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2 Table of Contents Sagre Offerte alla Passione di Nostre Signore Gesu ~Delete3 Amoroso Antonio, The musician ~Delete3 Augustine, Saint, Unless the Grain Die ~Delete4 Bella, Stefano, Raccolta di Vasi Diversi ~Delete4 Bella, Stefano, Entree du Prince di Toscane, Representant Hercul ~Delete5 Cappiello, Leonetto, Nos Actrices ~Delete5 Chagall, Paris / l'opera Romeo and Juliet ~Delete6 Chopart, Jean, Etchings of Fancy French, 18th century carriages ~Delete6 Desmarets de, L'Ariane de Monsieur Des Marest ~Delete7 Dufy, Raoul, La Belle-Enfant ou l'amour à Quarante Ans ~Delete7 Fargue, Leon, Contes Fantastiques ~Delete8 Fielding, Henry, Amelia ~Delete8 Gavarni , Nouveaux Travestissements pour le théatre et pour le ~Delete9 Gissing, George, New Grub Street. A Novel ~Delete 10 Haydn, Joseph, Le Quattro Stagion ~Delete 11 Heine, Heinrich, Der Rabbi von Bacherach ~Delete 11 Howitt, William, Ruined Abbeys and Castles of Great Britain ~Delete 12 Limagne, E, La Gerbe, album mosaique par E. de Limagne ~Delete 12 Martin, John, Seven Ages of Shakspeare, The ~Delete 13 Matisse, Henri, Apollinaire ~Delete 13 Matisse, Henri, Portraits ~Delete 14 Moliere , L'Amour Medecin ~Delete 15 Mozart Wolfgang, Cosi Fan Tutte ~Delete 16 Nilson, Johann, Catharina Helena Stöber ~Delete 17 P. Terentii, Comoediae omnes ~Delete 18 Sartre, Jean, Situations de New York. Lithographies originales de Gottfried Utrillo, Maurice, Bécon-les-Bruyères. Portrait de la France ~Delete 19 Valery, Paul, Typed manuscripts on Degas s Mimesis ~Delete 20 Verlaine, Paul, Fêtes Galantes ~Delete 20 Walker, Anne, November Birches ~Delete 21 ~Delete 19 Table of Contents ii

3 1 2 Sagre Offerte alla Passione di Nostre Signore Gesu Cristo con varie orazoni.... [Prayer Book]. Rome: Zempel for Vincenzo Poggioli, vo. 348pp. Engraved title. Contemporary Roman gift binding of salmon-colored morocco, tooled in gilt with wide and elaborate ornamental borders composed of flowers, foliage, and drawer-handle tools, arranged at each corner to resemble urns full of flowers. Spine fully gilt with a flower tool in each compartment, endpapers of decorated paper printed in a diaper pattern in green and red with a flower in each lozenge, all edges gilt. Contained in the original slipcase of sprinkled calf gilt, lined with paper of the same pattern as endpapers. Exceedingly fine condition. Amoroso Antonio Mercurio ( ). The $3,500 musician. Engraved From the Original Picture painted by Amoroso, in the Collection of the Right Honble Lord Middleton. To whom this Plate is moft Humbly Dedicated, by his Lordship : moft Obliged & most Obedt Servant. J. Boydell. Size of the Picture 2 F10 I by 3 F4 I in height. Published by J.Boydell Engraver in Cheapfide London Fine mezzotint Large folio. 16 ½ x 21 5/16th. Chaloner Smith s #4. Later states are smaller or have scratched publisher s name or have subject size of 14 x 18 [as opposed to 14 x 18 ¼ as ours]. $1,500 Page 3

