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1002 Adams, John (1735-1826) Signed Legal Brief, 5 December 1770. Single leaf of laid paper, typographical form fulfilled by hand, inscribed on both sides. Signed by Adams on the verso, regarding the case of Daniel Crane vs. Christopher Prince, namely a warrant for the arrest of Prince, or his goods, because of an unpaid debt of ninety-five pounds, with notes on verso concerning his protestations of innocence, 8 1/4 x 6 1/2 in. $2,500-3,000 1003 Adams, Samuel (1722-1803) Document Signed, 20 December 1779. Single leaf, typographically printed and fulfilled by hand. Authorizing the payment of 822 pounds, four shillings to Deacon Samuel Pool for the use of the Selectman of Abington for clothing, the sheet clean, with old folds, some marginal fraying, a two brown dots, matted and framed, 8 1/4 x 6 1/4 in. $1,000-1,500 1004 Addams, Charles (1912-1988) Original Art for a New Yorker Magazine Golfing Cartoon, 16 January 1954. Ink and gouache on watercolor paper, in black-and-white, signed in lower right corner, with markup in pencil for publication; titled, “Oh, for goodness’ sake, forget it, Beasley. Play another one,” on the mat; the image depicts a golfer straddling an alligator, holding its jaws open, while his caddie uses a golf club to retrieve the lost ball; the golfer who provides the caption and caddie look on in dismay, 17 x 17 1/2 in. $3,000-5,000

1005 American Broadside, A Short Account of the Troubles that our Fore-Fathers met with to obtain this Land. [No place: no printer, [between 1776 and 1801]. Single leaf of laid paper, broadside printed in two columns separated by typographical ornaments, the verses in twenty-two stanzas, rare according to ESTC, not in Evans, not in W.C. Ford, accompanied by a letter from the American Antiquarian Society, noting that they hold no copy; a variant in ESTC mentions a variant with a Danvers imprint dated 1776; mounted on a newspaper from 1801, both quite worn, old folds, separated into two vertical strips, edges with loss, some staining, 13 x 8 in. The inspiring text refers to the original colonization of Plymouth, Massachusetts by 17th century English Puritans. “Attend all ye that stand around, and you shall hear a doleful sound; enough to make your Heart to ake; enough a flinty Heart to break.” $700-900 1006 Armstrong, Neil (1930-2012) Signed Program, Kitty Hawk to Tranquility. Beverly Hills, California, 5 December 1969. Bifolium color-printed program for the Wright Brothers Memorial Banquet, signed by Armstrong on the interior page, with the added inscription in his hand, “Apollo 11,” 12 x 9 in. $1,000-1,200 1007 Astronaut Signatures; Signed Sheet of Project Mercury Stamps. Single sheet of fifty four-cent stamps, signed by Malcolm Scott Carpenter (19252013); Leroy Gordon “Gordo” Cooper, Jr. (1927–2004); John Herschel Glenn, Jr. (b. 1921); Virgil Ivan “Gus” Grissom (1926-1967); Walter Marty “Wally” Schirra, Jr. (1923-2007); Alan Bartlett Shepard, Jr. (1923-1998); Donald Kent “Deke” Slayton (1924-1993); some signatures faded (Shepard and Grissom), matted, with a copy of Life magazine feature the same men, 9 x 10 in. $800-1,200

1008 Battle of Gettysburg, Contemporary Epistolary Account, 2 August 1863. Autograph letter written signed by Traves Hensley (1836-1873), two legal-size lined folio sheets inscribed over three pages. To his wife in Texas relaying secondhand information, from newspaper and other verbal reports (rumors) regarding Gettysburg and the situation in the Trans-Mississippi theatre, in Moundville, Alabama. Old folds, some breaks along those folds, 13 x 8 in. “The Yankees say they had 18 Generals killed, wounded, and missing besides many officers and lower rank. In Mississippi and Tennessee our armies were reported to be retreating slowly before the advance of Grant and Rosecrans and our prospects there appear to be rather gloomy. Banks’ army seems to have mysteriously disappeared and no one can imagine where it will turn up [...] General [Tom] Green has lost his whole brigade encamped at this place, the water here is bad and men are falling ill. Many of his fellow friends are ill or have requested transfers. [...] We have no recruits to fill our decimated ranks.” $200-300 1009 Beauregard, Pierre Gustave Toutant (1818-1893) Autograph Letter Signed, London, 10 July 1866. Two leaves each inscribed on the recto side only. To a Mr. Schwartz of Liverpool, describing an upcoming trip from London to Paris and arranging for the management of 600 pounds. Old folds, first leaf toned with slight discoloration along a vertical fold, 7 x 4 1/2 in. In July of 1866, Beauregard was president of the New Orleans, Jackson and Great Northern Railroad, and may have been on the continent for business. $800-1,000

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1001 Adams, John (1735-1826) Four Language Ship’s Passport, Signed, 12 January 1799, as President. Double folio laid sheet, printed in four columns, each in a different language: French, Spanish, English, and Dutch, signed in the center by Adams, countersigned by Timothy Pickering (1745-1829) as Secretary of State. Issued to the brig Rambler, of Beverly, John Moulton master, to convey fish, sugar, cocoa, coffee, and oil. Old folds, toning, mounted, with separations along folds with some loss, framed, 17 1/2 x 21 1/4 in. $2,000-3,000

1010 Bonheur, Rosa (1822-1899) Autograph Receipt, Signed and Initialed, 31 July 1894. Single card inscribed on one side, memorializing the sale of a painting of Scottish cattle and sheep to Messieurs Tedesco Freres, for the sum of 20,000 francs, with a hand dated and initialed stamp, matted and framed, 7 1/2 x 4 in. $200-300

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1011 California Pictorial Letter Sheet, Hutchings’ California Scenes, Methods of Mining. San Francisco: Hanna & Co., 1855. Uncolored lithograph printed on pale blue wove paper, depicting twelve methods of mining in use in California in 1855, including canals, sinking a shaft, the hydraulic telegraph, sluicing, hydraulic washing, the guyaskutus, toming, ground sluicing, turning the river, panning out, tunneling, and rocking the cradle, inscribed in full on the verso by a man named Calkins, writing from California back home to someone in New York state arranging to send along $100 to settle some debts; old folds, some lightening, some marginal loss, 10 1/2 x 8 1/4 in. $800-1,200

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1012 Caracas, Venezuela. Document Regarding Capuchin Missions, 1797. Three folio format laid paper leaves, inscribed over four and a half pages, regarding Capuchin missions from Cantabria and Navarra, Spain operating in Caracas; the document mentioning the name of Governor of the Provincia de Maracaibo, Venezuela, Joaquin Primo de Rivera y Perez de Acal (1734-1800), Jose de Limonta (1749-1814); inscribed in brown ink, in a secretarial hand; losses due to worming, ink oxidation resulting in etching with loss to paper, paper repairs, 11 3/4 x 8 in. $1,000-1,500 1013 Chagall, Marc (1887-1985) Signed Post Card, First Day Cover, 17 November 1967. Specially printed envelope commemorating the first day of issue of the postage stamped based on Chagall’s design for the Kiss of Peace stained glass window at the United Nations, with the stamp, cancellation beneath, and Chagall’s signature in blue ink above, matted and framed with a reproduction of a painting, 6 1/4 x 3 1/2 in. $200-300 1014 Chamberlain, Joshua Lawrence (1828-1914) Signed Check, 2 August 1880. Blue paper check for twenty-five dollars, drawn on J.B. Brown & Sons, bankers of Portland, Maine, to a John whose last name is hard to make out, matted and framed with a portrait, 6 1/4 x 3 in. $400-600

1015 Charles III of Spain (1716-1788) Document Establishing the Banco Nacional de San Carlos, 19 July 1782. [Madrid: no printer, 1782]. Folio, eight-leaf bifolium, thirty-one number pages; typographically printed throughout, the date provided in manuscript on the final leaf, with Charles III’s signature stamped and further manuscript endorsements of local officials, disbound, worming, some losses, not in Worldcat, 11 3/4 x 8 1/4 in. “On the advice of his foremost financial adviser, Francisco Cabarrus, one of the leaders of the Enlightenment in Spain, Charles III established the Bank of San Carlos in 1782. The bank’s principal task was to effect a gradual withdrawal from circulation of the vales reales, but it was also charged with the discounting of bills and dealing with incoming and outgoing remittances on behalf of the Crown.” (quoted from At Spes non Fracta: Hope & Co. 1770– 1815, by Marten Gerbertus Buist.) $2,000-2,500 1016 Cleveland, Grover (1837-1908) Group of Documents. Signed military commission, 31 August 1893, appointing John H. Janeway Deputy Surgeon General with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, engraved document fulfilled by hand, signed by Cleveland and Secretary of War Daniel Scott Lamont (1851-1905), sealed and docketed, 19 x 15 1/2 in.; autograph letter signed, 11 May 1900, one-and-ahalf pages written on folding Westland stationery, to Herbert Welch, regarding a charitable gift to Washington and Lee University; an invitation to visit Frances Cleveland at home in Princeton, New Jersey, and three holograph envelopes with Frances Cleveland Preston’s (1864-1947) free frank, all from 1947. (7) $400-500 1017 Constable, John (1776-1837) Autograph Letter Signed, 16 June 1836. Single leaf of wove writing paper inscribed on one page. To Sir Martin Archer Shee (1769-1850), President of the Royal Academy, inviting him to his last lecture. Slightly faded, remains of mounting on verso, 7 1/4 x 4 1/2 in. $1,500-2,000

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1018 Cornwallis, Charles Marquis (17381805) and John Langdon (17411819) Two Signed Documents. The Cornwallis note a postcard, addressed to Robin Lawless (1724-1806), assistant at the London bookselling firm, Cadell & Davies, dated 13 November 1794, signed “Marquis Cornwallis” at the foot of the note, and free franked “Cornwallis” on the verso, matted and framed with a portrait, 5 x 2 3/4 in. [and] Langdon’s autograph letter signed, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 28 March 1811, to Joshua Darling and John Harris, acknowledging their request that Langdon recommend Jackman J. Davis (d. 1828) as a cadet at West Point; Davis did attend West Point, graduating in 1814, and subsequently serving during the War of 1812 in Portsmouth, old folds, matted, 9 x 7 1/2 in. (2) $400-600 1019 Corot, Jean Baptiste Camille (17961875) Autograph Letter Signed, Ville-d’Avray, 2 July [1861]. Single leaf of wove paper inscribed over one page. To an unnamed recipient, stating that the artist cannot visit because his sister, Annette-Octavie Corot Sennegon (1793-1874), and brother-inlaw, Laurent-Denis Sennegon are ill. Corot was hoping to travel to Arras and Douai for “la fete” to be held on 6 July, which may well have been Douai’s Fêtes de Gayant, a tradition dating back to 1530, wherein wooden giants are paraded in the streets. $300-400 1020 Cummings, Edward Estlin (18941962) Original Pen and Ink Drawing. Pen and ink sketch with ink wash identified as the work of Cummings by Hildegarde Watson in a printed note affixed to the board on which the drawing is mounted, depicting “Grandfather Watson,” James Sibley Watson Senior, the sheet mounted, toned, with some tears, 11 1/2 x 8 3/4 in. Cummings graduated from Harvard with Dr. James Sibley Watson Jr. (1894-1982) in 1916. Watson and his wife Hildegarde Lasell Watson (1888-1976), remained close friends of Cummings from that time onward. $1,000-1,500


1024 Dickens, Charles (1812-1870) Autograph Letter Signed, 28 December 1864. Single sheet of Gad’s Hill Place writing paper, with mourning edging, one page. To actor, dramatist, and lessee of the Adelphi Theatre, Benjamin Nottingham Webster (17971882), confirming their upcoming engagement, and mentioning the death of David Roberts (1796-1864) . Written in blue ink, matted and framed, 7 x 4 1/4 in. A facsimile of the envelope that once contained this letter receives notice in The Letters of Charles Dickens, Supplement VI, X, 467.1. $1,500-2,000

1022 Czar Nicholas II of Russia (18681918) Romanov Family Photo Album. Large-format album with large black-and-white portraits of the royal family assassinated by the Bolsheviks during the February Revolution in July of 1918, including portraits of Nicholas II; his wife Alexandra Feodorovna [Alix of Hesse and by Rhine] (1872-1918); Nicholas’s mother, the Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna [Dagmar of Denmark] (1847-1928); and the Romanov children, Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia (1904-1918); Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia (1895-1918); Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia (1897-1918); Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia (1899-1918); and Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia (1901-1918); the binding produced in Russia, with captions and bookseller’s label in Russian, binding damaged, photographs vary in size, album pages 16 x 11 3/4 in. $1,000-1,200

1026 Edison, Thomas Alva (1847-1931) Clipped Signature. Small square of paper with Edison’s signature in pencil, 3 x 2 1/4 in. $200-300

1023 Deeds, Connecticut, 1699-1920s. Approximately 100 deeds, documents, letters, receipts, and other ephemeral material from the late 17th through the early 20th century, mostly from the Hine family of Washington, Connecticut, and their descendants. $300-500

1025 Dickens, Charles (1812-1870) Photograph Signed, Boston, 6 March 1868. A very large example of a print from the Jeremiah Gurney and Son daguerreotype taken in New York in 1867 specifically to be marketed during Dickens’s U.S. tour of the same period, trimmed into an oval, mounted on mat board, dated and signed by Dickens in blue ink on the mat mount, beneath the photograph, the photo 18 x 15, the mount 20 1/2 x 17 1/2 in. $8,000-10,000

1027 Edison, Thomas Alva (1847-1931) Two Signed Copies of Stockholder Meeting Minutes, Edison Storage Battery Company, 1925 and 1926. Two separate typed documents, each three pages, signed by Thomas and Charles Edison and the other stockholders in the company, with some other correspondence generated by company secretary H.H. Eckert; the paper toned, each sheet 11 x 8 in. $700-900

1028 Execution Broadsides, Three Examples, London, Mid-19th Century. Life, Trial, Confession & Execution of Catherine Wilson, the Female Poisoner who was executed at Newgate, on Monday, Oct. 20th [1862], for the murder of Mrs. Soames, wood-type headline, with a large woodcut showing the street scene and scaffolding, text in four columns below, with a woodcut of the accused bottom central, surrounded by sixstanza poem, 19 x 14 1/2 in.; The Life, Trial, Sentence, and Execution of William Cogan, for the murder of his wife in Newton St., Holborn, with a large woodcut of the hanged man below the wood-type headline, typographical ornamental border, the text in four columns separated by rules, with a full-length portrait woodcut of Cogan standing in his cell at the foot of the second column, 19 x 14 1/2 in.; [and] The Trial and Execution of Captain W. Mori, for the murder of William Malcolm, title in wood type, two eight-sided woodcuts below, one showing the crime, mounted on his horse, the nobleman shoots a poacher, five columns below, at bottom center another eight-sided woodcut showing Moir in his cell with his family, flanked by typographical ornaments and “Solemn Verses,” 19 x 14 1/2 in., each matted and framed. (3) $400-600 1029 Farragut, David Glasgow (18011870) Autograph Letter Signed, from the U.S. Flagship Hartford, off New Orleans, 1 May 1862. Single leaf inscribed over one page of lined wove paper. To Surgeon Stewart Kennedy, serving aboard the U.S.S. Hartford, ordering him to accompany the sick and wounded from the Gulf Blockading Squadron to the Pilot Town in the Mississippi River and thence to the frigate Colorado, and to report for duty to the commanding officer; docketed by John L. Davis, Lieutenant and Commanding Officer of the Colorado, in upper left corner, with his signature, and the note, “Reported for duty, May 2d 1862,” old folds, a correction in the text, in Farragut’s hand, where he originally ordered the sick and wounded be taken to quarantine, he modified it to read Pilot Town, former mount on verso, 12 1/2 x 8 in. [Together with] the carbon of a letter from 1954, acknowledging a gift to the Navy of a letter written by Kennedy relating the tale of Farragut’s capture of the city of New Orleans on 29 April 1862, with the text transcribed, with the original envelope. $600-800

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1021 Cummings, Edward Estlin (18941962) Photos, Signed Deed, and Telegram. Group lot that includes a signed lease, 18 August 1947, for two rooms on the third floor rear, 4 Patchin Place, Manhattan, signed as tenant; (most material associated with James Sibley Watson Jr.) five 8 x 10 in. photographs of Cummings, including what may be two unpublished images of Cummings acting in one of Sibley’s productions; an interesting telegram sent to Sibley regarding visitation of Cummings’s daughter Nancy, sent during a period of heated negotiations during the summer of 1925, which reads as follows: “Thanks suggestion concerning future judge found referred me lawyer says nothing legally doing unless child in New York state and contract bad and no chance winning my case anyhow but advises calling husband who will avoid scandal but husband in London meanwhile everything points to husband therefore much darkness”; typed letter to Sibley Watson with manuscript post script; an envelope addressed to Sibley Watson in Cummings’s hand; and three pages of brief journal notes that may be in Cummings hand; [Together with] Susan Cheever’s biography of Cummings. $2,500-3,500

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1030 Faulkner, William (1897-1962) Beer Broadside, To the Voters of Oxford. [Oxford, Mississippi: Oxford Eagle, 1950]. Single leaf broadside, regarding the Oxford attempt to ban beer, with a letter from the original collector of the sheet, who was a graduate student at the time that Faulkner left it in his car; his wife saved it; he also states that Faulkner had the printing done at the local paper, the Oxford Eagle, some slight fading, old folds, housed in a custom case, 8 1/2 x 11 in. $1,000-1,500

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1031 Fillmore, Millard (1800-1874) Document Signed, 27 August 1850. Partially printed document fulfilled by hand, nominating Thomas H. Sill Deputy Postmaster for Erie, Pennsylvania, sealed and countersigned by Daniel Webster as Secretary of State, old folds, 15 1/2 x 9 3/4 in. $400-600 1032 Fitch, Thomas (1700-1774) Proclamation for a Public Thanksgiving. New Haven: by James Parker & Co., 21 February 1760. Broadside issued by Fitch as Governor of Connecticut to commemorate the defeat of the French army in Canada and the taking of Quebec, in line with a royal proclamation from the British King; rare, ESTC locates two copies only worldwide, at the American Antiquarian Society and Connecticut Historical Society; toned, some light losses along the folds, split horizontally into two pieces, chipping with loss, discoloration, 14 x 11 3/4 in. $600-800 1033 Frost, Robert (1874-1963) Autograph Poem Signed, A Considerable Speck. Single leaf inscribed on one side with the text of the poem in Frost’s hand, written in brown ink, signed at the end, matted and framed with a photograph of Frost, 10 1/4 x 7 in. $3,000-4,000 1034 Frost, Robert (1874-1963) Autograph Working Manuscript, Our Hold on the Planet. Single leaf of unlined wove paper, inscribed on one page, in brown ink, with changes to the text that reflect the final published version of the poem, matted, with a clipped signature and the Doris Ulmann photographic portrait of Frost, the manuscript leaf 9 1/4 x 8 1/4 in. $1,000-1,200

1035 George III, King of England (17381820) Document Signed, 4 August 1804. Signed military appointment on parchment, engraved and fulfilled by hand, sealed, appointing J.N. Heber Quarter Master of the Chasseurs Britanniques, old folds, matted and framed, 13 x 9 1/4 in. $300-400 1036 George III, King of England (17381820) Document Signed, St. James’s Palace, 14 June 1783. Engraved document on parchment with George’s signature in the upper left corner, appointing Donald Campbell Captain in the Second Battalion, of the First or Royal Regiment of Foot, under General Adam Gordon, Lord Gordon (17261801), countersigned by Frederick Lord North (1732-1792); some puckering, central fold reinforced/repaired on the verso, some discoloration, matted and framed with portraits of George III and Lord North, 15 3/4 x 11 in. sight. $300-400 1037 Grant, Ulysses S. (1822-1885) Autograph Letter Signed, 10 July 1870. Bifolium wove Executive Mansion paper. To one of his sisters, likely Virginia Paine Grant Corbin (1832-1913), of Elizabeth, New Jersey, describing a recent trip to New York “the irrepressible Yankees were too much for me,” some family news “Fred has a sweetheart in the city,” [Frederick Dent Grant (1850-1912)] and other plans to visit in the future. Some breaks along old folds, some ink showthrough, generally good, matted and framed, 9 3/4 x 7 3/4 in. $1,200-1,800 1038 Grant, Ulysses S. (1822-1885) Signed Military Commission, 22 July 1876. Engraved document printed on parchment, fulfilled by hand, signed by Grant, and countersigned by J. Donald Cameron (1833-1918), as Secretary of War, appointing John H. Janeway Surgeon with the rank of Major, 18 3/4 x 15 3/4 in. $700-900

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1039 Grant, Ulysses S. (1822-1885) Signed Military Commission, 27 June 1870. Single parchment sheet, engraved and fulfilled by hand, nominating Almond Brown Wells (1842-1912) Captain in the Eighth Regiment of Cavalry, sealed, docketed, and countersigned by William W. Belknap (1829-1890), Grant’s Secretary of War; matted and framed with a portrait of Grant, old folds, a few small holes along central vertical fold, 18 x 14 1/2 in. Wells rose to the rank of BrigadierGeneral, serving in the Civil War, and made the long march from Fort Davis, Texas, to Fort Meade, South Dakota; he fought in the Sioux Indian campaign in South Dakota in the 1890s, served in Cuba, and later in the Far East during the Boxer Rebellion. $500-700 1040 Habermann, Franz Xavier (17211796) Representation du Feu Terrible a Nouvelle Yorck. [Augsburg: au Negoce commun de l’Academie Imperiale d’Empire des Arts Libereaux, c. 1778] Double folio hand-colored etched broadside perspective view, with the title printed in reverse, and five lines of text below explaining the disaster in German and French, matted and framed, 16 x 11 1/2 in. Vues d’optique, precursors to stereoscopic views, were designed to produce the illusion of depth when viewed through a zograscope, or optical diagonal machine. This image shows the Great Fire of New York that occurred on September 21, 1776 and destroyed about a third of the city; buildings up and down the street are engulfed in flames, British soldiers beat citizens in the streets while others carry loot out into the street. $400-600 1041 Hancock, John (1737-1793) Signed Document, Boston, 23 November 1787. Single leaf, partially printed document, fulfilled by hand, docketed on the verso, sealed, signed by Hancock, countersigned by John Avery, ordering the payment of nine pounds twelve shillings to the Honorable James Warren (1726-1808) above his pay as a member of the State House of Representatives “for 32 days attendance as Speaker to the House of Representatives,” mounted and framed with a portrait of Hancock, 9 x 7 1/4 in. James Warren was the President of the Massachusetts Provincial Congress, a Paymaster General of the Continental Army during the Revolution, and a member of the Sons of Liberty. $2,000-2,500


1043 Hugo, Victor (1802-1885) Autograph Letter Signed, 18 June 1874. Bifolium mourning stationery, inscribed on one page, with holograph envelope. To a male recipient at the Bibliotheque Nationale, authorizing the publication of two extracts. Old folds, corners of bifolium tacked at the corners, small fabric tape fragments adhering to verso of letter and envelope, the letter: 8 x 5 in. This letter was written in while Hugo was in mourning for his son Francois-Victor, who died the previous December. $500-700 1044 Ingres, Jean-Auguste-Dominique (1780-1867) Autograph Letter Signed, Paris, 27 May 1841. Single leaf inscribed on one page. To an unnamed recipient, regarding his friend and student, the painter Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin (1809-1864) regarding a lithographic rendering of Ingres painting of the martyrdom of Saint Symphorien, matted and framed, 7 1/4 x 5 in. $700-900

1045 Jefferson, Thomas (1743-1826) Broadside Song, Jefferson, Freedom, and Glory!! United States: [no printer], c. 1801. Single folio sheet, text in two columns, the song itself in twenty numbered stanzas, the first line reading, “While glory leads my cheerful song,” the imprint date suggested by content, likely published during Jefferson’s first run for the Presidential office, text columns separated by a vertical line of sets of curly brackets; not in Shaw & Shoemaker; the only other copy located is held at the American Antiquarian Society, in Worcester, Massachusetts, with a conjugate broadside on left half of sheet, intended to be separated, still attached, entitled, Every man his own politician and Religious liberty, the present copy consists only of the Jefferson stanzas; browned, old folds, some loss, breaks in the paper, discolored, 10 1/4 x 8 1/2 in. $2,000-2,500 1046 Jefferson, Thomas (1743-1826) Ship’s Passport, Signed, February 1805, Countersigned by James Madison (1751-1836). Single parchment leaf, engraved vignettes at the top, depicting a ship under sail and a lighthouse by E. Savage, the text engraved and fulfilled by hand, signed by Jefferson as President, sealed, some old folds, wavy cut top, matted and framed, 15 1/2 x 10 in. $2,500-3,000 1047 Jefferson, Thomas (1743-1826) Signature Clipped from a Document, 4 December 1801. Segment cut from the bottom of an engraved document on parchment with the date fulfilled by hand in a secretarial hand and Jefferson’s signature beneath, matted and framed with a portrait, 7 3/4 x 2 3/4 in. $2,000-2,500

