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Catalogue 308

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William Reese Company 409 Temple Street New Haven, Connecticut 06511 USA Phone: 203.789.8081 Fax: 203.865.7653 Members ABAA and ILAB Cover Photographs: Kent, Rockwell: Thirty-One Albums of Original Prints of Photographs, Representing Kent’s Personal Archive of Images of His Excursions [ca. 1929 – 1960s]. p. 79 1. Ackermann, Rudolph [publisher]: A HISTORY OF OXFORD, ITS COLLEGES, HALLS AND PUBLIC BUILDINGS. London: Printed for R. Ackermann, 1814. Two volumes. Quarto. Contemporary calf, spines gilt extra, rebacked at an early date with the original backstrips laid down. Illustrated with 115 plates (including the 33 plates of the Founders) most of them colored aquatints. Upper joint of first volume cracked (but cords remain sound), extremities worn, some offset from plates, bound without the half-titles, 1820 inscription in each volume, followed by 1902 inscription from heir of original recipient, marginal discoloration to lower fore-tips of prelims to first volume, but a good set.

A later copy, on ordinary paper, including the portraits of the Founders (published in 1815) and the adjusted index to the plates. The frontis to the first volume is in the preferred state, with ‘Cambridge’ instead of ‘Oxford’, but several of the other key plates are in their later states. TOOLEY 5. ABBEY (SCENERY) 278-80. $3500.

Magnificent Color Plates

2. [Ackermann, Rudolph]: THE UPHOLSTERER’S AND CABINETMAKER’S REPOSITORY: CONSISTING OF SEVENTY-SIX DESIGNS OF MODERN AND FASHIONABLE FURNITURE; VIZ. CURTAINS, DRAPERIES, BEDS, CHAIRS, SOFAS, SEATS, OTTOMANS, SIDE- BOARDS, BOOK-CASES, SCREENS, WORK-TABLES, &c. &c. &c. DRAWN BY VARIOUS ARTISTS FROM REAL FURNITURE. London. [ca. 1830]. [2]pp. plus 76 leaves of beautifully handcolored engraved plates (one folding). Quarto. Contemporary three quarter sheep and boards, expertly rebacked in period-style sheep, spine gilt, original printed paper label on front cover. Old ink signature on front free endpaper. A fine copy.

A beautiful copy of this rare British color plate book, one of the most striking collections of examples of the Regency style in decorative arts. The plates, all in superb condition, depict with splendid color all manner of furniture designs. Some of the patent chair designs are quite fanciful. Many of the plates illustrate special library furniture, including chairs, tables, bookcases, etc. This work was originally issued in parts as an element in Ackermann’s Repository of Arts between 1809 and 1824. $7500.

Translations into Anglo-Saxon

3. [Aelfric, Abbot of Eynsham (trans)]: HEPTATEUCHUS, LIBER JOB, ET EVANGELIUM NICODEMI; ANGLO-SAXONICE. HISTORIÆ JUDITH FRAGMENTUM; DANO-SAXONICE. Oxoniæ [i.e. Oxford]: E Theatro Sheldoniano ... Typis Jvnianis, An. Dom 1698. [8],168,32pp. Large octavo. Quarter modern black morocco and marbled boards, raised bands, gilt label. Engraved frontis, headpiece, and initial. Top margins very occasionally a trace dusty, otherwise a very good, crisp copy.

First edition of this collection of translations into Anglo-Saxon of selections from the Old Testament and Apocrypha, edited by Edward Thwaites. The translations of the Heptateuch and Job are ascribed to Aelfric. The fine frontispiece and headpiece are the work of M. Bur- ghers. “Thwaites’s most important contribution to Anglo-Saxon studies was his 1698 edition of hitherto unedited parts of the Old Testament in Old English, including Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, and the book of Job, together with the apocryphal Judith and the Gospel of Nicodemus. ... Although some of his contemporaries criticized Thwaites’s edition — partly because it included apocryphal material, partly for its lack of a Latin translation and notes — it was for its time a ground-breaking enterprise and one that was not repeated until 1922, when S. J. Crawford edited the Heptateuch afresh, using a different base manuscript. Thwaites’s edition had been based on Bodleian MS Laud misc. 509, and his text was reprinted, with some emendations, by C. W. M. Grein in 1872. Thwaites dedicated his edition to George Hickes, at that time still proscribed as a nonjuror, and this caused some political embarrassment to the vice-chancellor, who threatened to suppress the edition unless Thwaites cut out the dedication. He bluntly refused — and prevailed” – DNB. ESTC R4371. WING B2198. DARLOW & MOULE 1606. $1750. 4. [Afghanistan]: Lal, Mohan: LIFE OF THE AMIR DOST MOHAMMED KHAN, OF KABUL: WITH HIS POLITICAL PROCEEDINGS TOWARDS THE ENGLISH, RUSSIAN, AND PER- SIAN GOVERNMENTS, INCLUDING VICTORY AND DISASTERS OF THE BRITISH ARMY IN AFGHANISTAN. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1846. Two volumes. xviii,[2],399; vii,[3],498pp. plus nineteen illustrations. Contemporary calf, gilt-tooled spines, red and green gilt morocco labels. Joints slightly worn. Ownership insignia on verso of front free endsheets, gift inscription on free endsheet of first volume. A very good, attractive set.

A biography of the Amir Dost Mohammed Khan, eloquently dedicated to Queen Victoria. An interesting Persian perspective of Mohammed Khan’s rule, intriguing for its eagerness to please British readers in light of recent conflicts between Persia and Great Britain. OCLC 3687402. $1000.

Alchemical Lexicon

5. [Alchemy]: Ruland, Martin, The Elder: LEXICON ALCHEMIAE, SIVE DICTIONARIUM ALCHEMISTICUM, CUM OBSCURIORUM VERBORUM, & RERUM HERMATICARUM, TUM THEOPHRAST – PARACELSICARUM PHRASIUM, PLANAM EXPLICATIONEM CONTI- NENS .... Frankfurt: Cura ac sumtibus Zachariae Palthenii, 1612. [4],471 [i.e. 487 (due to many errors in numbering in the late portion of the text)],[1 (blank)]pp. Small quarto. Slightly later plain full calf (visible waste sheets from an English astronomical gazette used in the binding are for the year 1635). Alchemical device on title, two marginal woodcuts, several tables (leaf M1 folded at fore-edge to accommodate the over extension of the table on that leaf). Crown of spine has shallow loss, bookplate scar on front pastedown, front free binder’s endsheet almost detached, text block considerably browned (as usual for this title), 3N4 has a short, clean tear in from the margin, some occasional marginal discoloration, occasional spotting; still, a good copy.

First edition of this very substantial lexicon, compiled by the physician to Emperor Rudolph II and lecturer at the gymnasium at Lauingen in Swabia. “He was in favor of Parcelsus’ reforms, but he dealt greatly in secret remedies, especially in emetics...” – Ferguson. “This lexicon is very full, less mystical and more practical than some later ones. Useful in explaining early terminology” – Bolton. DUVEEN, p. 520. FERGUSON II:302. BOLTON I:1041. $2000.

In Original Wrappers, Untrimmed

6. [Aldine Imprints]: Renouard, Antoine Augustine: ANNALES DE L’IMPRIMERIE DES ALDE, OU HISTOIRE DES TROIS MANUCE ET DE LEURS ÉDITIONS. Paris: Chez Jules Renouard, 1834. xvi,582,[6],lxviii,[4]pp. Large, thick octavo. Original drab wrappers, printed spine label, edges untrimmed. Two portraits. Three plates (one folding) and five folding facsimiles. Upper wrapper detached, with chipping along joints, single closed crack in spine, wrappers a bit darkened, offset from first portrait to title, otherwise an unusually nice copy in original state.

Third and best edition of the primary early history of the Manutius family and its Aldine imprints (1494-1598). The first edition appeared in three volumes over 1803 – 1812 and remained for the duration of the 19th century the essential guide to the press, its authors and editors. Bound at the rear, as issued, is the separately paginated “Notice sur la Famille des Junte, et liste sommaire de leurs éditions jusqu’en 1550.” There were also thirty-two copies on large paper. Copies in this condition of the regular paper issue, which consisted of 350 copies, are not common. “Its third edition ... has remained the standard bibliography on its subject and is a model of its kind” – Breslauer & Folter. BRESLAUER & FOLTER 115. VICAIRE VI:1060-1. BRUNET 31237. $1750.

Renaissance Ornithology

7. Aldrovandi, Ulisse: PHILOSOPHI AC MEDICI BONONIENSIS, HISTORIAM NATURALEM IN GYMNASIO BONONIENSI PROFITENSIS, ORNITHOLOGIAE HOC EST DE AVIBUS HISTORIAE LIBRI XII. IN QUIBUS AVES DESCRIBUNTUR, DESCRIPTAE LEGENTIBUS DELINEATAE OB OCULOS PONUNTUR, NATURA EARUM, MORES &PROPRIETATES ITA DECLARANTUR, VT FACILE QUICQUID DE AUIBUS DICI QUEAT, HINC PETIPOS- SIT. ADIECTUS EST INDEX GEMINUS: ALTER CAPITUM; ALTER RERUM & VERBORUM. Frankfurt: Typis Wolffgangi Richteri, Impensis Ioannis Bassaei [volumes 1-2]; Typus Nicolai Hofmanni, Impensis Iohannis Treudelii [volume 3], 1630 [volumes 1-2]; 1613 [volume 3]. Three volumes bound in two. Text in two columns. [11],427,[14]; [6],373,[14]; [8],40,33-209, [12]pp. Three engraved titles, fifty full-page engraved illustrations (images in third volume present as engraved plates without text on verso), each depicting several ornithological figures. Folio. Contemporary speckled calf, covers double ruled in blind, rebacked to style with raised bands, spine in seven compartments. Tab. II in Lib. XIX trimmed along fore-edge into the image, the plate restitched into the text block, scattered staining and edge tears. Early ink annotations to the plates translating the Latin names into English. Good.

An early edition of an important illustrated Renaissance ornithology, including several New World birds. Aldrovandi’s encyclopedic work, first published in Bologna between 1599 and 1603, was among the principal ornithologies of the Renaissance. Divided into twenty chapters, the work describes numerous birds, based on Aristotle’s classifications, and include descriptions of plumage, structure, habitat, voice, and more. However, the work is particularly noted for its excellent illustrations. “The value of Aldrovandi’s ornithology is enhanced by its many original illustrations, which are often good...No effort or expense was spared in obtaining the pictorial material on which ... Aldrovandi spent all his fortune” – Anker. Among the illustrations are several early depictions of New World birds, including figures of the Cardinal and Wild Turkey. Ulisse Aldrovandi (1522-1605) was an Italian botanist, pharmacologist, and the author of several encyclopedic works on natural history. “This celebrated naturalist ... devoted his life to lecturing, collecting specimens, and in writing and illustrating numerous treatises on biological subjects” (Wood). He left his collections and library to the town of Bologna, which now reside in the University there. His manuscripts are also in Bologna, including the many woodcut blocks used to illustrate his works and the original drawings from which the blocks were cut. This later German edition is comprised of volumes one and two of the 1630 edition with a third volume dated 1613; all are printed in Frankfurt. The later editions of his work are significant, as they contain more detailed copperplate engravings, rather than the woodcuts found in the early editions. ANKER, BIRD BOOKS AND BIRD ART, pp.11-12. TAXONOMIC LITERATURE I, p.28. WOOD, VERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY, p.184. NISSEN (IVB), p.82 (earlier ed). OCLC 29838586. $6000.

An Impressive Album of Photographs of Angkor Wat, the Bayon Temple, and the Environs

8. [Angkor]: [Significant Album Of Photographs Of Angkor Wat, The Bayon Temple, Angkor Thom, And Environs]. [Angkor, Cambodia. ca. 1920s]. Ninety-three photographs, as detailed below. Large folio album, leather spine, the front cover a tooled copper sheet representing the Bayon Temple. Front hinge cracking slightly. Ninety-three matte silver gelatin photographs, on sheets of slightly variable size but generally 30 x 24 cm.; images uniformly 23.5 x 16.5 cm. All photographs in excellent condition, tipped onto larger sheets, interleaved with protective tissue.

A very handsome and impressive album of Angkor Wat, the Bayon Temple, and the larger environs of Angkor Thom, taken by an unidentified but professional photographer, almost certainly in the 1920s. The photographs depict architecture; sculptures both freestanding and as friezes; waterworks; and other features of the larger landscape of Angkor. Angkor, the largest archeology site in the world and once the largest city in the world, is justly celebrated as one of the most important monuments of human civilization. While building on the site began in the 9th century A.D., its most famous monuments, the Angkor Wat temple complex, the Bayon temple-mountain, and the environs of Angkor Thom, were mainly constructed in the 12th and 13th centuries. These remain some of the most impressive structures wrought by human hands, masterpieces of architecture and stone carving.

While the temple of Angkor Wat has always been cared for by Buddhist monks, much of the rest of the vast site had been overtaken by the jungle when the first European photographer, John Thomson, visited in 1866. After Cambodia became a French protectorate in 1887, the site became the focus of intensive scrutiny, and in 1907 a massive program of reconstruction and reclamation from the encroaching jungle began. To some degree the progress of this work allows photographs to be dated, and on this basis, and after showing the album to distinguished archeologist Michael Coe (best known for his work in MesoAmerican archeology, but also the author of a book on Angkor), we date the photographs in the present album to the 1920s. This dating is also reflected in the style of the binding and album. The album contains ninety-three excellent matte silver gelatin photographs. While the photographer is unknown, the quality of the images and their composition and printing shows them to be the work of a professional. The first series of images focus on the Angkor Wat temple complex, showing both internal and external images as well as many smaller sculptures (many of these have since been moved from the site). The next series focuses on the great Bayon temple, and in particular the celebrated friezes which adorn it. From there the images move to other parts of Angkor Thom and the areas in the environs of the central temples. A handsome and significant album of photographs on the world’s greatest archeological site, at a point when many parts of it were little disturbed. $9000.

A Rare Edition

9. [Apianus, Petrus]: COSMOGRAPHIAE INTRODUCTIO CUM QUIBUSDAM GEOMETRIAE AC ASTRONOMIAE PRINCIPIIS AD EAM REM NECESSARIIS. [Venice: Per Jo. Antonium de Nicolinus de Sabio, sumptu & requisitione D. Melchioris Sessae, 1541]. 24 leaves. Woodcut vignette of an astrolabe encompassing the globe on the titlepage; Melchior’s device of a cat holding a mouse on verso of final leaf. Several woodcuts throughout text. Small octavo. Later vellum. Covers bowed. Light old stain at foredge of first four leaves. Very good. In a half morocco and cloth box.

An abridgement of Apianus’ 1524 Cosmographicus Liber, first published in this version in 1533. The Cosmographicus Liber remains a foundation work of cosmography, being notable for “the division of the earth into climatic zones, the uses of parallels and meridians, the determination of latitude, several methods for determining longitude including that of lunar distance, the use of trigonometry to determine distances, several types of map projections, and many other topics” (Karrow). Apianus owes much of his early work to the eminent Mar- tin Waldseemuller, often making only minor changes to his maps and then publishing them as his own. With the publication of the present work, Apianus separates himself from his past near-plagiarism and becomes a cartographic force in his own right. This edition omits the chapters on America and is therefore not included in European Americana, though it is recorded by Harrisse and Sabin. There is, however, a mention of America on leaf C6. OCLC locates only six copies. Rare. KARROW, p.53. SABIN 1746. HARRISSE (BAV) 236. BELL A272. JCB (3)I:129. OCLC 18730682, 54283456. JCB GERMAN AMERICANA 541/1. $3500.

“... the premier coloured plate sporting book in the 19th century ...”

10. [Apperley, Charles James]: Nimrod [pseud]: THE LIFE OF A SPORTSMAN ... WITH THIRTY-SIX COLOURED ILLUSTRATIONS BY HENRY ALKEN. London: Rudolph Acker- mann, 1842. vi,[2],402pp. plus five leaves of adverts. Large octavo. Fine grain blue cloth, decorated in blind and gilt, a.e.g. Color frontis, pictorial title and 34 hand-colored aquatint engravings after designs by Henry Alken. Spine gilding slightly rubbed, inner hinges cracking but webbing still sound, slight marginal foxing to frontis and title and a few tissue guards, but in general, an unusually nice, bright copy. Half morocco clamshell box.

First edition, in Tooley’s first issue, with four of the plates mounted with printed captions. “Considered by many to be the premier coloured plate sporting book in the 19th century, by others as sharing this honour with Jorrock’s Jaunts” – Tooley. Uncommon in original cloth. TOOLEY 65. $3000.

Infamous Crime with Literary Repercussions

11. [Aram, Eugene]: THE GENUINE ACCOUNT OF THE TRIAL OF EUGENE ARAM, FOR THE MURDER OF DANIEL CLARK, LATE OF KNARESBOROUGH, IN THE COUNTY OF YORK , WHO WAS CONVICTED AT YORK ASSIZES, AUGUST 3, 1759 ... TO WHICH, AFTER A SHORT NARRATIVE OF THE FACT, IS PREFIXED, AN ACCOUNT OF THE RE- MARKABLE DISCOVERY OF THE HUMAN SKELETON AT ST. ROBERT’S COVE ... [&c]. York: Printed by A. Ward, for C. Etherington ... Newcastle upon Tyne: reprinted by Order of the Proprietor, 1759. [2],42pp. Octavo. 19th century three quarter morocco and marbled boards, partially untrimmed. Bookplate, extremities rubbed, scattered foxing and old vertical crease (prior to binding); a good copy.

Denoted the “Third Edition,” but an interesting variant, with the addition of the Newcastle subsidiary imprint. ESTC locates two variants of the “third edition,” and this shares the Arabic imprint date and line break of line 11 with ESTC N10016, but this variant with the subsidiary imprint is not reported in ESTC. So sensational was the case, and the popular interest so high, that there were at least nine editions in 1759 from London, York, Leeds and Dublin, and reprints and expanded editions appeared well into the 19th century. Aram stood for his own defense, arguing against the reliability of the circumstantial evidence (the skeleton identified as Clark’s), but was convicted. While he was awaiting execution, he confessed, attributing his actions to his discovery that Clark was having an affair with his wife, and attempted suicide. The case was popularized by Bulwer-Lytton in his novel, by Thomas Hood in a ballad, and served as a point of reference in works by Wodehouse and George Orwell. The various 1759 editions/printings range from scarce to quite rare. ESTC N10016 (ref). $850. 12. [Architecture – British]: Price, Francis: A SERIES OF PARTICULAR AND USEFUL OB- SERVATIONS, MADE WITH GREAT DILIGENCE AND CARE, UPON THAT ADMIRABLE STRUCTURE, THE CATHEDRAL-CHURCH OF SALISBURY. CALCULATED FOR THE USE AND AMUSEMENT OF GENTLEMEN. BY ALL WHICH THEY WILL BE ENABLED TO FORM A RIGHT JUDGMENT UPON THIS, OR ANY ANCIENT STRUCTURE, EITHER IN THE GOTHICK OR OTHER STILES OF BUILDING. London: Printed for C. and J. Ack- ers ... And Sold by R. Baldwin...., 1753. [14],v,[1],78pp. Quarto. Recent half-calf and marble boards, gilt label. Illustrated with fourteen plates (1 folding). Title and terminal leaf a bit dust smudged, bound without terminal advert leaf, occasional foxing, three plates trimmed close at fore-margin; still, a good copy.

First edition. Nine page subscribers list. Price (1704? – 1753) was “surveyor and clerk of the fabric of Salisbury Cathedral—his gravestone records that he had held this position for seventeen years but, although he seems to have acted in this capacity from around 1737, he was not officially appointed until 1745. As clerk of works he carried out an extensive survey of the cathedral and supervised a number of important repairs and rebuildings of the roof and fabric ... [this work] published just three months after his death, is one of the first serious architectural studies of a Gothic building.” – DNB. An expanded edition was published in 1774 and reprinted thereafter. ESTC T93633. $500.

13. [Architecture – British]: Britton, John: THE ARCHITECTURAL ANTIQUITIES OF GREAT BRITAIN REPRESENTED AND ILLUSTRATED IN A SERIES OF VIEWS, ELEVATIONS, PLANS, SECTIONS AND DETAILS, OF VARIOUS ANCIENT ENGLISH EDIFICES: WITH HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE ACCOUNTS OF EACH. London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Reese and Orme [et al], 1807 – 1826. Five volumes. Royal quarto (33 x 25 cm). Full plum straight grain morocco, gilt extra, with central gilt armorial crest on each board of Sir Roger Griesley. Engraved titles, frontispieces and plates. Bindings rather scuffed, scraped and edgeworn, but still quite sound, usual foxing to most of the engravings; a good, sound set.

First editions. The complement of engraved views, plans and details are by Le Keux, Smith (and others) after drawings by Mackenzie, Wilkins, Cattermole, et al. “...the Architectural Antiquities of Great Britain, set out to exhibit ‘specimens of the various styles’ of medieval architecture by ‘correct delineations and accurate accounts … drawn and engraved with scrupulous accuracy’ and by ‘enlarged representations of particular parts and ornaments, with ground plans etc.’ ... His engravers, notably Smith, Roffe, Rawle, Woolnoth, and the Le Keux brothers, were supremely competent. His list of ‘scientific artists’ was dazzling: Prout, Nash, Alexander, Hearne, Wyatville, Porden, Wilkins, Cotman, Buckler, Gandy, Wild, Westall, Dayes, Fielding, West, Turner, Shee, Repton, Blore, and Mackenzie. The result was possibly Britton’s most successful undertaking and certainly his most profitable. The first four volumes appeared fairly quickly, in 1807, 1809, 1812, and 1814. A fifth ... [devoted to ‘Christian Architecture’] appeared in 1827. This has been described as ‘the first attempt at a coherent history of English Gothic’ (P. Frankl, The Gothic, 1960, 498). Its preparation involved a formidable amount of research ...” – DNB. With the small 19th century booksellers’ ticket of Upham and Beet, as well as a clipped obituary for Britton, affixed to the front pastedown of the first volume. LOWNDES II:278. $1250.

14. [Architecture – European]: L’ARCHITECTURE VIVANTE ... DOCUMENTS SUR L’ACTIVITÉ CONSTRUCTIVE DANS TOUS LES PAYS. Paris: Éditions Albert Morancé, Automne & Hiver 1925. Volume three, whole numbers 9 & 10. Two issues. Quarto. Loose sheets, folded signatures and plates laid in to stiff printed wrappers. Wrappers a bit chipped at extremities and torn at spines, internally, apart from some occasional marginal dust smudges, very good or better.

Edited by Jean Badovici. Two representative issues of this important journal of the avant garde in architecture, founded in 1923 and published through 1932. Number 9 includes essays by Badovici (“Les Constructivistes”), Mondrian (“L’Architecture Future Néo-Plasticienne”) and Van Doesburg (“L’Evolution de l’Architecture Moderne en Hollande”), and the twenty-five high-quality plates (most phototypes, four of them colored) include works by Van Der Rohe, Van Doesburg, Oud, et al. Number 10 prints essays by Georges André, Van De Velde and Badovici, and the fifty plates present work by Van De Velde, Le Corbusier, and a selection of the Pavillions from the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs. $1000.

Item 14

Lovely Illustrated Work on the Design of the Place de la Concorde

15. [Architecture – French]: Le Gendre, Jean-Gabriel: DESCRIPTION DE LA PLACE DE LOUIS XV QUE L’ON CONSTRUIT À REIMS, DES OUVRAGES À CONTINUER AUX ENVIRONS DE CETTE PLACE, & DE CEUX À FAIRE DANS LA SUITE POUR L’UTILITÉ & L’EMBELLISSEMENT DE CETTE VILLE. Paris: De l’imprimerie de Prault, 1765. Eight engraved plates and plans (double-page plan, four double-page plates by Pierre-Philippe Choffard after Le Gendre, one double-page and two single-page plates by P.E. Moitte after C.N. Cochin); engraved headpiece by Choffard. Plates and text on laid paper. Large folio. Expertly bound to style in half morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt with raised bands, a.e.g. Very good.

Le Gendre, Ingénieur du Roy, Inspecteur Général des Ponts et Chaussées de France, submitted his first grandiose plans for the Place de la Concorde in 1755, based on a similar project carried out in the extensions to Nancy in 1752-55. Revised plans were submitted and accepted in 1758 and are the subject of the present work. One of the plates depicts the fine statue of Louis XV by Jean-Baptiste Pigalle erected in the Place Royale. BERLIN CAT. 2515. COHEN-DE RICCI 615. Vera Salomons, CHOFFARD (1911), p.75. $8000.

16. [Architecture – French]: Tronquois, [Auguste], Architecte: BÂTIMENT PITTORESQUES: RECUEIL DE COTTAGES, VILLAS, CHÁLETS, BÂTIMENTS DE COMMUNS ET DE BASSE- COUR. ETC. ETC. EXECUTÉS DANS LES ENVIRONS DE PARIS. Paris: Neuhaus, Lith., 1867. Double-spread decorated lithographed title and twenty lithographed line renderings. Folio (50 x 33.5 cm). Contemporary half red morocco and marbled boards, t.e.g. The pictorial title-spread lithographed on cream stock; the renderings are printed on gray stock. Trace of foxing to endleaves, toe of spine and edges rubbed, otherwise very good.

First and evidently sole edition of this production showcasing Tronquois works. Apart from the several plates of detail work, the full scale renderings here are of the main or out-buildings of Château de Bethmont; the Orangerie Observatoir et Salle de Bains (a Villers sur Marne); Villa à St. Greaien; Batiment de Communs à Marnes; Château de la Chaumette; Chateau de Bethmont, and a pigeon house at St. Arnoult. The format suggests this production may have been undertaken as a promotional for Tronquois› services. Stepping across the channel, he was commissioned to design the Chateau Impney in Droitwich, for which he completed plans in 1869, and this production could conceivably have some relationship to lobbying for that commission. Little information about Tronquois seems to be accessible, except for his identification with specific buildings. A scarce work: OCLC/Worldcat locates three copies in France, a copy at Columbia, and a copy at the V&A; a sixth copy is noted under a separate entry at ETH-Bibliothek Zurich and is curiously assigned a Baudry imprint, but other details are sketchy. OCLC: 39252547. $4500.

17. [Architecture – Russian]: Chernikhov, Yakov G.: [In Russian:] KONSTRUKTSIYA ARKHI- TEKTURNYKH I MASHINYKH FORM [Constructions of the Architectural Forms and Forms of Machines]. Leningrad: Society of Architects, 1931. 232pp., 40 numbered plates, plus leaf of adverts. Quarto. Original printed green paper boards. Over 300 illustrations in text. Boards a bit rubbed and bumped, with characteristic edge and corner wear, a few pencil notes, but a very good copy of a perishable book, with the fragile backstrip intact.

First edition of the second of Chernikov’s monumental works on architectural design. Chernikhov (1889 – 1951) joined the architecture department of the Imperial Academy of Arts in 1916. After graduating in 1925, Chernikhov was occupied with production and project work in Leningrad throughout the 1920s and 30s. In 1927 he organized in Leningrad his own Science and Research Pilot Laboratory for Architectural Shapes and Graphical Studies, where with a group of students and assistants he became actively involved in experimental and design work. He was both influenced by and a participant in the innovations surrounding the later years of constructivism and suprematism, and in a series of four major published works, concluding with 101 Architectural Fantasies (1933), he left a legacy of inspiration for future generations of designers, architects and typographers. $4500.

18. [Architecture – U.S.]: Owen, Robert Dale: HINTS ON PUBLIC ARCHITECTURE, CON- TAINING, AMONG OTHER ILLUSTRATIONS, VIEWS AND PLANS OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: TOGETHER WITH AN APPENDIX RELATIVE TO BUILDING MATERIALS. New York: G. P. Putnam, 1849. xvii,[1],119pp. with frontis and tinted wood-engraved title page. 7 full-page wood engraved plates and 6 tinted lithographed plates. Quarto. Original olive green cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. 99 wood engraved text illustrations. Shadow of offset from tinted title to printed title, a few stray marks to cloth, fore-tips a bit frayed, small nick to one joint, otherwise a very good, bright copy.

First edition. An important American architecture book, which grew out of the controversies facing the Building Committee of the Smithsonian Institution, of which the polymathic Owen served as Chairman. It has for its special object “to enlighten the judgment and form the taste of those who are appointed to sit in judgment of the result of the architect’s labors.” In his general creative vision Owen reflects the influence of Pugin and Ruskin. The designs, shown in both highly finished wood-engravings and in elegant tinted lithography, show the building as a virtually complete entity. The three lithographic views of the Smithsonian were lithographed by Sarony & Major after Renwick. The other three lithographs were drawn by Renwick and printed by James Ackerman, and two of them, both of Grace Church, are singled out by Peters as important examples of his work. HITCHCOCK 885. PETERS, AMERICA ON STONE, p.72. $1000.

19. [Architecture – U.S. – Robert M. Hunt]: Van Pelt, John Vredenburgh: A MONOGRAPH OF THE WILLIAM K. VANDERBILT HOUSE RICHARD MORRIS HUNT ARCHITECT.... New York: John Vredenburgh Van Pelt, 1925. [2],23,[1]pp. plus sixty plates. Folio (48 x 36 cm). Loose sheets, laid into cloth and printed board portfolio. Some spotting to cloth sizing of portfolio spine, a few faint marks and minor indentations to upper board, otherwise a very good copy, internally about fine.

First edition. A detailed treatment (comprised of the prefatory essay, twenty working drawings and forty photographs, including details) of the famous New York townhouse designed by Hunt and built for Cornelius Vanderbilt’s grandson. Located at Fifth Avenue and 52nd, it is a prime example of Hunt’s beaux-arts mode. $850.

20. Armstrong, Mostyn John: AN ACTUAL SURVEY OF THE GREAT POST-ROADS BE- TWEEN LONDON AND EDINBURGH. London: Printed for and sold by the author and the booksellers, 1776. [4],6,[2]pp. plus frontispiece and forty-four engraved maps with facing leaf of text. Recent three-quarter calf and marbled boards, to contemporary style. Minor soiling, but generally clean internally, very good.

Small pocket atlas of the post roads published by British geographer Mostyn John Armstrong. Each map shows the surrounding area, with text containing crossroads and distances. A scarce and fascinating little volume, neatly executed. ESTC T129636. $1250.

21. Armstrong, Robert Archibald: A GAELIC DICTIONARY, IN TWO PARTS: I. GAELIC AND ENGLISH. – II. ENGLISH AND GAELIC; IN WHICH THE WORDS, IN THEIR DIFFER- ENT ACCEPTATIONS ARE ILLUSTRATED BY QUOTATIONS FROM THE BEST GAELIC WRITERS ... WITH A SHORT HISTORICAL APPENDIX OF ANCIENT NAMES, DEDUCED FROM THE AUTHORITY OF OSSIAN AND OTHER POETS: TO WHICH IS PREFIXED, A NEW GAELIC GRAMMAR. London: Printed for James Duncan [et al], 1825. xvi,lxx,1029,[1] pp. Large, thick quarto. Recent three quarter calf and marbled boards, raised bands, gilt labels, a.e.g. Relatively unobtrusive perforated stamp of a defunct mercantile library in title and last leaf, first few leaves of the dictionary proper show some marginal foxing/spotting, terminal leaf a bit frayed at margin, with small chip and tear at top of gutter, but overall, a good, sound copy.

First edition. Armstrong’s “great work ... This was the first Gaelic dictionary published, as there previously existed only vocabularies of the language like those of Shaw and others. It is a most meritorious work, the affinities of the Celtic words being traced in most of the languages of ancient and modern times. To it is prefixed a Gaelic grammar, and there is a short historical appendix of ancient names, deduced from the authority of Ossian and other poets. Armstrong’s dictionary will always be prized by Gaelic scholars, but it was partially eclipsed, three years after its appearance, by the publication of the still more comprehensive ‘Dictionarium Scoto-Celticum,’ compiled under the direction of the Highland Society of Scotland (2 vols. 4to, 1828). Mr. Armstrong sank his small fortune in the publication of his three-guinea quarto, and in a pecuniary sense he was a considerable loser by its publication” – DNB. $750.

Early Ballooning Satire For an Expedition to the Moon

22. [Ballooning]: LETTRE A M. DE ***. SUR SON PROJET DE VOYAGER AVEC LA SPHERE AEROSTATIQUE DE M. DE MONTGOLFIER. “A Aéoropolis, sur la Place des Nues: Chez Zéphirolin le jeune...” / Paris: Chez les marchands de feuilles volantes, [1783]. 16pp., plus folding frontispiece. Engraved ornament on titlepage and engraved vignette at head of first page of text. Modern calf, gilt morocco spine label. Fine.

An interesting and scarce satire on the fervor that surrounded the invention of the hot air balloon, specifically the work of the Montgolfier brothers, which was first exhibited to the public in 1783. The anonymous author proposes mounting an expedition to the moon in a hermetically sealed gondola driven by inflammable gas. The ship would be supplied with food pills and compressed air (for breathing) would be carried in sealed containers. The marvelous frontispiece illustrates the moonship in great detail. The satire continues even to a mock imprint on the title-page: “Aéropolis, sur la Place des Nues.” TISSANDIER, p.12. BROCKETT 7478. LIEBMANN & WAHL 1537. SIGMUNDT-NIRENSTEIN 181. DARMON 75. MAGGS BROS. 387:179. $2000. Important Early Ballooning Work

23. [Ballooning]: Brisson, [M.J.]: OBSERVATIONS SUR LES NOUVELLES DECOUVERTES AEROSTATIQUES, ET SUR LA PROBABILITE DE POUVOIR DIRIGER LES BALLONS. Paris. 1784. [2],34pp. Quarto. Extracted from nonce pamphlet volume. Stains to corners of final two text leaves, otherwise very good.

Brisson was a distinguished naturalist and physicist. His Observations… includes his report to the Académie des Sciences on the Montgolfiers’ balloon and a proposal for a balloon motorized by steam jets and guided by rudders, which prefigures the blimp. Brisson’s work also contains a valuable dictionary of the recently developed ballooning terminology. This is the scarcer quarto printing of his report; an octavo edition appeared the same year. MAGGS BROS. 387:78. TISSANDIER, p.15 (for the octavo edition). $1650.

A Pioneering History of Flight and Ballooning

24. [Ballooning]: Bourgeois, David: RECHERCHES SUR L’ART DE VOLER, DEPUIS LA PLUS HAUTE ANTIQUITE JUSQU’A CE JOUR; POUR SERVIR DE SUPPLEMENT A LA DESCRIPTION DES EXPERIENCES AEROSTATIQUES DE M. FAUJAS DE SAINT-FOND. Paris: Chez Cuchet, 1784. viii,143,[1]pp. Contemporary marbled wrapper. Wrappers a bit faded and edgeworn. Faint stain in the lower gutter throughout, else quite clean internally and near fine overall. In a folding paper box.

One of the earliest histories of flight. This work is a supplement to Faujas de Saint-Fond, but completely separate, although published by the same publisher. It contains a history of notions of flight, with segments on Roger Bacon, Wilkins, Leonardo, Scaliger, Lana, Joseph Galien, Borelli, Cyrano de Bergerac, etc. Bourgeois also was the first to suggest “the use of an adjustable plane surface fitted beneath the balloon, whereby some measure of control might be obtained from the horizontal pressure of air on such plane during the rise or fall of the balloon” – Hodgson. He also includes a consideration of some of the problems of the new science of ballooning, including guidance, covering textiles, gas production, etc., and includes a plan for future balloon studies. TISSANDIER, p.15. HODGSON, pp.29 & 388. LIEBMAN & WAHL, 640. MAGGS BROS. 387:76. BROCKETT 2071. $2000.

Cardinal Barberini in Barcelona

25. [Barberini, Francesco]: ... RELACION VERDADERA DEL VIAJE, ENTRADA, Y RE- CIBIMIETO QUE LA CIUDAD DE BARCELONA HIZO A LA BUENA VENIDA DEL SEÑOR CARDENAL LEGADO, EN 18, DE MARÇO DESTE AÑO DE 1626. Madrid: Bernardino de Guzman, [1626]. [4]pp. In Spanish. Woodcut illustration of ship and boats landing near a castle on first page. Small folio. Dbd. Contemporary manuscript docketing on fourth page. Early folds. Large chip (approximately 2¾ x 2 inches) in lower outer corner of second leaf, touching a few of the final letters on ten lines of text; loss from worming on a few letters of a dozen lines of text. Wear along folds; all losses filled by silk. Good.

Spanish newsletter account of the historical visit of Cardinal Barberini to Barcelona during his 1626 diplomatic mission to Spain. Francesco Barberini of Florence (1597-1679) was the nephew of Pope Urban VIII and a prominent church leader during the 17th century, noted for his diplomatic activities during the Thirty Years’ War and his extensive humanism. A lifelong supporter of artists, scientists, and intellectuals, Barberini was one of three of ten judges at Galileo’s trial who refused to sign Galileo’s sentence, and he was the founder of the renowned Barberini Library, a central meeting place for scholars in 17th century Rome and home to one the world’s great collections of manuscripts (now part of the Vatican Library). In February 1626, Barberini departed Rome as legate a latere to Spain, where he negotiated with the Count-Duke of Olivares on the question of French and Spanish control of the Valtellina. On March 18, 1626, Barberini arrived in Barcelona amidst much fanfare, which is recounted in the present newsletter. The text describes the visit from the landing of the Papal embassy to a series of musical performances and celebrations and the various meetings between the young Cardinal and local dignitaries. No copies are located in OCLC/Worldcat. Very rare. PALAU 257873. $1750. 26. [Baseball]: Spalding, A.G.: AMERICA’S NATIONAL GAME HISTORIC FACTS CON- CERNING THE BEGINNING EVOLUTION, DEVELOPMENT AND POPULARITY OF BASE BALL WITH PERSONAL REMINISCENCES OF ITS VICISSITUDES, ITS VICTORIES AND ITS VOTARIES. New York: American Sports Publishing Company, 1911. xix,[1],[1]-542pp. Thick octavo. Bright blue ribbed cloth, lettered in gilt, and with gilt depiction of Uncle Sam at bat on the upper cover. Portrait, frontis, illustrations, photographs and plates (some folding). Bookplate on front pastedown, very slight tanning to edges of text block, as usual, early ink name neatly erased from front free endsheet, trivial tiny crack at crown of rear inner hinge -- all relatively minor detractions for an unusually bright, tight copy of a book most often seen in dodgy condition.

First edition. Illustrated with ‘cartoons’ by Homer C. Davenport. One of the key works in the literature of baseball, by one of the prime movers in its codification and development. In addition to his pitching career (which began in 1865), Spalding helped organize the National League, cofounded the Spalding sporting goods company, and published the first official rules guide for the game. This book was published four years prior to his death. $2750.

Rare St. Helena Imprint, and an Early Ecological Report

27. [Beatson, Alexander]: PAPERS RELATING TO THE DEVASTATION COMMITTED BY GOATS ON THE ISLAND OF ST. HELENA, FROM THE PERIOD OF THEIR INTRODUC- TION TO THE PRESENT TIME; COMPRISING EXPERIMENTS, OBSERVATIONS & HINTS, CONNECTED WITH AGRICULTURAL IMPROVEMENT AND PLANTING, &c. &c. &c. St. Helena: Printed for S. Solomon by J. Coupland, 1810. [4],80pp. Half calf and marbled boards. A bit of light foxing, one page printed askew and trimmed close, affecting a few letters of text otherwise very good.

One of the first St. Helena imprints, and a very significant tract, addressing the issue of the harm that could be caused to a local ecosystem by the introduction of a foreign predator, in this instance – goats. According to McMurtrie, printing was established on the remote South Atlantic island of St. Helena in 1806, and a newspaper appeared in 1807. No book publication is recorded until 1810, with an abstract of the laws usually being regarded as the island’s first publication. The present treatise was printed the same year, and actually contains the text of Gov. Beatson’s proposal to print the abstract of the laws and ordinances, so may precede it. The introduction of goats to St. Helena greatly changed its landscape, as they ate much of its native vegetation and caused havoc on efforts at cultivating agriculture there. A measles epidemic had wracked the population, which was also discontented by the suppression of the liquor trade by local officials, all of which led to a mutiny in 1811. The present work is attributed to Alexander Beatson, who was the British governor of St. Helena from 1808 to 1813, and who was particularly interested in fostering agriculture. It includes Beatson’s essay on the “evil consequences” which have resulted from the introduction of goats to the island, as well as reports on agricultural experiments and remarks from landowners in favor of and opposed to the extermination of goats. Beatson’s final remark on the subject is to encourage landowners to shoot goats at will. St. Helena is most famous as the place where Napoleon Bonaparte spent the final years of his life in captivity, until his death in 1821. During the age of sail it was frequently visited by mariners, and many other distinguished people dropped by, but it is now quite remote. OCLC lists only two copies of this work, at the Natural History Museum in London, and the British Library. Rare and important. OCLC 191967951, 504410685. Douglas McMurtrie, PRINTING PRESS AT ST. HELENA IN 1806. $4000.

A Copy from Down Under

28. Beeton, Isabella [compiler]: THE BOOK OF HOUSEHOLD MANAGEMENT; COMPRIS- ING INFORMATION FOR THE MISTRESS, HOUSEKEEPER, COOK ... ALSO, SANITARY, MEDICAL & LEGAL MEMORANDA; WITH A HISTORY OF THE ORIGIN, PROPERTIES, AND USES OF ALL THINGS CONNECTED WITH HOME LIFE AND COMFORT. London: S. O. Beeton, 1861. xxxix,[1],1112pp. Small, thick octavo. Contemporary three quarter calf and cloth. Color frontis and pictorial extra-title, illustrations and twelve color plates. Scat- tered foxing, all plates present but bound at variance from the printed list, signature ‘b’ in the Analytical index bound after ‘c’, tidemark to frontis and pictorial title; nonetheless a relatively good, sound copy.

First edition of one of the most successful works on home economy of its generation, this copy with the first state of the color title, bearing the Bouverie Street address. It is also the first work in its genre to feature color plates. This copy would appear to have traveled far from its point of origin early in its life, as it bears the small label of ‘J. Pownceby Book-Binder 45 Swanston St. Melbourne’ on the rear pastedown. Beeton’s book, the product of four years of work in the context of the publishing enterprise she maintained with her husband, remained in print through a succession of revisions into this century. Unfortunately, she did not live to witness even a portion of its longevity: she died at the age of 28 in 1865. CAGLE 561. SIMON 186. BITTING, p.32. $1250.

The Beginnings of Telephone Service, Including Alexander Graham Bell’s Personal Line

29. [Bell Telephone Company]: Maynard, George C.: [Extensive Archive Of Service Reports And Other Documents, Both Printed And Manuscript, From The Early Days Of The Bell Telephone Company]. Washington & Boston. 1877-1882. Approximately 150 documents comprising 250 pages, plus one carte-de-visite. Mostly quarto and octavo sheets. Some light wear. Near fine.

An incredible archive of service reports and other documents related to the Bell Telephone Company from the papers of George C. Maynard (1839-1918), related to his time as the Washington, D.C. agent for Bell Telephone Company. The archive contains the service reports, estimates, lease agreements, telephone line diagrams, and business reports and other ephemera belonging to Maynard. A handbill advertising Maynard’s services, dated April 28, 1881, reads: “Geo. C. Maynard, Electrician, Agent American Bell Telephone Co. (for everything except the Telephonic Exchange business,) 1413 G Street. Telephones and telegraph lines constructed, equipped, and leased. Electrical work of all description attended to.” A quote by Theodore N. Vail, General Manager for the company reads, “’Geo. C. Maynard is the only person authorized by us to supply telephone lines for Private Lines, Club Lines, and Speaking Tube Lines within the District of Columbia.’” Alexander Graham Bell is considered to be the father of the telephone, and was the first to be granted a patent for a device that electronically transmitted vocal or other sounds telegraphically. Thomas Edison and Elisha Gray, among others, were also experimenting with similar technology at the same time. Bell registered his patent on Feb. 14, 1876 – the same day as Elisha Gray, who submitted a patent for a similar device, mere hours apart. Bell was granted the patent, no. 174,465. After significant experimentation, on March 10, 1876, Bell and his assistant, Thomas Watson, succeeded in transmitting clear vocalization across the lines. Sitting in his laboratory, with Watson on the other end of a line in the basement, Bell said, “Watson, come here! I want to see you!” and Watson replied, thus suc- cessfully transmitting and receiving voice transmissions. The Bell Telephone Company was founded in July 1877, and the first commercial telephone exchange opened in New Haven, CT in January 1878. This archive, then, contains extraordinarily early material relating to the operation and installation of the telephone system, and the second urban network in the country (although the Washington exchange quickly passed the small New Haven operation in size and sophistication). The bulk of the archive contains 137 service reports and estimates for the installation of telephones in and around Washington, D. C. and include prices for pole wire, house-top wire, length of line, cable conductors, the rent of the phone and bells, office wires, labor, etc. connecting residential, commercial, and government establishments such as railroad depots, stables, newspaper offices, et al. One such estimate, for the Commissioner of Ag- riculture General William LeDuc, dated Feb. 1, 1878, is for the running of a telephone line connecting the Department of Agriculture with “...Dept No. 3...” via the White House and State Department. Other documents of note include two telephone line diagrams; the first, in pencil shows a private line connecting a residential dwelling to the army signal office via a church and the Corcoran Gallery and completely circumventing the White House and the Treasury Department. The second, in pen, shows the connection of Washington Bell agent George C. Maynard’s private line connecting his home and his office via seven connections including a congregational church and the orphan asylum. A printed proclamation by Bell Telephone General Manager Theodore N. Vail concerns the infringement of rival phones. Dated at Boston, May 23, 1879, this three page address to the public claims that “...under patents granted to Alexander Graham Bell...” Bell Telephone “...claims the exclusive right to use, or to license others to use, speaking telephones...Suits are pending...in which the claims of the owners of the Bell patents and the owners of the inventions of Gray, Edison, Dolbear, and others will be legally determined.” Inside Vail presents a short history of the invention of the telephone and “Proof of Prof. Bell’s Priority.”

Of significant note is a cache of reports relating to the installation of Alexander Graham Bell’s personal telephone line. This material consists of sixteen service reports, dated Jan. 10, 1881, to Dec. 31, 1882, for the installation of telephone wires, putting up telephones in his house, extending his line from his residence at 1302 Connecticut Ave. to 2023 Massachusetts Ave., connecting his home line to his laboratory, looping his private line to Bell Telephone Company President (also his father-in-law) Gardiner G. Hubbard’s house, etc. Each report contains information on the work done and by whom, what materials were used in the process, and the condition of the work when the technician left. Also included is a manuscript diagram, in pen, showing the extension of Alexander Graham Bell’s personal telephone line to Georgetown. A report accompanying the diagram, written by W. H. Newhall, who has examined the personal line of Alexander Graham Bell at four points (his laboratory, Massa- chusetts Avenue, Georgetown, and Connecticut Avenue), reports that he has “...Examined line and found it in good order. Examined Bells & Tels. at all places, cleaned & renewed 3 Bat[teries]...brought in Bell from Laboratory [sic]...and put up one from Conn Ave house. the bell at Mass Ave rings weak there when you call from there, but rings strong when called from other stations. Brought in Tels from Conn Ave house and closed line on roof.” In addition, this segment of the archive contains three handwritten reports detailing the route that the telephone line follows and each of the connection points and three invoices of materials and their cost used in the project. A wonderful archive of material relating to the early development of the telephone system in Washington, D.C. $15,000.

Unrecorded

30. [Benson, William]: SHAFTSBURY ELECTION: TO BE FURTHER HEARD, MAY 3. 1715. A PARTICULAR OF MR. BENSON’S ESTATE AT BROMLEY IN MIDDLESEX, WHEREBY HE MAKES OUT HIS QUALIFICATION, IN ANSWER TO THE EXCEPTIONS OF THE SITTING MEMBERS [caption title]. [London? 1715]. Broadsheet, 13½ x 10 inches. [1]p. plus printed docket title on verso. Dbd. Early folds and early stab holes in left margin. Small portion of inner margin excised, with no loss to text. Small stain, affecting one character of text, toning at upper edge. Else very good.

An unrecorded document lobbying Parliament in support of the election of William Benson as MP for Shaftesbury, disclosing the ownership history of, and financial information about, his family estates in Middlesex. William Benson (1682-1754) was a prominent early Whig political writer, politician, amateur architect, and patron of the arts. This broadsheet refers to the election by which Benson would first enter Parliament, by petition, in 1716. In 1718, Benson vacated the seat to replace Christopher Wren as Surveyor General of the Royal Works. He was relieved of that position the following year, after a humiliating incident in which he condemned the chamber of the House of Lords, incorrectly declaring that it was in imminent danger of collapse. An early example of lobbying literature, which first began proliferating in the lobby of the House of Commons at the time of the accession of King George I and the British general election of 1715. No copies recorded by ESTC or OCLC. DNB II, p.261. $1350.

Bentham on the “Demon of chicane.”

31. Bentham, Jeremy: CODIFICATION PROPOSAL, ADDRESS ... TO ALL NATIONS PROFESSING LIBERAL OPINIONS; OR IDEA OF A PROPOSED ALL-COMPREHENSIVE BODY OF LAW, WITH AN ACCOMPANIMENT OF REASONS, APPLYING ALL ALONG TO THE SEVERAL PROPOSED ARRANGEMENTS .... London: Printed by J. M’Creery, 1822. 106,[2],[107] -118pp. Octavo. Contemporary (original?) polished green muslin over boards, edges rough-trimmed. Cloth lightly rubbed, otherwise a very good, crisp copy.

An interesting copy, representing an intermediate issue of the first edition, with the title-leaf and list of Bentham’s publications which are characteristic of the first issue of the first edition, but also containing the two supplements that usually appear in the later issue, conjoined with the first edition sheets with a new 1830 title-leaf bearing the imprint of Reynell as printer and Robert Howard as publisher. Bentham here optimistically proposes a simplified system of easily understood and administered laws in order to get rid of the legal profession and what he describes as the “demon of chicane.” The supplements consist largely of responses in the form of correspondence from abroad to Bentham’s proposal. Not in Goldsmiths or Kress. OCLC/Worldcat locates four copies of this configuration, nine with the 1830 second issue title leaf and supplements, and eight of the 1822 first issue without the supplements. NCBEL II:1883. $1500.

A Remarkable Early Philippine Imprint and Linguistic Work

32. Bergaño, Diego: ARTE DE LA LENGUA PAMPANGA.... Sampaloc, [Philippines]: Convento de Ntra. Sra. de Loreto, 1736. [32],219,[3]pp. Printed on rice paper. Small quarto. Modern mottled calf, ornately gilt, by Palomino. First few leaves brittle with slight cracking and minor loss, else in excellent condition. Very good. In a half morocco box.

A remarkable survival of early Philippine printing, the extremely rare first book printed in Sampaloc (at that time a separate village but now in central Manila) and the second edition of the first grammar of the Panpanga language of Bataan and Bulacan in Manila Bay. Panpanga bears similarities to Tagalog (which is the subject of most early Philippine linguistic works) but with more Malay and Sanskrit words. The work was first printed in Manila at the Jesuit Press in 1729. The compiler Diego Bergaño (1690-1747) was the Augustinian Provincial for the Philippines and Prior of the Convent at Bacolor.

Printing started in the Philippines remarkably early, in 1593 (the unique example of the founding imprint is in the Rosenwald Collection at the Library of Congress), and was conducted by presses run by the different religious orders. Because of the climate and limited press runs, early imprints are notoriously rare, and generally in very poor condition when found. This is especially true of works printed on rice paper, as this is. A number of imprints recorded by Medina are known from references only, with no surviving copies. In the case of this work, only four copies are noted in OCLC, three in England and one in Germany. Medina based his entry on the copy in the British Library. PALAU 27815. RETANA, INVENTARIO 88. TAVERA 274. BRUNET I, 783-784, “ouvrage rare”. MEDINA, IMPRENTA DE MANILA, 197. $38,500.

The Revival of Tar-Water

33. Berkeley, George: SIRIS: A CHAIN OF PHILOSOPHICAL REFLECTIONS AND INQUI- RIES CONCERNING THE VIRTUES OF TAR WATER, AND DIVERSE OTHER SUBJECTS CONNECTED TOGETHER AND ARISING ONE FROM ANOTHER ... A NEW EDITION ... Dublin Printed, London Re-printed: For W. Innys, and C. Hitch ..., 1744 [bound with:] Prior, Thomas: AN AUTHENTIC NARRATIVE OF THE SUCCESS OF TAR-WATER, IN CURING A GREAT NUMBER AND VARIETY OF DISTEMPERS; WITH REMARKS , AND OCCASIONAL PAPERS RELATIVE TO THE SUBJECT. TO WHICH ARE SUBJOINED TWO LETTERS FROM THE AUTHOR OF SIRIS, SHEWING THE MEDICINAL PROPERTIES OF TAR-WATER, AND THE BEST MANNER OF MAKING IT. Dublin Printed, London Re-printed: For W. Innys, C. Hitch, and M. Cooper ... 1746. 174,[2]; [4],[5]-88pp. Octavo. Modern half-calf and marbled boards. Faint blindstamp and ink shelf number (the latter on verso of title) of The Library of the Society for the Home Study of Holy Scripture and Church History, first title leaf a trace foxed, otherwise a very good copy.

New (i.e. Third London) edition of the first title, Keynes’s variant A1b with “A Letter to T.P. ...” on the verso of the title. This copy has p. 160 misnumbered ‘610’. The second title is also a “New Edition” (i.e. the second London edition), and exhibits Keynes’s second (corrected) state of the title leaf: ‘Holbourn’. Berkeley first noticed the use of tar-infused water during his residence in America, and although cautious in his initial conclusions, he soon became an advocate of its use as an economical aid for the betterment of the health of the Irish people. Although by no means wanting in exposition of Berkeley’s larger philosophical considerations, the practical aspects of Siris led to its being his most popular work, and the investigation of tar-water generated a significant body of pamphlet literature in response (well delineated by Keynes), among which Prior’s work is one of the most significant. ESTC cites Bowyer’s ledger in reporting the edition of the first title consisted of 1000 copies and that of the second title 2000 copies. KEYNES (BERKELEY) 68 & 104. ESTC T45794 & T125698. $675.

A Fine Album of Early Bermuda Photographs

34. [Bermuda]: Lusher, N.E.: [Album Of Thirty-One Albumen Photographs Showing Scenes in Bermuda and Elsewhere]. [Bermuda. ca. 1882]. Sixteen leaves, containing thirty-one mounted photographs, each approximately 7 x 9 inches. Oblong folio. Contemporary black cloth, neatly rebacked and recornered with contemporary black morocco, gilt. Light wear and soiling to cards. Images generally crisp and clean. Very good plus.

A handsome 19th century photo album which includes the work of one of the great photographers of Bermuda. Three of the images have been definitely attributed to N.E. Lusher – the first, showing the construction of a gangway to a docked vessel at St. Georges; the eighth image, showing a shaded crossroads; and the charming ninth image of a black woman and a young boy seated in a donkey cart. The remainder of the album includes a number of images of Bermuda subjects which are of a similarly high quality which suggest that they are all the work of Lusher. Lusher apparently worked as a professional photographer from 1882 onwards, and is known for a wide range of work. His success more or less tied in with the explosion of tourism to the island that followed the first visit of Princess Louise to Bermuda in 1883. The images in the present album offer a good selection of the best of his work. They range from the reportage of the dock scenes, to the topographical images of the lighthouse and other island locations, to the true art of landscape photography, to the whims of images which feature the local inhabitants. Eighteen of the photographs have been identified as images of Bermuda, while the remainder show unidentified American coastal towns, possibly Nova Scotia, including an image of a coastal fortification, possibly in Halifax. The Bermuda images include a view of the docks at St. George’s; a view of the town of St. George’s; a stone quarry; royal palms on the road to Paget; a donkey cart; Gibb’s Hill Lighthouse; a field of Easter lilies; and stalactites, possibly in the Crystal Cave. $10,000.

35. [Bethel, Slingsby]: THE INTERESTS OF POLITICIANS AND STATES. London: Printed for John Wickins ..., 1680. [16],354,[4]pp., including preliminary blank and terminal adverts. Octavo. Old calf, side panels ruled in blind. Two early signatures on endsheet and first blank (“Edward Hoblyn”), another, somewhat later (“William Bickford, Dunsland”), in top margin of title (along with authorship attribution in the same hand), spine considerably chipped at crown and toe (but sound), no original pastedowns, and two bookplates (one on each inner board), but a good, internally very good, crisp copy.

First edition, being a substantial amplification of Bethel’s influential pamphlet, The Present Interest of England Stated (1671), coupled with new considerations of the same for the principal countries of Europe, with separate treatments of Genoa and Venice. Bethel (1617 – 1697) “was among the first English authors to adopt continental interest theory, and he also developed the idea of balance in his discussions of international affairs, trade, and religion ... [he] advocated the advancement of overseas trade as ‘the principal Interest of England,’ encouraged the government to adopt more supportive policies, and implicitly criticized Charles II for not already having done so...” – DNB. ESTC R11732. WING B2064. KRESS 1508. GOLDSMITHS 2439 (2nd ed. of 1681). $1250.

36. [Bible – Arabic]: THE HOLY BIBLE, CONTAINING THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS, IN THE ARABIC LANGUAGE. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Printed by Sarah Hodgson, 1811. [406] ff. [2],a2, A-4G4,4H2; [1], A-Z4, Aa4, Bb2. Large, thick quarto. 19th century calf, extensively embellished in blind, marbled endsheets. Joints cracking, but sound, extensive marginal restoration to English and Arabic general titles, and the N.T. title, with no loss of text, scattered early marginal restorations and repairs throughout; just a sound copy.

“The edition, produced under the patronage of the Bishop of Durham (Shute Barrington), was at first undertaken by Joseph Dacre Carlyle (1759-1806), Cambridge Professor of Arabic ... On Carlyle’s death Henry Ford, Lord Almoner’s Reader in Arabic at Oxford, took up the work, and saw the book through the press ... The text is based, apparently, on the London Polyglot [1655-7] ...” – D&M. Subscription records indicate over 2000 copies were printed. DARLOW & MOULE 1663. $1250.

37. [Bible – English]: THE HOLY BIBLE, CONTAINING THE OLD TESTAMENT AND THE NEW: NEWLY TRANSLATED OUT OF THE ORIGINAL TONGUES, AND WITH THE FOR- MER TRANSLATIONS DILIGENTLY COMPARED AND REVISED. BY HIS MAJESTY’S SPECIAL COMMAND. APPOINTED TO BE READ IN CHURCHES. Cambridge: Printed by Joseph Bentham, printer to the University, by whom they are sold in Cambridge, and by

Benj. Dod bookseller in Ave-Mary Lane, London, 1760. Not paginated. A-3C8 3D2 3E-T8,3U2. Bound up in two volumes. Attractively bound in contemporary dark blue-black morocco, with decorated gilt panels, raised bands and compartments, a.e.g., marbled endsheets. Text in double columns. Joints, spine extremities and edges a bit rubbed, but quite sound, foretips slightly bumped, two engraved armorial bookplates in each volume, the largest having a portion of the individual’s name effaced in each instance (‘Nathanael Hillier’ remains), some early small ink annotations (see below), otherwise a very good set.

An attractive edition, published the year of the death of Cambridge editor F.S. Parris (or Paris), and two years before Bentham’s publication of the edition denoted as ‘standard’ by Darlow & Moule, crediting the final revisions by Parris and overseen by H. Therold, in folio and quarto formats. Although the index of Books includes the Apocrypha, it is not present in this copy, or in the copy described by Darlow & Moule. The second volume commences with Isaiah, and the New Testament has its own full-title. An early, if not the original, owner charted his/her progress reading the entire text by inserting in neat ink manuscript the month and day each chapter was read. ESTC locates four copies in North America. DARLOW & MOULE (HERBERT) 1131. ESTC T90382. $1750.

