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List Number 98
"The Preferable Edition" (Dibdin)
1.
AESCHINES and DEMOSTHENES. Aischinou Ho kata
Ktēsiphōntos; kai, Dēmosthenous Ho peri stephenou logos. Interpretationem Latinam, et vocum difficiliorum explicationem
adjecerunt P. Foulkes, J. Freind, Ædis Christi alumni. [Oxford]:
excudebat Johan. Crooke, 1696 [date in Greek]. Octavo. [16],
151, [1], 182, [2], [18, index] pp. With three engraved portraits,
of the two orators and of Cicero, by M. Burg; these are included
in the pagination. Greek text, with the Latin translation printed
at the bottom of each page. Contemporary calf. Gilt spine with
red morocco label. Joints, corners a bit rubbed, a little light
foxing. A very good copy.
$950
First edition of the two antagonistic orations of Æschines
and Demosthenes as edited, with a Latin translation, by the
young Oxford students Peter Foulkes and John Friend, who
were both about twenty when this volume was printed.
"This was for many years a popular edition; and was
reprinted in 1715 if not oftener: but the first is the preferable
edition, and is considered very correct. The explanation of the
more difficult Greek words at the end, was among the principal
causes of its popularity" (Dibdin I, 487).
Rare Aesop Collection, with Fifty New Fables
2.
[AESOP.] Æsop naturaliz'd: in a collection of fables and stories
from Æsop, Locman, Pilpay, and others. London: printed for D.
Midwinter, 1711. Octavo. [8], 160 pp. Contemporary sheep,
neatly rebacked, reddish-brown morocco spine label. Some
abrasion on back cover, but a very good, appealing copy. With
ink annotation on front free endpaper with the dates 1723 and
1726.
$3,500
Third edition, "with the addition of above 50 fables." The
genesis of this book appears to be a volume published in
Cambridge in 1697, with 111 pages and containing one hundred
fables; Foxon cites an entry in the Term Catalogues for a second
edition "corrected," in 1702, but no copy of this is known. This
third edition is, as Foxon states, "a radical revision," so much so
that it is essentially a new book, in which there are now 180
fables, with each consisting of the fable itself, followed by a
moral, all in verse. Many of the fables are familiar from antiquity,
such as "The Tortoise and the Hare," "The Fox and the
Grapes," "The Country Mouse and the City Mouse," or "The
Peacock and Juno." The source of many others is less obvious,
and the verses have often been adapted to reflect daily life in the
early 18th century.
This collection went through further editions in 1727,
1743, 1756, and 1771. All printings are rare. Of this one, ESTC
lists seven copies, three in America.
Foxon, p. 11.
One of Twenty-Five Copies
3.
[ALLIX, Susan]. Bengal Story: Tales from Orissa, Bengal &
Sikkim. 3 Stories: from Orissa…Juggernaut; from Bengal…The Story of a
Beauty; from Sikkim…The Tendong Faat Lore. [London: 2006].
Oblong quarto (8 1/4 x 10"). [58] pp. With five etchings and five
linocuts, printed in color, plus a small inset mirror. Printed
letterpress in handset Plantin on handmade Magnani Velata
Avorio. Included are textured and colored papers brought from
Gangtok in Sikkim, where they are made by hand. Red-orange
and black textured Japanese Kyoseishi paper covered boards.
Rectangles of red and black printed Tibetan paper hold shapes
of cream handmade paper and embossed natural leather. Title on
a black leather band which extends over the spine; the endpapers
are of matching Tibetan paper. Enclosed in tan cloth and redorange paper slipcase. A fine copy.
$1,500
One of twenty-five copies, signed by Susan Allix.
Caged Book
4.
[ALLIX, Susan]. Five Delightful And Irresistible Things.
London. 2011. 3 3/4" x 4." [40] pp. The five delightful and
irresistible things are described, with prints, and sealed within a
paper cage. The text is set in 10 point Canterbury and printed on
Arches paper together with linocuts, etching and wood letter, in
both color and black and white. Quarter yellow morocco over
batik paper boards, stenciled in green, pink and yellow resin
lacquer and onlaid with yellow and green lines. Title printed in
green on front board. The endpapers are lemon and white paper.
The book is enclosed in a cage made of cream paper-pulp in an
open-work pattern. Enclosed in a raspberry cloth wrap-around
case with yellow morocco fastening. A fine copy.
$650
One of twenty-three copies, signed by Allix.
"In medieval times a book, such as a copy of the gospels,
could be taken into battle as a talisman, carried aloft on a
standard. To keep the book safe it would be locked into a cage.
A caged book invites the reader to make decisions. Firstly, if
they wish to discover what the contents might be, and, secondly,
how to cut, pull, twist or break into the cage to satisfy their
curiosity" (the author).
5.
[ANGELO, Valenti]. Valenti Angelo Author Illustrator
Printer. San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1976.
Folio. [99] pp. Full- and partial-page illustrations from
Angelo’s books, decorative initial letters and tail-pieces. Red
linen over yellow-gold boards, decorated in blue-gray, paper
spine label. Bottom corners lightly bumped, Near fine in acetate
dust jacket, and plain paper dust jacket. Jackets chipped.
$600
One of about thirty copies hand-colored by Angelo, out
of a total edition of 400. Signed by Angelo.
6.
ANTHONY, Susanna. The Life and Character of Miss
Susanna Anthony, Who Died, in Newport (R.I.) June 23, 1791, in the
Sixty Fifth Year of her Age, Consisting Chiefly in Extracts from her
Writings, with some Brief Observations on them. Compiled by
Samuel Hopkins, D.D., Pastor of the First Congregational
Church in Newport. Worcester, Massachusetts: Printed by
Leonard Worcester, 1796. Twelvemo. 193 pp. Contemporary
sheep, somewhat rubbed, gilt burgundy leather spine label. Light
foxing throughout, some old light dampstaining. Old ink
signature on a preliminary blank. A good, sound copy. $600
First edition
Susanna Anthony (1726-1791) was born into a Quaker
family but became a Congregationalist at the age of fifteen, when
she joined a society of women who met once a week for prayer,
reading, and religious conversation, and was active in that for the
rest of her life. She often prayed alone for days at a time. This
work was put together from her diaries and writings by her
pastor, with a few comments about her exemplary life.
Evans 30592. Sabin 32951.
Commentary on the 'Politics'
7.
[ARISTOTLE]. ACCIAIUOLI, Donato. In Aristotelis
Libros Octo Politicorum Commentarii…Venice: Apud Vincentium
Valgisium, 1566. Octavo. ff. [16], [9]-278, [1]. With the final
blank. Woodcut printer's device on title-page and last leaf,
woodcut historiated initial letters. Contemporary stiff vellum
with gilt paste-paper label on spine, edges mottled in brown and
red. Several contemporary marginal annotations in the beginning
of the text, a little light dampstaining at lower margin at end,
never intruding into text. Very good.
$2,500
First edition of this uncommon commentary on
Aristotle's Politics. OCLC notes ten copies in North America.
Donato Acciaiuoli (1429-1478) was an Italian scholar,
humanist, and diplomat, and a member of the powerful
Florentine Acciaiuoli family. He studied under the Byzantine
scholar John Argyropoulos and was renowned for his abilities in
Greek and mathematics. He wrote Latin translations of some of
Plutarch's Lives (1478); a commentary on Aristotle's Ethics, lives
of Hannibal, Scipio and Charlemagne, and a translation of
Bruni's Florentine history into Italian. He died in 1478, on his
way to Paris to ask the aid of Louis XI on behalf of the
Florentines against Pope Sixtus IV.
Adams A1917. Riley 200.
Containing the First Appearance of Two Poems by Wordsworth
8.
BAILLIE, Joanna, [editor]. A Collection of Poems, Chiefly
Manuscript and from Lioving Authors. Edited for the benefit of a
friend…London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and
Brown, 1823. Octavo. xliv, 330 pp. With thirty-six page list of
subscribers. Original boards, uncut, printed paper spine label,
chipped. Joints cracking, but sound, chip at foot of spine,
binding extremities rubbed. Still, a very good, clean copy. Subscriber's copy, with the ink signature of Lady Maxwell of
Calderwood on the title-page and front free endpaper. With
several contemporary ink annotations in the list of subscribers,
adding new names and noting that some purchased multiple
copies. Two bookplates, one of John Sparrow.
$400
First edition of an important anthology.
Joanna Baillie (1762-1851), successful Scottish poet and
playwright, published this in support of a widowed school friend
with a family of daughters to support. She enlisted the help of
her friends, Scott, Southey, Crabbe, Hemans, Barbauld,
Campbell, Rogers, and Wordsworth, who contributed poems.
This work contains the first appearance of two sonnets by
Wordsworth (pp. 52-3), as well as the first appearance of Sir
Walter Scott's one-act play, McDuff's Cross. It also contains many
contributions by women.
Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, p. 77. Cornell
Wordsworth Collection 492. Ruff, Poetical Works of Scott, 178.
Scarce Children's Picture Bible
9.
[BIBLE IN ENGLISH]. A New Hieroglyphical, or Picture
Bible. Containing four hundred cuts, by Adams. New York: Press
of Mahlon Day & Co…and Baker, Crane & Co….[n.d., ca.
1837-1849]. Square octavo. [102] pp., irregularly numbered [2],
7-209. A note to the reader states: "In the paging, please observe
that the figures over the pages, miss every other one." The illustrations, which were supposed to have been designed by Thomas
Bewick, consist of historiated borders and vignettes in the text.
Black blindstamped cloth with title in gilt within a wreath border
on front cover. Foot of spine lightly worn, joints rubbed. Ink
inscription to a seven-year-old girl from her father, dated 1849.
Occasional light foxing. Very good.
$750
The first hieroglyphic Bible for children was published in
Augsburg in 1687, and the first English version appeared
London in 1783. They were immensely popular, with many
reprints, and new editions continued to be published in England
and America throughout the nineteenth century, though because
of their ephemeral nature, most are rare.
The present Bible, with illustrations by American wood
engraver Joseph Alexander Adams (1803-1880) was first
published by Harper in 1837. Adams, who was the first man in
the United States to print electrotype illustrations, went on to
produce The Illuminated Bible, a folio published in parts between
1843 and 1846, which Frank Weitenkampf calls "the first notable
American effort to produce a richly illustrated book."
See Clouston, Hieroglyphic Bibles, pp. 90-118. See article on
Joseph Alexander Adams in The American Bookmaker, August,
1893, p. 65.
Music in Schools
10.
[BILBY, Thomas]. A Course of Lessons, Together with the
Tunes to which they are usually sung in Infant Schools. And also a
Copious Collection of Hymns and Moral Songs. Suitable for
Infant Instruction, either in schools, or in private families.
London: C. and J. Rivington…1828. Octavo, in fours. ix, [1], 104
pp. Folding timetable before the first leaf of text. Musical
notation in text. Buff colored printed wrappers, worn and
chipped at edges. Front joint cracked, with front wrapper and
first two gatherings hanging by threads. Ink inscription on titlepage: "Charlotte Eliza Barrett. Worthing. Octr. 1828." $450
First edition.
Thomas Bilby (1794-1872) was apparently a
schoolmaster and the author of many educational books for
children (Young Folks' Illustrated Book of Birds; The Book of Animals;
The Infant Teacher's Assistant; etc.). This book went through
several nineteenth-century reprints. The first, however, is rare.
OCLC notes two copies in the U.K. and two in America.
11.
[BIRD & BULL PRESS]. VOORN, Henk. Old Ream
Wrappers: An Essay on Early Ream Wrappers of Antiquarian Interest.
North Hills: Bird & Bull Press, 1969. Small quarto. 111 pp.
Woodcut illustrations in black and red, one mounted color illustration. Quarter red morocco over marbled boards. Gilt spine. A
fine copy. With a portfolio of blue-gray paper, in which are
housed reproductions of two Dutch ream wrappers. $450
One of 375 copies. Printed on handmade paper, made
by Henry Morris over a period of thirty weeks.
Taylor A8.
Presentation Copy from Charles Erskine Scott Wood to Sara Bard Field
12.
