Summer Miscellany 2014 “The Microcosm of London” in a Beautiful Bayntun Binding

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Summer Miscellany 2014 “The Microcosm of London” In A Beautiful Bayntun Binding

1. ACKERMANN, R[udolph]. The Microcosm of London. London: R. Ackermann’s Repository of Arts, [1808-1810].

First edition, early issue with pre-publication watermarks dated 1807. Three large quarto volumes. Full brown morocco by Bayntun. Covers with gilt-tooled borders surrounding geometric gilt-lined patterns, spines with gilt diamond designs in the centers, gilt in compartments, board edges ruled in gilt, gilt inner dentelles, all edges gilt. Some offsetting from plates to text as usual. A beautiful copy, with early watermarks and generous margins, in a beautiful binding. Abbey, Scenery, 212. Adams, London Illustrated, 99. Martin Hardie, pp. 100-103. Prideaux, pp. 121-124 and 348. Tooley 7. HBS 67011. $10,000

Signed By Adams with an Original Print Also Signed by Adams

2. ADAMS, Ansel. Images 1923-1974. Foreword b y Wallace Stegner. [Edited by Betty Childs]. [Designed by Adrian Wilson]. Boston: New York Graphic Society, [1974].

Deluxe edition. One of 500 copies signed by Adams on limitation page. Out of a total edition of 1,000 copies. This being number "CCCV." With a laid-in original, mounted Gelatin silver print, Fern Spring, Dusk, Yosemite Valley, California, ca. 1961, signed by Adams in pencil beneath print which is drymounted on publisher's card with printed and numbered ("CCCV") paper label on verso. Oblong folio.

Quarter black leatherette over grey cloth boards, lettered in silver on front cover and spine. Endpapers of “Clearing Storm, Sonoma County Hills, California, ca. 1960.” Original dust jacket. Housed in publisher’s slipcase. Includes publisher's original shipping box. Publisher's error to laminate of dust jacket front panel, causing a wrinkle. About fine. HBS 67051. $6,000

Thick-Paper Copy, Inscribed by Adams

3. ADAMS, John Quincy. Oration on the Life and Character of Gilbert Motier De Lafayette. Delivered at the Request of Both Houses of the United States, Before Them, in the House of Representatives at Washington. On the 31st of December, 1834 Washington: Gales and Seaton, 1835.

First edition, thick-paper copy. Inscribed by Adams on an inserted slip in front of title-page, as usual. Signed "David Spangler/ from/ John Quincy Adams" Octavo (8 7/16 x 5 5/16 inches; 214 x 134 mm). [1]-94, [2, blank] pp.

Modern quarter maroon morocco. Boards ruled in gilt. Spine stamped and lettered in gilt. All edges uncut. Marbled endpapers. Title-page and following few leaves lightly browned. Page 32 toned. Otherwise an about fine copy. HBS 67048. $4,500

1 One of the Last Books Issued by the Ashendene Press

4. [ASHENDENE PRESS]. THUCYDIDES. [History of the Peloponnesian War]. Translated into English by Benjamin Jowett…Chelsea: Printed at the Ashendene Press, 1930.

One of 260 copies on paper (240 for sale), out of a total edition of 280 copies (257 for sale). Folio (15 3/4 x 10 3/4 inches; 400 x 273 mm.). [6, blank], [1], [1, blank], 363, [1, printer’s device] pp. Printed in black in Ptolemy type with three-line initials at the beginning of each chapter and the larger initials and opening line of each of the eight books designed by Graily Hewitt and printed in red. Marginal chapter summaries also in red in Blado Italic type. Printer’s mark D printed in black.

Publisher’s white pigskin by W.H. Smith & Son, Ltd. Spine lettered in gilt with raised bands. All edges uncut. A bit of light spotting to boards and endpapers, else an excellent copy. Housed in a custom brown cloth slipcase. Ashendene Bibliography XXXVII. HBS 66703. $4,000

Limited to 200 copies printed on paper

5. ASHENDENE PRESS. SPENSER, Edmund. Spenser's Minor Poems. Containing The Shepheardes Calender, Complaints, Daphnaida, Colin Clouts Come Home Again, Amoretti, Hymnes, Epithalamion, Prothalamion, Sonnets and Sundrie Other Verses. Chelsea: The Ashendene Press, 1925.

Limited to 200 copies printed on paper, of which 175 of them are for sale. Large folio. Printed in red, blue, and black. With numerous large and small Roman style initials. Quarter brown calf over vellum boards, gilt-stamped spine with seven raised bands. Some natural vellum discolration. Near fine. Ashendene Bibliography XXXV. Ransom, Private Presses,. Tomkinson, HBS 66706. $3,000

First Edition of "Emma" Uncut in a Contemporary Binding

6. [AUSTEN, Jane]. Emma: A Novel. In Three Volumes. By the Author of “Pride and Prejudice,” &c. &c. London: 1816.

First edition. Three twelvemo volumes. (Measures 188 x 110 mm). [4], 322, [1]; [4], 351, [1, printer’s imprint]; [4], 363, [1, advertisements] pp. Bound without the half-title in volume I, which is very common since this leaf was printed as part of the last signature and was therefore either overlooked (and left in place) or discarded by many binders of the period. Even copies in original boards often lack this half- title, most notably the Mount Bellow copy, described in 1933 Sotheby's sale catalogue as "in the finest possible state."

Contemporary and almost certainly Continental, possibly German original quarter red paper spines over marbled boards, gilt-stamped on spines in Gothic style "Emma By the Author of Pride and Prejudice." Most certainly this book was sent straight from the publisher to the binder in sheets.

Overall, a fine, fresh and entirely uncut copy in a contemporary binding, wanting one rear flyleaf. Minor rubbing to upper joints of volume I and II and the lower joint of volume II. Housed in a red morocco backed clamshell. Gilson A8. Keynes, Austen, 8. Sadleir 62d. HBS 67001. $45,000

2 First Edition of "Northanger Abbey and Persuasion"

7. [AUSTEN, Jane]. Northanger Abbey: and Persuasion. By the Author of “Pride and Prejudice,” “Mansfield-Park,” &c. With a Biographical Notice of the Author. In Four Volumes. London: John Murray, 1818.

First edition. Four twelvemo volumes. [2], xxiv, 300; [4], 331, [1, blank]; [4], 280; [4], 308, [4, blanks] pp. Bound with old and incorrect half-titles.

Early 20th full smooth tan morocco by Riviere, covers ruled in gilt, spines decoratively tooled in gilt, gilt turn-ins, black and red morocco gilt lettering labels. All edges gilt. Bookplate on front pastedown of each volume. Light foxing throughout. Some light rubbing to spine extremities and outer hinge repair to all volumes. All in all, a handsome set. Gilson A9. Keynes, Austen, 9. Sadleir 62e. HBS 66875. $8,500

First Collected Edition of Jane Austen's" Novel"s

8. AUSTEN, Jane. Novels. London: Richard Bentley, 1833.

First collected edition. Six octavo volumes bound in five. Sense and Sensibility; [4], [v]- xv, [1, blank], 331, [1], pp. Emma; [6], 435, [1], pp. Northanger Abbey and Persuasion; [8], 440 pp., Mansfield Park; [8], 424, [4, ads] and Pride and Prejudice; [8], 340, 1, blank], pp.

Original purple cloth with original labels on spines, gilt-stamped. Spines uniformly sunned, labels a bit chipped, minor soiling to covers. A very good copy of Austen's first collected edition, rarely found complete in original cloth. HBS 67110. $15,000

First Edition of Charles Ball's Autobiography 9. [BALL, Charles]. Slavery in the United States: A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Charles Ball. Lewistown, PA: John W. Shugert, 1836.

First Edition. Thick twelvemo (6 13/16 x 4 1/4 inches; 172 x 108 mm). [1]- 400, [2, blank] pp. Contemporary full sheep. Spine with black morocco label, lettered in gilt. Binding rubbed. Much foxing and toning throughout, as is common in American books of this time period. Without front free endpaper. Old ink notes on back pastedown. Overall a very good copy of this narrative. HBS 67053. $1,250

The Marvelous Land of Oz

10. BAUM, L. Frank. The Marvelous Land of Oz. Being an account of the further adventures of the Scarecrow and Tin Woodman and also the strange experiences of the Highly Magnified Woggle-Bug, Jack Pumpkinhead, the Animated Saw-Horse and the Gump; the story being A Sequel to the Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum... Pictured by John R. Neill. Chicago: The Reilly & Britton Co., [1904].

First Edition, second state (with the July 1904 copyright page). In the A binding but with the second issue text. With sixteen full-color plates inserted throughout. An exceptionally clean copy of this scarce book, which like the first book is usually found in poor condition. Greene and Hanff, II. HBS 66980. $3,000

3 First Edition of " The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" 11.BAUM, L. Frank. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Chicago: Geo. Hill Co., [1900].

First edition, second state. With the following points: on p. [2], the publisher’s advertisement has no box; on p. 14, line one begins “low wail of…”; p. 81, fourth line from bottom has “pieces”; p. [227], line 1 begins: “While The Woodman…”; and the colophon is reset in thirteen lines with no box; with broken type in the last line of p. 100 and p. 186. The verso of the title-page has a press-printed copyright notice, with the “R”’s having tails that are on a line with the rest of the printing. Second state of plate facing p. 34 without the two dark-blue blots on the moon and the second state of plate facing p. 92 without the pink shading at the horizon. 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). Cloth is very clean and bright with mimimal rubbing to top and bottom of spine and corners. Previous owner's old ink signature on copyright page. Professional restoration to front inner hinge. Overall, a very good or better copy of a book usually found in poor condition. Housed in a custom full green morocco clamshell.HBS 66954. $16,500

Signed by Peter Beard 12. BEARD, Peter. Peter Beard. New York: Taschen, 2006.

First edition. Large elephant folio. Limited to 2500 copies, signed by Beard, of which this is number 556. Full page color photographs throughout. Text in English, German and French. Half burgundy morocco over burgundy cloth. Housed in a cloth clamshell with an elephant gilt- stamped on the front. Some minor scuffing to book and slipcase, almost fine.

Beard laments the expansion of Western capitalism into Africa. He took many pictures of the wildlife there and began putting them into collages and using animal blood and remains with clippings to create his work. All color illustrations are color separated and reproduced in Pan4C, the finest reproduction technique available today. HBS 66441. $3,750 First Collected Edition of Berkeley’s Works 13. BERKELEY, George. The Works of George Berkeley, D.D. Late Bishop of Cloyne in Ireland. To which is added, an account of his life, and several of his letters to Thomas Prior, Esq. Dean Gervais, and Mr. Pope, &c. &c. In two volumes. Dublin: Printed by John Exshaw, 1784.

First collected edition of Berkeley’s Works, combining his philosophical, scientific, mathematical, moral, political, and theological works. Two large quarto volumes (11 1/2 x 9 1/8 inches. [4], ci, [1, blank], 646; [4], 641, [1, blank], *643-*666, [643]-663, [1, blank] pp. Engraved frontispiece portrait by T. Cooke, folding engraved plan (“The City of Bermuda Metropolis of the Summer Islands’), engraved diagram on p. 120 in Volume II, woodcut diagrams in the text.

Contemporary marbled boards, rebacked to style in the mid 19th century, spine gilt- stamped with five raised bands. Previous owner's bookplate's on front pastedown of both volumes. Minor foxing throughout. Covers a bit rubbed. Overall, a very good copy. Jessop 142. Printing and the Mind of Man 176 (the 1710 edition of A Treatise concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge). HBS 66732. $2,500 4 The Newberry Edition of the "Bible in Miniature", With Fourteen Engraved Plates 14. [BIBLE IN ENGLISH]. [MINIATURE BOOKS]. The Bible in Miniature, or a Concise History of the Old & New Testaments. London: E. Newberry, 1780.

First Newberry Edition. 64mo (1 11/16 x 1 1/16 inches; 43 x 22 mm). [2], 256 pp. With fourteen engraved plates and two engraved title-pages. The New Testament had a separate title-page.

Full contemporary calf. Spine stamped in gilt. Board edges stamped in gilt. Plain endpapers. Spine with a few small chips to head and tail and two very small holes to spine. Corners a bit bumped. Previous owner's old ink signature on front free endpaper and old ink initials on back pastedown. Overall a very good copy of a book that is hard to find in nice condition due to its small size.