1048 Johnson, Andrew (1808-1875) Military Commissions, Three Stamped Documents. Three engraved commissions on parchment, each fulfilled by hand and stamped with a copy of Johnson’s signature, all issued to John H. Janeway as follows: 10 August 1866, for faithful and meritorious services during the war; 20 August 1866, for gallant and meritorious services at the battle of Olustee, Florida; [and] 27 July 1868 for faithful and meritorious services during the war, all docketed and sealed, all signatures stamped, including those of Johnson’s and the Secretaries of War, 19 x 15 3/4 in. (3) $150-200 1049 Jones, John Paul (1747-1792) Signed Receipt, Philadelphia, 17 July 1783. Small sheet inscribed in a secretarial hand, brown ink, to John Ross for the sum of 100 dollars, signed, “Paul Jones,” trimmed, with truncated inscriptions on the verso, and bits of red sealing wax, some foxing, with two portraits, the receipt 7 x 2 3/4 in. $2,000-3,000 1050 Keeler, Julius Melathene (1825-1890) Archive of Family Photographs and Letters. Including a cabinet photograph of Keeler; another of what may be a mining site, and a hieroglyphic rock; a hand-colored photo of his daughter, Jessie Keeler; and dozens of letters by Keeler family members; housed in a three-ring binder. Keeler, who founded the California town that bears his name, was caught up in the Gold Rush of 1849; he was involved in marble quarrying in Inyo County, and other pursuits; his daughter Jessie Maud Keeler (18641950) married Chester Whitin Lassell (1861-1932), Hildegarde Lasell Watson was their daughter. $300-500

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1042 Hooker, General Joseph (18141879) Autograph Letter Signed, Garden City, Long Island, New York 16 October 1879. Single lined leaf, wove paper, inscribed on one page. To New Jersey attorney Belmont Perry (1854-1912) stating that he has no recollection of a man by the name of “Gus Onderonk.” Framed, with a photograph of Hooker and his men c. 1863, 8 x 5 in. This letter was written two weeks before Hooker’s death. $500-700

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1051 Keller, Helen (1880-1968) Autograph Letter Signed and Cabinet Card. Early undated two page letter, two sheets inscribed on rectos only, in pencil. Undated, but very likely written in July of 1887; to her cousin George, describing the train trip to Huntsville that she took with her teacher, Annie Sullivan; written on two sheets of laid paper with a crane watermark, marked Japanese Linen, and dated 1886, some old folds, some toning, 8 1/2 x 8 in. “helen will write letter to cousin george helen and teacher did go to huntsville steam car does go fast george did give helen soda water anna did buy helen pretty new hat helen did play with pinky horse does like sugar mr. rea did kiss helen carlotta will come to see helen in tuscumbia corinne and may and louise did come to see helen nobert did shoot little bird wrong helen and teacher did come home. lady did talk wrong on fingers. conductor did take ticket and punch. teacher did buy orange and helen did put orange in bag for mother leila has little new baby new baby is bessie bessie is eva sister mildred is helen sister helen is sick doctor will give medicine to make well helen does love george and anna helen will kiss george and anna good-by helen keller” [Together with] a cabinet card of Helen Keller as a girl, taken by Collins in Huntsville, Alabama; twenty 19th century cabinet cards of other Keller family members; [and] six additional 19th century photographs of more distant Keller family relations, all photographs identified on the backs. $3,000-5,000 1052 Kennedy, Edward M. (1932-2009) Typed Letter Signed, 15 September 1969. Single sheet of Kennedy’s Senate letterhead, typed on one side. To Mr. and Mrs. Worthen, referring to the death of Mary Jo Kopchne, and stating that he plans to remain in the Senate and to stand for re-election in 1970, despite the wishes of his correspondents. Old folds, 8 x 10 3/4 in. $400-600

1053 Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (19171963) Autograph Letter Signed, Hyannisport, Massachusetts, 1 September 1944. Single leaf of Hyannisport letter paper, inscribed on two pages. To Francis E. Galline of Dorchester, thanking him for the card sent in sympathy on the death of Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. (1915-1944); with the original holograph envelope, postmark, and free frank. Some old folds, signs of handling, matted and framed with a portrait of the smiling brothers in their naval uniforms, 5 1/2 x 6 1/2 in. “Dear Mr. Galline, I want you to know [how] much I appreciated your card at the time of my brother Joe’s death. Even in a family as large as ours—he can never be replaced. We do have the small consolation of knowing that he died doing something he wanted above all else to do. Thanks again for your card. —Sincerely Jack Kennedy.” $7,000-9,000 1054 Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (19171963) Signed Photo. Black-and-white photograph of Kennedy seated at a desk with four other men on the right, signed in blue ink above the heads of the two standing men, framed with a photocopy of a letter to Kennedy and an American Legion prayer card, 9 1/4 x 7 3/4 in. $1,000-1,200 1055 Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936) Autograph Letter Signed, Rhodesia, [1898]. Single leaf inscribed on one page. To Sir Alfred Milner, saying that he and his wife cannot come that day but will come on the following day. Minor horizontal fold, matted and framed, 5 1/2 x 3 1/2 in. $250-350 1056 Large Collection of Autographs and Notes. Hundreds of clipped signatures, letters and notes signed by various people, housed in one box and four three-ring binders, should be viewed. $1,500-1,800 1057 Larson, Bruce L., Lindbergh of Minnesota a Political Biography, Signed by Charles Lindbergh Jr. (1902-1974) and Larson. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, [1973]. Stated first edition signed by Lindbergh and Larson on title page, in publisher’s blue cloth and original dust jacket, very good, 8 1/4 x 5 1/4 in. $600-800

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1058 Lawrence, David Herbert (18851930) Autograph Letter Signed, 2 December 1918. Two wove sheets each inscribed on rectos only: two pages. To Selina Yorke, criticizing Hilda Aldington Doolittle (the poet H.D.), wife of Lawrence’s close friend, Richard Aldington; mentioning his wife Frieda, their poverty, and his attempts “to get stories and things done to save our situation,” which he describes as a “low water mark.” The paper a soft beige, old folds, 7 3/4 x 5 in. $1,000-1,500 1059 Lee, Robert E. (1807-1870) Clipped Signature. Small clipped signature, mounted with a reproduction of a period carte-de-visite, 1 3/4 x 1 1/8 in. $400-600 1060 Letters and Covers, 19th Century American, Two Boxes. Approximately 250 individual letters, from the 1850s through to the early 1910s, the bulk from between 1860 and 1890; associated with the Hine family of Washington, Connecticut, and the Pond family, Minnesota pioneers and early missionaries to the Dakota Indians, the majority of the letters written from Shakopee, Minnesota, between 1854 and 1890; with many others originating from Fort Snelling; most of the letters are in their original envelopes with postage, a large archive documenting the lives of pioneering missionaries. (2) $400-600 1061 Levi, Lincoln, Sr. (1749-1820) Military Commission Signed, 30 April 1831. Single leaf, typographically printed document, fulfilled by hand, electing Ivers Phillips of Fitchburg Major of the Fourth Regiment of Infantry, sealed, old folds, matted and framed, 15 3/4 x 9 1/2 in. $100-150 1062 Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865) Signed Military Commission, 6 February 1862. Engraved document printed on parchment, fulfilled by hand, signed by Lincoln with a full signature and countersigned by Edwin M. Stanton as Secretary of War, appointing John H. Janeway Assistant Surgeon as of 26 August 1861, sealed, docketed, with old folds, some toning, 19 1/4 x 14 3/4 in. $4,000-5,000


1064 Lindbergh, Charles (1902-1974) Typed Speech Signed, 1954. Eleven mimeographed typed pages on rectos only, containing the text of Lindbergh’s address presented at the IAS Honors Night Dinner, Hotel Astor, 25 January 1954. Inscribed on the first page to Charles Henry “Mac” MacDonald (1914-2002), a fellow pilot with whom Lindbergh served in the South Pacific; old folds, some marginal toning, 8 1/4 x 11 in. $1,500-2,000 1065 MacArthur, Douglas A. Typewritten Letter Signed, 13 November 1936. Single leaf typed on one page, Office of the Military Adviser to the Commonwealth of the Philippines letterhead. To Admiral Edward J. Marquart, accepting Marquart’s reassignment, and expressing his regret at seeing Marquart exit the Pacific theater, 8 1/2 x 6 1/2 in. $200-250 1066 Madison, James (1751-1836) and James Monroe (1758-1831) Signed Military Commission, 20 February 1815. Single parchment leaf nominating James Bartlett a second lieutenant in the ninth regiment of infantry, signed and sealed by Madison as President and Monroe as Secretary of War, matted and framed, 15 1/4 x 10 3/4 in. $700-900

1067 Marlborough, John Churchill, First Duke Marlborough (1650-1722) Secretarial Document Signed, 9 May 1711. Double folio laid paper bifolium, inscribed over four pages. The manuscript details the proceedings of the General Court Martial in four different cases: Jonathan Hawes, found guilty of desertion and sentenced to death; Peter Anderson and Thomas Rowley, guilty of desertion but recommended for pardon; and Ralph Nicols, accused of killing a fellow soldier, found not guilty. Slightly browned, with two splits at the folds, three words lost through ink corrosion, in a double-glazed frame with a portrait of Marlborough, 14 x 11 1/4 in. $300-500 1068 Mitchell, Margaret (1900-1949) Two Typed Letters Signed, 1941 and 1942. Both letters addressed to Rear Admiral Edward J. Marquart and his wife, one dated 26 December 1941, the other 19 December 1942, each with their original envelopes; both letters refer to the commissioning of the U.S.S. Atlanta. (2) The U.S.S. Atlanta was commissioned at the New York Navy Yard in Brooklyn on 24 December 1941. In the second letter, Mitchell says, in part, “My trip through the Navy Yard was a heartening affair and, during this past year when I have sometimes heard people talking in depressed fashion of how far behind the enemy America’s production is, I have risen up and stated, ‘If you could have seen what I saw at Brooklyn you would have no fears for our future victory.” $200-250

1068A Nightingale, Florence (1820-1910) Signed Note of Sympathy, 26 September 1889. Single page of wove lined paper, inscribed on one side. To the parents of her friend Elizabeth Holmes. Old folds, toned, mounted on another sheet, fragmentary along folds, but a good candidate for washing and restoration, 8 3/4 x 7 in. [Together with] a printed card in honor and remembrance of Nightingale, with inset photographic portrait of the woman and her home, framed; and a postcard of her home. “This cross is offered to the sorrowing parents of my dear friend Lizzie Holmes. Accepted as the Good Shepherd’s beloved thro’ long pain in whom & in her dear Mother dwelt our almighty Father with whom God was always first, & to serve Him & our neighbors for his love their life now carried home in her saviour’s arms to joy and peace forever. By the bright waters how now her lot is cast. Joy to the happy soul thy bark hath past the rough sea’s foam. How the long yearnings of thy soul are stilled home, home thy peace is won, thy heart is filled. Thou art gone home.” $200-400 1069 Peary, Robert Edwin (1856-1920) Typed Letter Signed, and The North Pole. New York: Stokes, 1910. First trade edition, with an autographed sentiment in Peary’s hand tipped onto the ffep on his Eagle Island, South Harpswell, Maine, note paper; with the map; badly water stained. [Together with] a large frame containing the following documents: a typed letter signed 9 October 1910 to assistant editor of the Boston Evening Transcript, Frank L. Welt, thanking him for a positive review, and mentioning the autograph currently laid into the book described above; the typed portion of the letter faded and very light; with the accompanying typed envelope, a telegraph from Peary to Welt, and its envelope; and a typed letter signed by Ernest W. Roberts (1858-1924) member of the House of Representatives from Massachusetts, stating his tendency to believe that Peary had not successfully reached the Pole, despite his claims. (2) $200-300

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1063 Lindbergh, Charles (1902-1974) Typed Letter Signed, 9 November 1971. Single leaf of Tellina letterhead, typed on one page. To Charles Henry “Mac” MacDonald (1914-2002), a fellow pilot with whom Lindbergh served in the South Pacific, sending along a copy of his Wartime Journals, and commending his service; folds, 8 1/2 x 11 in. “Let me say again what a great privilege it was to fly with you and work with you during the Pacific war. Although you scored third in ‘victories,’ I regard you as the most outstanding of the Pacific combat pilots. I say this because of the skill and effectiveness with which you led your Group in addition to achieving the position of third ranking Ace.” Mac flew the Putt Putt Maru. $1,000-1,500

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1070 Phillips, Samuel (1690-1771) Manuscript Sermon Books. Approximately 700 octavo pages inscribed in a minute hand compiled and dated from 1721 through 1763; with an index, and few other miscellaneous notes, in a contemporary home-made leather cover with ties, some wear, ties lost, 6 x 4 in. The Reverend Samuel Phillips served as the first pastor of South Parish (now called South Church) in Andover, Massachusetts from 1711 until his death in 1771. These notes represent forty-two years of his sermons. $900-1,200

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1071 Pierce, Franklin (1804-1869) Signed Military Commission, 12 February 1856. Engraved document printed on parchment, fulfilled by hand, signed by Pierce in full, countersigned by James C. Dobbin (1814-1857) as Secretary of the Navy, appointing Stewart Kennedy (d. 8 March 1864) Assistant Surgeon in the Navy, as of 1 October 1855, sealed, docketed, with old folds, some toning, small hole due to worming in top right corner, 17 1/2 x 14 1/2 in. Kennedy was assigned to the Gulf Squadron in 1861, where he served aboard the Preble, and thence to the Hartford, where he was present at the taking of New Orleans under Admiral Farragut. He was later ordered to the Wachusett in January of 1864 and was killed in March of the same year. $800-1,000

1072 Pinkham, Seth (1786-1844) Manuscript Waste Books, Letter Books, and Personal Journals Composed aboard the Henry Astor, 1840-1844. Approximately 400 small folio pages of manuscript material in Pinkham’s hand, mainly retained copies of correspondence with his wife; his son, Seth Pinkham Jr., William B. Easton, William Mitchell, Aaron Mitchell, and other owners; and personal notebooks; these letters and notes contain Pinkham’s observations on life, philosophy, morals, and ethics for his family, and thoughts of missing home; he also writes of his reasons for taking this final voyage, so late in life; in addition, Pinkham occasionally makes ethnographic observations, and reports on the ship, the collection of sperm whale oil, and other related news; some leaves loose, others stitched up in a perfunctory way, 12 1/2 x 7 1/2 in. “The Henry Astor had a voyage [1840-1844] which was replete with excitement from start to finish. Two boats were smashed by whales, there was a mutiny on board followed by a court martial and the placing of men in irons. Shortly after, the ship was boarded by cannibals and the crew fought the invaders off. Then came a severe storm during which the ship sprang a leak. The captain, Seth Pinkham, died at Pernambuco; the mate, Henry Smith, was killed by a whale; and the vessel was finally brought home by Henry Colesworthy. The ship was gone four years, yet in spite of her eventful voyage, so carefully had she been navigated that when she made Block Island on the homeward passage she was only twelve miles off her course by dead reckoning.” (Vanished Treasures, by Harry B. Turner, originally published in Historic Nantucket, Vol. 44, no. 2 (Summer 1994), pp. 28-30). $10,000-15,000 1073 Presidential Signed Material: Wilson, Hoover, Truman, and Eisenhower. Signed cards from Herbert Hoover, Harry Truman, and Dwight Eisenhower, and a typed letter signed by Woodrow Wilson, the cards with envelopes. (4) $600-700 1074 Puccini, Giacomo (1858-1924) Signed Photograph, 19 July 1905. Black-and-white photograph mounted on the contemporary mat of Studio Bertieri in Turin, inscribed to Argentine composer, conductor, and pianist Alberto Williams (1862-1952), the photograph 7 3/4 x 4 1/4; 12 1/2 x 7 1/2 in. overall. $3,000-4,000

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1075 Remington, Frederic Sackrider (1861-1909) Autograph Letter Signed, [undated.] Single sheet of writing paper, inscribed on one page. To Richard H. Faulkner, explaining that his picture, entitled “Hands Off” represents an Alaskan miner “beset by starving Indians that are pillaging his sled”; and mentioning that he no longer rides horses because of an accident. “I have finished riding; a year ago a big horse fell on a brick pavement, scared by [an] auto and smashed my leg very badly.” Top right corner torn through, the torn piece still present, repaired from the verso, loss to mid right margin, with no loss of text, matted and framed with a reproduction of “Hands Off,” 9 1/2 x 4 1/2 in. $300-400 1076 Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (18411919) Autograph Letter Signed, Magagnosc, 18 February 1901. Single leaf of graph paper inscribed on both sides. To an unnamed female recipient, mentioning the cold, her health, and news not received from a Paul. With minor folds, matted, in a double-glazed frame, with reproductions of two of the artist’s works, generally quite clean, 8 x 5 in. $1,000-1,500 1077 Rivera, Diego (1886-1957) and Izetta Jewel (1883-1978) Radio Interview on Three Transcription Records. Three transcription records from an interview recorded for KCBQ, a Columbia Broadcasting System radio station in San Diego in Mexico City, in February of 1951; the records in their original sleeves with notes on the records themselves and on the sleeves, housed in the period mailing envelope, each record is 16 in. in diameter, transcription records were used in the radio industry in this period, and play alternately edge to center and center to edge. Jewel was an American stage actress and later a women’s rights activist and politician. Rivera painted Jewel’s portrait in 1951, presumably at the time of this interview. $200-400 1078 Rodin, Auguste (1840-1917) Autograph Letter Signed. Bifolium inscribed over two pages, undated, to an unnamed female recipient, regarding the arrangement of a meeting, a visit to London, and a “Mademoiselle Camille” who may be Camille Claudel, matted and framed, 6 1/2 x 4 1/4 in. $300-400


1080 Roosevelt, Franklin Delano (18821945) Signed Photograph. Blackand-white photograph by Harris & Ewins of FDR in profile, signing papers at his desk; signed ink in the bottom margin and inscribed to Bert Murray of Tammany Hall, matted and framed, the image somewhat oxidized, matted and framed, 9 x 7 in. [together with] letters from two Tammany Hall insiders: New York City mayor Jimmy Walker (18811946) and New York Governor Alfred E. Smith (1873-1944). $300-500 1081 Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919) Document Signed, 10 December 1907. Partially printed paper document fulfilled by hand, nominating Samuel T. Lee of Michigan Consul to Nogales, Mexico, with the Presidential seal, countersigned by Elihu Root, old folds, some light crinkling and ink offsetting, matted and framed, 20 x 16 in. $600-800 1082 Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919) Engraved Portrait Signed. Undated sheet with steel-engraved oval portrait of Roosevelt in the center, signed beneath in brown ink, the sheet toned, some water spots, framed, 7 x 5 3/4in. $400-600 1083 Roosevelt, Theodore (18581919) Photographic Portrait by Edward Sheriff Curtis (1868-1952) with Autograph Note Signed, 17 November 1908. The large portrait signed by Curtis in red crayon, bottom right corner; the note in Roosevelt’s hand on White House writing paper, inscribed on one page, to Curtis Guild Jr. (1860-1915), “with the affection, regard, and respect, of his fellow soldier, his fellow worker in public life, his companion in political campaigns, and his attached friend,” the two matted and framed together, photograph on a dark brown blindstamped Curtis Studio Seattle mount: 15 x 11 1/2 in.; note: 4 x 2 1/2 in. Curtis Guild Junior was the forty-third governor of Massachusetts, he served in Cuba during the Spanish-American war, and was a personal friend of Theodore Roosevelt; they attended Harvard College together. $800-1,000

1084 Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919) Signed Military Commission, 6 February 1899. Single parchment leaf, partially engraved, fulfilled by hand. Appointing Allan Stewart Farwell (b. 1867) first lieutenant and battalion quartermaster of the thirteenth regiment, infantry, National Guard in New York. With gold seal, signed by Roosevelt as New York Governor, framed, 17 x 11 in. $100-200 1085 Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919) Signed Photograph, 11 March 1912. Large oval photograph of Roosevelt in a pin-striped wool suit; mounted on a mat, with the inscription, “with all good wishes from Theodore Roosevelt Mar 11th 1912,” on the mat below the portrait, in a period light-colored quartersawn oak frame, the portrait 10 3/4 x 8 1/4, 23 1/4 x 17 in. overall. $1,500-2,000 1086 Sabadell, Spain, 1590, Manuscript Marriage Agreement on Parchment. Large vellum document in a scribal hand from the Diocese of Barcelona in Catalonian Spain, memorializing the marriage between Joannes and Catherina Calcada; the body of the document occupies the greater part of the sheet, in approximately seventy-six long lines, followed by four additional shorter paragraphs in different hands, with some scribal embellishments in brown ink, curled, formerly rolled, some edge darkening, and slight marginal losses and fading, 27 x 26 in. $400-600 1087 Schulz, Charles (1922-2000) Original Drawing for Peanuts Four-panel Strip, 17 December 1963. Pen and ink drawing on board, signed, “Schulz” in the final panel; dated 12/17 in the artist’s hand; United Feature Syndicate trademark slip dated 1963 pasted inside the left vertical border of the final panel; central vertical fold between the two center panels, some marks on verso, some pencil lines visible beneath the ink, 27 3/4 x 6 1/2 in. In this strip, Lucy declares that she has volunteered Linus to sing “Jingle Bells” in the upcoming Christmas program, despite his self-described inability to sing. When Linus strenuously objects, he is met with his sister’s typical cool taciturnity. “Learn!” She advises. $4,000-6,000

1088 Shackleton, Sir Ernest Henry (1874-1922) Autograph Letter Signed, 31 December 1907. Single leaf inscribed on one side, on British Antarctic Expedition writing paper, with autograph addressed envelope. To Lieutenant Willoughby, written aboard the H.M.S. Powerful, saying that he has noted the time and “all our people will be at Nimrod at 7:40 pm. The following are the names: Professor David, Captain England, Lieut. Adams, Dr. Marshall, Mr. Dunlop, Sir Philip Brocklehurst, Mr. Priestly, E.H. Shackleton.” Matted and framed, old folds, 9 x 7 1/2 in. This letter was written during Shackleton’s first Antarctic expedition on the small whaler, Nimrod. On the journey, the Shackleton team explored the Barrier, discovered the Beardmore glacier, reached the South Magnetic pole, and climbed Mr. Erebus. Shackleton’s book, The Heart of the Antarctic, describes the mission about to launched at the writing of the present epistle. $700-900 1089 Smith, William Henry Sedley (18061872) Archive of Correspondence, Ephemera, and Other Material. Including approximately seventy autograph letters signed from family members, theatre contacts, and other professional connections (some addressed to a Mr. Price), i.e., Junius Brutus Booth (1796-1852); Nathaniel Prentice Banks (18161894); Edwin Forrest (1806-1872); Phineas Taylor Barnum (1810-1891); George Vandenoff; George Frederick Cooke; Charles Mathews the elder; Fanny Kelly; Michael Kelly; Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873); Frederick Reynolds (1833-1915); and others; [along with] approximately sixty carte-de-visites of actors, musicians, and performers, some signed [and] approximately fifty cabinet cards of the same, some signed; and other notes and clippings, including a lock of hair. Sedley Smith (1806-1872) was a British actor, author, and stage manager who first appeared in the United States at the Walnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia in 1827. He was both actor and stage manager at the California Theatre in San Francisco, and many of the photographs in this archive depict 19th century California performers. (2 boxes) The P.T. Barnum letter is especially interesting, he writes concerning Sedley Smith’s “great moral drama, entitled ‘The Drunkard.’” Barnum notes the success of the play in Philadelphia, and writes because he wishes to back a New York production of the show at his “Lecture Room” venue. $1,000-1,500

