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CONTENTS Highlights.......................................................................................................... 1 Alphabetical Listings A - H....................................................................................7 Alphabetical Listings H - Z..................................................................................35 Select Index..........................................................................................................68

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John Marshall’s Life of George Washington - First Edition In the Original Period Calf Bindings - Replete with Maps Published London - 1804-1807 - Five Volumes [Washington, George]; Marshall, John. THE LIFE OF GEORGE WASHINGTON, Commander in Chief of the American Forces...

Compiled Under the Inspection of the Hon. Bushrod Washington, From Original Papers Bequeathed to Him by His Deceased Relative. To Which is Prefixed An Introduction, Containing a Compendious View of the Colonies Planted by the English on the Continent of North America. (London: Richard Phillips, 1804-1807) 5 volumes. First edition, the English Issue published at the same time as the American issue. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Washington in Vol. 1, folding view plates in Vols. 2 and 3, a finely engraved vignette tailpiece at the end of Vol. 3, 12 large folding maps of the American colonies in Vols. 1 and 5. Thick 8vo, contemporary tree calf, spines gilt lettered and numbered in two compartments on red and black contrasting morocco lettering labels and decorated in gilt with gilt bands and period central ornamental devices in gilt. A fine and handsome set in the original English calf binding.

Some light age evidence to the calf but surprisingly well preserved.

Internal hinges are in good order, text blocks sound and tight. An unusually well preserved item. $8750.

RARE FIRST EDITION IN CONTEMPORARY CALF of one of the great early works on George Washington. The books contain maps of important Revolutionary battles in Virginia, the Carolinas, New York, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and New Jersey. There is also a fine portrait of Washington and finely engraved view plates.

“John Marshall (September 24, 1755 – July 6, 1835) was the Chief Justice of the United States (1801–1835) whose court opinions helped lay the basis for American constitutional law and made the Supreme Court of the United States a coequal branch of government along with the legislative and executive branches. Previously, Marshall had been a leader of the Federalist Party in Virginia and served in the United States House of Representatives from 1799 to 1800. He was Secretary of State under President John Adams from 1800 to 1801.

The longest-serving Chief Justice of the United States, Marshall dominated the Court for over three decades and played a significant role in the development of the American legal system. Most notably, he reinforced the principle that federal courts are obligated to exercise judicial review, by disregarding purported laws if they violate the Constitution. Thus, Marshall cemented the position of the American judiciary as an independent and influential branch of government. Furthermore, the Marshall Court made several important decisions relating to federalism, affecting the balance of power between the federal government and the states during the early years of the republic. In particular, he repeatedly confirmed the supremacy of federal law over state law, and supported an expansive reading of the enumerated powers.”

‘Justice Marshall greatly admired George Washington, and between 1804 and 1807 published his influential five-volume biography. The author’s Life of Washington was based on records and papers provided to him by the late president's family.

The first volume was reissued in 1824 separately as A History of the American Colonies, and the work reflected Marshall's Federalist principles. His revised and condensed two-volume Life of Washington was published in 1832. Historians have often praised its accuracy and well-reasoned judgments, while noting his frequent paraphrases of published sources such as William Gordon's 1801 history of the Revolution and the British Annual Register. After completing the revision to his biography of Washington, Marshall prepared an abridgment. In 1833 he wrote, "I have at length completed an abridgment of the Life of Washington for the use of schools. I have endeavored to compress it as much as possible. ... After striking out every thing which in my judgment could be properly excluded the volume will contain at least 400 pages." The Abridgment was not published until 1838, three years after Marshall died.’

This biography, here offered in its original five volume, first edition presentation, is still regarded as one of the most important ever penned, and perhaps the only one of real substance written by an extraordinary contemporary utterly active in the birthing of the new nation to which Washington had given the very highest and most noble service during is long life.

Howes M317; Sabin 44788; Wikipedia.

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The Earliest and Most Ancient Written Language An Important Sumerian Clay Foundation Cone From the Area of Southern Mesopotamia Near to Lagash Dated from Approximately 2130 B.C. Earliest and Ancient Written Language; [Gudea]; Dedication Cone, Sumerian Cuneiform Writing; Mesopotamia. A SUMERIAN CLAY FOUNDATION CONE BEARING A DEDICATION INSCRIPTION OF GUDEA, GOVERNOR OF LAGASH ([Lagash, Southern Mesopotamia]: , circa 2130 B.C.) In Cuneiform, deeply scribed onto the lower two-thirds of the cone in vertical lines.

Roughly 16 cm. tall, about 4 cm. in diameter narrowing to a slender tip, with a head or base roughly 7 cm. in diameter, made of a very light grayish brown clay. In a remarkable state of preservation. The cuneiform writing is still very legible after over four thousand years, being what may well prove to be the longest lasting media yet devised by Man. The tip of the cone, on which there is no writing, at sometime restored, some minor chipping along the edge of the head, which is also an area with no writing.

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A REMARKABLY WELL PRESERVED CUNEIFORM DEDICATION CONE, INSCRIBED IN WHAT MAY BE THE WORLD’S OLDEST WRITTEN LANGUAGE. While Cuneiform is more commonly found on tablets or round balls of clay, these clay cones, sometimes called nails, are found from the Babylonian period and were utilized by the kings for only about 700 years starting with Enanatum I of Lagash around 2400 BC and ending with Samsuiluna of Babylon (1749 BC – 1712 BC). They were constructed into the foundations or frameworks of important public buildings, much like the cornerstones used to dedicate buildings today.

They likely evolved into the barrel cylinders, which were used for more formal or ceremonial purposes then the standard clay tablets.

Gudea was a ruler of the state of Lagash in Southern Mesopotamia who ruled ca. 2144 - 2124 BC. He probably did not come from the city, but had married Ninalla, daughter of the ruler Urbaba (2164 - 2144 BC) of Lagash, thus gaining entrance to the royal house of Lagash. He was succeeded by his son Ur-Ningirsu.

Inscriptions mention temples built by Gudea in Ur, Nippur, Adab, Uruk and Bad-Tibira. This indicates the growing influence of Gudea in Sumer. His predecessor Urbaba had already made his daughter Enanepada high priestess of Nanna at Ur, which indicates a great deal of political power as well. The 20 years of his reign are all known by name; the main military exploit seems to have occurred in his Year 6, called the “Year when Anshan was smitten with weapons” Ezard, D.; Oklahoma Museum of Natural History; ADA; Hays, Jeffery.

A Sumerian Clay Tablet From Southern Mesopotamia - Circa 2143-2052 B.C. A Record of Cattle Offerings to the Gods Earliest and Ancient Written Language; Clay Tablet, Sumerian Writing; Mesopotamia. A SUMERIAN CLAY TABLET (Southern Mesopotamia: , n.d.) In Cuneiform, from the Third Dynasty of Ur (about 2143-2052 B.C.) 9 lines of Cuneiform deeply etched on one side of the tablet, the reverse virtually covered with the Cuneiform writing. A very large example, being 9.3 by 5 cm., the tablet being roughly 2 cm thick. The clay is a light gray/brown with a smooth surface, blackened in areas, likely by carbon. Extraordinarily well preserved, in fact it is a testament to human ingenuity, after over four thousand years the scribe of this tablet would most likely find its appearance essentially unchanged and but for a few chipped areas on one side, as legible as ever. $14500.

This tablet bears a record in Cuneiform of cattle offerings to the gods. Cuneiform tablets represent one of the earliest forms of human written expression and thus mark the beginning of the Historic Period. Cuneiform writing was in use for a very long time, for over 35 centuries, and by peoples with at least 15 different spoken languages. It began as a system of pictographs. In the three millennia the script spanned, the pictorial representations became simplified and more abstract as the number of characters in use also grew gradually smaller, from about 1,000 unique characters in the Early Bronze Age to about 400 unique characters in the Late Bronze Age. Clay tablets with pictographs appeared around 4000 B.C. The earliest with Sumerian writing appeared around 3200 B.C. In about 2,500 B.C., Sumerian writing evolved into a syllabic script capable of recording the vernacular, it was thus far closer to our modern concept of an alphabet then other know hieroglyphics. With each change and simplification, it became progressively closer to what could be called a modern alphabet. Cuneiform documents were written on clay tablets, by means of a reed for a stylus. The symbols were made by scribes who used a reed, cut to have a triangular tip, to make impressions on damp clay. The reeds could make straight lines and triangles but could not easily make curved lines. Different characters were made by superimposing identical triangles in different combinations. Complex characters had around 13 triangles. The moistened tablets were left to dry in the hot sun. The impressions left by the stylus were wedge shaped, thus giving rise to the name cuneiform (“wedge shaped”, from the Latin cuneus, meaning “wedge”). Adkins 2003, p. 47. Marckham Geller, “The Last Wedge”. Rawlinson 1847. Adkins, Lesley. Hayes, John L. Wikipedia.

British Museum.

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Very Rare First Edition of Appianus - Venice - 1477 A Superb Copy of this Typographical Masterpiece One of a Few Copies With the Woodcut Border in Red One of the Greatest Books of the Age of Printing [Incunabula]; Appianus, Alexandrini. [APPIANI ALEXANDRINI ROMANARUM HISTORIARUM] [APPIAN OF ALEXANDRIA]. Historia romana. [And:] De bellis civilibus. [Translated from Greek into Latin by Petrus Candidas Decembrius] (Venice: Bernard Maler (Pictor), Erhard Ratdolt and Peter Löslein, 1477) 2 volumes. First complete edition of the surviving portions of Appian’s History of Rome (As a matter of note, Part II only, De bellis civilibus, was printed by Vindelinus de Spira in 1472) Roman letter. Thirty-two lines, printed marginalia. Foursided woodcut white vine border on the recto of a2 of Part I printed in red, three-sided woodcut white vine border on the recto of a2 of Part II printed in black, both possibly by Bernhard Maler. Nine- and five-line white-on-black woodcut initials. Headlines consisting of book numbers or titles supplied erratically. Large quarto volumes (10 15/16 x 8 inches; 278 x 204 mm.) , early twentieth-century English niger morocco. Covers paneled in gilt, gilt-lettered spines with raised bands, turn-ins ruled in gilt, all edges gilt.

[132] and [212] leaves. Complete with both initial blanks.

A superb copy of this typographical masterpiece. Volume I with two wormholes to lower blank margin of last few leaves and light dampstaining to last two leaves (o9-o10).

Volume II with short repaired tear to lower corner of initial blank leaf and small stain to leaves h8-h10. Occasional minor dampstaining to extreme lower margins, scattered light marginal foxing, mainly in Volume II. Ink presentation inscription from Joachim Erckstede to Dr. Valentin de Teteleben (dated November 1522) on verso of final leaf in Volume I and on recto of initial blank leaf in Volume II. A few contemporary ink marginalia in Book II of De bellis civilibus. Bookplate of William Harrison Woodward.

$35,000.

VERY RARE FIRST EDITION. A SUPERB COPY OF THIS TYPOGRAPHICAL MASTERPIECE. The third book from Ratdolt’s press at Venice. The translator’s division of the extant books into two parts differs slightly in its order from the Greek originals. He dedicated the first part to Pope Nicholas V and the second part to Alfonso, King of Aragon and the Two Sicilies. Book III (Parthicus) in Part I of this and the following editions is a Byzantine compilation. The lower part of c1 verso (eleven lines) and all of c2 recto in Part I were left blank by the printers to indicate a gap in Appian1s manuscript, with a printed marginal note to that effect.

These volumes represent the earliest example of the use of a fully-developed woodcut border in a Venetian book. Ratdolt’s first border, a three-sided, simple black-on-white title designed for the Calendarium of 1476, is composed of fairly conventional plants growing out of vases. The borders for the Historia romana and De bellis civilibus, by contrast, are scrolling white vines and acanthus leaves, full and lush, black-on-white (in some copies, red-on-white), with a medallion for the owner1s arms in the lower edge. Ratdolt’s initial letters, which replaced the illuminated or rubricated initials, are also of the utmost importance in the history of book-decoration (see Hind, A History of Woodcut, II, pp. 459-462).

THIS COPY IS ONE OF A FEW IN WHICH THE FIRST WOODCUT BORDER IS PRINTED IN RED. In most copies both borders were printed in black. The partnership of the printers Erhard Ratdolt and Bernhard Maler and the corrector and editor Peter Löslein lasted from 1476 to 1478. The exceptional beauty of the books printed at their press is characterized by the use of a series of very fine woodcut borders and initials along with a strikingly clear and pleasing roman type. Although traditionally credited to Ratdolt, the design of the woodblocks and possibly of the type is more likely to have been the work of Bernhard Maler, the painter, who was in charge of the press. When Ratdolt set up his own press in 1480, he apparently brought only one of the border blocks with him, the one that appears in Part II of the present work, which he used again for the 1482 Euclid. The border used in Part I appears in this edition only.

"To my mind there are few printed books of any age which can be compared with the Appian of 1477, with its splendid black ink, its vellum-like paper, and the finished excellency of its typography" (Redgrave).

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An Important Woodblock Hand-Coloured Japanese Map From the Beginning of 1684 - Very Rare and Very Beautiful Japan Eiri Edo Oezu - Very Large Joined and Folded Paper [Japanese Hand-Coloured Wood-Block Printing]; [Maps and Atlases]; [Tokyo Map], Hyoshiya Ichirobe. A WOODBLOCK HANDCOLOURED MAP OF TOKYO; JAPAN EIRI EDO OEZU (Illustrated Edo) (Edo [Tokyo]: Hyoshiya Ichirobe, First month, 1684) A large woodcut map of Edo (Tokyo) with fine handcolouring, on joined and folded paper. The map is breathtaking in its detail and features many paintings of important landmarks, temples, bridges and people, who are often pictured working or fishing from boats on the waterways running through Tokyo. A stunning and very rare woodblock map beautifully and unusually handcoloured. Roads, blocks, buildings, open areas, canals and waterways, are all vividly laid out on this huge and most impressive map. 123.5 by 149.5 cm., folded within paper covers, folds to 28 by 18 cm, now preserved in a fine clamshell box. A remarkably well preserved and very rare item, with some light rubbing due to age and as to be expected. A bit of old worming or light soiling and occasional small repairs, but in all quite astonishing in its quality and beautifully preserved with bright and vivid colour and detail. $23,500.

AN EXTRAORDINARY ITEM, REMARKABLE FOR BOTH ITS CARTOGRAPHIC DETAIL AND ITS ARTISTIC BEAUTY. The wood block printing shows land tenures of Daimyo and Hatamoto. It also shows temples and shrines, includes a distance chart and descriptive listing of Daimyo showing crests and halberds. There is also a inset of the eastern portion of Edo.

One of the Most Beautiful Colour-Plate Books of Mexico The Atlas Pintoresco e Histórico de los Estados...Mexicanos Printed in Mexico and Illustrated with Maps Throughout Garcia Cubas, [Antonio]; Atlas; Mexico. ATLAS PINTORESCO E HISTÓRICO DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDO MEXICANOS (Mexico: Debray Succ., 1885) First Edition of the atlas. Beautifully illustrated with 13 chromolithographs on doublepages, each with a specialized map of Mexico and a great number of individual vignettes showing scenes and scenery and occasions throughout the country. The title-page is printed in tinted lithography. Grand Folio (620 x 410 mm), in the publisher’s fine and special binding of half-green shagreen. A very pleasing and well preserved and handsome copy. $16,500.

FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL COLOUR-PLATE BOOKS OF MEXICO. The atlas is regarded as among the most beautiful books ever produced about Mexico. It contains 13 double-page chromolithograph plates, each with a specialized map of Mexico surrounded by vignettes corresponding to the map, such as archaeology, botany, rivers, mining, volcanoes and mountains, railroads, costumed ethnographic types, etc.

Antonio Garcia y Cubas devoted himself to the study of Mexican geography, history and archaeology, publishing a succession of atlases beginning in 1858. The ATLAS PINTORESCO E HISTÓRICO DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS MEXICANOS can be said to be a culmination of his work in its beauty and comprehensiveness.

A text volume was issued separately but is not offered here.

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The Rare First Edition of the First English Translation Machiavelli’s Works - Including ‘The Prince’ and ‘Art of War’ Published in London in 1675 - Folio - Contemporary Calf Machiavelli, Niccolo. THE WORKS OF THE FAMOUS NICOLAS MACHIAVEL, Citizen and Secretary of Florence. Written Originally in Italian, and from thence newly and faithfully Translated into English [by Henry Nevile] (London: Printed for J. Starkey, 1675) The First Edition and first issuance of the First English translation of the Collected Works. A copy with very fine provenance, having belonged to James Wadsworth the great American pioneer, visionary, educator, planner and colonist. Folio [12-1/2” x 8”], bound in full contemporary calf, the spine decorated in gilt and with raised bands separating the compartments, red morocco lettering label gilt. A handsome copy, tight and clean. Binding with minor expected wear to the corners and edges, but without restoration or repair or sophistication. Rare thus.

$16,500.

RARE FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF THE COMPLETE WORKS.. This first English translation of the author’s complete works includes the Florentine History, The Prince, the Discourses on the First Decade of Livy, and the Art of War, as well as a number of other pieces, and includes Machiavelli’s Letter in defense of his writings.

Between 1498 and 1512 Machiavelli served in the Chancery of the Florentine Republic and was engaged in public duties and diplomatic missions all over Italy and as far away as France and Germany. In 1502 he made a visit to Cesare Borgia, who was then attempting to strengthen his army by removing its disaffected captains.

Machiavelli developed an admiration for the methods of the prince, who was both bold and prudent, cruel, self-reliant, and distrustful of others. When the Soderini government, whom Machiavelli, served, fell and Machiavelli fell into disgrace, he found plenty of time in which to organize his thoughts on the subject and compose his greatest work, THE PRINCE. THE PRINCE exerted a far reaching influence across disciplines and across nations.

A manuscript copy found its way to England with Henry VIII’s agent Thomas Cromwell and its influence was great. The works of Shakespeare and Marlowe abound with references to the author. But the first printing and translation in English was not until 1640 when the episcopal censorship broke down” (100 Banned Books, 128).

By 1643, censorship in England was again fully in force (the protest of which was the subject of Milton’s AREOPAGITICA) and it would be over twenty years before the next issuance of THE PRINCE in English. Cromwell “adapted its principles to the government.” (Books that Changed the World, 26) Napoleon annotated a copy, Louis XIV, Henry III and Henry IV of France all read and used he work. “(Thus,) THE PRINCE is far more than a book of directions to any one of the many Italian princelings. Machiavelli had profited by his journeys to France and Germany to make the most able analyses (in his reports to his government) of a national government, and he now wrote for the guidance of the ruler by whom alone Italy, desperately divided, could be restored to political health. Hitherto political speculation had tended to be a rhetorical exercise based on the implicit assumption of Church or Empire. Machiavelli founded the science of modern politics on the study of mankind.... Politics was a science to be divorced entirely from ethics, and nothing must stand in the way of its machinery... His concept of the qualities demanded from a ruler and the absolute need of a national militia came to fruition in the monarchies of the seventeenth century and their national armies” (PMM 63).

Machiavelli founded the science of modern politics on the study of mankind....Politics was a science to be divorced entirely from ethics, and nothing must stand in the way of its machinery...His concept of the qualities demanded from a ruler and the absolute need of a national militia came to fruition in the monarchies of the seventeenth century and their national armies” (PMM 63).

This copy, with fine provenance, belonged to James Wadsworth, a man who cherished education and learning throughout his life. In the spring of 1789 James and his brother William Wadsworth were summoned to Hartford, Connecticut to the home of their father’s prominent and wealthy second cousin Colonel Jeremiah Wadsworth of Revolutionary War and Continental Congress fame. He was one of the richest men in Connecticut at the time.

Colonel Wadsworth was interested in investing in and financially backing the efforts of Oliver Phelps and Nathaniel Gorham, who in the previous year purchased more than 2,250,000 acres (9,100 km2) of land from the Iroquois Six Nations in Western New York State, and was known as the Phelps and Gorham Purchase. Jeremiah adjudged James as having “ambition,” “clear mind,” and a “tenacious will,” and so wanted James and William to be Land Agents on his behalf and to personally move to this virgin territory to survey and improve the land while promoting it’s settlement as well as manage his 200,000-acre (810 km2) investment. In return James and William were offered 2,000 acres (8.1 km2) at his cost ($0.08 cents per acre) and reduced price for any further purchases, as well as a fee for the sale of Jeremiah’s land. In May 1790, the 22 year old James, his brother William, an AfricanAmerican woman named Jenny, a relative named Gad Wadsworth, who was in charge of the chattel, and several “axe men” headed west to the Genesee Valley. After several difficult weeks of travel by rivers, streams and over land by Indian trails, they arrived on the banks of the Genesee River at a place the Seneca nation called Big Tree on June 9, 1790. They claimed the land and built a log cabin in a meadow near the east bank of the Genesee River about half a mile west of the present site of “The Homestead” at Geneseo, New York. Beyond the settlements near Fort Niagara, they were the first Europeans to establish a permanent settlement East of Seneca Lake.

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A Very Rare Early Work on the Jesuits in Ethiopia F. Balthazar Tellez - Travels of the Jesuits in Ethiopia 1710 - London - With the Folding Map - Handsomely Bound Tellez, F. Balthazar. THE TRAVELS OF THE JESUITS IN ETHIOPIA: Containing I. The Geographical Description of all the Kingdoms, and Provinces of that Empire; the Natural and Political History; the Manners, Customs, and Religion of those people, &c. II. Travels in Arabia Felix, wherein many Things of that Country, not mention’d in other Books of the Nature, are Treated of, as a particular Description of Aden, Meca, and several other Places. III. An Account of the Kingdoms of Combate, Gingiro, Alaba, and Dancali beyond Ethiopia in Africk, never Travelled into by any but the Jesuits, and consequently wholly unknown to us.

Illustrated with an exact map of the country, delineated by those Fathers, as is the draught of the true springs and course of the Nile, within Ethiopia, besides other useful cuts (London: J. Knapton, 1710) First English translation of this very rare work by Tellez. Illustrated with an early folding map of the country, delineated by those Fathers, as is the Drought of the true Springs and Course of the Nile, within Ethiopia. 4to (202 X 162 mm.), bound in calf to style, ruled in blind on upper and lower covers, blind tooled in the corners, the spine with raised bands, lettered in gilt on two red morocco lettering labels, turn-ins decorated in blind.

(4), 264, (16) pp. A beautifully preserved copy with the map in excellent order, the text-block clean and the binding very well preserved. $9500.

VERY RARE. ONLY ONE COPY HAS APPEARED AT AUCTION IN MANY, MANY YEARS. “This work is a summary and digest of all the travelers to Abyssinia including Alvarez, Gregory, Ludolphus, Lobo and the annual letters of the Jesuit fathers from 1531656.” “Telles’ account was a summary of the discoveries made by the Jesuit missionaries from 1520 onwards. The Jesuits penetrated far into Ethiopia and made extensive studies of its language and history, providing Europeans with more information than was available for other parts of Africa at this time.”

“This work of Tellez was composed from the memoirs of various missionaries; transmitted to Portugal by Almeida and is remarkably rare.” Leyden II Bibliography. Streit & Dindinger, Bibl. Missionum XVII, p. 83; Lowndes, IV p. 2601;

Very Scarce Jesuit Letters From China and Japan Recentissima De Amplissimo Regno Chinae - 1601 Including the Report of the Death of Toyotomi Hideyoshi [Jesuit Letters], Longobardi, Nicolò.; Busaeus, Johannes.; Gómez, Pedro., and others, [Missions, Early Missionary Travels]. RECENTISSIMA DE AMPLISSIMO REGNO CHINAE. Item de Satu Rei Christianae Apud Magnum Regem Mogor. Et de Morte Taicosamae Japoniorum Monarchae (Moguntiae(Mainz): Ioannis Albini, 1601) First edition of this Latin translation by J. Buys of several Jesuit letters from the east.

With engraved titlepage featuring a large woodcut and engraved tail-piece and headlines. 8vo, in later but correct period style full speckled calf, the spine with gilt ruled raised bands and a red morocco label lettered and ruled in gilt, edges dyed. [iv], 132 pp. A fine copy in excellent state of preservation, the paper fresh and very clean, the binding also in fine condition. $22,500.

VERY SCARCE EDITION OF THESE JESUIT LETTERS ON CHINA AND JAPAN. We know of no other copies currently on the market and OCLC lists fewer then 15 copies in libraries world-wide. Includes a letter from Francisco Pasio, dated October 1598 from Nagasaki reporting the death of the great ruler of Japan, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, one of the most remarkable men in Japanese history.

Published in Italian, also in 1601.

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The Eulogy for President James Monroe John Quincy Adams - 1831 - First Edition 1 Adams, John Quincy. AN EULOGY ON THE LIFE AND CHARACTER OF JAMES MONROE, Fifth President of the United States.

Delivered at the Request of the Corporation of the City of Boston, on the 25th of August, 1831 (Boston: J. H. Eastburn, City Printer, 1831) First Edition 8vo, disbound. 100 pp. A fine copy with only minor toning or edge wear.

FIRST PRINTING, FIRST EDITION of the first of the two presidential eulogies given by John Quincy Adams. All the more interesting in that Monroe was Adams’ immediate predecessor in office and had also served as Secretary of State to Monroe. While serving in that position Adams authored The Monroe Doctrine. John Quincy Adams’ second eulogy would follow in 1836 for President James Madison. At the time this speech was given Adams was serving in the House of Representatives, he was the first of only two Presidents to this day to serve in Congress AFTER serving as President. The other being Andrew Johnson. Sabin 279. $125.

Alberghetti’s Important Work on Fortifications Beautifully Illustrated with Fine Engravings by Albrizzi Published in Folio - Venice - 1694 - First Edition 2 Alberghetti, Giusto Emilio. COMPENDIO DELLA FORTIFICATIONE. Al Ser mo Principe Silvestro Valier et All’Augusto Senato Veneto scritto per comando dell’Illmo & Ecc. mo Sig.r Sebastiano Mocenigo Cap. delle Galeazze.. (Venice: Girolamo Albrizzi, 1694) First Edition. Very fine pictorially engraved title-page to the first part (Defensive), Very finely engraved pictorial title-page to the second part (Offensive) and many very finely engraved full page plates by Albrizzi. Folio (mm. 384 x 265), bound in handsome halfvellum over marbled boards, the spine with title to lettering label, with plates on finely made paper. (8), 33; (1 blank), 1 table, 2 tables engraved in copper. A very fine, very fresh, crisp and clean copy, the plates and text in excellent condition.

RARE FIRST EDITION OF THIS IMPORTANT ILLUSTRATED TREATISE ON FORTIFICATIONS. Alberghetti followed in the footsteps of his father. As a young engineer and eventually superintendent, he served the Republic in Dalmatia, the Morea and in other places on the European mainland. He served in the Senate several times. He became general of artillery and ballistics and a master of science.

He probably was instrumental in 1691 in introducing the use of mortars and bombs. In a handwritten letter from Venice, March 1, 1692, he sent the Doge important information on the Peloponnese, and presented posthumously the writings of his brother Horace concerning the fortification of the Isthmus, with annotations and commentary (both works are now among the MSS. Cicogna 3248, formerly 2216, nos. VI VII, at the Correr Museum in Venice).

His own work on the subject is considered an invaluable compendium of the fortification. It was published in Venice in 1694, with a beautiful frontispiece and engraved plates, by Jerome Albrizzi. Quite interestingly, the work was divided into two parts, one for defensive military architecture, the other for the offensive, it is a targeted examination of the fortifications of other countries and is primarily intended to ensure the preservation of the latest achievements of the Venetian state overseas . As the superintendent of artillery he made significant presentations in writing, and his work published in Venice in 1718 provided an interesting treatise on military education and science of the weapon.

Even after his appointment as superintendent (1699), Alberghetti did not cease the activity of directing the smelter and Arsenal. He was responsible for the two half cannon (1700) that are preserved in the National Museum of Artillery, with his name and other unusual iron cannons from the year 1718. He was still in the home foundry at least until 1722. He was appointed general of the artillery March 15, 1742, and held the office for twelve years, including the dangerous period of 1754 and the fortifications at Corfu. He returned to Venice where he died in 1755. Dictionary of Italian Biography Vol. I p. 628-630; M. d’Ayala Bibliografia Militare Italiana p.82; Marini p.24; Riccardi I, 13. $6500.

Duty, Honor Country - Stephen Ambrose - 1966 One of His Earliest and Most Elusive Books A History of West Point - First Edition - A Fine Copy 3 Ambrose, Stephen E. DUTY, HONOR, COUNTRY A History of West Point (Baltimore: The John Hopkins Press, 1966) First edition.

Illustrated with frontispiece, black and white illustrations from paintings and old photographs and idecorated endleaves featuring an antique plan of West Point. 8vo, publisher’s original dark blue cloth, the spine lettered and ruled in gilt on a black label, in the scarce original dustjacket. 512 pp. The book is essentially very fine, the jacket has only a light touch of wrinkling along the top edge, unobtrusive

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SCARCE FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR’S THIRD BOOK AND A DIFFICULT WORK TO FIND IN FINE CONDITION. Ambrose is one of the most popular historians of the modern era, he is largely credited with creating the popular trend of teaching history from the point of view of the “everyday man” and changing dry dates and facts into vivid living stories. This was issued early in his very successful career, only his third published book, before several of the best sellers which caught the attention of the general public. Issued by the Johns Hopkins Press in a small printrun, it is far less common then his later titles. $185.

Arthur M. Schlesinger - A History of American Life A History From Columbus To Coolidge 12 Handsome Volumes Illustrated - Macmillan - 1930 4 [America; American History]; Schlesinger, Arthur M., Fox, Dixon Ryan, Editors. A HISTORY OF AMERICAN LIFE (New York: Macmillan Co, 1929) 12 Volumes. First edition. With black and white illustrations on glossy plates at the end of each volume. 8vo, publisher’s original green cloth, lettered in gilt on the spines and upper covers, with decorated endpapers of iconic American scenes printed in green An essentially fine set, internally clean and fresh and solid, the cloth is bright and fresh too with no fading or toning to the spines, just a bit of minor shelving to the edges and corners, very unobtrusive.

FIRST EDITION. A handsome set covering American history from Christopher Columbus to the Administration of Calvin Coolidge with contributions by such noteworthy historians as Arthur Schlesinger, Allan Nevins, Ida Tarbell and more.

The volumes are: I.) The Coming of the White Man 1492-1848 by Herbert Ingram Priestly; II.) The First Americans 1607-1690 by Thomas J Wertenbaker; III.) Provincial Society 1690-1763 by James Truslow Adams; IV.) The Revolutionary Generation 1763-1790 by Evarts B. Greene; V.) The Completion of Independence 1790-1830 by John Allen Krout and Dixon Ryan Fox; VI.) The Rise of the Common Man 1830-1850 by Carl Russell Fish; VII.) The Irrepressible Conflict 1850-1865 by Arthur Charles Cole; VIII.) The Emergence of Modern America 1865-78 by Allan Nevins; IX.) The Nationalizing of Business 1878-1898 by Ida M. Tarbell; X.) The Rise of the City 1878-1898 by Arthur Meier Schlesinger; XI.) The Quest for Social Justice 1898-1914 by Harold U. Faulkner; XII.) The Great Crusade and After 1914-1928 by Preston W. Slosson. $125.

Picturesque America - William Cullen Bryant, Ed. A Fine 19th Century Engraved View Book - 1872 With Steel and Wood Engravings by the Best Artists 5 [American Scenery; America; Bryant, William Cullen, Ed.]. PICTURESQUE AMERICA; Or, The Land We Live In. A Delineation by Pen and Pencil of the Mountains, Rivers, Lakes, Forests, Water-Falls, Shores, Canons, Valleys, Cities, and other Picturesque Features of Our Country (New York: D. Appleton and Company, [1872, 1874]) 2 volumes. First Edition. With illustrations on steel and wood by eminent American Artists, with the full complement of 49 very fine steel-engraved folio plates and over 900 wood engravings throughout. Many of these are full-page as well. Large, thick folio, in the publisher’s better binding of three-quarter brown morocco over brown textured cloth covered boards with beveled edges, backs and corner-pieces ruled in gilt, the spines with gilt stippled raised bands triple gilt ruled, gilt tooling at the heads and tails and gilt lettering in two compartments, fine marbled endpapers and t.e.g. vi, 568; vi, 576 pp. A very handsome and well preserved set, the book is often found broken due to the massive text block but this set is sturdy and fresh with only a bit of minor evidence of shelving or age to the extremities A very beautiful and impressive American VIEW and scenery book. The very important author and journalist William Cullen Bryant and the staff of D. Appleton and Company compiled within these volumes a tour of America in words and images perfectly fit for a land of such scenic splendor. There is a great amount of material on the geography and natural wonders, including the Grand Canyon and Niagara Falls. Unlike many similar books of the period the beautiful production gives ample attention to America’s cities and man-made wonders. $1500.

Samuel Eliot Morison’s Copy with His Notes Various Proceedings of the American Antiqurian Society 6 [AMERICANA], [Morison, Samuel Eliot], Thompson, Edward H., et al]. [PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY FOR 1911 and 1907 (A Collection of Articles Chosen By and Bound For Samuel Eliot Morison).] A KINDLIER LIGHT ON EARLY SPANISH RULE IN AMERICA; [with,] ASIA AND AMERICA; [with,] EARLY PRIVATE LIBRARIES IN NEW ENGLAND; [with,] NOTES ON WITCHCRAFT; [with,] NEW ENGLAND’S PLACE IN THE HISTORY OF WITCHCRAFT. (Worcester: American Antiquarian Society,

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1911, 1907) FROM THE PERSONAL LIBRARY OF SAMUEL ELIOT MORISON. First editions all, with Morison’s personl bookplate and notes. Numerous maps in text. 8vo, black cloth lettered in gilt on the spine. 277-322; 135-140; 323-338; 141-212; 185-218. A bright, clean and sturdy copy.

A collection of five articles excerpted from the American Antiquarian Society’s journal, the most substantial being “Asia and America” (concerning early conceptions of the geographical relation between the Old and New Worlds) and “Notes on Witchcraft” (an analysis of the Salem hysteria). $225.

Very Rare First Edition of Appianus - Venice - 1477 A Superb Copy of this Typographical Masterpiece One of a Few Copies With the Woodcut Border in Red One of the Greatest Books of the Age of Printing 7 Appianus, Alexandrini. [Incunabula], [APPIANI ALEXANDRINI ROMANARUM HISTORIARUM] [APPIAN OF ALEXANDRIA]. Historia romana. [And:] De bellis civilibus. [Translated from Greek into Latin by Petrus Candidas Decembrius] (Venice: Bernard Maler (Pictor), Erhard Ratdolt and Peter Löslein, 1477) 2 volumes. First complete edition of the surviving portions of Appian’s History of Rome (As a matter of note, Part II only, De bellis civilibus, was printed by Vindelinus de Spira in 1472) Roman letter. Thirty-two lines, printed marginalia. Four-sided woodcut white vine border on the recto of a2 of Part I printed in red, three-sided woodcut white vine border on the recto of a2 of Part II printed in black, both possibly by Bernhard Maler. Nine- and fiveline white-on-black woodcut initials. Headlines consisting of book numbers or titles supplied erratically. Large quarto volumes (10 15/16 x 8 inches; 278 x 204 mm.) , early twentieth-century English niger morocco. Covers paneled in gilt, gilt-lettered spines with raised bands, turn-ins ruled in gilt, all edges gilt. [132] and [212] leaves. Complete with both initial blanks. A superb copy of this typographical masterpiece. Volume I with two wormholes to lower blank margin of last few leaves and light dampstaining to last two leaves (o9-o10). Volume II with short repaired tear to lower corner of initial blank leaf and small stain to leaves h8-h10. Occasional minor dampstaining to extreme lower margins, scattered light marginal foxing, mainly in Volume II. Ink presentation inscription from Joachim Erckstede to Dr. Valentin de Teteleben (dated November 1522) on verso of final leaf in Volume I and on recto of initial blank leaf in Volume II. A few contemporary ink marginalia in Book II of De bellis civilibus. Bookplate of William Harrison Woodward.

VERY RARE FIRST EDITION. A SUPERB COPY OF THIS TYPOGRAPHICAL MASTERPIECE. The third book from Ratdolt’s press at Venice. The translator’s division of the extant books into two parts differs slightly in its order from the Greek originals. He dedicated the first part to Pope Nicholas V and the second part to Alfonso, King of Aragon and the Two Sicilies.

Book III (Parthicus) in Part I of this and the following editions is a Byzantine compilation. The lower part of c1 verso (eleven lines) and all of c2 recto in Part I were left blank by the printers to indicate a gap in Appian1s manuscript, with a printed marginal note to that effect.

These volumes represent the earliest example of the use of a fully-developed woodcut border in a Venetian book. Ratdolt’s first border, a three-sided, simple black-on-white title designed for the Calendarium of 1476, is composed of fairly conventional plants growing out of vases. The borders for the Historia romana and De bellis civilibus, by contrast, are scrolling white vines and acanthus leaves, full and lush, black-on-white (in some copies, red-on-white), with a medallion for the owner1s arms in the lower edge. Ratdolt’s initial letters, which replaced the illuminated or rubricated initials, are also of the utmost importance in the history of book-decoration (see Hind, A History of Woodcut, II, pp. 459-462).

THIS COPY IS ONE OF A FEW IN WHICH THE FIRST WOODCUT BORDER IS PRINTED IN RED. In most copies both borders were printed in black. The partnership of the printers Erhard Ratdolt and Bernhard Maler and the corrector and editor Peter Löslein lasted from 1476 to 1478. The exceptional beauty of the books printed at their press is characterized by the use of a series of very fine woodcut borders and initials along with a strikingly clear and pleasing roman type. Although traditionally credited to Ratdolt, the design of the woodblocks and possibly of the type is more likely to have been the work of Bernhard Maler, the painter, who was in charge of the press. When Ratdolt set up his own press in 1480, he apparently brought only one of the border blocks with him, the one that appears in Part II of the present work, which he used again for the 1482 Euclid. The border used in Part I appears in this edition only.

“To my mind there are few printed books of any age which can be compared with the Appian of 1477, with its splendid black ink, its vellum-like paper, and the finished excellency of its typography” (Redgrave). $35000.

Offprint Study of Apianus - Author’s Presentation Copy The Copy of Samuel Eliot Morison 8 [Apianus, Morison, Samuel Eliot], De Smet, Antoine. LES GEOGRAPHES DE LA RENAISSANCE ET LA COSMOGRAPHIE (Bruxelles: Travaux de l’Institut pour l’etude de la Renaissance et de l’Humanisme, 1970) First Edition Offprint, Author’s Presentation Copy. FROM

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A bright and well-preserved copy with little evidence of age.

