Heritage Book Shop. A Catalogue of Rare First editions, Fine Books and Original Illustrations. Also With a Selection of Exceptional Sets

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1 Heritage Book Shop A Catalogue of Rare First editions, Fine Books and Original Illustrations Also With a Selection of Exceptional Sets

2 Image from item 21: The Magnificent Tonson Caesar Terms Full Descriptions are available upon request. Items for any reason unsatisfactory may be returned within ten days. Heritage Book Shop 9024 Burton Way. Beverly Hills, California Telephone ~ Facsimile heritage@heritagebookshop.com Store Hours Monday - Friday 9:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. 1

3 Thick-Paper Copy, Inscribed by Adams 1.ADAMS, John Quincy. Oration on the Life and Character of Gilbert Motier De Lafayette. Delivered at the Request of Both Houses of the United States, Before Them, in the House of Representatives at Washington. On the 31st of December, 1834 Washington: Gales and Seaton, First edition, thick-paper copy. Inscribed by Adams on an inserted slip in front of title- page, as usual. Signed Ebenezer Jackson/ from/ John Quincy Adams Octavo Contemporary full straight-grain navy blue morocco, handsomely rebacked to style. Spine stamped and lettered in gilt. Boards ruled in gilt. Blue drab endpapers, original plain wrappers bound in. Pages a bit toned. Inner hinges repaired. Previous owners ink signature and address label on front free endpapers. Same owner s blind embossed notary stamp on signature sheet and page 49. Overall very good. HBS $5,000 Original Watercolor from "Josephine Goes Traveling" 2.APPLETON, Honor C., [illustrator]. Original Watercolor from Josephine Goes Traveling.[London: 1940]. (Measures 9 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches; 15 x 18 inches, framed). Page 56 from Josephine Goes Traveling. The accompanying text reads As soon as they got down the ladder they stood in half circle before the French family, and the girls curtseyed and the boys bowed. The French family bowed and then came and shook hands, smiling. Signed in full on the lower left hand corner. Elaborately matted with fabric, silk and lace, framed and glazed. Honor Charlotte Appleton ( ). Her work was widely exhibited in British art galleries, including the prestigious Royal Academy. HBS $3,000 First English Edition of One of the Most Important Works of Classical Political Philosophy 3.ARISTOTLE. Aristotles Politiques, or Discourses of Government. London: Adam Islip, First English edition. Folio in sixes. With numerous engraved initials, head and tale pieces. [Bound Together With] [TACITUS, Cornelius]. The Annales of Cornelius Tacitus. The description of Germanie. [London], M. D. XCVIII. First edition in English. [8], 271, [1, errata]pp. [As Issued with] [TACITUS, Cornelius]. The ende of Nero and beginning of Galba. Fower bookes of the Histories of Cornelius Tacitus. The life of Agricola. [London], M. D. XCVIII. Second edition in English. [6], 12, 227, [1, colophon} pp. Translator s dedication signed: Henry Sauile. First English edition. Folio in sixes Second edition in English. All titles bound together in full contemporary calf, rebacked to style. Boards ruled in blind. Spine lettered in gilt. All edges speckled red. Board edges a bit rubbed. Initial two blanks with contemporary ink manuscript notes. A small ink stain to title-page of Aristotle, just obscuring the name Islip. Some minor worming to bottom margin between signatures D-K. Some occasional pencil marginal notations. A two-inch closed tear to top margin of Ee6 in Aristotle, just slightly affecting text but with no loss. Occasional light dampstaining to upper and lower margins. In The Ende Of Nero signature H is bound out of order between signatures B and C, but is complete. Overall a very nice copy. HBS $22,500 2

4 First Edition of Ascham's Account of Contemporary Political Development in Germany 4.[ASCHAM, Roger]. A Report and Discourse Written by Roger Ascham of the Affaires and State of Germany and the Emperour Charles his Court, During Certaine Yeares while the Sayd Roger was There. London: Printed by John Daye, [n.d.c.a. 1570]. First edition. Title-page within a woodcut border. Woodcut initials. Text in black letter. With a preface letter from John Astely to R. Ascham, dated Full contemporary calf, bound to style. Board with numerous rules in blind, and double ruled in gilt. Gilt leaf corner devices and central gilt acorn and leaf device. Spine stamped and ruled in gilt, and ruled in blind. Top margin of title-page trimmed close, just touching woodcut border. Leaves with stab-holes visible. Previous owner Robert Pirie bookplate laid in. Overall a very good copy in a beautiful binding. HBS $5,000 First Edition of "Emma" Uncut in a Contemporary Binding 5.[AUSTEN, Jane]. Emma: A Novel. In Three Volumes. By the Author of Pride and Prejudice, London: Printed for John Murray, First edition. Three twelvemo volumes. (Measures 188 x 110 mm). [4], 322, [1]; [4], 351, [1, printer s imprint]; [4], 363, [1, advertisements] pp. 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. Even copies in original boards often lack this half-title, most notably the Mount Bellow copy, described in 1933 Sotheby s sale catalogue as in the finest possible state. Contemporary and almost certainly Continental, possibly German original quarter red paper spines over marbled boards, gilt-stamped on spines in Gothic style Emma By the Author of Pride and Prejudice. 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. Minor rubbing to upper joints of volume I and II and the lower joint of volume II. Housed in a red morocco backed clamshell. HBS $45,000 First Edition of The Story of Little Black Sambo 6.BANNERMAN, Helen. The Story of Little Black Sambo. London: Grant Richards, First edition. Sixteenmo. viii, 57, [1, blank], [1, printer s imprint], [1, blank] pp. Twenty- seven full-page illustrations by the author, engraved on wood and color-printed by Edmund Evans. No. 4 of The Dumpy Books for Children.Original pale green cloth lettered and stamped in dark green with ruled borders and vertical stripes. Tips bumped and rubbed and spine slightly rubbed. Overall, a very good copy of this very rare item, usually found in much worse condition. In a custom cream cloth chemise and quarter morocco clamshell. Helen Bannerman ( ) wrote this story during a long railway journey to India, after having left two small daughters to be educated in her native Scotland. The author never intended the book for publication, but through the encouragement of her children and friends the manuscript was shown to E.V. Lucas who agreed to publish it as the fourth title in his series of The Dumpy Books for Children (Schiller, p. 381). HBS $9,500 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. Old worn and mottled calf, rebacked and restored, later endpapers, morocco lettering piece, spine a bit rubbed, tiny worm hole at gutter near center, neat marginal ink annotations, occasional pencil notes or underlining. Bookplate of noted classical scholar and philologist, A.E. Housman, nineteenth-century signatures to (blank) recto of first leaf. 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,. STC HBS $8,500 3

5 With 116 Woodcuts 8.BARCLAY, Alexander, [translator]. [BRANT, Sebastian, author]. [Ship of Fooles ]. Stultifera nauis, qua omnium mortalium narratur stultitia, admodum vtilis & necessaria ab omnibus ad suam salutem perlegenda, è Latino sermone in nostrum vulgarem versa, & iam diligenter impressa. An. Do The Ship of Fooles, wherin is shewed the folly of all states with diuers other workes adioyned vnto the same, very profitable and fruitfull for all men. 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 in sixes (10 1/2 x 7 1/4 inches; 270 x 185 mm). [12], 259, [3], [42, Mirrour], [24, Egloges] leaves. Present copy collated the same as Pforzheimer. Printed in black letter. With 116 woodcuts in the text and a woodcut on the title-page. "There are 116 woodcuts in the text of which 8 are repeated twice and 1 once. These illustrations are from the blocks cut for Pynson's edition, 1509 and, with the exception of two or three are very well preserved." (Pforzheimer 41). Full seventeenth century calf, rebacked with original spine laid down. Red calf spine label, lettered in gilt. All edges speckled red. Newer endpapers. A bit of rubbing to boards and edges. Occasional marginal dampstaining. Overall a very good copy. The work shows a sympathy with humanist Latin, and criticizes those attached to the medieval grammar of Alexander of Ville-Dieu rather than to the works of Priscian and the Renaissance grammarian Giovanni Sulpizio." (Oxford Dictionary of National Biography). ESTC S Pforzheimer 41. HBS $40,000 First Edition Of Baudelaire's "Les Fleurs Du Mal" In the Original Wrappers 9.BAUDELAIRE, Charles. Les fleurs du mal. Paris: Poulet-Malassis et De Broisse, First edition, first printing with the six suppressed poems. In second state wrappers, with the back wrapper announcing Les Fleurs du Mal. Octavo (7 5/8 x 5 inches; 194 x 127 mm). [4], [1]-248, [4, table] pp. Title printed in black and red. Original light yellow printed wrappers. Uncut, as published, perfectly pure, without spots. Some professional restoration to spine. Front wrapper with a small crease along fore-edge and half-title also a bit creased. A beautiful copy. In glassine dust jacket and with a custom full morocco clamshell. The first issue contains the six notorious poems for which Baudelaire was prosecuted and fined for offenses to public morals. The poems that were suppressed in the second issue are: Les Bijoux (pp. [52]-53), Le Léthé (pp. [73]-74), A celle qui est trop gaie (pp. [91]-93), Lesbos, (pp. [187]- 190), Femmes damnées (pp. [196]-197), and Les Métamorphoses du vampire (pp. [206]-207). The French ban on these poems was not officially lifted until 1949, although they were commonly printed as an appendix in posthumous editions of Les Fleurs du mal. Baudelaire was said by Hugo to have introduced a frisson nouveau into poetry, an essentially modern form of exacerbated sensibility which will quicken only to a beauty that contains the elements of corruption. His prosody was classical in its perfection, but he was a precursor of modern poetry by his perception of the symbolic correspondences of colours, scents, and sounds...; by his exploration of the musical possibilities of the French language; and above all by his evocative power: with one phrase, or one word, he could suggest an infinity of passion, melancholy or aspiration ( Oxford Companion to French Literature). Charles Baudelaire: Souvenirs Correspondances Bibliographie (Paris: 1872), p. 151ff. HBS $35,000 4

6 First Collected Edition of Beaumont and Fletcher s "Comedies and Tragedies" 10.BEAUMONT, Francis, and John Fletcher. Comedies and Tragedies Written by Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher Gentlemen... London: Printed for Humphrey Robinson, and for Humphrey Moseley, First collected edition. The third great folio collection of Elizabethan drama after Jonson s (1616) and Shakespeare s (1623). Folio. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Fletcher by William Marshall in the second state, as usual. Decorative woodcut head- pieces and initials. Text in double columns. Contemporary full dark brown paneled calf, rebacked to style. Boards a bit rubbed. Frontispiece mounted, with two-inch tear to upper corner supplied in facsimile. leaf Eeeee3 as well as last six leaves repaired along outer margin, with just a few words and some parts of border supplied in neat facsimile. Repaired closed tear to title page. Leaf Qqq with some marginal tears, barely affecting text. Minor spotting and tanning to text, expected light wear to extremities of binding. Bookplates. Early owner signature on title page, with inscription on verso. A very good copy, attractive in contemporary calf. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Grolier, 100 English, 28. HBS $7,000 First Complete Edition With 18 Additional Plays 11.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. Folio (14 x 9 inches). Two parts in one volume (as always). [12], 578; 557, [1] pp. Complete with frontispiece portrait. Full contemporary calf rebacked to style, ruled in blind on covers, red morocco label on spine, gilt-stamped with six raised bands. Extremities rubbed. Very good in a brown cloth leather tipped slipcase, split. Pforzheimer, p.61. HBS $2,750 A Family Bible with Six of the John Martin Bible Illustrations 12.[BIBLE IN ENGLISH]. The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments... London, Edinburgh, and Glasgow: William Mackenzie, [n.d., ca. 1850]. Folio. (Measures 9 3/4 x 13 x 5/12 x 3 3/4 in. (thick); Illustrated with thirty full-page engravings by various artists, including a frontispiece and a vignette title-page (titled The Family Bible, With Copious Notes and References ), two engravings by J. Stephens from photographs of the Holy Land by Frith, and six engravings after John Martin s Old Testament illustrations. Contemporary black polished calf over bevelled boards, covers tooled in gilt and blind, spine lettered and decoratively tooled in gilt in compartments. Gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. Minimal wear to extremities. Hinges neatly reinforced. A bright, fresh copy throughout. Near fine. A lovely example of a nineteenth-century Bible. HBS $3,000 5

7 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. Spine stamped and lettered in gilt. Board edges tooled in gilt. 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 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). viii, [2], 95, [1, blank] pp. 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 tooling 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. HBS $15,000 Blake s Most Widely Known Achievement 15.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 (sheets: 20 x 14 inches; 510 x 350 mm. engravings 8 1/4 x 6 1/2 inches; 209 x 158 mm). Lineengraved 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. 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. Spine lettered and ruled in gilt. With black and red morocco spine labels, lettered in gilt. Marbled endpapers. Corners a bit bumped, and cloth lightly scuffed. Sheets mounted on stubs. A bit of very light foxing to some of the sheets, generally not affecting engravings, mainly title-page sheet and sheet of plate 20. Plate 14 with the mounting sheet trimmed at top margin about 1.5 inches, not affecting plate. A fine, strikingly clean copy. Additional illustration on front cover. HBS $32,500 6

8 How Do I love Thee, Let Me Count the Ways BROWNING, Elizabeth Barrett. LEESON, Adelaide Hanscom, [illustrator]. Sonnets From the Portuguese. With Photographic Illustrations by Adelaide Hanscom Leeson. New York: The Dodge Publishing Company, [1923]. Quarto. With 18 tipped-in color plates and numerous decorative black and white textual illustrations throughout. Each page separated with a striped patterned tissue guard. Beautifully bound in full greenish-brown morocco, elaborately decorated and tooled in gilt on covers and spine, gilt turn-ins. All edges gilt. Morocco pastedowns tooled in gilt with circular paper illustrations. Front board starting but solid. Overall, a very good copy of Browning's most famous poem in a beautiful binding. HBS $950 The Most Well-Known Allegory Ever Written 17.BUNYAN, John. The Pilgrim's Progress from This World to That Which Is to Come : delivered under the similitude of a dream, wherein is discovered, the manner of his setting out, his dangerous journey, and safe arrival at the desired country. London: Printed for Nathanael Ponder, The eighth edition. Twelvemo. [xii], 211, [1, 'Conclusion'], [4. publisher's ads] pp. Including frontispiece and two full page woodcuts. Early nineteenth-century blind-tooled sheep, spine blind-stamped in compartments and with gilt spine lettering, brown endpapers. Some wear to upper spine with a small crack. Marginal notes trimmed in a few places. Old rust mark to pp Some browning throughout. 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 cites a New York Public Library catalog of 1929, which claims that the 'fifth' edition was not issued by Nathanael Ponder, and Sharrock records that the British Library copy of the same and that in the library of the Bunyan Meeting, Bedford, although bearing Ponder's name, "are totally unlike all other editions bearing his imprint." They are apparently printed in smaller type on inferior paper, with no shoulder noted. OCLC only records six copies of this actual 1682 (eighth) edition. The most well-known allegory ever written, this journey of the protaganist, Christian, is simultaneously filled with vivid and full human portraits of its characters. With over 100,000 copies sold in Bunyan s lifetime, this most perfect and complex of fairy tales succeeded in attracting audiences from every Christian sect. Harrison pp Wing B According to Harrison there are only thirty-eight known copies of any complete edition prior to this one (of which OLCL locates six, of which three are imperfect); making this one of the forty-three earliest known copies and one of only four known complete copies of the eighth edition. HBS $32,500 First Edition, With Six Folding Maps 18.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). viii, 140, [lxii, Appendix], [1, publisher's ads], [1, blank] pp. With six folding maps, including frontispiece. all of the maps have some contemporary hand-coloring in outline. Two of the maps with overslips. All maps are engraved by William Faden, and drawn by Medcalfe, Gerlach, Durnford and W.C. Wilkinson. Nineteenth-century half black morocco over mabled 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. Previous owner F.A. Crownshield's armorial bookplate on front pastedown. 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). Howes B968. Sabin Streeter 794 HBS $8,500 7

9 Tarzan and the Ant Men 19.BURROUGHS, Edgar Rice. Tarzan and the Ant Men. Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., First edition. Octavo. 346, [4], pp. Publisher s brown cloth, dark brown-stamped front board and spine, dust jacket. Jacket lightly rubbed at extremities with 1 small chip to top of front cover and a tiny bit of loss to bottom of spine. Otherwise, near fine. Heins. Zeuschner 532. HBS $3,500 First Edition, First Issue of the First Tarzan Book 20.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 (7 1/4 x 5 inches; 185 x 125 mm). [8], 400, [1], [3, blank] pp. Illustrated title-page by Fred J. Arting. Original dark red cloth with front cover ruled in blind and lettered in gilt and spine ruled and lettered in gilt. Very minimal rubbing to spine extremities. Gilt lettering on spine slightly rubbed. Gilt lettering on front cover bright. Very slightly skewed. Overall, a near fine copy. Tarzan of the Apes is the third story Burroughs wrote, but is the first hardback book Burroughs published. This is the first appearance of the Lord of the Jungle in hardback (Zeuschner). Heins T1. Zeuschner 696. HBS $4,500 "The most sumptuous classical work which this country has produced": The Magnificent Tonson Caesar, Complete with Eighty-Seven Full-Page Engravings 21.CAESAR, Gaius Julius. C. Julii Cæsaris quæ extant. Accuratissimè cum libris editis & MSS optimis collata, recognita & correcta. Accesserunt annotationes Samuelis Clarke S.T.P. Item indices locorum, rerumque & verborum utilissimæ. Tabulis Æneis ornata. London: Sumptibus & Typis Jacobi Tonson, Large folio (18 5/8 x 11 9/16 inches; 473 x 290 mm.). [6], 560 pp. Complete with eighty-seven engraved plates and maps, sixty-two of which are double-page or folding, including added engraved title by C. Huyberts after R. V. Audenaerde, engraved portrait of the dedicatee, John Duke of Marlborough, by G. Vertue after G. Kneller, and engraved portrait of Caesar by J. de Leeuw. Thirty-one engraved head- and tail-piece vignettes and seventeen engraved historiated initials. With the doublepage plate of the bison, usually lacking. Contemporary red straightgrain morocco, rebacked with original spine laid down. Boards ruled in gilt and borders roll-tooled in blind. Spine elaborately tooled in gilt and blind in compartments. Spine lettered in gilt. Board edges stamped in gilt. Gilt dentelles. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Corners with some wear. Occasional light toning. A four-inch closed marginal tear on leaf Lll, professionally repaired, not affecting text. Two previous owner's bookplates on front paste-down, John Jarrett and C. Kalbfleisch. A small old bookseller's label also on front pastedown. Overall, an excellent copy; very wide-margined, clean and in an attractive contemporary binding. This is the magnificent and celebrated edition of Dr. Samuel Clarke. It is perhaps the most sumptuous classical volume which this country ever produced, and has long been the admiration of bibliographers. It contains eighty-seven copper-plates, which were engraved at the expense of the different noblemen to whom they are dedicated. Care must be taken, that the forty-second plate, representing a Bull or Bison, of extraordinary size, be not wanting, as is sometimes the case... The type of this magnificent volume is truly beautiful and splendid... The text is accompanied with various readings in the margin; and at the end of the vol. after the fragments of Cæsar, are the critical notes of the editor, compiled with great labour from the collation of ancient MSS. and former editions... It is, upon the whole, a most splendid edition, and will be a lasting monument of the taste as well as erudition of the editor (Dibdin). Brunet I, col Cohen-de Ricci, cols Dibdin, Greek and Latin Classics, I, pp Huntington Library, Great Books in Great Editions, 15. Lowndes I, p. 344 ( The most sumptuous classical work which this country has produced ). See inside front cover for an illustration. HBS $15,000 8

