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One of the Earliest Examples of a Venetian Woodcut Border 1. [APPIAN OF ALEXANDRIA. Historia romana. [And:] De bellis civilibus. Venice: Bernard Maler (Pictor), Erhard Ratdolt, and Peter Löslein, 1477]. First complete edition of Appian s Roman history (De bellis civilibus had been printed by Vindelinus de Spira in 1472). Two parts in one volume. Large quarto (11 1/4 x 8 1/8 inches; 286 x 206 mm.). Overall, an excellent copy.hbs 66848. $25,000 First Edition of "Emma" Uncut in a Contemporary Binding 2. [AUSTEN, Jane]. Emma: A Novel. In Three Volumes. By the Author of Pride and Prejudice, London: Printed for John Murray, 1816. First edition. Three twelvemo volumes. 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 67001. $45,000 First Edition of "Northanger Abbey and Persuasion" 3. [AUSTEN, Jane]. Northanger Abbey: and Persuasion. London: John Murray, 1818. First edition. Four twelvemo volumes. [2], xxiv, 300; [4], 331, [1, blank]; [4], 280; [4], 308, [4, blanks] pp. Bound with old and incorrect half-titles. Early 20th full smooth tan morocco by Riviere. Light foxing throughout. Some light rubbing to spine extremities and outer hinge repair to all volumes. All in all, a handsome set. HBS 66875. $8,500 The Author's Rare First Book 4. [AUSTEN, Jane]. Sense and Sensibility: A Novel. In Three Volumes. By A Lady. London: Printed for the Author, by C. Roworth, and Published by T. Egerton, 1811. First edition. Three twelvemo volumes. Half calf over marbled boards, rebacked to style. Overall a very good set. HBS 67050. $30,000 Accounts of Early Missionaries in Baja California 5. BALTHASAR, Juan Antonio. Carta del P. Provincial Juan Antonio Balthasar,. en que dá noticia de la exemplar vida, religiosas virtudes, y apostólicos trabajos del ferverosa Missionero el Venerable P. Francisco Maria Picolo. [Mexico: 1752]. First edition. Small quarto. Comtemporary full limp vellum. Internally very clean. Overall a very good copy. HBS 66949. $8,500 First Edition of The Story of Little Black Sambo 6. BANNERMAN, Helen. The Story of Little Black Sambo. London: Grant Richards, 1899. Original pale green cloth. 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. HBS 67334. $9,500 With 116 Woodcuts 7. 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. 1570. [London in Paules Church: John Cawood, 1570]. Second edition, the first obtainable (No complete copy of the first edition has been at auction in the past 75 years. HBS 66565. 40,000 Rare First Edition of Bassantin s Beautifully Illustrated Astronomical Work, with Thirty-Six (?)Volvelles 8. BASSANTIN, James. Astronomique discours. Lyons: Par Jan de Tournes, 1557. Rare first edition of this beautifully illustrated astronomical work. Large folio With 175 woodcuts and woodcut diagrams, of which fourteen have a total of thirty-six(?) volvelles. It is extremely rare to find this book in such beautiful condition with this many volvelles present. Modern French brown hard-grain morocco by René Aussour (stamp-signed in gilt on the front turn-in). Yapp edges. The bookplate of Marcel Destombes, historian of cartography and scientific instruments, on front pastedown. Overall, a near fine and fresh copy. HBS 67276. $70,000 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, 1857. First edition, first printing with the six suppressed poems. In second state wrappers, with the back wrapper announcing Les Fleurs du Mal. Octavo. Original light yellow printed wrappers. Uncut, as published, perfectly pure, without spots. Some professional restoration to spine. A beautiful copy. In glassine dust jacket and with a custom full morocco clamshell. HBS 65197. $35,000 First Edition of " The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" 10. BAUM, L. Frank. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Chicago: Geo. M. Hill Co., [1900]. First edition, mixed state. Second state of the text, and first state of the "Moon" plate. Overall, a very good copy of a book usually found in poor condition. HBS 67312. $6,500 One of the Most Valuable of Modern Voyages 11. BEECHEY, Captain F[rederick] W[illiam]. Narrative of a Voyage to the Pacific and Beering s Strait, to Co-Operate with the Polar Expeditions: Performed in His Majesty's Ship Blossom, under the Command of Captain F.W. Beechey, R.N.. London: 1831. First edition. Two quarto volumes [not to be confused with the octavo edition of the same year].contemporary diced calf, rebacked to style. Overall a very good, handsome set. Housed together in a slipcase. HBS 64975. $8,500

The First Hebrew Bible Printed in America 12. [BIBLE IN HEBREW]. Biblia Hebraica, Secundum ultimam editionem Jos. Athiae, a Johanne Leusden denuo recognitam, recensita variisque notis Latinis illustrata ab Everardo Van der Hooght, V.D.M. Editio prima Americana, sine punctis masorethicis. Tom. I. [II.] Philadelphia: [Printed by William Fry for Thomas Dobson], 1814. HBS 67331. $15,000 First Collected Edition 13. BLACKSTONE, [Sir] William. Law Tracts. In Two Volumes. Vol. I. [II.] Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1762. First collected edition. Two octavo volumes. Early nineteenth-century calf. An excellent copy. HBS 67320. $3,500 Captain Bligh's Own Account Of The Mutiny On The Bounty With A Contemporary Manuscript Account Of The Court-Martial Of Bligh 14. BLIGH, William. A Narrative of the Mutiny, on Board His Majesty s Ship Bounty;... London: Printed for George Nicol, 1790. First edition. Quarto. A near fine, tall copy with wide margins. Housed in a quarter tan morocco case. HBS 67010. $13,500 An Unknown Manuscript by an Illuminator in the Close Circle of The Duke of Berry 15. [Book of Hours. Paris, ca. 1400]. (as described by Ferrini) Illuminated with fifteen large miniatures by the Master of the Bible Historiale. 224 pp. 224 parchment folios, complete. In Latin and French. Nineteenth-century dark brown morocco over pasteboards. (161x116 mm). An unrecorded Parisian Book of Hours, this manuscript has a sequence of beautifully executed miniatures attributed by François Avril to one of the artist responsible for the Bible Historiale (Paris, BnF MS fr. 159), a grand manuscript given to Jean Duke of Berry by Raoulet d Auquetonville before 1402. Our Book of Hours was painted for an unidentified female donor depicted twice in the manuscript. Once she kneels in prayer before St. John the Baptist, who must be her patron saint (f. 185). A second time St. John the Baptist presents her to the Virgin and Child whom she adores in prayer (f. 110). Her costume befits a lady of the court and suggests a date around 1400. HBS 66569 $400,000 The First Edition of Brontë's First Novel 16. BRONTË, Charlotte. The Professor. A Tale. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1857. First edition of the author s first novel (although the last of her major works to be published). Two octavo volumes (7 3/4 x 5 inches; 198 x 129 mm). viii, 294 plus 2 pp. advertisements; [4], 258, [1, printer s imprint, [1, blank] plus 8 pp. advertisements and 16 pp. publisher s catalogue dated June, 1857. Original dark grayish purple morocco-grain cloth elaborately stamped in blind in a floral pattern. Overall, a very good copy. Housed in a quarter maroon morocco clamshell case. HBS 66276. $7,500 With Sixty Fine Engraved Plates Printed in Color and Finished by Hand 17. BROOKSHAW, George. Pomona Britannica, or A Collection of the Most Esteemed Fruits at Present Cultivated in Great Britain. London: Bensley and Son, 1817. First quarto edition. Contemporary maroon straight-grain morocco. An excellent copy. HBS 65200. $20,000 Aristotelian Commentary 18. BURIDAN, Jean. [ARISTOTLE]. Questiones Johannis buridani super octo libros politicorum Aristotelis. nuperrime diligentissima cura correcte & emendate necnon singulis in marginibus annotate Paris: Jehan Petit, 1513. Second edition (first edition [Paris, 1489] is unattainable, with only one institutional copy in the U.S.); first edition edited by Guillaume Baterel. Folio. Original limp vellum on leather thongs (lacking ties, some light distressing), yapp edges. A superb copy, absolutely fresh, with an initial folio in quarto quire of blanks plus all three conjugate final blanks. Housed in a custom brown mottled calf clamshell, gilt-stamped. HBS 66877. $8,500 The Beautiful and the Sublime 19. BURKE, Edmund. A Philosophical Enquiry into Our Ideas of Sublime and Beautiful. London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley, 1757. First edition, limited to 500 copies. Octavo. viii, [8], 184 pp. Bound without half-title. Contemporary calf. With an early inscription of John Digby, Jr., and an armorial bookplate of John Hamilton Sirée. A very good copy of this vastly influential seminal work, a cornerstone of Romanticism and modern thought. HBS 66523. $3,500 First Edition of "A Fighting Man of Mars" 20. BURROUGHS, Edgar Rice. A Fighting Man of Mars. Frontispiece by Hugh Hutton. New York: Metropolitan Books, [1931]. First edition. Octavo. Original red cloth lettered in green on front cover and spine. Top edge stained green. A near fine copy. In the original pictorial dust jacket by Hugh Hutton. Price clipped with small tear neatly repaired to front panel, spine very slightly chipped along extremities. HBS 67055. $1,750 The Third Pellucidar Novel 21. BURROUGHS, Edgar Rice. Tanar of Pellucidar. Frontispiece by Paul F. Berdanier. New York: [1930]. First edition of the third Pellucidar novel. Octavo. 312 pp. Frontispiece. Original bright blue cloth lettered in black on front cover and spine. Spine very slightly rubbed at extremities. Otherwise a fine copy. In the original color pictorial dust jacket by Paul F. Berdanier.HBS 67054. $2,250 First Edition in Original Cloth 22. BURTON, Sir Richard Francis. CAMERON, Verney Lovett. To The Gold Coast For Gold. A Personal Narrative. London: Chatto & Windus, 1883. First edition. Two octavo volumes. HBS 64998. $5,500

