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1. AISABURO, Akiyama (publisher). Ceremonial Japan by Miss Dolly
Belle (pseudonym). Title in Japanese: Onna reishiki. 9 folded crepe leaves
[i.e., 18] pp. total, including front and back cover, 10 full-page color
woodblocks in all, including title-page and covers. 7G x 9I inches, Tokyo: Akiyama Aisaburo, [1896]. Sewn. OCLC records only Columbia.
$1,000
A fine crepe-paper Japanese color woodblock book from the same period and
in the same charming tradition which produced the beloved “Japanese Fairy
Tales” published by Hasegawa. According to this publisher, “The object of
the present publication is to give insights into those captivating arts which are
considered essential to the education of young women” (Preface). The arts,
each illustrated with a colored woodblock, include: Flower Arranging (Ikebana); Miniature Gardens (Bon-seki); The Tea Ceremonial (Cha-no-yu); Poem
Composing (Uta-no-kwai); Musical Conversazione (Ongaku-kwai); Needle
Work (Hari-Shigoto).
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2. ALKEN, Henry. The National Sports of Great Britain, with Descrip-
tions in English and French... Chasse et Amusemens Nationaux de la Grande
Bretagne. Parallel titles and text in English and French, text leaves with
numerical signatures from 1-50. Hand-colored engraved additional
title, 50 hand-colored aquatint plates by I. Clark after Henry Alken.
(Final two plates and final two text leaves with silver-fish loss to blank
margins). Folio (18I x 12G inches), London: Published by Thomas
McLean, 1823 [but later, plates watermarked 1822-1824]. First edition.
Contemporary black straight-grained morocco, the covers elaborately
panelled in gilt, the spine in six compartments with raised bands, lettered in the second compartment, the others with elaborate repeat pattern built up from small tools, gilt turn ins, cream-glazed endpapers,
red morocco inner hinges, gilt edges (scuffed, endpapers and blanks
with silver-fish damage). Tooley 41; Schwerdt I, p. 19; Podeschi 111;
Litchfield #14. $30,000
A fine copy of “Alken’s most important work... It must always form the cornerstone of any Alken collection” (Tooley).
The plates and text between them offer a thorough survey of the sports practiced in Great Britain in the first quarter of the nineteenth century. The subjects covered including riding, fox, stag and otter hunting, beagling, racing,
falconry, various types of dogs and horses, shooting grouse, partridge, pheasant, snipe, wild-fowl, bittern, pigeon, fishing for pike, and salmon, fishing from
a punt, prize-fighting, cock-fighting, badger, bear, and bull-baiting and perhaps
most extraordinary of all: “owling.” It is interesting to note that although both
the artist and the author of the text felt that it was necessary to record badger, bear and bull baiting, they did not refrain from condemning all three as
barbaric.
This copy is a later issue/impression. The additional pictorial title is dated
1821 (rather than 1820, as in the first issue), a letterpress title in French has
been added (only the English title is present in the first and second issues) and
the explanatory text leaves are signed consecutively from 1 to 50 (Podeschi
records an intermediate state/issue where only some of the text leaves are
numbered). The watermarks suggest a date of 1824 or later. The plates, very
carefully hand-colored, are all aquatints by I. Clark, and retain all of the liveliness that is such a feature of this work.
The artist Henry Thomas Alken was born into what became a sporting artistic
dynasty. He studied under the miniature painter J.T. Barber and exhibited his
first picture (a miniature portrait) at the Royal Academy when he was sixteen.
From about 1816 onwards he “produced paintings, drawings and engravings
of every type of field and other sporting activity. He is best remembered for
his hunting prints, many of which he engraved himself until the late 1830s ...
To many, sporting art is ‘Alken’, and to describe his work or ability is quite unnecessary” (Charles Lane British Racing Prints, pp.75-76).
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alken sporting plates
3. ALKEN, Henry. Bound volume containing 85 plates from various
works by Alken, many of sporting and equestrian subjects, including:
Specimens of Riding [and:] Humorous Miscellanies [and:] Scraps from the
Sketch Book [and:] Moments of Fancy [and:] Tutor’s Assistant. With 85
hand-colored engravings, each trimmed (usually with loss of imprint)
and mounted to size, mostly 2 per page. Large folio (15 x 30 inches),
London: v.d. Modern leaves in a binding of full red morocco gilt by
Birdsall, rebacked and preserving most of the spine. Minor edge wear.
Generally very good. $2,500
Scraps from the Sketch Book (Title leaf and 37 of 42 plates). Schwerdt p. 21.
Specimens of Riding near London (complete, 18 plates). Tooley 51 (1st ed.)/52
(2nd ed.); Humorous Miscellanies (complete, 6 plates). Tooley 30; Moments of
Fancy (13 of 14 plates, plus one duplicate). Tooley 40. Tutor’s Assistant (4 of
6 plates). Tooley 59. With six unidentified plates, signed “Hy Alken del.” and
titled: “Post Lads,” “Fox Hunter,” “Huntsman & Whipper In,” “Earth Stopper,” “Game Keepers,” “Poachers” (imprint trimmed away). A choice, representative album of Alken plates displaying both the comic and the realistic
sides of his work.
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“i hope jack teagarden blows his
horn for ever. he’s my man”
4. ARMSTRONG, Louis. Typed Letter, signed (“Louis Satchmo
Armstrong”) regarding Jack Teagarden, to Howard Waters, author of
Jack Teagarden’s Music, His Career And Recordings (1960). 2 pp., on two
sheets of “Satchmo” letterhead, with numerous corrections in pen in
the text of the letter. 4to, Corona [Queens], New York, February 6,
1956. Single vertical fold; the two sheets stapled. Very good. $5,000
One of the most resonant statements imaginable from one musician — in
this case, the most important jazz musician of the 20th century — regarding
another. The irrepressible Satchmo writes with uninhibited enthusiasm of his
eminent collaborator and long-time friend, trombonist Jack Teagarden, about
whom Waters evidently was preparing an article:
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“‘O my Gawd — I do hope that I’ve not gone and missed the grandest
opportunity that I have been waiting for years … to have the thrill of telling
to the wide wide world the exact way that I feel over Jack Teagarden and
his trombone playings … Yea, Jack’s my man … We have so many musical
memories in common … I don’t actually know where to start … First, he’s a
Human Being … God knows he is … Every time Jack picks up a trombone,
you can bet your bottom dollar that something’s coming out of that horn
real pretty. No matter if it’s sweet hot jazzy or dixieland … He really moves
me whenever he just puts his horn to his chops … the man is just born for
the trombone … The trombones were all made to blend with the Jackson first
; And that’s the way it is with Ol Satchmo until some one will prove to me
that I am wrong …
“When i said Jack’s a Human, what I personally mean by that is, he
impressed me, more than just a musician … He’s the type of Ofay Boy that
you (a negroe) can work with the rest of your life and there’ll never be any
thing but good music and the fondest of appreciation of each other. In other
words, he can’t be not a thing but our boy and Idol …
“P.S. Out on the south side of Chicago where the Regal and the Savoy
used to romp, years ago, a colored fellow who had just read in the evening
newspapers where Louis Armstrong and his All Stars are getting ready to
make a long long tour, all through the South. This young man made it his
business to ask me right away … Is Jack Teagarden going on the southern
tour with you, Satch? Immediately I answered him, saying, sure Jack’s going
on the tour , furthermore, who am I to tell a white man that he can’t go
south …P.S. It slayed that cat …
“Am yours musically, and I hope that Jack Teagarden blows his horn for ever.
He’s my man, personified. Wow.”
“are you ‘loosning???????’ … wow.”
5. ARMSTRONG, Louis and Lucille. Typed manuscript, inscribed
and signed (“To Mr. Howard J. Waters | Louis Armstrong”) of his diet
booklet “Lose Weight the ‘Satchmo’ Way. 3 pp., on rectos of three
sheets. 4to, N.p., n.d. [ca. 1956?]. Outer edges a bit worn, one corner
dog-eared, other corner stapled. $1,500
Not only was Louis Armstrong an avid fan of marijuana, he was also a frequent user of laxatives to control his weight, a practice he advocated both to
personal acquaintances and in the diet plan he published under the title “Lose
Weight the Satchmo Way”, as here in the typescript inscribed by Satchmo to
the writer Howard Waters, author of Jack Teagarden’s Music, His Career and
Recordings (1960).
Armstrong became a convert to a certain herbal laxative called “Swiss Kriss”,
and he not only praised its virtues, he handed out packs of it to everyone he
met, including members of the British Royal Family. Armstrong also appeared
in humorous cards which he sent out to friends, which showed him sitting on
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a toilet — as seen through a keyhole — with the caption, “Satch says, ‘Leave
it all behind ya!’”
In this diet booklet on Swiss Kriss, he closes with the Postcript:
“When the Swiss Kriss Company give me a radio show, my slogan will be
… ‘Hello, Everybody, this is “Satchmo” speaking for Swiss Kriss. Are you
‘Loosning???????’ … Wow.’”
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6. (ARTHURIAN LEGENDS) The History of the Valiant Knight Ar-
thur of Little Britain. A Romance of Chivalry. Originally translated from the
French by John Bouchier, Lord Berners. 25 hand-colored engraved plates
from illuminated drawings contained in a valuable MS. of the Original Romance. xxvii, [i], 544 pp. Re-printed by J. Moyes. 4to (9G x 7
inches), London: Printed for White, Cochrane, and Co., Fleet Street,
1814. New edition. One of a total edition of 200 copies. Contemporary tan calf, front hinge weak, marbled edges. Bookplate of John
Neeld. $2,000
An Arthurian romance translated from the French. The hand-colored plates
are so richly and precisely colored that they give the appearance of illuminated
miniatures.
7. ARUNDALE, F[rancis Vyvyan Jago]. Illustrations of Jerusalem and
Mount Sinai; Including the Most interesting Sites Between Grand Cairo and
Beirout. From Drawings By F. Arundale, Architect, With a descriptive Account
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of His Tour and Residence in Those Remarkable Countries. Portrait Frontispiece on India paper tipped-on of “Dress of an Inhabitant of Mt. Lebanon”, map, “Plan of Jerusalem” and 19 tinted lithographs printed by
either J. Graf or Hillmandel. viii, 116 pp. Printed by F. Shoberl. Folio,
London: Henry Colburn, 1837. First edition. Original blind-stamped
cloth, upper board titled in gilt. Finely rebacked preserving original
spine. Some minor spotting. Weber, 249; Hilmy, The Literature of Egypt
and the Soudan, Vol. I, 43; Tobler, Descriptiones Terrae Sanctae, p.155.
Rohricht, Bibliotheca Geographica Palaestinae 1731; Not in Abbey. $2,500
annotated by the artist
8. AVINOFF, Andrey. The Fall of Atlantis. A Series of Graphic Impressions of the Poem by George V. Golokvastofff. [Descriptive brochure by
Andrey Avinoff in collaboration with Percival Hunt]. Drawn in Wash
By Andrey N. Avinoff. [xii], [42] pp. Folio (21 x16 inches), Pittsburgh,
[Pennsylvania]: 1944. One of 300 reproduced in gravure for the artist by Beck Engraving. In original wrappers. Fine, in original slipcase.
$2,000
Very scarce portfolio of visionary drawings — some might say homoerotic
— by this brilliant Russian emigré artist and lepidopterist 1884-1949) who became director of the Carnegie Mellon Museum of Pittsburgh, and whose sister Elisabeth Shoumatoff painted the last portrait of FDR. For an account of
the artist and his family, see Alex Shoumatoff ’s Russian Blood (NY, 1982).
Inscribed by the artist:
“To Rawley (?) and Doris with friendly greeting, Avinoff.”
Each plate is also signed (lower right) and each plate is also annotated in pencil
by the artist on the verso, with notes on the symbolism depicted.
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calligraphic ms on vellum, ‘of gardens’
9. BACON, Francis. Of Gardens. Illustrated calligraphic manuscript
on vellum. Title lettered in gold, with vignette in black ink of Adam
& Eve in the garden of Eden with gold highlights, 21 pp. text lettered
in black in 17 lines, with 20 original drawings at the foot of the page,
signed “Written by Freda M. Bussell, 1922”, with a drawing opposite,
signed “FM” in monogram. 4to, N.p. [England, 1922]. Later tan morocco and marbled boards, green title label on upper board. Loose in
binding, else fine. $1,500
Finely executed calligraphic manuscript of Bacon’s celebrated “Of Gardens”,
from The Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall. The text includes botanical and
landscape vignettes at the foot of the text, and the final leaf opposite the calligrapher’s signature depicts Adam and Eve, chased from the garden of Eden,
in misery, she with a babe in arms and he covering his ears against the infant’s
screams, his shovel abandoned at his feet.
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10. BEWICK, Thomas. History of British Birds. The Figures engraved
on Wood by T. Bewick. Volume I. Containing the History and Description
of Land Birds. Volume II Containing the History and description of Water
Birds [with:] A Supplement … Part II. xxx, [ii], [1]-335; xx, [1]-400; 49, [1]
pp. 2 vols. 8vo (9 x 5L inches), Newcastle: Printed by Sol. Hodgson,
for Beilby & Bewick: Sold by them, and G.G. and J. Robinson, London
& Printed for Edward Walker, 1797, 1804 & 1821. First edition, first
issue, indicated by the absence of the words “Wycliffe, 1791” from the
figure of the sea eagle on p. 11 of Volume One. Bound in full green
nineteenth century morocco, gilt spine, a.e.g. Minor rubbing at joints,
internally fresh and clean, tall copy. Nissen IVB, 95; Wood p. 237; Zimmer p. 57-58; Hugo 99-103, 109-110. $1,500
The text of Volume One is entirely written by Beilby; and Volume Two is all
by Bewick. An attractive copy of a timeless classic of British illustration.
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11. (BIBLE, English) The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testa-
ments …. Frontispiece. 2 vols. Folio, Cambridge: Printed by Joseph
Benthem …, 1762. Folio edition, with Index and Tables at rear of vol.
II. Contemporary full red morocco , gilt. a.e.g. Spine labels damaged,
with loss. Hopewell Hall bookplate. Herbert 1142. $6,000
“In this Bible a serious attempt was made to correct the text of the King James’ version
… Copies of this folio edition are very scarce” (Herbert).
harper bible in deluxe publisher’s binding
12. (BIBLE, English) The Illuminated Bible, Containing the Old and New
Testaments, Translated Out of the Original Tongues ... Embellished with Sixteen Hundred Engravings by J.A. Adams, More Than fourteen Hundred of
which are From Original Designs by J.G. Chapman. Engraved presentation
leaf printed in green and black (in other copies sepia), contents leaf
printed in sepia, marriages, births and deaths pages printed in red, blue
and sepia respectively, engraved main title printed in sepia (in other
copies blue), engraved title to New Testament printed in blue (in other
copies sepia), 2 frontispieces, text in triple column, the middle column
a narrow one with notations and glosses; numerous wood-engraved
illus. throughout; bound without the 2 half-titles printed in red; 844,
128, 256, 4, 8, 14, 34 pp. Large, thick 4to, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1846. First book edition, first issued in parts. Bound in full brown
publisher’s bevelled morocco, gilt- and blind-stamped with filigrees and
tendrils, spine in five compartments, covers with four raised compartments around central raised diamond, a.e.g. Stamped on lower margin
in gilt “Jacob H. DePuy,” with history and records of the DePuy and
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Hasbrouk family between Old and New Testament. Hills 1161; Hamilton 198; Herbert 1860; see also Exman, The House of Harper, pp. 34-35,
and Weitenkampf, American Graphic Art.
$3,000
“...this Harper publication was a remarkable production for its time and place,
and retains its importance in the annals of American book-making” (Hills).
“Drawing, engraving, and printing were all marvels at the time of this book’s
production; and it well deserved the popularity it immediately obtained …”
(Hamilton, quoting Linton). “This elaborate Bible was issued in parts from
1843 onwards. Many of the illustrations were made from woodcuts by the
electrotype process, the first in America.” (Herbert 1860). “The first notable
American effort to produce a richly illustrated book” (Weitenkampf ).
the boyle lectures
13. BLACKALL, Ofspring. The Sufficiency of a Standing Revelation in
General, and of the Scripture Revelation in Particular. Both as to the Matter
of It, and as to the Proof of It; and that New Revelations cannot reasonably
be desired, and would probably be unsuccessful. In Eight Sermons, preach’d
in the Cathedral-Church of St. Paul, London; at the Lecture Founded by the
Honourable Robert Boyle Esq; in the Year MDCC. [4], 24; 30 ; 31, [1, ad]; 68;
36; 64 pp. 7 parts in one volume, with separate title-pages and, except
for the last two, with separate pagination. 4to, London: Printed by J.
Leake, for Walter Kettilby, at the Bishop’s Head in St. Paul’s ChurchYard, 1700. First edition. Bound in contemporary black morocco
handsomely gilt-tooled to panel design, covers with central gilt floral
device, spine slightly faded, spine ends slightly worn; internally, scattered minor foxing, but remarkably clean and crisp. Handsome copy.
Bookplates of Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex (1773-1843),
sixth son of George III; and of Kenneth Garth Huston. Wing (2nd ed.,
1994) B3055; ESTC R6615; Fulton, A Bibliography of the Honourable Robert Boyle, p. 198; CH 13144. $1,250
“All but the last sermon were also issued separately in the same year” (ESTC).
The Boyle Lectures were created by Robert Boyle to provide a forum for intellectuals discuss the nature of God, and defend Christianity from its detractors.
“Their design, as expressed by the institutor, is to prove the truth of the Christian religion against infidels, without descending to any controversies among
Christians; and to answer new difficulties, scruples, etc.” (DNB)
Blackall (1654-1716) was awarded the Boyle Lectures in 1700, partly as a result
of his lengthy and highly public controversy with John Toland, who allegedly
disputed the authenticity of certain passages of the New Testament. “Blackall’s altercation with Toland had brought him to prominence as a defender of
revealed religion against the attacks of the deists. Consequently he was chosen
to deliver the Boyle lectures in 1700.”
Superb copy in a lovely contemporary binding with impressive provenance.
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first oxford octavo
14. BLACKSTONE, William. Commentaries on the Laws of England. 4
vols. 8vo, Oxford: at the Clarendon Press, printed for William Strahan,
Thomas Cadell, and Daniel Prince, 1783. Fifth edition and first Oxford
octavo edition. Contemporary calf, rubbed. Bookplate of Gervas Holmes. Rothschild 407; Printing and the Mind of Man 212; Grolier English
52 (First edition). $1,750
One of the cornerstones of our legal system, and still regarded as the best general history of English law. In these lectures which he gave as the first Vinerian
Professor of Law at Oxford, Blackstone taught (as even his critic Bentham
noted) “jurisprudence to speak the language of the scholar and gentleman.”
engraved on silver plates — in fine contemporary binding
15. (BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER) The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church according
to the use of the Church of England. Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David.
xxii [Subscribers list, pp. xix-xxii, bound out-of-sequence], 166, 1 pp., entirely
engraved on silver plates throughout within engraved borders, with vignettes,
decorated initials, etc, by John Sturt. With volvelle, p. v. 8vo, London: J. Sturt,
1717. Full contemporary red morocco, tooled in gold to a panel design with
flowers, vases and small tools, and interlacing strapwork design in panel corners. Spine in six compartments with five raised bands, comb marbled endpapers, a.e.g. Some small defects in tooling (over-deep impressions and blackening), else a fine copy. Lowndes, p. 1493; Griffiths, 1717/1; ESTC T141241; cf.