10 TLS From Benjamin Carzozo American Attorney and Supreme Court Justice 22.CARDOZO, Benjamin. ( ) American attorney and Supreme Court Justice.. Typed Letter Signed. Washington, D.C.: February 17, Written on Supreme Court stationary. 1 page, (measures 260 x 195 mm, 540 x 480 mm., framed). Addressed to Mr. Donald S. Baker. Handsomely framed with a portrait and metal plaque. Fine. HBS $1,000 First Edition Of The First American Atlas Published In America 23.CAREY, Mathew. Carey's American Atlas: Containing Twenty Maps and One Chart.. Philadelphia: Mathew Carey, First edition of the first American atlas published in America. Folio (14 3/4 x 9 1/8 inches; 373 x 233 mm). With twenty maps and one chart. Eleven of the maps are folding and nine are double page. Two of the maps are colored. From the Library of Kenneth E. Hill, with his bookplate on the clamshell. Rebacked in modern quarter sheep over contemporary marbled boards. Spine elaborately stamped in gilt. Red morocco spine label, lettered in gilt. Some of the folding maps printed on light blue paper. Boards rubbed and bumped. Previous owner's old ink inscription on blank verso of the title-page. Leaves with browning and toning, as is common of most books published in America at that time. Title-page restored at inner margin and about 3/4 of an inch trimmed from the top of the margin with no loss of text. With a bit of toning to maps nineteen and twenty. Map nineteen with some restoration along the fore-edge, not affecting the map. Final chart, # 21 (A Chart of the West Indies) bound upsidedown. In a custom cloth clamshell. A very good copy of this important atlas. HBS $37,500 Both Signed by the Original Alice 24.CARROLL, Lewis. Alice s Adventures in Wonderland. Illustrated by John Tenniel. New York: The Limited Editions Club, Limited to 1,500 numbered copies, signed by Frederic Warde. This copy is one of a few of which were also signed by the Original Alice, Alice Hargreaves. This copy being number Octavo. [4], xi, [2], [1, blank], 182, [1], [1, blank], [1, colophon], [1, blank] pp. With the original text illustrations by Tenniel re-engraved on wood by Bruno Rollitz. Printed for the members of The Limited Editions Club by the Printing House of William Edwin Rudge, Mount Vernon, N.Y. Typography and binding design by Frederic Warde. Introduction by Henry Seidel Canby. Publisher s full red morocco (by George McKibbin & Son, New York). Covers decoratively bordered in gilt, smooth spine decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments. Some rubbing to spine. A near fine copy. Housed in the original blue cloth slipcase (some browning and light wear). In original glassine, with some chipping. [Together with:] CARROLL, Lewis. Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There. Illustrated by John Tenniel. New York: The Limited Editions Club, Limited to 1,500 numbered copies, signed by the Original Alice, Alice Hargreaves. This copy being number Octavo. [4, blank], xii, [8], 211, [2], [1, blank], [1, colophon], [1, blank] pp. With the original text illustrations by John Tenniel re-engraved (in metal) by Frederic Warde. Printed for the members of The Limited Editions Club by the Printing House of William Edwin Rudge, Mount Verson, N.Y. Introduction by Carl Van Doren. Publisher s full blue morocco (by George McKibbin & Son, New York). Covers decoratively bordered in gilt, smooth spine decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments, all edges gilt. A few tiny little bumps on front cover. A near fine copy. Housed in the original red cloth slipcase (fine). Alice Hargreaves was the married name of Alice Liddell, for whom Lewis Carroll originally wrote the book. In 1932, during the celebrations of the centenary of Carroll s birth, Alice, who had lived a peaceful life in the south of England for many years, suddenly became a public figure. Her most notable and watched action was a trip to New York to receive an honorary degree from Columbia University (Lovett and Lovett). HBS $4,250 9

11 First Edition with a Presentation from the Publisher and the Scarce "Folium Reservatum." 25.CATLIN, George. O-Kee-Pa: A Religious Ceremony; And other Customs of the Mandan. London: Trubner & Co., First edition. Presentation from the publisher on the half-title. Quarto (9 7/8 x 6 3/4 inches; 252 x 176 mm). vi, [2], 52, iii [Folium Reservatum], [1, blank] pp. Complete with thirteen chromolithograph plates after Catlin by Simoneau & Toovey. With tissue guards. Publisher s blind-ruled brown cloth, front cover with double giltfillet panel with gilt floral corner pieces, gilt lettering, deep-aqua endpapers, all edges gilt. Bookplate of the Earl of Plymouth, and another small oval bookplate on front pastedown. Rubbed at the top and bottom of spine but without chipping. A superior copy with the excessively rare Folium Reservatum. Housed in a full morocco clamshell. The Mandans were practically decimated by smallpox in 1837, shortly after Catlin's visit. The present work, then, is an important historical record, preserving the Mandan buffalo dance ceremony, or O-Kee-Pa. In the preface is a letter from Prince Maximilian (see lot 216) who described the dance but did not see it first-hand. The "Folium Reservatum" is a very scarce survival, printed in an edition of approximately 25 copies in Philadelphia, Due to the sexually graphic nature of the frenzied buffalo dance, details of its practice were deemed too shocking for the public. The "Folium Reservatum" provides these details. Bennett p. 22; Field 262; Howes C-244; Sabin HBS $25,000 First Edition of this Rare Title in American Cookbooks 26.[COOKERY]. The American Housewife. New York: Collins, Keese, & Co., First edition. Twelvemo (7 5/16 x 4 1/2 inches; 185 x 115 mm). [1]-144, [2, blank] pp. With engraved folding frontispiece and sixteen engraved illustrations for the "Whole Art of Carving." We could find no copies at any library and only one copy at auction in the past 50 years, which appears to be this present copy. It was sold at Sotheby's in 1984 in the Crahan Collection. Quarter green cloth over original printed boards. Old period cloth used for backstrip. Boards chipped and rubbed. Corners bumped. Front boards with a small crack to lower outer corner, but still firmly intact. Leaves browned as usual for an American book of this time. A small 1.5 inch closed tear to inner margin of folding plate, invisibly repaired. Old ink notes on front free endpaper. Two early newspaper clippings of recipes laid down of front endpapers. Previous owner's numerous additional old notes, and recipes in manuscript and type laid in at front of cookbook. Overall a very good copy for an early American cookbook, and a very rare title. HBS $3, Hand Coloured Plates Illustrating Ladies Fashion From [COSTUME]. Coloured Plates of the Ladies Fashion. London & Paris: [ ]. Three octavo volumes. (Measures 10 1/2 x 7 in.). Each with a printed title page. Beautifully bound by Lauriat and Co. in contemporary reddish-brown straight grain morocco over marbled boards. Gilt-stamped spines with five raised bands, top edge gilt. Illustrated with 564 hand coloured plates from Le Monde Elegant or The World of Fashion: A Journal of the Courts of London and Paris. The World of Fashion continued as the Ladies' Monthly Magazine in 1851 and The World of Fashion from , then as Le Monde Elegant, or the World of Fashion in Each hand coloured plate illustrates a different dress worn for each occasion such as in the house, at the ball or on a horse. The illustrations show the dresses as they would have been worn, with the trimmings, hair styles and accessories essential for the complete picture of a well-dressed woman. A lovely collection of women's fashion and accessories published in the Victorian era and unusual to find so many of them together and beautifully bound. See back cover for an additional illustration. HBS $5,500 10

12 Dali De Draeger, With a Full Page Original Illustration by Dali 28.DALI, Salvador, [illustrator]. GERARD, Max. Dali De Draeger. [France: Draeger, Imprimeurs, 1968]. First edition, limited to 1500 copies. Presentation copy to "A Vitroff / Bon Jour!/ 1971" by Dali. This copy with a full page original illustration by Dali in black pen on verso of front free endpaper, depicting 3 men and their horses crossing a bridge, while another person off to the side has wings and is fishing. Large quarto. (Measures 12 x 11 inches). Profusely illustrated in color and in black and white throughout. Thick illustrated silver paper dust jacket. Jacket and book extremities lightly rubbed. Near fine. HBS $6,500 Trial Issue, with the Title-Page Printed in Red and Green 29.DICKENS, Charles. A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas. With Illustrations by John Leech. London: First edition, first issue, the very rare so-called trial issue, with title-page printed in red and green and half-title in green; Stave I; text entirely uncorrected; yellow coated endpapers. (Very few copies were published with first issue points in 1844). Small octavo. [8], 166, [2, ads] pp. Four hand-colored steel-engraved plates by and after Leech and four wood-engraved text illustrations by W.J. Linton after Leech. Original cinnamon vertically-ribbed cloth. Outer hinge repaired. Covers decoratively stamped in blind, front cover and spine decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt, all edges gilt. Binding matches Todd s first impression, first issue, with closest interval between blindstamped border and gilt wreath equal to 14 mm. and with the D in Dickens in perfect condition. Spine a little faded, previous owner's contemporary signatures on front free endpaper. Overall, a wonderful copy of this great rarity, exceptionally clean and bright. Housed in a half red morocco clamshell case. Although A Christmas Carol was published in Dec. of 1843, it is believed that Dickens wanted this to originally have an 1844 date to show that it was a new book for Christmas. Eckel calls this edition "the scarcest." HBS $30,000 First American Edition of A Christmas Carol, In Publisher's Extra Gilt Gift Binding 30.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 hand-colored 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 verticallyribbed 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. The lithographed plates in this first American edition are after the hand-colored steel- engraved plates in the first English edition, and the wood engravings, which were intertextual and in black and white in the English edition, appear here as inserted hand- colored plates. Gimbel A80. HBS $7,500 11

13 A Complete Set of Dickens Christmas Books in Original Cloth 31.DICKENS, Charles. A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas. With Illustrations by John Leech. London: Chapman & Hall, First edition, first issue. Overall very good, and better than usual copy. [Together with:] DICKENS, Charles. The Chimes. A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In. London: Chapman and Hall, 1845 [i.e., December 1844]. First edition. Small octavo. Very good. [With:] DICKENS, Charles. The Cricket on the Hearth. A Fairy Tale of Home. London: Printed and Published for the Author, by Bradbury and Evans, 1846 [i.e., December 1845]. First edition. Overall very good. [With:] DICKENS, Charles. The Battle of Life. A Love Story. London: Bradbury & Evans, First edition. Spine very slightly darkened. Some rubbing to edges, corners and along spine. Some wear to spine extremities. Binding slightly skewed. Previous owner s armorial bookplate on front pastedown. Overall very good. [And:] DICKENS, Charles. The Haunted Man and the Ghost s Bargain. A Fancy for Christmas-Time. London: Bradbury & Evans, First edition. Spine very slightly darkened. Some very minor rubbing to edges and corners. Minor wear to spine extremities. Previous owner s armorial bookplate on front pastedown. Minor paper flaw to top edges of leaves C3 and C6. Overall very good. All five titles housed together in quarter morocco open-end case. Case formed in the shape of the five spines. Gimbel. Hatton and Cleaver,. Smith, Dickens,. HBS $18,500 First Edition of the First Book on Television 32.DINSDALE, Alfred. Television. London: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, Ltd., First edition. Small octavo. 62pp. Portrait frontispiece of John Logie Baird, 5 photographic plates and 6 full-page diagrams. Contains the first photograph printed as it appeared on the screen of the first television. (p. 38). Original printed flexible boards. Pictorial dust jacket. Jacket rubbed along extremities with some light staining, mostly to rear panel. Overall, a very good copy and very scarce in dust jacket. Dinsdale focuses primarily on the work of Scottish engineer John Logie Baird, the first person to produce televised pictures of objects in motion. Baird produced the first television image in outline and transmitted the first pictures between two televisions. Of Baird s early experiments, Dinsdale writes: Baird s weird apparatus - old bicycle sprockets, biscuit tins, cardboard discs and bullseye lenses, all tied together with sealing wax and string - failed to impress those who were accustomed to the shining brass and exquisite mechanism of the instrument maker. The importance of the demonstration was, however, realized by the scientific world... (p 49). Although he did not succeed in producing a viable system of television, Baird paved the way for future technical development. HBS $5,000 The First Edition of Donne s "Poems 33.D[ONNE], J[ohn]. Poems, by J. D. With Elegies on the Authors Death. London: Printed by M[iles] F[lesher] for John Marriot, First edition of the principal collection of Donne s poetical works, issued two years after his death. Small quarto volume (7 x 5 1/4 inches; 178 x 133 mm.). [x], 406 pp. Poems with the rare two leaves (signed A and A2) containing The Printer to the Understanders and Hexastichon Bibliopolæ, not present in all copies. Leaf Nn1 with thirty-five lines of text on p. 273 instead of thirty or thirty-one, with omission of the usual running headline. With numerous woodcuts throughout both books. A lovely modern full red morocco. Raised bands on the spine with gilt compartments. Black morocco spine label. Decorative tooling on front and rear boards. Marbled endpapers. Top edge trimmed close, affecting decorative line at top and pagination of Poems. A bit of dampstaining to lower margin that runs on and off throughout. Overall a very good copy. Grolier, Langland to Wither, 71. HBS $35,000 12

14 "The Finest Work of All Modern Russian Literature"-Tolstoy 34.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 (7 7/8 x 5 1/8 inches; 200 x 130 mm). [4], 269, [1, blank]; [4], 198 pp. 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 brickred pebble-grain cloth rebacked with contemporary morocco spine laid- down. Spine ruled and lettered in gilt. Newer endpapers. All edges speckled red. A small, light stain to fore-edge margin of pages of volume II. Overall, a very good copy of this rare and important title. Late 19th-century armorial bookplate of Count Miloradovich. Written after his release from prison, Dostoevsky describes here, through a fictional narrative, the details of his own life in Siberia and that of the prisoners incarcerated with him (usually using their real names). "The House of the Dead was the work that had the greatest sucess-the story of the country's most heinous criminals written by a newly released prisoner. '" (Kjetssa, Fyodor Dostoevsky,: A Writer's Life, 136, 366). The complete text was first published in the review Vremya in This first edition in book form was published without Chapter 8 of part two, which didn't appear until Kilgour 279. HBS $15,000 Signed by Thomas A. Edison 35.[EDISON, Thomas A.]. Ramsaye, Terry. A Million and One Nights. A History of the Motion Picture. New York: Simon and Schuster, First edition. Limited to 327 copies, with this particular set being one of a very few specially bound by the publisher in quarter pigskin, as opposed to the usual blue cloth. Signed by the author and Thomas A. Edison. This is copy number 34. Quarto. lxx, 400; pp. Frontispiece portrait, illustrated throughout with black and white photographic illustrations. Publisher's quarter tan pigskin over batik boards, black-stamped spine lettering and decoration, top edges gilt. Vol. 1 with a few small splits olong headcap, corners rubbed, some furbishing. A very good copy. This first official history of cinema, written by film journalist Terry Ramsey, presets a clear and detailed picture of the early development of film as seen from the Edison camp. Dwelling specifically on Edison's early Kinetograph and his 'Black Maria (the first studio to be built specifically for making commercial films), Ramsey charts the development of the motion picture industry through While later critics downplayed Edison's importance, recent scholars have reinstated his preeminent position in the history of film. A lavish production, chronicling the history of the silver screen, with wonderful vintage photographs. Edison, in his short preface, voices his praise for this book as the first endeavor to set down the whole and true story of the motion picture...through his years of preparation...i am aware of [the author s] effort at exact fact. A high degree of detailed accuracy has been attained. HBS $4,850 "El Cid" With The Respected Editorial Revisions Of Lopez De Velorado 36.[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. Old vellum. Gently washed and sized. This edition is known for usual page spotting, here absent: text is generally fresh and clean. Title-page has some restoration, affecting three letters. Very well margined. Overall a very good copy in an appropriate old binding. Housed in a custom quarter brown morocco clamshell, gilt-stamped. Early editions of the Chronicles (or History) of the eleventh century knight El Cid are quite rare. The book is part of the general chronicles and legends of Spain: this dealing with the exploits of the valorous knight who freed Valencia from the Moors. The text at hand is an excellent study of the manners and customs of the era of the Knights of Spain; highly sought after by bibliophiles and appreciated by historians. HBS $10,000 13

15 First Edition "The Great Gatsby" 37.FITZGERALD, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. New York: Charles Scribner s Sons, First edition, second issue with all first issue points corrected. Full blue cloth, blindstamped front cover, gilt-stamped spine. Some foxing to first and last few pages, tips lightly bumped, minor wear to extremities, skewed. A very good copy. Bruccoli, Fitzgerald, A11.1.a. HBS $1,500 The Rarest Bond Book Of All 38.FLEMING, Ian. The Man with the Golden Gun. London: Jonathan Cape, [1965]. First edition. With the exceedingly rare gilt-stamped gun on the front board. Small octavo (7 5/16 x 4 15/16 inches; 186 x 126 mm). 221, [3, blank] pp. Original black paper over boards. Giltstamped front board and spine. In a near fine, dust jacket that has one small (1/8 inch) tear at the crown and a minuscule nick at the top of the rear panel. Gilt on gun and spine extremely bright. A previous owner's name has been removed from the front free endpaper, and lightly painted over on both recto and verso, rendering it barely noticeable. Binding slightly skewed. A bright and fine copy. It is estimated that less than fifty were printed with the gilt-stamped gun on the front board. This is the Bond collector s Eldorado. HBS $10,000 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 39.[FRANKLIN, Benjamin]. Charter of Privilages, Granted by William Penn, Esq; to the Inhabitants of Pensilvania and Territories. Philadelphia: B. Franklin, First edition. Folio (11 5/8 x 7 inches; 295 x 178 mm). 8 pp. [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). [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. Title-page of Charter with old ink ownership signature. Second leaf of Charter with old ink signature to top margin and old red bookseller (E.Ellery) stamp on outer margin. Final leaf of the "Table" trimmed about 1/3 up from the bottom, no loss of text. Some old ink marginalia throughout Laws. 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 1787." (The Historical Society of Pennsylvania) Evans Howes. Sabin Streeter 953. HBS $75,000 14