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1079 Rolling Stones, Signed Album Cover. Empty record sleeve for Dirty Work, 1986, signed by Keith Richards and Mick Jagger, 12 1/4 x 12 1/2 in. $500-700

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1090 Spanish Colonial Documents, Venezuela. Three printed documents: typographical broadside regarding the Venezuelan War of Independence, issued by Francisco Rodriguez de Toro on 9 November 1823, Fran.[cis]co Rodriguez de Toro, general de division de los egercitos de la Republica, intendente del departamento de Venezuela, &c., Caracas: por Espinal, [9 November 1823], mentioning General Jose Antonio Paez (17901873), worming with loss, mounted, stains, 17 x 12 in.; two issues of the Gaceta de Cartagena de Colombia, Cartagena: Juan A. Calvo, 25 September 1824 and 27 September 1824, chipped, 13 3/4 x 9 in. [and] Exposicion que dirige al congreso de Venezuela en 1836, el Secretario del Interior y Justicia, Caracas: Damiron, [1838?], octavo, stab sewn, staining, worming, with some loss, 9 3/4 x 6 1/2 in. (3) $800-1,200 1091 Spanish Colonial Documents. Title page only removed from Real Cedual de S.M. que Contiene el Reglamento para la Poblacion y Comercio de la Isla de la Trinidad, Madrid: Ibarra, [1783]; no text leaves present; accompanied by a presumable former endleaf from the book, with the title transcribed by hand, printed on Venezuelan national paper with a bold watermark c. 1876, 12 x 8 1/4 in. [Together with] Republica de Colombia. El congreso ha espedido y el poder ejecutivo ha mandado ejecutar la siguiente ley. El senado y camara de representantes de la republica de Colombia reunidos en congreso, Bogota: [no printer], 7 July 1824, laid paper bifolium, printed over two pages, docketed in ink on first page, toning, browning, worming, 11 3/4 x 8 in. $800-1,000

1092 Sperry, R.T. (fl. circa 1875) Original Illustrations and Text of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s (1807-1882) The Courtship of Miles Standish. Quarto-format mocked-up version of illustrations and text, containing finished illustrations and the story written by hand in pen-and-ink, with an illustrated title, vignettes, text illustrations in pencil and watercolor washes in shades of gray, and nine full-page pencil and monochromatic watercolors, textblock detached from binding, 11 3/4 x 9 3/4 in. No edition of The Courtship of Miles Standish with illustrations by Sperry was ever published, although he was a published illustrator, credited with the art in Mark Twain’s Sketches, 1874, and other works. $400-600 1093 Stagecoach Broadside. New Stage Arrangement, from Boston to Conway, Daily. Meredith Bridge, N.H., Belknap Gazette Press, 18 September 1848. Broadside printed with wood type, within an elaborate border of type ornaments, with large woodcut illustration of a stage being pulled by a team of four horses, mounted on heavy paper with a linen backing, some closed tears, loss to border on right side, repaired, the type border drawn by hand, 16 1/2 x 14 1/4 in. $600-800

1094 Stengel, Charles Emil Henry, Titanic Survivor (1857-1914) Autograph Letter Signed, 3 May 1912. Single leaf of Stengel’s family business stationery, Stengel & Rothschild, Tanners & Manufacturers of Patent Enameled & Fancy Leather, in Newark, New Jersey, inscribed on one leaf, with holograph envelope. To Charles Gorsuch, of Martinsburg, Pennsylvania, regarding his experiences onboard the Titanic. Old folds, envelope dusty, 10 3/4 x 8 1/4 in. “My experience on the ‘Titanic’ was such as no one can realize the experience is often written about in books but very rarely experienced by people. Until I was allowed to get into a boat the suspense was fearful as my wife was in the second boat lowered and they only allowed women in the boats until all were loaded that were around. It was only by luck I walked to the emergency boat which was away from the regular life saving boats. After being afloat for about an hour I saw the boilers explode and the ship go down. At that moment about 1600 people jumped into the ocean and began to cry for help, this cry which was like a wail I will never forget. After floating about 5 hours we were picked up by the ‘Carpathia’ and of course was relieved when I found my wife.” $400-600 1095 Taft, William (1857-1930) Signed Military Commission, 13 May 1910. Engraved document printed on parchment, fulfilled by hand, signed by Taft, countersigned by Jacob McGavock Dickinson (1851-1928) as Secretary of War, appointing John H. Janeway as a colonel on the retired list of the army, sealed, docketed, with old folds, some toning, 18 3/4 x 15 1/4 in. $500-700 1096 Taylor, Zachary (1784-1850) Document Signed, 17 April 1849. Single leaf of wove paper, the document partially printed, fulfilled by hand, appointing Thomas H. Sill Deputy Postmaster at Erie, Pennsylvania, countersigned by John M. Clayton as Secretary of State, with seal, old folds, the paper toned, some weakness along folds repaired on verso, 15 1/2 x 10 in. $1,500-2,000

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1098 Thackeray, William Makepeace (1811-1863) Autograph Letter Signed, 16 July [1856], with Holograph Envelope. Laid paper bifolium inscribed on one page. To the Secretaries of the Literary & Philosophical Institution of Newcastle, informing them of his terms, “4 lectures are 100 guineas, & I could deliver them after my visit to Edinburgh in November.” The letter clean, envelope dusty, 7 1/4 x 4 1/4 in. $200-300

1099 Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862) Autograph Manuscript Leaf from Cape Cod. Single lined manuscript leaf, c. 1849, inscribed in brown ink on one side with corrections in pencil, of Thoreau’s working notes on Cape Cod, based on an 1849 visit to the Cape in which Thoreau and Ellery Channing toured the land on foot; Thoreau adapted these notes first into a series of lectures and later into a complete book, published posthumously in 1865; the manuscript text here varies from the published version, matted and framed, the leaf set into a narrow paper window mount, not directly mounted onto a full sheet, verso still accessible, neat break along an old horizontal fold without loss, 7 1/2 x 9 3/4 in. $6,000-8,000 1100 Tissot, James (1836-1902) Autograph Letter Signed, undated. Single page, inscribed on Tissot’s personal stationery. To an unnamed male recipient regretting that his correspondent could not see the picture while in London, and asking whether it would be better to wait or to send it along. Lightly toned, 4 1/2 x 7 in. $100-150 1101 Twain, Mark (1835-1910) Autograph Letter Signed, Highfield House, Guildford, England, 18 August 1896. Single leaf inscribed on one page. To Mrs. Armstrong, discussing the progress of his oldest daughter’s illness and its effect on his family’s travel plans. Old folds, ink slightly faded, matted and framed, 8 x 5 in. Sadly, Twain’s daughter Susy died in Hartford on the very day that this letter was written at the age of twenty-four. $5,000-7,000 1102 Twain, Mark (1835-1910) Holograph Signed and Addressed Envelope. Undated envelope, addressed to Colonel McClure of London with the return address, “Mark Twain, Hotel Royal, Berlin,” the stamp in upper right corner canceled, matted with a portrait of Twain and framed, 5 1/2 x 4 1/4 in. $300-400

1103 Two New Songs, 18th Century Broadside. Folio sheet containing lyrics to the songs, “Hearts of Oak,” and “Last Monday Morn,” printed each in its own column, with a woodcut of a sailing ship topmost, no imprint information, mounted, with old folds and loss, early signatures, seemingly unrecorded, 13 1/2 x 7 3/4 in. $400-600 1104 Two Old West Cabinet Cards in Period Birch Bark Frames: Girl Shooter and Seminole Indian Girl. Cabinet card of heavily armed young girl with a pistol and a bowie knife, wearing a hat reminiscent of Annie Oakley, presented by Bauch; the other depicting a young Seminole Indian girl in three-quarter view, presented in an oval frame by Heath of Bangor, Maine; each in a period birch frame, each as found. (2) $200-300 1105 Varia: a Group of Approximately Forty-five Letters and Clipped Signatures. Signed material from a variety of writers, politicians, artists, and others, including Presidents Taft and Coolidge, Maxfield Parrish, and many others. $400-600 1106 Varia: Autograph Documents and Letters, Nine. Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753) autograph letter signed 8 December 1738 to Welsh physician Dr. Alban Thomas (1688-1771), single page, offering advice on the treatment of his patient, Sir Thomas Knolles of Wenallt, Pembroke, mounted, toned, old folds, some losses, affecting only a word or two, 10 3/4 x 7 in.; Mortimer Dormer Leggett (18211896) autograph letter signed, Field of Shiloh, Tennessee, 30 April 1862, to good friends Jennie & Ella, regarding a massive troop movement scheduled for the next morning, involving tens of thousands of soldiers, “The order requires us to take six day’s provisions and 200 rounds of ammunition, this means work & blood,” four pages, on a folding ruled sheet, some chips, toning, generally good, 12 x 8 in.; a short note by Jean Martin Charcot (1825-1893), with holograph envelope; a postcard signed by Sir William Osler; a 1754 letter signed by William Heberden (1719-1801), Robert Taylor (1710-1784), and Edward Hulse (1684-1759) regarding the health of a Duke, autograph note signed by Annie Besant (1847-1933); and three others. (9) $500-700

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1097 Tennyson, Alfred Lord (1809-1892) Autograph Letter Signed, 9 August [1852]. Laid bifolium inscribed over three pages. To Charles de la Pryme, regarding the correspondent’s protégé, the poet Richard Realf (1834-1878), acknowledging Realf’s talent, but expressing uneasiness at de la Pryme’s efforts to support and promote the young poet. Old folds, light toning, traces of an old mount, affecting one line of text, 7 x 4 1/2 in. “My silence has in great measure proceeded from a painful sense of the injury that might be inflicted by words rashly spoken in such a case. I know that to yours or any other generous mind there can scarce be a purer pleasure than to foster lowly genius & to lift it up into the light of the world, & it cannot be denied that in these poems written under such peculiar circumstances, there is proof of remarkable talent & thought. Still, I hold it an unsafe thing to pronounce on the future from such early productions & if my own strong feeling of want of regular necessary occupation may be allowed any weight I would say let every poet seek some such, if it be only mechanical it will be time enough to relinquish it when he has found some great theme that taxes all his time & all his powers.” Realf emigrated to the United States two years after Tennyson’s letter. He was a journalist in Kansas, collaborated closely with John Brown, served in the Civil war, and ended his own life in 1878. $500-700

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1107 Washington, George (17321799) Document Signed, Mount Vernon, Virginia, 1 February 1789, Membership Certificate in the Society of the Cincinnati for François-Louis Teissèdre de Fleury. Large folio-format parchment document, engraved and fulfilled by hand; with the Order’s enameled medal; old folds to parchment, signature slightly faded, matted and framed with the medal, 23 x 15 1/2 in. Lieutenant Colonel François-Louis Teissèdre de Fleury (1749-1799) distinguished himself at the Battle of Stony Point, New York in 1779. Washington signed Fleury’s parchment just a month before the first American presidential term started on March 4, 1789. $5,000-7,000

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1108 Washington, George (17321799) Military Discharge Signed, Headquarters, Newburgh, New York, 7 June 1783. [Fishkill, New York: Samuel Loudon, 1783]. Small-format broadside typographically printed and fulfilled by hand. Printed on both sides; signed by Washington on the recto. The document discharging Elijah How, drummer, from the First New Hampshire Regiment; with a typographically printed note stating that the dischargee “has been honored with the Badge of Merit”; discharge issued because of the cessation of hostilities; countersigned by John Trumbull and George Reid; old folds, restorations, loss at some folds, the sheet mounted, 12 1/4 x 7 1/4 in. Similar to ESTC W15106 which includes the month and year, June 1783, in the printed text http://estc. bl.uk/W15106; Shipton & Mooney state that variants exist. Provenance: From the estate of Judith Cogswell Fiske Gross. $7,000-9,000

1109 Washington, George (1732-1799) Signed Autograph Survey, 6 November 1749. Single leaf, laid paper, representing the text of the survey only, without the plat. The survey was prepared for James Scott of Augusta County, regarding 386 and a quarter acres of waste and ungranted land in the county along the Lost River of Cacapehon; signed by Washington in the lower right corner; in the bottom left corner, Washington identifies his “chain men”: Edward Corder and John Lonem; James Scott is identified as marker, boned, mounted, vertical break along the center fold, offsetting from the compass rose from the missing plat visible, 7 1/2 x 6 1/4 in. This survey was completed when Washington was only eighteen years old. The National Archives mentions this survey, noting that it has been hitherto unlocated. $7,000-9,000 1110 Washington, George (1732-1799) Signed Lottery Ticket 1768. Ticket number 135 in the Mountain Road Lottery, numbered by hand, a large example, with the President’s signature and a note beneath stating that the ticket was presented to a Mr. and Mrs. Perkins of Boston by Bushrod Washington Herbert (1820-1888) of Alexandria, Virginia, with his signature; he states, in part, that “this leaf is taken from the old book containing all the tickets of the said Mt. Road Lottery, which book was taken from General Washington’s papers at Mt. Vernon,” matted and mounted with a reproduction portrait, accompanied by a 1971 letter from Goodspeed’s Book Shop asserting the legitimacy of the claim, 4 3/4 x 3 in. Washington and Thomas Bullitt (c. 1734-1782) planned this lottery to raise money to build a road through the Allegheny Mountains, leading to a resort in Hot Springs, Virginia. The effort failed, with Washington’s involvement dissolved in 1771; the road and resort were nevertheless built. $7,000-8,000

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1111 Watson Family: James Sibley Watson Jr. and Hildegarde Lasell Watson. One Box of Ephemeral Material. Including a photo album compiled by Hildegarde in the ‘teens documenting family summer outings, which includes a photograph of American poet Marianne Moore (1887-1972) among others, an original watercolor for a program or perhaps poster by Hildegarde for the musical comedy in which she starred, Betsey Abroad (book by Elizabeth Granger Hollister and music by John Adams Warner); a guest book in use by the family during the 1920s; and dozens of other family photographs and papers; $1,000-1,200 1112 Watson Lassell, Hildegarde (18881976) Family Albums, Two Boxes. Two banker’s boxes containing approximately eight photo albums from Hildegarde’s infancy and childhood, including albums from the late 1880s of family members, children, and summer camp life, including many cabinet cards. $1,200-1,500 1113 Watson, James Sibley, Jr. (18941982) Four Boxes of Family Photographs. Four boxes containing photographs from Sibley Watson’s childhood through adulthood, including photos of his progenitors and other family members. $1,200-1,500 1113A Waugh, Evelyn (1903-1966) Autograph Letter Signed 4 December 1959. Single airmail paper with self-envelope and holograph address, written over two pages. To Jane Callaway, in response to her letter, advising her if she had trouble understanding it, to read Brideshead Revisited again, additionally suggesting that she read all of his other books, and ending with this advice, “stop writing letters to people in ‘Japan, German, Canada’ and above all in Great Britain.” Old folds, remnants of tape, two words underlined by another hand, 9 1/2 x 7 3/4 in. $300-500


1115 Wells, Herbert George (1866-1946) Signed Photograph. Square blackand-white portrait on a contemporary mount, signed over mount and image, framed, 3 1/2 x 5 in. overall. $250-350 1116 Whistler, James Abbott McNeill (1834-1903) Two Autograph Letters Signed and Related Letter. Two letters written by Whistler to E.T. Cook, editor of the Pall Mall Gazette, suggesting publication of illustrations of his paintings The Little White Girl and Miss Alexander, and enclosing a letter (not present) which he would like to have printed “in tomorrow’s issue, as it stands”; three pages in total, written in Paris, slightly toned, the two matted in a double-glazed frame, 5 x 6 in. [and] 4 x 6 in. [Together with] Autograph letter signed by Wyke Bayliss, President of the Royal Society of British Artists, to the editor of the Pall Mall Gazette, giving details of the dispute that had arisen between the Society and Whistler (its former President); the dispute caused by the removal of Whistler’s butterfly signature from the notice board that he designed for the Society; Bayliss requests publication of “this simple statement of the facts as they occurred.” $600-800

1117 Wright, Orville (1871-1948) Signed Photo Postcard. Black-and-white image reproduced from a photograph commemorating the Wrights’ accomplishment, titled, “First ManFlight, December 17, 1903/Kitty Hawk, N.C.” with Orville’s signature blue ink overlapping the bottom edge of the image, to the right of the caption, short marginal closed tears and some corner dents, 6 1/4 x 4 1/2 in. $1,500-2,000 1118 WWI Aviators, Six Photo Albums. Six volumes filled with photographs compiled during the first World War by a pilot trained at Princeton who shipped over to Europe to carry out manned reconnaissance flights with camera equipment; hundreds of photos documenting the flyers’ stateside education and deployment overseas, including shots of zeppelins, crashed planes, aerial shots, and scenes of everyday life; the subjects are pilots from the III Corps Observation Group, Air Service, First United States Army, 88th Aero Squadron, they shipped over for reconnaissance missions, they began to see combat and were mobilized as a fighting squadron in May of 1918; a notable group includes eight portraits of pilots in their gear, some signed; [together with] a copy of the book, Fletcher Ladd McCordic 1st Lieut. 88th Aero Squadron A.E.F. (1891-1919) a Tribute, Chicago: Privately Printed, 1921. $1,000-1,500 1119 Yeager, Chuck (b. 1923) Signed Photograph. Black-and-white photograph of Yeager posing with his plane, Glamorous Glennis, the Bell X-1, the first manned airplane to exceed the speed of sound in level flight, signed in felt-tip marker at bottom right, matted and framed, 9 1/2 x 7 1/2 in. $200-300

1120 Account Book, 1757-1795, Manuscript Daybook of Ebenezer Loveren [aka Lovering] (1734-1808). Narrow tall folio, single signature, approximately 120 pages, with original soft marbled paper covers, signed by Loveren on first page, containing his accounts from Hampton Falls, Rockingham, New Hampshire; recording transactions and his accounts, including the sale of buttons, cambric fabric, paper, flour, silk, ribbon, needles, knives, thread, pipes, paper, shot and powder, beans, cheese, hog’s fat, salt pork, wheat, hay, leather, hats, oats, beads, wine, shingles, wool, cheese, flax, candles, and other material consistent with the trade at an 18th century general store, 14 1/2 x 5 3/4 in. $300-500 1121 Addams, Charles (1912-1988) Eleven Titles. Including: Homebodies, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1954, stated first printing, in the dust jacket; Black Maria, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1960, stated first printing; My Crowd, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1970, stated first printing, in the dust jacket; and three others, some with dust jackets, later editions. (11) $200-300 1122 Andersen, Hans Christian (18051875) Fairy Tales, Illustrated by Kay Nielsen (1886-1957). New York: Doran, [1924]. American trade edition, illustrated with twelve tipped-in color plates by Nielsen, in publisher’s black cloth with silver, black, and orange printed paper cover applied over cloth binding; some rubbing to front cover, hole in front joint, silver lettering on spine chipped, 11 x 8 1/4 in. $300-400

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1114 Welles, Gideon (1802-1878) Two Secretarial Letters Signed. 25 March 1861, single leaf of wove lined paper, inscribed over one page, to Stewart Kennedy, informing him that he has passed the Navy’s Medical Board exams and is qualified for promotion; [and] 25 February 1862, single leaf of wove lined paper, inscribed over one page, to Stewart Kennedy of the sloop of war, Preble, detaching Kennedy from that ship, and ordering him to return north “by the first public conveyance thereafter,” reporting his arrival to the Navy, and informing them of his date of detachment, docketed with a note from the commanding officer of the Preble dated 10 April 1862, stating that the letter was forwarded to Admiral David Farragut (1801-1870), and that the Admiral revoked the detachment, signed by Farragut in top left margin. (2) $300-500

1123 Annual Report of the Croton Aqueduct Department, Signed Presentation Copy to Samuel F.B. Morse. New York: Edmund Jones & Co., 1863. Inscribed by Myndert Van Schaick (1782-1865) President of the Board of Commissioners of the Croton Aqueduct Department to Morse (1791-1872); first edition, octavo, in a presentation binding, with Morse’s name tooled in gilt on the front board, illustrated, with four tinted folding lithographs, 8 3/4 x 5 1/2 in. $200-300

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1124 Armenian Theological Book, Late 18th Century. Octavo format printed book on paper in Armenian throughout, with religious woodcuts, each page printed within a border of typographical ornaments, some of the paper light blue, in a full contemporary sheepskin binding tooled in blind, with original blue silk book marks, a few water stains at beginning and end, contents generally good, 389, 48 numbered pages, 6 1/4 x 4 in. $300-500

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1125 Artistophanes (c. 446-c. 386 BC) Lysistrata, Illustrated and Signed by Pablo Picasso. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1934. Limited edition, copy number 1,197 of 1,500; signed by Picasso on the limitation page, bound in full red morocco by Bayntun Riviere, tooled in gilt, inner gilt dentelles, a.e.g., with the original soft covers bound in at the back, in a custom slipcase; some thumbing and slight foxing, 11 x 8 3/4 in. $2,500-3,500 1126 Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Ornithological Biography, with the Prospectus for The Birds of America. Edinburgh: Adam Black, 1831. Octavo, companion text volume to Audubon’s Birds of America, with the Prospectus bound at the end, an uncut copy, in contemporary cloth boards, rebacked, 10 1/2 x 6 1/4 in. $600-800

1127 Audubon, John James (1785-1851) The Birds of North America, from Drawings Made in the United States and their Territories. New York: by J.J. Audubon [and] Philadelphia: by J.B. Chevalier, 1840-1844. First edition, seven octavo volumes, illustrated throughout with 500 colored lithographs, plates 187 and 188 bound out of order; half-titles and subscriber lists present in all volumes, ex libris original subscriber Mary Lenox Sheafe (1803-1886) [sister of the famous New York book collector James Lenox (1800-1880), whose collection helped form the cornerstone of the New York Public Library] with her name listed in volume one, page 254 as Mrs. James Sheafe and her penciled signatures in each volume; bookplates of Robert Lenox Belknap (1848-1896) in each volume; bound in full uniform contemporary dark purplish-brown morocco, tooled and lettered in gilt, a.e.g.; contents generally good, tissue guards present throughout, occasional spotting occurs mainly on text leaves and tissue guards; spines faded, final volume in a slightly different leather, scuffs, rubbing, 10 1/4 x 6 1/4 in. (7) $30,000-35,000 1128 Bacon, Francis (1561-1626) Sylva Sylvarum: or a Natural History. London: [by Abraham Miller] for William Lee, to be sold by Thomas Williams and William Place, 1658. Folio, seventh edition, engraved portrait and added engraved title, rebound in modern leather, 11 1/2 x 7 1/4 in. $300-500 1129 Balzac, Honoré de (1799-1850) Works. London: J.M Dent & Co., 1890s. Forty octavo volumes, limited illustrated edition, copy number 65 of 300 produced for the American market, with illustrations in two states throughout: uncolored and handcolored; translated by Ellen Marriage with a preface by George Saintsbury; bound in uniform full gilt-tooled dark green morocco, with silk pastedowns and flyleaves; two volumes with some water damage to bindings, 8 1/4 x 5 1/2 in. (40) $1,000-1,500

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1130 Baskin, Leonard (1922-2000) On a Pyre of Withered Roses, Signed First Edition. [New Haven]: Gehenna Press, 1942. First book published by Baskin with the Gehenna Press imprint, printed on nineteen unnumbered leaves, of which fifteen are printed on square laid paper with the Old Hampshire Bank watermark (7 3/4 x 8 in.), the other four are printed on narrower sheets of light onionskin paper (8 x 8 1/4 in.); inscribed and signed on the leaf following the title, “For Richard, in keen anticipation of the day when you will justly criticize these poems,” the dedicatee was Richard Mittenthal, a camper who had Baskin as a counselor at Camp Wigwam, in Waterford, Maine in the 1930s; disbound, some chips, folds, and browning, 8 x 8 1/4 in. $6,000-9,000 1131 Bayes, Jessie (1876-1970) Illuminated Manuscript, Six Poems from Gitanjali by Rabindranath Tagore. London, 1917. Single quire illuminated manuscript on parchment consisting of eight leaves; the first two blank, followed by a calligraphic title in blue ink, with two small vignettes, and five illuminated openings, lettered in ink, gilt, and silver and fully illustrated with a different motif that dominates the two facing pages; all painted delicately in colors, presenting a dreamy landscape occupied by beautiful women, landscapes, trees, flowers, birds, peacocks, doves, deer, rainbows and other romantic ethereal images; housed in a hand-lettered parchment cover with small painting (chipped) and four silk ties (one lacking); housed in its original silk-lined blue morocco dropback case (rather badly damaged, in two halves, the lining torn away in the back section); the manuscript with covers slightly reflexed, contents good, 10 3/4 x 6 1/4 in. $10,000-15,000