4 3 Augustine, Saint,. Unless the Grain Die. Augustine, Saint, ad- Ignatius, Saint, Bishop of Antioch - - [Alternate Names: Aurelius Augustinus - Augustinus, Aurelius] - Unless the Grain Die. - Worcester: Stanbrook Abbey, 1961 Ref: V & A Stanbrook Abbey Exhib, 66. One of only 40 copies $1,250 4 Bella, Stefano Della. Raccolta di Vasi Diversi. Paris: F. Langlois, Complete set of six etchings (ca. 1646), all first state (of three) on laid paper, with margins (slightly uneven), occasional pale spotting and staining, stitching holes in the right margins, laid on the page of an album. Quarto, (plates: 3 1/2 x 7 1/4"; 90 x 185mm); (sheets: 5 x 10"; 125 x 250mm). Red half morocco rubbed, rebacked. De Vesme ; Berlin II, No A collection of 46 vases (whole or partial) etched on six sheets including title-page.these capprichi were done for the sake of experiment and invention with foliage, animal figures, grotesques, floral arrangements, ornaments, and satyrs. belgium $3,000 Page 4

5 5 Bella, Stefano Della. [Entree du Prince di Toscane, Representant Hercul]. [Entree du Prince di Toscane, Representant Hercul]. Etching, The first of three etchings from the festival book Il mondo festeggiante: balletto a cavallo, fatto nel teatro congiunto al palazzo del sereniss. gran duca, per le reali nozze de' serenissimi principi Cosimo Terzo di Toscana, e Margherita Luisa d'orleans. In Firenze: Nella Stamperia di S.A.S., (Etching on paper 17 1/8 x 9 1/16", with margins. Mounted on laid paper. An excellent impression, in very good and clean condition, with slight chipping and some minor repairs). By Stefano della Bella after G.A. Moniglia. The most arresting of the three Della Bella etchings taken from the festival book Il mondo festiggiante (1661). $2,000 6 Cappiello, Leonetto ( ). Nos Actrices. Paris: Editions de la revue blanche, First edition. Original wrappers.. Preface leaf, and 18 full-page colour plates by Leonetto Cappiello, printed on rectos only. Figures include Marthe Brandes, Cecile Sorel, Sarah Bernhardt (as Medea), Rejane, Megard, Jeanne Granier, Marcelle Lender, and Simon Girard. "Voici un artiste nouveau, une vision nouvelle des types feminins, une facon neuve de traduire par le crayon et le pinceau l'impression d'art" (Preface, Marcel Prevost). Rebacked in cloth (some soiling to covers and top edge trimmed a bit closely). Plates in excellent condition, with very occasional soiling to margins. (3 1/2" x 12 1/4") $2,000 Page 5

6 7 Chagall. Paris / l'opera [Romeo and Juliet.]. Chagall, Marc.. Paris / l'opera [Romeo and Juliet.] [Lithographic poster printed in colors] by Mourlot Gallery. Paris: Mourlot, On paper, 24x38 610x965 mm, sheet. The decoration for the ceiling of the Paris Opera by Chagall was commissioned by Andre Malraux, then the Cabinet Minister in charge of Cultural Affairs. This interpretive rendering of lithograph executed by Charles Sorlier, from a detail of the preliminary sketch of the ceiling of the Paris Opera. This fragment is a tribute to Berlioz for Romeo and Juliet; it also includes pictures of the Place de la Concorde and the Arc de Triomphe Ref: Sorlier, Chagall's Posters, A Catalogue Raisonne, 96; Weill page 358. $3,000 8 Chopart, Jean-François (engraver). [Etchings of Fancy French, 18th century carriages]. Fourteen etchings of 18th century French carriages, based on English styles. Engraver: P.P. Choiffard Direx. Paris: Chereau (ca. 1770). Each 15" x 8" to plate marks. With large margins 17 ½" x 11 ½". Pin holes in left margin, occasional marginal soiling. $2,250 Page 6