16 With Twelve Plates Engraved by William Blake 40.GAY, John. Fables.... With a life of the author and embellished with seventy [i.e., seventy-one] plates. Vol. I. [II.] London: Printed for John Stockdale, First edition with plates engraved by Blake. Two octavo volumes. xi, [1, blank], 225; vii, [1, blank], 187, [1, ads] pp. Seventy-one engraved plates, including title-page in each volume and engraved dedication plate in Volume II. Twelve of the plates (some reversed) in Volume I engraved by Blake after designs by Kent, Wootton, and Gravelot. With the List of Subscribers in Volume II, listing Blake ( Blake Mr. ) on page 178. Handsomely bound in half variegated tree calf, ruled in gilt, over marbled boards, spines lettered and tooled in gilt in compartments. Marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, others trimmed. Very minor off-setting from plates to text and some minor edge- browning. Small tape repair to verso of final leaf in Volume I, not affecting text. A near fine copy. Gay s Fables were originally published at two different times, Vol. I in 1727 with an elegant plate for each fable after W. Kent or J. Wootton, and Vol. II in 1738 with fine plates after H. Gravelot. These illustrations were repeatedly reprinted and silently copied (Bentley, p. 565) HBS $1,000 "Certainly the Most Beautiful Book on Troy Ever Published" 41.GELL, W[illiam]. The Topography of Troy, and Its Vicinity; Illustrated and Explained by Drawings and Descriptions. Dedicated by Permission, to her Grace The Duchess of Devonshire. London: C. Whittingham, for T.N. Longman and O. Rees, First edition. Folio. [iv], 124 pp. Uncut in contemporary marbled boards, rebacked and recornered. (Measures 17 1/4 inches x 10 3/4 inches). With red morocco spine label. With twentyeight plates and illustrations, including colored vignette-etching on titlepage, nine colored etchings, nineteen colored aquatints (some folding), one uncolored aquatint, and the heads of eleven pages (see Abbey). One page with inner margin tape repair, minor toning throughout. Fine. Rare. "Gell visited the Troad between December 2 and December 7, 1801 on his first trip to Greece, in the company of Edward Dodwell ( ) and a certain Mr. Atkins. He used with consummate skill a camera lucida to produce in a very short time extremely accurate sketches. The production of this handsome folio with its forty-five plates was meant to supply accurate illustrations of the scenery covering the whole region of the, so far, purely literary dispute on Troy. Gell adhered strictly to the Bunarbashi theory. Bryon disliked him and made scathing remarks on 'rapid' Gell in the fifth edition of English Bards and Scoth Reviewers, saying in a note: 'Rapid indeed! He topographized and typographized King Priam's dominions in three days.' In fact Gell spent five days in the area and the result was certainly the most beautiful book on Troy ever published. It is dedicated to the Duchess of Devonshire ( ), the 'Beautiful Georgiana,' wife of the fifth Duke, who was pleased '...to express... an interest highly gratifying' on matters concerning Troy. The interest in topography of that region was still as intense in 1804 as it had been in 'The controversy on the subject of Troy, which had long employed the ingenuity and abilities of some of the most learned men in Europe, imparted new charms and increasing interest, to the contemplation of scenes already made sufficiently engaging, the writings of the poet and historian.' Lilly. The illustrations in this work were made with the use of the Camera Lucida." Abbey, Travel, 399. Blackmer Sale 616 (brought $6,250 Oct. 1989). Blackmer Library 660. Gernsheim, The History of Photography. Lilly Library, The Search for Troy, 81. HBS $7,500 15

17 Signed by George and Ira Gershwin 42.GERSHWIN, George and Ira, Du Bose Heyward and Rouben Mamoulian. Porgy and Bess. An Opera in Three Acts. New York: Random House, First edition, limited to 250 copies signed by all authors, this being number 178. Quarto (12 1/4 x 9 1/4; 311 x 235 mm). [xiv], 559, [1, blank] pp. With signed limitation page inserted at rear. With color frontispiece and title-page illustrations by George Biddle. Publisher s full red morocco, blind-stamped front board and spine, without the black morocco label on spine. Decorated endpapers. Spine darkened with one small chip to top, rear hinge starting. Includes 22 page "Souvenir Book" and publisher's original straw-covered slipcase. Publisher's slipcase slightly rubbed and worn, mostly at edges. Overall, a very good copy. "Porgy and Bess, an opera written by George Gershwin ( ) in collaboration with DuBose Heyward ( ) and Gershwin's brother Ira ( ), is the one American opera to become fully established in the international opera repertory as well as in the popular musical imagination. Its tunes have become standards for jazz improvisation, and the lullaby "Summertime" has by now achieved the status of a folk song. Porgy and Bess is based on DuBose Heyward's 1925 novel Porgy and on the 1927 Broadway play of the same name by DuBose and Dorothy Heyward. Gershwin sketched the opera in 1934 and prepared the orchestra score from September 1934 to September 1935." (American Treasures of the Library of Congress). HBS $8,000 Rare First English Edition of "Dead Souls" 43.[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). [2], iv, 308; [2], 314, [2, ads] pp. 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. Spines lightly sunned. Previous owner's old ink signatures on front paste down (dated 1860) and on title pages (dated 1857) of each volume, not affecting text. Volumes slightly skewed. Overall a very good, clean set in original cloth. Housed in a custom slipcase. The first work of Russian prose fiction published in the United States was published in Philadelphia in The title was Ivan Vejeeghen (translation of Ivan Vyzbigin, 1829) and its subtitle was Life in Russia. "[The publication of this book] began a tendency to present Russian fiction as a source of information about Russian life rather than as art...this trend continued after the outbreak of the Crimean War, which brought with it an increased English interest in Russian life and culture. A spate of prose translations appeared in the 1850s, which were drastically doctored and presented as factual accounts by unnamed 'Russian noblemen'. Their titles are indicative of the treatment the novels received: Sketches of Russian Life in the Caucasus, 1853 (Lermontov's A Hero of our Time ); Home Life in Russia, 1854 (Gogol's Dead Souls ); and Russian Life in the Interior, 1855 (Turgenev's Sportsman's Sketches ). HBS $10,000 Beautiful Original Kate Greenaway Watercolor 44.GREENAWAY, Kate. "Mother and Two Small Children". [N.p., N.d., ca. 1880]. Original watercolor of young mother in a long blue dress, holding her sleeping baby with her bonnet wrapped around her arm while a toddler pulls at her dress. She is looking out into the distance at a row of homes. Signed "K.G." in the left hand bottom corner. Measures 8 1/4 x 6 inches; 14 1/4 x 12 inches, framed. Beautifully framed and matted in beige patterned silk, embellished with gold trim. Matted, framed and glazed. Kate Greenaway ( ). Born in London to an engraver father and a seamstress mother, Kate Greenaway's drawings were to capture forever an idealized image of Regency in childhood and rural life. Greenaway's lines were always light, fine and sure, her watercolors delicate in color and application and she used little or no shading in her work. She depicted clothing meticulously and drew her figures, flowers and plants from life. Her enormous popularity spawned hundreds of imitators. HBS $10,000 16

18 Beautiful Original Kate Greenaway Watercolor 45.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. Kate Greenaway ( ). Born in London to an engraver father and a seamstress mother, Kate Greenaway's drawings were to capture forever an idealized image of Regency in childhood and rural life. From the age of twelve, Greenaway studied her craft, first at the Finsbury School of Art and later at the newly founded Slade School of Fine Art. Greenaway got her first commissions through her father and after one of her card designs sold 25,000 copies in just a few weeks, her work became very sought after by publishers. Greenaway's lines were always light, fine and sure, her watercolors delicate in color and application and she used little or no shading in her work. She depicted clothing meticulously and drew her figures, flowers and plants from life. Her enormous popularity spawned hundreds of imitators. HBS $8,500 Autograph Letter Signed 46.GREENAWAY, Kate. ALS With Four Small Drawings (2 Sided). [London]: 1888.Measures 6 x 4, double sided; 10 x 8, framed). Thank you note in pen to F. Morkler with 4 small drawings in her typical style illustrating young Victorian children, 2 with bonnets, all profiles and quite charming. Matted and framed with blue checkered cloth and lace. Fine. HBS $1,250 Earliest Known Publication of the Rules of Baseball 47.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, 1796.Second edition (same year as first). Octavo. xvi, [viii], 494, [4, index] pp. Complete with the engraved frontispiece by G.F. Stoelzel after J. H. Ramberg and four fullpage 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. Gutsmuths taught at the Philanthropinium, a progressive experimental school in Dessau. The curriculum borrowed ideas from John Locke, Jean- Jacques Rousseau, and especially Johann Bernhard Basedow, the founder of the school. The book was printed again in the same year and then again OCLC records no copies (other than microfiche ones) of the first edition, and only a few copies of the second and third editions. The work includes bibliographical references and index. The plates and text discuss and display various sports including cricket, badminton, golf, croquet, handball, chess, etc. Many claim that the rules for the modern game of baseball were laid down in 1845 by Alexander Cartwright and the other members of the Knickerbocker Base Ball Club. According to this story, the next year, the first game of modern baseball was played at the Elysian Fields in Hoboken, New Jersey. (The Knickerbockers lost to the New York Baseball Club.) Alexander Cartwright and the Knickerbocker club did indeed set down rules to baseball in 1845 and played in Hoboken the following year, but this was not actually true. Cartwright was not the first to codify the rules of baseball. The earliest known publication of baseball rules dates to some 50 years earlier, and in Germany of all places. HBS $1,250 17

19 First Edition of Hardy's Scarce Third Novel 48.HARDY, Thomas. A Pair of Blue Eyes. London: Tinsley Brothers, First edition in book form (first published in Tinsleys Magazine from September 1872 to July 1873). One of presumably 500 copies printed. Three small octavo (6 5/8 x 4 3/8 inches; 168 x 110 mm). [4], 303, [1, blank]; [4], 311, [1, blank]; [4], 262 pp. Bound without half-titles. Late nineteenth-century half blue morocco over marbled boards. Boards ruled in gilt. Spines stamped and lettered in gilt, and with gilt roses in four compartments. Marbled endpapers. Top edge gilt. Occasional light staining. Overall a very nice set in a handsome binding. Hardy s third published novel, A Pair of Blue Eyes tells the story of the young woman Elfride and her competing lovers; after an aborted elopement with one of her suitors, Elfride determines to marry the other, whom she feels she truly loves. After he discovers the extent of her previous romantic entanglements, however, he breaks off their match. HBS $4,500 Rare First Edition of Hardy s Second Novel in the Original Cloth 49.[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 (7 3/8 x 4 7/8 inches; 188 x 124 mm). [6], 215, [1, blank]; [6], 216 pp. Complete with half-titles. Original green sand-grain cloth over beveled boards. Covers stamped in black with an Oxford frame and spines ruled in gilt and black and lettered in gilt. A bit of rubbing to extremities and corners. Gilt on the spine with some rubbing. Hinges with some professional repairs. Previous owner's ink signature on front pastedown of each volume. Some foxing and staining, mostly at front and rear. Overall, a very good copy, in the scarce original cloth. Housed in slipcase. Under the Greenwood Tree was published anonymously at 21s., in a edition presumably of 500 copies, early in June 1872 (Purdy). Purdy, pp Sadleir Webb, pp Not in Wolff. HBS $17,500 "Hesperides" in a Contemporary Binding 50.HERRICK, Robert. Heperides: or, the Works both Humane & Divine. London: Printed for John Williams and Francis Eglesfield, First edition. Octavo (170 x 109 mm). [8], 398, [2], 79, [1, blank] pp. Engraved frontispiece (inserted) by William Marshall depicting a bust of Herrick on a pedestal with an eight-line Latin inscription beneath (with the small rosebuds and foliage in the background bearing a minute amount of pale contemporary coloring), dedication to the Prince of Wales, errata leaf, and the section title page for His Noble Numbers. Contemporary English blind ruled sheep, smooth spine divided by double blind rules. Light wear to corners and joints, flap repair to upper spine with a little loss, small section of upper joint cracked. Text block shaved a little close at top margin, tiny worm hole to title and dedication leaf affecting just one letter, small piece torn from bottom margin of Bb2 & 3, faint traces of dampstaining to upper portion of preliminary leaves, some (erasable) pencil marginalia. Early owner's pen signature (Jackson Clare Court, Drury Lane) to front paste down. Bookplates of John Bowle and Canon Charles Herbert Mayo. Purchased by Abel E. Berland (with his booklabel) from the Seven gables Bookshop in New York on March 21, Exhibited at the Grolier Club-"This powerful rime", no. 18, Housed in a quarter morocco clamshell case with gilt spine lettering. An excellent unpressed copy of a book almost never found in its original binding. Grolier, 100 English, 29. Grolier, Langland to Wither, 441. Pforzheimer 468. Wing Wing H1596. HBS $45,000 18

20 This Magnificent Work Is Surely The Finest Early Example Of English Color Printing." A Majestic Large Folio Volume Of More than 80 Beautiful Color Stipple-Engraved Portraits Of The Court Of Henry VIII 51.HOLBEIN, Hans, [artist]. CHAMBERLAINE, John. Imitations of Original Drawings by Hans Holbein, in the Collection of His Majesty, for the Portraits of Illustrious Persons of the Court of Henry VIII. With biographical tracts. Published by John Chamberlaine, Keeper of the King's Drawings and Medals, and F.S.A. London: W. Bulmer & Co., First edition of Chamberlaine s magnificent volume of 86 color stipple-engraved plates, rarely found complete. Large folio (21 1/4 x 16 1/2 inches; 540 x 415 mm). Complete with the 80 listed plates (all of which are mounted), frontispiece portraits of Holbein and Holbein's wife, and a third frontis of a group portrait, two hand-colored miniatures and an additional plate of Henry Howard, Earl of Surry, engraved by Scriven. An impressive collection of full-page engravings after Holbein s legendary portraits of Jane Seymour, Anne Boleyn, Sir Thomas More, a young Edward VI, Anne of Cleves, and other court figures, with frontispiece portraits of Holbein and his wife. Of the listed plates, all but four portraits are engraved by the great Bartolozzi. In total, eighty-two plates are in color with four on lavender paper, sixty-three on pink, thirteen on white/buff), inclusive of one sheet with double portrait of Henry and Charles Brandon finished by hand. With one leaf of publisher's advertisements. 19thcentury full red morocco, rebacked with original spine laid down. Boards elaborately stamped with floral devices and with thirteen gilt rules. Spines elaborately stamped in blind and gilt, lettered in gilt. With one-inch gilt dentelles. All edges gilt. Green coated endpapers. Plates exceptionally bright and clean, with only very minor instances of foxing. Most foxing is to leaves and not engravings. Title-page with 11/2-inch x 1/2 piece torn from fore-edge and a 2- inch closed tear at fore-edge, neither affecting text. Many of the plates are a somewhat wrinkled. The plate of Lord Clinton with a small tear to the pink paper, not affecting engraving. Occasional marginal closed tears, professionally repaired. Binding a bit rubbed and bumped. Overall a very good copy of a magnificent work. One of the most magnificent books that we have ever seen, and, whether we consider the genius of the painter or the talents of the engravers, reflects high honor on the age and nation which produced it (London Monthly Review ). The plates were etched or engraved in gray or sepia ink, with additional colored inks applied a la poupee, two hand-colored. Text by Edmund Lodge. HBS $17,500 The First Edition, All First Issues of Irving's Sketch Book, Including"Rip Van Winkle" & "Sleepy Hollow", Bound from the Original Seven Parts 52.[IRVING, Washington]. The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. New York: Printed by C.S. Van Winkle, 1819[-1820]. First edition. One small quarto volume, bound together from the original seven parts. First printing of Parts 1, 6, and 7 with all points as described in BAL; and state A (no priority) of the text on page 240, line 12: "ont he". Collates exactly according to the BAL. iv, [5]-94 ; [97]-169,[-170, blank]; [171]-210, ; [243]-301[-302], [2], [303]-335,[-336, blank]; [337]-443, [1, blank]; [1]-120; [1]-123, [1, blank] pp. Part 2 without the anti-piracy slip (not required for a complete collation). Bound without final blank in Part I. Contemporary full tree calf, rebacked using original spine. Front board tooled in gilt. Spine stamped and lettered in gilt. Gilt board edges. Marbled endpapers. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown. A 2.5-inch closed tear to the title-page of part I, and a 1.5-inch closed tear to bottom margin of page [iii-iv] of part I, bot invisibly repaired and not affecting text. Page of part II with a small 1 x.5-inch tear to top margin, not affecting text. A 1.5-inch clost tear to fore-edge margin of page of part VII, not affecting text. Part VII with some very minor toning and occasional spots of staining. Overall a very good and clean copy. Chemised and housed in a red cloth slipcase. (Grolier, 100 American, 31.)BAL Langfeld & Kleinfield, pp Grolier, 100 American, 31. HBS $10,000 19

21 First Edition of Jacob's "Most Enduring and Successful Work" 53.JACOB, Giles. A New Law-Dictionary... [London] In the Savoy: Printed by E. and R. Nutt and R. Gosling (assigns of E. Sayer, Esq;) for J. and J. Knapton, J. Darby, A. Bettesworth, F. Fayram, W. Mears, J. Pemberton, J. Osborn and T. Longman, C. Rivington, F. Clay, J. Batley, and A. Ward, MDCCXXIX. [1729]. First edition. Large quarto (12 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches; 318 x 210 mm). Text in two columns. Unpaginated. [772] pp. A-5D4, 5E2. Contemporary full calf, rebacked. Boards are tooled in blind. Spine with a newer red morocco spine label. Boards rubbed. Previous owner's old ink signature on front free endpaper. Front and rear endpapers, laid-down. Some light toning. Overall a very good copy, internally very clean. Jacob, Giles (bap. 1686, d. 1744), was a legal and literary author. ESTC T HBS $2,850 First Complete American Edition of "A Dictionary of the English Language" 54.JOHNSON, Samuel. A Dictionary of the English Language... Philadelphia: Moses Thomas, First complete American edition. Two thick quarto volumes. (Measures 10 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches). Complete with half-titles and the engraved frontispiece portrait of Johnson after Reynolds. Vol I: [124] & unpaginated lexicon in triple column, collating [*1-*2] & b1-d2, elr2, A1-6X4; vol. II: [4] & unpaginated lexicon, collating [1*-*2] & B1-7D4, pp. Original full brown calf, red and black morocco labels on spine, gilt-stamped. Some worming to last few pages in vol. II on top margin, affecting a couple headline letters, also some dampstaining to last few pages on inside margin, extremities rubbed, some cracking to rear outer hinge but still very sound. A very good and rare copy in the original binding. Heavily abridged versions in miniature format had appeared in America as early as 1804, but bear no resemblance to Johnson's incomparable original. HBS $4,500 The Plan for Johnson's Great English Dictionary 55.[JOHNSON, Samuel]. The Plan of a Dictionary of the English Language; Addressed to the Right and Honourable Philip Dormer, Earl of Chesterfield; One of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State. London: Printed for J. and P. Knapton, T. Longman and T. Shewell, C. Hitch, A. Millar, and R. Dodsley, First edition, second issue with leaf A reset to exclude the Earl of Chesterfield's name on the first page of the dedication and leaf E in corrected state. Quarto (10 x 8 1/4 inches; 252 x 207 mm). [2], 34 pp. Newer quarter red morocco over red cloth. Spine lettered in gilt. Newer endpapers. Edges speckled red. A bit of light soiling and foxing throughout. A small dampstain to the top inner margin of the title-page and following leaf. A tiny pinhole to title-page only affecting the top of a semi-colon. Overall a very good copy. "The description that Johnson wrote for the booksellers and labelled 'A Short Scheme for compiling a new Dictionary of the English Language' became the first draft of The Plan of A Dictionary of the English Language, published in August The principal changes Johnson made in transforming the 'Scheme' into a published Plan appear to be intended to address aspects of a larger concern:the nature and imposition of the lexicographer's authority for linguistic decisions. The most obvious example of this preoccupation is the insertion of several direct differential references to Lord Chesterfield, to whom the Plan, unlike the 'Scheme,' is addressed...the Plan published in early August 1747, reveals several alterations and insertions made by Johnson which relate explicitly to Chesterfield and his apparent belief of desires for the language and an English dictionary..." (The Making of Johnson's Dictionary , Allen Reddick, pg 17-19) "In 1746, a consortium of London publishers led by Robert Dodsley, recognizing a sizable market for a comprehensive dictionary of English, approached Johnson to undertake such a project. Rochester, who sent him twenty etymologies." (Courtney & Nichol Smith, p 20) Courtney & Nichol Smith, p 20. Rothschild HBS $6,000 20

