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Complete Set of Fourteen 1st Edition Oz Books With Superb Initial Letters Supplied in Blue and Green by Graily Hewitt

1. [ASHENDENE PRESS]. [BIBLE IN ENGLISH]. The Wisdom of Jesus, the Son of Sirach, Commonly Called Ecclesiasticus. [Chelsea: Printed by C.H. St J. Hornby at the Ashendene Press, 1932].

One of 328 copies on Batchelor handmade paper with the bugle watermark, out of a total edition of 353 copies. Folio (11 7/16 x 7 1/2 inches; 290 x 190 mm.). [2, blank], [2], 182, [2, blank] pp. Printed in black and red in Subiaco type. Initials supplied by hand in blue and green by Graily Hewitt and his two assistants, Ida D. Henstock and Helen E. Hinkley.

Original limp orange vellum with matching silk ties. Spine lettered in gilt. In the original marbled board slipcase. Vellum spine lightly sunned. Two previous owner’s bookplates on front pastedown. Otherwise near fine. HBS 65895. $3,000

The Ashendene “Morte Darthur”

2. [ASHENDENE PRESS]. MALORY, Sir Thomas. The Noble and Joyous Book Entytled Le Morte Darthur, …Whiche Book was Reduced in to Englysshe by Syr Thomas Malory, Knyght. Chelsea: At the Ashendene Press, [1913].

One of 147 copies on paper (not 145 as stated in the colophon), out of a total edition of 155 copies. Folio (15 3/4 x 11 inches; 398 x 280 mm.). xxii, 500 pp. Printed in red and black in Subiaco type, the chapter headings and shoulder notes in red, with initial letters designed by Graily Hewitt and printed in alternating red and blue. Two full-page woodcuts, one at the beginning and one at the end of the book, and twenty-seven smaller woodcuts by W.H. Hooper and J.B. Swain after designs by C.M. Gere and Margaret Gere. The text is that of Southey’s Reprint (1817) of Caxton’s edition, with a few minor variations.

Original full brown calf. Gilt-lettered spine with raised bands, board edges and turn-ins ruled in blind. Corners are very slightly bumped, with the lower back corner slightly rubbed through. A few minor surface closed cracks to edges of the spine. Top corner of front free endpaper with a small professional repair. Some light browning and foxing, mainly to preliminary and final blanks. A near fine copy. HBS 66052. $10,000 Second Edition of Bacon's Philosophy of Scientific Method

3. BACON, Sir Francis. The Two Bookes of Sr. Francis Bacon. Of the Proficience and Advancement of Learning, Divine and Humane. To the King. London: Printed for William Washington, 1629.

Second edition. Small quarto. Collates complete and the same as the British Library copy. Some pages misnumbered as normal. Contemporary paneled calf. Newer morocco spine labels. Original endpapers. Edges sprinkled red. Boards with some scuffing. Corners and edges chipped and rubbed. Head of the tail chipped. Outer hinges starting but still firm. Some offsetting to endpapers. A few old pencil marks in the margins and on title-page. One instance of old ink marginalia. A light dampstain across upper half of some leaves, mostly in rear. Altogether a very good copy. HBS 66007. $1,750

First Edition Of Baudelaire's "Les Fleurs Du Mal" In the Original Wrappers

4. BAUDELAIRE, Charles. Les fleurs du mal. Paris: Poulet-Malassis et De Broisse, 1857.

First edition, first printing with the six suppressed poems. In second state wrappers, with the back wrapper announcing Les Fleurs du Mal. Octavo (7 5/8 x 5 inches; 194 x 127 mm). [4], [1]-248, [4, table] pp. Title printed in black and red.

Original light yellow printed wrappers. Uncut, as published, perfectly pure, without spots. Some professional restoration to spine. Front wrapper with a small crease alone fore-edge and half-title also a bit creased. A beautiful copy. In glassine dust jacket and with a custom full morocco clamshell. HBS 65197. $35,000 A Fine First Edtion Copy of L. Frank Baum's Classic "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz"

5. BAUM, L. Frank. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. With pictures by W.W. Denslow. Chicago: Geo. M. Hill Co., 1900. First edition, mixed issue. Second state of the text, and first state of the "Moon" plate. Quarto (8 5/16 x 6 3/8 inches; 211 x 165 mm). 259, [1, blank], [1], [1, blank] pp. Twenty-four inserted color plates (including title).

Original light green cloth pictorially stamped and lettered in red and a darker green (variant C with publisher’s imprint at foot of spine in red in serifed type, with the “C” of “Co.” encircling the “o”). Pictorial pastedown endpapers (issued without free endpapers). Text is very clean and feels almost unread. Previous owner's old ink inscription on preliminary leaf dated 1901, with a small unobtrusive sticker above it. Previous owner Mildred Greenhill's bookplate laid in. Overall, an about fine copy, in every way. Housed in a custom green morocco clamshell. HBS 65782. $37,500 A Complete Set of the Fourteen "Oz" Books, All First Editions

6. BAUM, L. Frank. A Complete Set of 14 Wizard of Oz First Editions. Chicago: [1900-1920]. 1. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. With pictures by W.W. Denslow. Chicago: 1900. First edition, second state. Overall, a very good copy. 2. The Marvelous Land of Oz. Chicago: The Reilly & Britton Co., 1904. First Edition, second state. An exceptionally clean copy. 3. Ozma of Oz. Chicago: The Reilly and Britton Co., 1907. First edition, first issue. A very good. copy. 4. Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz. Chicago: The Reilly & Britton Co., 1908. First edition, second state binding Quarto. A very good copy. 5. The Road to Oz. Illustrated by John R. Neill. Chicago: [1909]. First edition, first state. Very good copy. 6. The Emerald City of Oz. Illustrated by John R. Neill Chicago: 1910. First edition, first state. In a later Reilly & Lee dust jacket. 7. The Patchwork Girl of Oz. Illustrated by John R. Neill Chicago: The Reilly & Britton Co., 1913. First edition, first issue. A near fine copy. 8. Tik-Tok of Oz. Illustrated by John R. Neill Chicago: The Reilly & Britton Co., 1914. First edition, first issue. In a later Reilly & Lee dust jacket. Overall, a very good copy. 9. The Scarecrow of Oz: Illustrated by John R. Neill. Chicago: The Reilly & Britton Co., [1915]. First edition, first issue. Overall a very good copy. 10. Rinkitink in Oz. By L. Frank Baum. Illustrated by John R. Neill Chicago: The Reilly & Britton Co., [1916]. First edition, first state. An about fine copy. 11. The Lost Princess of Oz. Illustrated by John R. Neill. Chicago: The Reilly & Britton Co., [1917]. First edition, first issue. Quarto. With twelve color plates. An about fine copy. 12. The Tin Woodman of Oz. Chicago: The Reilly & Britton Co., [1918]. First edition, first issue. With twelve color plates. An about fine copy. 13. The Magic of Oz. Chicago: The Reilly & Lee Co.,[1919]. First edition, first issue. Quarto. A very good copy. 14. Glinda of Oz. Illustrated by John R. Neill Chicago: The Reilly & Lee Co., [1920]. First edition, first issue. With twelve color plates. Overall about fine. HBS 65777. $37,500 First Edition Of This Very Elusive Publication

7. BEECHEY, Frederick William. The Zoology of Captain Beechey's Voyage … in the Years 1825, 26, 27, and 28. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1839.

First edition of this very elusive publication. Quarto (11 1/4 x 8 7/8 inches; 283 x 225 mm.). xii, 180 pp. Complete with half-title and forty-four hand-colored engraved natural history plates after Edward Lear, J. D. C. Sowerby, and J. C. Zeitter by Zeitter and T. Landseer, four hand-colored engraved maps and plans (one folding) after E. Belcher. Plates with tissue guards.

Period-style full green, pebble grain Morocco. Elaborately ruled in gilt and blind on boards with a diamond shape in gilt and blind. Spine stamped and lettered in gilt. Gilt dentelles. Marbled endpapers. A few small closed tears to half-title, not affecting text, professionally repaired. A bit of minor fraying to page margins. Some foxing and toning, but generally not affecting plates. Overall a beautiful copy. HBS 65699. $30,000 First Edition, With Text In Arabic and Numerous Woodcuts

8. [BIBLE IN ARABIC]. [Gospels in Arabic]. Evangelium Sanctum Domini nostri Jesu Christi conscriptum a quatuor Evangelistis Sanctis idest, Matthaeo, Marco, Luca, et Iohanne. Romae: In Typograhia Medicea, 1590 [i.e. 1591].

First edition. All text is in Arabic with the exception of the title-page, colophon and page numbers which are in Arabic and Latin. Folio (12 3/8 x 8 1/4 inches; 314 x 210 mm). With 149 woodcuts and woodcut head and tail pieces. Woodcuts are by Antonio Tempesta and engraved by Leonard Parasole. Date of title-page is 1590, date of colophon is 1591.

Early nineteenth-century diced Russia, rebacked using original spine. boards and spine stamped and tooled in gilt. With gilt central and corner devices. Marbled front and rear paste-downs. Some rubbing and scuffing to boards and edges. Corners a bit bumped. Some toning and spotting throughout. Title-page has been reinforced along margins. A small old stamp in the lower margin of title-page. Page 7 with outer margin reinforced and a small repair. Pages 197 and 301 with small repairs to margins, not affecting text. Small paper flaw to outer margin of page 298, not affecting text. Previous owner's old ink notes in Arabic on front free endpaper. Overall a very good copy. HBS 66341. $20,000

The Fourth Folio Edition of the Authorized Version of the King James Bible

9. [BIBLE IN ENGLISH]. The Holy Bible. Containing the Old Testament and the Nevv: Nevvly Translated out of the Originall Tongues, and with the Former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised, by His Majesties Speciall Commandement. Appointed to bee read in Churches. London: Robert Barker, 1634.

The fourth distinct folio edition, printed in large black- letter, of the "authorised" King James version. With the Apocrypha. Folio (15 3/8 x 10 1/8 inches; 391 x 258 mm). A1, C6, D4, A6-5C6, 5D2-6D6. This copy is bound without seven preliminary leaves A2-B4, (Dedication: To the most high and mightie Prince, Iames, and The Translators to the Reader) and also the title-page to the New Testament. This copy does not have the geneology or map as is common, and not called for in the collation as per Herbert and the British Library. The final leaf, D6D is inserted as a very good facsimile. Double columns, fifty-nine lines. Kalendar printed in red and black. Decorative woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials. This is in the large-type style as is the first edition.

Full contemporary paneled calf, rebacked to style. Spine with original red morocco spine label, lettered and stamped in gilt. Boards paneled in blind. Marbled endpapers. Some rubbing to and discoloration to boards. Some occasional marginal dampstaining, mainly to the final leaves. Leaf C of the Kalendar with upper right corner missing, not affecting text, just a portion of the the engraved header. Overall a very good, clean copy, internal text very clean and crisp. HBS 65776 $16,500 First Edition “Jane Eyre”

10. BRONTË, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. Edited by Currer Bell. In Three Volumes. Vol. I. [II. III.] London:1847.

First edition. Three octavo volumes (7 3/8 x 4 5/8 inches; 187 x 117 mm). [i-iv], [1]2-304, [1]2-32 (catalogue dated October 1847); [i-iv], [1]2-304; [i-iv], [1]2-311[312]. With half-titles as called for but without the 32-page publisher's catalogue (dated October 1847) in Vol. I., and without the inset catalogue fly-title dated June 1847 and the inset leaf on thicker paper advertising The Calcutta Review. Many copies lack these two haphazardly inserted elements, e.g. the Richard Manney copy (Sotheby's New York 1991) and the presentation copy at the Pierpont Morgan Library.

Rebound in half blue morocco over blue cloth. Spines ruled and lettered in gilt. Top edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Two previous owner's bookplates on front endpapers of each volume. An old bookseller description tipped in to front free endpaper of volume I. Some light foxing to blanks and half-titles of each volume. Also some light foxing to the fore-edge of the text block. A bit of light marginal soiling throughout. Overall a very nice set, housed together in a slipcase. Grolier, 100 English, 83. HBS 65653. $35,000 The First Edition of Brontë's First Novel

11. BRONTË, Charlotte. The Professor. A Tale. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1857.

First edition of the author’s first novel (although the last of her major works to be published). Two octavo volumes, 8 pp. advertisements and 16 pp. publisher’s catalogue dated June, 1857.

Original dark grayish purple morocco-grain cloth elaborately stamped in blind in a floral pattern. Spine ruled and lettered in gilt. Original yellow coated endpapers. Binder’s ticket (“Bound by Westleys & Co. London”) on rear pastedown of Volume I. Very slightly skewed, minor rubbing to corners and spine extremities, some slight discoloration to covers, spines slightly faded, hinges just starting. Small dampstain to upper corner of front endpapers of Volume I. A few leaves roughly opened. Early ink ownership inscription on half-title and at head of title of Volume II. Pencil erasures on endpapers of Volume II. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown of each volume. Overall, a very good copy. Housed in a quarter maroon morocco clamshell case. HBS 66276. $7,500 The Most Well-Known Allegory Ever Written

12. BUNYAN, John. The Pilgrim's Progress from This World to That Which Is to Come: delivered under the similitude of a dream, wherein is discovered, the manner of his setting out, his dangerous journey, and safe arrival at the desired country. London: Printed for Nathanael Ponder, 1682.

The eighth edition. Twelvemo. [xii], 211, [1, 'Conclusion'], [4. publisher's ads] pp. Including frontispiece and two full page woodcuts.

Early nineteenth-century blind-tooled sheep, spine blind-stamped in compartments and with gilt spine lettering, brown endpapers. Some wear to upper spine with a small crack. Marginal notes trimmed in a few places. Old rust mark to pp. 88-89. Some browning throughout. Overall, a very good copy of this very rare item.

This is a genuine eighth edition. In the last thirty years there have only been two other Pilgrim's Progress published in 1682 to come up at auction and both of these were spurious with one claiming to be the 'Fifth edition' and the other the other the 'Ninth Edition". Harrison cites a New York Public Library catalog of 1929. which claims that the 'fifth' edition was not issued by Nathanael Ponder, and Sharrock records that the British Library copy of the same and that in the library of the Bunyan Meeting, Bedford, although bearing Ponder's name, "are totally unlike all other editions bearing his imprint." They are apparently printed in smaller type on inferior paper, with no shoulder noted. OCLC only records six copies of this actual 1682 (eighth) edition. According to Harrison there are only thirty-eight known copies of any complete edition prior to this one (of which OLCL locates six, of which three are imperfect); making this one of the forty-three earliest known copies and one of only four known complete copies of the eighth edition. HBS 65265. $40,000 Inscribed by the Author to his Niece

13. BURCHELL, William John. Travels in the Interior of Southern Africa. With an Entirely New Map, and Numerous Engravings. London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1822-1824.

First edition. Two quarto volumes Bound without half-titles and final blank in first volume but with the 4 pp. “Hints on Emigration to the Cape of Good Hope” (which was printed separately in 1824 and not found in all copies), and the half- page errata slip at the beginning of Volume I. Large folding engraved map, twenty hand-colored aquatint plates (five folding), and ninety-six wood-engraved vignettes (fifty in Volume I and forty-six in Volume II). Inscribed on the front blank by the author "To his Niece Ruth Burchell/with the Authors kind love."

Contemporary purple morocco, expertly rebacked to style over blue morocco. Covers with elaborately gilt panels, spines with gilt compartments and lettering, all edges gilt. Some offsetting from plates, map with some minor fold tears. ZZ4 of volume II with a one-inch tear to upper blank margin (not affecting any lettering). Hinges starting. With previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown of each volume. Overall, a very good, tight and clean copy. HBS 64970. $12,500

The Founder of Modern History

14. CAMDEN, William. Britannia, sive Florentissimorum Regnorum Angliæ, Scotiæ, Hiberniae,. Et Insularum Adjacentium ex Intima Antiquitate Chorographica descriptio Londini: Per Radulphum Newbery, 1586.

First edition. Octavo (6 1/8 x 4 inches; 156 x 103 mm). [16], 556 (ie 552), [12] pp. Lacking leaves E8 and G8, both of which are cancels, often the case. Contemporary calf, tooled in blind on front and back boards. All edges red. One of two metal clasps. Outer and inner hinges cracked but firm. Title-page a bit soiled and some minor stains throughout. Early ownership inscription on title-page dated 1640, and some other very early marginalia throughout as well. Overall a very good copy. Printing and the Mind of Man 101. HBS 65482. $2,750

First Edition Of The First American Atlas Published In America

15. CAREY, Mathew. Carey's American Atlas: Containing Twenty Maps and One Chart.. Philadelphia: Mathew Carey, 1795.

First edition of the first American atlas published in America. Folio (14 3/4 x 9 1/8 inches; 373 x 233 mm). With twenty maps and one chart. Eleven of the maps are folding and nine are double page. Two of the maps are colored.

