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197 HUBBARD, ELBERT The Complete Writings of Elbert Hubbard. East Aurora, NY: The Roycroft Shop, 1908-1950.
20 vols. 4to, 3/4 red morocco with geometric arts and crafts style decoration, spines gilt in compartments with two gilt wreaths, five raised bands, t.e.g., deckled edges. Author’s Edition. Number 533 of 1,000 numbered printings each signed by the author to the limitation page. Rubbing to boards; wear to heads of spines on some volumes with slight separation to volume 10; significant water damage to volumes 5-6, 11-14, 17-19, affecting first few leaves and dampstaining to interior of some volumes; previous owner’s signature to front pastedown in white; otherwise a fine set with tight hinges. $800-1,200
198 HUGO, VICTOR Works. The Novels Complete and Unabridged. Philadelphia: George Barrie, (1892-1894).
41 vols. (Complete). 8vo, full brown morocco, four raised bands, gilt decorations and titles to spines, a.e.g. Number 54 of 250 copies of the Bibliophile Edition printed on Japanese vellum, with 519 etchings in two states (black and bistre) and 70 double-page etchings in black. Scattered white paint to foot of text block and rear boards on some volumes; minor wear to spines; otherwise interior and plates are in very fine condition. $1,500-2,500
199 JAMES, HENRY The Novels and Tales of Henry James. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons 1907.
25 (of 28) volumes. 8vo, original maroon cloth, gilt titles to spines, t.e.g. Lacking volumes 17-18 and 26. Sunning to spines; hinges slightly loose; otherwise fine. $100-200 200 KIPLING, RUDYARD Works. New York: Doubleday, 1925.
13 vols. 8vo, 3/4 red morocco over cloth, spines gilt in three compartments, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers. The Mandalay Edition. Chipping to the heads of some spines; edges bumped with very minor loss; bookplate tipped in front pastedown; otherwise a good set. $600-800
201 SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM [Works.] London: 1788.
9 vols. (of 20) only. 8vo, contemporary mottled calf, gilt titles to spines. Comprising volumes 3, 6, 9, 10, 14, 17-20 of John Bell’s edition. Minor edgewear and cracking to leather; otherwise fine. $200-400
202 THOREAU, HENRY DAVID The Complete Writings. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1906.
20 vols. Complete. Original green cloth-backed boards, pastedown spine labels. One of 600 limited copies of the Manuscript Edition. Bookplate tipped in front pastedown; fading to boards; sunning to spines; otherwise a fine set. $4,000-6,000
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203 (ARCHAEOLOGY) CARPENTIER, (PIERRE) Alphabetum Tironianum, seu notas Tironis explicandi methodus. Lutetiae Parisiorum: Hippolytum-Ludovicum Guerin et al., 1747.
Folio, old half calf. First edition. Illustrated with eight plates and numerous engraved illustrations in text showing the Tironian alphabet. Containing the Charters of Emperor Louis the Pious. With the Beaufoy and Ducarel armorial bookplates tipped in front pastedown; signature of previous owner to f.f.e.p.; significant wear to boards with loss at edges; fading to cloth-backed spine; foxing throughout; otherwise sound. $500-700
204 (ARCHAEOLOGY) COLUCCI, GUISEPPE Raccolta di rami che appartengono ai primi XV. volvmi delle antichità picene. Fermo: dalla calcografia dell’autore, 1793-1796.
2 vols. Folio, original paper wraps, engraved title pages. First edition. Rare. With numerous engravings. Dampstaining to wraps; significant chipping to edges of leaves; dampstaining and foxing to some plates; otherwise sound. $600-800 205 (ARCHAEOLOGY, POMPEII) SERAO, FRANCESCO Istoria dell’ incendio del Vesuvio accaduto nel mese di Maggio dell’anno MDCCXXXVII. Napoli: presso il de Bonis, 1778.
4to, contemporary beige paper covered boards with exposed broad leather strings. Fifth edition. Text in Latin and Italian arranged in parallel columns. With two fold-out plates illustrating the explosion. Minor foxing throughout; staining to boards; separation to lower five inches of spine; browning to top edges of pp. 116-117; otherwise fine with plates in very good condition. $400-600
206 (ARCHAEOLOGY) WHITE, GILBERT The Natural History and Antiquities of Selbourne. London: printed by T. Bensley for B. White and Son, 1789.