First edition, Published in a Very Limited Number of Copies for Distribution Among Friends 23. [CABET, Etienne]. Voyage et Aventures de Lord Villiam Carisdall en Icarie. Traduits de l'anglais de Francis Adams par Th. Dufruit. Paris: Hippolyte Souverain, 1840 [1839]. First edition, published in 1839 in a very limited number of copies for distribution among friends only. Modern half morocco, marbled sides, gilt lettering to spine by Lobstein-Laurenchet. Repair to the 'Table des Chapitres' of Volume I, without loss of text. HBS 66527. $10,000 First Edition of Terra Australis Cognita 24. CALLANDER, John. Terra Australis Cognita: Printed by A. Donaldson, 1766-1768. First edition, the variant issue of Volume I containing a dedication to Sir Laurence Dundas (no priority). Three octavo volumes in fours. Contemporary calf with red morocco gilt lettering labels and gilt volume numbers, band gilt ruled, edges sprinkled red. Some nearly invisible restoration to parts of the spines but otherwise a lovely copy. HBS 65304. $20,000 First Edition of Cantillon's Great Work 25. CANTILLON, Richard. Essai sur la Nature du Commerce ed général. Traduit de l'anglois. A Londres: chez Fletcher Gyles [but probably Paris], 1755. First edition. Octavo. [4] 430 [6]. Complete with half-title and final "Table des Chapitres." Contemporary French mottled calf, red morocco spine label, spine gilt in compartments, marbled endpapers, red edges. A fine copy. Housed in a custom full brown calf clamshell, decoratively tooled in gilt on spine. HBS 66437. $45,000 Both Signed by the Original Alice 26. CARROLL, Lewis. Alice s Adventures in Wonderland. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1932. [Together with:] Through the Looking- Glass and What Alice Found There. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1935. Limited to 1,500 numbered copies, signed by Frederic Warde. These copies are some of a few of which were also signed by the Original Alice, Alice Hargreaves. Octavo. A near fine copy. Housed in the original cloth slipcases (some browning and light wear). HBS 67083. $4,000 First Edition of "Through the Looking-Glass" In A Beautiful Binding 27. CARROLL, Lewis. SANGORSKI & SUTCLIFFE, [binder]. TENNIEL, Sir John, [illustrator]. Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There. With fifty illustrations by John Tenniel. London: Macmillan and Co., 1872. First edition, first issue, with the misprint wade for wabe in the second line of Jabberwocky on p. 21. Small octavo. Bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe in contemporary red crushed levant morocco. A wonderful example. HBS 67315. $3,000 With Fifty Hand-Colored Lithographed Plates 28. CASSIN, John. Illustrations of the Birds of California, Texas, Oregon, British and Russian America. 1853 to 1855. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1856. First edition. Large octavo. Original full brown morocco. Overall, an excellent copy in a handsome contemporary binding.hbs 67255. $5,000 Catherwood's Landmark "Views of Ancient Monuments" 29. CATHERWOOD, Frederick. Views of Ancient Monuments in Central America, Chiapas and Yucatan. New York: Bartlett and Welford, 1844. First edition, one of three-hundred copies. Folio. Publishers quarter green morocco over green cloth. Covers with a few spots and some light soiling. Back board with a few scratches. Overall a very good copy. HBS 64902. $59,500 With a Leaf From the "Knight's Tale" From "Canterbury Tales" Printed By William Caxton At Westminster 1478 30. [CAXTON CLUB]. DUFF, E. Gordon. William Caxton. Chicago: Caxton Club, 1905. Limited to 252 copies on American hand-made paper and one of 148 copies to include an original Caxton leaf. Publisher's quarter red cloth over gray paper boards. Internally very clean. Overall about fine. HBS 67136. $12,500 The Only Theatrical Work Cervantes Ever Published: Very Rare 1615 First Edition Of Ocho Comedias, Which Brought Complexities To The Genre Which Are Only Now Being Understood And Appreciated 31. CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, Miguel de. Ocho Comedias, y Ocho Entremeses Nuevos, Nunca Representados. Madrid: Por la Viuda de Alonso Martin, a costa de Juan de Villarroel, 1615. Very rare 1615 First Edition Of Ocho Comedias. The only theatrical work Cervantes ever published. Small quarto. Only two copies are known to have appeared on the market in the past 30 years; only five copies are found on OCLC. Period-style full vellum, raised bands. A handsome copy in excellent condition. Housed in custom half morocco clamshell box. Exceedingly rare first edition of Cervantes fifth book, his only theatrical work published in his lifetime. HBS 65845. $145,000 Rare First Issue with Twenty-Two Woodcuts in The Prologues 32. CHAUCER, Ge[o]ffrey. The workes of Geffrey Chaucer, newlie printed, with divers addicions, whiche were never in print before: With the siege and destruccion of the worthy Citee of Thebes, compiled by Jhon Lidgate, Monke of Berie. As in the table more plainly doeth appere. [London: Imprinted by Jhon Kyngston, for Jhon Wight], 1561. Fifth collected edition, first issue, A wonderful copy. HBS 66503. $65,000

One of the Great Slave Narratives of the 19th Century 33. CHILD, L. Maria, [editor]. BRENT, Linda. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.. Written by Herself. Edited by L. Maria Child. Boston: For the Author, 1861. First Edition. HBS 67297. $3,000 First Edition of Churchill s The River War 34. CHURCHILL, [Sir] Winston S. The River War. An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan. Edited by Col. F. Rhodes, D.S.O. Illustrated by Angus McNeill, Seaforth Highlanders. In two volumes. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1899. First edition. Two octavo volumes. Original dark blue cloth. A very good, clean copy in the original binding. HBS 67300. $4,000 The Caxton Cicero The Fine Berkeley - Sion College Copy 35. [CICERO, Marcus Tullius.] [CAXTON, William, printer.] Here begynneth the prohemye upon the reducynge both out of latyn as of frensshe in to our englyssh tongue of the polytyque book named Tullius de senectute ["Of Old Age" and "Of Friendship"] Westminster: William Caxton, 1481. Editio princeps in English. Two parts in one folio volume. Complete but for two blanks: 118 (of 120) leaves, lacking blanks 1 and 72, and retaining blank 11. Modern blindtooled reddish goatskin to antique style, with clasps and catches, by Bernard Middleton.An outstanding, textually complete, fully signed and dated book by England's first printer, printed in his most astonishingly beautiful and complicated type. This book is also the earliest printed translation of any Latin Classic into English. An excellent copy overall. HBS 65287. $1,250,000 With 103 Woodcut Illustrations, Including One of the Earliest Illustrations of a Conjurer 36. CICERO, Marcus Tullius. Officia M.T.C. [Augsburg: Gedruckt durch Heynrichen Stayner, 7 December ] 1531. Third edition of the first German translation of De officiis. Modern antique-style mottled calf. Spine ruled in gilt and decoratively tooled in blind in compartments, the blind tooling extending onto the covers, with black morocco gilt lettering label. One small wormhole affecting the first sixty-eight leaves, a few additional marginal wormholes. This copy was formerly part of a Sammelband, as suggested by the remains of an index tab on title. Overall, an excellent copy. HBS 65473. $8,500 First Edition in Original Wrappers 37. CLARKE, A.B. Travels in Mexico and California: Comprising a Journal of a Tour from Brazos Santiago, through Central Mexico, by Way of Monterey, Chihuahua, the Country of the Apaches, and the River Gila, to the Mining Districts of California. Boston: Wright & Hasty, 1852. First edition. Twelvemo. Publisher's original light brown printed wrappers. Chemised and housed in a custom quarter morocco slipcase. A very good copy of this classic with no restoration whatsoever. HBS 64855. $2,000 First Edition of Lord Jim 38. CONRAD, Joseph. Lord Jim. A Tale. Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1900. First edition. Original pale green linen-grain cloth decoratively stamped and lettered in black on front cover and decoratively stamped in black and lettered in gilt on spine. Largely unopened. A very good copy. HBS 67267. $2,000 The Three Voyages of Captain Cook, with the Atlas 39. [COOK, Captain James]. HAWKESWORTH, John. An Account of the Voyages Undertaken by the Order of His Present Majesty for Making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere...London: Printed for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell, 1773. Second and best edition. Three quarto volumes [Together with:] COOK, Captain James. A Voyage towards the South Pole, and round the World. London: Printed for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell, 1784. Fourth edition. Two quarto volumes. [Together with:] COOK, Captain James, and Captain James King. A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean...London: Printed by H. Hughs, for G. Nicol; and T. Cadell, 1785.Second and best edition. Three quarto volumes. Together eight text volumes and folio atlas volume. Overall a very good set. HBS 67286. $32,500 First Edition of the Eccentric Travels of Coryate 40. CORYATE, Thomas. Coryats Crudities. Hastily gobled up in five Moneths travells in France, Savoy, Italy...Helvetia alia Switzerland, some parts of Germany and the Netherlands... London: Printed by W[illiam] S[tansby], 1611. First edition. Quarto in eights 19th-century straight-grain red morocco.. An exceptional copy. HBS 66493. $25,000 "Mexico South" Limited to 100 Copies with an Original Illustration and an Additional Illustration and Inscription 41. COVARRUBIAS, Miguel, [illustrator]. Mexico South. The Isthmus of Tehuantepec. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946. First edition. Octavo. Some light fading to top edge of book. Otherwise a fine copy. Housed in a black open ended cloth slipcase. HBS 66776. $3,000 First Edition, First Issue Of Dana s Two Years Before The Mast 42. [DANA, Richard Henry, Jr.]. Two Years Before the Mast. A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1840. First edition, first issue. In Bal binding B (no priority). Original full tan muslin. An exceptional copy of a book that is usually found in poor condition. Housed in a full cloth clamshell. HBS 66312. $7,500

First American Edition of "On the Origin of Species" 43. DARWIN, Charles. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection. Or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1860. First American edition, first state with only two notices opposite the title page. Octavo. 432 pp. Original brown blindstamped cloth, gilt-stamped on spine. A fine copy. HBS 67095. $12,500 First Edition of A Christmas Carol 44. DICKENS, Charles. A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas. With Illustrations by John Leech. London: Chapman & Hall, 1843. First edition, first issueoriginal cinnamon vertically-ribbed cloth. Overall, a very good copy with the gold leaf still bright. HBS 67305. $15,000 Oliver Twist in the Original Cloth 45. [DICKENS, Charles]. Oliver Twist; or, the Parish Boy s Progress. By Boz. In Three Volumes. Vol. I. [II. III.] London: Richard Bentley, 1838. First edition, second issue, with the title-page authorship credit to Charles Dickens instead of "Boz". Original moderate reddish brown fine-diaper cloth, housed in a custom quarter brown morocco clamshell. An excellent set. HBS 67301. $5,000 Original Etched Steel Plate from Old Curiosity Shop. 46. DICKENS, Charles. BROWNE, Hablot Knight, [illustrator]. Original etched steel plate from Old Curiosity Shop. London: Chapman and Hall, 1841. (Measures 84 mm x 117 mm). Original woodblock by Hablot K. 'Phiz' Browne for the illustration 'Nell brought to the Inn' from The Old Curiosity Shop, issued as part of the Nonesuch Dickens, 1937-1938. Minor wear to a couple of edges of box, otherwise, fine. HBS 67311. $3,500 A Superb Un-restored Copy 47. DICKENS, Charles. The Uncommercial Traveller. London: Chapman and Hall, 1861 [i.e. 1860]. First edition. Octavo. Publisher's purple cloth, spine faded, otherwise a fine copy. HBS 67138. $3,750 "Selfe-homicide is not so Naturally Sinne" 48. DONNE, John. Biathanatos [in Greek]. A Declaration of that Paradoxe, or Thesis, that Selfe-homicide is not so Naturally Sinne, that it may never be otherwise. London: Printed by John Dawson, [1644]. First edition, first issue, small quarto. Contemporary calf, rebacked. Small split along spine. Near fine overall. HBS 66463. $8,500 The Most Complete Of The 17th Century Editions 49. DONNE, John. Poems, With elegies on the authors death. To which is added divers copies under his own hand, never before printed. London: Printed by T.N. for Henry Herringman, 1669. Fifth edition according to Keyens, seventh edition according to Wing. Octavo. Contemporary full brown calf, expertly rebacked. Very good. HBS 66995. $5,500 Very Rare First Edition, First Issue of John Donne's Sermons, Volume III 50. DONNE, John. XXVI Sermons Preached By That Learned and Reverend Divine John Donne,...The Third Volume. London: Printed by T.[homas] N.[ewcomb] for James Magnes,1660. First edition, first issue. Small folio. Contemporary tree calf, ruled in blind, spine decoratively tooled in gilt with a red morocco spine label, lettered in gilt. Spine expertly and handsomely rebacked with original spine laid down. An excellent copy of this very rare and bibliographically complex work. HBS 66986. $11,000 "The Finest Work of All Modern Russian Literature"-Tolstoy 51. DOSTOEVSKY, Fyodor. Zapiski iz mertvago doma [Notes from the House of the Dead]. St. Petersburg: 1862. First edition of one of Dostoevsky's most famous and most universally recognized works published during his lifetime. Two parts in one octavo volume.we could only find three copies, present copy included, that have appeared at auction in the last twenty-five years. Later brick-red pebblegrain cloth rebacked with contemporary morocco spine laid-down. Overall, a very good copy of this rare and important title. HBS 67323. $15,000 First Edition Hound in the Original Cloth 52. DOYLE, A[rthur] Conan. PAGET, Sidney, [illustrator]. The Hound of the Baskervilles. Another Adventure of Sherlock Holmes. London: George Newnes, 1902. First edition, first issue in book form. Small octavo. Original scarlet cloth, overall, a near fine copy. In a custom red cloth slipcase. HBS 67096. $5,000 A Bright, Fine Copy of the True First Edition of This Sherlock Holmes Novel In the Rare Original Publisher's Dust Jacket 53. DOYLE, Arthur Conan. The Valley of Fear. A Sherlock Holmes Novel. Illustrated by Arthur I. Keller. New York: George H. Doran Company, [1914]. True first edition (precedes the British edition by three months). Octavo. Publisher's red cloth, overall a bright, fine copy in a very good dust jacket. HBS 67258. $10,000 "The Most Important Book On California During Its Mexican Regime" 54. DU PETIT-THOUARS, Abel Aubert. Voyage Autor Du Monde. Sur La Frégate La Vénus, Pendant Les Années 1836-1839, Publié Par Ordre Du Roi, Sous Les Auspices Du Ministre De La Marine... Paris: Gide, 1840-[1843]. First edition. Four octavo text volumes. Text volumes- Contemporary quarter brown calf over marbled boards. Atlas- Contemporary quarter black polished calf over blue cloth. Rebacked preserving original spine. A very good set. HBS 65310. $30,000

First American Book Edition And Possibly First American Edition 55. DUMAS, Alexandre. The Count of Monte-Cristo. New York: Burgess, Stringer and Company, 1846. First American book edition and possibly first American edition. Two volumes in one octavo volume. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Overall a very good copy of this rare title. HBS 67313. $5,500 In the Very Rare Dust Jacket 56. FAULKNER, William. The Sound and the Fury. New York: Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, [1929]. First edition, first printing. Octavo. Original quarter white cloth over decorative paper boards. Still, a near fine copy of this famous rarity. Housed in a burgundy morocco solander box made by the Chelsea bindery. HBS 65610. $27,500 A Complete Set of First Edition James Bond Novels in Original Cloth and Jackets; One Volume Signed by Fleming 57. FLEMING, Ian. [A Complete Set of First Edition James Bond Novels in Original Cloth and Jacket]. [Including]: Casino Royale, Live and Let Die, Moonraker, Diamonds Are Forever, From Russia With Love, Dr. No, Goldfinger, For Your Eyes Only, Thunderball, The Spy Who Loved Me, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, You Only Live Twice, The Man With the Golden Gun, and Octopussy and the Living Daylights. London: [1953-1966]. All together fourteen octavo volumes. All fourteen volumes housed together in two custom cloth open-end slipcases. HBS 66746. $67,500 Second English Edition of Both Volumes 58. FROISSART, Jean. BERNERS, John Bourchier, [translator]. Here Begynnith the Cronycles of Englande, Fraunce, Spayne, Portyngale,. Scotlaunde, Bretaine, Flaunders: and other places adioynynge. [London]: [Wylliam Myddleton i.e. Thomas Marsh ca1563].second English edition of both volumes. Four books in two volumes bound together in one folio volume. Folio in sixes. Full late 18th-century, or early 19th-century calf, expertly rebacked to style. Overall a very good copy. HBS 66831. $25,000 Galileo s Proof of the Copernican System. A Very Tall Copy 59. GALILEI, Galileo. Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo Tolemaico, e Copernicano; Proponendo indeterminatamente le ragioni filosofiche, e naturali tanto per l una, quanto per l altra parte. Florence: Per Gio: Batista Landini, 1632. First edition of Galileo s most celebrated and controversial work. Quarto. Late eighteenth-century quarter dark red roan over marbled boards. Vellum tips. An excellent and very tall copy, with many of the leaves uncut. Housed in a custom quarter red morocco clamshell, gilt-stamped. Printing and the Mind of Man 128. HBS 66501. $95,000 "Certainly the Most Beautiful Book on Troy Ever Published" 60. 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, 1804. First edition. Folio. With hand colored plates, uncut in contemporary marbled boards, rebacked and recornered. Fine. Rare. HBS 66791. $7,500 First Edition of Goethe s Faust" in Original Boards 61. GOETHE, [Johann Wolfgang von]. Faust. Ein Fragment. Ächte Ausgabe. Leipzig: Bey Georg Joachim Göschen, 1790. First edition, first issue. Contemporary half calf over original marbled paste-paper boards. Overall an excellent copy. HBS 67309. $27,500 Rare First English Edition of "Dead Souls" 62. [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, 1854. First edition in English. A "translation" of Dead Souls by Gogol. Two octavo volumes. Publisher's original green cloth. Overall a very good, clean set in original cloth. Housed in a custom slipcase. HBS 64929. $16,500 First Edition of Goldsmith's "Vicar of Wakefield" 63. GOLDSMITH, Oliver. The Vicar of Wakefield. A Tale. Supposed to be written by himself. Salisbury: Printed by B. Collins, for F. Newbery, 1766. First edition. A number of variants exist for this book, with no priority. In a charming full crushed morocco binding by Bedford. A lovely set, housed in a cloth and marbled paper slipcase. Grolier, 100 English, 53. HBS 67035. $4,500 With Twenty-Two Etchings by George Cruikshank 64. GRIMM, [Jacob and Wilhelm]. German Popular Stories, Translated from the Kinder und Haus Marchen, Collected by M.M. Grimm, from Oral Tradition. London: Published by C. Baldwyn, 1823; James Robins & Co., London, and Joseph Robins Junr. & Co., Dublin, 1826. First English edition, the rare first issue of Volume I. Bound by Rivière & Son in full red crushed levant morocco. Overall an about fine set. HBS 66081. $12,500 Return of the Native in the Original Cloth 65. HARDY, Thomas. The Return of the Native. In three volumes. London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1878. First edition in book form Publisher s primary binding of brown diagonal-fine-ribbed cloth. A very good copy and much better than usually found. HBS 67266. $10,000 The Wave Theory of Electrical Motion 66. HERTZ, Heinrich Rudolph. KELVIN, Lord, [contributor]. Electric Waves. Being Researches on the Propagation of Electric Action with Finite Velocity Through Space. Authorised English Translation by D.E. Jones...With a Preface by Lord Kelvin, LL.D., D.C.L. London: Macmillan and Co., 1893.First English edition, octavo. Original full green cloth. Overall a very good and bright copy. HBS 67023. $2,500

First Edition, In Original Dust Jacket 67.HESSE, Hermann. Der Steppenwolf. Berlin: S. Fischer, [1927]. First edition, in original dust jacket. Octavo Original pale blue linen cloth. A near fine book in a very good jacket. HBS 67295. $7,500 Second and Improved Herwagen Edition, In Contemporary Binding 68. HOMER. [Greek Title] Opus Utrumque Homeri Iliados Et Odysseae, Diligenti per Iacobi Micylli & Ioachimi Camerarii recognitum. [Basel: Johann Herwagen, 1541]. Second Herwagen edition, but first edition edited by Micyllus and Camerarius, improving the text from Hervagius' 1535 edition. Two folio volumes in one. Folio in sixes. Full contemporary pigskin over wooden boards. A bit of light soiling throughout. Overall a very good copy. HBS 66983. $7,500 Editio Princeps and the First Book Printed at the press of the Greek Gymnasium 69. [HOMER]. DIDYMUS OF ALEXANDRIA. LASCARIS, Janus, [editor]. [Homeric Scholia on the Iliad]. Homeri interpres pervetustus, in Greek. Edited by Janus Lascaris Rome: Vittore Carmelio and/or Zacharias Callierges, for Angelo Colocci, at the Press of the Greek Gymnasium [caballini montis gymnasium]. [Not before 7 September, 1517]. Editio Princeps and the first book that was printed at the press of the Greek Gymnasium in Rome. Folio Beautifully bound in early 19th Century straight-grain morocco by Francois Bozerian. HBS 66901RSL. $40,000 Then Entire Illiad And Odyssey In Ancient Greek 70. [HOMER]. JUNIUS, Hadrianus. Copiae cornu sive oceanus enarrationum Homericarum, ex Eustathii in eundem comme. Basil: [Froben], 1558. The entire Illiad and Odyssey in ancient Greek. Two books in one folio volume. Full brown diced calf. Overall a very nice copy. HBS 66903. $4,500 Beautiful Set of Homer in Greek and Latin 71. HOMER. Homeri Ilias. Ex Recensione etcum notis. Samuelis CkarkII, S.T.P. Accessit Varietas Lectionum Ms Lips. et edd. veterum, cura Jo. Augusti Ernisti: Qui et Suas Notas Adspersit. Volumen Primum. Londini: Excudebat Andreas Duncan, Academiae Typographus, 1814. Five octavo volumes. A fine set. HBS 66905. $2,750 First Aldine Edition of Homer s Iliad 72. HOMER. Homeri Ilias[in Greek. Edited by Aldus Manutius]. [Venice: Aldus Manutius, not before 31 October 1504]. First Aldine edition and second edition in Greek of the Iliad, forming the first half of the great two-volume Aldine Homer. Small octavo. Nineteenth-century vellum over boards. HBS 66538. $20,000 The Best of Hume's Writings 73. HUME, David. An Enquiry concerning the Principles of Morals. London: Printed for A. Millar, 1751. First edition, second state. Contemporary speckled calf, rebacked to style. Overall a very good copy. HBS 67022. $3,000 Rare First Edition of Hume's "An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding" 74. HUME, David. Philosophical Essays Concerning Human Understanding. By the Author of the Essays Moral and Political. London: Printed for A. Millar, 1748. First edition. Twelvemo.Contemporary brown calf, expertly rebacked to style, spine gilt-stamped with black and red morocco labels, marbled endpapers, all edges red. Some mild toning. Very good. HBS 66959. $11,000 "The St. John's Bible" The Bible for the 21st Century 75. JACKSON, Donald, [calligrapher]. The St. John's Bible. [Minnesota: St John's University, 2002-10]. Seven large folio volumes. (Measures 2 ft. tall and 3 ft. wide). A fine set. *(Also available without volume 6; Gospel & Acts and volume 7; Letters and Revelation for $120,000).HBS 67340. $165,000 Limited Edition, Signed By Henri Matisse and James Joyce 76. JOYCE, James. MATISSE, Henri, [illustrator]. Ulysses [LEC]. With an Introduction by Stuart Gilbert and Illustrations by Henri Matisse. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1935. Limited to 250 numbered copies (from a total edition of 1,500), signed by both James Joyce and Henri Matisse. Quarto. Original full brown buckram Some minor wear to the slipcase at corners and edges, but better than usually seen. Housed in a custom red half morocco clamshell. HBS 67248. $25,000 The Kelmscott Poems of William Shakespeare 77. [KELMSCOTT PRESS]. SHAKESPEARE, William. The Poems of William Shakespeare, Printed after the Original Copies of Venus and Adonis, 1593. The Rape of Lucrece, 1594. Sonnets, 1609. The Lover s Complaint. [London: Sold by Reeves & Turner, 1893]. One of 500 paper copies, out of a total edition of 510 copies. Original full limp vellum with yapp edges. Spine lettered in gilt. Original silk ties. A bit of wrinkling to rear cover, otherwise, very good. HBS 67306. $6,000 One Of The Scarcest Kelmscott Titles 78. [KELMSCOTT PRESS]. MORRIS, William. The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs. [Hammersmith: 1898]. Limited to 160 copies on paper, out of an edition of 166. Small folio Original limp vellum, yapp edges, silk ties. Previous owner's bookplates. Aside from a bit of typical foxing on the sheet edges, as usual, this is a truly remarkable copy of one of the scarcest Kelmscott titles. Housed in a custom green cloth open-ended slipcase. HBS 66508. $12,500