1133 Business Ledgers c. 1787-1859. Six leather-bound volumes fulfilled with manuscript notations throughout memorializing business transactions; one covering March–July 1787, approximately 130 leaves, containing the accounts of a Philadelphia fabric merchant; one from Boston, approximately 270 numbered pages, February 1852–October 1854, concerning the accounts of Aaron Davis Weld, a Bostonbased merchandise brokerage firm specializing in the hemp and flax trade; the daybook of A. Butterfield, of Charlestown, Massachusetts, 18041816, supplying lumber and timber for ship and general building, and other dry goods, his clients include ship captains, the U.S. Navy, and others; a 357-page account book from a New Haven, Connecticut general store, from March-December 1839; a general account book from Halifax County, Virginia, approximately 310 numbered pages, October 1855–October 1857, with names of locals such as confederate soldier Achilles Whitlock Hoge (1840-1864) and Dr. Claiborne Williams Barksdale (1802-1860) among many others; [and] an account book from the whaling Rotch family of New Bedford, Massachusetts from 1850–1859, likely belonging to William Rodman Rotch (1788-1860) who inherited his father William Rotch Jr.’s (1759-1850) estate at his death at the age of 90 in 1850, Rotch lists the two notable properties inherited from his father, the Rotch Mansion on County Street designed by Upjohn and built in 1834 (now the Rotch-Jones-Duff Museum), and the House on Water and Second Streets (both in New Bedford) built by his father in 1791 (later moved and designated a Mariner’s Home), 109 numbered leaves. (6) $600-800 1134 Carroll, Gladys Hasty (1904-1999) Six Signed and Inscribed Volumes with a Collection of Signed Letters. All six titles variously inscribed and signed to Earnest Elmo Calkins (1868-1964) a pioneering advertising executive and deaf American; with letters, Christmas cards, notes, and other types of correspondence signed by Carroll inserted, including the following titles: One White Star; Sing Out the Glory; West of the Hill; Only Fifty Years Ago; [all four in original dust jackets] Neighbor to the Sky; and A Few Foolish Ones; all octavo. (6) $150-250

1135 Cassin, John (1813-1869) Illustrations of the Birds of California, Texas, Oregon, British, and Russian America. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1856. First edition, octavo, illustrated with fifty chromolithographic plates by Hitchcock finished in color after drawings by George C. White; ex libris John Krider, a Philadelphia naturalist mentioned by Cassin in the preface, and a contributor to the work; bound in contemporary half morocco, marbled paper boards, 10 x 6 3/4 in. Provenance: The estate of Dr. James Woodward Wallace, Cambridge, Massachusetts. $1,500-2,500 1136 Central American Archaeology, Six Titles in Seven Volumes. Anne Cary Maudslay and Alfred Percival Maudslay’s A Glimpse at Guatemala, London: Murray, 1899, large quarto, illustrated, publisher’s half cloth, worn; Oliver G. Ricketson Jr. and Edith Bayles Ricketson’s Uaxactun, Guatemala, Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Institution, 1937, author’s [Edith] signature on ffep, large quarto, publisher’s cloth, illustrated, folding maps and plans, binding somewhat shaken; Edgar L. Hewett’s Ancient Life in Mexico and Central America, Indianapolis & New York: Bobbs-Merrill, [1936], stated first edition, octavo, illustrated, publisher’s blue cloth, spine sunned; John Lloyd Stephens’ Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan, London: Hall, Virtue, & Co., 1854, octavo, illustrated, single volume edition in worn publisher’s cloth; [another copy of the same title] New York: Harper & Brothers, 1841, eleventh edition, in two octavo volumes, illustrated, publisher’s cloth; [and] Filippo de Filippi’s Ruwenzori, New York: Dutton, 1908, large octavo, illustrated, in publisher’s red cloth, damaged, some water damage to contents. (7) $250-350

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1132 Bible, Post-Incunabula, Biblia cum pleno apparatu summariorum concordantiarum et quadruplicis repertorii sive in dicii numeriq[ue] folioru[m] distinctione tersissime ac verissimie impressa. [Lyons:] Jacques Sacon, 1506. First printed Latin Bible issued by Sacon, folio, gothic type, printed in two columns throughout, woodcut and guide letters, title page printed in red; possible attempt at pirated imprint as Sacon used the Junta fleur-de-lis device on the title, the phrase “characteribus Venetis” in the colophon imprint, and omitted the city of Lyons entirely; title and following leaf mounted, approximately sixteen leaves with marginal paper repairs, lacking signature dd (twelve leaves) at the end; bound in later undecorated full sheep, somewhat dry and worn; early ownership inscription on title, mostly washed out; a clearer manuscript not on A2; 12 x 8 1/4 in. Darlow & Moule 6091. $700-900

1137 Cervantes, Miguel de (1547-1616) The History of the Most Ingenious Knight Don Quixote de la Mancha. London: for R. Chiswell, J. Sprint, et al., 1706. [Together with] A Continuation of the Comical History of the Most Ingenious Knight, Don Quixote, by Alonzo Fernandez de Avellaneda, London: for Wale and Senex, 1705; three octavo volumes, illustrated throughout, bound in uniform calf, rebacked, worn, lacking one label, not collated, 7 1/4 x 4 1/2 in. (3) $400-600

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1138 Checks, Collection of 323 19th Century Examples. A large group of 19th century American checks assembled for their decorative and historical value, most from the second half of the century, but some as early as the 1820s, and others from the end of the century, including checks related to the southern states during the Civil War, those pertaining to Indian territories, California during the gold rush, banks named after the presidents, banks owned by railroads and canals, and others, housed in two binders. (2) $200-400

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1139 Chicago, Illinois; Five Volumes, All Copies Signed or with Autographed Material Inserted. Including: Milo Milton Quaife’s Chicago and the Old Northwest, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1913, with typed letter signed by Quaife inserted; William Lewis Nida’s The Story of Illinois and its People, Chicago: Barnes, 1910; Clark E. Carr’s The Illini, Chicago: McClurg & Co., 1904; Harry Middleton Hyatt’s Folk-Lore from Adams County Illinois, New York: Cabella, [1935]; [and] Edgar Lee Masters’s The Tale of Chicago, New York: Putnam’s Sons, 1933; all octavo, bound in publisher’s cloth and signed by the author unless otherwise noted. (5) $300-500 1140 Coach Making, Three Publications, 1856-1873. Including: The Coach Maker’s Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Volume II, Numbers 1 through 12; Columbus, Ohio: C.W. Saladee, 1856, illustrated throughout, with folding plates and advertisements, bound in contemporary half sheep, with marbled paper boards, 12 1/2 x 9 1/4 in.; The Coach-Makers’ International Journal, Philadelphia: Ware, 1871, Volume VI, October 1870 to September 1871, illustrated throughout, binding failed, sewing faulty, boards detached, half leather; [and] The Hub, New York: the Hub Publishing Co., 1873, Volume 15, numbers 1-6, April-September 1873; color plates, and other illustrations, with advertisements, 13 1/2 x 9 1/2 in. (3) $300-500

1141 Combe, George (1788-1858) Three Signed Titles. Including: Lectures on Moral Philosophy, Boston: Marsh, Capen, Lyon & Webb, 1840, octavo, half leather, textured cloth boards; Moral Philosophy, Edinburgh: Maclachlan, Stewart, & Co., 1841, second edition, octavo, full calf; [and] On the Relation between Science and Religion, Edinburgh: Maclachlan & Stewart, 1857, octavo, full diced russia; all three books signed by Combe. (3) $300-500 1142 Cotton, John (1585-1652) A Practicall Commentary, or an Exposition with Observations, Reasons, and Uses upon the First Epistle Generall of John. London: by M[ary]. S[immons]. for Parkhurst, 1658. Folio, second, expanded edition, contemporary calf, boards detached, contents with intermittent brown in last third, 10 3/4 x 7 in. $300-500 1143 Custer, George Armstrong (18391876) My Life on the Plains. Or, Personal Experiences with Indians. New York: Sheldon & Co., 1874. First edition, illustrated with eight plates, frontispiece portrait, bound in publisher’s full royal blue cloth, blocked in black and gilt with a buffalo head and fancy title, a tight copy in a fairly well-preserved binding, discolorations to yellow endleaves, head and tail slightly crumpled, rubbing to binding surfaces, 9 x 5 1/2 in. $600-800

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1144 Darwin, Charles (1809-1882) On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. London: Murray, 1859. First edition, publisher’s ads dated June, 1859; half-title verso with quotations from “W. Whewell” and Bacon only; folding lithographic diagram by William West after Darwin at page 117; bound in full contemporary textured green cloth by Edmond & Remnants of London, with their ticket pasted inside the back board; covers blocked in blind, spine tooled, ruled, and lettered in gilt; ownership signature of John Edwin Eddison (1843-1929) professor of veterinary medicine on ffep; blindstamp of George Yewdall, solicitor, Leeds on ffep; armorial bookplate of British archaeologist Sir Charles Fellows (1799-1860) pasted inside the back board; pages untrimmed; housed in custom chemise and slipcase in half green morocco, 7 3/4 x 5 in. $60,000-80,000 1145 Decorative Bindings, Approximately Fifty Volumes. Octavo volumes bound in half leather, with gilt-decorated and lettered spines, consisting of a set of the works of Wordsworth, another of Washington Irving, and other miscellaneous volumes, occupying approximately 5 feet of shelf space. (50) $300-500 1146 Decorative Bindings, Approximately Sixty Volumes. An incomplete set of Sir Walter Scott’s Waverley Novels, c. 1829, small octavo volumes bound in uniform half blue calf, faded, rubbed, worn, with loss of labels, chipping. $300-500 1147 Decorative Bindings, Approximately Sixty-three Volumes. A group of sets and individual volumes in leather and half-leather bindings, mostly late 19th and early 20th century, gold tooled and lettered spines, octavo and quarto formats, occupying approximately 6 feet of shelf space. (63) $1,000-1,500


1149 Decorative Bindings, Sets, Approximately Sixty-eight Volumes. A variety of sets in half leather bindings with gilt tooled and lettered spines, mostly octavo format, including: Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, London: Bentley, 1885; Robinson Crusoe, illustrated by Stothard, London: Cadell & Davies, 1820; Macaulay’s History of England, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1875; Disraeli’s Curiosities of Literature, London: Murray, 1817; Bire’s Diary of a Citizen of Paris, 1896; Strickland’s Lives of the Queens of England, Boston: Brown & Taggard, 1860; Hare’s Story of My Life, New York: Dodd, Mead & Co. 1896; The Gallery of Portraits with Memoirs, London: Knight, 1833; and others. $300-500 1150 Dickens, Charles (1812-1870) Bleak House. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1853. First edition, octavo, illustrated by H.K. Browne, bound in full crushed navy blue morocco by Bayntun, with a portrait of Dickens tooled in gilt on the front board, and a copy of his signature tooled in gilt on the back board, 8 x 5 in. $300-500 1151 Dickens, Charles (1812-1870) The Adventures Oliver Twist. London: for the Author by Bradbury & Evans, 1846. Octavo, revised edition, bound in full crushed red morocco gilt extra by Morrell of London, a.e.g., boards and spine ornately tooled in gilt, inner gilt dentelles, 8 1/4 x 5 in. $1,000-1,500 1152 Dickens, Charles (1812-1870) Works, Decorative Set. London: Chapman & Hall, [late 19th century]. Twelve octavo volumes bound in full uniform green calf, spines tooled in gilt with red lettering pieces, 8 1/2 x 5 1/4 in. (12) $300-500

1153 Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge [aka] Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Illustrated by Arthur Rackham (18671939). London: Heinemann, [1907]. First limited trade edition, copy number 450 of 1100, bound in publisher’s cream cloth, decorated in gilt, t.e.g., deckle edges, colored illustrations tipped onto dark brown sheets, the spine darkened, fingerprints on boards, 11 x 9 in. $1,500-1,800 1154 Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan (18591930) The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes [and] The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, with Autograph Letter Signed. London: Newnes, 1892 and 1894. First editions, two octavo volumes, half-title in each, both illustrated by Sidney Paget, cloth covers of the publisher’s bindings bound into the back of each; the two bound in modern uniform full dark blue crushed morocco bindings by Henry Sotheran, a.e.g., spines lettered and ruled in gold, housed together in a custom slipcase; autograph letter signed by Doyle tipped into The Adventures, undated, addressed only, “Dear Sir,” stating that he believes it “wiser not to hold forth on several subjects simultaneously,” old folds; 9 x 6 in. (2) $3,000-4,000 1155 Dutch 18k Gold Book Clasp and Catch, Rotterdam, 19th century, two separate pieces decorated with Christian themes in relief, one with single scene of a priest and thurible to central element and the hinged component depicting St. Mark and St. John, 5 3/4 x 1 1/2 in., approx. 30 dwt. $1,500-2,000

1157 Earle, Jabez (1676?-1768) Sacramental Exercises. Boston: Re-printed by D. Fowle and Z. Fowle for D. Henchman, 1756. 12mo, in contemporary half sheepskin and scabbard, damaged, with losses, 5 1/4 x 3 in. $150-250 1158 Early Account Books, Connecticut, 1670s-1790s. Two small 17th century account books from Milford, Connecticut, with transactions mostly dated in the late 1670s and early 1680s for days of manual labor, the sale of produce, the making of clothing, services related to horses and other livestock, and other odd transactions, the two books hand-stitched, dogeared, but intact; [together with] approximately fifty additional leaves of accounts, including some stitched signatures and loose receipts related to Jonathan and Andrew Hine of Washington, Connecticut, from about 1750 through 1790. $400-600 1159 Early Books, Five Volumes, 17th Century English Imprints. Edward Lord Herbert of Cherbury’s Life and Reign of King Henry the Eighth, London: by M. Clark for Littlebury et al., 1683, folio; Thomas Jackson’s Treatise of the Divine Essence and Attributes, London: by M.F. for John Clarke, 1628, quarto; Allestree’s Gentleman’s Calling, London: for T. Garthwait, 1660, octavo; Stillingfleet’s Relation of a Conference Held about Religion, London: Moses Pitt, 1676, octavo; [and] John Spencer’s Discourse Concerning Prodigies, Cambridge: by Field for Graves, 1663, quarto; all volumes with binding problems, boards detached, et cetera; not collated. (5) $250-350

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1148 Decorative Bindings, Fifty-two Volumes, William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863) The Works. London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1879. Limited edition set, one of 1,000 printed, bound in uniform half dark green morocco, t.e.g., in good shape, 10 1/4 x 7 1/4 in. each; occupying approximately 5 1/2 feet of shelf space. (52) $200-300

1156 Dyer, Mrs. D.B. [Ida M. Casey] (18641921) Fort Reno, or Picturesque Cheyenne and Arrapahoe Army Life, Before the Opening of Oklahoma the Dedicatee and Author’s Father’s Copy. New York: Dillingham, 1896. Octavo, rubber stamp of Dr. Newton R. Casey (b. 1826) on ffep, illustrated, bound in publisher’s blue cloth, worn, 7 1/4 x 4 3/4 in. The author was divorced from her husband a year after the publication date of this title. Apparently, he was offended at her portrayal of him in these pages, and sought to destroy copies he could find. The dedicatee, Dr. Newton R. Casey was a physician, and member of the Illinois House of Representatives. $300-500

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1160 Early Books, Three Volumes, and Manuscript Leaf. Saint Augustine’s, Varii Sermoni di Santo Agostino, Venice: Gabriel Giolito de’ Ferrari, 1567, quarto, in modern parchment over stiff boards, 8 x 5 1/2 in.; Camden’s Britannia, Frankfurt: Wechel, impensis Petrus Fischer & Haeredum Henricus Tackius, 1590, Latin edition, thick octavo, title printed in red and black, contemporary limp parchment, cover detached from textblock, 7 1/4 x 4 1/2 in.; a defective copy of Polydore Vergil’s Works The Works of the Famous Antiquary, Polidore Virgil, London: Miller, 1663, lacking the title and preliminary leaves, not collated, octavo, later full calf, nicely decorated, rubbed, joints dry and starting, 5 1/2 x 3 1/2 in.; [and] Bruce Ferrini’s The Thirteenth Century Bible, an essay, with an original leaf from such a Bible, in full modern leather with metal bosses, the leaf housed in a sleeve bound with the essay, 7 x 5 in. (4) $200-400 1161 Early Books, Three Volumes. Terence [aka Publius Terentius Afer] (c. 195/185-c. 159 BC) Pars Librorum Quattour et Viginti de Lingua Latina, Rome: Vincentius Luchinus, 1554, octavo, defective: lacking bifolia A2/ A7 and M3/M6; in contemporary limp parchment, ex library, with contemporary annotations; Joseph Liesgang’s Tabulae Memoriales Praecipua Arithmeticae, Vienna: Trattner, 1755, quarto, illustrated with seventeen folding engravings and a folding typographical table, in contemporary limp paper wrappers; [and] C. Julii Caesaris Quae Extant Omnia, Italica Versione, Venice: Societas Albritiana, 1737, large quarto, engraved frontis, title printed in red and black, text printed in parallel columns throughout: Italian and Latin; bound in full contemporary sheepskin, marbled in brown and green, gilt spine with two red labels, damage to headcap with loss, boards rubbed, 7 3/4 x 10 3/4 in. (3) $150-250

1162 Edinburgh University Stereoscopic Anatomy [and] The Edinburgh Stereoscopic Atlas of Obstetrics. New York: Imperial Publishing Co., [early 20th century] [and] London: Caxton Publishing Co., 1908. Two sets of stereoscopic anatomy cards; the general anatomy set in five sections (in five cases) consisting of 250 cards with photographic views; the obstetrical set consisting of four sections (in four cases) housing 100 cards with views, the cases in poor condition. (9) $300-400 1163 Einstein, Albert (1879-1955) Die Grundlage der allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie. Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1916 [Stuttgart: Druck von Omnitypie-Ges., Nachfl. L. Zechnall]. First separate edition of Einstein’s Foundation of the Generalized Theory of Relativity, octavo, advertisements on verso of wrapper marked, Metzger & Wittig, Leipzig; Stuttgart imprint on verso of title; bound in publisher’s printed paper wrappers, 64 pages, cover chipped with loss, title glued to outer cover, 9 1/4 x 6 in. [Together with] Einstein’s Zur Einheitlichen Feldtheorie, Berlin: Akademie der Wissenschaften by Walter de Gruyter & Co., 1929, large octavo, 8 pages, in publisher’s orange paper wrappers, housed in custom box, 7 x 10 in. (2) $4,000-6,000 1164 Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1890-1969) Crusade in Europe, Three Signed Copies. New York and Garden City: Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1948. Three limited edition copies, all signed by Eisenhower, numbers 324, 593, and 715 of 1,426; each in publisher’s tan cloth with the clear jacket, one copy housed in the original green papercovered slipcase, worn, 9 1/2 x 6 in. (3) $1,500-2,000 1165 Eliot, Thomas Stearns (1888-1965) Collected Poems, First American Edition, Signed. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., [1936]. First American edition, as stated on the copyright page, signed by Eliot on title, where he has crossed out his name as it was printed there, signing above, in a later dust jacket (repaired on verso with tape) works advertised on the back and publications dated as late as 1943 mentioned in the author’s biography inside the back flap, bound in publisher’s blue cloth, 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 in. $1,500-2,000

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1166 Eliot, Thomas Stearns (1888-1965) Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats, Illustrated and Signed by Edward Gorey. New York and London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1982. First edition with these illustrations, signed by Gorey on the title page, with the original dust jacket, 8 x 5 1/4 in. $100-150 1167 Far West Literature, Five Titles in Six Volumes, Four Titles Signed by the Author. Virginia Cole Trenholm’s Footprints on the Frontier; signed limited edition, in the jacket; Nathaniel Pitt Langford’s Vigilante Days and Ways, New York & Saint Paul: Merrill, 1893, in two volumes; Estelline Bennett’s Old Deadwood Days, New York: J.H. Sears & Co., 1928, with two letters regarding the book tipped in; A.B. MacDonald’s Hands Up!, New York: Burt, [1927], with a photograph of the author and the recipient pasted inside the front board; [and] Usher L. Burdick’s The Last Days of Sitting Bull, Baltimore: Wirth Bros., 1941; all octavo, all but Old Deadwood Days signed by their authors. (6) $400-600 1168 Faulkner, William (1897-1962) Ten First and Early Editions. Including: Collected Stories, New York: Random House, stated first edition, in the jacket; A Fable, later issue trade edition, with the jacket; Requiem for a Nun, signed limited edition; Sanctuary, New York: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, [1931] with “First Published, 1931” on copyright page; The Reivers, stated first edition, in the jacket; Absalom, Absalom!, New York: Random House, 1936, with “EH” on copyright page, in a tattered jacket; The Mansion, New York: Random House, 1959, stated first printing, in dust jacket; The Town, New York: Random House, 1957, stated first printing, in the original jacket; Pylon, New York: Robert Haas Inc., 1935, in rough shape, with two dust jackets, the first glued to the book, the other over it; Intruder in the Dust, New York: Random House, 1948, stated first edition, in a tattered jacket. (10) $500-700


1170 Fossati, Giorgio (1706-1778) Raccolta di Varie Favole Delineate, ed Incise in Rame. Venice: Carlo Pecora, 1744. Six large quarto volumes in three [together with] an additional large-paper copy of volume six; the six-volume set illustrated with 216 full-page plates that depict the action in the fable; the extra copy of the sixth volume with thirty-six plates; the plates in volumes one and two printed in green ink; plates in volumes three and four printed in red; those in volumes five and six printed in black; plates present, lacking two titles and four leaves of allegories; plates in the extra volume six printed in red, blue, green, and brown; six volumes in three bound in full contemporary parchment over boards, middle volume with damage to the spine, 11 1/2 x 8 in.; extra volume six disbound, untrimmed throughout, ex libris Oscar Camponovo, with his bookplate, 12 1/2 x 9 in. $5,000-7,000 1171 Frank, Anne (1929-1945) Diary of a Young Girl. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Co., 1952. Later issue, bound in publisher’s black cloth, in a chipped dust jacket, 7 1/4 x 5 in. $200-300

1172 French Illustrated Books, Three from the Early 20th Century. Including: Contes du Temps Jadis, Paris: L’Edition D’Art, H. Piazza [by Kadar], 1912, one of 400 copies, illustrated throughout with color plates by Umberto Brunelleschi (1879-1949), in publisher’s paper covers and glassine wraps; Les Musiques de la Guerre, Paris: Chez Tomer, [1915], illustrated with brightly colored tipped-in illustrations at the beginning of each song by Paulet Thevenaz, publisher’s illustrated boards; [and] L’Histoire D’Alsace, par L’Oncle Hansi, Paris: Floury, 1916, with color illustrations throughout by Hansi [aka JeanJacques Waltz] (1873-1951) and Victor Huen (1874-1939), one page torn horizontally in half, both halves present, otherwise good, in illustrated blue cloth publisher’s boards. $300-500 1173 Froissart, Sir John (c. 1337-1405) Chronicles of England, France, and the Adjoining Countries. [Wales]: Haford Press, by James Henderson, 1803-1805. Five large quarto volumes in four, translated and edited by Thomas Johnes (17481816), illustrated with five vignettes, two maps, and fifty-eight vividly hand-colored plates, bound in half red morocco by Bayntun, a.e.g., spines slightly faded, 11 x 8 3/4 in. (4) $500-700 1174 Frost, Robert (1874-1963) New Hampshire, Signed Copy. New York: Henry Holt & Co., 1923. Limited edition, copy number 88 of 350 copies signed by Frost on the limitation page, with woodcut illustrations by J.J. Lankes, bound in publisher’s cloth, shaken, some signatures feeling loose, binding frayed at head and tail, other surface wear, 9 x 6 in. $600-800

1175 Garland, Hamlin (1860-1940) Eleven Volumes, of which Ten are Signed or Inscribed. Including: Hesper, New York: Harper, 1903; Cavanagh, Forest Ranger, New York: Harper, 1910; A Son of the Middle Border, New York: Macmillan, 1917; The Forester’s Daughter, New York: Harper, later edition; The Eagle’s Heart, New York: Harper, border edition, not signed, but in the dust jacket; The Captain of the Gray-Horse Troop, New York: Harper, 1902; A Daughter of the Middle Border, New York: Macmillan, 1922; Ulysses S. Grant, New York: Doubleday & McClure, 1898; Money Magic, New York: Harper, 1907; They of the High Trails, New York: Harper, border edition; [and] Wayside Courtships, New York: Appleton, 1898; all in publisher’s cloth, octavo. (11) $600-800 1176 Goodspeed, Charles E. Yankee Bookseller, Signed Copy and Three Others. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1937. Limited edition, number 132 of 310, signed by Goodspeed on the limitation page, in the original slipcase, top broken, 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.; Wilfred Thomason Grenfell’s A Labrador Doctor, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, [1919], signed by Grenfell on ffep, in publisher’s cloth, textblock becoming detached, 8 1/2 x 5 3/4 in.; Fine Points of Furniture: Early American, signed by authors Albert and Israel Sack, New York: Crown, 1950, publisher’s cloth, 10 x 7 in.; [and] Henry Lamond’s The Sea-Trout, London: Sherratt & Hughes, 1916, with color illustrations, bound in publisher’s cloth, 11 1/4 x 8 1/2 in. (4) $150-250

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1169 Fielding, Henry (1707-1754) The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling. London: for A. Millar, 1749. First edition, six duodecimo volumes, contemporary boards, rebacked, original spines replaced, new lettering pieces, housed in a custom slipcase, some minor spotting to contents, two pages curiously trimmed at foot of blank margin in zigzag pattern, 6 1/2 x 3 3/4 in. (6) $2,000-3,000

1177 Gould, Stephen Jay (1941-2002) Four Titles, Some Signed and First Editions. Including: Ontogeny and Phylogeny, Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1977, first edition, signed and inscribed on ffep, in price-clipped dust jacket; Ever Since Darwin, New York: Norton, [1977], signed and inscribed on ffep, in publisher’s jacket, price-clipped; Time’s Arrow, Time’s Cycle, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1987, first edition, in price-clipped jacket; [and] Full House, New York: Harmony Books, 1996, first edition, in priceclipped jacket. (4) $250-350

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1178 Grant, George (fl. circa 1820) An Essay on the Science of Acting. By a Veteran Stager. London: Cowie & Strange, 1828. First edition, octavo, frontispiece portrait of J.P. Kemble, 201 pages, in contemporary half calf, gold-tooled spine, boards somewhat rubbed, a.e.g., 7 x 4 in.

