The 51st California International Antiquarian Book Fair

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1 Proudly presents a selection of books for The 51st California International Antiquarian Book Fair Pasadena, California Booth #209 February 2017 th Friday 9 Saturday 10th Sunday 11 Pasadena Convention Center th

2 Please enjoy this selection of books that will be on display in Booth 209. Complete descriptions and photographs are available on our website. We specialize in building world class collections and we look forward to speaking with you soon about your area of interest. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "The Microcosm of London" In A Beautiful Bayntun Binding ACKERMANN, R[udolph]. The Microcosm of London. London: R. Ackermann s Repository of Arts, [ ]. First edition, early issue with pre-publication watermarks dated Three large quarto. Woodcut title and engraved dedication leaf in each volume. With 104 hand-colored aquatint plates. Full brown morocco by Bayntun. HBS $10,000 Thick-Paper Copy, Inscribed by Adams ADAMS, John Quincy. Oration on the Life and Character of Gilbert Motier De Lafayette...Washington: Gales and Seaton, First edition, thick-paper copy. Inscribed by Adams on an inserted slip in front of title-page, as usual. Contemporary full straight-grain navy blue morocco, handsomely rebacked to style. HBS $5,000 First Edition of "Emma" Uncut in a Contemporary Binding [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. 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. HBS $45,000 First Edition in Contemporary Marbled Boards [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 half-titles, but with all terminal blanks. Contemporary half gray polished calf over marbled boards, gilt-stamped spines, rebacked to style. Overall, a very good and attractive, clean set in a contemporary binding. 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" [BABBAGE, Charles]. Mr. Babbage s invention. Copies of the correspondence between the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty s Treasury... [London: House of Commons, 1823]. First edition, offprint version, after the extremely rare privately printed version from the year before. [1]-6, [2] pp. 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 Unbound and self-wrapped. Stitched at inner margin as issued. Contemporary ink number "145" on front page, "157" on recto of final leaf. Fine. HBS $2,850 Bakst Designs For "Sleeping Beauty" 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. 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. HBS $4,250

3 The First Obtainable English Edition BARCLAY, Alexander, [translator]. [BRANT, Sebastian, author]. [Ship of Fooles]... Translated out of Latin into Englishe by Alexander Barclay priest [London in Paules Church: John Cawood, 1570]. Second edition in English, the first obtainable English edition. (No complete copy of the first edition has been at auction in the past 75 years. One incomplete copy was at auction on 1975). Folio. Present copy collates the same as Pforzheimer. With 116 woodcuts in the text and a woodcut on the title-page. Full seventeenth century calf, rebacked with original spine laid down. Overall a very good copy. Pforzheimer 41. HBS $40,000 The Third Textbook of Physiocrat Orthodoxy BAUDEAU, Nicholas, Abbé. Premiere Introduction a la Philosophie économique ou Analyse des États policés. Paris: Chez Didot; Delalain; Lacombe, First edition. Octavo. Contemporary marbled sheep. A fine copy. Housed in a custom quarter brown morocco clamshell. HBS $11,500 Unusually Bright First Edition, First State of "Ozma of Oz" BAUM, L. Frank. Ozma of Oz. Illustrated by John R. Neill. Chicago: The Reilly & Britton Co., [1907]. First edition, first state, with all first edition, first issue points called for by Bienvenue and Schmidt. Original tan cloth, pictorially stamped in red, black, yellow and blue on front cover. The slightest of wear to cloth extremities. Overall, a near fine and unusually bright copy. HBS $2,500 First Edition of The Most Famous American Children's Book 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, Quarto. Twentyfour 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). Overall, an exceptional copy. Housed in a full navy blue morocco slipcase. HBS $26,500 With Eleven Previously Unpublished Designs in Rare Dust Jacket BEARDSLEY, Aubrey, [illustrator]. MALORY, Sir Thomas. The Birth Life and Acts of King With an introduction by Professor John Rhys. And a note on Aubrey Beardsley by Aymer Vallance. [London: J.M. Dent & Sons], This is the third and most complete edition of Beardsley's Le Morte Darthur. Limited to 1,600 copies. Large quarto. With 365 designs by Beardsley. Original black cloth over beveled boards stamped in gilt on front cover and spine in a design by Beardsley. A very good copy in the scarce dust jacket. HBS $1,250 First Complete Edition With 18 Additional Plays BEAUMONT, Francis. FLETCHER, John. Fifty Comedies and Tragedies. London: Printed by J. Macock. for John Martyn..., Second folio edition but first complete edition. With eighteen additional plays included for the first time. Two parts in one folio volume (as always). Complete with frontispiece portrait. Full contemporary calf, rebacked to style. Very good in a brown cloth leather tipped slipcase, split. HBS $2,750 One of the Most Valuable of Modern Voyages BEECHEY, Captain F[rederick] W[illiam]. Narrative of a Voyage to the Pacific and Beering s Strait, to Co-Operate with the Polar Expeditions London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, First edition. Two quarto volumes, [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. Front hinge of volume I professionally repaired. Overall a very good, handsome set. Housed together in a slipcase. HBS $8,500

