Fine Books & Manuscripts | Skinner Auction 3176B

PRSRT

GALLERY

PAID

U.S. POSTAGE

FIRST-CLASS MAIL

Upcoming auction highlights

63 Park Plaza | Boston, MA 02116

Fine Books & Manuscripts

3176B | November 18, 2018 | 11AM | Boston

338

234

164

47

California, General Land Office State and Territory Map. New York: Julius Bien, 1879. Large format chromolithographic maps prepared for the Department of the Interior General Land Office, J.A. Williamson, Commissioner, principal draughtsman C. Roeser, consisting of two full sheets, formerly rolled, some edge chipping, tears, folds, 34 x 27 1/4 in.

(2) $300-500

Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919) Ranch Life and the Hunting-Trail, with Original Dust Jacket. New York: The Century Co., [1888]. Folio, illustrated by Frederic Remington, bound in publisher’s full cloth decoratively stamped in green and gold, with publisher’s dust jacket (portion of spine missing, corners chipped with loss), first signature sprung and mostly detached, some insect predation to paste-down and fore-edges of preliminary leaves, 12 x 9 1/4 in. $2,000-3,000

Irving, Washington (1783-1859) Astoria, or Anecdotes of an Enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains.

Philadelphia: Carey, Lea, & Blanchard, 1836. First edition, with Rees imprint on copyright page, volume one lacking the map, two octavo volumes bound in very good half blue morocco and marbled paper boards, 8 1/2 x 5 in. (2) $250-350

Remington, Frederic (1861-1909) Signed Photograph.

Large cabinet card of a young Remington, inscribed to journalist and author Julian Ralph, “To me ‘old pard’ Julian!

Frederic Remington” at the foot, the card produced in New York by Davis & Sanford, showing Remington in a threepiece suit with a white shirt, hands in his pockets, with no facial hair, 8 1/2 x 5 1/4 in.

Signed photographs of Remington are very rare on the market. Julian Ralph (1853-1903) was a very successful journalist who collaborated with Remington on many articles published in Harper’s Weekly and other periodicals of the late 19th century. $1,000-2,000

97 California, Three 19th Century Titles.

Including: C.W. Webber’s The HunterNaturalist. Romance of Sporting; or, Wild Scenes and Wild Hunters, Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo, & Co., 1852, second edition, large quarto, with nine color and three black-and-white illustrations, and additional text vignettes, lacking the plate between pages 292 and 294, bound in full contemporary cloth, sewing somewhat sprung, some foxing, binding with wear, 9 3/4 x 6 1/2 in.; Ernest Seyd’s California and its Resources, London: Trubner & Co., 1858, octavo, illustrated with ten plates, one of which is folding, and two folding maps, bound in full contemporary cloth, stamped in gold, some signatures sprung, some foxing, 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.; [and] J.M. Letts’s A Pictorial View of California, New York: Henry Bill, 1853, second edition, octavo, illustrated with forty-eight full-page illustrations, bound in full contemporary cloth, binding worn and somewhat shifted, 9 x 5 1/2 in. (3) $1,000-1,500

159 Hubback, Theodore R. (1872-1942) To Far Western Alaska for Big Game.

London: Rowland Ward, 1929. First edition, octavo, illustrated with three maps (one colored and folding in pocket at rear), sixty-six photographic illustrations on fortyfour plates, four pages of ads at the end; bound in original publisher’s pictorial green cloth (very bright), zebra endpapers (split a bit along front inner joint), in the original dust jacket. $200-300

90 Bourke, John G. (1843-1896) The Snake-Dance of the Moquis of Arizona. New York: Scribner’s, 1884.

First edition, New York issue, illustrated, bound in publisher’s pictorial green cloth, decased, caps chipped and worn, short tear to front joint, preliminaries and final few leaves chipped and detached, 8 3/4 x 5 1/2 in. $150-250

339 Far West States and Territories, Six General Land Office State and Territory Maps. New York: Julius Bien, 1878-1879. Large format chromolithographic maps prepared for the Department of the Interior General Land Office, J.A. Williamson, Commissioner, principal draughtsman C. Roeser; including maps of Oregon, Territory of New Mexico, Territory of Utah, Indian Territory, Washington Territory, and Territory of Arizona; formerly rolled, some edge chipping and tears, folds, 34 x 27 1/4 in. (6) $500-700

