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Fine Books & Manuscripts Sale 2764B

November 16, 2014

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American & European Works of Art Auction 2704B 02/07/2014 4:00 PM EST Lot 632 Of 689 - Alexander Calder (American, 1898-1976) Red Circus Horse

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Selected Provenance The Collection of Charles S. Dixwell

The Collection of Percy MacKaye

A Boston Book Collector

The Collection of Arnold Gates

A Boston Music Collector


Documents 1 American Celebrities and Musicians, Signed Photographs, Letters, and Cards. Fred Allen, Mae West, Bing Crosby, Bette Davis, Lillian Gish, Eddie Cantor, Red Granger, Helen Hayes, Lillian Hellman, Gene Krupa, Lily Pons, Sally Rand, Louis Prima, Ginger Rogers, Will Rogers, Spencer Tracy, and others; approximately twenty-eight pieces. $700-900 2 American Composers of the 20th Century, Five Signed Letters and Cards. Aaron Copland (1900-1990), typed letter signed, 23 March 1976; George Gershwin (1898-1937), returned postcard request for a signature, signed, 1934; and Jerome Kern (1885-1945), three typed letters signed, 1940 and 1942. (5) $400-600 3 American Film Stars, a Collection of Signed Photographs, c. 1942. Black-and-white 8 x 10s inscribed by: Marjorie Reynolds; Frances Gifford; Don Douglas; Susan Peters; Jean Rogers; Harold Daniels; three inscribed photos of Olivia de Havilland; Joan Crawford; a young Judy Garland; Red Skelton; two inscribed photos of Lana Turner; Mickey Rooney; and others, including part of the cast and crew of The Greatest Gift; and some friends from the army. (26) These photos are all inscribed to John Murray, an army officer who was sent to Hollywood during World War II to act as a military consultant for the film industry. $500-700

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4 Anderson, Sherwood (1876-1941) Four Letters: Two Autograph Signed and Two Typed Signed. The two typed letters on Anderson’s Ripshin Farm letterhead, 1939 and 1940; the two autograph letters on plain paper, undated; all inscribed on one page. To Arnold Gates, thanking him for birthday wishes and for sending a pamphlet on Abraham Lincoln, and other pleasantries, folds, 8 1/2 x 11 in. each. (4) $400-600 5 Archive of Approximately Twenty-five Documents, Signatures, and other Paper Ephemera, 17th, 18th, and 19th Century. Including signed notes, cut signatures, receipts, correspondence, accounts, deeds, several early 18th century and related to Boston, and other paper. $800-1,000 6 Archive of Assorted Ephemera. Approximately twenty-five assorted documents including letters, printed publications, receipts, prints, and other material, mostly 18th and 19th century, notably, an account book, c. 1800. $500-700 7 Authors and Novelists of the 20th Century, Ten Signed Letters and Cards. Various formats, including the following authors: Knut Hamsun (1859-1952), signed card, 22 September 1940; Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), typed letter signed, 23 December 1935; Pearl Buck (1892-1973), three typed letters signed, 1941 and 1955; P.G. Wodehouse (1881-1975), autograph postcard signed, 1939; Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950), two typed letters, one signed, one possibly with a stamped signature, 1933 and 1940; W. Somerset Maugham (18741965), autograph note signed, undated; and Emily Post (1872-1960), undated signature on personalized notepaper. (10) $800-1,000

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8 Barton, Clara (1821-1912) Autograph Letter Signed, Glen Echo, Undated. Folding note paper, bifolium, inscribed on two pages. To her secretary, sending loving and cheerful thoughts. Folds, outer surfaces somewhat dirty, 10 1/2 x 6 1/2 in. unfolded. $300-500

9 Berlioz, Hector (1803-1869) Autograph Letter Signed, 9 January [1851]. Single sheet of folded writing paper inscribed on two pages, addressed on a third, with postmarks. In French and English, to Philarete Chasles. Old folds, matted with a portrait of Berlioz in a double-glazed frame, 7 3/4 x 5 in. sight, unfolded. This letter was formerly the property of Adolphe Jullien and the text is quoted in his biography of Berlioz, Hector Berlioz: la Vie et le Combat, les Oeuvres, Paris: Charavay Freres, 1882, page 30. “Je vous remercie, mon cher Chasles, de vos quatre lignes d’encouragement. Je ne crois pas être de force à server la cause vraie d’une façon appréciable, mais j’ai besoin de mon dégonfler parfois. Robert Macaire a raison: Il faut bien se passer quelques douceurs. Le silence et l’absence de cadence dont vous avez la bienveillance de vous plaindre si poétiquement dureront jusqu’à la fin de ce mois seulement. Nous organisons avec acharnement pour le mardi 28 l’exécution des quatre premières parties de ma symphonie avec choeurs, Roméo et Juliette. J’espère que nous parviendrons à nous en tirer pour les grands ensembles, but the queen Mab is so extravagantly wicked, qu’elle me fait rêver chaque nuit d’orchestre en désarroi, de fausses notes et de trompettes discordantes.” $300-500


10 Borglum, Gutzon (1867-1941) Three Typed Letters Signed and Two Signed Picture Postcards. The letters typed and signed on Mount Rushmore stationery, each with a full-page sepia-tone photograph of the Washington portion of the monument printed on the verso. All addressed to Arnold Gates, thanking him for good wishes, referring to Borglum’s desire to write a book about Abraham Lincoln as a boy, and thanking Gates for sending copies of the book, Amberglow, the three letters from 1939 to 1940, each with folds, 8 1/2 x 11 in. [and] two cards picturing Mount Rushmore under construction, one postcard showing all four faces, signed by Borglum, 5 1/2 x 3 1/2 in.; the other a photograph on card, inscribed by Borglum, showing Lincoln in an unfinished state, 7 x 4 3/4 in. (5) $400-600 9

11 Boris III, Czar of Bulgaria (1894-1943) Signed Photograph, 1933. Black-and-white photograph of the Czar in full military dress uniform, in profile, with a bold dated signature, 5 1/2 x 3 1/2 in. $300-500

12 Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897) Autograph Letter Signed, [21 April 1877, Vienna]. Cream laid paper bifolium, inscribed on four pages. In German, to an unnamed correspondent. Old folds, slight mat burn and chipping to edges, minor short tear, corners slightly discolored from old mounts, 10 3/4 x 8 1/2 in. unfolded. $800-1,000

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13 Browning, Elizabeth Barrett (1806-1861) Autograph Letter Signed and Envelope Addressed and Signed by Robert Browning (1812-1889). Single page, inscribed on one side. To Hiram Powers (1805-1873) arranging evening plans with friends. The small sheet tacked down at the corners to a piece of mat board, in a larger velvet mat with a portrait of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, old folds, 3 1/2 x 5 1/4 in. [and] a black-bordered mourning envelope addressed to Sir John Simeon (1815-1870) on the Isle of Wight, by Robert Browning, signed, 29 December 1868, with stamp and postmark, tacked to mat board, in a larger velvet mat with a portrait of Browning, 4 3/4 x 3 3/4 in. The Brownings were friendly with accomplished American sculptor Hiram Powers and his family in Florence. “Mr. Powers the sculptor is our chief friend and favorite, a most charming, simple, straightforward, genial American, as simple as the man of genius he has proved himself needs be. He sometimes comes to talk and take coffee with us, and we like him much.” (The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, New York: Macmillan, 1899, page 347)

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“My dear Mr. Powers, Mr. and Mrs. Clarke & Mr. Spring [?] will spend this evening with us. They were at first unwilling to come on the ground of having a past promise from you that you would go to them, but we over-ruled the difficulty by proposing thereby to persuade you to come to us instead and meet them here. Do come at eight, if you can. I am afraid of asking Mrs. Powers but if the bait of a piece of America could catch her, so much the better for us and everybody. Most hasty [?] ever, Elizabeth Barrett Browning Casa Guidi Monday morning” $2,000-4,000 14 Burr, Aaron (1756-1836) and Daniel Webster (1782-1852) Two Documents Signed. The Burr document a signed and cancelled IOU for 410 pounds sterling, 29 December 1789, toned, spotting, old folds, small hole, mounted in a frame with a portrait, 8 1/4 x 3 1/4 in. Webster document is a secretarial letter signed by Webster 7 May 1851 to Harvey Ripley Esquire, concerning a matter related to a Mr. Duval, framed, 6 1/2 x 4 in. (2) $250-350

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15 Chaplin, Charles (1889-1977) Signed Photograph and Typed Letter Signed. Black-and-white profile portrait of a suited Chaplin with hands clasped, signed across the chest, 7 x 5 in.; [and] single page typed letter signed on Chaplin’s stationery, Beverly Hills, California, 27 April 1939. To Arnold Gates, thanking him for birthday greetings, two horizontal folds, 10 12 x 7 1/4 in. $800-1,000 16 Cody, William Frederick “Buffalo Bill” (1846-1917) Autograph Note Signed, 21 September 1917. Gilt-embossed bifolium writing paper for Buffalo Bill’s Wild West tour of Great Britain, inscribed on the single outer page. To J.W. Young of London, stating that he will not be in London in the fall. Old folds, loss of some surface, outer surfaces somewhat toned and rubbed, 7 x 8 3/4 in. unfolded. $300-500 17 Collection of Signed Letters. Six typed letters signed by the following: William Carlos Williams (1883-1963), 2 March 1954, submitting his poem, “The Turtle” to the Atlantic Monthly; Richard Nixon (19131994), as Vice President, 19 November 1957, thanking Caskie Stinnett for sending the 100th anniversary edition of the Atlantic; Edna Ferber (1885-1968) 22 March 1923 apologizing for not having written a story mentioned by her correspondent in a previous letter, and stating, “I’ve a horrible feeling that you’ve managed to confuse me with some one else. Because I can’t remember a Harold Weston. And I don’t know a thing about his studio. And who is Mr. Schwab? Have I lost my mind?” and expressing interest in writing a piece for the Atlantic; Robert Underwood Johnson (1853-1937) 29 September 1933 to Ellery Sedgwick, expressing dismay that the “Institute” would like to elect H.L. Mencken as a member; Erle Stanley Gardner (1889-1970) 18 October 1957, to Charles Morton at the Atlantic Monthly, promising to send an insert to “The Real Underdog,” and discussing his other projects; and John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-2006) 20 April 1957 to Charles Morton sending press clips (not present). One autograph letter in pencil signed by Al Capp (1909-1979), undated, on Li’l Abner stationery, giving his phone number and with the cryptic message, “I don’t know about this- except that it all happened one day- and it continues to happen.” [and] Five retained carbons of typed letters 1914-1917 from Ellery Sedgwick (1872-1960) to H.L. Mencken (1880-1956) concerning the editing of Mencken’s work. $400-600

18 Copland, Aaron (1900-1990) Two Autograph Letters Signed, Ossining and Peekskill, New York, 19 October 1960, and 7 March 1961. Three sheets inscribed on rectos only, on Copland’s stationery. To Robert Woods Bliss (1875-1962) and Mildred Barnes Bliss (18791969), thanking them for their patience in waiting for him to finish his Nonet composed in honor of their fiftieth anniversary, with the premiere at Dumbarton Oakes planned for the subsequent spring; and thanking them for commissioning the same piece in the week after its performance. The letters with old folds, 8 x 6 in. and 9 1/4 x 6 1/4 in. $250-350 19 Craig, Edward Gordon (1872-1966) Twentysix Signed Proofs, 1907-1939 Inscribed to Percy Mackaye. Each proof printed on lightweight tissue, housed in a folded sheet of heavier paper, dated, signed, titled, with notes by Craig on the edition and state, various sizes; [and] twenty copies of the bookplate Craig designed for Mackaye; all housed in a folder signed and inscribed by Craig to MacKaye, in Paris, 1939. Provenance: From the collection of Percy MacKaye (1875-1956), by descent to Marion MacKaye Ober. $800-1,000 20 Dickens, Charles (1812-1870) Autograph Note Signed, 6 June 1854. Single sheet of light blue laid paper, inscribed on one side in blue ink. To an unnamed recipient, with the following message, “I suppose the mistake to which your note refers, to have occurred in Mr. Wills’s p---. My proofs are correct, except that I have two of them. Faithfully yours, Charles Dickens”; with a portrait, mat burn on the margins of the letter, which is mounted on a sheet and backed with an unidentified letter from 1865, 6 1/4 x 4 1/4 in. $1,000-1,200

21 Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan (1859-1930) Autograph Letter Signed, London, 18 January 1910. Three inscribed pages on folded Piccadilly Hotel stationery. To an American theatre manager concerning the running of his play “The House of Temperley.” Folds, a few light spots, 7 x 4 1/2 in. folded. “My dear Sir, I am grieved to think that for the second time you have had ill luck in running one of my plays. It is always a consolation to my mind in putting on my own plays--as I have twice done here--that no one can suffer but myself. I am very sorry indeed that you in America should be the loser. If “Temperley” should be a success there it will diminish any pleasure that it should not be in your hands to partly compensate you for the failures. It is playing here to steadily increasing business, and will do well here, I believe, but there is an English atmosphere to it which might be against it over there. Faversham has bought the rights but he will find no star part in it, which he may not like. I cabled you today about [Cyril] Maude because I am so anxious to retain him if possible. He is not--between ourselves-much of an actor, so that I cannot think his absence would affect a play much, but he is excellent in the boxing, and for that reason has a special value in my play. I am sure you will do what you can, and if you hold on to him I will understand that you have some good reason. As it is two of my valued cast, Gwenn and Heggie, have [...] to the Duke of York. That is a calamity but Maude is more vital than any of them. With all kind regards, Yours very sincerely, Arthur Conan Doyle.” $1,000-1,200 22 Duncan, Isadora (1877-1927) Signed Photograph. Black-and-white photograph of Duncan sitting on a beach, with boots, hat, and parasol, inscribed to Percy MacKaye in upper left corner, with “Poor me at Palm Beach” and signature in lower right, 3 1/2 x 5 1/2 in. Provenance: From the collection of Percy MacKaye (1875-1956), by descent to Marion MacKaye Ober. $400-600 23 Earhart, Amelia (1897-1937) and Howard Hughes (1905-1976) Photograph and Negative, Posing with the Carnegie Mellon Flying Club. Black-and-white photograph of Earhart and Hughes standing with seven suit-wearing men, framed; with the negative attached to the back of the frame, 5 x 4 in., the photograph 7 x 5 in. $250-350

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29 European Composers and Musicians, Late 19th and Early 20th Century, Carte-devisites and Photographs, Some Signed. Signed photographic portraits of: Vincent D’Indy, Pietro Massagni, Anton Webern, and Gustave Charpentier; eighteen unsigned carte-de-visites of Offenbach, Joachim, Verdi, Gounod, Rossini, Wagner and others, 4 1/4 x 2 1/4 in.; eight photographs of Brahms mounted on card, ranging in size from 4 3/4 x 3 1/2 in. to 6 1/2 x 4 1/4 in.; large cartede-visites of Bizet and Liszt, 6 1/2 x 4 1/4 in. each; and two 8 x 10 in. photos of Prokofiev and Wagner. $1,000-1,500

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24 Earhart, Amelia (1897-1937) Signed Ticket to Amelia Earhart Day, Waterville Airport, 13 August 1934. Orange cardstock ticket, printed for BostonMaine Airways, inviting a Mrs. Ralph Gilmore to take a flight in a “B.M. tri-motored airliner,” on flight number eight at 11:10 am, with Earhart’s signature on the dotted line, 3 3/4 x 2 1/4 in. Events like these allowed Earhart to fulfill her personal mission to encourage female participation in aviation. $500-700

27 Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1890-1969) Signed Photograph and Typed Letter Signed 16 December 1950. Black-and-white portrait of Eisenhower seated at a library table, writing, with his signature in the blank margin below, 8 x 10 in. [and] Single page typed on one side, on Columbia University stationery, as President of the University; to Carl Haverlin, hoping to attend a meeting of Haverlin’s club in the future, and asking him to thank a Mr. Snyder for the gift of a book, 7 3/4 x 5 3/4 in. (2) $250-350

25 Earhart, Amelia (1897-1939) Signed Photograph and Signed Card. The photograph showing a smiling Earhart in aviator’s scarf and coat, signed in black ink, 3 1/4 x 4 in.; the card 3 1/2 x 2 in. (2) $600-800

28 European Composers and Musicians, Late 19th and Early 20th Century, Signed Pieces. Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst Bach (1759-1845) autograph letter signed; Ruggero Leoncavallo (1857-1919) autograph letter signed; Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924) autograph letter signed; Jules Massenet (1842-1912) autograph letter signed; Ferdinand Hiller (1811-1885) autograph musical phrase, signed; Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921) autograph letter signed; Eugen Francois Charles D’Albert (1864-1932) signature card, signed musical phrase, and photograph; Moriz Rosenthal (1862-1946) signed card; Anton Rubinstein (1829-1894) two autograph letters signed; and Leopold Godowsky (1870-1935) two autograph letters signed. $1,000-1,200

26 Ecclesiastical Wax Seals, Three, European, c. 1400-1600. Three seals originally attached to documents, one with silk threads attached, the other two with vestiges of parchment strip attachment; fingerprints on the versos of all three, one is oval, 3 3/4 x 2 1/4 in., with a seated Bishop flanked by two coats of arms, and formed of a light-colored wax; the other two are dark and round; the smaller is 2 1/2 in. and depicts the Madonna and Child, flanked by two saints; and the larger (4 1/4 in.) seal depicts Saint Peter (with his key) in a gothic architectural framework, with a smaller counter-seal on the verso; all have wear and edge chips, the text around the edges is fragmentary. (3) $250-350

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30 European Composers and Musicians, Late 19th and Early 20th Century, Six Signed Pieces. Including: Claude Debussy (1862-1918) autograph letter signed, very faded, 9 3/4 x 5 3/4 in.; Vincent D’Indy (1851-1931) two autograph letters signed, and an autograph of instrumental works of chamber music, various sizes; Albert Roussel (1869-1937) autograph letter signed, with holograph envelope, 1930; Josef Hofmann (1876-1957) two autograph and signed musical phrases, 1901 and 1905; and Joseph Joachim (1831-1907) autograph note signed, Weimar, 14 September 1852, in German, to the pianist Ignaz Moscheles (1794-1870) mentioning his visit to London, 5 1/4 x 4 in. (6) $1,200-1,800 31 Fire Prevention Societies, New England, Boston, 1764. Broadside headed: Rules and Orders Agreed to be Observed by a Mutual Society, instituted at Boston, the Fourth Day of January, A.D. 1764, no imprint; title in a single column as above, text consisting of twelve articles, each with a roman numeral, printed in two columns separated by a vertical rule across the top half of the page; bottom half sectioned into three columns delineated by two vertical rules, the first listing nineteen printed names, two crossed off in manuscript and two added in a contemporary hand; the second and third columns are blank, labeled at the top, “Places of Abode,” and “Shops and Stores”; ESTC does not seem to have an entry for this broadside; old folds, deckle edges evident, small holes along two folds and where they converge, losses to two or three words, slight water stain to bottom right corner, verso toned; contemporary ownership inscription of Thomas Knox on verso, 17 x 13 3/4 in. “[E]ach of us will provide and always keep in Readiness two good Leather buckets and two large Bags, containing at least three Bushels a-piece, the Buckets and Bags to be marked with the first Letters of the Owner’s Christian Name, and his Sir-Name at Length, and each Bag to be kept whole and in good Repair, and to have Strings sewed on or run through the Hem on Forfeiture of One Shilling in not being provided as aforesaid.” $300-500


32 Gage, Thomas (1721-1787) An Address of the Gentlemen and Principal Inhabitants of the Town of Boston, to His Excellency Governor Gage. [Boston: No Printer, 1775]. The left-hand half only of this broadside, the right half torn away with only a little blank margin and some letters of the other half remaining, see ESTC W865, locating one American and one British holding only, at the Massachusetts Historical Society and the British National Archives; old folds, the top trimmed a little close, one small hole at the expense of one word where folds converge, another small hole affecting one letter, and two tiny holes in a blank area, the sheet lightly toned, with contemporary manuscript inscriptions on the verso showing through, some limited spotting, some edges slightly curled/folded, 15 1/2 x 10 in. [Together with] another broadside, reprinting Gage’s declaration of martial law] Cambridge, June 14, 1775. The following is a copy of an infamous thing handed about here yesterday, and now reprinted to satisfy the curiosity of the public, attributed to [Watertown: Benjamin Edes, 1775], headline paragraph in a single column, type rule made up of nine sections, five-line title, “By his Excellency/ The Hon Thomas Gage, Esq.;/Governor, and Commander in Chief, in and over his Majesty’s Province of Massachusetts-/Bay, and Vice Admiral of the same:/A Proclamation., text printed in two columns, the left column in seventy-nine lines; the right in seventy-seven lines, see ESTC W17448, locating a single copy at the New York Public Library, Evans 14185; with old folds, ink inscriptions on the verso, torn at the head, with the loss of several words in the top two lines, another tear in the right column, halfway down, loss of a word, edges curled, when properly restored, actual loss of text in this area would be minimal, edges unevenly trimmed, 14 1/2 x 6 1/4 in. (2) $4,000-6,000

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33 Garfield, James (1831-1881) Franking Signature. Envelope with postmark, the address of frequent Garfield correspondent, B.A. Hinsdale of Hiram, Ohio, and Garfield’s franking signature: J.A. Garfield M.C., 5 3/4 x 3 1/4 in. $200-300 34 Glenn, John (b. 1921) Typed Letter Signed, 7 September 1972. Single page typed on one side; on Glenn’s personal post-retirement stationery. To Arnold Gates, regretting that he has no copies of addresses to sign and send, stating that he generally speaks from notes, without a prepared text, but enclosing a photograph (not present); folds, 8 1/2 x 11 in. $200-300

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35 Grant, Ulysses S. (1822-1885) Autograph Album Containing His Signature, and those of Associated Political Figures Octavo autograph book, formerly the property of Civil War general Hector Tyndale (18211880), with his name tooled in gilt on the front cover, with the signatures of Grant; Vice President, Schuyler Colfax; Secretary of the Treasury, George S. Boutwell; Secretary of War, William W. Belknap; Attorney General, George H. Williams; Secretary of the Navy, George M. Robeson; Secretary of the Interior, Columbus Delano; and others, followed by signatures of sixty-three Senators; and 142 members of the House of Representatives; bound in full sheepskin, blocked in blind on front and back boards, gilt-tooled spine and front board, a.e.g.; binding rubbed, title page discolored, 6 1/4 x 5 in. $400-600

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36 Grieg, Edvard (1843-1907) Autograph Letter Signed, Kristiania, 1906. Folding bifolium notepaper, inscribed on two pages. In English, to an unnamed male correspondent, regretting the death of the recipient’s uncle, with whom Grieg once traveled, and stating his inability to make concert tours in the autumn and winter because of his health. Folds, some light toning and foxing, 7 x 4 1/2 in. folded. $300-500

37 Hemingway, Ernest (1899-1961) Typed Letter Signed, 7 August 1941. Single page typed on one side, Finca Vigia San Francisco de Paula Cuba letterhead. To Arnold Gates, thanking him for birthday wishes; “It makes you feel very good to have somebody backing you every year, the way you do me.” Old folds, 8 1/2 x 11 in. $700-900

38 Himes, Charles Francis (1838-1918) Lecture on the Telephone, Rheem’s Hall, Thursday, June 13th [1878]. [Carlisle, Pennsylvania]: Herald Printing Company, [1878]. Advertising broadside, printed on wove paper in wood type, minor offsetting, small water stain in top right-hand corner, toning, separations at folds repaired on verso, 20 3/4 x 13 1/4 in. Himes delivered his talk on cutting-edge telephone technology only two years after Alexander Graham Bell received his patent on the device, and then broadcast music from Philadelphia over the phone twenty-five years before the invention of the radio. $1,000-1,500 37

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39 Hoover, Herbert (1874-1964) Four Signed Offprints of Speeches, Signed Portrait, and Two Typed Letters Signed. The letters each on Hoover’s stationery, typed, on one side, 17 September 1934 and 27 January 1963, both addressed to Arnold Gates, thanking him for writing, and transferring good wishes, 10 1/2 x 7 1/4 in. each; the portrait is a reproduction of a charcoal sketch, with the artist’s name printed and Hoover’s signature in blue ink, 6 1/2 x 4 1/2 in.; and offprints of the speeches: “American Policies for Peace,” delivered to the Women’s National Republican Club of New York City and San Francisco 15 January 1938; Hoover’s address to the Republican National Convention, 25 June 1940; “The Year Since the Great Debate,” New York City, 27 January 1952; and the pamphlet “American Ideals versus the New Deal,” containing eight addresses; various sizes, each signed by Hoover on the front cover. (7) $700-900

40 Hughes, Langston (1902-1967) Autograph Letter Signed and Signed Autograph Postcard. The letter 25 February 1939, single sheet inscribed on one side. To Arnold Gates, thanking him for sending birthday wishes and sending his best regards to “Hughie”; in a dark purplish ink and a fine hand, old folds, minor edge chipping, 8 1/2 x 11 in.; the postcard with an image of the Mission at San Juan Capistrano, same recipient as above, with more thanks for birthday wishes, 5 1/2 x 3 1/2 in. (2) $200-300 41 Irving, Henry, Sir [aka] Bram Stoker (18471912) Autograph Note Signed Bram Stoker, 17 January 1908. One bifolium, inscribed on one side, custom writing paper with the author’s 4 Durham Place Chelsea address and telephone number printed at the top of the sheet. To C. Gallop, “with all good wishes, yours sincerely.” Old folds, slight foxing to exterior verso, 8 x 5 in. $200-300

42 Johnson, Lyndon B. (1908-1973) Two Signed Color Photographs, Typed Letter Signed, and Printed Statement Signed. Two color photographs, one inscribed to Arnold Gates, the other with just a signature, each 8 x 10 in.; one typed letter signed, 10 December 1963, on one page of a single sheet of White House stationery, also to Gates, thanking him for a supportive letter after JFK’s assassination; central horizontal fold, 8 3/4 x 6 3/4 in.; [and] a printed statement, on stationery bearing the Presidential crest and Johnson’s initials both embossed in gilt; Austin, Texas, 15 August 1972, with an expression of admiration for the space program, initialed by Johnson at the foot, 8 3/4 x 7 in. (4) $800-1,200

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43 Keen, Dora (1871-1963) Large Archive of Photographs and Ephemera. Keen’s personal photographic collection, containing hundreds of small-format blackand-white photographs of her expeditions in Alaska, including assembled panoramas, and dozens of photographs inscribed by Keen on the negative with detailed notes concerning when and where they were taken; a small number of photographs of her travels in Europe; notes on her expeditions; photographs of Keen and her Alaskan wedding to George Handy in 1916; photographs of her farm in Vermont; and others; various sizes, some photographs curled. Keen was the first woman to cross the Skolai Pass, made the first explorations of the Harvard Glacier, and accomplished the first ascent of Mount Blackburn, Alaska, on May 19, 1912. $3,000-5,000

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44 Kerouac, Jack (1922-1969) Typed Letter, with Manuscript Additions, [18 February 1940.] Two sheets, single-spaced typing on all four sides. To George J. Apostolos, written from Kerouac’s time at the Horace Mann School in New York, with descriptions of a recent blizzard, and social exploits; with additions in pencil at head, foot, and intertextually, on marigold yellow paper, 8 1/2 x 7 5/8 in. This letter was composed just after the Valentine’s Day blizzard that hit New England on February 14, 1940. In it, Kerouac describes his social interactions with wealthy school classmates from Horace Mann School, including seeing a friend’s beautiful younger sister, with whom he is quite smitten. Kerouac also mentions seeing Glenn Miller at the Hotel Penn. On a literary note, an anecdote that may have grown into a story from Kerouac’s Vanity of Duluoz also appears here. “About the snow storm. It was raging outside with a 70-mile gale. I decided to get a taste of the Lowell trips I used to make through the fields during big blizzards. I dressed up well and ventured out. I went down by the docks and listened to the ships in distress on the bay and on the East River. Later, I stopped into a waterfront bar for a stomach-warming beer. Here I studied various characters. Then I went out and went on the Brooklyn Bridge. There I stood alone, with the gale full in my face, the only man on the Bridge on that night. Once in a while, a blast would almost blow me over, but I resolved to conquer the fear I had for a while. I did conquer it, for I could stand there and laugh out loud after a while. I don’t know why I did it, but I do know that it was the first adventurous experience I’ve had in a long time.” $3,000-5,000

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45 Kerouac, Jack (1922-1969) Typed Letter, with Manuscript Additions, [March 1940.] Five sheets with 1 1/2 spaced-type covering all five pages. To George J. Apostolos, describing end-of-the year reading at Horace Mann (Hugo, Hemingway, Coward), Kerouac’s rate of reading (in detail), movies recently seen, including Rebecca, Wuthering Heights, Gone with the Wind, North by Northwest, Of Mice and Men, philosophy, literature, plans to return to Lowell, and other topics, on marigold yellow paper, 8 1/2 x 7 5/8 in. “If there is to be a war, we’ll go into it together and laugh “at this thing they call dissolution.” We’ll laugh at puny man’s puny mind----we’ll laugh at the puny flies which are fighting with us---together, we’ll scream with delight at the eccentricities of these flies. We’ll tell the war mongers to go to hell, and we’ll desert the war and flee to Singapore in a tramp steamer, and roam the sweaty streets, and drift to Alaska, where together, we’ll watch the blazing sun set beyond the white-capped peaks. We’ll defy all laws of conventionalism, and we’ll look at the world through glasses fogged with anti-realistic ideas----blinded with our idealistic grandeur, our elusive souls.” $3,000-5,000

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46 Kerouac, Jack (1922-1969) Typed Letter, with Manuscript Additions, [2 May 1940.] One sheet of two-hole punched lined paper, both pages filled in single-spaced type, with the holograph envelope. To George J. Apostolos, describing Kerouac’s education at Horace Mann, his facility with French, other classes, and a detailed tale of a party with friends. The paper toned, envelope with some damage from leaking white paint to the top edge, 10 1/2 x 8 in. “Again, I can pore through this French like I do through English. I certainly learned a lot at H.M. this year. I got practically minded, learned French thoroughly, understood the most intricate principals of mathematics, learned to write and to read faster and more intelligently, to appreciate Shakespeare and all the poets…..and countless other things. [...] [W]e are both alike in the fact that we are idealistic aesthetics, seeking the finer things in life by means of classical expression. I pity the person who doesn’t partake of the wonderful delight of aesthetism [sic] ….and there are plenty of them.” $3,000-5,000

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47 Kerouac, Jack (1922-1969) Typed Letter, with Manuscript Additions, 1-5 June 1940. Five leaves (ten pages), typed, 1 1/2 space, comprising one letter on two sheets (four pages); and an experimental writing piece titled “Morning Mist” comprising two pages of a six page letter (three leaves). To George J. Apostolos, written after Kerouac’s graduation from Horace Mann School; the first letter discussing their shared future as writers, the upcoming summer in Lowell, memories of Lowell, and a detailed description of new jazz records Kerouac recently purchased. The piece on “Morning Mist” is a juvenile poetic prose piece influenced by Whitman; the letter containing more plans for the summer in Lowell, discussion of intellectual pursuits, reading, music, drinking, and women. Typed on five leaves of wove marigoldcolored writing paper, with a typed envelope postmarked June 5, 1940, Brooklyn, New York, 12:30 am; the envelope chipped with loss, with an unfortunate paint leaking flaw in the upper right corner; the letters themselves with old folds, each page marked with a spot of discoloration, ranging in size from a 3/4 inch round, to a 1 x 2 inch splotch, one page unaffected, 8 1/4 x 7 5/8 in. “I don’t like to see you say that you can’t ‘equal my amazing eloquence.’ In the first place, it is eloquence in every sense of the word, but it is not amazing. (You’ll find that out if you read something by Noel Coward, Jules Romains, Max Beerbohm, or the like.) However, it is an immature beginning---and the same applies for your flawless composition----into the field of unusual writing. We are both well on our way, and I might add that we each possess a unique style apart from each other, and neither is better than the other. That’s a fact. As the years roll on, we shall develop styles of writing that may throw us into a literary spotlight. That book we’re going to write together will be the most sensational one since ‘The Tales of Gamberhousing’ by Roland Everhard II.” $3,000-5,000

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48 Kerouac, Jack (1922-1969) Typed Letter, [9 June 1940]. Two leaves, blue paper, typed over all four pages, 1 1/2 spacing, with type-addressed envelope, and manuscript note, “Jack Lewis Ph.D.S.S.,” postmarked Brooklyn, New York, June 9, 1940, 11:00 pm. To George J. Apostolos, written just after Kerouac’s graduation from Horace Mann, before his return to Lowell for the summer, describing Kerouac’s reading, college plans, and conveying excitement about their impending summer reunion. Envelope with discoloration to upper edge due to old white paint leakage, with some loss; letter with old folds, fading; a spot, measuring 3 x 3/4 in. affects both pages, with loss of legibility of approximately three words, small hole in the center of the spot where the folds converge on the second page, 8 1/2 x 11 in. 48

“[A]ll Van Gogh’s gloriously artistic life has made me into a minor Van Gogh. I stay awake nights assuring myself that I too am an Artist---except that I paint with my pen, and not with a brush. (Writing.) I talk to myself and tell myself that I am an artist, because I shall write plays that will paint beautiful pictures of life. The Impressionists defined beauty as realism, so that a well-painted whore, despite her lack of teeth was beauty because of its stark realism. That’s how I want to write.” “There can be no adequate expression in this 20th Century without a typewriter. In the old days, Dickens wrote with a pen, but now the demand is for racy stuff racily written.” “As for your suggestions on the college situation, you are absolutely correct. A diploma from Columbia is more meaty[.] […] That’s where many a novelist, playwright, poet, artist, man of the world has come from---Columbia. I want to be a playwright and I need the Cosmopolitan education I’ll get there. Besides, after reading the Van Gogh biography, I want to be like him, living alone in my room, supporting myself and hanging my critical essays on the wall as if they were paintings in oil. I’m going to be a big maniac there, and all I have to say is that I wish you could be there with me-----studying for our eventual success in the field of letters. Go on with your readings and studyings and don’t ever let the narrow atmosphere of Lowell stop you.” $4,000-6,000

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49 Kerouac, Jack (1922-1969) Two Handwritten Postcards, April 1941 and May 1942. Two post office-issued correspondence postcards, hand addressed on one side, manuscript message on the verso. To George J. Apostolos, sharing news and plans. Both with a substantial stain, text legible through the stain; the 1942 card with a large chip in the bottom right corner, with loss of several words and the signature, each 5 1/2 x 3 1/4 in. (2) “April 1941 GJ: Well, what are you pulling on me, girl tricks? Never writing to me so that I’ll find your rare letters much more enjoyable? Write or I’ll boot your ass, don’t you know? You’re coming next Saturday, hey? I’ll be dying of loneliness then, because everybody is going home for Easter vacation. It will be the balls to have you. I’ll even get you a room for nothing. And I have a swell schedule. Hurry over, Kid GJ. And write immediately your plans. (SWELL ENGLISH) Scotty wrote me something that sounds like he’s coming April 26. Please explain. ZAGG” “26 March 1942 GJIt’s been exactly one month and two days since your last document-which is a new record. Didn’t you get my last two letters? How did we make out in our Gov. trial? Write, will you?? I might drop down to see you in a few weeks-perhaps next week, because I’m going on a business trip. But if you don’t write I’m certainly not going. How is your stock? Mine is plenteous, and am very much (if not too much) satisfied from that angle. I quit the job. It looks like we’ll all be in the next draft. At any rate, ecrivez. Dastou & I were talking baseball until 2:30 this morning-the other night we talked until 5 in the parlor […] is fine. See you later.” $700-900

50 Kerouac, Jack (1922-1969) Typed Letters, Fragments, [February 1941] Two separate letters, each a single page with substantial damage due to a leaking can of paint, with loss to the paper and text, both written from Columbia in 1941. To George J. Apostolos, describing football practices, upcoming visits, romantic liaisons, big meals, loneliness, and other subjects. Both letters stained and discolored, and chipped with substantial loss, the first fragment has a large rift down the center, the original sheet in both cases was 8 1/2 x 11 in., the second letter consists of only the top half of the sheet, 8 1/2 x 7 in. Despite their condition, these letters do contain a little over 2,000 legible Kerouacian words. “I struggle and work and cry and boast and ponder and laugh. I do all these things; they are the components of life. I have all my work, my duties, my studies, my responsibilities. I do them all---oftentimes in a lousy manner and in a lazy manner---but I always manage to scramble to that level that we call “Reasonable.” I know that the world is in chaos, and that my precious individualism will not last. But I also foresee things….great, awful, dark things… and I foresee a terrible […] of beauty and stark horror for both of us (and everyone else) […] that I am chosen by God to become a writer. For, the Lord […] will be needed in the days to come.” $1,500-2,500 51 Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936) Autograph Poem, Signed. One sheet inscribed with six stanzas of his “L’Envoi” to Life’s Handicap, varying slightly from the published versions, notably, without the first stanza, although the first stanza in this copy is numbered “I” by Kipling, signed on the verso. Old folds, 9 x 6 3/4 in. $800-1,000

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52 Lee, Nelle Harper (b. 1926) One Typed Letter Signed, One Autograph Letter Signed, One Christmas Card Signed, 1960 and 1972. Single page typed letter on white stationery with fine pinstripes, with the matching typeaddressed envelope, postmarked Monroeville, Alabama, 4 September 1960, to John Darden, two folds, envelope torn, the letter 10 x 7 in. “Monroeville, Alabama (but not for long) Then it’ll be 403 East 77 Street NYC 21 John dearest: YOU UNDERSTAND. I have been to the four corners of the United States and back; in Kansas, where Truman Capote & I spent a bleak winter solving 4 murders for the New Yorker; in Monroeville, where a letter from you just missed me; in New York, where I became Famous; in Connecticut, where the Famous go to get used to it; in Easthampton, where the Famous go after they’ve gotten used to it; back to NY; up to Connecticut again where my beloved agent, Maurice Crain, became deathly ill, and deprived me of the small pleasures (like cashing checks at Brentano’s) and joys (like calling the phone company to give you an unlisted number) that the Famous are supposed to have. Maurice, thank God, is almost well (infectious hepatitis), and I’ve had to come back to Ala. to face the State. Honey, I just can’t write you what’s happened to me, I’ll just have to see you and tell you. But I can write you that I appreciated your Mockingbird letter more than any letter from anyone I’ve received. You are one of my oldest friends, John, and happily one whose judgement [the e struck out] and taste I’ve always respected to the utmost. To get a “Yes!” from you is an honor not easily won, and I want you to know I appreciate it more than I can say. Please let me hear from you, if you are still speaking to me, and let me know where you are. I’m sending this to Phil. [sic] in hopes that you left a forwarding address. Doesn’t matter whether I write or not, I’ve always got to know where you are, John. I’m hoping against hope that you’ll be in NY when I return (if e’er I return, I’ve got so much to do down here), so I can get a glimpse of your ridiculous face once more. Meantime, my love. Nelle”

“December 30 Monroeville John dearest: Now that you have surfaced, keep this for the next 6 weeks or so: 433 East 82 St. NYC 10028 212-RH4-2066 (most secret, but now in the public domain.) To say that my heart turned over when I heard from my old friend is inaccurate--at our age we have attacks, Harper Lee thrives, but at the expense of Nelle, who, after being well & truly mugged last June, fled to a more civilized environment (Vermont & Alabama). I plan to return to NY on the 8th, pack my books & get out of there for good--probably to Vermont for the remainder of the winter, then God knows where. I’m tired of fighting dope addicts and too old to pretend that NY is the center of the universe. If Clayton is within a bus ride of the city, could you spare me at least a lunch or dinner hour some day? I promise you that you will find Nelle--old & grey & fat now, but retaining some recognizable characteristics. That I will know my John, I have no doubt. I love you--N.” [with] a signed Christmas card, signed Nelle, and with the message, “Shall we ever meet again??,” 4 x 5 1/2 in.; [and] a photocopy of a two-page typed letter from John Darden sent to Lee, 6 January 1972; and a postcard from Darden to Lee. $3,000-3,500 53 Lescallier, Baron Daniel (1743-1822) Coded Letter, Signed, New York, 19 November 1812. Single large bifolium sheet inscribed on four pages. From Lescallier, the French Consul General to the United States (1810-1815), to the French Minster of Foreign Affairs, Hugues-Bernard Maret, Duke of Bassano (1763-1839), address, date, greeting, closing, and signature written normally, the complete content of the letter written exclusively in a series of two-, three-, and four-digit numbers; with the addressed envelope, red wax seal cracked but present; old folds to the letter, some toning, the sheet watermarked with the date 1810, envelope torn, the letter 16 x 12 1/2 in. unfolded. In her 2005 book, Daniel Lescallier, Man of the Sea - and Military Spy?, Margaret Bradley explores Lescallier’s activities as an industrial spy in the period preceding the Napoleonic Wars. $200-300

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54 Letters, Documents, Printed Ephemera, 18th-19th Century. An archive of correspondence, covers, printed documents, ephemera, receipts, pamphlets, diplomas, certificates, and other manuscript and printed material mostly from the 18th and 19th centuries. $1,000-1,200 55 Letters, Documents, Printed Ephemera, 18th-19th Century. Small archive of manuscript letters, small printed ephemera, tickets and receipts, pamphlets, and other material. $300-500

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56 Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865) Photograph by Alexander Hesler (1823-1895) Taken in Springfield, 3 June 1860. Photograph mounted on board, taken after Lincoln had won the Republican nomination, some corruption to the surface in the upper left margin, chip to left margin, scratch in background at upper right; other small chips, with the period frame, originally mounted with a pine back, with resulting toning to the image itself, and darkening to the mounting board, the frame without glass, 9 x 7 1/4 in. Ostendorf O-26. $1,000-1,500

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57 Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865) Public Sorrow! Utica, New York: 15 April 1865. Broadside printed within a mourning border, with the headline in a bold wood type, old folds, some surface loss, small splits in the paper, one repaired from the verso with old tape, affecting the last W in sorrow and the exclamation point, 15 1/4 x 11 in. “Public Sorrow! Mayor’s office, Utica, April 15, 1865. A great calamity has befallen the nation, in the murder of its Chief Magistrate, and attempted murder of the chief officer of his Cabinet. Citizens are requested to close their places of business and suspend their usual avocations from 12 o’clock noon until 2 o’clock P.M., of to-day, during which hours all the bells in the city will be tolled. John Butterfield, Mayor.” $1,000-1,500


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58 Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865) Unsigned Legal Brief and Other Ephemera. The brief on blue laid paper, legal size, concerning the case of Lamm v. Bachop, filed on 31 October 1853, inscribed on the recto in brown ink, in two different hands, and docketed on the verso in two hands; three horizontal folds, reinforced on the back with moisture-activated glassine tape (somewhat toned), edges chipped, slight fading to the paper, 12 1/2 x 7 3/4 in. The Lincoln Log records this particular case being filed by Lincoln on the date listed on the document. [with] Arnold, Isaac N. (1815-1884) secretarial letter signed, 16 April 1861, to Abraham Lincoln, recommending Judge Thomas Drummond (1809-1890) for appointment to the Supreme Court, with enclosed documents (not present), on a folding bifolium, one page inscribed, rust spot, old folds, 9 3/4 x 7 3/4 in. Drummond never made it to the Supreme Court. [and] Union Presidential Ticket, 1864, with Lincoln and Johnson at the top of the ticket, and electors listed below, printed on one side in red with a wood engraving depicting a globe labeled, “Our Country� floating in water, with an American flag sprouting from the north pole; the other side printed in blue with a repeat of this image and a thrice-repeated wood engraving of two American flags, a little worn, old folds, with some tape along one edge, 6 1/4 x 3 in. (3) $2,000-3,000 58

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59 Liszt, Franz (1811-1886) Autograph Music, Signed. Circa 1880. Three pages of handwritten music on printed staves, two inscribed, signed at the end of the piece, presented to Madame T. Katz, a complete piano piece (prelude or nocturne) undated, signed, in the original presentation binding of green watered silk, gilt-tooled, worn, embossed white endleaves, pages loose, spine repaired with tape, corners worn, 10 1/2 x 7 3/4 in. $15,000-20,000

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60 Liszt, Franz (1811-1886) Signed Photograph. Small black-and-white portrait of an older Liszt, on thin paper, formerly mounted, some paper still adhering to the verso, with the signature in black ink, 3 1/2 x 2 1/4 in. $1,200-1,500 61 MacKaye, Percy (1875-1956) An Archive Containing Assorted Photographs and Other Related Material. Including fifteen photographs by Arnold Genthe (1869-1942), mostly of MacKaye and his family, many signed; five photographs of MacKaye and his wife, Marion Homer Morse MacKaye, by Doris Ulmann (1882-1934), matted and signed on the mat by Ulmann; one photograph of MacKaye by Pirie MacDonald (1867-1942) signed by MacKaye; a group of approximately twenty-five photographs illustrating the early days of the Penland School, in North Carolina, c. 1935, including the raising of log buildings, weaving, pottery, spinning, and jewelry instruction with Clyde P. Miller, and some images of Penland founder Lucy Calista Morgan (1889-1981); a small archive of material related to early film and stage actress Maud Hosford, including a signed letter, carte-de-visites, and other paper; and other material related to MacKaye, including other portraits, early 20th century photography, and ephemera related to some of his plays.