38. [Bible – N.T. – English – Geneva Version]: Tomson, Laurence [revisions]: THE NEVVE TESTAMENT OF OUR LORD IESUS CHRIST, TRANSLATED OUT OF GREEKE BY THEOD. BEZA. WHEREUNTO ARE ADIOYNED LARGE EXPOSITIONS OF THE PHRASES AND HARDE PLACES BY THE AUTHOUR AND OTHERS: TOGETHER WITH A TABLE OR CONCORDANCE CONTEINING THE PRINCIPALL WORDES AND MATTERS COMPREHENDED HEREIN. London: Imprinted ... by Chris- topher Barker, printer to the Queenes most excellent Maiestie, [1583] [bound with:] Sternhold, Thomas, et al [eds]: THE WHOLE BOOKE OF PSALMES: COLLECTED INTO ENGLISH MEETER ... CONFERRED WITH THE HEBRUE, WITH APT NOTES TO SING THEM WITHALL. London: Imprinted by [John Wolfe for] John Day, 1583. [6],322,[19] leaves ;[12],136,[16]pp. Quarto. Full 19th century crushed levant, raised bands, gilt inner dentelles, a.e.g. by Jenkins & Cecil. Both titles within elaborate woodcut

borders, with woodcut map on verso of ¶8 and Royal Arms at conclusion of St. John. Woodcut initials. Texts in black letter, that in the second work in double columns. The first work wants the two preliminary blanks and the final blank. Joints rubbed, clearly washed and pressed at the time of binding, though with occasional light foxing and minor spotting remaining, a handful of small marginal repairs, lower margins of U2-3 in second work a bit frayed (with a few small chips not affecting text), old vertical crease in title pressed flat; generally a very good (if somewhat processed) copy.

The Geneva – Thomson text of the New Testament, revised by Thomson from the translation by Whittingham, Gilby, Sampson and others. First printed in 1576, Thomson’s revision eventually became the final and most popular version of the Geneva text. The edition of the Psalms by Sternhold and Hopkins was first published in its complete form in 1562, and was frequently reprinted, often to be bound to accompany other editions of the Bible. ESTC S123036 & S102250. STC 2885 & 2466. HERBERT 180. DARLOW & MOULE 137. LUBORSKY & INGRAM 2885. $9500.

First Part of the Bible Printed in Mongolian

39. [Bible – N.T. – Mongolian]: EVANGELIUM ST. MATHAEI IN LINGUAM CALMUCCO-MONGOLICAM TRANSLATUM AB ISAACO JACOBO SCHMIDT CURA ET STUDIO SOCIETATIS BIBLICAE RUTHENICAE TYPIS IMPRESSUM. St. Petersburg: Frideric Drechsler, 1815. Title page in Latin, title page in Mongo- lian; text: [33] leaves. Square quarto. Original dappled calf, upper board with circular blind stamp of Russian Bible Society. Spine perished (boards detached), some wear to edges.

First printing of any portion of the Bible in Mongolian, the Gospel of St. Matthew, translated by I.J. Schmidt into “an adaptation of ordinary Mongolian intended for the use of Kalmuks” (Darlow & Moule). Uncommon. DARLOW & MOULE 6830. $3500. One of 160 Copies Printed

40. [Bible – N.T. – Wycliffe Translation]: THE NEW TESTAMENT OF OUR LORD AND SAV- IOUR JESUS CHRIST TRANSLATED OUT OF THE LATIN VULGAT BY JOHN WICLIF, S.T.P. PREBENDARY OF AUST IN THE COLLEGIATE CHURCH OF WESTBURY, AND RECTOR OF LUTTERWORTH, ABOUT 1378. TO WHICH IS PRÆFIXT A HISTORY OF THE SEVERAL TRANSLATIONS OF THE H. BIBLE AND N. TESTAMENT, &c. INTO ENGLISH, BOTH IN MS AND PRINT, AND OF THE MOST REMARKABLE EDITIONS OF THEM SINCE THE INVENTION OF PRINTING. London: Sold by Thomas Page and William Mount ..., 1731. [2],iv,[4],108,[2],[3]-156,viii pp. Folio. Old calf, rebacked and recornered in the 20th century to style in brown calf, raised bands, lettered in gilt. Two fine engraved portraits, one folding plate. Three bookplates on front pastedown, modest tanning, some very tiny worm tracks in extreme edges of the portrait of Wycliffe, divisional title and first leaf of text of the NT nearly detached at gutter and a bit creased, light occasional foxing, a few short tears at the fore- edge of the folding plate, otherwise a very good copy.

First printing in book form of Wycliffe’s translation of the New Testament, accompanied by the extensive prefatory “History...” by John Lewis. At Wycliffe’s instigation, a group of scholars prepared this translation into Middle English of the New Testament from the Latin Vulgate in 1380, and though popular, it circulated only in manuscript until this edition. Over two hundred manuscript versions are known, many of them of the revised version prepared by John Purvey. In 1409 the Wycliffe version was condemned as heretical and outlawed in Britain. This edition was published by subscription, and the edition, including some copies on large paper, is reported to have consisted of only 160 copies. An advertisement leaf, a list of subscribers, and a page of errata follow the dedication. The frontis portrait of John Lewis and the portrait of Wycliffe are signed in the plate by G. White, and the engraved folding plate is based on the frontis of the Cranmer Bible. While well represented in institutions, copies of this edition are uncommon in the market place: ABPC records only three appearances since 1999, and only one of them, the Macclesfield copy sold in 2006, was complete with both the portraits, as is this copy. ESTC T95000. DARLOW & MOULE (HERBERT) 1011. MACCLESFIELD SALE vii:2452. $18,500.

41. [Binding – Pastiche]: THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER … ACCORDING TO THE USE OF THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA [with:] THE HYMNAL, AS AUTHORIZED AND APPROVED FOR USE BY THE GENERAL CONVENTION OF THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. New York: Oxford University Press, 1929-1920. xxxviii,598; xi,[i],547,[1]pp. 12mo, on India paper. Fine pastiche binding in the late-18th century dentelle style, red morocco, covers gilt with outer hound’s-tooth and single fillet border surrounding an inner border of repeating small floral tools, corners with gilt urn and floral tools, spine with five raised bands, lettered in one compartment, richly gilt in the rest, antique comb-marbled endpapers, a.e.g. and gauffered, by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, London, for Dutton, New York. Fine.

A lovely pastiche binding by Sangorski and Sutcliffe in the style of a late-18th century dentelle binding. Provenance: Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., family. GRIFFITHS 1929.7. $1000.

Held For Fifty-Three Years Without Habeas Corpus

42. [Blackburne, Robert, et al]: THE MOST SAD AND DEPLORABLE CASE OF ROBERT BLACKBURNE, JOHN BERNARDI, ROBERT CASSILLS, ROBERT MELDRUM, AND JAMES CHAMBERS. HUMBLY PRESENTED TO THE PARLIAMENT OF GREAT BRITAIN [caption title]. [London? ca. 1715]. Broadsheet, 14 x 8½ inches. [2]pp. With ornamental initial on recto and printed docket title on verso. Dbd. Early folds and early stab holes in left margin. Small portion of inner margin excised, with no loss to text. Mild foxing. Very good. A petition to Parliament to review the case of Robert Blackburne and others connected to the so-called “Lancashire Plot” who were imprisoned in London without charges, trial, or opportunity for habeas corpus. Robert Blackburne (d. 1748), a scion of prominent Roman Catholic families in Lancashire, and his companions were arrested in 1695 on suspicion of connection to an assassination plot against William III and held at Newgate prison, where “no person but our Jaylor and his Servants were permitted to speak with us. We were denied the Use of Pen, Ink, and Paper, debarred of all Comforts and Conveniences, and under great Hardships as to the very Necessaries of Life; out Confinement being so strict, that even our Food and Linnen were searched, to prevent the least Communication.” When after many years of being held without trial they finally managed to enter a request for habeas corpus, their petition was denied because they had not claimed it during the first parliamentary session after their imprisonment. This, they note, had been impossible to do, as they had had no access to pen, paper, or friends beyond the prison walls. Around 1715, following the accession of King George I and the election of a new Whig Parliament, the prisoners learned of a new bill in Parliament which they hoped would at last secure their release. It apparently was never passed, and Robert Blackburne was never exonerated; he died after fifty-three years’ imprisonment, never brought to trial.

An early example of lobbying literature, which first began proliferating in the lobby of the House of Commons during the 1710s. Signed in print by Robert Blackburne, John Cassells, John Bernardi, Robert Meldrum, and J. Chambers. Rare, with ESTC recording only four copies, three in England and one at the Folger Library. Thomas Taaffe, “Robert Blackburne,” in The Catholic Encyclopedia, Vol. 2 (New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1907), http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02590b.htm. $1500. Spanish Checkers

43. [Board Games]: Cecina Rica y Fergel, Pablo: MEDULA EUTROPELICA CALCULA- TORIA, QUE ENSEÑA A JUGAR À LAS DAMAS CON ESPADA, Y BROQUÉL: DIVIDIDA EN TRES TRATADOS ... CORREGIDA, Y AUMENTADA EN ESTA ULTIMA IMPRESION. Madrid: En la imprenta de Francisco Xavier Garcia, 1759. [16],184pp. including one nearly full-page woodcut of a board for the game of checkers. Contemporary vellum over boards. Vellum slightly worn, contemporary ink inscriptions on spine and front board. Contemporary inscriptions on titlepage and page 9, the latter above woodcut of board game. Occasional light dampstaining and moderate age-toning. A very good copy.

The scarce third edition, corrected and enlarged, of this popular manual for the game of checkers. First published in 1718 and reprinted circa 1740, this revised edition was followed by two 19th century printings. The handbook provides instruction with hundreds of potential game situations, each written out as a sequence of numbers. The woodcut illustration of the checkers board includes numbers in the white spaces which assist in following the various game sequences in the text. The work ends with the description of fifty-five games to be followed from beginning to end. A scarce Spanish manual for the game of checkers. OCLC lists five copies of this edition, a single copy of the first edition, and no copies of the second edition noted by Palau. PALAU 50862. OCLC 6932682, 28198728. $2000.

Association Copy, With Inscription by White Kennett

44. [Book of Common Prayer]: THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER, AND ADMINISTRA- TION OF THE SACRAMENTS, AND OTHER RITES AND CEREMONIES OF THE CHURCH, ACCORDING TO THE USE OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND; TOGETHER WITH THE PSALTER OR PSALMS OF DAVID.... London: Printed by John Baskett ...and by the Assigns of Thomas Newcomb, and Henry Hills ..., 1715. [20,380],23,[3]pp. terminating at 3A4. Folio (465 x 285 mm). Contemporary black gilt paneled armorial goatskin, heavily gilt extra, a.e.g., marbled endsheets. Engraved frontispiece. Text in double columns, printed in black and red, the whole ruled in red. Spine and upper spine quadrant of upper board restored with black calf, edges of text block smoke-darkened, with occasional shallow isolated penetration into margins, early repair on verso of frontispiece, tidemark in upper forecorner/quadrant of last three text leaves and endleaves, small mend on verso of title at top margin, occasional hand- soiling and smudging, a few minor marginal nicks or short tears; in spite of these detractions, in the main a bright, crisp copy.

One of two large folio printings of The Book of Common Prayer published by Baskett in

1715, this being the form that terminates at 3A4. This copy was associated with the family and descendants of Henry Clinton, seventh earl of Lincoln (1684 – 1728) and his wife Lucy, daughter of the first Baron Pelham. Inserted in the front are two conjugate sheets of paper (one blank), and laid in are two folio sheets of vellum (a bit stained along the top edges). The latter are occupied on three sides with a manuscript family record, written at various times and in various hands (including births, deaths, marriages, etc) from 1744 through the death in 1794 of Henry Fienes Pelham Clinton, Duke of Newcastle. The first of the inserted paper leaves is of perhaps greater interest, as it bears a fifteen line manuscript account by White Kennett, Bishop of Peterborough, signed and with his seal, of his baptism at the Parrish of St. James, in Westminster, on 12 February 1718/19, of the Clinton’s first son, George, for whom “His Excellent Majestie King George was Graciously Pleased to do this Honour ... to stand Godfather in his own Royal Person and to give him His own Royal Name of George....” Apart from his clerical responsibilities, Kennett (1660 – 1728) was an active antiquary, with particular interest in events in North America. He assembled a large and important library, and based on that collection, compiled the first attempt at a catalogue of books on North America: Bibliothecae Americanae Primordia. An Attempt Towards Laying The Foundation of An American Library.... London, 1713. His close friendship with Charles Trimnell, bishop of Norwich and one of George I’s favorites, secured him the bishopric of Peterborough in 1718. GRIFFITHS 1715.1. ESTC T81463. $2750. Interesting Provenance

45. [Book of Common Prayer]: THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER, AND ADMINISTRA- TION OF THE SACRAMENTS, AND OTHER RITES AND CEREMONIES OF THE CHURCH, ACCORDING TO THE USE OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND: TOGETHER WITH THE PSALTER OR PSALMS OF DAVID .... Cambridge: Printed by Joseph Bentham Printer to the University ... 1762. Not paginated. [¶2],A-2Z4,*A-*C4. Folio (signed in 4s). 40 x 25cm. Contemporary mottled calf, six raised bands, gilt monogram device of King George III in each spine compartment and in the extreme corners of the boards within a triple-ruled border, four ribbon ties at fore-edge (one nearly detached, but otherwise intact), a.e.g. Joints cracking, but cords sound, early amateurish repairs to spine ends and fore-corners, edgeworn, faint tidemark at extreme lower fore-corners of 3Z4 to end, occasional marginal smudges, but otherwise very good.

An uncommon variant of Bentham’s folio printing of 1762, with the separately signed Articles at the end concluding with *C4. ESTC locates but one copy of this variant (Queen’s College,

Oxford), as opposed to a dozen with the final leaf being 3A2. This copy has an interesting provenance -- it is inscribed in the upper margin of the title: “GH Governor of Minorca 1766.” After an active and successful military career George Howard (1718-1796), sat in the House of Commons for Lostwithiel from 1761 until 1766, when he was appointed Governor of Minorca -- the British had reclaimed the island in 1763 as a consequence of the Treaty of Paris. After holding the post for two years, he returned to political and military pursuits and continued to flourish. His second marriage, in May 1776, was to Elizabeth of the Beckford family. Given the Royal ornamentation of the binding, and the nature of the inscription, it seems probable that this represents a Royal gift to Howard, if not on the occasion, certainly in the year of Howard’s appointment to the Governorship. On the front pastedown appears the bookplate (two lions and “Virtus Mille Scuta”) associated with the Howards of Effingham. In 1762, Bentham published editions of the Prayer Book in quarto, octavo, 12mo and folio, the latter evidently in two issues -- the form recorded by Griffiths as 1762:2, and this form, which is unrecorded by Griffiths. ESTC N67552. $3750.

Printed on Vellum

46. [Book of Common Prayer]: THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER, AND ADMINISTRATION OF THE SACRAMENTS, AND OTHER RITES AND CEREMONIES OF THE CHURCH, AC- CORDING TO THE USE OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND; TOGETHER WITH THE PSALTER OR PSALMS OF DAVID .... London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, [nd. but 1910]. Two volumes. 356;357-587,[3]pp. Large, thick octavos. 260 x 195 mm. Publisher’s half pigskin, raised bands, and wooden boards, t.e.g, others untrimmed. Private bookplate on each pastedown. 1959 presentation t.l.s. affixed to first free endsheet, joints rubbed, with some narrow cracks (but quite sound), textblock quite fine.

A deluxe issue of the Book of Common Prayer marking the accession of King George V, printed on real vellum. The colophon on the verso of the title denotes this as copy #5 of six copies thus. However, Griffiths reports that there were two issues of six copies each, and notes the title-page is printed in red & black -- it is here printed in black only. Whether actually one of six, or one of a total of twelve copies on vellum, a very scarce format for this edition. GRIFFITHS 1910.1. $4500.

Association Copy

47. Boswell, James: THE LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D. COMPREHENDING AN ACCOUNT OF HIS STUDIES AND NUMEROUS WORKS.... London: Printed for Henry Baldwin, 1791. xii,[16],516;588[i.e.586],[1]pp. Two volumes. Quarto. Contemporary speckled calf, rebacked and recornered at a later date to a semblance of style, gilt labels. Portrait. Facsimile and plate. 19th century ink name (“Walter Fletcher”) on endsheets and effaced from margin of titles, edges rubbed, endsheets creased, some soiling to verso of portrait, clean tear in R4 (vol. I) with no loss, some occasional pencil annotations, but a sound set.

First edition, uncorrected state of I:135:10 (‘gve’), with the complement of cancels outlined by Pottle, as usual. In volume two, pages 78, 92, 275 and 352 are in their first, uncorrected states. Frequently remarked upon as one of the triumphs of the art of biography in the Eng- lish language. Each volume bears the bookplate of Jonathan Boucher (1737-1804), Anglican clergyman, and for a period beginning in 1759, a prominent figure in the colonies and intimate of George Washington. However, his staunch loyalist sympathies caused him to return to England in 1775, where he occupied himself with various matters, including, for fourteen years, an unfinished “Glossary of Archaic and Provincial Words,” intended to supplement Johnson’s Dictionary. After his death a preliminary section was published, but the remainder of his work was turned over to the proprietors of Webster’s English Dictionary. ROTHSCHILD 463. POTTLE 79. GROLIER ENGLISH HUNDRED 65. ESTC T64481. $6750.

Rare First Book

48. [Boswell, Sir Alexander]: SONGS, CHIEFLY IN THE SCOTTISH DIALECT. Edinburgh: Printed by Mundell & Son, 1802. 24pp. Small octavo. Sewn into somewhat later plain wrappers. A few minor corner nicks, wrappers split at spine, trivial foxing, otherwise a near fine copy.

First edition, first printing, of the first separate publication by the son of the biographer. In addition to Alexander’s original verse and adaptations, which the DNB describes as “very graphic, full of Scotch humour, but coarse at times,” the collection prints for the first time James Boswell’s poem, “Song to an Irish Air.” This edition is quite rare, and the collection is most commonly known through the 1803 second edition, published under the imprint of Manners & Miller, paginated at 34pp. Pottle treats James Boswell’s appearance based on the 1803 edition, noting that edition “seems to be very scarce. I have met with only one copy, that in the New York Public Library.” An OCLC search (as of 2013) records eight copies of the 1803 second edition, and four copies of this edition (Yale, Harvard, McMaster and Nat’l Library of Scotland). We note one copy at auction in recent years: Sotheby’s, Sept 28, 1979, lot 374, £1,400 ($3066.00), to Quaritch. POTTLE (POSTHUMOUS PUBLICATIONS) 3 (1803 edition). NCBEL III:368. OCLC: 54297851. TINKER 296 (1803 edition bound with other, later publications). $6000.

Some Notables Subscribed

49. Bourrit, Marc Theodore: A RELATION OF A JOURNEY TO THE GLACIERS, IN THE DUTCHY OF SAVOY .... Norwich: Printed by Richard Beatniffe, 1775. [48],xxi,[1],264,[2]pp. plus three plates. Engraved dedication leaf. Octavo. Contemporary calf, newly rebacked in ruled calf with gilt label. Binding a bit darkened at edges, old tidemark in lower gutter quarter of dedication leaf and plates, early ink name on title of A. Wickham and bookplate of William Wickham, later small book label of the Lewis Walpole Library (bearing release stamp), a few pencil corrections in the text, otherwise a very good copy.

First edition in English of Bourrit’s Déscription Des Glacières (1773), translated by C. and F. Davy. Although the table lists over twenty plates that were intended to accompany the narrative, only three were actually issued with this edition. The substantial list of subscribers includes such luminaries as Samuel Johnson, Beckford, Burke, Garrick, Reynolds, and Horace and other Walpoles (it is dedicated by the translators to Mrs. R. Walpole). Bourrit was precentor of the church of St. Peter at Geneva, and enjoyed a passionate amateur’s enthusiasm for the Alps and mountaineering. In 1784, he made the first (unsuccessful) attempt at an ascent of Mount Blanc. London and Dublin editions, and a second Norwich edition, appeared in 1776, but the first is uncommon. ESTC T131801. $2250.

One of the Greatest Natural History Color Plate Books

50. Brookshaw, George: POMONA BRITANNICA; OR, A COLLECTION OF THE MOST ESTEEMED FRUITS AT PRESENT CULTIVATED IN THIS COUNTRY ... SELECTED PRIN- CIPALLY FROM THE ROYAL GARDENS AT HAMPTON COURT, AND THE REMAINDER FROM THE MOST CELEBRATED GARDENS ROUND LONDON. ACCURATELY DRAWN AND COLOURED FROM NATURE, WITH FULL DESCRIPTIONS OF THEIR VARIOUS QUALITIES, SEASONS, &c. London: Printed for the Author by T. Bensley, published by White, Cochrane, & Co., E. Lloyd and W. Lindsell, [1804]-1812 [text watermarked 1811, plates watermarked 1801-1811]. Folio (22 5/8 x 17 1/2 inches). Letterpress dedication to the Prince Regent, small format additional text leaf bound facing plate XL, small correction slip pasted onto p.26. Ninety fine aquatint and stipple-engraved plates, printed in colors and finished by hand. Extra-illustrated with a fine contemporary watercolour of plate LII (Black Prince grapes), with a printed imprint from another plate altered in manuscript mounted at the bottom of the image. Contemporary olive green straight-grain morocco, covers elaborately bordered in blind and gilt, expertly rebacked to style. Very good.

A fine copy of “one of the finest color plate books in existence” (S.T. Pride- aux), the most famous of all English pomological works: this copy extra- illustrated with an original watercolor and with proof and early impressions of the plates. Originally published in parts between 1804 and 1812, the work contains depictions and brief descriptions of over two hundred and fifty varieties of fruit, the majority shown against striking dark aquatint backgrounds that have become Brookshaw’s trademark. The images include seven plates of Cherries, ten of Plums and Apricots, fifteen of Peaches and Nectarines, five of Pineapples, seventeen of Grapes, nine of Melons, eleven of Pears and seven of Apples. Most of the drawings were taken from specimens in the Royal Gardens at Hampton Court, Windsor, Kensington Gardens, the Prince of Wales’ house at Blackheath, the Duke of York’s residence at Oatlands, but others came from the noble collections at Sion House, Strawberry Hill, Osterley Park and Chiswick House, and the private collections of connoisseurs such as James Maddock of Walworth, Dr. John Coakley Lettsom of Grove Hill in Camberwell and Sir Joseph Banks. Each fruit was originally painted by George Brookshaw and then engraved either by Brookshaw or his brother Richard who died in 1804; additionally, one plate (number XLVIII) is identified as being engraved by H. Merke. “The Pomona was intended to be an accurate record of the best available varieties of fruit and to encourage people to cultivate them. Brookshaw’s introduction underlines the importance of the subject by recommending it to the infant Horticultural Society (founded in 1804): ‘It should be the business of the Horticultural Society, to try experiments to improve the growth of fruit. How much so ever the subject has been neglected, it is of sufficient importance to demand attention.’ It also expresses the author’s and artist’s own hopes for his book’s value: ‘If any hints given in the course of these sheets, should induce the lovers of fruit to make any discovery, to be the means of improving their gardens, the end will have been in a great measure answered for which this Work was executed’” – Oak Spring Pomona. By 1783 the Birmingham-born Brookshaw was a fashionable and successful cabinet-maker, known for his furniture with all-over painted decoration with figurative, landscape and, above all, floral themes, and with a list of highly-placed clients including the Prince of Wales. By the mid-1790s he had disappeared: Lucy Woods suggests that a scandal of some sort drove him to abandon his career and to live under an assumed name, working at a completely new career. She believes that A New Treatise on Flower Painting, published anonymously in 1797 and later (in the third edition of 1799) in the name of G. Brown, was actually by Brook- shaw, whose A Supplement to the Treatise on Flower Painting published in 1817 has largely the same content – including eleven plates supposedly by Brookshaw but identical to those in the earlier work, where they were attributed to Brown. If Wood’s hypothesis is correct, then the Pomona marks the first public resumption by Brook- shaw of the use of his own name, as well as the first indication of his new métier. This lovely copy includes the notable addition of an original watercolor of plate 53, an image of Black Prince grapes (bound facing the printed plate). Furthermore, this copy includes proofs of at least four plates (43, 44, 52 and 92), unrecorded color variants of others (7 and 37), as well as early states of others (including 2, 3, 7, 47, 51 and 61). BUNYARD, p.432. DUNTHORNE 50. GREAT FLOWER BOOKS (1990), p.52. NISSEN (BBI) 244. OAK SPRING POMONA 40a. PRIDEAUX, p.2. PRITZEL 1182. Taschen (publishers), GEORGE BROOKSHAW POMONA BRITANNICA THE COMPLETE PLATES (Koln, London, etc., 2002). $190,000.

Cornerstone of American Fiction State with the Frontis Unsigned

51. [Brown, William Hill]: THE POWER OF SYMPATHY: OR, THE TRIUMPH OF NATURE. FOUNDED IN TRUTH. IN TWO VOLUMES.... Boston: Isaiah Thomas and Company, 1789. vi,[7]-138,[blank leaf];158pp[blank leaf]. 12mo. Two volumes bound in one. Contemporary sheep, neatly rebacked in matching calf, gilt label. Inserted engraved frontis by Samuel Hill (unsigned in this copy). Characteristic offsetting from frontis to title, some occasional foxing and spotting, several relevant clippings affixed to rear binder’s endsheet and pastedown; withal, a very good copy. Half morocco slipcase and chemise.

First edition of the prose work generally accorded status as the first American “novel,” its few potential predecessors being more properly categorized as political or religious allego- ries. This epistolary romance was long ascribed to Sarah Wentworth Apthorp Morton due to parallels of incident with events in her life, but the attribution to Brown is now canonical. The novel’s intended purpose, “to expose the dangerous consequences of seduction,” is accomplished, though with a high moral tone, via a narrative of infidelity, suicide and a near miss at an incestuous marriage. The plot’s parallels with a reported liaison between Sarah Morton’s husband, Perez, and her sister, Frances Apthorp, lead to the earlier misattribution, and a hostile reception by the clergy and the press, leading to anecdotal tales of destruction of copies shortly after publication. In most copies, including all those examined by BAL, the frontispiece is signed by Hill in the plate below the lower frame; this copy does not bear the cutline, and though BAL records that such copies have been reported, implies those reports may be erroneous. However, it was also not present in the Bennett-Martin copy, and precedence (if any) does not seem to have been established. This copy has a number of early 20th century clippings about the book, its rarity, and the question of authorship affixed to the rear binder’s endsheets. EVANS 21979 BAL 1518. WRIGHT I:432. ESTC W27779. WEGELIN (FICTION), p.26. $10,000.

52. Buckler, John: [View of Saint Mary Magdalen College, Oxford]. London. 1799. Colored aquatint engraving. Image size 15½ x 22¾ inches, matted and framed to 24 x 32 inches. Minor toning, else fine. Matted and framed.

A large aquatint engraving by British artist John Buckler (1770-1851), with a view of Mary Magdalen College as seen from across the river. The River Cherwell is in the foreground, and the Magdalen Bridge and the College buildings are seen from a distance, with the main tower rising centrally in the landscape. Buckler went to work as a clerk for the College’s steward at the age of fifteen, establishing a lifelong involvement with the college. “Buckler is chiefly remembered for his skill and industry as a topographical artist, a calling which he pursued in the seemingly generous spare time allowed him by Magdalen College. His first recorded drawings were of Wolvercote church, north of Oxford; one of his drawings was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1798, and he exhibited there every year until 1849. In 1797, with the encouragement of Martin Routh, president of Magdalen, whom he later described as his ‘early and constant friend’ (Buckler, 50), he published two aquatint engravings of the college, and two years later, in 1799, again with Routh’s support, he made an engraving of Lincoln Cathedral, the first of a series of engraved views which by 1814 had grown to include all the English cathedrals and many of the major collegiate and parish churches. ... Commissions from other antiquaries, among them William Salt of Stafford, and from several noblemen, gentlemen, and clergy- men, followed rapidly, and by the end of his life Buckler could claim authorship of 13,000 drawings of buildings throughout England and Wales, with Somerset, Yorkshire, Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire, Staffordshire, and Wiltshire especially strongly represented. (Taunton Museum, Somerset, holds a collection of Buckler’s drawings, as does the Bodle- ian Library, Oxford.) These meticulous works of art, in pencil or pen and wash, supplied an invaluable body of information about medieval and later buildings, many of them previously unrecorded, and many subsequently demolished or drastically altered” – DNB. This print appears to be rather scarce and is actually misidentified and dated incorrectly in the British Museum’s online catalog, as their copy is lacking the imprint line. No other references to this work could be found. DNB (online). BRITISH MUSEUM CATALOG (online) 1917, 1208.2955. $1750.

53. [Burke, Edmund]: A PHILOSOPHICAL ENQUIRY INTO THE ORIGIN OF OUR IDEAS OF THE SUBLIME AND BEAUTIFUL. London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley, 1757. viii,[8],[1]- 184pp. Small octavo. Modern three quarter calf and marbled boards, gilt labels. Half-title bound in. Neatly and properly released institutional duplicate, with tiny, faint stamp and release stamp on verso of title and in one gutter, several corners creased, some scattered light foxing and occasionally moderately obtrusive marginal soiling, clean 2.5cm tear in lower margin of E4; a good, sound copy.

First edition, with Todd’s state 2 of N2 verso. Todd speculates that the first edition may have been relatively small, on the order of five hundred copies. “This treatise, strange as some of its dicta are, was held by Johnson to be ‘an example of true criticism’” – DNB. TODD 5a. ESTC T42248. $2500.

54. [Burke, Edmund]: A PHILOSOPHICAL ENQUIRY INTO THE ORIGIN OF OUR IDEAS OF THE SUBLIME AND BEAUTIFUL ... WITH AN INTRODUCTORY DISCOURSE CONCERN- ING TASTE, AND SEVERAL OTHER ADDITIONS. London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley, 1759. ix,[7],342pp. Small octavo. Period calf and marbled boards, rebacked to style, gilt label. Old tidemark to binder’s endsheets, early ink authorship attribution, light foxing and occasional light spotting (noticeable in the upper fore-corner of X1-Z3), lacking terminal blank. A good, sound copy.

Second edition, with additions. Todd speculates that the first edition [April 1757] may have been relatively small, on the order of five hundred copies, and this revised edition appeared in early January. “This treatise, strange as some of its dicta are, was held by Johnson to be ‘an example of true criticism’” – DNB. TODD 5b. ESTC T42249 $875.

In a Virginia Binding

55. Burke, Edmund: REFLECTIONS ON THE REVOLUTION IN FRANCE, AND ON THE PROCEEDINGS OF CERTAIN SOCIETIES IN LONDON RELATIVE TO THAT EVENT. IN A LETTER INTENDED TO HAVE BEEN SENT TO A GENTLEMAN IN PARIS...THE SECOND EDITION. London: Printed for J. Dodsley, 1790. iv,356pp. [bound with:] Mackintosh, James: VINDICIAE GALLICAE. DEFENCE OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION AND ITS ENGLISH ADMIRERS AGAINST THE ACCUSATIONS OF THE RIGHT HON. EDMUND BURKE; INCLUDING SOME STRICTURES ON THE LATE PRODUCTION OF MONS. DE CALO- NNE. Philadelphia: Printed by William Young, 1792. 175,[1]pp. [bound with:] THE FRENCH CONSTITUTION, REVISED, AMENDED, AND FINALLY DECREED, BY THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY. PRESENTED TO THE KING ON THE 3d, AND ACCEPTED BY HIM ON THE 13th OF SEPTEMBER, 1791. Philadelphia: Printed by William Young, 1791. 22pp., lacking the half title. Contemporary calf, gilt morocco spine label, spine ruled in gilt, printed Freder- icksburg, Virginia, binder’s ticket on the front pastedown. Front hinge a bit weak, worn along edges and spine ends; label removed from spine. Modern bookplate on front pastedown. Tanned, scattered foxing. Good.

An interesting sammelband of works on the French Revolution, bound in a contemporary calf binding by William F. Gray of Fredericksburg, Virginia. Gray was a prominent bookseller and binder, who sold books to, and bound volumes for, Thomas Jefferson. Gray’s printed binder’s ticket, featuring an ornamental border and various typefaces, is pasted onto the front pastedown. The American Bookbinders Museum identifies three other labels used by William Gray, but not the present example. The first title is the third impression of the second edition of Burke’s spirited fusillade against the revolutionary fervor in France, described by PMM as “one of the most brilliant of all polemics.” The second title is the only American edition of Scottish jurist James Mackin- tosh’s spirited and popular reply to Burke. The DNB calls Mackintosh’s tract one of the two most important responses to Burke, along with Thomas Paine’s Rights of Man. The work propelled Mackintosh to fame and was very influential, though he eventually grew critical of the excesses of the French Revolution. The third title is one of only two American printings of the 1791 French constitution, both of which appeared in Philadelphia (this printing listed first by Evans) A nice collection of important tracts on the French Revolution, almost certainly assembled by a Virginian with an interest in politics and foreign affairs, and bound by a significant Fredericksburg, Virginia, binder. PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN 239. TODD 53d. ESTC T120625, W36406, W12263. EVANS 24495, 23383. $1500.

56. [Burke, John]: THE CASE OF MOUNTAGUE EARL OF ABINGDON AND ROBERT EARL FERRERS, UPON THEIR BILL FOR EXPLAINING AND BETTER EXECUTING THE INTENTIONS OF A FORMER ACT, INTITULED [AN ACT FOR MAKING PROVISION FOR THE PROTESTANT CHILDREN OF THE EARL OF CLANRICARDE AND LORD BOPHIN] AND FOR SALE OF FARTHER PART OF THE SAID EARL’S ESTATE FOR PAYMENT OF THE DEBTS AND PORTIONS REMAINING, CHARGEABLE UPON THE SAME [caption title]. [London? ca. 1715]. Small folio broadsheet. [1]p. plus printed docket title on verso. Dbd. Early stab holes in left margin. Moderately soiled and foxed. Else very good.

A petition to Parliament by Montagu Venables-Bertie, Earl of Abingdon, and Robert Shirley, Earl Ferrers, the guardians of the children of John Burke, 9th Earl of Clanricarde. Burke had fought in Ireland in the army of James II against William of Orange and was taken prisoner at the Battle of Aughrim in 1691. His estates in Ireland were forfeited and his children given to the care of the Earl of Abingdon and Earl Ferrers with instructions that they receive a Protestant education. After Burke was acquitted by an act of Parliament in 1701 and restored to his estates, the taxes that had accrued on his property hindered the flow of payments the English lords required for the care and education of his children. In the present document those lords seek a sale of Burke’s lands to fund a situation “whereby the younger Sons of the Earl will be educated in the Protestant Religion, the old Incumbrances which Papists have upon the Estate will be discharged, and the Protestant Interest strengthened.” An early example of lobbying literature, which first began proliferating in the lobby of the House of Commons at the time of the accession of King George I and the British general election of 1715. Rare, with ESTC recording only one copy, at Oxford. $1250. Henry James’s Set

57. Burton, Richard F.: PERSONAL NARRATIVE OF A PILGRIMAGE TO EL-MEDINAH AND MECCAH .... London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1855-6. Three volumes. xiv,[2],388,[24]pp. plus tinted frontis, folding map, and 2 colored plates; iv,426pp. plus two plans (one folding), a color frontis, and 3 tinted plates; x,[2],448pp. plus color frontis and plate, five plain plates (4 tinted), and a folding plan. Large octavo. Deep blue cloth, decorated in black, lettered in gilt, edges rough trimmed. A somewhat weary set, the first volume rebacked with the original backstrip laid down, the second and third with wear and fraying to spine extremities and somewhat shaken; internally the first two volumes are rather sporadically foxed, the third somewhat less so; the margins of the plates are tanned; an early ink name appears on a prelim or the title of each volume, and a somewhat later, larger ownership inscription appears on the verso of the front free endsheet of the first volume. An unlovely, but sound set, with interesting association import (see below).

First edition of Burton’s most famous early travel narrative, based on his own visits, in disguise, to the Arab holy cities. A second edition followed in 1857, and it assumed some stature as one of the most considerable works of travel literature of the latter half of the 19th century. This is a rather interesting association copy, bearing in the first volume, on the verso of the free endsheet, the ownership signature of Henry James, dated 1903. It is unclear what, if any, impression reading Burton’s narrative might have had on James, and it seems unlikely, at best, that their paths ever crossed in Italy or elsewhere during Burton’s later years. Edel and Tintner record James’ ownership of this book -- the only title by Burton they record in James’ library -- noting its existence based on the Hodgson list and Fabes catalogues, but it is among those titles that were, at the time of their work (preceding 1987), “whereabouts unknown.” EDEL & TINTNER (JAMES LIBRARY), p.24. PENZER, p.49 ff. $9500.

58. Butler, Joseph: THE ANALOGY OF RELIGION, NATURAL AND REVEALED, TO THE CONSTITUTION AND COURSE OF NATURE .... London: Printed for James, John and Paul Knapton, 1736. [12],x,11-320pp. Large quarto. Modern half calf and marbled boards, raised bands, gilt label. Early ink name (“Thomas Ludlam”) on title and transcription from Plutarch on the half-title (to all appearances in the same hand), faint seminary blindstamp in blank lower forecorner of title, with 4 digit ms. number on verso of title, occasional very minor dust marking to top margins, otherwise a large (25.5 x 20.5 cm), fresh, crisp copy.

First edition of Butler’s magnum opus, one of the signal works in the controversy against de- ism, and “one of the bulwarks of Christian apologetics ... Hume, who sent Butler his Essays in 1741, ranked him with Locke and Berkeley as one of the originators in the experimental method in moral science ...”(PMM) and his influence was noted by figures as diverse as Mill, Newman, Gladstone and Macaulay. It would indeed be pleasant if the ownership signature conformed to Thomas Ludlam (1727-1811), the theologian, disciple of Locke, and staunch advocate of the application of reason in the analysis of religious experiences. PRINTING & THE MIND OF MAN 193. GROLIER ENGLISH HUNDRED 44. ESTC T06797. NCBEL II:1856-7. $800.

59. [Cacti – Giant]: von dem Bussche, Wolf [editor & photographer]: TOTEM THE PAPAGO LEGEND OF THE CREATION OF THE GIANT CACTUS, CALLED SAGUARO, WITH TWELVE PHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGES BY .... [Berkeley, CA]: Three Plowshares, 1993. [2],vii,11 leaves plus twelve mounted photographs. Folio (56.4 x 45.5 cm). Loose sheets, laid into publisher’s cloth covered clamshell box. Trace of bookplate inside lid of box, otherwise fine.

First edition. Introduction by Malcolm Margolin. A formidable production, with the text of the legend edited by von dem Bussche from the record of the legend published by Harold B. Wright, accompanied by twelve original prints of his photographs (39 x 30cm) on Ilford Multigrade matte paper, mounted on Rives, each printed by him, and signed and captioned on the mount in pencil. The letterpress was beautifully printed in Lithos type on Rives Moulin de Gué at the Okeanos Press. The total edition was limited to 77 portfolios, of which this is one of 25 “special” lettered copies reserved for public and special collections. Most widely known for his almost iconic images of the World Trade Center and other New York fixtures, von dem Bussche brought a special personal interest and sensitivity to this production, every aspect of which involved his participation. $6000.

60. Calvin, Jean, and [Arthur Golding (translator)]: THE PSALMES OF DAVID AND OTH- ERS. WITH M. IOHN CALVINS COMMENTARIES. [London: Imprinted ... by Thomas East and Henry Middleton: for Lucas Harrison, and George Byshop], 1571. [6],287,[1],259,[11] leaves. Wanting 4 preliminary leaves (*3-6), but with genuine blanks 2N8 and [4L6]. Small, thick quarto. Old, possibly contemporary calf, raised bands, gilt spine label. Title within ornate border. Ownership signature in upper blank corner of title, with several dates 1735-8 surrounding it, later ink signature on front free endsheet, 1693 ownership signature on verso of terminal blank, bookplate of H.A. Underwick on pastedown, some small rust spots to the Table and terminal blank, with consequent small patch of erosion in blank foremargin of last six leaves, shallow tidemark in top blank portion of gutter of last few leaves, otherwise (and apart from the four missing preliminary leaves), a very good copy.

The first edition of Arthur Golding’s celebrated translation of Calvin’s Commentarius in Li- brum Psalmorum, accompanied by the relevant selection of Psalms in English. Although the majority of his published works as translator were not literary, his wider reputation rests with his translation of Ovid’s Metamorphosis from the original Latin, which was widely influential on the likes of Marlowe, Spenser, and, of course, Shakespeare. The four missing leaves consist of the conclusion of Golding’s “Epistle Dedicatorie” and of the opening of Calvin’s Introduction “To the Reader.” An uncommon book: ABPC notes only two appearances of copies at auction in the last two decades, both of them significantly imperfect. ESTC S107215. STC 4395. $2750. 61. Camden, William: BRITANNIA. SIVE FLORENTISSIMORVM REGNORVM, ANGLIAE, SCOTIAE, HIBERNIAE, ET INSVLARVM ADIACENTIUM EX INTIMA ANTIQUITATE CHO- ROGRAPHICA DESCRIPTIO. London: Ralph Newbery, 1587. [16],648,[22]pp. Contemporary vellum, manuscript spine title. Minor toning and soiling, contemporary notations throughout the text, otherwise generally clean internally. Very good.

Second edition of the first major topographical treatment of Britain. Camden was urged and encouraged to undertake this massive survey by Ortelius. Ten years in the making, the work forced the author to “get some knowledge of the Welsh and Anglo-Saxon languages, to read and read again both native and other historians, many of whose works still remained in manuscript, and to ransack and select from the public records” – DNB. The work was an immediate success, passing through three editions in the first four years. “If Camden was not the first English historian (in the modern sense of the word), topographer and antiquar- ian, he was certainly the first to relate the three studies, and his Britannia is the first book which shows the need to evaluate sources. It was the revolutionary subject matter, and its even more evolutionary treatment of the subject, which made it at once the vehicle and the model for research in all three subjects for the next two hundred and fifty years” – PMM. ESTC S107382. STC 4504. PRINTING & THE MIND OF MAN 101 (1st ed). GRAESSE II, p.24. LOWNDES I, p.357. $1500.

62. Camden, William: BRITANNIA. SIVE FLORENTISSIMORVM REGNORVM, ANGLIAE, SCOTIAE, HIBERNIAE, ET INSULARUM ADIACENTIUM EX INTIMA ANTIQUITATE CHO- ROGRAPHICA DESCRIPTIO. London: George Bishop, 1594. [16],717,[24]pp. Quarto. Con- temporary calf; neatly rebacked to style. Corners rubbed. Bookplates on front pastedown. Some contemporary notations to first part of text, otherwise internally clean and yery good.

Fourth edition of the first major topographical treatment of Britain. Camden was urged and encouraged to undertake this massive survey by Ortelius. Ten years in the making, the work forced the author to “get some knowledge of the Welsh and Anglo-Saxon languages, to read and read again both native and other historians, many of whose works still remained in manuscript, and to ransack and select from the public records” – DNB. The work was an immediate success, passing through three edition in the first four years. “If Camden was not the first English historian (in the modern sense of the word), topographer and antiquar- ian, he was certainly the first to relate the three studies, and his Britannia is the first book which shows the need to evaluate sources. It was the revolutionary subject matter, and its even more evolutionary treatment of the subject, which made it at once the vehicle and the model for research in all three subjects for the next two hundred and fifty years” – PMM. ESTC S107385. STC 4506. PRINTING & THE MIND OF MAN 101 (1st ed). GRAESSE II, p.24. LOWNDES I, p.357. $1250.

63. Camden, William: BRITAIN, OR A CHOROGRAPHICALL DESCRIPTION OF THE MOST FLOURISHING KINGDOMES, ENGLAND, SCOTLAND, AND IRELAND, AND THE ILANDS ADIOYNING, OUT OF THE DEPTH OF ANTIQUITIE: BEAUTIFIED WITH MAPPES OF THE SEVERALL SHIRES OF ENGLAND: VVRITTEN FIRST IN LATINE BY WILLIAM CAMDEN CLARENCEUX K. OF A. TRANSLATED NEWLY INTO ENGLISH BY PHILÉMON HOLLAND DOCTOUR IN PHYSICK: FINALLY, REVISED, AMENDED, AND ENLARGED WITH SUN- DRY ADDITIONS BY THE SAID AUTHOR. London: George Bishop & John Norton, 1610. [16],208,207-287 [i.e. 299],302-822,[2],233, [55]pp. Folio. 19th century half morocco and marbled boards and endpapers. Additional engraved title-page, letterpress title-page with woodcut device and ornament, 8 full-page engravings of coins in the text, and 55 engraved maps (of 57 – lacking Somersetshire and Durham), all but 2 double-page; numerous illustrations in text. Minor dampstaining to first few leaves at outer margins; two maps backed, and ragged along edges, a few maps shaved into the plate with slight loss; a few corners restored, barely affecting images; overall, both text and maps quite clean, and a good, sturdy copy.

First edition in English of one of the great achievements of English scholarship, the first comprehensive topographical survey of Great Britain, and a book of the greatest importance in the development of the nation’s self image. Camden’s work first appeared in Latin in 1586 in thick octavo volume dedicated to Lord Burghley: “It received immediate recognition … and its successive, enlarged editions of 1587, 1590, 1594, 1600 (dedicated to Queen Elizabeth) and 1607 (dedicated to King James) and its English translation of 1610 by Philemon Holland attest to its popularity … Throughout the decades after its first appearance Camden continued to revise the text and experiment with the work’s format and apparatus, and he worked closely with Holland on the 1610 translation. In spite of the author’s collaboration, however, the translation is often inaccurate and takes liberties with the material, and for this reason is regarded as inferior to Edmund Gibson’s translation of 1695. By 1607, the year of its last Latin edition in Camden’s lifetime, published in folio and containing an index, maps by Saxton and Norden, and engravings of coins, monuments, and topographical sites, it had evolved into an impressive and editori- ally sophisticated work of scholarship -” DNB. STC 4509. ESTC S107167. PRINTING & THE MIND OF MAN 101 (1st ed). $15,000.

64. [Camden, William]: REMAINES CON- CERNING BRITAINE: BUT ESPECIALLY ENGLAND, AND THE INHABITANTS THERE- OF.... London: John Legatt, 1614. [4],181,190- 386pp., with pages 71 and 333 as ‘57’ and ‘338’, respectively. Late 17th century paneled calf, black gilt morocco labels. Elaborate woodcut insignia of Cambridge on title-leaf. Scuffed, joints and hinges cracked but holding, slight loss of calf along spine, bookplate on front pastedown, internally clean. Good.

Later edition, after the first of 1605. A history and overview of the British people, by the noted British antiquary and historian. The present text is Camden’s “commonplace” variant of his notable history, Britannia, which first appeared in 1586 and was the greatest effort of its kind since Leland. Dedicated to Sir Robert Cotton, who sheltered Camden at his country residence when the plague broke out in London. Scarce. STC 4522. ESTC S107394. $600.

65. Carnegie, Andrew: [Typed Letter, Signed, From Andrew Carnegie to John A. Stewart]. New York. May 13, 1912. [1]p. on letterhead. Some light soiling in margin, else fine. In a quarto folding cloth case, leather label.

To John A. Stewart of the National Committee for the Celebration of the One Hundredth Anniversary of Peace: “Congratulations upon your success so far. You may be sure that I will do all in my power to help you, regretting, however, that I hav [sic] so little time at my disposal these days. Truly the way of the filanthropist [sic] is hard....” Carnegie would go on to serve as Chairman of the Committee, which celebrated 100 years of peace among English-speaking nations on December 24, 1914. $1250.

The Originals of One of America’s Most Famous Cartoon Strips

66. [Cartoons]: Fisher, Bud: THE MUTT AND JEFF CARTOONS. [Books 1, 2, and 3]. Boston. 1910-1912. Three volumes. [64]; [68]; [64]pp. Narrow oblong folio. Cloth spines with original pictorial paper boards. Light wear to boards, front hinge of first volume detached from text block; second volume with some light dampstaining; minor soiling to all three, but generally in unusually nice condition.

“Mutt and Jeff” was the first successful daily comic strip in America, pioneering the genre and running in syndication from its debut in 1907 until 1982. Created by cartoonist Bud Fisher, the strip features two characters – the tall, gangly Mutt and his physical opposite, Jeff – and their quirky, slapstick antics. The strip spawned comic books, films, cartoon shows, merchandise, and spinoffs, and led the way for the “funny pages” in newspapers. $1000.

A Wonderful Presentation Copy, from Franklin to DuPont

67. Cavallo, Tiberius: THE HISTORY AND PRACTICE OF AEROSTATION. London: Printed for the author, 1785. viii,326,[8]pp. plus two engraved folding plates. Dbd. (most of original rear wrapper is intact). Some loosening of gatherings at spine. Light wear and soiling to titlepage. Presentation inscription by Benjamin Franklin on titlepage; other contemporary inscriptions. Minor soiling to text. About very good. In a calf clamshell box, tooled in blind, spine gilt. Provenance: George Morland (signature); unidentified collector (sale, Christie’s, Dec. 14, 1984, lot 195).

An influential scientific account of early aeronautical experiments, and the first English- language treatise on the subject. This copy has a presentation inscription from Benjamin Franklin to Pierre Samuel DuPont, followed by a presentation inscription from DuPont to his cousin. Written on the titlepage, the inscriptions read: “To Mr. DuPont de Nemours from his obliged and obedt. servt. B. Franklin”; and beneath that, “A ma chere cousin en Carolina, Aoust 1799, DuPont de Nemours Souvenir de ‘BonHomme Richard.’” Though the inscription by Franklin is faint, it was authenticated by Edwin Wolf in his survey of books which had belonged to Benjamin Franklin. Since Franklin gave the book away in his lifetime, it would not have been part of the final library he assembled in Philadelphia at the end of his life. While serving as American plenipotentiary in France, Franklin took a keen interest in the first balloon ascents made by the Montgolfier brothers, to whom much of this work is devoted. He witnessed the first unmanned ascent in August 1783, and the first manned flight in November of that year. Franklin was among the eminent scientists who signed an official certification for the Montgolfiers (noted by Cavallo on page 50 of this work). Franklin wrote detailed accounts of the experiments in letters to Sir Joseph Banks, who showed little interest in them, though Franklin cautioned him that such balloon experiments could lead to greater achievements beyond imagination. Cavallo describes the early balloon experiments in France and England, speculates on the scientific principles they employ, and envisions applications of the nascent science. Much of the work is devoted to the Montgolfier brothers. When asked by a skeptical observer what practical use a hot-air balloon might be, Franklin famously responded, “What is the use of a new-born baby?” Franklin made the acquaintance of Pierre Samuel DuPont in France, spending a good deal of time in his company and offering high praise for DuPont’s first major work of political philosophy, Physiocracy. By 1799, Pierre’s son, Victor Marie, was a resident of Charleston, as French consul for the Carolinas and Georgia. He also spent some time in Philadelphia where he, too, met Franklin. He returned to France in the summer of 1799 to assist his family in their immigration to America. ESTC T131745. Wolf & Hayes, LIBRARY OF BENJA- MIN FRANKLIN 563. MAGGS BROS. 387:85. Carr, THE DuPONTS OF DELAWARE, pp.16-17. $55,000.

With An Original Color Drawing and Color Proofs

68. Charlot, Jean: PICTURE BOOK II 32 ORIGINAL LITHOGRAPHS AND CAPTIONS. Los Angeles: Zeitlin & Ver Brugge, 1973. Quarto. Stiff pictorial wrappers. Bookplate, otherwise about fine in edgeworn pictorial slipcase with small sticker mark in corner of one panel.

First edition, deluxe issue. Prefatory note by Peter Morse. Illustrated with 32 color lithographs drawn directly on the plates by Charlot. From an edition of one thousand copies, this is one of only thirty-two copies including an original color drawing made in preparation for the lithograph (in this case, #5 “Bedtime”), as well as the key, twelve progressive proofs of the lithograph and an additional final impression. Also inserted in back is another example of the lithograph “Hawaiian Swimmer,” signed in pencil by the artist in the margin. Charlot has also signed the colophon, as has Lynton R. Kistler, who printed the lithographs. Published to mark the 40th anniversary of the publication of Charlot’s first Picture Book. $2750.

Important Work on Caribbean Plants

69. Chaumeton, François Pierre: FLORE MÉDICALE. Paris. 1814-1819. Eight volumes. With 425 color plates (two folding). Contemporary three-quarter calf and marbled boards, spines gilt, leather labels. Corners rubbed. Light foxing. Very good.

An interesting and beautifully illustrated series, with plates produced during the great period of French color printing. The title appears to have been loosely interpreted and consequently the work was expanded to include grapes, melons, palms, pineapple, pomegran- ates, bananas and other interesting, but non-medical plants. François Pierre Chaumeton (1775-1819) was a French army physician, pharmacist, and botanist. He worked on several notable medical publications beyond this one. Fellow botanist Jean Louis Marie Poiret (1755- 1834) collaborated with him on this project, perhaps accounting for its wide-ranging scope, far beyond mere medical botany. The detailed illustrations were executed by Ernestine Panckoucke and Pierre Jean François Turpin, both gifted botanical illustrators. Indeed, Turpin is considered to be one of the greatest botanical and floral illustrators of his time. Sets often lack some of the plates, and it is difficult to find complete. A handsome and important production. PRITZEL 1676. NISSEN 349. TAXONOMIC LITERA- TURE 2: 1091, 8115. $8000.

Rhapsodic Description of York

70. Clemens, Samuel L.: [Autograph Letter, Signed (“Samuel”), to His Mother-In-Law]. York [UK]. 20 July [1873]. Six pages, in ink, on rectos and versos of three octavo lettersheets. Folded for mailing, tiny marginal break at one fold, otherwise very good.

A fine, descriptive letter, addressed “Mother Dear -” (i.e. Olivia Lewis Langdon), written during the course of his second extensive tour of the UK (May – October 1873). He writes, in part: “... we have been 24 hours out of London, & they have been 24 hours of rest & quiet. Nobody knows us here – we took good care of that. In Edinburgh we are to be introduced to nobody, & shall stay in a retired, private hotel, & go on resting.” He comments about York: “For the present we shall remain in this queer and walled town, with its crooked, narrow lanes that tell us of their old day that knew no wheeled vehicles; its plaster-&-timber dwellings with upper stories far overhanging the street ... the stately city walls, the castellated gates, the ivy-grown, foliage-sheltered, most noble & picturesque ruin of St. Mary’s Abbey, suggesting their date, say 500 years ago, in the heart of crusading times & the glory of English chivalry & romance; the vast cathedral of York, with its worn carving & quaintly pictured windows preaching of still remoter days; the outlandish names of streets & courts & byways that stand as a record & a memorial, all these centuries, of Danish dominion here in still earlier times; the hint here & there of King Arthur & his Knights & their bloody fights with Saxon oppres- sors round about this old city more than 1300 years gone by; & last of all, the melancholy old stone coffins & sculptured inscriptions, a venerable arch & a hoary tower of stone that still remain & are kissed by the sun & caressed by the shadows every day just as the sun & the shadows have kissed & caressed them every lagging day since the Roman Emperor’s soldiers placed them here in the times when Jesus the Son of Mary walked the streets of Nazareth ....” He closes: “We are enjoying it, & shall go on enjoying it for several days yet ...,” and signs “Yr loving son Samuel [flourish].” $5500.

Branded Book

71. Commelinus, Hieronymous [ed. & publisher]: RERVM BRITANNICARVM, ID EST ANGLIAE, SCOTIAE VICINARVMQVE INSVLARVM AC REGIONVM, SCRIPTORES VETVSTIORES AS PRAECIPVI .... Heidelbergae: [H. Commelinus], 1587. [6],blank,580,[10]pp. (with several errors in pagination, including omission of 349-352). Folio (in 4s – 32.5 x 20 cm). Old vellum, ribbon ties. Printer’s device on title, decorative initials and tail-pieces. Short-title branded on bottom edge, title in early manuscript on spine. Tanning and light foxing, wandering tide marks, notably early and late, pastedowns torn at gutters but still secure, vellum and endsheets somewhat soiled. A sound copy.

The original edition of this printing of Scriptores, a selection from the English Chronicles edited and published by Jerome Commelin (1550-1597), a Douai-born printer who, upon setting up shop in Heidelberg, published a large number of editions of Greek and Latin texts. The BL Catalogue suggests this was the first book to appear under his imprint. His printer’s device bears a motto which translates as “truth all-subduing.” The Latin texts collected here include selections from Geoffrey of Monmouth, the Venerable Bede, William of Newburgh, Froissart, et al. Adams and Lowndes note another “issue” with a Lyons imprint. ADAMS II:819. OCLC:21819254 (etc). LOWNDES VIII:2231. BM (GERMAN) STC, p. 219. $500.

72. Commines, Philippe de: LES MEMOIRES DE MESSIRE PHILIPPE DE COMMINES, SR. D’ARGENTON. A Leide: Chez les Elzeviers, 1648. One volume bound in two. [24],370; 371-765,[19]pp. Engraved title. 12mo. 13.5 x 7.5cm. Very handsomely bound in full early 19th century dark brown straight grain morocco (unsigned), spines and panels elaborately decorated in blind, marbled endsheets, a.e.g. Auchincruive bookplate (with shelf numbers) in first volume. Some rubbing to a few extremities and one joint, slight tanning, otherwise a very pretty set.

First Elzevir edition of the celebrated memoirs of the foremost French Renaissance historian (1445-1509), notable as an important analysis of 15th century culture, politics and personal- ity. “...The graphic style of his narrative and above all the keenness of his insight into the motives of his contemporaries, an insight undimmed by undue regard for principles of right and wrong, make this work one of the great classics of history” – Encyc. Britannica. “... Authoritative [and] rare ... printed in Paris probably by Le Gras” – Rostenberg & Stern, The House of Elzevir, 27 (referencing this edition in their offering of the 1661 edition). “Jolie édi- tion, dont les exemplaires grands de marge et bien conservés sont fort recherchés” – Brunet. RAHIR 630. BRUNET II:191. WILLEMS 634. $1250.

73. [Compagnie des Indes]: ARREST DU CONSEIL D’ESTAT DU ROY, CONCERNANT LES RENTES VIAGERES SUR LA COMPAGNIE DES INDIES. DU 17 SEPTEMBRE 1722. Paris. 1722. 4pp. Quarto, on a folded folio sheet. Minor foxing. Contemporary inscription. Near fine.

A French royal decree concerning life annuities in the Compagnie des Indes. The previous year, the Compagnie had declared bankruptcy and was reorganized, after the Mississippi Bubble burst. Wroth records only one copy, at NYPL; OCLC adds no more. Rare. From the library of Cardinal Etienne Charles de Lomenie de Brienne (1727-1794), Minister of Louis XVI, Archibishop of Toulouse and of Sens. A friend of Voltaire and a member of the Acadé- mie Française, Brienne wielded significant power as the head of the Finance Ministry, which earned him many enemies. He died in prison during the French Revolution, despite having renounced Catholicism in 1793 (presumably as an attempt to save his life). WROTH, ACTS OF FRENCH ROYAL ADMINISTRATION 972. MAGGS, FRENCH COLONI- SATION OF AMERICA 254 (this copy). $1000.

The Perfection of Man

74. Condorcet, [Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, Marquis de]: ESQUISSE D’UN TAB- LEAU HISTORIQUE DES PROGRÈS DE L’ESPRIT HUMAIN. Paris: Chez Agasse, L’An III [i.e. 1795]. viii,389pp. Octavo. Contemporary or early 19th century boards, gilt morocco spine label. Some surface chipping along upper joint, later (1844) ownership inscription on pastedown in English, small shelf-label toward toe of spine, corner of half-title creased, minor scattered foxing, otherwise a very good copy.