RARE OFFPRINT AND AN AUTHOR’S PRESENTATION COPY TO A REVERED FELLOW AUTHOR. This pamphlet discusses Apianus’ Cosmographia and its influence on the Renaissance world-view. The cover bears Morrison’s signature and a note (“Good for Apian”) in his hand; the title-page bears a personal inscription (in French) by the author. $150.

With the Rare Engraving Usually Missing A Description of Tremont House - The First Palace Hotel First Edition - Published 1830 - Thirty One Engraved Plates 9 [Architecture] Eliot, W.H. [Boston; Hotels]. A DESCRIPTION OF TREMONT HOUSE, With Architectural Illustrations. (Boston: Published by Gray and Bowen, 1830) First Edition Decorated throughout with 31 finely engraved full page illustrations. Folio, publisher’s original cloth backed paper over boards. The upper cover with printed paste-down lettered in black.

[4], 36 pp. + 31 engraved plates on 31 leaves. Prone to the usual foxing of papers used during this period, this copy does have that typical evidence as is normal to the publication. The original binding has evidence of use and age. The first plate, rarely found intact in copies of the first edition is present in our copy.

RARE FIRST EDITION AND THE PUBLIC WORK WHICH ANNOUNCED THE ARCHITECTURAL CREATION OF THE FIRST PALACE HOTEL BUILT ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD. The hotel opened its doors in October 1829 with a dollar-a-plate banquet at which Daniel Webster was present. Its designer, a young Yankee from Marshfield, Massachusetts, named Isaiah Rogers, had put a Doric porch on its front, with the result that for decades no self-respecting hotel owner dared to have anything but a Doric porch as the entrance his building; it became a sort of place-hotel trademark. An the entrances set a fashion which lasted for many decades as a trademark of luxury.

The often missing engraving of Tremont House, present in our copy, was drawn by James Kidder. Kidder was a landscape artist, engraver, and aquatint printer of Boston. He produced an aquatint view of Boston Common, published in the June 1813 Polyanthus, an old-time Boston publication.

Around 1823, he went to work for lithographer, publisher, and antiquarian Abel Bowen (1790-1850). Caleb Snow’s 1825 A History of Boston... reproduces Kidder’s Boston Common view as well as his South East View of Boston and New State House, both engraved by Abel Bowen. A Description of Tremont House, published in Boston in 1830 by Gray and Bowen, contains his Facade of the Tremont House, engraved by Annin & Smith.

First editions of this important architectural work only rarely appear in the market and even more rarely with the Kidder engraving present as in our copy. $1850.

Hampton and Its Students Armstrong - 1874 - Important African-American Literature 9 Armstong, Mrs. M. P. and Ludlow, Helen W. HAMPTON AND ITS STUDENTS. By Two of Its Teachers. With Fifty Cabin and Plantation Songs, Arr. By Thomas P. Fenner (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1874) First edition. With frontispiece and vignettes and engraved illustrations throughout, also with over 80 pages of music. 8vo, original brick red cloth, the upper cover decorated in blind and with decorative lettering in gilt, the spine lettered in gilt. 256pp. A good copy of this hard to find book, the binding worn but fairly sturdy, the text-block mellow, the folding frontis is often lacking completely, this copy has the first third of the frontis which neatly separated at the first fold line, the rest is lacking, but what is here provides a complete view of the young men’s department building.

AN IMPORTANT CONTEMPORARY DESCRIPTION OF ONE OF AMERICA’S FIRST BLACK COLLEGES, published while Booker T. Washington was still just a student there. The institute (Now Hampton University) was founded by black and white leaders of the American Missionary Association after the American Civil War to provide education to freedmen. The School was first founded in 1868 by the biracial leadership of the AMA, who were chiefly Congregation and Presbyterian ministers. It was first led by former Union General Samuel Chapman Armstrong. Among the school’s famous alumni is Dr. Booker T. Washington, who became an educator and later founded Tuskeegee Institute, another college supported by the AMA. It is on the site where, under an oak tree, an earlier educator had taught negro students to read in violation of Virginia law. Under this same three President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation was first read to local freedmen. The tree is still located on the campus today. It serves as a symbol for both the university and the modern city of Hampton.

Also of great value is the collection of cabin and plantation songs, much of this slave music from the South might have been lost if not for the efforts of these early institutes to preserve them. $195.

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A Chronicle of the Kings of England - 1696 Sir Richard Baker’s Classic Work One of the Great Works on English Government and Royalty 10 Baker, Sir Richard. A CHRONICLE OF THE KINGS OF ENGLAND, FROM THE TIME OF THE ROMANS GOVERNMENT, TO THE DEATH OF KING JAMES THE FIRST. Containing all Passages of State and Church, with All Other Observations Proper for a Chronicle...

Whereunto is Added, THE REIGN OF KING CHARLES THE FIRST AND KING CHARLES THE SECOND. In Which are Many Material Affairs of State, Never Before Published; and Likewise the Most Remarkable Occurrences Relating to King Charles the Second’s Most Wonderful Restoration, by the Prudent Conduct of George Late Duke of Albemarle, Captain General of All His Majesties Armies...

(London: for Ben. Tooke; et al, 1696) The Ninth edition, being the first in which the additions are revised and with substantial additions not previously published. Folio, later full dark morocco, the spine with raised bands and gilt lettering in two compartments [37ff], 796, [44 index]. A handsome and well preserved copy, lacking the frontispiece and engraved half-title, blanks renewed, some expected paper toning and occasional minor edge wear, especially at the prelims.

ONE OF THE GREAT EARLY WORKS ON THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH GOVERNMENT AND ROYALTY. Educated at Oxford, Baker was elected to parliament in 1597. In 1603 he was knighted by King James I. His great Chronicle of the Kings of England was published first in 1643, translated into Dutch in 1649 and was continued down to 1658 by Edward Phillips, a nephew of John Milton and a strong loyalist. For many years the Chronicle was extremely popular and followed on in many editions all the way throughout the 19th century.

Baker was Knighted by James the 1st in 1620 but by 1635 found himself penniless and in debtor’s prison. It was there that he wrote his magnificent CHRONICLE. The great success of the work came to late to help as he died, still in confinement, very shortly after the printing of the first edition.

Granger; Kippis; Encyc. Brit. $1250.

With William Bartlett’s Very Finely Engraved Views The History of the United States of America - ca. 1860 An Excellent Account of the Young Republic - 3 Volumes 11 Bartlett, W[illiam] H.; Woodward, B.B.. THE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA; From the Discovery of the New World to the Present Day. Continued by B. B. Woodward (New York: Virtue, & Yorston, n.d. Circa 1856) 3 volumes.

Extensively illustrated with a profusion of very fine, full-page steel engraved plates after Bartlett, many based on views painted by the author. 4to, publisher’s original dark-green polished cloth decorated in overall period designs at the borders and in the centers of the upper covers and spines in black, spines additionally decorated and lettered in gilt, rear covers are decorated in blind. 698; 720; 726 pp. A very handsome and well preserved set, in very pleasing condition. The interiors fresh and very clean, the bindings are bright with only minimal age evidence. Still an unusually nice copy of this work which is most often found defective due to the weight of the text-blocks.

A FINE AND PLEASING SET OF THIS I M P O R TA N T W O R K , B E A U T I F U L LY ILLUSTRATED BY ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS ARTISTS OF THE CENTURY. Best known for his view books of Europe, Central America and the East, William Henry Bartlett made four tours of the United States. From the earlier of these visits resulted a series of views which were published in 1840 as “American Scenery”, with a text by Nathaniel P. Willis. A prolific illustrator, Bartlett made sepia wash drawings the exact size to be engraved.

His engraved views were widely copied by artists, but no signed oil painting by his hand is known. His work is still treasured and widely collected.

Bartlett died on board a French ship returning from a voyage to the Orient. Engravings based on Bartlett’s views were later used in this posthumous History of the United State of North America, continued by B. B. Woodward. Bartlett himself wrote only the first three sections of the first volume, the majority of the text actually being by Woodward. $550.

A Remarkably Fine Set First Edition of Blaine’s Masterwork - 1884 - 1886 Twenty Years of Congress: From Lincoln to Garfield 12 Blaine, James G.. TWENTY YEARS OF CONGRESS: FROM LINCOLN TO GARFIELD. With a Review of The Events Which Led to the Political Revoloution of 1860. (Norwich: Henry Hill Publishing Company, 1884, 1886) 2 volumes. First Edition. Profusely illustrated throughout with very fine steel engraved plates, folding map of the United States at the end of Volume I. Large, thick 8vo, publisher’s

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original dark-brick grained cloth, the upper covers beautifully decorated in gilt, the spines lettered in gilt, all edges marbled, marbled endleaves. (xvi), 646, folding map; (xvi), 724 pp. A superb and matching set. About as pristine as one could expect, beautifully preserved and exceptionally clean and bright. Highly unusual in this condition.

AN EXCEPTIONALLY FINE SET IN THE MOST PLEASING CONDITION. FIRST EDITION OF THIS REMARKABLY USEFUL WORK ON ONE OF THE MOST SIGNIFICANT PERIODS IN AMERICAN POLITICAL AND SOCIAL HISTORY. BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED THROUGHOUT WITH FINE STEEL ENGRAVED PLATES. James G. Blaine, a Representative and a Senator from Maine was born in West Brownsville, Washington County, Pa., January 31, 1830. He graduated from Washington College in 1847 and taught at the Western Military Institute. He studied law after his return to Pennsylvania and taught at the Pennsylvania Institution for the Blind in Philadelphia 1852-1854. In 1854 he moved to Maine where he edited the Portland Advertiser and the Kennebec Journal.

He was a member of the State house of representatives 1859-1862, serving the last two years as speaker. Elected as a Republican to the Thirty-eighth and to the six succeeding Congresses he served from March 4, 1863, to July 10, 1876, when he resigned. He was Speaker of the House of Representatives (Forty-first through Forty-third Congresses); chairman, Committee on Rules (Forty-third through Forty-fifth Congresses); unsuccessful candidate for nomination for President on the Republican ticket in 1876 and 1880; appointed and subsequently elected as a Republican to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Lot M. Morrill; reelected and served from July 10, 1876, to March 5, 1881, when he resigned to become Secretary of State. He was chairman, Committee on Civil Service and Retrenchment (Forty-fifth Congress), Committee on Rules (Forty-fifth Congress); Secretary of State in the Cabinets of Presidents James Garfield and Chester Arthur, from March 5 to December 12, 1881; unsuccessful Republican candidate for President of the United States in 1884; Secretary of State in the Cabinet of President Benjamin Harrison 1889-1892, when he resigned. He aided in organizing and was the first president of the Pan American Congress. Blaine died in Washington, D.C., January 27, 1893. $295.

The Constitution of England An Early Nineteenth Century Edition - London - 1822 13 [British Government, Constitution] De Lolme, J. L. THE CONSTITUTION OF ENGLAND; In Which It is Compared Both With the Republican Form of Government, and the Other Monarchies in Europe. With a Life of the Author (London: For T. and J. Allman, et al., 1822) An early 19th century edition of this classic work, this edition includes a brief life of the author and a new introduction. With an engraved frontispiece and vignette half-title. Small 8vo, in contemporary full calf, the boards framed with a gilt rolled tool, the spines with gilt ruled raised bands and a large central gilt device in each of the compartments but for one, which is gilt lettered, marbled endpapers and page edges. A very nice and handsome copy, the binding with only minor signs of age, much better then is typically found, the text fresh and sturdy.

A HANDSOME EARLY PRINTING OF THIS CLASSIC ON BRITISH GOVERNMENT. “De Lolme now began a lifetime’s study of the British government. His interest in this subject was stimulated, he later claimed, by the peculiarity of the system and by his earlier political experiences, which had given him ‘insight into the first real principles of governments’. His views were heavily influenced by Montesquieu, whose writing he had encountered in Geneva. In 1769 he began work on a major study of the British constitution that aimed to show the benefits of a balanced constitution, and claimed to have identified in British government the practical means by which freedom could be reconciled with political stability. He praised the jury system in particular, and admired the way in which monarchical authority had been effectively and beneficially limited by the settlement of 1688” - DNB. $125.

An Inscribed Presentation Copy - Maj. General G.A. Bruce The Capture and Occupation of Richmond - 1865 14 Bruce, George E. THE CAPTURE AND OCCUPATION OF RICHMOND (N.P.: Privately Printed, N.D. (circa 1927)) First edition.

INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. With a portrait frontispiece, a sketch map of Petersburg and Richmond and six black and white plates.

8vo, original blue cloth lettered on the upper cover in gilt. 46pp. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR and otherwise a good copy, some unobtrusive evidence of old damp throughout, the blue cloth mellowed.

INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. George A. Bruce served in the Union Army, eventually reaching the rank of Major General. At the time of publication the author would have been well into his nineties. $165.

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Four Articles - From the Bulletin of Archaeology With Emendations in Samuel Eliot Morison’s Hand 15 [Bulletin of Archaeology], [Morison, Samuel Eliot], Cirera, J.M. et al. FRAGMENTOS DE UNA CARTA NAUTICA DE GABRIEL VALSECA; LOS CARTOGRAFOS MALLORQUINES; EL MAESTRO DE LOS CARTOGRAFOS MALLORQUINES; CARTOGRAFOS MALLORQUINES from Boletin de la Sociedad Arqueologica Luliana (Palma: Sociedad Arqueologica Luliana, 1888, 1898, 1890) FROM THE PERSONAL LIBRARY OF SAMUEL ELIOT MORISON, with his notes. 4to, extracts from journals, disbound and stitched. 326-328; 323-328; 310-318. Some expected minor chipping and tearing to edges, but well preserved copies of these rare extracts.

WITH NOTES IN THE HAND OF SAMUEL ELIOT MORISON. These four articles, emendated by Morison, include one piece on cartographer Gabriel Valseca and three others on the mapping of Majorca and its surrounding islands. Includes copious notes in Morison’s hand. $150.

An Uncommonly Fine Set of this Important Work Capt. Fred Burnaby’s Travels and Adventures On Horseback Through Asia Minor - 1877 - London 16 Burnaby, Capt. Fred. ON HORSEBACK THROUGH ASIA MINOR (London: Samson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1877) 2 volumes. Probable first edition with “Second Edition” slug to the title, same year as the first, same format as the first. With mounted photographic portrait and 3 folding maps. 8vo, publisher’s original dark green cloth, lettered and pictorially decorated on the spines and upper covers in gilt and black, lower covers ruled in blind. xxxii, 352, errata; xix, 399. A very fine set, bindings especially clean and bright.

VERY SCARCE IN SUCH NICE CONDITION. The scarce follow-up to Burnaby’s popular A RIDE TO KHIVA, and a more important book from a historical and military point of view.

Burnaby spent a tour in Asia Minor and Armenia with the intent of observing the Turks away from European influences. He studied the area intesively and then chose his route from Scutari via Angora, Tokat, Sivas, Ersinjian, Erzeroum, Van, Khoi, Bayazid, Kars and Ardahan to Batoum.

The Russian military, involved in the Russo-Turkish war, followed him closely until he lost them at Constantinople. Later they distributed his photo along the borders with the instructions that he was to be turned back. This work was published upon his return.

Burnaby must have been quite an impressive sight charging through Asia Minor on horseback.

He is said to have stood at over 6’4”, was 46” round the chest and he was reputed to be one of the strongest men in Europe. Feats of strength such as carrying a small pony under one arm seem to be well authenticated. BMC; DNB. $1750.

Etruscan Bologna - Sir Richard Francis Burton First Edition - Original Cloth - Handsome Copy 17 Burton, Richard F. ETRUSCAN BOLOGNA: A Study (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1876) First edition. Folding table, 27 black & white illustrations and plans in text. 8vo, publisher’s original gray-blue cloth with gilt pictorial design of ‘Misanello Restored’ on the upper cover between black decorated borders, the spine lettered in gilt and the lower cover bordered in blind. xii, errata, 275, (1) pp. A very handsome and very nice copy with some minimal evidence of use or age, inner hinges strong and the text-block tight, pages clean.

Quite a nice copy with the folding plate in nice condition.

NOW SCARCE AND A HANDSOME FIRST EDITION. An account of recent archaeological investigations and discoveries in Italy, with a long section on its ancient and modern languages. Burton had hands-on experience digging for Etruscan artifacts near Bologna on the land of Count Gozzadini. He was also friendly with several professors from the University of Bologna-- Calori, Fabretti, and Capellini, and included their findings in this work. Essentially a guidebook for the region, it covers the new and old sections of the city, a comprehensive look at the rich archaeological collections in its museums, a history of Estruscan excavations from the area, and an analysis of the ancient language. Burton found the Bologna region a vast repository of Estruscan antiquities.

The book contains a significant number of important illustrations and plans, including examples of the written language. Burton attempted to decipher the mystery of its symbols, but failed to do so.

Burton’s “Etruscan Bologna” is a serious, scholarly archaeological survey without his usual cynical wit. It was badly received in England, most reviewers found the book lifeless or superficial. The Gazette however championed Burton, “But it is indeed a novelty to see this hard student, this desperately learned man, charged with shallowness, with inaccuracy and hasty incompleteness...It will be amusing to follow the pygmies in their task of assailing the learned modern Gulliver.” $950.

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The Entry of Western Scholarship into the Arab Holy Cities Sir Richard Francis Burton to Al-Madinah and Meccah 18 Burton, Richard F. PERSONAL NARRATIVE OF A PILGRIMAGE TO AL-MADINAH & MECCAH. Edited by his Wife, Isabel Burton, with an Introduction by Stanley Lane-Poole (London: George Bell & Sons, 1907) 2 volumes. An early printing of the “Standard” Library edition. With the color lithograph frontispiece in the first volume, a folding map, two double-paged plans, 15 black and white plates, and 28 small illustrations in the text. 8vo, publisher’s original maroon cloth lettered in gilt on the spine panels. xxxiv, 436; viii, 479 pp. A very fine, very bright, very clean copy, unread and unused. Withdrawal stamps in a few spots, unobtrusive signification of prior ownership in a few locations.

VERY SCARCE FINE COPY OF THE BELL AND SONS ISSUE IN TWO VOLUMES, REPLETE WITH ILLUSTRATIONS AND MAP AS IN THE FIRST MEMORIAL EDITION. The original Bohn’s Library edition was published in 1898 and was reprinted continuously into the 1920’s.

There were three “libraries” under which this title was issued—the Standard Library, the York Library, and the Popular Library—but only the Standard Library editions had the colored frontispiece, the plates, and the map.

The text is that of the Memorial Edition, so that the full complement of 8 appendices is present.

According to Penzer, and to countless readers since, this is “one of the greatest works of travel ever published.” Burton was one of the first westerners to enter the Arab holy cities and to accomplish this he had to assume the character and costume of a Persian Mirza, a wandering Dervish, and a “Pathan.” Penzer p. 56. $795.

‘A Pilgrimage to Al-Medina and Meccah’ A Handsome Copy - Sir Richard F. Burton The First Memorial Issue with Fine Coloured Plates 19 Burton, Richard F. PERSONAL NARRATIVE OF A PILGRIMAGE TO ALMADINAH AND MECCAH (London: Tylston and Edwards, 1893) 2 volumes. First Issue of the Memorial Edition. Portrait and color lithograph frontispieces, folding coloured map, illustrated with coloured and tinted lithographs and black and white illustrations throughout the text. 8vo, publisher’s original black polished cloth lettered and pictorially decorated in gilt on the spine and upper covers. xxviii, 436; xii, 479 pp. A pleasing set, handsome, clean and quite bright with only light shelf or time wear to the extremities of the spine. One volume with a bit of chipping.

Textblocks clean and unmarked and without foxing, Scarce in this well preserved condition.

A BRIGHT AND WELL PRESERVED SET OF THE MEMORIAL EDITION OF THE ACCOUNT OF BURTON’S FAMOUS PILGRIMAGE, EDITED BY HIS WIFE, EXPANDED WITH NEW MATERIAL. The text of the Memorial Edition contains the full complement of 8 appendices appendices and numerous illustrations not contained in first edition. It was edited by Lady Burton and was considered by Penzer, and by countless readers since, to be “one of the greatest works of travel ever published.”

Burton was one of the first westerners to enter the Arab holy cities. To accomplish this, he had to assume the character and costume of a Persian Mirza, a wandering Dervish, and a “Pathan.” Lady Burton said of his feat, “ It meant ...living for nine months in the hottest and most unhealthy climate, upon repulsive food; it meant complete and absolute isolation from everything that makes life tolerable, from all civilization, from all his natural habits; the brain at high tension, but the mind never wavering from the role he had adopted; but he liked it, he was happy in it, he felt at home in it, and in this book he tells you how he did it, and what he saw.”

Richard Burton was one of the foremost linguists of his time, an explorer, poet, translator, ethnologist, and archaeologist, among other things. He spent much of his childhood in Italy and France and was educated eclectically. In 1840, he began studies at Trinity College, Oxford and distinguished himself through his eccentric behavior. Two years later, he joined the 18th Regiment of Bombay Native Infantry at Baroda, in order to study “Oriental” life and languages. He had already studied some Arabic in London and learned Gujarati, Marathi, Hindustani, Persian and Arabic while in India. He eventually took on a position that allowed him to mix more freely with the indigenous peoples, especially the lower classes, and began to dress like them. Burton’s seven years in India allowed him to become familiar with the languages, customs and geography of the East. This preparation paved the way for his famous trip to Mecca.

At this time, there were areas of the Middle East that were still unknown to Westerners and represented grey areas on the world map. Rumor and second hand information about the inner workings and holy sites of one of the largest religions in the world was all that was available to European scholars. In order to fill this void, Burton decided to go to Mecca, and his idea was approved by the Royal Geographical Society . He passed himself off as an Indian Pathan and was required to know the rituals of a pilgrimage as well as the exigencies of manners and etiquette. His publication of the journey---THE PILGRIMAGE TO AL-MEDINAH AND MECCAH---allowed European readers to experience new cultures, traditions and history.

Burton’s writing was accessible to the general reader and provided an intimate and well-documented portrayal of the Middle East. $950.

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One of the Greatest Works of Travel Ever Published The Rare First Edition - Pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina The Entry of Western Scholarship into the Arab Holy Cities 20 Burton, Richard F. PERSONAL NARRATIVE OF A PILGRIMAGE TO MECCA AND MEDINA (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) 3 volumes. First edition. Illustrated with a 13 lithographic plates, 8 of which are tinted and 5 in colour, 4 maps or plans, 3 of which are folding and several illustrations within the text. 8vo, very attractively bound in early three-quarter royal blue morocco and marbled boards, the spines finely gilt decorated in compartments between gilt stippled and decorated bands, gilt lettered in two of the compartments, endpapers marbled, t.e.g. xv, 338, 24 ads; iv, 426; xi, 448. A very handsome and attractive set, there is a neat repair to the folding map, the first signature of volume one neatly re-inserted.

A RARE AND VERY ATTRACTIVE SET. According to Penzer, and to countless readers since, this is “one of the greatest works of travel ever published.” Burton was one of the first westerners to enter the Arab holy cities and to accomplish this he had to assume the character and costume of a Persian Mirza, a wandering Dervish, and a “Pathan.” Mrs. Burton said of his feat that “ It meant ...living for nine months in the hottest and most unhealthy climate, upon repulsive food; it meant complete and absolute isolation from everything that makes life tolerable, from all civilization, from all his natural habits; the brain at high tension, but the mind never wavering from the role he had adopted; but he liked it, he was happy in it, he felt at home in it, and in this book he tells you how he did it, and what he saw.”

Richard Burton was one of the foremost linguists of his time, an explorer, poet, translator, ethnologist, and archaeologist, among other things. He spent much of his childhood in Italy and France and was educated eclectically. In 1840, he began studies at Trinity College, Oxford and distinguished himself through his eccentric behavior. Two years later, he joined the 18th Regiment of Bombay Native Infantry at Baroda, in order to study “Oriental” life and languages. He had already studied some Arabic in London and learned Gujarati, Marathi, Hindustani, Persian and Arabic while in India. He eventually took on a position that allowed him to mix more freely with the indigenous peoples, especially the lower classes, and began to dress like them. Burton’s seven years in India allowed him to become familiar with the languages, customs and geography of the East. This preparation paved the way for his famous trip to Mecca.

At this time, there were areas of the Middle East that were still unknown to Westerners and thus, represented grey areas on the world map. Rumor and second hand information about the inner workings and holy sites of one of the largest religions in the world was all that was available to European scholars. Burton’s decision to go to Mecca was approved by the Royal Geographical Society in order to fill this void. He passed himself off as an Indian Pathan and was required to know the rituals of a pilgrimage as well as the exigencies of manners and etiquette. Discovery of his deception would all but certainly have met with execution, this alone should indicate the importance both Burton and the R.G.S. placed on this mission. His publication of the journey--The Pilgrimage to Al-Medinah and Meccah--allowed European readers to experience new cultures, traditions and history. Burton’s writing was accessible to the general reader and provided an intimate and well-documented portrayal of the Middle East.

First editions of this book are very scarce. $10,500.

The Very Rare Giunta Caesar Published in Florence in 1514 - One of the Earliest Octavos Beautifully Illustrated and Exquisitely Bound 21 Caesar, Gaius Julius. [OPERE]. [COMMENTARIA] IN HIS AUTEM COMENTARIIS CONTINENTUR. [Commentariorum] De bello Gallico Libri VIII. Be bello civili pompeiano. Libri IIII. De bello Alexandrino. Liber I. De bello Africano. Liber I. De bello Hispaniensi.

Liber I. Nomina locorum, urbiniumq[ue], & populorum Galliæ, ut olim dicebantur latine, et nunc dicantur Gallice, secundum ordinem alphabeti. Pictura totius Galliæ, in qua ed loca designature...scripturaconsequi pontis... Hispaniae descriptio. (Florentiae (Florence): Philippi de Giunta, August 1514) First Giunta Edition and probably the earliest of the 8vo editions of Caesar. The plates in this edition were used by Aldus for his edition dated 1513. Beautifully illustrated with 2 double-page woodcut maps of France and Spain, and of Europe north of the Mediterranean and east into Germania and 5 fine full-page woodcut plates. Engraved Giunta device on the verso of the last leaf. 8vo, in a finely designed full morocco binding by Graba, the covers with a central ornamental device surrounded by a large diamond at the center in blind and surrounded by multi blind tooled panels, all enclosed by a single fillet blind tooled line, the spine with wide raised bands, the diamond designs repeated in the compartments, title in one compartment gilt. (16ff), 285 leaves, (1 ff with device on verso). A wonderfully preserved copy, the binding in excellent condition, the textblock and illustrations also in excellent, fresh, clean and crisp condition.

RARE. ONLY THREE COPIES RECORDED IN OCLC. A FINE COPY OF THE HIGHLY IMPORTANT GIUNTA EDITION. Despite the fact that Julius Caesar remains one of the most illustrious men in history, only a handful of his extensive writings survive to the present day. This “Opera” contains his primary works, “Commentaries on the Gallic War” and the three books of the Civil Wars in Rome with Pompey, as well as his further works. Dibden calls the Giunta edition more correct than that of Aldus.

Julius Caesar was anxious to establish his own record of his successful campaigns in Gaul from 58 to 52 B.C., which includes the less successful invasion of Britain. To answer those who accused him of purely personal ambition, he wished to appear as a straightforward soldier, fighting wars that were essential to Rome. Fascinating for its insights into a man who shaped the history of the western world, his first-hand account of the Gallic Wars

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is a crucial source for the history of Britain and Germany as well as Gaul. Books I[VII were probably written year by year, when events were fresh in Caesar’s mind and issued together in 51 B.C. Book VII ends with the defeat of Cercingetorix so that Aulus Hirtius (d. 43 B.C.) Caesar’s lieutenant in Gaul, took up the narrative in Book VII with th ensuing uprisings and the beginnings of Caesar’s disputes with the authorities in Rome.

The “Commentaries” was written not to suggest a history, but rather as a bald record of events. Caesar wished to create an impression that he was just a simple soldier fighting for the good of Rome. It is unique as a contemporary account of a drawn out (nine years) foreign war written by a Roman general, and he has written it in lucid and unrhetorical Latin. The work was probably first published in 51 BC. The books on the Civil War are rather more obviously political, the theme being that his enemies forced the war upon him. The narrative is greatly relieved however by touches of humility and humor. Caesar was assassinated on March 15, 44 BC. Adams I, 219/27; Dibden: Greek and Roman Classics 357; Brunet I, 1453. $6750.

Camden’s Britannia - A Study and History of the Country The First Edition to Contain Morden’s Fine Engraved Maps The Best Maps of the Period - First of Gibson’s Translation 22 Camden, [William]. CAMDEN’S BRITANNIA, Newly Translated into English; With Large Additions and Improvements. (Oxford: Edmund Gibson, 1695) First Edition of Edmund Gibson’s translation and the First Edition to include Morden’s maps, considered the finest of the period. With 50 double-page engraved maps, including two fold-out, most by Robert Morden. 9 plates of coins or other antiquities, and numerous woodcut or copper engraved illustrations throughout, several of which are quite large including one nearly half page engraving of Stonehenge and with a frontispiece portrait of Camden. Folio, full contemporary paneled calf, sometime rebacked in period style, the spine with raised bands ruled in gilt, red morocco label boldly lettered in gilt and with gilt edge decoration. cv, 1116, [42]. A well preserved, handsome and pleasing copy of this scarce work with the fine provenance of the Graingers of High Ireby with engraved bookplate. Title-page and frontispiece mounted, A1-4 with some strengthening and support at the gutters, general map or England with backing at the edges, two other maps with edge backing, some normal evidence of use or age, some other leaves with occasional backing at the edges, binding sturdy and strong, expected mellowing and age to antique boards, endleaves renewed.

Scarce first edition with Morden’s maps and the first of Gibson’s English translation of this masterpiece on both typography and the Roman and prehistoric remains of Great Britain. The work is a county by county study in detail. The superb engraved maps by Morden are considered the finest of the period.

In 1577, with the encouragement of Abraham Ortelius, Camden began his great work Britannia, a topographical and historical survey of all of Great Britain. His stated intention was “to restore antiquity to Britaine, and Britaine to its antiquity.” The first edition was published in 1586. The work, which was written in Latin, proved to be exceedingly popular.

CAMDEN’S BRITANNIA is a county-by-county description of Great Britain. It is a work of chorography: a study that relates landscape, geography, antiquarianism, and history. Rather than merely writing a history, Camden wanted to describe in detail the Great Britain of the present, and to show how the traces of the past could be discerned in the existing landscape. By this method, he produced the first coherent picture of Roman Britain.

While the work itself is a masterpiece, the show-stealer of this edition is unquestionably the superbly engraved maps of Robert Morden. Morden died in 1703, and this is the only edition of the most famous maps published in his lifetime. These maps are the first county maps to show roads ( based on Ogilby’s road maps ) and show the three scales representing great, middle and small miles allowing for the fact that different scales were used in different parts of the country. The extremely rare John Bill maps of the 1620’s were the first to carry latitude and longitude which Morden also shows here. Along with the county by county maps of England there are also maps of Scotland, Ireland and the smaller British Islands.

Included also is a “Life of Camden”, Camden’s Preface and other studious materials. $6950.

A First Edition Classic Truman Capote’s 1965 Tour de Force - In Cold Blood 23 Capote, Truman. IN COLD BLOOD: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and its Consequences (New York: Random House, 1965) First edition, first issue in the correct first issue dustjacket. 8vo, publisher’s original maroon cloth lettered in gilt and silver on the spine and upper cover, in the original printed dustjacket. (10), 343 pp. A fine copy, the book fresh and clean and nearly as new, the jacket very fresh and handsome with only trivial edge wear.

FIRST EDITION OF A TWENTIETH CENTURY CLASSIC AND THE BOOK THAT CATAPULTED CAPOTE TO FAME AND FORTUNE AND PERMANENT RESPECT. Capote’s “non-fiction novel” was the first of the modern true crime books which have proved so lucrative and popular (witness THE EXECUTIONER’S SONG and FATAL VISION) that they now have their own section in bookstores. $695.

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Abel Chapman’s Memories of Fourscore Years Less Two 1930 - First Edition - A Fine Copy - Original Cloth Sporting and Natural History Adventures of a Master 24 Chapman, Abel. MEMORIES OF FOURSCORE YEARS LESS TWO 1851-1929. With a Memoir by George Bolam (London: Gurney and Jackson, 1930) First edition. With a photogravure frontispiece, 24 colour plates, 3 black and white plates, and numerous illustrations in the text. 8vo, publisher’s original dark green ribbed cloth gilt lettered in gilt on the spine, t.e.g. xxvii, 257, 3 ads. An unusually well preserved copy, fine and clean and near as pristine.

FIRST EDITION OF A VERY FINE AND WELL-ILLUSTRATED AUTOBIOGRAPHY. Chapman was one of the greatest of sporting and natural history writer. This copy is in splendid condition. Includes his adventures in Egypt, Africa, Spain, and Northumberland.

“Abel Chapman began to write “Memories” before the publication of “Retrospect”, and, in spite of illness, continued work upon it until his death.

The endurance that had carried him through so many adventures was equal to this last occasion. He completed the manuscript, revised it thoroughly, illustrated it with a number of his own lively drawings...” - Bloom $225.

Churchill’s History of the English Speaking Peoples An Excellent First Edition Set in Dustjackets 25 Churchill, Winston. A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING PEOPLES (London: Cassell and Co, 1956, 57, 58) 4 volumes. First editions. Numerous maps. 8vo, original crimson cloth lettered in gilt on the spines, in bright, original pictorial dustjackets. xxi, 395; xi, 325; xi, 312; xi, 304. Index in each volume. A very clean and very bright set, near fine but for some minor rubbing along the board edges, the jackets bright with only trivial edge wear, internally fine.

IMPORTANT FIRST EDITION. By the beginning of World War II, Churchill had already penned half a million words of this manuscript. Lying dormant through almost six years of war followed by an even longer period in which Churchill wrote his war memoirs, this work finally was brought to fruition in 1956.

The first two volumes of this set were published in April and November 1956 respectively, the third in October 1957, and the last in March 1958. Whereas the first two volumes sold briskly, the final two were less successful and were not reprinted for years.

Sir Winston Churchill ranks among the greatest men of history. He was born in 1874, a descendent of the great Duke of Marlborough. After an education at Harrow and Sandhurst he entered the army in 1895 and embarked on one of the most varied and distinguished careers of the century. He acted as a correspondent for the Morning Post during the Boer War and his dramatic escape from prison in Pretoria brought him to public attention. He embarked on his political career in 1900 by entering Parliament. While there he held many major offices of state: Home Secretary, Secretary of State for War, First Lord of the Admiralty in which he oversaw naval operations for the First World War, Colonial Secretary, Chancellor of the Exchequer and eventually in 1940, Prime Minister. The latter office he would hold throughout World War Two and again from 1951 to 1955.

He was a prolific writer, always submerged in simultaneous multi-facted projects. He finished both A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING PEOPLES and his other great multi-volume work THE SECOND WORLD WAR during the same period as he was perfecting his style of painting and writing PAINTING AS A PASTIME. His death in 1965 sent the whole world into mourning and his funeral was on of the most moving public events of the century. $895.

First Edition - Sir Winston S. Churchill Onwards to Victory - London - 1947 - In Dustjacket 26 Churchill, Winston. ONWARDS TO VICTORY (London: Cassell and Company, 1947) First edition. 8vo, publisher’s original blue cloth in the orange and blue printed and decorated dustjacket. [x], 278 pp. A very pleasing copy, the dustjacket with only very minor age evidence.

FIRST EDITION OF THIS PRINTING OF SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL’S WWII SPEECHES. $215.

Winston Churchill’s Nobel Prize Winner The Second World War - First Edition - 6 Volumes A Handsome Set in the Original Dustjackets 27 Churchill, Winston. THE SECOND WORLD WAR (London: Cassell and Co, 1948-54) 6 volumes. First editions. A profusion of maps and diagrams in all volumes. 8vo, publisher’s original black cloth lettered in gilt on the spine, in the original dustjackets. xv, 527; xvii,

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556; xviii, 629; xviii, 743; x, 558; xviii, 584; plus extensive appendices and index in each volume. A fine and handsome set of the firsts, with bindings in excellent order and dustjackets in very nice condition with only light mellowing or a hint of shelving evidence.

NOBEL PRIZE WINNING FIRST EDITION. Upon hearing that President Roosevelt sought suggestions about what the war should be called Churchill replied, “The Unnecessary War.” According to Churchill, “There never was a war more easy to stop than that which has just wrecked what was left of the world from the previous struggle.”

Churchill’s heartfelt opinion is reflected in the theme of the first volume, “How the English-speaking peoples through their unwisdom, carelessness and good nature allowed the wicked to rearm.”

Sir Winston Churchill ranks among the greatest men of history. He was born in 1874, a descendent of the great Duke of Marlborough. After an education at Harrow and Sandhurst he entered the army in 1895 and embarked on one of the most varied and distinguished careers of the century. He acted as a correspondent for the Morning Post during the Boer War and his dramatic escape from prison in Pretoria brought him to public attention.

He embarked on his political career in 1900 by entering Parliament. While there he held many major offices of state: Home Secretary, Secretary of State for War, First Lord of the Admiralty in which he oversaw naval operations for the First World War, Colonial Secretary, Chancellor of the Exchequer and eventually in 1940, Prime Minister. The latter office he would hold throughout World War Two and again from 1951 to 1955.

It is unquestionably his office of Prime Minister during the Second World War for which he is best remembered. His powerful leadership and inspiring oratory held his nation and the free world together throughout the horrors of that conflict.

He was a prolific writer, as this 6 volume set will attest, and in 1953 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in spite of the fact that the work was not yet published in full. In that same year he was distinguished further by being made Knight of the Garter by Queen Elizabeth II. These volumes were written and published over the course of seven years. Always submerged in multiple projects, he also finished his ‘History of the English Speaking Peoples’ and perfected his style of painting and wrote ‘Painting as a Pastime’ during this same time period. His death in 1965 sent the whole world into mourning and his funeral was one of the most moving public events of the century. $895.

Winston Churchill’s Nobel Prize Winning History The Second World War - The First Illustrated Edition Beautifully Presented - A Fine and Handsome Set The Important Chartwell Edition of the Work 28 Churchill, Winston. THE SECOND WORLD WAR (London: Educational Book Company, nd (c1954)) 6 volumes. The First Chartwell edition, and the First Illustrated edition and the First Edition with the coloured plates. With color frontispiece in each volume, and a profusion of illustrations, photographs, drawings and maps, many folding. Large 8vo, in the publisher’s fine deluxe bindings of half blue morocco with blue cloth boards, lettered in gilt on the spines within compartments framed in gilt and blind, marbled endpapers. xx, 641; xx, 592; xix, 725; xix, 802; xx, 587; xix, 619 pp.; extensive appendices and index in each volume. A very nice and pleasing set, fine, fresh and handsome. Internally clean and bright, the bindings solid and virtually without evidence of wear, the spines very evenly toned to a slightly lighter colour.