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Provenance: From the collection of Percy MacKaye (1875-1956), by descent to Marion MacKaye Ober. $300-500 62 Madison, James (1751-1836) Signed Parchment Document, Ship’s Passport, 27 June 1810. Single parchment sheet, with an engraving of a ship and a lighthouse and harbor at the head, text below also engraved, with paper seal, signed by Madison, countersigned by Secretary of State Robert Smith; allowing the brig Mary Jane of Castine, Maine, under captain Samuel Lee, at fifty-four tons, with no guns and a crew of eight, to travel freely with their goods as American citizens; the top cut in a wavy pattern, as usual; wear at the convergence of folds with slight loss, surface slightly dusty, writing a bit faded, 15 1/2 x 10 1/2 in. $700-900

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63 Malcolm X (1925-1965) and Muhammad Ali (b. 1942) Eight Photographs Taken by Robert Haggins (1922-2006) Black-and-white photographs c. 1964, depicting Ali in various public situations, in five of the photographs Ali appears with Malcolm X, in two he appears with Malcolm’s daughters, in one photograph Ali signs autographs outside of his tour bus while Malcolm X takes a photograph of the fighter, in another Ali holds a copy of the newspaper, “Muhammad Speaks” with a picture of himself on the front page; all with Haggins’s inked stamps on the verso, a few with ballpoint inscriptions in Haggins’s hand, two on thinner paper are torn and worn, all 8 x 10 in. (8) $700-900

64 Malcolm X (1925-1965) and Others, Fourteen Photographs Taken by Robert Haggins (1922-2006) Black-and-white photographs from the early 1960s, including seven featuring Malcolm X speaking, and in other situations, and seven others not depicting Malcolm X, including a photograph of Jesse Jackson on a television set and another of Sonny Rollins, also being interviewed for television, most marked by Haggins with his stamp, some with inked titles in his hand, all 8 x 10 in. (14) $700-900

66 Malcolm X (1925-1965) Eight Contact Sheets of Photographs Taken by Robert Haggins (1922-2006) All but one depict Malcolm X: his family, rallies, speaking in public, and his funeral; stamps, dates, and notations regarding which images to print in Haggins’s hand on recto of three sheets; dates, locations and other information on versos of most; one folded, chipped with loss, corner damage; one contact sheet contains only images of a young saxophonist, all 8 x 10 in. (8) $700-900

65 Malcolm X (1925-1965) and Others, Twelve Photographs Taken by Robert Haggins (1922-2006) Black-and-white photographs, early 1960s, including seven photographs of Malcolm X, one with his two oldest daughters; one with Adam Clayton Powell Jr. (1908-1972), one with Muhammad Ali, others of the civil rights leader speaking; and five other photographs featuring Malcolm X’s associates, including Dick Gregory (b. 1932) and others, many with Haggins’s inked stamp on the verso, some dated and titled in his hand, all 8 x 10 in. (12) $700-900

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67 Malcolm X (1925-1965) Eleven Photographs Taken by Robert Haggins (1922-2006) Including Images of His Funeral. Black-and-white photographs of the human rights leader in public appearances and with other notable associates, a photograph of Betty Shabazz with her two oldest daughters, and four photographs of the slain Muslim minister’s funeral including two photographs taken outside of Faith Temple, an image of his coffin from inside the Temple, and an image taken at the gravesite at Fern Cliff cemetery showing two gentleman shoveling dirt into the grave, February 27, 1965; most stamped and inscribed by Haggins on the verso, one portrait mounted on board, all but one 8 x 10 in. (11) $1,200-1,500 68 Malcolm X (1925-1965) Fourteen Photographs of Protesters and Audiences Taken by Robert Haggins (1922-2006) Two photographs of Malcolm X: speaking at a Harlem rally in 1962, a candid shot that includes a young Louis Farrakhan (b. 1933) taken in 1963; and twelve photographs of Malcolm X’s audiences at protests, rallies, and demonstrations, including Nation of Islam street rallies in Harlem; and several photographs of a protest against the arrest of two Muslims for selling the “Muhammad Speaks” newspaper, held outside of the New York City Criminal Court building in Manhattan in 1963; and two copies of the same photograph of the empty interior of the Audubon Ballroom; most stamped and inscribed by Haggins on the verso, mostly 8 x 10 in. (12) $1,200-1,500

69 Malcolm X (1925-1965) Fourteen Photographs Taken by Robert Haggins (1922-2006) Black-and-white photographs, early 1960s, of Malcolm X and members of his family and circle, including one photograph with his two oldest daughters, one with Muhammad Ali, eight showing the civil rights leader meeting with and speaking to colleagues and supporters, one portrait, one speaking at a rally and two of unidentified people; most with Haggins’s stamp on the verso, some with ink inscriptions in his hand, and adhesive labels, some with folds and bends, various formats, six 8 x 10 in., the others smaller. (14) $1,200-1,500

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70 Malcolm X (1925-1965) Nine Photographs Taken by Robert Haggins (1922-2006) Black-and-white photographs of Malcolm X alone and with others including, his two oldest daughters, Attallah (b. 1958) and Qubilah (b. 1960), Dick Gregory (b. 1932), Adam Clayton Powell Jr. (1908-1972), a Sunni Muslim teacher from Mecca, Abdulrahman Mohamed Babu (1925-1996), Louis Farrakhan (b. 1933), and Muhammad Ali (b. 1942); most stamped and labeled by Haggins on the verso, some with fly specking and folds, all 8 x 10 in. (9) $800-1,000 71 Malcolm X (1925-1965) Nine Photographs Taken by Robert Haggins (1922-2006) Black-and-white photographs of Malcolm X speaking at the Audubon Ballroom in 1964, a smiling portrait, and photos with others including, his two oldest daughters, Attallah (b. 1958) and Qubilah (b. 1960), Dick Gregory (b. 1932), Adam Clayton Powell Jr. (19081972), a Sunni Muslim teacher from Mecca, Abdulrahman Mohamed Babu (1925-1996), Louis Farrakhan (b. 1933), and Muhammad Ali (b. 1942); and a photograph taken by Haggins at the corner of West 134th street and Lenox Avenue that appeared on the front page of New York Age on November 18, 1959; most stamped and labeled by Haggins on the verso, all but one 8 x 10 in. (9) $700-900 72 Malcolm X (1925-1965) Six Family Photographs Taken by Robert Haggins (1922-2006) Black-and-white photographs, 1962-1964, taken at their home in Queens, New York, including four of Malcolm X with his two oldest daughters, Attallah (b. 1958) and Qubilah (b. 1960) Shabazz; one of his wife Betty Shabazz (1934-1997) with Attallah and Qubilah, and one photograph of Attallah, Qubilah, Ilyasah (b. 1962); signs of handling, with notes and stamps in Haggins’s hand on the verso, some with small self-adhesive tags, all 8 x 10 in. (6) $500-700

73 Malcolm X (1925-1965) Slides and Negatives Taken by Robert Haggins (19222006) Including eleven frames on black-and-white film in a sleeve labeled by Haggins, “Welcome Home from Mecca, 1964”; eleven frames of black-and-white negative film in a sleeve labeled, “Africa Students NYC, Malcolm X, 1965”; ten positive slides mounted in rigid frame holders, including images of Malcolm X’s family, Malcolm X with Muhammad Ali, speaking, and others; and four positive blackand-white slides clipped but not mounted in holders, similar subjects, various sizes. $700-900 74 Malcolm X (1925-1965) Ten Contact Sheets of Photographs Taken by Robert Haggins (1922-2006) Black-and-white contact sheets, including three sheets that contain sixty-six images captured by Haggins during Malcolm X’s funeral and burial, documenting the scene inside and outside Faith Temple on February 27, 1965, the hearse, the casket, and finally the cemetery; four other sheets contain images of Malcolm X speaking, with his family, and the scene at various rallies; the remaining three sheets depict other subjects related only tangentially to Malcolm X, if at all; various sizes and formats, some with notations by Haggins, some wear and loss of images and surface to some sheets. $700-900

76 Malcolm X (1925-1965) Thirteen Photographs Taken Speaking at Rallies by Robert Haggins (1922-2006) Black-and-white photographs, 1962-1964, taken at Harlem street rallies, depicting Malcolm X while speaking at the podium or traveling by foot with an entourage to a public speaking event; one titled, “Back from Mecca, 1964” in Haggins’s hand on the verso, all with Haggins’s stamps on the verso, most with notes in Haggins’s hand on the location and year of the rally, one photograph is 8 x 8 in., all others 8 x 10 in. (13) $1,200-1,500 77 Mencken, Henry Louis (1880-1956) Twenty Typed Letters Signed. All letters on Mencken’s distinctive horizontal half sheet, typed on one side only, dated from 3 July 1936 to 4 September 1942, all addressed to Arnold Gates, on a variety of subjects, including: a criminal case involving Joseph Russell; observations on the fates of those born in September; declining membership in the Roughriders Club; musing on the abdication of Edward VIII; making disparaging remarks about Gertrude Stein and T.S. Eliot; apologizing for seeming to offend; and many other topics typical of Mencken’s spirited personality; folds, 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 in. each. (20) $800-1,000

75 Malcolm X (1925-1965) Thirteen Candid Portraits Taken by Robert Haggins (19222006) Black-and-white photographs, 1960-1965 depicting Malcolm X speaking at rallies, in quiet contemplation at the podium, and in one instance, smiling; one titled, “The Last Message,” on the verso in Haggins’s hand, and dated February 18, 1965, three days before the civil rights leader’s assassination; all with Haggins’s stamps on the verso, some with manuscript notes in his hand, including a portrait titled, “Watching My Back”; a few with some specks of foreign material adhering to the print, two trimmed down from 8 x 10 in., one 5 x 7 in., all others 8 x 10 in. (13) $1,200-1,500

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78 Mitchell, Margaret (1900-1949) Typed Letter Signed, 17 July 1940. Single sheet, on stationery with the author’s name printed in the upper left corner, typed on one side. To Arnold Gates, wondering how he knew that July fourth was her wedding anniversary, thanking him for the “fine thing” he wrote about Gone With the Wind, and appreciative of the bookmark he sent, two horizontal folds, 7 1/4 x 10 1/2 in. $300-500

79 Moore, Marianne (1887-1972) Two Typed Letters Signed. Each on small-format paper, 1966 and 1966, single page only. To Arnold Gates; the first declining an invitation, with many typographical errors and corrections; and the other turning down another request to meet, pleading bronchitis. (2) $300-500

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80 NASA Astronauts, and Rocket Scientists, Thirty Signed Photographs and Related Signed Paper. Color portraits, most posing in their spacesuits, all signed, including: two signed by Buzz Aldrin, Jr. (b. 1930), including one of him on the surface of the moon; Neil Armstrong (1930-2012); John Glenn (b. 1921) as a senator, in front of the Capitol dome; Wernher von Braun (1912-1977); John Watts Young (b. 1930); Alfred Merrill Worden (b. 1932); John L. Swigert (1931-1982); Thomas P. Stafford (b. 1930); Donald K. Slayton (1924-1993); Alan Shepard Jr. (1923-1998); Rusty Schweickart (b. 1935); Harrison Schmitt (b. 1935); Stuart Roosa (1933-1994); Edgar D. Mitchell (b. 1930); James A. McDivitt (b. 1929); Thomas K. Mattingly II (b. 1936); James A. Lovell, Jr. (b. 1928); James B. Irwin (1930-1991); Fred W. Haise, Jr. (b. 1933); Ronald E. Evans (1933-1990); Charles M. Duke Jr. (b. 1935); Walter Cunningham (b. 1932); Leroy Gordon Cooper, Jr. (1927-2004); Charles “Pete” Conrad, Jr. (1930-1999); Eugene A. Cernan (b. 1934); Richard F. Gordon, Jr. (b. 1929); Frank Borman (b. 1928); Alan L. Bean (b. 1932); and William A. Anders (b. 1933); signed in a variety of inks and styles, some with NASA information stamped on the versos. [and] seven pieces of ephemera, including some typed letters, reports, and offprints of papers signed by William Anders (b. 1933), David Scott (b. 1932), Harrison Schmitt (b. 1935), Thomas Stafford (b. 1930), and Edgar D. Mitchell (b. 1930), and the Log of Apollo 11, brochure signed by Michael Collins (b. 1930); various sizes. (37) $2,000-3,000


81 Ness, Eliot (1903-1957) Typed Letter Signed, Cleveland, 12 September 1940. Single sheet, typed on one side, City of Cleveland, Department of Public Safety letterhead, while Ness served as Director. To Patrolman Paul Reschke, congratulating him on his recent apprehension of “three dangerous criminals.” Old folds, matted and framed with an atmospheric period photograph of Ness; the letter 8 1/2 x 11 in. $800-1,000 82 Parker, Dorothy (1893-1967) Autograph Letter Signed. Single page, on Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer letterhead, 31 August, no year. To Arnold Gates, thanking him for remembering her birthday and saying, “You ask if I am at anything new, wow. Well--look where I am, God help me”; folds, 8 1/2 x 11 in. $250-350

83 Philip V, King of Spain (1683-1746) Manuscript on Parchment, Carta Executoria de Hildalguia, 23 July 1718. Small folio format, fifteen parchment leaves, the first leaf with a full-page painting of the coat of arms, painted by hand in full color, protected with a green silk overleaf; verso of first leaf decorated with the printed royal seal surrounded by fancy penwork and calligraphy, each page of text within a ruled border, signed and sealed by Philip V and others at the end, with another page of text added in a different hand on the recto of the last leaf, with no border, with another signature and seal, bound in full contemporary tan leather, tooled in gold, remnants of salmon and green silk ties, the binding rubbed but functional and intact, 11 3/4 x 8 in. Noble arms are bestowed on the Rodriguez de Gijon family in this document. $4,000-6,000

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84 Philip V, King of Spain (1683-1746) Manuscript on Parchment, Carta Executoria de Hildalguia, 5 August 1701. Small folio format, twelve parchment leaves, interleaved with scarlet silk overleaves throughout, full-page painting in full color and gold accents of the Virgin Mary floating in a cloud and surrounded by cherubs, below her is a green dragon, flanked by a well, a fountain, and a building, painted within a red, blue, and gold border; the next leaf with a fullpage painting of the arms being bestowed, in full color, with gold highlights; first leaf of text with Philip V’s stamp, a hand-painted full color compartment, border, and initial; large painted initials and borders throughout, signed by Philip V and others on the last leaf; bound in full contemporary red velvet with the remains of green silk ties, 11 3/4 x 8 1/4 in. [with] two other documents on paper from the same period inserted, including a baptismal certificate for Abraham Lee, born to Robert and Sarah Lee in London in 1690, with the same statement translated into Spanish, signed and notarized in the same month, February 1701; and another manuscript document on paper related to the Lee family in Spanish. In this manuscript Philip bestows a rank of nobility upon the Catholic Lee family of England, making mention of Geronimo, Abraham, and Robert. $4,000-6,000 85 Rachmaninoff, Sergei (1873-1943) Four Signed Items and a Photograph. Single page typed letter signed, 25 July 1935, 9 3/4 x 7 in.; endorsed check, 5 November 1920, signature faded, 6 1/2 x 2 1/2 in.; inscribed portrait postcard, damaged, folded, signature and inscription faded, 6 1/2 x 4 1/4 in.; signed page from a Carnegie Hall program; and an unsigned black-and-white photographic portrait. (5) $500-700

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86 Rachmaninoff, Sergei (1873-1943) Two Typed Letters Signed, Autographed Picture Postcard, and Photograph. The letters both from 1922, both to Berthold Neuer at Knabe Pianos in New York, with old folds, some toning and surface grime, edge chipping, closed tears, each 8 1/2 x 11 in.; signed portrait postcard, folds along the bottom of the image, with the signature in blue; and a black-and-white photographic portrait on cream-colored matte stock, 1918, possibly signed by the photographer, not the subject, 8 3/4 x 11 1/2 in. (4) $2,000-3,000 87 Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937) Autograph Letter Signed, 25 July 1912. Light blue lightweight writing paper with self-envelope, stamps, and postmarks; three leaves inscribed on five pages. To Monsieur Dresa [?]. With old folds, perforations on the edges of letter, where it was opened, 5 3/4 x 4 1/2 in. folded. $800-1,000

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88 Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon (1890-1973) and Roscoe Turner (1895-1970) Signed Photographs, Cards, and Letters. One typed letter, 5 January 1937, 8 1/2 x 11 in.; card, 1934, 5 x 3 in.; and portrait photograph, 1936, 5 x 7 in.; all signed by Rickenbacker; [and] one typed letter; card; and photograph, all signed by Turner, c. 1936, the photograph 8 x 10 in., showing Turner in full flight gear, posing with his plane. (6) $400-600

89 Rodin, François-Auguste-René (1840-1917) Signed Calling Card. Card with the following printed text: “A. Rodin, Le Samedi apres midi, 182 rue de l’Universite,” addressed in Rodin’s hand to fellow sculptor Cesare Reduzzi (1857-1911) and signed; matted, framed, and mounted beneath a photograph of Rodin; the card lightly toned, some faint spots, 3 1/2 x 1 3/4 in. $300-500

90 Roosevelt Family: Theodore (1858-1919); Franklin Delano (1882-1945); and Eleanor (1884-1962) Theodore: clipped signature, with “Very Sincerely Yours” above, edges not perfectly even, 4 3/4 x 1 3/4 in.; Eleanor: signed White House card, 4 1/4 x 2 3/4 in.; Franklin Delano: signed photograph by Harris & Ewing, 9 1/2 x 6 3/4 in.; signed Pach brothers portrait, signature a little shaky, in blue ink, 10 x 7 1/2 in.; signed offprint of an address delivered in the House of Representatives, 22 May 1935, signature on the last page of text, 10 x 6 3/4 in. (5) $800-1,200

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91 Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919) Signed Photograph, 17 February 1905. Circular sepia-toned photograph on matte stock, mounted on publisher’s white embossed card from Bell in Washington, D.C., signed by Roosevelt in ink on the mount, one corner creased from a bend, some surface toning, brown paper pasted to verso of mount, 5 1/4 x 5 1/2 in. overall. $600-800 93

92 Rossini, Gioacchino (1792-1868) Autograph Letter Signed, Two Carte-de-visites, and Engraved Portrait. The letter a single wove bifolium inscribed on one page, in French, Paris, 1 April 1865. To an unnamed “Aimable Ami” sending a chicken (?) not present, old folds, 8 1/2 x 6 3/4 in.; the carte-de-visites 4 1/4 x 2 1/2; and the portrait 9 x 5 1/2 in. (4) $400-600

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93 Satie, Erik (1866-1925) Signed Photograph. Small-format sepia-toned portrait of Satie, inscribed on the verso “a mon bienfaiteur & ami M.D. Calvocovessi. E.S.�; somewhat faded, thumbprint, corners bumped, 3 1/2 x 2 3/4 in. $800-1,200

94 Schumann, Clara (1819-1896) Two Autograph Letters Signed. Each letter written on folded writing paper; one dated 1881, inscribed on two pages; minor mat burn, old gummed mounts on blank page, 7 x 4 1/2 in. folded; the other with the letter taking up one page; mat burn, some mottling, old folds, 8 x 5 in. (2) $700-900

95 Seward, William (1801-1872) Secretary Note Signed, Department of State, 19 October 1861. Single page inscribed on one side. To the Honorable Thomas A. Scott (1823-1881), Assistant Secretary of War under President Abraham Lincoln, informing him that the President is planning to go to the Navy Yard on that day at 2:00 pm, and would like Scott to accompany him. Two old folds, some surface grime, 7 x 4 1/2 in. The Lincoln Log corroborates the text of this note, stating that Lincoln did in fact visit the Navy Yard on this date. $400-600

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96 Stein, Gertrude (1874-1946) and Alice B. Toklas (1877-1967) Two Letters. Autograph letter signed by Stein, undated, on Biblignin par Belley Ain letterhead, blue writing paper, inscribed by hand on both sides. To Arnold Gates, thanking him for writing, and asking him to send more of his work, including his novel; the letter originally folded in quarters, some very light edge fading, 10 1/2 x 8 1/4 in.; [and] a typed letter signed by Toklas, 28 December 1934, single page, written from the Algonquin Hotel, also to Gates, assuring him that Stein is not the author of a poem called “Wither Thee,” and asking that it not be published under her name, old folds, 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 in. (2) $800-1,200

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97 Tallmadge, Benjamin (1754-1835) Autograph Letter Signed, Litchfield, Connecticut, 31 July 1810. Single sheet of laid paper, inscribed on one side, addressed and sealed on the verso. To Justus Riley of Wethersfield, Connecticut, asking that the addressee attend to his open account with Benjamin Tallmadge & Co., a partnership being dissolved. Tear in the left margin, involving the seal, caused when the letter was opened, old folds, some light toning, 12 1/2 x 7 3/4 in. $600-800 98 Theatre, Archive of Ephemera, Early 20th Century. Including dozens of advertising posters, playbills, handbills, photographs of actors, carte-de-visites, scripts, and other ephemera and other material, housed in four banker’s boxes. $400-600

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99 Theatre, Large Archive of Ephemera Related to the Early 19th American Stage. Mainly the papers of early British-born American immigrant stage actor George Holland (1791–1870) and relating to actor Joseph Jefferson (1829-1905), and others, including numerous theatre advertisements, broadsides, and playbills, personal correspondence, manuscript songs, literary manuscripts, notes, autographs, printed plays in pamphlet form, and hundreds of other important documents, letters, and other material. $1,000-1,500


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100 Truman, Harry S. (1884-1972) Thirteen Typed Letters Signed, 1937-1972. One letter from 1937, one from 1972, all others written between August 1953 and April 1965; the earliest on United States Senate stationery; five on Federal Reserve Bank Building, Kansas City, Missouri letterhead; all others on Truman’s Independence, Missouri stationery; all addressed to Arnold Gates, thanking him for kind letters and invitations, with folds, various sizes. (13) $800-1,200

101 Wagner, Richard (1813-1883) Autograph Letter Signed, and Holograph Envelope, 19 May 1858. Single leaf inscribed on one side. To Carl Gottlob Mueller, mentioning a suggestion made to the Arnold Book Shop in Dresden regarding settling their claims against him, and regretting that this is what has brought them into one another’s acquaintance; the envelope addressed to the Arnoldischen Buchhandlung in Dresden, both mounted, matted, and framed, with a portrait, the letter 7 3/4 x 5 1/4 in. $2,000-3,000

102 Washington, George (1732-1799) Document Signed as President, New York City, 4 August 1789. Typographically printed document on paper, headed, “George Washington, President of the United States of America: to all who shall see these presents, greeting:” appointing Melatiah Jordan (1753-1818) as “Collector of Frenchman’s Bay, Massachusetts” (later Maine), signed by Washington in the lower right corner; the sheet somewhat toned and foxed, with old folds, fragmentary where they converge, touching a letter or two, old repairs on verso with slight browning below the signature, framed, 12 1/2 x 8 in.; [and] Melatiah Jordan’s military appointment, signed by Caleb Strong, 1 December 1802, countersigned by John Avery, with the seal of the State of Massachusetts, browned, old folds, framed, 15 x 10 in. (2) $5,000-7,000

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103 Washington, George (1732-1799) Printed Document on Parchment Signed, 1797. Parchment sheet with a large engraved image and text, inducting Revolutionary War General Henry Alexander Scammell Dearborn (17511829) into the Society of the Cincinnati, small in-manufacture hole in the parchment, central fold, edges curling slightly, surface toning, 20 x 14 1/4 in. Dearborn fought at the Battle of Bunker Hill, Ticonderoga, Freeman’s Farm, Saratoga, and spent the winter of 1777-1778 at Valley Forge with Washington. $6,000-8,000

104 Wharton, Edith (1862-1937) Ten Autograph Letters Signed, 1917-1928. Ten letters of varying length, totaling approximately twenty-five inscribed pages, on different stationery from locations in France, all addressed to Dumbarton Oakes co-founder Mildred Barnes Bliss (1879-1969). The letters pertain to personal matters, visits, travel, events in their social circle, charitable contributions, and other activities; the group housed in a buckram folder, measuring between 6 1/2 x 4 3/4 to 10 x 8 in. $3,000-5,000 105 Wilder, Laura Ingalls (1867-1957) Autograph Letter Signed, 10 January 1943. Single leaf of ruled paper, inscribed on one side. To Erma, thanking her for a Christmas card and photo; apologizing for not having written sooner and explaining that she was suffering from a “lame hand.” Old folds, 8 x 5 in. $500-700

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106 Williams, Hank Senior (1923-1953) Signed Photograph. Glossy black-and-white photograph of Williams in a white cowboy hat, inscribed “Thanks for Listenin’ The Best of Everything Hank Williams WKNX 8-29-49,” two corners with folds, the photograph slightly rippled, 8 x 10 in. $400-600

107 Windsor, Edward, Duke of (1894-1972) [formerly Edward VIII, King of England] Signed Photograph. Black-and-white photograph, full-length shot of the Duke of Windsor with American golf pro Joe Patelli, standing on the green, each holding a driver, signed by each man across his own chest, 8 x 10 in. $500-700


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108 Zeiss, Carl (1816-1888) A Small Archive of Manuscript Documents Concerning Microscopes. Including: three handwritten leaves, dated Jena, 24 November 1877, on Carl Zeiss Optische Werkstaette stationery, containing the text of a paper by Zeiss, in English, read before the Royal Microscopical Society by John E. Ingpen on 5 December 1877, and published in the Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society, March 1878, pages 1922; toned, chipped, with a medial horizontal break in the paper on each of the three sheets, 8 1/2 x 11 in.; a four-page ?secretarial letter signed, 3 December 1879, to Dr. James Edmunds of Grafton Street, Picadilly, London, discussing the technical use, trading of parts, and other very specific details of one of Zeiss’s microscopes, the oil immersion object glass, with some small marginal drawings; [Together with] a four-page photostatic copy of manuscript instructions in English for the use of the same microscope, on Zeiss’s letterhead, Jena, March 1878; toned, old folds, chipping, all sheets 8 1/2 x 11 in. $10,000-15,000

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109 A Collection of Anthems, as the Same are Now Performed in his Majesty’s Chapels Royal, &c. London: by Bettenham for Barker and Parker, 1736. Octavo, the text ruled in red throughout, bound in full contemporary red morocco, with a central gilt tool on front and back board bearing the royal crown, monogram of George II, and “Chapel-Royal, Hampton Court,” marbled endleaves, ex libris Matthew Mackey, with his bookplate inside front board, expertly and almost undetectably rebacked, and housed in a drop-back box, 7 1/4 x 4 1/2 in. $700-900

110 A Flaming Whip for Lechery: or, the Whoremasters Speculum. Containing a Fearful Historical Relation of such Wicked unclean Persons, as have been made Publick and Private Examples of God’s Divine Vengeance, for polluting themselves and others with such Abomination and Defilements. London: Printed for Eliz. Harris, at the Harrow, in Little-Britain, 1700. First and only edition in ESTC, octavo, four copies listed worldwide, at the British Library, Yale, Huntington, and the Folger; lacking the final leaf, X8 ?blank (text ends with ‘Finis’ at the foot of page 318, X7); bound in later half leather; title page on guard, preliminaries with weak spots in the paper, light damp staining, toning, 7 x 4 in. Provenance: Ex libris Charles S. Dixwell (1868-1934). $600-800

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111 A Political and Satirical History of the Years 1756 and 1757. In a Series of Seventy-five Humours and Entertaining Prints. London: for E. Morris, [n.d. circa 1757]. 12mo, typographical title and fifteen pages of explanation followed by seventy-five engraved political cartoons, caricatures, and other humorous commentary on the British and Colonial news of the day, bound for Brentano’s in full early 20th century morocco, with gilt ruled boards, gilt-decorated spine, inner gilt dentelles, a.e.g., 5 x 3 3/4 in. Notable current events parodied in this collection include the beginnings of the French and Indian War, William Pitt’s fight for power, Britain’s struggles in its colonial responsibilities overseas, and mounting military challenges with France. $1,000-1,500


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112 Abbot, George (1562-1633) Cases of Impotency and Divorce, as Debated in England, In that remarkable Tryal, 1613. between Robert Earl of Essex, and the Lady Frances Howard, who, after Eight Years of Marriage, commenc’d a Suit against him for Impotency. London: printed and sold by the Booksellers in Town and Country, 1737. First edition (two editions appear in ESTC, which appear to be identical, each shows only one location worldwide: McMaster University, and the Library of Congress), three 12mo volumes, frontispiece opposite title in volumes one and three; bound in uniform calf, a.e.g.; bindings worn, boards mostly detached, some stains to text leaves, 6 1/4 x 3 1/2 in. (3) Provenance: Ex libris Charles S. Dixwell (1868-1934). $300-500 113 Achilles Tatius (2nd century CE) edited by Claude de Saumaise, Erotikon, sive Clitophon & Leucippes Amoribus. Leiden: Hegerum, 1640. First Saumaise edition, 12mo, engraved title, text printed in parallel Greek and Latin on facing pages, text is followed by notes, index, and errata; in a contemporary full parchment prize binding, laced case construction, yapp edges, blocked and ruled in gilt with a large coat of arms on each board; gift inscription on ffep naming the student recipient, Gualter Breman, inscribed by the presenter, Henrico Suardecronio, with his signature, as Rector, Roterdam, 1642; possibly a onetime head of the Schola Erasmiana in that city; lacking silk ties, parchment split along the front joint, spine a bit dirty, gold tooling mostly rubbed away, 4 3/4 x 2 3/4 in. $200-400

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114 Addison, Joseph (1672-1719), Sir Richard Steele (1672-1729), and others. The Guardian, The Englishman, and The FreeHolder. London: Tonson, 1714; London: Buckley, 1714; and London: Midwinter and Tonson, 1716. Three works in four octavo volumes, bound in uniform contemporary gold-tooled black English morocco, a.e.g., inner gilt dentelles, marbled endleaves; front board of The Englishman re-attached, 6 1/4 x 3 3/4 in. (4) $350-550

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115 Aesop (c. 620-564 BC) Appologi sive Mythologi cum quibusdam Carminum et Fabularum additionibus Sebastiani Brant. Basel: Jacob Wolff of Pforzheim, 1501. First edition by Sebastian Brant (1457-1521), with added verses, fables and commentary, incomplete, sixty leaves only (of 202), with 105 woodcuts (of 335), colophon leaf and final blank present, leaves missing at the beginning of the text, and then randomly in the body; bound in limp parchment: a leaf of Medieval manuscript music; text block detached from binding; amateurish occasional contemporary color in brown and red, one leaf with a tear, one torn and missing about a quarter, most folds reinforced with old paper documents, thumbing, other signs of use, 11 x 7 1/4 in. The presence of the colophon leaf suggests that this fragment is from the second half of Brant’s Aesop, which consists of new material contributed by the Renaissance editor. Brant weaves folk wisdom and material from postancient popular fables into an original work that reflects the spirit of his own time. $5,000-7,000

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116 Album Grafico de la Republica Mexicana 1910. Mexico City: Muller Hermanos, [1910]. First edition, oblong folio, illustrated throughout, in publisher’s gilt pictorial stamped boards, worn, becoming decased, ffep creased, an ex library copy, with bookplate inside front board, barcode sticker on ffep, call letters on spine, rubber stamp at foot of prologue, rubber stamps on page edges, barcode sticker on back board; wound to back board, 15 x 11 1/2 in. $400-600

119 Alexander, William (1767-1816) Picturesque Representations of the Dress and Manners of the Russians. London: for M’Lean by Howellt & Brimmer, [n.d. text watermarked 1825, plates 1823, guard leaves 1821]. Quarto, illustrated with sixty-four handcolored plates after William Alexander, bound in contemporary marbled paper boards, rebacked in red morocco, gilt spine, publisher’s printed label on front board, 9 1/2 x 7 in. $600-800

122 Alken, Henry Thomas (1785-1851) Symptoms of Being Amused. London: Thos. McLean, 1822. Oblong folio, illustrated throughout, with “Symptoms of a Preface” the only leaf printed with type, engraved title and frontis, along with forty-one colored plates, backgrounds tinted with a light wash, bound in contemporary marbled boards, contemporary matching green morocco label on front board, tooled and lettered in gilt, 10 1/2 x 14 1/4 in. $500-700

117 Alexander, William (1767-1816) Picturesque Representations of the Dress and Manner of the Austrians. London: for Murray by Bulmer, 1814 [plates watermarked 1811]. Quarto, illustrated with fifty hand-colored plates by Alexander; older boards rebacked with new straight-grain morocco spine and corners, spine gilt lettered, 9 1/4 x 6 1/4 in. Examples of regional, generally peasant, dress from Hungary, Scavonia, Bohemia, Transylvania, Croatia, Moravia, and other neighboring countries is also included. $600-800

120 Alexander, William (1767-1816) Costumes of Austria. Fifty Plates Coloured from the Original Drawings. London: John Murray, [n.d. circa 1830]. Quarto, illustrated with fifty full-page hand-colored illustrations, bound in full contemporary textured orange cloth, title tooled in gilt on front board; binding worn, fraying, tears, corners soft; some toning to plates; sewing structure beginning to fail, 8 3/4 x 6 1/4 in. $300-500

123 Almanacs, 19th Century, Forty-five Volumes. Publisher’s cloth-bound small format almanacs as follows: seven copies of the Lady’s Almanac, Boston, 1850s and 1860s; thirty-four volumes of the Boston Almanac, disposed as follows: two from the 1830s; twelve from the 1840s; sixteen from the 1850s; three from the 1860s; and one from 1871; three Portuguese Almanacs bound in leather from 1860, 1865, and 1869; and one non-Almanac: The Present, or a Gift for the Times, Manchester, New Hampshire: Moore, 1850, varying conditions and sizes. (45) $200-300

118 Alexander, William (1767-1816) Picturesque Representations of the Dress and Manners of the English. London: for M’Lean by Howellt & Brimmer, [n.d. text watermarked 1825, plates 1823, guard leaves 1821]. Quarto, illustrated with fifty hand-colored aquatint plates; contemporary marbled boards with printer’s label on front board, rebacked with red morocco, spine gilt, 9 1/2 x 7 in. $400-600

121 Alken, Henry Thomas (1785-1851) Illustrations to Popular Songs. London: Thomas M’Lean, 1825. First edition, third issue, oblong folio, typographical title page and address with publisher’s ad, otherwise engraved throughout; illustrated with hand-colored engraved frontis and forty-two hand-colored plates, each within a pale wash frame, with a hand-drawn double border in black ink within the plate mark, the field outside with a beige tint; bound in the original marbled boards, recently rebacked with red morocco spine and corners, contemporary red morocco title label on front board, boldly lettered in gilt, 10 x 14 1/8 in. $800-1,000

124 American History, Eight Volumes. Isaac Weld’s (1774-1856) Travels through the States of North America and the Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada during the Years 1795, 1796, and 1797, London: Stockdale, 1800, third edition, two octavo volumes, illustrated with fourteen folding plates and maps, the large map (bound as frontis to volume one) with hand-colored outline; in contemporary boards, expertly rebacked, occasional water spotting, toning, 8 1/4 x 5 in. [Together with] John Howard Hinton’s, ed. (1791-1873) History of the United States of America, London & New York: Tallis, [1850], six volumes, lacking the title page in volume one, with maps, facsimiles, and illustrations, bound in uniform publisher’s blue cloth, blocked in blind with central gilt ornaments on each board, fancy gilt spines, some internal spotting, boards a bit dinged, some frayed corners and spine ends, some volumes becoming slightly decased, 11 x 7 1/2 in. (8) $600-800

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125 American History, Two Volumes, 1780 and 1809. An Impartial History of the War in America, Between Great Britain and Her Colonies, London: For Faulder and Milliken, 1780, sometimes attributed to Edmund Burke (1729-1797) octavo, illustrated with folding map bound as frontis, and thirteen full-page full-length engraved portraits of William Howe, John Hancock, Samuel Adams, “A Real American Rifle Man,” George Washington, General Arnold, Robert Hopkins, Charles Lee, Richard Howe, General Putnam, Ben Franklin, General David Wooster, and Horatio Gates, bound in contemporary boards, fancy gilt-tooled spine, rebacked, a.e.g., some occasional minor foxing, 8 x 5 in.; [and] Jedidiah Morse and Elijah Parish’s A Compendious History of England, Newburyport, Massachusetts: Thomas & Whipple, 1809, second edition, 12mo, with folding engraved map as frontis, in contemporary mottled sheep, spine ruled in gilt, with the red label, joints starting, 6 3/4 x 4 in. (2) $1,000-1,500