4 First Edition of this" Book of Education," Rearranging the 613 Commandments of Maimonides [BEN JOSEPH HA-LEVI OF BARCELONA, Pinhas]. [BEN JOSEPH HA-LEVI, Aharon]. [MAIMONIDES, association] Sefer ha-hinnukh. Venice: Daniel Bomburg, [283, i.e. 1523]. First edition. Quarto in eights. 179 leaves. Possibly lacking a final blank, but textually complete. This book being an arrangement of the 613 commandments of Maimonides was originally attributed to Aharon Ben Joseph ha-levi, the brother of Pinhas. Text in Hebrew in two columns. Full modern brick-red sheep. HBS $22,500 "[Béze's] Greek Editions and Latin Translations formed the Basis of the Geneva Bible and the King James Bible" BÉZE, Théodore de. Propositions and Principles of Divinitie...Edinburgh: Printed by Robert Waldegraue, First English edition. Small quart. With an early discussion of each of the "Ten Commandments." Contemporary calf, rebacked. Overall a very good copy. There are only two copies in OCLC. HBS $7,500 Editio Princeps of the Roman Catholic Version of the Bible in English. A Complete Bible In 3 Volumes [BIBLE IN ENGLISH. Old Testament]. The Holie Bible Faithfully Translated into English, out of the Authentical Latin. Douai: Printed by Laurence Kellam, First edition of the Roman Catholic version of the Old Testament in English. Two small quarto. Bound with the final blank leaf in Volume II. Titles within decorative border of type ornaments, decorative woodcut and typographic head- and tailpieces, 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 [Rheims]: Printed by John Fogny, First edition of the Roman Catholic version of the New Testament in English. Small quarto. Title within border of type ornaments, decorative and historiated woodcut initials. Old Testament bound in modern calf. New Testament bound in 19th-century brown calf. Overall, an excellent copy of the Douai-Rheims Bible. HBS $35,000 The 1613 Folio Edition of the King James Bible [BIBLE IN ENGLISH]. The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New London: Imprinted by Robert Barker, The 1613 folio edition of the King James Bible, distinguishable from the He and She Bibles that precede it by its smaller type size making it double columns, with seventy-two lines. The Authorized version. With the Apocrypha. Folio. 508 leaves. Issued with "The genealogies recorded in the Sacred Scriptures" by John Speed, pages ([2], 34 pp.). Without double-page engraved map before text, which is often the case. Engraved general title, representing the twelve tribes. At foot of title-page woodcut: "Cum priuilegio". Engraved New Testament title dated Black letter. With the "Calendar" which is printed in red and black. Decorative woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials. Contemporary reversed paneled calf. A very good copy. HBS $23,500 A Leaf from the Gutenberg Bible-Isaiah 63 [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. 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. HBS $75,000 First Facsimile of the Gutenberg Bible [BIBLE IN LATIN]. GUTENBERG, Johann. Biblia Latina [Gutenberg Bible Facsimile]. Leipzig: Insel-Verlag, Number 16 of 300 sets of the first facsimile edition of the Gutenberg Bible. Two folio volumes. Original elaborately blindstamped leather over wooden boards by Albert Köllner of Leipzig. Superbly reproduced in full color from illuminated vellum copies at Berlin and Fulda, and bound in imitation of the contemporary binding on the Fulda copy. Without the 1923 volume of commentary by Paul Schwenke. Sarkowski 163. HBS $15,000

5 First Edition in Spanish of Ecclesiasticus [BIBLE IN SPANISH]. [ENZINAS, Francisco de, translator]. [Ecclesiastics]. Libro de Jesus Hiio de Syrach, qu'es llamado, el Ecclesiastico. Traduzido de Griego en lengua Castellana En Leon [i.e. Strassburg]: en Casa de Sebastian Grypho [i.e. Augustin Fries], First edition in Spanish of Ecclesiasticus. Small octavo. With numerous woodcut initials. With an imitation Gryphius woodcut device printed in reverse on title. We could only locate 3 copies at libraries, Cambridge, Madrid and Copenhagen. No other copy besides this present copy has been at auction in the past 50 years. Early 19th-century mottled sheep. Overall a very good copy. HBS $10,000 First Collected Edition BLACKSTONE, [Sir] William. Law Tracts. In Two Volumes. Vol. I. [II.] Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, First collected edition. Two octavo volumes. With eight illustrations of seals and two charts, including one folding. Early nineteenth-century calf. Front cover on vol. II cracked but sound. Otherwise, an excellent copy. HBS $2,500 Blake s Most Widely Known Achievement BLAKE, William. Illustrations of the Book of Job. Invented & engraved by William Blake, [London: Published by the Author, and Mr. J. Linnell, 1874]. One of 100 sets printed on india paper. Folio. Line-engraved title and twenty-one line- and stipple-engraved plates by and after Blake. Also with an additional letterpress title-page, not issued with the book. Printed from the original plates. Evidence of the word proof on the lower edge of engravings number 5, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 14, 18 and 20. Bound in quarter reverse calf over black cloth. A fine, strikingly clean copy of Blake s most widely known achievement (Keynes). HBS $32,500 First Edition [BLANCHARD, Jean Pierre]. An Exact and Authentic Narrative of M. Blanchard's Third Aerial Voyage London: C. Heydinger, First edition. Small folio. With frontispiece engraving of Blanchard's balloon. Early dark brown paper wrappers. Housed in a blue cloth folder by Sangorski & Sutcliffe for E.P. Dutton. Lacking half-title as called for in ESTC. A very good copy. HBS $1,750 First Edition in Original Cloth, with Plates and a Folding Map BLUNT, Lady Anne. Bedouin Tribes of the Euphrates London: John Murray, First edition. Two octavo volumes. Complete with twelve engraved plates (including two frontispieces), one colored folding map entitled "A Map of the Euphrates District" and a folding chart of Arabian Thoroughbreds. Publisher's full red cloth. Front inner hinges of both volumes with hairline cracks. Overall a very good copy. HBS $2,000 One of 500 Copies Printed by D.B. Updike. This Copy Previously Owned by a Episcopal Bishop in the Los Angeles Diocese [BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER]. The Book Of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church According to the Use of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America. Boston: Printed for the Commission [The Merrymount Press], One of 500 copies, printed by D.B. Updike. Thick folio. Text printed in red and black. Printed on thick paper. One page manuscript presentation letter from Bishop Robert Rusack to the Stern Family on his letterhead laid in. Also laid in is a 16- page pamphlet entitled "The Church of England Magazine" dated February 14, Original full brick-red pigskin. Overall an about fine copy. HBS $4,000 An Unknown Manuscript by an Illuminator in the Close Circle of The Duke of Berry [Book of Hours. Paris, ca. 1400]. (as described by Ferrini). Illuminated with fifteen large miniatures by the Master of the Bible Historiale. 224 parchment folios, complete. In Latin and French. Nineteenth-century dark brown morocco over pasteboards. (161x116 mm). An unrecorded Parisian Book of Hours, this manuscript has a sequence of beautifully executed miniatures attributed by François Avril to one of the artist responsible for the Bible Historiale (Paris, BnF MS fr. 159), a grand manuscript given to Jean Duke of Berry by Raoulet d Auquetonville before Our Book of Hours was painted for an unidentified female donor depicted twice in the manuscript. Her costume befits a lady of the court and suggests a date around Ferrini, 1. HBS $350,000

6 Boyle's Seminal Work, First Enlarged Edition. BOYLE, Robert. Certain Physiological Essays And Other Tracts... London: Henry Herringman, Second edition, first enlarged edition. Small quarto. "Two essays, concerning the unsuccessfulness of experiments" and "Some specimens of an attempt to make chymical experiments" each have separate title page dated 1668; pagination and register are continuous. "The History of Fluidity and Firmnesse" has a separate half-title and pagination and register are continuous. "Of absolute rest in bodies" has separate dated title page, register, and pagination. As called for by STC. Lacking final blank. With approximately twenty-three additional pages of expanded text to enlarge this new edition. Contemporary paneled calf, rebacked and recornered to style. Overall a very good copy. HBS $2,850 An Exceptional Copy of An Asbestos Fahrenheit 451" BRADBURY, Ray. MUGNAINI, Joseph, [illustrator]. 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. With black-and-white illustrations throughout the text. Publisher's full white asbestos. An exceptional copy of a book that is usually found in very poor condition. HBS $15,000 With Sixty Fine Engraved Plates Printed in Color and Finished by Hand BROOKSHAW, George. Pomona Britannica, or A Collection of the Most Esteemed Fruits at Present Cultivated in Great Britain... London: Printed by Bensley and Son, First quarto edition. Two large quarto volumes. With sixty line- and stipple-engraved plates partially printed in color and finished by hand. Contemporary maroon straight-grain morocco. An excellent copy. HBS $20,000 The First Published Edition of Sonnets from the Portuguese 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. With half-titles in each volume. Original publisher's slate-blue cloth. Covers stamped in blind. Spines ruled and lettered in gilt (in the presumably first binding state, without London ). Bindings slightly skewed. Spines lightly sunned. Inner hinges with some hairline cracks, but firm. Overall an almost fine set. In morocco clamshell. HBS $11,500 The Most Well-Known