22 The First Folio Edition and the First Collected of Ben Jonson's "Works" 56.JONSON, Ben. The Workes of Benjamin Jonson. London: Printed by William Stansby, [Together with:] The Workes of Benjamin Jonson. The second Volume...London: Printed for Richard Meighen, [1631]-1640[-1641]. First folio edition and first collected edition. Three folio volumes, bound in two (Volume II divided into four parts, originally issued in two volumes). (11 1/8 x 6 7/8 inches; 281 x 173 mm.; [12], 1015, [1, blank]; [12], 88, 75, [1], [2], ; 159, [1, blank]; 79, , , [1, blank]; [2], ; 132 pp. Volume I with engraved allegorical title by William Hole (Pforzheimer state B, and according to Pforzheimer this is the rarest of the states). Volume I with the rare initial blank. Decorative woodcut head-and- tail pieces and initials. In volume I, page is bound out of order between page 1010 and This set is complete and collates according to Pforzheimer. Volume I- In this copy, the section title to Every Man out of His Humour (p. [73]) is the state without a woodcut border, and without Iohn Smithwicke;" withdedication leaf (G2), signed, with "By your honorer, Ben Jonson," (same as Pforzheimerr) the section title to Cynthias Revels (p. [177]) is the second state without the woodcut border and has the imprint: "LONDON, Printed by WILLIAM STANSBY. MDCXVI." The section title to Poëtaster (p. [271]) is the first state within the woodcut border and has the imprint: "Printed by W. Stansby, for M. Lownes " Volume II- Issue D, with the 1640 general title-page, the first three plays with the imprint dated 1631 (same a Pforzheimer). The end of Mortimer reads: "Hee dyed, and left it unfinished". Both volumes uniformly bound in 17th-century full mottled calf. Rebacked to style in the 19th-century. Boards ruled in blind. A bit of light wear to spines and edges. Edges speckled red. Newer endpapers. Small rust hole, not affecting text to top margin of signature A of volume I, and a minor stain to signature Oo. Page 525 of volume I with a stain and small hole, not affecting text. Volume I, leaves Ppp2 and GGGG with small rust holes, just barely affecting text. In volume II, the general title-page with minor early ink ownership notes. Leaf D3, of Horace with a small rust hole. Occasional light toning to pages. Overall a very good copy of this set. It is unusual to find this set uniformly bound in a contemporary binding, becuase of the difference in publication dates of the two volumes. This set was probably bound about 1640 at the time of the second volume. (Grolier, 100 English). Grolier, 100 English, 17. Pforzheimer 559. Pforzheimer 560. STC HBS $27,500 First Edition in Wrappers 57.KAFKA, Franz. Die Verwandlung [The Metamorphosis]. Leipzig: Kurt Wolff, [1915]. First edition, wrappers issue. One of 1000 copies (according to the publisher). Octavo. Cream-colored wrappers with folding flaps, front cover with Ottomar Starke's famous charcoal drawing of a man clutching his head in front of an open door (reminiscent of Edvard Munch's "The Scream"). Greenish-grey endpapers. Some minor creasing to spine. Small dampstain to lower left corner of front wrapper. Overall, a near fine copy of the very scarce first edition of Kafka's most famous novel. Housed in custom box. Written between November 17 and December 7, 1912 during the fit of creative passion that also saw the birth of Das Urteil [The Judgement ] and the first chapter of Der Verschollen (Der Heizer ) [(The Stoker )]...This exceptionally repulsive story is the most sustained work of fiction published during Kafka s lifetime and the one with which his name is most profoundly associated in the common consciousness: it is the story of Gregor Samsa s transformation into a giant insect. The strange allegory of alienation from the self, from one s very body, from the family, and by analogy from society, the state and the whole of mankind is one of the defining works of the twentieth-century consciousness. In his critical hierarchy of the great prose works of the Twentieth Century, Vladimir Nabokov rates Die Verwandlung second behind only James Joyce s Ulysses (The Breon Mitchell Collection of the Works of Franz Kafka, p. 7). Dietz 25. Wronski, Kafka 12. HBS $12,500 21

23 The Kelmscott Edition of the First Book Printed in English 58.[KELMSCOTT PRESS]. CAXTON, William, [translator]. [LEFEVRE, Raoul]. The Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye. [Hammersmith, London: Kelmscott Press, Sold by Bernard Quaritch, 1892]. One of 300 paper copies printed by William Morris at the Kelmscott Press. Three books in two volumes. Large quartos (11 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches; 290 x 210 mm). xv, [1], 295, [1, blank]; [297]-507, [3, blank], [509]-718 pp. Printed in red and black in Troy and Chaucer type. Decorative woodcut borders and initials. Edited by H. Halliday Sparling. Publisher's full limp vellum with yapp edges. Original green silk ties, four of which are partially missing. Spines lettered in gilt. Some very light age toning to vellum. A bit of foxing to bottom and foreedges. A small catalog listing tipped in to front free endpaper of volume I. Overall, a very good set. A reprint of the first book printed in English, which had long been a favorite with Morris. Although there had been a number of earlier editions of the Recuyell, the Kelmscott Press version was the first to go back directly to Caxton s text. This was the first book printed in Troy type, and the first in which Chaucer type was used (for table of contents and glossary). All of the ornaments in the margins and the initials throughout the text are by Morris. Clark Library, Kelmscott and Doves, pp Peterson A8. Ransom, Private Presses, p. 326, no. 8. Tomkinson, p. 109, no. 8. Sparling 8. HBS $6,500 The Kelmscott Press Utopia 59.[KELMSCOTT PRESS]. MORE, Sir Thomas. Utopia. Written by Sir Thomas More. [London: Sold by Reeves & Turner, 1893]. One of 300 copies on paper, out of a total edition of 308 copies. Octavo (8 1/8 x 5 9/16 inches; 206 x 142 mm). [2, blank], xiv, 282, [1, colophon], [1, blank] pp. Printed in red and black in Chaucer and Troy types. Decorative woodcut borders and initials. Now revised by F.S. Ellis & printed again by William Morris at the Kelmscott Press, Hammersmith (Colophon). With a Foreword by William Morris. Original full limp vellum with yapp edges. Spine lettered in gilt. All edges uncut. Back bottom tie missing. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown. An about fine copy. Aymer Vallance records an amusing anecdote (quoted in Peterson): Of the 300 copies issued, 40 had been ordered in advance by an Eton master, with the intention of distributing them as prizes among the boys of the college, but when the work appeared with a compromisingly Socialistic introduction by Morris, the order, from motives of prudence, had to be canceled. However the copies were all disposed of before a year was out, so Morris did not suffer any loss. Clark Library, Kelmscott and Doves, p. 26. Peterson A16. Ransom, Private Presses, p. 326, no. 16. Tomkinson, p. 112, no. 16. HBS $5,000 First Edition, Printed the Year of Kidd's Death 60.[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). [4], 51, [1, blank] pp. 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. "Captain William Kidd, a Scotsman by birth, lived in New York City in the 1690s. He was commissioned as a British privateer by the governor of New York to go out and capture pirates; instead Kidd became a pirate himself. This work of "A Person of Quality" who "was privy to...every thing that pass'd in that affair" has sometime been attributed to Dr. John Mitchell." (Hill, 663) ESTC T Hill 663. Howes m677. Sabin HBS $5,500 22

24 First American Edition of" The Second Jungle Book" Signed With a Quote from the Book 61.KIPLING, Rudyard. The Second Jungle Book. By Rudyard Kipling. Decorated by John Lockwood Kipling. New York: The Century Co., First American edition. Signed and inscribed by Kipling in black ink on the title-page with a quote from the book. On the title-page, Kipling has crossed out his printed name and signed it below. (The first American issue preceded the English edition by three days and has significant textual differences). Inscription reads: "Now these are the Laws of the Jungle, and many & mightly/ are they-/ But the head & the hoof of the law and the haunch & the/ hump is-obey." Inscription is from a quote from the poem Law of the Jungle, included on page 32. Octavo. [x], 324 pp. Publisher's original terracotta cloth stamped in gilt and orange on covers and spine. Top edge gilt. With black and white illustrations by Kipling's father throughout. Minor touch-up to extremities. Spine bumped on top and bottom. Overall, a very good copy with a lovely inscription by the author. Livingston. Martindell. Stewart. HBS $6,500 First Edition With Ten Original Photographs 62.KNEELAND, Samuel. The Wonders of Yosemite Valley, and of California. With original photographic illustrations, by John P. Soule. Boston: Alexander Moore, First edition. Octavo (10 3/8 x 6 7/8 inches; 265 x 174 mm). [iii]-xii, 13-71, [1, blank] pp. (Preliminaries are incorrectly numbered in all editions.) Complete with ten mounted albumen photographs by Soule of scenes in Yosemite, with tissue guards, and three wood-engraved text illustrations relating to Giant Sequoias, and two engraved maps. Text and photographs ruled in red. Original publisher's green pebble-grain cloth over beveled boards with front cover and spine decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt and black and rear cover decoratively stamped in blind. All edges gilt. Bookplate on front pastedown. A bit of rubbing to extremities. Head and tail of the spine shows wear. Light foxing, mostly to preliminaries and tissue guards. A very clean and bright copy. Kneeland [ ], a professor of zoology and physiology and secretary of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from its founding in 1865 until 1878, produced one of the better guide books to the Yosemite region. Though not identified by name, the account of the 1872 earthquake and much of The Yosemite in 1872 is based on information indirectly supplied by John Muir. It is the first appearance of Muir s writings in a book (Currey & Kruska). Cowan, p. 333 (third edition). Currey & Kruska 225. Farquhar 10b. Kimes & Kimes 3, 5, 7, and 8. Rocq HBS $1,750 A Very Important and Much-Prized Work 63.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. [3], [1, blank], 91, [1, blank], [4], [95]-168; 176; [2], 228, 229 [folding table, verso blank and unpaginated], , [1, printer s imprint], [6], XVIII [list of subscribers] pp. Fifteen hand-colored engraved plates, including frontispiece in each volume 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. According to Lada-Mocarski "This edition is in many ways superior to the subsequent editions, including the English translation. The three volumes are rich in early original original source material on Alaska. The description of the northwest coast of America is a most important contribution...a very important and much-prized work (Hill, p. 165). Zamorano Eighty 48. HBS $10,000 23

25 The First Russian Voyage around the World 64.KRUSENSTERN, A[dam] J[ohann] von. Voyage round the World, in the Years 1803, 1804, 1805, & 1806, by order of His Imperial Majesty Alexander the First, on board the ships Nadeshda and Neva, under the command of Captain A.J. von Krusenstern, of the Imperial Navy. In two volumes. Translated from the original German by Richard Belgrave Hoppner, Esq. Vol. I. [II.] London: Printed by C. Roworth, for John Murray, First edition in English. Two quarto volumes in one. vii, [1, blank], [4, contents], [ix]- xxxii, 314; [9], [1, blank], 404 pp. Folding engraved map ( Chart of the Northwest Part of the Great Ocean ) and two hand-colored aquatint frontispieces for each volume. Original quarter parchment over drab blue boards. Original printed paper spine label. Uncut. Previous owner's light ink signature on title-page. Very light small library stamp to title-page. Leaf a2 with a few closed tears, neatly repaired. Original paper label a bit rubbed and unreadable. Boards with some light soiling and bumping. A very clean and handsome copy. Housed in a custom quarter morocco clamshell. Overall, an excellent copy. Laid in is a hand-written half-page letter dated March The introduction is particularly important and interesting because of the information it contains respecting the state of Russian commerce during the eighteenth century, the Russian voyages and discoveries in the Northern Ocean, and the Russian fur trade (Hill). A Russian edition was published in and a German edition (from which this English edition was translated) in Abbey, Travel, 1. Arctic Bibliography Borba de Moraes pp Hill pp Howes K271. Sabin HBS $22,500 Three Original Watercolors Illustrating Characters from "Oliver Twist" 65.KYD, [illustrator]. [Pseudonym of Joseph Clayton Clark.] DICKENS, Charles. Three Original Watercolors by Kyd Illustrating Characters from "Oliver Twist." All signed in lower corners and headed with chapter number. (Each watercolor measures 3 1/2 x 4 inches; 9 1/2 x 10, uniformly matted in gold and framed). Chap. IV. "Mrs. Sowerbury showing Oliver where to sleep, pointing under a desk with a floor full of rubbish." Signed in lower left hand corner. Chap. XXV. "Toby Crackit sitting back with his feet up on the wall while Fagin is yelling, tearing his hair." Signed in lower left hand corner. Chap. XXXIX. "Sikes lying in bed, wrapped in a big overcoat, Nancy sitting by the bed looking pale and thin and a dog laying by the bed." Signed in lower right hand corner. Overall, a great set of illustrations by Kyd illustrating charaters from "Oliver Twist". All uniformly matted, framed and glazed. KYD (Joseph Clayton Clarke) Clarke was an eccentric profligate man and the most prolific of all of the extra-illustrators of Dickens. He is characterized by his exceptionally delicate, small scale work in pen with light color wash. Kyd's particular talent was to capture the characters' expressions and way of life and depict them with humor and personality. HBS $1,500 24

26 The Caxton Recueil Des Histoires De Troyes. The Duke of Roxburghe- John Pierpont Morgan Copy 66.LEFEVRE, Raoul. Le recueil des histoires de troyes. Bruges: William Caxton, 1473.First edition of the French text of Raoul Lefevre, which, in Caxton's English version was the first book printed in English and the first book printed by Caxton. This is generally acknowledged as the first literary work printed in the French language: Caxton left Bruges for England in 1477, the first works in French printed in Paris were in 1477 and the French printing by Le Roy at Lyons are thought to be later.small folio (267 x 196 mm). Lettre batarde. 31 lines. 252 [of 286] ff., lacking 32 printed leaves and two blanks: d-f10, C1, C10, and blanks a1 and m10.early nineteen-century brown straight grain morocco by Charles Lewis: gilt- and blind- ruled in geometric patterns, gilt inner dentelles, gilt edges. Fine condition, unrestored. This copy is notable in that the missing leaves are internal, and the first and last printed leaves are present.only seven copies of this book are extant and only three are complete.with an extraordinary provenance befitting the greatness of this book: Library of the Duke of Roxburghe (sale 1812); of the third Earl Spencer (sale 1823); John Dent, with his notes (sale 1827); P.A. Hanrott (sale 1834); the Earl of Ashburnham (sale 1897); Richard Bennett, with his bookplate; John Pierpont Morgan, with his bookplate and his shelfmark.bmc IX, 131. Goff L-113. Duff 243. De Ricci (C) 3b.4. Pollard no. 637 (this copy). HBS $950,000 25

27 The Most Important Art Treatise of the Renaissance 67.LEONARDO DA VINCI. Trattato della pittura... Novamente dato in luce, con la vita dell istesso authore, scritta da Rafaelle du Fresne. Si sono giunti i tre libri della pittura, & il trattato della statua di Leon Battista Alberti, con la vita del medesimo. Paris: Appresso Giacomo Langlois, 1651.First edition (not to be confused with the French edition which published the same year, the Italian edition being much more rare) of Leonardo s Treatise of Painting, the most important treatise on art to be written during the Renaissance. Two parts in one folio volume (14 3/4 x 10 inches; 374 x 252 mm.). [20], 112, [1], [1, blank], [11, index], [3, blank]; [16], 62, [2, blank] pp. Pages in the first part misnumbered Engraved frontispiece portrait of Leonardo in the first part, engraved portrait of Alberti in the second part, engraved title vignette, seventy-three engraved illustrations and diagrams in the text (nineteen of which are after Poussin and others by Pierfrancesco Alberti), and numerous engraved head- and tail-pieces and initials.contemporary vellum over modern speckled calf. Black morocco spine label, lettered in gilt. Boards with a decorative central device, stamped in blind. Vellum a bit rubbed and soiled. Newer endpapers. Internally, leaves very clean, possibly washed. Small repairs to the bottom outer corners of the half-title, titlepage and final leaf, not affecting text. Two previous owner's bookplates on front pastedown. Overall a very nice copy. Alberti s treatise on statues also appears here for the first time in print. First edition of Leonardo's first published work, which appeared 132 years after his death. The treatise was drawn together from his copious notes by his pupil Francesco Melzi. A manuscript copy made for $12,500 Freart de Chanteloup, illustrated by Nicolas Poussin, formed the basis for this edition. HBS Profusely Illustrated with Woodcuts 68.[LIVY]. CARBACH, N.F., [translator]. [Romische Historie] Titi Livii deß aller redsprechsten und hochberümpsten geschi. Roemische Historien mit etlichen newen translation ausz dem Latein so kurtz verschinen jaren zu Meyntz im hohen Thumbstifft sampt nun dem vierdten theyl der Roemischen Historien Mainz: Johannes Schoeffer, Fourth German edition. Four parts in one folio volume. (12 x 7 5/8 inches; 308 x 195 mm). [14] 1-545, [1, colophon] leaves. With over 250 woodcuts in the text (with some repeat). Main title-page with headpiece and three separate title-pages with woodcuts for the other three parts, but included in the pagination. Each of these pages are demarked with a small metal marker attached to the fore-edge. Contemporary pigskin over beveled wooden boards. Boards are ruled and stamped in blind. Old ink manuscript for title on spine. Back board with metal remnants of two clasps which are no longer intact. Old ink notes on bottom margin of title-page, not affecting text. "V.F." stamped in title-page and top edge of text block. Boards soiled and rubbed. Edges of text block dusty. But internally very clean. Overall a very good copy. USTC, , (the following all regarding the first edition) Adams L BM p Muther 645. HBS $6,000 The First Edition of Jack London s Greatest Novel 69.LONDON, Jack. The Call of the Wild. Illustrated by Philip R. Goodwin and Charles Livingston Bull. Decorated by Chas. Edw. Hooper. New York: The Macmillan Company, First edition. Octavo (7 1/2 x 5 3/16 inches; 192 x 131 mm). [5]-231, [1, blank], [2, ads] pp. With frontispiece and ten color plates, included in pagination. Text illustrations, some printed in blue and some in color. Title-page printed in blue and black. Original vertically ribbed green cloth, front cover and spine decoratively stamped in white, red, black, and gilt. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Pictorial endpapers, printed in blue with dog-team and mountain scene. In the original dark grey printed dust jacket, rebacked with tissue. Cloth rubbed along extremities, vertical crease along cloth spine, jacket with a few short tears along top and bottom of spine as well as some professional restoration. Otherwise, a very good copy of this scarce first edition. "The book, illustrating London's recurrent Darwinian theme of the need for adaptation to survive was an immediate success and thrust London into a position of unaccustomed wealth." (Benét's Reader's Encyclopedia, 163). BAL Woodbridge 19. HBS $7,500 26