BLAKE, William. The Writings of William Blake. London:
The Nonesuch Press, 1925. Three volumes, large octavo. xviii,
364; vii, 397; vii, 430 pp. With sixty collotype plates. Quarter
parchment over marbled boards, gilt spines. Small abrasion at
head of spine of Volume I, neat repair at inner hinge of the same
volume. A very good, clean set. Presentation copy from Charles
Erskine Scott Wood to his wife: "To My beloved Wife Sara Bard
Field my companion, my inspiration, my love on this her
birthday… Los Gatos Calif. September 1, 1926."
$1,250
One of 1,500 copies on Vidalon handmade paper, out
of a total edition of 1575 copies.
Wood (1752-1944) was a Pennsylvania-born author,
poet, attorney, and political activist who spent most of his career
in Oregon and California. He is best known for his satirical
bestseller, Heavenly Discourse, which is a series of plays or
discussions between such characters as God, Jesus, Mark Twain,
Tom Paine, Robert Ingersoll, Billy Sunday, and Theodore
Roosevelt. Field (1882-1974) was Wood's second wife. She was a
prominent women's suffragist and an award-winning poet. Her
best known books are The Pale Women (1927) and Darkling Plain
(1936). The two lived in San Francisco and eventually built a
house, called "The Cats," in Los Gatos, California, which
became a salon for artists, poets, musicians and intellectuals.
Dreyfus 24.
Facsimile of a Block Book, Dating from Circa 1470
With Fifty-Nine Hand-Colored Illustrations
13.
[BLOCK BOOKS]. Defensorium Immaculatae Virginitatis.
Leipzig: Insel Verlag, 1925. Quarto. Nine double-folded leaves,
plus colophon. A complete facsimile of a fifteenth-century block
book, featuring fifty-nine hand-colored illustrations. Quarter
vellum over gray boards, title in black with red on front cover.
Four-page descriptive text by Kurt Pfister laid in. A fine copy.
One of 500 copies.
$1,250
The date 1470 occurs on the first page, preceded by the
initials F.W., generally believed to refer to the artist Friedrich
Walther. The authorship of the descriptive text appended to
each woodcut is ascribed to Franciscus de Retza, whose name
appears in a different version (Regensburg, Eysenhut, 1471).
14.
[BOOKBINDING]. GOLDSCHNMIDT, E. PH. Gothic
& Renaissance Bookbindings Exemplified and Illustrated from the
Author's Collection. London: Ernest Benn Ltd./Boston: Houghton
Mifflin, 1928. Two volumes, quarto. [vi], 370; viii pp, plus 110
plates. The frontisportrait and three of the plates are in color.
Red cloth with front cover and spine stamped in gilt. Spines a bit
browned, binding extremities a bit rubbed. Very good in cloth
slipcase.
$600
First edition, American issue, with Houghton Mifflin on
the spine.
One of the Great Americana Sales
15.
BRINLEY, George. Catalogue of the American Library of the
late Mr. George Brinley, of Hartford, Conn. Hartford: Case,
Lockwood & Brainard, 1878-93. Six volumes, bound in one,
including the Alphabetical Index compiled by William I.
Fletcher. The catalogue contains 9,458 lots. Half contemporary
crimson morocco over marbled boards, gilt spine, top edge gilt.
Binding extremities rubbed, bookplate of Wallace Fay Tenney, a
book dealer from Boston. A very good copy. Most of the prices
realized have been neatly inked in.
$450
An appealing copy of one of the great Americana sales.
The catalogues were compiled by J. Hammond Trumbull, and
the auction conducted by Joseph Sabin. The annotations are still
very useful.
Early Attempt to Reconcile the Formation of the Earth with the
Biblical Account of Creation
16.
[BURNET, Thomas]. Archaeologiae Philosophicae: sive doctrina
antiqua de reum originibus. Libri duo. London: Typis R.N. Impensis
Gualt. Kettilby….1692. Small quarto.[16], 358, [8] p. Text
engraving on p. 181. Separate title-page for Book II. Dedication
to William III. Contemporary calf with covers ruled in blind.
Joints cracking, but cords sound. Several marginal tears and dogears, small wormhole at lower margin in gatherings K and L.
Endpapers ruled in red, with some contemporary ink notes,
additional ink notes in some margins, in Latin, Greek, and
Hebrew. A very good, unsophisticated copy.
$1,500
First edition of Burnet's second major work, an early
attempt to reconcile the formation of the earth with the Biblical
account of creation.
Burnet (1635-1715), who received his BA at Clare
College, Cambridge, and his MA at Christ's College, Cambridge,
was Master of Charterhouse and Clerk of the Closet to William
III.. He first espoused his theory of the earth's creation in The
Theory of the Earth, published in Latin as Telljuris Theori Sacra in
1681, and in English in 1684. He suggested that the earth was a
hollow sphere, with most of the water inside until Noah's Flood,
at which time the mountains and oceans appeared. He discussed
his theories with his friend, Isaac Newton, who admired his
thought processes, and even suggested the possibility that when
God created the Earth, the days were longer.
In Archaeologiae Philosophicae, Burnet amplifies his ideas in
The Theory of the Earth. Whereas the earlier work is based on his
understanding of scripture and history, which were largely
speculative, the second book is an attempt to base it on the
Cartesian world theory and neo-Platonist philosophy, and it was
here that he got into trouble and offended many people,
including the king, who made him resign his post.
Wing (2nd ed., 1994), B5943. See DSB, Norman 375,
discussing Telljuris Theori Sacra.
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Education at Private Universities
17.
[CARD, H.?]. Thoughts upon Domestic or Private
Education... London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and
Rome, 1806. Small octavo. pp. [3]-14, 86 pp. Dedicated to James
Rigby, one of His Majesty's Honorable Council on the Isle of
Trinidad. Contemporary straight-grain tan morocco, paneled in
gilt and blind. Ink notation "by H Card" in a contemporary hand
on title-page. Joints rubbed, head of spine lightly worn.
Offsetting to endpapers from leather turn-ins. Overall a very
good copy.
$950
First and only edition.
"H. Card" probably refers to Henry Card (1779-1844),
who was educated at Westminster School and Pembroke
College, Oxford and wrote books on history (The History of the
Revolutions of Russia to the Accession of Catherine the First, 1803),
religion (A Dissertation on the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper, or, The
Refutation of the Hoadlyan Scheme of It, 1820), and education, as well
as novels (Beauford, or, A Picture of High Life, 1811). The author is
critical of the education presently offered by Oxford, and
particularly of the custom of sending boys as young as twelve
there. He argues for matriculation at nineteen.
OCLC notes only one copy, at the National Library of
Scotland.
Advice to Girls About to be Married
18.
CARLISLE, [Isabella Howard], Countess. Thoughts in the
Form of Maxims: Addressed to Young Ladies, on their First
Establishment in the World. The Second Edition. London: Printed
for T. Cornell, 1790. Octavo. 167 pp. Complete with half-title.
Contemporary mottled calf with covers ruled in gilt; gilt spine
with black leather label. Old ink monogram on a preliminary
blank, armorial bookplate of Kathleen Alice Rayleigh—possibly
the wife of physicist Robert Strutt, fourth baron Rayleigh (18751947), though it appears to be older. A little scuffing to back
cover, but a fine, attractive copy.
$850
Second edition, originally published the previous year.
A collection of pieces of advice given to newly married
women regarding personal behavior, the training and managing
of servants and the household, demeanor towards her husband,
the use of time, recreations, etc. Howard (1721-1795) was the
daughter of William Byron, fourth Lord Byron. and the second
wife of Frederick Howard, Fourth Earl of Carlisle (1694 - 1758).
Her own life was marked by affairs and bad choices.
19.
[CARTER, Elizabeth]. Poems on Several Occasions. London:
Printed for John Rivington, 1762. Small octavo. vi, [2, errata
with blank verso], 104 pp.
[Bound with:]
CARTER, Anna Maria. Selections from the Letters, &c. of the Late
Miss Carter of Wittenham Berks. By William Palmer, A.B. Baillol
College Oxford. To which are added, some compositions in
consequence of her death. Exeter: Printed by R. Trewman and
Son, 1793. Octavo. 53, [1] pp. Errata slip tipped in. Early
nineteenth century blue speckled calf, decoratively ruled in gilt
with burgundy morocco spine label, marbled edges and
endpapers. The second work with former owner's signature on
title-page, dated 1793, shaved in rebinding. The errata leaf has
ink correction in the same hand, and that has been made at the
appropriate place in the text. Ink signatures of Mary Ann Carter
Duncan, dated 1837, on a preliminary blank, two-page manu-
script poem bound in at end, probably in the same hand. A very
good, attractive copy.
$2,000
First editions of both titles.
Elizabeth Carter (1717-1806) was, to quote Priscilla Dorr
in Schleuter’s Encyclopedia of British Women Writers, “the most
learned lady in England during the eighteenth century.” She was
one of the most famous members of the Blue Stocking Circle,
which also included Catherine Talbot, Elizabeth Vesey,
Elizabeth Montagu, Hester Chapone, and Hannah More. She
learned Latin, Greek, and Hebrew in childhood with her
brothers, and later studied French, Italian, German, Portuguese,
and Arabic. She was a friend of Samuel Johnson, who thought
her one of the best Greek scholars he had known, and invited
her to contribute to The Rambler. She made a number of
translations, of which her Epictetus is the masterpiece. This is
her only important collection of verse. See Foxon, p. 109.
Anna Marie Carter, who died in 1791 at the twenty-four,
is apparently unrelated to Elizabeth Carter. The compiler of her
letters is a young clergyman who had been in love with her. He
has added at the end some verses which he describes as "the
offspring of my moments of agony." This memorial volume is
rare: ESTC notes three copies only.
20.
CEBES. [Title in Greek.] Cebetis Thebani Tabula, Græce &
Latine, multis in locis restituta ex MSS. codicibus, unde etiam Græca in
fine reposita ab Jacobo Gronovio, cuius accedunt notæ & emendationes.
Amsterdam: apud Henricum Westenium, 1689. Small octavo.
[32], 199 pp. Parallel Greek and Latin texts. The Latin translation
by Wolf was first published in 1560. Contemporary calf, paneled
in blind, brown morocco label. Joints a bit rubbed. Ink signature
on the front flyleaf of Robert Raymond, dated 1692 (see DNB);
Raymond was then a student at Christ's College, Cambridge, and
went on to become Lord Chief Justice. A very good copy of an
uncommon book.
$950
First edition as edited by the Dutch scholar Jakob
Gronovius. This famous allegory of the life of man, known as
"Pinax" or the "Table" of Cebes and long popular as a school
text, was originally ascribed to a Pythagorean follower of
Socrates; it is now assigned to a later date, as it contains element
of the Stoic philosophy of the Roman empire. This edition by
Gronovius, making use of several additional manuscripts, was
the best critical text yet produced. Dibdin quotes Harwood as
describing it as "very correct and beautiful."
OCLC lists nine copies in North America.
Dibdin I, 388-9; Schweiger, p. 78; Brunet I, 1709.
The First Collected Chaucer in Roman Type,
And the First Chaucer for Nearly 150 Years to Consult Any Manuscripts
and Try to Establish a Correct Test, Large Paper Copy
21.
CHAUCER, Geoffrey. The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer,
Compared with the Former Editions, and many valuable MSS.
Out of which, Three Tales are added which were never before
Printed. By John Urry. Together with a Glossary. To the Whole
is prefixed the Author's Life, newly written, and a Preface, giving
an Account of this Edition. London: Printed for Bernard Lintot,
between the Temple Gates, 1721. Folio, 17 ¼” x 10 ¾.” [52],
626, 81 (glossary), [1] (errataˆ) pp. Copper-engraved frontispiece
portrait of Urry by Pigne, full-page portrait of Chaucer by
Vertue, title vignette, woodcut head- and tailpieces, initials, and
twenty-six half-page engravings to illustrate each of the
Canterbury Tales. Full black morocco, richly paneled in gilt, by
Trevor Lloyd in the style of the period, the usual foxing and
offsetting of plates and some gatherings, but a very good copy of
the large-paper issue.
$3,500
First edition of this version, large-paper copy limited to
250 copies, begun by Urry who died before it was finished,
continued by Thomas Ainsworth who also died, and completed
by Timothy and William Thomas. This was the first collected
edition of Chaucer to be printed in Roman type.
According to the preface, Urry's “chief business was to
make the Text more correct and compleat than before—by a
careful collation of the best printed Editions and good MSS.”