8vo, full mottled calf, spine gilt in six compartments. First edition. Bound by Zaehnsdorf. With six copper engraved plates, two vignettes and folding frontispiece. Some fading to spine; bookplate tipped in front pastedown; otherwise fine. $1,000-2,000
207 (ASIAN) AUDSLEY, GEORGE ASHDOWN The Ornamental Arts of Japan. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1883.
4 vols. Folio, full contemporary blind-stamped morocco, a.e.g., gilt titles to front boards and spines, five raised bands, marbled endpapers. Illustrated with 70 chromolithographed plates. Some rubbing to boards; front hinges starting on some volumes; otherwise a very fine set with bright and clean plates. $400-600
208 (ASIAN) HUMBERT, AIME Japan and the Japanese Illustrated. New York: D. Appleton, 1874.
4to, 3/4 green morocco over marbled boards, marbled endpapers, a.e.g., five raised bands, gilt titles to spine. First American edition. Illustrated with 198 wood engravings. Some scuffing to boards, with loss to leather at top right of front board; head of spine chipped; otherwise fine. $200-400
209 (ASIAN) HUNTER, DARD A Papermaking Pilgrimage to Japan, Korea, and China. New York: Pinson, 1936.
4to, quarter black morocco and patterned boards, publisher’s slipcase. With 50 specimens tipped in at the rear. One of 370 limited printings on Shohun paper, signed by the author and publisher to the limitation page. Prospectus laid in. Slipcase split along the bottom and top edges with fading along fore edge; some fading to leather on front cover; otherwise interior is in fine condition. $1,000-2,000
210 BLACKSTONE, WILLIAM Commentaries on the Laws of England. Oxford: Clarendon, 1766.
4 vols. 4to, full contemporary calf, five raised bands, red leather spine label. Volume II with two engraved tables, one folding. First edition of volume IV, second edition of volumes I and II, fourth edition of volume III. Slight edgewear to head and foot of spine; some marginal wormholing to volume II concentrated at bottom of page and not affecting the text; slight separation to edge of foot on volume IV; otherwise a fine set with tight and clean interior. $2,000-4,000
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211 BONFILS, ROBERT La châtelaine de Vergy. Paris: Joseph Bédier, 1926.
Folio, original decorative boards, red silk ties, unbound as issued in printed folders. Illustrated throughout in colors by Robert Bonfils. Out of an edition of 192, this is one of 21 printed on Japon paper with an extra suite of 39 plates in multiple states. Signed by the author and illustrator to the limitation page. Wear to boards; slight soiling to boards; minor foxing to extremities of some plates; original ties torn; otherwise fine. $800-1,200
212* BURKE, EDMUND A group of ten volumes.
Memoir of the Life and Character of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke. By James Prior. London: Printed for Baldwin, Craddock and Joy, 1826. 2 vols. Complete. Together with The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, and The Speeches of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke on the Impeachment of Warren Hastings. 8 vols. Property from the Estate of Mary Thale, Wilmette, Illinois $100-200
213 BURKE, EDMUND Thoughts and Details on Scarcity: Originally Presented to the Right Honourable William Pitt in the Month of November, 1795. London: printed for F. and C. Rivington, 1800.
8vo, original paper wrappers. First edition, second impression of Burke’s most important treatise in the field of economics. Lacking front wrap; soiling to pages; lacking spine; otherwise pages are tightly bound. $100-200 214* BURNET, BISHOP THOMAS De statu mortuorum et resurgentium tractatus: adjicitur, appendix de futurâ Judaeorum restauratione accedunt ejusdem epistolae duae de archaeologiis philosophicis. London: J. Hooke, 1727.
8vo, blind-stamped leather, copperplate frontispiece portrait. Second edition of Burnet’s treatise on the nature of the soul after death. Published at the bequest of Lord Chesterfied 12 years after Burnet’s death. Spine professionally repaired; hinges reinforced; minor age darkening; otherwise fine. Property from the Estate of Mary Thale, Wilmette, Illinois $100-200
215* CHAPONE, HESTER Letters on the Improvement on the Mind, Addressed to a Young Lady. By Mrs. Hester Chapone. London: Hughes, 1773.