Foot, Henry Davis Gift, II, no. 152 for similar binding. Provenance: H.D. Lyon
(pencil note on blank); Peter A. Wick (bookplate). $4,000
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16. (BRICKTOP) Smith, Ada “Bricktop.” Archive of 15 Autograph
Letters, signed and 6 Autograph Notes, signed (“Brick,” “Bricky,” and
“Brick Top”) to Jodi Desmond ( Josephina Desimone), most with original autograph transmittal envelopes. Together with 10 pp of manuscript notes and 4 pp of typescript notes on Bricktop by Desmond, and
other related clippings and ephemera. In all, 41 pages recto and verso.
4to, 8vo, and 12mo, various places including Rome, London, New
York, October 13, 1958 to April 13, 1972. With minor creasing and
toning throughout, otherwise fine. In black notebook. $3,000
Dancer, singer, Parisian cabaret star Bricktop was born in West Virginia, and
by her teens was performing on the Pantages vaudeville circuit. From the
1920s to the 1950s, she had her own nightclub in Paris, Chez Bricktop, where
she nurtured the careers of Duke Ellington, Mabel Mercer, and Josephine
Baker, and entertained celebrities such as Cole Porter, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and
the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. Porter wrote the song “Miss Otis Regrets”
for Bricktop.
This series of letters is written to Jodi Desmond, a young woman whom Bricktop met in Rome during the 1950s. In her autobiography, Bricktop by Bricktop,
she describes Desmond thus:
“She was a white girl, quite young, and I don’t remember now why she was
in Rome. She had something to do with the picture business. She was one of
what I used to call the ‘out-real people’-the people who didn’t really belong,
but who sort of hung around on the fringes. Jody was very popular, and she
and I became quite close. It was she who found the cellar location on the Via
Veneto that most people remember as the Rome Bricktop’s.”
In this series of letters, Bricktop discusses the vicissitudes of the nightclub
business as well has her Catholic faith. From New Year’s Eve, 1967:
“I’m so restless keeping house going to mass, saying my rosary answering
the telephone to say no no no, I don’t want to go out. It’s just another
hangover next day & I must say not the hangovers we used to have & as
you know the Doctors tell me I must do something at least 3 or 4 nights a
week but I can’t make up my mind to work for anyone else & to put $$ in a
place of my own ... could have done a lovely place in Marbella starting June
but again its putting money & who knows. Darling you know I’m too old
to start staying up & drinking a lot of liquor every night & if its Bricktops
you know what happens ... was going to work with Charlie Beal at Georges
thank God I never went back to talk business with them. They fired Charlie
on a one night notice because Charlie didn’t want whores hanging around
his piano. / Yes, whores in Georges.”
17. (BRITISH MILITARY) The Field of Mars: Being an Alphabetical Digestion of the Principal Naval And Military Engagements, in Europe, Asia,
Africa, and America, Particularly of Great Britain and Her Allies, from the
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Ninth Century to the Peace of 1801. Frontispieces. With half-titles. 2 vols.
4to, London: G. and J. Robinson, Paternoster Row, 1801. Title-page
and frontispiece of each volume foxed. Light scattered foxing to text.
Modern half brown calf and marbled boards. In uniform tan half morocco boxes, spines gilt. Sabin 24297. $2,500
The work contains numerous entries for North American battles from the
Seven Years’ War and the American Revolution, including Annapolis Royal,
Beausejour, Brandy-Wine, Lake Champlain, Charlestown, Fort Frontenac,
Louisbourg, etc. The entry for Bunker Hill describes the battle by quoting
from a letter from General Burgoyne to Lord Stanley. In it, he writes, “‘And
now ensued one of the greatest scenes of war that can be conceived.... the
day ended with glory, and the success was most important, considering the
ascendancy it gave the regular troops; but the loss was uncommon in officers,
for the numbers engaged.’”
A veritable trove of military information, with descriptions of many important battles in British - and American - history.
buck’s tribute to sun yat-sen
18. BUCK, Pearl S. Typescript, with autograph corrections, of her
speech in tribute to Sun Yat-sen. 4 pp. typed with autograph corrections in pencil. 4to, ca. March 12, 1944. Oxidization from paper clip,
else fine. In custom folding box. $1,000
Typed manuscript, heavily corrected in pencil, of a speech delivered at the
Metropolitan Opera House on March 12, 1944, at a rally organized by Buck to
commemorate Sun Yat-sen on the 19th anniversary of his death. An advance
copy of this speech was published in the New York Times on the same day.
Buck stresses Sun Yat-sen’s humble upbringing, his selflessness, and his love of
the Chinese people, and speculates as to the origins of his political awakening.
“A few souls are born who seem to have in them the comprehension of all
other souls, a universal understanding … and these never are content to
glorify themselves.”
According to Peter Conn in his Pearl S Buck: A Cultural Biography, Buck’s speech,
and the rally at which it was delivered, where intended to praise Sun Yat-sen
at the expense of Chiang Kai-shek and the Kuomintang: “While she praised
Sun Yat-sen effusively, she never mentioned Chiang. In the circumstances of
the moment, Pearl’s silence amounted to an oblique but unmistakable rejection of Chiang and the Kuomintang. Chiang had struggled for almost two
decades to demonstrate that his authority descended legitimately from Sun’s.
Pearl’s contrary version of history suggests that in 1944, nineteen years after
Sun’s death, no legitimate successor had appeared” (p. 280). In a further jab
at Chiang Kai-shek, Buck’s speech ends in praise of Sun Yat-sen’s wife Soong
Ching-ling, who was of course the older sister of Madame Chiang.
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19. BURROUGHS, John; Thomas EDISON; Henry FORD. Our Va-
cation Days of 1918. 74 sepia-toned silver prints mounted on card-stock.
4to, n.p., 1921. Bound in half black morocco over paper boards, slipcase worn, else fine. $2,000
Documents the camping vacation taken by Burroughs, Edison, and Ford in
the summer of 1918 through the Allegheny and Appalachian Mountains, beginning in Pittsburgh and ending in Haggerstown, Maryland. Also pictured
throughout the album are automotive notables such as Harvey Firestone,
founder of Firestone Tires, and his son Harvey Jr. The text is provided by
Burroughs, to whom the book is dedicated, and who died shortly after the
trip’s conclusion. The photographs and individuals depicted therein illustrate
the stunning dichotomy between unadulterated American landscape and the
increasingly imposing presence of modern industry.
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rare
20. (BURTON, Richard F.) Catullus, Caius Valerius. The Carmina of
Caius Valerius Catullus. Now first completely Englished into Verse and Prose,
the Metrical Part by Capt. Sir Richard F. Burton … and the Prose Portion,
Introduction, and Notes Explanatory and Illustrative by Leonard C. Smithers.
Inserted Frontispiece (in 2 states). xxiii, 313 pp. Royal 8vo, London:
Printed for the Translators, In One Volume, For Private Subscribers
Only, 1894. First edition, Number 24 of 50 copies on unbleached Arnold hand-made paper with proofs before letters of the frontispiece in
2 states. Original quarter vellum and boards. some bumping to corners, else about fine. Nelson C1894.4; Penzer pp. 156-157; Booth 357;
Mendes pp. 17-19. $1,000
This verse translation of Catullus was one of the final literary projects of explorer-linguist Sir Richard F. Burton; it took several years for his friend and collaborator Smithers to convince Lady Burton to allow the work’s publication.
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21. CARRADORI, Francesco. Istruzione Elementare per gli Studiosi della Scultura …. Engraved title and 17 engraved illustrations on 13 leaves.,
with 7 leaves. descriptive text. [ii], xxxvii pp. 4to, Florence: [Tipografia
della Società Letteraria], 1802. First edition. Contemporary half catspaw calf and decorated paper boards, flat spine divided in six compartments stamped with gilt urn tool, title label. Some light foxing
throughout, very good. Cicognara 306; Brunet I, p. 1598. Provenance:
Peter A. Wick (bookplate). $3,500
Important treatise on sculpture by the neo-classicist Carradori.
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22. CASSATT, Mary. Document, signed (“Mary S. Cassatt”) three
times and once by the US Vice Consul General, allowing entry of a
painting into France. [With:] Manuscript customs declaration, signed
(“R.S. Cassatt”) by Cassatt’s father, allowing the painting’s export from
Philadelphia. One page printed “Artist-Certificate” accomplished in
Cassatt’s hand, with one-page customs declaration in pen and ink and
one-page violet covering sheet, docketed in pen and ink. Paris: July 28,
1876. Prior folds, affixed at top edge to customs declaration. In custom
cloth chemise. $3,500
Cassatt adds a two-line description of the painting on the verso, “a picture 100
[?] by 70 centimeters / representing a Musical Repetition.” This is most likely
“A Musical Party,” painted in 1874 and now at the Musée Carnavalet, Paris.
Cassatt’s father, who disapproved of his daughter’s vocation, signed the Philadelphia customs declaration which valued the painting at $400 in its frame.
inscribed to the man who cast the
deciding vote for women’s suffrage
23. CATT, Carrie Chapman, compiler. Woman Suffrage by Federal Constitutional Amendment. [At head of title:] National Suffrage Library. 100
pp. 12mo, New York: National Woman’s Suffrage Publishing Co, Inc.
1751 Madison Avenue, 1917. First edition. Original blue cloth. About
fine. $2,500
Inscribed on the front free endpaper:
“To Congressman Frederick C. Hicks, Compliments, Carrie Chapman Catt.”
“Her unique contribution to the women’s movement was her global view
and her certainty that the world’s people had to live equitably and peacefully
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together ... Her feminism was a worldwide revolt against all artificial barriers that laws and customs interpose between women and human freedom”
(ANB).
Catt succeeded Susan B. Anthony as head of the NAWSA, and her “Winning
Plan” — a two-pronged approach that fought for women’s suffrage at the state
and federal level — was ultimately successful with the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920. Although modestly credited as this book’s compiler, Catt wrote four of its six chapters. She dedicates the book to the U.S.
Congress, to whom she addresses her case for the necessity of a constitutional
amendment granting women’s suffrage.
The present copy is inscribed to a member of Congress, Frederick Hicks, representative from New York (1915-1923). The association is compelling and
important: on 10 January 1918, when the vote on suffrage was before Congress, “[Hicks] left his wife’s deathbed on her insistence to cast his vote for the
resolution He then went home to her funeral … The amendment passed by a
single extra vote 274 ayes to 136 nays, one more than the required two thirds”
(Van Voris, Carrie Chapman Catt, p. 148).
An amazing association.
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the artist’s sketches, mock-up & proofs
24. (CHELONIIDAE PRESS) Lawrence, D. H. Tortoises. Six Poems by
D. H. Lawrence … With an Introduction by Jefferson Hunter. Etched portrait
frontispiece and 7 wood engravings. Includes two mock-ups signed by
Alan James Robinson with illustrations, 8 original watercolor drawings,
a group of 31 pencil studies, 30 proofs of the woodcuts and etchings,
and a long galley proof. 4to, [Williamsburg, Massachusetts]: Cheloniidae Press, 1983. Artist’s copy. Full vellum on straps, hand-bound by
Gray Parrot. Spine lettered and gilt, top edge gilt. Watercolor drawings, engravings, and mock-up material laid into four cloth chemises.
All in cloth clamshell box. Fine. $5,000
Six poems, originally published in Birds, Beasts & Flowers (1930), newly illustrated by Alan James Robinson.
Unique visual archive of the genesis and execution of this fine edition.
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artist’s mock-up with complete set of
pencil and watercolor drawings
25. (CHELONIIDAE PRESS) Robinson, Alan James, artist. Artist’s
Watercolor Drawings and Design Maquettes for Edgar Allan Poe’s The
Raven. 10 ink and watercolor drawings, signed by Alan James Robinson; 16 pencil and ink drawings, signed by the artist. First and second
publisher’s mock-ups with pencil and ink drawings. Oblong 4to, [Easthampton, Mass.: Cheloniidae Press, n.d., 1986]. Published in 1986.
Drawings housed in two individual chemises. First mock-up loose in
sheets. Second mock-up bound in black felt with red fibers. All contained in custom cloth clamshell box. Fine. $7,500
The artist’s own copies of the mock-ups for the 1986 Cheloniidae Press edition
of The Raven, with numerous variations of Robinson’s fine illustrations for
Poe’s classic poem. This was the second edition of the poem from the press,
with an entirely new series of illustrations.
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mock-up, 41 drawings, binder’s dummy
26. (CHELONIIDAE PRESS) Robinson, Alan James, artist. A Collection of Artist’s Working Drawings and Maquettes eventually published as An Odd Bestiary. Collection of 3 mock-up books in varying
stages. Includes 41 pen and pencil drawings by Alan James Robinson
and binder’s dummy signed David Bourbeau. Folio, Easthampton:
Cheloniidae Press, 1983. One mock-up in quarter red morocco over
linen cloth, bound by Gray Parrot, gilt lettering on spine. Binder’s
dummy of full red morocco, blind-stampeded and hand tooled by
David Bourbeau. Unbound leaves contained in chemises. All in cloth
clamshell box with inset paper label on spine with calligraphic title by
Susanne Moore. Fine, with some minor discoloration to clamshell box.
$7,500
Dummy is inscribed and signed by late David Bourbeau: “for Cheloniidae
Press in appreciation for the tremendous boost you’ve given my career by giving me such great work to do David 11.26.82” and “this dummy was made
without the benefit of seeing the finished layout or prints from the finished
book. Thistle Bindery Easthampton. MA. 1982 DPB.” With his notes at the
back “Thistle Bindery 2-17-82....the tube on this dummy is made of ‘Gehenna
Shakespeare ‘ paper which appears a bit heavy-go to a lighter weight handmade...”
WITH the typescript, annotated, etc.
Bound mock-up contains title “The Odd Bestiary.”
This collection provides unprecedented insight into the evolution of one of
the most successful books of the Cheloniidae Press.
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27. (CHINA) [Gruber, Johannes][Jacopo Carlieri, editor]. Notizie va-
rie dell’ imperio della China e di qualche altro paese adiacente [Relazione della
China cavata da un ragionamento tenuto col Padre Giovanni Grueber, da L.
Magalotti. Alcune lettere latine del suddetto Padre toccanti l’istesse materie],
con la vita di Confucio, … e un saggio della sua morale [Scientiae sinicae inter Confucii libros secundus latine... a P. Prospero Intorcetta].... xv, [i], 185,
[3] pp. 12mo, Florence: Giuseppi Manni, 1697. First Carlieri edition.
Contemporary vellum, red sprinkled edges. Very good. Gamba 1985;
Razzolini 682. $1,500
Gruber (1623-1680) was a Jesuit sent to the China mission. He explored various land routes to China, visiting Western China, Tibet, Nepal, and India and
attempted a northern route through Latvia and Russia. Gruber’s account of
his voyages was first published in Italian and French in 1672 in Thévenot’s Relations Divers Voyages Curieux and reprinted here, along with a life of Confucius.
congress responds to the boxer rebellion
28. (CHINA) United States of America, 55th Congress. Printed
Document, signed by the Speaker of the House (Thomas B. Reed”);
and the President pro tempore of the Senate (“William P. Frye”), being a
“joint resolution of inquiry concerning outrages on American citizens
in China”. One page, on parchment paper. Washington, D.C.: Dec.
5, 1898. Central horizontal fold; slightly soiled. In folding cloth case.
$1,500
With reports and rumors circulating about attacks on foreign missions, including Americans, in Northern China, a concerned U.S. Congress adopted the
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following joint resolution:
“Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United
States of America in Congress assembled, That the President be, and he is
hereby, requested to communicate to Congress … all the information in his
possession concerning certain alleged outrages committed upon the person
of Bishop Earl Cranston and other American citizens in the city of Pekin,
China, by subjects of the Emperor of China, and what steps, if any, have
been taken by the State Department in the matter of demanding suitable
redress and indemnity therefor.”
Bishop Cranston was an American Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
elected in 1896.
the abolition of the slave trade
29. CLARKSON, Thomas. The History of the Rise, Progress, and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade by the British Parliament. 3 plates (2 folding) and folding map. [4], 572; [2], 592 pp. 2 vols.
8vo (23 x 14 cm), London: Printed by R. Taylor & Co., Shoe-Lane for
Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, 1808. First edition. 20th-century
three-quarter roan and marbled boards. Light wear to bindings. Bookplate on front pastedowns. Light scattered foxing. Very good. Sabin
13486; Library Company of Philadelphia, Afro-Americana 2388; Kress
B.5319; Goldsmith19725; Smith I, 429; see PMM 232. $3,000
Clarkson (1760-1846), along with William Wilberforce and Granville Sharp,
was instrumental in convincing the British public and Parliament of the moral
necessity of abolishing the slave trade. Clarkson’s Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species (1786) galvanized a small group of abolitionists,
though they were without political clout until Wilberforce, an MP, publicly
took up the cause a year later. A motion for abolition, championed in Parliament by Wilberforce, was defeated in 1791. Not until 1807 did Parliament pass
the act abolishing the slave trade. Though the title of Clarkson’s History is
triumphant, it wasn’t until 1811 that slave trading was made a felony. In 1823
Clarkson and Wilberforce were made Vice-Presidents of the newly formed
Anti-Slavery Society to continue the fight-- it was as late as 1833 that all slaves
in the British Empire were finally emancipated. The book includes the large
folding plate of the plan of a slave ship, displaying the horrendous accommodations endured by the slave. When it was submitted to the House of
Commons as evidence of slavery’s inhumanity, “the print seemed to make an
instantaneous impression of horror upon all who saw it” (vol. II, p. 111). “Between them, Clarkson and Wilberforce had achieved and seen accomplished
the triumphant conclusion of a campaign, carried on by word of mouth and
by means of the printing press, for one of the fundamental rights of man”
(PMM).
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(detail)
30. CLARK, John Heaviside. View of London from the Adelphi, forming
part of the Panorama of the Thames from London to Richmond. One page,
folding hand-colored aquatint panorama (238 x 1714 mm), on three
sheets. Small 4to, London: Samuel Leigh, nd, watermarked 1829.