This edition includes three previously unpublished tales: “The
Adventure of the Pardoner and Tapster at the Inn at
Canterbury,” “The Merchant's Second Tale,”and “The Coke's
Tale of Gamelyn.” It also includes a glossary, a new Life of
Chaucer, a preface discussing the Mss. consulted, printed
editions from Caxton on, etc.
22.
[CHILDREN'S BOOKS]. DIBBIN, Louisa F. The Stories
of Aunt Alice. London: Darton and Harvey, 1837. Twelvemo. xii,
143, [1] pp. engraved frontispiece (upper margin slightly
dampstained). Green blindstamped cloth, gilt spine. Ink ownership inscription of a girl "Aged 11 years & a half…", dated 1840,
on front free endpaper. A couple of old pencil drawings on
blank pages. A very good, bright copy.
$300
First edition of the author's only book. The longest story
here is "True History of a Little Black Cat," most of it is
"supposed to be related by herself."
The Dartons G253(1), but in green cloth, which Lawrence
Darton notes may be a later binding.
OCLC notes copies in two U.K. and two American
institutions.
23.
[CHILDREN'S BOOKS]. DYMOND, Edith. Eight
Evenings at School. London: Harvey and Darton, 1825. Twelvemo.
[4], vi, 209, [1] pp. Engraved frontispiece. Contemporary burgundy roan over marbled boards, gilt flat spine. Corners worn,
light vertical crack down center of spine. Old owner's bookplate,
another owner's signature. A good, tight copy.
$450
First edition of a curious book for girls which focuses on
travel and exploration. Topics discussed include: The Quicksilver
Mines at Idria; Avalanches; Description of some of the Animals
that inhabit the Alps; The Peak of Teneriffe; Diamond Mines;
and Columbus.
OCLC notes fourteen copies, seven in North America.
The Dartons G272.
24.
[CHILDREN'S BOOKS]. The Guide, or Counsellor of
Human Life; Containing Miscellaneous Pieces, on a Variety of Useful and
Entertaining Subjects…the Editor, Preceptor of Youth's Education. Springfield, [Mass.]: Printed by Edward Gray, 1794.
Twelvemo. 191, [7, contents] pp. Contemporary sheep, gilt-ruled
spine. Binding extremities rubbed, lacks front free endpaper, one
leaf lose, some light foxing, old ink signature on back fly-leaf. A
good, clean copy.
$350
First edition of an early American book on ethics and
morality, aimed at young people and those teaching them. "…as
the first impression made on the minds of youth is the most
lasting, great care should be taken to furnish them with such
seeds of reason as may rectify and sweeten every part of their
future lives; by marking out a proper behavior both with respect
to themselves and others, and exhibiting every virtue to their
view which claims their attention, and every vice which they
ought to avoid."
Evans 27075. Sabin 29206.
25.
[CHILDREN'S BOOKS]. [STERNDALE, Mary]. The
Panorama of Youth. In Two Volumes. London: Printed for J.
Carpenter, 1807. Two volumes, twelvemo. [14], 239; [4], 238 pp.
Contemporary mottled sheep, gilt spine with red morocco label
in Volume II, label lacking in Volume I. Volume I worn at spine
ends, front joint cracked but holding, shallow crack in center of
spine. Intermittent light foxing. A good set.
$450
First edition of a series of tales, mostly about young
women. Includes "The Sisters," the story of a lost child returned
to a large estate, and "A Good Action Meets its Reward, the
Triumph of Filial Affection," a story about a young slave who
tries to purchase his mother's freedom, as well as "Moorland
Mary," "Jessy of the Vale," etc.
The author dedicates the book to memory of Georgiana,
Duchess of Devonshire, whom she calls her patroness. In the
preface she credits the work of Anna Laetitia Barbauld and
Charlotte Smith as her most important influences.
OCLC lists five copies in America and two in England.
Equal Rights for Women
26.
CLAFLIN, Tennie C. Constitutional Equality a Right of
Woman; or A Consideration of the Various Relations Which She
Sustains as a Necessary Part of the Body of Society and Humanity; with
her duties to herself--together with a review of the Constitution
of the United States, showing that the right to vote is guaranteed
to all citizens. Also a review of the rights of children. New York:
Woodhull, Claflin & Co., 1871. Octavo. [6], 148 pp. Frontisportrait with tissue guard. Publisher's reddish-brown cloth with
front cover and spine stamped in gilt. Some light spotting and
fading, head of spine lightly frayed. A good or better copy of a
scarce book.
$750
First edition.
Tennessee Celeste Claflin, later Lady Cook, Viscountess
of Montserrat, was a flamboyant American suffragette, who was
known for being one of the first women to open a Wall Street
brokerage firm. She was said to have been backed by Cornelius
Vanderbilt, who was rumored to be her lover. She favored
legalized prostitution and believed that women could serve in the
military. She ran for Congress in the state of New York. Her
sister was Victoria Woodhull (1838-1927), the first American
woman to run for President. In 1870 Woodhull and Claflin
together founded a woman's rights periodical called Woodhull and
Claflin's Weekly.
Marke 329.
27.
[CLARKE, Harry]. BOWES, Nicola Gordo. Harry Clarke:
His Graphic Art. Mountrath, Ireland: The Dolmen Press/Los
Angeles: H. Keith Burns, [1983]. Quarto. 160 pp. Full- and
partial-page illustrations. With bibliography of the books
illustrated by Clarke. Fine in acetate dust jacket, in fine slipcase.
Laid in is a post card from the author.
$350
Special edition, limited to 250 copies, signed by the
author, with an extra suite of eight plates, reproduced from
Clarke's drawings for illustrations to The Ancient Mariner.
Item #16
Item #37
Item #38
Item #21
Item #28
The Most Important First-Century Christian Document
Besides the New Testament
28.
CLEMENT I, Pope. Klēmentos pros Korinthious epistolē prōtē
= Clementis ad Corinthios epistola prior: Ex laceris reliquijs
vestustissimi exemplaris Bibliothecæ Regiæ, eruit, lacunas
explevit, Latinè vertit, & notis brevioribus illustravit. / Patricivs
Ivnivs ...Oxford: Iohannes Lichfield Academiæ Typographus,
1633. Quarto. [xxii], 76., [48, with errata on last verso], [2,
Summa Privilegii, with blank verso]. Text in Greek and roman
letter, title-page and a large part of the Greek text printed in red
and black, printed shoulder notes. Engraved historiated initials
and head- and tail-pieces. Contemporary English calf, rebacked,
covers ruled in blind. Covers scuffed and worn at extremities
with rear lower portion worn off, exposing the board, light
dampstain at lower corner of last few leaves, some light marginal
worming. A good sound copy. With some twenty marginal notes
in a contemporary hand, some in Greek and some in English,
throughout.
$2,500
Editio princeps of the most important first-century
Christian document beside the New Testament (J.N.D. Kelly,
Oxford Dictionary of Popes), and a masterpiece of editorship, as well
as an innovative typographic feat, with the Greek text partly
printed in red to indicate the portions interpolated by the editor,
Patrick Young (1584-1652), librarian to James I and Charles I
and one of the most learned scholars of his time.
A manuscript of the letter of Pope Clement, which was
previously unknown, was bound in the celebrated fifth-century
Codex Alexandrinus, which the Patriarch of Constantinople
presented to Charles I through the mediation of Thomas Roe.
Patrick Young as royal librarian wanted to publish the whole
codex, but this was thwarted by the events of the Great
Rebellion. Instead, he was able to publish this letter, one of the
earliest Christian documents and the repository of much
information on the life of the early Church under Domitian. His
use of red ink for the filling of lacunae, which must have
presented the Oxford press with considerable technical
difficulties, produced a work of great elegance and beauty, rarely
achieved in non-illustrated scholarly editions.
This Letter is the only work now ascribed to Pope
Clement I, the first Apostolic Father of the Church and probably
the third successor of Peter.
Baker, The Oxford University Press and the Spread of Learning,
p. 32. Carter, History of the Oxford University Press, p. 36. Cross, F.
L. (ed.), The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. Hoffmann, I,
459. Madan I, 166. STC 5398.
ESTC lists eight copies in North America.
29.
CRUTCHLEY, Brooke. A Printer’s Christmas Books. With
a Foreword by Evan Phillips. Cambridge: Privately Printed at the
University Printing House, 1974. Large octavo. 42 pp. Text
illustrations, including one in two colors. Woodcut vignettes on
title and last page of text, printed in red. Quarter green cloth
over green decorative boards. A fine copy. With a Typed Letter
signed by Brooke Crutchley, addressed to Carey Bliss of the
Huntington Library.
$200
One of 500 copies.
Against Gibbon on Christianity
30.
DALRYMPLE, David. An Inquiry into the Secondary Causes
Which Mr. Gibbon has Assigned for the Rapid Growth of Christianity.
Edinburgh: Printed by Murray & Cochrane. For T. Cadell., 1786.
Quarto. [4], 214 pp. With the printed presentation leaf to
Richard Bishop of Worcester, before the title-page. Contemporary marbled boards, rebacked and recornered in recent calf,
gilt flat spine with burgundy morocco label. Verso of title-page
with two old rubberstamps of St. Andrews University, one for
deaccession. A very good copy.
$950
First edition.
David Dalrymple, third baronet, Lord Hailes (1726-1792)
was a Scottish advocate, judge, and historian. His best known
work was his Annals of Scotland (1776-9). In the present work, he
attacked Gibbon over his account of the effect of Christianity on
the decline of the Roman empire. Controversial when it was
published, it was a minor blow in the ongoing controversy
between theological traditionalists such as Hailes and more
liberal thinkers, led by David Hume.
31.
DAVENPORT, Cyril. Cameo Book-Stamps Figured and
Described. London: Edward Arnold, 1911. Large octavo. xvi,
[208] pp. With 151 illustrations of cameo book-stamps. Subjects
include Abraham and Isaac, Anne Boleyn, Charlemagne, Christ,
Queen Elizabeth I, the Lion of St. Mark, Philip Melancthon, the
Tudor rose, the goddess Fortuna, St. George, etc. Light brown
linen buckram with gilt spine and cover vignette in brown. Light
shelfwear, back hinge just starting to crack, fly-leaves slightly
browned. A very good copy.
$300
First edition of the most acclaimed study of the
impressing of leather bookbindings with a bookstamp.
32.
DICKENS, Charles. Master Humphrey’s Clock…With
Illustrations by George Cattermole and Hablot Browne…
London: Chapman and Hall, 1840-1. Three volumes, large
octavo, in sixes. iv, 306; vi, 306; vi, 426 pp. Two frontis-pieces,
130 woodcuts, and twenty-five initials by Browne; one
frontispiece and thirty-eight woodcuts by Cattermole; one
woodcut each by S. Williams and Maclise. Half contemporary
calf over marbled boards. Gilt spines with black morocco labels.
Binding extremities rubbed, feet of spines slightly worn. Old
armorial bookplate on back pastedowns, small rubberstamps of a
later owner in two volumes. A very good set.
$750
First edition. Contains the first appearance of two of
Dickens’s novels, Barnaby Rudge and The Old Curiosity Shop.
Smith I, 6.
The First Book of Laguna Verde Imprenta
33.
[DREYFUS, John ] Saul Marks and his Plantin Press.
[Laguna Beach, California: Laguna Verde Imprenta, 1975].
Octavo. [10], [1, colophon], [1, blank] pp. Woodcut illustration
from an Eric Gill design on title-page, woodcut printer’s device
on colophon. Red Cockerell wrappers, stitched at spine, printed
paper label on front cover. Bookplate of newspaper publisher
and book collector James Strohn Copley. A fine copy in custommade quarter black morocco slipcase and chemise.
$750
One of about fifty copies printed. The first book of Ward
Ritchie’s Laguna Verde Imprenta, printed in memory of Saul
Marks, who died in November, 1974, for Jacob Zeitlin, who also
contributed the Gill wood engraving.
English Proverbs
34.
DYKES, Oswald. Moral Reflections upon Select English
Proverbs: Familiarly Accommodated to the Humorous and Manners of the
Present Age. London: Printed by H. Meere, for George
Sawbridge. 1708. Octavo. xxxviii, [3], 280, [30], [1, ads], [1,
blank] pp. Index. Contemporary paneled calf, rebacked and
recornered in later calf. Gilt burgundy morocco spine label.