8vo, leather. First edition. Together with two other titles pertaining to the education of young women, comprising The Deportment of Married Life. By Eugenia Stanhope. Pall-Mall, 1798. The Polite Lade. London: published by Isaiah Thomas, 1793. Property from the Estate of Mary Thale, Wilmette, Illinois $100-200
216 (CIRCUS) LE ROUX, (HUGHES) Acrobats and Mountebanks. London: Chapman and Hall, 1890. Illustrations by Jules Garnier.
4to, publisher’s decorative green cloth gilt. Boards rubbed. Together with three books pertaining to P. T. Barnum. Struggles and Triumphs; Or, Forty Years’ Recollections of P. T. Barnum. Written by Himself. Hartford: J. B. Burr, 1870. The Life of Barnum, the World-Renowned Showman. Written by Himself. S.l., n.d. Life of Honourable Phineas T. Barnum. By Joel Benton. Chicago: Vosbrink, 1902. $100-200
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217* (DANTE) NASH, JOHN A group of two books printed by John Nash.
This book announces the publication in four folio volumes of The comedy of Dante Alighieri of Florence, commonly called The Divine Comedy, a line-forline translation in the rime-form of the original by Melville Best Anderson. San Francisco: Printed by J. H. Nash, 1929. With receipt to “Donnelly Training School Library” tipped in front pastedown for copy no. 220 of Nash’s Divine Comedy; Life of Dante, Giovanni Boccaccio’s encomium on Dante or “Trattatello in laude di Dante” [commonly known as the Life of Dante]. By Giovanni Boccaccio. San Francisco: Printed by J. H. Nash for his friends, 1922. One of 250 copies. With bookplate of “Training Department of the Lakeside Press” tipped in front pastedown. Both thin 4to, marbled boards, handmade paper. A fine set. Property from the University of Chicago $50-100
218 (DEAMONOLOY) A group of two books.
Daimonologia; Or, a Treatise of Spirits. Wherein Several Places of Scripture are Expounded . . . . By Jacques Daillon. London: Printed for the author, 1723. Bound together with The Axe Laid to the Root of Popery; Or, a Strong Preservative Against the Romanish Missionaries . . . . London: for T. Bickerton, 1721. Demonologia; Or, Natural Knowledge Revealed Being an Expose of Ancient and Modern Superstitions . . . . By J. S. Forsyth. London: John Bumpus, 1827. First edition. $400-600
219* (DICTIONARY) A group of two 18th century dictionaries.
A Universal Etymological English Dictionary. London: printed for R. Ware et al., 1775. 8vo, full calf, gilt titles to spine. Together with The Universal Spelling Book. By Daniel Fenning. Revised by Rev. J. Malham. London, 1797. Spines of both books professionally repaired with reinforced hinges. Property from the Estate of Mary Thale, Wilmette, Illinois $100-200
220* (DICTIONARY) COCKER, EDWARD Cocker’s English Dictionary. London: printed for T. Norris et al., 1724.
8vo, full contemporary calf, renewed endpapers and spine. Manuscript ex-libris to f.f.e.p. and title page; minor age darkening to leaves; otherwise fine. Property from the Estate of Mary Thale, Wilmette, Illinois $400-600
221 (ENGINEERING) A group of 25 books. $100-200
222 (ENGLAND) A group of two land indentures. 1 p. each. On vellum. (1) Lancaster. April 4, 1754. Tripartite indenture. (2) Illegible. June 4, 1707. Both creased from folds. $100-200
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228 223* (ENGLAND) A group of nine volumes pertaining to the history of England.
The History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Abdication of James the Second, 1688. By David Hume. (Philadelphia): Porter and Coates, n.d. (late 19th century). 5 vols. Complete. 12mo, brown cloth. New edition. Together with The Parliamentary or Constitutional History of England. By several hands. London, 1757, 1760. 2 vols. Court life Below the Stairs. By J. Fitzgerald Molloy. London: Downey, 1897. 2 vols. New edition. 8vo, half calf over cloth-backed boards. Fine. Property from the Estate of Mary Thale, Wilmette, Illinois $100-200
224 (ENGLAND) Document signed. August 3, 1852. 4 p., on vellum. Folds; some age darkening to verso of vellum pages; otherwise fine. $100-200
225* (ENGLAND) ANNUAL REGISTERS A group of five Annual Registers for the years 1775-1777, 1783 and 1787, detailing key events in the American Revolutionary War from the English perspective.
