Sale 2730B May 31, 2014 Boston

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Fine
Books &
Manuscripts
Sale 2730B
May 31, 2014
Boston
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Manuscripts
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Table of Contents
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Auction & Specialist Information
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Web Site & Online Bidding
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Provenance
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Lots 1–416
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Conditions of Sale
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Absentee Bid Form
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Property from:
A Prominent Lowell, Massachusetts, Collector
A Scholarly Falconry Collector from the South Shore of Massachusetts
A Distinguished Medical Library of Nashville, Tennessee
A Cape Cod Collector of Fine Books
A Cape Ann, Massachusetts, Estate
The Library of a Collector of the Beat Poets
A Newport, Rhode Island, Estate
A Fine Print Collection of Florida
Documents
Lots 1–57
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Adams, Samuel (1722-1803) Signed Military
Commission, 8 March 1796.
Document printed on laid paper, completed
by hand. Appointing Christopher Blanding
(1756-1808) [of Rehoboth] Captain of a
Company in the First Regiment of the Second
Brigade, Fifth Division of the Massachusetts
Militia. Shakily signed by Adams in the upper
left margin, below the seal, countersigned by
John Avery, separated into two pieces along
the central vertical fold, the paper toned,
slightly chipped, 13 1/4 x 9 in.
$500-700
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American Letters, Autograph Lot, Julia
Ward Howe (1819-1910), William Cullen
Bryant (1794-1878), and Oliver Wendell
Holmes Senior (1809-1894), Three
Autograph Notes Signed.
Three short notes, Howe’s and Bryant’s are
postcards, the Holmes note is not, various
sizes, 1877-1890. (3)
$300-500
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Barnum, Phineas T. (1810-1891) Quit-Claim
Deed, 15 October 1888.
Single page pre-printed document, completed
by hand on one side, docketed on the reverse.
Relinquishing a certain parcel of property in
Bridgeport, Connecticut to B.D. Pierce. Old
folds, some toning, blind stamped by the
Notary Public, 14 x 8 1/2 in.
$500-700
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Bill W. [aka] William Griffith Wilson (18951971) Typed Letter Signed, 27 July 1943.
Two pages. To Forrist Haley accepting an
invitation to visit his Alcoholics Anonymous
group in Los Angeles. On the Alcoholic
Foundation national headquarters letterhead,
old folds, 8 1/2 x 11 in.
“Your demonstration has shown that A.A.
can spread over the face of the earth—and
will. It is a wholesale miracle which makes us
exclaim ‘What hath God wrought.’”
$1,200-1,500
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Boston Committee of Correspondence,
By Direction of the Committee of
Correspondence for the Town of Boston.
[Boston]: Printed by Isaiah Thomas, by Order
of the Town of Boston, 1773.
First and only edition, large format folio
broadside, on a full sheet of laid paper, with a
visible but difficult to discern watermark, and
the counter-mark: LVC on the other half, text
printed in four columns, signed at the top by
William Cooper, Town Clerk, with the greeting,
“Sir” added in manuscript in what looks like
Cooper’s hand, old folds, the sheet toned,
large margins, slight loss of one letter where
folds intersect, 16 1/4 x 13 in.
Anti-British sentiment was heating up at
Faneuil Hall in March of 1773. At the meeting
described in this broadside, Samuel Adams
(1722-1803) reports that the Governor
Thomas Hutchinson (1711-1780) declared to
the General Assembly, “that the [last] meeting
of the town was illegal in itself; that the town
meeting representatives have no power to act
upon any thing resolved at such a meeting,
and that therefore the proceedings of the
meeting were against the law; and that the
principles advanced at the meeting “have a
direct tendency to alienate the affections of
the people from their sovereign.” Benjamin
Franklin also refers to this series of events
in his correspondence. In a letter to his son
William, written from London on 6 April 1773,
he says, “The Parliament is like to sit till the
end of June, as Mr. [Samuel] Cooper tells me.
I had thoughts of returning home about that
time. The Boston Assembly’s answer to the
governor’s speech, which I have just received,
may possibly produce something here to
occasion my longer stay.”
$2,000-3,000
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Brown, John (1800-1859) Autograph Note
Signed and Endorsed Check, 1 December
1859.
Single page of lined paper, inscribed on
one side, the original check set into the
same sheet, a window cut in the letter to
accommodate the check, with John Brown’s
endorsement, naming his wife and son on the
verso, and Mary Brown’s signature. The letter
addressed to Edward Harris (1801-1872) of
Woonsocket, Rhode Island, thanking him for
sending a check for $100. Also included is
a letter from George W. Mumford, Secretary
State of the Commonwealth of Virginia,
acknowledging receipt of the check; ink faded
on the rectos of both letters and the check,
all three documents matted and mounted
together in a double-glazed frame.
Brown wrote this note from prison in Charles
Town, Virginia on the night before his
execution. “My dear Sir, I only have time to
say that your most kind & comforing [sic]
letter of the 20th inst. enclosed Draft for $100,
One Hundred Dollars & copies are received
& to return you my earnest thanks. May
God Allmighty reward you a Thousand fold.
Your friend, John Brown.” Brown also refers
to the receipt of Harris’s check in a letter to
his family dated 30 November 1859. Brown
was executed by hanging because of his
participation in radical abolitionist activities
that included arming enslaved people in an
attempt to overthrow the practice of slavery in
the American south. On 2 December 1859, he
became a martyr for the abolitionist cause.
$30,000-50,000
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Buchanan, James (1791-1868) Document
Signed, 3 May 1858.
Single wove paper page, with the Presidential
seal in the lower right corner, countersigned
by Secretary of State Lewis Cass (17821866). Nominating John J. Cisco (1806-1884)
Assistant Treasurer of the United States and
Treasurer of the Assay office for New York
state. The paper clean, with old folds, matted
and framed, slightly rumpled, 14 1/4 x 12 in.
visible.
$250-350
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By the Governor. A Proclamation for a
Publick Thanksgiving. Boston: Draper, 1773.
Broadside, ESTC lists three copies in
American libraries, two at the American
Antiquarian Society, and one at the
Massachusetts Historical Society, with a
note on the back from a Reverend Smith of
Weymouth, framed; and a collection of papers
and ephemera, including three issues of the
Whalemen’s Shipping List from 1853 and a
few odd pages, and other documents.
$200-300
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Celebrity Signatures: Paul Newman (19252008), Cary Grant (1904-1986), Truman
Capote (1924-1984), and Adam Clayton
Powell Jr. (1908-1972).
Softcover single-signature stapled pamphlet
containing lyrics to songs, with textured
metallic copper-colored paper covers, entitled
Le Livre Chanson, published for the Normandy
Village restaurant in Minnesota, mid-20th
century, signatures in blue ink inside front
cover, minor folds, marginal yellowing, slight
loss of surface to covers, 9 1/2 x 6 1/2 in.
$500-700
10
Chamberlain, Joshua (1828-1940)
Autograph Letter Signed, 15 June 1872.
Folding bifolium, Bowdoin College letter
paper, two pages, with matching holograph
envelope. To H.H. Hobbs (1802-1884) judge,
of South Berwick, Maine, advising him that
Chamberlain has made an effort to induce a
Bowdoin student to take the job of Preceptor
at Berwick Academy, with no success, noting
that other academies are offering greater
salaries, viz., $1,200 a year. With folds, 9 x 5
1/2 in. folded.
$800-1,200
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Chauncy, Charles (1705-1787) Small
Archive of Printed and Manuscript Material.
Including Jonathan Shipley’s (1714-1788) A
Sermon Preached before the Incorporated
Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in
Foreign Parts, Boston: Thomas & John Fleet,
1773, with Chauncy’s signature in the upper
right corner; a defective copy of Chauncy’s
A Sermon Occasion’d by the Present
Rebellion in favour of the Pretender, Boston:
Gookin, 1746, 38 pages only; a document
in Chauncy’s hand, with his signature, 10
September 1761, concerning the resolution
of a heated land dispute between Benjamin
Greenleaf and Deacon Thomas Moody; and
a single signature, twelve-leaf manuscript
booklet containing sermons transcribed c.
1769.
$300-500
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Cummings, Edward Estlin (1894-1962)
Original Pen and Ink Drawing.
Pen and ink sketch with ink wash identified
as the work of Cummings by Hildegarde
Watson in a printed note affixed to the board
on which the drawing is mounted, depicting
“Grandfather Watson,” James Sibley Watson
Senior, the sheet mounted, toned, with some
tears, 11 1/2 x 8 3/4 in.
Cummings graduated from Harvard with
Dr. James Sibley Watson Jr. (1894-1982) in
1916. Watson and his wife Hildegarde Lasell
Watson (1888-1976), remained close friends
of Cummings from that time onward.
$1,500-2,500
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Cummings, Edward Estlin (1894-1962)
Unpublished Manuscript Poem Signed with
an “E,” 30 August 1916.
Single page. Removed from a shipboard guest
book belonging to Dr. James Sibley Watson
Jr. (1894-1982) and Hildegarde Lasell Watson
(1888-1976), their signatures precede his
poem, two names appear on the verso, lightly
toned around the edges, good, 9 1/4 x 7 1/2
in.
James Sibley Watson Jr. and Cummings
graduated together at Harvard in the year
this poem was penned, and remained
lifelong friends. The poem is signed with
Cummings’s characteristically formed first
initial; it is seemingly unpublished and was
likely produced extemporaneously on the day
of their marine outing.
“As if the momentarily incautious reed
Whence trembled a world’s doubtful soul and
dim
Should once remember the swift sylvan whim
Of the first poet, —her spirit doth proceed
From impertinent original deed
Of the old maker, ocean; to whose slim
Smooth body dawn uplifts a golden hymn,
The younger stars recite their beckoning
creed.
This is her very self; wherefrom now springs
The precise epic of amazing sun,
Now the white lyric of the waking storm;
Upon whose symmetry fleet hours perform
Continuing miracle; her soul being one
With beauty of all unbelievèd things.”
$3,000-5,000
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Declaration of Independence. Washington,
D.C.: engraved by W.J. Stone, [1833].
Folio broadside, printed on rice paper,
formerly folded and included in Peter Force’s
(1790-1868) American Archives, an accurate,
actual-size facsimile of the original document,
the plate produced by Stone in 1823, at which
time it was published in an edition of 200
copies, appearing at that time with a different
imprint; in this, the Force Declaration, the
Stone imprint is in the bottom left quadrant,
under the first column of signatures; this copy
has old folds, some offsetting of the printed
text, and a small stain in the left margin,
touching one letter, small tear in the top
quadrant center, where four folds intersect,
and again near the bottom, in the center of
John Hancock’s signature, no loss of paper,
could be repaired from the verso without loss,
minor crinkling along the margins, 25 1/2 x
29 in.
In 1820, fearing the state of preservation of
the original Declaration of Independence,
Secretary of State John Quincy Adams
commissioned the engraver William J. Stone
to create a full-size facsimile. After three years
of work on the plate, Congress ordered the
publication of 200 copies on parchment.
This edition was produced after Peter Force
purchased the plate, with a plan to include
a folded version in his publication, American
Archives. Subscription orders proved
disappointing and Force saw his project
cancelled by Secretary of State William Marcy
in 1853.
$18,000-20,000
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Dillinger, John (1903-1934) Wanted Poster,
and Related Documents, Mid-March 1934.
Division of Investigation wanted poster dated
March 12, 1934, with Dillinger’s fingerprints,
description, mug shots (from January
25, 1934), criminal record, list of aliases
and signature, 8 x 8 in., on card, with old
horizontal fold, two staples, and one set of old
staple punctures, manuscript note of Dillinger’s
aliases in pencil; with the accompanying letter,
addressed to H.H. Bolds, Passport Agent in
Boston, signed by Ruth Shipley (1885-1966)
as head of the Passport Division of the United
States Department of State, dated March
16, 1934, referring to the Dillinger wanted
poster, 10 1/2 x 9 in., on State Department
letterhead, with staple wounds corresponding
to the wanted poster, bottom corners
chipped, two old folds, some short closed
marginal tears; and the original pink carbon
card catalog created by the Passport Division
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when the poster was originally received, with
an added manuscript note, “killed resisting
officers of D. o. J., 1934,” 3 x 5 in.
[and] Two wanted posters for Katherine Ann
Power, 1978. (5)
On March 14, 1934, Dillinger and his gang
robbed the First National Bank in Mason
City, Iowa, getting away with only $52,000.
Dillinger was also shot in the shoulder on that
day. Summer of 1934 proved to be Dillinger’s
last season; he was famously brought down
by the law outside the Biograph Theatre in
Chicago on July 22.
$700-900
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Documents, 18th to 20th Century.
An assorted collection of documents, mostly
from the 19th and 20th century, including
receipts, notes, labels, land deeds, legal
documents, letters, envelopes, some
with postage, and other assorted and
miscellaneous paper, in a box.
$200-300
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Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan (1859-1930)
Autograph Letter Signed, 24 September
1916.
Single sheet of wove paper inscribed on
one side. To Colonel Green, thanking him for
writing, acknowledging that he has seen the
notes in the Sussex paper, and has found
them helpful, adding that his account is taken
from the official brigade report. Some slight
toning on the left edge, 6 1/2 x 5 1/4 in.
$300-500
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Dudley, Joseph (1647-1720) Document
Signed, 9 July 1703.
Single sheet of laid paper, with docketing
information on the verso, the text in a
secretarial hand with Dudley’s signature below.
Certifying that Francis Wainwright (1664-1711)
of Ipswich, Massachusetts, Harvard class of
1686, has taken the Oath of Allegiance and
Supremacy, and the Oath of a Justice of the
Peace for Essex County. Old folds, the sheet
toned, slightly fragmentary along the folds,
reinforced with tissue, chip with slight loss in
blank bottom right corner, 13 1/2 x 8 1/4 in.
Joseph Dudley (Harvard graduate, class of
1665) served as Governor of the Province of
Massachusetts Bay and New Hampshire in
this period, from June 1702 to February 1715.
He oversaw a tense period in colonial North
American history, and was a controversial
and divisive figure himself. During the summer
of 1703, Dudley was engaged in an attempt
to calm tensions rising between English and
French settlers that would ultimately lead
to Queen Anne’s War, one of the French
and Indian Wars. He had just met with the
Indians in Cascom Bay in June, without
success. Joseph Dudley’s father was
Massachusetts founder and four-time
Governor of the colony, Thomas Dudley
(1576-1653).
$400-600
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Earhart, Amelia (1897-1937) Signed Ticket
to Amelia Earhart Day, Waterville Airport,
13 August 1934.
Orange cardstock ticket, printed for BostonMaine Airways, inviting a Mrs. Ralph Gilmore
to take a flight in a “B.M. tri-motored airliner,”
on flight number eight at 11:10 am, with
Earhart’s signature on the dotted line, 3 3/4 x
2 1/4 in.
Events like these allowed Earhart to fulfill
her personal mission to encourage female
participation in aviation.
$500-700
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Ecclesiastical Wax Seals, Three, European,
c. 1400-1600.
Three seals originally attached to documents,
one with silk threads attached, the other two
with vestiges of parchment strip attachment;
fingerprints on the versos of all three, one is
oval-shaped, 3 3/4 x 2 1/4 in., with a seated
Bishop flanked by two coats of arms, and
formed of a light-colored wax; the other two
are dark and round; the smaller is 2 1/2 in.
and depicts Madonna and Child, flanked
by two saints; and the larger (4 1/4 in.) seal
depicts Saint Peter (with his key) in a gothic
architectural framework, with a smaller
counter-seal on the verso; all have wear and
edge chips, the text around the edges is
fragmentary. (3)
$500-700
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Gandhi, Indira (1917-1984) Typed Letter
Signed, 25 December 1968.
Single page. To Professor John McAleer of
Boston College, thanking him for his letter
with references to Mahatma Gandhi and the
Prime Minister’s father, and reinforcing the
connection made by McAleer between the
philosophies of Thoreau and of Mahatma
Gandhi. On letterhead of the Prime Minister’s
House in New Delhi, with the original typed
envelope with red wax seal, folds, 11 1/2 x 8
1/4 in.
$300-500
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Gandhi, Mahatma (1869-1948) Signed
Photograph, Additional Snapshot, and
Letter from Amrit Kaur (1889-1964).
Small (3 1/2 x 2 1/4 in.) black and white
photograph of Gandhi in profile, his hands
pressed together in prayer, with the inscription,
“Truth at all costs,” and his signature, the blue
ink oxidized and faded; another small black
and white snapshot of Gandhi being pulled
in a rickshaw in a procession, titled “Bhulla
Chien Desia” on the verso; and the letter
originally sent by Amrit Kaur to John McAleer,
accompanying the signed photograph, dated
1946, “Your long letter to Gandhiji has come
and he has asked me to acknowledge it with
many thanks. It is good that you have been
in India and seen things for yourself and have
come to love her. Humanity is the same the
world over in whatever garb or color she may
be clothed. Here, as elsewhere, we have
much to be proud of and much to be sad
about. Gandhiji’s message to you is ‘Truth at
all costs.’ Could you have a better ‘phrase’
given to you in answer to your request? I
return your photo duly signed. Yours sincerely,
Amrit Kaur” with the envelope.
$1,500-2,000
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George III of the United Kingdom (17381820) Signed Military Commission, 8 June
1798.
Single sheet of laid paper, sealed and
stamped, with George III’s large signature in
the top left corner, recto; inscribed on both
sides and countersigned by William Henry
Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland
(1738-1809) on the verso. Appointing John
Humble as Ensign in the Regiment of the Bank
of England Volunteers. Old folds, some toning,
12 1/4 x 8 in.
This military group was formed in 1798
to protect the bank against a Napoleonic
invasion. In 1798, the Duke of Portland was
Home Secretary.
$300-500
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Hammerstein, Oscar II (1895-1960) Signed
Photograph.
Large silver-gelatin photographic portrait of a
young Hammerstein, in suit and tie. Signed
to Lilly and Kaddy, undated. The image with a
warm overall tone, some oxidation of the silver
evident in the background and suit jacket, with
the mark of the White Studio of New York,
framed, 12 3/4 x 10 in.
$400-600
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Harrison, Benjamin (1833-1901) Signed
White House Card.
Undated card with an engraved image of the
White House, children playing on the lawn,
and Harrison’s signature below in brown ink, 4
3/4 x 3 1/2 in.
$300-400
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Has the War Ruined the Country? Lincoln
Era Campaign Broadside. New York:
National Union Executive Committee, Astor,
[1865].
Folio broadside on wove paper, with headline,
printed graphs and diagrams, and text in
two columns below, imprint at foot, undated,
early use of statistics in furtherance of a
political campaign, several names inscribed
on the verso, including multiple instances of
“A. Lincoln,” “E. Frank,” Daniel Hall, Esquire
(1832-1887), and mention of the town of
Strafford, New Hampshire; Lincoln did visit
Daniel Hall in Dover, New Hampshire, some
years before this poster was produced, but
it is unclear whether the names inscribed
here are in fact the signatures of the men
mentioned, or not; some old folds and tears to
the sheet, toning, and a few spots, 16 x 9 in.
“The Copperheads assert that the War has
ruined the Country; that we can never pay our
debt; and that the war has proved a failure.
Look at these Diagrams, based on official
records, and see if this is true.”
$400-600
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Hawker, Harry George (1889-1921) Two
Photographs, One Signed, 15 June 1920.
Large-format, 12 3/4 x 9 1/2 in., black-andwhite photograph of Hawker seated aboard
a manually operated seaplane (or some other
vehicle) in a lake, gripping the hand controls,
wearing a suit; and a British photographic post
card of Hawker, with the message “Kindly sign
on opposite side of card” on the verso, and
Hawker’s dated signature on the recto, 4 3/4
x 3 1/4 in.; the larger photograph mounted
on board, with some damage to the left side,
loss of surface, could be excluded easily by
mat placement, the board itself damaged,
toned. (2)
Hawker was an Australian aviation pioneer.
$500-700
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Jefferson, Thomas (1743-1826) The
Inaugural Speech of Thomas Jefferson.
[Boston]: Adams and Rhoades, the Chronicle
Press, 1801.
Broadside printed on silk, title centered above
the text of the speech, which is printed in two
columns separated by a type ornament border
with the imprint concealed in the center, the
fabric tacked to a pine board with hand-forged
nails, the board formerly the back panel of the
original frame, faded indecipherable period
chalk inscription on the back of the wood,
marginal tear in the upper left quadrant of
the broadside, affecting several lines, hole
with loss in the first paragraph, caused by
the breaking of the glass in the now perished
frame, and another hole just below the title,
affecting one word in the date, a small cluster
of holes in the lower left quadrant, other
surface scratches and minor holes; the whole
toned, discolored, and stained, 21 1/2 x 16
1/2 in.
Worldcat locates two copies of this edition, at
the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, and at
the Huntington Library.
$4,000-6,000
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Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963)
Signed Photograph, Signed Bumper
Sticker, and Two Framed Items.
Black and white photograph of Kennedy
sitting in a white convertible Lincoln
Continental with the top down, talking with
James E. Webb (1906-1992) to whom the
photo is inscribed, “To James Webb, with
esteem and warm regard of his friendship,
John Kennedy,” the two are accompanied by
a military man (likely General Leighton I. Davis),
while members of the press, secret service
agents, and other military figures in uniform
are arrayed behind them; good condition,
rubber stamp in black ink on verso reads,
“White House Photograph, Nov. 17, 1963”
[punctuation added]; 8 x 10 in.
[with] A red, white, and blue Kennedy for
President bumper sticker, the wax paper
backing still intact, with Kennedy’s signature,
8 3/4 x 3 3/4 in.; a framed black and white
photograph of a blooming magnolia in front of
the White House, 19 1/2 x 15 1/4 in.; and a
triptych of photographs of the Aaron Shikler
portraits of John and Jacqueline Kennedy,
matted and framed, 32 1/2 x 19 1/4 in. (4)
James Webb was the second Administrator
of NASA, serving from 1961 to 1968. The
landscape and cast of characters in the
photograph suggest that this photograph was
taken at Cape Canaveral.
$200-400
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Kent, Rockwell (1882-1971) Archive of
Letters and Related Ephemera.
Consisting of seventeen typed letters, sixteen
of which are signed, sent to Charles Wayland
Lightbody and his wife Georgia between
March 1943 and January 1949, the unsigned
letter with a manuscript correction in Kent’s
hand; fourteen of the letters on Kent’s Ausable
Forks stationery, various sizes, all with old
folds, generally good. The letters discuss
social plans; political issues surrounding a
proposed rail line from Western New York
through Detroit to Chicago (1944); the
employment at Kent’s Ausable Forks home
of Lee Hays; the wedding of Peter Freuchen
at the house, with best man Paul Robeson
slated to attend; the Zionist movement in
Palestine (1946), and the problem of post-war
Jewish refugees in general; mentions of David
O. Selznick’s affair with Jennifer Jones; Kent’s
local political activities; his work as an artist;
Marxist leanings; and other topics.
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[and] A group of other associated paper items
including unsigned Christmas cards illustrated
by Kent; a copy of Demcourier from 1937
dedicated to Kent; a catalog of the exhibition
of Kent’s Alaska drawings from 1919; another
from his 1955 show entitled, The Right to
Travel; assorted newspaper clippings; six
snapshot postcards from Monhegan, Maine;
six autograph letters signed by Sally Kent to
Georgia Lightbody, all but one from the spring
of 1943, on her stationary, the sixth dated
23 October 1945; and a telegram sent by
Rockwell Kent.
$2,000-3,000
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Kerouac, Jack (1922-1969) Signed Check,
11 April 1963.
Personal check drawn on the Security
National Bank of Long Island, Northport,
New York, made out to the Internal Revenue
Service, for $29.20, fulfilled and signed by
Kerouac, with the bank’s perforated and
rubber stamps, old rusty paper clip mark in
upper left quadrant, 6 1/4 x 2 3/4 in.
$300-500
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Kline, Franz (1910-1962) Autograph Letter
Signed with Drawings and Envelope, 18
November 1931.
Single page of Boston University stationery,
inscribed on both sides, with the holograph
envelope. To Lavona Edgar, giving news of
college life and inquiring about friends at
home, and plans for the upcoming winter
holidays. Single page, folded into thirds, slight
chip, ink a bit blurred on the recto, touching
the ends of four lines; fading and fly specking
to envelope, 10 1/2 x 7 1/4 in.
Kline sends regards to his friend in Lehighton,
Pennsylvania, reports that he’s growing a
moustache, won’t be home for Thanksgiving
but will return for Christmas. The letter
is written in a stylized hand, with many
humorous cartoons added, including a sketch
of Duke Ellington and a mutual friend drawn as
“a Clara Bow.”
$2,000-3,000
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Kline, Franz (1910-1962) Autograph Letter,
25 October 1931, and Related Ephemera.
Six-page letter written on wood-grained
pattern stationery, with the matching lined
holographic envelope; a program for the
Lehighton High School commencement, 5
June 1931, with Kline’s name listed; and the
Lehighton High School football schedule for
1929. The letter addressed to Lavona Edgar,
sharing news of life at Boston University. All
three with signs of wear, some chipping, folds,
fading.
“I have a roommate. He’s from Maine. Tonight
we bought a Drip-o-Lite coffee percolator,
so we laugh to each other while eating
doughnuts & drinking coffee. Our mid-nite
luncheon. He with me is a supposedly art
student, half the time we don’t know whether
we’re Budding Artists, or Blooming Fools, but
we’re happy and get along fine together.”
$700-900
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Kline, Franz (1910-1962) Three Signed
Leaves of Drawings.
Three pages removed from an autograph
album c. 1927, inscribed in ink with lighthearted cartoons from Kline’s high school
days; two with drawings on one side only (with
autograph sentiments written by others on
the verso), the third with signed drawings by
Kline on both sides; on green, pink, and yellow
paper, 5 1/2 x 3 1/2 in. each. (3)
Kline was a 1931 graduate of Lehighton,
Pennsylvania High School, and contributed
amusing cartoons and caricatures to this
autograph album of a former classmate.
$3,000-5,000
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Lescallier, Baron Daniel (1743-1822) Coded
Letter, Signed, New York, 19 November
1812.
Single large bifolium sheet inscribed on four
pages. From Lescallier, the French Consul
General to the United States (1810-1815),
to the French Minster of Foreign Affairs,
Hugues-Bernard Maret, Duke of Bassano
(1763-1839), address, date, greeting, closing,
and signature written normally, the complete
content of the letter written exclusively in a
series of two-, three-, and four-digit numbers;
with the addressed envelope, red wax seal
cracked but present; old folds to the letter,
some toning, the sheet watermarked with the
date 1810, envelope torn, the letter 16 x 12
1/2 in. unfolded.
In her 2005 book, Daniel Lescallier, Man of
the Sea - and Military Spy?, Margaret Bradley
explores Lescallier’s activities as an industrial
spy in the period preceding the Napoleonic
Wars.
$300-500
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Lindbergh, Charles A. (1902-1974), Jimmy
Doolittle (1886-1993), and Edward Vernon
Rickenbacker (1890-1973) Signed Photos
of their Airplanes, and a Lindbergh Firstday Cover, 21 May 1932.
Three small-format black-and-white snapshots
of planes owned by the three aviators,
each signed on the image, Lindbergh’s and
Doolittle’s: 2 1/2 x 3 1/2 in., Rickenbacker’s: 4
1/2 x 2 3/4 in. The Lindbergh cover with fivecent airmail stamp, signature, postmarks, and
a rubber stamp of the Norristown Chamber
of Commerce, noting the commemoration of
Lindbergh’s 1927 flight to Paris, 6 1/2 x 3 1/2
in. (4)
$1,000-1,500
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Lorant, Stefan (1901-1997) Small Archive of
Correspondence and Two Books.
Approximately twelve notes, postcards, and
other personal correspondence sent by Lorant
to his personal physician and the physician’s
wife in the 1980s and 1990s; a 1993 color 8
x 10 in. photograph of Lorant parasailing on
his ninety-second birthday, with an inscription
in Lorant’s hand to that effect in the bottom
margin; three pamphlets that concern Lorant,
each inscribed with short notes; an inscribed
first edition copy of Lorant’s The Glorious
Burden, Lenox: Author’s Edition, 1976, in a
price-clipped dust jacket; and Michael Hallett’s
Stefan Lorant, Godfather of Photojournalism,
2006, in the jacket.
$800-1,000
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Marquis de Lafayette (1757-1834)
Secretarial Letter Signed, 27 February
1831.
Single sheet of wove paper, inscribed on
one side. To an unnamed military official,
recommending a Monsieur Rolandeau
for service with the cavalry in the Melun
Arrondissement, Département de Seine-etMarne, old folds, otherwise clean, with a later
portrait, 8 3/4 x 7 1/4 in.
$400-600
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Marquis de Sade (1740-1814) Autograph
Letter Signed, 1 April [no year].
Single sheet of laid paper, inscribed on one
side, verso used as self-envelope, with the
addressee’s name and address and fragments
of a broken red wax seal. To GaspardFrancois-Xavier Gaufridi [sometimes Gaufridy]
(1757-1799), de Sade’s longtime legal advisor,
describing a complicated legal and financial
incident involving six francs, the knowledge of
de Sade’s family, and a reimbursement. Old
folds, toning, corners folded, 9 x 6 3/4 in.
It’s a little difficult to date this letter, as de
Sade and Gaufridi had an extended and
complicated relationship that extended for
decades, involving many intricate legal and
financial problems. The letter is one long
complicated sentence; punctuation in this
transcription was added. “Votre lettre m’a
extrêmement touché mon cher Gofredi, je vois
avec douleur tous les chagrins qu’ont vous
donné et je suis prêt à trouver les moyens
de les réparer. Si vous n’aviez pas parlé de
ses six francs à quelqu’un, je ne vous les
aurai point ôté. Mais célà étant venue à la
connaissance de ma famille je suis obligé de
vous prier de remettre le billet entre les mains
de mon frère ou de ma mere. Mais ne vous
en affligez pas, car vous en ferez serez bien
dedamager parvenu que ceci ne transpire pas
et qu’au contraire vous disiez que je vous ai
abandonné. Vous saurez bientôt de quoi il est
question.—Sade”
$3,000-5,000
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Massachusetts General Court, Resolves In
the House of Representatives, September
17th, 1776. [Watertown, Mass.: Printed by
Benjamin Edes, 1776].
Small folio broadside printed on laid paper,
deckle edges, large margins, browned, with
the appearance of having been in contact with
some acidic material, old folds, slight water
stains, 11 3/4 x 8 1/2 in.
This document, issued at a critical juncture in
the American Revolution, is written to solidify
some details regarding the military draft, viz.,
volunteers will be recalled within at least two
months, if not sooner, commanding officers
can accept and refund fines paid by those
who defer the draft, commanding officers
are further empowered to muster militias as
needed in order to obtain their quota, and
“each man on his march” to volunteer to fight
is entitled to a payment of one penny per
mile for his trip. ESTC records six copies in
American libraries, all held in Massachusetts,
including four copies at the American
Antiquarian Society, the other two at Harvard
and Boston Public Library.
$2,000-3,000
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Napoleon I (1769-1821) Letter Signed, 9
June 1815.
Single page, wove paper, with the edge of a
watermark visible in the top right quadrant. To
Count Nicolas François Mollien (1785-1850),
who served as Napoleon’s finance minister
during the Hundred Days, asking him to pay
the troops for the month of July before the
eleventh. Old folds, top right edge slightly
browned, slight edge chip in the same region,
9 x 7 1/4 in.
This letter was written nine days before
Napoleon’s legendary defeat at Waterloo, and
would be one of the last communications
made to his finance minister on behalf of the
French troops.
$2,000-4,000
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Oswald, Lee Harvey (1939-1963) Draft
Letter Signed [Minsk, Russia, 30 January
1962].
Two pages of lined note paper, each inscribed
in pencil on one side. To John Connally Jr.
(1917-1993) asking for assistance with the
change in disposition of Oswald’s military
discharge from the Marines. Adhesive from
the original notepad visible at the top of page
one, each sheet lined in blue, twenty-four lines
per page, two old folds to each sheet, 10 1/2
x 7 1/4 in.
In January of 1962, Oswald was living in
the Soviet Union, in the city of Minsk. He
had married a Russian national on 30 April
1961, and on 15 February 1962, his wife
gave birth to a daughter. At the time this
letter was written, Oswald had received
word, by way of his mother, that the Navy
had altered his discharge. He was under the
mistaken impression that it was changed to
dishonorable, although it was down-graded
from honorable to undesirable, because of
potentially traitorous statements he made to
authorities while in the Soviet Union. He was
also mistaken about Connally’s job. At the time
this letter was written, Connally was governor
of Texas, although Oswald addresses him in
his former capacity as Secretary of the Navy.
Other associated letters of contextual import
to this letter include the final version of this
draft letter, originally sent to Connally, who
forwarded it to the Navy, whereupon it was
turned over to the Warren Commission; and
a letter written to Oswald’s brother Robert on
the same day (30 January 1962) and referring
to the composition of this letter and the issue
it concerns. The final version of this letter was
dated 30 January 1961 by Oswald, that date
was accepted and repeated by the Warren
Commission, however it is in error. Oswald
refers to his family in the letter, and in January
of 1961 he had yet to have met his wife, and
had no family. The letter to Robert, written on
the same day, bears the correct date.
Oswald returned to the States with his wife
and daughter in June of 1962. On the day that
he murdered President Kennedy, he also shot
John Connally.
Dear Sir,
I wish to call to [sic] your attention to a
case about which you may have personal
knowledge since you are a resident of Ft.
Worth as I am. In November 1959, (an evict
[sic]) was well publicated [sic] in the Ft. Worth
newspapers concerning a person who had
gone to the Soviet Union to reside for a short
time (much in the same way E. Hemingway
resided in Paris) [no punctuation]
This person, in answers to questions put to
him by reporters in Moscow, criticized certain
facets of American life, the story was blown up
into another turncoat sensation with the result
that the Navy department gave this person a
belated dishonorable discharge although he
had received an honorable discharge after
three years service on Sept. 11, 1957 at
El Toro Marine Corps base in California [no
period]
These are the basic facts of my case.
I have allways had the full sanction of the
U.S. Embassy, Moscow USSR, and hence
the U.S. government. In as much as I am
returning to the USSR [sic, Oswald meant
U.S.A.] in this year, with the aid of the U.S.
Embassy, bring [sic] with me my family (since
I married in the USSR.) I shall employ all
means to right this gross mistake or injustice
to a bona fied US citizen and ex service
man. The US government has no charge or
complaints against me. I ask you to look into
this case and take the necessary steps to
repair the damage done to me and my family.
For information I would direct you to consult
the American Embassy, Chikovski St. 19/21,
Moscow, USSR.
Thank you
Lee Oswald.
$30,000-35,000
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Parrish, Maxfield (1870-1966) Two Signed
Personal Checks, 1932 and 1934.
Two checks drawn on the Windsor County
National and State National Banks, both paid
to Jean Parrish, both fulfilled and signed by
Parrish, with the banks’ perforated and rubber
stamps, 8 1/4 x 3 in. each. (2)
$200-300
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Penn, William (1644-1718) Signed Land
Deed, 26 September 1681.
Single parchment sheet. Commemorating
a rental agreement for 500 acres of land in
Pennsylvania, between Penn and James
Peters of Bristol, Soapmaker; the names and
some of the terms of the agreement have
been scratched out and altered; lacking the
wax seal, top edge cut in the typical wavy
line, bottom edge folded up as usual, with the
strip of parchment (originally holding the seal)
intact; with Penn’s signature on the turned-up
edge, old folds, wear, a hole that elides one
word, signed by witnesses and with a later
docket on the verso; mounted in a doubleglazed frame, 28 1/4 x 8 in.
$2,000-3,000
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Pennsylvania Quakers, Land Deed, 1688.
Manuscript indenture on parchment signed by
Moses Mildenhall, transferring the ownership
of a parcel of land along the Delaware River
in Pennsylvania, originally granted to him
by William Penn, to his brothers, John and
Benjamin Mildenhall, and sisters Mary Newlin,
and Margery Martin. [The Mildenhalls changed
the spelling of their name to Mendenhall
upon their arrival in America.] The parchment
document cut at the top in the typical wave
pattern, first letter of the text embellished, with
the date boldly inscribed, signed by Moses
at the foot, missing the seal, abraded holes
where folds converge, with loss of a few
words, slightly yellowed, edges curled with
some wear, 27 x 11 3/4 in.