Occasional light foxing. Two ownership signatures on front free
endpaper, one dated 1806 and one 1942. Very good. $1,000
First edition of an interesting study of different English
proverbs, explaining their meaning and the ramifications.
Amongst those discussed are: "A Cat may look at a King;" "Out
of Sight, Out of Mind;" "Hungry Dogs will eat dirty Puddings;"
"One Bird in the Hand is worth two in the Bush;" "Birds of a
Feather flock together;" "Money makes the Mare to go;" etc.
Later editions have the words added to the title: "in imitation of
Sir Roger L’Estrange’s Æsop."
A second edition of this book was published in 1709, and
a third in 1713. Dykes (1670?-1728) also wrote The Royal
Marriage: King Lemuel's Lesson (1722) and a broadside entitled Good
Manners for Schools (1700).
Expanding Upon John Wilkins' 'Essay Towards a Real Character and a
Philosophical Language'
35.
EDMONDS, George. A Universal Alphabet, Grammar, and
Language: Comprising a Scientific Classification of the Radical Elements of
Discourse: and Illustrative Translations from the Holy Scriptures and the
Principal British Classics: To which is added, A Dictionary of the
Language. London: Richard Griffin and Company, Publishers to
the University of Glasgow, [1855]. Quarto. [12], vii, [1], 34, [2],
152, [2], 44, iii, [1], [2] , ix, [1], [2], [140] pp. Later marbled
boards with printed paper spine label. A very good copy.
First edition.
$950
George Edmonds (1788-1868) was an English teacher,
lawyer, and scholar, who lived his entire life in Birmingham. He
is remembered principally for the present volume, which
enlarges upon John Wilkins' An Essay Towards a Real Character and
a Philosophical Language (1668). Edmonds believed that the
principle reason Wilkins' system wasn't adopted was that it was
too hard to pronounce. Here, he proposes a modified pronunciation system for the language. This work is divided into three
parts, an "alphabet, classification of radicals, and grammar of the
philosophic language;" parallel texts of excerpts from English
works of note (Shakespeare, Milton, Locke, the King James
Bible, etc.) alongside their translation into the new language; and
a dictionary of the new language.
One of Fifty Copies Printed by the Red Angel Press
36.
EDWARDS, Jonathan. Spider Letter. [Bremen, Maine, and
New York:] Red Angel Press, 2009. 8 ¾” x 7 1/8.” [34] pp.
Illustrated with five linoleum cut plates of spiders, all of which
were hand-pulled. Hand set in Bembo and printed on Lana
Antique Laid paper. Burgundy cloth with papier maché bas relief
of a spider’s web on the front cover. A fine copy.
$475
One of fifty copies, numbered and signed by the
printer/illustrator, Ronald Keller.
The text is a letter written in 1723 by Edwards to Judge
Paul Dudley, a friend of his father, and member of the Royal
Society. Edwards’s father hoped that his son’s letter would be
published in the Society’s prestigious journal.
Rare Translation of 'The Praise of Folly,' by
Corneille's Friend, Louis Petit
37.
ERASMUS, [Desiderius]. La lovange de la folie, traduite
…par Monsieur Petit, de Pontau de mer, Advocat en Parlement.
Paris: chez Jacques Cottin, 1670. Twelvemo. [36], 251, [1] pp.
Nineteenth century dark brown crushed morocco, large oval
Renaissance-style gilt stamp in center of both covers, flat spine
lettered in gilt, edges stained red. Armorial bookplate of E. Pelay
of Rouen, unidentified oval ink stamp on verso of final leaf. A
little light browning. A very good copy.
$2,500
First and only edition of this translation of Erasmus'
Praise of Folly.
The translator is Louis Petit (1615-93), a Rouen-born
satirical poet whose best-known work was A Fleuranche. He was
an intimate friend of Pierre Corneille.
OCLC cites only the Harvard and Minnesota copies in
North America.
Vander Haeghen, p. 124.
One of Thirty-Five Copies, With Five Etchings by Bracaval
38.
FERLINGHETTI, Lawrence. At La Puerta Escondida à La
Puerta Escondida. Etchings by Bracaval. [Vendôme, France:
Atelier du Rétaud for Pré Nian, [2005]. Large quarto. 14 ¾” x
14”). Four sheets of text, and five etchings, laid in cream-colored
paper wrapper, in publisher’s clamshell case of quarter black
cloth over decorative boards. The text is in English, with a
French translation by Eve Lerner. A fine copy.
$1,250
One of thirty-five copies, signed by the author and the
artist/printer. Each etching is also numbered and signed by the
artist.
“Bracaval…uses simple forms (triangles, squares, rectangles) to structure the space. The geometry of the art, meanwhile,
is but the beginning. In the general synergic organization of a
painting, each fragment has its own texture and light, but none
exists independently and although the artist remains in control of
the space, he keeps the vision open. Engraving (on wood or
metal) is merely a progression in the continuum of the work of
the painter, in which the objective is to engage all the 'states' in
the arrangement of the work of art…” (Vincent Rousseau
Curator, Fine Arts Museum of Nantes).
Rare Advice Book for Young Ladies
39.
[FRENCH, Sarah]. Letters to a Young Lady, on Leaving
School, and Entering the World. Dedicated, by permission, to Lady
Head. Boston: Crosby, Nichols and Company, 1855. Octavo. [8],
158 pp. Dark blue blindstamped cloth. Corners worn, covers a
bit rubbed, endpapers lightly foxed, light offsetting to pp. 114115 from a former insert. Overall very good.
$350
First edition of a scarce book: OCLC lists only three
copies.
Sarah French MacLauchlan was born in England in 1792,
the daughter of a military officer who was able to provide her
with a good education. In 1842 she arrived in Saint John, New
Brunswick, as a widow with three children. She eventually
married William MacLauchlan, a barrister from Victoria County.
She is known for two books, the present one and A Book for the
Young (1856).
Rare Guide to Household Management
Leadenhall Press Facsimile of a Rare Book for Glasiers
40.
GACON-DUFOUR, [Marie-Armande-Jeanne]. Recueil
pratique d'economie rurale et domestique…A Paris: Chez. Fr.
Buisson…An XII (1804). Twelvemo. [4], 243 pp. One engraved
plate. Later cloth over marbled boards, gilt spine, marbled edges.
Half-title reinforced at fore-edge with new paper. Occasional
light foxing. A very good copy.
$650
First edition.
Gacon-Dufour (1753-1835) was a novelist, polemicist,
agronomist, and expert on court life. Her works include political
pamphlets and books relating to a woman’s right to an education
(Contre le projet de loi de S*** M***, portant défense d’apprendre à lire
aux femmes, par une femme qui ne se pique pas d’être femme de lettres,
1801; and De la nécessité de l’instruction pour les femmes, 1805). She is
probably best known for her works on running the household,
including the present one and Dictionnaire rural raisonné, as well as
her manuals on perfume and soap-making.
OCLC notes only two copies of this book in the first
edition in North America.
Cioranescu 29999.
42.
[GEDDE, Walter]. A Booke of Sundry Draughtes, Principaly
Serving for Glasiers: and not impertinent for platerers, and gardiners:
besides sundry other professions…London: The Leadenhall
Press, 1898. Large octavo. Irregular pagination. Woodcut
facsimile illustrations. [24] pp. publisher’s catalogue at rear.
Original flexible vellum with suede ties in imitation of the
edition of 1615. Front cover stamped in black & gilt. Slight
toning to paper. A remarkably fine copy of a book that is prone
to warping. With publisher’s slip tipped in.
$750
“This quaint old treasury of decorated drawings for
leaded glass (the text book on the subject) has not hitherto been
reproduced in facsimile. An original copy of the book (published
in 1615) is worth its weight in gold, and is now almost
impossible to procure. The British Museum is without one. The
volume from which this reproduction is faithfully facsimiled
came from the celebrated library of the Earl of Ashburnham,
recently dispersed at Messrs. Sotheby’s sale-rooms…” A check
of ESTC on-line reveals that the British Library did eventually
acquire a copy, though the book is still rare.
“One of the Most Elaborate and Comprehensive Works of Its Kind”
Gilman's Most Important Nonfiction Work
41.
[GALTON, Francis]. PEARSON, Karl. The Life, Letters
and Labours of Francis Galton. Cambridge: At the University Press,
1914-1930. Three volumes in four, large octavo. [xxiv], 246, [2,
advertisement for the Pearson and Galton-founded journal,
Biometrika]; [xii], [426]; xii, [2], 438, [2]; [6], pp. [441]-673, [3], [8,
ads] pp. With 190 portraits and other plates, several in color.
Five folding genealogical tables in a pocket at the back of
Volume I. Two charts in rear pocket of Volume IIIA. Original
cloth, gilt spines, gilt portrait bust of Galton on front covers.
Bottom corners bumped in Volume I, upper corner of Volume
II bumped. Vols. IIIA and IIIB have worn dust jackets. A very
good set. Uncommon in nice condition.
$2,500
First edition.
Francis Galton (1822-1991), grandson of Erasmus
Darwin and cousin of Charles Darwin, was one of the last of the
gentleman scientists. His earliest important work was in
meteorology. He noted the importance of anticyclones, for
example, the term coined by himself. But his best-known studies
were in heredity. He believed that talent—scholarly, artistic,
athletic—was hereditary, and his conclusions became the
foundation of modern eugenic sociology. (Again, the term
“eugenics” is his.) He is famous for having simplified the
method of identification by fingerprinting, revolutionizing the
system in his own day, and producing a taxonomy that is
basically the one in use today. Throughout his work runs the
common theme that all experience and its variations can be
quantified, and his taxonomies are numerous.
This is the only full treatment of Galton’s scientific and
personal life. Karl Pearson, a genius of amazing heights himself
and a close personal friend of Galton, wanted this biography to
be a monument to Galton’s achievement rather than a popular
account of his life. It begins with a full comparison with his
ancestors, especially the Darwins, and proceeds through a
complete exposition of his work. It is noteworthy that the plates
include, for example, all the illustrations from Finger Prints
(1893), along with numerous other facsimiles from other works,
and a fascinatingly complete photographic record of his life.
43.
[GILMAN], Charlotte Perkins Stetson. Women and
Economics: A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women
as a Factor in Social Evolution. London: G.P. Putnam's Sons,
Boston: Small, Maynard & Company, 1899. Octavo. vii, [1], 358
pp. Dark blue cloth with gilt spine. Edges, first and last few
leaves lightly foxed, some offsetting from an earlier newspaper
insert. Ink signature on front free endpaper. A very good, bright
copy.
$500
First English edition of the most important non-fiction
book of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, who is best known for her
short story, "The Yellow Wallpaper."
In a Striking Binding, Designed by Paul Nash
44.
[GREGYNOG PRESS]. SHAW, George Bernard. Shaw
Gives Himself Away: An Autobiographical Miscellany. {Newtown:]
Gregynog Press, 1939. Octavo. xi, 188 pp. Wood-engraved
frontisportrait by John Farleigh. Printed in Monotype Baskerville
on Arnold & Foster green tinted hand-made paper. Full dark
green crushed morocco with onlaid design in orange morocco,
featuring the author's initials, spine printed in orange. Horizontal
band of orange onlay at foot of both covers. Binding design by
Paul Nash for the Gregynog Bindery. A few minor scuffs, but a
near fine, unfaded copy.
$1,250
One of 300 copies.
Harrop 40; Davies 40.
"Perhaps the Finest English Illustrated Book of the Century" (Harthan)
45.
GRAY, Thomas. Designs by Mr. R.Bentley for six poems by
Mr. T. Gray. London: Printed for J. Dodsley, 1775. Quarto. [8]
pp.. 35 ff., [4], pp. 39-55. With six full-page copper-engraved
plates, twelve engraved vignettes in text, and six engraved initials
by Muller and Grignon, plus an engraved tail-piece on p. 55. Full
contemporary tree calf. Gilt spine with reddish-brown morocco
label. Front joint starting to crack near head of spine, binding
extremities rubbed, minor scuffs. Engraved bookplate, signed
"Jos h. Strutt" (likely Joseph Strutt, 1749-1802, the antiquary and
engraver). Later ink signature. Some light offsetting from
engravings, but a very good, large copy, crisp and clean. $1,250
Later edition of one of the great eighteenth-century
illustrated books, first published in 1753. This edition contains
the Odes of Thomas Gray (pp. 39-55), which does not appear in the
first edition.
