakespeare to burlesque—found an audience in
Boston. This fascinating collection contains 19 broadside playbills
for performances at the Globe, 13 for performances at the National
Theater, five at the Howard Anthenaeum, four at the Boston
Museum, two at the Tremont, and one at the Boston Academy of
Music. With 11 additional playbills from venues in other locations,
including a few in New York. Extremely good condition, with
minimal edge-wear and fold-lines.
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“What Ghastly Happenings—I Can’t Seem To Take It In—
About Bobby Kennedy”: Amazing Katharine Hepburn Autograph
Letter Mentioning Bobby Kennedy’s Assassination,
The Vietnam War, And Spencer Tracy’s Wife
178.
HEPBURN, Katharine. Autograph letter signed. Paris,
France, June 17, 1968. Two sheets of “Katharine Houghton Hepburn”
letterhead stationery, 8-1/4 by 10-1/4 inches, written on rectos for
two pages.
$6000.
Revealing Katharine Hepburn autograph letter, completely in her hand,
to her friend Meta Stern, mentioning Bobby Kennedy’s assassination,
the Vietnam War and her own personal loss in it, and Spencer Tracy’s
wife, signed with her initial “K.”
The letter reads, in part: “Dearest Meta – Finally a letter from you... What
ghastly happenings – I can’t seem to take it in – about Bobby Kennedy.
One feels that it cannot be true. Also on May 10th my sister Peg’s oldest
son Tom – in Vietnam – was reported missing. As bombing stopped it
took pressure off V.C. who apparently swarmed over the Special Forces
camp where he was... Mrs. Tracy thinks too much K.H. in Spence T.V.
Chet Erskine did excellent job – said she would like me not to narrate &
only to be an actress he worked with – so – see you soon – Love to both
– K-”. Chet Erskine is Chester Erskine (1905-86), a director, producer and
screenwriter. Meta Stern (1925-59) was a Hollywood script supervisor.
Although Hepburn and Spencer Tracy were well known as both a
professional and romantic couple, Tracy never divorced his wife because
of their Catholic faith; after his death in 1967 (a year before this letter),
Hepburn famously was not present at his funeral. Fine condition.
179. HEPBURN, Katharine. Autograph letter
signed. New York, January 20, 1970. One leaf
of yellow legal ruled paper, 8 by 12-1/2 inches,
written on recto for one page. $5000.
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The letter reads, in part: “Dear Meta... The play goes well – Josephine Baker came she’s fascinating & I was pleased because she
thought I was very French – Fellini – Giuletta Massina – Lucille Ball – last few days – we get all the cream so it’s sort of exciting. Lots
of work but very rewarding. I’ve signed on until June 13th at least that gives the company a season. We’re still sold out to standing...
Love to both, K-.” Fine condition.
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written to her friend and longtime correspondent Meta Stern during her run on Broadway in “Coco,” about the life of Coco
Chanel, mentioning celebrities who have seen the show: “Josephine Baker came… Fellini–Giuletta Massina–Lucille Ball.”
Signed “K-.”
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“Josephine Baker Came She’s
Fascinating & I Was Pleased Because
She Thought I Was Very French”:
Fine 1970 Katharine Hepburn
Autograph Letter Describing
Audiences And Celebrities Attending
Her Broadway Show Coco
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john steinbeck
“I Think A Good Script Is Coming Out Of It. I Am Extremely Pleased”:
Rare November 4, 1949 Autograph Letter Signed By Steinbeck To Film Producer Darryl Zanuck,
With Steinbeck’s Optimistic Update On The Screenplay For Viva Zapata!,
Together With The “Shooting Final” Screenplay Of Viva Zapata!
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180. (ZANUCK, Daryl) STEINBECK, John. Autograph letter signed. Pacific Grove, California, November 4, 1949. WITH: Viva
Zapata! Screenplay. WITH: John Steinbeck and Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation… Legal Department. New York,
1949, 1951. Three items. Single original leaf (8-1/2 by 11 inches) of onionskin letterhead in manuscript. WITH: Quarto (8-1/2
by 11 inches), mimeograph manuscript, original yellow wrappers. WITH: Ten loose leaves of facsimile (8-1/2 by 11 inches),
chemise, slipcase.
$8000.