"In this edition the page numbers are enclosed within brackets and there are no press figures and no colophon." (ESTC, T134732). HBS 65616. $1,500

One of 400 Copies Signed by the Artist 15. [BIBLE IN ENGLISH]. LAWRENCE, Jacob, [artist]. The First Book of Mo- ses, Called Genesis. The King James Version. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1989.

First edition. One of 400 copies signed by Lawrence, this being number 360. Profusely illustrated with silkscreens by Lawrence on Whatman paper. Large folio.

Publisher’s blue cloth, lettered in gilt on front. Publisher’s black cloth clamshell with leather label. Publisher’s newsletter laid in. A fine copy. HBS 66040. $5,500 Beautiful French Woodcut Bible

16. [BIBLE IN LATIN]. Textus Biblie. [Lyons: Per Johanem Crespin], 1529.

Second Crespin edition, reprinted from the 1527 edition. Folio (13 15/16 x 10 inches; 354 x 252 mm.). 304 leaves ([18], CCLXVIII, [18] leaves). Complete with final blank leaf. Gothic type. Text in double columns within rule borders. Title printed in red and black with small woodcut of St. Jerome (repeated three times in the text with Jerome’s prefaces) within a four-part woodcut border showing God the Father and two angels in a tympanum, the six days of Creation, and the Last Supper. Large six-part Creation woodcut at the beginning of Genesis, half-page woodcut of King Solomon at the beginning of Proverbs, full-page Nativity woodcut at the beginning of the New Testament, and 121 small text woodcuts (including twenty-three repetitions): ninety-one Old Testament woodcuts within strip borders (including eight repetitions) and thirty New Testament woodcuts without borders (including fifteen repetitions). Decorative woodcut initials. The Eusebian canons (leaves D1-D3) are printed in red and black in a red architectural framework.

Contemporary pigskin over wooden boards roll-tooled in blind to a panel design. Lacking clasps. Original index tabs. Binding worn, with some loss of pigskin on upper corner of front cover. Title soiled, lower margin of first few leaves wormed and frayed with some loss to woodcut title border, a few short marginal tears, some mostly marginal dampstaining, minor worming to lower inner margins, a few inkstains, slight discoloration throughout. Despite these minor flaws, this is a beautiful example of a French woodcut Bible, completely unsophisticated. Contemporary ink inscription on back pastedown, dated 1534, contemporary ink inscription on the recto of D4 beneath the Nativity cut, eighteenth- or nineteenth-century inscription on title: B.V. Maria, in Fürstenfeld. Some early underlining and coloring of woodcuts in red. A few early ink marginalia. Housed in a custom quarter brown morocco clamshell case. HBS 66850. $9,500

5 Captain Bligh's Own Account Of The Mutiny On The Bounty With A Contemporary Manuscript Account Of The Court-Martial Of Bligh

17. BLIGH, William. A Narrative of the Mutiny, on Board His Majesty’s Ship Bounty; and the Subsequent Voyage of Part of the Crew, in the Ship’s Boat, from Tofoa, one of the Friendly Islands, to Timor, a Dutch Settlement in the East Indies. Illustrated with charts. London: Printed for George Nicol, 1790.

First edition. Quarto (11 13/16 x 9 7/16 inches; 300 x 240 mm.). iv, 88 pp. Folding engraved frontispiece plan and three engraved charts, two of them folding and printed on pale blue paper. With a contemporary manuscript account of the court-martial of Captain Bligh on the front fly-leaf.

Contemporary quarter calf over marbled boards with edges tipped in vellum. Expertly rebacked, with original spine laid down. Minimal offsetting from the plates. Marginal repair to lower fore-edge of second preliminary leaf, not affecting text, margin of third chart neatly repaired, not affecting image. Otherwise a near fine, tall copy with wide margins. Housed in a quarter tan morocco case. HBS 67010. $13,500

An Uncut Copy in Original Boards on Green Paper

18. BOSWELL, James. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.. London: Printed by Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, 1791.

First edition, first issue, with “give” spelled “gve” in line 10 on p. 135 of Volume I and with all of the peculiarities cited by Pottle for the first issue, including the several uncorrected errors listed for Volume II and the various cancels. Two quarto volumes (11 1/2 x 9 inches; 295 x 230 mm. vii, [1, blank], [16], 516; [2], [ix-xii], 588 [i.e., 586] pp. leaves ix-xii usually found in volume I are bound in volume II, after title-page. Engraved frontispiece portrait by James Heath after Sir Joshua Reynolds in Volume I, two engraved facsimile plates in Volume II.

A rare find in original publisher's drab paper boards. Uncut. Paper of spine largely missing on both volumes, exposing the cords. The original printed paper labels for each volume still present, however a bit rubbed and slightly chipped obscuring a few letters. Boards bumped, rubbed and with some of the blue cover paper missing, exposing the board underneath. Signature Cc in volume I a bit smaller than other leaves, but also uncut and original with this copy. Internally very clean and with large margins. Overall a very good unsophisticated copy printed on green paper in its original binding. Housed in a custom black cloth clamshell.

Boswell's biography of Johnson is a classic of the genre—a full, candid account of the life of one of the most famous eighteenth-century writers and thinkers by another. "The Life of Johnson was no single book miraculously produced by an inexperienced author. It was the crowning achievement of an artist who for more than twenty-five years had been deliberately disciplining himself for such a task" (Pottle, p. xxi). Courtney & Nichol Smith, pp. 172- 173. Grolier, 100 English, 65. Pottle 79. Rothschild 463-465. Sterling 71. Tinker 338. HBS 67076. $37,500

6 Earliest Separate Printed Instructions for the Vaccine Inoculation

19. [BROADSIDE]. Directions for the Vaccine Inoculation. London, Institution, No. 5, Golden Square: Wilson and Co., January, 1801.

This broadside is the earliest Separate Printed Instructions for administering the vaccine inoculation of cow pox. One leaf, printed on recto only. (8 x 6 5/8 inches; 203 x 170 mm). Some light folding creases and a small closed tear, with no loss of text. a bit of toning and a light dampstain to top margin. Old ink notes on lower blank margin. Overall very good.

Along with the broadside is a separate engraved plate which shows five different stages of a cowpox pustual. Plate is entitled "Gestalt Der Impf Pusteln Bei Den Kuhpocken In Funf Auf Einander Folgenden Leitraumen." Plate has a large dampstain. Garrison and Morton. Norman Library. HBS 66871. $2,500

First Edition “Jane Eyre”

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

First edition. Three octavo volumes. 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 Cal- cutta 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. Parrish, pp. 87-88. Sadleir 346. Smith, Brontë, 2. Wolff 826. HBS 65653. $30,000

The First Edition of Brontë's First Novel 21. BRONTË, Charlotte. The Professor. A Tale. London: 1857.

First edition of the author’s first novel (although the last of her major works to be published). Two octavo volumes (7 3/4 x 5 inches; 198 x 129 mm). viii, 294 plus 2 pp. advertisements; [4], 258, [1, printer’s imprint, [1, blank] plus 8 pp. advertisements and 16 pp. publisher’s catalogue dated June, 1857.

Original dark grayish purple morocco-grain cloth elaborately stamped in blind in a floral pattern. 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. Parrish, p. 96. Sadleir 347. Smith, Brontë, 7. HBS 66276. $7,500

7 With Eighteen Plates of Nineteenth-Century Mexican Views and Costumes

22. B[ULLOCK], William. Le Mexique en 1823, ou relation d’un voyage dans la Nouvelle- Espagne. Paris: Alexis-Eymery, 1824.

First edition in French. Two octavo text volumes and one oblong quarto atlas volume. [2], iii, [1, blank], lxxii, 364; [4], 360, [1, errata], [1, blank]; 11 [1, blank] pp. Atlas with engraved frontispiece portrait, two folding maps, and eighteen lithographic plates, of which two are folding and six are hand-colored.

Contemporary quarter calf over marbled boards, spines lettered and tooled in gilt and blind in compartments. Marbled endpapers, all edges marbled. Atlas volume expertly and almost invisibly rebacked, with original spine laid down. Minor wear to extremities. Text and plates lightly foxed, with some minor dampstaining, especially to first and last few leaves. Pages xxxix-xl in Volume I on a stub, possibly supplied as a cancel by the publisher. A very good copy of this scarce work.

Bullock’s 1822-1823 trip to Mexico in search of antiquities for his museum also yielded this fine work of nineteenth-century travel literature. Published the same year as the first English edition, the first French edition contains two additional hand-colored plates not included in the English edition. This set also contains a portrait of the author, not noted by Abbey in either the French or English copies. HBS 66817. $3,000

The Most Well-Known Allegory Ever Written

23. 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: 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.

Harrison pp. 39-40. Wing B-5568. 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

8 The First and Probably Most Reprinted Psychological Text

24. [BURTON, Robert]. The Anatomy of Melancholy. What it is, With all the Kinds of Causes, Symptomes, Prognostics & Severall Cures for it. In Three Partitions with Their Severall Sections, Members and Subsections. Philosophically, Medicinally, Historically Opened & Cut Up. by Democritus Junior. With a Satyricall Preface Conducing to the Following Discourse. The Fifth Edition, Corrected and Augmented by the Author. Oxford: Henry Cripps, 1638.

Fifth edition, with corrections and additions. Quarto. With engraved title-page.

Contemporary full paneled calf with gilt double ruled boards. Boards with gilt central device. 18th century red morocco spine label. Board edges ruled in gilt. Top edge dyed brown, other edges gilt. Remnants of red silk ties on boards. Outer hinges starting but firm. Corners bumped. Three previous owner's bookplates on front pastedown. Some staining to leaf C. Paper flaws to leaves 3B and 4V, barely affecting text. A bit of occasional toning. A very good copy of this early edition.

The first and probably most reprinted psychological text, The Anatomy of Melancholy is one of the most important books of the 17th century. Burton continued to refine and correct the book through his entire lifetime and this fifth edition contains information not in the early editions.

“The Anatomy, as it’s publishing history shows, was one of the most popular books of the seventeenth century. All the learning of the age as well as its humour—and its pedantry—are there. It has something in common with Brant’s ‘Ship of Fools’, Erasmus’s ‘Praise of Folly’, and More’s ‘Utopia’, with Rabelais and Montaigne and like all these it exercised a considerable influence on the thought of the time. Dr. Johnson deeply admired it, and Charles Lamb’s often and strongly expressed devotion served to rescue the Anatomy from a brief period of oblivion…” (Printing and the Mind of Man). Garrison and Morton. Norman Library. HBS 67111. $5,000

First Edition in Original Cloth

25. BURTON, Sir Richard Francis. CAMERON, Verney Lovett. To The Gold Coast For Gold. A Personal Narrative. London: Chatto & Windus, 1883.

First edition. Two octavo volumes. With two colored folding maps in volume I and a colored frontispiece in volume II.

Publisher's original red cloth, stamped in black and gilt on boards. Spines lettered in gilt and stamped in black. Black-coated endpapers. Spines slightly rubbed and sunned. Top edges a bit foxed. Minimal and invisible restoration to inner hinges. Bookplate on front paste-down of each volume, of previous owner John Ralph Willis, a prominent collector of Rare Africana. Each volume with previous owner's ink signature and date of 1888 on front free endpapers. On the same page in the same hand is written "Valley Forge Historical Society & Washington Memorial Library, Valley Forge." A very good and handsome set.

"In 1881–2, Cameron joined Burton on a mission to West Africa. The two explorers examined the interior of the Gold Coast, searching for evidence of its gold- producing potential. Cameron also plotted the course of the Ankobrah River, and together they sent back to Kew 151 plants native to the Gold Coast. In 1883 their book To the Gold Coast for Gold was published..." (Oxford Dictionary of National Biography). HBS 64998. $5,500

9 First Edition of “Terra Australis Cognita” 26. CALLANDER, John. Terra Australis Cognita: or, Voyages to the Terra Australis, or Southern Hemisphere, during the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries... Edinburgh: Printed by A. Donaldson, 1766-1768.

First edition, the variant issue of Volume I containing a dedication to Sir Laurence Dundas (no priority). Three octavo volumes in fours. v, [1], viii, 516; [4], ii, 692; iv, 745, [1, blank] pp. Bound without advertisements. With all three folding engraved maps by T. Phinn after Vaugondy; 'Straits of Magellan', 'General Chart of the Indian Pacific and Atlantic Oceans and the Southern World divided into Australasia and Magellanica' , and 'Reduced chart of Australasia' (each as frontispiece).

