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P RO P E R T Y F RO M T H E T R U S T S A N D E S TAT E S O F Professor Ethan D. Alyea, Jr., Bloomington, Indiana Estate of Timothy E. Burton, Brookfield, Wisconsin Curt and Dr. Fleur Strand of New York City, New York and Snowmass Village, Colorado Charles and Lorraine Janda, Hinsdale, Illinois Thomas Sills Trust, Chicago, Illinois Kenneth R. Treis, Milwaukee, Wisconsin Avis Hope Truska, Scottsdale, Arizona P RO P E R T Y F RO M T H E C O L L E C T I O N S O F Antiquariat Botanicum, Dr. Eugene Vigil Thomas J. Barrett Norman and Florence Blitch The Private Collection of Richard Cady The Caraway Family Robert and Norma Cotner F. Alan Cummings, Tallahassee, Florida David L. Good Anne Gurewich Gordon, Bethesda, Maryland The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art Dr. Brant Mittler The Studio and Personal Archive of Barry Moser The Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, California, Sold to Support the Care of Collections and the William Holden Fund for Acquisitions Michael Pintauro Julie Riedl, Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin Helena Szepe, Tampa, Florida Gregory Thomas A Private Collection, Chicago, Illinois A Prominent Chicago Collection
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TABLE OF CONTE NTS Session I 9 November 2021 10am CT | Chicago Lots 1 - 307 Science and Natural History | Lots 1-66.................................................................................. 7
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Collection of Norman and Florence Blitch | Lots 23-47...................................................... 14
Selections from the Collection of Dr. Eugene Vigil and the Remaining Stock of Antiquariat Botanicum, Part I | Lots 67-192............................................... 26 The Americana & Texiana Collection of Brant Mittler | Lots 193-271......................................... 62 Printed and Manuscript Americana | Lots 272-295................................................................. 88 Maps & Atlases | Lots 296-307............................................................................................ 96
Session II 10 November 2021 10am CT | Chicago Lots 308 - 687 Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts | Lots 308-468................................................................ 101
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Collection of Norman and Florence Blitch | Lots 325-358................................................ 106
Including the Frank Lloyd Wright Collection of Jesse “Cary” Caraway | Lots 398-417........... 130
Fine Bindings | Lots 469-570............................................................................................. 156
Including Fore-Edge Paintings | Lots 498-523................................................................. 163
Including Publisher’s Trade Bindings | Lots 524-570........................................................ 170
Selections from the Studio and Personal Archive of Barry Moser | 571-687............................ 183 Fine Books & Manuscripts Team......................................................................................... 238 Inquiries.......................................................................................................................... 239 Guide for Prospective Sellers............................................................................................. 240 Conditions of Sale............................................................................................................ 241 Upcoming Auctions........................................................................................................... 245
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Session I: Tuesday, 9 November | 10am CT Science & Natural History Lots 1-66
1 AGRICOLA, Georgius (1494-1555). De Re Metallica Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 with Biographical Introduction, Annotations and Appendices upon the Development of Mining Methods, Metallurgical Processes, Geology, Minerology & Mining Law from the Earliest Times to the 16th Century. Herbert Clark HOOVER and Lou Henry HOOVER, translators. London: The Mining Magazine, 1912. Folio (346 x 211 mm). Numerous full-page and in-text illustrations reproducing the 1556 woodcuts. Publisher’s original full vellum, smooth spine in 5 compartments with 4 raised bands, black lettered in 3 compartments, 2 edges uncut (some very minor wear, some browning to edges); original brown dustjacket with manuscript lettering to front cover (soiled, chipped, rubbed). Provenance: Charles F. Rand (inscription, stamp on dustjacket). FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY HOOVER to Charles F. Rand: “To Charles F. Rand with Compliments of H.C. Hoover.” This first systematic treatise on mining and metallurgy was translated from the first Latin Edition of 1556. Duveen, p. 5; Hoover 28; Norman 21. Property from the Estate of Professor Ethan D. Alyea, Jr., Bloomington, Indiana $400 - 600
2 AGRIPPA VON NETTESHEIM, Henricus Cornelius (1486?-1535). De Incertitudine & Vanitate Scientiarum Declamatio Invectiva, Denuo ab Autore Recognita, & Marginalibus Annotationibus Aucta. [Cologne]: T. Baumius, 1544. 8vo (157 x 97 mm). Woodcut portrait on title-page, 2 woodcut initials. (Some underlining, some dampstaining, small marginal wormholes toward rear). Contemporary calf rebacked (all else preserved), spine in 5 compartments with 4 raised bands, blind-stamped sides (sides worn, some wormholes, annotation on fore-edge “Van. Scich”). Provenance: Anto[nius] Manuelus? (signature, some annotations); Philip vir De Lauberivière (signature, some annotations). Early edition, first published in 1530. Following the publication of this work, Agrippa was branded a heretic and lost his position as the imperial historiographer to Charles V for scrutinizing intellectual activity in his satirical call for a return to the faith as exemplified by the early Christian church. STC German p. 11; not in Adams. Property from the Thomas Sills Trust, Chicago. Illinois $300 - 400
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3 BARRETT, Francis (ca 1770-80, d. 1802 or later). The Magus, or Celestial Intelligencer. London: for Lackington, Allen, and Co., 1801 [but 1875]. 4to (285 x 220 mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece, 22 engraved plates (5 with hand-coloring). (Lacking final advertisement leaf, some very minor soiling.) Later half cloth uncut (rebacked preserving portion of original spine, some light wear). Facsimile reprint of the first edition of 1801. “Composed in the Christian tradition, The Magus was a farrago of Renaissance alchemy and natural and talismatic magic that fitted contemporary Gothic taste... The book›s most startling feature was a set of gargoyle-like portraits of demons conjured up in ritual magic ceremonies” (DNB). Property from the Thomas Sills Trust, Chicago. Illinois $500 - 700
4 BOSSE, Abraham (1604-1676), artist and engraver. Girard DESARGUES (15911661). La Maniere Universelle de Mr. Desargues Lyonnois, Pour Poser L’essieu, & placer les heures & autres choses aux Cadrans au Soleil. Paris: Pierre Des-Hayes, 1643. 8vo (175 x 125 mm). Engraved allegorical title-page, engraved dedication, engraved title-page, 66 engraved plates. (Some staining, some annotations.) Contemporary vellum (some soiling, some light wear, book seller’s description pasted to front flyleaf). FIRST EDITION of this important manual for setting up sundials, including many engraved diagrams of sundials by artist and engraver Abraham Bosse. Berlin Kat. 4716; Brunet I, 1127; Cicognara 817; Fowler 56. Property from the Thomas Sills Trust, Chicago. Illinois $400 - 600
5 CAUS, Salomon de (1576-1626?). La pratique et demonstration des horloges solaires. Paris: Jerome Drouart, 1624. Folio (385 x 237 mm). Engraved diagrams on N2r and Q1r. Woodcut diagrams throughout, including several full-page, the diagrams on ã1v, G1r, H1r, K1r, K2r, R1v and S2v with volvelles or attachments (several detached, lacking overslip on E2r), the diagram on R1v printed on an overslip and pasted in. Compass printed on vellum laid in at N1r. (A few leaves wrinkled and frayed, a few small holes or tears affecting text and images, dampstaining, marginal chipping, some soiling.) Contemporary vellum (defective). Provenance: J. D. Labarre (early signature on title-page); a few early manuscript annotations. FIRST EDITION OF CAUS’ RARE WORK ON SUNDIALS, inspired by the work of Vitruvius, and including the dissertation on the 35th proposition of Euclid following the dedication. RARE: according to American Book Prices Current, only 4 copies of this work have appeared at auction in the last 45 years, each with varying numbers of volvelles present, and most defective. Berlin Kat. 1745; Brunet I:1691. Sold not subject to return for lack of any movable volvelles. Property from the Thomas Sills Trust, Chicago. Illinois $1,000 - 1,500 8
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6 CHASLES, Michel (1793-1881). Catalogue de la Bibliotheque Scientifique, Historique et Litteraire de feu M. Michel Chasles (de l’Institut). Paris: A. Claudin, 27 June 1881. -- Supplement. Articles omis. Ouvrages en Double. Paris: A. Claudin, 18 July 1881. 2 parts in one volume, 8vo (219 x 137 mm). Printer’s devise on title-pages. (Minor spotting, some chipping with repairs to preliminary leaves, several leaves uncut.) Half brown cloth over cloth boards, original gray printed wrappers bound neatly in (some repairs to wrappers). Chasles was a highly influential mathematician and historian of arithmetics who made significant contributions to projective geometry. His collection was so extensive that it took 20 days to disperse, and the supplement is almost always missing. Taylor, p.123 (“a means of identifying rare old scientific books”). Property from the Thomas Sills Trust, Chicago. Illinois $300 - 400
7 CUVIER, Georges L.C. Baron (1769-1832). The Animal Kingdom. London: G. Henderson, 1834, 1837. 4 volumes in 8, comprising 4 text volumes and 4 atlas volumes, 8vo (214 x 133 mm). 7 engraved portraits (4 frontispieces), 8 engraved title-pages, 789 (of 789) engraved plates (751 hand-colored, many heightened with gum arabic, 8 folding). (Some stab holes in margins, some browning, some offsetting, 1 closed tear repaired verso.) Contemporary half calf gilt, marbled boards, each with 2 calf lettering-pieces gilt (overall wear, several spines defective). Provenance: A.B. Valentine (signatures, some annotations). A later edition of Henry McMurtrie’s translation of Cuvier’s landmark work on anatomy, taxonomy, and classification. The present copy with the complete number of plates called for by Nissen and accounted for in the index, but with slight variations to plate numbering (complete details available on request). Anker 110; Brunet II: 457; Nissen ZBI 1016; Zimmer pp. 153-55. Property from the Estate of Professor Ethan D. Alyea, Jr., Bloomington, Indiana $600 - 800
8 DARWIN, Charles (1809-82). On the Origin of Species by means of natural selection. New York: D. Appleton, 1860. 8vo. Half-title; one folding letterpress table. (Some spotting or browning, small dampstain to upper corner of a few leaves.) Original blue blindstamped cloth, spine gilt-lettered (Rebacked preserving original spine and endpapers, some light wear to corners). Provenance: C. F. Wreak (signature); S. B. Wakeman (signature); Liberal University Library (bookplate partially removed and struck through). FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, FIRST ISSUE with two quotations facing titlepage. Darwin’s work “marked a turning point, not only in the history of science, but in the history of ideas in general, for there is no field of human intellectual endeavor that has not been influenced by the thought and fact of evolution” (DSB III, p.571). Freeman 377. Property from the Collection of Dr. Brant Mittler $3,000 - 4,000
8A DESCARTES, Rene (1596-1650). Tractatus de Homine, et de Formatione Foetus. --Passiones Animae, per Renatum Descartes. --Specimina Philosphaiae: Seu Dissertatio de Methodo Rectè regendae rationis, & Veritatis in scientiis investigandae: Dioptrice, et Meteora. --Principia Philosophiae. --Meditationes de Prima Philosophia, In quibus Dei Existentia, & Animӕ humanӕ à corpore Distinctio, demonstrantur. 1678. --Appendix, Continens Objectiones Quintas & Septimas In Renati Descartes Meditationes De Prima Philosophia. Amsterdam: Daniel Elzevir, 1677, 1678. 6 works in 2 volumes, 4to (199 x 151/152 mm). Title-page of first work printed in red and black; together, 248 woodcut illustrations; woodcut devices on titlepages. (Some light browning or spotting.) Contemporary calf gilt, spines in 5 compartments with 4 raised bands, each gilt-lettered in one compartment, giltdecorated in the rest, red and brown speckled edges (some wear, a few joints starting), Provenance: Guy Ahlsell de Toulza (bookplate). FIRST ELZEVIR EDITIONS. Though usually considered a philosopher, Descartes was also a mathematician and scientist who put forth the idea that physical phenomena can be explained through mechanics. Descartes studied the relationship of the human body with the presence of the soul, believing the soul resides in the brain, thus combining philosophical and scientific principles. Many of his theories were discredited using empirical methods by Thomas Bartholin and Nicholas Steno. First work: Garrison-Morton 574. Property from the Thomas Sills Trust, Chicago. Illinois $500 - 700 V I E W T H E C O M P L E T E C ATA L O G U E AT H I N D M A N A U C T I O N S . C O M
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9 [EINSTEIN, Albert]. KARSH, Yousuf (1908-2002), photographer. Group of 4 photographs of Albert Einstein. Ca 1948 (but printed later, ca 1959). 4 glossy black and white 8 x 10-in. portrait photographs of Albert Einstein, copyright notice stamped on verso, each numbered by hand verso in pencil (“No:4,” No:8,” No:24,” No:25”). With original mailing envelope from Karsh, postmarked 21 August 1959, including the typed note: “Photographs for Record Purposes Only.” Provenance: Dr. Herbert McLean Evans (18821971), anatomist and embryologist known for co-discovering Vitamin E (original mailing envelope); acquired from Jeremy Norman. Einstein sat for Karsh at Princeton’s Institute for Advanced Study, where Karsh found him “a simple, kindly, almost childlike man, too great for any of the postures of eminence. One did not have to understand his science to feel the power of his mind or the force of his personality. He spoke sadly, yet serenely, as one who had looked into the universe, far past mankind’s small affairs. When I asked him what the world would be like were another atomic bomb to be dropped, he replied wearily, ‘Alas, we will no longer be able to hear the music of Mozart’.” Property from the Thomas Sills Trust, Chicago. Illinois $800 - 1,200
10 [EINSTEIN, Albert]. HECHT, Selig (1892-1947). Explaining the Atom. New York: The Viking Press, 1947. 8vo. Numerous in-text illustrations. Original cloth; publisher’s pictorial dust jacket (some minor chipping.) Provenance: Rabbi Jacob J. Weinstein (bookplate, see below); acquired from Weinstein by the present owner. FIRST EDITION, accompanied by a photocopy of a 29 April 1947 letter sent by Albert Einstein to Rabbi Weinstein on Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists stationery. In his message, Einstein remarks: “Dr. Hecht has succeeded in giving, clearly and simply, an authoritative account of the scientific steps, both theoretical and experimental, that have led to our present knowledge of nuclear fission.” Also laid in are photocopies of correspondence between the Thomas Sills and Dr. John Stachel, first editor of the Einstein Papers Project, in which Sills reports that Rabbi Weinstein is “known for his work in antinuclear and peace movements.” Einstein apparently gave several copies of Hecht’s book as gifts with an accompanying letter. Property from the Thomas Sills Trust, Chicago. Illinois $500 - 700
11 EINSTEIN, Albert (1879-1955). A group of offprints, comprising: “Zu Kaluzas Theorie des Zusammenhanges von Gravitation und Elektrizität. [Parts I and II].” Offprint from: Sitzungsberichten der Presussichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Phys.-Math. Klasse, VI. Berlin: Der Akademie Der Wissenschaften in Kommission bei Walter de Gruyter U. Co., 1927. 2 parts in 1 volume, 4to (255 x 184 mm). Original printed orange wrappers (minor creasing). FIRST SEPARATE EDITION. Theodor Kaluza 10
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(1885-1954) published a paper in 1921 where he linked gravitation and electromagnetism using Einstein’s gravitation equations for 5 dimensions, instead of 4. In February 1927, Einstein published these “papers on the five-dimensional theory are two short communications” where “his improved treatment [of the Kaluza theory] turns out to be identical with the work of Klein” (Pais, Subtle is the Lord, pp. 344, 333). [With:] EINSTEIN. Walther MAYER (1887-1948). “Einheitliche Theorie von Gravitation und Elektrizität.” [With:] “Einheitliche Theorie von Gravitation und Elektrizitat. Zweite Abhandlung.” Offprint from: Sitzungsberichten der Presussichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Phys.-Math. Klasse. XXV, XII. 25 (1931) [Part I] and 12 (1932) [Part II]. Berlin: Der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Kommission bei Walter de Gruyter U. Co., 1931-1932. 2 parts in 2 volumes, 8vo (258 x 182 mm). Original printed orange wrappers (browning, brittle, some annotations). FIRST SEPARATE EDITIONS. “In 1931 Einstein and Walter Mayer reformulated Kaluza’s 5-dimensional [unified field] theory retaining a 4-dimensional spacetime” (Norman 701). Property from the Thomas Sills Trust, Chicago. Illinois $200 - 300
12 EUCLID (fl. ca 300 B. C.). Analyseis Geometricae Sex Librorum Euclidis. [Strasbourg]: Josias Rihelius, 1566. Small folio (301 x 173 mm). Woodcut device on title-page, woodcut initials and headpieces, woodcut illustrations throughout. (Title slightly browned with gutter margin repair.) Modern half calf over marbled paper-covered boards, spine in 5 compartments with 4 raised bands, 2 red morocco letteringpieces gilt (a few tiny scuffs). FIRST EDITION of Christian Herlin and Conrad Dasypodius’s analysis of the first six books of Euclid’s Elements. Herlin and Dasypodius taught mathematics in Strasbourg and designed the second astronomical clock in the Strasbourg Cathedral. The clock represented the synthesis of the most advanced scientific knowledge of the day in the fields of mathematics, astronomy, and physics, and was only replaced in 1842. [With:] EUCLID. Euclidis Elementorum Libri XV. Graecè & Latinè. Paris: Hieronymum de Marnef & Gulielmum Cauellat, 1573. 8vo (158 x 103 mm). Woodcut device on title-page, numerous in-text woodcut diagrams. Modern half green morocco paste-paper-covered boards, smooth spine gilt, gilt-lettered (some wear, old shelf label at foot of spine). Provenance: contemporary inscriptions; Francis Brethren (inscription); unidentified stamp from a Jesuit Seminary. Second edition, a corrected reimpression of Cavellet’s 1533 Edition, widely used in the 16th Century. Adams E-1001. Property from the Thomas Sills Trust, Chicago. Illinois
13 FERSEN, Eugene, Baron (1873-1956). Science of Being. New York: J.F. Tapley Co., 1923. 12mo (173 x 100 mm). Illustrated title-page printed in brown and gold, text printed in brown and gold, numerous decorations and illustrations throughout; “Information for the Reader” pamphlet laid-in. (Dampstaining to lower margin and gutter.) Publisher’s original limp faux alligator, gilt-stamped device on upper cover, peach watered silk endpapers, edges gilt, original peach silk bookmark (old cellotape repairs, upper hinge starting); original box (some light wear). Provenance: Anna Kluepfel (presentation inscription); Mabel Baker (correspondence laid in); gifted by the previous to the present owner. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY FERSON in gold: “To Anna Kluepfel as a token of friendship from Svetozar 25 XII 1923.” Svetozar was the childhood nickname of Ferson. Ferson emigrated to the United States and was granted U. S. Citizenship in 1923, the year of publication of the present work. At that time, he had to renounce his Baronial title. Mabel Baker, the previous owner, reportedly met Ferson at a dinner party in Seattle in 1946. The present copy is RARE IN THE ORIGINAL BOX, WITH THE ORIGINAL PAMPHLET ALSO PRESENT, entitled “Information for the Reader.” We trace no other presentation copy on the market at auction. Property from the Thomas Sills Trust, Chicago. Illinois $500 - 700
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14 FINE, Oronce (1494-1555). In eos quos de Mundi sphaera conscripsit libros, ac in Planetarum theoricas, Canonum Astronomicorum Libri II. Paris: Michael Vascosan, 1553. Small 4to (227 x 161 mm). 26 woodcut diagrams designed by Fine, 27 tables; decorated initials. (Some staining, some creasing.) Contemporary limp vellum, hand-lettered on upper cover (soiled, a few holes, lacking ties); brown cloth folding case. Provenance: Early marginalia on a few leaves; Aloyeii Rodulphi (early signatures). FIRST EDITION of Fines’ scarce text, used in universities for teaching Ptolemaic astronomy. Fine, French mathematician and cartographer, wrote many other works related to the use of astronomical equipment and description of innovative methods in astronomy and cartography. Adams F-476; Honeyman 1316. Property from the Thomas Sills Trust, Chicago. Illinois
15 GALILEI, Galileo (1564-1642). Mathematical Discourses Concerning Two New Sciences relating to Mechanicks and Local Motion. London: Samuel Baker, 1734.
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4to (254 x 196 mm). Engraved table, numerous in-text illustrations. (Lacking final leaf of advertisements, title a bit browned.) Spine present only (lacking both covers, a few leaves becoming loose). Provenance: The Franklin Institute (perforated stamp); sold Swann Galleries, 2014 (sale 2362, lot 310). Second edition, so stated on the title-page, apparently a reissue of the first edition with the title-page reset (see ESTC). of Thomas Weston’s translation of Galileo’s 1638 Discorsi e Dimostrazioni Mathematiche. Galileo’s final work, the Discorsi “represents the first systematic attempt to extend the mathematical treatment of physics from statics to kinematics” (Norman). ESTC T119010. Property from the Thomas Sills Trust, Chicago. Illinois
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16 [HERBAL] -- [Hortus sanitatis. De herbis et plantis...] [Strassburg: Johann Prüss, ca 1497?]. Folio (approximately 287 x 195 mm), disbound. 155 leaves only (of 360), most with hand-coloring. (Some minor soiling, spotting or browning to some leaves.) Leaves loose in a pigskin binding blind-stamped “PS” and dated 1613 on upper cover (lacking clasps and catches, minor wear). Provenance: H.M. Fletcher (purchased with another dealer, Sotheby’s London, 15 April 1988); acquired by Harold Berliner (printer and typographer) and D. Steven Corey (librarian); later sold PBA Galleries 23 February 2006, sale 326, lot 107. Most of the woodcuts of plants in the Prüss editions were previously used in Johann Grüninger’s edition of the Gart der Gesundheit. Many of the other woodcuts are direct or reverse copies of those used in Meydenbach’s first edition of the Hortus Sanitatis. The present partial copy was apparently acquired by Berliner and Corey with the goal to collaborate on a leaf book. Corey made a study of the book and completed an introduction, but the project was never completed. See Goff H-487; see Hain-Copinger 8941; see Nissen BBI 2363.
17 [HERBAL] -- [BOOK CLUB OF CALIFORNIA]. SHAFFER, Ellen. The Garden of Health: An Account of Two Herbals, The Gart des Gesundheit and the Hortus Sanitatis. [San Francisco:] Lawton Kennedy for Book Club of California, 1957. 4to. ORIGINAL LEAF from the Hortus Sanitatis (Strasbourg, 1499) tipped in. Title printed in red, green and black; reproductions of woodcuts throughout. Original linen-backed red boards; original plain dust jacket. LIMITED EDITION, one of 300 unnumbered copies. Original prospectus laid in. BCC 96. Property from the Collection of Dr. Brant Mittler $100 - 200
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18 HUARTE, Juan (1529?-1588). Examen de Ingenios. The Examination of Mens Wits. In Which, by Discovering the Varietie of Natures, is Shewed for What Profession Each One is Apt, and How Far She Shall Profit Therein. Richard Carew, translator. London: Adam Islip, 1604. 8vo (174 x 128 mm). Woodcut printer’s device on title-page, woodcut headand-tail-pieces and initials, numerous in-text woodcuts. (A few repaired tears, some dampstaining.) Modern calf gilt, spine gilt, brown morocco letteringpiece gilt, edges sprinkled red (rebacked, endpapers renewed, some rubbing, joints starting). Provenance: a few annotations in early hand. Third edition in English of Huarte’s work, first published in Spanish in 1575, and then translated into Italian by M. Camillo Camilli in 1582. Carew translated the work from the Italian into English. Cornish translator and antiquary Carew was known for his Survey of Cornwall (1620). Huarte’s’ work is considered to be “the first attempt to show the connection between psychology and physiology” (Garrison-Morton). ESTC 006193407. Property from the Thomas Sills Trust, Chicago. Illinois $600 - 800 12
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19 IAMBLICHUS (245-325). Logio suo. De Vita Pythagorae, & Protrepticae Orationes ad Philosophiam Lib. II. Johannes Theodoretus Arcerius, editor and translator. [Heidelberg & Franeker]: A. Radaeus, 1598. 3 parts in one volume, 4to (208 x 153 mm). Woodblock device on title-page; 25 woodblock initials, illustrations, and diagrams. (Browning or spotting to a few leaves, small wormhole in blank lower margin of opening leaves.) Contemporary limp vellum, spine hand-lettered, yapp edges (some soiling, chipping or tears). Provenance: Lenit Et Ardet (bookplate). Latin translation by Arcerius of Iamblichus’s biography of Pythagoras with Greek and Latin text in parallel columns. This edition also includes Iamblichus’ Protrepticus, which preserved the work of the otherwise unknown 5th-century BCE Sophist knowns as the “Anonymous Iamblichi.” Adams 17; Brunet III. 493. Property from the Thomas Sills Trust, Chicago. Illinois $600 - 800
20 KEPLER, Johannes (1571-1630) and Jacobus BARTSCH (ca 1600-1633). Tabulae manuales logarithmicae ad calculum Astronomicum... Strassburg: Johann Pastorius for Theodor Lerse, 1700. 8vo (158 x 94 mm). Letterpress tables throughout. (A few spots, some minor dampstaining to outer foremargin.) Contemporary vellum, edges stained red (hinges starting, some soiling). Provenance: Henryk Latuszkiewicz (signature). Second edition, the first obtainable edition, preceded by an edition of 1631 known in only one copy (which is defective). Following Kepler’s death, his sonin-law, Bartsch, sought to publish a more affordable edition of the logarithms from Tabulae Rudolphinae. Publication was halted for financial reasons. French mathematician Johann Caspar Eisenschmidt published the present edition in 1700 with a new introduction. Caspar 99. $1,500 - 2,500
21 MAXWELL, James Clerk (1831-1879). A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1881. 2 volumes, 8vo (222 x 140 mm). Half-titles; 20 engraved plates, numerous in-text engraved diagrams (some full-page). (Some minor staining.) Original publisher’s blind-stamped brown cloth spine gilt-lettered (a few corners bumped, vol. II hinges starting, one cover detaching). Provenance: A.S. Earl Youbridge? (partially effaced signature); Benjamin Lielowry? (signature). Second edition of Maxwell’s most comprehensive work, presenting ideas which would become essential to the development of modern physics. He viewed electricity not just as another branch of physics but “as an aid to the interpretation of nature,” and saw the study of electromagnetism “as a means of promoting the progress of science” (Preface, p. vii). Maxwell advanced “the significant hypothesis that light and electricity are the same in their ultimate nature” (Grolier/ Horblit). “He began the investigation of moving frames of reference, which in Einstein’s hands were to revolutionize physics; gave proofs of the existence of electromagnetic waves that paved the way for Hertz’s discovery of radio waves; worked out connections between the electrical and optical qualities of bodies that would lead to modern solid-state physics; and applied Tait’s quaternion formulae to the field of equations, out of which Heaviside and Gibbs would develop vector analysis” (Norman 1466). Grolier/Horblit 72; PMM 355. Beal 793. Property from the Thomas Sills Trust, Chicago. Illinois $800 - 1,200
22 MEURSIUS, Johannes (van Meurs) (1579-1639). Denarius Pythagoricus. Sive, De Numerorum, usque ad denarium, qualitate, ac nominibus, secundùm Pythagoricos. Leiden: J. Maire, 1631. 4to (189 x 143 mm). Woodcut device on title-page. (Some spotting or browning, a few leaves creased.) Contemporary vellum (recased, endpapers renewed, some soiling, a few tiny chips to spine). Provenance: Alexandri Pollini (contemporary signature); Colonna Family (Libraria Colonna stamps). FIRST EDITION of Meursius’s scientific treatise related to Pythagoras’ number theory and the Pythagorean Theorem. Meursius was a Dutch classical scholar and a professor of Greek and History in both Leiden and Zealand. The present copy comes from the collection of the Colonna family, a papal noble family of Rome. RARE: according to American Book Prices Current, only three copies of this work have sold in the last 45 years. Property from the Thomas Sills Trust, Chicago. Illinois $400 - 600
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23 ADAMS, George (1750-1795). Micrographia Illustrata, or the Microscope Explained.... London: for the author, 1747. 4to (215 x 165 mm). 65 engraved folding plates. Contemporary calf gilt (upper joint repaired, hinges starting). Second edition, a reissue of the first edition of 1746 with the 20pp. catalogue of Adams’ instruments at the end. In the Micrographia Illustrata, Adams gives credit to Leeuwenhoek and Trembley for their previous work on the Hydra, but he was criticized for his use of illustrations from the work of earlier authors, particularly Hooke and Lyonet, often without attribution. ESTC T53415. $2,500 - 3,500
24 ADAMS, George (1750-1795). Essays on the Microscope, containing a Practical Description of the most improved Microscopes. London: Dillon and Keating, 1798. 4to (272 x 212 mm). Half-title; engraved allegorical frontispiece, several wood-engraved illustrations; 36 engraved plates on 32 sheets; 16pp. publisher’s advertisements. (Some spotting or staining.) Contemporary calf gilt, green morocco lettering-pieces gilt (rebacked preserving original spine). Second edition, with plates and text bound together in one volume, of Adams work on Microscopes. Adams invented the lucernal microscope, a type of projection microscope. $500 - 700
25 BAKER, Henry (1698-1774). The Microscope Made Easy. London: R. Dodsley, 1742.
26 BAKER, Henry (1698-1774). An Attempt towards a Natural History of the Polype... London: R. Dodsley, 1743.
8vo (197 x 115 mm). 14 engraved plates (9 folding) and one folding table. (Tear to corner of plate 8 with loss of plate number, some minor browning or spotting.) Contemporary sprinkled calf gilt (rebacked to style, some light wear).
8vo (200 x 120 mm). Engraved frontispiece, woodcut illustrations in text. (Some spotting or browning.) Contemporary blind-ruled calf (rebacked preserving old lettering-piece, hinges starting). Provenance: Philip Earl Stanhope, likely Philip Stanhope, 2nd Earl Stanhope (17141786) Fellow of the Royal Society (armorial bookplate).
FIRST EDITION. Baker, who was elected a fellow of the Royal Society for his scientific achievements, took an interest in microscopy, culminating in the publication of the present work, his first contribution to the field. [With:] BAKER, Henry (1698-1774). The Microscope Made Easy. London: J. Dodsley, 1769. 8vo (205 x 125 mm). 15 engraved plates (most folding), folding letterpress table. (Some minor spotting or browning, a few short tears to folds.) Contemporary calf (rebacked, preserving old lettering-piece, endpapers renewed). Fifth edition. $200 - 300 14
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FIRST EDITION in which Baker describes his repetition of Trembley’s systematic experiments of 1739. Despite giving credit to Trembley and to Leeuwenhoek for his 1702 observations, Baker was criticized for publishing his work before Trembley’s 1744 book. Wellcome II, p.88. $200 - 300
27 BAKER, Henry (1698-1774). Essai sur l’histoire du polype, insecte. Paris: Chez Durand, 1744.
28 BAKER, Henry (1698-1774). Employment for the Microscope. London: R. Dodsley, 1753.
8vo (172 x 116 mm). 22 engraved folding plates. (Title soiled with old tear repaired.) Modern half morocco, uncut.
8vo (196 x 120 mm). 17 engraved folding plates. (Some browning, spotting or offsetting.) Contemporary sprinkled calf gilt (hinges starting, some light wear.) Provenance: Sir William Gregory (1625-1696) British judge and politician (armorial bookplate); Acton Scott (letterpress bookplate).
FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH of Baker’s work first published in 1743 in English, in which he examines the physiology of the polyps, including their reproductive systems, diseases, and the means of locating them. Wellcome II, p.8. $150 - 250
FIRST EDITION presenting Baker’s microscopic observations on salts, crystals, and aquatic life. Wellcome II, p.89. [With:] BAKER, Henry (1698-1774). Employment for the Microscope. London: R. and J. Dodsley, 1764. 8vo (196 x 120 mm). 17 engraved folding plates. (Some browning, spotting or offsetting, a short tears to folds of a few plates.) 19th century half tan calf, marbled boards, edges marbled (some very minor rubbing.) Provenance: W. E. Davies (signature); Tomlinson (presentation inscription from Davies); Thomas Fiddian (bookplate). Second edition. $300 - 400
29 BLACKWALL, John (1790-1881). A History of the Spiders of Great Britain and Ireland. London: Published for the Ray Society by Robert Hardwicke, 1861-1864. Two parts bound in one, folio (357 x 256 mm). 29 engraved plates with hand-coloring. Modern green calf with overall spider web design in relief, central leather and stone onlay spider on upper cover, signed “John F. Newman Dublin 1976”; cloth folding case.
30 BRUGUIÈRE, Jean Guillaume (1749-1798). Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique des trois règnes de la nature. Contenant l’helminthologie, ou les vers infusoires, les vers intestins, les vers mollusques, &c. Paris: Panckoucke, 1791. 4to (313 x 230 mm). Half-title; 95 engraved plates (5 double-page). (A few small spots, some minor dust-soiling to a few leaves.) Original boards uncut (rebacked in modern calf gilt, some rubbing). Provenance: California Academy of Sciences (blindstamp on title-page).
FIRST EDITION. “Since the publication of Dr. Lister’s treatise [Tractatus de Araneis] in 1678, little attention has been bestowed upon the natural history of spiders in this country, till within the last thirty years...under these circumstances, it is hoped that the present imperfect endeavour...will be regarded with due consideration for the numerous and great difficulties by which the undertaking is surrounded” (Preface, p.[1]).
FIRST EDITION of Bruguière’s contribution to Panckoucke’s Encyclopédie Méthodique. Bruguière, who accompanied Kerguelen-Trémarec on his first voyage to the Antarctic in 1773, named more than 140 marine genera or species. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck named the genus Bruguiera in his honor. RARE: according to American Book Prices Current, only one copy of this work has sold at auction in the last 45 years.
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31 BUONANNI, Filippo (1638-1725). Observationes circa viventia, quae in rebus non viventibus reperiuntur. Cum micrographia curiosa. Rome: Typis Dominici Antonii Herculis, 1691. 2 parts in one volume, 4to (225 x 160 mm). Engraved frontispiece, engraved title on 2Q2v, 69 engraved plates (4 folding). (Some browning to a few leaves.) Contemporary vellum, title hand-lettered on spine (old library label at foot of spine); quarter morocco folding case. FIRST EDITION. Buonanni, a student of Athanasiuis Kircher, was likely the first to employ a microscope in the practice of medicine. In the Observationes, he defends his theories of spontaneous generation, and in the Micrographia curiosa, he provides his observations on early microscopes. Garrison-Morton 264; Nissen ZBI 752; Norman 374. $4,000 - 6,000
32 ELLIS, John (1710-1776). An Essay towards a Natural History of the Corallines and other Marine Productions...Commonly Found on the Coasts of Great Britain and Ireland. London: for the author, 1755. 4to (260 x 203 mm). Engraved frontispiece, 40 engraved plates (6 folding). (Some offsetting or light browning.) Modern quarter calf. FIRST EDITION, including an additional unnumbered plate with the earliest depiction of Cuff’s aquatic microscope not called for in Nissen. Ellis includes a description of a large octopus observed near the North Pole by a whaling party in the summer of 1753. Nissen ZBI 1281. $500 - 700
33 EVELYN, John (1620-1706). Sylva, or a Discourse of Forest Trees, and the Propagation of Timber in his Magesties Dominions. London: Jo. Martyn and Ja. Allestry, 1670. 3 parts in one volume, folio (302 x 190 mm). Engraved device on titlepage, one engraved plate, 4 in-text engraved vignettes. (A few spots or stains, title slightly soiled with old tear repaired.) Contemporary blindtooled calf (rebacked to style, endpapers renewed, hinges starting, some light wear). Second edition, with two appendices with separate titlepages: Pomona, or an Appendix concerning Fruit-Trees, In relation to Cider, dated 1670, and Kalendarium Hortense: or the Gardners Almanac, the third edition, dated 1659, each with separate pagination and register. ESTC R586; Henrey 133; Wing E3517. $400 - 600
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34 GLEICHEN, Wilhelm Friedrich von (1717-1783). Dissertation sur la generation, les animalcules spermatiques, et ceux d’infusions... Paris: de l’Imprimerie de Digeon, An VII [1799]. 4to (270 x 210 mm). Half-title; 31 engraved plates (9 folding, 2 with hand-coloring), 2 engraved tables. Modern quarter green morocco. FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH, translated from the German edition of 1778. Gleichen von Russworm, a self-educated scientist, was influenced to take up the microscope in 1760 when he met Martin Ledermüller. His work describes his pioneering use of phagocytic staining in his research to study animal tissues, a technique which would not be commonly used until the 19th century. Garrison-Morton 2465; Nissen ZBI 1590. $600 - 800
35 GREW, Nehemiah (1641-1712). The Anatomy of Vegetables Begun. With a general account of Vegetation Founded theron. London: for Spencer Hickman, 1672. 8vo (155 x 92 mm). 3 folding engraved plates. (Some light browning or offsetting). Contemporary blind-ruled calf (rebacked preserving a portion of the original spine). Provenance: James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-1899), Shakespeare collector (bookplate). FIRST EDITION OF GREW’S FIRST BOOK, which contains his accurate observations of the structures of wood, bark and roots. “His most important contribution to botany was his belief that the flower contains the sexual organ of a plant. He distinguished the calyx, stamens and pistils, and that the anthers scatter pollen” (Dibner). In The Anatomy of Vegetables, Grew introduced the term “parenchyma.” THE HALLIWELL-PHILLIPPS COPY. Dibner Heralds 21; ESTC R30321; ; Henrey 163 and pp. 135-138; Norman 944; Wellcome III, p.164; Wing G-1946. $1,500 - 2,500
36 HEURCK, Henri Ferdinand van (1838-1909). The Microscope: Its Construction and Management. London: Crosby Lockwood and Son, 1893. 4to. Half-title; illustrated. Original publisher’s green cloth gilt (hinges starting). Provenance: Keith Steel-Maitland (bookplate). FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, translated by Wynne E. Baxter. “The Fourth Edition of this book had only just appeared when Mr. Wynne E. Baxter, a skilfull English microscopist, honoured us by offering to publish an English Edition...Materials accumulated to such an extent that we may now issue the present volume, not as a translation of the Fourth Edition, but as being a really new Work--a Fifth Edition” (introduction). A BRIGHT COPY. $300 - 400
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37 HILL, John, Sir (1716?-1775). Essays in Natural History and Philosophy.... London: for J. Whiston and B. White, 1752. 8vo (202 x 123 mm). (Some minor browning.) Contemporary calf (rebacked preserving old spine, some light wear). Provenance: a few early notes on endleaves. FIRST EDITION. Despite Hill’s quarrel with the Royal Society, he was an enthusiastic microscopist, and he presented the results of several of his studies in the field of botany, medicine, and geology-chemistry to the Society. $150 - 250
38 HILL, John, Sir (1716?-1775). The Construction of Timber, from its Early Growth; explained by the Microscope. London: for the author, 1770. Folio (498 x 297 mm). 46 engraved plates. (A few small spots, some very minor soiling.) Contemporary boards (rebacked and recornered); quarter morocco folding case. Second edition, THE VERY RARE LARGE-PAPER FOLIO EDITION, a reissue of the first edition, which was published in octavo format. Rare: according to online records, no copy of this edition has appeared on the market at auction since 1964. Henrey 803. $800 - 1,200
39 HILL, John, Sir (1716?-1775). A Decade of Curious Insects: Some of them not describ’d before: Shewn in their Natural Size. London: Printed for the author, 1773. 4to (plates 290 x 227 mm, text 277 x 215 mm). 10 hand-colored engraved plates. (Some minor dampstaining to outer margins.) Modern green cloth. Provenance: E. W. Classey (bookseller’s ticket). FIRST EDITION, A WIDE-MARGINED COPY, of Hill’s scarce work. English botanist John Hill is best-known for his British Herbal, and Vegetable System. SCARCE: according to American Book Prices Current, only two copies of this work have sold at auction in the last 45 years. Nissen ZBI 1938. $1,500 - 2,500
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40 HOOKE, Robert (1635-1702). Micrographia: Or Some Psychological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses. London: for James Allestry, 1667. Folio (298 x 198 mm). Title-page with engraved arms of the Royal Society, 38 engraved plates (32 folding), woodcut head-pieces and initials. (Some very minor spotting or soiling.) Contemporary sprinkled calf (sympathetically rebacked preserving original spine, edges and corners neatly restored); calf folding case gilt. Provenance: W. P. Collins (booksellers stamp rear flyleaf). FIRST EDITION, second issue, with the title dated 1667 instead of 1665, of “he most influential work in the history of microscopy, containing the discoveries made with Hooke’s newly perfected compound microscope. Micrographia was not only the first book devoted entirely to microscopical observations, but also the first to pair its descriptions with profuse and detailed illustrations” (Norman). Garrison-Morton 262; Grolier/Horblit 50; Keynes 7; Norman 1092; PMM 147. $12,000 - 18,000
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41 JOBLOT, Louis (1645-1723). Descriptions et usages de plusieurs nouveaux microscopes, tant simples que composez, avec des nouvelles observations faites sur une multitude innombrable d’insectes, & d’autres animaux de diverses especes, qui naissent dans les liqueurs preparees, & dans celles qui ne le sont point. Paris: Jacques Collombat, 1718. 2 parts in one volume, 4to (248 x 185 mm). Woodcut device on title-page, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials, first leaf of text engraved, 34 engraved plates. (Some minor browning or spotting, a few rust spots.) Contemporary specked calf, spine gilt. Provenance: Dom. S. Aloys. Cantiliac S. J. (stamp on titlepage); L. M. (bookplate). FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST TREATISE ON PROTZOA. Though Joblot is betterknown for his work with microscopes from the 1754 edition of this work, this first edition of his Descriptions “established Joblot as the first French microscopist. The first part of the book described several microscopes and their construction and introduced some improvements, including the use of stops (diaphragms) in compound microscopes to correct for chromatic aberration” (DSB). Nissen ZBI 2113. $1,500 - 2,500
42 NEEDHAM, John Tuberville (1713-1781). An Account of Some New Microscopical Discoveries. London: for F. Needham, 1745. 8vo (199 x 123 mm). 6 engraved folding plates. (Some minor browning or spotting.) Modern calf antique. FIRST EDITION, second issue, with the cancel title re-worded “New Microscopical Discoveries...” and with the updated dedication. “Needham’s most important contributions to science were early observations of plant pollen and the milt vessels of the squid, a forward-looking theory of reproduction, and a classic experiment for determining whether spontaneous generation occurs on the microscopic level” (DSB). ESTC T39892; Norman 1577. $800 - 1,200
43 NICERON, Jean Francois (1613-1636). La Perspective curieuse. Paris: widow of F. Langlois, 1652. Folio (342 x 240 mm). Engraved frontispiece, engraved title-page, 50 engraved folding plates (one double-page). (Neat early repair to lower corner of title-page, short marginal tear on one plate, some very minor soiling.) Contemporary brown sprinkled sheep, spine in 8 compartments with 7 raised bands gilt, tan and brown lettering-pieces gilt. Provenance: Frantz Carl Antoni von und zu Enzentriedt (armorial bookplate). Third edition, edited by Roberval, the first to contain Mersenne’s important optical treatise L’Optique et las catoptrique. Niceron, a friar of the Minim order, studied perspective in Italy, where he taught mathematics. In the first edition of this, his major work, he demonstrated a keen understanding of the science of perspective. The first edition of his work contained the first published reference to Descartes’ derivation of the law of refraction. Later editions of the work “simply provide more detail” (DSB). $1,500 - 2,500
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44 PERSIUS FLACCUS, Aulus (34-62). Persio tradotto in verso sciolto e dichiarato. Francesco Stelluti (1577-1653), translator. Rome: G. Mascardi, 1630. Small 4to (207 x 148 mm). Engraved title-page, engraved portrait of Persius, full-page engraved plate depicting a bee as seen under a microscope, 5 small engravings. (O4 with 1-in. paper flaw affecting 7 lines of text Contemporary vellum gilt (upper hinge starting). Provenance: Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax (1661-1715) English stateman and poet (armorial bookplate dated 1702); David Garrick (1717-1779) Shakespearean actor and playwright (bookplate) FIRST EDITION of Stelluti’s translation, and THE FIRST BOOK TO CONTAIN ILLUSTRATIONS OF NATURAL OBJECTS AS SEEN THROUGH THE MICROSCOPE. Stelluti, a friend of Galileo and a founder of the Accademia Dei Lincei, used a microscope given to his fellow founder Federico Cesi by Galileo, which he used to make detailed observations of insects. Stelluti’s illustrations of the honeybee first appeared in an extremely rare broadside by Cesi in 1625 (known in two copies), but the Persio contains the first such illustrations to appear in a book. Garrison-Morton 259; Nissen ZBI 3988; Wellcome I:4917.
45 SWAMMERDAM, Jan (1637-1680). The Book of Nature; or, The History of Insects: Reduced to Distinct Classes, Confirmed by Particular Instances, Displayed in the Anatomical Analysis of Many Species.... London; for C. G. Seyffert, 1758. Folio (402 x 250 mm). Title printed in red and black with engraved device, 2pp. list of subscribers; 53 engraved plates. (Some spotting or browning.) Contemporary calf gilt (covers detaching, front endleaves disbound and one gathering becoming loose, some wear). FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, translated by Thomas Flloyd and with a life of Swammerdam by Boerhaave. Dibner Heralds of Science 191; Nissen ZBI 4057; Norman 2037. $800 - 1,200
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46 TORRE, Giovanni Maria della (1713-1782). Nuove Osservazioni Microscopiche. Naples: n.p., 1776.
47 TREMBLEY, Abraham (1700-1784). Memoires pour servir a l’histoire d’un genre de polypes d’eau douce.... Leiden: Jean & Herman Verbeek, 1744.
8vo (231 x 165 mm). 14 engraved folding plates. (Some spotting.) Modern quarter calf, marbled boards. Provenance: Philip O. Gravelle (1891-1955), American chemist (bookplate).
4to (263 x 206 mm). Engraved head- and tail-pieces; 13 engraved folding plates. (Mostly marginal dampstain to a few leaves, a few small spots, minor soiling to a few leaves.) Modern leather, uncut.
Second edition, FROM THE COLLECTION OF A NOTED CHEMIST. In the 1920s, Philip O. Gravelle developed a comparison microscope for use in the identification of fired bullets and cartridge cases, which was thereto a significant advance in firearms identification in the field of forensic science.
FIRST EDITION. “In 1740 the scientific world was electrified by Trembley’s discovery that the green hydra (Chlorohydra viridissima) was definitely an animal, even though it contained chlorophyll and --a fact even more astonishing--possessed powers of multiplication from artificial division hitherto thought to be unique to plants” (Norman 2094).
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48 MIDDENDORP, Jacob (1538?-1611). Academiarum Celebrium Universi ter Rarum Orbis Libri VIII. Cologne: Goswin Cholinus, 1602. 2 volumes in one, 8vo (166 x 93 mm). Woodcut printer’s devices on titles, decorated initials, one in-text woodcut. (A few short tears not affecting text with some minor losses, some browning, some wormholing). Contemporary blind-tooled vellum, hand-lettered on spine, yapp edges, edges sprinkled red, vellum tabs (neat early repair to lower cover, some light soiling). Provenance: Unidentified early signature (Heiligenstadii, 1771); M. Benjamin Waldi, P.A. (signature). Fifth and best edition of this academic history of the world, with the text expanded by Middendorp, who added a new preface. Middendorp pioneered the history of education and universities, describing the foundations for European higher education through review of the origins of the university, scholastic honors, and academic positions. He also incorporates information about ancient schools and religious centers across Europe. See Adams M1415-16; see STC German p. 622 (earlier editions); not in Alden. Property from the Thomas Sills Trust, Chicago. Illinois $500 - 700
49 MINKOWSKI, Hermann (1864-1909). Raum und Zeit. Offprint from: Jahresbericht der Deutschen MathematikerVereinigung. Volume 18. Leipzig and Berlin: B.G. Teubner, 1909. 8vo. Original wrappers (minor losses with repairs to spine ends, some minor creasing or spotting); cloth folding case. FIRST SEPARATE EDITION. “In this paper ‘Space and Time,’ read by Minkowski in Cologne only a few months before his death, he introduced the notion that made possible the expansion of the relativity theory of Einstein from its specific to its general form. The technical description of Minkowski’s hypothesis is the four-dimensional space-time continuum... Minkowski maintained that the separation of time and space is a false conception; that time is itself a dimension, comparable to length, breadth and height; and that therefore the true conception of reality was constituted by a space-time continuum possessing these four dimensions...” PMM 401. [With:] MINKOWSKI. A group of offprints, comprising: “Ein Kriterium fur die Algebraischen Zahlen.” A reprint of a work Minkowski wrote as a student under David Hilbert at Konigsberg. 1899. -- “Uber die Annaherung an Eine reelle Grosse Durch Rationale Zahlen.” Offprint from: Mathematische Annalen. Vol. 54. 1899. -- “Quelques Nouveaus Theoremes dur l’Approximation des Quantites a l’Aide de Numbres Rationnels.” Offprint from: Bulletin des Sciences Mathematiques. 1900. -- “Zur Geometrie der Zahlen.” Offprint from: Mathematiker-Kongresess. Vol. 8, Issue 13. 1904. -- Together, 4 offprints, all in original wrappers. Property from the Thomas Sills Trust, Chicago. Illinois $1,000 - 1,500
50 NEWTON, Isaac, Sir (1642-1727). Universal Arithmetick, or a Treatise of Arithmetical Composition and Resolution. London: for J. Senex and W. and J. Innys, 1728. 8vo (198 x 112 mm). 8 engraved folding plates. (Some spotting or browning.) 20th-century calf, spine gilt (joints lightly rubbed, hinges reinforced). Provenance: Joseph D. Teitelbaum (bookplate). Second edition in English, preceded by an edition of 1720. Newton’s work was first published in Latin in 1707 as Arithmetica universalis. ESTC T18667. $800 - 1,200
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51 [PAIS, Abraham, his copies] -- 2 pamphlets from Abraham Pais’ library, comprising: LORENTZ, Hendrik Antoon, Dr. (1853-1928). “Aethertheorieën en Aethermodellen (1901-1902).” Lessen over Theoretische Natuurkunde aan de Rijks-Universiteit te Leiden Gegeven Door Dr. H.A. Lorentz. Hendrik Bremenkamp, editor. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1920. Volume III, 8vo (252 x 163 mm). Printer’s device on front cover, numerous illustrations. (Light browning, occasional spotting.) Original printed paper wrappers backed in paper (chipped, browning, defective spine). --“Het Relativiteitsbeginsel voor Eenparige Translaties (1910-1912).” Lessen over Theoretische Natuurkunde aan de Rijks-Universiteit te Leiden Gegeven Door Dr. H.A. Lorentz. Adiraan Daniël FOKKER (1887-1972), Editor. Leiden, E.J. Brill, 1922. Volume VI, 8vo (248 x 163 mm). Printer’s device on front cover, numerous illustrations. (Light browning, occasional spotting.) Original printed paper wrappers (chipped, browning, defective spine). [With:] Together, 2 works in 2 volumes, Provenance for the lot: Abraham Pais (1918-2000) (bookplate laid-in); sold Jeff Weber Rare Books. Just before the Nazi ban on Jews earning doctorates, Dutch-American Physicist Abraham Pais was awarded the last Ph.D. issued to a Dutch Jew on 9 June 1941 until after World War II concluded. He worked as an assistant to Niels Bohr (1885-1962) and was Albert Einstein’s colleague at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. Pais was also a notable science historian, and published biographies on Einstein and Bohr, as well as 17 biographies of prominent physicists he knew personally in The Genius of Science: A Portrait Gallery. Property from the Thomas Sills Trust, Chicago. Illinois
52 PORTA, Giambattista della (1535?-1615). Natural Magick...in twenty books. London: Thomas Young and Samuel Speed, 1658. Folio (277 x 174 mm). Engraved title-page; letterpress title printed in red and black; numerous woodcut illustrations. (A few short marginal tears or paper flaws, some minor browning, minor wrinkling to first and last few leaves). 20th-century sheep (some wear). Provenance: K.C. (blindstamps); a few 20th-century marginal notes in pencil and red underlinings. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH of Porta’s Magiae naturalis libri viginti, first published in 1558. This translation follows the expanded edition of 1589. Porta’s compilation of science and pseudo-science includes sections on changing metals, counterfeiting precious stones, medical remedies, perfume, cookery, and “burning gasses,” or optics. ESTC R33476; Norman 1726; Wing P-2982. $1,000 - 1,500
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53 PORTA, Giambattista della (1535?-1615). Natural Magick...in twenty books. London: Thomas Young and Samuel Speed, 1658. Folio (273 x 168 mm). Engraved title-page (repaired with portions provided in facsimile); letterpress title printed in red and black (marginal repairs affecting portion of rule border); numerous woodcut illustrations. (Lacking P2/3, provided in facsimile, several leaves frayed with occasional minor losses, some minor worming lower margin, some soiling or browning). Contemporary calf (rebacked, preserving original spine, overall wear). FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH of Porta’s treatise which “epitomizes the combination of credulity and empiricism typical of the late Renaissance: uncritical reports of the marvelous and miraculous and holdovers from medieval books of secrets are mixes with attempts to define natural magic and to apply mathematical and experimental techniques in science” (Norman). ESTC R33476; Norman 1726; Wing P-2982. Property from the Thomas Sills Trust, Chicago. Illinois $600 - 800
54 RIEMANN, Georg Friedrich Bernhard (“Bernhard Riemann”) (18261866). Gesammelte Mathematische Werke und Wissenschaflicher Nachlass. Herausgegeben Unter Mitwirkung von Richard Dedekind von Heinrich Weber. Heinrich WEBER (1843-1912 ), and Richard DEDEKIND (1831-1916), editors. Leipzig: B.G. Teubner, 1892.
8vo (243 x 163 mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece. (Some light spotting and overall browning.) Cloth-backed paper-covered boards, printed letteringpieces to top cover and spine (some chipping and rubbing). Second edition of Riemann’s collected mathematical works. Riemann, a German mathematician, made several important contributions in the fields of mathematics and physics, including the Riemann integral, Riemann surfaces, and the Riemann hypothesis. Property from the Thomas Sills Trust, Chicago. Illinois $300 - 400 V I E W T H E C O M P L E T E C ATA L O G U E AT H I N D M A N A U C T I O N S . C O M
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55 ROUSSEAU, Jean Jacques (1712-1778). Emile, ou de l’education. Amsterdam: Neaulme [but Lyon: Bruyset], 1762. 4 volumes in 2, 12mo (159 x 98 mm). Half-titles to vols. I and III, titles printed in red and black, 5 engraved plates by Le Grand, de Longueil and Pasquier after Eisen. (Lacking half-titles Vols.II & IV.) Contemporary mottled calf, spines gilt, tan morocco lettering-pieces gilt, edges stained red (some light wear, chipping with losses to lettering-pieces). Lyon edition, issue without the “Privilegie” in Vol.I, published by Bruyset, reproducing the plates designed by Eisen for the Paris edition of the same year. Rousseau’s treatise on education and the nature of man enraged the French parliament, who issued an order for his arrest, and he spent several years as a fugitive. McEachern 3B. Property from the Thomas Sills Trust, Chicago. Illinois $600 - 800
56 ROYAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, From their Commencement, in 1665, to the Year 1800; Abridged, with Notes and Biographic Illustrations. London: C. and R. Baldwin, 1809. 18 volumes, 4to (265 x 210 mm). 266 engraved plates. (Spotting throughout.) 19th-century half calf, marbled boards, spines gilt, brown and black calf letteringpieces gilt (spines darkened and brittle, several covers detached). Provenance: Bernard Cohen (1914-2003) Victor S. Thomas Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University (signature, vol. I). Philosophical Transactions, first published in March 1665, is the first and longest running scientific journal in the world. These 18 volumes “consist of an invaluable collection of observations and discoveries made by the most eminent philosophers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries,” (Vol. I, Preface, [v]). [With:] Two additional volumes of Philosophical Transactions, comprising: Volume 6. London: C. and R. Baldwin, 1809. 19th-Century calf gilt. -- Volume 171, part 2. London: Harrison and Sons, 1880. Original publisher’s cloth (spine defective, covers detaching). Provenance: Royal Literary & Scientific Institution, Bath (stamped). Includes the dissertation on tides by George Howard Darwin (18451912), son of Charles Darwin (1809-1882). Property from the Thomas Sills Trust, Chicago. Illinois $600 - 800
57 SMOLLETT, Tobias George (1721-1771). The History and Adventures of an Atom. London: Robinson and Roberts, 1769. 2 volumes, 12mo (165 x 99 mm). Printer’s device on title-pages. (Lacking half-titles, some browning or spotting.) Contemporary calf gilt, spines gilt, red morocco letter-pieces gilt (rubbed, joints separating, some chipping to extremities). Provenance: old signature effaced; G. Abrims? (signature, 1824). FIRST EDITION, second state with the date in title corrected in Volume II. This work was published anonymously, though an editor of an edition of Smollet’s works in 1790 claimed that Smollett wrote this satire of English politics during the Seven Years’ War. Smollett is best known for picaresque novels, and influenced Charles Dickens. ESTC 006326884; Rothschild 1923. Property from the Thomas Sills Trust, Chicago. Illinois
58 NEWBERY, John (“Tom TELESCOPE”) (1713-1767). The Newtonian System of Philosophy Adapted to the Capacities of Young Gentlemen and Ladies, and Familiarized and Made Entertaining by Objects with which they are Intimately Acquainted. London: Printed for T. Carnan and F. Newbery, 1770. 12mo (115 x 69 mm). Copperplate-engraved frontispiece, 5 copper-engraved plates, 5 in-text engraved diagrams, numerous engraved head-and-tail-pieces and initials. (Very occasional spotting.) Contemporary paste paper boards (slightly rubbed, a few adhesive remnants on paste-down); tan buckram folding case. Provenance: Charlotte Marcia Janetta Cooper (signature); Constance R.E. Cooper (signature, 1 November 1834); S. Roscoe (bookseller’s label). Fourth edition of the most popular lectures given by young Tom Telescope on the scientific advancements of the time. ESTC N11819; Roscoe, J348. Property from the Thomas Sills Trust, Chicago. Illinois
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59 [BIBLIOGRAPHY AND SALE CATALOGUES] -- A group of 4 reference works in 13 volumes, comprising: [HONEYMAN] SOTHEBY PARKE BERNET & CO. The Honeyman Collection of Scientific Books and Manuscripts. London: Sotheby Parke Bernet, 30/31 October 1978-19/20 May 1981. 7 volumes, 4to. Illustrated, sales results laid in. Original publisher’s printed gray-green wrappers (some minor wear). -- –An additional copy of vol. III, presumably H. P. Kraus’s copy, priced. Gray-green contemporary cloth with original wrappers laid down. Provenance: Hans Peter Kraus (1907-1988), bookseller (buyer packing slips). – [NORMAN]. HOOK, Diana H. and Jeremy M. NORMAN. The Haskell F. Norman Library of Science & Medicine. San Francisco: Jeremy Norman & Co., 1991. 2 volumes, 4to. Original publisher’s cloth gilt. -- SOTHEBY’S. The Celebrated Reference Library of H.P. Kraus. 18/19/20 November 2003. 2 copies, 4to. Original publisher’s wrappers (one with split spine). -- SOTHEBY’S. The Inventory of H.P. Kraus. New York: Sotheby’s, 4/5 December 2003. 4to. Original Publisher’s wrappers. – Together, 3 works in 5 volumes condition generally fine. Property from the Thomas Sills Trust, Chicago. Illinois $150 - 250 60 [PHYSICS] -- A group of 9 periodicals and offprints in 13 volumes, comprising: An Introduction to the Fourth Dimension. Dearborn, MI: Henry Ford Trade School, N.d. 12mo. Binding intact. -- EDDINGTON, Arthur S. The Physical Society of London. Report on the Relativity Theory of Gravitation. London: Fleetway Press, Ltd., 1920. Provenance: S. H. Spark? (signature). Second edition. -- HELMHOLTZ, Hermann. Wissenschaftliche Abhandlungen. Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1882, 1883 & 1895. 3 volumes. Provenance: George Eugene Uhlenbeck (stamped). -- HUBBLE, Edwin. “A Spiral Nebula as a Stellar System, Messier 31.” Contributions from the Mount Wilson Observatory. No. 376. Reprinted from the Astrophysical Journal, Volume LXIX, 1929. N.p.: Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1929. Binding intact (rubbed, darkened). Provenance: Herbert McLean Evans (bookplate). -- KLEIN, Felix. Elementarmathematik vom Höhern Standpunkte Aus. Leipzig: B.G. Teubner, 1911 & 1913. 2 parts in 2 volumes. Second edition. -- KLEIN, Felix. Gesammelte Mathematische Abhandlungen. Berlin: Julius Springer, 1921 & 1922. 2 volumes. Provenance: George Eugene Uhlenbeck (stamped). -- KLEIN, Felix. Vorlesungen Über Die Entwicklung Der Mathematik. Berlin: Julius Springer, 1926. Part I. Provenance: Abraham Pais (signature). -- PLANCK, Max. Zur Dynamik bewegter Systeme. Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1908. -- REES, Abraham. The Cyclopaedia; or Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature. N.p.: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, 1820. 4to. -- Together, 9 works in 13 volumes, all 8vo except where indicated, numerous illustrations, all in original paper wrappers (some chipping), all FIRST EDITION except where indicated, condition generally good. Property from the Thomas Sills Trust, Chicago. Illinois $300 - 400 61 [PHYSICS] -- A group of 4 works in 4 volumes items related to physics, comprising: CAJORI, Florian. A History of Physics in its Elementary Branches Including the Evolution of Physical Laboratories. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1909. (Browning.) Green cloth (soiled, chipping). Provenance: Orris Emery (signature, 1914). Later edition. – HINTON, Charles Howard. The Fourth Dimension. London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co., Limited, 1906. Color folding frontispiece, numerous diagrams. (Slight browning.) Maroon cloth (some staining). Provenance: acquired from John M. Watkins (bookplate). Later edition. – LORENTZ, Hendrick Antoon. The Theory of Electrons and its Applications to the Phenomena of Light and Radiant Heat Leipzig and London: B.G. Teubner and G.E. Stechert & Co., 1909. 4to. Dual title-pages for New York and Leipzig. (Slight browning.) Original cloth binding, spine gilt-lettered (some wear). Provenance: Franklin institute Library (bookplate, perforated stamp). FIRST EDITION – RISDON, Philip James. Wireless. J.A. Fleming, Introduction. London and Melbourne: Ward, Lock & Co., Limited, [1924?]. Portrait frontispiece, numerous diagrams, numerous photographic illustrations. (Some spotting.) Red cloth (spine fated, stained, hinges weak). Second edition. – Together, 4 works in 4 volumes, all 8vo except where indicated, all in publisher’s cloth bindings, condition as described. Property from the Thomas Sills Trust, Chicago. Illinois $300 - 400 62 [SCIENTIFIC EDUCATION] -- A group of 3 works related to scientific education, comprising: LEVER, Francis. Francis Lever, the Young Mechanic. London: John Harris, 1835. (132 x 108 mm). (Lacking most of quires A-B, some staining.) Original leather-backed cloth-covered boards (chipped, stained, text-block separating). RARE. -- SLOANE, Thomas O’Conor. Facts Worth Knowing Selected Mainly from The Scientific American for the Household, Workshop, and Farm. Hartford: S.S. Scranton & Co., 1890. (220 x 136 mm). (Some browning.) Contemporary sheep, morocco lettering-piece gilt (joints starting, rubbed). -- BRANNT, William T. and William H. WAHL (1848-1909), Editors . The Techno-Chemical Receipt Book: Containing Several Thousand Receipts, Covering the Latest, Most Important and Most Useful Discoveries in Chemical Technology, and their Practical Application in the Arts and the Industries. Philadelphia and London: Henry Carey Baird & Co. and Sampson Low, 1896. Printed table laid-in. Original publisher’s decorated red cloth (some minor soiling). Later edition. -- Together, 3 works in 3 volumes, all 8vo, engraved plates, all FIRST EDITIONS except where indicated. Property from the Thomas Sills Trust, Chicago. Illinois
63 [SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY] -- A group of 3 works in 4 volumes related to scientific discovery, comprising: ZSÁMBOKI, János (“Joannes SAMBUCUS”). Veterum aliquot ac recentium Medicorum Philosophorumque Icones. [Leiden]: Ex Officinâ Plantinianâ Raphelengii, 1603. Folio. Modern dark brown morocco gilt. -- WILLIAMS, J. Frederic Lake. An Historical Account of Inventions and Discoveries in those Arts and Sciences. London: Printed for T. and J. Allman, 1820. 2 volumes, 8vo. Modern quarter morocco, marbled boards, maroon morocco lettering-piece gilt, spine gilt, by J. Twomey. -- DARWIN, George. [Photograph of Charles Darwin], N.d. Signature of Professor George Darwin, on a Newnham Grange, Cambridge card (64 x 114 mm). With glossy photograph (251 x 198 mm) of signer’s father, Charles Darwin. George was Charles’ oldest son (of 5) and was a well-known mathematician and astronomer. – Together, 3 works in 4 volumes, FIRST EDITIONS. Property from the Thomas Sills Trust, Chicago. Illinois $400 - 600 64 [SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY] -- A group of 3 works in 4 volumes related to scientific inquiry, comprising: The Royal Society of London. Henry OLDENBURG, editor. Acta Philosophica Societatis Regiae in Anglia. Amsterdam: H. & T. Boom, 1674. Volume III only (of 6), 12mo. Woodcut printer’s device on title-page, 8 engraved plates (2 folding), 33 in-text tables and diagrams (3 folding tables). (Overall browning, some dampstaining.) Contemporary sprinkled calf, spine gilt, brown morocco lettering-piece gilt, edges sprinkled blue and red (overall wear). Provenance: FIRST EDITION. -- ALMEIDA, Teodoro de (17221804). Recreacion Filosófica, ó Diálogo Sobre la Filosofía Natural para Instruccion de Personas Curiosas Que no Han Frequentado las. Madrid: The Royal Printing Office, 1792. One volume only, 8vo (176 x 106 mm). 4 folding engravings. (Some staining or tearing.) Contemporary vellum, hand-lettering on spine (some wear or small holes). Second edition. -- MILL, James. Analysis of the Phenomena of the Human Mind. London: Longmans, Green, Reader and Dyer, 1869. 2 volumes, 8vo. (Some overall browning.) Original publisher’s brown cloth by Edmonds & Remnant with their ticket (spines darkened, hinges starting). Provenance: Northwestern University, School of Commerce Library (bookplate, withdrawal stamp circulation pocket). New edition. – Together, 3 works in 4 volumes. Property from the Thomas Sills Trust, Chicago. Illinois $400 - 600 65 [SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY] -- A group of 2 works related to scientific inquiry, comprising: VOLTAIRE, François Marie Arouet de (1694-1778). Les Singularitès de la Nature. Paris or Geneva: [Cramer], 1768. 8vo (190 x 118 mm). Woodcut on title-page. (Light toning or occasional staining.) Modern quarter calf, marbled boards, spine gilt, red morocco lettering-piece gilt, edges stained red (some minor rubbing). FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE of Voltaire’s work containing his observations of natural history, science, law, medicine, philosophy, and religion. Cioranescu 64840. [With:] BROWNE, Thomas, Sir (1605-1682). Pseudodoxia Epidemica: Or, Enquiries into very many Received Tenents and commonly presumed Truths, Together with the Religio Medici Together with many more Marginal Observations, and a Table Alphabetical at the end. London: Printed by J.R. for Nath. Ekins, 1672. 4to ( 222 x 162 mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece, woodcut initials and headpieces. (Some browning or light offsetting.) Later roan gilt, spine gilt(front joint repaired, some rubbing). Sixth and last edition of Browne’s popular work, corrected and enlarged with additional explanations, in which he refutes superstitious contemporary beliefs based on empirical observations in line with the Baconian method. The work is organized into books based on the renaissance scale of creation: mineral, vegetable, animal, man art, geography and history, and astronomy and the cosmos. Keynes 79; Wing B5165. Property from the Thomas Sills Trust, Chicago. Illinois $300 - 400 66 [SCIENCE – BINDINGS] – 12 works in 15 volumes about science with fine bindings, comprising: ADLER, Mortimer J. The Four Dimensions of Philosophy. 1993. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY ADLER. -- BOYLE, Robert. The Skeptical Chymist. 1997. -- DARWIN, Charles. The Descent of Man. 1998. 2 volumes. -- DARWIN, Charles. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection. 1987. -- EDDINGTON, A.S. and EINSTEIN, Albert. On Relativity.1999. -- FRANKLIN. Experiments and Observations on Electricity. 1996. -- HALES, Stephen. Statical Essays: Containing Haemastaticks. 2000. -- HOOKE, Robert. Micrographia: or some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon. 1995. -- LYELL, Charles. Principles of Geology. 1997. 3 volumes. -- NAPIER, John. The Construction of the Wonderful Canon of Logarithms.[With:] MacDonald, William Rae. A Catalogue of the Various Editions of Napier’s Works. 1997. -- NEWTON, Isaac. A Treatise of the System of the World. 1993. -- VESALIUS, Andreas. The Illustrations of the Works of Andreas Vesalius. 1993. -- Together, 12 works in 15 volumes, all published New York, NY by Gryphon Editions or Norwalk, CT by the Easton Press, several privately printed for the members of the Classics of Science Library, some with title-pages in red and black, many with laid-in notes from the editors, all in original leather bindings, raised bands, gilt, all edges gilt, marbled endleaves, attached bookmarks, 10 as new in original shrinkwrap, condition generally fine. Property from the Thomas Sills Trust, Chicago. Illinois $200 - 300
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Selections from the Collection of Dr. Eugene Vigil and the Remaining Stock of Antiquariat Botanicum Lots 67-192
Chicago native Dr. Eugene L. Vigil began his career as a scientist, earning his Ph.D. in Biology from the University of Iowa in 1967. From 1971-1988, Dr. Vigil taught Botany at Marquette University and the University of Maryland. He was appointed plant physiologist in 1988 for the Agricultural Research Service of the United States Department of Agriculture until 1995, when he was appointed Program Director for the NIH. Dr. Vigil is a leader in botanical science and industry, advancing our understanding of plant cell organization. He transitioned to full-time bookselling in 2001. As a person of Hispanic and Navajo descent, Dr. Vigil has sought to encourage young Hispanic and Indigenous students to STEM fields. Since 1995, he has devoted his time to helping other minority scientists achieve success and is a Life Member of the Society for Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics & Native Americans in Science (SACNAS). Vigil was first introduced to the book trade through his interest in gardening, specifically teaching himself how to build a rock garden. His surplus of gardening books after these explorations prompted him to find a way to sell them, leading him to his second career as a bookseller. He founded Antiquariat Botanicum in 1987, where he has sold books from the 15th to the 20th centuries on Botany, Gardening, Mathematics, Medicine, Natural History, and Science and Technology, as well as Travel and Exploration. The antiquarian materials he sold reflect his knowledge of botany, cell biology, the history of biomedical science. Vigil has been a member of the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of American (ABAA) since 1999, and is a member, by affiliation, of the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB). Hindman is pleased to offer selections from his collection and the remaining stock of Antiquariat Botanicum, and will offer further selections in 2022.
67 AGRICOLA, Georg Andreas (1672-1738). Versuch einer allgemeinen Vermehrung aller Baume, Staude und Blumengewachse. Regensburg: Johann Leopold Montag & Johann Heinrich Gruner, 1772. 2 parts in one volume, folio (365 x 220 mm). Half-titles, title to part I printed in red and black; 2 engraved frontispieces; 34 engraved plates in text (2 folding). Modern vellum-backed marbled boards, uncut. Later edition of the first book devoted to tree and plant cuttings and grafting, first published in 1716-1717. Though earlier editions of Agricola’s work were primarily concerned with fruit trees, the present edition provides a detailed exposition of different methods to propagate new trees not only from grafting cuttings to roots of the same species of tree, but also grafting similar trees of different species to generate new varieties. See Hunt 452. $2,000 - 3,000
68 [ALBUM - CHINESE SCHOOL]. Album containing 10 ink and color drawings on pith paper, ca 1860s. Oblong 8vo album containing 10 finely drawn ink and color drawings on pith paper, each measuring about 105 x 168 mm, and mounted onto larger sheets (238 x 150 mm) within blue printed borders. (Some overall browning from adhesive, some minor cracking with occasional small losses.) Bound in 19th-century cloth-covered boards (rebacked). Provenance: Mrs. M. N. Clarke (signature, with a note that the album was given to the owner in 1862). The subjects include flowering pants, birds and butterflies. Pith comes from the central column of spongy cellular tissue in the stem of the small tree Tetrapanax papyrifera, native to southwest China. because of the nature of pith and its cellular structure, the pigment used sits on the surface of the sheet, and fine detail could be achieved. Albums of pith paintings retain their vibrant colors. $800 - 1,200
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69 ARCHIMEDES (287?-212 B.C.), APOLLONIUS PERGAEUS (fl. 225 B. C.), and THEODOSIUS. Archimedis Opera --Apollonii Pergaei Conicorum libri IIII --Theodosii Sphaerica: methodo nova Illustrata, & Succinctae Demonstrata. London: William Godbid for Robert Scott, 1675. 3 works in one volume, 4to (202 x 151 mm). 29 folding engraved plates. (Without the leaf with glossary of mathematical symbols inserted before A3, often lacking; some browning or offsetting, a few short tears to folds of plates). Contemporary mottled calf (neatly rebacked preserving old letteringpiece). Provenance: unidentified bookplate verso of title-page partially removed. FIRST EDITION of Barrow’s translation of the known works of Archimedes, the first four books of the Conics of Apollonius, and the Spherics of Theodosius. Includes Barrow’s Lectiones opticae, which were revised and corrected by Newton: “these lectures, in Latin, form [Barrow’s] most important book, in which some of his remarkable optical discoveries are published for the first time and which undoubtedly influenced Newton” (Babson 249). ESTC R6704. $1,000 - 1,500
70 AUDEBERT, Jean Baptiste (1759-1800). Histoire naturelle des singes et des makis. Paris: Desray, An XIII [1799-1800]. 2 volumes, folio (489 x 321 mm). 61 engraved plates printed in colors and finished by hand, 2 uncolored anatomical plates. (Some very minor spotting or soiling, minor dampstain to outer margin of a few plates.) Contemporary boards with modern rebacking and recornering, edges stained red (some light wear to boards). FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST MONOGRAPH DEVOTED TO THE DESCRIPTION OF PRIMATES. Audebert employed a new technique in the printing of the plates in which all of the colors were printed from one plate, substituting oil paint for gouache. The resulting plates depict the animals in their natural brilliance. Nissen ZBI 156; Wood p.206. A FRESH COPY. $10,000 - 15,000
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71 BECQUEREL, Antoine César (1788-1878). Traité Complet du Magnétisme. Paris: Firmin Didot Frères, 1846. 8vo (227 x 135 mm). 20 folding engraved plates (2 unnumbered). (Some chipping or dampstaining.) Modern quarter black morocco gilt, marbled boards, uncut and partially unopened (new endpapers, some very minor rubbing); original wrappers bound in. Provenance: A.B. Muller (armorial bookplate). Later edition, a reprint of vol. VII of Traité de l’Electricité et du Matnétisme, Becquerel›s most important work, first published in Paris in 1834-40 with a general introduction. Becquerel received the Copley Medal for his various publications on electricity, and his ultimtae goal was to eventually synthesize naturally-occurring crystals (DSB 1, p. 557).
72 BERGMAN, Torben Olof, Sir (1732-1784). Physical and Chemical Essays. Edmund Cullen, translator. London: J. Murray, 1788. 2 volumes only (of 3, lacking Vol.III, published 1791), 8vo (207 x 125 mm). 2 folding tables; 4 folding engraved plates. Contemporary tree calf (neatly rebacked). Provenance: note indicating a 1996 purchase at Maggs Bros. Second edition of this English translation of volumes I and II of the Opuscula physica et chemical. Bergman, Swedish chemist and mineralogist, was the first chemist to use the A, B, C. etc. system of notation for chemical species. According to Neville, the second edition is so rare that Bergman’s bibliographer stated he had never seen a copy (Neville, p. 125). $500 - 700
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73 [BIBLE, in Cree] [The New Testament in the Cree Language.] Rev. William Mason, translator. London: W. M. Watts for the British and Foreign Bible Society, 1859. 8vo (184 x 117 mm). Printed in Cree syllabics throughout. Contemporary sheep by Watkins with their ticket (some discreet repairs to hinges and spine). FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST NEW TESTAMENT PRINTED IN CREE. Methodist (later Anglican) William Mason and his wife Sophia Thomas Mason translated several editions of the Gospel of St. John in the Plains Cree dialect between 1851 and 1857. Following the publication of this edition of the New Testament, they published an edition of the whole Bible translated into Plains Cree in 1861-1862. EXCEEDINGLY RARE: We trace no copies of this edition of the New Testament at auction since 1976. $800 - 1,200 28
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74 BIGELOW, Henry Jacob (1818-1890). Ether and Chloroform; their Discovery and Physiological Effects. Boston: David Clapp, 1848. 8vo (230 x 150 mm). Original salmon wrappers uncut; cloth folding case. FIRST SEPARATE EDITION, containing printings of two papers: “Ether and Chloroform: A Compendium of their History, Surgical Use, Dangers, and Discovery,” an offprint from Vol. I of the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal; and “Anaesthetic Agents, their Mode of Exhibition and Physiological Effects,” an offprint from the Transactions of the American Medical Association. “Bigelow’s speedy publication of Morton’s discovery, and his subsequent advocacy of ether assured its adoption throughout the civilized world” (Garrison-Morton 5730). $800 - 1,200
75 BLACK, Joseph (1728-1799). Lectures on the Elements of Chemistry delivered in the University of Edinburgh...now published from his Manuscripts. Edinburgh: Mundell and Son, 1803. 2 volumes, 4to (265 x 206 mm). Engraved portrait, 3 engraved plates; with the 2 unnumbered leaves of explanatory text bound between pp.552 and 553. (Minor offsetting of frontispiece to text). Contemporary calf gilt by Carss of Glasgow with their ticket (neatly rebacked to style, some minor rubbing to extremities). Provenance: Sir Archibald Campbell of Succoth, 2nd Baronet (armorial bookplate). FIRST EDITION, edited by John Robinson. Black was appointed chair of chemistry at the University of Edinburgh in 1766, where he did important work on latent heat, which “not only formed the basis of modern thermal science, but gave the first impulse to Watt’s improvements in the steam engine” (DNB). After Black’s death in 1799, his heirs persuaded Robinson, Black’s former pupil and friend, to edit and publish his lectures. Robinson supplied an introduction and many notes as well as a few sections of text. Norman 239. $800 - 1,200
76 BOCCONE, Paolo (1633-1704). Icones & descriptiones rariorum plantarum Siciliae, Melitae, Galliae, & Italiae. Quarum unaquaeque proprio charactere signata, ab aliis eusdem classis facile distinguitur. Oxford: Theatro Sheldoniano and London: Robert Scott, 1674. 4to (226 x 174 mm). Engraved vignette of the Sheldonian Theater on title, 52 engraved illustrations, some with hand-coloring (title repaired in upper blank margin, some minor mostly marginal browning). Modern calf. Provenance: Sold Wheldon and Wesley, 1964; Anita Peek Gilger, M.D. (sold her sale, Christie’s New York, 14 October 2003, Lot 12). FIRST EDITION of this description of rare plants in Italy and France. Boccone, an Italian naturalist, visited England in 1673, where he attended a meeting of the Royal Society and met Charles Hatton. Hatton convinced his mentor, Robert Morison, to edit Boccone’s manuscript for this work, and paid for its publication. Boccone brought plates for the work to England, but Morison had them redrawn from dried specimens and engraved at Hatton’s expense because they were inaccurate. Henrey 14; Hunt 329; Nissen BBI 179; Wing B-3385. $800 - 1,200
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78 BOODT, Anselmus Boetius de (1550?-1634). Gemmarum et Lapidum Historia. Leiden: Joannis Maire, 1647. [Bound with:] LAET, Joannis de (1581-1649). De Gemmis et lapidibus libri duo. Quibus praemittitur Theophrasti liber de lapidibus Graece & Latine. Leiden: Joannis Maire, 1647. 8vo (189 x 113 mm). 2 folding tables in the first work; in-text woodcuts throughout both works. (Some minor spotting.) Contemporary vellum, black morocco letteringpiece, yapp edges, edges sprinkled blue. Provenance: Bornius (signature); Melvin Edward Jahn (bookplate). Third edition of the Gemmarum by Boodt, FIRST EDITION of De Gemmis by Laet. Boodt’s Gemmarium was the definitive work in the 17th century with regards to splitting diamonds, distinguishing authentic gemstones, and measuring the hardness of stones. He describes some 600 known minerals, describing their properties and medical uses. In the second work, Laet discusses Boodt’s work, and includes a translation of Theophrastus’s book on stones with Laet’s short annotations. $500 - 700
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79 BORN, Max. (1882-1970) Mimeograph typescript, completed in manuscript, of lectures in physics: “Theorie der Wärme Vorlesung im Sommer-Semester 1922.” --”Vorlesung Ueber Theoretische Optik. Winter-Semester 1922.” University of Göttingen, 1921-1922. 2 volumes, folio (326 x 196 mm). Volume I: 232 leaves including title and contents leaves; Volume II: 254 leaves title and contents leaves. Mimeograph typescript printed recto only with manuscript diagrams, equations, and figures, and emendations and emphases to the typed text. Half cloth (some light wear to extremities). Provenance: Andries Charl Cilliers (1898-1980), theoretical physicist (ownership inscription); sold Christie’s London, 13 December 2006, Sale 7269, Lot 131. The lectures on thermodynamics include sections on capillarity, the theory of the ideal gas according to Planck, thermochemistry and applications of van der Waal’s equations; those on optics cover electromagnetism, field theory, wave theory, refraction, optical properties of crystals, electron theory, and Born’s mathematical theory of optical rotation. Up to this point, Born’s work had focused on heat and the dynamics of crystal lattice, and by 1921, he provided the most satisfactory mathematical statement on the first law of thermodynamics.
80 BOUTCHER, William (fl. 1734-1781). A Treatise on Forest-Trees: Containing not only the Best Methods of their Culture hitherto Practiced, but a Variety of New and Useful Discoveries. Edinburgh: R. Fleming for J. Murray, 1775. 4to (283 x 224 mm). Without engraved frontispiece and half-title as usual (Some light toning.) Original boards, printed lettering-piece, uncut (rebacked, some wear to edges, some staining). Provenance: Robert Mascall (armorial bookplate). FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY BOUTCHER. Boutcher guides the reader through “plain directions for removing most of the valuable kinds of forest-trees,” “transplanting hedges of sundry kinds,” as well as the “disposition, planting, and culture of hedges” to promote more robust growth (title-page). Henrey declared that the present work is the best 18th-century treatise on arboriculture, which has practical guidance that aid forestry today. Cleveland Collections, 521; Henrey 3, 476. $300 - 400
That year, he was appointed professor of theoretical physics at Göttingen, where he joined a group of scientists whose collaboration brought forth major developments in theoretical physics, culminating in the birth of quantum mechanics. The present lecture formed part of his first academic year at the institute. “The ‘Born School’ at Göttingen was as important to the flowering of theoretical physics as the schools of Bohr at Copenhagen and of Arnold Sommerfeld at Munich’ (DSB). A.C. Cilliers became professor of theoretical physics at Stellenbosch University after he completed his studies at Göttingen. $1,500 - 2,500
81 BRADLEY, Richard (d.1732). New Improvements of Planting and Gardening, Both Philosophical and Practical; Explaining the Motion of the Sapp and Generation of Plants...The Fourth Edition...To which is added...Herefordshire-Orchards. London: W. Mears, 1724. 8vo (182 x 116 mm). Title printed in red and black within double rule border; 11 copper engraved plates (8 folding). (Title inserted on a stub, some light browning.) Contemporary panelled calf gilt (rebacked to style, some light wear). Provenance: Patrick Hume, 1st Earl of Marchmont (1641-1724), Scottish statesman (armorial bookplate); Rachel McMasters Miller Hunt (1882-1963), bookbinder (bookplate laid in).
82 BRICKELL, John (c.1710-1745). The natural history of North-Carolina. With an account of the trade, manners, and customs of the Christian and Indian inhabitants. Illustrated with copper-plates, whereon are curiously engraved the map of the country, several strange beasts, birds, fishes, snakes, insects, trees, and plants. Dublin: James Carson, 1737. 8vo (194 x 120 mm). Folding map, 2 engraved plates. (Some minor chipping to a few leaves.) 20th-century half calf, black morocco lettering-pieces gilt (joints slightly rubbed). Provenance: Frank C. Deering (1866-1939), Americana collector (morocco booklabel). FIRST EDITION, THE FRANK DEERING COPY.