The Mendenhalls are one of the founding
families of the Penn-inspired Quaker colony in
America. The land transaction recorded in this
document memorializes Moses Mendenhall’s
return to England. All of his siblings remained
in Pennsylvania, contributing to the growing
Quaker community.
$2,000-3,000
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Plan and Sections of a Slave Ship. London:
James Phillips, 1789.
Large-format broadside with an engraved
illustration on the left, and the text, Description
of a Slave-Ship, printed typographically on
the right; rare, ESTC locates only five copies
in American libraries; large fold between the
sections, chipping to edges, slight mat burn,
faint water stain in upper left corner, printed on
heavy rag paper, 27 x 21 in.
This broadside represents an indelible image
of enslaved people bound and stowed like
cargo aboard the ship Brooks, which carried
between 400 and 600 captives. The point of
view inspiring this document is abolitionist.
“To persons unacquainted with the mode of
carrying on this system of trading in human
flesh, these plans and sections will appear
rather a fiction, than a real representation of a
slave ship.”
$600-800
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Presidents of the United States [and]
Ornamental Map of the United States and
Mexico. New York: Phelps, 1846.
Two hand-colored poster-sized broadsides,
the first featuring portraits of the first eleven
American presidents with a central panel
featuring an illustration of the signing of
Declaration of Independence, hand-coloring
added in yellow, pink, and green; five old
marginal tears with discoloration due to old
tape repairs, not examined out of frame,
some toning to the sheet; the second with
a large map of North America, including
Texas, Mexico, Indian Territory, Upper
California, Oregon, and the Missouri Territory,
large portrait of George Washington center
topmost, flanked by Cortez and Montezuma,
five panels below concern the dates of
settlement for the states and territories; a
history of Oregon below a portrait of General
Taylor; a panel on Cortez’s explorations in
Mexico; another dedicated to Santa Anna,
with his portrait and details concerning New
Mexico and “the Californias”; and finally a
short history of Mexico; hand-colored in pink,
yellow, green, and blue, three old tears with
staining from tape repairs, some foxing, not
examined out of frame; the two in matching
frames, each 23 x 30 in. overall. (2)
$800-1,000
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Pro-Slavery Ambrotype of a Political
Cartoon, The Root of All Evil. America, c.
1856.
Ambrotype image of a drawing, signed,
“Drawn by J.B.,” featuring a man in suit
and top hat, in profile, his torso attached
to a stump radiating roots labeled with the
following terms: Abolition, [New York] Tribune,
John Brown, Kansas Independent, Pike’s
Peak, Infidelity, Horace Greeley, Free Love,
Uncle Tom, Maine Law, Know Nothing,
Sharps Rifles, North Church, Jabot, Dred
Scott, H.W. Beecher, and F. Douglass; the
image housed in an contemporary embossed
leather case, with clasps and embossed red
velvet lining, the spine has been repaired
with tape; the image itself is dark around the
edges, and sometimes hard to make out, the
original drawing would have been larger, gold
highlights added by hand; 4 3/4 x 3 3/4 in.
$300-500
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Revere, Joseph Warren (1777-1868)
Autograph Letter Signed, 15 September
1803.
Laid paper bifolium, one inscribed page, self
envelope, with remnants of seal. To Benjamin
Stone, settling some debts. Bottom section
of envelope torn away, offsetting, old folds,
wrapper is worn, 7 1/4 x 9 in. folded.
Paul Revere’s (1734-1818) son Joseph was the
co-founder of the Revere Copper Company.
This letter contains two references to the
more famous Revere: “Paul informs me that
he owes two small debts,” and “Paul will also
be much obliged if you will send by some
safe conveyance the few things he left at your
house.”
$200-300
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Scott, Sir Walter (1771-1832) Autograph
Letter Signed, 2 August [1827], Abbotsford.
Single leaf inscribed on both sides, watermark in
the sheet dated 1827. To William Stephen Gilly
(1789-1855), discussing a visit, the health of his
children, and Gilly’s book. Breaks and repaired
tears along top margin, 1 x 2 in. portion torn
away from upper left corner, dusty, 9 x 7 1/2 in.
According to Scott’s journal, he met Gilly, Vicar
of Norham, about two weeks before this letter
was written, on 13 July 1827.
$400-600
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Shackleton, Ernest (1874-1922) Autograph
Poem Signed, 12 November 1907, Two
Ways.
One page, twenty-four lines, signed by
Shackleton on the S.S. India, in black ink on
cream-colored wove paper, matted and framed,
4 x 7 in. This poem was published in the
London Sunday Express on 5 February 1922, in
remembrance of Shackleton at his death.
Two Ways
You may love the calm and peaceful days,
And the glorious tropic nights
When the roof of the Earth with broad stars
blaze
And the moon’s long path of light
Steals in a shining silver streak,
From the far horizon line
And on the brink of the ocean’s rim
Still greater planets shine
But all the delight of summer seas,
And the sun’s westing gold
Are nought to me for I know a sea
with a glamour and glory untold.
The gloom and cold of the long stern night
The work with its strain and stress
Hold sterling worth and sheer delight
And these soft bright times hold less.
For all is new on our ice bound shore
Where white peaks dare the stars
There strong endeavour and steady hand
Alone can unloose the bars.
Then by faith unswerving we may attain
To the oft wished for distant goal,
And at last to our country’s gain
Hold with our flag the Southern Pole.
$700-900
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Shepard, Ernest (1879-1976) Autograph
Letter Signed, 19 January 1970.
Single leaf inscribed on both sides. To Mr.
Haack, declining to illustrate The Lord of
the Rings, having never read it, and being
ninety years old, but recommending Norman
Mansbridge (1911-1993) for the job. On
Shepard’s Woodmancote stationery, horizontal
fold, slight rust line from an old paper clip in top
corner, 7 x 5 1/4 in.
$200-300
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Stout, Rex (1886-1975) Archive of Forty-four
Signed Letters, Related Ephemera, and
Signed Photograph.
Letters written between 1969 and 1975, all
but one addressed to Professor John McAleer
(1923-2003), who wrote a biography of Stout,
while they were working together, mostly typed
on Stout’s small stationery, from High Meadow,
in Brewster, New York, one signed as Archie
Goodwin (Stout’s fictional narrator from his Nero
Wolfe series), the majority of letters with their
original envelopes, a few letters of introduction
written on behalf of McAleer, a few very short
notes all in Stout’s hand, other Nero Wolferelated ephemera, and a framed black-andwhite photograph of Stout trimming a begonia,
(9 3/4 x 11 in.) inscribed to McAleer, 12 April
1969.
$3,000-5,000
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von Humboldt, Alexander (1769-1859)
Autograph Note Signed, and Other
Material.
Undated note in German with Humboldt’s
signature at the bottom, a small unsigned
carte-de-visite with a portrait of Humboldt,
and a receipt in French with an old unverified
attribution to Humboldt. (3)
$250-350
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Walsingham, Francis (c. 1532-1590) Signed
Letter, 1586.
Single page, signed by Walsingham and Sir
Edward Stafford (1552-1605) the text of the
document is hard to discern, inscribed on one
side, with a seal and an inked stamp, short
docket on verso, old folds, foxing, 9 x 6 1/2 in.
Stafford served as British Ambassador to
France from 1583 to 1590. Walsingham in
particular was very suspicious of Stafford,
who provided inaccurate information about
the Spanish Armada during a diplomatically
critical period. Stafford was also responsible
for the negotiations regarding the prospective
marriage of Queen Elizabeth to Francis, Duke
of Anjou. In the period of the present letter,
c. 1586, Walsingham and Stafford were still
deeply suspicious of one another.
$500-700
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Washington, Booker T. (1856-1915)
Secretarial Letter Signed, 4 May 1906.
Single sheet inscribed on both sides. To the
Reverend Francis Edward Clark (1851-1927),
thanking him for congratulating Washington
on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the founding
of the Tuskegee Institute, and declining an
invitation to attend the United Society of
Christian Endeavor’s upcoming convention in
Geneva. On Tuskegee Normal and Industrial
Institute letterhead, with old folds, some glue
and paper from an old album on one edge,
verso, 8 1/2 x 11 in.
$300-500
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Wodehouse, Sir Pelham Grenville (18811975) Small Collection of Signed Letters
and Signed Photograph.
Six typed letters and notes signed by
Wodehouse from the 1970s, all written to
Boston College professor John McAleer
(1923-2003), discussing Rex Stout and his
Nero Wolfe books, and occasionally his own
work, with added manuscript corrections, with
carbon copies of McAleer’s original letters to
Wodehouse, an unusual scrapbook made by
McAleer for Wodehouse, several holograph
envelopes, and an inscribed 6 1/2 x 9 3/4
in. color photograph; letters and envelopes
in good condition, photograph faded with a
diagonal fold and attendant surface disruption/
damage.
$2,000-2,500
Books
Lots 58–323
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Adam, Robert (1728-1792) Ruins of the
Diocletian Palace at Spalatro in Dalmatia.
[London]: Printed for the author, 1764.
First edition, folio, illustrated with the sixty-one
plates (as called for) by Francesco Bartolozzi;
Francesco, Antonio and Giuseppe Zucchi;
Francis Patton; Paolo Santini; and other
engravers, mostly after original drawings
by Charles-Louis Clérisseau (1721-1820),
plates vary in format and content, some are
oversized folding, double-page, full-page,
others smaller format with several used on
the same page, printed throughout on thick
paper, very good, one plate projecting beyond
the fore-edge, this portion dusty, bound
in full contemporary mottled calfskin, gold
tooling in the corners of both boards, spine
tooled in gilt, somewhat worn, marbled paper
endleaves, binding somewhat scuffed, but
generally intact and workable, 20 3/4 x 14
1/4 in.
$3,000-5,000
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Aesthetic Movement Periodicals and
Publications, American and European.
Approximately 100 magazines, periodicals,
books, and other publications concerned
with fine and decorative arts, published in the
late 19th and early 20th centuries, illustrated,
various formats, should be viewed.
$300-500
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Agrippa, Heinrich Cornelius (1486-1535)
De Incertitudine & Vanitate Scientiarum
Declamatio Invectiva. [No Place: No Printer],
1532.
Octavo, early edition, printed in Roman type in
a single column throughout, ex libris Ludovici
Bituricsis, with his bookplate pasted inside the
front board, older ownership inscription on the
title, bound in worn limp parchment, contents
good, 6 x 4 in.
$400-600
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American Political Speeches, Sammelband
Volume, c. 1850.
Collection of approximately twenty-five works,
mostly speeches from the late 1840s to mid1850s, mainly concerned with the KansasNebraska Act, and related issues, also the
Mexican Treaty, land grants for the railroads,
some budgetary issues troubling the state
of Virginia, the Fugitive Slave law, the Wilmot
Proviso, the abolition of slavery, and other
issues, mostly delivered by members of the
House of Representatives, including Stephen
Douglas, Truman Smith, Hunter, Breckenridge,
Millson, Disney, and others; all bound
together in contemporary half leather, some
publications browned or spotted, some either
issued without proper title pages, or lacking
them, 8 3/4 x 5 1/2 in.
$700-900
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Angelo, Domenico (1717?-1802) The
School of Fencing. London: for S. Hooper,
1765.
First English edition (first published in 1763 as
L’Ecole des Armes) large oblong folio, parallel
English and French texts, with an additional
title page in French, illustrated with forty-seven
full-page plates, bound in later half leather,
gold-tooled spine, rebacked and recornered,
with worn marbled paper boards, last few
leaves with some wear and damage, a portion
of the blank margin at the bottom of the last
leaf torn away and repaired, 17 1/4 x 10 3/4
in.
Originally of Italian extraction, Angelo was an
important fencing master in London during the
reign of George III. Fencing instructor to the
Royal Family, he also advocated in favor of the
sport as a healthful exercise.
$2,000-2,500
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Antiphonary in Latin, Order of the
Franciscan Friars, Ayllon, Spain, 1751.
Very large folio manuscript on parchment, 122
leaves, incomplete at the end (evidence of at
least two leaves cut out), leaves numbered
1-122 present and in order, music on a fiveline staff, initials in red and black throughout,
bound in full original calf, stamped in blind,
with brass bosses, center-pieces and cleats
on the lower board edges, lacking the clasps,
two fore-edge tabs, manuscript index on
paper pasted inside the back board, 23 1/2
x 15 in.
$5,000-7,000
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Antiphonary, France, 15th Century.
Manuscript on parchment, 164 of 168 leaves,
original leaf numbering on the verso of each
leaf in red, in the upper corner, the numbering
beginning at two, leaves 22, 23, and 25 not
present; four or five leaves with the blank
margins trimmed away, larger initials in a
later hand/style, medium-sized initials with
many grotesque faces throughout; the text
consisting of musical notation, with short
mentions of feast days, and the litany of the
saints; dark brown to black square-shaped
notes on a red four-line staff, six staves
per page, in a single column, ruled in ink,
later notes, prayers, and other marginalia
throughout, in Latin and French; bound in
19th century half sheepskin and marbled
paper boards, early manuscript waste as front
flyleaves, parchment blanks after the text,
some staining and damage to the text, 7 1/2
x 5 1/2 in.
$20,000-30,000
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Aquinas, Thomas, Thomas super Esaiam
[and] Thomas super Hieremiam. Lyons:
Crespin, 1531.
Octavo, both titles printed in red and black
with a woodcut portrait of Thomas and ornate
border, printer’s device on both colophon
leaves, printed in gothic letter in two columns
throughout, crible initials, each work with the
blank after the last leaf; rebound in full modern
leather, some minor worming, 6 x 4 in.
$400-600
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Architectural and Art Magazines, 19th
Century.
Approximately fifty-nine issues of a variety
of periodicals, including: National Academy
of Design exhibition catalogs from 1916 and
1924; the Architectural Record c. 1890; the
Architectural League of New York, c. 1900;
five issues of American Architect, including
February 1932, May 1932, September 1932,
January 1933, September 1933, and March
1934; eleven issues of American Architect
1880s-1890s; approximately twenty issues
of the American Manufacturer and Builder,
1870s; and approximately fourteen issues of
the Architectural Review from the early 1900s;
varying formats and conditions, should be
seen, all soft bound in publisher’s covers.
$200-300
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Architecture Publications, Late 19th to
Early 20th Century.
Including: Hopkins’s Houses and Cottages,
Grand Rapids: Hopkins, 1903; Sixty Views
of Cottage City, Vineyard Haven, Gay Head,
Edgartown, and Innisfail, Boston: Murphy,
1904; Rickman’s An Attempt to Discriminate
the Styles of Architecture in England, Oxford:
Henry & Parker, 1862; Bicknell’s Specimen
Book of One Hundred Architectural Designs,
New York: Bicknell, 1879; Royal Barry
Willis’s Houses for Homemakers, New York:
Franklin Watts, 1945, with the dust jacket;
Willis’s Living on the Level, Cambridge/
Boston: Riverside/Houghton Mifflin, 1955;
Willis’s Better Houses for Budgeteers, New
York: Architectural Book Publishing Co.,
[n.d.]; Palliser’s American Cottage Homes,
Bridgeport, CT: Palliser, Palliser & Co., 1878,
front board detached; and Technology
Architectural Review, vol. I, 1888, loose, in a
portfolio; Shoppell’s Building Designs, $2500
Houses, pages loose, in the publisher’s
portfolio, thirty plates, no text; and Shoppell’s
Building Designs, $3500 Houses, pages
loose, in publisher’s portfolio, twenty-nine
plates, one in color, no text. (11)
$200-300
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Baïf, Lazare de (1496-1547) and Erasmus
of Roterdam (1466-1536) Commentarius de
Vestium. [Germany: No Printer, 1530].
Octavo, disbound, with an extensive note
in Latin in an English hand dated 17 August
1540 below the errata (last page) and on
the verso of the same leaf, title page dusty
and toned, a few contemporary notes and
underscores, 6 x 3 3/4 in.
This rare work is about ancient Roman
clothing, and includes an index.
$400-600
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Barbaro, Francesco (1390-1454)
Prudentissimi et Gravi Documenti Circa
la Elettione della Moglie. Venice: Giolito de
Ferrari, 1548.
First edition of the Italian translation by Alberto
Lollio (1508-1568), of this short treatise on
marriage, originally titled De Re Uxoria, octavo,
in modern cream buckram, contents good,
title page toned, some spotting, margins
trimmed, 6 1/4 x 3 3/4 in.
$400-600
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Barclay, Patrick (fl. circa 1735) The
Universal Traveller. London: for Purser,
Read, and Hester, 1735.
Folio, with three added maps, two smallformat and intact, the other, a large map of
Asia, torn away but for a small scrap, lacking
signature 8E (two leaves, pages 657-660),
some leaves torn, title page toned and dusty,
first few leaves detached, intermittent faults to
blank gutter of the text due to the pressing of
botanical specimens, in later half leather and
corners, mention of the second volume (never
published) trimmed away from the last text
leaf, 15 1/2 x 9 1/2 in.
$400-600
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Baud-Bovy, Daniel (1870-1958) and
Frederic Boisonnas (1858-1946) Des
Cyclades. Geneva: Boissonnas & Co., 1919.
First edition, limited, copy number 151 of
160, signed by the authors on the limitation
page, with gilt-patterned endleaves, bound in
full parchment, tooled and letter in gold and
orange on spine and both boards, illustrated
with 187 text heliogravures, one map plate,
and 38 of 40 full-page heliogravure plates
(lacking plates 15: Le bourg d’Epanomeria,
and 17: La caverne d’Hermes, both from
Santorin), plate 16 detached from sewing
structure, boards slight rubbed, 20 x 15 3/4 in.
$2,000-3,000
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Barham, Richard Harris (1788-1845)
Ingoldsby Legends. London: Richard
Bentley, 1855.
Three octavo volumes, each with engraved
title printed in red and black, illustrated with
seventeen plates by George Cruikshank
(1792-1878), John Leech (1817-1864),
and Robert William Buss (1804-1875), text
illustrations by Thomas Wilks (fl. 1840-70s);
the set bound in uniform blue publisher’s
cloth, boards blocked in blind, spines with
pictorial gilt titles by Edmonds and Remnants,
London, very good, contemporary ownership
inscription on ffep in each volume, bookseller’s
blind stamp on ffep, in volume one only, 8 x
5 in. (3)
$300-500
73
Beat Generation Poets, Eleven Literary
Journals and Paperbacks.
Including: The Beats, Greenwich: Gold Medal,
[1960] edited by Seymour Kim, signed by
Allen Ginsberg and Gary Snyder; Big Table,
numbers one and two, spring and summer
1959; Kulchur, spring, 1960; Chicago Review,
Zen issue, Summer 1958; East Side Review,
January/February, 1966; Intrepid, special
Burroughs issue, 1969; and four chapbooks
by Thomas Pynchon: Low-Lands, London:
Aloes Books, 1978; Entropy, [Troy: Post
Horn], undated; The Secret Integration,
London: Lithosphere Printing Co-op, undated;
and The Small Rain, London: Aloes Books,
undated. (11)
$200-300
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Belany, James Cockburn, A Treatise on
Falconry. Berwick-Upon-Tweed: for the
author, 1841.
First edition, octavo, lacking the frontispiece,
bound in later half calf, edges toned, title
pages edges browned, 8 1/2 x 5 1/4 in.
The only published book by the notorious
Belany who was tried for the poisoning
murder of his 21 year-old wife Rachel Skelly
in 1844. He was acquitted of the charge,
but an angry mob in Berwick-Upon-Tweed
burned his house to the ground when he
returned to town. Durham University holds
a letter from Belany, dated 7 October 1842,
complaining about a delay in the production of
frontispieces for this work, which plate is often
found lacking.
$500-700
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Belgian Congo Mining Note Book, Clinton
Percival Bernard (1888-1967) c. 1916-1918
Octavo format commercially produced Cross
Section Book, produced by Keuffel & Esser
Co., of Chicago, copyright 1895, graph
paper leaves throughout, content supplied in
pencil by Clinton Bernard, Forminiere Agent
in Tshikapa, Belgian Congo, West Africa,
1916-1918, including detailed records of field
explorations in search of precious stones,
including geological surveys, detailed data on
the results of mining, including wages paid
to various workers in different jobs, charts
and maps, cross sections, and other data
related to diamond mining in West Africa,
including the yield in carat weight of the
mining “exploitation,” for example, in February
of 1918, Bernard records the number of
servants, sentries, sawyers, loggers, boatmen,
and other workers needed to fulfill the job of
mining diamonds; the binding worn, pages
yellowed, one loose map inserted, 7 1/2 x 5
1/2 in.
Bernard was a 1909 graduate of Yale, born
in Jamaica, New York, in 1888, he worked
as a mining engineer at a variety of far west
mining facilities before being dispatched to the
Belgian Congo in the teens.
$300-500
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Bible, English, Selections. A Curious
Hieroglyphick Bible. Worcester,
Massachusetts: Isaiah Thomas, 1788.
12mo in signatures of six, with the woodcut
frontispiece of Adam and Eve facing the title,
all third leaves signed as second throughout,
the text printed with dozens of woodcuts
throughout, bound in full contemporary
sheepskin over scabbard, scuffed, corners
bumped, but structurally functional,
contents somewhat toned, but in period and
unsophisticated condition.
The Hieroglyphick Bible is one of the earliest
American children’s books.
$2,200-2,500
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Bible, German Language, American
Imprint, Das Neue Testament. Germantown:
Christoph Saur, 1775.
Octavo, in eights, the final signature (Ll) with
two leaves, 529 numbered pages, bound
in full contemporary leather, over wooden
boards, one clasp still intact, the other
missing, text leaves browned with intermittent
staining throughout, the binding worn at the
corners, the leather cracked along the joints,
endcap missing at the foot, 6 1/2 x 3 3/4 in.
Christoph Saur Jr. continued in the tradition
of his father, who printed the first Germanlanguage books in North America in
Germantown, Pennsylvania earlier in the
century. The Lutheran New Testament
in German, a hard-used staple of the
Pennsylvania Dutch community in the 18th
century is most often found in this condition.
$600-800
78
Bible, Italian, La Bibbia. Cioe, i Libri del
Vecchio, e del Nuovo Testamento, trans.
Giovanni Diodati (1576-1649) [Geneva: de
Tournes], 1607.
First edition of Diodati’s translation with
notes, quarto, divisional titles printed within
arabesque compartments; lacking the final
?blank leaf; large woodcut on title, printed in
Roman letter in two columns throughout, with
varying degrees of side notes, bound in later
full calfskin, defective; title page mounted,
some spotting and toning to text leaves, 9 3/4
x 6 1/2 in.
This important Italian translation of the
Bible was prepared by Swiss-born Calvinist
theologian Giovanni Diodati from the Hebrew
and Greek. Like the King James translation
of the Bible in English, Diodati’s translation is
still valued by the Italian-speaking Protestant
community today.
$800-1,000
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Bible, Italian, La Bibia che si Chiama il
Vecchio Testamento, Nuovamente Tradutto
in Lingua Volgare Secondo la Verita del
Testo Hebreo, trans. Antonio Brucioli
(1498-1566) [Geneva]: Francesco Durone,
1562.
Large quarto, fine woodcut of angel standing
on a skeleton and leaning on a crucifix on
the title page, with approximately twenty-five
text woodcuts of the usual Old Testament
subjects, printed in Roman type, double
columns throughout, bound in contemporary
English dark calfskin, with central blind-tooled
lozenge on both boards, flanked by the
initials W.W.; inscription dated 1586 on title,
badly water stained throughout, boards badly
worn, crudely rebacked, a fine candidate for
restoration, 10 x 7 1/4 in.
$500-700
80
Bible, New Testament, French. Le Nouveau
Testament de Notre Seigneur Jesus-Christ,
trans. Louis-Isaac Lemaistre de Sacy
(1613-1684). Boston: Buckingham, 1810.
Two octavo volumes, First American printing of
a Bible in French, prepared under the direction
of Jean-Louis Anne Madelain Lefebvre de
Cheverus (1768-1836), first Bishop of the
Roman Catholic Diocese of Boston, the
Approbation at the end of volume two bears
his name and title; nicely preserved set in
original boards covered in contemporary blue
paste paper jackets, contents slightly toned
and spotted, dust covers slightly faded, with
the original paper spine labels, 8 3/4 x 5 1/4
in. (2)
Cheverus was sworn in as Bishop of Boston
on November 1, 1810, and signed his
approval for the publication of this work shortly
thereafter, on December 22 of the same year.
$300-500
81
Bischoff, Johann Christoph (fl. circa 1740)
Kurzgefasste Einleitung zur Perspectiv.
Halle: Renger, 1741.
First edition, octavo, extra engraved title,
typographical title page printed in red and
black, illustrated with thirty-one folding
plates after the text, in a contemporary
armorial binding of Johann Seifried, Graf von
Herberstein (c. 1750), gilt-tooled spine with
label, chipped at tail with loss, pages with
browning, some edges of plates thumbed and
soft, 6 1/2 x 3 3/4 in.
$300-500
82
Blount, Sir Thomas Pope (1649-1697)
Censura Celebriorum Authorum. London:
Chiswell, 1690.
First edition, folio, half-title present, title printed
in red and black, bound in full contemporary
English paneled calf, joints starting, 12 1/2 x
7 3/4 in.
Blount begins with the Pre-Socratics and
gives biographical notes, synopses, quotes,
and other information on the works of his
selection of authors of note, right up to the
“modern” writers of his own century: Thomas
Hobbes, Thomas Willis, Hugo Grotius, Julius
Caesar Scaliger, and others, with Index.
$400-600
83
Blunt, Lady Anne (1837-1917) Bedouin
Tribes of the Euphrates. New York: Harper,
1879.
First American edition, octavo, with
frontispiece and folding map, illustrated
throughout, in publisher’s blue cloth, stamped
in gold, rubbed, spine a bit faded, headcaps
slightly frayed, 8 1/4 x 5 1/4 in.
Lady Anne was an intrepid traveler, who
adapted her titled British status to nomadic
horsemanship in North Africa. She visited the
Arab world repeatedly, and brought many
fine Arabian breeding horses back with her to
England.
$300-500
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Brautigan, Richard (1935-1984) The TokyoMontana Express, Signed Copies. New
York: Targ Editions, [1979].
First edition, signed by Brautigan on the
limitation page, edition limited to 350 copies,
in publisher’s gray cloth, faded, with glassine
jacket, chipped.
[and] an expanded first edition of the same
title, also signed; New York: Delacorte Press/
Seymour Lawrence, [1980], very good, in
publisher’s half navy blue cloth spine, and
white boards, in a good jacket. (2)
$300-500
85
Browne, Edward (1644-1708) An Account
of Several Travels through a Great Part of
Germany. London: Tooke, 1677.
First edition, quarto, five full-page engravings
(three folding), modern quarter calfskin with
marbled paper boards.
$400-600
86
Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte
de (1707-1788) Histoire Naturelle
[Quadrupeds], Odd Volumes. Lausanne:
Heubach, 1785-1789.
Five octavo volumes from the set, consisting
of volumes four, five, seven, eight and
nine; each containing dozens of full-page
engraved copper-plate illustrations of various
mammalian quadrupeds; bound in original
uniform boards covered in pink paste paper,
spines faded, some corners bumped, but
otherwise sound. (5)
Buffon’s work is of landmark importance in
the development of natural history during the
Enlightenment.
$400-600
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Bullen, Arthur Henry (1857-1920) England’s
Helicon; More Lyrics; Lyrics; and Poems.
London: Nimmo, 1887-1890.
Four large paper edition quarto volumes of
Elizabethan verse, all limited numbered copies
in uniform publisher’s quarter calfskin and
fabric boards, t.e.g., deckle edges throughout,
some endleaves discolored, spines a bit dry.
[with] Christian Barman’s The Bridge,
illustrated by Frank Brangwyn, London:
Bodley Head, [1926], limited edition on handmade paper, with two extra color illustrations,
number 62 of 125, in publisher’s half white
cloth and blue boards, t.e.g.
[and] Mortimer Menpes’s Whistler as I Knew
Him, London: Adam & Charles Black, 1904,
limited edition, signed by Menpes on the
limitation page, number 121 of 500 deluxe
copies, with the etching of the Menpes
children; in publisher’s decoratively stamped
and gilt white cloth, binding becoming decased, armorial bookplate pasted inside the
front board. (6)
88
Burnet, Thomas (1635?-1715) The Theory
of the Earth. London: Kettilby, 1697.
Folio, fourth edition, two parts in one volume,
illustrated with engraved title and portrait
(toned), numerous text engravings, and two
double-page engravings, contemporary
boards, rebacked, ex-library, with a rubber
stamp on a bookplate pasted inside the front
board, and at the foot of one text leaf, 11 1/2
x 7 1/4 in.
$700-900
89
Burroughs, William S. (1914-1997) Naked
Lunch, and Four Others. New York: Grove
Press, [1959].
Stated first printing, black publisher’s half
cloth and black paper boards, some mildew
spotting, with the dust jacket.
The Ticket that Exploded, Paris: Olympia
Press, Traveller’s Companion Series, [1962], in
publisher’s soft paper wrappers.
Nova Express, New York: Grove Press, [1964],
stated first printing, in publisher’s cloth, with
the jacket, both very good.
Exterminator!, New York: Viking, [1973], stated
first printing, review copy, in brown publisher’s
cloth and dust jacket.
[and] Early Routines, Santa Barbara, California:
Cadmus, 1981, stated first printing, soft
covers, slightly discolored and rumpled,
contents good. (5)
$200-300
Provenance: Vito D’Agostino.
$300-500
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Burton, Sir Richard Francis (1821-1890)
Falconry in the Valley of the Indus. London:
John Van Voorst, 1852
First edition, with the half-title, illustrated with
full-page frontispiece and three full-page
plates in the text (a total of four), eight pages
of publisher’s ads after the text; pale yellow
endleaves; bound in full publisher’s textured
purple cloth, the spine lettered in gilt, boards
blind ruled; minor water stain at the foot of the
frontispiece, spine faded to brown, headcap a
bit crumpled, binding shifting forward from the
back board a bit, no signs of interior foxing, 7
1/4 x 4 3/4 in.
$1,500-1,800
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Carroll, Lewis (1832-1898) Through the
Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found
There. London: Macmillan & Co., 1872.
Octavo, later issue, with the typographical
error present in the first issue (“wade”
instead of “wabe” in the second line of the
Jabberwocky poem on page 21) corrected,
half-title present, one leaf of ads at the end
of the text, bound in full polished tan calf by
Riviere, a.e.g., original red cloth covers and
spine mounted as pastedowns; front joint
cracked completely, board barely attached, 7
x 4 3/4 in.
$300-500
92
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Carte-de-visite Album Compiled by John
Badger Bachelder (1825-1894)
Leather-bound album with brass edges and
clasps, with Bachelder’s initials engraved
on a brass shield attached to the front
board, containing twenty-one leaves, most
formatted to hold four smaller cards per page,
a few designed to hold one larger picture;
displaying 128 2 1/2 x 4 in. portraits taken
from life, paintings or busts; and nine larger
cards, mostly of unidentified women; notable
subjects from the smaller-format group, taken
from life, include the following people: Dom
Pedro II, Emperor of Brazil, and wife; Fanny
Fern; Victor Hugo; actress Clara Morris; two
of Queen Victoria; Prince Albert; Gladstone;
U.S. Grant; Hayes; James Garfield; Chester
Arthur; Grover Cleveland; Benjamin Harrison;
Gustave Eiffel; Charles Darwin; Alfred Lord
Tennyson; British poet Jean Ingelow; Anthony
Trollope; Cetshwayo kaMpande, King of the
Zulus; William Cullen Bryant; Samuel Morse;
Longfellow; George Curtis; Charles Dickens;
two of Emerson; P.T. Barnum; William Lloyd
Garrison; Hawthorne; Thomas Nash; Edgar
Allan Poe (after his portrait); Jefferson Davis;
Whittier; a young Thomas Edison; James
Russell Lowell; Franz Liszt; Richard Wagner;
Harriet Beecher Stowe; and many others; one
of the larger portraits shows a young girl who
may be African American or Native American,
she looks to be approximately six or eight
years old, with a dark complexion, searching
eyes, her mouth set, gold hoop earrings in
both ears, her hair is long and curly, pulled
back, with unruly bangs, and she wears a
double-breasted velvet coat, with a big silk
bow and a conspicuous gold watch chain, the
card does not have the mark of a studio, the
only clue is a pencil inscription on the verso:
Key West; cards are generally in good shape,
the binding is failing slightly, a.e.g., 12 1/4 x 9
1/2 in. overall.
$8,000-10,000
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Carte-de-visite Album.
Folio landscape-format commercially
produced album consisting of thirteen album
leaves, containing fifty-two 4 x 6 in. portrait
cards including those of: William Gladstone;
a young Neville Chamberlain, with monocle;
Victor Hugo; Leo Tolstoy; Robert Browning;
Tennyson; Ibsen; Alexander Dumas; Thomas
Hardy; Ruskin; Swinburne; Kipling; Charles
Darwin; Louis Pasteur; John Tyndall; Gustave
Eiffel; and many others, including a small
group of Italian composers and musicians,
other British politicians, and writers,
professors, et cetera; the condition of the
cards varies, but is generally good, the album
is worn and failing, 12 x 9 in. overall.
$3,500-4,500
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Casaubon, Meric (1599-1671) Of Credulity
and Incredulity, in Things Natural, Civil, and
Divine. London: for T. Garthwait, 1668.
First edition, octavo, with the imprimatur
before the title, in contemporary boards, both
detached, contents lightly toned, 6 3/4 x 4
1/2 in.
Casaubon walks a delicate line as he
writes about atheism, spiritualism, and the
supernatural.
$400-600
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Catholic Devotional and Historical Books,
1599-1743, Four Volumes.
Diurnum Romanum, ex Decreto Sacrosancti
Concilii Tridentini Restitutum, Venice: Juntas,
1599, printed in red and black throughout, fullpage woodcut of King David, small woodcut
initials, bound in contemporary blind-tooled
leather, rebacked, edges repaired, new
endleaves, 6 1/2 x 4 in.
Horae Diurnae Breviarii Romani, Antwerp:
Plantin, 1624, 12mo, printed in red and black
throughout, engraved vignette on title page,
several full-page engravings in the text, bound
in full contemporary English calfskin, smooth
spine, binding intact, some water stains and
discoloration to leaves, 5 1/2 x 3 in.
Benedetto Bacchini’s (1651-1721) Dell’Istoria
del Monastero di S. Benedetto Modona:
Capponi, 1696, first edition, quarto, half-title,
with the folding genealogical plate, bound in
contemporary half vellum and marbled boards,
spine slightly wormed, ownership inscriptions
trimmed from title, with losses repaired from
the verso, final signature with a section of
worming, Worldcat lists five U.S. copies, none
on the West Coast, 7 1/2 x 5 1/4 in.
[and] Officium in Festo Nativitatis Domini et
Festorum, Antwerp: Pantin, 1743, 12mo,
printed in red and black throughout, woodcut
initials, in full contemporary calf, with brass
clasps and ribbon bookmarks, worn but
intact, 6 1/4 x 3 1/2 in. (4)
$400-600
93
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Catullus (c. 84 BC-c. 54 BC) and Tibullus
(c. 55 BC-19 BC) Traduction en Prose de
Catulle, Tibulle et Gallus. Amsterdam/Paris:
Chez Delalain, 1771.
Translated by Alexandre-Frédéric-Jacques
Masson de Pezay (1741-1777) [sometimes
attributed to Jean-Baptiste-Francois-Claude
David]; two octavo volumes, added engraved
title in each volume, bound in uniform full
contemporary mottled calfskin bindings,
with gilt-tooled spines and labels, inner
gilt dentelles, a.e.g., cerulean paste-paper
endleaves, nicely preserved, a trifle dry and
dusty, 8 1/4 x 5 1/2 in. (2)
$300-500
97
Catullus (c. 84 BC-c. 54 BC); Tibullus (c.
55 BC-19 BC); and Propertius (50 BC-15
BC), ed. Joseph Scaliger (1540-1609) Nova
Editio. Paris: Apud Mamertum Patissonium, in
officina Rob. Stephani, 1577.
[bound with] Castigationes in Catullum,
Tibullum, Propertium. Paris: Apud Mamertum
Patissonium, in officina Rob. Stephani, 1577.