5 vols. 8vo, rebacked in quarter imitation leather over marbled boards, renewed endpapers. 1775. Fourth edition. Containing a copy of the Articles of Confederation. 1776. Third edition. Containing The Declaration of Independence, and details the reaction of the king and parliament. 1777. Third edition. Contains an account of the Revolutionary War. 1783. First edition. Contains a copy of the Treaty of Paris, which ended the Revolutionary War. 1787. First edition. Contains a copy of the U. S. Constitution, with a preface by George Washington. Intermittent foxing; otherwise very fine. Property from the Estate of Mary Thale, Wilmette, Illinois $600-800
226* (ENGLAND) JESSE, J. HENEAGE London: Its Celebrated Characters and Remarkable Places. By J. Heneage Jesse. London: Richard Bentley, 1871.
3 vols. 8vo, green decorative cloth. Regular edition. Wear to boards; otherwise a sound set. Together with 17 other books pertaining to London. Property from the Estate of Mary Thale, Wilmette, Illinois $200-400
227* (ENGLAND, LONDON) A group of 24 volumes pertaining to London. Property from the Estate of Mary Thale, Wilmette, Illinois $100-200
228* (ENGLAND, LONDON) THE AMBULATOR The Ambulator; Or, A Pocket Companion in a Tour Round London. London: J. Scatchered, 1793.
12mo, marbled boards. Fifth edition. Loose cover. Together with three other guides to London, comprising Crosby’s Complete Pocket Guide. London, 1807. Philip’s Handy Atlas of the Counties of England. By George Philip. London, n.d. Philips’ Handy Gazetteer of the British Isles. London, 1924. Property from the Estate of Mary Thale, Wilmette, Illinois $300-500
229 (ENGLAND) MACAULAY, THOMAS BABINGTON The History of England from the Accession of James II. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, Paternoster-Row, 1849-1861.
5 vols. 8vo, 3/4 leather over red cloth, t.e.g., gilt titles to spines, five raised bands. First edition. Rubbing to spines; some chipping to heads of spines; otherwise a fine set. $150-250
230* (ENGLAND) MORRIS, FRANCIS ORPEN A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland. London (Edinburgh and Dublin): William Mackenzie, n. d. (c. 1868-1880).
6 vols. 4to, original gilt decorated maroon cloth, a.e.g. With over 200 color plates featuring castles and mansions that served as county seats, surrounded by landscapes. Hinges loose on all volumes; fraying to edges; some offsetting from plates; otherwise fine. Property from the Estate of Henri de Loys, Winnetka, Illinois $200-400
231* (ENGLAND, LONDON) THE MORNING CHRONICLE Seven issues, 1777: January 8, December 10, 15-19. Original copies of the Morning Chronicle and London Advertise, which record the surrender of General John Burgoyne at Saratoga. Property from the Estate of Mary Thale, Wilmette, Illinois $400-600
232* (ENGLAND) OFFICIAL FUNDRAISING STATUTE Anno regni Annae Reginae Magna Britannia, Francia & Hibernia . . . . London: Charles Bill and Thomas Newcomb, 1711.
Folio, 53 pp. [pp. 455-508], sewn into a concertina with marbled pastedown label. An official fundraising statute to license and tax hackney coaches, vellum and paper, cards and dice to raise funds for Queen Anne’s war. Together with Select Documents for Queen Anne’s Reign, Down to the Union with Scotland 1702-7. Edited by G. M. Trevelyan. Cambridge University Press, 1929. Property from the Estate of Mary Thale, Wilmette, Illinois $100-200
233 (ENGLAND) ORDER OF ST. MICHAEL AND ST. GEORGE A significant archive pertaining to the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George. Comprising 24 appointments (for numerous individuals) signed by Prince George, the Duke of Cambridge. Together with a draft for the cover and a final publication of The Supplementary Statute of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George. Colonial Office, 1879. Tables of Precedency. Contemporary manuscript notation to cover page states “Copies Scarce/Out of Print/(Printed for special communication)/Received from Sir Charles George Young, 7th June 1807.” Also with an archive pertaining to a settlement against the Parish of Clerkenwell. All contained in protective sleeves and a binder. $1,000-2,000
234* (ENGLAND) PICKERING, DANBY The Statutes at Large, from Magna Carta to the End of the Eleventh Parliament of Great Britain, Anno 1761. Continued. Cambridge: Printed by John Archdeacon, 1775, 1778.