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November 4, 1949 autograph letter signed by Steinbeck to film producer Daryl Zanuck, reporting Steinbeck’s optimism at the
progress of his original screenplay for the film Viva Zapata!, Steinbeck’s letter in this rare collection with a May 16, 1951 original
final shooting screenplay for the film, which premiered in 1952 starring Marlon Brando and directed by Elia Kazan, with Steinbeck’s
Oscar-nominated script hailed as a “towering achievement… unquestionably his finest work in the genre,” housed together with ten
loose leaves of facsimile documenting Steinbeck’s legal contracts on the film with Twentieth Century-Fox Film.
“Steinbeck’s towering achievement in film is most embodied by Viva Zapata! ” (Price, in Bloom, John Steinbeck, 47). The very scarce
autograph letter in this collection, entirely in Steinbeck’s hand, is dated three years before the film’s 1952 premiere. The letter—
included with the “shooting final” screenplay of Viva Zapata! in the original wrappers of Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation—
captures Steinbeck’s near elation at this turning point in the project that consumed so many years of his life. With Steinbeck’s letter
and the screenplay are ten loose facsimile leaves, the file copies of legal agreements between Steinbeck and Twentieth Century-Fox
Film Corporation. Letter with small penciled letter in an unidentified hand, two small file holes at upper margin not affecting text.
Screenplay with “Env. 1762” and “2480.27” in unidentified hand on upper right corner of front wrapper. Small penciled initials to rear
blank. An exceptional collection in fine condition.
Music
“Unparalleled In The History Of
Music”: Bach’s Welltempered
Clavier: Extraordinarily Rare First
Edition In Contemporary Boards
181. BACH, Johann Sebastian. Das wohltemperirte Clavier, oder Präludien und
Fugen durch alle Töne. Zurich, 1801-02.
Two volumes. Oblong quarto, contemporary marbled boards with original leather
spines rebacked and laid down, custom
chemises, slipcase. $22,000.
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Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier, a collection
of 48 preludes and fugues in all the major
and minor keys, “surpasses, in logic, in
format and in musical quality, all earlier
endeavors of the same kind by other masters… Bach’s writing… represents the culmination of a 20-year
process of maturation and stands unparalleled in the history of music” (New Grove). After Bach’s death in 1750, the work circulated
in manuscript. The complete set of fugues reached print in 1801, when three editions were published at about the same time, all of
which are considered first editions. Fuld, 118. RISM B 499. Kinsky, 120. Reversed volume numbers revised in a contemporary hand
on boards, minor pencil markings (some in red) to text in Volume II. Usual wear to boards, plates bright and clean with only occasional scattered foxing. An extraordinary copy, in contemporary boards, of this landmark musical classic. Rare.
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Rare first edition of both parts of Bach’s
masterpiece in musical instruction, fully
engraved.
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Porgy And Bess, Signed Limited First Edition,
Signed By George And Ira Gershwin, Dubose Heyward And Rouben Mamoulian
182.
GERSHWIN, George. Porgy and Bess. New York, 1935.
Folio, original full red morocco, slipcase. $12,500.
Deluxe limited edition of the piano-vocal score of Porgy and Bess,
one of only 250 copies signed by George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin,
DuBose Heyward and director Rouben Mamoulian.
Gershwin based his only opera on the novel Porgy by DuBose
Heyward, who also wrote the libretto. “Though of course I will try to
keep my own style,” Gershwin wrote, “the Negro flavor will be
predominant throughout.” Gershwin gathered inspiration by living in
South Carolina, where he heard and admired African-American
street cries, spirituals and folk songs. Today, Porgy and Bess is
widely considered Gershwin’s masterpiece. This deluxe edition of
the piano-vocal score (according to Fuld, no orchestral score has
ever been published) was published in 1935, the year of Porgy and
Bess’ premiere, almost simultaneously with the first edition. Without
original black leather spine labels. Fuld, 539. Expert repair to pages
459-60, mild darkening to spine, expert repairs to joints, spine ends
and original slipcase.
“It Was Only In The Piano Concerto Form
That Mozart Achieved His Ideal”
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183. MOZART, W.A. Grand Concert pour le Clavecin ou Forte Piano avec
L’Accompagnement des Plusieurs Instruments. [K413]. Amsterdam, circa
1790. Folio, unbound as issued, piano and eight accompanying parts, custom
cloth clamshell box. $9500.
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Early edition in parts of one of Mozart’s three early Viennese Piano Concertos,
most likely published during Mozart’s lifetime, fully engraved. “It breathes
pure joy from beginning to end” (Mozart Handbook).