Contemporary calf with red morocco gilt lettering labels and gilt volume numbers, band gilt ruled, edges sprinkled red. Some nearly invisible restoration to parts of the spines but otherwise a lovely copy. Cox I, pp. 17-18. Hill II, p. 367-368. JCB III, 1494. Sabin 10053. HBS 65304. $20,000

First Edition Of The First American Atlas Published In America

27. 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.

The maps included in this atlas are as follows: 1. Map of the British Possessions in America. 2. Map of the province of Maine. 3. Map of New-Hampshire. 4. Map of Vermont. 5. Map of Massachusetts. 6. Map of Connecticut. 7. Map of Rhode-Island. 8. Map of New-York. 9. Map of New-Jersey. 10. Map of Pennsylvania. 11. Map of Delaware. 12. Map of Maryland. 13. Map of Virginia. 14. Map of North-Carolina. 15. Map of South-Carolina. 16. Map of Georgia. 17. Map of Kentucky. 18. Map of the Tennessee Government. 19. Map of South America. 20. Map of the discoveries of Captains Cooke and Clerke on the northwest coast of North America. 21. Chart of the West-Indies. Compliers and engravers of these maps include, Samuel Lewis, Amos Doolittle, Harding Harris, W. Barker, Elihu Barker, General D. Smith, Vallance, and J.T. Scott.

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." Howes C135. Sabin 10855. HBS 64765. $37,500

10 The Only Theatrical Work Cervantes Ever Published: Very Rare 1615 First Edition Of “Ocho Comedias,” Which Brought Complexities To The Genre Which Are Only Now Being Understood And Appreciated

28. CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, Miguel de. Ocho Comedias, y Ocho Entremeses Nuevos, Nunca Representados. Madrid: Por la Viuda de Alonso Martin, a costa de Juan de Villarroel, 1615.

Very rare 1615 First Edition Of Ocho Comedias. The only theatrical work Cervantes ever published. Small quarto. Only two copies are known to have appeared on the market in the past 30 years; only five copies are found on OCLC.

Period-style full vellum, raised bands. Text cleaned, a few mended marginal tears. Owner ink inscription, evidence of bookplate, minor penciled annotations on first and final blanks. A handsome copy in excellent condition. Housed in custom half morocco clamshell box. Exceedingly rare first edition of Cervantes’ fifth book, his only theatrical work published in his lifetime.

Of the 20 to 30 plays Cervantes claimed to have written in the 1580s, only Numancia and Trato de Argel survive. Cervantes may have abandoned active theatrical work in 1587 when he became royal commissary in Andalusia, but he did not give up writing for the theatre. Late in life he revised some of his earlier works, and perhaps wrote some new ones; a year before his death, he published the eight full-length comedies and eight interludes found in this volume. Four of these plays deal with the conflict between Christians and Muslims, a topic of great interest to Cervantes as it relates directly to his captivity in North Africa. In addition, the prologue contains Cervantes’ important survey of contemporary Spanish theatre, with remarks on Lope de Rueda, Navarro, Lope de Vega, and others. In part Cervantes uses this prologue to justify his lack of success in getting his plays produced, despite his substantial literary reputation. The very fact that his once-marginal interludes are today considered part of the literary canon, while the traditional, once-successful entremés has been marginalized, suggests that the dramatist brought complexities to the genre of short drama which are only now being understood and appreciated (Reed). Ford & Lansing, 31. Palau 53948. Rius 324. Salv· 1176. RÌo y Rico 819. Cory Reed, Cervantes and the Novelization of Drama, in Cervantes: Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America, 11.1 (1991): 61-86. HBS 65845. $145,000

With an Original Drawing by Marc Chagall 29. [CHAGALL, Marc, artist]. CHAGALL, Bella. Burning Lights. Thirty-Six Drawings by Marc Chagall. New York: [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. HBS 65899. $6,500

11 Arguments Against Democracies by Thomas Paine’s Nemesis

30. [CHALMERS, James]. Plain Truth; addressed to the inhabitants of America, containing, remarks on a late pamphlet, entitled Common sense: wherein are shewn, that the scheme of independence is ruinous, delusive, and impracticable: that were the author's asseverations, respecting the power of America, as real as nugatory; reconciliation on liberal principles with Great Britain, would be exalted policy: and that circumstanced as we are, permanent liberty, and true happiness, can only be obtained, by honorable connections, with that kingdom. 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. HBS 65250. $10,000

A Voyage to California to Observe the Transit of Venus

31. CHAPPE D'AUTEROCHE, Jean. A Voyage to California to Observe the Transit of Venus... London: Printed for Edward and Charles Dilly, 1778.

First edition in English. With an engraved folding plan of Mexico City. Contemporary marbled boards with a new calf spine. A fine copy.

While Cook was conducting observations of Venus from Tahiti, Jean Chappe d'Auteroche was sent by the French Government to conduct similar observations from Baja, California. During his voyage, Auteroche visited Vera Cruz, Guadalajara, and San Blas. He died of fever later in the expedition. Director of the Paris Observatory, Monsieur de Cassini sailed on a second voyage (part two of this book), and his account includes a detailed description of an American fishery and the methods of curing and salting cod. Streeter calls this, "a thrilling account of a race against time to reach lower California before the transit of Venus occurred." Hill 49-50. Howes C299. Sabin 12004. Streeter 2443. HBS 66851. $2,500

The Most Important Collection of Furniture Designs to be Published in Eighteenth-Century England

32. CHIPPENDALE, Thomas. The Gentleman and the Cabinet-Maker’s Director... London: Printed for the Author, and sold at his House in St. Martin’s-Lane…, 1754.

First edition. Large folio (17 5/8 x 11 inches; 450 x 280 mm.). [6], iii-x, 27, [1, blank] pp. including engraved dedication to Hugh, Earl of Northumberland. With 161 engraved plates by Müller and Darby after Chippendale (there are two plates numbered XXV, the first of a “Chinese Chaire,” the second of a “Chinese Sopha”). Title printed in red and black.

Bound in full dark green morocco. Elaboratly tooled in gilt on front and back boards. Spine in compartments with six raised bands. Spine lettered in gilt. Five compartments heavily tooled in gilt. Thick gilt dentlles. Marbled endpapers. Half-title and title with a crease, and some restoration to the upper margin of the half title. Preliminaries with some browning to right margin. Some intermittent spotting and light browning. A wonderful copy in a beautiful binding. HBS 64829. $12,500 12 The Best Edition of the First Great Eighteenth Century Voyage Compilation

33.CHURCHILL, Awnsham. A Collection of Voyages and Travels;. some now printed from original manuscripts, others now fist published in English [With] A Collection of Voyages and Travels... London: Lintot & Osborne, 1744-1746 & 1752. . Third and unquestionably best edition. Eight folio volumes (14 x 9 1/8 inches; 355 x 230 mm.). Complete with all 369 engraved maps, plans and plates, many double-page or folding (includes the 305 called for in the list of plates for volumes I-VI, plus 10 unlisted plates and maps in volume I, plus the 54 maps, plates, and plans called for in volumes VII & VIII). text in columns, title page for first volume in red and black.

Contemporary Scottish binding of full calf with twining gilt borders, superbly rebacked in the late eighteenth-century, smooth spines densely gilt and with central floral devices, two red morocco gilt labels per volume, gilt board edges, marbled endpapers, red and blue pattern edges. Contemporary bookplate on verso of front endpapers. Some light scuffing, neat repair to upper joint of volume VII. Overall, a wonderful and entirely complete set.

Compiled by Ashwan and John Churchill, this is a very valuable collection, both for its range of coverage and for the fact that it gives the original accounts. It is the first of the great eighteenth century compilations of voyages, divided in regions and arranged chronologically, taking most of the pre-1600 material from Hakluyt and those to 1625 from Purchas (despite being critical of both of these predecessors).” (Hill). This set also contains the rare two volumes known as the Harleian Voyages, compiled from Lord Oxford’s library by Thomas Osborne. Here Osborne‘s works comprise volumes VII and VII of the series; these two volumes were also issued separately in 1745. Hill 295. Sabin 13017 & 13015n. HBS 65328. $30,000

First Edition of Clarke's Treaties on Decimal Arithmetic 34. CLARKE, Henry. The Rationale of Circulating Numbers. With the Investigations of All the Rules and Peculiar Processes used in that Part of Decimal Arithmetic...London: Printed for the Author; and sold by Mr. Murray, 1777.

First edition. Octavo (8 3/16 x 5 inches; 209 x 127 mm). xvi, [2, table of contents], [15]- 146, [4, blank], 147-148, [4, blank], 149-215, [3, publisher's ads], [1, errata], [1, blank] pp. With seven folding engraved plates. We could find no copies of this at auction in the past fifty years. According to ESTC " The contents leaf after p.xiv is possibly an insert" thus explaining the lack of pagination.

Contemporary calf, rebacked with original spine. Remnants of a red spine label. Outer hinges repaired. Some rubbing and scuffing to boards. With about eight pages of a previous owners extensive hand-written notes in old ink. Some of these pages are blanks. Previous owner's name on verso of errata in old ink. Old ink notes on back paste-down. A bit of foxing and dampstaining throughout. Overall a very good copy of this scarce item. ESTC 006370864 HBS 66692. $1,750

A Landmark History of Mexico

36. CLAVIGERO, Francisco Saverio. Historia Antigua de Megico... London: R. Ackermann, 1826.

First edition in Spanish (originally published in Italian in 1780, and then in English in 1787). Two octavo volumes. [xxxii], 432 pp., with one fold-out map and nineteen inserted plates (two are fold- out); iv, 449, [1, “Nota”], [2, publisher’s list of books in Spanish] pp., with one fold-out map and one inserted plate.

Later half red morocco over contemporary marbled paper boards, spines lettered in gilt. Some rubbing to boards, small embossed ownership stamps to both title-pages, bookplates, some light soiling in text, two plates in vol. I have a small amout of neat amateur coloring. Still, a near fine set.HBS 66813. $2,250 13 Complete with Forty-Eight Engraved Maps and Plates

37. CLUVERII, Philippi. Introductio in universam geographiam. Iam Veterem Quam Novam. Tabulis Geographicis XLVI ac Notis Olim Ornata à Johanne Bunone. Amsterdam: Apud Joannem Wolters, 1697.

Quarto (9 x 7 inches; 227 x 177 mm) [22], 368, 367-565, [1, blank], [61, Index], [3, blank] pp. Complete with engraved title-page frontispiece, forty-three folding maps, three engraved plates, two folding tables and a title-page with engraved vignette. Title- page printed in red and black. Text in Latin.

Full contemporary vellum. Spine with author's name in manuscript. Some rubbing and staining. A bit of toning and dampstaining. Occasional small closed tears to folds of maps, but no loss to maps. Title-page with small red wax seal and two previous owner's old ink signatures dated 1761 and 1762, not affecting text. Overall a very good copy.

Later edition of Cluverius's popular geographic history which ran to 17 editions between 1624 and 1729. Sabin 13805. HBS 66932. $2,500

Tarrif as Essential to Secure Freedom

38. COLTON, Calvin. Public Economy for the United States. New York: A.S. Barnes & Co., 1848.

First edition. With the inscription "Hon. J. Colamer with Respects of the Author" to the front free endpaper. J. Colamer was a Senator from Virginia. Large octavo. [7] 8-536 pp. Publisher's brown cloth gilt spine lettering. Some light foxing throughout. A near fine copy. Kress C.7332. HBS 66814. $2,500

First Edition of “Lord Jim”

39. CONRAD, Joseph. Lord Jim. A Tale. Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1900.

First edition. Octavo (7 3/8 x 5 inches; 189 x 127 mm). [6], 451, [1, blank] pp.