Fourth edition. The work comprises four tracts with continual pagination, describing a new system of vegetation, methods for improving flower gardens, a gardener’s calendar, and two early letters published as Herefordshire Orchards. Rachel McMasters Miller Hunt was the first woman to lecture at the male-only Grolier Club, and was inspired to help found the all-woman Hroswitha Club, which has since merged with the Grolier Club. ESTC T112715; Henrey 501; not in Hunt. $200 - 300
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Brickell compiled his Natural History of North-Carolina from his own first-hand observations, though much of his work is taken from John Lawson›s A New Voyage to Carolina (1709). “Brickell took the book of Lawson, reworked it in his own fashion extended or curtailed and brought it to his time...there is, besides, much more language relating to the social condition of the Colony in Brickell...while Lawson sticks close to the natural, economic, and Indian history of the province (Stephen B. Weeks, Libraries and Literature in North Carolina in the Eighteenth Century). ESTC T143839; Sabin 7800. $2,500 - 3,500
83 BURBIDGE, Frederick William Thomas (1847-1905). The Narcissus; its History and Culture. London; L. Reeve & Co., 1875. 8vo (244 x 165 mm). Half-title; 48 lithographed plates with handcoloring. (Some minor spotting to a few preliminary leaves.) Original publisher’s cloth gilt (spine sunned, some minor wear to extremities, hinges starting). Provenance: W. R. Price (signature). FIRST EDITION of Burbidge’s study on the genus Narcissus. “In offering this short history of a popular genus of hardy bulbs, my object has been to assist horticulturists and amateurs by adding coloured figures to the excellent review of the genus which originally appeared in the ‘Gardener’s Chronicle’ (1869)’” (Preface, p.[vii]). Nissen BBI 297; Great Flower Books p.83. $300 - 400
84 BURROWS, George (1832-1909). On Disorders of the Cerebral Circulation; And on the Connection between Affections of the Brain and Diseases of the Heart. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1846. 8vo (222 x 140 mm). 6 hand-colored lithographic plates; 4pp. advertisements at beginning, 16pp. advertisements at end. (Some very minor spotting to preliminary leaves.) Original maroon blind-stamped cloth gilt (some light wear, spine sunned). Provenance: London Hospital Medical College (shelf label on spine, stamps). FIRST EDITION of Burrow’s research, which was critical in dispelling the earlier hypothesis by Monro-Kellie that the blood volume in the brain remains constant. Burrows “demonstrated that the amount of blood in the brain can vary and this may be responsible for clinical signs,” making this publication a “milestone in the study of cerebral vascular physiology” (McHenry). The advertisement at the read is a publisher’s catalog “Corrected April 1846.” McHenry, Garrison’s History of Neurology, P237. $200 - 300
85 CASSINI, JACQUES. Tables astronomiques du soleil, de la lune, des planets, des etoiles fixes, et des satellites de Jupiter et de Saturne. Paris: de l’imprimerie royale, 1740. 4to (248 x 192 mm). 26 engraved plates; engraved head-piece and initial. (Lacking the errata leaf as often, a few small spots or stains to a few leaves.) Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt, brown morocco lettering-piece gilt, edges stained red (some overall wear). FIRST EDITION of Cassini’s collection of astronomical tables. Jacques Cassini succeeded his father as the head of the Paris Observatory. He was a cartesian, and an opponent of Newtonianism. Houzeau & Lancaster 12793. $500 - 700
86 CASSINI, Jacques (1677-1756). Elements d’Astronomie. Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1740. 4to (248 x 190 mm). 21 engraved folding plates. (Some very minor spotting, mostly marginal dampstaining to a few leaves.) Contemporary calf gilt, brown morocco lettering-piece gilt, edges stained red (joints starting, some light wear). Provenance: Early annotation on flyleaf; William S? (signature on title-page). FIRST EDITION of Cassini’s manual. His principal areas of interest were the study of planets and their satellites, including the structure of Saturn’s rings and the observation and theory of comets and the tides. While his observations yielded important results, his biases as a Copernican and not a Newtonian diminished their theoretical value. $500 - 700 V I E W T H E C O M P L E T E C ATA L O G U E AT H I N D M A N A U C T I O N S . C O M
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87 COQUEBERT, Antoine Jean (1753-1825). Illustratio Iconographica Insectorum… Paris: Typis Petri Didot, [1798/9]-1804. 3 parts in one volume, 4to (328 x 253 mm). 30 hand-colored engraved plates. Contemporary paper-backed boards, brown morocco lettering-piece gilt (some light rubbing). Provenance: Hans W. Taeuber (bookplate); Librairie Jacques Lechevalier (bookseller’s ticket). FIRST EDITION OF COQUEBERT’S SCARCE WORK. Complete copies of this important entomological study of insects in the Museum of Natural History in Paris are very rare, as the publisher’s stock was destroyed by fire. Coquebert was a noted French naturalist and councilor to the royal court at Amiens and Rhiems. A FINE WIDE-MARGINED COPY. Nissen ZBI 957. $800 - 1,200
88 CORNUT, Jacques Philippe (1606-1651). Canadensium plantarum, aliarúnque nondum editarum historia cui adiectum est ad calcem enchiridion botanicum parisiense. Paris: Simon le Moyne, 1635. 4to (238 x 132 mm). 68 full-page etchings in text. (Some occasional pale spotting and browning.) Modern brown morocco. Provenance: Early inscription dated 1670 on title; occasional marginalia and titling of some plates; Edward Sandford Burgess (bookplate); Ashton Allis (bookplate); sold Swann Galleries, 28 October 1971, lot 111; Dr. Anita Peek Gilger (her sale, Christie’s New York, 14 October 2003, Lot 34). FRIST EDITION OF THE FIRST CANADIAN FLORA, describing and illustrating approximately thirty Northeast American species for the first time. French physician Cornut never visited North America, but received plant specimens from the Robins family, who supervised the gardens of Henry IV and the garden of the Paris Faculty of Medicine, and the Morin family, who owned several Parisian commercial nurseries. Cornut also includes five South African bulb plants, again illustrated here for the first time. Cleveland Collections 190; Hunt 227; Nissen BBI 406. $4,000 - 6,000
89 COTTON, Charles (1630-1687). The Planters Manual: Being Instructions for the Raising, Planting, and Cultivating all sorts of Fruit-Trees, whether Stone-fruits or Pepin-fruits, with their Natures and Seasons. Very useful for such as are Curious in Planting and Grafting. London: Henry Brome, 1675. 8vo (157 x 90 mm). Engraved title-page “The planters manuell” on A1v (imprint cropped with old repair), publisher’s advertisements on final 2 leaves, several woodcut initials and head-pieces. (Some soiling and minor chipping.) Modern calf gilt, black morocco lettering-piece gilt. FIRST EDITION of Cotton’s English translation of R. Triquet’s Instructions pour les Arbres Fruictiers, published in Paris by A. Bertier in 1653, according to F. Cardew’s Instructions pour les Arbres Fruictiers (Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History, October 1950). ESTC R18563, Henrey 42; Hunt 337; Janson p. 111; Wing C-6388. $400 - 600
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90 DARWIN, Charles (1809-1882). Insectivorous Plants. London: John Murray, 1875. 8vo (190 x 125 mm). Half-title; numerous in-text wood engravings after Darwin. Original publisher’s green cloth, covers decorated in blind, spine gilt (hinges just starting, some light wear to spine ends). Provenance: Rowland Ward (1848-1912), British taxidermist and founder of Rowland Ward Limited of Piccadilly, London (bookplate). FIRST EDITION, third thousand, with an updated errata slip. “These meticulous studies form a minor contribution to the evolutionary series by the study of the adaptations of such plants to impoverished conditions” (Freeman p.149). Rowland Ward’s firm specialized in taxidermy work on birds and big game trophies, and he was a well-known publisher of natural history books and big-game hunting narratives. His father, Edwin Henry Ward, was also a taxidermist who traveled with John James Audubon. Ward prepared bird skins for Audubon, which were later used in The Birds of America. Freeman 1219; Norman 601. A BRIGHT COPY. $200 - 300
91 NO LOT 92 [DEVILLE, Nicolas, translator] -- BAUHIN, Gaspar (1560-1624). Histoire des plantes de l’Europe, et des plus usitées qui viennent d’Asie, d’Afrique, & d’Amérique. Lyon: Chez les Frères Duplain, 1753. 2 volumes, 8vo (165 x 91 mm). Half-title to vol.I; numerous woodcuts throughout. (Small wormtrack to lower corner margin of vol.I). Contemporary French mottled calf gilt, red and brown morocco lettering-pieces gilt, edges stained red (upper cover to vol.II slightly bowed, some minor rubbing, hinges starting). Later edition of Bauhin’s Histoire des plants de l’Europe..., first published in 1671, and here illustrated with woodcut figures of medicinal plants with names in Latin, French, Italian, Spanish and German throughout, named according to Pinax and Bauhin’s nomenclature. Copies of any edition of Bauhin’s work are rare on the market at auction. $400 - 600
93 DUHAMAL DU MONCEAULE, Henri Lewis (1700-1782). The Elements of Agriculture. Philip Miller, translator. London: P. Vaillant & T. Durham & R. Baldwin, 1764. 2 volumes, 8vo (203 x 123 mm). 14 copper engraved plates. (Some light toning.) Contemporary polished calf gilt, red and green morocco lettering-pieces gilt, edges speckled red (some scuffs and chipping to extremities). Provenance: Penn Libraries (shelfmarks “Library, Ben Damph. Forest”). FIRST EDITION of Duhamel’s treatise, which was a significant contribution to the advancement of technology for agriculture and well recognized in France. Philip Miller revised and translated the work from the French, making the technological advances developed in France available to a wider readership, particularly farmers in English. ESTC T130245. $300 - 400
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94 EUCLID (fl. ca 300 B.C.). Euclidis Megarensis Mathematici Clarissimi Elementorum Geometricorum Libri XV… Basel: Johann Herwagen, 1537. Folio (298 x 202 mm). Woodcut device on title-page, woodcut initials, woodcut illustrations. (Title torn crossing letters with old repair verso and lower corner renewed, closed tear on p.181 repaired, title slightly soiled). Contemporary vellum (endpapers renewed, slightly soiled). Provenance: Christen Sorensen Longomontanus (1562-1647), Danish astronomer (signature on title); Alexander Campbell (armorial bookplate). FIRST HERVAGIUS EDITION OF EUCLID IN LATIN, containing the complete works derived from Zanetti’s 1505 translation, and including comments by Campanus, Hypiciles, and the rare preface by Philip Melanchthon, removed by censors in many copies. DANISH ASTRONOMER CHRISTEN SORENSEN LONGOMONTANUS’S COPY WITH HIS SIGNATURE. Longomontanus was Tycho Brahe’s assistant at the astronomical observatory of Uraniborg in 1589. There, Brahe, Longomontanus and Kepler worked to try to develop a theory to predict longitude at oppositions with complete accuracy. He had good “skill at manipulating observational data, and he may have played an important role in Tycho’s remarkable research on the lunar theory” (DSB). He visited Frauenburg, where Copernicus had made his observations, and took a master’s degree at Rostock. He was elected in 1605 to a professorship in the University of Copenhagen, where we became chair of mathematics in 1607, a position he held until his death. Longomontanus developed Tycho’s geoheliocentric model of the universe to public acceptance. When Tycho died in 1601, he had not yet completed his program for the restoration of astronomy. Though the observational aspects were complete, Longomontanus selected and integrated the data into accounts of the motion of the planets and presented the results, which he published in his Astronomia Danica of 1622. Though Kepler›s Rudolphine Tables of 1627, based on Tycho›s observations, are often believed to be more accurate than any previous tables, Longomontanus›s tables, published in 1622, also based on Tycho›s observations, were demonstrably more accurate. With several marginal annotations, presumably in Longomontanus’s hand. Adams H-974; Houzeau Lancaster 832. $5,000 - 7,000
95 EUCLID (fl. ca 300 B.C.). Euclidis Elementorum libri XV Graece & Latine... Paris: Apud Hieronymum de Marnef & Guillaume Cavellat, 1537. 8vo (164 x 104 mm). Woodcut device on title-page, woodcut printer’s device at end; text in Greek and Latin; woodcut diagrams throughout. (Some minor browning or spotting, inkburn to the upper margin of a few leaves.) Contemporary vellum, yapp edges, hand-lettered on spine (lacking ties, soiled); quarter morocco folding case. Provenance: extensive early mostly marginal ink notes and diagrams. Reprint of the first Gracilis edition of 1557 incorporating the corrections from that edition. The woodblock vignette on the title-page and the printer’s device at end depict the coat-of-arms of Jerome of Marnef. Adams E-1001. $400 - 600
96 [EUCLID]. SCARBURGH, Charles, Sir (1616-1694). The English Euclide, Being The First Six Elements of Geometry, Translated out of the Greek, with Annotations and useful Supplements. Oxford: Printed at the Theater, 1705. Folio (349 x 224 mm). Half-title; engraved vignette of the Sheldonian theater on the titlepage; numerous woodcut and typographic diagrams throughout. (Some minor mostly marginal dampstaining or spotting.) Contemporary calf (rebacked, some light wear, hinges reinforced). Provenance: Benedict Library (bookplate). FIRST EDITION of Scarburgh’s translation of Euclide, published from his manuscript by his son. Physician and mathematician Sir Charles Scarburgh was an original fellow of the Royal Society. Wallis, British Euclids p.5. $1,000 - 1,500
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97 FONTENELLE, Bernad LeBouyer de (1657-1757). Eléments de la Geométrie de l’infinie Suite des Memoires de l’Academie Royale des Sciences. Paris: De l’Imprimerie Royale, 1727. 4to (250 x 189 mm). Woodcut device on title; engraved head-piece; one engraved folding plate. (Some minor spotting.) Modern half calf, marbled boards, edges sprinkled red. Provenance: The University of Keele Library, Turner Collection (presentation bookplate). FIRST EDITION of Fontenelle’s attempt at a theory of infinity. “In it he displayed his interest in the notion of infinity and his talent as a historian; in a few pages he retraces the history of the mathematical study of curved lines from Archimedes to Newton and Leibniz...According to Fontenelle, none of the geometers who had invented or employed the calculus of infinity had given a general theory to it; that is what he proposed to do” (DSB). $200 - 300
98 FRISCH, Johann Leonhard (1666-1743). Beschreibung von allerley Insecten in Teutsch-Land. Berlin: Christoph Gottleib, 1721-1738. 13 parts in one volume, 8vo (200 x 157 mm). First title printed in red and black; engraved vignette headpieces; 40 copper engraved plates (many folding). (Some overall browning.) Contemporary mottled calf gilt, red morocco lettering-piece gilt (hinges starting). Provenance: Theodoor Gerard van Lidth de Jeude (1788-1863) Dutch physician and zoologist (bookplate); N. A. Hamner (bookplate); Bengt-Olof Landin (1925-2006), Swedish professor of systematic zoology at Lund University (bookplate). FIRST EDITIONS OF THE FIRST IMPORTANT GERMAN TREATISE ON INSECTS, issued over the course of 18 years, describing nearly 300 different insects, with most of the plates engraved from Frisch’s own drawings by his son Philip Jacob. “Frisch was a careful and diligent observer... He takes one insect at a time, describes its external features, figures it in all stages, if possible, and tells all that he has been able to discover about its mode of life” (Miall pp. 240-1). $400 - 600
99 FUCHS, Leonhart (1501-1566). Histoire des Plantes de M. Leonhart Fuschsius, avec les noms Grecs, Latins & Fraçoys. Paris: Arnold Byrkman, 1549. 8vo (165 x 98 mm). 519 woodblock prints with early hand-coloring. (B2 printed in facsimile on laid paper, a few short tears or holes occasionally just touching letters, a few shoulder notes just shaved.) Later limp vellum (soiling). Provenance: Marginalia in an early hand; Maison de Poesis Fondation Belmont (small stamp on title and a few other leaves). Presumed second edition in French. Nissen records two Paris editions of 1549: a folio edition published by Jacques Gazeau, and the present edition. Fuchs’ work, “perhaps the most celebrated and most beautiful herbal ever published” (PMM), was first published in Latin as De Historia Stirpium Commentarii Insignes in Basel in 1542. The popularity of Fuchs› work in France is evidenced by the numerous editions which appeared in quick succession from 1549 through 1558. RARE: According to online records, only one copy of this scarce reduced edition of Fuchs, published in Paris by Arnold Byrkman, has sold at auction in the last 50 years. OCLC locates only 5 copies of this edition worldwide. Nissen BBI 665; not in Brunet, Hunt, NLM/Durling, or Wellcome. $2,000 - 3,000 V I E W T H E C O M P L E T E C ATA L O G U E AT H I N D M A N A U C T I O N S . C O M
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100 GHISI, Martino (1715-1794). Lettere Mediche. Cremona: Pietro Ricchini, 1749. 8vo (238 x 165 mm). Woodcut device on title, woodcut initials. Later half vellum, marbled boards, edges sprinkled red. FIRST EDITION. [Bound with:] [IBN AL-BEITHAR]. Ebembitar De Limonibus Tractatus Arabicus in Latinum ab Andrea Bellunensi. Edited by Martino Ghisi. Cremona: Pietro Ricchini, 1757. A rare translation of the first citrus book, originally written in Arabic and translated in 1602 by Andrea Bellunensi. We trace no other editions of this work published after Ghisi’s edited 1757 publication. Ghisi, a physician in Cremona, Italy, studies under Paolo Valcarenghis before moving to Florence. He returned to Cremona to practice medicine, and in 1747-1748, he combatted an epidemic which struck a large number of children and adolescents in the Cremona region. He made careful clinical and meteorological observations on the epidemic, which he published in the present pamphlet Lettre mediche del Dottor M. Ghisi. The second section of the work presents the first complete scientific description of diphtheria. RARE: We trace no copy of either work ever sold at auction.
101 GILBERT, Samuel (d. 1692). The Florists Vade-mecum, Being a Choice Compendium of whatever Worthy Notice hath been Extant for the Propagation, Raising, Planting...the Rarest Flowers and Plants...Together with the Gardiners Almanack. London: for Thomas Simmons, 1682. 12mo (134 x 72 mm). 2 woodcut diagrams in-text. (Lacking the engraved portrait, D1, G10, and M8 torn with minor loss to text, several repaired tears.) Modern calf antique. Provenance: W. Musgrave (1655-1721), British physician and antiquary (signature); William Forsyth (1737-1804), Scottish botanist (signature, 1798); manuscript note describing the publication of the work on front free endpaper. FIRST EDITION. The almanack has a separate title-page, “The gardeners almanack...With monthly directions what ought to be done in either kitchin or flower-garden,” and covers the period 1683-1697. William Musgrave was elected to the Royal Society in 1684, and he was elected to the Royal College of Physicians in 1692. William Forsyth was a founding member of the Royal Horticultural Society, and the genus Forsythia is named in his honor. Henrey 157; ESTC R30408. Selections from the Property of Dr. Eugene Vigil, Antiquariat Botanicum $800 - 1,200
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102 GRAVESANDE, Willem Jacob ‘s (1688-1742). Philosophiae Newtonianae Institutiones, in usus Academicos. Bassani: Ex Typographia Remondini, 1749.
103 GREELY, Adolphus W. (1844-1935). Report of the Proceedings of the United States Expedition to Lady Franklin Bay, Grinnell Land. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1888.
8vo (172 x 112 mm). Title printed in red and black, engraved vignette on title; 18 engraved folding plates. (Wormtrack in lower margin of first ca 11 leaves affecting imprint on title and wormhole in lower gutter margin last ca 23 leaves.) Contemporary vellum, spine gilt-lettered (some minor soiling, a few early geometric drawings on covers).
2 volumes, 4to. 6 maps and charts (one folding), numerous plates and illustrations. Original half calf gilt (some rubbing and wear). Provenance:
FIRST EDITION IN ITALIAN of Gravesande’s student textbook of Newton’s physics, and the most influential introduction to Newton published prior to 1750. Although Gravesande published the work in 1723, it was not accepted in Italy 1749, the year it was published. Gravesande, Dutch philosopher and mathematician and member of the Royal Society, laid the foundation for the teaching of Physics. The present edition is an abridgement of his Physices Elementa Mathematica. $400 - 600 36
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FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, WITH AUTOGRAPH NOTE SIGNED laidin: “For Capt. Schaff[‘s friend?] with compliments of A. W. Greely U. S. Army Mch. 28, ‘89.” The official report of Greely’s ill-fated expedition to explore the northwest coast of Greenland, during which most of the party would perish before the could be rescued in 1884. Selections from the Property of Dr. Eugene Vigil, Antiquariat Botanicum $300 - 400
104 GREW, Nehemiah (1641-1712). Anatomie des Plantes. Paris: Lambert Roulland, 1675. 12mo (148 x 80 mm). Engraved frontispiece, engraved head-pieces and figures; woodcut tail-pieces and initials. (Two leaves roughly opened, not affecting text, tiny spots on a few leaves, some minor worm-holes in lower gutter margin occasionally touching letters.) Contemporary French mottled calf gilt, brown morocco lettering-piece gilt, edges stained red (a few wormholes on the spine, hinges starting). Provenance: Librairie Jacques Lechevalier (bookseller’s ticket). FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH of Grew’s first book, published in 1672, The Anatomy of Vegetables Begun, “the first published study of the development of a plant from seed to seed” (LeFanu). Hunt 338; Pritzel 3554. $250 - 350
105 GUILLEMEAU, Jeune (“Jean Louis Marie”) (1766-1850). Histoire Naturelle de la Rose, où l’on décrit ses différentes espèces, sa culture, ses vertus et ses propriétés; suivie de la corbeille des rose, ou choix de ce que les Anciens et les Modernes ont écrit de plus gracieux sur la rose; et de l’histoire des Insectes qui vivent sur le rosier. Paris: Vatar-Jouannet, 1800. 8vo (156 x 95 mm). Errata leaf, half-title, engraved folding frontispiece, folding letterpress table. (Some occasional very light spotting, some creasing.) Contemporary half calf gilt, marbled boards, new red morocco lettering-piece gilt (some rubbing). FIRST EDITION of French physician and naturalist Guillemeau’s work about roses. The 5 sections include: an introduction with discussion of types and varieties; an analytical table based on Lamarck’s classification; an examination of cultivation of numerous varieties; insects affecting roses; literary lore, poetry, and prose featuring roses; medicinal uses of roses; and recipes for rosewater, oils, vinegars, and syrups. Johnston 660; Pritzel 3643; Stock 1102; not in Nissen. $200 - 300
106 HALE, Thomas (fl. 1750). Eden: or, a Compleat Body of Gardening.... London: for T. Osborne, T. Trye, S. Crowder, and H. Woodgate, [1756-]1757. Folio (420 x 260 mm). Engraved frontispiece, 60 engraved plates. (Some minor soiling, spotting or offsetting, ca 50 leaves with minor marginal worming.) Contemporary English blind-panelled calf (neatly rebacked and repaired). Provenance: William McElwain Talbot (gift inscription, 1978). FIRST EDITION, intended as a companion to the Compleat Body of Husbandry (London, 1756). Issued in 60 weekly parts, each including “descriptions and cultural details concerning the various products of the garden under the time of year in which they flower or fruit, the phrase name used by Linnaeus for each plant is given, and each is referred to in its place in [Linnaeus’s] sexual system, which is explained. Advice is offered on what to do each month in the kitchen, flower, and fruit gardens” (Henrey p.98). Henrey III.776; Hunt 559; Nissen BBI 880. $1,500 - 2,500
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107 HALLER, Albrecht von (1708-1777). Opuscula sua Botanica. Prius Edita Recensuit Retractavit Auxit Coniuncta Edidit. Göttingen: J. Wilhelm Schmid, 1749. 8vo (185 x 105 mm). Title printed in red and black, engraved coat of arms on title-page, 5 folding engraved plates, numerous woodcut decorations. (Some occasional light toning.) Contemporary half calf over marbled boards gilt, edges speckled edges (chipping to spine ends, some rubbing , corners lightly bumped); glassine. Provenance: Robert James Shuttleworth (18101874), English Botanist (bookplate) FIRST EDITION of Haller’s work including information about plants from different localities, habitats, and developmental phases. Haller was a Swiss naturalist and was the first botanist to realize the importance of herbaria to study variation in plants. Opuscula sua Botanica derives from 6 pamphlets, each providing extensive discussion on alpine plants, and the history of botany from his own observations. From the collection of Robert James Shuttleworth, noted British Botanist and malacologist. Hunt 535; Pritzel 3722; Stafleu & Cowan 2308.
108 HAYE, Thomas and Jacques VINCENT. Regle horaire universelle pour tracer des cadrans solaires sur toutes sortes de plans régulaires, déclinans & inclinez. Paris: Jacques Vincent, 1716. 4to (222 x 164 mm). 46 engraved plates (3 folding). (Minor marginal losses to a few plates, a few plates with minor repairs, a few separations to folds of folding plates, some minor soiling or spotting.) Contemporary mottled calf (rebacked preserving portion of old spine, lettering-piece, and endpapers, some staining). Provenance: Bourdet Delongchamps? (signature, initials on verso of a few plates); Jean Condamin (signature 1939). FIRST EDITION of Haye and Vincent’s extensive treatise on gnomics and the formation and use of sundials. Haye, a manufacturer of sundials, presents several models with descriptions of the instruments and directions for their use. Houzeau and Lancaster, 11591 $600 - 8000
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109 HENKEL, Johann Friedrich (1678-1744). Pyritologie, ou Histoire Naturelle de la Pyrite...on y a Joint le Flora Saturnisans...et les opuscules mineralogiques... Paris: Jean-Thomas Hérissant, 1760.
110 HILL, Daniel M.D. Practical Observations on the use of Oxygen, or Vital Air, in the Cure of Diseases: to which are added a few experiments on the Vegetation of Plants. London: for F. C. & J. Rivington, 1820.
4to (249 x 194 mm). Half-title; engraved frontispiece, 5 engraved folding plates. (Some minor browning or spotting to a few quires, a few marginal pencil annotations.) Contemporary calf gilt, brown morocco lettering-piece gilt (rebacked preserving original spine, corners renewed, some light wear.)
8vo. 5 engraved plates. (A few small spots.) ORIGINAL BOARDS, UNCUT, printed paper labels to upper cover and spine (upper cover detached, a few old repairs). Provenance: H. P. Hope (inscription).
FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH of Henckel’s study on pyrites, first published in German in 1725. German naturalist, chemist and mineralogist, Henckel was one of the pioneers of inorganic chemistry. His work on pyrites was influential on porcelain fabrication, particularly in Saxony, and in recognition of his contributions, he was named mining councilor to the elector of Saxony. The French edition was translated by Baron d’Holback, and the plates are by Pelletier and Patte. $400 - 600 38
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Second edition, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY HILL to H. P. Hope: “With grateful esteem and respect from the author to H. P. Hope. Esqr.” “In a philosophical point of view, it was almost impossible not to conceive, that the singularly fortunate discovery of the chemical properties of the air of our atmosphere...must lead to great and salutary effects in the cure of many diseases peculiar to the human frame” including Asthma (Introduction, p.2). $100 - 200
111 HOOKER, William Jackson, Sir (1785-1865). British Jungermanniae. Being a history and description, with coloured figures, of each species of the genus, and microscopical analyses of the parts. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, [1812]-1816. Folio (470 x 294 mm). Half-title; 88 engraved plates with hand-coloring. (Spotting to half-title and preliminary leaves, very minor spotting throughout.) Contemporary russia gilt (rebacked, some minor wear). Provenance: Dawson Turner (1775-1858), English botanist (signature, presentation inscription). FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY TO THE DEDICATEE DAWSON TURNER, ONE OF 10 OR FEWER LARGE-PAPER COPIES of Hooker’s “most beautiful work” (DSB) INSCRIBED BY HOOKER: “Not above 10 copies printed in folio -- Dawson Turner from the Author.” Dawson Turner was Hooker’s father-inlaw, and a noted botanist in the field of cryptogamic plants. He was the author of Natural History of Fuci, and formed a large collection of algae, which was later integrated with Hooker’s herbarium at Kew. ADDITIONALLY SIGNED BY TURNER. Nissen BBI 916; Stafleu & Cowan 2987. A SUPERB ASSOCIATION COPY. $4,000 - 6,000
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113 HOWARD, John Eliot (1807-1883). The Quinology of the East Indian Plantations. London: L. Reeve & Co.,, 1869-1876. 3 parts in one volume, folio (495 x 351 mm). Half-title; 15 lithographed plates (13 with hand-coloring), 2 mounted albumen photographs. (Some minor mostly marginal spotting to a few leaves.) Original publisher’s green gilt-decorated cloth by Westley with their ticket (lower joint repaired, hinges starting, some very light wear to extremities, otherwise bright). FRIST EDITION of Howard’s rare work on growing quinine in South East Asia. As early as 1827, Howard showed interest in what would prove to be his life’s work: the extraction of the anti-malaria drug quinine from the bark of the Cinchona (Cinchonaceae) tree in South America. He published his first report on the subject in 1852. After the tree was introduced to India from the Andes, Howard examined the bark and produced this, his second major work, on his findings. He was elected as a fellow of the Royal Society in recognition of his important work. RARE: We trace only 4 copies of Howard’s work at auction in the last 45 years. A BRIGHT COPY. $2,000 - 3,000
114 HOWORTH, Henry Hoyle, Sir (1842-1923). The Glacial Nightmare and the Flood A Second Appeal to Common Sense from the Extravagance of Some Recent Geology. London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company, 1893. 2 volumes, 8vo. Publisher’s green cloth gilt, rear covers blind-stamped, uncut and unopened (some light wear). Provenance: Matthew White Ridley (1842-1904), 1st Viscount Ridley, 2nd Baron Wensleydale (presentation inscription, armorial bookplate, shelfmarks). FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY HOWORTH: “To the Right Honorable Sir M.W. Ridley… From his old friend the author, June 1900.” Howorth, a conservative British politician, was alson an amateur geologist and historian. In The Glacial Nightmare, he refutes Scottish geologist Charles Lyell’s Uniformitarianist theories that known natural causes could explain geological features. Howorth disparaged theories of the ice age in favor of Creationist beliefs like neo-diluvialism, aimed at reconciling observed geological features with biblical descriptions of the great flood in Genesis. Ridley, the recipient of this copy, was also a conservative British politician; he received the work form Howard gifted just after his term as Home Secretary ended. A FINE ASSOCIATION COPY. $300 - 400
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115 HUXLEY, Thomas Henry (1825-1895). An Elementary Atlas of Comparative Osteology. London: Williams and Norgate, 1864.
116 HUYGENS, CHRISTIAN. Opera Reliqua. Amsterdam: JansonioWaesbergios, 1728.
Folio (375 x 304 mm). 12 double-page lithographed plates by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins. (Dampstaining to lower corner, some browning.) Original brown gilt-lettered cloth (rebacked, endpapers renewed, some light wear). Provenance: Clinton Hall Association, N.Y., Mercantile Library (stamps on plates).
3 parts in 2 volumes, 4to (255 x 196 mm). 56 (of 57) engraved plates (lacking plate XIV in Vol.II, provided in facsimile); titles printed in red and black. (Some minor browning, minor marginal dampstaining to a few leaves.) Contemporary calf-backed sprinkled boards gilt, uncut (rebacked preserving original spine, some light rubbing).
FIRST EDITION, “the figures in the present Atlas are intended simply to aid students in comprehending the general arrangement of the bony framework of the Vertebrata, and some of its most important modifications” (Introduction). Nissen ZBI 2064.
Second edition, with several sections previously published in 1703 as Posthuma Opuscula. Contents include: Volume I, Tractatus de Lumine. Dissertatio de Causa Gravitatis. Geometrica demonstratio Theorematum Hugenianorum...; Volume II, Part I, Opscula Posthuma: Dioptrica. Commentarii de formandis poliendisque vitris ad Telescopia.; Volume II, Part II, Opuscula Posthuma: Dissertation de Coronis et Parheliis... The varied sections demonstrate the range of interest and depth of knowledge of Huygens, who invented the pendulum clock, discovered the Orion nebula and Saturn’s moon, Titan, and who made important contributions in the fields of geometry and mechanics.
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117 JUSSIEU, Antoine Laurent (1748-1836). Genera Plantarum Secundum Ordines Naturales Disposita. Paris: Veuve Herissant and Theophile Barrois, 1789.
118 LACÉPÈDE, Bernard Germain de (1759-1825). Historie Naturelle des Quadrupedes Ovipares et des Serpens. Paris: Hôtel de Thou, 17881789.
8vo (201 x 126 mm). Errata leaf at end. (Some browning, worm hole to upper margin of last ca 45 leaves not affecting text.) Contemporary sheep gilt (old repairs to joints, some wear).
2 volumes only, 4to (253 x 182 mm). 63 engraved plates; 2 folding tables. (Some minor browning or spotting.) Contemporary mottled calf gilt, red and orange lettering-pieces gilt, edges stained red (joints starting, some light wear). Provenance: J. Fauquer Lamberg? (inscription on a separate sheet tipped in).
FIRST EDITION of Jussieu’s fundamental work on the classification of plants, the first to arrange “plant genera in a natural system based on the correlation of a great number of characteristics...Some of the elements of Genera plantarum...remain a part of the present-day system of botanical classification” (Norman). Hunt 703; Norman 1194; Stafleu & Cowan 589. $300 - 400
FIRST EDITION of the first comprehensive summary of amphibians and reptiles. Lacépède befriended Buffon, who in 1785 appointed him sub-demonstrator in the Jardin du Roi. Buffon proposed that he continue his monumental Histoire Naturelle, which he did with this work. The plates after de Sève depict the animals within their natural landscapes. Nissen ZBI 2350. $800 - 1,200
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119 LAPLACE, Pierre Simon de, Marquis (1749-1827). The System of the World. 1809. $1,500. 2 volumes, 8vo (215 x 124 mm). Half-titles; 4pp. publisher’s advertisements in vol. II. (Minor spotting to a few leaves.) Original paper-backed boards, uncut. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Laplace’s important work on astronomy was translated by J. Pond, who notes: “The reader will find the angular measures and measures of time used by the author reduced in the margin to the sexigesimal system adopted in this country; this was thought better than altering the text o an original work of such importance” (Note, p.vi). The note is followed by a table of French measures on the facing page. A FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL BOARDS. $300 - 400
120 LAURENCE, John (“John Lawrence” or “Charles Evelyn”) (1688-1732). The Clergy-Man’s Recreation: Shewing the Pleasure and Profit of the Art of Gardening. –The Gentleman’s Recreation. –The Lady’s Recreation… by Charles Evelyn. London: Bernard Lintott, 1717. 3 works in one volume, 8vo (192 x 118 mm). 3 engraved frontispieces by Simon Gribelin, 3 folding engraved plates, numerous woodcut initials, head-and-tail-pieces. (Some spotting, browning or staining, some marginal chipping.) Contemporary English panelled calf gilt (rebacked, preserving old endpapers, some minor rubbing.) Provenance: Baron Buchan Hepburn Bar (armorial bookplate). Fifth edition of the first work, second edition of the second work. FIRST EDITION of the third work, the first publication of Kalendarium Hortense by Lawrence, which is a reduction of John Evelyn’s work, interspersed with many useful additions. “The first original eighteenth-century English treatise on gardening did not appear until the London bookseller Barnaby Bernard Lintot, or Lintott, published in 1714 The Clergy-Man’s Recreation by John Laurence” (Henrey II, pp. 415). Not only was The Clergy-Man’s Recreation Laurence›s first published treatise on gardening, it also “possesses a historic interest because it contains one of the earliest published records of the transmission of a virus by grafting” (Henrey, p. 416, 417). Henrey II, p. 415; Hunt and Willis, editors. The Genius of Place: The English Landscape Garden, 1620-1820. $400 - 600
121 LEEUWENHOEK, Antoni Van (1632-1723), Nehemiah GREW (1641-1712), Robert BOYLE (1627-1691). Recueil d’experiences et observations sur le combat, qui procede du melange des corps. Sur les saveurs, sur les odeurs, sur le sang, sur le lait, &c. Paris: Estienne Michallet, 1679. 8vo (160 x 90 mm). Engraved frontispiece, one engraved plate; 1p. publisher’s advertisements at end. FIRST EDITION. In his introduction, Louis Le Vasseur describes the three articles, and explains their inclusion in the work. Grew’s article, originally published in English, has been translated to French of the importance of his experiments. Boyle’s treatise includes information on 24 experiments, 12 dealing with flavors, and 12 dealing with odors. Le Vasseur explains that he decided to include Leeuwenhoek’s article because his experiments and observations on blood and milk are worthy of the curiosity of scholars. The treatise by Leeuwenhoek contains five articles written between April 1674 and February 1678, providing observations for experiments conducted in April, June and July 1674, August 1675, and February 1678. The fifth article, apparently unrecorded in Dobell, may be published here for the first time. In these articles, Leeuwenhoek describes in particular the deformability and agglutination of red blood cells. RARE: according to online records, only two copies of this work have sold at auction in the last 45 years. NLM/Krivatsy 4991; Wellcome III, 164 $1,000 - 1,500
122 LEEUWENHOEK, Antoni van (1632-1723). Anatomia seu interiora rerum. Leiden: Cornelius Boutesteyn, 1687. --Continuatio epistolarum. Leiden: Cornelius Boutesteyn, 1689 2 works in one volume, small 4to (195 x 155 mm). First work: engraved title-page, 6 engraved plates; numerous in-text engravings. Second work: 11 engraved plates in the second work. Early Latin edition of the first work, FIRST LATIN EDITION of the second work, of the letters that were published in Dutch by Boutesteyn, a variant state of the first work with the title spelled correctly on the title-page and with some of the mis-paginations corrected. With de Hooghe’s Artemis frontispiece, dated 1685. With the full Latin text for letters 43, 42, 38, 28, 29, 30, 31, 35, 46, 47, 45, 48, 50, 51, and 52 (first work), and 53-60 (second work). Leeuwenhoek submitted several letters to Robert Hooke for presentation to the Royal Society of London, covering a range of investigations for animals, plants and minerals. Dobell 23A; Dobell 24; Wellcome III, p. 477; see lensonleeuwenhoek.net/timeline/tax/publications. $2,000 - 3,000 V I E W T H E C O M P L E T E C ATA L O G U E AT H I N D M A N A U C T I O N S . C O M
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122A LEUPOLD, Jacob (1674-1727). Theatrum machinarum hydrotechnicarum. Schau-Platz der Wasser-Bau-Kunst. Leipzig: Christoph Zunkel, 1724. Folio (364 x 236 mm). Half-title; 51 engraved plates (A few repairs to title just touching letters, some browning.) Contemporary tree calf gilt, modern red morocco lettering-piece gilt on upper cover (rebacked preserving original spine, some light wear). FIRST EDITION of the Theatrum machinarium hydrotechnicarum, second of a ten-volume series entitled Theatrum machinarum, each volume of which is complete in itself. Leupold was one of the major transmitters of the machine designs and technological images of Francesco di Giorgio Martini, the Sienese painter, sculptor and architect whose writings and drawings provided the chief source of inspiration (albeit one not always recognized) for several generations foe engineers” (Norman). Norman 1339. $600 - 800
123 LEMAIRE, Charles (1800-1871). Le Jardin Fleuriste, journal général des progrès et des intérèts horticoles et botaniques. Ghent: F. & E. Gyselinck, 1851-1854. 4 volumes, 8A (240 x 157 mm). Half-titles. 405 lithographic plates (of which 403 are printed in color and finished by hand, occasionally heightened with gum-arabic, 26 are folding, 2 are uncolored folding plates), numerous illustrations, some full-page. (Some spotting or offsetting, a few quires becoming loose or disbound.) Contemporary calf-backed boards (some wear, hinges starting). FIRST EDITION. This fine periodical has a definite preference for the exotic: there are about 60 orchids shown, a similar number of bromeliads and many other plants suitable only for the hot-house in northern Europe. There is some confusion about the number of plates, caused by the doublenumbering of most of the folding plates. Nissen calls for 430 plates, but Stafleu and Cowan record a number of double-numbered plates which are the folding plates in the present copy. Nissen BBI 2338; Stafleu-Cowan TL2 4376. $2,000 - 3,000
124 LE MONNIER, Pierre Charles (1715-1799). Institutions Astronomiques, ou Lecons Elementaires d’Astronomie, pour servir d’Introduction a la Physique Celeste and a la Science des Longitudes. Paris: Chez Hippolyte-Louis Guerin & Jacques Guerin, 1746. 4to (248 x 190 mm). 15 copperplate engraved folding plates. (Small pale spots to a few leaves.) Contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, edges sprinkled red, black morocco lettering-piece gilt (joints starting, some light wear). FIRST EDITION of Le Monnier’s best-known work, the first important general manual of astronomy in France. The framework of the Institutions Astronomiques was essentially a translation of John Keill’s Introduciton ad vera Astronomic (London, 1731), but Le Monnier included important additions and new tables of the sun and moon. Houzeau & Lancaster 9244. $800 - 1,200
125 LINNAEUS, Carolus (1707-1778). Materia Medica, Liber I. de Plantis. Stockholm: Laurentius Salvius, 1749. 8vo (205 x 115 mm). Engraved folding frontispiece (bound to face p.1) and one engraved folding plate. (Some minor spotting, minor worming to gutter margin of first and last few leaves.) Contemporary mottled calf (rebacked preserving old lettering-piece and endpapers). Provenance: a few early annotations on flyleaf; engraved plate tipped to front free endpaper. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION OF LINNAEUS’S MOST IMPORTANT MEDICAL WORK, including the Linnaean names of over 500 medicinal plants, including proper genera and species for several, and noting their medicinal effects. Linnaeus never completed subsequent editions of his work, although unauthorized editions based on his dissertations on animals (Book II) and minerals (Book III) were published in 1763. VERY RARE: according to American Book Prices Current, only two copies of this work have appeared at auction in the last 45 years. Soulsby 948; Wellcome III, 526. $3,000 - 5,000
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126 LOUDON, John Claudius (“J.C.”) (1783-1843). The Landscape Gardening and Landscape Architecture of the Late Humphry Repton. London & Edinburgh: Longman & Co., & A. & C. Black, 1840. 8vo (221 X 139 mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece, 253 illustrations and plans. (Very occasional light spotting.) Original gray cloth blind-stamped and gilt (some minor staining, spine sunned, some minor wear especially to spine ends and extremities). New edition of Humphry Repton’s work, edited by John Claudius Loudon, with an historical and scientific introduction, biographical notice, notes, and an index. Loudon, a Scottish botanist, was a prolific author on landscape design and was instrumental in the adoption of the term “landscape architecture” by the profession. Repton is widely considered the last great English landscape designer of the 18th-century. $400 - 600
127 MAGNI, Pietro Paolo (b. 1525). Discorsi intorno al sanguinar i corpi humani il modo di ataccare le sanguisuche e ventose a far frittioni e vesicatorii. Rome: Bartolomeo Bonfadion e Tito Diani, 1584. 4to (226 x 164 mm). Engraved title within architectural border, 11 engraved plates. (Engraved title bound in on a stub, some minor spotting or staining.) Later mottled calf (neatly rebacked). Provenance: Robert J. Moes (bookplate). FIRST EDITION of Magni’s treatise on the art of bleeding and the use of leeches in therapeutic medicine. Magni, an Italian surgeon in Piacenza, was a practitioner of phlebotomy, and also wrote a treatise on cautery. The fine engravings are by Adamo Ghisi, and depict the methods that can be used for bloodletting on various places on the body. VERY RARE: according to American Book Prices Current, only one complete copy of this edition of this work has sold at auction in the last 40 years. Mortimer Italian II, 267; Wellcome I, 3959. $1,500 - 2,500
128 MAIGNON, L’Abbé. Traité Complet d’Arithmétique... Lausanne: André FISCHER & Luc VINCENT, 1798. 8vo (208 x 159 mm). 2 diagrams. (A few stains, occasional spotting, one chip not affecting text.) Contemporary half calf over marbled boards, edges sprinkled red (some rubbing, some chipping). Provenance: Honoré Techtermann (elaborate signature, 1817). SCARCE extensive treatise on the use of arithmetic for different aspects of commercial or practical mathematical computation. Maignon specifically prepared this work for people living in Canton of Berne near Fribourg. $200 - 300
129 MANN, James (“James”) (1759-1832). Medical Sketches of the Campaigns of 1812, 13, 14. To which are added, Surgical Cases; Observations on Military Hospitals; and Flying Hospitals Attached to a Moving Army. Denham: H. Mann and Co., 1816. 8vo (237 x 145 mm). (Browning and offsetting, a few tears with minor losses to blank leaves.) Original publisher’s gray printed boards, letteringpiece printed in blue on paper, uncut and unopened (some chipping or staining). FIRST EDITION of “the primary record of medicine during the War of 1812,” (Garrison-Morton 2161.1). It contains a “Dissertation on Dysentery” which won the Boylstonian Prize Medal in 1806, as well as an observation on the Winter Epidemic of 1815-16, denominated Peripneumonia Notha, as it appears at Sharon and Rochester, State of Massachusetts. Mann served as an Army Hospital Surgeon and as a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society. He served three years in the American Revolution and another three years in the War of 1812. His “chapter on surgery (pages 206-33) is especially invaluable for its first-hand descriptions of the treatment of wounds” (Rutkow, The History of Surgery in the United States, GS4). Howes M-258; Garrison-Morton 2161.1. $400 - 600
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130 [MANUSCRIPT]. KOLLAR, Vincenz (1797-1860). “Abbildung und Beschreibung schädlicher Insecten. Ms. mit aquarellierten Handzeichnungen.” [Vienna, ca 1839-1847]. Various folio, 4to, and 8vo sizes (sheets approximately 420 x 325 mm or smaller). 9 watercolors by Kollar, most tipped to cardboard backing; approximately 63pp. manuscript in German in ink, most in Kollar’s hand, many on bifolia. Loose in card portfolio with hand-lettering (some soiling and minor losses). A collection of original documents and watercolors by eminent Austrian entomologist Vincenz Kollar, including descriptions and illustrations of harmful insects, and depicting various wasps, beetles, larvae, flies, and moths. The watercolors, most of which include several illustrations on one sheet, are carefully executed. The manuscript material includes several texts signed and dated by Kollar, and include one manuscript of Michael Babusnik, and another signed “Zimmerman.” Kollar was Curator of the Natural History Museum in Vienna, where he worked primarily with insects collected on expeditions, particularly specimen from the Austrian Brazil Expedition of 1817-1835. The gall wasp was named Cynips Kollari in his honor. $2,000 - 3,000
131 [MANUSCRIPT - BOTANICAL] -- [VAILLANT, Sébastien (1662-1759)]. MÉRAT, Laurent Germain (1712-1790). “Botanicum parisiense, operis majoris prodituri prodromus.” [France]: n.p., n.d. 8vo (240 x 138 mm). 200ll. Manuscript in French, ink, 2 with diagrams showing Tournefort or Linnaeus’s systems of classification. (Some occasional spotting.) Contemporary French mottled calf, smooth spine gilt, brown morocco lettering-piece gilt (spine ends neatly repaired, some very light rubbing). A manuscript copy in a legible hand by Mérat of Vaillant’s Botanicon parisiense, operis majoris prodituri prodromus, an inventory of plants in the environs of Paris published 1723. Tipped in on thick paper at the beginning is a facsimile of a note from Linneaus to Bernard Jussieu. Laurent Germain Mérat was a pharmacist in Auxerre, and a member of the Literary Society there. He was friends with both Bernard de Jussieu and Linnaeus. $400 - 600
132 [MANUSCRIPT - BOTANY AND MINERALOGY]. [JUSSIEU, Bernard de]. “Tableau des principales propriétés des plantes usuelles en medicine extraites des dictées botaniques de Bernard de Jussieu.” -- “Tableau des poisons végétaux.” -- “Tableau des poisons minéraux.” [France, ca 1775-1780]. 3 sheets folding into 8vo covers (the largest 445 x 572 mm). Tables hand-lettered in French, in ink within rule borders. (A few short tears at folds, a few small stains.) 18th-century pink paper-backed paste-papercovered boards, hand-lettered label on spine. (Some light wear). The large table of common medicinal plants is based on the “dictees botaniques” in the lessons of Bernard de Jussieu. It displays a classic pharmacopoeia describing plants to be used to cure various diseases. The two tables of poisons appear to be original. In them, the author lists herbal and mineral cures for various symptoms, and how to minister or apply the cure. He also describes alternative methods when the antidote is ineffective, and lists reagents and chemical methods to use to treat mineral poisons. $800 - 1,200
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133 [MANUSCRIPT - CIPHERING]. EVANS, Cadwallader. Ciphering Book of a Colonial Schoolboy. [Philadelphia], 6 April-26 July 1763.
134 [MANUSCRIPT - GEOMETRY]. “Farragine Matematica E: Extesum et mumeribuius sunt farrago libelli.” N.p., ca 18th century.
Folio (330 x 210 mm). 37 II. Manuscript in English, in ink, with diagrams, comprising Geometry and Trigonometry (ff.1-6), land surveying (ff.7-19), and plain, traverse, oblique and Mercator sailing (ff.20-37). With an elaborate surveying map, compass, and several diagrams. (Some mostly marginal chipping or tearing occasionally affecting text, small losses to the corners of two leaves.) Original red linen over boards, hand-lettered “C. E.” on upper cover. (Upper hinge broken
4to. 200pp. manuscript in Italian, in ink with diagrams and tables, title and page numbers lettered in red, errata slips in the same hand laid in. (Two tears with losses repaired to title-page not affecting text, lacking pp.75-76, presumably blank.) Contemporary quarter sheep uncut (some minor rubbing or soiling.)
A portion of the surveying exercise appears to come from William Leybourn’s The Compleat Surveyor (see the fourth edition, published 1679, pp. 292-294). Evans personalizes his ciphering book on the first page, including a drawing of his rooster, “Belon is Narr Cock›s Father or the Bony Cock a Doodle Doo.” The drawing includes the rooster’s spurs, with a note: “Spurr um up my Boy.” Evans also includes an aphorism about doing good deeds. $1,000 - 1,500
The manuscript includes a variety of mathematical problems and solutions, including trigonometry and geometry. Though pp.75-76 are missing, p.77 is blank, and p.78 opens a new section titled “Problema I.” The hand is incredibly neat throughout, and the errata tipped in in the same holograph suggest the work is the author’s own copy. It is presumably part of a larger work, as a footnote on p.33 refers to “Farragine Matematica A.” The Bern Dibner collection at Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology at the Smithsonian Institution Libraries hold a copy of a 74pp. manuscript lettered in red and black ink also entitled “Farragine matematica,” further suggesting the present manuscript is part of a larger work. $600 - 800
135 [MANUSCRIPT - MATHEMATICS]. MODESTO, A.R.P.A Mte. “Elementa Matheseos tumultuario Studio concinnata ac suis Studentibus tradita.” [Italy], ca 17th or 18th century. 4to (239 x 167 mm). Title written in red and black; 90 numbered manuscript leaves in Italian, in ink, with 3 in-text tables; 6 manuscript folding tables and 18 manuscript figures on four folding leaves with red wash coloring at end. (Some minor mostly marginal soiling or browning, title with contemporary pasted overslip, a few short tears to folds of plates.) Contemporary half vellum, marbled boards, hand-lettered on spine (some minor soiling.) The text is divided into sections on Arithmetic (76 pp.) and Geometry (14 pp.), each with an introduction, history, presentation, object and divisions. These paragraphs are followed by propositions in the arithmetic section, and addenda on conics, parabola, and other subjects in the geometry section. The detail information in the geometry section leads to a practical problem solving for surveying. The manuscript was likely used for teaching students, possibly at a Capuchin monastery. $800 - 1,200
136 [MANUSCRIPT - MATHEMATICS]. MONTEGU, M.. “Gèométrie Royalle.” N.p., 1701. 4to (220 x 166 mm). 221pp., in French, in ink, with numerous hand-drawn figures in-text, several vignettes on separate slips pasted in; a portion of the title-page written on a separate slip pasted in. (Small hole on title affecting letters, Loss on p.9 affecting 4 lines of text, some minor soiling.) Contemporary calf gilt (joints starting, some light wear). Provenance: M. Besnard (stamp, 3 typescript pages tipped in at front dated 1943). Montegu copies the text of Géométrie royalle, divisée en deux parties, qui contiennent tout ce que cet art a de plus nécessaire à un Homme de Guerre... published by Bouchard. He reproduces part of the title-page, and includes a note that he has enriched the text with several illustrations of Euclid. Montegu wrote the manuscript in 1701, after taking a course taught by M. Flamuel at Metz in 1677-1678. He includes and 11pp. preamble, not found in the published work, including a definition of mathematics, logistics, arithmetic, and geometry. The main body of the text includes a nearly wordfor-word copy of the scarce printed text. The author includes a number of very fine hand-drawn vignettes which complement the manuscript. $600 - 800 V I E W T H E C O M P L E T E C ATA L O G U E AT H I N D M A N A U C T I O N S . C O M
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137 [MANUSCRIPT - MATHEMATICS AND ASTRONOMY]. Badr al-Din Abu ‘Abdallah Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Misri al-Dimashqi, better known as Sibt (Ibn Bint) al-Maridini. A collection of three treatises on astronomy and mathematics. Safavid Persia: copied in alJauhariyya School, Isfahan, each treatise dated AH 1029/AD 1619-20. 8vo (194 x 130 mm). Arabic manuscript on paper, 90 leaves, 15 lines per page written in more than one hand in cursive script with several words in red; numerous diagrams and tables. (A few old repairs occasionally affecting letters.) Contemporary limp red morocco. The three works comprise: 1. al-Durr al-manthur fi’l-’amal bi-rub’ al-dustur, a treatise on the quadrant. 2. Raqa’iq al-haqa’iq fi hisab al-daraj wa’l daq’iq, Subtleties of Truths on Arithmetic of Degrees and Minutes, a commentary on a work by the Egyptian mathematician and astronomer Shihab al-din Abu’l-’Abbas Ahmad ibn Rajab ibn Tibugha ‘Ibn al-Majdi’ (1365 -1447), entitled Kashf al-haqa’iq fi hisab aldaraj wa’l-daq’iq, Opening Truths on Arithmetic of Degrees and Minutes. 3. A commentary, Risalah [al-Fathiyya (al-Shihabiyya)] fi’l-’amal al-jaybiyya, Treatise on [Fath al-Din (Shihab al-Din)] Operations with the Sine [Quadrant]. The author of these three treatises, Badr al-Din Abu ‘Abdallah Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Misri al-Dimashqi, better known as Sibt (Ibn Bint) al-Maridini, lived in Cairo and Damascus. He was the time-keeper of the al-Azhar mosque in Cairo, and was a pupil of Ibn al-Majdi. See B. A. Rosenfeld & E. Ihsanoglu, Mathematicians, Astronomers & Other Scholars of Islamic Civilisation and their Works, Istanbul 2003, pp. 276–277, no. 815, and pp. 293–298, no. 873. $2,500 - 3,500 138 [MANUSCRIPT - MEDICINE]. PLUMB, Ovid. “Notes from the Lectures of Nathaniel Chapman, M. D. Professor of the Materia Medica In the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Course of 1814-1815.” -- “Notes From the Lectures of Nathaniel Chapman M.D. Professor of the Materia Medica In the University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia Course of 1814-15.” -- “Notes taken at the New York Eye Infirmary by Ovid Plumb 1821&2 Montgomery House Barclay Street No 65.” New York, 1821 and later. 3 works in 3 volumes, 8vo (196 x 158 mm or smaller). Comprising some 450pp., in English, in ink (Some minor browning.) Contemporary sheep-backed marbled boards (some light wear). Provenance: Scoville Memorial Library Salisbury Connecticut (stamps). Dr. Ovid Plumb M.D. (1787-1856) spent most of his life in Connecticut. Chapman and Barton were noted physicians at the University of Pennsylvania, and Chapman later became the first president of the American Medical Association in 1848. Barton had been professor of materia medica from 1796 until 1812, and he succeeded Dr. Benjamin Rush as Professor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine. Barton published his books on materia medica in 1798 and 1804, and Chapman published his in 1817. Plumb’s lecture notes from his coursework in Philadelphia include sections on “Modus operandi of medicines generally,” “Sympathy,” “Emetics,” “Cathartics,’” Diuretics,” and “Bitters & Astringents.” Each section includes a number of plant and chemical remedies. The third volume comprises Plumb’s notes from his visits to the New York Eye Infirmary. The volume also includes information on fruit trees grown on the Plumb farm. $1,000 - 1,500
139 [MANUSCRIPT - PERFUMES]. [BARBE, Simon]. “Le parfumeur françois, qui enseigne toutes les manières de tirer les Odeurs des fleurs; & à faire toutes sortes de compositions de Parfums. Avec le secret de purger le tabac en poudre; & le parfumer de toutes sortes d’Odeurs. pour le divertissement de la Noblesse et Utilité des Baigneurs et Perruquiers.” [Lyon, ca 1660s or later]. 4to (230 x 184 mm). 272pp., in French, in ink (Some spotting or browning.) 17th or 18th-century French calf gilt, edges stained red. A manuscript after Barbe’s book on French perfume, with minor variations from the published text. The text opens with Au Lecture, and then Advertissements, and includes an index at the end, but does not include the dedication to Le Prince d’Harcourt. The present manuscript includes a section on chocolate on pp.85-86 which is not present in the first or second editions of Barbe’s work. Following the index is 8pp. of additional text and recipes. $800 - 1,200
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140 [MANUSCRIPT - PHOTOGRAPHY]. DENIS, Paul (1852-1921). “Photographie.” [Orsay (Seine-et-Oise), ca 1890]. 8vo (189 x 151 mm). 51pp., in French, in ink; diagrams on 11 gridlined sheets laid-in; irregularly trimmed sheet of tan tracing paper with 14 numbered figures in pencil folded and laid-in; manuscript note laidin. Manuscript text stab-sewn into original blue wrappers. The manuscript describes a broad range of subjects relating to 19thcentury photography. All but one of the figures from the tracing paper are noted in the manuscript. The note includes a list of what should be included when setting up a chambre noir, or darkroom. Also laid-in is Denis’ business card, listing his address at d’Orsay (Seine-et-Oise). Denis was a photographer originally from Vernon (Haute-Normandie), where he practiced photography and made photographic postcards. In 2007, the city of Vernon honored him with a dedicated exhibition of his photographs and postcards, including more than 250 unpublished photographs, prints, glass negatives, stereo plates, and albums. $400 - 600
141 [MANUSCRIPT - PHYSICS]. “Physicae Institutioues.” Italy, 1740. 8vo (205 x 152 mm). 292pp., in Latin, in ink; 38 leaves (of which 3 folding) containing 99 numbered ink drawings. (Some minor spotting or offsetting.) Contemporary vellum, handlettered on spine (some soiling, a few crayon marks on upper cover). With an introduction followed by Liber I Physica Generalis, and with an index on pp.289292. The text is organized with four dissertations that include a number of chapters, and the content covers all of the major areas of physics, including properties of bides, fluids, mechanics, heat, and optics. Numerals annotated in the margin refer to figures at the end. $800 - 1,200
142 [MANUSCRIPT - SUN DIALS]. “Traité De Gnomonique. Premiere partie [-Seconde partie] [-Troisieme Partie].” [Paris]: 1700. 3 parts in one volume, 8vo (194 x 130 mm). Premiere partie: 54pp. comprising text and diagrams; 8ll. longitude and latitude tables tipped in, printed on one side only (printed 1716). Seconde partie: 72pp. comprising text and diagrams. Troisieme partie: 61pp. comprising text and diagrams. (Some dampstaining to upper margin.) 20th-century red morocco-backed boards gilt. Part one contains an introduction to the science including practical aspects of geometry and tables to assist in the construction of sun dials. Part two includes information about the construction of several types of sundials, with descriptions about arcs and lines. The third part contains the description of several portable sun dials for the sun, moon, and stars. Though the manuscript is dated 1700, printed tables laid in are dated 1716. The manuscript comprises an extensive treatment of sundial theory, geometry, and the construction and application of different cadrans. It is generously illustrated throughout with accurate finely executed drawings. The second part includes information used for determining different times of the day, such as the Italian and Babylonian hours for sunrise and sunset. “Men well versed in mathematics and astronomy seem to have felt it their duty to acquaint everyone with the theory of constructing dials. It was all so simple that even the uneducated peasant should know how to build his own sundial...the dial became a scientific instrument, more dependable and lasting than any mechanical device.” (Newton & Mayall, Sundials, p.19). $1,000 - 1,500 V I E W T H E C O M P L E T E C ATA L O G U E AT H I N D M A N A U C T I O N S . C O M
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143 MARIOTTE, Edme (1620-1685). Oeuvres. Leiden: Pierre Vander Aa, 1717. 2 parts in 2 volumes, 4to (247 x 195 mm). Title printed in red and black with engraved vignette; 26 engraved folding plates. (Some browning or offsetting, a few short marginal tears, some marginal worming to the first few leaves vol.I.) Contemporary vellum, handlettered on spine (some soiling, some minor worming to pastedowns and flyleaves). Provenance: Bibliotheca Viennensis Scholarum Ciarum de Virgem Fidelem (inscription on title, 1781). First collected edition of the works of Mariotte. “Honored as the man who introduced experimental physics into France, Mariotte played a central role in the work of the Paris Academy of Sciences from shortly after its formation in 1666 until his death in 1684” (DSB). A WIDEMARGINED COPY. $500 - 700
144 MATTSON, Morris (1809?-1885). The American Vegetable Practice, Or a New and Improved Guide to Health, Designed for the Use of Families. Boston: Daniel L. Hale, 1841. 2 volumes in one, 8vo (225 x 135 mm). 24 chromolithographs, one folding engraving, 9 in-text woodcuts. (Spotting throughout.) Contemporary reverse calf, green morocco lettering-piece gilt (worn). Provenance: R.H. Crosby (early signature). FIRST EDITION of both volumes of Mattson’s work, a major advance in practical medicine. Mattson was a Physician to the Reformed Boston Dispensary, a Lecturer on Physiology, and the Practice of Medicine. In this work, he broke with Thomsonian medicine, popular in the 19th-century, which focused on ridding the body of toxins through natural herbal remedies, instead presenting a more accurate and well-researched treatise, considered superior to previous publications regarding botanical approaches to medicine. Of the many illustrations throughout are chromolithographs depicting plants or plant parts, and a folding double plate engraving of the human skeleton, and woodcuts of various parts of human anatomy. [Laid in:] Several leaves of manuscript notes, comprising formulas for cures using plant material. $400 - 600
145 MCILVAINE, Charles (1840-1909). One Thousand American Fungi, How to Select and Cook the Edible; How to Distinguish and Avoid the Poisonous. Indianapolis: The Bowen-Merrill Company, 1900. Thick 4to (267 x 195 mm). Numerous illustrations in color and black and white. (Some browning, a few short tears not affecting text.) Original publisher’s green pictorial cloth gilt (slight wear or browning). FIRST EDITION, number 499 of 750 copies of the “Author’s Edition,” SIGNED BY MCILVAINE. An essential reference for the mycophagist, including descriptions of mushrooms and other fungi, edible and poisonous, which McIlvaine tested personally to ensure the accuracy of his text. $300 - 400
146 METIUS, Adriaan. Arithmetica et Geometria nova. --Primum mobile: astronomice, sciographice, geometrice. Franeker: Uldericus Balck, 1625, 1631. 2 works in one volume, 4to (195 x 147 mm). Woodcut devices on title-pages, woodcut initials and diagrams; one etched folding plate, one woodcut folding plate. (A few early manuscript annotations, one diagram shaved, short tears to folds of woodcut plate, some minor dampstaining or spotting to a few leaves.) Later half vellum. Provenance: Johannes Petrus (presentation inscription); Liber Illustris Coll. Albensis (i.e. the college in Fehér, then in Hungary, but present-day Alba Iulia Romania, inscription); Thome B. Sz... Volgyi (signature, 1702). FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED TO JOHANNES PETRUS, a public notary and Metius’s friend. Metius spent time with Tycho Brahe before becoming professor of mathematics and astronomy at Franeker in 1600, where Descartes attended his lectures. Elzevir issued an edition of the first part of this work in 1626. Joannes Janssonius separately issued an edition of the Primum mobile in 1631. RARE: According to online records, only one other copy of this work has sold at auction in the last 50 years. $1,500 - 2,500
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147 MILNER, Henry Ernest (1845-1906). The Art and Practice of Landscape Gardening. London: The Author and Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, and Co., Limited, 1890. 4to (310 x 237). Half-title, 10 etched sepia plates by J.R. Hutchinson, 12 wood-engraved plates (10 colored, 2 double-page). (Some light spotting.) Original publisher’s green cloth gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut (some rubbing to extremities, some light wear to corners). FIRST EDITION of Milner’s text covering all aspects of landscape gardening. Milner was an English landscape architect and civil engineer. This present work spurred commissions for notable projects, including the 250 acres at Wembley Park for Sir Edward Watkin’s, the gardens at Friar Park for Sir Frank Crisp, and the parterre at Gatton Park for Sir Jeremiah Colman. $300 - 400
148 NEISON, Edmund (1849-1940). The Moon and the Condition and Configurations of its Surface. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1876. 8o (226 x 160mm). Half-title, tinted lithographic frontispiece, 4 tinted lithographed plates, 24 (of 26) maps. (Light spotting, lacking: Key Map, Map I, a few short marginal tears.) Publisher’s marron cloth, stamped in black, smooth spine gilt-lettered (stitching weak, spine faded, extremities a little worn); glassine. Provenance: Edward H. McLachlin (signature, 10 May 1894). FIRST EDITION of Neisen’s work, a translation and expansion of Johann Heinrich von Mädler’s work. Neison was frequently published in the Selenographical Journal and co-founded the Selenographical Society with amateur astronomer William Radcliffe Birt. The present work is still prized by Selenographers and spurred interest in selenography, the study of the topography of the Moon. $300 - 400
149 ORFILA, Mathieu-Joseph Bonaventure (1787-1853). Elemens de Chimie Medicale. Paris: Crochard, 1817. 2 volumes, 8vo (196 x 123 mm). 14 copper-engraved plates. (Some staining, some spotting, a few tears mostly marginal.) 19th-century vellum-cornered boards, red morocco lettering-pieces gilt, edges lightly speckled red (rebacked preserving endpapers and old lettering-pieces, corners bumped, some overall light wear). FIRST EDITION of this scarce work by Spanish-born French toxicologist and Chemist Orfila, the founder of toxicology. His research provided clear evidence that toxins can be found in parenchyma and organic liquids, and he worked to make chemical analysis a routine part of forensic medicine. He studied asphyxiation, the decomposition of bodies, exhumation, and developed tests to identify the presence of blood in forensic contexts, and is credited as having been one of the first people to utilize the microscope to analyze blood and semen stains. Not only was he appointed physician to Louis XVIII in 1816, he was also a member of the French Academy of Science, and the recipient of the First Prize in Chemistry and Physics from the University of Valencia.
150 [PALLAS, Peter Simon]. Dierkundige beschouwingen, Eenige Zoorten van zeldzame Dieren door naauwkeurige Beschryvingen, Afbeeldingen en Verhandelingen opgeheldert: Vertaald meet aanmerkingen verrykt en thans op nieuw in ‘t licht gebragt. In VI stukken met plaaten. [BODDAERT, Peter, translator]. Rotterdam: Johannes Jakobus Meyneken, [1793/95].
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4to (265 x 207 mm). 10 engraved plates with hand-coloring; engraved headpieces. (Minor losses to lower margin of a few leaves, some minor mostly marginal dampstaining.) Contemporary calf-backed boards gilt, uncut and unopened (some wear). A rare later edition. The first edition of Boddaert’s annotated translation of parts of Pallas’ Spicilega Zoologica was published in 6 parts in 1767-1770; a second edition was published by Esveldt & Holtrop in 1779. The present edition is a reissue of the 176770 edition, adding a new title-page and 6 section titles. According to Wood, the present edition is “one of the many editions of the author›s Dierkundig Mengelwerk” (see Wood p.511). Plates depict several species of antelopes, bats, an opossum, and the tufted puffin. Landwehr, Color Plates, 154; see Nissen ZBI 3072.
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151 PARE, Ambroise (1510?-1590). De Chirurgie ende alle de Opera. Haarlem: Harman Kranepol for Hendrick Laurensz, 1627. Folio (292 x 192 mm). Title printed in red and black with printer’s device; in-text woodcuts throughout. (Title soiled with small loss affecting imprint repaired, a few rust-holes touching letters, the first few leaves frayed affecting shoulder notes, a few minor stains.) Contemporary sprinkled calf gilt (rebacked preserving original spine and endpapers, some minor wear). Provenance: Jean Jacob de Gruytere (signature); Henri-Marcel Van Mock (signature, 17 February 1755); Dr. Leboucq (bookplate). Fourth collected edition in Dutch, a reprint of the 1604 edition, printed by the same printer as the 1615 edition with his device on the titlepage. According to Doe, the Dutch editions were far superior to the “very inferior” Latin edition. The Dutch editions used the same woodblocks as the French editions. Paré, one of the most notable surgeons of the European Renaissance, is considered one of the fathers of modern surgery and forensic pathology, and was a pioneer in surgical techniques and battlefield medicine. Doe pp.193-4. $1,000 - 1,500
152 PARKINSON, John (1567-1650). Paradisi in sole Paradisus Terrestris. Or a Garden of all sorts of pleasant flowers. London: Humfrey Lownes and Robert Young, 1629. Folio (334 x 204 mm). Woodcut title with a Garden of Eden scene signed “A Switzer” (remargined with minor losses); woodcut portrait; one full-page garden design woodcut; 109 full-page woodcuts, one small orchard plan woodcut; one small woodcut of tools and methods of grafting. (Index leaves laid in at end, a few leaves supplied, a few leaves remargined or repaired, some browning or soiling). Contemporary blind-tooled calf gilt, red morocco lettering-piece gilt (rebacked, some light wear). FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST IMPORTANT ENGLISH TREATISE ON HORTICULTURE, PRESUMABLY SIGNED BY JOHN PARKINSON Parkinson was apothecary to James I, and later Royal Botanist to Charles I. He was a founding member of the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries in December 1617. One of the most eminent gardeners of the day, he kept a botanical garden at Long Acre in Covent Garden, close to present-day Trafalgar Square. The presumed signatures of Parkinson occur on the verso of the engraved title (along with the note “Natury Secretarie”), and on the dedication leaf. Parkinson commissioned specially cut woodblocks copied from drawings in other Latin herbals for his work, rather than rely on specialist printers who owned a set of illustrations to be used in multiple works. “Since each block was the size of a full page and contained images of up to ten plants, the entire block had to be cut again if there were any mistakes...His books of plants would be the last to appear with wooden cuts, soon to be replaced by copperplate engravings...Yet the illustrations in the Paradisus are part of its charms” (A. Parkinson Nature’s Alchemist, p.105). his work remains one of the best single sources of information on early 17th-century gardening practices and styles in England, “in such a delightful, homey style that gardeners cherish it to the present day” (Hunt). Henrey 282; Hunt 215; Nissen BBI 1489; Pritzel 6933. $6,000 - 8,000
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153 PASTEUR, Louis (1822-1895). Études sur la Bière, ses maladies, causes qui les provoquent, procede pour la rendre inalterable, avec une theorie nouvelle de la fermentation. Paris: GauthierVillars, 1876. 8vo. 12 lithographed plates; numerous in-text illustrations. ORIGINAL WRAPPERS (some minor chipping or spotting, a few repairs to spine, upper wrapper detaching); quarter morocco slipcase. Provenance: Colonel Broza? (presentation inscription). FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by Pasteur on half-title: “Au Colonel Broza? son compatriot et son ami. L Pasteur.” Études sur la Bière discussed the practical problems of brewing and “recapitulated the series of debates over fermentation in which Pasteur had been embroiled since the publication of Études sur la Vin. Pasteur sought to prove that the ‘diseases’ of beer are caused by foreign micro-organisms and proposed a reformed brewing process to eliminate them” (Norman 1658). Garrison-Morton 2485; Heirs of Hippocrates 1898. $1,000 - 1,500
154 PINEL, Phillippe (1745-1826). La medecine clinique rendue plus precise et plus exacte par l’application de l’analyse. Paris: Brosson, Gabon et Cie., 1802. 8vo (198 x 124 mm). Half-title; 3 engraved folding tables. (Minor fraying to outer margin of one table.) Contemporary French sheep, smooth spine gilt, red morocco lettering-piece gilt, edges stained yellow (some minor wear, upper joint starting). FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY THE PRINTERS on the half-title. Pinel’s work, based on his experiences at the Hospice de la Salpêtrière, where he was chief physician, was a major contribution to the classification of diseases. He was instrumental in the development of a more humane approach to the care of psychiatric patience, and worked to humanise their treatment, for which he’s described as the father of modern psychiatry. Selections from the Property of Dr. Eugene Vigil, Antiquariat Botanicum $300 - 400
155 PONTEY, William. The Profitable Planter. A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Planting Forest Trees. Huddersfield: T. Smart for the author, 1808. 8vo (235 x 145 mm). Engraved frontispiece; 6pp. advertisements for various editions of this work at beginning, 4pp. publisher’s advertisements at end. (Minor offsetting of frontispiece to title, very minor dust-soiling or spotting to a few leaves). ORIGINAL BOARDS UNCUT (rebacked, some light wear). Provenance: The Land Agent’s Society (bookplate). Second edition, expanding on the first edition of 1796 to include forest trees in general, and to argue the benefits of using British timber: “It will be observed, that though the present is called a second edition, it may be considered as nearly a new work; the former being chiefly devoted to the cultivation of Larch, and Scotch Fir; and hence, though most of the sentiments are retained, a regard to method, has rendered it necessary to write most of the work anew” (Advertisement, p.6). [Laid in:] FOUR SMALL WOOD SAMPLES WITH LETTERPRESS LABELS. Samples comprising: Scotch Fir; Abele, Stained; Larch, Stained; and Spruce Fir. The samples of various types of timber mentioned in the work are apparently not mentioned as being included with the edition. $300 - 400
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156 PONTEY, William (fl 1780-1831). The Forest Pruner; Or, Timber Owner’s Assistant: A Treatise on The Training or Management of British Timber Trees; ...with Remarks on the Old and Outlines of a New System of Management of Oak Woods. London: J. Harding, 1810. 8vo (225 x 144 mm). Engraved frontispiece, 7 engraved plates (3 folding and sepia toned); 3pp. publisher’s advertisements at rear. (Some spotting, staining or light toning.) Original gray paper-covered boards, paper printed lettering-piece to spine, edges untrimmed (rebacked and new spine label but preserving original endsheets, some chipping to boards, one small tear to head of spine, some toning to edges); glassine. Third edition. Pontey was a planter and a tree pruner to Duke of Bedford, as well as a nurseryman at Lepton in Kirkheaton, Yorks. $200 - 300
157 PRINCE, William Robert (1795-1869). The Pomological Manual; Or, A Treatise on Fruits: Containing Descriptions of a Great Number of the Most Valuable Varieties for the Orchard and Garden. New York: T. & J. Swords, et al., 1831. 2 volumes, 8vo (222 x 133 mm). (Some spotting.) Modern quarter sheep gilt, marbled boards, red morocco lettering-piece gilt (some very minor rubbing or staining). FIRST EDITION of this scare treatise, which served as an excellent guide for American farmers and gardeners interested in raising fruit. Fruits discussed include apricots, cherries, nectarines, peaches, pears, and plums that Prince cultivated himself. Prince was an American horticulturist who ran the Linnaean Botanic Garden and Nurseries, was Vice-President of the New-York Horticultural Society, and a member of several other horticultural societies. Sabin 65622. $100 - 200
158 QUINCY, John, M.D. (d. 1722). Pharmacopoeia Officinalis & Extemporanea: Or, a Compleat English Dispensatory, in Four Parts. London: A. Bell, T. Varnam & J. Osborn, and W. Taylor, 1718. 8vo (195 x 119 mm). Title printed within double-rule border, woodcut tail-piece. (Soiling throughout, some marginal chipping, some creasing.) Contemporary blind-tooled calf, later red morocco lettering-piece gilt (rebacked, some rubbing, some chipping). Provenance: Thomas Powell Hornby Park (signatures and annotations, 1782). FIRST EDITION of Quincy’s work. “At a time when differences between apothecaries and physicians were acute, Quincy, an apothecary, managed to secure widespread acceptance as a writer on medical subjects” and his work “long outlived its author and…became the basis of later dispensatories” (Howard-Jones, “John Quincy, M.D....,” In: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, vol. 6, No. 2, 1951, p. 149). ESTC T61384. $250 - 350
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159 RANDOLPH, Mary. he Virginia Housewife, or, Methodical Cook... Stereotype Edition, with Amendments and Additions. Baltimore: Blaskitt & Cugle, [ca 1831]. 12mo (184 x 105 mm). (Some marginal chipping, spotting, staining or browning.) Contemporary half calf (rebacked). Fifth edition. The stereotype plates set for this fifth edition would be used for later printings through 1860. Mary Randolph’s husband, David Randolph, was appointed federal marshal for Virginia by George Washington, of whom Mary was a distant relation. When the Randolphs fell on hard times, Mary opened a boardinghouse in their home. She published this collection of recipes, drawn primarily from African American and Southern cooking, but also including recipes from a broader influence, such as “gaspacho.” Her motto on the title reveals: “Method is the Soul of Management. Bitting, p.388; Lowenstein 228. See Cagel and Stafford 628-631. $300 - 400
160 RAY, John (1628-1705). Synopsis Methodica Avium & Piscium. London: William Innys, 1713. 2 parts in one volume, 8vo (192 x 110 mm). Four engraved folding plates; publisher’s advertisement leaf at end. (Some very slight chipping to edges of two plates, some minor offsetting or spotting.) Contemporary calf gilt (rebacked to style). Provenance: S. Dillon Ripley (1913-2001), ornithologist, eighth Secretary of the Smithsonian (bookplate). FIRST EDITION, published posthumously. “This classic treatise completes, with the Synopsis Quadrupedum et Serpentini, the author’s contributions to vertebrate zoology, a series that should form part of every firstclass library on natural history” (Wood p.529). Keynes, Ray 105. $200 - 300
161 RYFF, Walther Hermann (ca 1500-1548). Newe aussgerüeste Deutsche Apoteck: darinnen aller fürnemsten, und gebraulichtsten einfachen Artzneyen, als Kraütter, Gewürtz, Mineralien... Niklaus Ager, translator. Strassburg: Lazari Zetzners, 1602. Folio (338x 215 mm). Title printed in red and black; numerous woodcuts throughout. (Some browning, a few stains or rust-holes.) Contemporary blind-tooled pigskin (lacking clasps and straps, some soiling). Provenance: A few early marginal annotations and underlinings in red; unidentified blindembossed seal on title-page. Second edition of Ryff’s Deutsche Apoteck (1573), edited by Strassburg physician Niklaus Ager and published posthumously, with the text divided into three parts: the medicinal and gastronomic use of plants; the application of individual parts of a plant including information about exotic plants recently discovered; and details on the composition of pills, lozenges and ointments. Includes a treatise on the plague. The woodcuts by David Kandel were taken from Bock’s Kreüterbuch. NLM/Krivatsy 10087; Wellcome I 5681. $4,000 - 6,000
162 SACRO BOSCO, Johannes de (fl. ca 1230-1240). Sphaera mundi, cum commento Wenceslai Fabri de Budweiss. Leipzig: Wolfgang Stöckel, 1499. Small 4to (208 x 139 mm). Collation: A-C6 D4 E-G6 H4 I6 . 49 leaves (of 50, lacking I6, blank). 39 lines. Types: 160, title and headings; 81, text (leaded); 73, commentary. Capital spaces, with capitals, initial strokes and underlines supplied in red. Woodcut printer’s device at end hand-colored in red and green, 28 woodcuts in-text, a few hand-colored in outline in red, one full-page. (Some browning or staining.) Later vellum (some minor soiling). Provenance: Diagram on title-page and marginal notes and diagrams throughout in a contemporary hand; Jois Henrici (17th-century inscription on title) A close reprint of Landsberg’s edition of ca 1497, the first to be published with commentary by Wenzel Faber von Budweis (1455-1518), an astronomer, astrologer and theologian from Bohemia. Sacro Bosco’s Sphaera Mundi, in which he sets out the basic principles of spherical astronomy, was widely commented upon, corrected and republished across Europe. First written in about 1220, the Sphaera Mundi is “a small work based on Ptolemy and his Arabic commentators antedating the De sphaera of Grosseteste. It was quite generally adopted as the fundamental astronomy text, for often it was so clear that it needed little or no explanation. It was first used at the University of Paris and from the middle of the thirteenth century it was taught in all the schools of Europe. In the sixteenth century it gained the attention of mathematicians, including Clavius. As late as the seventeenth century it was used as a basic astronomy text” (DSB XII, p. 61). RARE: according to online records, only one copy of this edition has sold at auction in the last 50 years; ISTC traces only 12 copies at institutions worldwide. BMC III 655; Goff J420; GW M14592; HC 14123; not in BSB-Ink. $4,000 - 6,000
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163 [SALESMAN’S CATALOGUE]. DEWEY, D.M. The Nurserymen’s Pocket Specimen Book, Colored from Nature, Fruits, Flowers, Ornamental Trees, Shrubs, Roses, &c. A specimen book for John Dixon, Dixon Nurseries, Geneva, NY. Rochester, NY: Keeler & Winfield, 1876. Oblong 8vo (215 x 140 mm). 74 chromolithographed and stencil-colored plates. (Some browning, soiling, or offsetting.) Contemporary morocco gilt (rebacked to style and repaired, previous name removed from upper cover). Agricultural trade catalogue with an extensive collection of plates, comprising: 42 fruit plates including apples, peaches, grapes, strawberries, and other berries; 13 flower plates, including roses, rhododendron, and althea; 7 flowering tree plates, including honeysuckle, clematis, and magnolia; 11 tree or bush plates, including mountain ash, horse chestnut, weeping willow, weeping birch, beech, and arbor vitae; also with one landscape plate. Dewey was the most successful of the nineteenth-century nurserymen from the Flower City. The plates his firm produced “were simple watercolours, but later, as demand grew, the technique of theorem paintings coloured with the help of stencils was used to multiply the number of copies as quickly and as cheaply as possible” (Oak Spring Pomona 64). $600 - 800
164 [SALESMAN’S CATALOGUE]. A specimen book for Washington Nursery Co., Toppenish, Washington. Rochester, NY: Rochester Lithographing and Printing Co. or Christy Inc., n.d. Oblong 8vo (140 x 205). 148 chromolithograph plates, one photograph. Original cloth walletstyle binding, gilt-lettered with the Nursery name (some light wear). Agricultural trade catalogue with an extensive collection of plates, comprising: 87 fruit plates, including apples, pears, plums, peaches, cherries, grapes, and berries; 14 tree plates, including elm, maple, ash, oak, linden, chestnut, and birch; 18 plates of flowering bushes include hydrangeas, lilac, snowball, and clematis; also included are 26 plates of peonies and roses. $500 - 700
165 SAMINIATI, Federico (fl. 1599). Tabulae astronomicae: quibus facile omnia capita, quae ad usum sphaerae primi mobilis praecipiuntur, confici possint... Fundamentum, apodixis... Methodus... quibus astronomiae studiosus, suo marte, per triangula plana & sphaerica omnes tabulas primi motus condere possit. Antwerp: Martinus Nutius, 1599 4to (212 x 167 mm). 3 engraved folding plates; woodcut diagrams in-text. (Some overall browning.) Contemporary limp vellum, yapp edges (spine reinforced in old vellum manuscript waste, some soiling, small loss to corner, lacking ties). Provenance: Sancte Marie Curtis Orlandingorum (early inscription on title). FIRST EDITION of Samianti’s rare astronomical treatise on determining location using dialing and tables for the sun at different ascension and descension points. The second part of the treatise deals with fundamental geometry for the construction of dials following astronomical protocols. Not in Adams; Riccardi 414-415. $400 - 600
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166 SCHINZ, Heinrich Rudolf (1777-1861). Naturgeschichte und Abbildungen der Reptilien. Zurich: Schaffhausen, 1833. 2 volumes, 4to (336 x 235 mm). Plates and explanatory text bound separately; lithographed title in plate volume; 103 lithographed plates, all but one with hand-coloring. (Title leaf to text volume slightly soiled, some minor mostly marginal soiling or very light spotting to a few plates.) Contemporary cloth-backed boards (lightly rubbed). Provenance: Freiherrn G. A. von Liebenstein (bookplates and shelfmarks). FIRST EDITION of Schinz’s lavishly illustrated survey of most of the known genera and species of reptiles and amphibians extant at the time of publication. The work was part of a larger natural history series by Schinz including volumes on mammals, birds, and fishes. The designer of the plates, Carl Joseph Drodtman, was known for the exacting scientific details and fine aesthetic presentation of images on a plate. Nissen ZBI 3671.
167 SCHULZE, Christian Friedrich (1730-1775). Kurtze Betrachtung derer versteinerten Hölzer, worinnen diese natürlichen Cörper sowohl nach ihrem Ursprunge, als auch nach ihrem eigenthümlichen Unterschiede und übrigen Eigenschafften in Erwegung gezogen werden. Leipzig: Friedrich Hekel, 1754. Small 4to (220 x 170 mm). One folding engraved plate. (Some minor browning.) Original plain blue wrappers (a few repairs, minor soiling). Provenance: Hoefer (early signature on title-page). FIRST EDITION, later summarized in Hamburgisches Magazin in 1755 (pp.354-359), of Schulze’s early work on petrified wood. Schulze studied at Leipzig and was a member of the Leipziger Ökonomische Sozietät. He gave the name “Pechstein” (in English, Pitchstone) to the dull black glassy volcanic rock he found near Meissen. RARE: we trace no copies of Schulze’s early work at auction in the last 50 years. Wellcome V p.65. $200 - 300
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168 SÉGUIER, François (1703-1784). Bibliotheca Botanica sive catalogus auctorum et librorum omnium qui de re botanica...tractant. The Hague: Jean Neaulme, 1740. 4to (260 x 210 mm). Title printed in red and black with woodcut device. (Some minor spotting or browning.) Contemporary wrappers (a few small holes). FIRST EDITION of Séguier’s botanical bibliography in Latin. The work is divided into three sections on flora, medical botany, and horticulture. “The coverage of the book is excellent, due to the fact that Séguier saw an unusual number of libraries on his European tour. He furthermore consulted as many catalogues of private libraries as possible. With the major Paris and London libraries accounted for, with the information obtained from Gronovious in Holland, and with his careful scanning of the literature, Séguier achieved a very high degree of coverage” (Stafleu & Cowan 11.624). $400 - 600
169 SMITH, Joseph Mather (1789-1866). Elements of the Etiology and Philosophy of Epidemics. New York: J. & J. Harper, 1824. 2 parts in one volume, 8vo (230 x 142 mm). (Some spotting throughout, minor marginal chipping, some creasing.) Original publisher’s green boards, printed lettering-piece to spine, uncut and unopened (some staining, some chipping to spine). Provenance: A. W. Kennedy (early signature). FIRST EDITION of this medical text, containing references to epidemics in the United States and the West Indies. Smith was born in New York, and practiced medicine in New York. He was one of the founders of the Medico-Physiological Society, contributing “Efficacy of Emetics in Spasmodic Diseases” to the first volume of the Medico-Physiological Society Transactions in 1817. He published many contributions to medical periodicals on cholera, Puerperal fever, and other epidemics. Smith also served as the editor of the New York Medical and Physical Journal and was President of the New York Academy of Medicine. Sabin 83362. $200 - 300 V I E W T H E C O M P L E T E C ATA L O G U E AT H I N D M A N A U C T I O N S . C O M
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170 SMITH, Robert (1689-1768). A Compleat System of Opticks, in Four Books. Cambridge: for the Author, 1738. 2 volumes, 4to (290 x 225 mm). 83 engraved folding plates. (Some spotting or browning, primarily to plates, V1-4 on slightly shorter leaves.) 20th-century quarter calf antique, edges stained red. FIRST EDITION, with sections on light, color, the theory of vision, the production of optical and perspective instruments including telescopes and microscopes, and astronomical discoveries. Smith’s work was influential in establishing the corpuscular theory of light as the dominant theory in the 18th-century. As Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, Smith was influential in establishing Newtonian science at Cambridge. Houzeau-Lancaster 3323. $1,000 - 1,500
171 [SOCIETAS REGIAS SCIENTARUM UPSALIENSIS]. Carolus LINNAEUS, Jan Frederik GRONOVIUS, and others. Acta societatis regiae scientiarum Upsaliensis ad annum MDCCXL [-MDCCXLII]. Stockholm: Laurentius Salvius, 1744-1748 3 parts in one volume, 4to (275 x 195 mm). Woodcut devices on title-pages, woodcut and engraved head- and tail-pieces, woodcut initials and diagrams; 10 engraved plates (4 folding), one by Ehret. (Some spotting.) ORIGINAL BOARDS UNCUT (losses to spine, some soiling). Provenance: The Library of the Earls of Macclesfield (bookplate, embossed stamp on title-page, sold Sotheby’s London, 25 October 2005, Sale L05409, Lot 1916). FIRST EDITION, THE MACCLESFIELD COPY Linnaeus contributes four articles, including work on orchids and lobelia. Gronovius also contributes four articles, including a work on fish. Other contributors include: Swedish mathematician, Samuel Klingenstierna, 4 articles (2 on solar eclipses); Finnish physician Helmut D. Sporing, one article on the trachea; Astronomer Peter W. Wargentin, to articles on the movement of Jupiter’s moons; Albert Haller, 2 articles and numerous astronomical observations; and entomologist Carlo De Geer on Parvulis Insectis. Soulsby 396, 416 & 930. $1,000 - 1,500
172 [SPECIMEN ALBUM - FERNS]. CRANWELL, Thomas. “New Zealand Ferns.” Auckland, New Zealand, [ca 1875-1890]. 4to (280 x 220 mm). Album of 30 fern specimens pressed onto 30 leaves, printed name labels lower margin, by Thomas Cranwell with his stamp. Original calf-backed carved rimu wood boards. Provenance: Dorothy M. N. Davis (gift inscription, 1923). Thomas Cranwell, one of the best-known makes of pressed fern albums, arrived in New Zealand from Linconshire in 1862. By 1875m, he had established his own business at Parnell. He collaborated with a Bohemian cabinet-maker, Anton Seuffert, who produced many of the wooden covers for Cranwell’s albums. $300 - 400
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173 [SPECIMEN ALBUM - BRITISH MOSSES]. [PARNELL, William (1833-1906)]. “Preserved Specimens of British Mosses.” [Dublin, ca 1850].
174 [SPECIMEN ALBUM - ALGAE]. HUSSON, Anne Henry (1814-1855). Algae from the Red Sea. Collected ca 1844-1845.
4to (241 x 185 mm). Album of pproximately 200 specimens of mosses on 76 leaves, some in contemporary blue or white paper envelopes, each accompanied by extensive manuscript descriptions of each specimen including names and locations. Contemporary diced sheep, marbled boards, by D. W. Carroll with his ticket. Provenance: Miss Dawes (inscription); sold Maggs Bros., 2002.
Album of 18 algae specimens mounted on 18 sheets (each approximately 330 x 155 mm), each captioned with the Latin name, and details of the location and date the specimen was collected in manuscript in French on the mounts. Loosely laid in to folding portfolio, folding case.