Original green cloth covers, letterpress title with ornamental border,
mounted on upper cover, later blue morocco-backed slipcase. Some
repairs to folds, else fine. $1,500
A lovely vista of early-industrial London along the Thames, stretching from
Westminster Abbey to Waterloo Bridge. On the river are several varieties of
Watercraft, including the barges of the City Companies in the regalia of Lord
Mayor’s day.
John Heaviside Clark was a celebrated painter and engraver of sea-and landscapes, active at the Royal Academy between 1801 and 1832.
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“sweet genevieve” by stephen foster’s friend, george cooper
31. COOPER, George. Autograph Manuscript signed (“George Cooper”), fair copy, of the lyrics to the song “Sweet Genevieve.” Two stanzas and chorus, on one page, in ink. 4to, [First published, New York:
Wm. A. Pond, 1869]. Fine.
$2,000
One of the most popular songs of the 19th century, with music by Henry
Tucker, “Sweet Genevieve” is one of the few surviving songs by George Cooper (1838-1927?), whose friendship with Stephen Foster in the last few months
of Foster’s life has been well documented. The two evidently collaborated on
several songs together, which are now lost, and it was Cooper who discovered
the prostrate body of his stricken friend on the Bowery the day before Foster
died, and who informed the family of his death.
Autograph lyrics of Cooper are of the utmost rarity.
32. (COROT, Jean-Baptiste-Camille) Robaut, Alfred. L’Œuvre de
Corot. Catalogue Raisonné et Illustré..... 5 vols. Folio, Paris: 1965. Contemporary green cloth, gilt leather labels. Wrappers bound in. Bookplate on front pastedowns. Fine. $6,000
A handsome catalog of the works of French artist Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
(1796-1875), produced in a limited edition of five hundred copies. Contains
historical and biographical information, as well as a complete listing of his
works. Definitive and hard to find.
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33. COTON, Pierre, S.J. Devotes Oraisons pour tous Chrestiens et
Catholiques. [bound after:] Bound after a contemporary printed Book
of Hours in Latin and French lacking title. 3 (of ?) engraved plates by
Jean Matheus depicting SS. Genevieve, Francis of Paola, and Catherine. 80 pages. 8vo, Paris: Gabriel Clopejau, 1637. Late 17th-century
red morocco elaborately gilt-tooled to center-and-corner design of
massed pointillé volutes, floral sprays, and small ornamental tools, central diamond and corner triangle onlays of black morocco, gilt edges,
gauffered to floral pattern accentuated with paint (now faded) Light
wear to joints, clasps removed, contents relatively clean. Morocco exlibris of Julius Wangenheim. $2,500
Pierre Coton (7 March 1564, at Néronde in Forez – 19 March 1626, at Paris)
was a French Jesuit and royal confessor.
a delightful complete set of cruikshank’s comic almanacs
34. CRUIKSHANK, George. The Comic Almanack for 1835-1853: An
Ephemeris in Jest and Earnest...By Rigdum Funnidos, Gent. Each with from
6 to 12 full-page monthly plates and other illustrations by Cruikshank,
4 with fold-out color frontispieces (1850-1853). 19 vols. 12mo, London:
Imprinted for Charles Tilt and later Tilt and Bogue, etc, 1835-1851.
First edition, third issue of 1848 issue. Bound in half tan morocco and
blue marbled boards, t.e.g. Fine, spines slightly sunned. Cohn 184 pp.
59-63. $2,500
A complete run of these amusing volumes, quintessential Cruikshank.
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fine in wrappers, as good as it gets
35. CRUIKSHANK, George. George Cruikshank’s Fairy Library. 4 vols.
Small 4tos, London: David Bogue & Routledge, Warne & Routledge,
v.d. First editions, first issues. Wrappers. Laid in blue cloth slipcase and
chemise. Cohn 196-199. $5,000
Titles in the Fairy Library: Hop-O’ My-Thumb and The Seven-League Boots. Edited and illustrated with six etchings by George Cruikshank. London: David
Bogue, N.d. [1853]. First edition, mixed issue. with back cover “Preparing For
Publication / Jack and The Bean-Stalk” in first issue, ii. List of Illustrations at
end on separate leaf Sm. 4to. 30, [1] pp. Six plates. Original green printed
wrappers, very slight soiling at sides and spine , else fine. [and:] The History
of Jack & the Bean-Stalk. Edited and Illustrated with six etchings by George
Cruikshank. London: David Bogue, N.d. [1854]. First edition, first issue, with
all first issue points as called for including: the frontispiece is the plate “Jack,
Climbing the Bean Stalk”; the plates are on white paper. Small 4to. 32 pp. Six
plates. Original green printed wrappers, about fine. [and:] Cinderella and The
Glass Slipper. Edited and illustrated with ten subjects, designed and etched on
steel, by George Cruikshank. London: David Bogue, N.d.,. [1854]. First edition, first issue. Small 4to. 31 pp. Six plates. Original green printed wrappers.
[and:] Puss in Boots. Edited and illustrated with etchings on steel, by George
Cruikshank. London: Routledge, Warne and Routledge, 1864. First edition,
first issue, with the all first issue points: no front fly-leaf; no plate list. There is
leaf at end bearing the cover design; on white paper; the “Notice to Public” is
repeated at back in different type; the imprint on the wrapper differs from that
on the title-page. Small 4to. 40 pp. Six plates. Original blue (Cohn calls for
green) printed wrappers, about fine.
19 india proofs, with a masterful cruikshank self-portrait
36. CRUIKSHANK, George. Set of India Proofs to the first three
titles of The Fairy Library: Hop o’ My Thumb; Jack & The Beanstalk; and
Cinderella and the Glass Slipper. 18 etched plates from The Fairy Library
by George Cruishank, on mounted India Paper; plus one other proof
(“The Triumph of Cupid A Reverie”) from Table Talk; in all, 19 etched
proof plates, all on India paper. The Fairy Library Proofs measure 6H
to 7 inches x 4H to 5 inches; Cupid 9H x 6G inches, [London: David
Bogue, [1853; 1854; and 1855; and 1845]. Mounted to larger sheets and
bound together in a folio album of three quarter in contemporary red
morocco and marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt “fairy tales | g. ck|
proofs”. One plate loose in binding, but all plates are clean and bright.
Cohn 196, 197, 198 (Fairy Library); and 191 (Table-Talk). $2,250
Superb set of proofs for three books from Cruikshank’s perennially popular
Fairy Library; with the addition -- indeed, the first plate in the album, of a
Cruikshank masterpiece from Table Talk, featuring Cruikshank himself as the
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central, meditative figure smoking his meerschaum, amidst a phantasmagoria
of Cupid’s victims emerging from the pipesmoke. RARE.
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in boards, uncut
37. CRUIKSHANK, George. The Humourist. A Collection of Entertaining Tales, Anecdotes, Repartees, Witty Sayings, Epigrams, Bon Mots,
Jeu d’esprits, &c.... With 40 hand colored illustrations by George Cruikshank. 226, [2]; 230, [2]; 222, [2]; 226, [2] pp. 4 vols. 12mo (157 x 950
mm.), London: Printed & Published by J. Robins & Co. Albion Press,
Ivy Lane, Paternoster Row, 1819, 1819, 1819 & 1820. First edition, first
issue, with the date on the title-page of volume one , p. 44 of vol. I has
second issue title of “Epitaph on a Dyer” but with the volume number
and with dates on plate 7 in volume 2 and plate 4 in volume 3. No dates
on plate 5, Vol I; plates 1, 4, and 10 in Vol. II; plate 9 in Vol. III. Bound
in full polished blue calf, gilt spine, a.e.g., by Root. Fine. Cohn 419:
Patten, George Cruikshank...Vol I, 1792-1835. $2,500
Cruikshank’s inimitable illustrations, published 1819-20. “The Humourist...gave Cruikshank his first sustained opportunity to devise illustrations;
Blanchard Jerrold calls it his first remarkable separate work. Robins issued
forty six-penny parts, stitched into green wrappers with a colored etching in
each, during 1819 and 1820. The parts were also bound in four volumes (as
here). In several respects this format anticipates the one Dickens and his publishers revived for Pickwick Papers and the other serials ... “ – Patten, p. 190.
38. DARWIN, Charles. Autograph Letter, signed (“C. Darwin”), to
Francis Boott, with references to Dr. A.A. Gould at Boston and news of
chloroform. 3 pp. [London,] Atheneum Club: Saturday 20 Aug. 1848.
Fine. Darwin Correspondence Project 1195. Provenance: Ralph Colp,
Jr. $12,500
“My Dear Dr Boott,
“Since I saw you I have been persuaded at the Brit. Museum to write direct
to Dr. Gould at Boston, for I hear he is a very kind man & likes to assist
everyone. Dr. Gould has attended to Cirripedia more than any one else & if
he grants my request, I consider it superfluous to trouble any one else. Should
this channel fail, I will not fail to remember your most kind offer. With my
true thanks for all your sympathy & assistance about Chloriform — pray
believe me
“Yours very sincerely
“C. Darwin”
A fine early letter recording Darwin’s search for specimens for his Monograph
of the sub-class Cirripedia … (1851). Augustus Addison Gould (1805-1866), conchologist and physician, was, he served as one of the general curators from
1831 to 1838, as curator of mollusks for the Boston Society of Natural History
during the mid-1840s, and was the Society’s corresponding secretary at the
time of this letter. His Report (1841) “delineated about 275 land, freshwater,
and ocean mollusks and some 100 other invertebrates” (ANB).
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The Darwin Correspondence Project notes, “Chloroform may have been used
in the delivery of Francis Darwin on 16 August. See letter to J. D. Hooker,
10 May 1848, where CD mentioned that it will be employed. During Emma’s
next labour, CD administered the chloroform (letter to W. D. Fox, [17 January
1850]).”
Choice letter demonstrating the range of Darwin’s scientific interests and correspondence.
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“in very great want of two books…
i am come to a dead stand still”
39. DARWIN, Charles. Autograph Letter, signed (“C. Darwin”), to
Richard Kippist, needing books in a hurry, specifically Boreau’s Flora du
centre de la France, 1839, work at a “dead stand still”. 4 pp. pen and ink.
Down, Bromley, Kent: March 10, [1858]. Fine. Darwin Correspondence Project 2238. Provenance: Ralph Colp, Jr. $15,000
“My dear Sir,
“I am owing to a mistake which I made in very great want of two Books,
which I had once before out of Library. In fact I am come to a dead stand
still until I can get them. I do not know what regulations are, but I think
the council would permit your being so kind as to send off the two vos. to
the enclosed address tomorrow morning. WIll you so far oblige me? The
Books are the vol. of Boreau’s Flora du Centre de la France which includes
genus Carex. And Flora Ratisbonensis (Naturhistorische Topographie von
Regensburg [Bd 2] Dr. A. E. Fürnrohr, 1839. I do hope you can oblige me in
this: if sent off soonest tomorrow morning by Charing Cross Coach I shall
get them on Friday morning.
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“NO. I have just thought of better plan; I will send our carrier, tomorrow
morning, for the chance of you being able to give the Books to him.
“My dear sir
“Yours very sincerely,
“C. Darwin”
The recipient, Richard Kippist, was the librarian of the Linnean Society; Darwin had borrowed these books the preceding year.
The same day, Darwin had written to J.D. Hooker about tabulation of variations in large and small genera.
Excellent letter showing the great scientist in the midst of inquiry.
darwin to his american publishers
40. DARWIN, Charles. Autograph Letter, signed (“Ch. Darwin”),
to Appleton & Co., discussing need for a new American edition of
Origin, “endless small though important corrections” in the new (i.e.,
5th) London ed., and holding out the prospect of his next book. 4 pp.
Beckenham: 24 Nov. 1869. Small loss in top corner margin of leaves
(no loss), else fine. Darwin Correspondence Project 7007. Provenance:
Ralph Colp, Jr. $20,000
“Dear Sir,
“I am much obliged by your note. You say that Messrs Appleton ‘would also
like to have a set of stereotyped plate of new edit of Origin of Species on
same terms.’ I am not sure that I understand this, for I have not permitted
the Origin to be stereotyped in England. If it means that Messrs Appleton
will print a new edition in Stereotype Plates or in common type which
would be much preferable) I gladly agree to his terms for this edition & for
my next book.
“I have long earnestly wished for a new edition of the Origin in the United
States, as it is 92pages longer than the 2nd edition, besides endless small
though important corrections. I feel sure that the continued large sale of this
book in England Germany & France has depended on my keeping up each
edition to the existing standard of science. I hope I am right in supposing
that Messrs. Appleton are willing to print in some form a new edition, for
though unwilling to act in a disobliging manner towards them I had resolved
soon to write to Professor Asa Gray to ask him to find some publisher who
would print the new edition of the Origin, on condition of my supplying
him with the sheets of my new book as they were printed & which book will
probably have a large sale. Will you be so kind as to let me hear how the case
stands; & I should like in case the answer is favorable to send in M.S. half
a dozen small corrections for the Origin. I must inform you that although
Mr. Murray has inserted a notice of my new book, I do not suppose it will
be printed for nearly a year, although a considerable portion is ready for the
press.
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“Dear Sir,
“yours faithfully,
“Ch. Darwin
“You will understand that I cannot agree with Mr Appleton about my new
book, unless he is willing to print a new edit[ion] of Origin. The price of
the latter might fairly be raised a little; as Mr Murray has by 1 s. & it will
be adverted as largely added to & corrected.”
A fascinating letter revealing Darwin to be an author concerned with his scientific credibility and a firm negotiator able to dangle the prospect of a new
book to sharpen his publisher’s appetite. The “new book” under discussion is
The Descent of Man, published by Appleton in 1871 from the Murray edition.
As for the American editions of Origin, Freeman notes Appleton issues in 1869
and 1870 (though the New York fifth edition is not the Murray text).
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“i never wrote so much about myself in my life”
41. DARWIN, Charles. Autograph Letter, signed (“Ch. Darwin”),
to T.W. Preyer, advocate of Darwin in Germany, a substantial and retrospective letter. 8 pp. Beckenham: 17 Feb. 1870. Fine (some faint
pencil markings in an early German hand). Darwin Correspondence
Project 7112. Published by Preyer in “Briefe von Darwin”, Deutsche
Rundschau 67: 356-90 (1891). Provenance: Ralph Colp, Jr., cf. his article
“I never wrote so much about myself ” in Darwin Today, E. Geisler and
W. Scheler, eds. (1983). $17,500
A fascinating and deeply personal letter from Charles Darwin to one of his
keenest followers, T.W. Preyer, discussing the public response to Darwin’s
ideas in England, the Beagle, his education, his father and grandfather, White’s
Natural History of Selborne, and the influence of other scientists; and concluding:
“I never wrote so much about myself in my life, & I hop it may be worth
your reading but I doubt.— Believe me, my dear sir, Yours sincerely, Ch.
Darwin”
The recipient is Thierry William Preyer (1841–1897), a noted advocate of Darwinism, who was born in England of German parents, educated in Paris and
Heidelberg (where his doctoral thesis was the first Darwinian thesis written
in Germany); he was for two decades professor of physiology at Jena. “He
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produced a popularized translation of On the Origin of Species and a biography
of his idol, Darwin, Sein Leben und Wirken (1896); in 1891 he published copies
of much of his correspondence with Darwin. … Preyer’s greatest significance
is his role in popularizing Darwinism in Germany … for Preyer, all his efforts
were designed to gather diverse data to support the theory as proposed and
demonstrated by the British interpretations” (ODNB).
A rich and detailed letter with the broadest possible range of topics, to one of
the key figures in the German transmission of Darwin’s ideas.
darwin to kingsley: ‘man is clearly an old-world,
not an american, species’
42. DARWIN, Charles. Autograph Letter, signed (“Charles Darwin”),
to Charles Kingsley. 4 pp. 6 Feb. 1862. Fine. Darwin Correspondence
Project 3439 (first half of letter at Cleveland Health Sciences Library,
Dittrick Medical History Center, Archives). Provenance: Ralph Colp, Jr.
$15,000
A letter to Charles Kingsley (1819–1875), novelist, Church of England clergyman, and controversialist. Kingsley had “welcomed the publication of Darwin’s Origin of Species in 1859 because it seemed consistent with his own idiosyncratic theory of related moral and physical evolution which he had already
illustrated in an evolutionary dream sequence at the end of Alton Locke. His
most enduringly popular book, The Water-Babies (1863), began as a story for
his own children and an attack on the continuing employment of climbing
boys to sweep chimneys. But the story sends little Tom on an evolutionary
moral journey and includes incidental satiric commentary on education, fashion, and current affairs, as well as mockery of post-Darwinian controversies
about human descent and distinctiveness and the nature of scientific evidence”
(ODNB).
This is the second half of a substantial letter to Kingsley on a variety of subjects, including speculations about what might be found in Sir Charles Lyell’s
next book, published the following year as Antiquity of Man (1863).
“[Lyell’s] Book on the relations of men & other animals; but I do not know
what his recent intentions are.
“It is a very curious subject, that of the old myths; but you naturally with
your classical & old-world knowledge lay more stress on such beliefs, than I
do with all my profound ignorance. Very odd those accounts in India of the
little hairy men! It is very true what you say about the higher races of men,
when high enough, replacing & clearing off the lower races. In 500 years
how the Anglo-saxon race will have spread & exterminated whole nations;
& in consequence how much the Human race, viewed as a unit, will have
risen in rank. Man is clearly an old-world, not an American, species; & if
ever intermediate forms between him & unknown Quadrumana are found,
I should expect they would be found in Tropical countries, probably islands.
But what a chance if ever they are discovered: look at the French beds
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with the celts, & no fragment of a human bone.— It is indeed, as you say
absurd to expect a history of the early stages of man in prehistoric times.—
“I hope that I have not wearied you with my scribbling & with many thanks
for your letter, I remain with much respect—
“Yours sincerely
“Charles Darwin
“As you seem to care for all departments of N. History, I send a pamphlet
with a rather curious physiological case.”
The postscript likely refers to his paper on the dimorphic condition in Primula
(Freeman 1717) although, as the Darwin Correspondence Project records,
Kingsley’s name does not appear on the presentation list.
The mention of “intermediate forms” related to man is interesting for it correctly anticipates the locale for the 2003 discovery of Homo floresiensis.
Kingsley was one of Darwin’s most provocative correspondents and this letter
amply demonstrates the range of their exchanges.