Harthan calls this "by far the most sophisticated example
of English rococo book-illustration" and "perhaps, the finest
English illustrated book of the century" (The History of the
Illustrated Book, pp.154-5).
Hazen, 42.
With Five Chromolithographic Plates, Two by Louis Comfort Tiffany
46.
HARRISON, Constance Cary. Woman's Handiwork in
Modern Homes. With Numerous Illustrations and Five Colored
Plates from Designs by Samuel Colman, Rosina Emmet, George
Gibson, and Others. [New York:] Charles Scribner's Sons, 1881.
Octavo. xii, 242 pp. Five chromolithographic plates and black
and white illustrations in text. The frontispiece and one other
color plate are by Louis Comfort Tiffany. The leaf after the titlepage quotes an address by William Morris. Tan boards,
decoratively stamped in gilt and brown. Spine a bit discolored,
binding extremities lightly worn. A very good copy.
$300
First edition of the author's second book, a detailed study
and instruction manual for decorative projects in the home,
from embroidery to vase painting and wall treatments.
The daughter of an aristocratic Mississippi planter and
the wife of Democratic politician Burton Harrison, Constance
Cary Harrison (1843-1920) wrote about social life among the
upper classes, and her stories often were set in Europe. She was
known for her clever, vivacious style.
BAL 7179.
Canadiana, Printed in Salt Lake City
47.
HARVEY, R.A. N. History of the French in America: With
Six Years of Life and Travel in the Province of Quebec. Salt Lake City:
Times Steam Print, 1885. Small octavo. 374, [1, ad, with verso
blank] pp. Two woodcut illustrations, a frontispiece of Montreal
and a text plate of the City of Quebec. Contemportary sheep
over marbled boards. Bottom corners worn, a few smudges on
title-page, but a very good copy. Uncommon.
$500
First edition of a curious work, primarily of Canadian
interest, published in Salt Lake City. The advertisement at the
rear is for a proposed book on the Mormons in Utah, which the
author calls "the largest and most complete work ever published
in Utah on Mormonism, which does complete justice to the
grand and unlimited resources of this Territory, and gives the
entire history of the Mormons, and their religion from their
earliest origin to the present day, with biographical sketches of
their great men." It was never printed.
Signed Limited Edition
48.
HEANEY, Seamus. Electric Light. [London:] Faber and
Faber, [2001]. Octavo. [10], 81 pp. Black cloth over boards, gilt
spine. Fine in fine slipcase.
$600
First edition. One of 300 numbered copies, signed by the
author.
49.
HEANEY, Seamus. North. New York: Oxford University
Press, 1976. Octavo. 73 pp. Cloth. Light rubbing at foot of
spine. A near fine copy in a fine, unfaded d.j.
$600
First U.S. edition.
50.
HILL, Aaron. The Works of the Late Aaron Hill, Esq; In
Four Volumes. Consisting of Letters on Various Subjects, and of
Original Poems, Moral and Facetious. With an Essay on the Art
of Acting. London: Printed for the Benefit of the Family, 1753.
Four volumes, octavo. vi, [2], [24,list of subscribers], 351, [1]; [2],
418; [2], 416; [2], 414 pp. Contemporary speckled calf, gilt-ruled
spines with brown morocco spine labels, old gilt owner's
monogram near foot of spine in each volume, edges sprinkled
red. Some light wear to spine extremities. A very good, clean set.
First edition
$650
Hill (1685-1750) was a poet, dramatist, theatre manager
and entrepreneur. He wrote seventeen plays, a lavishly illustrated
subscription volume entitled A Full and Just Account of the Present
State of the Ottoman Empire (1709).the libretto for Handel's Rinaldo
(1777), and an unfinished epic poem, Gideon (1749). He was
responsible for launching The Plain Dealer (1724), a journal
inspired by The Tattler that promoted his friends and writers of
promise. He was satirized by Pope in The Dunciad, and he fell
into disfavor in through the nineteenth century, and the
Dictionary of National Biography calls him "absurd and a bore of the
first water." However, recent cultural historians have reassessed
his contributions. The Oxford DNB notes that "between 1720
and 1728 he was perhaps the most important, certainly the most
ubiquitous man of letters in London literary life."
The list of subscribers includes Samuel Johnson, David
Garrick, Edward Gibbon (probably the historian' father rather
than the historian himself), Henry Thrale and William Windham.
51.
[HUME, David]. Letters of David Hume, and Extracts from
Letters Referring to Him. Edited by Thomas Murray, LL.D.
Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1841. Octavo. 80 pp.
Folding frontispiece facsimile of Hume’s handwriting. Brown
blindstamped cloth with title in gilt on front cover, recased.
Spine and portions of covers faded, light wear to extremities, a
little light foxing. A good, clean copy.
$600
First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the editor:
“"Professor Napier from the Author."
Jessop, p. 46.
Medical Guide for Women, Recommended by Benjamin Rush
52.
JENNINGS, Samuel K. The Married Lady’s Companion, or
Poor Man’s Friend. In Four Parts. I. An address to the married
Lady, who is the Mother of Daughters. II. An address to the
newly Married Lady. III. Some important hints to the Midwife.
IV. An essay on the management and common diseases of
children. To which is added a short note on fever. Second
edition, revised, corrected and enlarged by the Author. NewYork: Published by Lorenzo Dow, 1808. Twelvemo. 304 pp.
With glossary and index. Contemporary sheep, lightly rubbed at
extremities, with a few scuffs. Light foxing throughout. A very
good copy.
$750
First published in 1804.
Jennings (1771-1854) was a surgeon and one of the
founders of the Washington Medical College of Baltimore. He
states in his preface that this book was originally intended for
thepoor and others who might not easily be able to consult a
physician. Dr. Benjamin Rush praised this work and
recommended it to patients.
Large Paper Copy
53.
JUVENAL and PERSIUS. D. Junii Juvenalis et Auli Persii
Flacci Satyrae. Tabulis Aeneis Illustravit, et Notas Variorum Selectas,
Suasque Addidit G.S. Cantabrigiae: Prostant venales Londini,
apud Gul. Sandby…apud G. Thurlbourn & J. Woodyer, 1763.
Large octavo (8 3/4 x 5 5/8."). [12], 207, [1] pp. Engraved
frontispiece and fourteen other plates, signed "P.S.L.," featuring
classical antiquities. Title-page in black and red. Full mottled
brown, tan and red calf, covers ruled in gilt, spine lettered gilt.
All edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Neatly rebacked with old
spine preserved. Armorial bookplate of Maurice B. Worms
(likely the nineteenth century tea importer). Edges of boards
lightly worn in places. A very good copy.
$750
First edition, Large Paper copy. Printed by Joseph
Bentham at the Cambridge University Press, and edited with
scholarly apparatus by William Sandby, who sold his business in
1768 to the first John Murray.
"The edition is well printed, an forms a respectable
companion to the Horace and Virgil published in the same style.
Collectors are fond of Large Paper copies, in fine condition"
(Dibdin, 4th ed. II, p. 156).
Morgan, Bibliography of Persius, p. 37.
The Most Important and Most Most Influential Illustrated California
Book and Paul Landacre’s Masterpiece
54.
LANDACRE, Paul. California Hills And Other Wood
Engravings From the Original Blocks. Foreword by Arthur Millier.
Los Angeles: Bruce McCallister, 1931. Quarto, [7] pages,
fourteen wood engravings, wood engraved vignette on
colophon. Original patterned boards with printed paper label on
front cover. Spine lightly browned, light wear along front joint
near head of spine, just exposing the cloth beneath the paper
boards, lesser wear along back joint, a little browning to
endpapers near gutter, as usual. A very good, clean copy of a
fragile book, far nicer than is usually seen, in custom-made
quarter morocco slipcase. One of five hundred copies. $5,000
One of the most important and influential illustrated
California books, this is generally considered to be Landacre’s
masterpiece.
“Except in occasional engravings of buildings, Paul
Landacre has confined all his efforts to hymning the “eternal
hills” and especially to searching out those qualities in them that
prompt us to use the adjective eternal. He gradually evolved a
conception of black lines and white lines—one kind passing
easily and unnoticed into the other—which enabled him to cut
into wood the erosive flow which has given rhythmic form to
hills and mountains” (Arthur Millier in the Preface).
(Lehmann p.43).
One of 500 Copies, With Two Original Leaves
55.
LITTLEJOHN, David. Dr. Johnson and Noah Webster. Two
Men & Their Dictionaries. San Francisco: Book Club of
California, 1971. Quarto. 84, [4] pp. Illustrated with original
leaves from A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson
(1755) and An American Dictionary of the English Language by Noah
Webster (1828). Dark blue cloth over light blue paper boards, giltdecorated covers, gilt morocco spine label. Boards lightly faded
at extremities, a couple of scuffs to back cover. A very good,
clean copy.
$250
One of 500 copies printed by Grabhorn-Hoyem.
56.
LIVY. Appendix Liviana, Continens I. Selectas Codicium
MSS. & Editionum antiquarum Lectones, praecipuas Variorum
Emendationes, & Supplemanta Lacunarum...II. J Freinshemii
Supplementorum Libros X. Oxford, Clarendon Press by James
Fletcher, 1746. Two parts in one volume, twelvemo. [10], 119,
[3], 312 pp. Contemporary calf, ruled in blind, edges stained red.
Spine darkened, contemporary small ink notations on
pastedowns. A very good, clean copy.
$600
First edition.
A significant contribution to classic studies with regards
to original texts of Livy, edited, according to Lowndes, by
Nathaniel Forster (1718-57), the noted classical and Biblical
scholar who produced, amongst other things, a five volume
edition of Plato's Dialogues and the first Hebrew Bible in Britain.
ESTC notes only four copies in North America.
Influenced Thomas Jefferson
57.
[LOGIC]. DUNCAN, William. The Elements of Logick. In
four books. London: Printed for R. Dodsley, 1748. Twelvemo.
[4], iv, 362, [1] pp. Complete with half-title. Contemporary
sprinkled calf, neatly rebacked. Gilt-ruled spine with burgundy
morocco label. A very good copy.
$1,500
First separate edition. Originally published in the same
year as part of Dodsley's the Preceptor. Duncan's work became a
standard eighteenth-century logic, going through ten editions in
fifty years. The first American edition appeared in 1792. The
present edition is surprisingly scarce: ESTC lists only four copies
in North America.
"Duncan's Elements of Logick is short, well-written, original, and excellent. And if it cannot in our own era be regarded as
the best introduction to the study of philosophy and mathematics in English, it is nevertheless hard to name a book more
deserving of such an accolade in eighteenth-century Britain"
(Howell, Eighteenth Century Logic and Rhetoric, p. 349). It became a
fundamental text for students of philosophy. Thomas Jefferson,
who owned the 1764 fifth edition, read it at the College of
William and Mary. "…the Declaration of Independence contains
unmistakable echoes of Duncan's thinking, and it is constructed
upon the exact organizational plan that Duncan recommended
for works designed to create certainty and conviction among
enlightened and critical readers. Nowhere is the germinative relation between academic study and political action more evident
than it is in this remarkable coincidence. Nowhere is it more
certain that the historical study of the logics and rhetorics used
as textbooks in a given century will make rich contributions to
an understanding of the literary works produced at the same
time" (ibid, p. 348)..
Item #53
Item #62
Item #65
Item #58
Item #66
Logic for Women
Item #60
58.
[LOGIC]. KNIGGE, Philippine, Freiin Von. Versuch einer
Logic für Frauenzimmer…Hanover: Christian Ritscher, 1789. Small
octavo. 162 pp. Silhouette portrait vignette on title-page.
Contemporary brown cloth over decorative boards, paper spine
label with title in manuscript. Spine ends, edges of boards
rubbed. Occasional light foxing. Former owner’s rubberstamp
on front free endpaper and dedication page. Very good. $2,000
First and only edition of a philosophical manual written
by the fourteen-year old Baroness Philippine von Knigge (17751841). She was the daughter of Adolf von Knigge (1752-1796),
author of several satirical novels and best known for Über den
Umgang mit Menschen (1788), “a work of practical wisdom on the
conduct of life” (Garland). In later years, Philippine von Knigge
translated Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s life of Swift, together with
her father (1795), and wrote by herself Lebensregeln aus den besten
ältern und neueren Schriftstellern (1799). All of her works are rare.