Parnell collected and identified these mosses using William Jackson Hooker’s British Flora and Muscologia Britannica, and he reiterates in his Introduction that the study of mosses requires “the constant use of the microscope and the experience of no little patient perseverance.” Parnell describes the general morphology for 3 Divisions, 3 Subsections, and 39 Genera. The text includes additional morphological details for specimens of individual species for each genus that he collection in different regions of England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland. Parnell worked in the Herbarium at Kew and assisted with The British Flora. Hew as foreman at Glasnevein Dublin for many years. He concludes his introduction with a note of presentation for the album: “The work is now presented for acceptance to Miss Dawes as a very slight token of the respect and esteem in which she is held by the Author.” Selections from the Property of Dr. Eugene Vigil, Antiquariat Botanicum $300 - 400
“The Red sea has been a region of natural history exploration by European scientists...The first record of marine algae in the Red Sea was by Strand (a pupil of Linnaeus’s), who in his thesis on the flora of Palestine listed three species. The first person to collect marine algae from the Saudi Arabian Red Sea Coast was the Danish botanist and explorer Forsskal in the 18th century who, in the month of November 1762, made a collection of seaweeds from the Sea of Jeddah...In the early years of the 19th century a British admiral Viscount Valentia made collections of algae form the Red Sea...several other workers, including medical doctors and amateurs collected marine algae from the Red Sea during the rest of the 19th century” (Beni-Suef University Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences, Vol. 3/4, Dec. 2014, pp.278-285). Anne Henry Husson was a French botanist from Nancy, and a pioneer of early photography. He lived in Egypt where he worked as the director of the botanical garden and conservator for the museum of natural history for the Kasr el Ain. [Laid-in:] Photocopy of an article about Husson: “L’album photographique d’Anne-Henry Husson...Regards d’un colon nanceien dur l’Egypte moderne.” From: Annales de l’Est, 1985, no. 4, pp.261-199. The sheets stab-sewn in wrappers. $500 - 700
175 [SPECIMEN ALBUM - HERBARIUM]. DUPOUX, Jacques. “Cahier de Botanique a Dupoux Jacques.” Collected 1895-1896. 2 volumes, 4to (320 x 240 mm). Album of 943 plant specimens, most mounted 2-3 per page, each number in manuscript lower margin corresponding to a caption on the facing page providing the Latin name, location where the specimen was found, and medicinal properties. With manuscript tables at the end of each volume comprising some 20 pages. Original cloth-backed green boards (rubbed). Including plant specimens which are classified by family, and which were mostly collected near Saint-Pourçain-sur-Sioule. Jacques Dupous was likely a student of pharmacy in the Allier region of France. This herbaria likely fulfilled a general requirement, providing the student of pharmacy a reference of medicinal plants in their area.
176 STERBEECK, Johannes Franciscus van (1630-1693. Citricultura oft regeringhe der uy-themsche boomen te weten Oranien, Citroenen, Limoenen, Granaten, Laurie-ren en andere. Antwerp: Joseph Jacops, 1682. 4to (200 x 163 mm). Copper engraved frontispiece, 14 copper engraved plates. (Some minor soiling, a few leaves with marginal chipping.) Contemporary calf (joints starting, minor losses to spine ends). FIRST EDITION, including descriptions of citrus plant including their flowers, leaves, and fruit, and the care and planting of citrus trees with information about citrus diseases and pests. The plates, engraved by Francois Ertinger, are closely based on the plates created by Giovanni Battista Ferrari for his 1646 Hesperides. Nissen BBI 1893. $800 - 1,200
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177 THOMSON, Thomas (1773-1852). A System of Chemistry in Five Volumes. Edinburgh: Bell & Bradfute, 1810.
178 TORRICELLI, Evangelista (1608-1647). Lezioni Accademiche. Florence: S. A. R Per Jacopo Guiducci, 1715.
5 volumes, 8vo (208 x 131 mm). (Some very minor spotting, a few small stains.) Contemporary diced russia gilt, smooth spines gilt, black morocco lettering-pieces gilt, edges stained yellow. Provenance: Unidentified signature (note about acquisition of the set from Maggs Bros., 1996).
4to (263 x 185 mm). Half-title; engraved portrait after Pietro Anichini, engraved device on title, 2 small woodcuts in-text, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials. (Two small rust-holes on frontispiece, some minor soiling.) 18th-century Italian red sheep gilt.
Fourth edition of Thomson’s System of Chemistry, which helped secure his reputation in the field, and which would go through 6 separate editions, and which also appeared in French and German. Thomson’s reference was based not just on standard compilations, but also a wide range of recent papers. Thomson’s writings contributed to the early spread of Dalton’s atomic theory, and he’s known for invention the saccharometer and for naming silicon.
FIRST EDITION of Torricelli’s twelve previously unpublished lectures, delivered to the Accademia della Crusca, the Studio Fiorentino, and the Academy of Drawing, mainly relating to physics. “From the point of view of physics, the lectures on the force of impact and on wind are of particular interest. In the former he said that he was reporting ideas expressed by Galileo in their informal conversations, and there is no lack of original observations. For example, the assertion that ‘forces and impetus’ (what we call energy) lie in bodies was interpreted by Maxwell in the last paragraph of A Treatise on Electricty and Magnetism (1873) as meaning that the propagation of energy is a mediate and not remote action. In the lecture on wind Torricelli ... advanced the modern theory that winds are produced by differences of air temperature, and hence of density, between two regions of the earth” (DSB). Dibner, Heralds of Science 149; Norman 2088. A TALL COPY.
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179 TOURNEFORT, Joseph Pitton de (1656-1708). Institutiones rei herbariae. Paris: Typographia Regia, 1700. 3 volumes, 4to (240 x 175 mm). Engraved titles to vols. II and III, 489 engraved plates; engraved initial and vignettes. (Some minor spotting or toning.) Contemporary French sprinkled calf gilt, red and brown morocco lettering-pieces gilt, edges sprinkled red (some very light wear). FIRST EDITION in which Tournefort translated his findings into Latin to engage a broader European readership. Tournefort was the first botanist to clarify the concept of genus for plants, and the first to distinguish between genus and species, and he invented the word “herbarium.” He was chief botanist to Louis XIV, and was in charge of the Jardin des Plantes. With plates after Claude Aubriet, who accompanied Tournefort on his planthunting travels, and who later became the principal artist at the Jardin des Plantes. Hunt 450; Nissen BBI, 1977; Stafleu & Cowan 14.783. $800 - 1,200
180 TRABAUD, Jean. Principes sur le mouvement et l’equilibre, pour servir d’introduction aux mecaniques & a la physique. Paris: Jean Desaint & Charles Saillant, 1741. 4to (255 x 193 mm). Woodcut device on title-page, woodcut initials and headpieces; 25 engraved folding plates (one with flaps). (Minor marginal chipping to a few plates, otherwise bright.) Contemporary calf gilt, brown morocco lettering-piece gilt, edges stained red (some light wear). FIRST EDITION, this copy including the section on Ellipse that is often lacking. “In the text Trabaud makes reference to Jean Bernoulli, Leibniz, Varignon, Descartes, de la Hire, and other authors represented in this collection” (Bibliotheca Mechanica, p.325). The text includes two treatises: the first, containing several books, deals with all aspects of the movement of bodies and weights, percussions of bodies and statics, hydrostatics and equilibrium of fluids and hydrodynamics; the second shorter book deals with the formation of ellipse. Bibliotheca Mechanica pp.324-325. $400 - 600
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181 UNGER, Franz (1800-1870).Chloris protogaea. Beiträge zur Flora der Vorwelt. Leipzig: in Commission bei W. Engelmann, [1841]-1847. Folio (350 x 257 mm). 50 tinted lithographed plates (3 double-page); Plate XXXIX number printed on an overstrip and pasted in. (Some spotting or soiling, a few tiny holes in the corner of Plate L.) Contemporary boards with modern rebacking and recornering (some light rubbing). ONE OF THE RAREST AND MOST BEAUTIFULLY EXECUTED PALEONTOLOGICAL WORKS by a pioneer of paleobotany. Franz Unger was Professor of Botany and Zoology in Graz. The Chloris, his major publication, includes more than 120 new species of tertiary plants, illustrated and classified under known genera of the day. Copies of Unger’s work are RARE ON THE MARKET: American Book Prices Current traces only one copy in the last 45 years. Nissen BBI 2024; Stafleu and Cowan 15,595. $1,000 - 1,500
182 VARIGNON, Pierre (1654-1722). Traite du mouvement et de la mesure des eaux coulantes et jaillissantes. Avec un traite preliminaire du mouvement en general. Tire des ouvrages de feu Monsieur Varignon, par M. l’Abbe Pujol. Paris: Pissot, 1725. 4to (243 x 183 mm). 5 engraved folding plates. (Minor marginal dampstain to last ca 25 leaves, small wormtrack to blank margin of several plates.) Contemporary boards with later calf backing, upper cover set with the embossed coat of arms, edges stained red. Provenance: German Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin for Leibgarde zu Pferde (binding). FIRST EDITION of Varignon’s posthumous work edited from his manuscripts by Abbe Pujol. The work opens with a general discussion of motion, describing Varignon’s discoveries in the field of forces and acceleration, which were based on Galileo’s work. The Leibgarde zu Pferde of the Schwerin army participated in the Russian campaign and in the Napoleonic war against France. Roberts & Trent 339. $300 - 400
183 VEITCH, James Herbert (1868-1907). Hortus Veitchii A History of the Rise and Progress of the Nurseries of Messrs. James Veitch and Sons, Together with an Account of the Botanical Collectors and Hybridists Employed by them and a List of the Most Remarkable of Their Introductions. London: James Veitch & Sons Limited, 1906. 4to (285 x 198 mm). Photogravure frontispiece, title printed in red and black, 50 photogravure plates. (A few light spots, some occasional creasing.) Contemporary half black morocco gilt, marbled paper, tan metaltipped cornerpieces, top edge gilt, others uncut (spine sunned, some browning). LIMITED EDITION, one of an unstated number “for Private Circulation only.” The Veitch family comprised several generations of distinguished horticulturalists, owned the largest group of family-run plant nurseries in the 19th century, and may have been the first to employ “plant-hunters” for their nurseries. James Veitch was a fellow of both the Linnean Society and the Royal Horticultural Society. Through the Veitch family’s work “a mass of interest and beauty has been added to the gardens of Great Britain!” (Introduction, p. 10), and the work includes 1500 plants the business introduced to the market. $300 - 400
184 VRIES, Hugo de (1848-1935). Die Mutationstheorie. Leipzig: Veit & Comp., 1901. First volume in 3 parts only (lacking the second volume, also in 3 parts), 4to (246 x 171 mm). 8 chromolithographed plates; numerous in-text illustrations. Original green printed wrappers, uncut (minor chipping, a few repairs to spines, some toning). FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY DE VRIES: “Den hern E. K G Rose Van den Schigver Hugo de Vries.” De Vries formulated his Laws of Mutation, suggesting that new species developed through a series of small random changes, through intensive study of Oenothera lamarckiana, a species of evening primrose, in 1886. His theory buttressed Darwin’s evolutionism. Although the mutants were later discredited as the plant was shown to be a permanent hybrid, “The principle of mutation...remains a cornerstone of evolution theory” (Norman). Dibner Heralds of Science 36; Garrison-Morton 240; Norman 2169. $400 - 600 V I E W T H E C O M P L E T E C ATA L O G U E AT H I N D M A N A U C T I O N S . C O M
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185 WALLACE, Alfred Russel (1823-1913). Island Life or, the Phenomena and Causes of Insular Faunas and Floras including Revision and Attempted Solution of the Problem of geological climates. London; McMillan, 1902. 8vo. Color-printed frontispiece; numerous maps and diagrams. Original publisher’s green cloth gilt (touch of wear to spine ends and corners, otherwise bright.) Provenance: William Eagle Clarke (1853-1938), natural historian (correspondence, see below). Third edition, PRESENTATION COPY, with a printed Author’s Compliments slip laid in. This third edition was corrected and enlarged with the addition of 40 additional pages of text. Clarke, a naturalist, became Curator of Leeds Museum in 1884, and later joined the Natural History Department at the Royal Scottish Museum in 1888, where he became the Keeper from 1906 to 1921. He contributed papers to The Ibis from 1894-1900, focusing on birds from the Philippines. [Tipped in:] THREE AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED, FROM WALLACE to William Eagle Clarke. WALLACE CORRESPONDS WITH CLARKE REGARDING CORRECTIONS FOR AN UPCOMING EDITION OF ISLAND LIFE. WALLACE, Alfred Russel. Autograph letter signed (“Alfred R. Wallace”), to William Eagle Clarke. Parkstone, Dorset, 31 May 1901. 2 pages, 8vo. “I see you have written on birds of the Philippines in the ‘Ibis’ last year. I write to ask you if you can kindly give me the total number of species now known, to correct the statement at p.388 of my ‘Island Life,’ of which I am preparing a new edition.” On pp.388 of the present copy, Wallace writes: “Mr. W. Eagle Clarke has given me the latest figures by including all the new species discovered up to the present year (1901)...”. WALLACE. ALS (“Alfred R. Wallace”), to Clarke. Parkstone, Dorset, 21 July 1901. 1 page, 8vo. “Many thanks for the lists you have been so good as to send...” -WALLACE. ALS (“Alfred R. Wallace”) to Clarke. Parkstone, Dorset, 14 November 1901. 1 page, 8vo. “Will you be so good as to look over the enclosed proofs of list of Philippine Mammals, and correct any errors of spelling or any omissions...” A FINE ASSOCIATION COPY. $2,000 - 3,000
186 WATSON, James Dewey (1928 - ). The Double Helix A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA. New York: Atheneum, 1968. 8vo. 19 Photographic illustrations, 11 diagrams. (Some annotations.) Publisher’s original blue cloth lettered in gilt and blind (some minor rubbing or sunning to extremities); original printed dust jacket (some chipping to head-and-foot of spine and lower top joint, spine sunned). FIRST EDITION, second issue of the author’s groundbreaking account of the events which led to the discovery of the structure of DNA, for which the author, Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins were awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1962. $100 - 200 187 WELSCH, Georg Hieronymus (1624-1677). Hecatosteae I[-II]. Observationum Physico-Medicarum ad Societatem Naturae Curiosorum in Germania. Augsburg: Theophil Goebel and Joannis Schönig, 1675. Small 4to (205 x 158 mm). Engraved title, 12 copper engraved plates. (Some minor spotting or offsetting.) Later half calf (some minor rubbing, hinges starting). FIRST EDITION of Welsch’s study on materia medica in the 17th century, including plates after Melchoir Haffner illustrating minerals and plants used for preparing medicinal treatments. Welsch, a German doctor from Augsburg, was accepted as a member of the Academia Naturae Curiosorum, the present-day Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina, in 1676. Krivatsy 12929. $300 - 400
188 WESTON, Richard (1733-1806). The English Flora: Or, A Catalogue of Trees, Shrubs, Plants and Fruits, Natives as well as Exotics, Cultivated, for Use or Ornament, in the English Nurseries, Greenhouses and Stoves, Arranged According to the Linnaean System. London: Printed for the Author, 1775. 8vo (232 x 139 mm). (Some creasing, occasional light spotting.) Original paper-backed boards, uncut and unopened (some light wear). FIRST EDITION, IN ORIGINAL BOARDS. Weston’s early English flora includes an extensive catalogue of seeds both domestic and foreign, an index in English referring to Latin names, and a general catalogue of seeds for various gardens. Weston was an English Botanist connected to many horticultural and agricultural societies and published similar works on a variety of topics in those fields. ESTC T228382. $300 - 400
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189 WESTON, Richard (1733-1806). The Gardener’s and Planter’s Calendar. Containing the Method of Raising Timber-Trees, Fruit-Trees, and Quick, for Hedges. London: T. Carnan, 1778. 12mo (172 x 103 mm). (Some occasional light staining.) Contemporary calf gilt (rebacked with new endpapers, some rubbing to corners). Provenance: J. Bryan (contemporary signature); Pamela Lister (bookplate). Second edition, corrected and enlarged, of Weston’s work first issued in 1773, which contains extensive information on raising tress, preparing orchards, and planting vegetables and flowers. Weston included directions for garden management throughout the year, new advancements in gardening, an appendix, and a catalog of seeds and plants for use in various gardens (title-page). English Botanist Weston was the Secretary to the Leicester Agricultural Society and published numerous works on horticulture. Henrey 1485; Henry II, p. 396. $200 - 300
190 WILKINSON, John Gardner (1797-1875). On Colour and on the Necessity for a General Diffusion of Taste Among All Classes. With Remarks on Laying Out Dressed or Geometrical Gardens. London: Spottiswoode & Co. for John Murray, 1858. 8vo (222 x 140 mm). 8 chromolithographic plates or lithographs with hand-coloring (including frontispiece), numerous woodcut illustrations. (Some occasional very light spotting.) Original publisher’s pictorial cobalt cloth gilt by Edmonds & Remnant with their ticket (some rubbing). Provenance: Eric Stanley Quayle (1921-2001), British bibliophile (bookplate, 1965). FIRST EDITION. Wilkinson, considered to be the father of British Egyptology, set for the present work “to see England rival, and if possible excel, other countries in all the various branches of aesthetic art...to show how important it is that all classes of the community should appreciate the beautiful, and encourage the production of good works” (Preface, p. [v]). $150 - 250
191 WILSON, Henry (1673-1741) and William HUME. Surveying Improv’d or, the Whole Art both in Theory and practice, Fully Demonstrated. London: for J. Wood and C. Woodward, 1741.
192 WORLIDGE, John (1640-1700). Systema Agriculturae; The Mystery of Husbandry Discovered... and Dictionarium Rusticum: or, The Interpretaion of Rustick Terms. London: for Tho. Dring, 1687.
8vo (195 x 120 mm). 11 engraved folding plates. Contemporary sprinkled calf gilt (joints starting, some minor rubbing). Provenance: Ebenezer Hare (early signature).
Folio (318 x 197 mm). Engraved frontispiece, one engraved plate; woodcut initials. (First and last few leaves frayed, “The Explanation of the Frontispiece” leaf bound in on a stub, some overall browning or staining.) Contemporary calf (rebacked, endpapers renewed, corners repaired). Provenance: Thomas Jones (signature, 1763, inscription on recto of first leaf); a few 19th-century annotations.
Third edition, the first to be published with Hume’s supplement, Geodoesia Accurata: or, Surveying made Easy by the Chain only. The work, dedicated to Edmund Halley, describes use of chains, surveying wheel, theodolite, circumferentor, semicircle, plain table and scales. $200 - 300
Fourth edition of Worlidge’s Systema, which was first published in 1668, outlining general improvements, enclosing meadows and pastures and watering and draining them, and with information about clovers, vetches, Wiltshire long-grass, hemp, and flax. $300 - 400
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193 [BANGS, Samuel, printer] -- [MEXICAN-AMERICAN WAR]. TAYLOR, Zachary. Quartel general, Exercito de Ocupacion, Corpus Christi, 8 de marzo, de 1846. Orden, num. 30. [Corpus Christi: Samuel Bangs & George W. Fletcher, 1846]. 4to broadside (297 x 202 mm). Printed in Spanish, endorsed in ink verso in a secretarial hand, “77 Z.P. Taylor 23, Mar: 1846.” (Slight toning, creased.) FIRST EDITION IN SPANISH, published the same day as an edition in English printed in the Corpus Christi Gazette Extra. Taylor announces that his army will cross to the other side of the Rio Grande and promised that civilians will be well-treated, and that any provisions will be pad for “a los mejores precios.” The Gazette Extra for March 8 explains: “The orders of General Taylor (No. 30) have been printed in Spanish, and will be circulated among the Mexicans residing along the frontier. Nothing could have taken place better calculated to allay the fears and quiet the apprehensions of the residents along the border than the issuing of this order—explaining the objects of the American Army in advancing upon the frontier.” A SCARCE SAMUEL BANGS IMPRINT FROM CORPUS CHRISTI. Bangs, who was printing the Corpus Christi Gazette, was also working as a job printer for the army and private individuals (see Jenkins 457-459). EXCEEDINGLY RARE: This Spanish-language edition not in Winkler; OCLC locates only one copy at Yale. See Winkler 28 (for the Englishlanguage edition). $400 - 600
194 BRADFORD, Thomas Gamaliel (1802-1887). A Comprehensive Atlas Geographical, Historical & Commercial. New York: Freeman Hunt & Co, 1835. Folio (323 x 262 mm). Engraved frontispiece, pictorial title-page, 10 engraved plates, and 66 engraved maps colored in wash and outline. (Some minor spotting or offsetting.) Original marbled boards (neatly rebacked). THE FIRST AMERICAN ATLAS TO INCLUDE A SEPARATE MAP OF TEXAS Later (second?) edition of Bradford’s folio atlas, preceded by an edition published in Boston in the same year. At least 4 versions of this atlas are dated 1835: the earliest, published in Boston, does not include a separate map of Texas, and later editions include only one page of descriptive text. The present copy includes the separate map of Texas paginated “64A,” and two accompanying pages of text, paginated “64B” and “64C.”The map of Texas, based on Stephen F. Austin’s map, depicts land grants rather than counties. The city of Austin does not appear, but Austin’s Colony is named, and the map of shows Mustang Wild Horse Desert shown in the south, the Nueces River as the southwestern boundary. Phillips Atlases 770; Sabin 7260; Taliaferro, Cartographic Sources in the Rosenberg Library 248 (“Evidently, not all copies of Bradford’s atlas contained this map”); Wheat Transmississippi 408-410. $2,000 - 3,000
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195 [CIVIL WAR]. [THE SIEGE AND BURNING OF WASHINGTON, NORTH CAROLINA]. Washington, N.C., April 28-30, 1864. 4to broadside (250 x 196 mm). Typed document, printed recto only, docketed in pencil on verso, Morehead City, Cartaret County, 21 May 1864. (Some toning, a few tiny holes or separations along creases.) Provenance: Levi Stubbs (signature verso). A CONTEMPORANEOUS ACCOUNT OF AFTERMATH OF THE BATTLE OF PLYMOUTH AND THE SIEGE OF WASHINGTON, NORTH CAROLINA Plymouth, North Carolina, which had been held by the Union, fell to rebel troops on April 20th, following a successful river campaign by the rebels. The gunboat CSS Albemarle encountered the USS Southfield and the USS Miami, sinking the former and sending the latter into retreat. (“The town of Plymouth--twenty-eight miles from here--was attacked by the rebels who sent an iron clad down the Roanoke river...In losing the town we also lost two vessels of the navy”). The troops gathered in nearby Washington, NC were forced to retreat after the rebels seized the town on April 27: “This town is to be evacuated in a few hours. The troops are getting upon the boats as fast as possible.” On Friday, the 29th, the author writes: “The rebels did not come to town last night. Nearly all the troops are gone, and the town, of late so lively, is growing as quiet as a graveyard. A few citizens alone remain.” Later on April 30, the author writes: “The evacuation of the town has been accomplished in the most peaceable manner.” According to rebel reports, though, fires broke out across the town as the last of the troops prepared to board ships, destroying much of the settlement. $300 - 500
195A [CONFEDERATE ARMY]. Appomattox Parole for Private N[oel] E. Burton, Company F, 13th Regiment, North Carolina Infantry. 1 page, partially printed, accomplished in manuscript, Appomattox Court House, Virginia, April 10th, 1865, tears and small chips affecting letters, creased, stained. A pass signed by Elijah Benton Withers, Lieutenant Colonel, 13th Regiment of the North Carolina Infantry. In full: “The Bearer, Private N. E. Burton of Co. F 13th Regt. of N.C.I., a Paroled Prisoner of the Army of Northern Virginia, has permission go to [to] his home, and there remain undisturbed. E. B. Withers, Lt. Col. Comdg. 13th Regmt. N.C.I.” A RARE CIVIL WAR PAROLE FROM APPOMATTOX General Order 43, dated April 11, 1865, stated that officers and enlisted men of the Army of Northern Virginia must carry a printed certificate from Appomattox Court House in order to be identified as a paroled prisoner. The 13th Regiment, North Carolina Infantry was organized at Garysburg, North Carolina, in May 1861 with 1,100 men, recruited from Caswell, Mecklenburg, Davie, Edgecombe, and Rockingham counties. Ordered to Virginia, the unit shared in the many campaigns of the Army of Northern Virginia from Williamsburg (March-July 1862) to Cold Harbor (May-June 1864), and endured the hardships of the Petersburg trenches south of the James River. They took part in the Appomattox campaign from March to April 1865, during which the rebel army endured 500 casualties. General Robert E. Lee was determined to make one last attempt to escape the closing Union forces to reach supplies at Lynchburg. The rebel troops advanced, initially gaining ground, before they were stopped in their tracks by the Union infantry, surrounding Lee on three sides. Lee surrendered to Grant on April 9, and the Appomattox campaign was the final engagement of the war in Virginia. $2,000 - 3,000
196 CORTES, Hernando (1485-1547) and Francesco Antonio LORENZANA (17221804). Historia del Nueva-Espana, escrita por su escalarecido conquistador Hernan Cortes. Mexico: Imprenta del Superior Gobierno, del Br. D. Joseph Antonio de Hogal, 1770. Small folio (269 x 192 mm). Title printed in red and black; engraved frontispiece, 32 engraved plates, one engraved folding plate of the great Temple of Mexico; 2 folding maps. (A few tears to folds of maps with old repairs verso, some minor spotting to a few leaves.) Contemporary vellum, hand-lettered on upper cover, lettering-piece gilt, edges stained red (overall soiling, some light wear). Provenance: J. F. Arriaya (signature upper cover); 5 plates with manuscript notes verso, with some showthrough. FIRST EDITION of this “important and highly esteemed work, containing the celebrated letters of Cortes to the Emperor Charles V. This edition is illustrated with copious notes and documents, together with facsimiles of the Mexican mode of representing the tributes paid by the different towns in Mexico. These pictures, more complete and colored like the originals are included in Lord Kingsborough’s Antiquities of Mexico” (Sabin). “Pages 322-328 contain an account of the voyage of Cortes to the peninsula of California and notices of later expeditions to 1769. The map of Castillo was inserted to illustrate this account, which Lorenzana states was copied from the original in the Archives of the Marquesado, that is, of the Cortes family. Since that time the original has never appeared, so we are still at a loss to know whether Castillo or Lorenzana put the name ‘California’ on the map” (Wagner, Spanish Southwest 152). Palau 63204; Sabin 16938.
197 [CRIME]. Russell County, Virginia. Five Hundred Dollars Reward. Whereas a certain John BROWN (alias BONDS) and RICHARD BARROW, did in the month of April 1795 commit, the county of Russell, in the state of Virginia, a most horrid and deliberate MURDER and ROBBERY.... [Virginia:] January, 1797 Square 8vo broadside (197 x 167 mm). Three words added to one of the suspect’s descriptions in a contemporary hand (“hath fair hair”). (A few stains, including rust-stain from old paperclip in lower margin.) “A MOST HORRID AND DELIBERATE MURDER AND ROBBERY” of Francis Peter Teubeuf, who in 1790 purchased 55,000 acres in the frontier of southwestern Virginia. On election day in April 1795, Teubeuf encountered two men - Richard Barrow and John Brown, who arrived at his house to purchase horses. Instead, they attacked and killed Teubeuf, wounded his son and niece, and looted his home. As explained in the broadside, Brown and Barrow were captured in New Design, Illinois in May 1796, but they later escaped. They were never captured. The broadside includes detailed physical descriptions of each. VERY RARE: Not in McDade, Evans, Bristol, or Shipton & Mooney. $2,000 - 3,000
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198 CUSHING, William Barker (1842-1874). CDV. New York: E. & H.T. Anthony, [ca.1862].
199 CUSTER, George Armstrong (1839-1876). Manuscript document accomplished and signed as Lieutenant Colonel of the 7th Cavalry Regiment (“G. Custer”). South of the Arkansas, Camp Supply, 29 March 1869.
100 x 62 mm. Portrait on lettered mount. RARE IMAGE OF THE DESTROYER OF THE CSS ALBEMARLE. Cushing, an officer in the United States Navy, was known for engaging in risky attacks on Rebel installations. The CSS Albemarle, a steam-powered ironclad gunboat ram, dominated the Roanoke River and approaches to Plymouth through the summer of 1864. On the night of 27-28 October 1864, Cushing and 21 men worked their way up the Roanoke River in an attempt to capture the Albemarle, where they were spotted by a sentry and came under heavy fire. Cushing rammed his steam launch into the Albemarle at full speed, and when her spar was against the ironclad’s hull, Cushing detonated the torpedo’s charge. The raid blew a hole in the Albemarle’s hull, and she sank immediately. For his leadership in sinking the CSS Albemarle, Cushing received the Thanks of Congress, and five ships in the U.S. Navy have been named USS Cushing in his honor.
1 page, 8vo, written on lined paper, some minor creasing or soiling, backed with thin layer of japan tissue. The document, presumably written by an aide, recommends Trotter, also known as Ses-sa, and identifies the bearer as “an Osage Warrior... [who] accompanied by command on the late winter’s campaign and marches, and participated in the battle of the ‘Washita’.” The endorsement concludes: “I believe him to be a good Indian, and a valuable scout and trailer.” In addition to signing the document, Custer filled in the bearer’s name. As a result of The Battle of Washita River, regarded as the first substantial U. S. Victory in the Southern Plains War, a large portion of the Southern Cheyenne were forced onto a U.S.-assigned reservation. $3,000 - 5,000
[With:] WELLES, Gideon. Rebel Ram Albemarle. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, in answer to A resolution of the House of Representatives of the 2d of May, in regard to the rebel ram which recently participated in the rebel attack on Plymouth. [Washington, D. C.: House of Representatives, 1864]. Discussing the CSS Albemarle. $300 - 500
200 CUSTER, George Armstrong (1839-1876). Albumen photograph. St. Louis: James A. Scholten, [ca 1874].
201 EMORY, William H. (1811-1887). Map of the United States and their Territories between the Mississippi and the Pacific Ocean and Part of Mexico.... [Washington], 1857-1858.
246 x 150 mm. Portrait on lettered mount. Distinctive image of Custer in buckskins with a hunting rifle, wearing his trademark red kerchief. Taken on or around January 24, 1874 by St. Louis photographer James A. Scholte on the occasion of a visit by Russian Grand Duke Alexis, who requested to go on a buffalo hunt with Custer. The group was guided by William “Buffalo Bill” Cody on an expedition led by General William Tecumseh Sherman. This image originally appeared as a tipped-in addition to the 19th-century trade publication, the Philadelphia Photographer. A scarce original image, widely copied and issued in cabinet format after the Battle of Little Bighorn. Custer in Photographs K-113. $2,000 - 3,000 64
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Engraved map of the western United States with hand-coloring, 582 x 648 mm sheet. (Some minor toning, offsetting or spotting, creased). Emory’s map compiles information from previous maps of the west, representing 50 years of government exploration. It depicts the territories of Kansas, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Mexico, Utah, Oregon, and Washington in transition, and was drawn by Thomas Jekyll under the supervision of Lieutenant Nathaniel Michler. Wheat Transmississippi 916. [With:] DUVOTENAY, T. Messico. Turin: Fratelli Doyen, n.d. Engraved map of Mexico with hand-coloring in outline. With inset of Guatemala. $200 - 300
202 FOOTE, Henry Stuart (1804-1880). Texas and the Texans; Or, Advance of the Anglo-Americans to the South-West. Philadelphia: Thomas, Cowperthwait & Co., 1841. 2 volumes, 8vo. (Some light spotting.) Publisher’s green blind-embossed cloth, spines gilt-decorated (a touch of wear to corners). Provenance: John S. Littell (signatures, 22 April 1841); C. Walking? Littell (signatures, 24 September 1876) Joseph Y. Jeanes (bookplate). FIRST EDITION of “one of the most influential books on Texas in its time” (Jenkins). An important contemporary history of early Texas, “a very discursive account of Texas history down to the opening years of the Republic of Texas, but, with judicious skipping, a rather entertaining one” (Streeter). Howes F-238; Jenkins, Basic Texas Books 63; Sabin 25019; Streeter 1377. A BRIGHT COPY. $800 - 1,200
203 GARDNER, Alexander (1821-1882). Imperial albumen Photograph. Scenes in the Indian Country [Fort Laramie]. Image 13 x 19-in., mount 19 1/4 x 26-in. Imperial albumen photograph of lettered mount, title pencilled lower right margin. Provenance: Western Reserve Historical Society (sold Cowan’s, 10 May 2007, lot 631). Bird’s-eye view of Fort Laramie from a nearby hilltop, one rider with extra horse in foreground, showing the entire fort, hills in far background. “By the 1860s, the Plains Indians found themselves sandwiched in the middle of the country with white advancement on both sides. Rail lines cut directly through their hunting grounds–scattering the game necessary for survival... In 1868, in an attempt to end conflict, an unprecedented gathering of tribal leaders from the Northern Plains assembled at Fort Laramie, Wyoming. For his Scenes in the Indian Country series, Gardner photographed the treaty negotiations between the government-led Indian Peace Commission and the tribes who agreed to give up land and move to reservations” (Introduction, Across the Indian Country: Photographs by Alexander Gardner, 1867-68, at the Nelson-Atkins, July 2014-January 2015). $5,000 - 7,000
204 GARDNER, Alexander (1821-1882). Imperial albumen Photograph. Scenes in the Indian Country [Col. Bullock residence at Fort Laramie]. Image 13 x 19-in., mount 19 1/4 x 26-in. Imperial albumen photograph of lettered mount, title pencilled lower right margin. Provenance: Western Reserve Historical Society (sold Cowan’s, 10 May 2007, lot 631). The image showing a gingerbread-style 2-story cottage/home, clapboard construction with people on porch, wagons to right and another building in background. In 1843, close to one thousand emigrants passed through Fort Laramie, near present-day Uva, Wyoming, which was an important supply stop on the journey west. In 1849, the U. S. Government purchased the post, and in 1851, it was host to a multi-tribe treaty conference aimed at negotiating rights of free passage through Indian lands for westward-bound emigrants. In 1868, Fort Laramie was the site of the great Sioux Treaty Council, during which Alexander Gardner photographed his Scenes in the Indian Country series. $3,000 - 5,000 V I E W T H E C O M P L E T E C ATA L O G U E AT H I N D M A N A U C T I O N S . C O M
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205 HEMSLEY, William (1737-1812). Autograph letter signed (“Wm. Hemsley”), to a Jonathan Thompson. N.p., 17 March 1781. 1 page, 8vo, creased, some minor soiling or wear, small hole from opening. Provenance: Ford Mitchell (sold PBA Galleries, 20 October 2005, lot 87). Hemsley writes concerning munition deliveries. In part: “Sir, You [are to] please order Capt. Falkoner to collect the arms with all the accoutrements that were delivered him & send them down to Queens Town [Maryland] under the care of some trusty person, to Mr. Robt. Wright... & distribute them into such active hands as you can rely on. Make use of the lead as far as wanted, & have 4 or 50 [sic] rounds of Cartridges for each musket made up... Give strict orders that they do not fire away the powder & ball. I will pay the expenses of bringing the arms down...” Hemsley, an American planter and politician from Maryland, served in the Continental Congress in 1782 and 1783. He served in the Maryland state senate from 1779-1781, and again from 1786-1789. Hemsley was a member of the Maryland Convention that ratified the United States Constitution on 28 April 1788. $500 - 700
206 HERRERA Y TORDESILLAS, Antonio de. Descripçion de las Yndias del Norte 2. [Madrid, 1622]. Copper engraved map of America, 283 x 366 mm. RARE SPANISH-PRINTED MAP OF AMERICA. The 1622 edition of Herrera’s map, preceded by a printing of 1601, features the title in the upper left (rather than the upper right, as in the 1601 edition). “On this map the most noticeable feature used is the distinctive narrow Florida peninsula. The lack of any great detail still reflects the official policy of protecting Spanish knowledge of the New World; despite this the outline of the map is accurate. The only name to appear in North America is ‘la florida’” (Burden 197). The map also shows a small portion of present-day Baja California. RARE: according to online records, only 4 copies of this map have appeared auction in the last 25 years. $600 - 800
207 HOLTZ, Helmuth Heinrich Diedrich (1833-1915). Pictorial letter sheet with 7 views, comprising: Hotel at Matagorda, Texas -- Church -- [top center: untitled illustration of eagle with spread wings, 2 banners, and foliage] -- Masonic Hall -- Courthouse -- Residence of Col. R. H. Williams -- Store of Mr. G. Burkhart. Hamburg: Lang, [ca. 1860]. 8vo (273 x 214 mm). Lithographed pictorial letter sheet with conjugate blank leaf. (Light browning, some very minor wear along edges.) Provenance: Acquired Dorothy Sloan (11 December 2009, Sale 22, lot 222). FIRST EDTION, A RARE TEXAS LETTER SHEET. Though many examples of California letter sheets are known, only a few were made for Texas. Holtz also created large bird’s-eye views of Indianola and Matagorda (Reps 3981 and 3986). $200 - 300
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208 HONDIUS, Henricus (1597-1651) America Septentrionalis. [Amsterdam: Jan Jansson, 1639]. Hand-colored engraved map of the Americas, 498 x 599 mm sheet. Two cartouches, the lower left without text, Latin text on verso. (Some pale offsetting). FIRST STATE of Hondius’ map with no text in the cartouche lower left. According to Burden: “Hondius’ beautifully engraved map of North America had greater influence than any other to date in perpetuating the theory of California as an island…Cartographically, this map is a careful composition of many different sources” including maps by Henry Briggs (1625), John Smith (1616), Hessel Gerritsz (c.1631), and Thomas James (1633). Burden 245; Tooley, p.113. $3,000 - 4,000
209 HUSON, Hobart. Refugio: A Comprehensive History of Refugio County. Refugio: Refugio County Historical Society, n. d. 2 volumes, 8vo. Original cloth. Facsimile reprinting of the first edition of 1953 of Huson’s comprehensive history of Refugio County, “without a doubt, this is the most comprehensive compilation on the history of any Texas county” (Jenkins, Basic Texas Books 101). $200 - 300
210 HOUSTON, Sam (1793-1863). Autograph letter signed as Senator (“Sam Houston”), to Elisha M. Pease. Washington, D. C., 19 December 1856. 1 page, 4to, some browning and show-through. Houston writes Governor Elisha M. Pease concerning an appointment for one of Commodore David Porter’s sons. In part: “I take pleasure in forwarding to you the application of Mr. Porter for Commissioner of Lands. If consistent with your duty & pleasure, I will be gratified if his desires are granted. Mr. Porter is on of [our?] far sighted officers of the Navy, and was able and efficient by stricken down. He is a son of the late gallant Commander Porter. You may rely on his worth, intelligence & integrity.” $2,500 - 3,500
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211 [HOUSTON, Sam]. Two imprints bound together, comprising: Life of General Sam Houston. Washington: J.T. Towers, [1852?]. FIRST EDITION. Raines p.226; Sabin 33192. -- BURNET, David Gouverneur. Review of the Life of Gen. Sam Houston, as Recently Published in Washington City by J.T. Towers. Galveston: News Power Press Print, 1852. FIRST EDITION. Graff 495; Raines p.37; Winkler 295. 2 works bound in one, 8vo (245 x 157 mm). (Some browning, spotting or staining.) Stab-sewn in contemporary wrappers (wrinkled and soiled, a few tears with losses). Provenance: Several early annotations on wrappers a few leaves; acquired Dorothy Sloan (11 December 2009, Sale 22, lot 228). The second work is the FIRST PAMPHLET PRINTED IN TEXAS ON A HORSE-POWERED PRESS. Burnet wrote his review of Houston’s life in response to Charles Edwards Lester’s Sam Houston and HIs Republic, which was factually inaccurate. According to Raines, Burnet wrote to a friend: “’I have some idea of answering some of its misstatements and in order to do so am anxious to collect all the facts possible relating to the campaign of ‘36. The book is full of falsehood—every truth is turned upside down.’ He bemoaned Houston as “the prince of Humbugs,” and detailed errors, exaggerations, and what he called outright lies. No one seems to have doubted that Houston had himself written the book. ...About the same time an anonymous pamphlet appeared, printed by J.T. Towers in Washington, entitled Life of General Sam Houston, obviously derived from the Lester volume....The Towers pamphlet, he said, is but a repetition of the same falsehoods and the same absurd distortions of character” (see Raines 126n). The Center for American History at the University of Texas holds a copy of these two works bound together. $1,500 - 2,500
212 [HOUSTON, Sam]. Partly printed document accomplished in manuscript signed (“James Eagan”). 18 October 1830. Montgomery & Miller, Commission Merchants, Mouth White River, Ark’s. Terr. Little Rock: Wm. E. Woodruff, [1830?]. 1 page, 4to, woodcut of a ship upper margin, some minor browning. A printed bill of lading form for goods to be transported to General Sam Houston. With notes in Dorman David’s hand in pencil upper left. Relating to Sam Houston’s three-year travels among the Cherokee Indians, where he fled after resigning as Governor of Tennessee. The bill of lading is for items sent to Houston at Cant [i.e. Fort] Gibson, where he had settled following his marriage to Diana Rogers Gentry. The shipment, likely intended to help Houston furnish a new home, included a cooking stove, a coal stove, and a bathing tub. [With:] An accompanying autograph letter signed from Montgomery Miller to Sam Houston, 18 October 1830. A cover letter enclosing the bill of lading. $2,000 - 3,000
213 [HOUSTON, Sam]. Autograph document signed by 23 citizens, to Sam Houston. Refugio, 8 March 1843. 4 pages, folio, docketed, some dampstaining, old creases. Petition to President Sam Houston requesting that Houston appoint John White Bower as Chief Justice of the county. The citizens of Refugio lost their former Chief Justice, Benj. F. Neal, who “left this country and the Republic...and returned to the United States and your petitioners believe that he has abandoned the Republic...” The petitioners cite the hazardous conditions in Refugio--Santa Anna’s troops had captured the town in 1842 and carried captive all except two men--but “your petitioners continue to reside in their county under all the discouraging circumstances arising from the troubled state of the frontier, and shall continue to reside here until withdrawn by your excellency or driven off by the enemy - neither of which events they trust will take place.” However, “the county is entirely without officers and no authority exists in any person to issue a writ of election for the various officers which are absolutely necessary to the county.” $1,500 - 2,500
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214 [JACKSON, Andrew]. EATON, John Henry. Some Account of General Jackson, Drawn up from the Hon. Mr. Eaton’s very circumstantial Narrative, and other well-established information respecting him. By a Gentleman of the Baltimore Bar. Baltimore: Henry Vicary, 1828. 8vo (175 x 105 mm). 2pp. publisher’s advertisements at end. (Some minor browning or spotting.) Contemporary sheep (rebacked preserving old lettering-piece, some light wear). FIRST EDITION, printed in February of Jackson’s 1828 presidential campaign. “I have honestly endeavoured to set forth a just and fair account of the transactions which I relate...The Honourable Mr. Eaton...has enjoyed, a familiar intercourse with General Jackson for many years, and has long been commissioned to exert a senatorial voice in the councils of the nation. He must, herefore, be deemed a voucher that scorns to deceive and cannot be himself misled” (Prolegomena, p.vii). Sabin 21732. $400 - 600
215 [JEWISH EMIGRATION]. An archive of material relating to Jewish emigration to America ca 1890-1909, including letters and printed pamphlets, most relating to Louis Edward Levy. Approximately 68 carbon copy typescript or autograph letters, most to Louis Edward Levy, relating to Jewish emigration to the United States ca 1890-1909, with 7 printed pamphlets and other related material. Louis Edward Levy (1846-1919), was the founding president of the Association for the Protection of Jewish Immigrants (later known as HIAS Pennsylvania), and he served as the leader of many local Jewish organizations in Philadelphia. He wrote on immigration-related issues, including federal legislation for literacy tests to restrict immigration, and, as evidenced in the present archive, he corresponded frequently with leaders of other immigrant aid societies across the United States. Included in the correspondence are letters from: the Jewish Colonization Association, St. Petersbourg; the United Jewish Charities of St. Louis; the United Hebrew Charities, Ellis Island, NY; the Law Offices of Bernstein & Cohen, Portland, Oregon; the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, NY; the Association of Jewish Immigrants, Philadelphia; and the Association for the Protection of Jewish Immigrants. Included in the above are a small group of correspondence related to the emigration status of a Mr. Abram Mitkon (Mitkovsky), ca 1908, and carbon copy typescript notes from the First and Second Sessions of the Conference of Jewish Immigration Societies of America, 5-6 January 1909, and notes from the Second Conference of the National Jewish Immigration Committee, 28 February 1909. Printed pamphlets include: KRAUSKOPF, Joseph, Rabbi. A Morning at Ellis Island. A Discourse. Temple Keneseth Israel, Philadelphia. 24 November 1907. -- The Press on Immigration. new York: Liberal Immigration league, n.d. -- PHILIPSON, David, Rabbi. Jewish Tracts...No.2. the Jew in America. Cincinnati, 1909. -- MEYER, Martin A., Rabbi. Jewish Tracts...No.3. Jew and Non Jew. Cincinnati: n.p., 1913. -- Termination of a Treaty between the United States and Russia. N.p.: n.p., 16 February 1911. -- The Jews of Roumania. Hearings before the Committee on Foreign Affairs. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1914. -- Annual report of the Association for the Protection of Jewish Immigrants for the Year Ending April 30, 1916. Philadelphia, 1916. $500 - 700
216 LANE, Walter Paye (1817-1892). The Adventures and Recollections of General Walter P. Lane, a San Jacinto Veteran. Containing Sketches of the Texian, Mexican, and Late Wars, with Several Indian Fights Thrown In. Marshall: Tri-Weekly Herald, 1887. 8vo (171 x 110 mm). Engraved frontispiece portrait. (A few tissue repairs to first few leaves, some minor browning.) Original yellow printed wrappers (backed with japan tissue with repairs, spine renewed). FIRST EDITION of this rare Texas military narrative. “One of the best Texas military memoirs, this is also a prime source on the period from the Texas Revolution through the Civil War. No Texas military hero spent more time in the thick of the action than Lane, and his memoirs are meaty with anecdotes and incidents relating to the revolution, the Indian campaigns, the Mexican War, and the Civil War.... Lane served at San Jacinto with great valor, being wounded and singled out for special commendation and battlefield promotion.... Lane’s narrative is salty and pure Texian.... One of the most fascinating narratives ever produced in Texas” (Dykes Western High Spots p. 22). Graff 2384; Howes L69. $2,000 - 3,000 V I E W T H E C O M P L E T E C ATA L O G U E AT H I N D M A N A U C T I O N S . C O M
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217 [LEE, Robert E. (1807-1870).]. General Orders No. 3. Richmond: Adjutant and Inspector General›s Office, February 6, 1865. 8vo (195 x 127 mm). Bifolium, including integral blank, printed on recto of first leaf only. (A few stains.) Provenance: Rebel Archives, Record Division and Department (stamp). Confederate imprint recording the appointment of Robert E. Lee as the General in Chief of the Armies of the Confederate States, issued and signed (in type) by General Samuel Cooper, Adjutant and Inspector General of the Confederate Army. In part: “The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That there shall be appointed...an officer, who shall be known and designated as ‘General in Chief,’ who...shall have command of the military forces...and will be obeyed and respected accordingly.” $200 - 300
218 LOSSING, Benson John (1813-1891). The Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution; or, Illustrations, by Pen and Pencil, of the History, Biography, Scenery, Relics and Traditions of the War for Independence. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1851-1852. 2 volumes expanded to 8, 8vo (242 x 163 mm). Numerous illustrations throughout. EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED BY THE ADDITION OF APPROXIMATELY 1130 PLATES AND FACSIMILES, many of which are inlayed or mounted to size. 20th-century half red crushed levant, spines gilt-lettered (a touch of rubbing to extremities). FIRST EDITION, expanded and extra-illustrated by the addition of facsimile letters, and engravings of battles, historical scenes, maps, and portraits of participants in the American Revolution. [Laid-in:] LOSSING, Benson. Autograph letter signed (“Benson J. Lossing”), to an unnamed recipient. N.p., 24 December 1888. Regarding handdelivering an an affidavit to the recipient. $1,500 - 2,500
219 MARTÍNEZ CARO, Ramón. Verdadera idea de la primera campaña de Tejas y sucesos ocurridos después de la acción de San Jacinto, por D. Ramón Martínez Caro. Mexico: Imprenta de Santiago Pérez, á cargo de Agustín Sojo, Calle de Tiburcio núm 14, 1837. 8vo (196 x 120 mm). Remboitage binding of 18th-century Spanish calf gilt (some light wear, a few repairs); original pictorial wrappers bound in. Provenance: Acquired Dorothy Sloan (11 December 2009, Sale 22, lot 382). FIRST EDITION, the first Mexican printing of the secret Treaty of Velasco and other documents relating to the Texas Revolution. “Eyewitness account of the Texas Revolution written by SantaAnna’s private secretary [who] was captured at San Jacinto and imprisoned with Santa-Anna…. An insider’s view of the whole campaign, the capture at San Jacinto, the negotiations for the treaty, and life as a prisoner” (Basic Texas Books 138). “To Texans struggling for independence, General Antonio López de Santa-Anna was a bête-noir. He was held responsible for both of the tragedies of 1836—the Fall of the Alamo and the Goliad Massacre—but his defeat at San Jacinto by inferior numbers of Texans under Sam Houston relieved some of the pain. The present book…is remarkably well documented and includes the general’s own report to the Ministry of War” (Fifty Texas Rarities 16). VERY RARE: according to online records, only three copies (including the present copy) have sold at auction in the last 60 years. Graff 22695; Howes C-155; Sabin 10950. $3,500 - 4,500
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220 [MATAGORDA PROPRIETORS]. Partly printed document accomplished in manuscript. A land deed signed by two of the proprietors, both Old Three Hundreds, Ira Ingram and Elias Wightman. [San Felipe de Austin: Printed by G.B. Cotten, 1830 or early 1831]. 1 page, oblong 8vo, annotated verso, lightly browned, old creasing, a few tiny chips. Provenance: Acquired Dorothy Sloan (11 December 2009, Sale 22, lot 383). “Town of Matagorda, April 4th, 1831. This Certifies, That, at the sale of In and Out-Lots in said town, held on the date hereof—Daniel D.D. Baker became the highest bidder for Lots No. 5 & 6, in Block No. 2 & Tier No. 4 in the Colorado front of said town…”. Ingram, the first alcalde of Matagorda, and Wightman, surveyor and partner of Stephen F. Austin in the founding of Matagorda, signed the original deed, as did Daniel D. D. Baker, who attempted to found the town of Preston on the lot. Ownership records the transfer of one lot to Hamilton Cook, who was from an Old Three Hundred family. FIRST PRINTING of a broadside relating to early printing in Texas. According to Streeter (locating only one copy): This certificate is in effect a form for a deed. It and the entry No. 18.2 were not available for [earlier] inclusion with the other early forms. Mr. John C. Wyllie, Librarian of the University of Virginia and a recognized authority on type, has examined the photostats of these two forms for me and reports that they were undoubtedly printed on the press Godwin B. Cotten had set up at San Felipe in the fall of 1829. The date of printing was probably 1830 or early 1831. From the manuscript records, formerly in my collection and now at Yale, of meetings of ‘Proprietors of the town of Matagorda’ held on August 1 and 2, 1830, and on January 28, 1831, it appears (records of the January 28, 1831, meeting) that Stephen F. Austin held a quarter interest or two shares in the partnership or association known as ‘Proprietors of the town of Matagorda,’ and Ira Ingram a three-eighths interest, with Seth Ingram, H.H. League, and Elias Wightman each holding a one-eighth interest, and that what is referred to in the Minutes as the ‘constitution’ of the Proprietors was adopted on July 8, 1830. ...The ‘Out’ lots of the ‘In and Out’ lots referred to in the certificate were the lots not included in the laid-out blocks making up the center of the town” (Streeter Texas 18.1). $800 - 1,200
221 [MEXICO LAW]. Primera Secretaria de Estado. Seccion de Gobierno. El Supremo Poder Ejecutivo me ha dirigido el decreto de sique. [Mexico, 1824]. 4to (295 x 198 mm). 2 pages on one sheet. (Horizontal crease.) Bound in modern red calf. A degree by the Mexican congress establishing legislatures for three states. The new state of “Interno de Oriente” included the province of Texas, which was granted one deputy and one substitute, while “Interno del Norte” included the province of Nuevo Mexico. Not in Streeter Texas. $600 - 800
222 MÜNSTER, Sebastian (1489-1552). Tabula novarum insnlarum[sic], quas diversis respectibus Occidentales & Indianas vocant. Basel, 1554. Woodcut map of North and South America, 312 x 409 mm. (A few tiny holes.) Burden State 7 with Latin text on verso, without the word “ova” before “Insula Atlantica quam...” in South America, and lacking Temistitian. Published in both Ptolemy’s Geographia and Münster’s own Cosmographia (as the present copy). The present copy of the map is from the 1555 Latin edition of Cosmographia, with the phrase “Insula Atlantica quam uo-/ cant Brasilii & Americam” in South America, Temistitan not named in Mexico, “ORBIS, QVI INSVLAS” the second line on the verso. First issued in 1540, Münster’s map is the earliest map to depict all of the Americas, and the first to name the Pacific Ocean (“Mare Pacificum”). The ship is Magellans’ Victoria, the only vessel of five to survive his voyage. Münster relied on Verrazano’s accounts of the New World and on Marco Polo’s accounts of eastern Asia when producing his map. Burden 12. $4,000 - 6,000 V I E W T H E C O M P L E T E C ATA L O G U E AT H I N D M A N A U C T I O N S . C O M
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223 NABOLL, Nathan. Green’s Register for the State of Connecticut: With an Almanack, For the Year of our Lord, 1790. Calculated for the Meridian of New-London, Lat. 41.23. North. New London: T. Green & Son, [1790]. 12mo (133 x 76 mm). [2], 79, [14] pp. (Browning and spotting, lacking final blank.) Sewn into contemporary wrappers without backstrip (some soiling or chipping). Provenance: Josephus E. Comstock (signature, front wrapper); Ford Mitchell (his sale, PBA Galleries, 15 December 2005, Sale 323, lot 64). FIRST EDITION of this rare 18th-century Connecticut register, listing corporations, tax collectors, ministers, civil officers, justices of the peace and details of the faculty at Yale. With an early printing of the United States Constitution (pp.36-48). Also including details about taxes and ferry fares. With a few leaves bound in upside down, and the final text leaf pasted to the lower wrapper. Drake Almanacs, 455; Evans 21779. $400 - 600
224 NEBEL, Carl (1805-1855). Battle of Palo Alto. From The War Between the United States and Mexico Illustrated, [Paris: LeMercier, 1851]. Lithograph with hand-coloring heightened in gum arabic, 355 x 465 mm sheet. Slight toning, browning verso from old framing, mostly marginal inkstain lower margin. Provenance: Acquired Dorothy Sloan (26 September 2007, lot 178). FIRST EDITION of the first illustration from George Wilkins Kendall and Carlos Nebel’s work, “the very best American battle scenes in existence” (Bennett American NineteenthCentury Color Plate Books, p.65). “Of all the Mexican War lithographs, perhaps the dozen by Kendall and Nebel are the most popular, as well as the most accurate” (Tyler, The Mexican War, A Lithographic Record, p.18). The lithograph shows the battle from the perspective of a viewer behind the U. S. lines looking south toward the Mexican position, and the details of the uniforms are considered generally correct. $800 - 1,200
225 NEWSPAPERS - REVOLUTIONARY WAR]. The Continental Journal and Weekly Advertiser. No. CCXCVIII. Boston: John Gill, Thursday, November 8, 1781. 4 pages, bifolium, (390 x 249 mm). Unbound as issued. (Stab-holes along centerfold, some browning or staining.) Provenance: George Thatcher (contemporary signature). AN EARLY NEWSPAPER ACCOUNT OF THE BRITISH SURRENDER AT YORKTOWN Issued less than two weeks after Cornwallis’s surrender at Yorktown on 19 October 1781. With an update from Fishkill: “We learn that General Lincoln received the captured Lord Cornwallis, and that the army played Yankee doodle when the British army marched to lay down their arms.” The issue includes a printing of a note from Cornwallis, Oct. 17, 1781: “I PROPOSE a cessation of hostilities for twenty-four hours, and that two officers may be appointed by each side to meet at Mr. Morris’s house to settle terms for the surrender of the forts of York and Gloucester. I have the honor to be, Sir, Your most obedient and most Humber servant, CORNWALLIS.” Also printed is information from Washington: “His Excellency Gen. Washington granted a cessation of two hours, from the delivery of his answer, and several other letters passed between the two Generals. Commissioners were appointed and articles of Capitulation settled and compleated the 18th.” The issue prints the 14 articles of Capitulation. $1,000 - 1,500
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226 [NEWSPAPER]. The Massachusetts Centinel. Volume 8, No. 24. Boston: Benjamin Russell, Saturday, December 8, 1787. 4 pages, folio (367 x 238 mm). Disbound. (Some spotting, chipping to left margin.) THE FIRST PRINTING OF FEDERALIST PAPER XII, printed on p.94, in the first and second column. Written by Hamilton, the Federalist Paper XII concerns the establishment of currency and the collection of revenue. Hamilton argues that taxes should be levied on imports and exports, and recommends that the federal government administer tax collection to reduce the amount of resources needed to ensure taxes aren’t being evaded. He asserts that funding the government is essential. It would be easier for the federal government to protect one border on the Atlantic Ocean, rather than ask each state to protect its borders, and ships stationed at America’s ports would ensure the collection of duties. $500 - 700 226A [NEWSPAPER - DEPARTMENT OF STATE]. The New York Packet. No. 942, Tuesday, August 4, 1789. New York: Samuel & John Loudon, 1789. 4 pages, bifolium (489 x 305 mm). Unbound as issued. (Stab-holes along centerfold, some browning or staining.) AN EARLY NEWSPAPER ACCOUNT OF THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE. The Department of State was established as the Department of Foreign Affairs by the act of 27 July 1789, and it received its present name on 15 September 1789. “Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Unties States of America in Congress assembled, That there shall be an executive department, to be denominated the department of foreign affairs, and that there shall be a principal officer therein, to be called the Secretary for the department of foreign affairs...” (p.[3]). $200 - 300 227 [NEWSPAPER - TEXAS NEWS - THE ALAMO]. Niles Weekly Register. Vol. 49 (September 5, 1835-February 27, 1836); [with] Vol. 51 (September 3, 1836-February 25, 1837); [and] Vol. 52 (March 4, 1837-August 26, 1837). Baltimore, 1835-1837. 3 volumes, 8vo (Vol. 49) and folio (Vols. 51 & 52). Vol. 49: 456pp. (lacking pp.55-58); Vols. 51 & 52: 416pp. (Some overall browning or light spotting.) Bound in red or brown contemporary half sheep, marbled boards (worn, some losses to spines). Provenance: Acquired Dorothy Sloan (11 December 2009, Sale 22, lot 442). FIRST EDITIONS of this “widely circulated weekly, with an emphasis on politics and current events. An important source of Americana, unique in its scope and longevity” (Lomazow, American Periodicals a Collector’s Manual and Reference Guide 97). Including information The Alamo as the events unfolded, including the Texas Revolution and the early forming of the Republic, Texan dissatisfaction with Mexican government, Austin and Archer appealing for U. S. support of the Texas Revolution, a call for volunteers, the establishment of Telegraph and Texas Register, Milam’s capture of San Antonio, organization of the Texas Rangers, Sam Houston elected as President with his inaugural address, President Jackson’s address to Congress on the Texas situation, the release of Santa-Anna, the official U. S. recognition of Texas, and the burial of Alamo heroes. [With:] Niles Weekly Register. Baltimore, 1813. Vol. IV, No. 98, Saturday, 17 July 1813. INCLUDES A PRINTING OF THE TEXAS DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE FROM SPAIN, “Republic of Mexico” (p.313). -- Niles Weekly Register. Baltimore, 1836. Vol. XIV, Nos. 1,278-1,301, 10 March 1836-27 August 1836. 24 numbers, with Texas news. $500 - 700
228 [NEWSPAPER]. Our Camp Journal. Vol 1, Nos. 1 (April 1, 1863), 3 (September 7, 1863); 5 (January 15, 1864), and 6 (April, 1864). Various places. Civil War Regimental newspapers are rare in any form or condition. Our Camp Journal is a fine example of the genre, a full-size multi-sheet paper typeset on a press with woodcut vignettes. No. 1 was published from a “Camp near Alexandria, Va.”; No. 3 was published from “Ft. Richmond, Staten Island, N.Y.”; No. 5 was published in the winter quarters with the “Army of the Potomac, Va.,” and No. 6 was published from “Headquarters, First Division, 2nd Army Corps, Va.” Content includes recent war news including events in the western theater, regimental sketches from other units in the brigade and division, news from the home front and obituaries. [With:] Evening Whig, 4 April 1865. [Richmond]: William Ira Smith, 1865. “Publication being resumed this afternoon with the consent of military authorities.” All of the above were preserved by Corporal B. F. Batcheler, Company E. $1,500 - 2,500 V I E W T H E C O M P L E T E C ATA L O G U E AT H I N D M A N A U C T I O N S . C O M
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229 [NEWSPAPER]. Humboldt Register. Winnemucca, Nevada. Vol. 2, No.161. Saturday, 15 July 1876. 4 pages, bifolium (505 x 330 mm). Disbound as issued. (Separated along fold, some browning and marginal chipping.) Provenance: Fisher’s (San Francisco newspaper vendor rubber stamp). WITH AN UPDATE ABOUT THE SIOUX WAR The letter, on p. 2, shares updates from the commanding officer ta the Red Cloud agency, who repots to general Sheridan that affairs at the agency are very uncertain “owing to the news of Custer’s defeat and a failure to supply the Indians with provisions.” Also with content about the Erie Railroad, and a review of Rutherford B. Hayes’s run for the Presidency. $200 - 300
230 [NEWSPAPERS - TEXAS NEWS]. Collection of about 175 issues of various American newspapers featuring articles on Texas, printed between 1803 and 1860. Various sizes, most 4-pages. Provenance: All collected and catalogued by Ford Mitchell (his sale, PBA Galleries, 20 October 2005, Sale 319, Lot 434). Large collection of newspapers from the first half of he 19th-century including articles on Texas, including information about its beginnings as an outpost of New Spain, then as a province of Mexico, the revolution, the early days of the Republic, annexation, and finally statehood. The earliest newspaper, The Washington Federalist of 23 February 1803, includes a long article about the “Secret Maneuverings of Col. Burr.” An issue of the Boston Independent Chronicle of 9 January 1804 covers the Louisiana Purchase and the beginnings of the problems on the Texas boundary. Many issues from 1836 include printings of the Texas Declaration of Independence. An issue of the Philadelphia Sun of 14 April 1836 reports on the fall of the Alamo. Among the newspapers represented are the National Intelligencer (49 issues); Daily National Intelligencer (26 issues); New York Daily Tribune (9 issues); Manufacturers & Farmers Journal (7 issues); Richmond Enquirer (5 issues); and the Ohio State Journal and Register (7 issues). $3,000 - 5,000
231 ORTELIUS, Abraham (1527-1598). Americae sive Novi Orbis, Nova Descriptio. [Antwerp, 1612?]. Engraved map with hand-coloring, 443 x 574 mm. Decorative cartouche, galleons and ships, Spanish text verso. (Some minor browning or staining, minor marginal chipping.) FIRST EDITION, third state with Ortelius’ name lower right. According to Burden, “the most important introductions on the east coast are the Indian name WINGANDEKOA, and just to the north an inlet. They both originate from the unsuccessful English attempts at colonising the Outer Banks of presentday North Carolina. It has been suggested that the inlet could be the first depiction of Chesapeake Bay on a printed map.” Burden 64. $2,000 - 3,000
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232 ORTELIUS, Abraham (1527-1598). Hispaniae Novae sivae Magnae, Recens et Vera Descriptio. [Antwerp, ca 1595?]. Engraved map of central Mexico with hand-coloring, 394 x 521 mm. Decorative cartouches, galleons. (Some minor soiling.) Ortelius’s view of central Mexico includes Mexico City, Lake de Bhapala (Chapilacum Mare), Guadalajara, and Tuxpan, $400 - 600
233 RAMOS ARÍSPE, Miguel. Memoria que el Doctor D. Miguel Ramos de Arispe, Cura de Borbon, y Diputado en las Presentes Cortes Generales y Extraordinarias de España por la provincia de Cohauila, una de las cuatro internas del oriente en el reyno de Mexico, presenta a el augusto Congreso, sobre el estado natural, politico, y civil de su dicha provincia, y las del nuevo reyno de Leon, nuevo Santander, y los Texas. Cádiz: José María Guerrero, 1812. 4to (205 x 149 mm). (A few minor spots). Modern wrappers; blue cloth folding case. FIRST EDITION of this “short but excellent account of the four Internal Provinces of the East as observed by Ramos Arizpe before he left his home in Saltillo in Coahuila at the end of 1810 to attend the Spanish Cortes as a delegate from Coahuila. It is addressed to the King and describes the government of the four provinces, has brief notes on their important towns, and discusses such subjects as ‘Character of the People’, ‘Public Education’, ‘Breeding of Cattle’, ‘Commerce’ and ‘Defects of the System of Government’ and makes various recommendations’’ (Streeter, notes to American edition). Howes R-26; Sabin 67670; Streeter Texas 1050. $1,500 - 2,500
234 RANNEY, William Tylee (1813-1857). The Trappers Last Shot. From the Original Painting Distributed by the Western Art Union in 1850. Cincinnati: Neale, 1850. Steel engraving, 577 x 756 mm sheet. Some soiling, a few short tears to blank margin. Provenance: Acquired Dorothy Sloan (11 December 2009, Sale 22, lot 484). FIRST PRINTING of this western print, which was later followed by a Currier & Ives knock-off. The original painting from which the print was made was included in the exhibit “Forging an American Identity: The Art of William Ranney” at the Buffalo Bill Historical Center (May 13, 2006-August 14, 2006). “This is an engraved reproduction of Ranney’s famous oil painting... by the same title that was based on a sketch made by the artist while he served in the Army of the Republic of Texas.... It is a scene, probably inspired by the story of mountain man Joe Meek, who used his last shot to defend himself against attacking Indians” (Kelsey, Engraved Prints of Texas, 15541900, p.74). $2,000 - 3,000
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235 RUSCELLI, Girolamo (1518-1566). Nueva Hispania Tabula Nova. [Venice, 1574]. Engraved map of Mexico with hand-coloring 220 x 293 mm. (Two small marginal wormholes, tiny paper flaw just affecting portion of rule border, a few small stains.) Topographical features including the present-day Mississippi River, Italian text verso. FIRST EDITION, second state, with plate-mark on the top edge, cross-hatching to the graduation marks in the border, and without the added names and features of the 1598 third state. One of the earliest obtainable maps of Mexico and the American Southwest. Ruscelli’s map of New Spain is an enlargement of Giacomo Gastaldi’s 1548 map, but here depicting the Yucatan as a peninsula, rather than an island. Wagner NW Coast 48 (the map is “the same as No. 18 [i.e. the 1548 issue of the map] with trifling changes”). $1,000 - 1,500
236 SELDEN, Dudley (1794-1855). Conveyances on Record in the Registrar’s Office: from the 1st January, 1825 to the 1st January, 1838. New York: Alexander S. Gould, 1838. 8vo (244 x 145 mm). 4 folding street maps printed on onion skin of Harlem Commons. (One map with closed tear, some spotting). Original floral blind -embossed cloth, black morocco lettering-piece gilt (minor losses to spine ends, a touch of wear to corners, small stain lower cover). Provenance: John Adriance (inscription with note, “Not to be loaned under any circumstances”); John H. Southard (gift inscription from previous). FIRST EDITION, a collection of legal documents relating to the ownership of land in Harlem, and including a section entitled “Deduction of the Title to Harlaem Commons” relating to the 1666 grant of Governor Richard Nicolls. Selden acquired over 300 acres of land in Harlem in 1825 from the heirs of one of the original grantees of land in Harlem pursuant to Governor Nicoll’s 1666 grant. John Adriance’s brother, Isaac, represented that the land claim in Harlem was based on the new Harlem patent, a grant of confirmation to the freeholders and inhabitants of Harlem (printed in the present copy). [Tipped in:] 1p. manuscript copy of an 1832 deed between Dudley Selden and his wife to George Marshall. “THIS BOOK IS VERY SCARCE,” and was likely printed only for members of the family. (Sabin 78969). $400 - 600
237 [SLAVERY AND ABOLITION]. Manuscript document, an affidavit of free birth, signed by Justice of the Peace George Rice. Frederick County, Maryland, 15 May 1832. 1 page, oblong 8vo, docketed verso, creased. “John Haines...solemnly sincerely and truly declares and affirms that Mary Bowen...was free born to the best of his knowledge and belief.” Docketed by John Haines verso. $200 - 300
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238 [SPAIN - MINING LAWS]. GALVEZ, Josef de. Real Ordenanzas para la Dirección, Régimen y Gobierno del Important Cuerpo de la Minería de Nueva-España y de su Real Tribunal General de Orden de su Majestad. Madrid: [Royal Press], 1783. Folio (297 x 207 mm). Engraved frontispiece of the royal arms by Fabregat, paraph of Josef de Galves on p.214. (Some minor marginal worming to a few leaves not affecting letters, some minor spotting.) Contemporary blind-tooled Spanish calf (a few repairs, some light soiling). FIRST EDITION, A RARE BOOK OF MINING LAWS FOR NEW SPAIN Galvez, appointed special commissioner charged with making reforms in Mexico’s governance, was influential in leading the replacement of the Mexican provinces with 12 intendencias in 1786. Mining was the most important economic activity in Mexico during the colonial period. The Real Ordenanzas transcribes royal degrees relating to mining in New Spain, and provides information relating to the discovery of new mins, the operations of old mines, the training of workers, and the introduction of new technology and the role of the Tribunal de la Mineria. Only miners born in Spain were allowed to posses copies of the work. Sabin calls it a “rare and valuable compendium of the old mining laws and mineral customs.” Palau 203088; Porrua (1949) 7552; Sabin 56260. $1,000 - 1,500
239 STARR, Amory Reily (1847-1906). Amory R. Starr... Texas Real Estate Agency... Marshall, Texas. St. Louis: A. Gast & Co., [ca 1874]. Oblong 12mo (85 x 129 mm). Illustrated lithograph trade card on heavy card stock. (Tiny chip to upper left corner, very minor soiling). Provenance: Acquired Dorothy Sloan. RARE LITHOGRAPHED TEXAS TRADE CARD, printed by the Gast firm in St. Louis. The small detailed scene shows surveyors at work depicting various surveyor’s instruments. The Gast firm lithographed the General Land Office maps of Texas counties, and produced several notable images of Texas. Amory Reily Starr, who identifies himself as “successor to Jas. H. Starr & Son,” assumed control of the James H. Starr and Son land agency, which had belonged to his father and uncle, in 1873. $200 - 300
240 STARRING, Frederick Augustus (1834-1904). Archive of letters, documents, artifacts, and photographs by and related to the American civil engineer, lawyer and soldier. Several dozen items. AN ARCHIVE OF SEVERAL DOZENS OF LETTERS, DOCUMENTS AND ARTIFACTS RELATING TO THE CAREER OF NOTED MILITARY OFFICER AND DIPLOMAT F. A. STARRING. The archive includes: Starring’s discharge papers from the U. S. Army, 23 February 1866, including on the back a lengthy endorsement from General William Clark, of the Army of the Tennessee, lavishing praise on Starring as “one of the most competent and meritorious Commanders” in the Army. “Col. Starring’s Regt. for discipline & efficiency had no superior on the Western Army.” There is a typed copy of his official military record; a large, folio engraved certificate for membership in the Military Order of the Loyal Legion; a copy of his Presidential appointment making him Brigadier General by Brevet signed (secretarial signature) by Andrew Johnson 7 May 1866. After leaving the Army Starring enjoyed a long and distinguished career in the U. S. Consular Service. The archive contains his certificate of study from Harvard Law School (24 May 1866 to 13 July 1866) and numerous documents relating to his diplomatic career including: a 3 April 1872 copy of a letter to the Khedive of Egypt, containing a geological survey for a possible trans-Sudan railway; a large folio-sized engraved passport, bearing the endorsements of numerous foreign governments; numerous other legation certificates and visas, copies of consular reports to the Secretary of State; eight printed consular reports, authored by Starring and issued by the Government Printing Office, 1870-1881; a 24 June 1874 invitation to a reception with Queen Victoria at Buckingham Palace. $2,000 - 3,000 V I E W T H E C O M P L E T E C ATA L O G U E AT H I N D M A N A U C T I O N S . C O M
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241 STARRING, William (1841-1889). An archive of letters, documents, and photographs relating to the noted Lakota lexicographer, 1860-1889. Over 100 items, various dimensions. AN ARCHIVE OF OVER 100 ITEMS DOCUMENTING THE RICH CAREER OF THE LAKOTA LEXICOGRAPHER AND CAREER ARMY OFFICER Upon Starring’s death in 1889, the Adjutant General of the Department of the Columbia (in the Washington Territory) lauded Starring for his “honest, faithful and zealous service,” and his path-breaking work with the Plains Indians, “especially the Sioux.” He noted the “great assiduity and care” with which Starring compiled “a valuable dictionary of their language.” The archive includes: Starring’s appointment to West Point, signed by Secretary of War Simon Cameron, 6 April 1861 -- Some 14 West Point Conduct Reports, 1860-1863, including some signed by Robert E. Lee’s eldest son, George Washington Custis Lee. -- 3Presidential commissions signed by Andrew Johnson (stamped signatures): 20 April 1866 and 23 April 1866, making him First Lieutenant in the 18th Infantry Regiment; and 11 April 1867, making him a First Lieutenant in the 36th Infantry Regiment. Also with one commission SIGNED BY RUTHERFORD B. HAYES, 26 June 1879, making Starring Captain of the Ordinance Department, the rank he held through his long service in western postings. Also included is a small archive of correspondence. In one letter to his sister, written from the Colorado Territory in March 1866, he jokes that he has “my scalp yet [and] don’t propose to lose it easily. As my hair is rather long our Noble Red Bretheren will get a good one if they take it now.” Yet his 28 May 1888 letter (written just months before he died) expresses his great contentment living “in this wonderful country,” close to the Columbia and Willamette Rivers. Also included are a pair of spurs with straps, 5 printed receipts for Black Hills Mining District claims, 8 CDVs, a letter-book comprising Starring’s official Army correspondence, and several manuals of West Point’s rules and regulations. $2,000 - 3,000 242 STIFF, Edward. The Texan Emigrant: Being a Narration of the Adventures of the Author in Texas, and a Description of the Soil, Climate, Productions, Minerals, Towns, Bays, Harbors, Rivers, Institutions, and Manners and Customs of the Inhabitants of that Country.... Cincinnati: George Conclin, 1840. 8vo (194 x 120 mm). Engraved folding map of Texas hand-colored in outline (a few separations to folds); 2 full-page wood-engraved illustrations; 1p. publisher’s advertisements at end. (Some offsetting of map to title, some spotting.) Contemporary sprinkled sheep, smooth spine gilt, black morocco lettering-piece gilt (upper joint starting, some overall wear). FIRST EDITION, WITH THE RARE MAP of Stiff’s popular work on Texas. At least 7 subsequent editions were issued, none of which included the map. “By an independent thinker, and not always favorable to Texas and the United States. In fact, somewhat of a Tory in politics. Notwithstanding, one of the best books on Texas issued during the Republic. Very scarce” (Raines pp.195-196). The two woodcuts show early views of Galveston City and Bay and the Battle of San Jacinto. Graff 3989; Howes S-998; Streeter Texas 1367 (“Here conventional accounts of the physical features of Texas and of its cities and towns are interspersed with gossipy comments on various named individuals and on life in Texas in general, making it quite an entertaining book”). $4,000 - 6,000 243 STOWE, Harriet Beecher. Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Serialized in: The National Era. Volume V, Nos. 23, 25, 26, 27, 28, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 34 [typographical error], 35, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 45, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, and 52. Washington, D.C.: June 5, 1851-December 25, 1851. 21 chapters in 26 parts only (of 40), folio, on a bifolium (each 685 x 486 mm). (Tears to folds affecting letters, some marginal chipping, some spotting or staining.) Provenance: E. McGregor (early signatures). Prior to the publication of the first edition, Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin first appeared serially in The National Era, which was printed weekly. In this serial form, Stowe’s work was printed one chapter at a time. The present run of issues comprises chapters: 1, 4-7, 9-19, 22, 2427 (with Chapter 9 in two parts, Chapter 10 mis-labeled, Chapter 18 in three parts). A RUN OF THE EXCEEDINGLY RARE ORIGINAL PARTS AS PUBLISHED SERIALLY of Stowe’s work. The present run includes two numbers with no installment of Uncle Tom’s Cabin: No. 34, August 21 1851 (with a note that Chapter 12 arrived too late for publication), and No. 51, December 18, 1851. Uncle Tom’s Cabin appeared in 40 installments between 1851 and 1852, and based on the reception, Stowe was approached by a Boston publisher to publish her work. The first edition sold three hundred thousand copies in the first year, and by 1857, nearly two million copies had been sold. $1,000 - 1,500 78
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244 [TEXAS - EARLY NEWSPAPERS]. Gaceta Del Gobierno Supremo del Estado de Coahuila y Tejas. [Leona Vicario or Monclova:] Imprento del Gobierno del Estado, á cargo del C. Sisto Gonzalez, [1832 or early 1833?]. Broadside (309 x 210 mm). Woodcut vignette of an eagle holding a shield at head. (Horizontal crease, small marginal inkspot.) Provenance: Darrel Brown (sold Heritage, December 2007). RARE PROSPECTUS FOR AN EARLY TEXAS NEWSPAPER Gaceta was first printed on Friday, 11 January 1833 and was published through 1835. Though the printing schedule changed often, copies were initially issued every Monday and Friday, and readers could get copies for “un peso cada mes, para la capital, y diez reales para afuera franco de porte” [one peso each month, for the capital, and ten reals for outside carriage-free]. The prospectus cites a need for a newspaper in the region that would keep readers well-informed about both local and national news. Gaceta was well-read, but its popularity was challenged by Diario del Gobierno, a government publication which was released at about the same time. Copies of Gaceta are known in only two institutional collections: the Saltillo Archives, and the Texas State Library. VERY RARE: According to online records, this is the only copy of this prospectus to appear on the market at auction. Not in Charno; not in Streeter. CHECK STREETER. $800 - 1,200
245 [TEXAS - EARLY NEWSPAPERS]. Gaceta, Del Gobierno Supremo del Estado de Coahuila y Texas. Volume 3, No. 97. [Monclova], 29 July 1835. 4pp, bifolium. Woodcut eagle device at head. (Horizontal crease, old tape repair with browning, some minor wrinkling.) Matted and framed (unexamined out of frame). Provenance: Darrel Brown (sold Heritage, December 2007). RARE ISSUE OF AN EARLY TEXAS NEWSPAPER Between 1829 and 1835, the government of Coahuila and Texas issued four periodicals, of which Gaceta was the second most prominent. This issue includes a July 8 communication from Rafael Eca y Musquiz, Minister of the Supreme Court, to don Miguel Falcon, Governor of the State, whereby President Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna has asked Musquiz to assume the Executive Power of the state to “calm the spirit of discord in Texas and to apply the severity of the law to those who attempt to pervert the tranquility and excite commotion” (translated). In May, then-governor Agustine Viesca left Monclova with the government archives intending to establish Bexar (present-day San Antonio) as the capital of the department of Texas. The issue includes an editorial commenting on the actions of Viesca and the two opposing parties within the government of Mexico: “We believe, without fear of error, that in the Texas Colonies there does not exist aims of overthrowing the government...” (translated). The editorials printed within this issue are in support of General Cos’ 5 July Proclamation, issued at Matamoros, warning the inhabitants of the three departments of Texas (San Antonio de Bexar, La Bahia, and Nacogdoches) that any actions in favor of the former authorities will cause war. 45-days after this issue, General Cos commenced his march with 500 soldiers from Matamoros to San Antonio, igniting the first fire in Texas’ battle for independence. See Streeter, Bibliography of Texas, Part II, vol.III, pp.261263. VERY RARE: Only one other copy of this issue of Gaceta is known; it is held in the Saltillo Archives. Not in Charno; not in Streeter. CHECK STREETER BIBLIO QTD HERE. $800 - 1,200
246 [TEXAS - GERMAN SETTLEMENT]. Verein zum Schutze Deutscher Einwanderer in Texas. [Mainz and Weissbaden, February 7, 25, 1846]. Folio (350 x 217 mm). 3pp., on a bifolium (p.4 blank). (Some very minor toning to margins, minor offsetting.) The Adeslverein, also known as the Mainzer verein, the Texas-Verein, and the German Emigration Company, was officially named the Verein zum Schutze deutscher Einwanderer in Texas. In April 1842, twenty-one German noblemen at Biebrich on the Rhine, near Mainz, provisionally organized to establish a new Germany on Texas soil by means of an organized mass emigration. The present promotional pamphlet was printed to encourage German emigration to Texas. Between October 1845 and April 1846, a total of 5,257 German emigrants were brought to Texas, and in 1847, five settlements were established on the Fisher-Miller grant on the banks of the Llano River: Bettina, Castell, Leiningen, Meerholz, and Schoenburg. RARE. $400 - 600
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247 [TEXAS]. Report of the Commissioner of the Court of Claims. Printed by order of the legislature of the State of Texas. Austin: John Marshall & Co., 1857. 8vo (214 x 137 mm). 22pp. (Some browning or spotting.) Folded as issued, partially uncut, unsewn with stab-holes for sewing. Provenance: Ford Mitchell (his sale, PBA Galleries, 20 October 2005, Sale 319, Lot 528. FIRST EDITION. Including James C. Wilson’s notice of retirement, 1 June, 1857. “In retiring from this Office, I beg leave to present to you, and through ou to the Legislature, the following Report. No written statement of all that has been done in the office can possibly be made” (p.3). Also including James O. Illingsworth’s report of certificates issued: “It will require at least four competent courts in this office during the session of Legislature...to perform the duties” (p.22). RARE EARLY TEXAS IMPRINT: we trace no other copies of this imprint at auction in at least 50 years .Winkler 902. $400 - 600
248 [TEXAS]. SEGUIN, Juan, et al. Manuscript power of attorney, in the hand of John James, signed by Seguin and 19 Tejanos, notarized by P. L. Buquet with his purple paper seal. Bexar County, Texas. 28 September 1860. 2 pages, 4to, 304 x 193, on a single lined sheet, creased, a few separations to folds, a few faint pencil marks. Provenance: Acquired Dorothy Sloan (11 December 2009, Sale 22, lot 502). Seeking reimbursement for an 1839 expedition in which they participated. The text begins: “State of Texas County of Bexar. Know all men by these presents, that we the undersigned having full confidence in John James of San Antonio do hereby appoint him our true and lawful agent and attorney in fact for us and in our names to ask for, claim, and secure pay for certain services rendered by us in the Year 1839 to the Late Republic of Texas (say in July) in a campaign against the Comanches under Col Henry W. Karnes, John A. Seguín being Captain of the Company….” With 21 signatures (complete list available on request). Henry Wax Karnes organized an expedition to drive Comanche out of the area in response to Governor Lamar’s call for action against hostile Comanche who had killed for Bexar surveyors in May 1839, William P. Delmour, clerk of the San Antonio court, who was murdered on May 28, and several other men in the area. Two companies of volunteers were raised, one of Mexicans and one of Americans, and Seguín was elected captain of the Mexican force of about 54 men under Karnes’ command. The expedition drove the Comanche out of the area. The forces, which were outfitted at private expense, were discharged about three weeks after they were formed. So far as is known, the mens’ claims were never audited or reimbursed by the Republic. The Republic of Texas faced lingering problems relating to the its fight for independence and its Indian Wars, including requests for the reimbursement of many people who were all to happy to volunteer for service with no thought of payment, as is the case here. In the introduction to his book on Seguín, de la Teja comments: “As Tejanos rediscover their contributions to Texas history, as they overcome the barriers that separate Texan and Tejano, Juan Seguín has again returned to serve as intermediary between the two... Juan Seguín is not just a hero for Texans of Mexican descent. All Texans now recognize his unique contribution to Texas history.” $2,000 - 3,000
249 [TEXAS - CRIME]. Manuscript document, signed by the jurors and certified by Justice of the Peace W. W. Arnett. Fort Clark, Texas, 5 March 1871. 1 page, 4to, on a ledger sheet, a few small losses to left margin. “We the jurors find the said man came to his death...by gun shot fired by soldiers of the post of Fort Clark while he was attempting to escape.” A jury’s ruling, certifying that an unknown suspect was killed March 4 at 9 p.m. by soldiers of the fort while attempting to escape trial for murdering soldier Charles Shepard. William W. Arnett served as a private in Capt. John A. Veatch’s company of Col. Peter H. Bell’s regiment of Texas Mounted Volunteers during the Mexican War. $200 - 300
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250 [TEXAS]. Map of Bexar County, Texas. San Antonio and Austin: Samuel Maverick & John H. Traynham, 1889. Engraved map of Bexar County, visible area 560 x 444 mm, matted and framed (unexamined out of frame). (Archivally backed and conserved, creases from old folds, discoloration from old tape repairs verso, a few small separations or losses). Map surrounded by letterpress and engraved advertisements, a few with engraved vignettes. Provenance: Acquired Dorothy Sloan (11 December 2009, Sale 22, lot 332). FIRST EDITION, printed after an official map of the county issued by the General Land Office. The surrounding advertisements are a rich source of local business information of the time. Traynham’s own ad features prominently promoting his services as a map dealer and expert on Texas emigration. And early Lone Star Brewing ad (“Brewers of the Celebrated ‘Pilsener’) is placed top center, adjacent to an ad for the Alamo Ice Factory. EXCEEDINGLY RARE: we trace no other copies of this map in any institution or at sale. $1,500 - 2,500
251 [TEXAS PICTORIAL LETTERSHEET]. THIELEPAPE, Wilhelm Carl August (1814-1904), lithographer. Main Plaza. San Antonio, Texas. San Antonio: W. C. A. Thielpape, [ca 1855]. 4to (247 x 192 mm). With 2pp. autograph letter in French from Alphonse Portanery to his parents, San Antonio, 5 April 1856; morocco-backed slipcase. (Creased, a few tiny spots or stains.) Provenance: Acquired Dorothy Sloan (26 September 2007, lot 242). Though there are many known examples of 19th-century lettersheets from California, only a few are known from Texas. With a vignette engraved by Wilhelm Carl August Thielpape, who would be elected the Reconstruction Mayor of San Antonio in 1867. During his tenure, he built bridges, laid macadam streets, and strengthened the public schools. He later moved to Chicago to work as an attorney, participating in the building boom that followed the Great Chicago Fire. The letter from Portanery indicates that there has been some delay in his response, and he discusses his recent marriage and the problems and opportunities it has caused. He states that his wife says she will never go to France, and discusses the complicated familial relationships and the role his in-laws play in deciding whether he will have property and whether they will help them financially. He reports that he is basically happy, and that he has a newborn who resembles him. He concludes that everyone in Texas lives a solitary life, like wolves. $2,000 - 3,000
252 THIELEPAPE, Wilhelm Carl August (1814-1904), lithographer. Sam Recruiting, after the injunction of secrecy had been removed. San Antonio: Thielepape, July 1855. Lithograph on heavy paper, 610 x 480 mm. (Fully backed in japan tissue, a few minor losses with repairs occasionally affecting image or text, creased where formerly folded, separations along those creases.) Provenance: Acquired Dorothy Sloan (11 December 2009, Sale 22, lot 227). THE FIRST LITHOGRAPHED POLITICAL CARTOON CREATED IN TEXAS. The lithograph was printed when Sam Houston’s political career was in shambles. Shortly after the publication of this cartoon, Houston failed in his reelection bid for the U. S. Senate, and in a run for the Texas Governor’s office. In the cartoon, Houston is seen walking on the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, and the Bill of Rights. He carries a “Net for Gudgeons,” the handle of which is strung with a gun and knife (“Sam’s Logic or reasoning powers”), a heart (“Sam’s ‘Great American heard,’ sore”), and a mask (“Mask of Washington,” “Worn when assuming to be the Savior of the Country”). He carries a lantern “used by Gui [Guy] Fawkes in his midnight plots, and bequested to [Houston’s] father.” The print was one of three lithographs, all created by Thielepape, considered to be among the first lithographs created in Texas. These three documented Thielepape lithographs pulled in Texas also include the letter sheet with a view of Alamo Plaza (see previous lot). When the present copy was sold by Dorothy Sloan, she located only two other copies of the lithograph: one at the Center for American history at the University of Texas, and one at the Dallas Historical Society. She quoted the unpublished research of Ron Tyler: “The first lithographs that can be documented as having been made in Texas appeared in San Antonio... Wilhelm C.A. Thielepape, a trained surveyor and recent immigrant with no printing experience, pulled the first lithograph from a Texas press in 1855. It was a crude map of San Antonio. He printed at least two other images, this caricature of Sam Houston and the other a view of the San Antonio plaza, before finally abandoning the badly worn lithographic equipment and closing his shop.” $2,000 - 3,000 V I E W T H E C O M P L E T E C ATA L O G U E AT H I N D M A N A U C T I O N S . C O M
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253 UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION] -- [FRANKLIN, Benjamin, printer.] Constitutions des Treize Etats-Unis de L’Amerique. Philadelphia and Paris: [Printed for Franklin by] Ph.-D. Pierres and Pissot, Father and Sons, 1783. 8vo (195 x 122 mm). Title-page with circular woodcut Great Seal of the United States: its first use in a printed book. (Some minor spotting to several leaves.) Contemporary French calf-backed paste-paper covered boards, smooth spine gilt, brown morocco lettering-piece gilt, edges stained red (some minor toning or rubbing, short separation to upper joint at head of spine). FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES, one of 600 copies (there was also a large-paper issue of 100 copies). The work includes the Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation, and the treaties between the Untied States and France, the Low countries, and Sweden, and was translated by the Duc de la Rochefoucauld with over fifty footnotes by him. “Franklin’s grand gesture in publishing and distributing these constitutions, about which there was an intense interest and curiosity among statesmen, was one of his chief achievements as propagandist for the new American republic” (Streeter). Howes C-716; Livingston, Franklin and His Press at Passy, pp.181-188; Sabin 16118; Streeter sale II:1035. $2,000 - 3,000
254 [UNITED STATES CONTINENTAL CONGRESS]. Journal of the Proceedings of the Congress, Held at Philadelphia, September 5, 1774. Philadelphia: William and Thomas Bradford, at the London Coffee House, 1774. 8vo (186 x 110 mm). Half-title, title with woodcut seal. (Some pale spotting.) Modern calf; blue cloth folding case. FIRST EDITION OF THE JOURNAL OF THE FIRST CONGRESS FIRST ISSUE, with the half-title, title, and 132pp. The title-page bears the seal of the Congress, showing twelve hands representing the twelve participating colonies supporting a column topped with a Liberty Cap resting on the Magna Charta, framed by the motto “Hanc Tuemur Hanc Nitimur” (“This we defend, this we lean upon”). Committees of Correspondence resolved to hold a Continental Congress in June of 1774, and delegates from twelve colonies (none from Georgia) gathered in Philadelphia in the fall. Delegates included: Samuel Adams, John Adams, Roger Sherman, John Jay, Joseph Galloway, John Dickinson, Richard Henry Lee, George Washington, Edmund Pendleton, and Henry Middleton. On October 14, the Congress adopted a Declaration of Rights, and agreed to an Association governing imports and exports and boycotting British goods. They drafted an Address to the People of Great Britain and an Address to the Inhabitants of the Province of Quebec. They agreed to reassemble on May 10, 1775 for what was to be the Congress that broke with England. Evans 13737; Howes J-263; this issue not in Sabin. $15,000 - 25,000 255 [UNITED STATES CONTINENTAL CONGRESS]. The Journals of the Proceedings of Congress. Held at Philadelphia, from January to May, 1776. Philadelphia: Printed by R. Aitken, 1776. 4 parts bound in one, 8vo (195 x 119 mm). [2], 1-93; 1-70; [71]-146, INCLUDING THE TITLE-PAGE which is usually lacking in most copies; 147-237pp. (Some spotting and browning throughout.) Contemporary sheep (worn, joints starting, losses to spine ends); red quarter morocco slipcase. Provenance: V. L. Howard (several signatures on pastedown and front free endpaper dated 1777; Henry Howard (signature); Caleb Dorsey (early signature on half-title of second work); pencil note about W. Howard’s sale, 26 March 1831; Lucy C. Hank Finley (signature, Baltimore). THE RARE ORIGINAL PRINTING OF THE CONGRESSIONAL JOURNALS FOR 1776 - THE “CARTRIDGE PAPER” EDITION The Bradford family had the contract to print the Journals of Congress through 1775, after which, beginning with these journals, the contract was moved to Robert Aitken. The journals were issued in monthly parts, although whole runs generally disposed with the monthly titles issued in February and March (as here, none were issued in January and April). After April, Aitken was told to cease publication, and his “Waste Book” at the Library Company of Philadelphia records that he had sold only 80 copies of this edition. In the fall of 1776, Aitken was contracted to reprint all of Congress›s earlier journals from 1774 through April 1776 as the first volume of the collected Journals of Congress. Once the work commenced, Aitken disposed of the remaining January to April edition, giving them to the Army to be used as cartridges (hence the “Cartridge Paper” edition). These Journals of early 1776 cover some of the most critical moments of the Revolution. As only 80 copies survived, the present edition is perhaps the rarest of all of the early Journals of Congress. Evans 15145. [Bound after:] Journal of the Congress of the United States of America; Continued. Philadelphia: William & Thomas Bradford, at the Coffee-House 1776. 8vo. With half-title. Covering September through January, 1775. The last issue printed by the Bradford family before the contract was moved to Aitken. Evans 15186. $15,000 - 25,000 82
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256 [UNITED STATES CONTINENTAL CONGRESS]. Journals of the Congress...Volume I (Sept. 5, 1774-Jan. 1, 1776) through Volume XIII (November 1787-November 1788). Philadelphia and New York: R. Aitken, John Dunlap, John Patterson, David Claypoole, 1777-1788. 13 volumes, 8vo (each approximately 182 x 116 mm or smaller). (Some browning or spotting, a few letters occasionally just shaved.) Modern half calf gilt. Provenance: A few early signatures shaved in Vols. I, IV (Ingersoll?), and VI; Senate Secretary’s Office, then U.S. Senate Library (inscription, stamp, and surplus duplicate stamp, Vol.XII); George D. Todd (stamp, Vol.XIII). FROM REVOLUTION TO CONSTITUTION: A COMPLETE SET OF THE JOURNALS OF THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS CONTENTS: Vol. I, Sept. 5, 1774 to Jan. 1 1776. Philadelphia: R. Aitken, 1777 (Evans 15683). Vol. II, January1, 1776 to January1, 1777. York-Town, PA: John Dunlap 1778 (Evans 16137). Vol. III, January 1, 1777 to January 1, 1778. New York: John Patterson [1778] (Evans 21527). Vol. IV, January 1st, 1778 to January 1st, 1779. Philadelphia: David C. Claypoole, [1779] (Evans 16584). Vol V, January 1, 1779 to January 1, 1780. Philadelphia: David C. Claypoole, 1782 (Evans 17766). Vol. VI, January 1st, 1780 to January 1st, 1781. Philadelphia: David C. Claypoole, [1781] (Evans 17392). Vol. VII, For the Year 1781. Philadelphia: David C. Claypoole, 1781 (Evans 17767). [With the index correctly numbered VII]. Vol. VIII, First Monday in November 1782 to First Monday in November 1783. Philadelphia: David C. Claypoole, 1783 (Evans 18266). Vol IX, Third Day of November 1783 to Third Day of June 1784. Philadelphia: John Dunlap, [1784] (Evans 18840). [Without the rare August addendum as often.] Vol. X, From the First Monday in November, 1784. Philadelphia: John Dunlap, 1785 (Evans 19316). Vol. XI, 3d Day of November 1785 to 3d Day of November 1786. [Philadelphia:] John Dunlap, [1786] (Evans 20068). [With the title incorrectly numbered Volume XII]. Vol XII, Sixth Day of November 1786 to Fifth Day of November 1787. [Philadelphia:] Published by Order of the Congress, 1787 (Evans 20772). Vol. XIII, 5th Day of November 1787 to 3d Day of November 1788. [Philadelphia:] John Dunlap, [1788] (Evans 21526). The Journals were issued by the government›s printers Robert Aitken, John Patterson, John Dunlap and David Claypoole. The printing of Vol.II was interrupted when the British seized Philadelphia in the summer of 1777, and most copies of the volume were printed by both Robert Aitken and John Dunlap The set incorporates the full text of the Declaration of Independence including the names of the Signers, the minutes of the debates at the 1787 Constitutional Convention, and the proposed Constitution. $25,000 - 35,000
257 [UNITED STATES CONTINENTAL CONGRESS]. Journals of Congress. [Monthly issues:] Jan.1-Feb. 1 1779, Feb. 1-Mar. 1 1779, Mar. 1-Mar. 30 1779. Philadelphia: David C. Claypoole, 1779. [Weekly issues:] Mar. 31-Apr. 10 1779 through Dec. 20-Dec. 31, 1779. Philadelphia: David C. Claypoole, 1779. 41 issues (complete), part I: folio (382 x 237 mm, folded to size); parts II-XLI: 8vo (192 x 118 mm). (Title to part I backed repairing separations to folds and chipping, some minor browning or spotting.) Modern half calf gilt, edges untrimmed. Provenance: James Ewing (signature, part I title); County of Cumberland (signatures on titles). RARE AS A COMPLETE SET IN PARTS OF THE RARE WEEKLY JOURNALS OF CONGRESS In 1779, the Continental Congress faced a difficult year of financial and supply shortfalls, the British burning of Norwalk and Fairfield Connecticut, and the fall of Savannah. As the Continental Congress continued deliberations, delegations voiced objections that the Journals were being published only in annual form (see preceding lot), making it difficult for them, during debate, to refer back to actions previous voted upon. In early 1779, it was decided to issue weekly issues of the Journals. The editions were no doubt very limited, and due to their ephemeral nature, few have survived. Evans locates two complete cpoies (at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania and the Library Company of Philadelphia). The American Antiquarian Society online catalogue shows the institution holding only 23 of the 41 issues. A full list of all the issues with pagination and Evans citations is available on request. Evans 16585-16624, 17205. $15,000 - 25,000 V I E W T H E C O M P L E T E C ATA L O G U E AT H I N D M A N A U C T I O N S . C O M
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258 [UNITED STATES CONTINENTAL CONGRESS]. [Set of Ten Weekly Issues of the Journals of Congress for the Year 1779]. Philadelphia: David C. Claypoole, 1779. 10 issues (of 41), 8vo (220 x 135 mm). (Some browning, spotting, or staining, a few tiny holes or tears, occasionally with repairs or affecting letters.) CONTEMPORARY WRAPPERS OR STAB-SEWN AS ISSUED, SEVERAL UNCUT AND UNOPENED (some soiling or chipping to wrappers). CONTENTS: Monday, March 1st to Tuesday, March 30th, 1779. 56pp. Stab-sewn. Evans 16587. Monday, April 19th, to Saturday, April 24th, 1779. 24pp. Original wrappers. Evans 16590. [Laid-in:] Single sheet, being the title-page for Extracts from the Journals of Congress, published Philadelphia, John Dunlap, 1776. Monday, May 17th, to Saturday, May 22d, 1779. 24pp. Original wrappers. Evans 16594. Monday, May 24th, to Saturday, May 29th, 1779. 20pp. Original wrappers. Evans 16595. Monday, July 5th, to Saturday, July 12th, 1779. 9pp. Stab-sewn. Evans 16601. Monday, July 19th, to Saturday, July 24th, 1779. 14pp. Stab-sewn. Evans 16603. Monday, July 26th, to Saturday, July 31st, 1779. 16pp. Stab-sewn. Evans 16604. Monday, August 23d, to Saturday, August 28th, 1779. 14pp. Stab-sewn. Evans 16608. Monday, September 6th, to Saturday, September 11th, 1779. 10pp. Stab-sewn. Evans 16610. Monday, November 29th, to Saturday, December 4th, 1779. 12pp. Evans 16622. AN EXTREMELY RARE COLLECTION OF SEVERAL INDIVIDUAL WEEKLY PRINTINGS OF THE JOURNALS OF CONGRESS. Congress’s proceedings were printed more or less annually, but shortly after the Declaration of Independence, Congress recognized the necessity of publishing their proceedings in a more timely fashion. During 1779 only, the proceedings were printed in individual monthly and weekly issues, with these more frequent printings being issued in very small numbers. EACH IS THEREFORE EXTREMELY RARE, and known in only a few institutional copies. Early American imprint collector Michael Zinman, who pursued all of the variant printings of the Journals of Congress was only able to obtain 11 of these weekly issues. $2,000 - 3,000
259 [UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES]. Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States, at the Second Session of the Second Congress. Philadelphia: Francis Childs and John Swaine, 1793. Folio (310 x 191). (Minor spotting or soiling to a few leaves.) Contemporary marbled boards (modern rebacking and recornering). Provenance: Western Reserve Historical Society (bookplate with withdrawn stamp, blind stamp). FIRST EDITION, with p.167 misnumbered 267. Including information about the Fugitive Slave Act (later superseded by the Thirteenth Amendment) and the Judiciary Act of 1793. Evans 26332. $200 - 300
260 [UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES]. Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States, being the first session of the Eighteenth Congress...December 1, 1823... Washington: Gales & Seaton, 1823. 8vo (225 x 140 mm). (Some browning or spotting, a few leaves dampstained.) Modern calf. Provenance: Coast Artillery School (bookplate); New York State Library (duplicate sold stamp); Ford Mitchell (his sale, PBA Galleries, 20 October 2005, Sale 319, Lot 92). FIRST EDITION, including the full text of the Monroe Doctrine, delivered to the Congress on December 2nd, establishing American neutrality in future European conflicts. $100 - 200
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261 [UNITED STATES SENATE] -- [BILL OF RIGHTS]. Journal of the First Session of the Senate of the United States of America, begun and held at the City of New York, March 4, 1789 and in the thirteenth year of the Independence of said States. New York: Thomas Greenleaf, 1789. Folio (295 x 175 mm). (Some minor soiling or spotting to a few leaves). Modern calf (original sewing holes visible in gutter margin). Provenance: Peter Van Gaasbeck (1754-1797), American merchant and politician (signature on title-page). FIRST OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE FIRST SESSION OF THE UNITED STATES SENATE, containing a number of important enactments including the official tally of electoral votes in the first presidential election, President Washington’s opening address to the newly-convened Senate, the Judiciary and Treasury Bills, and, on pp.163-164, following a blank page the 12 “proposed amendments” to the Constitution, 10 of which would become the Bill of Rights when ratified by the states. ONE OF THE EARLIEST PRINTED VERSIONS OF THESE HISTORIC AMENDMENTS. Peter Van Gaasbeck’s copy, with his signature. Van Gaasbeck, a merchant from Kingston New York, served as a Major in the Ulster County militia during the Revolutionary War. He was elected to the United States House of Representatives, where he represented New York in the 3rd United States Congress, from March 4, 1793 through March 3, 1795. Evans 22207; Grolier American 20; Sabin 15551. $15,000 - 25,000
262 [UNITED STATES SENATE]. Journal of the Second Session of the Senate of the United States of America, Begun and Held at the City of New York, January 4th, 1790.... New York: John Fenno, 1790. Folio (295 x 171 mm). (Some spotting.) Modern calf gilt. Provenance: Chris? F.? Ellery (signature, partially clipped). FIRST EDITION, including information about the first census, the creation of the seat of government in Washington D. C., treaties with the Indians, and laws in the territory south of the Ohio River Evans 22982. $1,000 - 1,500
263 [UNITED STATES SENATE]. Journal of the Senate of the United States of America Being the First Session of the Second Congress, Begun and Held at the City of Philadelphia, October 24, 1791. Philadelphia: John Fenno, 1791 [i.e. 1792]. Folio (316 x 192 mm). (A few tiny spots on a few leaves, some minor darkening to outer margin.) Contemporary sheep (worn, joints starting, minor losses to spine ends). Provenance: James Bourne Ayer (bookplate). FIRST EDITION, with p. 228 misnumbered 224. The Journal for the session includes information about the ratification of the Bill of Rights, the Presidential Succession Act debate and passage, the establishment of the U. S. Mint and Coinage, the first militia act, and the foundation of the Northwest Territory Acts. Evans 24911. $800 - 1,200
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264 [UNITED STATES SENATE]. Journal of the Third Session of the Senate of the United States. Begun and Held at the City of Philadelphia, December 6th, 1790. Philadelphia: John Fenno, 1791.