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126 American Political Speeches, Sammelband Volume, c. 1850. Collection of approximately twenty-five works, mostly speeches from the late 1840s to mid1850s, mainly concerned with the KansasNebraska Act, and related issues, also the Mexican Treaty, land grants for the railroads, some budgetary issues troubling the state of Virginia, the Fugitive Slave law, the Wilmot Proviso, the abolition of slavery, and other issues, mostly delivered by members of the House of Representatives, including Stephen Douglas, Truman Smith, Hunter, Breckenridge, Millson, Disney, and others; all bound together in contemporary half leather, some publications browned or spotted, some either issued without proper title pages, or lacking them, 8 3/4 x 5 1/2 in. $500-700 127 Ancarano, Gasparo (fl. circa 1587) Novo Rosario della Gloriosissima Vergine Maria. Venice: Bernardo Giunta, 1588. Quarto, engraved vignette on title, illustrated with twenty-one full-page engravings and chapter heads; small library stamp at foot of title, ink inscriptions to title, bound in full diced russia, gilt, washed and trimmed at the time of the later binding, but generally fresh, clear tape applied over the top compartment of the spine, 8 x 5 1/2 in. This rare illustrated work dedicated to the Virgin Mary in the tradition of emblem books is held by six libraries worldwide according to Worldcat. $600-800 128 Andre, Richard [aka William Roger Snow] (1834-1907) Colonel Bogey’s Sketchbook. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1897. First edition, oblong format, illustrated throughout with comical sketches lampooning golf and golfers, in publisher’s white papercovered boards, printed in red, with a dark green fabric spine, original coated dark brown endleaves; some internal discoloration, stains to front board, wear, cloth spine frayed with loss, 11 x 8 1/2 in. $500-700

129 Antiphonary, France, 15th Century. Manuscript on parchment, 164 of 168 leaves, original leaf numbering on the verso of each leaf in red, in the upper corner, the numbering beginning at two, leaves 22, 23, and 25 not present; four or five leaves with the blank margins trimmed away, larger initials in a later hand/style, medium-sized initials with many grotesque faces throughout; the text consisting of musical notation, with short mentions of feast days, and the litany of the saints; dark brown to black square notes on a red four-line staff, six staves per page, in a single column, ruled in ink, later notes, prayers, and other marginalia throughout, in Latin and French; bound in 19th century half sheepskin and marbled paper boards, early manuscript waste as front flyleaves, parchment blanks after the text, some staining and damage to the text, 7 1/2 x 5 1/2 in. $15,000-20,000 130 Assorted Lot, Three Rare Books and a Book Safe. Manuscript on paper in English, The Geometrical Quadrant, octavo, c. 1800, illustrated with fourteen hand-colored scenes and sixty-three diagrams, of which thirteen are colored, bound in contemporary leather boards, rebacked, 8 1/4 x 5 1/4 in.; Antonio Guijarro y Ripoll’s Principios de Armonia y Modulacion, Valencia: Lopez, 1831, quarto, engraved title vignette, a Spanish singing manual, bound in full contemporary marbled sheepskin, roll tooled in gilt, 8 x 5 1/2 in.; Erasmus’s Colloquia, Leiden: Hackiana, 1664, in a contemporary full Dutch parchment prize binding with yapp edges, full-page presentation inscription dated 1667 on ffep, large motif gilt stamped on both boards of a stork-like bird with a snake in its beak, partial green silk ties, 7 1/2 x 4 1/2 in.; [and] Folio-format book safe made from a hollowed-out copy of volume three of Moreri’s Grand Dictionaire Historique, Amsterdam, 1717, retaining half-title, title, and first leaf of text, followed by a glass-lidded chamber divided into six separate compartments, with a print and tail-piece matted under the glass; the binding is full leather, gilt-tooled front board and spine, joint cracking somewhat, 15 3/4 x 9 1/2 in. (4) $500-700

131 Barrie, Sir James Matthew (1860-1937) Quality Street, a Comedy in Four Acts. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1913. Large quarto, illustrated by Hugh Thomson (1860-1920), one of a limited edition of 1,000 copies signed by Thomson on the limitation page, illustrated with decorative title printed in dark green and black, uncolored smaller illustrations on thin paper, extraneous to the collation, text vignettes, head- and tailpieces, and twenty-two color plates mounted on larger sheets; bound in full contemporary parchment, spine and front board elaborately tooled in violet and gilt, t.e.g., 12 1/4 x 9 3/4 in. $200-300 132 Bazin, Gilles Augustin (d. 1754) The Natural History of Bees. London: J. and P. Knapton, and P. Vailant, 1744. First and only English edition in ESTC, octavo, illustrated with twelve engravings, printed on folded sheets and bound after the text, bound in full contemporary speckled calf, gold rules and central ornaments in each compartment, red lettering piece, ex libris James Rigg of Downfield, Scotland, with his bookplate inside the front board, 8 x 4 3/4 in. $400-600 133 Beckett, Samuel (1906-1989) Stirrings Still. New York: Blue Moon Books and London: John Calder, 1988. First limited edition, copy number thirteen of 200 signed by author and illustrator, folio, illustrated by Louis Le Brocquy (1916-2012) with a two-tone portrait of Beckett and eight lithographs in black, bound in publisher’s half parchment, linen boards stamped in gold, spine lettered in gold, with the original slipcase, with the publisher’s invitation to subscribe, 13 x 9 in. $1,800-2,200

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134 Beekeeping, Five Titles in French, 17401928. Louis Liger’s Traite Curieux des Mouches a Miel, Paris: Saugrain, 1740, illustrated with two woodcuts, bound in full contemporary calf, gilt-tooled spine, red label, some water stains to contents, 6 1/4 x 3 1/2 in.; Guillaume Louis Formanoir de Palteau’s Nouvelle Construction de Ruches de Bois, avec la Facon d’y Gouverner les Abeilles, Metz: Collignon, 1756, octavo, extra engraved title, and five folding engraved plates bound after the text, bound in full contemporary sponge-decorated calf, spine tooled in gilt, red label, some marginal spots in text, 6 1/4 x 3 3/4 in.; Jacques Joseph Ducarne de Blangy’s Traite de l’Education Economique des Abeilles, Paris: Gueffier, 1771, two parts and supplement in one volume, two folding plates after the text, in full contemporary sponged calf, gilt-tooled spine, a bit dry, joints slightly cracked, headcap chipped, bottom half of text leaves water stained, 6 1/2 x 3 1/2 in.; Beville’s Traite de l’Education des Abeilles et leur Conservation, Paris: Demonville, 1804, author’s manuscript presentation on title in a small hand; illustrated with one folding plate; [Bound with] Lombard’s Manuel Necessaire au Villageois pour Soigner les Abeilles, Paris: Migneret et al., 1802, octavo, with Lombard’s signature at the foot of the “Avis” on the verso of the half-title, with two full-page engravings, in contemporary half leather with paste paper boards, gilt-tooled spine, in a custom box, 7 3/4 x 4 3/4 in.; [and] Maurice Maeterlinck’s La Vie des Abeilles, Paris: Charpentier, 1928, octavo printed on inferior paper, browned and brittle, bound in half leather, decoratively tooled spine, 7 x 4 1/2 in. (5) $700-900 135 Beekeeping, Three Titles in English, 17441842. John Thorley’s Melisselogia, or the Female Monarchy, London: for the Author, sold by N. Thorley and J. Davidson, 1744, first edition, octavo, illustrated with engraved frontis and four plates (one folding), bound in contemporary boards, rebacked, title page stained and weak, mounted on Japanese paper, toning to some text leaves, 7 3/4 x 4 1/2 in.; Thomas Wildman’s (d. 1781) A Treatise on the Management of Bees, London: for the Author, sold by Cadell, 1768, first edition, large quarto, illustrated with three folding engravings, bound in full contemporary tan calf, boards with decorative rolled border in gold, spine tooled in gilt compartments with red label, 10 3/4 x 8 1/2 in.; [and] William Charles Cotton’s My Bee Book, London: Rivington, 1842, octavo, bound in full contemporary cloth, with a bee-themed gold stamp on both boards, 7 3/4 x 5 in. (3) $600-800

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136 Beer, Johann Christoph (1638-1712) Des in Jesum Verliebten Frauen-Zimmers Schmertzliche Sunden-Bereuung. Nuremberg: Andreas Otto, 1699. Tall and narrow 12mo, illustrated with a double-page added engraved title and three full-page devotional engravings, bound in full contemporary dark morocco over wooden boards, original metal hardware missing: catch, clasp, and cornerpieces, chipped at head and tail with loss of leather, text leaves browned, added engraved title split at the center fold, 6 1/4 x 2 3/4 in. This edition not in Worldcat. $250-350

137 Beilby, Ralph (1744-1817) History of British Birds. Volume One, Illustrated by Thomas Bewick (1753-1828) Newcastle: Printed by Sol. Hodgson for Beilby & Bewick: sold by them, and C.G. and J. Robinson, London, 1797; [with] History of British Birds, Volume Two, Newcastle: Printed by Edward Walker, for T. Bewick: sold by him, and Longman & Rees, London, 1804; [and] A Supplement to the History of British Birds, Newcastle: Printed by Edward Walker for T. Bewick: sold by him, and E. Charnley, Newcastle; and Longman & Co., London, 1821 [i.e. 1822]. First editions and earliest issues of Land Birds and Water Birds; volume one with the Sea Eagle, Magpie, and vignette at page 285 all in first state, with an ad for the third edition of the Quadrupeds at the end; second, expanded edition of the Supplement; volume one printed on old royal; volume two printed on thin royal; the Supplement on royal, according to the publisher’s label; in three octavo volumes, the first two bound in contemporary marbled paper boards rebacked in calf, the Supplement in boards, with publisher’s label on front board, all volumes illustrated with wood engravings of birds throughout, all volumes untrimmed throughout, I: 9 3/4 x 6 in.; II: 9 3/4 x 6 1/4 in.; III: 9 1/2 x 6 in. (3) $1,000-1,500 138 Beilby, Ralph (1744-1817) History of British Birds. Volume One, Illustrated by Thomas Bewick (1753-1828) Newcastle: Printed by Sol. Hodgson for Beilby & Bewick: sold by them, and C.G. and J. Robinson, London, 1797; [and] History of British Birds, Volume Two, Newcastle: Printed by Edward Walker, for T. Bewick: sold by him, and Longman & Rees, London, 1804. First editions, earliest issues, in two octavo volumes, illustrated with numerous wood engravings of birds, on old royal and thin royal, respectively; bound in uniform later tan calf, dark blue endleaves, a.e.g.; rebacked, with new gilt spines, original leather on boards chipping, 9 x 5 1/2 in. (2) $600-800

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139 Beraldi, Henri (1849-1931) Bibliotheque d’un Bibliophile. Lille: Imprimerie L. Danel, 1885. A unique copy, extra-illustrated throughout with original signed water colors and drawings added to the text by Henriot [a.k.a. Henri Maigrot] (1857-1933) for bibliophile and collector George Beach De Forest (Columbia College, class of 1871), with a letter from Henriot on the work inserted, dated 2 June 1889; another letter by Seymour De Ricci about the present book inserted, dated 26 July 1934; bound in full crushed olive morocco by Ruban, the boards bearing the emblem of Eugene Paillet, tooled in gilt, with minute colored leather onlays; with full red morocco inner boards, decorated with gold tooling and onlays, a.e.g., original limp paper covers present; signed by Beraldi below the portrait facing the dedication; with a full-page handpainted bookplate by Henriot for De Forest, signed; illuminated throughout with pen and ink sketches by Henriot, most in color, some touched with gold, all relevant to the subject matter on the page, occasionally taking up an entire page or framing a page completely, most signed, deckle edges throughout, wellpreserved in the original two-part matching morocco slipcase, the case slightly rubbed, scratched, 8 x 4 3/4 in. $400-600

140 Bewick, Thomas (1753-1828) A History of British Birds, Volumes One and Two. Newcastle: for T. Bewick: sold by him, Longman & Col, 1826. Two octavo volumes, variant A of the eighth edition, demy issue, reprinting the prefaces to the sixth and first edition, uniformly bound in full tan calf, with a gilt armorial stamp on each board, black lettering pieces on the spine, contents clean, 9 x 5 1/2 in. (2) $400-600 141 Bewick, Thomas (1753-1828) A History of British Birds, Volumes One and Two; [and] A General History of Quadrupeds. Newcastle upon Tyne: Walker for Bewick et al., 1816 and 1811. Three octavo volumes, sixth edition of volume one, fourth edition of volume two, sixth edition of the Quadrupeds; the three bound in uniform near-contemporary straight-grained green morocco, with gilt borders on boards, gilt turnins, a.e.g., rebacked, original spines replaced, occasional spotting and browning, spines slightly worn, 8 1/4 x 5 in. (3) $300-500

142 Bewick, Thomas (1753-1828), Illustrator, Nine Volumes. Poems by Goldsmith and Parnell, London: Bulmer, 1795, large quarto, first edition, with wood-engraved vignettes, bound in half leather, marbled paper boards, joints cracking, 11 1/2 x 9 1/4 in.; Bloomfield’s The Farmer’s Boy, London: for Vernor & Hood, 1800, octavo, illustrated with six woodcuts, including frontis, and vignettes, illustrations may be by Bewick or Anderson, full contemporary calf, rebacked, original spine replaced, 8 1/4 x 5 in.; Somerville’s The Chase, a Poem, London: Cadell & Davies, [and] Bulmer, Shakespeare Printing Office, 1804, large octavo, second imprint from engraved title, thirteen wood engravings, bound in contemporary tree calf, gilt-tooled spine with red lettering piece, joints slightly cracked, contents clean, 9 x 6 in.; Thomson’s The Seasons, London: for James Wallis, 1805, with eight wood engravings, on splendid royal octavo, in boards; boards detached, sewing compromised, failing, 9 3/4 x 6 in.; A History of British Birds, Newcastle: by Walker for Bewick, 1809, in two octavo volumes, tan calf, failing, one volume decased, endcaps chipped, 8 1/4 x 5 in.; The Oxford Sausage, London: by Hughes, sold by Black, 1814, small folio, title page within type ornament border, twenty-four woodcuts, untrimmed, in boards; front board detached, part of spine gone, 11 1/4 x 7 1/4 in.; Select Fables, Newcastle: by Hodgson for Charnley, octavo, illustrated with wood engravings, full tan calf, rebacked, original spine replaced, contents clean, 8 1/2 x 5 1/4 in.; [and] Goldsmith’s An Abridgement of the History of England, London: McGowan, 1821, 12mo, with woodcut portraits of kings in rondelles, half green morocco and corners, 6 3/4 x 4 in. (9) $700-900

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143 Bible Illustrations, French Engravings, Old and New Testaments. Oblong folio, approximately 250 full-page engravings illustrating the text of the Bible, numbered in the plate, each trimmed and mounted, bound in full contemporary sponged sheepskin, gilt spine, worn, 8 1/2 x 6 1/2 in. $400-600

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144 Bizot, Pierre (1630-1696) Histoire Metallique de la Republique de Hollande, Two Editions in Three Volumes. Paris: Horthemels [Imprimerie de Francois le Cointe], 1687. [and] Amsterdam: Mortier, 1688. The first edition, folio, in a single volume, illustrated with added engraved title, numerous head- and tail-pieces, initials, vignettes, text engravings of coins, and twelve full-page engravings extraneous to the collation, bound in full contemporary Dutch sprinkled calfskin, gilt spine; corners worn and repaired, spine detached, some leaves with internal tears, last leaf adhering to ffep, with slight damage, 14 1/4 x 9 1/2 in. The second edition, octavo, in two volumes, illustrated with engraved title, frontis, and portrait in volume one, numerous engraved vignettes and text engravings of coins, some full-page and extraneous to collation, many folding; engraved extra title in volume two, with the same variety of illustrations throughout, bound in uniform contemporary sprinkled calf, gilt-tooled and lettered spines, 7 1/2 x 4 1/4 in. (3) $500-700

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145 Blake, William (1757-1827) Three Illustrated Works. Johann Kaspar Lavater’s (1741-1801) Aphorisms on Man, London: by Bentley for Johnson, 1789, second edition, octavo, volume one (all published) with engraved frontispiece by Blake after Fuseli; contemporary calf, professionally rebacked and recornered, spine gilt, 5 3/4 x 3 1/2 in.; [with] William Hayley’s (1745-1820) The Triumphs of Temper, Chichester: by Seagrave for Cadell, 1803, octavo, half-title present, first edition to contain the six plates by Blake, including the frontispiece; contemporary boards, rebacked, 6 1/4 x 3 3/4 in.; [and] William Hayley’s (1745-1820) Ballads Founded on Anecdotes Relating to Animals with Prints, Designed and Engraved by William Blake, Chichester: by Seagrave for Phillips, 1805, first edition, illustrated with five plates, in contemporary polished tree maple, front joint starting; gilt spine becoming detached, 6 1/4 x 3 3/4 in. (3) $1,000-1,500


146 Blossfeldt, Karl (1865-1932) Art Forms in Nature, Second Series. New York: Weyhe, 1932. First American edition, folio, illustrated with 120 photogravure plates, text is minimal, with a title page, short foreword, and a list of plates that includes the plant’s Latin and common names, the anatomical part photographed, and the number of times it was magnified; bound in publisher’s full teal cloth, blocked in gilt on the front board, lettered on the spine, with the dust jacket; endpaper at inner front joint cracking slightly, jacket with some edge chips, horizontal marks on the back panel, 12 1/2 x 9 1/2 in. $300-500 147 Blount, Sir Thomas Pope (1649-1697) Censura Celebriorum Authorum. London: Chiswell, 1690. First edition, folio, half-title present, title printed in red and black, bound in full contemporary English paneled calf, joints starting, 12 1/2 x 7 3/4 in. Blount begins with the Pre-Socratics and gives biographical notes, synopses, quotes, and other information on the works of his selection of authors of note, right up to the “modern” writers of his own century: Thomas Hobbes, Thomas Willis, Hugo Grotius, Julius Caesar Scaliger, and others, with index. $200-300 148 Blunt, Joseph (1792-1860) The Merchant’s and Shipmaster’s Assistant. New York: by Edmund Blunt for William Hooker, 1822. Octavo, contemporary calf, crudely rebacked, boards worn, dampstaining to text leaves, 8 3/4 x 5 1/4 in. $200-300

149 Boer War, Sir William Selby Church (18371928) Archive of Manuscript and Typed Material Related to Church’s Visit to South Africa in 1900. Including four autograph letters signed by Church, written to his sisters; two photographs: one of thirteen Boer Commando fighters, the other taken at a camp religious service at Kroonstad, with the backs of many kneeling solders before a group of tents, each 8 1/2 x 6 1/2 in.; two typed reports on hospitals in Cape Town and Simon’s Town, the text of each on onion-skin paper, with handwritten title covers on Hospitals Commission paper, bound with brass brads, each 13 x 8 in.; [with] typed copies of twelve very extensive letters written by Church to his wife, between August 5 and October 27, 1900, 134 leaves, all typed on rectos only, each letter labeled and individually held together with a single brad in the upper left corner, 8 x 10 in. Dr. Church was sent to South Africa as part of a Royal Commission appointed to investigate allegations regarding the condition of hospitals in South Africa, and their care and treatment of the sick and wounded who were being treated there during the Boer War. $700-900 150 Book Safes, Two Carved Wooden False Books. Two small-format hand-carved book-form boxes, each carved from softwood, with a sliding top giving access to the hollow center, 3 1/4 x 2 1/2 and 4 1/2 x 3 1/2 in. Hide your valuables in plain sight on the bookshelf. (2) $200-300 151 Boorde, Andrew (1490?-1549) The Breviarie of Health: vvherin doth Folow, Remedies, for all Maner of Sicknesses & Diseases, the which may be in man or woman. Expressing the Obscure Termes of Greke, Araby, Latin, Barbary, and English, Concerning Phisick and Chirurgerie. Compyled by Andrew Boord, Doctor of Phisicke: an English-man. London: Thomas East, 1587. Quarto, lacking two text leaves in the first part (C4 and K8), and the last leaf of the index in the second part (second D4), title page torn with significant text loss, severe damage due to softening and worming in the fore-edges throughout the entire volume, the fifteen leaves with text and paper loss in the bottom right corner, later full leather, scuffed, 7 x 5 1/4 in. $300-500

152 Boswell, James (1740-1795) The Life of Samuel Johnson, Extra-illustrated. London: for Cadell et al., 1822. Four octavo volumes bound as two, with additional illustrations added throughout, bound in uniform half calf and textured cloth boards, red morocco labels on spines, damage to the cloth on the front board of the first volume, 8 x 5 in. (2) $400-600 153 Briscoe, Arthur (1873-1943) A Complete Catalogue of the Etchings and Dry-Points. London: Halton & Truscott Smith, 1930. Limited edition, one of 250 numbered copies with an original etching signed by Briscoe, “The Anchor”; illustrated throughout, in publisher’s blue cloth, lettered in gilt, faded, 11 x 8 1/4 in. $300-400 154 Bunbury, Henry William (1750-1811) An Academy for Grown Horsemen. London: for Dickinson, Hooper, and Messrs. Robinsons, 1787. First edition, folio, lacking B1 in the preliminaries, as usual (described in ESTC and in the preface itself), illustrated with handcolored frontispiece and eleven additional full-page hand-colored plates; bound in contemporary half straight-grain green morocco and marbled paper boards, worn, scuffed, some foxing and offsetting to text, 13 1/4 x 9 1/4 in. $300-500 155 Bunbury, Henry William (1750-1811) An Academy for Grown Horsemen. London: for Dickinson, Hooper, and the Robinsons, 1787. First edition, illustrated with twelve stippleengravings by Dickinson after Bunbury, printed in bistre, bound in half leather with marbled paper boards, some leaves toned, 12 1/2 x 8 3/4 in. $400-600

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156 Buonaiuti, B. Serafino (fl. circa 1800) Italian Scenery Representing the Manners, Customs, and Amusements of the Different States of Italy; Containing Thirty-two Coloured Engravings, by James Godby, from Original Drawings by P. Van Lerberghi. London: for Thomas M’Lean, 1823. Folio, second edition, illustrated with thirty-two hand-colored stipple engravings, bound in full contemporary dark morocco, ruled and tooled in gilt, a.e.g., worn, head and tail chipped with loss, becoming decased; spotting and toning to contents, 14 x 10 1/4 in. $600-800 157 Burnham, Daniel (1846-1912) Plan of Chicago. Chicago: The Commercial Club, 1909. Large quarto, limited edition, copy number 1,208 of 1,650 printed, illustrated with color plates throughout, some folding, in publisher’s blue buckram; ex library, with labels on spine, ffep, front pastedown, a perforated stamp in the title, ink stamps on the page edges, and sticker on back board; corners bumped, 12 x 9 1/2 in. $1,200-1,800 158 Burns, Robert (1759-1796) Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect. Edinburgh: for the Author, sold by Creech, 1787. Second edition, first issue with “Boxburgh” for “Roxburgh” in list of subscribers, and correct reading “skinking” on page 263, octavo, with half-title and portrait frontispiece; ex libris Lord Napier and Robert J. Bennett, with their bookplates inside front board and on ffep; bound in full crushed red morocco, gilt spine, a.e.g., joints dry and cracking, boards somewhat darkened, 8 1/4 x 5 in. $600-800 159 Carroll, Lewis (1832-1898) The Hunting of the Snark, Illustrated by Max Ernst (18911976) [Stuttgart]: Manus Presse, 1968. Signed by Ernst on the limitation page, the text presented in English and German separately, each section with its own suite of illustrations; loose quires in the publisher’s blue cloth portfolio, stamped in red, with publisher’s slipcase; some offsetting from plates, slipcase slightly faded, bumped along one lip, 13 1/4 x 10 1/4 in. $1,000-1,200

160 Cartier-Bresson, Henri (1908-2004) The Decisive Moment. New York and Paris: Simon & Schuster and Verve, [1952]. First edition, folio, illustrated, in the original publisher’s boards illustrated by Matisse, spine damaged and fragmentary, with the English captions inserted, 14 1/2 x 10 1/4 in. [and] two copies of The Europeans, New York and Paris: Simon & Schuster and Verve, [1955], first edition, folio, illustrated, in the original publisher’s boards illustrated by Miró, one copy with slight rubbing and chipping of headcaps, some abrasions along joints; the other with both boards detached, some animal damage to head (dog?), each: 14 1/2 x 10 1/4 in. (3) $300-500 161 Catlin, George (1796-1872) Illustrations of the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians. London: Bohn, 1848. Seventh edition, two large octavo volumes, illustrated with 360 engravings, in contemporary half red calf; ex library copy, with stamps and labels, boards detached, 9 3/4 x 6 1/4 in. (2) $500-700 162 Catlin, George (1796-1872) The George Catlin Indian Gallery in the U.S. National Museum. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1886. Thick octavo, illustrated with 144 plates and maps, bound in publisher’s cloth, rear joint splitting, text block loose from binding, with several signatures sprung, 9 x 5 1/2 in. This work describes the extensive collection of Catlin-related material at the Smithsonian, including a full annotated catalog of his Indian paintings, the itinerary of his travels, and an illustrated memoir that includes a bibliography and statistical information. $200-250 163 Catullus (c. 84 BC-c. 54 BC) and Tibullus (c. 55 BC-19 BC) Traduction en Prose de Catulle, Tibulle et Gallus. Amsterdam/Paris: Chez Delalain, 1771. Translated by Alexandre-Frédéric-Jacques Masson de Pezay (1741-1777) [sometimes attributed to Jean-Baptiste-Francois-Claude David]; two octavo volumes, added engraved title in each volume, bound in uniform full contemporary mottled calfskin bindings, with gilt-tooled spines and labels, inner gilt dentelles, a.e.g., cerulean paste-paper endleaves, nicely preserved, a trifle dry and dusty, 8 1/4 x 5 1/2 in. (2) $150-300

164 Chapman, Kenneth M. (1875-1968) Pueblo Indian Pottery. Nice, France: Szwedzicki, 1933-1936. Two folio volumes, limited edition, one of 750 sets signed by the publisher, parallel text in English and French, illustrated with 100 photo-lithographic plates, colored by hand, text stitched and plates unbound, as issued, in two modern cloth boxes with morocco labels, 14 x 11 in. (2) $1,200-1,500 165 Children’s Books, Including Kate Greenaway Titles. Two copies of Greenaway’s Alphabet; Almanacks for 1883, 1884, and 1894; the four-card set, Calendar of the Seasons, for 1881; and a copy of her Mother Goose, London & New York: Warne, [no date]; four miniature volumes of Little Tales by Fenelon, Guben: Fechner; London: Myers, [n.d., 19th century] each in textured metallic paper boards, with colored frontispieces; de la Mare’s Down-Adown-Derry, New York: Holt, [n.d.]; Charles & Mary Lamb’s Tales from Shakespeare, London: Dent; New York: Dutton, [n.d.] illustrated by Rackham, later trade edition in full blue calf; two copies of Spenser’s The Shepherd’s Calendar, New York: Harper, 1898, illustrated by Walter Crane, both in publisher’s green pictorial cloth; Hawthorne’s A Wonder Book, London, New York, & Toronto: Hodder & Stoughton, [n.d.], color illustrations by Rackham, later trade edition, in half red calf, gilt spine, a.e.g.; three early primers; Fowler’s New Illustrated Self-Instructor in Phrenology and Physiology, New York: Fowler & Wells, [n.d.]; and a 19th century French storybook, Le Joueur de Vielle. $200-300 166 Choris, Louis (1795-1828) Vues et Paysages des Regions Equinoxiales, Recueillis dans un Voyage autour du Monde. Paris: Paul Renouard, 1826. Folio, illustrated with twenty-four full-page hand-colored lithographs, half-title, bound in later half blue buckram, decased, thumbing and the occasional stray mark to plates, some minor foxing and edge toning; an ex library copy, with the following library marks: label and tape on spine; bookplate inside front board; bar code sticker and rubber stamps on ffep; rubber stamp on title; two penciled notations and rubber stamp on dedication leaf; plate IV, blind stamp to plate margin and rubber stamp in blank margin; other plates otherwise unmarked; verso of first and last leaf toned, 16 3/4 x 11 1/2 in. Choris was privileged to travel the Pacific in 1815-1818, the plates include evocative scenes of Saint Catherine’s Island Brazil, Easter Island, Hawaii, Kamchatka, the Cape of Good Hope, Saint Helena, and other exotic locales. $3,000-5,000

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167 Churchill, Winston (1874-1965) The Second World War, Later Edition, in Fine Bindings. London: Cassell & Co., [undated]. Six octavo volumes, comprising: The Gathering Storm; Their Finest Hour, The Grand Alliance; Hinge of Fate; Closing the Ring, and Triumph & Tragedy; illustrated, bound in half blue morocco by Bayntun, gilt-tooled spines, t.e.g., spines uniformly faded, 8 x 5 1/4 in. (6) $1,000-1,200 168 Code des Loix des Gentoux, ou Reglemens des Brames, Traduit de l’Anglais, d’apres les Versions faites de l’original ecrit en Langue Samskrete. Paris: Stoupe, 1778. First French edition, quarto, illustrated with eight engraved plates, bound in full contemporary sponge-decorated calf, gilt spine, 10 x 7 3/4 in. The original translation from Sanskrit to English was done by British scholar Nathaniel Brassey Halhed (1751-1830). The plates show the original Sanskrit. $200-300

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169 Coelho de Sousa, Manoel (fl. circa 1720) Resumo para os Principiantes da Explicacao das Oyto Partes da Oracao. Lisboa Occidental: Miguel Rodrigues, 1726. Octavo, not in Worldcat in any edition, bound in full contemporary red Portuguese morocco, tooled ornately in gilt on boards and spine, with colorful block-printed endleaves, top of joint splitting slightly, 5 3/4 x 3 1/2 in. This rare work by the Portuguese author is not in Worldcat, which lists only two other titles by the author, published in 1721 and 1729, and each only held in single copies at the Biblioteca Nacional de España in Madrid. $300-500 170 Collier, J. Payne (1789-1883) A Catalogue, Bibliographical and Critical, of Early English Literature, Forming a Portion of the Library at Bridgewater House, the Property of the Rt. Hon. Lord Francis Egerton. London: Thomas Rodd, 1837. Large quarto, wood-engraved illustrations, bound in 20th century buckram, with a green label, spine sunned, cloth bubbling on covers, 11 x 8 1/2 in. $200-300

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171 Colonna, Francesco (1433-1527) Poliphili Hypnerotomachia. London: Methuen & Co., 1904. Folio, first edition of this facsimile of the 1494 edition, bound in publisher’s half cloth and blue paper boards, with two extra leaves, including the uncensored plate for which this book is famous; ex-libris Pickford Waller, with Austin Osman Spare’s bookplate of a nude figure from 1921, from the wood engraving made by William Quick after Spare’s drawing; some browning to end leaves, the extra leaves both somewhat browned, binding shaken, boards loose, joints starting to fray, spine label damaged; contents quite good, 13 x 8 3/4 in. $700-900


172 Cook’s First Voyage, John Hawkesworth (c. 1715-1773) An Account of the Voyages Undertaken by the Order of His Present Majesty for Making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, and successively performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Carteret, Captain Walls, and Captain Cook. London: for W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1773. First edition, three quarto volumes, illustrated with the folding frontispiece chart, and fifty additional plates, (fifty-one in total) folding and full-page, without the plate of the Straits of Magellan, bound in uniform diced russia, rebacked, boards detached, gilt spines, a.e.g., foxed and spotted throughout, ex libris William Henry Flower (1831-1899) and Frank L. Hadley, 10 3/4 x 8 3/4 in. (3) $1,500-2,000 173 Cook’s Second Voyage, Captain James Cook (1728-1779) A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World. London: W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1777. First edition, two large quarto volumes, illustrated with sixty-four plates, full-page and folding, including the portrait frontispiece; bound in uniform full diced russia, rebacked, some boards detached, a.e.g., gilt tooled spines, some spotting and discoloration to leaves, 11 x 8 3/4 in. (2) $2,000-4,000 174 Cook’s Third Voyage, Captain James Cook (1728-1779) A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean. London: by W. and A. Strahan, 1784. First edition, three large quarto volumes only, without the Atlas volume, illustrated with twenty-four plates and one folding table, bound in full uniform diced russia, a.e.g., rebacked, worn, board edges chipped with loss, labels chipped away, occasional discoloration and toning to leaves, offsetting, some foxing, 10 3/4 x 8 3/4 in. (3) Cook’s third voyage contains the disturbing story of his own death in Hawaii on the fourteenth of February, 1779. After the Hawaiians stole a small boat from the English, tensions between the two groups were palpably high. Cook’s attempt to resolve the problem by taking Kalani’o-pu’u, the King of Hawaii, as a hostage failed miserably. A group of Hawaiians surrounded the English, killing Cook and several other sailors in his party. (3) $1,000-1,500

175 Copper-plate Engraving, Italian, 1678. Original engraving representing a group of people showing respect to a saint, including several babies crawling out of a barrel in the foreground, dated inscription in Italian at the foot, with arms of the dedicatee, 10 x 6 3/4 in. $600-800

176 Copy Books, Six, 19th Century, British and American. Four copy books commercially produced by printers, with printed covers, all single signature quarto: London: Edward Langley, [n.d.], cover printed with an oval woodcut showing monkeys running a barber shop, printed within a type ornament border, eighteen leaves, inscribed with a prose text manuscript, a school assignment on Cato, final leaf with penmanship exercises, 7 1/4 x 6 in.; another with pink covers, and blue text leaves, Boston: B.B. Mussey & Co., [n.d.], with an elaborately printed cover depicting Clio and a knight with a short story about greatness using the metaphor of cutting a quill well with one’s sword, back cover with publisher’s advertisement, filled with Joseph Lovrien’s of Springfield penmanship exercises, ten leaves, one half torn away, other leaves removed, 8 x 6 3/4 in.; Foster’s Elementary Copy-Books, Boston: Perkins, Marvin, & Col, 1835, covers printed inside and out, front and back, with penmanship instructions, each page printed at the top with a white-on-black writing example (an inspirational/moralistic phrase) and blank lines beneath (filled in by hand in this copy), in the first half, the examples are larger, sixteen leaves, 8 x 6 1/2 in.; American Writing Book, Boston: Reynolds & Col, [c. 1854], front cover with a scene of the Arsenal at Springfield, Massachusetts, small woodcut portraits of James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, and Martin Van Buren in the four corners, all within a type ornament border, the back cover with a multiplication table and small publisher’s ad, text leaves blue, inscribed throughout with poetry in the hand of Helen Putnam of Hampstead, New Hampshire, who was thirteen years old in 1854, 7 3/4 x 6 3/4 in.; another with an engraving on the front cover titled, “Copy of an Antique painting found in the Ruins of Herculaneum,” blue text leaves inscribed by Mary Rand, filled with penmanship exercises, eighteen leaves, signature of Polly Rand also appears, 6 1/4 x 7 1/2 in.; [and] another in plain brownish pink wrappers, lined paper within, completed by Charles Pollard Hartwell of Littleton, Massachusetts and Hopkinton, New Hampshire, 20 October, 1842, twenty-four leaves, with rather accomplished exercises in penmanship, including a section at the end of sample letters and receipts, 8 3/4 x 7 in. (6) $200-300 177 Costume, Colored Plates of the Latest Fashions. London and Paris, 1836-1852. Three octavo volumes, illustrated throughout with 282 hand-colored engravings from fashion magazines, uniformly bound in nearcontemporary reddish brown straight-grain half morocco and marbled paper boards, by Lauriat & Co., gilt spines, t.e.g.; some plates trimmed closely, touching a caption, or the edge of an illustrations, minor dampstaining in upper margin at the end of volume one, 9 1/4 x 5 3/4 in. (3) $1,000-1,500

178 Costume, Colored Plates of the Latest Fashions. London and Paris: 1871-1878. Three large octavo volumes, with printed title pages in each and compiling 564 handcolored plates removed from different fashion magazines (many from Le Monde Elegant; bound in full uniform morocco by Lauriat & Co., 10 1/4 x 6 3/4 in. (3) $1,500-2,000 179 Craig, Edward Gordon (1872-1966) Twelve Proofs of Illustrations for Robinson Crusoe, February 1939. The proofs and early states of the woodcuts printed on lightweight tissue, mounted in a small handmade single-signature book, with rough blue paper covers, a handwritten title page in Craig’s hand, signed, with a dedication to Percy MacKaye, with the original mailing envelope, each proof signed, inscribed to MacKaye, and numbered with a note on the state and number of copies printed, 5 3/4 x 4 3/4 in. Provenance: From the collection of Percy MacKaye (1875-1956), by descent to Marion MacKaye Ober. $600-800 180 Crosby, Everett U. Eastman Johnson at Nantucket his Paintings and Sketches of Nantucket People and Scenes. [Nantucket: no printer], 1944. First edition, limited to 200 copies for private distribution, in publisher’s brown textured cloth, photographic illustrations, 11 x 8 1/4 in. $300-500 181 [Crouch, Nathaniel] (born c. 1632) A Journey to Jerusalem. Hartford: J. Babcock, 1796. 12mo, first American edition in English, bound in contemporary half sheepskin with blue paper-covered boards and endleaves; worn, with loss to the outer covering paper; B4 torn with loss, scattered minor foxing, endleaves torn, 6 1/2 x 3 3/4 in. $200-300 182 Curtis, Edward S. (1868-1952) Life and Indian Lore: In the Land of the HeadHunters. Yonkers-on-Hudson, New York: World Book Col, 1915. Signed by Curtis at the end of the foreword, first edition, bound in publisher’s half cloth with beige boards, the front board blocked in two colors; slightly rubbed, 8 1/4 x 5 1/2 in. $400-600

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183 Cuvier, Baron Georges Leopold Chretien The Animal Kingdom, Partial Set. London: Whittaker, 1831-1835. Four large octavo volumes, three of which are illustrated with mostly colored plates, only the strictly anatomical plates are uncolored: The Class Reptilia, illustrated with fifty-five plates; The Class Pisces, sixty-four plates; The Mollusca and Radiata, sixty-one plates; and A Classified Index and Synopsis of the Animal Kingdom, not illustrated; the four bound in uniform full contemporary calf, slightly rubbed, light peeling, labels chipped and fragmentary, 9 1/2 x 6 in. (4) $300-500

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184 Dana, Richard Henry Jr. (1815-1882) Two Years Before the Mast. A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea. London: Moxon [printed by Bradbury & Evans], 1841. First English edition, octavo, text printed in two columns, bound in full dark calfskin, boards gilt-ruled, spine tooled, 9 x 6 in. $500-700 185 Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) La Divina Commedia or the Divine Vision of Dante Alighieri in Italian & English. London: The Nonesuch Press, 1928. Folio, limited edition copy number 889 of 1,475, printed in parallel columns in English and Italian throughout, embellished with forty-two illustrations after Botticelli, bound in full bright orange parchment, tooled in gold, with a blue buckram slipcase; front board of binding smeared, perhaps improperly cleaned in an operation that removed the orange color, and then amateurishly touched up, also affecting the central gold-tooled lozenge, 12 x 8 in. $300-500

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186 De Lolme, Jean Louis (1740-1806) Memorials of Human Superstition; Being a Paraphrase and Commentary on the Historia Flagellantium of the Abbe Boileau. London: for G. Robinson, 1784. Octavo, first published under the title, History of the Flagellants, this is the first edition with the present title, identified on title as a second edition; illustrated with engraved frontis, vignette on title, and on first page of text, fullpage engraving at page 264, bound in later half calf, marbled boards, some rust spots, and discoloration to some leaves in the text, 7 3/4 x 4 3/4 in. Provenance: Ex libris Charles S. Dixwell (1868-1934). $400-600