The Piano Concerto in F Major, one of three Piano Concertos composed by
Mozart in Vienna in 1782-83, lays the groundwork for the major Viennese
works that were to follow. “Splendid as are the examples of the concerto form
for string and wind instruments, it was only in the piano concertos that Mozart
achieved his ideal” (Einstein, 287). Contemporary editions of Mozart’s piano
concertos are quite rare; the British Library copy of this concerto is lacking the orchestral parts. First published in 1785. With parts
for piano (15 pages), basso, violin I and II, viola, oboe I and II, and horn I and II. Expert repair to title page and basso part, affecting
just a few notes, plates exceptionally clean overall. Very rare and desirable.
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Handsome Set Of Darwin’s Major Works In First And Early Editions
184. DARWIN, Charles. Works. London, 1872-77. Ten volumes. WITH: MÜLLER,
Fritz. Facts and Arguments for Darwin. London, 1869. Together, eleven volumes.
Octavo, contemporary three-quarter green calf gilt. $12,000.
Splendid set of nine of Darwin’s major works and one text about Darwin, including
one first printing, handsomely and uniformly bound.
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John Murray produced over 150 editions and issues of Darwin. This is a beautiful
set of 11 volumes, comprising nine of Darwin’s major works as follows: On the Origin
of Species (6th edition, eighteenth thousand, the first issue of the final definitive
text); The Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same Species (first edition,
one of only 1250 printed); The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (first
edition, second printing); and Insectivorous Plants (first edition, second printing).
With later editions, from the 1870s, of the following: Journal of Researches into the
Natural History and Geology of the
Countries Visited During the Voyage of
H.M.S. Beagle Round the World;
The Various Contrivances by
Which Orchids are Fertilized by
Insects; The Movements and
Habits of Climbing Plants;
The Variation of Animals and
Plants Under Domestication
(two volumes); and The
Descent of Man, and Selection
in Relation to Sex. With a first
edition of Facts and Arguments
for Darwin, written by Darwin’s
friend, naturalist Fritz Müller. Interiors
clean and fine, a few minor scuffs to
spine ends. A most desirable and handsome set.
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american ornithology
The First Major Studies Of North American Birds: The Scarce
“Philadelphia Edition” Of The Plates To Wilson’s American
Ornithology, With 76 Large Folio Hand-Colored Engravings
185.
WILSON, Alexander and BONAPARTE, Charles Lucian. American
Ornithology; or, The Natural History of the Birds of the United States.
Philadelphia, 1871. Atlas folio (14-1/2 by 17-1/2 inches), period-style threequarter green morocco gilt. $18,500.
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The desirable “Philadelphia Edition” of the separate Atlas to accompany
Wilson’s important contribution to American ornithology, with 76 splendid
hand-colored folio engravings made from original copperplates (plates in
other editions from 1828 to 1878 were considerably reduced in size). A
beautiful copy.
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Influenced by naturalist William Bartram and engraver Alexander Lawson,
Alexander Wilson, considered the “father of American ornithology,” cultivated
his own interest in nature and in making drawings from nature. By 1805
Wilson realized his “great plan of depicting and describing North American
birds in a large work,” resulting in American Ornithology, originally published
in 1808-15. A decade later, Charles Bonaparte, Napoleon’s nephew and
himself an accomplished ornithologist “issued his American Ornithology, or
The Natural History of Birds
Inhabiting the United States, Not
Given by Wilson (1825-33), regarded as a kind of sequel to that
work, for which reason the two
works were issued together in
subsequent editions” (Anker,
212). Several combined octavo
editions followed, culminating in
this final folio edition of 1871. This
edition was printed on much
larger paper than earlier editions,
and is commonly called the
“Philadelphia Edition.” This is the
plate volume only, without the
three octavo text volumes. Nissen
997. Plates lovely and fine, with
vibrant original hand-coloring, expert cleaning to original tissue
guards and the occasional margin
of plates. A splendid volume.
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With 42 Spectacular Hand-Colored Plates:
Mrs. Loudon’s Flower-Garden Of Ornamental Greenhouse
Plants, One Of Her Most Beautiful Works
186. LOUDON, Jane Wells. Ladies’ Flower-Garden of Ornamental
Greenhouse Plants. London, 1848. Quarto, contemporary threequarter green morocco. $6500.
First edition of Mrs. Loudon’s classic botanical work on greenhouse
plants, with 42 beautiful hand-colored lithographic plates.