265 [UNITED STATES SENATE]. Journal of the Senate of the United States of America Being the Second Congress Begun and Held...November 5th, 1792.... Philadelphia: John Fenno, 1792.
Folio (315 x 191 mm). (Ee1 with portion of upper corner and foremargin torn away affecting a few letters, wormtrack to upper margin of several leaves, some minor browning and spotting.) Contemporary calf (worn, covers detached or detaching). Provenance: Chris? F.? Ellery (signature on titlepage); Western Reserve Historical Society (bookplate, withdrawn stamp).
Folio (340 x 204 mm). (Some chipping or small losses to margin, some browning or soiling.) ORIGINAL MARBLE WRAPPERS (spine perished, some chipping); morocco-backed folding case. Provenance: Mary Burnham Kinsman (signature, 1926).
FIRST EDITION. The third session includes the formation of the Bank of the United States, the establishment of the Treasury department, and includes acts to admit Kentucky and Vermont into the Union as new states. Evans 23901.
FIRST EDITION, including information about the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793, and the Judiciary Act of 1793, and about proposed legislation regarding compensation of the president and vice president. Evans 26333. $150 - 250
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266 [UNITED STATES SENATE]. Journal of the Senate of the United States of America, Being the First Session of the Third Congress... December 2, 1793 [-9 June 1794]. -- Philadelphia: John Fenno, 1793[-94] – Journal of the Senate of the United States of America, Being the Second Session of the Third Congress... November 3rd, 1794 [-3 March 1795]. Philadelphia: John Fenno, 1794-[95].
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2 parts in one volume, folio (300 x 187 mm). (Some minor browning or spotting.) Modern calf (a few repairs to endleaves). Provenance: Samuel Latham Mitchill Barlow (1826-1889), American Lawyer, stakeholder in The New York World (booklabel); The Western Reserve Historical Society (bookplate with withdrawn stamp).
All 12mo, printed on single sheets. Provenance: Major J. M. Kelley (signature on a few orders, carbon copy typescript letter).
FIRST EDITIONS of the only two sessions of the Third Congress, which met at Congress Hall in Philadelphia during the fifth and sixth years of Washington’s presidency. During the third congress, Washington began his second term, Eli Whitney was granted a patent for the cotton gin, the federal government authorized the construction of the original six frigates of the U. S. Navy, and the Whiskey Rebellion began. Evans 27911 and 29724. $600 - 800
Approximately 350 were issued by the Headquarters of the Army in Washington D.C., but others were issued by: the Department of Dakota; the Department of Arizona; Headquarters 10th Cavalry F. Assiniboine, Montana and Ft. Custer, Montana; and the Department of the Missouri. The 10th Cavalry Regiment was one of the original Buffalo Soldier regiments in the post-Civil War Regular Army. It served in combat during the Indian Wars in the Western United States, the Spanish-American War in Cuba, and the Philippine-American War. They were stationed at various forts across Kansas and present-day Oklahoma, where they attempted to prevent Indian raids into Texas, scouted 34,420 miles of uncharted terrain, opened 300 miles of new roads, and laid over 200 miles of new telegraph lines. They participated in campaigns against the Cheyenne, Arapaho, and Comanche. They prevented the Cheyenne from fleeing, allowing Custer and the 7th Cavalry to defeat them at Fort Cobb. $1,200 - 1,800
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268 [US ARMY - BUFFALO SOLDIERS]. A collection of approximately 400 printed Army orders relating to the 10th Cavalry. Most issued by the Headquarters of the Army, Washington, D. C., late 1870s to early 1900s.
269 [UNITED STATES - TREATIES]. Wänskaps och Handels Tractat Emellan Hans Maj:t Romungen af Swerige Och The Forente Staterne i Norra America.... Traité d’Amitié et de Commerce entre sa Majesté le Roi de Suede et Les États Unis de l’Amérique Septentrionale.... Stockholm: Royal Press, 1785. 4to (400 x 340 mm sheets). Text printed in two columns in Swedish and French, with the notice of American ratification on the final three pages printed in English Swedish and English. Folded as issued, uncut and unsewn. Provenance: Ford Mitchell (his sale, PBA, 15 December 2005, Sale 323, Lot 94). FIRST EDITION, THE FIRST REGULAR TREATY OF FRIENDSHIP AND COMMERCE BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND A NEUTRAL POWER. The third treaty made by the United States with a power other than France, negotiated by Benjamin Franklin. Though the treaty was concluded on April 3, 1783, it was not printed until this Stockholm publication, likely in a small edition for official use, not widely circulated. The United States and Sweden, a major maritime power of the period, granted each other most-favored nation trade status, agreeing on rules for trade in times of war and peace, and establishing a framework for consular representation. Sabin 100931. $400 - 600
269A VANDERMAELEN, Philippe Marie Guillaume (1795-1869). 5 large-scale colonial maps of Texas. [Brussels]: H. Ode, April & June, 1825. Comprising: Amér. Sep. Parties des États-Unis et du Nouveau Mexique. No. 48. Showing parts of Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, Texas, Oklahoma, and New Mexico. Amér. Sep. Partie du Mexique. No. 54. Borderlands including parts of New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, Sonora, and Chihuahua. Amér. Sep. Partie des États-Unis. No. 55. Including southwest Oklahoma, and naming the panhandle “Grand Désert.” Amér. Sep. Partie du Mexique. No. 59. Including part of the Rio Grand and Big Bend, as well as Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo Leon, Zacatecas, Durango, and Sinaloa. Amér. Sep. Partie du Mexique. No. 60. Showing the Texas coast. THE ONLY PRINTED MAP FROM THE COLONIAL PERIOD DEVOTED SPECIFICALLY TO THE TEXAS COAST. Together, 5 lithographed maps with hand-coloring in outline, on wove paper, each 534 x 715 mm. (A few tiny marginal holes or short tears, reinforced verso along centerfold, some occasional very minor browning or staining, No. 48 with some overall pale spotting.) Provenance: Acquired Dorothy Sloan (11 December 2009, Sale 22, lot 369). The maps appeared in Vandermaelen’s Atlas Universel de 269A Géographie, and comprise the first large-scale map of Texas printed at the time. According to Streeter: “The five only partly related sheets comprising the Texas region, though on a large scale, are difficult to assemble for a study of Texas as a whole, even when available as separates and not bound in an atlas. The entire Texas coast line, fortunately, happens to be shown on a single sheet (No. 60). It is apparent that for this, Maelen had not consulted either the Carta esférica que comprehende las costas del Seno Mexicano, Madrid, 1799 (entry No. 1029), or its main features as outlined in Humboldt’s Carte Générale…Nouvelle Espagne, Paris, 1809 (entry No. 1042), for he shows it as a jumble of islands dotting the coast from Galveston Bay (here called Baie Trinidad) to the mouth of the Rio Grande. The Canadian River running across the Texas Panhandle is correctly shown as flowing into the Arkansas, and a ‘Little Brazos’ running into the Brazos is shown and named. The San Antonio is still incorrectly represented as flowing into the Gulf of Mexico, instead of joining the Guadalupe many miles above. The few place names are poorly done, some apparently imaginary.” Streeter 1095 (listing all five maps). $1,500 - 2,500 270 [BIBLIOGRAPHY] -- [STREETER, Thomas]. Parke-Bernet Galleries. Celebrated collection of Americana formed by the late Thomas Winthrop Streeter. New York: Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., 1966-1969. 7 volumes, 8vo. Original blue cloth. $200 - 300 271 [BIBLIOGRAPHY -- TEXAS]. WINKLER, Ernest W., editor. Check List of Texas Imprints, 1846-1860. Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 1949. -- WINKLER, Ernest W. and Llerna B. FRIEND, editors. Check List of Texas Imprints, 1861-1876. Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 1964. 2 works in two volumes, 8vo. Original red cloth; original pictorial dust jacket. $50 - 100 V I E W T H E C O M P L E T E C ATA L O G U E AT H I N D M A N A U C T I O N S . C O M
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272 ADAIR, James (1709?-1783). The History of the American Indians; particularly those Nations adjoining to the Mississippi, East and West Florida, Georgia, South and North Carolina, and Virginia. London: for Edward and Charles Dilly, 1775. 4to (268 x 210 mm). Engraved folding map. (Some minor offsetting of map.) Contemporary calf (rebacked, preserving original spine). FIRST EDITION of the “best 18th-century English source on the Southern tribes, written by one who traded forty years with them” (Howes). Adair lived and traded among several tribes, including the Cherokee, Catawba, and Chickasaw. ESTC T86841; Graff 10; Howes A-38; Sabin 155. Property from the Estate of Professor Ethan D. Alyea, Jr., Bloomington, Indiana $2,000 - 3,000
273 AUDUBON, John James (1785-1851) Yellow-Crowned Heron (Plate CCCXXXVI) Ardea Violacea, L. Engraving with etching, aquatint and hand-coloring by Robert Havell (1793-1878), 959 x 634 mm sheet, on J. Whatman paper dated 1838, a few short closed tears occasionally touching image repaired verso, a few tiny spots, some minor toning to extreme outer margins, matted and framed. Low p.147. $8,000 - 10,000
274 AUDUBON, John James (1785-1851) Goshawk & Stanley Hawk (Plate CXLI) Falco Palumbarius, Linn. & Falco Stanleii, Aud. Engraving with etching, aquatint and hand-coloring after Audubon by Robert Havell (1793-1878), 980 x 656 mm sheet, on J. Whatman Turkey Mill paper dated 18?? [sheet trimmed into date], a little rippling and toning to outer margins, a few tiny spots, matted and framed. Low p.82. $2,000 - 3,000
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275 BRAY, Thomas (1658-1730). Apostolick charity, its nature and excellence consider’d. In a discourse upon Dan. 12. 3. preached at St. Paul’s, at the ordination of some Protestant missionaries to be sent into the plantations. London: E. Holt for William Hawes, 1700. 8vo (200 x 150 mm). Title printed within double rule border. (Lacking final blank.) 20th century half morocco gilt. Third edition, preceded by editions of 1698 and 1699, issued with “A circular letter to the clergy of Mary-land” (caption title, here pp. 31-32), which was previously published separately (see Wing B4291). The third edition also includes an unnumbered 8pp. section with the caption title, “Proposals for the encouragement and promoting of religion and learning in the foreign plantations”, which was also published separately.
Thomas Bray was the founder of parish libraries in the United States, and particularly in Maryland. He was the found of the Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge and the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel. He is considered the first advocate of the public library in America. SCARCE: According to online records, no copy of any edition of Bray’s pamphlet has appeared at auction in over 60 years. Church 770; ESTC R434; Sabin 7473. $800 - 1,200 276 CATLIN, George (1796-1872) Buffalo Hunt, Chase (Plate 7). From The North American Indian Portfolio, London: Geo. Catlin, Egyptian Hall [but Chatto & Windus, ca. 1875]. Tinted lithograph finished by hand, 414 x 586 mm sheet, a few tiny pinholes, a short closed tear not touching image repaired verso, a few tiny spots, matted and framed. $300 - 400
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277 CATLIN, George (1796-1872) Buffalo Dance (Plate 8). From The North American Indian Portfolio, London: Geo. Catlin, Egyptian Hall [but Chatto & Windus, ca. 1875]. Tinted lithograph finished by hand, 428 x 584 mm sheet, a few tiny pinholes, some minor marginal toning, sewing holes and thread from binding visible top margin, matted and framed.
278 CATLIN, George (1796-1872) Wi-Jun-Jon. An Assinneboin Chief (Plate 25). From The North American Indian Portfolio, London: Geo. Catlin, Egyptian Hall [but Chatto & Windus, ca. 1875].Tinted lithograph finished by hand, 583 x 426 mm sheet, a few tiny pinholes, a few short closed tear not touching image, a few tiny spots, light toning to outer margins, matted and framed.
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279 [CONTINENTAL CONGRESS]. The Declaration by the Representatives of the United Colonies of North America, now met in General Congress at Philadelphia, Setting forth the Causes and Necessity of taking up Arms. The Letter of the Twelve United Colonies by their Delegates in Congress to the Inhabitants of Great Britain, their Humble Petition to his Majesty, and their Address to the People of Ireland. Collected together for the Use of Serious Thinking Men, by Lovers of Peace. London: n.p., 1775. 8vo (200 x 122 mm). (Title very slightly soiled, a few leaves trimmed close just shaving catchwords.) 20th century calf gilt (small tear at head of spine, light wear, front flyleaf disbound). Provenance: A few early 20th-century annotations on flyleaves. FIRST LONDON EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with the balance of the text uncorrected, of one of the most significant precursors to the Declaration of Independence. The pamphlet reprints the Declaration of Causes and Necessity (first published by William and Thomas Bradford in Philadelphia in the same year), and three other texts first published by the Bradfords: The Twelve United Colonies...to the Inhabitants of Great Britain; The Olive Branch Petition; and An Address...to the People of Ireland. This issue was presumably subsidized by Richard Champion, an American sympathizer and ally of Edmund Burke, and the printer appeals to American sympathizers on the title-page: “Read with Candor : Judge with Impartiality.” RARE: According to American Book Prices Current, only 3 examples of this pamphlet have sold at auction in the last 45 years. Adams, American Controversy, 75-149b; Sabin 15522. $5,000 - 7,000
280 DEARBORN, Henry (1751-1829). A group of 2 ALSs with a partially printed document accomplished in manuscript signed and countersigned signed from 1805-1814, comprising: DEARBORN. Autograph letter signed (“H. Dearborn”), as Secretary of War to Col. Henry BURBECK. N.p., 10 June 1805. 1 page, 12mo, on paper, some offsetting, some staining, creased at folds, separation to upper right fold. Dearborn, an American Revolutionary War officer, was at Yorktown on George Washington’s staff, and later served as Secretary of State under Thomas Jefferson. Dearborn writes Burbeck (1754-1848) regarding the payment of troops. [With:] DEARBORN. Partially printed document accomplished in manuscript signed (“M. Dearborn”) and countersigned (“J. Prentis”), Inspector. Marblehead, Massachusetts, 2 March 1810. 1 page, oblong 8vo, on paper, embossed stamped “United States of America” with eagle, browning, paper remnant attached to verso in middle upper edge. A customs inspector’s receipt of 29 gallons of “Malaya Wine” brought by an American ship. From March 1809 until 27 January 1812, Dearborn served as the collector of the port of Boston, appointed by President James Madison. DEARBORN. Autograph letter signed (“H. Dearborn”), as Senior Officer of the United States Army to an unknown recipient. New York, 26 April 1814. 1 page, 8vo, 4 mounting remnants on verso with light showthrough in corners, creasing at folds. By April 1814, Dearborn has been reassigned to administrative command in New York City. He writes relating to July 1812 payments. $400 - 600
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[THE FEDERALIST PAPERS]. -- [HAMILTON, Alexander (1739-1802), James MADISON (1751-1836) and John JAY (1745-1829)]. The Federalist: A Collection of Essays, Written in Favour of the New Constitution, as Agreed Upon by the Federal Convention, September 17, 1787. New York: John and Andrew M’Lean, 1788. 2 volumes bound in one, 12mo (167 x 92 mm). (Lacking initial blanks, Vol. I E6 and Vol. II Q2 with marginal paper flaws not affecting letterpress, Vol. II 2b5 printing flaw affecting one line of letterpress, some minor browning or spotting as usual, a few early pencil or ink annotations or underlinings.) Contemporary sheep, smooth spine gilt-ruled, contemporary red morocco lettering-piece gilt (upper joint separating, front free endpaper becoming loose, small split to lower joint, some overall wear). Provenance: Thomas Evans, (presumably ca 1755-1815), member of the Virginia House of Delegates and elected as a Federalist to the United States House of Representatives (18th-century signature); Maggie Richardson (ownership inscription dated 9 July 1865); J. D. Belote (note indicating purchase in his sale, December 1912 by); John S. Tyler (pencil note). “ONE OF THE NEW NATION’S MOST IMPORTANT CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE THEORY OF GOVERNMENT” (PMM) FIRST EDITION, collecting the 85 seminal essays written in defense of the newly drafted Constitution and published under the pseudonym “Publius” in various New York newspapers; the complete text of the Constitution, headed “Articles of the New Constitution,” and the resolutions of the Constitutional Convention (signed in type by Washington) appear on pp.368-384 of vol.2. “Justly recognized as a classic exposition of the principles of republican government” (R.B. Bernstein, Are We to be a Nation? The Making of the Constitution, 1987, p.242). The Federalist essays grew out of the heated pamphlet wars engendered by the question of the ratification of the Constitution. Hamilton enlisted John Jay and James Madison (a Virginia delegate) to collaborate on a series of essays supporting the new plan of government and refuting the objections of its detractors. “Hamilton wrote the first piece in October 1787 on a sloop returning from Albany...He finished many pieces while the printer waited in a hall for the completed copy” (R. Brookhiser, Alexander Hamilton: American, 1999, pp.68-69). Due to Jay’s illness and Madison’s return to Virginia, most of the 85 essays, in the end, were written by Hamilton. “Despite the hurried pace at which they worked-they ground out four articles nearly every week--what began as a propaganda tract, aimed only at winning the election for delegates to New York ratifying convention, evolved into the classic commentary upon the American Federal system” (F. McDonald, Alexander Hamilton: A Biography, p.107). Washington who had served as President of the Constitutional Convention, wrote that The Federalist “will merit the Notice of Posterity; because in it are candidly and ably discussed the principles of freedom and the topics of government, which will always be interesting to mankind.” Church 1230; Evans 21127; Grolier American 19; PMM 234; Sabin 23979. Property from the Estate of Professor Ethan D. Alyea, Jr., Bloomington, Indiana $40,000 - 60,000 V I E W T H E C O M P L E T E C ATA L O G U E AT H I N D M A N A U C T I O N S . C O M
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282 [CIVIL WAR] -- GRANT, Ulysses S. (1822-1885). The Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant. New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1885. 2 volumes, 8vo (230 x 147 mm). Engraved portrait frontispieces, numerous maps, numerous wood engravings, several facsimile letters (2 folding). (Some short tears, some spotting, slight offsetting.) Contemporary sheep gilt, red and black calf lettering-pieces gilt, edges marbled (joints starting with previous repairs, some soiling, rubbed). Provenance: shelfmarks from previous owner(s). FIRST EDITION of Grant’s classic memoirs, written on his deathbed as a justification for his conduct in the Civil War. Property from the Estate of Timothy E. Burton, Brookfield, Wisconsin $300 - 400
283 LINCOLN, Abraham. Partially-engraved document signed (“Abraham Lincoln”) as President, countersigned by Secretary of the navy Gideon Welles, 21 April 1864. 1 page, 490 x 395 mm on vellum, orange seal at bottom, creased, signatures slightly faded, matted and framed. Naval commission for Charles W. Tracy appointing him Lieutenant. Property from the Estate of Timothy E. Burton, Brookfield, Wisconsin $3,000 - 4,000
284 LINCOLN, Abraham (1809-1865). Autograph note signed (“A. Lincoln”). [Washington, D. C.?], 3 Nov, 1864. 1-page, on a 2 x 3 1/4-in. card, a few letters smudged, with recipient’s name, “M. L. Cullen,” added in ink. In full: “Allow the bearer transportation from Washington to Pittsburgh, Penn.” Written just 5 days before the 1864 election, in which Lincoln would defeat General George B. McClellan by an Electoral College margin of 212-21 to be re-elected as President. $3,000 - 5,000
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285 LINCOLN, Abraham (1809-1865). Autograph endorsement signed as President (“A. Lincoln”), 30 December 1864. 1 page, 56 x 76 mm, cut from a larger sheet, 9 partial lines in a different hand verso, some minor marginal staining. In full: “Let these men take / the oath of Dec. 8 / 1863 & be discharged. / A. Lincoln / Dec. 30, 1864.” One of hundreds of pardons Lincoln granted in accordance with his “Proclamation of Pardon” of 8 December 1863. [Matted and framed with:] LINCOLN. “Proclamation of Pardon.” Washington, D.C.: War Department, Adjutant General’s Office, February 18, 1864. 6pp.,16mo. A reduced contemporary reprint for circulation of General Orders, No. 64. EXCEEDINGLY RARE CONTEMPORARY PRINTING of Lincoln’s Proclamation of Pardon in which he sets forth terms by which rebels could “resume their allegiance to the United States.” Included in the Proclamation is the wording of the oath itself. VERY RARE: According to online records, only one copy of this printing has sold at auction in over 100 years: The Benson J. Lossing copy, sold Anderson Galleries, 1912. [Also matted and framed with:] LINCOLN. Carte-devisite. Providence, RI: Salisbury, Bro. & Co., n.d. Based on A. Berger’s 1864 portrait, mounted on a white mat blind-embossed with eagle, cannons, flags and palmfronds. Provenance: All of the above acquired at the Abraham Lincoln Book Shop, 1994; Gene Griessman, noted Lincoln scholar, author, and reenactor. $10,000 - 15,000
286 LINCOLN, Abraham ( 1809-1865). Political Debates between Hon. Abraham Lincoln and Hon. Stephen A. Douglas. Columbus: Follett, Foster and Company, 1860. 8vo (231 x 155 mm). (Some light spotting.) Publisher’s blue-gray cloth (spine toned, small separation along upper joint, minor chipping to spine ends). FIRST EDITION, later issue, with “2” on p.13 (rather than p.17). The first published edition of the debates between Lincoln and Douglas, conducted during their campaign for the U.S. Senate in 1858. Follett, Foster, and Co. would later publish Lincoln’s campaign biography. Howes L-338; Sabin 41156. Property from the Estate of Professor Ethan D. Alyea, Jr., Bloomington, Indiana
287 [LINCOLN] -- SANDBURG, Carl (1878-1967). Abraham Lincoln: The War Years. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1939. 4 volumes, 8vo. Photographic frontispieces, illustrated. Original publisher’s gilt, brown morocco lettering-piece gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut (a few tiny stains or scuffs); original slipcase (some chipping). Provenance: William Patrick McGowan (embossed stamps). FIRST EDITION, LIMITED EDITION, number 203 of 500 copies SIGNED BY SANDBURG. Sandburg won the 1940 Pulitzer Prize for History for this work. Property from the Estate of Timothy E. Burton, Brookfield, Wisconsin $400 - 600
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288 [REPORTS] -- Reports of Explorations and Surveys, to Ascertain the Most Practicable and Economical Route for a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. Washington, D.C.: George W. Bowman, 1861. Volume XI only, 4to (289 x 216 mm). 13 engraved plates (5 folding), 32 maps and profiles (28 folding). (Dampstained, many of the folding plates and maps with splits and tears along folds, Warren’s General Map detached through the cartouche, but all parts present.)Spotting throughout, some stains, some tears to folds of maps.) Original publisher’s brown blindstamped cloth (defective with contents becoming loose). Senate Issue including the RARE WARREN MAP. Considered to be the first accurate representation of the region, the “Map of the Territory of the United States from the Mississippi to the Pacific Ocean,” commonly known as “Warren’s General Map,” was not present in all volumes of the present work. Warren’s General Map draws on decades of government sponsored explorations and surveys, starting with those of Lewis and Clark. While most of the map was complete by 1854, it was not fully finished by the time the railroad survey report was first published in 1855, explaining its absence in some editions. Secretary of War Jefferson Davis proposed four routes of exploration to determine a route for a new railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. The present volume reports on the exploration of the fourth route, along the 32nd parallel from Central Texas to El Paso, following William H. Emory’s military reconnaissance of 1846-1847 to the Ghila River, Fort Uma, and San Diego. The House and Senate issues differ only in arrangement of constituent reports. Howes P-3; Wagner-Camp 266c. Sold with all flaws. Property from the Estate of Professor Ethan D. Alyea, Jr., Bloomington, Indiana
289 [SAN FRANCISCO]. OTIS, Fessenden Nott (1825-1900). City of San Francisco from Rincon Point. New York: C. Parsons, 1855. Lithograph with hand coloring, visible area 655 x 1150 mm, matted and framed (unexamined out of frame). Some overall browning, a few tiny spots, some white spots to upper right sky or margin. A RARE EARLY VIEW OF SAN FRANCISCO, lithographed immediately following the Gold Rush, showing the view from the corner of Fremont and Harrison Streets on Rincon Hill, with a panoramic view of the city including Nob Hill, Russian Hill, Mount Tamalpais, Telegraph Hill, Angel Island, and Yerba Buena Island. The foreground shows the gardens of William F. Babcock, who had arrived in San Francisco in 1852, and who gained control of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company in 1854. Fessenden Nott Otis, a New York landscape artist and topographical draftsman, was also a ship’s surgeon. He served the United States Mail Steamship Company on their Panama to California route from 1853 to 1859, during which he executed the drawing from which this lithograph was taken. VERY RARE: according to online records, only one example of this print has sold at auction in the last 40 years. Baird, Historic Lithographs of San Francisco, 33; Reps 274. $2,000 - 3,000
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290 [SAN FRANCISCO]. GIFFORD, Charles Braddock and William Vallance GRAY. Bird’s Eye View of the City and County of San Francisco, 1868. San Francisco: W. Vallance Gray and C. B. Gifford, 1868.
291 [SAN FRANCISCO]. SWASEY, William F., Captain. View of San Francisco, formerly Yerba Buena, in 1846-7. Before the Discovery of Gold. San Francisco: Bosqui Eng. & Print Co., ca 1884.
Three-color chromolithograph, visible area 520 x 748 mm, matted and framed (unexamined out of frame). Three tears to side margins crossing image, some minor creasing to right margin, some overall browning or staining. FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE, showing a southwest view of the San Francisco peninsula, with Golden Gate in the upper right and Telegraph Hill bottom center. The view is based on a painting by Charles B. Gifford, which was copyrighted and published in 1868. A second state was published in the same year, and Reps records three additional states published in 1869, 1872, and 1873. VERY RARE IN ANY CONDITION: according to online records, we trace no example of this print at auction since 1918; we trace only 7 copies in institutions of any state. Reps 308.
Lithograph with hand-coloring, 502 x 548 mm visible area, matted and framed (unexamined out of frame). Some overall browning, some surface staining, a few mostly marginal tears or losses occasionally crossing image.
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RARE BIRD’S-EYE VIEW OF SAN FRANCISCO by noted California engraver Edward Bosqui, showing the early layout of streets, naming Clay, Kearney [sic], Washington and Montgomery Streets. A key in the lower margin identifies ships and early buildings, and two arrows mark the trails to the Presidio and Mission Dolores. Reps 343. $400 - 600
292 [SAN FRANCISCO]. San Francisco 1849. San Francisco: Max Burkhardt, 1886. Lithograph with hand-coloring, visible area 495 x 877 mm, matted and framed (unexamined out of frame). Some overall toning, a few small spots, some staining from old framing. First published in 1849 with several 19th-century reissues. Panoramic view of San Francisco, delineating the intersection of Montgomery Street and California Street. Key in lower margin identifying several ships, businesses, and ho mes. The present edition was “corrected by a committee of pioneers,” consisting of Richard M. Sherman, William Heath Davis, and Ferdinand Vassault. RARE: we trace only one copy of any edition of this view at auction in the last 45 years. Reps 344 (state IX).
293 [SAN FRANCISCO]. COLLINSON, Richard?, Captain. View of the Town and Harbour of San Francisco, California from the Signal Hill. San Francisco: John Howell, 1982. Facsimile of Collinson’s lithographed bird’s eye view of 1851. Visible area 345 x 710 mm, matted and framed (unexamined out of frame). $300 - 400
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295 WASHINGTON, George (1732-1799). The Writings of George Washington. Jared Sparks, editor. Boston: American Stationers’ Company, John B. Russell, 1837.
294 SMITH, William (1728-1793). The History Of the Province of New-York, from the First Discovery to the Year M.DCC.XXXII. To which is annexed, A Description of the Country, with a short Account of the Inhabitants, their Trade, Religious and Political State, and the Constitution of the Courts of Justice of that Colony. London: printed for William Wilcox, 1757. 4to (252 x 189 mm). Copper engraved folding plate “The South View of Oswego on Lake Ontario.” (Short marginal tear to folding plate, some very slight browning.) 20th century blue panelled morocco gilt, spien in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands, gilt-lettered in 2, the rest gilt-decorated, edges gilt, STAMP-SIGNED BY THE CLUB BINDERY (very minor rubbing to extremities). Provenance: Edwin B. Holden (1861-1906), early member of The Grolier Club (bookplate). FIRST EDITION OF “THE FIRST AND CLASSIC HISTORY OF NEW YORK” (Streeter). Smith’s based his work “chiefly on the Provincial Laws, the Minutes of the Council, the Journals of the General Assembly and other government records. He also acknowledges his indebtedness to Colden’s History of the Five Indian nations, and to Charlevoix. The history proper covers pp. 1-180, while a description of the province, geographical, political, etc., forms pp. 181-255” (Sabin). Church 1023; Howes S703; Sabin 84566.
24 volumes, large 8vo (265 x 165 mm). Half-titles, illustrated. EXTRAILLUSTRATED BY THE ADDITION OF APPROXIMATELY 360 PLATES AND 87 DOCUMENTS (see below). 20th-century navy blue crushed levant gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut. Provenance: Mrs. D. C. Cleveland (presentation inscription window-mounted to half-title); H. W. L. Cleveland (note). PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY THE EDITOR JARED SPARKS: “Mrs. D. C. Cleveland, with the kind regards of Jared Sparks.” With an additional inscription of H. W. L. Cleveland memorializing the gift of these volumes from his mother to him. [Also with:] SPARKS. Autograph letter signed (“Jared Sparks”), to A. B. Durand. Cambridge, 26 July 1833. Sparks writes the engraver about the engraving of the plates for the work. ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS NEATLY BOUND IN THROUGHOUT, INCLUDING CORRESPONDENCE FROM SEVERAL AMERICAN HISTORIC FIGURES, including: WASHINGTON, Bushrod, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. Autograph endorsement signed (“Bushrod Washington”), Richmond, July 4th 1795. -- MORRIS, Robert, Signer of the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of the Confederation, and the U. S. Constitution. Autograph note signed. Philadelphia, 30 October 1794. -- McHENRY, James, Signer of the U. S. Constitution. Autograph note signed (“James McHenry”). -- PINCKNEY, Charles, Signer of the U. S. Constitution. Manuscript document signed as Minister Plenipotentiary from the United States to the Court of Madrid. -- STODDERT, Benjamin, first Secretary of the Navy. Autograph letter signed (“Ben Stoddert”), to an unnamed recipient. Georgetown, 7 January 1793. – And others. Complete list available on request.
THE EDWIN B. HOLDEN COPY IN A FINE CLUB BINDING.
Property from the Collection of Rhoda H. Clark and The Monastery Hill Bindery
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296 CAREY, Henry Charles (1793-1879) and Isaac LEA (1792-1886). Geographical, Statistical, and Historical Map of Illinois. [Philadelphia, 1822]. Engraved map of Illinois with hand-coloring in wash and outline, 457 x 563 mm sheet. Three text borders describing the rivers, climate, chief towns, government and history of Illinois. (Short tears to vertical fold, tear repaired upper corner, some minor toning.) THE EARLIEST OBTAINABLE MAP OF ILLINOIS, which had been granted statehood in 1818. The map shows 19 counties in southern Illinois, and the boundary lands to the west. Chicago is named, and the map includes boundary lines of Native American territory in the north. [With:] Two additional maps of Illinois, comprising: Upper Territories of the United States. N.p., ca 1813? Engraved map, 206 x 175 mm sheet. (Mounted to backing board, browned). Bears some similarity to Carey’s map of the same title, though in a smaller format. -- MITCHELL. County Map of the State of Illinois. Philadelphia, 1867. Engraved map with hand-coloring, 378 x 314 mm sheet. With inset plan of Chicago. $400 - 600 296
297 CHATELAIN, Henri Abraham (1684-1743). Carte Tres Curieuse de la Mer du Sud. Contenant des Remarques Nouvelles et Tres Utiles non Seulement sur les Ports et Iles de Cette Mer. Amsterdam, 1719. Engraved map on 4 joined sheets of the Americas, with hand-coloring in outline and wash, visible area 820 x 1430 mm, matted and framed (unexamined out of frame), manuscript pagination upper right. Spanish and Dutch navigation routes delineated, over 34 insets and vignettes of scenes and regions of the New World, portrait medallions of explorers, including Columbus, Dampier, Drake, Vespucci and Magellan. “ONE OF THE MOST DECORATIVE MAPS OF NORTH AMERICA OF THE 18TH CENTURY” (Tooley) Chatelain’s map, published in his Atlas Historique of 1719, was intended to encourage French investment in the Americas. Though the map depicts California as an island, a notation indicates that many Europeans believe it to be connected to the mainland. “One of the most elaborately engraved maps of the Western Hemisphere ever produced” (Schwartz & Ehrenberg). McLaughlin 190; Schwarz & Ehrenberg 85; Tooley p.130. Property from The Western Union Company $6,000 - 8,000 96
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298 KEULEN, Johannes van (1654-1715). pas Kaart Van de Zee Kusten van Virginia Tusschen. Amsterdam, ca 1695. Engraved map with hand-coloring in outline of the Chesapeake and Delaware Bay region, 530 x 603 mm sheet. Figural cartouche, galleon, compass roses. (Some overall browning, a few short tears occasionally crossing image.) A rare coastal chart based on Augustine Hermann’s map of 1670. North is oriented to the right in the map, and the map shows the shoreline from Cape Henry to southern New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Place names are included along the shoreline, including the new settlement of “Filadelfy” (Philadelphia). $2,000 - 3,000
299 LAURIE, Robert (1755-1836) and James WHITTLE (d.1818). A New and General Map of the Middle Dominions Belonging to the United States of America, viz. Virginia, Maryland, the Delaware-Counties, Pennsylvania, New Jersey. with the Addition of New York, & of the Greatest Part of New England... London: Laurie and Whittle, 1794. Engraved map with contemporary hand-coloring of the Northeastern United States, 495 x 673 mm visible area, matted and framed (laid down on backing board). Inset map of the Great Lakes. Laurie and Whittle first re-issue, issue unknown (watermark unobservable). Originally published by Thomas Kitchin in 1756, the plate was revised numerous times by Thomas Jefferys, Sayer & Jefferys, Sayer & Bennett, and finally, Laurie & Whittle. See Tooley p.68-69. $500 - 700
300 MITCHELL, Samuel Augustus (1792-1868). Mitchell’s New General Atlas, Containing Maps of the Various Countries of the World, Plans of Cities. Philadelphia: S. Augustus Mitchell, 1880. Folio (384 x 316 mm). 77 engraved hand-colored maps and plans (23 double-page, one folding). (Some browning, a few short tears occasionally crossing into image, some minor creasing.) Original publisher’s half roan over brown cloth gilt, smooth spine, front cover gilt and stamped in black, red-speckled edges (worn, corners bumped). Provenance: John T. Morton (inscription, 29 April 1895). Later edition, including maps, plans, statistical tables, a list of post offices of the United States and territories, and census information of 1860 and 1870. Phillips 892; Rumsey 586A. Property from the Estate of Professor Ethan D. Alyea, Jr., Bloomington, Indiana $500 - 700
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301 ORTELIUS, Abraham (1527-1598). Russiae, Moscoviae et Tartariae descriptio... [Antwerp, 1588]. Engraved map with hand-coloring in wash and outline of Russia including Moscow, Spanish text verso 410 x 537 mm sheet. (Some minor soiling, a few mostly marginal holes, repair to lower margin.) The map, based on the surveys of English merchant Anthony Jenkinson, includes a depiction of Ivan the Terrible top left, with illustrations of encampments, armies, Cossacks, and a burial scene with the dead hanging from trees. Van den Broecke, 162. $400 - 600
302 PHELPS & ENSIGN, Publishers. Phelps & Ensign’s Traveller’s Guide, and Map of the United States... New York: Phelps & Ensign, 1841 [copyright 1837]. Steel-engraved wall map of the United States on 5 sheets hand-colored in outline, 671 x 987 mm visible area, framed (unexamined out of frame). Map within ornate border, insets of a world map, chief rivers of the world, principal mountain ranges, and the text of the Declaration of Independence reproducing the signatures and with a cartoon rendering of the signing, inset plans of New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Baltimore, New Orleans, Mobile, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Charleston, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Detroit, and the District of Columbia; several steel-engraved vignettes in bottom margin (see below). (Some overall browning, some cracking or minor losses, a few stains.) With vignettes in lower margin, including portraits of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, James Madison, John Quincy Adams, James Monroe, William Henry Harrison, Martin Van Buren and Andrew Jackson. With vignettes of the Landing of the Pilgrims, the Battle of Lexington, the Battle of Bunker’s Hill, and Washington’s farewell to his army, and with a large engraved vignette of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Phelps and Ensign’s map was issued with various copyright dates, from 1837 to 1840. The present edition includes Stephen F. Austin’s colony in Texas, and reaches further west than most maps of the period, extending to the Rockies, and including Missouri territory, New Mexico, and Texas as a separate political entity. RARE: OCLC locates only three copies of this edition, none of which include the steel-engraved vignettes in the lower margin. Property from the Collection of Julie Riedl, Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin $400 - 600 303 PHELPS, ENSIGNS & THAYER, publishers. Phelps’s National Map of the United States, A Travellers Guide [map only]. New York, 1848. Steel-engraved wall map of the United States on 5 sheets handcolored in outline, 532 x 822 mm visible area, matted and framed (unexamined out of frame). Map within pictorial borders, inset plans of Washington D. C., New York, Baltimore, Boston, Birmingham, Cincinnati, St. Louis, and Chicago. (Separations with minor losses along folds repaired verso, map backed with linen, some overall browning.) Second edition, without the large inset map of Oregon, California and Texas which would appear in later editions. Pictorial borders include images of the seals of 30 states including Texas (but not California), and several Presidential portraits. Border vignettes depict the Great Seal of the United States and the signing of the Declaration of Independence. The map extends just past the Mississippi river into the Great Plains, and includes part of Texas and two unnamed regions extending north. Property from the Collection of Helena Szepe, Tampa, Florida $400 - 600
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304 PITT, Moses (1654-1696). A Map of the North-Pole and the Parts Adjoining. Oxford, 1680 (or later). Engraved map of the North Pole with hand-coloring in wash and outline, 525 x 653 mm visible area, matted and framed (unexamined out of frame). Inset map of Nova Zembla, inset whaling vignette, dedicatory cartouche with coat of arms. (Some minor burn-through of pigment, some minor soiling.) Prepared by Pitt for The English Atlas, this map “is one of the most evocative of the region ever published” (Burden). “This decorative map combines the primitive concepts of ‘Frisland,’ ‘Frobisher Strait’ as bisecting southern Greenland; and the three-island concept of Arctic Canada introduced by Sanson” (Kershaw). Burden II, 525; Kershaw 120. $2,000 - 3,000
305 SPEED, John (1552-1629). A Newe Mape of Tartary. London: G. Humble, 1626 (but later). (English, 1552-1629) Engraved map with hand-coloring in wash and outline of Tartary, Russia and China, 420 x 543 mm sheet. Decorative cartouches, side borders with 8 costumed figures of Tartar men and women, top border with city views and vignettes, English text verso. (Some marginal chipping or short tears, centerfold with minor separations and reinforced verso.) Views in the top border include Astracan, Samarchand, Cambalu, and The “House of Nova Zemla.” $400 - 600
306 [U.S. DEPT. OF STATE] – Letter from the Secretary of State, Transmitting, pursuant to a resolution of the House of Representatives, of the nineteenth ultimo, a Copy of the Maps and Report of the Commissioners under the Treaty of Ghent, for Ascertaining the Northern and Northwestern Boundary between the United States and Great Britain. Washington, D.C.: Gales & Seaton, 18 March 1828. Oblong folio (409 x 508 mm). Letterpress title-page, one leaf of commissioner’s text, 8 lithographed maps with partial hand-coloring (one folding). (Chipping, staining and creasing with a few tears.) Disbound (stabholes in left margins). Rare set of maps denoting the boundaries between the United States and Great Britain in the Great Lakes region after the War of 1812 according to the 6th and 7th articles of the Treaty of Ghent. Each map is “shaded on the British side with red, and on the American side with blue” with information about the commissioners and surveyors (Decision of the Commissioners). “Neither the series nor individual maps is recorded in Phillips or Karpinski. The only copy located by the Union Catalog is in the U. S. State Department Library. This folio edition is not to be confused with the octavo edition that consists only of text” (Streeter sale 1080). $1,500 - 2,500 307 No Lot
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308 [ARABIAN NIGHTS] -- LANE, Edward William (1801-1876), translator. The Thousand and One Nights, commonly called, in England, The Arabian Nights’ Entertainments. A New Translation from the Arabic, with Copious Notes. London: Charles Knight and Co., 1839-1841. 3 volumes, 8vo (247 x 152 mm). Wood engraved title-page, numerous wood engravings. (Occasional light browning.) 20th-century half brown morocco gilt, spine in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands, gilt-lettered in 2, the rest giltdecorated, stamp-signed by Bayntun (slight sunning or minor wear). FIRST EDITION with several hundred wood engravings by British wood engraver and illustrator William Harvey. $400 - 600 309 BALZAC, Honore de (1799-1850). Etudes de moeurs au XIXe siecle.... Paris: Madame Chales-Bechet, 1834. One volume only (of 12, Vol. V comprising Part I of the second series) 8vo (217 x 128 mm). Engraved plates with hand-coloring, several with remarqués. (Some minor spotting to a few leaves. 20th-century crushed levant gilt, edges gilt and uncut, black calf doublures gilt, stamp-signed and dated by G. Mercier de Son Pére, 1913 (some slight rubbing to joints or spine); original wrappers bound in. Provenance: Lowther family (bookplate numbered 63934); Raymond Claude-Lafontaine (gilt stamp on doublure). FIRST COLLECTED EDITION. The present single volume, the first volume in the second series, Scènes de la vie de province, includes the first publication of Eugenie Grandet, widely considered to be Balzac’s first great novel. Etudes de moeurs au XIXe siecle was published in 12 volumes comprising three series each in 4 volumes: Scènes de la vie privée, Scènes de la vie de province, and Scènes de la vie parisienne. THE LOWTHER FAMILY COPY.
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[With:] BEYLE, Marie Henri (“Stendhal”) (1783-1842). De l’amour. Paris: Librairie Universelle, de P. Mongie, 1822. One volume only (of 2, lacking volume II), 12mo (153 x 89 mm). Half-title. 20th-century morocco gilt, sides with central gilt arabesque, spine in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands, 2 with red morocco lettering-pieces gilt, the rest gilt-decorated, edges gilt, turn-ins gilt, stamp-signed by R. Petit. Provenance: Lowther family (bookplate on pastedown, hand-numbered 61396). FIRST EDITION. “Ouvrage fort recherche: son “titre” en est une raison, qui, sans dominer les autres est un fait. Un livre hardi et froidement realiste qui fit sensation a l’epoque” (Carteret II, 346). THE LOWTHER FAMILY COPY. $1,000 - 1,500 310 BARTOLI, Pietro Santi (ca 1635-1700). Columna cochlis M. Aurelio Antonino Augusto dicata.... Rome: Domenico de Rossi, 1704-1708. Oblong folio (350 x 465 mm). Engraved title-page, engraved dedication leaf, engraved section title “Stylobates columnae Antoninae,” 79 engraved plates (of 80, lacking plate 2), numbered 1-77 and I-III. (Some minor soiling, some minor marginal worming.) Contemporary sprinkled calf, edges stained red (rebacked preserving original spine). Second edition of this depiction of the Antonine Column in Rome, erected between AD 172 and 196 to commemorate the victories of Marcus Aurelius. WITH THE RARE EXTRA PLATES labeled I-III and including the section title, not called for in the Berlin Katalog. Berlin Kat 3623; Cicognara 3605.
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311 [BIBLE, in English]. The New Testament of Jesus Christ Faithfully Translated into English. Antwerp: Daniel Vervliet, 1600. 4to. Title printed within woodcut border, woodcut head- and tail-pieces, numerous woodcut initials. Contemporary calf, sides with gilt emblem of the Society of Jesus, edges gauffered and gilt, with a note in the binder’s hand on the paste-down (worn, rebacked); quarter morocco slipcase. Provenance: William J. Connery (bookplate). Second edition. roperty from a Private Collection, Chicago, Illinois $800 - 1,200
312 [BIBLE – ETHIOPIC] – Bible, in Ethiopic. [Ethiopia]: [ca 18th-or-19th Century?]. 8vo (141 x 128 mm). Manuscript in red and black on ruled parchment in 2 hands (and possibly others), 135 leaves, 5 leaves inserted at front (122 x 83 mm). (Lacks endleaves, lacking a leaf from quire 15 or 16, with tears or holes, stained.) Bound in blind-stamped leather over wooden boards, (covers detaching, worn); with leather saddle bag carrying case. [With:] A metalwork Latin cross pendant (110 x 67 x 11 mm). Property from the Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, California, Sold to Support the Care of Collections and the William Holden Fund for Acquisitions Gift of the William Holden Estate $500 - 700
313 [BIBLE, in German -- PRINTED LEAF]. Single leaf, from a Koberger Bible, ca 1483. Folio. Single leaf, ff. 508, containing the opening of Romans, comprising verses I, II and a portion of III. From a glossed Bible, with one 7-line initial in red with floral decoration, one 4-line initial in green with floral decoration, two 3-line initials in red and green, capital strokes in red, and underlinings in green. [With]: [BIBLE, in English]. The Holy Bible as Printed by Robert Aitken... New York: Arno Press, 1968. 2 volumes, 8vo. Original green leather binding gilt. Facsimile of the Aitken Bible (published in 1782), the “American Bible Society Edition.” $200 - 300
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314 [BOOK OF HOURS]. A Decorated Prayer Book. (France: Second half of the 17th century or later). 11 x 9 inches (267 x 235 mm). 15 unnumbered leaves (f. 1-12 vellum; f. 13-15 paper; f. 16-17 missing). Single column, about 11 lines per page, in neat hand. Decoration unfinished on ff. 2r, 4v – 9r, 11v- 12v. (Quire 1 [f. 1-6] detached, some discoloring and warping.) Near contemporary leather and paper binding, coat of arms is affixed to upper cover depicting a knight’s helmet above a green painted shield, presenting a rooster resting atop a castle, flanked by two lions and three fleur-di-lies painted in gold-yellow on a red field (Spine perished, overall wear). A unique manuscript which appears to have been created some time reigns of either Louis XIII [1601-1643] or Louis XIV [1638-1715] of France. The special deference paid to 3 Counter-Reformation saints [The St. Fidelis of Sigmaringen [1577-1622], St. Felix on Cantalice [1515-1587], and St. Joseph of Leonessa [1556-1612]] helps place the prayer book somewhere in the 17th or very early 18th century and calls to mind the religious and political chaos which plagued Europe’s long 17th century. The manuscript’s repeated attempts to link Bourbon supremacy with the legendary rule of St. Louis IX [1214-1270], also reflect this uncertainty. While the book’s decoration shares some similarities with Baroque ornamentation, and the style of its script matches Getty Ms. 11a, another decorated book attributed to Louis XIV, this manuscript is distinctively more rugged. Meaning is its unlikely this book was executed for someone in the immediate orbit of the royal court. Complete contents and information available on request. $1,000 - 1,500
315 [BOOK OF HOURS]. A group of 20 leaves from medieval and renaissance manuscripts and printed books, including 5 or more from Otto Ege’s Fifty Original Leaves from Medieval Manuscripts. Western Europe: XII-XVI Century [compiled Cleveland, c.1950] and Original Leaves from Famous Bibles: Nine Centuries, 1121-1935 A.D [Compiled Cleveland, c.1950]. Various sizes, including: Fifty Leaves from Medieval Manuscripts. Leaf 18. A leaf from a Breviary. (France, Ca. 1260). Latin. Vellum, 5 ¾ x 4 ½ in (146 x 114 mm). -- Original Leaves from Famous Bibles: Nine Centuries 1121-1935. Leaf 4. A leaf from a Paris Manuscript Bible with 4-line decorated initial. (Paris, ca.1310). Latin. Vellum, 7 ¼ x 5 1/8 in (18.4 x 13 mm). -- An illuminated leaf with miniature and initials from a Book of Hours with a miniature depicting the Annunciation. (France, ca 1450). Latin. Vellum, 4 ¾ x 3 3/8 in (121 x 86 mm). -- SCHEDEL, Hartmann. Liber Chronicarum. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 1493. German. 17 x 11 ¾ inches (432 x 298 mm). 4 leaves with 32 wood block portraits and cityscapes, including a large double-page print of the city of Bamberg (ff. 174v -175r.) -- And 16 more. Each approximately 17 x 11 ¾ inches (432 x 298 mm) or smaller. Complete list available upon request. $5,000 - 7,000
316 [BOOK OF HOURS]. HARDOUYN, Gilles and Germain (Paris, ca. 1500). A group of 5 printed leaves from a French Book of Hours, likely executed in the workshop of Gilles and Germain Hardouyn (Active ca. 1491-1541). Latin. Together 5 leaves on vellum, 3 of which matted and framed together (unexamined out of frame). Framed dimensions 508 x 305 mm. Leaves each approximately 203 x 127 mm or smaller. Comprising: The Annunciation to the Virgin -- The Virgin Kneeling with a Host of Saints -- The Visitation of the Blessed Virgin -- The Annunciation to the Shepherds -- The Crucifixion. Each with several illuminated initials, and occasionally with other scenes. Complete information about text and initials available on request. $1,000 - 1,500
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317 [BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS]. A group of 22 books about books and bookcollecting in the 19th- and 20th-century, including:
318 [BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS]. A group of 19 works by Lawrence Clark Powell (1906-2001), many signed, including:
Book Collecting. Edited by Richard Booth. Florence, AL: House of Collectibles, 1976. 4to. Original publisher’s cloth, dust jacket. -- WOOLF, Leonard (18801969). Letters of Leonard Wolf. Edited by Frederic Spotts. San Diego, New York, and London: Harcourt, Brace, and Jovanovich, 1989. 8vo. Original publisher’s cloth-backed boards, dust jacket. First edition. -- BASBANES, Nicholas (b. 1943). A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1995. 8vo. Original publisher’s cloth-backed boards, dust jacket. First edition. -BASBANES. Among the Gently Mad. New York: Henry Holt and Company. 8vo. Original publisher’s binding, dust jacket. First edition. -- SALISBURY, Laney and Aly Sujo. Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art. New York: The Penguin Press, 2009. 8vo. Publisher’s original binding, dust jacket. -- MAYS, Andrea E. The Millionaire and the Bard: Henry Folger’s Obsessive Hunt for Shakespeare’s First Folio. New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, New Delhi: Simon & Schuster, 2015. Original publisher’s cloth-backed boards, dust jacket. First edition. -- And 18 others. Together 22 works in 22 volumes, all in original publisher’s bindings, condition generally fine. Complete list available upon request. From the Private Collection of Richard Cady
Philosopher Pickett: The Life Story of the Eccentric Pamphleteer Who Became the West’s First Political Reformer. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1942. 8vo. Original publisher’s red cloth. -- HANNA, Phil Townsend (1896-1957). Libros Californianos, or Five Feet of California. Revised and enlarged by Lawrence Clark Powell. Los Angeles: Zeitlin & Clark Powell, 1958. Small 8vo. Original publisher’s yellow boards and red titleplate. -- Fortune & Friendship: An Autobiography by Lawrence Clark Powell. New York and London: R.R. Bowker Company, 1968. 8vo. Original publisher’s stamped red cloth. -- W.W. Robinson, 1891-1972. Eulogy spoken by Lawrence Clark Powell. Los Angeles: Zamorano and Roxburghe Clubs, 1974. Folio. Original publisher’s white boards. -- Arizona: A Bicentennial History. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. and Nashville: American Association for State and Local History, 1976. 8vo. Original publisher’s grey cloth, dust jacket. SIGNED by Lawrence Clark Powell. -- Eucalyptus Fair. Tuscon, AZ: Books West Southwest, 1992. 8vo. Original publisher’s green cloth, dust jacket. LIMITED EDITION, one of 50 copies SIGNED by Lawrence Clark Powell. -- And 13 others. Together 19 works in 19 volumes, all in original publisher’s bindings, condition generally fine. Complete list available upon request. From the Private Collection of Richard Cady
$300 - 400
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319 [BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS - REFERENCE]. A group of 13 bibliographies and reference books, including:
320 [BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS]. A group of 14 works about the history of book collecting and art, including:
CASE, Arthur E. (1894-1946). A Bibliography of English Poetical Miscellanies: 1521-1759. Oxford: Oxford University Press for the Bibliographical Society, 1935. 8vo. Original cloth backed boards. --- MAYO, Robert D. (19101998). The English Novel in the Magazines: 1740-1815. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press and London: Oxford University Press, 1962. 8vo. Original publisher’s blue cloth, dustjacket. -- DARTON, F.J. Harvey (18781936). Children’s Books in England. New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1970. 8vo. Includes introduction by Kathleen Lines. Original publisher’s green cloth, dust jacket. Dust jacket clipped. Second Edition, 4th reprint. -- FOXON, David F. (B. 1923). English Verse 1701-1750: A Catalogue of Separately Printed Poems…. London and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1975. 2 volumes. 4to. Edges colored purple. Original publisher’s brown cloth, dust jacket, slipcase. -- And 9 others. Together 13 works in 17 volumes, all in original publisher’s bindings, condition generally fine. Complete list available upon request. From the Private Collection of Richard Cady
ALTICK, Richard D. (1915-2008). The English Common Reader. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1957. 8vo. Original publisher’s green cloth, dust jacket. -- BANISTER, Manly (1914-1986). Book Binding as a Handcraft. New York: 1981. Large 8vo. Numerous photographs and illustrations by the author. Original publisher’s cloth-backed brown boards, dust jacket. Tipped in: The Art and Craft of Bookbinding pamphlet by Bill Anthony (1926-1989), and Guild of Bookworkers: 1906-1981, 75th Anniversary Exhibition pamphlet. Chicago: The Newberry Library, January 18 – February 18, 1982. -- SOMMER, Frederick (1905-1999). The Art of Frederick Sommer: Photography, Drawing, Collage. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2005. 4to. Numerous reproductions of Sommer’s work. Original publisher’s burgundy cloth, dust jacket. -- PETTEGREE, Andrew (b. 1957). The Book in the Renaissance. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2010. 8vo. Original publisher’s green cloth, dust jacket. -- KEENAN, James P. The Art of Bookplate. New York: Barnes & Noble, 2003. Square 8vo. Numerous illustrations. Original publisher’s black boards, dust jacket. -- And 9 others. Together, 14 works in 14 volumes, all in original publisher’s bindings, condition generally fine. Complete list available upon request. From the Private Collection of Richard Cady
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321 BOUCHOT, Henri (1849-1906). La Miniature Française, 1750-1825. Paris: Goupil & Cie, 1907. 4to (321 x 252 mm). Two title-pages lettered in red and black with printer’s device, numerous engraved plates and illustrations (some printed in sepia, some hand-colored, some Pochoir), lettered tissue guards, numerous in-text engravings. (Some offsetting or minor toning.) 20th-century red crushed levant gilt, spine in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands, gilt-lettered in one, the rest gilt-decorated, top edge gilt, others uncut, board edges and turn-ins gilt, floral silk doublures, marbled endsheets (joints starting, some rubbing); brown cloth slipcase (defective). LIMITED EDITION, number 162 of 200 copies recreating Bouchot’s miniatures.
322 BUTLER, Joseph (1692-1752). The Analogy of Religion Natural and Revealed, to the Constitution and Course of Nature. London: for James, John and Paul Knapton, 1736. 4to (262 x 204 mm). Half-title. (Short marginal tears to a few leaves.) Contemporary calf, spine gilt, tan morocco lettering-piece gilt (some light rubbing, 4-in. separation along upper hinge and spine). Provenance: Frank J. Hogan (1877-1944), American attorney and book collector (morocco booklabel). FIRST EDITION of Butler’s response to deist rejection of orthodox Christianity, which “remained for a century the chief buttress of Christian argument against unbelief” (Durant, The Age of Voltaire, 1965, p.125). THE FRANK J. HOGAN COPY. ESTC T67971; PMM 193. $300 - 400
Property from the Collection of Mr. Michael Pintauro $500 - 700
323 CAVENDISH, George (1500?-1562). The Life and Death of Cardinal Wolsey the Great Cardinal of England. Chipping Campden: Alcuin Press, 1930. 4to. Title printed in red and black. 20th century red morocco gilt, upper cover set with the central arms of Cardinal Wolsey, edges gilt (slight rubbing to extremities). LIMITED EDITION, number 25 of 25 copies bound in red morocco and not for sale of a total edition of 325 copies. $250 - 350
324 CHAGALL, Marc (1887-1985). The Lithographs of Chagall. Vol. I: Monte Carlo: André Sauret, 1960; Vol. II: Monte Carlo and Boston: André Sauret and Boston Book and Art Shop, Inc., 1963; Vol. III: Paris: André Sauret, 1969; Vol. III: Boston: Boston Book and Art Shop, Inc., 1969; Vols. IV, V and VI: New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1974, 1984, 1986. 6 volumes, 4to. Text in English, German or French corresponding with place of publication, 28 original lithographs (including dust jackets and frontispieces), numerous reproductions of Chagall’s lithographs. Original publisher’s cloth; original lithographed dust jackets (chipping to a few volumes, slight rubbing to spine ends); original glassines (chipping); original board slipcases for vols. III-IV. Provenance: Randy Barcelo (1946-1994), Cuban artist (embossed stamp). FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH of vols. I-IV; FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH of vol. III; FIRST AMERICAN EDITION of vols. V-VI. [With:] Duplicate copies of Volumes III and IV. $2,000 - 3,000 V I E W T H E C O M P L E T E C ATA L O G U E AT H I N D M A N A U C T I O N S . C O M 105
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325 AESOP (ca 620-560 B.C.). Aesopi Phrygis Fabulae Graece et Latine, cum aliis opusculis, quorum Index proxima refertur pagella. Tübingen: Ulrichus Morhardum, 1546. 8vo (151 x 95 mm). Title printed within woodcut border with hand-coloring, 17 woodcut decorative initials. (Abrasion with minor loss to border on title, some browning or staining.) Later half calf gilt, marbled boards, edges stained red (some overall wear). Provenance: Unidentified inscription on title-page; F. J. Pith? (early signature, annotations); unidentified stamp; Crosby Gaige (1883-1949) (bookplate). A rare 16th-century edition of Aesop’s Fables, printed in Greek and Latin, here printed with an index. Also included, are Homer, Ranarum & Murium Pugna (24pp. printed in Greek and Latin); Musaeus, Deero et Leandro (26pp. printed in Greek and Latin); Agapeto, Exposito Capitum Damonitoriorum.... (44pp. printed in Greek and Latin); Hipp. Ivsivrandum (4pp.); and 17pp. in Greek. From the collection of Broadway producer Crosby Gaige. Brunet II 99. [Bound with:] CLENARDUS, Nicolaus. Institutiones absolutissimae in Graecam linguam. Cologne: Martinus Gymnicus, 1546. Text in Greek and Latin. Copies of either work are exceedingly scarce on the market at auction. $600 – 800
326 AESOP (ca 620-560 B. C.). -- BEWICK, Thomas (1753-1828). The Fables of Aesop, and Others, with Designs on Wood. Newcastle: E. Walker for T. Bewick and Son, 1818. Demy 8vo (202 x 121 mm). Engraved frontispiece printed in red and black with Bewick’s engraved thumbprint and facsimile signature, engraved printer’s device on title-page, profusely illustrated with woodengravings by Bewick. (Some spotting, some toning.) 19th-century blue morocco gilt, edges gilt, (some chipping). Provenance: Mr. Jife (signature); R.W. Martin (bookplate, Longbenton, [Northumberland]). FIRST EDITION, one of 1,000 copies printed, variant A with “Auld Clouty” wood-engraving at bottom of page XVI, and with last line in page 248 reading “road of honour and honesty.” Engraver Thomas Bewick is credited for reviving wood-engraving during the 18th-century and illustrated several editions of Aesop’s Fables throughout his career. He worked on the present work in 1812 before it was published in 1818. This present work is part of Bewick’s third edition of Aesop’s fables, and highlight’s his pioneering method of “white-line” engraving (Uglow, p. xiii). Roscoe 45c; Uglow, Nature’s Engraver: A Life of Thomas Bewick, 2006. $300 - 400
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327 [AESOP (ca 620-560 B. C.).] – A group of 17 works in 19 volumes of Aesop’s fables, comprising: Aesopi Fabula. N.p.: N.p., [ca 1670]. Modern polished calf gilt. – NORTHCOTE, James. One Hundred Fables, Original and Selected. London: Geo. Lawford, 1829, 1833. 2 volumes. Publisher’s red blind-stamped cloth gilt. -- JAMES, Thomas, Rev. Aesop’s Fables: A New Version, Chiefly from Original Sources. London: John Murray, 1848. 12mo. 20th-century green crushed levant gilt, stamp-signed by ZAEHNSDORF. -- BALDWIN, Edward. The Book of Fables. Selections from Aesop, and Other Authors. New York: Robert B. Collins, 1856. Publisher’s brown blind-stamped cloth gilt. – [Fables d’Esope] Contes et Fables, De Mr. Le Noble, Avec Le Sens Moral. Brussels: Simon T’Serstevens, 1707. Contemporary sprinkled calf gilt. -- And 13 others. Together, 17 works in 19 volumes, 8vo (except where noted), illustrated, condition generally good, complete list available upon request. $400 - 600
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328 [AESOP (ca 620-560 B. C.).] – A group of 19 works relating to Aesop’s Fables, including: LEONARD, William Ellery (1876-1944). Aesop and Hyssop. Chicago, The Open Court Publishing Co., 1912. 8vo. 158 pages. Publisher’s olive decorated -- Aesop’s Fables. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, nd. Large 8vo. 128 pages. Numerous colored prints by Edwin Noble. Original cloth, printed label on upper cover. -- Aesop’s Fables. Saxonville, MA: Picture Book Studio, 1989. Oblong 8vo. 26 pages. Original cloth-backed boards, dust jacket. -- The Fables of Aesop. London, New York, & Toronto: Hodder & Stoughton, n.d. (1909). Large 4to. 23 colored plates and pictorial endpapers illustrated by Edward J. Detmold . Publisher’s tan gilt-decorated cloth. -- And 15 others. Together, 19 works in 19 volumes, various 4to and 8vo sizes, various editions, condition generally good. Complete list available upon request. $300 - 400 328 | part lot
329 [AESOP (ca 620-560 B. C.).] A group of 22 works by or relating to Aesop, including: HERFORD, Oliver (1863-1935). The Herford Aesop: Fifty Tables in Verse. Boston: LeRoy Philips Publishers, and Ginn and Company, 1921. 12 mo. 90 pages. Numerous illustrations by the author. Original, red publisher’s cloth, original dustjacket. Spine on dust jacket discoloring. Provenance: William Edgar Fisher (bookplate). -- Aesop’s Fables. London, Bombay, Sydney: George G. Harrap & Co., 1927. Large 8vo. 136 pages. 8 color plates and numerous other illustrations by Nora Fry (1897-1985). Original pictorial boards, original dust jacket. Provenance: Molly (Early ownership inscription, “To Molly from Auntie and Uncle at Cambridge.” -- Aesop’s Fables. New York: Viking Press, 1933. 8vo. 86 pages. Numerous wood engravings by Boris Artzybasheff (1899-1965). Red publisher’s cloth. Slightly chipping to title plate on spine. -- GATTI, Anne. Aesop’s Fables. San Diego, New York, London: Gulliver Books, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992. Square 8vo. 80 pages. Many color illustrations by Safaya Salter. Original boards, unclipped dustjacket. -- And 18 more. -- Together 22 works in 22 volumes. -- Condition generally good. -- Complete list available upon request.
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330 BELLAMY, Daniel, the Elder (1687-?). Ethic Amusements. BELLAMY, Daniel, the Younger (ca 1715-1788), reviser. London: W. Faden, 1768. 4to (267 x 212 mm). 2 engraved section titles, 44 engraved plates, 27 vignettes and 8 other engravings, many by G. Bickham. (Lacking one preliminary leaf, a few short tears not affecting text, some spotting, staining, or offsetting.) 18th-century half calf, marbled boards gilt, edges marbled, (rebacked, some light wear). Provenance: C.A. (long inscription in an early hand bound in, some early annotations). FIRST EDITION of Bellamy the Elder’s work, which was revised by his son, Bellamy the Younger, who was a Chaplain of Petersham and Kew in Surry. This work contains five parts, the first of which is “The Comforts of Philosophy: in five books, from the Latin of Boetius” (p. v). The inscription notes: “Botius’ [sic] Consolations of Philosophy was a favorite book with King James I when a prisoner in England and confined at Windsor Castle. It was a popular work among the writers of that day, and which had been translated by Chaucer. Indeed it would be difficult to find, out of the sacred writings, a more admirable text book for meditation under misfortune. It is the legacy of a noble and enduring spirit, fortified by sorrow and suffering, bequeathing to all its successors in calamity, the stores of eloquent but simple reasoning, by which it was enabled to bear up against the various ills of life, it is a talisman which the unfortunate may treasure in his bosom, or like the good King James, lay it nightly on his pillow. C.A.” $300 - 400
331 COMENIUS, John Amos (“Johann Amos KOMENSKY” or “Ján Amos”) (1592-1670). Orbis Sensualium Pictus: Hoc est Omnium Principalium in Mundo Rerum, et in Vita Actionum, Pictura & Nomenclatura. Charles Hoole, translator. Alexander Anderson, illustrator. New York: T. & J. Swords, 1810. 12mo (173 x 104 mm). Numerous woodcuts. (Some marginal chipping, some creasing or browning.) Original publisher’s sheep gilt, edges sprinkled brown (rubbing, joints starting, a few wormholes to spine); quarter calf gilt folding case. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION OF THE FIRST CHILDREN’S PICTURE BOOK, ENGRAVINGS BY THE FIRST WOOD-ENGRAVER IN THE UNITED STATES. “The World Around Us in Pictures was the first European schoolbook based on the principle of what is now called visual education. Each page consists of a woodcut of some subject or object and, underneath, a bilingual Latin-German text in two columns, which in simple terms explains the picture, with numerical references to the items shown… it is the combination of text and picture which has made Orbis Pictus a milestone in the history of education” (PMM). Comenius was an important figure in the field of education. He wrote many books on education, many were translated into a variety of languages, such as the present work, which was translated from the original Latin and High Dutch by Charles Hoole in 1659 from the twelfth London edition with corrections and enlarged. “His universal importance rests on the pedagogic theories and writings of educations from the ages of four to twenty-four (Didactica, written 1632, published 1657)” (PMM). Anderson was a self-taught wood-engraver and produced the first wood-engravings in the United States. Muir, English Children’s Books, pp. 217-218; PMM 139. Not in Rosenbach or Welch. $300 - 400 332 [CHILDRENS’S BOOKS]. FONTAINE, Jean de La (1621-1695). Contes et nouvelles en vers. Amsterdam: N.p., 1764. 2 volumes, 8vo (184 x 113). Engraved portrait frontispiece, engraved printer’s devices on title-pages, 71 (of 80?) engraved plates after Eisen, 4 large engraved vignettes most after Choffard, 60 culs-de-lampe, a few engraved head-and-tail pieces. (Dampstained in lower margin, some soiling or browning, a few tiny holes touching text.) Later calf gilt (rebacked preserving old red morocco backstrip gilt, rubbed, hinges starting). Provenance: unidentified stamps and annotations from a previous owner. Presumed pirated edition after ‘Fermiers-généraux’ edition of 1762. Printed only 2 years after the decadent limited edition, this edition is profusely illustrated by engravings largely after Charles Eisen. Eisen was best known for his book illustrations and vignettes, and “the most remarkable of these are the designs for the ‘Fermiers-généraux’ edition of the ‘Contes’ of La Fontaine’” though he also served as the painter and draftsman to the Kind and the drawing-master to Madame de Pompadour (Bryan, Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, p. 459). Stories and Tales in Verse was originally published by Fontaine from 1668 to 1694. He transformed fables from a variety of sources into French free verse. While the present edition was produced for an adult audience, Fontaine’s fables were quickly adapted to the educational curricula for children. See Cohen-de-Ricci 571. Property from the Collection of Norman and Florence Blitch $500 - 700 108 F I N E B O O K S & M A N U S C R I P T S I N C L U D I N G A M E R I C A N A
333 [FONTAINE, Jean de La (1621-1695)] – A group of 5 works in 9 volumes by Fontaine for children: MARSH, Edward, translator. The Fables of Jean de La Fontaine. Stephen GOODEN, illustrator. London & New York: William Heinemann Ltd. & Random House, 1931. 2 volumes. Original vellum gilt; slipcases. LIMITED FIRST EDITION, number 446 of 525. SIGNED BY MARSH AND BY GOODEN. –Fables of La Fontaine… Translated from the French by Elizur Wright, Jr. Boston, New York, & London: Elizur Wright, Jr. & Tappan and Dennet & William A. Colman & Edward Moxon. 2 volumes in one. Publisher’s brown cloth blindstamped gilt. FIRST EDITION. -- Fables Choisies, Mises en Vers par Monsieur de La Fontaine, avec un Nouveua Commentaire par M. Coste. Paris: N.p., 1759. 2 volumes. Contemporary polished calf gilt; slipcase. –Fables mises en vers par J. de La Fontaine. Dijon and Paris: Bossange, Masson, and Besson, 1793. 4 volumes. Later half roan, paste-paper covered boards. -- Together, 5 works in 9 volumes, 8vo (except where noted), illustrated, condition generally good, complete list available upon request. $300 – 400
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334 [FONTAINE, Jean de la (1621-1695)]. A group of 10 editions of Fontaine’s Fables or about Fontaine, including: Fables de la Fontaine. N.p., n.d. (ca. 1920). Small Folio. Numerous color illustrations by Andre Helle. Original cloth-backed pictorial boards. -- Fables de la Fontaine. France: Editions Albin Michel, 1947. Large 8vo. Numerous illustrations by Armand Rapeno. Original paper-backed boards, original dust jacket. -- The Fables of La Fontaine. New York: The New Press, 1997. Square 8vo. Numerous illustrations by Marc Chagall (1887-1985). Original boards, pictorial slip case. Light chipping to extremities of spine and slipcase. -- And 7 others. Together 10 works in 10 volumes, various 4to and 8vo sizes, various editions, condition generally fine. Complete list available upon request. $400 - 600
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336 GRIMM, Jacob Ludwig Karl (1785-1863) and Wilhelm Carl (1786-1859) (“The Brothers Grimm”). Hansel and Gretel and Other Stories. Kay Rasmus Nielsen, illustrator. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1925. 4to. Color printed frontispiece and 11 colored printed plates tipped in; title-page and numerous pictorial initials printed in red and black, 10 full-page woodcuts. (Short marginal tears to a few leaves.) Publisher’s original half red cloth gilt top edge gilt, others uncut (some minor chipping ); original glassine; original black cloth slipcase (some minor staining). Provenance: Jasmine Britton, gifted to; Helen Ramsay Fifield (bookplate laid in). LIMITED EDITION, No. 319 of 600 copies SIGNED BY NIELSEN. Danish illustrator Nielsen moved to California in 1939 and contributed illustrations to Fantasia in one of his many collaborations with Disney over a 4-year period. Despite his talent, Nielsen did not have financial success. His last artworks were murals for local churches and schools around Los Angeles, most notably the “The First Spring” mural at Central Junior High School. With a pamphlet by Nielsen, “The First Spring Mural for Central Junior High School,” laid in. $800 - 1,200
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337 HOLBEIN, Hans (1497-1543). The Dances of Death, through the various stages of Human Life: wherein the capriciousness of that tyrant is exhibited in Forty-Six Copper plates. London: W. Smith and Co., for John Scott & Thomas Ostell, 1803. 4to (179 x 144 mm). Additional engraved title for “Le Triomphe de la Mort,” dated 1786, frontispiece portrait, 46 engravings by David Deuchar after Holbein. Contemporary blue morocco gilt, covers with floral border, anchor tools in corners, upper cover with central ornament of Garter badge and collar surmounted by a crown and with anchor underneath, flanked by the initials “G. R.III.”, smooth spine in 6 compartments (hinges starting, some light wear). Provenance: George III (1738-1820), King of Great Britain and Ireland (binding); his third son, William Henry, Duke of Clarence (1765-1837), later King William IV (bookplate); his eldest illegitimate son George Augustus Frederick FitzClarence (1794-1842), English peer (his bookplates as Col. FitzClarence and the Earl of Munster); John Gerard Heckscher (1837-1908), American book collector (bookplates). A COPY FROM KING GEORGE III’S LIBRARY. In terms of his contribution to the arts, he is best remembered for his book collecting; his library was available to scholars and became the foundation of a new national library (see Ayling, George the Third, 1972, p. 195-198). George Augustus FitzClarence served in the Peninsular War, was wounded twice, and escaped capture by the French. He became brevet lieutenant-colonel in 1819 and served as A.D.C. to his father, King William IV, from 1830 to 1837, becoming Earl of Munster in June 1831. His Journal of a Route across India, through Egypt, to England, illustrated with hand-colored plates, was published in 1819. Hans Holbein’s series of woodcuts was first published in 1536. In this edition, 46 Dance of Death plates are within separately engraved borders in four different designs. 30 of the woodcuts are copied from Wenceslaus Hollar’s 17thcentury designs. Brunet III:258; Oppermann 1154 (“very rare edition”). $1,000 – 2,000
338 MILNE, Alan Alexander (“A.A. Milne”) (1882-1956). The House at Pooh Corner. Ernest Howard SHEPARD (1879-1976), illustrator. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1928. 8vo (190 x 122 mm). Numerous illustrations. Original publisher’s red cloth gilt, smooth spine gilt-lettered, gilt-decorated front cover, top edge gilt, pink pictorial endpapers (very slight rubbing to head and foot of spine and corners); glassine. FIRST EDITION of the second work in the Winnie-the-Pooh series, in which the character Tigger is introduced. $300 - 400
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339 POTTER, Beatrix (1866-1943). Beatrix Potter’s The Tale of Peter Rabbit a New Printing from the Original Line-blocks Made for the First Private Edition of 1901. Maurice Sendak, illustrator. Kingston, New York: Battledore Ltd., 1995. 35 parts, 12mo. 34 line-block plates printed in dark brown. Original publisher’s green printed wrappers, each print laid in individual limp gray printed wrappers; original blue-gray cloth folding case, green painted lettering-piece gilt to spine, gray and brown stamped illustration to front cover (some very minor rubbing). Provenance: acquired from Justin G. Schiller, Ltd. (correspondence laid in). FIRST EDITION, LIMITED EDITION, No. 111 of 250 copies, SIGNED BY SENDAK AND IAIN BAIN. Sendak introduced the present work, which contains “restrikes of all the surviving linecut zinc plates (34 of a total 42) that were used for printing the original 1901 private edition of The Tale of Peter Rabbit” (Introduction, p. 5). Iain Bain was a Scottish historian of printing and served as the president of both the Thomas Bewick Society, and of the Printing Historical Society.