Original pale green linen-grain cloth decoratively stamped and lettered in black on front cover and decoratively stamped in black and lettered in gilt on spine. Largely unopened. Endpapers very slightly browned. Some occasional light foxing. Gilt very bright. About fine. Keating 25. Smith, Conrad, 5. Wise, Conrad, 7. HBS 67097. $6,500

14 Uniformly Bound Set of "Leather-Stocking Tales" First Editions

40. COOPER, James Fenimore. [Five First Editions].New York and Philadelphia, 1823-1841.

All volumes uniformly bound in full modern mottled calf by Bennett, N.Y.. Spines lettered and ruled in gilt. Top edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Housed together in a cloth slipcase. Overall a very good set with just a few minor cases of shelfwear. Ten twelvemo volumes (6 7/8 x 4 3/16 inches; 175 x 106 mm). {Comprising]: The Pioneers, or the Sources of the Susquehanna; A Descriptive Tale. New-York: Published by Charles Wiley, 1823. [and]: The Last of the Mohicans. A Narrative of 1757. By the Author of "The Pioneers." Philadelphia: H.C. Carey & I. Lea, 1826. [and]: The Prairie; A Tale. By the Author of The "Pioneers and the Last of the Mohicans." Philadelphia: H.C. Carey & I. Lea, 1827. [and]: The Pathfinder: or, The Inland Sea.Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard, 1840. [and]: The Deerslayer: or, The First War-Path. Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard, 1841. HBS 65766. $10,000

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

41. 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.

“Copernicus...determined to abandon the fixity of the earth, and all the complexities in the treatment of the motions of the celestial bodies that follow from such a conception. With the sun placed at the centre, and the earth daily spinning on its axis and circling the sun in common with other planets, the whole system of the heavens became clear, simple, and harmonious" (Printing and the Mind of Man 70, citing the 1543 first edition). Printing and the Mind of Man, 70 (regarding first edition). HBS 65532. $38,500

15 First Edition of the Eccentric Travels of Coryate

42. CORYATE, Thomas. Coryats Crudities. Hastily gobled up in five Moneths travells in France, Savoy, Italy...Helvetia alia Switzerland, some parts of Germany and the Netherlands... London: Printed by W[illiam] S[tansby], 1611.

First edition. Quarto in eights (8 1/8 x 6 inches; 206 x 153 mm). [-]2; a8-b8 ([-]1 inserted after a3); b4; c8-g8; h4-l4; B8-D8 (D3 inserted after precedeing D); E8-3C8; 3D4; [-]2 (first is signed 3E3 and both are errata). The present copy collates the same as Pforzheimer. Illustrated with engraved title-page by William Hole and five engraved plates. Plates include the woodcut of the badge of the Prince of Wales as well as three folding plates. Also illustrated with two inter-textual engravings and numerous woodcut initials and and head-pieces. With two leaves of errata.

19th-century straight-grain red morocco. Boards ruled and stamped in gilt with a central gilt coat-of-arms of Sir Henry Harben. Gilt dentelles and board edges. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Some occasional light dampstaining and a few instances of old ink marginalia. The clock plate has been reinforced on the back side with two small tape repairs. The clock plate is not cropped which is rare. Engraved title is inserted on a stub. It has been remargined on the outer right margin and cropped close, as usual. Some light rubbing to edges and hinges. Book plates on front endpapers of Henry Devenish Harben, Dogmersfield Library and Arthur and Charlotte Vershbow. An exceptional copy. HBS 66493. $25,000

"Mexico South" Limited to 100 Copies with an Original Illustration and an Additional Illustration and Inscription

43. COVARRUBIAS, Miguel, [illustrator]. Mexico South. The Isthmus of Tehuantepec. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946.

First edition. Octavo. One of 100 copies with an original illustration and an additional inscription and illustration. Original black cloth over pink paper boards, gilt-stamped on spine. Some light fading to top edge of book. Otherwise a fine copy. Housed in a black open ended cloth slipcase.

Inscription reads" For Natalia and Jan Drohojowski/ With the friendship of their friends/ Rosa and Miguel Covarrubias." Picture of a man's head in black ink below inscription. HBS 66776. $3,000

First Edition of D'Arvieux's " Travels in the Arabia Desart" 44. D'ARVIEUX'S, Chevalier. Travels in the Arabia Desart... London: Printed by B. Barker and C. King, both in Westminster-Hall; and J. Brown at the , 1718.

First edition. Small octavo. (3 1/2 x 6 inches). [frontis.], [title], [i]-xvi, [4], [plate], [1]-272; cclxxv-cclxxxvi, 287-358, [2, table] pp. Bound together with: A General Description of Arabia. London: 1718. First edition. Two volumes in one with frontis. and 4 plates.

Bound in modern full brown speckled calf, elaborately tooled in gilt on spine with a red morocco label, gilt-stamped. Top edge stained black, marbled endpapers. A near fine copy of this scarce first edition.

Chevalier D'Arvieux (1635–1702) was a French traveler and diplomat. He provides some interesting insights into Bedouin life with their horses as observed nearly 300 years ago. HBS 66628. $2,500

16 First Edition in Dust Jacket

45. DAHL, Roald. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Illustrated by Joseph Schindelman. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, [1964].

The true first edition (preceding the UK edition by three years), first issue, with six lines of printing information (instead of five) on the final page. Octavo (9 3/16 x 6 1/8 inches; 233 x 155 mm). [12], 161, [1], [1, blank], [1, colophon] pp. Black and white text illustrations.

Publisher's original red cloth with covers stamped in blind. Spine stamped and lettered in gilt. Top edge stained chocolate. Mustard endpapers. In the original color pictorial dust jacket. Jacket spine very slightly sunned. A few small chips and some small professionally repaired closed tears. A shallow crease to the bottom right corner to the bottom middle of the jacket. Overall a near fine copy in a very good dust jacket.

“The adventures of four nasty children and our hero with Mr. Willy Wonka and his famous candy plant”(from the jacket). HBS 65479. $2,750

First Edition, First Issue Of Dana’s “Two Years Before The Mast” 46. [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 with some splitting at outer 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." An exceptional copy of a book that is usually found in poor condition. 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. BAL 4434. Zamorano 80. Grolier 100. HBS 66312. $7,500

Rare English Edition of “Two Years Before the Mast”

47. DANA, Richard Henry, Jr. Two Years Before the Mast. A Personal Narrative of Life At Sea London: Bradbury and Evans, [N.d., ca. 1841].

Rare English edition. Small quarto. 124 pp. Printed in double columns like the first English edition, published by Moxon but this copy is on better quality paper. Advertisement dated Aug. 1, 1841, Dana's Birthday. Only 1 copy came up at auction that was a presentation copy in unbound sheets. This copy does not have an imprint on verso of title as first English, but it had Bradbury and Evans imprint at end. Therefore, it is possible(?) that this was a printer's proof copy or pirated copy.

Bound in modern half calf over marbled boards, stamped in black on spine. Stamp of "Henry Samuel" on a few pages. Foxing to the first few leaves, otherwise fine. HBS 66367. $1,000

17 Containing Many Great Views of the Aegean Archipelago, Crete and Cyprus 48. DAPPER, Olfert. Description Exacte des Isles de l'Archipel,...Amsterdam: George Gallet, 1703.

First French edition. Folio (13 3/4 x 9 inches; 349 x 229 mm). [6], 556, [4] pp. Complete with half-title, engraved frontispiece, Thirty-four engraved maps, plates and plans and forty-three engravings in the text. The thirty-four engraved maps, plates and plans are comprised of one large folding map, sixteen, full page plates and seventeen double page plates.

Contemporary speckled calf, expertly rebacked with original spine laid down. Spine lettered and stamped in gilt. Edges speckled red. Marbled endpapers. Boards a bit rubbed. A one-inch tear to crease of folding map, not affecting map. Paper flaw to top outer corner of leaf Qqq2, not affecting text. Two-inch closed tear to leaf Ttt3, paper flaw to outer margin of leaf Vvv2, not affecting text. A five-inch closed tear to plate facing page 530, and a 1.25 inch closed tear to the bottom corner outer corner of Zzz2, not affecting text. Overall a very clean, nice copy. Atabey 323. Blackmer 453. Cobham- Jeffery 14. Contominas 190. Weber II 745. HBS 64779. $8,000 First American Edition "On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection" 49. DARWIN, Charles. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection. Or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. New York: 1860.

First American edition, first state with only two notices oppisite the title page. Octavo. 432 pp. Original brown blindstamped cloth, gilt-stamped on spine. Previous owner’s bookplate on front pastedown, minor scattered foxing throughout. A fine copy.

One of the most influential scientific works of the nineteenth century, On the Origina of Species was (and still is) one of the most controversial. In it “Darwin not only drew an entirely new picture of the workings of organic nature; he revolutionized our methods of thinking and our outlook on the natural order of things. The recognition that constant change is the order of the universe had been finally established and a vast step forward in the uniformity of nature had been taken” (Printing and the Mind of Man). HBS 67095. $12,500

Rare Patrons’ Edition of Dawson’s “Birds of California”

50. DAWSON, William Leon. The Birds of California. A complete, scientific and popular account of the 580 species and subspecies of birds found in the state. Illustrated by 30 photogravures, 120 full-page duotone plates and more than 1100 half-tone cuts of birds in life, nests, eggs, and favorite haunts, from photographs chiefly by Donald R. Dickey, Wright M. Pierce, Wm. L. Finley and the author. Together with 44 drawings in the text and a series of 110 full-page color plates chiefly by Major Allan Brooks. Format De Luxe Patrons’ Edition. Sold only by subscription. San Diego: South Moulton Company, 1923.

Patrons’ Edition, De Luxe, comprising “the first choice of selected sheets from the first impressions of the format de luxe of “The Birds of California.’” Limited to 250 numbered copies, signed by the author. Four large quarto volumes (12 1/4 x 9 3/8 inches; 311 x 240 mm.). Original green hard-grain morocco. Front covers lettered in gilt, spines decoratively stamped in gilt and black and lettered in gilt with inlaid bird designs. Top edge gilt. About fine copy in the original box, which shows some fading. HBS 66957. $5,000

18 Defoe’s “Universal Plan of Commerce”

51. [DEFOE, Daniel]. A Plan of the English Commerce....London: Printed for Charles Rivington, 1728.

First edition. Octavo. xvi, [6, contents], [2, ads], 368 pp. Decorative woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials.

Early nineteenth-century calf by J. Mackenzie, neatly rebacked to style. Gilt single-rule border on covers, board edges decoratively tooled in gilt, turn-ins decoratively tooled in blind, edges stained red, marbled endpapers. Ink stamp of the Devon & Exeter Institution on verso of title. Lending library label of the Devon and Exeter Institution on front pastedown. An excellent copy. Very scarce. Housed in a full morocco clamshell case.

In this work, Defoe contends that the several branches of trade and commerce, from the cottage manufacturer to the merchant, were largely unaware of each other. He proposes a scheme to join these differing branches into a “universal plan of commerce.” Goldsmiths’ 6594. Kress 3744. Moore 499. Sabin 19289. HBS66823. $7,500

Limited Edition, With Illustrations by Degas

52. DEGAS, Edgar, [artist]. LOUŸS, Pierre [author]. VOLLARD, Ambroise, [editor]. Mimes des Courtisanes de Lucien. Illustrations D'Edgar Degas Paris: Ambrose Vollard, 1935.

Limited to one of 325 copies on Rives paper, this being number 138. (12 3/4 x 9 15/16 inches; 324 x 252 mm). With text by Louys and illustrations by Degas. With 83 pages of text, twelve intertextual woodcuts in brown and twenty-two loose etchings by Maurice Potin after Degas. Of the twenty-two etchings, four are in color.

In original stiff printed wrappers and original glassine. Wrappers and title-page printed in black and red. Leaves uncut and unbound. The loose etchings are housed in a separate folder. A fine copy. HBS 65288. $3,500 Exceptionally Rare in Parts

53. 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: Published for the Author, by Bradbury and Evans, [January - October] 1846.

First edition of the very rare ten monthly parts issue. Octavo. [1]2- 311[312],[i-v]vi-vii[viii-ix]x-xii pp. The twenty-four plates are those used for the original Bentley magazine issue, re-touched, re-bitten, and “enhanced” by the engraver Findlay, and with the Bentley imprints erased. Cruikshank also designed the front wrapper for the parts issue, with very attractive, well-balanced, and appealing results

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. Hatton and Cleaver, pp. 215-224. HBS 65570. $30,000 19 Early Dickens ALS 54. DICKENS, Charles. ALS. Autumn, 1836. Measures 7 1/4 inches by 4 1/4 inches. Written and signed in brown ink. Beautifully matted and framed with a young portrait of Dickens. Letter reads....

