A Catalogue of Rare First editions, Fine Books and Original Illustrations With Many New Arrivals

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1 HERITAGE BOOK SHOP A Catalogue of Rare First editions, Fine Books and Original Illustrations With Many New Arrivals 1

2 Terms Full Descriptions are available upon request. Items for any reason unsatisfactory may be returned within ten days. Heritage Book Shop Yolanda Avenue, P.O. Box Tarzana, CA Telephone ~ Facsimile heritage@heritagebookshop.com Open By Appointment Only Front Cover Image: Item 139. [VITRUVIUS POLLIO, Marcus]. [DURANTINO, Francesco Lutio, Editor] De architectura traducto di latino in vulgare dal vero exemplare con le figure a li soi loci con mirando ordine insignito... Venice: Ioane Antonio & Piero Fratelli da Sabio, Inside Cover Image: Item 109. RACKHAM, Arthur, [artist]. Witches and Warlocks, Ghosts, Goblins and Ghouls. [London: J.M. Dent, 1907]. Back Cover image: Item 12. [BIBLE IN LATIN]. [GUTENBERG, Johann]. A Noble Fragment. Being a Leaf of the Gutenberg Bible, [Biblia Latina] [Isaiah to 65/22]. [Mainz: Johann Gutenberg, Johann Fust, and Peter Schoeffer, 1455]. 2

3 First Edition of Sebastian Brant s Version of Aesop With Numerous Woodcuts 1. [AESOP]. [BRANT, Sebastian]. Esopi appologi sive mythologi cum quibusdam carminum et fabularum additionibus Sebastiani Brant. [Basel: Jacob Wolff de Pforzheim, 1501]. Illustrated edition of Aesop s Fables and the first edition of Sebastian Brant s additions fables (part two). Two parts in one folio volume (11 3/4 x 8 3/16 inches; 297 x 208 mm). Collates complete except it is lacking the final blank (M6). Collates identical to the Fairfax-Murray copy, but with the blank leaf s6 present at end of part 1. With woodcut portrait of Aesop on verso of a1 and small woodcut portrait of Brant on verso of A1 in part 2. Both parts with numerous woodcuts and initials. Text in Latin. Full 19th-century black straight-grain morocco. Boards ruled in gilt. Spine stamped and lettered in gilt. Boards edges gilt, gilt dentelles. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Very wide margins. Previous owner s small bookplate on front pastedown. Recto and verso of title-page of part one with some very light old ink annotations. Worming repairs to top edge border of leaves a1-a8, not affecting text. Leaves a6 and c6 with closed tear repairs, no loss of text. Leaves l3 and l4 bound in reverse order. Worm hole and closed tear repair to leaves q6, r1, r2, r4, r5, no loss of text, r6 with small hole causing loss of a few letters on recto and a small portion of woodcut on verso. s2, and s3 with minor repairs. Title-page of part 2 (A1) remargined, with some repairs, barely affecting text, and a few other leaves also remargined. A2 with closed tear repair, barely affecting text. A4, B3, B5, C1-C3 with minor repairs barely affecting text. C4 with small hole, affecting woodcut on recto, text on verso. E3, M2-M4 with minor repairs, not affecting text. Final text leaf M5 with repaired closed tear, barely affecting text. Approximately for places in part 2 where there have been paragraphs lightly crossed through with the notation in an early hand reading no legas ( do not read ). These parts being expurged is a common occurrence among other copies of this book. Some occasional toning and spotting. Aside from this and the repairs which are relatively minor, this is a very clean, lovely copy. Fairfax Murray 20. Goed. I, 390, 24. Adams A291. HBS $95,000 First Edition of Emma Uncut in a Contemporary Binding 2. [AUSTEN, Jane]. Emma: A Novel. In Three Volumes. By the Author of Pride and Prejudice, &c. &c. London: Printed for John Murray, First edition. Three twelvemo volumes. Bound without the half-title in volume I, which is very common since this leaf was printed as part of the last signature and was therefore either overlooked (and left in place) or discarded by many binders of the period. Contemporary and almost certainly Continental, possibly German original quarter red paper spines over marbled boards. Most certainly this book was sent straight from the publisher to the binder in sheets. Overall, a fine, fresh and entirely uncut copy in a contemporary binding, wanting one rear flyleaf. Housed in a red morocco backed clamshell. Gilson A8. Keynes, Austen, 8. Sadleir 62d. HBS $45,000 3

4 Contemporary Marbled Boards 3. [AUSTEN, Jane]. Mansfield Park: A Novel By the Author of Sense and Sensibility, and Pride and Prejudice. London: Printed for T. Egerton, First edition. Three twelvemo volumes. Wanting the halftitles, but with all terminal blanks. Contemporary half gray polished calf over marbled boards. Overall, a very good and attractive, clean set in a contemporary binding. The third of Jane Austen s novels to be published was begun about the same time as Sense and Sensibility and was accepted for publication. The novel was published in May 1814 in an edition apparently of 1250 copies. John Murray later expressed astonishment that so small an edition of such a work should have been sent into the world. Gilson A6. Keynes, Austen, 6. HBS $17,500 The Invention Of The Difference Engine Which Ranks Among The Most Celebrated Icons In The Prehistory Of Computing 4. [BABBAGE, Charles]. Mr. Babbage s invention. Copies of the correspondence between the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty s Treasury and the president and council of the Royal Society, relative to an invention of Mr. Babbage. Copy of a letter to Sir Humphry Davy, Bart. President of the Society, &c. &c. on the application of machinery to the purpose of calculating and printing mathematical tables... [London: House of Commons, 1823]. First edition, offprint version, after the extremely rare privately printed version from the year before. [1]-6, [2] pp. Folio (12 5/8 x 7 3/4 inches; 319 x 197 mm). Docket title on verso of last leaf. This present copy is the separate printing of the British government s reprint of Babbage s letter to Davy in the year This separate printing includes for the first time, the text of the letters from the Treasury and Royal Society. This government version was published both in Volume 15 of the House of Commons Sessional Papers and as the present separate offprint. The two different government printings can be distinguished by the pagination. The present version has page numbers [1]-6, whereas the other is paginated (Van Sinderen 1980, no. 18(n)). We could find no copies of this on OCLC, and only once at auction in the past 20 years. Unbound and self-wrapped. Stitched at inner margin as issued. Contemporary ink number 145 on front page, 157 on recto of final leaf. Fine, in quarter cloth over boards custom chemise, with silk ties. HBS $2,850 4

5 Bakst Designs For Sleeping Beauty 5. BAKST, Leon, [illustrator]. PICASSO, Pablo, [contributor]. The Designs of Leon Bakst for the Sleeping Princess. A Ballet in Five Acts after Perrault. Music by Tchaikovsky. Preface by André Levinson. London: Benn Brothers Limited, One of 1,000 copies this being number 394. Folio (15 1/4 x 11 1/2 inches; 388 x 294 mm). Two color vignettes and fifty-four full-page color plates by Bakst (printed in France), and a full-page portrait of Leon Bakst by Pablo Picasso. Quarter vellum over light blue fine-grain cloth. Spine lettered in gilt. Top edge gilt, others uncut. A small snag to cloth on front cover as well as a very light scratch. A few light finger smudges. Overall a near fine copy. HBS $4,250 Accounts of Early Missionaries in Baja California, Including the Accounts of the First Missionaries Killed in Baja California 6. BALTHASAR, Juan Antonio. Carta del P. Provincial Juan Antonio Balthasar,. en que dá noticia de la exemplar vida, religiosas virtudes, y apostólicos trabajos del ferverosa Missionero el Venerable P. Francisco Maria Picolo. [Mexico: 1752]. First edition. Small quarto (7 7/8 x 6 7/8 inches; 201 x 149 mm). 88 pp. Caption-title on page 1 of the text. Publishing date printed on final page of text, Mexico, Diciembre 23, de 1752 años. Contemporary full limp vellum. Small marginal paper repair to outer margin of leaf A, not affecting text. Two previous owner s bookplates on front pastedown. Internally very clean. Overall a very good copy. Hill 50. Howes B-80. Medina Streeter. HBS $8,500 An Important Shakespeare Source Book 7. BARCKLEY, Sir Richard, Knight. [SHAKESPEARE, William]. A Discourse of the Felicitie of Man. Or His Summum Bonum. London: William Ponsonby, First edition. Small quarto. [28], 618, [4] pp. Woodcut device on leaf facing title and on final leaf. Contemporary mottled calf, rebacked. Later endpapers. Morocco lettering piece, spine a bit rubbed, tiny worm hole at gutter near center, a few older, neat marginal ink annotations in the first few pages, occasional pencil notes or underlining. A rare and important work containing inspiration for three of Shakespeare s plays. A fine collection of amusing histories and small narratives; including the foundation of the Taming of the Shrew, pp , Antony and Cleopatra, p. 46, and Pyramus and Thisbe, p. 52. Jaggard, p. 15. Graesse ( Ouvrage tres amusant par les historiettes entremelées ). STC HBS $8,500 5

6 Les Fleurs du Mal (Presentation copy) 8. BAUDELAIRE, Charles. Les Fleurs du Mal. Paris: Poulet-Malassis et de Broise, First edition. First issue with the running title misprint Feurs on p. 31 and 108, p.45 misnumbered 44, and the misprint captieux on p Twelvemo (189 x 122mm.). With half-title. It is complete with the six pièces condamnées whose removal was ordered only six weeks or so after publication (Les Bijoux, Le Léthé, A celle qui est trop gaie, Femmes damnées, Lesbos and Les Métamorphoses du vampire). Inscribed by the author on the half-title, à M. Hostein, en lui demandant encore un peu de patience, Ch. Baudelaire. Ink a bit faded. Hippolyte Hostein was a writer and the director of the Théâtre de la Gaîté in Paris from 1849 to Later crushed brown morocco by L. Peeters of Antwerp. Top edge gilt, others uncut. original yellow printed wrappers in their second state (with the five typographical faults uncorrected and with the price of 3F. on the backstrip) bound in. Marbled paper slipcase. Small area of loss to lower corner of upper wrapper. This copy has bound at the end two facsimiles of the lower wrapper, in state A and state B, together with a printed note regarding Vicaire s research into the two states (now superseded by Carteret s bibliography). HBS $95,000 6

7 The Most Famous American Children s Book, First Issue of L. Frank Baum s Classic The Wonderful Wizard of Oz 9. BAUM, L. Frank. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. With pictures by W.W. Denslow. Chicago: Geo. M. Hill Co., First edition, first state of text. With the first state of the Moon plate facing p. 34, having the two dark blue blots on the moon. The publisher s imprint at foot of spine in red in plain, unserifed type, with CO. set in ordinary fashion, (only a few unobtainable presentation copies with the green publisher s imprint we issued before this issue). The verso of the title-page plate is blank, bearing no copyright notice. Also with the following first issue points: on p. [2], the publisher s advertisements are boxed; on p. 14, line one begins low wail on ; p. 81, fourth line from bottom has peices ; p. [227], line 1 begins: While Tin Woodman ; and the colophon in eleven lines and boxed, with the initial letter in color; with perfect type in the last line of p. 100 and p and the plate facing p. 92 in the first state with the red shading on the horizon. In the second state of binding (Binding B), Binding A, with the publisher s spine imprint in green, is relatively uncommon and associated with the very early prepublication copies. (Bienvenue, pg 4). Quarto (8 3/8 x 6 1/2 inches; 212 x 164 mm). 259, [1, blank], [1], [1, blank] pp. Twenty-four inserted color plates (including title). Original light green cloth pictorially stamped and lettered in red and a darker green Pictorial pastedown endpapers (issued without free endpapers). Spine extremities and outer hinges with a bit of rubbing and chipping. Inner hinges with a bit of expert restoration. Overall, an exceptional copy of a extremely popular children s book which therefore is usually found in quite poor condition. Housed in a full navy blue morocco slipcase. Blanck, Peter Parley to Penrod, pp Greene and Hanff, pp HBS $26,500 One of the Most Valuable of Modern Voyages 10. BEECHEY, Captain F[rederick] W[illiam]. Narrative of a Voyage to the Pacific and Beering s Strait, to Co-Operate with the Polar Expeditions: Performed in His Majesty s Ship Blossom, under the Command of Captain F.W. Beechey, R.N. in the Years 1825, 26, 27, 28. Published by Authority of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. In Two Parts. London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, First edition. Two quarto volumes (10 3/4 x 8 3/8 inches; 273 x 212 mm), [not to be confused with the octavo edition of the same year]. Bound without the publisher s advertisements ([2] pp.) at the end of Volume II, and bound without half-titles. Three engraved maps, two of which are folding, and twenty-three engraved plates. Contemporary diced calf, rebacked to style. Boards ruled in gilt. Each volume with red and black spine labels. The Frank S. Streeter copy with his bookplate on front pastedown of both volumes. Front hinge of volume I professionally repaired. Overall a very good, handsome set. Housed together in a slipcase. Cowan, p. 42. Ferguson, Australia, Hill I, p. 19. Howes B309. Lada-Mocarski 95. Sabin Zamorano Eighty 4. HBS $8,500 7

8 First Edition of the Roman Catholic Version of the Bible in English. A Complete Bible In 3 Volumes Old Testament bound in modern calf, paneled with speckled and smooth calf. Boards ruled in gilt and spine stamped in gilt. Each volume with a red and brown morocco spine label, lettered in gilt. Outer joints of both volumes, starting, but still holding firm. With three previous owner s bookplates on front pastedown of both volumes. Title-page of volume II trimmed 3 mm short on fore-edge, not affecting woodcut border or text. New Testament bound in 19th-century brown calf. Boards and spine ruled and stamped in blind. Spine with red morocco spine label, lettered in gilt. Four previous owner s bookplates on front pastedown. Front free endpaper with old ink notations (quotation from Saint Augustine) and small purple library stamp from the Society of Jesus in Milltown Park Ireland. The Society of Jesus is the Catholic group of which its members are the Jesuits. Title-page with cropped early annotation at top margin, and same small Society of Jesus library stamp to lower corner. Some dampstaining and toning, particularly to beginning. Some slight worming to fore-edge margin, occasionally barely affecting text. Overall, an excellent copy of the Douai- Rheims Bible. The Douai Old Testament of was based upon the same lines, and came from the same hands, as the Rheims New Testament of The complete work is commonly known as the Douai-Rheims version, or the Douai Bible. Darlow & Moule 231. Herbert 177. Herbert 300. In Remembrance of Creation 208. In Remembrance of Creation 206. STC STC HBS $35, [BIBLE IN ENGLISH. Old Testament]. The Holie Bible Faithfully Translated into English, out of the Authentical Latin. Diligently conferred with the Hebrew, Greeke, and other Editions in divers languages. With Arguments of the Bookes, and Chapters: Annotations: Tables: and other helpes, for better understanding of the text: for discoverie of Corruptions in some late translations: and for clearing Controversies in Religion. By the English College of Doway. Douai: Printed by Laurence Kellam, First edition of the Roman Catholic version of the Old Testament in English. Two small quarto volumes (7 7/8 x 6 inches; 199 x 154 mm). Bound with the final blank leaf in Volume II. Titles within decorative border of type ornaments, decorative woodcut and typographic head- and tail-pieces, decorative and historiated woodcut initials. [Together with:] [BIBLE IN ENGLISH. New Testament]. The New Testament of Jesus Christ, Translated Faithfully into English, out of the authentical Latin, according to the best corrected copies of the same, diligently conferred with the Greeke and other editions in divers languages: With Arguments of bookes and chapters, Annotations. and other necessarie helpes, for the better understanding of the text, and specially for the discoverie of the Corruptions of divers late translations, and for cleering the Controversies in religion, of these daies: In the English College of Rhemes. [Rheims]: Printed by John Fogny, First edition of the Roman Catholic version of the New Testament in English. Small quarto, (8 5/16 x 6 inches; 210 x 154 mm). Title within border of type ornaments, decorative and historiated woodcut initials. 8

9 12. [BIBLE IN LATIN]. [GUTENBERG, Johann]. A Noble Fragment. Being a Leaf of the Gutenberg Bible, [Biblia Latina] [Isaiah to 65/22]. [Mainz: Johann Gutenberg, Johann Fust, and Peter Schoeffer, 1455]. Folio, (leaf 14 1/4 x 10 1/2 in., 360 x 268 mm). [1] leaf of text and two initial letters printed in red. Original watermarked (bulls-head) paper leaf from the Gutenberg Bible. Black gothic letter, forty-two lines, double columns. Rubricated in red, with headlines, chapter numbers in a contemporary hand. Housed in a custom red cloth clamshell with morocco label, lettered in gilt. Leaf sits in an attached mylar sleeve, viewable on both sides. This greatest of all printed books, the Gutenberg Bible was the first book printed from movable type in the Western hemisphere (PMM). Only forty-eight copies of it are known, most of which are incomplete. This leaf was removed from the imperfect Mannheim-Zouch-Sabin copy after it was acquired by the New York bookseller Gabriel Wells. Wells broke up the copy in 1921 and offered the leaves separately, bound along with A. Edward Newton s eloquent essay. The text of the leaf is the Vulgate Latin text of Saint Jerome, and the leaf presented here is Isaiah to 65/22. This story is centered around God showing mercy and forgiveness and deliverance to his people. Printing and the Mind of Man 1. Goff B-526B.HBS $75,000 A Leaf from the Gutenberg Bible Mixed Edition of The best history of English law 13. BLACKSTONE, [Sir] William. Commentaries on the Laws of England. Oxford: Printed at the Clarendon Press, Mixed edition. Volume I, second edition, Volume II, third edition, and Volumes III and IV are first editions. Four quarto volumes (10 13/16 x 8 1/8 inches; 275 x 205 mm.). With the engraved Table of Consanguinity and folding Table of Descents in Volume II. Uniformly bound in contemporary calf. Spines with orange and green morocco lettering labels. Outer hinges and spines with some professional repairs. Inner hinges of volumes I and II repaired. Volume II with some worming to the insides of the boards, and to the first and last few leaves, not affecting text. A tiny wormhole through a few pages of volume III, not affecting text. Otherwise a very clean set. Previous owner s old ink signature on title-pages of each volume. Overall a very good and very attractive set. Grolier, 100 English, 52. Printing and the Mind of Man 212. Rothschild 407. HBS $3,500 9