187 Decorative Bindings, English Literature Sets, Thirty-one Volumes. Including several sets and single volumes, all octavo and small format: Pepys’s Diary, London: Bell, 1949, in three volumes, dark blue half morocco; Cowper’s Table Talk, and The Task, London: Sharpe, 1817-1818, two volumes, in full straight-grained red morocco, gilt-tooled, with watered and gilt-tooled silk doublures and flyleaves; Cowper’s Poems, London: for J. Johnson, 1812, in three volumes, in full maroon straight-grained morocco, gilt spines and boards, one board missing; Cowper’s Minor Poems, London: Sharpe, 1817, illustrated, in three volumes bound in green calf, boards decorated in gilt with an ornate grape leaf and vine motif, gilt spines; Dodsley’s The Oeconomy of Human Life, London: for Gardiner et al., 1806, illustrated by Sylvester Harding, bound in full straight-grained dark green morocco, ruled and lettered in gold; Pope’s Poetical Works, London: for du Roveray, 1804, six volumes bound as three, illustrated, with plates after Fuseli, Stothard, Thurston, Singleton, and others, full calf, some boards detached; and sixteen others; occupying approximately two and a half feet of shelf space. (31) $300-500 188 Decorative Bindings, English Literature, Twenty Volumes. Including: Appleton’s European Guide Book, New York, 1875 in the original red leather wallet-style binding; Boyer’s Royal Dictionary, London: Innys, 1747, in two volumes; Frances Hodgson Burnett’s Sara Crewe, or What Happened at Miss Minchin’s, New York: Scribner’s, 1888, (later titled A Little Princess, with the author’s autograph bound in, half-morocco; Thomson’s The Seasons, London: Hamilton, 1793, illustrated, boards detached; Thomas Green, Bishop of Ely’s Four Discourses on the Four Last Things, London: for Downing, 1734; Fanny Burney’s Evelina, London: Lowndes, 1794, in two volumes, rebacked; and twelve others. (20) $800-1,000 189 Decorative Bindings, Erotica, Thirty-four Volumes. Small-format sets and single volumes in leather bindings, including: Bibliotheca Arcana, London: Redway, 1895; Forbidden Books, Notes and Gossip on Tabooed Literature by an Old Bibliophile, Paris: Carrington, 1902; La Pucelle, the Maid of Orleans, London: for the Lutetian Society, 1899, in two volumes, with erotic illustrations; Album zu den Memoiren des Jacob Casanova, thirty illustrations by Max Berthold, c. 1872, no title; Forberg’s Manual of Classical Erotology, Manchester: privately printed for Viscount Julian Smithson and Friends, 1884, in two volumes, one of 100 copies; and twenty-seven others. (34)

190 Decorative Bindings, Erotica, Twenty-four Volumes. Small format sets in gold-tooled leather bindings, including: Chorier’s The Dialogues of Luisa Sigea, Paris: Liseux, 1890, edges untrimmed, in half morocco and marbled paper boards; La Fontaine’s Tales, London: Privately Printed, 1814, in two volumes, illustrated with sixty-four plates (including frontispieces), in full red morocco, gilt spines, hinges rough; A Paradox on Women Wherein it is Sought to Prove that They Do Not Belong to the Human Species, Paris: Carrington, 1898, [Bound with] Conjugal Love or, the Pleasures of the Marriage Bed Considered, Paris: Carrington, 1898, in half red morocco and marbled paper boards, with paper covers bound in; The Secrets of Women, Paris: Carrington, 1899, number 279 of 500 copies printed on Dutch paper, bound in half red morocco; Thomas Brown’s (1663-1704) Works, London: Midwinter, 1730, in four volumes, seventh edition, illustrated, bound in full dark blue crushed morocco, spines and boards gilt, a.e.g. in the rough; Jeaffreson’s Lady Hamilton and Lord Nelson, London: Hurst & Blackett, 1888, in two volumes, half blue morocco and marbled boards; Memoirs of Harriette Wilson, London: by Mitford for Stockdale, in four volumes, uniformly bound in sponge-decorated calf, gilt spines, volume one with hand-colored frontis and extra title, all other volumes with hand-colored frontispieces; a set of seven uniformly bound volumes of Bohn’s Extra Volumes, including works by Rabelais, Cervantes, Count Hamilton, Boccaccio, and Marguerite of Navarre, 1840s-1860s, in full light brown morocco, a.e.g., very good; and two odd volumes, in half morocco: Vandam’s Amours of Great Men, London, 1878, volume one only; and Rosenbaum’s The Plague of Lust, Paris: Carrington, 1901, volume two only. (24) Provenance: Ex libris Charles S. Dixwell (1868-1934). $300-500 191 Decorative Bindings, Sets, English Literature, Fifty-four Volumes. Sets and single volumes in full and half leather, one volume in cloth, spines gilt-tooled and lettered, including a twenty-four volume set of Scott’s Waverley Novels, two other sets of works by Scott; Tennyson, Butler, two sets of Boswell’s Life of Johnson, and others, all in good condition, occupying approximately a little over five feet of shelf space. (54) $700-900

192 Decorative Bindings, Sets, English Literature, Sixteen Volumes. Including: Alexander Nisbet’s An Essay on the Ancient and Modern Use of Armories, Edinburgh: Mack-Euen, 1718, quarto, illustrated with armorial engravings, in contemporary calf; Junius Stat Nominis Umbra, London: by Bensley for Vernor & Hood, 1797, two octavo volumes, Junius may be a pseudonym for Sir Phillip Francis, illustrated with nine plates, ESTC locates one copy, in full straight-grain dark blue morocco, a.e.g., joints weak, some boards detached; Cicero’s Letters, London: Dodsley, 1772, with remarks by William Melmoth, three octavo volumes, second edition, in contemporary gold-tooled calf with fancy spine labels; [and] Antiquarian and Topographical Cabinet, Containing a Series of Elegant Views of the Most Interesting Objects of Curiosity in Great Britain, London: for Clarke, et al., 1807, in ten 12mo volumes, illustrated, bound in uniform half green sheepskin and marbled paper boards, good. (16) $600-800 193 Decorative Bindings, Sets, Fourteen Titles in Twenty-six Volumes. Sets and single volumes in full and half leather, spines gilt-tooled and lettered, including Emerson’s English Traits, 1856; The Diary of John Evelyn, London, 1906, in three volumes; Epictetus, Parma: Bodoni, 1793; Keats’s Poetical Works, London, 1894-95; Life and Works of Benjamin Franklin, 1815; George Du Maurier’s Trilby, 1895; Richelieu, a Tale of France, 1829, in three volumes; Irving’s Tales of a Traveller, London, 1825, in two volumes; The Gardens and Menagerie of the Zoological Society, Chiswick, 1830-31, in two volumes; Holt’s Public and Domestic Life of George III, London, 1820, in two volumes; Dodsley’s Oeconomy of Human Life, London, 1806; Emerson’s Essays, Boston, 1883; The Greville Memoirs, a Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria, London, 1885, three volumes; and Susan Edmondstone Ferrier’s Destiny, or the Chief’s Daughter, Edinburgh, 1831, in three volumes; all volumes smaller than folio format, varying conditions and bindings, occupying approximately three feet of shelf space. (26) $1,000-1,200

Provenance: Ex libris Charles S. Dixwell (1868-1934). $500-700

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194 Decorative Bindings, Sets, Thirteen Titles in Sixty-three Volumes. Sets and single volumes in full and half leather, spines gilt-tooled and lettered, including Thierry’s Histoire de la Conquete de l’Angleterre, Paris, 1843, in four volumes, third edition; The Works of Edward Gibbon, New York [1906-1907], fifteen volumes, connoisseur edition, one of 105 numbered sets; Symonds’s The Renaissance in Italy, London, 1897-98, seven volumes; Milton’s Paradise Lost, London, 1802, in two volumes, illustrated; James Stuart’s The Antiquities of Athens, London, 1858, illustrated, third edition; The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Edinburgh, 1883, in four volumes; Krauss’s Geist der Osterreichischen, Vienna, 1838, in gilt-tooled full red morocco; Ruskin’s Stones of Venice, New York, [n.d.], three volumes, illustrated; MacPherson’s Poems of Ossian, Glasgow/London, 1824, two volumes, illustrated; The Poetical Works of John Keats, London, 1894-1895; Zipfer’s Franz der Erste, Stuttgart, 1836; and Charles Knight’s London, London, 1841-44, in six volumes, illustrated; all volumes smaller than folio format, varying conditions and bindings, occupying approximately eight feet of shelf space. (63) $1,000-1,200 195 Decorative Bindings, Sets, Thirty-five Volumes Fine Bindings, English Literature, and Others. Mostly quarto and octavo format books, many in leather, sets and single volumes, mostly 19th century, occupying approximately three feet of shelf space. (35) $300-500 196 Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Catalogue des Tableaux, Pastels, et Dessins Volumes I-IV. Paris: Galerie Georges Petit, 1918-1919. Four octavo volumes, titles printed in red and black, illustrated throughout, volume IV with a ticket to a private view of the sale on 30 June 1919 loosely inserted, in publisher’s paper wrappers; page 283/284 in volume III torn with loss at inner corner; all volumes unobtrusively rebacked with paper, one rear wrapper replaced, 10 3/4 x 7 1/4 in. (4) This is a complete set of the original edition of the Degas studio sale. $300-500

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197 Della Bella, Stefano (1610-1664) A Collection of Etchings by that Inimitable Artist. London: Young, 1818. Very large quarto, typographical title, engraved frontis, illustrated with 179 engravings on ninety-six plates; bound in full contemporary straight-grain red morocco, boards elaborately roll-tooled in gilt and blind, spine gilt and lettered, gilt turn-ins, a.e.g.; corners a little bumped, some foxing to contents, 14 1/2 x 10 1/2 in. $1,000-1,500 198 Der Mann in Photographie. Zurich: Der Kreis [the Circle], 1954-1962. Four volumes, in publisher’s green cloth, each with a dust wrapper, illustrated with blackand-white photographs throughout, text in German, French, English, and Italian, 8 3/4 x 5 3/4 in. [and] La Beauté de la Femme, Paris: Daniel Masclet, 1933, in publisher’s paper boards with burgundy silk rope binding, 12 1/4 x 9 1/4 in. (5) $800-1,200 199 Descrizione di Roma Antica Formata Nuovamente. Rome: Nella Libraria di Michel’ Angelo, e Pier Vincenzo Rossi, alla Salamandra, presto al Bancodi S. Spirito, 1708. Octavo, the last line of the imprint (from “alla” to “Spirito”) printed on a separate slip and pasted in place, illustrated with added engraved title, numerous text engravings (generally at least 3/4 of the page), text woodcuts of coins, and six folding plates (two of the folding plates repaired from the verso with an unusual textured fabric), in contemporary parchment, ex libris Vincent Ciarugi, with his bookplate, and three other ownership inscriptions on ffep and typographical title; some browning and foxing to text leaves, a few text engravings printed separately and mounted on the text leaf, these plates are browned from the adhesive, 6 1/4 x 4 1/4 in. $300-500

200 Dickens, Charles (1812-1870) A Child’s History of England. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1852-1854. Three 12mo volumes, each with a frontispiece, bound in publisher’s reddish brown cloth, blocked in blind with a central gilt ornament, chipping to heads, housed in a custom box, damaged, 6 x 4 3/4 in. (3) $300-500

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201 Dickens, Charles (1812-1870) Eleven Titles in Thirteen Volumes, 19th Century. A selection of Dickens’s works, in cloth and leather bindings (all cities of imprint London unless otherwise noted) including The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, 1837; Dombey and Son, Philadelphia, 1852; Pictures from Italy, 1846; Dombey and Son, London, 1848 (two copies); Bleak House, 1853; Master Humphrey’s Clock, 1840-41, in two volumes; Little Dorrit, and Christmas Stories, in a single volume, undated; Little Dorrit, 1857; Les Contes de Charles Dickens, Paris, 1847, in two volumes; [and] Charles James Lever’s Nuts and Nutcrackers, 1845, illustrated by Phiz; in varying formats, bindings, editions, and condition, should be viewed. (13) $200-300 202 Dickens, Charles (1812-1870) Little Dorrit. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1855-1857. First edition, in the original twenty numbers bound in nineteen monthly parts, illustrated with forty plates, including frontispiece and added vignette, after etchings by Halbot K. Browne; each issue bound in the publisher’s illustrated blue paper wrappers, housed in a custom buckram clamshell box, 8 3/4 x 5 1/2 in. $800-1,200

203 Dickens, Charles (1812-1870) The Christmas Books, Including a Signed Copy of A Christmas Carol. London: Chapman & Hall, 1843. First edition, second issue, signed by Dickens at the head of the preface leaf, with other inscriptions likely made by the recipient, dated 5 December 1850; half-title and verso of title printed in blue, title-page printed in red and blue, illustrated with hand-colored frontispiece, three hand-colored etched plates by John Leech, and four wood-engravings in the text by W.J. Linton after Leech; two pages of publisher’s advertisements after the text; with the following edition points: the first chapter heading titled “Stave I,” balance of text uncorrected, red and blue title-page dated 1843, yellow endpapers, with the first impression second issue second state of the binding (the upper serif of “D” of Dickens broken off), in publisher’s brown ribbed cloth, covers with decorative blind border surrounding central gilt cartouche and lettering on front board, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, a.e.g.; binding shaken, first signature detached; binding slightly cocked, corners soft. [and] The Chimes; The Cricket on the Hearth; The Battle of Life; and The Haunted Man, London, 1845-1848, all in publisher’s decoratively blind- and gilt-stamped red cloth; the complete set housed in a velvet-lined green morocco box molded to look like a set of books, gilt; ex libris John A. Spoor (18511926), all volumes 6 1/2 x 4 1/4 in. (6) $20,000-30,000


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207 Dickens, Charles (1812-1870) The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. London: Chapman & Hall, 2 April 1838-1 October 1839. First edition in twenty parts; bound in nineteen limp paper wrappers, octavo, housed in two red morocco slipcases made in the form of books; with “visiter” for “sister,” part IV, page 123, line 17; illustrated with forty plates by Hablot K. Browne, some advertisements removed from number ten, small book ticket of Alexander Hill, 50 Princes Street, Edinburgh on the covers of some, slipcases damaged and failing, 8 3/4 x 5 1/2 in. $1,200-1,800 208 Dickens, Charles (1812-1870) The Mystery of Edwin Drood. London: Chapman & Hall, 1870. First edition in six original parts, illustrated with twelve plates by Samuel Luke Fildes, original publisher’s paper wrappers, housed in a custom box; the work that Dickens left unfinished, 8 3/4 x 5 1/2 in. $800-1,200

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204 Dickens, Charles (1812-1870) The Christmas Books. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1845-1860. Five volumes, later editions, including: A Christmas Carol (1860); The Chimes; The Cricket on the Hearth; The Battle of Life; and The Haunted Man; bound in full uniform red calf by Bayntun, spines gilt, a.e.g., very good, housed in a buckram slipcase, 4 1/2 x 6 3/4 in. overall. (5) $700-900 205 Dickens, Charles (1812-1870) The Complete Works. London: Chapman & Hall, [c. 1899], Gadshill Edition. Thirty-six octavo volumes bound in uniform half bright red calf by Bayntun, spines tooled in gilt with black and green lettering pieces, t.e.g., very good, 7 1/2 x 5 1/4 in. each, occupying just short of five feet of shelf space. (36) $1,000-1,500

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206 Dickens, Charles (1812-1870) The Complete Works. New York & London: George D. Sproul, 1902-1908. Fifteen large octavo volumes, the autograph edition, limited to 250 copies printed, of which the present set is number fourteen, signed by the publisher in volume one, frontispiece in each volume signed by the artist in pencil, bound in full crushed green morocco by Trautz-Bauzonnet, with ornately gilt-tooled inner doublures incorporating Dickens’s initials with blue, red, yellow, and violet morocco onlays on a green field inside every board, cream-colored watered silk endleaves, t.e.g.; a few headcaps slightly chipped, spines faded to tan, 9 3/4 x 6 in. (15) $1,000-1,200

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209 Dickens, Charles (1812-1870) Thirteen Volumes. Including: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman & Hall, 1837; in full crushed red morocco by Bayntun, gilt turn-ins, a.e.g., in a slipcase; The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, London: Chapman & Hall, 1839, bound in full blue morocco by Bayntun, with a portrait of Dickens tooled in gilt on the front board, and a reproduction of his signature in gilt on the rear, spine quite faded, gilt turn-ins, a.e.g., slipcase; Master Humphrey’s Clock, London: Chapman & Hall, 1840-41, three large paper octavo volumes, extra illustrations, in uniform gilt-ruled tan calf, marbled edges; [another copy] small paper, in two volumes, half leather; The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, London: Chapman & Hall, 1844, in full polished morocco by Morley, spine lettered in gilt, spine faded, somewhat dry; Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury & Evans, 1848, in full red morocco tooled in gilt with portrait and signature of Dickens, by Bayntun, a.e.g.; The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, 1850, in contemporary green cloth, rebacked, retaining original spine; Little Dorrit, London: Bradbury & Evans, 1857, in diced Russia, rebacked, gilt spine, later endleaves; Our Mutual Friend, London: Chapman & Hall, 1865, two volumes in one, contemporary half calf, spine rubbed, faded; [and] The Mystery of Edwin Drood, London: Chapman & Hall, 1870, in full red morocco gilt with the Dickensian themes as described above by Bayntun, gilt turn-ins, a.e.g. (13) $600-800


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210 Dickens, Charles (1812-1870) Twelve Titles in Seventeen Volumes, 19th Century. A selection of Dickens’s works, in cloth and leather bindings, including Sketches by Boz (two editions); Barnaby Rudge; Master Humphrey’s Clock; A Christmas Carol; Bleak House; The Mystery of Edwin Drood; The Chimes (two copies); Illustrations to Pickwick; and Our Mutual Friend, various formats and bindings, occupying twenty inches of shelf space. (17) $1,000-1,200

212 Dillwyn, Lewis Weston (1778-1855) British Confervae. London: Philips, 1809. Quarto, uncut, illustrated with 115 (of 116) plates only, lacking plate number 107, with a facsimile inserted, most plates printed in a color other than black, e.g., red, gray, green, brown, and others, fore-edges untrimmed; bound in a later full tan-colored exotic leather binding, with a red label on the spine, 10 1/2 x 8 in. In this work, Dillwyn writes about algae. $300-400

211 Die K.K. Oesterrechische Armee nach der Neuesten Uniformirun in 48 Blattern Dargestellt. Vienna: Bermann & Sohn, [1839]. Octavo, engraved title, forty-eight handcolored plates with some gilt highlights of cavalry and infantry officers and soldiers, marines, engineers, bombardiers, and other military personnel, bound in contemporary marbled paper boards, rebacked, with new corners, spine lettered in gilt, 8 x 6 1/2 in. $300-400

213 Drelincourt, Charles (1595-1669) The Christian’s Defence against the Fears of Death, Manuscript, c. 1700. Small folio manuscript on laid paper, 402 numbered pages, lacking title and first five preliminary pages; text in a single column throughout, in a clear secretarial hand, black and brownish black ink throughout; contemporary provincial binding, alum-tawed thongs stabbed through the text block, blind tooled sheepskin, worn but structurally intact, pages thrown out, first and last few leaves torn with loss and stained, 12 x 7 1/2 in. $500-700

214 Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) The Complete Works, Manuscript Edition; [and] Journals, Large Paper Edition Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1903-1904 [and] Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1909-1912. The two sets making up a total of twenty octavo volumes; the Works (twelve volumes) with an original manuscript leaf in Emerson’s hand bound in volume one, set number fifty-six of a limited edition of 600, bound in uniform half green morocco, spines tooled in gilt, t.e.g., tooling identical to the accompanying eight volume set of Emerson’s Journals, large paper copy, also number fifty-six of 600, bound in half brown morocco, all volumes in both sets 8 3/4 x 5 1/2 in., occupying approximately three feet of shelf space. (20) $1,000-1,500

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215 English Caricatures, Seven Volumes. Including: The Tour of Doctor Syntax through London or the Pleasures and Miseries of the Metropolis, London: Johnston, 1820, octavo, illustrated with hand-colored frontispiece, title, and eighteen other colored plates in the style of Rowlandson, in later half calf, housed in a solander box; The Comic Album, London: Orr & Co., 1843, large quarto, title printed in red, blue, and black, printed on different colored papers throughout, bound in contemporary half calf and textured fabric boards, a.e.g.; a uniformly bound four-volume set of The Miseries of Human Life; More Miseries; and The Comforts of Human Life, London, 180607, each with a folding colored frontispiece, in contemporary speckled calf, joints dry; [and] The Vauxhall Papers, edited by Alfred Bunn, illustrated by Alfred Crowquill, London: Andrews & Mitchell, 1841, tan calf, both boards detached. (7) $300-400 216 English Letters, Erotica, Eight Volumes. An incomplete copy of Choice Drollery, London: by J.G. for Pollard, 1656, 12mo, lacking title and all preliminaries, half green morocco, marbled boards, 5 1/2 x 3 1/2 in.; Joseph Swetnam’s The Arraignment of Lewd, Idle, Froward, and Unconstant Women: or the Vanity of them; (Chuse you whether.), London: for B. Deacon, 1701, octavo, this edition not in the ESTC, which does list a 1702 edition by the same printer, half leather, marbled boards, 6 1/2 x 3 3/4 in.; Court-Tales: or, a History of the Amours of the Present Nobility, London: Curll, 1720, octavo, calf boards, rebacked, 7 1/4 x 4 1/2 in.; Marie-Catherine Cadiere’s, (b. 1709) A Compleat Translation of the Sequel of the Proceedings, London: for J. Millan, 1732, octavo second edition, frontispiece, [Bound with] Thirty Two Pieces, Never before Translated, of the Proceedings upon the Tryal of M. Cadiere, and F. Girard, London: for J. Millan, 1732, in fine sponge-decorated calf, gilt spine, a.e.g., by Arthur Colley, 6 1/2 x 3 3/4 in.; The Persian and Turkish Tales, Compleat [aka The Arabian Nights], London: for Richard Ware, 1739, in two octavo volumes, fourth edition, ESTC lists one U.S. copy of this edition, in average condition, softening to title in volume one, in uniform sprinkled calf boards with an older rebacking which has failed, 6 1/2 x 4 in.; Ovid’s Epistles: with his Amours, London: for J. & R. Tonson, 1748, octavo, frontispiece, plates, in contemporary boards, rebacked, with a fancy gilt spine, 6 1/4 x 3 3/4 in.; [and] Hurstone’s Royal Intrigues: or, Secret Memoirs of Four Princesses, London: by M. Allen, [1808], octavo, two volumes in one, bound in full tan calf, gilt spine, by Morrell, t.e.g., 6 1/2 x 3 3/4 in. (8)

217 English Letters, Erotica, Six Volumes. Memoirs of the Gentry, &c. of Thule: or, the Island of Love. Being a Secret History of their Amours, Artifices and Intrigues, London: for W. Webb, 1742-1744, first edition, two 12mo volumes, five copies in ESTC, in uniform full speckled calf by Riviere, gilt spines, a.e.g., volume one front board detached, joints weak; John Hill’s (1714-1775?) Lucina sine Concubitu. A Letter Humbly address’d to the Royal Society; in which is proved by most Incontestible Evidence, drawn from Reason and Practice, that a Woman may conceive and be brought to Bed without any Commerce with Man, London: M. Cooper, 1750, second edition, large octavo, written and published by Hill as a hoax on the Royal Society in revenge for his rejection as a candidate for membership; disbound, last leaf toned, tears, ink stain, 7 3/4 x 4 3/4 in.; John Hall-Stevenson’s (1718-1785) Crazy Tales, London: [no printer], 1769, third edition, no half-title, octavo, in full calf by Riviere, a.e.g., rebacked, 6 x 3 1/2 in.; [and] The General Lover: or the Ladies’ Gentleman London: for J. Ryall, 1790, two large 12mo volumes, first and only edition in ESTC, which lists only one copy worldwide; bound in fine uniform full sprinkled calf, gilt tooled spine and turn-ins, by Root & Son, frontispieces in both volumes, t.e.g., large copies, with deckle edges in evidence, ads at the end of volume two, bindings very good, 7 1/4 x 4 1/4 in. (6) Provenance: Ex libris Charles S. Dixwell (1868-1934). $500-700

Provenance: Ex libris Charles S. Dixwell (1868-1934). $600-800

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218 English Literature, Sammelband of Tracts, and Two Others, 18th Century. Rochester and Roscommon The Works London: Booksellers of London & Westminster, 1709, octavo, third edition, an excerpt only, consisting of the title and first sixteen numbered pages, containing Rochester’s libertine poems; [Bound with] Augustus Montague Toplady’s (1740-1778) An Old Fox Tarr’d and Feather’d, London: for John French and Mary Lewis, 1775; [and] John Wesley’s (1703-1791) An Answer to Mr. Rowland Hill’s Tract, entitled “Imposture Detected,” London: by Hawes, 1777; an extract from another work, pages 79-96, containing the text, The Insinuating Bawd and the Repenting Harlot; [and] Daniel Defoe’s (1661-1731) Jure Divino: a Satyr. The First Book, with the large woodcut of Defoe in the pillory on the title; Jure Divino: A Satyr. The Second [-Twelfth] Book, London: P. Hills, 1706; [and] The Life of Thomas Munn, alias the Gentleman Brick-maker, London: for Thomas Harris, C. Corbett, and sold at all the booksellers and pamphlet-shops, 1750; [and] History of Female Flagellants, [London, 19th century]; [and] An Exact and Particular Narrative of a Cruel and Inhumane Murder Attempted on the Body of Edward Crispe, Esq., London: for J. Roberts, 1722, second edition; in 19th century half calf and marbled boards, 7 x 4 1/4 in. [Together with] Delarivière Manley’s (d. 1724) Secret Memoirs and Manners of Several Persons of Quality of Both Sexes, London: John Morphew and J. Woodward, 1709, octavo the second edition, contemporary boards, rebacked, with the key bound at the back; [and] Jacques Roergas de Serviez’s (1679-1727) Lives and Amours of the Empresses, Consorts to the First Twelve Caesars of Rome, London: for Roper, 1723, octavo, contemporary boards, detached, contents browned. (3) Provenance: Ex libris Charles S. Dixwell (1868-1934). $400-600

219 Erotica, Engravings, Tinted Prints, and Photographs, Two Albums. Commercially produced red half leather-bound albums with: “Records” tooled in gold on the front boards, fitted out like photo albums, the first containing approximately thirty-nine illustrations, mostly engravings, some colored, from de Sade, Gamiani and other sources, and ten photostats from an erotic Hindu text; the second containing approximately twenty-five erotic Victorian-era photographs, and approximately thirty other prints, mostly lithographs and photo-reproductions from before 1930 and earlier, some in color, 7 1/2 x 5 in. (2) Provenance: Ex libris Charles S. Dixwell (1868-1934). $800-1,200


220 Erotica, Four Volumes, 1883-1907. Including: The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana, Cosmopoli: for the Kama Shastra Society of London and Benares, for private circulation only, 1883, octavo, edges left rough, half black morocco, 7 1/2 x 4 3/4 in.; Ananga-Ranga; (Stage of the Bodiless One) or, the Hindu Art of Love, Cosmopoli: for the Kama Shastra Society of London and Benares, for private circulation only, 1885, octavo, untrimmed edges, half green morocco, spine faded to tan, 7 1/2 x 4 3/4 in.; Sir Edwin Arnold’s With Sa’di in the Garden, or the Book of Love, London: Trubner & Co., 1888, in publisher’s blue cloth, pictorial boards, gilt lettering, 7 1/2 x 4 3/4 in.; [and] The Hindu Art of Love (Ars Amoris Indica) or Ananga-Ranga (Stage of the Bodiless One), Paris: Charles Carrington, 1907, title printed in red and black, bound in half red morocco and buckram boards, 8 3/4 x 5 1/2 in. (4) Provenance: Ex libris Charles S. Dixwell (1868-1934). $300-500 221 Erotica, Thirty-five Victorian Era Photographs. The photographs mounted in a leather album, most are 3 1/2 x 5 1/2 in., some 4 x 6 in., with four other photostatic reproductions of erotic prints, the album itself 10 x 8 in. [Together with] Another album containing an assortment of 20th century erotic prints, various sizes. (2) Provenance: Ex libris Charles S. Dixwell (1868-1934). $600-800 219

222 Erotica, Three Volumes: [Count Roscaud’s] Human Gorillas, a Study of Rape with Violence, Paris: Carrington, 1901, octavo, forward by Sir Richard Francis Burton, illustrated, in publisher’s maroon limp cloth; [Alfred Trumble’s] Mabille Unmasked; or the Wickedest Place in the World, New York: Richard K. Fox, [n.d.], octavo, illustrated, 56 pages, in boards, with the limp cover trimmed and mounted on the front board, bumped, contents evenly toned; [and] Erastene Ramiro’s Felicien Rops, Paris: Pellet & Floury, 1905, large quarto, illustrated, title in red and black, bound in half navy morocco and buckram boards, limp covers bound in. (3) Provenance: Ex libris Charles S. Dixwell (1868-1934). $400-600

223 Ethiopic Manuscript on Parchment, Late 19th/Early 20th Century. Quarto-format manuscript in tens and twelves, written in Ge-ez script, 192 parchment leaves, twenty lines per page, eighteen pages with polychrome painted headpieces, bound in contemporary full red goatskin over wooden boards, elaborately tooled in blind, with red leather doublures, also ornately tooled in blind, with a inner panel of dark blue velvet, in the original leather carrying case, tooled in blind, and constructed with flaps and straps, the case worn, some later drawings on flyleaves, 10 1/2 x 8 1/2 in. overall. $1,500-2,000

224 Exotic Book Lot, Five Far and Middle East Manuscripts, Texts, and Scroll. Including two Nepalese manuscripts with miniatures: one accordion-style, with worn paper covers, text in Sanskrit, with brightly painted miniatures, 7 1/2 x 2 3/4 in.; the other likely a fragment, with nine black leaves inscribed in Sanskrit in white and gold ink, with red painted and carved wooden boards, the insides with finely executed paintings of the Buddha and other deities, leaves loose and boards detached, 7 x 3 in.; one miniature Sanskrit manuscript with eight miniatures, 3 x 2 in.; one Sanskrit scroll; and one miniature Ottoman manuscript in a leather binding, 2 1/2 x 2 in. (5) $200-300

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225 Extra-illustrated Books, Eight Volumes: Including: Chalmers’s Life of Mary, Queen of Scots, London: Murray, 1822, three octavo volumes, bound in full dark brown morocco by Bayntun, with ornately gilt spine and boards, inner gilt dentelles, with fifty-six added portraits and views, some in color, a.e.g., in the slipcase, spines faded to a lighter shade of brown; Lewes’s Life of Robespierre, London: Chapman & Hall, 1849, octavo, bound in full red morocco gilt by Root & Son, with rainbowcolored silk endbands, and the boards decorated in a geometric pattern with floral accents, a.e.g., with thirty added illustrations, spine slightly faded, in the slipcase; Peter Cunningham’s Story of Nell Gwyn, London: Bradbury & Evans, 1852, octavo, with fifty added plates, bound in full crushed deep blue morocco, elaborately gilt by Root & Son, with gilt turn-ins, t.e.g., and violet silk pastedowns and flyleaves, in a slipcase; Austin Dobson’s Four Frenchwomen, London: Chatto & Windus, 1891, octavo, with fifty added plates, bound in full blue morocco by Root & Son, gilt-ruled boards and spine, with fleur-de-lis accents, t.e.g., some spotting to front board, in the slipcase; Anthony Hamilton’s Memoirs of Count Grammont, London: Nimmo, 1896, large octavo, bound in full crushed green morocco by Broda, gilt turn-ins, spine lettered in gilt, a.e.g., spine slightly faded, in the slipcase; [and] Napoleon’s Opera-Glass, by Lew Rosen, London: Mathews, 1897, octavo, in full red morocco gilt extra by Root & Son, with bee and eagle tools on boards and spine, and featuring a gilt crowned initial N within a laurel wreath on the front board, with thirty-six added plates, a.e.g., in the slipcase. (8) Provenance: Ex libris Charles S. Dixwell (1868-1934). $3,000-5,000

226 Extra-illustrated Books, Eight Volumes: Including: George Clinton’s Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Lord Byron, London: Robins & Co., 1825, in two octavo volumes, with added portraits, views, facsimiles, and other material, in half green morocco by Root & Son, gilt-tooled spines, a.e.g., in the slipcase; Langdale’s Memoirs of Mrs. Fitzherbert, London: Bentley, 1856, octavo, with twenty-five added illustrations, ten of which are in color, bound in full medium blue crushed morocco by Bayntun, gilt boards and spine, in the slipcase, a.e.g.; Elliott’s Journal of my Life during the French Revolution, London: Bentley, 1859, octavo, with eighty-six extra plates, of which eighteen are colored, bound in full blue morocco by tooled in gold, with red onlays, inner morocco framed doublures, chamfered boards, a.e.g., in a blue buckram slipcase; Lady Rose Weigall’s Brief Memoir of Princess Charlotte of Wales, London: Murray, 1874, octavo, in full dark blue morocco by Root & Son, with flowers tooled in gilt on spine and boards, gilt turn-ins, a.e.g., with the slipcase; [and] Ernest Law’s History of Hampton Court Palace in Tudor Times, London: Bell, 1885, in three quarto volumes, bound in full straight-grain red morocco gilt, by Howell of Liverpool, gilt turn-ins, a.e.g., some of the added illustrations in color. (8) Provenance: Ex libris Charles S. Dixwell (1868-1934). $3,000-5,000 227 Extra-illustrated Books, Two Volumes. Count Grammont [aka Anthony Hamilton’s] Memoirs of the Court of Charles the Second, London: Bohn, 1846, octavo, with twentynine additional portraits, bound in full straight grain red morocco, boards ruled in gold, spine ruled in gilt compartments, lettered, and tooled, t.e.g., 7 x 4 1/2 in. [and] Recollections of the Table-Talk of Samuel Rogers, to which is added Porsoniana, London: Moxon, 1856, octavo, extra-illustrated with thirty additional portraits, bound in full crushed red morocco gilt on spine and boards by Broca, gilt turnins, a.e.g., in morocco slipcase; case rubbed, 7 1/2 x 4 1/2 in. (2) $300-400 228 Falconer, William (b. 1732) An Universal Dictionary of the Marine. London: Cadell, 1769. First edition, large quarto, illustrated with twelve folding engraved plates; title page creased, bound in full contemporary mottled calf, worn, losses at head and tail, joints cracked, 10 1/2 x 8 1/4 in. $500-700

229 Far West Literature, Eleven Volumes. Including: James L. Scott’s A Journal of a Missionary Tour through Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Wiskonsin, and Michigan; Comprising a Concise Description of [...] the Great Western Prairies, Providence: by the Author, 1843, octavo, original cloth boards, contents spotted, 7 1/4 x 4 1/2 in.; I.A. Lapham’s Wisconsin: its Geography and Topography, Milwaukee: Hopkins, 1846, 12mo, second edition, contents good, sheepskin boards, rebacked, 7 1/2 x 4 1/4 in.; Edward E. Hale’s Kanzas and Nebraska, Boston: Phillips, Sampson, & Co., 1854, octavo, with the frontispiece folding map, some spotting, in full original blue cloth, goldstamped spine, 7 3/4 x 4 1/2 in.; Rufus Sage’s Rocky Mountain Life, Boston: Thayer & Eldridge, 1860, octavo, frontispiece of a mounted Plains Indian warrior, illustrated, bound in full original blind-stamped cloth boards, gold on spine all but gone, worn, some holes in the cloth, fraying, the text block shifting, but structurally sound, 7 1/4 x 4 1/2 in.; R.B. Stratton’s Captivity of the Oatman Girls, New York: for the Author, 1858, octavo with frontispiece portrait of Olive Oatman, showing her facial tattoos, illustrated, text leaves well spotted throughout, in contemporary boards with later library rebacking in buckram, 7 1/4 x 4 3/4 in.; Mrs. John H. Kinzie’s Wau-Bun, the “Early Day” in the North-West, New York: Derby & Jackson, 1856, large octavo, illustrated, some spotting near the end of the text, with two post cards of the Kinzie cottage inserted, bound in original cloth, blind stamped boards and gold stamped spine, spine faded, 9 x 5 1/2 in.; [and] Five other titles on the same subject. (11) $500-700 230 Farlow, William Gilson (1844-1919) Icones Farlowianae: Illustrations of the Larger Fungi of Eastern North America. Cambridge: Harvard University, 1929. First and only edition, folio, limited to 500 copies, with descriptive text by Edward Angus Burt, and illustrated with 103 colored plates of North American mushrooms printed by the Boston Heliotype Printing Company, Louis C.C. Krieger, illustrator, the printing by D.B. Updike, of the Merrymount Press in Boston, bound in the original full green publisher’s cloth binding, gilt title on spine and front board, dusty, binding slightly faded, 14 x 10 3/4 in. $600-800

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231 Faujas de Saint-Fond, Barthelemy (1738-1810) Description des Experiences de la Machine Aerostatique de MM. de Montgolfier. Paris: [no printer], 1784. Second Brussels edition, octavo, illustrated with nine full-page engravings, and one folding letterpress table, some leaves unopened, bound in later half calf; text leaves toned throughout, some of the text and plates printed on pale blue paper, 8 1/4 x 5 1/4 in. Following on the heels of a series of successful manned balloon flights in France in the summer of 1783, this exhaustive scientific treatise includes all of the details of physics, mathematics, hydrostatics, and design that supported these early experiments in the air. $500-700 232 Faulkner, William (1897-1962) Intruder in the Dust. New York: Random House, 1948. Stated first printing, in a very good jacket, ex libris the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Library, Culver City, California, with their rubber stamp, paper label (“Please return to the script department”) and the embossed stamp of Howard Strickling (“Personal Property, Please Return”) all on ffep, an additional use of the MGM stamp on the page edges, at the foot, 8 x 5 1/4 in. $300-500 233 Fellowes, William Dorset (1769-1852) A Visit to the Monastery of La Trappe. London: by Lewis for M’Lean, 1820. Octavo, illustrated with fifteen plates, of which thirteen are hand-colored, bound in full olive morocco, tooled in gilt compartments and spine, t.e.g., with red morocco doublures, and watered silk flyleaves, spine faded, 8 x 5 in. $200-300

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234 Fialetti, Odoardo (1573-1638?) Scherzi d’Amore. Venice: [No printer], 1617. Octavo, engraved throughout, the book dissected completely, each leaf mounted in a mat, consisting of fourteen engravings disposed as such: engraved title, plates with verses numbered two through eleven, and three unnumbered plates without verses; nothing printed on the versos, small printer collector’s stamp on the verso of each plate in blue ink, each leaf 7 1/4 x 4 1/4 in. $800-1,000 235 Fore-edge Painting of the Taj Mahal. Sir Thomas Moore’s Lalla Rookh, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1854, small 12mo, bound in full green morocco, boards tooled in gilt compartments, 4 x 2 1/2 in. $300-400 236 Fore-edge Paintings, British Colleges: Oxford from Christ Church Meadows; Great Court, Trinity College, Cambridge; Jesus College from the Meadow; and Christ Church Oxford. The New Testament, Oxford: University Press, 1842, small 12mo, in textured black morocco, title tooled in gilt, 4 x 2 1/2 in. [with] Tennyson’s Idylls of the King, London: Moxon & Co., 1865, octavo, in straight-grain red morocco, gilt ruled and lettered, 6 1/2 x 3 3/4 in. [and] The Dramatic Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, London: Moxon, 1852, octavo, purple textured morocco, gilt lettering on spine, 6 1/2 x 4 in. [and] Ruskin’s Sesame and Lilies, [London]: George Allen, 1883, octavo, volume one only of the Works of Ruskin, fifth edition, in full dark blue calf, spine lettered in gilt, 8 1/4 x 5 1/4 in. (4) $600-800

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237 Fore-edge Paintings, British Subjects: Malmsbury, Wiltshire; Durham Cathedral, Hereford; and Marlborough, Suffolk, Four Volumes. Crabbe’s Tales, London: Hatchard, 1814, two volumes, sixth edition, uniformly bound in full purple morocco, worn, joints a bit dry, faded, 6 1/4 x 3 3/4 in. [with] Beveridge’s Private Thoughts, London, 1822, 12mo, full burgundy morocco, gilt-tooled spine, 4 3/4 x 2 3/4 in. [and] Counsels and Advices of Sir. Matthew Hale, Knt., London: Dart & Clark, [n.d.], small 12mo, in full contemporary textured dark brown morocco, ornately tooled on boards and spine, 4 x 2 1/2 in. (4) $400-600 238 Fore-edge Paintings, College Street Dublin; and Parliament Square, Trinity College Dublin; Two Volumes. The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith, London: Cundall & Addey, 1851, octavo, full red morocco, tooled in blind and gilt on boards, gilt spine, 6 1/2 x 4 1/4 in.; [and] an undated edition of The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore, Edinburgh: Gall & Inglis, octavo, in full brown morocco, ornately tooled in gilt, 6 1/2 x 4 in. (2) $300-400