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43. DARWIN, Charles. Autograph Letter, signed (“Chas Darwin”),
to John Gould, re: plates of Birds and small Quadrupeds for Zoology
of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle. 3 pp. pen and ink on folded sheet, with
address in ink “Mr. Gould”. [36 Great Marlborough Street, London]:
Feb 1838. Small damage to signature from removal of seal, old repair,
else fine. Docketed “Charles Darwin Feb. 1838” on cover. Darwin Correspondence Project 401. Provenance: Ralph Colp, Jr. $17,500
“My dear Sir
“I have just seen my publisher. we have fixed to have fifty plates of birds, so
will you at once take into consideration which are most worthy being done.—
“Will you also oblige me by the favour of seeing Bayfield, & see whether
he will undertake the birds (which are chiefly small ones) at something less
than 5d a piece, as it is rather more than our estimate calculated upon.—
“If he would also undertake my quadrupeds I should be very glad.— There
will be about 28 plates, chiefly small animals.— See if you cannot make
for me some kind of agreement to take the whole at something under 5d.—
“It will be rendering me a very great assistance if you can effect this
“Yours most truly
“Chas DarwinA fine early letter from Darwin to ornithologist John Gould,
after visiting Smith, Elder, publishers of the Zoology and the geological volumes that resulted from the voyage of the Beagle. The birds were illustrated
by Gould and also George Robert Gray; they bear a note in the text, ‘The accompanying illustrations, which are fifty in number, were taken from sketches
made by Mr. Gould himself, and executed in stone by Mrs. Gould.’ Darwin
also asks Gould if he would intervene with his colorist, Bayfield; and discusses
the nature of the illustrations of the Mammalia.
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44. (DALI, Salvador) Montaigne, Michael Eyquem de. The Essays
of Michel de Montaigne. Illustrated by Salvador Dali. 472, [2] pp. 8vo,
Garden City: Doubleday, 1947. First Dali edition, 622 of 1000 copies
signed by the artist. Blue cloth. Fine in rubbed original black slipcase.
$1,000
45. DIAMOND, David. Autograph composition, signed, in his Album for the Young, for Piano Solo. Black pen and ink notation on blue
ink staves. Folio, [New York], October 16, 1948. Browned and lightly
soiled, very good. $1,250
Five-bar original musical composition by David Diamond, written on the contents page of his Album for the Young, for Piano Solo, for jazz great Eddie Condon’s daughter Maggie, on her birthday, at a time when she was ill with polio.
Diamond has set the following lyrics to music
“Dear Maggie, Please get well real soon — You’re such a pret-ty gir l—; and
‘Happy Birthday’ and man-y of them —!
“with love from David Diamond, x-16-48”.
Diamond (1915-2005) is regarded as one of 20th-century America’s greatest
composers.
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46. DIAZ DEL CASTILLO, Bernal. The True History of the Conquest
of Mexico, by Captain Bernal Diaz del Castillo, One of the Conquerors. Written in the Year 1568. … Translated from the Original Spanish by Maurice
Keatinge Esq. Frontispiece plan of the city and lake of Mexico. viii, 514
pp. 4to, London: Printed for J. Wright, 1800. First London edition.
Contemporary calf, neatly rebacked with original spine laid down.
Contemporary manuscript note tipped in. Bookplates and ink stamp
on front pastedown. Some minor foxing, but generally quite clean internally. Very good. Sabin 18884; Palau 72373; ESTC T145951; Hill 473.
$1,000
First English edition of the classic account of the Spanish conquest of Mexico,
written by one of Cortes’ officers, here translated from the original Spanish by
Maurice Keatinge. “This notable eyewitness account is universally accepted as
the most complete and trustworthy of the various chronicles of the conquest
of Mexico and Central America” (Hill). With a handsome frontispiece plan of
the city and lake of Mexico. This copy from the library of Lord Ashburton.
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engraved plate for david copperfield
47. (DICKENS, Charles) Browne, Hablot K. (Phiz”). “Changes at
Home.” Steel plate for David Copperfield, showing David Copperfield
peering in the doorway as his mother nurses his newborn brother. The
original engraved steel plate by H.K. Browne for illustration published
at p. 79 of the first edition. 8 x 5 inches, Originally published in London: Chapman and Hall, 1850. Half green morocco folding case for
James F. Drake, Inc. (New York), with a print from the plate and letter
of authentication from the publisher. Fine condition (some rubbing to
slipcase). $2,250
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This plate illustrates a classic scene from one of Dickens’ most cherished novels:
“God knows how infantine the memory may have been, that was awakened
within me by the sound of my mother’s voice in the old parlour, when I set
foot in the hall. She was singing in a low tone. I think I must have lain in
her arms, and heard her singing so to me when I was but a baby. The strain
was new to me, and yet it was so old that it filled my heart brim-full; like a
friend come back from a long absence.
“I believed, from the solitary and thoughtful way in which my mother
murmured her song, that she was alone. And I went softly into the room. She
was sitting by the fire, suckling an infant, whose tiny hand she held against
her neck. Her eyes were looking down upon its face, and she sat singing to
it. I was so far right, that she had no other companion.
“I spoke to her, and she started, and cried out. But seeing me, she called
me her dear Davy, her own boy!”
complete set — the webb copy
48. DOUGHTY, Thomas and John. The Cabinet of Natural History
and American Rural Sports. Engraved frontispiece portraits of Charles
Wilson Peale and William Bartram and engraved titles to each volume,
Engraved plate in Vol III, “Death of the Fox”. With 54 hand-colored
lithographs. vii, [i], 298, [2, Index] ; vii, [i], 292, [2]; 96 pp. 3 vols. 4to,
Philadelphia: J. & T. Doughty, 1830-1833. First edition. Twentieth century quarter calf and Cockerel paper over boards. Sporting book labels
of Samuel B. Webb. Very minor spotting to text leaves (two gatherings
of vol. II quite toned); in vol. II the Wild Turkey plate is present and
skillfully colored. Superficial rubbing to boards. Fine set with distinguished provenance. Phillips p. 69; Reese, American Color Plate Books,
#12; Gee, Early American Sporting Books, pp.48-49; Henderson p.37;
Howes D433: Litchfield 19; Bennett 35. $10,000
“A mine of information on contemporary sport and natural history” (Phillips),
as well as a landmark of American publishing, issued in parts by the brothers
Thomas and John Doughty. Subscriptions dwindled after Thomas departed
for Boston, and the publication ceased with the 4th part of vol. III. In 1928,
Eugene Connett published a selection of articles from it, Some Early American
Hunters, as one of the early Derrydale Press titles.
“This was the first major book issued in the United States to be illustrated with
hand-colored lithographic plates, preceded only by three minor books in the
1820s ... an amalgam of natural history, sporting accounts, travel narratives,
and practical advice for the countryman” (Reese).
This is a complete set with good American sporting provenance, from the
library of Samuel B. Webb, a Vanderbilt descendant.
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49. (DOVES PRESS) Cobden-Sanderson, T.J. The City Planned (1910),
The City Metropolitan (1910), Shakespearian Pronunciation (1911), Towards
an Empire of Science (1916), On a Passage in Julius Caesar (1913), Note on a
Passage in Anthony and Cleopatra (1913), The New Science Museum (1914),
Note on a Passage to Shelley’s Ode to Liberty (1914), Wordsworth’s Cosmic
Poetry (1914). 9 vols. 8vo, [Hammersmith, London: The Doves Press,
1910-1916]. First edition, with varying limitations. Wrappers, either
self wrappers or brown printed wrappers, laid into red cloth chemise.
$1,500
Each signed with initials by Cobden-Sanderson and dated in year of publication on the title-page and with note in his hand “The Doves Press 9 Pa---”
tipped onto TJ C-S 1912 watermarked paper.
50. (EDGEWORTH, Maria, her copy) Bound collection of French
pamphlets relating to the the French Revolution, Napoleon, the Bourbon restoration etc. 8vo, vp [chiefly, Paris]: vd [ca. 1800]. Half calf and
marbled boards, spine gilt. $1,500
An important anti-Napoleon pamphlet, Vrai Sens du Vote National by Camille
Jordan, is inscribed by Edgeworth:
“Maria Edgeworth / A gift of the author [Camille Jordan]”
“Le Visiteur du Pauvre.” Paris, 1820. inscribed, “Maria Edgeworth / From the
Author / June 182[--]”
“Des Moyens Mis en Usage par Henri IV.” Paris, 1815. inscribed, “Maria Edgeworth / the gift of M. Pastoret / July 1816” in Edgeworth’s hand
With a ms table of contents, in Edgeworth’s hand, bound at the front.
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an alken classic, in original boards — dixon copy
51. [EGAN, Pierce]. Real Life in Ireland; or, The Day and Night Scenes,
Rovings, Rambles, and Sprees, Bulls, Blunders, Bodderation, and Blarney, of
Brian Boru, Esq. and his elegant friend Sir Shawn O’Dogherty … by a Real
Paddy. Hand-colored frontispiece by William Heath, 18 hand-colored
plates by Henry Alken and others. vii-[viii], [2], [5]-296 pp. At foot of p.
296: J. M’Gowan and Son, Great Windmill Street. 8vo, London: Printed by B. Bensley, Bolt Court, Fleet Street. Published by Jones and Co.,
3, Warwick Square; and J. L. Marks, Piccadilly, 1821 [i.e., 1822]. First
edition, issue in book form. Original pictorial boards (frontispiece repeated in black), with “Being a sequel to Egan’s Real life in London.”
stamped on the bottom of the front cover, uncut. Spine and joints repaired. Bookplate of Fitz Eugene Dixon. In red half morocco slipcase
and chemise. Abbey Life 282; Tooley 201; Garside 1821:32; Loeber
E101; Dixon sale (1937), lot 180, “Very Rare in this state” (this copy).
$3,750
This sequel to Egan’s Real Life in London was issued in 18 parts (known from
a single copy in the J.R. Abbey collection) with plates dated variously in 1821
and 1822, as well as several undated plates. The present copy, in the publisher’s
illustrated boards, is from the Fitz Eugene Dixon library, the greatest pre-war
collection of Alken books, prints, and drawings.
Rare.
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to trujillo, re her coronation
52. ELIZABETH II, Queen of England. Letter of State signed (“Elizabeth R”), as Queen, with seal, to the President of the Dominican Republic concerning her recent coronation. Two pages, on two conjugate
leaves of stationery, edges gilt, with gilt-embossed royal crest at head.
Folio, “Our Court of Saint James’s”, July 30, 1953. Fine, in custom
folding case. $3,000
This letter is dated only a month after Elizabeth’s highly anticipated and, for
the first time, highly publicized coronation, which came more than a year after King George VI’s death. It was attended by representatives from nations
around the world, as well as by many less prestigious viewers as well, being
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the first to be televised. This letter concerns the choice of Secretary of State
Don Manuel de Moya Alonza as a representative of the Dominican Republic
at the coronation ceremony, under President Hector Bienvenido Trujillo Molina. Trujillo was elected unopposed the previous year to succeed his brother
Raphael Leonidas Trujillo Molina, who had acted as dictator since 1930. This
act of faux democracy left the elder Trujillo with the ultimate power over the
country until his assassination in 1961. None of this comes through in the
letter, which exhibits polite esteem for the leader on the part of the newly
crowned Elizabeth Queen:
“We have received the Letter which You addressed to Us on the Eleventh
day of May the last, and in which You informed Us that, being desirous
of manifesting in a special manner Your interest in the solemnity of
Our Coronation, You have made choice of His Excellency General Don
Manuel de Moya Alonza, Secretary of State without Portfolio, as Head
of the Special Mission charged with the representation of the Dominican
Republic at the ceremonies held on this occasion…We hasten to thank you
for the sentiments of congratulation and goodwill to which You have thus
given expression. We think it is due to General de Moya Alonzo and his
colleagues to assure You that in the discharge of the Mission thus entrusted
to them, their conduct has been such as to merit Our entire approbation
and esteem and has been in full accordance with Our earnest desire for the
maintenance and still further improvement of the relations of friendship
and good understanding which so happily subsist between Our Realm and
the Dominican Republic. And so we commend You to the protection of the
Almighty.”
It is rare to find a Letter of State signed by Queen Elizabeth II and extremely
rare to find one concerning her coronation, which took place on June 2, 1953.
An exceptional letter.
the theory of acting: extremely rare copy
with hand-colored plates
53. ENGEL, Johann Jacob. Idées sur le geste et l’action théatrale; … suivies d’une lettre, du même auteur, sur la peinture musicale. Le tout traduit de
l’allemand. Avec trente-quatre planches. 34 finely etched plates by Copia, exquisitely colored by a contemporary hand. [4], 324; [4], 295.
2 vols. 8vo, Paris: Chez Barrois, 1788-1789. First edition in French.
Contemporary tan polished calf, triple gilt-filet borders, smooth spines
richly gilt with 2 black leather spine label, by Bozerien jeune. CohenDe Ricci 346-347; Brunet III 982; Magriel, p. 179. $8,000
An extremely rare, if not unique copy of Engel’s classic treatise on acting,
with the plates colored by hand. This is the very scarce first French edition
of Engel’s famous Ideen Zu Einer Mimik, first printed in German in 1785-86,
and one of the most important works on the theory and psycho-physiology
of acting. Engel (1741-1802) was a German philosopher who was professor
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of moral philosophy in the Joachimstal Gymnasium in Berlin, and, following
that, tutor to the crown prince of Prussia, the future Frederik William III. In
1787 he became director of the Royal Theater in Berlin, where he wrote many
plays which enjoyed considerable success, as well as many essays on aesthetic
subjects.
One of a very few copies with hand-colored plates.
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a petition for benefits, from five of handel’s stars
54. (ENGLISH OPERA) [Heidegger, John Jakob, impresario]?. Manuscript Petition (possibly in Heidegger’s hand), to Vice-Chamberlain
thomas coke, from 5 leading opera singers of the Queen’s Theatre,
Haymarket, to “regulate the order of our benefit days”, signed by: (1)
jane barbier’s guardian, Steph[en] Robinson; (2) caterina galerati; (3)
j.c. pepusch for “Miss Margherita” [margherita de l’epine]; anastasia
robinson’s father, Thomas Robinson; and castrato valentino urbani.
One page in ink on first leaf recto of a single sheet of laid paper; verso
of second leaf docketed in an early hand in ink. “The managers of
the opera relating to their Benefit Days | March 16th 1713”. Folio,
[London]: March 16, 1713 [but 1714?]. Slight soiling, a few eearly ink
smudges, a few recent pencil notes (e.g., “This document in the Autograph of Heidegger”). Overall, very good, a handsome document.
Milhous & Hume, Vice-Chamberlain Coke’s Theatrical Papers, 1706-1715,
No. 134 (citing transcriptions from Winston, p. 44, and Drexel MS, fol.
115; item 210 in the 1876 Winston Sale catalogue; and 711 in the 1905
sale catalogue). $3,000
“We underwritten beg the favour of you to regulate the order of our benefit
days which by contracts are intirely [sic] left to your decision. And we
promise to submit our selfs with all humility to the order you will be pleased
to give. [Signed by the above].”
From the important papers of Thomas Coke (1674-1727), who, beginning in
1706, served as Vice-Chamberlain under Queen Anne, and whose duties included the regulation of the London theater and opera. Coke’s duties included
the “… outfitting and staffing of royal palaces, travel arrangements for royal
progresses, security, and the routine business associated with the chamberlain’s regulation of the London theatres. Indeed, Coke’s theatre papers are
a major source for understanding the sometimes bewildering shifts in the
management of the London theatre and opera companies during the reign
of Queen Anne …” (ODNB). As Milhous and Hume write, “The Coke papers
are an immense addition to our knowledge of the exciting period of London
theatre history in which Vanbrugh opened the Haymarket theatre, Italian opera came to England, and the Triumvirate management of Wilks, Cibber, and
Booth took over at Drury Lane” (Preface).
Coke’s papers (once owned by James Winston and partially transcribed by
him) were dispersed at auction in 1876, but they are crucial to an understanding of this period of English theater, and many are known to exist only by
transcriptions of the originals, which, like this one until now, have since disappeared.
It was during this era that Italian opera was being introduced to the English
public at Sir John Vanbrugh’s Queen’s Theater in Haymarket. It was there, for
example that Handel’s Rinaldo premiered, and it was there that many of the
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singers whose autographs appear on this petition to Coke made their reputations and became among the most celebrated singers in England. The petition
was written only a little over a month after Handel’s ode on the birthday of
Queen Anne on February 2; and it is signed by the celebrated castrato, Valentino Urbani; Margherita de L’Epine (d, 1746; “a linchpin of London’s operatic
stage” — ODNB), signed here for her by her accompanist and future husband,
the composer J.C. Pepusch (composer of The Beggar’s Opera); the contralto
Jane Barbier (fl. 1711-1740; “made her first stage appearance with the opera
company at the Queen’s Theatre in the Italian pasticcio Almahide in November 1711” — ODNB) and for whom Handel composed a part in his birthday
Ode to Queen Anne; the famous Anastasia Robinson (d.1755), whose father
Thomas Robinson, the blind painter, signed for her here; and Caterina Galerati, another star from this critical era of musical theatre in England.
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magnificent colored plates
55. (EROTICA) 1775. Année Galante ou Étrenne à l’amour. Contes! Enrichis de Figures et d’ariettes. 41 leaves, comprising: hand-colored engraved title, 12 hand-colored engraved erotic plates heightened with
gum arabic (one for each month), and 28 leaves of text (Airs et Contes)
entirely engraved on rectos of stiff cards. 11 x 7H (cards); 6H x 4 (platemarks), [Bruxelles: 1876]. Reprint (second edition) of the original 1775
edition. One leaf of text (No. XII AIR) slightly foxed, otherwise a fine
set in a contemporary quarter morocco portfolio (slightly worn). Gay
I, 227. $1,500
“In this reimpression, the engravings are the same, but the text is slightly different … in a few copies, the plates are colored …” (Gay). An excellent copy of
this charming erotic suite, with lovely coloring.q
56. (ETRUSCAN WRITING) [Amaduzzi, Giovanni Cristoforo]. Alphabetum Veterum Etruscorum et Nonnulla Eorumdem Monumenta. Woodcut device on title. 37, [1] pp. Small 8vo, Rome: Typis. Sac. Congregationis de Propag. Fide, 1771. First edition. Contemporary Italian
decorated paper boards, calf spine. Two small circular library stamps
on title page. Fine, beautiful copy. $1,250
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“… if ever there was an organic being, it was holmes”
57. FRANKFURTER, Felix. Three Letters (2 Autograph, 1 Typed),
signed (“Felix” & “FF) to various recipients (Thomas Corcoran, Benjamin Cohen, and Harold Laski), praising Corcoran’s speech on OW
Holmes, Jr. [with:] Autograph Letter, signed (“Tom”) from Thomas
G. Corcoran to his father, enclosing these three Frankfurter letters.
On Harvard Law School and personal letterhead. Various sizes, Cambridge, Mass, v.d., ca. April, 1936. . $1,500
Collection of letters praising an address delivered by Thomas G. Corcoran in
April 1936 before the Harvard Law School Association on the topic of Oliver
Wendell Holmes, Jr. Corcoran was a former student of Frankfurter’s at Harvard and had clerked for Justice Holmes in the 1920s.