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1179 Hakluyt, Richard (1552?-1616) The Principall Navigations, Voiages and Discoveries of the English Nation, Made by Sea or Over Land, to the Most Remote and Farthest Distant Quarters of the Earth at any Time within the Compasse of these 1500 Yeeres. London: George Bishop and Ralph Newberie, Deputies to Christopher Barker, 1589. First edition, folio, lacking the map, without the cancelled leaves recounting Bowes’ expedition in Russia, without the added unnumbered leaves with the account of Drake’s circumnavigation; first and last few leaves with marginal paper repairs; leaves 485-492 [Xx2-Xx5] supplied from a smaller copy, remargined; in contemporary brown calf, ruled in blind; resewn and rebacked; neat contemporary marginal notes throughout in the hand of Martin Fotherbye [likely Bishop of Salisbury (c. 1560-1620)], with his signature on the title page, 11 3/4 x 8 in. $8,000-10,000 1180 Hall, Daniel Weston (b. 1841) Arctic Rovings: or the Adventures of a New Bedford Boy on Sea and Land. Boston: Abel Tompkins, 1861. First edition, 12mo, portrait frontispiece opposite title, four pages of publisher’s ads after the text; bound in publisher’s blue cloth, worn, 6 3/4 x 4 in. Hall’s lively autobiographical text recounts his adventures on a whaling ship at the age of fifteen. Much is included regarding Hawaii; other topics include encounters with Russian sailors, tales of the ship in a gale, and more. Hall was abused by the master of the Condor and jumped ship for a penal colony in Siberia. $300-500

1181 Hemingway, Ernest (1899-1961) For Whom the Bell Tolls. New York: Scribner’s Sons, 1940. First edition, with the letter “A” on the copyright page, with the original dust jacket, bound in ecru publisher’s cloth, some rubbing and chips with slight loss to jacket, 8 1/4 x 5 1/2 in. $200-300 1182 Hoyle, John (d. circa 1797) Dictionarium Musica, Being a Complete Dictionary: or Treasury of Music. London: for the Author, sold by Crowder and Binns, 1770. First edition, octavo, rare on the auction market, the last copy on the block was offered in 1978; bound in contemporary half leather, marbled paper boards, joints cracked, front endleaves detached, 8 x 5 in. $300-500 1183 Hugo, Victor (1802-1885) The Novels, Dramas, and Selected Poems of Victor Hugo, Edition Magnifique, One of Twelve Copies. Philadelphia: George Barrie & Sons, [1892]. Forty-one octavo volumes, limited edition set, specially bound for Henry B. Williams, set number ten of twelve, signed by George Barrie, the illustrations appearing in four states (printed in different colors of ink on different paper stocks), and bound in full red morocco by Barrie, with full morocco inner doublures tooled in gilt, gray watered silk flyleaves, a.e.g., gilt spines, small gilt decoration on boards, each volume housed in a custom slipcase, 8 1/2 x 5 1/4 in. (41) $2,000-3,000 1184 Hyginus, Gaius Julius (c. 64 BCAD 17) Fabularum Liber. Basel: Hervagiana, 1570. Folio, third edition, edited by Jacob Micyllus (15031558), with works by other writers: Palaephatus, Fulgentius, Phurnutus, Albricus, Aratus, and Proclus, woodcut printer’s device on title, illustrated with forty-nine woodcuts of constellations, bound in modern vellum, blue pastedecorated edges, damp stain to bottom margin; extensive annotations in the hand of Alfred Holden, whose signature (in the same hand) appears on the ffep, on pages 123 through 142, making notes based on another manuscript copy of Fulgentius’s Mythologiarum; 12 1/4 x 8 in. $500-700

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1185 Indian Treaties, and Laws and Regulations Relating to Indian Affairs. Washington City: Way & Gideon, 1826. Octavo, this collection of laws and regulations was compiled and published under orders of the War Department in 1825, text browned throughout, with some water staining, a series of manuscript presentation inscriptions (in Holt’s hand) dated 1846 and 1847 appear on the title page, recording the presentation of the book to William L. Holt from John Henry Eaton (1790-1856), Secretary of War under Andrew Jackson, and thence from Holt to General James Spencer Rains (1817-1880), with Rains’ rubber stamp; bound in contemporary calf, board becoming detached, 8 1/2 x 5 1/4 in. The inscriptions on the title and ffep are directly related to the book itself. Eaton and Holt served as counsel for the defense for the Archilla Smith murder trial held in Tahlequah, Indian territory in 1840. Holt was also half Cherokee. Rains was agent for Indian affairs at the Neosho sub-agency in Indian Territory at the time of the presentation of this book in 1847. $400-600 1186 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. $400-600


1188 Japan, Five Books in English Explaining Japanese Culture. Kobe: Tamamura and Takagi, c. 1906-18. Including the following titles: The Silk in Japan; The Rice in Japan; The Ceremonial Tea Observance in Japan; The Transformation of Mother Earth from Nature to Art; and The Ceremonies of a Japanese Marriage; each oblong volume illustrated with colored collotypes throughout, text in English, tissue guards before each plate, each bound in silk-covered boards, Japanese-style, with colored silk fringe sewing supports, bindings somewhat rough, contents generally good, 10 x 7 in. (5) $200-300 1189 Jones Diamond British Poets; Diamond Classics. London: Jones & Co., 1821-30. Set of fifty-four miniature volumes in their original traveling cases, bound in patterned red silk, dark labels lettered in gilt; the wooden cases originally covered in leather, mostly flaking away now, center shelf with a bright gilt edge in both cases, each with a glass panel; back panel coming loose in one, spines with some loss to covering material, each volume 3 1/2 x 2; the cases 9 x 9 1/2 in. each. $3,000-3,500 1190 Joyce, James (1882-1941) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. New York: B.W. Huebsch, 1916. First edition, octavo, in publisher’s blue cloth, printed on cream-white wove paper and endleaves, title stamped in blind on front cover and in gilt on the spine; covering material a bit distorted on front board, ex libris John M. Cameron, with his bookplate and signature in pencil, Slocum 11; 7 1/4 x 4 3/4 in. $700-900

1191 Joyce, James (1882-1941) Haveth Childers Everywhere, Fragment from Work in Progress. Paris: Henry Babou & Jack Kahane; New York: the Fountain Press, 1930. First, signed, limited edition, number 76 of 100 copies on Imperial handmade iridescent Japan, signed by Joyce in pencil on the limitation page, in original glassine wraps and green slipcase with gilt edges and facings; slipcase broken along the top edge, top panel becoming detached; spine of the book slightly darkened, 11 1/4 x 7 3/4 in., Slocum 41. The “work in progress” mentioned on the title page was to become Finnegan’s Wake. $4,000-5,000 1192 Joyce, James (1882-1941) Ulysses. London: for the Egoist Press by John Rodker, Paris, 1922. First English edition, printed in France, this edition was printed from the plates of the original first edition, with the addition of eight pages of errata; the edition was limited to 2,000 copies, of which the present is copy number 155; original blue wrappers bound in, full buckram, some water staining, the paper cover chipped and repaired with some loss, Slocum 18; 8 3/4 x 6 3/4 in. $1,000-1,500 1193 Junius, Hadrianus [aka Adriaen de Jonghe] (1511-1575) De Anno & Mensibus Commentarius. Basel: Heinrich Petrum, 1556. Octavo, revised edition, dedicated to Mary Tudor (1516-1558), printer’s woodcut device on the last leaf, bound in 18th century Italian half leather and patterned paper boards, some water stains to contents, ownership stamps on title and following leaf, worming to gutter, 6 1/4 x 3 3/4 in. $1,000-1,200 1194 Keller, Helen (1880-1968) The World I Live In, with Signed Letter. New York: The Century Co., 1908. Octavo, with a two-page typed letter to Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Sprague of Williamstown, Massachusetts inserted, signed by Keller in pencil and dated 1 June 1956; the letter appealing to the Spragues to support the American Foundation for Overseas Blind; the book in publisher’s cloth, blocked and lettered in gold, binding slightly shaken, 7 1/2 x 4 1/4 in. $600-800

1195 Kerouac, Jack (1922-1969) On the Road. New York: Viking, 1957. First edition in a first state dust jacket with price present inside front flap and blue and red stripes across the back panel; publisher’s black cloth with white lettering, top edge pale red; unrestored jacket with surface abrasions and slight chips to head, minor chips to foot and top outside corners, a few closed tears, Lauriat’s book ticket pasted near the gutter of ffep, 8 x 5 1/4 in. $600-800 1196 Ketcham, Diana Le Desert de Retz. San Francisco: The Arion Press, 1990. Landscape folio format, in publisher’s case, 16 x 10 in. $125-175 1197 King, Coretta Scott (1927-2006) My Life with Martin Luther King, Jr. Inscribed Copy. New York: Holt, Rinehart, & Winston, [1969]. Stated first edition with the original dust jacket, and date code “0969” inside the front flap, bound in publisher’s oatmeal cloth, inscribed on ffep by King, “For Dr. Gunther Schuller with admiration and personal respect...and warmest personal wishes,” 9 x 5 3/4 in. $200-400 1198 Lanté, Louis-Marie (b. 1789) Galerie Française de Femmes Celebres. Paris: Chez L’Editeur, 1827. Folio, illustrated with seventy hand-colored illustrations of famous women, the colors fresh, in publisher’s gilt-blocked cloth, joints cracked, 13 x 9 in. $700-900

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1187 Jacob, Max (1876-1944) and Jacques Villon (1875-1963) A Poemes Rompus. Paris: Louis Broder, 1960. Limited edition, copy V of thirtyfive signed by Villon on the limitation page, additionally signed and inscribed by Villon on half-title to Herman Shickman, small quarto, the signatures never bound, with the Japanese tissue dust jacket, titled in red with a printed etching; the text itself illustrated with five hand-colored etchings, housed in publisher’s black paper-covered slipcase and light gray folding board chemise, titled in red, 6 3/4 x 6 in. $3,000-5,000

1199 Latin Text Manuscript on Paper, Late 15th-Early 16th Century, Italy. Quarto, manuscript fragment in Latin on laid paper, eight leaves, likely a portion of Nicolaus de Blony’s Tractatus Sacerdotalis de Sacramentis deque Divinis Officiis et eorum administrationibus, containing a section that begins, “De accidentibus huius sacramenti: Et autem sciendum [...]” identical to the text printed in the 1492 Strassburg, Flach edition, on leaf 56; bound in later paste-paper boards, 7 1/2 x 5 1/4 in. $400-600

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1200 Lecomte, Valentine (b. 1872) The Dance of Isadora Duncan, Signed Copy Presented by the Publisher. Paris: Raymond Duncan, [1952]. First edition, number fifty-five of 100 copies printed; inscribed on title page by Raymond Duncan (1874-1966) to poet and dramatist Percy MacKaye (1875-1956); in the original limp paper wrapper, illustrated with forty-five leaves of plates, some spotting to wraps, 12 3/4 x 10 in. “An authentic document of our beloved Isadora and my hands weaving all together, so binding our affection together - Percy, Isadora, and I - a good triangle.”

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1201 Lennep, Henry John Van (18151889) The Oriental Album: Twenty Illustrations in Oil Colors of the People and Scenery of Turkey. New York: Anson D.F. Randolph, 1862. First and only edition, large folio, illustrated title and twenty color plates, bound in newer period style half leather and cloth boards, pages have been washed and resewn, some spotting, 18 x 13 1/2 in. Lennep was a noted Christian missionary, preacher, writer, and artist who was born in Smyrna, Turkey, educated in Massachusetts, and served in Asia minor for twenty-nine years as a missionary. He was fluent in the local languages and made numerous sketches and paintings of the people and places he visited. He lost his sight to cataracts in 1869 and returned to the States. $5,000-6,000 1202 Les Lettres et les Arts, Eight Volumes. Paris: Boussod, Valadon, etc., 1886-87. Eight uniformly bound folio volumes, in half green morocco and marbled paper boards, gilt tooled spines, t.e.g.; four issues for each year of this illustrated quarterly journal of the arts with colored illustrations, music, poetry, stories, and other similar material; spines faded to tan, slight scuffs, 12 3/4 x 9 3/4 in. (8) $250-350

1203 Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865) Illinois State Business Directory, 1860. Chicago: Bailey [by Press & Tribune], 1860 Octavo, publisher’s red boards, rebacked, 9 1/4 x 5 1/2 in. At this point in his career, Lincoln and William Henry Herndon (18181891) were law partners practicing in Springfield, Illinois, their names are list twice, on pages 236 and 729. $600-800 1204 Lindbergh, Charles (1902-1974) Spirit of St. Louis, First Edition, Signed Copy. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1953. Octavo, signed and inscribed on title page to the MacDonalds, [Mr. and Mrs. Charles Henry “Mac” MacDonald (1914-2002), a fellow fighter pilot from the Pacific Theatre, WWII]; Lindbergh also notes the publication date: September fourteenth, 1953; with the Scriber’s capital “A” in brackets on the copyright page, bound in publisher’s blue cloth, shaken, with some damage to boards, in tattered dust jacket, with a fairly large-sized hole in the spine of the jacket, 8 1/4 x 5 1/2 in. $800-1,200 1205 Lindbergh, Charles (1902-1974) Wartime Journals, Signed Copy. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, [1970]. Octavo, inscribed and signed on title page to Charles Henry “Mac” MacDonald (1914-2002), “To my friend Charles H. MacDonald, who took a zero off my tail, with appreciation, admiration, and best wishes,” in publisher’s blue cloth, sun faded, shaken, in a chipped dust jacket, 9 1/4 x 6 in. $300-500 1206 Ludlow, William (1843-1901) Report of a Reconnaissance of the Black Hills of South Dakota, Made in the Summer of 1874. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1875. Large quarto, illustrated with a large folding chromolithographic map of the Black Hills, one full-page plate of fossil shells, and two additional uncolored maps, in publisher’s brown cloth, 11 1/2 x 9 in. $300-500

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1207 Machiavelli, Niccolo (1469-1527) Historie di Nicolo Machiavegli Cittadino, et Segretario Fiorentino. [Venice?: no printer], 1537. Octavo, woodcut device on title depicting an angel, printed in italic type, single column throughout, with register on the final leaf, one of many anonymous and perhaps pirated editions produced in Italy and elsewhere during this period, bound in 17th century spongedecorated sheepskin, with gold-tooled spine, 6 x 3 3/4 in. $2,000-2,500 1208 Malpighi, Marcello (1628-1694) Dissertatio Epistolica de Bombyce, [Extracted from his] Opera Omnia. London: Scott & Wells, 1686. Folio, consisting of divisional title, two pages of preface, forty-four pages of text, and twelve full-page plates, all related to the life cycle and anatomy of the silkworm, modern half leather binding, some discoloration, 14 x 8 3/4 in. $300-500 1209 Marine Society, Boston, Massachusetts, The Constitution and Laws of the Boston Marine Society. Boston: [no printer], 1792. The only edition of this title listed in ESTC, rare, with only two locations worldwide, both at the American Antiquarian Society in Worcester; bound in modern boards with the original limp marbled paper wraps still in place within, some spotting to title and elsewhere, 5 1/2 x 3 1/2 in. $300-400


1211 Masefield, John (1878-1967) Salt Water Ballads, Signed Author’s Presentation Copy. London: Grant Richards, 1902. First edition, octavo, signed by Masefield on ffep, in publisher’s blue cloth, t.e.g., other edges left rough, housed in custom chemise and blue half morocco slipcase, 7 1/2 x 4 3/4 in. $200-300 1212 Mason, George C. (fl. circa 1870) Newport and Its Cottages. [Boston: Osgood & Co., 1875]. First edition, folio, 109 hinged leaves, text printed on the rectos only, illustrated with forty-five full-page heliotype plates and other text illustrations, in the original blind tooled and gold-lettered publisher’s morocco binding, with chamfered edges and inner gilt dentelles, a.e.g., taffetatextured endleaves and paste downs, binding intact without repairs, surface abrasions, corners bumped, foxing to fly leaves, 13 1/2 x 10 1/4 in. $1,500-2,000

1213 Maupassant, Guy de (1850-1893) Illuminated Manuscript of Tribunaux Rustiques, by Victor-Nicolas Bouton (1819-1901). Paris, 1896. Octavoformat manuscript on parchment, with a miniature painting on the first page of text, the text of each page inscribed within a ruled border with gilt stars in each corner, ex libris Robert Hoe, with his red morocco book label, in a full crushed red morocco binding by Marcellin Lortic with parchment pastedowns tooled in gold, in a custom slipcase, 7 3/4 x 5 in. Similar manuscripts, also prepared by Bouton in the same period, based on short stories by de Maupassant, bound by Lortic, and owned by Hoe, are held the Morgan Library and other institutions. $2,000-2,500 1214 Mein and Fleeming’s Massachusets Register, with an Almanack for the Year 1767. Boston: Mein and Fleeming, [1767]. 12mo, an interleaved copy, with contemporary manuscript notes, in a special publisher’s calf binding with a pocket inside the back board and flap with a place to tuck into the front board, calendrical calculations by Benjamin West (1730-1813) identical to those that appear in West’s New-England Almanack for 1767 the present almanac was advertised for sale in the Boston Gazette, on 2 February 1767. A manuscript note on the title page of the American Antiquarian Society copy indicates that this was the first register published in Massachusetts. $200-300 1215 Message from the President of the United States, Communicating the Proceedings of the Commissioner Appointed to Run the Boundary Line between the United States and the Republic of Texas. Washington, D.C.: Thomas Allen, 1842. Octavo, a publication of the twenty-seventh congress, second session, document 199, with the five-page annex; illustrated with six folding maps of the border, the first and sixth map with a portion detached (but present) having broken off along a fold, contents good, in new half morocco and buckram boards, 9 x 5 1/2 in. $1,500-2,000

1216 Metcalf, Keyes Dewitt (1889-1983) A Collection of Material Related to the Harvard Librarian. Including: Metcalf’s Master’s Degree and Doctorate diplomas from Harvard University, housed in a custom red morocco cover; a custom-made scrapbook, The Harvard College Library, a Collection of Photographs Presented by the Staff to Keyes D. Metcalf, Cambridge, June 1955, illustrated with twenty-three pages, each mounted with an 8 x 10 inch black-and-white photograph of library staff, the names of those pictured written in a calligraphic hand in ink below, bound in full red morocco, in a custom clamshell box, 12 3/4 x 11 1/4 in.; Metcalf’s Planning Academic and Research Library Buildings, New York: McGraw-Hill, 1965, in the dust jacket; his My Harvard Library Years, Cambridge: Harvard College Library, 1988, in publisher’s cloth; his Report on the Harvard University Library, Cambridge: for the University, 1955, in soft paper covers; [and] Education, Bricks and Mortar, Harvard Buildings and their Contribution to the Advancement of Learning, Cambridge: at the University, 1949, octavo, publisher’s cloth. (6) $200-300 1217 Meyer, Johann Heinrich (17601832) Mahlerische Reise in die Italienische Schweiz: mit geazten Blattern. Zurich: Orell, Gessner, Fussli & Co., 1793. Oblong octavo, engraved title, illustrated with twelve full-page engravings of scenes in the Italian-speaking part of Switzerland, 75 numbered pages, original boards, with old paper cover, ex libris Oscar Camponovo, with his bookplate, sewing faulty, 8 1/4 x 7 in. $800-1,000

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1210 Maritime Subjects, 19th Century, Nine Titles in Ten Volumes. Including: Herman Melville’s White-Jacket, New York: Harper’s [and] London: Bentley, 1855, 7 1/4 x 4 3/4 in.; Captain MacKinnon’s Atlantic and Transatlantic: Sketches Afloat and Ashore, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1852, 7 1/2 x 4 3/4 in.; The Naval Battles of the United States in the Different Wars with Foreign Nations, Boston: Higgins, Bradley & Dayton, 1857, 7 1/4 x 4 1/2 in.; George Little’s Life on the Ocean; or Twenty Years at Sea, Boston: Waite, Peirce, & Co., 1845, third edition, 7 1/2 x 4 1/2 in.; Judah Paddock’s A Narrative of the Shipwreck of the Ship Oswego on the Coast of South Barbary, New York: by Captain James Riley, printed by J. Seymour, 1818, 9 x 5 3/4 in.; Outward Bound; or a Merchant’s Adventures, Philadelphia: Carey & Hart, 1838, in two volumes, 7 1/2 x 4 1/4 in.; John Ryther’s The Seaman’s Preacher, Cambridge: Hilliard [and] Newburyport: Thomas & Whipple, 1806, 6 3/4 x 4 1/4 in.; Thomas Bingley’s Tales of Shipwrecks and Other Disasters at Sea, Boston: Whittemore & Co., 1859, 6 3/4 x 4 1/4 in.; [and] History of the Mutiny at Spithead and the Nore, London: for Thomas Tegg, 1842; all octavo, generally in fair condition. (10) $500-700

1218 Michener, James A. (1907-1997) Hawaii, Signed Limited First Edition. New York: Random House, [1959]. Stated first edition, limited to 400 copies, signed by Michener on limitation page, and marked by hand as an out of series copy, with the original plastic jacket and publisher’s slipcase, very good, some sun fading, dustiness, and slight paper tear to slipcase, 6 x 8 3/4 in. $400-600