Contemporary quarter calf over marbled boards. Some of the folding maps printed on light blue paper. Boards rubbed and bumped. Previous owner's old ink inscription on blank verso of the title-page. Leaves with browning and foxing, as is common of most books published in America at that time. Title page restored at inner margin and about 3/4 of an inch trimmed from the top of the margin. Some dampstaining to maps nineteen and twenty. In a custom cloth clamshell. A very good copy of this important atlas. This atlas includes the first map published in America of Virginia as a state. It also includes the first state of the Tennessee map which states "Tennessee Government." Most of the maps include a caption reading "Engraved for Carey's American edition of Guthrie's Geography Improved." HBS 64765. $37,500 One of Only Fifty Copies

16. CATHER, Willa. Death Comes for the Archbishop. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1927.

First edition, One of only fifty copies printed on Japanese vellum and signed by Cather, this being copy number 27. Octavo (9 x 5 7/8 inches; 228 x 150 mm). [viii], 303, [1, colophon] pp. List of author’s works and title-page printed in blue and black.

Publisher’s full vellum decoratively stamped in gilt on front cover, publisher’s symbol stamped in gilt on rear panel. Spine stamped and lettered in gilt. Top edges gilt, others uncut. Housed in the publisher's original green board slipcase with black printed paper label. Some dampstaining and offsetting to the slipcase. Otherwise a near fine copy of this exceptionally scarce book. HBS 65897. $13,500

A Superb Copy of the First Issue of Catlin's North American Indians

17. CATLIN, George. Catlin’s North American Indian Portfolio. Hunting Scenes and Amusements of the Rocky Mountains and Prairies of North America London: C. & J. Adlard for George Catlin, Egyptian Hall, 1844.

First edition, first issue of, arguably, the most important and influential of all books dealing with Native Americans. Folio (22 3/4 x 16 1/4 inches). [1-5]-20 pages of text and all twenty-five hand-colored lithographic plates, on thick paper, after Catlin, drawn on stone by Catlin (2) or McGahey (23). All printed by Day and Haghe.

Expertly bound to style in dark brown half morocco using the original cloth boards, covers with gilt and blind fillets, front cover with original large gilt lettering reading; ‘Catlin’s/ North American Indian/ Portfolio/ Hunting Scenes and/ Amusements‘. Smooth spines with gilt rules forming compartments, original cream glazed endpapers, original London binder’s ticket (A. Tarrant Binder). Housed in a cloth box with gilt morocco lettering label. A wonderful copy,

First edition, first issue of a key work for any serious collection of Western Americana. Here present with the light tints and subtle hand-coloring that characterize the only colored issue to be published under Catlin’s sole supervision. A highly important record of a “truly lofty and noble race...A numerous nation of human beings...three-fourths of whose country has fallen into the possession of civilized man...twelve million of whose bodies have fattened the soil in the meantime; who have fallen victims to whiskey, the smallpox, and the bayonet” (Catlin). HBS 65266. $140,000

First American Separate Printing of Don Quixote

18. CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, Miguel de. The History and Adventures of the Renowned Don Quixote. Translated from the Spanish of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. To Which is Prefixed, Some Account of the Author's Life. By T. Smollet, M.D. In Four Volumes. Philadelphia: Published for Birch and Small, 1811.

First American separate printing which previously appeared as Vols. 9 & 10 in a series of selected novels. Four small octavo volumes. Contemporary calf, handsomely rebacked with gilt decorations on spines and red and green morocco labels. Pages browned as usual, title-page of first volume a bit fragile. Overall, a very handsome set and very scarce. Housed in a brown cloth slipcase. HBS 66154. $3,500 With an Original Drawing by Marc Chagall

19. [CHAGALL, Marc, artist]. CHAGALL, Bella. Burning Lights. Thirty-Six Drawings by Marc Chagall. New York: Schocken Books, [1946].

First edition. Published posthumously by her husband Marc Chagall. Inscribed on the front free endpaper "'Mazel Tov'/ Marc Chagall/ 1946" along with an original drawing by Marc Chagall of the head, wings and hands of an angel. This original drawing resembles the gilt-stamped illustration on the cover. Octavo (8 7/8 x x 6 inches; 226 x 151 mm). Translated by Norbert Guterman.

Publisher's full blue cloth. Front board stamped in gilt with a drawing by Chagall. Spine lettered in gilt. In original unclipped dust jacket. Jacket spine a bit darkened and a bit toned overall. Some small chips to head and tail of the jacket spine as well as the top edge. Book with some very light shelf wear to corners. Otherwise an about fine book in a very good jacket.

In the lower left-hand corner of the front free endpaper, below Chagall's drawing is an inscription reading "To Sally and Bob/May all life's blessings/be found in your home/with the brightness of/unquenchable light./ Tamar & David de Sola Pool." David de Sola Pool (1885-1970) was a Rabbi and an author who wrote several books about Jewish history in Colonial America. Some of these books he wrote together with his Wife Tamar. He was also the president of the American Jewish Historical Society, located in New York City. HBS 65899. $6,500

Arguments Against Democracies by Thomas Paine’s Nemesis

20. [CHALMERS, James]. Plain Truth; addressed to the inhabitants of America, ...Written by Candidus. Philadelphia: R. Bell, 1776.

First edition of this important item. Octavo in fours (203 x 122 mm.). 96, [8], [97] 98-136 pp. Including the additions and the two pages of publisher’s ads at the beginning. Nineteenth-century half black calf over marbled boards, gilt spine lettering. Signature M a bit browned, endpapers excised (of no real loss as the book was rebound). Overall, a very good and complete copy of this scarce item.

First edition of this Loyalist reply to Thomas Paine’s Common Sense (this copy with the scarce Additions). At the end of the first part is an extract of a reply to Common Sense signed ‘Cato’. Thomas R. Adams notes that at various times this work has been attributed to Smith, George Chalmes, Charles Inglis, Richard Wells, Joseph Galloway and Alexander Hamilton.

Evidence suggests that it was in fact James Chalmers who authored the work; letters reveal that he sent a copy to British commander Sir Henry Clinton, and in his memorial to the British Audit Ofice in 1784 he mentions that he wrote Plain Truth. In addition, Chalmers quotes from his own pamphlet in a 1796 attack on his old adversary, Thomas Paine. Chalmers was a wealthy planter from Kenty County, Maryland. While Paine preferred simple, direct language, Chalmers’ prose is rich with literary and historical references. Chalmers made an important and often overlooked observation: he found it illogical for any foreign power to side with the colonists against England; “Can we be so deluded, to expect aid from these princes (France and Spain), which inspiring their subjects with a relish for libery, might eventually shake their arbitrary thrones...Can we believe that those princes will offer an example so dangerous to their subjects and colonies...?” Chalmers points out the great debt the colonists owe to England, and provides an argument against democracies, which historicall were short-lived. HBS 65250. $10,000 With 103 Woodcut Illustrations, Including One of the Earliest Illustrations of a Conjurer

21. CICERO, Marcus Tullius. Officia M.T.C. [Augsburg: Gedruckt…durch Heynrichen Stayner, 7 December ] 1531.

Third edition of the first German translation of De officiis, which was first published by Heinrich Steiner 16 February 1531. Folio. [8], XCI leaves. Lacking the final blank as commonly found. Large woodcut on title of Julius Caesar enthroned and surrounded by eight counsellors, with Cicero shown writing in the background (repeated on G2 verso), large woodcut portrait of Schwarzenberg by Weiditz after Dürer on verso of title, the head within a circle surrounded by sixteen coats of arms, and 101 woodcut illustrations in the text, including ninety-nine by Hans Weiditz and one by Hans Burgkmair. Decorative woodcut tail-pieces, decorative and historiated woodcut initials.

Modern antique-style mottled calf. Spine ruled in gilt and decoratively tooled in blind in compartments, the blind tooling extending onto the covers, with black morocco gilt lettering label. One small wormhole affecting the first sixty-eight leaves, a few additional marginal wormholes. This copy was formerly part of a Sammelband, as suggested by the remains of an index tab on title. Overall, an excellent copy.

“One hundred cuts by Weiditz, in addition to borders and initials. Thirty-three of these belong to the Petrarch set, while the remaining sixty-seven (from sixty-four blocks, three of which are used twice) were designed for the Cicero itself. One cut (fol. 78) is by Burgkmair; two (50, 71 vo.) are anonymous” (Dodgson II, p. 143). HBS 65473. $8,500

First Edition of This Classic Work on Military Strategy

22. CLAUSEWITZ, Karl von. Vom Kriege… [in:] Hinterlassene Werke… über Krieg und Kriegführung. Berlin: 1832-34.

First Edition. Three octavo volumes in one (7 15/16 x 5 inches; 201 x 125 mm). xxviii, 371, [1, printer’s slug]; vi, 456, 92, printer’s slug and blank]; viii, 387, [2, printer’s slug and blank] pp.

‘His book Vom Kriege grew out of a series of “aphorisms” jotted down in 1816-18 which formed the basis of his lectures at the academy… [It is] less a manual of strategy and tactics…than a general inquiry into the interdependence of politics and warfare and the principles governing either or both… His basic conception, that military decisions must always be subordinate to political considerations, is buttressed by the emphasis laid on morals and morale as the decisive factors in war. He therefore condemns all rigid blue-prints for campaigns and battles, defines strategy as a “perpetual alternation and combination of attack and defence”, and implies the then startling proposition that there are no bad soldiers but only bad officers’ (PMM).

Contemporary half green roan over green cloth, spine with gilt compartments, bands and lettering, brown endpapers, edges sprinkled red. Some very light rubbing to edges, corners and boards. An excellent copy Printing and the Mind of Man, 297. HBS 66277. $11,500 “Can Man Become Perfect?”

23. CONDORCET, [Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas Caritat, Marquis de]. Esquisse d’un tableau historique des progrès de l’esprit humain. Ouvrage posthume de Condorcet. Paris: Chez Agasse, L’an III. de la République [1795].

First edition of Condorcet’s philosophical masterpiece. Octavo (7 7/8 x 4 13/16 inches; 201 x 123 mm). Contemporary quarter calf over dark blue paste-paper boards, spine gilt with dotted bands and ornaments, gilt red morocco lettering piece. Old owner's signature on half-title. A quarter-inch marginal tear at the bottom of leaf M42 that does not affect the text. Light foxing throughout. A blue ink stain on top edge from signature Z to the end. Overall, a clean and attractive copy. Printing and the Mind of Man 246. HBS 65358. $2,000

The Important Third Edition of "De Revolutionibus" and the First with Commentary

24. COPERNICUS, Nicolaus. Astronomia instaurata libris sex conprehensa qui de revolutionibus orbium calestium inscribuntur Amsterdam: Wilhelm Janson, 1617.

The important third edition, and the first to contain commentary by Nicholaus Muller Professor of Mathematics at the University of Groningen. This edition also contains extensive corrections. Quarto (9 1/4 x 7 inches; 235 x 178 mm). [22], 487, [1, blank] pp. Leaf ****4 a cancel. Woodcut printer's device on title, numerous woodcut diagrams throughout the text, decorative woodcut initials.

This edition was published to commemorate the seventy-fifth anniversary of Copernicus's death in 1543. It was published one year after the work was decreed suspended 'until corrected' by papal authority; the effects of this decree were largely confined to Italy, however. According to An Annotated Census of Copernicus's De revolutionnibus (2001), by Owen Gingerich, this third edition is as scarce as the second edition of 1566.

Bound to style in modern speckled calf. Covers double-ruled in blind. Red morocco spine label, lettered in gilt. All edges red. Title-page with an erasure mark on inner margin, not affecting text. Some occasional browing and spotting. A extremely light dampstain to outer edge which occurs on and off throughout the first half of the leaves. A one-inch closed tear to leaf S, not affecting text. Leaves V4 and CC4 with a corner tear, not affecting text. Leaf EE2 with a paper flaw, not affecting text. Overall a very good, extremely clean copy. HBS 65532. $38,500

Rare Copy of Cruikshank's The Comic Alphabet With Twenty-Six Color Plates

25. CRUIKSHANK, George, [illustrator]. The Comic Alphabet. Containing Twenty-Six Illustrations by Cruikshank. By W.R. Macdonald... London: D. Martin, [N.d., ca. 1830].

First edition. Twelvemo. 52pp. With twenty-six colored plates. Beautifully bound by John Bumpus in full tan calf, gilt-stamped spine, gilt turn-ins. Original yellow wrappers bound in. All edges gilt. Previous owner's bookplate. Minor shelfwear, otherwise, fine. Very scarce. The very few copies with original coloring are of exceptional rarity. No copies have come up in auction in over 40 years. HBS 66236. $1,500 First Edition, From the Franklin Roosevelt Library. With Roosevelt's Ownership Signature

26. DANA, Richard Henry, Jr.. [ROOSEVELT, Franklin Delano]. The Seaman's Friend; Containing A Treatise on Practical Seamanship, With Plates; A Dictionary of Sea Terms; Customs and Usages of the Merchant Service; Laws Relating to the Practical Duties of Master and Mariners. Boston: Charles C. Little & James Brown, and Benjamin Loring & Co., [1841].

First Edition. From the library of Franklin Roosevelt and with his ownership signature on the front free endpaper stateing "Franklin Roosevelt/ Hyde Park - 1931" Octavo (7 3/8 x 4 1/2 inches; 187 x 114 mm). i-223, [1, blank] pp. With four engraved plates.

Contemporary full speckled sheep. Spine lettered and ruled in gilt. Headcap and about one-quarter inch of the top of the spine chipped. Spine and board edges rubbed. Top of the spine with a two-inch crack, but binding is still firm. Some spotting and toning throughout, mostly minor. Previous owner Charles L. Williams ownership signature twice on front free endpaper, dated Oct. 7th, 1841. Also Franklin Roosevelt's ownership signature on front free endpaper. Overall a very good copy with a nice provenance. Housed in a full morocco clamshell. HBS 66311. $3,000

First Edition, First Issue Of Dana’s “Two Years Before The Mast”

27. [DANA, Richard Henry, Jr.]. Two Years Before the Mast. A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1840.

First edition, first issue. In Bal binding B (no priority). In state 1 of this binding which includes the "Harper's Family Library", Nos. 1-105; 1-36; 1-27 on back cover. And with the dotted "i" on the copyright page and the unbroken running head on page 9. Twelvemo (6 x 3 7/8 inches; 152 x 99 mm). [1]-483, [1, blank] pp.

Original full tan muslin. Covers and spine printed in black. Spine cracked at hinges, but still firm. A bit of chipping to tail of spine. Spine a bit darkened. Some soiling to cloth. Inner joint split at title- page. Some spotting and toning throughout. Previous owner's old ink inscription on front free endpaper. Stating "Henry Ware - 3rd/ From Mrs E.F. Channing./Cambridge./ Nov. 29th 1840." A very good copy. Housed in a full cloth clamshell.

It is probable that the giver of this book to Mr. Ware, Mrs. E.F. Channing was a relation of William Ellery Channing, influential abolitionist who was a distant cousin and friend of Richard Henry Dana's. HBS 66312. $7,500

First English Edition in the Rare Original Wrappers

28. [DANA, Richard Henry, Jr.]. Two Years Before the Mast. A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea. London: Edward Moxon, 1841.

First English edition. In original printed wrappers. Large octavo (9 7/16 x 6 1/4 inches; 240 x 160 mm). iv, 124, [2, blank] pp. Text printed in two columns.

Original yellow printed wrappers. Wrappers a bit soiled and foxed. Spine with a bit of rubbing. Edges of wrappers a bit worn. Inner hinge split at page 1, but holding firm. Chemised and housed in a blue cloth slipcase. Overall very good.

We could not find any copy in wrappers in OCLC or at auction in the past 30 years. This is the first of many English editions listed in BAL, however BAL does not mention this edition in wrappers. HBS 66317. $3,000 The Scarce First Halifax Edition

29. DANA, Richard Henry, Jr.. Two Years Before the Mast; or, a Voice from the Forecastle: Being A Sailor's Life at Sea. An Authentic Narrative. With an Appendix. Halifax: Milner and Sowerby, 1854.

First Halifax edition. Small octavo (4 15/16 x 3 1/8 inches; 125 x 80 mm). [1]-384 pp. With half-title and engraved frontispiece. BAL lists a later copy printed by Milner and Sowerby, in Halifax & London, dated 1856, but does not mention this 1854 edition. The listing for the 1856 copy states "The only record seen is its inclusion in a full list of the Cottage Library."

Full red cloth. Front boards stamped in blind and with a gilt-stamped ship. Back board stamped in blind. Spine lettered and stamped with a ship in gilt. Yellow endpapers. Cloth a bit split along outer joints and rubbed along edges. Inner hinge cracked. Dampstaining to frontispiece. Over all a very good of this rare edition. HBS 66321 $2000 Presentation Copy, Inscribed by the Author

30. DANA, Richard Henry, Jr.. Two Years Before the Mast. A Personal Narrative. A New Edition, With Subsequent Matter by the Author. Boston: Fields, Osgood, & Co., 1869.

A "New Edition", inscribed by the author. This edition, published twenty-eight years after the first edition was the first one published after the copyright reverted to Dana. In the new preface, Dana himself refers to it as the "first Author's edition," so it is fitting that he chooses this edition for a presentation copy. Inscription on the preliminary blank reads "Mr Samuel P. Dawson / with the kindest regards / of the narrator. / R.H. Dana Jr / June 5, 1869." We could only find one other presentation copy of Two Years Before the Mast in auction records for the past 30 years.