2 vols. Volumes 31 and 32. 8vo, contemporary calf. Spines professionally repaired; hinges reinforced; minor soiling to boards; edges bumped; bookplates tipped in front pastedowns; otherwise fine. Property from the Estate of Mary Thale, Wilmette, Illinois $100-200
235* (ENGLAND, WOMEN) An extensive collection of approximately 80 books on, about or by principally upper-class British women in the 18th and 19th centuries. Property from the Estate of Mary Thale, Wilmette, Illinois $300-500
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Home Arts for Young & Old. By Caroline L. Smith. Boston, 1873. The Book of Tableaux and Shadow Pantomimes. By Sarah Annie Frost. New York, 1869. How to Amuse an Evening Party. New York, 1869. Howard’s Book of Conundrums and Riddles. By Clarence J. Howard. New York, 1869. Dick’s Parlor Exhibitions New York, 1882. $100-200
237 (GAMES) CULIN, STEWART Chess and Playing-Cards: Catalogue of Games and Implements for Divination Exhibited by the United States National Museum in Connection with the Department of Archaeology and Paleontology of the University of Pennsylvania at the Cotton States and International Exposition, Atlanta, Georgia, 1895. From the Report of the U. S. National Museum for 1896. Washington: government printing office, 1898.
8vo, in wrappers. One of the most important works on the origins of chess and playing cards. Wear to the edges of wrappers; chipping to edges of texts; otherwise sound. Literature: Jessel, no. 336, p. 60 $100-200
238 (GOLF) MACDONALD, CHARLES B. Scotland’s Gift: Golf. New York: Scribner’s, 1928.
4to, half vellum and gilt stamped red boards, gilt lettered black morocco spine label, t.e.g. First edition. One of 260 limited copies signed by the author to the limitation page. With numerous full-page photo lithographs with tissue guards including color frontispiece and folding map of the National Golf Links of America. After bringing back a set of clubs from Scotland in 1892, Charles B. Macdonald laid out the first 18 hole golf course at the Chicago Golf Club, the first golf course west of the Allegheny Mountains. Minor soiling to spine; otherwise fine. $3,000-5,000 239* HARRIS, J. Three Treatises: The First Concerning Art. The Second Concerning Music, Painting and Poetry. The Third Concerning Happiness. London: H. Woodfall, 1744.
8vo, full calf, renewed spine. Rubbing to boards; hinges starting; minor age darkening to leaves; otherwise fine. Property from the Estate of Mary Thale, Wilmette, Illinois $100-200
240 JOHNSON, SAMUEL A group of 14 volumes in leather binding.
The Rambler: In Three Volumes. Philadelphia: Abraham Small, 1821. 3 vols. Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia. A Tale. Boston: T. Bedlington, 1926. The Poetical Works of Samuel Johnson. London: George Kearsley, 1789. The Six Chief Lives from Johnson’s Lives of the Poets, with Macaulay’s Life of Johnson. Edited by Matthew Arnold. London: Macmillan, 1878. The Life of Samuel Johnson. By James Bosewell. London: Office of the National Illustrated Library, s.l.: n.d. With four others. $200-400
241 JOHNSON, SAMUEL An Account of the Life of Samuel Johnson. London: printed for Richard Phillips, 1805.
8vo, 3/4 blue leather over grey boards, red leather pastedown spine label. First edition. Hinges starting; bookplates tipped to front and rear pastedowns; minor age darkening; otherwise fine. $400-600
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242 JOHNSON, SAMUEL Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets. London: J. Nichols, 1779-1781.