7 9 Desmarets de Saint-Sorlin (Jean).. L'Ariane de Monsieur Des Marest. De nouveau revuë, et augmentée de plusieurs histoires par l'autheur, et enrichie de plusieurs figures. A Paris, chez Matthieu Guillemot, Second illustrated edition. Quarto. modern vellum. 7 5/16" Xx 9 3/4", complete with 18 full-page plates, including engraved title by Abraham Bosse d'après Claude Vignon. (Brunet, II-633 ; Tchemerzine, II-817). With plates in beautiful state, rich and sharp. The two printings of this, the second, edition are important, because although the early success of Ariane is implicit in the quarto editions of 1639 and 1643 because authorship is acknowledged on the title page the quality of the quarto editions further implies an enhanced status for the novelist.the lavish illustrations of the quarto Ariane must have enhanced the status of the novel altogether. $3, (Dufy, Raoul, ). Montfort, Eugene.. La Belle-Enfant ou l'amour à Quarante Ans.. Paris: Ambroise Vollard, #163 of 340 copies with 110 original etchings by Raoul Dufy, 94 of which are 1/2 or full page plates, 41 hors-texte, loose in pictorial wrapper folde Garvey notes in The Artist & The Book" #93 "In search of accuracy of detail for La Belle-Enfant, one of the most celebrated of Dufy's illustrated books, he made preliminary studies in Marseilles, the locale of the novel. $4,000 Page 7

8 11 Fargue, Leon-Paul. Contes Fantastiques. Gravures sur cuivre de Andre Villeboeuf. Paris: Galerie Charpentier Copy #64 of 195 (Entire edition 240: 35 with a suite of plates, 195 as this, also there were 10 hors commere.) 10 x 13 1/4 Unbound as issued in wrappers, sleeve, slipcase. Contes fantastiques is Villeboeuf s Surrealist masterpiece These extraordinary aquatints, bitten numerous times to achieve subtle variations of shade, take us on a phantasmagorical journey that owes much to the etchings of Goya, to whose art Villeboeuf was deeply attached. $1, Fielding, Henry. Amelia. London: Printed for A. Millar, First edition, Vol. III in corrected state: the misreading 'the at Folly' changed to 'at the Folly'. Rothschild 853. Four vols. Twelvmo. Contemporary calf, raised bands, spines numbered in gilt, simple double gilt rules on each cover. Vol 1 Outer hinge front repaired, Vol III out hinge starting to crack, Vol IV repaired at heel of spine. With the often lacking "Universal-Register-Office" advertisement at end of volume two (M12r). Protected in a half orange morocco slipcase, raised bands, lettered in gilt on spines. Spines slightly sunned. Provenance Caroli Whibley the collector Charles Whibley ( ), best known today for bringing T. S. Eliot to the attention of Geoffrey Faber (bookplate in each volume). $2,500 Page 8

9 14 Gissing, George.. New Grub Street. A Novel. London: Smith, Elder, Sadleir 971. First edition, one of 500 copies. 3 vols. 8vo. Original blue-green cloth, stamped in gilt on spine and black on front cover. Slight rubbing, slight fading of spine. In each volume: two bookplates, two signatures in ink front pastedown. Vol II hinges cracked. With half-titles in all volumes and leaf of ads end of Vol I. Protected in half orange morocco slipcase, lettered in gilt. Slightly scuffed and faded. [Gissing's] strongest book, an acknowledged classic. Its main characters have become recognized symbols of the many shades of professional integrity and adaptability in the literary world, shades not substantially affected by the passing of the years" (ODNB). Provenance: Andrew K Hichens; May Tennyson Mary Emily (May) Tennyson (Prinsep) Tennyson, was the wife of Andrew Hichens and also of Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson. Also signture: Saint Francis Library on front pastedown $5,000 Page 10