28 First Edition in English of Machiavelli's "Works" 70.[MACHIAVELLI, Niccolò]. The Works of the Famous Nicolas Machiavel, Citizen and Secretary of Florence. Written Originally in Italian, and from thence newly and faithfully Translated into English. London: Printed for John Starkey, First edition in English, with variant imprint. Four parts in one. Quarto (12 7/16 x 7 3/4 inches; 315 x 195 mm.). [24], 177, , [5], , , [5], , , [6], , [1, blank], [21], [1, blank] pp. Collated the exact same as the British Library copy. The last twenty-two pages include a [4] pp. "Preface to the Reader," [11] pp. of "Nicholas Machiavel's Letter to Zanobius Buondelmontius in Vindication of Himself and His Writings," and a [5] pp. "Catalogue of Books." Eighteenth-century full brown mottled calf, rebacked to style and recornered. Spine stamped in gilt. Red morocco spine label. Original marbled endpapers retained. Edges speckled red. Boards and edges a bit rubbed. Some minor dampstaining to fore-edge and upper margin. Occasional light old ink marginalia. Intermittent very light spotting, and occasional rust spots but mostly a very good, fresh copy. ESTC R Lowndes, HBS $8,500 First Edition of this "Book of Education," Rearranging the 613 Commandments of Maimonides 71.[MAIMONIDES, association] [BEN JOSEPH HA-LEVI OF BARCELONA, Pinhas]. [BEN JOSEPH HA-LEVI, Aharon]. Sefer ha-hinnukh. Venice: Daniel Bomburg, [283, i.e. 1523]. First edition. Quarto in eights 9 1/8 x 6 7/8 inches; 230 x 175 mm). 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. No copies on ABPC for the last fifty years and only one copy at auction on Americana Exchange which was badly defective. Full modern brick-red sheep. Boards panel-ruled in blind. Boards with gilt tooled frame and gilt woven center devices. Gilt floral corner devices to boards. Spine ruled in gilt and blind, and gilt floral devices in four compartments. Board edges ruled in gilt. Title- page, the following leaf and the final leaf with inner margin repair. Title-page with a bit of creasing. Some light marginal stains to preliminary leaves and some mostly marginal dampstaining to the final 40 (approx) leaves. Small red pencil note on the verso of the title-page and some pencil notations on the verso of the final leaf. Overall a very good copy. HBS $22,500 The Rare Early Edition of Marlowe and Chapman's Poem; A Shakespeare Source Book 72.MARLOWE, Christopher. CHAPMAN, George. Hero and Leander. Begunne by Christopher Marloe, and finished by George Chapman. London: Printed by G.P. for Edward Blount, Eighth edition. Small quarto (6 13/16 x 4 15/16 inches; 175 x 125 mm). 96 pp. With woodcut printer s device and headpiece on title-page. Historiated woodcut initials, headpieces and rules separating the sestiads throughout. Marlowe wrote the first two sestiads, and Chapman completed the poem with sestiads 3-6. There are only a handful of copies known of any early editions of this book. The first edition was printed by Adam Islip for Edward Blount in 1598 and comprises only the first two sestiads. The only know copy of this resides at the Folger library. This present copy, the eighth edition is quite rare. Only one other copy has appeared at auction since Full green morocco by Elizabeth Greenhill. Boards double ruled in gilt. Spine stamped and lettered in gilt. Gilt dentelles. All edges gilt. Some very minor sunning to board edges. Leaves occasionally trimmed close, rarely just touching the catchwords or signature marks. Title-page trimmed at bottom edge just touching the date of the imprint, but with no loss. A tiny wormhole beginning at E3, but not affecting text. Some minor contemporary marginalia. Previous owner Thomas Allardes (?) contemporary signature on title-page and verso of title-page. With bookplates of Robert Pirie and Bent Juel-Jensen on front pastedown. Overall about fine copy. This poem is a Shakespeare source and the first edition as well as this present edition were printed by Edward Blount, the publisher of Shakespeare s first folio. HBS $60,000 27

29 Rime di Michelagnolo Buonarroti 73.MICHELANGELO BUONAROTTI. Rime di Michelagnolo Buonarroti. Raccolta da Michelagnolo suo Nipote. Florence: Appresso i Giunti, First edition. Small quarto. Woodcut device on titlepage, decorative woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials, typographic ornaments throughout. Uncut and bound in modern full brown speckled calf decoratively blindstamped on covers, gilt-stamped on spine with five raised bands. Minimal foxing throughout. We read in the preface that the intent of Michelangelo's heirs was to publish a definitive volume of verses as an antidote to the many spurious editions produced since his death. Michelangelo's grandnephew goes on to say that these verses were in large part taken from a manuscript in the Vatican Library, most of which is in his granduncle's hand. While this book is now hailed as a classic in modern gay literature, for many years this was not the case due to some creative editing by Michelangelo the Younger. The homoeroticism of Michelangelo's poetry was obscured when his grand nephew, Michelangelo the Younger, published an edition of the poetry in 1623 with the gender of pronouns changed from male to female. John Addington Symonds reclaimed Michelangelo's homoeroticism by translating his sonnets into English and writing a two-volume biography and publishing it in This edition was printed by one of the most famous printers of their day, the Giunti family, whose device on the title page included the Florentine giglio, or lily. These fine productions are still known to book collectors as "Giuntine." Gamba 248. HBS $5,000 With Ten Original Prints, Signed by the Artists and Signed by the Author 74.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). [1]-55, [1, colophon] pp. With ten original full page prints, each signed by the artist. Text is handset in Perpetua type. Printed on handmade kyokushi or Japanese Vellum. Bound at the Okamoto Bindery in original tritone 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 $3,500 John Milton s Paradise Lost with John Martin s Illustrations, One of 50 copies 75.MILTON, John. The Paradise Lost of Milton. With Illustrations, Designed and Engraved by John Martin. London: Septimus Prowett, First (Imperial Quarto) edition. One of only 50 copies with the smaller set of engravings. According to Campbell there were two issues of the Imperial Quarto Edition: "(2) Imperial Quarto Edition, measuring 10 7/8 x 15 1/4 in., with fully lettered prints from the larger set of plates, at 10 16s.(3) Imperial Quarto Edition, measuring 10 7/8 x 15 1/4 in., containing lettered proofs of the smaller set of the engravings: limited to 50 copies, at 12 guineas for the complete publication." Thus even though the images were smaller, this edition was more expensive upon publication. Campbell states "only three copies of the Imperial Quarto edition containing proofs from the smaller set of engravings are now known" (this was in 1992). Two volumes bound in one. Large quarto (14 3/8 x 10 1/2 inches; 366 x 268 mm.). [4], 228; [2], 218 pp. Twenty-four mezzotint plates in the smaller format (image size: 8 x 5 1/2 inches), with tissue guards. Contemporary burgundy pebble-grain morocco. Covers decoratively paneled in gilt, spines paneled and lettered in gilt in compartments, gilt spine bands, gilt board edges, wide gilt-tooled dentelles, marbled endpapers and doublures, all edges gilt. Some light foxing (mainly to the plate margins and prelims). An excellent copy of this scarce edition. Ray, The Illustrator and the Book in England, 69. HBS $9,500 28

30 The Third Edition of Milton's 'Paradise Lost' 76.MILTON, John. Paradise Lost. A Poem in Twelve Books. London: S. Simmons, Third edition, 'Revised and Augmented by the Same Author'. Octavo. viii, 331, [1, blank] pp. Frontispiece portrait of Milton by W. Dolle. Lacking the final two blank leaves. This includes the commendatory poems by S.B. in Latin and by Andrew Marvell in English. Contemporary full calf, rebacked. Boards stamped in blind. Brown morocco spine label, lettered in gilt. Boards edges a bit rubbed and bumped. Some very minor toning. Previous owner's very light contemporary ink noted on frontispiece portrait. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown. A very handsome copy. Grolier, Wither to Prior, 194. Pforzheimer 719. HBS $2,500 First Collected Edition of Milton's Prose 77.MILTON, John. The Works Of Mr. John Milton. [London]: [1697].First collected edition of Milton's prose works. Folio in fours (12 1/2 x 8 inches; 320 x 200 mm). [10], 568 pp. Lacking final blank. This is an edition of most of Milton s English prose. Includes 18 separate items, some with separate dated title pages with the imprint "Printed in the year MDCXCVII". Pagination and register are continuous. Place of publication are from Wing. Full contemporary calf, rebacked. Boards ruled in blind. All edges brown. No spine label. Front outer corner of title-page with professional repair, affecting a portion of the ruled border. Some rubbing to board edges. A bit of toning, mainly to leaves N, N4, Xx and Xx4. Some minor marginal dampstaining. Newer endpapers. A few pages with contemporary marginalia. With the bookplate of famous collector Robert Ball on the front pastedown. Overall a very good copy. "This was intended, apparently, to range with [Tonson's edition of] the Poetical Works of 1695." ( Pforzheimer 728). This edition omits The History of England and A Letter on Education. Coleridge 72. ESTC R Pforzheimer 728. Wing M HBS $1,750 A Superb Copy of the Definitive English Translation 78.MORE, Sir Thomas. ROBINSON, Ralph, [translator]. [Utopia] A frutefull pleasaunt & wittie worke, of the best state of a publique weale, and of the new yle, called Utopia: written in Latine, by the right worthie and famous Syr Thomas More knyght, and translated into Englishe by Ralphe Robynson... and nowe by him at this second edition newlie perused and corrected, and also with diuers notes in the margent augmented. Imprinted at London, by Abraham Vele, [1556]. Second edition in English, second state, with colophon on [S8]. Sixteenmo. 144 leaves, many misnumbered. Full red morocco, bound by Riviere and Sons. Covers ruled in gilt, spine lettered in gilt in compartments. Cream endpapers. All edges gilt. Former signature on front free endpaper and bookplate from W.A. Foyle. Title with some soiling. Overall, a beautiful copy, elegantly bound. Originally published in Latin in 1516, Utopia, was not translated into English until Ralph Robinson s 1551 version. His address To the Gentle Reader in this second edition explains that he had initially intended his translation only for the priuate use of his friend William Cecil, the greatest statesman of his era: But as the latine prouerbe sayeth: The hastye bitche bringesth furth blind whelpes. For when this my worke was finished, the rudenes therof shewed it to be done in post haste. How be it, rude and base though it were, yet fortune so ruled the matter that to Imprintinge it came, and that partly against my wyll. Five years later, Robinson presented the English press with this corrected and refined translation This copy is the Foyle copy with the Foyle bookplate. Housed in a custom black morocco clamshell, gilt-stamped. Gibson 26b. Pforzheimer 740. STC Hoe I, HBS $40,000 29

31 Fourth Edition of Sir Thomas More s Utopia 79.MORE, Sir Thomas. [Utopia ] De optimo reip. statu, deque nova insula Utopia, libellus vere aureus...epigrammata darissimi disertissimicus viri Thomae Mori, pleraque è Græcis versa. Epigrammata. Des. Erasmi Roterodami.. [Basel: Apud Joannem Frobenium, NovemberDecember 1518]. Fourth edition of Thomas More s Utopia, the second edition corrected by More, and the second edition of More s Epigrammata. Three parts in one small quarto volume (8 1/8 x 5 7/8 inches; 149 x 205 mm.). 163, [1], 164, [4], , [1, colophon] pp. Roman and Greek types. Twenty-six lines. Woodcut Utopian alphabet on b3 recto (designed by Petrus Aegidius and later used by Geoffroy Tory in the Champfleury ). Title within a fine woodcut architectural border by Hans Holbein on title (repeated on c1), full-page woodcut map of Utopia on b2 verso by Ambrosius Holbein, halfpage woodcut head- piece depicting John Clement, Raphael Hythlodaye, Thomas More, and Pieter Gillis by Ambrosius Holbein opening text on d1 recto, woodcut title border to More s epigrams by Urs Graf, woodcut title border to Erasmus s epigrams by Hans Holbein, one of three woodcut printer s devices at the end of each part, woodcut historiated initials by Urs Graf and Ambrosius and Hans Holbein. Full eighteenth century English tree calf. Front cover repaired at hinge. Boards tooled in gilt. Gilt dentelles. Marbled endpapers. All edges dyed yellow. Spine stamped and lettered in gilt. Some scattered staining, mainly to leaves B2-B3 of More's Epigrams as well as signatures F and G of the same title. Small marginal paper repair to leaf S, not affecting text. A few early, neat ink annotations in margin. Three previous owner's bookplates on front endpapers. Overall a very good copy. Housed in a quarter morocco clamshell. Provenance- According to Sotheby's who sold this present copy at the George Abrams sale: sold Sotheby s London 17 November 1989, lot 194. "Possibly Anthony Rous (d. 1620), friend of Sir Francis Drake and one of his original executors), with contemporary inscription on title "Possessor Antho. Rous 2d"; Lord Dacre, with his bookplate and inscribed by him "This Book formerly Mr Capels given me by the Revd. Mr. Collins of Ledbury his Executor D."; Albert Ehrman, Broxbourne Library, with bookplate (sold Sothbey s London 14 December 1977, lot 63) George Abrams, with bookplate (sale in our rooms, I, 14 November 1977, lot 63).") In Utopia More is concerned to show that the old, medieval institutes, if freed from abuse, are the best, not the new theoretic reforms, which he justly feared...utopia is not, as often imagined, More s ideal state: it exemplifies only the virtues of wisdom, fortitude, temperance and justice. It reflects the moral poverty of the states which More knew, whose Christian rulers should possess also the Christian virtues of Faith, Hope and Charity (Printing and the Mind of Man ). Printing and the Mind of Man 47 (citing the 1516 first edition). HBS $45,000 30

32 The "Magnum Opus" Of John Henry Nash 80.[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, 1929.Limited to 250 numbered copies this being number 159. Four folio volumes. vii, 165; 166; 165; 120 pp. Printed in Cloister Lightface roman, with marginal notes in italic, on Van Gelder (Nash watermark) paper. 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. This is the magnum opus of John Henry Nash. Started in 1923, it was six years in the making...the beauty of the work lies in its utter simplicity and the perfection of the presswork (O Day). O'Day, pp HBS $2,750 First Edition in English of this Classic Early Work on the Americas Including One of the First Views of New York City 81.OGILBY, John, [editor, translator]. MONTANUS, Arnoldus [author]. America : Being The latest, And Most Accurate Description Of The New World;.. London: Printed for the Author, First edition, first issue in English of this classic early work on the Americas including one of the first views of New York City. Folio. Title printed in red and black. Complete with fifty-eight engraved plates, including engraved frontispiece, two folding maps, two folding plates, six full-page plates and forty-seven doublepage plates. Also with sixty-six inter-textual plates. Also with numerous engraved head- and tail-pieces and initials There is some confusion over the correct number of plates and maps, Sabin calls for a total of 65 but then gives a breakdown of portraits maps, views and plans which totals 55, the present copy includes 57 which accords with the plate list given at the end of the volume, and one additional plate, a map of Barbados, has also been included in this volume, but is not called for on the list of plates. There are two issues of this work. The earlier includes a view titled `Arx Carolina' between pp.204 and 205 (as in this copy), in the later issues this is replaced by a map of Carolina. Contemporary mottled calf, rebacked preserving the original spine. Brown morocco spine label, lettered in gilt. All edges marbled. Leaf E4 with a small, closed tear. Leaf R4 with a 1 1/2-inch tear to top margin, not affecting text and a 2 1/2-inch closed tear at the bottom of the page. Leaf Iii6 with a paper flaw at the top margin, not affecting text. Plate between pages 466 and 467 with a 2-inch tear at the top margin, not affecting illustration. Some rubbing to boards. Some browning and toning to leaves and a few dampstains, but overall a superior copy of a book not usually found in such an unsophisticated state. In 1671, Ogilby published the 'America', translated from Arnold Montanus' Dutch text. However, Ogilby added fresh material on the English colonies, supplied by the Proprietors of the various colonies. Earliest issues contain only the Dutch maps and views, with the new English text. Later issues had a number of important maps, draughted from English materials, added, including a map of the Americas and very early depictions of the Carolinas, Maryland, Jamaica and Barbados. Sabin Wing O165. HBS $58,500 31