Loudon’s works were “much prized for their attractive illustrations”
(Magnificent Botanical Books, 237). Greenhouse Plants focuses on
exotic plants indigenous to such locales as Japan, Australia, South
Africa and South America, whose plants “are, generally speaking,
more beautiful than any included in my previous works, as they are
natives of countries where the sun has most power, and where
consequently colors are the brightest” (Introduction). Loudon’s artistic
groupings of like flowers—considered unusual for the times—were
immediately popular among gardeners throughout England. Text and
plates fine, hand-coloring vivid and beautiful. Minor wear to contemporary
morocco. A beautiful copy.
90 Spectacular Hand-Colored Plates:
Mrs. Loudon’s Ornamental Perennials
187. LOUDON, Jane. Ladies’ Flower-Garden of Ornamental
Perennials. London, 1843-49. Two volumes. Quarto, contemporary
three-quarter green morocco gilt. $7000.
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Mrs. Loudon, one of the major compilers of flower books in the
19th century, was the wife of John Claudius Loudon, one of the
most important 19th-century landscape gardeners and horticultural
writers. Her own works are much prized for their fine plates. The
original hand coloring is vivid, fresh and bright, and the flower images fill
each page. Volume I is first edition; Volume II is second edition. Plates and
text fine, light wear to contemporary binding. A beautiful production.
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Mixed first and second edition of Mrs. Loudon’s classic botanical works on perennials, with 90 beautiful hand-colored lithographed plates.
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“This Immense Undertaking, This Unparalleled
Achievement”: Dramatic Ferruginous
Thrush Plate From Audubon’s Birds Of America,
Hand-Colored Double Elephant Folio First Edition,
One Of No More Than 175 Copies
188.
AUDUBON, John James. Ferruginous Thrush. Turdus Rufus.
Linn. Male, 1. Female, 2. Black-jack Oak, Quercus Nigra. Black Snake.
No place, 1831. Double elephant folio aquatint engraving, measuring 26
by 39 inches; matted, entire piece measures 45 by 33 inches. $16,000.
The dramatic hand-colored Ferruginous Thrush plate from the double
elephant folio first edition of Audubon’s Birds of America, “the most
splendid book ever produced in relation to America, and certainly one of
the finest ornithological works ever printed,” depicting a black snake
invading the thrushes’ nest, while they desperately attempt to repel the
snake’s attack. One of no more than 175 copies printed.
The Ferruginous Thrush is plate 116 of the 435 engravings Audubon
produced. It is not known how many copies of the 1827-38 first folio
edition were published; Clark and Bannon in their book Handbook of
Audubon Prints estimate the number of complete sets produced at
between 161 and 175. With watermark “J Whatman 1831.” Light wear to
left margin where this sheet was originally bound in with others. Print
clean and fine. A dramatic, bold and desirable original Audubon print.
“The Bible Of English Herbalists”: The 1633 Edition Of
“Johnson’s Gerard,” With Over 2700 Botanical Woodcuts
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189. GERARDE, John. The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes…
Very much Enlarged and Amended by Thomas Johnson. London,
1633. Thick folio, later full vellum over wooden boards, custom clamshell
box. $11,000.
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Important second edition—“in every respect immeasurably superior” to
the first—skillfully edited by Thomas Johnson, boasting more than 2700
delicate in-text botanical woodcuts and elaborate engraved title page.
First published in 1597, “Gerard’s Herball, if not one of the monuments of
the English language, is certainly one of its great delights” (Anderson, 218).
“The Bible of English herbalists… [Gerard] wrote with the golden pen of the
Elizabethan age” (Blunt & Raphael, 164). In 1629, John Parkinson, apothecary to the king, announced his intention to produce a herbal that would
supersede Gerard’s—“a work by then more than 30 years old…
[Consequently,] Islip, Norton and Whitakers decided to beat Parkinson to
the post by swiftly producing an enlarged and emended edition of the
original work which Thomas Johnson, a London apothecary, agreed to undertake…. [it] is in every respect immeasurably superior to its predecessor”
(Blunt & Raphael, 166-67). With 800 more species and 700 more woodcuts than the first edition. Title page rehinged, and remargined along upper
edge; text generally quite clean. One woodcut (page 65) with early hand-coloring, front joint starting, cords holding firm. An exceptionally good copy of this renowned edition.
“The First And Greatest Classic Of Modern Economic Thought”
190. SMITH, Adam. An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes
of the Wealth of Nations. London, 1796. Three volumes.