The Kelmscott Press Utopia 79. [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. Original full limp vellum with yapp edges. Spine lettered in gilt. All edges uncut. Back bottom tie renewed. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown. An about fine copy. HBS 65744. $6,500 The Magnificent Kelmscott Chaucer, One of Approximately Fifty Copies Bound by the Doves Bindery. And with a Rare Bifolium Proof with Variant Typsetting for the Opening Page and it's Conjugate Leaf 80. [KELMSCOTT PRESS]. CHAUCER, Geoffrey. The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer now newly imprinted. [Hammersmith: Printed by William Morris at the Kelmscott Press, 1896]. One of 425 paper copies, out of a total edition of 438 copies. Large folio Publisher s white pigskin, elaborately tooled in blind after a design by William Morris. A fine copy in this superb binding. Previous owner's bookplate on front paste-down. Housed in a quarter black morocco clamshell. HBS 65739. $225,000 The Greatest Illustrated Work On Mexican Antiquities 81. KINGSBOROUGH, Edward King. Viscount. Antiquities of Mexico: comprising facsimiles of ancient Mexican paintings and hieroglyphics together with the monuments of New Spain, by M. Dupaix the drawings on stone by A. Aglio. London: Robert Havell, Colnaghi Dupaix Son and Co., 1831. Contemporary green half morocco complete in 9 volumes, a fine copy of the colored issue of the greatest illustrated work on Mexican Antiquities. HBS 66543. $135,000 In the Original Printed Dust Jacket 82. KIPLING, Rudyard. Captains Courageous. A Story of the Grand Banks. With illustrations by I.W. Taber. London: Macmillan and Co., 1897. First English edition. Small octavo. Original medium blue smooth cloth pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt on front cover and spine. In the original pale blue printed dust jacket, book is fine. Jacket with old repairs and about half of spine panel lacking. An affordable copy in the scarce dust jacket. HBS 66961. $2,000 First Editions of Kipling s "Jungle Books" 83. KIPLING, Rudyard. The Jungle Book [And:] The Second Jungle Book. With Illustrations by J.L. Kipling, W.H. Drake, and P. Frenzeny. London: Macmillan and Co., 1894-95. First editions of Kipling s classic "Jungle Books." Two octavo volumes. Beautifully bound by by Asprey in contemporary full dark gray morocco with elaborate animal onlays. Housed in a Asprey full morocco clamshell. HBS 67264. $4,500 A Very Important and Much-Prized Work 84. KOTZEBUE, Otto von. Entdeckungs-Reise in die Süd-See und nach der Berings-Strasse. Weimar: Verlegt von den Gebrüdern Hoffmann, 1821. First edition, regular issue, with the portraits colored and the folding plates in sepia aquatint. Three quarto volumes in one. Contemporary diced half calf over marbled boards. Rebacked with original spine laid down. Overall a very nice copy. HBS 66840. $10,000 The First English Edition of the Second Russian Pacific Voyage 85. KOTZEBUE, Otto von. A Voyage of Discovery, into the South Sea and Beering's Straits, London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1821. First edition in English. Three octavo volumes with hand colored plates in a contemporary half red calf over marbled boards. An excellent copy.hbs 64735. $7,500 One of the Great Documents of French Exploration in the Pacific Ocean 86. LA PÉROUSE, Jean F.G. de. Voyage De La Pérouse Autour du Monde... Paris: De L'Imprimerie de la Republique, 1797. First edition. Four quarto volumes of text. The atlas with engraved title and sixty-nine maps and plates (many folding). Contemporary half tan calf over marbled boards. Overall, an excellent copy; clean and complete. HBS 64867. $27,500 The Journey in Search of Lapérouse, with the Rare Atlas of Plates Bound by Courteval 87. LABILLARDIÈRE, [Jacques Julien Houton de]. Relation du voyage a la recherche de La Pérouse, Paris: Chez H.J. Jansen, An VIII de la République Françoise [i.e., 1799-1800]. First edition, quarto issue. Two quarto text volumes. Contemporary French mottled calf [by Courteval]. A truly exceptional set; beautifully bound, very tall and very clean. HBS 65251. $15,000 Extremely Rare 1510 Illustrated Edition of Lefevre's Famous "Recueil des Hystoires Troyennes." 88. LEFEVRE, Raoul. Le recueil des hystoires troyennes... Lyons: Jacques Sacon, 1510. Extremely rare 1510 illustrated edition (probably a unique example) of Le Fevre s famous Troy Book. Small folio. Nineteenth-century crimson morocco, gilt extra, by A. Motte, successor to Trautz-Bauzonnet. Gilt dentelles. Morocco doublures. Gilt interlacements. Gilt edges. A clean and fresh, nicely margined, copy in a fine binding, from the renowned Fairfax Murray collection of early French books. HBS 66481. $75,000 One of the Rarest American Color Plate Books 89. [LEWIS, James Otto]. [The Aboriginal Portfolio]. [Philadelphia]: [1835-36]. First edition. Folio. Contemporary half red morocco over cloth boards. Overall a fine copy housed in a half morocco clamshell. HBS 65418. $100,000 First Edition In Publisher's Original Tree Sheep 90. LEWIS, Meriwether & William CLARK. History of the Expedition under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark to the Sources of the Missouri, thence across the Rocky Mountains and down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean. Performed during the Years 1804-5-6. Philadelphia: Bradford and Inskeep, 1814. First edition. Two octavo volumes. Original publisher's tree sheep. Housed together in a custom quarter red morocco clamshell case. Grolier, 100 American, 30. Howes L317. Printing and the Mind of Man 272. HBS 66749. $185,000

Signed by Charles A. Lindbergh 91. LINDBERGH, Charles A.. The Spirit of St. Louis. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1953. Presentation edition, signed by Lindbergh on limitation leaf. This copy being number 449. Octavo. Original burgundy cloth stamped in silver. Illustrated endpapers. Previous owner's signature on publisher's advertisement page. About fine. HBS 67298. $2,000 Profusely Illustrated with Woodcuts 92. [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, 1533. Fourth German edition. Four parts in one folio volume. Contemporary pigskin over beveled wooden boards. Overall a very good copy. HBS 66909. $6,000 Second Edition with Large Additions. An Exceptionally Clean Copy 93. LOCKE, John. An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. In Four Books. The Second Edition, with large Additions. London: Printed for Awnsham and John Churchill, 1694. Second edition. Folio in fours. Contemporary blind-paneled calf with corner devices, expertly rebacked with original spine compartments laid down. Overall, an exceptionally clean copy of this classic. HBS 67049. $5,000 First Collected Edition of Locke s " Letters Concerning Toleration" 94. LOCKE, John. Letters Concerning Toleration. London: Printed for A. Millar, 1765. First collected edition of Locke s four letters on toleration. Quarto. Bound to style in full modern calf for front board (matching rear board) and spine. With the contemporary rear board still present.. Overall a very good copy. HBS 67041. $6,000 First Collected Edition of Locke's Writings on the Fundamentals of Economics 95. LOCKE, John. Several Papers Relating to Money, Interest and Trade, &c.. Writ upon several Occasions, and Published at different Times. London: Printed for A. and J. Churchill, 1696. First collected edition of Locke's important writings on the fundamentals of economics. Small octavo Contemporary full speckled calf, rebacked to style. Overall avery good copy. HBS 66981. $11,000 Some Thoughts Concerning Education 96. LOCKE, John. Some Thoughts Concerning Education. London: Printed for A. and J. Churchill, at the Black Swan in Pater-Noster Row, 1693. First edition. Octavo. Contemporary calf, expertly rebacked at an early date preserving the original spine. HBS 66451. $9,000 The First Edition of Jack London s Greatest Novel, In Un-restored Dust Jacket 97.LONDON, Jack. The Call of the Wild. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1903. First edition. Octavo Original vertically ribbed green cloth, In the original un-restored, dark grey printed dust jacket. An excellent copy in the un-restored dust jacket of this scarce first edition. HBS 66717. $10,000 The First English Edition In Contemporary Vellum 98. MACHIAVELLI, Niccolò. [BEDINGFELD, Thomas,translator]. The Florentine Historie. London: T.C. [Thomas Creede] For W.P. [William Ponsonby], 1595. First English edition. Quarto in sixes. Full contemporary vellum. Overall a very good copy in a contemporary binding. Housed in a custom full morocco clamshell. HBS 67228. $10,000 The Economics of Population 99. MALTHUS, T[homas] R[obert]. An Essay on the Principle of Population; London: Printed for J. Johnson... by T. Bensley, 1803. Second edition, enlarged and revised. Quarto. Contemporary calf, skillfully rebacked to style and with corners renewed. Overall very good. Printing and the Mind of Man 251. HBS 65276. $6,500 First Edition of Chairman Mao s Little Red Book In Red Vinyl 100. MAO, Zedong. Mao zhuxi yulu [in Chinese]. [Quotations of Chairman Mao]. [N.p. (probably Beijing): Central Intelligence Bureau of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, [May 1964]. First edition, first state, Variant binding b in full red vinyl textured plastic, incised with the title and a star, being a separate protective jacket where stiff plain white cardboard covers are inserted adjacent to a linen backed spine with sewn head and tailbands. A bit of foxing, otherwise very good. In a black cloth clamshell case. HBS 67283. $9,500 The Modern Age of British Economics 101. MARSHALL, Alfred. Principles of Economics. Vol. I. [all published]. London: Macmillan and Co., 1890. Scarce first edition. Octavo (8 11/16 x 5 1/2 inches). xxviii, 754, [2, publisher s catalogue] pp. Original dark green diaper-grain cloth with covers ruled in blind and spine ruled and lettered in gilt. Otherwise, a very good copy of a book that is almost always found rebound. HBS 64509. $7,500 With Ten Original Prints, Signed by the Artists and Signed by the Author 102. 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. A very good copy.hbs 66921. $3,500 One of 350 Copies, Signed by the Author and Illustrator 103. MILNE, A[lan] A[lexander]. Winnie-the-Pooh. With decorations by Ernest H. Shepard. London: Methuen & Co., [1926]. First edition. One of 350 copies on handmade paper, signed by the author and illustrator. Small quarto. Original quarter dark blue cloth over light blue boards with printed paper label on front cover, dust jacket. Edges uncut. Some off-setting to endpapers from dust-jacket as usual. Otherwise, a near fine copy. HBS 67293. $10,000