10 One of the Finest Eighteenth-Century Engraved Books 14. [BLAKE, William, illustrator]. YOUNG, Edward. The Complaint, and the Consolation; or, Night Thoughts. London: Printed by R. Noble, for R. Edwards, First edition. Folio (16 7/16 x 12 1/2 inches; 416 x 316 mm). With forty-three copperplate engravings by William Blake surrounding the letterpress text. Leaves are very large and barely trimmed. With the Explanation of the Engravings supplied in facsimile laid in at the back. This leaf is often lacking. With tissue guards between nearly every leaf. Beautifully bound in full straightgrained blue morocco circa 1850 by M.M. Holloway. Boards tooled in gilt. Spine lettered and tooled in gilt. Gilt dentelles. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. With very wide lower margins, usually including the engraver s name. Previous owner s armorial bookplate on front pastedown. Occasional minor offsetting or light foxing to leaves. An very nice copy. Housed in a custom cloth slipcase. Bentley 515. Ray, The Illustrator and the Book in England, 3. Russell 17. HBS $15,000 An Exceptional Copy of An Asbestos Fahrenheit BRADBURY, Ray. Fahrenheit 451. Illustrated by Joseph Mugnaini. New York: Ballantine Books, Inc., [1953]. First edition, limited to 200 copies signed by Bradbury and bound by Johns-Manville Quinterra in a highly refined white asbestos. This being number 125. Not issued in dust jacket. Octavo (7 3/4 x 5 1/4 inches; 196 x 134 mm). With blackand-white illustrations throughout the text. Publisher s full white asbestos. Front board and spine lettered in red. Housed in custom red half morocco clamshell. Spine slightly darkened, else fine. An exceptional copy of a book that is usually found in very poor condition. HBS $15,000 10

11 First Trade Edition, In Near Fine Dust Jacket 16. BRADBURY, Ray. Fahrenheit 451. Illustrated by Joseph Mugnaini. New York: Ballantine Books, Inc., First trade edition. A fine copy of the book, with a tiny bit of dust soiling to the top-edge of the closed page block, but otherwise perfect. In a bright, near fine dust jacket with one very small nick at the bottom of the front panel and with the red spine lettering one shade lightened, but with the original colors remarkably fresh and vivid. Most copies show little to no red color on the spine, this copy among the nicer examples we ve seen. HBS $6,500 First Edition and Limited Edition of Brautigan s Please Plant This Book Poetry 17. BRAUTIGAN, Richard. Please Plant This Book. [Santa Barbara and San Francisco: Graham Mackintosh, 1968]. First Edition. Limited edition (exact quantity is unknown, but somewhere between 1,500-5,000 copies). Small folder (7 x 6 1/4 inches; 176 x 160 mm when closed). Folder contains eight seed packets. Each seed packet has a poem by Brautigan on the front and planting instructions on the back. This folder was to be for free distribution. Front cover of folder printed with three sepia photographs of young girl Caledonia Jahrmarkt by Bill Brach, a Haight-Ashbury photographer. Front and back lettered in brown ink. Inside, eight seed packets of various colors (orange, yellow, blue, green, and brown), each with a different poem by Brautigan printed on it. Overall fine with seed packets unopened. HBS $1,350 The First Published Edition of Elizabeth Barrett Browning s Sonnets from the Portuguese 18. BROWNING, Elizabeth Barrett. Poems. New edition. In two volumes. London: Chapman & Hall, Second edition, but the first to include the celebrated Sonnets from the Portuguese (Volume II, pp ). Barnes s Second state with publisher s imprint at foot of title-page: Chapman & Hall, 193 Piccadilly (Late 186 Strand). Two small octavo volumes (6 11/16 x 4 1/4 inches; 170 x 107 mm.) With half-titles in each volume. A bonus three-page manuscript Forward tipped-in between the title-page and dedication page in volume I, signed and dated T.H./8/8/10. [i.e. 1910]. Original publisher s slate-blue cloth. Covers stamped in blind. Spines ruled and lettered in gilt (in the presumably first binding state, without London ). Fore-edge and top edge untrimmed. Bindings slightly skewed. Spines lightly sunned. Inner hinges with some hairline cracks, but firm. Overall a very nice, almost fine set. In custom full morocco clamshell. HBS $11,500 11

12 First Edition, With Six Folding Maps 19. BURGOYNE, John. A State of the Expedition from Canada. As Laid before the House of Commons, by Lieutenant-General Burgoyne, and Verified by Evidence; with a Collection of Authentic Documents, and an Addition of Many Circumstances Which Were Prevented from Appearing before the House by the Prorogation of Parliament. Written and Collected by Himself, and Dedicated to the Officers of the Army He Commanded. London: Printed for J. Almon, First edition. Quarto (10 3/4 x 8 1/2 inches; 273 x 215 mm). With six folding maps, including frontispiece. All of the maps have some contemporary hand-coloring in outline. Two of the maps with overslips. Mid-nineteenth-century half black morocco over marbled boards. Spine stamped and lettered in gilt. All edges speckled brown. With green silk placeholder. Edges a bit rubbed. A bit of light offsetting to maps, but generally very clean. Overall a very good copy. Burgoyne defends his actions in the campaign that led to the disaster at Saratoga. He proves in this work that his army was half the size he had demanded, and was badly provided for. The work is one of the best sources on the campaign. (Streeter). From the Kenneth Hill Collection. Howes B968. Sabin Streeter 794. HBS $8,500 First Edition of Burney s Grand Ouvrage 20. [BURNEY, Fanny]. Camilla: Or, A Picture of Youth. London: Printed for T. Payne, at the Mews-Gate; and T. Cadell, First edition. Five octavo volumes (6 7/8 x 4 1/16 inches; 174 x 103 mm). Contemporary full speckled calf. Red and black morocco spine labels on each volume, lettered in gilt. Previous owner s heraldic bookplate on front pastedown of each volume. One gathering sprung in volume III. Overall a fine set. Rothschild 550. HBS $3,000 12

13 Possibly the First Appearance of Calvin in English Translation. 21. CALVIN, John. [COVERDALE, Miles, translator]. A Faythful and moost Godlye treatyse concernynge the most sacret sacrament of the blessed body and bloude of oure sauioure Christe, co[m]piled by Iohn Caluyne Myles Couerdale. London: Iohn Day and Wyllyam Seres, dwellynge in Sepulchres Parish at the signe of the Resurrection a little aboue Holbourne Conduite. [1548?]. Early edition and possibly the first appearance of Calvin in English translation. Small octavo (5 5/8 x 3 1/2 inches; 135 x 90 mm). 96 pp. Black letter. A translation by Miles Coverdale from the Latin version by Nicholas Des Gallars of: Petit traict e de la Saincte cene. Imprint from colophon; publication date suggested by STC. The STC lists four editions of this title, all with the suggested date of 1548, however according to the STC, the other three are said to be translated by Thomas Broke, making this the only 1548 edition actually translated by Coverdale. Modern half morocco over marbled boards. Spine lettered in gilt. All edges gilt. New endpapers. Some minor repairs to outer margin of title-page, not affecting text. A tiny wormhole to title-page, but no loss of text. Some early manuscript notes to first few pages, otherwise extremely clean throughout. ESTC S STC HBS $24,500 First Edition of Cantillon s Great Work 22. CANTILLON, Richard. Essai sur la Nature du Commerce ed général. Traduit de l Anglois. A Londres: chez Fletcher Gyles [but probably Paris], First edition. Octavo. Complete with half-title and final Table des Chapitres. Contemporary French mottled calf, red morocco spine label, spine gilt in compartments, marbled endpapers, red edges. A fine copy. Housed in a custom full brown calf clamshell, decoratively tooled in gilt on spine. First edition of Cantillon s great work: the most systematic statement of economic principles before [Adam Smith s] Wealth of Nations (Roll, p. 121). Einaudi 846. Goldsmiths Kress Schumpeter, History of Economic Analysis, 217ff. HBS $45,000 13

14 Capturing the French Revolution 23. CARLYLE, Thomas. The French Revolution. A History. In Three Volumes. London: James Fraser, First edition. Three octavo volumes (7 3/4 x 4 3/4 inches; 197 x 121 mm). Complete with half-titles and the integral ad leaf in Vol. II. Uncut. Publisher s brown boards, expertly rebacked to style and with original printed spine labels laid down. Some expectable rubbing to boards, but still a remarkable copy. Very difficult to find in the original boards and complete. housed in a blue cloth clamshell case with a red morocco gilt spine label. Printing and the Mind of Man 304. HBS $3,500 First Edition of the Tomb of King Tut 24. CARTER, Howard, and A.C. Mace. The Tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amen. Discovered by the Late Earl of Carnarvon and Howard Carter. With 104 [and 153 and 156] illustrations from photographs by Harry Burton (of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York). London: Cassell and Company, 1923 [and 1927 and 1933]. First edition. Three large octavo volumes (9 1/4 x 6 3/8 inches; 234 x 163 mm). Each volume with a frontispiece and numerous photographic plates. Half-titles in each volume. Original light brown cloth lettered in gilt on front cover and spine. Front cover with black leather label stamped in gilt with a scarab. All volumes with previous owner s bookplate, on half-title in volumes I and III and initial blank in volume II. Inner hinges show cracking but holding. Volume III with some glue repair to front inner hinge. Overall a very good copy with the gilt still very bright. HBS $2,500 First Edition of Chagall s Drawings for the Bible 25. CHAGALL, Marc. Drawings for the Bible. Text by Gaston Bachelard. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1960]. First edition. Folio (14 x 10 3/8 inches; 355 x 262 mm). With twenty-four color lithographs and ninetysix reproductions in black and white, plus a color lithograph illustration on the original boards and the dust jacket specially designed for this volume. Jacket a bit rubbed on top and bottom of spine with some minor chipping, Otherwise, near fine. HBS $5,000 14

15 First Edition of Clarke s Treaties on Decimal Arithmetic 26. CLARKE, Henry. The Rationale of Circulating Numbers London: Printed for the Author; and sold by Mr. Murray, First edition. Octavo (8 3/16 x 5 inches; 209 x 127 mm). With seven folding engraved plates. We could find no copies of this at auction in the past fifty years. According to ESTC The contents leaf after p. xiv is possibly an insert thus explaining the lack of pagination. Contemporary calf, rebacked with original spine. Remnants of a red spine label. Outer hinges repaired. Some rubbing and scuffing to boards. With about eight pages of a previous owners extensive hand-written notes in old ink. Overall a very good copy of this scarce item. ESTC T HBS $1,750 First Edition of Lord Jim 27. CONRAD, Joseph. Lord Jim. A Tale. Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, First edition. First issue, with all points. Octavo (7 3/8 x 5 inches; 189 x 127 mm). Original pale green linen-grain cloth decoratively stamped and lettered in black on front cover and decoratively stamped in black and lettered in gilt on spine. Largely unopened. Endpapers very slightly browned. Some occasional light foxing. Gilt very bright. About fine. Keating 25. Smith, Conrad, 5. Wise, Conrad, 7. HBS $4,850 15

16 The First American Account of Cook s Journey and the First American Book on the Northwest Coast 28. [COOK, Captain James]. LEDYARD, John. A Journal of Captain Cook s Last Voyage to the Pacific Ocean, and in Quest of a North- West Passage, between Asia & America; Performed in the Years 1776, 1777, 1778, and Illustrated with a Chart, shewing the Tracts of the Ships employed in this Expedition. Faithfully narrated from the original MS. of Mr. John Ledyard. Hartford: Printed and sold by Nathaniel Patten, First edition. Octavo in fours (6 5/8 x 4 3/8 inches; 169 x 111 mm). [1]-208 pp. Map absent as is almost always the case. Contemporary full brown sheep. Red morocco spine label, lettered in blind. Original stab holes present, indicating that this copy was once in original wrappers, with seemingly original endpapers. Inner hinges with some minor professional repairs. Date 1783 in blue ink on title-page. Front free endpaper with old ink notes. A bit of toning and staining, however considerably clean and bright, unusual for an American book of this period. Housed in a custom oatmeal cloth clamshell. Overall a very good copy. The first American account of Cook s Third Voyage, which preceded publication of the official (London) narrative by more than a year (Hill). The first American book on the Northwest Coast and likely the first American book on Hawaii. Evans Hawaiian National Bibliography 52. Hill I, pp Sabin Lada- Mocarski 36. Kroepelin 717. Howes L-178. HBS $18,500 The First Biography of Captain James Cook 29. [COOK, Captain James]. KIPPIS, Andrew, author. The Life of Captain James Cook. London: Printed for G. Nicol, First edition. One quarto volume (11 1/16 x 8 7/8 inches; 282 x 226 mm). With engraved frontispiece portrait. With half-title. Also includes in the appendix: Helen Maria Williams s The Morai, an ode. Full modern mottled calf, boards ruled and stamped in blind. Spine stamped and lettered in gilt. Maroon calf spine label. Newer endpapers. Some light foxing and toning to portrait, otherwise a near fine copy. Holmes 69; ESTC T149305; Cox, p. 64; Hill, pg 163.HBS $2,250 16

17 A Fine Group of Costume Books With More Than Two Hundred Hand-Colored Aquatint Plates 30. [COSTUME]. [ALEXANDER, William]. Picturesque Representations of The Dress and Manners of the English. Illustrated in Fifty Coloured Engravings, with Descriptions. London: John Murray, [With]: Picturesque Representations of The Dress and Manners of the Turks. Illustrated in Sixty Coloured Engravings, with Descriptions. London: John Murray, [With]: Picturesque Representations of The Dress and Manners of the Austrians. Illustrated in Fifty Coloured Engravings, with Descriptions. London: John Murray, [With]: Picturesque Representations of The Dress and Manners of the Russians. Illustrated in Sixty-Four [63] Coloured Engravings, with Descriptions. London: John Murray, [With]: Picturesque Representations of The Dress and Manners of the Chinese. Illustrated in Fifty Coloured Engravings, with Descriptions. London: John Murray, First editions of John Murray s reduced format series of Alexander s costume books. Five small quarto volumes (9 1/8 x 6 7/16 inches; 232 x 163 mm). With 273 of 274 fine hand-colored aquatint plates. Lacking plate number 60 of 64 in the Russians volume. Contemporary red straight-grain morocco. Double gilt-rule border on covers. Boards also tooled in blind. English volume with some light discoloration to front board. Very minor foxing, otherwise an excellent set. Plates in fine condition. Colas 75 and 78. Hiler, p. 16 (lists all five under Alexander). Lipperheide 832; 1351; 1423; Prideaux, p. 325 (lists all five under Alexander). HBS $7, First Edition, First Issue in Original Dust Jacket 31. DAHL, Roald. James and the Giant Peach. A Children s Story. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, First edition, first issue (with colophon stating this was bound by Wolff Press) of the author s first children s book. Large octavo (10 x 7 1/8 inches; 250 x 180). Illustrated with full-page color plates and with color and black & white text illustrations by Nancy Ekholm Burkert. Red cloth stamped in blind on the front cover and in gilt on the spine. Illustrated dust jacket. Green endpapers. Top edge dyed yellow. Very light soiling to half-title. Some minor finger soiling to a few spots. A bit of very light rubbing to bottom of the spine. Jacket a just very slightly rubbed at top and bottom of spine. Altogether, a near fine bright, handsome copy of this children s classic. HBS $2,750

18 A Lovely Presentation Copy Of A Modern Christmas Classic 32. DAVIES, Valentine. Miracle on 34th Street. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1947]. First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: For/Another member of/the Walker Family-/Gertrude-/With Best wishes/from Doris, Susan/Kris/ and/ Valentine Davies/July 29, Small octavo (7 3/8 x 4 7/8 inches; 187 x 124 mm). [viii], 120 pp. This inscription is particularly poignant as the author signs it not only from himself but from the characters in the story, Doris and Susan Walker and Kris Kringle. Original brown cloth, front cover decoratively stamped in blind with the face of Santa Claus. Spine lettered in silver. Cloth on front board with minor rubbing. In dust jacket. Spine extremities of dust jacket very mildly chipped. Spine lightly sunned. Some toning to jacket, mainly to the back panel. Still, a handsome, near fine copy of this classic Christmas book. HBS $2, [DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE]. [FORCE, Peter]. [STONE, William J.]. Declaration of Independence. From the American Archives. [Washington, D.C.: W. J. STONE SC WASHn William Stone for Peter Force, c.a. 1833]. The Peter Force Declaration of Independence The Peter Force Edition of the Declaration of Independence. Originally found in Force s America Archives. Large folio broadside (28 7/8 x 25 1/2 inches; 732 x 650 mm) Rice paper. Printed in black ink on recto only. This is often found with a very tight margin on at least one side, as it was bound into the book, but present copy has large margins on all four sides, never touching the text. Sheet with folds, consistent with having been issued in the Force American Archives Fifth Series, volume I. Some minor, nearly invisible repairs to closed tears in some of the creases, with no loss of text. Housed flat in a mylar sleeve. Overall an about fine copy. A Wet transfer method was used to transfer 200 copies of the Declaration, which degraded the quality of the original. Because of complaints about the deterioration it caused, the process of wet transfer was no longer allowed. This is a copy made from one of the original plates of the Declaration made by William Stone. HBS $30,000 18