First edition of the mathematician’s posthumously published, celebrated overview of man’s history and projection of the possibilities of the coming age. Condorcet wrote this work while in hiding during the Terror. Fearing he had been discovered, he left his refuge, was immediately arrested, and died in prison in 1794. Through the first nine “epochs” into which he organized his history, Condorcet traces man’s rise from savagery up to the period of Newton, Rousseau and the rise of the French Republic. In the tenth and final epoch, he projects the future rise of equality of opportunity among men, and the moral, intellectual and physical improvement of human nature. “...It is as the most fully developed exposition of the progress of man that Condorcet’s work is now remembered ...” – PMM. PRINTING & THE MIND OF MAN 246. $2500.

The Perfection of Things

75. Contarini, Niccolo: DE PERFECTIONE RERUM LIBRI SEX. Venice: Ioan. Baptista So- maschus, 1576. [16],363,[2]pp. Engraved titlepage vignette. Contemporary limp vellum, fading manuscript title at head of spine, remnant of paper label at foot of spine. Early ownership signatures on front free endpaper and title-page. A few instances of early ink marginalia, and a small amount of underlining. An occasional light fox mark, a few leaves with old dampstain in lower corner. A very good copy.

First edition of Contarini’s rare treatise on the “perfection of things.” Contarini (1553-1631) divides his work into six “books”: the first addresses God; the second is about the universe, providence, fate, fortune, sympathy, and antipathy; the third is on angels; the fourth is on quiet, space, and time; the fifth is about the heavens; and the sixth is on the “inferior” elements, including the immortality of the soul, the intellect, and the will. “A mystic attitude and one favorable to occult sciences is at times present ... if the work seems in many ways more theological and philosophical than scientific, it is none the less not without a considerable admixture of astrology” – Thorndike. OCLC locates only six copies. Rare. ADAMS C2580. Thorndike, A HISTORY OF MAGIC VI, pp.349-51. OCLC 23626688. $1750.

With a Letter from the Author

76. Cooke, E[dward] W[illiam] : SIXTY FIVE PLATES OF SHIPPING AND CRAFT. London. 1829. Sixty five leaves, including title and contents. Folio. Contemporary three-quarter calf and marbled boards, spine gilt; neatly rebacked with the original spine laid down, a.e.g. Corners lightly worn. Two plates tanned, some minor scattered soiling else. Very good. Accompanied by a fine three page A.L.S. from the author to Thomas Webster written in delightful nautical prose and including a sketch.

Edward William Cooke (1811-1880), a Londoner, was the son of an engraver. He created these fine etchings, including plates of H.M.S. Victory, which are considered to be some of the most accurate representations of watercraft of his era. This work was first published in 1829 with just fifty plates. Cooke was a friend of and collaborator with several prominent artists including Clarkson Stanfield, Samuel Prout, Augustus Callcott and John Sell Cotman. The letter included here, postmarked at Barnes in 1836, reads in part: “...I am pretty salubrious again, my ship in port, my bulk broken, derrick rigged & all hands ready to discharge cargo. I may also hint that my cook is aboard, tormentors in hand & all ready at the cheering pipe of the boatswain to fork out ‘prime mess beef’ & ‘lobscouse’ when Admiral Thomas Webster may be pleased to inspect the squadron. Yes, let his broad pen- nant but be seen in the offing & he may expect a salute of twenty-one from a neat little Brig with her main topsail aback...he’ll not range within scope of your Forecastle long swivels but with Fore to’gallant struck he’ll drop astern with all due obeisance as the service requires giving his beloved Admiral every advantage of the weather gauge. ... You will observe with dismay that the union Jack is at the Peak, Quarter masters with drawn swords in hands at the gangway, Marines under arms at the Quarter deck – myself & five Captains seated in the ward-room – fetters & chains clanking in the cockpit with a noose well stopped at the Yard arm. Yes the congees to a superior officer are over & this superior officer must prepare himself for Court Martial, loose his epaulettes, unbuckle his sword & take his station alongside of H.M.S. advocate. ... let him tremble from yard-arm to yard-arm from truck to keel. The judgement’s pronounced, the flag slowly lowers, the muffled drum rolls & the whistle shrieks – the gun fires &c &c!...” A handsome production with a choice letter from the artist. $2500.

Presentation Copy to His Niece

77. Cooper, James F.: PRÉCAUTION, OU LE CHOIX D’UN MARI.... Paris: Librairie de Charles Gosselin / Mame et Delaunay-Vallée, Libraires, 1825. Four volumes bound in two. [4],4,xi,[1],249,[1]; [4],227;[2],256;[4],263pp. Contemporary mottled French calf, spines gilt extra, gilt crimson labels, gilt decorated borders to boards. Corners quite worn, spine ends chipped, but sound; scattered foxing, binder’s free endsheet in second volume imperfect, and first half-title in that volume excised; still, a sound set, enclosed in a half morocco case and cloth wrapper.

First edition in French of the author’s first novel, translated by A.-J.-B. Defauconpret, and with a long prefatory essay about Cooper and his works by the publisher. A copy of particular significance, inscribed on the title-page of the first volume: “J. Fenimore Cooper makes his niece Georgianna Pomeroy a present of this translation wishing for her own sake and that of the translator that it was better done.” Cooper’s dissatisfaction with the translation, and with Gosselin’s cavalier attitude about payment, is recorded in the Cooper correspondence. Cooper resided in Paris from 1826 to 1829, where he had been greeted on his arrival by a considerable reputation due to the popularity of his tales. He found himself the center of literary and fashionable circles, and Gosselin undertook the continued publication of almost all of Cooper’s fiction. The recipient of this presentation copy, Georgianna Cooper Pomeroy Keese (1806-1865) was the eldest daughter of Cooper’s sister, Ann (1784 – 1870). While Cooper manuscript material and family associative items are not uncommon, actual inscribed presentation copies of one of his own books from Cooper to another party, whether family or not, are surprisingly rare in the marketplace. SPILLER & BLACKBURN, p.19. $9500.

“The most complete statement of navigational science to date” – PMM

78. Cortes, Martin: BREVE COMPENDIO DE LA SPHERA Y DE LA ARTE DE NAVEGAR CON NUEVOS INSTRUMENTOS Y REGLAS EXEMPLIFICADO CON MUY SUBTILES DEMONSTRACIONES. Seville: Anton Alvarez, 1551. 95,[3] leaves. Several woodcut illustrations, initials, and charts throughout the text, including a full-page woodcut map, “Nuevo Mundo,” on the recto of leaf 67. Lacks the volvelles. Title-page printed in red and black. Folio. 18th century stiff vellum over pasteboard, manuscript title on spine. Bookplate on front free endpaper. Two small rust holes in lower part of titlepage, lower outer corner of title-page repaired. A few instances of early ink marginalia. Foredge of leaves 87 and 88 torn with no loss of text. An occasional old light stain, but generally quite clean. A very good copy. In a morocco clamshell box, spine gilt.

First edition of this groundbreaking early work on navigation, with mention of discoveries in the Americas and featuring an extremely important map of the New World. The map of “Nuevo Mundo” that Cortes included with his treatise first appeared in Medina’s Arte de Navigar in 1545. Burden notes that the map is based on firsthand knowledge, as Medina travelled with Cortes. The map shows the east coast of the Americas from Canada to just below the bulge of South America, with the mouth of the Mississippi River clearly visible. “The map depicts the trade routes to and from Spain and her possessions by the use of ships heading south-westerly on the outward bound journey and returning via the Gulf Stream to the north-east. The Papal demarcation line dividing the Americas between Portugal (the land to its east) and Spain (to its west) runs vividly through the map, illustrating for the first time the future influence that the former was to have over the country we know of as Brazil. Central America and particularly the Isthmus of Panama are shown remarkably accurately, and the Yucatan is shown correctly as a peninsula...A clearly identifiable Gulf of St. Lawrence begins to take shape following the voyages of Jacques Cartier” – Burden. The text includes early and significant information about American places, including Brazil, Peru, Rio de la Plata, and others. Martin Cortes (1532-89) was a cosmographer descended from a prominent Aragon family. His book is a great advancement over Pedro Medina’s better-known Arte de Navegar (1545), and it was Cortes who inspired William Bourne to write Regiment of the Sea (1574), the first printed original treatise on navigation by an Englishman. Cortes’ work is divided into three parts: an initial section on the cosmos, the size of the earth, and geographical climates; a second section on the courses of the sun and moon, the seasons, tides, and weather; and a practical manual on navigation and the construction of navigational instruments. The text includes a table of the sun’s declination for four years, and another of the distance between meridians at every degree of latitude. “His instructions for making charts and for plotting courses of ships on them were widely followed. Most important of all, he first understood and described the magnetic variation of the compass, suggesting that the magnetic pole and the true pole of the earth were not the same” – PMM. Cortes’ work was translated into English in 1561 and became a fundamentally important work for British navigators as Great Britain became the world’s dominant ocean-going power. A landmark work on navigation, with an important early map of the Americas. PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN 76. SABIN 16966. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 551/16. BORBA DE MORAES, p.219 BURDEN 14 (Medina printing of the map). JCB (3)1:163. ME- DINA (BHA) 145. PALAU 63378. $225,000. 79. [Courtesy Book]: Guazzo, Stefano: LA CIVIL CONVERSATIONE DEL SIGNOR STE- FANO GUAZZO GENTILHUOMO DI CASALE DI MONFERRATO; DIVISA IN QUATTRO LIBRI. Vinegia [i.e. Venice]: Apresso Enea de Alaris, 1574. [32],593 [i.e. 560] pp. (numerous mispaginations; last page misnumbered “593”). *8*8A-Mm8. Octavo. Contemporary vellum with ms. title on spine. Printer’s device on title-page. Vellum slightly soiled, small tear in lower joint, crown of spine a bit rubbed, minor worming mostly confined to endsheets front and rear; small repair to title leaf, text unaffected; occasional slight spotting to text, but mostly quite clean; a very good, solid copy overall.

Guazzo’s text, as translated by George Pettie (The Civile Conversation, 1581) had a considerable impact on Tudor and Jacobean England’s concepts of the conduct and etiquette proper to a gentleman; and its influence can be seen throughout the literature and drama of the day. There were two editions printed in 1574 (priority not definitively established): one in quarto, printed in Brescia by Vincenzo Sabbio for T. Bozzola, which “is probably the first” according to an entry in OCLC; and this octavo edition, printed in Venice. Both are uncommon, but of the two, this Venetian edition, printed by Enea de Alaris is by far the rarer: OCLC locates only two copies (Yale and Huntington) in America. Not in ADAMS. BRUNET II:1781 (Brescia edition). OCLC 54249802. $4000.

Rare Edition of La Salle, set in Civilité

80. [Courtesy Book]: La Salle, Jean Baptiste De, Saint: LES RÈGLES DE LA BIENSÉANCE ET DE LA CIVILITÉ CHRÉTIENNE, DIVISÉES EN DEUX PARTIES. Metz: Jean-Baptiste Collignon, Imprimeur de Son Excellence Monseigneur l’Évêque, 1772. [16],255 pp. Octavo. Contemporary paper boards. Lower corners of a few leaves stained, final few leaves dog- eared, otherwise very good.

“Sixième édition, revue & corrigée.” A scarce Metz edition of this classic French courtesy book by La Salle (1651-1719). Reprinted innumerable times since its first appearance in 1702, it was a standard of the genre well into the 19th century. La Salle’s book aimed at teaching children the elements of civility and courtesy, not simply as social ornaments, but as specifically Christian virtues. This edition, except for the preliminaries, is entirely set in Civilité type -- a font first designed and cut by Granjon in the 16th century in Antwerp. Based on French handwriting of the period, it received its name from its use in Erasmus’s Civilite Puerile in 1559, and was thereafter frequently used in courtesy books. There are no copies of this edition in American or British institutions reported by OCLC/Worldcat, which locates only one copy, in Europe (Switzerland). Gumuchian includes several later editions. OCLC 718557211. GUMUCHIAN 1765-7. $1250.

Ordered Burnt by the Common Hangman

81. [Coward, William]: SECOND THOUGHTS CONCERNING HUMAN SOUL, DEMONSTRAT- ING THE NOTION OF HUMAN SOUL, AS BELIEV’D TO BE A SPIRITUAL IMMORTAL SUBSTANCE, UNITED TO HUMAN BODY, TO BE A PLAIN HEATHENISH INVENTION, AND NOT CONSONANT TO THE PRINCIPLES OF PHILOSOPHY, REASON, OR RELI- GION; BUT THE GROUND ONLY OF MANY ABSURD, AND SUPERSTITIOUS OPINIONS, ABOMINABLE TO THE REFORMED CHURCHES, AND DEROGATORY IN GENERAL TO TRUE CHRISTIANITY. .... London: Printed for R. Basset ..., 1702. [24],458,[6]pp. Octavo. Old paneled calf, rebacked at an early date to style. Extremities worn and joints a trifle weak, occasional scattered foxing, and mild discolorations, lower blank corner of C3 torn away, and shallow marginal losses to b2, still a good, sound copy.

First edition of this controversial work by the London physician and poet, published anonymously, but with a dedicatory epistle signed “Estibius Psychalethes.” Coward’s argument “was possibly suggested by Locke’s famous speculation as to the possibility that a power of thinking might be ‘superadded’ to matter. He maintains, partly upon scriptural arguments, that there is no such thing as a separate soul, but that immortal life will be conferred upon the whole man at the resurrection ... [a pamphlet controversy ensued, and] complaint was made in the House of Commons, 10 March 1703-4. A committee was appointed to examine Coward’s books. Coward was called to the bar and professed his readiness to recant anything contrary to religion or morality. The house voted that the books contained offensive doctrines, and ordered them to be burnt by the common hangman. The proceeding increased the notoriety of Coward’s books; and in the same year he published another edition...” – DNB. ESTC online locates 8 copies in North America. ESTC T137990. $450.

Surreptitious 16th Century London Printing of Pietro Aretino

82. [Curiosa]: Aretino, Pietro: QUATTRO COMEDIE DEL DIUINO PIETRO ARETINO. CIOÈ IL MARESCALCO LA CORTEGIANA LA TALANTA L’HIPOCRITO .... [London: Printed by John Wolfe], 1588. [8],285,[3] leaves. Small octavo. 18th century red-brown morocco, spine elaborately gilt extra, a.e.g. 18th century armorial bookstamp (“Ex bibliotheca J. Richard D.M.”), thin but significant worm tracks affect perhaps a third of the leaves (occasionally slightly affecting sense), several worm pinholes to spine, small chip from spine crown, early ink notes on verso of free endsheet; a sound and inexpensive copy.

A representative example of the publishing ventures of the prolific John Wolfe (d.1601), a second generation London printer who, in addition to his general trade, actively produced Latin and Italian texts with false or no imprints, many of them for sale on the continent. Aretino’s comedies were first published in Venice in 1553, but were added to the Index Li- brorum Prohibitorum in 1558. Undoubtedly to capitalize on the resulting market Wolfe rose to meet the demand, as he had earlier when he published an edition of Aretino’s somewhat more disreputable Ragionamenti in late 1584. The title bears an oval portrait of Aretino, surrounded by the legend: “D. Petrvs Aretinvs Flagellvm Principum,” and it reappears on the three sectional titles. PFORZHEIMER 800. STC 19911. ESTC S120618. WOODFIELD 43. BRUNET I:408. LU- BORSKY & INGRAM 19911. BM STC (ITALIAN), p.517. $850.

83. [Dana, Richard Henry, Jr]: Allston, Washington: LECTURES ON ART AND POEMS. ED- ITED BY RICHARD HENRY DANA, JR. New York: Baker and Scribner, 1850. Original cloth, decorated in blind. Cloth a bit faded and worn, shallow surface losses at crown and toe of spine, some foxing and tanning, a few clean marginal tears to last few leaves, otherwise a good copy. Book label of Herbert Boyce Satcher.

First edition, BAL’s binding 1. With a presentation inscription from the editor’s father on the front free endsheet: “Rev’d Derwent Coleridge, Principal of St Mark’s College, Chelsea, London -- With the respects of Richd H. Dana Boston, U.S.A. May / [illegible].” Tipped- in at the front is a third person ANS (one page, 8vo, 8 Buckingham Place, Fitzroy Square, 19 June n.y. [docketed on verso, possibly in the hand of John Quincy Adams (see below), “Allston -- 19. June 1816. 20 June 1816. Recd.”]), from Washington Allston, presenting his compliments “to Mr & Mrs Adams” and “with great pleasure” accepting “their invitation for saturday [sic].” Also present is a TLS (one page, 4to, 105 Brattle Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 13 Sept. 1948, with envelope) from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana to Herbert Boyce Satcher, thanking him for “your interesting information about the book and the manuscript of Allston in your possession,” and commenting: “The book was published by my grandfather, Richard Henry Dana, Jr., some seven years after the death of Washington Allston, who had been his uncle. The inscription, since it does not have the ‘Jr.’ I judge to be not by the editor but by his father, the poet Richard Henry Dana. He was a great admirer of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who had been a close friend of Allston and had travelled with him in Italy. I believe the Reverend Derwent Coleridge, was the son of the poet Coleridge who died in 1834. I should like to think that my great-grandfather inscribed the book to him in the very year it came out -- 1850 -- but he may have waited until 1854 to find out the address of Coleridge’s children. Allston’s autograph is of even greater interest. John Quincy Adams was then serving as the American Ambassador in England as his father, John Adams, had been before him and as his son, Charles Francis Adams, was to be after him. Mr. Henry Adams, by the way, gave me some time ago a photostat of a letter in which John Quincy Adams states that he gave his son the middle name of ‘Francis’ in honor of my great-grandfather [sic], Francis Dana, whose daughter Washington Allston married. I am delighted, then, to know of this letter ... Does the other side by any chance give the address of John Quincy Adams at that time?” Derwent Coleridge (1800-1883), English scholar and author, was the third son of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. He was ordained in 1825, and in 1841 was appointed first principal of St. Mark’s College, Chelsea. BAL 508 & 4440. $750.

84. Daniell, Thomas and William: ORIENTAL SCENERY [Parts I – V] ... HINDOO EXCAVA- TIONS IN THE MOUNTAIN OF ELLORA [Part VI]. London: Printed for Thomas and William Daniell at the Free-School Press...and published by William Daniell and Longman, Hurt, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1812-1816 [pre-publication watermarks]. Six parts bound in two volumes. Six additional pictorial aquatint titles, 144 aquatint views, eight engraved plans. Oblong quarto. Mid-19th century full green morocco by Zaehnsdorf, covers with inlaid paneled design with corner pieces in red, brown, and tan morocco, elaborately tooled in gilt, lettered in gilt on upper covers, spines with raised bands, red morocco labels, silk endpapers, a.e.g. Very good. Provenance: Stanley, Edward Geoffrey, 14th Earl of Derby (1799-1869, gilt arms on the upper covers); Alexander Brown Griswold (book label).

Scarce complete set of the first quarto edition of Daniell’s masterpiece – the greatest pictorial record of India and her antiquities ever published – here present in an extraordinary binding by Zaehnsdorf for the Earl of Derby. “The Daniells left England in 1785, when William was only about sixteen, and they were back in England in September 1794. From an early stage Thomas seems to have set out to emulate and surpass Hodges (Select Views In India) in popularizing his views through the comparatively new medium of aquatint. The uncle and nephew were determined not only to do better than Hodges but to expose the weaknesses of the pioneer’s work by choosing the same views as Hodges had done, drawing them more accurately, and aquatinting them more skilfully” – Abbey, Scenery II, p.377. The plates here are reduced versions of the justly famous large folio, handcolored plates which the Daniells engraved from their own drawings made during their extended expedition to India (except for the plates in the sixth and final part which was issued under the title Hindoo Excavations and were based on the drawings of James Wales). The Daniells’s reasons for publishing this beautifully prepared version of their masterpiece is given at the front of the first series: they note that the large folio work is “well known, not only in the British dominions, but on the Continent, where [it is]...to be found in most of the principal libraries. This collection, however...has acquired a magnitude that necessarily limits its possession to the few who can purchase works of such expense. To obviate this objection, and to give to materials, so generally interesting, a more extensive range of circulation, Messrs. Daniell have determined to publish a careful and accurate edition, in quarto, of the same work; on which...they will be enabled to affix a price so moderate as to be of easy purchase...when completed, [the set] will be comprised in three volumes, containing in the whole 150 prints.” The success of this first quarto edition can be judged from the fact that it was reprinted at least twice, in various forms, and was still available from Henry Bohn in the late 1840s. ABBEY TRAVEL II, 432 (uncolored, early issue). M. Hardie & M. Clayton, WALKER’S QUAR- TERLY Nos.35-36. THOMAS DANIELL...WILLIAM DANIELL (London, 1932), p.29. G. Michell, A. Martinelli, & T. & W. Daniell, INDIA YESTERDAY AND TODAY (Shrewsbury: Swan Hill Press, 1998). P. Rohatgi, G. Parlett, S. Imray & P. Godrej, INDIAN LIFE AND LANDSCAPE BY WESTERN ARTISTS, pp.149-70. Sutton, THE DANIELLS ARTISTS AND TRAVELLERS 13. $29,500.

First Appearance of the Aldine Anchor

85. Dante Alighieri: LE TERZE RIME [DIVINIA COMMEDIA]. [Venetiis: in Aedib Aldi, August

1502]. [252] leaves. a-z8, A-G8, H4. Small octavo. Full green French morocco, raised bands, gilt inner dentelles, a.e.g. Set in Italic. Al- dine anchor on colophon. One raised band nicked, careful sympathetic restoration of upper joint, light scattered foxing, faint old manuscript foliation of leaves, but a very good copy. Cloth slipcase and chemise.

First Aldine edition, and the first edition of Dante in octavo format, based on a manuscript sent to Aldus by the Venetian humanist, Pietro Bembo. The edition is also notable for historians of typography as it marks the first utilization of the Aldine Anchor as Aldus’s signature device -- although it does not appear in all copies, among them the earliest. The edition was such a success that it was soon counterfeited in such a faithful manner that close scrutiny of the final collation is necessary to distinguish the editions. With this edition, “it was as if the poem had never been printed before: the 15th century vulgate was swept aside. Bembo’s text was to become the basis for every subsequent edition of the Divine Comedy until the late 19th century” – Renaissance Dante in Print (1472 – 1629). Online catalogue of Notre Dame, Newberry Library, and Univ. of Chicago collaborative exhibition. RENOUARD 34:5. GOLDSMID 43. ADAMS D82-3. BMC (ITALIAN), P. 209. BRUNET II:500. $22,500. Phillipps Copy of an Early English Astrological Treatise

86. Dariot, Claude: A BREEFE AND MOST EASIE INTRODUCTION TO THE ASTROLOGI- CALL JUDGEMENT OF THE STARRES. WHEREBY EVERYE MAN MAYE WITH SMALL LABOUR, GIVE AUNSWERE TO ANY QUESTION DEMAUNDED. London: Thomas Pur- foote, [1583?] [48] leaves. Lacks A1 (blank) and three leaves of tables at end, as well as the volvelles. Small quarto. Late 19th century half morocco and cloth, spine gilt. Spine lightly rubbed, title-page backed with later paper, trimmed closely at top edge affecting three letters of first line in title; several other small losses and stains; lower corner of text lightly wormed and, reinforced with tissue, light soiling, else a good copy.

The Sir Thomas Phillipps copy, with his shelf mark on the front pastedown. First English edition, translated from the Latin by Fabian Wither, of this astrological treatise by Claudius Dariot. The work discusses the zodiac signs, their influence on the body, and the aspects of the various planets. A wounded copy, with distinguished provenance, of a significant title, which is very rare in the first edition. Fewer than ten copies are located in ESTC and only one of those in North America, at the Folger Shakespeare Library. OCLC adds one further American copy, at the Harvard Medical Library. ESTC S114070. STC 6275. $2500.

87. Darrow, Clarence: THE STORY OF MY LIFE. New York & London: Scribner’s, 1932. Large, thick octavo. Cloth and boards, gilt label. Frontis portrait and plates. Spine darkened and a bit rubbed at corners, bookplate and trace of foxing to endleaves, one lower foretip faintly bumped, some slight rubbing to boards, internally near fine.

First edition, limited issue, primary binding. Copy #284 of 294 numbered copies, specially printed and bound, and signed by the author. A significant quantity of out-of-series copies, unnumbered, but signed, appeared in a cream cloth binding. Darrow’s own account of his experiences at the center of several of the early 20th century’s most significant legal battles, as well as of his advocacy on behalf of general progressive enlightenment. $1950.

88. De Vries, Hugo: DIE MUTATIONSTHEORIE. VERSUCHE UND BEOBACHTUNGEN ÜBER DIE ENTSTEHUNG VON ARTEN IM PFLANZENREICH. Leipzig: Verlag von Veit & Comp, 1903. Two volumes. xiv,752 plus four color chromolithographed plates and one leaf of preliminary ads; xii,648pp. plus eight color chromolithographed plates. Large, thick octavos. Recent half medium brown goatskin, and original marbled boards, gilt labels to style. Fore-tips a bit shelfworn, small collector’s bookplate in each volume, otherwise a very good, or better, set.

First edition in book form, preceded by an issue in six wrappered parts 1901-3. Based on his observations, beginning in 1886, of the development and persistence of new variants among a species of Evening Primrose, De Vries formulated a series of theses, the Laws of Mutation, based on the observed evidence. The principles of Mutation as he demonstrated and articulated them remain a cornerstone of evolutionary thought and of considerable import for their confirmation of Mendel’s work. NORMAN LIBRARY 1269. HERALDS OF SCIENCE 36. HORBLIT 73b. GARRISON-MORTON 240. $650.

89. Dechales, Claude-François Milliet: L’ART DE NAVIGER DEMONTRÉ PAR PRINCIPES, & CONFIRMÉ PAR PLUSIEURS OBSERVATIONS TIRÉES DE L’EXPERIENCE. Paris: Estienne Michallet, 1677. [20],274,46,[7]pp. with in-text woodcut illustrations throughout, plus one large folding engraved plate, 19 x 14¾ inches. Quarto. Contemporary calf, spine gilt. Forty-six numbered printed tables (some folding) prior to [7]pp. index. Boards and spine rubbed and worn, particularly top and bottom of spine and corners. Ink inscription on front board. Contemporary ownership inscription on title-page. Moderate age-toning. Large folding engraved plate with old reinforcement on verso. Overall, a very good copy.

Dechale’s scarce introductory navigation manual, with numerous woodcut illustrations and diagrams. Included are sections devoted to basic terminology; principles of the sphere, geometry, and other essentials for navigation; a treatise concerning vessels; and techniques for proper navigation. The preface includes a four-page chronological bibliography of earlier navigation texts, including references to Columbus, Pedro Nuñes, Pedro Medina, Petrus Apianus, and Andrés García de Céspedes. OCLC locates four copies. BELL D93. $5000.

90. [Decker, Matthew]: AN ESSAY ON THE CAUSES OF THE DECLINE OF THE FOR- EIGN TRADE, CONSEQUENTLY OF THE VALUE OF THE LANDS OF BRITAIN AND ON THE MEANS TO RESTORE BOTH. BEGUN IN THE YEAR 1739. London: Printed for John Brotherton, 1744. [8],112pp. Quarto. Dbd. Minor foxing to first and last page. Very good.

First edition of this important economic tract by Matthew Decker (1679-1749). About Decker the DNB says: “his principal fame rests with two anonymous treatises of the 1740s which have been attributed to him ...The treatises attracted considerable comment, particularly for their bold advocacy of free trade and the introduction of an all-embracing single tax.” ESTC T76961. GOLDSMITHS 8052. HANSON 5780. KRESS 4691. $1500.

All Three Titles

91. [Defoe, Daniel]: THE LIFE AND STRANGE SURPRIZING ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE, OF YORK, MARINER: WHO LIVED EIGHT AND TWENTY YEARS ALL ALONE IN AN UN-INHABITED IS- LAND ON THE COAST OF AMERICA, NEAR THE MOUTH OF THE GREAT RIVER OROONOQUE; HAVING BEEN CAST ON SHORE BY SHIPWRECK, WHEREIN ALL THE MEN PERISHED BUT HIMSELF. WITH AN ACCOUNT OF HOW HE WAS AT LAST AS STRANGELY DELIVER’D BY PYRATES ... [with:] THE FARTHER ADVENTURES OF ROBIN- SON CRUSOE; BEING THE SECOND AND LAST PART OF HIS LIFE, AND OF THE STRANGE SURPRIZING AC- COUNTS OF HIS TRAVELS ROUND THREE PARTS OF THE GLOBE [with:] SERIOUS REFLECTIONS DURING THE LIFE AND SUPRISING ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE: WITH HIS VISION OF THE ANGELICK WORLD. London: Printed for W. Taylor, at the Ship and Black-Swan ..., 1719 – 1720. Three volumes. [4],364pp.plus engraved frontis; [8],373,[11]pp. plus engraved folding frontis map; [16],270,84,[2]pp. plus engraved folding frontis. Octavos. Contemporary tree calf, neatly rebacked and recornered to style, with the original gilt backstrips laid down, marbled edges and endsheets. Two tasteful bookplates in each volume on front pastedown, pencil notes erased from one terminal binder’s blank, expert reinforcement on verso of one fold to frontis map in second volume, some faint spots to B1-2 in the second volume and one small spot on title of same volume, affecting one letter, but a very good set.

Third edition of the first work, Hutchins’ issue 3c; first edition 2nd state (with advert on A4v) of the second work; and first edition of the third (state with catchword ‘The’ on p. 270). A quite respectable set of one of the most celebrated of all 18th century English novels and an essential text in the literature of the imaginary voyage, including the two supplementary narratives. The first work was immediately popular and went through four editions within the four months after publication; the second also struck a chord with the public, with a second edition appearing the same year. The third part, however, languished and was not reprinted by Taylor, and its appearance in the subsequent, often abridged, editions of the full narrative is generally fragmentary. Crusoe’s Adventures was both pirated in its time and imitated, serving as the progenitor of the subset of imaginary voyages christened “Robinsonades.” It established the relative fortune of its publisher, though not of its author, who sold his interests outright to Taylor. HUTCHINS, pp. 74-8; 97-112; and 122-8. GROLIER ENGLISH HUNDRED 41. PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN 180. $16,500.

92. [Digby, Kenelm]: TWO TREATISES: IN THE ONE OF WHICH THE NATURE OF BODIES; IN THE OTHER, THE NATURE OF MANS SOUL IS LOOKED INTO: IN WAY OF DISCOV- ERY OF THE IMMORTALITY OF REASONABLE SOULS. London: Printed for John Williams ..., 1658 & 1657. [48],312,301-429,[1],[10],136,139-143,[1]pp. Small quarto (signed in 8s). Modern three quarter calf and marbled boards. Bound without terminal blank, signature AA misfolded altering sequence (but complete). Scattered spotting and occasional marginal sums and annotations, marginal tanning early and late, verso of terminal leaf with 1731 ownership inscription and sums, closed edge tear in top edge of O7, small spot obscuring a few words on BB2r, a few creases at corners, last several leaves a bit darkened and frayed at extreme margins, but generally a sound copy, neatly bound.

Second London edition, preceded by the 1644 Paris printing in folio, and the 1645 London edition. Digby’s major published work in the field of speculative natural philosophy. The second Treatise is equipped with its own title-leaf, dated 1657, but the register is contiguous. “The work is noteworthy on several counts: it contains the first fully developed atomistic system of the seventeenth century, the first important defense in English of Harvey’s theory of the circulation, important discussions of reflex action and embryological development, an account of the first recorded patch text for allergy, the fullest early account in English of teaching the deaf to lip-read, and material on behavioral conditioning that anticipates the work of Pavlov. Digby’s introduction of Gassendian and Cartesian atomism into England provided Boyle and Newton with the foundation for their achievements in chemistry and physics” – Norman (in reference to the first edition). ESTC R15511. WING D1450. NORMAN LIBRARY 639 (1644 Edition). $650.

A Substantial Archive of His Poetry

93. Dixon, Maynard: POEMS (AND NEARLY) [and Untitled -- Two Presentation Portfolios of Manuscript and Typescript Poems]. [San Francisco, January 1915, and ca. 1936]. Two volumes. [40] leaves, and [42] leaves. Quarto, laid into two folding portfolios (approx. 29 x 22 cm), the earliest being watercolor decorated paper over cardboard, with old calf fore-tips to the upper board, the later cloth-backed boards, the upper board decorated in ink with a small rendition by Dixon of a thunderbird and a small monogram on the lower board. Some modest edgewear to portfolios, but generally very good or better.

Two significant collections of Dixon’s poetry in typescript, carbon typescript, and autograph manuscript, with occasional corrections, revisions and annotations, prepared personally by him for presentation. The earliest, which includes twenty-six poems, includes a manuscript title-leaf in his hand: “Poems, (and Nearly),” with a small ink rendering of a thunderbird, and is inscribed: “Franc from Maynard Jan – 1915.” The title leaf is accompanied by a manuscript index of the included poems, also embellished with an ink drawing. All of the poems in this album are present in either carbon or original typescript, most bearing the approximate or exact dates and places of composition, the latter information occasionally revised or amplified in ink or pencil by Dixon. The earliest poem in this album dates from 1896, the latest from 1914. The second, later album includes no formal title, but opens with a leaf inscribed in pencil: “Betty – I don’t believe you will like these – But here they are – it’s you asking. M.D.” It consists of thirty-five poems in typescript or carbon typescript (two – including the important poem “Jeffers” – with significant manuscript revisions, a couple more with minor manuscript tinkerings, and two signed at the end with initials in coarse pencil, with date and/or place), and three wholly in manuscript, in ink, in Dixon’s bold hand. Two of the typescript poems in this album, “San Francisco” (1913) and “Nebula” (1914), appear in the earlier album, the first from a definitively different typing of the text. The latest poem in this album bears a 1936 date of composition. “Jeffers,” which bears meaningful manuscript revisions, is undated in this draft, but is dated “ca. 1925” in its published form. All but one of the poems in these albums are printed in some form in the authoritative edition of Dixon’s poetry, edited by his widow, Edith Hamlin (Rim-Rock And Sage The Collected Poems of Maynard Dixon, California Historical Society, 1977), although occasionally under variant titles or with minor variations in their texts. One poem in the later album, entitled “Japs,” is uncollected and may have been omitted by Hamlin due to its rather strident and painfully negative ethnic caricatures. Maynard Dixon (1875 – 1946) has long been regarded one of the most significant artists and illustrators of the American West and Southwest, but his parallel career as a poet is less widely known. Although a number of his poems appeared in the western periodical press, his sole lifetime book publication is the now elusive Poems and Seven Drawings, privately printed by the Grabhorns in 1923. While his painting and drawing commissions claimed much of his attention during the remaining 23 years of his life, he continued to write poetry until at least as late as 1937, touching on many of the same themes as drove his drawings and paintings, both public and personal: the terrain, people (most particularly the native peoples) and history of the West, with a critical but not wholly unsympathetic eye toward certain tendencies of modernism, all coupled with a strain of physical consciousness occasionally bordering on the erotic. In his Preface to Rim-Rock and Sage, J.S. Holiday denotes the 164 poems collected therein as “every known poem by the artist.” The sixty-one poems preserved by Dixon in these two albums span virtually his entire career as a poet, representing over one third of that known output, and the collection adds one hitherto unpublished poem to that number. $9500.

94. Doré, Gustave [illustrator]: LE SAINTE BIBLE SELON LA VULGATE TRADUCTION NOUVELLE .... Tours: Alfred Mame et Fils, 1866. Two volumes. 912[i.e. 908],[1];949pp. Folio (435 x 330 mm). Full navy blue pebbled morocco, raised bands, gilt extra, marbled endsheets, by Kaufmann. Frontispieces and 228 engraved plates. Inner hinges reinforced early on, spine extremities rubbed, a couple of small surface scrapes to boards, short crack in one joint, small snag at crown of one spine, scattered light marginal foxing and a few marginal smudges, institutional bookplate, and another, but generally a very good set.

First edition, folio issue on ordinary paper, of the Doré Bible, with additional decorations in text by H. Giacomelli. The text is a new translation by J.J. Bourasse and P. Janvier. “Ouvrage capital et remarquable ....”- Carteret. One of Doré’s most ambitious illustrative undertakings, and one of his most popular, particularly after being coupled with English texts in North American and British editions. From the collection of Anson Phelps Stokes (1838-1913), and then of his son. Very substantial extra shipping charges. CARTERET III:89-90. $1000.

95. [Drama – British]: [Baker, David Erskine]: THE COMPANION TO THE PLAY-HOUSE: OR, AN HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF ALL THE DRAMATIC WRITERS (AND THEIR WORKS) THAT HAVE APPEARED IN GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND, FROM THE COMMENCEMENT OF OUR THEATRICAL EXHIBITIONS, DOWN TO THE PRESENT YEAR 1764. COMPOSED IN THE FORM OF A DICTIONARY.... London: Printed for T. Becket and P.A. Dehondt [et al], 1764. Two volumes. Unpaginated, but collated and complete. Printed in double columns. 12mo. Contemporary speckled calf, ruled in gilt, spines gilt. Bindings rubbed and worn, chipped at spine ends, worn at corners, hinges worn. First volume lacks front free endpaper. Lower fifth of the title-page of the first volume is torn away, costing the imprint. Lightly tanned. Good.

This copy bears the bookplates and ownership signatures of Philip Philip Livingston (1741- 87), the descendant of the prominent Livingston family of New York State. His bookplate is also on the front pastedown of both volumes, and his ink stamp is on the first volume’s title-page. Baker’s work is one of the earliest reference works on the history of the theatre in the British Isles. The first volume gives a critical and historical account of every known English-language play, with an evaluation of the leading actors. The second volume gives biographies of every dramatist who had worked in the English and Irish theatres. An important reference. ESTC T77488. $1000.

96. [Dumorey, Thomas]: MEMOIRE SUR LE CANAL DE BOURGOGNE, QUI A REMPORTE LE PRIX DE L’ACADEMIE DE DIJON EN 1763. [Np: G. Desprez], 1764. vi,58pp. Modern calf, spine gilt, leather label. A fine copy.

Dumorey was engineer to the King and engineer-in-chief of the province of Burgundy. This is a scarce account of the potential advantages of the projected canal to be built linking the Seine and the Saone rivers at a more northerly point and providing a more direct route from Paris to Lyon. The canal was finally completed in 1832. $650.

97. [Edison, Thomas A.]: EDISON PIONEERS CONSTITUTION AND BY-LAWS 1918. [New York]. 1918. 15,[1]pp. plus six plates. Small octavo. Gilt green cloth. Faint bubbling to cloth on upper cover, otherwise fine.

First edition. The founding constitution of the organization, stemming from a February dinner in New York on the occasion of Edison’s 71st birthday. The intent was to associate those who worked with Edison prior to 1886. The group continued to meet in coming years, and OCLC records printings (revised) of the constitution as late as 1934, but no locations are noted for this first edition. Among the members and attendees at the first meeting was Lewis Latimer, the African American electrical engineer. Edison did not attend, being preoccupied with “government work.” Accompanied by a first day cover of the 1929 Edison postage stamp, postmarked at Menlo Park, addressed to Elmer A. Sperry, one of the Edison Pioneers, and a printed letter to the membership about the stamp and the cover, an example of which is being sent to each member. $450.

Millikan on Edison

98. [Edison, Thomas A.]: Millikan, Robert Andrews: [Signed Original Typescript Tribute to Thomas A. Edison]. Pasadena, CA. 14 May 1928. One half page, on quarto sheet of California Institute of Technology letterhead. Old horizontal mailing folds, tabmarks in each corner of verso from having been mounted, otherwise very good or better.

Millikan (1868 – 1953), recipient of the 1923 Nobel Prize for Physics and public figure in the advocacy of science, writes, in part: “If he [Edison] had done nothing less than to make it possible for future generations, no matter how far removed, to sit almost in the living presence of the great leaders of the race who shall appear from our times on, to hear their voices and thus to catch their spirits and to feel their influence, he would have numbered as one of the great benefactors of the race ....” Ca. 120 words, signed in ink: “R.A. Millikan.” $850.

Rare Irish Business Manual

99. Egan, Robert: THE COUNTING HOUSE COMPANION, OR MERCHANT AND TRADER’S ASSISTANT: CONTAINING THE GENERAL EXCHANGER, COMPREHENDING THE PRIN- CIPAL DIRECT AND CROSS EXCHANGES OF EUROPE; WITH TABLES AND RULES ... IN WHICH ARE INCLUDED THE INTERMEDIATE EXCHANGES ... TOGETHER WITH A FEW REMARKS ON THE EXCHANGES OF AMERICA, ASIA, AND AFRICA .... Dublin: Printed for J. Moore, 1802. [12],[ix]-xxiv,[4],356pp. Quarto. Handsomely bound in recent three quarter calf and marbled boards, raised bands, gilt label. Title creased at top edge, with old ownership signature effaced and later 19th century gift inscription, shallow chips to blank fore-margin of first four leaves, some foxing and a fluctuating light tide mark in gutters and margins; still, a good, sound copy.

First edition, second issue, consisting of the sheets from the original edition of 1781 printed by Graisberry for the author (including the original list of subscribers), equipped with a cancel title leaf, as well as the new tables of interest occupying pp. 320 to 356. ESTC locates only eight copies of the 1781 issue (three in North America), under the title, The General Exchanger ..., and OCLC/Worldcat locates a single example of this issue, at Columbia. Not in Black, Kress (or supplements), or Goldsmiths. Scarce. ESTC N4639 (1781 issue). BRADSHAW 2157 (1781 issue). $650.

Early Gronigen Printing

100. Emmius, Ubbo: DE AGRO FRISIAE INTER AMASVM & LAVICAM FLVMINA. DEQVE VRBE GRONINGA IN AGRO EODEM: ET DE IVRE VTRIVSQVE. [bound with:] SERIES CONSVLVM, EORUMQVE, QVI ANTE EOS CONSVLARI POTESTATE FVERE IN CIVITATE GRONINGANA.... Groningen, Netherlands: Typis Gerhard Ketel, Typographi ordinary, 1605. 191,[1] pp. plus a number of inserted blank interleaves; 56pp. plus several blank interleaves, two bearing contemporary manuscript notes. Numerous setting errors in the pagination, but sequence complete. Contemporary calf, tooled in gilt, gilt gauffered edges. Initials “D.D.R.” and date of “1607” stamped on both boards, within gilt frame with corner ornaments and a central oval with internal floral devices. Extremities and joints rubbed, front joint worn but sound, vestiges of absent ties at fore-edge, a few surface scars to binding, signs of early consolidation of fore-corners, modern bookplate on front pastedown, a few side notes in the latter work slightly shaved at fore-margin by binder, early ink ownership inscription on rear pastedown, ink note of acquisition/provenance on front free endsheet (“Lot 203. Sotheby’s Gallery 1892 E.H. Laurence Library”). A good copy in an interesting binding.

First edition. An attractive copy of this work on the history of the Frisian territories by German historian and geographer Ubbo Emmius (1547 – 1625). From East Frisia himself, Emmius wrote several works concerning the history of that coastal area, and a number of his titles appeared under the Elzevier’s imprints in coming years. The first work is noted as the second book printed in Gronigen (the first being another work by Emmius printed in 1603) and one must assume the second work is also close in that sequence, particularly as it often appears bound with a number of the copies of the former title reported in OCLC. A rough and inadequate transcription of the ownership inscription on the rear pastedown suggests the original owner may have been “D.D. Doct. Daüide Robertüm.” A significant book in an interesting contemporary binding. NIJHOFF – VAN HATTUM 89. WILLEMS (SUPPLEMENT) 46. OCLC 64181920. $4500.

101. [English Radicalism]: Society for Constitutional Information: AN ADDRESS TO THE PUBLIC FROM THE SOCIETY FOR CONSTITUTIONAL INFORMATION [caption title]. [London. 1780?] 6 (of 8)pp. [bound with]: A SECOND ADDRESS TO THE PUBLIC FROM THE SOCIETY FOR CONSTITUTIONAL INFORMATION [caption title]. 18pp. [London. 1782?]. Modern blue paper wrappers. First title lacks terminal leaf, some light foxing and soiling, otherwise about very good. In a blue half morocco and cloth clamshell case.

A pair of scarce pamphlets published by the Society for Constitutional Information, a radical political reform group active in London in the last two decades of the 18th century. The Society, which was small and rather exclusive because of its high dues, lobbied for Parlia- mentary reform. “John Cartwright was generally regarded as the founder of the society and he produced its most important early publications. He drafted the society’s First Address to the Public, which asserted that every subject should know what the constitution was, when it was safe, and when it was endangered, and which supported a full and equal representation of the people. Cartwright also produced for the society the immensely influential ‘Declara- tion of those Rights of the Commonalty of Great Britain, without which they cannot be Free,’ a single-sheet publication that listed the general political rights of all men, irrespective of their wealth, education, or social origins: ‘they who have no voice or vote in the electing of representatives do not enjoy liberty, but are absolutely enslaved to those who have votes, and to their representatives’. Cartwright went on to advocate universal manhood suffrage and annual parliaments” – DNB. The first Address here lacks the final leaf which contains the “Declaration of those rights of the commonalty of Great Britain, without which they cannot be free.” ESTC locates only two copies of the first title (of which there are three variant issues), at Cambridge and the University of Texas; only a handful of copies of the second title are located. ESTC T224327, T47277. $1500.

Stamp Taxes Beginning at Home

102. [English Stamp Taxes]: ANNO REGNI GULIELMI ET MARIAE ... AN ACT GRANTING TO THEIR MAJESTIES SEVERAL DUTIES UPON VELUM, PARCHMENT AND PAPER FOR FOUR YEARS, TOWARDS CARRYING ON THE WAR AGAINST FRANCE. London. 1694. [2],383-415pp. Folio. Dbd. Contemporary manuscript notations in margin otherwise crisp and near fine.

Official English Act granting the crown the proceeds of a tax on vellum, parchment, and paper, levied to pay for the on-going war with France. The lengthy Act details the various taxes based on the use of the writing material in question – “For every skin or piece of velum or parchment, or sheet of paper, upon which a copy of any will shall be ingrossed or written, the sum of one peny [sic].” Seventy years before the American colonies were so perturbed to have stamp taxes, they were a source of revenue to the English Crown. Only three copies recorded by ESTC, at the Folger, the Huntington, and the National Library of Australia. ESTC R223407. $1250.

The Heber Copy

103. [Ens, Gaspar]: DELICIAE TRANSMARINAE, ID EST INSIGNIUM ALIQUOT MARIS MEDITERRANEI, INSULARUM, PORTUUM AC MARITIMORUM OPPIDORUM DESCRIP- TIO.... Coloniae Agrippinae: Wilhelm Lutzenkirchen, 1610. [16],156pp. 18th century mottled calf, spine gilt with leather label. Extremities lightly worn. Front inner hinge cracked. Book- plate on front pastedown. Ownership ink stamp of Richard Heber on rear flyleaf. Light to moderate toning and foxing. Good.

Second edition, augmented. Gaspar Ens, the prominent German historian, revised the 1606 European itinerary of Cyprianus Eichovius to include distances and routes from Venice to the major cities of the Eastern Mediterranean. There are descriptions of Constantinople, Jerusalem, Cairo, and Tunis, as well as detailed instructions about travel by land and sea. This copy carries the ink stamp of Richard Heber (1773-1833), the “fiercest and strongest of all bibliomaniacs.” His library of over two hundred thousand volumes was dispersed in the early 19th century. VD17 23:255256P. RÖHRICHT 906. $1500.

Lovely Copy

104. Erasmus, Desiderius: PARAPHRASES DES. ERASMI ROTERODAMI IN EPISTOLAS PAULI AD RHOMANOS, CORINTHIOS & GALATAS … [bound with:] … AD EPHESIOS, PHILIPPENSES, & COLOSSENSES, & IN DUAS AD THESSALONICENSES… [bound with:] AD TIMOTHEUM DUAS, AD TITUM UNAM, & AD PHILEMONEM UNAM …. Basel: Johann Froben, January; March; and March 1520. Three works bound in one volume. 465[i.e. 495],[1]; 167,[1]; 141,[3] pp. Octavo. Contemporary blindstamped pigskin. Titles within ornamental woodcut border, initials, printer’s device in colophon. Covers somewhat soiled, one brass clasp missing, otherwise an excellent copy, internally about fine. Bookplate of scholar and author Nathan Comfort Starr.

First collected editions of these “Paraphrases” of the letters of Paul, which were undertaken shortly after Erasmus’s revolutionary edition of the Greek New Testament of 1516. As part of his monumental reconstruction of the New Testament, Erasmus’ intention was to “retell” all of the books except Revelations in one, uninterrupted voice, without the clutter of textual commentary or critical interruption. It was a bold undertaking and, in 1517, Erasmus began it with these letters of Paul. They were first issued separately, starting with Romans in 1517; editions appeared in Louvain (Thierry Martens), Leipzig (Valentin Schumann), and Basel (Johann Froben). The collected issues -- such as the three which are bound together in this exquisite volume -- began to be issued in Basel by Froben in 1519; and finally, in 1521, Froben issued a collected edition of all of the Pauline letters. All of the lifetime editions, both separate and collected, are rare on the market: the last copy of any of the above collected Pauline paraphrases to appear at auction was in 1977. Adams E790; E792 & E79. $12,500.

With Engravings after Eisen Large Paper Copy

105. Erasmus, Desiderius: L’ELOGE DE LA FOLIE, TRADUIT DU LATIN ... NOUVELLE EDITION REVÛE ET CORRIGÉE SUR LE TEXTE DE L’EDITION DE BASLE. ORNÉE DE NOUVELLES FIGURES. AVEC DES NOTES. [Paris]. 1751. [6],xxiv,222,[2]pp. Quarto. Full deep plum straight-grain morocco, elaborately stamped in blind, lettered and ruled in gilt, gilt inner dentelles, gilt borders on endsheets, a.e.g. Title in red and black. Frontis and fourteen engraved plates, engraved head- and tail-pieces. Extremities a bit worn, narrow scrapes at fore-tips of lower board, armorial bookplate on pastedown, slight offset from plates to facing pages; a very good copy.

First edition of this translation, accompanied by notes by Meunier de Querlon. The frontis, plates, title-vignette and head- and tail-pieces are engraved by various hands after designs by Charles Eisen. This is a large-paper copy (23.8 x 17.4 cm), with the fourteen plates inlaid into larger sheets, and with the frontis framed and etched by P.F. Martenasie under the direction of “Mr. Le Bas.” SALOMONS, pp.98-9. COHEN-DE RICCI (VI), pp.348-9. $2000.

Item 106 Editio Princeps

106. Euripides: [Title in Greek] ... EURIPIDIS TRAGŒDIÆ SEPTENDECIM, EX QUIB QUÆDAM HABENT COMMENTARIA .... Venetiis: Apvd Aldvm, February 1503. Two volumes bound in one. [268;190] leaves. Thick octavo (165 x 98 mm). Full red morocco, spine heavily gilt extra, gilt Aldine anchor device on each board, a.e.g. (unsigned). Italic (preface) and Greek letter. Aldine anchor device at end of each volume. Small shallow discoloration at extreme lower edge of 11 leaves in the second volume, occasional traces of foxing, minor rubbing at crown of spine, otherwise about fine. Cloth slipcase and chemise.

First collected edition of the Greek texts of the tragedies of Euripides, preceded only by an edition of four of the plays printed in Florence in 1496. Although the title lists seventeen plays, Aldus added an eighteenth, the Hercules Furens, and in his prefatory dedication to Demetrius Chalcondylas, a distinguished professor of Greek at Padua, Aldus indicates the edition consisted of one thousand copies. Euripides was the last of the trio of great classic Greek tragedians, and although he is known to have written a significantly larger body of plays than are preserved here, many of the others are known only through incomplete fragments. The other titles included here include some of the masterpieces of classic drama, including Medea, Hecuba, Orestes, Iphigenia In Taurus, Aleceste, Bacchae, etc. With the bookplates of Arthur Atherley and George Warren Vernon. “...recherchée, et les beaux exemplaires se trouvent difficilement” – Brunet. A small number of copies were printed on vellum. BM (ITALIAN), P.239. RENOUARD 43:10. GOLDSMID 63. ADAMS E1030. BRUNET II:1095. $40,000.

“For a Young Gentleman going to Reside in the East-Indies”

107. Evans, John: THE CHRISTIAN TEMPER: BEING A SUMMARY OF DR. EVANS’S PRACTICAL DISCOURSES ... DESIGNED FOR GENERAL USE, BUT MORE PARTICU- LARLY FOR A YOUNG GENTLEMAN GOING TO RESIDE IN THE EAST-INDIES. London: Printed for J. Buckland ... and E. Dilly, 1761. Two volumes in one. xv,[1],55,[1];[2],63,[1]pp. Octavo. Sewn, and untrimmed, in original plain wrappers. Contemporary manuscript address on upper wrapper, and manuscript index on lower wrapper, two relevant manuscript insertions in text of the dedicatory letter, and a few notes in margins, some light marginal discolorations through B4, marginal tear in D3 (no loss), wrappers somewhat creased and frayed, but an unusually nice copy, in original state.

A late, but very interesting edition of Evans’s Discourses ..., first published in 1723, and in this edition, here adding to the subtitle the directive “For a Young Gentleman ....” Another edition (ESTC T212643) appeared the same year under the same imprint, “...designed for the use of families.” This edition is further distinguished by the addition of a five-page dedicatory letter, dated in type Jan. 21, 1761, directed to “My Dear Son,” but with a space left for the recipient’s name; the text is concluded by “Your most affectionate Father,” again with a space left for a signature. Both spaces have been filled by the original owner, J. Stonhouse MD, for Mr. Neal Stonhouse. This copy might then be associated, with some probability, with Sir James Stonhouse, physician and cleric (1716-1795). There are some further marginal annotations in a contemporary hand in the text. The text of the prefatory matter concerns the perils of the forthcoming voyage and the potential pitfalls that lay ahead in the land of “many idolatrous Temples.” Evans (1652-1724) was appointed the East-India Company’s first Chap- lain in 1679, and though he was relieved of the post in 1692, he maintained ties with many of the merchants, providing an interesting context for this edition. ESTC locates ten copies. ESTC T6380. $450.

Important Work on Sun Dials

108. Fale, Thomas: HOROLOGIOGRAPHIA. THE ART OF DIALLING: TEACHING, AN EASIE AND PERFECT WAY TO MAKE ALL KINDS OF DIALS UPON ANY PLAINE PLATE HOWSOEUER PLACED .... London: Imprinted by Felix Kyngston..., 1633. [3],[76] leaves. Small quarto. Later half calf and marbled boards, leather label. Titlepage soiled, rear leaves stained. Professional restoration to forecorners of title-page and several leaves of text, not affecting printing except in table on final leaf of text. Overall good.

This is the fourth edition listed in ESTC, after the first of 1593, followed by those of 1626 and 1627. An important work on sun dials, with attractive woodcut diagrams of dials by Jodocus Hondius. This is Fale’s only known publication. “The table of sines which it contains is probably the earliest specimen of a trigonometrical table printed in England” – DNB. All editions are scarce: ESTC locates only five copies of this edition in North America. ESTC S101843. DNB VI, p.1033. $2250.

With a Substantial Array of Fine Illustrations

109. [Fitzgerald, Francis (editor)]: THE ARTIST’S REPOSITORY AND DRAWING MAGAZINE, EXHIBITING THE PRINCIPLES OF THE POLITE ARTS IN THEIR VARIOUS BRANCHES. [Volume I to Volume IV]. London: C. Taylor, [1785-1788]. Four volumes. vii,[1],214; 228; 188; 68; 132; 159,[1]pp. plus six engraved titles (one for each volume and two extra engraved titles for the two parts of vol. III) and 229 plates (some folding, many of them in “red chalk style”, eight hand-colored). Uniformly bound in contemporary marbled boards with antique-style calf backstrips, morocco labels. Boards a bit rubbed, corners somewhat worn. One folding plate expertly repaired, a few plates with old dampstains in upper portion, else internally clean and fresh. A near fine set.

An important and beautifully produced periodical on art instruction and appreciation. Edited by Francis Fitzgerald, The Artist’s Repository and Drawing Magazine... was published by Charles Taylor, and many of the illustrations are by the famed engraver, Francesco Bar- tolozzi. The text takes the form of lectures and covers a wide variety of subjects of interest to the students and consumers of art, including human and animal physiognomy, human figures and character, architecture, landscape, perspective, and the uses of color. Much of the work, therefore, amounts to a prolonged course in art criticism, and this periodical played a significant role in educating the British populace to what constitutes fine art. It thereby served to instruct those who wanted to become artists, and to cultivate the eye of art consumers in an era when art was accessible to a wider populace than just the royal court. Also included are biographies and assessments of several artists, and analyses of various paintings, sculptures, and buildings that would have been accessible to readers. There are also portraits of significant painters, sculptors, architects, and engravers including Nicholas Poussin, Michael Rysbrack, Wenceslaus Hollar, Peter Paul Rubens, Van Dyck, Inigo Jones, Mrs. Grace, and more. Many of the plates are the work of the great Italian engraver, Francesco Bartolozzi (1727- 1815). He was born and studied art in Italy, before coming to England in 1764 and being made “engraver to the King.” He produced thousands of plates in England, refining and perfecting the “red chalk style,” a form of stipple engraving that had been recently invented by the French. Many of the plates in The Artist’s Repository... are in the “red chalk” style, especially those showing the human form, a specialty of Bartolozzi’s. A handsome set of this important art journal. $3500.

“Fighting Fitzgerald”

110. [Fitzgerald, George Robert]: THE LIFE OF GEORGE ROBERT FITZGERALD, ESQ. CONTAINING EVERY INTERESTING CIRCUMSTANCE WHILE HAPPENED TO THAT UNFORTUNATE MAN, FROM HIS QUITTING SCHOOL TO HIS MELANCHOLY EXIT.... London. 1786. 194,iv pp., plus frontispiece portrait. Three-quarter calf and marbled boards, in contemporary style. Bookplate on front pastedown. 19th century notations on frontispiece and title-page. Minor soiling and foxing, very good.

A popular biography of “Fighting Fitzgerald,” published after he was hung for his part in the murder of a local magistrate. Easily provoked and a touch mad (Fitzgerald was said to have suffered a blow to the head at the age of twenty), George Robert Fitzgerald was notorious for dueling and for the quarrels which led thereunto. “In his short life Fitzgerald fought some twelve duels, which is, by a substantial margin, more than any other known Irish duelist. Indeed, it is improbable that he could have fought so many had he not contrived, as the Dublin Evening Post reported on 15 June 1786, ‘to have some advantage of his opponent’” – DNB. ESTC locates five copies in North America. ESTC T20962. $900.

The Precision of Burin Engraving in the Hands of a Master

111. Flocon, Albert [pseud of Albert Mentzel]: TRAITÉ DU BURIN. Paris: Librairie Auguste Blaizot, 1952. 104,[12]pp. Small quarto. Gathered signatures laid into printed wrappers. Illustrated with 23 burin engravings, including frontispiece, eight hors-texte, seven in-text and seven culs-de-lamp. Opening letters in two colors. Trace of tanning at wrapper edges, occasional faint offset from engravings to facing pages, but a very good copy in board chemise and slipcase.

First edition. Preface by Gaston Bachelard. One of 250 numbered copies, from a total edition of 260 copies printed on Vergé de Montval by Frazier-Soye, with the engravings printed by Georges Leblanc. A separate 4pp. key to the engravings (printing them in reduced size) is laid in back. A highly appealing work by this former student at the Bauhaus under Albers and later associate with Friedlander at the Hermitage Studio. Flocon’s specialization in burin engraving, coupled with his practical and technical explorations of perspective (including the first theoretical exposé of curvilinear perspective) and space, produced a body of work fascinating in its melding of precision and imagination. MONOD 4752. $650.

112. Frankfurter, Felix: [Two Autograph Letters, Signed (“Felix” & “Ff”), and One Typed Letter, Signed (“Ff”), From Felix Frankfurter to Various Recipients]. [with:] [Autograph Letter, Signed (“Tom”), From Thomas G. Corcoran to His Father, Forwarding These Three Frankfurter Letters]. Cambridge, Ma., various dates, ca. April 1936. On Harvard Law School and personal letterhead. Very good.

