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Yesterday’s Muse Books AUGUST 2015 CATALOG 2 1. [Americana; Agriculture] Map Showing the Location of the Butter and the Cheese Factories in the State of New York, U.S.A., 1899 The Commission of Agriculture of the State of New York, 1899. Large folded map in hardcover boards with string tie at fore-edge. Very good. Minor bookworm hole to top corner which appears as minor loss along a couple creases when map is unfolded. 2. [Americana; Native Americans] Seaver, James Everett; Letchworth, Wm. [William] Pryor A Narrative of the Life of Mary Jemison: De-He-Wa-Mis, The White Woman of the $125 Genesee - Sixth Edition, with Geographical and Explanatory Notes and Appendix... Numerous Illustrations, Further Particulars of the History of De-he-wa-mis, and Other Interesting Matter Collected and Arranged G.P. Putnam’s Sons / The Knickerbocker Press, New York, 1898. Sixth edition. 300 pp. 8vo. Early edition of the famous biography of Mary Jemison, with additional material collected and arranged by William Pryor Letchworth, after whom the large state park is named. This edition includes the introduction from the 1842 edition revised by William Seaver, a new preface by Letchworth, a frontispiece of Mary Jemison, and 20 engraved plates in text. The original edition was published in 1824 (Howes S-263: ‘One of the most authentic and interesting of captivity narratives, told by one who spent a long life among $75 the Senecas and was the first white woman to descend the Ohio.’), and quickly republished in London in 1826 (Sabin 78678, Church 1334: ‘This well written narrative, purporting to be only the biography of a captive among the Senecas, is really the best resume we have of incidents in the history and common life of the Seneca Indians. Its truthfulness is vouched for by such veracious testimony as that of Eli Parker, an educated chief of that nation, though its authenticity can scarcely have greater corroboration than the fact that Mr. Seaver received almost the whole mass of incidents narrated in his book, directly from the lips of the aged captive herself. - FIELD. Forty years had passed since the close of the revolutionary war, and almost seventy years had seen Mrs. Jemison with the Indians, when Daniel W. Banister, Esq., at the instance of several gentlemen, and prompted by his own ambition to add something to the accumulating fund of useful knowledge, resolved, in the autumn of 1823, to embrace that time, while she was capable of recollecting and reciting the scenes through which she had passed to collect from herself, and to publish to the world, an accurate account of her life. - Introduction, p. viii. At this time Mrs. Jemison was about eighty years of age, and was living in the neighborhood of Genesee River, about four miles from Castile, New York, to which place she went on foot to meet the author and his publisher and tell the story of her life.’). Very good. Boards lightly soiled, front hinge just starting, pencil name on front endpaper. 3. [Americana; Native Americans] Smith, James H.; Cale, Hume H. History of Livingston County, New York, with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers. [1687-1881] D. Mason & Co., Syracuse, 1881. First edition. 490, xxiv pp. History of Livingston County, closely following the earliest account, which was written in 1876. Includes historical data from prehistoric periods; information about the Iroquois Confed- eracy, early colonists and conflicts between imperial forces, the Senecas, Jesuit missions, Holland Purchase and Morris’s Reserve, etc. Also includes biographical sketches of various citizens. Very good. Professionally rebacked with new brown leather backstrip. Front & $225 end matter & plate pages lightly foxed, ink name on title page (No 42 Div A, R.J. Menzie) corresponding to owner bookplate on front endpaper. Menzie was a physician and surgeon in Caledonia, NY. 4. [Americana] Doty, Lockwood R.; Fairchild, Herman LeRoy; Parker, Arthur Caswell; Booth, Arthur Woodward; Milliken, Charles F.; Thornton, Lewis H.; Oldfield, Reuben B. History of the Genesee Country (Western New York), in Four Volumes: $400 Comprising the Counties of Allegany, Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Chemung, Erie, Genesee, Livingston, Monroe, Niagara, Ontario, Orleans, Schuyler, To order or inquire, call 585-265-9295, e-mail [email protected], or visit www.websterbookstore.com 3 Steuben, Wayne, Wyoming and Yates. The S.J. Clarke Publishing Company, Chicago, 1925. First edition. xii, 1463; 956; 968 pp. (first two volumes paginated continuously). Illustrated throughout with plates and maps. An extensive historical account of western New York by the judge whose father wrote the first histories of Livingston County. Very good. Minor repairs to front hinge of first volume. 