19 Defoe s Account of the Great Plague of London 34. DEFOE, Daniel. A Journal of the Plague Year: Being Observations or Memorials, of the most Remarkable Occurences, As well Publick as Private, Which happened in London During the last Great Visitation in Written by a Citizen, who continued all the while in London. Never made publick before. London: Printed for E. Nutt, First edition. Octavo (7 3/16 x 4 5/16 inches; 183 x 109 mm). Bound without the half-title. Engraved head and tail pieces and an engraved initial. According to ESTC Signed at the end: H.F., i.e. Daniel Defoe. Bound by Riviere & Sons in nineteenth-century paneled calf. Boards double ruled and tooled in gilt. Spine stamped in gilt. Two red morocco spine labels lettered in gilt with the title and Lond Hinges with some professional repairs. Overall a very good copy. Moore 449. Rothschild 778. ESTC T HBS $4,500 A Wonderful Set of Defoe s Masterpiece. Third Edition of Volume I and First Edition of Volume II 35. DEFOE, Daniel. The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner. Who lived eight and twenty Years all alone in an uninhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but himself. With an Account how he was at last as strangely deliver d by Pyrates. Written by Himself. The Third Edition. London: Printed for W. Taylor, Third edition (published the same year as the first edition), second issue (Hutchins 3c ) of volume I and first edition, first issue, second variant (Hutchins B2 ) of volume II. Octavo (7 1/2 x 4 5/8 inches; 190 x 115 mm). Engraved frontispiece portrait of Robinson Crusoe by Clark & Pine. Decorative woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials. Volume I of this work was so popular that it went through four editions within the first four months of it being printed. [Together with:] [DEFOE, Daniel]. The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe; Being the Second and Last Part of his Life, and of the Strange Surprizing Accounts of his Travels Round three Parts of the Globe. Written by Himself. To which is added a Map of the World, in which is Delineated the Voyages of Robinson Crusoe. London: Printed by W. Taylor, Octavo (7 5/8 x 4 3/4 inches; 195 x 120 mm). Folding engraved map of the world facing p. [1]. Decorative woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials. Two volumes uniformly bound in full contemporary speckled calf. Rebacked to style, with original red morocco spine labels. Double-rule gilt border. Edges speckled red and top edges dyed gray. Edges tooled in blind. Boards slightly warped. Corners lightly bumped. Signature O of volume II, slightly sprung. Previous owner s bookplate on front pastedown of each volume. Some light toning, mainly to endpapers. Overall a very good set. Crusoe Grolier, 100 English, 41. Hutchins, pp , Printing and the Mind of Man 180. ESTC T72267 HBS $8,500 19

20 With 100 Beautiful Contemporary Hand-Colored Lithographed Plates 36. DEMIDOFF, Anatole de. [RAFFET, Auguste, illustrator]. Voyage dans la Russie méridonale & la Crimée, par la Hongrie, la Valachie & la Moldavie exécuté en 1837, sous la direction de M. Anatole de Demidoff, par MM. de Sainson, Le Play, Huot, Léveillé, de Nordmann, Rousseau et du Ponceau. Dédié a Sa Majesté Nicolas Premier, Empereur de toutes les Russies. Dessiné d après nature et lithographié par Raffet. Paris: Publié par Gihaut Frères, [ ]. First edition. Large folio (21 1/8 x 13 5/8 inches; 530 x 348 mm.). [2], 64 pp (complete). With half-title, lithographed title, with the plate list on verso and 100 contemporary hand-colored lithographed plates (including additional title and nine other section titles) by Raffet, all on large, thick paper stock. Plates printed by Auguste Bry. With the descriptive text for plate 1-87 bound in (as usual to not have the descriptive text for plates ). According to Brunet, the descriptive text to accompany this volume was issued separately from the plates and it is unusual to find a copy with any text bound in. Contemporary half red morocco over marbled boards. Boards ruled in gilt. Spine lettered and decoratively tooled in gilt. Minimal wear to extremities. A closed crack to upper outer hinge, with no loss. Overall a wonderful copy. Atabey 337. Ray, The Art of the French Illustrated Book, 119. Brunet 2:583 HBS $45,000 First American Edition of A Christmas Carol In Publisher s Extra Gilt Gift Binding 37. DICKENS, Charles. A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas. With Illustrations by John Leech. Philadephia: Carey & Hart, First American Edition. Twelvemo in sixes. [8], 158 pp. Four handcolored lithographed plates (including the frontispiece and the plates facing pp. 59, 75, and 143) and four hand-colored wood-engraved plates (facing pp. 36, 71, 113, and 157). Publisher s original gift binding by J.C. Russell Binder in dark brown vertically-ribbed cloth with front cover decoratively stamped in gilt, rear cover decoratively stamped in blind and spine decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt. Original buff endpapers. Spine gilt lightly rubbed, headcap and tailcap chipped, rear outer hinge repaired. A very good copy of this scarce gift binding. Housed in a brown cloth clamshell case. Gimbel A80. HBS $6,000 20

21 Illustrations to the Pickwick Club; Very Rare In Original Parts 38. DICKENS, Charles. Illustrations to the Pickwick Club. Edited by Boz. By Samuel Weller. [London]: E. Grattan, First edition. Eight octavo parts. Original blue green printed paper wrappers. Minor tears to some extremities. Overall, very good and very scarce. Housed in a custom green cloth clamshell, lettered in black on spine. HBS $1,500 First Appearance in Print of Dickens s First Series of Sketches And Other Notices of Interest in Victorian London 39. [DICKENS, Charles, contributor]. The Morning Chronicle. London: John Black, Daily. (26 x 20 1/2 inches; 660 x 519 mm). 88 pp. Partial publication run comprised of twentyone single issues from Oct. 13, 1835 through Jan. 19, Publication highlights include: (1) Notice of a show at the Colosseum, possibly attributed to Charles Dickens, 13 Oct 1835; (2) Review of the burletta, The Yellow Kids, 20 Oct 1835; (3) Review of The Dream at Sea, 24 Nov 1835; (4) Poll and riot reports about the election at Northampton, Dec , 21-22, 1835; (5) Review of One Hour, 12 Jan 1836; (6) Review of The Waterman, 15 Jan 1836; (7) Report of a Procession at Lambeth, 22 Jan 1836; (8) Review of Rienzi, 4 Feb 1836; (9) Report of O Connell s speech, 11 Feb and 28 May 1836; (10) Report of Melbourne trial, 23 Jun 1836; (11) Sketches by Boz, 1st Series, (nos. 1-3), 24 Sep, 4 Oct & 11 Oct 1836; (12) Review of Village Coquettes, 7 Dec 1836; (13) Review of Bentley s Miscellany, edited by Charles Dickens, 19 Jan A few smudges and occasional light browning; some small marginal tears, and one tear to December 16, 1835 issue, affecting the text, expertly and almost invisibly repaired. Housed in a black cloth clamshell box. Excellent set of early Dickens writings and Dickens-related notices in a popular London newspaper. HBS $2,500 The Two Greatest Medieval Histories of Troy 40. DICTYS CRETENSIS. Historia Troiana. [edited by Franciscus Faragonius] [together with:] DARES PHRYGIUS. De excidio Troiae historiae. Messina: Guilelmus Schonberger, First combined edition of these two important histories, thus uniting these two standard sources forever afterwards. (Fourth and sixth appearances in print individually.) Small (Chancery) quarto (7 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches; 199 x 140mm). 79 leaves (of 80, lacking final blank). Roman letter lines. Woodcut initials with profuse branch-work and floral decoration, printer s device on verso of last leaf. Nineteenth-century calf. Previous owner s bookplate. Near fine in a custom full calf clamshell, gilt-stamped on spine. From the renowned library the 6th Marquess of Bute. The siege of Troy was one of the greatest subjects for medieval story-tellers. These two histories (though unreliable in their details) were the most significant sources for the medieval renditions of the Troy-saga, as often used as Homer, and in circulation before Le Fevre. The medieval transmissions of these texts was greatly expedited in the thirteenth century by the Sicilian Guido della Colonne of Messina which adds further importance to this early (perhaps first?) example of Sicilian printing. (The priority claims of Palermo have never been fully established.) HBS $28,500 21

22 First Edition of the First Mickey Mouse Book and the First Commercially Licensed Mickey Mouse Periodical 41. DISNEY, Walt. Mickey Mouse Book. Including The Story of Mickey Mouse, Mickey Mouse Game, Mickey Mouse March and Mickey Mouse Song. Drawings by Walt Disney Studios. Story and Game Originated by Bobette Bibo, Age 11 Years. New York: Bibo and Lang, First edition of the first Mickey Mouse Book. Later issue, without the words Kill Him in the song. Complete with the usually lacking page 9 cut-outs. Quarto (12 x 9 inches; 305 x 230 mm). Illustrated in black, white and green throughout. This is the first commercially licensed Mickey Mouse periodical. Original pale green wrappers, printed in black and white. Light wear and minor staining to covers. Small slits at top and bottom of the spine. Otherwise a very good copy of this exceedingly scarce book. Disneyana 163. HBS $2,000 First Edition In Book Form 42. DOYLE, A[rthur] Conan. The Sign of Four. London: Spencer Blackett, First edition in book form, second issue, with foot of spine reading Griffith Farran & Cos Standard Library. Octavo (7 7/16 x 5 inches; 188 x 127 mm). Frontispiece by Charles Kerr, with tissue guard. With the numeral 138 on the contents page incomplete and reading 13, as usual, and with wished appearing as w shed on p. 56, line 16. Original dark red fine-ribbed cloth blocked in black with front cover and spine lettered in gilt. All edges uncut. Dark brown coated endpapers. Minimal wear to spine extremities. A pinhole in the cloth of the spine and corners a bit bumped and rubbed. Front inner hinge repaired. Overall a very nice copy. Housed in a custom full red morocco clamshell. Green and Gibson A7a.i. HBS $7,500 22

23 A Legendary Rarity with the Exceedingly Rare Publisher s Printed Wrappers Bound In 43. DUMAS, Alexandre. Les Trois Mousquetaires. Paris: Baudry, First edition. Eight octavo volumes (8 1/8 x 5 1/2 inches; 219 x 135 mm.). In each case with [4, half-title and title-page] and the table of contents additional, as in Reed. Each volume bound with the publisher s printed wrappers, front and back, in fine condition except for minor archival repairs. Laid in to volume one is a leaf of manuscript in Dumas hand being a quote from page 140 of his book Péches De Jeunesse, published Additionally there is a note in Dumas hand, bound in at the front of volume I. Uniformly bound by David in 19th-century half navy blue morocco over marbled boards. Boards ruled in gilt and spines stamped and lettered in gilt. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Each volume with a silk page-marker. Marbled endpapers. Two volumes, with small marginal losses on wrappers, the back wrapper vol. 1 and front volume of volume 7. The back wrapper of volume 7, also bound in on a stub. A bit of foxing and minor light water stain on the top edge of vol. 3 throughout. All wrappers are present. Overall a pristine copy of one of the greatest historical romances of all time. This copy of the first edition of Les Trois Mousquetaires is exceptionally clean and bright, What sets it above nearly every other copy that has come up for auction in the past three decades, however, is the fact that the publisher s printed wrappers are bound in at the front and rear of each textblock. Thus in addition to being an absolutely pristine set in notably handsome bindings, the inclusion of the wrappers make this copy exceedingly rare. Carteret I, 235. Reed, p.170. HBS $125,000 23

24 Limited Edition, Signed by Dwight Eisenhower 44. EISENHOWER, Dwight David. Mandate for Change The White House Years. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., First edition, one of 1,434 numbered copies signed by Eisenhower out of a total edition of This copy being number 17. Large octavo (9 3/8 x 6 3/8 inches; 240 x 160 mm. Profusely illustrated with captioned photographs and maps, color map endpapers. Appendixes, Index. Publisher s original tan buckram, with presidential seal stamped in gilt on the front cover. Spine lettered in gilt within a green box. Top edge cut, others untrimmed. Partially unopened. Housed in the publisher s board slipcase with printed label. Overall, near fine copy. HBS $1,250 Limited to 290 Copies, Signed by Eliot 45. ELIOT, T.S. The Four Quartets. London: Faber and Faber, [1960]. One of 290 copies printed on the hand-press of the Officina Bodoni in Verona and signed by the author, this being number 188. Quarto (11 3/4 x 8 inches; 297 x 202 mm). Printed in Dante type. Quarter vellum over marbled boards. Vellum ruled in gilt. Spine lettered in gilt. Top edge gilt. A fine copy. In marbled cardboard open-end slipcase. Contained in the Four Quartets are Burnt Norton, East Coker, The Dry Salvages and Little Gidding. HBS $4,500 The Most Famous Poem of the Twentieth Century 46. ELIOT, T.S. The Waste Land. New York: Boni and Liveright, First edition, first issue. Limited to 1,000 numbered copies, this being number 134. With the limitation number in the colophon on page [6] measuring 5 mm in height, water with dropped a on page 22 and mountain spelled correctly on page 41. Small octavo (7 1/2 x 5 inches; 190 x 128 mm). [1]-64 pp. Original flexible black cloth boards lettered in gilt on front cover and spine. Uncut. Spine very lightly sunned. Some very light rubbing to boards. A small dampstain on the fore-edge of pages Overall a very nice copy. Connolly b. Gallup, Eliot, A6a. HBS $7,000 24

25 An Early Treatise on Healthy Living and the Effects of Diet 48. FITZGERALD, F. Scott. Tender Is the Night. New York: Charles Scribner s Sons, The book is a first edition, first issue with the Scribner s A on verso of title-page. The jacket is a first issue. Octavo (7 3/8 x 5 1/8 inches; 187 x 130 mm). In the unrestored first issue dust jacket, having quotes from T.S. Eliot, H.L. Mencken, and Paul Rosenfeld on the front flap, and $2.50 price not clipped. Original green cloth. Spine stamped in gilt. In the unrestored first issue dust jacket. Jacket with some minor chipping along edges. A small V-shaped chip to the top corner of the jacket spine. Jacket spine has the usual slight touch of dullness. Book fore-edge very slightly foxed. Overall, a very good to fine copy in the exceedingly rare first issue jacket. Housed in a custom red morocco clamshell. Bruccoli, Fitzgerald, A.14.1.a. HBS $17, ELYOT, Sir Thomas. The castell of helth corrected and in some places augmented by the first author therof, sir Thomas Elyot knight, the yere of our lorde [London: in fletestrete in the house of Thomas Berthelet], [1550?] Early edition. The 1541 edition was the first to contain Elyot s preface, replacing the dedication to Cromwell. Title within woodcut border. Black letter. Small octavo (5 1/4 x 3 1/2 inches; 131 x 90 mm). [7], 73, leaves. Bound without final blank, as is common. The is the earliest edition to be found at auction in the past 40 years. Eighteenth century calf, tooled in blind. Spine lettered and ruled in gilt. Board edges tooled in gilt. All edges speckled light green. Foreedge of title-page frayed. Repairs along outer margins of leaves A5, A7 and A8, barely affecting text. Leaf I3, with upper, outer corner torn, but no loss of text. Some tiny wormholes and a bit of dampstaining, mainly to first few leaves. Housed in a full morocco slipcase. Overall very good. A popular, sensible treatise on healthful living, with sound and practical advice on the recognition of the commoner symptoms of disease, as well as what to do about them (Hunt). STC 7647, Norman 705A, Hunt 155n, ESTC S HBS $12,500 In the Unrestored Rare First Issue Dust Jacket

26 Butler s Hudibras in Three Volumes, Each With a Fore-Edge Painting of a London Market 49. [FORE-EDGE PAINTING]. BUTLER, Samuel. Hudibras. By Samuel Butler. With Dr. Gray s Annotations. A New Edition Corrected and Enlarged. In Three Volumes. London: Charles & Henry Baldwyn, New edition. Three large octavo volumes. Illustrated with black and white woodcut illustrations throughout. Contemporary maroon morocco, decoratively triple-ruled in gilt on covers and spine with five raised bands. All edges gilt, gilt turn-ins. Spines a bit sunned and rubbed along extremities. Overall, a very good set. Each volume depicts a fore-edge painting of different markets in London; Smithfield Market, Covent Garden Market and Fleet market respectively. HBS $2,500 Fore-Edge Painting With Two Separate Views In England 50. [FORE-EDGE PAINTING]. SOUTHEY, Robert. The Poetical Works of Robert Southey. Complete In One Volume. A New Edition. London: Longman & Co., New Edition. Thick octavo. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Southey and an engraved title page illustrating his residence at Keswick. Contemporary dark green calf, decoratively ruled in gilt on covers and spine with five raised bands, red morocco label on spine, gilt-stamped, gilt turn-ins. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. A few light scrapes to covers. Overall, a near fine and lovely example of an early fore-edge painting. The fore-edge painting illustrates two views in England; The house of Lord Kingston, Twickenham Common and Syon House, Richmond. HBS $1,250 26

27 First Edition of The First Collection of Laws for the Thirteen Colonies and the Basic Document for the Separate Government of the Three Lower Counties 51. [FRANKLIN, Benjamin]. Charter of Privilages, Granted by William Penn, Esq; to the Inhabitants of Pensilvania and Territories. Philadelphia: B. Franklin, [Together With] [FRANKLIN, Benjamin]. Laws of the Government of New-Castle, Kent and Sussex Upon Delaware. Philadelphia: B. Franklin, First edition. Folio (11 5/8 x 7 inches; 295 x 178 mm). 8 pp; [1]-282, [3, table], [1, blank] pp. We could only locate one copy of either of these titles at auction in the last 40 years. Both volumes bound together in full speckled calf. Boards tooled and ruled in blind. Spine with red morocco spine label, lettered in gilt. Spine stamped in gilt. Board edges tooled in gilt. Old paper repairs to side margin of title-page of Charter as well as top margin of all four leaves of Charter, not affecting text. Some foxing and toning throughout, the worst of it in Laws, between signatures ZZ-Sss2. Overall a very good copy, housed in a full morocco clamshell. The Charter of Privileges granted by Penn in 1701, but printed in 1741, is the basic document for the separate government of the Three Lower Counties, which as political entity had a separate existence as a Crown colony under laws of its own assembly from 1704 till the Revolution. The Laws, here bound with the Charter, is the first collected laws of the Three Lower Counties, and is as well the first collection of laws of one of the original thirteen states. (Streeter 953). Emphasizing local government, democratic processes, and religious toleration, Penn s charter paved the way for thousands of Pennsylvanian residents to practice their beliefs and participate in government. The charter would serve as the colony s state constitution until the Revolutionary War, and it would provide a foundation on which the Constitution and the Bill of Rights would be built in (The Historical Society of Pennsylvania) Evans Howes. Sabin Streeter 953. HBS $75,000 27