A sequence of letters praising an address delivered by Thomas G. Corcoran in April 1936 before the Harvard Law School Association on the topic of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Corcoran was a former student of Frankfurter’s at Harvard and had clerked for Justice Holmes in the 1920s. Frankfurter writes to congratulate and praise Corcoran: “...The School is humming with your achievement: both faculty and students had their horizons stretched and their souls invigorated. It was a moral and esthetic triumph. I cannot adequately tell you the pride I feel in you.” In a letter to Benjamin Cohen, another former student, Frankfurter implores him to have Corcoran dictate his speech before it is lost: “The place has been buzzing about it ever since, both Faculty and Students. It was an extraordinary psychological analysis of the workshop of Holmes’ mind, and, of course, a penetrating interpretation of the whole man. For if ever there was an organic being, it was Holmes. And the thing had beauty and loveliness. In conception and execution it was a truly beautiful performance. It can’t be recaptured. But I am appealing to you to have Tom rescue as much as can be rescued ... please do make Tom dictate just for one straight hour all that he can remember....” In the third letter, Frankfurter writes to Harold Laski, prominent British socialist, political scientist and former Harvard lecturer, who had befriended Frankfurter during his stay in the US (1916-1920): “Just to tell you that not since Holmes spoke here, at 250th has anyone so moved Faculty & students as did Tom at Law Review Dinner....” With an autograph note from Corcoran to his father, forwarding the Frankfurter notes: “...I don’t quite remember what I said. I talked without notes – but it seemed to go over well. Here are three letters – to Ben, to Harold Laski and to me from FF. A prejudiced judge – but you may enjoy reading them....” $1500.

One Man’s Idea of the Rights of Man

113. [French Revolution]: Mounier, Jean-Joseph: DECLARATION DES DROITS DE L’HOMME ET DU CITOYEN [caption title]. Paris: Chez Baudouin, November 31, 1789]. 4pp., on a single folded sheet. Unbound. Two small holes along the center fold, likely from where it had been bound into a sammelband. Some foxing and tanning. Good.

A scarce printing of a proposed alternate version of the “Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen,” one of the most important political documents in human history. Conceived in August 1789, the Declaration des Droits defined the individual and collective rights of all classes of men in French (and indeed in human) society. Jean-Joseph Mounier was a French lawyer and politician who played a leading role in the first year of the French Revolution. He served as secretary and president of the Constituent Assembly in 1789, and was a proposer of the famed “Tennis Court Oath.” Mounier is credited with writing the first three articles of the Declaration des Droits, but in the end he felt that the document went too far. The present pamphlet was printed just two months after the official printing of the Declaration, and was produced by the same printer, Baudouin, who was printer to the Assembly. It puts forth Mounier’s alternate conception of rights, and is similar to the Declaration as officially accepted, but with significant differences. It contains a total of sixteen articles, as opposed to seventeen in the official version. Mounier became disenchanted with the course of the revolution, and in 1790 he left France for Switzerland. MARTIN & WALTER 25397. OCLC 8357944. $1500.

114. Fulton, Robert: A TREATISE ON THE IMPROVEMENT OF CANAL NAVIGATION; EXHIBITING THE NUMEROUS ADVANTAGES TO BE DERIVED FROM SMALL CANALS ... WITH A DESCRIPTION OF THE MACHINERY FOR FACILITATING CONVEYANCE BY WATER THROUGH THE MOST MOUNTAINOUS COUNTRIES, INDEPENDENT OF LOCKS AND AQUEDUCTS .... London. 1796. xvi,144pp. plus seventeen plates (without the leaves of ads called for by Howes). Quarto. Original boards. Spine chipped. Hinges cracked, with old glue repairs. Internally quite clean. Overall just about very good. In a half green morocco clamshell box.

First edition, the state with text (‘Addition’) on p. 144. ESTC reports a variant state with p. [144] blank. Fulton was a skilled artist, inventor, and civil engineer. A native of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, he spent twenty years in England developing his talents and inventions. His chief work was in the design of canal systems, so important to commercial activ- ity in 19th century America, and in the development of steamboats. The engraved plates for Fulton’s ...Treatise... are after original drawings executed by the author himself. They represent mechanical designs and boats to show “the numerous advantages to be derived from small canals.” “He signed himself [on the title-page of this work] ‘Robert Fulton, Civil Engineer,’ which was the first formal announcement of his new occupation. Copies of this treatise were sent to Gen. Washington and the governor of Pennsylvania. It not only dealt with the practical contrivances for canals and the technicalities of his own inventions, but also contained complete and accurate computations of all construction and operating costs. It contained, too, much prophecy in regard to the economic and political advantages which would accrue to nations adopting great inland systems of canals” – DAB. HOWES F418. SABIN 26201. ESTC T101123. DAB VII, pp.68-72. $2500.

115. [Furniture]: THE CABINET-MAKERS’ LONDON BOOK OF PRICES, AND DESIGNS OF CABINET WORK, CALCULATED FOR THE CONVENIENCE OF CABINET MAKERS IN GENERAL .... London: W. Brown and A. O’Neil, 1793. [2],xvi,266,[48]pp. plus twenty-nine plates. Contemporary suede, sympathetically rebacked with original leather label laid down. Corners worn, boards a bit scuffed. Contemporary bookplate, defaced, on front pastedown. Minor soiling and foxing. About very good.

Second edition, with additions. A price guide issued by the London Society of Cabinet Mak- ers, intended to simplify the calculations for the “price of executing any piece of work.” The text includes extensive price lists for various tables, desks, book cases, clothes presses, chests, sideboards, various cases and stands, and myriad other items, with pricing for each extra feature. With twenty-nine plates showing the more elaborate desks, bureaus, stands, drawers, and cabinets, also with plates showing various styles of legs and moldings. An interesting work for the study of English furniture. ESTC T120479. GOLDSMITHS 15065. $1200.

116. Gambetta, Léon-Michel: [Autograph Letter, Signed (“Gambetta Père”), to an Unknown Correspondent Regarding His Love for “La Grande République Américaine”]. Nice. June 12, 1881. [1]p. in ink on a single folded sheet of blank stationery. Fine. In a red cloth folder.

Upon the death of the great French statesman, leader of the opposition to Napoléon III, and champion of the French Republic (1838-82), the New York Times obituary (Jan. 2, 1883) wrote: “The energy, patriotism, and statesmanship of Léon Gambetta made the French Re- public.” In this note toward the end of his life, Gambetta writes [in our translation]: “From a very early age I have loved the great American republic. My son and I have contributed a bit to the foundation of the French Republic. It is my most solemn wish that the French Republic become as strong and prosperous as her elder sister, the Republic of the United States.” $1250.

Deluxe Colored Set on Vélin

117. [Gavarni (pseud of Sulpice-Guillaume Chevalier) (illus)]: Méry, Joseph: PERLES ET PARURES [caption title] ... LES JOYAUX FANTAISIE... MINÉRALOGIE DES DAMES PAR LE CTE FŒLIX [with:] LES PARURES FANTAISIE... HISTOIRE DE LA MODE PAR LE CTE FŒLIX. Paris: G. de Gonet [et al]...[&] a Leipzig: Chez Charles Twietmeyer, [1850]. Two volumes. [4],316pp. plus frontis and fifteen plates; [2],300pp. plus frontis and fifteen plates. Large octavo (27.5 x 18.7cm). Very handsome 20th century half tan morocco, raised bands, ruled in blind, lettered in gilt, and marbled boards, t.e.g., others rough-trimmed, with the original decorative pictorial rose-on-cream wrappers bound in. Occasional very minor foxing or dust-soiling, light rubbing to extremities, a handful of small creases or snags to the edges of the lace borders (see below), wrappers a trace smudged, with a short tear mended at lower edge of upper wrapper to first volume, but a near fine, large, crisp set.

First editions, in the most desirable form, with the texts printed on vélin, and with the frontispieces and plates (engraved by Geoffrey after Gavarni) delicately hand-colored. The plates are of particular interest, because in this format, they are printed on sheets with elaborate and delicate stencil-cut lace pattern frames and borders. The plates “are studies of beautiful women, fashionably attired for the most part, which were drawn in London. Méry wrote the ‘fantasy’ accompanying them to fit Gavarni’s designs...[in] this special edition...Gavarni’s designs become fashion plates of the first order” – Ray. “La réunion des deux ouvrages avec les gravures à marges de dentelles est assez rare à recontrer” – Carteret. RAY (FRENCH) 209a-210. CARTERET III:460-1. VICAIRE V:770-1. $2250.

118. Gaya, Louis de: THE ART OF WAR, AND THE WAY THAT IT IS AT PRESENT PRAC- TISED IN FRANCE. TWO PARTS.... London: Robert Harford, 1678. [16],79,118,[2]pp. plus frontispiece, folding chart, and five plates. 20th century red morocco, gilt, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Spine very lightly faded, corners gently bumped, contemporary ownership inscription on titlepage, otherwise a very good, clean copy.

First and only English edition, complete with the license leaf preceding the frontispiece and the leaf of advertisements at the end. A translation of L’Art de la Guerre et la Manière dont on la Fait à Présent, published in France the previous year. Louis de Gaya had been a captain in the military before publishing this work on 17th century warfare in 1677. In addition to information about officers and their roles, there are details on such topics as marching, encamping, methods of attacking, and hospitals. The plates illustrate various maneuvers and fortifications; two dictionaries of military terms follow the text. ESTC locates only six copies in North America. ESTC R23334. WING G398. $2500.

119. George III, King of England: [Autograph Letter, Signed, From George III to His Daughter-In-Law, Caroline of Brunswick]. Queen’s House. Dec. 7, 1797. One page, with conjugate blank. Quarto, on a folded folio sheet. In French. Old fold lines. Very good plus. In a red half morocco and cloth clamshell box, spine gilt.

The King replies to a letter received from his daughter-in-law, Caroline of Brunswick about an upcoming ceremony, to which she and the Prince of Wales are not invited: [in translation] “When I ask advice, I regard the reply in the light of a matter of conscience. I am quite charmed with your views on the subject of the religious duty which I must undertake on the 19th of this month at St. Paul’s Cathedral, but since the financial situation of the Prince of Wales does not allow him having the carriages and following necessary for himself and you as the inheritor of my crown, I can only approve of the fact that neither you nor he will be present at this ceremony.” George III and his eldest son were on the worst terms due to the latter’s association with Fox, Sheridan, and the Whig Party, as well as his extravagant lifestyle and heavy debts. In 1794 the prince consented to marriage with the German princess, Caroline of Brunswick, because his father would not agree to pay his debts on any other terms. By 1796 Caroline was no longer living with her husband and she was never crowned queen. $2500.

A Fantastic Series of Cake Paintings

120. [German Pastries]: [Magnificent Series of Thirty-Two 19th Century German Water- colors of Cakes and Tortes, Each Dessert Portrayed with Accompanying Explanatory Hand-Written Text on Individual Sheets, Bound Accordion-Style and Extending over Eleven Feet Unfolded]. [Germany. ca. 1840]. [32] watercolors with individual text, each on paper panel measuring 5¼ x 4 inches, totaling about 132 inches all told. Modern brown linen case with decorative ribbon ties. Panel of watercolors attached to front board only at beginning of sequence. Each panel mounted on linen, with creases at each fold in an accordion-style binding. Each panel consists of a single watercolor of a cake or torte, with handwritten text below the image. Images fresh and lively, colors still strong. Inoffensive soiling (perhaps from closely observant baking practitioners?). In very good condition, housed in a linen clam-shell box with paper label on front board.

A marvelous and enticing collection of thirty-two watercolors of cakes and tortes, presented together in a folding framework which, when extended, measures over eleven feet long. The individual desserts are presented in a naive, yet solid, style with each image accompanied by identifying and explanatory text. Certain words specific to Germany in the 1840s strongly suggest that these illustrations were utilized as something akin to a baker’s catalogue, to be shown to customers who could then order specific items for particular occasions. Alternatively, the images may have been used a illustrations in a shop or window display to advertise the baker’s skills. In addition to the expected chocolate cakes and apple and linzer tortes, are more curiously-named creations including a Brassilianer. A wonderful watercolor series advertising the baker’s craft in mid-19th century Germany. $10,000.

First American Edition

121. Gibbon, Edward: THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE. Philadelphia: Published by William Y. Birch & Abraham Small, 1804-1805. Eight volumes. Contemporary calf, gilt morocco labels. Frontispiece portrait and three folding maps. Joints tender, slight cracking of front joint on first volume and rear joint of last volume, lightly rubbed. Engraved bookplates on front pastedowns, contemporary gift inscription on front fly leaf of first volume. Light occasional foxing, even tanning, else internally clean and bright. A lovely set in a contemporary binding. Very good.

The first American edition of Gibbon’s celebrated historical work, Decline and Fall .... The present set contains the engraved bookplates of Nathaniel Ingersoll Bowditch, author of various histories, including the earliest on the Massachusetts General Hospital, and biographer of his father, Nathaniel Bowditch, author of the New American Practical Navigator (1802). Bowditch received this set from D.A. White, whose gift inscription reading, “...with best wishes of his friend...,” appears on the front fly leaf in the first volume. White himself was a historian and Massachusetts justice, who penned a eulogy on the elder Bowditch. A lovely set of a standard historical work, in its handsome first American edition. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 6381, 8518. APPLETON’S CYCLOPÆDIA VI, p.469. PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN 222 (ref). NORTON 48. $1750.

Fundamental Work of 17th Century Witchcraft

122. Glanvill, Joseph, et al.: SADUCISMUS TRIUMPHATUS: OR, FULL AND PLAIN EVIDENCE CONCERNING WITCHES AND APPARITIONS. IN TWO PARTS. THE FIRST TREATING OF THEIR POSSIBILITY. THE SECOND OF THEIR REAL EXISTENCE.... London: Printed by Tho. Newcomb, for S. Lownds..., 1682. [18],52,[12],162,[6],78,blank leaf,[14],273,[1],67,[3],5-45,[17],24,[2]pp. with engraved frontis to each part, engraved plate at p. 23 of final part, and errata. Modern three quarter calf and marbled boards, gilt labels, to style. Tiny isolated wormhole in lower blank margin of text block, modest occasional tanning and a few isolated minor rust marks, otherwise a very good copy. A properly, and neatly, deaccessioned institutional duplicate, with tiny release stamp on verso of title and in blank portion of 3E2.

One of two variants of this work denoted the “second edition,” in this case conforming to ESTC R233939. Although the register is continuous, there are variations in the pagination of the constituent elements, as well in the imprint, distinguishing the two variants. Glanvill (1636-1680), who at an early age distinguished himself with The Vanity Of Dogmatizing (1661), was keenly interested in the phenomenon associated with witchcraft, and in 1667, published his initial work, Philosophical Considerations Touching Witches and Witchcraft. Through subsequent expanded editions, under various titles, it grew from that 62pp. pamphlet to become one of the most widely known works on witchcraft of its times. The first edition of this title appeared in 1681, and this second edition (in both variants) is enhanced by additional prefatory matter, as well as added sections by Antony Horneck and Henry More. “Glanvill was a voluminous author. His style is often admirable, not unfrequently recalling that of Sir Thomas Browne. His intellect was versatile, active, and sympathetic, but he is rather rhetorical than logical. In his dislike to the scholastic philosophy he followed Bacon and the founders of the Royal Society. Though he was in this direction a thorough-going sceptic, he was opposed to the materialism of Hobbes. His defence of witchcraft was the natural result of an attempt to find an empirical ground for a belief in the supernatural, and he formed with Henry More a virtual association for ‘psychical research’” – DNB. This work exerted some influence on Mather, and on various witch frenzies during subsequent decades; its continuing fashionability can be measured, in a way, by its occasional occurrence among the real and imaginary texts cited by H.P. Lovecraft in his works. ESTC R233939. WING G823. CORNELL WITCHCRAFT 239. KEYNES (BIBLIOTHECA) 2353. $2750.

With a Fine -- and Relevant -- Letter

123. [Golf]: Sutphen, W.G. Van T., and A. B. Frost [illustrator]: THE GOLFER’S ALPHABET ILLUSTRATIONS BY ... RHYMES BY .... New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1898. Oblong small quarto. Cloth backed pictorial paper boards. Illustrated throughout. Edges and fore-tips shelfworn and bumped, endsheets a bit foxed, boards a bit dust darkened, but a good copy of a fragile book.

First edition. Loosely-inserted is an autograph letter, signed (“Frost”) from the artist, 3pp, 8vo, on the blue printed stationery of Convent, Morris County, New Jersey, 2 May, 1898. To “Frank,” inviting him to play golf at the Morris County course, and to view some art on which Frost is currently employed: “I am at work on some golf caricatures that I would like to have you see, but I wouldn’t let you see unless you saw them in my studio: I think they are pretty good and I see a good scheme [?] in them ....” Further, Frost refers to his own prowess as a golfer (“ ... I can’t hit a balloon yet; played Saturday and today and am pretty rank...”) and thanks his correspondent for allowing him to send the “Bicycle drawing” to him, adding: “I feel sure any idea you have for a book is a good idea, and I can almost say I am ready to go with [?] it.” Beneath his signature, Frost has drawn a caricature of himself playing golf, captioned: “This is the way the ball looks so I hit it on its top.” Letter slightly soiled and worn; edges browned; some slight marking on verso, else very good. The recipient of this letter may be the author, Frank R. Stockton, whose property in Mor- ristown, New Jersey, “The Holt,” adjoined Frost’s own property at Convent Station. Frost illustrated a number of Stockton’s stories, and was one of the latter’s few intimate friends. REED, p.158. $3500.

England Tried for Starting the American Revolution

124. [Goudar, Ange (attrib)]: LE PROCÈS DES TROIS ROIS, LOUIS XVI, DE FRANCE- BOURBON, CHARLES III, D’ESPAGNE-BOURBON, ET GEORGE III, D’HANOVRE, FAB- RICANT DE BOUTONS. PLAIDÉ AU TRIBUNAL DES PUISSANCES-EUROPÉENES. PAR APPENDIX, L’APPEL AU PAPE. “Londres” [but probably Leipzig]: Chez George Carenaught, Libraire pres de Temple-Bar, 1780. 8,192pp. plus folding frontispiece plate. Original plain blue-green wrappers, manuscript paper spine label, edges untrimmed. Wrappers a bit soiled and edgeworn, title-page a bit dusty, otherwise very good, in original state.

An interesting work satirizing the three European monarchs most intimately involved in the American Revolution, those of England, France, and Spain. “Aimed especially at Great Brit- ain, this satire of the three major powers in the American War is in the form of a mock trial, which finds Great Britain guilty of starting the war. Extensive discussion of the United States. Benjamin Franklin, who is shown in the frontispiece, represents the U.S. and makes two speeches, the latter of which is a translation of almost all the Declaration of Independence.” This is certainly a false imprint; the style and production of the book are entirely French, nor is there an English edition as the line “Traduit de L’Anglois” on the title would suggest. This is one of several editions produced in 1780, the initial year of publication, and this copy conforms to what Echeverria and Wilkie presume to be the first issue of the first edition. However, they surmise that it was probably printed in London, but ESTC makes the case for Leipzig. The attractive folding plate shows a tribunal at which the three kings are being judged. It represents the Ottoman Emperor as President of the court, flanked by the Emperor of Morocco and an array of European monarchs. The kings on trial sit before them with their various ministers flanking them, while the representatives of the republics, including Paoli and Franklin, are to the right. ECHEVERRIA & WILKIE 780/58. MARS, ANGE GOUDAR, 140. FAY, p.13. ESTC T153778. $1250.

125. Grayson, Andrew Jackson: BIRDS OF THE PACIFIC SLOPE [with]: Stone, Lois Cham- bers: ANDREW JACKSON GRAYSON ... A BIOGRAPHY OF THE ARTIST & NATURALIST 1818 – 1869 ... WITH SPECIES ACCOUNTS OF FIELD NOTES BY ANDREW JACKSON GRAYSON, AND WITH CURRENT ORNITHOLOGICAL IDENTIFICATIONS .... San Francisco: The Arion Press, 1986. Two volumes. Large folio (63.5 x 48 cm) and thick quarto. 156 color plates (and one b&w) laid into folding cloth portfolio, accompanied by the companion volume of text, cloth, gilt labels, in slipcase. Bookplate on each front pastedown, otherwise fine.

First edition. One of 425 sets printed by Andrew Hoyem and associates. An ambitious and important undertaking, reproducing with great fidelity the 156 paintings by Grayson in the collections at the Bancroft Library. “Andrew Jackson Grayson, who came to San Francisco just before the Gold Rush, was inspired to paint by James John Audubon’s Birds of America. He vowed to extend Audubon’s visual record west, to include the Pacific Slope of California and Mexico. Bequeathed to the University of California in 1879 by Grayson’s widow, his paintings became an important holding in The Bancroft Library, but remained largely unknown to the public. Lois Chambers Stone of Berkeley spent several years researching the biography of Grayson that accompanies the portfolio. The publication of this long-overlooked masterwork has now assured Grayson of a significant place in the history of American ornithology” – Publisher’s blurb. Substantial shipping charges. $4000.

The Treaties Ending the Napoleonic Wars

126. [Great Britain – Treaties]: [A Volume of Treaties Between Great Britain and Rus- sia, Prussia, Austria and France]. [Chaumont & Paris]: Published by Authority, 1814. 13;13;13;15;39pp. Five documents bound in a single volume. Marbled boards, rebacked. Good.

The first three are Post-Napoleonic Wars treaties ensuring the balance of power in Europe, or, in the treaties’ words a “defensive alliance having for its object to maintain the equilibrium of Europe ... and to prevent the invasions which during so many years have desolated the world...” All phrased in the same way, all in parallel columns of French and English. The first three treaties are:

A Treaty Of Union, Concert and Subsidy, Between His Britannic Majesty and the Em- peror of All The Russias. A Treaty of Union, Concert And Subsidy, Between His Britannic Majesty and His Impe- rial and Royal Apostolic Majesty the Emperor Of Austria. A Treaty of Union...Between His Britannic Majesty and His Majesty the King Of Prussia. The British interactions with France are more complicated. There is a convention to stop the warfare and lay the groundwork for the treaty, and then the treaty itself. This treaty is long and clears up the finer points of the wars (boundaries, etc.). It provides for the exile of Napoleon and the restoration of the Bourbons to the throne. It ends hopefully: “The two High Contract Parties, desiring to establish the most friendly relations between Their respective subjects... promise to come to a mutual understanding and arrangement as soon as possible....” The final two agreements are:

Convention for a Suspension of Hostilities With France. Definitive Treaty of Peace and Amity Between His Britannic Majesty and His Most Christian Majesty. $1500.

By one “...among the earliest of French philhellenes.”

127. [Greece]: Lebrun, Pierre [-Antoine]: LE VOYAGE DE GRÈCE. POÈME .... Paris & Leipzig: Ponthieu et Cie., 1828. xx,[2],[23]-279pp. Octavo. Handsome contemporary green calf and marbled boards, spine gilt extra, with crowned initials A.O. in gilt at toe. Scattered light foxing, a few rubs to fore-tips, otherwise very good copy.

First edition of the author’s most celebrated work, a poem in nine cantos, with a prologue and over one hundred pages of appended notes, based on his 1820 travels in Greece, and published coincident with his election to the Academy. “Although Lebrun’s philhellenic poem is rather late, he was among the earliest of French philhellenes and exercised considerable influence on his colleagues” – Blackmer Catalogue. BLACKMER COLLECTION 992. $450. A Prelude to the Founding of the NEW YORK TIMES

128. Greeley, Horace: [Original Autograph Letter, Signed (“H. Greeley”), to “Friend R.” (probably Henry Jarvis Raymond)]. Washington. February 1849. One page, in ink, on quarto sheet. Ca. 150+ words. Upper right corner ragged, with no loss of text, lower left corner has old tide-mark touching, but not at all obscuring, four letters. Good, in half morocco folding case.

Addressed to “Friend R,” quite probably Henry Jarvis Raymond, Greeley’s second-in-command at the New-York Tribune. Raymond (1820 – 69) left the Tribune and with investors founded the New York Daily Times in 1851. That transition is inferentially the subject of this letter, in which Greeley writes: “I enclose you a note with regard to ‘the People,’ &c. for the Tribune to be inserted if you think best ... I have been thinking on the subject you wrote about – your publishing a Farewell word to the readers of the Tribune. I would not do it, in the first place, you may at some day be employed on it again, and this will be a botheration to you ... It is unwise to overstep any ordinary rule in a direction which subjects one to the charge of egotism, and you would hardly write anything in this connection which would not subject you to attacks on that score. I hope you are bound to succeed, but you have a great deal of hard work to do and many nights of anxiety to struggle through before your hopes will be firmly established. Yours, H. Greeley.” $1250.

The Famous Edgeware Road Murder

129. [Greenacre, James]: [A Volume of Contemporary Newspaper Clippings, Pamphlets and Other Publications, Relating to the Greenacre Murder Case A.K.A. “Edgeware Road Murder”]. [London. 1837]. Approximately 100 leaves of mounted clippings, articles and pamphlets. Illus. Folio. Modern cloth, leather label. Clean and very good.

This volume contains a large assortment of mounted contemporary English newspapers clippings and other publications, detailing the horrible facts surrounding the murder of Han- nah Brown, a washerwoman, by James Greenacre, who was engaged to be married to the woman he murdered. “Greenacre, it was proved at the trial, completely dismembered the body of the unfortunate Mrs. Brown, and, after disposing of the trunk and limbs in various places, actually rode about London in cabs and omnibuses, for two or three days, with the head under his arm, wrapped in a silk hankerchief [sic]....” Greenacre was eventually tried, found guilty, and hanged in front of nearly 20,000 spectators at Newgate. His accomplice and mistress, a Mrs. Gale, was sentenced to transportation for life (she died in Australia in 1888). Among the publications found herein is a pamphlet: The Edgware-Road Tragedy. Fairburn’s Edition of The Trials Of Greenacre & Gale, for the Horrible Murder and Mu- tilation of Hannah Brown... London. [1837]. 64pp. $900.

Inscribed to Ernest Fenollosa

130. Greey, Edward: THE WONDERUL CITY OF TOKIO OR FURTHER ADVENTURES OF THE JEWETT FAMILY AND THEIR FRIEND OTO NAMBO. Boston & New York: Lee and Shepard / Charles T. Dillingham, 1883. xiii,[1],301,[3]pp. Large, thick octavo. Half gilt calf and marbled boards, pictorial panels of original binding bound in. Frontis and illustrations. A few incidents of marginal spotting, otherwise a very good copy.

First edition. A superb pre-publication association copy, inscribed by the author to American Orientalist and modernist literary influence, Ernest Fenollosa, utilizing Fenollosa’s Japanese honorific: “To Mast. Kano Fenollosa In this wonderful city of Tokio from his affec. friend Edward Greey New York Oct. 23 1882 [sic].” After serving with the British military during the Second Opium War, Greey (1835-1888) traveled to Japan in the diplomatic service and immersed himself in the country’s language, culture and art. In 1868, he settled in New York, opening a shop specializing in Japanese art and antiquities, subsidizing that income with his activities as a writer. In addition to formal works such as the present, which afford a valuable insight into aspects of Japanese history and culture from a Westerner’s point of view, Greey was a prolific contributor to the pulp press and boy’s papers, often under pseudonyms. He took his own life in 1888 under mysterious circumstances. As a somewhat older contemporary of Fenollosa, he would no doubt had ample reason and opportunity to make his acquaintance, either in the U.S. or during travels back to Japan on business. $850.

131. [Gregory, Robert]: TO THE HONOURABLE THE KNIGHTS, CITIZENS AND BUR- GESSES IN PARLIAMENT ASSEMBLED, &c. THE HUMBLE PETITION OF CAPTAIN ROBERT GREGORY, ONE OF THE OFFICERS THAT SERVED IN THE LATE SIEGE OF LONDONDERRY, IN THE BEHALF OF THE CROWN, &c. [caption title]. [Dublin? 1715]. Small folio broadsheet. [2]pp., including table and printed docket title on verso. Dbd. Early folds and early stab holes in left margin. Last line of text on recto and half of docket title on verso lost to close trimming. Light foxing. Overall very good.

A rare petitionary leaflet relating to Siege of Derry and fraudulent claims made to Parlia- ment for compensation. The author, Captain Robert Gregory, defended Londonderry during the siege by Jacobite forces during the Williamite War in Ireland in 1688-9, as certified by Governors John Michelburne and George Walker in 1689 in a document reproduced at the conclusion of this petition. When, a quarter-century later, Gregory arrived in London to seek the pay due for his service, he discovered that massive fraud had been committed by various people claiming to have served as officers in the same siege. He prints here an abstract of pay due to the Garrison of Londonderry for the four months of the siege (Parliament was currently mistakenly basing their pay on six months) and decries the frauds’ cost to the true defenders and victims of the city: “[S]everal Thousand Persons suffered by that Siege; many of them now Old and Lame, and many Widows, and the Orphans of them that died there, are now in great Misery and Distress: All whose Hopes and Dependence is on this Honourable House for Relief; which otherwise must perish, after 26 Years patient Attendance.” ESTC records two copies, both at the Royal Irish Academy, for which the incorrect imprint is assigned. Working from the printed date of the certificate by the Governors of Derry reprinted at the end of the document, the record lists a printing date of 1689. The text of the document, however, refers to the victims of the siege “26 Years patient,” indicating a date of 1715. A very rare petition and informative record of the Siege of Derry, printed in the early days of lobbying literature, which began to proliferate in the lobby of the House of Commons at the time of the accession of King George I and the British general election of 1715. ESTC R177684 & R235232. $1500.

A Masterpiece of Grangerization: Over 2000 Added Plates and Manuscripts

132. Greville, Charles: THE GREVILLE MEMOIRS. A JOURNAL OF THE REIGNS OF KING GEORGE IV AND KING WILLIAM IV. [with:] A JOURNAL OF THE REIGN OF QUEEN VIC- TORIA. London. 1874-1887. Eight volumes bound in twenty. Contemporary brown morocco, gilt, by Zaehnsdorf, t.e.g. Light wear to bindings, spines a bit sun-faded. Generally quite clean internally. Profusely extra-illustrated with over 2000 additional plates and manuscripts. Very good.

A handsome set of this important memoir by politician and diarist Charles Cavendish Fulke Greville, lavishly extra-illustrated with engravings and manuscript material. Greville (1794- 1865) served as Clerk in the Council Ordinary from 1821 to 1859, a career that spanned the reigns of three monarchs and brought him into contact with the most important and influential people of the day. His memoirs are an invaluable source of both social and political insight for the period. First published in 1874, during Queen Victoria’s reign, the memoirs caused something of a scandal, as they pertained directly to public figures who were still alive. “The appearance in print of the private diaries of a man who had known everyone of importance in public life for a generation, and who had not hesitated to set down what they had told him and his opinion of their characters and attainments, caused an uproar in society in 1874. Disraeli described their publication as ‘a social outrage’; another of those men in public life who appeared in their pages observed, ‘It is like Judas writing the lives of the apostles’” – DNB. Greville’s MEMOIRS are an interesting and informative read. This copy has been extensively extra-illustrated with over 2000 engravings, as well as many autograph letters, providing the reader with an even more well-informed portrait of the times. An extra imprint, printed in red, at the bottom of each titlepage reads: “Extended and illustrated by Loren Griswold DuBois, Boston 1888.” DuBois has included portraits of Queen Charlotte, William Pitt, Princess Victoria, Napoleon, and many others; several of the portraits are handcolored, as are several of the views. Letters are included by Lady Conyngham; Frederick, Duke of York; Charles X, King of France; Robert Peel, and others. A unique and wonderful set of this important work, a text essential for any collector of this period. $17,500.

“... the first attempt to lay down a principle of right, and a basis for society and government outside of Church or Scripture ....”

133. Grotius, Hugo: HVGONIS GROTII DE IVRE BELLI AC PACIS LIBRI TRES, IN QUIBUS JUS NATURAE & GENTIUM, ITEM JURIS PUBLICI PRAECIPUA EXPLICANTUR ... EDITIO NOVA, CUM ANNOTATIS AUCTORIS, EX POSTREMA EJUS ANTE OBITUM CURA MULTO NUNC AUCTIOR. Amsterdam: Johann Blaeu, 1650. [24],618,[45]pp. Contemporary vellum over boards, manuscript spine title. Bookplate of Arthur Houghton on front pastedown, 19th century academic ownership inscription on front pastedown, a few scattered early annotations and underscores, moderate scattered foxing, tanning and occasional spotting, bound without binder’s endsheets, otherwise a very good copy.

A corrected edition of Grotius’s masterwork of legal theory, begun by him in 1604, and completed after his escape to Paris in 1621. The first edition was published there in 1625, his reputation was soon established throughout Europe, and this work was reprinted frequently and translated thereafter. Blaeu first published this text, with Grotius’s final corrections, annotations and enhancements in 1642. “This was the first attempt to lay down a principle of right, and a basis for society and government outside of Church or Scripture ... Grotius’s principle of an immutable law, which God can no more alter than a mathematical axiom, was the first expression of the ‘droit naturel’ ...and is the foundation of modern international law” – PMM. MEULEN/DIERMANSE 574. PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN 125. $1750.

A Sequentially Complete Run of an Important Horticultural Periodical

134. Harrison, Joseph, et al [editors]: THE FLORICULTURAL CABINET, AND FLORIST’S MAGAZINE. London. 1833-1859. Twenty-seven volumes bound in fourteen, including thirteen uncolored engraved or lithographic additional titles and 369 (of 372) wood-engraved, engraved, or lithographic plates (350 colored and nineteen uncolored, five of these folding). Contemporary three-quarter calf over cloth boards, spines gilt. Boards and spines moderately worn, outer joints rubbed. Backstrip of Vol. XIX-XX partially detached, some slight marginal dampstaining, but overall colors clean and fairly bright. A very good set.

A rare, sequentially complete set of this important illustrated Victorian floricultural periodical. The engraved, wood-engraved, or lithographic illustrations of flowering plants issued with each monthly magazine are nearly all handcolored. At least one (and sometimes two) of these exquisite, detailed, and colorful images were included in every issue. In addition to these handsome images, the magazine provided a wealth of information for 19th century English professional horticulturists as well as a developing audience of amateur gardeners working on their personal projects. In addition to the illustrations of specific plants, individual issues included short articles on various species, extracts and reviews of recent publications, an- nouncements of newly discovered and rare plants, and “miscellaneous intelligence” such as queries, remarks, brief correspondence, corrections, and a horticultural calendar for the month. Founded and edited for two decades by Joseph Harrison, a horticulturist who had served as head gardener to Lord Wharncliffe at Wortley Hall near Sheffield, the journal was published in twenty-seven volumes under the title The Floricultural Cabinet and Florist’s Magazine between 1833 and 1859. It was succeeded by The Gardener’s Weekly Magazine and Floricultural Cabinet (volumes 1-7, published between 1860 and 1865, edited by his sons J.J. and E. Harrison) and then The Gardener’s Magazine (volumes 8-30, 1865-87, edited by Shirley Hibberd). Joseph Harrison also edited various issues of other horticultural and garden journals. A remarkable set of this significant 19th century English horticultural journal. BRITISH MUSEUM (NATURAL HISTORY) p.788, 639. DNB IX, pp.36-37. OCLC 3346021. $3750.

135. Hartwell, Kenneth: [Untitled Original Lithograph Of Burlesque Clowns, Signed And Dated]. [Np: The Artist], 1931. Original lithograph, printed against tinted background and colored. 44.5 x 32.5 cm plus full margins. Small chip from extreme lower left margin, otherwise about fine. Matted.

One of an unspecified edition, dated and signed in the stone, and signed and dated in pencil in the lower margin. George Kenneth Hartwell (1891-1949) was born in Fitchburg, Mass, and studied at the Art Students’ League in New York City under Kenneth Hayes Miller, Edward Hopper and George Bellows. His work was exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago (1923), the Society of Independent Artists (1923), the Library of Congress (1944-46), the Laguna Beach Art Association (1945 and 1946) and the Carnegie Institute (1945). Hartwell worked as an illustrator for Century, Scribner’s and Theatre Arts. He is particularly known for his Depression-era depictions of the worlds of carnivals, sideshows and burlesque houses, of which this image is a fine example. He executed this lithograph in at least four variations: monochrome, tinted and with at least two forms of coloring, of which this is an example. $750. An Uncommon Art Periodical

136. Hassell, John: [HASSELL’S DRAWING MAGAZINE OF RURAL SCENERY ....]. [Lon- don: Published by Thomas Tegg, ca. 1809-10]. Seventy parts, disbound folded signatures, comprised solely of images and captions, accompanied by aquatint caption titles for volumes one and two (without wrappers). Some occasional foxing, dusting and offsetting, a few marginal smudges, but a good lot.

A partial, broken run of numbers 1 – 74, lacking numbers 14, 48, and 65. This periodical is scarce; the entry in COPAC for the holding at Oxford indicates a total of 100 numbers were published, each consisting of four or more illustrations, on four panels of a folded quarto sheet. Numbers were originally issued in printed wrappers, which bore the title, imprint and adverts. The illustrations often present a single view replicated in outline and aquatint, and occasionally other intermediate states, suitable for instruction. Hassell produced the majority of the illustrations, but a few are after drawings by George Morland. Most of the images depict rural activities, scenery, and/or livestock; others are floral, including a couple of instances where the aquatint is colored. Some of the plates were also utilized in variant forms of the publication. Examples of the individual parts in the original printed wrappers are rare; for example, the British Art Center at Yale has only parts 1, 2, 3, 7, 8, & 10 in wrappers. OCLC 54272639. $750.

137. [Heath, Henry]: CARICATURIST’S SCRAP BOOK. [London: C. Tilt], 1840. [60] leaves of plates. Oblong folio. Contemporary red cloth, stamped in blind and gilt. Boards worn and darkened around the edges, neatly repaired. Spine neatly rebacked, original spine laid down. Bookplate on front pastedown. One leaf toward the middle torn down 3-4 inches from the top, along the plate mark. Internally clean. About very good.

A collection of engraved plates by Heath, compiled from various sources. The illustrations depict a variety of caricatures and comic scenes from all walks of British life. The SCRAP BOOK includes sections entitled “Omnium Gatherum,” “The Art of Tormenting,” “Demonol- ogy & Witchcraft,” “Old Ways and New Ways,” “Scenes in London,” “Sayings & Doings,” and “Nautical Dictionary.” A fun and visual insight into the humor of the period. $2000.

A Rare and Important Work on Wool Dying

138. Hellot, Jean: THE ART OF DYING WOOL AND WOOLLEN STUFFS ... TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH BY ORDER OF THE DUBLIN SOCIETY, AND PUBLISHED AT THEIR EXPENCE, FOR THE USE OF DYERS OF IRELAND. Dublin: Printed by S. Powell, Printer to the Society, [date in imprint clipped away, but 1767]. vi,[7]-290pp. 12mo. Recent half calf and marbled boards, gilt label. Formerly a quite ragged copy, now professionally restored to sound, functional condition, as detailed below.

First edition in English of Hellot’s Art de la Teinture des Laines..., originally published in Paris in 1750, and for the rest of the century, one of the standard works on the subject. The importance of having a translation of this text available in Ireland at the time is self- evident, and in fact, this Irish printing precedes the first London printing by twenty-two years -- where it appeared conjoined with two other topically-related works in 1789 – and an English language edition bearing a Paris 1785 imprint by eighteen years. This edition is of considerable rarity: ESTC online locates only two copies, one at the National Library of Ireland, and the second at the Royal Irish Academy. And, according to the ESTC entry (as of 2009), the latter copy is quite imperfect, lacking all leaves after p.96. OCLC does not report those copies, but includes a microfilm reprint, as well as somewhat incomplete references to copies at National Art Library Victoria & Albert Museum (AVA) and National Art Library (VAU). The text consists of a detailed guide to the mechanics of dyeing, as well as a fascinating formulary for the production of specific colors and types of dyes from materials, both organic and inorganic, local as well as imported. By its very nature, it is a work which would have been employed by hands involved in the work, and inevitably subject to considerable wear and tear. Such was the case with this copy, which bears the faint stamp of a defunct mercantile library, and exhibits the following cosmetic flaws: a) lower margin of title clipped away, costing imprint date, and that area, as well as the blank corners of the first three leaves, have been carefully replaced with archival rice paper; b) there are occasional small spots and discolorations scattered in the text block; c) D6, F4, and F6 have old tears, the first and last mended at an early date, the last costing some words at the outer margin, and the second recently mended; d) a few fore margins have suffered relatively shallow losses not approaching the text; and f) the last ten leaves were formerly quite creased and ragged, but have now been rendered flat, with archival rice paper restoration to corners of the first few leaves in the sequence, but with substantial marginal restorations to the last three leaves, costing the page numbers on two of those leaves, and part of the headline on the other. While obviously far from a perfect copy, this is now a quite useable copy, in far better state than one of the two copies of record. And in terms of the context of publication and intent, it is certainly the most interesting of the 18th century editions (including the Paris original). It is not in Bradshaw or Black. ESTC T186441. HIGGS 4036. $2250.

139. Herbert of Cherbury, Lord Edward: DE RELIGIONE GENTILIVM, ERRORUMQUE APUD EOS CAUSIS .... Amsterdam: Typis Blaeviorvm, 1663. [4],231,[9]pp. Small quarto. Contemporary limp vellum, spine titled in manuscript. Early ink inscription on title, scattered foxing, O3v a bit soiled in lower fore-quadrant, occasional thin worm tracks in gutter or margin (touching just a couple of letters), faint old tidemark in lower fore-corner of text block and occasionally along top edge; still, a good, crisp copy.

First edition, posthumously published after being seen through the press by Isaak Vos. An English translation by William Lewis (The Antient Religion of The Gentiles and Causes of Their Errors Consider’d) appeared in 1705. “In this work Herbert attempts to show that the evidence of actual religions, which he takes mainly from classical authors, confirms his thesis that the five common notions of religion are universally acknowledged. Data that seem to contradict this thesis are dismissed as arising either from priestly corruptions or from a failure to recognize symbolic usage” – DNB. $1000.

First Edition in English

140. Hermann V, [von Wied], Archbishop of Co- logne: A SIMPLE, AND RELIGIOUS CONSUL- TATION …. BY WHAT MEANES A CHRISTIAN REFORMATION, AND FOUNDED IN GODS WORDE, OF DOCTRINE, ADMINISTRATION OF THE DEUINE SACRAMENTES, OF CERE- MONIES, AND THE HOLE CURE OF SOULES, AND OTHER ECCLESIASTICAL MINISTERIES MAY BE BEGON AMONG MEN COMMITTED TO OUR PASTORALL CHARGE, VNTIL THE LORDE GRAUNT A BETTER TO BE APPOYN- TED EITHER BY A FREE, AND CHRISTIAN COU[N]SAYLE, GENERAL, OR NATIONAL, OR ELLES BY THE STATES OF THE EMPIRE OF THE NATIO[N] OF GERMANIE, GATHERED TOGETHER IN THE HOLYE GOST. [London]: Imprinted in the yere if our Lord [by John Daye],

30 October 1547. [308] leaves; a-y8 2A-2Q8 2R4. Small octavo (140 x 95 mm). Full black morocco, raised bands, a.e.g., by Bedford. Printed in black letter. Woodcut of the Last Supper on

A8r. Minor soiling early and late, washed (likely when bound), two small patches of early repair to verso of title, a few instances of marginalia or emphasis marks remain after having been “Bedfordized” (with shadows of more extensive annotations scattered in some margins), early careful restoration to the blank foremargins of g2-3, some occasional foxing or marginal smudges, ink acquisition note and cathedral blindstamp on binder’s blank, joints slightly rubbed, old bookseller’s description formerly tipped to front pastedown, otherwise a very good copy, with the bookplate of Sir J.A. Brooke.

First edition in English (translator not identified) of this compilation from the Archbishop’s writings assembled by Philipp Melanchthon and Martin Bucer, first published in German in 1543. A second edition was published in 1548, and some copies of this edition feature a woodcut of St. John the Evangelist in place of the woodcut of the Last Supper. The text is known to have exerted some influence upon Archbishop Cranmer and his associates in their compilation of the first English Book of Common Prayer. Both this edition and the second edition are uncommon in commerce. One copy of the first is recorded in ABPC in the last 35 years (1993), and two copies of the second edition. The ESTC locates fifteen copies, of which seven (including this copy) are in North America. The ink note on the endsheet traces the provenance of this copy to the Gardner sale (1854). A good example of the work of the foremost English printer/publisher of Protestant material of his generation. STC 13213. ESTC S103980. LUBORSKY & INGRAM 13213. $9500.

141. [Hertford Elections]: THE CASE OF SIR THOMAS CLARKE, AND JOHN BOTELER ESQUIRE, AND OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE TOWN OF HERTFORD, PETITIONERS; AGAINST CHARLES CAESAR, AND RICHARD GOULSTON, ESQUIRES, SITTING MEM- BERS [caption title]. [London? 1714?]. 3pp. plus printed docket title on verso of second leaf. Dbd. Folio. Early folds and early stab holes in left margin, small portion of left margin excised, with no loss to text, light foxing, else near fine.

A rare and interesting document relating to the ongoing controversy between Sir Thomas Clarke, Charles Caesar, and others in their elections to Parliament during the early 18th century. Charles Caesar (1673-1741), a Jacobite and Tory from a prominent Hertford family, first entered the House of Commons in 1701 as a member for the borough of Hertford. Subsequent elections for the same seat resulted in petitions to the House of Commons from opponents over conflicting views on whether non-resident freemen could cast valid votes. After serving with Sir Thomas Clarke in 1707-08, Caesar lost to Clarke in 1708, regained his seat from Clarke in 1710, and, after being re-elected in the important 1715 election that swept the Whigs into power, lost his seat by petition amidst charges of bribery and fraud. Caesar won his seat back from Clarke in 1722, whereupon a year later his election was again overturned and Clarke took his place. In 1727, Caesar ran instead to stand for the county of Hertfordshire, a position he won and held for the remainder of his life. An early example of lobbying literature, which first began proliferating in the lobby of the House of Commons at the time of the accession of King George I and the British general election of 1715. ESTC tentatively dates this imprint [1714?] and records only three copies, two at Oxford and one at Harvard. ESTC N16550. $1250.

Foundation Work on Electromagnetic Waves

142. Hertz, Heinrich R.: “Ueber sehr schnelle electrische Schwingungen” [with:] “Nachtrag zu der Abhandling über sehr schnelle electrische Schwingungen” [with:] “Ueber einen Einfluss des ultravioletten Lichtes auf die electrische Entladung” contained in ANNALEN DER PHYSIK UND CHEMIE ... NEUE FOLGE. BAND XXXI .... Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1887. viii,1048pp. plus seven folding plates. Large octavo. Early 20th century fine grain brown cloth, spine stamped in gilt. Tan offsetting to free endsheets, slight cracking at top of front inner hinge and at gutter after half-title, small collector’s book label, otherwise a bright copy, very near fine.

The first appearance of Hertz’s first paper on electromagnetic waves, along with the second journal publication of the second, wherein he details his methods and proof of the passage of electrical waves through space, along with his paper on ultraviolet light wherein he demonstrated that UV light is alone responsible for the photoelectric effect. His contributions appear on pp. 421-8; 543-544; and 983-1000, in company with important papers by Planck, Röntgen, Bunsen, and others. Hertz’s papers on electromagnetic waves were collected and published in book form by Barth in 1892, and his “discovery of the properties of reflection, refraction and polarization in electricity, with this wave theory of electrical motion, laid the foundation of radiotelegraphy and radiotelephony” – Milestones of Science, p. 47. PRINTING & THE MIND OF MAN 377 (n). Dibner, HERALDS OF SCIENCE 71. Sparrow, MILESTONES OF SCIENCE 101n. NORMAN 1060. NORMAN SALE 1123. $1750.

A New England Man Plots to Kill Charles II

143. [Hill, William]: A BRIEF NARRATIVE OF THAT STUPENDIOUS TRAGEDIE LATE IN- TENDED TO BE ACTED BY THE SATANICAL SAINTS OF THESE REFORMING TIMES... TOGETHER WITH THE CONFESSIONS, SPEECHES, AND PRAYERS OF GEORGE PHIL- LIPS, THOMAS TONGE, NATHANIEL GIBBS, FRANCIS STUBBS, AT THE PLACE OF EXECUTION, ON MUNDAY DECEMB. 22, 1662. London: Printed for Charles Adams ..., 1662. [14],80pp. Small quarto. 20th century red half morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt. Light foxing and toning, last few leaves lightly dampstained at bottom edge; final five leaves with some loss to bottom margin, minutely affecting a few words of text. Good.

First edition of this astonishing narrative, laying out a plot by a New Englander living in London to murder King Charles II and re-establish Cromwellian rule. Largely given in cued dialogue, as furnished by a courtroom shorthand reporter, this work recounts the narrative of a plot on the King’s life by Captain John Baker, “then living in East-Smithfield, formerly of New-England.” Baker was an old adherent of Hugh Peter, or Peters, executed for regicide sympathies in 1660. William Hill, author and informer for this work, encountered Baker in the streets of London and describes him as “but an illiterate and rough-hewn fellow,” though capable of great mischief, for “in New-England he might be sufficiently possessed with vil- lainous principles;” thus, Hill decides that he will “modestly put my self upon the sifting of him.” This led to hints of a plot to seize and murder the King, slaughter “those Rogues at Whitehall,” and restore a “Godly Party” of former Cromwellians to power. Professing complic- ity, Hill met with conspirators over the next two weeks – mostly disaffected military veterans and seamen, some with New England connections – in private chambers and taverns, where logistics for arming the rebellion were deliberated. All the while, however, Hill was in contact with Sir Richard Brown, a government spymaster, who collected the intelligence as it emerged, and “from whom I received instruction every night.” On Oct. 28th, with the enactment of the plot seemingly imminent, Brown and Lieu- tenant of the Tower Sir John Robinson decided to pounce. Hill accompanied a detachment of soldiers to a pre-arranged meeting place where at least five of the conspirators were ap- prehended: Riggs, Hinde, Tonge, Stubbs, and one White, a cane merchant said by Tonge to have “bought armes for six men for this design, at his own cost and charge.” Captain Baker of Massachusetts was not among them, however, having last been heard of at the Feathers Tavern in Fish Street three evenings before. The remainder of the narrative chronicles, in vivid and often desperate dialogue, the ar- raignment and trial of six men for High Treason, with further details from preliminary exami- nations, and four dying speeches or prayers. Hill testified against his co-conspirators and was in turn cross-examined by the court. The elaborate organization boasted of by some of the conspirators may have been illusory in the end – Riggs and Hinde assured Hill that “Windsor Castle was their own” with “five hundred men...fixed in and about Windsor,” that “all the churches in London were concerned in it,” that “four hundred assistants” were ready in Dorsetshire, and that two thousand horsemen, for whom armor and weaponry had been procured, were expected to ride into London on Monday the 27th, preparatory to “the fatal night.” All of these people and plans seem to have melted away, however, once the ringlead- ers were arrested. And Captain John Baker of New England, who above all seems to have planned the securing of the King’s person and the assault on Whitehall, simply fades from the story, despite Hill’s account and Riggs’ testimony at the trial. A fascinating tale of an American colonist whose place in British history might have been measured alongside the likes of Guy Fawkes. ESTC R32577. WING B4611. $1500. A Brilliant Copy

144. [Hogarth, William]: [Nichols, John]: BIOGRAPHICAL ANECDOTES OF WILLIAM HOGARTH: AND A CATALOGUE OF HIS WORKS CHRONOLOGICALLY ARRANGED; WITH OCCASIONAL REMARKS. London: Printed by and for John Nichols, 1781. 157,[1] pp., with pp. 67 and 68 repeated. Octavo. Contemporary paper boards, edges untrimmed. A beautiful copy.

First edition. Leaves B4, H2, and N2 are cancels, with the original, and substantial, stubs still present and attached along the top edge to their neighboring conjugate. The same duplica- tion noted in Rothschild as a consequence of *I and *I2 is present. The present work is the principal source for the biography of Hogarth, and includes the first attempt at a catalogue of his works. ROTHSCHILD 1472. $500.

An Impressive Array of Woodcuts

145. Holinshed, Raphael: THE FIRSTE VOLUME OF THE CHRONICLES OF ENGLAND, SCOTLANDE, AND IRELANDE. CONTEYNING, THE DESCRIPTION AND CHRONICLES OF ENGLAND, FROM THE FIRST INHABITING VNTO THE CONQUEST. THE DESCRIPTION AND CHRONICLES OF SCOTLAND, FROM THE FIRST ORIGINALL OF THE SCOTTES NATION, TILL THE YEARE OF OUR LORDE. 1571. THE DESCRIPTION AND CHRONICLES OF YRELANDE, LIKEWISE FROM THE FIRSTE ORIGINALL OF THAT NATION, VNTILL THE YEARE. 1547. London: Imprinted for Lucas Harrison, 1577. Three parts in one volume

(of two). [8],124 [i.e. 126] leaves (lacking R1-errata); 289,[1]pp.;[8],22 (lacking blank *b6); 518,[26] pp. (lacking errata leaf); [2],28 leaves; 115,[6] pp. (lacking final errata leaf). With numerous errors in pagination throughout. Folio (signed in 8s). Old calf, spine gilt extra. Text in double columns. Printed in black letter. Woodcut title leaves to each part, and numerous woodcut illustrations and portraits in text throughout. Binding worn and cracked, with surface loss, but cords sound. Title and last leaf (I2) mounted, the former with cutaway in mount to show crest on verso of title; a4-5 inserted in reverse order from smaller, and rather frayed, copy; eight leaves with significant tears or imperfect, with old mends and/or small restorations of text in manuscript; upper margins of E6-F8 imperfect, with old mends and occasional loss of headlines; a few small burnholes; some tanning and foxing, the final section more so; intermittent tidemarks, most noticeably in the prelims, and in the upper and lower margins from 2C1 to end; occasional soiling, with a couple small instances of grease or wax stains; a few side-notes touched in trimming, but in general, equipped with ample margins; just a fair, but serviceable copy, of a book prone to imperfections. With a 17th century ownership inscription repeated and with annotations in the same hand in various places in the text, as well as a later gift inscription on the verso of the title dated in New Orleans in 1869, and a few annotations in a 19th century hand. Bookplate of antiquary Richard Gough (1735–1809).

First edition of the first volume (only), featuring one of four known variations of the imprint. The present work was planned by printer Reginald Wolfe nearly three decades earlier to be an element in a larger compendious history of the world; however, his death in 1573 delimited the unfinished project, confining it to England, Scotland and Ireland up to the time of William the Conqueror, and in the second volume, from that time to the approximate time of publication. The second edition of Holinshed’s Chronicle... (1587) is of considerable significance as a source-text for Shakespeare; however, that edition does not include the rather impressive array of woodcut illustrations that distinguish this edition. In this copy, leaves E6-8 of the last series, which were intended to be canceled, are still present (with ink comments and F1 crossed through by an early owner), and the cancel F7 is present in the “Belweathers” state. ESTC S93012. STC 13568.5. LANGLAND TO WITHER 146. PFORZHEIMER 494. LUBOR- SKY & INGRAM 13568. $5750.

Inscribed to Charles Beecher

146. Holmes, Oliver Wendell: CURRENTS AND COUNTER-CURRENTS IN MEDICAL SCIENCE. WITH OTHER ADDRESSES AND ESSAYS. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1861. Dark gray-green cloth, decorated in blind (BAL’s binding variant A, but with pale peach/yel- low – colored endsheets rather than brown). Endsheets with a few scattered dust marks, short, closed crack in front pastedown, a few pencil annotations, otherwise a very good copy.

First edition. A significant presentation copy, inscribed on the front free endsheet: “Rev. Charles Beecher With the kind regards of O.W.Holmes.” While the majority of the constituent pieces had earlier publication, chiefly as pamphlets, three appear here for the first time in book form. This copy includes an undated terminal ad leaf. BAL 8803. $2000.

Cuttings and Needlework with No Hands

147. [Honeywell, Martha Ann]: GALLERY OF CUTTINGS AND NEEDLE-WORK, EXECUTED WITHOUT HANDS, FOR ONE WEEK ONLY.... [Poughkeepsie, N.Y.]: American Press – 258 Main St., [ca. 1846]. Broadside, 10½ x 8¼ inches. Ornamental border. Several ink stains, one of them causing small closed splits in the paper. Wrinkling and folds. Good.

A marvelous and rare broadside, touting the talents of the amazing Martha Ann Honeywell, only three feet tall and born without arms. Miss Honeywell (ca. 1787-1848) was the most prominent and talented of a small group of armless artists who could create amazing needlework and cuttings, including complicated embroidery and silhouettes. She toured around the country and to Europe, fascinating audiences with her talent and agility. From the text: “This interesting and talented Lady, born without arms, has acquired such extraordinary skill in the use of a common pair of Scissors, that by holding them in her mouth she is enabled to cut out of Paper the most curious and difficult designs ever attempted, or perhaps executed in the known world, such as Scripture Pieces, Likenesses of Distinguished Americans, together with a great variety of Watch Papers, Landscapes, and even the Lord’s Prayer, perfectly leg- ible. Not the outlines merely, but resembling engraving. She also writes the Lord’s Prayer in a space that can be covered with a Five cent piece.” The broadside mentions that “all her elegant work is for sale,” and that the admission of twenty-five cents includes a complimentary profile. OCLC locates different broadsides advertising Ms. Honeywell’s talents at the Library Company of Philadelphia and the New-York Historical Society, but the present piece appears to be unique. OCLC 221649313, 58787306 (ref). $1500. An Early Presentation Copy with an Important Association

148. Hudson, W. H.: GREEN MANSIONS: A ROMANCE OF THE TROPICAL FOREST. London: Duckworth, 1904. Gilt green cloth. Very minor hand-soiling to the cloth, otherwise an unusually fine copy. Full morocco pull-off case (tips worn).

First edition, the binding variant (traditionally presumed primary) without the blindstamped publisher’s logo on the rear cover. A fine association copy, inscribed by the author: “Paul Fountain With best regards from W.H. Hudson. Feb. 3. 1904.” The recipient was the author of The Great Deserts and Forests of North America (1901), to which Hudson contributed an introduction. It has been claimed that the earliest presentation copy of this work is dated February 2nd, and other presentation copies to intimates bear inscriptions on the 4th, 5th, or are undated. The 1959 film adaptation, which hardly begins to do justice to Hudson’s best- known work, was directed by Mel Ferrer, and starred Audrey Hepburn, Anthony Hopkins, Sessue Hayakawa, et al. PAYNE A23a. SADLEIR 1233. $7500.

Inscribed to Blanche Knopf

149. Hudson, W. H.: TALES OF THE PAMPAS. New York: Knopf, 1916. Green cloth, lettered in pale red. Bookplate shadow on pastedown, some rubbing to corners, light soiling to lower board and front free endsheets, otherwise very good.

First edition thus, being the text of El Ombú amplified by two additional pieces published for the first time in book form. An association copy of the first order, inscribed by Hudson: “To Mrs. Knopf with greetings from W. H. Hudson Nov. 9, 1916.” Blanche Knopf served as Vice-President of the then newly established publishing firm, and was particularly influential in bringing to its list the large field of British, Continental and Latin American writers that so distinguished the firm’s history. Formal publication took place on 13 October, and because of geography, not a book commonly found inscribed by Hudson. PAYNE A33a. $1250.

“The Whole Material World”

150. Humboldt, Alexander von: KOSMOS, ENTWURF EINER PHYSISCHEN WELTBESCH- REIBUNG. Stuttgart & Tubingen. 1845-62. Five text volumes, plus atlas, six volumes in all. Text volumes: xvi,493,[2]; [2],544,[6]; [4],644; [2],649,[1]; [2],1297pp. Atlas: [4],136pp. plus thirty-nine colored maps and three plates. Text in original three-quarter pebbled morocco, spines gilt. Light wear to bindings. Bookplates on front pastedowns. Some light scattered foxing and dampstaining. Atlas in three-quarter calf, rebacked with original spine laid down. Corners worn. Light scattered soiling. A very good set.