SCARCE FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION WITH THE COLOURED PLATES OF THIS MONUMENTAL WORK WHICH GAINED FOR CHURCHILL THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE. A very fine and unusual edition, the Chartwell edition was the first illustrated edition and was issued by subscription only. It includes a profusion of illustrations and maps.

NOBEL PRIZE WINNING FIRST EDITION. Upon hearing that President Roosevelt sought suggestions about what the war should be called Churchill replied, “The Unnecessary War.” According to Churchill, “There never was a war more easy to stop than that which has just wrecked what was left of the world from the previous struggle.”

Churchill’s heartfelt opinion is reflected in the theme of the first volume, “How the English-speaking peoples through their unwisdom, carelessness and good nature allowed the wicked to rearm.”

Sir Winston Churchill ranks among the greatest men of history. He was born in 1874, a descendent of the great Duke of Marlborough. After an education at Harrow and Sandhurst he entered the army in 1895 and embarked on one of the most varied and distinguished careers of the century. He acted as a correspondent for the Morning Post during the Boer War and his dramatic escape from prison in Pretoria brought him to public attention.

He embarked on his political career in 1900 by entering Parliament. While there he held many major offices of state: Home Secretary, Secretary of State for War, First Lord of the Admiralty in which he oversaw naval operations for the First World War, Colonial Secretary, Chancellor of the Exchequer and eventually in 1940, Prime Minister. The latter office he would hold throughout World War Two and again from 1951 to 1955.

It is unquestionably his office of Prime Minister during the Second World War for which he is best remembered. His powerful leadership and inspiring oratory held his nation and the free world together throughout the horrors of that conflict.

He was a prolific writer, as this 6 volume set will attest, and in 1953 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in spite of the fact that the work

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was not yet published in full. In that same year he was distinguished further by being made Knight of the Garter by Queen Elizabeth II. These volumes were written and published over the course of seven years. Always submerged in multiple projects, he also finished his ‘History of the English Speaking Peoples’ and perfected his style of painting and wrote ‘Painting as a Pastime’ during this same time period. His death in 1965 sent the whole world into mourning and his funeral was one of the most moving public events of the century.

The books that sealed for Churchill, the awarding of the Nobel Prize for Literature. $1050.

Churchill’s WW II Speeches During the Secret Sessions Fine in Original Cloth and Dustjacket - First Edition 29 Churchill, Winston. SECRET SESSION SPEECHES. Compiled by Charles Eade (London: Cassell and Co., 1946) First edition. With 15 photos. 8vo, publisher’s original blue cloth in the printed dustjacket. v, 96 pp. A fine clean and bright copy with the original dustjacket slightly mellowed at the spine panel.

FIRST EDITION. Parliament met in secret on several occasions during the war to receive information from the Prime Minister too sensitive to risk reaching the enemy. These are speeches given by Churchill during those secret sessions. $165.

‘Never Have So Many Owed So Much To So Few’ Winston Churchill’s Speeches of Wartime First Edition - The Dawn of Liberation - London - 1945 30 Churchill, Winston. THE DAWN OF LIBERATION (London: Cassell and Co, 1945) First edition. With black and white photos.

8vo, publisher’s original blue cloth, in the decorated dustjacket. xi, 327 pp. A fine and very handsome copy with only minor age evidence to the edges of the dustjacket SCARCE FIRST EDITIION. Churchill was over nearly a century’s activity known for his almost universal genius. He was a consummate writer--indeed he was awarded the Noble Prize for literature for his massive study of The Second World War--a master historian, journalist, traveler cum explorer cum military man. He was an accomplished painter and biographer, an extraordinary politician and government leader, but through these speeches, it is quite possible that we will remember him best. For in the speeches of wartime he succeeded in convincing his colleagues to accept the pains of courage and the British ‘race’ of people and the “free world” to make the good fight, to suffer the inestimable cost that would save the world from tyranny and totalitarianism. His vision was unrelenting and without peer and it is captured nowhere more completely than in these speeches of wartime. $215.

The Great Leader of the Allies on the Epic War in Europe 1942 - Winston Churchill - The Unrelenting Struggle 31 Churchill, Winston. THE UNRELENTING STRUGGLE (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1942) First edition, U.S. issue. 8vo, publisher’s original red cloth in the original pictorial dustjacket. [x], 371 pp. A nice and clean copy, the dustjacket mellowed at the spine panel.

FIRST EDITION. Churchill was over nearly a century’s activity known for his almost universal genius. He was a consummate write. Indeed he was awarded the Noble Prize for literature for his massive study of The Second World War--a master historian, journalist, traveler cum explorer cum military man. He was an accomplished painter and biographer, an extraordinary politician and government leader, but through these speeches, it is quite possible that we will remember him best. For in the speeches of wartime he succeeded in convincing his colleagues to accept the pains of courage and the British ‘race’ of people and the “free world” to make the good fight, to suffer the inestimable cost that would save the world from tyranny and totalitarianism. His vision was unrelenting and without peer and it is captured nowhere more completely than in these speeches of wartime. $145.

First Edition - First Issue - In Dustjacket The Final Glorious Phase of the War Churchill’s Powerful Speeches During WW II 32 Churchill, Winston. VICTORY: War Speeches by the Right Hon. Winston S. Churchill, 1945. Compiled by Charles Eade (London: Cassell and Co, 1946) Scarce First edition. 6 Black and white photos. 8vo, publisher’s original teal cloth in the decorated dustjacket. xii, 239. Dustjacket has minor edgewear,else in fine and handsome condition.

IMPORTANT FIRST EDITION. Perhaps the greatest orator and statesman of the twentieth century, this is the sixth volume Churchill’s speeches,

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all from the momentous year of 1945. Topics range from A review of the war and the dropping of the Atomic bomb to the death of FDR. A chronology of events is included with each group of speeches for historical context. $215.

Winston Churchill - The World Crisis - 1911-1918 Original Navy-Blue Cloth Gilt - London - Four Volumes 33 Churchill, Winston. THE WORLD CRISIS. 1911-1914; 1915; 1916-1918. (London: Thornton Butterworth, 1923-29) 4 volumes. Early issues, most are early printings of the first editions, and all volumes are impressions made in the same month as the first impressions of the first editions. Profusely illustrated throughout with maps and diagrams, including many that are multi-page and folding and in colours. Royal 8vo, publisher’s original navy-blue polished cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt on spines,and stamped in blind on the upper covers as the first impressions of the first editions. [vi], 536 including the index; 557 including the index; 292; 587 including the index pp. A nice set of these early printings, issued in the same format as the first impressions of the first edition, text-blocks are tight and clean and without fault, all maps and charts and folding plans are pristine, there is some light evidence of old damp blending in quite unobtrusively and only occasionally to some bits of the cloth. Still, a handsome set of this important work.

SCARCE SET. In Churchill’s own words: “(in) the... volumes of the WORLD CRISIS...I have told the story of the War from the British standpoint, and particularly from those positions of authority which I held myself. The war at sea, the expedition to the Dardanelles, and the campaigns in France and Flanders filled the stage. It was only here and there that brief summaries of the struggles of Russia with Germany and Austria in the East could find a place.”

Churchill begins his history of World War I by stating, “The causes of Armageddon lay deep in European history...Hatreds which had slumbered for centuries burst from their tombs, and nations which apparently had no concern in the main quarrel hastened eagerly to join one side or the other...Our tale therefore recounts the greatest of human catastrophes since the decline and fall of ancient Rome.”

This history was received with great critical acclaim: “‘By far and away the greatest contribution to the history of the war; the only one which combines the gifts of the historian and born writer with the profound experiences and direct knowledge of one of the prime movers of events.’” (J.M. Keynes); “‘This is the best piece of historical writing that the war has yet produced.’” (Sunday Times); and “‘The book is not merely a footnote to history---it is history itself’” (Daily Express) $695.

Winston Churchill on His Peers - “Great Men of Our Age” Great Contemporaries - First Edition - Original Cloth 34 Churchill, Winston S. GREAT CONTEMPORARIES (London: Thornton Butterworth, 1937) First edition, first issue. Illustrated throughout with twenty-one photographic portraits. 8vo, publisher’s original sky-blue cloth, gilt-lettered on the upper cover and spine. [iv], 330, index pp. A very pleasing and very fine copy with virtually no evidence of age or use. About as fine a copy as one can expect to find. A few typical spots to the foredge.

AN IMPORTANT FIRST EDITION AND A VALUABLE LOOK INTO THE MAKERS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. This is Churchill’s great multi-biography of the men he considered to be the greatest figures of his time. Among the notables rank; George Bernard Shaw, Adolf Hitler, T.E. Lawrence, Curzon, King George, Hindenburg and others. These short sketches by Churchill were penned between 1928 and 1936. A fascinating look at the great men of the age by someone who is not simply a biographer but unquestionable a peer. Woods, p.77-78. $1050.

“Great Men of Our Age” Winston Churchill on His Great Contemporaries First Edition with the Essays on Roosevelt and Baden-Powell 35 Churchill, Winston S. GREAT CONTEMPORARIES (London: Thornton Butterworth, 1938) First edition, first impression of the revised and expanded edition, with four articles not included in the previous appearance. Illustrated with 25 photographs. 8vo, publisher’s original dark blue cloth lettered in gilt on the spine and upper cover. 387 pp. A very fine copy, very fresh and clean throughout, just the lightest hint of shelving evidence to the bottom edge and corners, completely free of foxing or spotting, rarely found thus.

FIRST EDITION, EXPANDED, OF AN IMPORTANT WORK, AND THIS ISSUE WITH THE ARTICLES ON ROOSEVELT AND LORD BADEN-POWELL, plus two others, which were not included in the earlier printings. This is Churchill’s great multi-biography of the men he considered to be the greatest figures of his time. Among the notables rank; George Bernard Shaw, Adolf Hitler, T.E. Lawrence, Curzon, King George, Hindenburg and others for a total of 25. This first revised and complete edition includes four biographies not found in earlier appearance of the text: works on Lord Fisher, Charles Stewart Parnell, Lord Baden-Powell, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt. $350.

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The American Civil War: A View From Abroad Winston Churchill - First Edition - A Very Fine Copy Original Cloth in the Dustjacket 36 Churchill, Winston S.. THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR (London: Cassell, 1961) First separate edition. With numerous maps and photos.

8vo, publisher’s original red cloth lettered in gilt on the spine in the pictorial dustjacket. xv, 111; index. A fine, bright, clean and very well preserved copy, the dustjacket beautifully preserved.

SCARCE FIRST EDITION IN THE ORIGINAL DUSTJACKET. Churchill, one of many historians intrigued by the American Civil War, wrote a short, but incisive study of this conflict.

This first edition is seldom encountered. Woods, p.141. $165.

William Manchester’s Superb Writings on Churchill The Last Lion - "Visions of Glory" and "Alone" 37 [Churchill, Winston S.]; Manchester, William. THE LAST LION. Winston Spencer Churchill. Visions of Glory 1874-1932 [with] THE THE LAST LION. Winston Spencer Churchill. Alone 1932-1940 (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1983, 1988) Together two volumes.

First Edition, first issue of each volume. Illustrated throughout with a vast profusion of maps, charts, facsimiles, photographs and other renderings. 8vo, publisher’s original black cloth, pictorially blocked in blind on the covers with images of lions rampant, the spines lettered in gilt and with labels blocked in red and lettered in gilt, and with their original pictorial dust-jackets. [xviii], 973pp. Fine, bright, clean and tight copy.

A SUPERB HISTORICAL WORK BY AN IMPORTANT AMERICAN HISTORIAN. Manchester had met Churchill when, as a young foreign correspondent, he found himself in the stateroom on the Queen Mary adjacent to the prime minister’s suite. A mutual friend introduced them. Churchill was intrigued by Manchester’s assignment: the Middle East and India.

Manchester worked with diaries, memoranda, government documents, the private correspondence of Churchill and others, interviewed Churchill’s surviving colleagues and members of his family. He had a profound grasp of British history. He served for many years as a professor of history and was the author of many other important works including THE DEATH OF A PRESIDENT, AMERICAN CAESAR, THE ARMS OF KRUPP and THE GLORY AND THE DREAM. $150.

The Voyages of Christopher Columbus First Edition of the Translation One of the Most Scholarly Histories of Columbus 38 [Columbus] Jane, Cecil. THE VOYAGES OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS BEING THE JOURNALS OF HIS FIRST AND THIRD, AND THE LETTERS CONCERNING HIS FIRST AND LAST VOYAGES, TO WHICH IS ADDED THE ACCOUNT OF HIS SECOND VOYAGE WRITTEN BY ANDRES BERNALDEZ. Now newly Translated and Edited, with an Introduction and Notes by Cecil Jane. (London: The Argonaut Press, 1930) Limited edition, one of 1050 numbered copies, printed on fine Japanese Vellum. Illustrated with five maps and an original woodcut by William Monk on title page. 4to, publisher’s original grey cloth backed in white vellum gilt lettered, with a pictorial coat-of-arms design on the top right quadrant of the upper cover in 5 colours and gilt, edges uncut. (6), 347 pp., limitation leaf. A very fine and handsome copy, as pristine and still being largely uncut and unopened, bright and clean and beautifully preserved.

A BEAUTIFUL PRINTING OF THIS HIGHLY IMPORTANT TEXT. Includes Columbus’ journals from all four voyages as well as a section on the second voyage from Andrés Bernáldez. An important primary source for any study of Columbus.

Cecil Jane notes that such a mythology has arisen around the figure of Columbus that “the process of distortion has so advanced that the real Columbus is more hidden from view than he was in the period...”

Because so little is known about the discoverer, he retains a shroud of mystery and he played a part in this obfuscation through silence regarding his personal life and origins. Jane has done painstaking research to piece together Columbus’ words and actions.

Of Columbus he writes, “it must be remembered that with all his faults, with all his errors, with all his shortcomings, he yet gave to Castile the greatest gift that she ever received, and that he laid the foundation of the most remarkable and the most enduring colonial dominion that the world has ever seen. Nor did he give to Castile or to Spain alone; all Europe is his debtor, all Europe and all the world beside. He bore across the Atlantic the language, the faith and the civilisation of the country of his adoption; he thereby rendered possible the creation of a spiritual empire which still endures. Of that spiritual empire, the members are those nations which to-day play so great a part in the world, which in the future must inevitably play a part even greater, and upon which, indeed, to no small extent, the destiny of mankind depends.” $395.

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Author’s Presentation Copy to Samuel Eliot Morison A Medical Study of Columbus’ Second Voyage 39 [Columbus], [Morison, Samuel Eliot], Jarcho, Saul. JAUNDICE DURING THE SECOND VOYAGE OF COLUMBUS from Revista de la Asociacion de Salud Publica de Puerto Rico (San Juan: Asociacion de Salud Publica, 1956) AUTHOR’S PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE PERSONAL LIBRARY OF SAMUEL ELIOT MORISON. Illustrated advertisements on endpapers and first two pages. 8vo, original printed paper wraps. 55. A well preserved and bright copy with light aging at the extremities.

This article, which makes reference to Morison’s Admiral of the Ocean Sea, highlights an often-overlooked aspect of Columbus’ voyage: that a significant number of the seamen who returned from the voyage in 1496 were suffering from jaundice, and later died from it. The journal includes nine other articles on medical matters, and several pages of amusing ads.

Author’s inscription reads, “to Professor Morison with the high regard of an alumnus, Saul Jarcho, May 1957.” $175.

Chronicles of the Bastile - 1845 - First Edition - Blue Morocco Illustrated With Fine Cruikshank Engravings 40 [Cruikshank, Robert, Illustrator]; [Chamerovzow, Louis Alexis]. CHRONICLES OF THE BASTILE. FIRST SERIES. The Bertaudiere.

An Historical Romance (London: T. C. Newby, 1845) First Edition. With 40 vivid and fine engravings on plates by Robert Cruikshank, including an elaborate frontispiece. Tall 8vo, very handsomely bound by Bayntun three-quarter dark-blue morocco over blue cloth boards, corner-pieces and backing gilt ruled, the spine handsomely divided into six gilt framed compartments between gilt tooled raised bands, five of which are decorated with a central gilt tooled device, gilt lettered in the remaining compartment and also at the foot, tips gilt stippled, marbled end-papers, a.e.g. xii, 640pp. An unusually fine fresh copy. Internally clean and very sound, a very minor hint of age, much less then is typical, the binding firm, fresh and handsome.

FIRST EDITION OF THIS FINE WORK, ILLUSTRATED BY ROBERT CRUIKSHANK. An excellent work on the French Revolution. The pursuit of liberty being a subject of great meaning to the author, who was served as director of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society and as editor of an important and famous autobiographic narrative of slave life by John Brown.

The editors of the American edition of the “Chronicles”, which was not published until 1859, said of it that, “this work has been submitted to one of the most celebrated French historians, who not only vouches for the correctness of its history, but declares its details respecting the events of which it treats to be exceedingly accurate, and graphically described.” The American edition retained only 16 of Cruikshank’s plates, while this English first edition retains the original 40 plates. $375.

Curzon’s Administration of the British Empire in India British Government in India - 1925 - Two Volumes A Fine Set in the Publisher’s Scarce Dustjackets 41 Curzon, George Nathaniel, Marquis. BRITISH GOVERNMENT IN INDIA: The Story of the Viceroys and Government Houses (London: Cassell and Co, Ltd., 1925) 2 volumes. First Edition, Third impression. 84 illustrations and plans, several folding. 4to, original blue cloth lettered and ruled in gilt on spine and upper covers, gilt decorative device also on upper covers, this set in the rarely encountered dustjackets. xix, 259; x, 268, including index.

A choice set, in fine condition, bright and very pleasing, the dustjackets complete and with just a touch of age.

SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION AND AN IMPORTANT BOOK.Curzon was one of the great administrators of the British empire in India. He is credited with stabilizing the finances between the government and the provinces and instituting numerous reforms. The first volume of his work details the history and nature of the various government houses in Calcutta, and the second volume narrates the stories of the various rulers who have lived there; he predicts in his preface that the subject matter of this second volume would appeal to a “wider audience.” A very wellpreserved set of this informative work. $495.

Richard Henry Dana - To Cuba and Back - First Edition A Very Fine Copy of an Important and Insightful Work 42 Dana, Richard Henry, Jr. TO CUBA AND BACK. A Vacation Voyage (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1859) First edition. This copy with the May ads. 8vo, publisher’s original emerald green cloth, the covers stamped with wide rule at the borders, central ornamental device

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stamped in blind, the spine lettered in gilt with bands in blind at the head and tail. viii, 288, 16 ads. A really bright and very pleasing copy.

Beautifully preserved with very little evidence of use or age. The hinges strong and tight and the text-block very sound and clean.

FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF ONLY THREE FULL LENGTH BOOKS PENNED BY THE AUTHOR. This relates a pleasure excursion to the Caribbean island, by the author of TWO YEARS BEFORE THE MAST. The sociological, ethnological and natural history aspects of Dana’s work are especially interesting and insightful. BAL 4447 $595.

Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana E. Boyd Smith Illustrated Edition in Fine Condition 43 [Dana, Richard Henry, Jr.]. TWO YEARS BEFORE THE MAST: A Personal Narrative. With a Supplement by the author and introduction and additional chapter by his son. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1912) First Edition with the E. Boyd Smith illustrations. With 56 illustrations from drawings by E Boyd Smith in colour and black and white, including cartographic illustrations to the end papers.

Large 8vo, publisher’s original navy cloth lettered in gilt on the spine and upper cover, and illustrated with a colour nautical painting as paste-down to the upper cover. 553 pp. An fresh and clean copy, the illustrations in excellent condition.

EARLY ILLUSTRATED EDITION, AND THE FIRST WITH E. BOYD SMITH’S ILLUSTRATIONS. Dana was nineteen years old when he took two years off his law studies at Harvard to sign on as a deck hand in a brig, sailing round trip from Boston to the Pacific coast. The freshness of Dana’s style has contributed to the book’s enduring popularity and helped maintain its standing as an American classic. It contains the best account of the early hide trade of California. Grolier American Hundred calls it “our only trustworthy account [of California] before the 1849 gold rush.

Grolier American100, 46. Six-Score 28. Zamorano 80, 26. Howes D49. $125.

The Very Rare Silk Issue of John Trubull’s Iconic Painting The Signing of the Declaration of Independence With the Fine Taylor & Taylor Printing of the Declaration The Silk Made in Lyons, France - The Printing Done in America With - The Declaration of Independence - A Fine Printing Accomplished by Taylor and Taylor in 1918 44 [Declaration of Independence]; Trumbull, John; [Silk Painting]; Americana, [Signing of the Declaration of Independence]; [Jacquard Silk]. THE Signing of the Declaration of Independence [A masterpiece in original silk weaving taken from the John Trumbull painting].

[WITH,] THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. A DECLARATION BY THE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, IN GENERAL CONGRESS ASSEMBLED. (Lyons and San Francisco: Wullschleger & Co., Inc. and Taylor and Taylor, 1928 and 1918) The printing of the Declaration here offered with the silk rendering of the Trumbull painting of the signing, was printed by Taylor & Taylor in San Francisco in 1918. First issue of this rare woven silk rendering of John Trumbull’s famous painting of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. A small number were issued and it is said that most were sent to U.S. Embassies around the world. A copy, framed and glazed, with trial samples was given to the Smithsonian Institution by Mr. Wullschleger and is noted in their report of 1956 (see below). First issue of the Taylor & Taylor printing of the Declaration of Independence. The silk rendering of the painting is 31 inches x 22 inches; the reproduced Declaration of Independence is 22 inches by 16.5 inches and is handsomely matted, the silk is handsomely presented within an antique wooden frame, glazed. The frame similar to the frame described by the Smithsonian Institution in 1956 when Arthur E. Wullschleger gifted his specimen of the weaving (and the loom it was produced on) to the Institution. A very fine copy of each item, beautifully preserved and very rare thus.

RARE FIRST ISSUE OF THE FIRST RENDERING INTO SILK, OF THE ICONIC PAINTING BY JOHN TRUMBULL OF THE SIGNING OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE OFFERED WITH A FINE PRINTING OF THE DECLARATION DONE BY TAYLOR & TAYLOR IN 1918. ‘This painting, since it’s presentation to the public within the rotunda of the US Capitol, has served as the most popular depiction of that great event in American history. The painting has appeared over the years in numerous printed renditions and was used as an engraving on the U.S. two-dollar bill.

The silk rendering is a masteriece of platinum and black metallic silks from the looms of Wullschleger in Lyons, and was designed by A. Travard and woven

by Mary Katherine Godard. Copies are housed in a number of collections around the world.

Wullschleger was a Swiss emigrant resident of New York and a textile industry entrepreneur. He maintained offices in both New York City and in

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Lyons, France. He commissioned the creation of this superb Jacquard woven rendition of the original Trumbull painting to honour the firms years in business. And it would rquire the construction of a special building furnished with six Verol Jacquard pattern shedding mechanisms and a continuous three year work effort before completing the project in 1928. It is said, that at the time, patterns of the ‘Declaration’ would be produced as presentation gifts for friends and colleagues in the silk industry and to each American embassy around the world. An example is held by the Smithsonian Institution along with the actual loom that it was woven on.’ Surviving examples are presumed to be held in private or institutional collections, and the work is very rare in open marketplace.

Concerning the copy in the Smithsonian Institution, note the folllowing from: The United States National Museum Annual Report for the Year Ended June 30, 1956: “Significant specimen donated by Arthur E. Wullschleger is a woven-silk reproduction of Trumbull’s famous painting “The Signing of the Declaration of Independence,” made under Mr. Wullschleger’s personal direction by a number of the most skilled weavers in the French silk industry in Lyons. The gift comprises the framed silk Jacquard picture, an excellent example of this type of weaving, and trial samples which preceded the completed picture. “ “Lyons had long been a center for production of silk. In 1466 King Louis XI decided to develop a national silk industry in Lyon. In the face of protests by the Lyonnais, he conceded and moved the silk fabrication to Tours, but the industry in Tours stayed relatively marginal. His main objective was to reduce France’s trade deficit with Italy, which caused France to lose 400,000 to 500,000 golden écus a year.[32] It was under Francis I in around 1535 that a royal charter was granted to two merchants, Étienne Turquet and Barthélemy Naris, to develop a silk trade in Lyon. In 1540 the king granted a monopoly on silk production to the city of Lyon. Starting in the 16th century Lyon became the capital of the European silk trade, notably producing many reputable fashions.[33] Gaining confidence, the silks produced in the city little by little began to abandon the original oriental styles and moved towards their own distinctive style, with an emphasis on landscapes. Thousand of workers, the canuts, devoted themselves to the flourishing industry.

In the middle of the 17th century over 14,000 looms were in use in Lyon, and the silk industry fed a third of the city’s population.

Joseph-Marie Jacquard improved on the designs of Falcon and Vaucanson, introducing the revolutionary Jacquard loom, which allowed a string of punched cards to be processed mechanically in the correct sequence. The punched cards of the Jacquard loom were a direct precursor to the modern computer, in that they gave a (limited) form of programmability. Punched cards themselves were carried over to computers, and were ubiquitous until their obsolescence in the 1970s.

The loom was declared public property in 1806, and Jacquard was rewarded with a pension and a royalty on each machine.

The Taylor and Taylor printing of THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE has long been considered one of the most beautiful modern presentations and is beautifully formatted in an especially large elephant folio printing. $8500.

C.M. Doughty’s Arabia Deserta One of the Greatest Works of Travel Ever Penned The First New and Definitive Edition - 1936 With The T.E. Lawrence Introduction 46 Doughty, Charles M. TRAVELS IN ARABIA DESERTA, With an Introduction by T. E. Lawrence (London: Jonathan Cape, 1936) 2 volumes. Scarce First Edition, First Issue of the 1936 “New and Definitive Edition” with the introduction by T. E. Lawrence.

Portrait frontispiece in first volume, both profusely illustrated with maps, plans, and collotype plates, some folding, and including large folding maps at the inside of the rear covers of both volumes.

4to, publisher’s original brown polished buckram with spines lettered in gilt. 674; 696. A fine and very handsome set, internally bright and fresh, the cloth and bindings in very pleasing condition with only extremely slight mellowing at the spine panels.

ONE OF THE GREATEST WORKS OF TRAVEL EVER WRITTEN IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. ARABIA DESERTA is perhaps one of the best-known classics of exploration and travel. Few writers of any genre have worked such magic or mischief on the English language as Doughty. He disapproved of Victorian style, and mingled his own with Chaucerian and Elizabethan English and Arabic.

But whatever the style, the result is quite possibly the finest book on Arabia ever written. We will let another Arabist, Lawrence, speak on Doughty’s behalf: “I have talked the book over with many travellers, and we are agreed that here you have all the desert, its hills and plains, the lava fields, the villages, the tents, the men and animals. They are told of to the life, with words and phrases fitted to them so perfectly that one cannot dissociate them in memory. It is the true Arabia, the land with its smells and dirt, as well as its nobility and freedom. There is no sentiment, nothing merely picturesque, that most common failing of oriental travel-books.

Doughty’s completeness is devastating. There is nothing we would take away, little we could add. He took all Arabia for his province, and has left to his successors only the poor part of specialists. We may write books on parts of the desert or some of the history of it; but there can never be another picture of the whole, in our time, because here it is all said...” (- from the Introduction). $1650.

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With Fine Provenance - The Copy of Booth Tarkington First Edition - Court and Society From Elizabeth to Anne Beautifully Bound and Presented - London - 1864 47 Duke of Manchester, The; [William Drogo Montagu]; [Royalty, British Monarchy]. COURT AND SOCIETY FROM ELIZABETH TO ANNE. Edited From the Papers at Kimbolton (London: Hurst and Blackett, 1864) First Edition. With the fine literary provenance of Booth Tarkington with his handsome engraved bookplate in each volume. With two fine engraved portraits as frontispieces of Henry and Charles Montagu, the first Earl and the first Duke of Manchester. 8vo, very finely and handsomely bound at an early time by Riviere and Son, in full royal blue calf, the covers with multi-ruled gilt fillet lines at the borders with circular tools as corner-pieces, the spines richly gilt decorated in panels between gilt ruled and stippled raised bands, two compartments with red morocco labels finely gilt ruled and lettered, gilt tooled turn-ins and board edges, red coated endpapers, t.e.g. Bound in and preserved are the publisher’s original blue cloth spines and upper covers, gilt lettered and featuring the Montagu coat of arms in gilt. 403; 438 pp. A fine and very handsome set, the luxurious calf with only a bit of expected edge wear.

SCARCE FIRST EDITION WITH FINE PROVENANCE. VERY HANDSOMELY BOUND. Very fine biographical sketches of the Kings, Queens and important Nobles from the reign of Catherine of Aragon through the last of the Stuart monarchs, Queen Anne. The author was the Seventh Duke of Manchester and had access to papers and materials in his families possession since the time of his ancestor Henry, the first Earl of Manchester and one of the Executors of King Henry VIII’s will.

This set is especially handsome in its fine antique binding and has the literary provenance of Pulitzer Prize winning author, Booth Tarkington. $850.

Rebels No Saints - Speeches of the Executed Regicides An Important Work from the English Civil War A Handsome Copy in Antique Calf - 1661 - First Edition 48 [English Civil War], [Cromwell, Oliver]. REBELS NO SAINTS: Or, A Collection of the Speeches, Private Passages, Letters, and Prayers of Those Persons Lately Executed,... With Observations on the Same. Wherein Their Pretended Sanctity is Refuted, and a Further Inspection Made Into the lives and Practices of Those Unhappy and Trayterous Politicians.

By a Person of Quality (London: By the Several Booksellers in London and Westminster, 1661) First Edition. With an engraved frontispiece featuring portraits of the ten subjects of the book surrounding a portrait of Cromwell. Small 8vo, in antique calf probably of the 18th century, the boards are double ruled in gilt, the spine with blind tooled compartments between gilt ruled raised bands. [iii], 139 pp. A well preserved copy, internally with only expected toning, the plate remounted and inserted as a frontispiece, the binding with some age-wear and with some tenderness to the upper hinge and a bit of loss to the leather of the spine, without labels to the spine.

A SCARCE FIRST EDITION AND QUITE IMPORTANT PRINTED PROPAGANDA FROM THE ENGLISH CIVIL WAR. This collection is reputed to be speeches, letters and prayers written or spoken by ten Regicides among the first to be executed during the Restoration. It is by some, regarded as spurious. The collector, “a person of quality”, initials his introduction to the reader as “W.S.” but much of the work is an exact reprint of material published in 1660 under a different title and, also spuriously, credited to Thomas Harrison. There were a great number of forged speeches and prayers printed after the Restoration, and countless accounts of purges during the trials.

But they were all, for a time, a significant force in the swaying of public opinion back to the side of the Royalists.

The Regicides whose pretended speeches, letters and prayers are here supplied are; Thomas Harrison, John Carew, John Cook, Hugh Peters, Thomas Scott, Gregory Clement, Adrian Scroope, John Jones, Francis Hacker and Daniel Axtell. All of whom were hung and drawn and quartered from October 13th to 19th of 1660. Harrison was the first of the Regicides to be found guilty and to be formally executed, but many, many more would follow. Samuel Pepys wrote an eyewitness account of Harrison’s execution, in which he said Harrison, “looked as cheerful as any man could do in that condition”. $750.

The Authoritative Bibliography Benjamin Franklin’s Philadelphia Printing 49 [Franklin, Benjamin]; Miller, William C.. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN’S PHILADELPHIA PRINTING 1728-1766 A Descriptive Bibliography (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1974) First Edition. Extensively illustrated on nearly every page 4to, publisher’s original tan buckram lettered on the upper cover and spine in brown, in the original dustjacket. lxxxv, 583 pp. A very fine and near as new copy, beautifully preserved.

FIRST EDITION OF the definitive bibliographical checklist of the works produced by America’s most famous printer. 856 B. Franklin imprints are described and illustrated, this followed by Franklin and Hall imprints and extensive appendixes and concordances. A reference no collection of American printing should be without. $145.

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Lovat Fraser on Lord Curzon’s Vice-Royalty in India A Handsome Copy of the First Edition - 1911 India Under Curzon and After 50 Fraser, Lovat. INDIA UNDER CURZON AND AFTER (London: William Heinemann, 1911) First edition. 4 illustrations and 1 coloured folding map. Tall, thick 8vo, publisher’s original navy blue cloth lettered and ruled in gilt on the spine, lettered in gilt with gilt decorative device and blind ruling on upper cover. xi, 496 pp., including index. A handsome and bright and clean copy, a bit of typical age mellowing, normal minor foxing to prelims due to paper stock.

SCARCE FIRST EDITION. Curzon was one of the great administrators of the British empire in India. He is credited with stabilizing the finances between the government and the provinces and instituting numerous reforms. The author tells of Curzon’s six-year reign as Viceroy from the personal experience of living in India during that time; as the Editor of “The Times of India” Fraser had a number of sources for information about Curzon and his affairs as well as having acquaintances who were major political figures close to the administration. He states that his book “is simply a description of certain phases of British rule in India as I saw them; my views are based on actual experience, and what history may say is no concern of mine. I have tried to write neither history nor biography, but rather the sketch of the period in which Lord Curzon was the central figure.” An interesting, informative work about British imperialism in the East. $325.

A Sweeping Study of War and Leadership Douglas S. Freeman’s Epic History - Lee’s Lieutenants 51 Freeman, Douglas Southall. LEE’S LIEUTENANTS. A Study in Command: Manassas to Malvern Hill; Cedar Mountain to Chancellorsville; Gettysburg to Appomattox. (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1943-1944) 3 volumes. Early Issues, with Vol. III being first edition. With a profusion of illustrations and maps, including full page portraits of Lee’s predecessors and lieutenants. 8vo, publisher’s original full black cloth ruled and lettered on the spines in gilt and decorated on the upper covers with gilt rules and gilt lettering. xxx, 773; xix, 760; xlvi, 861. A very good and handsome set with just a bit of light mellowing to the binding cloth, binding to Vol. II slightly less so.

A LANDMARK WORK. By the author of the Pulitzer prize winning biography “R.E. LEE”, Freeman writes the true account of the great military figures who fought under Robert E. Lee in the Army of Northern Virginia. A tremendous and sweeping narrative, Dr. Freeman presents this history as a thrilling continuous story. The extensive index and appendices however allow the reader to follow any one prominent figure throughout the years of war or quickly find any particular battle or campaign. Scholarly yet excellent reading this 3 volume set is complete with all the materials of the first edition. $225.

Froissart’s Chronicles Very Finely Bound With Beautiful Illuminated Plates in Colours A Preferred Set with Separate Titles for the Illuminations 52 Froissart, Sir John. CHRONICLES OF ENGLAND, FRANCE, SPAIN, AND THE ADJOINING COUNTRIES, From the Latter Part of the Reign of Edward II to the Coronation of Henry IV. Translated from the French editions, with variations and additions from many celebrated Mss. by Thomas Johnes, Esq. To which are prefixed, A Life of the Author, An Essay on His Works, and A Criticism of His History (London: George Routledge and Sons, 1868) 2 volumes. Complete with a colour lithographed titlepage, two illuminated title-pages for the illustrations, 116 woodcut illustrations throughout the text, and over 70 magnificent illuminated coloured plates heightened with gold after originals from the manuscript editions of Froissart in the British Museum, the Bibliotheque Royale, and other sources. Large thick 8vo, full red contemporary morocco over boards, with handsome gilt lettering and tooling on the spines between raised bands, vobrs with multi-ruled gilt decorations to the borders, turnovers gilt tooled, marbled end-leaves, a.e.g.. xlvii, 768; xiv, 733 pp. A handsome set in a very pleasing state of preservation, a clean and well preserved set with light or minimal aging or time wear, the backs sometime replaced to sympathetic style.

THE MOST IMPORTANT 19TH CENTURY TRANSLATION OF THE GREAT RENAISSANCE HISTORY AND A COPY IN PREFERRED BINDING WITH A PROFUSION OF LITHOGRAPHED PLATES. “Froissart might be called the great interviewer of the Middle Ages. The newspaper correspondent of modern times has scarcely surpassed this medieval collector of intelligence. He traveled extensively in the various countries of Europe; he conversed with gentlemen of rank everywhere; and he had the remarkable knack of persuading those about him to divulge all he wanted to know. He learned the details of battles from both sides and from every point of view. He delighted in the minutest affairs of every cavalry skirmish, of the capture of every castle, and of every brave action and gallant deed. He lived from 1337 to about 1410, and wrote chiefly of contemporaneous events. The “Chronicles” are universally considered as the most vivid and faithful picture we have of events in the fourteenth century.... As a picture of the most favorable side of chivalry, the work has no equal” (Adams, Manual of Historical Literature,

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pp. 334-5).

Johnes’s translation was the standard for most of the nineteenth century, preferred to Lord Berners’ of 1525 (the first English translation of the text) for its modernity in diction and style and extensive additions and corrections. With the exquisite illuminated illustrations in excellent order, this is a brilliant set of this landmark work.

The illuminated plates have retained their deep, bright colours and gilt highlights. Based on a medieval manuscript, they not only illustrate the chronicle but are a good example of the type of manuscript art being produced at the time.

The set includes a beautiful collection of hand-coloured chromolithographic plates reproduced from two of the greatest of known illuminated manuscripts of Froissart’s CRONYCLES OF ENGLANDE, FRAUNCE, SPAYNE, PORTYNGALE, SCOTLANDE, BRETAYNE, FLAU[N]DERS: AND OTHER PLACES ADIOYNYNGE. The first collection is from a manuscript of the First and Second book of Froissart in the British Museum.

This manuscript came to the Museum from the Harleian Collection and appears to be the work of a Flemish artist, probably residing in Paris, and is believed to have been executed between 1460 and 1480. The second collection is primarily from a magnificent manuscript of all four books at the Bibliotheque du Roi in Paris. This great work was one of the books executed for Louis of Bruges and was probably completed by 1470.

Together these volumes give us extraordinarily well reproduced images from a time nearly contemporaneous to Froissart’s. Through these images the Middle Ages comes to life in costume and finery---people at their tournaments or displaying their skills at horsemanship and at arms, the mechanisms of warfare and the ships which were sailed. All produced as near to the originals in the manuscripts as the technology of the time allowed, with no attempt at alteration or correction in the hope of bringing the full spirit of the Gothic artists to a wider audience. $2350.