28 First Edition, A Lovely Copy of this Important Work by Franklin 52. FRANKLIN, Benjamin. Political, Miscellaneous and Philosophical Pieces. Arranged under the Following Heads, and Distinguished by Initial Letters in Each Leaf: [G.P.] General Politics [A.B.T.] American Politics before the Troubles [A.D.T] American Politics during the Troubles [P.P.] Provincial or Colony Politics; and [M.P.] Miscellaneous and Philosopical Pieces London: J. Johnson, First edition. Collating: xii, [574]; complete with the frontis portrait of Franklin, three plates (one folding) and the folding chart. Bound in contemporary tree calf, recently rebacked to style. Occasional browning or spotting to leaves, but an excellent copy overall. [T]he only edition of Franklin s writings (other than his scientific), which was printed during his life time; was done with Franklin s knowledge and consent, and contains an errata made by him for it. (Ford 342). Howes F-330. Howes. Sabin Streeter. HBS $9,500 First English Edition 53. GILDAS. The Epistle of Gildas. The most Ancient British Author who flourished in the yeere of our Lord, 546. And who by his great Erudition, Sanctitie, and Wisedom, acquired the name of Sapiens. Faithfully Translated out of the Originall Latine. London: T. Cotes, for William Cooke, First edition in English. Twelvemo (5 7/16 x 3 3/16 inches). Lacking final blank leaf. With engraved frontispiece portrait of Gildas by William Marshall. Hand-colored armorial design on the verso of title page, similar to the design on the bookplate. Full contemporary speckled calf ruled in blind. Brown calf spine label lettered in gilt. Brass clasp closures. Tears on e11 and d3 expertly repaired, no loss of text. Previous owner Hugh, Duke of Westminster s bookplate on front paste-down. Inner hinges cracked but firm. A very pretty and crisp copy. Gilda s historical work is called in the rubric of the oldest extant manuscript, Liber Querulus de excidio Britanniæ. It is devided in the editions into a first part called Historia Gildæ, and a second part called Epistola Gildæ; but it is plainly a continuous work, and the division seems due to early transcribers... The Epistles of Gildas, faithfully translated out of the Original Latine, with introduction by J. Habington (1638), was the first version in English. (Dictionary of National Biography, 346). Lowndes, 892. HBS $4,000 The Only Early Work Covering the Phase of British History to Which Arthur is Commonly Assigned (The Arthurian Encyclopedia) 54. GILDAS. Opus Novum Gildae Britannus Monachus. cui sapientis cognomentum est inditum, de calamitate excidio, et conquestu Britanniae [Antwerp: C. Ruremond, 1525 (?)]. First edition. This work has usually been, and often continues to be, attributed to the printer Pynson in London in 1525; Dennis Rhodes in his 1979 article in The Library (IV, 1979, pp ) attempts to identify different title-pages, and considers the title at hand to be that printed by Ruremond circa Text is edited by Polydore Vergilius and R. Ridley. Octavo. Nineteenth century morocco, gilt. A few leaves closely shaved affecting an occasional letter. A very good copy of a rare and important work. Pollard and Redgrave, STC, 11892: Not an STC book. See The Library IV (1979) pp HBS $2,750 28

29 Rare First English Edition of Dead Souls 55. [GOGOL, Nikolai]. Home Life in Russia. By a Russian Nobel. Revised by the Editor of Revelations of Siberia. In Two Volumes. London: Hurst and Blackett, First edition in English. A translation of Dead Souls by Gogol. Two octavo volumes (7 11/16 x 4 13/16 inches; 195 x 122 mm). With two pages of publisher s advertisements. Publisher s original green cloth. Boards and spines decoratively stamped in blind. Spines lettered in gilt. Yellow coated endpapers. Top edges brown. Some very light soiling to cloth and some fraying to the tops of spines. Some very minor professional and almost invisible gluing to a small portion of the back outer hinge, with no loss of cloth. Overall a very good, clean set in original cloth. Housed in a custom slipcase. Sadleir 985. HBS $10,000 First Edition of Gogol s Masterpiece 56. GOGOL, Nikolai. Pokhozhdeniia Chichikova, ili Mertvyia Dushi: Poema. [The Adventures of Chichikov, or Dead Souls. A Poem]. Moscow: University Press, First edition. Gogol s masterpiece, a classic of nineteenth-century Russian literature, and one of his works satirizing the Russian character, as he also did with Revizor [The Government Inspector]. Volume one only (as issued), 8vo (233 x 150mm.), half-title, later calfbacked brown buckram, lettered in gilt on spine, without wrappers, occasional light staining, pp bound upside down, but generally an excellent copy. There was a second volume, published after Gogol s death by his heirs in 1855; although he had burned the second volume, there were sufficient drafts remaining for the volume to be recomposed, and the planned third volume was never written. Kilgour 345, Fekula 4716 HBS $37,500 With Nine Original Lithographs, Each Signed by Gross 57. GROSS, Chaim, [artist]. The Song of Songs. A Suite of Nine Lithographs after the Water Colors Painted by the Artist for the Song of Songs. New York: The Print Club, Limited signed first edition. One of 200 copies signed by the artist, this being number 104. Out of an overall edition of 250 copies. Large folio (21 x 17 inches; 530 x 435 mm). With nine full color lithographs on loose sheets, signed by the artist in pencil. Each sheet is numbered 104/200. Printed on Archess paper mould-made in France by Arjomari Prioux. Nine loose signatures, uncut, laid into a publisher s original paper portfolio. Housed in an original blue cloth clamshell, lettered in gilt. Each lithograph with tissue-guard. Fine. HBS $1,350 29

30 Original Manuscript of an Unrecorded Woody Guthrie Song 58. GUTHRIE, Woody. [Manuscript Song Lyrics, signed] Peekskill Golf Grounds. Coney Island: One leaf autographed manuscript signed. Recto with 44 lines of lyrics in manuscript, (11 4-line stanzas). Along the top margin in manuscript in manuscript is Typed up Peekskill Golf Grounds and (Billy Vanero). Along the bottom margin in manuscript is Guthrie s signature, army serial number (A.S.N ) and Coney Island/ Septem. 7th Verso is blank. In the years Guthrie was living in Coney Island. One folio sheet (14 x 8 1/2 inches, 355 x 215 mm). Black ink, except (Billy Vanero) which is in green ink. Some light creasing through the horizontal middle of the leaf, and a 3.5 inch closed tear along the crease, with no loss of text. A small closed tear to top margin, also with no loss of text. About fine and a wonderful piece with great historical significance. These manuscript lyrics are to the song Peekskill Golf Ground a song which is part of a larger group of songs called the Peekskill Songs that were never recorded by Guthrie, all regarding the situation and Guthrie s personal experience at the Peekskill riots in HBS $13,500 Earliest Known Publication of the Rules of Baseball 59. GUTSMUTHS, Johann Christoph Friedrich. Spiele zur Uebung und Erholung des Korpers und Geistes fur die Jugend. ihre Erzieher und alle Freunde unschuldiger Jugenfreunden. Schnepfenthal: Buchhandlung der Erziehungsanstalt, Second edition (same year as first). Octavo. Complete with the engraved frontispiece by G.F. Stoelzel after J. H. Ramberg and four full-page game diagrams at the end of the book. Modern quarter brown pebbled cloth over marbled boards. Overall, a very good and clean copy of this rare book. Very rare second edition of the first printed rules of the sport of baseball by Johann Gutsmuths ( ), who is considered one of the founders of modern physical education and gymnastics. BLOCK, David. Baseball Before We Knew It. (2005), pp , 181-2; Gutsmuths quoted: p. 86. HBS $1, First Issue, In the Original Cloth 60. HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel. Tanglewood Tales, for Girls and Boys; Being a Second Wonder-Book. With fine illustrations. Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, First American edition, first printing (without imprint of Geo. C. Rand on copyright page). Small octavo (6 5/8 x 4 1/4 inches; 167 x 109 mm). With woodengraved vignette title-page and six additional engraved plates. With eightpage publisher s catalogue inserted between front endpapers. Publisher s purple-brown cloth. Covers ruled and decoratively stamped in blind and spine decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt. Overall a very good or better copy. Chemised and housed in a brown cloth slipcase, with red morocco spine label. BAL Browne, p. 74. Clarke A22.2a. Peter Parley to Penrod, Pg. 10. HBS $2,750

31 First Edition in English of Ortus Medicinæ. 61. HELMONT, Johannes Baptista van. Oriatrike or, Physick refined London: Printed for Lodowick Loyd, First English edition. Translated by John Chandler. Two parts in one quarto volume (11 3/4 x 7 1/2 inches; 299 x 195 mm). [40], 664, , [18], , , [8], , , [1, blank], [23] pp. Although the British Library copy has [45] preliminary pages, our copy seems to be textually complete. We are lacking frontis and probably some preliminary blanks. Contemporary speckled calf. Boards and spine tooled in blind. Board edges tooled in gilt. All edges speckled red. Hinges cracked but firm. Head of spine chipped. Lacking front pastedowns. Leaf Ooooo2 with closed tear, barely affecting text. Overall a very good copy. Garrison and Morton. Norman Library. HBS $850 A Superb Copy; First Edition First Issue in A First Issue Dust Jacket 62. HEMINGWAY, Ernest. For Whom the Bell Tolls. New York: Charles Scribner s Sons, First edition, first issue (with Scribner s A on the copyright page), in a first issue jacket (no photographer s credit on rear of jacket). Octavo (8 1/4 x 5 5/8 inches; 209 x 144 mm). Original nubby oatmeal cloth. Front board stamped in black with Hemingway s signature. Spine stamped in red and black board and spine. Cloth extremely bright and completely un-faded. With the usual binder s glue stains at the hinges. In the first issue dust jacket, also bright with no fading and not price clipped. Jacket with minimal flaking to corners, but mostly at top and bottom of spine. A superb copy. Hanneman A18A. HBS $2,750 A Bright, Fine Copy in Dust Jacket 63. HEMINGWAY, Ernest. The Old Man and the Sea. New York: Charles Scribner s Sons, First edition, first issue, with photograph of Hemingway on the rear panel in blue ink, Jacket with the $3.00 price on front flap and Scribner s A on the colophon. Octavo (8 x 5 1/2 inches; 203 x 140 mm). Publisher s light blue cloth. Silver-stamped spine. Blind-stamped front board with Hemingway s signature. In dust jacket. Back board with a small stain. Overall a fine copy in a bright fine jacket. Hanneman A24a. HBS $3,000 31

32 First Edition, in Near Fine Jacket 64. HEMINGWAY, Ernest. To Have and Have Not. New York: Charles Scribner s Sons, First edition. A fine copy of the book in a near fine dust jacket that shows a few minor scuffs and crinkles, but that is generally in excellent condition. One of Hemingway s minor novels, but perhaps one with the greatest film adaptation with William Faulkner participating in the screenplay, Hawks directing and Humphrey Bogart opposite Lauren Bacall. The film was Bacall s first and the chemistry between her and Bogart was palpable, leading to Bogie s third divorce and fourth and final marriage. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Hanneman. HBS $1,450 First Edition, and with the First View Ever Made of Niagara Falls 65. HENNEPIN, Louis. Nouvelle Decouverte D un Tres Grand Pays Utrecht: Chez Guillaume Broedelet, Marchand Libraire, First edition of this account of Hennepin s travels in what is now the United States and Canada. Twelvemo (6 x 3 1/2 inches; 153 x 30 mm). With engraved title-page, two folding maps and two folding plates (the first ever view made of Niagara Falls, the other of one of the earliest pictures of an American bison). Contemporary full vellum. Spine lettered in ink in a contemporary hand. Tape repairs to inner margins of leaves ***5 and ***6. One leaf, leaf A with reinforced fore-edge, with no loss, and leaf A6 with small paper repair. A few notes in old ink on front endpapers. Vellum a bit bumped and soiled, but overall an exceptionally clean copy. Howes 416, Streeter 104, Sabin 31349, Shea 2. HBS $20,000 32

33 One Of The Rarest 18th Century Books Showcasing Furniture Design; with One More Plate than the First Edition of the Previous Year 66. HEPPLEWHITE, Alice. The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer s Guide; Or, Repository of Designs for Every Article of Household Furniture, in the Newest and Approved Taste London: Published by I. and J. Taylor, Second edition. Folio (13 3/4 x 9 3/16 inches; 351 x 232 mm). 127 engraved plates on 126 sheets. Having one more plate than the first edition of the previous year. Beautifully bound in modern navy blue straight-grain morocco. Boards and spines heavily tooled and embellished in gilt. A bit of intermittent spotting and some slight offsetting from plates. Plate number 91 with a two inch closed tear to the upper margin, not affecting engraving. A beautiful copy. This is perhaps the most rare of the three principle eighteenth-century pattern books (Chippendale and Sheraton being better known). Berlin Catalogue Brunet III.105. HBS $6,850 The First Printing of the Philosophy of Pythagoras 67. [HIEROCLES]. [PYTHAGORAS]. [AURISPA, Joannes, translator]. [In aureos versus Pythagorae opusculum.] Hieroclis philosophi stoici et sanctissimi In aureos versus Pythagorae opusculum praestantissimum et religioni Christianae consentaneum incipit. [Padua: Bartholomaeus de Valdezoccho, 17 April 1474]. First edition. Quarto (8 x 6 3/4 inches; 196 x 147 mm). 91 (of 92) leaves, unfoliated. Lacking final blank (m6). Signatures i-m trimmed off of bottom margin as usual in this edition. With 2-4 line initials. 24 lines. Occasional initial supplied in later black ink. Nineteenth-century red morocco. Boards tripleruled in gilt. Spine ruled, stamped and lettered in gilt. Joints lightly rubbed. Pages likely washed at the time of binding. Small repair to torn corner of leaf m5, not affecting text. preserving in the lower extreme corners several of the signatures [a-h] printed by hand for direction of the binder. Overall a fine copy. First printing of Pythagoras and his Golden Verses (collection of moral exhortations) with the commentary which is the only complete extant work by Hierocles. BMC VII, 906. Goff H-151. GW IGI ISTC ih Klebs HBS $15,000 33

34 First Edition of Holinshed s Chronicles, an Important Shakespeare Source Book 68. HOLINSHED, Raphael [and others]. The First [-Laste] Volumes of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande. London: George Bishop [and] John Hunne, First edition. Two median folio volumes (11 1/2 x 7 3/4 inches; 289 x 197 mm). Titles with woodcut borders (McK. 147a), numerous woodcut initials and vignettes of various sizes throughout, many repeated. Blank *b*6 lacking in I:2; second leaf of errata lacking from I; several leaves supplied (G5-8, I2-3 in I:3; 4S2 in II, and probably others) from another genuine copy; map of Edinburgh remargined and with other minor repairs; several paper repairs to the titles and text with occasional loss; some printed marginal notes shaved as usual. A made-up copy, as many copies have been made-up by later owners who combined parts having different imprints (Pforzheimer). This copy with the George Bishop title in Vol. I and the remaining titles with the John Hunne imprint. Early nineteenth-century full tan calf over thick boards, gilt wide fillet bordering on covers, gilt-ruled board edges, spines gilt in compartments, with six raised bands. Hinges and joints just becoming tender. Overall, a very good copy of this important work. Housed in a custom quarter brown morocco clamshell, gilt-stamped. This work formed the first authoritative vernacular and continuous account of the whole of English history. STC (most sets seem to have variations in imprint). Grolier Langland to Wither 146. Lowndes Pforzheimer 494. HBS $25,000 34

35 Limited Edition Set, One of Fifty 69. INGERSOLL, Robert G. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll [The Dresden Edition]. In Twelve Volumes. [With] Ingersoll, A Biographical Appreciation. By Herman E. Kittredge. New York: The Dresden Publishing Company, Limited edition. One of fifty sets, this being number seventeen. Thirteen octavo volumes. (8 7/8 x 6 inches; 224 x 152 mm). With the twelve volumes of Works and an additional thirteenth volumes which is the A Biographical Appreciation by Kittredge. This additional volume is not found with the regular edition, only with this numbered limited edition. Each volume with halftitle. Each of the twelve volumes of the Works with an engraved frontispiece in two states. One state of the frontispiece in black-and-white, and the other in color. Volume I also has an additional engraved title-page, also in two states, blackand-white and hand-colored. The Biography volume with a frontispiece portrait. Publisher s half red morocco over marbled boards. Spines lettered in gilt and stamped in gilt in a floral pattern. Top edges gilt, others uncut. Volume 13 (Biographical) with slightly different marbled boards and stamping, but very sympathetic. Some almost invisible repairs to joints of Biographical volume. Overall a very good set. HBS $2, A Great Classic of Western Exploration 70. JAMES, Edwin. LONG, Stephen H., [contributor]. Account Of An Expedition From Pittsburgh To The Rocky Mountains, Performed In The Years 1819, and 20 In Two Vols.-With an Atlas. Philadelphia: H.C. Carey and I. Lea, [1822] First edition. Two octavo volumes of text (9 3/8 x 5 15/16 inches; 239 x 152 mm) and one small quarto atlas (11 13/16 x 9 3/8 inches; mm). Atlas is dated Atlas complete with eleven plates in total. Two double page maps, eight engraved plates (including one colored) and two vertical sections in one double page plate. All plates with tissue guards. From the Kenneth E. Hill collection. Volume II has a supplement at the end with a separate title page and is date Text uncut in half red morocco over marbled boards. Gilt lettering on the spine. Top edges gilt, others uncut. Boards a bit rubbed. A few old ink marginal notes throughout. A light dampstain to final twenty leaves of volume I. Atlas in quarter cloth over original drab boards. Front board with original printed paper spine label. Some spotting to boards. One plate with professional restoration to back side, not touching image. All three volumes with browning and foxing intermittently as is typical in American books of this time. Overall a very nice set. Graff Hill 877. Howes J41. Sabin HBS $22,500