33 First Edition of the "Genuine Trial of Thomas Paine" 82.[PAINE, Thomas]. The Genuine Trial of Thomas Paine. For a Libel Contained in the Second Part of Rights of Man; At Guildhall, London, Dec. 18, 1792, Before Lord Kenyon and a Special Jury: Together with the Speeches at Large of the Attorney-General and Mr. Erskine, and Authentic Copies of Mr. Paine's Letters to the Attorney-General and Others, on the subject of the Prosecution. Taken in Short-Hand by E. Hodgson. London: Printed for J.S. Jordan, [together with] PAINE, Thomas. Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution. Part I. London: Printed for H.D. Symonds, [and] PAINE, Thomas. Rights of Man; Part the Second. Containing Principles and Practice. London: Printed for H.D. Symonds, First edition of the Genuine Trial, with later editions of Rights of Man, parts I and II. Title-page of Trial bound out of order in front of Rights of Man. Trial lacking final leaf (advertisement leaf?), but everything is textually complete. Trial collates according to Sabin, with the exception of the final leaf. [2], [iv], 78; [2], [9]-91, [3, appendix]; 32 33*- 37*, [1, blank], , [1, advertisement] pp. Three volumes in one. Trial is quarto, Rights is twelvemo. (7 5/8 x 4 1/4 inches; 193 x 109 mm). Quarter calf over contemporary marbled boards. Rebacked to style. Red morocco spine label, lettered in gilt. Spine ruled in gilt. Boards rubbed and corners bumped. Small paper label, affixed to front board. Previous owner's old ink signature dated 1826 on front free endpaper. Occasional pencil notations. Overall very good. "The attack on the French Revolution, which Burke had made in his Reflections on the Revolution in France, infuriated Paine, who was chagrined by these statements coming from his former friend, the great liberal. He rushed into print with his even more celebrated answer, The Rights of Man. Paine hope this book would do for England what his Common Sense had done for America. he appropriately dedicated it to George Washington and published it on Washington's birthday, February 22, " (Oxford Dictionary of National Biography).Sabin ESTC T5894. HBS $2,500 First American Edition of Parts One and Two of Paine's "Rights of Man" with the Jefferson Extract in the Preface 83.PAINE, Thomas. Rights of Man. Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution. Second Edition. [First American]. Philadelphia: Re-Printed by Samuel Harrison Smith, [Together with] PAINE, Thomas. Rights of Man. Part the Second. Combining Principles and Practice. Philadelphia: Printed by and For Messrs. Rice and Company, Market-Street, and S.H. Smith, First American Edition of both parts of Thomas Paine's famous work, Rights of Man, printed the same year as the first London editions. Misunderstandings of which edition Part one is are common as the title-page states Second edition, although it is the first printing in America. Octavo. Part one is dedicated to George Washington as in Jordan s London editions and part two is dedicated to the Marquis de Lafayette. The last true first London edition to sell at auction (one of just about 100 copies that were sold before the run was recalled hours after release) which was a 1st edition of part one and a 2nd edition of part two, sold for $250,000. Here we have both American first editions. Two volumes bound together in early full sheep, rebacked to style. Corners and board edges with professional, nearly invisible repairs. Dark red morocco spine label, lettered in gilt. Boards ruled in blind, spine ruled in gilt. Edges speckled red. Leaves a bit toned and stained throughout, as is usual for American sheets of this time. Previous owner's old ink trimmed signature on title-page of first part. Front pastedown with previous owner Thomas Baird's old bookplate. Bookplate reads "Thomas Baird's/ Scientia praestat divitiis/ No. 267." "Scientia praestat divitiis" roughtly translates to "knowledge surpasses wealth. "Overall a very good copy of these rare first editions. Housed in a custom full morocco clamshell. About 4 weeks after Jordan s London edition was printed, a few copies arrived in Pennsylvania and one such copy landed in the hands of Thomas Jefferson by way of James Madison who had received it from John Beckley whom has initiated arrangements for publication in Philadelphia. Beckley requested Jefferson return the copy to J.B. Smith (the printer's father) when he had finished reading it. There was a bit of confusion to Jefferson as to the identity of JB Smith, thinking instead he was the printer's brother and therefore a stranger to Jefferson. Jefferson dashed off a note to accompany the book back to Smith and upon receipt of the published pamphlet just days later, Jefferson was "thunderstruck" to see excerpts from his note printed in the publisher's preface. "Thus introduced, Paine's Rights of Man fell like a thunderclap on the quiet capital. The expressions of the Secretary of State more than the pamphlet itself, we may be sure, took precedence in the political gossip of the boardinghouses, the taverns and the Philadelphia dinner tables."printing and the Mind of Man, 241. HBS $16,500 32

34 Memoirs of Samuel Pepys 84.PEPYS, Samuel. Memoirs of Samuel Pepys. Comprising His Diary from 1659 to 1669, Deciphered by the Rev. John Smith A.B. of St. John's College, Cambridge, from the Original Short-Hand Ms. in the Pepysian Library, and a Selection from His Private Correspondence. Edited by Richard, Lord Braybrooke. London: Henry Colburn, First edition. Two quarto volumes. [2], xlii, 498, [2], xlix, [3]; [4], 348, vii, [1], 311, [1] pp. Engraved frontispiece in each volume, and eleven engraved plates (one folding), and embellished with two engraved illustrations in the text. Contemporary half burgundy morocco over marbled boards, spine compartments with blind-stamped arabesques, gilt spine bands and lettering, marbled endpaper and edges. Bound without half-titles. Plates with offsetting to text and with some foxing. Overall, a very attractive and clean set. Written in shorthand between 1660 and 1669, it was eventually deciphered in 1825 by the Reverend John Smith These large volumes are considered the craft of the excellent typographers, the Bentleys. The frontispiece portrait in Volume I is after the painting by Kneller and was engraved by T. Bragg, and a smaller portrait used as a head-piece to the Life is signed R.W. Sculp. "It is the very private nature of the Diary which provides its piquancy: here was no writing for a public, no sensationalism, no needless embellishment. It is in such passages as the description of the Great Fire that Pepys reveals his shrewd powers of observation, his matter-of-factness and, in a strange way, an almost modern journalistic technique" (Blackwell's of Oxford Catalogue). Grolier, 100 English 75, Sterling 674. HBS $2,500 ALS By Pissarro 85.PISSARRO, Camille. ( ) French Painter. Autograph Letter Signed. C. Pissarro. Paris: December 12, Two separate octavo pages, in brown ink (measures 165 x 11 mm., 525 x 315, framed). In French, to Monsieur Heymann. Handsomely framed with a black-and-white vintage portrait of Pissarro. Translates to: "Paris 12, Dec 86 I am leaving today. I stopped by the rue de Chateau-d' Eau yesterday to ask you to visit Monsieur Pillet at number 10, rue de la Grange Bateliére. If you were in need of a larger painting (canvas) or one which is more saleable, Mr. Pillet is in agreement with this. No other news. Signed "C. Pissarro" in black ink. A fine example. HBS $2,500 Photograph of Five Former Presidents Signed By George H. W. Bush, Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford, and Richard Nixon 86.[PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES]. Color photograph of Five Former Presidents of the United States. Signed. Simi Valley: [November 4, 1991]. Large format color photograph of Five Former Presidents Signed by George H. W. Bush, Ronald Reagan. Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford and Richard Nixon. Photo measures 19 1/2 x 14 1/2 inches. Above their respective images is found the ink signatures of the five Handsomely matted, framed and glazed with a caption in the matte below the photograph with the names of the five Presidents. Framed to an overall size of 26 3/4 x 22 3/4 inches. Affixed to the back is a certificate of Authenticity from August 10, 2010 for the Autograph Store in Hackensack, New Jersey. Overall fine. Photo was taken at the dedication ceremony of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library on November 4, 1991 at its Simi Valley location. The five Presidents are pictured standing together outside the library. HBS $5,500

35 Signed Photograph of Four Former Presidents Ronald Reagan, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, and Richard Nixon 87.[PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES]. Signed photograph of Four Former Presidents. [Washington: 1981]. Signed photograph of Four Former Presidents Ronald Reagan, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter and Richard Nixon. Photograph measuring approx. 8 x 10 inches. Each has signed their name below their likeness. Matted and framed and glazed to an overall size of 12 1/2 x 17 3/4 inches. Fine. Former Presidents Ronald Reagan, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, and Richard Nixon are pictured standing in front of a door flanked by the American flag and flag of the president. Taken at the White House shortly before their departure (Reagan did not attend) to Egypt in October 1981 for the funeral of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat who was assassinated several days earlier. HBS $3,750 Original Rackham Watercolor Drawing 88.RACKHAM, Arthur. Hans Andersen s Fairy Tales. Original watercolor drawing for a dust jacket design for Hans Andersen s Fairy Tales (London: 1932). [N.p.: n.d., ca. 1932]. Depicts a group of four children, with a dog, dancing around a snowman, with a green picket fence in the background and a full moon against a dark blue sky. The snowman, with a rake representing his mouth, is holding a broom in his left hand and is wearing a red glove on his right hand and a green top hat with a red band. Lettered in blue at the top: Hans Andersen s Fairy Tales, and at the bottom: With a Number of Illustrations by Arthur Rackham. With green holly leaves and red berries on either side at the top and green holly leaves on either side at the bottom. Image size: 9 x 7 1/4 inches; 228 x 184 mm. Matted and framed. From the estate of Mrs. Barbara Edwards (the artist s daughter). A black and white drawing with a snowman and a dog appears on p. 259 of Hans Andersen s Fairy Tales, illustrating the story The Snow Man (pp ). The ideal even the classic late Rackham commission was Hans Andersen s Fairy Tales. Harrap sent him to Denmark for a week in November 1931 to collect Danish atmosphere for the book. [His daughter] Barbara accompanied him, and together they explored Copenhagen, Elsinor, a farm in Zeeland, and visited museums, the cinema...and the theatre...rackham s Danish sketchbook contains all the notes & notes he took for dear life, studies of cottages, architectural details, courtyards, farm machinery, interiors and so on. The studies appear, as fully dressed drawings, in illustrations such as We went hand in hand up the round tower, from The Elder Tree Mother, and Kay and Gerda in the garden high up on the roof, from The Snow Queen (James Hamilton, Arthur Rackham: A Life with Illustration, pp ). HBS $5,500 34

36 One of 250 Signed Copies 89.[RACKHAM, Arthur, illustrator]. IRVING, Washington. Rip Van Winkle. With Drawings by Arthur Rackham. London: William Heinemann, Edition de Luxe. Limited to 250 copies, numbered and signed by the artist, of which this is number 145. Large quarto. viii, 57, [1, blank], [1], [1, printer s imprint] pp. Color frontispiece and fifty color plates mounted on heavy brown paper, with descriptive tissue guards, the plates collected after the text. Original vellum over boards decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt on front cover and spine. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Silk ties. An extremely fine copy. The 1st book illustrated wholly by Rackham to be issued in a limited edition (Riall). Latimore and Haskell, p. 26. HBS $6,500 One of 750 Copies, Signed by the Artist 90.[RACKHAM, Arthur, illustrator]. LAMB, Charles and Mary. Tales from Shakespeare. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. London: J.M. Dent & Co., Limited to 750 numbered copies, signed by the artist, of which this is number 304. Quarto. [2], xii, 304 pp. Thirteen mounted color plates, two full-page illustrations in black and white, twenty chapter headings, and fourteen tail-pieces. Original white cloth, front cover decoratively stamped in gilt, front cover and spine lettered in gilt. Rose ribbon ties. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Pictorial endpapers, lightly marbled. Spine a tad darkened, a few tiny soil spots to covers, edges browned, as usual. With publisher's original note mentioning the extra plate, entitled "Puck." Overall, a near fine copy. Originally published in 1899 with black-and-white illustrations only: "there is an extra colored plate in this edition not included in the trade edition." Riall, 90; see also, 32. Latimore & Haskell, 33-34; see also, Jaggard, 188. HBS $1,650 A Fine Copy of Rimbaud s First Book, A Season in Hell 91.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. 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. Une Saison en enfer was written when Rimbaud was only 20 years old and his intense relationship with Verlaine was unraveling. After borrowing money from his mother, Rimbaud met with Poot, the publisher to have his poems issued. In October 1873 when the volume was printed, Rimbaud could not pay for more than a dozen copies (those he sent to his friends). The remainder copies were sent to the printer's basement. In 1901, Leon Losseau, a lawyer from Mons, Belgium, and a Rimbaud enthusiast discovered the remainder of the edition. He gave this copy to another Rimbaud enthusiast, Colonel Simon Godchot, with the inscription " Au Colonel Godchot qui s'interesse tant a Rimbaud Leon Losseau". He published Arthur Rimbaud ne varietur in 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 35

37 First Edition of the First Announcement of the Discovery of X-Rays 92.RÖNTGEN, Wilhelm Conrad. Eine Neue Art von Strahlen. Von Dr. Wilhelm Konrad Röntgen. Würzburg: Verlag und Druck der Stahel'schen K. Hof- Und Universitats- Buch- Und Kunsthandlung, First edition. Octavo. 10, [2, blank] pp. Original buff printed wrappers. Wrappers toned with two vertical creases. Small ownership inscription on front wrapper. Otherwise, near fine. Housed in a half morocco clamshell. "While performing experiments with a Crookes vacuum tube, a type of cathode-ray tube, Röntgen observed that some agent produced in the tube was causing barium platinocyanide crystals to fluorescence was caused by unknown rays (which he named "x-rays") originating from the spot where cathode rays hit the glass wall of the vacuum tube. He announced his discovery in the present paper, which described the rays' photographic properties and their amazing ability to penetrate all substances, even living flesh. Although he was unable to determine the true physical nature of the rays, Röntgen was certain that he had discovered something entirely new, a belief soon confirmed by the work of other scientists such as Becquerel, Laue and the Curies. for his discovery, Röntgen was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for PMM 380 HBS $12,500 Saint Albans Chronicles Printed by Wynkyn de Worde 93.[SAINT ALBANS CHRONICLE]. Chronicles of England. [And:] Description of Britain. [London: Wynkyn de Worde, 1515]. Seventh edition (the third printed by Wynkyn de Worde). Two parts in one folio volume (9 15/16 x 7 1/8 inches; 252 x 181 mm.). 172 (of 192) leaves. Lacking the first six leaves (gathering Aa) containing the full-page woodcut arms of England and the table and blank leaves bb8 and D4, twelve leaves (a1-a6, C4-C6, and D1-D3) supplied in pen facsimile (nineteenth century or earlier), and two leaves (S2 and S5) supplied from another copy. Large woodcut of city in landscape (A1 recto), twenty-two (of twentyfour) woodcut illustrations, including one repeat and two partial repeats, eight (of ten) woodcut diagrams, woodcut printer s device (McKerrow 1b) on bb7 verso (lacking the woodcut printer s device (McKerrow 19) on D3 verso). Decorative woodcut and lombard initials. Black letter. Forty-four lines plus headline. Double columns. Nineteenth-century embossed and blindstamped calf over beveled boards. Expertly rebacked, with original spine laid down. Spine decoratively tooled in blind and lettered in gilt in compartments, board edges decoratively tooled in blind, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Leaves d2-d6 remargined, several leaves strengthened in the margin, several leaves with marginal repairs, some resulting in a few letters being supplied in pen facsimile. Occasional staining and soiling. Armorial bookplate on front pastedown. A few early ink annotations. A good copy of this exceptionally scarce First printed by the St. Albans printer in 1485, the eponymous chronicle is an expansion of the Chronicles edited and printed by William Caxton in HBS $42,500 The First Book Printed in America on Athletics 94.SALZMANN, Christian Gotthilf. Gymnastics for Youth, or A Practical Guide to Healthful and Amusing Exercises for the Use of Schools. An Essay toward the Necessary improvement of Education, Chiefly as it relates to the body; freely translated from the German of C.G. Salzmann...Illustrated with copper plates. Philadelphia: Printed by William Duane, First American edition and the first American book on athletics, including running, jumping, pole-vaulting, gymnastics, swimming and wrestling. Small quarto (8 x 4 3/4 inches; 120 x 203 mm.). xvi, 432 pp. Complete with all ten engraved plates (one folding) of figures exercising. Plates unsigned but attributed by Keynes to William Blake. Plates include gymnastic equipment, leaping, running, throwing, wrestling, balancing, trundling and swimming. Contemporary tree calf, rebacked to style at an early date, smooth spine with gilt rules and red morocco gilt spine label. Some pencil notations on front and rear endpapers. Contemporary signature and date on front free endpaper. Folding map with a few short closed tears. Staining to inner margin of first quarter of book, not affecting text (except for title page). Offsetting from plates to text and foxing throughout, as usual. Considering that this was a book manufactured in America, a very good copy. HBS $1,750 36

38 First Edition Of "Black Beauty" 95.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 7/16 x 4 1/8 inches; 164 x 105 mm). viii [9]-247, [1], [8] ads. Black-and-white woodengraved frontispiece by C. Hewitt (included in pagination). Original publisher's cloth, Carter's variant "C" binding: terracotta cloth blocked in black and gilt. Brown coated endpapers. Spine lightly sunned and some minor rubbing at extremities. Re-cased with some professional restoration to top and bottom of spine. A few thumb marks to first few pages. This is a good copy of this enduring children's classic. "Sewell's only publication was Black Beauty, written intermittently from 1871 to 1877 at a time when her health further declined, and she was confined to the house and her sofa. In the early period of writing the novel she dictated to her mother from the sofa on which she lay; in 1876 she was able to write in pencil on slips of paper which her mother transcribed. The novel was sold to her mother's publishers, Jarrold & Sons, for an outright payment of 40 and published as Black Beauty: his grooms and companions; the autobiography of a horse, Translated from the Original Equine, by Anna Sewell, on 24 November 1877 when Anna was fifty-seven. HBS $4,500 First Edition of "The Pearl of Great Price" 96.SMITH, Joseph. The Pearl of Great Price. Being a Choice Selection from the Revelations, Translations, and Narrations of Joseph Smith, First Prophet, Seer, and Revelator to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Liverpool: Published by F.D. Richards, First edition. Octavo. 56 pp. Contemporary quarter black morocco over marbled boards, gilt-stamped spine. Complete with all three plates, including a three-part folding plate. Covers rubbed and corners bumped. Some foxing, very faint water stain to bottom right corner of the first few pages. Overall, very good copy with no writing. Very scarce. The Pearl of Great Price is considered one of the four standard works of the Mormon Church. The others being The Book of Mormon, The Holy Bible and Doctrine and Covenants. Joseph Smith translated the Book of Abraham from papyri found in mummies that was purchased from a traveling exhibition in The book relates Abraham's journeys in Egypt, containing many Mormon doctrines such as Exaltation, the plurality of Gods and Kolob. This is a first person narrative of Joseph Smith, Jr.'s life before the founding of the Church, including an account an account of the first vision of God the Father and Jesus Christ and other heavenly visitations. HBS $16,000 The First Collected Edition of Spenser s Works 97.SPENSER, Edmund. The Faerie Queen: The Shepheards Calendar: Together with the Other Works of England s Arch-Poët, Edm. Spenser: Collected into one Volume, and carefully corrected. London: Printed for H.L. for Mathew Lownes, First collected edition of Spenser s works, second issue, with the title to The Second Part of the Faerie Queene beginning with signature R, dated 1613 and the colophon dated [sic]. With the first edition (see Pforzheimer) of the Prosopopoia. Or Mother Hubberds Tale, consisting of a single gathering A of eight leaves and dated 1613 on the title, inserted after The Shepheards Calender. Five parts in one folio volume. General title within woodcut border (McKerrow & Ferguson 212), woodcut illustrations and ornamental borders, decorative woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials. (The woodcuts in The Shepheards Calender were used in all the earlier separate editions.) Contemporary polished dark brown calf with central gilt-stamped lozenges to front and rear covers, blind stamped letters (TN) to each side of lozenge, expertly rebacked to style, gilt spine lettering. A few minor marginal tears, lower corner of P4 torn out (not affecting text), some occasional browning. Bookplates of Viscount Birkenhead and Reginald Francis and some notations on the front endpaper surrounded by old tape residue. Some scuffing to corners, but still a very nice copy of this English classic. "The first modern English poet to achieve major stature, Spenser demonstrated with his fluency in many meters and stanzaic forms that English was at least the equal to any other language as a vehicle of great poetry. While his poetry, particularly The Faerie Queene, looks backward as the culmination of the allegorical verse tradition of the Pearl Poet, Langland, and Chaucer, he has influenced with his fertile imagination and especially his sensuous imagery and melodic language nearly every important English poet who followed him." Grolier, Langland to Wither, 239. Johnson 19. Pforzheimer 973. STC HBS $7,500 37