Octavo, first edition, with the blank E7, likely
lacking the final blank r5, contemporary
ownership inscription on title, with a Greek
motto, and some extensive marginal notes in
the text, in more than one hand; bound in 17th
century calf, spine tooled in gilt, with the label,
leather on front board peeling up from the
board at the joint, contents lightly toned, some
notes trimmed, 6 1/2 x 4 1/4 in.
$300-500
99
Chapbooks, 19th Century, Three Matted
and Framed.
The Illustrated ABC with Original Engravings,
New London: Boles, 1857; a History of Little
Red Riding Hood; and Park’s History of John
and the Oak Tree, London; all titles from the
19th century; each page hand-colored, the
books taken apart, with each page displayed
in a separate mat opening within a single
frame. (3)
$200-250
98
Catullus (c. 84 BC-c. 54 BC); Tibullus (c.
55 BC-19 BC); Propertius (15 BC) Novus
Commentarius, ed. Gian Antonio Volpi (16861766) Padua: Cominus, 1737 [-1755].
Four large quarto volumes bound in uniform
contemporary straight-grained red morocco,
boards ruled in gold, spines gilt lettered and
ruled, a.e.g., marbled endleaves, a trifle soiled,
dry, spines faded, but a nice set, 9 3/4 x 7 1/2
in. (4)
$300-500
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100
Chaucer, Geoffrey (c. 1343-1400) Nine
Volumes.
A Leaf from the Kelmscott Chaucer, New
York: Duschnes, 1941, with a monograph by
Carl Purington Rollins, limited edition, copy
number 42 of 150, leaf 247 (r4) from The
Romaunt of the Rose, with large woodcut rose
border on the verso, and a half-page woodcut
surrounded by a smaller frame decorated with
a grapevine motif, in publisher’s folder, with
ties, 17 1/4 x 12 1/2 in. overall;
[with] The Canterbury Tales, London: Philip
Lee Warner, Publisher to the Medici Society,
Riccardi Press, 1913, full-color illustrations
after drawings by W. Russell Flint, limited
edition copy number 481 of 500, in three
large quarto volumes, publisher’s half cloth
and blue paper boards, t.e.g., with the original
jackets, browned and chipped, spine of the
jacket from volume one missing, edges slightly
yellowed, contents good, bindings dusty, 10
1/2 x 7 3/4 in.
[and] The Canterbury Tales, London:
Pickering, 1822, five octavo volumes, full tan
calf, gilt by Riviere, a.e.g., very good, 7 1/4 x
4 1/4 in. (9)
$600-800
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Child, Julia (1912-2004) and Simone Beck
(1904-1991) Mastering the Art of French
Cooking, First Edition, Inscribed to Avis
DeVoto (1904-1989), Volumes One and
Two. New York: Knopf, 1961 [and 1970].
Two volumes, in publisher’s cloth, volume
two with the jacket; volume one inscribed,
“To Avis, Pen Pal and Co-Author—Julia/First
inscribed copy—Cambridge, Massachusetts,
September 26, 1961”; and “To my so
dearest cherie Avis, avec toute ma profonde
affection, Simone Beck”; with Avis’s notes,
inserted recipes, and corrections of errors in
the text; volume two inscribed, “The second
child! happily with the same Auntie Avis, still
sheltering, advising, hand holding, scolding...
thank God... this is our inscription of thanks
from her niece and nephew, Julia and Paul”;
and “Comme c’est merveilleux de retrouver
ma soeur jumelle Avis, pour le baptême de
votre second enfant si bienvenu au monde
et avec l’espoir qu’il grandira dans les
années a venir. Avec infiniment d’affection,
Simone Beck”; signed again by Child on a
label advertising The French Chef, television
program on WGBH, pasted on ffep, this
volume in its original dust jacket, chipped,
publisher’s binding, sound, 10 x 7 in. (2)
Avis DeVoto, Julia Child’s friend, pen pal,
and editor, initiated a lively two-year long
correspondence with Child. DeVoto and
Child went on to a lifelong friendship and
professional collaboration.
$1,000-1,200
102
Child, Julia (1912-2004) and Simone Beck
(1904-1991) Mastering the Art of French
Cooking, Two Copies Inscribed to Avis
DeVoto (1904-1989). New York: Knopf, 1966.
[and] London: Cassell, [1963].
The Knopf edition is updated to reflect the
corrections made by DeVoto in the first
edition, inscribed by Child on the half-title, “To
Avis—with love/Final version of your book with
every known fixable thing fixed—Julia”; the
Cassell edition is inscribed by Child and Beck,
“À notre chère petite cuisinière et amie—Julia”
and “À ma grande Avis, si parfaite cuisinière,
Simone Beck”; both copies in publisher’s
cloth, the Cassell edition with the jacket. (2)
$400-600
103
Choiseul-Gouffier, Marie Gabriel August
Florent, Comte de (1751-1817) Voyage
Pittoresque de la Grece. Paris: [No Printer],
1782
First edition, illustrated with an extra engraved
title and the 126 consecutively numbered
plates, which vary in size, and include folding
and full-page maps, views, plans, local
costumes, and other plates; with fourteen
large and ornate head- and tail-pieces,
bound in full contemporary tree calf, inner gilt
dentelles, a.e.g., gilt spine, red label, marbled
endleaves, 19 3/4 x 12 1/2 in.
This work was the first part of a planned three
volume set, however, the other volumes were
published much later, in 1809 and 1822.
$3,000-5,000
105
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104
Classics, Early Printed Books, 1546-1713,
Four Volumes.
Polybius’s Historico Greco, Venice: Giolito de
Ferrari, 1546, octavo, text printed in italic type,
single column throughout, woodcut initials,
first dozen or so leaves with stains, later half
red morocco, 6 x 3 3/4 in.;
Polydore Vergil’s De Rerum Inventoribus,
Antwerp: Stelsius, 1562, 12mo, ink signatures
crossed out on title, later binding, edges
trimmed close, 5 x 2 1/2 in.
[and] Milton’s Paradise Lost [and] Regain’d,
London: Tonson, 1711-1713, 12mo,
illustrated, contemporary calfskin bindings,
matching gold-tooled spines and labels,
boards decorated differently, 5 1/4 x 3 in.,
volumes in this lot not collated. (4)
$300-500
105
Clellon Holmes, John (1926-1988) Go. New
York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1952.
First edition, inscribed on ffep, 17 September
1952, in red publisher’s cloth, with the dust
jacket; lower corners of the boards slightly
bumped, foot of spine slightly sun-faded, the
jacket with slight surface rubbing and fading,
no tears, price intact.
Go is considered the first novel of the Beat
Generation.
$300-500
106
Cobbett, William (1763-1835) Collection
of Controversial Material against Thomas
Paine (1737-1809)
Including: A Letter to the Infamous Tom Paine,
in answer to his letter to General Washington,
[Philadelphia: for Cobbett?, 1797]; Porcupine’s
Political Censor for Sept. 1796, Philadelphia:
by Cobett, [1797]; Henry MacKenzie’s
(1745-1831) An Answer to Paine’s Rights of
Man, Philadelphia: Cobbett, October 1796;
Richard Watson’s (1737-1816) An Apology for
the Bible, Philadelphia: James Carey, 1796;
and a second copy of the first work, A Letter
to the Infamous Tom Paine, as above; in
contemporary half sheepskin, marbled paper
boards, uncut throughout, with full marginededges, some foxing.
This collection is a variation on An Antidote
to Tom Paine’s Poison, which generally does
contain the works listed above, and others,
in different combinations. The contemporary
spine label bears the Antidote title.
[Together with] Kent’s Directory, London:
Kent, 1770, octavo, contemporary boards,
front board detached. (2)
$300-400
107
107
Colonna, Francesco (1433-1527) Poliphili
Hypnerotomachia. London: Methuen & Co.,
1904.
Folio, first edition of this facsimile of the 1494
edition, bound in publisher’s half cloth and
blue paper boards, with two extra leaves,
including the uncensored plate for which this
book is famous; ex libris Pickford Waller, with
Austin Osman Spare’s bookplate of a nude
figure from 1921, from the wood engraving
made by William Quick after Spare’s drawing;
some browning to endleaves, the extra leaves
both somewhat browned, binding shaken,
boards loose, joints starting to fray, spine label
damaged; contents quite good, 13 x 8 3/4 in.
$1,500-2,000
108
Connecticut. Acts and Laws of His
Majesty’s English Colony of Connecticut.
New Haven and New London: Thomas,
Samuel, & Timothy Green, 1769.
Folio, text ends at page 336, [of 345? pages]
Evans 11215; ESTC W9207; bound with
sixteen leaves of contemporary blank paper
at the end, bound in later library buckram,
contents toned with occasional minor
spotting, slightly trimmed, 11 1/2 x 6 1/2 in.
[and] Connecticut. Acts and Laws, New
London/Hartford: various printers, 1769-1805.
Folio and octavo formats, various sections of
the Acts and Laws, all printed in Connecticut,
with duplicates and omissions, all disbound,
some removed from bound volumes, others
stab-sewn, with deckle edges; approximately
twenty-five sections.
$500-700
57
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109
Cook, Captain James, The Three Voyages
Round the World. London: Longman et al.,
1821.
Seven octavo volumes, illustrated with twentyfive full page plates (included in the count
are the seven frontispieces in each volume)
a large folding world map, and two folding
typographical tables; the set bound in uniform
half calf and tan buckram boards, t.e.g., by
Bayntun, very good, some internal spotting,
spines slightly faded, 8 1/4 x 5 in. (7)
$2,200-2,400
111
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110
Custis, George Washington Parke (17811857) The Monongahela, or Washington on
the First Great Field of his Fame.
Folio manuscript on paper of an unpublished
play, produced in New York on September 30,
1839 for one night only, consisting of fifty-two
leaves of wove lined paper, including title
page, list of dramatis personae, followed by
the text of the play itself, with stage directions
underlined in red, inscribed on recto leaves
only, in brownish-black ink, the final leaf with
a few brief notes on costume, in a different
hand; presumably created for use in the
production of the stage version of the play,
disbound, some marginal damage caused
by a large ink stain, affecting more than thirty
leaves, title dusty, 10 1/2 x 8 1/4 in.
$600-800
112
111
Dansdorf, Chrysilla von, Heart’s Desire,
Illustrations by John Buckland Wright (18971954) Paris: for Private Circulation Only, [c.
1939].
Quarto, limited edition, copy number eight
of seventy, with the word “less” added to the
penultimate line of the last leaf of text in pencil,
in the footnote to the epitaph; with an etching
on title page and seven full-page erotic
etchings in the text, bound in half vellum and
ivory buckram boards, title tooled in gilt on the
spine, t.e.g., one corner slightly bumped, 9
3/4 x 7 1/4 in.
$2,000-4,000
112
Dante Alighieri (c. 1265-1321) La Comedia
[...] con la Esposizione di Giuseppe Lando
Passerini da Cortona. Florence: Leo S.
Olschki, 1912.
Folio, limited edition, number 126 of 306,
bound in full blind-tooled calfskin over wooden
boards, with ornate patinated metal bosses,
catches, and center-pieces, t.e.g.; lacking
thongs and clasps, the binding with a few
minor scratches, contents very good, deckle
edges throughout, 16 x 11 3/4 in.
Provenance: Vito D’Agostino.
$1,200-1,800
59
113
Decorative Leather Bindings, Forty-one
Volumes.
John Keats’s Poetical Works and Other
Writings, New York: Scribner’s, 1938, large
octavo, Hampstead edition, number 380 of
1,050, bound in half red calf, in eight volumes;
William Wordsworth’s Greece, London:
Orr, 1853, large quarto, illustrated, full red
morocco, gilt-extra, a.e.g., one volume; The
Novels of Jane Austen, London: Dent, 1906,
fifth edition, octavo, color illustrations by C.E.
and H.M. Brock, in faded blue half calf, gilt
spines, ten volumes; Sir Thomas Malory’s La
Morte d’Arthur, London: John Russell Smith,
octavo, half crushed black morocco, gilt
spines, three volumes; Henry David Thoreau’s
Cape Cod, Cambridge: Riverside, 1904,
color illustrations, half red morocco gilt, two
volumes; fifteen volumes of letters and works
of Charles Lamb, three different mid-19th
century editions, ten of the group in full leather,
the other five in half leather, all with gilt-tooled
spines; [and] The Life of Benvenuto Cellini
Written by Himself, New York: Brentano’s,
1906, large octavo, half crushed red morocco,
t.e.g., spines lettered and tooled in gold, two
volumes; the group occupies approximately 4
feet of shelf space. (41)
$400-600
114
Decorative Leather Bindings, Sets, Fifteen
Volumes.
The Duke of Saint-Simon’s Memoirs of Louis
XIV and the Regency, London: Dunne, [1901],
in three volumes, dark blue half morocco with
gold tooling, t.e.g.
[and] The Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson,
ed. William J. Rolfe, edition de luxe, Boston:
Estes, [1895], copy 303 of 1,000, in half
cerulean gold-tooled morocco, t.e.g. (15)
$400-600
115
115
Demetrius Pepagomenus (1200-1300)
Ierakosofion [Graece] Rei Accipitrariae, ed.
Nicholas Rigault (1577-1654) Paris: ex officina
Nivelliana, sumptibus Sebastian Cramoisy,
1612.
First edition in Greek, quarto, Latin translation
by Jacques-Auguste de Thou (1553-1617),
title page printed in red and black, Greek and
Latin, with large printer’s device, bound in full
diced Russia, rebacked, corners repaired,
marbled endleaves, a.e.g., a large copy, 8 1/2
x 6 in.
This work is one of the earliest on the subject
of falconry. The manuscript used for this
edition was found by de Thou in the royal
library of Louis XIII.
$2,000-2,500
60
116
Denton, Sherman F. (fl. circa 1900) Moths
and Butterflies of the United States.
Boston: Bradlee Whidden, 1900.
First edition, two large octavo volumes, limited
edition, copy number 119 of 500, illustrated
with more than 400 “Nature Prints” of moths
and butterflies (for more on the technical
process, see below); Denton collected more
than 50,000 specimens for the printing of this
edition, and prepared the plates himself; this
copy is bound in contemporary half morocco,
rebacked, t.e.g., contents good, 9 3/4 x 6 3/4
in. (2)
“Insects, such as butterflies and moths, have
minute, colored or iridescent scales on their
wings that make up the distinctive patterns
used for identification. In the late-1700’s
French entomologists developed several
methods for making direct transfers of these
delicate scale patterns that could be used to
illustrate scientific identification guides. The
wings of a dead specimen are spread out
flat and carefully dried. The piece of paper to
be printed is coated with a thin layer of gum
arabic. A specimen is placed on the paper
and pressed gently into place. When well
attached the body is cut away. A second
sheet of adhesive paper is placed on top
and pressure is applied. When the wings are
removed the scales adhere to the paper and
the precise color patterns of the upper and
lower surfaces of the wings remain. The body
is either painted in or engraved and hand
colored.” from the Nature Printing Society
www.natureprintingsociety.org
$1,000-1,500
117
Der Durchlauchtigen Welt zum drey und
zwantzigstenmahl neu vermehrter und
verbesserter Geschichts-Geschlechts
und Wappen-Calender auf das Jahr 1745.
Nuremberg: Weigels, [1745].
Landscape-format folio, with the calendar
in octavo bound in the same volume before
the section on heraldry, title in red and black,
engraving of Ferdinand IV on verso of title,
key to heraldic coloration on the verso of the
last leaf of the calendar, and approximately
100 engraved coats of arms, one cut out and
missing, two with text trimmed away below
the shield; seventy leaves of the heraldic
section are followed by another short section
in octavo on royalty, university heads, and
other leaders; bound in full contemporary
paper with speckle decoration, worn, contents
good.
$200-300
116
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118
Die Wiener Werkstätte, 1903-1928,
Modernes Kunstgewerbe und Sein Weg.
Vienna: Krystall-Verlag, 1929.
First edition, quarto, illustrated throughout
with pages printed in full-color, black-andwhite, and gold, including photographs of
architecture, fine art, photography, sculpture,
drawing, bookbinding, ceramics, textiles,
furniture design, handbags, jewelry, interior
design, lighting design, furniture, glass,
facsimiles of original letters, and other works
created by the dozens of important artists
and designers that worked for the Wiener
Werkstätte design firm; bound in the original
molded sculptural relief papier-mâché boards,
in orange and black, with orange and white
patterned endleaves, back joint flaking slightly,
surface abrasions to high points on both
boards, 8 3/4 x 8 1/4 in.
$2,000-2,500
118
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122
119
Diodorus Siculus (fl. circa 60-30 BC)
Bibliothecae Historicae Libri XV, ed.
Laurence Rhodoman (1546-1606) Hanau:
Typis Wechelianis apud Claudium Marnium &
haeredes Joannis Aubrii, 1604.
First edition, folio, two parts in one volume,
in full contemporary parchment, yapp
edges, laced case construction, spine
slightly rumpled, but structurally intact and
functioning, contents with minor defects only,
printed in two parallel columns, Greek and
Latin throughout, 14 x 8 1/2 in.
$300-500
120
Donleavy, James Patrick (b. 1926) A
Singular Man, Three Signed Copies.
The first American edition, Boston: Little,
Brown and Co., [1963]; the first English
edition, London: Bodley Head, [1964]; and
the 1964 Bodley Head edition of the theatrical
adaptation of the novel, printed to coincide
with the 1964 production featuring Bill Nagy;
all in publisher’s bindings and dust jackets. (3)
$200-300
121
Donleavy, James Patrick (b. 1926) Five
Signed Titles.
The Lady Who Liked Clean Rest Rooms, New
York: Thornwillow Press, 1995, copy 160
of 175, signed by the author, illustrator, and
bookbinder, bound in half black morocco with
paste paper boards, in custom clamshell box,
very good.
The Beastly Beatitudes of Balthazar B,
Boston: Seymour Lawrence/Delacorte, 1968,
stated first printing, inscribed to Seymour
Lawrence.
The Plays of J.P. Donleavy, Boston: Seymour
Lawrence/Delacorte, 1972, stated first
printing, inscribed to Seymour Lawrence by
Donleavy on the dedication page.
A Fairy Tale of New York, Boston: Seymour
Lawrence/Delacorte, 1973, stated first
printing, inscribed to Seymour Lawrence.
[and] The Unexpurgated Code, Boston:
Seymour Lawrence/Delacorte, 1975, stated
first printing, inscribed to Seymour Lawrence;
the last four titles in publisher’s cloth bindings
with original dust jackets and some minor
flaws. (5)
$300-500
122
Donleavy, James Patrick (b. 1926) The
Ginger Man, Five Copies. Paris: Olympia
Press, Traveller’s Companion Series, No. 7,
1955.
First edition, signed by Donleavy on the
title page, with the price on the back cover
“Francs: 1.500,” bound in the original green
printed softcover wraps, some light wear.
Uncorrected galley proofs of the first American
edition, same title, publisher’s blue paper
covers, held together with a ribbon laced
through two holes punched in the top margin,
in a custom-made chemise and slipcase in
blue morocco and buckram, ribbon holding
leaves loosely, front cover slightly dog-eared.
[and] Three other copies of The Ginger
Man, all signed, including, the first revised
McDowell, Obolensky edition of 1958; the
stated first complete and unexpurgated edition
by Seymour Lawrence and Delacorte Press,
1965; and a smaller format ?pirated version of
the same, all with dust jackets. (5)
$800-1,000
63
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Dousa, Janus (1645-1604) Novorum
Poematum Secunda. Leiden: in Nova
Academia, 1576.
Octavo, full-page woodcut compartment with
colophon within on the last leaf, ex libris Janus
Brouckhusius (1648-1707) on title, other nearcontemporary ownership inscriptions on ffep
and some notes in the text, bound in full limp
parchment, yapp edges, nicely preserved, ties
lacking, 5 3/4 x 3 3/4 in.
Worldcat locates five copies of this title, all
held in Dutch libraries.
$500-700
64
124
Durand, Jean-Nicolas-Louis (1760-1834)
Recueil et Parallele des Edifices de Tout
Genre, Anciens et Modernes. Paris: [No
Printer] An IX, [i.e. 1800-1801].
Large folio, engraved title, alphabetical table,
and ninety full-page engraved plates; bound
in half morocco, worn, ex libris Harvard
University’s Lawrence Scientific School
Architectural Department, bound by the library
in 1899, with their bookplate inside the front
board and the penciled note: Discarded March
1936, on the verso of the title; first three
leaves mounted on linen; a very useful book
given hard reading by Harvard architectural
students, with about a dozen plates torn in
half down the center (pieces present), others
with corners torn, dog-eared, et cetera,
ancient eraser crumbs, and the occasional
drop of hot pink ink; many plates in good
condition, should be seen, 27 1/4 x 20 in.
$500-700
125
Dutch, Early Printed Books, Three Volumes,
1733-1790.
David Fassmann’s Maandelyksche Berichten
uit de Andere Waerelt, Amsterdam: Ratelband,
1733, 256 pages, February 1733 issue,
octavo, engraved frontispiece, stab-sewn only,
deckle edges, some repairs to the corners
of the first four leaves, 6 1/2 x 4 in. This is a
Dutch translation of Fassmann’s Dialogues
with the Dead, this imaginary dialogue is
between Caesar and Romulus.
[with] De Bediening der Zeven HH.
Sacramenten, ‘s-Gravenhage: Eustachius
de Haen, 1767, octavo, in very good
contemporary gold-tooled sheepskin, 6 3/4
x 4 in.
[and] Jacobus Ermerins’s Eenige Zeeuwsche
Oudheden, Middelburg: Abrahams,
1790, octavo, 148 pages, untrimmed, in
contemporary decorative wraps, 9 x 5 1/2 in.
(3)
$200-400
129
126
Early Printed Books, Mixed Lot, Six
Volumes.
Francis Quarles’s Divine Poemes, London: by
M.F. for Marriot, 1638, octavo, modern half
leather and buckram, engraved title;
Francisco Pomey’s Pantheum Mythicum,
Frankfurt: Ottonem, 1713, octavo, illustrated,
contemporary half leather and speckled paper
boards;
Stanislao Bechi’s Istoria dell’Origine, e
Progressi della Nautica Antica, Florence:
Tofani, 1785, quarto, contemporary sheepskin,
blue marbled endleaves, some peeling, loss of
leather at tail, contents good;
Tournefort’s Materia Medica, or a Description
of Simple Medicines Generally Us’d in
Physick, London: by W.H. for Andrew Bell,
1716, octavo, bound in full modern leather,
browning and spotting to contents;
Richard Smith’s Florum Historiae
Ecclesiasticae, Paris: Leonard, 1654,
folio, title page printed in red and black, in
contemporary boards, rebacked, contents
toned;
[and] A defective copy of Meric Casaubaon’s
(1599-1671) A Treatise Concerning
Enthusiasme. London: by Roger Daniel for
Thomas Johnson, 1656, incomplete, in later
boards. (6)
$300-500
127
Early Printed Leaves, English Bibles, Six
Leaves.
Folio fifty-seven from the 1535 editio princeps
of the Miles Coverdale Bible, from the second
part of the Old Testament, Book of Kings;
leaf seventy-four from the 1541 edition of the
“Great Bible” printed by Edwarde Whitchurch,
from Maccabees; folio fifty-seven from
Matthew’s Bible, 1549 edition, printed by John
Daye and William Seres, Maccabees; one
leaf from a quarto edition of the King James
Bible, circa 1612, also Maccabees; and two
other examples of leaves from early English
books; five of the six leaves are folio, the other
is quarto, various sizes, with some minor
condition faults. (6)
$400-600
128
Early Printed Leaves, English, Six Leaves.
Leaf 168 from Jacobus de Voragine’s Golden
Legend, London: Wynkyn de Worde, 1493,
from the section on Saint Genevieve; page
561/562 from the 1577 edition of Holinshed’s
Chronicles, with three woodcuts; leaf 158
[Dd2] from the 1570 edition of Sebastian
Brant’s The Ship of Fools, in Latin and English,
with a woodcut of a country fool, “rusticorum
ambitio”; two non-concurrent leaves from
the 1542 edition of Chaucer’s Canterbury
Tales, both from “The Parson’s Tale”; and leaf
forty-four from the 1561 edition of Chaucer’s
Works, all folio format, removed from books,
and unframed. (6)
$300-500
129
Edgeworth, Maria (1768-1849) Three
Novels in Six Volumes.
Harrington, a Tale; and Ormond, a Tale,
London: for R. Hunter et al., 1817, octavo, in
three volumes, full red morocco, t.e.g., edges
untrimmed, some interior staining, bindings
dry, joints rubbed, 7 1/4 x 4 1/4 in.
[with] Helen, London: Bentley, 1834, in three
octavo volumes, in red morocco uniform
with the set described above, t.e.g., edges
trimmed, no half-titles or final blanks in either
set, binding faults as above, spotting to
contents throughout, 7 1/4 x 4 1/4 in. (6)
$300-500
65
130
Edison, Thomas Alva (1847-1931) The
Boy’s Life of Edison, Signed Copy. New
York: Harper’s, [1921].
Octavo, later edition, with Edison’s signature
and a two-cent stamp celebrating the golden
jubilee of the electric light bulb on ffep,
along with subsequent gift inscriptions, with
frontispiece showing Edison at work in his lab,
bound in publisher’s cloth with a portrait of
Edison in an oval on the front board, 7 1/4 x
4 3/4 in.
$600-800
131
Emblem Books, Three Volumes.
Vincenzo Cartari’s (1531-1569) Imagini delli
Dei de gl’Antichi, Venice: Tomasini, 1647,
quarto, title page printed in red and black,
illustrated with one full-page woodcut,
extraneous to the collation, and a folding
plate, profusely illustrated with finely done text
woodcuts throughout, the majority dedicated
to images of the ancient classical gods, but
a section on international iconography at the
end includes images from Mesoamerican
pre-Columbian religions, Hinduism, Buddhism,
and ancient Egyptian religion, later binding,
failing, some worming, a large copy, with many
deckle edges, 9 1/4 x 6 1/2 in.
Andrea Alciatus’s Emblemata, Antwerp:
Beyerlinck, 1621, octavo defective copy,
lacking the title page, woodcut emblems
throughout, water stained, wormed, in a
contemporary limp parchment binding,
rumpled, 5 3/4 x 4 in.
[and] Frances Quarles’s Emblems, London:
by Elizabeth Nutt, to be sold by Horn et al.,
1718, octavo, engraved title, text emblems
throughout, contemporary calf, front board
detached, 6 x 3 3/4 in. (3)
$300-500
130
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132
Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882)
Complete Works, Riverside Edition. Boston:
Houghton Mifflin, 1886.
Ten volumes of eleven, lacking volume three,
bound in uniform publisher’s blue cloth, some
chipping, fading, 7 1/4 x 4 3/4 in.
[and] James Elliot Cabot’s A Memoir of Ralph
Waldo Emerson, Boston: Houghton Mifflin,
& Co., Riverside Press, 1888, in two octavo
volumes, publisher’s blue cloth, 7 1/4 x 4 3/4
in. (12)
$300-500
131
133
Erasmus Desiderius (1466-1536) Adagia
Quaecumque ad Hanc Diem Exierunt.
Florence: Juntas, 1575.
The expurgated edition of Erasmus’s Adages,
edited by Paulus Manutius as instructed by
the Council of Trent, printed in italic type in
double columns throughout, with sections in
Greek; three indices after the text, and three
different large woodcut printer’s devices: on
title, colophon after the text, and colophon
after the final index; bound in full tight-backed
contemporary parchment, front board partially
detached, some minor intermittent spotting,
12 x 7 3/4 in.
$600-800
134
Erasmus Desiderius (1466-1536) In Praise
of Folly, Four Illustrated Editions.
Moriae Encomium, or a Panegyrick upon Folly,
London: Woodward, 1709, octavo, trans.
White Kennett (1660-1728), illustrated with
engraved portrait, text illustrations, six folding
engravings, and eighteen full-page, after Hans
Holbein; in contemporary calf, old rebacking,
front board detached, 7 3/4 x 4 1/2 in.
Two French editions, L’Eloge de la Folie,
Leiden: Vander Aa, 1713; and [Paris: No
Printer], 1751, both editions translated by
Guedeville, illustrated, 6 1/4 x 4 1/2 in. and 6
3/4 x 3 3/4 in.
[and] Stultitiae Laus, Basel: Genathianis, 1676,
engraved vignette on title, extra engraved title,
portraits of Erasmus, and Holbeins younger
and older, many text engravings, and small
folding illustrations pasted in, old calf, front
board detached, 7 1/4 x 4 1/4 in. (4)
$300-500
135
Erasmus Desiderius (1466-1536) Opus
Epistolarum. Basel: Froben, 1529.
Folio, 1010 pages, with the final leaf with
the printer’s device, marginal water stains
throughout, contemporary notes in the
margins intermittently throughout, paper
repairs to first and last leaf, bound in full 17th
century calfskin, probably English, notes
slightly trimmed, corners bumped, joints split,
front board becoming detached, 12 1/2 x 8
1/2 in.
$1,200-1,800
67
136
140A
136
Fabretti, Raffaele (1619-1700) De Aquis
et Aquaeductibus Veteris Romae
Dissertationes Tres. Rome: Bussotti, 1680.
First edition, quarto, engraved vignette with
hedgehog on title, numerous text engravings
throughout, including some that take up a
full page integral to the typographical text,
three folding engraved maps, this copy a
duplicate from the Vatican Apostolic Library,
with stamps inside the front board, and on the
versos of the title page and last page of text,
bound in full parchment of the period over
boards, turn-ins lifting, title in brown in ink on
the spine, some intermittent browning of text
leaves, generally good, 9 1/4 x 6 in.
Fabretti was the first archaeologist and ancient
Roman aqueduct hunter to compose a
scholarly treatise on the subject.
$700-900
68
137
Fabricius, Johann Albert (1668-1736)
Bibliographia Antiquaria. Hamburg and
Leipzig: Liebezeit, 1716.
Quarto, second edition, corrected, with
additions, engraved frontispiece of the fire at
the ancient library of Alexandria, title printed
in red and black, ex libris Johann Friedrich
Ramsler (1700-1757) illegible ownership
annotation on the title, dated 1740, some
textual underlinings and at least one marginal
note in the same hand, Ramsler’s signature
dated 1738 inside the back board, bound in
half vellum, speckled paper boards, 8 1/4 x 6
1/2 in.
Fabricius was an accomplished scholar who
made significant contributions to bibliography.
A manuscript collector himself, in this work he
concerns himself with ancient Hebrew, Greek,
Roman, and Christian books. This edition
contains subject and author indices.
$300-400
138
Falconry, Four Facsimiles of Early Books.
Dame Juliana Berners’s The Boke of Saint
Albans, London: Eliot Stock, 1881, large
quarto, untrimmed, bound in full blindstamped vellum over board, gold tooling to
spine, some offsetting to endleaves, spine
darkened, 11 1/4 x 8 3/4 in.
J.E. Harting’s A Perfect Booke for Kepinge
of Sparhawkes or Goshawkes, London:
Quaritch, 1886, quarto, limited edition, copy
number 41 of 100, in newer half morocco, 8
x 6 1/2 in.
Bert’s Treatise of Hawks and Hawking,
London: Quaritch, 1891, quarto, limited to 100
copies, signed by the printer on the limitation
page, in half red morocco, worn, 8 1/4 x 6
1/2 in.
[and] Pierre de Gommer, Seigneur de Lusancy,
L’Autoursserie et de ce qui Appartient au Vol
des Oiseaux, Paris: Aubry, 1878, octavo,
edited by Henri Chevreul, a facsimile copy
of the 1594 edition, in publisher’s limp paper
wrappers and glassine dust jacket, 8 x 5 in. (4)
$400-500
139
Falconry, Six Volumes.
William Jardine’s The Naturalist’s Library,
Ornithology, Volume IX, Birds of Prey,
Edinburgh: Lizars, 1838, small octavo, with
thirty-four colored plates, in later cloth;
Begt Berg’s Den Flygande Draken, Stockholm:
Norstedt & Soners, [1931], large quarto,
illustrated, in half calf with paste paper boards
and paste downs, 9 3/4 x 7 in.
Fauconnerie Catalogue Illustre, produced
for the Paris Exposition of 1889, Paris:
Cerf, 1890, limited edition, numbered 47, in
buckram, with some interior discolorations in
the text, 11 x 7 3/4 in.
Michell’s The Art and Practice of Hawking,
London: Methuen, 1900, in publisher’s red
cloth, blocked in gold, interior foxing, 8 3/4 x
5 1/2 in.
Richard Blome’s Hawking or Faulconry,
London: The Cresset Press, 1929, limited
edition copy number 446 of 650, folding
frontispiece, illustrated, bound in half vellum, 8
1/2 x 6 3/4 in.
[and] Captain C.W.R. Knight’s The Book of the
Golden Eagle, London: Hodder & Stoughton,
[n.d.], inscribed by the author on the half-title,
illustrated, green publisher’s cloth, stamped in
gold, corners bumped, 9 3/4 x 7 1/4 in. (6)
$200-400
140
Far West Literature, Eleven Volumes.
Including: James L. Scott’s A Journal of
a Missionary Tour through Pennsylvania,
Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Wiskonsin, and
Michigan; Comprising a Concise Description
of [...] the Great Western Prairies, Providence:
by the Author, 1843, octavo, original cloth
boards, contents spotted, 7 1/4 x 4 1/2 in.
I.A. Lapham’s Wisconsin: its Geography and
Topography, Milwaukee: Hopkins, 1846,
12mo, second edition, contents good,
sheepskin boards, rebacked, 7 1/2 x 4 1/4 in.
Edward E. Hale’s Kanzas and Nebraska,
Boston: Phillips, Sampson, & Co., 1854,
octavo, with the frontispiece folding map,
some spotting, in full original blue cloth, goldstamped spine, 7 3/4 x 4 1/2 in.
Rufus Sage’s Rocky Mountain Life, Boston:
Thayer & Eldridge, 1860, octavo, frontispiece
of a mounted Plains warrior, illustrated, bound
in full original blind-stamped cloth boards,
gold on spine all but gone, worn, some holes
in the cloth, fraying, the text block shifting, but
structurally sound, 7 1/4 x 4 1/2 in.
R.B. Stratton’s Captivity of the Oatman Girls,
New York: for the Author, 1858, octavo with
frontispiece portrait of Olive Oatman, showing
her facial tattoos, illustrated, text leaves well
spotted throughout, in contemporary boards
with later library rebacking in buckram, 7 1/4
x 4 3/4 in.
Mrs. John H. Kinzie’s Wau-Bun, the “Early
Day” in the North-West, New York: Derby
& Jackson, 1856, large octavo, illustrated,
some spotting near the end of the text, with
two post cards of the Kinzie cottage inserted,
bound in original cloth, blind stamped boards
and gold stamped spine, spine faded, 9 x 5
1/2 in.
[and] Five other titles on the same subject. (11)
$1,000-1,800
141
140A
Faulkner, William (1897-1962) Ole Miss: The
Year Book of the University of Mississippi
Vol. XXII, 1917/1918. Nashville, Tennessee:
Benson Printing Co., 1918.
With two illustrations by Faulkner on pages
111 and 113, his signature in the plate;
quarto, soft cloth covers with pebbled leather
texture, stamped on front cover in gilt and
blind, front cover with corners bumped, other
signs of wear, gold tooling a bit chipped and
darkened, spine creased, structurally intact,
10 1/2 x 7 3/4 in.
$600-800
141
Fenelon, Francois de Salignac de la Mothe
(1651-1715) Les Aventures de Telemaque,
Illustrated with Jean Baptiste Tilliard’s
(1740-1813) Engravings after Charles
Monnet (1732-1808). Paris: Chez l’Auteur
[Didot], 1785.
Two large quarto volumes, illustrated with
an engraved title in volume one, twenty-four
engraved full-page chapter heads with border,
text, and image; and seventy-two full-page
illustrations (three for each chapter), bound
in full contemporary mottled and spongedecorated green and tan calfskin, gilt spines,
red and green labels on each spine, a.e.g.,
marbled endleaves, somewhat dry, joints split,
headcaps chipped. (2)
This work is considered to be one of the best
illustrated French books of its period.
$1,000-1,500
69
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142
Fitzherbert, Sir Anthony (1470-1538) La
Graunde Abridgement. London: Richard
Tottell, 1577.