239 Fore-edge Paintings, Edinburgh Subjects: George Street; The Theatre, North Bridge; Lawn Market from St. Giles Church; and The University, Southbridge Street. Aytoun’s Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers, Edinburgh & London: Blackwood & Sons, 1859, octavo, in red morocco, gilt-tooled spine, 6 1/2 x 4 in.; [with] another copy of the same title, Edinburgh & London: Blackwood & Sons, 1853, octavo, in rubbed calf, faded gilt-tooled spine, 6 1/4 x 3 3/4 in.; [with] The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, London: Daly, [n.d.], octavo, in fancy blind and gilttooled red morocco, 6 1/2 x 3 3/4 in.; [and] Carlyle’s Sartor Resartus, Lectures on Heroes, London: Chapman & Hall, 1863, octavo, full red morocco, elaborately tooled gold spine, boards gilt in fancy compartments, 7 1/4 x 4 3/4 in. (4) $600-800

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240 Fore-edge Paintings, Four Volumes, 18151842. Four octavo-format London imprints with foreedge paintings under their gilt edges, some paintings worn: two volume set of Johnson’s Lives of the Poets, depicting Dr. Johnson’s birthplace, and his home on Fleet Street; Recreations in Natural History, 1821, with Guilford Castle; and Lady Vavasour’s Last Tour and First Work, 1842, showing West Gate, Canterbury; all volumes in full contemporary leather with gold-tooled spines and boards, slightly worn but intact. (4) $600-800

241 Fore-edge Paintings, Robert Burns’s Cottage. The Songs of Burns, London: Sharpe, 1824, bound in full contemporary gold-tooled parchment over stiff boards with paintings of Ayr on the front board, and Kilmarnock on the back board, in addition to the fore-edge painting of Burns’s cottage, lilac endleaves, 6 1/4 x 3 3/4 in. $300-400


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242 Fore-edge Paintings, Seven Octavo Volumes, British Subjects. Loch Katrine on Scott’s Lady of the Lake, London: Tilt, 1838 in full green morocco, giltlettered spine; Theatre Royal, Drury Lane; the Italian Opera House, Haymarket; and Theatre Royal, Covent Garden on a three-volume set of the Poetical Works of Charles Churchill, London: Pickering, 1844, in uniform green morocco, gilt-lettered spines; Tunbridge Wells, Kent on Tennyson’s The Holy Grail and Other Poems, London: Strahan & Co., 1870, in full red straight-grain morocco, ruled and lettered in gilt; Leith Walk, Edinburgh on Aytoun’s Bothwell, Edinburgh & London: Blackwood, 1858, in full red morocco, decorative rolltooling on boards, spine with ornate gilt compartments; and the Tower of London on Charles MacKay’s Ballads and Lyrics, London: Routledge, Warne & Routledge, 1859, in ornately blind and gilt-tooled boards and gilttooled and lettered spine. (7) $400-600 243 Fore-edge Paintings, Shakespeare, Two Volumes. The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare, London: Moxon, 1848, large octavo, with a portrait of Shakespeare painted on the foreedge, in full green morocco, gilt-tooled spine, decased, 9 x 6 in.; and an undated Works, London: Warne, octavo, with a fore-edge painting of Shakespeare’s birthplace, dark green morocco, blind stamped, lettered in gilt on the spine, 6 3/4 x 4 1/2 in. (2) $300-400

244 Fore-edge Paintings, Sporting Themes: Fly Fishing; Partridge Shooting; and Double Painting with Trout Fishing and Fly Fishing. Wilson’s A Short and Plain Instruction for the Better Understanding of the Lord’s Supper, London: for the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1839, small 12mo, in blind-stamped published calf, 4 3/4 x 2 3/4 in.; [with] The Gamekeeper at Home, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1879, octavo, prize binding, red calf with ornately gilt spine, 7 1/4 x 4 3/4 in.; [and] The Keepsake for MDCCCXXXV, London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, [1835], octavo, double fore-edge painting, bound in tan morocco, tooled in blind and gilt, 7 x 4 1/2 in. (3) $400-600

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245 Fore-edge Paintings, Summer and Autumn, Two Volumes. James Thomson’s The Seasons, London: Sharpe, 1825, 12mo, bound in full straightgrain brown morocco, gilt-tooled border and blind stamp in the center, gilt spine, 5 1/4 x 3 1/2 in. [and] The Serious Poems of Thomas Hood, London: Moxon, 1874, octavo, full green morocco, beveled boards, gilt tooled compartments on boards and spine, 6 x 3 3/4 in. (2) $300-400

246 Fore-edge Paintings, Philadelphia and Boston, Two Volumes. The Poetical Works of William Cowper, Edinburgh: Nichol, 1864, in two octavo volumes, bound in full purple calf by Zaehnsdorf, boards ruled in gilt, spines giltdecorated and lettered, 8 1/2 x 5 1/4 in. (2) $500-700

247 Fouque, Friedrich de la Motte (1777-1843) Undine, Illustrated and Signed by Arthur Rackham (1867-1939) London: Heinman; and New York: Doubleday, Page, & Co., 1909. Large quarto, number 158 of 250 numbered copies for sale in the United States, signed by Rackham on the limitation page, illustrated with fifteen color illustrations mounted on heavy brown craft paper, bound in publisher’s half vellum spine, brown paper boards, with large gilt-blocked illustration and title on the front board; front board a bit dusty, offsetting to contents from the sheets on which the illustrations are mounted, 11 3/4 x 8 3/4 in. $400-600

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248 Francisco de Santa Maria (fl. circa 1700) Sermoens do Padre Francisco de S. Maria Conigo da Sagrada Congregac, am de S. Joam Evangelista, Cronista geral da mesmo Congregaco, Mestre jubilado na sagrada Theologia, & Qualificador do Santo Officio. Lisbon: Manoel Lopes Ferreira, 1689. Quarto, likely first edition, rare, only one copy recorded in Worldcat, at the University of Dayton; without the final ?blank; bound in a contemporary Portuguese binding with the royal coat of arms of Portugal stamped in gilt on both boards, tan calf, gold rules on boards, spine ornately tooled and lettered in gilt compartments, remnants of silk ties (now lost) in alternating dark green and white, a.e.g., binding intact and entire, in an unrepaired state, with light limited surface worming to leather spine and adjacent joints, ex libris Mathias Lima, with his bookplate inside the front board, 7 1/2 x 5 1/2 in. $300-400 249 Franklin, Benjamin (1706-1790) Experiments and Observations on Electricity. London: for David Henry, sold by Francis Newbery, 1769. Fourth edition, expanded, quarto, illustrated with several relief-printed text illustrations and vignettes, and seven engraved plates extraneous to the collation, of which three are folding, plate II is torn; bound in full contemporary smooth calfskin, gold tooled spine and label; joints cracked, surface scratches to boards, end bands still intact, boards attached; text with the occasional spot, generally good, 9 x 7 in. $3,500-5,500

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250 French Imprints, Five Titles in Eight Volumes, 1694-1768. Jean Le Clerc’s (1657-1736) La Vie du Cardinal Duc de Richelieu, Cologne: Chez ****, 1694, in two octavo volumes, titles in red and black, each with an engraved frontis, bound in full later morocco, gilt spines, a.e.g., the Huth copy; joints somewhat dry, volume one de-cased, 6 1/4 x 3 1/2 in. [Gatien Courtilz de Sandras’s] La Vie de JeanBaptiste Colbert, Cologne: ***, 1695, 12mo, title printed in red and black, frontispiece, in contemporary armorial binding in sprinkled calf, joint cracking at the foot, gilding to arms on front board faded, lost, or perhaps silver and tarnished, 5 3/4 x 3 in. Charles Pinot Duclos’s Histoire de Louis XI, Paris: Freres Guerin et al., 1745, in three 12mo volumes, half-titles in each, engraved frontis in volume one, in uniform contemporary smooth calf with gold tooled and lettered spines; part of the leather covering one raised band consumed by book worms and lacking, otherwise a nicely preserved set, contemporary armorial bookplates in each volume, 6 1/4 x 3 3/4 in. [Jean-Jacques le Franc de Pompignan’s] Eloge Historique de Monseigneur Le Duc de Bourgogne, Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1761, octavo, first edition, with engraved portrait frontis of the son of the Dauphin, who died in 1760 at the age of ten, vignette, and two head-pieces by C.N. Cochin, in contemporary full calf, joints cracking, lettering piece on spine, 7 3/4 x 4 3/4 in. [and] Le Necrologe des Hommes Celebres de France, par une Societe de Gens de Lettres, Paris: Desprez, 1768, octavo, part of a series of seventeen similar volumes published under the direction of Charles Palissot between 1767 and 1782, title printed within a type ornament frame, bound in half calf, with green parchment corners, top compartment with gilt interlocking initials, 7 x 4 in. (8) $400-600

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251 French Imprints, Five Titles in Eight Volumes, 1784-1818. L’Esprit des Esprits, ou Pensees Choisies, London and Brussels: Flon, 1784, 12mo, full contemporary sprinkled calf gilt-stamped armorial binding, 4 3/4 x 2 3/4 in. [Jean-Francois Vauvilliers’s] Abrege de l’Histoire Universelle en Figures, Paris: Duflos le Jeune, 1785, large octavo, entirely engraved, printed on rectos only throughout, bound in full contemporary gold-tooled red morocco, 7 1/4 x 5 in. Apuleius’s Les Metamorphoses, ou l’Ane d’Or, Paris: Jean-Francois, Bastien, 1787, in two large octavo volumes, frontispiece, added title pages in Latin, and ten engraved plates, bound in later half red morocco and marbled paper boards, 7 1/2 x 4 1/2 in. Francoise d’Issembourg d’Happoncourte de Grafigny’s Lettres d’une Peruvienne, Paris: Didot l’aine, 1797, in two 12mo volumes, frontis portrait by Launay, and full-page engravings by Coiny, bound in uniform contemporary calf, boards gilt-rolled, spines gilt in compartments with red and green lettering pieces, onlays, and geometric designs, a.e.g., 5 x 3 in. [and] Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crebillon’s Oeuvres, Paris: Antoine-Augustin Renouard, 1818, in two large octavo volumes, engraved frontis by Aubin, full-page engravings, contemporary half green calf, 8 1/2 x 5 in. (8) $500-700 252 French Manuscript on Paper with Handcolored Engravings and Vignettes, Late 18th Century, Les Consolations des Miseres de la Vie, ou Recueil de Romances. Octavo, approximately 200 pages, numerous full-page illustrations and smaller vignettes trimmed carefully and mounted, hand-colored throughout, each leaf with text handwritten within a border, neatly titled, with initials and other flourishes and ornamentation, the text of images and poetry are both of the romantic persuasion; in many (but not all) openings, a full-page engraving faces a page of text, and the opposite sides of the pages remain blank, the last approximately twenty-five leaves are adorned with the colored vignettes and inked borders but lack text, bound in full contemporary mottled calf, gilt borders, turn-ins, and spine, a.e.g.; worn, front joint cracked, 7 1/4 x 4 1/2 in. $600-800


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253 French Works, Twenty-five Volumes, Decorative Bindings. Including a six volume set of the works of Moliere, Paris: Compagnie des Libraires Associes, 1788, octavo, illustrated in contemporary half leather, gilt-tooled spines; twelve small-format volumes, most in decorative bindings; Belloc’s Marie Antoinette, London: Methuen & Co., 1928, in half leather, inscribed; Jules Janin’s La Normandie, Paris: Bourdin, 1844, uncut, in half red morocco and matching slipcase, and others. (25) $600-800

257 Garrard, George (1760-1826) A Description of the Different Varieties of Oxen Common in the British Isles. London: Printed and Published for the Author by J. Smeeton, 1800. Large oblong folio, illustrated with fifty-two hand-colored engravings of bovines, title and introduction curled and cockled, title torn, bound in contemporary half-leather, front board detached, plates generally good, original tissue guards mostly in place, some slight foxing and toning, other defects, 21 1/4 x 16 1/2 in. $2,000-3,000

254 Friedlander, Isac (1890-1968), illustrator 12 Woodcuts for Shakespeare’s Sonnets. [No place: no printer, c. 1931]. Small folio, woodcut title page printed in white ink on black paper, (perhaps originally the front of a wrapper, any spine and back cover now lost); twelve loose bifolia with a sonnet mounted on the left page, and the corresponding woodcut mounted facing, each woodcut signed by Friedlander in pencil; sonnets 7, 12, 27, 34, 53, 66, 97, 106, 116, 123, 127, and 144 are printed in this collection; woodcuts vary in size; title chipped with edge loss, faded, Worldcat locates one copy, 11 3/4 x 8 3/4 in. $800-1,000

258 Gilles, Nicole (d. 1503) and Nicolaus Falckner (fl. 16th Century) Frantzosische Chronica. Basel: [No printer], 1572. Folio, xylographic title printed in red and black, large woodcut vignette on title with a portrait of French King Charles IX; illustrated with text woodcut portraits of French royalty, 262 leaves; contemporary marginal notes; bound in full blind-ruled and tooled alum-tawed pigskin over wooden boards, dated 1587, with a crucifixion scene on the front board, inner panel, the back board worn, tooling hard to discern, covering material worn through at corners, becoming detached, wooden board corners chipped, lacking one clasp, 12 3/4 x 8 in. $2,000-2,500

255 Frith, Francis (1822-1898) Egypt and Palestine Photographed and Described. London: Virtue, [1858-1859?]. First edition, two folio volumes, illustrated with an oval portrait of a seated man demonstrating “Turkish Summer Costume” and seventy-five additional mounted albumen photographs; the set bound in uniform fullgrain brown morocco, gilt-tooled on boards and spines, a.e.g., intact and functioning bindings, with surface rubbing, slightly worn corners; scattered foxing to some plates, water damage to last leaves of second volume, affecting the last few plates and subscribers list, 17 x 12 in. (2) $3,000-4,000

259 Goldsmith. An Almanack for the Year of our Lord God MDCCLXXII. London: Hett, 1772. 24mo, A-B12, the first signature printed in red and black and interleaved with blanks; elaborately bound in contemporary red morocco, each board decorated with a large diamond-shaped blue morocco onlay with scalloped edges, surrounded by a paper onlay compartment, all decorated with fancy gold tooling, with the matching slipcase decorated identically, marbled endleaves, a.e.g., the binding in very good condition, the slipcase rubbed with some loss of surface, 4 x 2 1/4 in. overall. $700-900

256 Galen (130 AD-200 AD) Opera ex Septima Iuntarum Editione. Venice: Juntas, 1597. Two folio volumes, lacking the first signature in the second volume, aa1-8; title in volume one printed in red and black within an elaborate woodcut compartment, ex libris Dr. Crawford Adams, with his bookplate in each volume, water stains and other faults to contents, should be viewed, in full modern red buckram, 14 1/4 x 9 3/4 in. (2) $200-300

260 Granger, James (1723-1776) A Biographical History of England, Extra-illustrated. London: Baynes & Son, 1824. Six octavo volumes uniformly bound in full dark green straight-grain morocco, gilt rolled tooling on the boards, spines ornately gilt in compartments with lettering directly on the spines, a.e.g.; extra-illustrated, with hundreds of additional portraits and other plates added to the original work, bindings very lightly rubbed, 8 1/2 x 5 in. (6) $400-600

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261 Gregorii, Johann Gottfried (1685-1770) Atlas Portatilis, oder Compendieuse Vorstellung Der Gantzen Welt: in einer kleinen Cosmographie. Nuremberg: Johann Christoph Weigel, 1770. Octavo, folding double-page title printed in red and black, illustrated with twenty-nine of the thirty double-page plates (mostly maps) as called for in the register, all hand-colored; contemporary boards, sewing structure perished, some mildew in the lower right corner throughout, 6 3/4 x 4 in. [and] Christian Ernst Wunsch’s (1744-1828) Kosmologische Unterhaltungen fur junge Freunde der Naturerkenntniss, volume one, Leipzig: Breitkopf, 1794, octavo, illustrated with nineteen folding plates of astronomical subjects, the two most elaborate of which are hand-colored and depict the constellations, contemporary half-leather and paste-paper boards, worn, light foxing throughout, edges of plates projecting from textblock, with attendant marginal wear, 6 1/4 x 3 3/4 in. (2) $700-900 262 Grosse, Henning, ed. (1553-1621) Magica de Spectris et Apparitionibus Spiritu[m] de Vaticiniis Divinationibus &c. Leiden: Hackius, 1656. Later edition, 12mo, with engraved frontispiece showing a woman stirring a cauldron with demons in the background, bound in full contemporary parchment, painted dark green, save the lettering on the spine, with yapp edges, contemporary ownership inscription to ffep, 5 x 3 in. This work, which contains more than 900 tales of spiritual and demonic phenomena, was edited and presented by Henning as derived from an anonymous manuscript found in an anonymous library. $300-500 263 Gruner, Ludwig (1801-1882) Specimens of Ornamental Art Selected from the Best Models of the Classical Epochs. London: Thomas M’Lean, 1850. Folio atlas volume only, without the accompanying quarto-format text volume, illustrated with seventy-nine of eighty full-page lithographic and chromolithographic plates; lacking plate 18, a frieze by Andrea dal Monte Sansovino; most of the color plates have been cut from the book, some edge crumpling, the occasional stain, and some other minor damage, the plates generally fresh; bound in contemporary half red morocco and marbled boards, the text block decased, completely separated from spine and boards, 24 3/4 x 19 1/4 in. $700-900


264 Gumilla, Joseph (1686-1750) El Orinoco Ilustrado, Historia Natural, Civil, y Geographica, de Este Gran Rio, y de sus Caudal Madrid: for Manuel Fernandez, 1741. First edition, quarto, with the folding map, torn with fairly substantial loss, lacking signature A; with two full-page engravings in the text; not collated, in contemporary limp parchment, 8 x 5 3/4 in. Although defective, this work is rare. Worldcat shows only the British Library copy of this edition. This is Gumilla’s most famous work; a Jesuit priest, he was educated and spent most of his life in South America. $600-800 265 Hamilton, Charles (1753-1792) An Historical Relation of the Origin, Progress, and Final Dissolution of the Rohilla Afgans in the Northern Provinces of Hindostan. London: for Kearsley, 1787. First edition, octavo, pages untrimmed throughout, in later paper-covered boards, 8 3/4 x 5 1/4 in. A local dispute between different ethnic groups in northern India ended poorly in 1774 when the British intervened. Soundly defeated by the Nawab as aided by the British East India Company, the Rohilla effectively lost their country. This complete history of the Rohilla, based on a Persian account translated by Hamilton, includes an account of the first Rohilla war. $500-700 266 Harding, James Duffield (1798-1863) Seventy-five Views of Italy and France, Adapted to Illustrate Byron, Rogers, Eustace, and all Works on Italy and France. London: Baily & Co., 1834. Folio, illustrated with steel engravings throughout, bound in modern half leather, marbled paper boards, corners bumped, 16 1/2 x 10 3/4 in. $300-500

267 Harris, Moses (1730-c. 1788) The Aurelian a Natural History of English Moths and Butterflies. London: Henry Bohn, 1840. Folio, illustrated with engraved and colored frontispiece, added engraved title, an unnumbered colored plate of the anatomical parts of a butterfly or moth, and forty-four numbered engravings, all hand-colored and many heightened with gum arabic, bound in half green morocco, spine tooled in gilt with butterflies in the compartments, marbled paper boards, a.e.g.; rubbed, 14 1/2 x 10 1/2 in. $3,000-5,000

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268 Harvey, William Henry (1811-1866) Nereis Boreali-Americana, or Contributions towards a History of the Marine Algae of the Atlantic and Pacific Coasts of North America. Washington: for the Smithsonian, 1851, 1853, and 1858; sold in London by John van Voorst. First edition, three parts in one large quarto volume, illustrated with fifty plates in color and finished by hand, plates printed in London; bound in half red calf with marbled paper boards, rebacked, 12 1/4 x 9 1/2 in. This interesting monograph on seaweeds and algae of North America was a transatlantic operation. The plant specimens themselves were collected on the East and West Coasts, and in Alaska by both professional and amateur plant hunters, including Asa Gray. $400-600

269 Hawksmoor, Nicholas (1661-1736) A Short Historical Account of London-Bridge; with a Proposition for a New Stone-Bridge at Westminster. London: Wilcox, 1736. Quarto, illustrated with five folding engravings, perforated library stamp in lower margin of title and text leaf M2, not affecting text; bound in contemporary marbled paper boards, rebacked in brown calf, 9 1/4 x 7 in. Hawksmoor was an architect, he envisioned a nine-arch stone bridge over the Thames at Westminster, a design achievable by adapting the existing structure. $400-600

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273 Hesiod (fl. circa 750-650 BC) Opera Omnia Latinis Versibus Expressa atque Illustrata a Bernardo Zamagna Ragusino. Parma: Ex Regio Parmensi Typographio [Bodoni], 1785. Large quarto, with half-titles, portrait of Hesiod on title, text in Greek and Latin, bound in a full contemporary red morocco signed binding by Paris binder Bradel, with his engraved ticket pasted on ffep, inner gilt dentelles around all four sides of the board, leather inner joints, watered sky blue silk pastedowns and free endleaves, a.e.g., with double silk endbands and silk ribbon bookmark, boards decorated in a simple linear compartment with gouges, oval floral tools in spine compartments, title directly on spine, and “Bodoni” at the foot, slight cracking at top of front joint only, the binding otherwise entire and unrepaired; presumable blank not present between the end of the Latin section and the divisional title to the Greek section, see collation, 11 1/2 x 8 1/4 in. $1,500-2,000 274 Heywood, Thomas (d. 1641) The Life of Merlin, Sirnamed Ambrosius. London: by Okes, sold by Emery, 1641. First edition, quarto, engraved frontis opposite title, bound in sheep boards, rebacked, some staining and spotting to interior pages, later endleaves, 7 1/4 x 5 1/2 in. Heywood was an actor, playwright, and author of prose works. In this book, he writes a history of the English kings, followed by interpretations of prophecies made by Merlin. $600-800

270 Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1804-1864) The Writings, Autograph Edition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1900. Octavo, nineteen of the twenty volumes, limited to 500 copies, designed by Bruce Rogers, each volume with a frontispiece signed in pencil by its artist, including Childe Hassam, Howard Pyle, Jessie Wilcox Smith, and others, bound in uniform full crushed navy blue morocco, full gilt-tooled inner doublures in navy and white morocco; red onlays and gold tooling on boards and spine, navy blue watered flyleaves, 8 3/4 x 5 3/4 in.; [with] Julian Hawthorne’s (1846-1934) Nathaniel Hawthorne and his Wife, Cambridge: University Press, 1884, two large octavo volumes, set number thirty-three of 350 copies printed, bound uniformly with the set described above, 9 1/2 x 6 in. (21) $400-600

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271 Hegel, George Wilhelm Friedrich (17701831) System der Wissenschaft, Erster Theil die Phanomenologie des Geistes. Bamberg und Wurzburg: Joseph Anton Goebhardt, 1807. First edition, with printer’s single leaf of advertisements after the text, ownership inscription, “E. Zeller” at top outside corner of ffep, likely philosopher Eduard Gottlob Zeller (1814-1908), bound in full contemporary German paste paper over boards, lightly worn and abraded, evenly toned with light speckles in the paper stock throughout, structurally sound, in a later dust cover, old ownership stamp inside front board, 7 1/2 x 4 1/4 in. $2,000-3,000 272 Heller, Joseph (1923-1999) Catch 22, Book Club Edition, Inscribed. New York: Simon and Schuster, [n.d.]. Inscription on ffep, “To Linda Moody, with sincere good wishes. I value your praise. Joseph Heller, September 23, 1993, East Hampton, NY”; with the jacket, good. $300-500

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275 History of the State of Rhode Island. Philadelphia: Hoag, Wade & Col, 1878. First edition, folio, illustrated with many fullpage views, portraits, a full-page map, and other illustrations; lacking the printed title, although the same information appears on the front board, bound in publisher’s cloth. $200-250 276 Hoe, Robert III (1839-1909) The Library of Robert Hoe of New York. New York: Anderson Auction Co., 1911-1912. Eight parts in four octavo volumes, indices and prices realized at the end of each volumes, title pages printed in red and black, illustrated; bound in contemporary half morocco, spines lettered in gilt, marbled endleaves, t.e.g.; boards detached, 9 x 6 in. (4) $200-300


277 Holme, Charles (1848-1923) The Genius of Turner, Bound by Cedric Chivers (18531929). London: Offices of the Studio, 1903. Large quarto, illustrated with colored frontispiece, facsimile letter, and many plates (fifteen printed in color); bound in contemporary russet morocco by Chivers of Bath, with an inset vellucent panel on the front board with the title in a frame decorated with Art Nouveau stylized roses, gilt dots tooled on the vellum insert, surrounded by a curving line-tooled frame accented with Tudor roses and hearts, the spine lettered in gilt with similar tooling; corners and tips slight rubbed, small chip at tail, a few spots and small gouge to the back board; occasional spotting to contents, marginal discoloration to free endleaves from the leather turn-ins, 11 1/2 x 8 in. $300-500 278 Holyoke, Samuel (1762-1820) The Columbian Repository of Sacred Harmony. Selected from European and American Authors, with Many New Tunes not before Published. Exeter, New Hampshire: Henry Ranlet, [1803]. Oblong folio, in original half sheep and blue paper boards, title printed within a type ornament border; title torn and almost completely detached, one preliminary leaf detached, contents toned, with scattered minor worming and tears, 8 3/4 x 11 in. Holyoke’s was the most exhaustive and comprehensive collection of sacred music published to date in this country. The printer, Henry Ranlet (1762-1807), was active in Exeter, New Hampshire, beginning in 1785. $300-400 279 Hume, David (1711-1776) Political Discourses. Edinburgh: by Fleming for Kincaid and Donaldson, 1752. First edition, 12mo in fours, bound in full 19th century brown morocco, ruled in compartments on boards and spine, t.e.g., lettered on spine, front board detached, back joint weak, trimmed down slightly, 6 1/4 x 4 in. $1,500-2,000

280 Inverarity, Robert Bruce (1909-1999) Movable Masks and Figures of the North Pacific Coast Indians. Bloomfield Hills, Michigan: Cranbrook Press, 1941. Folio, text printed in the Cloister Old Style typeface on Strathmore Ruftex paper, one of 250 copies, illustrated with eighteen silkscreened plates by the Michigan Art and Craft Project of the WPA; in the original publisher’s half cloth portfolio, front board printed in red and black with a large woodcut of an orca in the North Pacific Coast illustrative style; pink linen spine and board fore-edges, with the ties, 19 x 12 5/8 in. $300-400 281 Islamic Manuscript, North Africa. Folio-format manuscript on paper in a maghribi script, approximately 350 leaves, in signatures of ten leaves, text written in a dark brown ink with red sections, written in a single column, thirty-one lines per page; in a contemporary goatskin binding, blindstamped on both boards, with the flap; the sewing structure failing, many leaves loose, binding very worn, boards made up of old manuscript waste, now delaminated and released from the binding; worming to binding, water staining to leaves, the acrid ink compromising the structural integrity of the paper in some sections, marginal notations throughout; because of the condition of the sewing and binding, very likely incomplete, 11 3/4 x 8 1/2 in. $1,800-2,000 282 Italian Imprints, Three Works in Four Volumes, 1756-1798. Petrarch’s (1304-1374) Le Rime, Venice: Antonio Zatta, 1756, two large quarto volumes, edited by Cristofor Zapata de Cisneros, title in volume one printed in red and black, with engraved vignettes on both titles, extra engraved title and fullpage engraved dedication in volume one, engraved vignettes; the two bound in uniform contemporary full parchment over boards, gilt lettering pieces, small gilt emblem of Alexander Stuart on both front boards, and his bookplate within, edges sponge-decorated in red and blue, 10 x 7 1/4 in. Versi Sciolti e Rimati di Dorillo Dafneio, [Parma: Stamperia Reale, (Bodoni), 1773], engraved title, vignettes, and head- and tailpieces by Benigno Bossi, ex libris Harvard College Library, with release stamp on verso of dedication leaf, in a blue buckram library binding, 7 x 4 3/4 in. [and] Epigrammi Francesi Tradotti in Versi Italiani, Parma: Bodoni, 1798, 12mo, bound in contemporary mottled calfskin, boards ruled in gilt, red label on spine, a.e.g., joints cracking, 5 1/2 x 3 3/4 in. (4) $300-500

283 Ives, Joseph Christmas (1829-1868) Report Upon the Colorado River of the West. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1861. Large quarto, illustrated with two large folding maps, eight folding panoramic views, twelve full-page illustrations (one tinted), seven full-page Indian portraits in color, forty-one text wood engravings; six additional full-page plates in the geology section, and twentyseven text wood engravings (for a total of fifty-five full-page plates); bound in publisher’s dark brown textured cloth boards, blocked in gilt with a steam boat on the front board, rebacked, with the original spine replaced; text with some foxing, some of the plates tipped into the text block sloppily, with too much glue, short tear in one map, 11 1/4 x 8 1/4 in. Ives and his party were the first to survey and map the Grand Canyon, obtusely proclaiming it “altogether valueless.” “It can be approached only from the south, and after entering it there is nothing to do but leave. Ours has been the first, and will doubtless be the last party of whites to visit this profitless locality. It seems intended by nature that the Colorado, along the greater portion of its lonely and majestic way, shall be forever unvisited and undisturbed.” $300-500 284 Japanese Fairy Tales, Four Bound Volumes. Tokyo: Kobunsha and Hasegawa, [19th c.] Including the following twenty titles, bound in four uniform volumes, with Japanesestyle bindings of printed textile over boards, rebacked in blue cloth; translated by Mrs. T.H. James, all printed on crepe paper, illustrated in full color throughout: The Silly Jelly-fish; Lord Bag O’Rice; The Hare of Inaba; The Battle of the Monkey and the Crab; The Princes FireFlash & Fire-Fade; The Old Man & the Devils; The Mouse’s Wedding; The Serpent with Eight Heads; The Matsuyama Mirror; The Ogre’s Arm; The Fisher-boy Urashima; Hanasaki Jiji; The Cub’s Triumph; Tongue Cut Sparrow; The Wooden Bowl; The Enchanted Waterfall; Kachi-Kachi Mountain; Momotaro; The Ogres of Oyeyama; and Schippeitaro; 5 3/4 x 3 1/2 in. (4) $600-800 285 Johnson, James Weldon (1871-1938) God’s Trombones, Seven Negro Sermons in Verse, Inscribed Presentation Copy. New York: Viking, 1927. First edition, illustrated by Aaron Douglas (1899-1979), with calligraphy by Charles Buckles Falls (1874-1960), in publisher’s printed boards, black cloth spine and corners, worn, inscription on ffep, with postal label bearing the name of the recipient, Zelma Watson George (1903-1994), another of the same label affixed to the title, 8 3/4 x 6 in. $200-300

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286 Jones, Inigo (1573-1652), Walter Charleton (1619-1707), and John Webb (1611-1672) The Most Notable Antiquity of Great Britain, Vulgarly called Stone-Heng, on Salisbury Plain. London: for D. Browne, J. Woodman, and D. Lyon, 1725. Second edition of Jones’s text, the first edition to Charleton’s response, three parts in one volume, general title printed in red and black; part one illustrated with Hollar’s portrait of Jones, three text engravings, and ten of eleven engravings (seven of which are folding or double-page), lacking the plate that should precede page 43; part two contains the portrait, and two plates, one of which is folding; part three is illustrated with ten text illustrations; some minor flaws to plates, including tears, paper flaws, et cetera; bound in later full calf, gilt spine, wove endleaves, wear to spine, old repairs to endcaps, joints cracking somewhat, 13 1/2 x 8 3/4 in. Inigo Jones promulgates the theory that the ancient Romans built Stonehenge as a temple dedicated to Caelus, god of the sky. $500-700 287 Joyce, James (1882-1941) Ulysses. Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1924. Fifth Shakespeare & Co. printing, on the thick paper of inferior quality as described in Solcum’s bibliography, bound in contemporary half morocco, publisher’s white paper wrappers printed in blue ink bound in, priced sixty francs on the back cover, contents brittle and brown, as usual, chipped with loss, binding rubbed, corners bumped, joints dry, label flaking, 8 x 6 1/4 in. $400-600 288 Keith, Thomas (1759-1824) A New Treatise on the Use of Globes. New York: Whiting & Wood, 1811. First American edition, octavo, illustrated with five folding plates, bound in full contemporary sheep, worn, plates with spots and blotches, 8 x 4 3/4 in. $200-300

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289 Kippis, Andrew (1725-1795) The Life of Captain James Cook. London: for G. Nicol, and G.C.J. and J. Robinson, 1788. First edition of the first biography of Cook, large quarto, with the portrait frontispiece, lacking the half-title; bound in full diced russia, a.e.g., rebacked, boards detached, first few signatures detached from the text block and attached to one another with glue along the gutter edge; portrait and title spotted, intermittent foxing to the text, mainly confined to the first and last few signatures, 10 3/4 x 9 in. $600-800 290 Landseer, Thomas (1793-1880) Monkeyana or Men in Miniature. London: Moon, Boys & Graves,1827. Folio, illustrated throughout with twenty-four etchings printed on china paper mounted on wove rag; the work was originally issued in six parts of four etchings each; bound in contemporary half red morocco and marbled paper boards, with the six original publisher’s wrappers bound in at the end, the leather that should be covering one corner is missing, 12 3/4 x 9 1/4 in. $300-400 291 Le Prince, Jean Baptiste (1734-1781) Divers Ajustements et Usages de Russie. [Paris: c. 1818]. Large quarto, completely engraved, with pictorial title and eighty-five plates, each printed on the recto only, one per page, the plates in varying sizes, paper watermarked 1818; bound in modern half dark brown morocco and marbled paper boards, 11 1/4 x 8 ¾ in. $300-500 292 Leclerc, Sebastien (1637-1714) Verdadeiros Principios do Desenho Conforme a Character das Paixoens Por M. le Clerc para uso da mocidade Portugueza. [Lisbon] Impressao Regia, [no date]. Oblong octavo, engraved throughout with ninety-two illustrations on fifty-two plates, modern full calf, red labels, slight water stain at the foot of the first three leaves, 6 x 8 in. $500-700

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293 Leclerc, Sebastien (1637-1714) Album of Engravings. Large folio album of engravings done after Leclerc’s original paintings and drawings and some engraved by Leclerc directly, and signed in the plate, consisting of fifty-three leaves with approximately 472 separate engravings, ranging in size from very large full-page folio, to some the size of postage stamps, and everything in between, including images of many subjects fulfilling many categories of illustration, including title pages, frontispieces, bookplates, armorial crests and medals, illustrations for Aesop’s Fables, the life of Christ, and other works, engraved initials and decorative pieces, portraits, architectural interiors and exteriors, landscapes, and many others, including some that may be proof or unfinished prints; some engravings cut out of the album; bound in contemporary leather, worn, front board detached, corners quite worn, 21 1/2 x 16 in. The only uniting theme of this group of engravings is Leclerc, and it seems unlikely that anyone other than the artist would have access to so much of his work. Although that it is possible that these illustrations were collected by one of his contemporaries who was a great admirer of his work, it may also be that Leclerc himself assembled this album as a portfolio of samples to show his artistic range. $1,500-3,000 294 Leech, John Henry (1862-1900) Butterflies from China, Japan, and Corea. London: Porter, 1892-1894. First edition, three large quarto volumes, the third containing forty-three full-page colored plates of butterflies, bound in half blue buckram and marbled paper boards, original limp covers bound in at the end of the plate volume, text volumes mostly unopened; bookplate and signature inside front board, flyleaves discolored; inked ownership stamp on head and foot of page edges in all volumes, volume one with a bruise to the front board, 11 1/2 x 8 3/4 in. $2,000-3,000 295 Lockhart, J.G., Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart., Extra-illustrated. Philadelphia: Carey, Lea, & Blanchard, 1837. Two octavo volumes, with 108 extra illustrations added, bound in uniform half green morocco and buckram boards, spines decorated and lettered in gilt, t.e.g., 9 x 5 1/2 in. (2) $500-700


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296 Loudon, John Claudius (1783-1843) Arboretum et Fruticetum Britannicum. London: for the Author, sold by Longman et al., 1838. Eight octavo volumes, four containing text, the other four plates, bound in uniform contemporary cloth, defective, boards bumped, some volumes becoming decased; ex library copy, with markings, some internal foxing, not collated, 9 x 5 1/2 in. (8) $200-300

297 Love Tales for the Use of the Fair Sex. Exemplified in Sundry Histories. Taken from Real Life. London: for W. Reeve, 1753. First edition, 12mo, not in ESTC, which lists a second edition in one location only worldwide; this copy with half-title and illustrated with an engraved full-length portrait frontispiece of Charlotte Marton, a full-page engraving titled “Fouquet seizing Isabella and shooting her servant� at page 71, and another of two courtly gentlemen at page 187, bound in full speckled calf by Root & Son, gilt spine, a.e.g., very good, contents with some water spots in the text, 6 1/2 x 3 1/2 in. Provenance: Ex libris Charles S. Dixwell (1868-1934). $300-500

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298 Machado de Mendonca, Jorge Francisco (1726-1767) Pelo Breve Memorial. Lisbon: Miguel Manescal da Costa, 1761. First and only edition, folio, in two parts, bound in contemporary Portuguese brown mottled sheepskin, the royal arms of Portugal stamped in gilt on both boards, within a gilt rolled-tool compartment ornamented with decorative tools at each corner, spine ornamented and ruled in gold, edges sprinkled red, the binding intact, entire, and unrepaired, with a few minor puncture-type worm holes in the spine and a minor wax spill on the top right corner of the back board, dripping onto the spine, ex libris Luiz Vasques de Cunha e Ataide, second Conde de Povolide (16971761) on verso of title page, one wormhole in text, marginal notes in pencil and red and black ink, 13 1/4 x 9 in. This work is a history of the Hospital de Todos os Santos in Lisbon; it is the only work listed by this author in Worldcat, which shows two locations worldwide for the title. $600-800

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299 Machiavelli, Niccolo (1469-1527) The Works. London: for Thomas Davies, et al., 1762. First edition of the Ellis Farneworth (d. 1763) translation, two quarto volumes, bound in full uniform contemporary lightly speckled tan calf, spines tooled in gilt compartments, worn, joints worn through, boards scratched, head and tail caps chipped with loss, 10 1/4 x 8 in. (2) $500-700 300 Manuscript Account of a Sea Journey Coinciding with the War of 1812. Belfast Harbor, Maine; Ireland; England; Nova Scotia; Boston: 23 December 1811-23 July 1812. Quarto, forty pages, written in a neat and legible hand throughout, contemporary half sheep and marbled boards, front board detached, 9 1/4 x 7 1/4 in. This engaging first-person narrative of an eventful transatlantic business trip by a certain Mr. Hayward, is filled with details of storms, descriptions of ports, and notably the capture of our diarist’s vessel by the British frigate Aelus. His account of this maneuver includes the names of all ships involved, their masters, armaments, and all details regarding the disposition of crew and passengers. $300-400

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301 Manuscript Diploma on Parchment, Padua, 1612. Six parchment leaves inscribed in black and gold ink, in Latin, title with ornate handpainted border, bound in full contemporary ornately decorated dark brown and red morocco boards with recessed panels, gold tooling, parchment onlays tooled in silver, hand-painted coats of arms on both boards, remnants of yellow silk ties, with official wax seal housed in brass case, attached to the spine, some wear, accompanied by an English translation of the text, reproducing the ornate title border decoration, outer bifolium parchment, inner leaves paper; worming to pastedowns, binding intact, 9 x 6 3/4 in. This diploma confers a doctorate on Alexander Terentius. $600-800


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302 Manuscript Leaves on Parchment. Four leaves, including two from folio-format antiphonaries, with five-line staves in red, and blue and red initials, some wear, slight ink flaking, later corrections, curling, approximately 21 x 15 in. each; and two leaves from a 15th century English manuscript of Joahnnes de Burgo’s Pupilla Oculi, small portion of top margin trimmed away on one, marks from adhesive tape to top margins of both, 10 1/4 x 7 1/2 in. each. (4) $300-500

303 Manuscript Leaves, Four. One parchment leaf from a miniature Book of Hours in Dutch, fifteen lines per page, one- and two-line initials, some in gilt, large margins, 5 x 3 1/2 in.; one parchment leaf from a Latin Book of Hours, in a minute hand, brown ink, in two columns, thirty-one lines per page, initials in red and blue, 5 1/4 x 3 3/4 in.; a leaf from the Qu’ran, with border and background decoration in gold, black text, with red headings, border decoration, on paper, 9 x 5 3/4 in.; and a parchment ecclesiastical document in Latin, 1479, some marginal damage, 19 1/2 x 8 3/4 in. (4) $300-500