Octavo, contemporary full brown tree calf gilt rebacked with
original spines laid down. $6500.
Early edition of Smith’s magnum opus, a fine copy in handsome contemporary tree calf gilt.
“Where the political aspects of human rights had taken two
centuries to explore, Smith’s achievement was to bring the
study of economic aspects to the same point in a single work…
it is the first and greatest classic of modern economic thought”
(PMM 221). Buckle’s History of Civilization calls Wealth of
Nations “probably the most important book which has ever
been written,” while economist J.A.R. Marriott asserts that
“there is probably no single work in the language which has in
its day exercised an influence so profound.” First published in
1776. Stated eighth edition. Each volume with armorial
bookplates of John Gordon, likely the 7th viscount Kenmure
and Lord Locinvar. Text pristine, only the lightest restoration to
spine ends and Volume I number label renewed. A beautiful
copy in fine condition.
First Edition Of Lefèvre’s H.R.,
Lefèvre’s Novel Of A Business Mogul, Inscribed By Him
191. LEFÈVRE, Edwin. H.R. New York and London, 1915. Octavo, original
navy cloth.
$5200.
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Edwin Lefèvre was known for his close attention to the major
players on Wall Street. His books, including Reminiscences of a
Stockbroker and The Making of a Stockbroker, have become
stock market classics, much sought after for their literary merit,
their insight into Wall Street and business history, and the
financial observations they contain. Minor marginal dampstain to
rear portion of text block, cloth with minor expert repair to top
corners and head of spine. A near-fine copy.
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First edition of Lefèvre’s novel about a young man’s rise from obscurity as
a bank clerk to New York business mogul headed for the White House,
inscribed: “To Arthur E. Meaker, with the affectionate regard of his grateful
Edwin Lefèvre. Bronxville, N.Y. Oct. 1916.”
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“Profits Always Take Care Of Themselves, But Losses Never Do”:
How To Trade In Stocks, Most Rare Signed By Livermore
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192. LIVERMORE, Jesse L. How to Trade in Stocks. New York, 1940. Octavo, original blue cloth, custom clamshell box. $21,000.
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Limited first edition, one of fewer than 500 copies specially printed on rag paper, of the only book by one of Wall Street’s most
flamboyant stock traders, featuring the first in-depth explanation of the famed Livermore Formula, his highly successful trading
method still in use today, signed by Livermore.
The only book written by Jesse L. Livermore, widely believed to be the subject of Edwin Lefèvre’s fictional biography and investment
classic Reminiscences of a Stock Operator. One of the most flamboyant figures on Wall Street in the first half of the 20th century,
Livermore made and lost several fortunes and was even blamed for the stock market crash of 1929. Intrigued by Livermore’s career,
financial writer Edwin Lefèvre conducted weeks of interviews with him during the early 1920s. Then, in 1923, Lefèvre wrote a firstperson account of a fictional trader named “Larry Livingston,” who bore countless similarities to Livermore, ranging from their last
names to the specific events of their trading careers. Although many traders attempted to glean the secret of Livermore’s success from
Reminiscences, his technique was not fully elucidated until this work was published in 1940. How to Trade in Stocks offers an in-depth
explanation of the Livermore Formula, the trading method, still in use today, which turned Livermore into a Wall Street icon. Although
the limitation statement suggests 500 copies of this limited edition were produced, the late collector and dealer of Wall Street books
Rod Klein asserted the true number was probably far fewer. In fact, even the trade edition sold quite poorly. Livermore committed
suicide the same year this book was published, too tortured by depression to enjoy the $5 million he had amassed. Accordingly,
signed copies are exceptionally rare. Without original slipcase. Mild pink ink and pencil markings and marginalia (mostly confined to
first three chapters). A bright and lovely copy of a financial classic, in very nearly fine condition, exceptionally scarce and desirable
signed by Livermore.
T
hough the conduits have changed—electric fish, static, lightning—humans have been discovering and
re-discovering electricity for millennia. However, in the 18th century, something different happened:
Benjamin Franklin told the world he put a key on a kite and, overnight, electricity transcended science and
became a story. With the public clamoring for more, his successors increasingly found ways to make electricity
mainstream and to study it as an applied science. Edison marks the pinnacle of electricity’s relevance in
popular culture, as the public embraced science and learned to love the light bulb, the telegraph, the microphone,
the phonograph, the video camera, and the possibility of all the things that electricity would eventually do.