Large quarto in eights, two parts in one
volume, both title pages printed within
ornate woodcut compartments bearing the
printer’s initials, printed in single column in
black letter throughout, in law French, large
copy, with deckle edges showing, occasional
contemporary marginal notes; some marginal
tears, some tears with loss, one repaired with
non-archival tape, toning, water stains, slight
worming; bound in contemporary dark brown
Oxford binding, with central lozenge in blind
on both boards, flanked by initials, very worn,
later rebacking, failing, 10 1/2 x 7 3/4 in.
Fitzherbert’s La Graunde Abridgement,
compiled from disparate case law sources,
was the first systematic attempt to provide a
summary of English law.
$800-1,000
70
143
Foppens, Jean-Francois (1689-1761)
Bibliotheca Belgica. Brussels: Pierre
Foppens, 1739.
Two large quarto volumes, title pages printed
in black and red, illustrated with 145 portraits,
nine of which are folding, all others full-page,
bound in full contemporary sponge-decorated
calf, the spines quite dry, boards becoming
detached, heads chipped; ex libris Guiseppe
Martini (1870-1944) with his bookplate pasted
inside each volume, with an added portrait of
Thomas a Kempis slipped in, 9 3/4 x 7 1/2
in. (2)
$300-500
144
Force, Peter, ed. (1790-1868) American
Archives: Fourth and Fifth Series.
Washington, D.C.: St. Clair Clarke and Force,
1837-1853.
Nine folio volumes, consisting of volumes one
through six of the fourth series, and volumes
one through three of the fifth series, covering
the Revolutionary War period from the King’s
Message of 7 March 1774 to the Treaty of
Peace with Great Britain in 1783; the facsimile
of the Declaration of Independence has been
removed; ex library copies with markings
confined to the preliminary material; binding
structure of series five, volume one perished;
other volumes split along the spine; all boards
detached, not collated for completeness. (9)
$200-300
145
Fore-edge Painting, Prize Book, The Iliad
of Homer. London: Murray, 1865.
Two octavo volumes in full red morocco,
fore-edge paintings on each volume, depicting
the Royal College of Surgeons and the New
College of Physicians, London, bindings very
good, a.e.g., colors in the paintings bright, 8
1/4 x 5 in. (2)
$400-600
146
Foxley, William C., Frontier Spirit.
Lunenburg, Vermont: Stinehour, 1983.
First edition, copy number 63, signed on the
limitation page, and inscribed by author as
well, bound in full pigskin by the Harcourt
Bindery, front cover with color illustration by
Remington, profusely illustrated throughout,
11 1/2 x 9 3/4 in.
$400-600
147
147
Franklin, Benjamin (1706-1790)
Experiments and Observations on
Electricity. London: for David Henry, sold by
Francis Newbery, 1769.
Fourth edition, expanded, quarto, illustrated
with several relief-printed text illustrations
and vignettes, and seven engraved plates
extraneous to the collation, of which three
are folding, plate II is torn; bound in full
contemporary smooth calfskin, gold tooled
spine and label; joints cracked, surface
scratches to boards, end bands still intact,
boards attached; text with the occasional
spot, generally good, 9 x 7 in.
$3,000-5,000
148
Frederick II, Emperor of Germany (11941250) De Arte Venandi cum Avibus. Graz,
Austria: Akademische Druck, [1969].
Two folio volumes housed in publisher’s
suede-backed slipcase, the first a
commentary volume, in half suede; the
second a facsimile of the original manuscript,
held at the Vatican, the facsimile volume on
paper that simulates the look and feel of
parchment, bound in full suede, with a handlettered parchment label pasted to the front
board; some leather on the slipcase bumped
with loss, generally good, 14 1/4 x 9 3/4 in.
$500-700
149
Free Masons. Grand Lodge of
Massachusetts. Constitutions of the
Ancient and Honorable Fraternity of Free
and Accepted Masons. Worcester: Isaiah
Thomas, 1798.
Second edition, revised and corrected,
with large additions; published under the
sanction of the Grand Lodge; quarto,
engraved frontispiece by Joseph H. Seymour,
ex libris Frederick Revere of Worcester,
Massachusetts, with his signature on front
pastedown, contemporary sheepskin,
damaged, front board detached and reflexed;
frontispiece torn and mended from the verso
with tape, offsetting from frontis to title, with
some even toning to text leaves, marginal
water staining, and other stains, the paper
stock sometimes with a bluish cast, 9 x 7 1/4
in.
Evans attributes the authorship of this work to
James Anderson (1680-1739).
$800-1,200
71
150
150
Fremont, John Charles (1813-1890)
Narrative of the Exploring Expedition to
the Rocky Mountains in the Years 1843-44.
Syracuse: Hall & Dickson; New York: Barnes
& Co., 1847.
Octavo, with the large folding Map of Oregon,
California, New Mexico, N.W. Texas, & the
proposed Territory of Ne-Bras-Ka, by Rufus
B. Sage (1817-1893), printed on onion-skin
paper, hand-colored; and two full-page wood
engravings in the text; four pages of ads after
the text; bound in full contemporary brown
cloth, title and illustration of a buck on a rocky
outcropping stamped on the spine in gilt,
drink circle on front board, endcaps frayed
with loss; map with folds and very minor tears,
some edges slightly worn from protruding
beyond the text block, an ex library copy
with very restrained stamps that appear only
on ffep and rear pastedown, no other library
marks, 7 3/4 x 4 3/4 in.
72
This abridged edition of Fremont’s account
of his far west expeditions is the only one to
include Sage’s valuable map. In 1847, much
of the territory delineated in this map was
still firmly under the control of Plains Indians,
especially the Comanche people.
$3,000-5,000
151
151
Frost, Robert (1874-1963) A Boy’s Will,
Inscribed. London: David Nutt, 1913.
First edition, bound in bronze textured cloth,
lettered in gilt on the front board, inscribed on
ffep, to “Emma Pearl Goldsmith, Beaconsfield,
Bucks, England, May 1913, For your
graduation,” with notes in the text presumably
added by Ms. Goldsmith, binding a bit shaky,
7 1/2 x 5 in.
$1,000-1,500
152
Frost, Robert (1874-1963) North of Boston.
New York: Henry Holt, 1914.
First American edition, one of 150 copies
printed from the British sheets of the David
Nutt edition, with colophon of the Edinburgh
printer, Ballantyne, Hanson, & Co. at Paul’s
Work, on the last leaf, octavo, in publisher’s
half buckram and gray paper-covered boards,
printed labels on spine and front board;
corners damaged with loss, spine label very
dark, inner joint split (endpaper), rear flyleaf
with large corner chip, 8 x 5 1/2 in.
$1,000-1,500
153
Fuller, Albert W. (1854-1934) Artistic Homes
in City and Country. New York: William L.
Comstock, 1882.
First edition, oblong folio; title, preface,
and forty-four plates of elevations and floor
plans, in the original illustrated publisher’s
boards, yellow ochre cloth, blocked in green
and red, with various notes, drawings, one
photograph, and price list from a Worcester,
Massachusetts, architectural firm inserted, 13
x 8 1/2 in.
$400-600
73
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154
Gage, Thomas (1603?-1656) A New Survey
of the West Indies. London: by Clark for
Nicolson and Newborough, 1699.
Fourth edition, with Lamb’s folding New
Mapp of the Empire of Mexico, octavo (also
published under the title: English-American
his Travail by Sea and Land), in contemporary
paneled calf, rebacked, 7 1/4 x 4 1/2 in.
The text describes Catholic missions in
Mexico, and contains many ethnographic
observations, including a grammar of the
Pokonchi language.
$400-600
155
Galen (130 AD-200 AD) Opera ex Septima
Iuntarum Editione. Venice: Juntas, 1597.
Two folio volumes, lacking the first signature in
the second volume, aa1-8, title in volume one
printed in red and black within an elaborate
woodcut compartment, ex libris Dr. Crawford
Adams, with his bookplate in each volume,
water stains and other faults to contents,
should be viewed, in full modern red buckram,
14 1/4 x 9 3/4 in. (2)
$400-600
156
Gerlach, Martin (1846-1918) Die Perle,
La Perle, The Pearl, a Monthly Illustrated
Journal for Goldsmimths and Jewellers.
Vienna: Gerlach & Co. (Ferdinand Schenk),
[1880].
Folio, volume two only, containing thirty-seven
full-page numbered plates of jewelry designs,
two of which are printed in full color, plates
are interspersed with pages of descriptive
text, bound in full publisher’s cloth, elaborately
stamped and gilt, textured metallic endleaves;
spine fragmentary and detached, sewing
structure perished, some signatures sprung,
14 1/2 x 11 in.
Gerlach inherited a jewelry business that he
discontinued in favor of printing. He created
this and other pattern books for jewelry
designers and pioneered commercial use of
heliotype printing.
$800-1,000
157
Gibbon, Edward (1737-1794) The History of
the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
London: for Strahan and Cadell, 1782 [-1788].
Six quarto volumes, mixed edition, bound in
uniform contemporary marbled calf, spines
tooled in gilt, some volumes with joints
split, joint repairs, corners bumped, surface
scratches, corner repairs, etc., 11 x 8 1/2 in.
(6)
$1,500-1,800
75
158
162
76
158
Gifford, Walter Sherman (1885-1966) Three
Photograph Albums 1931-1944.
Folio landscape-format albums in leather
boards, with Sherman’s name tooled on
the covers in gilt, containing a variety of
photographs, from small-format to full-page,
almost all in black-and-white, attached to
album pages by photo corners, consisting of
personal photographs of family scenes from
the life of this Harvard graduate and President
of AT&T from 1925 to 1948, including shots
of the family at their home, Thimble Farm, in
North Castle, New York; rodeo, riding, and
fishing pictures from Dubois, Wyoming; shots
of camping, fishing, and sailing on the East
Coast; a canoe trip to Manitoba, Canada; a
horseback riding trip to the Great Smokey
Mountains; a Harvard soccer game in 1939;
trips to Miami; an interesting section records
a trip to Arkansas in 1940, with shots of
schools, farms, a cotton mill and fields, and
scenes of daily life; another group contains
photographs of the Grand Canyon, 1931; Zion
National Park; Soda Springs; roping, riding,
and ranching in the area; Cedar Springs;
Prescott Rodeo; Carlsbad Caverns; Santa
Fe; Taos; an extended camping trip to an
unidentified location in the Far West, including
a series of shots of a young bear tied to a
length of rope; numerous pictures from a trip
to Ox-Yoke Ranch in Emigrant, Montana,
1935; with several 8 x 10s of buildings,
interiors, and ranching scenes, including a
signed shot of owner Charlie Murphy; Big
Horn Ranch in Wyoming; a trip to Alaska,
1936, featuring glaciers, gold mining, sea
towns, railways, Coastal Northwest American
Indian artifacts: totem poles, masks, and a
lodge, a car adapted to ride on railroad tracks;
Giant Forest; Yosemite; Kern River Canyon;
Mount Whitney; Milestone Peak; Lake Basin;
an 8 x 10 of Gifford and his son with Mickey
Rooney and Father Flanagan; another of
the Giffords with Spencer Tracy; Honolulu,
1938 where the family is found again fishing,
swimming, flying in airplanes, travelling by
boat, visiting the lava fields, and the major
islands; the albums themselves are failing
somewhat, the original leather spines are lost,
but the bindings are secured with metal posts
that are still intact, most photographs are in
good condition, sizes vary throughout, each
album is 16 1/4 x 10 1/2 in. (3)
$3,000-4,000
159
Ginsberg, Allen (1926-1997) Allen Ginsberg:
Photographs, Signed. [Altadena, California:]
Twelvetrees Press, 1990.
Folio, in full publisher’s gray cloth, blind
embossed with the title, with the original black
dust jacket and the Mylar jacket, covered
together in a clear plastic, signature on title
page dated 7/23/93; slight fading to cloth
on the bottom edge of front board, corners
slightly bumped, 14 x 10 3/4 in.
$500-700
160
Ginsberg, Allen (1926-1997) Fifteen Titles,
Mostly Signed.
A small group of printed books and
pamphlets, most signed, including the
following books: Planet News, San Francisco:
City Lights, 1968, hardcover in the original
slipcase; Indian Journals, San Francisco: City
Lights, 1970, in the dust jacket; First Blues,
New York: Full Court Press, [1975], with dust
jacket; White Shroud, New York: Harper &
Row, [1986], with dust jacket, stated first
edition; To Eberhart from Ginsberg, Lincoln,
Massachusetts: the Penmaen Press, 1975;
Airplane Dreams, Toronto: Anansi, 1968,
with jacket; T.V. Baby Poems, London: Cape
Goliard Press, 1967, hard cover, with the dust
jacket; and the following unsigned pamphlets:
Improvised Poetics; Iron Horse; Poems All
Over the Place; Careless Love; Sad Dust
Glories; Bixby Canyon; and T.V. Baby, soft
cover; and a signed copy of the chapbook,
Beat Legacy, Connections, Influences. (15)
$600-800
161
Giraldi, Lilio Gregorio [Giglio Gregorio
Giraldi] (1479-1552) Libelli Duo [...] in
Pythagorae Symbola. Basel: Oporinus,
[1551].
First edition, octavo, printed in italic type
throughout, single column, bound in later
boards, rebacked, title page toned, contents
clean, 6 x 3 3/4 in.
$400-600
162
Gordon, Anthony (fl. circa 1805) A Treatise
on the Science of Defence for the Sword,
Bayonet, and Pike in Close Action. London:
by McMillan, sold by Egerton, 1806.
Inscribed author’s presentation copy, with
extensive margin notes in the author’s hand
throughout the text; second edition, large
quarto, illustrated with nineteen full-page
engravings, one of which is folding, and
another, appearing between plates eight and
nine, is unnumbered and out of series; bound
in contemporary full straight-grained red
morocco, tooled in gilt-extra, with gilt spine,
inner gilt dentelles, a.e.g., blue endleaves;
ex-library copy, from Gilstrap Public Library,
in Newark-on-Trent, with unfortunate library
stamps from the 1940s on the title page and
verso of each plate, 10 1/2 x 8 1/2 in.
$800-1,000
163
Guthrie, Matthew (d. 1807) and Maria,
A Tour Performed in The Years 1795-6,
Through The Taurida, or Crimea. London:
for Cadell & Davies, 1802.
Quarto, with two folding maps (one is the
frontispiece), three full-page plates, and
several text illustrations, bound in full leather,
rebacked, some foxing, 10 1/2 x 8 in.
$300-500
164
Harvard College Libraries, John Langdon
Sibley (1804-1885), Joseph Addison (16721719) Works. Birminghman: Baskerville,
1761.
Volumes two, three, and four only of four,
each with a printed Harvard College Library
duplicate ticket signed by John Langdon
Sibley (1804-1885), Librarian, the printed
bookplates are all printed with the text,
“Duplicate From Harvard College Library,” and
then completed in hand by Sibley as follows,
“to which it was presented by the Province
of New Hampshire 1765-66, John Langdon
Sibley [Librarian] Sold 22 May 1873 to Samuel
Dennis Warren H U 1875”; engraved Harvard
bookplates removed, characteristic shelf
marks in red pencil on ffeps of each volume;
the three in uniform contemporary calfskin
bindings, rebacked; signs of schoolboy use,
including a section of volume two that was set
on fire, the penciled note on the worst page
reading, “making night hideous,” and another
inscription on the free endleaf at the end of
volume three, “This book was brought into
Prof. Channing’s [...] room Sophomore class
1828, 1829, 1830, Dr. Channing is a great
fool! Sept. 1839, 1840, 1848,” 11 3/4 x 9 in.
(3)
$300-500
77
165
Heller, Joseph (1923-1999) Catch 22, Book
Club Edition, Inscribed. New York: Simon
and Schuster, [n.d.].
Inscription on ffep, “To Linda Moody, with
sincere good wishes. I value your praise.
Joseph Heller, September 23, 1993, East
Hampton, NY”; with the jacket, good.
$300-500
166
Heller, Joseph (1923-1999) Catch 22,
Signed First Edition. New York: Simon and
Schuster, 1961.
Signed by Heller on the title, with “first
printing” on copyright page, in publisher’s
blue cloth, top edge stained red, with the dust
jacket, a bit bumped, short closed tear at the
foot of the back panel, and a crease near the
head of the spine.
$1,500-2,500
165
169
167
Heller, Joseph (1923-1999) Catch 22,
Unsigned First Edition and Signed Pirated
Edition. New York: Simon and Schuster,
1961;
[and] [China?: No Printer, n.d.].
Both books in publisher’s cloth bindings, and
dust jackets, Asian edition signed by Heller
on title, smaller format, printed on cheap
paper (yellowed) with later generation copy of
Heller’s portrait on the back of the jacket, and
bookticket of a Taiwanese bookseller. (2)
$300-500
168
Herodotus (c. 484-425 BC) Historiarum
Libri IX. [Geneva]: Estienne, 1618.
Folio, illustrated with four folding woodcuts,
text in double columns of Greek and Latin
throughout, Latin translation by Lorenzo Valla
(1407-1457), edited by Henri Estienne (15281598), bound in full contemporary English
plain calf, worn, browning and water staining
to some text leaves, 13 1/4 x 8 1/4 in.
$1,000-1,500
169
Hilliard, Timothy (1746-1790) A Sermon
Delivered December 10, 1788, at the
Ordination of John Andrews. Newburyport:
John Mycall, 1789.
First edition, octavo, with the half-title; first leaf
of text printed in red, blue, and black, with
Mycall’s woodcut head-piece and woodcut
initial O; stab sewn, deckle edges throughout,
9 x 5 1/2 in.
This otherwise unassuming pamphlet sermon
has the typographical distinction of having
been printed in Newburyport by the talented
Mycall, and may be the earliest example of
three-color printing in the United States.
$1,000-1,500
78
171
170
Hippocrates (c. 460-c. 370 BC) Magni
Coacae Praenotiones, ed. Louis Duret
(1527-1586) Paris: Billaine, 1621.
Folio, title printed in red and black, with
engraved vignette, large Greek text with Latin
translation and extended Latin commentaries
composed by Duret, the chief royal physician
to Charles IX (1550-1574) and Henry III (15511589) of France, bound in full later parchment
over boards, ex libris Aubin-Boulouneix,
bookplate pasted inside the front board
(perhaps Simon-Joseph, a Canadian physician
of the 19th century), the text water stained,
some leaves browned, text block becoming
detached from the binding, 13 1/2 x 8 3/4 in.
$600-800
171
Homer (c. 8th Century BC) The Odyssey.
London: Printed and Published by Sir Emery
Walker, Wilfred Merton, and Bruce Rogers,
1932.
Folio, limited edition, one of 530 copies, the
text printed in Bruce Rogers’s Centaur type
on light gray Barcham Green paper, large
gold-leaf medallions printed on the title and at
the head of each of the twenty-four chapters,
bound in full black morocco by W.H. Smith
& Son, gilt-lettered spine, t.e.g., deckle
edges throughout, with a copy of the original
prospectus inserted, binding slightly rubbed,
with a dent on the back board, and slight
scuffing, 11 1/2 x 7 3/4 in.
[and] Chapman’s Homer, The Whole Works;
Prince of Poetts, in His Iliads, and Odysses,
Oxford: at the Shakespeare Head by Basil
Blackwell, 1930-1931, in five volumes,
illustrated by John Farleigh, limited edition,
number 290 of 450, bound in half red leather
and ivory buckram boards, bindings dry and
rubbed, but intact, 11 1/4 x 7 1/2 in. (6)
$2,500-3,000
79
177
172
Hugo, Victor (1802-1885) Les Miserables.
New York: Carleton, 1862.
First American edition, first edition in English,
five volumes bound in two, in contemporary
half leather, marbled paper boards, worn,
water stains affecting the end and preliminary
leaves in both volumes, subsiding as the text
proceeds, joints weak, bindings chipped, a
good candidate for restoration, 9 1/4 x 5 1/2
in. (2)
$600-800
173
Incunabula and Early Printed Book Leaves.
Fourteen separate leaves removed from early
printed books, mostly folio format, on paper
and parchment; including one leaf from the
Cologne Chronicle of 1499; two leaves from
early 16th century histories, both printed in
Paris; two leaves from a French Book of Hours
printed on parchment with hand-illuminated
borders, c. 1510; one leaf from Wuss’s writing
manual Zurich, 1549, with woodcut text and
borders on both sides; one leaf from Pierre
Le Rouge’s Mer de Histoires, c. 1488, with
two woodcuts and two borders; a leaf from
the Nuremberg Chronicle with woodcuts of
ancient Greek philosophers; five leaves from
Koberger’s Glossa Ordinaria, Strasbourg,
1480; and one leaf from Mentelin’s edition of
Nicholas de Lyra’s Postilla, 1472. (14)
$400-600
80
174
Incunabula Leaf, Nuremberg Chronicle.
Folio 209, text in Latin, single column, black
letter, with woodcuts of Frederick II (11941250) Holy Roman Emperor and the sun
on the recto, and two large woodcuts of
Dominican and Franciscan monasteries on the
verso, lightly toned, marginal ink spot, 16 1/2
x 11 1/4 in.
$200-300
175
Incunabula Leaves, Nuremberg Chronicle,
Two Framed Leaves, One Hand-colored.
Folio thirty-seven, text in Latin, with a
description of one of the Trojan Wars on the
recto, with eight woodcut portraits of related
rulers; the text on the verso is an abridgement
of several chapters from Numbers 25,
illustrated with nine portraits in the margins;
[and] Folio 195 from a German edition of the
text, hand-colored, with one small woodcut of
Bishop Hildebert of Lavardin (c. 1055-1133)
and the spear that pierced Christ’s side on
the recto, and a large woodcut of a Cistercian
monastery on the verso, with woodcuts of two
abbots beneath; each leaf matted in its own
modern, gilt, double-glazed frame. (2)
$250-350
176
Incunabula Leaves, Small Format.
Eighteen leaves printed on paper from
continental books from before 1501, all
smaller format, i.e., octavo, quarto, 12mo;
printed in black and Roman letter, a few with
added rubrication or initials, size varies. (18)
$300-500
177
Incunabula Leaves.
Twenty-eight paper leaves removed from
books printed in continental Europe before
1501, from classical and religious works;
1470s to the 1490s; all folio format; printed in
Roman and gothic types, mostly in Latin, three
in German; some with added initials, capital
strokes, and chapter headings in red or blue;
a few leaves with contemporary marginalia or
corrections; various sizes. (28)
$700-900
178
Index Librorum Prohibitorum,
Sammelband, 1570-1597. Philip II of Spain
(1527-1598) De Librorum Prohibitorum
Catalogo Observando. Antwerp: Plantin,
1570, eight leaves (A8), printed in French,
German, and Latin;
[bound with] Index Librorum Prohibitorum,
Antwerp: Plantin, 1570, (A-F8, G6);
[and] Index Librorum Prohibitorum, Venice:
Marcum de Claseris, 1597, octavo, (A-F8, with
the final blank, F8), the three bound in late
17th century speckled calf, gold-tooled spine;
worn, top compartment of the spine and
headband missing, stamp of the Department
des Deux-Nethes of Antwerp on the last
leaf of text of the last work; Antwerp (or
Anvers) was part of France during the French
Revolution, under the name Deux-Nethes, in
1814 it was made part of Holland, and then
incorporated into Belgium in 1830; 6 x 4 in.
The Catholic Church began keeping a list of
prohibited books in the mid-16th century.
Anything considered heretical, inconsistent
with church teachings, carnal, or theologically
dangerous was eligible, including important
works of science and philosophy, poetry, and
even translations of the Bible into vernacular
languages, Protestants were under special
scrutiny.
$2,000-2,200
179
Index Librorum Prohibitorum. Rome: Typis
Rev[erentiae] Cam[erae] Apost[olicae], 1704.
Bound with Appendices from 1716, 1718, and
1739; octavo, 568 pages, in a paste-paper
cover, detached from text block, 5 3/4 x 4 in.
[and] Johann Heinrich Samuel Formey’s
(1711-1797) Conseils pour Former une
Bibliotheque Peu Nombreuse, Mais Choisie,
Berlin: Haude et Spener, 1756, octavo,
contemporary mottled calf, gold-tooled spine
and label, somewhat worn, short split near the
top of the front joint, 6 1/2 x 4 in. (2)
$300-500
178
180
Ingraham, Joseph Holt (1809-1860) The
South-West by a Yankee. New York: Harper
& Brothers, 1835.
First edition, two 12mo volumes, in publisher’s
textured blue cloth, spines faded, spotting to
edges, flyleaves removed from both volumes,
7 1/2 x 4 1/4 in. (2)
$500-700
181
Jardine, Sir William (1800-1874) The
Natural History of Humming-birds, [from]
The Naturalist’s Library. Edinburgh: Lizars,
and Sterling & Kenney, 1834.
Small octavo, two volumes bound as one,
illustrated with an engraved title to each
volume, thirty-four full-page colored plates in
volume one, and thirty more in the second
volume, for a total of sixty-six hand-colored
illustrations, in full green textured cloth, surface
wear, a.e.g., 6 1/2 x 4 in.
$300-500
81
182
182
Jones, Jane Elizabeth [neé Hitchcock]
(1813-1896) The Young Abolitionists.
Boston: Published at the Anti-Slavery Office,
1848.
First edition, 12mo, well-preserved copy in
blind-stamped and gold-tooled original dark
brown ribbed cloth, edges slightly spotted,
contemporary pencil inscriptions to ffep and
title, 6 x 3 3/4 in.
Jones was an outspoken abolitionist who
followed in the mold of William Lloyd Garrison,
and travelled the country, speaking against
slavery. In the present work, she takes a
tactic unusual for the time; she pitches her
arguments directly to children and young
people, at a time when even well-intentioned
abolitionists generally preferred to shield their
children from the horrific details of American
slave-owning culture.
$300-500
82
183
Kent, Rockwell (1882-1971) Thirteen
Volumes, Five Signed.
Titles include the following signed or
inscribed copies: Candide, New York: Literary
Guild, 1929, no jacket, cover sunned;
Rockwellkentiana, New York: Harcourt, Brace,
and Co., 1933, in a slightly worn jacket; This is
My Own, New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce,
[1940], in a torn jacket; Salamina, New York:
Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1935, dampstaining
to insides of boards, jacket, which is torn
and discolored; and Profile of Rockwell Kent
in Twenty-two Letters, Brownlee Miscellany
No. 1, 1947, with a seven-line inscription
to Charles Wayland Lightbody and his wife
Georgia;
[and] eight other unsigned Kent titles. (13)
$400-600
184
Kerouac, Jack (1922-1969) Excerpts of
Visions of Cody, Signed. New York: New
Directions, 1960.
Signed edition, number 541 of 750, with
Kerouac’s signature in blue ballpoint ink on the
limitation page, in publisher’s half purple paper,
and cream boards with the title in handwritten
style in red and purple, with the original prepublication slip from New Directions tucked
inside; slight discoloration at the foot of the
front board.
[and] Visions of Cody, New York: McGraw-Hill,
1972, in publisher’s brick red cloth, and tan
jacket, a little bumped, text block sagging a
bit. (2)
$800-1,200
185
Kerouac, Jack (1922-1969) Four First
Editions.
The Dharma Bums, New York: Viking, 1958,
bright, in publisher’s black cloth, lettered in
silver, green, and lilac, with the jacket, crease
to front panel of jacket, top edge green, faded,
slight spotting to front board, contents good.
Lonesome Traveler, New York: McGraw-Hill,
[1960], illustrated by Larry Rivers, bound in
publisher’s half black cloth with brown paper
boards and brown endleaves, in the original
dust jacket, slight rubbing, abrasions, a little
dusty.
Big Sur, New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy,
[1962], in publisher’s black cloth spine,
decorative indigo blue paper boards, top edge
blue, in a clean jacket, the binding and jacket
very good.
[and] Desolation Angels, New York: CowardMcCann, [1965], in publisher’s vivid orange
cloth, the binding tight, with the dust jacket,
and yellow endleaves, very good, slight fading
to spine of dust jacket. (4)
$400-600
186
Kerouac, Jack (1922-1969) On the Road.
New York: Viking, 1957.
First edition, in publisher’s black cloth, lettered
in white; with the original jacket, priced $3.95,
and the red and blue stripes on the back
panel, the jacket slightly abraded, slight losses
at head and foot of spine, top edge a little
scratched, corners rubbed, slightly bumped.
$800-1,200
185
187
Kerouac, Jack (1922-1969) The Town and
the City. New York: Harcourt, Brace and
Company, 1950.
First edition of Kerouac’s first book, bound in
full red cloth, lettered in gold, with the original
jacket, with some loss of surface, top edge
dark blue, slightly scratched at the top.
$400-600
188
Kerouac, Jack (1922-1969) Three First
Editions.
Visions of Gerard, New York: Frarrar, Straus,
and Co., [1963], in publisher’s binding, black
cloth spine and pink patterned paper boards,
dust jacket slightly faded, with a short tear,
surface rubbing.
Satori in Paris, New York: Grove Press, [1966],
in very good blue publisher’s binding and crisp
dust jacket.
[and] Vanity of Dulouz, New York: CowardMcCann, [1968], in dark bluish-black cloth
spine and wood-grain paper boards, in the
dust jacket, with some surface abrasions. (3)
$200-300
189
189
King Jr., Martin Luther (1929-1968)
Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or
Community?, Signed Copy. New York:
Harper & Row, [1967].
Stated first edition, with “D-R” on the
copyright page, in publisher’s binding with
black cloth spine and yellow ochre boards and
endleaves, in a very good jacket, signed on
ffep, 8 1/4 x 5 1/2 in.
$2,000-3,000
83
192
190
Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936) Works.
London: Macmillan & Co., 1913.
Bombay Edition, signed by Kipling on half-title
of volume one, one of 1,050 copies, twentysix large octavo volumes, initials printed in
blue, bound in uniform smooth blue calf, inner
gilt dentelles, gilt spines, t.e.g., fore-edges
untrimmed; lacking labels, hinges rubbed
and tender throughout, one board detached;
occupying 36 inches of shelf space. (26)
$600-800
84
191
Lactantius (c. 240-c. 320) Des Divines
Institutions contre les Gentils & Idolatres.
Lyons: de Tournes & Gazeau, 1555.
16mo in eights, 650 pages, title within
ornamental metal-cut compartment, small
initials, ruled in red throughout, bound in full
crushed red morocco, 19th century, all edges
marbled and gilt, inner gilt dentelles, front
joint somewhat abraded, slight discoloration
around gilt tooling on front and back boards.
$500-700
192
Latham, Simon (c. 1574-1649) Latham’s
Faulconry, or the Faulcons Lure and Cure.
London: by Hodgkinsonne for Rooks, 1658
Octavo, fourth edition, in two parts, woodcut
frontispiece opposite the title, with numerous
woodcut text illustrations of birds of prey and
the tools and gear used by falconers, several
repeats; collated against the Folger copy,
which notes that leaf M1 at the end of the first
part is missigned, and should be considered
(second) A1; this copy lacks the final leaf,
L4; bound in the distinctive full limp pigskin
binding of Henry Arthur Johnstone, with his
blind-tooled full-page leather flyleaf bookplate,
dated 1899, the binding with stitched borders,
gold-stamped armorial front cover, and spine;
small oval ownership stamp of R.H. Inglis (Sir
Robert Harry? 1786-1855) on verso of title,
t.e.g., binding somewhat rubbed, in a custom
slipcase, 5 1/2 x 3 1/2 in.
$2,000-2,500
195
193
Latin and Neo-Latin Poetry, English
Translations. The Adventures of Catullus and
History of his Amours with Lesbia. Intermixt
with Translations of his Choicest Poems,
London: for J. Chantry, 1707, 12mo, first
English edition of Jean de La Chapelle’s Les
Amours de Catulle, engraved frontispiece,
contemporary boards, slight worming in first
few signatures, toning, front joint starting, 6
1/4 x 3 3/4 in.
[and] Johannes Secundus’s (1511-1536) Basia
[...] or the Kisses, London: for Henry Lintot,
1731, 12mo, translated by George Ogle,
Elijah Fenton (1683-1730) and Edward Ward,
portrait frontispiece of Secundus opposite the
title, collates in accordance with the ESTC,
with the engraved vignette in the second title
present, contemporary sheepskin, slightly dry,
6 1/4 x 3 3/4 in. (2)
$400-600
194
Latin Prize Book. Pausanias (c. AD 110-AD
180) Graeciae Descripto Accurata. Leipzig:
Fritsch, 1696.
With a full page typographically printed
presentation page, fulfilled by hand,
and dated 1738, the prize awarded to
Johannes Oldenhoven van Rijnveld, of the
Alkmaar Gymnasium in the Netherlands,
with the signature of his teacher, Bernhard
Pagenstecher; bound in full tight-backed
Dutch parchment over stiff boards, tooled
in gilt with the arms of the school on both
boards; title printed in red and black, with
engraved vignette, text in double columns,
Greek and Latin throughout, lacking silk ties,
the binding dry, top of the spine torn with
slight loss, 12 1/2 x 8 1/4 in.
$300-500
195
Le Roy, Julien David (1724-1803) Les
Ruines des Plus Beaux Monuments de la
Grèce. Paris: Delatour, se vend Chez Musier,
1770.
Second edition, large folio, two parts in
one volume, half-title, illustrated with sixtyone of sixty-two full-page plates, (lacking
the first plate in the first part) bound in full
contemporary sponge-decorated French
calfskin, marbled endleaves, gilt spine, some
what worn, corners bumped, joints splitting,
21 3/4 x 15 3/4 in.
$4,000-6,000
85
196
196
Le Roy, Julien David (1724-1803) Les
Ruines des Plus Beaux Monuments de la
Grèce. Paris: Guerin & Delatour, et al., 1758.
First edition, large folio, two parts in one
volume, illustrated with sixty full-page plates,
bound in full contemporary sponge-decorated
calf, the spine leather worn and patched, split
along the joints, loss of leather to head and tail
of spine, oval hole trimmed from title, repaired
from verso, some toning to some plates,
and scattered foxing, marbled endleaves,
bookplates removed from inside front board,
22 x 16 1/4 in.
$6,000-8,000
87
197
197
Leclerc, Sebastien (1637-1714) Album of
Engravings.
Large folio album of engravings done after
Leclerc’s original paintings and drawings and
some engraved by Leclerc directly, and signed
in the plate, consisting of fifty-three leaves
with approximately 472 separate engravings,
ranging in size from very large full-page folio,
to some the size of postage stamps, and
everything in between, including images of
many subjects fulfilling many categories of
illustration, including title pages, frontispieces,
bookplates, armorial crests and medals,
illustrations for Aesop’s Fables, the life of
Christ, and other works, engraved initials
and decorative pieces, portraits, architectural
interiors and exteriors, landscapes, and many
others, including some that may be proof or
unfinished prints; some engravings cut out of
the album, bound in contemporary leather,
worn, front board detached, corners quite
worn, 21 1/2 x 16 in.
The only uniting theme of this group of
engravings is Leclerc, and it seems unlikely
that anyone other than the artist would have
access to so much of his work. Although
that it is possible that these illustrations were
collected by one of his contemporaries who
was a great admirer of his work, it also seems
possible that Leclerc himself assembled this
album as a portfolio of samples to show his
artistic range.
$3,000-5,000
88
200
Lewis, Meriwether (1774-1809) History
of the Expedition under the Command of
Lewis and Clark, ed. Elliott Coues (18421899) New York: Francis P. Harper, 1893.
Four volumes, first of this limited edition,
number 757 of 1,000 on fine book paper;
1,298 pages plus index volume with maps,
portraits, bound in uniform publisher’s green
cloth, partially unopened, binding somewhat
bumped, 9 1/2 x 6 in. (4)
$800-1,000
201
Linnaeus, Carolus (1707-1778) Classes
Plantarum. Halle an der Saale: Bierwirth,
1747.
Octavo, bound in full contemporary sheepskin,
dry, with joints split and sections of the spine
missing, front board detached, contents
browned, 7 1/2 x 4 3/4 in.
$600-800
199
198
Leng, Charles W. (1859-1941) and William
T. Davis (1862-1945) Staten Island and Its
People. New York: Lewis Historical Publishing
Co., 1929 [-1933].
First edition, five volumes, bound in publisher’s
dark green textured cloth with bright green
cloth sides, pictorial boards stamped in
gold, profusely illustrated, this work covers
the geography and history of Staten Island
from 1609 to 1929 in volumes one and
two, the three other volumes are dedicated
to biographies of important citizens of the
borough, 10 1/2 x 7 1/2 in. (5)
$400-600
90
199
Lewis, Meriwether (1774-1809) and William
Clark (1770-1838) Travels to the Source
of the Missouri River and Across the
American Continent to the Pacific Ocean.