"Furnivals Inn/Monday Morning Dear Sir- I am reduced to the humiliating avowal that I am not the author of "Keeper's Travels". I therefore return the proofs you sent me on Saturday, uncorrected. I inclose the title, which perhaps you will have the goodness to arrange in decent order. Very Truly Yours Charles Dickens" Letter written to Thomas Curson Hansard printer of Sketches, Second Series. HBS 66385. $4,500

A Christmas Carol

55. DICKENS, Charles. A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas. With Illustrations by John Leech. London: 1843.

First edition, first issue: i.e., “Stave I”; text entirely uncorrected; green-coated endpapers; blue half-title; red and blue title. Foolscap octavo. [i-viii], [1]2-166[-168, ads]. Four inserted hand-colored steel-engraved plates by and after Leech and four black and white text wood-engravings by W.J. Linton after Leech.

Original cinnamon vertically-ribbed cloth. Covers decoratively stamped in blind, front cover and spine decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt, all edges gilt. Binding matches Todd’s first impression, first issue, with the smallest interval between blindstamped border and gilt wreath equal to 14 mm., and with perfect “D” in “Dickens.” Previous owner's inscription on half-title. Some soiling to covers, mostly to front cover. Bottom of spine a little rubbed and a small amount of chipping to top of spine. A good, clean copy. Smith II, 4.HBS 66876. $10,000 “Trial Issue,” with the Title-Page Printed in Red and Green

56. DICKENS, Charles. A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas. London: 1844.

First edition, first issue, the very rare so-called “trial issue,” with title-page printed in red and green and half-title in green; “Stave I;” text entirely uncorrected; yellow coated endpapers. (Very few copies were published with first issue points in 1844). 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.

Original cinnamon vertically-ribbed cloth. Outer hinge repaired. Covers decoratively stamped in blind, front cover and spine decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt, all edges gilt. Binding matches Todd’s first impression, first issue, with closest interval between blindstamped border and gilt wreath equal to 14 mm. and with the “D” in “Dickens” in perfect condition. Spine a little faded, previous owner's contemporary signatures on front free endpaper. Overall, a wonderful copy of this great rarity, exceptionally clean and bright. Housed in a half red morocco clamshell case.

Although A Christmas Carol was published in Dec. of 1843, it is believed that Dickens wanted this to originally have an 1844 date to show that it was a new book for Christmas. Eckel calls this edition "the scarcest." Smith, Dickens, II, 4. Calhoun & Heaney, especially pp. 35, 48-49. Eckel, p. 118. HBS 67075. $30,000

20 First American Edition of A Christmas Carol, In Publisher's Extra Gilt Gift Binding

57. DICKENS, Charles. A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas. With Illustrations by John Leech. Philadephia: Carey & Hart, 1844.

First American Edition. Twelvemo in sixes. [8], 158 pp. Four hand-colored lithographed plates (including the frontispiece and the plates facing pp. 59, 75, and 143) and four hand-colored wood-engraved plates (facing pp. 36, 71, 113, and 157).

Publisher's original gift binding by "J.C. Russell Binder" in dark brown vertically-ribbed cloth with front cover decoratively stamped in gilt, rear cover decoratively stamped in blind and spine decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt. Original buff endpapers. Spine gilt lightly rubbed, headcap and tailcap chipped, rear outer hinge repaired. A very good of this scarce gift binding. Housed in a brown cloth clamshell case. Gimbel A80. HBS 67092. $10,000

First Appearance in Print of Dickens's First Series of 'Sketches' And Other Notices of Interest in Victorian London

58. [DICKENS, Charles, contributor]. The Morning Chronicle. London: John Black, 1835-1837.

(26 x 20 1/2 inches; 660 x 519 mm). 88 pp. Partial publication run comprised of twenty-one single issues from Oct. 13, 1835 through Jan. 19, 1837. Issues included are October 13, October 20, November 24, December 16-19, December 21-22 in 1835; January 12, January 15, January 22, February 4, February 11, May 28, June 23, September 24, October 4, October 11, December 7 in 1836; January 19, 1837.

Publication highlights include: (1) Notice of a show at the Colosseum, possibly attributed to Charles Dickens, 13 Oct 1835; (2) Review of the burletta, The Yellow Kids, 20 Oct 1835; (3) Review of The Dream at Sea, 24 Nov 1835; (4) Poll and riot reports about the election at Northampton, Dec. 16-19, 21-22, 1835; (5) Review of One Hour, 12 Jan 1836; (6) Review of The Waterman, 15 Jan 1836; (7) Report of a Procession at Lambeth, 22 Jan 1836; (8) Review of Rienzi, 4 Feb 1836; (9) Report of O'Connell's speech, 11 Feb and 28 May 1836; (10) Report of Melbourne trial, 23 Jun 1836; (11) Sketches by Boz, 1st Series, (nos. 1-3), 24 Sep, 4 Oct & 11 Oct 1836; (12) Review of Village Coquettes, 7 Dec 1836; (13) Review of Bentley's Miscellany, edited by Charles Dickens, 19 Jan 1837.

A few smudges and occasional light browning; some small marginal tears, and one tear to December 16, 1835 issue, affecting the text, expertly and almost invisibly repaired. Housed in a black cloth clamshell box. Excellent set of early Dickens writings and Dickens-related notices in a popular London newspaper. HBS 66382 $4,500

First Edition, First Issue of "The Personal History of David Copperfield" In Book Form

59. DICKENS, Charles. The Personal History of David Copperfield.…With Illustrations by H.K. Browne. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1850.

First edition, first issue in book form. Octavo. [i-vii]viii[ix]x-xii[xiii]xiv[xv-xvi], [1]2-624. Forty inserted plates, including the frontispiece and the vignette title page and the second of Browne's famous "darkplates.".

Contemporary three-quarter smooth black calf over patterened brown cloth, decoratively gilt-stamped on spine, marbled edges. Very good. Text and plates generally clean. Overall, a very good copy of this title, scarce in the first edition and first printing. Smith, Dickens, I,9. HBS 67052. $2,000

21 First Editions of Dickens' First Books 60. [DICKENS, Charles]. Sketches by "Boz." Illustrative of Every-Day Life, and Every-Day People. In Two Volumes. Vol. I [Vol. II.] Illustrations by George Cruikshank. London: John Macrone, 1836.

First edition, first printing (printed by Whiting). Two volumes. Twelvemo. [i-iii] iv-v [vi-vii] viii, [1] 2-348; [i-iv], [1] 2-342 pp. (In both volumes several pages bear no pagination.) Sixteen plates inserted outside the pagination. [With:] [DICKENS, Charles]. Sketches by Boz: Illustrative of Every-Day Life, and Every- Day People. The Second Series. Complete in One Volume. London: John Macrone, 1837 [i.e., 17 December 1836].

First edition. Twelvemo. [i-x] ([vi-vii] misnumbered ii-iii and [x] misnumbered viii), [1-3] 4-377 [378, blank] pp.

Uniformly bound in green polished calf by Root & Sons. Two gilt-fillet borders, gilt floral corner stamps, spines elaborately tooled in gilt in compartments, five raised bands, red gilt morocco lettering pieces, marbled endpapers,top edges gilt. "Second Series" bound without the ads at end of volume. Handsomely rebacked. Internally clean and bright set. HBS 67056. $3,000

The Most Complete Of The 17th Century Editions 61. DONNE, John. Poems, With elegies on the authors death. To which is added divers copies under his own hand, never before printed. London: Printed for Henry Herringman, 1669.

Fifth edition according to Keyens, seventh edition according to Wing. Octavo (4 x 6 5/8 inches). [2, blank], [6], 414, [4, blank].

Contemporary full brown calf, expertly rebacked, covers decoratively ruled in blind, spine decorated in gilt, red morocco label on spine, gilt-stamped with five raised bands. Previous owner's bookplates, signatures on front free endpapers. Coners worn, minor foxing. Very good.

This edition contains additional pieces not present in the previous editions including “To his Mistresse Going to Bed” and is the most complete of the 17th century editions. Keynes, Donne, 84. Wing D1871. HBS 66995. $5,500 The First Edition of Donne’s "Poems” and "Juvenilia" 62. D[ONNE], J[ohn]. Poems, by J. D. With Elegies on the Authors Death. London: 1633.

[Bound together with]:

DONNE, J. Juvenilia, or Certaine Paradoxes and Problemes. London: E.P. [Elizabeth Purslowe] for Henry Seyle, 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. 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. Keynes, Donne, 78. Pforzheimer 296. STC 7045. HBS 65464. $30,000 22 Very Rare First Edition, First Issue of John Donne's Sermons, Volume III

63. DONNE, John. XXVI Sermons Preached By That Learned and Reverend Divine John Donne,...The Third Volume. London: Printed by T.[homas] N.[ewcomb] for James Magnes,1660.

First edition, first issue. Small folio. (11 x 7 inches; 280 x 180 mm.). [xii], 120, 129-183, [1, blank], 177-232, 241-243, 236-237, 246-296, 285-392, 397-411, [1, blank] pp. "This volume was very carelessly edited and printed. It actually contains only twenty-three instead of twenty-six sermons; sermon 9 is left out altogether, but two of the sermons are printed twice over, nos. 16 and 17 being merely repetitions of nos. 5 and 3. The collation...will be seen to be very erratic;...The pagination is very faulty, although the right number of pages, 411, is finally arrived at....There are in addition several minor misprints in the pagination. There are also variable irregularities in some of the signatures....a large number of corrections were made while the book was passing through the press....also note a change in the type after sheet Aa,...[indicating] that the two parts of the book were printed simultaneously at two different presses....The book was printed by Thomas Newcomb (1649- 1681), and was twice reissued with new title-pages in 1661 (see [Keynes] nos. 32 and 32a)". Of the three volumes of John Donne's sermons published, volume III is the rarest (Keynes, p. 53-54).

Contemporary tree calf, ruled in blind, spine decoratively tooled in gilt with a red morocco spine label, lettered in gilt. Spine expertly and handsomely rebacked with original spine laid down. A few tears and minor abrasions to covers, expertly repaired. All edges speckled. Two prior owners' bookplates on front pastedown and free endpaper (Goyder copy). Title page reattached. Minor discoloration to margin of top edges, not affecting text. A few margin and corner paper flaws, not affecting the text. Early manuscript notes on rear pastedown and free endpaper. Only 1 copy (other than this copy) of the first edition (any issue) has been offered at auction in over 75 years. An excellent copy of this very rare and bibliographically complex work. Keynes, Donne, 31; Wing, 1872. HBS 66986. $11,000

The Fine "Ellery Queen" Copy 64. DOYLE, A[rthur] Conan. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. London: George Newnes, 1892.

First edition, first issue with no street name on the front cover, "Violent" for "Violet" on page 317. Large octavo (9 1/4 x 6 1/4 inches; 235 x 160 mm). [4], 317, [1, printer’s imprint], [2, blank] pp. With 104 illustrations by Sidney Paget in the text.

Provenance: Detective story writers "Ellery Queen" (Manfred Lee) and "Barnaby Ross" (Frederic Dannay) names in ink on half-title.

Original light blue cloth over beveled boards. Front cover and spine blocked and lettered in gilt and black. All edges gilt. Gray flower and leaf endpapers. Small ink initials to front free endpaper. Front hinge professionally and invisibly repaired, back hinge starting but firm. A slight bit of shelf-wear to top and bottom of the spine. Some light foxing to a few preliminary and final pages. Otherwise a near fine copy, exceptionally clean and bright. Housed in a tan cloth clamshell.

"An avid reader of detective fiction since childhood, Dannay often discussed with Lee the possibility that they should write their own novel in the style of the erudite mystery writer, S. S. Van Dine. In 1928, using the name Ellery Queen, the two entered McClure's magazine novel-writing contest and, to their surprise, won. Before the work came to print, however, and before Dannay and Lee received their $7,500 prize money, the magazine folded. Fortunately the cosponsor of the competition, publisher Frederick A. Stokes, stepped in and in 1929 published The Roman Hat Mystery, which promptly sold 8,000 copies and thereby launched both the character and the "author" Ellery Queen." (American National Biography). Green and Gibson A10. HBS 64961. $17,500

23 First Edition “Hound” in the Original Cloth

65. DOYLE, A[rthur] Conan. PAGET, Sidney, [illustrator]. The Hound of the Baskervilles. Another Adventure of Sherlock Holmes. London: George Newnes, 1902.