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1219 Milne, Alan Alexander (18821956) Winnie-the-Pooh, Four First Edition Titles in Dust Jackets, One Signed. When We Were Very Young, London: Methuen, [1924], first edition, illustrations by Ernest Shepard, no roman numerals on the contents page, in publisher’s blue cloth boards, gilt-decorated, t.e.g., with the cream-colored textured paper dust jacket printed in blue ink; dust jacket slightly worn, with finger smudges and some ink doodles to two letters in the title (not very noticeable); Winnie-the-Pooh, London: Methuen, [1926], first edition, illustrations by Shepard, bound in publisher’s gilt pictorial green cloth boards, t.e.g., in the original dust jacket, slightly worn, smudged; Now We are Six, London: Methuen, [1927], first edition illustrated by Shepard, bound in publisher’s red cloth, t.e.g., the binding quite clean, in the original green paper dust jacket; [and] The House at Pooh Corner, London: Methuen, [1928], first edition, signed by Milne on title page; bound in publisher’s salmon cloth, pictorial gilt tooling to front board, in the original dust jacket, jacket slightly worn and frayed, all housed in a custom chemise and blue half morocco slipcase, each volume 7 1/2 x 4 3/4 in. $10,000-12,000 1220 Monstrelet, Enguerrand de (c. 1400-1453) The Chronicles. [Wales]: Haford Press, by James Henderson, 1809. Five large quarto volumes in four, translated and edited by Thomas Johnes (1748-1816), illustrated with five title vignettes and fifty-one handcolored plates engraved by Moses; bound in half red morocco by Bayntun, a.e.g., spines slightly faded, 11 x 8 3/4 in. (4) $500-700 1221 Musicians’ Biography, Six Volumes, All Signed. Including: Gabriel Harrison’s John Howard Payne, Dramatist, Poet, Actor, Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1885; Faustina H. Hodges’s Edward Hodges, New York: Putnam’s Sons, 1896, inscribed by Adolph Hodges, brother of the author and son of the subject; J.A. Fuller-Maitland’s A Door-Keeper of Music, London: Murray, 1929, stated first edition; Jane Marlin’s Reminiscences of Morris Steinert, New York: Putnam’s Sons, 1900; Igor Stravinsky and Robert Craft’s Memories and Commentaries, Garden City: Doubleday, 1960, with the dust jacket, signed by both; [and] Chaim Potok’s Isaac Stern, My First 79 Years, New York: Knopf, 1999, with the dust jacket, signed by both. (6) $400-600

1222 Neihardt, John (1881-1973) Eight Signed Volumes. Including: The Quest, New York: Macmillan, 1928; The Song of Three Friends, New York: Macmillan, 1919; A Cycle of the West, New York: Macmillan, 1949; The Song of Jed Smith, New York: Macmillan, 1941, first printing, with dust jacket; Laureate Address, Chicago: the Bookfellows, 1921; The Song of the Indian Wars, New York: Macmillan, 1945, also signed by the author’s daughter, Alice May Neihardt, with a photograph of the author with members of the Eleanor DeForest Smith Library in Colorado Springs standing outside the building, with the dust jacket; Indian Tales and Others, New York: Macmillan, 1926, in the dust jacket; [and] The Song of Hugh Glass, New York: Macmillan, 1921; all octavo, signed and inscribed by Neihardt. (8) $400-600 1223 New York Daily Tribune, Bound Volume Containing Issues from January 7 through December 31, 1862. Dozens of issues published in the year 1862, with hundreds of Civil War-related news reports, including a piece published on July 15, 1862 announcing the Confiscation Act of 1862, which formed the legal basis for President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation; first few leaves creased, bound in contemporary half leather, marbled paper boards, 20 x 16 in. $500-700 1224 Nielsen, Kay (1886-1957) East of the Sun and West of the Moon, Old Tales from the North. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1914. Signed limited edition, number 124 of 500 copies signed by Nielsen, large quarto, illustrated with twenty-five mounted color plates with captioned tissue guards; full gilt-decorated publisher’s parchment binding, with pictorial endpapers, lacking the silk ties, 11 x 8 1/2 in. $5,000-7,000

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1225 Noah, Mordecai M. (1785-1851) Travels in England, France, Spain, and the Barbary States in the Years 1813-14 and 15. New York: by Kirk and Mercein; London: by John Miller, 1819. First edition, with portrait frontispiece of Noah bound opposite title, and large folding view of the Fortress of Goleta near Tunis, the engraving “Merchant Slave & Arab” at page 300; and the engraving of Abdallah American Drogman at page 317; pages 299 through 302 inserted from a smaller copy; bound in contemporary half leather with marbled paper boards; foxing and spotting to contents, 8 1/2 x 5 1/4 in. $200-250 1225A O’Keeffe, Georgia (1887-1986) Drawings, Signed Limited Edition. New York: Atlantis Editions, 1968. First edition, one of 230 signed by O’Keeffe, prints housed in publisher’s original white clamshell box, consisting of an eight-page booklet with an introduction by Lloyd Goodrich, acknowledgements, plate listing, and signed limitation page; followed by ten separate printed portfolios, each containing a print of one of O’Keeffe’s early drawings, in black and white and color, depending on the disposition of the original work, each in its own folder; the box with minor corner bumping, 27 1/4 x 20 1/2 in. $5,000-7,000 1226 Ogden’s New Century Photo Albums, Two Volumes. Each album filled with cigarette cards from Ogden’s Guinea Gold Cigarettes, the first containing approximately 188 cards depicting royalty, religious leaders, scientists, composers, musicians, painters, writers, military officials, politicians, inventors, historical figures, ships, singers, actors, and actresses; the second containing approximately 144 cards, depicting mainly royalty; each filled with cards, in publisher’s original cloth boards, 7 1/4 x 6 1/4 and 7 x 6 in. (2) $400-600 1227 Onassis, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy (1929-1994) and Lee Bouvier Radziwill (b. 1933) One Special Summer, Signed by Both Sisters. New York: Delacorte Press, 1974. First edition, limited to 500 signed copies, in publisher’s binding and slipcase, case and spine faded, 13 x 10 in. $300-400


1229 Persian Manuscript, Mughal Era with Ten Miniatures. Thirty paper leaves, text in black with some red, miniatures in many colors with gilt accents, in the Mughal style, bound in a limp leather binding, leaves toned, 9 x 5 in. $1,000-2,000 1230 Persian Manuscript, Mughal Era with Ten Miniatures. Twenty-eight paper leaves, text in black with some red, miniatures in many colors with gilt accents, in the Mughal style, bound in a limp leather binding, leaves toned, 11 x 6 1/2 in. $1,000-2,000 1231 Petrarch (1304-1374) Two Early Editions. Opera di M. Francesco Petrarca, de Rimedi de l’Una et l’Altra Fortuna, Venice: Gabriel Giolito, 1549, thick octavo in contemporary limp parchment, binding detached from textblock, binding and spine linings made from manuscript waste, 6 x 3 3/4 in. [Together with] Il Petrarca Nuovamente Ristampato, Venice: Nicolo Misserini, 1624, 12mo, in the original paper wraps, textblock detached from covering, 4 1/4 x 2 in. (2) $300-500 1232 Pictures in the Collection of J. Pierpont Morgan, at Princes Gate & Dover House, London. London: Privately Printed, 1907. Three mammoth folio volumes: I: English School; II: Dutch & Flemish, French, Italian, Spanish; III: Modern Schools, illustrated with three colored frontispieces, one half-tone and ninetysix photogravure plates throughout, bound in uniform full dark brown morocco by Zaehnsdorf, with inner gilt dentelles, burgundy watered silk endleaves and pastedowns, 21 1/4 x 17 in. (3) $1,200-1,500

1233 Pinelli, Bartolomeo (1781-1835) Nuova Raccolta di Cinquanta Costumi Pittoreschi. Rome: Presso Ignazo Pavon, 1816. Oblong folio, engraved title, followed by fifty uncolored etching depicting various Italian cultural scenes, foxing throughout, contemporary half leather with marbled paper boards and original morocco lettering piece on front board; boards detached, 15 3/4 x 10 1/2 in. $500-700 1234 Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849) Two Titles: The Gift [and] The Poetical Works. Philadelphia: Carey & Hart, 1843 [and] London: J & C Brown & Co., [no date]. Two octavo volumes, The Gift contains Poe’s story, The Pit and the Pendulum, which appears on pages 133 through 152; it is bound in tan calf, ornately tooled in gilt, a.e.g., nicely preserved, some light rubbing, two corners slightly bumped, occasional foxing to contents, 7 1/4 x 4 1/2 in. [and] The Poetical Works, with a Notice of Poe’s Life and Genius by James Hannay, illustrated throughout, in contemporary green gilt-decorated cloth by Bone & Son, a.e.g., spine darkened, some spotting to contents, first few preliminaries coming loose, 7 1/4 x 4 3/4 in. (2) $400-600

1235 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 tailpieces, 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. $1,000-1,200 1236 Potter, Beatrix (1866-1943) The Pie and The Patty Pan, First Edition, Inscribed Presentation Copy. London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1905. First edition, signed by Potter on ffep, “For Mrs. Cannon from Miss Potter, Jan. 13th 1906,” with ten full page color illustrations and uncolored smaller text illustrations throughout, bound in publisher’s dark brown paper over board, with decorative blocking and lettering in white ink on the front board, and a printed color portrait of Ribby set into the cover, mottled lavender endleaves; the binding sympathetically rebacked, housed in a custom red buckram wrap and half morocco slipcase, 7 x 5 1/2 in. $2,000-3,000

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1228 Paton, Lucy Allen (1865-1951) Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, a Biography, with Letters. Boston: Houghton Mifflin [Riverside], 1919. Octavo, extra-illustrated with two autograph letters signed by Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz (1822-1907) inserted, three autograph letters signed by her husband, Louis Agassiz (1807-1873), and a cabinet of Louis; the book in publisher’s cloth, t.e.g., light wear, 8 1/4 x 5 1/2 in. $400-600

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1237 Quincy, Edmund (1703-1788) Two Copies of Mills and Hicks’s British and American Register with Almanack for the Year 1774 [and] 1775. Boston: Mills & Hicks, 1773 and 1774. Two 12mo volumes, interleaved with fifty-nine manuscript leaves, stab sewn in marbled paper covers as issued, a Revolutionary war relic of John Hancock’s father-in-law, in which he records the death of Dr. Warren, the Battle of Bunker Hill, and a “spirited oration” given by Hancock on the anniversary of the “horrid military massacre in King Street,” many familiar names appear in Quincy’s notes, including John Langdon, Moses Gill, Thomas Adams, Joseph Palmer, and Joseph Sewall; Quincy also records personal notes, including his daughter Dorothy’s marriage to Hancock, and a loan he received from Hancock; also of interest is a detailed inventory of belongs to sent to his son Henry for a move to Lancaster in April 1775, comprising five pages; one volume with silk ribbon spine repair, 4 3/4 x 3 in. (2) $1,000-1,500 1238 Rackham, Arthur (1867-1939) Four Illustrated Books [and] One Illustrated by Edmund Dulac (18821953) Including: Fables D’Esope, Paris: Hachette, 1913, limited edition, copy number 94 of 430 printed on vellum paper and signed by Rackham on the limitation page, color illustrations, publisher’s white cloth, stained, 11 1/4 x 8 3/4 in.; Shakespeare’s Le Songe D’Une Nuit D’Ete, Paris: Hachette, 1909, limited edition, copy number 223 of 330 printed on vellum paper, color illustrations, in publisher’s parchment, stained, 11 1/2 x 9 in.; Hawthorne’s A Wonder Book, London: Hodder & Stoughton, undated trade edition with color illustrations, publisher’s red cloth, in water stained original dust jacket, 9 1/2 x 7 in.; Walton’s The Compleat Angler, Philadelphia: McKay, undated trade edition with color plates, in publisher’s green cloth, 9 1/2 x 7 in.; [and] Stories from the Arabian Nights Retold by Laurence Housman, New York: Scribner’s, [1907], with illustrations by Edmund Dulac, water staining to edges, bound in publisher’s brick red cloth, 9 1/2 x 7 in. (5) $300-400

1239 Robinson, W. Heath (1872-1944) Bill the Minder, Signed Limited Edition. London: Constable, 1912. Large quarto, copy number fifty-seven of 380, signed by Robinson on the limitation page, illustrated throughout with sixteen color plates, in publisher’s full parchment over boards, deckle edges throughout, unopened, yellow silk ties in place, slight scuff to front fore-edge, else very good, 11 1/2 x 9 in. $1,000-1,500 1240 Romans, Bernard (c. 1720-c. 1784) A Concise Natural History of East and West Florida. New-York printed; sold by R. Aitken, bookseller, opposite the London Coffee-House, 1776. Second edition, a re-issue of the sheets of the first edition, leaves re-issued without the list of subscribers and appendix; this copy is incomplete, it lacks the title, the engraved dedication to John Ellis, and the folding table of Georgia exports formerly bound before page 104; it is illustrated with all six fullpage engravings, this re-issue did not include the three maps that appeared in the first edition; see ESTC W37501; A1 water stained, folded, and torn with loss, foxing, folding, and other similar damage commensurate with neglect, lacking both boards, original sheepskin spine and lettering piece still attached, 6 3/4 x 4 in. $25,000-35,000 1241 Rycault, Paul (1629-1700) Istoria dello Stato Presente dell’ Imperio Ottomano. Venice: Combi & La Nou, 1672. First Italian edition, quarto, engraved title, twenty-one text engravings, contemporary parchment, newer endleaves, worming to contents throughout, toning and stains, 8 1/2 x 6 1/4 in. $400-600

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1242 Sandburg, Carl (1878-1967) Ten Volumes, All Signed. Including: The Lincoln Collector, New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1949, signed limited edition; The Sandburg Range, New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., [1957], with dust jacket; Bronze Wood, San Francisco, 1941, signed by Sandburg and Henry Flannery, water stained; Always the Young Strangers, New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., [1953], first, signed, limited edition, in the slipcase; Mary Lincoln, Wife and Widow, New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., later edition, with the jacket; The People, Yes, New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., later edition, with the dust jacket; Chicago Poems, New York: Henry Holt & Co., 1916; Poems of the Midwest, Cleveland and New York: World Publishing Co., later edition, in the jacket; Prairie-Town Boy, New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., later edition, in the dust jacket; [and] Remembrance Rock, New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., first trade edition, with the jacket; each book octavo and signed or inscribed by Sandburg. (10) $600-800 1243 Schmidt, Friedrich Samuel von (1737-1796) Recueil d’Antiquités Trouvées a Avenches a Culm, and Three Others. Berne: Chez Abraham Wagner, Fils, 1760. First edition, quarto, illustrated with thirty-five plates, full page and folding of the Roman antiquities recently unearthed in Switzerland, by Adrian Zingg bound in full contemporary sponge-decorated calf, gilt-tooled spine, marbled endleaves, solid red edges, surface rubbing, structurally intact, unrepaired, 8 1/4 x 6 1/4 in. [Together with] Champollion-Figeac’s Nouvelles Recherches sur la Ville Gauloise d’Uxellodunum, Paris: de l’Imprimerie Royale, 1820, large quarto, with six folding plates, bound in contemporary half red morocco, 10 x 8 in.; Chevalley de Rivaz’s Voyage de Naples, a Capri et a Paestum, Naples: chez l’auteur et al., 1846, octavo, in publisher’s limp wraps, untrimmed, with the frontispiece, 8 3/4 x 5 1/2 in. [and] Phocion Roque’s Topographie d’Athenes, Paris: Plon, 1869, octavo, illustrated, in contemporary half morocco, worn, 7 x 4 1/4 in. (4) $400-600


1245 Shepard, Thomas (1605-1649) The Sound Beleever. London: for R. Dawlman, to be sold by Andrew Crook, 1649. Octavo, two 1645 issues preceded this edition, title printed within typographical ornament border, disbound, some losses to final leaves from wear, spotting and browning to contents, marginal worming along the gutter in a few signatures at the beginning, 6 1/4 x 4 in. $300-500 1246 Siringo, Charles Angelo (1855-1928) A Cowboy Detective, Signed Copy. Chicago: W.B. Conkey Co., 1912. Inscribed on ffep, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 28 November 1912, “To my dear friend Mrs. A. Porterfield, with compliments of the author, Chas. A. Siringo,” in publisher’s pale bluish green cloth, blocked in gold, 7 1/2 x 5 in. $500-700 1247 Spanish Colonial Silver Book Clasp and Catch, probably 18th century, side with hinge bearing marks “K” and conjoined “MM” to clasp, reticulated, each with the symbol of the Sacred Heart within foliate scrollwork, total lg. 8 3/8 in., approx. 2.7 troy oz. $150-250

1248 Stereoscopic Views, Approximately Eighty-two. Approximately fifty-five Keystone View Company cards, with clear glossy black-and-white photos mounted on gray cards with subjects ranging from manufacture in the U.S., North American Indians, to views in Europe and the Far West, and other subjects, housed in a contemporary strapped case; six personal Keystone Views, showing a family and their two young daughters; and approximately twenty-one additional cards produced by different companies, including the American Stereoscopic Co., the Universal Photo Art Co., B.W. Kilburn, Underwood & Underwood, International Stereoscopic View Co., and others, depicting theatrical scenes, Europe, Japan, religious scenes, including a tableau vivant of the crucifixion, Cuba, Palestine, Ceylon, “A Father’s Solemn Duty, Galveston Disaster,” two views from the aftermath of the San Francisco earthquake of 1906, two from Yosemite, and others. $400-600 1249 Stowe, Harriet Beecher (1811-1896) Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly. Boston: John P. Jewett & Co.; Cleveland, Ohio: Jewett, Proctor, & Worthington, 1852. First edition, first issue, with imprint of Hobart & Robbins on the copyright page, with Stowe’s clipped signature laid into volume one, two octavo volumes, bound in uniform decorated brown crushed morocco by Tallibart, ex libris Nicholas Frederic Brady (1878-1930) with his bookplate, 7 1/2 x 4 1/2 in. (2) $3,000-4,000 1250 Strauss, David Friedrich (1808-1874) Life of Jesus, Translated by George Eliot (1819-1880). London: Chapman Brothers, 1846. Three octavo volumes, the first work in print from George Eliot, bound in uniform contemporary calf, rebacked, rubbed and worn, lacking labels, corners worn through, 8 1/2 x 5 in. $1,000-1,500

1251 Swasey, William F. (1824-1897) The Early Days and Men of California, Signed Copy. Oakland, California: Pacific Press Publishing Co., 1891. Octavo, inscribed on ffep to George Dahlbender, “from his friend W.F. Swasey, author” San Francisco, 17 October 1894; with contemporary rubber stamp of German apothecary Geo. Dahlbender & Co. Druggists on Kearny Street in San Francisco on title; bound in publisher’s turquoise cloth, somewhat shaken, the binding slightly discolored, 8 3/4 x 5 1/2 in. $600-800 1252 Swinburne, Algernon Charles Studies in Song, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson’s [aka Lewis Carroll’s] (1832-1898) Copy. London: Chatto & Windus, 1880. First edition, octavo, with Dodgson’s signature dated 1886 on ffep, in publisher’s green cloth, front board in gilt rules, spine gilt lettered and decorated, shelf wear, 7 1/2 x 4 3/4 in. $2,000-3,000 1253 Taft, William Howard (1857-1930) Photograph Signed, 20 August 1912. Black-and-white portrait of Taft taken by Harris & Ewing of Washington, D.C., inscribed to Franklin Crane in the blank margin, signed and dated, in a period frame, 10 1/2 x 7 in. $150-250 1254 Tasso, Torquato (1544-1595) La Girusalemme Libertata. Milan: Fratelli Treves, 1924. Folio, in an exhibition binding by A. Genova of Venice, a facsimile copy of the 1745 edition, illustrated in color, housed in binder’s custom slipcase, the binding elaborately gilt over front board and spine with leather onlays, back board tooled in blind, t.e.g., watered silk endleaves and pastedowns, 11 x 7 1/4 in. $300-500

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1244 Shackleton, Sir Ernest Henry (18741922) The Heart of the Antarctic. London: Heinemann, 1909. First edition, two large quarto volumes, frontispieces in each volume, illustrated with twelve color plates, many black-and-white illustrations from photographs, three folding maps and a folding panorama in the pocket at the end of volume two, publisher’s blue cloth, blocked in silver, t.e.g., uncut, spines and portions of boards faded, 9 3/4 x 7 in. (2) $250-350

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1254A The Nurseryman’s Pocket Specimen Book, Colored from Nature, Fruits, Flowers, Ornamental Trees, Shrubs, Roses, &c. Rochester, New York: D.M. Dewey [Keeler & Winfield Steam Job Printers], 1876. Landscape-format octavo, title printed in red and black, two-panel full page chromolithographic plate showing “As it is: An Unpleasant Home, before patronizing the nurseryman,” and “As it will be: A Pleasant Home, after patronizing the tree dealers,” and approximately seventy prints in color printed through chromolithography, many hand finished, ex libris John Dixon’s Nursery, Geneva, New York, with stamps on endleaves, and in their custom binding, sewing faulty, loose leaves, front board detached, 9 x 5 1/2 in. $1,000-1,500

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1255 The Parables of Our Lord, Illumination by Henry Noel Humphreys (1810-1879). New York: Appleton, 1848. Octavo, printed in fullcolor and gilt lithography throughout, bound in one of the first papier-mâché bindings designed to look like carved ebony, in panels, with “Scripture Parables” on a ribbon in the center compartment, rebacked, with the original leather spine laid down, front endleaves detached, sewing weak, 6 1/2 x 4 1/2 in. $300-500 1256 The Present State of Jamaica. With the Life of the Great Columbus the First Discoverer: to which is Added an Exact Account of Sir. Hen. Morgan’s Voyage to, and famous Siege and Taking of Panama. London: by Fr. Clark for Tho. Malthus, 1683. First and only edition, 12mo, ex libris Captain Alfred Mitchell (18321911) (builder of the Mitchell Great House, now a famous ruin in Port Antonio, Jamaica) with his bookplate inside the front board, bound in full later red morocco by Ramage & Co., boards detached, margins trimmed close, cropping the first line of the separate title for the section on Henry Morgan, and a few catchwords, 5 1/4 x 3 in. $2,000-3,000

1257 The Tres Riches Heures of Jean, Duke of Berry; Les Tres Riches Heures de Duc de Berry, Facsimile. New York: Abrams [and] Lucern: Faksimile-Verlag, [1984]. Two folio volumes, limited edition of 980 copies, text volume edited by Raymond Cazelles, bound in half red leather and green silk boards; facsimile volume printed in full color throughout, with metallic inks, bound in full red morocco, tooled in gilt, in very good condition, the two volumes housed in a Lucite box, 11 1/2 x 8 in. (2) $1,200-1,500 1258 Theatre Biography, Four Titles in Five Volumes, All Signed. William Winter’s Life and Art of Richard Mansfield, New York: Moffat, Yard & Co., 1910, in two volumes; Edward H. Sothern’s The Melancholy Tale of “Me,” New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1916; W.J. Lawrence’s The Life of Gustavus Vaughan Brooke, Belfast: W. & G. Baird, 1892; [and] Mary Anderson de Navarro’s A Few More Memories, London: Hutchinson & Co., [1936], with the dust jacket, inscribed, with five autograph letters signed by the author inserted; all octavo, all signed by the author. (5) $300-500 1259 Third Annual Report of the Board of Commissioners of the Central Park. New York: Bryant, 1860. Octavo, illustrated with frontispiece, eight full-page plates, three folding plates, and the colored folding map, contents good, in the original dark green blind stamped cloth binding, metal foil stamped title on front board, 9 x 5 1/2 in. Provenance: The collection of Percy MacKaye (1875-1956), by descent to Marion MacKaye Ober. $200-300 1260 Twain, Mark (1835-1910) Two First Editions. A Tramp Abroad, Hartford, Connecticut: American Publishing Co., 1880, in publisher’s brown cloth, stamped in gold; [and] Mark Twain’s Sketches, New and Old, Hartford, Connecticut: American Publishing Co. 1875, in publisher’s blue cloth boards, stamped in black and gold, slightly cocked, inner joint beginning to split, 8 1/2 x 6 1/4 in. (2) $150-250

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1261 Underground Comics, Five Issues, 1967. Three issues of The East Village Other, volume 2, numbers 7, 9, and 16, published in March, April, and July, 1967; David Auten and Brian Zahn’s Yarrowstalks Philadelphia, July, 1967 number 2, featuring the second print appearance of R. Crumb’s (b. 1943) Head Comix; [and] a single issue of Zodiac Mind Warp, various sizes. (5) $300-400 1262 Updike, John (1932-2009) Five First Editions (Two Signed). Rabbit, Run, New York: Knopf, 1960, stated first edition, signed by Updike on ffep, in half morocco; Assorted Prose, New York: Knopf, 1965, stated first edition, very good, in original dust jacket; On the Farm, New York: Knopf, 1965, stated first edition, very good, in the jacket; Rabbit Redux, New York: Knopf, 1971, stated first edition, in the original dust jacket; [and] SelfConsciousness, New York: Knopf, 1989, signed and inscribed, stated first edition, very good, in publisher’s jacket, all octavo. (5) Provenance: The estate of Stratford W. Carter, Boston, Massachusetts. $150-250