Humboldt’s famous attempt at a complete scientific survey of the physical sciences and their relations to each other. “...It was his Kosmos – ‘The Cosmos, Outline of a Description of the Physical World’ – based on lectures delivered at the Berlin Singakademie in 1828-9, which Humboldt really considered as his life work...In his own words it was meant ‘to represent in one work the whole material world, everything we know today of the phenomena in the celestial spaces and of life on earth...it is meant to describe a chapter in the intellectual development of mankind’” – Printing and the Mind of Man. Humboldt’s interests and achievements cover a wide field, including geography, meteorology, and plant distribution. He was among the earliest scientists to seek an understanding of the complex relationship between environmental elements (e.g. between plants, geography, weather, animal life, and the like). The atlas volume, which is a cartographic landmark in itself, contains a suite of handsome topographical, meteorological, and other maps depicting every continent and region of the globe. This set includes the fifth text volume, not found in all sets. Printing and the Mind of Man 320. $3500. 151. Hutcheson, Francis: A SYSTEM OF MORAL PHILOSOPHY, IN THREE BOOKS ... TO WHICH IS PREFIXED SOME ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE, WRITINGS, AND CHARACTER OF THE AUTHOR.... Glasgow & London: R. and A. Foulis / A. Millar and T. Longman, 1755. Two volumes. [12],xlviii,358,[blank leaf];[4],380pp. Quarto. Contemporary calf, with manuscript spine labels. Some typical foxing early and late, a few marginal smudges, hinges cracked (but sound), spine extremities a trifle chipped, but a very good set in contemporary state. Attractive small collector’s label in each volume.

First edition of the Irish-born philosopher’s last work, edited from the manuscript by his son and published posthumously, with the prefatory ‘Life’ by William Leechman. After schooling in Glasgow, Hutcheson returned home to establish a private school in Dublin, where he became a figure of some regard in influential circles. In 1729, he returned to Glasgow to assume the Chair of Moral Philosophy, and counted among his students Adam Smith (his successor and a subscriber to this work), and among his correspondents David Hume. “Hutcheson was a close follower of the third Lord Shaftesbury, and had a great influence upon the Scottish philosophers of the ‘common-sense’ school. His first essays were directed against the self- ish and cynical theories of Hobbes and Mandeville. He adopted and developed the ‘moral sense’ doctrine as given by Shaftesbury in contrast to the egoistic utilitarianism of his time ... he was apparently the first writer to use Bentham’s phrase, ‘the greatest happiness of the greatest number’... [and] He may be thus classed as one of the first exponents of a decided utilitarianism as distinguished from ‘egoistic hedonism’” – DNB. KRESS 5445. GOLDSMITHS 8995. HIGGS 935. GASKELL 297. ESTC T99472. $5500.

152. Ibanez de Segovia, Gaspar: OBRAS CHRONOLOGICAS DE DON GASPAR IBANEZ DE SEGOVIA PERALTA I MENDOZA, CAVALLERO DE LA ORDEN DE ALCANTARA.... Valencia. 1744. [16],xcvi,279pp. Folio. Later vellum, manuscript spine. Text block detached from binding at front inner hinge. Minor foxing. Very good.

First edition of a work which marks the beginning of modern Spanish historical writing. This study of the Romans, Jews, and Moors in Spain up to the 13th century was the most important work issued by the Academia Valenciana which had been founded in 1742 to publish historical studies. Preceded by a long and erudite introduction by Mayans y Siscar and by the Constitutions of the Academia, Ibanez de Segovia (1628-1708) reexamines ancient records in an effort to separate fact from fiction in Spanish history. BIBLIOTECA DE SALVA 3066. BRUNET 21220. PALAU 117567. $1500.

The First Complete Map of Iceland

153. [Iceland]: Olsen, Olaf Nikolas: UPPDRATTR ISLANDS. Reykjavik and Copenhagen: Islenzka Bokmentafelagi, 1844. Engraved map with original hand-coloring, 37¼ x 49¾ inches, printed on four separate sheets (as issued), dissected and mounted on linen (as issued). Contemporary printed paper label on the verso of one panel of each sheet. Very light offsetting, otherwise fine. In a contemporary gilt morocco slipcase.

A scarce and handsome map of Iceland, the first complete, detailed, and modern map of the small island nation. It is the most important and accurate map of Iceland that had appeared, and remained the standard map for a century. The map was compiled by Olaf Olsen, a cartographer with the Danish army, from extensive surveys conducted by Bjorn Gunnlaugsson. Gunnlaugsson (spelled Gunnlaugssonar in the title of the map) conducted his work under the sponsorship of the Icelandic Literary Society, which is listed as the publisher of the map. A cartographer and mathematician, he spent summers travelling around the country conducting surveys, which were brought together by Olsen, with the assistance of Hans Scheel. The map was engraved by F.C. Holm, and is on a scale of 1:480,000. It is dated 1844 but was likely not completed until 1848. The map gives very detailed information about the Icelandic coastline – town, inlets, harbors, etc., – but also gives very accurate information of the interior of the nation. The rivers, lakes, and topography of Iceland are drawn more accurately than ever before. This map served as the basis of subsequent maps of Iceland for the next century. Some copies are accompanied by a brief printed text and legend, not present with this copy. Accompanying this copy of the map is a typed letter from the bookselling firm of John F. Fleming, relating their experience in showing the map to Vigdis Finnbogadottir, the President of Iceland, in 1982. Less than a dozen copies are located in OCLC. Scarce. A handsome and seminal map of Iceland in lovely condition. $2000.

154. [India]: [Knox, Captain A.R., photographer]: DIARY OF THE MARCH OF THE 55th FIELD BATTERY R.A., FROM AHMEDABAD TO SAUGOR [i.e. SAGAR]. [India: Privately printed, ca. 1898]. [1],28pp. printed on recto only. Thirty-six mounted photographs, each captioned in manuscript. Oblong quarto. Contemporary half red morocco and pebbled cloth, titled in gilt on the upper cover. Expert repairs to joints, else very good.

Privately printed and photographically illustrated journal of a British regiment’s 800-mile march across central India. The work was no doubt published for the amusement of the regiment’s officers. The British Library holds two copies, with varying images. “The album contains a letterpress account in diary form of the march from Ahmadabad to Saugor (Sagar), with original prints mounted on the verso of each leaf, facing the text. Captions are written in ink beneath each print. From passing remarks in the text it is clear that most, if not all the photographs were taken by Captain Arthur Rice Knox” – British Library, shelfmark MSS Eur B333/2. In all, the nearly 800-mile journey took some six weeks, with mishaps along the way (an unreliable guide, a sudden violent storm, extreme heat, the store cart overturning and breaking an axle, men mistaking castor oil berries for nuts and falling ill, and more). It is unclear who authored the text, but it perhaps can be attributed to the regiment’s com- manding officer, Major P. H. Enthoven. The photographs comprise images of the officers, the line of march, natives encountered along the way, and local architecture and ruins. Scarce. $3750.

155. [Ireland]: Griffith, Richard: GEOLOGICAL AND MINING SURVEY OF THE CONNAUGHT COAL DISTRICT IN IRELAND. Dublin: Graisberry and Campbell, 1818. iv,[4],108pp. plus long colored folding profile (90 x 19cm) and large colored folding map (54 x 57cm). Modern cloth and boards, gilt label. Faint old stamps of a defunct mercantile library, profile backed with tissue at folds, with some occasional losses; folding map printed on heavy stock, and consequently split at many folds, but complete and fresh; otherwise, textually a crisp, very good copy.

First edition of this early work by the Irish polymath of engineering and geology, Sir Richard Griffith, “whose ‘Geological Map of Ireland,’ revised in 1836, and published in its final form by the ordnance board in 1855, fully entitles him to rank as the ‘father of Irish geology’...” – DNB. This is a companion work to his similar survey of the Leinster district, published in 1814, and includes two appendices on the Arigna Iron Works by other hands. The colored map is Griffith’s work, and is a detailed geological map of the Connaught District and surrounding country, dated 1817, engraved by J. Taylor. BRADSHAW 2206. Sold

156. [Ireland]: Caird, James: THE PLANTATION SCHEME; OR, THE WEST OF IRELAND AS A FIELD FOR INVESTMENT. Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1850. vii,[1],191,4,4pp. Large octavo. Attractively bound in modern three quarter morocco and marbled boards. Frontispiece map and plate. Old stamps of a defunct mercantile library, short snag at fore-margin of title, slight tanning at edges, otherwise a very good copy.

First edition of this influential work. Caird was “an ardent free trader [and] he published in 1849 a treatise on ‘High Farming as the best Substitute for Protection.’ The support of a practical farmer with a literary style was of the highest service to the supporters of free trade, and the work speedily ran through eight editions. It introduced Caird to the notice of Peel, who commissioned him in the autumn of the same year to visit the south and west of Ireland, then but slowly recovering from the famine of 1846, and to report to the government. His report was subsequently enlarged [and published as this work] ... The sanguine view which he took of the agricultural resources of the country led to the investment of large sums of English capital in Irish land” – DNB. Not in Black. GOLDSMITHS 36798. $500.

157. [Ireland – County Waterford]: Smith, Charles: THE ANTIENT AND PRESENT STATE OF THE COUNTY AND CITY OF WATERFORD: BEING A NATURAL, CIVIL, ECCLESIASTI- CAL, HISTORICAL AND TOPOGRAPHICAL DESCRIPTION THEREOF.... Dublin: Printed by A. Reilly for the Author and ... sold by Edward and John Exshaw, 1746. xvi,[8],[2],[25]- 380,[6]pp. plus terminal blank. Equipped with a large folding map, and five folding plates (one a large city plan). Octavo. Recent quarter calf and marbled boards. Old stamps of a defunct mercantile library, occasional dust soiling and mild spotting, the folding map and plan have some careful and professional tissue repairs at some edges and folds (not extensive); generally a good, sound copy.

First edition. In 1744, Smith published the full version of his The Antient and Present State of the County of Down, which the DNB describes as “the first Irish county history on a large scale ever written.” In the same year, he was instrumental in founding the Physico-Historical Society at Dublin, the purpose of which was to support the research toward, and publication of, a series of county histories. In addition to this work and its predecessor, an important history of Cork appeared under the Society’s auspices, and a history of Kerry followed, though the Society had by then broken up. All “form a valuable contribution to Irish topography, of which Smith may be regarded as the pioneer” – DNB. Bradshaw had the second edition of 1774, but not the first edition. In this copy, the index is bound at the end, rather than inserted after p.376 and before the appendix. BRADSHAW 1560 (2nd ed). ESTC T97660. $1750.

158. Ireland, Samuel: PICTURESQUE VIEWS ON THE RIVER THAMES, FROM ITS SOURCE IN GLOUCESTERSHIRE TO THE NORE; WITH OBSERVATIONS ON THE PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND OTHER WORKS OF ART IN ITS VICINITY. London: Printed by C. Clarke ... Published by T. Egerton, 1801-2. Two volumes. xvi,209; viii,258pp. plus fifty-two sepia aquatint plates, an aquatint title in the first volume, and an engraved map in each volume. Large octavo (23 x 16 cm). Contemporary diced Russia, spines gilt extra, marbled edges. Numerous woodcuts in text and as tailpieces. Bound without half-titles, two adjacent text gatherings in second volume show moderate foxing, usual offset from aquatints to facing text leaves, otherwise a bright attractive set.

Second edition. First published, in quarto and octavo, in 1782 (see Abbey 430). An element in the highly popular sequence of collections of views undertaken by Ireland, a self-taught artist, and enthusiastic collector and antiquary. Ireland was also preoccupied in the last decade of the 18th century with defending himself in the fracas caused by his support of his son, William, and his notorious alleged Shakespeare discoveries, all of which were forger- ies. $1000.

159. Irving, Washington: KNICKERBOCKER’S HISTORY OF NEW YORK. New York & London: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1894. Two volumes. Royal octavo. Publisher’s faun calf, decorated in gilt, gilt labels, t.e.g. Plates, illustrations by E.W. Kemble. Pictorial margin embellishments. Two bookplates in each volume, modest rubbing and shelfwear at tips and shelf edges, offset from tissue guards to facing text-leaves, but a very good set.

The “Peter Stuyvesant Edition,” limited to 281 numbered copies in this large-paper format, with the plates in proof state on Japan tissue. The numbering of each set corresponds to a year since the founding of New Amsterdam – this is set #1632. The deluxe issue of the configuration published in more modest format as the “Van Twiller Edition.” $550.

160. [Israel]: Kokoschka, Oskar: JERUSALEM FACES. [London: Published for the Benefit of the Jerusalem Foundation by Marlborough Graphics Ltd and G. Weidenfeld & Nicolson Ltd.], 1973. [4]pp. plus six lithographs and interleaves. Large folio (65 x 50 cm; 25.5 x 19.75 inches). Laid into publisher’s folding white cloth clamshell portfolio, lettered in blue. Fine in publisher’s shipping box (with label).

From a total edition of 160 sets (plus twenty artist’s proofs), this is one of 150 numbered sets. The lithographs were printed from the stone on Japanese handmade paper by Gra- phische Anstalt J.E. Wolfensberger AG, of Zurich, and each is numbered and signed by the artist. The portraits include Golda Meir, Shimon Agranat, Benedictos I, Moyshe Dayan, Sheik Mustafa Khalil El-Ansari, and Teddy Kollek, and were created by the artist while on a visit to Jerusalem in April 1973. Extra postage. $3500.

161. James I, King of England and Wales: THE DECREE AND ESTABLISHMENT OF THE KINGS MAIESTIE, UPON A CONTROVERSIE OF PRECEDENCE, BETWEENE THE YONGER SONNES OF VISCOUNTS AND BARONS, AND THE BARONETS; AND TOUCHING SOME OTHER POINTS ALSO, CONCERNING AS WELL BANNERETS, AS THE SAID BARON- ETS. London: Robert Barker, 1612. [1],14pp. with woodcut vignettes above and below title and at end of text, woodcut royal arms above beginning of text on p.1. Small quarto. 20th century boards, gilt leather spine label. Large illustrated bookplate of legendary bookseller John Howell on front pastedown. Title-page slightly soiled, a few ink spots. Outer corners of text block trimmed diagonally. Light dampstaining and soiling. Contemporary ink inscriptions (including proper names) in margins of pp.6, 7, 14 (some smeared at an early date). Additional contemporary inscriptions on p.14 in blank spaces between printed text. Lacking leaf A1 (recto blank except for signature mark within vignette, verso blank) and leaf C2 (recto and verso blank). A good copy, housed in a half-morocco slipcase, spine gilt (erroneously proclaiming: “Inscription by Francis Bacon”).

A royal decree issued by King James I confirming that baronets, holders of hereditary titles awarded by the crown, were to be ranked below the younger sons of Viscounts and Barons. The practice of awarding baronetcies was introduced by James I in 1611, and this decree was issued in response to a “controversie which did arise upon an inference only out of some dark words contained in the Letters Patents of the said Baronets.” This copy has numerous contemporary ink inscriptions in English on three pages, some of which were smeared (and are now mostly illegible) at an early date. The remainder of the inscriptions include proper names, single words, and partial sentences. STC 9234. ESTC S105542. $2850. 162. [Japanese Watercolors – 19th century]: [Album of 22 Original Watercolors, on Silk, of Birds And Lepidoptera]. [Ja- pan. ca. 1810s-20s]. Folio (33 x 27.5 cm). Late 19th or early 20th century marbled calf, raised bands, spine gilt extra, gilt label, a.e.g., with watercolor river scenes on paper onlaid as doublures. Binding extremities rubbed, images offset a bit to interleaves, occasional patches of darkening to backgrounds of a few images, one corner of an interleaf creased and a bit torn, but otherwise very good to near fine.

A lovely collection of watercolor images on silk of birds, moths and butterflies, the artist unknown, but the paintings executed with great skill. The twenty-two individual panels vary somewhat in size, but approximate 24 x 20 cm to 20 x 16cm, and each includes several specimens: in the case of the birds, 2-4, in the case of the Lepidoptera, 5-10. The individual panels are mounted to heavy stock via blue silk bordering. The birds are identified via manuscript captions next to each bird; the Lepidoptera are not captioned. A pencil note on the free endsheet in an early hand dates the paintings somewhat earlier (1700-1750 Shijo School) than do those later in its most recent provenance: tipped in unidentified mid-20th century auction description (dating the paintings to early 19th century) – private collection. $9000.

First Book

163. [Johnson, Samuel (translator)]: A VOYAGE TO ABYSSINIA. BY FATHER JEROME LOBO, A PORTUGUESE JESUIT ... WITH A CONTINUATION OF THE HISTORY OF ABYSSINIA ... BY MR. LEGRAND. London [i.e. Birmingham]: Printed for A. Bettesworth, and C. Hitch, 1735. xii,396,[8]pp. Octavo. Contemporary mottled calf, raised bands, spine gilt extra, gilt red label. Very minimal foxing (unusual for this title), handsome contemporary engraved armorial bookplate on pastedown, upper joint cracking slightly, but quite sound, bit of wear to crown and toe of spine, otherwise an uncommonly nice copy. Folding chemise and cloth slipcase.

First edition, first issue, of Samuel Johnson’s first book publication, a translation commission he undertook for Thomas Warren, the Birmingham bookseller with whom he was staying at the time. Johnson worked from LeGrand’s French translation of Lobo’s work, producing more of an epitome than literal translation, but was more faithful to LeGrand’s “Dissertations” which comprise a major portion of the text. Although hackwork, this project did provide Johnson with the background for his novel. A second issue exists, with a cancel title-leaf in black, but is very uncommon. The edition was printed on rather mediocre paper, subject to foxing and darkening, and while ordinary copies are not uncommon, copies in the condition represented by this copy are unusual indeed. CHAPMAN & HAZEN, p.123. FLEEMAN 35.2LV/1a. COURTNEY & SMITH, pp. 2-4. ROTH- SCHILD 1215. ESTC T88596. $2250.

164. [Johnson, Samuel]: Lauder, William, [and Samuel Johnson]: A LETTER TO THE REV- EREND MR. DOUGLAS, OCCASIONED BY HIS VINDICATION OF MILTON. TO WHICH ARE SUBJOIN’D SEVERAL CURIOUS ORIGINAL LETTERS FROM THE AUTHORS OF THE UNIVERSAL HISTORY, MR. AINSWORTH, MR. MACLAURIN, &c. London: Printed for W. Owen, 1751. 24pp. Quarto. Unlettered red linen. Small marginal spot to four leaves, title and verso of terminal leaf a bit tanned, soft crease to upper corner, old pencil notations in upper margin of title, but a good to very good copy.

First edition. When John Douglas effectively destroyed Lauder’s attempts to prove Milton a wholesale plagiarist, Samuel Johnson, who had contributed a preface and postscript to Lauder’s An Essay on Milton’s Use and Imitation of the Moderns...(1750), dictated and compelled him to publish the confession which introduces this work. The remainder of the text includes examples of his interpolations, and some half-hearted explanations and equivocations, as well as some testimonials to Lauder’s character which demonstrate by their inclusion that he was, in the main, unrepentant. Although well-represented institutionally in the ESTC, a scarce book in commerce of late. COURTNEY & SMITH, p.37. CHAPMAN & HAZEN, p.135. ROTHSCHILD 1312. FLEEMAN 51.1LLD ESTC T38357. $2500.

Paris During the Siege of 1870

165. [Jouaust, Damase, ed.]: LETTRE-JOURNAL DE PARIS. GAZETTE DES ABSENTS [caption title]. Paris. 1870-1871. Forty issues, plus eight additional numbers and three brief supplements. Also, four plates and many blank address leaves, indicating delivery by balloon. Contemporary red half morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt. Extremities lightly worn, bookplate on front pastedown, minor toning to text, but very good or better.

A complete run of this important French periodical, published during the Siege of Paris in the Franco-Prussian War and delivered by hot air balloon owing to the precarious military situation on the ground. Jouaust was an editor and printer, known for beautiful typographic productions. The Gazette Des Absents was printed as a single sheet on very thin paper in order to accommodate delivery via hot air balloon. The last seven issues (34-40) were printed on a heavier paper and consist of two leaves, as the siege had lifted and normal lines of communication resumed. The eight additional numbers (I-VIII) were published after the siege and the original run of forty issues (though they are dated earlier). One of the plates published in the journal shows the execution of one of the elephants in the Parisian zoo; the two elephants, Castor and Pollux, were killed for their meat when traditional food sources ran low during the siege. A rare, complete run of this interesting piece of aeronautical literature. $2500.

166. Keller, Helen: [Typed Letter, Signed, Including Reflections on WWII]. Westport, CT. 27 December 1941. Quarto. One page, ca. 150 words. Signed in full, characteristically in pencil. Matted and attractively framed under glass.

To a “Mrs. Murphy,” written in the wake of Pearl Harbor, and in gratitude for a gift: “The colt is a darling! I have put him on my make-believe ranch with a Texas Longhorn, some sacred deer from Nara, your elephant, an Akita dog, a turtle from the canyons of Texas, and they form an admirable Happy family.” She continues: “...With war everywhere and the United States brutally attacked it was hard for me not to grieve, but the holy challenge of Christmas quickened my faith. I realized that if mankind is to emerge from under dictators’ feet and walk erect and free, we must meet this cataclysm, yes, and its millionfold afflictions in the valiant Spirit of Him who came that all might have life, and have it more abundantly ....” $750.

A Remarkable and Important Archive of Photographs

167. Kent, Rockwell: [Thirty-One Albums of Original Prints of Photographs, Representing Kent’s Personal Archive of Images of His Excursions to Greenland, Alaska, Denmark, Puerto Rico, the American Southwest, Monhegan Island, of His Honeymoon in New Hampshire and of His Home, Asgaard]. [Various Places]. [ca. 1929 – 1960s]. Thirty-one 7.5” x 6” leatherette albums categorized and identified by spine labels, captioned in ink in Kent’s hand, containing 1125 individual original matte and glossy black & white 7” x 5” gelatin silver prints. Slight surface variations characteristic of ferrotyping, and some spotting, scratches and other blemishes in the negatives are evident in the prints; some are printed slightly askew; some oxidation, fading or other signs of the amateur processing is evident on occasion, otherwise remarkably good.

Until his death Rockwell Kent maintained this collection of thirty-one albums of prints of his own photographs, as well as some photographs taken by others in his company on certain occasions, all arranged, identified and labeled according to locations and subjects. Apart from their categorization by placement in the notebooks, some occasional prints are identified by Kent in ink or bear his stamp. Kent frequently recorded scenes, people and settings via photographs during his voyages and travels, many of which he utilized as reference material, and are identifiable as such, in the production of his illustrations, prints and paintings made during and after his journeys. Kent made three trips to Greenland, first in 1929, and then in 1931-2 and 1934-5, and photographs from these three trips constitute the largest single subject element in the archive.

The subjects break down generally as follow:

Greenland. 16 albums, including 549 images.

Asgaard. 8 albums, including 293 images.

Alaska. 1 album, including 46 images.

Monhegan Island. 2 albums, including 84 images.

Arizona, Colorado, California. 1 album, including 28 images.

Puerto-Rico. 1 album, including 51 images.

Denmark. 1 album, including 43 images.

Hillsboro and Richmond. 1 album, including 31 images.

Although obviously best known for his book illustrations, works on paper and paintings, Kent was sufficiently renowned as a photographer during the 1930s that some of his photographs were reproduced in photogravure in a portfolio, Modern Masters Of Photography, Series 1 Pictorialists, published by the Galleon Press. While those photogravures turn up separately with some frequency – usually well outside of their original context in the portfolio – individual original prints from negatives of Kent’s photographs are scarce. We note as reference the appearance of a single Greenland print, also represented by a print in this archive, and in the same format, with Kent’s ink rubber stamp on the verso: Swann Galleries, 15 May 2008, Lot 341, ($1300). Further details about the archive are available upon request. $195,000. 168. Klemm, Walther: [Untitled Bestiary]. [Weimar?]. ca. 1927. Twenty original signed woodcuts, plus a smaller woodcut on the upper wrapper. Folio (37 x 33.5 cm). Printed on folded Japanese paper, open sewn in paper over limp wrappers. Upper wrapper neatly detached, with chipping to wrapper covering and a small burn mark, internally fine.

An impressive sequence of woodcuts of wild and domestic animals and birds (one with an additional color), each signed below the image in pencil by Klemm (1883-1957). The front blank bears Klemm’s 1927 gift inscription to his friend, fellow artist, woodcut master and illustrator, Emil Orlik, who he had met in Vienna. In 1913 Klemm joined the faculty at the Weimarer Kunsthochshule, and in the following decades illustrated a number of significant texts, along with producing individual prints and series. This series bears no explicit limita- tion, though a pencil shelf-number (?) appears in the corner of the first blank (‘692/LXXV’). $1500.

Rare Edition

169. La Fontaine, [Jean] de: CONTES ET NOUVELLES EN VERS ... NOUVELLE EDITION REVUË & AUGMENTTÉE DE PLUSIEURS CONTES DU MESME [sic] AUTEUR, &c D’UNE DISSERTATION SUR LA JOCONDE. A Leyde: Chez Jean Sambix le jeune, 1669. [6],7-218,[2] pp. 12mo. 13.5 x 8cm. Early unlettered mottled calf, bookplate of Wenman Coke, Esq., on front pastedown, with his shelf-marks on the free endsheet. Astrolabe device on title. Spine extremities a bit chipped at tips, with signs of expert consolidation, front free endsheet pulled at gutter, scattered foxing and tanning, clipped bookseller’s description tipped to rear endsheet, but a good copy. Half morocco clamshell case.

The second collective Elzevir printing of the first two parts of the Contes et Nouvelles en Vers, with the addition of the “Dissertation sur la Joconde, A Monsieur B***.” Brunet describes the first printing of this edition, which appeared in 1668, as an “Édition plus jolie et plus compléte que la précédente en ce qui concerne La Fontaine.” It was reprinted again in 1673. La Fontaine’s Contes et Nouvelles en Vers were published in successive editions, with additions, from 1664 through 1674, and consist of “tales drawn from Ariosto, Boccaccio, Machiavelli, and other sources, mostly light licentious tales ... devoid of serious thought, told with grace and charm. They have been gravely censured on the score of immorality, but they did not offend contemporary readers ... La Fontaine, when converted in his old age, made a public disavowal of the Contes” – OCFL. This printing, as well as that of the preceding year, are institutionally rare, with two locations of this printing in OCLC, at Princeton and at the Morgan Library. TCHEMERZINE VI:372. BRUNET III:757. RAHIR 3184 (1668 printing). OCLC: 42049880. WILLEM 2046. $2250.

Significant 18th Century Study of Reptiles by Buffon’s Associate

170. Lacepede, Bernard: HISTOIRE NATURELLE DES QUADRUPÈDES OVIPARES ET DES SERPENS. Paris. 1788-1789. Two volumes. 17,[1],651; [4],19,[1],144,527pp. plus sixty-three plates and two large folding tables. Thick quarto. Contemporary patterned calf, spines gilt with leather labels. Head and foot of spines chipped, corners lightly bumped, hinges tender. Minor scattered foxing. Table in front of first volume torn in gutter margin. Very good.

“One of the earliest treatises on natural history by this associate of Buffon” – Wood. Lacepede planned his work after assisting Buffon in his famous Histoire Naturelle. This work covers reptiles, and a later work concerned itself with fishes. Lacepede always retained a love of an elegant and elevated style, characteristic of Buffon’s work, but after his death in 1789 Lacepede increasingly came under the influence of Daubenton. The treatise is illustrated with sixty-three full page engravings showing lizards, turtles, frogs, and snakes. A distinguishing feature of Lacepede’s work is the large folding tables containing classifying orders according to the Linnaean system of nomenclature. Since he believed the classification system to be artificial and not natural, he often invented taxa for which no species existed in order to ensure symmetry in his tables. WOOD 424. NISSEN 2346. $1750. “... the standard defence of the jurisdiction of the church courts ....”

171. [Law – Ecclesiastical]: [Cosin, Richard]: AN APOLOGIE FOR SVNDRIE PROCEEDINGS BY IURISDICTION ECCLESIASTICALL, OF LATE TIMES BY SOME CHALENGED, AND ALSO DIUERSLY BY THEM IMPUGNED. BY WHICH APOLOGIE (IN THEIR SEUERALL DUE PLACES) ALL THE REASONS AND ALLEGATIONS SET DOWNE AS WELL IN A TREATISE, AS IN CERTAINE NOTES (THAT GOE FROM HAND TO HAND) BOTH AGAINST PROCEEDING EX OFFICIO, AND AGAINST OATHS MINISTRED TO PARTIES IN CAUSES CRIMINALL; ARE ALSO EXAMINED AND ANSWERED: VPON THAT OCCASION LATELY REUIEWED, AND MUCH ENLARGED ABOUE THE FIRST PRIUATE PROIECT, AND NOW PUBLISHED, BEING DIUIDED INTO THREE PARTES: TH FIRST PART WHEREOF CHIE- FLIE SHEWETH WHAT MATTERS BE INCIDENT TO ECCLESIASTICALL CONISANCE; AND SO ALLOWED BY STATUTES AND COMMON LAW: THE SECOND TREATETH (FOR THE MOST PART) OF THE TWO WAYES OF PROCEEDING IN CAUSES CRIMINAL ... THE THIRD CONCERNETH OATHS IN GENERALL ... WHEREUNTO ... I HAUE PRESUMED TO ADIOINE THAT RIGHT EXCELLENT AND SOUND DETERMINATION (CONCERNING OATHS) WHICH WAS MADE BY M. LANCELOT ANDROVVES .... London: Imprinted ... by the Deputies of Christopher Barker ..., 1593. Three parts in one volume. [30],130,[10],140 [2(blank)]; [4],255,[1(errata)] pp. Small quarto. Old calf, neatly rebacked to style, raised bands, gilt label. Woodcut head and tail pieces. Title slightly smudged and soiled, old tide-mark in gutter of first two gatherings, with faint, shallow shadow of same reappearing in gathering F, visible stubs of early careful strengthening at gutters of gathering C, otherwise, generally a very good, crisp copy, complete with blank 2T4.

A revised edition of the work first privately printed in 1591, in an edition of “fourtie copies, or there abouts ...” (Epistle to the Reader). This is one of two variants noted by STC, in this case with the literal date in the title imprint. The three parts have separate titles and independent paginations, but only the third part has a separate register and legitimately appears on its own on occasion. Cosin (1548 – 1597), a graduate of Trinity College, made a considerable mark as an ecclesiastical lawyer. DNB comments on this work: “Far more important was An Apologie: of, and for Sundrie Proceedings by Jurisdiction Ecclesiasticall (1591); only about forty copies were initially printed, but in 1593 Cosin published a greatly enlarged version to refute attacks on the use of ex officio oath made by Sir Robert Beale and the common lawyer James Morice. The Apologie became the standard defence of the jurisdiction of the church courts and high commission.” Lancelot Andrewes preached Cosin’s funeral sermon in 1597, and appended to part three of this work is “Quæstionis: nunquid per ius diuinum, magistratui liceat, a reo iusiurandum exigere? & id, quatenus ac quousque liceat?” by Andrewes. ESTC S122948. STC 5821. $1850.

The Great Mirror of Folly

172. Law, John: [THE GREAT MIRROR OF FOLLY...] HET GROOTE TAFEREEL DER DWAASHIED VERTOONENDE DE OPKOMST, VOORTGANG EN ONDERGANG DER ACTIE, BUBBEL EN WINDNEGOTIE IN VRANKRIJK, ENGELAND, EN DE NEDERLANDEN. [Np, but Holland]. 1720. Title printed in red and black. Folding engraved frontispiece, engraved list of plates within a decorative surround, seventy-two engraved plates, maps, and broadsides on 73 leaves (5 of the single-page plates cut the edge of the image and mounted [as issued], 45 double-page, 19 folding and including 10 which combine both engraving and letterpress text). Folio. Contemporary Dutch speckled calf, spine in eight compartments with raised bands, red morocco label in the second compartment, repeat decoration in gilt in the others. Joints slightly split, extremities scuffed. One plate loosely inserted, two with sections of blank margins torn away, some other clean tears occasionally affecting the image area, otherwise very good.

A very rare economics work in which are reprinted a collection of the contemporary satirical texts and prints relating to the financial exploits of John Law and his infamous Mississippi scheme of 1717-20, events connected with the founding of a viable colony in Louisiana. John Law (1671 – 1729) was a Scottish economist who believed that money was only a means of exchange that did not constitute wealth in itself, but that national wealth depended on trade. He is said to be the father of finance, responsible for the adoption or use of paper money or bills in the world today. A gambler and an expert in statistics, he was the origina- tor of economic theories, including two major ideas: “The Scarcity Theory of Value” and the “Real bills doctrine.”

The present work records the economic crisis precipitated by Law. The crisis had its origins in the decision of the French regent, Philippe d’Orléans, to appoint John Law the Controller General of Finances for France. “[In] May 1716 the Banque Générale Privée (‘General Pri- vate Bank’), which developed the use of paper money, was set up by Law. It was a private bank, but three quarters of the capital consisted of government bills and government accepted notes. In August 1717 he bought the Mississippi Company, to help the French colony in Louisiana. In 1717 he also brokered the sale of Thomas Pitt’s diamond to the regent, Philippe d’Orléans. In the same year Law floated the Mississippi Company as a joint stock trading company called the Compagnie d’Occident which was granted a trade monopoly of the West Indies and North America. The bank became the Banque Royale...in 1718, mean- ing the notes were guaranteed by the king. The Company absorbed the Compagnie des Indes Orientales, Compagnie de Chine, and other rival trading companies and became the Compagnie Perpetuelle des Indes on 23 May 1719 with a monopoly of commerce on all the seas. The system however encouraged speculation in shares in ‘The Company of the Indies’ (the shares becoming a sort of paper currency)...In 1720 the bank and company were united and Law was appointed Controller General of Finances to attract capital. Law’s pioneering note-issuing bank was extremely successful until it collapsed and caused an economic crisis in France and across Europe. “Law exaggerated the wealth of Louisiana with an effective marketing scheme, which led to wild speculation on the shares of the company in 1719. In February 1720 it was valued for a very high future cash flow at 10,000 livres. Shares rose from 500 livres in 1719 to as much as 15,000 livres in the first half of 1720, but by the summer of 1720, there was a sudden decline in confidence, leading to a 97 per cent decline in market capitalization by 1721. Predictably, the ‘bubble’ burst at the end of 1720, when opponents of the financier attempted en masse to convert their notes into specie. By the end of 1720 Philippe II dismissed Law, who then fled from France” – Cole. GOLDSMITHS 5829. KRESS 3217. MULLER 3535. SABIN 28932. A.H. Cole, THE GREAT MIRROR OF FOLLY...AN ECONOMIC-BIBLIOGRAPHICAL STUDY (Harvard, 1949). $15,000.

“For this is the Drift of all my Writings ...”

173. Law, William: [Autograph Letter, Signed.] [King’s Cliffe]. 14 June 1760. One page, closely written in ink, on recto only of 21 x 17.5 cm lettersheet. with blots and corrections. Old folds, slight darkening along top margin, with vestiges of old mounting tabs on verso, otherwise very good.

A fine letter from Law (1686 – 1761) to an admirer, written toward the end of his life, in productive and contemplative retirement in the village of his birth, ca. 150 words. He writes, in part: “I am very glad that yr Lady yr Friend has any Taste for my Books. I heartily Wish that they may help her to know & find, that wh. St. Peter knew ... For this is the Drift of all my Writings, to bring the Reader to St. Peter’s Conviction, that Christ alone hath the words of Eternal Life, & therefore neither of pious men, or pious Books are any to be lik’d, but so far as they turn us from all Adherence to your Selves & their own Words, to Him who is the WORD ... always speaking within us as never man or Angel ever did, or can speak to us ....” He continues on noting that “In this place there is no Convenience of Board & Lodging as you enquire after ...,” and suggests that such news might help prevent disappointment on the part of the recipient’s friend. He closes: “I am with Much good Wishes to her & your Self, your Obedient Servant in Christ W. Law.” Both as a controversialist in his defense of religious faith, and as an author of works of practical divinity, Law had a substantial influence on 18th century religion, particularly upon the theology and practice of John Wesley, “who reaped where Law had sown” – PMM. His best known work, A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life (1728) held major significance for readers as disparate as Samuel Johnson, George Whitefield, Edward Gibbon and Lord Lyttelton. Manuscript letters by Law are scarce in commerce, no examples appearing in American auction records in the last fifty years. PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN 187. $7500.

With a Map of the Winds of the World

174. Le Clerc, Jean: JOANNIS CLERICI PHYSICA, SIVE DE REBUS CORPOREIS LIBRI QUINQUE. Cambridge: Typis Academicis, 1700. [24],488,[4]pp. plus eleven plates and folding map. 12mo. Contemporary calf, raised bands. Toe of spine a bit chipped; significant worming in the first twelve leaves, affecting several letters on each page therein; persistent but unobtrusive worming thereafter in fore-margins through leaf M12, otherwise quite clean and very good.

Second British edition of this important early scientific work, first published in Amsterdam in 1696. The interesting folding map shows most of the Caribbean, South America, the Atlantic, Africa, the Indian Ocean, the East Indies, and the northern portion of the large land mass described as “Hollandia Nova,” to which is connected a peninsula, “Nova Guinea.” The map is marked to show prevailing winds, in a very early attempt to describe them. ESTC locates six copies in North America. WING L824. ESTC R11398. $1000.

175. Le Monnier, Pierre Charles: HISTOIRE CÉLESTE, OU RECUEIL TOUTES LES OB- SERVATIONS ASTRONOMIQUES FAITES PAR ORDRE DU ROY AVEC UN DISCOURS PRÉLIMINAIRE SUR LE PROGRÈS DE L’ASTRONOMIE ... Paris: Briasson, 1741. [10],xcii,368,[2]pp. plus seven plates. Quarto. Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt, with leather label. Extremities rubbed. Library ink stamp on titlepage and verso. Light foxing to first and last few leaves. Very good.

Le Monnier (1715-1799) – a professor at the College Royal and a member of the Royal Society, the Berlin Academy, and the Academie de la Marine – accompanied Clairaut and Maupertuis on the 1736 expedition to Lapland to measure a degree of an arc meridian. This work contains a general account of all the observations made at the Paris Observatory since its foundation in 1666. This observatory was one of the most important in Europe and many of the observations collected here are among the most significant of the time. Two of the fine plates depict astronomical instruments, including a telescope constructed by George Graham. $1000.

176. [Lea, Tom]: Hjerter, Kathleen G.: THE ART OF TOM LEA. College Station: Texas A&M University, [1989]. Oblong small quarto. Full gilt publisher’s leather. Heavily illustrated throughout with plates in color and b&w. James S. Copley Collection bookplate on front pastedown, otherwise fine in matching leather slipcase with small label residue in corner of one panel.

First edition, deluxe limited issue. Introduction by William Weber Johnson. One of 150 numbered copies, specially bound, signed by Lea, Hjerter and Johnson, accompanied by a separate offset print commissioned for the edition, signed by Lea in ink in the margin. The best retrospective of Lea’s career as an artist, including ample representation of his standout work as war correspondent artist for Life during WWII, some surprising early student work (Tom Lea as Vorticist?), his exemplary work as a muralist in the 1930s, and, of course, his trademark later work as painter, portrait artist and illustrator. $1000.

177. Leybourn, William: NINE GEOMETRICALL EXERCISES, FOR YOUNG SEA-MEN, AND OTHERS THAT ARE STUDIOUS IN MATHEMATICALL PRACTICES. London: James Flesher for George Sawbridge, 1669. [10],184 (of 192)pp. plus frontispiece portrait and folding plate. Disbound. Light soiling, lacking final twelve pages. A fair copy.

An early work on navigation by English mathematician and surveyor William Leybourn (1626- 1716). Leybourn also wrote a work on surveying and another on the use of sundials and astrolabes. This is by far his rarest work, with no copies appearing in auction records; it was published the same years as his work on dialling. ESTC records only six copies, only three of which are in North America – Harvard, John Carter Brown Library, and UCLA. A rare work, regrettably present in an imperfect copy. ESTC R213612. WING L1925. $1500.

178. Lindbergh, Charles A.: “WE”... THE FAMOUS FLIER’S OWN STORY OF HIS LIFE AND HIS TRANSATLANTIC FLIGHT, TOGETHER WITH HIS VIEWS ON THE FUTURE OF AVIATION. New York: Putnam, 1927. Large octavo. Gilt parchment and boards, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. Frontispiece etching by Robert James Malone. Illustrated with photographs. An unusually fine, virtually untouched copy in glassine wrapper. Enclosed in the original publisher’s numbered box (faint dust-soiling to bottom panel). Promotional booklet laid in, along with publisher’s note leaf.

First edition, limited printing. Copy #596 of one thousand numbered copies for sale, from a total of 1100 copies specially printed and bound, and signed by the author and franked by the publishers. $3500.

179. [Lindbergh, Charles A.]: Miller, Francis Trevelyan: LINDBERGH HIS STORY IN PIC- TURES. New York & London: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1929. Gilt parchment and boards. Portrait and copiously illustrated with photographs. Bookplate of James S. Copley on verso of pictorial endsheet, otherwise very near fine.

First edition, limited issue. The so-called “Collector’s Edition,” limited to 250 numbered copies, specially bound, and signed by the author/compiler and the publisher. Affixed to the front pastedown, as issued, is a commemorative cover, with stamps, carried by Lindbergh on his first International Air Mail Flight from Miami to the Canal Zone. $500. 180. Lindbergh, Charles A.: THE SPIRIT OF ST. LOUIS. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1953. Plum cloth, lettered in silver. Pictorial endsheets. About fine, in faintly rubbed acetate wrapper.

The special “Presentation Edition,” consisting of an unspecified quantity of numbered copies (but likely 1000), specially bound, and signed by Lindbergh on a special colophon leaf inserted in front. $3000.

181. Lodge, Edmund: PORTRAITS OF ILLUSTRIOUS PERSONAGES OF GREAT BRITAIN. ENGRAVED FROM AUTHENTIC PICTURES IN THE GALLERIES OF THE NOBILITY AND THE PUBLIC COLLECTIONS OF THE COUNTRY. WITH BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL MEMOIRS OF THEIR LIVES AND ACTIONS .... London: Printed [at the Shakespeare Press] for Harding, Mavor and Lepard, 1823 – 1834. Twelve volumes. Royal quarto (31 x 24 cm). Full dark blue-green morocco, elaborately gilt extra, a.e.g., ribbon markers, by Hayday. A bit of rubbing to extremities and shelfwear to fore-tips, a few small surface scrapes; bookplate, single stamp and pencil donation inscription in each volume of a Cathedral Library, single small bookplate of an earlier library at Chase Side House, small paper manuscript shelf label at toe of each spine, very occasional foxing; generally a very good large-paper set.

First quarto editions. Illustrated with 240 fine steel engraved portraits by various hands after Hoppner, Van Dyke, Holbein, Kneller, Lawrence, Gainsborough, Copley and others. In this set, the plates are denoted as being in “Proof” state, printed on tissue (possibly papier chine), mounted to larger sheets. Among the most popular and esteemed works of its genre, reprinted in various formats both in the UK and in North America into the 20th century. Very substantial extra postage. LOWNDES V:1381-2. $1850.

182. Lovell, Robert: [In Greek:] PANZOORYKTOLOGIA. SIVE PANZOOLOGICOMINERA- LOGIA. OR A COMPLEAT HISTORY OF ANIMALS AND MINERALS.... Oxford: Printed by [W. Hall and] Hen: Hall, for Jos: Godwin, 1661. [96],519,152pp. Pages 105-152 misbound before pp.1-103. 20th century brown three-quarter morocco and cloth, gilt. Some light shelf wear and soiling, light scattered foxing and soiling to text, about very good.

First edition of this English pharmacopoeia. Lovell studied botany, zoology, and mineralogy at Oxford, and completed this work while resident there. This volume focuses on the medical properties of parts of beasts, birds, fish, insects, and man, and those of minerals. It is largely a compendium of comments and opinions of the ancient authors on the materia medica, and, interestingly, reflects recent world exploration in the animals treated, including several animals from the New World. He explains his classification system and lists the works cited. Each entry in the text lists location, scientific name, and diet where applicable. He discusses in detail the subject’s medicinal virtues, quoting various works and authorities. The castor extracted from beaver “strengtheneth the nervous parts, and head. It awakeneth the dull animal spirits, resisteth poysen, provoketh sneezing, is anodyne, and provoketh the termes: therefore it is good in the lethargy, apoplexy, epilepsy, paley, vertigo, trembling of the joints ..,” etc. The unicorn and dragon are listed, as well – the horn of the former is reputed to be effective against worms and poisons. ESTC R30507. WING L3245, L3246. MADAN III:2561, 2562. THOMASON E1810, E1811. $750.

Possible Association Copy

183. [Lyttelton, George]: OBSERVATIONS ON THE CONVERSION AND APOSTLESHIP OF ST. PAUL. IN A LETTER TO GILBERT WEST, ESQ. London: Printed for R. Dodsley ... and Sold by M. Cooper ..., 1747. [4],110pp. Octavo. Stitched and untrimmed as issued. Light dust soiling at edges of first and last leaves, pale spotting at extreme top margin of first three leaves, otherwise an excellent copy, as issued.

First edition, first issue (printing), with the erratum at the bottom of p. 110, page 71 uncorrected, and pp. 78 and 79 properly numbered, and the bird device (rather than floral) on the title-page. One of the poet/politician’s most popular tracts, arising out of his joint investigation with his Oxford colleague, Gilbert West, of two of the essential tenets of Christian faith, Paul’s conversion (in Lyttelton’s case) and the resurrection (in West’s case). Both came to the conclusion that evidence bore out the veracity of the claims, with West publishing a separate pamphlet, and consequently professed their faith. Lyttelton’s greater fame rested with his poetry, and his close friendships with other writers, including Pope and Fielding – Lyttelton is the dedicatee of Tom Jones. In addition to its exemplary condition, this copy has some potential association interest, bearing on the half-title the neat inscription: “The gift of Thomas Billingsley Gent, to his God Son Thomas Percy.” Chronology suggests the slight possibility that the recipient might have been the then 12 year old future Bishop of Dromore and editor of Reliques .... ESTC T70158. NCBEL II:556. $450.

184. Macfarlane, P[atrick]: A NEW AND COPIOUS VOCABULARY, IN TWO PARTS. THE FIRST PART CONSISTING OF ENGLISH AND GAELIC; THE SECOND, OF GAELIC AND ENGLISH; WITH A FEW DIRECTIONS FOR READING THE GAELIC, BOTH WITH THE DIFFERENT PARTS OF SPEECH, AND IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER. Edinburgh: Printed for the Author, and sold by A. Constable and Co., 1815. [6],[iii]-v,[3],226,152pp. Large octavo. Recent half calf and marbled boards, gilt label, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. Separate titles in both English and Gaelic. Early ink name on title (“James Macpherson”), relevant inscription on verso of preliminary blank, scattered, occasionally pronounced, foxing and occasional marginal spotting, but a good copy.

First edition. Macfarlane (1758-1832), a former schoolmaster, undertook a number of translations into Gaelic under the auspices of the Society in Scotland for the Propagation of Christian Knowledge, and contributed to several of the significant Gaelic language undertakings in the first decades of the 19th century. The inscription (in the same hand as the early ownership signature of one James Macpherson) notes: “This was the only really practical Gaelic Dictionary prior to the publication of Armstrong, but on account of its limited size is very deficient.” $500.

An Extraordinary Run of Catalogues from a Famed Bookselling Firm

185. [Maggs Bros.]: [Run of 571 Maggs Bros. Catalogues]. London: 1904-1992. 571 catalogues. Majority in wrappers, but some bound in half calf or blue cloth. The condition varies good to fine.

Over the last century no bookselling firm in the world has issued a more distinguished run of catalogues than Maggs Bros. of London. Many of their catalogues are standard references in the fields they cover, while all have a utility for the history of books and bookselling. The early catalogues are generally quite difficult to obtain. A remarkable set of catalogues from the world renowned dealers, including such catalogues as “Curiouser and Curiouser,” “Bibliotheca Americana,” and the large folio, “Catalog 500.” This set consists of the following catalogs: 192, 202, 206, 219, 224, 239, 243-245, 248, 249, 252, 256, 257, 259, 260, 263- 265, 268, 269, 271, 273-277, 279-282, 284, 285, 287-291, 293, 294, 297, 302, 304, 307, 308, 311, 314, 315, 318-320, 323-325, 330, 335, 337, 338, 341-345, 347, 348, 350-352, 354-357, 359-361, 363, 364, 366, 367, 369, 371-374, 377-380, 382, 384-386, 389, 390, 392, 393, 395-397, 399-402, 404-409, 411-431, 433, 434, 436-452, 454, 456-473, 475, 477-482, 484-490, 492, 493, 495-507, 509-513, 516-533, 535-540, 547-581, 583, 586-598, 590, 591, 593-604, 606-608, 610, 613-615, 617, 618, 620-622, 624, 625, 627-631, 633-641, 643, 644, 646-650, 652-655, 657, 659, 660, 662, 664, 666-685, 687, 688, 690-696, 698-718, 721, 722, 724-730, 732, 733, 735-738, 741-743, 745, 749-760, 762-765, 767-769, 771, 773, 775, 776, 778-782, 785-787, 789, 790, 792-794, 796, 798, 800, 802, 803, 810, 811, 814-816, 822-824, 826-844, 846-863, 865-872, 874-878, 880-883, 888-890, 892-895, 897, 899, 901-909, 911- 918, 920, 921, 923-928, 930, 931, 934, 935, 937, 939-941, 943, 946-950, 952-956, 960-965, 967, 969-974, 976, 977, 981, 1011, 1019, 1030, 1035, 1040, 1069, 1073, 1077, 1112, 1252. NB: substantial shipping costs. $3500. Images of Maine and Europe by an M.I.T. Professor

186. [Maine and European Photographica]: [Lawrence, Ralph Restieaux (attrib)]: [Three Albums of Original Photographs of Scenes in Maine, and of Life in France and England in the Years Before World War I, Taken by M.I.T. Professor Ralph Restieaux Lawrence]. [Maine and various places in Europe. 1907, 1913, 1920]. A total of 248 original photographic prints. Three oblong octavo albums. Original black morocco, spines gilt, titles as transcribed below. Albums with some shelf wear; European album slightly cocked. The photographs are clean and in excellent condition.

An outstanding collection of photographic images of scenes in Maine, coastal France, and the Channel Islands. The photographs were taken by an M.I.T. Professor who apparently vacationed in Maine on a regular basis, and who also visited England and France in the year before the outbreak of World War I. The albums of Maine images ably show the natural beauty of far western Maine, while the album of scenes in France and England captures life in small villages and towns in Normandy, Brittany, and the Channel Islands before the peace of the region was shattered by the Great War. Two of the albums feature silver gelatin prints that have been printed directly onto the album sheets, with accompanying handwritten captions. The third album consists of photographic prints affixed to sheets of the album.

Though without ownership signatures, we attribute these albums to Ralph Restieaux Lawrence, a Professor of Electrical Engineering at MIT. These albums came with other photographic albums made by Lawrence on trips to the American West and Canada, featuring photographs done in a similar style, captioned and bound as these albums. Ralph Restieaux Lawrence (b. 1873) was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and graduated from M.I.T. in 1895. He taught electrical engineering at M.I.T. from 1896 to 1941, and apparently enjoyed photography and traveling, as the present albums would indicate. The three albums are:

[album entitled Heald Pond Maine 1907]. Original oblong octavo album. [39] original photographic prints, most measuring approximately 3¾ x 4¾ inches, each print affixed to a sheet in the album, the sheets measuring 8 x 10 inches. This album contains a series of lovely photographs of the area around Heald Pond, in west-central Maine, not far from the Canadian border. Heald Pond is known for its natural beauty – ably captured in these photographs – and for its hiking trails. The photographs in this album are uncaptioned, but show a number of images of the large pond and surrounding area, as well as cabins and campsites.

[album entitled Photographs Europe 1913]. Original oblong octavo album. [162] original silver gelatin prints, measuring approximately 3¼ x 5¼ inches, each printed directly onto a sheet in the album, the sheets measuring 6¾ x 9¼ inches. Each image is identified by a manuscript caption on the facing sheet. The pictures show scenes in France and England, mostly in the regions of Brittany and Normandy, the Channel Islands of Jersey, Guernsey, and Sark, and the towns of Warwick and Stratford-upon-Avon. Many of the photographs show life in villages or larger towns, such as Caen in Normandy. There are a number of photographs of scenes in and around the Brittany village of Concarneau, including market scenes, fetes, and scenes along the port, but other villages, such as Pont-Aven and Vitre are included as well. Many of the photographs in the British islands show castles, ruins, towns, and coastal scenes. In all, a magnificent series of photographs of this region on the verge of World War I.

[album entitled Photographs Attean Maine 1920]. Original oblong octavo album. [47] original silver gelatin prints, measuring on average 3 x 5, (one of them a panoramic photo measuring 3 x 13½inches on a folded sheet) each printed directly onto a sheet in the album, the sheets measuring 7 x 9½ inches. Each image is identified by a manuscript caption on the facing sheet. Attean Lake is a resort area located in west-central Maine, and this album of attractive silver gelatin prints shows scenes from a vacation taken there by Lawrence in 1920. The panoramic photograph is a lovely view of Attean Lake from a high perspective on nearby Mount Sally. There are several other pictures from Mount Sally, as well as images of camps, vistas from lake level, nearby woods, other ponds, etc. $2000.

187. [Mandeville, Bernard]: THE FABLE OF THE BEES: OR, PRIVATE VICES, PUBLICK BENEFITS ... AS ALSO AN ESSAY ON CHARITY AND CHARITY-SCHOOLS. AND A SEARCH INTO THE NATURE OF SOCIETY. London: Printed for Edmund Parker, 1723. [8],428,[12] pp. Octavo. Modern dark brown polished paneled calf, raised bands, gilt label, decorated in blind to contemporary style. Some modest foxing and occasional shallow and light marginal discolorations, but a good, crisp copy, neatly bound.

The “Second edition,” declaring itself “Enlarged with many Additions.” Mandeville published his poem, “The Grumbling Hive; or, Knaves Turned Honest” in 1705, and the first edition of this, his enduring contribution to the literary analysis of human nature, grew up around that nucleus. It was first published in 1714, and a second, though concealed, edition appeared in the same year. Mandeville’s portrayal of human nature as essentially vile, through the metaphor of the bee hive that succeeds because of the rapacity of the individual constituents of the colony, elicited outraged responses from William Law, Berkeley, Hutcheson and others. Mandeville continued to expand upon the work, jousting with his critics and detractors, up to its sixth edition (1729). ESTC T77713. GOLDSMITHS 6178. KRESS 3520. $850.

An Important Defense of Reason

188. [Mandevilliana]: [Tindal, Matthew]: AN ADDRESS TO THE INHABIANTS [sic] OF THE TWO GREAT CITIES OF LONDON AND WESTMINSTER: IN RELATION TO A PASTORAL LETTER, SAID TO BE WRITTEN BY THE BISHOP OF LONDON, TO THE PEOPLE OF HIS DIOCESS: OCCASION’D BY SOME LATE WRITINGS IN FAVOUR OF INFIDELITY. London: Printed and Sold by J. Peele, at Locke’s Head..., 1728. 72pp. Octavo (signed in 4s). Extracted from nonce pamphlet volume, lower edges partially untrimmed. Some modest foxing early and late, extremely faint tidemark to lower portion of a number of leaves, but otherwise a very good copy.

The rare first edition of this response to Bishop Gibson’s pastoral letter – one of two attributed to Tindal – in which the noted freethinking Deist takes to task the Bishop’s implicit elevation of faith above reason, and defends in general freedom of thought and discourse against subjugation to religious authority. In an interesting side note to Tindal’s response to Gibson’s assertion “That in some late Writings publick Stews have been openly vindicated...,” he makes reference to the celebrated pseudonymously published 1724 pamphlet by Man- deville, A Modest Defence Of Publick Stews .... This 1728 printing is rare: ESTC locates only seven copies, of which four are in North America (BYU, UCLA, Huntington and General Theological). It was reprinted in 1729 (a much more common edition, with the spelling error on the title corrected), and again in somewhat revised form, in 1730. NCBEL notes only the 1729 and 1730 editions. ESTC N29243. NCBEL II:1868. $1250. 189. Matthioli, Pier Andrea: DE PLANTIS VTILISSIMA ... Francofurti ad Moenum: [S. Feyera- bend], 1586. [12],1003,[1],[28]pp. Quarto. Early 20th century polished buckram, gilt leather label. Illustrated throughout with woodcuts. Printer’s device on title. Binding a bit worn, but sound, label rubbed, typical uniform tanning, old tidemark affecting the lower fore-quadrant of the text block, two ink names on title leaf. An obviously blemished but perfectly sound copy.

Second edition, edited and enlarged by Joachim Camerarius, adding the supplementary Iter Baldi Civitatis Veronae Montis by Calzolario, with its own title, but with continuous register. The first edition appeared in Venice in 1571, and to this edition Camerarius added the highly important woodcut illustrations based on Gessner’s drawings, as well as his own. Matthioli (or Mattioli, 1500-1577) was the foremost botanist of his time and served as chief physician to Archduke Ferdinand II. His herbals were among the most widely used of their generation. BM (GERMAN STC), p.427. ADAMS M-909. BRUNET III:1538. HUNT 153. NISSEN 1308. ARENTS 30. $3750.

Incunable Edition of Mela

190. Mela, Pomponius: POMPONII MELAE COSMOGRAPHI DE SITU ORBIS.... [Venice: Simon de Bevilaqua, 1498]. [38] leaves. Eighteen woodcut initials. Small quarto. 19th century three-quarter calf and marbled boards, spine gilt. Boards lightly edgeworn and rubbed, small separation at lower joint of front board. Bookplate of David P. Wheatland on front pastedown. Small inkstain in upper margin of first four gatherings. Early manuscript notes on four pages, including at the colophon. Very good.

Eighth edition, and the third edited by Barbarus, of the most popular geography text of the Renaissance. Pomponius Mela is often taken as an accurate sum of European geographical knowledge before the discovery of the New World. Mela’s text is the earliest surviving Latin work on geography, and the only Roman treatise devoted exclusively to that subject. Barbarus, the editor of this edition, was a professor of philosophy at Padua and Venice. The publications of Mela and Ptolemy were incentives for further exploration, and in particular Mela’s descriptions of Africa were used by the Portuguese navigators who were venturing far out into the Atlantic for the first time. This edition was issued just five years after Columbus returned to Spain from his first voyage to the New World. GOFF M454. PROCTOR 5411. WALSH 2535. SHEPPARD 4491. $5000. In Original Cloth

191. Melville, Herman: REDBURN: HIS FIRST VOYAGE. BEING THE SAILOR BOY CON- FESSIONS AND REMINISCENCES OF THE SON OF A GENTLEMAN IN THE MERCHANT SERVICE. London: Richard Bentley, 1849. Two volumes. Original publisher’s dark blue cloth, decorated in blind, spines lettered in gilt, printed endleaves (BAL’s A). 15mm. snag at crown of first spine toward lower joint, with some surface loss, foretips a bit bruised, old faded ink signature in top margin of each title, some occasional mild smudging and a few old spots to first title, otherwise a very good set.

The rare first issue of the first edition, being one of 335 sets in the primary binding of Bent- ley’s first printing of 750 copies. The remaining sets of sheets were bound up two volumes in one with cancel title leaves for each volume, with a new date, when Bentley remaindered this title in 1853, along with White-Jacket and The Whale, due to continuing poor sales. This London edition preceded the New York edition by over a month, and like all of Melville’s multi-volume London publications, is very scarce, particularly when in original cloth. The half-title is present in the second volume, but the first was published without a half-title. BAL 13659. SADLEIR EXCURSIONS, p.226. $40,000.