340 POTTER, Helen Beatrix (“Beatrix Potter”) (1866-1943). The Tale of the Pie and the Patty-Pan. London and New York by Frederick Warne & Co., [undated but ca 1930]. 16mo. Color illustrated frontispiece, 9 color illustrations, numerous woodcut illustrations. (Some very light toning.) All in original publisher’s tan boards, color pictorial label to front cover, stamp-lettered in dark green to front cover and spine, color pictorial endsheets (some light rubbing). Provenance: R. Teasdale (signature, struck). Later edition of one of Beatrix Potter’s classic children’s books, SIGNED BY POTTER. The present work is a reprint of beloved children’s book illustrator and author, Potter’s 7th book of “The 23 Tales,” original published in 1905. While the precise dating of this edition is made difficult by the number of editions and reprints of Potter’s works, this present book must be after 1930 when the title was changed from “The Pie and the Patty-Pan” to “The Tale of the Pie and the Patty-Pan.” $300 - 400
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340A [POTTER, Beatrix (1866-1943)] – A group of 3 books written and illustrated by Beatrix POTTER, comprising: The Tale of Pigling Bland. 1913. Maroon boards. Provenance: Mildred Greenhill (bookplate); H. Bradley Martin (bookplate). --The Tale of Mr. Tod. 1912. Gray boards. Provenance: Mildred Greenhill (bookplate); gift inscription “To Kenneth From Geoffrey.” --The Tailor of Gloucester. Green boards. New York: Frederick Warne & Co., 1903. Glassine. Later American edition. -- Together, 3 works in 3 volumes, all published in London and New York by Frederick Warne & Co. (except where noted), all 16mo, FIRST EDITIONS (except where noted), color illustrated frontispieces, numerous colored plates, numerous woodcut illustrations. (Some occasional staining, some light toning.) All in original publisher’s colored boards, color pictorial labels to front cover, lettered in green or white. THE MILDRED GREENHILL COPIES of two of the works, one additionally from THE COLLECTION OF H. BRADLEY MARTIN. $400 - 600
341 RACKAM, Arthur (1867-1939), illustrator. – A group of works 6 early or FIRST TRADE EDITIONS in 6 volumes, illustrated by Rackham, comprising: Aesop’s Fables. London and New York: William Heinemann, Double Day Page & Co., 1912. 4to. “Arthur Rackham Exhibition” leaf laid in. Riall p. 111; Latimore & Haskell pp. 38-39. – Arthur Rackham’s Book of Pictures. New York: The Century Co., 1913. 4to (262 x 198 mm). 19th-century blue calf, red morocco lettering-pieces gilt. – Charles, DICKENS. A Christmas Carol. London and Philadelphia: William Heinemann, J.B. Lippincott Co., 1915. Stamped in black; original pictorial dust jacket printed in red and green. Latimore & Haskell, p.45.-- SWINBURNE, Algernon Charles. The Springtide of Life Poems of Childhood. London: William Heinemann, 1918. – STEPHENS, James. Irish Fairy Tales. London: MacMillan & Co. Ltd., 1920. – Mother Goose The Old Nursery Rhymes. London: William Heinemann, [N.d.]. 19th-century blue polished calf gilt, red morocco lettering-pieces gilt, edges gilt, stamp-signed ZAEHNSDORF. -- Together, 6 works in 6 volumes, 8vo (except where noted), color printed frontispieces, illustrated title-pages, numerous color printed plates (many tipped in), numerous illustrations, all in original publisher’s green cloth gilt (except where noted), condition generally good. $400 - 600 V I E W T H E C O M P L E T E C ATA L O G U E AT H I N D M A N A U C T I O N S . C O M 111
342 [REYNARD THE FOX]. A group of 17 editions of Reynard the Fox, including: The Most Delectable History of Reynard the Fox, edited by Joseph Jacobs (18541916). London and New York: MacMillian and Co., 1895. 8vo. Numerous illustrations by W. Frank Calderon. Original green cloth, titles gilt, edges gilt. -- THOMS, William J. (1803-1885). The History of Reynard the Fox. London: The Percy Society, 1844. 12mo. Quarter morocco, top edge gilt. -- ELLIS, F.S. (1830-1901). The History of Reynard the Fox. London: David Nutt, 1894. Square 8vo. Frontispiece, title, decorations and by Walter Crane. Quarter morocco gilt. -- Reynard the Fox, A Poem in Twelve Cantos. Translated by E.W. Holloway. Dresden and Leipzig, A.H. Payne and London: W. French, 1852. 4to. Engraved frontispiece, titles, and plates after designs by H. Leutemann. Red publisher’s cloth gilt. -- And 13 others. Together, 17 works in 17 volumes, various 4to and 8vo sizes, various editions, condition generally fine. Complete list available upon request. $400 - 600
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344 [SENDAK, Maurice (1928-2012)]. A group of 15 works illustrated by Maurice Sendak, including: HOFFMANN, E.T.A. (1776-1822). Nutcracker. London: The Bodley Head, 1984. Square 4to. Original blue cloth. Pictorial dust jacket. SIGNED by MAURICE SENDAK. -- MACDONALD, George (1824-1905). The Golden Key. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1976. 8vo. Original blue cloth with silver bird design. Unclipped dust jacket. Second edition. -- SAWYER, Ruth (1880-1970). Maggie Rose: Her Birthday Christmas. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1952. 8vo. Original pink cloth. Unclipped pink dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. -- SENDAK, Maurice (1928-2012). Higglety Pigglety Pop! Or There Must be More to Life. New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1967. Square 8vo. Original olive cloth with illustration affixed to cover. Dust jacket clipped. FIRST EDITION. -- SENDAK. Very Far Away. New York: Harper Collins, 1957. 8vo. Illustrated cloth boards. Dust jacket. Later edition. -- And 10 others. Together 15 works in 15 volumes, various 4to and 8vo sizes, various editions, condition generally fine. Complete list available upon request. $300 - 400 344 | part lot
345 [SENDAK, Maurice (1928-2012)]. A group of 16 works illustrated by Maurice Sendak, including: SENDAK, Maurice. We are All in the Dumps Together. New York: Harper Collins, 1993. Oblong 8vo. Original tan paper boards. Unclipped pictorial dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY MAURICE SENDAK. -- YORINKS, Arthur. (b.1953). The Miami Giant. New York: Michael di Capua and Harper Collins, 1995. 4to. Original boards and unclipped dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. -- MARSHALL, James (1942-1992). Swine Lake. New York: Michael di Capue and Harper Collins: 1999. Original cloth boards and unclipped dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. -- MARGOLIS, Matthew. Some Swell Pup. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1976. 4to. Publisher’s brown-cloth, unclipped pictorial dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. -- And 14 others. Together 16 works in 18 volumes, various 4to and 8vo sizes, various editions, condition generally fine. Complete list available upon request. 345 | part lot
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346 [SENDAK, Maurice (1928-2012)]. A group of 11 works illustrated by Maurice Sendak, including: JARRELL, Randall (1914-1965). The Animal Family. New York: Pantheon, 1965. 12mo. Blue publisher’s cloth with silver lettering, original, unclipped dustjacket. -- OPIE, Iona and Peter (Editors). I Saw Esau: The Shoolchild’s Pocket Book. Cambridge, MA and London: Candlewick Press and Walker Books, 1992. 8vo. Original boards, unclipped dustjacket. -- SEGAL, Lore. (B.1928). The Juniper Tree and Other Tales from Grimm. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1973. 2 volumes. 12mo. Gilt-stamped brown cloth, original unclipped dustjacket, orange publishers slipcase. FIRST EDITION. -- STOCKTON, Frank R. (1834-1902). The Griffin and the Minor Canon. New York, Chicago, and San Francisco: 1963. 8vo. Quarter grey cloth over boards, dust jacket clipped. FIRST EDITION. -- And 9 others. Together 11 works in 13 volumes, various 4to and 8vo sizes, various editions, condition generally fine. Complete list available upon request.
347 THURBER, James Grover (1894-1961). Many Moons. Louis Slobodkin, Illustrator. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1943. 4to. Numerous color illustrations by Slobodkin. Original publisher’s red cloth, black-lettered on front cover (very minor rubbing to spine ends and corners); in original pictorial dust jacket. FIRST EDITION of the 1944 Caldecott Medal winner, the first picture book written by Thurber, and Slobodkin’s fourth illustrated children’s books. The story was later adapted into an opera by Celius Dougherty, a play by Charlotte Chorpenning, part of the animated film Alice of Wonderland in Paris (1966), and an audio version read by Peter Ustinov accompanied by music by Edgar Summerlin. $300 - 400
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348 TRUSLER, John (1735-1820). Proverbs Exemplified, and Illustrated by Pictures from Real Life. Teaching Morality and a Knowledge of the World. John Bewick, illustrator. London: 1 May 1790. 12mo (161 x 85 mm). Wood-engraved vignette on title-page, 50 wood-engravings by John Bewick. (Some occasional spotting, some creasing.) Contemporary half calf, marbled boards, smooth spine gilt, brown morocco lettering-piece gilt (some chipping, covers rubbed, front cover nearly free). FIRST EDITION of these moralizing tales for children by Reverend John Trusler, who published on a wide variety of subjects, including etiquette, medicine, and gardening. In Proverbs Exemplified, Trusler explains well-known proverbs by providing commentary on illustrations by wood-engraver, John Bewick, who was the brother of fellow woodengraver Thomas Bewick. Thomas Bewick, often cited for reviving woodengraving during the 18th-century, is best known for his work in The History of British Birds. $400 - 600
349 [VAN ALLSBURG, Chris (b. 1949)] – A group of 11 works in 11 volumes illustrated and most written by VAN ALLSBURG, comprising: The Polar Express. 1985. FIRST EDITION, later issue with Caldecott medal on cover. SIGNED BY VAN ALLSBURG. –The Z Was Zapped: A Play in Twenty-Six Acts. 1987. SIGNED BY VAN ALLSBURG. –Two Bad Ants. 1988. BOOKPLATE SIGNED BY VAN ALLSBURG laid in. –The Garden of Abdul Gasazi. 1979. –Just a Dream. 1990. –The Wretched Stone. 1991 –The Widow’s Broom. 1992. “A Special Preview of The Widow’s Broom” Laid in. --Probuditi! 2006. [With:] A group of 3 works in 3 volumes written by Mark HELPRIN (b. 1947), illustrated by VAN ALLSBURG, and published in [New York] by Ariel-Viking, comprising: Swan Lake. 1989. SIGNED BY VAN ALLSBURG. –A City in Winter. [1996]. –The Veil of Snows. [1997]. Together, 11 works in 11 volumes, all published in Boston by Houghton Mifflin Company (except where noted), 4to and 8vo, illustrated, all in Publisher’s cloth stamped in silver, gold, black, bronze and/or blindstamped, all except one volume in ORIGINAL DUST JACKETS, most FIRST EDITIONS, condition generally fine. $300 - 400 V I E W T H E C O M P L E T E C ATA L O G U E AT H I N D M A N A U C T I O N S . C O M 113
350 White, Elwyn Brooks (“E.B. White”) (1899-1985). Charlotte’s Web. Garth Williams, illustrator. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1952. 8vo. Numerous illustrations. Original publisher’s cloth stamped in blue and black, decorated blue endsheets (some light rubbing); original publisher’s dust jacket (some light chipping, overall browning). FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE with “I-B” on the copyright page in FIRST STATE DUST JACKET with $2.50 price on front flap and four blurbs for Stuart Little on the rear panel. White’s children’s literary classic won the John Newbery Medal in 1953, the Horn Book Fanfare in 1952, the Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal in 1970, and the Massachusetts Children’s Book Award in 1984. $300 - 400
351 White, Elwyn Brooks (“E.B. White”) (1899-1985). Stuart Little. Garth Williams, illustrator. New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1945. 8vo. Illustrated frontispiece, printer’s device on title-page, numerous illustrations. (Very light occasional toning.) Original publisher’s pictorial tan buckram stamped in green and pink, mint decorated endsheets (some light fading); original dust jacket (overall toning, minor chipping, short tear to front panel affecting “s” in “Williams”). FIRST EDITION, later issue, with code-numbers “10-5” and letters “I-U” on verso of title. In FIRST STATE DUST JACKET with flap priced $2.00. White’s first children’s book, which received the Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal in 1970. [With:] WHITE. The Trumpet of the Swan. Edward Frascino, illustrator. New York, Evanston, and London: Harper & Row, 1970. 8vo. Illustrated. Publisher’s blue cloth stamped in silver and gold, (some light fading to extremities); original pictorial dust jacket (corners of front flap clipped, ruststain from paperclip on lower panel, a few wrinkles to top edges, some minor chipping). FIRST EDITION. $200 - 300
352 [CHILDREN’S BOOKS]. A group of approximately 20 children’s books and fables printed by a variety of Fine Presses, comprising: ARNOLD, Thomas James (ca.1804 – 1877). Reynard the Fox after the German Version of Goethe. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1887. 4to. 60 illustrations after the designs of Wilhelm von Kaulbach and 12 engravings by Joseph Wolf. Half morocco, titles gilt. LIMITED EDITION, number 355 of 400 deluxe copies printed, SIGNED by Roberts Bros. -- Winter, Milo (1888-1956). Billy Popgun. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1912. 4to. 8 color plates by the author. Vellum-backed boards, titles gilt, top edge gilt. Very light rubbing to the corners. Stated first edition. LIMITED EDITION, number 11 of 350 copies, of which only 300 were for sale. -- Aesop’s Fables. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1933. 4to. Numerous illustrations after original, Florentine woodcuts. Original vellum-backed boards, slipcase, top edge gilt. LIMITED EDITION, number 825 of 1500 copies signed by the designer, Bruce Rogers. -- Mother Goose: Twenty Nursery Rhymes. San Francisco: Grabhorn-Hoyem: 1970. 4to. 20 illustrations by Philip van Aver. Original tan linen, printed paper labels to upper cover and spine. LIMITED EDITION, one of 300 unnumbered copies. Grabhorn-Hoyem Bibliography 40. -- And 16 more. -- Together 19 works in 20 volumes. -- Condition generally good. -- Complete list available upon request. $400 - 600 352 | part lot 114 F I N E B O O K S & M A N U S C R I P T S I N C L U D I N G A M E R I C A N A
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353 [CHILDREN’S BOOKS] -- A group of 18 chapbooks in 23 volumes, all likely Rosenbach remainders, comprising: SHERWOOD, Mary Martha. The History of Little Henry and his Bearer. Catskill: Croswell & Son for Nathan Elliot, 1818. With another copy. Original tan printed papers (chipped). Third American Edition. Rosenbach 571. -- G., J. A Small Help, Offered to Heads of Families, for Instructing Children and Servants. Morris-Town: J. Mann for P.A. Johnson, 1814. Original wrappers (minor chipping). Rosenbach 489. -- London Cries for Children: With Twenty Elegant Wood Cuts. Philadelphia: John Bouvier for Johnson & Warner, 1810. Original printed stiffened wrappers (spine defective, some staining). Rosenbach 421; Welch 249.12. -- The Tragi-Comic History of the Burial of Cock Robin. Philadelphia: S. Probasco for Benjamin Warner, 1821. Plain stiff wrappers (spine defective, chipped, frontispiece and final plate laid-down to inside covers). Rosenbach 616. – SENDAK, Maurice. Ten Little Rabbits A Counting Book with Mino the Magician. Philadelphia: Philip H. & A.S.W. Rosenbach Foundation, 1970. Original blue marbled wrappers with mounted pictorial paper label to front cover. Blue wrappers preceded the red (Hanrahan). Hanrahan A76. – WOOD, Samuel. The Young Child’s A,B,C; or First Book. New York: Samuel Wood & Sons, 1806. With another copy, 24mo. Original printed pictorial wrappers (some creasing). FIRST EDITION and Later Edition. -- COBB, Lyman. Cobb’s Toys. Second Series, Nos. 3-6. Lewistown, PA: Hickok & Stark, 1835. 4 volumes. Contemporary plain colored paper wrappers (some chipping, some creasing). Rosenbach 794. -- And 11 others. Together, 18 works in 23 volumes, all 12mo except where noted, condition generally good. Provenance for the lot: John F. Fleming (1910-1987). $500 - 700
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354 [CHILDREN’S BOOKS -- ANTIQUARIAN] -- A group of 19 works of books for children’s books, including: IRVING, Washington. The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon. New York and London: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, The Knickerbocker Press, 1895. 2 volumes. Publisher’s blue cloth gilt, white cloth onlay; original maroon cloth dust jacket gilt. – JERROLD, Walter, editor. The Big Book of Fables. New York: Dodge Publishing Company, [1912]. 4to. Publisher’s red pictorial cloth gilt. – GAY, John. Fables by John Gay, With a Life of the Author and embellished with Seventy Plates. London: John Stockdale, 1793. 2 works in one volume. Early 19th-century calf gilt, green morocco lettering-piece gilt. – CARRYL, Guy Wetmore. Fables for the Frivolous (With Apologies to La Fontaine). New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1898. Publisher’s maroon pictorial cloth gilt, stamped in green. – DRUMMOND, William. The Satires of Persius Translated: With Notes. London: W. Bulmer and Co. for J. Wright, 1799. Contemporary brown diced russia gilt. – BOISARD, M. Fables. Paris: Pissot, 1779. 2 volumes. Half blue crushed levant gilt, marbled boards. Provenance: Henry W. Poor (bookplate). -- And 13 others. Together, 19 works in 21 volumes, 8vo (except where noted), illustrated, various 4to and 8vo sizes, various editions, condition generally fine, complete list available upon request. $400 - 600 354 | part lot
355 [CHILDREN’S BOOKS] -- A group of 20 children’s books, comprising: LOBEL, Arnold (1933-1987). Fables. New York: Harper and Row, 1980. 4to. Color illustrations by the author. Blue publishers cloth, dust jacket clipped. Stated first edition. SIGNED BY ARNOLD LOBEL. -- Song of Robin Hood. Selected and edited by Anne Malcolmson. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1947. 4to. Designed and illustrated by Virgina Lee Burton. Original black cloth with silver and red decoration, dust jacket clipped. -- Contes de Perrault. Paris: Librairie Hachette, 1927. 4to. Illustrations by Felix Lorioux. Original cloth backed boards. -- KEIZOBURO, Tejima. Ho-Limlim: A Rabbit Tale from Japan. New York: Philomel Books, 1990. 4to. Original pictorial boards; dust jacket. -- And 16 others. Together, 20 works in 20 volumes, various 4to and 8vo sizes, various editions, condition generally fine. Complete list available upon request. $300 - 400
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356 [CHILDREN’S BOOKS]. A group of 22 children’s books, including: KRECKER, Ada May. Fuzzy Four-Footed Folks. Chicago, JamiesonHiggins Co., 1902. 8vo. Illustrations by Mary M. Reid. Decorated, blue publishers’ cloth. -- COLLODI, Carlo (1826-1890). The Adventures of Pinocchio. Translated by Carol Della Chiesa. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1926. 4to. Color Illustrations in color by Attilio Mussino. Publisher’s decorative navy-blue cloth stamped in green, red, white, black, and light blue. Third edition. -- MOFFAT, Alfred (1863-1950). Little Songs of Long Ago. Philadelphia: David Mckay and London: London, 1911. Oblong 4to. Illustrations H. Willebeek Le Mair. Tan publishers’ cloth gilt; dust jacket. -- And 19 others. Together, 22 works in 22 volumes, various 4to and 8vo sizes, various editions, condition generally fine. Complete list available upon request. 356 | part lot
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357 [CHILDREN’S BOOKS] -- A group of 33 children’s books, including: PAPASHVILY, George and Helen (1898-1978). Yes and No Stories. A Book of Georgian Folk Tales. New York and London: 1946. 8vo. Illustrations by Simon Lissim. Dark blue publishers cloth, dust jacket clipped. FIRST EDITION. -- THURBER, James (1894-1961). The 13 Clocks. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1950. 8vo. Illustrations by Mark Simon. Cloth backed boards, original dust jacket. -- THURBER. The Great Quillow. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1944. Square 8vo. Illustrations by Doris Lee. Yellow publishers’ cloth, title card affixed to cover. -- BRILL, Edith. The Golden Bird. New York: Franklin and Watts, 1970. 8vo. Illustrations by Jan Pienkowski. Yellow publishers’ cloth. -- And 29 others. Together, 33 works in 33 volumes, various 4to and 8vo sizes, various editions, condition generally fine. Complete list available upon request. $300 - 400
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358 [CHILDREN’S BOOKS]. A group of 28 children’s books, including: WILLIAMS, Margery (1881-1944). The Velveteen Rabbit. New York, Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1922. Small 4vo. 7 color lithograph plates by William Nicholson. Decorated publisher’s boards, dust jacket. An early edition. -- SIGNLETON, Esther (18651930). The Wildflower Fairy Book. Toronto: The Musson Book Co., 1905. 8vo. Color plates and decorations by Charles Buckles Falls. Publishers cloth, gilt title, top edge gilt. -- BAILEY, Carolyn Sherwin (1875-1961). Miss Hickory. New York: The Junior Literary Guild and The Viking Press, 1946. 8vo. Lithographs by Ruth Gannett. Red publisher’s cloth, original dust jacket. PRESENTATION COPY, “To Helen Fulley, my treasured friend. Carolyn Sherwin Bailey and Miss H.” -- And 25 others. Together, 28 works in 28 volumes, various 4to and 8vo sizes, various editions, condition generally fine. Complete list available upon request. $300 - 400
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359 CHOPIN, Kate (1850-1904). The Awakening. Chicago and New York: Herbert S. Stone & Company, 1899. 8vo. Title-page printed in black and red. (Some minor spotting or staining.) Publisher’s pictorial green cloth uncut (darkened and soiled, separation along lower joint). FIRST EDITION of Chopin’s novel, whose frank and sexual themes drew condemnation from contemporary reviewers. In light of these reviews, the publisher declined subsequent printings of the work, which is now regarded not only as a major early feminist work, but also a precursor to American modernist literature. RARE: according to American Book Prices Current, only 3 copies of Chopin’s novel have sold at auction in the last 45 years. BAL 3246. $800 - 1,200
360 CHURCHILL, Winston S. (1874-1965). An Address by Winston S. Churchill Prime Minister of Great Britain Delivered before members of the Congress of the United States – 19 May 1943. Stamford, Connecticut: Overbrook Press, September 1943. 4to (263 x 190 mm). Title printed in red and black. (Very slight toning to edges). Publisher’s original black boards, red gilt-lettered label on front cover (some minor scuffing, endleaves toned). FIRST EDITION, one of 600 copies, of Churchill’s second speech before U.S. Congress urging cooperation between Great Britain and the U.S. Cohen A181.4; Woods A93(b). Property from the Estate of Professor Ethan D. Alyea, Jr., Bloomington, Indiana $800 - 1,200
361 CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorne (“Mark “Twain”) (1835-1910). Autograph letter signed (“Mark”), to Kate Riggs. New York, 17 Jan., [1908]. 1 page, 12mo, bifolium, on 21 Fifth Ave stationery, some very slight toning to edges and corners. An invitation: “The next Doe-Luncheon will happen at the above address on Tuesday, Feb. 11 at 1p.m. please don’t fail to come.” After several years of living in New York, Twain was well-known for entertaining his male friends at stag luncheons. In 1908, his friend, writer Kate Douglas Wiggin, chastised him for only hosting his male friends. She “argued that ‘brilliance is not limited to the stags--give a doe-luncheon & you will see.’ ‘And she was right,’ Clemens conceded. The first ‘doe-luncheon’ on 14 January 1908 was a great success. ‘I was the only lady of my sex present,’ Clemens reported modestly” (see “Mark Twain at Play,” The Bancroft Library, 2010). Twain organized a second doe-lunch for 11 February 1908, and in addition to Riggs, other attendees included a young Ethel Barrymore, and Frances Hodgson Burnett. $500 - 700
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362 COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834). The Poetical Works of S.T. Coleridge, Including the Dramas of Wallenstein, Remorse, and Zapolya. London: William Pickering, 1828. 3 volumes, 8vo (197 x 120 mm). Woodcut devices on title-pages. (Some minor spotting to a few leaves.) Contemporary half vellum, marbled boards, smooth spine gilt, red morocco lettering-pieces gilt (spotting and soiling). Provenance: John Swaine (prize inscription, Manchester, June 1829). FIRST EDITION of the collected works of one of most significant figures in English poetry and published during his lifetime. Keynes 60. Property from the Estate of Professor Ethan D. Alyea, Jr., Bloomington, Indiana $400 - 600
363 [COOKERY]. Manuscript cookbook and home remedy guide, 18th century. 4to (225 x 175 mm). 120 pp. in at least two hands, comprising approximately 500 recipes and several home remedies. (A few tiny wormholes, some minor staining.) Contemporary sprinkled English panelled calf (upper joint separated, some overall wear). Provenance: George Folliott (bookplate); unintelligible signatures (1964). Recipes include oyster pie, gold hash, buttered crab, roast lobster, pickled trout, oyster loaves, French leg of mutton, olive florindine, spring garden beef, Westfalia ham, pickled goose, quince cakes, various wines and numerous cheesecakes. Remedies are included “For the Itch,” “A Drink for Rickits,” “For Worms,” “For Ahsma,” and “A Cure for the Bite of a Mad Dog.” $500 - 700
364 CRANE, Walter (1845-1915). The First of May, a Fairy Masque. London: Henry Sotheran, 1881. Oblong folio (605 x 433 mm). 57 engraved plates [including half-title, title, dedication, frontispiece, and colophon] printed on India proof paper and mounted after illustrations and calligraphy by Crane (some minor spotting to a few mounts). Loose as issued in original brown cloth portfolio gilt, printed pictorial label on upper cover (lacking ties, some minor soiling). LIMITED EDITION, number 88 of 200 copies SIGNED BY CRANE. $400 - 600
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365 [CRIME]. The Confession & Dying Words of Samuel Frost, Who is to be Executed this Day, October 31, 1793, for the Horrid Crime of Murder. Worcester, MA: [Isaiah Thomas] Mr. Thomas’s Printingoffice [sic], [1793]. Broadside (visible area 458 x 388 mm). Woodcut of a public hanging top left, text printed in four columns within black borders. (Some small losses affecting borders or letters repaired verso along old folds, some minor staining.) Matted and framed (unexamined out of frame). RARE BROADSIDE PRINTED BY ISAIAH THOMAS In Samuel Frost’s confession, he readily admits to killing his father (a crime for which he was acquitted), and admits to killing Captain Allen (the crime for which he will be executed). About his early life, he says: “My mother is dead; I always regarded her, and ever thought my father had no affection for her, and that he used her ill; this induced me to kill him, which deed I executed on the 23d of September, 1783;...My mother died when I was about fourteen years old, and I always supposed her death was occasioned by the bad treatment she received from my father.” The broadside also includes others’ accounts of Frost. Evans records three versions of this rare broadside, two of wihch include a poem after Frost’s life story (not present in this issue). Evans 22521; Sabin 105351. From the Private Collection of Richard Cady $800 - 1,200
366 [CRIME]. The Life, Trial, and Execution of R. Blakesley For the Murder of Mr. James Burdon. Seven Dials: Paul & Co., [1841]. Broadside (visible area 482 x 355 mm). large woodcut of Newgate scaffold and surrouding area with a large crowd, smaller woodcuts of Blakesley, and interior and exterior views of Mr. Burdon’s house, text printed within 5 columns. Matted and framed (unexamined out of frame). The text and poem cover the particulars of Mr. Blakesley’s execution by hanging, his attempted escape (hitting his jailer with a candlestick), the testimony of two city policemen, a hairdresser, and his own father, and the jury’s guilty ruling. An unusually large and profusely illustrated 19th-century crime broadside. From the Private Collection of Richard Cady $200 - 300
367 CUMMINGS, Edward Estlin (“e e cummings”) (1894-1962). W. New York: Horace Liveright Inc., 1931. Folio (307 x 180 mm). Woodblock print on title-page. Original publisher’s quarter cloth, boards, smooth spine lettered in silver, all edges uncut (minor rubbing); original slipcase, front cover lettered in silver (some chipping). LIMITED FIRST EDITION, number 41 of 95 copies, SIGNED BY CUMMINGS. Cumming’s third major collection of poetry with typography by S. A. Jacobs, embodying his experimentation with typography and design. Property from the Estate of Professor Ethan D. Alyea, Jr., Bloomington, Indiana $500 - 700
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368 DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870). Autograph letter signed (“CD”), to [Thomas] Mitton (“My Dear Mitton”). Devonshire Terrace, 18 April 1844. 1 1/4 pages, 8vo, on a bifolium. Folds, minor mounting remnants along hinge fold on verso. Discussing financial matters in advance of his pivotal travels to Italy and Europe: “I am sorry to say that plan won’t do. Because, although Coutts’s were so prompt and polite last time, still they did say ‘that it wasn’t the kind of note’ &c &c - as I wrote you at the time. Indeed, I remember to have often heard that they avoid discounting: not having that kind of insurers[?]. I wish to Heaven you could think of any other way. I will come down today, between 2 and 3. I have not seen [Thomas James] Thomson yet. He wrote that he was coming. Likewise that his house had not bedrooms enough for all[?] - and talking wildly about Houses near Belgrave Square!! Faithfully Always / CD.” A fine letter to his close friend and solicitor, Thomas Mitton. Dickens wrote Mitton the previous day: “I am very much and pressingly in want of a hundred pounds until June. Though the time is short, my father’s debts, two quarters income tax &c, coming all at once, drive me, sailing so near the wind by not drawing any profits from C[hapman] and H[all], into a most [un]comfortable corner. Ca[n you oblige] me with this, or devise any [means of doing so?…” (Letters, 17 April 1844, pp. 107-08). This letter might conversely relate to Mitton’s purchase of a share in the legal firm of Smithson and Dunn [later Smithson, Dunn and Mitton]. Money for the purchase was borrowed from his family, while Dickens stood as security for the debt. Not in The Pilgrim Edition of The Letters of Charles Dickens, Edited by Kathleen Tillotson, Oxford, 1977. $1,000 - 1,500
369 DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870). The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. London: Chapman and Hall, 1837. 8vo (212 x 125 mm). Half-title; engraved frontispiece, engraved title (disbound, marginal chipping); 41 engraved plates by R. Seymour and H. K. Browne (“Phiz”). EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED by the addition of ca 22 plates. (Some minor spotting to a few leaves.) 20th-century maroon morocco gilt, stamp-signed by Riviere & Son (some slight rubbing to joints, minor wear to spine ends). Provenance: Sold Halle Bros. Co. (envelope and bookseller notes laid-in). FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM. An EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED copy of Dickens’s first novel with all of Smith’s first issue points present except signature E is present on p.25. Gimbel A15; Grolier English78; Smith I:3. WITH AN AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED BY DICKENS TIPPED IN. [Tipped in:] Autograph letter signed (“Charles Dickens”), to Miss Loretta Huffam. Kent, 8 February 1870. 2 pages, 8vo, on Gad’s Hill Place Stationery, with original envelope. In part: “I was more amazed than displeased. I beg to assure you, by finding that your friends had used my name without my knowledge. I received a letter from...Hurt & Rockwell of Bond Street, informing me that they had had the pleasure of voting for ‘my case.’...They then gave me your name. Not having the faintest idea that you were a candidate...I mentioned this in a general way to my sister.” $2,000 - 3,000
370 DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870). The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. London: Chapman and Hall, 1837. 8vo (212 x 125 mm). Half-title; engraved frontispiece, engraved title; 41 engraved plates by R. Seymour and H. K. Browne (“Phiz”). (Some minor spotting to a few leaves.) 20th-century red morocco gilt, stampsigned by Morrell (some slight rubbing to joints, minor wear to spine ends). FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, text with most of the first issue points listed in Smith, this copy without signature E on p.25, but with “inde-licate” corrected on p.341. Gimbel A15; Grolier English78; Smith I:3. $600 - 800
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371 DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870). Oliver Twist; or, the Parish Boy’s Progress. By “Boz”. London: Richard Bentley, 1838.
372 DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870). Oliver Twist; or, the Parish Boy’s Progress. By “Boz”. London: Richard Bentley, 1838.
3 volumes, 8vo (200 x 117 mm). Half-titles to vols. I&II with advertisements verso, publisher’s advertisements vols.I&III. Etched frontispiece to each volume and 21 plates after George Cruikshank. (Some very minor offsetting.) 19th-century polished tan calf gilt, maroon and brown letteringpieces gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut, stamp-signed by Zaehnsdorf (a few small scuffs); original covers bound in.
3 volumes, 8vo (192 x 118 mm). Half-titles to vols. I&II with advertisements verso, publisher’s advertisements vols.I&III. Etched frontispiece to each volume and 21 plates after George Cruikshank. (Some minor offsetting or spotting.) 20th-century polished calf gilt, red and green morocco letteringpieces gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut, stamp-signed by Zaehnsdorf (some minor rubbing).
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE OF THE FIRST ENGLISH NOVEL TO FEATURE A YOUNG CHILD AS A PROTAGONIST, with the “Fireside” plate at p.312 in vol. III, and authorship ascribed to “Boz” on each title-page. Dickens opposed the “Fireside” plate, and also objected to having “Boz” on the title-page; the plate was replaced with the “Church” plate, and his name was added to the title-page in later issues. Eckel, p.59-60; Gimbel A27; Smith I:4. A FINE COPY.
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE OF THE FIRST ENGLISH NOVEL TO FEATURE A YOUNG CHILD AS A PROTAGONIST, with “Boz” on the title-page and the “Fireside” plate. When Bentley decided to publish Olive or Twist in book format before completing its completion in Bentley›s Miscellany magazine, Cruikshank had to rush to complete the illustrated plates. Dickens didn›t review the plates until the eve of publication, and he objected to the “Fireside” plate (present here) which depicted Oliver at Rose Maylie’s knee with Harry and Mrs. Maylie gathered around the living room fire. Cruikshank revised the illustration, using the same title (“Rose Maylie and Oliver”), to show Rose and Oliver standing before Oliver’s mother’s church memorial. The altered plate was used in later issues of Oliver Twist in book form, as well as in the conclusion of the periodical run. Eckel, p.59-60; Gimbel A27; Smith I:4.
$1,000 - 1,500
$1,000 - 1,500
373 DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870). Sketches by Boz...New Edition, Complete. London: Chapman and Hall, 1839.
374 DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870). Sketches by Boz...New Edition, Complete. London: Chapman and Hall, 1837-1839.
8vo (208 x 131 mm). Engraved frontispiece, engraved vignette title, 38 engraved plates by Cruikshank. 20th-century maroon straight-grained morocco gilt, edges gilt (a few minor scuffs lower cover).
8vo (210 x 125 mm). Engraved frontispiece, engraved vignette title, 38 engraved plates by Cruikshank. (A few small spots or stains.) 20th-century red crushed levant gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut, stamp-signed by Riviere & Son; original wrapper to part X bound in; red cloth folding case.
FIRST OCTAVO ONE-VOLUME EDITION of The Complete Sketches by Boz. Chapman and Hall acquired the copyright to both series of Sketches by Boz, which they issued in parts with 13 additional illustrations. In May 1839, the series was published in the present one-volume edition (see Smith I:2, p. 16). Gimbel A7. $400 - 600
FIRST EDITION, BOUND FROM THE ORIGINAL PARTS, WITH AN AUTOGRAPH NOTE SIGNED BY DICKENS TIPPED IN: Autograph note signed (“Charles Dickens”), to John Hardwick. Devonshire Terrace, 1 December 1850. 1 page, 8vo, on a bifolium. “I shall be delighted and book myself accordingly.” John Hardwick (1790–1875) was presiding magistrate at Great Marlborough Street Magistrate’s Court in Soho. $1,000 - 1,500
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375 DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870). The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. London: Chapman & Hall, 1839. 8vo (219 x 138mm). (Lacking half-title; frontispiece, title, two text leaves (pp. 199-202) and final plate detached and a bit frayed at edges, some browning to plates.) Late 19thcentury half morocco gilt over marbled boards (minor wear to extremities, some rubbing to boards, rear hinge starting). FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, this copy with copy frontispiece in 1st state (with imprint), first four plates in later state without imprint, page 123 with “sister” (2d state) & page 160 with “letter” (2d state). Smith I:5; Eckel, p. 64. [With:] DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870). The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit. London: Chapman & Hall, 1844. 8vo (219 x 138mm). Frontispiece, additional pictorial title and 38 engraved plates by Hablot K. Browne. (Lacking half-title, frontispiece detached and slightly shorter, engraved title and a few plates slighty shorter, some toning and spotting to plates, including frontispiece and pictorial title.) Late 19th-century half morocco gilt over marbled boards (minor wear to extremities, some rubbing to boards). FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, second issue, with the signpost reading £100 and the 14-line errata leaf after list of plates. Smith Vol. I:7; Hatton & Cleaver, pp. 185-224. Eckel, pp. 71-73. $400 - 600
376 DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870). Master Humphrey’s Clock. London: Chapman and Hall, 18401841. 3 volumes, 8vo (250 x 165 mm). Engraved frontispieces and numerous in-text illustrations by George Cattermole and Hablot K. Browne [‘Phiz’]. Later polished red calf gilt, brown and black morocco lettering-pieces gilt stamp-signed by Charles E. Lauriat (upper cover to vol.III nearly detached, a few joints starting, some rubbing or wear). FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, first appearing as a weekly serial from 4 April 1840 to 4 December 1841, including short stories and two novels, The Old Curiosity Shop and Barnaby Rudge. Gimbel A51; Smith I:6. Property from the Estate of Charles and Lorraine Janda, Hinsdale, Illinois $300 - 400
377 DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870). Master Humphrey’s Clock. London: Chapman and Hall, 1840-1841. 3 volumes, 8vo (246 x 162 mm). Engraved frontispieces and numerous in-text illustrations by George Cattermole and Hablot K. Browne (“Phiz”). 20th-century half green polished calf gilt, marbled boards, red morocco lettering-pieces gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut, stamp-signed by Sangorski and Sutcliffe (spines sunned, a few tiny scuffs); board slipcase. Provenance: Unidentified signature on title-page vol.I (faded and partially shaved). FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, first appearing as a weekly serial from 4 April 1840 to 4 December 1841, including short stories and two novels, The Old Curiosity Shop and Barnaby Rudge. Gimbel A51; Smith I:6. $400 - 600
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378 DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870). [Christmas Books]. A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas. London: Chapman & Hall, 1843. Half-title, 8 illustrations including frontispiece. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, second state, with title-page printed in red and blue and dated 1843, with green endpapers, and with the balance of the text uncorrected. Eckel, pp.110-115; Smith II:4. The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In. London: Bradbury and Evans for Chapman and Hall, 1845. Half-title, 1p. advertisement, 13 illustrations including frontispiece and vignette title. FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE of the vignette title-page. Eckel pp. 116-118; Smith II:5. The Cricket on the Hearth. A Fairy Tale of Home. London: Bradbury and Evans for the Author, 1846 [i.e. December 1845]. Half-title, 14 illustrations including frontispiece and vignette title, 2pp. advertisement (second state). FIRST EDITION. Eckel pp. 119-120; Smith II:6. The Battle of Life. A Love Story. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1846. Half-title, 13 illustrations including frontispiece and vignette title(variant 2). FIRST EDITION. Eckel, pp. 121-23; Smith II:8. The Haunted Man and The Ghost’s Bargain. A Fancy for Christmas-Time. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848. 2pp. advertisements, 17 illustrations. FIRST EDITION. Eckel, pp. 124-25; Smith II:9. Together, 5 volumes, 8vo. (Some browning or spotting.) Uniformly bound in 20th-century maroon crushed levant, covers with gilt mistletoe and holly motif, upper cover to The Christmas Carol with central gilt vignette of the Fezziwig›s Ball frontispiece, the rest with central gilt portrait of Dickens or mistletoe, edges gilt, turnins gilt, green or yellow watered silk doublures and endleaves; original green or yellow endleaves bound in; original cloth covers bound in. ALL FIRST EDITIONS. A FINE SET. $5,000 - 7,000 379 DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870). [Christmas Books]. A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas. London: Chapman & Hall, 1843. Second edition, first state, with titlepage printed in red and blue and dated 1843, with yellow endpapers, and with the balance of the text corrected (but without “Second Edition” on the title-page). Provenance: Sold at The Old Curiosity Shop (bookplate, description laid in). Eckel, pp.110-115; Smith II:4. The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In. London: Bradbury and Evans for Chapman and Hall, 1845. FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE. Eckel, pp.116-118; Smith II:5. The Cricket on the Hearth. A Fairy Tale of Home. London: Bradbury and Evans for the Author, 1846 [i.e. December 1845]. FIRST EDITION. Eckel, pp. 119-120; Smith II:6. The Battle of Life. A Love Story. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1846. FIRST EDITION. Vignette title-page Eckel variant 4. Eckel, pp. 121-23; Smith II:8. The Haunted Man and The Ghost’s Bargain. A Fancy for Christmas-Time. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848. FIRST EDITION. Eckel, pp. 124-25; Smith II:9. Together, 5 volumes, 8vo. (Some browning or spotting.) Original publisher’s cloth gilt (some light staining or wear, a few small repairs); all housed in red half morocco slipcase. Provenance for the lot: William Joseph Connery (bookplates). Property from a Private Collection, Chicago, Illinois $500 - 700
380 DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870). [Four Christmas Books]. The Chimes: A Goblin Story. London: Chapman & Hall, 1845 [1844]. 8vo (163 x 101mm). Half-title and 13 illustrations, including frontispiece and vignette title, by Daniel Maclise, Richard Doyle, John Leech and Clarkson Stanfield. FIRST EDITION, second state of the vignette title. Smith II:5. The Cricket on the Hearth. A Fairy Tale of Home. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1846 [1845]. Half-title and 14 illustrations, including frontispiece and vignette title, by Leech, Doyle, Stanfield, Maclise and Edwin Landseer; 2 pp. advertisements at rear (second state). FIRST EDITION. Smith II:6. The Battle of Life. A Love Story. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1846. Half-title, 13 illustrations, including frontispiece and vignette title, by Maclise, Doyle, Leech and Stanfield, fourth state of the vignette title, 2pp. advertisements at rear; one or two stray spots. FIRST EDITION, fourth state of vignette title. Smith II:8 The Haunted Man and the Ghost›s Bargain. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1848. 17 illustrations, including frontispiece and vignette title by Leech, Stanfield, Tenniel and Stone. FIRST EDITION. Smith II:9. Together, 4 volumes, 8vo. (Some occasional very slight marginal toning or spots.) Uniform late 19th-century half morocco gilt over marbled boards (minor wear to extremities, some rubbing to boards). $600 - 800 124 F I N E B O O K S & M A N U S C R I P T S I N C L U D I N G A M E R I C A N A
381 DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870). [Christmas Books]. A Christmas Carol. -- the Chimes: A Goblin Story. -- The Cricked on the Hearth. A Fairy Tale of Home. -- The Battle of Life. -- The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain. London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1902. 5 volumes, 12mo. Half-titles; titles printed in red and black; frontispieces and vignette titles. Original half calf, marbled boards, top edges gilt, others uncut (some minor scuffing). Scarce collected edition of Dickens’s Christmas classics. $300 - 400
382 DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870). Pictures from Italy. London: Bradbury & Evans for the author, 1846. 8vo (173 x 107 mm). Half-title; 4pp. publisher’s advertisements at end. Wood-engraved vignette title and three wood-engravings in text by Samuel Palmer. 20th century polished tan calf gilt, black morocco lettering-pieces gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut, stamp-signed by Riviere & Son (a few tiny scuffs); green cloth slipcase. FIRST EDITION. Dickens’s account was first published in The Daily News entitled “Traveling Sketches - Written on the Road”; he reproduced the work in book form as Pictures from Italy, retaining only two of the original twelve chapter titles, and incorporating a number of textual changes, as outlined in Smith. Eckel, p. 126; Smith II:7 $200 - 300
383 DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870). Dombey and Son. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1848. 8vo (219 x 138mm). Half-title, frontispiece, additional pictorial title and 38 engraved plates by Hablot K. Browne. (Some light mostly marginal toning to plates, text generally clean, upper fore-corner bumped slightly affecting c.30 pages at beginning.) Late 19thcentury half morocco gilt over marbled boards, with original printed front wrappers to each part bound in at rear (front cover detached, minor wear to spine ends and extremities, corners lightly bumped, some rubbing to boards). FIRST EDITION, bound from the original monthly parts, with most early issue points listed in Smith, including 2-line errata, first state vignette title, “Capatin” for “Captain” in last line on p. 324, “if” missing in line 9 on p. 426, no period at end of last line on p. 582. Smith I:8. $400 - 600
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384 DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870). The Personal History of David Copperfield. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1850. 8vo (208 x 130 mm). Half-title, engraved frontispiece, title and 38 plates after Hablot K. Browne (“Phiz”). (Some pale spotting or soiling.) 20th-century tan polished calf gilt, red and green morocco lettering-pieces gilt, edges gilt, stamp-signed by Morrell. FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM published on 14 November 1850, and considered Dickens’s most autobiographical novel. In his preface to the 1869 edition, Dickens writes: “Of all my books, I like this the best. It will be easily believed that I am a fond parent to every child of my fancy, and that no one can ever love that family as dearly as I love them. But, like many fond parents, I have in my heart of hearts a favourite child. And his name is David Copperfield.” Gimbel A122; Eckel, p.77; Smith I:9. $500 - 700
385 DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870). Little Dorrit. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1857. 8vo (218 x 139mm). Frontispiece, additional pictorial title and 38 engraved plates by Hablot K. Browne. (Some mostly marginal toning to plates, text generally clean, final two text leaves and plate detached.) Late 19th-century half morocco gilt over marbled boards, with original printed front wrappers to each part bound in at rear (minor wear to spine ends and extremities, some rubbing to boards). FIRST EDITION, bound from the original monthly parts, FIRST ISSUE, with “Rigaud” for “Blandois” on pages 469, 470, 472, and 473. Hatton & Cleaver 307-330; Eckel 82-85; Smith I:12. $400 - 600
386 DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870). The Mystery of Edwin Drood. London: Chapman and Hall, April-September 1870. 6 original parts (224 x 143 mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece by J.H. Baker from a photograph, engraved title after Luke Fildes, 12 woodengraved plates by Dalziel, C. Roberts and others after Fildes. (A few minor stains or spots.) Original blue-green pictorial wrappers (repairs to some spines, some minor mostly marginal chipping, soiling); green cloth folding-case. FIRST EDITION, IN ORIGINAL MONTHLY PARTS. The “Edwin Drood Advertiser” is present in each part, as well as all the inserted advertisements listed in Hatton and Cleaver except: Dr. Jongh’s ad in part I, the scarce “Cork Hat” ad in part II; p.1-2 of the Cassel ads in part III; 8pp. Chapman & Hall ad in part IV. Part IV with the additional 8pp. Chapman & Hall ads not found in all copies; part VI with the printed slip “Price Eighteenpence” pasted over the original price of “One Shilling”. Eckel pp. 96-98; Hatton and Cleaver pp. 373-384; Gimbel A154. $400 - 600
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387 DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870). A collection of works by or about Dickens, comprising: Pictures from Italy. London, 1846. First Edition. Hard Times. London, 1854. First Edition in Book form. The Uncommercial Traveller. London, 1861 [1860]. First Edition in Book form. Sketches by Boz. London, 1837. 2 volumes. Third edition. Sketches by Boz… Second Series. Complete in One Volume. London, 1837. American Notes. London, 1842. 2 volumes. Second edition. In Memoriam. Extract from The Cornhill Magazine, Vol. IX, No. 50, February, 1864. A Child’s History of England. London, 1854-59. 3 volumes. Later edition. [CASWALL, Edward]. Sketches of Young Ladies… By “Quiz.” London, 1838. Eighth edition. FOSTER, John. The Life of Charles Dickens. London, 1874-7374. 3 volumes. Later issues. Together 10 works in 16 volumes, various 8vo sizes. (Occasional minor marginal toning). Uniform late 19thcentury half morocco gilt over marbled boards (minor wear to extremities, some rubbing to boards, a few hinges starting). $400 - 600
388 DICKENS, Charles (1812 - 1870). A group of issues of the periodical Household Words, most in incomplete runs, comprising: Household Words. A Weekly Journal. London: Bradbury & Evans for Office, 1850. Vol. 1: Nos. 1-26, complete run from 30 March- 21 September 1850. – Household Words. A Weekly Journal. New York: George P. Putnam, ca 1850-1852. Vol 3: Nos. 64, 71. – Dickens’ Household Words: And Valuable Whispers. New York: Angell, Engel & Hewitt, Saturday, 6 November 1852. Vol. 6: Whole No. 131. – Dickens’ Household Words, and United States Weekly Register. New York: Billin and Brothers for McElrath & Barker, 1853. Vol. 7: Nos. 165-179 (except lacking Nos. 167, 173). – The Holly-Tree Inn: A New Christmas Story, By Charles Dickens. Being a Christmas Number of Household Words. New York: Dix & Edwards, Christmas 1855. Cover torn with minor loss to text. – Together, 43 issues, 8vo (245 x 162 mm), original printed wrappers as issued, all FRIST EDITION, all in good condition; all housed in cloth cover with tie. Gimbel E9-E20 & E113-E118. Property from the Estate of Professor Ethan D. Alyea, Jr., Bloomington, Indiana $400 - 600
389 DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870). The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. Buckhurst Hill, Essex: n.p., 1910. 19 volumes (including the index), 8vo (197 x 137 mm). EXTRAILLUSTRATED by the addition of over 1,000 engraved plates, original watercolors, and other illustrations bound in on stubs, many windowmounted. Contemporary half green morocco gilt, edges gilt (some light rubbing to extremities). AN UNUSUAL EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED SET, including numerous illustrations and engravings collected by John Coxall. Comprising a visual history of the Pickwick Papers, illustrated material includes examples from “36 Original Character Illustrations to ‘The Pickwick Papers’ Drawn in colours by ‘Kyd’” (parts 1 and 2), and various wrappers (some in facsimile), portraits, frontispieces, title-pages, various impressions of illustrations after Seymour and H. K. Brown, and several other views. $2,000 - 3,000
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390 DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge (“Lewis Carroll”) (1832-1898). The Game of Logic. London: Mac Millan and Co., 1886. 8vo. Wood engraved diagrammatic frontispiece, numerous diagrams in text; 2pp. publisher’s advertisements at end; complete with original printed envelope containing the separate card diagram (envelope torn with old tape repairs, flap of envelope detached, card with a few short tears and one crease); COMPLETE WITH 9 ORIGINAL COUNTERS, 5 gray and 4 pink (with two additional pink and one additional gray counter laid in). Original red cloth gilt, black coated endpapers (front endpaper disbound with minor chipping, a few gatherings or leaves disbound, separations to hinges); quarter morocco folding case. RARE SUPPRESSED FIRST EDITION, ONE OF 50 COPIES BOUND AT DODGSON’S REQUEST. Dodgson was not satisfied with the first issue, initially intended to be printed in an edition of 500 copies, so the issue was suppressed. In a letter to the publishers of 5 December 1886, Dodgson complains that Baxter used “old type, which obliged him to damp the paper so much that the letters print a little too thick ... and the crooked printing showed me that, to get the best results, it does not do to trust the local printers” (Lewis Carroll and the House of Macmillan, pp. 216-217). “A mystery edition which is rarer than would be expected” (Williams-Madan-Green-Crutch 193). [With:] CARROLL. The Game of Logic. London, 1887. With original printed envelope and separate card diagram (lacking counters). Second edition. $2,000 - 3,000
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391 DONLEAVY, James Patrick (1926-2017). The Ginger Man. New York: McDowell, Obolensky, 1958. 8vo. Printer’s device on title-page in red. Original publisher’s black cloth, gilt-lettered and blind-stamped (a few stains); original publisher’s pictorial dust-jacket (some light chipping, spine sunned); glassine. Provenance: Harry Walker, Jr. (presentation inscription). FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, revised issue. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY DONLEAVY: “For Harry Walker, Jr., with highest regards J.P. Donleavy.” First published in Paris in 1955, it was banned in the US and Ireland for obscenity. $300 - 400 392 [DON QUIXOTE, in English] -- CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, Miguel de (1547-1616). The Life & Exploits of Don Quixote, de la Mancha or The History and Adventures of the Renowned Don Quixote: From the Spanish of Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra by T. Smollett, M.D. to which is prefixed, some Account of the Author’s life. In Two volumes. Tobias Smollett, translator. London: J.F. Dove for J. Waller, 1818. 2 volumes, 12mo (126 x 63 mm). Engraved frontispiece, engraved title. (Very minor spotting.) Contemporary light green calf gilt, spine gilt, brown morocco lettering-pieces gilt, edges marbled (some chipping or rubbing, hinges starting). Provenance: Harry F. Marks (bookseller’s stamp); W. & G. Folye, Ltd. (bookseller’s ticket). Later edition of Smollett’s English translation of Don Quixote, first published in 1755, and remaining very popular. Smollett “endeavored to retain the spirit and ideas without servilely adhering to the literal expression of the original; from which, however, he has not so far deviated, as to destroy that formality of idiom so peculiar to the Spaniards, and so essential to the character of the work” (Translator’s Aim, p. xv). $400 - 600
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393 DORÉ, Gustave (1832-1883), illustrator -- FONTAINE, Jean de La (1621-1695). Fables de La Fontaine. Paris: L. Hachette et Cie, 1867. 2 volumes, folio (428 x 311 mm). Half-titles printed in red and black, engraved portrait frontispiece, borders and titles printed in red, 85 wood-engraved plates by Doré printed on chine paper and mounted, numerous engraved vignettes, and engraved head-and-tailpieces. (Some spotting, a few short tears not affecting plates or text.) Contemporary half morocco gilt, marbled boards, spines in 7 compartments with 6 raised bands gilt (some light wear). Provenance: Librarie Tulkens (ticket, Brussels, Belgium). Second edition, first issue, the “Edition De Luxe” in two volumes, including the first appearance of the engraved portrait frontispiece. The first edition of this work was issued serially in 58 parts starting 1866. As an artist prodigy, by the age of 15, Doré was employed as a caricaturist for Le journal pour rire. By the time he created the woodengravings for this present work, he had been working in the medium for over 2 decades. Lyons, Books: A Living History, 2011. Property from the Collection of Norman and Florence Blitch $300 - 400
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394 DOYLE, Arthur Conan, Sir (1859-1930). The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. London: George Newnes, 1892.
395 DOYLE, Arthur Conan, Sir (1859-1930). The Valley of Fear. New York: George H. Duran, 1914.
Small 4to. In-text illustrations by Sidney Paget. (Some spotting.) Original light-blue gilt-decorated pictorial cloth over bevelled boards, edges gilt (some soiling and rubbing, spine leaned, hinges reinforced).
8vo. Illustrations by Arthur I. Keller. Original red cloth gilt (tiny tear at foot of spine just touching publisher’s imprint); publisher’s pictorial dust jacket (some chipping, some creasing or minor soiling).
FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, FIRST ISSUE of the text, with the misprint Miss “Violent” Hunter for “Violet” in the final sentence of “The Copper Beeches” (p.317). The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, the first collection of Holmes stories to be published, was released shortly after the success of the series in the Strand Magazine.
FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, which, according to Green and Gibson, preceded the English edition by more than 3 months. VERY RARE IN THE ORIGINAL DUST JACKET, gilt-lettered and with a color illustration on the front panel, with a blurb on the back panel and publisher’s advertisements on the flaps. Green and Gibson A39(c). Property from the Collection of Mr. Gregory Thomas
[With:] DOYLE. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. London: George Newnes, 1894.
$4,000 - 6,000
Small 4to. Frontispiece of the Death of Holmes at Reichenbach Falls and numerous illustrations in text by Sidney Paget. Original blue gilt-decorated pictorial cloth over heavy bevelled boards, edges gilt (some rubbing and soiling, spine leaned, hinges reinforced); cloth folding case. FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM. Property from the Estate of Charles and Lorraine Janda, Hinsdale, Illinois $1,500 - 2,500
Property from the Collection of Dr. Brant Mittler
397 EVELYN, John (1620-1706). The Diary of John Evelyn. Austin DOBSON, introduction. London & New York: Macmillan and Co., Limited & The MacMillan Company, 1906. 3 volumes, 8vo (221 x 140 mm). Engraved portrait frontispieces, titles printed in red and black, 11 engraved portraits, 3 engraved maps (1 folding), 38 engraved views (2 folding), 3 facsimile title-pages, one folding facsimile autograph letter, one folding pedigree of the Evelyn family. (Some offsetting, some staining to preliminary leaves, occasional light spotting.) Contemporary half morocco, green cloth gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut (spines sunned, some light chipping or staining). LIMITED EDITION, one of 100 unnumbered copies of the “Edition de Luxe.” Evelyn’s diary was first published in 1818 and was immediately well-received. While the publication of Samuel Pepys’ diary a few years later became more widely known, the publication of The Diary of John Evelyn paved the way for Pepys’ success (Harris and Hunter, John Evelyn and His Milieu, 2003, p. 2). Property from the Collection of Norman and Florence Blitch
$4,000 - 6,000
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396 [EARLY PRINTING - LEAVES] A collection of approximately 40 leaves, 15th18th century, including examples from: Caxton, Chronicles of England, 1480; Almanach leaf for the year 1484. Strassburg: Johann Prüss, 1483]. Broadside with zodiacal woodcut (mounted and restored, some loss of text); Voragine’s Golden Legend, Cologne: von Renchen, 1485; Bible, Basel, 1491 (2); leaves from the Nuremberg Chronicle; Wechtlin, woodcut of Christ preaching; Eliot Indian Bible, 1685; the first Irish Bible, 1685; Ortelius, Nobilis Hannoniae Comitatus Descrip, hand-colored map, Latin text on verso; and others. Provenance: Cornelius J. Hauck (his sale, Christie’s, 27 June 2006, Lot 157).
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Selections from the Collection of Jesse “Cary” Caraway (1917-1994) Lots 398-417
The Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture was established as the Taliesin Fellowship in 1932. The Fellowship emphasized a curriculum based on apprenticeship and hands-on learning, and early apprentices, immersed in Wright’s organic approach, worked together with Wright on projects like the Guggenheim Museum and Fallingwater. Jesse “Cary” Caraway joined the Taliesin Fellowship program on 8 June 1935 and worked there until 1942. At Taliesin, he met and married Frances Fritz, who worked for several years as Wright’s typist. Frances’s father, Herbert Fritz Sr., was one Wright’s early draftsmen, one of two who survived the fire at Taliesin in 1914. Fritz met his wife, Mary Larson, the daughter of Wright’s stonemason Alfred Larson, at Taliesin. Frances Fritz’s two siblings also had strong connections to Taliesin: Herbert Fritz, Jr. was a member of the Taliesin Fellowship, and Barbara Fritz married James Dresser, also a member of the Taliesin Fellowship. The family recalls delightful dinners and conversations when the families were together. On leaving the Taliesin Fellowship program, Caraway worked as an architect in his own right. These selections from his archive offer an intimate view of life at Taliesin as a Fellow and the work of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation.
398 WRIGHT, Frank Lloyd (1867-1959). An Autobiography. New York: Longmans, Green and Company, 1932. Square 8vo. Numerous black and white photographic illustrations; decorative section titles printed in red and black. Original black cloth decorated in red and gold in Wright’s design (some slight wear, hinges loose); original pictorial dust jacket with Wright’s design printed in red and black (separated along rear fold, losses, dampstaining). FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY WRIGHT: “To Carey...Frank Lloyd Wright /57.” Property of the Caraway Family $800 - 1,200
399 [FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT]. Ausgeführte Bauten. Berlin: Ernst Wasmuth, 1911. 4to (302 x 215 mm). Photogravure frontispiece of Coonley House in River Forest, Illinois, two illustrated plates of Unity Temple, numerous black and white photographic illustrations and floorplans; text in German. (Lacking printed “Frank Lloyd Wright, a Study and an Appreciation” by C. R. Ashbee, some minor staining.) Original drab wrappers (spine perished, becoming disbound). Small format edition, often referred to as the “Little Wasmuth,” published after the Wasmuth portfolios of 1910-1911, whose photographic illustrations were originally intended to accompany the Wasmuth portfolio. Property of the Caraway Family $300 - 400
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400 [FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT]. The Architectural Forum. Vol. 68, No. 1. New York: Time, Inc., January 1938. 4to. Numerous illustrations throughout. Original spiral-bound wrappers printed in red and black (some light staining, tiny crease to lower corner). FIRST EDITION of the issue dedicated to the work of Wright, and highlighting his work on Fallingwater, Unity Temple, the S. C. Johnson Company Building, and Usonian House. Property of the Caraway Family $200 - 300
401 [FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT]. A collection of 15 carbon typescripts of lectures and speeches, 1929 or later, comprising: “The City.” Taliesin. 29 September 1929. 14pp., clipped upper left corner. -- “The Profession.” Taliesin. 1 July 1930. 9pp., clipped upper left corner. -- “Opinion in American Architecture. I - Architecture of individualism.” Taliesin. 22 January 1934. 3pp. -- “Architectural Education: Professor Heinrick de Fries. ‘The Architect I Now Present Begins his Work where God Left Off.’” 11 September, 1934. 8pp., pinned upper left corner. -- “Broadacre City. A New success Ideal.” Chandler Arizona, 5 March 1935. 7pp., pinned upper left corner. -- “An Architect Speaking for Culture.” In Arizona Camp. 26 January 1936. 12pp., pinned upper left corner. -- “A Modern House Built for Herbert Jacobs, Madison, Wisconsin.” Taliesin. 5 November 1937. 6pp., stapled top center margin. -- “Twentieth Century Architecture.” N.p., n.d. 42pp. -- “The Nature of Architecture.” 38pp., clipped upper left corner. -- “Frank Lloyd Wright Principles of Design.” N.p., n.d. 3pp. -- “The Hillside Home School of the Allied Arts. Why we want this School.” Taliesin, n.d. 27pp., clipped upper left corner. -- “To Arizona.” Taliesin, n.d. 5pp., clipped upper left corner. -- “In the Cause of Architecture. ‘In Labour’.” N.p., n.d. 10pp. -- “Who Said ‘Conservative’?” N.p., n.d., 3pp. -- Untitled. [“Broadacre City comes as a natural sequence after the disappearing of the modern city...”]. N.p., n.d. 6pp, pinned upper left corner. -- Untitled. [“The Wisconsin red barn was knee-deep in glistening white snow as we, the Fellowship...left the Taliesin valley...”]. N.p., n.d. 4pp, pinned upper left corner. Property of the Caraway Family $800 - 1,200
402 [FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT] -- [PHOTOGRAPHS]. A group of 5 photographs, comprising: Frank Lloyd Wright and Olgivanna Lloyd Wright in a horse drawn carriage. John Engstead, photographer. Black and white photograph, approximately 14 x 11-in. 1955. -- Olgivanna Lloyd Wright. Color photograph, approximately 13 1/2 x 11-in. N.d. -- Frank Lloyd Wright, Olgivanna Lloyd Wright, and others. 3 color photographs, in folders, each 9 x 7-in. N.d. Showing a picnic at the residence of Mary Fritz, Spring Green, WI. With three related negatives. [With:] Three recordings of Wright, comprising: Video cassette, with a note in Caraway’s hand: “FLLW in WHA Places 0-2039;” “Arch of FLLW 2039-3830.” -- Video cassette, with a note in Caraway’s hand: “FLLW and Madison.” -- Plastic Base Recording tape in box with a note in Caraway’s hand: “Date 10/24/56 speed 7 1/2 / Mr. Wright - AIA Dinner, Blackstone Hotel.” Property of the Caraway Family $300 - 400
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403 WRIGHT, Frank Lloyd (1869-1959). Typed letter signed (“F. LL. W/”), to Jesse “Carey” Caraway. Taliesin, 4 June 1952.
404 WRIGHT, Frank Lloyd (1869-1959). Autograph letter signed (“F. LL. W/”), to Jesse “Cary” Caraway. New York, 21 March 1955.
1 page, oblong 4to, on red-printed Taliesin stationery, creased.
1 page, 8vo, on Plaza Hotel stationery, creased, with original handaddressed stamped envelope, creased, ink slightly smudged.
Lloyd writes regarding the tax-exempt status of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation: “Although we are recognized as tax-free by Federal and State authority as a non-profit establishment devoted to the culture of the young man in Architecture we are having a hard time convincing our County Board that we should be exempted from taxes on our land and equipment, not classified with citizenry engaged in money making enterprizes of a private nature.” He asks Caraway for assistance: “Should you kindly write us a note (or send a wire) expressing frankly your feeling about our work as a factor in your educational experience you might help us...’Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party.’” Wright closes the letter “Affectionately.” Property of the Caraway Family $600 - 800
Wright writes regarding the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation: “We were getting a little apprehensive - feeling our thanks to our many friends for their contributions would seem tardy...The bill in the assembly is a bit disappointing -- because I thought some actual consensus was to be legally made specific to our Foundation as a reward for service already rendered, etc. I want to meet with the special committee and the Governor. [Hust?] met him downstairs is arranging this for me. meantime - thanks for all you’ve done the best to yours. Affectionately.” In 1954, the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled that Wright owed $10,000 in back taxes on Taliesin, despite his argument that Taliesin was primarily a school and should therefore be tax exempt. Caraway suggested that Wright’s friends should express their appreciation and take up a collection. Property of the Caraway Family $2,000 - 3,000
405 WRIGHT, Frank Lloyd (1869-1959). Typed note signed (“F. LL. W/”) with a few hand-corrections to Cary Caraway. Taliesin West, 23 March 1957.
406 WRIGHT, Frank Lloyd (1869-1959). Typed note signed (“F. LL. W/”) with a few hand-corrections to Cary and Frances Caraway. Taliesin West, 24 January 1958.
1 page, oblong 4to, on Taliesin West stationery, creased. 1 page, oblong 4to, on Taliesin West stationery, creased. In full: “Dear Cary: Not ready to take this part in fund-raising yet. Come out with William Stuart and we’ll talk it over [?] Affection, Frank Lloyd Wright.” William M. Stuart was the president of the Martin-Senour paint company, which developed a selection of paint colors developed by Wright in 1955. In February 1957, Stuart was named the Midwest regional chairman of the Frank Lloyd Wright Endowment Fund. Property of the Caraway Family $600 - 800 132 F I N E B O O K S & M A N U S C R I P T S I N C L U D I N G A M E R I C A N A
Wright sends a note of thanks for a holiday gift. In full: “Dear Cary and Francis [sic]: We were glad to hear from the Caraways this Christmas. For the cheese - thank you! Affectionately, Frank Lloyd Wright.” Property of the Caraway Family $600 - 800
407 WRIGHT, Frank Lloyd (1869-1959). Three typed letters signed with a few hand-corrections (“Frank”), to Fowler McCormick, William Benton, and H. C. Price. Each 1 page, oblong 4to, on Taliesin West stationery, with typed envelope, creased. Three fundraising letters, in which Wright introduces Cary Caraway to each recipient: “This will introduce you to Cary Caraway who is [a] spark-plug for the International Organization proposing to raise a ten million dollar endowment fund in order to promote the work of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation anything you are willing to do to help ‘organize’ I shall be immensely gratified.” Wright is careful to note that he’s not asking for money, but rather requesting help with endorsing the efforts of the Foundation. Fowler McCormick, the son of Harold McCormick and Edith Rockefeller, was the third generation of his family to head the International Harvester Company. William Benton was an American Senator from Connecticut, and was publisher of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Harold Charles Price founded the H. C. Price Company, which specialized in pipeline construction and non-corrosive pipe coatings. Wright designed the firm’s headquarters, The Price Tower, which was built in Bartlesville, Oklahoma in 1956. Property of the Caraway Family $600 - 800
408 [FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT] -- [ENDOWMENT FUND]. A small archive of correspondence relating to Wright and the Frank Lloyd Wright Endowment fund. Comprising: [FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT DAY]. Early working draft for an 8-page brochure for Frank Lloyd Wright Day with pencil annotations throughout. SIGNED BY WRIGHT (“FLLW”) on cover. Mayor Richard Daley established Frank Lloyd Wright Day on 17 October 1956. [PUBLIC RELATIONS]. Carbon copy typescripts, primarily from Sept.-Dec. 1956. Ca 123pp, on letterhead. Correspondence from Franklin R. Ullrey and others from public relations firm Harshe-Rotman Inc. Relating to promotional activities, press releases, media appearances, promotional photographs, the establishment of Frank Lloyd Wright Day in Chicago, and Wright’s appearance on the gameshow “I’ve Got a Secret,” and a schedule for his media appearances on 7 September 1956. Harshe-Rotman was retained as public relations for the announcement of the Frank Lloyd Wright Endowment Fund. [ENDOWMENT FUND CAMPAIGN]. Carbon copy typescript, “First Draft Frank Lloyd Wright Endowment Fund Campaign for $5,000,000.00.” Chicago, 12 January 1957. 9pp., on legal sheets, bound with copper brads left margin, creased, with a few emendations in ink in an unknown hand. Outlining the organization, leadership, techniques, tone, goals and prospects for the establishment of an Endowment Fund to preserve Taliesin. [ENDOWMENT FUND]. CARAWAY, Carey. Carbon copy typescript, an Affidavit, signed (“Carey Caraway”), October 15, 1957. 5pp. on legal sheets, with accompanying coversheet dated 10 October 1957, creased. Carey Caraway’s affidavit regarding his activities as President of the Frank Lloyd Wright Endowment Fund. Describing his time as a member of the Taliesin Fellowship and his relationship with the program and Wright: “Taliesin represents a unique achievement...Frank Lloyd Wright stands in the forefront of advanced architecture.” Property of the Caraway Family $400 - 600 V I E W T H E C O M P L E T E C ATA L O G U E AT H I N D M A N A U C T I O N S . C O M 133
409 [FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT]. A small archive including contracts and related correspondence for the proposed film about Wright’s life entitled Master Builder, comprising: [CONTRACTS]. Typed document signed (“Frank Lloyd Wright,” “William Wesley Peters,” Cary Caraway,” and “Rodney Griffiths”). Chicago, 22 April 1955. 2 pages, staple-bound to a thick blue back cover page. An agreement between the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation and the Frank Lloyd Wright Endowment Fund for the Endowment Fund to acquire the rights to Frank Lloyd Wright’s life story as published in his autobiography. SIGNED BY FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT and Carey Caraway with the embossed seals of the Foundation and the Endowment Fund. [With:] Typed document, with pencil emendations in an unknown hand. 2 pages, staple-bound to a thick blue back cover page. An annotated draft of the contract. [Also with:] Two typed letters signed from Michael Ludmer of the Jaffe Agency to representatives of the Frank Lloyd Wright Endowment Fund, 1956, regarding Master Builder. With four typescript copies of responses from Cary Caraway to the Jaffe Agency and John Huston. -- Photostat copy of an introduction and synopsis for the proposed film, Master Builder, written by Meyer Levin. 14pp., 30-hole punched in left margin, bound with brads in a “Famous Artists Corporation” folder. Property of the Caraway Family $2,500 - 3,500
410 [FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT] -- [THE TALIESIN FELLOWSHIP]. A group of items relating to The Taliesin Fellowship, comprising: Taliesin Tract. No. 1. Christmas Morning, 1953. 5p., printed in red and black. Accordion-fold, with original typed envelope. INSCRIBED BY WRIGHT: “F. LL. W/ To the Caraways /54.” -- Western Union Telegram, from Wright to Cary Caraway. Phoenix, 19 January 1955. In full: “Dear Cary In New York this month why not come here Feb 26th 27th will talk to Ralph Walker most Suitable Speaker. If not then George Howe Philadelphia Gesundheit = Frank Lloyd Wright.” -- Western Union Telegram, from Wright to Cary Caraway. Scottsdale, 27 December 1956. In full: “Our best hope to you and yours = Frank and Olgivanna Lloyd Wright.” -- Photocopy of Employer’s Affidavit, describing Caraway’s apprenticeship at Taliesin and reproducing Frank Lloyd Wright’s signature. With single sheet, written in pencil, presumably in Caraway’s hand, describing the “Principles for the Practice of Architecture as adopted by the Taliesin Associated Architects.” [With:] A group of 10 carbon typescripts by Wright’s apprentices, comprising: BAKER, Everett Burgess. “Tea Time at Taliesin.” 26 May 1936. 3pp. -- BERNOUDY, William Adair. “Sunday Services.” 1934. 6pp. -- BERNOUDY, William Adair. “Japanese Prints.” 1934. 6pp. -- DOMBAR, Abe. “Persistence.” 6 January 1935. 6pp., hand-lettered title. -- GOODRICH, Burton J. “Self-Expression.” December 1934. 4pp. -- GOODRICH, Burton J. “At Taliesin.” N.d. 3pp. -- MASSELINK, Eugene. “Taliesin.” N.d. 3pp. -- MASSELINK, Eugene. “We Call Ourselves a Family.” N.d. 6pp. -- MUSSON, Noverre. “Taliesin.” N.d. 3pp. -- [ANON.] “On Diplomacy.” 5pp. -- [ANON.] “Sand.” 1p. -- Together, 10 typescripts. Property of the Caraway Family $400 - 600
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411 [FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT]. Two pamphlets about Wright and Taliesin, comprising: Taliesin. The Taliesin Fellowship Publication. Vol. 1, No. 2. Spring Green, WI, 2 February 1941. Square 8vo. 32pp., photographic illustrations, printed in red and black. Original wrappers printed in red and black (some spotting). -- An Autobiography, Frank Lloyd Wright. Sixth Book, Broadacre City. Spring Green, WI: The Taliesin Press, Spring 1944. Square 8vo. Original wrappers printed in red and black. “REVISED PRINTER’S PROOF.” -- Together, 2 works in 2 volumes. Property of the Caraway Family $300 - 400
412 [FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT] -- [RESIDENCE SPECIFICATIONS]. 2 carbon typescripts of residential building specifications, comprising: [FALLING WATER]. Carbon typescript, “Specifications for Mr. And Mrs. Edgar J. Kaufmann Residence near Pittsburgh Penn. Frank Lloyd Wright Architect,” Taliesin, 1 February 1936. 9pp., most on legal-sized sheets, creased. SPECIFICATIONS FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF FALLINGWATER, providing detailed plans for the foundation. stone work, concrete structure and slabs, millwork, windows, structural steel, glass, painting, waterproofing of roof and slabs, plastering of surfacing and concrete, hardware, electric wiring, heating, and plumbing. Fallingwater, designated a National Historic Landmark, was named by the American Institute of Architects the “best all-time work of American architecture.” [With:] [STANLEY MARCUS HOUSE]. Carbon typescript draft, “Specifications for Mr. and Mrs. H. Stanley Marcus Residence in Dallas, Texas. Frank Lloyd Wright: Architect.” 8pp., printed in red ink, with several pencil corrections, creased, paperclip remnants upper left corner. Includes specifications for the foundation, brick work, floors, millwork, structural steel, glass, painting, roof, plaster, sheet metal, hardware, wiring, heating, and plumbing. Stanley Marcus famously fired Wright in the middle of the project for running over budget; Roscoe DeWitt finished the construction of the home. Property of the Caraway Family $800 - 1,200
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413 [FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT]. CARAWAY, Jesse “Carey.” A group of architectural drawings, renderings, and blueprints relating to the Vigo Sunt House, San Marco in the Desert, and Usonian House. Comprising: [VIGO SUNDT HOUSE.] Two original perspective drawings of the Vigo Sundt House by Carey Caraway. “House for Mr Vigo Sundt Madison Wis. Taliesin Fellowship Architect Carey Caraway. Approved” in lower margin. [Ca 1941]. Pencil and color on tracing paper. 2 oblong sheets (522 x 900 mm and 520 x 910 mm). (Second sheet with staining to upper right margin.) 11 original plan drawings in pencil of the Vigo Sundt House, signed “Taliesin Fellowship Architect Carey Caraway. Approved” lower margin, N.p., n.d. [ca. 1941]. Pencil on tracing paper. Including: plot plan (pencil and color), foundation plan, general plan, elevation and section plan, detail sections, roof framing, mill work schedule, diagram of sub-flooring area, glass schedule, roof area, footing and floor framing plan with heating (ink, pencil and color). Oblong sheets (each approximately 620 x 900 mm or smaller). -- 15 sepia diazo prints showing: exterior (3), plot plan, foundation plan, general plan, elevation and section plan, detail sections and roof framing (2), furniture, glass schedule (3). -- Agreement between the Taliesin Fellowship and Vigo Sundt. PLANS FOR WRIGHT’S FINAL (UNBUILT) HOUSE. Plans were delivered to the Van Sundt’s just days after Wright’s funeral. [SAN MARCOS IN THE DESERT.] 23 sepia diazo prints “San Marco in the Desert for Alexander Chandler, Arizona, Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect’’ in block letters along lower margin, [Ca 1936]. Including: sheet 1-5 legends, 6 and 7 dining room, 8 roof plan, 9 foundation plan west wing, 10-12 terraces, 13 foundation plan east wing, 14-16 terraces, 17 section A-A, 18-21 elevations, 22 dining room detail, 23 lower level plan. Oblong sheets (each approximately 925 x 1800 mm or smaller). Wright’s plans for the resort, San Marcos in the Desert, were never realized as the project was halted by the Great Depression. [USONIAN HOUSE.] 10 sepia diazo prints “Usonian House for Museum of Modern Art, Frank Lloyd Wright Architect.’’ N.p. [1940]. Including: sheet 2 general plans, 3 roof plans, 4 elevations, 5 sections, 6-7 schedule of Walls, 8-9 schedule of roof, 10 reflected plan, 11 perforated board. Oblong sheets (each approximately 750 x 950 mm or smaller). Property of the Caraway Family 414 $400 - 600 [FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT]. An archive of correspondence between the Bairds and Cary Caraway, primarily relating to the construction of the Theodore Baird Residence, comprising: 66 black and white thumbnail photographs mounted on 4 sheets showing the construction of the Baird Residence. -- 15 color photographs of the Baird residence, ca 1996, in a Christmas card from Bertie and Theo Baird. -- 5 ALSs from the Bairds to Cary Caraway; 1 ALS from the Bairds to the Fritzes. -- 6 carbon copy typescripts from Carey Caraway to the Bairds. 2 additional carbon copy typescripts from Carey Caraway to Edgar Tafel and Betty Goodwin. -- Photocopy of Theodore Baird’s account of the planning and building of the Theodore Baird Residence: “I want to make a record of our experience in finding an architect and in building the house he designed, not because as clients of FLLW we were or should be the center of interest but because the whole experience as I recall it is rich in human responses to what was for that time and in that place an unusual event...”. With a 2pp. photocopied letter from Theodore Baird to Carey Caraway, 22 November 1989. The Theodore Baird Residence, a Usonian planned by Wright, was built in Amherst, MA by Wright protégé William Wesley Peters. Wright’s design included an in-law apartment and a dedicated space for the Baird’s dog, including a dog house. Property of the Caraway Family $600 - 800 136 F I N E B O O K S & M A N U S C R I P T S I N C L U D I N G A M E R I C A N A
415 CARAWAY, Jesse “Cary.” A small archive of correspondence. A group of 13 typed letters signed to Cary Caraway from fellow Taliesin Fellowship members Eugene (“Gene”) Masselink, William Wesley Peters (“Wes”), Marcus Weston, and several others, 19561984. Much of the correspondence is personal in nature, including family enquiries and updates about life at Taliesin. A few letters of a more professional nature discuss possible upcoming projects. With 8 carbon typescript copies of letters from Caraway to Frank Lloyd Wright, Wes, Gene and others. Property of the Caraway Family $400 - 600
416 CAREY, Jesse Claude “Carey” (1917-1994). A group of original architectural drawings, blue prints, and plans, comprising drawings and printed plans of: Himalayan Institute. Chicago, 1970s. Sunset Hills. Madison, WI, Historic District Weggiford House. Whitefish Bay, WI. Mr. & Mrs. Shuland House. Charles Cusher House. Mr. & Mrs. Chet Ruedisili House. Goldman House. Trichels. Blue Mounds Shelter. Blue Mounds, WI. Belair Yacht Club. American Legion. Hutment Theater. 1944. PreCast Column. Slab Supermarket. Property of the Caraway Family $600 - 800
417 FULLER, R. Buckminster (1895-1983). Typed letter signed (“R. Buckminster Fuller”), to Carey Caraway. New York, 1 March 1940. 1 page, 8vo, on Fortune embossed stationery, creased. Renowned architect Buckminster Fuller writes Caraway about some drawings he sent offering to study them at his first opportunity in a few weeks. He continues with some architecture and design advice: “Some years ago I worked out an isometric drafting form based on the equi-angular triangle and the hexagon tilted at 30° which made it posible to locate any three dimensional point in space, vertical or in the plane...some of the logic which led me to this form has been unraveling in your mind also. I guess that the main part of your problem is in materials, structural and mechanical technique.” Property of the Caraway Family $500 - 700
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418 [FROST, Robert (1874-1963)] -- A group of 5 prints and posters related to Robert FROST, comprising: 3 woodcut prints by Julius John LANKES (“J.J. Lankes”) (1884-1960), including: Briarfield, ca 1930, signed “J.J. Lankes” lower left of printed image, visible area 163 x 203 mm, a few small spots. Lankes created woodcuts to illustrated Frost’s poems they worked together for over 40 years after meeting in 1923. -- Vermont Pasture (Robert Frost’s) (No. 9), 1924, signed “J.J. Lankes” lower left of printed image, visible area 208 x 282 mm, light toning around plate mark. In this woodcut, Lankes depicted Frost’s historic farm property in South Shaftsbury, Vermont, also known as “The Gully.” Frost resided here from 1929 through 1938, during which time he won two of his four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry. -- Robert Frost Stone House Museum, South Shaftsbury, Vermont, 2002. Limited edition poster woodcut print, 2002, visible area 418 x 317 mm, a few very tiny spots. This poster was reproduced from the 1923 woodcut print Lankes created for Frost to use as his personal bookplate, featuring the Stone House next to a dirt road. [With:] A commemorative stamp on “American Poet Series Robert Frost” envelope with portrait printed in green, visible area 87 x 158 mm. – Robert FROST, author. Ed YOUNG (b. 1931), illustrator. Birches, From Birches, Henry Holt and Company, 1988. Poster, 596 x 442 mm, framed (unexamined out of frame). -- Together, 5 prints and posters, all matted and framed (not examined out of frame) (except where noted). Property from the Collection of Robert and Norma Cotner $200 - 300
419 [FROST, Robert (1874-1963)]. A group of 7 works by or about Frost, comprising:
420 [FROST, Robert (1874-1963)]. A group of 7 works by or about Frost, comprising:
American & British Verse from The Yale Review. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1920. Provenance: Anne (gift inscription, 1920). FIRST EDITION. -- A Further Range. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1936. FIRST TRADE EDITION, second impression. -- A Masque of Reason. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1945. Dust jacket. FIRST TRADE EDITION. -- A Masque of Reason. London: Jonathan Cape, 1948. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. -- In the Clearing. New York: Hole, Rinehart and Winston, 1962. Dust jacket. FIRST TRADE EDITION. -- ADAMS, Frederick B. To Russia with Frost. Boston: The Club of Odd Volumes, 1963. Slipcase. Provenance: Bryan S. Reid Jr. (gift inscription, 1969). FIRST EDITION. -- LATHEM, Edward Connery and THOMPSON, Lawrance, editors. Robert Frost: Farm-Poultryman. Hanover, NH: Dartmouth Publications, 1963. Dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. -- Together, 7 works in 7 volumes, all 8vo, ALL FIRST EDITIONS, all in original publisher’s cloth, cloth-backed boards, or printed boards, dust jackets where indicated, condition generally fine. Property from the Collection of Robert and Norma Cotner
American & British Verse from The Yale Review. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1920. Original printed boards. FIRST EDITION. -- A Witness Tree. New York: Henry Holt and Company, June 1942. Dust jacket Later edition. -- A Witness Tree. New York: Henry Holt and Company, March 1943. Dust jacket. Later edition. -- A Masque of Reason. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1945. Dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. -- A Masque of Mercy. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1947. Dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. -- ADAMS, Frederick B. To Russia with Frost. Boston: The Club of Odd Volumes, 1963. Slipcase. FIRST EDITION. -- LATHEM, Edward Connery and THOMPSON, Lawrance, editors. Robert Frost: Farm-Poultryman. Hanover, NH: Dartmouth Publications, 1963. Original printed dust jacket. Provenance: Lawrance Thompson (signature, Princeton, 23 April 1971). FIRST EDITION. -- Together, 7 works in 7 volumes, 8vo, FIRST EDITIONS where indicated, all in original publisher’s cloth, cloth-backed boards or printed boards, most with original dust jackets where indicated, condition generally fine.