264 The Book of Mormon: an Account Written by the Hand of Mormon, upon Plates Taken from the Plates of Nephi.

Palmyra: Printed by E.B. Grandin, for the Author, 1830. First edition, octavo, with the two-page preface by Joseph Smith before text, bound in full contemporary sheep boards, worn and rebacked, two leaves with surface abrasions with the loss of words, one with repaired tear (456 and 457), pages 500, 501, 543 with some surface loss and marginal tears, 7 1/2 x 4 1/2 in. $45,000-55,000

View all lots online at www.skinnerinc.com/auctions/3176B

123

62

Dudley, Sir Robert (1573-1649) Dell’Arcano del Mare. Florence: Nella Stamperia di Francesco Onofri, 1646, Large folio, two divisional titles, each with an engraved vignette, illustrated with approximately sixty-eight engraved diagrams (most folding, many constructed moveable diagrams), lacking all maps; a large copy with deckle edges, in full parchment, a generally clean copy with a little worming and a little scattered foxing and spotting, 14 x 9 1/2 in. $2,000-3,000

Apianus, Petrus (1495-1552) Cosmographia. Antwerp: Bontio, 1553. Large quarto, edited by Regnier Gemma Frisius (15081555), large woodcut of globe on title, numerous woodcut text diagrams, four fully constructed and functioning volvelles, large folding woodcut Charta Cosmographica, cum Ventorum Propria Natura et Operatione, cordiform world map (state with “Europe” appearing horizontally and the British Isles identified as “Angl” and “Scot”); marginal damage to first twelve or so leaves from worming and perhaps damp (repaired somewhat clumsily), a few corner repairs, bound in full contemporary limp parchment (fore-edge of front cover lost and repaired, overall with a contemporary feel), 8 3/4 x 6 in. $1,000-2,000

2 Album with Aviator Signatures, 1930s. Large three-post album containing material, mostly signed covers, signed by approximately 150 aviators, including Charles Lindbergh, Amelia Earhart, Orville Wright, Admiral Byrd, Rickenbacker, Ovington, and many others, with many envelopes signed by female aviators, such as Amy Johnson, Gladys O’Donnell, Margaret Perry, Elinor Smith, Betty Lund, Mildred Kauffman, Jean La Rene, Marjorie Louise Deig, J.M. Keith Miller, Blanche Wilcox Noyes, Phoebe Fairgrave Omlie, Laura Ingalls, Teddy Kenyon, Ruth Nichols, Ruth Elder, Bobbie Trout, Frankie Renner, Edna May Cooper, Mae Haizlip, Mary Lady Heath, Alicia Patterson, and others; all identified and mounted on album pages with accompanying documents, clippings, and other material, with a few signed photos, notes, and letters, mostly signed envelopes, some discolored by facing newsprint clippings for decades, also including photographs of Lindbergh and Earhart with printed signatures, and other material, should be seen. $2,000-3,000

2

55

181

266

292

A Short Narrative of the Horrid Massacre in Boston, Perpetrated in the Evening of the Fifth Day of March 1770 by Soldiers of the XXIXth Regiment.

London: Printed by Order of the Town of Boston, Re-printed for E. and C. Dilly and J. Almon, 1770. Octavo, engraved frontispiece of the Boston Massacre bound opposite title, bound in later half red morocco, buckram boards, 8 x 4 7/8 in.

Lawson, Deodat (fl. circa 1690) Christ’s Fidelity the Only Shield against Satan’s Malice Asserted in a Sermon Delivered at Salem-Village. Boston: Printed by B. Harris, & Sold

by Nicholas Buttolph, next to Guttridg’s Coffee-House, 1693. First edition, 12mo, a note of approval on the text underwritten by Increase Mather, Charles Morton, James Allen, Samuel Willard, John Bailey, and Cotton Mather is printed in the preliminaries, this copy is bound in an unsophisticated contemporary thin wood board binding covered in sheepskin (damaged, large chunks of boards and covering material missing from the heads of both boards), title page torn in half vertically with loss, A4, B8, C-I4, K3 (lacking final leaf K4); rare, seven copies listed in ESTC (U.S. libraries only), no copies offered at auction since 1918, 5 1/2 x 3 1/2 in.