Frankfurter writes to congratulate and praise Corcoran:
“ … The School is humming with your achievement: both faculty and
students had their horizons stretched and their souls invigorated. It was a
moral and esthetic triumph. I cannot adequately tell you the pride I feel in
you.”
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In a letter to Benjamin Cohen, another former student, Frankfurter implores
him to have Corcoran dictate his speech before it is lost:
“The place has been buzzing about it ever since, both Faculty and Students.
It was an extraordinary psychological analysis of the workshop of Holmes’
mind, and, of course, a penetrating interpretation of the whole man.
For if ever there was an organic being, it was Holmes. And the thing had
beauty and loveliness. In conception and execution it was a truly beautiful
performance. It can’t be recaptured. But I am appealing to you to have Tom
rescue as much as can be rescued … please do make Tom dictate just for one
straight hour all that he can remember …”
Frankfurter writes to Harold Laski, an English political scientist who had
taught at Harvard:
“Just to tell you that not since Holmes spoke here, at 250th has anyone so
moved Faculty & students as did Tom at Law Review Dinner …”
Finally, a remarkably modest Autograph Note from Corcoran to his father,
forwarding the three Frankfurter letters:
“… I don’t quite remember what I said. I talked without notes — but it
seemed to go over well. Here are three letters — to Ben, to Harold Laski and
to me from FF. A prejudiced judge — but you may enjoy reading them …”
gambetta’s love for the american republic
58. GAMBETTA, Léon-Michel. Autograph Letter, signed (“Gam-
betta Père”) to an unknown correspondent regarding his love for “la
Grande République américaine.” One page, in ink, on a single folded
sheet of blank stationery. Nice, June 12, 1881. Fine, in a red cloth
folder. $1,250
Upon the death of the great French statesman, leader of the opposition to
Napoléon III, and champion of the French Republic (1838-1882), the New York
Times obituary ( Jan. 2, 1883) wrote: “The energy, patriotism, and statesmanship of Léon Gambetta made the French Republic.”
In this note toward the end of his life, Gambetta writes [in our translation]:
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“From a very early age I have loved the great American republic. My son and
I have contributed a bit to the foundation of the French Republic. It is my
most solemn wish that the French Republic become as strong and prosperous
as her elder sister, the Republic of the United States.”
‘obey no man … fear no man’:
godwin’s ‘political justice’ in boards
59. GODWIN, William. An Enquiry concerning Political Justice, and its
influence on General Virtue and Happiness. [xxvi], 1-368; [xxviii], [379]-895
pp. 2 vols. 4to (9 x 11H inches), London: Printed for G.G. J. and J. Robinson, 1793. First edition. Original drab boards, uncut. Bookplates of
Joseph Robertson Raines, 1834. First and last leaves with old traces of
soiling (from short endsheets), last leaf of vol. I wrinkled; paper flaws
in margins of first and last leave of vol. II (not affecting text). Joints
cracked but sound, head of spine a bit rough (small loss), a few flaws in
the paper covering the boards. Cloth folding box. All in all, a beautiful
copy. PMM 243; Rothschild 1016; Adams, Radical Literature in America
40; Goldsmiths Library 15825; Kress B2529. $22,500
‘… it is the property of truth to be fearless.’
The great work by English political thinker William Godwin, whose carefully
reasoned tract appeared in a time of political uncertainty and panic, and challenged the basic assumptions of British political life while rejecting violence,
coercion, and despotism. Godwin (1756–1836) was the literary heart of English radicalism for the next several decades: he wrote Things as They Are, or,
The Adventures of Caleb Williams (1794), the first of several novels; married the
pioneering feminist Mary Wollstonecraft in early 1797; educated their daughter Mary, (the future author of Frankenstein) and a whole brood other children
dependent upon him; and inspired Percy Shelley. Godwin’s Enquiry “was an
immediate success, establishing Godwin as the undaunted champion of philosophical enquiry, private judgment, and public benevolence” (ODNB). ”…
one of the earliest, the clearest, and most absolute theoretical expositions of
socialist and anarchist doctrine…” (Printing and the Mind of Man). It directly
provoked the Rev. Thomas Malthus to write his Essay on the Principle of Population (1798).
Rare thus, uncut and unpressed, in original condition.
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60. (GRABHORN PRESS) Aesop. The Subtyl Historyes and Fables
of Esope. Translated Out of Frensshe in to Englysshe By William Caxton at
Westmynstre in the Yere of oure Lorde mcccc. lxxxiii. Illustrated in colors
and heightened in gold, with initials in color, by Valenti Angelo. [viii],
167, [1] pp. 8vo, San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1930. One of
200 copies. Inscribed “To Al Williams from his brother printer E. Grabhorn.” Full original red morocco, fore and bottom edges uncut. In
slipcase. unusually fine. Grabhorn Bibliography 142. $1,100
61. GRAUPNER, Gottlieb. Rudiments of the Art of Playing on the Piano
Forte: containing elements of music, preliminary remarks on fingering with
examples, thirty fingered lessons, and a plain direction for tuning. Arranged by
Gottlieb Graupner. Engraved title and 40 pp. of engraved music. Folio,
Boston: Printed and sold by G. Graupner, [1806]. First edition, second state. Bound in quarter contemporary calf and marbled boards,
with red morocco label on upper cover “Charlotte Pierce No.1.” Joints
rubbed, front joint starting. Some contemporary pencil fingerings
throughout, a few leaves with chips and tears at margins, one leaf of
sheet music with large horizontal tear. Very good. Shaw & Shoemaker
50544; Wolfe, R.J. Secular Music, 3202A [4 locations: DLC-badly mutilated, JFD, MWA (lacking pp. 1-6) and NN (lacking pp. 1-4, 23-24)].
$1,500
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Possibly the first original piano method published in America, heavily indebted to Clementi and containing an introduction to theory, a dictionary of Italian music terms, scales and exercises, advice on tuning, and short pieces by
Handel, Haydn, Bach and other composers. Graupner (1767-1836) was born in
Germany, played under Haydn’s baton in London, and immigrated to America
in 1795. He established a conservatory in Boston and was that city’s principal
music publisher in the early 19th-century. “Graupner’s influence on the musical life of Boston was considerable” (Grove). His piano method went into
several editions and was widely used.
We can locate only one piano method that may have been published previous
to Graupner’s in America, an anonymous work of considerably less import
titled A New and Complete Instructor for Piano Forte, [1802?] - Wolfe 4495 (see
“American Music, 1801 - 1830, in Shaw-Shoemaker” (American Music Bibliography, V) D. W. Krummel).
Bound with the following early American piano sheet music, published by
Graupner:
The Village Holy Day. Wolfe 7146; A Canadian Boat Song. Wolfe 5931; Snatch
Fleeting Pleasures. Cf. Wolfe 6433 (variant first line and imprint, not noted in
Wolfe); President Monroe’s March ... by M. Gilles Senr. Wolfe 3111; Washington Benevolent Society’s March, Wolfe 9614, second state; Boston Cadet’s March.
Wolfe 981; Bonaparte’s March. Not in Wolfe; Belisle March with Variations. Not
in Wolfe; A Favorite Waltz. Wolfe 9579; German Waltz. Wolfe 2977a, second
state; A Favorite Sonata Composed by Mr. Dusseck. Wolfe 2626.
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“old grimes” - a manuscript
62. [GREENE, Albert Gorton]. Autograph Manuscript, unsigned,
fair copy, of his poem “Old Grimes.” 3 pages on a single bifolium, in
ink. 4to, N.p. [Providence, RI?], n.d. [before 1868]. Fine. With light
pencilled comment at top “A.G. Greene of Providence”. John L. Harrison, “The Author of Old Grimes”, in The Scrapbook, Vol. 3, pp. 605-607.
$2,000
Written anonymously by a 20-year-old Brown University student, A.G. Greene
(1802-1868), and first published in a student newspaper in 1823, “Old Grimes”
quickly became part of the popular folklore of the nation, and, when set to
music, one of the country’s most familiar songs. Greene’s poem was not published in book form until 1867, with illustrations by Augustus Hoppins. By
then, Greene had acknowledged his authorship of the entire poem, with the
exception of the first stanza -- which was know to him as a familiar refrain or
nursery rhyme, and which he used as a lead-in to the rest of the poem. The
first stanza reads:
“Old Grimes is dead; that good old man;
“We never shall see more
“He used to wear a long black coat
“All buttoned down before.”
A rare piece of American popular culture, indeed.
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one of 100 copies
63. HEATH, David. A Dialogue With Solitude. 82 black-and-white photographs. 4to, [Toronto]: Lumière Press, 2000. Limited signed edition,
number 55 of 100 copies, signed and numbered on the title-page. With
signed and numbered photogravure print, “Vengeful Sister, Chicago,
1956”. Fine, in slipcase with small split at lower edge. Parr/Badger II,
p. 104 (for 1st ed.). $1,500
64. HESSE, Heinrich. Neue Garten-Lust: das ist Gründliche Vorstellung wie ein Lust-Küchen und Baum Garten unter unserem Teutschen Climate füglich anzurichten. Title page printed in red and black. With 10
engraved (2 folding) plates. Collation: )(4 A-3I4. Pp. [1-8] (title, preface,
signed “Theodorus Phytologus”), 1-416 (text), [i-xxiv] (three registers,
i.e., table of contents and two indexes). Small 4to, [Leipzig]: Moriss
Georg Weidmann, 1690. First edition. Contemporary vellum. Owner
signature of “D:E: v Stiedtencron” on the title-page lower right, “H v.
Stiedencron” on front flyleaf. Small piece of bottom corner of front
flyleaf torn away, a couple of minor paper flaws in margins, a very
good, fresh copy of an uncommon book. OCLC records 3 existing
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copies: HAB Wolfenbüttel, Dumbarton Oaks, N.Y. Botanical Garden.
The copy in the Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek Weimar is reported
destroyed in the 2004 fire. $12,500
First edition of the most important late seventeenth century German work
on gardening, by Heinrich Hesse, overseer of the Electoral Gardens in Mainz,
who specifically adapted French notions of garden design to German conditions, and whose work remained influential through the mid-eighteenth century (further editions in 1696, 1706, 1714, and 1740).
Rare.
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65. (HOENTSCHEL, Georges) Collections Georges Hoentschel acquises
par M.J. Pierpont Morgan et offertes au Metropolitan Museum de New-York.
Notices de André Pératé et Gaston Brière. Illustrated. 4 vols. Folio (18 x
12H inches), Paris: Librairie Centrale des Beaux-Arts, 1908. Laid into
original brown portfolios and then into quarter brown morocco and
cloth clamshell boxes. $2,000
An important and beautiful catalogue. George Hoentschel was a French architect, interior decorator, ceramicist, and collector of 18th-century decorative
and medieval art. The magnificent collection he assembled was acquired by
J.P. Morgan, who later gave it to the Metropolitan Museum of Art where it became the foundation of the museum’s Department of European Decorative
Arts – and world famous. For the purchase, description and installation of this
collection, cf. the Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, June 1907; July and
August, 1908; March, 1910.
pine’s horace
66. HORACE. Quinti Horatii Flacci. Opera. Frontispiece, [14], [265];
frontispiece, [6], 191, [46] pp. With complete engraved list of European
subscribers, beginning with Frederick, Prince of Wales. Engraved by
Pine throughout with text, plates, portraits, vignettes, and initials. 2
vols. 8vo, London: Iohannes Pine, 1733; 1737. First Pine edition, second issue, with “potest” in medallion, p. 108, v. II. Full contemporary
French red morocco, spines gilt stamped with floral and leaf tools in
six compartments, covers tooled with triple-fillet border with small
sun tool at corners, turn-ins gilt with flower and pomegranate roll and
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double fillet, a.e.g., marbled endpapers, green silk markers. Fine. Rothschild 1548; Ray, Illustrator and the Book In England, p. 3; De Ricci- Cohen, pp. 497-8; Brunet III, p. 320. Provenance: William G. Mack (two
bookplates); Reverend Stephen Marshall, D.D., Glasgow (gift inscription “from his brother Thomas 10th April, 1815. Malta” on first text
page of vol. II); H.D. Lyon (compliment slips laid-in). $3,500
The pinnacle of Augustan book illustration, in a fine French binding of the
period. “Pine’s complete command of his craft makes this the most elegant
of English eighteenth-century books in which text and illustrations alike are
entirely engraved” (Ray).
67. HORACE. Quinti Horatii Flacci. Opera. Frontispiece, engraved
dedication leaf, 35 engraved plates. [ii], vi, [iv], 166; [ii], 167-353, [1] pp.
2 vols. 8vo, London: Gul. Sandby, 1749. Royal 8vo issue. Full contemporary French green morocco, spine with raised bands in six compartments, gilt with floral tools, red morocco lettering piece and volume
label, covers with triple fillet, gilt turn-ins, a.e.g., marbled endpapers.
Fine. Bookplates. Lowndes, p. 1114. $1,500
Sandby also issued a 12mo set of Horace the same year, as well as uniform
editions of Terence and Virgil.
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68. ( JEFFERSON, Thomas) Kimball, Fiske. Thomas Jefferson Archi-
tect. Original Designs in the Collection of Thomas Coolidge, Junior with an
Essay and Notes by Fiske Kimball. [viii], 205; xi pp with frontispiece and
233 facsimiles of drawings on 99 pages. With tipped-in printed dedication sheet signed by Clara A. Coolidge. Folio, Boston: Printed for
Private Distribution at the Riverside Press, 1916. First edition, one of
350 copies printed for Clara Amory Coolidge. Original tan buckram
and green paper over boards, paper label. Minor dampstain at the lower
edges of several early leaves, else Very Good. Bookplate. Roos 2705;
Garrett, p. 53. $2,250
A rare and important work, based on Thomas Jefferson Coolidge, Jr’s collection of Jefferson’s architectural drawings.
“No one today can hope to understand the full scope of Jefferson’s work without knowledge of Kimball’s monumental book Thomas Jefferson Architect”
(O’Neal, “Checklist of writings on Thomas Jefferson as an architect”).
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69. ( JONES, John Paul) Haid, Johann Elias, engraver. Mezzotint
portrait entitled “Johann Paul Iones. Befehlshaber einer Schwadron in
Diensten der 13. Vereinigten Provinzen von Nord-Amerika. 1779,” after an anonymous artist; signed in the plate “J.E. Haid Sculp.” 14 x 10G
inches, sight, Augsburg: J.J. Haid und Sohn, n.d. [c. 1779]. Matted and
framed. Provenance: Estate of Viscount David Eccles. $4,500
Jones is depicted three-quarter length, in uniform, cradling a telescope in his
right arm. To the rear are a towering cliff and a burning ship. Jones is considered America’s most famous naval hero even though the British called him a
pirate because of his raids along the Irish coast. His greatest victory was the
capture of the British Serapis by his flagship Bonhomme Richard in 1779. The
Augsburg family of Haid and sons specialized in the mezzotint portrait – and
were closely associated with works by the Ridingers, also of Augsburg (see
item 98 below).
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“and my hobby to leave letters unanswered if i can help it”
70. JUNG, C.G. Autographed card entitled “for autograph purpose
only”, signed and dated (“C.G. Jung-Sept 19th 1951”), with an Autograph Sentiment on verso. In ink, on stiff card. 4H x 3H inches, np:
1951. In gray cloth folder. $1,000
Jung has penned the following note:
“And my hobby is to leave letters unanswered if I can help it.”
binding by claudia cohen
71. KOCH, Rudolf. Die Schriftgiesserei im Schattenbild. Wie bei Gebr.
Klingspor in Offenbach a.M. eine Druckschrift entsteht. Title leaf, 23 silhouette plates printed in black with text in red, colophon leaf. Oblong 8vo,
Offenbach am Main: Gebr. Klingspor, [1936]. Second edition, originally published in 1918. One of ten copies bound thus from original
sheets. Full black morocco gilt, boards ruled in gilt and in blind about
a central silhouette of a printer as his press inlaid in red, spine with
red morocco label, pastepaper endsheets, by Claudia Cohen. As new in
cloth folding box with red morocco gilt label. $1,000
Koch’s classic visual account of the production cycle of a book, from desk to
typefoundry to printing press to warehouse to the publisher’s accounting office. A few sets of the original sheets from the 1936 printing survived.
Finely bound by a modern American master binder.
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woodrow wilson’s secretary of state
72. (LANSING, Robert) Portrait Photograph of Secretary of State
Robert Lansing and his colleagues, Wilbur J. Carr, Breckinridge Long,
Alvey A. Ader, and one other, signed in ink on the mount. 9H x 7H
inches, Washington, D.C: Harris & Ewing, n.d., ca. 1915. On the photographer’s printed mount. Fine. Tan morocco backed folding case.
$1,250
Robert Lansing (1864-1928) was confirmed as Woodrow Wilson’s Secretary
of State in June 1915 and served until 1920. This is an informal group portrait
at the State Department, depicting Lansing before a cabinet of maps and surrounded by junior associates Wilbur J. Carr, Breckinridge Long, and Alvey A.
Ader, one of the old guard of the Department of State.
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73. LANSKY, Bernard. Collection of forty original comics for his syn-
dicated comic strip, “Seventeen.” Pen and ink on card, printed title strip
affixed above image, captioned in ink and/or printed label below the
image, each signed (“Lansky”), and dated. Approximately 8 x 6 inches,
n.p., published by Mirror Enterprises Co, from September 19, 1957 to
November 12, 1958. Some adhesive stains, not affecting images. Generally near fine. Housed in binder and slipcase. $2,500
Forty original one-panel comics from the early years of Bernard Lansky’s
(1924-2005) popular “Seventeen” series, featuring seventeen-year-old Sheldon,
his parents, his girlfriend Lori, and best friend Tank. The jokes tend to revolve
around Sheldon’s TV addiction, aversion to homework, parental conflict, and,
of course, girl troubles. “Seventeen” ran from 1955 to 1976.
signed
74. LARTIGUE, Jacques Henri. Diary of a Century … Edited by Rich-
ard Avedon. Designed by Bea Feitler. B/w photographs throughout,
unpaginated. Folio, New York: The Viking Press, [1970]. First edition.
Publisher’s brown cloth, near fine, in embossed gold-paper dust jacket,
worn at folds chipped at spine ends, creased and scratched as usual,
price-clipped. Roth 101, pp. 200-1; Hasselblad, pp. 264-5.
$1,250
Signed, “J.H. Lartigue [sun]” on the title-page.