London: for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme,
and Brown, 1815.
First London edition, three octavo volumes,
lacking the large folding map in volume one,
five full-page maps present (five of six maps),
no half-titles; contemporary diced russia,
spines with green labels, some joints starting,
endcaps chipped; scattered interior foxing, 8
1/4 x 5 in. (3)
$2,500-3,000
202
Literature, 18th-19th Centuries, Fifteen
Volumes.
Fanny Burney’s (1752-1840) Cecilia, or
Memoirs of an Heiress, London: for Payne and
Cadell, 1782, first edition, five 12mo volumes,
in contemporary marbled calfskin, spines
nicely tooled, red and green spine labels, one
label chipped, front boards detached on three
of the five volumes, not collated, 6 3/4 x 4 in.
Priscilla Wakefield’s (1751-1832) An
Introduction to Botany, Dublin: Burnside,
1796, 12mo, Dublin edition published the
same year as the first London, illustrated with
one unnumbered full-page plate opposite
page 37, eleven numbered full-page plates,
and one folding typographical table, plate two
bound upside down, contemporary marbled
calf, original red label, joints split, bottom edge
of front board with rodent damage, some
browning and spotting to contents, 6 1/2 x
4 in.
Thomas Keightley’s (1789-1872) The Fairy
Mythology, London: Ainsworth, 1828, first
edition, two 12mo volumes, illustrated with
twelve full-page copper-plate etchings and
numerous woodcut head and tail pieces by
William Henry Brooke, in contemporary boards
with an old rebacking, now failing, boards
detached, some spotting to text leaves and
plates, 6 1/2 x 4 in.
Charles Johnstone’s (1719?-1800?) Chrysal:
or, the Adventures of a Guinea, London: for
Watson, et al., 1775, four octavo volumes,
contemporary bookplate inside three of the
five, original sheepskin, boards detached,
contents spotted and browned, 6 1/2 x 3 3/4
in.
[and] Sir James Justinian Morier’s (1780-1849)
The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan,
London: Murray, 1824, in three octavo
volumes, full calf, labels missing, bindings dry,
scuffed, 6 x 3 3/4 in. (15)
$1,000-1,200
203
Loudon, Jane (1807-1858) The Mummy! a
Tale of the Twenty-second Century. London:
Colburn, 1828.
Second edition, three octavo volumes, bound
in uniform contemporary tan calf, spines
perished, boards scratched and detached, 7
1/4 x 4 1/2 in.
In this early work of science fiction Jane
Loudon imagines the year 2126, where the
British monarch is the Catholic Queen Claudia.
Loudon provides specific descriptions of
fashion, technology, and other details about
this future world, with an obvious debt to Mary
Shelley’s Frankenstein.
$400-600
204
Lover of Their Precious Souls. The History
of the Holy Jesus. Boston: Printed and Sold
by John Boyle, 1774.
Twenty-fifth edition, 16mo in eights, lacking
A1, [the portrait], otherwise complete,
illustrated throughout with primitive folk art
woodcuts; five of the nineteen woodcuts
are signed I.T., for Isaiah Thomas, disbound,
worn, faded, with some browning, currently
sandwiched between two wooden boards, 3
3/4 x 3 1/8 in.
This popular and anonymously composed
short illustrated work was produced for the
edification of children. The charming woodcuts
include Bible subjects, two skeletons, and
some domestic scenes. The text ends with
“The Child’s Body of Divinity,” arranged as an
ABC.
$1,000-1,500
203
205
91
209
205
Lozano, Pedro (fl. circa 1770) Coleccion de
Estampas, que Representa los Prinzipales
Casos de el Viejo, y Nuebo Testamen Obra
Util para la Ynstruccion de la Jubentud.
[Madrid]: Antonio Sancha, 1774-1778.
Oblong-format folio, with the New Testament
section bound first, followed by general title
and Old Testament, the work consisting of
full-page engravings with verses beneath
throughout, with seventy-eight plates in the
New Testament section, and 178 in the Old,
bound in full contemporary mottled sheepskin,
gilt-tooled spine and label, rubbed but intact,
some surface abrasions, corners bumped,
signs of use and reading to contents, including
some spotting, ink spots, finger soiling, et
cetera, 11 3/4 x 8 1/4 in.
This image-based representation of the Bible
is notable because it explicitly states in the title
that it is intended for the instruction of young
people.
$1,000-1,500
92
206
Macclintock, Samuel (1732-1804) The
Choice: a Discourse, Occasioned by the
Present Severe Drought; the Mortal Fever
which Prevails in Portsmouth. Boston: for
Thomas Adams, 1798.
First edition, octavo, 21 numbered pages, final
blank and half-title both present; disbound,
half-title evenly toned, final text leaf and blank
with closed tears, 8 1/4 x 5 1/4 in.
[and] Aaron Bancroft (1755-1839) A Sermon,
Delivered in Shrewsbury at the Interment of
the Rev. Joseph Sumner, D.D. December 13,
1824. Worcester: Spy Office: S.B. Manning,
April 1825, octavo, author presentation copy,
“from the author” in top right corner of title,
stab-stitched, untrimmed, title evenly toned,
15 numbered pages, verso of final leaf blank,
9 1/2 x 5 3/4 in. (2)
Aaron Bancroft was a minuteman who fought
at the battles of Lexington and Bunker Hill; he
graduated from Harvard in 1778 and settled in
Worcester.
$300-500
207
Machiavelli, Niccolo (1469-1527) Works.
London: for Starkey, Harper, and Amery, 1680
Folio, lacking the general title; 528 pages,
translated by Henry Neville; first and last few
leaves with stains, tears, bottom margin of
last two leaves trimmed away and crudely
repaired, bound in later sheepskin, peeling,
sewing structure broken in the center,
browning, staining and marginalia in the
text, preliminary leaves detached, binding
becoming detached, joints split, corners
rubbed, 12 x 7 1/4 in.
$400-600
208
Madison, James (1751-1836) and William
Bainbridge (1774-1833) Message from
the President of the United States,
Transmitting a Letter from Cap. Bainbridge,
now Commanding U. States’ Frigate
Constitution, Reporting his Capture and
Destruction of the British Frigate “the
Java.” February 22d, 1813. Washington,
D.C.: Roger C. Weightman, 1813.
Octavo pamphlet, single signature, four
leaves, removed from a bound volume, ink
inscriptions, some toning, short tears, 8 x 4
3/4 in.
The Constitution cut the Java down in a
spirited fight that saw the latter sent to the
bottom of the sea. Bainbridge was wounded
twice in the battle, and the helm of the
Constitution was blasted away by the Java,
however, the captain kept command, and
even managed to salvage the Java’s helm
for his own ship during the battle, before
burning and sinking it. The Java’s helm is
still in place on the Constitution today. On 3
March 1813, Madison awarded Bainbridge the
Congressional Gold Medal.
$300-500
209
Manuscript Account Book, New England,
c. 1788-1800
Folio-format softcover account book used by
David Libbey (fl. circa 1790) of Kittery, Maine
and Portsmouth, New Hampshire, with six
pages used as a sum book; astronomical
chart used as the inner cover; the book
organized by customer, with dates, services,
and prices listed in columns; Libbey made
and repaired shoes and boots for the most
part, but he also ploughed fields, hauled
wood, planted, dug, and sold potatoes, and
did other odd jobs; the list of names is familiar
to the history of Kittery and Portsmouth:
Staple(s), Tobey, Schamond, Leighton,
Shapleigh, Hammond, and other Libbeys;
the pages of the book worn and stained,
but legible and sturdy enough for handling,
approximately 42 leaves, in a single signature,
some leaves cut out, 12 x 7 3/4 in.
$400-600
210
210
Manuscript Journal of William R. Skinner,
British, Illustrated, c. 1864.
Octavo format journal of the travels of a
certain Mr. Skinner, entitled Recollections
of my Wanderings, approximately sixty
pages, with many small pencil vignettes in
the text, along with some full-page sketches
of buildings, views, and scenery in Paris
(including the sea voyage), Hastings, Dover,
the ruins of Reculver and Raynham Abbey,
the Orangerie at Versailles, Rouen, Rochester,
Conway Castle (in North Wales), Dublin Bay,
Dumbarton Castle (Scotland), Skiddaw, a
rock salt mine in Cheshire, Stock Ghyll Force
(a waterfall in the Lake District), Rydal Water,
Lodore Falls, John Knox’s home, the ruins of
Holyrood Abbey, and Ben Lomond; carefully
wrought sketches with notes of travels
accompanying them, at least one leaf torn
away, the text on a parchment-textured pale
gray paper, with some blotchiness, 7 1/4 x 4
1/2 in.
$300-500
211
Manuscript Leaves and Documents.
Six early leaves and documents, including: a
leaf from a manuscript in Catalan, c. 1350;
a late 12th century leaf containing text from
Genesis and Exodus in an angular protogothic
hand, Germany, trimmed, binding waste,
one column from a large lectern Bible; a
parchment leaf from a folio-format Latin Bible
from Germany, 15th century; an 18th century
British indenture; a deed of sale for a house
from Asti, Italy, 6 November 1489; and a
manuscript leaf on paper in Coptic and Arabic
from Egypt, c. 1650; sizes vary. (6)
$300-500
212
Manuscript Leaves, English.
Six parchment leaves removed from Medieval
manuscripts; all text written in Latin; most
leaves from the Bible, with red and blue
penwork; one leaf from Petrus de Riga’s
Aurora, in a single column, in brown ink, c.
1250, narrow format, 9 1/4 x 4 1/2 in., other
leaves varying sizes. (6)
$600-800
93
213
Manuscript Leaves, French, Mid-15th
Century, Two Framed.
Two parchment leaves from two different
small-format French Books of Hours in
Latin, one with twining gilt floriate marginal
decoration, the other with rectangular giltbackground blocks adorned with stylized
poppies and other flowers; fifteen and twenty
lines per page, some two-line initials with gilt
decoration, both leaves matted and displayed
in gilt double-glazed frames. (2)
$400-600
219
214
Manuscript Leaves, French, 1150-1175.
Four parchment leaves, including a joined
bifolium (counted as two leaves), all removed
from Latin text manuscripts from the 12th
century; text in brown ink in a Romanesque
hand likely from southern France with
Italianate features; three of the four leaves
from the same manuscript, 13 1/2 x 9 1/4 in.,
the remaining leaf from a slightly smaller book,
11 3/4 x 7 1/2 in. (4)
$300-500
215
Manuscript Leaves, French.
Ten parchment leaves removed from Medieval
French manuscripts, 12th and 13th century,
mostly smaller format, theological; one
removed from a binding, the others from
books, six with penwork in red and blue, one
with a marginal drawing of a lion, one with a
gilt initial, various sizes. (10)
$600-800
216
Manuscript Leaves, Italian.
Five leaves on parchment, 12th to 15th
centuries, one from a small format
13th century copy of Peter Lombard’s
Sententiarum; one bifolium from a
commentary on the Book of Jonah, 12th
century, with the top half trimmed away,
former binding waste; the other three leaves
small folio format, from Latin service books,
15th century; most leaves with red and blue
penwork, various sizes. (5)
$400-600
94
217
Manuscript Leaves.
Seven leaves on parchment from manuscripts,
and one paper leaf from a printed book; the
manuscript leaves varying in size and content:
one very large gradual leaf with music and
illuminated initials decorated with gold, 27 x
20 in.; one bifolium (two connected leaves)
from a smaller and less ornate song book, 19
1/2 x 14 in.; one leaf from the New Testament
with several red and blue initials, 11 3/4 x 8
1/4 in.; an Old Testament page from Numbers,
chapters twenty-seven through thirty-one, in
a gothic hand, black ink, with large original
page margins, prick marks in gutter, the text
ruled and framed in plummet, alternating
red and blue initials, sixty lines per page, in
two columns, 12 3/4 x 9 in.; two leaves from
different Books of Hours, both with initials in
gold, red, and blue, and line-fill; one leaf with
the litany of the saints, the other with prayers
6 3/4 x 5 in. each, approximately; and one leaf
printed on paper from a late 15th to early 16th
century Latin prayerbook, the woodcut border
colored by hand, text printed in red and black,
4 x 6 in. (8)
$400-600
218
Manuscript Missal Leaves.
Six parchment leaves with decorated initials
and sacred music; four from the same
manuscript, c. 1600, four line staff, 21 x 15
in. each, with neatly executed, if not ornate
initials in red and blue, unframed; the other
two from later manuscripts, one a 21 x 21 in.
fragment cut with loss from a larger sheet with
an ornate initial, framed; the other with a large
initial “C” with a gold chalice; text and music
stenciled, 25 1/2 x 17 in., also framed; some
tears, stains, and loss. (6)
$400-600
219
Manuscript on Paper, Prayer Book,
German, 18th Century.
Octavo, approximately 300 pages, illustrated
with fifteen hand-colored devotional
engravings (prayer cards) further enhanced
with gold decoration, and with areas of the
paper cut away and backed with different
pieces of fabric and hand-made metallic lace,
each card a multi-media collage, mounted
on a page of the manuscript, subjects of the
prayer cards include the Apostles, the Infant
of Prague, the Holy Family, Saint Francis, the
crucifixion, and other similar subjects; the
text in German, in a light brown ink, some
headings in green ink, sixteen or seventeen
lines per page; bound in full contemporary
dark green morocco, tooled in gilt on both
boards and spine, with an IHS emblem and
the initials M.F.C. on the front board, another
Catholic emblem with different initials on the
back board; edges gilt and gauffered, with
multicolored gilt block-printed endleaves,
all binding elements very well preserved,
the binding housed in the original two-part
solander case, lined with decorated paper,
the exterior of the case covered in brown
sheepskin, worn and dry, 5 3/4 x 3 3/4 in.
Although the German hand is hard to read,
an inscription on the front free endleaf in the
same hand as the text may identify the original
owner.
$800-1,000
220
Manuscript, Recueil de Chansons, 18th
Century.
Octavo format manuscript on paper in French,
consisting of song lyrics, in three inscribed
portions 200, 43, and 92 pages, each section
separated by a section of leaves left blank;
including reference to songs from Rousseau’s
Le Devin du Village, lyrics from Pierre-Joseph
Bernard, the old French song “O Mahomet!,”
and many others, bound in full French
calfskin, sponge decorated boards, marbled
endleaves, gilt-tooled spine with label, slightly
cocked, front joint starting to split; contents
good, text in a uniform hand, brown ink, post1750, 6 3/4 x 4 1/4 in.
$300-500
221
Mason, George Henry (fl. circa 1800) The
Costume of China. London: Miller, 1800.
First edition, with the words “Costume,” and
“Sixty Engravings” on the title page in an
outline or hollow typeface, folio, illustrated with
sixty hand-colored aquatints by J. Dadley after
Pu-Qua of various Chinese citizens depicting
their jobs and social status, text printed in
parallel English and French throughout, bound
in full contemporary red straight-grained
morocco, tooled in gilt on boards and spine,
a.e.g., inner gilt dentelles, marbled endleaves;
headcaps and endbands chipped away, joints
weak, extremities rubbed, corners bumped,
contents with some spotting, offsetting, the
plates finely colored, generally good, a large
copy, 13 3/4 x 10 1/4 in.
$1,000-1,500
222
Maupertuis, Pierre Louis Moreau de (16981759) Oeuvres. Lyons: Bruyset, 1768.
Four octavo volumes, portrait frontis of
Maupertuis in his fur hat opposite the
title in volume one, the set bound in full
contemporary uniform sheepskin, boards
sponge-decorated, spines gilt-tooled, with
two red labels on each, marbled edges and
endleaves; some headcaps chipped, but
generally a good set, 7 1/2 x 4 1/2 in.
Maupertuis introduced the principle of
least action, and the integral equation that
describes it, an important contribution to
classical mechanics.
$200-400
223
McCloskey, Robert (1914-2003) Make Way
for Ducklings. New York: The Viking Press,
1941.
First edition, with “First published August
1941” printed on the copyright page, no
Caldecott Medal sticker on the dust jacket,
and no mention of the Caldecott honor inside
the front flap, priced $2.00 in the front flap,
along with a synopsis of the story, bound in
publisher’s cream-colored cloth, blocked in
turquoise on front board and spine, corner
wear and abrasion to the jacket repaired
on the verso with Japanese tissue, some
short closed tears, slight fading, offsetting to
endleaves, childish signature in purple crayon
on ffep, with period gift card mounted on ffep,
pages thumbed commensurate with use, 12
x 8 3/4 in.
$400-600
95
221
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225
224
Medical Books, 18th Century, Three Titles
in Four Volumes. Including Jean-Baptiste
Sénac’s (1693-1770) Traite de la Structure du
Coeur, Paris: Briasson, 1749, in two quarto
volumes, contemporary speckled calfskin,
illustrated with seventeen folding plates at the
end of volume one; volume two with water
stains, damage to the back board, affecting
contents, 9 3/4 x 7 1/2 in.
Daniel Le Clerc’s (1652-1728) Histoire de
la Medecine, The Hague: Isaac van der
Kloot, 1729, quarto added engraved title,
typographical title page printed in red and
black, three parts in one volume, with folding
genealogy of physicians and engraved
portraits, bound in full contemporary calf,
spine tooled in gold, with the original label,
somewhat worn, joints cracking, contents
browned, 9 3/4 x 7 1/2 in.
[and] Johann Heinrich Schulze’s (16871744) Historiae Medicinae, Leipzig: Monath,
1728, quarto, in boards, edges untrimmed
throughout, 8 1/2 x 7 in. (4)
$600-800
225
Melville, Herman (1819-1891) The Works,
Standard Edition. London/Bombay/Sydney:
Constable & Co. Ltd., 1922.
Sixteen octavo volumes, limited edition,
number 463 of 750 copies; uniformly bound in
publisher’s blue cloth, t.e.g., boards blocked
in blind, spines lettered in gilt, aubergine
endleaves, some spines slightly faded, the
spine of White Jacket slight torn, generally
good, 9 x 5 3/4 in. (16)
This edition of Melville’s works contains the
first publication of Billy Budd, and many
poems.
$1,000-1,500
97
226
226
Metzger, Johann (1789-1852) An Historical
Description of the Castle of Heidelberg and
its Gardens. Heidelberg: Meder, [c. 1830].
Landscape-format folio, title, 86 pages of
text, explanation of the plates, and twenty-five
plates (five of which are folding), in original
printed publisher’s yellow paper wrappers,
tissue guards present, plate 3 is browned, as
though the book was set open to this page for
an extended time, otherwise a bit of thumbing,
dust, 11 1/2 x 9 1/2 in.
$800-1,000
98
228
227
Midwifery, Gynecology, Obstetrics, Three
Volumes.
Francis Mauriceau’s (1637-1709) The
Diseases of Women with Child, and in Childbed, London: Darby, 1683, translated by Hugh
Chamberlen Jr.; octavo, illustrated with six
folding plates, second edition of a rare title,
ESTC shows two U.S. copies only of both the
first and second editions, most of the plates
in rough condition, fragmentary, worn and
torn, but parts present, manuscript notes in a
contemporary hand, contemporary ownership
inscription of a Sam Bad (or Bud) on verso of
title, bound in contemporary calf, worn but
intact, 6 1/2 x 4 1/4 in.
[with] Johannes Freind’s (1666-1738)
Praelectiones Chymicae, Leiden: Langerak,
1734, engraved frontispiece, title printed in red
and black, bound with Freind’s Emmenologia
Leiden: Langerak, 1734, 12mo, in later half
leather, boards becoming detached, 5 3/4 x
3 1/2 in.
[and] Alexander Hamilton’s (1739-1802)
Outlines of the Theory and Practice of
Midwifery, Northampton, Massachusetts: by
Butler, for Thomas & Andrews, 1797, octavo,
third American edition, full contemporary
sheepskin, with label, worming to spine,
contents deeply toned, leather peeling, 6 1/2
x 3 3/4 in.
$300-500
228
Miniature Books, Three Volumes.
Kern der Nederlandsche Historie met
Figuurtjes, Amsterdam: Crajenschot,
1754, illustrated with full-page engravings
throughout, bound in contemporary morocco,
tooled in gold, a.e.g., 1 3/4 x 1 1/4 in.
[and] Two other miniature books in Arabic,
each about one inch tall. (3)
$200-400
229
Montagu, George (1753-1815)
Ornithological Dictionary [and] Inscribed
Author’s Presentation Copy of the
Supplement. London: for J. White by T.
Bensley, 1802 [and] Exeter: Woolmer, 1813
First edition, three octavo volumes, handcolored frontispiece of the cirl bunting facing
the title in volume one; the Supplement
inscribed: “Presented to Doctor Leach
by the Author,” likely William Elford Leach
(1790-1836), zoologist, marine biologist,
and colleague of Montagu, whose Elements
of Zoology is advertised at the back of this
volume; illustrated with twenty-four full-page
engravings of birds, the first two volumes
in uniform half calf, the Supplement in
contemporary full leather, rebacked, the three
approximately 8 x 5 in. each. (3)
$300-500
230
Montaigne, Michel de (1533-1592) Essays,
trans. Charles Cotton (1630-1687) London:
for Basset, Gilliflower, and Hensman, 1685.
Variant of the first edition of Cotton’s
translation, with volume two dated 1686,
three octavo volumes, portrait frontispieces
present in each volume, volumes not collated,
bound in contemporary English calf, speckled,
contemporary marbled edges, the set
rebacked, with new labels, corners slightly
bumped, one board corner with a significant
chunk missing, later endleaves, 7 1/2 x 4 1/2
in. (3)
$300-500
231
Moore, Clement C. (1779-1863) The
Night Before Christmas, Illustrated by
Arthur Rackham (1867-1939) Philadelphia:
Lippincott, [1931].
First edition, American edition, copy number
one of 275, signed by Rackham on the
limitation page, title printed in red and black,
illustrated with four full-page color plates,
and text illustrations throughout, red and
white decorative endleaves, bound in full limp
parchment, lettered in gilt, t.e.g., without the
publisher’s slipcase, 9 x 5 3/4 in.
$700-900
99
232
232
Musical Manuscripts, Massachusetts,
Clarinet Tunes, Revolutionary War Era.
Two oblong-format musical manuscripts,
with an inscription mentioning Abel Piper
(1746-1836) of Phillipston, Massachusetts,
Lieutenant in the Massachusetts Militia
who served in the campaign of 1776 in the
Company of Captain Robert Longley, Asa
Whitcomb’s Regiment, for the town of Bolton;
the music is of a military flavor, consisting
mainly of marches, but also including many
dances and hornpipes, lessons, and some
scribbled lyrics, all music relating to the
clarinet; the larger book in sheepskin over
scabbard, the other smaller and soft-covered,
both with many loose pages, chipping,
smudging, and other signs of intense wear
and use, 10 1/2 x 7 in. and 7 1/2 x 4 1/2 in.
(2)
After the Revolutionary War, Piper was an
innkeeper in Phillipston, he also served as a
Justice of the Peace.
$200-300
233
Neo-Latin Poetry, Five Volumes, Small
Format.
Jean Bonnefons’s (1554-1614) Pancharis
[bound with] Imitations du Latin, Paris: Abelis
l’Angelier, 1587, 12mo, two copies.
Philipp Nicodemus Frischlin’s (1547-1590)
Facetiae Selectiores, Amsterdam: [No printer],
1651, contemporary boards, joints cracked, 5
1/2 x 3 in.
Pierre-Juste Sautel (Societatis Jesu) Lusus
Poetici Allegorici, Leiden: Duhan, 1656, 12mo,
later leather, board detached, a.e.g., 4 3/4 x
2 3/4 in.
[and] Flores, et Sententiae Scribendique
Formulae Illustriores, Paris: Beys, 1577, in a
tidy parchment binding, 4 1/4 x 3 1/4 in. (5)
$500-700
100
234
Neo-Latin Poetry, Five Volumes.
Jean de la Chapelle’s (1655-1723) Oeuvres,
Paris: Anisson, 1700, octavo, in two volumes,
collected edition, in very good full sheepskin
bindings, a.e.g., marbled endleaves, 6 1/2 x
3 1/2 in.
Tibullus’s [Opera] Quae Exstant, Amsterdam:
Wetsteniana, 1708, title page printed in
red and black, engraved vignette, extra
engraved title, illustrated throughout, Prince
of Lichtenstein copy, in full contemporary calf,
gold-tooled spine, short crack at top of front
joint, back joint cracked, 9 x 6 3/4 in.
Thomas Parnell’s (1679-1718) Poems on
Several Occasions, Dubling: Thomas Ewing,
1773, large quarto, contemporary calf, joints
spint, spine dry, 10 x 8 in.
[and] Jean Passerat’s Commentarii in C.
Val. Catullum, Albium Tibullum, et Sex. Aur.
Propertium, Paris: [Morell], 1608, first edition,
folio, in a contemporary binding with the
gilt-tooled arms of Henri Jacques Nompar de
Caumont, duc de La Force (1675-1726) on
both boards; engraved armorial bookplate
of William Lord Viscount Bateman (16951744) pasted inside the front board, marbled
endleaves, spine a bit dry, corners bumped,
13 1/4 x 8 1/4 in. These volumes not collated.
(5)
$500-700
235
Niebuhr, Barthold Georg (1776-1831) The
History of Rome. London: by Bentley for
Taylor and Walton, 1837 [-1844].
Five octavo volumes, the preferred translation
by Julius Hare and Connop Thirlwall,
completed by William Smith and Leonhard
Schmitz, with the two volume continuation,
the set bound in uniform calf, spines tooled
in gilt with red and green labels, scuffed but
presentable, ex libris William Waldorf Astor
(1848-1919) with his Cliveden bookplate,
dated 1899, pasted inside the front boards of
all five volumes, 8 1/2 x 5 1/4 in. (5)
$400-600
236
Niebuhr, Carsten (1733-1815) Beschreibung
von Arabien. Copenhagen: Möller, 1772.
First edition, quarto, illustrated with twentyfive engravings extraneous to the collation,
all thrown out on full-page sheets and
mounted as folding, the first twenty-four are
numbered, and include several maps, the
last is a large folding map of Yemen with
hand-colored outlines; plates four and five,
exhibiting different manuscript hands, are also
hand-colored in red and yellow, and the plate
showing Mecca has a little line of yellow on
the Kaaba; in addition, a folding typographical
table is bound opposite page 194; ex libris
James Henry Breasted (1865-1935), the
American archaeologist and founder of the
Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago,
with his bookplate pasted inside the front
board, and rubber stamp on the title; in
contemporary boards, head and tail chipped,
boards still attached, some spotting to
contents, unsophisticated and still structurally
sound, 10 x 7 3/4 in.
$700-900
237
North America and Far West Exploration,
1654, 1772, and 1850, Three Volumes.
Vincent le Blanc’s (1554-1640) De Vermaarde
Reizen, Amsterdam: Hendriksz and
Rieuwertsz, 1654, quarto, engraved title,
illustrated with seven full-page engravings
in the text, preliminaries and beginning of
text leaves damaged and repaired, bound
in contemporary full parchment, dry and
reflexed, boards contorted, front joint starting,
8 x 6 1/4 in.
Antonio de Ulloa’s (1716-1795) Noticias
Americanas, Madrid: de Mena, 1772, first
edition, octavo, full contemporary sheepskin
with marble-figured leather and gold-tooled
spine, edges stained bright yellow, marbled
endleaves, 7 3/4 x 5 in. Ulloa was a member
of the Royal Society, an astronomer, and
the first Spanish governor of Louisiana
(1766-1768). In this work, he writes of his
experiences in Peru and Ecuador, including
early ethnographic information about the
indigenous population.
[and] Bayard Taylor’s (1825-1878) Eldorado,
London: Routledge, 1850, later edition, not
illustrated, two volumes issued together, later
half leather, title and prelims crudely guarded,
6 1/2 x 4 in.
$300-500
238
Northup, Solomon (1808-1863) Twelve
Years a Slave. Auburn: Derby & Miller;
Buffalo: Derby, Orton & Mulligan; Cincinnati:
Derby, 1853.
First edition, octavo, illustrated with
frontispiece and six full-page plates, with
publisher’s advertisements bound between
the yellow endleaves in the front, in blindstamped cloth boards, the whole very worn
and carelessly and repeatedly read, spine
detached and mostly perished, board edges
completely worn, text block broken, virtually
every page with finger smudges and stains,
page corners dog-eared, some pages
detached, some pinned in place, childish
signatures of John, George, Eliza, and Ann
Hobart inscribed on endleaves, 7 1/2 x 5 in.
$600-800
236
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239
239
O’Flaherty, Liam (1896-1984) The Informer.
London: Jonathan Cape, [1925].
First edition, in a very good pictorial
jacket, and publisher’s green cloth, minor
discolorations, text block good, slightly shifted,
top edge dusty, 7 1/2 x 4 3/4 in.
$600-800
102
240
Orne, Harold (fl. circa 1933) Naushon
Tree Album. [Boston: Forbes Lithograph
Manufacturing Co., 1936].
Landscape-format folio album, printed
privately for personal distribution by the
Forbes family, owners of Naushon Island,
two leaves of text printed on creamy white
stock, describing the competition to find the
most interesting trees on the Island and a
table of contents listing the trees and their
locations, followed by fifty matte black-andwhite photographic tree portraits mounted on
dark green album pages, bound in full original
blue cloth with the title and a sprig of leaves
stamped in gilt on the front cover; the binding
somewhat rubbed but intact, 12 1/2 x 9 1/2
in.
$200-400
241
Otley’s Children’s Chap Books. Yorkshire:
Otley, J.S. Publishing and Stationery Co., Ltd.,
[c. 1850].
Sixteen separate issues in a series as
indicated on the back cover of each number,
octavo, each in the original paper wrappers,
illustrated throughout, each with the first and
last illustration hand-colored, all in very good
condition, each volume a single signature
stitched neatly through the fold with one
thread, 6 1/2 x 4 in. (16)
Titles as follows: The History of Cinderella;
The History of Tom Thumb; Hare and Many
Friends; Entertaining Views; Robinson Crusoe;
Jack the Giant Killer; Little Red Riding Hood;
Scenes from Nature; Dame Trot; Mother
Hubbard; Capitals of Europe; The House that
Jack Built; Death & Burial of Cock Robin; Cock
Robin and Jenny Wren; Old Man and his Ass;
and Peter Brown.
$1,000-1,500
241
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246
242
Parrish, Maxfield (1870-1966) and Jules
Guerin (1866-1946) A Collection of Colour
Prints, Twenty Plates. [New York:] The
Century Co., [c. 1915].
Folio with twenty color plates tipped onto
loose cards, sixteen by Guerin, and four
by Parrish, with the label of Frank Bender,
Bookseller, 128 Fourth Ave., New York pasted
to the front board of the folder, one tie broken,
covers worn, dusty, some water damage,
some of the mat boards chipped and torn,
images themselves generally unaffected, each
print labeled on the mount, 14 x 11 in.
The Guerin plates are mostly his illustrations
for Robert Hichens’s The Spell of Egypt, New
York: Century, 1911. Parrish’s illustrations
include three that he created for Edith
Wharton’s Italian Villas and their Gardens, New
York: Century, 1904, and The Sandman, from
the Century Magazine, 1905.
$300-500
104
243
Parrish, Maxfield (1870-1966) and Jules
Guerin (1866-1946) Water-colour Rendering
Suggestions, Forty-five Plates. Cleveland,
Ohio: Jansen, [n.d., c. 1920].
Octavo portfolio with title and forty-five color
plates tipped onto card, ten illustrations by
Parrish, thirty-five by Guerin, slight water
stains to covers, contents generally good,
complete, with all forty-five plates as called for
on the contents page, ties missing, corners
chipped, publisher’s label on the front board,
9 x 6 1/4 in.
$300-400
244
Paterson, William (1745-1806) Signed
Copy, Salkeld’s Reports of Cases Adjudged
in the Court of King’s Bench. London: Lintot,
1742.
Folio, with Paterson’s signature on the
title page, volume one only; bound in full
contemporary tan calf, tooled in blind, with
a red spine label, endcaps chipped, boards
rubbed and scratched, contents good, 12 1/2
x 7 3/4 in.
Paterson served as Associate Justice on the
Supreme Court, and Governor of New Jersey;
he was a signer of the U.S. Constitution.
$300-500
245
Perry, Captain John (1670-1732) Etat
Present de la Grande Russie. The Hague:
Dusauzzet, 1717.
12mo, title page printed in red and black,
portrait frontispiece opposite title, large folding
map, bound in full Dutch parchment, some fly
specking, 6 1/2 x 3 3/4 in.
Perry spent fourteen years in Russia; in this
account he tells of his various experiences,
including personal problems and his work as
Comptroller of Russian Maritime Works.
$500-700
246
Persian Manuscript with Twenty-eight
Miniatures.
Tall narrow format manuscript in Persian on
paper, approximately 250 leaves, miniatures
done in bright colors, with gold accents,
exhibiting Indian/Hindu themes, palette
consists of warm colors, featuring stylized
figures created using large blocks of flat color,
with penwork tracery details added on top;
text written in fifteen lines per page, within a
triple-rule border in blue and red ink, diacritical
marks in red throughout, in 19th century half
leather, spine lacking, front board detached,
worn, contents somewhat toned, old leather
tabs marking chapter heads mostly flaked
away, 9 3/4 x 5 in.
$2,000-4,000
247
Photo Album, Florence, Italy, NovemberDecember 1897, January 1898.
Commercially-produced red morocco
album containing fifty-four black-and-white
photographs, possibly taken by Ottilie
Roederstein, all but six slipped into the pages
of the album, the others loose, subjects
identified in pencil on the album pages, and/
or on the versos, mainly exteriors, but also
scenes of daily life, a few monks, school
children, frescoes, fountains, architecture,
and other subjects, each photo measures 5
x 7 in., spine of the album chipped, a.e.g.,
corners rubbed, structurally intact, 10 3/4 x 8
in. overall.
Provenance: From the estate of Ottilie
Roederstein (1859-1937)
$300-500
105
248
248
Photo Album, Middle Eastern Subjects, c.
1900.
Commercially produced folio-format album,
containing more than 100 photographs
produced for the tourist trade, each
approximately 8 x 10 in., mostly albumen
prints, a minority at the end of the album
black and white process, most by Félix
Bonfils (1831-1885), others by Hippolyte
Arnoux (active c. 1860-c. 1890), and
eleven by Alexandre Leroux (1836-1912),
subjects include individual portraits of Middle
Easterners, including a Turkish guide, an
Algerian shoe shine boy, Bedouins, a blind
Dervish, and several individual shots of
women; other photographs feature street
scenes, and shots of daily life, including an
Algerian coffee house, water carriers, Syrian
mosaic makers, musicians, dancers, and
others; monuments, buildings and ruins in
Turkey, Syria, Cyprus, Egypt, and Algeria are
also present, along with several shots of the
pyramids, the sphinx, a mummy, and related
Ancient Egyptian subjects; pages rumpled,
photos mounted back-to-back on album
sheets, making the text block thicker than
the spine, front board almost completely
detached, endleaves loose, 11 1/2 x 9 1/2 in.
$300-500
106
249
Photo Album, Norway, Pompeii, Capri,
Bethlehem, and Egypt, c. 1920.
Commercially produced album containing
approximately 120 black-and-white mostly
snapshots (a few postcards and commercially
made shots) including photos taken during
sea journeys, scenes of fjords, falls, coastal
villages and shipbuilding in Norway; a large
group shot of the tourists on camels posing in
the Valley of the Kings, ruins in Pompeii, and
other notable tourist sites; photo sizes vary,
album is 14 x 9 3/4 in. overall.
$300-500
250
Photo Albums, Cameroon, North Africa, c.
1920.
Two photo albums, the first containing
personal family photos of a sophisticatedseeming European family living abroad in
North Africa in a military capacity, with a few
photographs of local people and recognizably
North African scenes thrown in among
domestic and family scenes of a young and
growing family; the second, likely from an
earlier period, containing photographs of
Cameroon and North Africa, featuring local
buildings, natural features, ruins, and people;
photographs on the first few pages of the
album are identified in French, the balance are
unidentified, sizes of photos varies, albums
contain approximately 200 snapshots; each
album is 12 x 9 in. overall. (2)
$300-500
251
Photographs of France.