The Constitutions of the Several Independent States of America; the Declaration of Independence; the Articles of Confederation between the Said States; the Treaties between His Most Christian Majesty and the United States of America. Philladelphia [sic]: Printed by Francis Bailey in Market-Street, 1781. First authorized collected edition, octavo, one of 200 copies printed, untrimmed, in boards, somewhat worn, lacking the original paper spine, some toning to contents, ex libris a descendant of Major General Benjamin Lincoln of the same name (1816-1884), signature on title and following leaf, 7 x 4 3/4 in. $4,000-6,000

Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Belted Kingfisher, Plate 77. [from] The Birds of America, Edinburgh: Havell, 1831.

Double elephant folio sheet, engraved and hand-colored, printed on wove paper with dated 1831 J. Whatman watermark, some spotting, slight rippling, color better in the birds than in the background (background faded), colors on the fish being swallowed faded, framed, 38 1/2 x 25 3/4 in. $8,000-12,000

The Appendix (more than 120 pages) contains ninety-six sworn affidavits of witnesses to the Massacre. $7,000-9,000

Lawson was minister of Salem Village from 1684 to 1688. When the witchcraft scare broke out in Salem in 1692, he returned to observe and report. Fearful of demonic possession, Lawson believed that he had lost family members to the devil. In his sermon, he tries to offer Christian support. “Be vigilant, be careful to avoid all sin which might betray you, Because your Adversary the Devil goes about as a Roaring Lion, seeking whom he may Devour. [...] So far as we can look into those Hellish Mysteries, and guess at the administration of that Kingdom of Darkness, we may learn that Witches make Witches, by perswading one the other to Subscribe to a book, [...] and the Devil, having them in this subjection, by their Consent, he will use their Bodies and Minds, Shapes and Representations, to Affright and Afflict others at his pleasure for the Propagation of his Infernal Kingdom.” $2,000-3,000

Who’s Who? Can you spot: Captain Ahab Edna May Cooper Frederic Remington Goldfinger James Chaney Kathleen Neal Cleaver La Femme à la Résille Streetcar Operator Nimiipuu Man Bobby Hutton Procyon Lotor Habagou Samuel Clemens Tartaglia Tovarisch Mikhail Woman of the Cree Nation

183 Leftist Publications, 1960s-70s, Large Lot of Newspapers. Including: six issues of The Berkeley Tribe from the 1970s; four copies of Leviathan; several strike notices against the rubber industry; several publications on Huey Newton; and single issues of The Conspiracy; Rising Up Angry; Liberated Guardian; Doc of the Bay; two issues of Good Times from 1969 and 1970; one issue of El Tecolote; four copies of El Malcriado; and eight copies of Voice of the Lumpen.

“Beginning in 1967, German student radicals started reaching out to African American GIs serving in Germany, hoping that an alliance with Black Panther GIs could forge anti-imperialist solidarity against U.S. militarism and racism in both Germany and abroad.” Voice of the Lumpen is the publication that resulted from this collaboration. See “The Black Panther Solidarity Committees and the Voice of the Lumpen,” by Maria Höhn, from German Studies Review, Vol. 31, No. 1 (Feb., 2008), pp. 133-154. $100-200

18 Gay and Sexual Liberation Buttons, Mid-20th Century. Thirty-five buttons, mostly printed in bright colors, each boasting a provocative slogan related to gay rights and sexual liberation, including, "Down with Pants," "I Believe in Fairies," "Go Naked," "Sex is Here to Stay," and "How Dare You Presume I'm Heterosexual," among others. $80-100

177 Kent, Corita (1918-1986) Sister Corita. Boston/Philadelphia: Pilgrim Press, [1968].

First edition, folio-format book with essays by Harvey Cox and Samuel A. Eisenstein housed in publisher’s original box (with blinking holographic eye sticker), and accompanied by thirty-four full-page, full-color posters (of which two are oversized), some wear to box, book and prints good, 15 x 11 in. overall. $150-250

270 The Movement. San Francisco: The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee of California, 1965-1969. Approximately thirty-six issues of the leftist newsprint journal, earlier issues with text, later issues enhanced with cartoons, photographs, and other illustrations, the lot containing five copies from 1965; six from 1966; three from 1967; nine from 1968; and thirteen from 1969 (with some duplicates); slightly toned, some tattered edges, 17 1/2 x 11 1/2 in. $200-300

*

Based on the context of the discovery of this copy of Poe’s Tales, the original owner presumably bought this and other similar books to be read for amusement in the 1840s. Once read, the Poe and its companions were bundled and stored away in a trunk in the attic until they were found this fall.