Sir John Froissart’s Renaissance History With the Two Volumes of Illuminated Illustrations A Fine Set Of The Complete Chronicles His Great Work on England, France, Spain and Europe 53 Froissart, Sir John. Humphreys, H. N. CHRONICLES OF ENGLAND, FRANCE, SPAIN, AND THE ADJOINING COUNTRIES, From the Latter Part of the Reign of Edward II. to the Coronation of Henry IV. Translated from the French editions, with variations and additions from many celebrated Mss. by Thomas Johnes. To which are prefixed, A Life of the Author, An Essay on His Works, and A Criticism of His History; [with,] ILLUMINATED ILLUSTRATIONS OF FROISSART. Selected From the MS. in the Bibliotheque Royale, Paris, and From Other Sources [with] ILLUMINATED ILLUSTRATIONS OF FROISSART. Selected From the MS. in the British Museum. (London: William Smith, 1844) 4 volumes. A wonderful set including the first editions of the plate volumes. With a colour frontispiece and illuminated title-page to volume one and with a great profusion of fine illustrations from old wood-cuts throughout the text, the plate volumes with fine illuminated titlepages to each volume and a total of 72 magnificent colourplates, the plates are chromolithographs with beautiful hand-colouring and most are burnished with gold. Each page with descriptive text accompaning by by H.N. Humphreys. Large 8vo, full contemporary light brown calf, the spines with multi-gilt ruled and decorated raised bands, two compartments with red morocco labels lettered and ruled in gilt, all covers with double-gilt ruled borders and stippled edges and blind tooled turn-ins, endpapers and page-edges handsomely marbled. The plate volumes in three quarter contemporary brown morocco, gilt decorated. xlvii, 768; xiv, 733; the plate volumes each with 36 plates, each plate with an accompanying leaf of explanatory text and with a two page introduction to each volume. A fine, unusually handsome and clean set, the plate volumes also in excellent condition, with a small spot of expert and unobtrusive restoration to the foot of one volume.

THE MOST IMPORTANT 19TH CENTURY TRANSLATION OF THE GREAT RENAISSANCE HISTORY. The set includes a beautiful collection of hand-coloured chromolithographic plates reproduced from two of the greatest of known illuminated manuscripts of Froissart’s CRONYCLES OF ENGLANDE, FRAUNCE, SPAYNE, PORTYNGALE, SCOTLANDE, BRETAYNE, FLAU[N]DERS: AND OTHER PLACES ADIOYNYNGE. The first collection is from a manuscript of the First and Second book of Froissart in the British Museum. The manuscript came to the Museum from the Harleian Collection and appears to be the work of a Flemish artist, probably residing in Paris, and is believed to have been executed between 1460 and 1480.

The second collection is primarily from a magnificent manuscript of all four books at the Bibliotheque du Roi in Paris. This great work was one of the books executed for Louis of Bruges and was probably completed by 1470.

Together these volumes give us outstandingly well reproduced images from a time not long after that of Froissart himself. In these images we see the Middle Ages come to life in costume and finery---people at their tournaments or displaying their skills at horsemanship and at arms, the mechanisms of warfare and the ships which were sailed. All produced as near to the originals in the manuscripts as the technology of the time allowed, with no attempt at alteration or correction in the hope of bringing the full spirit of the Gothic artists to a wider audience.

"Froissart might be called the great interviewer of the Middle Ages. The newspaper correspondent of modern times has scarcely surpassed this medieval collector of intelligence. He traveled extensively in the various countries of Europe; he conversed with gentlemen of rank everywhere; and he

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had the remarkable knack of persuading those about him to divulge all he wanted to know. He learned the details of battles from both sides and from every point of view. He delighted in the minutest affairs of every cavalry skirmish, of the capture of every castle, and of every brave action and gallant deed. He lived from 1337 to about 1410, and wrote chiefly of contemporaneous events. The "Chronicles" are universally considered as the most vivid and faithful picture we have of events in the fourteenth century.... As a picture of the most favorable side of chivalry, the work has no equal" (Adams, Manual of Historical Literature, pp. 334-5).

Johnes's translation was the standard for most of the nineteenth century, preferred to Lord Berners’ of 1525 (the first English translation of the text) for its modernity in diction and style and extensive additions and corrections. $2650.

A Parliamentary Chronicle of the Period Leading to Civil War Ephemeris Parliamentaria - First Edition - 1654 54 [Fuller, Thomas]. EPHEMERIS PARLIAMENTARIA; Or a Faithful Register of the Transactions in Parliament, in the Third and Fourth Years of the Reign of Our Late Sovereign Lord King Charles: Containing the Severall Speeches, Cases, Arguments of Law Transacted Between His Majesty and Both Houses. Together With the Grand Mysteries of the Kingdome Then in Agitation. (London: For John WIlliams and Francis Egelesfield, 1654) First edition. Engraved titlepage printed in black and red, head and tail pieces and engraved initials throughout. 4to, contemporary or early full calf, the spine sometime rebacked in simple brown calf with a paper label lettered in manuscript. [xx], 271. A well preserved copy, the paper still quite fresh and crisp, much less toning or browning then is commonly found on this title. Titlepage with a small paper repair, a few minor paper flaws or edge wear here or there, small closed tear with no loss to the last page of the table of contents, binding well worn but with later rebacking, all text present but lacking blanks.

A fascinating collection of two years, 1627 and 1628, of Parliamentary politics during the earlier years of the reign of Charles I. This period marked the beginning of his many conflicts with Parliament that would eventually lead to the first and second civil wars. The work was published only a few years after Charles’ execution during the age of the Commonwealth prior to the restoration. One of the most interesting and tumultuous periods in England’s history.

Fuller’s preface justifies the concept of looking at recent and current events as “history” and studying them in the same manner. $1500.

William Gerhardi on The Romanovs Perhaps the Finest Study on the Subject 55 Gerhardi, William. THE ROMANOVS: Evocation of the Past as a Mirror for the Present (London: Rich & Cowan, Ltd., 1940) First edition, first printing. With ten handsome plates of black and white portraits from contemporary paintings. 4to, original navy blue cloth with pictorial emblem in gilt on upper cover and gilt lettering on the spine. [xiv], 542. A fine copy, very handsome and bright.

A core study among the many and varied books about the Romanovs and a large and handsome volume. Czar Nicolas and his family were murdered by the Soviet revolutionaries in 1917. This book was researched and written not long afterwards, prior to the vast destruction of World War II and before the Iron Curtain fell in Europe. It offers an understanding of the Romanovs through eyes which had not yet seen the effects of Soviet Communism on the post-war world. $195.

A Copy with Superb Provenance - Six Volumes - 1782-1788 Edward Gibbon’s ‘Decline and Fall’ of the Roman Empire Beautifully Bound in Full Green Contemporary Morocco 56 Gibbon, Edward. THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (London: for W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1782-88) 6 volumes.

AN IMPORTANT COPY. Volumes 1-3 are very early issues, volumes 4-6 are first issues of the first editions. A COPY WITH VERY FINE PROVENANCE having come from the library of Mr. Justice Day and subsequently from the library of The Honorable Michael Foot, renown member of the British House of Commons and one of the most important English politicians of the last century. Mr. Foot’s ownership signature is found on the verso of the front free-fly. The date of the signature is also affixed in his hand--May 1977, when he was leader of the House of Commons and deputy leader of the party. With an engraved portrait frontispiece and 3 engraved maps, two of which are quite large and folding.

With all half-titles. Large 4to, in very fine contemporary bindings of crushed full green morocco, the covers framed with gilt rules and with gilt ruled edges, the spines with handsome double-gilt rules on flat bands, one compartment titled in gilt letters, a second with volume numbers in gilt, with beautifully marbled endpapers and free-flys. With engraved bookplate of Mr. Justice Day, most likely Justice Robert Day (1746-1841), Member of the Grand Jury, who had helped to obtain a free Parliament in Ireland, and Unionist proponent of the Kerry Declaration. This set of Gibbon’s great work was subsequently owned

by Michael Foot who became Lord President of the Council and leader of the House of Commons when James Callaghan took over leadership of the British

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Labor Party.

Mr. Foot led the left-wing opposition to Harold Wilson but in 1974 joined the government as secretary of state for employment. When Wilson retired in 1976, Mr. Foot became deputy leader of the party and leader of the House of Commons. “I have been on the left of the party since I joined it in about 1934, and I have not seen much reason for altering,” he said in 1976. After the disastrous 1983 election, he returned to the back benches and retired in 1992.

As much a man of letters as a politician — The Times of London once described his writing as “neat, economical and muscular” — he wrote many books, including a two-volume biography of Mr. Bevan, “Another Heart and Other Pulses: The Alternative to the Thatcher Society” (1984), “The Politics of Paradise: A Vindication of Byron” (1988) and “H.G.: The History of Mr. Wells” (1995).

“He knew — as I knew, which is why I counseled him against doing it — that he was letting himself into purgatory in becoming leader of the Labour Party in its darkest, grimmest hour,” Mr. Kinnock said [of him]. “But if he hadn’t done it, I don’t think Labour would have survived as a political force.” vii, [13], 704; [iix], 640; [vi], 640; viii, [8]; 620; [viii], 684; [x], 646, general index, pp. A fine and very handsome set, beautifully preserved and internally still crisp and unusually clean and fresh.

AN IMPORTANT AND EARLY ISSUANCE OF THE GREATEST HISTORICAL WORK EVER UNDERTAKEN, A COPY IN RARELY ENCOUNTERED “PRESENTATION” BINDINGS OF FULL GREEN DELUXE CONTEMPORARY MOROCCO AND A COPY WITH FINE PROVENANCE. Volumes four through six are first editions, the first three volumes being very early printings. As the first volume was printed in a first edition of only 1000 copies (the original plan was for only 500), it is rare to find complete sets of first editions. The success of the work was immediate. “I am at a loss,” Gibbon wrote, “how to describe the success of the work without betraying the vanity of the writer. The first impression was exhausted in a few days; a second and third edition were scarcely adequate to the demand, and the bookseller’s property was twice invaded by the pyrates of Dublin. My book was on every table, and almost on every toilette....” Publication of this grand work placed Gibbon at the “very head of the literary tribe” in Europe, according to Adam Smith.

“For twenty-two years Gibbon was a prodigy of steady and arduous application. His investigations extended over almost the whole range of intellectual activity for nearly fifteen-hundred years. And so thorough were his methods that the laborious investigations of German scholarship, the keen criticisms of theological zeal, and the steady researches of (two) centuries have brought to light very few important errors in the results of his labors. But it is not merely the learning of his work, learned as it is, that gives it character as a history. It is also that ingenious skill by which the vast erudition, the boundless range, the infinite variety, and the gorgeous magnificence of the details are all wrought together in a symmetrical whole. It is still entitled to be esteemed as the greatest historical work ever written” (Adams, Manual of Historical Literature, pp. 146-147).

‘Justice Robert Day (1746-1841) was the outstanding politico-judicial figure of Kerry at the turn of the nineteenth century. Born at Lohercannon, outside Tralee, he was the outstanding Dublin Kerryman of his day. Day was a member of the pre-Union Irish Parliament and at the same time the popular judge of the Dublin county court at Kilmainham. From there he was raised to the King’s Bench (Ireland) in early 1798 where he served to early 1819. He lived at Loughlinstown House. He was principal trustee of the Denny estate which included the town of Tralee.

Day’s contemporary fame rested on a series of anti-revolutionary Charges which were published in the press and appeared later in volume form. They confirm his reputation for great erudition and humanity on the Irish country assize circuits and in the Dublin courts. (See Kerry’s History) ,Michael Foot, FRSL, PC (23 July 1913 – 3 March 2010) was a British Labour Party politician, journalist and author, and a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1945 to 1955 and from 1960 until 1992. He was deputy leader of the Labour Party from 1976 to 1980, and later became the Leader of the Opposition from 1980 to 1983.

Associated with the Labour left for most of his career, he was a supporter of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and British withdrawal from the European Economic Community. He was first promoted to Cabinet as Employment Secretary under Harold Wilson in 1974, and later served as Leader of the House of Commons under James Callaghan. A passionate orator, he was Labour leader at the 1983 general election.

His parallel career as a journalist included appointments as editor of Tribune, on several occasions, and the Evening Standard newspaper. Among the books he authored are Guilty Men (an attack on Neville Chamberlain and others for the policy of appeasement), a biography of Jonathan Swift (The Pen and the Sword, 1957) and a biography of Aneurin Bevan.’ Rothschild 942. Grolier 100. PMM 222 (First Issue). Wikipedia $12,500.

The Very Scarce First Octavo Editions Edward Gibbon’s “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire” A Masterpiece of Historical Writing - A PMM Title 57 Gibbon, Edward. THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (London: for W. [and] A. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1783-1790) 12 volumes. The very rare first octavo editions of the twelve books, and an extremely early printing of the work in any format. With an engraved portrait frontispiece and three impressive engraved folding maps. 8vo, in very handsome contemporary

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bindings of full polished calf, the spines extensively decorated incorporating lavish gilt panels divided into compartments separated by roll tooled bands decorated in a Greco-Roman style and with two lettering labels in contrasting red and green moroccos decorated and lettered in gilt, board edges with gilt roll tooling, with green silk ribbon page-markers bound in. xiv, 456; xv, 496; viii, 412; viii, 443; vii, 432; viii, 420; viii, 424; viii, 374; xii, 502; xii, 385; xii, 460; xi, 432, [96, cumulative index]. A very handsome set, fresh and near to pristine internally, the contemporary bindings in good order and in completely original state with no restoration or sophistication whatsoever, some volumes with weakening to some hinges and some with minor chipping or other mellowing to the spines, in all a very well preserved set of these rare books.

A SIGNIFICANT AND HIGHLY IMPORTANT EDITION, THE FIRST IN OCTAVO, AND A VERY EARLY ISSUANCE IN ANY FORMAT OF THE GREATEST HISTORICAL WORK EVER UNDERTAKEN. The first edition of Gibbon’s work was printed over time, the first three volumes being printed between 1776 and 1781, the later three volumes in 1788. This first octavo edition was printed similarly, the first six volumes in 1783 and the later six in 1790. Thus, this is not only the first octavo edition but also is one of only a tiny handful of editions of the first half printed prior to the completion of the work in total. Like the first edition it contains the three folding maps and the engraved portrait of Gibbon in volume one.

“For twenty-two years Gibbon was a prodigy of steady and arduous application. His investigations extended over almost the whole range of intellectual activity for nearly fifteen-hundred years. And so thorough were his methods that the laborious investigations of German scholarship, the keen criticisms of theological zeal, and the steady researches of (two) centuries have brought to light very few important errors in the results of his labors. But it is not merely the learning of his work, learned as it is, that gives it character as a history. It is also that ingenious skill by which the vast erudition, the boundless range, the infinite variety, and the gorgeous magnificence of the details are all wrought together in a symmetrical whole. It is still entitled to be esteemed as the greatest historical work ever written” (Adams, Manual of Historical Literature, pp. 146-147). Rothschild 942 (First Edition). Grolier 100 (First Edition) PMM 222 (First Issue). $5850.

Fresh and Beautifully Preserved - Six Volumes - 1788-1789 The Greatest Historical Work Ever Undertaken Edward Gibbon’s ‘Decline and Fall’ of the Roman Empire Beautifully Bound in Full Contemporary Polished Calf Gilt

58 Gibbon, Edward. THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (London: for W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1788-1789) 6 volumes. Volumes 1-3 are very early issues, volumes 4-6 are first issues of the first editions. With an engraved portrait frontispiece and 3 engraved maps, two of which are quite large and folding. With all half-titles. Large 4to, in the very rare complete original bindings. The books are very handsomely bound in fine contemporary full polished calf, the covers framed with elaborate gilt rolled borders surrounding borders made of multiple gilt tools, gilt ruled edges, the spines with handsome gilt decorated panel designs within compartments featuring elaborate borders and central gilt ornaments, black morocco lettering labels gilt decorated and stamped and with beautifully marbled endleaves. vii, [13], 704; [iix], 640; [vi], 640; viii, [8]; 620; [viii], 684; [x], 646, general index, pp. A fine and very handsome set, excellently preserved and internally still crisp and unusually clean and fresh.

Finding sets of Gibbon which have not been re-backed or rebound is a daunting task. Thus, copies in original calf of the period are truly elusive. This copy is especially well preserved and has only minor expert and very skillful strengthening or restoration. This binding work is nearly imperceptible and is not obtrusive in any way, but rather, restores the books to their original grandeur and strength.

AN IMPORTANT AND EARLY ISSUANCE OF THE GREATEST

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HISTORICAL WORK EVER UNDERTAKEN, A COPY IN RARELY ENCOUNTERED “PRESENTATION” BINDINGS OF FULL DELUXE CONTEMPORARY POLISHED CALF, BEAUTIFULLY GILT DECORATED. Volumes four through six are first editions, the first three volumes being very early printings. As the first volume was printed in a first edition of only 1000 copies (the original plan was for only 500), it is rare to find complete sets of first editions. The success of the work was immediate. “I am at a loss,” Gibbon wrote, “how to describe the success of the work without betraying the vanity of the writer. The first impression was exhausted in a few days; a second and third edition were scarcely adequate to the demand, and the bookseller’s property was twice invaded by the pyrates of Dublin. My book was on every table, and almost on every toilette....” Publication of this grand work placed Gibbon at the “very head of the literary tribe” in Europe, according to Adam Smith.

“For twenty-two years Gibbon was a prodigy of steady and arduous application. His investigations extended over almost the whole range of intellectual activity for nearly fifteen-hundred years. And so thorough were his methods that the laborious investigations of German scholarship, the keen criticisms of theological zeal, and the steady researches of (two) centuries have brought to light very few important errors in the results of his labors. But it is not merely the learning of his work, learned as it is, that gives it character as a history. It is also that ingenious skill by which the vast erudition, the boundless range, the infinite variety, and the gorgeous magnificence of the details are all wrought together in a symmetrical whole.

It is still entitled to be esteemed as the greatest historical work ever written” (Adams, Manual of Historical Literature, pp. 146-147). Rothschild 942.

Grolier 100. PMM 222 (First Issue). $10,500.

Grant’s ‘Personal Memoirs’ of the Civil War The Finest War Memoir Ever Penned A Fine Set in Original Cloth Gilt 59 Grant, U.S. PERSONAL MEMOIRS OF U. S. GRANT (New York: Charles L. Webster, 1885) 2 volumes. First edition. With 49 maps and illustrations, including a portrait frontispiece. Also with the dedication from Grant in holograph facsimile.

8vo, publisher’s original green cloth lettered in gilt and with a gilt medallion on the upper covers, with floral endpapers. 584; 647, index. A very handsome set, pleasing and solid with only light age evidence to the cloth. The gilt is still bright, the green cloth dark, the textblocks in fine order.

IMPORTANT FIRST EDITION. An important historical memoir of the Civil War, and the best thing that Grant ever wrote. General Schwartzkopf has recently called this the finest memoir of war experiences that has ever been penned. Collectable copies of these books are becoming increasingly difficult to obtain.

The earliest days of the Civil War were a hard lesson in hubris for the Union Army.

After the appointment of Grant to command the Union forces, the war would quickly turn to their favor. In the years following the war Grant would become President of United States. $895.

Grant’s ‘Personal Memoirs’ of the Civil War The Finest War Memoir Ever Penned 60 Grant, U.S. PERSONAL MEMOIRS OF U. S. GRANT (New York: Charles L. Webster, 1885, 1886) 2 volumes. First edition. With 49 maps and illustrations, including a portrait frontispiece and folding manuscript facsimile. Also with the dedication from Grant in holograph facsimile. 8vo, publisher’s original green cloth lettered in gilt and with a gilt medallion on the upper covers, with floral endpapers. 584; 647, index pp. A very nice and honest set, internally quite clean though just a bit shaken, the green cloth still bright and unfaded, very minor edgewear confined primarily to the tips and with a few spots to the cloth covers, tear to the gutter side of the halftitle of Vol I, hinges tight and strong.

IMPORTANT FIRST EDITION OF ‘THE FINEST MEMOIRS OF WAR EVER PENNED’. An important historical memoir of the Civil War, arguably the most important, and the best thing that Grant ever wrote. General Norman Schwartzkopf has recently called this the finest memoir of war experiences that has ever been penned. Collectible copies of these books are becoming increasingly difficult to obtain.

The earliest days of the Civil War were a hard lesson in hubris for the Union Army. After the appointment of Grant to overall command of the Union forces, the war would quickly turn to their favor.

Probably the most important book on the American Civil War, and in many respects a masterpiece of American literature. David Eicher”s useful summary includes this fine judgment: “Grant’s MEMOIRS comprise one of the most valuable writings by a military commander in history . . . The work is genuinely that of the commander. As such, it is valuable in its scope, its plain and clear analysis and language, and its broad conclusions about the conduct of the war.

“In the years following the war Grant would move into the political arena, even against his best judgment and would, with great public acclaim be elected President of United States for two full terms. $450.

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James Norman Hall - Kitchener’s Mob - 1916 World War I Narratives - First Edition - Original Cloth 61 Hall, James Norman. KITCHENER’S MOB The Adventures of an American in the British Army (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1916) First Edition, first impression. With a photographic frontispiece, and illustrated endpapers depicting battle formations. 8vo, publisher’s original crimson cloth, lettered and decorated in black on the upper cover and spine. (12) 201pp (six advertisements). An attractive copy, clean and tight and very well preserved and with little of the usual fading.

FIRST EDITION VERY WELL PRESERVED. Presented is a fine narrative of an American in the British Army. A significant part of the text deals with an explanation of the new technique of trench warfare and life with the British army on the Western front. $165.

Hallam’s Great Work on the Middle Ages View of the State of Europe During the Middle Ages 62 Hallam, Henry, LL.D., F.R.A.S. VIEW OF THE STATE OF EUROPE DURING THE MIDDLE AGES (Boston: Crosby, Nichols, Lee and Company, 1861) 3 volumes. An early edition. 8vo, publisher’s original textured brick cloth, the boards with triple-ruled boarder in blind, the spines lettered in gilt and with blind triple-rules at the head and tail. xiv, 484; 404; 488 pp. A very pleasing, bright and well preserved set, much nicer then is typically seen. The textblocks all fine, much of Vol III remains unopened and pristine, the original cloth bright and unfaded, solid and fresh appearing, the corners sharp and edges unrubbed, the spine tips only with very minimal mellowing.

An especially well preserved and fresh SET OF THIS IMPOSING AND IMPORTANT HISTORICAL WORK. Hallam spent ten years on this, his first great historical work. He would go on to write a constitutional history of England as well as a history of English literature. According to the DNB “ Hallam’s works helped materially to lay foundations of the English historical school, and in spite of later researches, maintain their positions as standard books. His ‘Middle Ages’ was probably the first English history which, with out being merely antiquarian, set an example of genuine study from original sources.” $195.

A Staff Officer’s Scrap-Book -A Landmark in Military History Sir Ian Hamilton’s Diary of the Russo-Japanese War 63 Hamilton, Sir Ian. A STAFF OFFICER’S SCRAP-BOOK During the Russo-Japanese War (London: Edward Arnold, 1906) First edition, early impression. Profusely illustrated with photographs, plans and maps. Many of the plans and maps are folding, maps printed in colours. Thick 8vo, publisher’s original binding of royal blue ribbed cloth lettered and ruled in gilt on spine, upper covers with gilt signature facsimile and border rules in blind. x, 362, (16 ads) pp. A pleasing copy of this scarce book, the textblock very clean and bright, the binding and hinges very well preserved with only a light bit of mellowing to the spine panel.

SCARCE, AND AN IMPORTANT BOOK. After more than twenty-five years of proving his mettle in India and Afghanistan, Ian Hamilton was appointed foreign attache to the First Japanese Army during the outbreak of the Russo-Japanese War in 1904. Although his movements in the field were severely restricted, Hamilton’s descriptive powers as a writer turned this war diary into one of the most acclaimed and widely-read military memoirs of the period.

Hamilton’s Scrap-Book was hailed by Britannica as “a book which by reason of the interest of its subject, the charm of the author’s style, and and the combination of war experience and of imagination which inspired his judgments and criticisms, at once took rank in Europe as a modern military classic.”

The volume includes copious illustrations and fold-out maps in excellent condition. $225.

Trans-Himalaya - First Edition - With Autograph Sven Hedin’s Monumental Work Two Volumes - Very Fine in Original Cloth 64 Hedin, Sven. TRANS-HIMALAYA. Discoveries and Adventures in Tibet. (New York: Macmillan, 1909) 2 volumes. First edition, WITH AUTHOR’S AUTOGRAPH SIGNATURE on a tipped in card on the half-title to Volume I. With a vast profusion of illustrations from photos, watercolor sketches, and drawings by the author, as well as numerous maps (several folding). Thick 8vo, publisher’s original red cloth lettered in gilt on spines, decorated in gilt on covers with pictorial vignettes, t.e.g. xxiii, 436 pp; xvii, 441 pp. A very fine set, especially well preserved, fresh clean and appealing in all ways.

WITH A RARE AUTOGRAPH SIGNATURE OF HEDIN TIPPED INTO VOLUME ONE. One of the most important works by the famous explorer providing an account of his expedition through Tibet from 1906-1908. “Traversing the Chang-tang in Tibet through Srinagar and Leh he reached to Shigatse. Thence he went back to Lake Mana sarowar along the Tsangpo and descended the Indus, and then towards Leh and returned to

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Simla by the Sutlej route” (Kakushi) Hedin was responsible for putting Tibet on the map, literally. His surveys and mapping expeditions helped to discover for the world the physical geography of the region. The maps he produced were used as a point of reference in 1963, when Gordon Cooper took hyperaltitude photos of Tibet during the last Mercury space mission. The photos were compared against Hedin's survey sightings on mountain peaks to give the scientists a starting point in revising extant maps of the areas. Cooper's mission marked "the beginning of serious planning for Earth resource surveys from space" (Wilford, THE MAPMAKERS, pp. 338-9). This is a highly readable account of Hedin’s travels and experiences. A third volume was issued in 1913 and is not included with the two 1910 volumes offered here. $950

The First Edition by Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1852 His Biography of a President - The Life of Franklin Pierce 65 Hawthorne, Nathaniel. LIFE OF FRANKLIN PIERCE (Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1852) First Edition.

Engraved portrait frontispiece of Pierce. 8vo, publisher’s original dark brown blind-stamped cloth, gilt lettered on spine. Housed in a fine morocco backed folding case. [4] ads, 144 pp. A well preserved and fresh copy with a small abrasion to the head of the spine, housed in a 1/4 red morocco clamshell box.

FIRST EDITION IN THE ORIGINAL CLOTH OF THIS HAWTHORNE SCARCITY, and one of only two American presidential political biographies written by men of letters.

Hawthorne was a college classmate and friend of Pierce’s, and he wrote this during the presidential campaign of 1852. While professing objectivity, Hawthorne considered the work “a political biography, and as a representation of the principles and acts of a public man, intended to operate upon the minds of multitudes, during a presidential canvass.” $950.

The Life and Death of France’s King Henry IV Published the Same Year as His Murder - 1610 Very Rare First Edition - Few Copies Known 66 [Henry IV, King of France; Skory, Edmund]. AN EXTRACT OUT OF THE HISTORIE OF THE LAST FRENCH KING HENRY THE FOURTH OF FAMOUS MEMORIE, According to an Autentique Copie Written in His Lifetime. To Which is Added His Being Murdered With a Knife in His Coach in Paris the 14. of May Last 1610. Styl. Rom. With An Apprecation for the Safeguard and Happines of Our Most Gracious Soveraigne James the First, &c. (London: Robert Barker, 1610) VERY RARE First edition. Leaf A1 with an engraved thistle motif signature, Royal Arms engraved on the verso of the title-page, a handsome 5 line engraved opening initial cap and two engraved headpieces.

4to (169x120mm), bound in marbled paper over boards, with a printed paper label on the spine. [32] pp. A finely preserved copy, a bit of extremely minor, unobtrusive light antique staining to the top edge of the last few leaves, the modern binding in fine condition.

VERY RARE FIRST EDITION. WorldCat list only 5 copies in institutional libraries, we know of no other copies currently on the market and auction records show only one copy since 1978. A concise contemporary history of King Henry IV, “le bon Roi Henri”, published within months of his death. Although he was regarded as a King of kindness, compassion, and good humor, and was popular with his people, he had been the target of several murder attempts. On the 14th of May in 1610, King Henry IV was assassinated in Paris by a fanatically passionate Catholic, François Ravaillac, who stabbed the king to death while he rode in his coach. Henry was buried at the Saint Denis Basilica. Henry’s widow, Marie de Médici, served as Regent to their 9-year-old son, Louis XIII, until 1617.

Very little seems to be known of the author, Edmund Skory, other than the fact that he had a rather abusive wife. She is rumored to have once even thrown him out of a window. In his will he left a considerable sum to his wife’s servant, no doubt as a reward for years of service. $1450.

Herodiani Historiarum - The History of Herodian The Important Estienne Printing - 1581 67 Herodianus, [Herodian]. [Greek & Latin] HERODIANI HISTOR[IARUM] LIB[RI] VIII. (ED. H. ESTIENNE; TR. A. POLIZIANO) ([Geneva]: Henri Estienne, 1581) Estienne’s beautiful edition of Herodian, containing the editio princeps of the Roman history, written in Greek, by Zosimus. Greek and Latin printed in parallel columns; Estienne device [Schreiber 18] on title; ornamental initials and headpieces.

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4to, 18th-century light brown calf; triple gilt fillet round sides, smooth spine handsomely gilt with two red morocco labels lettered in gilt, edges gilt; at head of title ia an early 3-line ownership inscription of a Canon (“Jacque Desboués”) of the Cathedral of Besançon. [4] leaves, 182 pp., [1] leaf; 79. A very fine copy.

RARE AND IMPORTANT PRINTING and a very fine copy of Estienne’s edition of Herodian, which he dedicates to Sir Philip Sidney. The History of Herodian provides one of our most important historical sources for the period of 58 years extending from the death of Marcus Aurelius (A.D. 180) to the accession of Gordian III (A.D. 238). The second part consists of the editio princeps of the Roman history, written in Greek, by Zosimus, who flourished in the early sixth century, and whose work is our most important source for the period 395-410.

Herodian of Syria wrote in Greek this history of the Roman Emperors in eight books. Herodian’s authority is considered superior to that of the Historia Augusta.

The Greek texts are accompanied by the Latin translations of Angelo Poliziano for Herodian, first published in 1493, and which Estienne has thoroughly revised, indicating his corrections, additions, and textual comments in the margins, and Estienne’s own for Zosimus. Renouard 149: 7; Hoffmann II, 222-223; Adams H-388; Schreiber 209. $3850.

The Very Beautiful Nonesuch Press Herodotus The History of Herodotus of Halicarnassus - A Fine Copy Printed in Nonesuch Plantin with Perpetua and Felicity Types 68 Herodotus , [Nonesuch Press] . THE HISTORY OF HERODOTUS OF HALICARNASSUS. The Translation of G. Rawlinson Revised and Annotated by A. W. Lawrence...To which is added a Life of Herodotus and the Behistun Inscription (Bloomsbury: The Nonesuch Press, 1935) One of only 675 numbered copies. Illustrated with 9 large wood-engravings by V. Le Campion, one colour plate, and 9 double-page maps by T. Poulton. Printed in Nonesuch Plantin with Perpetua and Felicity italic types. Folio, publisher’s original half blue vellum over blue cloth, the spine lettered and elaborately decorated in gilt designs which follow to the turnovers , t.e.g. xxvi, 778 pp. A fine copy, internally very much so, clean and fresh and solid, the binding in excellent condition with just a hint of the mellowing one expects with the blue vellum used in binding this title, but without any of the bowing typical to the book. An unusually well preserved copy, pristine and unused.

LIMITED EDITION, AND ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL MODERN PRINTINGS of the Greek historian. This is very pleasing copy: the gilt is brilliant, the boards are not bowed as is usual, and the volume is clean throughout. In all likelihood this particular copy has never been read.

Herodotus, the Greek historian was often called the “father of history” due to his systematic collection of sources and his attempt at intellectual rigor. His merits were “...the diligence with which he collected his materials, the candour and impartiality with which he has placed his facts before the reader, the absence of party bias and undue national vanity, and the breadth of his conception of the historian’s office.” His work represents the first significant Greek writing and covers the struggle between Asia and Europe, ending in the Persian invasion of Greece (490 to 479 BC). $1950.

Mikrokosmos - A Groundbreaking Description of the World With Very Early English Accounts of the Americas A Book of High Influence and Historic Importance 69 Heylyn, Peter. MIKROKOSMOS [in Greek]. A LITTLE DESCRIPTION OF THE GREAT WORLD (Oxford: William Turner and Thomas Hughes, 1629) A very early printing, being the fourth, revised by the author. With an engraved architectural title-page, several engraved head or tail pieces and an engraved 12 line initial. 8vo, full contemporary brown calf, the covers with double fillet lines at the borders in blind, the spine with blind ruled raised bands. [xx], 807, [2] pp. A complete and well preserved copy, crisp, unsophisticated and unpressed of this very scarce and important book. The contemporary binding worn and with normal evidence of age, some expected toning. Occasional antique ownership and marginal notations of previous owners.

VERY SCARCE AND AN IMPORTANT EARLY ENGLISH TRAVEL WORK PROVIDING A STUDY OF AMERICA. A very early printing of this important encyclopedic attempt to describe the peoples and regions of the world in meticulous detail. While over half of the book describes Europe and the Holy Land and such far away locales as Africa, India, China and Japan, there is a section on the Americas which is an extremely early English account of the new found land. Heylyn states his disapproval of the name America, thinking it stresses the importance of Vespucci far too much. He thought that Cabot and Columbus both deserved greater recognition and that the name “New World” would suffice.

The work was not unbiased and was influenced by both politics and religion. It is an important milestone in the area of geographical or travel writing.

Largely drawn from Heylyn’s lectures at Oxford, it offers a clear representation of European knowledge of the rest of the world at the dawn of the 17th century. First published in 1621 the book offered a view of the America that the Pilgrims expected to settle when they set out to cross the Atlantic.

Several years later, in 1652, Heylyn would expand this work into his groundbreaking COSMOGRAPHIE, considered a masterpiece of the genre.

STC 13279; Cox II, 339; Sabin 31656; Lowndes. $3500.

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Hobbes Dialogues on Natural Philosophy Decameron Physiologicum - First Edition - London - 1678 The Final Form of His Mechanistic System of The World 70 Hobbes, Thomas.

DECAMERON PHYSIOLOGICUM: Or, Ten Dialogues of Natural Philosophy (London: J.C. for W. Crook, 1678) The First Edition of Hobbes’ final work. With the folding plate, which is frequently lacking and a figure within the text. 8vo, in full calf of proper period style, the binding with raised bands ruled in blind and a black morocco label lettered and with decorate ruled frame in gilt viii, 136, (7) (1) pp. A very fine and handsome copy, complete with the license leaf, folding plate and all ads, rarely found such. The text very clean and fresh.

VERY RARE AND HOBBES’ FINAL WORK, PRODUCED AT AGE 90. Hobbes considered himself to be primarily a scientist and philosopher and only consequently a theorist of civil and ecclesiastical authority.

His reputation, however, both in his own day and ours, is inextricably linked to his progressive theories in civil and church polity, despite more practical accomplishments in optical theory.

DECAMERON PHYSIOLOGICUM was the final form of his mechanistic system of natural philosophy and the final word in the Wallis-Hobbes feud. “Hobbes last work of all was a new set of dialogues on physical questions, in the fashion of the earlier ones, but now with a stroke added at Wallis’s doctrine of gravitation in the “De Motu”. And a demonstration of the equality of a straight line to the arc of the circle was, of course, thrown in at the end, to show him true as ever to the desperate purpose that had maintained the long quarter of a century of strife.” (C.G. Robertson)” On Page 116 Hobbes references Kepler, with whom he is in agreement, in a statement giving the age of the Earth. There are discussions on magnetism, vacuum, motions of air and water, gravity, optics and more. $15,950.

Washington Irving’s Alhambra - The True First Edition A Copy in the Rare Original Muslin - All Edges Untrimmed His Most Scholarly Work and an Important Study 72 [Irving, Washington]. THE ALHAMBRA. By Geoffrey Crayon, Author of “The Sketch Book”... (London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1832) 2 volumes. First edition, the UK issue, the true first issue printed prior to the American issue according to BAL. 8vo, in the original printer’s muslin covered boards with paper labels on the spine lettered in black. viii, 333; 299 pp. An exceptional set in full original state, internally near pristine with page edges still untrimmed and wide, clean margins. The printer’s muslin covered boards with some expected mellowing and spine fading, but this copy is as near to day-of-publication state and condition as could possibly be found.

THE TRUE FIRST EDITION AND A FINE SET IN COMPLETELY ORIGINAL STATE. While serving as a diplomatic attaché to Spain, Irving had access to the fabulous library of Obadiah Rich and engaged in scholarly research. This detailed description of the Alhambra, and account of the legends surrounding the famous monument, was one of the fruits of this research. The flavor of Irving’s writing is scrumptious in a manner quite fitting to the Moorish landmark.

Though an American, Irving, published under the Crayon pseudonym, was quite the literary celebrity in Europe. He was lionized by both the English and French and for several years the intimate of such notable men of letters as Scott, Byron and Moore. There are a number of his works in which the London issues, not those printed in New York or Philadelphia, are the true first editions. It may be that the more cultured societies of Europe at that time were quicker to recognize literary genius then the more provincial Americans of the period. BAL 10135 $2850.

Washington Irving’s ‘Conquest of Granada’ Illustrated Throughout and Elaborately Bound A Beautiful Edition of this Important Historical Work 73 Irving, Washington; Agapida, Fray Antonio. A CHRONICLE OF THE CONQUEST OF GRANADA. (New York: The Knickerbocker Press for G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1893) 2 volumes. First Edition of the Agapida Edition and first edition in the series. Illustrated throughout with 30 gravures and photographs. Designed head and tail-pieces, textual borders elaborately printed and decorated in red, gray and white. Tall thick 8vo, handsomely bound in beautiful full white polished cloth with beveled edges, the spines lettered and decorated with Arabesque designs in gilt, the upper covers with full gilt, green and pink overall decorations incorporating large Arabesque-Moorish central devices surrounded by Arabesque patterns and floral decorations at the corners, patterned end-leaves, t.e.g. xxx, 379 + 2; xiv, 405 + 2 pp. As fine and fresh internally as one could ever hope to find, sturdy and very clean, the bindings are uncommonly handsome and

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exhibit only minor evidence of age, lightly mellowed at the spine panels and with a bit of evidence of shelving to the extremities.