The Extremely Scarce First Edition of the First Dictionary Printed in the Americas 104. MOLINA, Alfonso de. Aqui comienca vn vocabula- rio enla lengua Castellana y Mexicana. Compuesto por el muy reuerendo padre fray Alonso de Molina: Guardia d'l coueto d' sant Antonio d' Tetzcuco d'la orde delos frayles Menores. Mexico: Juan Pablos, 1555. First edition of the first dictionary printed in the Americas and one of the earliest secular books printed in America. Complete. Full 19th-century sheep with the gilt supralibros of the arms of Charles, third earl of Ashburnham on front and back covers.. Overall an extremely nice copy, internally very clean and complete. Housed in a custom quarter sheep over marbled boards clamshell. HBS 67017. $350,000 Fourth Edition of Sir Thomas More s Utopia 105. 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, November-December 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. Full eighteenth century English tree calf. Overall a very good copy. Housed in a quarter morocco clamshell. HBS 66906. $45,000 A Beautiful Copy of the First Guide to Yosemite, With Twenty Photographs by Muybridge. 106. [MUYBRIDGE, E.J., photographer]. HITTELL, John S.. Yosemite: Its Wonders and Its Beauties. With Information Adapted to the Wants of Tourists About to Visit the Valley...Illustrated with Twenty Photographic Views Taken by "Helios," [Edweard J. Muybridge] and a Map of the Valley. San Francisco: H. H. Bancroft and Company, 1868. First edition of the first guide to Yosemite. Publisher s original green cloth over beveled boards. Plate 13 with very minor traces of adhesion. Due to the mounting, pages are slightly warped, as usual. A near fine copy with no traces of foxing and very bright photographs. HBS 64813. $32,500 First Edition, Complete with All Engraved Plates 107. NIEUHOFF, Jan. OGILBY, John, [translator]. An Embassy from the East-India company of the United Provinces to the Grand Tartar Cham, Emperor of China. Translated and Illustrated by John Ogilby. London: Printed for John Macock for the Author, 1669. First edition. Tall folio volume. Contemporary mottled calf boards, rebacked preserving an earlier spine label. Pages lightly age toned, the occasional spot of foxing or soiling, but in general, an excellent, authentic copy. HBS 67036 $20,000 First Edition Of The First Known Autobiography Of A Magician, Printed in America 108. [OEHLER, Andrew]. The Life, Adventures, and Unparalleled Sufferings of Andrew Oehler. Containing an account of his travels through France, Italy, the East and West Indies and part of the United States; his imprisonment in France, Germany and Spain: and the latitude, soil, climate, productions, manners and customs of the different countries. [Trenton, NJ]: Printed for the Author, 1811. First edition. Twelvemo. Contemporary full American tree-calf. Overall a near fine copy. HBS 67197. $5,000 "The Textbook Of Radical Thought And The Clearest Of All Expositions Of The Basic Principles Of Democracy" Printing and the Mind of Man 109. PAINE, Thomas. Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution. London: Printed for J.S. Jordon, 1791. First edition, second issue (which is first available), with "Jordan" imprint and added preface. Octavo, in fours [Bound together with] BURKE, Edmund. Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to That Event. In a Letter Intended to Have Been Sent to a Gentleman in Paris. London: Printed for J. Dodsley, 1791. Ninth edition of Burke s controversial attack on the French Revolution. Two titles bound together in nineteenth-century brown textured cloth. Overall a very good copy. Printing and the Mind of Man, 241. HBS 67174. $6,000 Second Edition of Plato's Opera and First Obtainable Edition 110. PLATO. Opera.Venice: Bernardinus de Choris and Simon de Luere for Andreas Torresanus, August, 13 1491. [And:] FICINO, Marsilio. Platonica theologia de immortalitate animorum. Venice: 13 August 1491. Second edition of the works of Plato. Folio. Early 20th century Zaehnsdorf binding of quarter speckled calf over marbled boards,. Overall, a very clean and handsome copy of the second edition and first obtainable edition of Plato's Opera. PMM 27. HBS 66374. $50,000 A Cornerstone of Western Philosophy and Political Thought First Edition in English of Plato's 'Republic' 111. PLATO. The Republic of Plato. In Ten Books. Translated From the Greek by H. Spens. With a Preliminary Discourse Concerning the Philosophy of the Ancients By the Translator. Glasgow: Robert & Andrew Foulis, 1763. First Edition in English of the greatest of Plato's dialogues. Quarto Full contemporary calf, rebacked to style.. Overall a very nice copy. HBS 67071. $10,000 One of 250 Copies Signed by Cole Porter In a Beautiful Binding 112. PORTER, Cole. Red Hot and Blue. A Musical Comedy. New York: Random House, 1936. First edition. Limited to 300 numbered copies, of which this is one of 250 copies for sale, signed by Cole Porter. This is copy number 7. Large quarto. Custom bound in red, white, and blue morocco, (emulating the original silk binding) by Richard Smith of the Old English Bindery.HBS 67337. $4,500 A Fine Copy of the Only Published Signed Limited Beatrix Potter Book, In Dust Jacket 113. POTTER, Beatrix. The Fairy Caravan. Philadelphia: David McKay Company, [1929]. Autographed Edition. Limited to 100 numbered copies, signed by Beatrix Potter, this being number 77. This is the first edition, precedeing the English edition which was not signed. Small quarto Original dark green cloth with color pictorial label on front cover. Overall an about fine copy of this notoriously rare book in the very good jacket. HBS 66660. $10,000

First Collected Edition of Ptolemy 114. PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius. Omnia quæ extant, Opera Basel: Heinrich Petri, 1541. First Collected Edition. Folio. Contemporary vellum with yapp edges, brown morocco gilt spine label. Overall, a very good copy. HBS 66511. $15,000 The First Complete Edition in English of Rabelais's Works 115. RABELAIS, François. The Whole Works. In Two Volumes. London: James Woodward, 1708. First complete edition in English, containing all five books. Two octavo volumes. Contemporary speckled calf, spines with raised bands and black morocco gilt lettering labels, edges sprinkled red. Overall, a very good copy in a wonderful contemporary binding of Rabelais's famous and entertaining satire on French society in the early days of the Renaissance. HBS 66941. $3,750 Original Watercolor Drawing from "The Allies' Fairy Book" and used as the frontispiece for the Hamilton biography 116. RACKHAM, Arthur, [artist]. "Cesarino and the Dragon". London: 1916. Original fine pen and ink and watercolor from "The Allies' Fairy Book." Measures 250 x 192 mm. Signed and dated 'ARackham 1916' on lower left corner. HBS 67321. $35,000 One of 250 Signed Copies 117. [RACKHAM, Arthur, illustrator]. IRVING, Washington. Rip Van Winkle. London: Heinemann, 1905. Edition de Luxe. Limited to 250 copies, numbered and signed by the artist, of which this is number 145. Large quarto. 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. HBS 67000. $6,500 Limited Edition of The Wind in the Willows 118. [RACKHAM, Arthur, illustrator]. GRAHAME, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows. Introduction by A.A. Milne. London: Methuen & Co., [1951]. First English Rackham edition. Limited to 500 numbered copies, printed on handmade paper, of which this is number 207. Large quarto. Original full white calf, gilt-stamped on spine, top edge gilt, others uncut. HBS 67070. $2,500 Ricardo s Bullion Plan Inscribed by the Author (?) 119. RICARDO, David. Proposals for an Economical and Secure Currency; with Observations on the Profits of the Bank of England, as They Regard the Public and the Proprietors of Bank Stock. London: Printed for John Murray, 1816. First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author (?) on the half-title: From the Author. Octavo. Modern antique-style calf. Occasional light foxing. Housed in a custom full brown morocco clamshell, gilt-stamped.hbs 66874. $15,000 Limited to Twelve Copies Printed on Vellum 120. [RICCARDI PRESS]. Everyman. A Morality Play. Illustrated After Drawing By John H. Amschewitz London: Philip Lee Warner, 1911. Limited to twelve copies printed on vellum, of which only ten were for sale, this being number two. Full limp vellum with yapp edges. Front cover and spine lettered in gilt. Duplicate set of plates individually chemised. Overall a very good copy. HBS 65511. $4,500 First Edition of Rousseau's Early Work on Equality 121. ROUSSEAU, Jean[-]Ja[c]ques. Discours sur l'origine et les fondemens de l'inegalité parmi les hommes. Amsterdam: Chez Marc Michel Rey, 1755. First (original) edition, distinguishable from the counterfeit editions by the signatures on frontsipiece and the spelling, "Jaques," on p. lii. Small octavo. Contemporary French mottled calf. Overall a very good copy. HBS 67322. $2,250 First Edition in Original Wrappers 122. [SAGE, Rufus B.] Scenes in the Rocky Mountains, and in Oregon, California, New Mexico, Texas, and the Grand Prairies...Philadelphia: Carey & Hart, 1846. First edition without author's name on title-page (later editions contain author's name on the title-page). Twelvemo. In original yellow printed wrappers. With the very rare folding map, usually lacking. Chemised and housed in a quarter red slipcase. [Together with]: An Autograph Letter Signed. 