Original full green cloth. Spine lettered in gilt. Boards ruled in blind. Brown coated endpapers. Head and tail of the spine with a bit of wear. Corners slightly bumped. Binding slightly skewed. One signature a bit sprung. Overall a very good copy. HBS 66316. $2,500

First Edition of Darwin's "Descent of Man"

31. DARWIN, Charles. The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex. In Two Volumes. London: John Murray, 1871.

First edition, second issue. With the list of nine titles by Darwin on the verso of the title-page of Volume II, the blank verso of the half-title of the same volume and the reset pages as listed in Freeman. In this issue the "serious and unfortunate error" that affected pages 297-299 of Volume I, and pages 161 and 237 in Volume II was corrected, with these pages being entirely reset. Two octavo volumes (7 1/2 x 4 15/16 inches; 190 x 125 mm). viii, 423, [1, printer’s imprint], [16, ads]; viii, 475, [1, printer’s imprint], [16, ads] pp. With the sixteen page publisher's advertisements at the ends of both volumes, dated January 1871. With numerous black and white illustrations throughout the text.

Original green cloth with covers stamped in blind and spines stamped and lettered in gilt. Black-coated endpapers. Head and tail of spines with some minor rubbing. Corners slightly bumped and some light rubbing to boards. A few small spots on the front board of volume I. Some foxing, mainly to the preliminary and final signatures of each volume. Previous owner's bookplates on front paste-down of each volume. Overall an exceptional copy of a book that usually shows up in much worse condition. HBS 65688. $4,500 An Excellent Set of Defoe’s Masterpiece

32. [DEFOE, Daniel]. The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe... Second edition (published the same year as the first edition). Octavo Engraved frontispiece portrait of Robinson Crusoe by Clark & Pine. Decorative woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials. [Together with:] [DEFOE, Daniel]. The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe; London: 1719. First edition, first issue. Both volumes bound in contemporary brown calf of the same tone; the first volume with double gilt fillet borders and the second with blind-stamped panels. Both volumes expertly rebacked to style. Both spines uniformly tooled in gilt. Red morocco spine labels, lettered in gilt. First volume slightly shorter than the second (196 mm. vs 193 mm.). Boards a bit rubbed. Some light occasional foxing. B3 of volume II with small marginal repair. Previous owner bookplate in the front of volume two. An excellent set of Defoe’s masterpiece. Housed in a quarter morocco clamshell. Grolier, 100 English, 1. PMM 180. HBS 65669. $10,000

Rare Auction Catalogues for the Sale of Gad's Hill Place

33. [DICKENS, Charles]. Norton, Trist, Watney & Co. [Gad's Hill Place- Auction Catalogue]. London: August 5th, 1870.

Pages self-bound together with stab-stitch. Lacking original wrappers. Folio (17 1/4 x 11 inches; 438 x 280 mm). With two colored lithographic views of the property (north view and south view), two folding colored lithographic plans and eight pages of text. Tissue guards. Some light soiling to pages. A light dampstaing to top margin of first lithograph, not affecting illustration. Both folding plans with some creasing. [Together with]: [Dickens, Charles]. Knight, Frank & Rutley. [Gad's Hill Place- Auction Catalogue]. Kent... The Singularly Interesting Freehold Property Know as Gadshill Place the home of Charles Dickens from 1857 to 1870. London. July 26th, 1923. Original tan printed wrappers. With three photographic plates and a folding plan. Eighteen pages of text. Octavo (9 3/4 x 6 1/8 inches; 245 x 155 mm). Wrappers a lightly soiled. A few light pencil notations on the first plate. Otherwise very good. Both pieces housed together in a red cloth chemise, lettered in gilt. HBS 66340. $10,000

Exceptionally Rare in Parts

34. DICKENS, Charles. The Adventures of Oliver Twist: or, The Parish Boy’s Progress. ... With Twenty- Four Illustrations on Steel, By George Cruikshank. A New Edition, Revised and Corrected. London: Bradbury and Evans, [January - October] 1846.

First edition of the very rare ten monthly parts issue. Octavo. The set at hand collates complete with all the plates, text and advertisements according to Hatton & Cleaver's description pp. 215-224. All wrappers correct and complete as well. Some of the parts professionally rebacked, or with other small neat repairs. Part VII front wrapper has been extended in bottom margin, but still a bit short. Front wrapper of part V and back wrapper of part VII trimmed a bit short on bottom margin. Back wrapper of part X slightly soiled. The usual rubbing and foxing to parts. One of the most difficult works of Dickens to find in parts. Period ownership inscription on the front wrapper of parts IV, VI and VIII. Still a handsome set. Housed in a blue quarter morocco slipcase and chemise. HBS 65570. $30,000 A Complete Set of Dickens’s Christmas Books, All First Editions

35. DICKENS, Charles. A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas. With Illustrations by John Leech. London: 1843. First edition, second issue: i.e., “Stave One”; text entirely uncorrected (but with period faint after “gloom” on p. 21, line 22); pale yellow coated endpapers; blue half-title; red and blue title. Small octavo. [8], 166, [2, ads] pp. Four hand- colored steel-engraved plates by and after Leech and four wood-engraved text illustrations by W.J. Linton after Leech. [Together with:] —. The Chimes. A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In. London:1845 [ December 1844]. First edition. Foolscap octavo. [i-viii], [1]2-175[176]. First state engraved title and frontispiece by Daniel Maclise; intertextuals by Doyle, Leech, and Stanfield. [With:] —. The Cricket on the Hearth. A Fairy Tale of Home. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1846 [i.e., December 1845]. First edition. Foolscap octavo. [i-viii], [1]2-174[-176, ads]. Second state of Oliver ad. Engraved title and frontispiece by Daniel Maclise. Twelve intertextual illustrations by various artists, chiefly John Leech. [With:] —. The Battle of Life. A Love Story. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1846. First edition. Foolscap octavo. [i-viii], [1-3]4-175[176], [8, publisher’s catalogue], [177-178, ads]. Second state engraved title (Todd state C2, Eckel 2) and frontispiece by Maclise; intertextuals by Maclise, Doyle, Stanfield and Leech. [And:] —. The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain. A Fancy for Christmas-Time. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1848. First edition. Foolscap octavo. [i-viii], [1]2-188. Lithographic frontispiece and title, plus additional text illustrations by Leech, Stone, Stanfield and Tenniel.

Together five books, each first editions. In the original cloth, stamped in blind and gilt, all edges gilt. Christmas Carol with outer and inner hinges starting. A few small repairs to cloth. Cloth lightly soiled and bubbling on the back board. Binding a bit skewed. Leaves with a bit of toning. Chimes has a wrinkle across back board. The cloth of Cricket a bit soiled. Battle of Life, with front inner hinge cracked, outer hinge starting. With very small bookplate on front pastedown. Haunted Man with some chipping to head and tale of spine. Spine and edges a bit darkened. Overall, a very good set. Each volume chemised and housed in quarter maroon morocco slipcase. HBS 66025. $6,500

First American Edition in Cloth

36. DICKENS, Charles. Great Expectations. Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson, [n.d., 1861].

First American edition issued in cloth as well as first illustrated American edition. Octavo. [17-18]19-266, [1-6, ads, misnumbered]. With thirty-four inserted plates by McLenan. Plates to face pages 53 and 131 used as frontispiece and vignette title.

Sand-grain brown blindstamped cloth stamped in blind, spine lettered and pictorially stamped in gilt, yellow endpapers. Spine slightly chipped on top and bottom, tips bumped. Previous owner's contemporary signature on front-free endpaper and letter "R.". Lightly foxed and offset throughout. Still a very good copy of this novel in original cloth, extremely scarce in any form. Housed in a brown cloth clamshell, gilt-stamped on spine. HBS 66269. $1,500 First Edition of Charles Dickens’s Is She His Wife? or, Something Singular

37. DICKENS, Charles. Is She His Wife? or, Something Singular. A Comic Burletta in One Act. Boston: 1877.

First obtainable printing. Sixteenmo. 80pp. Original brown cloth, decoratively blocked in black and blind, lettered in gilt and black. Off-white endpapers printed in red. A fine, bright copy. Housed in a custom maroon cloth slipcase, black morocco label on spine, gilt-stamped.

Apparently no copy exists of the first (1837) edition of this play, Dickens’ third published play (first performed 6 March 1837); this is the only published work by Dickens to which this situation applies. (The Gimbel collection has playbills for performances on 13 March and 6 April 1837.) Eckel mentions that the only known copy of this edition was at Osgood for their 1877 reprint and was subsequently destroyed in a fire there in 1879. A census in Eckel finds only three extant copies of the 1873 British reprint. Thus, the Osgood reprint of 1877 is the first obtainable printing of this piece.

(The Gimbel collection does have a copy [of the 1873 English], probably the one mentioned by Eckel as lacking the back wrapper; the extensive McQuire collection of American Dickens did not have a copy; VanderPoel had both green and brick cloth variants of the 1877, as did Gimbel.) HBS 66292. $1,250

The First "Conclusion" to Edwin Drood Very Rare in Original Parts

38. DICKENS, Charles. [MORFORD, Henry, and others (?)]. John Jasper's Secret. Being a Narrative of Certain Events Following and Explaining "The Mystery of Edwin Drood." With Twenty Illustrations. London: Publishing Offices: No. 342, Strand, 1872. [i.e., October 1871-May 1872].

First edition. In original eight monthly parts (October 1871-May 1872), as issued. Octavo (Twenty inserted plates. Collates complete per Sadleir, except with the two leaf "sewing machine" in the beginning of Part VI instead of V.

Original blue-green printed wrappers. Text and plates exceptionally clean. Wrappers generally clean and bright. Wrappers slightly chipped. Page 251 is mispaginated 521. Professional restoration to cover with upper right corner replaced from another part to first few leaves of Part V. A sharp, fresh set of the very rare parts issue of this, the first (of many), attempted conclusions to the mystery novel which Dickens left unfinished at his death. Housed in a custom quarter morocco clamshell, gilt-stamped. HBS 66295. $4,000

First Issue of First Edition Original 88 Weekly Numbers

39. DICKENS, Charles. Master Humphrey’s Clock.. ...With Illustrations by George Cattermole and Hablot Browne. Vol. I. [II. III.] London: Chapman and Hall, 1840[-1841] [i.e., 4 April 1840-27 November 1841].

First edition, first issue, in the eighty-eight weekly parts. Large octavo size, self-wrappered with text signed in sixes. Original wrapper design by Cattermole. 2 frontispieces, 130 woodcuts and 25 initials by Browne; 1 frontispiece and 38 woodcuts by Cattermole; 1 woodcut each by S. Williams and Maclise.

Text is remarkably clean throughout. Edge staining to Issue 13, not affecting text. Inevitably some edges are frayed with very slight foxing and/or staining on some wrappers. Near fine. Housed in a full green custom clamshell, gilt-stamped. HBS 66308. $4,500 First Edition in Original Cloth

40. DICKENS, Charles. STONE, Marcus, [illustrator]. Our Mutual Friend. With Illustrations by Marcus Stone. London: 1865.

First edition. Two octavo volumes With forty engraved plates including frontispieces by Marcus Stone, twenty in each volume. Each volume with all of the internal flaws called for by Smith.

Original purplish-brown sand-grain cloth, stamped in blind. Spines decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt. Endpaper's coated pale yellow. Top of spines lightly frayed. Front inner hinges of volume I and both inner hinges of volume II with a hair-line crack. With a small repair to the inner hinge of volume II. A small, embossed bookseller's label on front free endpaper of each volume. A very superior copy of a book usually found in remainder bindings, or rebound. Housed in a cloth slipcase. HBS 64550. $9,500

With Rare Letts Diary

40. DICKENS, Charles. BROWNE, Hablot Knight, [illustrator]. The Personal History of David Copperfield.With Illustrations by H.K. Browne. London: Bradbury & Evans, May 1849 - Nov. 1850.

Set is very near complete as called for by Hatton and Cleaver. Containing 17 of 19 "Advertisers;" 12 of 13 front insets; and 17 of 25 back ads. Each number has been uniformly rebacked in cloth. Text is clean throughout. Some plates are foxed with some minor offsetting. Part 3 is missing 3-4 of back-ads. Part 8, first issue point: p.3 of the "Advertiser" has misspelling, "Lile." Part 8 contains the rare Lett's Diaries' specimens. On Part 13 the back wrapper has been substituted. Part 15, back ads incomplete. Four-page "Advertiser," lacking in 17. 19/20 lacks "Advertiser," "Punch" slip and 4 back ads.

Overall, set is very good and remarkably complete for this title, a rarity in original parts. Housed in a custom quarter blue morocco slipcase, gilt-stamped. HBS 66310. $5,000

Pollock’s Characters & Scenes in Oliver Twist and Oliver Twist, or the Parrish Boy’s Progress With 23 Hand-Colored Plates

41. DICKENS, Charles. POLLOCK, B., [contributor]. Pollock's Characters & Scenes in Oliver Twist,. 6 Plates Characters, 1 Set Piece, 3 Wings, and 13 Scenes. Total 23. With Book to the Above. London: B. Pollock, [N.d., ca. 1860].

First edition. Octavo. Full mottled calf, gilt-stamped spine. gilt-turn-ins. Spine rubbed along extremities. Near fine. [Bound together with] DICKENS, Charles. Oliver Twist, or the Parrish Boy's Progress. A Drama., In Three Acts. London: Print and Tinsel Warehouse, [N.d., ca. 1860].

Although nine plates bear the imprint B. Pollock, fourteen of these toy- theatre scenes were made for J. Redington, presumably the predecessor of Pollock. HBS 66293. $2,000 Presented to Charles Dickens With His Bookplate

42. [DICKENS, Charles, Association].TALFOURD, Thomas Noon. Tragedies. Ion-The Athenian Captive.-Glencoe. London: 1840.

First edition. Octavo. Publisher's deluxe binding of full green morocco, gilt-stamped, gilt turn-ins. All edges gilt. From the Library of Charles Dickens, with his bookplate and auction stamp dated June 1870. Presentation copy from Talfourd to Dickens on front free endpaper.

"Charles Dickens, ESQ. From his earnest Admirer and constant friend Th Talfourd 18 Dec. 1843" Housed in a custom quarter green morocco slipcase. Fine. HBS 66300. $3,750

The First Edition of Donne’s "Poems” and "Juvenilia"

43. D[ONNE], J[ohn]. Poems, by J. D. London: 1633. [Bound together with]: DONNE, J. Juvenilia, or Certaine Paradoxes and Problemes. London: 1633.

First edition of the principal collection of Donne’s poetical works, issued two years after his death with a first edition of his "perfectly impudent" Juvenilia. Two small quarto volumes in one. (7 x 5 1/4 inches; 178 x 133 mm.). [x], 406, [4, blank], [61, Juvenilia] pp. Poems with the rare two leaves (signed A and A2) containing “The Printer to the Understanders” and “Hexastichon Bibliopolæ,” not present in all copies. Leaf Nn1 with thirty-five lines of text on p. 273 instead of thirty or thirty-one, with omission of the usual running headline. With numerous woodcuts throughout both books.

19th century full brown calf, rebacked with spine laid down. Boards tooled in blind. Spine lettered in gilt. A bit of staining to lower edge of front board. Top edge trimmed close, occasionally affecting decorative line at top and pagination of Poems and a few of the running titles of Juvenilia. A bit of dampstaining to lower margin that runs on and off throughout. Overall a very good copy. Grolier, Langland to Wither, 71. HBS 65464. $30,000 The Doves Bible in Beautiful Full Morocco by the Doves Bindery

44. [DOVES PRESS]. [BIBLE IN ENGLISH]. [DOVES BINDERY, binder]. JOHNSTON, Edward, [calligrapher]. The English Bible. Containing the Old Testament & the New translated out of the original tongues by special command of His Majesty King James... Hammersmith: Doves Press, 1903-1905.

One of 500 copies printed on handmade paper by T.J. Cobden-Sanderson and Emery Walker. Five folio volumes (13 x 9 inches; 329 x 226 mm.). Printed in red and black, with initial letters designed by Edward Johnston.

Beautiful full blue morocco by The Doves Bindery. Boards with triple gilt rule. Spines lettered and stamped in gilt. Gilt dentelles with floral corner devices. All edges gilt. Very minimal foxing and “Genesis” leaf very clean. A small split to inner hinge of volume I when opened wide. A bit of offsetting to endpapers from dentelles. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown of each volume. An near fine copy. Each volume housed in a morocco-tipped cloth slipcase. HBS 65732. $35,000 First Edition In Book Form

45. DOYLE, A[rthur] Conan. The Sign of Four. London: Spencer Blackett, 1890.

First edition in book form, second issue, with foot of spine reading “Griffith Farran & Cos Standard Library.” Octavo (7 7/16 x 5 inches; 188 x 127 mm). [4], 283, [1, blank] pp. Frontispiece by Charles Kerr, with tissue guard. With the numeral “138” on the contents page incomplete and reading “13,” as usual, and with “wished” appearing as “w shed” on p. 56, line 16.