OCLC locates four copies only.
59.
[LOGIC]. NEWTON, John. An Introduction to the Art of
Logick: Composed for the use of English Schools, and all such who having
no opportunity of being instructed in the latine Tongue, do however
desire to be instructed in this liberal Science. London: Thomas
Passenger and Ben. Hurlock, 1671. Twelvemo. [12], 174 pp.,
with the extra leaf inserted after D2. Without the four-page
bookseller’s advertisements that are sometimes present.
Nineteenth century calf, ruled in blind. New endpapers. Pages
closely cropped, with occasional loss to numerals and running
titles. Bookplate. A good, clean copy.
$2,000
First edition of a work by the mathematician and reformer John Newton (1621-78). A second edition appeared in 1678.
“Being a royalist Newton received no preferment during
the interregnum and supported himself by teaching mathematics
and astronomy. He wrote a connected series of books on these
subjects, all in English, advocating the use of decimal arithmetic”
(Oxford DNB).
“Had Newton included Brerewood in this last of sources,
he would have been able to suggest that his vernacular logic had
been influenced by every important work published in Latin by
the English Systematics” (Howell, Logic and Rhetoric in England,
1500-1700, p. 316).
ESTC lists seven copies of this book, including only two
in North America.
Wing N1063.
Poetry Broadsides
60.
[LONE GOOSE PRESS]. ADAMSHICK, Carl. "Our
Flag." [Broadside]. Artwork by Keith Achepohl. Eugene,
Oregon: Lone Goose Press, 2011. 25 x 8 1/2." With illustrations
of flags in red, blue, yellow, and green. ("The original artwork
consisted of line drawings and etchings. The etchings were
scanned and digitally manipulated to create relief plates to render
the flag textures.") Fine. One of fifty-three copies, signed by the
author and the illustrator. The poem is from the collection,
Curses and Wishes (Louisiana State University Press, 2011), which
won the 2010 Walt Whitman Award.
$250
61.
[LONE GOOSE PRESS]. STAFFORD, William. "The
Way It Is." Eugene: Lone Goose Press, 2009. 18 x 12."
Handmade paper and thread drawing in burgundy by
Helen Hiebert. Printed on cream-colored paper in black and
light brown. One of fifty copies.
$300
The poem is from the collection, The Way It Is: New and
Selected Poems (1998).
The Discovery of Movable Types
62.
MCGOVERN, Melvin P. Specimen Pages of Korean Movable
Types. Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 1966. Folio, 31 x 43
cm. Frontispiece and twenty-two mounted specimens of
movable type (twenty facsimiles, two originals). Quarter white
buckram over yellow paper boards, by Kim Dong of Seoul. A
little soiling to covers, bookplate on front pastedown. A near
fine copy in original plain yellow dust jacket, in publisher’s
slipcase.
$3,750
Limited to 300 copies, of which is one of 205 regular
copies. Copies of this book contained various numbers of
original specimens, depending upon availability. This copy has
two originals, dating from 1795 and 1815.
Considered one of Korea’s greatest cultural achievements, the discovery of movable type in metal is an innovation
in printing which dates as early as the thirteenth century and
predates Western printing by nearly 200 years. This edition is
considered the best work on the subject and is beautifully
printed by Voyagers' Press, Tokyo. It was five years in the
making.
Monumental Work on 15th and 16th Century Portuguese Books
63.
MANUEL II, King of Portugal. Early Portuguese Books
1489-1600 in the Library of His Majesty the King of Portugal. Livros
antigos Portuguezes 1489-1600 da Bibliotheca de Sua Majestade
Fidelissima. London: Printed at the University Press, Cambridge,
and Published by Maggs Bros., 1929. Three volumes, large
quarto. [lviiii], 633, [1]; [xii], 817, [1]; [xlii], 791, [1] pp. With 22
facsimile plates, many printed in colors, and 474 other
illustrations, many printed in black and red, depicting woodcuts,
colophons, initial letters, printer’s marks, etc. Full salmon-tan
linen buckram with gilt spines. Portuguese arms stamped in gilt
on front covers. Spines lightly faded, small nick in spine of
Volume III. A very good set.
$2,750
One of 650 copies. First edition of this monumental
study of early Portuguese books. It was the first comprehensive
survey of Portuguese book decoration, woodcuts, and typography in the fifteenth and sixteenth century and remains an
indispensable reference for books of that period. There are a
number of unique items, fully described here for the first time.
Influenced Euler, Lagrange and Legendre
64.
[MATHEMATICS]. LANDEN, John. A Discourse
Concerning the Residual Analysis; A New Branch of the Albebraic Art,
Of very extensive Use, both in Pure Mathematics and Natural
Philosophy. London: Printed for J. Nourse, 1758. Quarto. 43, [1,
ads] pp. Recent quarter crimson morocco over marbled boards,
gilt spine, new endpapers. Some light foxing. Very good.
First edition.
$1,750
John Landen (1719-1790) was the most notable British
mathematician in the second half of the eighteenth century. At
the time when British mathematics was held back by inadequate
notation, an unfortunate consequence of the Newton-Leibniz
dispute, he was the only Englishman to score major advances in
mathematics and in the art of computation.
In this book and the succeeding Residual Analysis, Book I
(1764), he attempted to replace the fluxional calculus with an
analytic method "founded entirely on the anciently received
principles of algebra." According to Lacroix, this was the first
attempt to reduce the infinitesimal calculus to "purely
mathematical notions" (Oxford DNB). Landen's writings served
as the starting point for investigations by Euler, Lagrange, and
Legendre. He also developed the theorem known by his name
for expressing the length of a hyperbolic arc in terms of the
lengths of arcs in two ellipses.
ESTC notes eight copies in North American libraries.
Wallis, Biobibliography of British Mathematics 754LAN58.
Smith, History of Mathematics, p. 459. Cf. DSB.
65.
[MATHEMATICS]. LANDEN, John. The Residual
Analysis; A New Branch of the Algebraic Art, Of very extensive Use,
both in Pure Mathematics, and Natural Philosophy. Book I [all
published]. London: Printed for the Author; and sold by L.
Hawes…[et al.], 1764. Quarto. viii, "218" [i.e., 128] pp. Five
engraved folding plates. With list of subscribers. Recent tan calf
over marbled boards, Gilt-ruled spine with crimson morocco
label. A little light foxing. A very good copy.
$2,500
First edition.
ESTC lists nine copies in North America.
Wallis, 754LAN64. Smith, p. 459. Cf. DSB.
Japanese Kite Making
62.
MUROSAKO, Linda Johnston. Trilokyta: A set of words
and images about kites and influences on my kite making. Seattle: Linda
Johnston Murosako for the Drachen Foundation, 1995. 8 1/4" x
8 1/4." [60] pp. Japanese fold, with illustrated plates. Linoleum
cut illustrations, mounted small Japanese kite on a string. Each
letterpress leaf is mounted to a Japanese kite handmade paper.
Text on acid-free Hammermill Color Copy paper, digital images
printed on UV Ultra II paper. Linoleum stamps printed using
Daniel Smith Relief Ink on Masa paper. Wrappers, stabbed and
tied with bamboo at inner margins. Housed in a sleeve of
Nepalese handmade paper. A fine copy.
$275
One of thirty copies, signed by Murosako, who wrote,
printed, illustrated, and bound this book. Not in OCLC.
Rare Neapolitan edition of ‘Hero and Leander’
66.
MUSAEUS GRAMMATICUS. [Greek title.] Di Museo, il
grammatico, Gli amorosi avvenimenti tra Ero, e Leandro, Tradotti
dal Greco originale in latino, ed in versi Italiani da Francesco
Mazzarella-Farao. Napoli: Nella Stamperia di Pietro Perger,
1787. Octavo. [8], 83, [1], 69, [1,engraving]. 155, [3] pp.
Engraved frontispiece, signed F. La Marra,” full-page engraving
on k5v. Engraved title-page vignette, vignette engraving on f7r.
Woodcut head- and tail-pieces and capital letters. Text in Greek
and Italian. Contemporary stiff vellum, gilt stamped spine label,
edges sprinkled blue. Covers worn at fore-edge, some brown
spotting to front cover near fore-edge. Old bookplate on front
free endpaper. Overall a very good copy.
$1,250
Rare edition of Musaeus Grammaticus’ poem, Hero and
Leander.
Musaeus’ work probably dates from the very early 6th
century, as his style and metre are evidently modelled on those
of Nonnus. The Aldine edition, which Dibdin thinks is the first,
was the first book issued from the press of Aldus and the rarest
of the Aldine classics. The present edition is not in Dibdin.
The translator, Francesco Mazzarella-Farao (1746-1821)
also translated Vergil, Anacreon, Sappho, and others.
OCLC lists three copies worldwide.
One of Fifty Copies Printed by the Red Angel Press
67.
PALLADIO, Andrea. Excerpts from The Four Books on
Architecture. Translated by Robert Tavernor & Richard Schofield.
Bremen, Maine, and New York: [Red Angel Press, 2008. 16 ½”
x 10 ½.” 14 pp. Printed on Fabriano Artistico paper. The front
cover is split in the center, and the pages open both to left and
right. As the pages are turned, the leaves are trimmed narrower,
gradually revealing the cast paper bas-relief image of the facade
of La Rotonda on the inside back cover. Text illustrations. Titlepage in brown and black. Tan cloth, with title printed in brown
on front cover. Fine
$750
One of fifty copies, signed and numbered by the
printer/artist, Ron Keller. The text is taken from Palladio’s first
book on architecture.
68.
[PENNYROYAL PRESS]. RAMSEY, Paul. Eve, Singing.
Poems. [Easthampton, Massachusetts:] Pennyroyal, [1976].
Oblong 5 x 4/12.14 leaves, printed one-side only. Calligraphic
title by Anne Kaihlanen in red ink. Botanical engraving by
Moser. Printed in black and red. Olive cloth over marbled
boards, paper spine label. A fine copy.
$250
One of 100 numbered copies on Fabriano paper.
Designed by Barry Moser. Presentation copy, inscribed in pencil
by Moser on the colophon leaf.
69.
[PLATO]. [SOUVERAIN Matthieu]. Le platonisme devoilé.
Ou essai touchant le verbe platonicien. Divisé en deux parties.
Cologne: Chez Pierre Marteau, 1700. Twelvemo. [4], 395 pp.
Contemporary calf, gilt spine. Some wear to upper cover, front
joint neatly repaired, spine lettering a bit flaked. A very good
copy. From the Macclesfield Library, with their bookplate, and
the notation that this was a gift from the publisher ("Ex dono
Editoris").
$850
First edition.
Matthieu Souverain (d. ca. 1699) was a Huguenot who
settled in England, and a notorious Socinian. Here, he discusses
the doctrine of the Logos in St. John's Gospel. This work
attracted considerable attention, and was certainly read by Locke.
An English translation appeared in 1700, and a German one in
1782.
Prescott's Classic on the Spanish Invasion of Mexico
70.
PRESCOTT, William H. History of the Conquest of Mexico,
With a preliminary view of the ancient Mexican Civilization, and
the Life of the Conqueror, Hernando Cortes. London: Richard
Bentley, 1843. Three volumes, octavo. xxx, [2], 442; xvi, 439, [1];
xvi, 455, [1] pp. Engraved frontisportraits in each volume, two
engraved maps, one facsimile plate. Errata slip in Volume I.
Contemporary tan calf over marbled boards, gilt black and
burgundy morocco spine labels. Marbled edges. Spines lightly
faded and a bit scuffed, preliminaries and subsidiaries of each
volume lightly foxed. A very good set.
$500
First edition, preceding the American edition.
BAL 16340. Sabin 65263.
Signed Copy
71.
QUINE, W.V. Quiddities: An Intermittently Philosophical
Dictionary. Cambrdige, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard
University Press, 1987. Cloth. Fine in fine dust jacket. Signed by
the author.
$750
First edition.
Refuting Toland's 'Amyntor,' Second Edition with Added Material
72.
RICHARDSON, John. The Canon of the New Testament
Vindicated; In Answer to the Objections of J.T. in his Amyntor. The
Second Edition, Corrected with several Additions. To which is
now added a Letter from the Learned Mr. Dodwell, concerning
the said J.T…London: Printed for Richard Sare, 1701. Octavo.