First edition, first issue in book form (first serialized in the Strand Magazine between August 1901 and April 1902), with "you" for "your" on page 13, line 3. Small octavo (7 1/4 x 4 3/4 inches; 184 x 120 mm). [8], 358, [1], [1, blank] pp. With sixteen black and white plates (including frontispiece) by Sidney Paget.

Original scarlet cloth decoratively stamped in gilt and black (in a design by Alfred Garth Jones) and lettered in gilt on front cover and decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt on spine. A few old ink sketches to front free endpaper, dated "1902". Overall, a near fine copy. In a custom red cloth slipcase.

The Hound of the Baskervilles was based on an idea given to [Doyle] by Bertram Fletcher Robinson, who was a nephew of Sir John Robinson and a correspondent for the Daily Express during the Boer War. The two men struck up a friendship when travelling back on the same ship from Cape Town. They spent four days together on a golfing holiday at Cromer in March 1901, and it was then that Robinson mentioned the legend (possibly of the Black Hound of Hergest associated with the Vaughan family of Hergest Court in Herefordshire). Doyle told his mother: ‘Fletcher Robinson came here with me and we are going to do a small book together “The Hound of the Baskervilles”—a real creeper’…The serial publication was an unprecedented success. It was the only occasion in the magazine’s history that a seventh printing was needed to meet the demand, and the queues at the publisher’s offices and throughout the country were extraordinary” (Green and Gibson, p. 130). HBS 67096. $5,000

First Edition In Book Form

66. 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.

The second Sherlock Holmes story after A Study in Scarlet. At the time, it received only moderate success, but after the publication of the stories in Adventures and Memoirs its popularity soared.

Originally titled “The Sign of the Four; or, The Problem of the Sholtos,” this early Sherlock Holmes mystery was first published in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine, Philadelphia, February 1890, and was first published in book form that October in London. The plot concerns Holmes’s investigation into the murder of Bartholomew Sholto, his search for Jonathan Small and the Agra treasure, and Watson’s romance with Mary Morstan. Green and Gibson A7a.i. HBS 65675. $7,500

24 Presentation Copy of Eisenhower's "Crusade in Europe" 67. EISENHOWER, Dwight D. Crusade in Europe. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1948.

Limited to 1,426 numbered copies (of which 1,401 are for sale). Signed by the author on a facsimile of the D-Day order of the day. Additionaly inscribed on front free endpaper "To Captain P. Aurand/ with all the best/ from his friend/ Dwight D. Eisenhower." Octavo (9 5/8 x 6 3/8 inches; 239 x 160 mm). [4], xiv, [2], 559, [1, blank] pp. Sixteen plates (from photographs selected by Edward Steichen), six double-page color maps (including front and back endpapers), and thirty-eight maps in the text, and double-page color chart of “The Allied Air-Ground Team for the Final Offensive.”

Presentation binding in full blue morocco, pictorially stamped in gilt and silver on front cover with a flaming sword, gilt- stamped spine with five raised bands, gilt-turn-ins, tope edge gilt, others uncut, slipcase. Minor rubbing to spine bands, slipcase a bit faded. Overall, a near fine copy. HBS 67033. $12,500

"Report on the United States and Mexican Boundary Survey" With 346 Plates 68. EMORY, William. H. Report on the United States and Mexican Boundary Survey, Made Under the Direction of the Secretary of the Interior. Washington: Cornelius Wendell, 1857.

First edition. Three thick quarto volumes bound in two. Illustrated with 346 plates, many lithographed in color, plus charts, two map (one folding) and profiles.

Publisher's original brown cloth, rebacked perserving the original spine with newer leather labels, decoratively blindstamped on covers, gilt-stamped on spines. Extremities lightly rubbed. Very good.

One of the foundation works on the exploration and mapping of the Texas-Mexican border. Emory was first assigned to the Boundary Commission after the Mexican War. No sooner was the survey finished than the Gadsden Purchase necessitated a new survey, which is summarized in this work. Howes E146. Raines, p. 76. Wagner-Camp 291. Wheat Transmississippi 916. HBS 66998. $4,000 The First Appearance Of The Fahrenheit Thermometer 69. FAHRENHEIT, Daniel Gabriel. Experimenta circa gradum caloris. In: Philosophical Transactions. Volume. XXXIII, no. 381, pp. 1-3. [London: Printed for W. and J. Innys, 1724].

The first appearance of Fahrenheit's invention of the Fahrenheit Thermometer. Quarto. Also with Robert Houstoun's "An Account of a Dropsy in the Left Ovary of a Woman" pages 8-15, and additional material. With large folding engraved plate.

Disbound. With some very light foxing. Housed in a quarter morocco over marble boards slipcase. “With his ‘Experiments concerning the Degrees of Heat’ Fahrenheit perfected the modern instrument, his principal innovation being a ‘fixed point’ of departure, namely the temperature to which water can be cooled when mixed with ice and salt. This he called zero. At the ends of his scale were normal human blood-heat-which he took as 96° -and normal freezing point of water, 32°. When this scale was later extended upwards, the boiling point of water fell at 212o. He may have been the first to use mercury as a thermometric fluid.” PMM 182. HBS 64723. $3,500 25 In the Very Rare Dust Jacket

70. FAULKNER, William. The Sound and the Fury. New York: Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, [1929].

First edition, first printing. Octavo (7 1/2 x 5 1/8 inches; 191 x 131 mm). 401, [1] pp. In first issue dust jacket with Maurice Hindus’s Humanity Uprooted listed on the rear panel at $3.00.

Original quarter white cloth over decorative paper boards. Matching endpapers. Spine lettered in black. Top edge dyed black. Minor cracking to rear hinge as is often found. Jacket with minor fraying with a few bits of internal repair and a single very small chip to the head of the spine panel. There is little more than the customary surface wear. Still, a near fine copy of this famous rarity. Housed in a burgundy morocco solander box made by the Chelsea bindery. Petersen A6.2a and A6.2b. HBS 65610. $27,500

First Edition, First Issue of One of the Great Rarities in American Literature

71. FITZGERALD, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925.

First edition, first printing. With the correct issue points as called for by Bruccoli., “chatter” on p. 60, line 16, “northern” on p. 119, line 22, “it’s” on p. 165, line 16, “away” on p. 165, line 29, “sick in tired” on p. 205, lines 9-10, and “Union Street station” on p. 211, lines 7-8. Octavo (7 7/16 x 5 1/8 inches; 189 x 131 mm). [6], 218 pp.

Original green linen-like grain cloth with front cover lettered in blind and spine lettered in gilt. Top edge trimmed, fore-edge uncut. With spine gilt crisp. Some very light soiling to back cover. A bit of light toning and foxing, mainly to preliminaries. Overall a very good copy.

In (Mid-July) 1922, having already written This Side of Paradise and The Beautiful and Damned, Fitzgerald wrote to his publisher Max Perkins, “I want to write something new—something extraordinary and beautiful and simple + intricately patterned” (Bruccoli and Duggan, Correspondence of F. Scott Fitzgerald, p. 112). The triumphant result three years later was The Great Gatsby, published just before what Fitzgerald called the summer of “1,000 parties and no work” (Fitch, 183). Noted critic Cyril Connolly called Gatsby one of the half dozen best American novels: Bruccoli, Fitzgerald, A11.1.a. HBS 67004. $3,750 In the Unrestored Rare First Issue Dust Jacket 72. FITZGERALD, F. Scott. Tender Is the Night. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1934.

First edition. Octavo. In the unrestored first issue dust jacket, having quotes from T.S. Eliot, H.L. Mencken, and Paul Rosenfeld on the front flap, and $2.50 price not clipped.

Original green cloth. Spine stamped in gilt. In the unrestored first issue dust jacket. Jacket with some minor chipping along edges. A small V-shaped chip to the top corner of the jacket spine. Jacket spine has the usual slight touch of dullness. Book fore-edge very slightly foxed. Overall, a very good to fine copy in the exceedingly rare first issue jacket. Housed in a custom red morocco clamshell.

In this novel, the protagonist, psychiatrist Dick Diver, falls in love and marries one of his patients, the beautiful yet disturbed Nicole. Dick’s travails with her (he nurses her to health, but she leaves him for another man and he deteriorates) echo Fitzgerald’s own increasingly sad and desperate life with his mentally ill wife, Zelda. Bruccoli, Fitzgerald, A.14.1.a. HBS 65615. $17,500 26 A Complete Set of First Edition James Bond Novels in Original Cloth and Jackets; One Volume Signed by Fleming 73. FLEMING, Ian. [A Complete Set of First Edition James Bond Novels in Original Cloth and Jacket]. [Including]: Casino Royale, Live and Let Die, Moonraker, Diamonds Are Forever, From Russia With Love, Dr. No, Goldfinger, For Your Eyes Only, Thunderball, The Spy Who Loved Me, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, You Only Live Twice, The Man With the Golden Gun, and Octopussy and the Living Daylights. London: Jonathan Cape, [1953- 1966].

All together fourteen octavo volumes. All fourteen volumes housed together in two custom cloth open- end slipcases. Mostly very good to near fine. HBS 66746. $67,500

The Most Important Scientific Book of Eighteenth-Century America and The Most Complete Edition of Benjamin Franklin's Electrical Papers

74. FRANKLIN, Benjamin. Experiments and Observations on Electricity, Made at Philadelphia in America…To which are added, Letters and Papers on Philosophical Subjects. The whole corrected, methodized, improved, and now first collected into one volume, and illustrated with copper plates. 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. Bernard Cohen, Benjamin Franklins Experiments. pp.148-154. Ford, 318. Howes 320. Sabin 25506. Wheeler Gift 367c. HBS 64589. $6,750

Second English Edition of Both Volumes 75. FROISSART, Jean. BERNERS, John Bourchier, [translator]. Here Begynnith… the Cronycles of Englande, Fraunce, Spayne, Portyngale,. Scotlaunde, Bretaine, Flaunders: and other places adioynynge. [London]: [Wylliam Myddleton i.e. Thomas Marsh ca1563].

Second English edition of both volumes. Four books in two volumes bound together in one folio volume. Folio in sixes (12 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches; 318 x 215 mm). [10], cccxxii; [8] cccxix (i.e. 326) leaves. Volume I with woodcut title-page and woodcut coat of arms for Henry VIII. Numerous engraved initials.

Full late 18th-century, or early 19th-century calf, expertly rebacked to style. Boards double-ruled in gilt. Spine lettered and ruled in gilt. Gilt dentelles and board edges. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Two previous owner's bookplates on front endpapers. A bit of toning throughout. Overall a very good copy.

This lively translation from Froissart’s text by John Bourchier, second Baron Berners (1467-1533), established the Cronycles as not only the most extensive historical work yet to appear in English, but as an important influence on English writing throughout the sixteenth and beyond. ESTC S121322 (I). ESTC S121323 (II). HBS 66831. $25,000 27 Signed With a Line From the Poem "Mowing" in the Author's Hand

76. FROST, Robert. A Boy's Will. London: David Nutt, 1913.

First edition of Frost's first published book. With the “Printed in Great Britain” ink stamp on the verso of the title page. In binding "D". Octavo (7 5/16 x 4 3/4 inches; 185 x 121 mm). [xii], [1]-50, [2, advertisements] pp.

Signed by Frost and with a line from Frost's poem "Mowing" in the author's hand on the half-title. "Mowing" is on page 25 of this book. The line reads, "The fact is the sweetest dream that labor knows/Robert Frost"

Original beige printed wrappers, lettered in black with four-petal flower stamp. Spine with minor restoration. Final leaf with closed tears at hinges, no loss of text. Inside of back wrapper lightly scraped, possibly remove a bookplate. Chemised. A very good copy.

Provenance: With a receipt of sale from Goodspeed from 1970. This book is commonly regarded as Frost’s first book, since only one copy exists of his true first, Twilight (two were printed, one of which was destroyed by Frost himself). HBS 64797. $3,850 Underwater Warfare 77. 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.

“The first book devoted to the subject. Although Fulton failed to persuade the United States Navy and Congress of the potential of the torpedo as a defensive weapon, his ideas ultimately revolutionized the strategy and tactics of naval warfare”---Honeyman sale 1384

Rare work by the co-inventor of the steamboat. Dedicated to President Madison & both Houses of Congress. In his foreword to the President, Fulton writes: “In January last, at Kalorama, the residence of my friend, Joel Barlow, I had the pleasure of exhibiting to Mr. Jefferson, Mr. Madison, & a party of gentlemen from the senate & house of representatives, some experiments & details on Torpedo defence & attack.”Howes F417. Printing and the Mind of Man 264. Sabin 26199. HBS 65261. $12,500 The First Great Scientific Atlas of All of Mexico 78. GARCIA Y CUBAS, Antonio. Atlas Geografico, Estadistico e Historico de la Republica Mexicana. Mexico: Imprenta de Jose Mariano de Lara, 1858.