SCARCE, AND THIS SET VERY BEAUTIFULLY BOUND AND EXTENSIVELY ILLUSTRATED. Irving combines his talents as a fiction writer with careful historical research to produce this work in which the imaginary chronicler, Fray Antonio Agapida, describes the conquest of Granada with close attention to detail and patriotic zeal. Irving served as a titular diplomat in Madrid, which facilitated his extensive research and increased the sense of authenticity in this work. The resulting products “(THE ALHAMBRA) and the eloquent but diffuse CHRONICLE OF THE CONQUEST OF GRANADA” identify Irving as “an important nineteenth-century interpreter of Spanish legend and culture” (DAB). BAL 10125. $350.

An Exceptional Autograph Letter by Thomas Jefferson Of Rare and Highly Important Intellectual Content From the Great Founding Father and Third U.S. President 74 Jefferson, Thomas. AN EXCEPTIONAL AUTOGRAPH LETTER OF RARE AND IMPORTANT INTELLECTUAL CONTENT IN THE HAND OF THOMAS JEFFERSON AND SIGNED. Written at Monticello to Parsons and Cooley (Charlottesville, VA.: Handwritten, at Monticello, Feb. 14, 1823) Signed and Dated Manuscript in the hand of Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence, Third President of the United States, author of NOTES ON THE STATE OF VIRGINIA, FOUNDER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA, ARCHITECT AND PLANNER OF MONTICELLO, etc., etc., etc. Written in cursive ink on one side of a single leaf of paper. Roughly 9 x 11 inches. Extremely well preserved and very legible, some expected softness to the paper and lines from folding.

AN AUTOGRAPH LETTER OF RARE AND HIGHLY IMPORTANT INTELLECTUAL CONTENT BY THOMAS JEFFERSON ON THOMAS JEFFERSON,THE WRITER. Answering a request for one of his books, Jefferson here gives an overview of his writing career — modestly downplaying his contribution as a political writer; affirming his authorship of Notes on the State of Virginia (indicating it is the only work he himself has ever published); and highlighting his “Report on the Plan of an University in Virginia” — a copy of which Jefferson sends on. The correspondents to whom Jefferson is here replying appear to have been trustees of Williams College (in Williamstown, MA), who contacted Jefferson for the sake of adding one of his books to the College library.

Jefferson’s gift is altogether fitting: his “Plan” is both a work in which he took great pride and one whose ideas would most meaningfully enrich the receiving College’s readers.

The exceptional content of this letter deepens and reinforces our understanding of how Thomas Jefferson viewed himself and his own achievements.

As an “Enlightenment Intellectual,” Jefferson was an ardent advocate for the mind’s freedom and growth — a position essentially affirmed by the inscription on his own tombstone: Jefferson himself drafted this inscription -- “because by these as testimonials that I have lived, I wish most to be remembered” — an inscription in some good measure presaged by the contents of this letter.

Jefferson letters of such important intellectual self-definition are Very Rare in the Marketplace. No letter of comparable content has been publicly offered in many years.

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A Unique, Inscribed Presentation Copy of the First Edition The Writings of Thomas Jefferson - A Monument of Scholarship The Highly Important Collection by Paul Leicester Ford In the Publisher’s Best Binding - Ten Volumes - 1892-1899 75 Jefferson, Thomas. THE WRITINGS OF THOMAS JEFFERSON. Collected and Edited by Paul Leicester Ford. (New York and London: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1892-1899) 10 volumes. A UNIQUE, INSCRIBED COPY OF THE VERY SCARCE FIRST EDITION and the Best Issuance of the collection. THIS UNIQUE COPY IS ONE OF ONLY A SMALL NUMBER LETTERED RATHER THAN NUMBERED AND IT IS MARKED AS “PRESENTATION COPY”. THE FIRST VOLUME IS INSCRIBED ON THE FREE-FLY BY THE EDITOR, PAUL LEICESTER FORD ON THE DAY OF PUBLICATION, DECEMBER 13, 1892. It is presented to a family member. The provenance is of singular importance and the books continued to be passed down through the family until the end of the 1950’s, when they came into the possession of John Strohn Copley the publisher of the The San Diego Union Tribune and the San Diego Evening Tribune. The Letter-Press Edition of the Writings limited to only seven hundred fifty signed and numbered sets.

With engravings and a vast profusion of illustrations throughout, including maps and facsimiles of Jefferson’s writings, of the Declaration of Independence and of other important papers. Tall, thick 8vo, in the publisher’s preferred binding of half black morocco over maroon cloth boards, one of the scarcest of the bindings issued on this already elusive set of Jefferson’s

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highly important writings. A fine set, very beautifully presented and in an excellent state of preservation. A very handsome, very well cared for set of this monumental work of historical scholarship.

A VERY IMPORTANT SET OF THE WORKS OF ONE OF AMERICA’S MOST ILLUSTRIOUS PERSONAGES AND WRITER OF A NUMBER OF THE MOST IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS IN AMERICAN HISTORY. THIS IS THE RARE ISSUANCE OF THE WORKS IN PUBLISHER’S MOROCCO. The set, besides including the great breadth of Jefferson’s writing, includes also, copies of the Declaration of Independence, in the form of a facsimile of Jefferson’s written manuscript with the corrections of Franklin and Adams. The set is illustrated profusely with maps and portraits, facsimiles and other illustrations.

Ford’s edition of THE WRITINGS OF THOMAS JEFFERSON is still regarded as one of the monuments of American historical scholarship, setting the standard for documentary editing for half-a-century. Ford’s edition remains valuable for its accuracy of transcription from original manuscripts and its careful annotation of the documents chosen for publication. The Ford edition appeared in two versions, a ten-volume edition published between 1892 and 1896 and a fourteen-volume limited numbered edition (known as the “Federal” edition) issued in 1904; other than the different breakdown of volumes, the contents of these editions are identical. Readers, however, have to take note of which edition is being used in a given scholarly work.

This unique first edition copy was presented by Ford to members of his family on the day of publication, and it remained in the family until it passed into the hands of James Strohn Copley (1916, St. Johnsville, New York - 1973) publisher of The San Diego Union-Tribune and the San Diego Evening Tribune from 1947 until his death in 1973. Copley was also President of the Inter American Press Association (1969 - 1970). The University of San Diego has a library named in honour of Copley and his wife (the Helen K. and James S. Copley Library). $12,500.

Avvisi Del Giapone - Very Early Accounts of Japan - 1586 Only Three Copies at Auction in Thirty Years Includes News of the Death of Oda Nobunago 76 [Jesuit Relations, Japan] Frois, L. [and others]. AVVISI DEL GIAPONE de Gli Anni M.D.LXXXII, LXXXIII, ET LXXXIV Con Alcuni Altri Della Cina Dell’ LXXXIII et LXXXIV. Cauati dalle lettere della Compagnia de Giesu. Riceuute il mese di Dicembre. M.D.LXXXV. (Rome: Francesco Zanetti, 1586) First edition. With engraved title-page featuring a large woodcut and engraved headlines throughout. Small 8vo, in contemporary full flexible velum with leather cords, the spine lettered in manuscript. 188, [2 errata] pp. Exceptionally well preserved in original state, the paper remarkably clean and fresh, there is only a bit of very occasion and very light evidence of damp long, long ago. Without ties, inscription and stamp on title.

VERY SCARCE, ONLY THREE OTHER COPIES APPEARING IN PUBLIC AUCTIONS IN THE LAST THIRTY YEARS. Of those, one was defective and repaired.

Contains the important letter on the progress of Christianity in the region by Luigi Frois, which also details the death of Oda Nobunaga, the initiator of the unification of Japan. $25,500.

Lobo’s Important Voyage to Abyssinia And the First Published Work By Samuel Johnson 77 [Johnson, Samuel]; Lobo, Jerónimo. A VOYAGE TO ABYSSINIA, by father Jerome Lobo, a Portuguese Missionary. Containing the History, Natural, Civil, and Ecclesiastical, of that Remote and Unfrequented Country, Continued Down to the Beginning of the Eighteenth Century: With Fifteen Dissertations on Various Subjects, Relating to the Antiquities, Government, Religion, Manners, and Natural History of Abyssinia by M. Le Grand. Translated from the French by Samuel Johnson. To which are Added, Various Other Tracts by the Same Author Not Published by Sir John Hawkins or Mr. Stockdale. (London: Elliot and Kay, 1789) Second Edition of the first translation into English, and the first published work by Samuel Johnson, author of the famed dictionary 8vo, bound in full contemporary calf bordered in blind. Sometime rebacked to correct period style featuring gilt ruled flat bands and a brown morocco label lettered in gilt. [iv], 500 + [2 ads] pp. A fine copy internally with just a bit of light expected mellowing to the paper, uniform and very minor, the boards with some minor age-wear to the extremities, the corners sometime refurbished.

RARE AND IMPORTANT AND THE FIRST PUBLISHED WORK BY SAMUEL JOHNSON. One of the most important and earliest sources on Ethiopia and the Nile River. Jerónimo Lobo (1595-1687), a Jesuit priest, stayed in Ethiopia for nine years and travelled to Lake Tana and the Blue Nile, reaching the province of Damot. When the Jesuits were expelled from the country by by Basilides in 1648, he too had to leave and did so via Massaua and Suakin. He was the foremost European expert on Ethiopian matters of his day. Also, after Pais, Lobo is the second European to describe the sources of the Blue Nile and his account is in many ways more accurate then Bruce’s.

This translation into English, first published in 1735, was also the first published work by Samuel Johnson. This second edition includes a new preface by the editor, George Gleig, which condemns the “uncommonly numerous” blunders of the printer in the 1735 version. He also condemns Hawkins and Stockdale for omitting Lobo’s “Voyage” from their 1787 edition of of Johnson’s collected ‘Works’ and added other tracts of Johnson’s that they had also not included. $1000.

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“A Scandalous Work” - From the Restoration of Charles II The Secret History of White-Hall - London - 1697 English and French Secret Diplomatic Intrigue 78 Jones, D[avid]. Gent. THE SECRET HISTORY OF WHITE-HALL, From the Restoration of Charles II. Down tot he Abdication of the late K. James. Writ at the request of a noble Lord, and conveyed to him in letters, by . late secretary-interpreter to the Marquess of Lourvois, who by that means had the perusall of all the private minutes between England and France for many years. The whole consisting of secret memoirs, which have hitherto lain conceal’d, as not being discoverable by any other hand. (London: R. Baldwin, 1697) First edition.

8vo, contemporary full calf, the spine with blind tooled compartments between raised bands, one compartment with a paper title label lettered in manuscript, board edges tooled in blind, page edges sprinkled red. [xii], 80, 80, 80, 64, 80, 110 pp. A very pleasing and finely preserved copy, internally, quite fresh and clean, the paper crisp and the text-block sturdy and sound, the contemporary binding solid and with minor age-wear at the extremities.

FIRST EDITION OF WHAT LOWNDES CALLED “A SCANDALOUS WORK.” The author, a captain in the King’s Life Guards, published this series of letters reputed to be between and English peer and a French official between 1676 and 1689, claiming them to be secret diplomatic transactions previously concealed and now divulged. Modern historians are unsure and opinions conflicting in how much accuracy or reliance can be placed on the text. The author wrote a number of other historical works. Wing J9347. $695.

The Works of Josephus - The Embassy of Philo Judaeus Very Scarce English Folio Printing - London - 1640 Contemporary Calf - Perhaps the Earliest Obtainable in English 79 [Josephus], [Philo Judaeus]. THE WORKS OF JOSEPHUS. With great Diligence Revised and Amended, according to the Excellent French Translation of Monsieur Arnauld D’Andilly. Also the Embassy of PHILO JUDAEUS. To the Emperor Vaius Caligula. Never Translated before. With the Refernces of the Scripture, A New Map of the Holy Land and divers Copper Plates, serving the History. (London: Printed by J.L. for John Waterton, 1640) A handsome very early printing of Josephus in English, generally accepted as the earliest obtainable issuance. The second edition in English, 1640 printing, preceded only by the exceedingly rare printing of this translation in 1602. With large printer’s vignette device on the title, decorated initial letters, and elaborate vignette chapter headers and tailpieces. Folio (33 cm), bound in full contemporary polished calf, the spine with raised bands over cords, ruled in blind, one compartment with crimson morocco label lettered in gilt, blind ruled borders on the covers. [viii], 812, [xxxi] pp. A very pleasing and handsome copy of this early folio edition. A very rare unrestored copy in its original binding with some wear to the edges and hinges as would be expected. Withal, an unusually fine and honest copy, completely original, clean and crisp throughout.

VERY SCARCE. PROBABLY THE EARLIEST OBTAINABLE PRINTING IN ENGLISH OF THE WORKS OF JOSEPHUS AND OF THE EMBASSY OF PHILO JUDAEUS. “Josephus was a learned Jew who lived in the latter half of the first century of our era.

At Rome he early made a favorable impression on the imperial government. Returning to Jerusalem, he endeavored to dissuade his countrymen from their intended revolt against Roman authority; but, failing in his efforts, he joined the war party. He was made a general, and was entrusted with the defence of Galilee; but, after a desperate resistance, was betrayed to the Roman commander. Long held as a prisoner, he was present at the siege of Jerusalem.

At the close of the war he went to Rome, was presented with the freedom of the city, an annual pension, and a house that had formerly been the residence of an imperial family. The remainder of his life he gave up to literary pursuits” (Adams, Manual of Historical Literature, p. 81). His works cover the entire history of the nation to the fall of Jerusalem.

His works are important for Jewish history and, as a classical Jewish account of the earliest years of Christianity, serve as a balance to Christian accounts of the period. They include his account of the war against the Romans, and his history of the Jews and Jewish Antiquities. Thomas Lodge, 1558 -1625, the translator, produced the first English translation of Josephus’ Works, in 1602, this is the 2nd English edition. Numerous editions followed. $5850.

John F. Kennedy - Profiles In Courage - 1956 A Very Handsome Copy in Original Dustjacket 80 Kennedy, John F. PROFILES IN COURAGE (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1956) First Edition, Early printing without the statement but with the 3.50 on the jacket flaps and the sequential numbers as called for. 8vo, publisher’s original quarter black cloth and blue cloth over boards, in the original printed and pictorial dustjacket. xix, 266 pp. A fine and bright copy in a clean and very pleasing dustjacket.

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EARLY ISSUANCE OF AN IMPORTANT PULITZER PRIZE WINNING BOOK. The most famous and long-enduring of the President’s writings. This was Kennedy’s second book, written when he was a Senator from Massachusetts. It earned for him the Pulitzer Prize. $550.

The Burden and The Glory First Edition - John F. Kennedy 81 Kennedy, President John F.. THE BURDEN AND THE GLORY. The Hopes and Purposes of President Kennedy’s Second and Third Years in Office As Revealed In His Public Statements and Addresses. Edited by Allan Nevins, Foreward by President Lyndon B. Johnson (New York: Harper & Row, 1964) First Edition. 8vo, black cloth lettered in gilt, in the original handsomely printed and coloured dustjacket. xvii, 293. A fine copy in a complete and very nice dustjacket.

“It is the fate of this generation- of you in Congress and of me as President- to live with a struggle we did not start, in a world we did not make. But the pressures of life are not always distributed by choice. And while no nation has ever faced such a challenge, no nation has ever been so ready to seize the burden and the glory of freedom.” - John F. Kennedy to Congress, 1962. $395.

The Memories of JFK with Bradlee’s Poetic Pamphlet First Editions in Original State 82 [Kennedy] Stoughton, Cecil; Clifton, Major General Chester and Sidey, Hugh. THE MEMORIES JFK, 1961-1963, of Cecil Stoughton, the President’s Photographer and Major General Chester V. Clifton, the President’s Military aide. Narrated by Hugh Sidey. With, THAT SPECIAL GRACE. By Benjamin Bradlee. (New York: W.W. Norton & Co., Inc., 1973) First edition of each item. Numerous black and white and color photographs. 4to and 8vo, original full blue cloth lettered in gilt. In the original photographic dustjacket. The Bradlee pamphlet in the original format, staplebound and loosely inserted into the larger book. 200. A fine copy in a bright dustjacket. Some light wrinkling to the jacket. The Bradlee pamphlet in excellent condition.

Memories of the Kennedy presidency by his close friends. Primarily a book of photographs which captures both the official moments and the intensely personal.Laid in is a supplement from the Knickerbockers News, Albany, N.Y, Nov.21, 1964. Entitled “That Special Grace” , with a poem by Benjamin Bradlee. Also laid in is a poem entitled “ A Decade After Kennedy”, hand typed with no author. $150.

Kircher’s Great China Monumentis A Highly Important and Early Work on China Replete With Magnificent Illustrations and Plates 83 [Kircher] Kircheri, Athanasii. CHINA MONUMENTIS, Qua Sacris qua Profanis, Nec Non Variis Naturæ & Artis Spectaculis, Aliarumque Rerum Memorabilium Argumentis Illustrata, Auspiciis Leopoldi Primi Roman Imper Semper Augusti (Amstelodami: Janssonium - Waesberge, 1667) First edition. The ‘plus belle’ edition, the best edition and prior to the subsequently issued Dutch and French translations of 1668 and 1670 and far the superior printing to the pirated edition published

by Meurs. With engraved pictorial additional title (‘China illustrata’), the portrait of Kircher, 23 finely engraved plates including Yy2 which is omitted from the list printed on **4v, some folding, 2 large double-page folding engraved maps and over 50 additional illustrations throughout the text. Folio, in full contemporary calf. [xiv], 237, index. A very handsome copy indeed, binding sometime expertly and unobtrusively restored.

VERY RARE FIRST EDITION COPY OF THE ‘PLUS BELLE’ ISSUE. AND THIS COPY WITH AN EXTRA PLATE NOT CALLED FOR, HANDSOMELY BOUND IN PERIOD CALF. Kircher (1601-1680) was an outstanding German scholar of his day. He was a professor of philosophy, mathematics and Oriental languages at Würzburg. Through the influence of Cardinal Barberini he later moved to Rome where he taught at the Collegio Romano. In time, he resigned his post there to dedicate himself to the study of heiroglyphics, ancient languages and archaeology. Despite his very great and widely varied knowledge and despite his extensive writings, it is probably for calling Western attention to the Orient, the ancient civilizations of the Tigris and Euphrates valley and to ancient Egypt, for which he is most renown.

‘As a result of his immense learning and wide interests, Kircher acted as a clearinghouse for information of all kinds, writing and receiving letters

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by the hundreds. To his study came correspondence from other Jesuits throughout the world, who knew that he would preserve their notes and make the best use of their reports of foreign parts. The discovery in the early seventeenth century at Si-an-fu of a Nestorian Christian inscription in Chinese and Syrian proved that missionaries had reached China by AD 781. But it was the efforts of the Society of Jesus to spread the Catholic faith that really opened European eyes to the existence of vast civilizations totally beyond their borders. Having begun in the late sixteenth century, the Jesuit missions were well established by Kircher’s time, and he himself was a rejected volunteer for service there. Nothing therefore, was more natural than that he should compile a book of findings, combined with his own perennial researches into religion and linguistics and issue the work as a splendidly illustrated folio edition.

This work was published at a time when the Far East was still a mystery to most Europeans, even the well educated, and yet remains remarkably sophisticated. It is based on many years of correspondence with Jesuits active in China, where Kircher himself was never able to go, and in particular the COMMENTARII of Father Ricci. Despite having been written based on correspondence the work is hardly hearsay and is in fact replete with highly accurate and important information. Included is the first appearance in publication of the famous Nestorian Inscription of 781, written largely in Chinese and partly in Syriac which was of great value to Gibbon. Also contained is the first Sanskrit grammar published in the West and the first appearance in Europe of the Devanagari Script.

China monumentis, was, in many ways, Kircher’s most significant work, historically speaking. It is the first publication of important documents on oriental geography, geology, botany, zoology, religion and language. Kircher states in his introduction that his aim was to gather the accumulated knowledge and experience of the missionaries working in the East, information which he feared would remain scattered or lost if not collected together in a single, comprehensive volume. He also was deeply concerned with preserving the fruits of his colleague’s efforts, collected with so much effort and privation, and sometimes the cost of their very lives. His book is divided into six parts, comprising, I. A study of the Nestorian inscription found in China in 1625; II. Travels to China (including Marco Polo); III. The arrival of idolatry from the West; IV. The natural and artificial curiosities of China; V. The architectural and mechanical arts of the Chinese; VI. Chinese writing, including a comparison of the alphabet with the Egyptian.

The illustrations are quite magnificent and include images of native plant and animal life, topography, costume, architecture, religious images and customs and facsimiles of various Eastern alphabets and manuscripts. The two large maps are surprisingly sophisticated and are especially accurate compared to European maps of the Far East from this period. Britannica; Merrill [20]; Cordier 26; Caillet 5773; Godwin pp 56-7; Sommervogel IV 1063. $14,500.

An Account of the Kingdom of Siam - 1693 A New Historical Relation - De La Loubere’s Classic Work The First English Edition of This Important Narrative 84 La Loubere, Monsieur [Simon] De. A NEW HISTORICAL RELATION OF THE KINGDOM OF SIAM...Wherein Full and Curious Account is Given to the Chinese Way of Arithmetick and Mathematick Learning.. Done Out of the French

by A. P. Gen. R.S.S. (London: Printed by F.L. for Tho. Horne, et al, 1693) Two volumes bound as one. First edition in English. Illustrated with seven (of nine) engraved plates and two maps, additional illustrations within the text, title-page of Vol. I printed in black and red. 4to, in antique full paneled calf, the spine at some time sympathetically renewed to correct style with raised bands and a red morocco label lettered in gilt, original endpapers retained and new endleaves added additionally. [2], 143; [2], 145-260. A very well preserved copy, textually complete and with seven of the nine called for plates. Copies with all nine plates are uncommon and the work is frequently found with some number fewer and sometimes with no plates at all. The text is clean and quite fresh with only very occasional signs of the common age toning.

AN IMPORTANT EARLY WORK ON THE FAR EAST. The author was the Envoy Extraordinary from the king of France to the King of Siam in the years 1687 and 1688. This embassy was one of the several sent by Louis XIV to the Kind of Siam, who at this time was King Narai the Great (Ramathibodi III). All of the embassies were accompanied by priests of the Jesuit orders. This embassy, composed of five warships, arrived in Bangkok in October 1687 and was received by the Siamese diplomat Ok-khun Chamnan. De la Loubère returned to France three months later, this time accompanied by the Jesuit Guy Tachard, and a Siamese embassy led by Ok-khun Chamnan. Cox notes, “La Loubere must have been busy with his eyes to note so much in a three months’ stay... ...In addition to the interesting account of Siam and the Siamese, this work contains many curios matters of information: The Life of Thevetat, Siamese Alphabet, Smoking Instrument, Chess-Play of the Chinese, Relation of the Cape of Good Hope, with four cuts, Siamese Astronomy, Problem of Magical Squares, according to the Indians, Manners of the Chinese.” La Loubere’s account is lucid, accurate and comprehensive in his description of the life and peoples of the Kingdom of Siam and is generally regarded as the best European account to have come out of the 17th century. $2650.

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First Edition - Limited Issue - The Mint T.E. Lawrence’s Life with the R.A.F. - Bound in Morocco 85 Lawrence, T. E. THE MINT: A day-book of the R.A.F. Depot between August and December 1922 with later notes by 352087 A/C Ross (London: Jonathan Cape, 1955) First edition, limited issue, one of 2000 copies only. Royal 8vo, original half publisher’s morocco and cloth, lettered in gilt on spine, t.e.g., in the printed slipcase. 206. An extremely fine copy, bright and clean, as mint.

FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE. Lawrence made his way into the service on two occasions by using adopted names. In August 1927, writing from Karachi, he told Edward Garnett that he had arranged notes in sections and was copying them as a Christmas gift to Garnett.

Lawrence told Garnett that he wrote the book tightly, “because our clothes are so tight, and our lives so tight in the service. There is no freedom of conduct at all.” The typescript, made at Garnett’s order from the actual manuscript, was revised by Lawrence just before his death and it is that text which the present work follows. Lawrence had intended to print a limited edition himself on a hand-press and had already procured enough copies for its frontispiece of a reproduction of a portrait drawing by Augustus John before his untimely death in a motoring accident. The present limited edition is then, the only one available and most closely followed T.E.L’s wishes according to his brother A.W. Lawrence. $450.

The Mint - First Edition T.E. Lawrence’s Life with the R.A.F. 86 Lawrence, T. E. THE MINT: A day-book of the R.A.F. Depot between August and December 1922 with later notes by 352087 A/C/ Ross (London: Jonathan Cape, 1955) First edition. Included with the book are a number of clippings concerning T.E. Lawrence. Large 8vo, publisher’s original blue cloth, gilt lettered on the spine, in the origijnal printed dustjacket. 206 pp. A fine copy, the dustjacket in excellent condition and only slightly mellowed on the spine panel.

FIRST EDITION IN THE DUSTJACKET. Lawrence made his way into the service on two occasions by using adopted names. In August 1927, writing from Karachi, he told Edward Garnett that he had arranged notes in sections and was copying them as a Christmas gift to Garnett.

Lawrence told Garnett that he wrote the book tightly, “because our clothes are so tight, and our lives so tight in the service. There is no freedom of conduct at all.” The typescript, made at Garnett’s order from the actual manuscript, was revised by Lawrence just before his death and it is that text which the present work follows. $245.

T.E. Lawrence’s Oriental Assembly - A Superb Copy First Edition in Scarce Dustjacket - As Pristine - 1939 The Bradford Lawrence Copy 87 Lawrence, T. E. ORIENTAL ASSEMBLY (London: Williams and Norgate, 1939) First edition. Bradford Lawrence’s copy. Profusely illustrated throughout with photos by the author. 8vo, publisher’s original tan buckram lettered in gilt on spine. xii, 291 pp. A superb, as pristine copy in the rare dustjacket which is also in superb condition.

FIRST EDITION IN REMARKABLY FINE CONDITION. A volume of Lawrence’s previously uncollected writings, edited by his brother. Includes the suppressed chapter of Seven Pillars, a note on Kennington’s Arab portraits and other important essays. The second part contains over 100 photographs taken by Lawrence during the Revolt in the Desert.

Additional to the volume is a copy of the original announcement for the Lawrence of Arabia Memorial printed separately after Lawrences’s death. The memorial, to be placed in St. Paul’s Cathedral was to take the form of the bronze head modeled by Kennington from life. The committee, headed by Allenby, Churchill, George Bernard Shaw and Augustus John, also announced that Lawrence’s cottage at Clouds Hill would be offered to the National Trust to be preserved for all time.

This printing is the first and only edition of the memorial announcement.

See the Ransom Collection at University of Texas for note on Bradford Lawrence. $1250.

T.E. Lawrence’s Revolt in the Desert - 1927 The First Trade Appearance of “Seven Pillars” 88 Lawrence, T. E. REVOLT IN THE DESERT (London: Jonathan Cape, 1927) First edition. With 16 black and white illustrations, large folding map at rear. 8vo, publisher’s original tan polished buckram lettered in gilt on spine. 435, index. A very nice and well preserved copy with only a bit of mellowing to the cloth. Some interesting 1930s newspaper articles on Lawrence laid in.

SCARCE FIRST EDITION. A NICE COPY OF THIS IMPORTANT WORK BY LAWRENCE. This is the first publicly issued text of SEVEN PILLARS OF WISDOM prepared by Lawrence after the private printing of that book and edited by him for the general trade. Jonathan Cape had planned a new edition of REVOLT IN THE DESERT to come out after Lawrence death, but Lawrence’s estate permitted instead the printing of the trade edition of the full text of SEVEN PILLARS instead. Thus, the work in this form was obtainable for only a very brief period of time. $225.

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With the Rare Decorations From the 1926 Seven Pillars First Edition - T.E. Lawrence - Revolt in the Desert - 1927 An Especially Elusive Impression of the First Edition 89 Lawrence, T. E. REVOLT IN THE DESERT (New York: George A. Doran, 1927) First American edition, rarest and preferred issue with the Kennington decorated endleaves which had been designed for the 1926 issue of SEVEN PILLARS OF WISDOM and with the additional plates and illustrations. VERY RARE ISSUE with 24 illustrations on full-page plates and with 18 b/w line cuts from the 1926 SEVEN PILLARS not in any other issue or edition of REVOLT IN THE DESERT. With a folding map in black in red tipped in at the rear of the volume. 8vo, publisher’s original tan polished buckram lettered in gilt on the spine. xvi, 335 pp. including the index. A fine and handsome copy with light evidence of age mellowing.

VERY SCARCE FIRST EDITION WITH THE ADDITIONAL ILLUSTRATIONS AND THE KENNINGTON DECORATED ENDLEAVES. This is the first publicly issued text of SEVEN PILLARS OF WISDOM prepared by Lawrence after the private printing of that book and edited by him for the general trade. Jonathan Cape had planned a new edition of REVOLT IN THE DESERT to come out after Lawrence death, but Lawrence’s estate permitted instead the printing of the trade edition of the full text of SEVEN PILLARS instead. Thus, the work in this form was obtainable for only a very brief period of time.

Copies of the book with the additional decorations and illustrations are rarely encountered. O’Brien A108 $950.

One of the Greatest Books in the Language T.E. Lawrence’s Seven Pillars of Wisdom First Edition in the Original Cloth Gilt Decorated 90 Lawrence, T. E. SEVEN PILLARS OF WISDOM (London: Jonathan Cape, 1935) First published edition, first issue with plates at 304305 incorrectly listed. Numerous black and white photos and drawings and maps. Royal 8vo, original polished buckram lettered and decorated in gilt on the upper cover with crossed swords motif and lettered in gilt on the spine. 672 pp. A very handsome copy, bright and sturdy and clean with only a meager touch of the aging or evidence of use that is commonly found on this book.

SCARCE FIRST EDITION. Lawrence, in relating the history of his involvement in the Arab revolt against Ottoman rule during the First World War, produced a true literary classic. Winston Churchill said of the book, “[It] ranks with the greatest books ever written in the English language.”

Its fame was further secured by Hollywood: “Lawrence of Arabia,” starring Peter O’Toole, was based upon the book. This is a splendid, handsome copy of an enduring masterpiece.

A personal narrative of the revolt of Arab armies against the Turks during the First World War, SEVEN PILLARS OF WISDOM stands as a monument of modern literature and history. Bernard Shaw described the book as one of the greatest of our time.

All earlier printings were private and done with very low limitations on the printing, thus they are now very scarce. This is the first edition that was printed for general circulation and is becoming increasingly difficult to find in collector’s condition. $495.

The Scarce Limited Edition in Superb Condition T.E. Lawrence’s Masterpiece - Seven Pillars of Wisdom First Published Trade Edition - One of 750 Copies - 1935 91 Lawrence, T. E. SEVEN PILLARS OF WISDOM (London: Jonathan Cape, 1935) Limited edition, one of 750 numbered copies only. 54 illustrations (4 in color), 4 maps, facsimiles of: a manuscript page, a page from the 1922 Oxford edition, and a page from the subscriber’s edition. Royal, thick 8vo, publisher’s original half-beige morocco over dark tan polished buckram lettered and decorated in gilt. 672 pp.

A fine copy but for some very minor mellowing to the binding, quite handsome and fresh.

THE IMPORTANT LIMITED ISSUE OF THE FIRST PUBLISHED TRADE EDITION. The most complete edition after the subscriber’s edition, retaining four of the colour plates from that issue.

A personal narrative of the revolt of Arab armies against the Turks during the First World War, SEVEN PILLARS OF WISDOM stands as a monument of modern literature and history. Bernard Shaw and Winston Churchill both described the book as one of the greatest of our time. Its fame would only be increased by the production of the motion picture “Lawrence of Arabia” which was based on this work and is often considered amongst the greatest motion pictures ever produced. $2850.

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An Unusually Important Set - With Fine Provenance Travels in Arabia Deserta - Ch. Doughty and T.E. Lawrence ‘A Bible, A Classic, Its Completeness is Devestating’ 92 [Lawrence, T. E.] Doughty, Charles M. TRAVELS IN ARABIA DESERTA, With an Introduction by T. E. Lawrence (London: Philip Lee Warner, for the Medici Society Ltd. and Jonathan Cape, 1921) 2 volumes. First edition with the introduction by T. E. Lawrence and the First book published

by Jonathan Cape. A copy with fine Provenance, having been the copy of J.M. Wilson, the “Official Biographer” of T.E. Lawrence, appointed by the British Government.

Each volume with his “Control Copy” plates and with his signature in each volume. One of only 300 copies offered for sale, 100 in the United States and 200 in the United Kingdom, of 500 printed. Portrait frontispiece in first volume, maps, plans, and collotype plates from the original 1888 edition, including some which are folding. There is the large, cloth-backed folding map slipped into pocket at the inside of the rear cover of Volume I. This map is rare and is generally missing as most copies of the map were sold separately. 8vo, publisher’s original dark green cloth with fine pictorial gilt vignettes as original, on the upper covers, gilt-lettered spines, t.e.g. xxxv, 623; xiv, 690 pp. Includes appendix in Volume I and index and glossary in Volume II. An unusually handsome, pleasing and fresh set, the cloth in excellent and bright condition but for some offsetting to the cover of Vol.II, the gilt luscious and clean.

RARE IN THIS CONDITION. THE HIGHLY IMPORTANT FIRST EDITION WITH T.E. LAWRENCE’S INTRODUCTION AND A COPY WITH FINE PROVENANCE. Published in the same format as the first edition, this important printing is the first with T. E. Lawrence’s introduction.

ARABIA DESERTA is perhaps one of the best-known, but least-read, classics of exploration and travel, due to what some have considered the opacity of Doughty’s prose; but one man’s opacity is another man’s magnificence, and few writers of any genre have worked such magic or mischief on the English language as Doughty. He disapproved of Victorian style, and mingled his own with Chaucerian and Elizabethan English and Arabic.

But whatever the style, the result is perhaps the finest book on Arabia ever written. We will let another Arabist, Lawrence, speak on Doughty’s behalf: “I have talked the book over with many travelers, and we are agreed that here you have all the desert, its hills and plains, the lava fields, the villages, the tents, the men and animals. They are told of the life, with words and phrases fitted to them so perfectly that one cannot dissociate them in memory. It is the true Arabia, the land with its smells and dirt, as well as its nobility and freedom. There is no sentiment, nothing merely picturesque, that most common failing of oriental travel-books. Doughtly’s completeness is devastating. There is nothing we would take away, little we could add. He took all Arabia for his province, and has left to his successors only the poor part of specialists. We may write books on parts of the desert or some of the history of it; but there can never be another picture of the whole, in our time, because here it is all said...” (-from the Introduction). Lawrence studied the book for ten years and grew to consider it ‘a book not like other books, but something particular, a bible of its kind...The more one learns of Arabia the more one finds in ARABIA DESERTA. The more one travels there, the greater respect one has for the insight, judgement and artistry of the author. The book is called ‘Doughty’ pure and simple, for it is a classic’. O’Brien A013 (p. 20) $2150.

Including Two Pieces by T.E. Lawrence A Brief Record of the Advance of the Egyptian Force Original Record of the Egyptian Campaign 1917-1918 93 [Lawrence, T.E.], [Egyptian Expeditionary Force; Middle East; Israel]. A BRIEF RECORD OF THE ADVANCE OF THE EGYPTIAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCE UNDER THE COMMAND OF GENERAL SIR EDMUND H.H. ALLENBY. G.C.B., G.C.M.G. July 1917 to October 1918, Compiled from Official Sources. (London: His Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1919) First British Edition and the second issue overall. (The first edition was published by the Palestine News, Cairo) Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece of General Allenby, signed in the plate, and a profusion of colour maps, 56 in all. 8vo, publisher’s original green wrappers, lettered in black. [iv], 112 pp. A very nice copy, with some wear to spine, front wrapper with slight breaks at the hinges.

FIRST BRITISH EDITION. This primary document gives a largely day-by-day progression of the events between July 1917 and October 1918 that led up to the Arab revolt against the Ottoman rule in Saudi Arabia and the fall of Damascus. Included are two pieces by T.E. Lawrence, the famous “Lawrence of Arabia” (concerning the Arab Revolt and the fall of Damascus), as well as various military reports and numerous maps marking the daily positions of the troops as the final showdown grew nearer. This document was created so that “members of the Force may be able to take home with them an acceptable account of the great advance in which they have played a part” [preface]. This is one of the earliest accounts of that campaign, its details being still “fresh in the memory.” A fascinating and comprehensive record. Much of what is covered in the text is important in the establishment of the modern Middle East, including Israeli statehood and the various events leading up to it: the Balfour Declaration and the British Mandate. $495.

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Layard’s Discoveries in the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon The Important First Edition - 1853 A Handsome Copy in the Original Decorated Cloth 94 Layard, Austen H. DISCOVERIES IN THE RUINS OF NINEVEH AND BABYLON; With Travels In Armenia, Kurdistan and the Desert: Being the Result of a Second Expedition, etc. (London: John Murray, 1853) First edition. With a profusion of large folding maps and fine lithographic plates, a number tinted, and with extensive illustrations throughout the text. Thick 8vo, publisher’s original brown cloth lettered in gilt on the spine and extensively and pictorially decorated in blind in all over designs across both covers and the spine in Babylonian motif. xxiii, 686, includes index. A very nice copy of this now scarce title rarely found in decent condition, the binding sometime neatly rebacked preserving all the original cloth, the restoration well done and not overly perceptable, the textblock quite clean for usually heavily foxed title, only a bit of very minor foxing to prelims and a few edges, one folding plate a bit ragged along the outside edge but not effecting the image.

AN IMPORTANT FIRST EDITION, NOW SCARCE, this is an extensive and detailed description and interpretation of Layard’s excavations at Ninevah and Babylon. In two separate trips, Layard was the first to discover and excavate the ancient city of Ninevah. Maps and engravings illustrate not only the physical site and remains, they also illustrate the excavation itself. This book is of special interest for its work in the translation of the cuneiform script of the region-- a very new area of study at the time and still subject to argument and revision. Translation of the cuneiform text would open up a new understanding both in the archeology of the region and its importance to ancient classical scriptures. $795.

Nineveh and Its Remains - 1849 - A Cornerstone Work A.H. Layard’s Great Archaeological Discovery In Very Handsome and Elaborate Full Gilt Bindings 95 Layard, Austen Henry. NINEVEH AND ITS REMAINS: With an Account of a Visit to the Chaldaean Christians of Kurdistan, and the Yezidis, or Devil Worshippers; and an Enquiry Into the Manners of the Ancient Assyrians. (London: John Murray, 1849) 2 volumes. First Edition, very early issue. Extensively illustrated with approximately 100 full-page, folding, double-page and other fine engravings, building plans and maps. 8vo, in very fine and handsome contemporary bindings of full straight-grain navy blue morocco. The spines with gilt stippled and ruled raised bands separating elaborately gilt tooled and paneled compartments, two compartments with contrasting labels of black and olive, the olive label with red morocco numbering inlay and fine gilt decoration and lettering, covers with gilt rules around a finely tooled blind border, board edges gilt tooled, page edges and end-leaves marbled. xxx, [4], 399 pp, folding map; xii, 495pp. A very handsome set, internally as fine as one could hope to ask for, the fine bindings with just very light evidence of age at the extremities.