Allegory Ever Written BUNYAN, John. The Pilgrim's Progress from This World to That Which Is to Come... London: Printed for Nathanael Ponder, The eighth edition. Twelvemo. Including frontispiece and two full page woodcuts. Early nineteenth-century blind-tooled sheep. Overall, a very good copy of this very rare item. This is a genuine eighth edition. In the last thirty years there have only been two other Pilgrim's Progress published in 1682 to come up at auction and both of these were spurious with one claiming to be the 'Fifth edition' and the other the other the 'Ninth Edition." Harrison pp Wing B HBS $32,500 First Edition, With Six Folding Maps BURGOYNE, John. A State of the Expedition from Canada London: Printed for J. Almon, First edition. Quarto. With 6 folding maps. All of the maps have some contemporary hand-coloring in outline. Two of the maps with overslips. Mid-19th-C half black morocco over marbled boards. From the Kenneth Hill Collection. HBS $8,500 The Beautiful and the Sublime BURKE, Edmund. A Philosophical Enquiry into Our Ideas of Sublime and Beautiful. London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley, First edition, limited to 500 copies. Octavo. viii, [8], 184 pp. Bound without half-title. Contemporary calf. A very good copy of this vastly influential seminal work, a cornerstone of Romanticism and modern thought. HBS $3,500 First Edition "Tarzan and the Ant Men" in Dust Jacket BURROUGHS, Edgar Rice. Tarzan and the Ant Men. Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., First edition. Octavo. Publisher s brown cloth, dark brown-stamped front board and spine. Dust jacket. Near fine. HBS $3,500

7 First Edition, First Issue of the First Tarzan Book BURROUGHS, Edgar Rice. Tarzan of the Apes. Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co., First edition, first state, without the publisher s gold acorn device on the spine and with the printer slug in Old English type on the copyright page. Small octavo. Illustrated title-page by Fred J. Arting. Original dark red cloth. Very slightly skewed. Overall, a near fine copy. HBS $4,500 First Edition in Original Cloth BURTON, Sir Richard Francis. CAMERON, Verney Lovett. To The Gold Coast For Gold. A Personal Narrative. London: Chatto & Windus, First edition. Two octavo volumes. With two colored folding maps in volume I and a colored frontispiece in volume II. Publisher's original red cloth, stamped in black and gilt on boards. A very good and handsome set. HBS $5,500 The Magnificent Tonson Caesar, Complete with Eighty-Seven Full-Page Engravings CAESAR, Gaius Julius. C. Julii Cæsaris quæ extant London: Sumptibus & Typis Jacobi Tonson, Large folio. Complete with eighty-seven engraved plates and maps, sixty-two of which are double-page or folding, including added engraved title, engraved portrait of the dedicatee, John Duke of Marlborough, and engraved portrait of Caesar. Thirty-one engraved head- and tail-piece vignettes and seventeen engraved historiated initials. With the doublepage plate of the bison, usually lacking. Contemporary red straight-grain morocco, rebacked with original spine laid down. Overall, an excellent copy; very wide-margined, clean and in an attractive contemporary binding. HBS $15,000 Possibly the First Appearance of Calvin in English Translation 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... 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. 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 all 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. STC HBS $24,500 First Edition of Cantillon's Great Work 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. A fine copy. Housed in a custom full brown calf clamshell, decoratively tooled in gilt on spine. Einaudi 846. Goldsmiths' HBS $45,000 Limited to 350 Signed Copies CARROLL, Lewis. [MOSER, Barry, illustrator]. Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There. Illustrated by Barry Moser 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. 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. HBS $3,500 A Much Expanded Edition, Including Twenty-Two Engraved Scenes CASAS, Bartalome De Las. An Account of the First Voyages and Discoveries Made by the Spaniards in America London: J. Darby for D. Brown et al., Second English edition. Octavo. With twenty-two scenes on four leaves of plates. The twenty-two small engravings are after De Bry and they depict "The Spaniards Cruelties on the Indians &c." "The art of travelling to advantage" (caption title) begins new pagination on R5r. This edition is translated from a new French Edition, and is a much expanded version from the first English edition. Half calf over marbled boards. Over all a very good copy. HBS $5,000