First edition of the first atlas of Mexico written by a Mexican and printed in Mexico. Folio (21 3/4 x 14 3/4 inches; 553 x 370 mm.). 18, [2], [4], [2] pp. plus all thirthy-three double-page hand-colored ltihoragph maps and plates (one of the double-page spreads is comprised of two of the maps listed).

Contemporary quarter brown morocco over marbled boards, spine with gilt lettering and devices. Small and old paper label on upper front cover. Small stamp on upper blank margin of title page (not offensive). Sinaloa plate browned. Some minor foxing but over all a wonderful copy of the first great scientific atlas of all of Mexico. Palau 98721. Phillips, Atlases, 2683. Sabin 26554. HBS 66945 $13,500

28 "Certainly the Most Beautiful Book on Troy Ever Published"

79. GELL, W[illiam]. The Topography of Troy, and Its Vicinity; Illustrated and Explained by Drawings and Descriptions. Dedicated by Permission, to her Grace The Duchess of Devonshire. London: C. Whittingham, for T.N. Longman and O. Rees, 1804.

First edition. Folio. [iv], 124 pp. Uncut in contemporary marbled boards, rebacked and recornered. (Measures 17 1/4 inches x 10 3/4 inches). With red morocco spine label. With twenty-eight plates and illustrations, including colored vignette-etching on title-page, nine colored etchings, nineteen colored aquatints (some folding), one uncolored aquatint, and the heads of eleven pages (see Abbey). Fine. Rare.

The illustrations in this work were made with the use of the Camera Lucida. The process and term was first described by Robert Hooke (1635-1703), where a picture of anything might be reflected by use of a mirror through a convex lens and a hole onto a white background. William Hyde Wollaston, introduced in 1807, a somewhat unrelated device of the same name, commonly used to draw with. This device must have been similar to that which Gell used on his work. Abbey, Travel, 399. Blackmer Sale 616 (brought $6,250 Oct. 1989). Blackmer Library 660. Gernsheim, The History of Photography. Lilly Library, The Search for Troy, 81. HBS 66791. $7,500

The Great Arthurian Book and First Printed Reference to Robin Hood 80. GEOFFREY OF MONMOUTH. Britanniae utriusque regum et principum origo. et gesta insignia ab Galfrido Monemutensi ex antiquissimis Britannici sermonis monumentis in Latinum traducta: & ab Ascensio cura & impedio magistri Iuonis Cauellatiin lucem edita: pstant in eiusdemaedibus. [Paris: Jodocus Badius Ascensius, 1508].

First edition of this most significant work. Small quarto. Lacking blank N6. With a large woodcut printer's device on the title of a printing press, and with a large woodcut on the verso of AA8 depicting the coat- of-arms of Yves Cavellat. Numerous woodcut initials.

Geoffrey, 'Arturus' of Monmouth (c. 1100- 1154), is considered to be the father of the Arthurian Legend, with this work, The History of Britain being the foundation of the Arthurian Legend. [Together with]: MAJOR, Joannes. Historia maioris Britanniae, tam Angliae quam Scotiae…[Paris]: Jodocus Badius Ascensius, [1521]. First edition. Small quarto. Roman type. Printer's device on title-page, woodcut coat-of-arms of Scotland, large criblé initials.

John Major (1469-1550), historian and scholastic divine, was a native of East Lothian. Before leaving France to become a professor of philosophy and divinity at the university of Glasgow, "he had written the chief part of his Latin History of Greater Britain, both England and Scotland, and he now completed the work, and had it published in Paris in 1521…This, as has been said, was the first history of Scotland written in a critical spirit" (DNB). Folio 55 of this work contains the first printed reference to Robin Hood.

Two works bound in one. Eighteenth-century calf, spine gilt. Sympathetically rebacked preserving old spine. Some light dampstaining to few margins. Overall, a very good copy. Full calf clamshell case. Adams G444 and M228. Brunet II, 1458 and III, 1329. Renouard, Ascensius, II, pp. 460-462, and III, p. 62. HBS 66807. $17,500

29 "George Gershwin's Song-Book" Limited to 300 Copies, Signed

81. GERSHWIN, George, [composer]. George Gershwin's Song-Book. Alajalov Illustrator. New York: Random House, 1932.

First edition. One of 300 numbered copies signed by Gershwin and Alajalov. Folio (12 5/8 x 9 3/8 inches). Frontispiece portrait photograph of Gershwin at his piano by Maurice Goldberg. xii, 160 pp. of printed music and an 8-page bibliography. With the 8-page sewn booklet containing the song "Mischa, Yascha, Toscha, Sascha" laid into the rear pocket. Includes numerous full page color illustrations by Alajalov.

Publisher's full blue morocco, spine expertly and almost invisibly rebacked reproducing original spine. Gilt cover and spine lettering, gilt rules extending in a curved pattern from the spine and fore edge of the boards, blue endpapers, top edge gilt. Inner hinges with tape reinforcement. Overall, a very good copy. HBS 66064. $4,000 Quarto Edition of Gibbon’s “Roman Empire” 82. GIBBON, Edward. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire ... London: 1782-1788.

“A new edition” of Volumes I-III; first edition of Volumes IV-VI. Six large quarto volumes. Engraved frontispiece portrait in Volume I by John Hall after Sir Joshua Reynolds. Three engraved maps (two folding).

Contemporary diced calf, rebacked. Smooth spine tooled in gilt, marbled endpapers, marbled edges. Tips bumped, extremities rubbed. A few hinges expertly repaired. A very good copy.

“This masterpiece of historical penetration and literary style has remained one of the ageless historical works which, like the writings of Macaulay and Mommsen, maintain their hold upon the layman and continue to stimulate the scholar although they have been superseded in many, if not most, details by subsequent advance of research and changes in the climate of opinion. Whereas other eighteenth-century writers in this field, such as Voltaire, are still quoted with respect, the Decline and Fall is the only historical narrative prior to Macaulay which continues to be reprinted and actually read” (Printing and the Mind of Man 222). Norton 26 (Volume I), 27 (Volumes II-III), and 29 (Volumes IV-VI). HBS 66745. $5,000

Hitler’s French Mentor 83. GOBINEAU, [Joseph-Arthur Comte] de. Essai sur l'inégalité des races humaines. Paris: Librairie de Firmin Didot Frères, 1853-1855.

First edition. Four volumes, octavo.

Contemporary half mauve cloth over dark sprinkled boards. Spines ruled in blind and lettered in gilt. Spines a bit faded. Foxing throughout, front hinge of Volume I cracked but sound. Bookplates. A beautiful set.

This farrago of biological nonsense, wishful romanticism and imperialistic dreams was lapped up eagerly by the French and German intellectuals. The German enthusiasm for Gobineau—the German translation of the essai went through several editions—is the less comprehensible in that Gobineau thought very poorly of the ‘German race’, which he considered a mixture of Celts and Slavs with hardly any pure ‘nordic’ blood. But there was enough substance in Gobineau’s book to provide nourishment for the growth of the pan-germanism and national self-adulation, and seemingly to justify anti-semitic and anti-slav excesses. Hence derived the ‘superman’ and the glorious ‘blond beast’ of Nietzsche and the germanomania and anti-semitism of Wagner...” (Printing and the Mind of Man). PMM335. HBS 66928. $9,500

Rare First English Edition of "Dead Souls"

84. [GOGOL, Nikolai]. Home Life in Russia. By a Russian Nobel. Revised by the Editor of "Revelations of Siberia." In Two Volumes. London: Hurst and Blackett, 1854.

First edition in English. A "translation" of Dead Souls by Gogol. Two octavo volumes (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.

The first work of Russian prose fiction published in the United States was published in Philadelphia in 1832. The title was Ivan Vejeeghen (translation of Ivan Vyzbigin, 1829) and its subtitle was Life in Russia. "[The publication of this book] began a tendency to present Russian fiction as a source of information about Russian life rather than as art...This trend continued after the outbreak of the Crimean War, which brought with it an increased English interest in Russian life and culture. HBS 64929. $16,500

Grahame’s Classic, Beautifully Illustrated by Rackham

85. GRAHAME, Kenneth. [RACKHAM, Arthur, illustrator]. The Wind in the Willows. With an introduction by A.A. Milne. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1940.

First edition thus. Limited to 2,020 copies signed by the designer, Bruce Rogers, this being number 2012. Quarto (11 1/4 x 8 inches; 285 x 205 mm). 244, [2] pp. With 16 mounted color plates by Rackham.

Original quarter pale yellow buckram over marbled paper boards. Spine lettered in gilt. Top edge gilt, other uncut. A fine copy lacking the slipcase. LEC Bibliography. HBS 67162. $950

One of 200 Copies Signed by the Author and Illustrator

86. GRAHAME, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows. Illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard. London: [1931].

First edition illustrated by Shepard. Limited to 200 numbered copies on handmade paper, signed the author and illustrator, of which this is number 87. Small quarto. [8], 312 pp. Text illustrations. Folding map at end.

Original quarter green buckram over gray boards. Printed paper label on spine. All edges uncut. Additional printed paper label bound in at end, previous owner's gift inscription. A fine copy. In the original cream-colored printed dust jacket, jacket soiled along extremities with a small tear to the rear. Housed in a custom quarter maroon morocco clamshell case. HBS 67104. $8,500 31 First Edition Robert Graves Autobiography, Signed

87. GRAVES, Robert. Good-Bye to All That. London: Jonathan Cape, [1929].

First edition, second state (with deletions on p. 290 and p. 341-343 marked with asterisks). Inscribed by Graves on front free endpaper. "-John Morris-/Yours {affectionately]/Robert Graves/ Sept 5/ 1959."

Full red cloth, dust jacket, about fine. Book spine darkened, John Morris's bookplate. A handsome copy. HBS 67109. $1,500

One of Only a Few Deluxe Leather-Bound First Editions, Signed by the Author 88. GREY, Zane. Tales of Fishing Virgin Seas. With 100 Illustrations from Photographs Taken by the Author and Others. Drawings by Lillian Wilhelm Smith. New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1925.

One of only a few deluxe leather-bound first editions, signed by the author and for exclusive use by the author, not ever offered for sale. Quarto (10 5/8 x 7 5/8 inches; 269 x 193 mm). 216 pp. With color frontispiece and ninety-nine additional sepia photographs and illustrations. Many of the photos were taken by Grey. Signed by Zane Grey on the front free endpaper in his signature purple ink.

Publisher's three-quarter red morocco over marbled paper boards. Morocco ruled in gilt. Spine lettered and stamped in gilt. Marbled paper endpapers. Top edge gilt. Other pages uncut and partially unopened. A bit of rubbing to boards and edges. Overall an about fine copy.

A previous bookseller's description laid in stating that this copy came from the estate of Romer Grey, one of Zane Grey's sons. Romer is the subject of many of the photographs in this book. HBS 67043. $4,000

First Edition, First Issue of Haggard’s Classic 89. HAGGARD, H. Rider. BAYNTUN-RIVIÈRE, [binder]. King Solomon’s Mines. London: Cassell & Company, 1885.

First edition, first issue, with “Bamamgwato” for “Bamangwato” on p. 10, line 14; “to let twins to live” for “to let twins live” on p. 122, line 27; and “wrod” instead of “word” on p. 307, line 29, and with publisher’s catalogue dated “5 G. 8.85” and “5 B. 8.85.” Small octavo (7 x 4 11/16 inches; 178 x 119 mm). [4], vi, [7]-320, [16, publisher’s catalogue] pp. Folding color facsimile map inserted as frontispiece. A black and white map on page 27. Original front cover cloth bound in at the back.

Beautifully bound by Bayntun-Riviere in full red morocco. Boards ruled in gilt. Spine printed and lettered in gilt. Gilt dentelles. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. A few professional repaired closed tears to the folding map. About fine.

The prototypical modern adventure novel, King Solomon's Mines was a surprise bestseller, and the first issue (of 1,000 copies) was quickly consumed by readers of all ages.