In the rare book trade, it was thought that all copies of Poe’s Tales in wrappers were known.

View complete lot listing online at www.skinnerinc.com/auctions/3176B

224 Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849) Tales, First Edition, in Paper Wrappers. New York: Wiley & Putnam, 1845. Quarto, first edition, first issue, with H. Ludwig’s name listed on copyright page, half-title present, along with twenty pages of advertisements at the end; bound in publisher’s complete paper wrappers (some spotting, slight loss to covering material at head and tail of spine, bottom of front joint tearing slightly, corners somewhat curled, spine slightly shifted, some foxing to contents), no sign of repair or sophistication; a rare book in this state recently discovered in a New England home with other books of the same vintage, also in publisher’s wrappers; (one example included with the lot: Mrs. Jameson’s Memoirs and Essays, New York: Wiley & Putnam, 1846), 7 1/2 x 5 in.

In the Tales Poe invents detective fiction and promulgates a dark psychological style of storytelling as effective and compelling today as ever. This collection contains: The Gold Bug, The Black Cat, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Purloined Letter, and others. $60,000-80,000

60 American Imprints in Publisher’s Original Paper Wrappers, Six Examples c. 18401850. Including: Sir Charles Lyell’s A Second Visit to the United States of North America, New York: Harper, 1846, in two volumes; Martin Farquhar Tupper’s A Thousand Lines, Philadelphia: Hooker, 1846; Charles Dickens’s Hard Times, Boston: Fetridge & Co., 1854; Charlotte Bronte’s Shirley, New York: Harper, 1850; [and] Bronte’s Villette, New York: Harper, 1853. $300-500

1161

64

Appleton, Victor, pseud. Tom Swift Books, a Large Collection. Twenty-five Tom Swift titles (all pseudonymously authored by Victor Appleton, a nonexistent person), including: Tom Swift and his Wireless Message; T.S. and his Photo Telephone; T.S. and his House on Wheels; T.S. and his Air Glider; T.S. and his Ocean Airport; T.S. and his Planet Stone; T.S. and his Giant Cannon; T.S. in the Caves of Ice; T.S. and his Television Detector; T.S. and his Airship; T.S. and his Undersea Search; T.S. in Captivity; T.S. and his Air Scout; T.S. and his Big Dirigible; T.S. among the Diamond Makers; T.S. Circling the Globe; T.S. and his Electric Runabout; T.S. and the Flying Boat; T.S. and his Chest of Secrets; T.S. and his Talking Pictures; T.S. and his Electric Locomotive; T.S. and his Big Tunnel; T.S. and his Submarine Boat; T.S. and his Sky Racer; and T.S. and his Airline Express, all in good shape, octavo, in publisher’s cloth and dust jackets (jackets covered with additional kraft paper covers); each original dust jacket neatly reinforced with brown paper-tape edging and along joints on verso. (25) $300-500

198

53

Navigational Notebook with Hand-drawn Maps and Ship Illustrations, Salem, New Jersey, 1823. Quartoformat manuscript on paper executed by Captain George T. Boon (1805-1849), later a New Jersey ferryboat captain, including approximately 120 numbered pages (lacking a few leaves), inscribed with navigational and other mathematical exercises, many with watercolor sketches of small boats and other objects, hand-painted compass roses, with two folding maps, two full-page colored pen-and-ink drawings of boats, and other material (folding maps repaired with yellowing adhesive tape), the contents disbound, with the original half leather and marbled paper boards, 9 x 7 1/4 in.

Washington, George (1732-1799) and Benjamin Lincoln (1733-1810) Signed Oath of Allegiance.