192. Melville, Herman: [Original Autograph Signature]. [Np. nd]. Clipped full signature, on slightly irregular slip of heavy paper (1.5 x 7 cm), in brown ink. Some adhesive browning, otherwise a good example, in a small envelope captioned in the hand of Eleanor Metcalf.

A very good example of Melville’s full signature, clipped from family papers or documents and retained by the family and passed on by descent. Metcalf’s pencil annotation on the envelope – “H.M. autograph (a cut-out) Paul?” – records the passing of the family artifact to Paul Metcalf. Suitable for framing and exhibition. $5750.

Cornerstone Utopian Work

193. [Mercier, Louis Sebastien]: L’AN DEUX MILLE QUATRE CENT QUARANTE. RÊVE S’IL EN FÛT JAMAIS; SUIVI DE L’HOMME DE FER, SONGE. [Paris]. 1786. xvi,380,[2];381,[2];312,[2]pp. Contemporary calf and boards, spines gilt extra. Engraved frontis to each volume. Minimal occasional foxing, several joints cracking (but sound, except for 3rd volume, where the cords are intact but joints loose). Internally a quite nice, large copy, with the half titles.

The important greatly revised and enlarged edition of the work several commentators consider the first genuine Utopian work set in the future. The first edition appeared in Amsterdam, under a false imprint in 1771 (though some bibliographers cite 1770, based on the erroneous date listed in the preface to this edition). Mercier’s protagonist awakens from sleep in the 25th century, and finds himself in “that blissful period, when man shall have regained his courage, his liberty, his independence and his virtue.” The new society is the consequence of a revolution overseen by a benevolent prince, and while it is primarily an agrarian society, considerable emphasis is placed on scientific knowledge. The influence of Locke, Rousseau, Voltaire and other progressive thinkers of the time is evident, as well as certain dystopic elements, including the burning of texts which did not enjoy the approval of the powers that be. The novel was widely translated, and an American edition appeared in short order. HOWGEGO M35b. NEGLEY 772. PENN STATE UTOPIAN CATALOGUE, pp.120-2. $650.

194. [Metallurgy]: Barba, Alvaro Alonso: ARTE DE LOS METALES, EN QUE SE ENSEÑA EL VERDADERO BENEFICIO DE LOS DE ORO Y PLATA POR AZOGUE, EL MODO DE FUNDIRLOS TODOS, Y COMO SE HAN DE REFINAR Y APARTAR UNOS DE OTROS. Lima: Imprenta de los Huerfanos, 1817. [4],271,[7]pp. Several errors in pagination. Small quarto. Ex-lib. Contemporary limp vellum. Vellum lightly soiled. Dampstaining to first two leaves, some minor soiling. Very good.

The first Latin American and only Lima printing of this celebrated treatise on mining and metallurgy. First published in Madrid in 1640, this is the first significant work on the subject in Spanish, and the first work on mining in the Americas. Alvaro Alonso Barba (1569-1662), of Andalusian origin, took orders and departed for South America in 1588. He was pastor in Potosi, Peru, the center of an important mining region, where he could observe all the latest technological developments in the field of mining. While in Peru, he studied mineralogy and the art of extracting and testing the silver, so abundant in Potosi. Upon publication his book was an immediate success and was subsequently published in English, French and German. MEDINA (LIMA) 3325. VARGAS UGARTE 4361. PALAU 23626. $4000.

195. Millar, John: OBSERVATIONS CONCERNING THE DISTINCTION OF RANKS IN SO- CIETY. Dublin: Printed by T. Ewing, 1771. xiv,[2],240pp. Octavo. Recent calf and boards, gilt label. Faint old stamps of a defunct mercantile library, light discoloration at top edge of text block, occasional dust toning, terminal leaf has expert reinforcement at extreme fore-edge, but a good, sound copy.

The uncommon first Dublin edition of Millar’s chief work, published in the same year as Murray’s London edition. Millar, Professor of Law at the University of Glasgow, was a friend and contemporary of Hume, and the latter’s thought exerted some influence on this work, which marks something of a landmark in the early interpretation of economics, class, and politics and their effect on society. He was an advocate of the cause of the North American colonists, and includes as his first chapter a consideration “Of the rank and condition of women in different ages.” KRESS 6805 (London ed). HIGGS 5330 (London ed). GOLDSMITHS 10712 (London ed). ESTC T108866. $1500.

196. Miller, Philip: THE GARDENERS DICTIONARY: CONTAINING THE METHODS OF CULTIVATING AND IMPROVING THE KITCHEN, FRUIT AND FLOWER GARDEN, AS ALSO THE PHYSICK GARDEN, WILDERNESS, CONSERVATORY, AND VINEYARD. Lon- don: Printed for the Author; and sold by C. Rivington, 1735. Two volumes. viii,[480]; [546] pp. plus frontispiece and two plates. Contemporary calf, rebacked preserving the original leather labels. Bookplate on front pastedown and verso of frontispiece. Bright and clean internally. Very good.

The first octavo edition of Miller’s very popular dictionary, which first appeared (in folio format) in 1731. This constitutes an abridgment of the first volume of the folio edition. The author states that he learned that the price of the folio edition was too high for some who were engaged in the practical art of gardening, and he hopes they will find this less expensive version useful. Philip Miller (1691-1771) was appointed gardener to the Society of Apoth- ecaries in London and made the name of the Chelsea Physic Garden famous throughout European botanical circles. ESTC T61256. HENREY 1117. $1500.

Elegant, in Red French Morocco

197. [Missal, Latin – Paris Use]: EPISTOLÆ ET EVANGELIA TAM DE TEMPORE QUÀM DE SANCTIS, ET COMMUNI SANCTORUM, CUM COLLECTIS IISDEM PROPRIIS, ET QUATUOR PASSIONIBUS CUM CANTU, È MISSALI PARISIENSE EXCERPTA; ADDITIS ORATIONIBUS QUÆ PER ANNI CURRICULUM AD PROCESSIONEM DICUNTUR.... Paris: Sumptibus Bib- liopolarum Usuum Parisiensium [apud Le Mercier, et al], 1762. [4],404,lxiv,lxxviii,viii pp. Small folio (35 x 22 cm). Lavishly bound in full contemporary red French morocco, elaborately gilt extra, gilt concentric side panels of intricate curl, scallop and leaf devices, with gilt religious devices in each corner of the center panel and spine panels, with large mirrored ‘W’ device, crown and leaf spray in center panel of upper cover, and elaborate cross in center of lower board, gilt inner dentelles, pastepaper endsheets, a.e.g. Two fore-corners bruised, some other minor rubbing and marking to the binding, but a very good copy, in a lovely binding.

A handsome Missal, with text printed in double columns, and with appended sections of musical settings etc. The final eight pages, devoted to the Stations of the Cross, are separately printed. Le Mercier’s imprint appears at the base of the preceding page, and a joint imprint for Le Mercier and five other booksellers appears at the base of the last page of the terminal section. The binding is quite beautiful, and is similar (if not identical) to the binding on another copy, at the Morgan Library. OCLC locates another copy at Univ. South Carolina, binding unknown. $1250.

The Original Utopia

198. More, Thomas: SIR THOMAS MOORE’S [sic] UTOPIA: CONTAINING, AN EXCELLENT LEARNED, WITTIE, AND PLEASANT DISCOURSE OF THE BEST STATE OF A PUBLIKE WEALE, AS IT IS FOUND IN THE GOVERNMENT OF THE NEW ILE CALLED UTOPIA.... London: Printed by Bernard Alsop, 1624. [8],138,[5]pp. Small quarto. Late 19th century blue morocco by Riviere, rebacked in matching style, spine gilt, a.e.g., gilt inner dentelles. Leaf

E3 with a small hole affecting two letters. Early ownership signature of W. Inge in two places on the titlepage. Near fine.

The fourth edition of Thomas More’s landmark fable in English, and the first edition of Ralph Robinson’s translation corrected by Bernard Alsop. It is also the first with a new dedication, to Cresacre More, great grandson of the author. This is the classic English translation of Utopia..., which, in the minds of some readers, “has not been displaced in popular esteem by the subsequent efforts of Gilbert Burnet (1684) and Arthur Cayley (1808)” – DNB. Thomas More’s Utopia... marks the creation of a genre that was to have a far-reaching effect on the world of letters and of the imagination. The notion of an ideal society had been canvassed before, notably in Plato’s Republic... and Laws..., but it was More who fully developed the concept of an imagined ideal world, and who also gave the familiar name to the concept, with his famous pun on “good place” (eutopos) and “nowhere” (outopos). In More’s invention, first published in Latin in 1516, Utopia is in the New World, discovered by his hero, Hythlodaye, during one of his three voyages with Amerigo Vespucci. The work owes a considerable debt to “the sense of discovery and possibility afforded by the Renais- sance voyages of exploration” (Susan Bruce, Three Modern Utopias). It is thus a prime early Americanum, with its vision of the New World as an ideal of human life. The earliest English language translation of a landmark work and a testament to the role of America in the European imagination. GIBSON 28. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 624/93. PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN 47. ESTC S112889. STC 18097. LOWNDES IV:1607. $12,500.

199. Motherwell, Robert: [Typed Letter, Signed, From Robert Motherwell to Nancy Mac- donald of Spanish Refugee Aid Inc. Of New York]. 909 North St., Greenwich, Ct. March 31, 1980. [2]pp. on letterhead. Quarto. Fine. In a brown cloth chemise.

Lengthy typed letter with excellent content concerning Motherwell’s uneasy negotiation of Spanish politics and art. In 1980 the Juan March Foundation and the Catalan bank, La Caixa, organized the first exhibition of Motherwell’s work in Spain. His series of works titled, “Elegies for the Spanish Republic,” begun in 1949 and continued until his death in 1991, totaled more than 170 works and would strongly link the artist with anti-Francoism and the lost Spanish Republic. However, as this letter demonstrates, in person, Motherwell maintained a professional, neutral stance, and seemed to have trouble engaging the Spanish in any political conversation. Reading, in part:

“I didn’t realize at the time of the New York Times announcement that, though the Juan March Foundation originated the show, in Barcelona it was under the auspices of the largest savings bank in Catalonia, ‘la Caixa,’ at a small museum they have acquired. If I understand correctly, it is either Spanish or certainly Catalonian law that such a bank must spend 50% of it’s annual profits on culture....The Juan March Foundation, as far as I can tell, is almost an exact equivalent of the J.S. Guggenheim Foundation here....They seem extremely wealthy, honorable in intent, and highly efficient – I mean an almost IBM-corporate efficiency, shat- tering every cliché about ‘mañana’ (what is ironic is that the fabulously wealthy Juan March was the financial backer of Franco, and yet in my show are major ‘Elegies to the Spanish Republic’). My impression, for what it’s worth, is that there’s a kind of understanding that anything scholarly or artistic can be done as long as one stays away from partisan politics. For instance, Barcelona insisted that I be present and treated me beautifully, while the Juan March people [from Madrid] had implied that it wasn’t necessary to go to Barcelona, and immediately descended on the scene. As you know, there are tremendous Separatist movements in Spain....Being a fish swimming in foreign waters, I asked various people who know the scene what to do, and the concensus [sic] is that it is a Spanish labyrinth that is *their* problem....Naturally my own interest is in the artistic community, which seems both aware and touched by any outside support. But my experience in Barcelona was (as in Germany, for example) that political discourse is conspicuous by its absence in any general conversation....Everything I have said is impressions – I found the Spanish, unlike Latin Hispanics, extremely reserved and discrete, almost like old-time New England Yankees. What lies underneath I really don’t know....I realize I am a bit vague because I really don’t *know* anything. I have been going on the artist in me, which senses tensions, pride and formality, eagerness and extreme vulnerability, and since I am not by nature an activist, I have reacted with thorough professionalism instinctively, which seems to be precisely correct.... Naturally I find it both strange and irresistible [sic] to show my Hispanic sympathies under such auspices, but there are unexpected occasions: for instance, I’ve given a small ‘Elegy to the Spanish Republic’ to the University of Salamance (the oldest one in Spain), and they wish to honor me with a ceremony, which I presume the central government is aware of, and I personally somewhat dread, not being an exhibitionist but an exhibitor....In Barcelona, several young artists told me that, after hearing me speak and reading an interview with me, they were determined to leave for New York. In short, my whole experience is basically as an individual with other individuals, as it is here at home, for that matter. (I have stuck with the Guggenheim Foundation because it is the only Foundation that gives exclusively to individuals, *not* institutions.)” $1750.

200. Münster, Sebastian, and [Hans Holbein (illus)]: FURMALUNG UND KUNSTLICH BESCHREIBUNG DER HOROLOGIEN, NEMLICH WIE MAN DER SONNEN VREN MIT MANCHERLEY WEYS UND FORM, UND AUFF ALLER- LEY GATTUNG ENTWERFFEN SOLL AN DIE MAUREN. Basel: Heinrich Peter, 1544. [7],clxvi,[1]pp. Illustrated with more than sixty in-text woodcut diagrams. Two plates. Printer’s device on verso of final leaf. Small folio. Expertly bound to style in period vellum. The two plates chipped along the foredge with minor losses affecting some of the numbering. Very good. In a black half morocco and cloth box. Provenance: unidentified inscription on title dated 1566; Ex-libris Blasij Dasner (inscription on title); “Monasterij Rhenovi- ensis, sub Abbate Eberhardo” (inscription dated 1631).

Second German-language edition, following the first edition printed in Basel in 1531 (in Latin) and the first German-language edition of 1537. This is Münster’s revision of his significant work on sundials and horology. The text is illustrated with many woodcuts of sundials, measuring devices, and quadrants, some of them attributed to Hans Holbein the Younger. This edition appeared the same year as Munster’s famed Cosmographia. This copy is especially interesting for the three early ownership inscriptions on the titlepage, as well as two pages of manuscript diagrams and four pages of manuscript notes that follow the text. One signature on the titlepage, written below the printer’s name, is dated 1566 and appears to read “Egodolf.” Immediately below it is the undated ownership signature: “Ex libris Blasij Dasner.” At the top of the titlepage is a manuscript note showing that this volume was in the possession of the monastery “Rhenoriensis” in 1631, under the Abbot Eberhard. Rheinau Abbey (also known as Kloster Rheinau), a Benedictine monastery in the Canton of Zurich, Switzerland, was founded in about 778 and suppressed in 1862. The two full-page manuscript diagrams and four pages of manuscript text at the end deal with the subject of Münster’s work, sundials and problems of solar declination and hour ascension, and their use on different dates and in different latitudes. The diagrams and manuscript notes consider problems that have been taken from Münster’s text. A part of the manuscript is in the form of questions and answers. The first page of manuscript notes contains a diagram of a hand holding a stick, and was a common horological tool of the time. OCLC locates only six copies of this 1544 edition of Münster’s work, with only two of them (Harvard and Folger Shakespeare Library) in the United States. Scarce. BURMEISTER 52. VD16 M6655. OCLC 83711679; 249039186; 603536607; 633038882; and 80604150. BRUNET 1944-1945. $12,000.

Rare Bach Source Book

201. [Music]: Crüger, Johann: PRAXIS PIETATIS MELICA. DAS IST: UBUNG DER GOTTSELIGKEIT IN CHRISTLICHEN UND TROSTREICHEN GESÄNGEN, HERRN D. MARTINI LUTHERI FÜRNEMLICH …. Wittemburg: In Verlegung Balthasaris Mevii, 1656. [20],1062,16pp. 12mo. Contemporary vellum, with ms lettering on spine in fraktur, yapp edges. Additional engraved title page, reading: “Erneuertes und vermehrtes Gesangbuch.” Illustrated with musical notation throughout. Despite some uniform darkening to text block -- typical of works from this period -- this is a very good copy. Bookplate of the hymnist and collector, Winfred Douglas, and that of the noted collector Lowell Mason: “Rinck’s Library. | Purchased By Lowell Mason, | In Darmstadt, June, 1852.”

Sixth (?) edition, first published in 1647. Johann Crüger (1598-1662) was musician, organist at St. Nikolai Church in Berlin, composer of hymns and sacred works for choral and instrumental performances, musicologist, and author/editor/compiler of Praxis Pietatis Melica, which first appeared in 1647 and underwent numerous subsequent editions, well into the 18th century. It is a major source of Lutheran hymns and chorales, many of which Crüger supplied the melodies, and many with lyrics by his friend Paul Gerhardt. J.S. Bach is known to have drawn on Crüger’s compilation for many of his greatest chorales and choral works. Bach’s great motet Jesu Meine Freude, for example, is based on a melody by Crüger; the music appears in this edition on pp. 819-820 (with words by Paul Franckel). For whatever reason -- heavy usage, small editions, etc. -- all early editions are rare in institutions; apart from the U. of Gottingen copy found by OCLC, a search of German online catalogues turns up only two other copies of this 1656 edition (in the Statebib. Berlin) -- and they are both defective; and only one copy of the 1653 edition (in the Bavarian State Library), is to be found. In America, we have been able to locate only two early (albeit posthumous) editions of Crüger’s classic (1664 and 1666) -- both at the Beinecke Library; the 1664 edition there was donated by Lowell Mason, previous owner of this copy. A very desirable copy of a book key to the study of the German chorale, and German baroque music, now very rare on the market, and with a distinguished American provenance. OCLC: 558022573 & 255890662. $7500.

202. [Napoleonic Wars]: [Contemporary Bound Volume of Thirty-Six Spanish Pamphlets Relating To Napoleonic Wars, Napoleon’s Character, etc.]. Various places. 1808-1810. Thirty-six pamphlets (two in contemporary manuscript), all in Spanish. Manuscript index at front. Small quarto. Contemporary half sheep and marbled boards, raised bands. Spine cracked and worn. Some minor worming, else internally very clean and crisp. Overall condition is quite good.

An interesting contemporary collection of Spanish anti-Napoleonic tracts, most of an ephemeral nature, including daily news sheets from Cadiz and Havana reporting on military actions, biographies of Napoleon, a dramatic work, two brief manuscript items, works translated from other languages into Spanish, and pamphlets printed in Lima and Mexico. These items are all vehemently against Napoleon and the “barbarous French despotism,” and represent the work of a busy and perhaps underground press in opposition to French control in Spain during a tumultuous period. The volume consists of the following items:

1) Prevenciones. Reimpresas en Lima. [1808?]. 8pp. Signed in print at the end by Juan Bautista Pardo.

2) Proclama A Los Espanoles, Y A La Europa Entera, Del Africano Numida Abennu- meya Rasis...Sobre El Verdadero Caracter De La Revolucion Francesa Y De Su Xefe Napoleon. Cadiz. [1808?]. 36pp. 3) Diario De Badajoz Del Viernes 8 De Julio De 1808. Cadiz. 1808. [4]pp. 4) Diario De Badajoz Del Lunes 1.° De Agosto De 1808. Num. 46. [Np]. 1808. pp.193-200. 5) Diario De Badajoz Del Martes 2 De Agosto De 1808. Num. 47. [Np]. 1808. [4]pp. 6) Clamor De La Verdad Hacia La Espana. Cadiz. 1808. 8pp. 7) La Tranquilidad Publica Antequeranos. [Np]. 1808. 8pp. 8) Mi Sueno. [10]pp. Manuscript description of a dream. 9) Como De Piensa En Francia De Bonaparte, O Noticias Particulares De La Vida De Este Hombre, Con Anecdotas Curiosismas Que Dan A Conocer Su Caracter, Escritas Por Un Viagero Espanol Residente En Paris, A Un Amigo Suyo En Madrid. Seville: Por la Viuda de Hidalgo y Sobrino, 1808. 24pp.

10) Juicio Imparcial, Cristiano, Y Politico Sobre El Perfido Caracter Del Emperador De Los Franceses. Por el Doctor Don. L.S. y V. Seville. 1808. [2],16pp. 11) Dialogo Entre Napoleon Y Murat, Quando Este Se Presento A Aquel En Bayona, Del Regreso Vergonzoso De Espana A Francia. Cadiz. 44pp. 12) Diario Del Gobierno De La Coruna, Del Miercoles 5 De Julio De 1809. 4pp. 13) Diario Del Gobierno De La Coruna, Del Jueves 6 De Julio De 1809. Cadiz. 4pp. 14) Diario Del Gobierno De La Coruna, Del Viernes 7 De Julio De 1809. Cadiz. 4pp. 15) Diario Del Gobierno De La Coruna, Del Sabado 8 Julio De 1809. Cadiz. 4pp. 16) Diario Del Gobierno De La Coruna, Del Domingo [9] De Julio De 1809. Cadiz. [4]pp. 17) La Junta Suprema Del Reyno A La Nacion Espanola. [Seville?]. Oct. 28, 1809. 13pp. 18) La Junta Suprema Del Reyno A La Nacion Espanola. [Cadiz]. Nov. 21, 1809. 12pp. 19) Diario De Sevilla Del Sabado 27 De Enero De 1810. pp.441-44. 20) Paparino, M.F.: Afligidos. [Mexico, 1809]. 8pp. MEDINA (MEXICO) 10287. 21) Aviso Importante A Los Espanoles En El Estado Presente De Las Cosas Por Un Zeloso Patricio. Cadiz: En la Oficina de D. Nicolas Gomez de Requena, 1810. 15pp. 22) El Aviso De La Habana. Papel Periodico Literario-Economico Del Domingo 1 De Julio De 1810. Havana. 1810. pp.321-28. 23) El Aviso De La Habana. Papel Periodico Literario-Economico Del Martes 3 De Julio De 1810. Havana. 1810. pp.329-34. 24) A Los Gaditanos Un Madrileno Reconocido. Cadiz. 1810. [8]pp. 25) A La Alianza Eterna De La Gran Bretana, Memoria De La Constante Espana. Cadiz. [4]pp.

26) Recuerdos Del Dos De Mayo Concion Elegiaca. [5]pp. Manuscript patriotic song. 27) Molle, D.F.J.: Effectos De La Lealtad Y Del Valor Heroyco De Los Espanoles. Malaga. 1809. [18]pp.

28) Herresuelo, Miguel: Reflexiones Sobre Los Hechos De Napoleon Emperador De Los Franceses. Malaga. 1808. 22pp. 29) Oracion Funebre Que En Las Solemnes Honras De Los Militares Difuntos En La Jornada De Baylen Y Anteriores Mandadas Celebrar Por La Ilustrisima Junta De La M.N.Y.M.L. Ciudad De Antequera El Dia 6 De Setiembre De Este Ano De 1808. Malaga. 1808. 46pp.

30) Aparicio, Juan Jose: Fernando Vil Preso: O Segunda Parte Del Rey De Espana En Bayona. Escena En Un Acto Por El Mismo Autor De La Primera Parte. Murcia. Xxx Pp. Dramatic Work. 31) Exhortacion A Los Valientes Defensores De La Patria. Romance. [Np. nd]. In verse. 32) Lo Que Seria La Espana Si Reynara Don Jose. Valencia. 1808. 27pp. 33) Pau de Fonsells, Pancracio: Lente Sin Aumento Que Solo Aclara; Pero Aclara Bien, Los Objetos; Muy Util Para Conducirnos Con La Precaucion En Las Actuales Circun- stancias. Cadiz. 1810. [4]pp. 34) Sermon Que Predico El S. Josef Bonaparte Intruso Rey De Espana En La Santa Iglesia De Logrono En Italiano, Explicado En El Mismo Pulpito En Castellano Por El Patriarca De Sus Indias. Isla de Leon. 1808. 8pp. 35) Linterna Magica, O Semanario Fisonomico, Para Conocer Bien Al Emperador De Los Franceses Y Su Honrada Familia: Dividido En Varias Escenas Y Coloquios. Pros- pecto. Seville. 16pp. 36) Linterna Magica, O Semanario Fisonomico, Para Conocer Bien Al Emperador De Los Franceses Y Su Honrada Familia. Seville. pp.81-160. $2750.

203. Neal, Avon, and Ann Parker: EARLY AMERICAN STONE SCULPTURE FOUND IN THE BURYING GROUNDS OF NEW ENGLAND. New York: Sweetwater Editions, [1981]. Oblong small folio (41.5 x 28.3 cm). Full publisher’s medium brown calf, with blind-stamped pictorial vignette in upper cover. Illustrated with photographs. Bookplate on front pastedown, otherwise fine in publisher’s folding cloth clamshell box, with printed label (box a bit sunned, with short crack at toe of one joint).

First edition, deluxe limited issue. Copy #12 of 175 numbered copies bound thus, from a total limited issue of 475 copies signed by the authors. Accompanied by an original gravestone rubbing, signed by the authors, and by two original selenium-toned silver prints of photographs, signed and numbered by Parker. The work features rubbings, captions and photographs of forty-two distinctive headstones, the rubbings reproduced on Ticonderoga paper by Meriden Gravure. Among the key works on the subject and one of the most attractive in terms of the fidelity of the reproductions, expanding upon the authors’ 1963 series of portfolios and making the material more accessible. $2250.

204. [Netherlands]: Covens, J. [publisher]: LE GUIDE D’AMSTERDAM, AVEC LA DESCRIP- TION DE TOUT CE QU’IL Y A DE PLUS INTÉRESSANT. Amsterdam: Chès J. Cóvens & Fils, 1793. 339,[32]pp. plus 15 plates (one a folding map). Large octavo. Contemporary, and likely original marbled wrappers, remnants of printed spine label, edges wholly untrimmed and partially unopened. Minor foxing early and late, upper joint and crown of spine a trifle chipped, ink inscription on title (see below), otherwise an exceptional copy.

One of a succession of enlarged and updated editions of this popular 18th century guide book to the city. The fifteen plates in this copy include a folding city map, and fourteen leaves with two engravings of city buildings or features per sheet. The number of plates agrees with the collation in OCLC, but there the entry of record calls for two of the plates to be folding, rather than just one as here. The title page bears the ownership signature (last name only) of U.S. diplomat and Congressman, Samuel Sitgreaves, with the additional note “bt. at Amsterdam Aug. 9, 1800.” $450.

205. [Netherlands]: Amicis, Edmondo de: HOLLAND AND ITS PEOPLE. New York & London: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1885. Quarto. Publisher’s mauve cloth, heavily decorated in gilt and blind, untrimmed. Plates and illustrations. Minor speckling to the cloth sizing at the extreme foretips, some foxing early and late and occasionally to a few margins of plates, institutional bookplate on pastedown, otherwise about fine and bright, in faintly hand-smudged printed dust jacket with some offsetting to the lower panel from the rather battered publisher’s box.

The “Zuyder-Zee Edition,” limited to 600 numbered copies, of which this is one of 250 copies on untrimmed Linen paper. However, this copy is at variance with the colophon, in that it is accompanied by the extra suite of ten mounted etchings specially printed on satin that was to accompany the first 25 copies, rather than the two sets of ordinary impressions associated with this middle issue. The corners of the mats are a bit bumped and worn, and one of the etchings is a bit foxed, otherwise the suite is in very good order, in the chipped remnants of the original printed paper wrapper (also bearing a bookplate). This deluxe edition features original etchings (some in Japon proof state) by, and photogravures after, the likes of Pen- nell, Gifford, Vanderhoof, Colman, et al. The jacket is not among those selected examples of 19th century jackets cited by Tanselle. $1500.

Earliest Printed Version of a Famed Norse Saga

206. [Norse Saga]: [Olafsson, Olafur]: SAGAN AF NIALI THORGEIRSSYNI OK SONUM HANS.... Copenhagen: Thiele, 1772. [6],282pp. Small quarto. Original blue paper boards; rebacked with later paper, portion of original spine laid down. Minor wear and soiling to boards, corners heavily worn. Contemporary ownership inscription on title page, a few contemporary notations to text. Minor toning to text. Very good. In a cloth clamshell box, gilt leather label.

First edition of the heroic prose epic which is almost unquestionably the preeminent masterpiece of Icelandic literature. This beautifully printed edition was edited by Olafur Olafsson, compiled from several early manuscripts. Njals Saga, through its use of well-delineated characters, embodies some of the earliest concepts of Northern European law. “The scene in which Njal, the Lawman of judgment and peace, is burned in his homestead by his enemies is perhaps the most magnificent passage which has been preserved in the whole ancient literature of the North” (Gosse). The unknown writer of the Njals Saga “deserves a place of honor among the best narrative-writers who ever lived” – Gosse, EB. Relatively scarce, with only a handful of copies in OCLC. EB 11th, XXIII, pp.1000-1. FISKE I:420. GRAESSE VI, p.217. $1500. Famed Icelandic Saga

207. [Norse Saga]: SAGAN AF GUNNLAUGI ORMSTUNGU OK SKALLD-RAFNI, SIVE GUNNLAUGI VERMILINGVIS & RAFNIS POETAE VITA. Copenhagen: Godiche, 1775. [8],xxxii,318,[81]pp. plus two folding plates. Illustrations in text. Quarto. Original drab paper boards, printed paper label. Spine cracked and chipped. Minor foxing to first and last few leaves. Most of second half of text unopened; untrimmed. Just about very good.

A scholarly edition of Gunnlaugi’s Saga, “A love story of great sentimental charm” – EB. Written in Icelandic and Latin, the work is extensively annotated and includes a copious dictionary. The folding plates are of a meeting house and banquet hall from the period 1000 A.D., when the Sagas were actually recited. The Icelandic Sagas hold the seed for all early Norse literature and history and are one of the great sources for Western literature, influencing such works as the Arthurian legends and the operas of Wagner. The editor has contributed extensive footnotes, sometimes longer than the text itself, and the appendix includes several genealogies. BRUNET V, p.28. FISKE I:211. GRAESSE VI, p.216. EB XXIII, p.1001. $1000.

With manuscript corrections and a presentation.

208. [O’Beirne, Thomas]: A REPLY TO THE TREASURY PAMPHLET, ENTITLED “THE PROPOSED SYSTEM OF TRADE WITH IRELAND EXPLAINED” [with:] A LETTER FROM AN IRISH GENTLEMAN IN LONDON, TO HIS FRIEND, IN DUBLIN, ON THE PROPOSED SYSTEM OF COMMERCE. London: Printed for J. Debrett, 1785. Two volumes. 90,[10];[4],35,[5] pp. Octavo. Extracted from a nonce pamphlet volume. Some foxing and dust-soiling, faint stamps of a defunct mercantile library, title to first item detached and second and third leaves partially detached, otherwise good-very good.

First editions of these two tracts. The first, written in reply to Rose’s pamphlet, has, on occasion, been misattributed to Edmund Burke. The present copy of the first title is inscribed at the top of the title: “To Mrs. O’Beirne from The author. T.L. O’Beirne,” with the concluding signature being in a different ink. Ten pages bear corrections, including several of substance exceeding the errata, in the same hand and ink as the inscription. The second item also bears corrections in the same hand on six pages, several of them constituting revisions of the text, and at the conclusion appears the signature “T.L. O’Beirne” in the same ink as the signature on the title of the first volume. O’Beirne was born in Farnagh, and as a protestant convert, was appointed Chaplain to Lord Howe’s fleet. Prior to his assuming the Bishopric of Ossory, he published a well-known vindication of Howe, a considerable number of political works, as well as poetry and some adaptations of French dramas. He married in 1783, and in 1798 was translated to the see of Meath, where he remained until his death. Black perpetuates the misattribution of the first title to Burke, though this copy would seem to lay that question to rest; Goldsmiths conjecturally attributes it to O’Beirne; Kress reports both attributions without prejudice. The DNB clearly attributes it to O’Beirne. KRESS B946 & B920. GOLDSMITHS 12936 & 12937. BLACK 1365 & 1403. ESTC T2691 & T37857. $1250.

America’s First Professional Female Artist

209. Oakley, Violet: LAW TRIUMPHANT CONTAINING THE OPENING OF THE BOOK OF LAW AND THE MIRACLE OF GENEVA. [Philadelphia: Privately Printed by Violet Oakley, 1932]. Three volumes laid into folding portfolio. Folio (39 x 28.5 cm). Two volumes (one consisting of text, one of plates) in printed boards, plus supplement in loose signatures. Text set in double columns. Laid into full red soft calf portfolio (45 x 32.5 cm), ruled in blind, lettered in gilt, by Alfred Smith & Company of Philadelphia, copper-gilt metal clasps, foil-finish endleaves. Accompanied by the supplement (Conclusion, subscribers list, biographical notices, list of exhibitions). Bookplates of an institutional library affixed to portfolio front pastedown and those of the three internal volumes (with some tan offset surrounding them, and neat accession numbers in ms, upper joint of plate volume shows surface cracking, otherwise a very nice set, near fine. The original shipping box is present, but defective.

First edition. Limited to three hundred copies, each numbered and signed by the author/ artist, of which this is #23. A copy of the original prospectus (folded and a bit used), is laid in. Text printed in Garamond types on San Marco paper by Joseph W. Tatum, after a design by Oakley and H.H. Dunn. Violet Oakley (June 10, 1874 – February 25, 1961) was a transformative force in the field of American mural painting and a principal affiliate of the Brandywine school of painting and illustration. After studying abroad and a term as a student of Howard Pyle at the Drexel Institute, she was commissioned to undertake the murals and stained glass for the Church of All Angels in New York, earning her distinction as America’s first professional woman artist. Her political beliefs were shaped by the Quaker William Penn whose ideals she represented in her murals at the Pennsylvania State Capitol. She was committed to the principles of pacifism, equality of the races and sexes, economic and social justice, and international government. She lived with two other women artists, and the three were known professionally as the “Red Rose Girls.” They were joined by a fourth woman, Henrietta Cozzens, with whom Oakley had a long-term committed relationship, and they collectively adopted a common surname: the ‘Cogs’ family. When the United States refused to join the League of Nations after the Great War, Oakley went to Geneva, Switzer- land, as an informal self-appointed Ambassador and spent three years drawing portraits of the League’s delegates, some of which are included here, in company with reproductions of her murals at the Pennsylvania Supreme Court building. After World War II, Oakley was an early advocate of nuclear disarmament. A special calligraphic presentation leaf appears in the first part, recording the donation of this copy to the institution from whence it was recently deaccessioned. $2000.

Thomas Paine Tried in London

210. [Paine, Thomas]: THE GENUINE TRIAL OF THOMAS PAINE, FOR A LIBEL CONTAINED IN THE SECOND PART OF RIGHTS OF MAN; AT GUILDHALL, LONDON, DEC. 18, 1792.... London. 1793. 143pp. plus 4pp. of publisher’s ads. [bound with:] AN ACCOUNT OF THE TRIAL OF THOMAS MUIR ... FOR SEDITION. Edinburgh. [1793]. 160pp. plus frontispiece portrait. [bound with:] THE TRIAL OF MAURICE MARGAROT ... FOR SEDITION. Edinburgh. [1794]. 195,[1]pp. plus frontispiece portrait. [bound with:] THE TRIAL OF THE REV. THOMAS FYSHE PALMER ... FOR SEDITIOUS PRACTICES. Edinburgh. [1793]. 195pp. Contemporary half calf and marbled boards, spine gilt with leather label. Light scattered foxing. Very good.

A sammelband of British sedition trials, starting with Thomas Paine’s famous trial for libel. In the 1790s the British government under William Pitt began a concerted effort to undermine the British radicals. Paine’s publication of The Rights Of Man in 1792 caused the government to prosecute his publisher for treason, but Paine himself was not charged until the end of 1793. This is the transcript from Paine’s trial for libel, wherein it is described how he, “wishing and intending mischief, did, on the 16th of February, 1791, wickedly, falsely, maliciously, scandalously, and seditiously publish a certain book, called the Second Part of Rights of Man...” The jury did not even listen to the prosecution’s rebuttal, informing the judge that they had found Paine guilty. Two issues of this edition – the second edition, corrected – are noted by ESTC, this being the scarcer of the two, with only two copies of this issue listed and only a handful of copies of the other issue. Thomas Muir was the first of the Scottish Martyrs to go to trial. Muir had travelled to France to join with Paine in an attempt to dissuade the Revolutionary government from executing the King. He was accused of sedition for distributing copies of The Rights Of Man and arrested upon his return to Britain. Muir was found guilty and transported to Australia for fourteen years. With the help of sympathetic Americans, however, he escaped Botany Bay and made his way to France in 1797, where he joined Paine. Maurice Margarot, a founding member of the radical London Corresponding Society, was likewise accused of seditious practices and transported to Australia. Thomas Fyshe Palmer became a Unitarian minister after reading Joseph Priestley’s writings. Radicalized by the French Revolution, Palmer became an advocate for lesser taxation and universal suffrage. For this he was accused and found guilty of seditious practices and sentenced to seven years transportation. He died of dysentery en route to Australia. An interesting collection of trials that together form a strong case against the practices of the government of Pitt the Younger in its efforts to avoid the revolutionary fervor that was sweeping the Continent. ESTC T218524, T19436, T112144, T93757. FERGUSON 158, 166, 188. $4000.

English Paper-Making

211. [Paper]: THE PAPER-MAKERS CASE, HUMBLY OFFER’D TO THE CONSIDERATION OF THE HONOURABLE HOUSE OF COMMONS [caption title]. [London. 1714]. Small folio broadsheet. [1]p. plus printed docket title on verso. Ornamental initial. Dbd. Early folds and early stab holes in left margin. Trimmed close, with slight loss to the first line of caption title and docket title. Minor foxing. Overall very good.

A scarce petitionary leaflet published on behalf of the English paper making industry. The authors argue that a recent duty on cards has “hindered the Consumption of many thousand Reams of Paper,” harming the livelihoods of the approximately 40,000 poor who are maintained by the gathering of rags used to make the paper. A proposed bill adding duties to printed books, they argue, will further exacerbate the problem. The document is among the earliest examples of commercial lobbying literature, which first began proliferating during the major changes in British government in the mid-1710s. ESTC lists copies at the Birmingham Central Libraries, British Library, National Library of Wales, Oxford, and Columbia. HANSON 2057. ESTC T170344. $1250.

“A classic of travel literature”

212. Park, Mungo: TRAVELS IN THE INTERIOR DISTRICTS OF AFRICA: PERFORMED UNDER THE DIRECTION AND PATRONAGE OF THE AFRICAN ASSOCIATION, IN THE YEARS 1795, 1796, AND 1797...WITH AN APPENDIX, CONTAINING GEOGRAPHICAL ILLUSTRATIONS OF AFRICA: BY MAJOR RENNELL. London: W. Bulmer and Co. for the Author, 1799. [iii]-xxviii,372,xcii,[2]pp., plus frontispiece, two leaves of music, three folding maps, and five plates (two folding). [with]: Park, Mungo: THE JOURNAL OF A MISSION TO THE INTERIOR OF AFRICA, IN THE YEAR 1805.... London. 1815. [10],cxxx,[1],219pp. plus folding map. Two volumes. Quarto. Uniform contemporary tree calf; neatly rebacked to style, spine gilt with leather labels. Some light scuffing and wear to boards, light, even toning and some scattered foxing. Very good.

Third edition, after the first two of the same year, of Park’s initial African expedition and adventures. He was instructed by the African Association “to pass on to the River Niger either by way of Bambouk or by such other route as should be found most convenient, to ascertain the course, and if possible the rise and termination, of that river.” Along the way he experienced almost unbelievable depredations, including robberies by local kings, imprisonment, and the loss of everything except his horse, clothing, and a pocket compass. He fell ill and would have died had a black man named Kaarta Taura not taken him in for several months. Includes the text of a “Negro Song” and a vocabulary of the Mandigo language. A fundamental African exploration. The second work is the first edition. Following his first expedition into the interior of Africa, Park returned to his Peebles surgery until, having applied several times to Joseph Banks and the African Association, he was finally asked to serve on another expedition. The expedition was charged with locating the source of the Niger River, and Parks headed a largely military force, facing disease and danger at every turn. The mission was a total disaster – forty- four Europeans died, the last of them a small group who, along with Park, were attacked at Bousa. Park had managed to send his journals back to Gambia prior to the attack, and they were edited by John Whishaw and finally published, with a life of Park, in the present form. KAINBACHER, p.102 (another ed). TRAIN, p.111. PRINTING & THE MIND OF MAN 253. ESTC N13834. $3000. 213. Parker, Matthew (Archbishop of Canterbury): ...DE ANTIQUITATE BRITANNICAE ECCLESIAE ET PRIVILEGIIS ECCLESIAE CANTUARIENSIS CUM ARCHIEPISCOPIS EJUS- DEM LXX. E XXI EXEMPLARIUM 1572 EXCUSORUM, SIBIQUE MUTUO FORTE PLANE SINGULARI DISCREPANTIUM, COLLATIONE, INTEGRA NUNC PRIMUM NUMERISQUE ABSOLUTA OMNIBUS HISTORIA .... Londini [i.e. London]: typis Gulielmi Bowyer, 1729. [20],592,[92]; [2],xliv,[2],xlv-lxiv pp. Thick folio. Old calf, neatly rebacked and recornered in sympathetic unlettered brown morocco. Engraved portrait (by Vertue), plates and vignettes. Decorative head and tail pieces and initials. Binding rubbed but sound, some occasional dusting to upper margins, bookplate and small stamps of the Bibliotheca Bayswater, otherwise a very good copy.

Edited by Samuel Drake, from the original text of 1572, including ’Academiae historia Cante- brigiensis’ with a sectional title and separate pagination and register. Bowyer’s records show 500 copies were printed in this format, 100 on royal paper, and 3 on imperial paper, and numerous sheets required reprinting because of damage. Parker (1504 – 1575) assembled a significant collection of books and manuscripts to further his research into possible early forms of the Christian Church in England independent of Rome. His persistent enquiries (earning him the epithet ‘Nosey Parker’) resulted in the preservation of some of the material that was scattered as a consequence of the closing of the monasteries that might otherwise have perished. Such materials provided sources for the present work, which was originally privately printed in a small edition in 1572. ESTC T145634. LOWNDES VII:1776-7. BRUNET IV:376. $750.

214. Parkinson, John: THEATRUM BOTANI- CUM: THE THEATER OF PLANTS. OR, AN HERBALL OF LARGE EXTENT: CONTAINING THEREIN A MORE AMPLE AND EXACT HIS- TORY AND DECLARATION OF THE PHYSI- CALL HERBS AND PLANTS THAT ARE IN OTHER AUTHOURS.... London: Thomas Cotes, 1640. Two volumes. [18],955; 957- 1755,[1]pp. plus engraved titlepage. Folio. Contemporary calf, tooled in blind and gilt; rebacked at an earlier date, spine gilt, a.e.g., hinges neatly repaired. Extremities lightly worn. Some light soiling to first few leaves of volume one, scattered minor soiling and foxing elsewhere, otherwise very good.

John Parkinson (1567-1650) was an English apothecary and botanical writer of significance. This is the second of his two major works, the first being the Paradisi In Sole... (1629), which was the earliest important treatise on horticulture published in Britain. His second work was a large herbal, extensively illustrated with woodcuts. “The Theatrum Botanicum is chiefly a compilation from various botanical writings including the unpublished material left by de l’Obel at the time of his death. This had been purchased by Parkinson. ... [This work] contains the names of twenty-eight species not previously recorded in Britain, ‘including two famous plants – the strawberry tree (Arbutus unedo) from ‘the West part of Ireland,’ and the lady’s slipper orchid (Cypripedium calceolus) from Lancashire’” – Henrey. A nice copy of this important English herbal. ESTC S121875. STC 19302. HUNT CATALOGUE 235. NISSEN 1490. HENREY 286. $7500. “This dance ... will, I think, never become the fashion in England”

215. [Paul, John Dean]: JOURNAL OF A PARTY OF PLEASURE TO PARIS, IN THE MONTH OF AUGUST, 1802; BY WHICH ANY PERSON INTENDING TO TAKE SUCH A JOURNEY MAY FORM AN ACCURATE IDEA OF THE EXPENCE THAT WOULD ATTEND IT, AND THE AMUSEMENT HE WOULD PROBABLY RECEIVE ... TOGETHER WITH THIRTEEN VIEWS FROM NATURE ILLUSTRATIVE OF FRENCH SCENERY. London: Printed by A. Strahan...for T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies, 1802. viii,102pp. plus errata slip mounted to blank after title. Large octavo. Full polished mottled calf, spine gilt extra, marbled endleaves, t.e.g., others untrimmed, by Wallis. Colored aquatint frontis and twelve plates, also colored. Upper joint cracking, but sound, text has the appearance of having been washed when bound, a few unobtrusive marginal repairs to plates, else a very good copy.

First edition. The plates are aquatints by J. Hill after the author’s drawings, and are most often seen uncolored (such as in the Abbey copy). Of particular note is plate 11, noted in Abbey as one of the earliest illustrations of the Waltz in English books. “The plates have been seen colored ... This dance did not reach England until considerably later, and Byron’s poem, ‘The waltz,’ appeared in 1821. The author was a bad prophet, his comments on the dance ending with the words: ‘This dance, though very amusing to the lookers on, and doubtless to the performers, will, I think, never become the fashion in England’” – Abbey. ABBEY (TRAVEL) 101. $1500.

216. Pepys, Samuel: MEMOIRS OF SAMUEL PEPYS, ESQ. F.R.S. SECRETARY TO THE ADMIRALTY IN THE REIGN OF CHARLES II. AND JAMES II. COMPRISING HIS DIARY FROM 1659 TO 1669.... London: Henry Colburn, 1825. Two volumes. xlii,498,xlix;311pp. Large quarto. Handsome 19th century three-quarter dyed tan and green morocco, gilt raised bands, gilt crimson labels, t.e.g. Frontispieces, portraits, folding map, facsimile, plates. Some foxing to prelims, plates (and their neighbors) and two gatherings in the index, usual offset from frontispieces to facing titles, a bit of rubbing to lower edges, neat early mend to marginal tear in I:3B2, otherwise a quite attractive set, bound with the half-titles.

First edition. Edited for publication by Richard, Lord Braybrooke, based on the famous transcriptions from Pepys’s shorthand by Rev. John Smith, and including a selection from Pepys’s correspondence. “It is a document of extraordinary interest, on account both of the light that its sincere narrative throws on the author’s own lovable character, and of the vivid picture that it gives of contemporary everyday life, of the administration of the navy, and of the ways of the court” – OCEL. NCBEL II:1583. GROLIER ENGLISH HUNDRED 75. $4500.

“One of the best political pamphlets ever written...”

217. [Perceval, John, 2nd Earl of Egmont]: FACTION DETECTED, BY THE EVIDENCE OF FACTS. Dublin: Printed by G. Faulkner, 1743. [2],170pp. (lacking two terminal leaves of adverts). Octavo. Extracted from nonce pamphlet volume. Old stamps of a defunct mercantile library, shallow faint discoloration in a few top margins, modest foxing and dustmarking, small loss from top blank fore-corners of last few leaves, else a good, sound copy.

First (Dublin) edition of this “masterly pamphlet in defence of Bath’s political apostasy ... which passed through a number of editions, and has been pronounced by Coxe as ‘one of the best political pamphlets ever written’ (Life of Sir Robert Walpole, 1798, i. 703 n.)” – DNB. “Includes refs to Spanish seizure of British merchant ships in West Indies & along coasts of Florida, Georgia & South Carolina” – European Americana. “Claims to be an impartial view of parties at home and affairs abroad; the decay of trade, assiento contract; South Sea Co; and British colonies in America” – Kress (referring to 1743 1st, 2nd and 3rd London editions). Howes is possibly in error in calling for several 1742 London editions – the London edition and its reprints are dated 1743 and later. Among Americana references, European Americana and De Renne record the Dublin edition as the proper first, and as Perceval sat from 1731 until 1748 in the Irish House of Commons for Dingle-I-Couch in Kerry, it seems probable that the Dublin printing might claim priority. BRADSHAW 1124. HOWES P224. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 743/82. ESTC T35126. SABIN 23610. DE RENNE I:110. STEVENS NUGGETS 1038 (4th London edition, 1743). GOLD- SMITHS 8024-5 (both 1743 London editions, denoted the 2nd and 5th). KRESS S3675. $550.

A Revolution in Egyptology

218. Petrie, W. M. Flinders: THE PYRAMIDS AND TEMPLES OF GIZEH. London & New York: Field & Tuer, et al / Scribner & Welford, [nd. but ca. 1883]. xvi,250pp. plus frontis and sixteen plates (most folding). Quarto. Contemporary medium brown cloth, lettered in darker brown, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. Fore-margin of last two leaves of index and of first three folding plates somewhat rumpled, with short tears, scattered foxing at edges and endsheets, but a good, sound copy.

First edition of one of the earliest substantial works by the eminent Egyptologist. “Two winter seasons of single-handed, strenuous, and often dangerous labour resulted in an authoritative publication sponsored by the Royal Society, whose grant was Petrie’s first official recognition ... The Pyramids and Temples of Gizeh disproved once and for all the eschatological theories which had prompted the expedition. At Gizeh, Petrie observed and deplored the methods then employed by excavators – ‘a radical change is required in the way of doing all such things’ he declared ... and when in 1883 he became joint secretary (unpaid) of the recently formed Egypt Exploration Fund (later Society) he defined explicitly the beliefs which separated him from the old school of excavators. ‘The true line’, he wrote, ‘lies as much in the careful noting and comparison of small details as in more wholesale and off-hand clear- ances’ – DNB. $650.

219. Phillips, Edward: THE NEW WORLD OF ENGLISH WORDS: OR A GENERAL DICTION- ARY: CONTAINING THE INTERPRETATIONS OF SUCH HARD WORDS AS ARE DERIVED FROM OTHER LANGUAGES .... London: Printed for Nath. Brook ... and William Cartwright ..., 1663. [350]pp. (lacking the extra engraved title). [Bound with]: Cowell, John: THE INTER- PRETER OF WORDS AND TERMS, USED EITHER IN THE COMMON OR STATUTE LAWS OF THIS REALM.... London: printed for J. Place ... A. & J. Churchil ... and R. Sare, 1701. [351]pp. Folio. Modern calf stamped in blind, raised bands, leather label. Marginal repairs to several leaves in the first signature; contemporary ownership inscription on title-page. Several contemporary ‘X’s in the margins. Scattered foxing throughout volume. A good copy. Lacking the extra engraved title from the Phillips.

The second edition of Phillips’ work. Edward Phillips (1630 -1696 or later) and his younger brother, John, were both educated by their uncle, John Milton, and Edward later occasionally served as his uncle’s amanuensis when his sight failed him. He found employment as an assistant to Elias Ashmole, and in later years eked out a living as a translator and hack writer, never coming close to escaping from the shadow cast by the larger figures with whom life connected him. His work is here paired with Cowell’s The Interpreter Of Words And Terms ..., which was first published in 1606 as The Interpreter: Or Booke Containing The Signification Of Words. The edition in hand, though late, is noteworthy because it incorporates additions and improvements by Bishop White Kennet, who among other accomplishments, was at the time the preeminent collector of books relating to North America and compiler of the first catalogue of works on the subject. ESTC R40102 & T132903. WING P2070. $1750.

220. Picard, Jean: TRAITÉ DE NIVELLEMENT ... AVEC UNE RELATION DE QUELQUES NIVELLEMENS FAITS PAR ORDRE DU ROY. ET UN ABBREGÉ DE LA MESURE DE LA TERRE DU MÊME AUTEUR. Paris: Estienne Michallet, 1684. [12],204,241-248,[2]pp. with errata and a few text diagrams plus three engraved plates (the third divided cleanly at center and bound as two separate figures facing pp.90 and 97). 12mo. Contemporary French calf, spine gilt, outer edges of boards gilt. Outer upper joint cracked. Light dampstaining in upper corners. A very good copy.

First edition of Picard’s treatise on surveying and leveling, written as part of the results of his research into the measurement of the circumference of the earth. Prepared for publication by Philippe de la Hire following Picard’s death, the work was considered a standard source on the subject and was reprinted in numerous editions through the third-quarter of the 18th century. The finely executed plates in this first edition include illustrations of Picard’s level and alternative instruments designed by Huygens, Romer, and la Hire. OCLC 13581704. $2750.

By Louis XIV’s Art Buyer

221. Piles, Roger de: THE ART OF PAINTING, AND THE LIVES OF THE PAINTERS: CONTAINING A COMPLEAT TREATISE OF PAINTING, DESIGNING, AND THE USE OF PRINTS, WITH REFLECTIONS ON THE WORKS OF THE MOST CELEBRATED PAINTERS, AND OF THE SEVERAL SCHOOLS OF EUROPE, AS WELL ANCIENT AS MODERN ... TO WHICH IS ADDED, AN ESSAY TOWARD AN ENGLISH-SCHOOL, WITH THE LIVES AND CHARACTERS OF ABOVE 100 PAINTERS. London: Printed for J. Nutt..., 1706. [16],480,[8] pp. Octavo. Handsomely bound in modern three quarter calf and marbled boards, gilt labels. Frontispiece engraved by Nutting after a drawing by Coypel. A few minor corner creases, very shallow, faint receding tide-mark along extreme lower edges of first few leaves, otherwise a very good, crisp copy.

First edition in English, the translation attributed to John Savage. De Piles utilized his position as art buyer for Louis XIV as a cover for political intrigues, and he wrote this work in prison after he was arrested for carrying a false passport in 1692 in the Hague. It was first published in 1699, after he assumed a position with the Académie de Peinture et de Sculpture. In his long dedication to Robert Child, Savage discusses having consulted with several of the ex- perts Dryden drew upon in the course of his translation of Fresnoy, and his indebtedness to those sources for the appended “Essay Towards an English School of Painters,” pp. 398-480. ESTC T10568. $850.

Engraved Throughout

222. Pine, John [engraver]: Horace: QVINTI HORATII FLACCI OPERA. Londini: Aeneis Tabulis incidit Johannes Pine, 1733-37. Two volumes. [30],264,[2]; [22],191,[15]pp. Large octavos (22 x 13.5 cm). Full 19th century or early 20th century unsigned crimson Russia, spines ruled and decorated in gilt, boards with triple rule borders, gilt inner dentelles, pastepaper endsheets, a.e.g. Frontis in each volume. Extensive lists of subscribers in each volume. Tiny creased tear in fore-edge of rear binder’s blank in first volume, but a fine, fresh set.

First edition, first issue of this beautiful edition, engraved by Pine throughout with text, plates, portraits, vignettes, and initials. This first issue has the uncorrected reading ‘Post Est’ in the caption to the Caesar medallion on II:108, later corrected to ‘Potest.’ The printed “List of Antiques” which occurs in some copies is not present in this set – it is present in only one of the three Rothschild sets. “Pine’s complete command of his craft makes this the most elegant of English eighteenth-century books in which text and illustrations alike are entirely engraved”- Ray. “Ouvrage très recherché ... ” – Cohen–De Ricci. ROTHSCHILD 1546. Ray, ILLUSTRATOR AND THE BOOK IN ENGLAND, p. 3. BRUNET III:320. COHEN-DE RICCI, pp.497-8. ESTC T46226. $3750.

223. [Playing Cards]: CARTE METHODIQUE. [Paris. ca. 1720-1760]. Fifty-two cards, plus descriptive card, for a total of fifty-three cards. 2¼ x 3½ inches each. 16mo. Each card backed on 19th century heavy card. Bright and clean. Contemporary ownership notation on verso of each card. Very good. In a solander case.

Later issue of this ornamental set of numbered playing cards in the French suit system (hearts, clubs, diamonds, spades), after a presumed first of 1712. Each of the cards features various shields of French nobility, some of the cards with one or two figures. This set is likely one of three known issues of the Carte Methodique recorded by the Cary Collection at Yale University, or possibly a fourth issue unrecorded by that collection. In each of the three known sets, the imprint of the publisher appears printed on the whole sheet of cards. For the present set, this information was lost when the sheet was cut to form the present fifty-three separate cards. An attractive series of playing cards, in lovely condition. Complete early 18th century sets of playing cards are extremely rare. CARY COLLECTION, FRA SHEET 177, 197. GER SHEET 242. ALBERTINA 1974, 3, p.167. S. MANN 1966, p.133. $10,000. “ ... pictures of weird animals and weird people doing weird things in weird countries ... “

224. Pomet, [Pierre]: A COMPLEAT HISTORY OF DRUGGS ... TO WHICH IS ADDED, WHAT IS FURTHER OBSERVABLE ON THE SAME SUBJECT, FROM MESS. LEMERY AND TOURNEFORT, DIVIDED INTO THREE CLASSES, VEGETABLE, ANIMAL AND MINERAL; WITH THEIR USE IN PHYSICK, CHYMISTRY, PHARMACY, AND SEVERAL OTHER ARTS .... London: Printed for R. and J. Bonwicke, and R. Wilkin [et al], 1725. Two volumes in one, but paginated continuously. [24],419,[9]pp. plus eighty-six numbered engraved plates. Quarto. Old paneled calf, neatly rebacked to style with original gilt label laid down. Title in black and red. Text in double columns. Plates (often with multiple images per plate). Early bookplate and ownership signature, occasional dusting or minor offsetting, upper margins of Q2v and

Q3r a bit soiled; a very good, crisp copy.

Second edition in English, the first having appeared in two volumes in 1712, and a third, newly set but with similar collation, followed this printing in 1737. William Bowyer printed both this second edition (500 copies) and the third edition. Pomet (1658 – 1699) was appointed druggist to Louis XIV, and in the introductory notes to the online exhibition at the University of Wales, “The Weird World of Pierre Pomet,” the curator observes: “Parisian Pierre Pomet’s pharmacopoeia ... was intended not only as a handbook for the medical trade but also as a rough guide to the exotic for armchair travellers. Much of its appeal, then as now, comes from the illustrations which pepper the book: pictures of weird animals and weird people doing weird things in weird countries.” The original French edition was published in 1694, and drew upon Pomet’s own travels, as well as his expertise and business as a practicing pharmacist. ESTC T111989. WELLCOME IV:142. GARRISON-MORTON 1827.1 (French ed). HUNT II:428 (1712 ed). $1500.

With Translations by Henry Vaughan

225. [Powell, Thomas]: HUMANE INDUSTRY: OR, A HISTORY OF MOST MANUAL ARTS, DEDUCING THE ORIGINAL, PROGRESS, AND IMPROVEMENT OF THEM. FURNISHED WITH VARIETY OF INSTANCES AND EXAMPLES, SHEWING FORTH THE EXCELLENCY OF HUMANE WIT. London: Printed for Henry Herringman, 1661. [16],188pp. (lacking the final two blanks). Small octavo. Modern three quarter calf and marbled boards, raised bands, gilt label. Rather browned at edges, with occasional spots, upper margins of first two leaves strengthened, touching a few letters, a bit tight at gutters, some page numbers cut into in top margin; still a reasonably good copy of a work commonly subject to such detractions.

First edition, published the year following the author’s death. Wholly apart from the work’s significance as a collection of accounts of processes and trade crafts, it should be noted that Henry Vaughan, the poet, was among Powell’s neighbors and acquaintances, and scattered throughout the text are his translations of various classical source texts, identified by a sidenote or his initials. ESTC R8532. WING P3072. $1650.

226. Ptolemy, Claudius: [Balkans, Albania and The Adriatic] QUINTA EUROPE TABULA. [Rome: Petrus de Turre, Nov. 4, 1490]. Engraved map. Sheet size: 16 1/8 x 22 inches. Fine condition, apart from small repairs to the lower corners, an old repair to the lower blank area of the centre fold and some surface abrasion with a little loss to the center fold.

An important early map of the Adriatic, from an edition of Ptolemy’s Cosmographia, containing some of the finest Ptolemaic plates ever produced.