Original dark red fine-ribbed cloth blocked in black with front cover and spine lettered in gilt. All edges uncut. Dark brown coated endpapers. Minimal wear to spine extremities. A pinhole in the cloth of the spine and corners a bit bumped and rubbed. Front inner hinge repaired with some new paper. Overall a very nice copy. Housed in a custom full red morocco clamshell. HBS 65675. $7,500

Limited to 290 Copies, Signed by Eliot

46. ELIOT, T.S. The Four Quartets. London: Faber and Faber, [1960].

One of 290 copies printed on the hand-press of the Officina Bodoni in Verona and signed by the author, this being number 188. Quarto (11 3/4 x 8 inches; 297 x 202 mm). [4, blank], [1]-[54], [1, blank], [1, colophon], [4, blank] pp. Printed in Dante type.

Quarter vellum over marbled boards. Vellum ruled in gilt. Spine lettered in gilt. Top edge gilt. A fine copy. In marbled cardboard open-end slipcase. HBS 66104. $5,500

First Edition of Walker Evans First and Last With an Original Photograph

47. EVANS, Walker. First and Last. New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1978.

First edition, limited to 75 copies, of which this is copy number 8 with an original photograph, number 8 of 75, laid-in. The photograph is "Truckdrivers" (reproduced on p. 61 of the book). Photograph measures 7 1/2 x 9 1/2.

Square quarto. Grey cloth, silver-stamped spine, dust jacket and publisher’s cloth slipcase. Light rubbing to jacket extremities, slipcase sunned, else fine. HBS 66329. $2,750

The Birth of Antibiotics; One of 250 Copies

48. FLEMING, Sir Alexander. On the Antibacterial Action of Cultures of a Penicillium with Special Reference to Their Use in the Isolation of B. Influenza.[London: 1929 (i.e. 1944)].

Second separate printing. One of only 250 copies. Quarto (9 3/4 x 7 1/4 inches; 248 x 186 mm.). 12 pp. Self-wrappers, stapled as issued. Folding red cloth case. A fine copy. Printing and the Mind of Man 420a. HBS 65299. $5,000 The Most Important Scientific Book of Eighteenth-Century America and The Most Complete Edition of Benjamin Franklin's Electrical Papers

49. FRANKLIN, Benjamin. Experiments and Observations on Electricity, ...London: Printed for F. Newberry, 1774.

Fifth and most complete edition. Quarto (8 7/8 x 6 7/8 inches; 225 x 176 mm). [2, blank], [1, half-title], [1, blank], v, [1, ad], 514, [16, index] pp. Seven engraved plates, including frontispiece and a few text diagrams. Three of the plates are folding.

Contemporary full calf, rebacked to style. With original red morocco spine label, lettered in gilt. Corners and edges a bit rubbed. Title and preface leaves with some foxing. Previous owner's pencil markings on front free endpapers. Old ink signature on front free endpaper. Overall a very good copy.

Printing and the Mind of Man calls this "the most important scientific book of eighteenth-century America." The fifth edition is the most complete of Franklin's works on electricity and contains two more plates than the fourth edition. This classic work includes the terms positive and negative, action of pointed conductors, discharge by alternate contact, spring, seat of charge, Franklin's pane, electric dinner, aurorae, common matter self-attractive, electrical matter self- repellent, and many more. The actual text was revised by Franklin and was the last edition published during his lifetime. "The most outstanding difference… is of course in content. The fourth and fifth editions were each more than twice as large as the first three…" I. Bernard Cohen, Benjamin Franklins Experiments. pp.148-154. Ford, 318. Howes 320. Sabin 25506. Wheeler Gift 367c. HBS 64589. $6,750

Underwater Warfare

50. FULTON, Robert. Torpedo War, and Submarine Explosions. New York: William Elliott, 1810.

First edition of the first book on underwater warfare. Oblong folio (8 7/16 x 10 5/8 inches; 215 x 269 mm). 57, [3] pp. Complete with all five plates. The first two leaves (blank and title) are a bit short (8 1/8 x 10 5/8 inches; 215 x 209 mm).

As issued in marbled wrappers. Old, faint crease to center. Some occasional light foxing but overall, a very good and clean copy. Printing and the Mind of Man 264. HBS 65261 $12,500

Rare First English Edition of "Dead Souls"

51. [GOGOL, Nikolai]. Home Life in Russia. By a Russian Nobel. London: Hurst and Blackett, 1854.

First edition in English. A "translation" of Dead Souls by Gogol. Two octavo volumes (7 11/16 x 4 13/16 inches; 195 x 122 mm). [2], iv, 308; [2], 314, [2, ads] pp. With two pages of publisher's advertisements.

Publisher's original green cloth. Boards and spines decoratively stamped in blind. Spines lettered in gilt. Yellow coated endpapers. Top edges brown. Some very light soiling to cloth and some fraying to the tops of spines. Some very minor professional and almost invisible gluing to a small portion of the back outer hinge, with no loss of cloth. Spines lightly sunned. Previous owner's old ink signatures on front paste down (dated 1860) and on title pages (dated 1857) of each volume, not affecting text. Volumes slightly skewed. Overall a very good, clean set in original cloth. Housed in a custom slipcase. HBS 64929. $16,500 First Edition Of Zane Grey's First Book, Inscribed By Him

52. GREY, Zane. Betty Zane by P. Zane Grey. New York: Charles Francis Press, 1903.

First edition of the author’s first book. Presentation copy, inscribed by him on the front blank: “Very truly yours/Zane Grey.” Octavo (8 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches; 208 x 140 mm). [iv], [i] - [xiv], 15-291, [1, blank] pp. With six inserted plates, including frontispiece.

Publisher’s light grey cloth, spine lettered in gilt, front cover decoratively stamped in yellow, brown and burgundy. This title was not issued with a dust jacket. Spine rubbed and lightly soiled, some rubbing to front cover. Slightly skewed. Still, a near fine copy of this rare title. HBS 66273. $5,000

First Edition with the Rare first Issue of the Bowes Leaves and the Six Leaves of Drakes Voyage

53. HAKLUYT, Richard. The Principal Navigations, Voiages, Traffiques and Discoueries of the English Nation,... London: George Bishop, Ralph Newberrie and Robert Barker, 1589.

First edition. Folio (11 x 7 1/4 inches; 281 x 184 mm). [16], 1-89, 89-242, [2, blank], 243-505, [1, blank], 506-643, [12, Drake], 644-825, [9, table], [1, printer's imprint] pp. With the rare first issue of the Bowes leaves (2X5-2Y6), the blank leaf X4 and the 6 unpaginated leaves describing Drakes voyage between pages 642 and 643. With numerous woodcut head and tail pieces and historiated initials. Woodcut device on colophon. Bound without map and final blank as usual.

This is the first appearance of Sir Francis Drake's account of his circumnavigation which also includes his exploration of the California Coast. "Hakluyt had indeed begun to prepare such an account [of Drake's Circumnavigation] but withdrew it so as not to prejudice a collection of Drake's voyages which was in preparation. Permission now came to insert it, not improbably from Drake himself" (Hakluyt Handbook, p. 475).

Contemporary full mottled calf. Early Rebacked to style, preserving the original gilt lettered spine label. Boards ruled in blind. Outer hinges with some repair. A bit of toning and light dampstaining. Title-page lightly soiled. Occasional instances of upper margin shaved close, affecting only upper horizontal rule. Marginal repair to S2, not affecting text. Inner hinges repaired with leather. Old armorial stamp to bottom blank margin of title-page and page 1. Previous owner's old ink signature to title-page (Will Thompson, Queen's College). Rob Worsley early ink signature to front pastedown. Bookplate for the Earls of Home on front free endpaper. Overall a very crsip copy. PMM 105 HBS 66228. $22,500 One of a Small Number of Copies on Thick Paper, Published for Presentation. With the First Printing of the Numbers 78-85

54. [HAMILTON, Alexander, James Madison, and John Jay]. The Federalist: A Collection of Essays,... New-York: 1788.

Volume II only (of two). First edition of “the most famous and influential American political work” (Howes). One of a small number of copies on thick paper, published for presentation. One twelvemo volume. (6 5/8 x 3 7/8 inches; 167 x 99 mm.). [2, blank], [1, title-page], [1, blank], 384, [iii-vi, Contents], [2, blank] pp. Volume II text bulks 1 1/2 inches (37 mm.). The two Contents leaves bound after the text in this copy. Also in this copy, "NUMBER LXX" is incorrectly printed as "NUMBER LXXX" on page 240. This ends with the articles of the New Constitution.

Contemporary full tree calf. Rebacked with original spine laid down. Spine with red and black morocco spine labels, lettered and stamped in gilt. Portion of black spine label is rubbed, affecting "Vol." Inner hinges professionally repaired. Previous owner's old ink signature on front pastedown, which has slightly transferred to front free endpaper. Additional previous owner's old ink signature on front blank. A bit of light toning, but the overall the text is very clean. A very good copy. Housed in a custom full morocco clamshell. Grolier, 100 American, 19. Grolier, 100 English, 55. Printing and the Mind of Man 234. HBS 66063. $25,000

The Most Complete Edition, and the Last With Revisions by Hamilton

55. [HAMILTON, Alexander, [contributor]. JAY, John, [contributor]. MADISON, James, [contributor]. The Federalist. On the New Constitution. By Publius. New-York: Printed and sold by George F. Hopkins, 1802.

Second Edition, revised and corrected edition. (In 1799, a year after the true first edition, Tiebout had copies of the first edition bound with his imprint on a new title- page). The the most complete edition and the last with revisions made by Hamilton and the last issued during his life. Two volumes, octavo in fours. (8 1/4 x 4 7/8 inches; 208 x 124 mm). [2, blank], [i]-viii, [1]-168, 167-270, 263-317, [1, errata], [2, blank]; [2, blank], v, [1, blank], [1]-351, [1, blank], [2, publisher's ads], [2, blank] pp. Volume I with two pages numbered 167 and two pages numbered 168, as noted on errata page and with page numbering 263-270 repeated.

Contemporary full tree calf, rebacked with original spine laid down. Spines stamped and lettered in gilt. Board edges gilt. Edges speckled blue. Rubbing to spines and boards. A bit of occasional light dampstaining, mainly to top margins. Paper flaw to outer margin of leaves O and O2 of volume II. Some general light toning and spotting, but overall a very good copy. HBS 66309. $15,000

Typed Letter, Signed by Hammett

56. HAMMETT, Dashiell. Typed Letter Signed. with initials “SDH” in pencil. The Aleutians: 1944.

One page, quarto, on typing paper. Addressed “Dearest Pru” (Whitfield). [Whitfield, the estranged wife of fellow Black Mask detective fiction writer Raoul Whitfield, and a possible lover of Hammett’s]. Fold lines. Tiny red ink checkmark to top right corner. Small green ink number (29) on the top left corner. Quarter-inch closed tear along one fold line, not affecting text. In fourth paragraph, Hammett has inserted a pencil correction to the word "cesor" making it "censor." Overall near fine. HBS 66233. $1,750 Rare First Edition of Hardy’s Second Novel in the Original Cloth

57. [HARDY, Thomas]. Under the Greenwood Tree. A Rural Painting of the Dutch School. By the Author of ‘Desperate Remedies.’ In Two Volumes. London: Tinsley Brothers, 1872.

Rare first edition of Thomas Hardy’s second novel. Two octavo volumes (7 3/8 x 4 7/8 inches; 188 x 124 mm). [6], 215, [1, blank]; [6], 216 pp. Complete with half-titles.

Original green sand-grain cloth over beveled boards. Covers stamped in black with an Oxford frame and spines ruled in gilt and black and lettered in gilt. A bit of rubbing to extremities and corners. Gilt on the spine with some rubbing. Hinges with some professional repairs. Previous owner's ink signature on front pastedown of each volume. Some foxing and staining, mostly at front and rear. Overall, an very good copy, in the scarce original cloth. Housed in slipcase.

“Under the Greenwood Tree was published anonymously at 21s., in a edition presumably of 500 copies, early in June 1872” (Purdy). HBS 65702. $17,500

Editio Princeps Of The Father Of History

58. HERODOTUS. Herodoti libri novem, quibus Musarum indita sunt nomina [edited by Aldus Manutius]. Venice: Aldus Manutius, 1502.

Editio princeps, one of the most important to have been edited bythe great scholar-printer-publisher himself. Folio (12 5/16 x 8 3/16 inches; 312 x 208 mm.). Title in Greek and Latin. [140] leaves. Greek letter. Fifty-five lines plus headline. Capital spaces with guide letters. Ruled in red throughout. Woodcut printer’s device on title and on verso of last leaf.

Eighteenth-century black calf. Gilt double-rule border on covers, gilt spine, tooled in compartments, with red and black morocco labels, gilt board edges and turn-ins, marbled edges and endpapers. Early marginalia in Greek throughout (faded). Armorial bookplate of George Becher Blomfield, book label of Viscount Mersey, Bignor Park. An excellent copy, in a quarter morocco clamshell case. PMM 41. HBS 65436. $35,000

First Edition Of Holinshed's Chronicles, an Important Shakespeare Source Book; With the Folding Map of Edinburgh

59. HOLINSHED, Raphael. The First [-Laste] Volumes of the Chronicles. of England, Scotlande, and Irelande. London: John Hunne [and] Lucas Harison, 1577.

First edition. Four parts in two. Two folio volumes (11 1/4 x 7 5/8 inches; 286 x 194 mm), a very large copy. [viii],124 (i.e. 126 leaves), 289, [1, blank] (pp), [8], 22 pp, 1-518, [26], [2, errata] (pp), [2], 28 (leaves), 115, [6], [1, blank], [2 errata] pp; [iv], 291-659, 700-981, 990-1592, [2, names of knights], 1593-1876, [4, errata], [100, index] pp. Both volumes collate the same as Pforzheimer with the exception of the errata in volume I being bound out of place and with out one blank. Also the present copy has an additional four pages of errata before the index in the second volume. There is a duplicate page 927, in volume II. Titles with woodcut borders (McKerrow 147a), numerous woodcut initials and illustrations of various sizes throughout, many repeated. With the fold-out plate of the Map of Edinburgh, which is often lacking.

First and best edition of 'Holinshed's Chronicles', commonly known as the 'Shakespeare Edition', from the extensive use made of it by the great dramatist, who frequently used Holinshed's own words in his plays. At page 243 of the 'History of Scotland' begins 'The History of Macbeth' which formed the basis for Shakespeare's immortal play. The numerous interesting woodcuts in this edition were left out of the 1586 edition

Eighteenth-century full brown calf, very expertly rebacked preserving original spines. Boards double-ruled in gilt with a central gilt device. Spines stamped in gilt. Red morocco spine labels, lettered in gilt. Top edge brown, others red. Newer endpapers. First title-page in each volume, neatly backed. Neat old ink notes on front free endpaper of volume I. A small marginal rust hole to pages 107-115 of volume I. The hole has been repaired on pages 111-115, and is barely affecting the marginal text notes on pages 111-114. Page 469 of volume one has a corner that has been professionally repaired, barely affecting text. The final four leaves of volume I have been remargined along the top edge, barely affecting the headline of just one leaf. The final leaf of this group has also been remargined along fore-edge, not affecting text. Volume II with pages 467, 889 and 891 recornered, not affecting text. Page 1197 has been recornered, barely touching the text. Pages 1005-1010, 1409 & 1423 have been remargined, not affecting text. There is a five-inch closed tear to leaf cii of the index, partially repaired with no loss of text. Occasional browning and light dampstaining. Overall, an excellent and quite large copy. Grolier Langland to Wither 146. HBS 65751. $45,000

Victor Hugo’s Gothic Masterpiece

60. HUGO, Victor. Notre-Dame de Paris. Quatrième édition. Paris: 1831.

First edition, first printing, fourth issue (“Quatrieme édition”), of Hugo’s gothic masterpiece. It is generally accepted that the publisher indiscriminately printed different editions on the title-page of all copies to make the book seem as if it was now in four editions, however the text is all identical. Two octavo volumes (8 3/8 x 5 3/16 inches; 212 x 132 mm.). [8], 404; [4], 536 pp. Complete with half-titles. Wood-engraved title vignettes after Tony Johannot.

Contemporary drab boards with green calf spine labels decoratively stamped lettered in gilt. Small orange paper shelf label at foot of spine of Volume I. Some light foxing. Small paper flaw just affecting blank lower corner of 8/1 (pp. 113/114) in Volume I, and a similar paper flaw just affecting the lower blank corner of 19/4 (pp. 295/296) in Volume II, a few additional minor marginal paper flaws. Armorial bookplate of E. Van Havre and small orange paper shelf label on front pastedown of each volume. Embossed stamp of E. Van Havre on title of each volume. Overall, an excellent copy. HBS 65480. $9,500

"A Great Classic of Western Exploration"

61. JAMES, Edwin. LONG, Stephen H., [contributor]. Account Of An Expedition From Pittsburgh To The Rocky Mountains,...Philadelphia: H.C. Carey and I. Lea, [1822]-1823.

First edition. Two octavo volumes of text (9 3/8 x 5 15/16 inches; 239 x 152 mm) and one small quarto atlas (11 13/16 x 9 3/8 inches; 300 237 mm). Atlas is dated 1822. [4], [1]-5 Preliminary Notes, [1, blank], [2, contents], [1]-503, [1, blank]; [6], [1]-442, [1]-xcvii Supplement; 4, Atlas pp. Atlas complete with eleven plates in total. Two double page maps, eight engraved plates (including one colored) and two "vertical sections" in one double page plate. Some plates with tissue guards.