39 Envelope Addressed in Stanislavsky's Hand 98.STANISLAVSKY, Constantin. Envelope Addressed in Stanislavsky's Hand. Berlin: Measures 11 1/2 x 4 1/2 "; 21 x 17 1/2", framed). Front and back of envelope signed and addressed by Stanislavsky to Elizabeth Hapgood and Willa Bergmauir. Nicely matted and framed with a picture of Stanislavsky. Elizabeth Hapgood ( ). Editor and translator of the works of Constantin Stanislavsky, co-founder and director of the Moscow Art Theater. HBS $750 First Dublin Edition 99.STEUART, Sir James. An Inquiry into the Principles of Political Oeconomy. Being an essay on the science of domestic policy in free nations. In which are particularly considered population, agriculture, trade, industry, money, coin, interest, circulation, banks, exchange, public credit, and taxes. Dublin: Printed for James Williams and Richard Moncrieffe, First Dublin edition. Three octavo volumes (8 x 4 7/8 inches; 205 x 125 mm). [10], [i]-xxi, [5], [1, blank], 426, [2, publisher's ads]; [30], 288, ; [8], 431, [1, blank], [19, index], [1, blank] pp. With one folding table, a list of subscribers, and index and two pages of publisher's advertisements. Uniformly bound in contemporary full sheep. Spines ruled and numbered in gilt. Dark red morocco spine labels, lettered in gilt. All edges speckled red. Minor chipping to head and tail of the spine of volume II. Outer joints starting on volumes I and II, but still firm. Previous owner's old ink notes on front free endpaper of Volume I. Previous owner's signature on half-title of volume I and title-page of volume II. Some foxing and toning throughout, and some occasional light marginal dampstaining. The rear endpapers of each volume with some fraying. Overall a very good copy. The previous owner's note on the front free endpaper of volume I reads "The Inquiry of Sir James Steuart is learned and profound; but it is clogged with prejudices, and obscured [the "d" is almost invisible] by a stile [sic] uncouth and almost unintelligible; it has therefore been of more utility to author's [sic] than to the Public - Adam Smith, with inferior Powers + less information, but with more art [?] of management, and greater perspicacity [?] of Language, has attracted more attention and been of greater service in stimulating political inquiries." HBS $3,500 First Edition of Stoeffler's Emphemerides 100.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. Spine stamped in gilt. All edges speckled red. Newer endpapers. Spine quite rubbed and chipped, with much of the gilt rubbed. Tailpiece chipped off, and small hole in the top compartment. Bottom compartment with some loss as well. 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. "[Stoeffler's] were the best ephemerides of the day..." (The Book Nobody Read, Owen Gingerich). HBS $8,500 38

40 With 400 Hand-Colored Plates 101.SWEET, Robert. Geraniaceæ. The natural order of Gerania, illustrated by coloured figures and descriptions; comprising the numerous and beautiful mulevarieties cultivated in the gardens of Great Britain, with directions for their treatment. By Robert Sweet, F.L.S. author of Hortus Suburbansu Londinensis, Botanical Cultivator, &c. &c Vol I [II, III, IV]. London: James Ridgeway, Four (of an eventual five) octavo volumes. [x], [200], [5, index], [2, erata]; [iv], [200], [8, index]; [iv], [200], [10, index]; [ii], [200], [12, index] pp. Four hundred full-page handcolored plates (100 plates per volume) engraved by S. Watts after E.D. Smith, each accompanied by a leaf of descriptive text. Bound in half calf over contemporary marbled paper boards. Rebacked, preserving the original spine that is lettered and tooled in gilt. Some minor offsetting and foxing in text (as is most often the case). Overall, a near fine set. Sweet ( ), a well-known British horticulturalist at Stockwell and Chelsea and a fellow of the Linnean Society since "In 1810 Sweet entered as a partner in the Stockwell nursery, and when that was dissolved in 1815, became foreman to Messrs. Whitley, Brames, & Milne, nurserymen, of Fulham, till 1819, when he entered the service of Messrs. Colvill. While in their employ he was charged with having received a box of plants knowing them to have been stolen from the royal gardens, Kew, but was acquitted after trial at the Old Bailey on 24 Feb In 1826 he left the Colvills, and till 1831 occupied himself almost wholly in the production of botanical works, while still cultivating a limited number of plants in his garden at Parson's Green, Fulham" (D.N.B.). The five volumes were published in parts over a period of ten years, and partial sets, such as this one, are not uncommon. Nissen, BBI, p Sitwell p HBS $10,000 Rare Jonathan Swift 102.SWIFT, Jonathan. A Modest Proposal for preventing the children of poor people from being a burthen to their parents or the country, and for making them beneficial to the publick. Dublin [London]: Weaver Bickerton, Third edition. A Fine copy of an exceptionally rare book. Bound in full calf with a Cambridge panel. An extremely pleasing modern binding. Internal contents also Fine. Octavo (pages 195 x 123 mm): complete with half- title and advertisement (on the same leaf), title page and pages 5-23, [24]. With just three examples found in the modern auction record (50+ years), and with no copies of the first or second editions found during that time, the work is decidedly rare. Perhaps the greatest work of satire in the English language, by one of the medium s master practitioners. The techniques and style Swift uses in his pamphlet are now so familiar to us as to seem almost hackneyed. They appear everywhere from Daily Show monologues to the pages of The New Yorker. Indeed, the term a modest proposal now delineates an entire genre of humor. A Modest Proposal had, in fact, many targets - not just the English attitude towards the Irish people - but also a general tenor among intellectuals of the time to propose pie in the sky solutions to complex problems. Indeed, in "Swift's Modest Proposal: The Biography of an Early Georgian Pamphlet", George Wittkowsky argues that the essay is a burlesque of projects concerning the poor, which Swift uses to lampoon such ideas. Swift s style manages to employ many now familiar satiric tropes, including an appeal to the authority of experts, and the use of apparently plausible but actually quite ridiculous facts and figures. Swift had been more or less sent to Ireland in exile when he wrote the pamphlet. He had fallen out with the Queen, and the Tory government he had supported and served in had been replaced by a Whig one. Once in Ireland, however, Swift turned his considerable intellect to grappling with Irish social and political problems, and it is from this turn that A Modest Proposal emerged. Swift's caustic solution was to suggest selling poor children as food: "I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee or a ragout." HBS $18,500 39

41 A Proclamation of German Surrender Signed by Truman 103.Harry S. Truman A Proclamation of German Surrender, Signed. One page printed document, signed. Broadside on wove paper. Measures 21 3/8" x 14 3/8". ( Matted to an overall size of 24" x 30".) Washington, May 8, Gothic types with roman, heading, title, and incipit, text in two columns, printed in black with gold, red and blue. A multicolored lithograph of President Truman's proclamation of May 13, 1945, as a day of prayer following the end of the war in Europe. In full: "The Allied armies, through sacrifice and devotion and with God's help, have wrung from Germany a final and unconditional surrender. The western world has been freed of the evil forces which for five years and longer have imprisoned the bodies and broken the lives of millions upon millions of free-born men. They have violated their churches, destroyed their homes, corrupted their children, and murdered their loved ones. Our Armies of Liberation have restored freedom to these suffering peoples, whose spirit and will the oppressors could never enslave. Much remains to be done. The victory won in the West must now be won in the East. The whole world must be cleansed of the evil from which half the world has been freed. United, the peace-loving nations have demonstrated in the West that their arms are stronger by far than the might of dictators or the tyranny of military cliques that once called us soft and weak. The power of our peoples to defend themselves against all enemies will be proved in the Pacific was as it has been proved in Europe. For the triumph of spirit and of arms which we have won, and of its promise to peoples everywhere who join us in the love of freedom, it is fitting that we, as a nation, give thanks to Almighty God, Who has strengthened us and given us the victory. Now, therefore, I, Harry S. Truman, President of the United States of America, do hereby appoint Sunday, May 13, 1945 to be a day of prayer. I call upon the people of the United States, whatever their faith, to unite in offering joyful thanks to God for the victory we have won and to pray that He will support us to the end of our present struggle and guide us into the ways of peace. I also call upon my countrymen to dedicate this day of prayer to the memory of those who have given their lives to make possible our victory. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States of America to be affixed." President Truman read this proclamation at a news conference held in his office at the White House at 8:35 A.M. on Tuesday, May 8, This is Truman's Christmas Gift Print that he gave out to 100 people on Christmas. HBS $15,000 One of The First Means by Which The British People Learned of The Enactment of The Constitution of The United States of America 104.URBAN, Sylvanus, [editor]. The Gentleman s Magazine [ New Constitution of the United States of America ]. Printed by John Nichols for D. Henry, November [December], First edition of these [November and December, 1787] issues. Two small octavo volumes (8 1/2 x 5 1/8 inches; 215 x 130 mm). [941]-1035, [1]; [1037]-1131, [1] pp. With woodcut text illustration on front wrapper of each volume. November issue with one fold-out plate, and lacking plate I, entitled "S.W. View of Aconbury Chapel 5 Miles from Here." The December issue with two plates (plate II and Supp.), but lacking plate I, Illustrations of the Royal Charter School Near Dublin, Clontarfe Castle Dublin, and others. Text of American Constitution on pp ; Self-wrappered. Newer stitching. Some very minor toning and light occasional spotting. Overall very good. This is the first English magazine printing of the U.S. Constitution. The November issue [on pages ] prints George Washington's Letter and the first Article. The December issue [on pages ] contains articles two through seven and the delegates names. "The following is the new Plan of the Constitution of the United States of America, upon which the Convention of all the most distinguished men in the States have been deliberating for several months, and by which, if finally adopted, the Constitution of the Union is totally changed." (From the introduction) Einaudi. Goldsmiths'. Howes. Howes. Kress. Streeter. Streeter. HBS $1,500 40

42 The First California Text-Book in English 105.URCULLU, Jose de. The California Text-Book.. San Francisco: Marvin & Hitchcock, First edition of the earliest school book published in California. Twelvemo. [2], [v]-viii, 258 pp. Publisher's quarter blind-tooled red roan over vertically-ribbed brown-purple cloth with gilt spine lettering. Spine bumped and chipped with small ink smudge. Light scattered foxing throughout (mostly on first and last few leaves). Some small, light waterstaining to the upper margin of the first half. Overall, a very good copy of this fragile and rare item. "This is believed to be the first educational work published in California after American rule" (Cowan). This text-book is preceded by two exceedingly rare Mexican-era school books in Spanish (and one of those is a Zamorano imprint). It is also significant for the fact that it was sold by one of the earliest California booksellers, Marvin & Hitchcock, Booksellers, with their ticket on the upper front pastedown. Published in the still very young city of San Francisco, it is only appropriate that the majority of this first text-book is concerned with the Spanish language as America had taken over upper California from Mexico only three years prior to its publication. Not in Streeter, Howell 50, Graff or Howes and only thirteen copies located by OCLC. A. Armstrong is sometimes referred to as the compiler of this work. HBS $2,500 The First Edition of Webster s "American Dictionary of the English Language" Completely Uncut 106.WEBSTER, Noah. An American Dictionary of the English Language... New York: Published by S. Converse. Printed by Hezekiah Howe..., First edition. Two quarto volumes. 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. 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 accross bottom of page with no loss of text). An excellent copy, completely uncut. This dictionary, which almost at once became, and has remained, the standard English dictionary in the United States, was the end-product of a stream of spelling books, grammars, readers, and dcitionaries which flowed from the pen of the industrious Noah Webster. (Printing and the Mind of Man ). Grolier, 100 American, 36. PMM 291. Sabin HBS $20,000 Signed Limited Edition With Important Presentation 107.WESTON, Edward. ARMITAGE, Merle. The Art of Edward Weston. By Merle Armitage. Foreword by Charles Sheeler. Appreciation by Lincoln Steffens. Prophecy by Arthur Millier. Estimate by Jean Charlot. A Statement by Edward Weston. New York: E. Weyhe, First edition. Limited to 550 copies, signed by Weston, this being number 5. Presentation copy, additionally, inscribed by Weston to Cedric Gibbons (creator of the Oscar statuette and also a recipient 11 times for Best Set Design) on verso of title in black ink. With thirty-nine black & white plates. Each plate with a facing description page (verso of previous plate). With frontispiece portrait by Brett Weston (Edward's son). With 39 black & white plates. Original quarter white over black boards. Spine sunned with one small bump, extremities a bit rubbed. Slight foxing to first and last few pages. Small blindstamp on half title "Property of Cedric Gibbons." Overall, a very good copy with a nice presentation inscription. Cedric Gibbons ( ) was an Irish American Art Director and Set Designer, working for MGM Grand for over 32 years. He is credited for designing the Oscar Statuette as well as winning it 11 times and being nominated 37 times for Best Set Design. HBS $3,000 41

43 First Edition of "Leaves of Grass" 108.Whitman, Walt ( ) Leaves of Grass. Brooklyn: [for the author by Andrew and James Rome], First edition, first issue. A Very Good copy, rare in the original cloth. This copy has been recased, reversing old repairs and closing some tears to the cloth near the spine that would otherwise have gotten worse. Small blank margin of the frontis portrait chipped and renewed. The title page is frayed at the edges and with some large tears, which have all now been professionally secured. Internal contents show some smudges and wear, but the book is complete and in its original binding. BAL state A binding, with extra gilt and all page edges gilt, state A of the frontis portrait, on thick cardstock, state B of the copyright notice, printing the notice in two lines, and state B of page iv with and spelled correctly. Also, with the first state of leaf 49 reading "And the night is for you and me and all." (Gary Schmidgall: "1855: A Stop- Press Revision") Housed in a custom slipcase with chemise. Perhaps the most important collection of poetry in American Literature. Although "Leaves of Grass" was first greeted with derision and even shock Boston s district attorney attempted to have some of the poems suppressed as obscene and Whitman was fired from his job it eventually claimed its rightful place in the American canon. Whitman wrote the collection after he was inspired by Emerson and the Transcendentalist movement, and the poems in Leaves of Grass are noted for their sensualist focus on nature and the human form. They include some of Whitman s most famous works, including Song of Myself and I Sing of the Body Electric. Despite the collection s fame and success, Whitman re-wrote and edited the collection many times, with the final edition containing over 400 poems. Whitman himself helped pay for the printing of the first edition, the run of which contained only 800 copies, most of which were unbound. Always the champion of the common man, Whitman is both the poet and the prophet of democracy. The whole of Leaves of Grass is imbued with the spirit of brotherhood and a pride in the democracy of the young American nation. In a sense, it is America s second Declaration of Independence: that of 1776 was political, this of 1855 intellectual. (Printing and the Mind of Man) Unsurprisingly, the book has had numerous admirers. Harold Bloom has called the book the secular scripture of the United States, and Ezra Pound referred to Whitman as America s Poet. -- PMM (#1533) BAL Myerson A2.1.a1. HBS $95,000 First Edition in Dust Jacket 109.YOGANANDA, P.. Autobiography of a Yogi. New York: The Philosophical Library, [1946]. First edition. Octavo. In publisher's dust jacket. Full blue cloth, lettered in gilt. Tiny spots on endpapers and a couple of tiny white spots on rear cover, a little discoloration on spine, original small bookstore label on rear endpaper. In a good or slightly better dust jacket with small tears, a bit of chipping, and other edgewear, also lightly sunned on the spine. Jacket has the original $3.50 price still intact. Overall very good clean copy of this rare book with the extremely rare jacket. "This is the first time that an authentic Hindu yogi has written his life story for a Western audience. Describing in vivid detail his many years of spiritual training under a Christlike master- Sir Yukteswar of Serampore, Bengal - Yogananda has here revealed a fascinating and little-known phase of modern India. The subtle but definite laws by which yogis perform miracles and attain complete self-mastery are explained with a scientific clarity." (From the front flap) HBS $2,850 42

44 Uniformly Bound Set of "Leather-Stocking Tales" First Editions 111. COOPER, James Fenimore. [Five First Editions].New York and Philadelphia, All volumes uniformly bound in full modern mottled calf by Bennett, N.Y.. Spines lettered and ruled in gilt. Top edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Housed together in a cloth slipcase. Overall a very good set with just a few minor cases of shelfwear. Ten twelvemo volumes (6 7/8 x 4 3/16 inches; 175 x 106 mm). {Comprising]: The Pioneers, or the Sources of the Susquehanna; A Descriptive Tale. New-York: Published by Charles Wiley, First edition. [and]: [COOPER, James Fenimore]. The Last of the Mohicans. A Narrative of By the Author of The Pioneers. Philadelphia: H.C. Carey & I. Lea, First edition, first issue. [and]: [COOPER, James Fenimore]. The Prairie; A Tale. By the Author of The Pioneers and the Last of the Mohicans. Philadelphia: H.C. Carey & I. Lea, First American edition. [and]: [COOPER, James Fenimore]. The Pathfinder: or, The Inland Sea. Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard, 1840.First American Edition, first state of volume I. [and]: COOPER, James Fenimore. The Deerslayer: or, The First War-Path. Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard, First edition. Two twelvemo volumes. BAL 3829, Spiller & Blackburn, 3. HBS $10,000 Inscribed By Churchill 112.CHURCHILL, Sir Winston S. The World Crisis. London: Thornton Butterworth Limited, First edition, first impressions. Inscribed by Churchill in vol. 1, "Inscribed by Winston S. Churchill/ Jan. 31, 1932." Five large octavo volumes bound in six. [2, blank], [6], 536; 557; 291, , [1, blank]; 474, [2, blank]; 368 pages. Illustrated with facsimiles, charts, and maps, many folding. Errata slips between page [vi] and 1 and page 338 and 339 in Volume I, page xviii and ix in Volume IV (Part II), and page 8 and 9 in Volume V. Handsomely bound by Bayntun in half red morocco over red cloth. Covers with a single gilt-rule border. Spines lettered and tooled in gilt, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt. Lower corner of the half-title page of Volume IV (part II) expertly repaired. An excellent set of Churchill's classic account of the First World War and its aftermath. Woods A31(a). HBS $12,500 With An Autographed Envelope, Signed by Dickens 110.DICKENS, Charles. BROWNE, Hablot Knight, [illustrator]. CRUIKSHANK, George, [illustrator]. Works [National Edition]. London: Chapman and Hall, The National Edition. Limited to 750 sets printed for England and America., this set unnumbered. Forty large octavo volumes. With approximately 1,000 illustrations, with plates by Cruikshank, Browne, Leech, et al. Title-pages printed in red and black. With many reproductions or the original parts wrappers on colored paper. Volume I with an envelope signed by Dickens and an ALS by John Foster, Dickens biographer. On the first blank of volume I is a mounted small envelope addressed by Dickens to Edward Chapman (his publisher), and signed by Dickens on the lower left corner. Facing that page is a mounted autograph letter signed by John Foster (Dickens friend and biographer) addressed to George Cattermole, the artist who illustrated The Old Curiosity Shop. Foster letter is on stationery and is dated 21 September, Two sixteenmo pages on one octavo sheet, folded. Set is uniformly bound by Riviere & Son in half brown levant morocco over brown cloth. Morocco double ruled in gilt. Spines lettered in gilt and compartments triple- ruled in gilt. Top edges gilt, others uncut. Spines slightly sunned and some occasional minor rubbing and shelfwear. Overall a very attractive and near fine set. HBS $8,500 43