The Scientific Foundation For Radio, Television And Radar:
First Edition In English Of Hertz’s Experiments In Wireless Telegraphy
193.
HERTZ, Heinrich. Electric Waves. London and New York, 1893. Octavo, original
dark blue cloth. $4800.
First edition in English of Hertz’s important discoveries in wireless telegraphy, published
just one year after the first German printing.
“Hertz demonstrated what Maxwell had predicted, that electromagnetic waves radiated in
space with the speed of light. Hertz determined these waves to be of greater length than
light and that they could be reflected, refracted and polarized. This discovery and its
demonstration led directly to radio communication, television and radar” (Dibner 71).
Hertz’s proof that electrical waves can be created and then sent and received through
space has been shown to be of profound importance in 20th-century technology. “This
book is a rare specimen, for it is a clear explanation by a scientist of how he came to make
his discovery. It is problem oriented, as well as clear and frank” (Berkson). A highly
desirable copy in fine condition.
“Profits Good Even Now”:
Scarce 1924 Typed Letter Signed By Thomas Alva Edison
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This August 1924 typed letter signed by Thomas Edison contains his
thoughtful response to a dealer selling his phonographs. Here Edison
discusses various marketing strategies and his competition, while also
revealing a plan to rent phonographs and records to dealers as a means of
aiding their sales. As a concession to the competitive marketplace and to
maintain his phonograph’s positioning, Edison offered attachments to his
phonographs so they could play the records of competitors. A fine letter
with only faintest foldlines.
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Scarce 1924 typed letter signed by Thomas Alva Edison, discussing his
attempts to improve the marketing of his phonograph and records by
renting them to dealers as an aid to sales, also with the Edison Laboratory
printed business card of his correspondent.
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194.
EDISON, Thomas Alva. Typed letter signed. Orange, New Jersey,
August 29, 1924. Single original letterhead leaf, typescript on recto. WITH:
Business card. $9500.
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“America’s First Great Scientific Contribution”:
First Complete Edition Of Franklin’s Illustrated Experiments And Observations On Electricity, 1769,
An Extraordinary Association Copy
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195.
FRANKLIN, Benjamin. Experiments and Observations on Electricity. London, 1769. Quarto, contemporary full brown
calf gilt.
$36,000.
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First complete edition of “the most important scientific book of 18th-century America” and “America’s first great scientific
contribution” (PMM), with seven engraved plates (two folding), association copy with the ownership signature of Hugh Roberts,
close Franklin friend and life-long correspondent. An important edition, edited and revised by Franklin himself, and with
material and footnotes appearing here for the first time, in beautiful contemporary full calf-gilt.
This first complete edition is the fourth edition of the original work; the earlier editions, each issued in three parts as separately
published pamphlets usually bound together, were carelessly published—Franklin edited this new one-volume edition himself.
“Franklin’s most important scientific publication,” Experiments and Observations contains detailed accounts of the founding
father’s crucial kite and key experiment, his work with Leiden jars, lightning rods and charged clouds (Norman 830). “The most
dramatic result of Franklin’s researches was the proof that lightning is really an electrical phenomenon” (PMM). Contemporary
owner signature on title page of Philadelphia Quaker Hugh Roberts, a close friend of Franklin and life-long correspondent.
Roberts, the son of Philadelphia mayor Edward Roberts and brother-in-law of physician Thomas Bond, shared with Franklin’s
humanitarian and intellectual interests; in addition to being a member of Franklin’s famous self- and community-improvement club
“The Junto,” he was also involved with the Library Company, the Union Fire Company (sometimes referred to as “Franklin’s Bucket
Brigade”) and the Pennsylvania Hospital, all with strong Franklin associations. Amidst the uproar over the Stamp Act, Franklin
wrote Roberts from London thanking him for his “steady, continued Friendship”; later Franklin would warmly note that “We loved
and still love one another; we are grown Gray together, and yet it is too early to Part” (Writings IV:386-7). Minor expert restoration
to spine extremities of handsome contemporary calf. An extraordinary association copy.
Commemorative Photo Album Featuring 41
Second-Generation Gelatin Silver Prints Of
Scientist Charles Steinmetz’s Life
196. (STEINMETZ, Charles Proteus) STEINMETZ MEMORIAL
FOUNDATION. Commemorative photo album. Schenectady,
New York, 1942. Quarto, brad-bound as issued, original full
brown sheep gilt.
$4200.