10 vols. 12mo, contemporary calf, red and black pastedown spine labels, titles in gilt. First edition. The first published form of what afterwards became known as The Lives of the Poets. Rubbing to boards and edgewear to boards and spines; chipping to heads of some spines; front board volume one detached but present; ex-libris tipped in f.f.e.p. volume one; otherwise interior is in very good condition. $600-800
243 LIND, JENNY A group of four items pertaining to the Swedish opera singer’s American tour, including three pieces of sheet music, including the sheet music for “Jenny Lind’s Salutation to America” ( W.M. Hall, 1850), and a first edition of Jenny Lind in America and Cuba, by C. G. Rosenberg (New York, 1851). $100-200 244* LOYS DE BOCHAT, (CHARLES GUILLAUME) Mémoires critiques pour servir d’ éclaircissemens sur divers points de l’histoire ancienne de la Suisse. Lausanne: Chez Marc-Michel Bousquet, 1747-1749.
3 vols. 4to, full mottled calf, gilt titles and decoration to spine, all edges stained red, marbled endpapers. First edition. With bookplate of Louis de Loys tipped in front pastedown; minor edgewear; rubbing to spines on each volume, concentrated at the outer hinges; some foxing throughout; otherwise fine. Property from the Estate of Henri de Loys, Winnetka, Illinois $200-400
245 (MAGIC) TARBELL, HARLAN The Tarbell Course in Magic. New York: N. L. Magic and Louis Tannen, (19411954).
6 vols. 8vo, multi-colored cloth, gilt titles to spines. Revised edition. Inscribed and dated by the author to the f.f.e.p. of volumes 1, 2, 4 and 6 to Harold Mann, with an original pen drawing in each depicting different acts of magic with an original sentiment, such as “Avid as they gazed/The wonder grew/The more they saw/The less they knew,” with a picture of a rabbit. Together with seven books pertaining to magic. $200-400
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(1) Recommendation Certificate, London. November 12, 1863. Recommending Captain William of Higgins as First Mate of the Heiress, Victorien, and Junius. (2) Partially printed document, Bazin. March 19, 1813 at St. Servin. 6 p. Dispute submitted to two arbiters from the Master of the ship Minerve requesting recompense for his voyage from S. Malo to Teneriffe. Together with a 2 p. balance sheet. $200-400
247* (MARITIME) YACHT REGISTER Lloyd’s Register of British and Foreign Shipping. Yacht Register. London, 18931895.
3 vols. Oblong 8vo, original green pictorial gilt cloth, a.e.g., brass fasteners. Numbers 670, 700 and 718. Each with 50+ page appendix of Color Code Signal, Yacht Club, Sailing Club and Racing Club flags along with folding charts. Property of Capt. de Loys, with name stamped to covers. Hinges loose; wear to boards; otherwise fine. Property from the Estate of Henri de Loys, Winnetka, Illinois $100-200 248 MILTON, JOHN Le Paradis Perdu. By John Milton. Paris: Chez Defer de Maisonneuve, 1792.
2 vols. Large 4to, original marbled boards with orange leather spine labels. French and English edition. Illustrated with 12 color stipple engravings, cut by Clement, Colibert, Demonchy, and Gautier after paintings by Schall. Minor foxing throughout not affecting the plates; edgewear to boards; minor offsetting to verso of plates; otherwise a fine example of early color printing. $1,000-2,000
249 MINIATURE BOOKS A group of two miniature books, 18th century.
The London Almanack for the Year of Christ 1769. Printed for the Company of Stationers, n.d. Elaborately bound in red leather with gilt tooling and housed in a matching decorative leather chemise and paper slipcase with pastedown spine label. Very fine. Height 2 1/2 inches. Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect. By Robert Burns. Kilnarnock: Printed by John Wilbur, 1786. pp. 234. Fitted in a custom book-shaped box with pastedown title to spine. Reduced facsimile first edition. Height 1 1/2 inches. $400-600
Calendrier de la Cour, tiré des éphémérides, pour l’année Mil sept cent soixantequinze. Paris: Herissant, 1776. 16mo, full gilt embossed leather, marbled endpapers, a.e.g. La constitution Françoise, décrétée par l’Assemblée Nationale Constituante, aux années 1789, 1790 et 1791. Paris: Chez Belin, 1791. 16mo, full contemporary calf, red leather spine label, marbled endpapers. Chipping to the top fore edge of first nine pages; age darkening to leaves; rubbing to boards; otherwise fine. $500-700
251 (MISCELLANEOUS) ANONYMOUS Curiosities for the Ingenious: Selected from the Most Authentic Treasures of Nature, Science and Art, Biography, History, and General Literature. Anonymous. London: Thomas Boys, 1821.