36 The Rare Princess Casamassima Three-Decker 71. JAMES, Henry. The Princess Casamassima. A Novel. London: Macmillan and Co., First edition, one of 750 sets published in October of Three octavo volumes. Advertisement leaf at the end of volumes two and three. Publisher s dark green cloth, ruled in black on boards, gilt lettering on the spine. Green coated endpapers renewed. Spine extremities slightly bumped, light rubbing to tips and joints. Uncut. A very good copy. In custom cloth clamshell. BAL Edel and Laurence A29a. HBS $6,500 With an Exceptional Original Drawing by James 72. JAMES, Will. Lone Cowboy: My Life Story. Illustrated by the Author. New York: Charles Scribner s Sons, First edition. One of 250 copies with an original James drawing bound in on thicker stock. The drawing in this copy is of a cowboy riding a running horse. The drawing is nearly half the page and has exceptional detail. The drawing is signed and dated in the lower right corner. Octavo (8 3/16 x 5 3/4 inches; 208 x 145 mm). With photographic frontispiece portrait, two facsimile letters, thirty-five full page James illustrations (included in the pagination) and numerous small drawings. Original smooth and shiny green cloth with a brown cloth spine. Original brown morocco spine label, lettered in gilt. Fore-edge uncut. Front inner hinge just barely starting. In green cloth slipcase with brown paper spine label. Overall, an excellent, about fine copy with a wonderful drawing. HBS $5,000 36

37 First Edition in Publisher s Binding and a Facsimile of the Declaration of Independence 73. JEFFERSON, Thomas. Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies. From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson. Edited by Thomas Jefferson Randolph. Charlottesville: Published F. Carr, and Co., First edition. Four octavo volumes (9 x 6 inches; 230 x 155 mm). Engraved frontispiece portrait of Jefferson and four pages of folding plates of a facsimile of a working and corrected copy of the Declaration of Independence. Both the portrait and the Declaration are bound in volume IV. Half-titles in all volumes except volume III. Publisher s original quarter cloth over drab boards. Paper spine labels. Uncut. Volume III largely unopened. Spine labels chipped and label for volume IV nearly gone. Boards soiled. Front inner hinges cracked but firm. Heavily foxed and toned as usual for American paper. Half-title of volume I, torn at top edge and partially repaired, not affecting text. Large closed tear to page 299 of volume II, no loss of text. Page 317 of volume II with upper corner torn, and small loss of text. Large damp stain to upper corners of first 20 leaves of volume III. Volume IV with 2-inch tear to page 329, no loss of text. Overall a very good set of this rare American edition. Howes 60. Sabin Streeter. HBS $2,750 Second Edition of Johnson s Plan for the Dictionary, Printed to Coincide with the Publication of the Dictionary s First Edition 74. [JOHNSON, Samuel]. The Plan of a Dictionary of the English Language London: Printed for J. and P. Knapton, T. Longman and T. Shewell, C. Hitch..., 1747 [i.e. 1755]. 37 Second edition, one of 1500 copies printed to coincide with the publication of the Dictionary in Although the date on the title-page is 1747, it was actually published in There are two states of unknown priority, one as present copy with figure 4 on page 4, the other with figure 8 on page 4. Octavo in fours (7 5/8 x 4 1/2 inches; 194 x 115 mm). [2], 37, 1, blank] pp. Bound in a Miscellany together with other pamphlets. The only copy we could find at auction came up at Sotheby s in Eighteenth-century quarter calf over marbled boards. Spine stamped in gilt with letter J, and with morocco label, and lettered in gilt All edges speckled red. Overall a very good copy, and specifically the Plan pamphlet is fine. This Plan was part of an strong marketing plan to entice buyers to the Dictionary. It was reprinted in Scots Magazine as well as advertised for in newspapers. The reprinted separate pamphlet version (present work) was to be distributed for free. However printing this was far more expensive than simply advertising and there were fewer copies printed that the Dictionary itself. Courtney & Nichol Smith, p 20. Rothschild HBS $6,000

38 Limited Edition, Signed By Henri Matisse and James Joyce 75. JOYCE, James. MATISSE, Henri, [illustrator]. Ulysses [LEC]. With an Introduction by Stuart Gilbert and Illustrations by Henri Matisse. New York: The Limited Editions Club, Limited to 250 numbered copies (from a total edition of 1,500), signed by both James Joyce and Henri Matisse. Quarto (11 11/16 x 9 1/16 inches; 296 x 230 mm). Twenty-six plates by Matisse, consisting of six etchings, printed by hand, and twenty lithographic drawings, made as studies for the etchings, printed on thin colored papers. Original full brown buckram, embossed in gilt on front cover and spine from a design by LeRoy H. Appleton. Top edge speckled brown, others uncut. A bit of browning to the inner hinges, as usual. An about fine copy. Housed in the publisher s original board slipcase printed on the spine. Some minor wear to the slipcase at corners and edges, but better than usually seen. Housed in a custom red half morocco clamshell. The Artist & the Book 197. LEC bibliography 71. Slocum and Cahoon A22. HBS $22,500 First Edition, Printed the Year of Kidd s Death 76. [KIDD, Captain William], [MITCHELL, John]. A Full Account of the Proceedings in Relation to Capt. Kidd. In two Letters. written by a Person of Quality to a Kinsman of the Earl of Bellomont in Ireland. London: Printed and Sold by the Booksellers of London and Westminster, First edition. There were three editions of printed in 1701, the year of Kidd s execution, and this is the first of these three. Small quarto (7 5/8 x 5 5/8 inches; 195 x 144 mm). Nineteenth-century half green morocco over marbled paper boards. Spine lettered in gilt. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. With stab-hole still visible. Board edges a bit chipped, and corners lightly bumped. Some minor soiling to title-page and a few other pages with light staining, but generally very clean. A small blue ink duplicate on front free endpaper and on blank verso of title-page. Final leaf [pg. 51] is laid down and is lacking a 1.25-inch strip from the blank bottom margin. Overall a very good copy. ESTC T Hill 663. Howes m677. Sabin HBS $5,500 38

39 Ulysse-Homère First Edition 77. KOLIADES, Constantin. Ulysse-Homère. ou do Véritable Auteur de l Iliade et de l Odyssée, par Constantinos Koliades, Professeur dans l Université Ionnienne. Paris: Chez De Bure Frères, First Edition. Large folio. [2], viii, 102, [Table], pp. Illustrated with 6 engraved maps and plans and 14 engraved plates showing views by Langlume after Bence. Original printed paper boards, glassine. Some foxing, minor soiling to covers, otherwise, near fine.hbs $3,000 A Very Important and Much-Prized Work 78. KOTZEBUE, Otto von. Entdeckungs-Reise in die Süd-See und nach der Berings-Strasse. zur Erforschung einer nordöstlichen Durchfahrt. Unternommen in den Jahren 1815, 1816, 1817 und 1818, auf Kosten Sr. Erlaucht des Herrn Reichs-Kanzlers Grafen Rumanzoff auf dem Schiffe Rurick unter dem Befehle des Lieutenants der Russisch- Kaiserlichen Marine Otto von Kotzebue. Weimar: Verlegt von den Gebrüdern Hoffmann, First edition, regular issue, with the portraits colored and the folding plates in sepia aquatint. Three quarto volumes in one. Fifteen hand-colored engraved plates, including frontispiece in each volume, one portrait titled Tammeamea and eleven plates depicting butterflies. One uncolored engraved plate, four folding aquatint sepia plates, two folding tables (one included in pagination), and six engraved maps (five folding). Bound with both the original title-page and the special cancel title-page prepared for Chamisso for the third volume. Contemporary diced half calf over marbled boards. Rebacked with original spine laid down. Spine lettered in gilt and stamped in blind. Edges speckled brown. With newer endpapers. Some foxing and toning throughout to text block. Plates and maps very clean. Overall a very nice copy. Cowan, p Hill I, pp Howes K258. Lada-Mocarski 80. Sabin Streeter Zamorano Eighty 48. HBS $10,000 39

40 First Complete Edition 79. LANQUET, Thomas. COOPER, Thomas. CROWLEY, Robert. An Epitome of Cronicles. Conteyninge the Whole discourse of the histories as well of this realme of England as al other cou[n]treys London: In ædibus Thomæ Marshe, First complete edition. A pirated edition repudiated by Cooper whose authorized edition was issued a year later. Small quarto 7 5/8 x 5 3/8 inches; 194 x 137 mm). Printed in black letter and with historiated woodcut initials. With the extra leaf in 2R, and with two signatures of 4G at the end, the last in six rather than four. Complete, but without the duplicate of leaf 181. Collates the same as the British Library Bound by Charles Lewis in the early 19th Century for William Prest, Esq in full tan calf. Rebacked, with original spine laid down. Covers intricately stamped and ruled in blind. With Prest s armorial seal of a horse as central device in gilt. Spine stamped in blind and lettered in gilt. Title-page remargined at top, not affecting text. Page 95 with some old paper repairs, just slightly affecting text. Minor paper repair to page 279, barely affecting text and page 228 with repair to lower margin, not affecting text. Overall a very handsome copy of this early English chronicle usually known as Coopers Chronicle. ESTC S STC HBS $3,750 First Edition, One of 1250 Copies 80. LAWRENCE, D.H. The Rainbow. London: Methuen, First edition. One of 1250 copies (429 of which were destroyed for obscenity ). A copy that is very nearly fine with the spine a bit darkened and faint tape ghosts on the end papers. Housed in a custom slipcase. Roberts A7. HBS $1,650 First Edition of the Author s First Book 81. LEFÉVRE, Edwin. Wall Street Stories. New York: McClure, Phillips & CO., First edition. Author s first book. Octavo (6 7/8 x 4 5/8 inches; 175 x 118 mm). Publisher s original dark green cloth. Front board ruled in blind. Front board and spine, lettered in gilt. Some light rubbing to extremities. Endpapers with some very light foxing. Binding slightly skewed. Internally, very clean. Overall about fine. Eight tales of the habits and customs of Wall Street. Some are thinly-veiled portraits of well-known Wall Street characters such as James R. Keene and Daniel Drew (Hess Collection). HBS $1,850 40

41 First Issue Of The Lincoln And Douglas Debates 82. LINCOLN, Abraham. DOUGLAS, Stephen A. Political Debates between Hon. Abraham Lincoln and Hon. Stephen A. Douglas Columbus: Follett, Foster and Company, First edition, first issue, with all points called for by Monaghan (no line over publisher s slug on title verso, numeral 2 at bottom of page 17). Royal octavo (9 1/8 x 6 3/16 inches; 232 x 157 mm). Publisher s original brown textured cloth, with blindstamped borders tied by floral devices in the corners and with a blindstamped central device. Spine lettered in gilt. Gilt slightly faded. Head and tail of the spine slightly chipped. Cloth dampstained on front board. Some minor toning throughout as usual. Overall a good copy. Howes L338. Howes. Monaghan 69. HBS $3,000 The First Modern Attempt to Analyze Human Knowledge 83. [LOCKE, John]. An Essay Concerning Humane [Human] Understanding. In Four Books. London: Printed [by Elizabeth Holt] for Tho. Basset, and sold by Edw. Mory, First edition, second issue, with a cancel title-page containing the inverted SS of Essay, the type ornament composed of twenty-three pieces, and without Elizabeth Holt s name in the imprint, with the dedication undated, and with the errata uncorrected. Folio (12 5/8 x 7 7/8 inches; 320 x 200 mm). Contemporary brown mottled calf. Expertly rebacked to style with corners repaired. Title-page is short at the fore-edge by half an inch due to the stub being turned behind A4. A very clean and crisp copy in an excellent contemporary binding. Locke s investigation was continued by Hume and Kant. John Stuart Mill considered him to be the founder of the analytic philosophy of mind. Attig 228. Grolier, 100 English, 36. Grolier, Wither to Prior, 527. Pforzheimer 600. Printing and the Mind of Man 164. Wing L2739. HBS $32,500 41

42 First Edition, Elizabeth Holt Imprint in Contemporary Calf 84. LOCKE, John. An Essay Concerning Humane [Human] Understanding. In four books. London: Printed by Eliz. Holt for Tho. Basset, and sold by Edw. Mory, First edition. Elizabeth Holt imprint, the first issue according to Yolton 61A; PMM 164; Pforzheimer 599. (Current scholarship is mixed as to priority between this and the Basset imprint). Folio (pages: 313 x 190 mm), collates complete. With the two emendations (in Locke s hand?) on leaves A(3) and A(4). Bound in full contemporary calf, rebacked (and recornered) with the original spine laid down. Title-page with a small previous owner s name removed and professionally repaired, but with some staining around the area. Second leaf with some offsetting in the same place. Two other leaves Ccc2 and Ccc3 with upper margins restored, no text affected. Otherwise an excellent set internally. Page block tight, with well-margined, crisp leaves, generally unblemished and unmarked. From the collection of Michael Ernest Sadler, father of the famous collector and bibliographer Michael Sadleir. Grolier Club, One Hundred Books famous in English Literature, 36. Attig 228. Grolier, 100 English, 36. Pforzheimer 600. Printing and the Mind of Man 164. Wing L2739. HBS $55,000 42

43 First Edition Triple Decker in Original Cloth 85. MACDONALD, George. David Elginbrod. In Three Volumes London: Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, First edition. Three octavo volumes triple decker. (7 5/8 x 4 7/8 inches; 195 x 125 mm). Half-titles in each volume. Publisher s original brick-red cloth. Boards ruled in blind. Spines lettered in gilt. Top edge untrimmed. Gray coated endpapers. Some staining and shelfwear to volumes. Spines a bit darkened. Volume I with cloth on back outer hinge cracking but firm. Some minor repairs to bottom of the spine, with no new cloth added. Watermark half-ring to front board. Volume III with cloth on back hinge and bottom of spine cracked. Inner hinges of volume III cracked buy firm. Books housed in a custom cloth slipcase. A very good set. HBS $1,850 Scarce first edition. Octavo (8 11/16 x 5 1/2 inches). The Modern Age of British Economics 86. MARSHALL, Alfred. Principles of Economics. Vol. I. [all published]. London: Macmillan and Co., Original dark green diaper-grain cloth with covers ruled in blind and spine ruled and lettered in gilt. Dark green coated endpapers. Previous owner s signature to the front free endpaper. Corners lightly bumped with some minor repairs to the top and bottom of the spine. Light foxing to half-title. Otherwise, a very good copy of a book that is almost always found rebound. Batson, p. 146; Einaudi HBS $7,500 First Edition of Moby Dick In A Beautiful Pictorial Binding 87. MELVILLE, Herman. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale. New York: Harper & Brothers, First American edition (first published in three volumes in London under title: The Whale). Octavo size in twelve (7 3/8 x 4 7/8 inches; 187 x 124 mm Beautifully and pictorially bound in full modern blueish-green morocco. Onlaid with a sperm whale in beige polished calf. Spine ruled and lettered in gilt. All board edges gilt and gilt dentelles. Marbled endpapers. Internally very clean with just a few minor spots of foxing and an occasional finger smudge. Bound without final blank. Overall a beautiful copy in a fantastic binding. The publishers used as their text Melville s original manuscript. The Whale, as issued in London, was set from New York sheets, with Melville s alterations (BAL). BAL Grolier, 100 American, 60. HBS $16,500 43

44 The Best Set of Herman Melville s Works and in the Original Cloth 88. MELVILLE, Herman. The Works of Herman Melville. London: Constable and Company, Standard Edition. Limited to 750 numbered copes, this being number 319. Sixteen octavo volumes (9 x 5 3/4 inches; 228 x 150 mm). Titlepages printed in blue and black. Volume XII (The Confidence-Man) contains a Bibliography of the First Editions of the Prose Works of Herman Melville, by Michael Sadleir. Volume XIII (Billy Budd and Other Prose Pieces) contains the first printing of Billy Budd, Foretopman. Original uniform blue blindstamped cloth ruled and lettered in gilt on spines. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Maroon-coated endpapers. A few spines very slightly faded as usual. Some very light rubbing to head and tails of spines. Overall, an excellent copy of this set. BAL 13680, 13682, and HBS $7,500 First Edition of Mérimée s Carmen 89. MÉRIMÉE, Prosper. Carmen. Paris: Michel Lévy Frères, First edition in book form. Octavo (8 x 4 7/8 inches; 204 x 124 mm). With both points for the first printing according to Clouzot, insultée p. 75 et c est eur p. 86. Bound without the wrappers as usual. Bound in contemporary half red morocco, over red basket-weave textured boards. Spine decoratively tooled in gilt and black and lettered in gilt. Title-page with a 2-inch closed tear, expertly repaired and not affecting text. Page 175 with a 1-inch closed tear to top margin, not affecting text and expertly repaired. A tiny burn hole to page 311, barely affecting two letters. A few minor marginal paper flaws. Overall, a very good copy. Vicaire V, cols HBS $4,750 44