45 The Writings of George Eliot 113.ELIOT, George. CROSS, J.W., [contributor]. The Writings of George Eliot. Warwickshire Edition. Together with the Life by J. W. Cross. In Twenty-Five Volumes. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, [ ]. Twenty-five octavo volumes. (Measures 8 x 5 in.). Original half maroon morocco over maroon marbled boards, elaborately decorated in gilt on spines with five raised bands. Marbled endpapers. Top edge gilt. Illustrated with frontispieces and engraved plates throughout, each with a descriptive tissue guard. A few corners with wear. Overall, a very good set with a contribution by her husband. Parrish,. Sadleir. Wolff. HBS $3,000 A Beautiful Set of this Important Documentation With the Scarce First Edition Index 114.EVANS, Arthur. The Palace of Minos at Knossos. London: Macmillan and Co., [with] Index to The Palace of Minos.First edition. London: Macmillan and Co., First editions. Four quarto volumes in six, and with the additional scarce first edition index published in 1936, totaling 7 volumes. (9 3/4 x 7 3/8 inches; 245 x 187 mm). Profusely illustrated with hundreds of figures in the text, plans, tables, colored and supplementary plates, many of which are folding. Each volume with a frontispiece. Many color plates, some with protective tissue guards. Publisher s full blue cloth. Front boards tooled and stamped in gilt. Spines lettered in gilt. Top edges gilt. Three volumes with pockets in the rear with 11 plans, as issued. A near fine, bright set with no previous owner s inscriptions and with the scarce first edition index. Sir Arthur John Evans,( ), [Bristish archaeologist and son] of the distinguished archaeologist and numismatist Sir John Evans...In 1894 Evans had acquired a share, under Ottoman law, of the estate at Kephála, near Candia, classical Knossos, where Mycenaean remains had been found in 1878; so when the Turks evacuated Crete in 1899 he was able at once to gain full possession, and excavate in association with the British School of Archaeology at Athens and its director, D. G. Hogarth. There was no overload of later remains, and some of the best finds were close to the surface. (index, 1936). (Oxford Dictionary of National Biography).HBS $6,500 First Edition of Grote s History of Greece 115.GROTE, George. A History of Greece. London: John Murray, First edition. Twelve octavo volumes. Engraved frontispiece portrait in Volume XII. Without the map of Northern Greece at the end of Volume I, but with all the other maps called for. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards, expertly rebacked to style, spine compartments with gilt devices and red and black morocco gilt lettering labels, marbled endpapers, edges marbled as in boards. A very clean and attractive copy of this important history. Although as biased as Macaulay s History of England and less scholarly than Mommsen s Roman History, Grote s History of Greece can be bracketed with these two works. Like them, it was received with universal acclamation, was translated into French and German, shaped the European conception of its subjectmatter throughout the nineteenth century, and still merits respect as a monument of industrious Victorian scholarship (PMM). PMM321. HBS $2,500 44

46 The Mellstock Edition Signed by Hardy 116.HARDY, Thomas. The Works of Thomas Hardy. London: Macmillan and Co., The Mellstock Edition. Limited to 500 copies, signed by the author. Thirty-seven octavo volumes. Etched frontispiece portrait by William Strang in Volume I, map of Wessex in Volume II. Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe for the J. W. Robinson Company in contemporary three- quarter blue calf over blue cloth boards, spines elaborately tooled in gilt in compartments, with red morocco floral onlays, red morocco gilt lettering labels, top edge gilt, others uncut, marbled endpapers. Some minor touch-up, two volumes have professional paper repairs of the text, else a bright, fine copy of the best edition of Thomas Hardy s works. Purdy, pp HBS $15,000 Large Paper Edition of "The Complete Writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne" In Twenty-Four Volumes 117.HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel. The Complete Writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne. With portraits, illustrations, and facsimiles. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, Large-Paper Edition. Limited to 500 numbered copies. Twenty-four octavo volumes. Photogravure frontispieces in two states, vignette titles, and plates from photographs and from drawings by Anna Whelan Betts, Jessie Willcox Smith, Alice Barber Stephens, Howard Pyle, and others. Bound by The Riverside Press in contemporary three-quarter brown levant morocco over brown marbled paper boards. Spines decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments, top edge gilt, others uncut, marbled endpapers. Some rubbing. Near fine. This set is usually found complete in 22 volumes, not 24 volumes such as this one. The extra two volumes are the Bibliography and Biography and are both uniformly bound to match the others. Clark B21. HBS $3,500 The First Pope Edition of Homer's "Odyssey," Uncut 118.HOMER. POPE, Alexander, [translator]. The Odyssey of Homer. London: Printed for Bernard Lintot, First Pope edition. Five folio volumes in three (12 1/4 x 7 3/4 inches; 310 x 195 mm). This is the Ordinary Folio edition, however the pages are uncut. [2], [2], xxiii, [1, blank], [1]-252; [4], [1]- 384; [4], [1]-327, [1, blank; [4], [1]-286; [4], [1]-289, [8, index], [1, blank], [2], 16 pp. Each volume with separate title-page printed in red and black. Volume I with an engraved vignette on title- page. Volumes II-V include Translated from the Greek on the title-page. Each of the five volumes has a half-title which is printed on the recto and a dedication printed on the verso. Bound without the frontispiece portrait which is found inserted into some copies. With numerous historiated initials and elaborate head- and tail-pieces. The five volumes are made up of twenty-four books and observations for each book. There is a separate half-title for each book and for each observation. Includes A general view of the epic poem, and of the Iliad and Odyssey. Extracted from Bossu and Homer s Battle of the Frogs and Mice. Corrected by Mr. Pope translated by T. Parnell, which has separate half-title and pagination in Volume V. Uniformly bound in contemporary marbled boards, handsomely rebacked and recornered in half modern calf. Spines each with a red and black spine label. Spines stamped and lettered in gilt. Boards rubbed and somewhat worn. Inner hinges of all volumes professionally repaired. Some toning and staining to endpapers, but internally quite clean. Overall a very good set. Certainly the noblest version of poetry which the world has ever seen; and its publication must therefore be considered as one of the great events in the annals of learning. (Samuel Johnson, Life of Pope ). ESTC T Griffith 152. HBS $5,000 45

47 A Superb Set 119.HUME, David. The History of England, from the Invasion of Julius Cæsar to the Revolution in Embellished with engravings on copper and wood from original designs. [In ten volumes]. London: Printed for J. Wallis by T. Bensley, [Together with:] SMOLLETT, T[obias]. The History of England, from the Revolution in 1688, to the Death of George II. Designed as a continuation of Hume. Embellished with engravings on copper and wood from original designs. [In six volumes]. London: Printed for J. Wallis by T. Davison, Together two works in sixteen octavo volumes. Engraved title-pages in most volumes, engraved frontispiece in Volume I of Hume, and engraved portraits and plates throughout. Uniformly bound in full speckled reddish tree calf by J. Soulby of Ulsterton (binder s ticket on front pastedown), covers bordered in gilt, smooth spines decoratively tooled in gilt in compartments, with green and black morocco gilt lettering labels. Marbled endpapers. All edges speckled red. Armorial bookplate. Spines sunned to brown, very light wear to boards and extremities. Occasional very minor foxing and offsetting, but overall a superb set of this classic history, in an attractive contemporary binding. HBS $5,500 With an Autograph Manuscript Leaf Tipped In 120.IRVING, Washington. [Works ]. New York: G.P. Putnam s Sons, Author s Autograph Edition. Limited to 500 numbered sets, of which this is number 29. With an Autograph Manuscript leaf tipped into Volume I, Alhambra. The manuscript leaf is from The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus. Forty octavo volumes. (Measures 5 x 8 inches). Photogravure frontispieces, numerous plates (some photogravure), and text illustrations, by F.O.C. Darley, Arthur Rackham, and others, each with a descriptive tissue guard. Contemporary full black morocco, decoratively giltstamped on corners, spines gilt- stamped and lettered in gilt in compartments with five raised bands, gilt turn-ins, front and rear pastedowns framed with maroon suede, matching maroon suede endpapers, top edge gilt, others uncut. A fine set. HBS $7,500 Edition De Luxe of the "Original Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition," Limited to 50 Copies 121.LEWIS, Meriwether. CLARK, William. Original Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition Printed from the original manuscripts...together with manuscript material of Lewis and Clark from other sources... Edited, with Introduction, Notes, and Index, by Reuben Gold Thwaites. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, First edition, first printing. Edition De Luxe, limited to 50 copies, of which this is number 34 printed on Imperial Japan Paper with all volumes marked so on the colophons. Large quarto. The Edition De Luxe contains 33 of the plates (including 7 frontispieces) in two states; black and white and hand tinted in color, all unique to this edition. Fifteen folio volumes including atlas. Original tan buckram, decoratively stamped in gilt. Front covers inset with color portraits of Lewis and Clark. Frontispieces in all volumes with tissue guards. Complete with all 54 maps, as listed. This Edition De Luxe precedes the trade edition of the same date. A fine, bright set. A landmark of Lewis and Clark scholarship. Printing for the first time many major primary documents which were not in the Biddle edition; including the Floyd and Whitehouse journals, material from the Clark-Voorhis papers as well as facsimile manuscripts, maps and portraits and other material. Despite the importance of Lewis and Clark's transcontinental expedition, the first edition of their findings did not appear until some eight years after their journey, in "This edition is notable for its thorough introduction... and a detailed account of the original journals and their various editions...this edition is also the first to present many ancillary materials for the first time. Perhaps most striking are the 53 facsimiles of original maps, mostly by Clark, covering every step of the route." Howes 320. Literature of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 5d.1. HBS $22,500 46

48 The Emerson Edition 122.MONTAIGNE, Michel de. The Works of Michel de Montaigne. With notes, life and letters. Complete in ten volumes. New York: Edwin C. Hill, Emerson Edition. Limited to 1,050 numbered copies, of which this is number 73. Ten octavo volumes. (Measures 9 x 6 inches). Comprising the Essays of Montaigne (nine volumes), translated by Charles Cotton, revised by William Carew Hazlett [i.e, Hazlitt], and the Life and Letters of Montaigne (one volume), with notes and index, revised by William Carew Hazlett [i.e., Hazlitt]. With an essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Photogravure frontispieces and plates. Frontispieces in two states, one hand-colored. Full dark olive crushed levant morocco. Covers decoratively gilt-stamped with a floral motif and paneled in gilt, spines decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments, gilt turn-ins, maroon crushed levant morocco doublures decoratively tooled in gilt, matching maroon watered silk liners, top edge gilt, others uncut. Previous owner s bookplate on front free endpaper. Spines uniformly faded to brown. A fine and attractive set. HBS $3,500 First Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary 123.MURRAY, James A.H., [editor]. A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, First edition, with first volume published in 1888, and completed in twelve volumes in Ten large quarto volumes bound in twenty volumes. Original publisher s deluxe half burgundy morocco, giltruled over heavy-grain maroon cloth. Spines gilt. Top edge gilt. Original coated stock endpapers. One volume with professional repair to top of spine, minor wear to some tips. Overall, a fine copy of one of the most significant (and enjoyable) reference works ever attempted. Printing and the Mind of Man, 371. HBS $8,500 With Some Previously Unpublished Material 124.POE, Edgar Allan. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe. Newly Collected and Edited, with a Memoir, Critical Introductions, and Notes, by Edmund Clarence Stedman and George Edward Woodberry. The Illustrations by Albert Edward Sterner. In Ten Volumes. Chicago: Stone & Kimball, Newly Collected edition. Ten small octavo volumes. With portrait frontispieces and full- page engravings inserted throughout. Bound by Blackwell for Brentano in contemporary half tan calf over brown marbled boards. Spine tooled in gilt in compartments, five raised bands, red and green gilt morocco gilt lettering labels, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, others uncut. Spines sunned, some rubbing. A fine set. This set has some material, in volume VII, which was previously unpublished. This material is: the final paragraph of Plagiarism, An Author s Face, Apothegms, Hyperism, and the eleven pieces on pp It also has the first American publication of The Journal of Julius Rodman in volume V. BAL HBS $2,500 47

49 "The Dramatic Works of Shakespeare" With Plates in Two States in Some Volumes. 125.SHAKESPEARE, William. Dramatic Works of Shakespeare. The Text of the First Edition. Illustrated with Etchings. Edinburgh: William Paterson, Limited to 75 copies with proofs of the etchings in two states in some of the volumes. This is copy number 6. Eight octavo volumes. (8 x 5 inches). Illustrated with etchings. Three-quarter red morocco over red linen boards. Spines stamped and lettered in gilt. Top edge gilt. Many pages still unopened. The slightest of rubbing to extremities. Overall a near fine, handsome set. Jaggard,. Shaksperiana,. HBS $2,000 The Vailima Edition With a Check Signed by Stevenson Tipped-In 126.STEVENSON, Robert Louis. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson. New York: Charles Scribner s Sons, Vailima Edition. One of 1,030 numbered sets for the United States (this copy being No. 788), out of a total edition of 2,090 sets. Twenty-six octavo volumes. With the original prospectus announcing the set and a check signed by Stevenson tipped-in at front. Photogravure frontispiece portraits. With an introduction by Lloyd Osbourne in Volume I. Full navy blue levant morocco. Spines decoratively tooled in gilt in a thistle design and lettered in gilt. Boards ruled in gilt, gilt turn-ins. Top edge gilt. Blue endpapers. Spines all lightly sunned and a few headcaps chipped. Previous owner's gift inscription on front free endpaper. A beautifully bound set. Robert Louis Stevenson ( ), Scottish essayist, poet, and author of fiction and travel books, known especially for his novels of adventure. His major works include Treasure Island (1883), A Child s Garden of Verses (1885), Kidnapped (1886), Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886), The Black Arrow (1888), and The Master of Ballantrae (1889). Though his novels are perhaps less successfully accomplished than his briefer tales and stories, his work is marked by his power of invention, his command of horror and the supernatural, and the psychological depth which he was able to bring to romance (Benét s Reader s Encyclopedia ). Beinecke 748. HBS $6,000 48

50 Beautifully Bound Set of "The Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson" 127.TENNYSON, Alfred, Lord. ROLFE, William J., [editor]. The Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Poet Laureate. Dana Estes & Company, Boston: [1897]. Connoisseur Edition. Limited to 250 sets, of which this is number 9. Sixteen tall octavo volumes. With black and white illustrations throughout. Beautifully bound in full navy blue morocco, spines and covers ruled in gilt, spine giltstamped with five raised bands, gilt turn-ins. White silk doublures ruled in gilt with gilt-stamped floral motifs to corners, silk endpapers. Top edge gilt. Off-setting to tissue guards on title pages. A fine set. Franklin,. HBS $7,500 The Manuscript Edition, with a Full-Page of Manuscript from Yankee in Canada 128.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. 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. Henry David Thoreau ( ), American essayist, poet, and practical philosopher who is best known for having lived the doctrines of Transcendentalism, recording his experience in his masterwork Walden (1854)...Early in the spring of 1845, Thoreau, then 27 years old, began to build a home on the shores of Walden Pond, a lake two miles south of Concord on land Emerson owned. From the outset the move gave him profound satisfaction. When not busy weeding his bean rows and trying to protect them from hungry woodchucks or occupied with fishing, swimming, or rowing, he spent long hours observing and recording the local flora and fauna, reading, writing A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849), and making entries in his journals, which later he would polish and include in Walden, a series of 18 essays describing his experiment in basic living. With manuscript corrections and small insertions in pencil. Allen, pp Borst B3. HBS $17,500 49

51 The Tolstoy Centenary Edition 129.TOLSTOY, Leo. [The Works of Leo Tolstoy ]. London: For the Tolstoy Society [by the] Oxford University Press, Tolstoy Centenary Edition. Twenty-one small octavo volumes, including The Life of Tolstóy by Aylmer Maude (in two volumes). Translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude. With introductions by Rebecca West, Hugh Walpole, John Galsworthy, St. John Irvine, H.G. Wells, Gilbert Murray, and others. Frontispieces, maps in War and Peace. Recent full brown morocco. Covers with gilt single-rule border, spines decoratively tooled in compartments, with red and green morocco gilt lettering labels, marbled endpapers. A fine set of the best edition of Tolstoy s works. HBS $8,500 One of Ninety Sets, with an Excellent Autograph Letter Signed by Twain and a Manuscript Leaf by Him 130.TWAIN, Mark. The Writings. New York: Harper & Brothers, Memorial Edition, one of 90 numbered copies (this copy being number 55). Thirty-seven octavo volumes. Title-pages in blue and black. With inserted portrait frontispieces. Publisher's three quarter brown morocco over polished brown cloth boards. Spines decoratively stamped in gilt, tooled in compartments with two raised bands, top edges gilt, others uncut. The first twelve volumes are a slightly lighter color than the rest. A magnificent set of this fine and rare edition of Twain, complete with the Biography (volumes 30-33) and Letters (volumes 34 & 35) edited by Paine, and the Autobiography (volumes 36 & 37). With a letter and manuscript page tipped-in volume I. [With:] TWAIN, Mark ( ). Autograph Letter Signed S.L. Clemens and initialed SLC. Kaltenleutgeben: July 26, [18]98 (Twain and his family had a villa in this Austrian town in 1898). Written in black ink. Two twelvemo pages on one octavo leaf, second half of leaf with paper repairs (not interfering with text), usual fold lines, red ink marking on first page, not interfering with text. [With:] TWAIN, Mark. One page manuscript [N.p., n.d., ca. 1880]. One octavo leaf, verso only, entitled Readings. Written in blue ink. Seventeen lines of short titles for stories or sketches to be read at one of Twain s public readings. Fine. HBS $37,500 50

52 Image taken from Item 27: Coloured Plates of the Ladies Fashion.