[24], 135, [5] pp. Contemporary dark brown paneled morocco.
Gilt spine with raised bands, all edges gilt. Joints rubbed, light
wear at spine extremities. Marbled endpapers, contemporary
armorial bookplate. A very good copy.
$600
Second edition, with added material.
John Richardson (1647-c1725) was a fellow of Emmanuel
College, Cambridge, and rector of the college. The present work
was first published in 1700.
73.
ROBERTS, Verne L., and Ivy Trent. Bibliotheca Mechanica.
New York: Jonathan A. Hill, [1991]. Quarto. xiv, [2], 391 pp.
Full- and partial-page illustrations. Text in two columns. Bibliography and index. Quarter tan cloth over decorative boards,
spine stamped in gray. Fine in publisher’s plain paper dust jacket.
Jacket a little soiled.
$250
One of 1,000 copies in this binding. There were also 100
copies bound in quarter leather. Printed by W. Thomas Taylor of
Austin, Texas.
74.
SCHULZ, H.C. French Illuminated Manuscripts. San Francisco: David Magee, 1958. Small octavo. 30 pp. Printed in black
and brown in Lutetia type with the pages ruled in orange. With
an original illuminated manuscript leaf from a fifteenth-century
Book of Hours, and a reproduction of an illuminated miniature,
redrawn and hand-colored by Mary Grabhorn. Quarter
parchment over decorative white boards with title in gilt on
spine. A fine copy.
$950
One of 200 copies printed on English handmade paper
by the Grabhorn Press.
75.
[SCRIPPS COLLEGE PRESS]. Color. [Claremont,
California]: Scripps College Press, 1987. Broadside. Matted and
framed, to 23 1/2" x 32 1/2." The title "Color" in a multi-color
design across the top of the page, twenty hand-painted color
swatches in Windsor-Newton Designers Gouache by the Typography class at Scripps College, each color with accompanying
handset text in various typefaces. Printed on Somerset Satin.
Fine condition.
$600
One of seventy copies.
The "Color" Broadside was made as a preliminary study
for what was published as The Color Book in the same academic
semester. It is most striking.
Courtesy Book by the "Sweet Singer of Hartford"
76.
SIGOURNEY, Lydia Huntley]. Letters to Young Ladies. By
a Lady. Hartford: Printed by F. Canfield, 1833. Twelvemo. 152
pp. Original tan boards with green muslin spine, printed paper
spine label. Corners worn, old ownership signatures in prelimnaries, old pencil notation on front pastedown. Foxing throughout, due to poor paper quality. Still, a very good copy. $1,250
First edition of a courtesy book by the extremely popular
American poet known as the “Sweet Singer of Hartford.”
Includes chapters “On the Improvement of Time;” “on Female
Employments;” “On Dress, Manners, and Accomplishments;”
“On Books;” “On Conversation;” “On Doing Good;” “On Self
Government;” and “On Motives to Exertion.”
Lydia Sigourney (1791-1865) had an early career as a
teacher, and she wrote Moral Pieces in Prose and Verse for the use
of her students. She maintained a lifelong interest in education,
particularly the education of women.
BAL 17656.
77.
SIGOURNEY, L[ydia] H[untley]. Poems for Children.
Hartfield: Canfield & Robins, 1836. Small, square octavo. 91 pp.
Original patterned black cloth with gilt lettering on front cover.
Binding extremities lightly worn in places. Lightly foxed
throughout. A very good copy of a fragile book.
$650
First published in 1834, this second edition contains an
additional seven poems and a new introduction, in which
Sigourney writes about the usefulness of poetry in the education
of children.
BAL 17697; American Imprints 40167.
"Perhaps no woman of science until Marie Curie was as widely recognized
in her own time…"
78.
SOMERVILLE, Mary. On The Connexion Of The Physical
Sciences. London: John Murray, 1834. Small octavo. [8], 458 pp.
Green calf over marbled boards, gilt spine with burgundy
morocco label, edges sprinkled red. Joints, corners lightly
rubbed, occasional light foxing. A very good copy.
$600
First edition of Mary Somerville’s (1780-1872) esteemed
second book, which earned her an honorary membership in the
Royal Astronomical Society. Somerville utilized close associations with scientists of the day, including Brougham, Faraday,
Lyell, Whewell, Becquerel and Ampère, to produce “an up-todate account of what would later be classed as astronomy and
traditional physics, with, in addition, sections on meteorology
and physical geography (then linked with heat)” (Oxford DNB)
“Mary's long sustained and immensely successful
scientific writing was unquestionably outstanding. Perhaps no
woman of science until Marie Curie was as widely recognized in
her own time” (ibid).
This work went through a number of editions. The first,
however, is scarce.
"One of Paul Estienne's Greatest Achievements" (Schreiber)
79.
SOPHOCLES. Tragoediae Septem. Geneva: Paul Estienne,
1603. Two parts in one, quarto. [8], 788, [32], 51, [1], 202, [6] pp.
Greek and roman letter, in an elegant layout, with the Greek text
occupying the upper half of the page, with the Latin translation
underneath, and a Greek commentary at the foot. Second part in
double columns, in Latin, with references in Greek. Printer's
device on first title, decorative woodcut initials and tail-pieces.
Old calf, rebacked and recornered, later endpapers renewed after
an early style, later burgundy morocco label. Edges sprinkled red.
Intermittent foxing and age-toning, a little mild dampstaining.
Some worming at gutter margin in Gatherings V-Y, affecting a
few words. A good copy.
$2,500
First edition of Paul Estienne's greatest achievement.
Schreiber notes: "This is not a mere reprint of Henri's edition of
1578, but a much improved work: besides the commentaries of
Camerarius, it includes the Annotationes of Henri Estienne, which
were not found in the earlier edition. The Greek Sophoclean text
is accompanied by the scholia of Triclinios and the Latin
translation of Vitus Winsemius (Veit Oertel)" (Schreiber 273).
Brunet V, 447; Renouard 196, no. 12. Schweiger, p. 291.
Schreiber, 273 ("quite rare").
In a Beautiful Publisher’s Cloth Stamped Binding
80.
SOUTHGATE, Henry. Things a Lady Would Like to Know
Concerning Domestic Management and Expenditure. Arranged for
Daily Reference with Hints regarding the Intellectual as well as
the Physical Life. London: William P. Nimmo, 1874. Octavo.
543, [1] pp. Engraved frontispiece, engraved and printed titlepages, engraved headbands and tail-pieces. Melon-colored cloth,
decoratively stamped in black and gilt on front cover and spine.
Back cover decoratively stamped in blind, all edges gilt. Binding
extremities lightly rubbed, minor soiling. Ink ownership signature, dated 1903. A very good, bright copy.
$450
First edition of this comprehensive guide for young
women by print auctioneer and anthropologist Henry Southgate
(1818-1888). Includes chapters on breakfasts, tea, supper,
vegetables, sauces, pickling, confectionery, household recipes,
hints on travelling, dress, gardening, deportment, etc.
This work was very popular, going through at least half a
dozen editions prior to 1890. This first edition, however, is
uncommon. OCLC lists seven copies worldwide.
Latin and English Parallel Texts, With Engraved Frontisportrait and
Twelve Fine Engraved Plates by Fourdrinier
81.
SPENSER, Edmund. Calendrium Pastorale Sive Aeglogae
Duodecim/The Shepherd's Calendar, Containing Twelve Aeglogues,
Proportionable to the Twelve Months…Entituled to the Noble
and Virtuous Gentleman, most Worthy of all Titles, both of
Learning and Chivalrie, Mater Philip Sidney. Published by John
Ball. London: Printed by Will. Bowyer, 1732. Octavo. xiv, [4],
254 pp. The English text, and the Latin translation of Theodore
Bathurst (c. 1587-1682) are on facing pages. Frontisportrait of
Spenser engraved by Vertue, twelve engraved plates, one for
each of the months, by Paul Fourdrinier. With Latin preface by
John Ball, Latin life of Spenser, and English glossary. Early
twentieth century half brown leather over marbled boards, spine
stamped in blind with gilt burgundy morocco label, new
endpapers. Twentieth-century donor's inscription on front free
endpaper. A very good, crisp copy.
$950
First edition thus. The Bathurst Latin translation of
Spenser's poem first appeared in1579.
An attractive edition, with plates by Paul Fourdrinier
(1698-1758) was the Dutch-born son of Huguenot refugees. He
came to London in 1719 and subsequently opened a shop in
Charing Cross Road. He also engraved William Kent's designs
for illustrations to Homer's Odyssey (1725), John Gay's Fables
(1727), James Thomson's Seasons (1734), and Alexander Pope's
Essays on Man (1734), as well as engravings of Kent's architectural work.
See Hamilton, The Spenser Encyclopaedia, p. 389.
Rare Polish Imprint, A Register and Index of the First Edition of
Luther’s Works Printed at Wittenberg
82.
SUEVUS [or SCHWOB], Sigismund. Register aller Schrifften
des Ehwerdigen herm D. Martini Lutheri…Breslau: Crispinum
Scharffenberg, 1563. [with:] SUEVUS [or SCHWOB],
Sigismund. Index omnium scriptorum…M. Lutheri: accomodatus et
d 19 tomos Viebergenses et 12 Jhenenses, etc. Vratislaviae [i.e.,
Wroclaw or Breslau:]: Ex Officina Crispini Scharffenberg, 1563.
Two volumes in one, small quarto (200 x 150 mm.). *[1]-4, *4,
[]1, A-X4; α−β4, A-K4. Title-page of each volume in red and
black. Two full-page woodcut portraits of Martin Luther. Gothic
type. Charts and tables. Contemporary blindstamped pigskin,
decoratively stamped with roll-tool on both covers, in a design
that features human faces (probably Biblical figures) and
arabesques. Front cover stamped “DB” and dated 1568. Some
light soiling, lacks clasps, but a very appealing binding. Top
margin of the second work has a wormhole, grazing some
letters, but with no text loss. Owner-ship marks in ink on front
free endpaper. Very good.
$3,500
A rare register and index of the first edition of Luther’s
works printed at Wittenberg, including later editions.
Suevus or Schwob, whose dates are not available, also
published sermons, as well as a rare mathematics text, Arithmetica Historica, published at Breslau in 1593.
Wroclaw is the chief city of the historical region of Silesia,
in south-western Poland, situated on the River Oder. Over the
centuries the city has been part of Poland, Bohemia, Austria,
Prussia and Germany.
OCLC lists five copies of each work in the U.S.
A Newtonian Poem
83.
[VICINI, Giovanni Battista]. Poemetti filosofici. Modena:
Eredi di Bartolomeo Soliani, 1772. Octavo. 91, [3] pp. Woodengraved head- and tail-pieces. Contemporary speckled sheep
over speckled boards, gilt flat spine with reddish-brown pastepaper lettering piece. A few wormholes, front cover a little
rubbed. Occasional light foxing, but overall a very good, clean
copy. With early twentieth-century stamp Fratelli Campori on
front free endpaper.
$1,250
First edition.
Giovanni Battista Vicini (1709-1782), poet and translator,
was called by Baretti "uno dei magni poetastri d'Italia." He produced several poetry collections, both sacred and secular. He
worked at the Ducal court in Modena and dedicated this work to
Ipolito Giuliano Bellincini-Bagnesi, chamberlain to Duke
Francesco III. The title indicates that the poems contained here
are of a scientific nature. One of the longer poems is on the
botany and use of trees, entitled "La favela, ed il canto degli arbori et dei fiori," which is both on the subjects of agriculture and
natural history. Another poem, "I colori" deals with Newton's
color theory, in particular his diffraction of sunlight with a prism.
OCLC locates only one copy, at the British Library.
Item #91
Item #75
Item #94
Item #81
Item #82
Item #95
Presentation Copy
84.
VREELAND, Diana. D.V. Edited by George Plimpton
and Christopher Hemphill. New York: Knopf, 1984. Octavo.
Cloth. Fine in fine dust jacket. Presentation copy, inscribed by
the author: "To…All my best, Diana."
$300
First edition.
One of Ten Proof Copies, with an Extra Set of Plates
85.
WAGENER, Richard. California in Relief. Thirty Wood
Engravings…San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 2009.