8 Catherwood's Landmark "Views of Ancient Monuments" CATHERWOOD, Frederick. Views of Ancient Monuments in Central America, Chiapas and Yucatan. New York: Bartlett and Welford, First edition, one of three-hundred copies. Folio. With the chromolithographed title by Owen Jones, lithographed map, twenty-six lithographs on twenty-five plates, and original paper guards. Publishers quarter green morocco over green cloth. Overall a very good copy. HBS $42,500 First Edition of Chagall's "Drawings for the Bible" CHAGALL, Marc. Drawings for the Bible. Text by Gaston Bachelard. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1960]. First edition. Folio. With twenty-four color lithographs and ninety-six 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 $4,500 First Edition of Chaucer Edited by Thomas Speght CHAUCER, Geoffrey. The Workes of our Antient and lerned English Poet, Geffrey Chaucer, newly Printed...London: Impensis Geor[ge] Bishop, First edition edited by the Chaucerian scholar, Thomas Speght (sixth published edition). Folio. With errata leaf bound at the end. Lacking the initial and final blank leaves. Black letter. Double columns. Engraved portrait of Chaucer on 7v after Hoccleve. Eighteenth-century paneled calf, rebacked with (possible original) spine laid down. This is the first edition of Chaucer edited by Thomas Speght (fl. 1600). Grolier, Langland to Wither, 43. Pforzheimer 177. STC HBS $12,500 The Most Important Collection of Furniture Designs to be Published in Eighteenth-Century England CHIPPENDALE, Thomas. The Gentleman and the Cabinet-Maker s Director London: Printed for the Author, and sold at his House in St. Martin s-lane, First edition. Large folio. With 161 engraved plates by Müller and Darby after Chippendale (there are two plates numbered XXV, the first of a Chinese Chaire, the second of a Chinese Sopha ). Title printed in red and black. Bound in full dark green morocco. A wonderful copy in a beautiful binding. HBS $12,500 Rare in a Contemporary Binding, in an Unrestored State COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor. Poems on Various Subjects. London: G.G. and J. Robinson, First edition of Coleridge's first published book of poetry. Small octavo. Half-title, publisher's advertisements and errata all present. This title is often found without the ads and errata. Contemporary tree calf, in an unrestored state. An excellent copy, complete and in an appropriate binding. HBS $6,000 The First American Account of Cook's Journey and the First American Book on the Northwest Coast [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 1779 Hartford: Printed and sold by Nathaniel Patten, First edition. Octavo in fours. Map absent as is almost always the case. Contemporary full brown sheep. Housed in a custom oatmeal cloth clamshell. Overall a very good copy. HBS $18,500 The First Biography of Captain James Cook [COOK, Captain James]. KIPPIS, Andrew, author. The Life of Captain James Cook. London: Printed for G. Nicol, First edition. One quarto volume. With engraved frontispiece portrait. With half-title. Also includes in the appendix: Helen Maria Williams s The Morai, an ode. Full modern mottled calf. A near fine copy. HBS $2,250

9 First Edition of Cook's Third Voyage with Atlas COOK, Captain James. KING, Captain James. A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean London: Printed by W. and A. Strahan: For G. Nicol; and T. Cadell, First edition. Three quarto volumes, plus large folio atlas volume. Volume III bound with the final leaf of advertisements for Cook s First and Second Voyages. Three text volumes with twenty-four engraved plates and charts (thirteen of which are folding) and appendix with 1 folding letterpress table facing p. 528 in Volume III. Sixty-three large plates and charts (one folding, one double-page) in the folio atlas volume (eighty-seven total). With tissue guards. The text volumes bound in contemporary tree calf. Atlas in contemporary marbled paper boards. Rebacked and recornered with half polished calf. Overall a very good set with beautifully clean text and plates. HBS $23,500 A Fine Group of Costume Books With More Than Two Hundred Hand-Colored Aquatint Plates [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 273 of 274 fine hand-colored aquatint plates. Lacking plate number 60 of 64 in the "Russians" volume. Contemporary red straightgrain morocco. An excellent set. Plates in fine condition. HBS $7,500 First Edition, One of 100 Numbered Copies Signed and with an Original Drawing COVARRUBIAS, Miguel, [illustrator]. Negro Drawings New York: Alfred A. Knopf, First edition. One of 100 numbered copies with an original pen drawing and signed by Covarrubias. Quarto. Illustrated with 56 drawings, including some in color. Dark blue cloth backstrip over royal blue cloth boards, stamped in gilt. An excellent copy of this very scarce book. Housed in a custom blue cloth slipcase. HBS $4,500 Edition de Luxe, with Nineteen Color Plates by Walter Crane [CRANE, Walter, illustrator]. HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel. A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys. With sixty designs by Walter Crane. [Boston: Houghton Mifflin & Company] Cambridge: Printed at the Riverside Press, Edition de Luxe. Limited to 250 numbered copies on large paper, this being number 176. Quarto. With sixty designs by Walter Crane, including decorative head- and tail-pieces printed in colors and an added color title and nineteen color plates mounted on leaves of Japanese vellum ruled and captioned in gold. With tissue guards. Original embossed parchment over boards. In the original green linen dust wrapper decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt on front cover and spine and green linen slipcase. HBS $1,000 First Edition, First Issue in Original Dust Jacket DAHL, Roald. BURKERT, Nancy Ekholm, [illustrator]. 