Commemorative album created in honor of acclaimed scientist Charles Steinmetz by the Steinmetz Memorial Foundation,
with 41 full-page second-generation gelatin silver prints including portraits of Steinmetz, images of Steinmetz with
Edison and Einstein, and scenes from Steinmetz’s life, presented to electrical engineer Comfort A. Adams who delivered
the 15th Steinmetz Memorial Lecture “Cooperation Versus
War” in 1942.
“Steinmetz must be regarded as one of the fathers of electrical
engineering… He made outstanding contributions to the field,
and his influence was transmitted not only by his discoveries
and inventions, but also by his writings... Finally, his was a true
‘rags to riches’ story that has been an inspiration to immigrants, to those affected with a physical disability, and to those whom society
would dismiss as ‘non-conformists” (ANB). This book was presented to American electrical engineer Comfort A. Adams, who made
great contributions in areas including the steel industry and commercial welding. “Perhaps his most prestigious award was the Edison
Medal in 1956” (ANB). Interior fine, a bit of light restoration to binding. Extremely good condition.
Exceptional Archive Of Six Memoranda Pertaining To The Edison Service Record Club,
Each Signed, Initialed, And/Or Featuring An Autograph Note By Thomas Edison
197. EDISON, Thomas Alva. Archive of autograph and
signed memoranda. Orange, New Jersey, 1922. Six
company memos bearing Edison’s autograph notes and
initials on an assortment of office paper; pp. 9. $7500.
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These six memoranda were all written by B. Wolnitzky, a
laboratory assistant at the Edison Service Record Club,
and concern problems with the club and request advice
or assistance with business-related issues. Two of them
have Edison’s autograph ok and initials. One, in which
Wolnitzky predicts issues with the mail order scheme and proposes several solutions, has an extensive Edison autograph note: “I think
we will receive records back after 24 have received them [correcting a point in Wolnitzky’s memo]. We have a full account for 6 months
of the substitution of —— records & stolen etc & find it amounts to 8% of the total per year or 19-. This is not serious & I cannot see
how it is to be avoided even if we mark them red.” The other three memos all have shorter autograph notations on them, all signed by
Edision (as “E” or “Edision”), one with the somewhat ominous “Wolnitzky I believe you have not understood me in this whole business
as I infer from your conversation and this – see me – E.” A near-fine archive.
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Rare archive of six memoranda from the Edison Service
Record Club, with all but one memoranda signed or
initialed by Thomas Edison in pencil and each featuring autograph an autograph note ranging from a simple
approval comment (“OK”) to a 61-word opinion on the
financial impact of members substituting and/or stealing records.
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Index
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ABBOTT, Berenice 8
ADAMS, Ansel 126, 127
AMUNDSEN, Roald 63
HEAP, Gwinn Harris 34
AUDUBON, John James 146
DARWIN, Charles 143
HEMINGWAY, Ernest 10, 16, 89
B
DEFOE, Daniel 67
HENNEPIN, Father Louis 32
DICKENS, Charles 77, 78
HEPBURN, Katharine 139
DONNE, John 112
HERBERT, Thomas 51
DORÉ, Gustave 118
HERTZ, Heinrich 149
DOUGHTY, Arthur G. 55
HIGGINS, Godfrey 115
BEARDSLEY, Aubrey 113
E
HOMER 66
Bible 103, 119, 124, 137
EDISON, Thomas Alva 149, 151
BINION, Samuel Augustus 59
ELIOT, T.S. 7
BLACKMORE, Richard 114
ELLISON, Ralph 96
BLACKSTONE, William 18
EVANS, Walker 48
J
BOSWELL, James 72
EVERETT, Edward 40
JAMES, Frank Linsly 54