Twenty-five black-and-white photographs of
France, early-20th century, subjects include
Vernet, Perpignan, and Carcassonne, sizes
vary, each nicely tipped onto heathered light
and dark gray card, some with identifying
cards on the back, some corners folded,
generally good, housed in a custom-made
linen-covered box, front joint split and frayed,
13 1/2 x 10 1/2 in. overall.
$300-500
252
Pinetti, Giuseppe (1750-1800) Physical
Amusements and Diverting Experiments.
London: [No Printer]: 1784.
First and only English edition, octavo,
complete, with half-title, full-page frontispiece,
engraved vignette on title, 65 numbered pages
and three pages of contents, stab-sewn,
the thread that once held it together is lost;
half-title and verso of final leaf toned; chipping,
some water stains, dog eared pages, and
other damage, a large copy of a rare book on
magic, card tricks, and sleight of hand worthy
of careful restoration; ESTC locates five copies
in American libraries, 8 1/4 x 5 in.
$400-600
252
253
Plays, 19th Century, Sammelband.
Including: Maturin’s Bertram, Boston: Munroe
& Francis, 1816; Joanna Baillie’s (1762-1851)
De Montfort, lacking the title; Farquhar’s
Beaux Stratagem, New York: Longworth
at the Dramatic-Repository Shakespeare
Gallery, 1817; and Dibdin’s The Quaker,
New York: Longworth, 1817; spine broken,
half sheepskin and paste paper boards,
a manuscript table of contents on ffep
indicates that two other plays were formerly
present in this collection, but are now gone, 5
1/2 x 3 1/2 in.
$300-500
254
Pococke, Richard (1704-1765) A
Description of the East. London: for the
author by Bowyer, sold by Knapton et al.,
1743 [-1745].
First edition, two folio volumes illustrated
with a total of 179 plates as follows: volume
one: engraved title, and seventy-five plates,
some folding, maps, (plates are numbered
1 through 32 and 34 through 76, plate 33
was never printed); volume two: 104 plates,
some folding, maps (including two versions of
plate 16); the two volumes bound in uniform
contemporary diced russia, gilt-tooled spines,
bindings somewhat worn, front board of
volume one detached, spine split slight in the
center of volume two, joints starting, contents
with some toning, generally good, ex libris
Richard Prime, with his bookplate in each
volume, 16 1/2 x 10 in. (2)
$4,000-6,000
254
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255
Pope, Alexander (1688-1744) The Dunciad,
Variorum. London: for A. Dod, 1729.
Quarto, a re-issue of the first authorized
edition, with an engraved title page only,
containing the title and publisher’s information;
with the added Addenda leaf after the last
signature, engraved title page depicting an ass
with its burden of books, the owl of wisdom
perched on top; finely bound in brick red niger
goatskin by Douglas Cockerell (1870-1945)
in 1902 (stamped inside the back board), the
boards with four interlocking knotwork designs
tooled in gold, with green quatrefoil onlays at
the center of each, the same design repeated
in the spine compartments, title tooled directly
onto the spine, inner gilt dentelles; front joint
a trifle rubbed, sun-fading to a segment
adjacent to the spine along the back board
edge, ex libris George Bramwell Baker (18661937) with his bookplate pasted inside the
front board, 9 1/4 x 7 in.
$500-700
259
260
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256
Poxes and Disease, Three Volumes.
Sir Richard Blackmore’s (d. 1729) Discourses
on the Gout, a Rheumatism, and the King’s
Evil, London: for Pemberton, 1726, first
edition, octavo, collates in accordance with
the ESTC, with an added four-leaf catalog
of books for sale by Thomas Cox, full
tan calfskin, paneled, rubbed, joints a bit
split, structurally intact; modern bookplate
imperfectly removed from inside front board, 7
3/4 x 4 3/4 in.
[with] Thomas Dimsdale’s (1712-1800) The
Present Method of Inoculating for the SmallPox, London: for Owen, 1767, second edition,
produced in the same year as the first, by
the same printer, (at least three editions were
printed in 1767), octavo, 160 pages, bound in
modern half leather, 7 3/4 x 4 1/2 in.
[and] Samuel Scofield’s A Practical Treatise on
Vaccina or Cowpock, New York: by Southwick
and Pelsue, for Collins & Perkins, 1810, first
edition, with the vividly colored frontispiece
showing the progression of the pox, text
browned, in contemporary sheep binding,
octavo, 6 1/2 x 4 in. (3)
$300-500
257
Prideaux, Mathias (1622-1646?) An Easy
and Compendious Introduction for Reading
all Sorts of Histories. Oxford: by Lichfield to
be sold by Good, 1672.
Quarto, the earlier of the two issues with this
imprint, as distinguished in the ESTC by the
use of the following misspellings on the title:
Indixes, accidere, and Peurum; bound in full
contemporary calf, with the large gilt-tooled
arms of the Robert Bertie, 3rd Earl of Lindsey
(1641-1701), stamp 1, as catalogued by
the Bibliographical Society of London [see
the collection of British armorial bindings at
the University of Toronto], also found on the
Earl’s copies of two other imprints from the
1670s, on both boards: head and shoulders
of a crowned bearded man surrounded by a
wreath and surmounted by a second floating
crown, spine tooled in gilt compartments, label
missing, with the signature of Charles Bertie
(c. 1683-1727) dated 1706 on ffep, and again
dated 1699 on rear flyleaf; the binding dry and
rubbed, loss of endcap at the tail, structurally
intact, 7 3/4 x 5 1/2 in.
$200-300
258
Pynchon, Thomas (b. 1937) Gravity’s
Rainbow. New York: Viking, 1973.
First edition, bound in full publisher’s bright
orange cloth, and the first issue dust jacket
priced $15.00 and the publisher’s date
code (0273) inside the front flap, with the
ISBN number printed in white over the red
background on the back panel, bookplate
of former owner pasted on the ffep, jacket is
bright, with some light corner wear; text block
slumping forward slightly, 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.
$500-700
259
Pynchon, Thomas (b. 1937) V. Philadelphia
and New York: Lippincott, 1963.
First edition of Pynchon’s first book, bound
in full publisher’s lilac cloth binding, with first
issue jacket designed by Ismar David, and
contents on the back panel, not reviews; top
edge stained blue, spine sunned.
[and] The Crying of Lot 49, Philadelphia and
New York: Lippincott, 1966, in bright yellow
publisher’s cloth spine with gray boards
and embossed bugles, endpapers printed:
w.a.s.t.e.; in the first issue dust jacket,
priced at $3.95 inside the front flap, with the
date code 366; jacket with some surface
abrasions, top edge stained blue, binding is
tight, contents clean. (2)
$800-1,000
260
Pynchon, William (1590-1662) Meritorious
Price of Man’s Redemption. London: by R.I.
for Thomas Newberry, 1655.
Quarto, contemporary sheepskin, bookplate
of Sir William Pepperell’s family crest pasted
inside the front board, marginal manuscript
notes, boards detached, endleaves damaged
from water and mildew, with loss to these
leaves, water staining throughout, worse near
the end of the text, with mildew damage as
well, 7 1/4 x 5 1/2 in.
Pynchon’s Meritorious Price was the first
book to be publicly condemned and burned
in Boston.
$2,000-3,000
261
Quilter, Harry (1851-1907) Preferences in
Art. London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co.,
1892.
Large quarto, with a parchment label pasted
inside the front board stating that this is
copy number 218 of 280 printed, signed by
Quilter, bound in full gold-tooled parchment,
illustrated, the boards slightly reflexed, fly
specking, dusty, 12 1/2 x 9 3/4 in.
[with] Fred Richardson’s Book of Drawings,
Chicago: Lakeside Press, 1899, in gray
publisher’s boards, the title printed in red, and
a gray-on-gray woodcut, rubbed, stained,
corners bumped, 13 1/4 x 10 1/4 in.
[and] Walton and Cotton’s The Compleat
Angler, London: John Lane, the Bodley Head,
1897, in publisher’s pale green cloth, stamped
in green, deckle edges, the binding a little
faded, cloth on back board bubbling away
from the board slightly, contents good, 9 1/2
x 6 3/4 in. (3)
$200-300
262
Rackham, Arthur, Illustrator (1867-1939)
Three Volumes, and Four Other Children’s
Books.
Including: Izaak Walton’s The Compleat
Angler, Philadelphia: McKay, [n.d.], in green
publisher’s cloth, spotted, rubbed; The
Ingoldsby Legends, or Mirth & Marvels,
London: Dent/New York: Dutton, 1907, color
illustrations tipped onto olive green heathered
paper, gold stamped green cloth, t.e.g.,
deckle edges, binding slightly rubbed, faded;
Washington Irving’s Rip Van Winkle, London:
Heinemann, 1909, the sixty-one pages of
text printed on cream-colored stock, followed
by Rackham’s color illustrations, printed on
glossy paper and mounted on dark green
cover-weight paper, in green publisher’s green
cloth with gold pictorial stamping on front
board and spine, corners rubbed, fading.
[and] Four other titles, including: Howard
Pyle’s Book of Pirates, New York: Harper
& Brothers, 1921; Florence and Bertha
Upton’s The Vege-men’s Revenge, London:
Longmans, Green, & Co., 1897, pages loose,
missing, torn; Florence and Bertha Upton’s
The Golliwogg’s Bicycle Club, London:
Longmans, Green, & Co., 1896, pages loose,
missing, torn; and Our Old Nursery Rhymes,
illustrated by H. Willsbeek Le Mair, London:
Augener/Philadelphia: McKay, [n.d.], pages
loose and perhaps missing. (7)
$600-800
109
263
263
Rapin, Nicolas (1539-1608) Les Plaisirs du
Gentilhomme Champestre; Les Plaisirs de
la Vie Rustique; Claude Binet’s (fl. circa
1580) Les Plaisirs de la Vie Rustique et
Solitaire; [and] Guy Du Faur, Seigneur de
Pibrac’s (1529-1584) Les Quatrains. Paris:
Pour la Veuve Breyer, 1583.
12mo, four titles bound together, each with its
own title page and collation, full-page woodcut
emblem on C5 verso in the final work, with
a contemporary inscription in English written
around the outside border of the woodcut;
all titles bound together in contemporary
limp parchment, top corner of front cover
repaired, a horizontal break in the covering
material across the spine, alum-tawed slips of
sewing supports broken at back joint, ties lost,
contents fresh, top right corner slightly worn
down and dog-eared at the beginning of the
text, 5 1/4 x 3 in.
These titles are rare in Worldcat.
$700-900
265
110
264
Rare Books, Seven Volumes.
John Evelyn’s Memoires for my Grand-son,
Oxford: Nonesuch, 1926, 12mo, original limp
vellum, with the marbled slipcase; Gustave
Flaubert’s Bouvard and Peuchet, London:
Nichols, 1896, first English edition, octavo,
illustrated, bound in bright blue publisher’s
cloth, with boldly blocked gilt design on
the spine and front board; Gabriel Garcia
Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude,
New York: Harper & Row, [1970], stated first
edition, in a good jacket, with the exclamation
mark corrected to a period inside the front
flap; George Catlin’s North American Indians,
Philadelphia: Leary, Stuart, and Co., 1913,
octavo, in two volumes, color illustrations
throughout, in publisher’s maroon cloth,
stamped in black and gold, some pages
loose, spines sunned; Shaw-Ede, T.E.
Lawrence’s Letters to H.S. Ede 1927-1935,
London: Golden Cockerel Press, 1942, limited
edition, number 333 of 500, bound in half
morocco, cloth boards, corners bumped; and
George Santayana’s Lucifer, or the Heavenly
Truce, a Theological Tragedy, Cambridge:
Duster House, 1924, folio, with a prospectus,
printed in red, black, and blue; head-pieces,
initials, and end papers designed by Pierre de
Chaignon la Rose, printed by the Southworth
Press in Portland, Maine, end papers are gold
with red geometric designs, publisher’s black
cloth, rubbed, 12 x 8 in. (7)
$600-800
265
Reusner, Nicolaus (1545-1602) Icones
sive Imagines Virorum Literis Illustrium.
Strasbourg: Jobin, 1590.
Octavo, illustrated with large woodcut
portraits throughout, contemporary ownership
inscription on front paste down and ffep,
added marginal notes and underlinings
from the same period throughout, several
small slips of paper tipped into the gutter
opposite Melanchthon’s portrait, bound in
contemporary alum-tawed sheep over paper
boards, roll-tooled in blind, worn but intact, 6
3/4 x 4 1/4 in.
Although somewhat heavy on the theologians,
with great emphasis on the Reformers,
luminaries from other fields are also present,
including Vesalius, Copernicus, and the printer
Oporinus.
$500-700
266
266
Rhode Island. Constitution of the State of
Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations,
as Adopted by the Convention, Assembled
at Newport, June 21, 1824. Providence:
Jones & Maxcy, at the Office of the Patriot,
1824.
Large octavo format, untrimmed, the first two
signatures unopened, with the last integral
blank intact, 18 pages, stab sewn, signed
by Henry Bowen (1785-1867), Secretary
of Rhode Island (1819-1843), on the verso
of the last leaf, some stains, tears, and
other associated signs of wear, last bifolium
detached from the stitching, 9 1/2 x 6 in.
This rare pamphlet does not appear in the
auction records. Sabin 70569.
$4,000-6,000
111
269
Rouillé, Guillaume (c.1518-1589) Prima
[et Secunda] Pars Promptuarii Iconum
Insigniorum a Seculo Hominum. Lyons:
Rouillium, 1553.
First edition, quarto, two parts bound as
one, three signatures with leaves bound in
the incorrect order (signatures g, k, and hh);
illustrated throughout with two woodcut
portrait emblems printed at the top of each
page, bound in contemporary limp parchment,
19th ownership inscription and bookplate;
water staining and toning to some text leaves,
9 x 6 1/4 in.
$1,500-2,000
270
Royal Society, Great Britain. The
Philosophical Transactions and Collections
to the End of the Year 1700. London: for
Knapton et al., 1731.
Fourth edition, in three large quarto volumes,
illustrated with thirty-two folding plates; bound
in uniform modern full calf, with red labels, text
not collated, contents good, 9 x 6 3/4 in.
$400-600
271
267
Rome, Two Illustrated Guides to the
Ancient City, 1645 and 1769.
Bartolomeo Marliani’s Ritratto di Roma Antica,
Rome: Moneta, 1645, octavo, engraved
title, woodcut vignette on typographical title,
profusely illustrated throughout with text
engravings and woodcuts of ancient Roman
buildings, ruins, coins, scenes, battles, and
ancient customs; ex libris Jean-Baptiste
Colbert (1619-1683), with the Bibliotheca
Colbertina inscription at the head of the title
page, Colbert’s library was dispersed in 1728;
water stain in top right corner throughout,
some browning, bound in contemporary
calf, worn, joints cracked, loss of leather at
corners, 6 1/2 x 4 1/4 in.
[and] Fioravante Martinelli’s Roma Ricercata
ne suo Sito, Rome: Bariellini, 1769, octavo,
with woodcut title, illustrated with woodcuts
throughout, a fresh copy, in contemporary
marbled paper wrappers, covered with later
patterned paper, some worming, paper
defects, 6 1/2 x 4 1/2 in. (2)
$600-800
112
268
Rostand, Edmond (1868-1918) Cyrano de
Bergerac. Paris: Charpentier & Fasquelle,
1898.
Later edition, 12mo, with numerous clippings
tipped in, along with a carte-de-visite of
Benoît-Constant Coquelin [aka Coquelin Aine]
(1841-1909) as Cyrano, inscribed with the
line from Scene VII, “Le canon des Gascons
ne recule jamais!,” bound in contemporary
three-quarter green morocco, marbled paper
boards, somewhat rubbed, text leaves toned,
8 x 5 in.
$200-300
271
Rusher’s Banbury Chap Books, Complete
Set of Sixteen. Banbury: Rusher, [c. 1830].
32mo, sixteen bound in one, with the
publisher’s half-title listing the sixteen titles; all
with their original colored paper covers bound
in (mostly blue and yellow), with the bookplate
of C.H. Hammersley pasted inside the front
board, and a short inscription stating that
this copy formerly belonged to Andrew White
Tuer (1838-1900), with a note signed by Tuer
tipped in, describing this copy; bound in full
mottled calfskin by Zahnesdorf, with gilt-tooled
boards and spine, neatly rebacked, the old
spine replaced, 4 1/2 x 2 3/4 in.
This volume containing the following titles:
Adventures of a Half-penny; Anecdotes for
Good Children; Children in the Wood; Children
in the Wood Restored; Dick Whittington and
his Cat; Dr. Watts’ Divine Songs; Dr. Watts’
Moral Songs; Galloping Guide to the A.B.C.;
Good Farmer; History of a Banbury Cake;
House that Jack Built; John Gilpin; Poetic
Trifles; Riddle Book; Short Stories; and Trial of
an Ox.
$1,000-1,500
273
272
Ryan, William Redmond (1791-1855)
Personal Adventures in Upper and Lower
California. London: Shoberl, 1850.
First edition, in two volumes, with a printed
colophon on the verso of the last leaf in
volume two [414], illustrated with twentythree full-page illustrations, three of which are
tinted lithographs, the other twenty are wood
engravings, all after the author’s drawings, the
two volumes bound in uniform contemporary
quarter calfskin with marbled paper boards,
bindings rubbed, joints starting, endcaps
chipped, t.e.g., 7 1/2 x 4 3/4 in. (2)
The text includes a description of Ryan’s
experiences as a gold prospector, his detailed
illustrations, and other adventures in wild
California.
$400-600
273
Sadeler, Joannes (1550-1600) After
Maarten de Vos (1532-1603) Sammelband
of Three Illustrated Works.
Oblong folio containing: Imago Bontatis Illius,
[Munich?]: Sadeler, [c. 1587], engraved title,
seven leaves;
[bound with] Boni et Mali Scientia, [Antwerp?]:
Sadeler, 1583, engraved title, twelve leaves;
[and] Bonorum et Malorum Consensio,
[Mainz?]: Sadeler, 1586, engraved title and
fourteen leaves; the three titles stab-stitched
as one oblong folio, first and last leaf torn with
marginal losses, some spotting, all three titles
rare; three engraved titles and thirty-three fullpage engravings in total; lacking the original
front limp paper cover, back cover present, 12
1/2 x 9 1/2 in.
$1,000-1,500
274
Salesman’s Sample of J.H. Stine’s History
of the Army of the Potomac. Philadelphia:
Rodgers, 1892.
Octavo, with the stamp of general sales agent
G.A. Andrews of Salem, Massachusetts,
consisting of: frontispiece, title page, c.
twenty-nine portraits of generals, and other
assorted truncated sections of the text, ending
with an advertisement for the publication,
and eight pages meant for subscribers, three
and a half of these eight are filled in with the
names of approximately thirty-four veterans,
the companies in which they served, and their
towns of residence (Woburn and Winchester),
bound in publisher’s dark blue cloth, title
stamped on the front board in gold, corners
rubbed and bumped, 9 1/4 x 6 in.
$300-500
113
276
275
Salvin, Francis Henry (b. 1821) and William
Brodrick (1814-1888) Falconry in the British
Isles. London: John Van Voorst, 1855.
First edition, large octavo, illustrated
with twenty-four hand-colored full-page
lithographic plates of falcons and falconry
equipment, bound in green half morocco and
buckram boards, t.e.g., 11 x 7 in.
$1,500-1,800
276
Salvin, Francis Henry (b. 1821) and William
Brodrick (1814-1888) Falconry in the British
Isles. London: John Van Voorst, 1873.
Second, expanded edition, large octavo,
illustrated with twenty-eight lithographic
plates, hand-colored and heightened with
gum arabic, in the publisher’s pebbled green
cloth, front board with large gold-stamped
portrait of a man carrying four birds on a
cadge, spine lettered in gold, the binding
worn, probably rebacked or recased, some
damage to the inner margin of the first half of
the text, including a persistent tear along the
blank gutter margin, repaired, some leaves
thrown out slightly further than others, with
attendant chipping, 11 1/4 x 7 1/4 in.
$2,000-2,500
114
277
Schiller, Johann Christop Friedrich von
(1759-1805) Gedichte [Erster Theil/Zweyter
Theil]. Leipzig: Crusius, 1800-1803 [printed
by Gopferdt in Jena].
First edition, two octavo volumes, ex libris
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) with his
book plate pasted inside the front board of
volume one, frontispiece present in volume
one; 335 and 358 pages; bound in uniform
contemporary half calf, good-tooled spines
with red and blue labels; some foxing to the
text; 6 1/2 x 3 3/4 in. (2)
$200-300
278
Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe (1793-1864)
Information Respecting the History,
Condition and Prospects of the Indian
Tribes of the United States, Presentation
Copy. Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo & Co.,
1853.
Large quarto, volume one only, illustrated
by Seth Eastman (1808-1875) with seventyfive full paged plates, many hand-colored;
with the following inscription inside the front
board: Hon. C.G. Green with respects of H.R.
Schoolcraft; bound in publisher’s textured
purple cloth, with a central gilt-tooled image
of an American Indian holding a scalp and
knife over the body of a dead European; the
cloth somewhat sun-faded and worn, slightly
shaken, contents good, evidence of flower
pressing, marginal stain to fore-edge affecting
the last sixty or so pages, 13 x 9 1/2 in.
The presentation inscription was almost
certainly written by one of Schoolcraft’s literary
assistants, perhaps his wife Mary, or son
John. By the date of publication, the author
had suffered two devastating strokes that left
him paralyzed.
$400-600
279
279
Scott, Sir Walter (1771-1832) Original
Gouache Illustrations for the Waverley
Novels. England, c. 1856.
Two oblong octavo albums, containing a
total of 108 miniature paintings created to
illustrate Scott’s adventure novels, each
painting approximately 4 1/4 x 3 1/4 in.,
painted within several frames, on ivory paper,
each ivory sheet mounted on green album
pages, each painting titled in pencil at the
foot, with other pencil and ink notes identifying
the story illustrated in the surrounding blank
margins; bound in uniform full dark navy blue
morocco, elaborately tooled in blind, with
titles and spines decorated in gilt; manuscript
annotations of Edward Winman Martin,
Esquire, with a signed engraved portrait of
same pasted inside the front board of each
volume, with the later bookplate of William
Sankey, and a portrait of a Baron; the artist
is unidentified, although Martin has added a
note stating that he died a few weeks after he
finished these paintings, and that only a few
were duplicated originally, at Martin’s request,
when he was unhappy with the artist’s work;
bindings slightly rubbed, corners bumped,
binding of volume one becoming de-cased, 9
1/4 x 7 1/4 in. (2)
$1,000-1,500
115
280
Sebright, Sir John Saunders (1767-1846)
Observations Upon Hawking, Inscribed
Author’s Presentation Copy. London:
Harding, 1826.
First edition, octavo, presented to Sir Humphry
Davy (1778-1829) with a six-line inscription
dated 10 July 1826, on the title page, in very
good half calf and buckram boards, some
interior spotting, 8 1/4 x 5 in.
$300-500
281
Secundus, Johannes (1511-1536) Opera.
Nunc Primum in Lucem Edita. Utrecht:
Borculous, 1541.
Octavo, second edition, contemporary
inscriptions on front flyleaf and pastedown,
signature of Christopher Schwartz on title, in
full contemporary blind-tooled pigskin over
boards, dated 1543, with the initials S.M.
on the front board, contemporary notes in
the text; lacking X8 (the colophon leaf); two
hand-drawn and colored marginal illustrations
added in the Basia section, one partially
covered over; boards slightly reflexed, front
joint starting, contents toned, some spotting,
6 x 4 in.
$400-600
282
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) The Vale
Shakespeare. London: Ballantyne Press,
1900-1903.
Thirty-nine large octavo volumes, edited by
Thomas Sturge Moore (1870-1944), with
typographical ornamentation by Charles
Ricketts (1866-1931), bound in full publisher’s
light green cloth, stamped in blind, and
lettered in gilt, pages crisp throughout, slight
fading of spines, 9 1/4 x 5 3/4 in. each, the set
occupying 28 inches of shelf space. (39)
The spare and elegant Vale Shakespeare,
produced under the artistic direction of
Ricketts, is a monument to the type faces it
employs, subsequently destroyed by Ricketts
after the press ceased operation in 1904.
$1,000-1,500
283
Shay’s Rebellion. Acts and Laws Passed
by the General Court of Massachusetts.
[Boston: Adams & Nourse, 1787].
Folio, comprising pages 546 through 627 of
this serial publication, removed from a bound
volume, trimmed, disbound, some light foxing,
10 3/4 x 7 3/4 in.
$300-500
282
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284
Smith, Michael A., Landscapes 1975-1979.
Revere, Pennsylvania: Lodima Press, 1981.
First edition, limited to 1,000 copies signed by
Smith on the limitation page, also inscribed by
Smith on half-title, and with his handwritten
initials just below the photographic frontispiece
mounted opposite the title, in two volumes,
both landscape-format folios, 12 1/2 x 11 in.
and 22 3/4 x 10 1/4 in., respectively, in the
original Mylar jackets, and publisher’s cloth. (2)
$400-600
285
285
Soane, Sir John (1753-1837) Designs in
Architecture. London: for I. Taylor, at the
Bible and Crown, in Holborn, next Chancerylane, 1778.
First edition, small folio, typographical title
page followed by one leaf advertisement
of books for sale by I. Taylor, and thirtyseven leaves of engraved plates, numbered
consecutively I through XXXVIII, with the
penultimate leaf bearing one plate numbered
XXXVI and XXXVII, some slight foxing, printed
on thick paper, in later boards, 10 1/2 x 6 3/4
in.
$2,000-3,000
286
Sterne, Laurence (1713-1768) Works.
London: for Strahan et al., 1783.
Ten octavo volumes, illustrated by Hogarth,
bound in uniform contemporary calfskin,
with the marbled page in volume two, page
111/112, bindings dry, joints cracked and
tender, some boards detached, 7 1/4 x 4 1/4
in. (10)
$600-800
287
Sultan, Larry (1946-2009) and Mike
Mandel (b. 1950) How to Read Music in
One Evening, Signed Copy. Santa Cruz,
California: Clatworthy, 1974.
First edition, oblong quarto, in publisher’s
illustrated soft covers, with Sultan’s signature
on the title, below his name, and Mandel’s
under his own, with a short inscription, with
photo-montage illustrations throughout, very
good, light toning to cover, 10 3/4 x 8 1/4 in.
$400-600
287
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Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745) Gulliver’s
Travels. London: The Cresset Press, 1930.
Two folio volumes, limited edition copy
number 133 of 195, full-page hand-colored
illustrations, head-pieces, and vignettes by
Rex Whistler (1905-1944), bound in half
greenish-blue morocco and corners and
vellum-covered boards by Wood, spines and
parts of corners faded to brown, 14 x 9 3/4
in. (2)
$2,000-2,200
289
Thacher, Peter (1752-1802) An Oration
Delivered at Watertown, March 5, 1776,
to Commemorate the Bloody Massacre
at Boston, Perpetrated March 5, 1770.
Watertown [Massachusetts]: Printed and Sold
by Benjamin Edes, on the Bridge, 1776.
Quarto, lacking signature A [two leaves: the
title and a preliminary leaf (half-title?)] text
begins with B1, the first page of the oration
itself, and is otherwise complete, ending with
D2, verso blank, i.e., pages 5 through 15; stab
sewn, with notes added by William Jennison,
some stains, tears, spotting, folds, and other
condition problems, 8 1/4 x 6 1/2 in.
Thacher’s text is a spirited and patriotic call
to arms, he closes with the following thought.
“With zeal let us exert ourselves in the service
of our country, in life. And when the earthly
scene shall be closing with us, let us expire
with this prayer upon our quivering lips, O
God, Let America Be Free!”
$1,500-2,000
288
290
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290
The Analectic Magazine, Volume IV.
Philadelphia: Moses Thomas, 1814.
Octavo, containing the first publication in
book form of the lyrics to the “Star Spangled
Banner” by Francis Scott Key, but printed
anonymously, entitled, in this first appearance,
“Defence of Fort McHenry,” frontispiece torn,
last few leaves torn away, with loss, leaves
containing the “Star Spangled Banner” present
and intact, intermittent foxing throughout,
binding worn.
$500-700
291
The Koran, Commonly called the Alcoran
of Mohammed, Translated into English
Immediately from the Original Arabic.
London: for Hawes, Clarke, and Collins, 1764.
Second edition of George Sale’s (1697-1736)
translation, in two octavo volumes, illustrated
with five engraved plates: the folding map of
Arabia, three genealogical tables (two folding),
and folding plan of Mecca all present, titles
printed in red and black, the set bound in
uniform contemporary speckled calfskin;
spines darkened, front joint of volume one
split, board still attached, headcaps bumped
with some loss, 8 x 4 3/4 in. (2)
$300-400
293
The Peasants of Chamouni. Containing
an Attempt to Reach the Summit of Mont
Blanc, and a Delineation of the Scenerey
among the Alps. London: for Baldwin,
Cradock, & Joy, 1826.
Second edition, 12mo, half-title, vignette by
Willis of mountain climbers on title, bound
in contemporary red half morocco, marbled
paper boards, 5 1/4 x 3 1/4 in.
This adventure story for children plays upon
romantic notions about the Alps and describes
an imaginary ascent of Mont Blanc, presaging
the stories of Jules Verne, who was born in
1828.
$800-1,000
292
The Outsider, First Five Issues. New
Orleans: Loujon Press, 1961 [Issues 1-3] and
Tucson: Loujon Press, 1969 [Issues 4 and 5].
Each issue in its original paper wrappers,
illustrated throughout, with colored papers,
tissues, and other embellishments employed;
numbers four and five as issued in one
volume, with the jacket, larger format; slight
bumping and thumbing, generally good. (4)
$200-300
294
The Royal Geneaological Pastime of the
Sovereigns of England from Egbert to
George the 3d. London: Newbery & Wallis,
1791.
An early board game consisting of a large
hand-colored engraving, dissected and
mounted on a contemporary linen backing,
flanked by an explanation of the rules printed
in type, the folding, linen-backed game
sheet fits into its original marbled paper
covered slipcase, with original engraved label;
hand-coloring still bright, some spotting and
staining, wear, spotting and toning to slipcase,
the linen a little fragmented at some folds, 29
x 16 1/2 in. unfolded; the slipcase 8 3/4 x 5
1/4 in.
$700-900
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295
The Song of Roland, trans. Isabel Butler.
Cambridge: Riverside Press, for Houghton
Mifflin, [1906].
Folio, limited edition, number 89 of 220, book
design by Bruce Rogers, text printed with
hand-set type in two columns in a gothic face
in black ink; side-notes in civilité, printed in
brown; initials headings, and chapter heads
printed in red, initials in blue; the first initial
printed in gold; hand-colored emblem of the
Riverside Press on title; and six text woodcuts
colored by hand, their stained glass design
inspired by Chartres Cathedral; bound in half
vellum and tips with fleur-de-lis decorated
paper boards; boards somewhat faded,
discolored, contents very good, 17 1/2 x 11
1/4 in.
$1,500-2,000
295
296
Themistius (317-c. 390 AD) Orationes
XXXIII, trans. Jean Hardouin (1646-1729)
Paris: in Typographia Regia, excudebat
Mabre-Cramoisy, 1674.
First edition, with the first inclusion of thirteen
orations, large-paper folio copy, with the
commentary of Denis Petau (1583-1652)
lacking final ?blank, text printed in parallel
columns, Greek and Latin, throughout,
contents clean, bound in later half leather,
spine becoming detached, joints splitting,
some light spotting, ex libris a Jesuit institution
in Lyons, with two small oval stamps on title
page only, 16 1/4 x 11 in.
$400-600
297
Themistius (317-c. 390 AD) Paraphrasis
in Aristotelem. Treviso: Bartolomaeus
Confalonerius and Morellus Gerardinus, 15
February 1481.
Folio, editio princeps, fragment, [1]2, aa-dd8,
ee6, ff-gg8, hh6, ii7. 69 leaves only (of 165
leaves); part two only, extensive contemporary
marginalia throughout, some worming,
light water stains near the end, ex libris Dr.
Crawford Adams, with his bookplate pasted
inside the front board, modern half morocco,
11 1/4 x 8 in.
$700-900
296
298
Theocritus (fl. circa 270 BC), Bion (2nd
Century BC), and Moschus (fl. circa 150
BC) The Idyls. London: Printed by the
Riccardi Press for the Medici Society, 1922.
Two large quarto volumes, limited edition,
one of 500 copies, twenty tipped-in color
illustrations by W. Russell Flint (1880-1969),
translation by Andrew Lang (1844-1912),
bound in full limp parchment, lettered in
gilt, silk ties, in the publisher’s slipcases;
slipcases bumped and sun-faded, the books
themselves very good, 10 1/2 x 7 3/4 in. (2)
$200-300
299
Thomas, Dylan (1914-1953) 18 Poems.
London: The Sunday Referee and the Parton
Bookshop, [1934].
Second issue of the first edition, with rounded
spine and advertisement leaf inserted
between half-title and title, bound in full black
publisher’s cloth, with the dust jacket, front
panel toned, slightly chipped, contents good,
8 1/2 x 5 1/4 in.
$200-300
297
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300
Thou, Jacques Auguste de (1553-1617) Il
Falconiere. Venice: Albrizzi, 1735.
First Italian edition, quarto, engraved
frontispiece, numerous fine engraved headand tail-pieces used throughout the text, a
large copy in later half morocco, marginal
water stain at top edge, modern notes in
pencil, 11 x 8 in.
De Thou composed this long didactic poem
on falconry in Latin hexameters, with the title,
Hieracosophion. The original Latin text is
printed here in parallel columns with the Italian
translation.
$300-500
122
301
Thucydides (c. 460-c. 395 BC), trans.
Benjamin Jowett (1817-1893) The History
of the Peloponnesian War. Chelsea:
Ashendene Press, 1930.
First edition, one of 260 copies, on paper,
folio, bound in full alum-tawed pigskin by
Smith, the text printed in red and black
throughout, initials and chapter heads
designed by Graily Hewitt, contents very
good, spine dry, slightly discolored, yellowing
to boards, joints dry, 15 3/4 x 10 3/4 in.
$1,500-1,700
302
Tiffany Studios, Ecclesiastical Department,
Memorials in Glass and Stone. [New York]:
Tiffany Studios, 1922.
Second expanded edition of this catalog of
the ecclesiastical work created by the studio
in favrile glass, stained glass windows, glass
mosaics, and outdoor funeral monuments in
stone and cast bronze; illustrated throughout
with thirty-four photogravures of the work of
the studio and drawings for prospective work,
each protected by tissue overleaf, interleaved
with explanatory text, printed throughout
on heavy rag paper, soft cover, with original
publisher’s blind-printed gray paper covers,
1 1/2 in. closed tear to front cover, in a
protective Mylar wrappers, limited light
spotting only to contents, 9 x 6 1/4 in.
$400-600
303
Travels to the Near East, Classics, and
Others, Six Volumes. Henry Manudrell’s A
Journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem at Easter,
A.D. 1697, Oxford: at the Theater, 1732,
octavo, illustrated with fifteen engraved plates,
contemporary tan calfskin binding, with
speckled panels, joints cracked, contents
clean, 7 3/4 x 4 3/4 in.
Richard Tully’s Letters Written during a Ten
Years’ Residence at the Court of Tripoli,
London: for Colburn, 1819, octavo, in two
volumes, illustrated with a folding map
and seven full-page, hand-colored plates,
some foxing and offsetting, good color, in
contemporary half leather, rebacked, 8 1/4 x
5 in.
Fosbroke’s Foreign Topography, London:
for Nichols and Son, 1828, large quarto,
illustrated with eleven plates, in contemporary
boards, cloth spine, worn, joints frayed, board
edges chipped and damaged, contents
slightly toned, one plate loose, 11 x 8 3/4 in.
Joseph Wilson’s Memorabilia Cantabrigiae,
London: for Harding et al., 1803, octavo,
illustrated, half leather, worn, contents toned,
7 1/2 x 4 1/2 in.
[and] The Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius,
translated by George Long, London:
Chapman & Hall, [n.d.], quarto, bound in half
blue calf by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, 7 1/2 x 5
1/2 in. (6)
$400-600
304
Trigge, Thomas (fl. circa 1670) Calendarium
Astrologicum: or an Almanack, for the Year
of our Lord, 1673. London: by A. Maxwell for
the Company of Stationers, 1673.