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Property from the Collection of Robert and Norma Cotner $350 - 450
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421 GOREY, Edward (1925-2000). Baby Transported. Zürich: Diogenes Verlag, 1978. Two etchings, on Arches paper, each 14 x 11 3/4 in., each SIGNED BY GOREY and numbered in pencil lower margin, 5/120. (Baby Transported with small surface abrasions to upper and lower margin verso, small pale stain upper margin; Malocclusion with cloth tape from framing upper margin verso.) One of 6 etchings created by Gorey and distributed by Diogenes Verlag in 1975, each consisting of 120 Arabic numbered and 20 Roman numbered copies. Though the etchings were sold individually, they are considered a set. See Goreyana Blogspot, 4 April 2011. Property from the Collection of Thomas J. Barrett $1,000 - 1,500
422 GOREY, Edward (1925-2000). Dogear Wryde Postcards. Q. R. V. Hikuptah. -- Q. R. V. Unwmkd. Imperf. N.p.: n.p., 1996. Two sets of 12 illustrated postcards, captioned on verso, each loose as issued in original pictorial envelope. LIMITED EDITION, letter U of 26 lettered copies SIGNED BY GOREY ON THE ENVELOPE as “Dogear Wryde,” of a total edition of 526. Not in Toledano. Property from the Collection of Thomas J. Barrett $200 - 300
423 [GOREY - BIBLIOGRAPHY AND CONTRIBUTIONS]. A group of 8 works, comprising: TOLEDANO, Henry. Goreography. San Francisco: Word Play Publications, 1996. -- ROSS, Clifford & Karen WILKIN. The World of Edward Gorey. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1996. FIRST TRADE EDITION. -- WILKIN, Karen, editor. Ascending Peculiarity. Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey. New York, San Diego and London: Harcourt, 2001. FIRST EDITION. -- HALPERN, Daniel, editor. Who’s Writing This? Hopewell, NJ: Ecco Press, 1995. FIRST EDITION, with Gorey›s contribution “A Penchant for Pseudonyms.” -- HALPERN, Daniel, editor. Antaeus. Issue No. 75/74, Autumn 1994. Hopewell, NJ: Antaeus, 1995. FIRST EDITION, with Gorey›s contribution “Serious Life: A Locket.” -- ROSS, Clifford & Karen WILKIN. The World of Edward Gorey. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1996. LIMITED EDITION, number 293 of 300 copies SIGNED BY GOREY, ROSS and WILKIN of a total edition of 326. -- WILKIN, Karen, editor. Ascending Peculiarity. Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey. New York, San Diego and London: Harcourt, 2001. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY WILKIN. -- TOLEDANO, Henry. Goreography. San Francisco: Word Play Publications, 1996. -Together, 8 works in 8 volumes, all in original publisher’s bindings as issued, condition generally fine. Property from the Collection of Thomas J. Barrett $200 - 300
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424 GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco de (1746-1828). Los Proverbios. Madrid: Real Academia de Nobles Artes de San Fernando, 1864. The complete set of 18 etchings with aquatint and drypoint, with the lithographic title-page, on heavy wove paper, without watermarks, plates 245 x 355 mm, sheets 308 x 438 mm, some dampstaining, a few corners creased or chipped, a few sheets with short mostly marginal tears or creases, title-page gutter margin recto and plate 4 gutter margin verso with old adhesive. Disbound with remnants of stab-sewing and sewing holes (occasionally with short tears) in the gutter margin, modern wrappers with modern adhesive. FIRST EDITION, one of 300 copies, of Goya’s print series, completed in the years between 1815 and 1824. The original series comprised 22 plates, which were left with Goya’s son Xavier on his departure from Spain in 1824; they remained hidden until Xavier’s death in 1854. Eighteen passed through two different owners before the came to the Royal Academy of San Fernando in 1862, where they were published in this first, posthumous edition in 1864. Four remaining plates were discovered in Paris in the early 1870s, and were eventually published in the periodical, L’Art, in 1877. (Deltiel 202-219; Harris 248-265). Property from the Estate of Professor Ethan D. Alyea, Jr., Bloomington, Indiana $15,000 - 25,000
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425 HEINLEIN, Robert (1907-1988). Methuselah’s Children. Hicksville, NY: Gnome Press, [1958].
426 HEMINGWAY, Ernest (1899-1961). The Torrents of Spring. New York: Scribner’s, 1926.
8vo. (Browned as usual.) Original black boards, spine lettered in red; original pictorial dust jacket (price-clipped, minor chipping or soiling, occasional repairs verso). FIRST EDITION, in Currey’s priority ‘A’ binding with black boards lettered in red and the dust jacket with the publisher’s address “80 East 11th St., New York 3” on rear panel. Currey p.233.
8vo. Original dark green cloth, stamped in red (very slightly leaned); pictorial dust jacket (spine panel toned, some light chipping, a few short separations to folds, small dampstain to foot of spine, some minor soiling).
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FIRST EDITION OF HEMINGWAY’S FIRST NOVEL. Hemingway’s earlier works established his reputation in literary circles, but by 1925, he had not gained broader public recognition, which he attributed to his restrictive contract with Boni and Liveright, who published his earlier works. He wrote Torrents of Spring in a few weeks in November of 1925, and Boni and Liveright rejected it quickly. “I have known all along,” Hemingway wrote Fitzgerald, that the firm “could not and would not be able to publish it as it makes a bum out of their present ace and best seller Anderson” (Selected Letters, p. 183). The contract broken, Hemingway signed with Scribners, and The Torrents of Spring was published on 28 May 1926. Hanneman A4a. Property from the Estate of Professor Ethan D. Alyea, Jr., Bloomington, Indiana $1,000 - 2,000
427 IRVING, John Winslow (b. 1942). The 158-Pound Marriage. New York: Random House, [1974]. 8vo. Original publisher’s green quarter cloth over green paper-covered boards tamped in bronze and green (head and tail of spine very slightly sunned); first-issue dust jacket printed in green, white, orange, and black (some very minor chipping or toning). FIRST EDITION, in FIRST ISSUE DUST JACKET priced $5.95. By 1974, Irving had already won a Rockefeller Foundation Grant, and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, and four years after the publication of this work, he would publish The World According to Garp.
428 JAMES, Henry (1843-1916). A group of 3 works by JAMES, comprising,
$150 - 250
$300 - 400
The Spoils of Poynton. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1897. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. BAL 10622. -- The Awkward Age. New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1899. Slipcase. Provenance: Everett (armorial bookplate). FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. BAL 10637. -- The Wings of the Dove. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1902. 2 volumes. Provenance: Everett (armorial bookplates); C.D. McDuffie (letter tipped in). FIRST EDITION. BAL 10647. -- Together, 3 works in 4 volumes, all 8vo, all in original publisher’s brown gilt-lettered cloth, FIRST EDITIONS where indicated, condition generally fine.
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429 [KAUFMAN, Enit Zerner (1897-1961)] – FROST, Robert (1874-1963). A Witness Tree. KAUFMAN, Enit Zerner [Kaufman] (1897-1961), illustrator. New York: Henry Holt & Company, 1942. 8vo. Portrait frontispiece by Kaufman. (Very light toning.) Original publisher’s quarter teal cloth over teal paste-paper covered boards, smooth spine giltlettered, 2 edges uncut (some chipping). LIMITED EDITION, no. 22 of 735 copies, SIGNED BY ROBERT FROST. [With:] A small group of Frost Christmas Cards, all printed in New York by The Spiral Press with original colored paper wrappers (majority pictorial), including: Closed for Good. 1948. SIGNED BY ROBERT FROST, INSCRIBED TO KAUFMAN. -- On a Tree Fallen Across the Road (To Hear Us Talk). 1949. (Some staining.) – Doom to Bloom. New York: The Spiral Press, December 1950. SIGNED BY LESLEY FROST. -- One More Brevity. 1953 -- Kitty Hawk 1894. 1956. -- My Objection to Being Stepped On. 1957 -- Accidentally on Purpose. 1960. SIGNED BY LESLEY FROST, INSCRIBED to “Enit and Edward” (with a second unsigned copy). -- The Wood-Pile, 1961, SIGNED BY LESLEY FROST, INSCRIBED to “Edward.” -- Together, 8 works in 9 volumes, all Provenance: Enit Zerner Kaufman. Property from the Estate of Mr Curt and Dr. Fleur Strand of New York City, New York and Snowmass Village, Colorado $400 - 600
430 [KAUFMAN, Enit Zerner (1897-1961)] – [ROOSEVELT, Franklin Delano] [Portrait of Franklin Delano ROOSEVELT (1882-1945)]. Photographic reproduction, [ca 1940-1945], image 221 x 191.5 mm (224 x 195 mm sheet), on wove paper, old adhesive on verso, SIGNED BY ROOSEVELT in ink lower right, reverse printed “Photo Brammer-320 E. 50th St., N.Y.C.,” based on Kaufman’s portrait of FDR in watercolor, white tempera, and charcoal on watercolor paper at the New-York Historical Society Museum & Library (1947.181). Property from the Estate of Mr Curt and Dr. Fleur Strand of New York City, New York and Snowmass Village, Colorado $200 - 300
431 [KAUFMAN, Enit Zerner (1897-1961)] – [TRUMAN, Harry S. (18841972)] – Photograph signed and inscribed on mat (“Harry Truman.”), as former United States President to Enit Zerner KAUFMAN. Independence, Missouri: 24 November 1954. Black and white photograph, visible area 158 x 202 mm, signed and inscribed on mat at lower left “Kind regards from Harry Truman Independence. Nov. 24, 1954.”, some minor staining at top left, mated and framed (not examined out of frame). Photograph depicts artist Enit Zerner Kaufman painting former president Truman’s portrait. Property from the Estate of Mr Curt and Dr. Fleur Strand of New York City, New York and Snowmass Village, Colorado $400 - 600
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432 [KAUFMAN, Enit Zerner (1897-1961)] –SCHIELE, Egon (1890-1918). Autograph letter signed (“Egon Schiele” in a paraph), [to Enit Zerner Kaufman, “Fraulein”]. [Vienna], 22 August 1918. 1 page, 4to, tipped into an autograph album. Schiele arranges a meeting with his student, whose work he describes as promising, frequently mentioning his address in Vienna, Hietzinger Hauptstrasse 101, and Hietzing, Vienna’s 13th district, with which Schiele is closely associated. Following his military service in World War I, Schiele was back in Vienna in 1917, where he focused on his artistic career. His output was prolific, and he was invited to participate in the Secessions’s 49th exhibition, held in Vienna in 1918. He had 50 works accepted for the exhibition, which were displayed in the main hall, and he designed the poster for the exhibition, reminiscent of the Last Supper. The show was a success, and he received many portrait commissions. On October 28, 1918, Schiele’s wife Edith died from the Spanish Flu pandemic that had claimed more than 20,000,000 lives in Europe; Schiele died three days later. [Autograph album also includes:] HANAK, Anton. ALS. A “cryptographic” letter to Enit Kaufman (nee Zerner). Tipped in. -- Numerous signatures, including actress Lotte Medelsky, opera star Enrico Caruso, singer Jan Kiepura, actor Aleksandër Moisiu, author Erich Kästner, actress Lili Marburg, designer Robert Kronfeld, singer Charles Kullmann, singer Elisabeth Schumann, singer Luise Helletsgruber, actress Katharine Hepburn, skater Ernst Baier, skater Karl Schäfer, Indian leader H. T. Mazumdar, and others. Property from the Estate of Mr Curt Strand and Dr. Fleur Strand of New York City, NY and Snowmass Village, CO $6,000 - 8,000 433 [KAUFMAN, Enit Zerner (1897-1961)] –SCHIELE, Egon (1890-1918). Autograph letter signed (“Egon Schiele” in a paraph), to Enit Kaufman (“Fraulein Ernestine Zerner”). Vienna, 12 March 1918. 1 page, 4to, with original envelope. Presumably arranging a meeting with his student. With his calling card laid in. Enit Zerner Kaufman (1908-1961) was born near Vienna, where she would later study art. Her interest was portraiture, and she painted among prominent European artists, including Albert Sarraut and Georges Duhamel. Her work was featured in several exhibitions in Paris. She and her husband Edward fled Europe at the onset of World War II, and they arrived in New York City in 1939. She resumed her career in the United States, building her reputation as a portraitist, ultimately painting four American Presidents, including Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt, harry S. Truman, and Dwight D. Eisenhower. Her work was featured in exhibitions in the 1940s and 1950s at the Smithsonian Institution and the New York Historical Society among others. Property from the Estate of Mr Curt Strand and Dr. Fleur Strand of New York City, NY and Snowmass Village, CO $5,000 - 7,000
434 [KAUFMAN, Enit Zerner (1897-1961)] – An archive of material related to Enit Kaufman’s artistic career, including a group of ALSs from Anton Hanak to Kaufman, ALSs to her husband Edward ca 1944, files of carbon copies, exhibition announcements, official photographs of her paintings and portraits, photographs, press clippings, drafts of written works, costumes, and 27 books. Including a small group of notes and books inscribed by educator and reformer Dorothy Canfield Fisher. Included are 6 autograph letters signed, from Anton Hanak (1875-1934) to Ernestine Zerner [Enit Zerner Kaufman]. Each 1 page, with original envelope, written in “cryptographic” hand. Hanak was a prominent Austrian sculptor in his day, and was known for his monumental sculptures, tombs and fountain figures of pre-expressionist style. Each letter is written in a distinctive hand to Enit Kaufman, who was born in Vienna, where she would live until 1939. The archive also includes an album of press clippings and a box of photographs of her paintings and exhibitions, and copies of a dissertation about her work by Cary Cardova, World War II America Through Portraiture: Enit Kaufman’s American Portraits. With a group of 27 books including: CANFIELD, Dorothy (1879-1958). Basque People. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1931. -- CANFIELD, Dorothy (1879-1958). Four-Square. New York: Harcourt, Brace, and Company, 1949. -- RUSKIN, John (1819-1900). Ruskin’s Lectures on Art. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1870. -- FISHER, Dorothy Canfield. American Portraits. Pictures by Enit Kaufman. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1946. -- Catalogue of American Portraits in the New-York Historical Society. New Haven and London: The Yale Univeristy Press, 1974. 2 Volumes. -- And 23 others. Complete list available on request. Property from the Estate of Mr Curt Strand and Dr. Fleur Strand of New York City, NY and Snowmass Village, CO $300 - 400
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435 LAWRENCE, Thomas Edward (“T.E.”) (1888-1935). Seven Pillars of Wisdom a Triumph. London: Jonathan Cape, 1935. 4to (248 x 187 mm). Photographic frontispiece, 46 plates, 4 folding maps in red and black, printed document from Jonathan Cape laid in. (Some leaves uncut and unopened.) 20th-century dark brown levant gilt, spine in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands, gilt-lettered in 2 compartments, covers gilt paneled with floral corner-pieces, marbled endsheets, original tan cloth spine and cover bound neatly in, top edge gilt, others uncut (endsheets soiled). FIRST TRADE EDITION of Lawrence’s epic account of his war experiences, including the Arab Revolt. He began writing this work in 1919 while attending the Paris Peace Conference. After several mishaps (including leaving the first manuscript at the Reading Railway Station), this work was first published in 1926. Lawrence was played by Peter Seamus O’Toole the 1962 film, Lawrence of Arabia. $400 - 600
436 LE CARRÉ, John (1931-2020). The Looking-Glass War. London: Heinemann, 1965. 8vo. Original black boards; original dust jacket (price-clipped, spine sunned, some very slight rubbing to corners). Provenance: The Book Shop, Kew (bookseller’s label). FIRST EDITION. $200 - 300
437 LEWIS, Sinclair (1885-1951). Arrowsmith. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1925. 8vo (225 x 159). Title-page printed in red and black. Original buckram backed boards, printed paper label on spine, top edge gilt, others uncut (some wear, stitching on front and rear quires weak, repair to front pastedowns); blue slipcase (chipping). FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 380 of 500 copies SIGNED BY LEWIS. In 1926, Lewis was offered the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for this work but refused stating other authors were more worthy. Only four years later, he accepted the 1930 Nobel Prize in Literature “for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humour, new types of characters” (The Nobel Prize in Literature 1930). $600 - 800
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438 [LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB] -- ARISTOPHANES (448?-380? B.C.) Pablo PICASSO (1881-1973), illustrator. Lysistrata. Gilbert SELDES (1893-1970), introductions. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1934. 4to. Printed in red and black, 6 etched plates and numerous illustrations in sanguine. Publisher’s color pictorial boards (spotting to endleaves); original glassine dust jacket (chipped); original board chemise and slipcase (joints starting, faded, chipped). LIMITED EDITION, number 806 of 1500 copies SIGNED BY PICASSO. “The only American publication with original Picasso etchings, which are among his most important in the classical style” (The Artist and the Book 226). George Macy considered Lysistrata to be one of the finest editions printed by the Limited Editions Club. $3,000 - 4,000
439 [LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB] -- DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge (“Lewis Carroll”) (18321898). Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. John Tenniel, illustrator. Mount Vernon, NY: William Edwin Rudge for The Limited Editions Club, 1932. 8vo. Numerous wood engravings by Bruno Rollitz after Tenniel. (Very minor spotting.) Original publisher’s red morocco gilt, smooth spine gilt, all edges gilt (minor rubbing, browning to endleaves); original blue cloth slipcase, printed paper label on spine (fading, some wear). Provenance: James E. Poling (bookplate, rear pastedown). LIMITED EDITION, number 735 of 1,500 copies, SIGNED BY FREDERIC WARDE, AND ONE OF APPROXIMATELY 500 COPIES SIGNED BY THE ORIGINAL ALICE, Alice Hargreaves, who signed the book during her visit to New York at the age of 81 to commemorate the centennial of Dodgson’s birth. [With:] Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There. John Tenniel, illustrator. Mount Vernon, NY: William Edwin Rudge for The Limited Editions Club, 1935. 8vo. Numerous engravings re-engraved by Frederic Warde. (Very minor spotting.) Original publisher’s blue morocco gilt, smooth spine gilt, all edges gilt; original red cloth slipcase, printed paper label on spine (minor wear). LIMITED EDITION, number 1,348 of 1,500 copies, ONE OF 200 COPIES SIGNED BY ALICE HARGREAVES. $2,000 - 3,000
440 [LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB] -- HERSEY, John (1914-1993). Hiroshima. Jacob Lawrence, illustrator. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1983. Folio. 8 silkscreens by Lawrence, binder’s note and Limited Editions Club prospectus laid in. Original black aniline full top grain with colorless soil repellent finish, smooth spine, front cover blind lettered, black edges (a few minor scuffs); original publisher’s black cloth slipcase, lettered on spine (some chipping). LIMITED EDITION, number 1,101 of 1,500 copies SIGNED BY HERSEY, WARREN, and LAWRENCE. Includes a new poem by Robert Penn WARREN (1905-1989). $400 - 600
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441 [LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB] -- JOYCE, James (1882-1941). Henri Matisse, illustrator. Ulysses. With an introduction by Stuart Gilbert. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1935. 4to. 6 etchings, 20 facsimiles of preliminary drawings on colored paper. Original publisher’s brown pictorial cloth design by LeRoy H. Appleton, upper cover and spine gilt-decorated; original board slipcase, printed paper label on spine; glassine dust jacket (chipped). LIMITED EDITION,ONE OF ONLY 250 COPIES SIGNED BY BOTH MATISSE AND JOYCE, number 482 from a total edition of 1,500 copies. “One of the very few American livres de peintres issued before World War II. According to George Macy, who undertook this only American publication of Matisse’s illustrations, he asked the artist how many etchings the latter could provide for five thousand dollars. The artist chose to take six subjects from Homer’s Odyssey” (Riva Castleman, A Century of Artists Books, pp.35, 61). When asked why he did not illustrate episodes from Joyce’s novel, he responded that he hadn’t read it. The American Livre de Peintre, 32; The Artist and the Book, 197; Slocum and Calhoun A22. $8,000 - 12,000
442 [LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB] – A group of 3 works, comprising: FRANKLIN, Benjamin. Poor Richard’s Almanacks 1733-1758. Norman Rockwell, illustrator. Philadelphia, 1964. Laid in “The Monthly Letter of The Limited Editions Club, No. 369, October 1964. Original half top-grain cowhide over French hand-marbled paper-covered boards, spine in 6 compartments with 5 18th-century style bands, red morocco lettering-piece gilt, 12 zodiac signs burned on shelf back (one corner bumped); (slipcase with some chipping). LIMITED EDITION, number 1,101 of 1,500 copies. SIGNED BY ROCKWELL.– HEANEY, Seamus. Poems and a Memoir. Henry Pearson, illustrator. 1982. Laid in “The Monthly Letter of The Limited Editions Club,” No. 530, November 1982. Original brown aniline full top grain with colorless soil repellent finish, spine gilt-lettered, front cover blind stamped from engraving by Pearson, top edge gilt (a few tiny scuffs). LIMITED EDITION, number 1,101 of 1,500 copies. SIGNED BY ROCKWELL. -- MILLER, Arthur. Death of a Salesman. Leonard Baskin, illustrator. 1984. 5 etchings. 4to, brown morocco, spine giltlettered; slipcase gilt-lettered. LIMITED EDITION, number 1,101 of 1,500 copies. SIGNED BY MILLER AND BASKIN. -- Together, 3 works in 3 volumes, all published in New York by the Limited Editions Club (except where noted), all 4to, all in original publisher’s bindings as described, all in original slipcases, condition generally fine. $400 - 600 146 F I N E B O O K S & M A N U S C R I P T S I N C L U D I N G A M E R I C A N A
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443 LONDON, Jack (1876-1916). The Call of the Wild. Philip R. Goodwin and Charles Livingston Bull, illustrators. New York: The MacMillan Company, 1903. 8vo. Pictorial title-page printed in black and blue, pictorial frontispiece, 25 illustrations (19 full-page and 8 in-text), leaf of publisher’s advertisements. Original publishers’ pictorial cloth stamped in red, white, and black and gilt-lettered, top edge gilt, others uncut, decorated endpapers (slightly cocked spine, some light rubbing); publisher’s printed dust-jacket (some minor chipping). FIRST EDITION, fourth issue of London’s enduring adventure novel set in the Yukon during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush. RARE IN THE ORIGINAL DUST JACKET. BAL 11876; Peter Parley to Penrod, p 119. Property from the Estate of Professor Ethan D. Alyea, Jr., Bloomington, Indiana
444 LONDON, Jack (1876-1916). A group of 31 works, most first or early editions, comprising: The Scarlet Plague. Gordon Grant, illustrator. 1915. (Lacking front fly leaf.) Woodbridge 128. --The Valley of the Moon. 1913. Woodbridge 117. --Burning Daylight. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1910. --White Fang. New York and London: The Macmillan Company, 1906. Second Issue (only one copy of the 1st issue recorded). Woodbridge 46. --The Little Lady of the Big House. 1916. Woodbridge 138. -- And 27 others. Together, 31 works in 32 volumes, including 2 works about London, most published in New York by The Macmillan Company (except where indicated), all 8vo, many with frontispieces, all original publisher’s cloth pictorial bindings, many with glassines, condition generally good. $2,500 - 3,500
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445 [MAILER, Norman (1923-2007)]. A group of 5 FIRST EDITIONS, comprising: The Naked and the Dead. New York and Toronto: Rinehart and Company, Inc., 1948. Later printing dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. -- The Deer Park. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1955. Dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY MAILER. -- The Fight. Boston and Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, 1975. Dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY MAILER. -- The Last Night. New York: Targ Editions, 1984. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE one of 250 copies SIGNED BY MAILER. -- Tough Guys Don’t Dance. Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1984. FIRST EDITION. Leather gilt. -- Together, 5 works in 5 volumes, most FIRST EDITIONS SIGNED BY MAILER where indicated, all in original boards, cloth or cloth-backed boards, dust jackets where indicated, condition generally fine.
446 MIRÓ, Joan (1893-1974). Joan Miró. Lithographs. Vol.I: New York: Tudor Publishing Company, 1972; Vol.II: New York: Léon Amiel Publisher, 1975; Vols.III & IV: Paris: Maeght Éditeur, 1977, 1981. 4 volumes (of 6 comprising vols.I-IV), 4to. 32 original lithographs, numerous reproductions of Miró’s works. Original publisher’s cloth; original lithographic dust jackets (some minor toning); original wrap-around bands and glassines for vols.II-IV (a few short tears to glassines). LIMITED EDITION, each one of 5,000 copies of the (vol.I number 1778, vol.III number 734, vols.II and IV unnumbered). $1,000 - 1,500
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447 OVID (43 B.C.-17? A.D.). Ovid’s Verwandlungen in Kupfern Vorgestellt und mit den Nöthigen Erlaeuterungen versehen. Vienna: Ignaz Alberti, 1791. 3 volumes, small 4to (222 x 159 mm). Text in German, engraved title-pages, 135 (of 140?) engraved plates. (Spotting, trimmed, some browning.) 20th-century black leather, spine gilt-lettered (some rubbing or light chipping). FIRST GERMAN EDITION of Ovid’s Metamorphoses profusely illustrated with copperplate engravings. Property from the Estate of Mr Curt and Dr. Fleur Strand of New York City, New York and Snowmass Village, Colorado $300 - 400
448 [PLANTIN PRESS]. Broadside printing of the Liturgy of the Eucharist. Antwerp: Architypographia Plantiniana, n.d. [ca 18th-century?]. Broadside (313 x 466 mm). Printed in red and black within decorative borders; two engraved plates depicting the Crucifixion and the Last Supper. The full sheet uncut. The Plantin press had a monopoly, granted by the papacy, to print liturgical formularies, including in Spain, for nearly 200 years. Plantin was known for employing numerous engravers to keep up with the vast number of compositions needed. The engraver of the plates in this broadside is an unknown Belgian school engraver. RARE: We trace no copies of this broadside at auction, and trace no copies on OCLC. Property from the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art $500 - 700
449 RILEY, James Whitcomb (“Benj. F. Johnson of Boone”) (18491916). “The Old Swimmin’-hole,” and ‘Leven More Poems, by Benj. F. Johnson, of Boone. Indianapolis: George C. Hitt & Co., 1883. 12mo (161 x 105 mm). Title-page printed in red, a few woodcut illustrations. (Tiny spots on a few pages.) Original publisher’s buff wrappers printed in red (browned, some chipping); morocco slipcase. Provenance: Frances M. Hakerly (signatures, September 1883). FIRST EDITION OF RILEY’S FIRST PUBLISHED WORK, with horizontal chain lines spaced 1-in. apart. This collection of poems in the Hoosier dialect first appeared in the Indianapolis Journal under his pseudonym. BAL 16525. [Laid-in:] Autograph note signed (“James Whitcomb Riley”). N.p., November 1895. 1 page (90 x 113 mm). In full: “The Golden Age of NOW. Very truly yours.” Property from the Thomas Sills Trust, Chicago. Illinois $500 - 700 148 F I N E B O O K S & M A N U S C R I P T S I N C L U D I N G A M E R I C A N A
450 SALINGER, Jerome David (“J.D.”) (1919-2010). The Catcher in the Rye. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1951. 8vo. Publisher’s original black cloth, spine gilt-lettered (a few small stains, some light rubbing to extremities); original first issue dust jacket printed in red, black, and yellow, cropped photograph of Salinger on rear cover, flap priced at $3.00 (some toning and chipping, a few stains); glassine (chipped). FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, without “Reprinted July 1951” on copyright page. IN THE FIRST ISSUE DUST JACKET with the $3.00 price on the front flap and with the Lotte Jacobi photo credit on Salinger’s portrait on the rear panel. The novel’s protagonist, Holden Caulfield, has entered the pantheon of American literary heroes. “The Catcher in the Rye was a symptom of a need, after a ghastly war and during a ghastly pseudo-peace, for the young to raise a voice of protest against the failures of the adult world. The young used many voices— anger, contempt, self-pity—but the quietest, that of a decent perplexed American adolescent, proved the most telling” (Anthony Burgess, 99 Novels, pp. 53-54). $3,000 - 5,000
451 [THE SAVOY]. SYMONS, Arthur (1865-1945), editor. Aubrey Beardsley, illustrator. The Savoy: An Illustrated Quarterly. London: Leonard Smithers, 1896. 3 volumes (Nos. I-VIII [all published]), 4to. Numerous illustrations after Beardsley and others. (Tear to one title-page repaired, some minor chipping, weak hinges.) Publisher’s original gilt-pictorial cobalt cloth, smooth spine gilt-lettered and decorated (chipping to spines, spines darkened, some corners bumped). FIRST EDITION in book form with illustrations after Beardsley, Whistler, Beerbohm, Blake, Shannon, Pennell, and other contemporary artists. Literary contributions by Yeats, Beardsley, Conrad, and G.B. Shaw, amongst others. Reproductions include line and half-tone wood engravings by Paul Naumann. Lasner 103. Property from the Estate of Professor Ethan D. Alyea, Jr., Bloomington, Indiana $1,000 - 2,000
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452 SHAKESPEARE, William (1564-1616). Arthur RACKHAM, illustrator. A Midsummer-Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare. New York & London: Doubleday, Page & Co., and William Heinemann, 1908. 4to (246 x 180 mm). Title-page woodcut, 40 color-printed plates tipped to mounts and numerous illustrations by Rackham. (Some quires loose, one tipped-in image free). Original quarter green cloth gilt, top edge gilt (some light overall wear). FIRST TRADE EDITION. Hudson p.168; Latimore & Haskell p.32; Riall p.87. Property from the Estate of Professor Ethan D. Alyea, Jr., Bloomington, Indiana $500 - 700
453 STEINBECK, John (1902-1968). The Grapes of Wrath. New York: Viking Press, 1939. 8vo. (A few tiny pale stains to the first few leaves.) Original pictorial beige cloth (some light soiling, minor spotting to endleaves); facsimile dust jacket; cloth folding case. FIRST EDITION, WITH STEINBECK’S SIGNATURE tipped to front free endpaper. Steinbeck was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1940 for this novel. Goldstone & Payne A12a. $400 - 600
454 STEINBECK, John (1902-1968). Cannery Row. New York: Viking Press, 1945. 8vo. (Half-title and first few leaves creased). Original publisher’s buff cloth printed in blue, top edge stained blue; original pictorial dust jacket (some minor chipping). Provenance: Bob Stricker (signature). FIRST EDITION, issue in cloth, in first issue binding. Goldstone & Payne A22b. $300 - 400
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455 MILLAY, Edna St. Vincent (1892-1950). The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver. New York: Frank Shay 1922. 8vo. Frontispiece and vignettes. Original plain tan wrappers (joint starting), stapled, within original printed apple green wrappers with vignette on front (soft crease to front wrapper, some minor loss of pigment); orange quarter morocco slipcase. Provenance: Perry Molstad (bookplate designed by Rockwell Kent); acquired by the present owner from a descendant of John Fleming. FIRST TRADE EDITION, ONE OF 15 COPIES BOUND IN APPLE GREEN WRAPPERS. The first trade edition of The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver consisted of 500 copies printed on regular paper. Of these, all but 75 were bound in orange wrappers. Frank Shay, the publisher, had the remaining 75 copies bound in five different colored wrappers (15 of each): red, dark green, apple green, yellow, and blue. “Simultaneously with the first edition there were printed five copies on Japan vellum, having the same title-page as the regular edition, but differing from the regular edition in that the endsheets were omitted...The only one I have seen was bound in red wrappers. Mr. Shay has no record or recollection of what other colors were used on these five copies” (Yost 15). A FINE COPY OF THIS RARITY. $600 - 800
456 MOSHEIM, John Lawrence (“Johann Lorenz von Mosheim”) (16931755). Commentaries on the Affairs of the Christians Before the Time of Constantine the Great; or, an Enlarged View of the Ecclesiastical History of the First Three Centuries. Robert Studley Vidal, translator. London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 18131835. 3 volumes, 8vo (215 x 128 mm). (Spotting throughout, browning.) Later half calf, spines gilt, brown and tan morocco lettering-pieces gilt (rubbed, some chipping, endleaves spotted). Provenance: John St. James (signature, 8 May 1867); 2 shelfmarks. FIRST EDITIONS IN ENGLISH, including copious notes and references added by Vidal. Mosheim was the Chancellor of The University of Göttingen, and a church historian. Property from a Prominent Chicago Collection $150 - 250
457 POE, Edgar Allan (1809-1849). “The Raven” in: The American Review: A Whig Journal. Vol. I, Nos. 1-6. New York: Wiley & Putnam, 1845. 6 parts in one, 8vo (225 x 145 mm). 3 engraved portraits (of 5, lacking 2). (Some pale spotting, a few leaves browned.) Contemporary cloth (rebacked in modern leather). FIRST APPEARANCE OF POE’S “RAVEN” which appears on p.143 of the second number, under the pseudonym “by --- Quarles.” Heartman and Canny consider this to be the first printing of “The Raven,” but which appearance came first is a bit of a dispute. Heartman and Canny maintain that the 29 January 1845 appearance in The Evening Mirror is not the first printing, since The American Review announced that “No. II will bear date Feb. 1845, but will be issue early in January.” Unless the publishers were unable to issued the work as promised, the appearance in The American Review predates the later January appearance in The Evening Mirror. See Heartman and Canny, p.145. $800 - 1,200
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458 [TRAVEL & EXPLORATION] -- [AFRICA] -- Proceedings of the Association for Promoting the Discover of the Interior Parts of Africa. London: C. Macrae, 1790. 4to (292 x 228 mm). Engraved folding map frontispiece. (Some spotting, a few short tears in map, some short tears.) Contemporary half calf, smooth spine gilt, black morocco lettering-piece gilt (top joint repaired, overall rubbing). Provenance: John Thomas Stanley, Esquire of Alderley (bookplate). FIRST EDITION, published by The African Association, which was created to inform the British of African geography and was founded in 1788. The large engraved frontispiece map depicts Northern Africa and was compiled by J. Rennell, who was a geographer, pioneer of oceanography, and one of the founders of the Royal Geographical Society in London in 1830. Property from the Estate of Professor Ethan D. Alyea, Jr., Bloomington, Indiana $400 - 600
459 [TRAVEL & EXPLORATION]. -- BLIGH, William (1754-1817). A Voyage to the South Sea, undertaken by command of His Majesty, for the purpose of Conveying the Bread-Fruit Tree to the West Indies, in His Majesty’s Ship the Bounty. London: Printed for George Nicol, 1792. 4to (285 x 230 mm). Engraved frontispiece portrait, 3 engraved plates (2 folding), 4 engraved maps and charts (3 folding). (Tiny spots to a few leaves.) Contemporary half calf, blind-tooled and gilt, marbled boards (some rubbing, upper joint just starting); blue cloth folding case. Provenance: Sir Robert Johnson Eden, 5th Baronet (armorial bookplate). FIRST EDITION OF “ONE OF THE MOST REMARKABLE INCIDENTS IN THE WHOLE OF MARITIME HISTORY” (Hill). Following a request by West Indian merchants to George III, Sir Joseph Banks recommended that the Admiralty fit out the Bounty for a voyage to collect bread-fruit trees from Tahiti for shipment to the West Indies. Banks also recommended Lieutenant Bligh as commander of the voyage on which Fletcher Christian sailed as Master’s Mate. Reaching Cape Horn in 1787 and encountering fierce head winds, Bligh retreated across the South Atlantic to round the Cape of Good Hope and sail south to Australia and New Zealand to Tahiti. This is the first official account of the voyage and mutiny, edited from Bligh’s journals by James Burney under the supervision of Sir Joseph Banks while Bligh was on his second bread-fruit voyage. The year of publication also marked the courtmartial proceedings against fourteen returned mutineers, three of whom were hanged. Ferguson 125; Hill 135; Kroepelien 93; NMM 1:624; Sabin 5910. Property from the Collection of Dr. Brant Mittler $6,000 - 8,000 152 F I N E B O O K S & M A N U S C R I P T S I N C L U D I N G A M E R I C A N A
460 [TRAVEL & EXPLORATION] -- BOWDICH, Thomas Edward (1791-1824). Excursions in Madeira and Porto Santo, During the Autumn of 1823, While on His Third Voyage to Africa. Sarah Bowdich, Editor. London: George B. Whittaker, 1825. 4to (265 x 209 mm). Lithographic hand-colored frontispiece, 18 lithographic plates (2 hand-colored, 6 folding, 4 in-text woodcut illustrations. (Some spotting or minor creasing.) Contemporary calf gilt, smooth spine gilt, black morocco lettering-piece gilt, blind and gilt decoration to sides, edges marbled, marbled endsheets (sympathetically rebacked, rubbed). Provenance: Rev. Dr. Bellamy (presentation inscription). FIRST EDITION, A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE EDITOR, inscribed to Rev. Dr. Bellamy by Bowditch’s wife. Bowdich’s text was completed and edited posthumously by his wife, Sarah, who contributed 3 additional sections: “A narrative of the Continuance of the Voyage to its Completion,” “A Description of the English Settlements on the River Gambia,” and the “Appendix.” Abbey Travel 190; Colas 418. Property from the Estate of Professor Ethan D. Alyea, Jr., Bloomington, Indiana $1,500 - 2,500
461 [TRAVEL & EXPLORATION]. -- BRUCE, James (1730-1794). -- Travels To Discover The Source of the Nile, In the Years 1768… 1773. Vol. I-IV. -- Select Specimens of Natural History, Collected in Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, in Egypt, Arabia, Abyssinia, and Nubia. Vol. V. -- Edinburgh: G.G.J. and J. Robinson, 1790. 5 volumes, 4to (294 x 229 mm). 55 engraved plates, 3 engraved folding plans, 3 engraved folding maps, half-titles, title-pages with engravings, engraved dedication vol. I. (Some spotting or minor offsetting, a few marginal tears, a few blank leaves stuck together.) Contemporary tree calf, smooth spines gilt, red morocco letteringpieces gilt (hinges starting, some with old repairs, overall wear). FIRST EDITION. Bruce of Kinnaird had studied Arabic and Ethiopic and was British Consul at Algiers. Believing the source of the Nile to be somewhere in Abyssinia, Bruce travelled from the Red Sea coast (near present day Eritrea) and reached Gondar where he spent three years at the royal court. By 1770 he had jointed an expeditionary force which brought him within reach of his goal -- to the spring south of Lake Tana form which the Blue Nile rises -- and was forever convinced this was the source of the main Nile. He remained in the Sudan and Egypt until returning to Scotland in 1773, but disillusioned by the reception he received there, did not publish his journals until 1790. It is however “one of the most splendid narratives in the literature of African explorations” (Hallett, Africa to 1815). Blackmer 221; Hilmy I:91; Nissen ZBI 617. Property from the Estate of Professor Ethan D. Alyea, Jr., Bloomington, Indiana $800 - 1,200
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462 [TRAVEL & EXPLORATION] -- DENHAM, Dixon, Major (1786-1828), and Captain Hugh CLAPPERTON (1788-1827). Narrative of Travels and Discoveries in Northern and Central Africa, in the Years 1822, 1823, and 1824… Extending Across the Great Desert to the Tenth Degree of Northern Latitude, and From Kouka in Bornou, to Sackatoo, the Capital of the Fellatah Empire. London: John Murray, 1826. 2 volumes in one, 4to (268 x 211 mm). Engraved frontispiece, 32 engraved plates (one hand-colored), 11 in-text woodcut illustrations (2 plans), 6 engraved maps (5 full-page, one folding). (Some occasional spotting or offsetting.) Modern half calf over green cloth gilt, smooth spine gilt, 3 black morocco lettering-pieces gilt, edges faintly marbled, marbled endsheets (chipping to lettering-piece, some small scuffs). Provenance: W. Conway (signature). FIRST EDITION of important explorations in Africa. The first volume is an official expedition to discover the course of the Niger from the starting point of Tripoli, rather than West Africa. Clapperton and Oudney were the original members of the party, to which Denham was added, but whose “arrogance, malice, and contempt for his colleagues from the start soured relations between them” (DNB). This famous “Bornu Mission” provided the earliest European report on the Central Sudan and Northern Nigeria. From the Mediterranean they reached Murzuk and Bornu on the west of Lake Chad, and eventually Sokota. Failing to ascertain the source and termination of the Niger, Denham explored Lake Chad, and Oudney and Clapperton journeyed westward to the Niger. Clapperton continued alone after Oudney’s death at Murmur, reaching Sokota and rejoining Denham at Kuka. On the second expedition Clapperton had been promoted to Commander and was sent back to Sokota to open up trade with the west coast. He died in 1827, having crossed Yoruba Country and the Niger. He was survived by his “servant” Richard Lander who carried on alone. Lander brought Clapperton’s journals back to England and wrote the “Life of Clapperton” which appears in this second work. Hilmy, p. 172 (Narrative). Property from the Estate of Professor Ethan D. Alyea, Jr., Bloomington, Indiana $400 - 600
463 [TRAVEL & EXPLORATION]. -- GRANT, James Augustus (1827-1892). A Walk Across Africa or Domestic Scenes from my Nile Journal. Edinburgh and London, William Blackwood and Sons, 1864. 8vo (222 x 141 mm). 2 folding color maps (one folding into rear pocket, one laid in). (Several short tears to folds of maps, occasional spotting.) Publisher’s original green pictorial cloth gilt, smooth spine, gilt-lettered and decorated, front cover with blind-stamped border and gilt figure, by Edmunds and Remnant with their ticket (hinges weak). FIRST EDITION of Grant’s account of his mission to find the source of the Nile with fellow Indian army officer, John Hanning Speke. “The two explorers and their porters now embarked on the ‘long walk’ on which Palmerston was later to remark and so provide Grant with the title of his book, A Walk across Africa” (DNB). Czech, p. 66 (“A monumental work of exploration”). Property from the Estate of Professor Ethan D. Alyea, Jr., Bloomington, Indiana $1,000 - 1,500
464 [TRAVEL & EXPLORATION]. -- HARRIS, John (1667?-1719). Navigantium atque Itinerantium Bibliotheca. Or, a Complete Collection of Voyages and Travels. London: Printed for T. Woodward, A. Ward, S. Birt, D. Browne, et al., 1744-1748. 2 volumes, folio (403 x 250 mm). 38 engraved plates, 23 engraved maps (16 folding). (Some minor spotting to a few leaves, a few leaves in vol.I with minor dampstaining to upper corner outer margin.) Contemporary calf (rebacked to style, a few small losses or some minor rubbing to finish). Second edition, edited by John Campbell. First published in 1705, this edition contains many more plates and maps than the first. “Especially prized for its maps...[the second edition is] particularly valuable [for] the inclusion of a printing of Tasman’s original map” of the “Southern Continent” (Hill). The work also includes what is likely the first account of Bering’s second expedition, and contains THE FIRST ENGLISH MAP OF NEW HOLLAND, as well as maps of Australia and the Americas. Alden and Landis 744/116; Hill 775; Lada-Mocarski 3; Sabin 30483. Property from the Collection of Dr. Brant Mittler $6,000 - 8,000
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465 [TRAVEL & EXPLORATION]. -- ROGERS, Woodes. A Cruising Voyage Round the World: First to the South Sea, thence to the East Indies.... Second edition. London: For Andrew Bell and Bernard Lintot, 1718. 8vo (195 x 107 mm). 5 copper engraved maps. (6 1/2-in tear to world map repaired verso). Contemporary calf (old rebacking to style, upper joint starting, some overall wear). Second edition, preceded by the first edition of 1712. Rogers’ privately funded voyage was more financially successful than any since Drake and Cavendish; Rogers maintained good order despite a “mongrel crew and with officers often mutinous.” Privateer William Dampier was pilot and navigator (see lot 53). After they rounded Cape Horn, they sheltered at Juan Fernandez; there, they rescued Alexander Selkirk, whose story (as told by Rogers) was an inspiration for Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe. Their attack on Spanish ships on the west coast of Mexico and South America resulted in the taking of an Acapulco galleon (among others), whose bounty included important information in the form of maps. Included here are 5, taken by Rogers from “The best Spanish manuscript draughts.” Hill 1479; Sabin 72754; Wagner-Camp 78a. Property from the Collection of Dr. Brant Mittler $800 - 1,200 466 [TRAVEL & EXPLORATION]. -- WALLACE, Alfred Russel (1823-1913). The Malay Archipelago: The Land of the Orang-utan, and the Bird of Paradise.... London: MacMillan and Co., 1869. 2 volumes, 8vo. Half-titles; 2 folding maps, 6 plates. Publisher’s green pictorial cloth gilt (recased preserving original endpapers, spines slightly leaned). Provenance: Marshall S. Foster (signatures). Second edition, published in the same year as the first edition. “On the basis of artistic format, literary style, and scientific merit, it is clearly one of the finest scientific travel books ever written” (DSB). During his travels in the East Indies from 1854-1862, Wallace formulated the principle of natural selection. Property from the Collection of Dr. Brant Mittler $200 - 300 467 [TRAVEL & EXPLORATION]. -- Hill Collection of Pacific Voyages. San Diego: University of California, 1974, 1982, 1983. 3 volumes, 8vo. Original publisher’s blue decorated cloth. Property from the Collection of Dr. Brant Mittler $200 - 300 468 [VICTORIA, QUEEN OF ENGLAND (1819-1901)] -- BENSON, Arthur Christopher (1862-1925), and Viscount Reginald Brett ESHER (1852-1930), editors. The Letters of Queen Victoria A Selection from her Majesty’s Correspondence Between the Years 1837 and 1861. London: John Murray, 1907. 3 volumes, 8vo (221 x 147 mm). Engraved portrait frontispieces with tissue guards, engraved illustrated, 2 manuscript pages laid in. (Spotting.) Contemporary half red morocco gilt, spine in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands gilt, gilt-lettered in 3 compartments, top edges gilt, other edges uncut (spotting to edges and endsheets). Provenance: Althorp (tipped-in ANS, Northampton: 23 December 1908), gifted to: Harry Manfield (18555-1925) (bookplate). FIRST EDITION, the first of 3 series of 3 volumes each containing The Letters of Queen Victoria. This set was a Christmas and New Year’s gift to British Liberal Party politician and prominent Freemason Harry Manfield. [Laid-in:] Autograph material from members of Victoria’s circle, comprising: an unsigned note mentioning Johanna Clara Louise Lehzen, who was Princess Victoria’s governess and later lady in attendance; partly printed document signed requesting the release of Henriette Vernet and forgiving her debt. $700 - 900 468
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469 AUSTEN, Jane (1775-1817). Works. Sarah Chauncey Woolsey, editor. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1892-1894. 8 works in 12 volumes, 8vo (172 x 113 mm). Illustrated frontispieces. (Several leaves uncut and unopened.) 19th-century half blue morocco gilt, spines in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands, gilt-lettered in 2 compartments, gilt-decoration in the rest, top edge gilt, marbled endsheets (some very minor wear). LIMITED EDITION, one of 250 sets of the uniformly bound complete set of Austen’s novels with one volume of letters by Austen. Property from the Estate of Professor Ethan D. Alyea, Jr., Bloomington, Indiana $500 - 700
470 [FINE BINDINGS] – [BONAPARTE, Napoleon (1769-1821)]. The Life of Napoleon. [With:] Memoirs of Napoleon. [With:] Memoirs of Madame Junot. New York: The Grolier Society, ca 1900. Together 16 volumes, 8vos (221 x 142 mm). Original half marron morocco gilt over silk boards, 4 raised bands gilt, gilt lettered in 3 compartments, top edges gilt, all others uncut (occasional minor scuffing, uncut edges toned, a few sides faded). All LIMITED EDITION, Number 1 of 425 copies of the EMPIRE EDITION. $400 - 600
471 [BINDING] -- [BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER, English]. The Book of Common Prayer... Oxford: T. Wright and W. Gill, 1769. 8vo (203 x 123 mm). Contemporary red panelled morocco gilt, spine in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands, each gilt-decorated, edges gilt (a few tiny holes at foot of spine, a touch of wear to extremities); cloth folding case. $600 - 800
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472 [BINDING]. A large, calligraphic patent of nobility from Austria-Hungry, in an ornate binding. (Vienna, 1911). Folio, (368x 279 mm). Single column, approximately 24 lines of text per page. Front cover presenting the imperial coat of arms for Austria-Hungary, blue-green morocco, gilt metalwork with inlaid precious stones and faience; with stand. Bestowing upon Brunn industrialist Adolf Noble von Kurschner and his descendants a Hungarian noble title. With a large a large Coat of Arms displaying a machine gear and 2 plow blades in a field of blue, above 2 fleurdi-lies and 4 stars in a red field, beneath a blue eagle and flanked by two lions. Property from the Estate of Kenneth R. Treis, Milwaukee, Wisconsin $400 - 600
473 [CRUIKSHANK, George (1792-1878)] -- JERROLD, William Blanchard (1826-1884). The Life of George Cruikshank in Two Epochs with Numerous Illustrations in Two Volumes. London: Chatto and Windus, 1882. 2 volumes, 8vo (186 x 125 mm). Frontispieces. EXTRA ILLUSTRATED by the addition of approximately 170 portraits and plates (15 hand-colored, many folding), 66 woodcuts, 8 autograph letters, facsimiles of signatures. (Some light spotting.) 20th-century red crushed morocco sides gilt-decorated with facsimile signature, impish figures, and blind scrolls after Cruikshank, smooth spines gilt-letter and similarly decorated, top edge gilt, other uncut, stamp-signed by Nelly & Sons (some light rubbing). FIRST EDITION. Cruikshank was one of Britain’s most prominent satirical illustrators, covering politicians, class, the monarchy, and everyday life. Autograph letters in this edition include examples by: Samuel Laman Blanchard, editor of George Cruikshank’s Omnibus in 1842; biographer John Forster, who revolved in the same circles as Cruikshank and Charles Dickens; Lord Houghton, who served as pall-bearers for Cruikshank’s funeral (p. 237); former Prime Minister of the U.K. William Ewart Gladstone, and others. $600 - 800
474 [FINE BINDINGS] – a uniformly bound group of 9 works in 11 volumes, most by ELIOT, George (1819-1880), comprising:
LEWES, Mary Anne Evans (“George ELIOT”) (1819-880). The Works of George Eliot. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, N.d. 8 works in 10 volumes. Standard Edition. – Middlemarch. Vol. III only. – The Mill on the Floss. 2 volumes. – Scenes of Clerical Life. 2 volumes. – Felix Holt, the Radical. Vol. I only. – Daniel Deronda. Vol. III only. – Romola. Vol. I only. – Impressions of Theophrastus Such. 1 volume. – Adam Bede. Vol. II only. -- [With:] -- CROSS, John Walter (1840-1924). George Eliot’s Life as Related in her Letters and Journals. London, 1885. Vol. I (of 3). Engraved portrait frontispiece. (Some offsetting.) FIRST EDITION. -- Together, 9 works in 11 volumes, 8vo (183 x 120 mm). (Some leaves partially uncut). 19thCentury half green morocco on green cloth gilt, spines in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands, 2 compartments gilt lettering, top edge gilt, marbled endsheets (spines faded, some rubbing). Provenance: Amy Bend Bishop (1870-1957) (bookplate).
475 [FINE BINDINGS] -- HAMERTON, Philip Gilbert (1834-1894). Etching and Etchers. London: R. Clay, Son, and Taylor for MacMillan & Co., 1868. 4to (253 x 166 mm). Title printed in red and black, frontispiece etching, 35 etchings or drypoints (5 double-page, 1 folding). (Very occasional spotting, light offsetting.) Maroon morocco gilt, spine in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands, gilt lettering in one compartment gilt decoration in the rest, sides and turndowns gilt, all edges gilt, stamp-signed by Zaehnsdorf (some scuffs to sides). Provenance: Newton Hall, Cambridge (bookplate, initials J.S.). FIRST EDITION, including etchings after famous etchers, including Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, Jacques Callot, Samuel Palmer, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, and others. $500 - 700
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476 KEATS, John (1795-1821). The Poetical Works. London: Edward Moxon, 1854. 8vo (201 x 130 mm). Illustrated. 20th-century red levant COSWAYSTYLE BINDING BY SANGORSKI AND SUTCLIFFE FOR THE HALLE BROS., covers gilt, upper cover with central “JK” monogram gilt, spine in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands, gilt-lettered in one, the rest gilt-decorated, edges gauffered and gilt, wide turn-ins gilt, blue morocco front doublure gilt with inlaid miniature portrait of Keats within a sunken oval gilt with red morocco onlays, blue watered silk endleaves; cloth folding case. $1,000 - 1,500
477 SHAKESPEARE, William. -- GAUTIER, Theophile. -- FLAUBERT, Gustave. -- BOURGET, Paul. -- MUSSET, Alfred de -- LONGUS. Romeo and Juliet; Anthony and Cleopatra; King Candaules; A Night of Cleopatra; Jean and Jeannette; Daphnis and Chloe; Heródias; A Simple Heart; Pastels; The Last Abbé. Édition Artistique. Paris: Société des Beaux Arts, n.d. 10 volumes, 4to (260 x 194 mm). Engraved color frontispieces, numerous plates, most in two states, colored and uncolored, numerous illustrations all after Paul Avril, A. Robaudi, Raphael Collin and others. Green crushed levant, covers gilt with white, red and violet morocco onlay pansies, spines in 5 compartments with 4 raised bands, giltlettered in 2, the rest with gilt floral tooling and onlays, board edges gilt, wide turn-ins gilt, crushed red levant doublures with gilt and blue morocco onlay centerpieces, red watered silk flyleaves, top edges gilt, others uncut (some light rubbing or slight sunning). LIMITED EDITION, number 73 of 75 copies of the “ÉDITION ARTISTIQUE” on Japan paper printed for England and America. Property from the Estate of Avis Hope Truska, Scottsdale, Arizona $2,000 - 3,000
478 SHAKESPEARE, William (1564-1616). The Sonnets of Shakespeare. London: Robt. Riviere and Son, Ltd., 1928. 8vo (182 x 129 mm). Printed in green and black throughout. 20thcentury brown levant COSWAY-STYLE BINDING BY BAYNTUN (RIVIERE), covers gilt with floral cornerpieces, upper cover with inlaid miniature portrait of Shakespeare, spine in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands gilt, gilt-lettered in one, the rest with floral tool, edges gilt, wide turn-ins gilt, (spine slightly faded, spine corners slightly rubbed); cloth slipcase. $1,500 – 2,500 158 F I N E B O O K S & M A N U S C R I P T S I N C L U D I N G A M E R I C A N A
479 WILLIAMS, H. Noel. Madame Recamier and her Friends. London and New York: Harper & Brothers, 1906. 8vo (211 x 133 mm). EXTRA ILLUSTRATED by the addition of 16 plates. 20th-century blue levant COSWAY-STYLE BINDING BY BAYNTUN, covers gilt with stylized foliate border, upper cover with inlaid miniature of Madame Recamier, spine in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands, gilt-lettered in 2, the rest gilt-decorated, edges gilt, wide turn-ins gilt, tan watered silk doublures and endleaves; cloth folding case. $1,000 – 1,500
480 WINDSOR, Edward, Duke of (1894-1972). A King’s Story: The Memoirs of the Duke of Windsor. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1951. 8vo. Title-page with woodblock printed in red, frontispiece, photographic illustrations. Original publisher’s red morocco gilt, spine in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands, gilt-lettered in two, top edge gilt, others uncut, turn-ins gilt, watered silk doublures; red cloth slipcase (some minor fading to spine). LIMITED EDITION, number 56 of 385 copies SIGNED BY WINDSOR. $500 - 600
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482 [FINE BINDINGS] -- A group of 4 works in 5 volumes in finely bound, comprising: CUNNINGHAM, Peter. The Story of Nell Gwyn: and the Sayings of Charles the Second. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1852. Later calf gilt, stamp-signed LEIGHTON. Provenance: W. J. Thoms (inscription). FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY SIGNED BY CUNNINGHAM to W.J. Thoms. – TREVELYAN, George Otto, Sir. The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1876. 2 volumes. 20th-century green crushed levant stamp-signed BUMPUS LTD. Second edition. [Tipped in:] MACAULAY. Autograph note signed (“Macaulay”), to Mrs. Drummond, 8 March 1837, on Papier Satiné. -- STERNE, Laurence. A Sentimental Journey. London: George Routledge & Sons, Limited, 1894. Contemporary tan morocco gilt, stamp-signed RAMAGE. Another edition. -- [VICTORIA, QUEEN OF ENGLAND (1819-1901)]. HOLMES, Richard R. Queen Victoria 1819-1901. London, New York, and Bombay: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1901. Contemporary dark brown crushed levant gilt, stamp-signed RIVIERE AND SON. Provenance: Acquired from W.&G. Foyles Ltd., 119-125 Charing Cross Rd., London (sticker); Winnie Hearndon (inscription), gifted to; Annie Paxton (inscription, 1908). NEW EDITION. QUEEN VICTORIA’S SIGNATURE TIPPED IN. -- Together, 4 works in 5 volumes, all 8vo, condition generally fine. $250 - 350
483 [FINE BINDINGS] – A group of 4 works in finely bound, comprising: Society in London. London: Spottiswoode and Co., for Chatto & Windus, 1885. (183 x 119 mm). EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED. Blue crushed levant gilt, stamp-signed TOUT BINDER.ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT MATERIAL NEATLY BOUND IN from figures in London at the time, including journalist Edmund Yates, Sir Francis Cowley Burnand, and Marie Effie Wilton Bancroft. -- TENNYSON, Alfred, Lord. Selection from the Works of Alfred Tennyson. London: Bradbury, Evans, and Co. for Strahan and Co., 1869. 20th-century green morocco gilt, stamp-signed BIRDSALL & SON. With signatured purportedly in Tennyson’s hand (but presumably not). -- BOYLE, Eleanor Vere. Ros Rosarum ex Horto Poetarum Dew of the Ever-Living Rose Gathered from The Poets’ Gardens of many Lands. London: Elliott Stock, 1897. 20th-century red crushed levant gilt. Third edition. -- MOORE, Thomas. The Loves of the Angels, a Poem. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1823. 19th-century green straight-grained morocco gilt. Fourth edition. -- Together, 4 works in 4 volumes, all FIRST EDITION (except where noted), all 8vo, condition generally fine. $300 - 400
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484 [FINE BINDINGS] -- A group of 5 works in 7 volumes with finely bound, comprising: COMBE, William. Thomas Rowlandson, illustrator. The Tour of Dr. Syntax in Search of the Picturesque. --The Second Tour of Dr. Syntax, in Search of Consolation. --The Third Tour of Dr. Syntax, in Search of a Wife. London: Ackermann, 1821. 3 volumes. 20th-century red calf gilt. Later editions. [With:] BARHAM, Richard Harris Dalton. The Ingoldsby Legends; or, Mirth and Marvels. London: Richard Bentley, 1870. Vol. I only (of 2). 20th-century blue morocco gilt. Annotated edition. – CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorne (“Mark Twain”). A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court. New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1890. Original publisher’s pictorial green cloth gilt; folding case. Later issue. BAL 3429. -- THACKERAY, William Makepeace (“Michael Angelo Titmarsh”). Rebecca and Rowena. A Romance Upon Romance. London: Chapman and Hall, 1850. Original pictorial boards; slipcase. -- THACKERAY. Doctor Birch & his young friends. London: Chapman and Hall, 1849. Original pictorial boards; slipcase. -- Together 5 works in 7 volumes, all 8vo, most FIRST EDITIONS, condition generally fine.
485 [FINE BINDINGS] -- A’BECKETT, Gilbert Abbott (1811-1856). John LEECH (1817-1864), illustrator. The Comic History of England. London: The Punch Office, 1847-1848. Vol. I-II. -- The Comic History of Rome. London: Bradbury and Evans, [ca 1851]. Vol. III. 2 works in 3 volumes, 8vo (216 x 135 mm). 30 colored etchings or engravings, over 240 woodcuts. Contemporary half tan calf gilt, red and green morocco leathering-pieces gilt. FIRST EDITIONS. Tooley 295 & 298. [With:] ALIGHIERI, Dante (1265-1321). The Vision; or Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise, of Dante Alighieri. Rev. Henry Francis Cary, translator. London: Taylor and Hessey, 1819. 3 volumes, 8vo. 19th-century calf gilt, red morocco lettering-pieces gilt, stamp-signed MORRELL (minor wear). $200 - 300
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486 [FINE BINDINGS] – HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel (1804-1864). The Blithedale Romance. London: Chapman and Hall, 1852. 2 volumes, 8vo (195 x 120 mm). 20th-century polished calf gilt, , dark red and green morocco leather letter-pieces gilt, top edge gilt, stampsigned BAYNTUN (some minor chipping); slipcase. FIRST EDITION. [With:] BARRIE, James Matthew, Sir (“J.M. Barrie”) (1860-1937). The Little Minister. London, Paris & Melbourne: Cassell & Company, Limited, 1891. 3 volumes, 8vo ( 184 x 121 mm). 20th-century tan calf gilt, green and tan morocco lettering-pieces gilt, edges gilt, stampsigned BAYNTUN (some very minor scuffs); slipcase. FIRST EDITION.
487 [FINE BINDING] -- A group of 3 works in 7 volumes finely bound, comprising: TROLLOPE, Frances. Domestic Manners of the Americans. London: Whittaker, Treacher, & Co., 1832. 2 volumes. 20th century half red morocco gilt.-- TROLLOPE, Anthony. Can You Forgive Her? London: Chapman and Hall, 1864-1865. 2 volumes in one. 19th-century half blue morocco gilt, stamp-signed RIVIERE & SON. -- BEVERIDGE, Albert J. The Life of John Marshall. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, [1916-1919]. 4 volumes. Publisher’s half brown morocco gilt. -- Together, 3 works in 7 volumes, all 8vo, all FIRST EDITIONS, condition generally good.
$200 - 300
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488 [FINE BINDINGS] -- A group of 7 works in 8 volumes finely bound, comprising: THICKNESSE, Ann. Sketches of the Lives and Writings of the Ladies of France. London: Dodsley and W. Brown, 1781. 12mo, Vol. III only. Contemporary calf smooth spine gilt, red morocco letteringpiece. Later edition. ESTC T110208 -- LYTTON, Edward George Earle Bulwer. Eugene Aram. London: Members of the Society of Bibliophilists, 1831. Edition de Luxe, number. 51 0f 100 copies. -- LAMB, Charles & Mary. Arthur RACKHAM, illustrator. Tales from Shakespeare. London and New York: J.M. Dent & Co. and E.P. Dutton & Co., 1909. 4to. 20thCentury Half brown morocco. -- PHILLIPPS-WOLLEY, Clive. A Sportsman’s Eden. London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1888. Bruns P88. – And 3 others. Together, 7 works in 8 volumes, all 8vo (173/225 x 101/159 mm) (except where noted), all late 19th-century half-calf morocco gilt (except where noted), all FIRST EDITION except where noted, condition generally good. $400 - 600
489 [FINE BINDINGS] -- A group of 12 works in 13 volumes (11 uniformly bound) by George Wharton JAMES finely bound, comprising:
In and Around the Grand Canyon: Pasadena Edition. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1900. 20th-century green and brown morocco gilt. “Pasadena Edition” Number 458 of 500 copies SIGNED. --The California Birthday Book. Los Angeles, CA: Arroyo Guild Press, 1909. 20th-century brown morocco gilt. [With:] 10 uniformly bound works in 11 volumes, comprising: Indian Basketry and How to Make Indian and Other Baskets. New York: Henry Malkan, 1903. -- Indians of the Painted Desert Region. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1904. -- The Wonders of the Colorado Desert. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1906. 2 volumes. [With:] WARD, A.B. The Bush Parson. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1906. -- And 6 others. All 20th-century half morocco, marbled boards, gilt. Together, 12 works in 13 volumes, 8vo, numerous illustrations, condition generally fair Provenance for the lot: Hugo Goehle (inscription and signature from author). $200 - 300
490 FREER, Martha Walker (1822-1888). A uniformly bound set of her works, all London: Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, FIRST EDITIONS, comprising:
Marguerite D’Angouleme. 1854. 2 volumes. -- Jeanne D’Albret. 1855. 2 volumes. -- Elizabeth de Valois. 1857. 2 volumes. -- Henry III. King of France and Poland. 1858. 3 volumes. -- History of the Reign of Henry IV. 1860. 2 volumes. -- Henry IV & Marie de Medici. 1861. 2 volumes. -- The Last Decade of the Glorious Reign. Part III of the History of the Reign of Henry IV. 1863. 2 volumes. -- All FIRST EDITION, all 8vo (187 x 115 mm), all marbled endsheets, all engraved portrait frontispieces, many with tissue guards. (Lacking frontispiece to Jeanne D’Albret vol. II, some offsetting). Uniformly bound in late 19th-century blue calf gilt, green spine, spines in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands, 2 compartments with brown morocco lettering-pieces, all edges gilt (a few front covers nearly free, some rubbing). Together, 7 works in 15 volumes, condition generally good. Provenance for the lot: R.D. Jackson (bookplate); John F. Fleming (1910-1987). $300 - 400
491 [BINDINGS]. 18 works from the Classics of Medicine Library, including: ANDRY, Nicholas (1658-1742). Orthopeadia: or, the Art of Correcting and Preventing Deformites in Children. 8vo. 1980. -- LIND, James (1716-1794). A Treatise on the Scurvy. 8vo. 1980. -- SCARPA, Antonio (1752-1832). Practical Observations on the Principal Diseases of the Eyes. 8vo. 1980. -- BROWNE, Thomas (1605-1682). Religio Medici. 1980. 8vo. -- GRAY, Henry (1827-1861). Anatomy: Descripiptive and Surgical. 1981. 8vo. -- LOWE, Peter (ca. 1550-1612). The Whole Course of Chirurgerie. 1981. 8vo. -- HIPPOCRATES (c. 460370 BCE). The Aphorisms of Hippocrates. 4to. Original prospectus. 1982. Provenance: Chrystyne Jackson (book plate). -- PAVLOVA, Ivan (1849-1936). The Digestive Glands. 1982. 8vo. -- MANSON, Patrick (1844-1922). Tropical Diseases: A Manual of the Diseases of Warm Climates. 8vo. Original prospectus tipped in. 1984. -- And 9 others. Together 18 works in 18 volumes, all in original leather bindings gilt, condition generally fine. Complete list available upon request. From the Private Collection of Richard Cady $400 – 600 V I E W T H E C O M P L E T E C ATA L O G U E AT H I N D M A N A U C T I O N S . C O M 161
492 492 [BINDINGS]. A group of 8 works published by the Live Oak Press for the Sporting Heritage Collection, comprising:
493 495 [BINDINGS] - [EASTON PRESS]. A group of 52 volumes published by the Easton Press relating to Business, Economics, and History, with some duplicated, including:
BISHOP, Richard (1887-1975). Bishop’s Wildfowl. St. Paul, MN: Brown & Bigelow, 1948. 4to. Original prospectus tipped it. First edition. -- CLARK, Roland (18741957). Gunner’s Dawn. 1983. 4to. LIMITED EDITION, number 153 of 500 copies. -- BISHOP Bishop’s Wildfowl. 1993. 4to. LIMITED EDITION, number 153 or 500 copies. -- HUNT, Lynn Bogue (1878-1960). An Artist’s Game Bag. 1993. 4to. LIMITED EDITION, number 153 of 450 copies. -- KUHNERT, Wilhelm (18651936). The Animal Art of Wilhelm Kuhnert. 1993. Oblong 8vo. LIMITED EDITION, number 153 of 450 copies. -- SCHALDACH, William J. (1896-1982). Fish by Schaldach. 4to. 1993. LIMITED EDITION, number 153 of 450 copies. -- SCHALDACH. Big Game Printed: Fifty Years with Brush and Rifle. 4to. 1993. LIMITED EDITION, number 153 of 450 copies. -- JAQUES, Francis Lee (18871969). The Shape of Things: The Art of Francis Lee Jaques. 1994. 4to. LIMTED EDITION, number 153 of 450 copies. -- All in original leather bindings, edges gilt. -- Together, 8 works in 8 volumes, condition fine.
GALBRAITH, John Kenneth. The Great Crash: 1929. -- RAND, Ayn (19051982). The Fountainhead. 1989. -- MILLER, Arthur (1915-2005). Death of a Salesman. 2002. -- GRAHAM, Benjamin (1894-1976). The Intelligent Investor. 2003. -- LAWRENCE, T.E. (1888-1935). Seven Pillars of Wisdom. 2003. In original plastic. -- LEE, Harper (1926-2016). To Kill a Mockingbird. 2007. -- Lincoln: The Prairie Years and The War Years. 1995. 6 volumes. In original plastic. -- LYNCH, Peter (1944). One Up on Wall Street. 2000. SIGNED by PETER LYNCH. -- SHWARZENEGGER, Arnold (1947). Total Recall. 2012. SIGNED by SHWARZENEGGER. -- CONRAD, Joseph. Lord Jim. In Original Plastic. -- SMITH, Adam. The Wealth of Nations. 1991. -- MELVILLE, Herman. Moby Dick. In original plastic. -- And 40 more. -- Together, 43 works in 52 volumes, all in original leather bindings, edges gilt, condition fine. -- Complete list available upon request.
From the Private Collection of Richard Cady
Property from the Estate of Timothy E. Burton, Brookfield, Wisconsin
$200 - 300
$400 - 600
493 [BINDINGS] - [EASTON PRESS]. HEMINGWAY, Ernest (1899-1961). A group of 19 works in 20 volumes by Ernest Hemingway, published by the Easton Press, comprising:
496 [BINDINGS] - [EASTON PRESS]. A group of 82 books published by the Easton Press relating to American politics and presidents with some duplicates, including:
Fore Whom the Bell Tolls. 1970. -- Men without Women. 1990. -- The Old Man and the Sea. 1990. -- A second copy. -- The Sun also Rises. 1990. -- A Farewell to Arms. 1990. -- The Torrents of Spring. 1990. -- The Snows of Kilimanjaro. 1990. -- A second copy. -- To Have and Have Not. 1990. -- The Garden of Eden. 1990. -- Winner Take Nothing. 1990. -- The Dangerous Summer. 1990. -- The Fifth Column. 1990. -- In Our Time. 1990. -- Green Hills of Africa. 1990. -- Across the River and into the Trees. 1990. -- By Line: Ernest Hemingway. 1990. -- Islands in the Stream. 1990. --- All 8vo, all in original leather bindings, edges gilt, condition fine.
VIDAL, Gore. Lincoln. 1990. In original plastic. SIGNED by GORE VIDAL. -REAGAN, Ronald. An American Life. 1981. In original plastic. -- PARMET, Herbert S.. Jack: The Struggles of John F. Kennedy. 1980. -- SANDBURG, Carl. Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and The War Years. 1995. 6 volumes. -- CARTER, Jimmy. White House Diary. 2010. In original plastic. SIGNED by JIMMY CARTER. -- BUSH, George H.W.. All the Best. 1999. In original plastic. SIGNED FIRST EDITION. -- KISSINGER, Henry. Crisis. 2003. SIGNED EDITION. -- GALBRAITH, John Kenneth. Name-Dropping. 1999. SIGNED. -- REAGAN, Ronald. Speaking my Mind. 1989. -- MEACHAM, Jon. Destiny and Power. In original plactic. SIGNED EDITION. -- And 69 others. -- Together, 60 works in 82 volumes, all in original leather bindings, edges gilt, condition fine. -- Complete list available upon request.
Property from the Estate of Timothy E. Burton, Brookfield, Wisconsin $400 - 600 494 [BINDINGS] - [EASTON PRESS]. A group of 61 volumes published by the Easton Press relating to Business, Economics, History, and History with some duplicates, including: RAND, Ayn (1905-1982). The Fountainhead. 1989. -- RAND. Atlas Shrugged. -- CHERNOW, Ron. Titan: John D. Rockefeller, Sr. 2000. In original plastic. -- GALBRAITH, John Kenneth. The Great Crash: 1929. 1988. -- SANDBURG, Carl. Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and The War Years. 1995. 6 volumes. In original plastic. -- GRAHAM, Benjamin. The Intelligent Investor.-- CLANCY, Tom. The Hunt for Red October. In original plastic. -- MCKAY, Charles. Memoirs of Extra-Ordinary Public Delusions. 2 volumes. In original plastic. -- MITCHELL, Margaret. Gone with the Wind. In original plastic. -- And 53 more. -- Together, 61 works in 60 volumes, all in original leather bindings, edges gilt, condition fine. -- Complete list available upon request. Property from the Estate of Timothy E. Burton, Brookfield, Wisconsin $400 - 600
Property from the Estate of Timothy E. Burton, Brookfield, Wisconsin $400 - 600 497 [BINDINGS] - [EASTON PRESS]. A group of 100 volumes published by the Easton Press about the American West and military conflict, including some duplicates; comprising: MONAGHAN, Jay. Custer: The Life of General George Armstrong Custer. 1986. -- LONGSTREET, James (1821-1904). From Manassas to Appomattox. 1988. -- POTTER, E.B.. Nimitz. 1989. -- CHURCHILL, Winston (1874-1965). The Second World War. 1989. 5 volumes. -- VIDAL, Gore. Lincoln. 1990. In original plastic. SIGNED by GORE VIDAL. -- GORDON, Welche. Jesse James and his Band of Notorious Outlaws. 2018. -- BLUMENSON, Martin. Patton: The Man Behind the Legend. 1987. -- GORDON, Welchie. Jessie James and His Notorious Band of Outlaws. In original plastic. -- MCHPHERESON, James. Battle Cry of Freedom. 1989. 2 volumes. In original plastic. -- LONG, General A.L.. Memoirs of Robert E. Lee. Sealed in original plastic. -- And 85 more. -- Together, 83 works in 100 volumes, all in original leather bindings, edges gilt, condition fine. -- Complete list available upon request. Property from the Estate of Timothy E. Burton, Brookfield, Wisconsin $400 - 600
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Fore-Edge Paintings Lots 498-523
498 [FORE-EDGE PAINTING]. BACON, Francis, Sir (1561-1626). Essays, Moral, Economical, and Political. London: Chiswick Press for J. Carpenter, 1812. 8vo (8 1/2 x 5 3/8 in).19th-century straight-grained morocco gilt, edges gilt, concealing DOUBLE FORE-EDGE PAINTING of the Library at Trinity College, and Cambridge. Provenance: Henry Williams Mozley (bookplate). $400 - 600
499 [FORE-EDGE PAINTING] -- [BIBLE, in German]. Geisliche und Liebliche Lieder.... Berlin: Joshua David Schaft, 1775. 24mo (6 x 2 7/8 in). Contemporary calf gilt, edges gilt and gauffered, concealing a FORE-EDGE PAINTING of a castle. (some minor chipping or wear); slipcase. $400 - 600
500 [FORE-EDGE PAINTING] -- [BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER, English]. The Book of Common Prayer, And Administration of the Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, According to the Use of the Church of England: Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David. Cambridge: John Baskerville, 1762. 8vo (9 1/4 x 5 7/8 in). Contemporary red morocco gilt, cornerpieces, claps and catchedges gilt concealing a fore-edge painting of the Nativity after Botticelli. Provenance: Estcourt of Estcourt (Bookplate and early ownership inscription, “J.G. Estcourt. The gift of J.A. Bucknall Esq. 1784.” $600 - 800 V I E W T H E C O M P L E T E C ATA L O G U E AT H I N D M A N A U C T I O N S . C O M 163
501 [FORE-EDGE PAINTING] -- [BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER, English]. The Book of Common Prayer... London: George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, 1821. 8vo (6 x 3 5/8 in). Some minor spotting. Contemporary black straight-grained morocco gilt, edges gilt concealing a fore-edge painting of Oxford. Some light rubbing. $400 - 600
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502 [BINDINGS]. BURNS, Robert (1759-1796). The Complete Works containing the Poems, Songs and Correspondence.... - London: George Virtue, [ca 1850]. 8vo. (9 3/8 x 6 3/8 in). Numerous engravings. Contemporary green straight-grained morocco gilt, edges marbled. Some rubbing to joints and spine. $400 - 600 503 [FORE-EDGE PAINTING]. BYRON, George Gordon Noel, Lord (1788-1824). The Giaour: A Fragment of a Turkish Tale. Bound together with The Bride of Abydos. The Corsair. Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte. [London: n.p., 1813-1814]. 8vo. (8 1/4 x 5 1/4 in). Citron straight-grained morocco gilt, edges gilt concealing a fore-edge paining of the Hellispont (some light rubbing); brown cloth slipcase. $400 - 600
504 [FORE-EDGE PAINTING]. -- BYRON, George Gordon Noel, Lord (1788-1824). The Gaiour. 1814. -- Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, a Romaunt. 1814. -- Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto the Third. 1816. -- Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto the Fourth. 1818. -- Mazeppa, a Poem. 1819. -- All London: Thomas Davison for John Murray. 5 volumes, small 8vo (217 x 131 mm). One engraved plate folding. (Some light spotting.) Contemporary red straight-grained morocco gilt, covers with gilt and blind roll-tooled borders, spines in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands, gilt-lettered in 2 compartments, a repeated gilt pattern in the rest, board edges and turn-ins gilt, all edges gilt concealing fore-edge paintings of Rialto, Venice, Verona, Naples, Rome and an unidentified coastal Italian village. Some light wear to joints and light rubbing. Provenance: Henrietta (Goddard) Pole (ca 1770), and Charles Morice Pole, Sir (1757-1830), gifted to; Henrietta Maria Sarah (Pole) Stuart (aft 1792-1853) (inscription, 1821); Charles Pole Stuart (1826-1896) (bookplate). Uniformly bound set of works previously owned by 3 generations of the Pole family. Volumes were initially gifted to Henrietta Maria Sarah both from “her affectionate mother” and from “her affection father.” Fore-edge paintings include a the RIALTO, VENICE, VERONA, NAPLES, ROME, and a unidentified coastal Italian village. $1,500 - 2,500 164 F I N E B O O K S & M A N U S C R I P T S I N C L U D I N G A M E R I C A N A
505 [FORE-EDGE PAINTING]. HYDE, Edward Earl of Clarendon (1661-1723). Characters of Eminent Men. London: for R. Faulder, 1793. 8vo (175 x 108 mm). Numerous engraved portraits. Contemporary calf (rebacked), edges gilt concealing a FORE-EDGE PAINTING of Westminster (some wear). Provenance: Joseph Tasker (bookplate), Lieut. Col. Leopold E.D Jenner (bookplate). $400 - 600
506 [FORE-EDGE PAINTING]. CLAUSTRE, Andre de. Histoire de Thamas Kouli-Kan, Roi de Perse.... Paris: Briasson, 1743.
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12mo (163 x 98 mm). Engraved frontispiece, folding map. Contemporary sprinkled calf gilt, edges red concealing a FORE-EDGE PAINTING of Bandar Abbas, Persia (light rubbing to extremities). Provenance: B. Carra de Vaux (bookplate); Mr Geoffroy (signatures). Second edition of Claustre’s work, first published in 1742. $350 - 450
507 [FORE-EDGE PAINTINGS]. COWPER, William (1731-1800). The Poetical Works of William Cowper. London: William Pickering, 1843. 3 volumes, 8vo (162 x 98 mm). Engraved portrait of Cowper on title. Contemporary morocco with 6 compartments, edges gilt concealing FORE-EDGE PAINTING of coaching scenes (some light wear or slight fading). $600 - 800
508 [FORE-EDGE PAINTING]. GOLDSMITH, Oliver (1728-1774). The Poetical Works. London: C. Whittingham for H. D. Symonds, 1804. 8vo (162 x 95mm). Numerous wood-engravings throughout. (Some spotting). 19th-century red straight-grained morocco gilt, edges gilt concealing double fore-edge painting portraits of Goldsmith and Burke. Spine in 5 chambers (some very light wear to extremities). $400 - 600 V I E W T H E C O M P L E T E C ATA L O G U E AT H I N D M A N A U C T I O N S . C O M 165
509 [FORE-EDGE PAINTING]. HURDIS, James. The Village Curate, and Other Poems. Chiswick: Charles Wittingham, 1810. 8vo (216 x 130 mm). Engraved portrait of Hurdis in style of a portrait by F. Nash on title. Contemporary morocco gilt, edges gilt concealing a FORE-EDGE PAINTING of Oxford (some minor rubbing to extremities). Provenance: Bond Hudson at al Collection Sale, 11/28/11 (description tipped in); The William Randolph Hurst Collection (description tipped in; Hammer Galleries, Cincinnati, OH January 1941); unidentified armorial bookplate (with the motto Verité Sans Peur.) $800 - 1,200
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510 [FORE-EDGE PAINTING]. Le Temple des Vertus et des Graces ou Recueil. Paris: Chez Rosa, 1818. 12mo (111 x 89 mm). (Some spotting). Contemporary French calf gilt, edges gilt concealing a FORE-EDGE PAINTING of a scene on the Seine (some light fading or rubbing). $500 - 700 511 [BINDINGS]. MILTON, John (1608-1674). Paradise Lost. -- Paradise Regained. London: for John Sharpe, 1816. 2 volumes, 8vo (159 x 92 mm). Numerous hand-colored engravings. Contemporary mottled calf gilt, edges gilt; slipcase. $600 - 800
512 [FORE-EDGE PAINTINGS]. Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border: Consisting of Historical and Romantic Ballads. Edinburgh: James Ballantyne and Co., 1806. 3 volumes, 8vo (213 x 127 mm). Contemporary blue morocco gilt, edges gilt, concealing FORE-EDGE paintings of the Scottish Highlands, the ruins of a medieval church and a city scene (some light chipping to corners and spine). Provenance: Charles Sorase Dickins (armorial bookplates). Third edition. [Tipped in:] SCOTT, Walter, Sir. Autograph note signed (“Walter Scott”). $600 - 800 166 F I N E B O O K S & M A N U S C R I P T S I N C L U D I N G A M E R I C A N A
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513 [BINDING]. MOORE, Thomas (1779-1852). Lalla Rookh. London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1838. 8vo (232 x 146 mm). Numerous engravings. Contemporary red morocco elaborately gilt, edges gilt (some very light rubbing). [Tipped in:] MOORE. ALS, to an unnamed recipient, 14 July 1843. $500 - 700 514 [FORE-EDGE PAINTINGS]: SCOTT, Walter, Sir (1771-1832). Ballads and Lyrical Pieces. Edinburgh: for John Ballantyne and Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1812. 8vo (216 x 125 mm). Contemporary blue morocco gilt, edges gilt concealing FORE-EDGE PAINTING of a manor house and its holdings. Minor chipping to front cover and spine. Provenance: Charles Sorase Dickins (armorial bookplates). Fourth edition. -- [Uniformly bound with:] SCOTT. Rokeby. Edinburgh: for John Ballantyne and Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1813. Contemporary blue morocco gilt, edges gilt concealing FORE-EDGE PAINTING of a castle overlooking a loch (some light rubbing to extremities). Provenance: Charles Sorase Dickins (armorial bookplates). Fourth edition. $500 - 700
515 [FORE-EDGE PAINTING] -- SCOTT, Walter, Sir (1771-1832). The Lord of the Isles; a Poem. Edinburgh: James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Company and Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1815. 8vo (210 x 130 mm). Contemporary red straight-grained morocco gilt, edges gilt concealing a FORE-EDGE PAINTINGS of Loch Creran (some minor loses to spine ends). $400 - 600
516 [FORE-EDGE PAINTING]. SCOTT, Walter, Sir (1771-1832). The Lord of the Isles; a Poem. Edinburgh: James Ballantyne and Co., 1815. 8vo (210 x 133mm). Contemporary red straight-grained morocco gilt, edges gilt concealing a FORE-EDGE PAINTING of the Tower of London (some very minor rubbing). $300 - 400
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517 [FORE-EDGE PAINTING]. SCOTT, Walter, Sir (1771-1832). Peveril of the Peak. Edinburgh: Archibald, Constable and Co., 1822. 4 volumes, 8vo (225 x 108mm). Contemporary red morocco gilt, edges gilt, each concealing FORE-EDGE PAINTINGS of a castle, a townhouse, a street scene, and a country scene (some light rubbing). $800 - 1,200
517A [FORE-EDGE PAINTING] – SCOTT, Walter (1771-1832). Tales of the Crusaders. – Vol. I-II, The Betrothed. – Vol. III-IV, The Talisman – Edinburgh & London: Archibald Constable and Co., Hurst, Robinson, and Co., 1825. 2 works in 4 volumes, 8vo (173 x 107 mm). 19th-century red morocco gilt, spine in 7 compartments with 6 raised bands gilt, edges gilt, concealing FORE-EDGE PAINTINGS of St. Giles Cathedral, Parliament House, The University of Edinburgh, and The Bridewell (some minor chipping). FIRST EDITION of two of Sir Walter Scott’s Waverly novels. $600 - 800
518 [FORE-EDGE PAINTING]. A group of 2 books concealing FORE-EDGE PAINTINGS of water-scenes, comprising:
519 [FORE-EDGE PAINTING]. A group of 2 religious books concealing FOREEDGE PAINTINGS, comprising:
GALSWORTHY, John (1867-1933). The Forsyte Saga. London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1951. 8vo (178 x 114mm). Folding, Forsyte family tree attached, red morocco gilt, edges gilt concealing a FORE-EDGE PAINTING of London Bridge, stamp-signed by Henry Sotheran. [Tipped in:] John Galsworthy signature on a card. -- ROSCOE, Thomas. The Tourist in Italy. London: Robert Jennings and William Chaplin, 1831. 8vo. Later green morocco gilt, edges gilt concealing a FORE-EDGE PAINTING of Havana. -- Together, 2 works in 2 volumes. -- Condition generally good.
GRIER, Richard. A Reply to the “End of Religious Controversy”... London: for T. Cadell and others, 1821. 8vo (210 x 127 mm). Contemporary black straight-grained morocco gilt, edges gilt concealing a FORE-EDGE PAINTING of Cornhill. -- The Communion Service according to the use of the Church of England... London: De La More Press, 1913. 8vo (248 x 146mm). Numerous illustrations in the style of wood-block prints. Contemporary brown morocco gilt, edges gilt concealing a FORE-EDGE PAINTING by Bumpus. LIMITED EDITION, 29 of 600 copies printed. -Together, 2 works in 2 volumes. -- Condition generally good.
$200 - 300
$200 - 300
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520 [FORE-EDGE PAINTING]. A group of 3 FORE-EDGE PAINTINGS of scenes from Italy and France, comprising: DELILLE, Jacques Montanier (1738-1813). La pitie, poeme, precede du Dithyrambe sur l’immortalite de l’ame. Paris: Giguet et Michaud, 1805. 4to (146 x 89mm). Engraving on title. Contemporary brown morocco gilt, edges gilt concealing a DOUBLE FORE-EDGE PAINTING depicting the Palais-Royal, Rue-St.-Honoré.v-- GUARINI, Giovanni Battista (1538-1612). Il Pastor fido. London: White and Conchrane, 1810. 12mo (114 x 73 mm). Blue straight-grained morocco gilt, edges gilt concealing a FORE-EDGE PAINTING of a medieval stone bridge and a river. Provenance: L. Austin (earlier ownership inscription). -- TASSONI, Alessandro. La Secchia Rapita Poema Eroicomico. Florence: Gregorio Chiari, 1824. 8vo (222 x 137mm). Later vellum, covers with painted scenes of Italy, edges gilt concealing a fore-edge painting of Verona. Blue, cloth slipcase. Provenance: Bookplate. -- Together, 3 works in 3 volumes. -- Condition generally good. $300 - 400
521 [FORE-EDGE PAINTING]. [FORE-EDGE PAINTING]. A group of 3 books with FORE-EDGE PAINTINGS depicting scenes of the English countryside and manor houses, comprising: SCOTT, Walter, Sir (1771-1832). The Poetical Works. London; Frederick Warne and Co., n.d. 8vo (114 x 175mm). Engraved portrait of Scott on title. Numerous additional engravings throughout. 19thcentury morocco gilt, edges gilt concealing a FORE-EDGE PAINTING of Abbotsford. Spine in six compartments. Provenance: G.B. Ball (ownership inscription, 1884). -- WATTS, Isaac (1674-1748). Logic; or, the Right Use of Reason.... London: John Bumpus, 1822. 12mo (140 x 86mm). Engraved portrait of Watts on title. Contemporary red straightgrained morocco gilt, edges gilt concealing a DOUBLE FORE-EDGE PAINTING painting of a river scene and a manor house. -- NORTON, Caroline Elizabeth Sarah, Lady Stirling-Maxwell (1808-1877). The Child of the Islands. London: Chapman and Hall, 1845. 8vo (248 x 159mm). 19th-century green morocco gilt, edges gilt concealing a FORE-EDGE PAINTING depicting a horse race. -- Together 3 works in 3 volumes. -Condition generally good. $200 - 300
522 [FORE-EDGE PAINTING] -- A group of 6 religious works in 3 volumes with FORE-EDGE PAINTINGS, comprising: [BIBLE, in French] -- Le Nouveau Testament, C’est a dire, La Nouvelle Alliance de nostre Seigneur Jesus Christ. Paris: Antoine Cellier, 1669. 8vo (79 x 146mm). 19th or 20th century brown morocco gilt, edges gauffered and gilt, concealing FORE-EDGE PAINTING of flowers in an oval. – [COWPER, William and John NEWTON.] Olney Hymns. London: Whittingham and Arliss, 1815. 3 works in one volume, 16mo ( 105 x 54mm). Contemporary red straight-grained morocco gilt, edges gilt, concealing FORE-EDGE PAINTING of Olney Church. – [BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER, English]. GRIMSTON, Charlotte, editor. The Form of Morning Prayer, According to the Use of the United Church of England and Ireland. Oxford: J. Hatchard and Son, 1842. 2 works in one volume, 12mo (117 x 70 mm). Contemporary black morocco gilt, edges gilt, gauffered, and painted, working brass clasp at fore-edge. -- Together 6 works in 3 volumes, condition generally good. $300 - 400
523 [FORE-EDGE PAINTING] -- A Group of 4 works in 5 volumes regarding Courtly Love and Victorian Medievalism concealing fore-edge paintings, comprising: DRYDEN, John. Fables from Boccaccio and Chaucer. London: Stanhope Press, 1813. 2 works in 1 volume, 12mo (126 x 78 mm). Contemporary 19th-century red straight grained morocco gilt, edges gilt concealing FORE-EDGE PAINTING of an unidentified cityscape with people, horses, and carriages. -- TASSO, Torquato. La Gerusalemme Liberata. London: G. Pickering, 1822. 2 volumes, 32mo. Contemporary red morocco gilt, edges gilt concealing FORE-EDGE PAINTINGS of 2 unidentified cityscapes. – TASSO. Jerusalem Delivered; an Heroic Poem. London: F.C. & J. Rivington, January 1822. 12mo. Contemporary tan calf gilt, red morocco lettering-piece gilt, edges gilt concealing FOREEDGE PAINTING of Sorrento; slipcase. -- TENNYSON, Alfred Lord. Idylls of the King. London: Edward Moxon & Co., 1862. 8vo (161 x 98 mm). Later 19th-century red morocco gilt, edges gilt concealing FORE-EDGE PAINTING of Blenheim Castle. -- Together, 4 works in 5 volumes, condition generally very good. $200 - 300
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524 [PUBLISHER’S TRADE BINDING - AMERICAN]. BARRIE, James Matthew (1860-1937). The Little Minister. New York: Loveff, Coryeff and Company, 1892. 2 volumes, 8vo. Etched plates, title and initials printed in red. (Some minor spotting to a few leaves.) Publisher’s mint green cloth, wrap-around gilt floral design, top edges gilt, others uncut (a few very small spots to edge). Provenance: Harrison Hayford (bookplate). A SUPERB COPY OF THIS RARE BINDING. From the Private Collection of Richard Cady $150 - 250
525 [PUBLISHER’S TRADE BINDING]. BASILE, Giambattista (1566-1632). The Pentamerone, or the Story of Stories. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1912. 12mo. Illustrations after George Cruikshank. Publisher’s decorated brown cloth (minor loss to finish on front cover); ORIGINAL PICTORIAL DUST JACKET (some minor soiling, a few discreet repairs). [With:] HEWLETT, Maurice (1861-1923). The Little Iliad. Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1915. 8vo. Frontispiece by Philip Burne Jones. Publisher’s gilt-lettered green cloth, top edge gilt, others uncut (very slight rubbing to extremities); ORIGINAL PICTORIAL DUST JACKET reproducing Jones’s frontispiece design (some very minor soiling, a few discreet repairs). From the Private Collection of Richard Cady $150 - 250
526 [PUBLISHER’S TRADE BINDING - AMERICAN] -- [ARMSTRONG, Margaret, designer]. BROWNING, Robert (1812-1889). Pippa Passes. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1900.