SCARCE FIRST EDITION. In two separate trips, Layard was the first to discover and excavate the ancient city of Ninevah. This volume is the record of the initial discovery and excavation of the site. Layard’s excavations would bring a greater understanding of the origins of civilization.

An extensive and detailed description and interpretation of Layard’s excavations and Ninevah. Maps and engravings illustrate not only the physical site and remains, they also illustrate the excavation itself. Layard’s work is of special interest for he translated the cuneiform script of the region-- a very new area of study at the time and still subject to argument and revision. Translation of the cuneiform text would open up a new understanding both in the archeology of the region and its importance to ancient classical scriptures. $950.

The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln First Edition in Nine Volumes 96 Lincoln, Abraham; Basler, Roy P. THE COLLECTED WORKS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN. The Abraham Lincoln Association, Springfield, Illinois (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1953) 9 volumes including the index. First edition. Published for the History Book Club and the Abraham Lincoln Association Illustrated profusely with photographs, documents, and maps throughout.

8vo, publisher’s original gray polished buckram, the spines with dark blue lettering pieces lettered and decorated in gilt. A very pleasing and as fine set, a few spines just very lightly mellowed but barely so.

IMPORTANT FIRST EDITION and the culmination of a long and arduous process to collect all extant writings or public utterances that came within the scope defined by the editors and editorial advisers. For all intents and purposes, this was the definitive edition and would only be expanded by the inclusion of letters or other documents that might come to light in the years after the initial publication. The work was created almost entirely from original manuscripts and to this day remains the most fundamental and important work in any collecting of, or interest in Lincoln’s work and writing. $425.

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A Pulitzer Prize Winner and Literary Masterpiece Abraham Lincoln by Carl Sandburg A Fine Copy of All Six Volumes of the Work 97 [Lincoln, Abraham] Sandburg, Carl. ABRAHAM LINCOLN: THE PRAIRIE YEARS and THE WAR YEARS (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company , ) 6 volumes. Early editions of both works, THE PRAIRIE YEARS and in matching format, THE WAR YEARS. With 426 half-tones of photographs, and 244 cuts of cartoons, letters and documents, and with over 100 maps, additional photographs, and facsimiles.. Large 8vo, publisher’s original full blue cloth with Lincoln’s signature embossed in blind on upper covers, and with gilt lettered spines. xvi, 480; vi, 482 including index; xxxi, 660; xi, 655; xiii, 673; xii, 515 + index pp. A very handsome set, the cloth fresh and bright, internally with some neat underlining and scholarly notes in pencil in the “War Years” volumes, otherwise quite fresh.

AN IMPORTANT AND FINE HISTORICAL WORK. A CLASSIC. Carl Sandburg was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for his Complete Poems (1950), and then again for his Abraham Lincoln: The War Years (1939). THE PRAIRIE YEARS covers Lincoln’s life from his birth to his first inauguration.

Originally printed in two volumes, the author himself has this to say about this edition, “I first planned this book for one large volume. When completed, however, it was necessary for initial publication to issue it in two... It is [here] made available to a large part of the public I had in mind all the time.”

The War Years covers the Civil War period until Lincoln’s death by assassination shortly after war’s end.

In a real sense, this is the definitive biography of Lincoln, illustrated with photographs and reproductions of paintings, drawings and sketches. Carl Sandburg felt a close tie to Abraham Lincoln because of similar childhood experiences. Life in their youth, for both Sandburg and Lincoln, had not been easy. Their understanding of the common man was mutual. Each in his own lifetime would think of himself as a common man, a struggler, and from among ordinary people. Sandburg put it this way: “There’s a certain level of human existence below which one must sometime have lived if one is to really know the ways of the masses.”

Reviewers from all over the world called Sandburg’s book a classic. Sandburg, with a reputation as a labor advocate, gained favor with Republicans.

After the first two volumes were published, William Randolph Hearst offered Sandburg a job with substantial pay and the Republican Party invited him to be the main speaker at the Lincoln Dinner. When Sandburg died in 1967, it was said of him what he had once said of Lincoln: “Now he belongs to the ages.”..Franchere Franchere, Carl Sandburg: Voice of the Peoples; Golden, Carl Sandburg; Hacker, Carl Sandburg; Zehnpfennig, Carl Sandburg: Poet and Patriot $295.

A Very Fine Set Signed and Inscribed by the Author A Pulitzer Prize Winner and Literary Masterpiece Abraham Lincoln: The War Years by Carl Sandburg 98 [Lincoln, Abraham]; Sandburg, Carl. ABRAHAM LINCOLN: THE WAR YEARS (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company , 1939) 4 volumes. First edition, and the first printing other then the limited issue of only 525 copies. VOLUME ONE INSCRIBED AND SIGNED

BY THE AUTHOR, CARL SANDBURG. With 426 halftones of photographs, and 244 cuts of cartoons, letters and documents. Large, thick 8vos, publisher’s original full blue buckram with Lincoln’s signature embossed in blind on upper covers, and with gilt lettered and ruled spines. In the original publisher’s box. xxxi, 660; xi, 655; xiii, 673; xii, 515 + index pp. An unusually well preserved and handsome set, as pristine. The set is exceptionally fine, bright and clean, even the box shows only minimal evidence of age.

SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR, AND ONE OF THE GREAT HISTORICAL WORKS CONCERNING ABRAHAM LINCOLN, AND WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE. Carl Sandburg was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for his Complete Poems (1950), and then again for his Abraham Lincoln: The War Years (1939).

In a real sense, this is the definitive biography of Lincoln, illustrated with photographs and reproductions of paintings, drawings and sketches. Carl Sandburg felt a close tie to Abraham Lincoln because of similar childhood experiences. Sandburg’s and Lincoln’s youths had not been easy. Their understanding of the common man was mutual. Each in his own lifetime would think of himself as a common man, a struggler from among ordinary people, according to one historian.

Sandburg put it this way: “There’s a certain level of human existence below which one must sometime have lived if one is to really know the ways of the masses.”

Reviewers from all over the world called Sandburg’s book a classic. Sandburg, with a reputation as a labor advocate, gained favor with Republicans.

After the first two volumes were published, William Randolph Hearst offered Sandburg a job with substantial pay and the Republican Party invited him to be the main speaker at the Lincoln Dinner. When Sandburg died in 1967, it was said of him what he had once said of Lincoln: “Now he belongs to the ages.”..Franchere $1450.

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The Great First Edition in English - The First History of Rome The Best Translation Available of Livy’s History Philemon Holland’s Great Achievement - 1600 99 [Livy ] T. Livius, of Padua. THE ROMANE HISTORIE Written by T. Livius of Padua. Also, the Breviaries of L. Florus: with a Chronologie to the whole Historie: and the topograpahie of Rome in old time. Translated out of Latine into English by Philemon Holland, Doctor in Physicke. (London: Adam Islip, 1600) First Edition in English. Engraved decorations at head of each chapter, decorated frontispiece, two portraits: Queen Elizabeth and Titus Livius. Folio, handsomely bound in contemporary full calf, sometime rebacked to correct period style. (x), 1404, (16) index pp. An exceptional survival of this highly important translation, very rarely encountered in present times. The paper is quite crisp and clean throughout though with evidence of a water stain from long ago, the binding expertly restored.

This is the RARE FIRST ENGLISH translation of the great historian’s work on Roman history, originally written circa 20 B.C. “(T)he only English translation of any merit is by Philemon Holland (1600).” Livy’s account is of interest because unlike others at the time [Virgil, Horace], he did not predict an upward, linear progression of Rome. Livy divided the history into decades and his further division of subjects into 142 libri or volumina is thought to be his own idea. Livy’s goal in writing a history was to write the first history of the Roman people. For the people themselves, he believed something could be learned; “they are invited to note especially the moral lessons taught by the story of Rome, to observe how Rome rose to greatness by the simple virtues and unselfish devotion of her citizens, and how on the decay of these qualities followed degeneracy and decline.” His aim is not to develop historiagraphy per se but to write in testimony to Rome’s greatness as well as attempting to ensure that Rome did not bring about its own downfall through corruption and vice. “Livy was deeply penetrated with a sense of the greatness of Rome...But, if this ever-present consciousness often gives dignity and elevation to this narrative, it is also responsible for some of its defects. Thus, it could be said that Livy’s approach is a “didactic view of history.” [EB] $12,500.

Basil Lubbock’s Maritime Classic The Colonial Clippers A Very Fine Copy - Uncommon in Dustjacket 100 Lubbock, Basil. THE COLONIAL CLIPPERS (Glasgow: Brown, Son and Ferguson, 1955) Early reissue, formatted as the first.

Profusely decorated with 85 illustrations and plans, as well as beautiful cartographic endpapers. Large 8vo, publisher’s original blue cloth, handsomely lettered in gilt on the spine and upper cover, in the original pictorially decorated dustjacket. xvi, 384 including the index pp. A very fine copy, uncommon in the dustjacket.

A Scholarly study of these great sailing ships by leading authority Basil Lubbock $125.

First Edition by Basil Lubbock The Nitrate Clippers - Replete with Fine Illustrations 101 Lubbock, Basil. THE NITRATE CLIPPERS (Glasgow: Brown, Son and Ferguson, 1932) First edition. With 48 illustrations throughout.

Large 8vo, publisher’s original blue cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine and upper cover. xii, 159 pp. A bright and clean copy.

FIRST EDITION IN THE ORIGINAL CLOTH. Replete with rare photographs and a profusion of other illustrations. $165.

Job Ludolf - The History of Ethiopia - 1684 “The Most Illustrious Name in Ethiopic Scholarship”.

102 Ludolphus [Ludolf], Job. A NEW HISTORY OF ETHIOPIA. Being A Full and Accurate Description Of The Kingdom of Abessinia.

Vulgarly, though Erroneously, called the Empire of Prester John. In Four books. Wherein are Contained I. An Account of the Nature, Quality and Condition of the Country, and Inhabitants; ... II. Their Political Government; the Genealogy and Succession of Their Kings; a Description of Their Court, ... III. Their Ecclesiastical Affairs; Their Conversion to the Christian Religion, and the Propagation Thereof, Their Sacred Writings, ... IV. Their Private Oeconomy, Their Books and Learning; Their Common Names... Made English By J. P. Gent (London: Printed for Samuel Smith, 1684) Second edition, greatly expanded, with a “new and exact” map of the country, a preface on the usefulness of the text, a life of Gregorius Abba, the author’s opinion on other writers concerning Ethiopia, all translated out of manuscript commentary on this history. With a large folding engraved map, 8 engraved plates, seven of which are folding, and a folding Genealogical Table. Folio, in contemporary full polished calf, sometime expertly and sympathetically restored at the back to style, the spine with tall

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blind ruled raised bands and a single red morocco label lettered and tooled in gilt, the covers with blind rules at borders and at the hinges as typical in these 17th century bindings. [8], [26 preface], 398 pp.. A very handsome and well preserved copy, internally, very fresh, unpressed, clean and solid. The folding map with closed tear at the hinge, with expert antique support to the verso, some leaves at the end with a bit of refurbishment to a small spot in the upper margin due to evidence of worming, the binding handsome and sturdy.

A VERY IMPORTANT AND EARLY HISTORY OF ETHIOPIA, the plates include fascinating and very early images of several exotic plants and animals, including elephants, apes, hippos and the dudaim (mandrake) tree. There is also a vivid and dramatic depiction of the beheading of the Jesuit Mission

by Basilides of Abyssinia in 1648. This work was one of the most comprehensive European studies on Ethiopia and Abyssinia until James Bruce, but would also continue to be of considerable academic value even long thereafter.

Edward Ullendorff, perhaps the most prominent living Ethiopian and Semitic languages expert, calls Job Ludolf, “the most illustrious name in Ethiopic scholarship”. After studying philology at the Erfurt academy and at Leiden, Ludolf (1624-1704) traveled in order to increase his linguistic knowledge. While searching in Rome for some documents at the request of the Swedish Court, he became acquainted with one Gregorius, a monk from the Ethiopian province of Amhara, and acquired from him an intimate knowledge of the Ethiopian language. In 1683 he visited England to promote a cherished scheme for establishing trade with Ethiopia, but his efforts were unsuccessful, chiefly through the resistance of the authorities of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. Returning to Frankfort in 1684, he gave himself wholly to literary work, which he continued almost to his death.

This monumental History of Ethiopia, and the extensive commentaries added to this English edition printed just shortly after Ludolf’s visit to England, can still be read, according to Ullendorff, “with profit as well as enjoyment” and is also, according to William T. Lowndes, “a work full of recondite and important information on the origin of the Abyssinians, the climate, soil, productions, etc.” $2250.

Niccolo Machiavelli - The Florentine Histories The First Edition Printed and Translated in America 103 Machiavelli, Niccolo. THE FLORENTINE HISTORIES, Translated From the Italian Edition, Prepared in 1843, by G.B. Niccolini, of Florence, By C. Edwards Lester... (New York: Paine and Burgess, 1845) Two volumes bound as one. Scarce First American Edition, First Edition of the Translation, and the First 19th century Translation into English. With an engraved vignette portrait of Machiavelli on each title-page. 8vo, contemporary three-quarter black morocco over marbled boards, the spine gilt ruled and lettered. xiii, 224; 227 pp. A handsome and quite nice copy. Internally, fine and fresh, clean and solid and neat, especially so for an American book of the period.

The antique binding is solid and in full period state with no restoration, some minimal expected edge-rubbing. The volume is complete, retaining both title-pages and has the called for half-title to Vol. II. SURPRISINGLY SCARCE, and an important edition in the printing history of Machiavelli. This was the first edition published in America, although certain writings of Machiavelli were certainly not uncommon to find on 18th century American bookshelves. But, all of those editions had been printed in England and were based on 17th century English translations, and most of these were not unaffected by the politically chaotic age of their production . For this translation, Mr. Edwards went back to Italian sources. As part of the introduction, a letter is included that was penned to the author from Jared Sparks, one of the great early American historians. Additionally, there is the Dedication which is addressed to Sparks.

THE HISTORY OF FLORENCE was Machiavelli’s last work. Though written at the command of the Pope, who, as the head of the Medici family, was also ruler of Florence, the book treats the characters of that illustrious house with fairness and impartiality. And although it is primarily an historical work, Machiavelli was writing from a political perspective and “this gives the work its special character.” [E.B.] The history is not a straight account of historical facts but rather a critique of the way Florentine history had been told up until that time. This is the “first example in Italian literature of a national biography, the first attempt in any literature to trace the vicissitudes of a people ‘s life in their logical sequence, deducing each successive phase from passions or necessities inherent in preceding circumstances, reasoning upon them from general principles and inferring corollaries from the conduct of the future.” [E.B.] The history contains speeches related in the classical style but generally, Machiavelli’s style breaks away from the formal exercise of the times and reveals concise, direct and energetic prose. The work is significant in the history of political, diplomatic, philosophical and intellectual thought.

Machiavelli intended to continue the work beyond Lorenzo de Medici, but his death left the task to Guicciardini. $450.

The Rare First Edition of the First English Translation Machiavelli’s Works - Including ‘The Prince’ and ‘Art of War’ Published in London in 1675 - Folio - Contemporary Calf 104 Machiavelli, Niccolo. THE WORKS OF THE FAMOUS NICOLAS MACHIAVEL, Citizen and Secretary of Florence. Written Originally in Italian, and from thence newly and faithfully Translated into English [by Henry Nevile] (London: Printed for J. Starkey, 1675) The First Edition and first issuance of the First English translation of the Collected Works. A copy with very fine provenance, having belonged to James Wadsworth the great American pioneer, visionary, educator, planner and colonist. Folio [12-1/2” x 8”], bound in full contemporary calf, the spine decorated in gilt and with raised bands separating the compartments, red morocco lettering label gilt. A handsome copy,

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tight and clean. Binding with minor expected wear to the corners and edges, but without restoration or repair or sophistication. Rare thus.

RARE FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF THE COMPLETE WORKS.. This first English translation of the author’s complete works includes the Florentine History, The Prince, the Discourses on the First Decade of Livy, and the Art of War, as well as a number of other pieces, and includes Machiavelli’s Letter in defense of his writings.

Between 1498 and 1512 Machiavelli served in the Chancery of the Florentine Republic and was engaged in public duties and diplomatic missions all over Italy and as far away as France and Germany. In 1502 he made a visit to Cesare Borgia, who was then attempting to strengthen his army by removing its disaffected captains. Machiavelli developed an admiration for the methods of the prince, who was both bold and prudent, cruel, self-reliant, and distrustful of others. When the Soderini government, whom Machiavelli, served, fell and Machiavelli fell into disgrace, he found plenty of time in which to organize his thoughts on the subject and compose his greatest work, THE PRINCE. THE PRINCE exerted a far reaching influence across disciplines and across nations. A manuscript copy found its way to England with Henry VIII’s agent Thomas Cromwell and its influence was great. The works of Shakespeare and Marlowe abound with references to the author.

But the first printing and translation in English was not until 1640 when the episcopal censorship broke down” (100 Banned Books, 128). By 1643, censorship in England was again fully in force (the protest of which was the subject of Milton’s AREOPAGITICA) and it would be over twenty years before the next issuance of THE PRINCE in English. Cromwell “adapted its principles to the government.” (Books that Changed the World, 26) Napoleon annotated a copy, Louis XIV, Henry III and Henry IV of France all read and used he work. “(Thus,) THE PRINCE is far more than a book of directions to any one of the many Italian princelings. Machiavelli had profited by his journeys to France and Germany to make the most able analyses (in his reports to his government) of a national government, and he now wrote for the guidance of the ruler by whom alone Italy, desperately divided, could be restored to political health. Hitherto political speculation had tended to be a rhetorical exercise based on the implicit assumption of Church or Empire. Machiavelli founded the science of modern politics on the study of mankind.... Politics was a science to be divorced entirely from ethics, and nothing must stand in the way of its machinery... His concept of the qualities demanded from a ruler and the absolute need of a national militia came to fruition in the monarchies of the seventeenth century and their national armies” (PMM 63).

Machiavelli founded the science of modern politics on the study of mankind....Politics was a science to be divorced entirely from ethics, and nothing must stand in the way of its machinery...His concept of the qualities demanded from a ruler and the absolute need of a national militia came to fruition in the monarchies of the seventeenth century and their national armies” (PMM 63).

This copy, with fine provenance, belonged to James Wadsworth, a man who cherished education and learning throughout his life. In the spring of 1789 James and his brother William Wadsworth were summoned to Hartford, Connecticut to the home of their father’s prominent and wealthy second cousin Colonel Jeremiah Wadsworth of Revolutionary War and Continental Congress fame. He was one of the richest men in Connecticut at the time.

Colonel Wadsworth was interested in investing in and financially backing the efforts of Oliver Phelps and Nathaniel Gorham, who in the previous year purchased more than 2,250,000 acres (9,100 km2) of land from the Iroquois Six Nations in Western New York State, and was known as the Phelps and Gorham Purchase. Jeremiah adjudged James as having “ambition,” “clear mind,” and a “tenacious will,” and so wanted James and William to be Land Agents on his behalf and to personally move to this virgin territory to survey and improve the land while promoting it’s settlement as well as manage his 200,000-acre (810 km2) investment. In return James and William were offered 2,000 acres (8.1 km2) at his cost ($0.08 cents per acre) and reduced price for any further purchases, as well as a fee for the sale of Jeremiah’s land. In May 1790, the 22 year old James, his brother William, an AfricanAmerican woman named Jenny, a relative named Gad Wadsworth, who was in charge of the chattel, and several “axe men” headed west to the Genesee Valley. After several difficult weeks of travel by rivers, streams and over land by Indian trails, they arrived on the banks of the Genesee River at a place the Seneca nation called Big Tree on June 9, 1790. They claimed the land and built a log cabin in a meadow near the east bank of the Genesee River about half a mile west of the present site of “The Homestead” at Geneseo, New York. Beyond the settlements near Fort Niagara, they were the first Europeans to establish a permanent settlement East of Seneca Lake.

The contrasting and complementary character of the two Wadsworth brothers is described in contemporary sources. Both men had an innate sense of honor and integrity, even to a fault as James was involved in two separate duels. James Wadsworth was a Yale graduate and a theorist, planner, colonist and lover of books. The brothers had a successful arrangement between them. James was the more scholarly of the two, and had a shrewd mind for business and a talented negotiator, while William was a rugged hands-on type with a natural pension for husbandry, agriculture and public duty.

A highly successful team, James and William Wadsworth had an immediate impact on the small but rapidly growing settlement at Geneseo and were soon elected to the top local positions (William Wadsworth was Town supervisor for 21 years) and built around them an agricultural community based on enlightened principles of soil conservation, selective stock breeding, scientific agricultural methods, aesthetic preservation and public education. [edit] James was heavily involved in starting a primary school in Geneseo and sought a young man to serve as the school master, the greater part of whose wages would be paid by himself. He was actively interested in the promotion of teacher training. In January 1829, he wrote former clerk, Philo Fuller, a State Assemblyman, to urge the passage of legislation to establish county high schools with well-educated teachers. James wrote to him: “To improve the common schools in this state, the employment of more able instructors is indispensable.” He lobbied the State’s superintendents of public instruction. In 1830, James was selected to represent Livingston County at a New York State Corresponding Committee at Utica, New York. He pressed two issues in particular: “Are Common Schools Worth the Money Paid?” And “Whether to Establish an Institute to Train Teachers...In 1838, New York Governor George W. Patterson writes, “In regard to the origin of the School District Library System of this state, I will say to you, that the whole credit belongs to the Honorable James Wadsworth, of Geneseo…” Patterson insisted that he had just performed his “duty” to obtain a bill permanently earmarking

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funds for school libraries, over what he considered violent objections. Rather, “the credit of all that has been done belongs to the praise-worthy efforts of Mr. Wadsworth.” James Wadsworth wanted a library “open and free for the gratuitous use as well of the inhabitants of the County of Livingston.”

He wanted a new public library to be located in Geneseo. He privately funded the Geneseo Atheneum in 1842, which opened with books, scientific equipment and mineral specimens, which were to be available to all. He opened this library to promote “the moral and intellectual instruction of the young and the diffusion of science and literature.” James’s own books and specimens became the basis for it. This library/museum was later aptly renamed Wadsworth Library. $16,500.

Nicolo Machiavelli - The Arte of Warre - London - 1588 Bound with Certain Waies for the Ordering of Soldiours With the Work by Novarese on The Ranking of Armed Men Very Early English Issues of Three Core Texts of Warfare 105 Machiavelli, Nicholas; Whitehorne, Peter; Novarese, Girolamo Cataneo. THE ARTE OF WARRE, WRITTEN FIRST IN ITALIAN BY NICHOLAS MACHIAVELL, AND SET FORTHE IN ENGLISHE BY PETER WHITEHORNE, STUDIENT AT GRAIES INNE: WITH AN ADDICION OF OTHER LIKE MARCIALLE FEATES AND EXPERIMENTES, as in the ende of the booke maie appere. [With,] CERTAIN WAIES For the Ordering of Souldiours in Battleray, and Setting of Tattailes, after divers fashions with their manner of marching.... [With,] MOST BRIEFE TABLES To Know Redily How Manie Ranckes of Footemen armed with Corlettes, as unarmed, go to the making of a iust battaile, from an hundred unto twentie thousand... (London: by Thomas East: for Iohn Wight, 1588 ) 3 volumes bound in one. Third printing in English of the first two works. The third work not generally included with the two prior texts and this, most likely a third issue as well. Provenance: Early ownership signature of “Lewis Morris, His Booke” written by hand on the cover; “The Gift of Wm. Jones to me Lew...” on the Proheme leaf and again “Lewis Morris...” on the first leaf of the first book of the ARTE OF WARRE. Woodcut tail-pieces and elaborate woodcut initials and capitals decorated in the backgrounds, seven engraved woodcut double-page designs for the Machiavelli showing battle plans and arrangements of soldiers; a profusion of plates and figures throughout the second work showing arrangements of soldiers on the field of battle, fine woodcut decorations, capitals and initial letters decorated in the backgrounds, engraved plates of fortifications, plans for artillery, mines and fireworks and engraved tail-pieces and printer’s decorations; the third work with a series of tables and plans for the ordering of battle and the ordering of soldiers. Profusely decorated with woodcuts throughout the three important and seminal works.

4to, earlier vellum taken from a larger sheet used much earlier than the date of publication and most probably for the purpose of recording transactions, original deerskin ties. 109 ff. (= 218 pp.), [23 pp. figures, illustrations, designs and tables] pp.; [50 ff.] (= 101 pp. including plates,illustrations, designs, tables); [30 ff.] (= 61 pp. including designs, illustrations and tables). A well used and rather worn copy of this very rare book, but an extraordinary survival of a work almost never encountered at auction or in the marketplace. The Machiavelli misses its title-page but is otherwise complete as called for beginning with the Proheme, the other two works have both of their title pages and are complete as called for. Probably, two blanks are missing, one at the front and one at the rear of the volume. Edges are tattered on a number of the leaves at the front and the rear of the volume and there is some folding and creasing of many of the leaves. But this is an honest and absolutely contemporary copy of one of the most elusive works and earliest translation of any work of Machiavelli into English. It precedes the translation and publication of THE PRINCE by approximately 80 years. The two accompanying works are two of the earliest works in English or translations into English of works on war and battle and are replete with rare illustrations and plans for battle and warfare.

VERY RARE AND ONE OF THE MOST ELUSIVE WORKS OF MACHIAVELLI TO OBTAIN IN ENGLISH. STC considers the Certain waies for the ordeyng of souldiers to be the second part of The art of warre; Bertelli-Innocenti, however, only mentions that these two works are found bound together in the British Library copy. The editions in Italian are generally found only with the Arte of Warre and are 109 folio leaves as here. It is thus probable that the second work is in fact a second text which is included with the Machiavelli and is, as Betelli-Innocenti states, merely bound with the first work as a matter of course in the English editions of Machiavelli.

This is an exceedingly early copy of Machiavelli’s masterpiece on warfare and fortification. THE ART OF WAR was completed in 1520, after many years of work while Machiavelli was writing his DISCOURSES AND THE PRINCE. Machiavelli spent much of his life working as a military observer and advisor for several different masters. Any 16th Century editions of THE ART OF WAR are considered highly desirable and remain especially elusive.

Bertelli-Innocenti, pp. 47-48 no. 131;STC 17164 Bertelli-Innocenti, pp. 47-48 no. 131; STC 17164 $5500.

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Alfred T. Mahan - First Edition - International Relations Retrospect & Prospect - 1902 - Original Cloth Gilt 106 Mahan, A.T.. RETROSPECT & PROSPECT Studies in International Relations Naval and Political (Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1902) First Edition. Illustrated with a multi-folding map. 8vo, bound as issued in publisher’s navy blue cloth, the spine with lettering in gilt. x, 309 pp. A bright and handsome copy, well preserved and in collector’s condition.

SCARCE FIRST EDITION AND ANOTHER IMPORTANT WORK IN THE AUTHOR’S OEUVRE. Mahan presents his thoughts in a series of papers included here. As he notes: “In their main features, the essays are in direct sequence to those of the author’s previous volumes, “The Interest of America in Sea Power,” and “The Problem of Asia.” The title article, “Retrospect and Prospect”, in its scope serves as the connecting link between the present and their predecessors; indicating the continuity of interest and gradual development of the several subjects dealt with. As the future has passed into the present, it has brought with it the unfolding of inevitable policy, evolving fresh problems, that are in essence only new phases of a steady progression, which in its course is making history.”

Essays here included among others are “Conditions Determining the Naval Expansion of the United States”, “The Influence of the South African War upon the Prestige of the British Empire”, “Considerations Governing the Disposition of Navies”, “The Persion Gulf and International Relations” and “The Military Rule of Obedience”.

A scarce book, provided here in very pleasing condition. $195.

Alfred T. Mahan - First Edition - Naval History Types of Naval Officers - 1902 - Original Blue Cloth 107 Mahan, A.T.. TYPES OF NAVAL OFFICERS Drawn from the History of the British Navy. With Some Account of the Conditions of Naval Warfare at the beginning of the Eighteenth Century, and of its Subsequent Development during the Sail Period (London: Sampson Low, Marston and Company, 1902) First Edition. With provenance, this being the copy of William Wilton Phipps. Illustrated with a plan and a number of fine photogravure plates. 8vo, publisher’s original blue cloth, lettered in gilt on the upper cover and spine. xiv, 500 pp. A very bright and handsome copy, internally fine, the cloth still very bright with fine gilt preservation and with only some very minimal evidence of age, hinges very firm and tight, a very pleasing copy overall.

SCARCE FIRST EDITION. Mahan writes of the ‘distinguished seamen whose lives and professional characteristcs belonged to a service foreign to that of the United States, though these actors had numerous and varied points of contact with America; most of them very close, and in some instances of marked historical interest. Some were, during much of their careers fellow countrymen during the colonial period and fought side by side with America’s own people in the new world. Others acted in distant scenes of the widespread strife that characterized the middle of the eighteenth century, the beginnings of “world politics.” All, without exception, were actors in the prolonged conflict that began in 1739 concerning the right of the ships of Great Britain and her colonies to frequent the seas bordering the American dominions of Spain; a conflict which, by gradual expansion, drew in the continent of Europe, from Russia to France, spread thence to the French possissions in India and North America, involved Spanish Havana in the western hemisphere and Manila in the eastern, and finally entailed the expulsion of France from our continent. Thence, by inevitable sequence, issued the independence of the United States. The contest, thus completed, covered forty-three years.’

Subjects include Hawke, the spirit of Naval Warfare during the eighteenth century; Rodney, as representative of the form in which the progress of naval warfare continued during the century; Howe, the general officer and tactician; Jervice, the general officer as disciplinarian and strategist; Saumarez, the fleet officer and division commander and Pellew, the frigate captain and partisan officer.

William Wilton Phipps was the second son of Charles Paul Phipps (1815-1880, MP for Westbury 1869-1874) and Emma Mary Benson (18111882), of Chalcot, Westbury, Wiltshire. Charles Paul Phipps was a younger son of Thomas Henry Hele Phipps (1777-1841) and Mary Michael Joseph Leckonby (1777-1835), of Leighton House, Westbury, Wiltshire. The Phippses have been in or around Westbury since the 16th century. (See Burke’s Landed Gentry.) William Wilton was for some time the partner of his elder brother, Charles Nicholas Paul Phipps, in a family firm that shipped coffee from Brazil to Liverpool. The trading house in Rio de Janeiro was named Phipps Brothers & Co. $245.

A Highly Important Work by Mahan on Naval Operations Major Operations of the Navies in the War of Independence First Edition - London - 1913 108 Mahan, A[lfred] T[hayer]. THE MAJOR OPERATIONS OF THE NAVIES IN THE WAR OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE (London: Sampson Low, Marston and Company, 1913) First edition. With portraits, maps (one folding), and battle plans. 8vo, original blue cloth gilt lettered on spine, t.e.g. xxiii, 280. A handsome and bright copy of this very elusive title in the Mahan oeuvre.

FIRST EDITION AND A FINE AND BRIGHT COPY. Mahan, a captain in the U.S. Navy, was a leading historian of naval matters. This is perhaps his scarcest work. $295.

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A.T. Mahan - Lessons of the War with Spain - 1899 First Edition - A Classic Work on Sea Power and it’s Uses 109 Mahan, Alfred T. LESSONS OF THE WAR WITH SPAIN And Other Articles (Boston: Little, Brown, 1899) First edition. With two folding maps. 8vo, handsomely bound in the publisher’s original navy-blue cloth, the spine lettered in gilt and the upper cover gilt decorated with design of a ship under steam power. xvi, 320 pp. A very bright and handsome copy, very beautifully preserved.

SCARCE FIRST EDITION BEAUTIFULLY PRESERVED. Mahan’s long article on the Spanish War, along with papers on the treaty with Spain, the military aspects of naval ships, and other topics. $245.

“Damn the Torpedoes” A.T. Mahan - The Life and Career of Admiral Farragut Rare Large Paper Copy of the First Edition 110 Mahan, Captain A.T. ADMIRAL FARRAGUT (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1892) First edition. Rare Large Paper Copy.

With portrait frontispiece and 6 maps and charts, one of which is folding. Royal 8vo, publisher’s original polished cloth over tan polished buckram, the spine with lettering label printed in brick-red and black. [8], 333 pp. A fine, bright and handsome copy with just a hint of age evidence.

VERY SCARCE LARGE PAPER COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION OF THIS MONUMENTAL WORK. David Glasgow Farragut was quite probably the most illustrious officer in the history of the United States Navy. He, like Nelson of the British nation, was a personification of the highest development of naval power in the world. This work treats his entire life from childhood to his famed exploits on the U.S.S. Essex and the brilliant campaigns of the American Civil War. Like John Paul Jones in the 18th century and Chester Nimitz in the 20th, he represented the U.S. Navy of the 19th Century in the finest manner.

Capt. Mahan was the leading naval historian of his time as well as being a distinguished officer and President of the United States Naval War College. His other outstanding works include THE LIFE OF NELSON, THE EMBODIMENT OF THE SEA POWER OF GREAT BRITAIN; THE INFLUENCE OF SEA POWER UPON HISTORY 1660-1783; THE INFLUENCE OF SEA POWER UPON THE FRENCH REVOLUTION AND EMPIRE 1793-1812; THE INTEREST OF AMERICA IN SEA POWER, PRESENT AND FUTURE; SEA POWER IN ITS RELATION TO THE WAR OF 1812 and a number of other important works. DNB; WBD; BMC. $550.

The Greatest Naval Hero of an Extraordinary Empire A.T. Mahan’s Life of Nelson - First Edition - 1897 111 Mahan, Captain A.T. THE LIFE OF NELSON, THE EMBODIMENT OF THE SEA POWER OF GREAT BRITAIN (London: Sampson Low, Marston and Co, 1897) 2 volumes. First edition, and a copy with fine provenance. With 19 portraits and illustrations and 21 maps and plans.

Thick 8vo, publisher’s original navy blue cloth gilt lettered on spine, decorated in gilt on upper cover, t.e.g. xxiii, 454; xvi, 427 pp., 3 ads. A very handsome, very bright and clean set with no sign of fading and with the gilt still sparkling. Only light evidence of use or age.

IMPORTANT FIRST EDITION. Perhaps the finest, most accurate, and detailed biography of Lord Admiral Nelson ever published. Nelson, of course, is known for his illustrious naval career which culminated at the battle of Trafalgar, where under his command the English decimated the Napoleonic fleet and prevented them from reaching the Continent. Mahan, a captain in the United States Navy, was one of the greatest naval historians of the 19th and early 20th centuries and serves the life of Nelson well in this finely crafted narrative.

This is the George Skelton Streeter Copy. The Streeter family was highly important in the gem and minerals industry during the 19th and early 20th centuries. They established the first important ruby mines and concessions in Upper Burma after the English settled themselves into the area. Streeter accompanied the first military expedition to the ruby mines, and visited the district twice, supplying on occasion to the Journal of the Society of Arts, graphic and detailed accounts of the mining district and the system on which the mines were worked by there Burmese owners. $750.

A Classic Work of Captain A.T. Mahan - First Edition Sea Power in Its Relation to the War of 1812 112 Mahan, Captain A.T. SEA POWER IN ITS RELATION TO THE WAR OF 1812 (London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company, Limited, 1905) 2 volumes. First edition. Beautifully decorated with many illustrations, maps and battle diagrams. Large 8vo, publisher’s original ribbed navy-blue cloth lettered in gilt on the spines, t.e.g. ix, 423; 437, index pp. A very fine and very bright set, beautifully preserved.

FIRST EDITIONS IN REMARKABLY FINE CONDITION. In this work, as well as through its predecessor entitled THE INFLUENCE OF SEA POWER UPON HISTORY, 1660-1783, Mahan demonstrates the considerable ties between naval warfare and the history of the modern world. He

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was one of the first historians ever to seriously examine this correlation. This treatise had a lasting influence upon American military thought, helping to convince our leaders that a strong navy was a necessity (as it subsequently proved to be, in two world wars). $650.

Professor Albert Malet’s Histoire De France Over 1000 Illustrations and Maps Including Impressive Tipped in Colour Plates 113 Malet, Albert. NOUVELLE HISTOIRE DE FRANCE. L’Antiquite, Le Moyen Age, Les Temps Modernes, La Revolution, L’ Empire, La France Contemporaine, La Grande Guerre (Paris: Librairie Hachette, [1922]) First Edition. With over 960 illustrations, including 11 beautiful full colourplates and with 50 maps. Thick 4to, bound from original parts in the publisher’s best binding of green boards lettered and decorated on the upper cover in gilt and with blind embossed botanical decoration on both covers, backed in brown morocco similarly decorated in blind and with raised lettering within gilt. 543pp. A bright, clean and handsome copy, the plates all fine, the binding with only very minor evidence of age.

AN EXTENSIVELY AND WELL RESEARCHED HISTORY OF FRANCE, FROM THE CAVE PAINTINGS OF LASCAUX TO THE END OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR. Originally issued in parts this copy is in the publisher’s best advertised binding state. $225.

Thomas Malthus - PMM The First French Translation, 1809 The Essay on the Principle of Population 114 Malthus, T[homas] R[obert]. ESSAI SUR LE PRINCIPE DE POPULATION, Ou Expose Des Effets Passes et Presens de L’Action de Cette Cause Sur le Bonheur du Genre Humain; Suivi de Quelques Recherches Relatives a L’esperance de Guerir ou D’adoucir les Maux Qu’elle Entraine (Paris and Geneva: Chez J.J. Paschoud, 1809) 3 volumes. First edition in French. 8vo, contemporary half calf and speckled boards, spines with gilt ruled bands, red morocco title label and green morocco volume label, lettered in gilt. xxiii, 424, [3], ad; 395, [3]; 392. A very fine and handsome set, clean and sturdy in absolutely period state.

The first French edition of Malthus’ landmark work. The translation from the English is by Pierre Prevost, probably from the third English edition which was corrected and expanded by Malthus. French editions of Malthus are uncommon and this set is in exceptional condition in its original and contemporary state.

Originally written in response to a discussion with the author’s father on the perfectibility of society, the book was reprinted several times with many alterations and additions as Malthus defended his views against a host of critics.