5. [Anthropology; Mythology] Campbell, Joseph Historical Atlas of World Mythology, in Five Volumes -- Volume I: The Way of the Animal Powers, Parts 1 & 2: Mythologies of the Primitive Hunters and Gatherers; Mythologies of the Great Hunt; and Volume II: The Way of the Seeded Earth, Parts 1-3: The Sacrifice; Mythologies of the Primitive Planters: The Northern Americas; Mythologies of the Primitive Planters: The Middle and Southern Americas SOLD Harper & Row, 1989. Near fine. Second volume still in plastic wrap. Complete in five hardcover volumes. Color and black & white photographs and illustrations throughout. “...a multi-volume series of books by Joseph Campbell that traces developments in humankind’s mythological symbols and stories from pre-history forward. Campbell is perhaps best known as a comparativist who focused on universal themes and motifs in human culture. He first conceived of The Historical Atlas in the late 1970s as an extension of his works, The Mythic Image and The Masks of God. Like those books, The Historical Atlas of World Mythology intended to show the ways in which those universal themes and motifs were expressed differently by different cultures in different times and places. Heavily illustrated and annotated, with numerous charts and maps to show both variations and similarities in different cultures’ expressions of mythic themes, this series was intended to serve both academic and lay readers. The Historical Atlas was left partially complete when Campbell died in 1987.” 6. [Bicycles; Vintage Advertising] Rennert, Jack 100 Years of Bicycle Posters Darien House/Harper & Row, Publishers, 1973. First edition - a paperback original. 112 pp. 15 1/4 x 11. Beautiful book of bicycle posters, including work by renowned artists such as Jean-Louis Forain, Eugene-Samuel Grasset, Will H. Bradley (who designed covers for Harper’s Bazaar, Harper’s Weekly, The Chap-Book, etc.), H. Gray (known for his bawdy, sensual style), Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (great French painter & bicycle fan), Georges Gaudy, Georges- Alfred Bottini, W.S. Rogers, O’Galop (especially notable because this poster is the first for Michelin, France’s leading manufacturer of tires), Paolo Henri, E. Celos, $120 Jules Cheret, Alphonse Mucha, Edward Penfield (another regular contributor to Harper’s Bazaar), George Moore, Plinio Codognato, Leonetto Cappiello, Louis Oury, J. Cardona, Daan Hoeksema, Hugo Koszler, Witold Janowski & many others. Great examples of the Art Nouveau style as well as posters with hints of then-cutting edge styles like Futurism, Constructivism, etc. Very good. Wrappers lightly soiled with a few light creases to corners. 7. [Cookery] A Lady [Rundell, Maria Eliza Ketelby] The Experienced American Housekeeper, or Domestic Cookery: Formed on Principles of Economy for the Use of Private Families. Hartford: Andrus & Judd, 1835. 216 pp. 12mo. An early edition of the work first published in 1827, which itself was a condensation of a larger work originally printed in 1807. Includes recipes for the preparation of food staples still enjoyed today, and others less commonly encountered such as calf’s head, forcemeat, mock brawn, ortolans, and woodcock. Includes a section on cooking for those suffering from illnesses. Fair. Includes plates 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9. Other copies we found noted a double-paged frontispiece and a folding plate, neither of which are present here. Front board and portions of spine absent, $350 engraved title page present but loose with loss from binding margin, rear joint cracked, top edge stained, foxed throughout. A scarce survival, but in need of restoration. 8. [Decorative Binding] Sheridan, Richard Brinsley School For Scandal New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1892. Limited large paper edition, #135 of 250 copies, hand-numbered in ink on colophon. 169 pp. 8vo. Cream cloth, elaborate gilt decorations & rules with silhouette cameo of Lady To order or inquire, call 585-265-9295, e-mail [email protected], or visit www.websterbookstore.com 4 Teazle in center of front board. A comedy in five acts. Includes color frontispiece and four color plates (content page refers to them as ‘aquarelles’), and 34 etchings. Good. Lacks one watercolor plate. Binding a bit shaken, spine toned, ink name & date on front endpaper, two contemporary handmade bookmarks laid in. 9. [Early Imprints] Laws of the State of Delaware, from the Second Day of January, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Ninety-Eight, to the Twenty-Fifth Day of January, One Thousand Eight Hundred and $125 Five. Volume III. Wilmington: M. Bradford and R. Porter, 1816. 113, [1] , 119-146, 151-399, [1], 5, [1] 30 pp. 8vo. Record of Delaware law detailing legislation in place relating to various topics, including: elections, slaves, commerce, property, medicine $350 and infectious diseases, militia, etc. Table of Private Acts follows text. Good. Boards rubbed & soiled with minor loss, endpaper edges lightly stained. 10. [Early Imprints] Edward, Earl of Clarendon The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641: With the Precedent Passages, and Actions, That Contributed Thereunto, and the Happy End, and Conclusion Thereof by the King’s Blessed Restoration, and Return upon the 29th of May, in the Year 1660.