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the ambassador’s library,
bound ‘in morocco’ on the barbary coast
75. (LEAR, Tobias) Collection of six classic works, uniformly bound
in North Africa, comprising the travelling library of Tobias Lear,
American diplomat. In all, 45 vols. 8vo, [v.p., 1789-1803]. Uniformly
bound in contemporary red morocco Islamic bindings (described further below). Some light wear to bindings. Bookplate of Benjamin Lincoln Lear, Tobias Lear’s son, on front pastedown of each volume. Contents described in detail below. Very good. $35,000
The forty-five volume travelling library of American diplomat Tobias Lear,
comprising six classic histories, and literally bound in morocco during his time
as consul general in Algiers between 1803 and 1812. Lear (1762-1816) is best known for the time he spent as General Washington’s personal secretary (1786-1793 and 1798-1799). He formed a close relationship with Washington and his family — he was married successively to
two of Washington’s nieces. Upon Washington’s death, Lear spent nearly two
years sorting out the general’s affairs. The ANB states that “controversy over
his handling of the general’s papers, some of which disappeared during this
period, would hound Lear the rest of his life.”
After a brief term in Saint Domingue
“Lear was offered the position of consul general to the Barbary Coast. His
task was, with the support of U.S. warships, to negotiate treaties with the
Barbary regencies. He experienced success in his dealings with Morocco and
Algiers. His negotiations with Tripoli, however, were greatly complicated
by the efforts of William Eaton to foment a revolution that would restore
the former ruler of Tripoli to his throne and by the Tripolitan seizure of
the USS Philadelphia and her crew of three hundred. After two years of
negotiations, Lear signed an agreement with the Pasha on 4 June 1805”
(ANB).
Lear remained in Algiers until 1812, and faced criticism upon his return to
Washington.
The library, comprising standard historical works, has been bound in red morocco, in an Islamic-style wallet binding. Each is tooled in blind, the covers
stamped with three floral medallions, and the borders tooled with a blind
roll. The tooling and structure are typical of north African bindings of the
period (most commonly seen on Qur’ans and manuscript prayer books). The
author’s name and volume number have been written on the spine in contemporary ink, presumably by either Lear or his son, whose bookplate is inside
each volume. The titles are as follows:
1) Hume, David: The History of England. from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the
Revolution in 1688. Basil, 1789. 12 volumes. A new edition. Original plain blue
wrappers bound in. Very minor scattered foxing, generally quite bright and
clean. Very minor worming to lower margin of final volume.
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2) Smollett, Tobias: The History of England. from the Revolution to the Death of
George the Second. (Designed as a continuation of Mr. Hume’s history). Basil. 1794.
8 volumes. Original plain blue wrappers bound in. Light dampstaining to volumes two and four; minor dampstaining to volume six. Minor foxing. Some
very minor worming to lower margin of volume two.
3) Robertson, William: The History of the Reign of the Emperor Charles V ….
Basil. 1793. 4 volumes. A new edition. Original plain blue wrappers bound in.
Tobias Lear’s signature on title page of each volume. Some light dampstaining
to first volume. Minor foxing.
4) Steuart, James: An Inquiry into the Principles of Political Economy. Being an
Essay on the Science of Domestic Policy in Free Nations …. Basil. 1796. 5 volumes.
Original plain blue wrappers bound in. Minor foxing.
5) Gibbon, Edward: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
London. 1802. 12 volumes. A new edition. Original plain blue wrappers bound
in. Light foxing and toning.
6) Robertson, William: The History of America. London. 1803. 4 volumes.
Tenth edition. Original plain blue wrappers bound in. Minor foxing. Tobias
Lear’s signature on title-page of first volume.
An unique and widely-traveled collection of books, formed by an important
American diplomat, and bound for him in Algiers.
(See illustration on inside rear cover.)
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fine friendship album –
with a peacock drawn by the young edward lear
76. LEAR, Edward. Drawing of a peacock, signed in pencil (“Lear”)
in the image. Pencil and watercolor on card, in a young lady’s commonplace album of the early nineteenth century. 120 leaves, with
autograph poems and verse extracts in diverse hands, chiefly in ink,
with more than 40 ink, pencil, and watercolor drawings on botanical
and architectural subjects, three pencil portraits, as well as autograph
musical compositions, and a few inserted engravings. 4to (240 x 185
mm.), England, ca. 1824-1832. Contemporary green straight-grained
morocco, covers elaborately tooled in gilt and blind around a central
ruled panel with corner pieces, and gilt-titled “g. m. gwilt,” within gilt
floral device, spine gilt-tooled in six compartments and decorated with
gilt rose and ship devices, inner dentelles in gilt and blind, a.e.g. on
the rough. Spine ends and corners slightly rubbed; old repair to inner
hinges. Provenance: Georgiana Matilda Gwilt, the compiler, daughter
of George Gwilt the younger (1775-1856), architect in a noted family of
architects; Charles M. Hutt (twentieth-century book label). $7,500
An outstanding early nineteenth century friendship album, complete as
formed by a young lady, Georgiana Matilda Gwilt, over the years (without
excisions), and containing a superbly executed and fanciful peacock, signed by
the young artist, edward lear (1812–1888).
“Lear served an unofficial apprenticeship with the ornithologist Prideaux
Selby who, between 1821 and 1834, published Illustrations of British
Ornithology. … The gardens of the Zoological Society of London were
opened in 1829, and in June 1830 Lear applied to make drawings of the
parrots there” (ODNB).
The original drawings and watercolors are by amateur artists, often of considerable skill. The most accomplished include a still life of shells, watercolors of Blenheim Palace, the Temple of Erechtheion, and an “Ancient Font
in Holdenfurst Church,” views of unidentified Ruins, and, interestingly, the
Ladye Chapel, Southwark Cathedral, restored by Miss Gwilt’s father: “while
strengthening the foundations of the church [Gwilt] discovered the remains
of the original Norman building. From 1822 to 1825 he supervised the restoration of the choir and tower of Southwark Cathedral, and later (1832–3)
he restored the lady chapel” (ODNB). The album also contains her father’s
armorial bookplate.
On the last two pages of the album are the wax seals and signatures “chang”
and “eng”, the conjoined twins, born in Siam in 1811, whose career gave the
world the phrase “Siamese twins”. In 1830, when the inscription was made in
Miss Gwilt’s album, the twins were in the midst of a world tour. The album
contains a lock of hair in a twist of blue ribbon, identified in an unknown hand
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(Miss Gwilt’s?) as, “Presented by our friends the Siamese Youths, 20th of April
1830.”
(See illustration on front cover.)
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state of the french government:
louis xvi attempts reform, 1776-8
77. (LOUIS XVI) Manuscript Document: “Etat des gouvernemens
tant généraux que particuliers et des Etats Majors du Royaume déterminés par le Roi Louis XVI suivant l’Ordonnance de sa Majesté du 18
mars 1776.” Pages ruled in green and brown borders. [5], 101, [4] ff.
8vo, 1778. Contemporary dark brown morocco gilt, arms of Louis
XVI on upper and lower covers within gilt ruled borders with fleurs-delys at corners, spine gilt with fleurs-de-lys, morocco label, a.e.g. Short
start in foot of upper joint, else fine. Bookplates of Mortimer L. Schiff,
Henry du Rosnel, and three others. $12,500
In a law dated 18 March 1776, Louis XVI attempted to rationalize the organization of provincial governments, and the present manuscript is the resulting
report on the actual ranks and classes of the various provincial government
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officials. The principal governors are listed by name, with emoluments, and
the ranks and numbers of subordinate officials are also noted. The principality
of Monaco, a French protectorate, gives genealogical information in addition
to the names and fiscal details. The government of Corsica is described as the
last of the second class provinces (ff. 99-101). The manuscript includes a table
of contents for the provinces and concludes with six pages of financial summaries.
This volume is of particular interest as it documents the French military and
civil hierarchy on the eve of French involvement in the American Revolution. Notable figures with connections to the French participation include the
Maréchal le Duc de Broglie, governor of Metz, who refused Lafayette’s request to join. The Duc de Broglie was also patron of the Baron de Kalb. The
Duc de Noailles, governor of the royal house at Saint-Germain-en-Laye, was
the grandfather of Lafayette’s wife. The comte de Rochambeau, not named
here, was appointed in 1776 as governor of Villefranche; his rank is given as
Major-Commandant, 2,600 livres.
Rare and beautiful, and dense with information on French administrative
practice under the ancien régime.
“ … will probably undertake a mad
publishing venture in a few months”
78. LUCE, Henry R. Autograph Letter, signed, to Henry Justin
Smith, Managing Editor of the Chicago Daily News, who gave Luce his
first job as a cub reporter. 4 pp., on a single folded sheet of “Manhattan
Club, Madison Square” stationery. 8vo, [New York]: n.d. [ca. 1922].
$1,750
A remarkable letter from the founder of Time and Life Magazine to his first
employer. When Henry Luce graduated from Yale in 1920, he had been the
editor of the Yale Daily News, along with his friend Briton Hadden. Upon their
graduation, Hadden went to work for the New York World, while Luce went
to Oxford to continue his education. During his travels in Europe, Luce met
his future wife Lila Hotz, of Chicago, and upon his return to the States he
followed her to the Chicago area in search of work. He found it , for a brief
while, at the Chicago Daily News, where he had a job as an assistant to Ben
Hecht, who was then a young columnist. That association didn’t work out,
and on Hecht’s recommendation, Luce was let go. Upon his return to the
East coast, he and Hadden teamed up again at the Baltimore News, and it was
during this period that the two worked out their plan to publish a weekly
news magazine. On March 3, 1923 the first issue of Time hit the news stands,
revolutionizing the publishing industry, and laying the foundation for today’s
colossus of the industry. Luce never forgot his time in Chicago, however, and
it is right around this time, just before launching Time, that he writes to his old
boss, Henry Justin Smith, in this letter:
“… I appreciate very deeply your efforts to give me a chance on the Daily
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News. And if I did not make the most of the opportunity you did give, I feel
I owe you a personal apology. It will perhaps interest you to know that I had
all but accepted the wisdom of your advice to ‘get out of newspapers’, when
along came an offer from the Frank Munsey papers in Baltimore, unasked,
unheralded. The want to give two of us $40 per week (with chance to make
more on the side, Sunday etc) and to put us through all departments with
a view to making union officials out of us in the near future. I hope you
can restrain any tendency towards Rabelaisian laughter. At any rate, I am
afraid I shall be unable to resist the temptation. And what makes it worse is
that two of us are showing signs of pernicious insanity and will probably
undertake a mad publishing venture in a few months ... Please accept my
thanks for three months experience with the greatest paper West of New
York!”
Luce then adds a postscript:
“I suppose I am not under any obligation to explain to Mr. F. Munsey’s
representatives that I was ‘fired’ from the News. If you think I am, will you
please let me know.”
Accompanying Luce’s letter is a photocopy of the script for a Bedtime Story
from the Ben Hecht Show of September 23rd, 1958 on WABC-TV, in which
Hecht reminisces on his brief association with Luce:
“My story tonight is about a sort of newspaperman, the publisher of Life and
time, Mr. Henry Luce. A few years ago I was at a party and a man came up
to me and said, ‘Remember me?’; and I said, ‘No.’ He said, ‘I’m Henry Luce.’
“And I looked at the Life publisher and I remembered … I was writing a column on the Chicago Daily News called ‘A Thousand and One Afternoons,’ and
that prince of all Managing Editors, Henry Justin Smith, liked it very much.
As soon as I saw he liked it, I pretended it was a great deal of work and that I
needed an assistant.
“I said to Henry Smith, ‘Don’t get me a reporter. A reporter doesn’t react to
anything but the mangled body of a society leader. Get me a very naïve fellow
who will notice everything going on and bring me back tidbits that I can work
up into columns.’
“About three days later he appeared with a blond, eager-eyes young man about
my own age just out of college, looking for his first job. I hired him on sight …
I remember reams of copy coming in about lemonade stands and traffic jams
and people who lost suitcases in railroad stations. Finally I went to Mr. Smith
and said, ‘Fair is fair, but this fellow is much too naive. Nothing he writes
makes any sense … I suggest you fire him.’ And Henry Smith said: ‘He wants
to be a journalist badly.’ I said, ‘Don’t pay any attention to that. He’s not going to go anywhere.’ So Mr. Smith fired him and I was right. Mr. Luce got
nowhere.”
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with the important american geology map
79. [MACLURE, William]. On the Geology of the United States of North
America. [contained in:] Transactions of the American Philosophical Society
… Vol. I. - New Series. With twelve plates (two folding, one colored) and
folding map (partially colored). xix, 47, [xxi]-xxiv,454,[1]pp. 4to, Philadelphia: 1818. Original boards, with printed paper spine label. Hinges
cracked, spine chipped. 19th century ink stamp on title page. First few
leaves moderately toned and foxed; two plates heavily foxed; else, some
light scattered foxing to rest of text. Very good, in original boards, uncut and untrimmed, the map fine. In a half brown morocco and cloth
clamshell box, spine gilt. $2,500
This volume, which is the first of a new series of the “Transactions of the
American Philosophical Society,” is significant for containing the work of early
American geologist William Maclure. He travelled extensively throughout the
United States from the 1790s on, gathering material for his writings. His book,
Observations on the Geology of the United States (1817), was the first important
work on American geology, and is reprinted herein. The book and its accompanying map (which is here found in a larger version by John Melish), were
immediately recognized as major contributions, and he was elected president
of the Academy of Natural Sciences the same year it was published, a post he
held for the rest of his life. In 1824 Maclure became deeply interested in Robert Owen’s experiment at New Harmony. He moved there in 1825 and used
the New Harmony press to publish his Opinions on Various Subjects, Dedicated to
Industrious Producers (1831-38). He died in 1840. In addition to Maclure’s masterful work, the present volume contains over thirty additional early scientific
articles, including astronomical observations by A. Ellicott, Charles Short’s description of an Indian fort near Lexington, Kentucky, Caspar Wister’s account
of two fossil mammoth heads donated to the society by Thomas Jefferson, and
a monograph of North American insects by Thomas Say.
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landmark of american constitutional government
80. [MADISON, James, Alexander HAMILTON, John JAY]. The Federalist: A Collection of Essays, written in Favour of the New Constitution, as
Agreed upon by the Federal Convention, September 17, 1787. 2 vols. 12mo in
sixes, New York: J. and A. M’Lean, 1788. First edition. Recently bound
in contemporary sheep over boards in period style, spine tooled in gilt.
Title page of vol. I with repair at top margin, some authors identified in
ink in a contemporary hand. Sabin 23979; Church 1230; Brinley Evans
21127; Grolier/American 19; PMM 234; Streeter sale 1049; Bernstein
pp. 230–42. $195,000
The most influential American political book, “a classic exposition of the principles of republican government” (Bernstein).
The first thirty-six Federalist papers, anonymous essays in support of the Constitution by Hamilton, Jay, and Madison, were collected and published by the
M’Lean brothers in March 1788, and the final forty-nine, were issued in a second volume, with the text of the Consitution, two months later. The last eight
essays were printed in book form before they appeared in serial publications.
Authorship of the essays cannot be ascribed with certainty, but Bernstein records that it is now generally agreed that Jay wrote essays 2-5 and 64; Madison, essays 10, 14, 18-20, 37-58, 62, and 63; and Hamilton wrote the remaining
numbers, 51 papers: 1, 6-9, 11-13, 15-17, 21-36, 59-61, and 65-85
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81. (MAP) Moll, Herman. Engraved map of South America, with an
inset depiction and description of Mt. Potosi, in Peru, and a figural and
armorial cartouche containing the dedication to Lord Sunderland, with
hand-colored national boundary lines. Image 23 x 38 inches, matted
and framed to 28H x 44 inches, London: H. Moll, 1732-35. One fold
rubbed with very slight loss, else fine, and attractive250. $1,250
82. (MEXICO) Butterfield, Carlos. United States and Mexican Mail
and Steam Ship Line and The Statistics of Mexico. One double-page map
and one large fold-out map. 109, [2], 159 pp. 8vo, New York: J.A.H.
Hasbrouck & Co., Printers 174 & 176 Pearl Street, 1860. First edition
(preceded by a smaller pamphlet the previous year). Original blindstamped publisher’s brown cloth lettered in gold. Extremities rubbed,
light wear to boards. Bookplate on front pastedown. Light scattered
foxing. Very good. Sabin 9666; Wheat Transmississippi 978. $1,750
One of the best statistical reviews of Mexico for the period, together with an
important map. On the fine map “Each state is brilliantly colored, and the
West, which takes up a quarter of the map is interesting...The Pacific Railroad
Routes are all shown, and a dashed line carries the emigrant route over the
Sierra Nevada...[and shows] the mail route from Boonville, in Missouri, to San
Francisco...The map is a most important one for showing the political subdivisions of the West, and its tracing of the ‘Mail Route’ on the route of the Butterfield Stageline” (Wheat).
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first constitution of mexico
83. (MEXICO). Constitución federal de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos,
sancionada por el Congreso General Constituyente, el 4 de octubre de 1824.
Emblematic engraved plate by “Torreblanco”, [4], xviii, 62, [3], iii pp.
plus plate. 16mo, Mexico, [1824]. Contemporary marbled wrappers.
Wrappers lightly rubbed. Light dampstaining at edges of text block.
Minor foxing. Very good. In a folio-size half morocco clamshell box.
Howes E197. Palau 59642. Sabin 48379. Streeter Texas 1086 (ref ).
Streeter Sale 211. $6,500
This is the first constitution of Mexico as a sovereign state, and the constitution under which the colonization of Texas by Americans took place. “The
first constitution for the Mexican Republic under which operated our present southwestern states, from Texas to California” (Howes). This copy is not
bound with the Acta Constitutiva de la Federación Mexicana, as is often the case
but which Howes does not include in his pagination description of the Constitución. Scarce.
napoleon’s flamboyant brother-in-law
84. MURAT, Joachim Napoleon. Engraved Document signed (“Napoleone”) as King of the Two Sicilies, breveting an infantryman in the
Genoese regiment. Engraved royal arms of the Kingdom of the Two
Sicilies. One page. Folio, Naples: 13 November, 1813. Slightly faded
and soiled. Matted and framed. $1,000
Handsome document signed by the gallant and flamboyant brother-in-law
of Napoleon. Murat was one of Napoleon’s boldest marshals, who played a
prominent role in each of the major campaigns; nonetheless, at the time this
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document was signed, Murat was negotiating with the Allies, and he eventually agreed to provide troops to fight against France in exchange for a guarantee of his throne and possessions. Ultimately, however, after Waterloo, he was
captured by the Allies, executed, and shot. It is said that as he faced the firing
squad, he shouted:
““Soldiers, do your duty! Straight to the heart — but spare the face. Fire!”
“Murat was one of the most colorful figures of his time. His military talents
on the battlefield, at the head of the cavalry, were considerable, but his rash
initiatives robbed him of any chance of earning repute as a strategist. A vain
and rather brainless man, given to devising splendid uniforms, he had many
enemies among the marshalate, but was greatly admired by the rank and file
for his dash and undoubted charisma …” (Chandler, Dictionary of the Napoleonic Wars, pp. 294-296).