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. Illustrated with full-page color plates and with color and black & white text illustrations. Red cloth stamped in blind on front cover and in gilt on the spine. Illustrated dust jacket. A near fine, handsome copy of this children's classic. HBS $2,750 Manuscript Letter, Signed by Charles Darwin with the Letter in the Hand of Emma Darwin DARWIN, Charles. Autograph Letter Signed. Beckenhaw: November 29, Autograph letter in Darwin's wife, Emma Darwin's hand, and signed by Charles Darwin. This letter was written to publisher Alexander Stuart Stahan in support of George Cupples, as the request of Cupples wife, who was attempting to secure a government pension for George. Letter is 2 1/2 pages of manuscript, on a folded octavo letterhead sheet. Sheet measures (8 x 10 inches; 202 x 252 mm). Printed letterhead reads "Down/Bromley/Kent. S.C." bit the "Bromley" has been crossed off with the tail of the word "Beckenhaw." With expected fold lines and some mild toning. Blank "4th" page with evidence that it was once affixed to something and since pulled out, leaving some glue stains and paper remnants. An excellent letter. HBS $6,000

10 The Peter Force Declaration of Independence [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 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. HBS $30,000 Defoe s Account of the Great Plague of London DEFOE, Daniel. A Journal of the Plague Year London: Printed for E. Nutt, First edition. Octavo. 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 19th-century paneled calf. Very good. HBS $4,500 First American Edition of A Christmas Carol, In Publisher's Extra Gilt Gift Binding 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. Four hand-colored lithographed plates and four hand-colored wood-engraved plates. Publisher's original gift binding by "J.C. Russell Binder" in dark brown vertically-ribbed cloth with front cover decoratively stamped in gilt. A very good copy of this scarce gift binding. Housed in a brown cloth clamshell case. HBS $6,000 A Beautifully Bound and Illustrated Copy of "A Christmas Carol" DICKENS, Charles. A Christmas Carol in Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas. Illustrated by Philip Reed. Chicago: Printed at Monastery Hill Press for Holiday House, New York, [1940]. First edition illustrated by Philip Reed. Small octavo. Numerous colored illustrations. Beautifully bound in full red morocco. Front board with leather inlay of Mr. Fezziwig dancing in tan, green, brown, and black morocco. A beautiful, fine copy. HBS $1,500 First Edition, First Issue In Book Form DICKENS, Charles. The Personal History of David Copperfield...With Illustrations by H.K. Browne. London: Bradbury and Evans, First edition, first issue in book form. Octavo. Forty inserted plates, including the frontispiece and the vignette title page and the second of Browne's famous "darkplates." Contemporary three-quarter smooth black calf over patterned brown cloth. Overall, a very good copy of this title, scarce in the first edition and first printing. Smith, Dickens, I,9. HBS $2,000 An Exceptionally Tall Copy DICKENS, Charles. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. With Forty-Three Illustrations, by R. Seymour and Phiz. London: Chapman and Hall, First edition in book form. Errata uncorrected. Octavo. Including the half title. With forty-three inserted plates by Seymour, Buss and 'Phiz'. With the Seymour and Buss plates, and with the 'Phiz' plates from early steels. Frontispiece and engraved title in the second state. None of the illustrations are captioned but all are signed. Some lower margins remain uncut. 20th-century full red morocco Overall, a near fine, and exceptionally tall, copy of this early title. HBS $2,000 First Edition of the First Mickey Mouse Book and the First Commercially Licensed Mickey Mouse Periodical DISNEY, Walt, Studios. 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 Babette 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. Illustrated in black, white and green throughout. Original pale green wrappers, printed in black and white. A very good copy of this exceedingly scarce book. HBS $2,000

11 "The Finest Work of All Modern Russian Literature"-Tolstoy DOSTOEVSKY, Fyodor. Zapiski iz mertvago doma [Notes from the House of the Dead]. St. Petersburg: First edition of one of Dostoevsky's most famous and most universally recognized works published during his lifetime. Two parts in one octavo volume. Complete with both half-titles. We could only find three copies, present copy included, that have appeared at auction in the last twenty-five years. Later brick-red pebble-grain cloth rebacked with contemporary morocco spine laid-down. HBS $15,000 "Civil Rights Mass-Meeting" DOUGLASS, Frederick. INGERSOLL, Robert G.. Proceedings of the Civil Rights Mass-Meeting. Held at Lincoln Hall, October 22, Speeches of Hon. Frederick Douglass and Robert G. Ingersoll. Washington, D.C.: C.P. Farrell, First edition. Original printed brown wrappers. Some minor chipping. Very good. HBS $4,500 The Fine "Ellery Queen" Copy DOYLE, A[rthur] Conan. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. London: George Newnes, First edition, first issue with no street name on the front cover, "Violent" for "Violet" on page 317. Large octavo. With 104 illustrations by Sidney Paget in the text. Provenance: Detective story writers "Ellery Queen" (Manfred Lee) and "Barnaby Ross" (Frederic Dannay) names in ink on half-title. Original light blue cloth over beveled boards. About fine. [Together with:] The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. Illustrations by Sidney Paget. London: George Newnes, First edition. Large octavo. With ninety illustrations in the text (including frontispiece). Original dark blue cloth over beveled boards. HBS $19,500 The Adventures and Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes DOYLE, A[rthur] Conan. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. London: George Newnes, First edition, first impression of the text with the misprint "Violent Hunter" for "Violet Hunter" on page 317), but second state of binding (with the name on the street sign in The Strand Library device on front cover. Large octavo. With 104 illustrations by Sidney Paget in the text. Original light blue cloth over beveled boards. Overall, very good. [Together with:] The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. Illustrations by Sidney Paget. London: George Newnes, First edition. Large octavo. With ninety illustrations in the text (including frontispiece). Original dark blue cloth over beveled boards. Overall a very nice copy. HBS $3,000 The First English Edition in Original Cloth of The Count of Monte-Cristo DUMAS, Alexandre. The Count of Monte-Cristo In two volumes. Vol. I. [II.] London: Chapman and Hall, First edition in English in book form. Two octavo volumes. Complete. With twenty woodcut plates (including frontispieces) by M. Valentin (designed for the English edition). Original green cloth. Overall an excellent copy with the gilt extremely bright and without restoration or wear of this rare and much sought-after title. Housed together in a custom cloth slipcase. HBS $37,500 A Fine Copy Signed by Albert Einstein [EINSTEIN, Albert]. [SCHILPP, Paul Arthur, editor]. Albert Einstein: Philosopher-Scientist. Evanston, Illinois: The Library of Living Philosophers, Inc., First edition. Limited to 760 numbered copies, signed by Einstein ("Albert Einstein. 49"). This being copy 687. Octavo. Frontispiece portrait, one double-sided plate, text diagrams. The Library of Living Philosophers Volume VII. Publisher's beveled brown cloth. A fine copy. Housed in original cardboard slipcase, a bit cracked. HBS $10,000 "El Cid" With The Respected Editorial Revisions Of Lopez De Velorado [EL CID]. Chronica del famoso cavallero Cid ruy Diez Campeador. Burgos: Philippe de Junta y Juan Baptista Varesio, Sixth publication, with the respected editorial revisions of Lopez de Velorado; this edition is considered very true to the best original text and much better than the corrupted intervening editions. Folio. 318pp. Title page in red and black with woodcut coat of arms. With two additional woodcuts. Old vellum. Gently washed and sized. Title page has some restoration, affecting three letters. Overall a very good copy in an appropriate old binding. Housed in a custom quarter brown morocco clamshell, gilt-stamped. HBS $10,000

12 In the Unrestored Rare First Issue Dust Jacket FITZGERALD, F. Scott. Tender Is the Night. New York: Charles Scribner s Sons, First edition. 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. 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. Overall, a very good to fine copy in the rare first issue jacket. HBS $17,500 Inscribed By Frost In Nine Lines "For Dear Me Why Abandon A Belief Merely Because It Ceases To Be True" FROST, Robert. North of Boston. New York: Henry Holt and Company, [1926]. Later edition of author's second book. Octavo. With half-title and photographic frontispiece. Frontispiece with glassine tissue guard. Inscribed by Frost in nine lines with six lines from his poem "The Black Cottage" on the front free endpaper. Publisher's quarter green buckram over green paper boards. Overall a very good copy with a wonderful inscription. HBS $3,200 The Second and Best Edition GERARD, John. The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes London: Printed by Adam Islip, Second and best edition, and the first edition enlarged and edited by Thomas Johnson who corrected many of Gerard s more gullible errors, and improved the accuracy of the illustrations by using Plantin s woodcuts (Hunt). Folio. Bound without the initial and final blank leaves. Engraved allegorical title by John Payne. With 2,776 woodcuts of plants throughout the text. Decorative woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials. Contemporary calf, neatly rebacked to style. Overall, an excellent copy. HBS $9,500 The Deeds of the Romans; A Shakespeare Sourcebook [GESTA ROMANORUM]. Gesta Romanorum cum applicationibus moralisatis ac mysticis. Augsburg: Anton Sorg, Folio. 