527 [PUBLISHER’S TRADE BINDING - AMERICAN]. DASKAM, Josephine Dodge (1876-1961). Smith College Stories. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1900.
2 volumes, 8vo. Numerous illustrations by Margaret Armstrong. Original green cloth gilt-decorated, upper cover with floral canvas onlay, after a design by Margaret Armstrong (very slight rubbing to extremities).
8vo. Title printed in green and black. Publisher’s gilt-decorated green cloth, top edge gilt, others uncut (joints slightly rubbed, very slightly leaned). Provenance: Belknap and Warfield (bookseller’s ticket on rear pastedown).
FIRST EDITION, A BRIGHT COPY. From the Private Collection of Richard Cady $200 - 300
[With:] WIGGIN, Kate Douglas (1856-1923). A Cathedral Courtship and Penelope’s English Experiences. Boston & New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1899. 8vo. Title printed in red and black, 1p. publisher’s advertisement; illustrated by Clifford Carleton. Publisher’s decorated tan cloth (very minor stain). Provenance: Helen Case Tobey (signature); Frederick Loeser & Co. (bookseller’s ticket). From the Private Collection of Richard Cady $200 - 300
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528 [PUBLISHER’S TRADE BINDING - AMERICAN] -- [WHITMAN, Sarah Wyman, designer]. HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel (1804-1864). The Marble Faun, or The Romance of Monte Beni. Boston & New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, the Riverside Press, 1899.
529 [PUBLISHER’S TRADE BINDING - AMERICAN] [WHITMAN, Sarah Wyman, decorator]. HOLMES, Oliver Wendell (1841-1935). Dorothy Q, together with A Ballad of the Boston Tea party and Grandmother’s Story of Bunker Hill Battle. Boston & New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1898.
2 volumes, 8vo. Titles printed in red and black, illustrated. Publisher’s giltdecorated ivory cloth after a design by Sarah Wyman Whitman, top edge gilt, others uncut (spines very slightly darkened, a few tiny stains).
8vo. Illustrated by Howard Pyle. Publisher’s silver-decorated grey cloth based on a design by Sarah Wyman Whitman, top edge silver, others uncut.
The “Roman Edition.” A VERY FINE EXAMPLE OF WHITMAN’S ICONIC ART NOUVEAU DESIGN. From the Private Collection of Richard Cady
Trade edition, first issue. A VERY FINE COPY. BAL 9042. From the Private Collection of Richard Cady $100 - 200
$200 - 300
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529A [PUBLISHER’S TRADE BINDING - AMERICAN] -- [PARRISH, Maxfield (1870-1966), designer]. READ, Opie Percival (1852-1939). Bolanyo. Chicago: Way & Williams, 1897. 8vo. Engraved frontispiece by Charles Francis Browne. Publisher’s pictorial brown cloth with design by Maxfield Parrish, top edge gilt, others uncut (very slight soiling or a touch of rubbing to spine ends). Provenance: Vincent Starrett (1886-1974), American writer and bibliophile (bookplate, signature). FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST BOOK COVER DESIGNED BY MAXFIELD PARRISH. VINCENT STARRETT’S COPY SIGNED BY HIM. From the Private Collection of Richard Cady $200 - 300 530 [PUBLISHER’S TRADE BINDING - AMERICAN]. KIPLING, Rudyard (1865-1936). Barrack-room Ballads. New York & Boston: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., 1899. 8vo. Frontispiece, decorative title printed in red and green. Publisher’s green gilt-decorated cloth, top edge gilt, others uncut (a few small stains, a few tiny holes on spine). A BRIGHT COPY. From the Private Collection of Richard Cady $100 - 200 531 [PUBLISHER’S TRADE BINDING - AMERICAN]. MORRIS, Clara (1846-1925). The Trouble Woman. New York & London: Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1904. 12mo. Publisher’s maroon-decorated mustard cloth; ORIGINAL PICTORIAL DUST JACKET (minor dampstain). Provenance: Elizabeth E. Hice (signature, 1931). [With:] SHEARON, Lillian Nicholson. The Little Mixer. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1922. 8vo. Half-title; printed in green and black throughout. Publisher’s gilt-stamped apple green cloth (very slight ribbing to spine ends and corners); ORIGINAL PICTORIAL DUST JACKET (a few small discreet repairs). Provenance: Helen Case Tobey (signature). From the Private Collection of Richard Cady $200 - 300 V I E W T H E C O M P L E T E C ATA L O G U E AT H I N D M A N A U C T I O N S . C O M 171
532 [PUBLISHER’S TRADE BINDING - AMERICAN] -- [DECORATIVE DESIGNERS]. STUART, Ruth McEnery (1849-1917). Napoleon Jackson. New York: The Century Co., 1902. 8vo. Illustrations by Edward Potthast. Publisher’s decorated maroon cloth with design signed by the Decorative Designers (slight rubbing to extremities, a few tiny stains.) From the Private Collection of Richard Cady $100 - 200
533 [PUBLISHER’S TRADE BINDING - AMERICAN] -- [WHITMAN, Sarah Wyman]. WARNER, Charles Dudley (1829-1900). Being a Boy. Boston & New York and Cambridge: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, the Riverside Press, 1904. 8vo. Illustrations after photographs by Clifton Johnson. Publisher’s decorated gilt-lettered green cloth with a wrap-around design after a design by Sarah Wyman Whitman. Provenance: Jennie F. Wright (ownership stamp); Old Corner Bookstore (bookseller’s ticket). A FINE COPY FEATURING WHITMAN’S DESIGN. From the Private Collection of Richard Cady $200 - 300
534 [PUBLISHER’S TRADE BINDING - AMERICAN] -- [WHITMAN, Sarah Wyman, designer.] WHITNEY, Adeline Dutton Train (18241906). Hitherto. Boston & New York, Cambridge: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, the Riverside Press, 1896. 8vo. 1p. publisher’s advertisements. Publisher’s two-toned green cloth decorated in green and gold after a design by Sarah Wyman Whitman (slightly rubbed at foot of spine and corners). Provenance: manuscript note on flyleaf. From the Private Collection of Richard Cady $150 - 250
535 [PUBLISHER’S TRADE BINDING - AMERICAN]. HARRIMAN, Alice (18611925). Wilt Thou Not Sing? New York: The Alice Harriman Company, 1912. 8vo. Publisher’s pictorial gilt-decorated blue cloth (very slight rubbing to corners, a few small stains, scuff to lower cover). FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY HARRIMAN: “Dear Lady - May some song o’ mine find an echo in your heard. Alice Harriman.” [With:] GRAHAM, Effie. The “Passin’-On” Party. Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1912. 8vo. Illustrations by Dorothy Dulin. Original publisher’s green cloth, red and green printed labels on upper cover and spine, uncut (a few minor stains); original cardboard box. From the Private Collection of Richard Cady $300 - 400
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536 [PUBLISHER’S TRADE BINDINGS - AMERICAN]. A group of 5 bindings designed by Margaret Armstrong.
537 [PUBLISHER’S TRADE BINDINGS - AMERICAN]. A group of 4 bindings designed by the Decorative Designers.
NICHOLSON, Meredith (1866-1947). Zelda Dameron. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1904. 8vo. Illustrations by John Cecil Clay. Original russet publisher’s decorated cloth. -- FORD, Paul Leicester (1865-1902). Wanted – A Chaperon. New York: Dodd Mead & Company, 1902. 8vo. Illustrations by Howard Chandler Christy. Original green publisher’s decorated cloth. -- FORD. Love Finds the Way. New York: Dodd Mead & Company, 1904. 8vo. Original green publisher’s decorated cloth. -- REED, Myrtle (1874-1911). The Master’s Violin. A Weaver of Dreams. New York and London: G.P. Putnam’s Sons and The Knickerbocker Press, 1910. 8vo. Original lavender publisher’s decorated cloth. -- REED, Myrtle (1874-1911). A Weaver of Dreams. New York and London: G.P. Putnam’s Sons and The Knickerbocker Press, 1911. 8vo. Original lavender publisher’s decorated cloth. From the Private Collection of Richard Cady
[BULWER-LYTTON, Edward Robert (“Owen Meredith”) (18311891). Lucile. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., 1885. Small 8vo. Frontispiece. Original publisher’s decorated cloth-backed wooden boards. -- WHITEING, Richard (1840-1928). The Yellow Van. New York: The Century Company, 1903. Original brown publisher’s decorated cloth. -- SERVICE, Robert W (1874-1958). The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses. New York: Barse & Hopkins, 1907. 8vo. Many photographic plates. Original teal publisher’s decorated cloth. -WALLER, M.E. The Wood-Carver of ‘Lympus. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1907. 8vo. Frontispiece drawing by C.C. Emerson. Original brown publisher’s decorated cloth. From the Private Collection of Richard Cady $200 - 300
$250 - 350
538 [PUBLISHER’S TRADE BINDINGS - AMERICAN]. A group of 5 bindings designed by the Decorative Designers.
539 [PUBLISHER’S TRADE BINDINGS - AMERICAN]. A group of 3 bindings designed by Amy Sackler and Amy Richards.
CORELLI, Marie (Mary Mackay, 1855-1924). The Song of Miriam and Other Stories. New York: Hurst and Company, n.d. Small 8vo. Original olive publisher’s decorated cloth. -- WEYMAN, Stanley J. (18551928). Shrewsbury: A Romance. New York, London, and Bombay: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1898. 8vo. Original olive publisher’s decorated cloth. -- MITCHELL, S. Weir (1829-1903). A Comedy of Conscience. New York: The Century Co., 1903. Small 8vo. Original blue publisher’s decorated cloth. -- PAGE, Thomas Nelson (18531922). On Newfound River. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1906. 8vo. Illustrated. Original blue publisher’s decorated cloth. -- LITTLE, Frances. The Lady and Sada San. New York: The Century Co., 1912. Small 8vo. Color frontispiece of Sada San. Original grey publisher’s decorated cloth. Publisher’s advert laid in. From the Private Collection of Richard Cady
CHADWICK, John White and Annie Hathaway (1840-1904). Out of the Heart: Poems for Lovers Young and Old. Boston: L.C. Page and Company, 1903. 8vo. New illustrated edition. Original green publisher’s decorated cloth. -- SAUNDERS, (Margaret) Marshall (1861-1947). The Story of the Gravelys: A Story for Girls. Boston: L.C. Page and Company, 1904. 8vo. 5 illustrations. Original green publisher’s decorated cloth. -- HARTMANN, Sadakichi (1867-1944). Japanese Art. Boston: L.C. Page & Company, 1904. 8vo. Original blue publisher’s decorated cloth. From the Private Collection of Richard Cady $200 - 300
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540 [PUBLISHER’S TRADE BINDINGS - AMERICAN]. A group of 3 bindings designed by Alice Morse and W. H. Denslow.
541 [PUBLISHER’S TRADE BINDINGS - AMERICAN]. A group of 3 bindings designed by A. A. Turbayne, Walter King Stone, and one unidentified.
BARR, Amelia E (1831-1919). A Knight of the Nets. New York: Dodd, Mead, and Company, 1896. 8vo. Original olive publisher’s decorated cloth. -- EDWARDS, Harry Stillwell (1855-1938). The Marbeau Cousins. Chicago and New York: Rand, McNally & Co., 1898. 8vo. Original green publisher’s decorated cloth. -- Historic Buildings of America. New York: Dodd, Mead, and Company, 1906. 8vo. Original green publisher’s decorated cloth. From the Private Collection of Richard Cady
DUBOIS, Mary R.J.. Poems for Travelers. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1908. Small 8vo. Original green publisher’s decorated cloth. -- ALBAN, Florence L. Beloved and Other Stories. London: J.M. Dent & Sons, Ltd., 1912. Small 8vo. Original green publisher’s decorated cloth. -- LAMB, Charles and Mary (1775-1834 and 1764-1847). Tales from Shakespeare. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons and London: T.C. & E.C. Jack, 1905. 4to. Original brown publisher’s decorated cloth. From the Private Collection of Richard Cady
$200 - 300
$200 - 300
542 [PUBLISHER’S TRADE BINDINGS - AMERICAN]. A group of 5 bindings signed by various designers.
543 [PUBLISHER’S TRADE BINDINGS - AMERICAN]. A group of 3 bindings signed by the designer for Bobbs Merrill and one designed by Will Bradley.
MULOCK, Miss (penname of Dinah Craik (1826-1887)). Th Adventures of a Brownie as Told to My Child. Boston: Joseph knight Company, 1897. 8vo. Illustrated. Original blue publisher’s decorated cloth. -- HOYT, Eleanor (1868-1942). The Misdemeanors of Nancy. New York: Doubleday, Page, and Company, 1902. 8vo. Frontispiece and illustrations by Penrhyn Stanlaws. Original light blue publisher’s decorated cloth. -- FORMAN, Justus Miles (1875-1915). Monsigny. New York: Doubleday, Page, and Company, 1903. 8vo. Grey publishers’ cloth, stamped decoration. -- MALET, Lucas [penname of Mary St. Leger Kingsley (1852-1931)]. The Far Horizon. New York: Dodd, Mead, & Company, 1907. 8vo. Original orange publisher’s decorated cloth. -BARBOUR, Ralph Henry (1870-1944). The Harbor of Love. Philadelphia and London: J.B. Lippincott, Company, 1912. 8vo. Illustrated in color by George W. Plank and decorations by Edward Stratton Holloway. Original tan publisher’s decorated cloth. From the Private Collection of Richard Cady $250 - 350
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WINTER, Alice. The Prize to the Hardy. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1905. 8vo. Original burgundy publisher’s decorated cloth. -- NICHOLSON, Meredith (1866-1947). The Little Brown Jug at Kildare. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1908. 8vo. Illustrations by James Montgomery Flagg. Original blue publisher’s decorated cloth. -THWING, Eugene (1866-1936). The Red-Keggers. New York: The BookLover Press. 8vo. Frontispiece and illustrations by W. Herbert Dunton. Original red publisher’s decorated cloth. From the Private Collection of Richard Cady $200 - 300
544 [PUBLISHER’S TRADE BINDINGS - AMERICAN]. A group of 6 bindings published in Indianapolis by the Bobbs-Merrill company, comprising: RILEY, James Whitcomb (1849-1916). Riley Child-Ryhmes. 1898. 8vo. Hoosier Pictures by Will Vawter. Original green publisher’s decorated cloth. -- RILEY. Riley Love-Lyrics. 1905. 8vo. Illustrated by William B. Dyer. Original green publisher’s decorated cloth. -- RILEY. Riley Love-Lyrics. 1905. 8vo. Illustrated by William B. Dyer. Original green publisher’s decorated cloth. -- A second copy. -- RILEY. Farm-Rhymes. 1905. 8vo. Country pictures by Will Vawter. Original green publisher’s decorated cloth. -- And 2 more. -- Together, 5 works in 6 volumes. -Complete list available upon request. From the Private Collection of Richard Cady $300 - 400
545 [PUBLISHER’S TRADE BINDINGS - AMERICAN]. A group of 4 bindings published in Garden City New York by Doubleday, Page & Co, comprising: HILL, Frederick Trevor (1866-1930). The Web. 1904. 8vo. Frontispiece and illustrations by A.I. Keller. Original blue publisher’s decorated cloth. -- ATHERTON, Gertrude (1857-1948). The Gorgeous Isle, A Romance. 1908. 8vo. Frontispiece and illustrations by C. Coles Phillips. Original red-orange publisher’s decorated cloth. -- ADAMS, Franklin P. (1881-1960). Tobogganing on Parnassus. 1913. 8vo. Original maroon publisher’s decorated cloth. Provenance: Josiah F. Reed (Earlier ownership inscription). -- WHITE, Stewart Edward (18731946). Gold. 1913. Small 8vo. Frontispiece and illustrations by Thomas Fogarty. Original yellow publisher›s decorated cloth. From the Private Collection of Richard Cady $200 - 300
546 [PUBLISHER’S TRADE BINDINGS - AMERICAN]. A group of 4 bindings designed for Harpers.
547 [PUBLISHER’S TRADE BINDINGS - AMERICAN]. A group of 5 works written by Mary E. Wilkins (1852-1926) in fine bindings designed for Harpers.
BOUGHTON, George Henry (1833-1905). Sketching Rambles in Holland. 1885. Large 8vo. Original brown publisher’s decorated cloth. -- BANGS, John Kendrick (1862-1922). The Pursuit of the House Boat. 1897. 8vo. Original tan publisher’s decorated cloth. Provenance: John W. Osgood (bookplate). -- CARLTON, Will (1845-1912). Farm Ballads. 1897. 8vo. Original blue publisher’s decorated cloth. -- BACHELLER, Irving (18591950). Eben Holden’s Last Day A-Fishing. 1907. 8vo. Original green publisher’s decorated cloth. From the Private Collection of Richard Cady
A New England Nun and Other Stories. 1891. 8vo. Original light blue publisher’s decorated cloth. -- Jerome, A Poor Man. 1897. 8vo. Original blue publisher’s decorated cloth. -- The Love of Parson Lord and Other Stories. 1900. 8vo. Original dark blue publisher’s decorated cloth. -- By the Light of the Soul. 1907. 8vo. Original blue-grey publisher’s decorated cloth. -- The Winning Lady and Others. 1909. 8vo. Original green publisher’s decorated cloth. From the Private Collection of Richard Cady
$200 - 300
$250 - 350
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548 [PUBLISHER’S TRADE BINDINGS - AMERICAN]. A group of 5 volumes in fine bindings designed for Houghton Mifflin.
549 [PUBLISHER’S TRADE BINDINGS - AMERICAN]. A group of 6 bindings designed for publishers Stone or Stone & Kimball, comprising:
WHITTIER, John Greenleaf (1807-1892).1895. 8vo. Frontispiece portrait of Whittier after photograph taken in Boston, 1880. Original grey publisher’s decorated cloth. -- COOPER, James Fenimore (17891851). The Prairie. 1898. 8vo. Original orange publisher’s decorated cloth. -- COOPER. The Pioneers. 1898. 8vo. Original orange publisher’s decorated cloth. -- DAVIS, Norah. The World’s Warrant. 1907. 8vo. Frontispiece by F.C. Yohn. Green publisher’s cloth, gilt-stamped an floral design on cover an spine. From the Private Collection of Richard Cady
MILLER, Joaquin (1837-1913). The Building of the City Beautiful. 1893. 8vo. Original green publisher’s decorated cloth. -- STEVENSON, Robert Louis (1850-1894) and William Ernest Henley (1849-1903). Mcaire: A Melodramatic Farce. 1895. 8vo. Original green publisher’s decorated cloth. Provenance: John Valentine (bookplate). -- Essays from the Chapbook…, 1896. 8vo. Original decorated publisher’s cloth. -- BULLOCK, Shan F. (1865-1935). Ring o’ Rushes. 1896. 8vo. Original green publisher’s decorated cloth. -- WATSON, H.B. (18631921). Galloping Dick. 1896. 8vo. Original blue publisher’s decorated cloth. -- SHIPMAN, Louis Evan (1869-1933). D’arcy of the Gaurds, or The Fortunes of War. 1899. 8vo. Original grey publisher’s decorated cloth. -- BROWN, Anne Robeson (1873-1941). Truth and a Woman. 1903. 8vo. Original decorated green publisher’s cloth. -- Together, 6 works in 6 volumes, condition generally fine. From the Private Collection of Richard Cady
$250 -350
$300 - 400
550 [PUBLISHER’S TRADE BINDINGS - AMERICAN]. A group of 4 bindings for T. Y. Crowell & Co.
551 [PUBLISHER’S TRADE BINDINGS - AMERICAN]. A group of 4 bindings featuring Asian designs, comprising:
BLACKMORE, R.D. (1825-1900). Lorna Doone, A Romance of Exmoor. 2 volumes, 8vo. Original cloth backed gilt-stamped floral boards, gilt-stamped on cover and spine. -- BRYANT, William Cullen (17941878). Poems of William Cullen Bryant. 1893. 8vo. Portrait of Bryant on title. Original cloth backed gilt stamped floral boards. -- MCELROY, Lucy Cleaver. Juletty, A Story of Old Kentucky. 1901. 8vo. Red publisher’s cloth, gilt stamped and decorated. Provenance: F.W. Athins (earlier ownership inscription). -- Together 3 works in 4 volumes. From the Private Collection of Richard Cady
LEE, Yan Phou (1861-?). When I was a Boy in China. Boston, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co., 1887. 8vo. Original publisher’s decorated cloth. -- LITTLE, Frances (1863-1941). Little Sister Snow. New York: The Century, 1909. Small 8vo. Illustrations by Genjiro Kataoka. Original publishers decorated grey cloth. -- Seven Maids of Far Cathay, Being English Notes from a Chinese Class Book. San Francisco: Paul Elder and Company, 1916. Small 8vo. Illustrations by Ai Lang. Original publisher’s decorated green cloth. -- BELL, Archie (1877-1943). The Spell of China. Boston: The Page Company, 1917. 8vo. 8 color plates and numerous duogravures from photographs. Original publisher’s decorated green cloth. -- Together, 4 works in 4 volumes, condition generally fine. From the Private Collection of Richard Cady
$200 - 300
$200 - 300
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552 [PUBLISHER’S TRADE BINDINGS - AMERICAN]. A group of 3 works in 4 volumes with bindings featuring floral designs, comprising:
553 [PUBLISHER’S TRADE BINDINGS - AMERICAN]. A group of 4 bindings with floral designs, comprising:
STIELER, Karl (1842-1885), Hans Wachenhusen (1823-1898), and Friedrich W. Hacklander (1816-1877). The Rhine, from its Source to the Sea. Philadelphia: John C. Winston Co., 1898. 2 volumes, 8vo. Original publisher’s blue decorated cloth. -- QUAYLE, William Alfred (18601925). King Cromwell. Cincinnati: Jennings & Pye, 1902 and New York: Eatom & Mains, 1902. 8vo. Original publisher’s decorated cloth. -McCutcheon, George Barr (1866-1928). The Purple Parasol. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1905. 8vo. Original publisher’s decorated green cloth. -- Together, 3 works in 4 volumes, condition generally fine. From the Private Collection of Richard Cady
ARRADEN, Beatrice (1864-1936). Ships the Pass in the Night. New York: The Mershon Company, n.d. 8vo. Original publisher’s decorated cloth. -- ARNOLD, Sir Edwin (1832-1904). The Light of the World. New York and London: Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1891. 8vo. Original publishes decorated tan cloth. -- THAXTER, Celia (1835-1894). An Island Garden. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1894, 8vo. Original publishers green cloth. -- MERRICK, Leonard (1864-1939). The Actor-Manager. London: Grant Richards, 1898. 8vo. Original publisher’s decorated cloth. -- Together, 4 works in 4 volumes, condition generally fine. From the Private Collection of Richard Cady
$200 - 300
$200 - 300
554 [PUBLISHER’S TRADE BINDINGS - AMERICAN]. A group of 4 bindings with floral designs featuring paper onlays, comprising:
555 [PUBLISHER’S TRADE BINDINGS - AMERICAN]. A group of 4 bindings featuring mountain designs, comprising:
MEREDITH, Lord Robert Bulwer-Lytton “Owen” (1831-1891). Lucile. New York: Hurst & Company, n.d.. 8vo. Original publisher’s decorated cloth with floral paper onlay. -- TENNYSON, Alfred (1809-1892). Dora. Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1886 and New York: Charles T. Dillingham, 1886. 8vo. Publisher’s original decorated binding. Original brown paper dust jacket. -- HAVERGAL, Frances Ridley (1836-1879). The Poetical Works of Frances Ridley Havergal. New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1893. 8vo. Original publisher’s decorated cloth. -- LOWELL, James Russell (1819-1891). James Russell Lowell’s Poetical Works. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell and Co.,1898. 8vo. Original publisher’ decorated green cloth. -- Together, 4 works in 4 volumes, condition generally fine. From the Private Collection of Richard Cady
KING, Alfred Castner. Mountain Idylls and Other Poems. Chicago, New York, Toronto, London, and Edinburgh: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1901. 8vo. Original publisher’s decorated green cloth. -- The Highroad: Being an Autobiography or an Ambitious Mother. Chicago: Herbert S. Stone & Company, 1904. 8vo. Original publisher’s decorated green cloth. -- HEMON, Louis (1880-1924). Maria Chapdelaine: A Tale of the Lake St. John Country. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1924. 8vo. Drawings by Wilfred Jones. Original publishers decorated blue cloth. -- MEEKER, Ezra (1830-1928). Kate Mulhall: A Romance of the Oregon Trail. New York: Ezra Meeker, 1926. 8vo. Numerous illustrations. Original publisher’s decorated red cloth. -- Together, 4 works in 4 volumes, condition generally fine. From the Private Collection of Richard Cady
$200 - 300
$200 - 300
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556 [PUBLISHER’S TRADE BINDINGS - AMERICAN]. A group of 3 bindings featuring river and water designs, comprising:
557 [PUBLISHER’S TRADE BINDINGS - AMERICAN]. A group of 3 mystery novels, comprising:
READ, Opie (1852-1939). On the Suwanee River. Chicago: Laird & Lee Publishers, 1895. -- LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth (18071882). The Song of Hiawatha. Chicago: George M. Hill Company, 1898. 8vo. Numerous illustrations. Original Publisher’s decorated grey cloth. -- JACOBS, W.W. (1863-1943). Light Freights. New York: Dodd Mead & Company, 1901. Small 8vo. Original publisher’s decorated blue cloth. -- Together, 3 works in 3 volumes, condition generally fine. From the Private Collection of Richard Cady
GREEN, Anna Katharine (1846-1935). The Circular Study. New York: McClure, Phillips & Co., 1900. 8vo. Original publishers decorated green cloth. -- MCCONAUGHY, J.W. Madame X. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1910. 8vo. Adapted from the play by Alexandre Bisson (18481912). Illustrations by Edward C. Volkert. Original publisher’s coth with pictorial onlay. -- OPPENHEIM, E. Phillips (1866-1946). An Amiable Charlatan. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1916. 8vo. Illustrations by Will Grefe. Original publisher’s decorated green cloth. -- Together, 3 works in 3 volumes, condition generally fine. From the Private Collection of Richard Cady
$200 - 300
$200 - 300
558 [PUBLISHER’S TRADE BINDINGS - AMERICAN]. A group of 7 bindings featuring Western themes, comprising:
559 [PUBLISHER’S TRADE BINDINGS - AMERICAN]. A group of 6 bindings featuring onlay printed portraits, comprising:
CARGILL, John F. (1857-1921). The Big Horn Treasure. Chicago, A.C. McClurg and Company, 1897. 8vo. Original publisher’s decorated blue cloth. -- DYE, Eva Emery (1855-1947). McLoughlin and Old Oregon. Chicago, A.C. McClurg and Company, 1900. 8vo. Original publisher’s decorated yellow cloth. -- CASTLEMON, Harry (18421915). Wigned Arrow’s Medicine. Akron, OH, New York, Chicago: The Saalfield Publishing Company, 1901. 8vo. Illustrations by W.H. Fry. Original publisher’s decorated blue cloth. -- HOUGH, Emerson (18571923). Heart’s Desire…. New York & London: The Macmillan Company, 1905. Numerous illustrations. Original publisher’s decorated yellow cloth. -- HUNTER, Colonel William C. Hunter. Frozen Dog Tales and Other Things. Boston: The Everett Press Company, 1905. 8vo. Illustrations by F. Holme and R.H. Hynes. Original publisher’s decorated red cloth. -- WHITE, Stewart Edward (1873-1946). Gold. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1913. Small 8vo. Frontispiece and illustrations by Thomas Fogarty. Original publisher’s decorated yellow cloth. -- EARLE, Alice Morse (1851-1911). Stage Coach and Tavern Days. New York & London: The Macmillan Company, 1915. 8vo. Numerous illustrations. Original publisher’s decorated tan cloth. -- Together, 7 works in 7 volumes, condition generally fine. From the Private Collection of Richard Cady
HOLMES SR., Oliver Wendell (1809-1894). The Professor at the Breakfast Table. New York: The Federal Book Company, n.d. 8vo. Original publisher’s decorated blue cloth. -- RHYS, Ernest (18591946). English Fairy Tales. New York: E.P. Dutton and Co. and London: J.M. Dent and Sons, lmt., n.d.. 8vo. Colored illustrations by Herbert Cole. Original publisher’s decorated red cloth. -- SCOTT, Walter (17711832). Marmion. Chicago: W.B. Conket Company, n.d.. 8vo. Original publisher’s decorated red cloth with onlay portrait. -- BROWNING, Robert (1812-1889). Beautiful Thoughts. New York: James Pott & Co., 1900. Small 8vo. Publisher’s original decorated cloth with only portrait of Browning. -- HARTE, Bret (1836-1902). Salomy Jane. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1910. 8vo. Numerous illustrations. Original publisher’s decorated green cloth. -- LEA, Fannie Heaslip ( 1884-1955). Sicily Ann. New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1914. Small 8vo. Original publisher’s decorated blue cloth with onlyay portrait. -- Together, 6 works in 6 volumes, condition generally fine. From the Private Collection of Richard Cady
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$300 - 500
560 [PUBLISHER’S TRADE BINDINGS - AMERICAN]. A group of 7 decorative bindings, comprising:
561 [PUBLISHER’S TRADE BINDINGS - AMERICAN]. A group of 7 decorative bindings, comprising:
CLARKE, Rebecca Sophie “Sophie May” (1833-1906). Little Prudy’s Sister Susie. Chicago: M.A. Donohue & Company, n.d. Small 8vo. Original publisher’s decorated red cloth. -- ELLENWANGER, George H. (18481906). The Story of My House. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1890. 8vo. Original publisher’s cloth backed boards. LIMITED EDITION, number 71 of 100 copies. -- ELLENWANGER. The Story of My House. London: G. Bell and Sons, 1892. Small 8vo. Original publisher’s decorated pink cloth. -- MACLAREN, Ian (1850-1907). Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush. New York: Dodd, Mead, and Company, 1895. 8vo. Publisher’s original decorated green cloth. -- HARRISON, Constance Cary “Mrs. Burton Harrison” (18431920). The Carcellini Emerald and Other Tales. Chicago and New York: Herbert S. Stone and Company, 1899. 8vo. Original publisher’s decorated burgundy cloth. -- COLLODI, Carlo (1826-1890). Pinocchio The Adventures of a Marionette. Boston, New York, Chicago, London: Ginn and Company, 1904. Small 8vo. Numerous original drawings by Charles Copeland. Original publisher’s decorated green cloth. -- KINGSLEY, Florence Morse (18591937). Miss Philura’s Wedding Gown. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1912. 8vo. Illustrations by Eugenie Wireman. Original publisher’s decorated green cloth. -- Together, 7 works in 7 volumes, condition generally fine. From the Private Collection of Richard Cady
CONNOR, Ralph (1860-1937). Black Rock. Chicago: M.A. Donohue & Company, n.d. 8vo. Original publisher’s decorated red cloth. -- ELIOT, George (1819-1890). Silas Marner. Chicago: M.A. Donohue & Company, n.d. 8vo. Original publisher’s decorated red cloth, original dust jacket. -- BOOTH, Maud B. (186-1948). Beneath Two Flags. New York and London: Funk & Wagnalls, 1891. 8vo. Original publisher’s red cloth. -- BLEWETT, Jean (1862-1934). Heart Songs. Toronto: George N. Morang, 1897. 8vo Original publisher’s decorated red cloth. -- FELLOWS-JOHNSTON, Annie (1863-1931). Big Brother. Boston: L.C Page & Company, 1893. Small 8vo. Original publisher’s decorated green cloth. -- VIELE, Herman Knickerbocker (1856-1908). The Last of the Knickerbocker’s. Chicago: Herbert S. Stone & Company, 1901. 8vo. Original publisher’s decorated brown cloth. -- Seven Maids of Far Cathay, Being English Notes from a Chinese Class Book. San Francisco: Paul Elder and Company, 1916. Small 8vo. Illustrations by Ai Lang. Original publisher’s decorated green cloth. -- Together, 7 works in 7 volumes, condition generally fine. From the Private Collection of Richard Cady $300 - 500
$300 - 500
562 [PUBLISHER’S TRADE BINDINGS - AMERICAN]. A group of 7 decorative bindings, comprising:
563 [PUBLISHER’S TRADE BINDINGS - AMERICAN]. A group of 5 decorative bindings, comprising:
HUTTON, Laurence (1843-1904). Literary Landmarks of Venice. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1896. 8vo. Original publisher’s decorated green cloth. -- STEPHENS, Robert Neilson (1867-1906). Captain Ravenshaw. Boston, L.C. Page & Company, 1901. 8vo. Original publisher’s decorated blue cloth. -VIELE, Herman Knickerbocker (1856-1908). The Last of the Knickerbocker’s. Chicago: Herbert S. Stone & Company, 1901. 8vo. Original publisher’s decorated brown cloth. -- WILCOX, Ella Wheeler (1850-1919). Every-Day Thoughts in Prose and Verse. Chicago: W.B. Conkey Company, 1901. 8vo, Original publisher’s decorated blue cloth. -- WITHER, George (1588-1667). A Christmas Carroll. New York and London: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1907. 8vo. Illustrations by Frank T. Merrill. Original publisher’s decorated cloth. -- SMITH, F. Hopkinson (1838-1915). The Arm-Chair at the Inn. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1912. 8vo. Numerous illustrations. Original publisher’s decorated green cloth. -- NORTON, Roy (1869-1942). The Boomers. New York: W.J. Watt & Company, 1914. 8vo. Original publisher’s decorated green cloth. -- Together, 7 works in 7 volumes, condition generally fine. From the Private Collection of Richard Cady
MACLAREN, Ian (1850-1907). The Days of Auld Lang Syne. New York: Dodd, Mead, & Company, 1895. 8vo. Original publisher’s decorated green cloth. -- GRAY, Thomas (1716-1771). Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard. New York: E.P. Dutton and Co., and London: J.M. Dent and Co., 1899. 8vo. Illustrations by R.W.A. Rouse. Original publisher’s decorated grey cloth. -- ROBINS, Elizabeth (1862-1952). The Convert. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1907. 8vo. Original publisher’s decorated boards. -- SPITTELER, Carl (1845-1924). Friedle der Kolderi, 2. Auflage. Zurich: Albert Muller’s Derlag, 1908. Small 8vo. Original publisher’s decorated brown cloth. -- ROBERTSON-MILLER, Ellen (1859-1937). Butterfly and Moth Book. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1912. 8vo. Numerous illustrations. Original publisher’s decorated grey cloth. -- Together, 5 works in 5 volumes, condition generally fine. From the Private Collection of Richard Cady $250 - 350
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564 [PUBLISHER’S TRADE BINDINGS - AMERICAN]. A group of 8 decorative bindings, all duodecimos, comprising:
565 [PUBLISHER’S TRADE BINDINGS - AMERICAN]. A group of 8 decorative bindings, all duodecimos, comprising:
BYRON, Lord George (1788-1824). Child Harold’s Pilgrimage. New York: H.M. Caldwell Company, nd. Original publisher’s decorated green cloth. -- MARVEL, Donald Grant “IK” (1822-1908). Dream Life: Fable of the Seasons. F.M. Lupton Publishing, nd. Original publisher’s decorated white cloth. Provenance: Miss Ruth Prenery (earlier ownership inscription). -- BAKER Jr., George A. (1821-1880). Point Lace and Diamonds. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1886. Original publisher’s decorated white cloth. New and Revised Edition. -- DRUMMOND, Henry (18511897). Addresses. Philadelhia: Henry Altemus, 1892. Original publisher’s decorated cloth. -- TABB, John B. (1845-1909). Poems by John B. Tabb. Boston: Copeland and Day and London: John Lane, 1895. Original publisher’s decorated green cloth. -- WILKINS, Mary E. (1852-1926). The Jamesons. Philadelphia: The Publishing Company and New York: Doubleday & McClure, 1899. Original publisher’s decorated green cloth. -- PEABODY, Josephine Preston (1874-1922). The Signing Leaves, A Book of Songs and Spells. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin & Company, 1903. Original publisher’s decorated green cloth. Provenance: Emma Hall [Letter tipped in: “Dear Friend, Your work during the institute first aroused my interest, and I soon became eager to know your letters. Since then you have been kind to me in many wats, but I have not known how to thank you. Please accept this little book as an expression of my gratitude. I hop you will find something in it worth while. Lovingly, Emma Hall. Perry, March twenty seventh, nineteen hundred eight.”] -- PERCIVAL, Olive (1869-1945). Leaf-Shadows and RoseDrift, Being Little Songs from a Los Angeles Garden. Cambridge: The Riverside Press, 1911. Original publisher’s decorated green cloth. -- Together, 8 works in 8 volumes, condition generally fine. From the Private Collection of Richard Cady
GASKILL, Mrs. Cranford. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., nd. Preface by Anne Thackery Ritchie. Original publisher’s decorated white cloth. -- HOLLAND, Josiah Gilbert (1819-1881). Bitter Sweet. Chicago: M.A. Donohue & Co., nd. Original publisher’s decorated ¾ cloth. Provenance: Maud Harwood (earlier ownership inscription “Maud Harwood. February 14, 1908). -- KIPLING, Rudyard (18651936). Black and White. New York: Hurst & Company, nd. Original publisher’s decorated cloth. -- MACLAREN, Ian (1850-1907). Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush. Chicago: Donohue, henneberry & Co., nd. Original publisher’s decorated ¾ floral cloth. -- MILTON, John (16081674). Paradise Lost, With a Memoir. New York: New York: Hurst & Company, nd. Original publisher’s decorated cloth. -- RUSKIN, John (1819). The Crown of Wild Olive…. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., 1891. Photogravure frontispiece. Original publisher’s decorated green cloth. -- PRENTISS, Mrs. Elizabeth (1818-1878). Stepping Heavenward. New York: Hurst & Co., 1899. Original publisher’s decorated cloth. -- HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel (1804-1864). Tanglewood Tales for Young and Old. Chicago: W.B. Conkey Company, 1900. Original publisher’s decorated floral cloth. -- Together, 8 works in 8 volumes, condition generally fine. From the Private Collection of Richard Cady $300 - 400
$300 - 400
567 [PUBLISHER’S TRADE BINDINGS - AMERICAN]. A group of 11 keepsake books, comprising: 566 [PUBLISHER’S TRADE BINDINGS - AMERICAN]. A group of 9 decorative bindings, all duodecimos, comprising: KHAYYAM, Omar (1048-1131). Rubaiyat. Translated by Edward Fitzgerald. New York and Boston: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., nd. Original publisher’s decorated pictorial cloth. -- MOORE, Thomas. Lalla Rookh. New York: Chatterton-Peck Company, nd. Original publisher’s decorated green cloth. -- TENNYSON, Alfred (1809-1892). The Princess, Maud. Chicago: Donohue, Henneberry & Co., nd. Original publisher’s decorated blue cloth. -- TENNYSON. Through the Year with Tennyson. Boston: DeWolfe, Fiske & Co., nd. Original publisher’s decorated blue cloth. -- LUBBOCK, Sir John (18341913). The Pleasures of Life. Philadelphia: Henry Altemus, 1842. Original publisher’s decorated blue boards. -- HODGE, Charles (1797-1878). The Way of Life, with an Analytical Index. Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, 1869. Original publisher’s decorated dark blue cloth. -- STOWE, Harriet Beecher (1811-1896). Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Philadelphia: Henry Altemus, 1894. Original publisher’s decorated green cloth. -- PITTENGER, William (1840-1904). Toasts, And Forms of Public Address…. Philadelphia: The Penn Publishing Company, 1908. Original publisher’s decorated green cloth. -- BUSCH, Wilhelm (1832-1908). Edward’s Dream. Chicago: The Open Court Publishing Company and London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1909. Original publisher’s decorated burgundy cloth. -- Together, 9 works in 9 volumes, condition generally fine. From the Private Collection of Richard Cady
Daily Offerings. N.p., n.d.. Small 8vo. Original publisher’s boards. -- A Golden Month with Shakespeare. Buffalo, NY: The Hayes Lithograph Co., n.d.. Small 8vo. Original publisher’s decorated board. -- Trees and Plants of the Bermudas. Hamilton, Bermuda: The Bermuda Book Stores, n.d. Small 8vo. Original publisher’s decorated cloth. -- ADDISON, Joseph (1672-1719). Sir Roger de Coverley. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell and co., nd. Small 8vo. Original publisher’s cloth-backed decorated boards. -- HALE, Gertrude Elisabeth. Little Flower People. Boston, New York. Chicago, London: Ginn & Company, 1887. Small 8vo. Original publisher’s blue decorated cloth. -- TOLSTOI, Count Lyof N. (1828-1910. Where Love is There God is Also. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., 1887. Small 8vo. Original decorated binding. -- SWEETSER, Moses Forster (1848-1897). In Distance and In a Dream. Boston: Joseph Knight Company, 1894. Small 8vo. Original publisher’s green decorated cloth. -- ALDEN, Isabella Macdonald “Pansy” (1841-1930). Agatha’s Unknown Way. New York, Chicago, Toronto: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1898. Small 8vo. Original publisher’s decorated cloth. -- ALDEN. Agatha’s Unknown Way. New York, Chicago, Toronto: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1898. Small 8vo. Original publisher’s decorated cloth. A second copy. -- MOORE, N. Hudson (1857-1927). Tulips, Dafodils, and Crocuses. New York: Frederick A. Stokes and Company, 1904. Small 8vo. Original publisher’s cloth-backed decorated boards. -- GUEST, Edgar A. (18811959). Mother. Chicago: The Reilly & Lee Co., 1925. Small 8vo. Original publisher’s decorated boards. -- Together, 11 works in 11 volumes, condition generally fine. From the Private Collection of Richard Cady
$300 - 400
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568 [PUBLISHER’S TRADE BINDINGS - AMERICAN]. A group of 4 leather publisher’s bindings, comprising:
569 [PUBLISHER’S TRADE BINDINGS - AMERICAN]. A group of bindings with early dust jackets.
ZSCHOKKE, Heinrich (1771-1848). Tales by Heinrich Zschokke. New York and London: G.P. Putnam and Sons, n.d. 8vo. Original publisher’s faux-leather. -- BURNS, Robert (1759-1796). The Complete Works of Robert Burns. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell and Co., n.p.. 8vo. Original publisher’s faux-leather. -- MILTON, John (1608-1674). The Poetical Works of John Milton. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell and Co., 1892. 8vo. Original publisher’s faux-leather. -- LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth (1807-1882). Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell and Co., 1903. 8vo. Original publisher’s cloth. -- Together, 4 works in 4 volumes, condition generally fine. From the Private Collection of Richard Cady
Because I Love You, poems of love. Selected by Anna E. Mack. Boston: Lothrop, Lee, and Shepard Co., 1894. 8vo. Original publisher’s cloth, original pictorial dust jacket. -- CONNOR, Ralph (1860-1937). Black Rock: A Tale of the Selkirks. New York, Chicago, and Toronto: 1900. 8vo. Original publisher’s cloth, original pictorial dust jacket. -- TRASK, Katrina (1853-1922). Night & Morning. London and New York: John Lane, 1907. 8vo. Original publisher’s cloth, original pictorial dust jacket (clipped). -- RILEY, James Whitcomb (1849-1916). Songs of Home. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1910. 8vo. Pictures by Will Vawter. Original publisher’s cloth, original pictorial dust jacket. -- ARNOLD, Sir Edwin Arnold (1832-1904). The Book of Good Counsels, from the Sanskrit of the Hitopadesa. Edinburgh: John Grant, 1924. 8vo. Illustrations by Gordon Browne. Original publisher’s cloth, original pictorial dust jacket. -- WALLACE. Edgar (1875-1932). Nig Nog and other Humorous Stories. Cleveland and New York: The World Syndicate Publishing Co., 1934. 8vo. Original publisher’s cloth, original pictorial dust jacket (clipped). From the Private Collection of Richard Cady
$200 - 300
$300 - 400
570 [PUBLISHER’S TRADE BINDINGS] -- [BINDINGS - 20th CENTURY DUST JACKETS] -- A group of 17 works in original dust jackets, comprising: SINCLAIR, Upton. Damaged Goods the Great Play “Les Avaries” of Brieux Novelized with the approval of the author. Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Company, 1913. -- MCCUTHEON, George Barr. Graustark The Story of a Love Behind a Throne. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1901. -- BROADHURST, George and Arthur HORNBLOW. Bought and Paid for A Story of To-Day. New York: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, 1912. PHOTOPLAY EDITION. -- BUCK, Charles Neville. The Call of the Cumberlands. 1913. Dustin Farnum Edition. PHOTOPLAY EDITION. SIGNED by Dustin FARNUM. -- BEACH, Rex. The Spoilers. New York: A.L. Burt, Company, 1906. PHOTO PLAY EDITION. EXTRA ILLUSTRATED. -- And 12 others. Together 17 works in 17 volumes, all 8vo, many with frontispieces, all in original publisher’s pictorial cloth bindings, all with original publisher’s pictorial dust jackets (with some overall chipping, soiling), most FIRST EDITIONS. Property from the Collection of Mr. Gregory Thomas $500 - 700
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Selections from the Studio and Personal Archive of Barry Moser Lots 571-687
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Introduction
arry Moser was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee in 1940. He was educated early on at a military academy there, The Baylor School, then at Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, and the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. He did graduate work at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1970. He studied with George Cress, Leonard Baskin, Fred Becker, and Jack Coughlin. Following his first encounters with Baskin and master pressman Harold P. McGrath, Moser found his calling and soon embarked on a career that has lasted over fifty years, in which he immersed himself in every aspect of fine press book production, from design to illustration and printing. While teaching at Williston Academy in Easthampton, Massachusetts in 1969, Moser founded the Castalia Press, the predecessor of what would be renamed the Pennyroyal Press, which is now widely recognized for its finely printed and illustrated editions of some of the greatest works of literature—noted for their artful combination of Moser’s striking imagery and letterpress text. Moser’s Pennyroyal Press edition of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1982) won the American Book Award for Design and Illustration in 1983. Its success was followed up with four major large-scale editions of literary classics from the Press: Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass (1982), Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1984), Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1985), and L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1985). Beyond the Pennyroyal Press, Moser has illustrated and/or designed over 300 titles, including the Arion Press Moby-Dick (1977) and the University of California Press The Divine Comedy of Dante (1980-84). In 1999 Moser produced the Pennyroyal Caxton edition of the King James Bible, a masterpiece of book illustration and production, incorporating Moser’s stunning woodcuts to create what ranks among the greatest achievements of the twentieth century book making. In addition to being an illustrator, Moser is also a printer, painter, printmaker, designer, author, essayist, and teacher. He has been on the faculty of the Department of Illustration Studies at the Rhode Island School of Design, for many years he was on the faculty of the Williston Northampton School. Moser is currently the Irwin and Pauline Alper Glass Professor of Art at Smith College, as well as the Printer to Smith College. The present Selections from the Studio and Personal Archive of Barry Moser, includes many of his own retained copies, trial proofs, deluxe suites of prints, rare early works and broadsides from the nascent Pennyroyal Press, engraved blocks, drawings and watercolors spanning his productive career. The catalogue also includes a section of books from Moser’s library, including books from other presses, first editions, and presentation copies. This collection comprises the most comprehensive group of Moser material ever offered at auction, and represents the full range of Moser’s creative process—from his own annotated source material, preliminary drawings, through trial designs and proof impressions to the final productions of many of his most celebrated works. It also reflects his close relationships with the numerous poets, authors, scholars and colleagues with whom he collaborated with on many of his book projects over his prolific career.
Note: For reference citations in this catalogue we refer to the Pennyroyal Checklist of books, posters and broadsides from the Pennyroyal Press, 1969-1986, compiled by J. P. Dwyer and printed by the Pennyroyal Press, 1986. For the clarity of citation in this catalogue the distinction [B] has been added before the citation number to distinguish the ‘Broadsides & Posters’ section of the checklist, and [M] to the ‘Miscellany’ section in the checklist.
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Illustrated Books
571 [MOSER, Barry, illustrator]. Bacchanalia. Ten Woodengravings by Barry Moser with Six Epigrams from the Anthologia Graeca newly Translated by D. L. Graham. Easthampton, MA: Pennyroyal Press, 1970. Folio. Illustrated with wood engravings by Barry Moser. Loose as issued in original blind-embossed blue wrappers (some fading and discoloration to covers). LIMITED EDITION, one of 35 copies. ACCOMPANIED BY FOUR ADDITIONAL PROOF SHEETS OF THE PLATES, each captioned and signed in pencil by Moser (“a.p. Moser 1970”). An extremely rare copy of the first book printed under the Pennyroyal Press imprint. “This was the first Pennyroyal book to use wood engravings. It was done under the aegis of graduate course in printmaking at the University of Massachusetts taught by the eminent printmaker, Fred Becker”—Pennyroyal Checklist 4. Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry Moser $1,500 - 2,500
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572 [MOSER, Barry, illustrator]. Additional suite of plates for Twelve American Writers. [Easthampton, MA: Pennyroyal Press, 1974]. 8vo. 12 wood engravings by Barry Moser. Loose as issued in cloth portfolio. The additional suite of plates which accompanied the limited edition of 50 copies of Twelve American Writers, each SIGNED BY MOSER. Printed by Moser for Dwyer & Cronin Booksellers, Amherst, it is the first commissioned book of the Pennyroyal Press. Accompanied by a signed prospectus for Twelve American Writers, illustrated with a small wood engraving of Mark Twain. See Pennyroyal Checklist 9. Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry Moser $300 - 400
573 [MOSER, Barry, illustrator]. BEEKMAN, E. M. Carnal Lent. [Easthampton, MA]: Pennyroyal Press, 1975. Square 8vo. Wood engraved frontispiece portrait of Beekman by Barry Moser. Publisher’s quarter morocco over boards. LIMITED EDITION, one of 200 copies signed by Beekman and Moser, this copy outof-series. Pennyroyal Checklist 11. — BEEKMAN, E. M. Totem. Poems. West Hatfield: Pennyroyal Press, 1984. 8vo. Illustrated with two wood engravings by Barry Moser. Original cloth, with printed spine label. LIMITED EDITION, number 98 of 100 copies, signed by both Beekman and Moser. One of two poetry collections by Beekman, who also translated the 17th Century naturalist Georgius E. Rumphius’ Ambonese Herbal, published by Yale in six volumes in 2011. Pennyroyal Checklist 31. BEEKMAN, E. M. Totem. [Easthampton, MA:] Pennyroyal Press, 1973. Broadside, 297 x 344 mm. Illustrated with two wood engravings by Moser. LIMITED EDITION, one of 130 copies, signed by both Beekman and Moser. Pennyroyal Checklist [B]22. — BEEKMAN, E. M. Totem. [Northhampton, MA: Pennyroyal Press, 1976]. Broadside, 442 x 365 mm. Illustrated with a large wood engraving of a bear above Beekman’s ode to bears. LIMITED EDITION, one of 100 copies, signed by both Beekman and Moser. Accompanied by another copy of the broadside printed on Japan paper, signed by both; a proof copy of the woodcut (without text), signed by Moser; and 2 mock-up proofs incorporating newsprint with annotations by Moser. Pennyroyal Checklist [B]32. Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry Moser $500 - 700 V I E W T H E C O M P L E T E C ATA L O G U E AT H I N D M A N A U C T I O N S . C O M 185
574 [MOSER, Barry, illustrator]. SMYTH, Paul (1944-2006). Thistles and Thorns: Abraham and Sarah at Bethel. Omaha: Printed by Harry Duncan at Abattoir Editions / University of Nebraska, 1977. 8vo. Illustrated with 13 wood engravings by Barry Moser. Original linen with printed label, uncut. LIMITED EDITION, copy number 1 of 253 copies, SIGNED BY SMYTH AND MOSER. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by the author to Moser on the dedication page: “For Barry: Thank you, Sir, for so honoring my poem. / Paul / May 1977”. With a promotional pamphlet signed by Moser laid in. Pennyroyal Checklist [M]4. Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry Moser $400 - 600
575 [MOSER, Barry, illustrator]. MARIANI, Paul. Timing Devices: Poems. Easthampton, MA: Pennyroyal Press, 1977. Full sheets, 328 x 620 mm (328 x 156 mm., folded). FOLDED UNBOUND SHEETS. Illustrated with 5 woodengraved plates by Barry Moser; plus a folding polyptych plate at back containing the same five engravings. FIRST EDITION of Mariani’s first book of poetry. LIMITED EDITION, one of 175 copies SIGNED BY MOSER AND MARIANI. Accompanied by another set of gathered unbound sheets, without the additional folding plate, unsigned. Pennyroyal Checklist 18 (“This book marks the beginning of a long relationship with a man I consider one of the brightest poets working in America today.”). [With:] [MOSER, Barry, illustrator]. MARIANI, Paul. Epitaphs for the Journey: New, Selected, and Revised Poems. North Hatfield, MA: Pennyroyal Press, [2012]. 8vo. Frontispiece and dust jacket illustrated with wood engravings by Moser. Original cloth; dust jacket. LIMITED EDITION, number 10 of 10 copies reserved for the author and illustrator, of an edition of 50 copies SIGNED BY MARIANI AND MOSER, with an additional impression of the folded triptych from the wood engravings, signed by Moser in pencil. Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry Moser $300 - 400
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576 MOSER, Barry. Twelve Woodengravings of Cirsia & Various Thistles with sundry notes gathered, engraved & privately printed for Gray Parrot by Barry Moser. West Hatfield, MA: Privately Printed at the Pennyroyal Press for Gray Parrot, 1978. 109 x 162 mm. UNFOLDED SHEETS UNBOUND. Illustrated with 12 wood engravings by Barry Moser. Loose in board folder with Moser’s note “Cirsia in sheets, unfolded complete.” CIRSIA IN SHEETS, UNFOLDED. LIMITED EDITION, one of 35 copies, WITH EACH ENGRAVING SIGNED BY MOSER. This copy not signed by artist and binder as bound copies appear to be. This rare privately printed edition could be ordered bound or in sheets. Accompanied by the original printed announcement for the publication illustrated with a wood engraving of a thistle, signed by Moser. Also with an illustrated invitation to a lecture by Moser entitled “Eryngium & the White Knight: Botanical Motifs in Illustration,” on 13 May 1983 at the Yale Law School Auditorium; and 2 copies of a botanical proof printed by for private use by Moser reproducing a plate from The Flowering Plants of Massachusetts, each signed by Moser. Pennyroyal Checklist [M]6. Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry Moser $500 - 700
577 [MOSER, Barry, illustrator]. MOSER, George. A Family Letter Written… to His Nephew Arthur Moser & Published by His Great-Nephew Barry Moser… Easthampton, MA: Pennyroyal Press, 1979. Oblong 8vo. FOLDED SHEETS UNBOUND. Folding wood-engraved frontispiece signed by Barry Moser. LIMITED EDITION, one of 175 numbered copies signed by Moser on colophon. According to Moser “Eudora Welty spoke highly of this book and commented that George Moser was a wonderful writer, if a bit mad.” Pennyroyal Checklist 21. Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry Moser $200 - 300
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578 MOSER, Barry. Eight Wood Engravings on a Theme of Pan. With an Afterword by the Artist. Northampton, MA: Pennyroyal Press, 1980. 8vo. Illustrated with 8 wood engravings by Barry Moser. Original cloth. LIMITED EDITION, one of 130 copies, this copy out-of-series, signed by Moser and designated artist’s proof (“AP”) on colophon, and WITH EACH PLATE SIGNED BY MOSER. Pennyroyal Checklist 24. Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry Moser $300 - 400
579 MOSER, Barry. Eight Wood Engravings on a Theme of Pan. With an Afterword by the Artist. Northampton, MA: Pennyroyal Press, 1980. 8vo. FOLDED SHEETS UNBOUND. Illustrated with 8 wood engravings by Barry Moser; calligraphic embellishments by Betse Curtis. LIMITED EDITION, one of 130 copies, this copy out-of-series, signed by Moser and designated “artist’s copy” on colophon, and WITH EACH PLATE SIGNED BY MOSER. Pennyroyal Checklist 24. Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry Moser $300 - 400
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580 MOSER, Barry. 3 original pen & ink with wash and pencil drawings for Eight Wood Engravings on a Theme of Pan. [1980]. Each ca 285 x 195 mm. On watercolor paper. Each signed and captioned in pencil. Comprises: “Bacchanalian Pan,” “Pan / p 9,” “p 17 / Rutting pan w. Lamb.” Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry Moser $800 - 1,200
581 MOSER, Barry. Men of Printing. Anglo-American Profiles. [Easthampton, MA:] Pennyroyal Press, 1980. 174 x 122 mm. 8 wood-engraved portraits by Barry Moser. Loose as issued in printed card folder. LIMITED EDITION, one of 25 sets, WITH EACH PLATE SIGNED BY MOSER in pencil. These portraits of William Morris, T. J. Cobden-Sanderson, Emery Walker, Eric Gill, St. John Hornby, Frederick Goudy, John Henry Nash and Bruce Rogers originally appeared in Men of Printing, Anglo-American Profiles printed by the Pennyroyal Press in 1976. See Pennyroyal Checklist 12. Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry Moser $300 - 400 V I E W T H E C O M P L E T E C ATA L O G U E AT H I N D M A N A U C T I O N S . C O M 189
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582 [MOSER, Barry, illustrator]. VIRGIL MARO, Publius. 9 original pen & ink with wash and pencil drawings for Allen Mandelbaum’s translation of Virgil’s Aeneid, published 1981. [ca 1980]. Each 390 x 285 mm. Each signed and dated by Moser, and with his calligraphic captions (as they appear in published edition) and annotations for the printer. Accompanied by 32 small ink rough sketches for the work, each 226 x 117 mm. With numerous captions and annotations including book and verse references. [With:] VERGILIUS MARO, Publius. The Aeneid of Virgil. A Verse Translation by Allen Mandelbaum. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1981, 8vo, illustrated by Moser, original cloth, dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. Signed by Moser on title-page. Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry Moser $7,000 - 10,000
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Melville and Moby Dick Books and Prints
583 [MOSER, Barry, illustrator]. MELVILLE, Herman (1819-1891). Moby Dick; or, The Whale. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1981. Folio. Numerous woodcut illustrations by Barry Moser. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in silver (minor discoloration to spine); original publisher’s cloth slipcase. LIMITED ISSUE, one of 750 unnumbered copies, SIGNED BY MOSER, of this facsimile reprint of the 1979 edition printed by the Arion Press. Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry Moser $600 - 800
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584 MELVILLE, Herman (1819-1891). Moby-Dick. Edited by Harrison Hayford and Hershel Parker. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., [1967]. 8vo, original wrappers (covers detached, handling wear). Norton Critical Edition. BARRY MOSER’S HEAVILY ANNOTATED COPY, with his markings, underlinings and notes in pencil and ink throughout indicating many of his references for the subjects of his illustrations for the monumental Arion Press edition (1979), with inserted slips and notes, etc. Some annotations adding instructions to himself, such as: “vertical images - never wider than 17 picas.” On the final blank he quotes Melville’s Fossil Whale and book analogy (Chapter 14): “To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though may there who have tried it. Ch. 104”. Accompanied by Moser’s copy of a trade edition of the University of California reprint of Arion Press edition, small 4to, original cloth, in dust jacket; and his copy of Herman Melville. Selected Tales & Poems. Edited by Richard Chase. New York, [1965]. Later paperback edition. Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry Moser $800 - 1,200
585 [MELVILLE, HERMAN (1819-1891)]. MOSER, Barry. Group of items related to his illustration of the monumental Arion Press edition Moby-Dick. Comprising: 4 promotional cards for “Barry Moser On the Illustration of Moby-Dick,” given at the Mead Auditorium, Amherst College, April 2, 1981, illustrated with a woodcut whale vignette — Original woodblock used for the white whale vignette used to illustrate the card. — And a manuscript calligraphic sheet by Moser with quotation from Melville on whether a book is ever “finished” from Moby Dick, it reads: “Oh, Time, Strength, Cash, & Patience / Herman Melville fr. Moby Dick.” 6 1/2 by 9 1/2 inches, on watercolor paper, with some other calligraphic trials on verso. Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry Moser $600 - 800
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Lewis Carroll and Alice Books
586 [MOSER, Barry, illustrator]. DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge (“Lewis Carroll”) (1832-1898). Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. [And:] Through the Looking-Glass and what Alice found there. West Hatfield: Pennyroyal Press, 1982. 2 volumes. Folio. Numerous wood-engravings by Barry Moser. UNBOUND IN ORIGINAL FOLDED SHEETS. ONE OF ONLY TWO ‘ARTIST’S COPIES’ IN SHEETS OF THE PAIR OF MASTERPIECES FROM THE PENNYROYAL PRESS. LIMITED EDITIONS, each one of 350 copies signed, these copies out-of-series and designated “artist’s copy” on each colophon. The Alice colophon additionally inscribed “For Arno / Barry Moser” with a small pencil remarque depicting a mushroom above. Without the accompanying additional suites of plates that was normally issued with bound copies of the limited edition. Moser notes that there were only two such copies gathered as such in sheets of both works together as a set. See Pennyroyal Checklist 26 & 27. Accompanied by two copies of the “To the Reader” leaf for Alice signed by Moser, and two unfolded invitations for a reception for the Pennyroyal Alice held at the Basilisk Press & Bookshop in London on November, 16, 1981. [With:] Original woodblock for the key motif cut by Moser used for the half-title of Alice, inscribed by Moser in ink on back: “Reversed Half-title.” [And:] A binding dummy for the Pennyroyal Press editions of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, folio, purple half goatskin gilt by Gray Parrot bindery, inscribed by Moser in pencil on the front free endpaper: “This binding dummy by Gray Parrot, with marbled papers by Cara Moser, was the prototype for the binding Parrot & Moser did for the Pennyroyal Press edition of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, 1982. / Barry Moser / 8.26.21.” Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry Moser $5,000 - 7,000
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587 [MOSER, Barry, illustrator]. A group of 5 wood-engraved plates for the Pennyroyal Press edition of Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland. [West Hatfield, MA: Pennyroyal Press, 1982]. Various sizes. Matted together surrounding a very rare solitary example of the letterpress label “Drink Me” (without the usual wood engraving of the bottle attached to it which appeared on p. 43 in the published edition), printed in colors by Harold McGrath, six passes through the press; framed. EACH PRINT SIGNED AND CAPTIONED BY MOSER in pencil, and designated as artist’s proof (“ap”). Comprising: “The White Rabbit,” “The Pool of Tears,” “The King of Hearts,” “The Enormous Puppy,” and “The Cheshire Cat.” Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry Moser $800 - 1,200
588 [MOSER, Barry, illustrator]. DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge (“Lewis Carroll”) (18321898). Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. [And:] Through the Looking-Glass and what Alice found there. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 1982, 1983. 2 volumes, folio. Numerous illustrations by Barry Moser. Original cloth-backed boards; original printed dust jackets. FIRST TRADE EDITIONS, each signed by Moser on the title-page. Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry Moser $300 - 400
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589 [MOSER, Barry, illustrator]. DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge (“Lewis Carroll”) (1832-1898). The Hunting of the Snark. An Agony, in Eight Fits. [West Hatfield: Pennyroyal Press for]: University of California Press, 1983. Folio. Illustrated by Barry Moser. Original stiff plain wrappers; in original blind-embossed blue dust jacket. LIMITED PENNYROYAL ISSUE, one of 100 copies, SIGNED BY MOSER on the title-page, accompanied by an additional suite of five wood-engravings for the work, EACH SIGNED BY MOSER. “The University of California Press commissioned the design and illustration of the Snark to be used as a companion piece for their deluxe edition of Through the Looking-Glass. By the terms of our agreement with the University of California Press, Pennyroyal Press issued its own edition with a suite of the original prints laid in”—Pennyroyal Checklist 28. Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry Moser $300 - 400
590 [MOSER, Barry. illustrator]. DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge (“Lewis Carroll”) (1832-1898). Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass… & The Hunting of the Snark. New York: Schocken Books, 1978. 8vo. Illustrated. Original wrappers. BARRY MOSER’S HEAVILY ANNOTATED COPY, with his markings, underlinings and notes in pencil, ink and highlighter throughout indicating many of his references for the subjects of his illustrations for the Pennyroyal Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass, and Hunting of the Snark editions (1982-83). Accompanied by a second trade edition of Moser’s illustrated edition of Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1982, folio, original quarter cloth, dust jacket, SIGNED by Moser on the title-page. [With:] A group of 4 pieces of promotional ephemera related to Moser’s illustrations for Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the LookingGlass, 1982-83. Including a printed invitation from the Pennyroyal Press for a party on 11 September 1982 celebrating the completion of Alice and the commencement of Looking-Glass; a printed invitation to Moser’s discussion and slide-show given to The Society of Printers, 2 February 1983, signed by Moser and fifty of the attendees on verso; and 2 other related items. Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry Moser $600 - 800
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591 [DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge (“Lewis Carroll”) (1832-1898)]. A collection of approximately 40 volumes by or about Dodgson from the personal library of Barry Moser, including reference, catalogues and variously illustrated later editions of Dodgson’s works, many with Moser’s bookplate (a few signed by Moser). Various sizes, original bindings. Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry Moser $200 - 300 592
592 [BROADSIDE]. MOSER, Barry. Jabberwocky. [West Hatfield, MA, 1983]. 432 x 561 mm. (A few minor creases at corners.) Illustrated with a wood-engraving printed from the same block used of the Jabberwock from the Pennyroyal Through the Looking Glass. One of an unspecified number, signed by Moser. Not in Pennyroyal Checklist. Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry Moser $500 - 700
593 [PRINTS]. MOSER, Barry. Alice in Her Sister’s Reverie. [1982]. 433 x 552 mm. Signed and captioned by Moser in pencil, designated artist’s proof (“ap”). A separate print issued by Moser created using the original block used from his Pennyroyal Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, but printed on a background created from a metal line-cut from a collage, with two runs through the press on Superfine paper. [With:] MOSER, Barry. The Mad Hatter, No. 2. [1983]. 368 mm x 253 mm. Wood engraving. Signed by Moser. Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry Moser
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594 [PRINT]. MOSER, Barry. Alice in Her Sister’s Reverie. [1982?]. 433 x 552 mm. Signed and captioned by Moser in pencil, designated artist’s proof (“ap”). A separately issued print by Moser created using the original block from his Pennyroyal Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, but printed on a background created from a metal line-cut from a collage, with two runs through the press on Superfine paper. Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry Moser $600 - 800
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595 [MOSER, Barry, illustrator]. ALIGHIERI, Dante (1265-1321). The Divine Comedy… A Verse Translation with Introduction & Commentary by Allen Mandelbaum. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1980-84. 3 volumes. 8vo. Illustrated after drawings by Barry Moser. Original cloth (minor soiling to Vol. I); Vols. II-III in dust jackets. FIRST EDITIONS illustrated by Moser. SIGNED BY MOSER on title-pages. ANNOTATED BY MOSER IN VOLUME I with underlinings in red, notes and additions to the colophon in preparation for an unrealized Pennyroyal edition. [With:] A later paperback edition of the Mandelbaum/Moser Inferno, [n.d.], SIGNED BY MOSER on title-page. — 2 exhibition booklets to accompany the exhibitions for “Inferno: Drawings by Barry Moser for the California Dante” at the Italian Cultural Institute in New York and Galeriaforma in Genoa in 1980, respectively, each signed by Moser on the title-page, each one of 250 copies printed by the Pennyroyal Press. — 2 illustrated exhibition cards for the exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts in Springfield, MA, in 1981, each signed by Moser. — HOMER. The Odyssey of Homer. Translated by T. E. Shaw. Preface by Jeremy M. Wilson. NY: Limited Editions Club, 1981. 8vo, UNBOUND FOLDED SHEETS. LIMITED EDITION, one of 2,000 copies SIGNED BY MOSER AND WILSON. —And another copy in unbound folded sheets. Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry Moser $300 - 400
596 MOSER, Barry. A suite of 18 proof wood-engraved plates by Barry Moser for an unrealized edition of Dante’s Inferno. [ca 1984]. 293 x 190 mm. EACH SIGNED BY MOSER; and 2 additional trial proofs with letterpress in red for the same, each SIGNED BY MOSER. Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry Moser $1,000 - 1,500
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597 [MOSER, Barry, illustrator]. IRVING, Washington (1783-1859). Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Northampton, MA: Pennyroyal Editions in association with Pioneer Publishing, 1984. Folio. Illustrated with wood engravings by Barry Moser. Original linen with paper spine and cover labels; in original linen slipcase. LIMITED EDITION, one of 350 copies. WITH AN ORIGINAL PENCIL REMARQUE BY MOSER depicting the head of a rooster on the title-page, signed and dated 1989. According to Moser this was an unsuccessful venture into producing trade editions with Pioneer Publishing. [With:] [MOSER, Barry, illustrator]. HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel (1804-1864). The Scarlet Letter, A Romance. Northampton, MA: Pennyroyal Editions in association with Pioneer Publishing, 1984. Folio. Illustrated with wood engravings by Barry Moser. Original linen with paper spine and cover labels; in original linen slipcase. LIMITED EDITION, one of 350 copies. Signed by Moser on the title-page. Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry Moser 597
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598 [MOSER, Barry, illustrator]. SHELLEY, Mary Wollstonecraft (17971851). Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1984. Folio. Illustrated by Barry Moser. Original cloth; dust jacket. FIRST TRADE EDITION, First Printing. SIGNED by Moser on the title-page. [Accompanied by:] A dummy binding by the Harcourt bindery for the Pennyroyal Press limited edition of Moser’s Frankenstein, folio, quarter morocco. INSCRIBED BY MOSER: “This is a prototype of the Frankenstein binding from harcourt bindery that I gave to my daughter to use as a diary when she was in junior high school. Barry Moser.” Followed by 3 pp of diary entries including mentioning traveling with her father “for Poqipsee [sic] New York avec father. went to the house Wilderstien [sic], the house dad will be using for beauty & the beast,” and goes on to describe her own thoughts for a story. [With:] SHELLEY, Mary Wollstonecraft. The Annotated Frankenstein. With Introduction and Notes by Leonard Wolf. New York: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., 1977. 4to, original quarter cloth, with some sections highlighted by Moser indicating some references for the subjects of his illustrations for the Pennyroyal Press edition of Frankenstein (1983), also within the note at end on the illustrated editions of Frankenstein. Also with 9 other related works from Moser’s library on Frankenstein.
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599 [MOSER, Barry, illustrator]. A group of 3 multiple color block prints from the Pennyroyal Press edition of Frankenstein, [West Hatfield, MA: Pennyroyal Press, 1983]. Each c.240 x 285 mm, sight size. EACH SIGNED BY MOSER in pencil. Separately matted and framed. “Frankenstein marks the first instance of the use of multiple color blocks prints in a Pennyroyal book…”—Pennyroyal Checklist 29. Comprising: “All joy was but a mockery,” “No father had watched my infant days,” and “Farewell.” Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry Moser $700 - 1,000
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Mark Twain Books, Prints and Watercolors
600 [MOSER, Barry, illustrator]. CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorne (18351910). Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. West Hatfield, MA: Pennyroyal Press, 1985. 2 volumes, folio. 49 wood-engraved plates by Barry Moser; extra suite of wood-engraved plates in separate portfolio. Original green morocco gilt by Gray Parrot; extra suite of plates loose as issued in cloth chemise; housed together in a cloth slipcase. LIMITED EDITION, number 284 of 350 copies, SIGNED BY MOSER AND WITH AN ADDITIONAL SUITE OF PLATES, each additionally signed by Moser. The text for this centenary edition is the restored version as supplied by the Mark Twain Papers at the University of California at Berkeley. Pennyroyal Checklist 39.
601 [MOSER, Barry, illustrator]. CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorne (18351910). Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. West Hatfield, MA: Pennyroyal Press, 1985. Plate portfolio only. Folio. 49 wood-engraved plates. Loose as issued in original cloth chemise. LIMITED EDITION, from the run of 350 copies. EACH PLATE SIGNED BY MOSER. A complete suite of plates issued to accompany the limited centenary edition of Huckleberry Finn (1985). These are unnumbered. See note Pennyroyal Checklist 39. Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry Moser $800 - 1,200
Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry Moser $2,000 - 3,000
602 [MOSER, Barry, illustrator]. Jim, Alone. Wood engraving from the Pennyroyal Press Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. [West Hatfield, MA: Pennyroyal Press, 1985]. 382 x 288 mm. Matted. Signed by Moser and numbered (“34/50”). The model for the subject is the American playwright, screenwriter and actor Samm Art William, who starred in the role of Jim in the PBS American Playhouse drama “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” in 1986.
603 [MOSER, Barry, illustrator]. CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorne. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. [New York]: Harper Collins / Books of Wonder, [1998]. 4to. Illustrated by Barry Moser. Original glazed pictorial boards; dust jacket. SIGNED BY MOSER on the title-page. ACCOMPANIED BY SIX ORIGINAL WATERCOLOR DRAWINGS FOR THE ILLUSTRATIONS, each signed and titled in pencil. The subjects comprise: “The Haunted House,” “Murrel’s Gold,” “Becky Thatcher,” “Mr. Dobbins,” “The Widow Douglas,” and “They’re Coming.” Sizes range from ca 280 x 198 to ca 288 x 198 mm. [With:] LASKY, Kathryn. A Brilliant Streak. The Making of Mark Twain. San Diego, [1998]. 4to, original boards; dust jacket. Signed by Moser on the title-page.