304 Marmontel, Jean-Francois (1723-1799) Les Incas, ou la Destruction de l’Empire du Perou. Paris: Lacombe, 1777. Two octavo volumes, illustrated with engraved frontispiece and ten plates by Simonet, bound in uniform contemporary speckled calf with gilt-tooled spines, red lettering pieces, a.e.g., front joint of volume one cracked, 7 3/4 x 4 1/2 in. [Together with] Manuel Orozco y Berra’s Noticia Historica de la Conjuracion del Marques del Valle, Mexico: Tipografia de R. Rafael, Cadena, 1853, large octavo, in a contemporary, full leather, cathedral-style binding, blocked in blind on both boards within a gilt ruled border, gilt-tooled spine, ex libris Sir Thomas Phillipps, with his ink shelfmark on ffep and penciled “MHC,” 9 x 6 in. (3) $300-500

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305 Massachusetts, Constitutional Convention of 1820-1821. Journal of Debates and Proceedings in the Convention of Delegates, Chosen to Revise the Constitution of Massachusetts. Boston: at the office of the Daily Advertiser, 1821. Large quarto, printed in two columns throughout, untrimmed, pages toned, with some spotting, in the original paper-covered boards; sewing structure loose, 10 x 6 in. $200-300 306 Massachusetts, The Charter Granted by their Majesties King William and Queen Mary, to the Inhabitants of the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England. Boston: B. Green for Benjamin Eliot, 1714. Folio, defective copy, lacking the title, preliminaries and other leaves, not collated, contains The Acts and Laws of Her Majesties Province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England, same imprint, water stained, added laws and acts added at the end, contemporary boards, defective, should be seen, 11 3/4 x 7 1/4 in. $700-900

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307 Mauran, G. (fl. circa 1766) Aviso a’ Gente do Mar Sobre a sua Saude. Lisbon: Joao Antonio da Silva, 1794. First Portuguese edition, octavo, rare, three copies listed in Worldcat; bound in contemporary full red morocco gilt extra, with the royal arms of Portugal gilt-tooled on both boards within a large rolled-tool border, gilt-tooled and lettered spine in fancy compartments, gilt and gauffered edges, ex libris Harrison D. Horblit, with his book ticket; some worming to top compartment of spine, with loss to the center of the top panel, headcap still present and in place, similar but lesser damage at the foot, 7 3/4 x 5 in. This work, a treatise of medical advice for sailors, was first written and published in French in 1766. $1,500-2,000 308 Melville, Herman (1819-1891) Moby Dick, Illustrated and Inscribed by Rockwell Kent (1882-1971). New York: Random House, 1930. Trade edition, octavo, in publisher’s black cloth, silver embossed spine and boards, inscribed on ffep, “To my friend Roy J. Whitehead by Rockwell Kent,” edges slightly dusty and lightly spotted, 7 x 5 1/4 in. $400-600

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309 Melville, Herman (1819-1891) Moby Dick. New York: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, 1851. 12mo, bound in publisher’s dark brown cloth, with Harper Brother’s circular emblem embossed on both boards, white end leaves, six pages of ads following the text; binding shaken and cocked, joints split, boards almost completely detached, edge and corner wear; ffep pasted down to front board, contemporary paper seal of notary public S.C. Beale attached to title page, obscuring the final letter of the title; preliminaries with stain in top inner corner; foxing to text, 7 1/2 x 5 in. $4,000-6,000


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310 Meyrick, Sir Samuel Rush (1783-1848) and Joseph John Skelton (1783-1871) A Critical Inquiry into Antient Armour. London: Henry Bohn, 1842-1854. Five folio volumes, including the three original volumes and two volumes of Skelton’s Engraved Illustrations of Antient Arms and Armour, the second and more complete edition of the set; hand-colored frontispiece in volume one, illustrated throughout with seventy hand-colored plates, most touched with gold; ten uncolored etchings; twentyseven large hand-colored initials, most with gilt highlights in the volumes by Meyrick; the Skelton title illustrated with engraved titles and frontispieces, portrait, and 150 engravings; bound in uniform contemporary half red morocco with marbled paper boards, spines lettered in and tooled in gilt; some minor foxing, 14 1/2 x 10 1/2 in. (4) $2,500-3,000 311 Mirabeau, Honore-Gabriel de Riquetti, Comte de (1754-1792) Atlas de la Monarchie Prussienne. London [Printed in Paris]: [No printer], 1788. Folio, half-title, illustrated with ten doublepage maps engraved by Pierre Tardieu after Mentelle, ninety-three engraved plates of military maneuvers (five of which are doublepage); numerous tables, some folding, the atlas volume only, bound in half green leather, spine gilt and lettered, 15 1/2 x 10 in. $300-500

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312 Mitchell’s New General Atlas, Containing Maps of the Various Countries of the World, Plans of Cities, etc. Embraced in Ninety-three Quarto Maps, Forming a Series of One Hundred and Forty-seven Maps and Plans. Philadelphia: Bradley & Co., 1880. Folio, with colored maps throughout, including those of states and territories in the far west, bound in publisher’s boldly stamped boards; corners and spine badly worn and generally perished, contents better, 15 x 12 1/4 in. $1,000-1,500 313 Mixed Lot Including Decorative Bindings and Rare Books. Approximately fifty-four volumes, bound in leather and cloth, mostly 19th century, including some first editions, fine bindings, and other features of interest, various formats and variable condition, occupying approximately six feet of shelf space, should be viewed. $300-500

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314 Montfaucon, Bernard de (1655-1741) Bibliotheca Coisliniana. Paris: Guerin & Robustel, 1715. First edition, folio, illustrated with five full-page engravings, extraneous to the collation, and numerous text engravings of Greek scripts, bound in full contemporary stiff tight-backed parchment over boards, blind ruled with large central blindstamped lozenge, the binding dirty and dry, front board reflexed, damage to front joint, ex libris English Biblical scholar Henry Barclay Swete (1835-1917), with his bookplate inside the front board, scattered spotting and foxing to text leaves, flyleaves folded and dusty, 15 3/4 x 9 1/2 in. This important work of pioneering paleographer Montfaucon is an exhaustive catalog of the Greek manuscripts from the library of the Duc de Coislin, which he had inherited from his great-grandfather Pierre Seguier (1588-1672). Coislin donated the collection to the abbey of St Germain-desPres in 1731, where some were destroyed by fire in 1793. The surviving manuscripts are now held at the Bibliotheque Nationale. Henry Swete is best known for his editions of the Greek New Testament. $1,500-2,000 315 Morris, Francis Orpen (1810-1893) A Natural History of British Moths. London: George Bell & Sons, 1872. Four octavo volumes, titles printed in red and black, illustrated with 132 hand-colored lithographs, in publisher’s green cloth, stamped in blind, each volume with gilt titling on the spine and a gilt-blocked moth on the front board, 10 x 7 in. (4) $200-300


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316 Morris, William (1834-1896) A Note by William Morris on his Aims in Founding the Kelmscott Press. Together with a Short Description of the Press by S.C. Cockerell, & an Annotated List of the Books Printed Thereat. London: Kelmscott Press, 4 March 1898. The last book printed at the Kelmscott Press, quarto, printed in red and black, with Golden, Troy, and Chaucer types, woodcut illustration, “Psyche borne off by Zephyrus,” by Morris after Edward Burne-Jones, two woodcut borders, initials, and other ornaments, lacking the erratum; bound in publisher’s cloth spine and blue paper boards with printed title, limited edition, copy number 525 of 537 on paper; water stain to front board, 8 x 5 1/2 in. $300-400 317 Munnings, Sir Alfred (1878-1959) Pictures of Horses and English Life. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode; New York: Scribner’s, 1927. Quarto, first trade edition, illustrated with twenty-eight mounted colored plates and eighty-six uncolored plates, bound in full cloth, lettered in black on front board and spine, spine worn at head and foot, 13 1/4 x 10 in. $200-250 318 Niccolini, Antoine (fl. 1900) Pompei Peintres Murales. Naples: Brogi, [c. 1900]. Folio, illustrated with twenty-four chromolithographed plates in colors by Zucchi and De Luca, loose in publisher’s portfolio as issued, titled on the front board; scattered minor foxing to the plates, title page chipped, the portfolio crudely rebacked and worn, ex-library, with blindstamp on title and list of plates, ink stamp on the verso of each plate, 19 x 14 3/4 in. $500-700 319 Nicholson, William (1972-1949) An Alphabet. New York: R.H. Russell, 1898. Large quarto, illustrated with twenty-six full-page plates, printed in a muted palette, in publisher’s printed paper over boards, with a cloth spine, chipped, some plates with marginal tears, title page re-attached to textblock with tape, hinges somewhat frayed, binding connection somewhat tenuous, 12 1/4 x 9 3/4 in. $400-600

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320 Nobbes, Robert (1652-1706?) The Compleat Troller, or the Art of Trolling. London: by T. James for Tho. Helder, 1682 [but c. 1790]. 12mo, an 18th century counterfeit edition, illustrated with two woodcuts in the text, contemporary sheep, old repair at head of spine, contemporary armorial bookplate inside front board, staining in top outside corner of text leaves, area of thinned paper on A6 verso with minor loss, 5 1/2 x 3 1/4 in. $300-500 321 Num. Cento Vedute di Rome e sue Vicinanze. Rome: Tomasso Cuccioni, Via della Croce, [c. 1830]. First edition, oblong octavo, illustrated with engraved title and ninety-seven plates, no text, plates unnumbered, printed on rectos only, some reddish amateur hand-coloring in some plates, foxing, other spotting, in blue cloth, 8 1/4 x 6 in. [Together with] Vestigie di Roma Antica, a map of ancient Rome, by Antonio Nibby (1792-1839), Rome: Monaldini, 1836, engraved, printed on paper, dissected into twenty sections and mounted on linen; some toning, lifting a little from the substrate, in a contemporary slipcase, torn and worn, 33 1/4 x 25 in. (2) $300-500

322 Nuremberg Chronicle, Leaf CCLXII Ultima Etas Mundi (The Last Judgment), Handcolored. Nuremberg: Schedel, 1493. Folio, single full-page woodcut from the Nuremberg Chronicle, depicting the last judgment, from the Apocalypse (the same woodcut used on leaf 265 verso in the Latin edition), showing Christ seated on a rainbow, his feet resting on the orb of the world, flanked by Saint John and the Virgin Mary; the lily of mercy issues from his right ear, and the sword of justice is directed into his left ear, beneath his feet two trumpeting angels are wakening the dead from their graves; a large group is being conducted into heaven by Saint Peter; on the opposite side, demons are taking others to hell; in the center foreground a demon pulls a naked woman from her grave by the hair; hand-colored in red, green, blue, and yellow, the color a bit chalky and faded; the sheet somewhat water stained (more visible on the verso than the image side), text on the verso in German, some marginal splotches and ink spots, a few wormholes; the leaf mounted in a mat with strips of paper tape, slight tear with loss to one corner, double-glazed frame, 17 1/4 x 12 in. $200-250

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323 Oettinger, Johann (1577-1633) Balthasar Kuchler (1571-1641) Warhaffte Historische Beschreibung Der Furstlichen Hochzeit vnd Hochansehnlichen Beylagers So Der Durchleuchtig. Stuttgart: Gedruckt in der Furstlichen Haubtstatt, 1610. Folio, title page printed in red and black, full-page engraving, blank conjugate present, bound in contemporary orange stained limp vellum, somewhat worn, toning and foxing to text, ex libris Conrad Weimann, contemporary inscription, 12 x 7 3/4 in. $400-600 324 Ottoman Calligraphy and Early Qur’an Leaves. Approximately thirty leaves with examples of Turkish calligraphy, including Qur’an leaves decorated in gilt; certificates, calligraphy examples, and other paper and parchment leaves, various sizes and condition; [Together with] three printed books on Ottoman calligraphy. $300-500 325 Ovid (43 BC-AD 17/18) Heroides cum Interpretibus Hubertino Crescent et Iano Parrhasio. Venice: Caesanum, 1552. Quarto, large woodcut printer’s mark on title, 4 1/4 x 2 1/2 in. woodcut heading the first leaf of text, and nineteen small text woodcuts; Ovid’s text printed in a single block of text surrounded by a frame of twocolumn commentary; contemporary marginal manuscripts notes throughout the text in black and brown ink, signature at the foot of the colophon of Hieronymus Agnelli (or Agnellus), “Hieronymus Agnelli urbinatis Fratrum ac Amicorum”; in later half leather and marbled paper boards, seemingly not cut down at the time of the rebinding, notes not trimmed, some spotting and limited stains to text commensurate with use and age, 8 1/4 x 6 in. $500-700


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328 Pauquet, Hippolyte Louis Emile (b. 1797) Modes et Costumes Historiques Dessines et Graves par Pauquet et Freres. Paris: Pauquet Freres & Rene Pincebourde, [1864]. Quarto, half-title, title with hand-colored wood engraved vignette, illustrated with ninety-six hand-colored engraved plates by Hippolyte and Polydore Pauquet, each mounted on a paper guard; bound in contemporary half black morocco with cloth boards, decorative stamping to spine and front board, rebacked, 12 x 9 1/4 in. $200-300 329 Perrault, Charles (1628-1703) Labyrinte de Versailles. Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1679. Second edition, octavo, illustrated throughout with forty full-page engravings of fanciful fountains and an engraved plan of the garden at Versailles that houses the fountains by Sebastian Leclerc; bound in full contemporary mottled calf, with royal arms on front board and royal cypher in spine compartments, water damage to bottom half of binding and text, front joint split, 8 x 5 1/4 in. $1,500-2,000 330 Peters, Harry T. (1881-1948) America on Stone. New York: Doubleday, Doran, & Co., 1931. First edition, copy number 558 of 751, illustrated with frontispiece, seventeen colored and 136 uncolored plates, publisher’s cloth, blocked in silver; spine sunned, slight fraying, 12 x 9 in. $200-300

326 Palm-leaf Manuscript. Approximately 130 leaves, with hand-painted chamfered wooden boards depicting elephant riders on a red background adorned with interlacing vegetal motifs on the front board, the back board in the same style, without the figures, strings intact, with a later title and drawing of the Buddha inside the front board, 18 x 2 in. This text is identified as the Maha Satipatthana Sutta, [corrected orthography] inside the front board, one of the earliest texts of Buddhist teachings, on the practice of mindfulness. $500-700

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327 Patri, Giacomo (1898-1978) White Collar, a Novel in Linocuts, Signed. [San Francisco: Pisani Printing and Publishing Company, c. 1940]. Quarto, signed by Patri on the title page, black printed paper wrappers, with title and author on spine, and a linocut in white on front cover, a graphic novel, with an introduction by Rockwell Kent, followed by single-color linocut illustrations, mostly printed in black ink, occasionally in orange; edges slightly toned, covers with slight wear, rubbing, 8 1/4 x 10 12 in. $400-600

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331 Philenia [aka: Sarah Wentworth Morton] (1759-1846) Ouabi: or the Virtues of Nature. An Indian Tale in Four Cantos. Boston: by I. Thomas and E.T. Andrews, 1790. First edition, of the author’s first published work, octavo, lacking the frontispiece, completely uncut, mostly unopened, removed from a bound volume, with vestiges of that operation, and stab sewn before; some foxing, some pages carelessly opened, offsetting from the missing frontis affecting the title, disbound, 9 x 5 3/4 in. 18th century American poet Morton was a Boston native who enjoyed success as a writer and sat for a portrait by Gilbert Stuart. $300-500


332 Picart, Bernard (1673-1733) Ceremonies et Coutumes Religieuses des Peuples Idolatres, Single Volume. Amsterdam: Bernard, 1735. Folio, volume six only of nine, covering the section on Native American idolaters, and those of the Indian subcontinent, illustrated with thirty-four plates (many after De Bry) of the religious practices of indigenous North Americans and eleven plates of Hindu and other Indian practices; bound in full contemporary tan calf, gilt spine, marbled endleaves; worming to spine, back board starting, joints worn, abrasions, 15 1/2 x 9 3/4 in. $400-600 333 Poesie per L’ingresso Solenne di sua Eccellenza il Signor Giovanni Colombo Cavaliere e Cancellier Grande. Venice: Gianfrancesco Garbo, 1766. Folio, illustrated with engraved title, frontis, full-page arms of the dedicatee, vignettes, head- and tail-pieces, each page of text printed within an ornamental engraved border, in original limp paper wraps, 12 1/2 x 8 1/2 in. $1,000-1,500

334 Poesie per le Nozze Solenni della Nobil Donna Andriana Barbaro col Nobil Uomo Nicolo Foscarini Dedicate a Sue Eccellenze Giovanni Barbaro Fratello e Chiara Barbarigo Barbaro Cognata della Sposa. Venice: [Albrizzi?], 1766. [Bound with] Poesie per le Fauste Nozze della Nobil Donna Andriana Barbaro col Nobil Uomo Nicolo Foscarini Dedicate a S.E. Procuratessa Cecilia Emo Barbaro Madrea della Sposa, [Venice: Antonio Zatta, 1766]. Folio, title page in the first work printed in red and black, with engraved frontis facing; title of second work printed in blue and red, each title with engraved vignette, engraved head- and tail-pieces, text printed on heavy paper, with very large margins; bound in contemporary mottled brown morocco, ornately tooled in gilt, all edges gilt, marbled endleaves; endcaps almost imperceptibly renewed, otherwise very good, occasional spotting in the text, generally very fresh, ex libris John Sax, with his book label, 14 x 9 3/4 in. These two collections of epithalamia, or poems written in honor of the marriage of Andriana Barbaro and Nicolo Foscarini, are both rare. The first title is only held in one library worldwide, according to Worldcat; no listing exists for the second. $3,500-4,000

335 Pollard, Alfred W. (1859-1944) Essay on Colophons with Specimens and Translations. Chicago: [De Vinne Press for] the Caxton Club, 1905. Limited edition, one of 252 copies printed on French handmade paper, large octavo, title printed in red and black, with the Caxton Club engraved vignette, in publisher’s half parchment with tan paper boards, gilt stamped Caxton Club emblem on front board, spine lettered in gilt; rubbed, abrasion with loss at foot of spine; large inscription on ffep from 1933, 11 x 7 in. $200-250 336 Pompei, Girolamo (1731-1788) In Funere Hieronymi Pompeii Patricii Veronensis. Verona: Ex Typographia Ramanziniana, 1788. Broadside, text printed in two columns with type ornament divider, old folds, 19 1/2 x 14 in. Funerary oration delivered on the death of Pompei presented in high typographical style. $200-250

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337 Pontis, Louis, Sieur de (1583-1670) Memoirs. London: by F. Leach for James Knapton, 1694. First edition, folio, title printed in red and black, contemporary speckled calf, joints dry and cracking, old paper label on spine, several iterations of the same contemporary ownership inscription to title, scattered minor dampstaining affecting the first few signatures, 12 x 7 1/2 in. De Pontis was a decorated French military leader who served under Henry IV, Louis XIII, and Louis XIV. $300-400 338 Pope, Arthur Upham (1881-1969) and Phyllis Ackermann (1893-1977), editors. A Survey of Persian Art from Prehistoric Times. London: Oxford University Press, 1936. Six folio volumes, illustrated with 1,483 plates, many in color, printed on the rectos only, several double page, many vignettes and text illustrations, large color folding map tipped in at the end of volume three; bound in original publisher’s blue cloth, faded. (6) $1,200-1,500 339 Pope-Hennessy, Una (1876-1949) Early Chinese Jades. New York: Frederick Stokes & Co., 1923. First American edition, quarto, illustrated with sixty-four photographic plates (eight in color), bound in publisher’s cloth, spine lettered in gilt, with some minor wear, abrasions on pastedowns, 11 x 8 3/4 in. $200-300 340 Portuguese Fine Bindings, Four Volumes, 18th and 19th Century. Including: Cultos de Devocao, e Obsequios, Que se dedicao ao Thamaturgo Portuguez Sto. Antonio de Lisboa, Lisbon: Miguel Manescal da Costa, 1767, 12mo, in full contemporary red morocco, gilt-tooled on boards and spine, gilding to edges worn, 5 1/4 x 3 1/2 in.; Horas de Semana Santa, Lisbon: Regia Officina Typografica, 1776, 12mo, dark green morocco, gilt-tooled, gilt and gauffered edges, 5 1/4 x 3 in.; O Christao Devoto as Principaes Devocoes, Lisbon: Rollandiana, 1820, 12mo, red morocco, tooled in gilt, gilt and gauffered edges; and a late 17th or early 18th century devotional book in Portuguese lacking the title page, octavo, in elaborately gilt-tooled red morocco, gilt and gauffered edges, 5 3/4 x 3 1/2 in. (4) $600-800

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341 Portuguese Fine Bindings, Seven Volumes, Including One Manuscript, 18th and 19th Century. 18th century Christian manuscript on paper in Portuguese, translated from the Italian, octavo, in full Portuguese black morocco, ornately tooled in gilt on boards and spine, gilt and gauffered edges, headband fraying, slight rubbing and some insect damage to the spine, joints sound, 5 3/4 x 3 3/4 in.; Regulamento Para o Exercicio e Disciplina, Dos Regimentos de Infantaria dos Exercitos de Sua Magestade Fidelissima, [Lisbon]: Impresso na Secretaria de Estado, 1763; [Bound with] Instruccoens Geraes Relativas a Varias Partes Essenciaes, Lisbon: Miguel Rodrigues, 1762; [and] approximately fifty leaves of blank paper; octavo, in full contemporary red Portuguese morocco, ornately gilt-tooled over boards and spine, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt and gauffered, one corner with loss, horizontally diagonal break in leather across bottom-most spine compartment, joints firm, 6 1/2 x 4 in.; Gaspar de Bragança’s (1716-1789) Tratado sobre a Origem, Enatureza dos Testamentos, Lisbon: Ferreira, 1783, octavo, bound in full red morocco, ornately tooled in gilt on boards and spine, marbled end leaves, gilt edges, contents good, binding intact, 6 1/2 x 3 3/4 in.; Jacinto Freire de Andrade’s Vida de D. Joao de Castro, quatro Vice-Rei da India, Lisbon: Antonio Gomes, 1786, octavo, illustrated with a frontispiece portrait and three other engraved plates, including a folding view of the port and city of Diu; bound in contemporary sponge-decorated sheepskin, gilt spine and red label, ex libris E. Legge and Sir Thomas Phillipps, 5 3/4 x 3 3/4 in.; [and] Three 19th century Portuguese imprints in gold-tooled armorial bindings, small format, two in leather, one in blue silk. (7) $600-800

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342 Portuguese Imprints in Contemporary Bindings, 1746-1802, Four Volumes. Definicoes, e Estatutos dos Cavalleiros, e Freires da Ordem de Nosso Senhor Jesus Christ, Lisbon: Miguel Manescal da Costa, 1746, folio, illustrated with four full-page woodcuts of crosses for different ecclesiastical garments, printed in red, title page printed in red and black, bound in contemporary undecorated mottled sheepskin, 11 x 7 1/4 in.; Manoel Joze Soares de Brito’s O Cavalheiro Christao Dialogo, Lisbon: Pedro Ferreira, 1761, octavo, frontispiece, title printed in red and black, bound in full contemporary red morocco, tooled in gilt on boards and spine, marbled endleaves, a.e.g.; intact and unrestored, some internal tears to the occasional text leaf, 5 3/4 x 3 3/4 in.; Luiz Rafael Soye’s Sonho Poema Erotico, Lisbon: Francisco Luiz Ameno, 1786, octavo, lacking the engraved portrait, engraved vignette on title and head- and tail-pieces throughout all printed in different colored inks: blue, red, green, and sepia; bound in full contemporary sponge-decorated sheepskin, flat spine with red lettering piece, some minor worming to contents, 5 3/4 x 3 3/4 in.; [and] Cultos de Devocao, e Obsequios, Que se dedicao ao Thamaturgo Portuguez Sto. Antonio de Lisboa, Lisbon: Simao Thaddeo Ferreira, 1802, octavo, engraved frontis, printed music; bound in full contemporary red morocco, ornately tooled in gilt on boards and spine, all edges gilt and gauffered, marbled endleaves, 5 1/2 x 3 3/4 in. (4) $700-900 343 Portuguese Imprints in Royal Armorial Bindings, 1820-1881, Four Volumes. Antonio de Molina’s Communhao Perfeita, Lisbon: Impressao Regia, 1820, 12mo, red morocco, tooled in gold, a.e.g., 5 x 2 3/4 in.; Antonio Pereira Ferrea Aragao’s Diccionario Mnemotechnico, Lisbon: Jose Baptista Morando, 1850, octavo, in full tan leather, gilttooled and lettered dedication binding, front joint starting, 7 3/4 x 4 3/4 in.; Andre Meyrelles de Tavora do Canto e Castro’s O Marquez de Sa da Bandeira, Lisbon: Carvalho, 1876, octavo, in brown pebble-textured cloth, bound for Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1816-1885), Fernando II: King Bomba, 8 1/4 x 5 3/4 in.; [and] Esgotos de Lisboa, Lisbon: Thomaz Quintino Antunes, 1881, octavo, bound in full contemporary black morocco, decorated in gilt with the arms of Fernando II, as above, a.e.g., 9 x 5 1/2 in. $600-800


344 Portuguese Imprints, Fine Bindings, Diarios Ecclesiasticos and Almanacks Familiars, 18th and 19th Century. Including six Diarios Ecclesiasticos in full leather bindings in white, red, green, and tan, all elaborately tooled in gilt, 1797-1844, all printed in Lisbon, small 12mo, some with folding hand-colored maps; Folhinha Historica, Lisbon: da Rocha, 1845, in gold-tooled tan morocco; Officio Particular em Lovvor do Principe dos Anjos Sao Miguel Archanjo, Lisbon: Ant. Alz Impr. Del Rey, 1652, miniature format, 16 leaves, in gold-tooled red morocco; and five 19th century Portuguese almanacs. (14) $600-800 345 Processionale, Ritibus Romanae Ecclesiae Accommodatum; Antiphonas & Responsoria aliaque in Supplicationibus decantari solita complectens. Antwerp: Plantin Moretus, 1629. Quarto, title page and text printed in red and black throughout, engraved vignette on title, printed music, woodcut initials, vignettes; bound in full contemporary red morocco, ornately lettered and tooled in gilt on spine, incorporating the Jesuit IHS emblem, angel heads with wings, the drawer handle tool; boards also ornately tooled in gilt compartments with a twining vine motif and small acorns, the tooling suggests an English binder, a.e.g., marbled endleaves, surface wear, top cap with endband coming loose, 9 1/4 x 7 1/4 in. $600-800 346 Qur’an Manuscript on Paper. Octavo format manuscript in black ink with gold decoration, three illuminated carpet pages, approximately 300 leaves, text within borders, fifteen lines per page, 6 3/4 x 4 1/4 in. $3,000-5,000 347 Racine, Jean (1639-1699) Theatre de Racine. Tours: Alfred Mame et Fils, 18761877. Two large octavo volumes, one of twenty copies on papier du Chine, from a limited edition of 307 copies, illustrated with portrait frontispiece in volume one, and forty-six headpieces by Foulquier, bound in uniform half red morocco, marbled paper boards by Pouillet, gilt spines, chipped, 11 x 7 1/4 in. (2) $200-300

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348 Rackham, Arthur (1867-1939) Signed Print. Offprint of the frontispiece created by Rackham to accompany Percy MacKaye’s book, The Far Familiar, signed and inscribed to MacKaye, 16 April 1938, in a folder with MacKaye’s pencil notes and signature on the front cover, 10 x 7 1/2 in. Provenance: From the collection of Percy MacKaye (1875-1956), by descent to Marion MacKaye Ober. $300-500 349 Rare Book and Document Lot. Including a defective copy of Homer’s Iliad in French, Paris: Barbin, 1682, octavo, with fullpage engravings, disbound, lacking text leaves and illustrations, in contemporary morocco boards; a miniature Ethiopic manuscript on parchment with wooden boards, text in red and black, sewing failed, pages loose and detached, 3 x 3 1/4 in.; and a large English parchment indenture from 1701. (3) $200-300

350 Rare Books Sign. Solid wood sign, carved to look like an open book, painted in white and red, with “Rare Books” on the inner pages, and “Old Books” carved and painted on the boards, some chipping, paint surfaces crazed with some loss, two screw eyes attached to the top edge, 19 1/2 x 13 in. $800-1,200 351 Renneville, Rene Auguston Constantin de (1650-1723) L’Inquisition Françoise ou L’Histoire de la Bastille. Amsterdam: Etienne Roger, 1719. Second edition, five octavo volumes, illustrated with portrait frontis in volume one, another frontispiece in volume five (the Supplement), and numerous full-page engravings throughout; title pages printed in red and black; bound in uniform contemporary speckled leather, gilt-tooled spines, red labels, ex libris Sigmund von Erlach, with his bookplate in each volume, crest hand-colored in volume one, some slight wear to bindings, 6 x 3 3/4 in. (5) The author himself was imprisoned in the Bastille for fourteen years. $700-900

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352 Rodriguez Guillen, Pedro (fl. circa 1730) El Sol, y Ano Feliz del Peru San Francisco Solano. Madrid: Agreda, 1735. Folio, title printed within a border of type ornaments, full-page typographical table on page 102, bound in contemporary limp parchment sewn on alum-tawed thongs, sewing structure broken in more than one place, text leaves somewhat dog-eared, some spotting, 11 3/4 x 8 in. This text celebrates the canonization of Saint Francis Solano (1549-1610), the Spanish Franciscan friar and missionary to Peru. $400-600 353 Roger-Marx, Claude (1888-1977) Simili, Illustrated by Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947) Paris: au Sans Pareil, [1930]. Quarto, one of 225 examples on velin Lafuma, in publisher’s soft paper covers, 8 1/4 x 6 1/2 in. $300-500

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354 Rouillé, Guillaume (c. 1518-1589) Prima [et Secunda] Pars Promptuarii Iconum Insigniorum a Seculo Hominum. Lyons: Rouillium, 1553. First edition, quarto, two parts bound as one, three signatures with leaves bound in the incorrect order (signatures g, k, and hh); illustrated throughout with two woodcut portrait emblems printed at the top of each page, bound in contemporary limp parchment, 19th ownership inscription and bookplate; water staining and toning to some text leaves, 9 x 6 1/4 in. $750-950

355 Rousseau, Jean-Baptiste (1671-1741) Odes, Cantates, Epistres et Poesies Diverses. Paris: Chez P. Didot, 1790. Large quarto, half-title, one of 250 copies printed for the education of the Dauphin, bound in full contemporary French red morocco, covers with gilt border and corner pieces, central gilt-tooled arms of the Jolivet de Vannes family, and an added spine label mentioning the education of the Dauphin, blue silk pastedowns and flyleaves, a.e.g., 12 x 8 3/4 in. $2,000-2,500 356 Réaumur, René-Antoine Ferchault de (1683-1757) The Art of Hatching and Bringing up Domestick Fowls of all Kinds. London: for Davis, Millar, and Nourse, 1750. First English edition, illustrated with fifteen folding plates, bound in contemporary speckled calf, joints cracked, losses at head and tail, 7 3/4 x 4 3/4 in. In this work, Réaumur describes his experiments in artificial incubation (i.e., using manure heaps and ovens) and new ways of keeping eggs fresh, among many other details of the daily practicalities of the keeping of fowl. $350-550

357 Sabretache [aka Albert Stewart Barrow], Shires and Provinces. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode Ltd.; and New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1926. First edition, large quarto, title printed in red and black, half-title, initials in red, illustrated with sixteen mounted color plates, occasional uncolored illustrations after Lionel Edward; bound in publisher’s green cloth, front board and spine blocked in gilt, t.e.g.; slight discoloration to spine and boards, 13 3/4 x 10 1/2 in. $150-250

358 Saint-Cyran, Paul-Edme Crublier de (17381793) Calculo das Pensoes Vitalicias por Saint-Cyran, Traduzido em Portuguez e Dedicado a Sua Serenissmo Principe do Brazil, Nosso Senhor. Lisbon: Regia Officina Typografica, 1797. Folio, with twenty-seven folding typographical tables bound after the text, ornately bound in full contemporary Portuguese red morocco, with the large gilt-stamped royal arms of Joao VI (1769-1826), King of Portugal and Prince of Brazil on both boards, within a rolled tool compartment, spine gilt tooled in compartments with floral motifs, green lettering piece, gilt and gauffered edges, marbled endleaves, unrepaired and intact, 11 1/4 x 7 1/4 in. Joao VI was forced to flee Portugal for Brazil in 1807, when Napoleon invaded. He did not return to Lisbon until 1822. $1,000-1,500 359 Saint-Lambert, Charles Francois de (17161803) Les Saisons. Paris: de l’Imprimerie de P. Didot l’aine, 1796. Large quarto, illustrated with four engraved plates by Morel after Chaudet, printed on velin, the plates in an early state, before letters were added; bound in full contemporary morocco, with rolled Greek key tool in gilt on boards, inner gilt dentelles, spine lettered and tooled in gold, with a lyre tool, pale blue watered silk pastedowns and free endleaves, a.e.g.; some bumping to corners, binding intact, some slight spotting and foxing to contents, 12 1/4 x 8 3/4 in. $500-700

360 Sammelband of Seven Rare English Erotic and Controversial Works, c. 1638-1691. All works octavo or 12mo, including: A Shorte Treatise against Stage-Playes, [No place: no printer,] 1638, not in ESTC, 36 pages, side notes trimmed; The Curtezan unmasked: or the Whoredomes of Jezebel Painted to the Life, London: for Henry Marsh, 1664, first and only edition in ESTC, two copies worldwide, 35 pages; The Whores Dialogue Briefly Discovering the Cheats, Abuses, and Trappaning Trades which they drive; their ways to entice young Cullies; their picking Gentlemens Pockets, their alluring looks and fawning Carriage to draw in Customers; with the common dangers they lie under by the rude Rout, and destructions they come to at last. As Also A Briefe Character of a Lady of Pleasure, London: by P.L. for T. Passenger, 1668, nothing by this title listed in ESTC, two other works printed by Passenger in 1668 appear, no sign of any work titled thus, 12 pages; The Comforts of Whoreing, and the Vanity of Chastity. With a Poem in Praise of the Pox, London: Printed in the year, 1691; no record for this edition of this title in ESTC, a 1694 edition is recorded in one copy at the British Library; the present title also contains a frontispiece, 47 pages; A Protestant’s Resolution: Shewing his Reasons Why He will not be a Papist, London: [imprint trimmed away], 18th c. edition, “fifth edition” on title, 67 pages; William Benn’s (1600-1680) The Judgment of Mr. Francis Bamfield, London: W. Godbid, for Joseph Nevill, 1672, 86 pages; Charles Morton’s (1627-1698) The GamingHumor Considered, and Reproved. Or, the Passion-Pleasure, and Exposing Money to Hazard by Play, Lot, or Wager Examined, London: for Tho. Cockerill, 1684, headlines trimmed, title page dirty, 52 pages, the seven titles bound in full speckled calf, c. 1910, by Root & Son, area of darkening to front board, 5 1/2 x 3 1/4 in. Provenance: Ex libris Charles S. Dixwell (1868-1934). $500-700 361 Sammtliche Truppen von Europa in Characteristichen Grupen. Wurzburg: Christian Weiss, 1840. Small folio, engraved title, illustrated with fortyseven (of forty-eight) hand-colored plates; forty-three of that number showing costume, the other four regimental flags; bound in publisher’s illustrated and titled boards, with contemporary morocco spine, 14 1/2 x 10 3/4 in. $300-400

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364 Schäffer, Jacob Christian (1718-1790) Die Sattelfliege. Regensburg: Emanuel Adam Weiss, 1753. Quarto, illustrated with a hand-colored folding engraving showing microscopic views of the fly, with closer views of the eyes and thorax; [Bound with] Das Zwiefalter- oder Afterjuengferchen, Regensburg: Montag, 1763, with a hand-colored folding engraving with views of this lace-wing type insect; [and] Abbildung und Beschreibung des Maywurm-Käfers, Regensburg: Montag, 1778, quarto, final leaf with corner cut away, slight loss of text (affecting two words) illustrated with a hand-colored full-page engraving of three beetles, with closer views of their legs; title page dirty; this volume slightly smaller than the other two with which it is bound, 8 1/4 x 6 1/2 in., the other two measure 8 1/2 x 6 3/4 in., bound in marbledpaper-covered boards. [Together with] Another edition of Schäffer’s Die Sattelfliege, Regensburg: Schriften, 1762; [Bound with] Der wunderbare und vieleicht in der Natur noch nie erschienene Eulenzwitter, Regensburg: Montag, 1763; and Der Afterholzbock in einem Sendschreiben beschrieben, Regensburg: Montag, 1763, each of these works with a hand-colored full-page engraving of magnified insects discussed in the various treatises, bound to match the one described above, 8 1/4 x 6 1/2 in. $400-600

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362 Sander, August (1876-1964) Antlitz der Zeit. Munich: Transmare/Kurt Wolff, 1929. First edition, small folio, photographic illustrations, in publisher’s yellow cloth, binding damaged, spine becoming detached, an ex library copy, with stamps, labels, perforated stamp to half-title, 11 1/4 x 8 1/2 in. $1,500-2,000

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363 Schenker, Heinrich (1868-1935) Counterpoint. New York: Schirmer Books, a division of Macmillan, 1987. First edition of the John Rothgeb and Jurgen Thym translation, in two volumes, with dust jackets, in the publisher’s slipcase, minor toning to jacket spines, 9 1/4 x 6 in. (2) $200-300

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365 Scupoli, Lorenzo (1503-1610) Combate Espiritual, I. e II. Parte. Lisbon: Joseph Filippe, 1761. Octavo, bound in full dark brown Portuguese morocco, richly gilt in the rococo style, with a large central circle made up of small tools, ornamented in successive circular patterns with other tools, with fan patterns occupying the corners of the boards, spine also gilttooled, all surfaces showing more gilding than leather, a.e.g., marbled endleaves; a very well preserved binding, no repairs, text leaves toned, 6 1/4 x 4 in. $600-800 366 Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) The Works. New York: Nonesuch Press, 19291933. Seven large octavo volumes, bound in full tan niger morocco, copy number 1520 of the limited edition of 1600, designed by Francis Meynell, printed in England by Walter Lewis, edited by Herbert Farjeon, ex libris Alexander Peckover, with his bookplate, spines faded to different degrees, 9 1/4 x 5 3/4 in. (7) $600-800


367 Sheridan, Richard Brinsley (1751-1816) Verses to the Memory of Garrick. London: T. Evans, 1779. First edition, quarto, half-title, engraved allegorical frontispiece by Albanesi after de Loutherbourg, with the dedication in the second state, with the word “deference” spelled correctly, bound in later brown calf by Riviere, rebacked, 10 1/2 x 8 1/4 in. $200-250 368 Singer, Isaac Bashevis (1902-1991) Satan in Goray, Illustrated by Ira Moskowitz (b. 1912). New York: Sweetwater Editions, 1981. Large quarto, an out-of-series and unnumbered copy of the limited edition of 475, signed on the limitation leaf by the author and the artist; illustrated with frontispiece and ten original etchings each signed in pencil by Moskowitz; bound in full purple morocco, 11 1/2 x 8 3/4 in. $500-700 369 Smith, Alexander (active 1714-1726) The Court of Venus, or Cupid restor’d to Sight; Being a History of Cuckolds and Cuckoldmakers, Containing an Account of the Secret Amours and Intrigues of our British Kings, Noblemen, and others, with the most celebrated Beauties, and famous Jilts, from Henry the Second, to the present Time. Volume I: London: printed and sold by J. Baker in Pater-Noster-Row, and A. Dodd without Temple-Bar, 1716. Volume II: London: printed for J. Baker in Pater-Noster-Row, R. Burleigh in AmenCorner, and A. Dodd without Temple-Bar, 1716. First edition with this title, according to ESTC, a re-issue of The Secret History of the Lives of the Most Celebrated Beauties, 1715; this edition with one worldwide holding, at William Andrews Clark; two 12mo volumes, two ads before and after the title in volume one, bound in uniform speckled calf by Root & Son, gilt spines, a.e.g., very good, 6 x 3 1/2 in. (2) Provenance: Ex libris Charles S. Dixwell (1868-1934). $700-900

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370 [Society of Friends, Controversial Literature, Three Volumes] Wyeth, Joseph (1663-1731) Anguis Flagellatus. London: T. Sowle, 1699. First edition, octavo, contemporary boards, worn and detached, 7 1/4 x 4 1/2 in. Charles Leslie’s (1650-1722) The Snake in the Grass: or, Satan Transform’d into an Angel of Light, London: Charles Brome, 1697, second edition, octavo, contemporary boards, boards becoming detached, many page corners creased, 7 1/2 x 4 1/2 in. [and] Charles Leslie’s (1650-1722) A Defence of a Book Intituled, The Snake in the Grass. In Reply to Several Answers put out to it by George Whithead, Joseph Wyeth, &c., London: M. Bennet, C. Brome, W. Keblewhite, and Geo. Strahan, 1700, first edition, octavo, contemporary boards, 7 3/4 x 4 1/2 in. These volumes not collated. (3) $200-250