Octavo, title page and calendar printed in
red and black, title in a type ornament frame,
bound in contemporary speckled calfskin
boards, with catches, the dated tooled on the
front board in gold, gold double-fillet rules,
small acorn tools in gilt at board corners;
blank leaves bound in as follows, nine leaves
before the title, two leaves bound between
each page of the calendar, (signature A),
fifteen blank leaves after the last leaf of printed
text; text block with contemporary marbled
edges; with notes on sermons on some
blank leaves, including mention of sermons
by Baxter, the text quite clean, binding neatly
rebacked, 5 1/2 x 3 1/2 in.
A rare ephemerides, or almanac, ESTC
locates only one copy in U.S. libraries, at the
New York Public (see ESTC R34325).
$400-600
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Turkey, Armenia, Egypt, 20th Century
Works, and Others, Thirteen Volumes.
Including: Pierce’s Story of Turkey and
Armenia, Baltimore: Woodward, 1897;
Locher’s With Star and Crescent, Philadelphia:
Aetna, 1889; Bliss’s Turkey and the Armenian
Atrocities, Philadelphia/Chicago: Moore &
Co., [n.d.]; Cox’s Diversions of a Diplomat in
Turkey, New York: Webster, 1893; Thackeray’s
The Light Side of Egypt, London: Macmillan,
[n.d.]; The Cruise of the Eight Hundred to and
through Palestine, New York: The Christian
Herald, [n.d.]; Nerval’s Voyage en Orient, Paris:
Imprimerie Nationale de France, 1950, in four
volumes; and three others. (13)
$200-300
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306
Turkish Incunabula: Vankuli, Mehmed ibn
Mustafa (c. 1592) Kitab-i Lugat-i Vankuli.
Istanbul: Ibrahim Muteferrika, 1729.
The first book printed in Turkish by a Muslim,
two folio volumes; volume two lacks pages
483/484 and 497/498 (conjugates); two
additional leaves inserted between pages 720
and 721 numbered 721/722 and 761/762;
printed in a single column throughout, within
a printed border; a mixed set, both volumes
bound in full contemporary sheepskin, but
in different shades of brown with different
tooling; volume one’s blind-tooled central
medallions are larger, more ornate, and inlaid
with a contrasting leather; volume one has
been professionally rebacked, water stains in
both volumes, small marginal tears, titles in
manuscript on page edges at the foot, 13 1/4
x 8 1/2 in. (2)
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The work is an Arabic-Turkish Dictionary,
sometimes called Jawhari’s Dictionary, written
originally as an Arabic to Arabic dictionary by
Jawhari (d. 1009-10), here adapted into an
Arabic-Turkish dictionary by Vankuli (d. 1592)
and printed by Ibrahim Muteferrika (16741745) with the approval of Sultan Ahmed
III. Muteferrika was a Hungarian Calvinist
captured by the Ottomans as a teenager. In
Istanbul, he learned Turkish, converted to
Islam, and completely assimilated into the
society. A true polymath who valued culture
and education, he contributes an essay in this
work in which he argues the importance of the
dissemination of knowledge through printing.
$1,000-1,500
307
Twain, Mark (1835-1910) The Writings,
Hillcrest Edition. New York: Harper’s, 1906.
Twenty-five octavo volumes, bound in
uniform morocco, originally green, spines
now uniformly faded to brown, t.e.g., smooth
spines tooled and lettered in gilt, very good, 7
3/4 x 5 in. (25)
$600-800
308
Updike, John (1932-2009) Five Titles, Some
Signed Copies. Including: The Carpentered
Hen and Other Tame Creatures, New York:
Harper’s, 1958, stated first edition, with the
code B-H on copyright page, in the jacket,
with Updike’s signature on ffep and on the
back of the dust jacket, sewing structure
faulty, signatures starting, detached from
binding, jacket with minor surface abrasions
on the spine; The Poorhouse Fair, New York:
Knopf, stated first edition, with Updike’s
signature on ffep, and signed inscription on
back panel of the jacket, “Here’s looking at
you!,” the jacket quite worn, with several
chunks missing; Telephone Poles and Other
Poems, New York: Knopf, 1963, in a very
good jacket, with an autograph signed
postcard inserted, addressed to a former
Harvard classmate; 2 November 1963,
thanking him for sending an article from the
Wall Street Journal, and mentioning the length
of time since their last visit, closing with the
question, “How is the donkey?”; The Same
Door, New York: Knopf, 1959, stated first
edition, in a slightly worn jacket; [and] Pigeon
Feathers, New York: Knopf, 1962, later
edition, in a good jacket, the last two books
not signed. (5)
$600-800
309
Valverde di Amusco, Juan (b. 1525) Vivae
Imagines Corporis Humani Aereis Formis
Expressae. Antwerp: Plantin, 1566.
Folio, first Plantin edition, engraved
architectural title with the figures of Adam
and Eve and forty-one (of forty-two) full-page
engraved illustrations, lacking the leaf E4, final
blank present; bound in full contemporary calf
with large gilt lozenges on each board, worn,
rebacked, joint cracked, ex libris Dr. Crawford
Adams, with his bookplate pasted inside the
front board, some worming, spotting, water
stains, nice impressions of the plates, 12 1/4
x 8 1/2 in.
$1,000-1,500
309
310
Van Rensselaer, Mrs. John King Newport
Our Social Capital. Philadelphia and London:
Lippincott, 1905.
First edition, copy number nine of 347,
large quarto, illustrated throughout, color
frontispiece by Henry Hutt, photogravures,
double-tones and others, two maps in
the back pocket, this copy bound in full
publisher’s cloth, tooled in gilt on front board
and spine, deckle edges throughout, some
spotting to tissue guard between title and
frontispiece, inner front joint splitting, 11 x 8 in.
$300-500
125
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311
Vennor, Henry G. (1840-1884) Our Birds
of Prey, or the Eagles, Hawks, and Owls.
Montreal: Dawson Brother, 1876.
First edition, large quarto, illustrated with
thirty albumen photographic plates by Willam
Notman of stuffed birds, each mounted on
heavy card, bound in publisher’s orangishbrown pebbled cloth stamped in black, with
a gilt figure of an owl with a mouse in its beak
on the front board, gilt lettering to spine, the
plates slightly wavy on their mounts, with
some foxing, some fading of the photographs,
title a little dusty, 10 1/2 x 7 1/2 in.
$400-600
312
Vettori, Piero (1499-1585) and Demetrius
of Phalerum (c. 350 BC-c. 280 BC)
Commentarii in Librum Demetrii Phalerei
de Elocutione. Florence: Junta, 1594.
Folio, large printer’s woodcut device on
title and colophon pages, text in Greek and
Latin, printed in italic and Roman letter, single
column throughout, some leaves browned,
12 x 8 in.
$600-800
316
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313
Westmacott, Charles Malloy (1787?-1868)
The English Spy. London: Sherwood, Jones,
and Co., 1825 [-1826].
Two octavo volumes, illustrated with seventyone hand-colored aquatints (sixty-eight
by Robert Cruikshank, two by Thomas
Rowlandson, and one each by Wageman
and Brightly), woodcut vignettes on each title,
text woodcuts throughout; no ads; bound in
uniform full crushed red morocco gilt-extra by
Riviere, a.e.g., spines gilt in compartments,
inner gilt dentelles, solid dark blue endleaves,
9 1/4 x 5 1/2 in. (2)
$400-600
314
Wheelwright, Edmund March (18541912), ed. Francis Chandler Municipal
Architecture in Boston. Boston: Bates &
Guild, 1898.
Two large folio volumes, limited edition of
500 numbered copies; illustrated with 100
mounted heliotype plates; ex-library copy, with
embossed stamps to titles and other marks;
plates unmarked; bound in half morocco
and textured fabric boards; corners and
joints quite rubbed and abraded, one cover
detached, others loose, some marginal water
damage to preliminaries, flyleaves torn with
loss, 18 x 16 in. (2)
Wheelwright was one of Boston’s most
important architects, and made many lasting
contributions to the metropolitan landscape,
including the Longfellow Bridge and the
Harvard Lampoon building. This work includes
photographs of many of the schools, fire
houses, police stations, and other buildings
designed for the city. Other notable inclusions
are the subway shelter at Park Street, Boston
City Hospital, and the exquisite Head House,
which once graced the South Boston Marine
Park. The Head House was a half-timber
German-style Medieval revival fantasy; it was
damaged by the hurricane of 1938. After
it suffered fire damage in 1942, it was
demolished.
$200-300
315
White, E.B. (1899-1985) Charlotte’s Web.
New York: Harper & Brothers, [1952].
First edition, with “I-B” on the copyright page,
octavo, 184 pages, in tan publisher’s cloth
with the title in spider webs on the front board
and spine, in a first issue dust jacket with
four blurbs for Stuart Little on the back panel,
minor abrasions, slight bumping to head and
tail of spine, short unobtrusive tear across the
spine of the jacket, 8 x 5 1/4 in.
$400-600
316
White, Gilbert (1720-1793) The Natural
History and Antiquities of Selborne, in the
County of Southampton. London: Bensley
for White, 1789.
First edition, quarto, illustrated with folding
frontispiece, added title with engraved
vignette, and six full-page plates (one of
which is folding); bound in contemporary half
red morocco and marbled paper boards,
offsetting from the plates, mainly due to an
iron-rich paper, some spotting to preliminary
leaves, one bookplate pasted inside the front
board, two others loose, housed in a modern
slipcase, 10 x 7 1/2 in.
White, an early naturalist, makes important
contributions to incipient ornithology, recording
many detailed observations of bird behavior in
this work.
$700-900
317
317
Whitehead, George (1636?-1723) and
William Penn (1644-1718) A Serious
Apology for the Practices of the People
call’d Quakers. [London: No Printer], 1671.
First edition, quarto, two parts in one, collation
continuous, pages 181-187 and 194 printed
in red and black; with the errata, corrections
made throughout in a minute contemporary
hand, contents crisp, some occasional
spotting, slightly cut down, in 19th century half
morocco, rebacked in cloth, 7 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.
$500-700
318
Wilder, Thornton (1897-1975) Our Town.
New York: Coward McCann, Inc., [1938].
First edition, in a very good jacket, bound in
publisher’s olive drab cloth with blue labels on
spine and front board, title printed in black and
blue, 8 x 5 in.
$500-700
319
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320
Wood, William (fl. 1629-1635) New
England’s Prospect. Boston: Thomas and
John Fleet, and Green & Russell, 1764.
Octavo, first American edition, toned, slightly
trimmed down, in modern leatherette;
introductory essay attributed to Nathaniel
Rogers in Sibley’s Harvard Graduates,
sometimes attributed to James Otis, 7 3/4 x
4 1/2 in.
A manual for prospective British colonists
first published in London in the 1630s, this
work contains geographical, agricultural,
ethnographic and other practical information
valuable for surviving life in the North American
wilderness, including a list of the birds and
beasts one might hunt, and advice for things
to bring on the sea voyage across the Atlantic.
$600-800
322
Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939) The
Trembling of the Veil, Signed. London:
Privately Printed for Subscribers by Laurie,
1922.
Signed by Yeats on the limitation page, copy
number 147 of 1,000; in publisher’s half white
paper spine and blue paper boards, deckle
fore-edges, partially unopened, contents
clean, top edge dusty, board corners bumped,
spine yellowed, boards toned and dusty, 8 3/4
x 5 1/4 in.
$400-600
321
Yale College Yearbook, Class of 1869.
Folio-format album containing approximately
113 signed portraits of graduates; four group
shots; approximately twenty-two photographs
of professors, identified, but not signed;
twenty-two more photographs of students
identified, not signed; and approximately
twenty-four images of buildings and street
scenes, including one interior, the album
structurally failing, water damage and mildew
to gutters at the end of the text, decased, the
text block separated from spine and boards,
12 1/2 x 10 in.
$600-800
129
322
323
Yugen Quarterly, First Eight Issues, Edited
by LeRoi Jones [aka Amiri Baraka] (19342014) and Hettie Cohen (b. 1934). New York:
Troubador Press [and Totem Press], 1958
[-1962].
Eight separate issues, each a single saddlestitched signature, with soft covers, most
with single-color cover illustrations, the first
issue with the original subscription slip; issue
six with notice of the new periodical, Kulchur
inserted; some wear and fading, 8 1/2 x 5 1/2
in. (8)
Contributors to Yugen include: Allen Ginsberg,
Gregory Corso, Gary Snyder, William S.
Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, Peter Orlovsky,
Frank O’Hara, Robert Creeley, Michael
McClure, Kenneth Koch, John Ashbery, Gilbert
Sorrentino, and others.
$300-500
130
Prints
Lots 324–383
325
324
Audubon, John James (1785-1851)
American Bittern, Plate CCCXXXVII. [from]
Birds of America. London: R. Havell, 18261838.
Hand-aquatinted copper-plate engraving,
mounted on board, browned and faded, 27
3/4 x 22 3/4 in.
$300-500
325
American Red Fox, Male, Plate LXXXVII.
[from] The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North
America. Philadelphia: J.T. Bowen, 18391844.
Hand-colored lithograph, imperial folio, colors
slightly faded, closed tear visible through the
title, invading about a half-inch into the dirt
of the foreground, matted and framed, not
examined out of frame, 24 x 19 in. sight.
This disturbing iconic image shows a snarling
fox caught in a deadly leg-hold trap.
$1,000-1,500
132
326
American Robin, Plate CXXXI. [from] Birds
of America. London: R. Havell, 1826-1838.
Hand-aquatinted copper-plate engraving, J.
Whatman watermark dated 1834, the sheet
toned, two long tears, one about 5 1/2 inches,
affecting two of the leaves on the right side,
another just above, shorter, and affecting the
blank background, small chunk torn away,
about 1/2 inch, but present; small scrubbed
area to the left of the central bird, 38 x 25 in.
$4,000-6,000
327
Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Blackbilled Cuckoo, Plate XXXII. [from] Birds of
America. London: R. Havell, 1826-1838.
the sheet evenly toned, some spotting to the
background, plate mark visible, double-matted
within a modern gilt frame, the sheet with a
gentle undulation, suggesting that it is not laid
down, not examined out of frame, 27 x 19
1/2 in. visible.
$4,000-6,000
326
detail
327
328
328
Black-throated Guillemot, Nob-billed Auk,
Curled-Crested Auk, [and] Horned-billed
Guillemot, Plate CCCII. [from] Birds of
matted and framed, the sheet evenly toned
and possibly laid down, the blue of the sea,
sky, and glaciers in light transparent colors,
the orange and yellow beaks still bright, some
limited spotting, mostly in the sky and blank
margins, framed, not examined out of frame,
36 x 23 1/4 in. sight.
$1,500-2,000
329
Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Boattailed Grackle, Plate CLXXXVII. [from] Birds
Hand-aquatinted copper-plate engraving, the
sheet toned, with some spotting, the male
grackle with strong blue coloring, matted and
framed, 25 1/2 x 20 1/4 in. sight.
$1,000-1,500
330
Chipping Squirrel, Plate VIII. [from] The
Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America.
Philadelphia: J.T. Bowen, 1839-1844.
Hand-colored lithograph, imperial folio, some
surface spots and discoloration, good color,
framed, 27 1/2 x 21 1/4 in.
$400-600
134
331
Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Cow
Bunting, Plate 99. [from] Birds of America.
London: R. Havell, 1826-1838.
one minor spot, good color, the sheet quite
clean, not laid down, matted, in a recent dark
wood frame, museum glass, not examined out
of frame, 22 x 15 in. visible through the mat
opening.
$300-500
333
332
Douglasses Spermophile, Plate XLIX. [from]
The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America.
Hand-colored lithograph, imperial folio, good
color, edge chipping with loss, edges toned,
signs of handling, 27 1/4 x 21 1/2 in.
This ground squirrel, now going by the
Latin name, Ictidomys tridecemlineatus, is
commonly called the thirteen-lined ground
squirrel, or striped gopher. It is a burrowing
denizen of the North American prairies, where
it survives on a diet of insects during the
summer and hibernates during the winter.
$300-500
333
Esquimaux Dog, Plate CXIII. [from] The
Hand-colored lithograph, imperial folio,
slight mat burn, marginal thumbing, a few
short closed tears, one corner chipped
with loss, good color; Plains Indians in the
background stand outside a tipi, attaching a
travois to another dog, the two canines in the
foreground sit among bird bones, 27 3/4 x 21
1/4 in.
$1,000-1,500
335
Four Mouse Prints. [from] The Viviparous
Quadrupeds of North America. Philadelphia:
J.T. Bowen, 1839-1844. Including the
following prints, all hand-colored, imperial
folio-format: plate 85, Jumping Mouse; plate
100, Missouri Mouse; plate 115, Yellow
Cheeked Meadow Mouse; and plate 124,
Northern Meadow Mouse; all framed, different
sizes and styles. (4)
$800-1,000
334
Five Quadrupeds. [from] The Viviparous
folio-format: plate 88, Worm Wood Hare;
plate 93, Black Footed Ferret; plate 99, Prairie
Dog; plate 108, Bachman’s Hare; and plate
120, Tawny and Back’s Lemming; all framed,
different sizes and styles. (5)
$1,000-1,500
135
336
336
Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Four
Squirrel Prints. [from] The Viviparous
folio-format: plate 9, Parry’s Marmot Squirrel;
plate 14, Hudson’s Bay or Chickaree Red
Squirrel; plate 34, Black Squirrel; and plate 43,
Hare Squirrel; all framed, different sizes and
styles. (4)
$800-1,000
136
337
337
Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Green
Heron, Plate CCCXXXIII. [from] Birds of
Hand-aquatinted copper-plate engraving, very
good, with fine color, J. Whatman watermark,
dated 1836; area inside plate mark slightly and
evenly toned, one smudge in the background,
matted and framed; the sheet 38 x 25 1/2 in.
$30,000-40,000
137
338
138
338
Labrador Falcon, Plate CXCVI. [from] Birds
printed on J. Whatman Turkey Mill
watermarked paper dated 1835, very good
color, with the back of the upper bird a subtle
charcoal, beaks and feet of both birds a
pale blue wash, slight limited spotting to the
background, slight cast on the edge, and
minor thumbing, three edges of the sheet gilt
from when it was bound; in a print sleeve, with
a modern gilt frame, mat, and Plexiglas, 37
1/2 x 25 in.
$2,000-4,000
339
Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Large
Tailed Skunk, Male, Plate CII. [from] The
Hand-colored lithograph on paper, imperial
folio, strong color, stain in upper right corner,
affecting the plate number, diagonal fold in
lower right, tear at foot, through the title, other
edge chipping in top right corner, short closed
tears at foot and one along the left margin,
professionally mounted on archival Japanese
tissue, matted, 27 1/2 x 21 1/2 in.
$700-900
340
Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Le Petit
Caporal, Plate LXXV. [from] Birds of America.
Hand-aquatinted copper-plate engraving, on
the full sheet, with the J. Whatman watermark
dated 1831; the sheet clean with good color,
slight marks in the plate area, marginal mat
burn on the outer edges, one 2 1/2 in. closed
tear on left margin, two other closed tears,
approximately 1/2 in. each, slight thumbing,
offset from neighboring plate visible on verso
only, housed in a print sleeve, with a glassless
gilt frame and mat, 38 x 25 1/4 in.
$2,000-4,000
341
Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Lincoln
Finch, Plate CXCIII. [from] Birds of America.
Hand-aquatinted copper-plate engraving, J.
Whatman watermark, dated 1836, original
page edge gilding visible, very bright color,
the sheet ivory with some brown smudges at
the foo, one small blot just to the right of the
image along the plate mark, some faint toning
to the background, unframed, 38 1/4 x 25
1/2 in.
$800-1,200
339
341
342
342
Mississippi Kite, Plate CXVII. [from] Birds of
printed on J. Whatman paper watermarked
1831, the sheet an even ivory tone, with one
short closed tear in the upper right corner,
housed in a print sleeve, with the mat, and
modern gilt frame separate, 37 3/4 x 25 in.
$2,000-4,000
140
343
Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Musk
Ox, Males, Plate CXI. [from] The Viviparous
J.T. Bowen, 1839-1844.
Hand-colored lithograph, imperial folio, bright
color, matted and framed, one repaired tear
visible in bottom right corner, below the
printer’s information, 24 x 19 1/4 in. sight.
$1,200-1,800
344
Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Purple
Martin, Plate 22. [from] Birds of America.
depicting four birds, and featuring their
inventive use of an old gourd as a cavity
nesting site, the sheet slightly rumpled, lightly
and evenly toned, good color, framed, 23 1/2
x 29 1/2 in.
$2,000-4,000
343
346
345
Richardson’s Columbian Squirrel, Plate V.
[and] Downy Squirrel, Plate XXV. [from] The
Two imperial folio hand-colored lithographs,
framed separately, both nice copies with good
color, 26 1/2 x 20 1/2 in. each.
$600-800
346
Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Say’s
Squirrel, Plate LXXXIX. [from] The Viviparous
J.T. Bowen, 1839-1844.
Hand-colored lithograph, imperial folio, good
color, the sheet lightly toned, faint water stain
to left margin, framed, 26 1/2 x 20 3/4 in.
The two red squirrels dominate the
foreground, pausing at the foot of a hickory
tree; the mark of humans is all around, a small
log cabin sits in a field of newly cut stumps.
$500-700
141
347
347
Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Sharpshinned Hawk, Plate CCCLXXIV. [from] Birds
no watermark in the sheet, very good color,
edge chipping, three creases entering from
the two vertical side, each ending near the
image, spotting in upper right margin, and just
above the top left corner of the plate mark, the
sheet an even ivory, with the mat and frame
separate, currently housed in a print sleeve,
38 3/4 x 25 3/4 in.
$2,000-4,000
142
348
Summer or Wood Duck. [from] The Birds of
North America, New York: Bien, 1860.
Color lithograph on paper, matted and framed,
faded, 36 3/4 x 23 1/4 in. sight.
$1,500-1,800
351
349
Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Texan
Lynx, Female, Plate XCII. [from] The
Hand-colored lithograph, imperial folio, color
slightly faded, matted and framed, no obvious
faults to the sheet, not examined out of frame,
24 x 19 in. sight.
$400-600
350
Audubon, John James (1785-1851) The
Mocking Bird [and] Rattlesnake, Plate 21.
[from] Birds of America. London: R. Havell,
1826-1838.
on J. Whatman paper watermarked 1827,
the sheet strongly toned, especially at the
top, very gradually becoming lighter toward
the bottom, horizontal line of discoloration
across the top, just below the plate mark (an
adhesive?), color a bit faded, some spotting at
the bottom, 38 1/2 x 25 3/4 in.
$2,000-4,000
351
Audubon, John James (1785-1851) White
Ibis, Plate CCXXII. [from] Birds of America.
matted and framed, the sheet evenly toned,
with good color, not examined out of frame,
25 x 20 1/2 in. sight.
$6,000-8,000
352
Bellows, George (1882-1925) Punchinello
in the House of Death. [New York]: Bolton
Brown, [1923].
Large lithograph on paper, signed by printer
Bolton Brown (1864-1936) in the lower left,
titled in the center, signed by Bellows in
the lower right, all inscriptions in pencil; this
illustration was created to accompany Donn
Byrne’s From The Wind Bloweth, matted and
framed, 17 x 20 in. visible through the mat
opening, not examined out of frame.
$600-800
353
Besler, Basilius (1561-1629) Caryophyllus
Sylvestris. [from] Hortus Eystettensis, 1613.
Copper-plate engraving of three examples
of carnations (dianthus caryophyllus) in pink,
red, and white; printed on laid paper, handcolored, with letterpress text on the verso, the
sheet lightly toned, some darkening along the
edges, 21 1/4 x 17 3/4 in.
[and] Besler, Basilius (1561-1629) Stramonia,
Halimus, and Botris Dracontiae Major. [from]
Hortus Eystettensis, 1613.
Copper-plate engraving of Jimson weed
(Datura stramonium), Mediterranean saltbush
(Atriplex halimus), and a seed head of Jackin-the-Pulpit (Arisaema triphyllum, aka Brown
Dragon) printed on laid paper, hand-colored,
with letterpress text on the verso, the sheet
lightly toned, some darkening along the
edges, 21 1/4 x 17 3/4 in.
$500-700
143
354
Besler, Basilius (1561-1629) Paliurus [et]
Colchicum Albo [et] Rubello. [from] Hortus
Eystettensis, 1613.
Hand-colored copper-plate engraving of
paliurus in the center, flanked by white and
pink colchicum bulbs in bloom; printed on
a large folio-sized sheet of laid paper, with
typographical text on the verso, 21 1/4 x 18
in.
$400-600
355
Botanical Illustrations, Two Large Posters.
Milan: Officine Grafiche Antonio Vallardi, [19th
century].
Two large full-color illustrations meant
for classroom use, printed with black
backgrounds, with batons attached at head
and tail of each to facilitate rolling and unrolling
the posters for display and storage, the
subject of one is wheat, the other corn; text in
French, likely meant to accompany a school
book by a Professor P. Manfredi mentioned on
each; the two framed separately, shadow box
style, some tears to the poster depicting corn,
39 x 27 in. each. (2)
$500-700
356
Bradley, William H. (1868-1962) Poster, The
Inland Printer.
Lithograph in black and red from the March
1896 issue, matted and framed, the sheet
toned, red faded; the image features a large
stylized geometric motif in white on black in
the left panel, and a woman losing her hat
in the wind on the right, 11 x 8 1/4 in. visible
through the mat opening, not examined out
of frame.
$200-300
357
Brambila, Fernando (1763-1834) Two
Framed Views of Lima, Peru and Santiago,
Chile.
Vista de la Ciudad de Lima desde las
inmediaciones de la Plaza de los Toros; and
Vista de lo Mas Elevado de la Cordillera de
Los Andes en el Camino de Santiago de Chile
a Mendoza, [Madrid, c. 1798]; the view of
Lima is printed in black only, the Chilean view
has color tinting, both framed, 24 3/4 x 19
1/2 in. (2)
These illustrations were created based on
Italian painter Brambila’s experiences while on
the Malaspina Expedition (1789-1794).
$300-500
opposite: 355, above: 359
358
Dali, Salvador (1904-1989) Signed Poster,
The Broken Bridge and the Dream. New
York: Shorewood Reproductions, [1970s].
Full-color poster signed by Dali with a black
magic marker, formerly rolled, some edge
tears and folds, and other wear, 25 1/2 x 21
1/2 in.
$300-400
359
Falls, Charles Buckles (1874-1960) Books
Wanted for Our Men.
Color lithographic poster, for the Victory
Book Campaign, World War I, c. 1918; some
surface abrasions, in-manufacture inking flaws
in the black background, matted and framed,
not examined out of frame, 38 1/2 x 25 3/4 in.
visible through mat opening.
$400-600
145
360
360
Gould, John (1804-1881) Notornis Mantelli
[Takahe]. [from] Birds of Australia, London: by
the Author, 1840-1869.
Hand-colored lithographic plate of the large
flightless rail of New Zealand more commonly
known as the takahe, feared extinct in the
19th century but discovered in small numbers
in 1948; the sheet with a central vertical fold,
loss of colored surface following the fold, the
sheet toned, a few small spots, matted and
framed, 26 3/4 x 19 3/4 in. visible.
$2,000-3,000
361
Gould, John (1804-1881) Six Framed
Ornithological Prints.
Hand-colored lithographic prints on paper,
including the following birds: Turdus
Atrogularis, or Black-throated Thrush;
Piezorhynchus Browni, or Brown’s Flycatcher;
Saxicolar Oenanthe, or Northern Wheatear;
Sitta Formosa, or Beautiful Nuthatch;
Pericrocotus Speciosus, or Scarlet Minivet;
and Melampitta Lugubris, or Lesser
Melampitta; all framed, generally good, each
20 3/4 x 13 1/2 in. (6)
$400-600
146
362
Gould, John (1804-1881) Three Framed
Prints.
Hand-colored lithographs on paper, including
Palaeornis Affinis, the Allied Parakeet,
slightly faded and evenly toned; Ceriornis
Melanocephala, the Black-headed Tragopan,
good color; and Diardigallus Praelatus, the
Siamese Fireback, sheet evenly toned, color
slightly faded; each separately matted and
framed. (3)
$300-500
363
Gould, John (1804-1881) Two Hummingbird
Prints. [from] Monograph of the Trochilidae,
London, 1849-1861.
Two hand-finished color lithographic plates,
each separately matted in its own doubleglazed frame, exhibiting the text page
concerning the bird in question on the verso,
depicting two Latin American species of
hummingbirds, Tryphaena Dupontii, or the
Sparkling-tailed Woodstar, and Spathura
Melananthera or the Booted Racket-tail; the
prints nicely colored, 19 1/4 x 12 1/4 in. sight.
$300-400
364
Hand-colored Prints, English, 18th Century,
Bound Volume.
Landscape-format large folio album containing
twenty-six engravings, all hand-colored,
including Boydell’s A View of the Parade in St.
James’s Park, A View of the Bridge over the
Thames at Hampton Court, and A General
View of the City of London; Moon Light, after
Monamy; and many images of ships, including
The Royal Sovereign, by Sartor after Baston;
A Sea Engagement between the English and
Algerines; many views of the Thames, British
ports, and some views of tourist sites on
the continent; all illustrations hand-colored,
trimmed and mounted in a 20th century
album, most with publication and artist
information trimmed away, some with losses
to the image itself, most often repaired, some
plates folded, with surface loss, spotting and
other defects; bound in full morocco, front
board detached, 22 1/2 x 15 in.
$800-1,200
364
147
366
365
Henriet, Israel (1590-1667) Jacques Callot
(1592-1635) and Others, Six Continental
Prints in Five Frames.
Plate number five from Les Miseres et les
Malheurs de la Guerre, Paris: Henriet, 1633;
two versions of the same etching from La
Parabole de l’Enfant Prodigue, (number eight,
“Il rentre à la maison paternelle”) one with the
text: “Afligé de le voir de misère transy. Ce
bon viellard l’embrasse et le prend à mercy,”
the other reversed, without the text, framed
together; an etching of the Papal Basilica
of St. Paul Outside the Walls, signed, Israel
excudit, with the number nine in the lower
right corner; an etching from Canto Five of
Tasso’s La Gerusalemme Liberata, by Antonio
Tempesta (1555-1630); and one other, also
small format, continental, 17th century, with a
lake, cowherd, and a distant field, castle, and
mountain, unsigned; varying sizes, all framed.
(5)
$300-500
148
366
Lear, Edward (1812-1888) Egyptian Goose.
[from] John Gould’s Birds of Europe, London:
1832-37.
Hand-colored lithograph on paper, the
sheet somewhat rumpled, mat burn, some
smudges, toning, matted and framed, 20 1/4
x 13 3/4 in. visible through the mat opening.
$300-500
367
Lopez Enguidanos, Tomas (1773-1814)
La Artilleria Volante baxa a la prolonga
acompanando a las Tropas ligeras por un
Pais montuoso, [Madrid, c. 1813].
Large etching of the Spanish “flying” horse
artillery, after the drawing by Antonio Guerrero,
with mention of Vicente Maria de Maturana
(1754-1809) commander of the corps below
the dedication; large sheet, plate mark visible,
verso toned, some creasing, mainly to blank
margins, 30 x 21 1/2 in.
One of a series of images recording military
movements of the Dos de Mayo campaign in
Spain in 1808 which started the Peninsular
War, and ultimately ousted the Napoleonic
occupation of Spain.
$300-500
368
Lydekker, Richard (1849-1915) The Deer of
All Lands. London: Rowland Ward, 1898.
Limited edition, signed by the author,
illustrated with twenty-four color lithographs
of deer, in publisher’s green cloth, damaged;
the back board badly water stained and
mildewed, spine damaged with loss; damage
to contents begins at page 306, just after
the last plate, and extends to the end; the
appendix leaves mostly fused together due to
mildew damage, plates generally unaffected,
slight occasional foxing, colors in the
illustrations are bright, 11 1/2 x 9 3/4 in.
$300-500
369
McKenney, Thomas Loraine (1785-1859)
and James Hall (1793-1868) Chon-Ca-Pe.
[from] The History of the Indian Tribes of North
America. [19th century].
Hand-colored lithograph, by Lehman and
Duval, after King, folio format, matted and
framed, no tears, very good color, some
light offsetting from text, not examined out
of frame, 15 1/2 x 12 in. visible through mat
opening.
Chon-Ca-Pe was a second chief of the
Ottoe nation, who also called himself the Big
Kansas.
$500-700
370
and James Hall (1793-1868) Ki-On-TwocKy, or Cornplant. [from] The History of the
Indian Tribes of North America. Philadelphia:
E.C. Biddle, 1836.
Hand-colored lithograph, by Lehman and
Duval, after King, folio format, matted and
framed, no tears, good color, signs of
handling, including some surface crinkling,
the blank background somewhat toned, not
examined out of frame, 14 x 19 in. visible
through mat opening.
The proper translation of Ki-On-Twoc-Ky’s
name is Cornplanter. He was born to a
Seneca mother and a European fur trader and
was the leader of the Seneca nation of New
York State.
$500-700
370
371
and James Hall (1793-1868) Naw-Kaw, a
Winnebago Chief. [from] The History of the
Indian Tribes of North America. [19th century].
Hand-colored lithograph, folio format, matted
and framed, no tears, good color, slight
mat burn above Naw-Kaw’s headdress, not
examined out of frame, 16 1/2 x 12 3/4 in.
visible through the mat.
This lithograph, by Lehman and Duval after
Charles Bird King’s copy of James Otto
Lewis’s portrait, was made at Butte des Morts
in 1827.
$500-700
372
and James Hall (1793-1868) Pes-KeLe-Cha-Co, a Pawnee Chief. [from] The
History of the Indian Tribes of North America.
Philadelphia: J.T. Bowen, 1841.
Hand-colored lithograph, folio format, matted
and framed, no tears, attractive coloring,
some signs of handling, not examined out
of frame, 15 x 12 in. visible through the mat
opening.
$500-700
373
Muybridge, Eadweard James (1830-1904)
Three Mammoth Albumen Photographs of
Yosemite. San Francisco: Bradley & Rulofson,
[1868].
Yowiye Falls, Mirror Lake, [and] Valley of the
Yosemite from Sandy Flat, each mounted on
publisher’s board, with printed title, credit,
etc.; the photographs faded, with some water
and other damage, the mounts themselves
chipped, stained, torn, should be seen, the
shot of Yowiye Falls sustaining the least
damage, the photos 21 1/2 x 17 in. (3)
$1,500-2,000
373
149
374
New Yorker Cartoon, George Price (19011995) Original Artwork. Will you be right
home after the peccadillo?
Pen and ink drawing with light blue washes on
paper, pencil erasures and touch up in white,
signed, camera-ready art, matted, 15 3/4 x
22 in.
$300-400
375
Ornithological Illustrations, Hayes, Gould,
et al.
Three etchings hand-colored and signed
by William Hayes (1735-1802), the silver
pheasant from Portraits of Rare and Curious
Birds, dated Osterley Park, 1785, 17 3/4 x 12
3/4 in., contemporary mounting on a larger
sheet of laid paper, with a hand-drawn ink and
water color frame; the indigo bunting (called
American Bluefinch) and male cardinal (called
Virginian Growbeak), both on full sheets,
hand-colored, signed, and dated by Hayes,
1778, 20 3/4 x 14 1/4 in. each.
Two Gould birds, the sparrow hawk,
and Edward Lear’s osprey, both handfinished color lithographic prints, with the
accompanying page of text, folio, vertical
format, 20 1/4 x 14 1/4 in. each.
[and] a folding quarto-format copper-plate
engraving of a Chinese Pheasant removed
from a volume of transactions of the Royal
Society, c. 1765, with two leaves of text, the
illustration 16 1/2 x 8 3/4 in.; all plates and
pages disbound and unframed. (6)
$300-500
376
376
Penfield, Edward (1866-1925) Two Harper’s
Magazine Posters. June 1896 [and] March
1899.
Two color lithographic posters, the June
1896 image features a woman seated in a
rocking chair reading; the March 1899 shows
a ploughing farmer and draft horse, with a
rooster in the fore-ground; very slight signs
of old folds in the June image, each framed;
18 1/4 x 13 1/4 in. sight; 14 1/2 x 10 1/4 in.
sight. (2)
$400-600
377
Poiteau, Pierre Antoine (1766-1854) Eight
Plates of Tree Fruits. [from] Pomologie
Française. Paris: Langlois et Leclerc, 18381846.