98 leaves. Gothic letter. Text in double columns. Fifty or fifty-one lines per page. Initials supplied in red, rubricated throughout. Original wooden boards rebacked with half modern calf tooled in blind. Overall a very good, clean copy. HBS $15,000 First English Edition GILDAS. The Epistle of Gildas London: T. Cotes, for William Cooke, First edition in English. Twelvemo. 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. A very pretty and crisp copy. HBS $4,000 Hitler s French Mentor GOBINEAU, [Joseph-Arthur Comte] Essai sur l'inégalité des races humaines. Paris: Librairie de Firmin Didot Frères, First edition. Four volumes, octavo. Contemporary half mauve cloth over dark sprinkled boards. Spines ruled in blind and lettered in gilt. Spines a bit faded. Foxing throughout, front hinge of Vol. I cracked but sound. A beautiful set. PMM 335. HBS $9,500 The First English Edition, Translated by Coleridge. With Rare, Separately Issued Engraved Plates GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von. [COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor, translator]. Faustus. From The German of Goethe London: Boosey and Sons, First English edition, [translated by Coleridge?]. Octavo. With half-title and frontispiece portrait of Goethe. Uncut in original drab olive green boards. Professionally rebacked using original spine. Overall a very good copy. [Together with] RETSCH, Moritz. [MOSES, Henry, illustrator]. Retsch's Series of Twenty-Six Outlines illustrative of Goethe's Tragedy of Faust, Engraved from the Originals by Henry Moses. And an Analysis of the Tragedy. London: Printed for Boosey and Sons, First edition. Quarto. Illustrated with twenty-six engraved plates including frontispiece by Henry Moses. Uncut in quarter paper over original drab brown boards. Paper label on front board, label lettered in black. Professionally rebacked to style. Both volumes house together in a red morocco clamshell. HBS $11,000

13 Rare First English Edition of "Dead Souls" [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. With two pages of publisher's advertisements. Publisher's original green cloth. Some very minor professional and almost invisible gluing to a small portion of the back outer hinge, with no loss of cloth. Sadleir 985. HBS $10,000 Beautiful Original Kate Greenaway Watercolor GREENAWAY, Kate, [artist]. "Under the Cherry Blossom". [N.d., ca. 1895]. Pen, ink and watercolor drawing. [N.d, c.a. 1895]. Two young girls in a daisy strewn meadow with five geese in the foreground and a tree laden with blossoms in the background. (Image size: 3 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches; 11 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches framed). Matted, framed, glazed. HBS $8,500 Original Pen, Ink and Watercolor from Gruelle's First Book "Raggedy Ann Stories" GRUELLE, Johnny. "Never had the dolls had so much fun and excitement, and they had all eaten their fill when they heard the click of the front gate." Original pen, ink and watercolor that was used for the half-page color illustration in "Raggedy Ann Stories" (Joliet: The P.F. Volland Company, 1918). Image size: 4 1/2 x 6 inches, 10 1/2 x 12 1/2 inches, framed. There are some notes on the verso. Image shows Raggedy Ann holding a plate of bread and serving it to her dolls. Beautifully, matted, framed and glazed. HBS $4,000 Return of the Native in the Original Cloth HARDY, Thomas. The Return of the Native. In three volumes. London: Smith, Elder, & Co., First edition in book form (first printed serially in Belgravia from January to December 1878). Three octavo volumes. Frontispiece Sketch Map of the Scene of the Story in Volume I, drawn by Hardy himself and separately printed. Publisher s primary binding of brown diagonal-fine-ribbed cloth (Sadleir s Binding B ). Purdy, pp Sadleir 1113a. Webb, pp Wolff HBS $8,500 Rare First Edition of Hardy s Second Novel in the Original Cloth [HARDY, Thomas]. Under the Greenwood Tree. A Rural Painting of the Dutch School. By the Author of Desperate Remedies. In Two Volumes. London: Tinsley Brothers, Rare first edition of Thomas Hardy s second novel. Two octavo volumes. Complete with half-titles. Original green sand-grain cloth over beveled boards. Hinges with some professional repairs. Overall, a very good copy, in the scarce original cloth. Housed in slipcase. HBS $17,500 The Best Edition of Harris Navigantium HARRIS, John. Navigantium atque itinerantium bibliotheca...now carefully revised, with large additions, and continued down to the present time; including particular accounts of the manufactures and commerce of each country. Vol. I [Vol II.] London: Printed for T. Osborne [and seventeen others], Third and best edition, much enlarged. Two folio volumes. Complete with sixty-one engraved plates, including fifteen folding maps. Title-pages in red and black. Beautifully bound in period-style Cambridge-paneled speckled calf. Overall a very good, remarkably clean and bright copy of this important collection of voyages. HBS $15,000 First Issue, In the Original Cloth 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. With woodengraved vignette title-page and six additional engraved plates. With eight-page publisher s catalogue inserted between front endpapers. Publisher's purple-brown cloth. Overall a very good or better copy. Chemised and housed in a brown cloth slipcase. HBS $2,750