Volume II has a supplement at the end with a separate title page and is date 1822. Astronomical and Meteorological Records, and Vocabulary of Indian Languages, Taken on the Expedition for Exploring the Mississippi and its Western Waters, under the command of Major S.H. Long, of the United States' Topographical Engineers, in 1819 and 1820. Philadelphia, 1822.

Text uncut in half red morocco over marbled boards. Gilt lettering on the spine. Top edges gilt, others uncut. Boards a bit rubbed. Previous owner's old ink signature on "Preliminary Notes" page of volume I and on title page of volume II. Previous owner's manuscript notes bound in to front of volume II. A few old ink marginal notes throughout. A light dampstain to final twenty leaves of volume I. Atlas in quarter cloth over original drab boards. Front board with original printed paper spine label. Some spotting to boards. One plate with professional restoration to back side. All three volumes with previous owner's small bookplate on front pastedown. All three volumes with browning and foxing intermittently as is typical in American books of this time. Overall a very nice set. HBS 64764. $30,000 First Edition in Original Cloth

62. JAMES, Henry. Confidence.London: Chatto and Windus, 1880.

First edition, published 10 December 1879 in an edition of only 500 copies. Two octavo volumes (7 1/4 x 5 inches; 184 x 125 mm).[4], 309, [3]; [4], 253, [3], [32, publisher's ads] pp. With half-titles in both volumes. Publisher's ads on thinner stock dated December 1879.

Original dull olive-brown cloth, carpet pattern in triangular panel in black on covers. Lettered in black on front cover and gilt on spine. Blue-on-white floral endpapers. Burn & Co small binder's ticket on back endpaper of first volume. Previous owner's old ink inscription dated 1879 on front free endpaper of each volume. Housed in a quarter blue morocco slipcase with chemises. Bindings a little dulled and spotted, contents lightly toned. An excellent, near fine set. HBS 65568. $10,500

The First Folio Edition of Ben Jonson's Works

63. JONSON, Ben. The Workes of Benjamin Jonson. London: Printed by William Stansby, 1616. [Together with:] The Workes of Benjamin Jonson. The second Volume…London: Printed for Richard Meighen, [1631]-1640[-1641].

First folio edition. Three folio volumes, bound in two (Volume II divided into four parts, originally issued in two volumes). (Vol. I 10 13/16 x 7 1/8 inches; 275 x 180 mm.; Vol. II 11 1/8 x 7 3/8 inches; 282 x 190 mm.) [10], 1015, [1, blank]; [12], 88, [1], [1, blank], 93-170, 75, [1]; 155, [1, blank]; 292; 132 pp.. Volume I bound with rare initial blank leaf. Engraved allegorical title by William Hole.

Volume I- Full contemporary brown paneled calf, expertly rebacked to style. Spine with red and greem spine labels, lettered in gilt. All edges gilt. Former owner's signature on top of the title page, not affecting the engraving. Another signature on the front paste-down. Volume II- Full brown calf, ruled in blind, expertly rebacked and uniform with volume I, with red and green spine labels, lettered in gilt. Previous owners bookplates, Walter Scott Seton-Karr and John Seton Karr, on front paste-down. Together a very handsome set. Based on the fact that volume II was published twenty-four years after volume I, it is not unusually that the two volumes have different bindings. Grolier, 100 English, 17. HBS 64464. $35,000

A Superb Copy in a Contemporary Binding, with the Folding Map of Louisiana in Fine Condition

64. JOUTEL, [Henri]. Journal historique du dernier voyage que feu M. de la Sale fit dans le Golfe de Mexique,...Paris: Chez Estienne Robinot, 1713.

First edition of this important account of La Salle’s ill-fated expedition. Twelvemo. xxxiv, 386 pp. Folding engraved map (“Carte Nouvelle de la Louisiane, et de la Riviere de Missisipi, découverte par feu Mr. de la Salle”) after Joutel.

Contemporary French sprinkled calf. Spine decoratively tooled in gilt with brown morocco gilt lettering label. Board edges decoratively tooled in gilt. Edges sprinkled red. Small wormtrack in the lower blank corner throughout. A few small stains. Early ink markings on pp. 360 and 361. Early ink stamp of the Pères Dominicains Poitiers on title and on verso of folding map. Booklabel on front pastedown. Two early ink signatures crossed out on front free endpaper. A spectacular copy of this extremely rare account, with the folding map fine, fresh, and untouched. HBS 65301. $22,500 One of 500 Copies

65. [KELMSCOTT PRESS]. VORAGINE, Jacobus de. The Golden Legend [of Master Caxton done anew]. [London: Sold by Bernard Quaritch, 1892].

Limited to 500 paper copies (no vellum copies). Three large quarto volumes (11 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches; 290 x 208 mm). xii, [2], 103, [4, blank], [1], [105]-244, [1, blank], [1], [245]-464; [1, blank], [1], 465-864; [1, blank], [1], 865-1286, [2, blank] pp. Printed in Golden type. Two wood-engraved illustrations designed by Sir Edward Burne-Jones. Decorative woodcut borders and initials. Edited by Frederick S. Ellis and printed by William Morris at the Kelmscott Press. With a printed slip tipped in at front endpapers of Volume I: “IF this book be bound the edges of the leaves should only be TRIMMED, not cut. In no case should the book be pressed, as that would destroy the ‘impression’ of the type and thus injure the appearance of the printing. W. MORRIS.”

Original quarter holland over blue boards with printed spine paper labels. Edges uncut and largely unopened. Label of volume one with a tiny chip, barely affecting the text. Edges a bit rubbed and bumped. Boards with a few spots of soiling. Endpapers very slightly toned. Overall a very good copy. HBS 65758. $7,500

The Doheny Copy, With Two Illustrations by Sir Edward Burne-Jones

66. [KELMSCOTT PRESS]. MORRIS, William. [Love is Enough, or The Freeing of Pharamond: A Morality]. [Hammersmith: Sold by the Trustees of the late William Morris at the Kelmscott Press, 1897].

One of 300 paper copies, out of a total edition of 308 copies. Large quarto (11 3/8 x 8 3/8 inches; 290 x 211 mm). [7, blank], [1], 90, [1], [1, blank] pp. With two full-page illustrations (frontispiece and illustration facing p. 90) designed by Sir Edward Burne-Jones and engraved on wood by W.H. Hooper. Decorative woodcut borders and initials. Printed in black, red, and blue in Troy and Chaucer types.

Original full limp vellum with green silk ties. Spine lettered in gilt. Bookplate of Estelle Doheny. Overall an excellent copy. HBS 65752. $6,000

One Of The Scarcest Kelmscott Titles

67. [KELMSCOTT PRESS]. MORRIS, William. The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs. [Hammersmith: 1898].

Limited to 160 copies on paper, out of an edition of 166. Small folio (12 13/16 x 9 1/8 inches; 325 x 232 mm). Two wood-engraved illustrations designed by Sir Edward Burne-Jones. Section titles and shoulder titles printed in red.

Original limp vellum, yapp edges, silk ties. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown. Aside from a bit of typical foxing on the sheet edges and some light rubs and scrapes to the vellum binding, this is a truly remarkable copy of one of the scarcest Kelmscott titles.

Morris had originally intended having twenty-five illustrations for the Kelmscott Press Sigurd, and Burne-Jones had agreed reluctantly to supply them. During the period of 1895-1896, he complained about the task, thinking himself unfit for it. With the death of Morris at the beginning of 1897, Cockerell persuaded him to supply two illustrations for a less ambitious edition. Cattermole-Smith redrew the two designs and Hooper engraved them. The two borders used in this book were among the last to be designed by Morris, and one of the decorated letters (“A” in the third book), although designed for the Froissart, was only used here. HBS 65721. $12,500 The Kelmscott Press “Utopia”

68. [KELMSCOTT PRESS]. MORE, Sir Thomas. Utopia. Written by Sir Thomas More. [London: Sold by Reeves & Turner, 1893].

One of 300 copies on paper, out of a total edition of 308 copies. Octavo (8 1/8 x 5 9/16 inches; 206 x 142 mm). [2, blank], xiv, 282, [1, colophon], [1, blank] pp. Printed in red and black in Chaucer and Troy types. Decorative woodcut borders and initials. “Now revised by F.S. Ellis & printed again by William Morris at the Kelmscott Press, Hammersmith” (Colophon). With a Foreword by William Morris.

Original full limp vellum with yapp edges. Spine lettered in gilt. All edges uncut. Back bottom tie renewed. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown. An about fine copy.

Aymer Vallance records an amusing anecdote (quoted in Peterson): “Of the 300 copies issued, 40 had been ordered in advance by an Eton master, with the intention of distributing them as prizes among the boys of the college, but when the work appeared with a compromisingly Socialistic introduction by Morris, the order, from motives of prudence, had to be canceled. However the copies were all disposed of before a year was out, so Morris did not suffer any loss.” HBS 65744. $6,500

The Magnificent Kelmscott Chaucer

69. [KELMSCOTT PRESS]. CHAUCER, Geoffrey. The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer now newly imprinted. [Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1896].

One of 425 copies on paper, out of a total edition of 438 copies. Folio (16 3/4 x 11 3/8 inches; 426 x 291 mm.). [4], ii, [2], 554, [2] pp. With eighty-seven woodcut illustrations after Sir Edward Burne-Jones, redrawn by Robert Catterson-Smith and cut by W.H. Hooper, woodcut title- page, fourteen variously repeated woodcut borders, eighteen variously repeated woodcut frames around illustrations, twenty-six nineteen-line woodcut initial words, numerous three-, six-, and ten-line woodcut initial letters, and woodcut printer’s device, all designed by William Morris and cut by C.E. Keates, W.H. Hooper, and W. Spielmeyer. Printed in black and red in Chaucer type, the titles of longer poems printed in Troy type. Double columns. Edited by F.S. Ellis.

Original holland-backed blue paper boards. Printed paper label on spine. Spine and label very lightly browned, with a little chipping to label. Occasional light foxing or spotting on fore- edge. Otherwise a fine copy. With the bookplate of John Charrington on front pastedown. In a full brown morocco slipcase. HBS 65487. $85,000 The Magnificent Kelmscott Chaucer, One of Approximately Fifty Copies Bound by the Doves Bindery. And with a Rare Bifolium Proof with Variant Typsetting for the Opening Page and it's Conjugate Leaf

70. [KELMSCOTT PRESS]. CHAUCER, Geoffrey. The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer now newly imprinted. [Hammersmith: Printed by…William Morris at the Kelmscott Press, 1896].

One of 425 paper copies, out of a total edition of 438 copies. Large folio (16 5/8 x 11 3/8 inches; 423 x 288 mm.). [4], ii, [2], 554, [2, blank] pp. With eighty-seven woodcut illustrations after Sir Edward Burne-Jones, redrawn by Robert Catterson- Smith and cut by W.H. Hooper. Woodcut title-page, fourteen variously repeated woodcut borders, eighteen variously repeated woodcut frames around illustrations, twenty-six nineteen-line woodcut initial words, numerous three-, six-, and ten-line woodcut initial letters, and woodcut printer’s device, all designed by William Morris and cut by C.E. Keates, W.H. Hooper, and W. Spielmeyer. Printed in black and red in Chaucer type, the titles of longer poems printed in Troy type. Double columns. Edited by F.S. Ellis.

Included with this is a rare bifolium proof with two conjugate trial leaves with variant typesetting for the opening page of the Chaucer and its conjugate leaf. These trial pages were set using one size smaller type then is found in the final production. By using the smaller type, one extra line of text has been added to the first page. Also included with this is a proof leaf again of the opening page, but with the text area blank. All these leaves have Burne-Jones woodcuts and these leaves in and of themselves are quite rare.

Publisher’s white pigskin, elaborately tooled in blind after a design by William Morris. The front cover blind-lettered “Geoffrey Chaucer” at head and “Kelmscott” at foot, with a central panel diagonally ruled into lozenges containing stylized flowers enclosed by a frame of stylized grapevines and a border of small floral tools, the back cover diagonally ruled into lozenges containing stylized oak leaves, the spine in five compartments, each blind-tooled in a foliate design with central fleur-de-lys, two clasps, all edges gilt on rough, by the Doves Bindery (stamped "Doves Bindery on lower rear paste-down). A fine copy in this superb binding. Previous owner's bookplate on front paste-down. Housed in a quarter black morocco clamshell. In a printed notice issued on 26 February 1896, Morris announced his intention to provide four special bindings for the Chaucer: two full and two half pigskin designs, one of each style to be executed by the Doves Bindery and by J. & J. Leighton. Because of a debilitating terminal illness (Morris would die on 3 October 1896), the present full pigskin binding by the Doves Bindery was the only special Chaucer design Morris completed. It was, moreover, one of only four binding designs he ever created and one of the last designs of any kind that he made. HBS 65739. $225,000 In the Original Dust Jacket

71. KEYNES, John Maynard. The General Theory of Employment Interest and Money. London: Macmillan and Co., 1936.

First edition. Octavo (8 3/8 x 5 3/8 inches; 212 x 135 mm). [3, blank], [1, advertisement], xii, 403, [1, blank] pp.

An book review for this book from "The Observer" 16th, Feb. 1936 tipped in to front pastedown. Other newspaper clippings from 1936 and handwritten notes tipped in to back endpapers and blanks.

Original slate blue cloth with covers ruled in blind and spine ruled and lettered in gilt. Original gray dust jacket with blue lettering. Jacket with price of 5/- net. Jacket's spine panel a slightly darkened. With a minimal amount of chipping and wrinkling to the head and tail of the jacket. Some pencil notes to front free endpaper. Book is very clean. Overall a near fine copy. Printing and the Mind of Man 423. HBS 66092. $10,000

First Edition of Keynes’s First Book

72. KEYNES, John Maynard. Indian Currency and Finance. London: Macmillan and Co., 1913.

First edition of Keynes’s first book. Octavo (8 9/16 x 5 7/16 inches; 218 x 139 mm). viii, 263, [1, blank] pp. Folding diagram (“Rate of Discount at the Presidency Bank of Bengal”) inserted between pp. 240 and 241.

Original brick red cloth ruled in blind on covers and ruled and lettered in gilt on spine. Spine very slightly darkened. An excellent copy. HBS 65366. $2,000

The First English Edition of the Second Russian Pacific Voyage

73. KOTZEBUE, Otto von. A Voyage of Discovery, into the South Sea and Beering's Straits,... In three volumes. Vol. I. [II. III.] London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1821.

First edition in English. Three octavo volumes (8 7/16 x 5 3/8 inches; 215 x 136 mm). [iii[-xv, [1, list of plates], [1, blank], [1]- 358; [2], [1]-433, [1, printer's imprint]; [2], [1]-442 pp. Complete with eight hand-colored aquatint plates (including frontispieces), one uncolored plate, and seven maps, four of which are folding. Numerous tables in text. Lacking initial blank in each volume.

Contemporary half red calf over marbled boards. Spines elaborately stamped in gilt. Green calf spine labels, lettered in gilt. Volume numbers on the spine stamped in gilt on a small inlaid circle of yellow calf. Edges speckled red. Bookplate on front paste-downs of each volume. Boards slightly rubbed, edges lightly chipped. Front inner hinge cracked but firm. First folding map of volume II with a five-inch closed tear. Some light browning and offsetting from plates and maps, but still an excellent copy. Zamorano Eighty 48. HBS 64735. $7,500 First Edition of This Scarce Book on American Distilling

74. KRAFFT, Michael. The American Distiller or, the Theory and Practice of Distilling, According to the Latest Discoveries and Improvements, Including the Most Improved Methods of Constructing Stills, and of Rectification. Philadelphia: 1804.

First edition. Octavo in fours (8 5/16 x 5 inches; 211 x 126 mm). [4], [1]-219, [1, blank] pp. With twenty-two unnumbered pages between pages 151 and 152 with the chapter title The Manner of Making Malt as described by Sir Robert Murray. Illustrated with three figures on two engraved folding plates. No copies could be located on OCLC. This book has been dedicated to Thomas Jefferson.

Contemporary tree sheep, rebacked to style. Red morocco spine label, lettered in gilt. Spine stamped in gilt. Boards with some light wear. Corners a bit bumped. A bit of chipping to spine. Pages a bit foxed and toned, particularly pages 29-43. The first folding chart has a minor closed split along the margin, not affecting the engraving. A small hole to first page of advertisements. A marginal paper flaw to page 53, not affecting text. Some minor soiling and staining to leaves. The final blank and back free endpaper contain old ink notes and recipes for Holland Gin, St. Croix Rum and Jamaica Rum, dated 1834. Overall a very good copy of this scare book on American distilling. This book contains instructions on the art of distilling as well as many recipes for various alcohols. HBS 66031. $2,750

First English Edition, With Over 320 Illustrations

75. LE BRUYN, Corneille. Travels into Muscovy, Persia, and Part of the East-Indies... Translated from the original French. London: 1737.

First English edition. Folio (13 1/2 x 8 3/4 inches; 342 x 224 mm). [6], 228, 225-235, [362], 263-266, 241-246; [2], 1-223, [1, blank], 11, index, [1, blank] pp. In volume I, page 229-250 are misnumbered, however collates correctly.