Folio. Unpaginated. [4] pp. introduction by Victoria Dailey.
Title-page printed in black and red, with wood-engraved vignette, thirty full-page wood-engravings. Loose sheets in tan pictorial wrappers. Together with an extra set of four plates, each
numbered and signed by the artist, in its own brown paper
folder. In quarter reddish-brown morocco clamshell case, with
green silk boards. A fine copy.
$2,000
The book was issued in an edition of 300 copies, signed
by the artist. The wood-engravings were printed Wagener and
the text by Peter Koch. It went out of print immediately. This is
one of ten proof copies, of which five were artist’s proofs and
five were printer’s proofs. This is an artist’s proof, numbered
“ap3” and signed by Richard Wagener.
“Not since Paul Landacre mastered the aesthetic and
technical challenges of wood engraving in the early twentiethcentury has any California artist achieved prominence in the
medium until Richard Wagener began to explore it in the 1980s.
His previously published illustrated books have won wide
acclaim for their ingenuity and beauty" (from the introduction).
One of 110 Copies, Printed by the Plough Press
First edition.
Wallace (1823-1913) occupies a unique position in the
history of biology, having independently discovered the principle
of natural selection. His theory of the origin of species was
identical to that of Charles Darwin, to whom he sent his views,
and the modern theory of evolution was first born in their joint
paper in 1858. Unlike Darwin, Wallace was not wealthy, and he
spent most of his life as a working naturalist, finding new animal
and plant specimens for museums and wealthy collectors. His
most significant work was done in the Amazon (1848-1852) and
in the Malay archipelago (1854-1862).
In 1848, Wallace and Henry Bates left for Brazil aboard
the Mischief. Apart from collecting specimens, they "had a
broader purpose for travelling to the Amazon: solving the
mystery of the causes of organic evolution. Though Wallace had
unreservedly embraced the notion of social progress from his
early teens and apparently leaned toward a uniformitarianismbased but progressive view of change in physical nature even
before turning twenty, he had not been a convert to biological
evolution until he read Robert Chambers's controversial,
anonymously published Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation
about 1845, the year it was published. That one might
demonstrate the fact of evolution through a detailed tracing out
of individual phylogenies over time and space was apparent to
him early on, and the Amazon was to afford a natural laboratory
to this end" (Oxford DNB). The two men split up in 1850, with
Wallace choosing to concentrate on the central Amazon and Rio
Negro areas. There, he gained important insights about the
nature of the Amazonian people and made a map of the region
which was long considered definitive.
Abbey, Travel, 712. Borba de Moraes p.933. Field 1621.
Featuring Wood Engravings of Salvador Dali, Howard Hugbes, Timothy
Leary, Lizzie Borden, etc., Printed by Heavenly Monkey
86.
WAKEMAN, Geoffrey. A Leaf History of British Printing
from 1610 to 1771. [Oxford:] The Plough Press, 1986. Folio. 16
3/4” x 12.” [6] pp., together with ten folders, each containing
printed text describing the leaf of leaves inserted. Housed in a
natural linen clamshell box with gilt green morocco label on
spine. A fine copy.
$1,500
One of 110 copies, printed letterpress by Geoffrey and
Paul Wakeman at the Plough Press.
The present work was intended as a teaching tool, to
demonstrate some of the most important characteristics of
British printing in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Each folder contains at least one specimen leaf, or in a few cases,
facsimiles. Included are original leaves from Foxe’s Book of
Martyrs, Quintillian’s De Institutione Oratoria (1693), and an early
eighteenth century prayer book. There are two sections on
papermaking, two on illustration, and one on title-page design, in
addition to a section on printing in Scotland.
88.
WESTERGARD, Jim. Oddballs: The Remarkable True
Stories of Forty Unique, Strange, Peculiar, Extraordinary & Generally
Odd People, Told in Prose and Wood Engravings…With an
Introduction by Barry Moser. [Vancouver, British Columbia:]
Heavenly Monkey, 2011. Small folio. 98 pp. Forty mounted
engravings. Bound by Claudia Cohen in dark blue Japanese cloth
with gilt black morocco spine onlay. A fine copy in glassine dust
jacket.
$2,500
First edition. One of thirty copies, signed by Westergard.
Out of print upon publication.
A delightful book, featuring darkly humorous illustrations
of notable oddballs, including Salvador Dali, Aimee Semple
McPherson, Howard Hughes, Gelett Burgess, Rasputin,
Timothy Leary, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Lizzie Borden, and
others. Afterword by Rollin Milroy.
Scarce Account of Wallace's Four Years' Work in the Amazon
The Definitive Work on the Cartographic History of the West
87.
WALLACE, Alfred R[ussel]. A Narrative of Travels on the
Amazon and Rio Negro, With an Account of the Native Tribes and
Observations on the Climate, Geology, and Natural History of the
Amazon Valley…London: Reeve and Co., 1853. Octavo. viii, 541,
[1], [2, ads] pp. Tinted lithographic frontispiece, engraved map,
eight lithographic plates by and after Wallace, and folding
letterpress table. Full recent brown calf, gilt-ruled covers and
spine. First and last few leaves foxed. A very good copy,
complete with all plates and the leaf of ads.
$3,500
89.
WHEAT, Carl I. Mapping the Transmississippi West. 15401861. San Francisco: The Institute of Historical Cartography,
1957-1963. Five volumes in six. Heavily illustrated throughout
with facsimiles of old maps. Colored frontispieces, title-pages in
black and red. Original green buckram cloth over tan cloth
boards, gilt spines. A fine set, in plain paper dust jackets, with
holes cut out in the spines to reveal the titles. The definitive
work on the cartographic history of the West,
$2,950
One of 1,000 sets. Volume One was printed by the
Grabhorn Press, the rest by Taylor & Taylor & James from
Grabhorn design.
Finely Printed at the Ninja Press
90.
WHITEMAN, Bruce. XXIV Short Love Poems. [Sherman
Oaks, California:] Ninja Press, [2002]. 5 3/8” x 5 7/16.” Three
cyanotype photographs, sensitized by hand and printed on Velke
Losiny paper by Carolee Campbell, the photographer. Printed in
black and blue, with page numbers in tan, in hand-set Eve and
Paramount, on Japanese hangashi paper. Paste paper boards,
designed by Claire Maziarczyk. Text bound accordion-style. As
new.
$350
One of 135 copies, signed by the poet, and by Carolee
Campbell.
Bruce Whiteman is a Canadian poet, reviewer and translator, currently living in Grinnell, Iowa. His works include Visible
Stars: New and Selected Poems, and the continuing long poem, The
Invisible World is in Decline. He was the rare book librarian at
McMaster and McGill Universities and Head Librarian at the
William Andrews Clark Library.
One of Sixty-Five Copies, Printed by Richard Bigus
91.
WHITMAN, Walt. Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking.
[Torrance, CA: Labyrinth Editions, 1978]. Large oblong folio.
[10] ff. Printed in several colors on Japanese hosho paper, each
leaf is loose and enveloped in translucent Japanese paper. Linen
boards, with paper label. A fine copy.
$1,250
One of sixty-five copies, signed by the printer, Richard
Bigus.
Inspired by his design and printing of Labyrinth Edition's
first book Pablo Neruda's Ode to Typography, Richard Bigus
created this daring edition of Whitman's great poem. William
Everson wrote: "Bigus's prodigious experimentation with
Concrete Poetry in letterpress gives him…a sense of consummate mastery of typographical form."
Fine and Matheson, Printer's Choice, 54.
92.
[WOMEN]. ANCOURT, Abbe d'. The Lady's Preceptor.
Or, a Letter to a Young Lady of Distinction Upon Politeness. Taken
from the French of the Abbe D'Ancourt, and Adapted to the
Religion, Customs, and Manners of the English Nation. By a
Gentleman of Cambridge. The Second Edition, with Alterations
and Additions. London: Printed for J. Watts, 1743. Octavo. [8],
72 pp., including one page of publisher's ads. Title-page in black
and red. Contemporary calf, ruled in gilt, edges stained red.
Front joint cracked, but cords sound. Corners, joints rubbed.
Contemporary ownership signature, old armorial bookplate, and
modern bookplate. A very good copy.
$750
Second edition, published the same year as the first.
There is no record of a French original. We do not know what
additions were made in the second edition. Several other
eighteenth-century editions followed.
A series of essays of a few paragraphs in length on
various topics of etiquette: "Of Politeness in general;" "Of
Behaviour at Church;" "Of Conversation;" "Of Contradiction;"
"Of Prejudice;" "Of being too Inquisitive;" "Of Whispering and
Laughing in Company;" "Of Friendship with Men;" "Of Love;"
"Of Matrimony;" "Of Politicks;" etc.
Both the first and second editions are uncommon.
93.
[WOMEN]. PRICE, Emma, [editor]. The Moral Muse: For
Young Ladies. Comprising Education and Manners.—Virtues and
the Passions.—Human Life.—Nature and Time.—Religion.—
Miscellaneous.—Second Edition. London: Scott, Webster, and
Geary…1837. Small octavo (4 1/2" x 3.") xxiv, pp. [17]-212, [2,
ads] pp. Engraved frontispiece with tissue guard. Publisher's
azure cloth with front cover and spine decoratively stamped in
gilt, all edges gilt. Bookplate. A fine copy.
$350
Emma Price published this work in 1830. This second
edition is dedicated to the Duchess of Kent. Price is possibly the
wife of the piano maker Thomas Barratt, and mother of Thomas
James Barratt of Pears soap fame. The volume includes poems
by Hannah More, Cowper, Shakespeare, Mrs. Steele, Mrs.
Hemans, Jane Taylor, Edward Young,
OCLC notes copies of the first edition at UCLA,
Toronto Public Library, and the British Library. It locates no
copies of this second edition.
94.
XENOPHON. Xenophontos logos eis Agesilaon, Hieron, e
tyrannikos, Lakedaimonion politeia, Athenaion politeia, kai Poroi, e peri
prosodon. Græce & Latine. Recensuit Bolton Simpson… Oxonii e
typographeo Clarendoniano, impensis Jacobi Fletcher. Et
Londini, Georgii Hawkins, 1754. Octavo. [8], 359, [21 pp.
Engraved frontispiece, second title-page with vignette of the
Sheldonian theatre. Text in Greek and Latin. Latin translation by
Johannes Leunclavius (1533-1593). Contemporary tree calf, gilt
flat spine with burgundy morocco label, edges stained yellow. A
few pages lightly browned. A very good copy in a handsome
binding.
$950
First edition of Bolton Simpson's (1717 or 18-1786) edition of selections from Xenophon.
Simpson graduated M.A. from Queen's College, Oxford,
and was minister of West-Cowes, Isle of Wight. He also
produced an sermon on "The Superior Excellency of the
Righteous or Moral Character" and edition of Xenophon's
Memorabilia, published at the Sheldonian Theatre in 1749.
This is a scarce work: ESTC lists only three copies in
North America.
Sarah Fielding's Translation
95.
[XENOPHON]. Xenophon’s Memoirs of Socrates. With the
defence of Socrates, before his judges. Translated from the
original Greek…Bath: Printed by C. Pope…and sold by A.
Millar…1762. Octavo. [2], 8 (subscriber’s list), [2, errata, with
blank verso], vi, 339, [1, blank] pp. Early nineteenth-century calf
over marbled boards, rubbed. Front joint cracking, but sound.
Old ownership inscription on title-page, partially cropped at top
margin in the process of binding. A very good copy. $650
First edition.
Sarah Fielding (1710-68) was the sister of Henry Fielding
and a friend of Samuel Richardson and of Jane Collier. She was
the author of several novels, the best-known of which is The
Adventures of David Simple, a Moral Romance (1744). She was
“…one of the earliest of the English novelists to explore with
close attention varying states of feeling and the roots of motive”
(Oxford Companion to English Literature). She was a woman of
considerable learning, and her translation of Xenophon is highly
regarded. The D.N.B. notes that it includes some notes and
possibly a revision by James Harris of Salisbury (the author of
Hermes). It was published by subscription at Bath, where Fielding
spent her final years.
In a note to the preface, Fielding defends her use of the
word “Memoir” for the title of the book, citing the entry in
Johnson’s Dictionary and Elizabeth Carter’s use of the word
(presumably in her translation of Epictetus).