This important map is from the 1490 Rome edition of Ptolemy’s Cosmographia. It shows the whole of the northern Adriatic with the countries that border it to the north and east: the outline of Italy occupies the lower left quadrant. All the maps were printed from the same plates as the Rome edition of 1478. “The copper plates engraved at Rome...[were] much superior in clarity and craftsmanship to those of the 1477 Bologna edition ... Many consider the Rome plates to be the finest Ptolemaic plates produced until Gerard Mercator engraved his classical world atlas in 1578” – Shirley (p.2). Skelton echoes Shirley’s sentiments: “The superior craftsmanship of the engraved maps in the Rome edition, by comparison with those of the [1477] Bologna edition, is conspicuous and arresting. The cleanliness and precision with which the geographical details are drawn; the skill with which the elements of the map are arranged according to their significance, and the sensitive use of the burin in working the plates – these qualities...seem to point to the hand of and experienced master, perhaps from North Italy” – (Claudius Ptolomaeus Cosmographia Rome 1478, Amsterdam, 1966, p.VIII). A number of authorities have suggested an engraver from either Venice or Ferrara. In any event, the prints from these fine copper plates rank as some of the earliest successful intaglio engravings, quite apart from their undeniable cartographic importance. Another aspect of these maps which stands out is the fine roman letters used for the place names on the plates: in an apparently unique experiment, these letters were not engraved with a burin but punched into the printing plate using metal stamps or dies. According to Skelton the 1490 edition of Ptolemy, from which this map came, was issued “in response to the geographical curiosity aroused by the Portuguese entry into the Indian Ocean... The printer, Petrus de Turre (Pietro de la Torre) used the plates of the 1478 edition, which still showed little wear and produced excellent impressions” (op.cit. p.X). cf. BMC IV, p.133. CAMPBELL pp.131-33. cf. GOFF P-1086. cf. HAIN 13541. IGI 8128. cf. KLEBS 812.7. cf. PROCTOR 3966. cf. SABIN 66474. cf. SANDER 5976. cf. Skelton, CLAUDIUS PTOLOMAEUS COSMOGRAPHIA ROME 1478 (Amsterdam, 1966), p.XIII. cf. STEVENS, PTOLEMY 42. cf. STILWELL P-992. $8500.

227. Ptolemy, Claudius: [France and Belgium] TERTIA EUROPE TABULA. [Rome: Petrus de Turre, Nov. 4, 1490]. Engraved map. Sheet size: 16 1/8 x 22 inches. Fine condition apart from expert repairs to left and right lower corners.

An important early map of France, from an edition of Ptolemy’s Cosmographia, containing some of the finest Ptolemaic plates ever produced.

This important map is from the 1490 Rome edition of Ptolemy’s Cosmographia. France is shown with the major rivers prominent and is crossed by an exaggerated mountain range linking the Pyrenees with the Alps. The image shows the whole of France, with the English Channel and part of southern Britain in the upper left corner. All the maps were printed from the same plates as the Rome edition of 1478. “The copper plates engraved at Rome ... [were] much superior in clarity and craftsmanship to those of the 1477 Bologna edition ... Many consider the Rome plates to be the finest Ptolemaic plates produced until Gerard Mercator engraved his classical world atlas in 1578” – Shirley (p.2). Skelton echoes Shirley’s sentiments: “The superior craftsmanship of the engraved maps in the Rome edition, by comparison with those of the [1477] Bologna edition, is conspicuous and arresting. The cleanliness and precision with which the geographical details are drawn; the skill with which the elements of the map are arranged according to their significance, and the sensitive use of the burin in working the plates – these qualities...seem to point to the hand of and experienced master, perhaps from North Italy” (Claudius Ptolomaeus Cosmographia Rome 1478, Amsterdam, 1966, p.VIII). A number of authorities have suggested an engraver from either Venice or Ferrara. In any event, the prints from these fine copper plates rank as some of the earliest successful intaglio engravings, quite apart from their undeniable cartographic importance. Another aspect of these maps which stands out is the fine roman letters used for the place names on the plates: in an apparently unique experiment, these letters were not engraved with a burin but punched into the printing plate using metal stamps or dies. According to Skelton the 1490 edition of Ptolemy, from which this map came, was issued “in response to the geographical curiosity aroused by the Portuguese entry into the Indian Ocean...The printer, Petrus de Turre (Pietro de la Torre) used the plates of the 1478 edition, which still showed little wear and produced excellent impressions” (op.cit. p.X). cf. BMC IV, p.133. CAMPBELL pp.131-33. cf. GOFF P-1086. cf. HAIN 13541. IGI 8128. cf. KLEBS 812.7. cf. PROCTOR 3966. cf. SABIN 66474. cf. SANDER 5976. cf. Skelton, CLAUDIUS PTOLOMAEUS COSMOGRAPHIA ROME 1478 (Amsterdam, 1966), p.XIII. cf. STEVENS, PTOLEMY 42. cf. STILWELL P-992. $7000.

228. [Racovian Imprint]: Socinus, Faustus (a.k.a. Fausto Sozzini): BREVIS DISCURSUS DE CAUSA, OB QUAM CREDITUR AUT NON CREDITUR EVANGELIO JESU CHRISTI; & DE EO QUOD, QUI CREDIT, PROEMIO, QUI NON CREDIT, PŒNÂ A DEO AFFICIATUR. Racoviæ [ie Raków]: Typis Sternacianis, 1614. 11,[1]pp. 12mo. Extracted from a nonce pamphlet volume. Some foxing, otherwise very good.

A Racovian Academy printing of one of Sozzini’s (1539 – 1604) discourses, translated from the Italian into Latin by Valentin Smalcius (1572-1622). The dissemination of Latin texts of Sozzini’s writings, as well as those of his uncle, extended their influence to the wider circle of Unitarians and other non-Trinitarians and dissenters, giving rise to the various views subsumed under the label Socinianism. In this dissemination, the press at the Racovian Academy at Raków, Kielce County, in Poland, founded in 1602, was central. OCLC: 11303157. $650.

229. [Railroad design]: Voss, William: RAILWAY CAR CONSTRUCTION A WORK DESCRIB- ING IN DETAIL AND ILLUSTRATING WITH SCALE-DRAWINGS THE DIFFERENT VARIET- IES OF AMERICAN CARS AS NOW BUILT. New York: R.M. Van Arsdale, 1892. 176,[3],xxx pp. Quarto. Gilt decorated chocolate brown cloth, with gilt-stamped railway car on upper board. Frontis, illustrations, cross-sections and diagrams, including four large folding plates. A few small spots around edges of upper board, light rubbing, otherwise a very good copy.

First edition of the most authoritative work on the subject of its times. William Voss was a master car builder with the Burlington Cedar Rapids & Northern, and wrote a number of articles for the National Car And Locomotive Builder, under whose auspices the present work was published. While the amount of attention to, and details about, purely mechanical matters recorded here is staggering, furnishings and aesthetics are not slighted. The thirty pages of adverts, largely illustrated, that conclude the volume, are striking. Uncommon in commerce, though well represented in institutions. $650. With the Original Offenses to “Sober and Pious Persons” Intact

230. [Ray, John]: A COLLECTION OF ENGLISH PROVERBS DIGESTED INTO A CONVE- NIENT METHOD FOR THE SPEEDY FINDING ANY ONE UPON OCCASION; WITH SHORT ANNOTATIONS .... Cambridge: Printed by John Hayes, 1670. [8],296pp. Octavo. Modern three quarter tan calf and marbled boards. Some occasional light foxing or mild spotting, otherwise a very good copy, quite neatly bound.

First edition. One of the naturalist and theologian’s most significant out-of-genre works, assembled over a span of at least a decade, and drawing upon his own observations, the works of Fuller, Howell, Camden, Herbert and others, as well as oral and unpublished sources to compile as comprehensive as possible a collection of “short Sentence[s] or Phrase[s] in common use containing some Trope, Figure, Homonymy, Rhythme, or other novity of expression” – Preface. Its publication raised considerable interest, and submissions from readers and friends swelled the second edition of 1678 by “some hundreds” of additions. However, from the second edition he omitted a significant number of proverbs that proved offensive to “sober and pious persons....” KEYNES 10. ESTC R13689. WING R386. $1250.

The Arch of Titus

231. Relandus, Hadrian: DE SPOLIIS TEMPLI HIEROSOLYMITANI IN ARCU TITIANO ROMAE CONSPICUIS .... Trajecti ad Rhenum [i.e. Utrecht]: Ex Libraria Guilielmi Broedelet, 1716. [4],138,[24]pp. plus 7 engraved plates (three folding). Small octavo. Contemporary calf, neatly rebacked to style (unlettered), with strengthening to inner hinges. Portions printed in Greek and Hebrew. Some darkening to pastedowns, a few early small marginal notes cross- referencing the errata, otherwise a very good copy.

First edition. Relandus (1676-1718) developed a facility for languages at a very early age, and excelled in scientific, theological and linguistic studies. He published widely, with particular contributions to Hebrew, Islamic and Oriental studies. The present work includes images and considerations of the iconography present on the Arch of Titus relating to the conquest of Jerusalem. BRUNET IV:1204. $850.

With an Array of Foxy Woodcuts

232. [Reynard the Fox]: THE MOST DELECTABLE HISTORY OF REYNARD THE FOX. NEWLY COR- RECTED AND PURGED, FROM ALL GROSSNESS IN PHRASE AND MATTER. AUGMENTED AND ENLARGED WITH SUNDRY EXCELLENT MOR- ALS AND EXPOSITIONS UPON EVERY SEVERAL CHAPTER. TO WHICH MAY NOW BE ADDED A SECOND PART OF THE SAID HISTORY: AS ALSO THE SHIFTS OF REYNARDINE THE SON OF REYNARD THE FOX, TOGETHER WITH HIS LIFE AND DEATH, &c. London: Printed by Tho. James, for Edward Brewster ... 1694. [Bound with]: THE MOST PLEASANT AND DELIGHT- FUL HISTORY OF REYNARD THE FOX. THE SECOND PART. CONTAINING MUCH MATTER OF PLEASURE AND CONTENT. WRITTEN FOR THE DELIGHT OF YOUNG MEN, PLEASURE OF THE AGED, AND PROFIT TO ALL. TO WHICH IS ADDED MANY EXCELLENT MORALS. London: Printed by A.M. and R.R. for Edward Brewster ... 1681. [Bound with]: THE SHIFTS OF REYNARDINE THE SON OF REYNARD THE FOX, OR A PLEAS- ANT HISTORY OF HIS LIFE AND DEATH. FULL OF VARIETY, &c. AND MAY FITLY BE APPLIED TO THE LATE TIMES. NOW PUBLISHED FOR THE REFORMATION OF MENS MANNERS. London: Printed by T.J. for Edward Brewster ... and Thomas Passenger ...,

1684. Three parts bound in one volume. [80] leaves, A-U4; [56] leaves A-O4; and [8],160pp. Quarto. Modern blind paneled calf, raised bands, gilt label. First two parts illustrated with spirited woodcuts. Occasional foxing and mild spotting, marginal smudges to first title, usual tanning, lower forecorners of E2-3 in first part torn away and replaced, with a few letters and a few words in the sidenote in ms, a few upper margins dust-soiled, last three gatherings in third part supplied from another copy and trimmed slightly shorter at lower margin; a good, sound copy, neatly bound.

First edition of the third part. An omnibus gathering of these three separately printed editions, each with independent register, and with the title of the first part taking into account the presence of the latter two. The terminal advert leaf to the first part is present. Wing attributes the text of the first part to John Shirley, and that for the third is occasionally attributed to the publisher, Edward Brewster. The first part is illustrated with 62 woodcut illustrations (signed ‘E.B.’), of which 23 are repeats; the second part includes 15 woodcuts, all of which appear as well in the first part. The first part was first printed in this form in 1667, and the second in 1672; the first part was reprinted again in 1701. Among the most widely adapted of the beast fables, the tales of Reynard the Fox originated in the 12th and 13th centuries, with early versions in French, Dutch, Latin, and German being notable. Caxton printed a translation based on a Flemish text in 1481. The character of Reynard, an anthropomorphic fox and trickster, has since become almost an archetype in the literatures of several languages. ESTC R24532 & R218371 & R40614. WING S3513 & M2912 & S3436. BRUNET IV:1228. LOWNDES VII:2076. $10,000.

Signed by a Key Figure in English Settlement in America

233. Rich, Robert, Earl of Warwick: [Manuscript Document, Signed By The Earl Of Warwicke And Four Others, Addressed To The Commissioners Of The Royal Navy]. [England]. Aug. 20, 1646. [1]p. Folio. Old fold lines. Some light soiling and wear. Very good.

Manuscript document signed by Robert Rich, the second Earl of Warwick, who was commander of the British Navy and a promoter of the American colonies. In this memorandum, addressed to the Commissioners of His Majesty’s Navy, the Committee of Lords and Com- mons for the Admiralty and Cinque Ports recommends that one John Coxe be made gunner on the ship the John. It is signed by Robert Rich (“Warwicke”), Dudley North, John Rolle, John Trevor, Alexander Berne. Robert Rich (1587-1658) was an important English political figure in the 17th century. In- volved in Parliament, he also held command of the Royal Navy, and was involved in several colonial American ventures. After failing to persuade the original Puritan “pilgrims” to settle in Guiana, Rich – as a member of the Council for New England – secured for John Peirce the patent on which the Plymouth colony existed for the first eight years. He likewise signed the second patent for William Bradford in 1630, and was instrumental in the patent for the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He was also involved in privateering and several settlement schemes along the Central American coast and in the West Indies. His signature is rare. $2500.

Pioneering Work in English on Magnetism

234. Ridley, Mark: A SHORT TREATISE OF MAGNETICALL BODIES AND MOTIONS. London: Nicholas Okes, 1613. [14]157,[1]pp. including engraved title-page and twenty-one engravings in the text (one with two small maps showing New England, Virginia, and Terra Australis). Small quarto. Modern calf, leather label stamped in gilt. Contemporary ownership inscriptions of William Davenport on titlepage. Title-page moderately worn and soiled, laid down on a backing sheet. Light worming to first two text leaves (affecting a few printed characters). 19th century ownership inscription on leaf A3. Small portion of G2 supplied in facsimile, affecting a few words; a few other small tears and repairs. Margins closely trimmed, affecting a few headlines. Lacking the volvelle on T1. Still a good copy.

First edition, first issue of Ridley’s work on magnetism, without the errata on the recto of

X3 found in the second issue also published in 1613. Following William Gilbert’s work De Magnete, Ridley “here presented directions for a series of experiments on the lodestone, magnet, and terella which could be carried out by anyone interested in the subject. He added engravings and descriptions of his improvised instruments for determining the variation, and for making use of the inclinatory needle for finding position at sea. This was in accordance with the method published jointly by Edward Wright, Thomas Blundeville, and Henry Briggs” – Taylor. SABIN 71297. ESTC S101594. STC 21045. CRONE 127. Taylor, MATHEMATICAL PRAC- TITIONERS OF TUDOR & STUART ENGLAND 126. Adams & Waters, ENGLISH MARITIME BOOKS 2976. $6500.

235. Riggs, Robert: ROMAN CHARIOT. [Np. ca. 1952]. Oil on panel, 12 x 20¾ inches. Colors characteristically bright, very good.

Riggs (1896-1970) was a very popular illustrator for over thirty-five years, and also a great success as a painter and printmaker. He worked on panels produced expressly for him by F. Weber & Co. He often worked with dry pigment using mastic varnish and alcohol as his medium; and alternately, with oil paint if deadlines allowed. This is an excellent example of his illustration style. $15,000.

The Classic Greenland Imprint, with Extraordinary Woodcuts by a Greenlander

236. Rink, Hinrich [editor]: KALADLIT OKALLUKTUALLIAIT ... [LEGENDS FROM GREEN- LAND ...]. Noungme [Godthaab, Greenland: Printed at the Inspectorate Press by L. Møller], 1859-1863. Four volumes. Vol. 1: Colored woodcut vignette on title page, twelve woodcuts, eight lithographed plates of music. Vol. 2: Woodcut vignette on title page, eighteen woodcuts (all but six of these colored, either by hand or printed), two folding maps. Vol. 3: Woodcut vignette, fourteen lithographs (two of these colored and loose, possibly from a slightly shorter copy). Vol. 4: Woodcut vignette, three woodcut plates, eight woodcuts in text. [8],136,[2]; [8],111; [6],136,[1]; [6],123pp. Original printed boards, one volume rebacked. The whole in a blue morocco box. A very good copy.

This series of volumes of collected folk tales of Greenland, printed on the first real press to operate there and illustrated with remarkable woodcuts prepared by a native Greenland artist, must rank among the rarest and most extraordinary exotic imprints. Although ephemeral pieces had been printed on a small hand press in Greenland as early as 1793, the first real press was brought there in 1857 by the enthusiastic Danish Crown Inspector for Southern Greenland, Hinrich Rink. Rink began his career as an administrator based at the Moravian mission at Godthaab, on the southwest coast of Greenland. He used the press to produce both official notices and literary works. Rink was determined to collect legends and folk tales of Greenland natives and publish them, an ambition achieved in these four volumes, published over a five-year span. All of the letterpress was printed in a small, unheated workshop next to Rink’s house, mostly executed by Lars Møller.

Rink collected oral tales from throughout Greenland, although mainly in the southern area he administered. The remarkable oral tradition of the Eskimo, polluted by few outside influences, stretched back to the early Middle Ages. Many of the stories, especially in the first volume, describe the clashes between the Norse and the Eskimo. Rink recognized that some of the tales existed in the realm of pure myth, but that others represented recollections, passed from one generation to the next, of events of many centuries earlier. In the preface to the third volume Rink sets out his theories on the tales, laying the foundation for scholarship on the Greenland Eskimo. All of the text is given in both Greenlandic and Danish. The most amazing aspect of these books are the illustrations. In the first two volumes these were supplied by an Eskimo named Aron of Kangeq, a sealer and walrus hunter who lived at the Moravian mission at the small trading station of Kangeq. Aron was stricken with tuberculosis (which was epidemic in Greenland in that era) and confined to bed. Having heard of his raw artistic talent, Rink supplied him with “paper, coloured pencils, and the necessary tools for woodcutting.” Thirty of his woodcuts, about half of them handcolored, appear in the first two volumes, as illustrations to the myths. As Oldendow says: “With his fertile imagination Aron drew men in violent motion ... he depicts the legendary world of the Greenlanders with insight and ability ... He makes us understand the vastness, loneliness, and weirdness of the majestic Greenland landscape and evokes the soul of the country as the ancient Eskimos have known it ....” Indeed, Aron created pictures of remarkable power, all the more extraordinary for the circumstances of their production. In the third volume Lars Møller, the printer, supplied a series of illustrations of Greenland life created on the first lithographic press in Greenland. This set is notable for containing two folding maps not regularly issued with the set, but published to be distributed separately. Both were prepared by S. Kleinschmidt and are lithographic maps showing the fjords around Gothaab, with accompanying letterpress text. These maps are extremely rare in their own right. Needless to say, Rink’s volumes were produced in small editions, and the attrition of the Greenland climate could not have aided their survival. Today they are of the greatest rarity. An imprint and ethnographic document of stellar importance. Knud Oldendow, The Spread Of Printing...Greenland (Amsterdam, 1969), see especially pp.39-44. SABIN 36978 (Vols. 1-3). Lauridsen, Bibliographia Groenlandica, p.210. Miles & Reese, America Pictured To The Life 32. $32,000.

237. Roosevelt, Franklin D.: WHITHER BOUND? Boston & New York. 1926. vii,34pp. Origi- nal blue publisher’s cloth with cream dust jacket. Corners and spine ends lightly rubbed. Jacket reinforced at edges of folds, one closed tear repaired, minor soiling. Inscribed by the author on the front flyleaf. Internally clean. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. In a cloth clamshell case.

Inscribed copy of the first edition of the future President’s first book, printing the text of a lecture given for the benefit of the Alumni War Memorial Foundation at Milton Academy. Although this book was published in a modest edition of only a thousand copies, it took a number of years for the edition to be exhausted. $6750.

238. [Rowlandson, Thomas (illus), and William Combe]: THE TOUR OF DOCTOR SYNTAX, IN SEARCH OF THE PICTURESQUE A POEM [with:] THE SECOND TOUR OF DOCTOR SYNTAX, IN SEARCH OF CONSOLATION; A POEM [with]: THE THIRD TOUR OF DOC- TOR SYNTAX, IN SEARCH OF A WIFE. A POEM. London: R. Ackermann’s Repository of Arts, 1812, 1820 & [1821]. Three volumes. iii,[3],275pp. plus engraved title and 30 plates (including frontis); [6],279pp. plus 24 engraved plates (including frontis); [4],279pp. plus 24 engraved plates (including frontis). Large octavos. Uniformly bound by Riviere in full deep red crushed levant, raised bands, spines gilt extra, gilt inner dentelles, t.e.g. Bookplate on front pastedown in each volume, along with small tape scars from earlier “protective” wrappers, usual mild offsetting from plates to facing pages, occasional minor smudges or light spotting, but a very good set, attractively bound.

First edition in book form of three of Rowlandson’s most popular illustrated works, featuring the 78 handcolored full-page engraved plates, and two colored engraved titles – the second volume appeared with a printed title. In this set, the leaves of “Directions to Binder” are bound in; in the first volume the opening leaf of text is headed “Chapter I” and plate 5 is in its first state; in the second volume plate 15 is in Tooley’s second state. The first title appeared in the Poetical Magazine under the title “The Schoolmaster’s Tour,” and Rowlandson added three illustrations and reworked the plates for the book edition. The second and third titles appeared serially, each in eight monthly parts, prior to publication in book form. “The misadventures of this elderly pedant gave Rowlandson ample scope for the comic designs of which he was a master, and the three books which deal with Syntax were his greatest success as an illustrator” – Ray. ABBEY (LIFE) 265-7. TOOLEY 427-9. RAY 34. $2500.

239. [Russia]: Lenin, N. [Vladimir Ilyich] [pseud. of V. I. Ulyanov]: [In Russian:] ZAYAVLENIE I DOKUMENTY. O RAZRYVIE TSENTRAL’NYKH UCHRESHDENII S PARTIE [Statements and Documents. On Split Between Central Establishment and the Party]. Geneva: Koop. Tipographia, 1905. 13,[1]pp. 16mo. Pale green printed self-wrappers. About fine.

First edition, published in association with VPERED, the Bolshevik paper founded by Lenin and associates in Geneva at the turn of the year after the Mensheviks took control of ISKRA. ZALESKI 1917. $1250.

The Madness of King George: A Report to the Prime Minister

240. Ryder, Dudley, First Earl of Harrowby: [Autograph Document, Signed (“Harrowby”), From Dudley Ryder, First Earl of Harrowby, Being a Report to Prime Minister Spencer Perceval on the State of King George III’s Mental Health]. [Np]. Dec. 23, 1810. [2½]pp. on a single bifolium. Very good.

When his favorite daughter, Amelia, died on November 2, 1810, the King collapsed under the shock and would never again recover. Just three days before this report was written, Prime Minister Perceval had reintroduced the Pitt bill into the House of Commons regarding the proposed Regency to replace the insane King George III, and no doubt, Perceval sent his trusted friend to Windsor Castle to report on the King’s condition, in order to make final preparations for the succession of George, Prince of Wales, as Regent. Ryder, who had known Perceval since their days at Harrow, writes: “All the physicians were at Windsor except Sr. H[enry] Halford [1766-1844; physician extraordinary to the King since 1793]. They unite in stating that the King has had two violent fits of anger, (both with an assignable tho’ not an adequate cause) that subsequent to these fits he was as composed as he had been before – His general conversation has been pretty composed & collected, but accompanied with the usual delusions. On the whole, though the sanguine expectations which the improvement of the preceding day had suggested, are somewhat damp’d, they cannot be said to consider any alteration for the worse to have taken place … The arrangement as to the attendance of the physicians appears satisfactory both to them & to her Majesty. Dr. Willis [John Willis, 1751-1835; the Doctor who, according to the Encyclopedia Britannica, treated the King with ‘a new method of soothing and persuasive treatment,’ & Dr. Heberden [William Heberden, 1767-1845; ordinary physician to the Queen since 1806 and the King since 1809] will remain at Windsor. There will be a consultation of all physicians every Saturday; & on the intermediate days, there will be always one physician besides. Sometimes more than one: but the detail of this arrangement is left to themselves. They appear to think that a closer attendance is quite unnecessary for the King, & very inconvenient to themselves.” George III never fully regained his sanity, and died ten years later. The Prince of Wales, George, became Regent on February 5, 1811. $1500.

The Most Famous Astronomer of the Middle Ages

241. Sacro Bosco, Johannes de: TEXTUS DE SPHERA JOHANNIS DE SACROBOSCO DE CUM ADDITIONE (QUANTUM NECESSARIUM EST) ADIECTA: NEUE COMMENTARIO NUPER EDITO AD VTILITATE STUDENTIU PHILOSOPHICE PARIESEN. ACADEMIE ILLUSTRATUS CU COPOSITIONE ANULI ASTROMICI BONI LATENSIS. [Paris: Henrici Stephani, 1507]. [63]pp., including numerous illustrations. Folio. Antique-style paneled calf, elaborately gilt, spine gilt. 18th century institutional stamp on verso of titlepage. Occasional minor repairs, most prominent in blank margin of last leaf. Contemporary manuscript notes on several leaves. Overall very good.

An important edition of Sacrobosco’s works on astronomy and the calendar. A 13th century mathematician and astronomer, Sacrobosco taught at the University of Paris and is believed to have been of British origin. There is, however, very little reliable information about his life. Much of what is “known” is little more than speculation on the part of historians of the 16th and 17th centuries.

Sphæra, as it is most commonly known, is the most famous of Sacrobosco’s works. It is a basic account of the spheri- cal geometry underpinning the mathematical astronomy of Ptolemy and his Arabic commentators. It was extraordinarily successful, particularly as a university text book. There are hundreds of extant manuscript copies, and it was first printed in 1472 at Ferrara. There were over thirty further incunabula editions, and more than two hundred in the 16th century; the last early modern edition was printed in Antwerp in 1673. The interest in Sacrobosco’s work and computations was no doubt fueled by the mathematical demands of the art of navigation, then a fundamental element of the desperate race for control of the New World. In fact, other editions of Sacrobosco’s work were published with fledgling accounts of Spanish discoveries, such as the 1551 Paris printing which included Eliae Vineti’s Scholia..., with references to the East and West Indies.

Extremely rare. This edition is not listed in European Americana. OCLC locates only microform copies. OCLC 29088657. $8000.

Unrecorded

242. [Saint Clare, Sir James]: SIR JAMES ST. CLARE, BART. PETITIONER. SIR ROBERT GORDON, SITTING MEMBER FOR THE SHIRE OF CAITNESS. THE PETITIONER’S CASE [caption title]. [London. 1715]. Small folio broadsheet. [1]p., plus printed docket title on verso. Disbound, Early folds and early stab holes in left margin. Minor foxing. Very good.

An unrecorded British petitionary leaflet protesting the recent election of the young Sir Robert Gordon to Parliament for Caithness in Scotland. The petitioner, Sir James St. Clare (or Sinclair), lost to Gordon in the February election and argues here that his opponent was not a valid candidate, being “an Infant, not Nineteen Years of Age,” and unable to prove any land holdings in Caithness that would qualify him to be elected. St. Clare notes that he traveled “Five Hundred Miles to make good this his just Complaint.” He was evidently rebuffed, however, as Gordon would serve as MP for Caithness from 1715 to 1722. Sir Robert Gordon (1696-1772) was the 4th Baronet of Letterfourie, Sutherland. This extremely rare document is among the first examples of lobbying literature, which first began proliferating in the lobby of the House of Commons following the accession of King George I in 1714 and the Whig Party’s massive victories in the elections of 1715. $1450.

James Russell Lowell’s Copy

243. Sandys, George: SANDYS TRAVELS, CONTAINING AN HISTORY OF THE ORIGINAL AND PRESENT STATE OF THE TURKISH EMPIRE ... THE MAHOMETAN RELIGION AND CEREMONIES: A DESCRIPTION OF CONSTANTINOPLE ... ALSO, OF GREECE, WITH THE RELIGION AND CUSTOMS OF THE GRECIANS .... London: Printed for John Williams, 1673. [4],240pp. Folio. Old calf. Engraved extra title, folding map and folding panorama. Engraved maps and vignettes in text. Binding worn and broken, significant tanning at edges, engraved title torn at lower gutter, small burn holes in E5, F3 and T5, small stains to N3-4, marginal tidemarks and short tears elsewhere; a complete but heavily used copy, with provenance.

The seventh edition of this classic of 17th century travel literature, first published in 1615. With the ownership signature on the front pastedown, dated 1844, of poet, abolitionist, diplomat and critic, James Russell Lowell. There are a few scattered pencil annotations in the margins, none of such substance as to be attributed with certainty. With an earlier signature, dated 1684, on the engraved title, the 1912 signature of Esther Lowell Cunningham on the free endsheet, and an earlier owner’s pencil note of acquisition via Goodspeed’s, in 1949 ($7.50). Lowell’s ownership inscription dates from the year of his marriage. “Sandys travelled to the Levant in 1610, spending a year in Turkey, Palestine and Egypt. His observations first appeared in 1615 and his text was soon regarded as a special authority on the Levant” – Blackmer (Sale) Catalogue. ESTC R18550. WING S680. BLACKMER (SALE) 297 (2nd ed). BLACKMER 1484 (2nd ed). $1150.

The Mission at Goa in 1569

244. Santa Maria, Fernando de: EXEMPLAR LITERARUM EX INDIIS ORIENTALIBUS AD REVERENDISSIMUM P. MAGISTRUM ORDINIS, QUARUM HEC SUPERSCRIPTIO ... [caption title]. Rome: Heirs of Antonio Blado, 1571. [4]pp. Quarto. Modern morocco, coat of arms on front and rear covers, board edges gilt, gilt inner dentelles, a.e.g., silk marker. Contemporary inscription on first page. A very fine copy.

The rare Latin translation of Santa Maria’s account of the mission in Malacca and Goa, and the life and martyrdom of Padre Jeronimo de la Cruz. The original relation, completed on Dec. 26, 1569 in Goa, was addressed to the Dominican General in Rome. The author was a Portuguese Dominican who studied theology at Coimbra. He went to India as a missionary, eventually becoming the Prior of the Convent at Goa and Vicar-General of the Holy Congregation for India. A very fine copy of an extremely rare missionary report. OCLC records only the James Ford Bell Library copy. STREIT IV:942. OCLC 17905640. $9500.

245. Schwartz, Aubrey: WILD FLOWERS ETCHINGS BY.... [New York?]. 1966. [2] leaves plus ten etchings. Quarto (36 x 25.5 cm; 14 x 10”). Loose sheets, laid into folding cloth portfolio. Fine.

One of a total edition of 110 copies (including 10 artist’s proofs), consisting of ten original etchings (plate size 12.5 x 9.5 cm) by Schwartz, printed on handmade Italia paper by Emil- iano Sorini, with each etching signed and numbered in the margin by the artist. A beautiful suite by this notable master of several media, whose other works have illustrated or been accompanied by texts by, among others, Anthony Hecht (Predatory Birds, Gehenna Press 1958), and Czeslaw Milosz (Cats, Privately Printed 1994). $1750. 246. [Scotland]: Kincaid, Alexander: THE HISTORY OF EDINBURGH, FROM THE EARLI- EST ACCOUNTS TO THE PRESENT TIME; BY WAY OF GUIDE TO THE CITY AND SUB- URBS. TO WHICH IS ANNEXED A GAZETTEER OF THE COUNTY .... Edinburgh: Printed for the Author; and sold by N.R. Cheyne, 1787. vi,[2],336,59,[1]pp. 12mo. Modern half calf and marbled boards, raised bands, gilt label. Two folding maps. Bit of offsetting to margins of prelims and terminal leaves from former binding, maps a bit foxed and offset to facing leaves; but a very good copy.

First edition. A relatively early work by the soon to be significant Scottish printer, publisher and bookseller, published two years after he assumed a partnership role in the publication of the Edinburgh Evening Courant. The two folding maps are of a) “A Plan of the Town & Suburbs of Edinburgh,” and b) “The Environs of Edinburgh,” the latter with colored outlines. The separately signed and paginated sequence at the end is the “Gazetteer of the County ...,” which, according to ESTC, was issued the same year as a separate imprint with its own title page. GOLDSMITHS 13318. ESTC T36367 & T185152. $500.

An Original Copper Printing Plate For a Major Natural History Book

247. Selby, Prideaux John: [Plate VIII] BITTERN. [Edinburgh & London. (1821-)1834(-1839)]. Original etched copper printing plate from Illustrations Of British Ornithology. Plate-maker’s stamp on verso: “Willm. Pontifex Son & Co / No 46 / Shoe Lane London.” [with:] An uncolored proof print from the plate. Very good.

A fine original copper printing plate from “the finest and largest book about British Birds” -Jackson. The plate was used to print plate 8 from Selby’s major work. Christine Jackson writes of the prints: “The copper plates were superbly executed and the monochrome printed plates have an austere beauty unmatched in other bird books illustrated by line. Every feather is clearly visible, with all the details of the large flight feathers and the softer plumage standing out in immaculate precision. Tone, shade, and texture were all exploited to the fullest extent and demonstrate the best of which copper etching and engraving were capable” (Bird Etchings, 1985, p.204). Prideaux John Selby was a versatile gentleman naturalist, born on July 23, 1788 in Alnwick, Northumberland, he inherited Twizell House and its estate in 1804, and throughout his life did not neglect his duties as a landowner, magistrate, High Sheriff, and then deputy lieutenant of Northumberland. He married Lewis Tabitha Mitford, the daughter of Bertram Mitford of Mitford Castle, Northumberland, in 1810, and by 1817 had a happy marriage, three daugh- ters, and a house that had become a sort of upmarket `staging-post’ for naturalists heading North and South along the nearby Great North Road. Visitors were to include John James Audubon (who gave Selby and his brother-in-law, Robert Mitford, lessons in drawing), Sir William Jardine (one of Selby’s closest friends and a collaborator on various later works), John Gould, William Yarrell, H.E.Strickland, to name but a few. Natural history and ornithology had been Selby’s passion from youth, and Christine Jackson notes, in her excellent introduction to the Sotheby’s catalogue of the Bradley Martin collection of Selby watercolors, that, besides “collecting and preserving birds, Selby had observed them in the field, making careful notes of their habitat and habits. At his leisure, he also sensitively colored drawings of them. With this accumulation of practical knowledge, specimens, and some drawings, Selby embarked in 1819 on an ambitious project to publish the most up-to- date, life-size illustrations of British birds. “Since he had an incomplete pictorial record of his birds, many remained to be drawn while publication of the parts of the work proceeded. The aim was to issue each part comprising twelve plates at regular intervals of six months. The size of the paper chosen was elephant folio (27” x 21½”) in order that most of the birds might be represented life-size. For each plate, Selby made watercolor paintings of the species.” “Selby etched his drawings on copper plates and then either took or sent the plates to William Home Lizars in Edinburgh. Either Lizars or one of his workmen took a pull [proof impression] from Selby’s plate and worked on any parts necessary to bring the plate to a very fine state of completion. Selby and Sir William Jardine both purchased their copper plates and etching ground from Pontifex of London, and their letters refer to the progress made in drawing and ‘biting’ or etching their plates. If they made a mistake or accidentally over-etched a plate, they relied on Lizars to correct by burnishing to lighten it” – Jackson, Bird Etchings, pp.202-204. BM (NH) IV, pp.1896-96. FINE BIRD BOOKS (1990), p.141. NISSEN (IVB) 853. ZIMMER p.571 (all refs). $13,500.

A Newsletter Account of Fighting the Turks

248. [Selim I., Sultan]: Wernher (Peter), trans: VON DER SCHLACHT GESCHEHEN DEM TURCKEN VON DEM GROSSEN SOPHI IN CALIMANIA DER PROVINTZ NACH BEY LEPO DEM CASTEL. VND VON DEM TODT DES SCHLACHTUNGEN GESCHEHEN AUFF DEM MEER, VND AUFF DEM LANDT. IN DEM. 1514. AN DEM. XVIJ. TAG JUNIJ. [Nürenberg: Hieronimus Höltzel, 1514]. 6 leaves. Title with large woodcut vignette. Small quarto. Old flexible vellum. Overall a very good copy.

First German edition. A remarkable account of the battle of Chaldiran between the Turkish Sultan Selim I. (1465-1520) and the Persian Shah Ismail I. (1487-1524), which was won by the Turks. Selim usurped the throne from his father, Bayezid II, in 1512 and eliminated all potential pretenders to the throne. In a number of military campaigns he defeated the Mamluk Sultanate and annexed Syria, Palestine, and Egypt. He extended Ottoman power to the holy cities of Mecca and Medina, claiming the position of “Guardian of the Faithful,” a title that had hitherto been held by Shah Ismail. During his rule, Selim more than doubled the size of the Ottoman empire. According to Göllner, the present German translation appears to be based on an Italian original. News of the Persian defeat reached Germany in a remarkably short time. Two other editions (one in Latin, one in German) were issued in Augsburg in the same year. Only two copies are located on OCLC. Göllner, Turcica I:67. VD16, V-2594. Panzer, Annalen Der Älteren Deutschen Literatur 796. $15,000.

An Army to Fight the Turks

249. [Selim I., Sultan]: DAS IST EIN ANSCHLAG EINS ZUGS WIDER DIE TÜRCKEN VND ALLE DIE WIDER DEN CHRISTENLICHEN GLAUBEN SEIND. [Nürenberg: Jobst Gutknecht, 1518]. 4 leaves. Title with woodcut coat-of-arms. Small quarto. Old flexible vellum. Overall a very good copy.

The expansion of the Ottoman empire during the reign of Sultan Selim I. (1465-1520) was closely watched throughout Europe. The present work calls for the formation of an army to be sent against the Turks (and all others opposed to Christianity). In the first half of the 16th century over 900 pamphlets relating to the Turks were issued, documenting the widespread fear of a Turkish domination. The present call to arms was issued in various cities throughout central Europe including Augsburg, Breslau, and Basel. Two other Nuremberg imprints are known to have been printed in the same year (Georg Stuchs and Friedrich Peypus). Only two copies are located on OCLC. Göllner, Turcica I:107. VD16, D-160. KÖHLER 664. WELLER 1088. $5000.

“Our own squalid ventures in Persia have led us in the same direction ... our diplomacy has reduced itself to absurdity in Armageddon ...”

250. Shaw, George Bernard: [Autograph Manuscript, re: His Reflections on Economic and Political Matters]. [London?]. [Nd. but possibly ca. 1914]. Two pages, closely written in pencil, with deletions and insertions, on two quarto sheets of pale blue T.H. Saunders letter- stock (watermarked ‘1913’). Horizontal fold, with minor creases and smudges, but very good.

An intriguing manuscript in which Shaw embarks on a characteristically discursive consideration of war, politics, economics and matters of civilization, with the tone of possibly having been written in response to a request for views on same: “Pardon the abruptness of the suggestion; but suppose we blow the German fleet out of the water, or under it, and the consequence is that Russia profits by our victory to the extent of carving a Baltic province out of Germany and condemning Sweden to live in the bear’s mouth, will that be a result for western civilization to rejoice over? The French seem to think that because Russia has drained away from France so much of the capital that is needed at home for making French towns and French children healthier and happier, Russia is her dearest friend. That is already not good sense. Of all tests of prosperity, financial balance sheets are the most delusive. Capital rushes downhill towards backward countries and cheap labor: civilization struggles uphill toward highly cultivated countries. It is by following the flow of capital that France has fallen into that alliance with Russia which is at the root of the whole present mischief. Our own squalid adventures in Persia have led us in the same direction ... Had England, instead of wavering between fear of Germany, patronage of France, and love of dividends, used her immense make-weight to consolidate France, Germany, England into a western nucleus ... we should not have been in our present mess; and we could have taken the criminal case of Servia [sic] out of the hands of the Austrian prosecutor into an international court ... even if the three great western powers must now fall on and hammer one another to exhaustion, they will still have to stop somewhere and mend their relations as best they can with a treaty. All the bloodshed and powder burning in the world will not alter the real problem one jot; and it seems a pity that we cannot tackle it at once, acknowledging frankly that our diplomacy has reduced itself to absurdity in Armageddon, and try to solve it as ‘good Europeans’.” $4000.

The Radical Shelley

251. Shelley, Percy B.: QUEEN MAB; A PHILOSOPHICAL POEM: WITH NOTES. London: Printed by P.B. Shelley, 1813. [4],240pp. Octavo. Handsome full medium brown crushed levant, with decorative side panels ruled in gilt, blind and black with enclosed ornaments, five raised bands with similar decoration to compartments, a.e.g., by Bumpus. Light but persistent foxing and some old corner creases, a few very small blind impressions to lower cover, but a very good copy. Half morocco slipcase and chemise.

First edition of Shelley’s first poem of considerable length, composed between the years 1809 and 1813, attended by copious prose explanatory notes. Because of its reflection of many of Shelley’s more progressive views, the publication of Queen Mab was private, and it is thought the edition consisted of 250 copies hors commerce. To diminish the prospect of prosecution, Shelley elected to extract the dedication, and cut away the title imprint and the printer’s imprint on the final leaf in those copies he distributed. While earlier generations of collectors and dealers heralded the unmutilated copies as the exception, it is now clear that in fact only a minority portion of the edition was subjected to that action, perhaps 70 of the 250 copies. It was not reprinted until 1821, when a piracy landed its perpetrator in jail, and prompted the great displeasure of the author. HAYWARD 225. GRANNIS 15. TINKER 1887. WISE, pp.39-40. $17,500.

Spanish Newsletter Reporting on the Thirty Years War

252. [Siege of Breda]: TRASLADO DE UNA CARTA EN QUE DECLARA TODO LO SECE- DIDO EN LOS ESTADOS DE FLANDES, DESDE FIN DE AGOSTO, HASTA 20. DE OCTU- BRE DE 1624. Madrid: Juan Delgado, 1624. [4]pp. In Spanish. Small folio. Dbd. Early folds. Contemporary numerical inscriptions in upper margin of first page. Chips, measuring up to 2 x 1 inches, in outer margins, not affecting text; tears, with some loss at gutter, and slight loss to text, along folds; all loss repaired in silk. Faint dampstaining. Good.

Rare Spanish newsletter printing of a letter reporting on Spanish battles in the Low Countries in the fall of 1624, during the Thirty Years’ War. The author writes primarily of the Spanish efforts against Count Maurice of Nassau, who had steered the Dutch Revolt to success in the 1590s. In August 1624, the Spanish, led by Ambrosio Spinola, laid siege to the fortified city of Breda, which fell the following year – an event immortalized by Velázquez’s famous painting “Las Lanzas.” Maurice died in 1625 with the siege still underway. The letter is signed, perhaps pseudonymously, “Rodrigo de Lara,” in Antwerp, October 20, 1624. Palau locates one copy at the National Library in Madrid; OCLC locates no copies. Very rare. PALAU 131562. $2000.

Chemistry Notes from Benjamin Silliman’s Course

253. [Silliman, Benjamin]: Goulding, John: [Notes on Chemistry Taken From the Course of Lectures by Professor Silliman, Yale College, 1819 – 1820. By John Goulding, Member of the Junior Class (manuscript title)]. [New Haven. 1819-1821]. [62]pp. Quarto. Original three-quarter morocco and boards. Light wear to binding. Minor foxing. Very good.

A manuscript notebook in the hand of Yale College student John Goulding, capturing lectures in chemistry taught by Professor Benjamin Silliman, Sr. Goulding (1797-1860) received a medical degree from Yale in 1824 and spent his life as a Connecticut physician in nearby Stratford. Silliman was a professor of natural sciences at Yale and a leading figure in Ameri- can science in the 1820s. Part one of the manuscript contains lecture notes from 1819 to 1820, comprised of twenty-nine leaves of notes covering fifty lectures. A second section covers lectures sixty-six through seventy, and yet a third section, which begins at the rear of the volume, contains four more leaves of notes from January 1821. There is a manuscript index on the front pastedown which indicates topics and the corresponding lecture numbers. Topics include Heat, Evaporation, Elementary Bodies, Carbonic Acid and Alkalies, Earths, Sulphur, Carbon, and others. In our experience, lecture notes from this period are scarce in the marketplace, most having long ago perished or ended up in institutional collections. A valuable insight into the teaching style and content of an early American scientist, as well as what a 19th century student thought worth noting. $2500.

Very Early Reference to the Americas: A Royal Copy

254. Simonetta, Bonifacio: DE CHRISTIANE FIDEI ET ROMANORUM PONTIFICUM PER- SECUTIONIBUS. Basel: Nicolaus Kesler, 1509. [6],156,[2] leaves. Folio. Early 18th century Danish royal binding of speckled calf, spine elaborately gilt with crowned double monogram of Christian VI at head, bottom four compartments gilt with Danish royal arms; front and rear covers gilt and stamped in blind, with a central inlay of speckled and plain calf cut to a lozenge and semi-circle design. Royal stamp on front pastedown, pencil note (“Dupl bibl R”) on front free endpaper. Internally crisp and clean except for some worming throughout and waterstaining on lower corner of final few leaves. A near fine copy.

Second Latin edition of Simonetta’s principal work, following the first edition printed in Milan in 1492/93. The mention of the West Indies on the verso of leaf 101 is of interest in documenting early published references to the New World. This mention is found in one of 179 letters written by the author interspersed throughout the text, which is primarily concerned with a history of Christian persecution. Simonetta’s correspondence is addressed to a wide circle of his contemporaries, including close acquaintances, family members, and renowned figures of the Renaissance such as Lorenzo de Medici, Ludovico Sforza, and Pico della Mi- randola. The topics of the letters range over a variety of topics including classical history, mythology, geography, medicine, physics, and astronomy.

Although not cited in European Americana, the reference to the New World is also found in the first edition, published in Milan (not before 11) January 1492. The Milanese year was reckoned in the modern style from the mid-15th century, though still from Christmas prior to 1500, and perhaps the Milanese printer simply forgot to update the year accordingly. Still, the appearance of a reference to the New World in the pre-1500 edition is puzzling, as there should not be any mention of the West Indies before the first publication of the Columbus Letter in March 1493. A very good copy of this early 16th century Americanum, in a fine 18th century royal binding. European Americana lists only four copies (New York Public Library, Hispanic Society, University of Wisconsin, and the British Library). EUROPEAN AMERICANA 509/10. ADAMS (CAMBRIDGE) S1184. PROCTOR 14078. $13,500.

255. Smith, Adam: THE THEORY OF MORAL SENTIMENTS, OR AN ESSAY TOWARDS AN ANALYSIS OF THE PRINCIPLES BY WHICH MEN NATURALLY JUDGE CONCERNING THE CONDUCT AND CHARACTER, FIRST OF THEIR NEIGHBOURS, AND AFTERWARDS OF THEMSELVES. TO WHICH IS ADDED A DISSERTATION ON THE ORIGIN OF LANGUAGES. London: Printed for W. Strahan [et al]..., 1781. [8],478,[1]pp. Octavo. Modern half calf and marbled boards, raised bands, gilt label. Scattered foxing (occasionally moderate), lower forecorner of title creased, with old stamp of a divinity school on title, early ink ownership signature in upper margins of A2 and B1, otherwise a near very good copy.

Fifth edition of Smith’s first book, the work that established his reputation as a philosopher both in London and on the Continent. “One of Adam Smith’s major claims to fame, in some ways his greatest, is his development of a unified concept of an economic system with mutually interdependent parts. His development of this came well before the Wealth of Nations; it is in the Theory of Moral Sentiments of 1759 and the Lectures of 1762-3...” – O’Brien, The Classical Economists, p. 29. ESTC T95113. KRESS B.425. $500.

256. Smith, Adam: ESSAYS ON PHILOSOPHICAL SUBJECTS ... TO WHICH IS PREFIXED, AN ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF THE AUTHOR .... Dublin: Printed for Messrs. Wogan, Byrne [et al] ... 1795. cxxiii,[1],[1]-332pp. Octavo. Modern half calf and marbled boards, raised bands, gilt label. Moderate foxing (as usual) and occasional offsetting, a few corner creases, otherwise about very good, handsomely bound.

First Dublin edition, published in the same year as the London edition. Edited by Joseph Black and James Hutton. The prefatory essay on Smith is by Duggald Stewart, and is based on two lectures he delivered to the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1793. ESTC T33501. KRESS B3037. GOLDSMITHS 1628. $650. By a Noted Calligrapher & Typographer

257. Smith, Percy John Delf (1882 – 1948) [calligrapher]: Keats, John: [Original Calligraphic Manuscript of:] TO HOPE. [London: Percy J. Smith, April 1901]. Seven leaves, recto and verso. 12mo (15 x 11.5 cm). In black ink, with red titling, ornaments and initials, on paper (watermarked “O.W.P. & A.O.L.”). Bound in stiff vellum, with hand-lettered title on upper board. Vellum a trifle soiled, very good or better. Folding case.

An original calligraphic rendering of Keats’s poem by the skilled calligrapher, typographer, painter, etcher and artist of the Great War. Smith studied at Camberwell College of Arts & Crafts under Edward Johnson. He served in the Great War with Royal Marine Artillery at the Western Front in France and later Belgium, an experience from whence came his remarkable series of etchings depicting trench combat. He established the Dorian (later Dorno) Workshop & Studio, served as a consultant to Heinemann, and specialized in typographic design. He continued to pursue his work as a visual artist alongside his career as typographer and calligrapher. Among his most notable projects was the four year commission for the lettering for the Canadian War Memorial at Vimy Ridge. He was a Fellow or member of a number of professional societies of artists, as well as of the Society of Calligraphers and the Double Crown Club. This manuscript dates from quite early on in his career and may have been a project while he was a student. It is expressly dated and signed in the form of a colophon. The front free endsheet bears pencil identifications, as well as Smith’s address, in an unknown hand. Smith’s calligraphic manuscript appears to be uncommon in commerce: ABPC records one sale, that of a 1907 rendering of selections from Shakespeare, 14 leaves, sold in 1977. The provenance of this manuscript, according to the slipcase made for the subsequent owner, includes the Justin G. Turner manuscript sale. $950.

By The Rat-Catcher to Princess Amelia

258. Smith, Robert: THE UNIVERSAL DIRECTORY FOR TAKING ALIVE AND DESTROYING RATS, AND ALL OTHER KINDS OF FOUR-FOOTED AND WINGED VERMIN, IN A METHOD HITHERTO UNATTEMPTED: CALCULATED FOR THE USE OF THE GENTLEMAN, THE FARMER, AND THE WARRENER. London: Printed for the Author, 1768. vii,[1],218pp. plus six plates (four folding). Octavo. Old sheep, rebacked to style in polished calf, gilt label. Early ink name across upper margin of title, some occasional marginal thumb-soiling or smudging, a bit of offsetting from the plates, small spot of browning and short tear to one plate margin, but a very good copy.

First edition of this oft-reprinted work. The author’s introduction draws attention to the fact that much had hitherto been written about the profitable cultivation of desirable animals, but his intent is to take “cognizance of those animals, noxious to the community,” to describe “their wonderful wiliness and sagacity, and the uncommon and suprizing methods they take for self-preservation...for the infinite wisdom of the great Creator is as conspicuous in the mole as in a camel....” In addition to various rats and mice, Smith provides advice on hedge hogs, squirrels, weasels, moles, cats, pole cats, bats, hawks, owls, and buzzards. His work is notable for the minute observation it extended toward species normally beneath the gaze of natural historians of his, and earlier, times. ESTC T132212. $650.

The Editio Princeps

259. Sophocles: [Title in Greek:] SOPHOCLIS TRAGAEDIAE SEPTEM CVM COMMENTARIIS. [Venetiis: in Aldi Romani Academia mense Augusto 1502]. [196] leaves. Octavo. Full 19th century straight grain red morocco, elaborately gilt extra, a.e.g. Greek letter. Aldine anchor on verso of terminal leaf. Bookplate of Henry Labouchere, 1st Baron Taunton (1798-1869). Some early and interesting manuscript annotations and highlighting in red ink, a few other annotations faded and occasionally a bit smeared, similar annotations eradicated from title, minute single wormhole in foremargins of final half of text block (in a few instances showing signs of early careful in-fill), otherwise a very good copy, neatly bound.

First edition in book form of the Greek text of seven of the Tragedies of Sophocles, edited by Marcus Musurus with a dedication to Jan Lascaris. This was the first of the classical Greek texts published by Aldus Manutius in this portable form, and it remained the most readily available source for study of Sophocles’s text until the 19th century, when superior manuscripts became the object of scholarly study. Like the copies noted by Brunet and regarded as the earliest printing of the first signature, the verso of the four-line title is blank, as is the facing recto. A high-water mark in the early history of typography, classical texts and drama. ADAMS S1438. RENOUARD 34:6. BM (ITALIAN), p.634. BRUNET V:445-6. $30,000.

260. [Spain]: [Almansa y Mendoza, Andrés de]: AL DUQUE DE MEDINASIDONIA MI SEÑOR, DEL CONSEJO DE ESTADO DE SU MAJESTAD, &c.... Madrid: Juan Gonçalez, [1624]. [8] pp. Small folio. Disbound. Early folds, dampstain in lower outer margin, not affecting text, otherwise very good.

An early-17th century panegyric to the Spanish state and nobility, published in the first years of the Empire’s decline under Philip IV and the early stages of the Thirty Years’ War. The author, Andrés de Almansa y Mendoza, introduces the text with a brief letter, signed in print at Madrid, November 3, 1624. The text, itself, praises Spain for its adherence to Catholi- cism, contrasting the nation to its French, English, and German rivals, and names scores of recently elected ministers to the state. Almansa published numerous articles and letters between 1621 and 1626 and is widely considered to have been Spain’s first professional journalist. Although he signed his name “Andres de Mendoça” (as in the present example) to suggest a noble background, his origins were obscure and his formal education limited. Through his travels and dispatches on contemporary events, however, Almansa was able to rise to an unusual position of access to Spain’s most prominent families and figures, including the Duke of Medina Sidonia, to whom this document is addressed. Juan Manuel de Guzmán de Bueno, 8th Duke of Medina Sidonia, was the son of Alonso de Guzmán El Bueno, the commander-in-chief of the Spanish Armada. The Dukes of Medina Sidonia are ancient Grandees of Spain and represent the oldest dukedom in the kingdom. A rich record of Spain’s nobility at the close of its Golden Age, by its premier journalist. Palau records a copy at the Academia de la Historia in Madrid; OCLC locates one additional copy, at Indiana University. Very rare. PALAU 7910. $2250.

261. [Spanish Navy]: CURIOSO Y NUEVO ROMANCE DONDE SE REFIERE EL MAYOR, Y MAS LAMENTABLE SUCESSO, QUE HAN ADMIRADO LOS SIGLOS, EN LA DESECHA BORRASCOSA TORMENTA, QUE HA PADECIDO NUESTRA ARMADA ESPAÑOLA ... [caption title]. Seville: Francisco Garay, 1719. [4]pp. Small quarto. Modern three quarter morocco over linen boards, spine gilt. Occasional stains, holes at bottom of both leaves (not effecting text), last page of text closely trimmed. A good copy.

A four-page ballad describing the enormous storm experienced by the Spanish fleet in 1719 and the miraculous preservation of the ships which eventually arrived safely in Cadiz. It was this same great fleet that Spain had gathered at Cadiz and Corunna for the invasion of the west of England directed by James Butler, the attainted Duke of Ormonde. A rare, possibly unique, piece of early 18th century Spanish verse. Not recorded in Palau, NUC, or on OCLC. $1250.

An “Agreeable Book” Well-Illustrated

262. Spence, Joseph: POLYMETIS: OR, AN ENQUIRY CONCERNING THE AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE WORKS OF THE ROMAN POETS, AND THE REMAINS OF THE ANTI- ENT ARTISTS. BEING AN ATTEMPT TO ILLUSTRATE THEM MUTUALLY FROM ONE ANOTHER. London: Printed for R. Dodsley, 1747. xii,361pp. plus forty-one copperplate engravings by Boitard (some double-spread). Folio. Engraved portrait after Vertue. Full contemporary mottled calf, handsomely rebacked and recornered to style, gilt label. Engraved tail pieces. Some minor edgewear to boards, foxing to endsheets and some of the plates, otherwise a crisp, very good copy.

First edition of this major work by Pope’s friend and promoter, a treatise on classical mythology as illustrated by ancient works of art and Latin writers. “His collections for the book were commenced in 1732 under the title of ‘Noctes Florentinæ.’ and, although severely criticised for its total neglect of Greek authors, brought its author £1,500. A fourth edition appeared in 1777, and an abridgment in 1802. Like the ‘Essay on the Odyssey,’ it is in the form of dialogue. Although inadequate from the first, and long ago superseded, it remains an agreeable book, owing to the urbanity of its old-fashioned scholarship, the justice of some incidental observations, and its affluent stores of quotation; and, as an intellectual if heterogeneous banquet, may be compared with the ‘Deipnosophists’ of Athenæus. Gibbon speaks of its ‘taste and learning.’ ‘Polymetis’ remained Spence’s only considerable contribution to classical scholarship...”- DNB NCBEL II:1748. ESTC T133753. $1250.

A Coin for Tom Paine

263. Spence, Thomas: [Group of Three Copper Tokens Issued by the English Radical and Bookseller, Thomas Spence, Including One Paying Tribute to Thomas Paine]. Lon- don: T. Spence, [ca. 1794-1795]. Three copper tokens, as described below. Some wear and darkening, but in very good condition. In a half morocco and cloth folding case, spine gilt.

A very nice collection of copper tokens, issued by the radical English reformer and bookseller, Thomas Spence, one of them celebrating Thomas Paine. Often from the 1750s through the 1770s the British government did not issue any copper coins, finding the cost of producing them to be prohibitively high. A public need for these coins, including the penny, the halfpenny, and the farthing, still existed however, and the demand was often filled by the printing of private coins or tokens, often by politicians who affixed political scenes or slogans to the tokens. One of the most prolific producers of these tokens was Thomas Spence, a bookseller and radical reformer who was friends with Thomas Paine (Spence even published his own booklet entitled The Rights Of Man). Foremost among Spence’s causes were land reform and the rights of children, and he called for common ownership of land. Even more radical than Paine, Spence had spent time in prison as a result of publishing a tract called Pig’s Meat; Or, Lessons From The Swinish Multitude, and the slogan “Pig’s Meat” often appeared on his tokens, as it does on the reverse of each token in this group. Spence also celebrated Paine on several of his tokens, as he does on one included here. The tokens are: 1) Halfpenny, with the phrase “Noted Advocates for the Rights of Man. Thos. Spence Sir Thos. More Thos. Paine” on the obverse and “Pig’s Meat Published by T. Spence London” on the reverse. The illustration on the reverse of this coin (and of the two following) shows a boar treading on crowns and mitres. Gimbel, Thomas Paine Exhibition 322. Dalton, Provincial Token-Coinage Of The 18th Century 842. 2) Halfpenny, with the phrase “Rouse Britannia” and an illustration of Britannia on the obverse and “Pig’s Meat Published by T. Spence London” and the boar illustration on the reverse. DALTON 843. 3) Farthing, with the phrase “Man over Man, he made not Lord,” and an illustration of Eve tempting Adam on the obverse and “Pig’s Meat Published by T. Spence London” and the boar illustration on the reverse. GIMBEL 343. DALTON 1083. Spence’s tokens are uncommon, and those relating to Thomas Paine especially so. $1500.

Her Maiden Voyage – With Plenty of Fuel Left Over

264. [Steam navigation]: Great Western Steamship Company: THE LOGS OF THE FIRST VOYAGE, MADE WITH THE UNCEASING AID OF STEAM, BETWEEN ENGLAND AND AMERICA, BY THE GREAT WESTERN, OF BRISTOL, LIEUT. JAMES HOSKIN, R.N., COM- MANDER ... ALSO AN APPENDIX AND REMARKS BY CHRISTOPHER CLAYTON. Bristol: Printed at the Mirror Office by John Taylor, [1838]. vi,76,[1]pp. plus errata slip, folding chart of the route, and note slip inserted after p.vi. Octavo. Original printed wrappers, bound up in 19th century calf and marbled boards. Wrappers mounted, lower blank forecorner of title restored, binding a bit rubbed and scraped, but a very good copy.

First edition. Inscribed on the upper wrapper: “With Captain Hoskin[‘]s compliments to Mr. King – 7 August 1838.” The Great Western was a wood-hull paddle-wheel steamship designed by Isambard K. Brunel, and built expressly for the purpose of trans-Atlantic passage. This work documents her maiden voyage. In a race with the Irish Steam packet Sirius, the Great Western departed Bristol on 4 April, four days behind the Sirius, and although the Sirius arrived one day ahead of the Great Western, it did so only by the crew having to burn furniture, and a mast and other fixtures when they ran low on coal. The Great Western arrived with a comfortable surplus of 200 tons. The Great Western continued sailing the trans-Atlantic route on a regular basis until 1846, when, after 45 crossings, its company went out of business and the ship was sold to the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company. $1500.