10 15 Haydn, Joseph. Le Quattro Stagion. Haydn, Joseph. Le Quattro Stagioni [Libretto in Italian]. Musica di Giuseppe Haydn. De Eseguirsi nel R. Conservatorio di Musica di Mail Il Giorno 3 Aprile Milano: Tipografia Mussi, 1811 Libretto for the First Complete Performance in Italy of Haydn s Oratorio The Four Seasons $1, Heine, Heinrich. ( ).. Der Rabbi von Bacherach. mit Originallithographien von Max Liebermann. Berlin: Im Prophlaen Verlag, #279 of 400 with signed frontispiece and limitation page by Liebermann and 17 full or partial page lithographs in black. (The first 100 were printed on Japan Vellum). This unfinished story remains popular because it pictures life in the medieval Jewish community with detailed description of worship, customs, and pecking orders, as well as, dress, manners and a variety of activities within the Jewish quarter. Liebermann s realistic sketchbook style, depicts scenes with a charcoal drawing like simplicity. The stark flat depiction creates an atmosphere of dark foreboding. $1,500 Page 11

11 17 Howitt, William & Mary Howitt. Ruined Abbeys and Castles of Great Britain. London: A.W. Bennett, First edition. Small 4to. Original green cloth, gilt, with photograph emborssed on upper cover. Slight wear and occasional light foxing. [8], 228 pp. Early photography including 27 mounted original albumen photographs by Francis Bedford (6), Sedgfield (9), Wilson (8), Roger Fenton (2), and others. Truthful Lens No $1, Limagne, E. de. La Gerbe, album mosaique par E. de Limagne. Paris: H. Mandeville, Folio. 80pp. with 22 engravings. Bound by Lenegre in ornate green cloth, gilt, e ffne. A lovely copy of a deluxe gift book of mid -19th century France. Gerbe [tr. A spray of flowers] is a deluxe gift-book, probably done for the Holidays, which contains polite articles and stories for each of the twelve months, each illustrated with nice engravings, many of them engraved in England. One of six volumes issued by Mandeville in the series Album du monde elegante. ( ). In "as new" condition. All titles in the series seem to be scarce. Gerbe is not in Eureka or OCLC. Bibliotheque Nationale has a copy. $850 Page 12

12 19 Martin, John. Seven Ages of Shakspeare, The. London: John Van Voorst, With twelves plates, seven of which are based on As you Like it; another is a charming title page. Quarto. Original ribbed green cloth. Gilt title on upper cover & spine. Small nick to spine crown. A handsome copy. Martin's essay discusses the antecedents to Shakespeare's Seven Ages of Man. The illustrations are by William Mulready, C.R. Leslie, Sir Augustus Callcott, John Constable, Sir David Wilkie, William Collins, Alfred E. Chalon, Abraham Cooper, Edwin Landseer and William Hilton. The author, John Martin, ( ) lived in Woburn Abbey. Bookplate of Woburn Abbey, $ Matisse, Henri. Apollinaire. Matisse, Henri). Rouveyre, André. Apollinaire. Paris: Raisons d Étre, #233 of 300 copies. (Entire edition 350: 30 signed by author and artist with a suite of lithographs. 20 copies hors commerce number I to XX; 300 as this.) Folio. (327 x 255mm; 13 ½ x 10") Unbound as issued in forty eight signatures. Illustrated with 1 aquatint for the frontis, 7 lithographs in black, with 6 hors text et one cul-de-lampe, lettrines in linogravure. Very fine copy with original glassine. In original folding chimese and slipcase (a few tiny nicks) both printed in original lithographs by Matisse. Text Coulouma, Paris; Lithograph cover and slipcase by Mourlot Paris (24 April 1952 $2,000 Page 13

13 21 Matisse, Henri. Portraits.. Monte Carlo: Andre Sauret, of 500 copies of the English edition (this #1682). The entire edition was 2850 copies: 500 as this in English numbered The translator is unknown; 2350 copies in French. Large 4to (10 3/4" x 12 1/4"), pictorial wrappers, glassine. As new. Housed in a two-piece board sleeve & slipcase, the spine of the sleeve shows extremely light fading. With 60 black and white portraits, and 33 mounted color plates. With introduction by Matisse. Entirely planned by Matisse who designed the cover, chose the portraits to be reproduced, and did an original lithograph for the frontispiece. The original lithograph, cover and color plates were printed by Mourlot Freres, collotypes by Louis Duval, 1500typography by Imprimerie Union. [a portrait] appears to me as though every charcoal stroke was removing from a mirror the mist which had so far prevented me for seeing it. (Introduction p.15). $1, Moliere ( ); (Lully, Jean Baptiste ( )). L'Amour Medecin. Paris: Chez Theodore Girard, Priv. Dec 30, 1665; Acheve Jan 15, Original edition. 12mo. 5 pl., 59 (i.e. 95)pp. Lacking frontispiece. The libretto to the comedy-ballet. $2,500 Page 14