45 With Ten Original Prints, Signed by the Artists and Signed by the Author Bound at the Okamoto Bindery in original tri-tone linen, stamped in gilt on front boards and spine. Uncut. Housed in the original slipcase of unvarnished spruce or Japanese cedar. Japanese title burned into the wood on front panel of slipcase. Spine is sunned. Slipcase and book with some scuffs. Altogether, a very good copy of an exquisite book with ten original signed prints. HBS $3, MICHENER, James A. The Modern Japanese Print. An Appreciation. With Ten Original Prints by Hiratsuka Un Ichi, Maekawa Sempan, Mori Yoshitoshi, Watanabe Sadao, Kinoshita Tomio, Shima Tamami, Azechi Umetaro, Iwami Reika, Yoshida Masaji, Maki Haku. Rutland, Vermont & Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle Company, [1962]. First edition, one of 510 numbered copies, this being number 214, signed by James A. Michener and the ten contributing artists listed above. Large folio (21 1/2 x 15 1/2 inches; 547 x 395 mm). With ten original full page prints, each signed by the artist. Text is handset in Perpetua type. Printed on handmade kyokushi or Japanese Vellum. A Wonderful Copy of this Second Edition of Milton s Most Influential Work. 91. MILTON, John. Paradise Lost. A Poem in Twelve Books The Second Edition and Revised and Augmented by the Same Author. London: Printed by S. Simmons, Second edition, and the first edition to have the number of books extended from ten books to twelve. This was accomplished by dividing Books VII and X each into two parts. Small octavo (6 7/16 x 4 3/16 inches; 164 x 105 mm. With frontispiece portrait of the author by Dolle. Lacking final blank leaf. 45 Full 19th-century straightgrained morocco. Early ink numerical notations along outer margins and a slip of paper laid in with line counts, in a very early hand. Overall a very good copy of this second edition of Milton s most influential work. According to Milton s nephew, Edward Phillips, the changes between ten books and twelve books were made at Milton s direction and are among the last few literary works he performed. ESTC R Wing M HBS $11,500

46 A First Edition, First Issue of Gone with the Wind In Dust Jacket 92. MITCHELL, Margaret. Gone with the Wind. New York: The MacMillan Company, First edition, first issue of book and jacket (with Published, May 1936 instead of Published, June 1936 on copyright page, and Gone with the Wind listed in the second column of the list of publisher s books on the rear of the jacket, instead of the first column as found in the second issue). Octavo (8 1/2 x 5 3/4 inches; 216 x 148 mm). Original grey cloth, blue-stamped front board and spine. Top edge dyed orange. In bright publisher s dust jacket. Jacket flap clipped at upper corner on front, but with $3.00 price intact. Back panel of jacket with 2-inch closed tear to bottom edge, but with no loss. Overall a bright very good jacket and a fine book. HBS $6,500 The Definitive Edition and First Folio Edition. 93. MONTAIGNE, Michel de. Les Essais... Edition nouvelle, trouvee apres le deceds de l Autheur, reveue & augmentee par luy d un tiers plus qu aux precedentes Impressions. Paris: chez Michel Sonnius, The Definitive edition and the first folio edition. Folio. [24], 523, [1 blank], 231, [1 errata] pp. Modern maroon morocco. Morocco spine label, raised bands, old gilt edges. Contents skillfully washed and sized, a few marginal tears not affecting text, some scattered pencil marginalia. A very good copy. This edition, edited by the French bluestocking Marie de Jars, Demoiselle de Gournay ( ), has some claim to be the definitive edition of Montaigne s Essais. Mlle de Gournay, who as a very young girl had travelled to Paris to meet her intellectual hero, was Montaigne s adopted daughter. After Montaigne s death, his widow presented Mlle de Gournay with the philosopher s copiously annotated copy of the 1588 edition of his Essais, the last issued during his lifetime and the first to include the third book. Having inserted Montaigne s additions, marked the alterations, and translated all the quotations, Mlle de Gournay sent the proofs to Bordeaux, where the poet Pierre de Brach collated them against another copy with Montaigne s annotations deposited in the convent of the Feuillants in Bordeaux. The edition thus produced in 1595 has with justice passed as the standard, even in preference to those which appeared in the author s lifetime (Ency. Brit.). Copies were also issued with the imprint of Abel l Angelier. STC French Books, p. 317; Adams M-1622 (both l Angelier imprint); Graesse IV, 579 ( aujourd hui la principale edition de Montaigne, pour l authenticite du texte ). HBS $25,000 46

47 This is considered the most important Elizabethan translation of any contemporary text. Its influence on English writers and philosophers of the time, including Shakespeare, Bacon, Milton, Hobbes and Locke, can hardly be overestimated. Montaigne startles the common reader at each fresh encounter, if only because he is unlike any preconception we bring him. He can be interpreted as skeptic, humanist, Catholic, Stoic, even Epicurean (Bloom, The Western Canon, ). Grolier, Langland to Wither, 102. Pforzheimer 378 (Florio, 1st edition). STC ESTC S HBS $9,500 Second Edition of Florio s Wonderful Translation of Montaigne s Essayes with New Sonnets and Dedications 94. MONTAIGNE, Michel de. [FLORIO, John, translator]. Essayes. Written in French..Done into English, according the the last French edition, by John Florio London: Melch. Bradwood for Edward Blount and William Barret, Second edition of Florio s great translation which was first published in Small folio (11 3/8 x 7 1/4 inches; 290 x 185 mm With engraved portrait of Florio on leaf A6v which was not included in the first English edition. This second edition replaces the original dedications of the three books to various Court ladies with a dedication and a new sonnet in Italian to the Queen, Anne of Denmark, who had appointed Florio as her reader in Italian and private secretary. Also for the first time in this edition is the anonymous sonnet Concerning the Honor of Bookes, which was once attributed to Shakespeare but is probably by Samuel Daniel. Full contemporary polished calf. Boards and spine ruled in gilt. Board edges tooled in gilt. All edges speckled red. Remnants of green silk ties. Outer hinges professionally repaired. Lacing front and back pastedowns. Previous owner s bookplates. Contemporary ink notes on front free endpaper. Some minor toning to title-page, and some occasional light dampstaining. Small hole to leaf Xx3, and light scrape to Ddd3, both with minor loss of text. Overall a very good copy. First Magazine Appearance of Moore s A Visit from St. Nicholas, ( The Night Before Christmas ) 95. [MOORE, Clement C.]. The American Monthly Magazine January, Boston: Otis, Broaders, & Co., & New York: George Dearborn, First magazine appearance of Moore s poem A Visit from St. Nicholas, commonly know as The Night Before Christmas, and the first time this poem has been attributed to the author Clement C. Moore. Octavo (9 1/4 x 5 3/4 inches; 235 x 145 mm). Publisher s original printed tan wrappers. Wrappers a bit chipped along edges. Front lower corner with a small piece missing. Overall a very good copy. Printed at the bottom of the page preceding A Visit from St. Nicholas states The lines which follow have been much admired, and have appeared in a variety of publications, but never, we believe, before under the name of the real author - Clement C. Moore. HBS $1,250 47

48 First Edition 96. MORE, Sir Thomas. BEDFORD, Francis, [binder]. The workes of Sir Thomas More Knyght. sometyme Lorde Chauncellour of England, wrytten by him in the Englysh tonge. London: Printed at the costes and charges of John Cawod, John Waly, and Richarde Tottell, First edition. Folio (pages 260 x 190 mm), collates complete: [18 leaves of preliminaries, including the title and blank leaf], 1458, [lacking final blank]. Collation as in Pforzheimer, including the inserted leaf between CC5 & 6. Bound in a late 18th century or early 19th century full calf binding. Boards ruled in gilt and blind and decoratively blindstamped. Modern rebacking with four raised bands, gilt title and stamping in the spine compartments. All edges of page block gilt with elaborate gauffering. Black letter, text generally in double-column. Page 51 with the upper corner torn, affecting the first two lines of text (supplied in manuscript). Closed marginal tear to page 405, entering text, but no loss. Slight browning or soiling to the occasional leaf, but on the whole a very pleasing copy. The first collected edition of More s works, edited by his nephew, William Rastell, who arranged the material in chronological order and added marginal notes. A massive volume that rarely turns up complete or in acceptable condition. Gibson, More, 73. Pforzheimer 743. HBS $40,000 48

49 Limited to 350 Signed Copies 97. [MOSER, Barry, illustrator]. CARROLL, Lewis. Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There. Illustrated by Barry Moser with a Preface and Notes by James R. Kincaid. Text edited by Selwyn Goodacre West Hatfield: Printed by Harold McGrath at Pennyroyal Press, Limited to 350 signed and numbered copies, accompanied with an extra suite of signed plates in a separate portfolio. Folio. 174 pp. Ninety-five wood-engravings, including one double-page, by Barry Moser. Text printed in red, blue and black, title calligraphy by G.G. Laurens. Publisher s half red morocco over black and gray patterned boards, spine decorated and lettered in gilt. Extra suite of plates in a folding cloth chemise. Housed together in publisher s quarter red morocco clamshell case. About fine. Pennyroyal 27. HBS $3,500 A Beautiful Copy of the First Guide to Yosemite, With Twenty Photographs by Muybridge. 98. [MUYBRIDGE, E.J., photographer]. HITTELL, John S. Yosemite: Its Wonders and Its Beauties. With Information Adapted to the Wants of Tourists About to Visit the Valley...Illustrated with Twenty Photographic Views Taken by Helios, [Edweard J. Muybridge] and a Map of the Valley. San Francisco: H. H. Bancroft and Company, First edition of the first guide to Yosemite. Twelvemo (7 1/4 x 4 1/2 inches; 184 x 112 mm). With twenty original mounted black and white photographs by Edweard J. Muybridge and the scarce double-page lithographed map by Britton and Rey. Publisher s original green cloth over beveled boards. Boards ruled in blind. Front board lettered in gilt. Brown coated endpapers. Plate 13 with very minor traces of adhesion. Due to the mounting, pages are slightly warped, as usual. A near fine copy with no traces of foxing and very bright photographs. Farquhar 8. Howes H542. Streeter HBS $32,500 49

50 The Magnum Opus Of John Henry Nash 99. [NASH, John Henry]. DANTE ALIGHIERI. The Comedy of Dante Alighieri of Florence Commonly Called The Divine Comedy. A line-for-line translation int the rime-form of the original by Melville Best Anderson. [With:] The Florence of Dante Alighieri: The Dante of All the World. By Melville Best Anderson. San Francisco: Printed by John Henry Nash, Limited to 250 numbered copies this being number 159. Four folio volumes. Titles and text within light blue rule design. With a signature on front pastedown of Florence reading John Henry Nash/September 6th, 1929 probably in Nash s hand. Full vellum over boards by Hübel and Denck, Leipzig, wallet-edged. Covers and spine compartments with gilt single-rule border, titles in gilt on spines, top edge gilt, others uncut. A small amount of natural toning and spotting to vellum, mainly to Florence. Overall a near fine set. O Day, pp HBS $2,750 First English Edition of Newton s Principia. Complete with All Engraved Plates and Tables 100. NEWTON, Sir Isaac. The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy. Translated by Andrew Motte. To which are added The Laws of the Moon s Motion, according to Gravity. By John Machin. London: for Benjamin Motte, First edition in English. Two octavo volumes (198 x 118 mm). Engraved frontispiece after and by A. Motte in each volume, fortyseven folding engraved plates, two folding letterpress tables, three engraved headpieces by Motte, numerous woodcut headand tail-pieces and historiated and ornamental woodcut initials, section-title to Machin s Laws of the Moon s Motion. Contemporary brown calf, rebacked to style. Decoratively blindstamped on covers, elaborately gilt-stamped on spine with five raised bands. Each volume with a red morocco spine label, lettered in gilt. Title-page of volume one supplied from another copy and professionally repaired along outer margin and 1 small hole also professionally repaired. Small wormhole to lower inner margin to the beginning pages of volume one, previous owner s contemporary small signature on title-page of volume two, otherwise very clean and tight. A handsome set. Babson, Newton 20. Gray 23. Norman 2, Wallis 23. HBS $45,000 50

51 Scarce First Trade Edition of East of the Sun and West of the Moon 101. [NIELSEN, Kay, illustrator]. [ASBJÖRNSEN, Peter Christen, and Jörgen Ingebreksten Moe]. East of the Sun and West of the Moon. Old Tales from the North. Illustrated by Kay Nielsen. [London]: Hodder & Stoughton, [n.d., 1914]. First trade edition. Large quarto (11 x 8 5/8 inches; 279 x 221 mm). [2], 206, [1, printer s imprint], [1, blank] pp. Twenty-five mounted color plates, with descriptive tissue guards. Numerous black and white text illustrations. Original dark blue cloth decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt on front cover and spine. Pictorial endpapers in gold and black. Minimal wear to extremities and spine edges. Some very light dust soiling to top and bottom edge. Small circular bookplate to verso of front free endpaper. Some minor wrinkling to the cloth on the spine. A very good copy of this scarce first trade edition. Ray, The Illustrator and the Book in England, 333. HBS $3,250 Three Letters on the Subject of Converting Jews to the Christian Faith; First Editions of These Two Scarce Titles OXLEE, John. Three Letters Humbly Submitted to the Consideration of His Grace the Most Reverend the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury London: Hatchard and Son, [1842]. [Together with] OXLEE, John. Three More Letters Humbly Submitted to the Consideration of His Grace the Most Reverend the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury London: Hatchard and Son, [1845]. First edition of both titles. Two related titles in one octavo volume (8 x 5 1/4 inches; 203 x 133 mm). No copies of either title have appeared at auction in the past sixty years. Quarter modern calf over marbled boards. Red morocco spine label, lettered in gilt. Edges speckled brown. First title-page with some glue and paper residue along inner margin, not affecting text. Final leaf of first title (pg. 95, with blank verso) with two closed tears and a one-inch by half-inch hole in the text spanning seven lines. A very good copy of this scarce title. HBS $1,250 51

52 First English Edition and With the Folding Map 103. PAGAN, BLAISE FRANCOIS DE. An Historical and Geographical Description of the Great Country and River of the Amazones in America And now translated into English by William Hamilton, and humbly offered to his Majesty, as worthy his consideration London: John Starkey, First English edition. Octavo (6 1/8 x 4 inches; 156 x 104 mm). With a folding map of the Amazon river. According to Sabin, the map is usually missing. Full contemporary sheep, rebacked to style. Spine stamped and lettered in gilt. Front boards ruled in blind. Title-page with a blindstamp of The Explorer s Club. Narrow dampstain to outer margin of approx first fifteen leaves. Some spotting and toning. Overall a very good copy. Sabin HBS $5,500 A Beautiful and Complete Set of Paxton s Magazine 104. PAXTON, Joseph. Paxton s Magazine of Botany and Flowering Plants. London: Orr & Smith/William S. Orr & Co., Sixteen octavo volumes (9 ¼ x 6 ½ inches; 236 x 166 mm). With 717 hand-colored engraved or lithographed plates. Numerous wood engravings in the text. Including the rarely present volume XVI. Half green morocco over green cloth boards. Gilt decoration and lettering on the spine. Spines lightly sunned and extremities slightly bumped. Overall a very good complete set. Nissen 2351 HBS $20,000 First edition, Senate issue with the Rare Bathing Plate 105. PERRY, Commodore M[atthew] C[albraith]. Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan, Performed in the Years 1852, 1853, and 1854, under the Command of Commodore M.C. Perry, United States Navy, by order of the Government of the United States. Compiled from the original notes and journals of Commodore Perry and his Officers, at his request, and under his supervision, by Francis L. Hawks Washington: Beverley Tucker, Senate Printer, First edition, Senate issue. Three large quarto volumes. This copy includes the suppressed nude bathing plate Public Bath at Simoda, which is not included in the list of illustrations. Original publisher s blind-stamped cloth, pictorial gilt spines. Covers and spine ends rubbed, spines faded. Volume I with some spotting and bubbling to cloth on front cover. A few splits to cloth at outer hinges. Overall, this is a very good copy of a book that usually shows up in poor condition or rebound. Copenhagen/ Anker 93. Hill I, pp McGill/Wood, p Nissen, ZBI, Sabin HBS $2,500 52

53 A Cornerstone of Western Philosophy and Political Thought First Edition in English of Plato s Republic 106. PLATO. The Republic of Plato. In Ten Books. Translated From the Greek by H. Spens. With a Preliminary Discourse Concerning the Philosophy of the Ancients By the Translator. Glasgow: Robert & Andrew Foulis, First Edition in English of the greatest of Plato s dialogues. Rare large-paper copy. Quarto (9 1/2 x 7 1/8 inches; 236 x 181 mm). Full, slightly later calf decoratively bordered in blind. Spine ornately blindstamped in compartments and lettered in gilt. Gilt board edges and turn-ins. All edges marbled. Armorial bookplate of John Athawes on front pastedown. Outer joints almost invisibly repaired. A few early ink and pencil marginalia. A very good, clean and crisp copy of this elegantly printed work. Housed in a green cloth slipcase. Brueggemann, 154; Gaskell 423. HBS $12,500 First Edition, Presentation from the Author 107. PLUMPTRE, James. [SHAKESPEARE, William]. Observations on Hamlet Cambridge: Printed by J. Burges, [Together With] An Appendix To Observations On Hamlet Cambridge: Printed by J. Burges, First edition of both titles. With a presentation inscription from the author, but without his name on each title-page. Inscription on first title-page reads To/William Richardson, Esq./Professor of Humanity/in the University of Glasgow/ From The Author. and the second reads William Richardson Esq/ From the Author. Octavo (8 3/16 x 5 inches; 208 x 127 mm). With halftitle. Two pages in first title (pages 27 & 43) with small ink corrections in the author s hand. We could find no copies of this at auction in the past 40 years. Contemporary quarter red cloth over drab pink wrappers. Covers with some minor rubbing and staining. Some toning throughout, but overall very good. HBS $1, Signed by Porter 108. PORTER, Eliot. Portfolio Two: Iceland. San Francisco: Sierra Club, [1977]. First edition. Signed by the artist. Limited to 110 copies of which 100 were for sale. This being number 104. Photographs were taken in 1975, but Portfolio was published in Consisting of eleven (of twelve) 8 x 10 1/2 - inch dye-transfer color prints mounted on 20 x 15 inch heavy backing. 4pp. introductory text (by Porter) with list of plates. Tissue guards between each plate. Stamped on the verso of each mount states Portfolio II, (Iceland), Eliot Porter, print number, and portfolio number, and Printed by the artist, Santa Fe, New Mexico A light line of toning across title-page. Photos and mounts about fine. Housed in a blue cloth string-tied folding case. Case with a bit of light scuffing. HBS $3,500