8vo, original printed boards, later pastedown label to spine. First edition with 12 engraved plates. Soiling to boards; otherwise fine. $100-200
252 (MNEMONICS) GREY, ROBERT Memoria Technica: Or, a New Method of Artificial Memory, Applied to and Exemplified in Chronology, Geography, History, Astronomy. Also Jewish, Grecian and Roman Coins, Weights, and Measures. By Richard Grey. London: printed for D. Browne et al., 1761.
8vo, full contemporary calf, raised bands. Fourth edition of Grey’s treatise where he used strings of letters to remember numbers. This edition was reissued in the same year with a cancel t.p.: “Printed for Henry Lintot and sold by D. Browne . . . [et al.].” Stamp to front pastedown; previous owner’s signature to title page; minor edgewear; otherwise fine. $100-200 253 MORRISON, JIM Clipped signature mounted with a photograph of the singer. Elaborately framed upon an imitation snakeskin matte. Size of frame 32 x 27 inches. $200-400
254* (NEWMAN, CARDINAL JOHN H.) JENNINGS, H. Cardinal Newman: The Story of His Life. By Henry J. Jennings. Birmingham; London: Houghton; Simpkin, 1882.
8vo, custom morocco slipcase, gilt embossed red leather boards by Sangorski and Sutcliffe with fleur-de-lis-tipped raised bands, a.e.g. First edition. With three tipped-in autographed letters signed. One bound in after title page signed by Newman, dated “The Oratory Jan. 25, 1875,” with H. J. Jennings Esq. beneath his signature. A second letter is bound in, unsigned, in a different hand, also dated “Oratory, Oct 8, 1881”. A third letter, 4 pp., on the stationary of Hawarden Castle, Chester, dated December 8, 1881, in a third hand signed by M. Gladstone, to J. Jennings, Esq., Handsworth Wood, Birmingham. Tippedin frontispiece photograph of a seated Cardinal Newman. Minor worming to the bottom of the slipcase; otherwise very fine. Property from the Estate of Marcia A. Allen, Fairfield, Iowa $600-800
255* NEWMAN, CARDINAL JOHN H. Apologia Pro Vita Sua: Being a Reply to a Pamphlet Entitled, “What, then, Does Dr. Newman Mean?” London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts and Green, 1864.
8vo, original brown blind-stamped cloth-backed boards, gilt titles to spine. First edition in book form. Autographed letters signed from John Keble (1792-1866) tipped in f.f.e.p., dated “Fairford, June 28, 1828.” Keble played an important role in the Oxford Tractarian Movement and was a close colleague of Cardinal Newman. Boards and spine detached but present; bookplate tipped in front pastedown; wear to boards; otherwise sound. Property from the Estate of Marcia A. Allen, Fairfield, Iowa $400-600
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256 (PERFUME) A group of 18 books pertaining to perfume, including Perfumery: Its Manufacture and Use, by Campbell Morfit, Philadelphia, 1847, and The Art of Perfumery, and Method of Obtaining the Odors of Plants, by G. W. Septimus Piesse, Philadelphia: 1857. $100-200
257 (POLITICAL) A group of 66 political books and pamphlets, mostly pertaining to leftist politics. $200-400 258* PRESCOTT, WILLIAM History of the Conquest of Mexico. 3 vols. Together with The Conquest of of Peru. 2 vols. Chicago: Clarke, n.d. (c. 1900).
5 vols. 8vo, blue cloth. Slight edgewear to the tops of spines; otherwise a fine set. Property from the Estate of Mary Thale, Wilmette, Illinois $100-200
259* (QUAKERS) PHILIPS, DANIEL Vindiciae Veritatis: Or, an Occasional Defence of the Principles and Practices of the People Called Quakers in Answer to John Stilling’s Seasonable Advice Concerning Quakerism. London: T. Frowle in White Hart Court, 1703.