14 23 Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus. Cosi Fan Tutte. Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus,. Cosi Fan Tutte. Xilografie di Balthus. New York: Limited Editions Club, First edition. One of 300 copies signed by Balthus this being number 77. Folio. With 6 full-page color woodcuts by Balthus. Text in Italian. Publisher's full peacock green silk. Front board with black leather label on, lettered in gilt. Very fine. Housed in the publisher's matching suede-lined silk clamshell with black leather label, lettered in gilt on spine. Also includes three compact discs containing Hans Rosbaud's opera in a pocket in the inside rear cover. With Limited Editions Club newsletter laid in. In 1950, Balthus designed the costumes and sets for a production of Mozart s Cosi fan tutte mounted in July at the 31ème Festival International de Musique in Aix-en- Provence. His decors captured the spirit of an opera that has been described as iridescent, like a glorious soap bubble, with the colors of buffoonery, parody and both genuine and simulated emotion. (Rewald, p.45). Ref: Balthus: Catalog of an Exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Feb. 29, 1984 to May 13, 1984; Sabine Rewald; Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1984 $2,000 Page 15

15 24 Nilson, Johann Esaias. Catharina Helena Stöber.. Catharina Helena Stöber 1775 or Stöberin etching with engraved text on laid paper; 230 x 166 mm (9 ⅛ x 6 ½ inches)schuster 374 This is a souvenir portrait of Catharina Helena Stöber, a Little Person who was only two foot four inches (ca. 70 cm) in height. She is shown posing jauntily on a tabletop wearing a dress with a low neckline, and an open overskirt with lace and ribbons, and a decorative hat provenance Princes of Oettingen-Wallerstein, Maihingen and Harburg (not stamped; cf. Lugt 2715a) private collection; C.G. Boerner. $3, P. Terentii Afri poetae lepidissimi. Comoediae omnes. Venetiis : Apud Bartholomaeum Caesanum, Quarto. 19 century mottled calf, six spine compartments, gilt rules and ornaments, red morocco label, a bit scuffed. Rare. OCLC lists only 53 entries for this publisher in all editions The publisher Bartholomaeum Caesanum published very few works including an edition of Euclid Resolutio Omnium (1553), Ovid s Heroides (1552), Virgil s Poetry (1551), Cicero s Rhetroic (1550); as well as, a few modern authors and civil documents. Altogether, including duplicate entries, OCLC: for this edition: North America: UIU, WTU, PAU, ZCU $2,000 Page 16

16 26 Sartre, Jean Paul. Situations de New York. Lithographies originales de Gottfried Salzmann. Paris: Les Bibliophiles de, Paris, #5 of 180 copies signed by artist and publisher; plus a suite of ten color lithographs (#10 of 26) signed, on Japon; plus two signed proofs, hand-colored by the artist; plus two copies of the illustrated menu for the publication party. Total edition 180, in adition there were 26 portfolios of the lithographs each lithograph signed and numbered 1-26 (as this). One of only 26 copies with suite on Japon & with two watercolor proofs Quarto (10 3/4" x 13 1/4")/ Unbound, as issued. Wrappers, sleeve, box. 72pp text with ten original lithographs in color. Suite on Japon paper in folder, menus laid in. $1, (Utrillo, Maurice). Bove Emmanuel (20 April July 1945). Bécon-les-Bruyères. Portrait de la France. Paris: Emile-Paul Frères, #14 of 50 copies on Japon and with frontis in two states: Japon and Holland. Entire edition: 1650: 50 on Japan imperial with frontis is two states (as ours). 100 of van Galder; 1500 on Lafuma. Printed by R. Coulouma. One of only 50 copies 8vo. Blue morocco inlaid with center panels of lightblue polished calf, ruled in gilt. Blue and gold patterned endpapesr. Open leather-tipped slipcase. $2,500 Page 17