54 Original Watercolor Drawing from The Ingoldsby Legends RACKHAM, Arthur, [artist]. Witches and Warlocks, Ghosts, Goblins and Ghouls. [London: J.M. Dent, 1907]. Original fine pen and ink and watercolor from The Ingoldsby Legends. Watercolor measures 228 x 152 mm. Frame measures 19 x 15 inches. Signed ARackham on lower right corner. Mounted, framed and glazed. First published, as a black and white drawing, in the 1898 J.M. Dent edition of The Ingoldsby Legends (page 465). Rackham undertook a careful overhauling of the book in which many of the pen drawings have been reconsidered and worked on again... Accordingly, this drawing was reproduced, now in colour, opposite page 396 in the 1907 edition of The Ingoldsby Legends (J.M. Dent and E.P. Dutton). HBS $18,500 54

55 Original purple cloth pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt on front board and spine. Top edge dyed gray. Pictorial endpapers. In original dust jacket. Dust jacket with some mild rubbing to hinges, and with minor chipping with no loss of text at head and tail of spine and corners. Inside of jacket with some tape repairs. Book with two pages opened rough, causing some small closed tears to top margin, not affecting text. Altogether a fine copy in a very good jacket. Latimore and Haskell, pp Riall, pp Gimbel. Hatton and Cleaver. Smith, Dickens. HBS $1,000 First American Edition, In Original Dust Jacket 110. [RACKHAM, Arthur, illustrator]. DICKENS, Charles. AA Christmas Carol. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott C., [1915]. First American edition, but printed in Great Britain. [i]-xi, [1, blank], [1]-147, [1, colophon] pp. With twelve color plates including frontispiece and numerous black & white drawings throughout. Each plate with a descriptive tissue guard. Illustrated title-page printed in black and red. First Edition, With Forty Color-Plates 111. RACKHAM, Arthur, [illustrator]. GRIMM, Jacob. GRIMM, Wilhelm. The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Translated by Mrs. Edgar Lucas. London: Constable & Company, Ltd., First trade edition. Royal octavo (9 3/4 x 7 3/8 inches; 247 x 186 mm). With forty color-plates, including frontispiece, and fifty-five black and white illustrations which are included in the pagination. Color-plates with descriptive tissue-guards. With illustrated endpapers by Rackham. Engraved title-page in black and red. Publisher s original full red cloth. Front cover and spine pictorially tooled in gilt. Top edge stained burgundy. Spine very lightly sunned. Slight rubbing to edges of spine. Previous owner s small bookplate to front free endpaper, not blocking the illustration. A bit of toning to endpapers. Internally very clean. Overall a very good copy. Latimore and Haskell, p.34. Riall, p. 97. HBS $2,000 55

56 The Peter Pan Portfolio In the Original Publisher s Box 112. [RACKHAM, Arthur]. BARRIE, J.M. The Peter Pan Portfolio, by Arthur Rackham, from Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, by J.M. Barrie. London: Hodder & Stoughton, [n.d., 1912]. One of 500 numbered copies, signed by the Publishers and Engravers/Printers, out of a total edition of 600 copies, this being number 330. Large quarto (21 3/16 x 19 5/8 inches; 539 x 500 mm.). [4] pp. Including engraved title-page and limitation statement. Twelve large proof size color plates mounted in mats with descriptive tissue guards. Original half vellum over light sage green cloth boards. Front cover lettered in gilt. New silk ties. All tissue guards present. Housed in the publisher s original printed box, missing one bottom panel flap and a few small chips to side flaps, some rubbing, especially to the top lid and a bit of old tape repair. Overall, a near fine copy. Latimore and Haskell, p. 39. Riall, p HBS $15,000 The Signed, Limited Tenth Anniversary Edition 113. RAND, Ayn. Atlas Shrugged. New York: Random House, [1967]. Tenth Anniversary edition, limited to 2,000 copies signed by the author. This being copy number 63. Octavo (8 1/2 x 5 13/16 inches; 215 x 147 mm). This tenth anniversary edition is the ninth printing. Original blue buckram. Front board gilt-stamped with AR. Spine stamped gilt and blue, lettered in gilt. Top edge blue, fore-edge uncut. Blue endpapers. With original mylar jacket and blue paper slipcase. Slipcase with some chipping and 63 in ink on bottom of spine, which corresponds to the limitation number. Book is fine. HBS $3,250 56

57 114. RIMBAUD, Arthur. Une Saison en enfer. Brussels: Alliance Typographique (M.-J. Poot et Compagnie), First edition of Rimbaud s first book and the only book he published in his lifetime. Cover title. Twelvemo. (7 1/4 x 4 7/8 inches; 184 x 124 mm). Original wrappers printed and red and black. Contemporary inscription on title page from Rimbaud enthusiast. Minor foxing to front cover, else a fine copy. Housed in a custom full morocco clamshell. Two hundred and fifty copies were printed and for many years it was thought that Rimbaud had destroyed most of them. But in 1901 the bulk of the edition was discovered in the storeroom of the printer, with whom Rimbaud had left it and who had never been paid. A large number of copies had been ruined by rust and rot and these were burned in the presence of a notary (Baudelaire to Beckett 387). HBS $19,500 A Fine Copy of Rimbaud s First Book, A Season in Hell Truth is Stranger than Fiction Rare First London Edition in Dust Jacket 115. RIPLEY, Robert L. Believe It Or Not! A Modern Book of Wonders, Miracles, Freaks, Monstrosities and almost- Impossibilities, Written, Illustrated and Proved by Robert L. Ripley, or Rip... London: Stanley Paul & Co. (1928) Ltd., [1929]. First London edition, first printing with no mention of later printing on verso of title-page. Octavo (8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches; 216 x 140 mm). [4], pp. Complete. In publisher s dust jacket. This edition is very rare. We could find no copies of this London edition at auction in the past 50 years and only one copy at a library. Publisher s full green cloth. Front board and spine lettered in red ink. Previous ownership inscription dated Nov on front free endpaper. In publisher s pictorial dust jacket. Jacket a bit toned and lightly rubbed at folds. A few tiny closed tears along edges of back panel. Overall an about fine copy. HBS $1,500 57

58 First Edition of Rousseau s Early Work on Equality 116. ROUSSEAU, Jean[-]Ja[c]ques. Discours sur l origine et les fondemens de l inegalité parmi les hommes. Amsterdam: Chez Marc Michel Rey, First (original) edition, distinguishable from the counterfeit editions by the signatures on frontispiece and the spelling, Jaques, on p. lii. Small octavo (8 x 5 inches; 202 x 127 mm). Title-page printed in red and black. Copper-engraved frontispiece, signed by D[ominique] Sornique after C[harles Dominique Joseph] Eisen, engraved vignette on title and head-piece on dedication page by Fokke. Nineteenth-century mottled calf, covers double-ruled in blind. Board edges ruled in gilt. Spine ruled and decoratively tooled in gilt in compartments. Red morocco spine label lettered in gilt. Marbled endpapers. All edges red. Previous owner s bookplate on front pastedown. Binding a bit tight. Internally very clean. Overall a very good copy. Tchemerzine X, 32. Kress BM 22:25 (219). Norman Goldsmith HBS $2,850 The Sunset Strip As It Was 117. RUSCHA, Edward. Every Building On The Sunset Strip. [Los Angeles]: Edward Ruscha, First edition, first issue (with the small folded flap at the end of the book). Limited to 1,000 copies, though not explicitly stated. (7 x 5 1/2 inches; 178 x 140 mm). Unfolded, it is approximately twenty-four feet long. Original white wrappers, printed in silver on front and spine. An accordion-folded book with numerous black and white photographs taken by Ruscha of the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles, California. Spine slightly creased. Otherwise a near fine copy. Housed in the publisher s original silver slipcase. HBS $6,000 58

59 First Edition, Hand-Colored Copy of the Nuremberg Chronicle 118. [SCHEDEL, Hartmann. Liber chronicarum. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger for Sebald Schreyer and Sebastian Kammermeister, 12 July 1493]. 59

60 First edition of the Nuremberg Chronicle, preceding the German language edition (23 December 1493) by just over five months. Large folio (16 1/4 x 11 1/2 inches; 415 x 290 mm.). 324 leaves [1], [19, table], CCLXVI, [5], CCLXVII-CCXCIX, [1, colophon] leaves. This copy contains the three numbered leaves CCLVIIII, CCLX, and CCLXI, blank except for headlines, and the five additional unnumbered leaves containing the description of Poland, De Sarmacia regione, and the laudatory verse on Maximilian, bound between leaves CCLXVI and CCLXVII. Lacking the blank leaf following the De Sarmacia regione and the two final blank leaves. Gothic type, sixty-four lines plus headline. Table and parts of the text in double columns. Woodcut title and 1,809 woodcut illustrations, of which 1,164 are repeats, from 645 blocks by Michael Wolgemut, Wilhelm Pleydenwurff, and their workshop, including (supposedly) the young Albrecht Dürer, including double-page maps of the world and of Europe. The portrait of Pope Joan ( Johannes Septimus, verso of leaf CLXIX), usually missing, is present and unmutilated. With numerous rubricated initials. One large (fourteen-line) initial supplied in blue and red to first line of folio I. Other large initials in red, mainly in table. Some underlining and paragraph marks supplied in red. Additionally, every single woodcut has been beautifully hand-colored in a later hand. Bound in contemporary, possibly remboitage binding. Full blindstamped pigskin over thick wooden boards. With brass corner and central devices on front and back boards. With leather straps and brass clasps, all intact. Later pastedowns out of sheet music and free endpapers out of a different, early incunable. Top edge of outer hinge with some minor cracking, but holding firm. A bit of rubbing and soiling to covers. Interior generally clean and crisp, pages have been cleaned. Thick paper. Title-page with some minor professional repairs, and bound in on a stub. Leaf [1] of table, with some professional repairs. Leaves 12, 162, 186, 205, and 277 with top-edge trimmed close, just affecting headline. Some toning to a few leaves, namely leaves , and Minor foxing to leaf 254. Leaf 286 with a small paper flaw and hole, just affecting about 4 letters on the recto, and a minor part of woodcut on verso. Towards the end there are some tiny worm holes affecting some leaves, most of which have been professionally and almost invisibly repaired and filled. The map of Europe trimmed slightly at sides, just barely affecting the printing matter. Overall, a fine and handsome copy. BMC II, p Fairfax Murray, German, 394. Goff S-307. Hain 14508*. Harrisse 13. Polain Proctor 2084*. Sabin Schreiber Updike, Printing Types, I, p. 65. HBS $125,000 60

61 First Edition Of Black Beauty in Original Cloth 119. SEWELL, Anna. Black Beauty: His Grooms and Companions. The Autobiography of a Horse. Translated from the Original Equine by Anna Sewell. London: Jarrold & Sons, [1877]. First edition. Octavo (6 1/2 x 4 1/8 inches; 165 x 105 mm). Black and white wood-engraved frontispiece by C. Hewitt (included in pagination). Original publisher s cloth, Carter s variant C binding: green cloth blocked in black and gilt. Brown coated endpapers. Some slight rubbing at extremities and to gilt. Hairline crack to rear hinge with small piece of cord showing. Some mild foxing throughout. A contemporary ink inscription on front free endpaper dated Despite the minor faults mentioned, this is an exceptional copy of this enduring children s classic, not usually found in such nice condition. Housed in a custom morocco clamshell. Carter, More Binding Variants, pp Wolff HBS $8,500 With an Original Ben Shahn Drawing 120. SHAHN, Ben. The Alphabet of Creation: An Ancient Legend from the Zohar. with Drawings by Ben Shahn. New York: Spiral Press for Pantheon, [1954]. First edition. One of 50 copies printed on Umbria handmade paper, signed by Shahn and with an original drawing by him. This copy being number five. Tall octavo (10 3/4 x 6 3/4 inches; 275 x 170 mm). [44] pages including colophon and numerous Shahn illustrations plus the frontispiece of an original Shahn watercolor of the letter Zadhe, signed by him below. Publisher s natural linen cloth with black morocco gilt spine label (English) and cover label (Hebrew). In publisher s cardboard slipcase. Slipcase with a small piece missing from bottom. Overall a fine copy. HBS $1, SLEIDANUS, Johannes. A Famouse Cronicle of Oure Time, called Sleidanes Commentaries Translated out of Latin into Englishe, by Ihon Daus. Here vnto is added also an apology of the authoure. [London: John Daye for Abraham Veale, and Nicholas England, 1560]. First edition in English, first issue. With the Colophon in the first issue state. Folio in sixes (10 1/2 x 7 1/8 inches; 267 x 182 mm). Bound without blanks A6 and QQq4. From the translation of: De statu religionis et reipublicae, Carolo Quinto Caesare, commentarii. Mostly printed in black letter. Armorial woodcut vignette to title-page. First Edition, First Issue in English of the History of the Reformation Seventeenth-century mottled calf. Recased. Spine stamped in gilt. Red morocco spine label, lettered in gilt. All edges marbled. Spine label chipped. Newer endpapers. Title-page with small old ink signature to lower blank margin. One inch of lower margin of leaf Ttiii remargined, not affecting text. EEiiii with small hole on outer margin, not affecting text. NNni with a 3-inch closed tear, to text block, but with no loss of text. Some minimal finger smudging and some light dampstains to margins. Overall a very good copy. ESTC S STC HBS $7,500 61

62 The First and Greatest Classic of Modern Economic Thought A Beautiful Clean Copy of Adam Smith s Wealth of Nations 122. SMITH, Adam. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. London: Printed for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell, First edition. Two large quarto volumes (sheet size-10 13/16 x 8 3/8 inches; 275 x 213 mm.). Complete with half-title in Volume II (no half-title called for in Volume I), and the final blank leaf at the end of Volume I. Bound in contemporary mottled calf. Boards tooled with gilt border, and gilt floral corner devices. Spine densely stamped in gilt in compartments. With blue and green morocco gilt lettering labels. Gilt dentelles. Edges speckled blue. Marbled endpapers. Almost invisibly restored at outer hinges, and headcaps but not rebacked. A slight crease down the center of the spine of volume II. In volume II, pages have been bound out of order, between pages 554 and 555, which is not entirely uncommon. A small closed marginal tear with no restoration to leaf 4A2, not affecting text. Overall a very clean, near fine set. Housed in a full tree calf clamshell, elaborately embellished in gilt. Grolier, 100 English, 57. Kress Printing and the Mind of Man 221. Rothschild Sabin HBS $185,000 62

63 The Greatest Classic of Modern Economic Thought 123. SMITH, Adam. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. In Three volumes. The Seventh Edition. London: Printed for A. Strahan; and T. Cadell, Seventh edition. Three octavo volumes (8 1/4 x 5 1/8 inches; 210 x 130 mm). Full contemporary speckled calf. All board edge stamped in blind. Each volume with a red morocco spine label, lettered in gilt and a small green morocco volume number label, printed in gilt. Top edges dyed brown, others speckled red. Outer hinges of each volume with a few tiny wormholes. Boards a bit rubbed. Inner hinges of volume III a bit cracked but firm. Paper flaw to lower outer margin of leaf T4 of volume III, but not affecting text. Overall a very good and internally very clean set. Einaudi. Goldsmiths Kress Printing and the Mind of Man 221. Sabin HBS $3,000 The Art of Central Asia, Fine in Publisher s Shipping Cartons 63 Advance Copy of Smythe s Report on the Development of the Atomic Bomb 124. SMYTH, Henry de Wolf. A General Account of the Development of Methods of Using Atomic Energy for Military Purposes Under the Auspices of the United States Government Written at the request of Major General L.R. Groves United States Army. [Washington D.C.: printed at the Pentagon, 1945]. First edition, advance publication copy for press use. One of 1,000 copies. Cyclostyled pages, stapled (10 3/8 x 7 7/8 inches; 264 x 200 mm). With intertextual diagrams and Released for Publication on lithographed on lower inner corner of front wrapper. With duplicate extra leaf x-5. Complete. Original textured cream wrappers stapled in three places along inner edge. Wrappers slightly soiled. Spine with a small dampstain. Internally very clean. About fine. Although it does not state anywhere, this copy belonged to American physicist and director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, Norris Bradbury. In July 1944, Bradbury a naval commander, transferred to Los Alamos to work on the Manhattan Project. In 1945, Oppenheimer resigned as director of Los Alamos and recommended Bradbury for his replacement. Norman Library Printing and the Mind of Man, 422e. HBS $5, [STEIN, Sir Aurel., association] WHITFIELD, Roderick, [editor]. The Art of Central Asia. The Stein Collection in The British Museum: Paintings from Dunhuang I, Paintings from Dunhuang II, Textiles, Sculptures and Other Arts. Tokyo: Published by Kodansha International Ltd in co-operation with the Trustees of the British Museum, [ ]. Three large folio volumes. Limited to 550 copies. (Measures x 10.5 in.). Nicely bound in publisher s white parchment over red cloth boards, giltstamped with an emblem on front covers and spines, yellow cloth solander cases with color printed illustration on front covers. A fine set, in the publisher s original shipping cartons. Profusely illustrated with 66 color plates, many with several extra pages color photographs of details; 113 black and white photos of art, and many figures in the text. HBS $3,900

64 A Near Fine Copy of a Great American Novel 126. STEINBECK, John. The Grapes of Wrath. New York: The Viking Press, [1939]. First edition. Octavo (8 x 5 3/8 inches; 203 x 137 mm). In publisher s dust jacket illustrated by Elmer Hader. Publisher s original beige cloth. Boards and spine pictorially stamped and lettered in reddish-brown. Top edge dyed yellow. Endpapers with a portion of The Battle Hymn of the Republic printed in reddishbrown. A near fine copy. In an about fine dust jacket. Jacket with First Edition slug on front flap and with the printed price of $2.75. Jacket spine edges a bit rubbed and the jacket top edge of back cover with some very minor creasing to top edge. Overall an about fine copy. Goldstone & Payne A12a. HBS $7,500 Limited Edition, Signed by Wallace Stevens 127. STEVENS, Wallace. CUMMINGTON PRESS. Three Academic Pieces. The Realm of Resemblance, Someone Puts a Pineapple Together, [and] of Ideal Time and Choice. Massachusetts: The Cummington Press, Signed Limited edition. One of fifty-two copies signed by the author, out of a total edition of 246. This being number 36. Octavo (7 11/16 x 5 1/4 inches; 196 x 133 mm). [1]- 37, [1, blank], [1, colophon], [5, blank] pp. A large hand-colored initial at the start of each of the three pieces. Printed on Crown & Sceptre paper. Publisher s quarter cloth over marbled paper boards. Boards slightly beveled. Spine lettered in gray ink. Edges untrimmed. Boards lightly browned, and edges very lightly rubbed. Overall about fine. In full morocco clamshell. HBS $4,500 64