Philadelphia: John Dunlap, 1778. Typographically printed document fulfilled by hand, signed by Lincoln, signed and witnessed by Washington, 24 August 1778, mounted on card, reverse mat burn, old folds, 4 x 6 1/2 in.

“George T. Boon was a native of Bridgeton, New Jersey, and his early education and training were well calculated to make him what he afterward became, one of the most reliable and skillful men who followed steamboating. He was so thoroughly acquainted with everything pertaining to river life that his opinions were considered undisputable authority on all questions in that line. [He] commanded the steamers Essex, Flushing, and Clifton.” (Quoted from the Biographical, Genealogical and Descriptive History of the First Congressional District of New Jersey, New York & Chicago: Lewis Publishing Co., 1900, p. 433). $700-900

Lincoln was injured in a reconnaissance mission around the time of the second battle of Saratoga, 7 October 1777. A British musket ball shattered his ankle. He returned to his home in Massachusetts to recuperate. It wasn’t until late summer that he returned to Washington’s side in New York state and signed this document. Most signed extant copies of this edition of Dunlap’s Oath Allegiance were fulfilled earlier in the year, many at Valley Forge. Letters written between Lincoln and Washington in the summer of 1778 place Lincoln in Massachusetts as he continued to recover. When Lincoln was finally cleared to ride, he met with the General in the Hudson Valley. A letter dated White Plains, 2 September 1778 from Lincoln to Washington refers to a meeting of the Council of War held the previous evening. $20,000-30,000

M

Fine Books & Manuscripts

Boston Bookbinding Demonstration

Sale 3176B preview: November 15, 12–7PM, November 16, 12–5PM, November 17, 10AM–4PM, November 18, 9–11AM

Join Devon Eastland for a demonstration of bookbinding techniques, restoration treatments, and a discussion of approaches to repair with examples. See books from the inside out and bring your questions. Devon has worked in the field of restoration for more than twenty years.

Repair a chair and sit down, fix a book and read! Light refreshments will be served, and all items in the auction will be available for preview.

Thursday, November 15, 2018

63 Park Plaza, Boston, MA

Reception 5:30PM | Presentation 6PM 63 Park Plaza, Boston, MA

Devon Eastland books@skinnerinc.com | 508.970.3293

MA LIC. 2304

Cover Lot 126 Dutton, Clarence E. (1841-1912) Atlas to Accompany the Monograph on the Tertiary History of the Grand Canon District. Washington, D.C. [and] New York: Julius Bien & Co., 1882. Oversized folio volume illustrated with double-page plates, including twelve maps, topographical plans, and geographical surveys, and eleven panoramic views of the Grand Canyon and its adjacent geological features, including a mammoth three-part panoramic view from Point Sublime in the Kaibab, all but one of the views were drawn by William H. Holmes, the view of the Transept drawn by Tomas Moran; topography by J.H. Renshawe, Sumner H. Bodfish, with geology by Dutton; each double-page plate mounted on a linen tab, bound in publisher’s half-leather and textured cloth boards (worn, shaken, in need of restoration) with large original leather label on the front board, 19 3/4 x 17 in. $3,500-5,500

RSVP events@skinnerinc.com reservations are requested

skinnerauctions

skinnerauctions

@skinnerinc

skinnerinc

View complete sale lot listing online at www.skinnerinc.com/ auctions/3176B

137 Fleming, Ian (1908-1964) Three Titles.

Including: Goldfinger, New York: Macmillan, 1959, octavo, bound in publisher’s black cloth with original dust jacket (inside flap top corner clipped, $3.00 price still intact at bottom, small tear with loss to back bottom corner), 7 1/2 x 4 3/4 in.; The Man with the Golden Gun, New York: New American Library, [1965], stated first printing, bound in publisher’s black paper-covered binding stamped in gold, red, and white, in original dust jacket with six holes punched through (to resemble bullet holes), jacket price clipped, some stains, short tears, 8 1/4 x 5 1/4 in.; [and] Octopussy, New York: New American Library, [1966], stated first printing, bound in publisher’s black papercovered binding stamped in gold on front board and in orange on spine (back edge of spine torn and partially detached), with original dust jacket (not price clipped, even surface wear, a short tear or two), 8 x 4 3/4 in. (3) $250-350