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85. NAPOLÉON. Autograph endorsement signed (“Np”) granting
the discharge of a soldier. On a one-page Document Signed (“duc de
Feltre”) by Henri Jacques Guillaume Clarke, Minister of War, requesting the discharge. Folo, Pirna: 29 August, 1813. Some very slight soiling, otherwise very good. Handsomely mounted and framed. $3,000
At a critical moment, even as Napoleon is battling Allied forces in Germany,
he grants a full discharge to a conscript whom the Minister of War, the Duc de
Feltre, describes as a “young man, the eldest of 9 orphaned children for whom
he is the sole means of support.”
napoleon approves surgical supplies
86. NAPOLÉON. Autograph endorsement signed (“Np”) on a Document from the Ministry of War, reporting on the need of surgical
supplies for the 3me Corps in Spain. On a one-page document, “Rapport présenté à sa Majesté l’Empereur et Roi”, signed by the “MinstreDirecteur”, [Paris], 27 juin, 1810. Folo, St. Cloud: 30 juin, 1810. Some
very slight soiling, otherwise very good. Handsomely mounted and
framed. $3,500
On this document requesting, among other surgical supplies for the army in
Spain, “3 caisses d’instruments à – amputation,” Napoleon has penned this
brief order:
“Envoyez seulement deux (2) caisses.
“St. Cloud le 30 juin 1810”
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a promotion from the young general, for valor at toulon
87. NAPOLÉON. Manuscript Document, copy, co-signed (“Buonaparte”) as général de brigade, promoting an artillery officer to artillery
captain for his valor at the siege of Toulon. One page on recto of single
bifolium. 4to, Nice: “le 13 germinal, l’an 2 de la République” [April 2,
1794]. Somewhat soiled, one stain, but good and legible. $4,250
Interesting document early in the career of the 24-year-old Napoleon, whose
signed note (in secretarial hand) at bottom reads:
“I received the original of the piece if which this is a copy, to send to the
commission. Brigade General, Commander of Artillery of the Army of
Italy, Buonaparte.”
Napoléon himself had been promoted only months before to the rank of Brigade General for his actions at the siege of Toulon. The original, of which
this is an official copy, was signed by the two “deputés-en-mission” from the
National Convention, Augustin Robespierre, younger brother of Maximilien,
and Salicetti. They, in fact, were the very officials who first provisionally promoted young Buonaparte himself to the rank of brigade general; and here,
the names of all three appear once again, in a document mirroring the advance of Napoleon himself at the beginning of one of the most astounding
military careers ever recorded.
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morning amusements, with hand-colored etchings and plates
88. NERCIAT, Andréa de. La matinée libertine, ou, les moments bien em-
ployés. Profusely illustrated with hand-colored dry point etchings and
hand-colored vignette shoulder illustrations in the text, by Jean Gilles
Legendre. 118 pp. Square 8vo, Paris: [euredif], 1928. First edition with
these illustrations, no. 168 of 175 copies on “Vélin à la form”, from a
total edition of 196 copies. Full red morocco, by Wood, raised bands,
gilt-lettered spine, t.e.g. Small spot on upper cover, else fine. With an
erotic morocco ex-libris on front pastedown. With the erotic green morocco large bookplate of Vyvyan Holland, son of Oscar Wilde. Slipcase. Barbier VI 83; Gay III, 79. $1,500
Lovely copy of this erotic classic, also attributed to Mérard Saint Juste, which
first appeared in 1787. Exquisitely colored and beautifully bound.
a monument of historical research
and modern book production
89. (NEW SPAIN) Sahagun, Fray Bernardino de. Historia general de
las cosas de Nueva Espana … Primera versión integra del texto castellano del
Manuscrito conocido Códice Florentino. Eighty color facsimiles hors texte.
xviii, [4], 355; [6], 359-745, [1] pp. 2 vols. Folio, Mexico City: Fomento
cultural Banamex, 1982. Edition of 500 copies. Uniformly bound in
half morocco over silk covered boards, spine gilt and blind-stamped,
gilt leather labels, a.e.g. Bookplate on front pastedown. Very fine. Each
volume in its own linen-covered slipcase. $2,500
Sahagun’s Historia General is “beyond question the most important, as it is the
most authentic history of events, transpiring in the New World, before its discovery by Columbus...no history was ever conceived, or brought forth with
more labor” (Thomas W. Field). Sahagun devoted over thirty-five years to its
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compilation, and this edition is based directly upon his definitive text, referred
to generally as the Florentine Codex. This scholarly edition of Sahagun’s Historia General..., with an introduction and scholarly apparatus by Alfredo Lopez Austin and Josefina Garcia Quintana, was commissioned by Banamex as
a presentation gift to their best customers. The edition consists of 500 copies
printed on 100% rag paper made and watermarked especially for this project
by Monadnock Paper Mills, with letterpress by The Press of A. Colish, and
color facsimiles by Eureka Offset. The beautiful binding of half brown morocco with raised bands, gilt labels, and crimson watered silk was executed
by Harcourt Bindery of Boston. Additionally, ornaments and capitals were
designed specifically for this edition by Patrick Kennedy, and in many cases
were individually hand-colored.
In all regards, this is an exceptionally lavish, beautiful, and historically important work, and unquestionably one of the major events in American book
production of the last few years. Unfortunately, due to political circumstances,
the project is little known outside the circle of those involved in its production
and those few people who have had the opportunity to examine a set. Virtually
the entire edition was shipped to Mexico City shortly before the nationalization of the Mexican banks, and relegated to the uncertain limbo of a Banamex
warehouse.
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90. NICHOLSON, William. The Square Book of Animals … Rhymes
by Arthur Waugh. 12 color lithographs after original woodcuts. 14 pp.
Square 4to, London: William Heinemann, 1900. First edition. Original illustrated boards, chipped at extremities, cloth spine slightly frayed
at front joint, light offsetting to text facing illustrations, else near fine.
$1,000
91. (NIELSEN, Kay) [Asbjörnsen, Peter C. and Jérgen E. Moe]. East
of the Sun and West of the Moon. Old Tales from the North. 25 mounted
color illustrations, numerous black and white illustrations in the text.
206 pp. 4to, London: Hodder and Stroughton, [1914]. First trade edition. Original blue cloth, hinges cracked, some foxing at outer margins
but not to the plates. Bookplate. $1,250
Fifteen wonderful stories selected from the volume of folk tales by Asbjörnsen
and Moe entitled “Norske Folkeeventyr.” Nielsen’s magical illustrations show
an innate understanding of these tales.
“i have tried to make europe
understand the magnitude of the strife”
92. PARIS, Louis Albert Phillippe d’Orléans, Comte de. Seven
Autograph Letters, signed, to his Philadelphia publishers Porter and
Coates, relating to his History of the Civil War (1874-1888). 17 pp., in all.
V.p., June 1875 to July 1894. Very good. $2,000
Louis Philippe Albert d’Orléans, Comte de Paris (1838-1894), was the grandson of Louis Philippe I, King of France. He became heir-apparent, when his
father, Prince Ferdinand-Philippe, died in a carriage accident in 1842. After an
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unsuccessful attempt to secure him on the throne, Phillippe fled to America
with his brother, where he volunteered to serve as a Union Army officer in the
American Civil War. He served on the staff of Major General George McClellan for almost a year. His history of that war, written in French (Histoire de la
guerre Civile en Amérique, Paris, 1874-1890, in 7 vols., with Atlas) and translated
into English in an abridged version by the Philadelphia publisher, Coates, is
still considered a standard reference work.
The letters are:
(June, 1875) “The necessities of an early publication of the translation
of my History of the Civil War … prevented me from revising … I must
leave upon Mr. Tasistro the responsibility … but his ability is a sufficient
guarantee … it has … been agreed … to grant … the exclusive copyright
in England … and, in America, the right of giving out your edition as the
only one authorized by myself. My history has been written rather for the
instruction of the European public than for transatlantic readers … if I have
been obliged to judge and to censure, I have done so without any personal
… feeling against anybody … I have tried to make Europe understand the
magnitude of the strife … to perpetuate the memory of the … glory of the
American soldier, without distinction between the blue and grey coats.
(June, 1875) “The necessities of an early publication of the translation
of my History of the Civil War … prevented me from revising … I must
leave upon Mr. Tasistro the responsibility … but his ability is a sufficient
guarantee … it has … been agreed … to grant … the exclusive copyright
in England … and, in America, the right of giving out your edition as the
only one authorized by myself. My history has been written rather for the
instruction of the European public than for transatlantic readers … if I have
been obliged to judge and to censure, I have done so without any personal
… feeling against anybody … I have tried to make Europe understand the
magnitude of the strife … to perpetuate the memory of the … glory of the
American soldier, without distinction between the blue and grey coats.
(31 Dec. 1875) “… I would be very grateful to you to end me … the most
important reviews … I quite approve your putting my shield on the binding
…”
(14 April 1890) “… the news hat my son had been sent to a penitentiary
altered my plans. I could not travel for my enjoyment … while he was treated
as a … criminal … I returned at once to Europe … to be at least nearer to
the prisoner …” [his young son, the duc d’Orléans, had been imprisoned for
violating banishment]
(Aug. 9, 1880) “I intend to pay a visit to the United States … it is my purpose
to study with my son the Duc d’Orléans the field of battle of the Civil War
… send me two copies of Swinton’s History of the Army of the Potomac
and some maps …”
(July 20, 1894) “… my great historical work on the American Civil War
… makes hardly any progress … the duties which I have assumed with the
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effective leadership of the Royalist party in France take every day a greater
part of the time … my health has been since a few months impaired … it is
very painful for me to make such a confession. But … it is impossible for me
to tell when I shall … be able to give a new volume to my editors …”
This last letter is from England, where he was in exile. He died a few weeks
later.
With an ALS (Nov. 29, 1890) by Daniel Sickles (General in the Union Army),
in praise of the Comte’s History; and a Letter, signed (Sept. 8, 1879) by G.W.
McCrary, providing publisher Coates with a report to be transmitted to the
Comte de Paris.
93. PÉCHEUX, B[enoît]. [Cover title:] Recueil de Trophées Militaires
Anciens et Modernes …. 15 hand-colored lithographic plates by de Kaeppelin after Pécheux depicting a total of 36 historic and exotic military
costumes and munitions, all plates with publisher’s small embossed
stamp at foot. 2 vols. Folio, Paris: Chez Chaillou, n.d. [ca. 1830]. Loose
in blue pictorial lithographed blue paper wrappers. Light foxing at mar-
gins, else near fine. In custom folding box. Not in Colas, Lipperheide,
Hiler. Provenance: Hofbibliothek, Regensburg, with faint ink stamp,
old manuscript labels and pencil notes on front cover of first part .
$2,500
A scarce work, published as an aid to artists for correctly representing historical and foreign military costumes. With finely hand-colored plates after Benoît
Pécheux (1779- d. after 1831).
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94. PENN, William, and George WHITEHEAD. The Christian-
Quaker, and his Divine Testimony Vindicated by Scripture, Reason and Authorities; against the Injurious Attempts, that Have Been Lately Made by Several Adversaries, with Manifest Design to Render Him Odiously Inconsistent
with Christianity and Civil Society. In II Parts. The First … by William Penn.
The Second … by George Whitehead. [34], 162, [1], 176 [i.e. 376], [1]pp.
Folio, [London], 1674. Second edition. Rebound in full brown paneled calf in period style, with black leather spine label, new endpapers.
Later ownership inscriptions on front flyleaf; bookplate on verso of
David Newport. Signed Cabel Raper 1725 on title-page, and note on
flyleaf “Caleb Raper bought this book of John Talbot ye 10th 11th mo
1725.” Light toning, foxing and dampstaining. A few leaves torn at edges. Some contemporary and later annotations to text. First and last few
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leaves worn at edges. A good copy overall, in a tan cloth box with gilt
leather label. Bonner & Fraser, Penn Bibliography 22B; Smith, Friend’s
Book 2:291:1; Wing P1266; ESTC R37076; Sabin 59689. $3,500
The second edition of this work - no copies of the first edition being recorded extant - by William Penn, noted Quaker and founder of Pennsylvania, in
which he refutes assertions about the Quaker faith made by Baptist preacher
Thomas Hicks in a pamphlet entitled A Dialogue between a Christian and a Quaker (1673). Hicks’s pamphlet purported to be a conversation between an orthodox Christian and a Quaker, in which the Quaker was made to appear quite
foolish. Bronner & Fraser note that it must have been quite popular, as it went
through two printings and Penn felt compelled to respond to it with the present work. Penn’s essay concerns “the Light within,” which he claims is universal, dating back to the classical world even before Christ, though he notes
that Christ is the ultimate expression of the Light. “WP went on to prove the
universality of the Light through reason, and to summarize the character of
a True Quaker, as one who is completely obedient to the Light. Biographers
have called this WP’s most systematic essay written up to this point, and it was
given a good reception in the seventeenth century. When WP reprinted the
work in 1699 he omitted all references to Hicks and printed it under the title, A
Discourse of the General Rule of Faith and Practice” (Bronner & Fraser).
Bronner & Fraser note that no copies of the first edition of this work have
been found, effectively rendering this the earliest obtainable edition of this
Quaker classic.
one of 50, signed by all contributors
95. PETERSEN, Thomas Reed (editor). A Road Runs through It: Reviv-
ing Wild Places. Illustrated with wood engravings by Claire Emery. x, 227
pp. 8vo, Boulder, CO: Johnson Books, 2006. No. 17 of 50 numbered
copies (out of a total edition of 59), signed by all contributors, and with
an extra suite of plates signed by the artist. Full brown leather, with
matching clamshell box for the extra suite of plates. New. $1,250
Contributors include Annie Proulx, Barry Lopez, Peter Matthiessen, David
Quammen, William Kittredge.
first french — one of 60 copies
96. RACKHAM, Arthur. L’Oeuvre De Arthur Rackham. 44 color plates
tipped onto brown paper. 38, [2] pp. of text. 4to, Paris: Hachette et Cie,
[1914]. Number 33 of 60 copies on “papier impériale du Japon”, signed
by the artist, of the first French edition of The Works of Arthur Rackham.
Original vellum, very bright, without ties and slightly bowed. Bookplate of Francis Kettaneh. $2,000
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the make of the lungs
97. REISSEISEN, Franz Daniel. Über den Bau der Lungen - De fabri-
ca pulmonum commentatio. With 6 hand-colored plates. Folio, Berlin:
Rücker, 1822. First edition. Original boards, with paper label. Fine.
Hirsch IV, 761: “Classische Schrift”; Choulant/Frank 309. $3,000
“In 1804 the Academy of Sciences in Berlin offered a price for the best essay
on the structure and the function of the lungs. The Strasburg physician, Franz
Daniel Reisseisen, obtained the price; Soemmering received honourable mention. The texts of both prize essays were jointly published in Berlin, 1808.
The engravings belonging to Reisseisen’s essay were published in 1822 in Berlin. with German text and Latin translation by Justus Friedrich Karl Hecker”
(Choulant).
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portrait of ridinger
98. RIDINGER, Jean Jacques [Johann Jakob, 1736-1784]. Mezzotint
portrait of his father, Johann Elia Ridinger, “dedié à Monsieur Jean Elie
Ridinger, Peintre et Graveur et Directeur de l’Acadmie d’Augsbourg.
Gravé par son humble obéissant fils, Jean Jaq. Ridinger An. 1767.”
[Augsburg], 1767. Slight tear at lower right margin. Matted. $1,250
Fine portrait of the illustrious Johann Elias Ridinger (1698-1767), in the year
of his demise, by his son.
“can a woman be elected president of the united states?”
99. ROOSEVELT, Eleanor. Typescript carbon copy, signed (“Eleanor Roosevelt”), of an article for Cosmopolitan, answering the question,
“Can a woman be elected President of the United States?.” 13 pp. typed
carbon copy. 4to, n.p., n.d., ca. 1936. Paper-clip stains at upper left corner and left margin of each page, else fine. In custom morocco-backed
drop box. $5,000
Mrs. Roosevelt answers the question, “Can a woman be elected President of
the United States?” for an article in Cosmopolitan, published as FDR ran for his
second term in 1936.
Reading, in part:
“This question is asked me over and over again and though I can not see
why people are so interested in the answer, I have to acknowledge that they
are. When my boys were at school, a master who was fond of emphasizing
certain distinctions in the use of words, invariably answered the small
boy’s question, ‘Can I go to the Village?’ by ‘you CAN go to the village, but
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you MAY not.’ The same seems to me applicable! Can a woman be elected
President? Certainly, a woman can be elected President, in all probability
some time a woman will be, but she MAY not, in my opinion, be elected at
the present time, or in the near future.”
She reviews the qualities required of a good president, and finds that men have
been better prepared “by custom and experience” for the job, and that “A vast
majority of women have not as yet attained the power to be objective about
their work, and impersonal in their business contacts … there is very little use
in pushing women into positions which will be made untenable for them by
prejudice.” She then suggests that the president of the future will need to be a
spiritual, as much as political, leader:
“… a leader of the people, a President, may have to lead a spiritual, moral
and mental awakening which will in itself contain enough new elements
not to make so desirable the complication of a change in sex of the occupant
of this important office.”
An astonishing essay from one of the 20th century’s most dedicated and visible advocates for women’s rights. Indeed, Mrs. Roosevelt was aware of the
effect her article would have. In a letter to her journalist friend Lorena Hickok
she admitted that “The feminists will be down on me and a lot of people will
say it is camouflaged political partisan material, and in a way it is!”
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the madness of king george: a report to the prime minister
100. RYDER, Dudley, First Earl of Harrowby. Autograph Document,
signed (“Harrowby”), a report to Prime Minister spencer perceval on
the state of King George III’s mental health. 2H pp, on a single bifolium. N.p., Dec. 23, 1810. Very good. $1,500
Symptoms of the King’s mental illness had been detected as far back as 1765,
and a measure was introduced by Pitt in 1788 which would allow the Commissioners to appoint a Regent, but in that case King George recovered his sanity
before it became necessary.
However, when George’s daughter, Amelia, died on November 2, 1810, the
King collapsed under the shock and would never again recover. Just three days
before this report was written, Prime Minister Perceval had reintroduced the
Pitt bill into the House of Commons regarding the proposed Regency, and no
doubt Perceval sent his trusted friend to Dudley Ryder to Windsor Castle to
report on the King’s condition in order to make final preparations for the succession of George, Prince of Wales, as Regent.
Ryder, who had known Perceval since their days at Harrow, writes:
“All the physicians were at Windsor except Sr. H*. They unite in stating
that the King has had two violent fits of anger, (both with an assignable tho’
not an adequate cause) that subsequent to these fits he was as composed as
he had been before — His general conversation has been pretty composed &
collected, but accompanied with the usual delusions. On the whole, though
the sanguine expectations which the improvement of the preceding day
had suggested, are somewhat damp’d, they cannot be said to consider any
alteration for the worse to have taken place … The arrangement as to the
attendance of the physicians appears satisfactory both to them & to her
Majesty. Dr.Willis* & Dr. Heberden** will remain at Windsor. There will
be a consultation of all physicians every Saturday; & on the intermediate
days, there will be always one physician besides. Sometimes more than
one: but the detail of this arrangement is left to themselves. They appear
to think that a closer attendance is quite unnecessary for the King, & very
inconvenient to themselves.”