Heavily illustrated with 322 copperplate engravings. Including frontispiece, frontispiece portrait, three double page maps, 44 intertextual illustrations and 275 illustrations on 114 plates, 262 of which are numbered. Of these 114 plates, 56 are double page, 45 are single page and 13 are large folding plates. Included in these large folding plates are very large pullout panoramic views of "Sphan", "Mokow." The fold-out plate "Moskow" which is plate number 12, is bound out of order and behind plate number 74.

Bound in newer full calf. Boards double-ruled in gilt. Spines stamped and numbered in gilt. With original brown spine labels, lettered in gilt. All edges speckled red. A bit of foxing and toning throughout, however in general the text is very clean. The majority of the plates are quite clean, some occasional toning. The two pull-out panoramas of "Sphan" and "Moskow" with some repairs to closed tears and well as some dampstaining and marginal repairs. Volume I has a small old ink stain to fore-edge of leaves Ooo-Sss, not affecting text. Volume I possibly lacking final blank?A few instances of marginal cracking throughout, but overall very firm. Overall very good copy. HBS 65900. $9,000 One of the Rarest American Color Plate Books

76. [LEWIS, James Otto]. [The Aboriginal Portfolio]. [Philadelphia]: [1835-36].

First edition. Folio (17 9/16 x 11 1/4 inches; 448 x 285 mm). With seventy-two hand-colored lithographs (out of eighty) by Lehman and Duval and the original folio broadside advertisement for parts one through three bound in. Without the title-page as usual.

Contemporary half red morocco over cloth boards. Front board with gilt pictorial centerpiece, an American Indian within an ovular foliate frame. Spine tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments. Coated white endpapers. All edges gilt. Endpapers slightly soiled and foxed. Old tape repairs to the verso of the plates entitled "Kee-O-Kuck", "Sun-A-Get", and "A Winnebago Squaw". Overall a fine copy housed in a half morocco clamshell.

One of the rarest American color-plate books, Lewis's "Aboriginal Portfolio" was one of theearliest grand color printing projects in the United States and the first illustrated book to take on American Indians as its subject. Scarcer than McKenney and Hall's History of the Indian Tribes, Maximilian's Reise in das Innere von Nord-America or Catlin's North American Indian Portfolio, Lewis' work records the dress of the Potawatomi, Winnebago, Shawnee, Sioux, Miami, Fox, Iowa and other tribes at treaties of Prairie du Chien, Fort Wayne, Fond du Lac and Green Bay. HBS 65418. $100,000

First British Edition of "The Most Important Exploration of the North American Continent"

77. LEWIS, Meriwether & William CLARK. Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. Performed by order of the Government of the United States, in the years 1804, 1805, and 1806. By Captains Lewis and Clarke. Published from the Official Report.London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1814.

First British edition. Quarto (11 x 8 7/8 inches; 282 x 225 mm.). xxiv, 663, [1, publisher's ads] pp. With one large folding engraved map, and five engraved plans on three plates. One page of publisher's advertisements. Bound with half-title.

Publisher's original boards. Spine professionally reinforced. With original printed paper label. Uncut. Board edges and corners a bumped and worn. Paper label, a bit chipped, barely affecting print. Some minor professional repairs to back of map, in the folds. A few pages with some minor tears, not affecting text. Final leaf with reinforcement along bottom edge and a small old library stamp. Two previous owner's bookplates on front endpapers. A very good copy. Grolier, American 100, 30 (American edition) HBS 65811. $30,000 First Edition Of Sinclair Lewis’ First Book

78. [LEWIS, Sinclair]. Hike and the Aeroplane. By Tom Graham. With Illustrations in Two Colors by Arthur Hutchins. New York: 1912.

First edition, first issue with the "August, 1912" on the copyright page. One of only 1,000 copies printed. Sinclair Lewis' first book, written in pseudonym. Octavo (7 5/16 x 5 inches; 186 x 127 mm). [xii], 1-275 pp. With color frontispiece and three illustrations inserted. The H. Bradley Martin copy, with his bookplate on the chemise. With a facsimile of a letter from Sinclair Lewis to "Mrs. Smith" admitting to being the author of this title.

Original light grey cloth, decoratively stamped in orange and dark blue on front board and spine. Title on spine, very lightly rubbed. A small closed tear to front free endpaper, backed with archival tape. A one-inch marginal closed tear to p. 21, not affecting text. A near fine copy. Chemised and housed in cloth slipcase, with morocco spine label. HBS 66029. $7,500

First Issue Of The Lincoln And Douglas Debates

79. LINCOLN, Abraham. DOUGLAS, Stephen A. Political Debates between Hon. Abraham Lincoln and Hon. Stephen A. Douglas. Columbus: 1860.

First edition, first issue, with all points called for by Monaghan (no line over publisher's slug on title verso, numeral "2" at bottom of page 17). Royal octavo (9 1/8 x 6 3/16 inches; 232 x 157 mm). [viii], [1] 2-268 pp.

Publisher's original brown textured cloth, with blindstamped borders tied by floral devices in the corners and with a blindstamped central device. Spine lettered in gilt. Gilt slightly faded. Head and tail of the spine chipped. Some loss of cloth along outer hinges, but binding is still firm. Corners a bit bumped and edges rubbed. Cloth very lightly dampstained. Foxing throughout as usual. Previous owner's pencil notes on back free endpaper. Overall a very good copy. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell. HBS 66011. $4,500

The Modern Age of British Economics

80. MARSHALL, Alfred. Principles of Economics. Vol. I. [all published]. London: Macmillan and Co., 1890.

Scarce first edition. Octavo (8 11/16 x 5 1/2 inches). xxviii, 754, [2, publisher’s catalogue] pp.

Original dark green diaper-grain cloth with covers ruled in blind and spine ruled and lettered in gilt. Dark green coated endpapers. Previous owner's signature to the front free endpaper. Corners lightly bumped with some minor repairs to the top and bottom of the spine. Light foxing to half-title. Otherwise, a very good copy of a book that is almost always found rebound. HBS 64509. $7,500 Signed Limited Now We Are Six

81. MILNE, A.A.. SHEPARD, Ernest H., [illustrator]. Now We Are Six. With decorations by Ernest H. Shepard. New York:[1927].

First American edition, large paper edition, one of 200 copies signed by A.A. Milne and Ernest H. Shepard, this being copy number 8. Small quarto Printed on Japon vellum. With signed limitation leaf between pp. [iv] and [v].

Original half pink cloth over light blue illustrated paper boards. Printed paper spine label. Blue laid endpapers. Publisher’s light blue printed jacket, and illustrated box. Top edge cut, others untrimmed. Mostly unopened. Jacket spine lightly sunned. Box, slightly browned with some chips and repairs. Box is missing its left side. A handsome, fine copy. HBS 64512. $3,000 John Milton’s “Paradise Lost” with John Martin’s Illustrations, One of 50 copies

82. MILTON, John. The Paradise Lost of Milton. With Illustrations, Designed and Engraved by John Martin. London: 1827.

First (Imperial Quarto) edition. One of only 50 copies with the smaller set of engravings. According to Campbell there were two issues of the Imperial Quarto Edition: "(2) Imperial Quarto Edition, measuring 10 7/8 x 15 1/4 in., with fully lettered prints from the larger set of plates, at £10 16s.(3) Imperial Quarto Edition, measuring 10 7/8 x 15 1/4 in., containing lettered proofs of the smaller set of the engravings: limited to 50 copies, at 12 guineas for the complete publication." Thus even though the images were smaller, this edition was more expensive upon publication. Campbell states "only three copies of the Imperial Quarto edition containing proofs from the smaller set of engravings are now known" (this was in 1992).

Two volumes bound in one. Large quarto (14 3/8 x 10 1/2 inches; 366 x 268 mm.). [4], 228; [2], 218 pp. Twenty-four mezzotint plates in the smaller format (image size: 8 x 5 1/2 inches), with tissue guards. Contemporary burgundy pebble-grain morocco. Covers decoratively paneled in gilt, spines paneled and lettered in gilt in compartments, gilt spine bands, gilt board edges, wide gilt-tooled dentelles, marbled endpapers and doublures, all edges gilt. Some light foxing An excellent copy of this scarce edition. HBS 65255. $9,500

First Edition of Milton's Last Two Poems

83. MILTON, John. Paradise Regain'd. A Poem. In IV Books. To Which is Added Samson Agonistes. London: 1671.

First edition, first issue. With license and errata leaf and with the error "loah" on leaf F2 (p. 67), line 2 in the corrected state "loth". [4], 111, [1, blank], 101, [3] pp.. Small octavo. (7 1/8 x 4 3/4 inches). Contemporary brown paneled calf. Red calf spine label, lettered in gilt. New endpapers. Rebacked, preserving the original spine. A beautiful copy. Grolier, Wither to Prior, 613. HBS 64381. $10,000

First Edition, First Issue of the Author's First Book

84. MONTGOMERY, L.M. Anne of Green Gables. Illustrated by M.A. and W.A.J. Claus. Boston: L.C. Page & Company, 1908.

First edition, first impression (“April, 1908”), of the author’s first book. Small octavo (7 7/16 x 5 1/8 inches; 189 x 130 mm). viii, [1, list of illustrations], [1, blank], 429, [1, blank], [8, publisher's ads] pp. Frontispiece and seven plates.

Original mauve cloth. Front cover and spine ruled in blind, front cover lettered in gilt with color pictorial label, and spine ruled in blind and lettered in gilt. Fore-edge uncut. Some very light rubbing to cloth. Back inner hinge with small hairline crack starting, but firm. Previous owner's old ink signature dated "Jan 1909" on front pastedown. An about fine copy of this legendary rarity. Housed in a full morocco clamshell. HBS 66083. $22,500 Newton's "Principia"- Large Paper Copy

85. NEWTON, Sir Isaac. Philosophiæ naturalis principia mathematica. Editio tertia aucta & emendata. London: 1726.

Third edition. One of 200 Large-Paper copies on "General Royal paper with the "CC" watermark. Quarto (28.9 x 22.2 cm). [34], 530, [6, index] pp. With engraved frontispiece portrait and numerous diagrams. Bound without rear ad, but with initial privilege leaf and half-title leaf. Collates as copy 2 of Babson.

Contemporary full vellum, front board expertly reattached. Black calf spine label, lettered in gilt. Faint dampstain at upper corner of initial leaves. A very nice large, clean copy.

“This edition was the last published during the author’s lifetime and the basis of all subsequent editions. It was edited by Henry Pemberton, M.D., F.R.S., and contains a new preface by Newton and a large number of alterations, the most important being the scholium on fluxions, in which Leibnitz had been mentioned by name. This had been considered an acknowledgement of Leibnitz’s independent discovery of the calculus. In omitting Leibnitz’s name in this edition, Newton was criticized as taking advantage of an opponent whose death had prevented any reply” (Babson, p. 12). HBS 64483. $55,000

With Forty-Three Additional Songs

86. PURCELL, Henry, [composer]. Orpheus Britannicus. London: 1706, 1711.

Second edition first issue, with the addition of forty-three songs more than the first edition. Two folio volumes (13 3/4 x 9 inches; 348 x 225 mm). [4], [1]-vi, [1, ads], [1, table], 1-190, 189-286; [4], ii, 31, 35-99, 140-141, 1-2-204 pp. No frontispiece called for in this issue.

Contemporary full paneled calf, rebacked with original spine. Red morocco spine labels, lettered in gilt. Boards and spines ruled and stamped in gilt. Marbled endpapers. All edges speckled red. Board edges tooled in gilt. Front inner hinge cracked, but firm in volume II. Page 169, volume I with a closed tear to lower margin, barely affecting text. Contents very clean. A very good, handsome set. HBS 66059. $3,500

A First Edition of “The Catcher in the Rye” in Jacket

87. SALINGER, J. D. The Catcher in the Rye. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1951.

First edition, first issue jacket (with Salinger’s photo on rear of jacket). Octavo (7 11/16 x 5 1/4 inches; 195 x 135 mm). [viii], 277, [3, blank] pp.

Original full black cloth. Spine lettered and stamped in gilt. In the original red, yellow, black and white printed dust jacket. Jacket spine lightly browned, with some minor rubbing to edges, light bumping to cloth. Overall a near fine copy in a non-price-clipped dust jacket. HBS 66284. $10,000 Hirschfeld's Harlem Caricatures

88. SAROYAN, William. HIRSCHFELD, Albert, [artist]. Harlem as Seen by Hirschfeld. New York: The Hyperion Press, 1941.

First edition, limited to 1,000 numbered copies. This being number 511. Large folio (181/4 x 14 inches). With six pages of text by Saroyan. Illustrated with twenty-four original lithographic captioned plates by Hirschfeld. Printed on hand-made Canson paper.

Publisher's original cream cloth, lettered on the front cover and spine, and with an illustration from the book reproduced and colored by hand on the front cover. Spine a bit bumped and rubbed. Some minor spotting and soiling to the cloth as is often seen, else a very good, handsome copy complete with twenty-four wonderful illustrations. Plates are clean and bright. HBS 66051. $3,000

First Edition, First Issue in Boards, Uncut

89. [SCOTT, Sir Walter]. Ivanhoe; A Romance. By “The Author of Waverley,” &c. In Three Volumes. Edinburgh: Printed for Archibald Constable and Co. Edinburgh; and Hurst, Robinson, and Co., London, 1820.

First edition, first issue, with all points listed by Worthington with one exception. Points in Volume I: pagination ends on p. 298; the formemark on p. [iii] is 9; the first word on p. iv, line 6, is “Peter;” p. v, line 12, the second and fourth words are “which,” not the third word as noted in Worthington, but the formemark is 6; p. vi, line 14, the first word is “observed;” p. ix, line 1, there is no comma after “fought;” p. xii, line 5, there is no comma after “people;” p. xv, line 3, word six is “toilsome;” p. xvi, line 20, the first word is “ton;” there are no formemarks on pp. xvi, xix, or xxiv; p. xxviii has formemark 9; p. xxx has formemark 12; and p. xxix has a comma after the word “paste” in the first line.

Three octavo volumes (7 3/4 x 4 3/4 inches; 198 x 120 mm.). [6], xxxiii, [1, blank], 158, 151-298; [4], 327, [1, blank]; [4], 371, [1, blank], [3, ads], [1, blank] pp. Complete with half-titles.

Uncut in the original quarter dark green roan over reddish-brown boards. Smooth spines ruled and lettered in gilt. A remarkably fine and totally unsophisticated copy. Individually chemised and housed together in a quarter dark green morocco book-back slipcase. Grolier, 100 English, 71. HBS 65268. $7,500

First Edition, First Printing, Inscribed by Dr. Seuss

90. SEUSS, Dr.. SEUSS, Dr., [illustrator]. The Seven Lady Godivas. New York: Random House, 1939.

First edition, first printing. Inscribed by Seuss on verso of half-title. "For Noel/Who can sue/but he damn well/can't collect-/-Dr, Seuss". Octavo (10 x 7 1/4 inches; 254 x 185 mm). Printed and illustrated in red and black.

Publisher's original pink cloth. Front board decoratively stamped in red with a coat of arms. Spine lettered in red. Pictorial endpapers. In original publisher's pictorial dust jacket with the price of $1.75. Inner hinges of book slightly toned. Dust jacket slightly chipped at spine extremities and corners. A closed two-inch tear at the fold of the front flap. A bit of darkening to jacket spine and edges. Overall a very good, clean copy. HBS 65182. $2,000 From the Fourth Folio

91. [SHAKESPEARE, William]. The Comedy of Errors. [together with] Much Ado About Nothing. [London: 1685].

Extracted from the Fourth Folio. Folio (14 1/16 x 9 1/8 inches; 359 x 226 mm). [17] leaves (pages pages 75-110, ie 111). 75- 96, 99-106, 109, 108, 111, 110 pp. Mispaginations but correct collation.

Attractively bound in half orange morocco over marbled boards. Spine lettered in gilt. Front board with orange morocco label, lettered and ruled in gilt. Edges speckled red. Some minor marginal dampstaining throughout. Overall very good.

The Fourth Folio was the stateliest of all the folios, being printed on a Royal stock, distinctly larger than the sheets of the Third Folio, which in turn is on a larger sheet than the First and Second. The last edition of Shakespeare’s plays printed in the seventeenth century and the last to be printed before the editorial endeavors of the eighteenth century. HBS 66028. $4,500

Shakespeare's Rare 'Pericles'

92. SHAKESPEARE, William. The Late, and much admired Play, called Pericles, Prince of Tyre. With the True Relation of the Whole History, Adventures and Fortunes of the Said Prince. London: Thomas Cotes, 1635.

Sixth edition. Octavo in fours. (6 13/16 x 4 1/8 inches; 176 x 105 mm). 67, [1, blank] pp. With printer's device on title- page (McK. 283).

Full twentieth century red morocco. Boards double ruled in gilt. Spine lettered in gilt. Gilt dentelles. Edges speckled red, from an earlier binding. Spine slightly sunned and worn at the edges. Previous owner William Glegh's old ink signature on the final leaf at the end of the text.