“The central idea of the essay--and the hub of Malthusian theory--was a simple one. The population of a community, Malthus suggested, increases geometrically, while food supplies increase only arithmetically. If the natural increase in population occurs the food supply becomes insufficient and the size of the population is checked by ‘misery’--that is, the poorest sections of the community suffer disease and famine. Malthus recognized two other possible checks to population expansion: first ‘vice’--that is, homosexuality, prostitution, and abortion (all totally unacceptable to Malthus); and second ‘moral restraint’--the voluntary limitation of the production of children by the postponement of marriage. This was the solution to the population problem that Malthus advocated. The ‘Essay’ was highly influential in the progress of thought in early nineteenth-century Europe” (PMM). Marx, Engels, Paley, Darwin, Wallace, Keynes, and Ricardo were all influenced

by Malthus--either working off his ideas or reacting against them. PMM, Britannica, Brunet. $6500.

Cartography of America in Renaissance Italy With Handwritten Notes by Samuel Eliot Morison 115 [Map Making], [Morison, Samuel Eliot] , Massachusetts Historical Society. BAPTISTA AGNESE AND AMERICAN CARTOGRAPHY IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY, from the Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society (Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 1897) FROM THE PERSONAL LIBRARY OF SAMUEL ELIOT MORISON, with his notes. 8vo , journal extract, bound with metal clips, plain paper cover calligraphed “Agnese/Atlasses/Winsor” in Morison’s hand. 372-386. Some expected edgewear; minor tears throughout, some repaired with tape.

A transcription of an address on the work of Baptista Agnese, the sixteenth century’s most prolific cartographer and atlas-maker. “He is generally thought to have expended more care upon the appearance of his maps than upon securing correspondence in them to the latest views. These divergences are of course most apparent in the American parts of his atlases, as it was a period necessarily of constant change in the geographical conceptions of the New World.” [p. 372] This copy includes copious notes in Morison’s hand. $150.

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The Art of Renaissance Mapmaking Three Articles with Samuel Eliot Morison’s Notes 116 [Map-Making], [Morison, Samuel Eliot], Llabres, Gabriel et al. RESENA DE ALGUNAS CARTAS DE MAREAR; BIBLIOGRAFIA; LAS AZORES Y LA CARTA DE VALLSECA DE 1439 from Boletin de la Sociedad Arqueologica Luliana (Palma: Sociedad Arqueologica Luliana, 1894) FROM THE PERSONAL LIBRARY OF SAMUEL ELIOT MORISON, with his notes. Decorative masthead. 4vo, journal extract with original wrap. 189-196, 22-24, 49-54. Well preserved but with some expected chipping and minor tears to the edges.

WITH THE NOTES AND EMENDATIONS OF SAMUEL ELIOT MORISON. Three articles relating to cartography in the 14th and 15th centuries, specifically the work of Gabriel de Valseca, extracted from a Spanish archaeological journal. $175.

Maspero’s Great Work - History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria etc Thirteen Volumes Complete - Profusely Illustrated 117 Maspero, Gaston. HISTORY OF EGYPT, CHALDEA, SYRIA, BABYLONIA, AND ASSYRIA. Edited by A. H. Sayce, Translated by M. L. McClure. (London: The Grolier Society, 1903-1906) 13 Volumes. Early issue. With hand-colored heliotype frontispieces, and a vast profusion of plates throughout. Large 8vo, publisher’s original red cloth with a paper lettering labels on the spines. xi,357, pp. A very well preserved and pleasing set with only mild age evidence and mellowing to the spines as is typical..

A HIGHLY IMPORTANT WORK. The first nine volumes are a translation of Maspero’s original work; volumes ten, eleven, and twelve by Rappaport bring the work to the end of the nineteenth century with discussions of explorers like Stanley, Schweinfurth, etc; the last volume brings the work into the present century.

Maspero secured his reputation as an Egyptologist by translating, at the age of twenty-one, two recently discovered hieroglyphic manuscripts “of considerable difficulty” given to him by Mariette. It took him less than a fortnight to produce the translation, a great feat in the days when Egyptology was still in its infancy. This history of Egypt is a monumental achievement, still considered a valuable record of the region. $795.

The Monumental Spanish History of Louis Mayerne Turquet The Only Edition in English - Edward Grimeston - 1612 The Generall Historie of Spaine - Printed in London 118 Mayerne Turquet, Lewis de [Grimeston, Edward trans.]. THE GENERALL HISTORIE OF SPAINE, Containing All the Memorable Things That Have Past in the Realmes of Castille, Leon, Navarre, Arragon, Portugall, Granado, &C. and By What Meanes They Were United, and So Continue Under Philip the Third, King of Spaine, Now Raigning. Written in French by Lewis de Mayerne Turquet unto the yeare 1583...Translated into English, and Continued unto These Times by Edward Grimeston, Esquire (London: A. Islip and G. Eld, 1612) First Edition in English and the ONLY edition of the only translation into English. With a woodcut architectural titlepage, handsome engraved head and tail pieces and a number of large woodcut initials throughout. Large, thick folio, contemporary full brown calf, spine with raised bands double ruled in blind, one compartment lettered in gilt. With the provenance of Thomas Agnew of Lochman; Baronet, with engraved bookplate. [6], 1380, [27] pp. Sound and sturdy copy of this scarce work, the binding with evidence of some age apparent at the edges and spine, with some old restoration to the head cap, inner joints strengthened, not unexpectedly due to the weight of the massive textblock, front free-fly renewed, title page with some old staining and mounted with some loss at the margins, that on the inner lower corner affecting a bit of the engraved border, otherwise internally fresh, clean and very well preserved.

SCARCE FIRST AND ONLY EDITION IN ENGLISH OF MAYERNE TURQUET’S MONUMENTAL HISTORY OF SPAIN, highly influential to virtually all later Spanish Histories. Louis Mayerne Turquet was a French Protestant historian and the work was first published in Lyons in 1586. It is monumental in both size and scope. Gimeston[e], a noted translator and historian in his own right worked with Eld and Islip on a number of occasions.

For this publication, the only in English, he wrote a continuation of the history from 1583 to 1612 drawn from a number of contemporary sources.

A side note of interest, Mayerne Turquet is credited with coining the term “Political Economy”. $5750.

The Rise of the Spanish Empire - Four Volumes Roger Bigelow Merriman’s Excellent History 119 Merriman, Roger Bigelow. THE RISE OF THE SPANISH EMPIRE In the Old World and In the New (New York: Cooper Square Published, 1962) 4 volumes. First thus, the Cooper Square edition. With maps and fold-out tables throughout. Large 8vo, publisher’s original brick red cloth, the spines labeled in gilt on black. xii, 529; xiv, 387; xxiv, 695; xxi, 780 pp. A very nice set, just the lightest of shelving evidence to the extremities and very light mellowing to the spine panels.

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AN IMPORTANT WORK. This is a handsome set of Merriman’s authoritative and well detailed history of the Spanish Empire. The work begins at the period of the Middle Ages and ends with the death of Philip the Prudent in 1598. There is extensive coverage of the explorers and conquerers in the New World and on the relations with England, conflicts with the English privateers, and Spain’s “Invincible Armada” $125.

Meyrick’s Great Work on Armour - 1824 First Edition - In Rare Contemporary Bindings - Very Fine A Large Copy in It’s Original Period State 120 Meyrick, Samuel Rush. A CRITICAL INQUIRY INTO ANTIENT ARMOUR, as it existed in Europe, but particularly in England, from the Norman Conquest to the reign of King Charles II: With a Glossary of Military Terms of the Middle Ages (London: Robert Jennings, 1824) 3 volumes. First edition. Illustrated with 80 engraved plates, including 71 hand-coloured and with 27 very large illustrated and historiated chapter initials hand-coloured and heightened in gold. Folio, contemporary half crimson morocco over marbled boards, lettered in gilt on the spines between raised bands. 20, lxxvii, 206; 297; 147, glossary. A very handsome and unusually nice set in rare contemporary morocco backed marbled boards, very fresh and clean internally. The bindings are bright, clean and well preserved with very little evidence of age, just a bit of minor shelf or age wear.

RARE FIRST AND BEST EDITION OF THE GREATEST COLOUR PLATE BOOK ON ARMOUR EVER PRODUCED, RARE IN CONTEMPORARY BINDING. Meyrick’s laborious work was practically the first on the subject and remains an authority even today. Meyrick considered armour in general to have important connections with many aspects of society: “With the history of the wars of mankind, obviously, and from the remotest periods, it is connected; with the mythology and sacred rites of almost all nations and religions; with the rise and progress of a large portion of the arts; with questions of jurisprudence and civil polity; and with some of the most favorite amusements of all ranks in antient, as well as modern, times” (preface). Meyrick demonstrates the significance of armor throughout history by including both carefully detailed textual outlines and profuse and stunning illustrations, many hand-colored and edged in gilt or silver.

Meyrick was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 1810 and for some years contributed to the “Archæologia.” In 1826 he was consulted by the authorities at the Tower of London as to the arrangement of the national collection of arms and armor, and in 1828, at the command of George IV, he arranged the collection at Windsor Castle. This is still considered one of his most important works, rarely found in such a well-preserved unsophisticated state. $6250.

One of Only 6 Magnificent Folio Sets Handcoloured Monstrelet’s Classic Work - The Chronicles The Great Johnes Translation Printed 1809 121 Monstrelet, Enguerrand De. THE CHRONICLES OF ENGRUERRAND DE MOSTRELET, Containing an Account of the Cruel Civil Wars Between The Houses of Orleans and Burgundy; of the Possession of Paris and Normandy by the English, Their Expulsion Thence, and of Other Memorable Events That Happened in the Kingdom of France as well as in Other Countries. A History of Fair Example and Great Profit to the French, Beginning in the Year MCCCC. Where That of Sir John Froissart Finishes, and Ending at the Year MCCCLXVII. And Continued by Others to the Year MDXVI. Translated by Thomas Johnes, ESQ. (London: Hafod Press, 1809-1809) 5 volumes. FIRST EDITIONS of Johnes’ translations. LARGE PAPER, FOLIO COPIES, ONE OF ONLY SIX SETS WITH THE PLATES IN TWO STATES, both handcoloured and in sepia. Of the large paper sets issued in only 25 sets total, 19 were issued without the coloured plates. This then is one of the very rare copies with coloured plates and one of only six thus. Extensively illustrated with very fine plates issued in two states, both in sepia and hand-coloured and illuminated, 102 plates total. Large Folio, bound in full dark-green crushed morocco, the spines lettered in gilt between raised bands of the spines. Each volume is housed in a cloth covered open-end slipcase. A very handsome set of this rare work. Some weakness to a few hinges.

VERY RARE LARGE PAPER FIRST EDITION COPIES. ONE OF ONLY SIX COPIES PRINTED. Johnes’s translation was the standard for most of the nineteenth century. “Froissart might be called the great interviewer of the Middle Ages. The newspaper correspondent of modern times has scarcely surpassed this medieval collector of intelligence.

He traveled extensively in the various countries of Europe; he conversed with gentlemen of rank everywhere; and he had the remarkable knack of persuading those about him to divulge all he wanted to know. He learned the details of battles from both sides and from every point of view. He delighted in the minutest affairs of every cavalry skirmish, of the capture of every castle, and of every brave action and gallant deed. He lived from 1337 to about 1410, and wrote chiefly of contemporaneous events. The “Chronicles” are universally considered as the most vivid and faithful picture we have of events in the fourteenth century.... As a picture of the most favorable side of chivalry, the work has no equal” (Adams, Manual of Historical Literature, pp. 334-5). $15,500.

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Figures De L’Histoire De France 167 Very Fine and Detailed Engravings Moreau le Jeune, Monnet and LePiclier - 1785 - Paris 122 Moreau le Jeune [Moreau, the Younger]; French Engraving and Printing. FIGURES DE L’ HISTOIRE DE FRANCE ([Paris]: Renouard, n.d. [1785]) This copy with the engraved bookplate of Percy Hamilton Clark, perhaps the most famous American cricketer of all time, who in 1903 ushered in what has been called the “Golden Age” of cricket in the U.S.A. 167 engraved plates, 154 of which are numbered and 13 unnumbered, by Moreau the Younger, Monnet and Lepicier depicting the history of France and including frameworks for descriptive text of Monsieur l’Abbe’ Garnier. Large 8vo, (29 by 20.5 cm), in handsome antique three-quarter red morocco over marbled boards, the spine ornately gilt lettered and decorated. 167 leaves, printed on one side only. A very pleasing copy, internally very fine and fresh, the binding with some light, expected evidence of age.

A VERY BEAUTIFULLY PRODUCED WORK. This impressive suite of engravings depict the history of France from the inauguration of Pharamond (circa 428) to the year 1314. Moreau had intended to carry on with the engraving work and bring the book up to his own time, but the project was unfortunately never completed. $1450.

Admiral of the Ocean Sea Morison’s Great Work on Columbus 123 Morison, Samuel Eliot. ADMIRAL OF THE OCEAN SEA: A Life of Christopher Columbus (Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1942) First one-volume edition. With numerous illustrations, including maps by Erwin Raisz and drawings by Bertram Greene. 8vo, red buckram, with a blue and gilt heraldic device on top cover, gilt-lettered spine. xx, 680 including index. A nice and solid copy, the spine only lightly mellowed, neat presentation inscription on front free blank.

According to Morison in the preface, “this book arose out of a desire to know exactly where Columbus sailed on his Four Voyages, and what sort of a seaman he was. No previous work on the Discoverer of America answers these questions in a manner to satisfy even an amateur seafarer.” Whether or not one is in accord with the idea that Columbus “discovered” America, this book constitutes a foundation study of the most famous of Renaissance mariners.

This volume is a condensation of the two-volume edition, published in this same year. All the notes have been omitted, and a good many pages of navigational data; a chapter on Ships and Sailing and one on the origin of syphilis have been summarized. Otherwise, as the Preface states, the two would be identical. $145.

Inscribed by the Author to a Harvard Classmate Admiral of the Ocean Sea - 1942 - First Edition Samuel Eliot Morison on Christopher Columbus 124 Morison, Samuel Eliot. ADMIRAL OF THE OCEAN SEA: A Life of Christopher Columbus (Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1942) 2 volumes. First edition. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR, SAMUEL ELIOT MORISON. With numerous illustrations, including maps

by Erwin Raisz, including a large fold-out map, and drawings

by Bertram Greene. 8vo, publisher’s original terracotta polished buckram the spines and upper covers decorated and lettered in gilt on blue with “Compass Rose” motifs xlv, 448; vii, 445. Index.

A very pleasing and handsome set, internally quite fine with no spotting or foxing at all and with extremely little evidence of use or age. The cloth still very handsome and bright, though a touch mellowed by light on the spines.

INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR ON DECORATION (Memorial) DAY IN THE YEAR OF PUBLICATION, 1942. It is inscribed to Basil Gavin, “Squire of Millis [Massachusetts]”. Gavin and Morison were classmates at Harvard and Morison has written “’08” after each of their names. Morison’s signature is followed by “Leut. Commander USNR.” It was inscribed “at ‘Pleasance’ Ponkapoag [also Massachusetts], Decoration Day 1942 ‘Cras ingens iterabimimus aequor.’” Basil Gavin was also a friend and associate of famed Swedish explorer Sven Hedin.

FIRST EDITION OF THIS CORNERSTONE WORK AND A WONDERFUL ASSOCIATION COPY INCORPORATING FRIENDSHIP, A NOTE OF FONDNESS FOR HARVARD UNIVERSITY AND AS WELL, THE U.S. NAVY, ALL IMPORTANT TO MORISON THROUGHOUT HIS LIFE. According to Morison in the preface, “this book arose out of a desire to know exactly where Columbus sailed on his Four Voyages, and what sort of a seaman he was. No previous work on the Discoverer of America answers these questions in a manner to satisfy even an amateur seafarer.”

Whether or not one is in accord with the idea that Columbus “discovered” America, this book constitutes a foundation study of the most famous of Renaissance mariners.

Though the one-volume edition is relatively common, this first edition is becoming more and more difficult to find, a set with such and interesting and personal inscription is extremely desirable. $895.

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Paleolithic Man and Terramara Settlements in Europe The Important Munro Lectures of 1912 - Edinburgh 125 Munro, Robert. PALÆOLITHC MAN AND TERRAMARA SETTLEMENTS IN EUROPE. Being the Munro Lectures in Anthropology and Prehistoric Archæology... Delivered During February and March 1912 (Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1912) First edition. With 75 plates from black and white photographs and 174 figures in the text. Large 8vo, original dark olive/brown cloth, gilt lettered on the spine, t.e.g. Laid in is an interesting 1945 folded guide sheet to the National Museum of Scotland’s “From the Stone Age to the ‘45” exhibition. xxi, 507. A fine copy, very bright and very clean, just a bit of evidence of shelving.

IMPORTANT EUROPEAN PALEONTOLOGY. Contains Munro’s two lecture series; Anthropology, Palaeolithic Man in Europe, With Supplementary Chapter on the Transition Period, and Prehistoric Archaeology, Terremare, And Their Relation to Lacustrine Pile-Structures. Of the Terramara settlements in the Po Valley the author gave a pretty full account in his LAKE-DWELLINGS OF EUROPE, published in 1890, but in the light of more recent discoveries he chose to include it again in the second section of this book along with his original Munro Lecture material.

These 1912 lectures were the first course given since the Lectureship was founded. $195.

Recollections of the Private Life of Napoleon A Court Insider’s Intimate Memoirs - 3 Vols - First Edition 126 [Napoleon]; Constant, [Louis Constant Wairy] Premier Valet de Chambre. RECOLLECTIONS OF THE PRIVATE LIFE OF NAPOLEON Translated by Walter Clark (New York: The Merriam Company, [1895]) 3 volumes. First edition in English.

With 24 black and white plates, most being from contemporary portraits of Napoleon and members of his circle. 8vo, publisher’s original navy-blue cloth, the upper covers decorated in gilt and red featuring handsome pictorial images including, plumes and Napoleonic crests, and with gilt lettering within red lined fillet borders, the spines similarly decorated and lettered in red and gilt, t.e.g. 431, 323, 435 pp. A very attractive, handsome and fine set, internally near as pristine, the bindings with only very minor evidence of shelving. A beautiful set, especially well preserved.

FIRST EDITION IN UNUSUALLY FINE CONDITION. An intimate history of the great French emperor written by his own personal valet. This is an in-depth firsthand account of Napoleon’s private life, his family and the people of his court. Though the book had originally been published in French in 1830, it had never been translated into English. Already scarce by the 1890s, Walter Clark managed, with much difficulty, to find a copy of one of the original editions, from which he made his translation. Constant’s account was bitterly assailed by both Prince Napoleon and Napoleon III, but there is actually no good reason to doubt its authenticity or genuineness. The work “paint[s] Caesar in undress... His foibles, his peculiarities, his vices, are here depicted without reserve. But so also are his kindness of heart, his vast intellect, his knowledge of men, his extraordinary energy, his public spirit. The shutters are taken down, and the workings of the mighty machinery are laid bare.” $295. Bonaparte]

Napoleon in Exile - Napoleon and O’Meara - 1827 His Own Words as Told to His Personal Surgeon 127 O’Meara, Barry E. NAPOLEON IN EXILE; or, a Voice From St. Helena. The Opinions and Reflections of Napoleon on the Most Important Events of His Life and Government, In His Own Words (London: Jones and Co., 1827) 2 volumes. Sixth edition With an engraved portrait frontispiece in each volume and one additional engraving. 8vo, contemporary three quarter deep blue calf over blue cloth, the spine with gilt tooled raised bands double ruled in gilt, additional gilt tooling at the tips, red morocco label gilt ruled and lettered in one compartment, gilt volume numbers in another, marbled endpapers. xxviii, 512; 516, 517-542 index pp. A handsome set, with some minor foxing as is nearly always the case, minor rubbing or mellowing to the calf.

EARLY PRINTING OF THIS FINE WORK. O’Meara was surgeon on board the “Bellerophon” when it received Napoleon in 1815. Bonaparte was attracted by the doctor’s ability to speak Italian, and when his own surgeon declined to follow him into exile, he asked that O’Meara accompany him to St. Helena as his medical attendant.

The admiralty readily permitted O’Meara to join the emperor, hoping that he would serve as a sort of spy, but O’Meara alienated himself from the admiralty and became a partisan on behalf of Napoleon and was eventually dismissed from his post.

This book was tremendously popular and quickly went through six editions in English and two editions of a French translation. $245.

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The Makers of Modern Rome - First Edition - 1895 Beautifully Illustrated in Fine Gilt Decorated Cloth Oliphant’s Classic Work - An Excellent Copy 128 Oliphant, Mrs. THE MAKERS OF MODERN ROME. In Four Books: I. Honourable Women Not a Few; II. The Popes Who Made the Papacy; III. Lo Popolo: And the Tribune of the People; IV. The Popes Who Made the City. (London: Macmillan and Co. , 1895) First Edition. With a frontispiece portrait, and a profusion of fine illustrations throughout by Henry P. Riviere and Joseph Pennell. 8vo, in the publisher’s original rich green cloth beautifully gilt lettered, ruled, and pictorially decorated on the spine and upper cover, t.e.g.. xviii, 506 pp. An excellent and handsome copy, the binding clean and the gilt still shining bright, the text block sound and in fine order, hinges strong.

FIRST EDITION OF THIS BEAUTIFULLY PRESENTED AND FINELY ILLUSTRATED WORK. This is a splendid book which traces the history of Rome. It is a pleasure to read and incorporates four books in one: Honourable Women Not A Few, The Popes Who Made The Papacy, Lo Popolo And The Tribune Of The People, and The Popes Who Made The City. The illustrations add much to the fabric of the text and offer a pleasing aside to the words, allowing us images which transport us in time and space. $275.

The 1680 Debates of the House of Commons On the Succession of Charles by James II 129 Parliament, England [Jones, Sir William]. AN EXACT COLLECTION OF THE DEBATES OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, Held at Westminster, October 21. 1680. Prorogued the Tenth, and Dissolved the Eighteenth of January Following. With the Debates of the House of Commons at Oxford, Assembled March 21. 1680. Also a Just and Modest Vindication of the Proceedings of the Said Parliament (London: R. Baldwin, 1689) First thus, with the addition of the ‘Just and Modest Vindication’, the less common Baldwin imprint. ‘Just and Modest Vindication’ preceded by separate title-page dated 1689. 8vo, full near contemporary calf, the boards with double fillet-line gilt borders and blind stippled edges, the spine with raised bands double ruled in gilt, one compartment with a brown morocco label lettered in blind.

[8], 464 [ie 456, mispaginated as described by Wing] pp. Internally a very nice copy with just expected mellowing or toning, more so on the prelims, in all quite fresh and solid, the binding with some age-wear, the upper hinge cracked with the board nearly detached, lower hinge starting, easily restored.

FIRST EDITION. DEBATES OF THE LAST PARLIAMENT OF CHARLES II REIGN ON HIS SUCCESSION AND WHETHER OR NOT JAMES II, A ROMAN CATHOLIC, SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO BECOME KING. The debates were first published by Baldwin in 1680, this 1689 edition is the second printing of the debates, expanded, and is the first to include the Vindication which was in answer to the King’s 1681 dissolution of Parliament. The reprinting was in response to the “Glorious Revolution” in which James II was overthrown by a union of Parliamentarians. The Vindication was probably written by Sir William Jones in collaboration with Lord John Somers and Algernon Sidney, though it has also been ascribed to Robert Ferguson in some sources. Jones was the most famous attorney of his day and had prosecuted the victims of the Oates Plot in 1678. In 1680 he was sent to the House of Commons by Plymouth where he was instrumental in the passing of the Exclusion Bill. Wing 2574A; ESTC R3708; DNB $525.

William Prescott’s Master Work The History of the Conquest of Mexico An Early Edition Americana In Original Cloth 130 Prescott, William H. THE HISTORY OF THE CONQUEST OF MEXICO; with a Preliminary View of the Ancient Mexican Civilization, and the Life of the Conqueror, Hernando Cortes (London: George Routledge and Company, 1874) 2 volumes. New and revised edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece to each volume and fold out maps. 8vo, in publisher’s original sea blue cloth decorated in blind on the covers, the spines gilt-lettered and decorated with gilt coat of arms. xxviii, 591; xv, 580 pp (including index). A handsome and pleasing set of this early edition, the spines expertly and unobtrusively strengthened.

SCARCE AND HANDSOME ILLUSTRATED EDITION OF THIS LANDMARK WORK ON THE HISTORY OF THE AMERICAS. Despite the fact that Prescott was blinded in one eye in his childhood, he was determined early on to embark upon a literary career. He went to Europe for two years at the age of nineteen to get the background for historical writing, and wrote a few miscellaneous essays on Spanish history. His first real success was his HISTORY OF THE REIGN OF FERDINAND AND ISABELLA THE CATHOLIC, and this success encouraged him to begin research in 1839 on THE HISTORY OF THE CONQUEST OF MEXICO. It was published four years later, and in four months it had sold 5,000 copies. It was followed by 25 more editions by 1856, becoming one of the masterpieces of historical narration.

Part of Prescott’s appeal was in his writing style which recounted history in grand terms: “This work, in an almost neglected field, has come to be considered his greatest triumph, not only because of his historical accuracy, but because of its epic sweep, which, following in the vein of Scott, arranged itself around the two heroic figures of Cortes and Montezuma to create a dramatic tragedy.” This is a highly readable and important historical work. Grolier American 100; Oxford Comp. to Amer.

Lit., 606. $325.

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The History of Ferdinand and Isabella William Prescott’s Great History - De Freitas’ Illustrations Vividly Enhanced by The Limited Editions Club 131 Prescott, William HIckling. THE HISTORY OF THE REIGN OF FERDINAND AND ISABELLA Edited by C. Harvey Gardiner (New York: At the Garmamond Press in Baltimore for the Limited Editions Club, 1967) First edition thus, limited to 1500 numbered copies SIGNED by artist Lima De Freitas. Laid in are the publisher’s prospectus and the December, 1961 monthly Club letter announcing the publication. Beautifully decorated in full colour by Lima De Freitas with 24 illustrations, 10 of which are full page, map endpapers and a pictorially decorated double titlepage. 8vo, the publisher’s best binding of full brown calf in fine 19th century style. The upper cover featuring a large coat-of-arms in blind, the spine with gilt ruled bands and two burgundy lettering labels gilt ruled and lettered, with most of the publisher’s original glassine included and in the original slipcase. The text printed on fine ivory laid paper specifically produced for the Club and with their watermark by the Curtis Paper Company. xiii, 294, [1]. An extremely fine copy, the book is pristine and as new, the slipcase very fine with only the most minor evidence of shelf age, the rarely kept glassine is present, but with some loss.

ONE OF ONLY 1500 SIGNED COPIES, this is among the Club’s finest productions of a nonfiction work. Their choice of Lima De Freitas as illustrator was perfect. At the time De Freitas was one of Europe’s leading living illustrators, his previous work for the Club on their edition JOURNALS OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS had been exceptionally well received.

Prescott’s work begins with an excellent summery of Spanish history during the Middle Ages and an account of the political condition of Spain in the fifteenth century. It also contains information on the establishment of the modern Inquisition and the condition of Spanish Arabs prior to the War of Granada. As a description of the critical period of Spanish history when Spain was consolidated into one nation from a number of petty kingdoms, this work remains unrivaled.

This was Prescott’s first history, taking ten years of his life to complete. Its superior qualities were recognized both throughout Europe and in America, putting his reputation at the head of American historians. $125.

Abbott’s Popular Lives of the Presidents of the U.S. - 1876 First Edition for the U.S. Centennial Jubilee - Illustrated 132 [Presidents] Abbott, John S. LIVES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, From Washington to the Present Time. Containing a Narrative of the Most Interesting Events in the Career of Each President... To Which is Added THE CENTENNIAL JUBILEE, Showing the Hundred Years’ Progress of the Republic (Boston: B.B Russell, et al., 1876) The First Edition containing accounts of the Centennial Jubilee, illustrated, revised and updated. An early edition of the work. Well illustrated, with portraits on steel of each Present, typically six to a plate, vignette style views of their private residences within the text and 18 additional engravings of important events along with views for the Centennial Jubilee. Large 8vo, publisher’s original forest-green cloth, the upper cover patriotically decorated in an all over design crowned by a large central gilt tool of the Great Seal of the United States, the spine lettered and also decorated in gilt and black. 540 pp. A very good and proper copy, very pleasing, a bit mellowed by time but with the text block and plates fine and fresh, no spotting, toning or foxing. The binding with only very minor edge wear or age evidence, primarily from shelving, but remaining bright and handsome.

A WONDERFUL JUBILEE BOOK AND ILLUSTRATED EDITION OF ABBOTT’S VERY POPULAR LIVES OF THE PRESIDENTS. The text begins with the Presidency of George Washington and concludes with that of Ulysses S. Grant. This is followed by accounts of the Centennial Jubilee events. This is the first edition to contain the accounts of the Jubilee $350.

Sir Walter Raleigh - The History of the World - 1736 A Handsome Folio Set with Plates and Maps A Rare Offering in Contemporary Calf Bindings 133 Raleigh, Sir Walter. THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD, In Five Books. To Which is Prefix’d, The Life of the Author, Newly Comil’d, From Materials more ample and authentick than have yet been published; By Mr. Oldys. Also his Trial, with some Additions: Together with A new and more copious Index to the whole Work. (London: for G. Conyers, J.J. and P. Knapton, D. Midwinter, A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch et.al., 1736) 2 volumes. A very early edition, printed from a copy revised by the author himself, and the First Edition to include the Life and Trial of Raleigh by Mr. Oldys. Engraved frontispiece of Raleigh, title-pages in red and black, six finely engraved double-page maps, 2 double-page engraved plates, a chronological table, finely engraved head and tail pieces, engraved and decorated capital letters. Folio, handsomely bound in full contemporary paneled calf, the spines divided into seven compartments separated by raised bands on comportment with black morocco labels lettered in gilt. Engraved frontispiece, Title-page to Vol. 1; ccxxii (The Life of Raleigh) - ccl (The Trial), (7) Authors Cited, (1) ads, xxxii (Preface), (24) Contents, 370; Title-Page to Vol. 2, (371)-817, (2) To the Reader, (26) A Chronological Table, (19) Index. An exceptional copy, the text essentially pristine, bright and fresh and unpressed, the bindings very handsome, the backs sometime restored to perfect style and preserving the original morocco labels, a most handsome and proper set, as fine as one could wish for.

FINE ANTIQUARIAN FOLIO PRINTING AND THE BEST EDITION OF THIS CLASSIC

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WORK, BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED WITH ENGRAVED MAPS AND DOUBLE-PAGE PLATES. These are the only books published of the massive history Raleigh planned and begun while the author was imprisoned in the Tower of London after the accession of James I. Raleigh was one of the principal figures of the English Renaissance. As well as being a poet of wide repute and a successful soldier, he was one of the earliest explorers of the New World (one of its cities still bears his name). This ambitious book, which Raleigh worked on with the help of several assistants, ostensibly deals with Greek, Egyptian, and biblical history up to 168 B.C., but the preface summarizes modern European history and represents one of the earliest English views of the world and its history. It has become a classic of English Renassaince literature.

This edition of 1736 was the first to include the Life and Trial of Raleigh by Mr. Oldys. $5500.

Forty-One Years in India Lord Roberts’ Hugely Successful Work - 1897 One of the Great Books of the English Empire 134 Roberts (of Kandahar), Field-Marshal Lord. FORTY-ONE YEARS IN INDIA, From Subaltern to Commander-in-Chief (London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1897) 2 volumes. Very early issuance, only being the sixth and printed within weeks of the first issue. Engraved frontispieces, engraved title-pages, half-title and title page printed in red and black, a profusion of illustrations and folding maps throughout. 8vo, original navy blue cloth lettered in gilt on the spines; decorated in gilt on the upper covers with the gilt center bordered in attractive blindstamping, with Bently’s decorated endpapers, edges untrimmed. xvii, 511 including appendix; xii, 522 including appendices, 58 ads, index. A fine set, fresh and clean inside and out, the bindings bright with no fading of either the gilt or cloth, very minor evidence of age at the tips.

SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Memoirs of forty-one years as a British officer and commander in India. A snapshot of the British Empire in all her grandeur, Roberts profiles the great men and battles that shaped the years of the British-Indian colonization. While Roberts was a true soldier of the empire, he also sincerely loved India. His book is dedicated “To the country to which I am so proud of belonging , to the army to which I am so deeply indebted, and to my wife without whose loving help my ‘Forty-One Years in India’ could not be the happy retrospect it is”.

An interesting testament to the popularity of this book---the first issue was January 4, 1897, and within six months there were 21 more editions as well as an American edition, an Indian edition, and a Braille edition. A true first edition is extremely scarce. $595.

The Private Lives of the Romans - In a Fine Binding Gilt A Well Researched and Illustrated Account 135 [Rome]; Preston, Harriet Waters and Dodge, Louise. THE PRIVATE LIFE OF THE ROMANS (Boston: Leach, Shewell and Sandborn, 1896) First edition. With numerous illustrations including black and white plates from photographs, drawings and cuts throughout the text. 8vo, nicely bound in very handsome three-quarter red morocco over cloth covered boards, the backing and corner pieces gilt ruled, the spine with attractive gilt tools at the center of gilt framed compartments between gilt stippled raised bands, two compartments lettered in gilt, additional gilt rules at head and tail, t.e.g., endpapers marbled. vi, 167, 4 ads. A fine copy, the text bright and clean, the binding in excellent condition.

A very interesting and well researched glimpse into the everyday lives of the classical Romans. Drawing on the leading German scholars, largely in Pompeii, the authors give us well illustrated details on their daily living, family life, homes, food, clothing, social structure, amusements, etc., etc. $125.

Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt A Fascinating Self Published Compilation With Signatures of Eleanor Roosevelt, Teddy Jr. & Others 136 [Roosevelt, Theodore and, Roosevelt, Franklin D.]. BIG STICK AND SOFTY WERE ASSISTANT-SECRETARIES OF THE NAVY. [Being a Self Published Scrap Book of Correspondence, Articles, Autographed Letters, Illustrations Etc. Pertaining to Both Presidents Roosevelt] (Albany, N.Y.: Self published by J.E. Boos, 1948) A UNIQUE AND VERY PERSONAL COLLECTION, containing SIGNED correspondences from Theodore Roosevelt Jr., governors of New York, Eleanor Roosevelt and other political leaders and, extracted magazine articles and many illustrations from various sources. Extracted articles are extensively illustrated by Frederick Remington and others, also included are an abundance of illustrations from drawings and photographs either extracted or reprinted from other sources. 8vo, (230x167mm, all articles, letters, programs, photographs and etc. are professionally bound together in blue cloth covered boards, the spine lettered in gilt. 119 leaves including blanks, and including photographs of Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt and many other illuminaries. A very well preserved and unique item.

A fascinating collection of materials. Includes: A superb typed letter SIGNED

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CONCERNING THE NOMINATION PROCESS FOR PRESIDENT BY THEODORE ROOSEVELT Jr. on Doubleday, Doran stationary addressed to compiler of this work, John Boos and dated 1936; A typed letter SIGNED AND WITH MANUSCRIPT NOTATIONS by Eleanor Roosevelt addressed to Hon. George Graves on New York State Democratic Committee stationary dated 1928 concerning a political appointment; A typed letter on State of New York Executive Chamber stationary SIGNED by William Loeb Jr. (Teddy’s secretary while President) dated 1899; A 1929 typed letter SIGNED from soon to be Governor Herbert Lehman to Franklin Roosevelt on State of New York stationary; a typed letter on State of Michigan stationary to Franklin Roosevelt from Governor Fred W. Green, SIGNED and dated 1930; Theodore Roosevelt’s article PHASES OF STATE LEGISLATION extracted complete from THE CENTURY, Vol. 29, Iss. 6, April 1885; A menu from the dinner of the Democratic State Committee, Wednesday, April 15th 1936 at the Hotel Ten Eyck in Albany; Theodore Roosevelt’s story THE HOME RANCH extracted complete from THE CENTURY, Vol. 35, issue 5, March 1888, which is extensively illustrated by Frederick Remington; Also RANCH LIFE IN THE FAR WEST from THE CENTURY Vol. 35, number 4, February 1888, also illustrated by Remington and FRONTIER TYPES and RANCHMAN’S RIFLE ON GRAG AND PRAIRIE and SHERIFF’S WORK ON A RANCH each extracted complete from unidentified issues of THE CENTURY; Theodore Roosevelt’s MAD ANTHONY WAYNE’S VICTORY from an unknown issue of HARPER’S NEW MONTHLY; THEODORE ROOSEVELT. A CHARACTER SKETCH by Ray Stannard Baker, extracted from an unidentified magazine; The handout of the First Reformed Church of Albany for the Commemorative Service for Theodore Roosevelt, January 12, 1919. $4250.

Schliemann’s Excavations The Greatest Discoveries in the Field 137 Schuchhardt, Dr. C. SCHLIEMANN’S EXCAVATIONS An Archæological and Historical Study. Translated From the German by Eugénie Sellers With an Appendix on the Recent Discoveries at Hissarlik by Dr. Schliemann and Dr. Dörpfeld and an Introduction by Walter Leaf, Litt.D. (London and New York: Macmillan and Co., 1891) First edition. Extensively illustrated throughout with plates, maps and charts and plans, many folding. 8vo, publisher’s blue cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt on spine and upper cover in an Orchomenosian motif. xxxii, 363, [4] ads. A very nice copy in bright blue cloth.

An in depth and detailed history of Schliemann’s work. Schliemann is perhaps the greatest archaeologist of all time and his discoveries at Troy and Mycenæ are among the most famous and romantic in history. Only Howard Carter’s excavation of the Tomb of King Tut more vividly captured the public’s imagination. The extensive illustrations presented here along with Schuchhardt’s scholarly yet readable writings, cover both of those excavations along with several others of note. As Schliemann died during the translation of this work, it gives the full and final history of what are perhaps the greatest moments in the field of archaeology and certainly in the life of its greatest hero. $450.

Specially Printed and Bound by The Shakespeare Head Press The Rare Limited Edition of Only 100 Copies Plutarch’s Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans A Classical Text, A Classic Translation - Superbly Illustrated 138 [Shakespeare Head Press], Plutarch.

THE LIVES OF THE NOBLE GRECIANS AND ROMANES, Compared Together by that Grave and Learned Philosopher & Historiographer, Plutarke of Chæronea: Translated out of Greek in to French by James Amyot...and out of French into Englishe by Thomas North (Stratford-Upon-Avon: The Shakespeare Head Press for Basil Blackwell, 1928) 8 volumes. RARE LIMITED EDITION, ONE OF ONLY 100 COPIES, printed on handmade paper, numbered and SIGNED by the illustrator Thomas Lowinsky Decorations throughout consisting of portraits within headpieces by Thomas Lowinsky. Large 8vo, very handsomely bound in the publisher’s best bindings of three quarter black levant morocco by Morley of Oxford, the spines with wide bands with multiple gilt rules, handsomely gilt lettered in three compartments, t.e.g. A very fine set, very handsome indeed and in wonderful condition.