371 Sousa e Sampaio, Francisco Coelho de (fl. circa 1790) Preleccoes de Direito Patrio Publico, e Particular [First, Second, and Third Parts]. Coimbra: Real Imprensa da Universidade, 1793. Quarto, two volumes in one; [Bound with] the same author’s Observacoes as Preleccoes, Lisbon: Impressao Regia, 1805; first work illustrated with an engraved frontispiece portrait of Joao VI, King of Portugal; all parts bound together in a full contemporary red morocco binding from Portugal, with the arms of Joao VI stamped in gilt on both boards, fancy rolled-tool gilt boards, and spine compartments decorated with swags of garlands and urns, edges sprinkle decorated with gold, some marginal stains, 8 x 5 1/2 in. $1,500-2,000

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372 Sovo o Polku Igoreve, [The Tale of Igor’s Campaign]. Moscow: Academia, 1934. Folio, illustrated by Ivan Golikov (1729-1805), edited by V. Rzhygoj and S. Shambinogo; text illustrated with ten mounted full-color plates resembling lacquer (including the frontis), many color-printed head- and tailpieces, text in Old Russian; in publisher’s cloth boards with a mounted illustration on the front board, colorful endleaves, silk bookmark, with a plain dust jacket, and in the publisher’s box, the box coming to pieces, paper chipped, 17 1/2 x 12 in. overall. $200-400

373 Sowerby, James (1757-1822) English Botany, Partial Set, Eighteen Volumes. London: for the Author, 1793-1806. Large octavo-format set, illustrated with hundreds of hand-colored botanical plates throughout, bound in uniform contemporary speckled and marbled calfskin, ruled in gilt, contemporary ownership inscriptions and bookplates of Jasper Holmes; most spine labels flaking away or lost, bindings dry, rubbed; not collated, sold as a collection of plates, consisting of volumes two, three, four, six through ten, twelve through eighteen, and twenty through twenty-two, 8 3/4 x 5 1/4 in. (18) $1,000-1,200

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374 Sterne, Laurence (1713-1768) Works. London: for Strahan et al., 1783. Ten octavo volumes, illustrated by Hogarth, bound in uniform contemporary calfskin, with the marbled page in volume two, page 111/112, bindings dry, joints cracked and tender, some boards detached, 7 1/4 x 4 1/4 in. (10) $300-500 375 Stockbridge, Virgil D. (1837-1916) Digest of Patents Relating to Breech-loading and Magazine Small Arms (Except Revolvers) Granted in the United States from 1836 to 1873, Inclusive. Washington: [for the Patent Office], 1875. Quarto, illustrated with lithographs of 780 patent drawings (usually ten per page) on eighty-four pages, bound in modern half calf with contemporary marbled-covered boards, small errata slip tipped onto rear pastedown, 11 1/2 x 9 in. No copies of this title appear in the auction records, however, a facsimile was published in 1963. The dust jacket blurb reads in part, “The Digest is the only existing compilation of U.S. patents of breech-loading and repeating small arms. [...] As a means for identifying trial or experimental pieces (usually unmarked on the guns themselves) this reference work is without parallel.” $800-1,000


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376 Strauss, Richard (1864-1949) Ariadne auf Naxos, Signed. Berlin: Adolph Furstner, [1912]. Folio, signed by Strauss in pencil, top right corner of the title page, in publisher’s full olivedrab cloth, original black publisher’s label on front board and spine, lettered in gilt; binding rubbed, corners frayed, 12 3/4 x 10 1/4 in. $700-900 377 Swan, Joseph R. (1802-1884) A Treatise on the Law Relating to the Powers and Duties of Justices of the Peace and Constables in the State of Ohio, with Practical Forms. Columbus, Ohio: Isaac N. Whiting, 1837. First edition, large octavo, bound in full contemporary sheep, book ticket of a contemporary Ohio bookseller inside front board, the binding somewhat worn, some stains to interior, red label on spine, 9 1/4 x 5 1/2 in. $200-300

378 Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745) Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. London: for Benj. Motte, 1726-1727. Octavo, two volumes, portrait, five maps and a linguistic chart, Latin inscription beneath portrait, volume two identified on the title as the second edition, bound in full blue levant morocco, by Morrell, gilt spine and boards, inner gilt dentelles, a.e.g.; joints a bit dry, 7 1/2 x 4 3/4 in. (2) $1,000-1,200 379 Symmachus, Quintus Aurelius (c. 340-c. 402) Ex Bibliotheca Coenobii S. Benigni Divionensis. Paris: Chesneau, 1580. [Bound with] Cassiodorus’s (c. 485-c. 585) Variarum libri XII & Chronicon Theodericum Regem, Paris: Nivellium, 1583, quarto, full vellum over boards, water stained throughout, binding defective, 9 1/4 x 6 1/2 in. $400-600

380 Tales of Terror. London: Bulmer for Bell, 1801. First edition, octavo, illustrated with two handcolored plates, one bound as the frontis; extra engraved title, in full calf by Root & Son, two labels on the spine, boards gilt-ruled, a.e.g., spine a bit dry, faded, 7 x 4 1/4 in. Once attributed to Matthew Gregory Lewis (1775-1818), Tales of Terror is now considered to be a parody of his work. Provenance: Ex libris Charles S. Dixwell (1868-1934). $600-800 381 Tasso, Torquato (1544-1595) Aminta Favola Boschereccia. Crisopoli [i.e., Parma]: Bodoni, 1789. Large quarto, engraved portrait of Tasso on title, bound in full speckled sheepskin, spine with two lettering pieces and gilt-tooled decoration, rebacked, corners and boards with wear, structurally functional, a.e.g., 11 1/2 x 8 in. $300-500

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382 Taylor, Bayard, ed. (1825-1878) Picturesque Europe. New York: Appelton, [c. 1876-1879]. Three large quarto volumes, bound from the original sixty parts, illustrated throughout with steel-engraved plates and numerous woodengraved text illustrations; bound in uniform red morocco, ornately tooled in gilt by the Rowfant Bindery of Cleveland, Ohio, t.e.g., gilt turn-ins, marbled endleaves, publisher’s wrappers bound in at the end of each volume; slight discoloration to small sections of boards, volumes two and three, 12 3/4 x 10 in. (3) $600-800

386 The Book of Kells [Evangeliorum Quattuor Codex Cenannensis]. Berne: Urs Graf Verlag, 1950-1951. Three folio volumes, facsimile of the Book of Kells, volumes one and two limited to 400 copies, volume three limited to 500; first two volumes illustrated with forty-eight color plates, many full-page black-and-white illustrations; with the original prospectus, bound in publisher’s full vellum-backed boards, volume three in the publisher’s dust wrapper, all three in publisher’s slipcases, the cases slightly worn, 15 3/4 x 11 3/4 in. (3) $1,000-1,500

390 The Laws of the United States of America. Philadelphia: Folwell, 1796. [and] Acts Passed at the First [Second and Third] Session[s] of the Fifth Congress of the United States of America, Philadelphia: Ross, 1797. Four octavo volumes, numbered one through four on the spines, in uniform tan calf, ex libris Town of Northbridge, Massachusetts, with stamps to titles and first divisional titles and inside boards, some spotting, toning, bindings rubbed, worn, endcaps chipped, red labels on spines, 7 3/4 x 4 1/2 in. (4) $400-600

383 Thacker, Thomas (fl. circa 1829) The Courser’s Companion; or, a Practical Treatise on the Laws of the Leash. Derby: Richardson, 1829. First edition, 12mo, half-title, frontispiece, vignette on title, in publisher’s boards, repeating the vignette and frontis, repaired with cloth tape, 5 3/4 x 3 1/2 in. $300-400

387 The Curious Book. Edinburgh: by Pillans for Thomas, Baldwin, Craddock, and Joy, 1826. Octavo, containing literary notices of interest including the character of Lord Byron, the death of Shelley, and the last moments of Robert Burns, with half-title, and errata leaf; bound in green half calf by Riviere, 7 1/2 x 4 3/4 in. $200-300

384 The American Art Review. A Journal Devoted to the Practice, Theory, History and Archaeology of Art. Boston: Estes & Lauriat, 1880. Large quarto volume, volume one, edited by Thomas Moran (1837-1926), illustrated with sixty-one plates, including original etchings by Thomas Moran, Peter Moran, R. Swain Gifford, Henry Farrer, J.M. Falconer, J. Foxcroft Cole, A.F. Bellows, Samuel Colman, W. Leibl, James Smillie and others; bound in publisher’s brown cloth, gilt stamped on front board and spine, t.e.g., brown endleaves; surface scratches, abraded at tail, 12 1/4 x 9 1/4 in. $350-550

388 The Field of Mars: Being an Alphabetical Digestion of the Principal Naval and Military Engagements in Europe, Asia, Africa, and America. London: for J. MacGowan, 1781. First edition, two quarto volumes, half-titles and list of subscribers present, illustrated with two frontispieces and fifty-nine engravings, including plans and maps (of which three are folding), bound in contemporary calf, rebacked, later endleaves, joints and spines worn, 10 1/4 x 8 1/4 in. (2) $700-900

391 The Life of Joice Heth, the Nurse of Gen. George Washington, (The Father of our Country), Now Living at the Astonishing Age of 161 Years, and Weighs Only 46 Pounds. New York: Printed for the Publisher, 1835. Octavo pamphlet, six leaves, disbound, some foxing and toning, 6 1/2 x 4 1/4 in. P.T. Barnum had just purchased Joice Heth for display in August of 1835. This pamphlet was likely issued in conjunction with Barnum’s show. In a rather ghastly display of 19th century exploitation, Barnum, in response to great public misgivings regarding Heth’s actual age, held a public autopsy after her death which attracted 1,500 spectators. The surgeon declared Heth’s actual age to have been about eighty years. Additionally, there seems to be no evidence that she ever served as Washington’s nurse. $200-300

385 The Baur Collection, Chinese Ceramics, Volumes I-III. Geneva: Collections Baur, 1968-1984. Three quarto volumes, each volume one of 1,000 copies printed, bound in uniform publisher’s cloth, with slightly worn dust jackets, illustrated throughout, mostly in color, some plates folding; minor water staining affecting the first sixteen text leaves of volume three, but not the illustrations, 11 x 9 in. Swiss collector Alfred Baur (1865-1951) acquired Chinese ceramics and other treasures from the Far East for more than forty-five years; his collection is on display at Foundation Baur in Geneva. $1,500-2,000

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389 The Floricultural Cabinet, and Florist’s Magazine. London, 1833-1850. Volumes one through seventeen only (of twenty-seven) bound in fourteen small octavo volumes, illustrated with eleven additional titles, 204 of 205 plates; seventy-three colored lithographs; 163 hand-colored engravings (six of which are folding); numerous advertisement leaves, some printed on colored paper; volume ten lacking the title and volume seventeen lacking the final plate; in two different bindings, as such: volumes one through ten in later half brown morocco, 8 x 5 1/4 in.; volumes eleven through seventeen in contemporary half calf, 8 1/4 x 5 1/2 in. (14) This illustrated periodical was edited by Joseph Harrison, head gardener to Lord Wharncliffe at Wortley Hall near Sheffield, his sons picked the work up for subsequent publications on the same subject. $500-700

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392 The New Game of Human Life with Rules for Playing: being the most Agreeable & Rational Recreation ever Invented for Youth of both Sexes. London: John Wallis, 1790. One engraved sheet, hand-colored, dissected into sixteen panels and mounted on linen, as issued; rare, ESTC locates only the copy at the Bodleian, no North American libraries with holdings; housed in the original publisher’s slipcase, made of light board and covered in pink paper, with the engraved title trimmed to oval shape and pasted on the outside; the game board generally bright, with good color, some thumbing, toning, a few spots, and manuscript notes in the margin and on the verso, 27 1/4 x 19 in. when unfolded; the slipcase darkened, worn, with a short tear on the left top opening, 5 x 7 in. in the case. $800-1,000


393 The Remembrancer, or Impartial Repository of Public Events for the Year 1778. London: for J. Almon, 1778. Octavo, the sixth volume of this serial news publication, produced between 1775 and 1784; this issue containing much information on events of the American Revolution, untrimmed throughout, with a folding table, in contemporary boards, leather spine, sewing structure perished, effectively disbound, 9 x 5 1/2 in. $300-500

397 Thomson, Thomas (1773-1852) Travels in Sweden, during the Autumn of 1812. London: Baldwin, 1813. First edition, quarto, illustrated with thirteen engravings: two portraits, six maps (of which four are folding), five other plates, and one plan (one plate printed in bistre), bound in contemporary half calf over marbled paper boards, rebacked, new endleaves, occasional old repairs to folding maps, some light spotting to maps and plates, 10 3/4 x 8 1/2 in. $300-400

394 Theocritus (fl. circa 270 BC) Idylles de Theocrite Traduites en Francais par J.B. Gail, [Bound with] Les Amours de Leandre et de Hero Paris: Imprimerie de Baudelot et Eberhart, L’An IV [1795/6]; [and] Paris: Chez Gail, L’An Quatrieme [1795/96]. Two titles bound in two large quarto volumes, new edition of Jean-Baptiste Gail’s (17551829) translation of Theocritus first published in 1792, French and Greek text on facing pages, both works illustrated with full-page engravings; bound in full contemporary marbled calf, rolled gilt borders on boards, inner gilt dentelles, smooth spines gilt in compartments with red lettering pieces, a.e.g., blue silk bookmarks, marbled endleaves, one corner bumped, 10 x 7 3/4 in. (2) $400-600

398 Thornton, Robert John (1768-1837) The Temple of Flora. [Folio Society, 2008]. Folio, facsimile edition of twenty-nine color plates in publisher’s portfolio, no title, 22 x 18 in. $400-600

395 Theocritus (fl. circa 270 BC), Bion (2nd Century BC), and Moschus (fl. circa 150 BC) The Idyls. London: Printed by the Riccardi Press for the Medici Society, 1922. Two large quarto volumes, limited edition, one of 500 copies, twenty tipped-in color illustrations by W. Russell Flint (1880-1969), translation by Andrew Lang (1844-1912), bound in full limp parchment, lettered in gilt, silk ties, in the publisher’s slipcases; slipcases bumped and sun-faded, the books themselves very good, 10 1/2 x 7 3/4 in. (2) $200-300 396 Thomas, Dylan (1914-1953) 18 Poems. London: The Sunday Referee and the Parton Bookshop, [1934]. Second issue of the first edition, with rounded spine and advertisement leaf inserted between half-title and title, bound in full black publisher’s cloth, with the dust jacket, front panel toned, slightly chipped, contents good, 8 1/2 x 5 1/4 in. $100-200

399 Three Miniature Books, The Presidents of the Century; The Declaration of Independence; [and] The Signers of the Declaration Philadelphia: Max Rosenthal, 1876. Three miniature volumes, the Declaration folds out like a large map, the other two are printed accordion-style, bound in uniform full red morocco, covers lettered in gilt, corners slightly bumped, 1 1/2 x 1 1/4 in. (3) $500-600 400 Tod, James (1782-1835) Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, or the Central and Western Rajpoot States of India. Calcutta: Harimohan Mookerjee, 1877. Second edition, two large quarto volumes, illustrated with two folding letterpress tables and sixteen plates, including a folding map, and a plate depicting script on both sides; bound in publisher’s green cloth, blind stamped, the spine lettered in gold; bindings somewhat shaken, bumped, tips and joints slightly frayed, 10 3/4 x 8 3/4 in. (2) This Calcutta edition, with plates executed in India after the London first of 1829-32 is very rare on the market. Tod was a British military officer stationed in India in the high colonial period. His interest in local history and culture sparred him to produce this exhaustive study of Rajasthan. $800-1,000 401 Twain, Mark (1835-1910) Roughing It. Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1872. First American edition, octavo, illustrated with seven plates, including the extra frontispiece, ads on verso of final leaf, second state of page 242, without the word “his” on line twentyone; bound in publisher’s cloth, spine and front board stamped in gilt; binding worn at head and tail of spine and extremities, front hinge cracked, 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 in. $300-500

402 Two Manuscripts, American, 19th Century. A personal autograph book, formerly belonging to Sally Hutchinson, of Milford, New Hampshire, inscribed by her friends in the 1830s with sentimental poems, notes, and remembrances, some hand-painted flowers added, three manuscript notes inserted, along with three printed tickets: a tax receipt from the First Parish of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 1808; a receipt for use of the Salem and Danvers aqueduct, 1799; and a ticket to the Republican Festival in Lynn, Massachusetts, 1810; the book is octavo, approximately sixty-five leaves, about half with inscriptions; in half red leather with marbled paper boards, 7 1/2 x 4 1/2 in. [and] The Journal of James Pratt, Wilmington Delaware, 21 April 1831, quarto; Pratt seems a devout young man, working at a farm outside Wilmington, attending church, where he helped to organize a study group, and reporting his daily activities; the journal takes up more than half the book, with lists, receipts, accounts, and other practical notes in the back of the book, half leather with marbled boards, 7 3/4 x 6 in. [and] The Life of David, Philadelphia: American Sunday School Union, [n.d.], octavo, half leather, 5 3/4 x 3 1/2 in. (3) $200-300 403 Uzanne, Octave (1851-1931) La Francaise du Siecle: Modes Moeurs Usages. Paris: Quantin, 1886. Large octavo, limited edition, one of 100 deluxe large paper copies on japon paper, with the plates in three states, copy number 57, illustrated with nine plates appearing in three states each (twenty-seven total), engraved by Gaujean after Lynch, ten engraved headpieces and initials, each repeated in two states on separate plates, unopened, bound in publisher’s engraved, embossed, and handcolored wraps, inside publisher’s gilt paper portfolio, with salmon silk ties, and colored portfolio pastedown; the portfolio split along the joints, silk torn, 11 1/4 x 8 in. $200-300 404 Verne, Jules (1828-1905) Around the World in Eighty Days. Boston: Osgood, 1873 First fully illustrated American edition, with fifty-four full-page plates, as called for, including the frontispiece, bound in publisher’s salmon cloth, pictorially blocked in black and gold, beveled boards, brown endleaves and pastedowns; short tear at head of spine, foot of spine chipped with a little loss, boards somewhat worn, sewing structure failing, some plates and signatures loose, the occasional smudge, 7 1/2 x 5 1/4 in. $500-700

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405 Verne, Jules (1828-1905) The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century, with Autograph Letter Signed and Holograph Envelope. New York: Scribner’s Sons, 1887. Bound in publisher’s red cloth, marginal water damage, with the letter mounted inside the front board, Amiens, France, 2 December 1890; to Percy MacKaye, thanking him for writing, 5 1/4 x 4 in., the envelope 4 1/2 x 2 3/4 in. Provenance: From the collection of Percy MacKaye (1875-1956), by descent to Marion MacKaye Ober. $500-700

406 Verne, Jules (1828-1905) Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas. Boston: Osgood & Co., 1873. First American edition, with “The End” printed on page 303, illustrated with 109 plates, including two maps, bound in blue publisher’s cloth, blocked in gold and black, with jellyfish on the front board, and the incorrect use of the word “Sea” in the title on front board and spine, brown endleaves; inner front joint splitting, sewing structure somewhat shaken, water spot on fore-edges, binding rubbed, cloth fraying slightly at head and tail, 5 1/4 x 8 in. $4,000-6,000 406

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407 Viterbo, Joaquim de Santa Rosa de (17441822) Elucidario das Palavras, Termos, e Frases, que em Portugal Antiguamente se Usarao, e que Hoje Regularmente se Ignorao. Lisbon: Simao Thaddeo Ferreira, 1798. First edition, two parts bound in one folio volume, volume two printed on blue paper stock, illustrated with five engraved plates showing numbers and letters as they appear in early manuscripts and twenty-two text illustrations; bound in contemporary tan morocco with William Stuart’s (1798-1874) arms in gilt on both boards, the spine with Portuguese-style gilt decoration, two red lettering pieces; ex libris Sir Thomas Phillipps, with his MHC mark in pencil, 11 1/2 x 7 1/2 in. A valuable work on archaic Portuguese words. $1,000-1,200 408 Wagner, Richard (1813-1883) Siegfried & the Twilight of the Gods, Illustrated and Signed by Arthur Rackham (18671939). London: Heinemann; and New York: Doubleday, Page, & Co., 1911. Large quarto, number 116 of 150 numbered copies for sale in the United States, signed by Rackham on the limitation page, illustrated with thirty color illustrations, each mounted on heavy brown paper, bound in publisher’s binding: white paper spine, numbered and labeled, with dark brown paper boards; some offsetting to text leaves from illustration mounts, spine slightly darkened with minor abrasion to label, 11 1/2 x 9 in. $400-600

409 Wales, William (1734?-1796) The Original Astronomical Observations Made in the Course of a Voyage towards the South Pole, and Round the World. London: by W. and A. Strahan, and sold by J. Nourse, J. Mount, and T. Page, 1777. First edition, illustrated with four plates, one of which is a folding map; bound in full diced russia rebacked and recornered, a.e.g., some leaves foxed/spotted, some plates with offsetting, a few marginal tears, 10 3/4 x 8 3/4 in. Wales collected scientific data from far-flung regions of the globe that contribute greatly to the 18th century’s knowledge of longitude, astronomy, and climatology. He and an assistant, Joseph Dymond, while observing the Transit of Venus in 1769, were the first scientists to overwinter in Hudson’s Bay. $6,000-8,000 410 Walton, Elijah (1832-1880) Peaks and Valleys of the Alps. London: Day & Son, 1867. Large folio, illustrated with twelve of twentyone colored plates of the Alps, binding structure perished, all pages loose, publisher’s boards, 22 x 14 1/2 in. $800-1,200

411 Webster, John (1610-1682) The Displaying of Witchcraft. Wherein is affirmed that there are many sorts of Deceivers and Impostors. London: printed by J.M. and are to be sold by the Booksellers in London, 1677. First and only edition in ESTC, contents fairly good, in an amateurish modern binding, half buckram and marbled paper boards, sewing structure defective, 11 3/4 x 7 1/4 in. $800-1,200

412 Wells, Herbert George (1866-1946) The Door in the Wall, Illustrated by Alvin Langdon Coburn (1882-1966). New York & London: Mitchell Kennerley, 1911 [Typeset by Bertha Goudy (1869-1935) in New York and printed by Norman T.A. Munder & Co. in Baltimore]. One of 600 copies printed on French handmade paper, illustrated by Coburn with ten tipped-in illustrations after his photographs, in publisher’s half cloth and paper boards, stamped in gold on the front board, paper label on spine, with the remnants of the original slipcase, all large pieces present, no longer intact, 14 1/2 x 10 3/4 in. $700-900

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413 Wilde, Oscar (1854-1900) The Importance of Being Earnest, Signed Limited Edition Copy. London: Leonard Smithers and Co., 1899. First edition, large paper copy, one of 100 signed by Wilde on the limitation page, bound in full contemporary crushed navy blue morocco by Zaehnsdorf for John Wesket de Kay (1872-1938), with his armorial crest in gilt on the front board, and bookplate inside, blue silk endleaves, cloth sides and spine from the original binding bound in at the back, repaired, 8 1/2 x 7 in. $15,000-17,000

415 William Faulkner (1897-1962) Ole Miss: The Year Book of the University of Mississippi Vol. XXII, 1917/1918. Nashville, Tennessee: Benson Printing Co., 1918. With two illustrations by Faulkner on pages 111 and 113, his signature in the plate; quarto, soft cloth covers with pebbled leather texture, stamped on front cover in gilt and blind, front cover with corners bumped, other signs of wear, gold tooling a bit chipped and darkened, spine creased, structurally intact, 10 1/2 x 7 3/4 in. $300-500

414 Wilder, Thornton (1897-1975) Our Town. New York: Coward McCann, Inc., [1938]. First edition, in a very good jacket, bound in publisher’s olive-drab cloth with blue labels on spine and front board, title printed in black and blue, 8 x 5 in. $250-350

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416 Williams, Edward (fl. circa 1839) Original Pen and Ink Drawing Celebrating the English Navy. [England, 1839]. Naval folk art drawing, half length semicaricature portrait of a Royal English Navy seaman, arms crossed, holding a cup of grog, set within a border bearing the names of successful English sea battles; the border is supported by a cannon and an anchor, with the following poem: Oh! There’s a land of ev’ry Land the pride,/Belov’d of Heav’n o’er all the World beside./There is a Spot of Earth supremely blest,/A Dearer, Sweeter spot, than all the rest./Where shall that land, that Spot of Earth be found?/Art Thou a Man/A Patriot? Look around,/Oh, Thou shalt find, howe’er thy footsteps roam,/That Land, they Country -And that Spot, thy Home”; matted, 2-in. tear repaired, small section of lower right corner supplied in later facsimile, 11 x 8 3/4 in. $500-700


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417 Wilson, Alexander (1766-1813) American Ornithology, Volumes I, II, III, and V; Ex Dono Thomas Hollis, Ex Libris Harvard College. Philadelphia: Bradford and Inskeep, printed by Robert Carr, 1808-1812. Four folio volumes, Thomas Hollis’s engraved gift bookplate pasted inside volumes one, three, and five, with the release stamp from Harvard initialed by William H. Bond, and dated August 1, 1965 in the corner of each; a Harvard bookplate printed in red with the name Shapleigh in the center is pasted inside volume two, with Bond’s initialed release stamp, old Harvard shelfmarks in red pencil on endleaves, stamps on versos of titles, and other marks of former library ownership; illustrated with hand-colored plates of birds, missing some plates, with eight of nine in volumes one, two and three; nine plates in volume five; some leaves torn, repaired with tape; worming, spots; not collated; bound in contemporary half red sheepskin and marbled paper boards, worn and faded, bindings generally failing, 13 3/4 x 10 1/4 in. (4) $1,200-1,500

418 Winter, William (1836-1917) Henry Irving. New York: Coombs, 1885. Limited edition large paper copy, number two of fifty, large quarto, illustrated with two proof portraits on fine tissue, bound in three-quarter morocco with marbled paper boards by Alfred Matthews, spine lettered in gilt, 11 x 8 3/4 in. $200-300

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419 [Wizard of Oz] L. Frank Baum (1856-1919) Five Titles. The Patch-work Girl of Oz, Chicago: The Reilly & Britton Company, 1913, illustrated by John R. Neill, first edition, first printing, in light green cloth with the spine imprint, “Reilly & Britton,” “CHAP. THREE” on page 35 shifted to the left so that the word “to” of the adjacent text is printed within the “C” of “CHAP.”; binding toned and somewhat worn, no jacket, 9 x 6 1/2 in.; Rinki-Tink in Oz, Chicago: The Reilly & Britton Co., 1916, illustrated by John R. Neill, first edition, first printing, in light blue/green cloth, front cover paper label illustrated in full color, spine imprint: Reilly & Britton, endpapers printed in black, no ads on verso of ownership page; The Tin Woodman of Oz, Chicago: The Reilly & Britton Co., 1918, illustrated by John R. Neill, first edition, in publisher’s red cloth with front cover paper label illustrated in full color, spine imprint: Reilly & Britton, verso of ownership page lists all previous Oz titles, no jacket, 9 x 6 1/2 in.; Glinda of Oz, Chicago: The Reilly & Lee Co., 1920, illustrated by John R. Neill, first edition, in tan cloth with front cover paper label in full color, perfect type on page 150, no dust jacket, 9 x 6 1/2 in.; [and] The Royal Book of Oz, attributed to Baum, but written by Ruth Plumly Thompson (1891-1976), illustrated by John R. Neill, first edition, in light gray cloth, front cover paper label illustrated in full color, Baum listed as author on spine and front board, no dust jacket, binding rubbed, 9 x 6 1/2 in. (5) $900-1,200

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420 [Wizard of Oz] L. Frank Baum (1856-1919) Four Titles. The Marvelous Land of Oz, Chicago: The Reilly & Britton Co., 1904, illustrated by John R. Neill, first edition, first printing, binding A, in light green cloth, lettered in dark navy blue, without silver outlining, title on front cover and spine, imprint on spine in large and small caps, Jack Pumpkinhead on back cover, title page hand-lettered, with lengthy subtitle, binding toned and worn, stamping flaking away on spine, corner wear, no dust jacket, 9 x 6 3/4 in.; Ozma of Oz, Chicago: The Reilly & Britton Co., 1907, first edition, first printing, with publisher’s name in large and small caps on the spine, preceded by “The”; endpapers printed in full color, “O” in “Ozma” on page [11], line 5 is present, no printing damage to 135/136, 153/154, and 221/222, no jacket, binding toned and marked, head and tail a bit crumpled, book ticket of Brentano’s inside back board, 9 x 6 3/4 in.; Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz, Chicago: The Reilly & Britton Co., 1908, first edition, first printing, binding B, with publisher’s spine imprint, “Reilly & Britton” in upper and lowercase letters, endpapers illustrated and printed in light olive green, front cover paper label illustrated on metallic gold background, printed with slight mis-registration, ad on verso of half-title with three titles; head and tail slightly crumped, boards slightly worn, 9 x 6 1/2 in.; [and] The Road to Oz, Chicago: The Reilly & Britton Co., 1909, first edition, first printing, in binding A, with spine imprint, “Reilly & Britton” in upper- and lowercase letters, pages printed on tinted colored paper, type undamaged on the following pages: 34, line 4, “Toto on”; page number on page 121; and numeral and caption at the bottom of page 129, binding rubbed, spine slightly toned, no dust jacket, 9 x 6 1/2 in. (4) $900-1,200

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421 [Wizard of Oz] L. Frank Baum (1856-1919) The Emerald City of Oz. Chicago: The Reilly & Britton Co., 1910. First edition, first printing, binding A in medium blue cloth (variant?) front cover paper label illustrated in full color on metallic silver background with metallic green ink embellishments, endpapers illustrated in black and orange; illustrated with sixteen full-color inserted illustrations, the plates embellished with metallic green ink, no captions beneath the illustrations; verso of ownership page advertises five Baum books, ending with John Dough and the Cherub; with the dust jacket, front panel with same illustration as front board, printed in metallic inks; spine printing as on the book, in black only, back panel with the five titles mentioned on verso of ownership page, front and back flaps blank; jacket a bit dirty, some short tears, spine ends and corners chipped with wear; section of center front panel with loss of surface and image, as a piece of tape was at one time stuck to the front panel and subsequently torn away, with attendant damage, 9 x 6 1/2 in. $4,000-6,000

422 [Wizard of Oz] L. Frank Baum (1856-1919) The Scarecrow of Oz. Chicago: The Reilly & Britton Co., 1915. First edition, first printing, variant, binding A, in bright green cloth with front cover paper label illustrated in full color, spine imprint reads: Reilly & Britton, endpapers illustrated in black only, verso of half-title lists titles through The Scarecrow of Oz, with the dust jacket, front and back reproduce the cover illustrations, spine vignette of Ozma in color, front flap entitled, “My Best!”; back flap is blank (variant); jacket torn with loss at foot of spine, extending onto back panel, three other tears with loss on back panel, pencil scribbles on front panel of jacket, 9 x 6 1/2 in. $400-600


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423 [Wizard of Oz] L. Frank Baum (1856-1919) The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Chicago: Geo. M. Hill Co., 1900. First edition, second state, binding C, with publisher’s imprint in red, all caps, with the “o” in Co. nested in the “C,” pastedowns illustrated, free endleaves blank, back fixed endpaper printed in red and black with a colophon of thirteen lines; ad on verso of ffep not enclosed in a printed border; page 14, line 1 corrected to “low wail of”; page [227], line 1 corrected to “While The Woodman”; plate facing page 34 with the two blue dots on the forehead of the moon; plate 92 without red shading above the horizon, illustrated with twenty-four inserted color plates; no dust jacket; surface wear to pictorial stamping on front boards and spine, head and tail somewhat abraded, divisional title for chapter XXII with closed tear, gift inscription dated 1903 on ffep, 8 5/8 x 6 1/4 in. $2,000-3,000

424 [Wizard of Oz] L. Frank Baum (1856-1919) Tik-tok of Oz. Chicago: The Reilly & Britton Col, [c. 1917]. First edition, variant, binding A, medium blue cloth, spine with double rules at head and foot, front cover paper label illustrated in full color, spine imprint: “Reilly & Britton”; front end papers with detailed full-color map of Oz, back endpapers with full-color map of Oz and surrounding fairy lands, verso of half-title lists titles through The Patchwork Girl of Oz, with twelve full-color inserted illustrations, and the dust jacket, which reproduces the cover label on front and back panels, front flap with a summary of the story, back flap with an advertisement for the Little Wizard series; the jacket worn and torn with loss to the top right corner of jacket, affecting the title, additional tears with loss on back panel, 9 x 6 1/2 in. $1,500-2,000

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425 [Wizard of Oz] L. Frank Baum (1856-1919) Two Titles in Dust Jackets. The Lost Princess of Oz, Chicago: The Reilly & Britton Co., 1917, illustrated by John R. Neill, first edition, first printing, binding A, light blue cloth, front cover paper label illustrated in full color, double horizontal lines at top and bottom of spine, publisher’s imprint: Reilly & Britton, illustrated endpapers printed in black, verso of ownership page lists titles through The Lost Princess of Oz; with the dust jacket, front and back panels reproducing the cover label, inner flaps blank, slight edge chipping of jacket with some marginal loss, 8 3/4 x 6 1/2 in.; [and] The Magic of Oz, Chicago: The Reilly & Lee Co., 1919, illustrated by John R. Neill, first edition, first printing, light green cloth, front cover paper label illustrated in full color, endpapers illustrated, printed in black, verso of ownership page lists titles through The Tin Woodman of Oz, twelve full-color inserted illustrations, in the jacket, which reproduces the front label illustration on both panels, synopsis inside front flap, back flap blank, jacket with wear at fore-edges, chipping at head and tail of spine, 8 3/4 x 6 1/2 in. (2) $600-800

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426 [Wizard of Oz] Ruth Plumly Thompson (1891-1976) Five Titles. Kabumpo in Oz, Chicago: The Reilly & Lee Co., 1923, illustrated by John R. Neill, later printing, in dark blue/green cloth, front cover paper label illustrated in full color, spine ampersand in standard form, illustration on page [299] shows Kabumpo the Elephant, with the jacket, edge chipping to jacket, 9 x 6 1/2 in.; Grampa in Oz, Chicago: The Reilly & Lee Co., 1924, first edition, brick red cloth with paper label illustrated in full cover, page numeral at the bottom of page 171 undamaged, no jacket, 9 x 6 1/2 in.; The Lost King of Oz, Chicago: The Reilly & Lee Co., 1925, illustrated by John R. Neill, first edition, medium blue cloth, front cover paper label illustrated in full color, twelve color plates coated on the printed side only, the letter “k” in the word “back” on page 193, line 4 damaged, no jacket, 9 x 6 1/2 in.; The Gnome King of Oz, Chicago: The Reilly & Lee Co., 1927, illustrated by Neill, first edition, in bright green cloth, front cover paper label illustrated in full color, twelve full-color inserted plates, no dust jacket, slight cock, some stains to spine, 9 x 6 1/2 in.; [and] The Giant Horse of Oz, Chicago: The Reilly & Lee Co., 1928, first edition, in brickred cloth with front cover paper label illustrated in full color with twelve inserts, misprint on frontispiece caption, no jacket, 9 x 6 1/2 in. (5) $600-800

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427 [Wizard of Oz] Ruth Plumly Thompson (1891-1976) Six Titles. Jack Pumpkinhead of Oz, Chicago: The Reilly & Lee Co., 1929, first edition, light gray cloth, front cover paper label illustrated in full color, twelve full-color inserted illustrations, binding worn, no jacket; The Yellow Knight of Oz, Chicago: The Reilly & Lee Co., 1930, first edition, brick red cloth, paper label illustrated on front cover in full color, publisher’s imprint in bold type, illustrated with full-color inserts, no jacket; Pirates of Oz, Chicago: The Reilly & Lee Co., 1931, first edition, binding A, dark green cloth, front cover paper label illustrated in full color, publisher’s spine imprint in bold, illustrated with twelve full color inserts, no jacket; The Purple Prince of Oz, Chicago: The Reilly & Lee Co., 1932, first edition, binding B, purple cloth, front cover paper label illustrated in full color, full color insert illustrations, with the jacket, with Oz titles up to the present on inside back flap, torn with loss at foot of spine and top edge of front panel; Speedy in Oz, Chicago: The Reilly & Lee Co., 1934, first edition, in black cloth with front cover paper label illustrated in full color, publisher’s imprint in “semi-script”, twelve fullcolor inserted plates, no jacket; [and] The Wishing Horse of Oz, Chicago: The Reilly & Lee Co., 1935, first edition, in dark blue cloth, illustrated front cover paper label, full color, full color inserted plates, no jacket. (6) $400-600


428 [Wizard of Oz] Ruth Plumly Thompson (1891-1976); John R. Neill (1877-1943) and Jack Snow (1907-1956) Nine Titles, 19361949. Including: Captain Salt in Oz; Handy Mandy in Oz; The Silver Princess in Oz; Ozoplaning with the Wizard of Oz; The Wonder City of Oz; the Scalawagons of Oz; Lucky Bucky in Oz; The Magical Mimics in Oz, and The Shaggy Mann of Oz; all Chicago: Reilly & Lee, various dates, five with dust jackets. (9) $700-900

429 Wright, Lewis (fl. circa 1870-1890) The Illustrated Book of Poultry. London: Cassell, 1890. Large quarto, illustrated with fifty chromolithographic plates of fowl, in publisher’s pictorially gilt-stamped textured green cloth, joints frayed, binding shaken, 10 3/4 x 8 in. $600-800 430 Wyatt, Thomas and James Ackerman (c. 1813) Unfading Beauties; or Illustrations of Flowers and Fruit; Principally from Nature. Hartford: D.W. Kellogg and Co., 1838. Illustrated with fifteen hand-colored lithographs of flowers, fruit, and butterflies, bound in full morocco, blocked in blind with a large gilt-tooled stamp of a tulip in a vase on both covers, a.e.g.; rare, Worldcat locates five copies worldwide, the last copy offered at auction was sold in 1990; contemporary gift inscription on ffep, one short worm trail in the gutter near the end of the text, binding rubbed, 11 3/4 x 9 1/4 in. $500-700

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431 Youmans, Edward L. (1821-1887) Chemical Atlas; or, the Chemistry of Familiar Objects: Exhibiting the General Principles of Science in a Series of Beautifully Colored Diagrams. New York: Appleton & Co., 1856. Large quarto, illustrated with thirteen handcolored plates, bound in publisher’s full cloth, blocked in blind and lettered on the front cover in gilt, deep turquoise endleaves; spine dry and cracking, joints still attached, front cover more faded than back, corners bumped, contents with scattered foxing, 12 x 10 in. $700-900

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Prints 432 Akin, James (c. 1773-1846) The Pedlar and his Pack or the Desperate Effort, an Over Balance. Philadelphia, 1828. Broadside cartoon, etched and hand-colored, matted, slight marginal edge discoloration, 11 1/4 x 17 1/2 in. This political cartoon documents a vicious mud-slinging campaign against Andrew Jackson that occurred in the press during the 1828 Presidential race. A Philadelphia publisher named John Binns distributed antiJackson propaganda called “coffin hand-bills” which seemingly only succeeded in damaging Binns’s own reputation. In this cartoon, Binns is crushed under his own coffins, with Adams and Clay riding on his shoulders as well. $500-700 433 Alken, Henry (1785-1851) Four Plates of Dog Breeds from His Sporting Scrap Book. London: Thomas M’Lean, 1824. Hand-colored soft-ground etchings, folio format, the plates titled, “Terriers,” “Spaniels,” “Pointers,” and “Water Spaniels,” each with the page of corresponding text, matted, 19 x 12 1/2 in. (4) $250-350 433A Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Bewick’s Long-tailed Wren, Plate 18. [from] Birds of America. London: R. Havell, 18261838. Hand-colored engraving, double elephant folio sheet, mounted, water stained and toned, 34 3/4 x 25 in. $300-500