1264 Vicars, John (1580-1652) Gods Arke Overtopping the Worlds Waves, or the Third Part of the Parliamentary Chronicle. London: by Simons and Macock, 1646. First edition, quarto, original calf boards, rebacked with a gilt-decorated spine, two leaves shorter at the fore-edge, 7 1/4 x 5 1/2 in. $400-600

1265 Victorian Photo Album. Including approximately seventy-eight photographs, mostly carte-de-visites, some tintypes, depicting typical family groups, some of interest, depicting a man with a guitar, cart and horse, John Wilkes Booth, and a few Civil War soldiers in uniform, including an officer from Arkansas, taken by William Brown, photograph of the Army of Arkansas; binding failed, one board missing, 7 1/2 x 5 1/4 in. $300-500 1266 Wahlen, Auguste [aka Jean François Nicolas Loumyer] (1801-1875) Moeurs, Usages, et Costumes de Tous Peuples du Monde: Oceanie. Brussels: a la Librairie HistoriqueArtistique, 1843. Large octavo, volume four only of a four volume set, illustrated with hand-colored vignette to title and approximately thirty-four hand-colored full page illustrations, sold as a collection of plates, bound in contemporary half leather, worn, 10 x 6 1/2 in. $300-500 1267 Wallace, Alfred Russel (1813-1923) A Narrative of Travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro. London: Reeve & Co., 1853. First edition, octavo, illustrated with a tinted lithographic frontispiece, full-page map, and eight numbered full-page plates, and folding table, no advertisements, bound in later half leather, textured cloth boards, 8 3/4 x 5 1/2 in. $2,000-3,000 1268 Wallace, Alfred Russel (1813-1923) The Malay Archipelago. London: Macmillan & Co., 1869. First edition, two octavo volumes, each with halftitles, illustrated with a frontispiece and title vignette in each volume, two folding plates and eight full page illustrations, no advertisements, bound in half leather and textured cloth boards, 7 1/2 x 4 3/4 in. (2) “On the basis of artistic format, literary style, and scientific merit, it is clearly one of the finest scientific travel books ever written.” (Dictionary of Scientific Biography). $2,000-3,000

1269 Wells, Herbert George (1866-1946) Four Titles: Three Signed, One with Autograph Letter Signed. Including: The Stolen Bacillus, and Other Incidents, London: Methuen & Co., 1895, with autograph letter signed 23 August 1909, wherein he mentions that an active imagination may be useful in the warfare of the future, and that writing has kept his imagination very much alive, the book in blue publisher’s cloth, housed in a custom box; Tono-Bungay, London: Macmillan & Co., 1909, inscribed on half-title, in publisher’s green cloth; The History of Mr. Polly, London: Thomas Nelson & Sons, [1910], signed on title page, bound in publisher’s green cloth; [and] The Autocracy of Mr. Parham, London: Heinemann, [1930], signed on ffep, in publisher’s red cloth, all octavo. (4) $1,000-2,000 1270 Wesley, John (1703-1791) and Charles (1707-1788) Hymns and Sacred Poems. Philadelphia: Andrew & William Bradford, and sold for the Benefit of the Poor in Georgia, 1740. First and only American edition, rare, two copies only listed in ESTC http://estc.bl.uk/W8870; bound in full contemporary speckled calf, some damage to spine repaired with homespun stitchery, structurally sound, rubbed, boards somewhat reflexed, abrasions, leather split along spine, joints dry; spotting to contents, 6 3/4 x 3 1/2 in. This rare early American Methodist imprint was published five years after John and Charles Wesley traveled to America on a mission to Native American Indians in Georgia. $300-500

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1263 Varia: Children’s, Illustrated, Erotica, Cookbook, Limited and Signed, Eight Volumes. How to Do Things Well and Cheap for Domestic Use by One Who Knows, Boston: Tappan, 1845, cookbook, 66 pages, original half leather, 3 1/2 x 5 7/8 in.; Eleanor Estes’ Rufus M., New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., [1943] with roman numeral I on copyright page, with original tattered dust jacket, 8 x 5 1/4 in.; Alice Dalgliesh’s The Silver Pencil, New York: Scribner’s Sons, 1944, first edition, illustrated by Katherine Milhous, in the original jacket, 8 x 5 1/4 in.; Gordon Eli Hall’s A Balloon Ascension at Midnight, San Francisco: Paul Elder & Morgan Shepard, 1902, with silhouettes by Gordon Ross, limited edition, one of thirty copies printed on Imperial Japan vellum and signed by author and illustrator, bound in publisher’s green suede binding, blocked in gold, fading, 9 1/2 x 6 1/4 in.; Balzac’s The Girl with the Golden Eyes, Chicago: Peacock Press, 1928, illustrated by Donald Denton with eight plates, each presented twice: in blackand-white and in full color, with the original dust jacket, very good, 9 1/4 x 6 in.; Paul Southworth Bliss’s The Rye is the Sea, Bismarck, North Dakota: the Cirrus Co., 1936, illustrated by Harold J. Matthews, hand-bound in publisher’s burlap, blocked in brown, 10 x 8 in.; Kay Thompson’s Eloise in Moscow, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1959, stated first printing, in tattered original jacket, binding worn at head and tail with loss, 11 x 7 1/2 in.; [and] Job and G. Montorgueil’s Bonaparte, Paris: Boivin & Co., 1910, large color illustrations throughout, publisher’s multicolor pictorial cloth binding, torn at head of spine, rubbed, corners soft, 14 1/4 x 11 1/4 in. (8) $300-500

1271 Whitman, Walt (1819-1892) Song of a Broad Axe. Philadelphia: Centaur Press, 1924. First edition in this format, large quarto, the first book printed at the Centaur Press, illustrated with woodcuts by Wharton H. Esherick (1887-1970), limited edition, copy 154 of 400, in the original dust jacket, with Esherick’s bold woodcut design; some wear, binding somewhat shaken, 11 x 8 in. $600-800

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1272 Whitman, Walt (1819-1892) Two Rivulets, Signed Presentation Copy. Camden, New Jersey: Author’s Edition, 1876. First edition, with the inscription, “Clement Templeton from the author,” on yellow ffep in Whitman’s hand, mounted photographic portrait frontispiece autographed by Whitman at the foot, three caption lines beneath the portrait, blank leaf before Memoranda During the War, single leaf of advertisement after the text beginning with the phrase, “Autograph and Portrait Edition of Walt Whitman’s Complete Works,” bound in full modern green calf, gilt spine, red and blue lettering pieces, in very good condition, housed in a custom slipcase, 7 1/2 x 4 1/2 in. $1,500-2,500

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1273 Williams, Hugh William (17731829) Select Views in Greece with Classical Illustrations. London: Longman, Rees, et al., 1829. Two large quarto volumes, illustrated with sixtyfour engravings printed on India paper and laid down, as issued; bound in uniform contemporary red sheepskin, tools ornately gilt, with labels, marbled paper boards; the leather peeling, spotting to contents, 11 3/4 x 9 1/4 in. (2) $150-250 1274 Williams, Tennessee (1911-1983) A Streetcar Named Desire. New York: New Directions, [1947]. First edition, in the original dust jacket, with “Eunice” and “A Negro Woman” on the list of characters and actors; and “Stella” instead of Blanche on page 161; inner flaps of dust jacket abraded, dust jacket spine and front board slightly sun faded, other minor imperfections to jacket, 9 x 5 3/4 in. $500-700 1275 Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963) A Novelette and Other Prose (19211931) to Publishers. Toulon, France: Imprimerie F. Cabasson, 1932. First edition, octavo, in original limp printed paper wraps, contents toned, 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 in. $300-400

1276 Winthrop, John (1588-1649) Two Titles. Relation of a Voyage from Boston to Newfoundland, for the Observation of the Transit of Venus, June 6, 1761, Boston: Edes & Gill, 1761, [and] Two Lectures on the Parallax and Distance of the Sun, as Deducible from the Transit of Venus, Boston: Edes & Gill, 1769, both octavo pamphlets, in later bindings. (2) $1,500-2,000 1277 Woolf, Virginia (1882-1942) The Common Reader. London: by Leonard & Virginia Woolf, at the Hogarth Press, 1925. First edition, in the original dust jacket, publisher’s cloth spine, paper boards, illustrations on front board and dust jacket by Woolf’s sister Vanessa Bell (18791961); jacket chipped with loss, with small water stain and surface grime, 8 1/2 x 5 1/4 in. $250-350 1278 Yale College Yearbook, Class of 1869. Folio-format album containing approximately ninety-four photographs of Yale College buildings interior and exterior, professors, and students, many signed, some damage to some pages, with discoloration and stains to some pages, binding perished, both board detached, 12 3/4 x 10 in. $1,000-1,500 1279 Alken, Henry (1785-1851) Original Signed Drawing. Small vignette finished in watercolor depicting a hapless man who has stepped on a cat’s tail, after tripping over the dog; the cat has dug her claws into the man’s leg, and he is helplessly pouring scalding water on himself and the dog below from the kettle, while a woman seated at the tea table voices her disapproval; signed in the lower left; on wove paper, mellow palette, trimmed close, short tear to lower right corner; titled, “Modes of Love” on the verso of the mat, tacked along the edges to mat board, framed, 3 3/4 x 3 1/2 in. $600-800

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1280 Andrews, Henry Charles (fl. 17941830) Six Hand-colored Botanical Engravings. [from] The Botanist’s Repository. Each print matted and framed, including the following plants: Gladiolus crispus, Eriospermum foilioliferum; Helonias bullata, Morea northiana [aka Neomarica northiana], Protea lagopus [aka Paranomus spicatus], and Iris longifolia, 10 1/4 x 7 1/2 in. (6) $400-600 1281 Architectural Line Drawings, Two Framed. French architectural drawings, c. 1920, finished in gray watercolors, one depicting a “Monument aux Artistes Francais,” the other showing an unidentified structure that may be a mausoleum, each matted and framed, 24 1/2 x 19 in. (2) $700-900 1282 Audubon, John James (1785-1851) American Cross Fox, Plate VI. [from] The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America. Philadelphia: J.T. Bowen, 1843. Hand-colored lithograph, imperial folio, matted and framed, signs of handling, sheet slightly toned, 27 x 21 1/4 in. Provenance: The estate of Samuel Parkman Shaw, Jr., Brookline, Massachusetts. $400-600 1283 Audubon, John James (1785-1851) American Cross Fox, Plate VI. [from] The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America. Philadelphia: J.T. Bowen, 1843. Hand-colored lithograph, imperial folio, toned, reverse mat burn, some spotting and foxing, some adhesive remnants clinging to outer margins on verso, 27 1/2 x 20 in. $150-250 1284 Audubon, John James (1785-1851) American Flamingo. [from] The Birds of America, New York: Bien, 1860. Double elephant folio chromolithograph on wove paper, formerly folded in half, 29 x 26 1/4 in. $10,000-15,000


1290 Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Cervus Leucurus, Long Tailed Deer, Plate CXVIII. [from] The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America. Philadelphia: J.T. Bowen, 1847. Hand-colored lithograph, imperial folio, matted and framed, the sheet toned, some vertical striated discolorations to upper left back ground, some creasing, 27 x 20 3/4 sight. $1,000-2,000

1286 Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Bridled Weasel and Little American Brown Weasel, Plates LX and LXIV. [from] The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America. Philadelphia: J.T. Bowen, 1845. Hand-colored lithographs, imperial folio, each framed; spotting, old mat burn, short tears, 27 1/2 x 21 1/2 and 26 1/2 x 20 in. (2) $300-500

1291 Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Columbia Pouched Rat, Plate CV. [from] The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America. Philadelphia: J.T. Bowen, 1846. Hand-colored lithograph, imperial folio, matted and framed, some spotting to background, 28 x 21 in.

1287 Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Broad-winged Hawk, Plate 91. [from] The Birds of America. London: Havell, 1827-38. Double elephant folio sheet, hand-colored copperplate engraving, J. Whatman watermark dated 1830, the sheet toned, chipped with loss in upper left , short tears, old mounting to verso foot, trimmed to the imprint in the lower right, small hole punched through the sheet below the tail of the bird on the left with attendant tears, minor loss to surface, one other small hole, colors faded, unframed, 27 1/4 x 25 in. $3,000-4,000 1288 Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Brown Pelican. [from] The Birds of America, New York: Bien, 1860. Double elephant folio chromolithograph on wove paper, formerly folded in half, 29 x 26 1/4 in. $5,000-7,000 1289 Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Buff Breasted Sandpiper, Plate CCLXV. [from] The Birds of America, London: Havell for the Author, 1835. Double elephant folio sheet, handcolored engraving with aquatint and etching, J. Whatman watermark, 1835; framed, some spotting and foxing, colors faded, 37 1/2 x 25 in. $1,000-1,500

Provenance: The estate of Samuel Parkman Shaw, Jr., Brookline, Massachusetts. $100-150 1292 Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Common Gull, Plate CCXII. [from] The Birds of America. London: Havell, 1827-38. Double-elephant folio engraving, hand-colored, printed on wove paper with J. Whatman Turkey Mill watermark dated 1834, some fading, clean tear in blank margin, 38 x 25 in. $1,500-2,000 1293 Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Fox-coloured Sparrow, Plate CVIII. [from] The Birds of America, London: Havell for the Author, 1835. Plate from the double-elephant folio trimmed to half-sheet size, hand-colored engraving with aquatint and etching, matted and framed, 19 1/2 x 12 in. $500-700 1294 Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Loggerhead Shrike, Plate 57; [and] Bay-winged Bunting, Plate 94. [from] The Birds of America. London: Havell, 1827-38. Two prints from the double elephant folio, both trimmed down and framed; the shrike with brown, water stains, discoloration and fading, 25 1/4 x 20 1/4 in.; the bunting with toning, signs of handling, rumpling of the sheet, and spots, 22 1/2 x 15 in. $600-800

1295 Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Long Billed Curlew. Plate CCXXXI. [from] The Birds of America. London: Havell, 1827-1838. Double-elephant folio hand-colored engraving, printed on J. Whatman Turkey Mill paper watermarked 1834; male and female birds in the foreground, with the city of Charleston, South Carolina in the background; faded, with losses mainly to the greens in the marsh weeds and the blues in the sky; the birds themselves a russet brown; spotting, framed, the sheet 37 1/2 x 24 3/4 in. $55,000-65,000 1296 Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Mallard Duck. [from] The Birds of America, New York: Bien, 1860. Double elephant folio chromolithograph on wove paper, formerly folded in half, 29 x 26 1/4 in. $4,000-6,000 1297 Audubon, John James (17851851) Pied Duck, Plate CCCXXXII. [from] The Birds of America. London: Havell, 1827-1838. Double elephant folio hand-colored engraving on J. Whatman paper watermarked 1837, the rocks faded, with blues still present in the feet of the birds; background sky done in a solid blue, some retouching, older vertical fold, matted and framed, 36 x 24 in. $3,000-4,000 1298 Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Pouched Jerboa Mouse [and] Canada Pouched Rat, Plate CXXX. [from] The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America. Philadelphia: J.T. Bowen, 1847 and 1844. Two handcolored lithographs, imperial folio, unframed, edges toned, each 27 1/4 x 21 1/4 in. (2) $100-150

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1285 Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Black Bellied Darter, Plate 316. [from] The Birds of America. London: Havell, 1827-38. Hand-colored double elephant folio print on wove paper, mounted to board, the background toned, colors faded, small abrasion to surface in lower right with loss, likely from glass breakage, 37 3/4 x 25 1/4 in. $20,000-25,000

1299 Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Red-shouldered Hawk, Plate 9. [from] The Birds of America. London: Havell, 1827-38. Double elephant folio sheet, hand-colored copperplate engraving, J. Whatman Turkey Mill watermark, the sheet toned, formerly in contact with acidic backing, 24 1/2 x 37 in. $4,000-5,000

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1300 Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Snow Goose, Plate CCCLXXXI. [from] The Birds of America. London: Havell, 1827-38. Hand-colored engraving with aquatint, printed on J. Whatman watermark, dated 1837, colors faded, with loss of reds and pinks, framed, 39 1/2 x 26 in. $5,000-7,000

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1301 Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Texan Lynx, Female, Plate XCII. [from] The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America. Philadelphia: J.T. Bowen, 1839-44. Hand-colored lithograph, imperial folio, color slightly faded, matted and framed, no obvious faults to the sheet, not examined out of frame, 24 x 19 in. sight. $300-500

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1302 Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Three Prints: Little Auk, Shore Lark, [and] Arvicola. [from] The Birds of America. London: Havell, 1827-38 [and] The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America. New York: Audubon, 1848. The two bird prints cut down from their original sheet size, fading, the Arvicola with toning and spotting, each separately framed. (3) $300-400 1303 Audubon, John James (17851851) Three Quadruped Prints, Say’s Least Shrew, Lecontes Pine Mouse, [and] Townsend’s Shrew Mole. Plates LXX, LXXX and CXLV. [from] The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America. Philadelphia: J.T. Bowen, 1845 and 1848, hand-colored lithographs, imperial folio, each framed; some rippling of paper, short tears, various sizes. (3) $300-500 1304 Audubon, John James (17851851) Wild Turkey. [from] The Birds of America, New York: Bien, 1860. Double elephant folio chromolithograph on wove paper, formerly folded in half, 29 x 26 1/4 in. $6,000-9,000

1305 Bird Prints, Nineteen. A group of hand-colored illustrations of birds, including Glottis Canescens, by J. Gould and H.C. Richter, impensis Walter; plate XL from William Frederic Martyn’s A New Dictionary of Natural History, London: Harrison, 1785, a hand-colored engraving of ducks and a shell; The Great Black Duck from Hudson’s Bay, from George Edwards’ A Natural History of Uncommon Birds, 1749, hand-colored; fourteen handcolored plates from the Encyclopaedia Londinensis, c. 1826; and two mid19th century hand-colored prints of Scoters. (19) $300-500 1306 Blatas, Arbit (1908-1999) Hommage a L’Ecole de Paris. Tappan, New York [and] Paris: Graphophile Associates, 1962. Limited edition, number 75 of 350 published from the fourteen original lithographic stones, each printed, signed, and numbered by the artist; in the original portfolio blue, white, and red striped publisher’s portfolio; the introduction leaves bound into the portfolio, the prints loose, as issued, 19 1/2 x 13 in. $1,000-1,200 1307 Botanical Watercolors, Nine Illustrations. Each matted and framed, painted on laid paper, some with text in ink beneath, depicting hyacinth, poppies, iris, scabiosa, amaranth, tulip, and salvia, sizes vary. (9) $1,000-1,500 1308 Capetown and the Cape of Good Hope, Five Framed Views. Including two folding colored lithographic plates taken from William J. Burchell’s Travels in the Interior of South Africa, London: Longman, et al., 1822; plate one, A View of cape Town, Table Bay, & Tygerberg, and plate eight, A View of Klaarwater looking towards the North-east; Le Cap de Bonne Esperance, Paris: Chereau, [18th century] hand-colored engraving; Cape of Good Hope: an American trader, Danish trader, Country trader, Arniston East Indiaman. Rattle Snake sloop, drawn on the spot by C. Thomas of the Ceres, engraved by S. Rawle, London, [18th century] hand-colored engraving; and Kowie, looking Seaward, after T.W. Bowler, F. Jones lithographer, London: Day & Son, 1864, hand-colored lithograph, various sizes, each framed. $250-350

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1309 Capp, Al [aka Alfred Gerald Caplin] (1909-1979) Original Drawing for Li’l Abner; and Darrell McClure (19031987) Original Drawing, Navigators Who Learned their Trade in the Navy. The Li’l Abner cartoon dated 19 June 1948, depicting a visit made by Abner and Pappy’s to see Ole Man Mose; signed by Capp and dated, with the United Feature Syndicate panel, camera ready art, framed, 22 1/2 x 7 in.; [and] McClure’s cartoon, making light of a sailor taking a reading with a sextant while hanging overboard and being held in this outrigger position by his shipmates, a little dirty, matted and framed, 10 x 4 3/4 in. $200-300 1310 Catesby, Mark (1683-1749) Two Bird Prints. Bufflehead duck and blue-wing teal, each engraved, hand-colored, matted and framed, plates 95 and 99 from Catesby’s Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands; 13 1/4 x 10 1/4 in. sight. (2) $600-800 1311 Catherwood, Frederick (1799-1854) New York. Taken from the North west Angle of Fort Columbus, Governors Island. New York: Henry I. Megarey, 1846. Large engraving after Catherwood by Henry A. Papprill (1817-1896), hand-colored, matted and framed, fading, 30 x 22 in. $1,200-1,800 1312 Eudora Welty (1909-2001) Signed Photo Keep Off Grass, 1930-39. Silver gelatin photograph, number 240 of 400 numbered in pencil, lower left margin; signed in pencil by Welty in lower right margin, the sheet 11 x 14, the image 8 1/2 x 12 in. $400-600 1313 Ferrari, Giovanni Battista (15841655) Aurantium Flore Duplici, Plate 391. [from] Hesperides, sive, De Malorum Aureorum, Cultura et Usu. Rome: Scheus, 1646. Single handcolored copper-plate engraving on laid paper, matted and framed, 13 x 9 in. $200-250


1315 Hawley, Pete (1916-1975) Three Paintings, Animals Subjects. Acrylic paintings on board depicting: a kitten and mouse dressed for an Old Weststyle showdown, watching a Western on television and sharing a bowl of popcorn; a smaller sketch for the same subject this time with a dog, mouse, and white girl kitten watching a stagecoach raid on television while eating popcorn; the third showing a man riding a camel, the camel is kissing him on the nose, various sizes. (3) $600-800 1316 Hawley, Pete (1916-1975) Two Paintings Featuring Children. Acrylic paintings on board, the first portraying toddlers in the roles of adults, a boss with a sexy secretary in his lap is startled by his toddler wife; the other shows two delighted nude children riding around a sprinkler in a tricycle pulling a wagon, various sizes. (2) $600-800 1317 Heath, William (1795-1840) The Man Wots Got the Whip Hand of ‘Em All [and] Don’t Say Nay, Charming Judy Flanagan. London: Thomas McLean, 1829 & 1828. Two small folio etchings, hand-colored, matted and framed, the first print, depicting the animated Stanhope printing press, is in very good condition, the other, with Judy Flanagan, has some staining, toning, finger marks, and has come free from its mount within the frame, each 13 1/4 x 9 1/4 in. (2) $600-800

1318 Manuscript Leaf, from an Antiphonarium or Antiphoner. Parchment leaf with nine four-line staves on each side, one large initial done in colors, the others alternating in red and blue, the text containing a number of chants for Shrove Sunday, Sexagesima Sunday, and other services, some toning and discoloration, in a double-glazed frame, 16 1/4 x 12 in. $200-300 1319 Pillement, Jean-Baptiste (1728-1808) Livre de Chinois Inventé et Dessiné par Jean Pillement et Gravé par P.C. Canot. London: [no printer], 1758. Landscape octavo, all leaves engraved; illustrations after Pillement by PierreCharles Canot (c. 1710–77); disbound, the leaves consisting of the title and six (of seven) full-page illustrations, 9 1/4 x 6 in. $200-400 1320 Private Signals of the Merchants of Boston. Boston: Kramer & Cos., [c. 1855]. Large chromolithographic poster depicting the 112 colorful flags of Boston merchants and underwriters, and dedicated to them by John T. Smith, printed in colors and metallic gold ink, matted and framed, some tears repaired, losses to top right corner and top blank margin, repaired, without loss to the image, 40 x 29 in. $600-800 1321 Scrapbook c. 1867 with Early Photograph and Other Clippings. Ownership inscription of Annie Eliza Scott Jervis (1834-1915) on ffep, dated Naples, March 1867, containing a collection of prints, poems, notes on grammar, original sketches, and other material typical of the genre and era; and some connections to early photography viz., an early undated photographic portrait of a young Annie Jervis; a label from a Rouen manufacturer of a fish-based gelatin used in photography; an early photograph of feathers similar to the photogenic drawings produced by William Henry Fox Talbot (1800–1877) titled, “my first attempt at photography, May 1839”; and a notice of Edward Palmer’s Glyphography; or Engraved Drawing, the pages loose, binding coming apart, 7 1/4 x 6 in. $800-1,200