RARE FIRST EDITION, BEST ISSUE OF THE SHAKESPEARE HEAD PLUTARCH, LIMITED TO ONLY 100 COPIES SIGNED BY THE ILLUSTRATOR. This edition was printed from the first edition of 1579. Lowinsky’s portrait head-pieces are taken so far as possible from authentic originals. A handsomely printed set of North’s classic translation.

In this monumental historical work, Plutarch relates the lives of the historically important Greeks and Romans of ancient times. His studies are revered as among the most important and beautiful of all classical writings . The author’s object is to bring out the moral character in each case, rather than to relate the political events of the time; in essence, at times he will distort the truth in order to exemplify virtue or vice. Nonetheless, he is as reliable as the sources he uses, and very valuable as a historical resource.

Thomas North’s translation of Plutarch’s LIVES is one of the most famous. His prose considered by many to be “incomparable... [his] achievement in narrative prose is only less signal than Shakespeare’s in dramatic verse.

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ones, and he relied almost exclusively on it for the historical background of ancient Rome. Thus it is a very fitting work for the Shakespeare Head Press to have undertaken at Stratford-Upon-Avon $3650.

Shakespeare’s England - First Edition An Account of Elizabethan Life and Manners 139 [Shakespeare]; Onions, Lee, Raleigh, Mssrs., Editor and Arrangers.

SHAKESPEARE’S ENGLAND: An Account of the Life and Manners of His Age (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1916) 2 volumes. Scarce first edition. Well illustrated with 195 plates and two engraved frontispieces from contemporary sources. 8vo, publisher’s original dark blue cloth beautifully lettered and decorated in gilt on spines and upper covers, lower covers decorated in blind. xxiv, 546; x, 610 pp. A very bright and handsome set, fresh and clean and well preserved, the hinges firm and text essentially pristine, the cloth unfaded with bright gilt, just a hint of shelving evidence to the extremities or edges.

SCARCE AND IMPORTANT FIRST EDITION, and a fascinating guide to the Elizabethan world, including essays on heraldry, costume, the home, booksellers, sports, religion, medicine and law. Sir Walter Raleigh outlined the first prospectus for this book in 1905, but was unable to complete it. Successive editors continued the task until its completion in the tercentenary year of Shakespeare’s death. Contributors include Robert Bridges, Sir Walter Raleigh, and many others.

“Elizabethan England is reflected everywhere in Shakespeare’s works; he held the mirror up to nature, but the nature that passed across it was English nature of the time of Elizabeth. He said many things that are true for all time; but if we understand the world that he moved in and the language that he spoke, we are saved from mistaking the accidents of his time for the essentials of his thought.”-Preface “Here is a complete reconstruction of the most copious and adventurous epoch of our literary history” - Nation. “... Almost every department of Elizabethan life is dealt with, and in no instance could a better choice of experts be expected.” - New Statesman.

“Here, indeed, is the map of the world in which Shakespeare lived. Here is a museum with his clothes and his furniture and his drinking-glasses and his school books and other ghostly relics to excite the imagination to a vision of a lost age and its lordliest child.”--The Sphere Now difficult to find in the first printing. $395.

Fresh and Bright in Original Cloth - First Edition The Personal Memoirs of General P. H. Sheridan An Infamous Hero of the Civil War 140 Sheridan, P.H. PERSONAL MEMOIRS OF P. H. SHERIDAN. General United States Army. (New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1888) 2 volumes. First edition. Steel-engraved portrait frontispiece and a profusion of plates and maps throughout, some of which are fold-out. 8vo, publisher’s original dark green cloth with gilt lettering and fine all over gilt pictorial decorations over the spines and upper covers. xiii, 500; xi, 486 pp. A very nice set, internally quite clean and fresh. The cloth is bright and unfaded but does have a bit of minor wear to the tips and extremities, a few spots on the cloth are quite unobtrusive. The bindings a bit shaken, the inner hinges cracked though easily repaired.

FIRST EDITION, NOW BECOMING SCARCE. Sheridan recounts his life as a West Point cadet, cavalry commander, American military observer to the Franco-Prussian War, infamous hero of the American Civil War, among other appointments and experiences. This beautiful production is illustrated throughout. One of the “Great War” series, commonly called “Shoulder Strap”, which also includes PERSONAL MEMOIRS OF U. S. GRANT and MCCLELLAN’S OWN STORY, among other titles. $350.

Adam Smith - The Classic Work - The Wealth of Nations Second Irish Printing - 1785 - Bound in Fine Irish Tree Calf Rare and Very Seldom Encountered 141 Smith, Adam. AN INQUIRY INTO THE NATURE AND CAUSES OF THE WEALTH OF NATIONS (Dublin: For W. Colles, E. Moncrieffe, G. Burnet et. al, 1785) 2 volumes. Second Irish printing and a very early issuance of the work. 8vo, very handsomely bound in full Irish tree calf, the covers tooled with gilt key roll at the borders, gilt edges to the bindings, the spines with elaborate gilt tooling and decoration to the spine panels in an all over design, two contrasting morocco lettering labels of red and green, marbled endleaves. [iv],391; [vi],524,[ad]; [ii],412. A very handsome and attractive set of Smith’s classic work. Such early printings are rarely encountered.

Expertly and unobtrusively rehinged.

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RARE AND IMPORTANT IRISH PRINTING OF THIS CLASSIC TEXT. Smith’s classic work was begun at Toulouse in 1763-64 where he had traveled as guardian of Henry Scott, the young duke of Buccleuch, and in the company of David Hume, historian and fellow professor at Glasgow University. The work took shape over the next ten years and was finally published in 1776. At one point during its composition, Hume wrote that Smith was “cutting himself off entirely from human society.” But his labors, however severe his methods, yielded the “first and greatest classic of modern economic thought” (Printing and the Mind of Man). “[I]t may be said that the WEALTH OF NATIONS certainly operated powerfully through the harmony of its critical side with the tendencies of the half-century which followed its publication to the assertion of personal freedom and ‘natural rights.’ It discredited the economic policy of the past, and promoted the overthrow of institutions which had come down from earlier times, but were unsuited to modern society. As a theoretic treatment of social economy, and therefore as a guide to social reconstruction and practice in the future, it is provisional, not definitive. But when the study of its subject comes to be systematized on the basis of a general social philosophy more complete and durable than Smith’s, no contribution to that final construction will be found so valuable as his” (Britannica).

This second Dublin printing. Such early copies are very elusive. Grolier English 57; PMM 221; Rothschild 1897. $5500.

The Wealth of Nations The First & Greatest Classic of Modern Economic Thought An Especially Early Copy - Remarkably Well Preserved 142 Smith, Adam. AN INQUIRY INTO THE NATURE AND CAUSES OF THE WEALTH OF NATIONS (London: for A. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1786) 3 volumes. An especially early printing, the fourth, only the second of the octavo editions, the last edition with any changes, includes a new preface never before printed, issued only 10 years after the first 2 vol. quarto edition. 8vo, beautiful three-quarter polished calf in fine antique style over marbled paper covered boards, red morocco lettering labels gilt, the spine in compartments separated by gilt bands, gilt central devices in the compartments. viii, 499 + errata; vi, 518, [5] Appendix + errata; v + errata, 465, (47) index + (1) ad pp.

A remarkably fine and handsome set, the text blocks completely untrimmed and with the original deckled edges as issued from the printer. Bindings in excellent condition.

A BEAUTIFUL SET OF THIS EXTRAORDINARY WORK. Smith’s classic work was begun at Toulouse in 1763-64 where he had travelled as guardian of Henry Scott, the young duke of Buccleuch, and in the company of David Hume, historian and fellow professor at Glasgow University. The work took shape over the next ten years and was finally published in 1776. At one point during its composition, Hume wrote that Smith was “cutting himself off entirely from human society.” But his labors, however severe his methods, yielded the “first and greatest classic of modern economic thought” (Printing and the Mind of Man). “[I]t may be said that the WEALTH OF NATIONS certainly operated powerfully through the harmony of its critical side with the tendencies of the half-century which followed its publication to the assertion of personal freedom and ‘natural rights.’ It discredited the economic policy of the past, and promoted the overthrow of institutions which had come down from earlier times, but were unsuited to modern society. As a theoretic treatment of social economy, and therefore as a guide to social reconstruction and practice in the future, it is provisional, not definitive. But when the study of its subject comes to be systematized on the basis of a general social philosophy more complete and durable than Smith’s, no contribution to that final construction will be found so valuable as his” (Britannica).

The fourth edition contains a special ‘advertisement’, first appearing here, in which Smith declares that he is now ‘at liberty to acknowledge my very great obligations to Mr. Henry Hop of Amsterdam. To that gentleman I owe the most distinct, as well as liberal information, concerning a very interesting and important subject, the Bank of Amsterdam’. Eighteenth century editions of Smith’s magnum opus are now becoming very scarce.

Goldsmiths’ 3148; Kress B.1129; Vanderblue, p.3; not in Einaudi. $10,500.

Adam Smith - The Wealth of Nations The First & Greatest Classic of Modern Economic Thought A Beautiful Set in Contemporary Decorated Calf 143 Smith, Adam. AN INQUIRY INTO THE NATURE AND CAUSES OF THE WEALTH OF NATIONS (London: J. Maynard...Haymarket; and F. Zinke...Strand, 1811) 3 volumes. Very early printing. This printing now with an Account of the Life of the Author which has been specially drawn up for the first time, as well as studies on the author and the French economists of the period, and a method of facilitating the study of the work 8vo, bound in very handsome and well preserved three-quarter contemporary polished calf over marbled boards, compartments of the spines decorated with gilt decorated raised bands, gilt lined bordering designs, two compartments lettered in gilt, one with morocco lettering labels, marbled end-leaves. lxxi, 360; vi, 512, 513-514 appendix; vi, 448, (50 pp.extensive index). An especially bright and fine set in very handsome and well preserved contemporary bindings. The text remains very clean, crisp and fresh. There has

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been no restoration work of any sort to bindings or text. Rare thus.

AN UNUSUALLY WELL PRESERVED AND HANDSOME SET OF THIS EXTRAORDINARY WORK. ‘The history of economic theory up to the end of the nineteenth century consists of two parts: the mercantilist phase which was based not so much on a doctrine as on a system of practice which grew out of social conditions; and the second phase which saw the development of the theory that the individual had the right to be unimpeded in the exercise of economic activity. While it cannot be said that Smith invented the latter theory – the physiocrats had already suggested it and Turgot in particular had constructed an organised study of social wealth – his work is the first major expression of it. He begins with the thought that labour is the source from which a nation derives what is necessary to it. The improvement of the division of labour is the measure of productivity and in it lies the human propensity to barter and exchange: “labour is the real measure of the exchangeable value of all commodities … it is their real price; money is their nominal price only”. Labour represents the three essential elements – wages, profit, and rent – and these three also constitute income. From the working of the economy, Smith passes to its matter – “stock” – which compasses all that man owns either for his own consumption or for the return which it brings him. The Wealth of Nations ends with a history of economic development, a definite onslaught on the mercantile system, and some prophetic speculations on the limits of economic control.

‘Where the political aspects of human rights had taken two centuries to explore, Smith’s achievement was to bring the study of economic aspects to the same point in a single work … The certainty of its criticism and its grasp of human nature have made it the first and greatest classic of modern economic thought’ (PMM).

Smith’s classic work was begun at Toulouse in 1763-64 where he had travelled as guardian of Henry Scott, the young duke of Buccleuch, and in the company of David Hume, historian and fellow professor at Glasgow University. The work took shape over the next ten years and was finally published in 1776. At one point during its composition, Hume wrote that Smith was “cutting himself off entirely from human society.” But his labors, however severe his methods, yielded the “first and greatest classic of modern economic thought” (Printing and the Mind of Man). “[I]t may be said that the WEALTH OF NATIONS certainly operated powerfully through the harmony of its critical side with the tendencies of the half-century which followed its publication to the assertion of personal freedom and ‘natural rights.’ It discredited the economic policy of the past, and promoted the overthrow of institutions which had come down from earlier times, but were unsuited to modern society. As a theoretic treatment of social economy, and therefore as a guide to social reconstruction and practice in the future, it is provisional, not definitive. But when the study of its subject comes to be systematized on the basis of a general social philosophy more complete and durable than Smith’s, no contribution to that final construction will be found so valuable as his” (Britannica).

Eighteenth century editions of Smith’s magnum opus are becoming very scarce. This edition of 1811 is a very early English printing of the nineteenth century still in 18th century style. It retains Smith’s introduction and also incorporates the author’s advertisements to the third and fourth editions and a new advertisement to this edition setting out the additions made to the preliminary materials for this edition. Kress B4602. Vanderblue p. 4.

PMM (first edition); Britannica. $4500.

Egyptian Mummies - A Detailed Study Handsomely Illustrated Throughout First Edition in the Scarce Pictorial Dustjacket 144 Smith, G. Elliot and W.R. Dawson. EGYPTIAN MUMMIES (London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd., 1924) First edition. With 71 illustrations, some woodcuts by A. Horace Gerrard and K. Leigh-Pemberton, watercolor frontispiece by Mrs. Cecil Firth. 4to, publisher’s original navy blue cloth lettered in gilt, with a gilt pictorial device of a mummy on the upper cover, with original pictorial dustjacket.

190, including index. A very bright copy, with just some minor edgewear to the head and tail of the spine, otherwise very handsome, the dustjacket showing some overall mellowing but whole and intact.

SCARCE EARLY COMPREHENSIVE WORK ON EGYPTIAN MUMMIES. “Although the mummy was the central object in the interesting and complex funeral cult of the Ancient Egyptians, and the ceremonies and technique of mummification are of the greatest interest and importance, no book dealing with the subject has appeared since Pettigrew’s memoir in 1832.

“Professor Elliot Smith, the well-known anatomist and archaeologist of London University, has for many years made mummification his special research. Mr. W.R. Dawson is also directly concerned with Egyptian research, and the present volume is the outcome of collaboration on the subject extending over several years.

“The mythological, historical and anatomical aspects of the subject are dealt with in full, and a mass of information, both as regards text and illustration is now presented for the first time” (dustjacket).

Also with a profusion of eerily detailed woodcut illustrations of unwrapped mummies and numerous photographs of bones, grave stellae, burial sites, etc. A fascinating book for any Egypt enthusiast. $395.

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One of the Great Works of the New World Discoveries Solis - Istoria Della Conquista Del Messico - 1699 The First Edition of the First Translation to Italian 145 Solis y Ribadeneyra, Antonio de. ISTORIA DELLA CONQUISTA DEL MESSICO, Della Popolazione e de’ Progressi Nell’America Settentrionale Conosciuta Sotto Nome di Nuova Spagna, Scritta in Castigliano...E Tradotta in Toscano Da Un Accademico della Crusca (Firenze: Gio. Filippo Cecchi, 1699) First Edition of the translation of this classic work on Mexico into Italian. The Spanish edition was published in Madrid in 1684. Illustrated with engraved frontispiece vignette, and with 10 other very fine engraved pictorial vignettes as head-pieces, and 10 very beautiful and elaborate tail-piece engravings by Stefano dellla Bella, as well as 3 engraved portraits of Cortez, Montezuma and Solis, the author, engraved by Fariat after the designs of Passari. 4to (mm. 265 x 205), handsomely bound in fine contemporary vellum, the spine with raised bands and with a maroon morocco lettering label framed in gilt. [26], 763 pp. A very fine example, very well preserved, the binding in good order with some occasional spots to the vellum caused by age, the text-block and engravings all in good order. A copy from a fine Roman library.

FIRST EDITION IN THE ITALIAN TRANSLATION. The author, was secretary to Philip IV of Spain, and is considered the most important chronicler of the Indies. Gamba, 2092. Sabin, 86485 $2650.

John Stow’s Great Annales of English History Rival of Grafton and Hollinshed - Contributor to Shakespeare Edmund Howes’ Expanded Edition of 1615 146 Stow, John. ANNALES, Or, Generall Chronicle of England, Begun by John Stow; Continued And Augmented with matters Forraigne and Domestique, Ancient and Moderne. By Edmund Howes, Gent (London: Thomas Dawson, 1615) First edition to include Howes augmentations and with the appendix with separate title-page.

Added to this copy as a frontispiece is the 1792 engraved portrait of Stow published by Smith. Numerous engraved initials, some quite large, and engraved head or tail-pieces throughout. Folio, in later half brown morocco over cloth covered boards, the spine with gilt ruled flat bands and gilt lettering in three compartments. [i], 988, [2], [26] pp. Lacking titlepage and 14 page preface, page 1 and the last two leaves with some restoration of old tears, other general expected signs of age but overall quite solid and sound. Public library ex-libris with engraved bookplate and a small ink stamp on the later free-fly and added frontispiece.

ONE OF THE GREAT WORKS OF ENGLISH HISTORY. A great rival to both Richard Grafton and Raphael Hollinshed, Stow’s antiquarian tastes brought him under ecclesiastical suspicion as a person “with many dangerous and superstitious books in his possession,” and in 1568 his house was searched. An inventory was taken of certain books he possessed “in defence of papistry,” but he was apparently able to satisfy his interrogators of the soundness of his Protestantism. A second attempt to incriminate him in 1570 was also without result.

Stow’s works, like those of Hollinshed, proved valuable to Shakespeare in the writings of English histories, though the later was preferred by him. Modern scholarship however now concludes Stow’s works to be of better historic accuracy and value.

Stow originally printed his great ANNALES beginning from Brute to the year 1580, he continued the work himself up to March 26, 1605. This last lifetime edition being printed within 10 days of his death. Offered here is the first edition to include Edmund Howes amendments continuing the work to include the reign of King James and adding George Buck’s history of the Universities of Cambridge, Oxford and London, additional appendixes and an index. DNB; Britannica 11th edition; OCLC. $1250.

A Very Rare Early Work on the Jesuits in Ethiopia F. Balthazar Tellez - Travels of the Jesuits in Ethiopia 1710 - London - With the Folding Map - Handsomely Bound 147 Tellez, F. Balthazar. THE TRAVELS OF THE JESUITS IN ETHIOPIA: Containing I. The Geographical Description of all the Kingdoms, and Provinces of that Empire; the Natural and Political History; the Manners, Customs, and Religion of those people, &c. II. Travels in Arabia Felix, wherein many Things of that Country, not mention’d in other Books of the Nature, are Treated of, as a particular Description of Aden, Meca, and several other Places. III. An Account of the Kingdoms of Combate, Gingiro, Alaba, and Dancali beyond Ethiopia in Africk, never Travelled into by any but the Jesuits, and consequently wholly unknown to us. Illustrated with an exact map of the country, delineated by those Fathers, as is the draught of the true springs and course of the Nile, within Ethiopia, besides other useful cuts (London: J. Knapton, 1710) First English translation of this very rare work by Tellez. Illustrated with an early folding map of the country, delineated by those Fathers, as is the Drought of the true Springs and Course of the Nile, within Ethiopia. 4to (202 X 162 mm.), bound in calf to style, ruled in blind on upper and lower covers, blind tooled in the corners, the spine with raised bands, lettered in gilt on two red

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morocco lettering labels, turn-ins decorated in blind. (4), 264, (16) pp. A beautifully preserved copy with the map in excellent order, the text-block clean and the binding very well preserved.

VERY RARE. ONLY ONE COPY HAS APPEARED AT AUCTION IN MANY, MANY YEARS. “This work is a summary and digest of all the travelers to Abyssinia including Alvarez, Gregory, Ludolphus, Lobo and the annual letters of the Jesuit fathers from 153-1656.” “Telles’ account was a summary of the discoveries made by the Jesuit missionaries from 1520 onwards. The Jesuits penetrated far into Ethiopia and made extensive studies of its language and history, providing Europeans with more information than was available for other parts of Africa at this time.”

“This work of Tellez was composed from the memoirs of various missionaries; transmitted to Portugal by Almeida and is remarkably rare.” Leyden II Bibliography. Streit & Dindinger, Bibl. Missionum XVII, p. 83; Lowndes, IV p. 2601; $9500.

The Best Book on Modern Cuba Ever Penned Hugh Thomas - Cuba-The Pursuit of Freedom - 1971 Profusely Illustrated with Maps and Plates and Photographs 148 Thomas , Hugh. CUBA The Pursuit of Freedom (New York: Harper & Row, Publishers , 1971) First Edition Illustrated with cartographic end-leaves, a great profusion of plates and photographs throughout, and with many maps and graphs, some of which are double-page. Large, thick, royal 8vo, publisher’s original black cloth, the spine lettered and decorated in red and white, the dustjacket decorated in red, black, white and blue. [xxx], 1696 pp. including a fine index, appendices and bibliography. A very fine copy, as pristine and probably mint, the dustjacket near as new with just some evidence of shelving at the spine tips.

FIRST EDITION OF WHAT IS GENERALLY CONSIDERED THE BEST WORK ON MODERN CUBA EVER PENNED. $135.

A Rare Early Printing of Hobbes’ Thucydides Eight Bookes of the Peloponnesian Warre Published in London - 1812 - Very Scarce 149 Thucydides. HISTORY OF THE GRECIAN WAR IN EIGHT BOOKS. Written by Thucydides [the sonne of Olorus. Interpreted with Faith and Diligence Immediately out of the Greeke] ...Translated from the Original by Thomas Hobbes of Malmsbury (London: Longman, HJurst, Rees, Orme and Brown..., 1812) 2 volumes bound in one. An early printing, of Hobbes’ celebrated translation, corrected and amended by him.

Including the preface written in 1634 and a Life of Thucydides. 8vo, bound in full contemporary speckled calf, the covers with gilt fillet line at the borders, the spine with raised bands gilt decorated and gilt panels with central devices within the compartments of the spine, red morocco lettering label gilt. xlvii, 513, (18, Index) pp. A very handsome copy, the text block quite clean and unpressed throughout, well preserved with the binding in nice condition and completely original.

VERY SCARCE EARLY PRINTING OF THIS HIGHLY IMPORTANT TRANSLATION OF THE GREEK MASTERWORK. Hobbes’ was the second English translation of Thucydides. It remains even today one of the standard texts for understanding the great Greek historian. Although Hobbes’s Greek was imperfect and inaccuracies crept into his text, the work still maintains very considerable merits. J.S. Phillimore, in a pamphlet entitled “Some Remarks on Translations and Translators,” has said, “Read him in the famous speeches...and Jowett seems a nerveless paraphrase.”

Hobbes first published this translation (the second in English) in 1628 (or 1629). Most of the sheets were sent to Rychard Mynne and reissued, as here, with a new engraved title page, and with the date of the dedication changed as if it were a new work. $1450.

Thucydides - Eight Bookes of the Peloponnesian Warre Two Volumes - Very Handsomely Bound in Full Tree Calf Gilt Fine Copies - Jowett’s Important Translation 150 [Thucydides] Jowett, B[enjamin], (Translator). THUCYDIDES. [EIGHT BOOKES OF THE PELOPONNESIAN WARRE. Written

by Thucydides the sonne of Olorus]. Translated into English [With an Introduction, Marginal Analysis, Notes and Indices] To Which is Prefixed AN ESSAY ON INSCRIPTIONS AND A NOTE ON THE GEOGRAPHY OF THUCYDIDES by Benjamin Jowett (Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1900) 2 volumes. First revised edition of Jowett’s translation. 8vo, very handsomely bound in fine contemporary bindings of full polished tree calf gilt, the spines with fine contrasting morocco labels ruled, decorated and lettered in gilt, the upper covers emblazoned with gilt crest, fine marbled endpapers, all edges marbled. cxii, 267; 514 including a very extensive index pp. A very fine set in an appealing binding, internally near pristine, the bindings with just a bit of age as would be expected.

JOWETT’S GREAT TRANSLATION OF THIS CLASSIC TEXT AND ONE OF THE GREATEST WORKS OF HISTORICAL WRITING, BEAUTIFULLY PRESENTED AND BOUND. Thucydides classic account of the Peloponesian war in the best modern translation. Jowett was Master of Balliol College and Regius professor of Greek at Oxford University. His translation of Plato remains the classic and this translation of Thucydides is the most accurate and scholarly to date. Although perhaps less lyrical then the translations of Hobbes and Smith, Jowett’s extensive essays, notes and commentaries add greatly to his thorough text. $695.

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With Very Fine Maps of Japan and Africa 1726 - Valentyn’s Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indien Folio - 20 Superb Engravings - Printed in the Netherlands 151 Valentyn, Francois. OUD EN NIEUW OOST-INDIEN. BERSCHRYVING VAN’T NEDERLANSH COMPTOIR OP DE KUFT VAN MALABAR, EN VAN ONZEN HANDEL IN JAPAN, MITSGADERS EEN BESCHRYVING VAN KAAP DER GOEDE HOOPE EN’T ELAN MAURITIUS. (Dordrecht & Amsterdam: Joannes Van Braam & Gerard Onder de Linden, 1726) Volume 5, Part 2. First Edition.

With all plates present and ‘Directions to the Binder’ at end. Illustrated with 7 folding plates, 4 full page plates and 9 plates within text, all very finely engraved. The Cape of Good Hope section occupies 170 pages including 7 maps and 11 copper plates. Folio, contemporary embossed vellum, raised edges, leather lettering label gilt titles on the spine, speckled edges. 116, 160, (36 pages), 2 pages misnumbered.

Vellum missing from front cover, backstrip defective, internally very fine, very crisp and clean and bright, nearly pristine, plates in excellent condition, highly unusual thus.

“One of the most important and comprehensive works on the East. It deals with the Dutch commerce in the Indies, as well as the natural history and the history of the places described. Sometimes called the Encyclopedia of the Dutch Indies, this volumes deals with Malabar, Japan Cape of Good Hope and Mauritius. Valentyn visited the cape in 1685, 1695, 1705, and 1714; he was supplied by the government with a great amount of information, including charts and copies of several important documents. Using this as a basis he added to it from personal observation and from communications, oral and written, from many of the principal residents of the colony.” ‘The description of Japan occupies 166 pages in the volume with the very fine large folding map of Japan and two additional engravings while the description of the Cape of Good Hope occupies 170 pages including 7 maps and 11 copper plates, “worked into an admirable description of the country.”’

Plates Map of Japan (p.3) folding 1/2 page plate Cooies and Sedan Chair p. 98 1/2 page plate Coolies and Sedan Chair p. 136 Folding map of the Cape of Good Hope p. 2 Folding map of Table Bay p. 5 Folding plan of Cape Town and Mountain p. 7 Folding view of Cape Town - Gezich van Kaap p. 10 Folding plan of Companies Garden p. 29 1/2 page plate of Natives with Lion p. 98 Full page plate of Hottentots p. 112 1/2 page plate of Zebra p. 114 2 plates of birds (ostrich and flamingo) p. 115 1/2 page plate River in Madagascar p. 145 Full page map of island Anzuary p. 148 1/2 page plate Natives on Madagascar p. 149 1/2 page plate Houses Settlement p. 150 Folding map of Mauritius p. 151 1/2 page plate fort on Mauritius p. 151 1/2 page plate view of Harbor Maruritius p. 152 1/2 page plate Fort Frederick Hendrik Mauritius p. 153 $6250.

The Court and Character of King James An Eye “and Eare” Witness Account - Published 1650 Scarce - Printed London - In Contemporary Paneled Calf 152 W[eldon], A[nthony]. THE COURT AND CHARACTER OF KING JAMES. Written and Taken by Sir A.W., Being and Eye and Eare Witness. (London: By R.I. to be sold by John Wright, 1650) Scarce first edition. With the rare portrait frontispiece and engraved titlepage.

Small 8vo [132 by 80mm], full contemporary calf, sometime sympathetically and expertly rebacked to correctly marry the boards which are paneled in blind in ornate fashion with floral corner-pieces also in blind, edges with a double-ruled gilt fillet line, edges gilt tooled, the spine with double-ruled gilt raised bands and a red morocco label ruled and lettered in gilt. [x], 197 pp. A nice copy indeed, being well preserved and a complete copy of this scarce work, with light typical age mellowing. The binding is sturdy and still attractive.

SCARCE FIRST EDITION WITH THE RARELY ENCOUNTERED PORTRAIT FRONTISPIECE. A SELDOM ENCOUNTERED CONTEMPORARY ACCOUNT OF KING JAMES I WRITTEN BY A MEMBER OF HIS COURT. ONLY A SMALL HANDFUL OF COPIES HAVE APPEARED IN RECENT YEARS. The work has long been attributed to Anthony Weldon, due somewhat to its not overly flattering portrayal of the monarch and due to its publication within a few months of Weldon’s death. The justification for the criticism inherent in the book is usually presumed to be because of Weldon’s dismissal from the royal court. At first a popular courtier, Weldon wrote an assessment of the Scottish people which was far from positive and the former James VI of Scotland did not take kindly to it.

While these attributions and assumptions have held for centuries there are nowadays opinions emanating from more modern scholarship which challenges both the authorship of the book and the story of Weldon’s dismissal from court. OCLC; DNB; Marshall and Kelsey. $1950.

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John Marshall’s Life of George Washington - First Edition In the Original Period Calf Bindings - Replete with Maps Published London - 1804-1807 - Five Volumes 153 [Washington, George]; Marshall, John. THE LIFE OF GEORGE WASHINGTON, Commander in Chief of the American Forces...Compiled Under the Inspection of the Hon. Bushrod Washington, From Original Papers Bequeathed to Him by His Deceased Relative.

To Which is Prefixed An Introduction, Containing a Compendious View of the Colonies Planted by the English on the Continent of North America. (London: Richard Phillips, 1804-1807) 5 volumes. First edition, the English Issue published at the same time as the American issue. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Washington in Vol. 1, folding view plates in Vols. 2 and 3, a finely engraved vignette tailpiece at the end of Vol. 3, 12 large folding maps of the American colonies in Vols. 1 and 5. Thick 8vo, contemporary tree calf, spines gilt lettered and numbered in two compartments on red and black contrasting morocco lettering labels and decorated in gilt with gilt bands and period central ornamental devices in gilt. A fine and handsome set in the original English calf binding.

Some light age evidence to the calf but surprisingly well preserved. Internal hinges are in good order, text blocks sound and tight. An unusually well preserved item.

RARE FIRST EDITION IN CONTEMPORARY CALF of one of the great early works on George Washington. The books contain maps of important Revolutionary battles in Virginia, the Carolinas, New York, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and New Jersey. There is also a fine portrait of Washington and finely engraved view plates.

“John Marshall (September 24, 1755 – July 6, 1835) was the Chief Justice of the United States (1801–1835) whose court opinions helped lay the basis for American constitutional law and made the Supreme Court of the United States a coequal branch of government along with the legislative and executive branches. Previously, Marshall had been a leader of the Federalist Party in Virginia and served in the United States House of Representatives from 1799 to 1800. He was Secretary of State under President John Adams from 1800 to 1801.

The longest-serving Chief Justice of the United States, Marshall dominated the Court for over three decades and played a significant role in the development of the American legal system. Most notably, he reinforced the principle that federal courts are obligated to exercise judicial review, by disregarding purported laws if they violate the Constitution. Thus, Marshall cemented the position of the American judiciary as an independent and influential branch of government. Furthermore, the Marshall Court made several important decisions relating to federalism, affecting the balance of power between the federal government and the states during the early years of the republic. In particular, he repeatedly confirmed the supremacy of federal law over state law, and supported an expansive reading of the enumerated powers.”

‘Justice Marshall greatly admired George Washington, and between 1804 and 1807 published his influential five-volume biography. The author’s Life of Washington was based on records and papers provided to him by the late president’s family. The first volume was reissued in 1824 separately as A History of the American Colonies, and the work reflected Marshall’s Federalist principles. His revised and condensed two-volume Life of Washington was published in 1832. Historians have often praised its accuracy and well-reasoned judgments, while noting his frequent paraphrases of published sources such as William Gordon’s 1801 history of the Revolution and the British Annual Register. After completing the revision to his biography of Washington, Marshall prepared an abridgment. In 1833 he wrote, “I have at length completed an abridgment of the Life of Washington for the use of schools. I have endeavored to compress it as much as possible. ... After striking out every thing which in my judgment could be properly excluded the volume will contain at least 400 pages.” The Abridgment was not published until 1838, three years after Marshall died.’

This biography, here offered in its original five volume, first edition presentation, is still regarded as one of the most important ever penned, and perhaps the only one of real substance written by an extraordinary contemporary utterly active in the birthing of the new nation to which Washington had given the very highest and most noble service during is long life. Howes M317; Sabin 44788; Wikipedia $8750.

A Rare Discourse on Heraldry and Arms Edward Waterhous’ Defence of Arms and Armory - 1660 154 Waterhous, Edward. A DISCOURSE AND DEFENCE OF ARMS AND ARMORY, Shewing the Nature and Rises of Arms and Honour in England, From the Camp, the Court, and the City: Under the Two Later of Which, are Contained Universities and Inns of Court (London: T.R. For Samuel Mearne, 1660) Scarce First Edition. This copy without an engraved frontispiece which is sometimes lacking. Small 8vo, bound later in full brown-black calf by Bruno to period style. The spine with raised bands and ruling in blind, 5 compartments with central blind-tooled floral device and two compartments lettered in gilt. (6), 232 pp. A well preserved copy in a handsome later binding, minor mellowing and with the first few and last few leaves having a touch of very minor edge wear.

RARE, OCLC list only one library and Wing indexes only nine copies.

Edward Waterhous (1619-70) was a noted heraldic writer, antiquarian scholar and preacher. He was elected to the Royal Society after its second charter. During the Commonwealth he resided near Oxford in order to have access to the Bodlein Library and continue his researches and his antiquarian interests. In 1668 he was persuaded by Sheldon, Archbishop of Canterbury, to take holy orders and became well known as a preacher.

This work is his discourse on Heraldic Arms, one of his most studied interests. It was perhaps written as distraction from his own grief upon the loss of a friend and relation. He displays in heraldic terms, his submission to the dispensations of Providence: “[b]ut since it is the good pleasure of God to charge the Fields of our worldly serenity with Crosses latent and patent, which when sanctified, are accounted good bearing, it becomes us to accept his chastisement with submission, and improve his instruction with Christian prudence.” - To the Reader. Wing W 1044; OCLC. $2525.

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Select Index of Authors and Subjects Abbott, John S. 58 Adams, John Quincy 7 Alberghetti, Giusto Emilio 7 Ambrose, Stephen 7 Ancient Writing 2 Anne, Queen 25 Appianus 3, 9 Architecture 10 Argonaut Press 21 Armstong, Mrs. 10 Atlas, Mexico 4 Baker, Richard 11 Bartlett, William 11 Blaine, James 11 Bonaparte, Napoleon 56 Bruce, General G.A. 12 Bryant, William Cullen 8 Burnaby, Fred 13 Burton, Richard Francis 13, 14, 15 Caesar, Julius 15 Camden, William 16 Capote, Truman 16 Centennial Jubilee, U.S. 58 Chapman, Abel 17 Charles II 38, 57 Churchill, Winston 17, 18, 19, 20, 21 Civil War, American 21, 26, 31, 61 Civil War, English 25, 28 Columbus, Christopher 21, 22, 55 Congress, U.S. 11 Constitution, British 12 Cromwell, Oliver 25 Cruikshank, Robert 22 Cubas, Antonio Garcia 4 Cuneiform, Ancient Writing 2 Curzon, Lord George 22, 26 Dana, Richard Henry 23 Declaration of Independence 23 Doughty, Charles M. 24, 43 Elizabeth I, Queen 25 Farragut, Admiral David 51 Franklin, Benjamin 25 Fraser, Lovat 26 Freeman, Douglas S. 26 Froissart, John 26, 27 Gerhardi, William 28 Gibbon, Edward 28, 29 Government, British 12 Grant, Ulysses S. 31 Grimeston, Edward 53 Hallam, Henry 32 Hall, James Norman 32 Hamilton, Ian 32 Hampton University 10 Hawthorne, Nathaniel 33 Hedin, Sven 32 (617) 536-4433

Henry IV, of France 33 Herodianus 33 Herodotus 34 Heylyn, Peter 34 Hobbes, Thomas 35, 65 Incunabula 3 Irving, Washington 35 James I 66 James II 57 Jane, Cecil 21 Jefferson, Thomas 36 Jesuits 6, 37, 64 Jeune, Moreau le 55 Johnson, Samuel 37 Jones, David 38 Josephus 38 Kennedy, John F. 39 Kircher, Athanasii 39 Lawrence, T.E. 24, 41, 42, 43 Layard, Austen 44 Lee, Robert E. 26 Lincoln, Abraham 44, 45 Livy 46 Lobo, Jerónimo 37 Longobardi, Niccolo 6 Loubere, Simon De La 40 Lubbock, Basil 46 Ludolf, Job 46 Machiavelli, Nicolo 5, 47, 49 Mahan, Alfred T. 50, 51 Malet, Albert 52 Malthus, Thomas 52 Manchester, William 21 Map, Japanese 4 Maps, American 52 Maps, Great Britain 13, 16 Maps, Japan and Africa 66 Maps, Mexico 4 Marshall, John 1, 67 Maspero, Gaston 53 Merriman, Roger Bigelow 53 Meyrick, Samuel 54 Monroe, James 7 Monstrelet, Enguerrand De 54 Morison, Samuel Eliot 8, 9, 13, 22, 52, 55 Munro, Robert 56 Napoleon (Bonaparte) 56 Nelson, Lord Admiral 51 Oliphant, Mrs. 57 O’Meara, Barry E. 56 Onions, Lee 61 Parliament, English 28, 57 Pierce, Franklin 33 Plutarch 60 Prescott, William 57, 58

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Presidents, U.S. 58 Raleigh, Walter 58 Roberts (of Kandahar) 59 Romanovs, The 28 Roosevelt, Eleanor 59 Roosevelt, Franklin D. 59 Sandburg, Carl 45 Schlesinger, Arthur M. 8 Shakespeare Head Press 60 Sheridan, P. H. 61 Smith, Adam 61, 62 Smith, Elliot 63 Solis y Ribadeneyra, Antonio de 64 Stow, John 64 Sumerian 2 Tarkington, Booth 25 Tellez, F. Balthazar 6, 64 Thomas, Hugh 65 Thucydides 65 Tremont House 10 Trubull, John 23 Turquet, Louis Mayerne 53 Valentyn, Francois 66 Washington, Booker T. 10 Washington, George 1, 67 Waterhous, Edward 67 Weldon, Anthony 66 West Point 7 Witchcraft 8

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