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604 [CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorne (1835-1910)]. Mark Twain’s Book of Animals. Edited with Introduction, Afterward, & Notes by Shelley Fisher Fishkin. Illustrations by Barry Moser. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, [2010]. 8vo. Illustrated with wood engravings by Barry Moser. Original quarter cloth; dust jacket; housed in custom cloth folding case together with additional suite of the prints and an original woodblock. SPECIAL COPY, WITH AN ADDITIONAL SUITE OF PRINTS AND AN ORIGINAL ENGRAVED WOODBLOCK FOR THE EDITION. Signed by Moser on the title-page; each print signed and numbered (“2/25”). The original woodblock is for the frontispiece illustration and dust jacket cover. Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry Moser $2,000 - 3,000
605 [MOSER, Barry, illustrator]. [CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorne (1835-1910)]. Mark Twain’s Book of Animals. Edited with Introduction, Afterward, & Notes by Shelley Fisher Fishkin. Illustrations by Barry Moser. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, [2010]. 8vo. Illustrated with wood engravings by Barry Moser. Original quarter cloth; dust jacket. SIGNED BY MOSER on the title-page. WITH AN ADDITIONAL SUITE OF PRINTS, each signed and numbered (“AP V/V”). Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry Moser $800 - 1,200
606 [MOSER, BARRY—SOURCE MATERIAL]. CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorne (1835-1910). The Annotated Huckleberry Finn. New York: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., 1981. 4to. Original cloth-backed boards (minor fading and handling wear). BARRY MOSER’S HEAVILY ANNOTATED WORKING COPY, with his markings, underlinings and notes in pencil and ink throughout indicating many of his references for the subjects of his illustrations for the Pennyroyal Press edition of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1985), with inserted slips, annotated photocopies, notes, etc. Accompanied by Moser’s source material of related editions and works on Clemens including a paperback edition Huckleberry Finn. Text, Sources, and Criticism, Edited by Kenneth S. Lynn, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, [1961], 4to, original wrappers, with some pencil annotations in Moser’s hand; Dennis Welland’s The Life and Times of Mark Twain, New York: Crescent Books, [1991], 4to, original cloth, dust jacket, with flagged notes on inserted slips in Moser’s hand; and 10 other volumes by or about Clemens. Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry Moser $600 - 800 V I E W T H E C O M P L E T E C ATA L O G U E AT H I N D M A N A U C T I O N S . C O M 201
Baum and Wizard of Oz and Prints
607 [MOSER, Barry, illustrator.] BAUM, L. Frank (1856-1919). The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. West Hatfield, MA: Pennyroyal Press, 1985. Folio. Illustrated with 62 wood engravings by Barry Moser. Original beige boards by David Bourbeau at the Thistle Bindery, decorated in gilt and blind; in original linen clamshell box (minor dampstaining to box). LIMITED EDITION, one of 350 copies signed by Moser, this copy unnumbered and designated “Artist’s copy” on colophon. With Pennyroyal Press booklet entitled Forty-Seven Days to Oz: A Chronicle of the Studies for the Illustrations for The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, laid in. Pennyroyal Checklist 43. Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry Moser $1,000 - 1,500
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608 [MOSER, Barry, illustrator]. A group of 4 wood-engraved plates for the Pennyroyal Press edition The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. [West Hatfield, MA: Pennyroyal Press, 1985]. Each c.380 x 285 mm. EACH SIGNED BY MOSER in pencil. Each matted separately. Comprising: “The Cyclone,” “The Cowardly Lion,” “The Lion’s Courage,” and “The Arrival of the King of the Winged Monkeys.” Accompanied by a copy of the Pennyroyal Press booklet entitled Forty-Seven Days to Oz: A Chronicle of the Studies for the Illustrations for The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, 1985. Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry Moser $600 - 800
609 [MOSER, Barry—SOURCE MATERIAL]. BAUM, L. Frank (1856-1919). The Annotated Wizard of Oz… With an Introduction, Notes, and Bibliography by Michael Patrick Hearn. New York: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., 1973. Oblong 8vo. Original cloth (joints splitting, hinges tender, some soiling). BARRY MOSER’S HEAVILY ANNOTATED COPY, with his markings, underlinings and notes in pencil and ink throughout indicating many of his references for the subjects of his illustrations for the Pennyroyal Press edition of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1985), with inserted slips and notes, etc. Accompanied by Moser’s source material of related editions and works on Baum, comprising: a paperback edition of the The Wizard of Oz, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1982, 8vo, original wrappers, with some annotations in red ink in Moser’s hand. — The Wizard of Oz. Edited by Michael Patrick Hearn. New York: Schocken Books, [1983], 8vo, original cloth, with flagged notes on inserted slips in Moser’s hand. — RILEY, Michael O. Oz and Beyond, The Fantasy World of L. Frank Baum, Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 1997, 8vo, original cloth, dust jacket, inscribed by the author to Barry Moser on the half-title. — a trade edition of Moser’s illustrated The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Berkeley, CA: University of California, 1986, oblong 8vo, original leatherette and cloth, in dust jacket, signed by Moser on the title-page. Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry Moser $600 - 800
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610 [MOSER, Barry, illustrator]. Portfolio of plates for Master Richard’s Bestiary of Love and Response. Bestiare d’amour. [West Hatfield, MA: Pennyroyal Press, 1985]. 8vo. 48 wood engravings by Barry Moser. Loose as issued with additional suite of plates in cloth chemises; housed together in original vellumbacked cloth folding case. LIMITED EDITION, one of 100 suites of plates, each signed and numbered in pencil by Moser, this copy designated “AP.” This being among the first 25 suites which contain an additional suite of engravings on Fusuma Gray paper, each signed by the artist and lettered “M/25”. Pennyroyal Checklist 42. Accompanied by a copy of the trade edition of Master Richard’s Bestiary. Translated by Jeanette Beer. Illustrated by Barry Moser. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, [1986]. 8vo, original cloth; dust jacket. SIGNED BY MOSER on the title-page. Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry Moser $500 - 700 611 MOSER, Barry. An Alphabet. West Hatfield, MA: Pennyroyal Press, 1986. Oblong sheets (191 x 242 mm). UNBOUND AND UNFOLDED SHEETS. With 26 wood engravings by Moser; and 26 letters designed by Yvette Rutledge printed in colors by Moser. LIMITED EDITION, one of 150 copies, this copy out-of-series. “One of the most rewarding relationships I have had with other craftsmen in my seventeen years of bookwork has been with Yvette Rutledge. she has an uncanny sense of what I want and an extraordinary talent for making beautiful letters.”—Pennyroyal Checklist 47. [With:] An incomplete group of unbound folded quires and plates for An Alphabet, including some duplicates. Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry Moser $300 - 400
612 [MOSER, Barry, illustrator]. A suite of plates issued separately by Moser using his blocks from his illustrated book The Fall of Camelot (Enchanted World Series), New York: Time-Life Books, 1986. 295 x 246 mm. 33 wood-engraved plates by Barry Moser. LIMITED EDITION, one of 85 suites of plates printed by the Pennyroyal Press, EACH SIGNED AND NUMBERED BY MOSER in pencil (“84/85”). Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry Moser $500 - 700
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613 [MOSER, Barry, illustrator]. Suite of plates issued separately by Moser using his blocks from his illustrated book The Fall of Camelot (Enchanted World Series), New York: Time-Life Books, 1986. 295 x 246 mm. 33 wood-engraved plates by Barry Moser. EACH SIGNED AND NUMBERED BY MOSER in pencil (“83/85”). Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry Moser $500 - 700
614 [MOSER, Barry, illustrator]. WELTY, Eudora (1909-2001). The Robber Bridegroom. West Hatfield, MA: Pennyroyal Press, 1987. 8vo. Numerous wood-engravings by Barry Moser. FOLDED UNBOUND SHEETS. LIMITED EDITION, one of 150 copies, SIGNED BY WELTY AND MOSER, this copy out-of-series. ACCOMPANIED BY FIVE EXTRA WOOD-ENGRAVED PLATES, each signed by Moser and numbered (“13/100”), matted. With a printed promotional brochure and bookmark to a related event in Jackson Mississippi. Also with a copy of the Moser illustrated trade edition, San Diego & New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1987. 8vo, illustrated by Moser, original quarter cloth; dust jacket. SIGNED BY MOSER on the title-page. Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry Moser $600 - 800
615 [MOSER, Barry, illustrator]. CAPOTE, Truman (1924-1984). I Remember Grandpa. Atlanta, GA: Peachtree Publishers, 1987. 4to. Illustrated with watercolors by Barry Moser. Original boards; dust jacket. FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION. SIGNED BY MOSER on the title-page. Accompanied by another signed copy (no dust jacket). Originally written in 1946 as a gift for Capote’s aunt, it was not published until three years before this illustrated edition. [With:] [MOSER, Barry, illustrator]. RUDISILL, Marie. Sook’s Cookbook. Memories and Traditional Receipts from the Deep South. Atlanta, GA: Longstreet Press, 1989. 4to. Illustrated with watercolors by Barry Moser. Original boards; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION of a cookbook collected by Truman Capote’s aunt. SIGNED BY MOSER on the title-page. ACCOMPANIED BY AN ORIGINAL WATERCOLOR DRAWING FOR AN ILLUSTRATION, a portrait of Truman Capote’s cousin, Jenny Faulk, signed and dated 1989. With a signed statement from Moser recounting his friendship with Rudisill which developed over the course of illustrating this book, and resulted in her sending Moser a gift of a family quilt which Truman Capote had while he was a boy. THE ORIGINAL QUILT ACCOMPANIES THIS LOT. Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry Moser $1,000 - 1,500
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616 [MOSER, Barry, illustrator]. MACLEAN, Norman. A River Runs Through It. West Hatfield, MA: Pennyroyal Press, 1989. 8vo. Illustrated with 13 wood engravings by Barry Moser. UNBOUND FOLDED SHEETS. LIMITED EDITION, one of 200 copies signed by Maclean and Moser, this copy marked artist’s proof (“AP.”) on colophon. Accompanied by an extra suite of 14 engravings signed by the artist. [With:] Original woodblock engraved by Moser for one of the flies illustrated in the Pennyroyal edition. — An extra group of 40 prints (including duplicates) for the work, unsigned. — 2 later printings, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, [n.d.], 8vo, original cloth-backed boards, in dust jackets, each SIGNED BY MOSER on the title-page. — A group of additional binding labels for the Pennyroyal edition. — Original hand-tied yellow stone fly, with note from Richard Rose (grandson of George Croonenberghs, who tied all the flies depicted in the edition, but the “Bunyan Bug” tied by Norman Means) presenting it to Moser (“My gramps made this around 1940…). — And a copy of Fishing Stories, Edited by Henry Hughes, New York: Knopf, 2013, second printing, inscribed by Hughes to Moser. Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry Moser $2,000 - 3,000
617 [MOSER, BARRY, illustrator]. DOYLE, Arthur Conan, Sir (1859-1930). The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. New York: Books of Wonder / William Morrow & Company, Inc., [1992]. 4to. Illustrated with watercolors by Barry Moser. Original cloth; dust jacket. SIGNED BY MOSER on the title-page. ACCOMPANIED BY FIVE ORIGINAL WATERCOLOR DRAWINGS FOR THE ILLUSTRATIONS, signed and dated in pencil (several titled). The subjects comprise: “Vincent Spaulding,” “Charles McCarthy, Dead,” “Grimesby Roylott,” “Dr. Watson,” and “Hugh Boone.” Sizes range from c.264 x 197 mm. to c.284 x 197 mm. Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry Moser $4,000 - 6,000
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618 [MOSER, Barry, illustrator]. OATES, Joyce Carol. First Love. [Hopewell]: The Ecco Press, 1996. 16mo. Illustrated with wood engravings by Barry Moser; extra suite of plates in separate folder. Original turquoise cloth; housed together in matching clamshell case with spacing trays. LIMITED EDITION, number 4 of 200 copies, signed by Oates and Moser, and accompanied by an additional suite of plates on Japan paper, each individually signed by Moser. [With:] [MOSER, Barry, illustrator]. OATES, Joyce Carol. The Gatekeeper. Las Vegas: Rainmaker Editions, 2003. 8vo. Illustrated with wood engravings by Barry Moser. Original morocco-backed silk over boards; in matching folding case. LIMITED EDITION, number 6 (“vi”) of 125 copies signed by Oates and Moser, and accompanied by an additional suite of artist’s proofs, each individually signed by Moser. Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry Moser $500 - 700
619 MOSER, Barry. The Animals. The Engravings of Barry Moser. With an Appreciation by Vance Studley. [Pasadena:] By Vance Studley for Pennyroyal Press, 1997. Oblong 8vo. Illustrated with 18 wood-engraved plates. Text booklet and plates loose as issued in cloth folding case with printed label. LIMITED EDITION, one of 20 copies, WITH EACH PLATE SIGNED BY MOSER in pencil. Printed and bound “solely for the distribution & pleasure of Barry Moser & Vance Studley.” [With:] MOSER, Barry. Six Engravings by Barry Moser. [Pasadena, CA:] Privately Printed by Vance Studley for Pennyroyal Press, 2005. 207 x 161 mm. Title-page with four-line Dogon Greeting, sheet with poem “Civilization” by Richard Grossman; and 6 wood-engravings by Barry Moser. Loose as issued in plain folder; original folding case with printed spine label “The Animals.” LIMITED EDITON, “a few copies printed,” with each print signed and numbered by Moser (“3/20”). Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry Moser $400 - 600
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Pennyroyal Caxton Bible
620 [MOSER, Barry, illustrator]. The Holy Bible. Containing All the Books of the Old and New Testaments. North Hatfield, MA and New York City: Pennyroyal Caxton Press, 1999. 2 volumes. Folio. Illustrated with over 235 relief engravings by Barry Moser. (Front flyleaf creased in Vol. I.) Vol. I partially bound, sewn onto original vellum strips with linen and spine backing paper present; Vol. II in full vellum over boards with title stamped in gilt on front board and spine (slight discoloration to vellum on front cover); each volume housed in original cloth folding case (both with spine labels for Vol. II). LIMITED EDITION, one of 400 copies on Zerkall Bible paper, out of a total edition of 430 copies, this copy out-of-series and signed by Moser at end of Vol II. The text for the Pennyroyal Caxton Bible follows the classic King James, or “Authorized” version, first published in 1611. The type is Galliard-Moser, designed by Matthew Carter and modified specifically for this project, and the type pages are composed and printed by Bradley Hutchinson of Digital Letterpress in Austin, Texas, after Moser’s designs and specifications. Mr. Hutchinson has rendered the computer-generated type into polymer printing plates and printed them letterpress, combining tradition with modern technology. The paper is Zerkall Bible, manufactured especially for this project and bearing the unique watermark of the Pennyroyal Caxton Press. The bindings are executed by the combined studios of Claudia Cohen and Sarah Creighton, of Easthampton, Massachusetts. Moser brought the experience of thirty years of engraving to bear on his illustrations for the King James Bible, the first edition in this century in which both the Old and the New Testaments are illustrated by a single artist. Working with a new medium known as resingrave, Moser has cut over 235 stunning illustrations which rank among his finest, and overseen the integration of these engravings into a seamless whole, what he has termed the “struggle to engage not only a sacred text but the greatest monument of our language; to grapple with typography and images befitting such sanctity and monumentality; and to wrestle with the devils and angels that reside therein.” This book undoubtedly ranks among the greatest achievements of twentieth century fine bookmaking. With the original prospectus laid in. [With:] 3 original preliminary pencil drawings by Moser for illustrations in The Holy Bible. Each 403 x 284 mm, each titled and signed by Moser. The subjects comprise: “Sanballat” (Nehemiah 2:10), “The Child” (Galatians 4:1), and “The Annunciation” (Luke 1:28). [And:] A trial binding dummy for the Pennyroyal Caxton Bible, folio, linen-backed boards, inscribed by Moser in pencil on the front free endpaper: “This binding dummy is from the workshops of Sarah Creighton & Claudia Cohen is a prototype for the binding of the Pennyroyal Press edition of the King James Bible. The cover papers were made by Tim Barrett at his paper mill at the Center for the Book at the University of Iowa. Barrett and I collected walnut husks around the mill building to dye the sheets. Unfortunately, the paper bruised and burnished, & the idea for a very humble biding was abandoned. / Barry Moser / 8.26.21.” Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry Moser $8,000 - 12,000
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621 [MOSER, Barry, illustrator]. A trial proof bifolium containing the illustrated opening of Genesis beginning the the text of the Pennyroyal Caxton Bible. [North Hatfield, MA and New York City: Pennyroyal Caxton Press, 1999]. Bifolium, ca 400 x 575mm. Printed in red and black; illustrated with an unused trial full-page wood engraving of the Heavens with the Hebrew letter [aleph] at center by Barry Moser; sheet blank on verso. Stitched at center fold and held to mount. Float-mounted in a window mat and handsomely displayed in a gilt-wood frame. ONE OF APPROXIMATELY 25 TRIAL COPIES PRINTED. The engraving was later used in the published version as an illustration for the Book of Psalms. Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry Moser $1,000 - 1,500
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622 [MOSER, Barry, illustrator]. The Complete Set of Prints Both Published and Unpublished for the Deluxe Edition of The Pennyroyal Caxton Bible. [North Hatfield, MA and New York City: Pennyroyal Caxton Press, 1999]. Folio (c.380 x 255 mm). 280 resingrave prints by Barry Moser. With letterpress bifolium comprising title page (with limitation) and plate list. Loose as issued (without tray box which accompanied the deluxe edition). LIMITED EDITION, number 49 of 50 proof sets, each signed and numbered by Moser. All the prints were printed by Harold McGrath on handmade Japanese Kitakata paper. The suite includes the 50 rejected prints by the artist. Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry Moser $4,000 - 6,000
623 [MOSER, Barry, illustrator]. A group of 14 engraved prints for the Pennyroyal Caxton Press Bible. [North Hatfield, MA and New York City: Pennyroyal Caxton Press, 1999]. Each 406 x 282 mm. Matted or shrink-wrapped on foam core board separately. Most signed and captioned by Moser in pencil, and designated as artist’s proof (“ap”), some with plate number annotated on margin in red pencil. Comprising: “The Crucifixion,” “1st Crucifixion, left panel,” “Jesus with the Crown of Thorns,” [unsigned], “Golgotha,” “The Two Tables of Testimony,” “The Daughter of Babylon,” “Ezekiel,” “Ebed-melech,” “The Lovers,” 2 others unsigned, and 3 artist’s proofs on Japanese Kitakata paper, signed by Moser: “The Turtle Dove”, “The Goat” and “The Death of John the Baptist.” Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry Moser $1,000 - 1,500
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624 MOSER, Barry. An original engraved Resingrave block for the image of Esther used to illustrate the Pennyroyal Caxton Bible. 1997. 293 x 185 x 21 mm. Titled in marker by Moser on top edge. The block has an almost imperceptible cancellation line scribed along the extreme lower edge of the engraved surface. Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry Moser $800 - 1,200
625 MOSER, Barry. An original engraved Resingrave block for The Flight into Egypt used to illustrate The Pennyroyal Caxton Bible. 1997. 293 x 185 x 21 mm. Titled in marker by Moser on top edge. The block has an almost imperceptible cancellation line scribed along the extreme lower edge of the engraved surface. Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry Moser $800 - 1,200
626 [MOSER, Barry, illustrator]. The Holy Bible. Containing All the Books of the Old and New Testaments. New York: Viking Studio, 1999. Folio. Illustrated with over 230 woodcuts by Barry Moser. Original cloth; dust jacket; in original shrink-wrap. FIRST TRADE EDITION of the Pennyroyal Caxton Bible. Accompanied by a video cassette trailer for the documentary film by Kessler Brothers, “A Thief Among the Angels,” The Pennyroyal Caxton, new in shrink-wrap. Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry Moser $100 - 200
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627 [PRINT]. Wisdom. Large limited Resingrave print from the Pennyroyal Caxton Bible. [North Hatfield, MA, 1999]. 865 x 532 mm. LIMITED EDITION, number XI of XXXV numbered copies, signed by Moser, this copy designated artist’s proof (“ap”). Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry Moser $300 - 400
628 [POSTERS]. 3 silkscreen promotional posters for the Pennyroyal Caxton Bible. North Hatfield, MA and New York City: Pennyroyal Caxton Press, 1999. Each 38 1/4 x 24 1/4 in. LIMITED EDITIONS, each one of 50 copies, each signed by Moser. Comprises posters for The Books of the Prophecy, The Five Books of Moses and The Books of the New Testament. Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry Moser $400 - 600
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629 [MOSER, Barry, illustrator]. SOYINKA, Wole. Outsiders. Decatur, GA: Wisteria Press, 1999. 8vo. Frontispiece by Barry Moser. Original cloth-backed mottled boards. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, one of 15 copies hors commerce copies (of 265 copies printed on Mohawk Superfine paper), this copy designated “Artist’s Copy 5 of 5,” SIGNED BY SOYINKA AND MOSER. Soyinka was the Nobel laureate in 1986. Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry Moser $500 - 700
630 [MOSER, Barry, illustrator]. STOKER, Bram (18471912). Dracula. New York: Books of Wonder / Harper Collins, 2000. 8vo. Illustrated with wood engravings by Barry Moser; extra suite of wood-engraved plates in separate portfolio. Publisher’s quarter cloth; dust jacket; extra suite of plates loose as issued in cloth chemise; housed together in original cloth clamshell case. FIRST EDITION illustrated by Moser, DELUXE PENNYROYAL ISSUE, number 13 of 30 copies, SIGNED BY MOSER AND ACCOMPANIED BY AN ADDITIONAL SUITE OF PLATES, each individually signed and numbered by Moser. Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry Moser $800 - 1,200
631 [MOSER, Barry, illustrator]. STOKER, Bram (1847-1912). Dracula. New York: Books of Wonder / Harper Collins, 2000. 8vo. Illustrated with wood engravings by Barry Moser. Original quarter cloth; dust jacket. FIRST TRADE EDITION illustrated by Moser, SIGNED by Moser on the title-page. Accompanied by the additional suite of plates printed at the Pennyroyal Press for the deluxe Pennyroyal issue, each signed by Moser. [With:] 7 volumes by or about Stoker/Dracula from Moser’s library, several with sections marked or flagged for reference for his own illustrations for this work. Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry Moser $400 - 600
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632 MOSER, Barry. Portraits… Introduction by Ann Patchett. Afterword by Barry Moser. North Hatfield: Pennyroyal Press, 2006. Folio. 161 engravings on wood and Resingrave by Barry Moser. Contents loose as issued in original cloth chemise and folding case. LIMITED EDITION, one of 60 sets, signed by Ann Patchett, printer Vance and Barry Moser, this being COPY NUMBER 1, from the first twenty copies reserved for the artist. Contains 161 portraits of friends, family, artists, architects, writers, poets, and composers engraved on wood and Resingrave by Moser from 1970 to 2006 and collected here for the first time. Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry Moser $2,000 - 3,000
633 [MOSER, BARRY, illustrator]. Ashen Sky: The Letters of Pliny the Younger on the Eruption of Vesuvius. Los Angeles: Getty Museum, [2007]. 4to. Illustrated with wood engravings by Barry Moser; extra suite of wood-engraved plates in separate portfolio. Original pictorial boards; in dust jacket; extra suite of plates loose as issued in cloth chemise; housed together in a cloth clamshell case. SPECIAL COPY, WITH AN ADDITIONAL SUITE OF PRINTS AND AN EXTRA SIGNED PROOF. Signed by Moser on front free endpaper. The signed proof is a wood-engraving of the map of the Bay of Naples. Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry Moser $500 - 700
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634 [MOSER, Barry, illustrator]. HODGES, Margaret (1911-2005). Moses. New York, Orlando, Austin, etc.: Harcourt, Inc., 2007. 4to. With 13 full-page illustrations from watercolors by Barry Moser. Original cloth; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED BY MOSER on the title-page. ACCOMPANIED BY FIVE ORIGINAL WATERCOLOR DRAWINGS FOR THE ILLUSTRATIONS, each 287 x 216 mm., each signed, dated (“05”) and titled in pencil by Moser. The drawings comprise: “Moses” (used as frontispiece), “The Infant Moses,” “Moses, a prince of Egypt,” “Moses and the Burning Bush,” and “The Table of Testimony.” Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry Moser $4,000 - 6,000
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635 [MOSER, Barry, illustrator]. Psalm 23. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2008. 4to. Illustrated with watercolors by Barry Moser. Original pictorial boards; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY MOSER on the title-page. ACCOMPANIED BY TWO LARGE ORIGINAL WATERCOLOR DRAWINGS FOR THE ILLUSTRATIONS, each captioned, signed and dated by Moser (“2006”), each c.380 x 570 mm. The subjects comprise: “The Shepherd,” and “Beside the Still Water.” Accompanied by an additional copy of the book, signed by Moser on title-page. Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry Moser $6,000 - 8,000
636 [MOSER, Barry, illustrator]. Psalm 23. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2008. 4to. Illustrated with watercolors by Barry Moser. Original pictorial boards; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY MOSER on the title-page. ACCOMPANIED BY TWO LARGE ORIGINAL WATERCOLOR DRAWINGS FOR THE ILLUSTRATIONS, each captioned, signed and dated by Moser (“2006”), each c.380 x 570 mm. The subjects comprise: “Out from the Shadow,” and “He prepares a table before me in the presence of my enemies.” Accompanied by an additional copy of the book, signed by Moser on title-page. Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry Moser $6,000 - 8,000 V I E W T H E C O M P L E T E C ATA L O G U E AT H I N D M A N A U C T I O N S . C O M 217
637 [MOSER, Barry, Illustrator]. FAIRCHILD, B. H. Trilogy. With an introduction by Paul Mariani. Hadley, MA: Arthur Larson for the Pennyroyal Press, 2008. 8vo. Illustrated by Barry Moser. Original cloth-backed boards. LIMITED EDITION, one of 50 copies SIGNED BY FAIRCHILD, MARIANI AND MOSER, this copy out-of-series. [With:] [MOSER, Barry, illustrator]. MARIANI, Paul. Epitaphs for the Journey: New, Selected, and Revised Poems. North Hatfield, MA: Pennyroyal Press, [2012]. 8vo. Frontispiece and dust jacket illustrated with wood engravings by Moser. Original cloth; dust jacket. LIMITED EDITION, number 5 of 10 copies reserved for the author and illustrator, of an edition of 50 copies SIGNED BY MARIANI AND MOSER, with an additional impression of the folding triptych from the wood engravings, signed by Moser in pencil. Accompanied by a copy of the paperback trade edition, Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2012. And 2 additional proof sheets of the triptych, signed by Moser in pencil. Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry Moser $300 - 400
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638 [MOSER, Barry, illustrator]. WOOD, Douglas. Franklin and Winston: A Christmas That Changed the World. Somerville, MA: Candlewick Press, 2011. 4to. Illustrated with watercolors by Barry Moser. Original pictorial boards; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY MOSER on the title-page. ACCOMPANIED BY FIVE ORIGINAL WATERCOLOR DRAWINGS FOR THE ILLUSTRATIONS, each titled with placement instructions by Moser in pencil. Comprising 3 large portrait drawings for full-page illustrations, each c.455 x 375 mm.; and 2 smaller vignette drawings of a small holiday wreath and a holiday napkin placesetting, each c.283 x190 mm. Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry Moser $6,000 - 8,000
639 [MOSER, Barry, illustrator]. WOOD, Douglas. Franklin and Winston: A Christmas That Changed the World. Somerville, MA: Candlewick Press, 2011. 4to. Illustrated with watercolors by Barry Moser. Original pictorial boards; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY MOSER on the title-page. ACCOMPANIED BY THREE ORIGINAL WATERCOLOR DRAWINGS FOR THE ILLUSTRATIONS, each titled with placement instructions by Moser in pencil. Comprising 2 large portrait drawings for full-page illustrations, each c.455 x 375 mm.; and one smaller vignette drawings of a holiday wreath, c.283 x190 mm. Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry Moser $6,000 - 8,000
640 [MOSER, Barry, illustrator]. WOOD, Douglas. Franklin and Winston: A Christmas That Changed the World. Somerville, MA: Candlewick Press, 2011. 4to. Illustrated with watercolors by Barry Moser. Original pictorial boards; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY MOSER on the title-page. ACCOMPANIED BY THREE ORIGINAL WATERCOLOR DRAWINGS FOR THE ILLUSTRATIONS, each titled with placement instructions by Moser in pencil. Comprising 2 large portrait drawings for full-page illustrations, each c.455 x 375 mm.; and one smaller vignette drawings of a holiday wreath, c.283 x190 mm. Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry Moser $6,000 - 8,000
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641 [MOSER, Barry, illustrator]. WILDE, Oscar (1854-1900). Salomé. A Tragedy in One Act. Translated from the French by Joseph Donohue. Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2011. 8vo. Illustrated with 23 wood engravings by Barry Moser; extra suite of wood-engraved plates in separate portfolio. Original leather stamped in silver; extra suite of plates loose as issued in cloth chemise; housed together in original cloth clamshell case. FIRST EDITION illustrated by Moser, DELUXE PENNYROYAL ISSUE, number 18 of 250 copies, signed by Moser and Donohue, ACCOMPANIED BY AN ADDITIONAL SUITE OF PLATES, each individually signed by Moser. 641
Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry Moser $300 - 400
642 [MOSER, Barry, illustrator]. WILDE, Oscar (1854-1900). Salomé. A Tragedy in One Act. Translated from the French by Joseph Donohue. Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2011. 8vo. Illustrated with 23 wood engravings by Barry Moser. Original cloth; dust jacket. FIRST TRADE EDITION illustrated by Moser, SIGNED by Moser on the title-page. Accompanied by the additional suite of plates printed at the Pennyroyal Press for the deluxe Pennyroyal issue, each signed by Moser. 642
Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry Moser $200 - 300
643 [MOSER, Barry, illustrator]. DEEDY, Carmen Agra and Randall WRIGHT. The Cheshire Cheese Cat. A Dickens of a Tale. Atlanta, GA: Peachtree Publishers, 2011. 8vo. Illustrated after pencil drawings by Barry Moser. original boards; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, second printing, of this tale in which community of mice and a cheese-loving cat form an unlikely alliance at London’s Cheshire Cheese, an inn where Charles Dickens finds inspiration and Queen Victoria makes an unexpected appearance. SIGNED BY MOSER on the title-page. ACCOMPANIED BY SEVEN ORIGINAL PENCIL DRAWINGS FOR ILLUSTRATIONS, including unused versions, each 291x 221 mm, on archival tracing paper. Includes 2 unused portraits of Dickens, unused portrait of Wilkie Collins, and some characters from Dickens stories. [With:] 4 foreign language translations, including Japanese and French. Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry Moser $400 - 600 643
644 [MOSER, Barry, illustrator]. Group of 11 volumes by other authors and poets illustrated by Barry Moser. Comprising: BENET, Stephen Vincent. John Brown’s Body. New York: Book-of-the Month Club, Inc., 1980. 8vo, original cloth; dust jacket; original slipcase. SIGNED BY MOSER on the title-page. Accompanied by a proof sheet containing 8 wood engravings (recto & verso) for the edition, SIGNED BY MOSER in pencil. — IRVING, Washington. Two Tales: Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, [1986]. 8vo, original quarter cloth; dust jacket. SIGNED BY MOSER on title & dated 1989. — Ashen Sky: The Letters of Pliny the Younger on the Eruption of Vesuvius. Los Angeles: Getty Museum, [2007]. 4to, original pictorial boards. SIGNED BY MOSER on the front free endpaper. — DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge (“Lewis Carroll”). Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1982. 4to, original wrappers. SIGNED BY MOSER on the title. — STEVENSON, Robert Louis. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1990. 12mo, original cloth; dust jacket. SIGNED BY MOSER on the title-page. Accompanied by the paperback edition, SIGNED BY MOSER on the title-page. — EPSTEIN, Joseph, editor. Literary Genius. 25 Classic Writers Who Define English & American Literature. Philadelphia: Paul Dry Books, 2007. 4to, original quarter cloth; dust jacket. SIGNED BY MOSER on the title-page. — MANDELBAUM, Allen. From the Vast and Versal Lexicon. Selected Poems… North Hatfield, MA: Pennyroyal Press in Association with Allen Mandelbaum Intellectual Property Trust, 2017. 8vo, original cloth; dust jacket. LIMITED EDITION, one of 300 copies, this copy out-of-series (“a.p.”), SIGNED BY MOSER. — FALK, Marcia. The Song of Songs. Love Poems from the Bible. Translated from the Original Hebrew by Marcia Falk. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977. 8vo, original quarter cloth; dust jacket. SIGNED BY MOSER on the title-page. — FALK, Marcia. The Song of Songs. A New Translation and Interpretation. San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1990. SIGNED BY MOSER on title-page. Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry Moser $500 - 700 220 F I N E B O O K S & M A N U S C R I P T S I N C L U D I N G A M E R I C A N A
Broadsides
645 [BROADSIDES]. A group of 4 of Moser’s earliest printed broadsides from his Castalia Press. Comprising: Whistler. The Red Rag. Castalia Press. Prospectus. [Easthampton, MA: Castalia Press, 1969]. Unfolded sheet, 303 x 207 mm. Illustrated with a small oval portrait of Whistler in mauve; title printed in red; text on verso. One of an unspecified number printed. SIGNED BY MOSER beneath portrait. Regarding his first book Red Flag, Moser writes: “So inept at engraving wood was I, that I drew a portrait of Mr. Whistler on scratch-board and had a line etching made so that it would look like an engraving. The Castalia Press was started as part of the Art Department at Williston Academy, Easthampton, Mass. in the Spring of 1969. It took a year for the first book to come off the press”—Pennyroyal Checklist 1. The text on verso announces The Red Flag as the first limited edition from the Castalia Press, which preceded his Pennyroyal Press. This announcement does not appear in the Pennyroyal Checklist. [With:] ONITSURA, Uejima. Thus too my lovely life Must end, another flower… To fall and float away [Haiku]. [Easthampton, MA: Castalia Press], 15 November 1969. Broadside, 194 x 300 mm. Illustrated with a small flower device; printed in red. One of an unspecified number printed. SIGNED BY MOSER. “This broadside was an offshoot of the Death of Narcissus, printed more or less as part of the continuing set of exercises I was practicing to learn the craft of printing”—Pennyroyal Checklist [B]2. [With:] The Art of the Book. Announcement for an exhibit of handmade books from Leonard Baskin’s Gehenna Press held at the John Stark Gallery, Williston Academy, Easthampton, MA. [Easthampton, MA: Castalia Press, 1969]. 226 x 213 mm. Printed in red and black. One of an unspecified number printed. SIGNED BY MOSER. Pennyroyal Checklist [B]3. [With:] MILTON, John. For what can Warr, but endless Warr still breed…[quotation from Paradise Lost]. [Easthampton, MA: Castalia Press], 15 October 1969. 103 x 329 mm. SIGNED BY MOSER. “This was the first politically motivate bit of printing I ever did, protesting quietly the absurdity of war. Political commentary is a practice I’ve maintained to this day”— Pennyroyal Checklist [B]4. Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry Moser $500 - 700
646 [POETRY BROADSIDES]. A group of 11 poetry broadsides illustrated and/or printed by Moser at the Castalia or Pennyroyal Press, 1969-1985. Various sizes. Comprises: HENCHEY, Richard. Galapagos. Easthampton, MA: Coeven [Castalia] Press, 1969. One of 75 copies, signed by both Henchey and Moser. Pennyroyal Checklist [B]6. — SEYBOLT, Stephen H. Autostop. [Easthampton, MA: Castalia Press, 1969]. One of 50 copies, signed by both Seybolt and Moser. Pennyroyal Checklist [B]7. — FRENCH, Roberts W. Two Poems. [Northampton, MA:] Pennyroyal Press, [1972]. No limitation given, signed by Moser and inscribed by French to Moser. Pennyroyal Checklist [B]17. — FRANCIS, Robert. Chrysanthemums. [Northampton, MA, 1976]. One of 100 copies, signed by both Francis and Moser. Pennyroyal Checklist [B]34. — Another copy. — GILL, Eric. Eric Gill. [Northampton, MA], 1976. Wood-engraved portrait of Gill at head after Jack Coughlin by Barry Moser. One of 100 copies, signed by Moser and Coughlin. Contains Eric Gill’s quotation on wood engraving, beginning: “The advantage of wood engraving is that is does away with several sets of middle men and places responsibility upon the shoulders of the workman. The workman who draws, engraves & prints his own blocks is master of the situation…”. Pennyroyal Checklist [B]37. — MACALPINE, Arthur. Resurrection. [Northampton, MA, 1977]. One of 150 copies, signed by Moser. Pennyroyal Checklist [B]46. — Another copy. — MACALPINE, Arthur. Revolt. [Northampton, MA, 1977]. One of 150 copies, signed by Moser. Pennyroyal Checklist [B]47. — MARIANI, Paul. Baudelaire at Gamma Level. [West Hatfield, MA, 1985]. One of 100 copies, signed by both Mariani and Moser. Pennyroyal Checklist [B]73. — TRAVERS, Richard. I Fish. West Hatfield, MA, 1985. Illustrated with a portrait of Norman Netz. One of 100 copies, signed by Moser. Pennyroyal Checklist [B]82. Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry Moser $800 - 1,200 V I E W T H E C O M P L E T E C ATA L O G U E AT H I N D M A N A U C T I O N S . C O M 221
647 [PENNYROYAL PRESS BROADSIDES, ETC.]. A group of 27 printed exhibition, performance or publication broadside announcements, checklists, invitations and other ephemera printed by Moser at the Pennyroyal Press, mostly for events surrounding Pennyroyal Press publications or lectures and exhibitions presented by Moser. 1971-1982. Includes: Where’s Charley? Announcement for a performance of a play at the Williston Theatre. Easthampton, MA, 1970. Signed by Moser. Pennyroyal Checklist [B]12. — On Prints and Printmaking. Announcement for a lecture and exhibit by Barry Moser at the Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield MA. [Easthampton, 1971]. Illustrated with a pentagonal etching. Signed by Moser. Pennyroyal Checklist[B]14. — A proof copy for previous without etching, signed by Moser. — Edward Hill. Announcement for an exhibition announcement of drawings and collages at Williston-Northampton School. [Easthampton, 1971]. Signed by Moser. Pennyroyal Checklist [B]15. — Open House & Exhibition. Announcement card for an art exhibition held at the Williston-Northampton School, Easthampton, MA. [Easthampton, MA], 1972. Signed by Moser. See Pennyroyal Checklist [B]18. — Richard Hendel on Books. Announcement for a lecture at Williston-Northampton School. [East Hampton, 1972]. Signed by Moser. Not in Pennyroyal Checklist. — Barry Moser. Etchings and Woodengravings. Announcement for an exhibition at Main Street Gallery, Nantucket, MA. [Easthampton, MA, 1973]. Signed by Moser. Pennyroyal Checklist [B]24. — Barry Moser Botanical Drawings. Announcement for an exhibition at the Spectrum, West Main Street, Brewster, MA. [Easthampton, MA, 1975]. Signed by Moser. Pennyroyal Checklist [B]29. — Barry Moser. Prints & Drawings. Announcement for an exhibition at the Adams Gallery, Rhode Island College, Providence, RI. [Easthampton, MA, 1975]. Signed by Moser. Not in Pennyroyal Checklist. — Pennyroyal Press. Announcement of four available books from the Pennyroyal Press. Easthampton, MA, [1976]. One of 155, signed by Moser. Pennyroyal Checklist [B]41. — An Exhibit of Prints & Drawings by Barry Moser at Beardsley’s Cafe-Restaurant. Checklist for an exhibition at Beardsley’s Cafe-Restaurant, Northampton, MA. [Northampton, MA], 1977. Signed by Moser. Pennyroyal Checklist [B]48. — Barry Moser. An exhibit of forty-five wood engravings. Checklist for an exhibition at the Wistariahurst Museum, Holyoke, MA. [Northampton, MA], 1977. Signed by Moser. Pennyroyal Checklist [B]50. — Moser at Dwyer’s. Announcement for an exhibition at Dwyer’s Gallery, Northampton, MA. [Northampton, MA, 1978]. Signed by Moser. Pennyroyal Checklist [B]56. — And 8 others (a few duplicates), all signed by Moser. Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry Moser $600 - 800
648 [BROADSIDES & POSTERS]. Group of 7 broadsides and posters illustrated by Moser announcing publication or literary events relating to some of his iconic works, 1982-2008. Comprising: Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus. Broadside announcement of forthcoming publication. Northampton, MA: Pennyroyal Press, 1984. 635 x 240 mm. Signed by Moser. — Emily Dickinson, 1830-1886. Poster for A Centenary Celebration Spring 1986. West Hatfield: Pennyroyal Press, [1986]. Signed by Moser. — Moby-Dick. Poster announcement for a lecture by Moser in Mead Auditorium at Amherst College, 2 April 1981. [West Hatfield, MA: Pennyroyal Press, 1981]. 588 x 445 mm. Signed by Moser. “Since I did not own copyright of my images for Moby-Dick, I made a new wash drawing based directly on the great whale from the Arion Press Moby-Dick for this poster” (Pennyroyal Checklist 62). — The Holy Bible. Poster announcing the Viking Studio edition from the Pennyroyal Caxton Press. [N.p., 1999]. 509 x 407 mm. Signed by Moser. — Pennyroyal Caxton Bible. The Books of the New Testament. North Hatfield, MA and New York City: Pennyroyal Caxton Press, 1999. 972 x 616 mm (38 1/4 x 24 1/4 in). LIMITED EDITION, one of 50 copies (unsigned). — And 2 others using images from other Pennyroyal editions, including Huckleberry Finn and Wizard of Oz, each signed by Moser. Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry Moser $400 - 600
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Books from Barry Moser’s Library
649 [BASKIN, Leonard (1922-2000), illustrator]. ALIGHIERI, Dante (1265-1321). The Divine Comedy. Translated by Thomas G. Bergin. New York: Grossman Publishers, 1969. 3 volumes, folio. Numerous full-page plates by Leonard Baskin. (Some light spotting on edges.) Original cloth-backed boards, spine gilt-lettered (some burn damage to foot of spine of Vol. II [see note below], some light rubbing & soiling); publisher’s slipcase, paper labels on sides (edges worn). FIRST EDITION with Baskin’s plates. BARRY MOSER’S COPY, inscribe on front free endpaper of Vol. I: “This set was in a shelf in my study and was burned by a stupidly placed candle / Barry Moser.” Laidin are 2 printed Christmas wishes slips presenting the set from Christ Bromwich, Fred Ramage and 13 others, and adding: “this could only have been accomplished through the thoughtful kindness of Rev. Douglas Graham, Harold McGrath, Leonard Baskin and Albert, our worm.” [With:] 2 other illustrated editions of Dante’s Divine Comedy, by William Blake (New York: Heritage Press, 1944) and Gustave Doré (New York: Pantheon Books, 1948), original bindings, each with Moser’s bookplate. Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry Moser $300 - 400
650 BASKIN, Leonard (1922-2000). Ars Anatomica. A Medical Fantasia. New York: Medicina Rara, 1972. Folio. 13 plates after Baskin. Loose as issued in original red cloth-backed portfolio gilt; board slipcase. LIMITED EDITION, number 928 of 2,800 copies SIGNED BY BASKIN in pencil. Printed for the members of Editions Medicina Rara, Ltd. at The Curwen Press Ltd. [With:] MOSER, Barry. Leonard Baskin, 1922-2000. [N.p.]: Barbarian Press, 2000. 8vo, original printed wrappers. One of 150 copies with a signed wood-engraved frontispiece by Moser. Barry Moser began to admire Baskin’s work as a college student. He was particularly struck by Baskin’s wood engravings, which inspired him to try the medium for himself. Although Moser never had specific lessons from Baskin on wood engraving, he called Baskin “a huge influence on me. A powerful influence that was difficult to get out from under.” Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry Moser $200 - 300
651 [CHELONIIDAE PRESS]. ROBINSON, Alan James. H.P.M. Harold Patrick McGrath. Easthampton, MA, 1991. 4to. Etched frontispiece portrait of McGrath by Alan James Robinson and numerous other wood engravings, etchings, and linocuts from Leonard Baskin, Barry Moser, Fritz Eichenberg, Robinson, and Lance Hindy, among others; with an “Ektacolor” portrait print of McGrath at his press by Ned Gray in rear cover folder. Original marble boards with morocco lettering piece on spine, by the Gray Parrot bindery. LIMITED EDITION, one of 210 copies of which this is number 43 of 100 roman-numbered copies, signed by Harold P. McGrath and A. J. Robinson. This volume was produced to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the printing career of Harold Patrick McGrath. His career spanned more than fifty years and he was known for his work for the Cheloniidae Press, Leonard Baskin at his Gehenna Press, and Barry Moser at the Pennyroyal Press, among others. [Laid in:] A bifolium signed by over 30 participants at “The Party” for McGrath held in Williamsburg, MA, June 8, 1991. Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry Moser $500 - 700 V I E W T H E C O M P L E T E C ATA L O G U E AT H I N D M A N A U C T I O N S . C O M 223
652 CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorne (“Mark Twain”) (1835-1910). Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885. Square 8vo (216 x 166 mm). Lithographic frontispiece by E. W. Kemble, photographic portrait frontispiece of the bust of Mark Twain by Karl Gerhardt (BAL state 1), illustrations in text. (Marginal tear on portrait frontispiece, minor marginal toning or soiling.) Original green gilt-decorated pictorial cloth (front hinge cracked, minor wear and fraying to spine ends and corners); quarter morocco folding case. Provenance: Martin B. Stern (gift inscription on front flyleaf, dated “April 18th 1885”); Barry Moser (bookplate). FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, early state, with the following issue points: the title leaf in the second state; the frontispiece in the first state; first state of p. 13 with “Him and Another Man” plate listed as being on p. 88; first state of p. 57 with “was” for “saw”; third state of pagination on p. 155 (the final “5” larger); third state of p. 283; with final blank 23/8. BAL 3415; Johnson, p.43-50. Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry Moser $2,000 - 3,000
653 [DOVES PRESS]. MILTON, John (1608-1674). Paradise Lost. Hammersmith: The Doves Press, 1902. Small 4to. Printed in red and black. Red niger gilt, edges gilt, by T. J. Cobden-Sanderson at the Doves Bindery, stamp-signed “19 C-S 19” (both covers detached, spine a little dried and darkened); in morocco tipped slipcase. Provenance: Barry Moser (bookplate). LIMITED EDITION, one of 300 copies on hand-made paper of a total edition of 325. [With:] MORRIS, William (1834-96). Art and the Beauty of the Earth. London: Chiswick Press, 1898. 8vo, original cloth-backed boards (boards stained, front hinge cracked). Provenance: Barry Moser (bookplate). Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry Moser $600 - 800
654 [EGAN, Beresford (1905-1984), illustrator]. DE SHANE, Brian. De Sade: Being a series of wounds, inflicted with brush and pen, upon Sadistic Wolves garbed in Masochists’ Wool. London: The Fortune Press, [1929]. 4to. Illustrated with numerous plates and vignettes by Beresford Egan. (Some light marginal toning or spotting.) Original niger, gilt-lettered on upper cover and spine (spine slightly darkened, some wear to board edges, hinges tender). Provenance: Francis John Beck (bookplate dated 1972); Barry Moser (bookplate). LIMITED EDITION, number 38 of 100 copies printed on special paper, SIGNED BY EGAN AND DE SHANE. Includes the suppressed plate “The Moralist.” Beresford was a satirical draughtsman, painter, novelist, actor, costume designer and playwright. He was born in London but grew up in South Africa following a family move when he was five years old. He returned to London in July 1926 after spending two years as a sports cartoonist on the Rand Daily Mail in Johannesburg. His art was highly influenced by Aubrey Beardsley and many of his illustrations were in an erotic vein. Egan was one of the few original British exponents of Art Deco. Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry Moser $300 - 400
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655 [FACSIMILE—GUTENBERG BIBLE]. Biblia Sacra. Paterson, New Jersey: Pageant Books, 1961 2 volumes. Folio. Original red cloth, gilt-lettered on spine; publisher’s cloth folding cases. LIMITED EDITION, one of 1,000 sets. “This is the first Gutenberg facsimile ever printed in the United States and only the second in the world. The reproduction derives from the Insel Verlag edition which was based on the copy in the Koniglichen Bibliothek in Berlin and the copy in the Standischen Landesbibliothek in Fulda, considered by authorities to be the most beautifully illuminated of the 47 copies known to exist. The text pages have been printed by lithography and the illuminated pages by sheet-fed gravure. The paper used is 100 per cent rag content made especially for this book. A VERY FINE COPY. Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry Moser $1,000 - 1,500
656 [FACSIMILE—LORSCH GOSPELS]. The Lorsch Gospels. Introduction by Wolfgang Braunfels. New York: George Braziller, 1967. Folio. 54 color plates containing ornamental pages, miniatures, Canon tables, and script pages. Original quarter vellum. With accompanying text booklet in wrappers; publisher’s board slipcase. LIMITED EDITION, number 684 of 1,000 copies. This facsimile edition comprises the two parts of the Lorsch Gospels from the Biblioteca Documentara Batthyaneum in Alba Julia, Rumania, and the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana in Rome. Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry Moser $100 - 200
657 GROOM, Winston (b.1943). Forrest Gump. A Novel. Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1986. 8vo. Publisher’s cloth-backed boards; original dust jacket (minor wear to spine panel ends to extremities). Provenance: Barry Moser (bookplate). FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY GROOM on the front free endpaper. Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry Moser $200 - 300
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658 [KENT, Rockwell, illustrator]. Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Canterbury Tales. New York: Random House, 1928. 2 volumes. Folio. Illustrated by Kent. Original gilt-lettered linen (some light soiling and staining to joints, text block splitting after first quire); cloth slipcase. Provenance: Edith Morton Scotter? (signature on front free endpaper, dated 1928); Barry Moser (bookplate). LIMITED EDITION, number 885 of 924 copies SIGNED BY KENT. [With:] [KENT, Rockwell, illustrator]. VOLTAIRE, Jean Francois Marie Arouet de. Candide. New York: Random House, 1928. 4to. Illustrated by Kent. Original cloth gilt (spine and board edges a little darkened, some rubbing to gilt). LIMITED EDITION, number 364 of 1470 copies SIGNED BY KENT. Accompanied by 3 later trade editions of Kent’s Candide, New York, 1929, 1936 and 1975, respectively, 4to, original bindings, dust jackets or slipcases as issued (some chipping to dust jackets). [KENT, Rockwell, illustrator]. ROBINSON, Selma. City Child. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., 1931. 8vo. Illustrated by Kent. Original cloth; dust jacket. First Trade Edition. Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry Moser $400 - 600
659 O’CONNOR, Flannery (1925-1964). Wise Blood. New York: Harcourt, Brace, [1952]. 8vo. Original yellow cloth; original dust jacket (some minor restoration at head of spine panel and upper extremities, light soiling). Provenance: Barry Moser (bookplate). FIRST EDITION OF O’CONNOR’S FIRST BOOK. Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry Moser $1,500 - 2,500
660 O’CONNOR, Flannery. A Good Man is Hard to Find, and Other Stories. New York: Harcourt, Brace, [1955]. 8vo. Original black cloth (minor rubbing to extremities); dust jacket (spine panel faded as usual with minor wear at ends, a few tiny nicks or chips). Provenance: “Walsh” (owner’s ink stamp on front pastedown); Barry Moser (bookplate). FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with “tyring” for “trying” on page 125. [With:] O’CONNOR, Flannery. The Violent Bear It Away. New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, [1960]. 8vo. Original cloth-backed boards; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. Accompanied by a copy of Sarah Gordon’s Flannery O’Connor. The Obedient Imagination. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, [2000]. 8vo, original cloth; dust jacket. Provenance: Rome-Floyd County Library (bookplate and library label on spine panel); Barry Moser (signed bookplate). Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry Moser $600 - 800 226 F I N E B O O K S & M A N U S C R I P T S I N C L U D I N G A M E R I C A N A
661 WELTY, Eudora (1909-2001). The Robber Bridegroom. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., 1942. 8vo. Original teal cloth stamped in white and pink; top edges stained green; dust jacket (some light toning on rear panel, minor edgewear and soiling). FIRST EDITION of Welty’s popular second book. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY WELTY TO BARRY MOSER on the front free endpaper: “For Barry Moser, with warmest admiration stretching out of the past (1942) for your sensitive, beautiful, imaginative engravings of the 1987 Robber - and gratitude and affections, delight - Eudora Welty / Jackson, Mississippi / November 13, 1987.” [With:] WELTY, Eudora. The Robber Bridegroom. London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1944. 8vo, original cloth; dust jacket (significant portion of lower spine and rear panel torn away, some other chipping). FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, INSCRIBED BY WELTY on the title: “For James S. Bloom / Eudora Welty.” Accompanied by a later American edition (no dust jacket); and an essay on Welty’s photography by Robert MacNeil, Jackson, Mississippi: University Press, 1990, 8vo, original wrappers. Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry Moser $1,000 - 1,500
662 [WOOD ENGRAVERS]. Face to Face: Twelve Contemporary American Artists Interpret Themselves in a Limited Edition of Original Wood Engravings. Introduction by Leonard Baskin. Great Barrington, MA: Penmaen-Busyhaus Publications, 1985. Folio. 13 original wood engraved self-portraits. Unbound as issued in original folders with letterpress descriptive text; housed in card folder (without original linen box). LIMITED EDITION, number 68 of 250 copies, of which 200 copies for sale. Comprising 13 wood engravings, each in two states (one on different paper). All signed by their respective artist in both states, but Lynd Ward whose death occurred prior to completion of the project. Wood engravers include: Fred Becker, Jack Coughlin, John DePol, Fritz Eichenberg, Raymond Gloeckler, James Grashow, Judith Jaidinger, Stefan Martin, Michael McCurdy, Barry Moser, Gillian Tyler, and Herbert Waters. Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry Moser $400 - 600
663 [WOOD ENGRAVING, ETC.]. Group of 16 works on wood engraving, book artists, printers and publishers from the library of Barry Moser. Most with his bookplate and/or signed by Moser. Comprising: GILL, Eric. Autobiography. London: Jonathan Cape, 1940. 8vo, original cloth. FIRST EDITION. — GILL, Eric. Letters of… Edited by Walter Shewring. New York: Devin-Adair Company, 1948. 8vo, original cloth. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. — BEEDHAM, R. John. Wood Engraving. With an Introduction and Appendix by Eric Gill. London: Faber and Faber, 1948. 12mo, original cloth; in defective dust jacket. Later printing. — KINDERSLEY, David. Mr. Eric Gill. Recollections of… Los Angeles: The Ward Ritchie Press, 1967. 12mo, original printed wrappers, with a printed card about this keepsake signed by Ward Ritchie and Joseph Simon laid in. — MOSER, Barry. Wood Engraving. Boston: David Godine, 2006. 4to, original pictorial wrappers. FIRST EDITION SIGNED BY MOSER on the title-page. — MOSER, Barry. Wood Engraving. Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, 2021. 4to, original pictorial wrappers. SIGNED BY MOSER on the title-page. — MOSER, Barry. “On Wood Engraving,” in: Fine Print. A Review for the Arts of the Book, Vol IV, No. 3. San Francisco, July 1978. 4to, stapled self-wrappers. SIGNED BY MOSER at the head of his article on the first page of the issue. — MOSER, Barry. The Lord of Letterpress: Harold Patrick McGrath, 1921-2000. Athens, GA: The Press of the Nightowl, 2002. 8vo, original printed wrappers. One of 150 copies with a signed wood-engraved frontispiece by Moser. — MOSER, Barry. Leonard Baskin, 1922-2000. [N.p.]: Barbarian Press, 2000. 8vo, original printed wrappers. One of 150 copies with a signed wood-engraved frontispiece by Moser. (2 copies). — MOSER, Barry. “God, Posterity, and Well-Made Objects,” extract from: Princeton University Library Chronicle, Vol. LVII, No. 2 (Winter) 1996. 8vo, stapled printed wrappers. — MOSER, Barry. In the Face of Presumptions. Essays, Speeches & Incidental Writings… Boston: David R. Godine, 2000. 8vo, original cloth; dust jacket. SIGNED BY MOSER on the title-page. — LILIENTHAL, Philip E. Letters from Phil. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980. 8vo, original printed wrappers. One of 1,000 copies printed by Harold McGrath at the Pennyroyal Press. — STUDLEY, Vance. Make Your Own Artist’s Tools and Materials. New York: Dover Publications, 1992. 4to, original wrappers. INSCRIBED BY STUDLEY TO MOSER on the front free endpaper: “Barry: Many thanks for our talks and friendship: / Vance Studley.” — And 2 others. Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry Moser $500 - 700 V I E W T H E C O M P L E T E C ATA L O G U E AT H I N D M A N A U C T I O N S . C O M 227
Moser Prints
664 [PORTRAITS—AUTHORS]. Group of 27 wood-engraved portraits of authors (including duplicates and proof variants) from various works or suites by Barry Moser, various sizes and papers, EACH SIGNED BY MOSER in pencil. Includes: Dante, Poe, Twain, Lewis Carroll, Stoker, Wilde, Melville, Baum, Mary Shelley, Stevenson and many others. Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry Moser $1,000 - 1,500
665 MOSER, Barry. Portrait of Chopin. [ca 1984]. 344 x 305mm. Wood engraving. Signed and captioned by Moser. Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry Moser $200 - 300
666 MOSER, Barry. A pair of wood-engraved individual prints. Each 330 x 240 mm., sight size; matted and framed. Comprising: “The Sleep of Treason” and “The Sty.” Each captioned and signed by Moser, numbered 6/30 and 8/35, respectively. Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry Moser $400 - 600 667 MOSER, Barry. McGrath’s Folly. 2 sheets containing composites of numerous wood engravings by Moser printed by Harold McGrath from various works. Each 640 x 892 mm. Signed by Moser and inscribed “McGrath’s Folly,” and “McGraths Folly II,” each numbered 1/5 copies. Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry Moser $600 - 800
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667 MOSER, Barry. McGrath’s Folly. 2 sheets containing composites of numerous wood engravings by Moser printed by Harold McGrath from various works. Each 640 x 892 mm. Signed by Moser and inscribed “McGrath’s Folly,” and “McGraths Folly II,” each numbered 1/5 copies. Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry Moser $600 - 800
668 MOSER, Barry. Thicket. [1973]. 284 x 189 mm. Etching in dark brown ink. One of 50 impressions, captioned and signed in pencil, designated artist’s proof (“ap”).
669 MOSER, Barry. Self Portrait at 32. [1972]. 346 x 354 mm. Etching and aquatint. Captioned and signed in pencil, numbered 3/25. Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry Moser
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670 MOSER, Barry. Jack-in-the-Pulpit. [ca 1979]. 283 x 227 mm. Etching. Captioned and signed in pencil, designated artist’s proof (“ap”). — Common Day Lily. 1978. 278 x 213 mm. Signed, captioned and dated in pencil. Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry Moser $400 - 600
671 MOSER, Barry. Mayflower. [ca 1979]. 269 x 230 mm. Etching. Captioned and signed in pencil, designated artist’s proof (“ap”). — Bunchberry. [ca 1979]. 269 x 237 mm. Etching. Captioned and signed in pencil, numbered 16/25. Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry Moser $400 - 600
672 MOSER, Barry. Tree on the Quad at Williston. [ca 1979]. 330 x 252 mm. Etching. Signed in pencil, captioned “Tree on the quad at Williston—it’s gone now / July 27/21”. — Williston Tree 1. [ca 1979]. 306 x 231 mm. Etching. Captioned and signed in pencil. Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry Moser $500 - 700
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673 MOSER, Barry. Williston Tree 2. [ca 1979]. 372 x 408 mm. Etching. Captioned and signed in pencil, numbered 10/26. — Scatalogical Landscape. [ca 1979???]. 280 x 329 mm. Triptych on one sheet of separate etchings in dark green ink. Captioned and signed by Moser, inscribed “artist’s proof.” Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry Moser $500 - 700
674 MOSER, Barry. Pegasus and Bellerophon. [1971]. 542 x 436 mm. Second Edition. Etching. Signed and captioned “Icarus Agonistes,” numbered “18/25 (2ed)” Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry Moser $300 - 500
675 MOSER, Barry. Charles Ives. [ca 1979]. 353 x 279 mm. Etching. Captioned and signed in pencil, designated artist’s proof (“AP”). Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry Moser $200 - 300
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676 MOSER, Barry. Fafner. [ca 1980]. 276 x 260 mm. Copperplate engraving. Captioned and signed in pencil. This small copper engraving was inspired by the character Fafnir from the Icelandic Volsunga Saga, later appearing as a dragon Fafner in Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen, and influenced Tolkien’s character Smaug in The Hobbit. Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry Moser $200 - 300
677 MOSER, Barry. Hawk. [ca 1980]. 376 x 280 mm. Etching. Signed and captioned in pencil. Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry Moser $200 - 300
678 BARRY, Moser. Treehouse. [printed ca 1994]. 615 x 413 mm. Second printing. Etching printed in sepia ink. Captioned and signed, designated artist’s proof (“ap I/II 2nd printing”). Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry Moser $500 - 700
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679 MOSER, Barry. 1999. Series of 4 large woodcuts by Moser: Κατὰ Ματθαῖον [“According to Matthew”]. — Kατὰ Μᾶρκον [“According to Mark”]. —Kατὰ Λουκᾶν [“According to Luke”]. — Kατὰ Ἰωάννην [“According to John”]. 1999. Each 768 x 560 mm (30 1/4 x 22 in.), sheet size. St. Mark matted and framed. LIMITED EDITION, each one of 35 copies, each signed and dated, numbered 6/35, 9/35, 7/35 and 8/35, respectively. Moser’s striking and monumental series depicting the symbols of the Four Evangelists. Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry Moser $1,000 - 1,500
680 MOSER, Barry. Original monumental cherry woodcut block, hand cut by Moser to print Kατὰ Μᾶρκον [“According to Mark”] in the Four Evangelists series. [1999]. 610 x 460 mm. Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry Moser $2,500 - 3,500
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Original Drawings and Artwork
681 MOSER, Barry. Large pencil drawing entitled “phantasmagorical spirit of soidisant teaching.” Signed and dated 1969. 965 x 633 mm (38 x 25 in). (Tear crossing image at upper margin, some fraying and short tears at edges, rolled.) An early occult-themed drawing by Moser drawn while teaching at Williston in Easthampton in 1969. Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry Moser $500 - 700
682 MOSER, Barry. Original pen & ink drawing depicting two studies of the head of Bacchus. [1970]. 347 x 279 mm. (Some minor marginal tape remnants from previous mounting on upper margin.) Signed in ink and captioned “Two sketches of Bacchus” in pencil. Sketches were studies for a cover illustration of Polity, a political journal published by the University of Chicago Press, the subject was “The Political Animal.” Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry Moser $300 - 400
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683 MOSER, Barry. 2 fine original pen & ink drawings for the Rhode Island: A Historical Guide, by Steinberg & McGuigan, published for the Rhode Island Bicentennial Commission (1976). comprising. Street Scene in Providence, Rhode Island. 1975. 229 x 305 mm. (Minor marginal tape stain.) Signed and dated in ink at lower right. View of Providence, Rhode Island from Prospect Terrace Park with the statue of Roger Williams at left. Providence, RI. 1976. 249 x 385 mm. (Minor marginal tape stain, a little creasing and handling wear at edges.) Signed and dated in ink at lower left. Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry Moser $1,000 - 1,500
684 MOSER, Barry. 2 original pen & ink with wash and pencil drawings for the Macmillan edition of Jack London’s Call of the Wild (1994). Each ca 330 x 255 mm. Each signed by Moser and captioned “for Call of the Wild” and “From Call of the Wild unfinished,” respectively. Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry Moser $800 - 1,200 V I E W T H E C O M P L E T E C ATA L O G U E AT H I N D M A N A U C T I O N S . C O M 235
685 MOSER, Barry. Original pen & ink with wash portrait drawing of Perrault for the Macmillan edition of Jack London’s Call of the Wild (1994). 287 x 228 mm. On watercolor paper. Signed and date by Moser in pencil, captioned “Perrault” in lower margin. This is an earlier version of “Man in a Sweater” illustrated on page 9 in the published edition. Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry Moser $1,000 - 1,500
686 MOSER, Barry. Treehouse. Original watercolor drawing. 2020. 603 x 456 mm. (A few minor surface abrasions or erasures.) Signed, dated and captioned in pencil. Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry Moser $2,000 - 3,000
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687 [SCULPTURE]. Bronze circular relief portrait of Mark Twain by Moser. Signed and dated by Moser in the cast, 1985, and numbered 19/20. 7 5/8 in. diameter. With circular cherry wood mount, measuring 12 in. diameter. Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry Moser $300 - 500
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Guide for Prospective Sellers Evaluation of Property If you have property you wish to sell, please call our Consignment Department at 312.280.1212 to arrange for a consultation. At that time, you may make an appointment to bring your property or photographs, along with any other pertinent information, to Hindman LLC and we will be happy to provide you with complimentary estimates and advice. If you have a large collection, an appointment may be made to evaluate the property on-site. Fees for on-site visits may vary. Standard Commission Rates Our standard rate of commission is equal to ten percent (10%) of the hammer price on each lot sold for $5,001 or more; and twenty-five percent (25%) of the hammer price on each lot sold for less than $5,001, with a minimum commission of $75 per lot sold. If your property fails to reach the reserve price agreed upon between you and Hindman LLC, you may be obligated to pay a reduced commission rate of five percent (5%) of the reserve price. Shipping Arrangements Hindman LLC can advise you as to how to have your property delivered to our galleries. Packing, shipping and insurance are payable by the seller. In certain instances, packing and shipping costs may be paid by Hindman LLC and deducted from the proceeds of the sale. We may recommend packers and shippers, but we are not responsible for their acts or omissions. Appraisals Appraisals can be arranged for insurance, donation, estate tax, family division or other purposes. Appraisal fees vary according to circumstances. Please contact our Estates and Appraisals Department at 312.334.4232 for further information.
GUIDE FOR PROSPECTIVE BUYERS Conditions of Sale All bidders with Hindman LLC must read and agree to Conditions of Sale posted in this catalogue prior to bidding at an auction. Viewing Auction Items It is highly recommended that all prospective bidders either view the sale via our online catalogue or contact Hindman LLC for further images or to schedule an appointment to view objects in person. Estimates Hindman LLC provides catalogue descriptions and pre-auction estimates for each lot included in the sale. These estimates are a guide for prospective bidders. They are not definitive. All pre-sale estimates are subject to revision. Condition Reports We are happy to provide a condition report for lots with a low estimate of $300 and above. Nevertheless, intending buyers are reminded that condition reports are statements of our opinion only, and that each lot is sold “AS IS,” per our Conditions of Sale, as outlined in the back of this catalogue. All lots should be viewed personally by prospective buyers or their agents to evaluate the condition of the property offered for sale due to the highly subjective nature of condition reports.
Bidding at Auction The highest bidder acknowledged by the auctioneer will be the purchaser. In addition to the hammer price, the buyer agrees to pay Hindman LLC a buyer’s premium as well as any applicable taxes. Bidding Increments Bidding generally opens at half the low estimate and advances in the following order, although the auctioneer may vary the bidding increments during the course of the auction. The standard bidding increments are:
$0 - $500 ........................................ $25 $500 - $1,000 ..................................... $50 $1,000 - $2,000 ................................... $100 $2,000 - $5,000 ................................... $250 $5,000 - $10,000 ................................. $500 $10,000 - $20,000 .............................. $1,000 $20,000 - $50,000 .............................. $2,500 $50,000 - $100,000 ............................ $5,000 $100,000 - $200,000 .......................... $10,000 Above > $200,000 .... At Auctioneer’s Discretion
In-House Bidding Our auctions are free and open to the public with no obligation for attendees to bid. Registration requires your full contact information, photo identification, credit card information, your signature and agreement to the Conditions of Sale.. If you are the successful bidder, your paddle number and the hammer price will be announced by the auctioneer. Live Bid Online Hindman LLC allows absentee and live bidding through our website at hindmanauctions.com as well as absentee and live bidding through third party online bidding providers which vary by sale. For more information regarding online bidding please visit our website at hindmanauctions.com. Absentee Bidding If you are unable to attend an auction, you may place an absentee bid, either through our website at hindmanauctions.com or through the bid form provided at the back of this catalogue. An absentee bid is the highest price you are willing to pay exclusive of buyer’s premium and applicable sales tax. Hindman LLC will exercise absentee bids at no additional charge. Absentee bids are always confidential, and bids are executed at the lowest price possible by the auctioneer according to reserves and competing bids. Telephone Bidding You may register telephone bid requests either through our website at hindmanauctions.com or through the bid form provided at the back of this catalogue. Upon registering for a telephone bid, you will be called on the day of the auction by a Hindman representative approximately five lots before your item is scheduled to be sold. They will communicate to you the bidding activity and will relay your bids to the auctioneer at your discretion. Please note we can only accept telephone bids for lots with a low estimate of $300 or above unless otherwise noted online. Telephone bids may be requested up to 2 hours prior to the auction start time. Tax Exempt Notice Lots marked with an asterisk (*) are tax exempt as permitted by law. Updated 10/1
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Conditions of Sale These Conditions of Sale set out the terms upon which Hindman LLC (“we,” “us,” or “our”) sells property by lot in this catalogue. You agree to be bound by these terms by registering to bid and/or by bidding in our auction.
A. BEFORE THE AUCTION
1. LOT DESCRIPTIONS AND WARRANTIES Our description of a lot, any statement of a lot’s condition, and any other oral or written statement about a lot—such as its nature, condition, artist, period, materials, dimensions, weight, exhibition or publication history, or provenance—are our opinion and shall not to be relied upon by you as a statement of fact. Except for the limited authenticity warranty contained in paragraphs E and F below, we do not provide any guarantee of our description or the nature of a lot. 2. CONDITION The physical condition of lots in our auctions can vary due to age, normal wear and tear, previous damage, and restoration/repair. All lots are sold “AS IS,” in the condition they are in at the time of the auction, and we and the seller make no representation or warranty and assume no liability of any kind as to a lot’s condition. Any reference to condition in a catalogue description or a condition report shall not amount to a full accounting of condition and may not include all faults, inherent defects, restoration, alteration, or adaptation. Likewise, images in our catalogue may not depict a lot accurately, as colors and shades may appear different in print or on screen than on physical inspection. We are not responsible for providing you with a description of a lot’s condition in the catalogue or in a condition report. 3. VIEWING LOTS We offer pre-auction viewings, either scheduled or by appointment, that are free of charge. If you believe that the catalogue description or condition reports are not sufficient, we suggest you inspect a lot personally or through a knowledgeable representative before you bid on a lot to make sure that you accept the description and its condition. We recommend you hire a professional adviser if you are not familiar with how to address the nature or condition of an object. 4. ESTIMATES Estimates of a lot account for the condition, rarity, quality, and provenance of the object and are based upon prices realized for similar objects in past auctions. Neither you nor anyone else may rely on our estimates as a prediction or guarantee of the actual selling price of a lot or its value for any other purpose. Estimates do not include the buyer’s premium, any applicable taxes, and any other applicable charges. 5. WITHDRAWAL We may, in our sole discretion, withdraw a lot from auction at any time prior to or during the sale and shall have no liability to you for our decision to withdraw.
B. REGISTERING TO BID
1. NEW BIDDERS New bidders must register at least twenty-four (24) hours before an auction and must provide us with documentation of their identity. (a) Individuals must provide photo identification (driver’s license, non-driver ID card, or passport) and, if not shown on the photo identification, proof of current address (a current utility bill or bank statement). (b) Corporate clients must provide a Certificate of Incorporation or its equivalent bearing the company’s name and registered address, together with documentary proof of directors and beneficial owners. (c) Trusts, partnerships, offshore companies, and other business entities must contact us in advance of the auction to discuss our requirements. If we are not satisfied with the information you provide us in our bidder identification and other registration procedures, we may refuse to register you to bid, and if you make a successful bid, we may cancel the contract for sale between you and the seller. New bidders may be required to provide us with a financial reference and/or a deposit before we allow them to bid. 2. RETURNING BIDDERS If you have not bought anything from us recently, then we may require you to register as a new bidder, as described in the paragraph above. Please contact us at least twenty-four (24) hours prior to the auction. 3. BIDDING FOR ANOTHER PERSON If you are bidding as an agent on behalf of another person, your principal must be a registered bidder and must provide us with written authorization allowing you to bid. You, as the agent, shall accept personal liability to pay the purchase price and all other sums due unless we have agreed in writing before the auction that you are acting as an agent on behalf of your principal and that we will only seek payment from your principal.
4. BIDDING IN THE SALEROOM If you wish to bid in the saleroom, you must first acquire a bidding paddle at least thirty (30) minutes before the auction. 5. OUR BIDDING SERVICES We offer the following bidding services as a convenience to our clients, subject to these Conditions of Sale. We shall not be responsible for any error, omission, or failure, human or otherwise, in providing these services. (a) Phone Bids: You must contact us at least twenty-four (24) hours prior to the auction to arrange a phone bid. We will accept bids by telephone for lots only if our staff is available to take the bids. We agree that we may record telephone bids. (b) Internet Bids: You can bid in our live sales via our bidding platform or through third-party bidding sites. (c) Written Bids: You can find a Written Bid Form in the back of our catalogues, at the auction location, or online at www.hindmanauctions.com. We must receive your completed Written Bid Form at least twenty-four (24) hours before the auction. We will endeavor to execute written bids at the lowest possible price consistent with the reserve. If you make a written bid on a lot that does not have a reserve and there is no higher bid than yours, we will bid on your behalf at approximately fifty percent (50%) of the low estimate or, if lower, the amount of your bid. The first written bid we receive of those for identical amounts will be given priority over other bids. 6. CREDIT CARD AUTHORIZATION HOLD When you register to bid you may be asked to provide us with a valid credit card number. You authorize us to verify the validity of the credit card by placing a $100 authorization hold on the card that will remain until it falls off, usually within 48 hours.
C. DURING THE AUCTION
1. BIDDING IN THE AUCTION (a) Live Auctions. We will appoint an individual auctioneer to administer a live auction. The auctioneer may accept bids from (a) written bids left with us by bidders before the auction; (b) bidders in the saleroom; (c) telephone bidders; and (d) Internet bidders. Bidding generally starts below the low estimate and increases in steps, called bid increments. The auctioneer will decide at his/ her sole option where the bidding should start and the bid increments. Bid increments may vary from auction to auction. You shall comply with all laws and regulations in force that govern your bidding. (b) Online-only Auctions. Bids may only be submitted on our website or through third-party bidding sites between the dates and times specified in the lot’s description. Your bid is submitted once you place and confirm your bid amount. You agree that a bid is final once it is placed and that you may never amend or revoke your bid. You are fully responsible for any errors you make in bidding. Bidding generally opens at or below the low estimate and increases in steps (bidding increments) to be determined in Hindman’s sole discretion. 2. AUCTIONEER’S DISCRETION The auctioneer shall have absolute discretion to (a) admit a bidder into or remove a bidder from the saleroom or online auction; (b) accept or refuse any bid; (c) change the order of the lots in the auction; (d) move the bidding backward or forward; (e) withdraw any lot from the auction; (f) divide any lot or combine any two or more lots; (g) reopen or continue the bidding even after the hammer has fallen; and (h) continue the bidding, determine the successful bidder, cancel the sale of the lot, or reoffer and resell any lot in the event that there is an error or dispute related to bidding or the application of the reserve, whether during or after the auction. You must provide us with written notice within three (3) business days of the date of the auction if you believe that the auctioneer has accepted the successful bid in error. The auctioneer will consider the claim and decide in good faith if the sale of the lot is final, whether he/she will cancel the sale of the lot, or whether he/she will reoffer and resell the lot. The auctioneer’s decision in exercise of this discretion is final. This paragraph does not in any way affect our ability to cancel the sale of a lot under other applicable provisions of these Conditions of Sale, including the rights of cancellation set forth in sections B(1), D(6), E(2), and G(1). 3. BIDDING ON BEHALF OF THE SELLER The auctioneer may, at his/her sole option, bid on behalf of the seller up to one bidding increment before the reserve by making either consecutive or responsive bids. The auctioneer will not identify these as bids made on behalf of the seller. If a lot is offered without reserve, the auctioneer will open the bidding at approximately fifty percent (50%) of the lot’s low estimate; where necessary, will lower the asking bid until a bid is received; and will solicit higher bids from that amount. If there are no bids on a lot, the auctioneer may deem the lot unsold.
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4. SUCCESSFUL BIDS AND INVOICES Subject to paragraph C(2), the contract of sale between the seller and the successful bidder is formed when the final bid is accepted and the auctioneer’s hammer strikes. The successful bid price is the hammer price, and we will issue an invoice only to the registered bidder who made the successful bid. While we send out invoices by mail and/or email after the auction, we shall not be responsible for telling you whether your bid was successful. You should contact us immediately after the auction to find out the success of your bid in order to avoid having to pay storage charges.
D. AFTER THE AUCTION
1. THE BUYER’S PREMIUM In addition to the hammer price, the successful bidder agrees to pay us a buyer’s premium on the hammer price of each lot sold. On all lots, we charge twenty-five percent (25%) of the hammer price up to and including $400,000; twenty percent (20%) of any amount in excess of $400,001 up to and including $4,000,000; and twelve percent (12%) of any amount in excess of $4,000,001. If the bidder bids through a third-party platform the bidder agrees to pay us a surcharge equal to the fee levied by the third-party platform. The third-party platform fee is in addition to the buyer’s premium. 2. TAXES The successful bidder is responsible for any applicable taxes, including any sales or use tax or equivalent tax wherever such taxes may arise on the hammer price, the buyer’s premium, and/or any other charges related to the lot. A sales or use tax is dependent upon a number of factors, including, but not limited to, our volume of sale and the place of delivery of the lot, regardless of the nationality or citizenship of the successful bidder. The applicable sales tax rate will be determined based upon the state, county, or locale to which the lot will be shipped or where it is picked-up in person. We collect sales tax in states where legally required. 3. MAKING PAYMENT (a) Immediately following the auction, you must pay the purchase price, consisting of the hammer price, plus the buyer’s premium, plus any applicable duties and sales, use, or other applicable taxes. Payment is due no later than by the end of the seventh (7th) calendar day following the date of the auction, which we refer to as the due date. (b) We will only accept payment from the registered successful bidder. Once issued, we cannot change the buyer’s name on an invoice or reissue the invoice in a different name. (c) You must pay for lots in US dollars in one of the following ways: (i) Wire transfer. (ii) Bank checks: You must make these payable to Hindman LLC, and we may impose other conditions. Once we have deposited your check, property cannot be released until five (5) business days have passed. (iii) Personal checks: You must make these payable to Hindman LLC, and they must be drawn from US dollar accounts from a US bank. The property will not be released until the check has cleared and the funds are received by us. (d) You must quote your invoice number when making a payment. All payments sent by post must be sent to Hindman LLC, 1338 West Lake Street, Chicago, IL 60607, ATTN: Client Accounting Department. 4. TRANSFERRING OWNERSHIP TO YOU You will not own the lot and title will not pass to you until we have received full payment in good funds of the purchase price, even in circumstances where we have released the lot to you. 5. TRANSFERRING RISK TO YOU Unless we have agreed otherwise with you, the risk in and responsibility for the lot will transfer to you from whichever is the earlier of the following: (a) when you collect the lot; or (b) the end of the thirtieth (30th) day following the date of the auction or, if earlier, the date the lot is taken into care by a third-party warehouse. 6. YOUR FAILURE TO PAY If you fail to pay us the purchase price in full in good funds by the due date, we will be entitled to do one or more of the following (as well as enforce any other rights and remedies we have by law) at our sole discretion: (a) We can charge interest from the due date at a rate of up to one and onehalf percent (1.5%) per month on the unpaid amount due. (b) We can cancel the sale of the lot and sell the lot again, publicly or privately, on such terms as we believe appropriate, in which case you must pay us any shortfall between the amount you owe us and the resale price, plus all costs, expenses, losses, damages, and legal fees we incur due to the cancellation. (c) We can pay the seller the amount due to them, in which case you acknowledge and understand that we will have all the seller’s rights to pursue you for such amount. (d) We can hold you legally responsible for the amount you owe us and bring legal proceedings against you to recover the amount owed by you, plus other losses, interest, legal fees, and costs as allowed by law.
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(e) We can reveal your identity and contact details to the seller. (f) We can reject any bids made by or on behalf of you in future auctions or require you to provide us with a deposit before accepting any bids. (g) We can exercise all the rights and remedies of a person holding security over any property in our possession owned by you, whether by way of pledge, security interest, or in any other way as permitted by the law of the place where such property is located. You will be deemed to have granted such security to us and we may retain such property as collateral security for your obligations to us. (h) We can take any other action we deem necessary or appropriate. 7. SHIPPING, COLLECTION, AND STORAGE (a) You must collect purchased lots within thirty (30) days of the auction. We can assist in making shipping arrangements by suggesting art handlers, packers, transporters, or experts, but you must arrange all transport and shipping with them, and we are not responsible for their acts, failure to act, or neglect. (b) If you do not collect any purchased lot within thirty (30) days following the auction, we may, at our sole option, (i) charge you storage and insurance costs; (ii) move the lot to another Hindman location or to a third-party warehouse, whereupon we will charge you transport costs, insurance costs, and administration fees for doing so, and you will be subject to the third-party storage warehouse’s standard terms and responsible for paying its standard fees and costs; or (iii) sell the lot in any commercially reasonable way we think appropriate. (c) In accordance with applicable state law, if you have paid for the lot in full but you do not collect the lot within the time specified by the law of the state where the auction takes place, we may charge you state sales tax for the lot. (d) Nothing in this paragraph is intended to limit our rights under paragraph D(6). 8. EXPORTING, IMPORTING, AND ENDANGERED SPECIES (a) The shipping of a lot is affected by United States export laws or the import laws of other countries. If you are outside the United States, then local laws may prevent you from importing a lot. You alone are responsible for seeking advice prior to bidding and meeting the requirements of any law or regulation applying to the export or import of a lot. (b) Lots made of or including (regardless of the percentage) endangered and other protected species of wildlife—such as, among other things, ivory, tortoiseshell, crocodile skin, rhinoceros horn, whalebone, certain species of coral, and Brazilian rosewood—may be subject to export controls in the US and import controls in other countries. You should check the relevant wildlife laws and regulations before bidding on any lot containing wildlife material if you plan to export the lot from the United States, import the lot into another country, or ship the lot between states. Your purchase of a lot containing endangered and other protected species of wildlife is at your own risk, and you shall be responsible for any scientific test or other reports required for export from the United States or for shipment between states. We will not cancel your purchase and refund the purchase price if your lot may not be exported, imported, or shipped between states, or if it is seized for any reason by a government authority. It is your responsibility to determine and satisfy the requirements of any applicable laws or regulations relating to import, export, and/or interstate shipping of a lot containing endangered and other protected species of wildlife.
E. WARRANTIES
1. SELLER’S WARRANTIES For each lot, the seller gives a warranty that the seller (a) is the owner of the lot or a joint owner of the lot acting with the permission of the other co-owners or, if the seller is not the owner or a joint owner of the lot, has the permission of the owner to sell the lot or the right to do so by law; and (b) has the right to transfer ownership of the lot to the buyer without any restrictions or claims by anyone else. If either of the above warranties are incorrect, the seller shall not have to pay more than the purchase price (as defined in paragraph D(3) above) paid by you to us. The seller will not be responsible to you for any reason for loss of profits or business, expected savings, loss of opportunity or interest, costs, damages, other damages, or expenses. The seller gives no warranty other than as set out above, and as far as the seller is allowed by law, all warranties from the seller to you, and all other obligations upon the seller that may be added to this agreement by law, are excluded. No employee or agent of Hindman is authorized to make a representation or provide other information, whether orally or in writing, that amends the seller’s warranties or creates an additional warranty on behalf of the seller with respect to a lot. Any such representation, other information, or additional warranty shall be null and void. 2. OUR LIMITED AUTHENTICITY WARRANTY Our limited authenticity warranty, which lasts for one (1) year from the date of a live auction or three (3) months from an online only auction, is that the
lots in our sales are authentic as defined in paragraph H, below. You must notify Hindman regarding concerns of authenticity in writing within one (1) year of the date of a live auction or within three (3) months of the date of an online only auction. Following receipt of that written notification, subject to the terms below, Hindman will refund the purchase price paid by the client. The terms of this limited authenticity warranty are as follows: (a) It will be honored for claims notified in writing within a period of one (1) year from the date of a live auction or three (3) months from an online only auction. After such time, we will not be obligated to honor the limited authenticity warranty. (b) It is given only for information shown in UPPERCASE type in the first line of the catalogue description (the Heading). It does not apply to any information other than that in the Heading, even if it is shown in UPPERCASE type. (c) It does not apply to any Heading or part of a Heading that is qualified. “Qualified” means limited by a clarification in a lot’s catalogue description or by the use in a Heading of one of the terms listed in the definition of “qualified” provided in paragraph H, below. Qualified Headings are not covered at all by this limited authenticity warranty. (d) It applies to the Heading as amended by any saleroom notice. (e) It does not apply where scholarship has developed since the auction, leading to a change in generally accepted opinion. Further, it does not apply if the Heading either matched the generally accepted opinion of experts at the date of the auction or drew attention to any conflict of opinion. (f) It does not apply if the lot can only be shown not to be authentic by a scientific process that, on the date we published the catalogue, was not available or generally accepted for use, was unreasonably expensive or impractical, or was likely to have damaged the lot. (g) Its benefit is only available to the original buyer shown on the invoice for the lot, issued at the time of the sale, and only if, on the date of the notice of claim, the original buyer is the full owner of the lot and the lot is free from any claim, interest, or restriction by anyone else. The benefit of this limited authenticity warranty may not be transferred by the original buyer to anyone else. (h) In order to make a claim under the limited authenticity warranty, you must (i) give us written notice of your claim within one (1) year of the date of a live auction or three (3) months from an online only auction ; (ii) at our option, pay for and provide us with the written opinions of two recognized experts in the field, mutually agreed upon by you and us, confirming that the lot is not authentic (we reserve the right to obtain additional opinions at our expense); and (iii) return the lot at your expense to the saleroom from which you bought it in the condition it was in at the time of sale. (i) Your only right under this limited authenticity warranty is to cancel the sale and receive a refund of the purchase price paid by you to us. We will not, under any circumstances, be required to pay you more than the purchase price, nor will we be liable for any loss of profits or business, loss of opportunity or value, expected savings or interest, costs, damages, other damages, or expenses. (j) No employee or agent of Hindman is authorized to make a representation or provide additional information, whether orally or in writing, that amends the limited authenticity warranty or creates an additional warranty with respect to a lot. Any such representation, other information, or additional warranty shall be null and void. 3. ADDITIONAL WARRANTY FOR BOOKS If the lot is a book, then we give an additional warranty to the original buyer shown on the invoice for the lot issued at the time of the sale in the following circumstances: (a) We will refund the purchase price to the original buyer if we, in our sole discretion, are convinced that the book is defective in text or illustration, subject to the following terms: (i) This additional warranty does not apply to (A) the absence of blanks, half titles, tissue guards, or advertisements; or damage in respect of bindings, stains, spotting, marginal tears, or other defects not affecting the completeness of the text or illustration; (B) drawings, autographs, letters or manuscripts, signed photographs, music, atlases, maps, or periodicals; (C) books not identified by title; (D) lots sold without a printed estimate; (E) books that are described in the catalog as sold not subject to return; or (F) defects stated in any condition report or announced at the time of sale. (ii) To make a claim under this additional warranty, you must give written details of the defect within twenty-one (21) days of the date of the sale and return the lot within twenty-one (21) days of the date of the sale to the saleroom at which you bought it in the same condition as at the time of sale. (iii) Paragraphs E(2)(b), (c), (d), (e), (h), and (i) also apply to a claim under this additional warranty. (c) No employee or agent of Hindman is authorized to make a representation or provide other information, whether orally or in writing, that amends the additional warranty for books or creates an additional warranty with respect to a lot. Any such representation, other information, or additional warranty shall be null and void.
4. JEWELRY (a) Colored gemstones (such as rubies, sapphires, and emeralds) may have been treated to improve their appearance through methods such as heating and/or various clarity enhancements. These methods are considered common by the international jewelry trade but may make a gemstone more fragile and/or cause the gemstone to require special care over time. (b) All types of gemstones may have been improved by some method. You may request a gemological report for any item that does not have a report if the request is made to us at least three (3) weeks before the date of the auction and you pay the fee for the report. (c) We do not obtain a gemological report for every gemstone sold in our auctions. When we do get gemological reports from internationally accepted gemological laboratories, such reports are described in the catalogue. Reports from American gemological laboratories describe any improvement or treatment to the gemstone. Reports from European gemological laboratories describe any improvement or treatment only if we request that they do so, but they do confirm when no improvement or treatment has been made. Because of differences in approach and technology, laboratories may not agree on whether a gemstone has been treated, the amount of treatment, or whether that treatment is permanent. The gemological laboratories only report on the improvements or treatments known to them at the date they make the report. (d) For jewelry sales, estimates are based on the information in any gemological report. If no report is available, assume that the gemstones may have been treated or enhanced. 5. WATCHES AND CLOCKS (a) Almost all clocks and watches are repaired in their lifetime and may include parts that are not original. We do not give a warranty that any individual component part of any watch is authentic. Watchbands described as “associated” are not part of the original watch and may not be authentic. Clocks may be sold without pendulums, weights, or keys. (b) As collectors’ watches often have very fine and complex mechanisms, you are responsible for any general service, change of battery, or further repair work that may be necessary. We do not give a warranty that any watch is in good working order. Certificates are not available unless described in the catalogue. (c) Most wristwatches have been opened to find out the type and quality of movement. For that reason, wristwatches with water-resistant cases may not be waterproof, and we recommend you have them checked by a competent watchmaker before use. (d) Many of the watches offered for sale in this catalogue are pictured with straps made of endangered or protected animal materials such as alligator or crocodile skin. When straps are shown for display purposes only and are not for sale. We may remove and retain the strap prior to shipment from the sale site. Please check with the department for details on a lot with such a strap. 6. YOUR WARRANTIES You warrant to us and the seller that (a) the funds you use for payment are not connected with any criminal activity, including tax evasion, and neither are you under investigation, nor have you been charged with or convicted of money laundering, terrorist activities, or other crimes; (b) where you are bidding on behalf of another person, (i) you have conducted appropriate customer due diligence on the ultimate buyer(s) of the lot(s) in accordance with all applicable anti-money laundering and sanctions laws, you consent to us relying on this due diligence, you will retain for a period of not less than five (5) years the documentation evidencing the due diligence, and you will make such documentation promptly available for immediate inspection by an independent third-party auditor upon our written request to do so; (ii) the arrangements between you and the ultimate buyer(s) in relation to the lot or otherwise do not, in whole or in part, facilitate tax crimes; (iii) you do not know, and have no reason to suspect, that the funds used for payment are connected with or the proceeds of any criminal activity, including tax evasion, or that the ultimate buyer(s) are under investigation for, or have been charged with or convicted of, money laundering, terrorist activities, or other crimes.
F. OUR LIABILITY TO YOU
(a) We give no warranty in relation to any statement made, or information given, by us or our representatives or employees about any lot other than as set out in the limited authenticity warranty or in the additional warranty for books, and as far as we are allowed by law, all warranties and other terms that may be added to this agreement by law are excluded. The seller’s warranties contained in paragraph E(1) are their own, and we do not have any liability to you in relation to those warranties. (b) We are not responsible to you for any reason (whether for breaking this agreement or for any other matter relating to your purchase of, or bid for, any lot) other than in the event of fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation by us, or other than as expressly set out in these Conditions of Sale.
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(c) WE DO NOT GIVE ANY REPRESENTATION, WARRANTY, OR GUARANTEE OR ASSUME ANY LIABILITY OF ANY KIND IN RESPECT OF ANY LOT WITH REGARD TO MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, DESCRIPTION, SIZE, QUALITY, CONDITION, ATTRIBUTION, AUTHENTICITY, RARITY, IMPORTANCE, MEDIUM, PROVENANCE, EXHIBITION HISTORY, LITERATURE, OR HISTORICAL RELEVANCE. EXCEPT AS REQUIRED BY LOCAL LAW, ANY WARRANTY OF ANY KIND IS EXCLUDED BY THIS PARAGRAPH. (d) Our written and telephone bidding services, online bidding services, and condition reports are free services, and we are not responsible to you for any error, omission, or failure of these services. (e) We have no responsibility to any person other than a buyer in connection with the purchase of any lot. (f) If, despite the terms in paragraphs F(a)–(e) or E(2)–(3) above, we are found to be liable to you for any reason, we shall not have to pay more than the purchase price paid by you to us. We will not be responsible to you for any reason for loss of profits or business, loss of opportunity or value, expected savings or interest, costs, damages, or expenses.
accordance with its Comprehensive Arbitration Rules and Procedures or, if the dispute involves a non-US party, the JAMS International Arbitration Rules. The seat of the arbitration shall be Illinois, and the arbitration shall be conducted by one arbitrator, who shall be appointed within thirty (30) days after the initiation of the arbitration. The language used in the arbitral proceedings shall be English. The arbitrator shall order the production of documents only upon a showing that such documents are relevant and material to the outcome of the dispute. The arbitration shall be confidential, except to the extent necessary to enforce a judgment or where disclosure is required by law. The arbitration award shall be final and binding on all parties involved. Judgment upon the award may be entered by any court having jurisdiction thereof or having jurisdiction over the relevant party or its assets. This arbitration and any proceedings conducted hereunder shall be governed by Title 9 (Arbitration) of the United States Code and by the United Nations Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards of June 10, 1958.
G. OTHER TERMS
authentic: a genuine example, rather than a copy or forgery of (a) the work of a particular artist, author, or manufacturer, if the lot is described in the Heading as the work of that artist, author, or manufacturer; (b) a work created within a particular period or culture, if the lot is described in the Heading as a work created during that period or culture; (c) a work of a particular origin or source, if the lot is described in the Heading as being of that origin or source; or (d) in the case of gems, a work that is made of a particular material, if the lot is described in the Heading as being made of that material. buyer’s premium: the charge the buyer pays us along with the hammer price. catalogue description: the description of a lot in the catalogue for the auction, as amended by any saleroom notice. due date: has the meaning given to it in paragraph D(3)(a). estimate: the price range included in the catalogue or any saleroom notice within which we believe a lot may sell. Low estimate means the lower figure in the range, and high estimate means the higher figure. The mid estimate is the midpoint between the two. hammer price: the amount of the highest bid the auctioneer accepts for the sale of a lot. Heading: has the meaning given to it in paragraph E(2). limited authenticity warranty: the guarantee we give in paragraph E(2) that a lot is authentic. other damages: any special, consequential, incidental, or indirect damages of any kind or any damages that fall within the meaning of “special,” “incidental,” or “consequential” under local law. purchase price: has the meaning given to it in paragraph D(3)(a). provenance: the ownership history of a lot. qualified: has the meaning given to it in paragraph E(2), subject to the following terms: (a) “Cast from a model by” means, in our opinion, a work from the artist’s model, originating in his circle and cast during his lifetime or shortly thereafter. (b) “Attributed to” means, in our opinion, a work probably by the artist. (c) “In the style of” means, in our opinion, a work of the period of the artist and closely related to his style. (d) “Ascribed to” means, in our opinion, a work traditionally regarded as by the artist. (e) “In the manner of” means, in our opinion, a later imitation of the period, of the style, or of the artist’s work. (f) “After” means, in our opinion, a copy or after-cast of a work of the artist. reserve: the confidential amount below which we will not sell a lot. saleroom notice: a written notice posted next to the lot in the saleroom and on www.hindmanauctions.com, which is also read to prospective telephone bidders and provided to clients who have left commission bids, or an announcement made by the auctioneer either at the beginning of the sale or before a particular lot is auctioned. UPPERCASE type: type having all capital letters. warranty: a statement or representation in which the person making it guarantees that the facts set out in it are correct.
1. OUR ABILITY TO CANCEL In addition to the other rights of cancellation contained herein, we can cancel a sale of a lot if (i) any of your warranties in paragraph E(4) are not correct; (ii) we reasonably believe that completing the transaction is, or may be, unlawful; or (iii) we reasonably believe that the sale places us or the seller under any liability to anyone else or may damage our reputation. 2. RECORDINGS We may videotape and/or audio record proceedings at any auction. We will keep any personal information confidential, except to the extent that disclosure is required by law. If you do not want to be videotaped, you may decide to make a telephone or written bid or bid online instead. Unless we agree otherwise in writing, you may not videotape or record proceedings at any auction. 3. COPYRIGHT We own the copyright in all images, illustrations, and written material produced by or for us relating to a lot, including the contents of our catalogues, unless otherwise noted therein. You cannot use them without our prior written permission. We make no representation and offer no guarantee that the buyer of a lot will gain any copyright or other reproduction rights. 4. ENFORCING THIS AGREEMENT If a court finds that any part of this agreement is invalid, illegal, or impossible to enforce, that part of the agreement will be treated as being deleted, and the rest of this agreement will not be affected. 5. TRANSFERRING YOUR RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES You may not grant a security over or transfer your rights or responsibilities under these terms unless we have given our written permission. This agreement will be binding on your successors or estate and anyone who takes over your rights and responsibilities. 6. PERSONAL INFORMATION We will hold and process your personal information in line with our privacy policy at www.hindmanauctions.com. 7. WAIVER No failure or delay to exercise any right or remedy contained herein shall constitute a waiver of that or any other right or remedy, nor shall it prevent or restrict the further exercise of that or any other right or remedy. No single or partial exercise of such right or remedy shall prevent or restrict the further exercise of that or any other right or remedy. 8. LAW AND DISPUTES This agreement, and any noncontractual obligations arising out of or in connection with this agreement, or any other rights you may have relating to the purchase of a lot will be governed by the laws of Illinois. Before we or you start any court proceedings (except in the limited circumstances where the dispute, controversy, or claim is related to proceedings brought by someone else and this dispute could be joined to those proceedings), you and we agree to try to settle the dispute by mediation submitted to JAMS, or its successor, for mediation in Illinois. If the dispute is not settled by mediation within sixty (60) days from the date when mediation is initiated, then the dispute shall be submitted to JAMS, or its successor, for final and binding arbitration in
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CURRIER & IVES, PUBLISHERS. YOSEMITE VALLEY - CALIFORNIA: THE BRIDAL VEIL FALLS. 1866. SOLD FOR $21,250
SALE 942 SPORTS MEMORABILIA OCTOBER 26 | ONLINE ONLY SALE 943 ESSENTIAL JEWELRY OCTOBER 27 | ONLINE ONLY SALE 1050 FINE SILVER NOVEMBER 1 | ONLINE ONLY SALE 912 MARILYN EBER COLLECTION OF NATIVE AMERICAN ART NOVEMBER 3 | DENVER 951-952 WESTERN ART, INCLUDING CONTEMPORARY NATIVE AMERICAN ART NOVEMBER 4-5 | DENVER & ONLINE SALE 945 FINE BOOKS & MANUSCRIPTS VARIOUS OWNER NOVEMBER 9 | CHICAGO
SALE 964 THE CIVIL WAR COLLECTION OF JAMES C. FRASCA NOVEMBER 12 | CINCINNATI SALE 955 THE HENRY FITZ JR. ARCHIVE OF PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY NOVEMBER 15 | CINCINNATI SALE 960 AMERICAN HISTORICAL EPHEMERA & PHOTOGRAPHY NOVEMBER 15 | CINCINNATI SALE 957 MODERN DESIGN NOVEMBER 16 | CHICAGO SALE 958 EARLY 20TH CENTURY DESIGN NOVEMBER 17 | CINCINNATI SALE 910 ANTIQUITIES & ETHNOGRAPHIC ART NOVEMBER 18 | CHICAGO
SALE 967 NATIVE AMERICAN ART ONLINE NOVEMBER 29 | CINCINNATI SALE 961 AMERICAN HISTORICAL EPHEMERA & PHOTOGRAPHY NOVEMBER 30 | CINCINNATI SALE 962 WINTER FASHION & ACCESSORIES DECEMBER 1 | CHICAGO SALE 963 ESSENTIAL JEWELRY DECEMBER 2 | CHICAGO SALE 969 FINE ART & DESIGN SELECTIONS DECEMBER 3 | ONLINE ONLY SALE 966 IMPORTANT JEWELRY DECEMBER 7 | CHICAGO
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ANTIQUITIES & ETHNOGRAPHIC ART 18 November 2021 | Chicago Lot 1 A Sumerian Clay Cuneiform Tablet Third Dynasty of Ur, Circa 22nd-21st Century B.C. Height 2 1/4 inches (5 cm). This tablet is a receipt for grain-fed sheep offered to several deities (Enlil, Nin-lil, Nanna, Nanaya, Inanna) as palace offerings. The official who issued the animals is Enlil-zishagl, a well-known official involved in many other similar texts that date to the reign of King Shu-Suen of Ur. Estimate: $400.00 - 600.00 Lot 2 Two Sumerian Clay Cuneiform Tablets Third Dynasty of Ur, Circa 22nd-21st Century B.C. Height 1 1/2 inches (3 cm).
INQUIRIES Jacob Coley Director, Specialist Antiquities & Pre-Columbian Art 646.255.5859 jacobcoley@hindmanauctions.com hindmanauctions.com
This lot includes one administrative tablet dated to the reign of King Amar-Suen of Ur, recording the amounts of grain (barley) delivered to the royal storehouse; and one administrative tablet with old label dated to year 46 of King Shulgi of Ur. Estimate: $500.00 - 700.00
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