17 28 Valery, Paul. Typed manuscripts on Degas s Mimesis. Typed Manuscript (1933) Four page with numerous corrections. [A chapter from Degas Danse Dessin (published Paris: Gallimard 1938 )]. The small but important section from Valery s Degas Danse Dessins describes Degas way of seeing the female form in a way that had interested no painter before him. Valery s manuscripts rarely appear on the market. $4, Verlaine, Paul. Fêtes Galantes. Illustrations de Pierre Laprade. Paris: Ambroise Vollard, No. 226 of 320 on Rives. Entire edition 375: 55 on Japon with a suite. Fourteen original full-page etchings hors text plus with 42 compositions in color many on a commedia dell arte theme. $1,250 Page 18

18 30 Walker, Anne, White, Kenneth. November Birches. Paris: Editions Biren, Octavo (6 1/2 x 5 1/2"). 21pp., 4 color etchings. Unbound, loose sheets in wrappers, in blue slip case as issued. No. 48 of 60 copies, signed by the author and illustrator. Fine copy. Anne Walker is a native New Englander, who emigrated to France in 1955 after graduating from Smith College. She took up woodcuts in 1956 in Paris, and etching and aquatint in She began making gouache and pastel books in 1989, turning away from printmaking. She has had exhibitions in Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, and the United States $1,000 Page 19

19 Index A Amelia, 8 Amoroso Antonio, 3 Apollinaire, 13 Augustine, Saint, 4 B Bécon-les-Bruyères. Portrait de la France, 19 Bella, Stefano, 4, 5 C Cappiello, Leonetto, 5 Catharina Helena Stöber, 17 Chagall, 6 Chopart, Jean, 6 Comoediae omnes, 18 Contes Fantastiques, 8 Cosi Fan Tutte, 16 D Der Rabbi von Bacherach, 11 Desmarets de, 7 Dufy, Raoul, 7 E Entree du Prince di Toscane, Representant Hercul, 5 Etchings of Fancy French, 18th century carriages, 6 F Fargue, Leon, 8 Fêtes Galantes, 20 Fielding, Henry, 8 G Gavarni , 9 Gissing, George, 10 H Haydn, Joseph, 11 Heine, Heinrich, 11 Howitt, William, 12 L L'Amour Medecin, 15 L'Ariane de Monsieur Des Marest, 7 Page 1

20 La Belle-Enfant ou l'amour à Quarante Ans, 7 La Gerbe, album mosaique par E. de Limagne, 12 Le Quattro Stagion, 11 Limagne, E, 12 M Martin, John, 13 Matisse, Henri, 13, 14 Moliere , 15 Mozart Wolfgang, 16 N New Grub Street. A Novel, 10 Nilson, Johann, 17 Nos Actrices, 5 Nouveaux Travestissements pour le théatre et pour le, 9 November Birches, 21 P P. Terentii, 18 Paris / l'opera Romeo and Juliet, 6 Portraits, 14 R Raccolta di Vasi Diversi, 4 Ruined Abbeys and Castles of Great Britain, 12 S Sagre Offerte alla Passione di Nostre Signore Gesu, 3 Sartre, Jean, 19 Seven Ages of Shakspeare, The, 13 Situations de New York. Lithographies originales de Gottfried, 19 T The musician, 3 Typed manuscripts on Degas s Mimesis, 20 U Unless the Grain Die, 4 Utrillo, Maurice, 19 V Valery, Paul, 20 Verlaine, Paul, 20 W Walker, Anne, 21 Page 2