Proof Copy with Corrections and Revisions

265. [Surtees, Robert Smith]: HILLINGDON HALL; OR, THE COCKNEY SQUIRE; A TALE OF COUNTRY LIFE. By The Author of “Handley Cross.” London: Henry Colburn, 1845. Three volumes. Original forest green cloth, decorated in blind, spines lettered in gilt, edges untrimmed. Bindings faintly spotted and edgeworn, toe of first spine badly snagged (2 cm, with no loss), some marginal smudges and such as consistent with editorial use, else a good, bright set, in half morocco slipcase. Ownership signature of Rebecca Lightup in each volume.

A proof copy of the first English edition, occasionally marked “Author’s Proof,” but in fact an in-house set of sheets, marked up by a proof-reader, with corrections to spelling, punctua- tion, pagination, imperfect leading and more, on about 75 pages. This, the third of Surtees’ popular sporting novels, features once again his most famous creation, the “jolly, free-and- easy, fox-hunting grocer,” Jorrocks, who buys a manor and runs for Parliament. The novel, a satire on the Anti-Corn League, had been serialised in 1844 in the New Sporting Magazine, a publication Surtees had helped found, and also appeared in a New York edition in that year. Proof copies of Victorian three-deckers survive only infrequently. In this set, some gatherings are marked “R” as read, two noting more specifically “Read Sept. 22 F.W.” A further gathering bears the head-note “M.W. Author’s proof. read back.” The changes in this gathering are more substantial than elsewhere, altering for example “an order was despatched” to “a messenger was despatched” (vol. II, p. 116), and modifying the spellings of the name “Tompkins” (p. 105). Though the hand is that of a proof-reader, it is most likely that it reflects authorial authority. SADLEIR 3163. $7500.

266. [Taggert, William]: [THE HUMBLE ADDRESS OF WILLIAM TAGGERT IN] BEHALF OF THE CROWN. MAY, 1715 [caption title]. [London? 1715]. Small folio broadsheet. [1]p. plus printed docket title on verso. Dbd. Early folds and early stab holes in left margin. Most of first line of caption title lost to close trimming. Light foxing. Overall very good.

A rare political leaflet relating to the Reverend Doctor John Leslie, a Williamite landholder in Ireland who claimed to have performed “extraordinary service” in the Siege of Derry. Shortly after the Glorious Revolution, King William made a grant to Leslie of £400 per year, which Leslie, according to William Taggert, the author of this leaflet, maneuvered into a grant of forfeited Irish estates worth nearly six times that amount per year. Following a recent act of Parliament recalling William’s Irish grants, Leslie appealed to the Parliament to allow him to keep the estates because of his heroic service at Londonderry. He persuaded Parliament, writes Taggert, that “he was the Man who had saved Londonderry out of the Hands of the Papists, when besieged by the late King James’s Army, and that by his Management and extraordinary Service in that city, the War was shorten’d, and this Kingdom saved thereby from a vast expense of Blood and Treasure.” Taggert, however, declares that Leslie had never in fact been at Londonderry during the siege and had defrauded the British government of fifty thousand pounds in land, when actual defenders of the city and widows and orphans were living in extreme states of poverty and deprivation. He writes that during Queen Anne’s reign he had traveled from Ireland to London several times to expose Leslie but, “for want of Money to Pay Managers or Friends in the Ministry,” was always slighted, “with much Loss and Damage to himself and Family.” With the accession of the new King and election of the new Parliament, Taggert hopes to expose Leslie once and for all, along with similar frauds, and prays that he “may be Protected by this Honourable House, until this matter be Try’d and Determin’d....” A curious and very rare petition, printed in the early days of lobbying literature, which began to proliferate during the changing governments of the mid-1710s. ESTC records only one copy, at Oxford. $1250.

267. Tanner, Thomas: NOTITIA MONASTICA: OR, AN ACCOUNT OF ALL THE ABBIES, PRIORIES, AND HOUSES OF FRIERS, HERETOFORE IN ENGLAND AND WALES; AND ALSO OF ALL THE COTTAGES AND HOSPITALS .... London: Printed by William Bowyer ... and Sold by John Whiston, 1744. [4],xliv, 3 plates of monastic arms, [10],722,[54]pp. Folio. Old calf, neatly rebacked to style (but with incorrect date at toe of spine). Portrait. Foretips a bit worn, binding a bit rubbed, light occasional foxing, but a very good copy.

Second, considerably enlarged edition, published under the auspices of the Society for the Encouragement of Learning. The first edition was published at Oxford in 1695, and by 1709 Tanner had ready a second, improved edition. However, that edition never appeared, though much of the additional material was incorporated into this edition, which was edited by his brother, John Tanner. The Bowyer ledgers record the edition consisted of 500 copies. There are a few early annotations, and a correction or two to the text, and an 1846 inscription on the front pastedown indicating this copy was a gift of another Thomas Tanner in 1846. ESTC T97254. $600.

Equine Celebrities

268. Taunton, Thomas Henry: PORTRAITS OF CELEBRATED RACEHORSES OF THE PAST AND PRESENT CENTURIES ... BEGINNING IN 1702 AND ENDING IN 1870 .... London: Sampson Low, et al, 1887-8. Four volumes. Small thick quarto. Full contemporary pebbled red morocco, a.e.g. Frontispiece in each volume, and profusely illustrated with collotypes, line-engravings, and photo-engravings. Spines a bit darkened, some rubbing at extremities and small surface scrape at toe of one spine, crown of one joint nicked, prelims of fourth volume foxed, otherwise a very good set, with the bookplates of John M. Schiff.

First edition of this standard work in the field, which according to the preface, “...is designed not only for those more or less acquainted with the history of the Turf, and who may have acquired an abiding interest in all that concerns it, but for such of the general community as may desire to know something of those equine celebrities which have figured, in the most captivating of all our national pastimes, as winners of the three great classic races, of the Ascot, Goodwood, and Doncaster Cups, and of the other cups, stakes, and matches at different race meetings throughout the kingdom, during the past and present centuries.” PODESCHI 235 & 238. $2500.

Advance Edition

269. Taylor, Frederick Winslow: THE PRINCIPLES OF SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT ... FOR CONFIDENTIAL CIRCULATION .... New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1911. 77pp. Large octavo. Green cloth, paneled in blind, lettered in gilt. Heavy offset from absent clipping to title and facing blank, ink digits in lower gutter of first leaf of text, crown of spine frayed with snag to lower joint, toe of spine shows evidence of removed shelf-label, otherwise a very good, sound copy.

The special advance edition, printed for circulation “among the members of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers with the Compliments of the Author.” Not only does this printing precede the public edition published the same year, but it includes a Foreword and 3-page Appendix not carried over to that edition. One of the foundation works of time and motion study as applied to production methods, and, in time, a book of considerable influence both in the U.S. and abroad. PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN 403. NORMAN LIBRARY 2059. $3500. Spanish Attack on the Policy of Louis XIII

270. [Thirty Years’ War]: EXORTACION HECHA AL CHRISTIANISSIMO REY DE FRANCIA, Y DE NAUARRA LUYS DECIMOTERCIO, HECHA CON TODA FIDELIDAD, HUMILIDAD, Y VERDAD EN FRANCES, TRADUCIDA DESPUES EN LATIN, Y DE LATIN EN CASTELLANO. EN LA QUAL BREVE Y APRESTADAMENTE SE MUESTRA QUAN FEA, Y ABOMINABLE- MENTE HIZO LIGA, Y MOUIO GUERRA EL REYNO DE FRANCIA EN ESTOS TEIMPOS CONTRA LOS CATOLICOS, Y COMO NO LA PUEDE PROSEGUIR SIN CONECIDISSIMO RIESGO DE LA RELIGION CHIRISTIANA. Impressa en la ciudad Imperial de Augusta [i.e., Trier] con facultad de la Sacra Magestad del Emperador, 1626. [16]pp. Small folio. Dbd. Contemporary manuscript docketing on p.[16] and contemporary ink underscoring on p.[7]. Some loss, repaired in silk, from chipping at gutter and from worming in several leaves, the latter affecting some text but not exceeding 1 x 1 inch in area. Closed tears in final leaf, repaired with very early paper on verso. Light staining and foxing. Overall very good.

The original Spanish translation of an important invective against Louis XIII during the first phase of France’s involvement in the Thirty Years’ War. At the time of this publication in 1626, France had actively begun to support the Protestant side in the conflict, concerned with the political threat of the Hapsburg states that surrounded it on three sides (in Spain and Spanish-controlled Flanders to the south and north and the Holy Roman Empire in Germany to the East). In 1624, Cardinal Richelieu was appointed to the Royal Council of Louis XIII and immediately began to institute a vigorous anti-Hapsburg policy. The following year France joined England in subsidizing the efforts of Christian IV of Denmark to defend Lower Saxony against the Holy Roman Empire, beginning an involvement in the war that would eventually lead to its own military participation against its fellow Catholic powers. The present document is a long and detailed warning to Louis XIII against pursuing a course of actions that would pit France against the rest of the Catholic world. According to the document, itself, the text was first composed in French and subsequently translated into Latin and thence into Castilian Spanish. It immediately occasioned a number of responses and refutations, and its anonymous authorship soon became the subject of a 200-year-long debate. In his exhaustive and authoritative bibliography on the Jesuits, Bibliothèque De La Compagnie De Jésus, Augustin de Backer seems to have put the question of authorship to rest, attributing it to the German Jesuit Jacob Keller. Keller (1568-1631) was a German scholar and controversialist, widely regarded as a genius and best known for a counter- Calvinist tract on Tyrannicide and a celebrated defense of the Papacy in a debate with Lu- theran theologian Jacob Heilbrunner. Backer lists both the French and Latin versions of the Exhortation ... and refers to a German translation, but he omits any mention of the present Spanish version. He also describes the document as having been printed in Italy, which may result from confusion regarding the city name of Augusta. While Augusta, Syracuse, was under anti-French Spanish control in 1626 and may thus be a candidate for the printing location, all other signs and context point to Trier (“Augusta Treverorum” in Latin), including the publisher’s imprint which calls Augusta an “imperial city” and declares permission for publication from the Holy Roman Emperor. An extremely interesting and rare document, anticipating the violent wars between France and the rest of Catholic Europe of the following decade and offering a view of the French- Hapsburg rivalry from the Austro-German Hapsburg perspective and translated for the Span- ish Hapsburg audience. One copy is held at the Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana Benjamín Carrión in Quito; OCLC lists one additional copy, at the New York Public Library. Backer, Bibliothèque De La Compagnie De Jésus, Nouvelle Édition Par Carlos Som- mervogel (Louvain, 1960), Vol. IV, Cols. 992-3. “Jacob Keller,” The Catholic Encyclopedia, http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08613c.htm. $2500.

Spanish Newsletter on the Thirty Years’ War

271. [Thirty Years’ War]: RELACION DE LOS VALEROSOS HECHOS QUE EL GENERAL DEL ARMADA DEL ALMIRANTAZGO À TENIDO DESDE EL MES DE MARÇO, HASTA PRINCIPIO DESTE MES DE IUNIO, CON DIVERSAS NACIONES CONTRARIAS NUESTRAS. Y LA FAMOSA BATALLA Q TU VO CONEL FAMOSO OLANDES GENERAL, LLAMADO CAMPANA. ANO 1626. Seville: Juan de Cabrera, 1626. [4]pp. In Spanish. Woodcut illustration and decorative initial on first page. Small folio. Dbd. Contemporary ink marginalia in first two pages. Early folds, with tiny closed tear at intersection in both leaves, affecting front page illustration. Minor chips at gutter, not affecting text, faint dampstaining and foxing. Overall very good.

Early Spanish newsletter reporting on recent naval victories over the Dutch and English off the Spanish and Barbary coasts in the spring of 1626. The woodcut illustration on the first page depicts what appears to be the royal family behind a fortress or palace wall viewing ships engaged in battle. Early newsletters such as this were forerunners to the modern, serialized newspaper and were among the earliest printed means of communicating recent events. The University of Seville holds one copy; no physical copies are listed by OCLC. Very rare. PALAU 257872. $2750.

A 19th Century American Classic

272. Thoreau, Henry D.: WALDEN; OR, LIFE IN THE WOODS. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854. Original brown cloth, stamped in blind and gilt. Map inserted before p.307. Early bookseller’s description lightly tipped to front pastedown, minute nick at crown of spine and slight fraying in one spot at extended portion of toe of spine, otherwise near fine.

First edition, first printing. One of two thousand copies printed. This copy lacks an inserted terminal catalogue (some copies were issued without catalogues, and others with any one of five variously dated catalogues). “Solid chunks of thought, in the midst of a solid chunk of nature ... an inspiration to nature-lovers, to philosophers ... [we’ll skip the Calvin Coolidge reference], and to persons who love to read the English language written with clarity” – Grolier American Hundred. BORST A2.1.a. GROLIER AMERICAN HUNDRED 63. $22,000.

The Manuscript Edition

273. Thoreau, Henry David: THE WRITINGS OF HENRY DAVID THOREAU. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1906. Twenty volumes. Publisher’s three quarter green crushed levant, raised bands, spines elaborately gilt extra, t.e.g., others rough-trimmed, silk ribbon markers. Plates, photographs, illustrations (some colored). Spines uniformly faded to medium brown, as are a few extremities, a few minor rubs, generic bookplate in each volume, otherwise a near fine set.

The important “Manuscript Edition” of Thoreau’s works, here in one of the publisher’s deluxe bindings, adding an additional forty illustrations over and above the selection included in the standard clothbound sets. The photographs are by Herbert W. Gleason. One of 600 numbered sets (in addition to an unknown number of out of series sets), “signed” by the publisher, and containing in the first volume a leaf of autograph manuscript by Thoreau. In the present set, the leaf is filled, recto and verso, in ink, and bears a number of small corrections and insertions in pencil. The manuscript is a section of Thoreau’s working draft toward the essay, “The Dispersion of Seeds,” eventually published in book form in 1993 as part of Faith in a Seed: The Dispersion of Seeds and Other Late Natural History Writings. The leaf corresponds to substantial sections of the text (but obviously with significant variation) beginning in the published version (p.85): “It is remarkable how commonly you see the thistledown sailing low over water, and quite across such ponds as Walden and Fair Haven ....,” and concluding, after authorial and then editorial interpolations of other text with “The outer part of the down of the upper seeds is gradually blown loose, while they are still retained by the ends of the middle portion, in loops attached to the core. Perchance at the tops of some more open and drier pods is already a little flock of these loosened seeds and down ...” (p. 91). While it is not unusual to find mention of Walden Pond in leaves contained in the Manuscript Edition, those that do are traditionally cherished to a somewhat greater extent than those that don’t. Volumes seven through twenty print for the first time the substantially complete portion of Thoreau’s Journal, edited by Bradford Torrey, and the selection of letters appearing in volume six is expanded over the previous edition. BORST B3. BAL 20145. $19,500. 274. Thoreau, Henry David: THE WINGED LIFE THE POETIC VOICE OF HENRY DAVID THOREAU. [Covela, CA]: The Yolla Bolly Press, [1986]. Folio (36 x 26.5 cm). Cloth, paper labels. Illustrated with original wood engravings by Michael McCurdy. Bookplate on front pastedown, otherwise fine in matching cloth slipcase.

First edition of this selection, edited with commentary by Robert Bly and illustrated with six full-page wood engravings by Michael McCurdy. One of 85 numbered copies, from a total edition of 112 copies printed in Van Dijck and Caslon type on Arches, signed by Bly and by the artist. $1000.

An Impressive Photographic Archive of an English Shipbuilding Firm

275. [Thornycroft Shipbuilding Works]: [Archive of Circa 1,346 Photographs of The Thornycroft Shipbuilding Works]. Chiswick. [ca. 1875-1960]. 1,346 black and white mounted photographs. Vari- ous sizes, but mostly around 8 x 10 inches. Some framed. Very good.

An archive of approximately 1,346 black and white mounted photographs, of varying sizes, but mostly around 8 x 10 inches, including seventy-one framed photographs, the largest of which is some 30 x 45 inches. They are nearly all identified on the verso with the vessel’s name, the builder’s number, and other particulars. Some vessels have multiple photographs. Many of the earlier prints seem to have been made in 1907, later ones presumably contemporaneously. About half the prints are marked “Negative Destroyed,” presumably the consequence of a housekeeping exercise. The photographs cover some one hundred years, from the 1860s to the 1960s. Thornycroft, founded in 1864 in Chiswick by John Isaac Thornycroft, became one of the great British manufacturing enterprises, building a diverse range of vessels for military, commercial, and pleasure markets around the world. Thornycroft’s life and work may have been informed by a wider range of impulses than most engineers: his parents and his brother Hamo were professional sculptors, and his nephew was the poet Siegfried Sassoon. This is by no means the complete archive of the production of the firm. The traumas of post-war shipbuilding in Britain saw Thornycroft merge with Vospers in the 1960s to become Vosper Thornycroft, and they went through a series of rationalisations that saw them close down their Thames-based operations, and finally their principal plant at Woolston in 2003. The present pictures appear to have been abandoned at the time of leaving Woolston 2003, and were sold at auction in 2009. The firm diversified into road vehicles at an early stage, and there is a modest representation of this side of the business in the archive.

The archive includes representations of many of their most famous vessels, such as the pioneering and startlingly beautiful motor torpedo boat H.M.S. Lightning and the speedboat Miss England III, pictured both in build and at speed on Lake Como, and Sir Bernard Docker’s huge yacht Shemara. There are two tremendous photographs of a Sea Hawk, their stepped “cabin hydroplane” maneuvering at high speed in the Thames before being shipped out to the Sultan of Asahan in Malaya, as well as Gyrinus, the speedboat in which Thornycroft’s son Isaac won two gold medals at the 1908 Olympics. The types of boat illustrated include destroyers, frigates, motor yachts, ferries, landing craft, river launches, tugs, picket boats, torpedo boats, a mission boat, a hospital boat, despatch boats, specialist launches to land goods at St. Helena (double-ended, flat bottomed scow type boats), and a paddle steamer. The firm’s export markets, which were by no means limited to the Empire, demanded many shallow draft vessels, and they became great specialists in these, as well as in high speed boats. There are a very few illustrations of vessels built by other yards, which may have been kept for intelligence purposes. Thornycroft does not appear to have built any purely sailing yachts, but did supply auxiliary engines, so we find pictures of third party boats such as the King of Denmark’s Fife ten-meter Rita IV, the Mylne Solent One Design Kelpie, and Archie McPherson’s famous Driac. The collection is likely to be of great interest to researchers of individual vessels and historians of naval architecture from the 1870s to the 1950s, as well as social historians. Except for one or two which are credited to Beken, the photographers are in all cases anonymous, and we presume were working directly for the firm. There are many stunning examples of objective photography, noteworthy among which are a series of photographs of the details of Gadfly (1906) and a large group of photographs of engineers at work, undated but presumably from the 1930s. $13,750.

Poetic Ruminations from Bog Houses

276. “Thrumbo, Hurlo” [pseud]: THE MERRY-THOUGHT: OR, THE GLASS-WINDOW AND BOG-HOUSE MISCELLANY. TAKEN FROM THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPTS WRITTEN IN DIAMOND BY PERSONS OF THE FIRST RANK AND FIGURE IN GREAT BRITAIN; RELATING TO LOVE, MATRIMONY, DRUNKENNESS, SOBRIETY, RANTING, SCAN- DAL, POLITICKS, GAMING, AND MANY OTHER SUBJECTS, SERIOUS AND COMICAL. FAITHFULLY TRANSCRIBED FROM THE DRINKING GLASSES AND WINDOWS IN THE SEVERAL NOTED TAVERNS, INNS, AND OTHER PUBLICK PLACES IN THE NATION. AMONGST WHICH ARE INTERMIXED THE LUCUBRATIONS OF THE POLITE PART OF THE WORLD, WRITTEN UPON WALLS, IN BOG-HOUSES, &C. [bound with:] THE MERRY- THOUGHT ... PART II. London: Printed for J. Roberts in Warwick-Lane ..., [nd. but ca. 1731]. [8],24;[2],28pp. Octavo. 19th century pebbled morocco. Identical engraved frontis to each part, signed “H. Burgh Sculpt.” Binding worn at extremities and joints (but sound), internally quite nice, very good or better. Bookplate.

First edition of each part. A fascinating collection, in two independent parts, of jests, graffiti and doggerel, represented as collected from public houses, bog houses and store fronts about Britain and Ireland. Some of the examples are barbs aimed at public or private figures, others are coarse or sexual, many relate to the writers’ state of drunkenness, and yet others are simply the exercises of amateurs with a thought to express (sometimes while occupied otherwise). Third and fourth parts also appeared, conjecturally dated by ESTC the following year, as did subsequent editions or reissues. All are uncommon, and the first edition of the first part is rare. Case records these first editions of the first and second parts only from notices/ adverts in the Gentleman’s Magazine (October and November 1731) and Fog’s Weekly Journal, but did locate copies and collates the later parts and editions. ESTC locates three copies of the first part (Advocates Library, BL and the Bodleian – none in North America), and nine copies of the second (Huntington, McMaster, Princeton and Illinois in North America). CASE 369(I)(a) and 369(2)(b) note. ESTC T141567 and T141568. $2750.

Official Report on the Titanic

277. [Titanic]: SHIPPING CASUALTIES (LOSS OF THE STEAMSHIP “TITANIC.”) REPORT OF A FORMAL INVESTIGATION INTO THE CIRCUMSTANCES ATTENDING THE FOUN- DERING ON 15th APRIL, 1912, OF THE BRITISH STEAMSHIP “TITANIC” OF LIVERPOOL, AFTER STRIKING ICE.... London. 1912. [2],74pp. Folio. Disbound. Minor wear. Very good. In a blue cloth folder.

The uncommon first edition of the official report on the sinking of the Titanic, providing a full accounting of the ship’s technical specifications, its journey, and the disaster which took it to the bottom of the North Atlantic. The report gives an account of the damage, saying that water rushed in at such a rate that “the ship’s pumps could not possibly have coped, so that the damage done to these five compartments alone inevitably sealed the doom of the ship.” The account of rescue gives a breakdown of passengers and crew who made it into the lifeboats: “The real difficulty in dealing with the question of the boats is to find the explanation of so many of them leaving the ship with comparatively few persons in them.” Statistical analysis, delineated herein, shows what was to be expected – women and children had the highest survival rate, while first- and second-class passengers had better luck in getting into the boats than did those passengers in steerage. The report makes a point, however, of stating unequivocally that third class passengers were not treated unfairly, and that those steerage passengers who spoke English (and therefore, presumably, understood what was going on) were mostly saved. A fascinating and detailed accounting of this most significant of shipping disasters. $2750.

The Founding of a Militant Order Supporting the Immaculate Conception

278. [Toro, Bernardo de, and Mateo Vázquez de Leca]: RELACION EMBIADA DE ROMA POR EL DOTOR BERNARDO DE TORO, Y DON MATEO VAZQUEZ DE LECA, A GREGO- RIO MUÑOZ DE MEDRANO, EN QUE LE DAN CUENTA DE LA FORMA EN QUE SE AN DEPRETENDER LOS HABITOS DE LA NUEVA RELIGION MILITAR DE LA CONCEPTION, Y DE LOS POTENTADOS QUE EN TODO EL MUNDO HAN DE SER SUS PROTECTORES. Seville: Francisco de Lyra, 1624. [4]pp. In Spanish. Decorative woodcut initial on first page. Small folio. Disbound. Early folds. Two leaves mostly detached at gutter. Minor soiling, affecting very little text. Very good.

The rare printing of a fascinating letter by the Spanish composer and Franciscan priest, Ber- nardo de Toro, and Mateo Vázquez de Leca, Archdeacon of Carmona, regarding the founding of a military religious order devoted to the Immaculate Conception of Mary. During the 17th century, Seville was a major base of support for the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception, the belief that the Virgin Mary was conceived without original sin. While the Church had implicitly endorsed the doctrine with the establishment of its feast day in 1476, the belief was not ruled dogma until 1854. Before that time, a healthy debate reigned among both theologians and popular believers. In Seville, a city traditionally known for its fierce Marian devotion, the general populace backed the Franciscans in their support of the doctrine against the Dominicans. Bernardo de Toro (1570-1643) and Mateo Vázquez de Leca (1563-1649), contributed substantially to the cultural aspects of this movement, with the former setting popular verses on the subject to music and the latter supporting devotional painters and the famous Seises dancers with generous funds. Toro and Vázquez are still remembered as Baroque-era Seville’s two greatest champions of the Immaculate Conception, a reputation they began to develop in 1615, when they traveled together to Madrid to defend the Archbishop of Seville’s promulgation of the doctrine before King Philip III. In the early 1620s, the two garnered support from several European nobles to found the religious knighthood discussed in this letter, gaining an audience with Pope Urban VIII in 1624. On February 12 of that year, Urban issued the Bull “Imperscrutabilis,” formally establishing the Christian Militia of the Immaculate Conception of the Most Holy Virgin Mary. Little is known of the order beyond a handful of documents printed in 1624 and 1625, but it may have inspired the similarly named Militia Immaculada, founded by the sainted Polish Franciscan priest Maximilian Kolbe in 1917 (Kolbe was executed at Auschwitz after volun- teering to die in the place of a fellow prisoner and canonized by John Paul II in 1982). The present letter, signed in print by Toro and Vázquez, describes the formation, customs, and rules of the order to Gregorio Muñoz de Medrano. OCLC lists no records for this document. Very rare, with an important relationship to Seville, where the letter was printed. PALAU 257769. $3250.

Illustrated Calligraphic Manuscript Executed as ”a memento of many pleasant hours in San Francisco ...” in the early 1850s.

279. [Townsend, General Edward Davis (artist and calligrapher)]: Middleton, Conyers: A LETTER FROM ROME, SHEWING AN EXACT CONFORMITY BETWEEN POPERY AND PAGANISM ... BY CONYERS MIDDLETON ... LONDON M,DCC,XLI. San Francisco. Com- pleted 18 February 1854. [6],244pp. plus blanks and plates. Original illustrated manuscript, executed on rectos and versos of lined octavo paper stock in black, red and brown inks, then bound in full 19th century beveled calf, raised bands, decorations in blind, spine lettered in gilt, decorated endsheets, with binder’s ticket of “J. Tretler, Binder. Washington City.” Binding rubbed, small shelf-label removal mark, bookplate (properly deaccessioned from a theological institution), else very good, the manuscript in fine state.

A remarkable artifact, being an illustrated manuscript transcription of Middleton’s work, executed as a diversion by then Captain Edward D. Townsend while stationed in San Fran- cisco with the U.S. Army’s Division of the Pacific, under the command of General Ethan A. Hitchcock. A 2 and ¼ page “Preface” by Townsend, signed and dated by him at the conclusion in San Francisco outlines the origin and intent of the undertaking, indicating that he was loaned an 18th century printed edition of the book by General Hitchcock in the course of their casual discussions about religion, and he made the elegant transcription so that he might return the original, retain a copy, and produce “a memento of many pleasant hours in San Francisco....” The manuscript is illustrated with an elaborate pictorial extra-title, and eight illustrations in the body of the work, hors texte, executed with considerable skill in ink and pencil, chiefly of religious subjects. However, one drawing might easily be considered a scene in the western mountains.

Townsend (1817 – 1893), an 1837 West Point graduate, had an active and distinguished military career, including service in the Florida War, the Cherokee Removal, and along the Canadian border 1838-41. He transferred to the Adjutant General service in 1846, and was assigned to California from 1851-1856. During his eventual assignment to Washington, he was Adjutant General to General Winfield Scott, and during the course of the Civil War, filled many senior positions (including acting Secretary of War), and eventually was promoted to the rank of Major General. He was in charge of the Honor Guard for Lincoln’s burial, and oversaw the official collection of the war records. As this manuscript attests, Edwards was a deeply religious man, and among his later publications is Catechism Of The Bible ... (NY: Episcopal Sunday School Union, 1859). His Anecdotes Of The Civil War ... appeared in 1883, and in 1970, the Ward Ritchie Press published The California Diary Of General E.D. Townsend, edited by Malcolm Edwards. The illustrations from his diary exhibit the same significant skill evident in the present drawings, although they, of course, relate directly to California. The diary provides ample context for the present manuscript and confirms Townsend’s preoccupation with theological matters during his posting in California; however, as a consequence of an unfortunate gap in the printed narrative from 8 February 1853 to 15 September 1854, there is no specific mention of this manuscript. In all, this highly unusual manuscript records one of the off-duty preoc- cupations of a ranking military figure of significance posted to Northern California coincident with one of the region’s most historically important decades. Accompanied by a copy of the 1970 California Diary.... $6785.

280. [Trade Catalogue]: Peck, Stow & Wilcox Co.: ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE AND PRICE LIST OF TINSMITHS’ TOOLS AND MACHINES AND HARDWARE, MANUFACTURED BY THE PECK, STOW & WILCOX CO., NEW YORK, AND SOUTHINGTON, CONN., U.S.A. .... New York: Peck, Stow & Wilcox Co., 1885. 651,[1]pp. Large, thick quarto. Original cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt. Illustrated throughout. Major portion of front free endsheet neatly clipped away, inner hinges cracking at toes, lower foretips shelfworn, otherwise a very good, bright, clean copy.

A good, early example of the substantial and copiously illustrated trade catalogue published by one of the preeminent U.S. manufacturers of tools and hardware for the industry. The Peck, Stow, & Wilcox Company was organized in 1870 by a three-way merger of the Peck, Smith Manufacturing Company, the S. Stow Manufacturing Company, and the Roys & Wil- cox Company. In 1880 the company was chartered by an act of the Connecticut legislature. Romain describes their 1880 catalogue as “one of the best tool catalogues located,” and in 1993, their much abbreviated 1900 catalogue (144pp.) was reprinted. OCLC/Worldcat locates one copy of this edition (NYPL), and only two of its 1880 predecessor. ROMAIN, p.190 (1880 edition). $500.

Important Work on Steam Engines

281. Tredgold, Thomas: TRAITÉ DES MACHINES A VAPEUR ET DE LEUR APPLICATION A LA NAVIGATION, AUX MINES, AUX MANUFACTURES, ETC. ... Avec des Notes et Additions, par F.-N. Mellet. Paris et Bruxelles. 1828. Two volumes. xxx,558; 34pp. plus twenty-four plates (seven double-page). Half title in first volume. Quarto. Contemporary half red morocco and paper boards, spines gilt. Bindings a bit rubbed. Old expert repair in title page, not affecting text. Internally sparkling. A lovely set.

First French edition of Tredgold’s important work on steam engines. This pioneering work on the subject examines their use in various fields, including navigation, mining, and manufacturing. Tredgold (1788-1829) was a Scottish carpenter and joiner who moved to London and established himself as a civil engineer. He wrote several important works on cast iron, hydraulics, and carpentry. OCLC locates only five copies of this edition. Scarce. OCLC 23391158. $600.

The Basis for the Triangular Trade: The British Colonial System is Founded

282. [Triangular Trade]: [Charles II]: BY THE KING. A PROCLAMATION FOR PROHIBIT- ING THE IMPORTATION OF COMMODITIES OF EUROPE INTO ANY OF HIS MAJESTIES PLANTATIONS IN AFRICA, ASIA, OR AMERICA, WHICH WERE NOT LADEN IN ENGLAND, AND FOR PUTTING ALL OTHER LAWS RELATING TO THE TRADE OF THE PLANTA- TIONS, IN EFFECTUAL EXECUTION [caption title]. London: printed by the assigns of John Bill and Christopher Barker ..., 1675. Broadside, 22 x 14½ inches, printed on two sheets. Old fold lines. Repaired with tissue on verso along vertical fold. A few other small tears or tissue repairs. Very good.

A rare broadside, announcing the decree of the English government that all foreign goods destined for British colonies must first pass through England, a policy of mercantilism later termed the “triangle trade.” “This program permitted the profits from colonial trade and commerce to center in England, promoted British shipping, and enabled the British government to support itself by taxing this trade as it flowed through England” (DAH III:374). The English government began its mercantilist policies under the Commonwealth government, in a series of “navigation acts” which regulated English trade. The first Navigation Act, passed in 1651, targeted Dutch commerce. It stipulated that only English ships could carry freight into English territories, and that if a ship was not English, then it could only carry goods from the country from whence it hailed – i.e., Dutch ships could only import Dutch goods, etc. Further Acts passed in 1660 and 1663, under the Restoration government of Charles II, isolated trade even further, mandating that British colonial goods only be imported to England and forbidding English trade on anything other than English vessels. This policy of trade, which was continued for the next two hundred years, marked the ascent of British colonial mercantilism and planted the seeds of discontent which resulted in the American Revolution one hundred years later. The present proclamation is an enforcement of the Navigation Act of 1663 (An Act for the Encouragement of Trade), under which “no commodities of the growth, production or manufacture of Europe, shall be imported into any land, island, plantation, colony, territory or place to his Majesty belonging”. In other words, all European trade to the American and East Indian colonies of the English had to pass through English ports en route. As the law is being disobeyed, to the detriment of trade and tax revenue, the proclamation extends power for enforcement to the officials of the realm. It states: “whereas his Majesty is well informed, that notwithstanding the said Act of Parliament, great quantities of other commodities...have been, and are daily imported into several of his colonies, plantations, and territories, in Asia, Africa and America...and that his Majesties subjects of some of his colonies, and plantations, have not onely [sic] supplied themselves with such commodities not shipped in England...but have conveyed them by land and water, to other of his Majesties colonies and plantations, to the great prejudice of his Majesties customs, and of the trade and navigation of this kingdom.” An important proclamation which illustrates the difficulty in maintaining and enforcing the laws central to the first British Empire. ESTC R25339. WING C3378. GOLDSMITHS 2112. STEELE I:3619. KRESS S1421. $12,500.

283. [Tucker, Abraham]: “Search, Edward” [pseud]: FREEWILL, FOREKNOWLEDGE, AND FATE. A FRAGMENT. London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley, [1763]. xxxi,[1 errata],268pp. Octavo. Modern half calf and marbled boards, raised bands, gilt label. Old divinity school stamp on title, minor foxing, but a very good copy, very neatly bound.

First edition. The pseudonymously published prelude to Tucker’s magnum opus, The Light of Nature Pursued. This “1763 fragment was strongly criticized in the Monthly Review, to which Tucker provided a humorous reply, Man In Quest Of Himself, under the new pseudonym Cuthbert Comment. In 1768, again using the pseudonym Edward Search, he published the first four volumes of his book; the last three volumes were posthumously published under the editorship of his daughter Judith in 1778 ... Although an occasionally eccentric and digressive text, The Light of Nature Pursued enjoyed a high reputation from its first appearance. In the introduction to his Moral and Political Philosophy (1785) William Paley emphasized his deep indebtedness to Tucker in expounding his ethical theory. Paley considered Tucker to be a very original thinker. His work was also highly praised by Sir James MacIntosh, who had used his ideas in his lectures on ethics ...” – DNB. Tucker’s writings were also read and admired by, among others, Coleridge, Godwin and Hazlett, and the latter undertook an abridgement of the full work, published in 1807. ESTC locates ten copies in North America, and OCLC adds a few more, but this work is uncommon in the trade. ESTC T117455. NCBEL II: 1893. $950.

Important Imaginary Voyage

284. [Tyssot de Patot, Simon]: THE TRAVELS AND ADVENTURES OF JAMES MASSEY. TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH. London: Printed for John Watts, 1733. [12],318,[6]pp. 12mo. Contemporary calf, sympathetically rebacked in matching calf, with raised bands and gilt labels. Engraved frontis (signed “G. Van der Guchte”). Early stamped insignia on front pastedown, modest tanning, but a very good copy.

First edition in English of a significant imaginary voyage, of particular import for its relation to early conceptions of Australia. The first edition was published under a false Bordeaux, 1710 imprint, and three other editions appeared similarly dated. Recent authorities have sorted out the precedence, with the first edition being identified with some confidence as actually [Rouen, 1714]. The translator’s dedication is signed Stephen Whatley. Tyssot de Patot’s novel “is a carefully written, well authenticated story of travel and adventure in Europe, in Africa, in Asia, and in an unknown land far beyond the Cape of Good Hope. The realism of the setting is based upon a close following of accounts of real travelers, such as Dellon, Tavernier, Mocquet, and Lahontan. There is nothing fantastic, unbelievable or overdrawn in the descriptions of the Austral continent. Tyssot seems to restrain himself consciously in order to write an apparently true story. Indirect criticism by the example of an imaginary and virtuous community is used here as in all the previous novels of the type. The journey to the unknown land is very carefully authenticated, as is the return journey ... Discussions of science and religion are fitted into the adventures much more artistically than in the case of the novels of Foigny and Vairasse ... From the point of the history of ideas ... [it] is a very interesting document.”- Atkinson. It is also notable for a reference to the Wandering Jew, as well as for a well-constructed bee fable. Howgego, Invented and Apocryphal Narratives of Travel. T25. Atkinson, The Extraordi- nary Voyage in French Literature from 1700 to 1720, pp. [67]-97. ESTC T68558. NEGLEY 1118. Gove, The Imaginary Voyage in Prose Fiction, pp. 217-19. $3000.

Pioneering Colonial Governor of Massachusetts Bay

285. [Vane, Henry]: THE TRYAL OF SIR HENRY VANE, KT. AT THE KINGS BENCH, WEST- MINSTER, JUNE THE 2d. AND 6th. 1662. TOGETHER WITH WHAT HE INTENDED TO HAVE SPOKEN THE DAY OF HIS SENTENCE (JUNE 11.) FOR ARREST OF JUDGMENT, (HAD HE NOT BEEN INTERRUPTED AND OVER-RULED BY THE COURT) AND HIS BILL OF EXCEPTIONS. WITH OTHER OCCASIONAL SPEECHES, &c. ALSO HIS SPEECH AND PRAYER, &c. ON THE SCAFFOLD. [London]. 1662. [3]-134,[1]pp. Small quarto. Modern three quarter black calf and cloth, spine gilt. Lightly tanned, an occasional small stain, Final four leaves repaired with some sixty words (in whole or in part) in facsimile, terminal leaf mounted, trimmed close, occasionally affecting pagination in upper margin. Good overall.

First and only edition, the Frank Deering copy, with his gilt leather bookplate on the front free endpaper. Henry Vane was born in England in 1613, came to New England in 1635, and was elected governor of Massachusetts the following year, aged only twenty-three. Deeply religious, Vane was among the most radical of Puritans. He supported Anne Hutchinson during the Antinomian crisis, and became a close ally of John Cotton. Vane’s stay in Mas- sachusetts was tempestuous, and he returned to England in 1637 to become a member of the Long Parliament, though his interest in New England continued. Vane was instrumental in procuring the Rhode Island charter, and his friendly efforts to aid the New England colonies were appreciated by Roger Winthrop and Roger Williams. Soon after the fall of Cromwell and the restoration of the monarchy he was imprisoned for two years, convicted of treason, and executed. Lowndes says “The Tryal was written by a Sectarist in favor of Vane and printed by stealth.” The text contains the speech he had intended to speak from the scaffold (but was forbidden by court order) which would have elaborated his revolutionary ideas on parliamentary supremacy and the compact between ruler and ruled, issues that resounded in colonial American history for more than the next one hundred years. SABIN 98500. ESTC R21850. WING T2216. JCB (2), p.913. LOWNDES, p.2753. DAB XIX, pp.191-193. ANB 22, pp.215-216. $3750.

Includes the First English Translations from Vasari

286. [Vasari, Giorgio]: [Aglionby, William]: PAINTING ILLUSTRATED IN THREE DIALOGUES, CONTAINING SOME CHOICE OBSERVATIONS UPON THE ART, TOGETHER WITH THE LIVES OF THE MOST EMINENT PAINTERS, FROM CIMABUE, TO THE TIME OF RAPHAEL, AND MICHAEL ANGELO. WITH AN EXPLANATION OF THE DIFFICULT TERMS. London: Printed by John Gain, 1685. [38],375pp. Title printed in red and black. Quarto. Contempo- rary paneled calf, expertly rebacked, raised bands, leather label. Covers somewhat scuffed. Bookplate removed from front pastedown. Contemporary ink markings on titlepage. Internally very clean, with ample margins. Overall very good.

Three dialogues on painting based upon the work of Vasari by Aglionby. A range of painting topics is covered, including design, chiaroscuro, use of oils, and history and appreciation of art. “The first systematic treatise on the history and criticism of painting in English.” Of considerable significance, as this work also incorporates the first English translation of eleven of Vasari’s Lives. One of the most important works in art history, in its first English edition. WING A764. ESTC R204285. UNIVERSAL CATALOGUE OF BOOKS ON ART I:10. $2500.

287. [Viticulture – American]: Spooner, Alden: THE CULTIVATION OF AMERICAN GRAPE VINES, AND MAKING OF WINE. Brooklyn: A. Spooner & Co., 1846. vi,[7]-96pp. Small octavo. Publisher’s gilt cloth. Illustrations. Shallow spot of gnawing from fore-edge of upper board, and small scrape to lower edge of same, light foxing, otherwise a very good copy.

First edition of this important work in the relatively early literature of American viticulture. Spooner was largely associated with Brooklyn and New York newspapers and printing concerns, but accomplished much as a local historian, serving as founding member of the Long Island Historical Society, to whom his large library was given. This practical guide emphasizes that region, particularly the cultivation of the Isabella grape, and collects reports from the press of successes in other areas. A second edition appeared in 1858. Although fairly well represented in institutions (OCLC locates 22 copies), this edition is uncommon in commerce. GABLER G40050. $750.

A Large Collection of Vues D’Optique

288. [Vues d’Optique]: [Europe]: [Two Albums Of More Than 120 Vues d’optique Of Dif- ferent Locations In Europe]. Paris. 1760-1762. Two volumes. 62; 61 leaves, each with a mounted plate. Images vary in size, either 11 x 16 inches or 8 x 12 inches. Oblong folio. 19th-century cloth, gilt; rebacked in red morocco. Corners repaired. Wear and soiling to boards. Internally clean, colors bright and fresh. Very good.

Two large albums containing 123 brightly colored vues d’optique depicting scenes from Paris, Rome, London, and many other locations in Europe. Lettering is typically printed at the top and bottom of the plate, primarily in French, with the letters at the top reading backwards. The letters above the text were deliberately reversed, since these prints were designed for viewing in optical machines with a magnifying glass and a reflective mirror, which gave the viewer an illusion of depth and reversed the image. The views are mostly of France, including many scenes from Versailles and the ports of the realm. There are likewise a significant number of views of important landmarks around Rome. Other views depict notable locations in the Netherlands, Denmark, Germany, Spain, Poland, and London. A handful of the plates show more unusual locales such as Mexico City, Siberia, St. Petersburg, Peking, Cayenne, and French Guiana. Altogether, an impressive collection of these handsome engravings. $19,500.

289. Wadsworth, Edward: SAILING-SHIPS AND BARGES OF THE WESTERN MEDITER- RANEAN AND ADRIATIC SEAS. A SERIES OF COPPER PLATES ENGRAVED IN THE LINE MANNER.... London: Etchells & Macdonald, 1926. Quarto. Cream linen spine and orange cloth over boards, stamped in gilt. Faint dust soiling to spine, trace of normal offsetting to endsheet gutters, otherwise a fine copy in lightly worn slipcase.

First edition. Introduction and captions to the illustrations by Bernard Windeler. Illustrated with twenty-three original copper engravings by Wadsworth, printed from the plates, both full-page and vignette, and with some delicately handcolored. One of four hundred and fifty copies. Wadsworth was, of course, one of the original signators to the Vorticist manifesto and regrettably that tradition shows through only occasionally and briefly in these draftsman-like renderings. Of particular interest to this cataloguer is the probability that the author of the captions is the same B.C. Windeler whose Elimus, with illustrations by Dorothy Shakespear, was published in Pound’s Inquest series three years earlier. $900.

One of Twenty-Six -- With Two of the Original Etched Zinc Plates

290. Wall, Bernhardt [etcher]: GREENWICH VILLAGE TYPES TENEMENTS & TEMPLES. [New York: Printed and Published by the Artist, ca. 1920]. Quarto. Original cloth tape backed boards, with etched vignette. Separation between front free endsheet and second endsheet due to the weight of the boards, some creasing to spine, but a very good copy, internally fine. Rear panel of dust jacket present.

First edition thus, and one of Wall’s least common and most desirable productions, consisting of twenty-two original etchings printed from zinc plates in various hues, with each of the plates signed by the artist in the margin, accompanied by the original etched preliminaries, title, index and colophon. Wall had originally intended the edition to consist of fifty copies, but the zinc plates did not hold up sufficiently for that many impressions, and he reduced the edition to twenty-six copies (so corrected on the colophon in ink, and signed by him). Two of the original etched zinc plates are inlaid into the inside of the boards, in this case those for two of the best of the images: “Washington Square Arch” and “A Studio.” A typed transcript of some comments Wall made in 1937 about the edition is laid in, along with a 1948 cover letter from Dawson’s Book Shop. Weber does not note the truncation of the edition, gives a variant plate count – perhaps including some of the etched prelims in his count, as this copy collates complete according to the index, plus the two self-portraits – and notes “many copies have a cancelled plate embedded in the cover.” As noted above, this copy, #22, has two of the original zinc plates, and unlike Father Weber’s copy, has the etching on the upper board imprinted in the board itself, rather than on a separate label. The descriptive text leaf describes this as the “third state” of the project, no doubt referring to the 1918 Ten Etchings of Greenwich Village. WEBER, p.31. $4500.

291. [Ward, Nathaniel]: A RELIGIOUS DEMURRER, CONCERNING SUBMISSION TO THE PRESENT POWER: CONTAINED IN A LETTER WRITTEN TO SOME RELIGIOUS GENTLE- MEN, AND REVEREND DIVINES IN AND ABOUT THE CITY OF LONDON; FROM SOME PEACEABLE AND TRUTH-SEEKING GENTLEMEN IN THE COUNTREY. REQUESTING AS SPEEDY AND SATISFACTORY AN ANSWER AS THEY PLEASE TO AFFORD [caption title]. [London: Printed for Thomas Underhill, 1649]. 8pp. Quarto. Extracted from bound pamphlet volume. Early index number in top margin of first leaf, otherwise near fine.

First edition. A late publication by Ward, published after his return to England from the Massachusetts-Bay Colony, and two years after the publication of his most widely known work, The Simple Cobler of Aggawam. A second part, not attributed to Ward and signed by “A Lover of Truth and Liberty,” subsequently appeared in the same format. ESTC locates 9 copies in North America. ESTC R203432. WING W781a. THOMASON E.530 $750. Rare Irish Edition

292. Wesley, John: A SERMON ON 1ST. JOHN, V.7. Dublin: Printed by William Kidd, for Wil- liam Whitestone, 1775. [6],[7]-31,[1]pp. Small octavo. Extracted from nonce pamphlet volume. Typographic decorative title border. Early ink name on half-title, half-title neatly detached, faint tanning and occasional minor spots, but a very good copy, printed on unusually heavy paper.

First Dublin edition. A Limerick edition is tentatively dated the same year, and the first London edition followed in 1776. Wesley’s prefatory “Advertisement” is dated at Cork, 8 May, 1775, and refers to requests that the sermon be rendered in print before he left that city, requests that he was unable to fulfill due to circumstance. Scarce: ESTC locates 7 copies, 3 of them in North America, and OCLC does not expand that count. ESTC T45856. BAKER 306. $1250.

Presentation Copy of a Key Anti-Slavery Work

293. Wilberforce, William: A LETTER ON THE ABOLITION OF THE SLAVE TRADE; AD- DRESSED TO THE FREEHOLDERS AND OTHER INHABITANTS OF YORKSHIRE. Lon- don: Printed by Luke Hansard & Sons for T. Cadell and W. Davies, and J. Hatchard, 1807. [2],iii,396pp. Contemporary tree calf, spine gilt, leather label. Corners and hinges lightly worn. Modern bookplate on front pastedown. Minor scattered foxing. Very good. In a half morocco and cloth box, spine gilt.

First edition, inscribed “From the Author” by Wilberforce on the title page. One of the most important works in the British anti-slavery campaign. A politician, philanthropist, and devoted Christian, Wilberforce spent many years fighting in Parliament for the abolition of the slave trade. This work, originally intended to only be a pamphlet, was a description of the evidence and arguments against the slave trade accumulated by Wilberforce over the course of two decades. Its publication on Jan. 31, 1807 served as the culmination of the final struggle for stopping the trafficking of slaves along with the introduction of the Abolition Bill in the House of Lords, and was the decisive factor in its passage. The bill passed the upper house by a large majority and was read in the Commons on February 23rd. It passed by 283 votes to 16 and received the royal assent on March 25. Wilberforce devoted the rest of his life to the anti-slavery movement and died in 1833, just three days after Parliament voted to abolish slavery. Printing and the Mind of Man 232. $6500.

294. Williams, Helen Maria: A NARRATIVE OF THE EVENTS WHICH HAVE TAKEN PLACE IN FRANCE, FROM THE LANDING OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTE, ON THE 1st OF MARCH, 1815, TILL THE RESTORATION OF LOUIS XVIII. WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE PRES- ENT STATE OF SOCIETY AND PUBLIC OPINION. London: Printed for John Murray, 1815. [4],390pp. Large octavo. Original paper and boards, printed spine label, untrimmed. Early engraved bookplate on front pastedown, surface loss at crown and toe of spine, fore-tips bumped and surface splits along joints, occasional modest foxing or spotting; despite these issues, a rather nice copy, and very scarce in this original state.

First edition. Novelist/poet Williams (1762 -- 1827) found a second home in France, and wrote always passionately, but often ignorantly, about the French Revolution, most often, as here in the form of “Letters.” “The honesty with which she wrote carried conviction to many of her readers; and there can be little doubt that her works were the source of many erroneous opinions as to facts .... “ – DNB. She began to publish her sequence of Letters in 1790, and concluded just prior to her death with an account of France post the Restoration. She was widely read abroad, and printers in the U.S. were quick to publish their own editions. NCBEL II:694. $950.

The Personal Copy of One of the Leading “Irreconcilables”

295. [World War I Treaties – Treaty of Versailles]: TREATY OF PEACE WITH GERMANY. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1919. 537pp., printed in French and English on facing pages, plus four maps. Large quarto. Blue cloth, stamped in gilt on front board and spine. Cloth discolored and waterstained, worn at spine ends and corners. Hinges cracked. Light dampstain throughout. Good.

An association copy of the utmost significance: this is the personal copy of California Re- publican Senator Hiram Johnson, one of the leaders of the sixteen “Irreconcilables” in the United States Senate who opposed the Treaty of Versailles and the League of Nations, and were therefore instrumental in ensuring that the U.S. would not ratify the treaty. Johnson’s career in politics began when he was elected the Republican Governor of California in 1910. In 1912 he was Theodore Roosevelt’s vice-presidential nominee on the Progressive Party ticket, and he was elected to the U.S. Senate as a Republican in 1916. Johnson was a leading critic of Woodrow Wilson’s war aims, opposing the Fourteen Points and seeking to withdraw American troops from Russia in 1919. Thomas Bailey, whose work is still the best on the fight over ratification of the Treaty of Versailles, asserts that Johnson, among all the members of the so-called “Battalion of Death” which opposed the Treaty, “was the most accomplished rabble-rouser of them all.” Spurred by his fervent isolationism, and harboring plans to run for President in 1920, Johnson made Wilson’s efforts to sway public opinion in favor of the Treaty especially difficult. In the fall of 1919 Johnson trailed Wilson on a cross-country speaking tour, denouncing the pact wherever the President spoke. In his bit- ter opposition to the Treaty, “Johnson wielded a meat-ax...His noise-making ability came to be a standing joke: he did not attack, he ‘flayed.’ Yet no one could deny that the man had bulldog tenacity, a ripsaw voice, and the ability to move great crowds. Friends of the League [of Nations] decried Johnson’s cave-man mentality and his completely closed mind” – Bailey. When the treaty was sent to the U.S. Senate for ratification, each Senator received one clothbound and one wrapperbound copy for their own use. A typed letter from the Printing Clerk of the U.S. Senate laid into this copy informs each Senator that additional copies could not be provided quickly because the maps had to be reproduced in Europe. The present copy is Hiram Johnson’s personal copy, with his name stamped in gilt on the front board. Bound into the rear of Johnson’s copy is a separately printed index to the treaty. Loosely laid in is a 43pp. document prepared by former State Department officer J. Ruben Clark entitled Data On German Peace Treaty, printed by the Government Printing Office in 1919. The official United States government printing of the Treaty of Versailles, a document of monumental importance in American and world history. The treaty, made with Germany at the end of the First World War, concluded a war of unrivalled devastation while also sowing the seeds for the Second World War, just twenty years on the horizon. The United States, guided by Woodrow Wilson’s vision, played a central role in the crafting of the treaty. The U.S. Senate refused to ratify the treaty, however, based on the objection of several senators to the Covenant of the League of Nations (which was included as Part I of the settlement), thereby largely removing American influence and involvement from the international scene in the inter-war period. Especially objectionable to the Senate was Article 10, by which the members of the League agreed to protect the territorial integrity and political independence of any member of the League. This official American printing of the treaty is noted as Sen- ate Document 51 of the first session of the 66th Congress. It was referred to the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations on July 10, 1919, and ordered to be printed. The Treaty of Versailles was a wide-ranging and ambitious document, which sought not only to address the immediate postwar settlement, but also to punish Germany for its actions in starting and prosecuting the war, attempted to remake the map of Europe, and created a supra-national political organization, the League of Nations. The Covenant of the League of Nations comprises the first part of the treaty. The next most famous part is that dealing with reparations, which includes Article 231, the infamous “war guilt clause.” By this article, Germany accepted the responsibility of her and her allies “for causing all the loss and damage to which the Allied and Associated Governments and their nationals have been subjected as a consequence of the war imposed upon them by the aggression of Germany and her allies.” The intent of the article was to affix legal and financial responsibility on Germany, but it took on moral implications, and was used by Hitler during his rise as an example of Allied perniciousness. Germany had to agree to pay reparations to the allies in the sum of 20,000,000,000 gold marks, the amount to be modified by a reparations commission in 1921. Germany also had to recognize the independence of Austria and agree not to compromise that independence in the future. Germany’s borders were redrawn, with Alsace-Lorraine being given to France, West Prussia to Poland, and other lands, such as Danzig and the Saar Basin, stripped away. She lost her overseas possessions, the Rhineland was occupied, and the German army was limited to 100,000 men and largely disarmed. Other provisions address issues of tariffs, ports, labor, aerial navigation, prisoners of war, and more. As has been noted, the many punitive measures of the Treaty of Versailles did much to fan the seeds of discontent in postwar Germany and to facilitate the rise of Hitler, who publicly flaunted the provisions of the treaty throughout the 1930s. The refusal of the United States to ratify the treaty and participate in the League of Nations was a crucial part in the chain of events that led to the Second World War. A most important document in an incredibly significant association, being the personal copy of one of the leading Senate “Irreconcilables” who ensured that the United States would not ratify the treaty. ANB 12, pp.78-81. Thomas A. Bailey, Woodrow Wilson and the Great Betrayal (New York, 1945), p.63 and passim. $2000.

Presentation Copy

296. Wright, Frank Lloyd: THE JAPANESE PRINT AN INTERPRETATION. Chicago: The Ralph Fletcher Seymour Co., 1912. Tan Japanese paper over boards, lettered in dark blue, with abstract Crane device stamped in olive green. Fibrous Japanese paper endsheets. Neatly rebacked in tan paper board. Boards slightly smudged and lightly edgeworn, attractive period bookplate on front pastedown, otherwise a good copy, in oversize folding clamshell box.

First published printing of the first edition, preceded by another printing which Wright disliked and destroyed (but for an alleged ‘few’). This is one of the copies printed on Japan vellum, of which, depending on the reference, there were either thirty-five or fifty copies. Inscribed by Wright in 1915 at the lower edge of the first blank, and signed with initials. This was Wright’s first book for which he was the sole author of the text, and is the most substantive of his publications devoted to his pioneering passion for this subject. SWEENEY 109. $5850.

297. Wright, Frank Lloyd: ANTIQUE COLOUR PRINTS FROM THE COLLECTION OF FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT ... [wrapper title]. Chicago: The Arts Club of Chicago, [1917]. Printed wrappers. A few minor smudges, but a fine copy.

First edition. From the library of Wright’s editor/chronicler, Frederick Gutheim, with his bookplate and his color pencil annotations in Wright’s text editing it for its inclusion in Frank Lloyd Wright on Architecture Selected Writings (1941, pp. 76-81). SWEENEY 137. $1000.

298. Wyeth, Andrew, and Betsy James Wyeth: WYETH AT KUERNERS [with:] CHRISTINA’S WORLD. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1976 & 1982. Two volumes. Oblong small folio. Half brown publisher’s calf and tan cream linen, boldly lettered in gilt. Profusely illustrated in color throughout. Bookplate in each volume of the James S. Copley collection, otherwise fine, in lightly soiled matching cloth slipcase.

First editions, limited issue. One of two hundred numbered sets, specially bound, and signed by Andrew Wyeth and Betsy James Wyeth, who has provided the text and commentary, in each volume. Postage extra. $2250.

299. Young, Arthur: TRAVELS DURING THE YEARS 1787, 1788, & 1789; UNDERTAKEN MORE PARTICULARLY WITH A VIEW OF ASCERTAINING THE CULTIVATION, WEALTH, RESOURCES, AND NATIONAL PROSPERITY OF THE KINGDOM OF FRANCE.... London: Printed for W. Richardson, 1794. Two volumes bound in one. 629,[3],336,[4]pp. plus three folding maps (1 handcolored). Large, thick quarto. Contemporary calf, spine gilt extra, raised bands, gilt inner dentelles. Boards detached. Occasional light foxing, especially to maps, else internally fine.

The second edition, after the first of 1792. The substantial majority of the second volume is new to this edition. Young, having produced many travel narratives, left Dover for France in May 1787, returning in November. In 1788 he made another trip to France, and again in 1789, continuing into Italy and part of Spain. His massive daily journal includes his impressions and observations during his tours (pp.305-36, appended to the second volume, deal exclusively with Spain). Some of the major cities visited were Bordeaux, Paris, Versailles, Marseilles, Milan, Verona, Venice, Florence and Barcelona. The second part of the first volume is a lengthy study of French agriculture, produce, manufacture, and the revolution, the beginnings of which he witnessed in Paris and Versailles. ESTC T78081. GOLDSMITHS 15937. $850.

One World – It Never Happened

300. Zanuck, Darryl F., and Wendell L. Wilkie: [Two Typed Letters, Signed, Concerning A Film Version Of ‘One World’]. [Beverly Hills, CA]. 9 December 1943 and 28 Sept. 1943. Each one-half page, on quarto sheet of personal letterhead. Folded for mailing, otherwise fine.

To screenwriter Dudley Nichols. In the course of preproduction planning of an unrealized film adaptation of Wendell Wilkie’s One World, Zanuck writes: “I am having Colonel Joy send you the check for your services on One World. I frankly think you are cheating yourself. I have not yet read the script ... but nevertheless I know that it is going to be grand ... I want you to know that in expressing my gratitude, I am also expressing the gratitude of Mr. Wilkie. I don’t see why the hell you don’t write and produce, or write and direct pictures for me ....” Signed, in ink, “Darryl.” Accompanied by another typed letter, signed, 28 September 1943, from Wilkie to Nichols, on Zanuck’s letterhead, thanking him for their conference on the project the previous day, and indicating that “I leave here confident that the preparation of the story is in especially capable hands ....” The letter also suggests that the script was to be a collaboration with “Mr. Trotti” (i.e. screenwriter Lamar Trotti). Signed in full, in ink, with nine word autograph postscript. $450.