BOYDELL, John 135
F
JAY, John 17
BARTRAM, William 34
BOYD, James 131
BRACTON, Henrici de 21
BUCK, Pearl S. 88
BUDGE, E.A. Wallis 56
BURTON, Richard F. 55
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HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel 79
HEINLEIN, Robert 93
BAKST, Léon 133
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HAMILTON, Alexander 17
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BACON, Francis 24
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ANDRADA, Jacinto Freire de 52
BACH, Johann Sebastian 141
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CONSTANT, Samuel Victor 50
FAULKNER, William 85
FIELDING, Henry 68
FITZGERALD, F. Scott 4, 83
FLAUBERT, Gustave 75
FOWLES, John 16
HOPKINS, Gerard Manley 97
HOUSTON, Samuel 35
HUME, David 136
JEFFERSON, Thomas 33
JEFFREY OF MONMOUTH 114
JOHNSON, Lyndon Baines 49
JOHNSON, Samuel 71
JOYCE, James 2–3, 9, 90, 91
C
FRANK, Anne 119
K
CAESAR, Gaius Julius 107
FRANKLIN, Benjamin 25, 150
KENDALL, George W. 37
CAMDEN, William 102, 104
FREDERICK THE GREAT 14
KENNEDY, Jacqueline 47
CAMERON, Julia Margaret 126
FRÉMONT, John Charles 35
KENNEDY, John F. 47
CARADOC OF LLANCARFAN 117
FRITH, Francis 60
KENT, Rockwell 130
CAVENDISH, William 125
FROST, A.B. 134
KESEY, Ken 93
CAXTON, William 74
G
KING, Stephen 95
CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, Miguel de 69
CHARLES I 110
CHARLES II 11, 12
CHAUCER 105
CHERRY-GARRARD, Apsley 65
CHURCHILL, Winston 120
COCTEAU, Jean 6, 7
GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ, Gabriel 96
KRULL, Germaine 6
GERARDE, John 146
L
GERSHWIN, George 142
LEE, Harper 92
GOLDSMITH, Oliver 73
LEE, Robert E. 39
GRAHAME, Kenneth 101
LEFÈVRE, Edwin 147
GRANT, Ulysses S. 15, 39
LEWIS, C.S. 98, 100
GRISHAM, John 97
LINCOLN, Abraham 40
PIOZZI, Hester Lynch 72
STEINMETZ, Charles Proteus 151
LIVERMORE, Jesse L. 148
PLATO 23
STEVENSON, Robert Louis 100
LOCKE, John 19
POMPADOUR, MADAME DE 13
STITH, William 31
LOUDON, Jane Wells 145
PONTI, Charles 50
STOWE, Harriet Beecher 38, 78
LOUIS XVI 12
POPE, Alexander 66
SUETONIUS 108
PRICE, Richard 22
SWIFT, Jonathan 70
PRISSE D’AVENNES, Emile 61
T
M
MACHIAVELLI, Niccolo 22
MADISON, James 17
PYLE, Howard 118
TAIT, John 15
MALAMUD, Bernard 89
R
TENNYSON, Alfred 118
MALORY, Thomas 113
RABAN, Ze’ev 134
THOREAU, Henry David 80–81
MANDELA, Nelson 121
RACKHAM, Arthur 129
THUCYDIDES 19
MAN RAY 7
RADCLIFFE, Ann 69
TRISTAN DE SAINT-AMANT, Jean 108
MARIE ANTOINETTE 13
RALEIGH, Walter. 103
TRUTH, Sojourner 38
MARSHALL, John 29
RASHI 122–123
TWAIN, Mark 84, 116
MARVELL, Andrew 112
REID, John 30
RIMBAUD, Arthur 76
U
MASPERO, Gaston Camille 58
MATISSE, Henri 5, 91
RINEHART, Frank A. 36
MAWSON, Douglas 64
ROBERTS, David 57
MELVILLE, Herman 130
ROOSEVELT, Eleanor 45
MONTESQUIEU 20
ROOSEVELT, Franklin D. 15, 46
V
MORRIS, William 74
ROOSEVELT, Theodore 44
VANERSON, J. 39
MORYSON, Fynes 53
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W
SAINT-EXUPERY, Antoine de 99
WASHINGTON, George 29
N
SAUNDERS, Louise 131
WELLS, H.G. 94
NEBEL, Carl 37
SCHULZ, Charles M. 128
WHARTON, Edith 84, 128
NIETZSCHE, Friedrich 121
SHACKLETON, Ernest 63, 65
WHITMAN, Walt 81
NIXON, Richard 48
SHAKESPEARE, William 106, 109, 135
WILDE, Oscar 82
SHORTT, Adam 55
WILSON, Alexander 144
SMITH, Adam 147
WILSON, Woodrow 45
SMITH, Betty 101
WOLFE, Thomas 86
SMITH, John 115
WYETH, N.C. 131
SMOLLETT, Tobias 73
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STEDMAN, Charles 28
ZANUCK, Daryl 140
MOZART, W.A. 142
P
Parliament 111
PARRISH, Maxfield 131
PAUQUET, Hippolyte Louis 51
STEINBECK, John 87, 140
index
PIEROTTI, Ermete 52
U.S. Flag 41
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U.S. Constitution 27
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