65 First Edition of Stoeffler s Emphemerides 128. STOEFFLER, Johann. Ephemeridvm Opvs Ioannis Stoefleri, Ivstingensis mathe matici à capite anni redemtoris Christi M. D. XXXII. in alios XX. proximè subsequentes, ad ueterum imitationem accuratissimo calculo, elaboratum. Tübingen: U. Morhart, First edition. Quarto (7 5/8 x 6 1/16 inches; 192 x 155 mm). Complete with 318 leaves. Leaf 38 blank as usual. Text in Latin. Title-page with woodcut portrait of Stoeffler, previously mistaken for Copernicus. With three large woodcut initials. With numerous tables and text diagrams throughout. We could find not other copy at auction except this present copy in the past fifty years. Seventeenth-century full mottled calf, rebacked to style. Spine stamped in gilt. Red morocco spine label. All edges speckled red. Newer endpapers. Title-page with some tiny holes, not affecting text. Pages fairly toned throughout. Evidence of a label that has been removed on the front pastedown. Binding is tight and sound. Overall a very good copy. HBS $8,500 Detailed Accounts Of English History From The Earliest Times and a Shakespeare Source Book 129. STOW, John. The Annales, or a Generall Chronicle of England, begun first by maister Iohn Stow, and after him continued and augmented with matters forreyne, and domestique, auncient and moderne, vnto the ende of this present yeere by Edmond Howes, gentleman. London: [printed by Thomas Dawson] impensis Thomæ Adams, First folio printing. Folio (12 11/16 x 8 5/16 inches; 320 x 210 mm). Complete and same as British Library ESTC. With elaborate historiated wood-cut title-page, and numerous historiated woodcut initials. Black letter. Text in two columns. With colophon and table. Full contemporary mottled calf, rebacked to style. With original red morocco spine label, lettered in gilt. Boards paneled in blind. Spine stamped in gilt. All edges speckled red. Some occasional light dampstaining to top margin. Some tiny wormholes, mainly to fore-edge margin in the early pages. Title-page a bit soiled, but in general the text is very clean. Previous owner s bookplate on front pastedown. A very good copy. An early Shakespeare source book with a mention of Shakespeare as well as other Elizabethan poets on page 811. ESTC S STC HBS $3,000 65

66 First Edition of this Important English Legal Text and the First Book on Canon Law to be Published in English 130. SWINBURNE, Henry. A Briefe treatise of testaments and last willes London: John Windet, 1590 [i.e.1591, from colophon]. First Edition. Small quarto (7 11/16 x 5 11/16 inches; 195 x 143 mm). Complete, with final errata leaf. With leaves and bound out of order. Leaf 40, numbered 49. Bound without front free endpaper. With a slip-cancel on K5r line 19. With woodcut headpieces and initials. Full contemporary calf, rebacked to style. Boards ruled in blind. Front board with the initials EB [Edward Bailie] and an acorn device in gilt. All edges dyed brown. With some minor dampstaining throughout, mainly to outer margins. A few tiny worm holes. Loss to outer corner of leaf B4, not affecting text. Boards a bit rubbed and cracked. Previous owner Edward Bailie s old ink manuscript on a few pages, and his inscription to his son Henrici Bailie 1597 on the blank recto of first leaf. Other previous owner s signature on titlepage, J. Baskerville, Housed in a custom chemise and cloth slipcase. Overall a very good copy. ESTC S HBS $2,500 The Manuscript Edition, with a Full-Page of Manuscript from Yankee in Canada 131. THOREAU, Henry David. The Writings of Henry David Thoreau. Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company, Manuscript Edition. Limited to 600 numbered copies, signed by the publisher, of which this is number 361. With one full-page of Autograph Manuscript on one leaf bound into Volume I, with this leaf having pencil corrections by Thoreau. Twenty octavo volumes. Two frontispieces in each volume, numerous photogravure plates (many tinted), and text illustrations. Descriptive tissue guards. The manuscript page contained herein is from his book, Yankee in Canada (Boston, Ticknor and Fields, 1866) Publisher s three-quarter green crushed levant morocco gilt over marbled boards. Spines richly tooled in a floral design and lettered in gilt in compartments, top edge gilt, others uncut, marbled endpapers. Spines uniformly slightly sunned. A beautiful set. Allen, pp Borst B3. HBS $17,500 66

67 Second Edition of This Translation by Thomas Hobbes 132. THUCYDIDES. HOBBES, Thomas, [translator]. The History of the Grecian War. In Eight Books London: By Andrew Clark for Charles Harper, Stated second edition of this translation by Thomas Hobbes. Quarto (11 7/8 x 7 1/2 inches; 301 x 190 mm). Complete. With additional engraved title-page, one engraved folding map, two double page engraved maps and two engraved plates. Title-page printed in black and red. Pforzheimer notes the existence of two states prior to our 1676, 1629 (Henry Seile) and 1634 (Richard Mynne), however In 1634, Seile apparently sold the remainder copies of this edition to Richard Mynne who reissued them with a cancel engraved title in which the imprint reads: Imprinted for Richard Mynne in Little Brittaine at the signe of :S:Paul. MDCXXXIV. (Pforzheimer, 493). Further in our research, we see that the British library also notes a copy with the date 1648 (Laurence Sadler) which is not mentioned in Pforzheimer. The first three earliest dated copies 1629, 1634 and 1648 all have the same general title and pagination, whereas our present copy 1676 have a new general title and a completely different pagination. We believe that the 1648 copy was also just a changed title-page and therefore making these three copies the first edition just with different title-pages, and our 1676 copy the true second edition. Contemporary full brown paneled calf. Repairs to front and back joints and the head and tail of the spine. Boards ruled in blind. Red morocco spine label, lettered in gilt. Spine stamped in gilt. All edges speckled red. Some small bit of worming to outer fore-edge margin starting at signature Ss through the end, just occasional affecting marginal notes. A small dampstain to top margin. Maps bound in tight. Outer edges trimmed close on engraved title-page and the double page maps. Small burn hole to top margin of the map of Sicele. Previous owner s book plate on front pastedown. Overall a very good copy. ESTC R Macdonald and Hargreaves. Wing T1134. HBS $4,500 67

68 First Issue of Connecticut Yankee With Sparkling Gilt 133. TWAIN, Mark. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur s Court. New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, First edition, first issue, i.e. with the s ornament in the caption of the plate on page 59 that reads The King, this ornament was later removed. And with no damage to the type on page 72. Square octavo (8 5/16 x 6 1/2 inches; 211 x 168 mm). [i]-xv, [1, blank], , [1, blank], [2, publisher s advertisements], [2, blank] pp. With frontispiece and numerous intertextual drawings and full-page drawings within the pagination. Original publisher s olive green cloth. Front board pictorially stamped in blue, gilt, and black. Spine pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt. Floral patterned endpapers. Very minimal tip and spine extremity rubbing. Crease to lower right corner of twenty-five leaves with ensuing nick to outer margin, a few of these nicks professionally repaired. Bookplate of Charle Batchelor on front pastedown. Binding very slightly skewed. Otherwise, an excellent copy with text and binding extremely bright and clean. BAL Johnson, Twain. HBS $3, First Edition, First Issue of The Innocents Abroad together with the Original Publisher s Prospectus 134. TWAIN, Mark. The Innocents Abroad, or The New Pilgrims Progress Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company, First edition, first issue with all first issue points called for by BAL Octavo (8 5/8 x 5 5/8 inches; 220 x 143 mm). Two frontispieces and fourteen inserted plates. Numerous text illustrations. Original publisher s brown cloth, stamped in gilt on spine. Top of spine with a small amount of fraying. Front board with small stain to top corner. Some occasional smudging throughout. Previous owner s bookplate on front pastedown. Front hinge with a bit of minor wear. Overall, a very bright, clean copy with no rubbing to gilt and better than usually encountered. [Together with] TWAIN, Mark. [Publisher s Prospectus for:] The Innocents Abroad or The New Pilgrim s Progress. Hartford: The American Publishing Company, Octavo (8 x 5 1/2 inches; 218 x 140 mm). Some sample text and illustrations, plus order sheets and a fold-out advertisement for a family Bible. This prospectus has the American Publishing Company imprint preceding the H.H. Bancroft and Company imprint on the title page. The backstrip for the cloth edition is affixed to the front pastedown, and the library (i.e. sheep) binding backstrip affixed to the rear pastedown. Full black cloth. Front board stamped in gilt and ruled in blind. Back board stamped in blind. Brown coated endpapers. Fold-out Bible advertisement with a large closed tear, professionally repaired. Two pages of order sheets with pencil and ink orders. Overall a very good copy. Both volumes chemised and housed together in a double, quarter morocco slipcase. Previous owner s bookplate on chemise of each volume. BAL Johnson, Twain, p. 9. HBS $9,500

69 First Edition in Original Cloth 135. TWAIN, Mark. A Tramp Abroad. Illustrated by W. Fr. Brown, True Williams, B. Day and Other Artists Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company, First edition. With the frontispiece in the first state, captioned Moses, sheets bulk 1 5/8 (BAL 3386). Original cloth. A Fine copy with a few signatures slightly proud, otherwise in excellent condition. Housed in a custom case. From the collection of Mrs. J. Insley Blair. Mrs. Blair was the earliest woman collector of Americana of the first rank, -- Morrison H. Heckscher, curator of American decorative arts at the Met. BAL HBS $1,750 Three Worthy Martyrs 136. TYNDALE, William. The Whole workes of W. Tyndall, John Frith, and Doct. Barnes, three worthy Martyrs, and principall teachers of this Churche of England London: Printed by John Daye, First edition. Edited by John Foxe. Three parts in one folio volume (11 1/8 x 7 3/8 inches; 281 x 187 mm). With B4 in the first part, and HH1 in the second part canceled as usual. Black letter and roman letter in double columns. Title and two sectional titles with repeated woodcut border (McKerrow and Ferguson 76). Half-page woodcut illustrations on A4 of the first part, and on the first and last leaves (*AAa1* verso and Rrr4 verso) of the third part. Woodcut historiated and foliate initials, typographical ornaments. The woodcuts comprise the martyrdoms of Tyndale and Barnes. Contemporary full calf, rebacked to style. Boards elaborately tooled in blind. Boards a bit rubbed, and head of spine with some chipping. Some minor spots and toning throughout. Occasional early marginal manuscript notes. Leafe CCiii with corner torn away, only affecting page number. Leaf BBv with corner lacking, barely affecting marginal notes. Leaf GGv (index) with 3-inch closed tear, no loss of text. Leaf MMiii, with corner lacking, not affecting text. Overall a very good good copy. McAlpin Collection I, p. 70. STC HBS $35,000 69

70 One of the Most Important Voyages of the Eighteenth Century; Rare with Matching Atlas and Text in Contemporary Bindings 137. VANCOUVER, George. A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean, and round the World performed in the years 1790, 1791, 1792, 1793, 1794, and 1795, in the Discovery sloop of war, and armed tender Chatham London: Printed for G.G. and J. Robinson, and J. Edwards, First edition. Three quarto volumes (11 3/4 x 9 3/8 inches; 299 x 239 mm.) plus folio atlas volume (22 x 16 3/4 inches; 560 x 430 mm). Eighteen engraved plates, one of which is a map in the text. Ten folding maps and six plates of profiles in the atlas volume. Complete with half-titles and errata. Text volumes bound in contemporary brown polished calf with double gilt borders Spines stamped in blind and lettered in gilt. Gilt board edges and dentelles. Marbled endpapers. All edges marbled. Blue silk place markers. Atlas bound to match in contemporary half calf over marbled boards. outer hinges as well as heads and tails of spines of text volumes professionally repaired. Some light flaking to calf at outer hinges. Plates with some light foxing and toning. Small marginal repair to leaf Pp of volume III and small corner torn to one plate of volume III, no loss of text or engraving. Atlas with some ink staining to top edge of front board. Some foxing and toning to plates of atlas, mainly to the edges. Overall, an excellent set; tall, clean and complete. Cowan, p Graff Hill I, p Howes V23. Sabin HBS $55,000 70

71 One Of The Most Provocative Books Written By An American Intellectual : First Edition Of Veblen s Landmark Theory Of The Leisure Class 138. VEBLEN, Thorstein. The Theory of the Leisure Class. An Economic Study in the Evolution of Institutions. New York: The Macmillan Company, First edition of the author s first book and one of the masterpieces of American social thought and economic theory. Octavo (7 1/2 x 5 3/16 inches; 190 x 131 mm). Original dark green cloth. Spine lettered and ruled in gilt. Front board ruled in blind. Top edge gilt, others uncut. A bit of soiling and rubbing to the cloth of front and back boards. A ring spot on back board. Spine slightly darkened. Head and tail of the spine with some minor shelf wear. Overall a very good copy. Housed in a full green morocco clamshell. Grolier, 100 American, 100. HBS $4000 Second Edition in Italian, and First Durantino Edition 139. [VITRUVIUS POLLIO, Marcus]. [DURANTINO, Francesco Lutio, Editor] De architectura traducto di latino in vulgare dal vero exemplare con le figure a li soi loci con mirando ordine insignito... Venice: Ioane Antonio & Piero Fratelli da Sabio, Second Edition in Italian, and first Durantino edition. Folio (12 1/4 x 8 1/4 inches; 310 x 212 mm). [22], 110 leaves. With errata page and colophon. With 136 woodcut figures and diagrams and 101 woodcut initials. The 136 woodcuts are close copies of the full set of blocks from the Giocondo edition of 1511 printed at Venice by Giovanni Tacuino. The copies were made for the first Durantino edition (Mortimer). Title within an elaborate woodcut border and printed in red and black. Full 18th-century vellum. Spine elaborately stamped in gilt. Spine with two morocco labels, lettered in gilt. Some light staining to velum. Occasional old ink notes in text, generally in margin. Overall a very good and clean copy. The first Italian translation of Vitruvius was issued three years previously in 1521 and this edition is best described as a marriage of the text of Cesarino s translation of 1521 with the woodcut illustrations of Giocondo s edition of 1511 (BAL RIBA, p.2299). Adams V915. Brunet V, col Fowler 313. Harvard, Italian, 545. Sander HBS $12,500 71

72 First Edition, Completely Uncut 140. WEBSTER, Noah. An American Dictionary of the English Language By Noah Webster, LL.D. In two volumes. Vol. I. [II.] New York: Published by S. Converse. Printed by Hezekiah Howe, First edition. Two quarto volumes (11 7/8 x 9 1/2 inches; 300 x 245 mm). Unpaginated, with text in triple columns. Engraved frontispiece portrait in Volume I. With the final leaf of Volume II, Additions and Corrections, which is often lacking. Mid-nineteenth-century half brown morocco, expertly rebacked, preserving the original spine. Very lightly browned, two leaves (143 in Volume I, with very minor professional tear repair touching text with no loss and 662 in Volume II, professionally repaired tear across bottom of page with no loss of text). A little worming to first few leaves of fore-edge of volume I. An excellent copy, completely uncut. Grolier, 100 American, 36. Printing and the Mind of Man 291. Sabin HBS $20,000 72

73 First Edition of Wing s Two Sermons on the Virtues of a Good Wife 141. WING, John. The Crowne Conivgall or, the Spouse Royall. A Discovery of the True Honor and Happines of Christian Matrimony. Published for their Consolation Who are Married, and their Encouragement Who Are Not, Intending the Benefit of Both. Middelburgh: John Hellenius, First edition. Small quarto (7 x 5 1/4 inches; 175 x 132 mm). Title-page with engraved vignette and an engraved initial. Without final blank. We could not find any copies of this at auction except present copy in the last fifty years. Nineteenth century half calf over marbled boards. Spine with maroon calf spine label. Spine elaborately stamped in gilt. All edges gilt. Two small repairs to title-page, one to top inner corner, the other along inner margin, neither affecting text. A few pages with some light chipping along fore-edge. Previous owner s bookplate on front free endpaper. Back endpaper with old bookseller slip tipped-in. Overall a very good copy. ESTC S HBS $4,000 Second Edition, Printed The Same Year As The First Edition Of One Of The Most Rare French Astrological Works 142. [YVES DE PARIS]. Astrologiae Nova Methodus Francisci Allaei Arabis Christiani. -Fatum universi observatum. -Disceptatio P. Ivonis Parisini Capuc [Paris]: Second edition, printed the same year as the first edition of one of the most rare French astrological works. Three volumes in one folio volume. Complete with five figures laid-in on pages 2, 8, 10 (volume I) and 5, 40 (volume II). These five figures include a total of 17 volvelles. Two are without thread. Separate title-pages for volumes I and II. Volume III with caption title. Numerous engraved head-andtail pieces, initial and engraved vignettes on the two title-pages. An unnumbered engraving on the initial page [3]. The first edition was condemned and most copies burned based upon the astrological predictions that it contained. In this second and revised edition, the predictions that cause the first edition to be burned have been removed and several other figures have been suppressed. Contemporary full vellum. Vellum a bit soiled and rubbed. Minor shelfwear to head and tail of the spine. A bit of light dampstaining. Endpapers lacking. Early ownership inscription on lower margin of first title-page and initial blanks, one of which is dated Overall a very good copy of the rare book. With a hand-typed supplement in German, laid in. Brunet 1, 185; Caillet III, 11557; Dorbon, Bib. Estoterica 61; Houzeau and Lancaster HBS $7,500 73