George III never fully regained his sanity, and died 10 years later. A few weeks
after this report was issued, the Prince of Wales, George, became Regent on
February 5, 1811.
*Henry Halford, 1766-1844; physician extraordinary to the King since 1793.
**John Willis, 1751-1835; the Doctor who, according to the Encyclopedia
Britannica, treated the King with “a new method of soothing and persuasive
treatment.”
***William Heberden, 1767-1845; ordinary physician to the Queen since 1806
and to the King since 1809.
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first public account of the manhattan project
101. SMYTH, Henry De Wolf. A General Account of the Development
of Methods of Using Atomic Energy for Military Purposes under the Auspices of the United States Government 1940 - 1945. With graphs and tables.
4to, Washington, D.C: At the Adjutant General’s Office, August, 1945.
Lithoprint edition. First edition, first issue, with the broadside “Future
Release/For Release in Morning Papers, Sunday, August 12, 1945” notice for the press laid in. Original printed stapled wrappers. this copy
with the stamp of “Allan V. Hazeltine Lt. Col. General Staff Corps” on
upper cover. Some minor wear and soiling, but generally fine, “Future Release” is laid loose and separated from three staples on upper
cover. Printing and the Mind of Man 422e; Norman 1962; Coleman 37.
$2,250
Published six days after Hiroshima (August 6, 1945), this is “…the remarkably full and candid account of the development work carried out between
1940 and 1945 by the American-directed but internationally recruited team of
physicists … which culminated in the production of the first atomic bomb.”
(PMM) Smyth was chairman of the Department of Physics at Princeton, and
his account of the “Manhattan Project” is the first officially published description of the immediate history of atomic reaction following Hahn and Strassman’s Discovery of Nuclear Fission, 1939. For reasons of security during the war,
no papers relating to the project were allowed to be published
This issue was set by typewriter and printed on mimeograph machines in offices at the War Department.
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signed by binder james brockman & fritz kredel
102. (STAMPERIA DEL SANTUCCIO) Hall, Joseph. Samson, Selec-
tions from a contemplation on an historical passage in the Old Testament.
With 8 line drawings by Fritz Kredel printed in red black and blue on
handmade Magnani paper. 28 pp. 4to (270 x 195 mm.), (Lexington,
Kentucky: Stamperia del Santuccio, 1972). Number 54 of 60, signed by
Fritz Kredel. Designed and printed by Carolyn Hammer in Samson Uncial in black, red and blue. Custom full crimson morocco, with suede
onlays, gilts stamped upper cover and spine, suede doublures edges gilt
on the rough. by James R. Brockman, The Eddington Bindery, 1974.
Contained in suede-lined crimson clamshell case. Fine. Holbrook,
Varia 10; Holbrook, An Introduction to Victor and Carolyn Hammer 15.
$2,500
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the allied occupation of the rhine —
the american point of view, 1921
103. STONE, David L., American Representative to the Interallied
Rhineland High Commission. Two Typed Letters, signed, to Edward
A. Filene, of the American Chamber of Commerce, regarding the
work of the Commission in Germany. 10 pp., and a 3 pp. cover letter,
on “Interallied Rhineland High Commission” stationery; the first with
numerous corrections in ink; both marked “Personal” in pencil. 4to,
Coblenz, Germany: 14 October, 1921. Some wear at edges, slight soiling, old pinholes; overall, quite good. $2,000
The Interallied Rhineland High Commission was a civil body formed after
World War I to govern occupied Germany on the Rhineland. During the summer of 1921, representatives of the American Chamber of Commerce visited
the Commission in Coblenz to voice their concerns about the lack of a European market for American exports — both agricultural and industrial —
which was being hampered by an allied policy that made a point of preventing
German redevelopment. Following that visit, Stone writes this lengthy, and
confidential analysis to Boston merchant Filene, outlining America’s goals,
the goals of the various members of the Commission, and the divergence of
national interests among the allies: in particular, the policy of the French being
to ensure its security against any future German aggression; the policy of the
US, Stone assures the Chamber of Commerce, being one of opening markets.
Stone writes, prophetically:
“The relations between France and Germany are the key to the situation in
Europe at the present time.”
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104. (THOREAU, Henry David) Hosmer, A.W. “Fred”, photogra-
pher. Cabinet card photograph of Henry David Thoreau, after a 1856
daguerreotype by Benjamin.D. Maxham. Albumen print mounted on
cabinet card, with photographer A.W. Hosmer’s stamp on verso. Image: 5H x 3G in, New York, Fredericks 770 Broadway, n.d. [after 1880].
Image somewhat faded, framed and glazed. $1,250
Photographic copy of Maxham’s 1856 daguerreotype portrait of Thoreau, by
the Concord native and early Thoreauvian, Fred Hosmer. An amateur photographer, Hosmer specialized in views of Concord and places and homes
significant to Thoreau’s life. Raymond Adams credits Hosmer, along with
Henry Salt and Dr. Samuel Arthur Jones, as laying “the foundation for Thoreau’s modern reputation” (cf. Oehlschlaeger & Henrick, Towards the Making
of Thoreau’s Modern Reputation, 1979).
Thoreau sat for three daguerreotypes and one ambrotype. As these first generation photographs of Thoreau are now unobtainable, this is the closest one
can get, in terms of association and significance, to an image of the author
from life.
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supreme court justice’s copy
105. THORNTON, Henry, Esq., M.P. An Inquiry into the Nature and
Effects of Paper Credit of Great Britain. 8, 8, 17-272 pp. 8vo, Philadelphia: Published and Sold by James Humphreys, Change Walk, Corner
of Second and Walnut-street, 1807. First American edition. Bound in
contemporary American mottled calf, leather spine label, slight wear
at front fore-edge, foxed internally. Booklabel of Robert Trimble of
Paris, (Ky.) No. 93 on the front pastedown. Kress B.5270; Shaw & Shoemaker 13700. $1,250
“It is not too much to say that the appearance of Paper Credit in 1802 marks
the beginning of a new epoch in monetary theory. Although Thornton’s merits have long been overshadowed by the greater fame of Ricardo, it has now
come to be recognised that in the field of money the main achievement of the
classical period is due to Thornton” (Friedrich von Hayek, Introduction to the
1939 new edition of Paper Credit). Mill described it in his Principles of Political
Economy as “the clearest exposition that I am acquainted with, in the English
language, of the modes in which credit is given and taken in a mercantile
community.”
This is the first American edition of this monetary classic, with a distinguished
provenance: Robert Trimble was the only nominee of John Quincy Adams
to the Supreme Court (on the advice of fellow Kentuckian, Henry Clay). He
served from 1826 until his death 2 years later in 1828.
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greece in 1830
106. TRANT, Thomas Abercromby. Narrative of a Journey Through
Greece in 1830. With remarks upon the actual state of the naval and military
power of the Ottoman Empire. Engraved frontispiece & 5 plates, wood
engraved illustrations in the text. x, [ii], 435 pp. 8vo, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1830. Bound in full contemporary
brown calf, gilt spine, edges marbled. Some minor foxing, gilt on spine
slightly faded. Very good. Engraved bookplate of Herbert Squiers on
front pastdown. BMC 25:392.894; Atabey 1234; Weber I, 192; Droulia
1859; Contominas 747; Blackmer 1671 (Sale 1050). $1,500
“This scarce work contains interesting comments on the presidency of Ioannis
Capodistrias [first President of independent Greece]; Trant states that he had
gone to Greece with a favourable view but seems to have found him overambitious and misguided.” (Blackmer Sale).
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cholera epidemic in turkey, 1894
107. (TURKEY) Collection of photographs of the cholera quarantine
camp at Sivas, Turkey, and related subjects. 17 albumen prints mounted
on board and captioned in English above the image. Images measure
4H x 6I in, Sivas, Turkey: ca. summer 1894. Images lightly faded,
some wear to mounts. $1,500
Sivas, Turkey experienced a cholera epidemic in the spring and summer of
1894. M.A. Jewett, the U.S. Consul in Turkey (who is pictured here), wrote
a report of the outbreak, and of its probable causes and remedies, which is
collected in The Weekly Abstract of Sanitary Reports (Washington, 1895). He
estimated the number of cases at 5,000 and the number of deaths at 1,500.
Jewett goes into some detail about the appalling living conditions and lack of
sanitary water in Sivas, and he condemns the superstitious and fearful attitude
towards Western medicine that makes treatment and prevention difficult.
Subjects include the quarantine camp at Sivas, the hanging of a “Turkish murderer,” Armenian Christian women, graduates and teachers of the Sivas Normal School, Seljuk architecture, and U.S. Consul M.A. Jewett.
108. (TURKEY) Sebah, Jean Pascal & Policarpe Joaillier, et al., pho-
tographers. Collection of photographs of Constantinople. 47 albumen prints mounted on card recto and verso, most signed, numbered,
and captioned in the plate in French, and captioned in English on the
mount. Constantinople, Turkey: c. 1900. Some slight warping and
chipping to mounts, images generally fine. $2,000
Most images are by the well-known Turkish firm Sebah and Joaillier, one is by
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the Abdullah Frères, and one is signed “Rubellin.” Images include St. Sophia:
Mosque of Ahmet; Troops on the Way to the Semalik, Constaniople; Interior
of the Castle of the Seven Towers; Christian Symbols over the door of the
Vestibule of St. Sophia; Vestibule of St. Sophia; Boaten of the Golden Horn;
Galata Bridge; Burden Bearers; Fire Brigade; Reader of the Koran; Date Seller,
Constantinople; Sultan’s carriage of the Medjidîeh Mosque; Fountain of Zeineb Sultan; Plane-Tree of the Janissaries; Roman Aqueduct, Smyrna; Bridge
of Caravans, Smyrna; Smyrna. General View of the Harbor; Street in Stamboul; Palace of the mouth of the Sweet Waters of Asia, Bosphorus; Castle of
Europe and Candili (Beacon Village) on the Bosphorus, etc.
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109. [UPTON, Elizabeth (Boughton), Lady Templetown]. The Birthday Gift, or, The Joy of a New Doll, From Papers Cut by a Lady. [At head of
title:] To Her Royal Highness, the Princess Amelia, This Book, Representing
…. Engraved title & 7 plates engraved by P. W. Thomkins. Oblong
quarto, London: P. W. Tomkins, 1796. Bound in half contemporary
brown calf over marbled boards, with Westport House (County, Mayo,
Ireland, residence of the marquess of Sligo) bookplate. Minor foxing, darkest on title page. Very good. Osborne Collection, v. 2, p 953.
$2,250
Engravings done by Peltro William Tomkins, historical engraver to the Queen,
depict the joy of a young child upon receiving a new doll through seven plates
with narrative captions. Illustrations show the child finding the doll, “feeding”
the doll, and dressing the doll for bed, in addition to other playtime scenes
involving the beloved toy.
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waterhouse to the army surgeon general:
“there will be hard fighting & many a wound”
110. WATERHOUSE, Benjamin. Autograph Letter, signed (“Benjn.
Waterhouse HS”), to Dr. James Tilton, Surgeon General of the United
States Army. 5 pp. pen and ink on 3 leaves. Cambridge: September 7,
1814.
$2,500
Waterhouse (1754-1846), an American physician, author, and professor of
medicine at Harvard, is most remembered as the first to test Jenner’s smallpox
vaccine in America. “In addition to being the leading early champion of vaccination in America, he was the most important popularizer of science in New
England from the 1780s to the early 1800s, the leading link between Boston
and the British medical community during the quarter century after the revolutionary war, and an important literary figure” (ANB).
Waterhouse writes to Surgeon General of the United States Army Dr. James
Tilton, discussing preparations to attend to wounded soldiers in the Boston
area during the War of 1812. Waterhouse had been appointed hospital surgeon to the First Military District in 1813.
Waterhouse was known as feisty, opinionated, and stubborn — traits that
come through in this letter. Reading, in part:
“The Apothecary General has at length arrived here, and is making
arrangements much to my satisfaction. We shall have things like clockwork
in a little time. I see the whole business before me in Systematic connection …
When I drew up that minute topographical account of Charlestown, Boston
Harbor, Charles & Mystic River & Cambridge, I anticipated what is now
near at hand, namely, the occupation of the peninsula of Charlestown with
two or three thousand militia, & volunteers … our Charlestown hospital
will probably be made my headquarters. Should the enemy attempt the
destruction of these Ships [‘the New 74, & the frigate Constitution’] there
will be hard fighting & many a wound, & I am preparing for whatever may
happen. What do you think of supplying every Sargeant with two or three
field tourniquets, when placed in a station that renders an action probable?
… I suspect we shall have a little more trouble with militia Surgeons than
with troops of the line, but I am determined not to indulge them beyond the
rules, especially as regards instruments … Some of these fellows destroy
more lancets in one month than you or I should, with the same patients, in a
year, of pocket instruments. I sometimes receive fretful letters from surgeons
for curtailing their monstrous lists of medicines … I have … dismissed the
war master, & do not think I shall ever employ another. The Steward must
do such duty. We can make a ward master out of a disabled Sargeant; but
we cannot make a Steward from such a material. We must have a man of
higher grade who understands the markets & must be a resident citizen &
not a transient soldier …”
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royally fleeced: “we were fools and gave him
practically all power over our finances …”
111. WINDSOR, Wallace Warfield Simpson, Duchess of, wife of
former King Edward VIII. Autograph Letter, signed (“W”), to Mrs.
Robert R. Young, in Palm Beach, Florida. 6pp., in ink, on blue personal
stationery. 4to, Paris: Wednesday, January 7, 1959. Slightly wrinkled,
olds folds, but clean and sound. With envelope. $1,250
A revealing letter to the widow of their old friend, Robert R. Frank, the railroad magnate and financier:
“…I shan’t bore you with our troubles, but we have had a great blow in
the person of [Victor] Waddilove [the Duke’s private secretary], who
we put complete confidence in for 11 years. We were fools and gave him
practically all power over our finances and only this year certain things
gave rise to suspicion and we decided to have an audit. It showed many,
many discrepancies and we have had a large sum of money taken. There is
nothing we can do as the chances of recovery are slim and the sensation in
the press would be awful plus appearing in court. The advice is to take it
on the chin.... Keep it under your hat. We have been through quite a strain
since September and as things always come at once we have had domestic
upheavals. To replace Robert at the hill is very difficult. which of course
takes a lot of pleasure away from going there. Sydney has become the Duke’s
valet; the other left and really it’s too much having these young ones for a
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year and a half and off they go. We have not had much time or money for
winter in Paris but have decided at our age we ought as well ‘dig deep.’
So we are arriving on Jan. 30th staying until Feb. 26th when off we go to
Tucson, Arizona to lose ourselves in the desert for a month. I feel it will do us
both good.... I do not think we are in the mood for Palm Beach this year but
if you will ask us next year I am sure as you say things will be different …”
“listen to the mocking bird”
112. WINNER, Septimus. Autograph Manuscript, fair copy, signed
and dated, of his lyrics to “Listen to the Mocking Bird”, with an accompanying Autograph Note of presentation, and 3 bars from the Chorus.
In all, 4 pp. on 2 folded sheets of personal stationery, with Winner’s
stamped address. 12mp, Philadelphia: Dec. 20, 1899. Fine. $1,500
Beautifully presented transcription of this song, familiar to generations of
Americans, by its composer, the Hall of Fame Songwriter Septimus Winner
(1827 -1902). Winner published the song and lyrics in 1855 under the pseudonym of Alice Hawthorne, and for over a hundred year it has been a staple
of the American musical diet. Winner was the composer and publisher of
hundreds of songs, including “Ten Little Indians,” “Oh where, oh where has
my little dog gone?”, etc.) In 1970 Winner was inducted into the Songwriter’s
Hall of Fame.
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inscribed with drawing of “the islander”
113. WYETH, Jamie. Jamie Wyeth. Illustrated in color throughout.
143, [1] pp. Oblong 4to, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1980.
First edition. Illustrated wrappers, corners bumped, bookplate, else
near fine in custom chemise. $2,000
Inscribed on the title page:
“For Rev. and Mrs. James Brooks — / Jamie Wyeth”
With a pen drawing of a ram, after “The Islander,” reproduced on the front
cover.
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INDEX
numbers refer to catalogue item number
Americana
19, 58, 75
Afro-American History16
American Revolution 69
Constitution, U.S.
80
Harvard
57
Kentucky
105
Massachusetts103
Pennsylvania 19
Philadelphia 22
Presidents, U.S.
68
Princeton
101
Architecture
68
Art
65
American
22, 113
British
76
Cartoons
73
French
32, 44
Russian
8
Sculpture
21
Bible 11, 12
Bindings
75
Boards
51, 97
British
10, 13, 76, 88, 102
French
33
Books of Common Prayer15
Books & Printing
71
Calligraphy 9
Typography 56
Children’s Books35, 60, 90, 109
Classics
Latin
20, 66, 67
Costume
Military
93
Economics
19, 59, 105
Education
Women
1
History
British
2, 6, 14, 29, 52, 100
Diplomacy 72
French
50, 58, 77, 92
London
30, 54
Mexico & Central America
46, 82, 83, 89
Military
17, 87
Monarchs, Royalty, Rulers
100, 111
Napoleon
84, 85, 86, 87
Naval
69
WW I
103
WW II
101
Illustrated
7, 47, 91, 98
British
10, 34, 35, 36, 37,
66, 90, 96
Color Plate 2, 3, 6, 48, 51, 53,
93, 97
Erotica
55, 88
Extra-Illus
37
Photography 63, 74, 104, 108
Law
14, 57, 80, 83
U.S. Supreme Court 105
Literature
American
104, 112
British
50
Homoerotic 8
Poetry
112
Maps 81
Medicine
97, 107, 110
Psychoanalysis
70
Surgery
86
Music 16, 54, 61
Composers 45
Jazz 4, 5
Popular Song 31, 62, 112
Natural History 38, 39, 40, 41, 42,
43, 48, 95
Birds
10
Gardening 64
Geology
79
Performing Arts
Theater
53
PMM Books
80, 101
Private Press
24, 25, 26, 49, 60,
102
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Science
Atomic Energy
101
Sets
34, 37
Sporting
2
Theology & Religion
13, 33
Quakers
94
Time-Life, Inc 78
Travel & Exploration
30, 106,
107
China
18, 27, 28
Japan
1
Mexico
83, 89
North America
19
South America
81
Women 1, 9, 16, 22, 99
Suffrage
23
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