Eight full-page steel stipple engravings,
colored and finished by hand, on wove paper,
depicting the following peaches, plums, and
pears: Avant-peche blanche; Avant-peche
rouge; Peche-cerise; Peche Desprez; Gros
Damas blanc; Prune sans noyau; Poire
Chaptal; and Poire d’ange; edges chipped,
good color, some spotting, various sizes,
signs of handling, generally 21 x 14 1/2 in. (8)
$500-700
150
379
378
Portraits, 17th Century, Continental and
English, Seven.
Engraved portraits of Hieronymus Bosch
(1450-1516); James I of England (15661625); Pietro Aretino (1492-1556); Gervase
Babington, Bishop of Worcester (1550-1610);
Henry Prince of Wales, with pike (1594-1612);
Thomas Cromwell (1485?-1540); and Amerigo
Vespucci (1454-1512); each matted and
framed, condition varies, all small format. (7)
$1,500-2,500
379
Prideaux John Selby (1788-1867) Snowy
Owl, Plate XXIII. [from] Illustrations of British
Ornithology. Edinburgh: Lizars, c. 1821.
Hand-colored engraving, printed on
watermarked Ruse and Turner paper, dated
1818, the sheet reinforced along the outer
margins, mat burn corresponding to the plate
mark, subtle/faded color, the sheet dusty,
lightly toned, matted and framed, 26 3/4 x 21
1/2 in.
$300-500
380
Rowlandson, Thomas (17556-1827) Four
Caricatures. London: Thomas Tegg, [n.d., c.
1817.]
Four hand-colored caricature prints including,
“Off She Goes,” “The Secret of Crim Con,
fig. 2,” “Catching an Elephant,” and “The
Last Gasp, or Toadstools Mistaken for
Mushrooms”; two with watermarks dated
1817, bright, with old color (areas of differing
oxidation visible on the verso of each); one
with mat burn just around the plate mark,
tipped onto card, the rest loose, with short
tears, thumbing, and other signs of wear, 16
3/4 x 10 1/4 each. (4)
$200-400
151
383
381
Satirical Cartoons, Dutch, Concerning
Economic Bubbles, c. 1720, Eight Framed.
All folio format, with engraved illustrations,
later hand-coloring, and either typographical
or engraved text in Dutch, satirizing the
Mississippi Bubble and John Law (16711729); all matted and framed, various sizes,
with an 18th century ten sous note. (8)
$1,500-2,000
152
382
Three Framed Engravings.
One mezzotint by Richard Earlom (1743–
1822) after Claude le Lorrain (1600-1682)
dated 1776, number 172 from Lorrain’s Liber
Veritatis, printed in sepia ink, matted; Johann
Wilhelm Baur’s (1600-1640) image of Actaeon
pursued by hounds in the form of a deer, from
book three of Ovid’s Metamorphoses, c. 1641;
and an engraved portrait of Philip IV of Spain
(1605-1665) by Jacob Louys (1595-1644)
after Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), some
toning, edge damage, marginal amateurish
repair; all three prints framed, varying sizes. (3)
$300-500
383
Whistler, James Abbot McNeill (1834-1903)
La Mere Gerard. [Paris]: Delatre, Rue S.
Jacques, [1858].
Etching on paper, signed in the plate, Kennedy
11. IV, with the publisher’s name in the plate;
from the series, Twelve Etchings from Nature,
French edition; matted and framed, 5 3/4 x 4
1/4 in. sight.
$500-700
Maps
Lots 384–416
154
384
384
Asia. Jodocus Hondius (1563-1612)
India Orientalis. [from] Mercator’s Atlas.
Amsterdam: Hondius, 1606.
Double-page folio-format copper-plate
engraving on laid paper, contemporary handcoloring, central fold, typographical text on the
verso, the coloring visible on the verso, the
greens oxidized to a verdigris on the surface,
old break along the vertical central fold, with
some loss of surface, tape reinforcement on
the verso at top, paper repair on the verso in
the region of central India, unframed, 18 1/4 x
22 1/4 in.
$700-900
385
Brazil. Matthäus Seutter (1678-1757)
Recens Elaborata Mappa Geographica
Regni Brasiliae. Augsburg: Seutter, [c. 1730].
Double-page folio copper-plate engraved
map printed on paper, with the counties along
the coast colored by hand in reds and green,
the greens having bled through, visible on
the verso, central fold, some marginal water
stains, mainly confined to the blank margin
outside of the leftmost border, one stain visible
in bottom left corner, slight foxing, unframed,
25 x 20 3/4 in.
This map of Brazil, after the Blaeu Atlas
original, depicts the east coast of Brazil
from the mouth of the Amazon river south to
Paraguay; it includes a decorative cartouche
which depicts native Brazilians smoking pipes,
surrounded by regional natural resources,
including sugar loaves, corn, brazilwood, and
tobacco.
$400-600
386
Diderot, Denis (1713-1784) Complete Set
of Ten Maps from the Encyclopedie. Paris:
c. 1780.
Ten folding copper-plate engraved maps,
all uncolored, on large clean sheets with
deckle edges, disbound; including: Carte
des Parties Nord et Ouest de l’Amerique;
Cartes des Parties Nord et Est de l’Asie;
Nouvelle Representation des Cotes Nord et
Est de l’Asie; Carte de la Californie et des
Pays Nord-ouest; Carte de la Californie; Carte
des Nouvelles Decouvertes; Carte Generale
des Decouvertes de l’Amiral de Fonte;
Carte Generale des Decouvertes de l’Amiral
de Fonte Passage au Nord-ouest; Carte
[des] Terres Arctiques; Partie de la Carte du
Capitaine Cluny. (10)
$400-600
155
156
388
387
Early Maps, Six in Frames.
Small-format copper engraved maps, all
but one hand-colored, depicting: part of the
province of Connacht, Ireland; Befordshire,
England; Rome (uncolored); Asia Minor; and
two maps of North Africa; c. 1650-1750,
various sizes, all small, matted, and framed. (6)
$200-300
388
England and Wales. Christopher Saxton
(c.1540-c.1610) Anglia. London: [c. 1583]
Double-page folio format map, on two
joined sheets of laid paper, bunch of grapes
watermark on the left sheet, copper-plate
engraving with old hand-coloring (oxidation
and masked areas corresponding to the color
visible on verso), with Queen Elizabeth’s arms
in the upper right corner, and the arms of
Saxton’s patron, Thomas Seckford (15151587) just northeast of Canterbury, with
numeric values of longitude and latitude added
inside the border, the sheet toned, dusty,
comfortable margins, 21 3/4 x 16 3/4 in.
$4,000-6,000
389
England. Robert Morden (d. 1703) Three
County Maps: Somersetshire, Cornwall,
and Dorsetshire. [from] Camden’s Britannia,
London: Abel Swale Awnsham and John
Churchill, 1695.
Each map a copper-plate engraving printed
on a double sheet of laid folio paper, handcolored, matted, and framed, two sheets with
a vertical join, 16 1/2 x 14 1/4 in. sight. (3)
$400-600
390
Europe and Germany, Two Maps.
Postarum seu Veredariorum Stationes per
Germaniam et Provincias Adiacentes, Johann
Peter Nell (1672-1743), Brussels, 1711, large
double-page engraved map on paper, outline
color, and cartouche in top left corner, tear
and stain on left edge, affecting a small portion
of the map; this is a map of post roads in the
Low Countries, Germany, Poland, Switzerland,
Austria, and south, including Venice, Paris,
Lübeck, Krakow; centered on Bamberg, 24
1/2 x 21 1/2 in.
[and] Carte D’Allemagne pour Servir a
l’Intelligence de l’Histoire de la Guerre, Paris:
Beaurain, 1785, large folding folio engraved
map on paper, printed on two sheets, outline
and cartouche color, toning, faint water stains,
old folds, some paper tabs pasted along the
top margin, 39 1/2 x 30 in. (2)
$300-400
157
399
158
391
Gualdo Priorato, Conte Galeazzo (16061678) Historia Ferinando Terzo Imperatore.
Vienna: Cosmerovio, 1672.
Folio, engraved title; typographical title page
printed in red and black (with engraved
vignette); a different vignette at the head of
each chapter, one full-page portrait; with
nineteen folding maps and plates of views and
battles, with no other portraits; lacking at least
one text leaf (page 241/242); this is volume
one, the second volume was never published;
a large, clean copy in vellum (boards replaced,
due to worm damage, re-covered with the
original parchment) many straight-through
worm holes in first and last few leaves only,
the maps and plates in good condition, 15 x
10 1/2 in.
$500-700
392
Map Lot, North and South America, Africa,
Four Maps.
North and Central America. Heinrich Scherer
(1628-1704) America Borealis, Munich, c.
1700-1720, double-page quarto map on
paper, copper-plate engraving, uncolored,
showing California as an island, from Scherer’s
Jesuit-themed Atlas Nova, toned along the
central fold, slight marginal water stain, 15 1/4
x 10 1/2 in.
Baja California and Mexico. Heinrich Scherer
(1628-1704) Delineatio Nova et Vera Partis
Australis Novi Mexici, cum Australi Parte
Insulae California Saeculo Priori ab Hispanis
Detectae, Munich, c. 1700-1720, double-page
quarto map on paper, copper-plate engraving,
uncolored, showing the southern tip of Baja
California as an island, and the adjacent coast;
from Scherer’s Jesuit-themed Atlas Nova,
toned along the central fold, slight marginal
water stain, 15 1/4 x 10 1/2 in.
Caribbean and Coastal Venezuela.
Heinrich Scherer (1628-1704) Archipelagus
Americanus, Munich, c. 1700-1720, doublepage quarto map on paper, copper engraving,
uncolored, showing the Florida Keys, Cuba,
Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, the Caribbean
islands, Panama, and the northern Venezuelan
coast, toned along the central fold, 15 1/4 x
10 1/2 in.
[and] Africa, West Coast. Johannes van
Keulen (1654-1715) Pas Caarte vande GryenCust, Amsterdam: van Keulen, [c. 1715],
double-page folio map, engraved, printed
on paper, with hand-coloring, sea chart of
the west coast of Africa from Sierra Leone to
Cape Three Points, Ghana, including Liberia
and the Ivory Coast; legend cartouche depicts
ethnically diverse characters in lower left, a
large elephant ridden by ivory hunters in the
central title cartouche, two sailing ships in the
sea, the sheet slightly toned, with offsetting
and some spotting, 25 1/4 x 21 in. (4)
$600-800
393
Map Lot.
Five engraved maps on paper, including the
Isles of Skye and Lewis-Harris, by Jansson,
Tabula Leogi et Haraiae, Amsterdam: Valk &
Schenk, [c. 1690], with hand-coloring and
shading; Expeditiones Hannibalis, including
the Iberian peninsula, Italy, and Parts of France
and Africa, by Pierre Duval, [Paris], 1666, with
hand-colored outlining; a large folding map of
ancient Egypt removed from an octavo-format
English book; a map of the Russian Empire
taken from Chambers’s edition of Guthries’s
New System of Geography, with some handcoloring, browned; and J. Calvin Smith’s Map
of the State of New York, Albany: Disturnell,
1847, steel-engraved, hand-colored, with two
insets: the St. Lawrence River, and New York
City (including lower Manhattan, Brooklyn, and
Williamsburg), matted and framed, old folds,
minor tears, some darkening along folds,
loose in frame, various sizes. (5)
$200-300
397
New England, Three Maps.
Daniel Neal’s (1678-1743) A New Map of New
England According to the Latest Observations,
dated 1720 in the cartouche, [from] The
History of New England, soft wear with loss
along one fold, with repair to verso; adhesive
tape in bottom blank margin, old folds, toning,
small tear to right margin, and slight loss of
outermost printed border, 14 x 10 1/2 in.
Boston with its Environs, Philadelphia: by J.
Vallance for C.P. Wayne, 1806, [from] The Life
of Washington, folded folio-sized engraving,
slight breakage along the fold, reinforced on
the verso with adhesive tape, 17 1/2 x 10 3/4
in.
[and] Map of the Northern, or New England
States of America, by John Russell, London:
Symonds, 1795, old folds, repairs to verso,
marginal crumpling outside of the plate mark,
offsetting to the Atlantic Ocean, 19 1/4 x 15
1/2 in. (3)
$300-500
394
Massachusetts, Boston, New England:
Eight Maps, 19th Century.
Each matted or tipped on to mat board, some
printed in color, some in black only, others
hand-colored, small format, none larger than
12 x 16 in. (8)
$200-300
398
New England, Virginia, Washington, D.C.,
Seven Atlas Maps.
Three hand-colored maps of Massachusetts,
one uncolored map of Virginia and Maryland,
one colored map of Georgetown, and two
colored maps of New Hampshire, one of
which includes Vermont, all 19th century. (7)
$200-300
395
Nantucket and Mount Desert Island, Two
Facsimile Maps. Joseph Frederick Wallet
Des Barres (1721-1824) [from] The Atlantic
Neptune, Barre, Massachusetts: Barre
Publishing Company, 1966-69.
Two large hand-colored engraved maps,
each printed on two joined sheets, matted
and framed, the glass in the Nantucket map
missing, the paper in good condition, each
with the blind stamp of the Massachusetts
Historical Society along the border. (2)
$400-600
396
New England, North America, Boston.
Group of maps including the Northern
Provinces of the United States, from
Thomson’s New General Atlas, 1817, handcolored; A Map of Rhode Island: with the
adjacent parts of Connecticut, Massachusetts
Bay, &c., from London Magazine, 1778, handcolored; and other 18th and 19th century
maps of New England states and towns,
removed from atlases, most colored; and
some old world maps.
$200-300
399
New England. Braddock Mead (c. 16881757) and Thomas Jefferys (1695-1771)
A Map of the most Inhabited part of New
England. [c. 1775 and ?]
Large four-panel map, copper-plate engraving
with some hand outlining; top and bottom
are two separate sections, from two different
editions, an amalgam from two different
maps; the top portion visibly a different,
darker tone in comparison to the bottom half,
one rectangular section in the top right half,
consisting mostly of Jeffrey’s Ledge, coastal
Maine, and the ocean, rather toned; top
section is 39 1/2 x 20 1/2 in.; bottom section
is 40 3/4 x 21 1/4 in.
The bottom half of this map is the fifth variant,
with the imprint dated 29 November 1774;
published most likely in the American Atlas,
1775; edition for the top half is uncertain. It
contains the Plan of the Town of Boston, in
the top left corner, without scale, and the note
about the Connecticut river just below, the
plate itself is definitely inconsistent with the
lower half, which was printed in Paris c. 1775.
$400-600
159
401
400
New England. Braddock Mead (c. 16881757) and Thomas Jefferys (1695-1771)
A Map of the most Inhabited part of New
England. [from] Atlas Americain Septentrional.
Paris: George Louis le Rouge, 1777.
Large copper-plate engraved map printed
on four joined sheets, hand-colored, with the
inset map of Boston in the upper left, and
the cartouche of Plymouth Rock in the lower
right; and the plan of Boston Harbor at bottom
center, the cartouche reversed, a close copy
of the fourth London variant of the map from
1768; old folds and signs of handling, a few
unobtrusive patches on the verso, 39 1/2 x
41 in.
$800-1,200
160
401
New England. Johannes Baptista Homann
(1664-1724) Nova Anglia Septentrionali.
Nuremberg, 1716.
Double-page folio map, copper-plate
engraving on two joined sheets, older color,
somewhat oxidized, slightly faded to a mossy
green and pale pink, fading more pronounced
at the vertical join of the two sheets, attractive
cartouche, depicting a red-coated Briton
bartering with an American Indian in the
bottom right corner, with good color, less
faded, matted and framed, 23 1/2 x 19 3/4
in. sight.
$700-900
402
New England. Robert Morden (d. 1703),
Two Maps and Associated Text Leaves.
A New Map of New England and New York
[page 605/606] and New England and New
York [page 373/374], removed from 17th
century quarto-format editions of Morden’s
atlas, with seven contiguous text leaves from
the same book, pages 599 to 614, [page
605/606 is one of the maps listed above],
including the descriptions of West and East
New Jersey, and New York, slight worming
to the New Map, and minor loss to the
outermost border when the page was torn
from the book, general age toning, 7 3/4 x 6
1/4 in. each. (2 maps and 7 leaves)
$300-500
406
403
Newfoundland, Canadian East Coast, New
England. Nicolas Sanson (1600-1667) Le
Canada, ou Nouvelle France. Paris: Sanson,
1683.
Small folio map, engraved by Antoine de
Winter, hand-colored, matted and framed, 12
x 8 1/2 in. sight.
$700-900
404
Newfoundland, Marine Chart, Grand
Banks. Gerard van Keulen (1678-1726)
Nouvelle Carte Marine du Grand Banq,
Amsterdam: van Keulen, [c. 1728].
Large double-page folio chart, uncolored,
engraved, showing depths for the fishing area
off the southeastern coast of Newfoundland,
including the southernmost part of the
coastline of the Avalon peninsula, stain in the
outer margins, old fold, sheet toned, 26 x 21
1/2 in.
$300-500
405
Newfoundland. Gerard van Keulen (16781726) New Found Land of Nieuw Vrankryk,
of anders Genaamt Terra Neuf. Amsterdam:
van Keulen, [c. 1728].
Large double-page folio map with eight
insets that depict different portions of the
Newfoundland coast, lower edges outside
the borders tattered, stain in outer vertical
margins, old fold, sheet toned, 26 x 21 1/2 in.
$200-400
406
North America, East Coast, Southern
Maine to Virginia. Jacques Nicolas Bellin
Carte de la Nouvelle Angleterre, New York
Pensilvanie, et Nouveau Jersay. [from]
Bellin’s Le Petit Atlas Maritime, Paris, 1764.
Folding engraved map on paper, old folds,
capitals picked out in red, with colonial
borders, major rivers, and many towns, handcolored, the sheet evenly toned, matted and
framed, 14 3/4 x 13 in. sight.
$300-500
161
407
407
North America. Jeremiah Wolff (d. 1724)
and Guillaume Delisle (1675-1726)
America Septentrionalis Concinnata juxta
Observationes Dnn. Academiae Regalis
Scientiarum. Augsburg: Wolff, [n.d., c. 1710].
Double-page folio engraved map on paper, no
mention of Lotter in the imprint, hand outline
color, good margins, edge crumpling and
signs of handling, 26 3/4 x 21 in.
$600-800
162
above: 408; opposite: 409
408
North America: Gulf Coast, Florida, and
the Caribbean. Johannes Jansson (15881664) Insulae Americanae in Oceano
Septentrionali cum Terris Adiacentibus.
Amsterdam: Jansson, [c. 1636].
Double-page folio engraved map on paper,
typographical text on the verso, hand-colored,
the state without the names for Florida and
Virginia, a clean copy, with neat coloring with
strong hues, matted and framed, 22 x 16 in.
visible through the mat opening.
$1,000-1,500
164
409
North American Coast, Nova Scotia to
Virginia. Johannes Janssonius Nova Anglia,
Novum Belgium et Virginia. Amsterdam:
Jansson, [c. 1636].
Double folio leaf, with typographical text on
the verso in Dutch, hand-colored copperplate engraved map, depicting the eastern
seaboard, and some inland features, including
one of the Great Lakes, several important
rivers, and the thin scrim that represents
the explored portion of the North American
continent, matted, in a double-glazed frame,
20 1/4 x 16 in. sight.
$400-600
410
410
North and South America. Jodocus
Hondius (1563-1612) Septentrio America.
[from] Meractor’s Atlas. Amsterdam: Hondius,
[c. 1630].
Double-page hand-colored copper-plate
engraved map printed on paper, old coloring,
the sheet evenly toned to a tan shade, some
loss of surface at the center fold near the
bottom margin, matted and framed, 20 1/2 x
15 3/4 in. visible.
A panel in the lower left of the map depicts
Brazilian women making chica de yuca by
chewing and spitting manioc root into a large
bowl, and cooking the mash in a pot over
a fire, finally, in the leftmost portion of the
panel, men are shown consuming the finished
product.
$1,000-1,500
166
411
North and South America. John Cary (c.
1754-1835) A New Map of America. [from]
Cary’s New Universal Atlas. London: Cary,
1806.
Double-page folio engraved map, with a
central vertical join, hand-colored, matted and
framed, 21 x 23 1/2 in. sight.
$800-1,200
412
North and South America. Leonhard Von
Euler (1707-1783) Tab. Geogr. Americae
ad Emendatiora quae adhuc Prodierunt
exampla jussu. [printed for the Royal Prussian
Academy, c. 1750].
Small double-page folio copper-plate
engraved map on paper; northwesternmost
corner of North America still unmapped,
including some of western Europe and Africa,
“39 America” in lower right margin, hand
outline color and shading, ink blotch in bottom
right corner, affecting only blank ocean, some
marginal toning, one marginal water stain,
short tears to bottom, just touching bottom
border, repaired from verso, 18 x 14 1/2 in.
$500-700
413
North and South America. Sebastian
Munster (1488-1552) Americae sive Novi
Orbis, Novi Descriptio. Basel: [c. 1590].
Small double-page folio map on paper,
hand-colored copper-plate engraving, with
typographical text in German above the
top border and in the two lozenge-shaped
compartments, matted and framed, with
North America colored pink, Mexico a dark
green, South America in yellow, and the sea a
pale blue, 15 x 13 in. visible.
This updated version of the charming 1540
Munster map of the Americas includes some
new information and revisions which make
the continents much more recognizable to a
modern viewer.
$400-600
413
414
North and South America: Two Maps.
Richard William Seale (1703-1762) A Map
of North America
[and] A Map of South America. London: [c.
1745].
Two separate maps, each double-page folio,
copper-plates on paper, uncolored, toned,
with slight offsetting, 19 x 15 3/4 in.
The map of North America still shows
California as an island; very detailed depiction
of the Caribbean, and the bulk of the continent
west of the Mississippi still labeled as “Parts
Unknown.” The South American map more
complete, especially on the west coast, but
the huge central section, containing all interior
parts of Brazil, the Amazon rain forest, and the
Patagonian desert are still unmapped. (2)
$400-600
415
Nuremberg, View, Georg Balthasar Probst
(1673-1748) Augsburg, mid-18th century.
Hand-colored copper-plate engraving on a
folio-sized sheet, matted and framed, 12 1/2
x 17 in. sight.
$300-500
416
South America. Heinrich Scherer (16281704) Religionis Catholicae Australi
Americae Implantatae. [from] Atlas Novus.
Munich, c. 1700.
Small folio double-page engraved map, two
sheets joined at the center, slight toning along
the join, 15 x 10 1/2 in., the sheet.
Almost as much space is devoted to the map
of the continent of South America as to a
striking image of natives prostrate before a
crucifixion.
$400-600
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Marlborough
Boston
Phone
63 Park Plaza
Boston, MA
02116
617.350.5400
Fax 617.350.5429
Fax
Mail
Person
274 Cedar Hill Street
Marlborough, MA
01752
508.970.3000
Fax 508.970.3100
Employee:
www.skinnerinc.com
Board of Directors
Chairman of the Board - Stephen L. Fletcher
Richard Albright
John Deighton
Barnet Fain
Karen M. Keane
Andrew Payne
Chairman Emerita - Nancy R. Skinner
Administration
President/Chief Executive Officer - Karen M. Keane
Chief Financial Officer - Don Kelly
Executive Vice President - Stephen L. Fletcher
Vice Presidents - Eric Jones, Marie Keep, Gloria Lieberman, Carol McCaffrey,
Kerry Shrives, Stuart G. Slavid, Robin S.R. Starr
Expert
Departments
20th Century Design - Jane D. Prentiss
American & European Paintings & Prints - Robin S.R. Starr
Assistants: Kathy Wong, Elizabeth C. Haff, Michelle Lamunière
American Furniture & Decorative Arts - Stephen L. Fletcher
Deputy Director: Chris Barber; Assistant: Karen Langberg
American Indian & Ethnographic Art - Douglas Deihl
Antique Motor Vehicles - Jane D. Prentiss
Asian Works of Art - Judith Dowling
Assistants: Helen Eagles, Suhyung Kim
Books & Manuscripts - Devon Gray
Bottles, Flasks & Early Glass - Stephen L. Fletcher
Ceramics - Stuart G. Slavid
Clocks, Watches & Scientific Instruments - Robert C. Cheney
Assistant: Jonathan Dowling
Couture - Anne Fallon
Discovery Auctions - Anne Fallon
Assistants: Melissa Riebe, Kyle Johnson
European Furniture & Decorative Arts - Stuart G. Slavid
Assistants: Leah Kingman, Stephanie Opolski
Fine Wines - Marie Keep
Assistant: Michael J. Moser
Historic Arms & Militaria - Joel Bohy
63 Park Plaza
Boston, MA 02116
617.350.5400
Fax 617.350.5429
274 Cedar Hill Street
Marlborough, MA 01752
508.970.3000
Fax 508.970.3100
2332 Galiano Street
Coral Gables, FL 33134
305.503.4423
www.skinnerinc.com
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Jewelry - Victoria Bratberg
Assistants: John Colasacco, Katie Simonetti
Judaica - Kerry Shrives
Musical Instruments - Director Pro Tem: Jill Arbetter
Assistant: Horst Kloss
Oriental Rugs & Carpets - Lawrence Kearney
Assistant: Erika Jorjorian
Silver - Stuart G. Slavid
Toys & Dolls - Anne Fallon
Auctioneers - LaGina Austin, Chris Barber, Robert C. Cheney,
John Colasacco, Stephen L. Fletcher, Karen M. Keane, Marie C. Keep,
Gloria Lieberman, Jessica R. Lincoln, Kerry Shrives, Stuart G. Slavid,
Robin S.R. Starr, Laura V. Sweeney
Exhibitions
& Property
Distribution
Finance
Department
Subscriptions
Service
Departments
Marlborough:
Warehouse Manager - Fred Trottier, 508.970.3261
Auction Coordinator - Melanie Trottier-Mitcheson, 508.970.3103
Boston:
Auction Coordinators - Jessica R. Lincoln, 617.874.4308,
Benjamin Evans, 617.874.4329
Marlborough:
Accounts Receivable - Denise Johnson, 508.970.3269
Accounts Payable, Consignment - Kathleen Hayes, 508.970.3268
Accounts Payable, Trade - Kevin Rota, 508.970.3283
Credit Supervisor - William Madden, 508.970.3266
Marlborough:
Jessica Turner, 508.970.3240
Advertising/Production Manager - Pamela Van de Houten
Appraisal & Auction Services - LaGina Austin, Christine E. Finn, Rachel Kingsley,
Ava Pandiani
Boston Gallery Director - Laura V. Sweeney
Assistant Gallery Director: Paige Lewellyn
Gallery Assistant: Ryan O’Hara
Consignment Services - Patricia Walker King, Carol Zeigler, Kealyn Garner
Customer Relations - Carol McCaffrey
Institutional Relations - L. Emerson Tuttle
Human Resources - Carol McCaffrey
Image Editor - John Cornelius
Information Technology & Internet Auctions - Kerry Shrives
Assistants: Timothy Shaughnessey, Melissa Riebe
Lead Designer - Kristina Harrison
Managing Director - Marie C. Keep
Marketing & Public Relations - Kate de Bethune, Kathryn Gargolinski,
Jessica Turner
Photographers - Stanley P. Bystrowski, Jeffrey R. Antkowiak
Receptionists - Marlborough: Katie Fitzgerald
Boston: Bridget Spears
Regional Director—Florida - April L. Matteini, G.G.
Staff Portraits - Cheryl Richards Photography
Transportation - Eric Jones
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Directions to Skinner’s Boston Gallery/63 Park Plaza, Boston, MA 02116
617.350.5400
From the West:
Take the Massachusetts Turnpike to the Prudential/Copley exit located in the Prudential tunnel. Once on the exit ramp, stay in the right hand
lane and follow the signs for Copley. The ramp exits onto Stuart Street. Drive straight through five sets of lights and take a left onto Charles
Street South. Take your first left off of Charles St. South onto Park Plaza. Skinner is at 63 Park Plaza, one block up on the right.
From the South:
Take 93-N to Exit 20 for I-90 W toward Worcester. Follow signs for Chinatown/South Station. Bear left at the fork to continue towards Kneeland
Street. Turn left onto Kneeland Street. Kneeland Street becomes Stuart Street. Turn right onto Charles Street South. Turn left onto Park Plaza.
Skinner is at 63 Park Plaza, one block up on the right.
From Logan Airport:
Take the Ted Williams Tunnel. Take Exit 25 toward South Boston and bear left at the fork in the ramp. Bear right onto B St. Turn left onto
Northern Ave which becomes Seaport Blvd. Turn left onto Surface Rd. Turn right onto Kneeland Street which becomes Stuart Street. Turn right
onto Charles Street South. Turn left onto Park Plaza. Skinner is at 63 Park Plaza, one block up on the right.
From the North:
Take I-93 South towards Boston. Take exit 26 towards Storrow Drive. Merge onto MA-28 South via the ramp on the left. Turn left onto
Beacon Street. Turn right onto Arlington Street. Turn left onto Boylston Street. Turn right onto Hadassah Way. Skinner is on the right at 63
Park Plaza.
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Parking
Indoor Parking
Outdoor Parking
City Place Parking Garage
8 Park Plaza (access on Charles Street)
Mon.-Fri.: up to 1 hr.-$8, $4 each additional
hr., to max $20
Evenings (5pm-2:30am): $20 flat rate
Sat & Sun (6am-5pm): $5 per 1/2 hr.
MCCA Boston Common Garage
Zero Charles Street (between the Boston
Common & Public Garden)
Mon.-Fri.: up to 1 hr.-$10, $4 each
additional hr., up to 10m hrs. $23, to max
$28
Evenings & Weekends: $12 flat rate
The Four Seaons Hotel
Parking Garage
200 Boylston Street
$26 up to 2 hrs., $30 up to 3 hrs.,
$35 up to 6 hrs., $49 all day
LAZ Parking Back Bay Garage
500 Boylston Street (222 Berkeley Street)
617.266.7006
Night & Day rates: 1/2 hr.- $8, 1 hr.- $10, 1
1/2 hr.- $18, 2 hrs.- $20, 2 1/2 hrs.- $26,
3-24 hrs.- $37
Weekend Rates: 1/2 hr.- $8, $2 each
additional 1/2 hr., to max $22
Motor Mart Garage
201 Stuart Street
Up to 1 hr.-$8, 1 to 2 hrs.-$12,
2-3 hrs-$16/3-12 hrs.-$20/12-24 hr.-$31
weekends up to 3 hrs/$8
200 Stuart Street Garage
At Revere Hotel Boston Common
200 Stuart Street
3-12 hrs.-$22
12-24 hrs.-$40
(recommended for trucks)
LAZ Parking
130 Arlington Street
617.426.0604
$7 per 1/2 hr.
$20 all day (weekdays only)
$15 nights (starting at 4pm) and weekends
Billy’s Parking
222 Stuart Street
617.632.2881
Mon-Fri 7:30am-5pm-$6 each 1/2 hr., $20
max
$30 vans or trucks
$25 during events in area
Sat., Sun. & evenings $20 flat fee
The Taj Hotel Parking Garage
15 Arlington Street
Up to 24 hrs.-$44
Boston Hotels with Skinner
Corporate Rates
Boston Hotels
Boston Harbor Hotel
70 Rowe’s Wharf
Boston, MA 02110
Tel: 1.800.654.2000
Fax: 617.345.6799
Nine Zero Hotel
90 Tremont St.
Boston, MA 02108
617.772.5800
Fairmont Copley Plaza
138 St. James Avenue
Boston, MA 02116
Tel: 617.267.5300
Fax: 617.375.9648
The Ritz-Carlton
Boston Common
10 Avery Street
Boston, MA 02111
Tel: 617.912.3315
Fax: 617.912.3375
Four Seasons
200 Boylston Street
Boston, MA 02116
617.351.2036
Taj Boston
15 Arlington St.
Boston, MA 02116
617.536.5700
The Liberty Hotel
215 Charles St.
Boston, MA 02114
617.224.4000
Westin-Copley Plaza
10 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02116
Tel: 1.800.228.3000
Fax: 617.424.7483
Beacon Hill Hotel & Bistro
25 Charles Street
Boston, MA 02114
617.723.7575
Loews Boston
Back Bay Hotel
350 Stuart Street
Boston, MA 02116
1.855.495.6397
The Colonnade Hotel
Boston, MA 02116
617.424.7000
800.962.3030
www.colonnadehotel.com
The Park Plaza
64 Arlington Street
Boston, MA 02116
617.426.2000
Eliot Hotel
370 Commonwealth Ave.
Boston, MA 02215
617.267.1607
The Revere Hotel Boston
Common
200 Stuart Street
Boston, MA 02116
Tel: 617.482.1800
Fax: 617.451.2750
Marriott Copley Place
Boston, MA 02116
Tel: 1.800.228.9290
Fax: 617.236.5885
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Restaurants
Fine Dining
Dante
Royal Sonesta Hotel
5 Cambridge Parkway
617.806.4200
Mediterranean restaurant with great views of
the Charles River and Boston skyline.
Davio’s
75 Arlington St.
617.357.4810
Northern Italian steak house.
Grill 23 & Bar
161 Berkley Street (Stuart Street)
617.542.2255
Great steak, seafood, wine list, and service.
L’Espalier
774 Boylston St.
617.262.3023
Fine French dining and wines with a
wonderful pre-fixe menu.
No. 9 Park
9 Park St.
617.742.9991
Barbara Lynch’s bistro showcases inspired
French and Italian influenced food and wine
on Beacon Hill.
Radius
85 High St.
617.426.1234
Features a modern French menu focusing
on seasonal ingredients accompanied by a
thoughtful wine list.
Scampo
The Liberty Hotel
215 Charles St.
617.536.2100
Lydia Shire’s latest restaurant, featuring Italian
fare produced in an open kitchen upstairs at
the Liberty Hotel.
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Troquet
Summer Shack
140 Boylston St.
617.695.9463
French restaurant and wine bar perched at
the edge of the Boston Common and the
theatre district.
50 Dalton St.
617.867.9955
Jasper White serves seaside favorites in a
casual Back Bay setting.
Via Matta
79 Park Plaza
617.422.0008
Elegant Italian fare and beautiful wines in
a vibrant dining room—the best of Italy in
Boston’s Back Bay creates an unforgettable
experience.
Moderate
Aquitaine
569 Tremont Street
617.424.8577
Parisian bistro-style fare.
The Bristol Lounge at Four Seasons
Hotel
200 Boylston St.
617.338.4400
Breakfast, lunch, and dinner served in an
elegant yet comfortable lounge setting with
views of the Boston Public Garden.
East Ocean City
25-29 Beach St.
617.542.2504
Outstanding Chinese food restaurant
highlighting seafood dishes with a full-service
bar.
Lala Rokh on Beacon Hill
97 Mt. Vernon Street
617.720.5511
Authentic regional Persian cuisine, handselected wine list, knowledgeable waitstaff.
McCormick and Schmick’s Seafood
Restaurant
36 Columbus Ave
617.482.3999
Fresh seafood offerings that change daily.
Casual
Au Bon Pain
26 Park Plaza (across the street from Skinner)
or 431 Boylston Street (at Berkeley Street)
617.338.8948
Casual café offers quick service.
Davio’s To Go
10 St. James Galleria Atrium
617.357.4810
Casual Italian take-out lunch spot with daily
special pastas, soups, and salads.
Flash’s
310 Stuart St.
617.574.8888
American comfort food served with classic
cocktails in a casual setting.
Parish Café
361 Boylston St.
617.247.4777
American restaurant with seasonal outdoor
seating features sandwiches created by
renowned local chefs.
Piattini
226 Newbury Street
617.536.2020
Italian wine bar with an eclectic menu;
specializes in Italian-style tapas.
The Upper Crust
20 Charles Street
617.723.9600
Gourmet thin-crust pizza.
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$143
American & European Paintings & Prints (two books)
$135 $158
American & European Fine Prints & Photogrpahy $60 $73
American & European Fine Paintings & Sculpture $110 $133
Fine Jewelry $120 $143
20th Century Design $60 $73
Asian Works of Art $60 $73
Fine Oriental Rugs & Carpets
$18 $25
American Indian & Ethnographic Art
$60 $73
Fine Books & Manuscripts
$30 $36
Fine Ceramics $60 Fine Musical Instruments $60 $73
Science, Technology & Clocks
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Fine Wines $60 $73
All Above Departments $750 $915
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