1322 Shakespeare Illustrations from the Boydell Gallery, Six Prints. The images taken from A Collection of Prints from Pictures Painted for the Purpose of Illustrating the Dramatic Works of Shakespeare by the Artists of Great Britain, London: John and Josiah Boydell, 1803; including the following subjects: Brutus and the Ghost of Caesar, act IV, scene III; the Tempest, act I, scene I; Richard II’s coronation, act IV, scene I; King Henry VIII, showing the Queen and her women with Cardinal Wolsey, act III, scene I; Love’s Labours Lost, act IV, scene I; and the surrender of Calais; toned, the paper somewhat brittle, chipping, various sizes. $400-600 1323 Smith, Elmer Boyd (1860-1943) Three Original Illustrations for The Last of the Mohicans. Three original watercolor illustrations prepared for the 1910 Holt edition of James Fenimore Cooper’s The Last of the Mohicans, including the one captioned, “The scout resumed his post in the advance,” each illustration matted and framed, 14 x 8 3/4 in. (3) $500-700 1324 Varia: Three Botanicals; One Map; Twelve Text Leaves. Two handcolored woodcut botanical illustrations removed from an 18th century German text: rapuntzeln and walwurz; an uncolored woodcut from a different German botanical: klein basilien; a hand-colored map of Columbia from a New York atlas from 1834; and twelve leaves from a folio-format Latin edition of the works of Vesalius, with woodcut initials on some leaves. $200-300

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1314 Gould, John (1804-1881) Three Framed Bird Prints. Color lithographs uniformly framed: Ptilonorhynchus Violaceus, the satin bowerbird after Gould by William Matthew Hart (1830-1908); Casuarius Australis, the Australian Cassowary after Gould by Henry Constantine Richter (1821-1902); and Cinclus Aquaticus, white-throated dipper or European water ouzel; each uniformly matted and framed. $400-600

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1325 Washington, George (1732-1799) Hand-colored Engraved Portrait on Silk, Le General Washington. Paris: Le Mire, 1782. Engraving of Washington at camp, printed on silk and hand-colored, bottom portion lost, with legend and imprint information trimmed away, fragmentary at top left corner, and along left side; text at the foot difficult to read; engraved by Noel Le Mire (1724-1800) after Jean Baptiste Le Paon (1738-1785), after Charles Willson Peale (1741-1827), 14 1/2 x 11 in. Charles Willson Peale had painted four different life portraits of Washington by 1782. The French artist Jean Baptiste Le Paon borrowed Peale’s depiction of the man from the 1776 portrait owned by the Marquis de La Fayette at the time, and now held at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. Le Paon added the tent, landscape, soldiers in the distance, Washington’s attendant William Lee, and notably, littered the ground in front of Washington’s feet with torn and trampled British proclamations and bills meant to control the colony. In his right hand, Washington holds the Declaration of Independence and the Treaty of Alliance with France. $1,000-1,500 1326 Wolf, Joseph (1820-1899) Zoological Sketches. London: Henry Graves & Co., [1861-67]. Folio, loose sheets as issued, comprising the illustrated color lithographic title page, list of plates, list of subscribers, and sixteen colored lithographs with accompanying text leaves, titles printed in metallic ink: Stanger’s Monkey, or Pluto Monkey; the Lion; the Painted Ocelot; the Eyra; the Serval; the Caracal; the Grey Fox; the Syrian Bear; the Leuoryx Antelope (Oryx); the Saker Falcon; the Hippopotamus; the Tylacine; the Japanese Pheasant; the Mooruk (Cassowary Bird); Mantell’s Apteryx; and the Black-Necked Swan; text leaves quite chipped, with losses to margins, the text for the Syrian Bear torn in half; title mounted on mat board, plates better preserved, with marginal finger smudges, edge toning, and the occasional closed marginal tear, some edge chipping, the plates 23 x 17 1/2 in. $1,000-1,500

1327 WWII, French Campaign in North Africa, Nine Posters. Algiers, c. 1943. Pour la France, Emprunt Africain by Gaston Ry [aka René Rostagny] (1902-1978), Algiers: Baconnier, 1943-44, featuring a bearded North African soldier in traditional garb riding a white horse, sword aloft, with fighter planes, warships, tanks, and soldiers in the background carrying the flags of France, Britain, and the United States, old folds, marginal chips, closed tears, 36 x 24 in.; three identical posters featuring French General Henri Honoré Giraud (1879-1949) in a portrait by Tona, printed in Algiers by Carbonel, with the phrase, “un seul but: la victoire,” 36 x 24 in.; Pour la France by Louis Fernez (1901-1983), Algiers: Baconnier, 1943, winged liberty calls to the fleet, old folds, closed tears, 36 x 24 in.; three text only posters from the Giraud campaign, featuring his signature slogan, varying sizes; [and] a small-format full-color poster from the Giraud campaign in Arabic, Algiers: Baconnier, 1943, with a portrait of Giraud topmost, and colorful graphic vignettes beneath, old folds, good color, 22 1/4 x 15 in. (9) $500-700 1328 Africa. Johannes Baptist Homann (1664-1724) Totius Africae Nova Repraesentatio. Nuremberg: Homann, 1715. Large double-page folio map, copper-plate engraving on laid paper with hand-coloring, cartouche uncolored, some slight spotting, 23 3/4 x 21 in. $200-250 1329 Asia Minor, the Middle East. Abraham Ortelius (1527-1598) Persici Sive Sophorum Regni Typus. Antwerp: Ortelius, 1579. Double folio engraved map on laid paper with handcoloring, from Ortelius’s Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, drawn from Gastaldi’s map of Asia Minor of 1564 and Ortelius’s 1567 map of Asia; matted and framed, 19 1/2 x 14 in. $250-300 1330 Atlas of the City of Boston. Philadelphia: Bromley, 1928. Folio, illustrated with thirty-seven handcolored maps, all mounted on linen backing, in publisher’s half cloth, 22 1/2 x 17 in. $200-250

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1331 Atlas of the City of New York; Borough of Manhattan, Volume Five: 145th St. to Spuyten Duyvil. Philadelphia: G.W. Bromley & Co., 1930. Large folio volume illustrated with large maps of Sugar Hill, Washington Heights, Hudson Heights, and Inwood, up to the Spuyten Duyvil Creek; illustrated in color throughout, with many pasted overlays representing the development of the city; each map on linen, with linen tabs throughout, worn, many annotations and emendations throughout the volume; worn, 22 1/2 x 16 1/2 in. As the city changed, the publisher would issue updated versions of individual sections of the maps, reflecting the demolition and construction of new buildings. $200-300 1332 Atlas of the City of New York; Borough of Manhattan, Volume Four: 110th Street to 145th Street. Philadelphia: G.W. Bromley & Co., 1930. Large folio volume illustrated with large maps of the upper thirty-five blocks of Manhattan above Central Park: Morningside Heights, Harlem, and East Harlem; illustrated in color throughout, with many pasted overlays representing the development of the city; each map on linen, with linen tabs throughout, worn, many annotations and emendations throughout the volume; worn, 22 1/2 x 16 1/2 in. As the city changed, the publisher would issue updated versions of individual sections of the maps, reflecting the demolition and construction of new buildings. $200-300 1333 Atlas of the City of New York; Borough of Manhattan, Volume Three: 59th Street to 110th Street. Philadelphia: G.W. Bromley & Co., 1930. Large folio volume illustrated with large maps of central Manhattan, east and west, with Central Park, illustrated in color throughout, with many pasted overlays representing the development of the city; each map on linen, with linen tabs throughout, worn, many annotations and emendations throughout the volume; worn, 22 1/2 x 16 1/2 in. As the city changed, the publisher would issue updated versions of individual sections of the maps, reflecting the demolition and construction of new buildings. $200-300


1335 Bermuda. Henricus Hondius (15971651) Mappa Aestivarum Insularum, alias Barmudas. Amsterdam: Hondius, 1653. Copperplate engraved map printed on folding folio sheet of laid paper, cartouches hand-colored, land masses outlined, text on the verso in French, some spotting, 22 1/2 x 19 in. $200-300 1336 Boston Harbor, Massachusetts from a Trigonometrical Survey under the direction of A.D. Bache, Superintendent of the Survey of the Coast of the United States. Washington: U.S. Coast Survey [Electrotype Copy No. 10 by G. Mathiot], 1863. Large chart printed on heavy paper, modified edition, based on the 1857 printing, with six land profiles along the bottom, detailed depiction of Boston area settlements and topography, and sailing directions in the upper right corner, old folds, some breaks in the paper where folds converge, framed, 37 x 29 1/4 in. $250-350 1337 Boston to Providence, Railroad Map. James Hayward (1786-1866) Plan of a Survey for the Proposed Boston and Providence Rail-Way, Two Copies. [Boston]: Annin & Smith, 1828. Engraved maps printed on three joined sheets of wove paper, with old folds, two copies, the earliest topographic map in the Library of Congress showing a railroad survey, 43 x 8 1/4 in. (2) $300-500

1339 Central Asia and Asiatic Russia: Siberia, China, Korea. Jodocus Hondius (1563-1612) Tartaria. Amsterdam, c. 1606. Double folio copper-plate engraved map printed on laid paper, hand-colored, matted and framed, 19 x 13 1/4 in. $300-500 1340 Connecticut. Griffith Morgan Hopkins (1799-1860) Clark & Tackaburys’ New Topographical Map of the State of Connecticut, Wall Map. Philadelphia: Clark & Tackabury, 1860. Very large wall map, mounted on linen and lightly shellacked, hand-colored, with wooden rod and molding present and intact, grosgrain ribbon binding missing from the vertical edges, 70 x 56 in. $700-900 1341 Constantinople, Damascus, Paris: Three Views. Including: Matthew Merian’s Constantinopolitanae Urbis Effigies ad Vivum Expressa, quam Turcae Stampoldam Vocant, engraved view of Constantinople from Pera, numbered index printed below the view, with twenty-nine sites identified, including Seraglio, St. Sophia, Suleiman’s Mosque, and others, Pera in the foreground is shown as walled city, many ships sail in the Golden Horn, older hand tinting, Frankfurt, dated 1635 in upper margin, may be c. 1646, printed on joined sheets, mounted, matted, and framed, 27 1/2 x 9 in.; Georg Braun and Franz Hogenberg’s Damascus, urbs nobilissima ad Libanum montem, Totius Syriae Metropolis, Cologne, 1588, hand-colored engraving, matted and framed, 14 1/4 x 13 in.; [and] a vue d’optique of Paris by JeanFrançois Daumont, c. 1750, Pons Sancti Michaelis, Parisiis, Le Pont de St. Michel a Paris, engraved, handcolored, matted and framed, 16 1/2 x 11 1/4 in. (3) $800-1,000

1342 Europe, Northern Ireland, and the East Indies: Five Framed Maps. Each is a hand-colored copperplate engraving on paper, framed: Herman Moll’s Principal Islands of the EastIndies, London, c. 1720, doublepage octavo, depicting Borneo, the Philippines, Sumatra, Java; Sebastian Munster’s Basiliensis Territorii Descriptio Nova, single page small folio map; Gerardus Mercator’s Miliaria Irlandica com, double-page folio map, with hand-outlining; Abraham Ortelius’s Pomeraniae, Wandalicae Regionis Typ; Livoniae Nova Descriptio; Ducatus Oswieczensis, et Zatoriensis, Descriptio, depicting Pomerania, Latvia, and part of Southern Poland above the Carpathian Mountains, from Ortelius’s Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, large folio double page, some discoloration, oxidation, spots; and Hondius’s Totius Rheni, ab eius capitibus ad oceanum usque Germanicum in quem se exonerat novißima descriptio, Amsterdam, 1632, double folio. (5) $800-1,200 1343 Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean, Central America: Two Framed Maps. Mappa Geographica complectens I. Indiam Occidentalem; II. Isthmum Panamensem; III. Ichnographiam praecipuorum locorum & portuum, by Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d’Anville (1697-1782), with insets of the ports of St. Augustine, Vera Cruz, San Domingo, the Bay of Panama, and a view of Mexico City; Nuremberg: Homann Heirs, [1740], copper-plate engraved map, hand-colored, framed, some old folds, fading, 23 1/2 x 19 1/2 in. [Together with] Carte GeoHydrographique du Golfe du Mexique, by Giovanni Antonio Rizzi-Zannoni (1736-1814) Paris: Lattre, 1771, engraved map on paper, hand outline color, faded, old folds, darkened along central vertical fold, slight marginal wormholes beyond the neat lines, 14 3/4 x 19 1/2 in. (2) $200-300

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1334 Atlas to Accompany the Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. Washington: Government Printing Office [Julius Bien], 1891 [-1895]. Folio, in thirty-five original parts, in publisher’s wraps, each saddle-stitched, illustrated throughout with 175 maps and elevations; the first and last volume with some water damage and chipping to covers, 18 1/2 x 15 in. (35) $1,000-1,500

1338 Boston. John Bonner (1643-1726) Facsimile of His 1722 Map, The Town of Boston in New England. Boston: George C. Smith, 1835. Folio engraved reproduction map based on the 1722 original, old tears, matted and framed, some surface discoloration, 24 1/2 x 18 in. $200-250

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1344 Hondius, Jodocus (1563-1612) Nova et Accurata Italiae Hodiernae Descriptio. Leiden: Elzevir, 1627. Oblong folio, illustrated with engraved title and 100 full page engraved maps and views, bound in full gilt-tooled leather, rebacked, new boards with old leather laid down, a careful restoration; extensive professional paper repairs throughout, ex libris Marcantonio Borghese, eighth Prince of Sulmona (1814-1886), with his bookplate pasted inside the front board, 10 3/4 x 8 1/2 in. $10,000-12,000

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1345 New England and New York. Francis Lamb (fl. 1667-1701) A Map of New England and New York. London: Thomas Basset and Richard Chiswell, [1676]. Double-page folio map, copperplate engraving on laid paper, text on the verso describing New England in English, with hand-outlining, matted and framed, 20 x 15 1/4 in. $2,500-3,500 1346 New England to the Carolinas. Robert de Vaugondy (1688-1766) Partie de l’Amerique Septentrionale. Paris: Vaugondy, 1755. Large doublepage folio hand-colored copperplate map on laid paper, with large cartouche, inset of coastal Carolina, matted and framed, 24 3/4 x 19 1/4 in. This map was produced just before the French and Indian War. $300-500 1347 New England, Coastal Chart. Cyprian Southack (1662-1745) A Correct Map of the Coast of New England. London: Mount and Page, 1737. Large, four-folio panel map, plate 13 from The English Pilot, fourth book, with an inset of Boston Harbor, water stains down the center and along the top edge, with losses along the top edge repaired, toned, old folds, matted and framed, 42 x 18 1/2 in. $300-500

1348 New England. Braddock Mead (c. 1688-1757) 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 panels printed by copperplate engraving on laid paper, hand-outlined, cartouche and inset of Boston uncolored, mounted, framed, 39 1/2 x 42 in. $3,000-5,000 1349 New England. Frontispiece Map from Cotton Mather’s Magnalia Christi, 1702. An Exact Mapp of New England and New York. London: Parkhurst, 1702. Small folio folding engraved map, mounted, loss to inner fold and section involving the top neat lines at Irocoise Lake, with loss, toning, matted and framed, 13 3/4 x 11 1/2 in. sight. $2,500-3,500 1350 New York State. Rand, McNally, & Co.’s Railroad, County and Township Map of New York, Showing Every Railroad Station and Post Office in the State. Chicago: Rand McNally, 1883. Large folding map, dissected and mounted on linen, outlined in color, in the original publisher’s green cloth folder, 34 1/2 x 31 in. $300-500 1351 North America, East Coast: Long Island to Isle Royale, Canada. Jacques Nicolas Bellin (1703-1772) Carte Reduite Des Costes Orientales De L’Amerique Septentrionale. Paris: Bellin, 1757. Very large double folio copper-plate engraved map on laid paper with hand-coloring and outlining, with an inset of Boston Harbor, matted and framed, 34 1/4 x 21 1/4 in. Bellin’s map is one of the most accurate general coastal charts of New England from the time of the French and Indian Wars. $500-700

Online bidding at www.skinnerinc.com/auctions/2891T

1352 North America, Two Maps. Jacob de Sandbart’s version of Homann’s Nova Tabula Americae, Nuremberg, double-page folio map, copper-plate engraving with hand-outlining, quite toned and mounted, framed, 23 1/2 x 20 1/4 in.; [and] Carta Della Nouva Inghilterra, Nuova Iork, e Pensilvania, [from] Il Gazzettiere Americano, 1763, based on Bellin’s c. 1757 map of the same region, hand-outlining, discolored from a corrugated cardboard backing, framed, 14 x 10 1/2 in. $200-300 1353 North America. Edward Wells (16671727) A New Map of North America Shewing its Principal Divisions, Chief Cities, Townes, Rivers, Mountains, &c. Oxford, 1700. Doublepage folio map dedicated to William, Duke of Gloucester, published in the atlas produced by Wells to celebrate the Duke’s studies at Oxford University; copper-plate engraving with a handcolored cartouche and hand-outlining, a handsome, if inaccurate map based on the work of the missionary Louis Hennepin, and faithfully displaying his discoveries, while distorting some now-familiar landforms. Florida is oddly shaped; California is an island, and the Mississippi river is in the wrong location; framed, some minor spotting, 20 1/2 x 16 1/4 in. $300-500 1354 North America. Homann Heirs. Dominia Anglorum in America Septentrionali. Nuremberg: Homann Heirs, 1745. Large folio double-page map, hand-colored copper-plate engraving on laid paper, a compound map, with four separate insets depicting Newfoundland and Nova Scotia; New England, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, and Maryland; Virginia and Maryland; the Carolinas and Florida, matted and framed, 21 3/4 x 20 in. $300-500 1355 North America. Louis Brion de la Tour (1756-1823) Carte du Theatre de la Guerre entre les Anglais et les Americains. Paris: Esnauts & Rapilly, 1778. Large format vertical map, copper-plate engraving on laid paper with hand-coloring, matted and framed, 29 3/4 x 20 1/2 in. $1,000-1,500


1357 Salem Harbor. Nathaniel Bowditch (1773-1838) Chart of the Harbours of Salem, Marblehead, Beverly and Manchester. Early 20th century restrike of the 1834 plate. Large chart printed on wove paper, framed, very good, 28 1/2 x 23 1/2 in. $400-600 1358 Sayer, Robert (1725-1794) and John Bennett (fl. 1770-1784) The Theatre of War in North America, with the Roads and a Table of the Distances. London: March 20, 1776. Copper-plate engraved map on paper, hand-colored in outline; with three columns of letterpress text below; mounted, slightly fragmentary where folds converge, colors faded, 30 x 21 3/4 in. This rare broadside was published just days after the British evacuation of Boston. The bottom text portion includes descriptions of each of the British colonies, soon to be the independent states. $3,000-5,000

1360 United States. Charles Henry Hitchcock (1836-1919) and W.P. Blake. Geological Map of the United States Compiled for the 9th Census. New York: Bien, 1872. Large folding map printed in bright chromolithographic colors, dissected, mounted on linen, and bound in half leather boards, as issued, titled on front cover, 34 1/4 x 22 in. $400-600 1361 World Map 1821; Drawn by Julia Ann Meriam, Bradford Academy, 1821. Large double hemisphere map drawn in ink and tinted colors on paper by Lexington, Massachusetts native, Julia Ann Meriam (1804-1889); toned and foxed, fading, matted and framed, the sheet mounted, repairing two large tears rather seamlessly, 27 x 16 3/4 in. $1,000-1,500 1362 World Oceanic Chart. Hermann Moll (1654-1732) A View of ye General & Coasting Trade-Winds, Monsoons or ye Shifting Trade Winds through ye World. London, c. 1730. Long folding octavo-height map, engraved, uncolored, based on Edmund Halley’s mapping of the trade winds, published in several publications, matted and framed, old folds, the sheet evenly toned, 20 1/2 x 7 1/4 in. $250-350

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Fine Books & Manuscripts online

1356 North America. Nicholas Sanson (1600-1667) Amerique Septentrionale. Paris: Sanson & Mariette, 1650. Double page folio map printed on laid paper, copper-plate engraving, with hand outlining, matted and framed, two ink spots along the lower margin, 21 3/4 x 15 3/4 in. Sanson’s map was the first to depict the Great Lakes in a recognizable form, and the first to name the lakes Ontario and Superior. It is also the first map to mention Santa Fe, and the lands of the Apache, Navajo, and Taos Indians. $1,500-2,500

1359 Scotland and Ancient Egypt, Two Maps. William Hole’s Scotia Regnum, from Camden’s Britannia, c. 1610, hand-colored double-page small folio engraved map on laid paper, blank on verso, matted, 15 3/4 x 13 in. [Together with] Abraham Ortelius’s Aegyptus Antiqua, Amsterdam, 1595, large double-page folio map, handcolored, matted and framed, 20 x 13 3/4 in. (2) $200-300

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Conditions of Sale 1. Some of the lots in this sale are offered subject to a reserve. The reserve is a confidential minimum price agreed upon by the consignor and Skinner, Inc. below which the lot will not be sold. In most cases, the reserve will be set below the estimated range, but in no case will it exceed the estimates listed. A representative of Skinner, Inc. will execute such reserves by bidding for the consignor. In any event and whether or not a lot is subject to a reserve, the auctioneer may reject any bid or raise not commensurate with the value of such lot. 2. All property is sold “as is,� and neither the auctioneer nor any consignor makes any warranties or representation of any kind or nature with respect to the property, and in no event shall they be responsible for the correctness, nor deemed to have made any representation or warranty, of description, genuineness, authorship, attribution, provenance, period, culture, source, origin, or condition of the property and no statement made at the sale, or in the bill of sale, or invoice or elsewhere shall be deemed such a warranty of representation or an assumption of liability. 3. Except as provided in paragraph 1 above, the highest bidder as determined by the auctioneer shall be the purchaser. In the case of a disputed bid, the auctioneer shall have sole discretion in determining the purchaser and may also, at his or her election, withdraw the lot or reoffer the lot for sale. The auctioneer shall have sole discretion to refuse any bid, or refuse to acknowledge any bidder. 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The copyright in all images, illustrations and written material produced by or for Skinner, Inc. relating to a lot, including the contents of this catalog, is, and shall remain at all times, the property of Skinner, Inc. and shall not be used by the purchaser, nor by anyone else, without our prior written consent. 13. These conditions of sale shall be governed by the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (excluding the laws applicable to conflicts or choice of law). The buyer/bidder agrees that any suit for the enforcement of this agreement may be brought, and any action against Skinner in connection with the transactions contemplated by this agreement shall be brought, in the courts of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts or any federal court sitting therein. The bidder/buyer consents to the exclusive jurisdiction of such courts and waives objections that it may now or hereafter have to the venue of any such suit. Revised January 21, 2015

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Directions to Skinner’s Boston Gallery/63 Park Plaza, Boston, MA 02116 617.350.5400 From the West: Take the Massachusetts Turnpike to the Prudential/Copley exit located in the Prudential tunnel. Once on the exit ramp, stay in the right hand lane and follow the signs for Copley. The ramp exits onto Stuart Street. Drive straight through five sets of lights and take a left onto Charles Street South. Take your first left off of Charles St. South onto Park Plaza. Skinner is at 63 Park Plaza, one block up on the right.

From the South: Take 93-N to Exit 20 for I-90 W toward Worcester. Follow signs for Chinatown/South Station. Bear left at the fork to continue towards Kneeland Street. Turn left onto Kneeland Street. Kneeland Street becomes Stuart Street. Turn right onto Charles Street South. Turn left onto Park Plaza. Skinner is at 63 Park Plaza, one block up on the right.

From Logan Airport: Take the Ted Williams Tunnel. Take Exit 25 toward South Boston and bear left at the fork in the ramp. Bear right onto B St. Turn left onto Northern Ave which becomes Seaport Blvd. Turn left onto Surface Rd. Turn right onto Kneeland Street which becomes Stuart Street. Turn right onto Charles Street South. Turn left onto Park Plaza. Skinner is at 63 Park Plaza, one block up on the right.

From the North: Take I-93 South towards Boston. Take exit 26 towards Storrow Drive. Merge onto MA-28 South via the ramp on the left. Turn left onto Beacon Street. Turn right onto Arlington Street. Turn left onto Boylston Street. Turn right onto Hadassah Way. Skinner is on the right at 63 Park Plaza.

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