The reason for the omission of Pericles from the First Folio us uncertain. Edward Blount, co-publisher of the Folio, entered it in the Stationer's Register on 20 May 1608, though the early editions (1609, 1609, 1611) were not publishing by him and were apparently not drawn from a true copy. It was included, though not as a self- standing bibliographical unit, in Pavier's 1619 collection of Shakespeare plays. The collation of Cotes's edition follows that of Robert Bird's 1630 edition. This 1635 edition provided the copytext for its eventual inclusion in the Third Folio, 1664." HBS 65236 $60,000

The True First American Editions of 'Poems', 'Romeo and Juliet', and 'Othello'

93. SHAKESPEARE, William. The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare. Corrected From the Latest and Best London Editions, with Notes, by Samuel Johnson, L.L.D. ...First American Edition...Vol. VIII. Philadelphia: Bioren & Madan, 1796.

Volume VIII of eight volumes. First American Edition. Twelvemo (6 1/4 x 4 inches; 160 x 100 mm). [2, blank], [1]-304, [i]-vi, [5]-128, [2, blank] pp. Contemporary full brown calf. Boards scuffed and worn. Some darkening to top of front board. Outer hinges of the spine cracked but holding. Spine chipped and flaking with top inch missing a layer of calf. First few pages chipped with darkening to the top edges. Dampstaining and foxing throughout, typical of books printed in America at this time. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown. Housed in a custom, quarter sheep box. A very good copy of this first American edition. HBS 65089. $5,000 First Illustrated & First Octavo Edition, With the Seventh Volume of the "Poems"

94. SHAKESPEAR[E], William. The Works of Mr. William Shakespear; in Six Volumes. Adorn’d with cuts. Revis’d and corrected, with an account of the life and writings of the author. By N. Rowe, Esq. London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, 1709.

[Together with:]

SHAKESPEAR[E], William. The Works of Mr. William Shakespear. Volume the seventh. London: Printed for E. Curll, 1710.

First illustrated edition, first octavo edition. Together seven octavo volumes. With fifty-one engraved plates including portrait frontispiece in volumes I-VI, the monumental plate facing the biography in volume I and a frontispiece engraved plate for each of the plays. Volume VII has the plate, often missing, before Venus and Adonis (here bound in facing the general title). In volume IV, pp. 1919 and 2001, the running titles for Coriolanus are misprinted Troilus and Cressida and Titus Adronicus respectively.

Uniformly bound in early to mid-19th century tree calf. Rebacked to style. Spines with red and brown morocco spine labels, stamped and lettered in gilt. Boards tooled in gilt. Board edges stamped in gilt. Edges speckled brown. Newer endpapers. Occasional toning and spotting. Some old ink marginalia throughout. Previous owner's small bookplate to front pastedown of each volume. Overall a handsome and crisp set. HBS 66306. $22,500

“The First and Greatest Classic of Modern Economic Thought” A Beautiful Clean Copy of Adam Smith's "Wealth of Nations"

95. SMITH, Adam. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. London: 1776.

First edition. Two large quarto volumes (sheet size-10 13/16 x 8 3/8 inches; 275 x 213 mm.). [12], [1]-510, [2, blank]; [4], [1]- 587, [1, advertisements] pp. Complete with half-title in Volume II (no half-title called for in Volume I), and the final blank leaf at the end of Volume I.

Bound in contemporary mottled calf. Boards tooled with gilt boarder, and gilt floral corner devices. Spine densely stamped in gilt in compartments. With blue and green morocco gilt lettering labels. Gilt dentelles. Edges speckled blue. Marbled endpapers. Outer hinges are a bit cracked, but holding very firm. A bit of chipping to head and tail of the spines. Some minor flaking of the leather along outer hinges. A slight crease down the center of the spine of volume II. In volume II, pages 563-566 have been bound out of order, between pages 554 and 555, which is not entirely uncommon. A small closed marginal tear with no restoration to leaf 4A2, not affecting text. Overall a very clean, near fine set. Housed in a full tree calf clamshell, elaborately embellished in gilt.

Adam Smith (1723-1790) spent ten years in the writing and perfecting of The Wealth of Nations. “The book succeeded at once, and the first edition was exhausted in six months… Whether it be true or not, as Buckle said, that the ‘Wealth of Nations’ was, ‘in its ultimate results, probably the most important that had ever been written’…it is probable that no book can be mentioned which so rapidly became an authority both with statesmen and philosophers” (D.N.B.). Grolier, 100 English, 57. Printing and the Mind of Man 221. HBS 65988. $185,000 "The Earliest Representation Of The North-West Coast Of America On A Printed Map."

96. SOLINUS, C. Julius. Polyhistor, rerum toto orbe memorabilium thesaurus locipletissimus. Huic ob argumenti similitudinem Pomponii Melae de situ orbis libros tres. Basel: M. Isengrin, 1543.

Second edition, the first appearing in 1538. With numerous woodcuts by Sebastian Munster including two double-page folding maps (Typus Graeciae & Asia Maior), eighteen intertextual maps, two of which are full page (Europe and Africa) and numerous historiated initials. Woodcut printers device on title-page and final leaf. Quarto (12 1/4 x 8 1/8 inches; 312 x 206 mm). [20], [1]-230, [1, blank], [1, printer device] pp.

Full contemporary vellum. Spine lettered in old ink. All edges black. Newer endpapers. Spine with some chipping and tearing. A closed tear to title-page, professionally repaired. Professional repair of closed tear to crease of "Asia Maior" map. Numerous contemporary ink marginalias throughout. Some dampstaining along outer margin. A bit of toning. Overall a very good copy. HBS 65953. $10,000

With Eighty-Three Plates and Maps, of Which Sixteen are Engraved by Blake

97. STEDMAN, Captain J.G. Narrative, of a Five Years’ Expedition, against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam, in Guiana, on the Wild Coast of South America;... London: 1796.

First edition, among Blake's finest work as a book illustrator. Two quarto volumes (10 7/16 x 8 1/8 inches; 265 x 206 mm). xviii, 407 (ie 415 as usual), [1, blank], [7, index, directions for placing the plates and errata], [1, blank]; iv, 404, [7, index, directions for placing the plates and errata], [1, blank] pp. Plates watermarked 1794. Complete with eighty-three etched plates including frontispiece (first volume), both title pages with etched vignettes and eighty plates of which sixteen were engraved by Blake and five are folding (maps and plates). All after Stedman. Pages 111 & 112 of volume I misbound between pages 104 & 105.

Contemporary full mottled calf. Volume I with repairs to head and tail of the spine and the front and rear joints. Volume II with invisible rebacking, preserving original spine. Boards tooled in gilt. Each volume with two black morocco spine labels, lettered in gilt. Edges speckled brown. Marbled endpapers. Green silk bookmarks in each volume. Overall a very good set and internally very clean. HBS 66086. $6,500

First Edition of Stendhal’s Most Celebrated Work

98. STENDHAL (Marie Henri Beyle). Le Rouge et le noir. Chronique du XIXe siècle. Paris: A. Levavasseur, 1831.

Extremely scarce first edition of Stendhal’s most celebrated work. Two octavo volumes (7 5/8 x 5 inches; 194 x 126 mm). [4], 398, [1,Avertissement de l’éditeur], [1, blank]; [4], 486, [1], [1, blank] pp. Complete with half-titles. Wood-engraved title vignettes by Porret after Henry Monnier.

Contemporary or early half green morocco over marbled endpapers. Brown reverse calf spine labels lettered in gilt. Spines stamped in gilt. Edges speckled green. Half-title and title of volume I and half-title of volume II with professional repairs down inner margin. Lower blank corner of pp. 53 and 225 of V.I. and pages 307, 309, 325 and 331 of V.II repaired. A few short tears neatly repaired throughout. Some larger repairs to pages 137, 313, 323 and 355 of V.II, all neatly repaired. Some loss of text to pages 128 of V.I, affecting a few letteres in the margin and 185 in V. I, affecting a few letters of one word. Inscriptions erased on title and page 1 of V.I. Binding very slightly rubbed and bumped. Overall a nice copy. HBS 65501. $30,000 The Works of Laurence Sterne, in a Spectacular Contemporary Binding

99. STERNE, Laurence. The Works. In ten volumes complete. Containing, I. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gent. II. A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy. III. Sermons. IV. Letters. With a life of the author, written by himself. London: Printed for W. Strahan, J. Rivington and Sons, J. Dodsley…, 1780.

Ten octavo volumes (7 1/8 x 4 5/16 inches; 180 x 110 mm). Frontispiece portrait and other engraved plates throughout.

Contemporary full tree calf. Spines stamped in gilt. Each volume with red and green morocco spine labels. Green labels with a small red morocco oval inlay with volume number stamped in gilt. Board edges stamped in gilt. A bit of scattered light foxing, but generally very clean. About fine. HBS 65708. $3,000

One of Stevenson’s Most Popular Adventure Novels

100. STEVENSON, Robert Louis. Kidnapped. [London]: Cassell & Company, 1886.

First edition, first issue, with “business” instead of “pleasure” on p. 40, line 11, “nine o’clock” instead of “twelve o’clock” on p. 64, line 1, and “Long Islands” instead of “Long Island” on p. 101, lines 9/10. Octavo (7 1/4 x 5 inches; 185 x 127 mm). viii, 311, [1, ads], [16, ads, dated and “5G.4.86” at bottom of first leaf and “5B.4.86” at bottom of fifth leaf] pp. Folding color frontispiece map.

Original green diagonal fine-ribbed cloth with covers ruled in blind and spine ruled and lettered in gilt. Original black coated endpapers. Mild rubbing to spine and corners. A bit of light foxing. Previous owner's name in pencil on half-title. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown. Previous booksellers embossed stamp on front free endpaper. Slightly skewed. Still, a bright, near fine copy. HBS 66285. $3,750

First Edition of Jekyll and Hyde in the Original Wrappers

101. STEVENSON, Robert Louis. Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1886.

First English edition. Octavo (6 15/16 x 4 5/8 inches; 176 x 117 mm). [8], 141, [1, blank], [1, ads], [1, blank] pp.

Original buff paper wrappers printed in blue and red. With the 1885 date on the front wrapper altered in ink to 1886 [as always]. Ads for Longman’s Magazine on inner front wrapper and ads for G.J. Whyte Melville’s works on inner rear wrapper. Some chipping and flaking to the spine and edges. Back wrapper detaching at the bottom two inches along the spine, but still secured. A small dampstain runs along the bottom edge of back wrapper and final leaf of ads, and wraps around to bottom part of spine and slightly to front wrapper. A small black stamp to back wrapper. Wrappers a bit browned and slightly creased, but complete. Internally very clean. Overall, an excellent copy of this fragile item which is usually found rebacked and in poor condition. In a custom full morocco clamshell. HBS 66095. $6,000 The First Edition of Treasure Island

102. STEVENSON, Robert Louis. Treasure Island. London: Cassell & Company, 1883.

First edition, with early issue points: “Dead Man’s Chest” is not capitalized on pp. 2 and 7; with “rain” for “vain” in the last line of p. 40; the “a” is not present in line 6 of p. 63; the “8” is present in the pagination on p. 83; the “7” is bolder and larger than the other figures in the pagination on p. 127; the period is lacking following “opportunity” in line 20 of p. 178; with “worse” for “worst” in line 3 of p. 197; and Treasure Island is listed as having 304 pages on p. 2 of the publisher’s advertisements. Octavo (7 1/2 x 4 7/8 inches; 191 x 124 mm). viii, 292,[8 pp. advertisements, “dated 5R-12.83.”] pp. Frontispiece map of Treasure Island, printed in four colors and has the original tissue guard.

Original crimson diagonal fine-ribbed cloth with covers ruled in blind and spine lettered in gilt. Original black coated endpapers. Corners a bit bumped and binding just slightly skewed. Spine a bit darkened and gilt lightly rubbed. Occasional minor foxing to first three leaves, and other bits of spotting throughout, mainly to page 115. End papers with a few spots. Previous owner’s small ink signature on front free endpaper. Overall a very good copy. Housed in a full morocco clamshell case. HBS 66109. $7,500 First Edition of Dracula in Original Cloth

103. STOKER, Bram. Dracula. Westminster: Archibald Constable and Company, [June] 1897.

First edition, later issue (probably third, circa Dec. 1897). Octavo (7 9/16 x 5 inches; 192 x 128 mm). [i-vii], viii-ix,[x], [1]2-390,[1, blank], [1,ad "Shasta"] 1-16 (catalogue).

Original publisher's yellow cloth, bordered and lettered in red on boards and spine. Boards lightly soiled, red-stamping faded. Spine darkend and soiled. Head and tail of the spine chipped and frayed. Inner hinged starting. Some toning and foxing, primarily to endpapers and preliminaries. A marginal tear to page 53, not affecting text. Previous owner’s old ink signature dated 1898 on front free endpaper. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown. Some pages of ads unopened, with some pages of ads opened roughly. Still, a very good copy of the first issue of this classic, which is scarce in any condition. Housed in quarter black morocco clamshell case. HBS 65726. $7,500

First Edition in Dust Jacket

104. STOUT, Rex. Too Many Cooks. A Nero Wolfe Mystery New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc, 1938.

First edition. Octavo (7 5/8 x 5 1/4 inches; 193 x 133 mm). [6], [1]-[279], [3, blank], [281]-303, [1, blank] pp. In publisher's dust jacket. With twenty-three pages of recipes on blue paper, included in the pagination.

Publisher's full red cloth, front board and spine stamped in dark blue. Top edge dyed blue. A bit of foxing and toning to endpapers and edges. Top edge with an ink stain. Previous owner's signature on front free endpaper. Jacket with a bit of rubbing along edges. Head and tail of jacket spine with some minor chipping. Top edge of back panel with two small closed tears and some light soiling. Overall a very good copy.

This book being the fifth Nero Wolfe mystery. "Rapid becoming one of America's foremost writers of intelligent, original and richly characterized mysteries- Rex Stout has here written his most engaging story of that Falstaff of detectives, that lovable orchid-fancier- Nero Wolfe." (front the front flap).

HBS 66339. $3,500 With an Inserted Leaf Signed By Stowe Before Her Death, and an Additional Signed Leaf With Manuscript From "Uncle Toms Cabin" Inserted.

105. STOWE, Harriet Beecher. [The Writings of Harriet Beecher Stowe. With biographical introductions, portraits, and other illustrations]. Cambridge: Printed at the Riverside Press, 1896.

Volume I only of Large-Paper Edition. One out of a total edition of 250 with an inserted leaf signed by Stowe before her death (dated “Jany. 8th 1896”). And an additional signed leaf with manuscript From Uncle Toms Cabin inserted. One volume out of a set of seventeen octavo volumes (8 3/8 x 5 5/8 inches; 212 x 141 mm). Frontispiece and added engraved title. Title-page in red and black. Autograph quotation reads: "Not one throb of anguish; not one tear/of the oppressed is forgotten by the Man/of Sorrows, the Lord of Glory/For his patient generous bosom/He bears the anguish of a world!/Uncle Tom's Cabin/Chap 12th/Harriet Beecher Stowe/May 18 1894" Three-quarter dark green levant morocco, ruled in gilt, over green buckram. Spine tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments with raised bands. Gray-green endpapers. top edges gilt, fore-edges uncut. Spine sunned. Headcap very slightly rubbed. Minimal wear to extremities. Bookplate on front pastedown. Very good. The inserted leaves designated for this edition were signed by Stowe over a period of six months, with the earliest known leaf dated four days before that bound in here. HBS 66065. $4,500

Paul Strand's The Mexican Portfolio

106. STRAND, Paul. The Mexican Portfolio. [New York: Da Capo Press, 1967].

Limited edition, second edition, no. 467 0f 1,000 copies, signed by Strand on the colophon. Introduction by David Alfaro Sequeiros. Folio. 17in. x 13in. With 20 photogravures laid in loose. Linen clamshell box, printed slipcase. Box with some splitting, else fine. HBS 66330. $3,000

A Sensational First Edition of “Gulliver’s Travels” in a Contemporary Binding

107. [SWIFT, Jonathan]. Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of several Ships. London: Printed for Benj. Motte, 1726.

First edition, Teerink’s State A, with the four necessary points: Part I, p. 35, line 5 has “Subsidies” correctly spelled; Part III, p. 74 is misnumbered “44;” Part III, G6 is a cancel, with “Part III” at foot; Part IV, p. 52, line 1 has the misprint “buth is.” Also, on the special title to Part IV the word “Voyage” is printed with capitals. Four parts in two octavo volumes (7 9/16 x 4 5/8 inches; 192 x 117 mm.). xvi, 148; [6], 164; [6], 155, [1, blank]; [8], 199, [1, blank] pp. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Gulliver in the second state, with the inscription “Captain Lemuel Gulliver of Redriff. Ætat. suæ LVIII.” around the oval frame, the tablet below bearing a Latin inscription (printed on paper with vertical chain-lines), four maps (one to each of the four Parts), and two plans (in Part III). Decorative woodcut and typographic head- and tail-pieces and initials.