12mo, half imitation leather over marbled boards, renewed endpapers. First edition of this very rare early defense of Quarkerism (Smith, 1867, p. 407). With a preface by William Penn. Rebacked; age darkening throughout; otherwise fine. Property from the Estate of Mary Thale, Wilmette, Illinois $200-400
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260 SHEA AND PATTEN The Soapy Smith Tragedy. Compiled by Shea & Patten. Skagway, Alaska, 1907.
Oblong 8vo, paper wraps with gilt titles and decorations to cover. Minor fading to wrappers; otherwise fine. $300-500
261* STANHOPE, PHILIP DORMER A group of seven volumes pertaining to the Earl of Chesterfield.
Miscellaneous Works of the late Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield. By M. Maty. London: Edward and Charles Dilly, 1779. 4 vols. Second edition. 8vo, full leather. Lord Chesterfield’s Letters. Edited by John Bradshaw. London: George Allen, 1926. Fifth printing. Property from the Estate of Mary Thale, Wilmette, Illinois $100-200
262 TAYLOR, ELIZABETH Signed studio photo from The Flintstones. Framed together with three other studio photographs from the movie, two of which are signed by Rick Moranis and John Goodman. Elaborately framed in dinosaur-themed presentation. Size of frame 21 x 31 inches. $300-500 263 WELLES, ORSON Typescript of the radio broadcast for “His Honor, the Mayor”, 15 pp. Based on a short story by George Ade about civic corruption and free speech in a small American town, the play was originally broadcasted on CBS on April 6, 1941. The broadcast was famously met with criticism from William Randolph Hearst and President Hoover due to communist undertones. Browning to pages; chipping around edges; folded in thirds; otherwise sound. $200-400
264 (WHALING) A group of six documents illustrative of the business of whaling.
(1) A printed Insurance Policy. November 19, 1867. $15,000 in Sperm Oil for vessels at Fayal (Atlantic). (2) 1 page. ALS from John C. Osgood. July 2829, 1867. Endorsing Mr. Corowell for First Mate to Indian Ocean aboard the ship Para. Response: Crowell is aboard the ship Julian on a whaling voyage. (3) 2 page. ALS from Captain Lewis Tobey, Master of William Rotch. January 10, 1821. Request payment for main sail and line. (4) 2 page. ALS and sales account from John MacKay, Baltimore. October 4, 1823. 21 casks of whale oil received for sale by MacKay from Plummer. Also lists buyers and current prices for both whale and sperm oils. (5) 3 ALS from G. S. Alden, New Bedford, to Isaac Hicks, NY. December 4, 1801. Arrival of ship Warren, purchase of ship, arrival of ship Commerce. (6) 1 page. Printed bill of sale of ship Lading. July 15, 1845. Casks of sperm oil by Abraham Bell and Son, New York. For the ship Fidelia. $800-1,200 265 (WHALING) HAWLEY, FRANK Whales & Whaling in Japan. Miscellanea Japonica, II: Volume I, Part I [as issued]. Kyoto: (Kawakita Printing Co.), 1958 -1960.
4to, quarter goatskin, in original decorative slipcase. One of 125 numbered copies. With prospectus. Fine. $800-1,200
266* WILSON, G. H. The Eccentric Mirror. London: J. and J. Cundee, 1807.
4 vols. 8vo, contemporary boards with pastedown spine label. With engraved additional titles and plates throughout, chiefly portraits. Comprising four volumes of short biographical texts of “persons remarkable for any extraordinary deviation from the general laws of nature with respect to exterior conformation.” Hinges detached on most volumes but held together with mylar wraps; wear to boards and spines; minor foxing; otherwise sound. Property from the Estate of Mary Thale, Wilmette, Illinois $100-200
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SEEKING CONSIGNMENTS
NOVEMBER 19 AUCTION
James Cook. A set of two folio atlases of engravings from Captain James Cook’s second and third voyages. Sold for $7,320 in March 2009.
For more information please contact Mary Williams at 312.334.4236 or marywilliams@lesliehindman.com.