1 page, New York, October 20 1845 Written by "F.Saunders" to Sage, informing him that Harper & Brothers will not be able to publish Scenes in the Rocky Mountains. HBS 65224. $16,500 With Fifty-Four Fine Hand-Colored Engraved Plates 123. SAY, Thomas. American Entomology, or Descriptions of the Insects of North America. Illustrated by Coloured Figures from Original Drawings Executed from Nature. Philadelphia: Published by Samuel Augustus Mitchell, 1824-1828. First edition. Three octavo volumes Uncut in the original pink paper over boards with green paper backstrip and pink printed paper spine labels. Overall a very nice set in the original binding with most of the text and plates crisp and fine. HBS 67328. $7,500 An Extremely Tall Copy of the Nuremberg Chronicle, The Most Extensively Illustrated Book of the Fifteenth Century 124. [SCHEDEL, Hartmann. Liber chronicarum. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger for Sebald Schreyer and Sebastian Kammermeister, 12 July 1493]. First edition, precceding the German language edition by just over 5 months. Large folio Sixteenth-century calf over wooden boards, neatly rebacked, retaining the original spine. Overall a very good, unusually clean copy and an extremely tall copy of a book which is seldom found so close to its original uncut size. Housed in a custom clamshell, gilt-stamped. HBS 66592. $125,000 First Edition in Original Boards 125. SCHOPENHAUER, Arthur. Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung:vier Bucher, nebst einem anhange, der die Kritik der Kantischen Philosophie enthalt. Leipzig: Brockhaus, 1819. First edition of Schopenhauer's principle work The World as Will and Idea. One of 750 copies, many of which were later destroyed by the publisher. Housed in a full mococco clamshell. Overall a very good copy. HBS 65775. $28,500

First Edition, Presentation Copy 126. SEYMOUR, Henry. MARX, Karl. The Fallacy of Marx's Theory of Surplus-Value. London: Murdoch & Co., 1897. First edition, presentation copy. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper. Octavo. We can find no copy other than present copy at auction in the past 50 years. Original maroon pebble-grain cloth. Overall a very good copy. HBS 67318. $2,000 Shakespeare's Rare 'Pericles' 127. SHAKESPEARE, William. The Late, and much admired Play, called Pericles, Prince of Tyre. With the True Relation of the Whole History, Adventures and Fortunes of the Said Prince. London: Thomas Cotes, 1635. Sixth edition. Octavo in fours. Full twentieth century red morocco. HBS 65236 $60,000 First Book to Use a Shakespeare Quote 128. [SHAKESPEARE, William.] [D URFEY, Thomas, attributed]. Pendragon; Or The Carpet Knight His Kalendar. London: Printed for John Newton, 1698. First edition. Octavo. Full speckled calf, rebacked to style. Overall a very nice copy in a quarter red morocco over cloth clamshell case. HBS 64608. $2,000 A Leaf from Each of Shakespeare s Four Folios 129. [SHAKESPEARE, William.] Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: A Leaf from Each of the Four Folios]. [London: 1623, 1632, 1664, 1685]. Four leaves, housed together in a folding paper portfolio. A wonderful addition to any Shakespeare collection. HBS 66789. $2,850 First Illustrated & First Octavo Edition, With the Seventh Volume of the "Poems" 130. SHAKESPEAR[E], William. The Works of Mr. William Shakespear; in Six Volumes. Adorn d with cuts. Revis d and corrected, with an account of the life and writings of the author. By N. Rowe, Esq. London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, 1709. [Together with:] SHAKESPEAR[E], William. The Works of Mr. William Shakespear. Volume the seventh. London: Printed for E. Curll, 1710. First illustrated edition, first octavo edition. Together seven octavo volumes, uniformly bound in early 19th century tree calf. Overall a very handsome set. Chemised and housed in two uniform cloth slipcases. HBS 67113. $25,000 First Edition In Contemporary Boards, Uncut 131. SMITH, Adam. Essays on Philosophical Subjects. To Which is Prefixed, an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author; by Dugald Stewart London: Printed for T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies, etc., 1795. First edition. Quarto. Contemporary boards, rebacked. Overall, a very good, large paper copy, totally uncut. HBS 66518. $10,000 A Contradictory Complement to Smith s Wealth of Nations 132. [SMITH, Adam]. [GRAY, John]. The Essential Principles of the Wealth of Nations, Illustrated, in Opposition to Some False Doctrines of Dr. Adam Smith, and Others. London: Printed for T. Becket, 1797. First edition. Octavo Original drab boards, rebacked with newer pale blue cloth. Overall a very nice copy. HBS 67065. $3,500 The First and Greatest Classic of Modern Economic Thought A Beautiful Clean Copy of Adam Smith's "Wealth of Nations" 133. SMITH, Adam. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. London: Printed for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell, 1776. First edition. Two large quarto volumes. Bound in contemporary mottled calf. Overall a very clean, near fine set. Housed in a full tree calf clamshell, elaborately embellished in gilt. Grolier, 100 English, 57. Printing and the Mind of Man 221. HBS 65988 $185,000 First Edition of the Most Important American Religious Work 134. SMITH, Joseph. The Book of Mormon: An Account Written by the Hand of Mormon, upon Plates taken from the Plates of Nephi. By Joseph Smith, Junior, Author and Proprietor. Palmyra, [New York]: Printed by E.B. Grandin, for the Author, 1830. First edition, first issue, Octavo. Original full sheep, rebacked preserving the original spine. Aside from a bit of spotting at the end, a very good copy, lightly cleaned and pressed. Housed in a custom full green morocco clamshell, gilt-stamped. HBS 67210. $80,000 The First Collected Edition of Spenser s Works and First Folio Edition 135. SPENSER, Edmund. The Faerie Queen: The Shepherds 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, 1611. Folio. Beautifully bound by Riviere in full cherry red straight grain morocco, a very good and solid copy in an appropriate binding. HBS 66412. $7,500 Spinoza s Most Important Book: An Exploration of the Separation of Religion and Philosophy 136. SPINOZA, Benedict de. Tractatus theologico-politicus. Hamburg: Henricum Künrath, 1670 [i.e., Amsterdam: Printed by Christoffel Conrad for Jan Rieuwertsz, ca. 1672 or later]. First edition, although not the virtually unobtainable first issue. Small quarto Contemporary gilt-decorated red paper boards, somewhat worn and soiled. Overall a very good, unsophisticated copy, scarce in such a fragile and lovely contemporary binding. Housed in a custom quarter black morocco clamshell, gilt-stamped on spine. HBS 66473. $12,500

A Wonderful Collection of Exquisite, Highly-Detailed Original Drawings for Stanley's 'In Darkest Africa' 137. STANLEY, Henry M. [association]. RIOU, Edouard [artist]. [Collection of five original pencil, pen and ink and gray wash drawings on tinted paper or wooden blocks, from In Darkest Africa]. [N.p.: n.d., circa1890]. Each drawing measures 6 3/8 x 4 1/8 inches; 162 x 105mm. Each is either drawn on a wooden block or the paper is mounted on a wooden block, glazed and held together with black tape. Housed in a full morocco clamshell case. Case spine lettered in gilt. Case with respective prints of the drawings, chemised and housed with the blocks. Overall an excellent collection. HBS 65227. $13,500 Signed by John Steinbeck 138. STEINBECK, John. East of Eden. New York: The Viking Press, 1952. First edition. Limited to 1,500 copies, signed by the author. Octavo. Original green cloth lettered in gilt on front cover and stamped in gilt and brown on spine. Edges stained red. An unusually bright and fine copy of this title. Housed in original slipcase (slightly rubbed at extremities and beginning to crack on top). Housed in a custom blue cloth chemise and slipcase, paper label mounted on spine. HBS 67310. $3,000 Publisher's Presentation Copy of A First Edition of "A Child s Garden of Verses," 139. STEVENSON, Robert Louis. A Child s Garden of Verses. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1885. First edition, first issue. Small octavo. Original peacock blue cloth over beveled boards. Previous owner's inscription on half-title. Endpapers very toned. A very good copy. HBS 67319. $2,500 True First Edition of "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" in the Scarce Original Wrappers 140. STEVENSON, Robert Louis. Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Authorized Edition. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1886. First edition. (This American edition preceded the English edition by four days, but used the Longmans sheets). Small octavo. Original printed yellow wrappers, just slightly skewed. A nice copy of a book that usually shows up in poor condition. Housed in a black cloth clamshell case with black morocco labels lettered in gilt on spine. HBS 67112. $7,500 An Exceptional First Edition of "Treasure Island" 141. STEVENSON, Robert Louis. Treasure Island. London: Cassell & Company, 1883. First edition, first issue. Original sage green diagonal fine-ribbed cloth with covers ruled in blind and spine ruled and lettered in gilt. Near fine. Housed in a red cloth clamshell. HBS 67099. $25,000 First Edition of Uncle Tom s Cabin in the Original Cloth 142. STOWE, Harriet Beecher. Uncle Tom s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly. Boston: John P. Jewett & Company, 1852. First edition, first printing, Original brown fine-ribbed cloth (BAL binding B). Individually chemised and housed together in a quarter brown morocco slipcase. Grolier, 100 American, 61. Grolier, 100 English, 91. Printing and the Mind of Man 332. HBS 67107. $4,500 Gulliver's Travels, Beautifully Bound by Morrell 143. SWIFT, Jonathan. Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In four parts. London: Printed for Benj. Motte, 1726-1727. Mixed Edition, Volume I is first edition, Teerink issue B with the continuous pagination, Volume II second edition. Volume II title-page dated 1727 and with the edition statement that reads "The Second Edition, Corrected." Beautifully bound by Morrell, London for Thomas W. Best in full green-blue 19th-century morocco. Overall a beautiful set. Grolier, 100 English, 42. Printing and the Mind of Man 185. HBS 67307 $4,000 First Edition of Gulliver's Travels 144. [SWIFT, Jonathan]. Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In four parts. By Lemuel Gulliver London: Printed for Benj. Motte, 1726. First edition, Teerink s State A. Contemporary speckled calf, rebacked. Overall a very good copy. Grolier, 100 English, 42. Printing and the Mind of Man 185. HBS 67333. $60,000 One of the Most Important Texts in Political Literature 145. TOCQUEVILLE, Alexis de. De la démocratie en Amérique, par Alexis de Tocqueville, avocat à la cour royale de Paris, l un des auteurs du livre intitulé: Du système penitentiaire aux États-Unis. Orné d'une carte d Amérique. Paris: Librairie de Charles Gosselin, 1835-1840. First edition uniformly bound in four volumes by De Vauchelle in modern antique-style quarter black calf over marbled boards. Expertly cleaned. A wonderful copy. HBS 66474. $40,000 First Edition in English of War and Peace 146. TOLSTOY, Leo. War and Peace. A Historical Novel. Translated into French by a Russian Lady and from the French by Clara Bell. Revised and Corrected in the United States. New York: William S. Gottsberger, 1886. First edition in English, first printing. Original dark brown cloth, housed in a custom tan open ended cloth slipcase. Overall a very nice copy. HBS 67130. $12,500 The Foundation of Modern Computer Science "The Turing Machine" 147. TURING, Alan Mathison. On Computable Numbers. London: London Mathematical Society, 1936. In Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society. 2nd Series, Vol. 42, part 3 pp. 230-240; Vol. 42, part 4 pp. 241-265; Vol. 43, part 7 First edition. Small quarto. A fine copy, very rare. HBS 67339. $22,500 First American of the Blue Cloth Edition of Huck Finn, Early Issue 148. TWAIN, Mark. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer s Comrade). With one hundred and seventy-four illustrations. New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885. First American edition, early issue, In the publisher s rare blue cloth. Minor rubbing to corners and extremities, especially on top and bottom of spine. Occasional minor soiling. An excellent copy. Grolier, 100.HBS 67093. $12,500

"The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" In Publisher's Scarce Half Morocco 149. TWAIN, Mark. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Hartford, Conn.: The American Publishing Company, 1876. First American edition, second printing, issue A. Bound in publisher s quarter brown morocco over brown cloth. Overall, a very good copy of this scarce edition. Only 200 were published in half morocco. HBS 67150. $6,000 Rare in Wrappers 150. TWAIN, Mark. Mark Twain s Memoranda. From the Galaxy. Toronto: The Canadian News and Publishing Company, 1871. First edition. An unauthorized publication. Original printed wrappers. A very good copy of a title that is rare in wrappers. Chemised in a custom full brown cloth clamshell. HBS 67158. $2,000 The First California Text-Book in English 151. URCULLU, Jose de. The California Text-Book: Containing a grammar of the Spanish language in English; of the English in Spanish conversational dialogues in both languages, and a full description of California. Drawn chiefly from the grammar of Don Jose de Urcullu and the United States Surveys. San Francisco: Marvin & Hitchcock, 1852. First edition of the earliest school book published in California. Twelvemo. Overall, a very good copy of this fragile and rare item. HBS 66585. $2,500 "One Of The Most Provocative Books Written By An American Intellectual": First Edition Of Veblen's Landmark Theory Of The Leisure Class 152. VEBLEN, Thorstein. The Theory of the Leisure Class. An Economic Study in the Evolution of Institutions. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1899. First edition of the author s first book and one of the masterpieces of American social thought and economic theory. Octavo Original dark green cloth. Overall a very good copy. Housed in a full green morocco clamshell. HBS 66008. $4,000 A Special Copy With More Photos Than Any Other Known Copy 153. VISCHER, [Edward]. Pictorial of California. San Francisco: Joseph Winterburn & Co., 1870-1872.First edition, later and best issue with nearly double the amounts of plates of the first issue. Large quarto. With 209 photographs on 202 plates. Publisher's beautiful deluxe binding by Bartling and Kimball of San Francisco, full black morocco, with raised center panels on both boards. Near fine. [Together with]: [Text]: Small quarto. Verse from "California" printed in gold ink. Uniformly bound with album using black pebbled cloth over beveled boards. Near fine. [Together with]: [Mission Supplement]: VISCHER, Edward. Missions of Upper California, 1872. Notes on the California Missions, A Supplement To Vischer's Pictorial Of California, Dedicated To Its Patrons. San Francisco: Winterburn & Co., 1872. Octavo. Some very light foxing to wrappers, otherwise near fine.hbs 64760. $35,000 An Early Copy of the Most Popular Dominican Work, with a Provenance from a Great Dominican Convent 154. VORAGINE, Jacobus de. Legenda aurea. Italy (Venice?): 1300. Illuminated manuscript on vellum. Small quarto. Nineteenth-century limp vellum, with yapp edges. Housed in a full morocco clamshell. HBS 65438. $150,000 Signed By Tennessee Williams 155. WILLIAMS, Tennessee. Cat On a Hot Tin Roof. [New York]: New Directions, 1955. First edition, first issue Signed by Tennessee Williams on front free endpaper. Octavo. Full tan cloth, stamped in black on spine, dust jacket. Jacket price-clipped with some minor wear to extremities and the tiniest of chipping to bottom of spine. Overall, a very good copy. HBS 67314. $3,500 The Philadelphia Edition of "American Ornithology;. or, the Natural History of the Birds of the United States" 156. WILSON, Alexander. BONAPARTE, Charles Lucian. American Ornithology;. Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, 1871.Three super-royal octavo volumes (measuring 257 x 163 mm.) and two atlas volumes bound in one folio volume (measuring 424 x 325 mm). Publisher's half brown morocco over marbled paper boards, gilt-stamped spines with five raised bands, all edges gilt. Overall, an excellent set with very clean plates and text. HBS 66956. $15,000 First Edition of Wing's Two Sermons on the Virtues of a Good Wife 157. WING, John. The Crowne Conivgall or, the Spouse Royall. A Discovery of the True Honor and Happines of Christian Matrimony. Published for their Consolation Who are Married, and their Encouragement Who Are Not, Intending the Benefit of Both. Middelburgh: John Hellenius, 1620. First edition. Small quarto. Nineteenth century half calf over marbled boards. Overall a very good copy. HBS 66725. $4,000 Second Edition, Printed The Same Year As The First Edition Of One Of The Most Rare French Astrological Works 158. [YVES DE PARIS]. Astrologiae Nova Methodus Francisci Allaei Arabis Christiani. -Fatum universi observatum. -Disceptatio P. Ivonis Parisini Capuc [Paris]: 1654. Second edition, printed the same year as the first edition of one of the most rare French astrological works. Three volumes in one folio volume. Contemporary full vellum with 17 volvelles. Overall a very good copy of the rare book. With a hand-typed supplement in German, laid in. HBS 67316. $7,500

Item #. 122 [SAGE, Rufus B.] Scenes in the Rocky Mountains, and in Oregon, California, New Mexico, Texas, and the Grand Prairies...