Contemporary paneled calf. Spines with raised bands and brown morocco gilt lettering labels, board edges decoratively tooled in gilt, edges sprinkled red. Joints just starting. Portion of rear free endpaper in Volume II torn away. Short tear to lower gutter margin of C2 (pp. 19/20) in Part II, not affecting text. Small waterstain to outer margin of I7-K4 (pp. 125-136) in Part II. A few additional minor stains or soil marks. Armorial bookplate of The Right Honourable the Lord Viscount Lymington on front pastedown of each volume. A sensational copy, totally unsophisticated. Chemised in a quarter red morocco pull-off case. Grolier, 100 English, 42. Printing and the Mind of Man 185. HBS 65047. $125,000 The First Edition of Thoreau’s Masterpiece

108. THOREAU, Henry D[avid]. Walden; or, Life in the Woods. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854.

First edition. Octavo (7 1/16 x 4 1/2 inches; 180 x 114 mm). 357, [3, blank] pp. No half-title called for. Plan of Walden Pond facing p. 307. Eight-page publisher’s catalogue (dated May 1854; no priority established among the catalogues) inserted at rear hinge.

Original brown vertically ribbed cloth, covers decoratively stamped in blind, spine ruled in blind and lettered in gilt. Pale yellow coated endpapers. Some spots of discoloration to front cover. Corners and board edges a bit rubbed. Some minor fraying and light shelfwear to head and tail of the spine. Some light browning and spotting to text and endpapers. A very good copy of this great American work. Housed in a quarter brown morocco clamshell. Grolier, 100 American, 63 HBS 66247. $10,000

First Edition, Second Issue in Original Cloth

109. THOREAU, Henry David. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1862.

First edition, second issue. Octavo (7 1/2 x 4 3/4 inches; 192 x 121 mm). [1]-413, [1, blank], [1, publisher ad, 'Will Soon Be Published,/Walden, Or Life in the Woods./By Henry D. Thoreau'], [1, blank] pp.

Full green cloth (BAL binding D, no sequence determined). Covers stamped and ruled in blind with a quatrefoil enclosing a maltese cross. Spine lettered in gilt. Yellow coated endpapers. Some minor repairs to head and tail of spine, but no new cloth. Overall very good with text extremely clean. HBS 65483. $3,000

The Historian of Athens

110. THUCYDIDES. De Bello Peloponnesiaco libri VIII. Iidem Latine, ex interpretatione Laurentii Vallae, ab Henrico Stephano recognita. Geneva: Henri Estienne, 1588.

Augmented second, and best, edition. Folio (13 x 8 1/8 inches). [20], 621, [15], 73, [7] pp. Greek and Latin text in parallel columns; Estienne device [Schreiber 10] on title page, ornamental initials and head-pieces.

Eighteenth-century tree calf, expertly rebacked preserving original spine, gilt stamped spine compartments, newer morocco spine label. Armorial bookplate. Corners a bit bumped. Aside from some general toning and browning to edges, an excellent copy. Printing and the Mind of Man 102. HBS 65404. $10,000 “One of the Most Important Texts in Political Literature,” with a Presentation Inscription by the Author

111. TOCQUEVILLE, Alexis de. De la démocratie en Amérique,...Paris: Librairie de Charles Gosselin, 1835-1840.

First edition of Volumes I and II, second edition of Volumes III and IV of “one of the most important texts in political literature” (Printing and the Mind of Man 358 note). Presentation copy, inscribed by the author at head of half-title in Volume I: “à Monsieur Berrger/hommage de l’auteur/A d T.” Four small octavo volumes. Hand-colored folding lithographed map by Benard after Tocqueville in Volume I. Bound at the end of Volume II is “Rapport fait au nom de la Commission chargée d’examiner la Proposition de M. de Tracy, relative aux Esclaves des colonies, par M.A. de Tocqueville, Député da la Manche” in no 201, Chambre des Députés, 2e Session 1839 (98 pp.).

Uniformly bound in contemporary quarter dark blue calf over marbled boards. Spines decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments. Marbled edges and endpapers. Minor rubbing to extremities. Some occasional foxing and browning. Bookplate removed from front pastedown in Volume II. Parisian bookseller’s ticket on front pastedown of Volumes III and IV. A wonderful set, extremely rare with a presentation inscription by Tocqueville. Individually chemised and housed together in a cardboard slipcase with red morocco tips. No inscribed copies of this have come up at auction in the last thirty years. HBS 65329. $65,000

Two Parts in Four Volumes with the Scarce Map

112. TOCQUEVILLE, Alexis de. Democracy in America. Translated by Henry Reeve. London: Saunders and Otley, 1836-1840.

Mixed issue. Second edition in English of Part I, First edition in English of Part II. Four octavo volumes. With the very scarce hand-colored, folding engraved map in the second volume of Part I. With half-title to volume I, Part I. Bound without publisher's advertisements.

Uniformly bound in modern full brown sheep. Boards double-ruled in gilt, with gilt floral corner devices. Spines elaborately stamped in gilt. Red and and green morocco spine labels on each volume, lettered in gilt. Gilt turn-ins. Board edges, stamped in blind. All edges marbled. Marbled endpapers. A small closed tear to folding map, professionally repaired. A minor amount of pencil marginalia Overall a near fine copy. HBS 66280. $10,000

First Edition of “War and Peace”

113. TOLSTOY, Leo. Voina i Mir [War and Peace]. Moscow: 1868-1869.

First edition. Seven parts in four octavo volumes (9 x 6 1/8 inches; 230 x 157 mm). Volume I, Part I: [4], 297, [1, blank]; Part II: 146; Volume II, Part III: [4], 186; Part IV: [2], 284; Volume III, Part V: [4], 336; Part VI: [4], 323; Volume IV, Part VII: [4], 290 pp. Map on p. 239 of Volume III, part V. All half-titles, but one for Part IV present. Part VI is bound with an extra signature 9.

Contemporary Russian green pebble-grain cloth boards, over black morocco spines. Spines lettered and stamped in gilt (in Russian). Spine to volume one with slightly different lettering than other volumes, possibly supplied. Small burn hole to page 95 of part IV, just barely affecting text. A few minor closed tears generally not affecting text. Page 17 of Part V, small closed tear, repaired, barely affecting text. Tear to lower margin of Part I, leaf 96, not affecting text. Some browning and spotting throughout all volumes. Occasional marginalia and underlining, in colored pencil, mainly to Part V. Despite these minor flaws, this is very good copy of one of most profound and influential of all novels, not usually found in such nice condition. HBS 66271. $37,500 The First Edition of a Classic Work of American Literature

114. TWAIN, Mark. KEMBLE, E.W., [illustrator]. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade). New York: Charles L. Webster and Co., 1885.

First edition, early issue, with the following points: on p. [13], the illustration captioned “Him and another Man” is listed at p. 88 although it appears on page 87 (Blanck’s first state); on p. 57, the eleventh line from the bottom reads “with the was” (Blanck’s first state); the engraving on p.283 is the redrawn version as in every known copy; the final five is on p. 155, the final “5” extends below the line of the figures that precede it (Blanck’s third state); leaf 238 is present as a blank; the frontispiece portrait is Blanck’s second state, with the imprint of the Heliotype Printing Company and the statement Karl Gerhardt, Sc. added to the finished edge of the shoulder. Octavo Text illustrations by E. W. Kemble. With frontispiece and frontispiece portrait.

Original green cloth pictorially stamped and lettered in black and gilt on front cover and spine. The gilt is still bright. Some minor professional repairs to spine ends. A small amount of light foxing throughout, mainly to the fore-edge. Housed in a half morocco clamshell. Overall a very nice copy of this book. HBS 65231. $5,000

First American Edition of “Huck Finn,” Early Issue

115. TWAIN, Mark. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. (Tom Sawyer's Comrade). ... with one hundred and seventy-four illustrations. New York: 1885.

First American edition, early issue, with the following points: on p. [13], the illustration captioned "Him and another Man" is listed at p. 88 (Blanck's first state); on p. 57, the eleventh line from the bottom reads "with the was" (Blanck's first state); on p. 155, the final five is lacking, thus: "15" (Blanck's first state); leaf 238 is present as a blank; with "Huck Decided" rather that "Huck Decides" under "Chapter VI" on page [9] (MacDonnell first the state). Frontispiece portrait is Blanck's second state, with the imprint of the Heliotype Printing Company and the statement Karl Gerhardt, Sc. added to the finished edge of the shoulder. Octavo (8 7/16 x 6 7/16 inches; 214 x 164 mm). [1, blank], [1]-366, [4, blank] pp. Textual illustrations by E. W. Kemble. With frontispiece and frontispiece portrait.

Publisher's rare original full tan sheep, professionally rebacked preserving original spine. Corners with some small repairs. Red and black calf spine labels. Labels lettered in gilt. Endpapers with some light toning and chipping. Overall a very good, textually very clean copy in the publisher's rare sheep. HBS 66070. $3,500

"One Of The Most Provocative Books Written By An American Intellectual": First Edition Of Veblen's Landmark Theory Of The Leisure Class

116. VEBLEN, Thorstein. The Theory of the Leisure Class. An Economic Study in the Evolution of Institutions. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1899.

First edition of the author’s first book and one of the masterpieces of American social thought and economic theory. Octavo (7 1/2 x 5 3/16 inches; 190 x 131 mm). viii, 400, [2, publisher's ads], [2, blank] pp.

Original dark green cloth. Spine lettered and ruled in gilt. Front board ruled in blind. Top edge gilt, others uncut. A bit of soiling and rubbing to the cloth of front and back boards. A ring spot on back board. Spine slightly darkened. Head and tail of the spine with some minor shelf wear. Overall a very good copy. Housed in a full green morocco clamshell. Grolier, 100 American, 100. HBS 66008. $4,000 Fourth Edition and Third Folio Edition

117. VESALIUS, Andreas. De humani corporis fabrica libri septem. Venice: Franciscus Francisci and Johann Criegher, 1568.

Fourth edition, third folio edition. Folio (12 3/4 x 8 3/4 inches; 325 x 220 mm). [12], 510, [45, table], [3, blank]. With twenty full-page engraved woodcut illustrations which are reduced from those of the blocks cut for the first edition (Basel 1543). "The copying was done from the Oporin edition of 1555 and includes eight additions made in 1555. The Basel woodcuts are attributed to Jan Stephan van Calcar, a pupil of Titian. Franceschi states in his dedication to Antonio Montecatini that Giovanni Chrieger cut these Venice copies" (Mortimer). And with numerous other woodcuts in the text.

Full contemporary vellum, rebacked. Two corners renewed. Vellum is a bit soiled and rubbed. Some minor worming to pastedowns. Previous owner's book plate (Norwich) on front pastedown. Early signatures on title-page of Horation de Noccis of Castello Horca, and Dr. Bartolomeo Marzo. Early ink signature of Dr. John H. Brinton (gift inscription from Brinton Coxe dated July 9/1891), and stamp of John Brinton on title- page. Ward Brinton (dated 1908) on front free endpaper. Stamp of Oswald Weigel on front pastedown. Overall a very good copy. Chemised and housed ina quarter calf slipcase. HBS 66126. $18,500

With Over One Hundred Beautiful Sixteenth Century Woodcut Illustrations

118. VIRGIL. P. Virgilii Maronis. Opera. Nunc Recens Accuratissime Castigata, Cum Acerrimi Iudicii Virorum Commentariis ... Venice: Apud Iuntas, 1544.

Folio in sixes (12 1/8 x 8 1/4 inches; 309 x 210 mm.). [10], 583, [1, priapeia and epitaphia], [1, colophon and device] leaves. Lacking final blank D6. The Aeneid with separate title-page and 1543 imprint. Main title within pictorial woodcut border, woodcut printer's device on final leaf verso, historiated woodcut initials throughout, and 113 cuts. Errors in pagination, as issued.

Early 18th century half vellum over marbled boards. Black morocco spine label, lettered in gilt. Boards a bit rubbed and worn along edges. Some early marginalia throughout, notably on the verso of the final printers device leaf. A few pages with early paper repairs and a other pages with some marginal tears and chips. Ink staining to the leaf containing the priapeia and epitaphia, top edge of this leaf with some chipping. Newer endpapers. On front free endpaper bookplate of previous owner Ferdinando Jabalot (presumably the Dominica father [1832-1834]), and the bookplate of Florence bookseller Leo SAmuel Olschki [1861-1940]. Overall a very good copy. In addition to being a rare work at institutional libraries (OCLC reports just seven copies in institutional libraries in the U.S.), and we could not find any copies that have come up at auction since 1940. HBS 65229. $7,500 An Account Of The Beginnings Of Mormonism

119. WANDELL, C.W.. History Of The Persecutions!!Endured by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter- Day Saints, in America. Compiled from Public Documents and Drawn from Authentic Sources. Sydney: Printed by Albert Mason, [n.d.c.a.1852].

First edition. Octavo (8 1/8 x 5 5/16 inches; 208 x 135 mm). [1]-64 pp. From what we can find, no other copy has appeared at auction since 1967. In 1957, Sotheby's described this book as "extremely rare."

Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in full speckled calf. Boards double-ruled in gilt with small floral corner devices. Spine stamped in gilt. A long red morocco spine label, lettered in gilt. Board edges gilt, gilt dentelles. Newer endpapers. Some toning to pages, mainly the first three leaves. A few small instances of light soiling. Small mark on front pastedown where tipped-in bookplate had been removed. Otherwise a very good copy. HBS 66114. $3,750

A Collaborative Work between Andy Warhol and his Mother

120. [WARHOL, Andy]. Holy Cats By Andy Warhol's Mother. [New York: Privately Printed, 1957].

First edition. A collaboration between Andy Warhol and his mother Juila Warhola who was know for her quirky illustrations and calligraphy. Twenty leaves. Each leaf printed on recto with a photolithographic image of a cat and corresponding calligraphic text. Leaves in a variety of different colored papers. Front blank with an unsigned inscription "To Joan" by Andy Warhol's mother. Very good.

Original pictorial buff paper over boards. Spine brittle and chipped, missing a one-inch portion from bottom of spine. Edges of boards a bit toned. Overall a very good copy. Housed in a custom cloth clamshell with two red morocco spine labels.

"Julia (Andy's mother) moved to New York City in 1952 to be with Andy. She continued her singing and drawing through the Fifties and Sixties. Andy admired her abilities and used her penmanship often. Her decorative handwriting would often accompany his illustrations. She won awards for her lettering...In 1957 she illustrated a small book called Holy Cats. It featured what she loved to draw most, angels and cats." (Warhola) HBS 65603. $6,000 A First Edition of West’s Classic, in Dust Jacket

121. WEST, Nathanael. The Day of the Locust. New York: Random House, [1939].

First edition. Octavo. Publisher's full red cloth. Orange paper label on spine, printed in black. Top edge black. In bright publisher's dust jacket, with the $2.00 price. Jacket with some minor wear along edges and some light rubbing. A small circle stain to back panel of the jacket and back board of book. Outer joints of book just slightly darkened. Still, a near fine copy of this book, arguably the most famous novel about Hollywood ever written. HBS 65644. $4,500

With Engraved Plates

122. [WHITE, Gilbert]. The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne. in the County of Southampton: With Engravings, and an Appendix London: Printed by T. Bensley for B. White and Son, 1789.

First edition. Quarto. v, [1, blank], 468 (i.e., 466), [12, index], [1, errata], [1, blank] pp. Folding engraved frontispiece, two engraved title vignettes, and six engraved plates (one folding). Engravings by Peter Mazell and Daniel Lerpinire after drawing by Samuel Grimm.

Bound by Riviere & Son in full olive morocco. Boards ruled in gilt. Spine decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. A very good copy. Grolier, 100 English HBS 64383. $2,750 The True First Edition Of This Controversial Novel

123. WILDE, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray. London: Ward Lock and Co., [n.d., 1891].

First edition first issue in book form. Octavo (7 1/2 x 5 3/16 inches; 193 x 130 mm). vii, [1, blank], 334, [1, blank], [1, imprint], [8, publisher's advertisements] pp. Title- page and binding designed by Charles Ricketts. With the typographic error at the beginning of line 23 of page 208 ("nd" instead of "and" - this was corrected for the July 1891 signed limited edition).

Original quarter parchment over gray paper-covered beveled boards. Spine and front cover lettered and stamped in gilt. Grey endpapers. Top edge trimmed, others uncut. Spine is a bit darkened, extremities slightly rubbed. Boards lightly soiled and edges a bit rubbed. Previous owner's ink inscription on front free endpaper. Some very light foxing. Despite the small amount of wear, a wonderful example of this controversial novel as the binding is almost always found rebacked or repaired and this present copy is completely untouched. Housed in a custom full morocco clamshell.

This edition can be distinguished from the (also undated) 1895 reprint by the “Ward Lock and Co.” imprint on the final page, which in the reprint was changed to that of “Ward, Lock, Bowden and Co.” HBS 66289. $6,000

First Edition of Wollstonecraft's Scandinavian Letters

124. WOLLSTONECRAFT, Mary. Letters Written During A Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark. London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1796.

First edition. Octavo (7 15/16 x 4 7/8 inches; 201 x 124 mm.). [4], 262, [4] pp.

Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Spine stamped and lettered in gilt. Edges dyed brown. Corners rubbed. Front outer hinge, cracked but firm. Head of the tail a bit chipped. Previous owner's old ink signature on front free endpaper and lightly on title-page. Some light browning to leaves. Overall a very good copy. HBS 66291. $1,250

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