434 Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Crested Titmouse. Plate 39. [from] Birds of America. London: R. Havell, 1826-1838. Hand-colored engraving, double elephant folio sheet, matted and framed, surface foxing, 25 1/4 x 18 in. sight. $600-800 435 Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Douglasses Spermophile, Plate XLIX. [from] The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America. Philadelphia: J.T. Bowen, 1839-1844. Hand-colored lithograph, imperial folio, edge chipping with loss, edges toned, signs of handling, 27 1/4 x 21 1/2 in. This ground squirrel, now going by the Latin name, Ictidomys tridecemlineatus, is commonly called the thirteen-lined ground squirrel, or striped gopher. It is a burrowing denizen of the North American prairies, where it survives on a diet of insects during the summer and hibernates during the winter. $150-300 436 Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Esquimaux Dog, Plate CXIII. [from] The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America. Philadelphia: J.T. Bowen, 1839-1844. Hand-colored lithograph, imperial folio, slight mat burn, marginal thumbing, a few short closed tears, one corner chipped with loss; Plains Indians in the background stand outside a tipi, attaching a travois to another dog, the two canines in the foreground sit among bird bones, 27 3/4 x 21 1/4 in. $500-700 437 Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Four Mouse Prints. [from] The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America. Philadelphia: J.T. Bowen, 1839-1844. Including the following prints, all hand-colored, imperial folio-format: plate 85, Jumping Mouse; plate 100, Missouri Mouse; plate 115, Yellow Cheeked Meadow Mouse; and plate 124, Northern Meadow Mouse; all framed, different sizes and styles; glass cracked in the last frame (Northern Meadow Mouse). (4) $400-600

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438 Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Great Northern Diver or Loon. Plate CCCVI. [from] Birds of America. London: R. Havell, 18261838. Hand-aquatinted copper-plate engraving, on J. Whatman watermarked paper, the date, if present, difficult to discern because of the watermark’s placement behind the dense weeds and the back of the loon on the right, framed, fading, edges slightly toned, punctured perforations along top edge from former binding, offsetting on verso from another copy of the same print with fresh ink, hand-coloring oxidation visible on verso, small black specks in the background, 38 x 25 1/4 in. $1,000-2,000

439 Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Ground-hog, Pre-publication Hand-colored Proof. [for] The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America, Philadelphia: Bowen, 18391844. Hand-colored lithographic proof without printed title or plate numbers, titled in pencil at the foot, “Arctomys monax. Ground-hog, Wood-chuck, or Common American Marmot,” printed on wove unwatermarked imperial folio paper; toning and browning, large stain just below the image area and above the penciled titled, edge and corner chipping with loss, closed marginal tears, bottom margin unevenly trimmed, 27 x 20 3/4 in. $3,000-5,000


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440 Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Hermit Thrush. Plate 58. [from] Birds of America. London: R. Havell, 1826-1838. Hand-aquatinted copper-plate engraving, framed, with the J. Whatman Turkey Mill watermark, slight pale discoloration mainly confined to the blank margin, a few spots, minor edge toning, bittersweet berries faded to a pale orange, 39 x 25 1/4 in. $800-1,200

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441 Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Longlegged Avocet, Plate CCCXXVIII. [from] Birds of America. London: R. Havell, 18261838. Hand-aquatinted copper-plate engraving, matted and framed, with J. Whatman watermark, dated 1836, slight mat burn, pink legs of the bird faded to a nude color, small red stamp of the New York Society Library on the verso, 39 1/2 x 26 1/2 in. [Together with] an Amsterdam edition facsimile of the same print, matted and framed, and the two parts of the sale catalog from 1980 of the New York Society Library sale of their Audubon collection. $800-1,000

442 Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Prairie Warbler. Plate 3 [and] Tyrant Flycatcher. Plate 79. [from] Birds of America. London: R. Havell, 1826-1838. Two copper-plate engravings, hand-colored; Prairie Warbler mounted, foxed, mat burn to image area, edge chips, large chip with loss in top center margin, adhesive residue along sheet edges, chipping, toned, watermark not discernible, 20 3/4 x 28 1/4 in. Tyrant Flycatcher mounted, with splotchy discoloration and mat burn affecting the exposed section of the sheet slightly larger than the plate mark, this area of the sheet is darkly toned, the area formerly protected by the mat is lighter, watermark not discernible, edge chipping, glue deposits along sheet edges, 20 3/4 x 29 in. Both prints in sleeves with frames separate. (2) $300-500

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443 Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Ruffed Grous[e]. Plate 41. [from] Birds of America. London: R. Havell, 1826-1838. Hand-aquatinted copper-plate engraving, with the J. Whatman, Turkey Mill 1828 watermark, framed, colors faded, with loss of greens, pinks, and warm oranges, some small black specks, mild hand-coloring oxidation visible on verso, 38 1/2 x 25 1/2 in. $1,500-2,500 444 Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Rusty Grackle, Plate 222. [from] The Birds of North America. New York: Bien, 1860. Color lithograph on paper, matted, in a partially gilt frame, lightly toned, 21 1/2 x 29 1/2 in. sight, not examined out of frame. $1,500-2,500

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445 Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Sharpshinned Hawk, Plate CCCLXXIV. [from] Birds of America. London: R. Havell, 1826-1838. Hand-aquatinted copper-plate engraving, no watermark in the sheet, edge chipping, three creases entering from the two vertical side, each ending near the image, spotting in upper right margin, and just above the top left corner of the plate mark, the sheet an even ivory, with the mat and frame separate, currently housed in a print sleeve, 38 3/4 x 25 3/4 in. $1,000-2,000 446 Bodmer, Karl (1809-1893) Noapeh. An Assiniboin [sic] Indian/Psihdja-Sahpa. A Yanktown Indian. Tableau 12. [from] Prince Maximilian’s Travels in the Interior of North America, London: Ackerman, 1839-1844. Folio etched and engraved plate, uncolored, central portion browned (reverse mat burn), small fragments of old adhesive cling loosely to the margins where the mat was formerly glued to the print itself, dusty, toning, slight foxing, framed, 23 x 18 in. $1,000-1,200

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447 Bradley, William H. (1868-1962) Twelve Cover Designs, 1894, Signed. Large quarto paper portfolio, cover printed within a woodcut border, pink ribbon tie, limited to 100 copies, number fifty-nine, signed by Bradley on the limitation page, containing the covers for twelve issues of The Inland Printer from April 1894 through March 1895, loose, on large paper, two printed in red and black, all others printed in black only; the cover badly water stained and chipped with loss, ribbon damaged, the limitation page and covers with less damage, with water staining and minor chips and closed tears, 13 1/2 x 10 1/4 in. [Together with] Lippincott’s May, 1895, color lithographic poster for the magazine by Will Carqueville (1871-1946), drip marks in lower right corner, some minor corner and edge chipping, 19 x 12 1/4 in. (2) $400-600


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448 Cartoon Art, Large Archive of Signed Drawings, 1930s. Including nine original drawings depicting sports figures, all signed, some inscribed, notably, Thomas “Pap” Parocki’s drawing of Joe DiMaggio, and others by Art Krenz, Jim Berryman, and Sprague; twelve original drawings for panel cartoon strips, signed; including a Little Orphan Annie, signed by Harold Gray, and others by Depew, Bill Holman, V.T. Hamlin (two Alley Oop strips), R.M. Brinkerhoff, and others; approximately forty-five other original camera-ready art for political cartoons, caricatures, portraits, large panel cartoon strips (full-page), and illustrations, all signed, some inscribed; and some letters from illustrators; in various formats and states of condition, some chipped with loss, toning, tears, and other damage, should be seen. In the mid-1930s, young cartoonist Neal Hathaway wrote to many of his favorite artists, who responded by sending along these original samples of their artwork, many inscribed to Hathaway. Approximately thirty examples of Hathaway’s student work is also included in the lot. $1,200-1,500

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449 Cartoon Art, Twenty-eight Signed Drawings, c. 1940. Photo-ready drawings, mostly in pen-and-ink, some with a single color, featuring the original Little Lulu drawing by Marjorie Henderson Buell (1904-1993) Dogs clipped plain or fancy, 1 cent, and other signed cartoons with printing information from Collier’s and Liberty magazines, and the Saturday Evening Post, including the work of Alan Foster, George Reckas, Dave Gerard, George Lichty, Henry Boltinoff, Gene Carr, Ed Nofziger, Crockett Johnson, Ted Key, David Breger, Al Kaelin, Jon Cornin, Bandel Linn, Edith Stevens, Larry Reynolds, A. John Kaunus, Jeffrey J. Monahan, Gardner Rea, Gluyas Williams, Frank Beaven, and others; various sizes and conditions, some frail with browning, water stains, others in good condition. (28) $400-600

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450 Gould, John (1804-1881) Grus Cinera [The Common Crane]. [from] Birds of Great Britain, London, 1862-1873. Hand-colored lithograph, matted and framed; signs of handling, edge toning, short marginal tears and folds, 20 1/2 x 13 3/4 in. sight. $300-500 451 Harper’s Weekly, January 4 through December 27, 1873. Folio volume containing one year’s issues, bound in half calf and marbled paper boards, including the following full-page wood engravings after Winslow Homer: Wreck of the Atlantic, April 26; The Noon Recess, June 28; The Bathers, August 2; The Nooning, August 16; Sea-side Sketches, a Clam Bake, August 23; Snap the Whip, September 20; Gloucester Harbor, September 27; ShipBuilding, Gloucester Harbor, October 11, Dad’s Coming!, November 1; The Last Days of Harvest, December 6; and The Morning Bell, December 13; binding worn, 15 1/2 x 10 3/4 in. $800-1,200

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452 Hildebrandt, Eduard (1818-1869) The Feather Store, or “Old Cocked Hat.” Boston: October, 1844. Water-color of the famous 19th century Boston landmark, originally erected in 1680, and demolished in 1860; traces of pencil lines visible, on thick paper, signed and dated, 7 1/8 x 10 in. The “Old Cocked Hat” originally stood at the corner of North Street and Market Square in Boston, named for its resemblance to Revolutionary War-era headgear. The woodframed structure was faced with plaster peppered with broken glass bottles and inscribed with “ornamental figures.” (James Henry Stark, Antique Views of Boston, page 36) $1,200-1,500


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453 Kent, Rockwell (1882-1971) Bookplate and Three Proofs of Illustrated Initials. Three leaves each with a large initial in an illustration: an F with a cow grazing in a field, an A with two children walking hand in hand, and an I with a sod house, each between 5 3/4 and 6 1/4 x 2 3/4 to 3 1/2 in.; [and] a bookplate design: a stylized woman with upheld chin clasping a book, printed in black inside a red triple rule border, 4 x 2 3/4 in. (4) $400-600

454 Kent, Rockwell (1882-1971) Christmas Seals Proof, Brochure, and Poster, 1939. Window card promoting the sale of Christmas seals, in full color, 11 x 15 in.; a signed proof sheet of 100 Christmas seals, imperforate, signed in the center by Kent, numbered 82 (of 100) on the verso, matted and framed, 8 1/4 x 10 1/2 in.; and the bifolium promotional brochure produced by the post office regarding the 1939 seals, 8 1/2 x 11 in. (3) $1,000-1,500 455 Kent, Rockwell (1882-1971) Seven Proofs for Kent LP Record Jacket Covers, 1960s-1970s. Proof prints of cover art for Alfred Deller’s The Three Ravens; The Wraggle Taggle Gipsies; Erich Kunz’s German University Songs, volumes 1-3; Erich Kunz’s Best Loved German Songs; and Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana, all in full color, for the Vanguard Recording Society, (7) $1,000-1,500

456 L’Estampe Moderne, Numero 8, Decembre 1897, Cover, Containing Seven Prints from Different Issues. Paris: Champenois, c. 1897-1899. Original printed covers illustrated with a woodcut by Mucha for the issue described above containing seven prints produced in this series, but none of those called for on the cover of this volume, containing instead: Henri Bellery-Desfontaines’s (1867-1909) L’Enigme and L’Illusion; Louis-Auguste Girardot’s (1856-1933) Femme du Riff; Edmond Francois Aman-Jean’s (1860-1953) Sous les Fleurs; Albert Emile Artigue’s (1850-1927) Albine; Francis Jourdain’s (1876-1958) Les Cygnes; and one unidentified print showing a Dance of Death procession, with kings, beggars, clergy, and saints proceeding in a desolate landscape toward a large skull, in black and white; each print with the L’Estampe Moderne blindstamp in the corner of the sheet, paper wrappers separated into from and back, broken at spine, the prints with corners chipped, 16 x 12 in. each. (7) $300-500

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457 Laboureur, Jean-Emile (1877-1943) Ten Etchings from Pittsburgh, a Collection of Ten Original Etchings. [No place: no printer], 1905. Limited edition, copy number two of ten printed on imperial Japanese paper, signed by Laboureur on the contents page; in the original soft dark brown printed paper wrappers, containing a total of sixteen etchings, each signed in the plate and signed in pencil and numbered by the artist: six etchings are present in two copies, one printed with bistre ink, the other not, the artist has noted “bistre” in pencil in the lower left hand corner of the sheet; the remaining four etchings are present in one copy only; all ten images are represented; chipping with loss to outermost printed paper wrappers, contents with some thumbing, slight edge toning, 13 3/4 x 11 in. $3,000-5,000

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458 Mane-Katz, Emmanuel (1894-1962) Douze Lithographies pour Stempeniou de Cholem Aleikheim. Boston [Printed in France by Mourlot Freres]: Boston Book and Art Shop, 1966. Large folio-format portfolio, one of 300 copies on grand velin d’Arches paper, five uncolored illustrations, and twelve colored lithographs, all loose as issued in the publisher’s cloth portfolio, front board blocked with a facsimile of the artist’s signature, cloth flaps and ties, 27 1/2 x 20 3/4 in. This project on Eastern European shtetl culture was begun by Mane-Katz in 1958 as a series of gouaches. $500-700

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459 McKenney, Thomas Loraine (1785-1859) and James Hall (1793-1868) Four Portraits of Native American Indians. [from] The History of the Indian Tribes of North America. [19th century]. Naw-Kaw, a Winnebago Chief; Ki-On-TwocKy, or Cornplant; Pes-Ke-Le-Cha-Co, a Pawnee Chief; and Chon-Ca-Pe; four handcolored lithographs, folio format, matted and framed, not examined out of frame. $500-700


460 Montaut, Ernest (1879-1936) Raid ParisVerdun, le Dirigeable “Ville de Paris.” [Paris: Mabileau et Cie, 1908]. Pochoir poster print hand-colored by stencil over original lithographic design with printed artist’s signature, in brick and salmon colorways, with pale green marshes and pale blue and purple skies, matted and framed, some slight foxing, 31 x 14 1/4 in. sight. Two French country people point and stare in amazement as a blimp flies over their cottage and an automobile rattles by on the dirt lane. $300-500 461 Natural History Prints and Drawing: Catesby, Wilson and Hill. Hand-colored engraving of the large crested heron from Catesby, pictured with a spotted eft in its beak, surrounded by views of several insects, with the corresponding text page, 19 1/2 x 14 in.; hand-colored engraving of Virginian rail, clapper rail, blue crane, and little egret after Alexander Wilson by Warnicke, slight toning and foxing, 15 x 11 1/2 in.; [and] original sketch with watercolor by J.W. Hill of a bobcat used in DeKay’s Natural History of New York, 1842, signed by Hill and “1/8 of the natural size” possibly in Hill’s hand; other pencil notes, including, “engraved by Rawson” and “P. 10 fig. 1” in pencil in the background, matted and framed by Goodspeed’s in the 1980s, with their label, 6 3/4 x 4 1/4 in. sight. (3) $300-500 462 Nowell, Frank H. (1864-1941) Eight Photographs Taken in Alaska, c. 1905. Black-and-white silver gelatin photographs with borders, on thin paper, each mounted and set behind a mat, depicting Alaska Natives at a church service in Nome; an “Eskimo Grave” in Teller; a full-length portrait of two Alaska Native girls from Kings Island; a head-and-shoulders portrait of an Alaska Native girl; a mass group photograph taken outside the Kotzebue Mission, in Cape Blossom, “Arctic Mining & Trading Company’s Launch” in Teller; a group of European settlers dressed for a pageant, including a male lady liberty; and an outdoor shot of a large group outside the schoolhouse at the Kotzebue Mission; each photograph 8 x 10 in., the two group shots with a pencil “X” over the head of one person, toning, some dog-eared corners, a short tear in one. (8) $800-1,200

463 Pennell, Joseph (1857-1926) Lithographs of New York in 1904. New York: The Society of Iconophiles, 1904. Twelve lithographs, each signed in pencil by Pennell; the prints presented as issued, in publisher’s printed wrappers, one of an edition of 100, includes the typographical list of the plates: 1) Battery Park; 2) Broadway from Bowling Green; 3) Broadway Towers; 4) The Stock Exchange; 5) Nassau Street; 6) Pine Street; 7) William Street; 8) Building the Building; 9) The Flat Iron; 10) Union Square; 11) Broadway above 23rd Street; and 12) The Times Building; wrapper frayed with some tears, 17 1/4 x 12 in. $1,500-2,000 464 Photographs of Ancient Egyptian Monuments and Architecture, Sixty-nine. Albumen prints mounted on mat board, sixteen taken by P. Dittrich (fl. 1880-1918), one taken by Henri Bechard (c. 1860-1870), and forty-six taken by J. Pascal Sebah (1823-1886), six uncredited; subjects include: the Valley of the Kings, the Tomb of Ti, the Pyramid of Zoser, the Royal Pavilion of Rameses, the Temple of Rameses III, the Temple of Amon, the Temple of Isis, the Temple of Horus, the Temple of Hathor, the Temple of Hatshepsut, the Tomb of Ameni, the Tomb of Khnemhotep, the Temple of Seti I, the Temple of Rameses II, the Tomb of Tut-ankh-amen, the Ramesseum, and others, most with multiple views; some chipping to the mounts, large vertical crack affecting the Bechard, some fading, condition varies; with call number stickers and descriptions pasted on the versos of most, some hand inscribed; some with labels of the Mead Art Building, Amherst College, the Bechard ex-libris the Fogg Museum, with their duplicate stamp; all 8 1/2 x 10 3/4 in., except for the Bechard photo, which is 14 1/2 x 10 in. (69) $400-600

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465 Piranesi, Giovanni Battista (1720-1778) Fourteen Etchings on Twelve Sheets from Vasi Candelabri Cippi. Toning to some sheets, marginal dustiness, and short closed tears, two in a smaller format, toned, 28 x 18 1/4 in., the other ten sheets measuring approximately 29 x 20 1/2 in. “[These prints are] from a series of etchings made by Piranesi documenting antiquities excavated in Italy in the 18th century, many of which had passed through Piranesi’s restoration workshop which he had established in Rome. The plates that Piranesi produced included text with information on the circumstances of discovery of each object and their contemporary location. The prints also bore dedications to Piranesi’s patrons and influential friends. The etchings were made between 1768 and 1778 when they were issued as separate plates. However in 1778 they were assembled and published as a collection in two volumes under the title Vasi, Candelabri, Cippi, Sarcofagi, Tripodi, Lucerne Ed Ornamenti Antichi.” (Victoria and Albert Museum) $1,000-1,500

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466 Posters, 20th Century, Approximately Twenty-five. Collection of posters advertising dance, theatre, musical, public television and other productions; including performances of the Bolshoi Ballet, New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, the Dance Theatre of Harlem, and others, all shrink-wrapped over board, various sizes. $300-500

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467 Rauber, G. (fl. circa 1900) Watercolor Album of Birds. [Germany, c. 1900]. Oblong folio, calligraphic title in blue, red, and gold ink, with painted ivy-twined wood frame incorporating birds in a jungle scene, manuscript index in German, also done in polychrome and gold ink, in a calligraphic hand, eighty-five pages of blue card, mounted on both sides with 178 original ornithological watercolors, some signed, most with integral German title in black ink, identifying the bird; bound in contemporary dark blue half cloth, calligraphic label on front board, 9 1/2 x 14 3/4 in. In this unique album, the birds are depicted against carefully painted backgrounds, sometimes singly, sometimes with several birds. $3,500-4,000

468 Ridinger, Johann Elias (1698-1767) Fifteen Hunt Prints, c. 1750. Landscape format folio album containing Ridinger’s engravings mounted on linen with other later images added to the versos, all plates concern the hunt, deer in the wild, and other wild quadrupeds, including mountain goats, weasels, and beavers; plates are thumbed, foxed, many with remnants of red sealing wax, mostly in the blank margins, brown spotting; bound in tattered half leather and paper boards, most of the covering material perished, 17 x 13 3/4 in. Ridinger is best known for his deft renderings of animals, and especially the hunt. $4,000-6,000

469 Roth, Dieter (1930-1998) Book AC 1958-64. New Haven: Ives-Sillman, 1958-1964. Large publisher’s black cloth-covered clamshell box portfolio containing a perfunctory title page, numbered 36 of 250 and signed by Roth, and twenty-four sheets of card stock, black or white, each die cut in the center with a series of closed evenly spaced rectangular bars of varying gauges, the bars forming squares or rectangles, laid over one another in different combinations to form patterns of parallels, perpendiculars, and interference, published by Forlag of Reykjavik, front board block stamped in white with the letters AC; slight scuffs to box, contents with some signs of handling, 16 x 16 in. $3,000-5,000

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470 Russell, Andrew J. (1829-1902) Albumen Photograph, Golden Spike Ceremony, Promontory Point, Utah, 1869. Large photograph on contemporary mount, contemporary hand titled: “Laying Last Rail & Driving Last Spike,” this shot taken from an angle perpendicular to the tracks, with the two engines in view, assembled honoraries on the far side of the tracks, and the man up on the flag pole on the right side; image faded, water staining to top left corner of mount, affecting top corner of the photograph, abrasions, chipping with loss to mat, other smaller specks and stains, the photograph 12 x 9 in., the mount 17 x 13 1/2 in.; [and] another albumen photograph by Russell, contemporary handwritten title on verso of mount, “No. 78 Citadel Rock/Temporary & Permanent/Bridges at Green River” the image quite faded, chipping and water damage to mount, other damage; the photograph 11 1/2 x 8 3/4 in.; the mount 17 x 14 in. (2) $15,000-17,000

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471 Stereoscope and Views, Yellowstone National Park [and] Cairo to the Pyramids. New York: Underwood & Underwood, c. 1904. Wood and tin viewer, thirty-one views of Yellowstone, and thirty of Egypt, including a few shots of East Africa, each set housed in its own brown buckram two-part slipcase, tooled and lettered in gold, the cases worn. $400-600 472 Three Framed Engravings. One mezzotint by Richard Earlom (17431822) after Claude le Lorrain (1600-1682) dated 1776, number 172 from Lorrain’s Liber Veritatis, printed in sepia ink, matted; Johann Wilhelm Baur’s (1600-1640) image of Actaeon pursued by hounds in the form of a deer, from book three of Ovid’s Metamorphoses, c. 1641; and an engraved portrait of Philip IV of Spain (1605-1665) by Jacob Louys (1595-1644) after Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), some toning, edge damage, marginal amateurish repair; all three prints framed, varying sizes. (3) $300-500

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473 Boston. John Norman (d. 1817) Plan of the Town of Boston. [from] The Boston Magazine’s Geographical Gazetteer. Boston: Norman, White, and Freeman, [c. 1784-1789] Small format engraved map on paper, issued with the magazine listed above in 1784 and again with the first Boston Directory in 1789, the top line imperfectly inked and printed, with the words “Geogl. Gazr.” and “Bos. Mag.” just barely legible, exact issue unknown; old folds, some browning and water stains, mat burn, mounted on heavier paper of the same period with an engraving titled “A New Drawing Book,” that may have been a title page, with William Tringham’s imprint, 6 x 9 in. $600-800

474 Boston. John Norman (d. 1817) Plan of the Town of Boston, with the Attack on Bunkers-Hill, in the Peninsula of Charlestown, the 17th of June, 1775. [Boston, 1781]. First American edition, after an inset originally printed in Sayer and Bennett’s The Seat of War in New England, London, 1775; this map originally accompanied the first American edition of James Murray’s An Impartial History of the War in America, Boston, 1781-1782; copper-plate engraved plan printed on laid paper, old folds, matted, 12 1/2 x 7 3/4 in. $2,000-2,500

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475 China, Korea, Japan. A New Mapp of ye Empire of China. London: Blome, 1669. Copper-plate map, engraved by Wenceslas Hollar (1607-1677) double-page small folio, hand-colored, on watermarked laid paper, a weak impression, marginal chipping, some short tears, the sheet 17 1/4 x 14 1/4 in. $400-600

476 China, Two Maps, Yunnan and Jiangxi Provinces. Joan Blaeu (1596-1673) Ivnnan Imperii Sinarum Provincia Decimquinta; [and] Kiangsi, Imperii Sinarum Provincia Octava. Two copper-plate engraved maps, each printed on laid paper and hand-colored, each evenly toned, with short marginal tears, very good illustrative cartouches, featuring elephants, a sculpture of the Buddha, and local costume, 21 x 17 3/4 and 21 1/2 x 18 in. (2) $300-500

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477 Colton’s General Atlas of the World. New York: G.W. & C.B. Colton & Co., 1877. Folio, 212 maps on 142 sheets, in publisher’s half-leather and gold-blocked boards, colored maps; some maps detached, preliminaries and one map of New York detached and chipped, 17 1/2 x 15 in. $2,000-3,000 478 Colton, G. Woolworth Colton’s General Atlas, Containing One Hundred and Seventy Steel Plate Maps and Plans, on One Hundred Imperial Folio Sheets. New York: J. H. Colton & Col, 1857. Folio, containing all 101 maps as called for on the title, most hand-colored, bound in publisher’s half morocco and gilt stamped boards, corners worn, contents toned, 17 1/4 x 14 in. $1,000-1,200

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479 Europe and Germany, Two Maps. Postarum seu Veredariorum Stationes per Germaniam et Provincias Adiacentes, Johann Peter Nell (1672-1743), Brussels, 1711, large double-page engraved map on paper, outline color, and cartouche in top left corner, tear and stain on left edge, affecting a small portion of the map; this is a map of post roads in the Low Countries, Germany, Poland, Switzerland, Austria, and south, including Venice, Paris, Lübeck, Krakow; centered on Bamberg, 24 1/2 x 21 1/2 in.; [and] Carte D’Allemagne pour Servir a l’Intelligence de l’Histoire de la Guerre, Paris: Beaurain, 1785, large folding folio engraved map on paper, printed on two sheets, outline and cartouche color, toning, faint water stains, old folds, some paper tabs pasted along the top margin, 39 1/2 x 30 in. (2) $300-400


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480 Map Lot, Four Early Maps of New England, Cremona, Languedoc, and Bardowick, Germany. Rigobert Bonne’s (1727-1795) Carte de la Partie Nord, des Etats Unis, de L’Amerique Septentrionale, [Paris, c. 1787], uncolored, central vertical fold, loss of thickness to paper from the verso when guard was stripped out, 14 1/2 x 10 in.; Antonio Campi’s (1536-1591) Agri Cremonensis Typus, from Abraham Ortelius’s Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, Antwerp, 1609, hand-colored engraving, two joined sheets, typographical text on verso of left sheet, some discoloration along the fold, spots, 21 1/4 x 16 3/4 in.; Willem Blaeu’s Languedoc, Amsterdam, [c. 1635], very detailed engraved map of Southern France, hand-colored, typographical text on the verso in Dutch, 22 x 18 in.; Daniel Friese’s (1540-1611) Bardewick, Braun & Hogenberg, c. 1598-1618, hand-colored engraving, typographical text on the verso in Latin; extensive marginal chipping with loss, tears, delicate, 20 x 15 3/4 in.; [and] two other engravings. $700-900 481 New England, New York, and New Jersey. Matthias Seutter (1678-1757) Recens Edita Totius Novi Belgii in America Septentrionali. Augsburg: Seutter, [no date]. Two folio sheet copper-plate engraved map, printed on two separate sheets of heavy laid paper, hand-colored, with no text below the imprint in the cartouche, unframed, 22 1/2 x 19 in. $1,200-1,800

482 New England. Braddock Mead (c. 16881757) A Map of the Most Inhabited Part of New England Containing the Provinces of Massachusetts Bay and New Hampshire, with the Colonies of Connecticut and Rhode Island, Divided into Counties and Townships: The whole composed from Actual Surveys and its Situation adjusted by Astronomical Observations. London: Thomas Jefferys, 29 November 1774. Four large separate panels on laid paper watermarked with a large fleur-de-lis, large margins, hand-outlined and colored in pink, yellow, and green, with sections of overlap left on each panel, the top left panel seemingly untrimmed, all edges of the plate mark visible, other panels with generous outside border margins; the map printed by copperplate engraving and hand-colored, cartouche and inset of Boston left uncolored, each panel 23 x 21 in. $1,000-1,200

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483 Newport, Rhode Island. Atlas of Newport, Jamestown, Middletown & Portsmouth. New York: Sanborn Map Company, 1921. Folio atlas, containing thirty-two doublepage maps, in addition to the key, all colored and mounted on linen as originally issued, with leather tabs on each, in the original publisher’s buckram binding with leather label on the front board, the detailed maps contain all buildings and names of property owners; binding is worn, rubbed, leather label chipped and decayed; leather board corners almost completely chipped away; many tabs fragmentary, missing, or damaged; two plates with creases near the gutter; small bits of flaking leather that found their way into the book have occasionally left brown discoloration, 24 x 18 3/4 in. $200-300 484 North America. Nicolas Sanson (16001667) Amerique Septentrionale. Paris: chez l’Auteur et chez Pierre Mariette, 1650. Hand-outlined copper-plate engraved map on paper, some cities marked with an orangish red dot, double folio, two joined sheets, unframed; marginal reinforcements on the verso along two edges, green outlining with signs of oxidation visible on reverse, occasional spotting, edges thumbed, the sheet toned, 22 3/4 x 16 1/2 in. $1,500-2,500 485 North and South America. John Cary (c. 1754-1835) A New Map of America. [from] Cary’s New Universal Atlas. London: Cary, 1806. Double-page folio engraved map, with a central vertical join, hand-colored, matted and framed, 21 x 23 1/2 in. sight. $400-600

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486 North and South America. Leonhard Von Euler (1707-1783) Tab. Geogr. Americae ad Emendatiora quae adhuc Prodierunt exampla jussu. [printed for the Royal Prussian Academy, c. 1750]. Small double-page folio copper-plate engraved map on paper; northwesternmost corner of North America still unmapped, including some of western Europe and Africa, “39 America” in lower right margin, hand outline color and shading, ink blotch in bottom right corner, affecting only blank ocean, some marginal toning, one marginal water stain, short tears to bottom, just touching bottom border, repaired from verso, 18 x 14 1/2 in. $500-700 487 Rhode Island, Newport and Providence, Atlases and Other Books, Seven Volumes. Topographical Atlas of the State of Rhode Island, Boston: Walker, 1891; for sale by J.C. Thompson, Providence; with a total of twelve maps, including county map, index map, and ten numbered section maps, disbound, dusty, dog-eared, 20 1/2 x 16 3/4 in.; New Topographical Atlas of Surveys, Providence County, Rhode Island, Philadelphia: Everts & Richards, 1895, illustrated with forty-seven double-page maps, including the key, all maps colored, the contents dusty, some tears and discoloration to maps, contemporary boards, detached, spine missing, index leaves damaged and perhaps lacking, 22 1/4 x 16 3/4 in.; Atlas of the City of Newport and Towns of Middletown and Portsmouth, Springfield: Richards & Co., 1907, with street index, assessors map, and nineteen numbered double-page colored maps, all mounted on linen as originally issued, in old boards covered over with later imitation leather, each original tab reinforced with badly yellowed tape, every map with marginal tape discoloration, 22 1/4 x 16 3/4 in.; Atlas of the City of Newport, R.I., no title, with index map and twenty-four numbered doublepage maps, all mounted on linen, with tabs, foxed and dusty throughout, tabs reinforced with yellowed tape, 18 1/4 x 14 in.; Atlas of Newport Rhode Island, Springfield: Richards & Co., 1893, illustrated with index and assessor’s maps, large folding map, and twenty lettered maps, all colored, dusty, 20 x 14 1/2 in.; [and] Two copies of Welcome Arnold Greene’s The Providence Plantations, Providence: Reid, 1886, in publisher’s green cloth, both worn, 14 x 10 1/4 in. (7) $200-300

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488 Russia. John Speed (1552-1629) A Map of Russia. London: Sold by Thomas Basset in Fleetstreet, and Richard Chiswell in St. Paul’s Churchyard, [1676]. Hand-colored copper-plate engraving on paper, figural cartouche, with an inset bird’seye view of Moscow in the top left corner, five other inset views, including the “Emperor’s Court,” “a Hott House,” and a mill, trimmed close to the neat lines, mounted, some toning and surface interruption along the join, some minor loss filled in, the sheet toned, small dampstain in the scale, 20 1/2 x 16 1/4 in. $400-600

489 United States of America. Thomas Kitchin (1718-1784) Map of the United States in North America; with the British, French, and Spanish Dominions adjoining, according to the Treaty of 1783. London: by T. Cadell, 1783. Double-folio copper-plate engraved map on paper, uncolored; old folds, light toning, 20 1/4 x 17 in. Thomas Kitchin’s map notably records an early instance of British recognition of the sovereignty and independence of the new nation by its proper name. $1,000-1,500

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City Place Parking Garage 8 Park Plaza (access on Charles Street) Mon.-Fri.: up to 1 hr.-$8, $4 each additional hr., to max $20 Evenings (5pm-2:30am): $20 flat rate Sat & Sun (6am-5pm): $5 per 1/2 hr. MCCA Boston Common Garage Zero Charles Street (between the Boston Common & Public Garden) Mon.-Fri.: up to 1 hr.-$10, $4 each additional hr., up to 10m hrs. $23, to max $28 Evenings & Weekends: $12 flat rate The Four Seaons Hotel Parking Garage 200 Boylston Street $26 up to 2 hrs., $30 up to 3 hrs., $35 up to 6 hrs., $49 all day

LAZ Parking Back Bay Garage 500 Boylston Street (222 Berkeley Street) 617.266.7006 Night & Day rates: 1/2 hr.- $8, 1 hr.- $10, 1 1/2 hr.- $18, 2 hrs.- $20, 2 1/2 hrs.- $26, 3-24 hrs.- $37 Weekend Rates: 1/2 hr.- $8, $2 each additional 1/2 hr., to max $22 Motor Mart Garage 201 Stuart Street Up to 1 hr.-$8, 1 to 2 hrs.-$12, 2-3 hrs-$16/3-12 hrs.-$20/12-24 hr.-$31 weekends up to 3 hrs/$8 200 Stuart Street Garage At Revere Hotel Boston Common 200 Stuart Street 3-12 hrs.-$22 12-24 hrs.-$40

(recommended for trucks) LAZ Parking 130 Arlington Street 617.426.0604 $7 per 1/2 hr. $20 all day (weekdays only) $15 nights (starting at 4pm) and weekends Billy’s Parking 222 Stuart Street 617.632.2881 Mon-Fri 7:30am-5pm-$6 each 1/2 hr., $20 max $30 vans or trucks $25 during events in area Sat., Sun. & evenings $20 flat fee

The Taj Hotel Parking Garage 15 Arlington Street Up to 24 hrs.-$44

Boston Hotels with Skinner Corporate Rates

Boston Hotels Boston Harbor Hotel 70 Rowe’s Wharf Boston, MA 02110 Tel: 1.800.654.2000 Fax: 617.345.6799

Nine Zero Hotel 90 Tremont St. Boston, MA 02108 617.772.5800

Fairmont Copley Plaza 138 St. James Avenue Boston, MA 02116 Tel: 617.267.5300 Fax: 617.375.9648

The Ritz-Carlton Boston Common 10 Avery Street Boston, MA 02111 Tel: 617.912.3315 Fax: 617.912.3375

Four Seasons 200 Boylston Street Boston, MA 02116 617.351.2036

Taj Boston 15 Arlington St. Boston, MA 02116 617.536.5700

The Liberty Hotel 215 Charles St. Boston, MA 02114 617.224.4000

Westin-Copley Plaza 10 Huntington Avenue Boston, MA 02116 Tel: 1.800.228.3000 Fax: 617.424.7483

Beacon Hill Hotel & Bistro 25 Charles Street Boston, MA 02114 617.723.7575

Loews Boston Back Bay Hotel 350 Stuart Street Boston, MA 02116 1.855.495.6397

The Colonnade Hotel 120 Huntington Avenue Boston, MA 02116 617.424.7000 800.962.3030 www.colonnadehotel.com

The Park Plaza 64 Arlington Street Boston, MA 02116 617.426.2000

Eliot Hotel 370 Commonwealth Ave. Boston, MA 02215 617.267.1607

The Revere Hotel Boston Common 200 Stuart Street Boston, MA 02116 Tel: 617.482.1800 Fax: 617.451.2750

Marriott Copley Place 110 Huntington Avenue Boston, MA 02116 Tel: 1.800.228.9290 Fax: 617.236.5885

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Board of Directors

Chairman of the Board - Stephen L. Fletcher Richard Albright John Deighton Barnet Fain Karen M. Keane Andrew Payne Chairman Emerita - Nancy R. Skinner

Administration

President/Chief Executive Officer - Karen M. Keane Chief Financial Officer - Don Kelly Executive Vice President - Stephen L. Fletcher Vice Presidents - Eric Jones, Marie Keep, Gloria Lieberman, Carol McCaffrey, Kerry Shrives, Stuart G. Slavid, Robin S.R. Starr

Expert Departments

20th Century Design - Jane D. Prentiss American & European Paintings & Prints - Robin S.R. Starr Assistants: Elizabeth C. Haff, Michelle Lamunière American Furniture & Decorative Arts - Stephen L. Fletcher Deputy Director: Chris Barber American Indian & Ethnographic Art - Douglas Deihl Antique Motor Vehicles - Jane D. Prentiss Asian Works of Art - Judith Dowling Assistants: Helen Eagles, Suhyung Kim Books & Manuscripts - Devon Gray Bottles, Flasks & Early Glass - Stephen L. Fletcher Ceramics - Stuart G. Slavid Clocks, Watches & Scientific Instruments - Robert C. Cheney Assistant: Jonathan Dowling Couture - Melissa R. McCaffrey, Kyle Johnson Discovery Auctions - Melissa R. McCaffrey, Kyle Johnson European Furniture & Decorative Arts - Stuart G. Slavid Assistants: Leah Kingman, Stephanie Opolski Fine Wines - Marie Keep Assistant: Michael J. Moser Historic Arms & Militaria - Joel Bohy

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Jewelry - Victoria Bratberg, G.G. Assistants: John Colasacco, G.G., Katie Simonetti Judaica - Kerry Shrives Musical Instruments - Director Pro Tem: Jill Arbetter Oriental Rugs & Carpets - Lawrence Kearney Assistant: Erika Jorjorian Silver - Stuart G. Slavid Toys & Dolls - Melissa R. McCaffrey, Kyle Johnson Auctioneers - LaGina Austin, Chris Barber, Robert C. Cheney, John Colasacco, Stephen L. Fletcher, Karen M. Keane, Marie C. Keep, Gloria Lieberman, Jessica R. Lincoln, Kerry Shrives, Stuart G. Slavid, Robin S.R. Starr, Laura V. Sweeney


Exhibitions & Property Distribution

Finance Department

Subscriptions

Service Departments

Marlborough:

Warehouse Manager - Fred Trottier, 508.970.3261

Auction Coordinator - Melanie Trottier-Mitcheson, 508.970.3103

Boston:

Auction Coordinators - Jessica R. Lincoln, 617.874.4308,

Benjamin Evans, 617.874.4329

Marlborough:

Accounts Receivable - Denise Johnson, 508.970.3269

Accounts Payable, Consignment - Kathleen Hayes, 508.970.3268

Accounts Payable, Trade - Kevin Rota, 508.970.3283

Credit Supervisor - William Madden, 508.970.3266

Marlborough:

Linsey MacDougall, 508.970.3240

Advertising/Production Manager - Pamela Van de Houten Appraisal & Auction Services - LaGina Austin, Christine E. Finn, Rachel Kingsley, Ava Pandiani Boston Gallery Director - Laura V. Sweeney Assistant Gallery Director: Paige Lewellyn Gallery Assistant: Olga Gerasymiv Consignment Services - Patricia Walker King, Carol Zeigler, Kealyn Garner Customer Relations - Carol McCaffrey Human Resources - Carol McCaffrey Image Editor - John Cornelius Information Technology & Internet Auctions - Kerry Shrives Assistant: Melissa R. McCaffrey Institutional Relations - L. Emerson Tuttle Lead Designer - Kristina Harrison Managing Director - Marie C. Keep Marketing & Public Relations - L. Emerson Tuttle, Kathryn Gargolinski, Jenna DeLuca, Linsey MacDougall Photographers - Stanley P. Bystrowski, Jeffrey R. Antkowiak Receptionists - Marlborough: Katie Fitzgerald Boston: Bridget Spears Regional Director窶認lorida - April L. Matteini, G.G. Staff Portraits - Cheryl Richards Photography Transportation - Eric Jones

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