H. Rider Haggard (1856-1925), “English novelist, whose tense, mysterious stories usually occur in some exotic African setting. His most effective novels are King Solomon’s Mines (1885), Allan Quatermain (1887), She (1887), and its sequel, Ayesha (1905). Many of his books have been dramatized and made into motion pictures” (Benét’s Reader’s Encyclopedia). Allen 31. McKay 4. HBS 65171. $5,000

32 First Edition of Hardy's Scarce Third Novel 90. HARDY, Thomas. A Pair of Blue Eyes. London: Tinsley Brothers, 1873.

First edition in book form (first published in Tinsleys’ Magazine from September 1872 to July 1873). One of presumably 500 copies printed. Three small octavo (6 5/8 x 4 3/8 inches; 168 x 110 mm). [4], 303, [1, blank]; [4], 311, [1, blank]; [4], 262 pp. Bound without half-titles.

Late nineteenth-century half blue morocco over marbled boards. Boards ruled in gilt. Spines stamped and lettered in gilt, and with gilt roses in four compartments. Marbled endpapers. Top edge gilt. Occasional light staining. Overall a very nice set in a handsome binding.

Hardy’s third published novel, A Pair of Blue Eyes tells the story of the young woman Elfride and her competing lovers; after an aborted elopement with one of her suitors, Elfride determines to marry the other, whom she feels she truly loves. After he discovers her the extent of her previous romantic entanglements, however, he breaks off their match. The miserable Elfride eventually marries someone else entirely, but dies soon after, still pining for the lover who discarded her.

With its author’s sophisticated command of language and flair for the unconventional in his fiction, A Pair of Blue Eyes contains one of the most sensationally erotic scenes in Victorian literature, when Elfride removes her petticoats and undergarments to form a rope to pull her true love up to safety after a fall off a cliff. HBS 66828. $4,500

Rare First Edition of Hardy’s Second Novel in the Original Cloth 91. [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. HBS 65702. $17,500

Man is a Purely Sentient Animal 92. HELVETIUS, Claude Adrian. De L'Espirit: or, Essays on the Mind and Its Several Faculties. Translated from the edition printed under the author's inspection. London: Printed for the Translator, 1759.

First edition in English (published one year after the first edition in France). Quarto. xvi, 331 pp. with the title page printed in red and black. Contemporary calf, expertly rebacked to style, spine bands ruled in gilt, red gilt morocco spine label, gilt board edges. A very clean copy with wide margins and virtually no foxing.

The main position of Helvetius may be summed up as follows: man is a purely sentient animal only differing from other animals by a higher degree of physical sentiency. Human passions are nothing else but the various modes of manifestation of this physical sentiency, which is the only motor of human actions; pleasure or pain are their unavoidable results: to pursue the former and avoid the latter is to conform to the only natural law. Helvetius is thus in some respects a forerunner of modern utilitaranism and hedonism" (Palgrave, Vol. II, p. 299). Higgs 2090. Kress 5783. HBS 66818. $2,000

33 First Edition, and with the First View Ever Made of Niagara Falls

93. HENNEPIN, Louis. Nouvelle Decouverte D'un Tres Grand Pays. Situé dans l'Amerique, entre La Nouveau Mexique, et La Mer Glaciale, Avecles Carrtes, & les Figures necessaires, & de plus l'Hisstoire Naturelle & Morale, & les avantages, qu'on en peut tirer par l'etablissement des Colonies. Utrecht: Chez Guillaume Broedelet, Marchand Libraire, 1697.

First edition of this account of Hennepin's travels in what is now the United States and Canada. Twelvemo (6 x 3 1/2 inches; 153 x 30 mm). [70], 506 pp. [with extra 10 * pages, all numbered 313]. With engraved title-page, two folding maps and two folding plates (the first ever view made of Niagara Falls, the other of one of the earliest pictures of an American bison).

Contemporary full vellum. Spine lettered in ink in a contemporary hand. Tape repairs to inner margins of leaves ***5 and ***6. One leaf, leaf A with reinforced fore-edge, with no loss, and leaf A6 with small paper repair. A few notes in old ink on front endpapers.Vellum a bit bumped and soiled, but overall an exceptionally clean copy.

In this book, (his second) Hennepin includes the substance of his first, the Description de la Louisiane, printed in 1683, and continues with the account of a voyage he here claims to have made to the mouth of the Mississippi and back up again. “In the second book Hennepin adds, to his actual voyage up the Mississippi, a pretended one down that stream prior to La Salle” (Howes). That voyage was, in fact, undertaken Le Clerq, and while Hennepin has been much maligned through the ages for his plagiarism, this should not detract from his monumentally important contributions to the history of early American exploration. HBS 66730. $22,500

First Edition of "The Life of Merlin"

94. HEYWOOD, Thomas. The Life of Merlin, sirnamed Ambrosius. London: Printed by J. Okes, and to be sold by Jasper Emery., 1641.

First edition. Octavo. Frontispiece pastoral portrait of Merlin, [2] Epistle Dedicatory, [2] To The Reader. [8] Contents, [56] Chronographicall History of the Kings of Britaine, [1]2-376 A True Historie of the Strange Birth of Ambrosius Merlin, and his wonderfull Prophesies.

Later full calf, paneled in blind. Outer hinges neatly repaired. Spine decorated in gilt and blind. Some rubbing. Frontispiece and title-page fore-margins skillfully extended; and few other neat repairs. Overall a very good copy. Housed in a custom quarter brown morocco clamshell. Wing H1786. HBS 66801. $4,000

34 “This Magnificent Work Is Surely The Finest Early Example Of English Color Printing." 95. HOLBEIN, Hans, [artist]. CHAMBERLAINE, John. Imitations of Original Drawings by Hans Holbein, in the Collection of His Majesty, for the Portraits of Illustrious Persons of the Court of Henry VIII. With biographical tracts. London: W. Bulmer & Co., 1792.

First edition of Chamberlaine’s magnificent volume of 86 color stipple-engraved plates, rarely found complete. Large folio (21 1/4 x 16 1/2 inches; 540 x 415 mm). Complete with the 80 listed plates, frontispiece portraits of Holbein and Holbein’s wife, and a third frontis of a group portrait, two hand-colored miniatures and an additional plate of Henry Howard, Earl of Surry, engraved by Scriven. An impressive collection of full-page engravings after Holbein’s legendary portraits of Jane Seymour, Anne Boleyn, Sir Thomas More, a young Edward VI, Anne of Cleves, and other court figures, with frontispiece portraits of Holbein and his wife. Of the listed plates, all but four portraits are engraved by the great Bartolozzi. In total, eighty-two plates are in color with four on lavender paper, sixty-three on pink, thirteen on white/buff), inclusive of one sheet with double portrait of Henry and Charles Brandon finished by hand. With one leaf of publisher’s advertisements.

19th-century full red morocco, rebacked with original spine laid down. Boards elaborately stamped with floral devices and with thirteen gilt rules. Spines elaborately stamped in blind and gilt, lettered in gilt. With one-inch gilt dentelles. All edges gilt. Green coated endpapers. Plates exceptionally bright and clean, with only very minor instances of foxing. Most foxing is to leaves and not engravings. Title-page with 11/2-inch x 1/2 piece torn from fore-edge and a 2-inch closed tear at fore-edge, neither affecting text. Many of the plates are a somewhat wrinkled. The plate of Lord Clinton with a small tear to the pink paper, not affecting engraving. Occasional marginal closed tears, professionally repaired. Binding a bit rubbed and bumped. Overall a very good copy of a magnificent work.

“One of the most magnificent books that we have ever seen, and, whether we consider the genius of the painter or the talents of the engravers, reflects high honor on the age and nation which produced it” (London Monthly Review). Sir Walter Scott praised it as “a collection which at once satisfies the imagination and the understanding, showing us… how the most distinguished of our ancestors looked, moved and dressed, and… how they thought, acted, lived, and died” (Allibone, 1120). Color-inked on the plates, these intricate stipple-engraved portraits comprise “inestimable examples of English color printing at its best” (Joan Friedman). “This magnificent work is surely the finest early example of English color printing. The reduced reissue of 1812, reprinted in 1828, gives no idea of the book’s quality” (Ray English 19). “In every way a splendid book” (Abbey Life 205). Lowndes 1381. Abbey Life 205, 206. HBS 65216. $17,500

Second and Improved Herwagen Edition, In Contemporary Binding 96. HOMER. [Greek Title] Opus Utrumque Homeri Iliados Et Odysseae, Diligenti per Iacobi Micylli & Ioachimi Camerarii recognitum. [Basel: Johann Herwagen, 1541].

Second Herwagen edition, but first edition edited by Micyllus and Camerarius, improving the text from Hervagius' 1535 edition. Two folio volumes in one. Folio in sixes. [24], 394 [i.e.410], [2]; [1]-237 [i.e.307], [1, printer's device] pp. Text in Greek with commentaries surrounding text. Preliminaries in Latin. Title-pages are in Greek and Latin. Title-pages and final leaf of both volumes with engraved printer's device. Engraved initials.

Full contemporary pigskin over wooden boards. Boards elaborately stamped in blind. Cover with the stamped initials GWH and the date 1550. Spine with "Homer" in old ink manuscript. Beveled boards. Boards with two brass clasps. Previous owner's bookplate on front paste-down. With library stamp on lower margin of main title-page "By Bibliotheca Gymnas?" with a deacquisition stamp over it. Previous owner's old ink notes on margins of title-page in two hands. Extensive ink underscoring and marginalia in Latin and Greek in at least 2 different hands throughout. Head and tail of spine with with some wear. Spine with a crack along front hinge, but holding firm and binding still tight. A bit of light soiling throughout. Overall a very good copy. HBS 66983. $7,500

35 First Edition of this Important 12th-Century Homeric Commentary

97. [HOMER]. [EUSTATHIUS, Archbishop of Thessalonica]. Commentarii in Homeri Iliadem et Odysseam [Greek Text]. Rome: Antonio Blado, 1542-50.

First edition of this important 12th- century Homeric Commentary, containing the full text of the Iliad and Odyssey. 4 folio volumes. Folio in sixes (12 3/4 x 8 7/8 inches; 325 x 222 mm). [4], 620; 621-1026, 1029-1376; [2], 1379-1970; [10], [2, blank], 398 index. pp. Collates complete. With forward in Latin, text in Greek. Volume II bound without title-page. Title-pages with engraved Blado device. Quire + is here bound at the front of Volume IV as often found. With the final blank in Volume II. Colophon in Latin on final leaf of Volume III.

Uniformly bound in early quarter red morocco over pink vellum. Spines stamped and lettered in gilt. All edges speckled red and black. Thick paper. Old ink roman numerals on bottom margin of each title-page and first leaf of volume II. A closed tear to top margin of page 843 of volume II, not affecting text. Some foxing and toning throughout the volumes. Some minor worming to inner margin of "Index" volume. A dampstain to bottom margin of "Index" volume. Boards are rubbed. Edges and corners bumped. Front boards of each volume bowing out. Overall a very good copy of this important set.

"The commentaries of Eustathius, compiled from manuscripts dating back to the twelfth century, refer to and quote from ancient manuscripts that existed during his time but had been lost by the beginning of the Renaissance. Published alongside the Homeric texts in four volumes, the massive project was immensely important and of long-lasting influence." (Homer in Print: The Transmission and Reception of Homer's Works; University of Chicago Library).

Eustathius, Archbishop of Thessalonica was considered "the most learned man of his age" (Oxford Companion to Classical Lit.) HBS 67066. $45,000 36 First American Edition Victor Hugo’s Gothic Masterpiece

98. HUGO, Victor. The Hunchback of Notre-Dame. With a Sketch of the Life and Writings of the Author: By Frederick Shoberl. In Two Volumes. Vol. I. [II.] Philadelphia: Carey, Lea and Blanchard, 1834.

First American edition of Notre Dame de Paris. Two twelvemo volumes. [inserted in:] [2], "Opinions of This Work, [i]-xii, [1]-243 [244, blank]; [i-iv], [1]-192, [2, blank], [12, ads.]

Original quarter blue cloth over drab boards. Original printed paper spine labels. Uncut in original boards. Early owner's pencil signature on insert of volume I and on front free endpaper of volume II. Some wear to boards and labels, with small loss to the labels. Very small split at the head of spine on both volumes. Text typically browned and lightly foxed as usual for American stock of the period. In quarter morocco clamshell. Overall, a very good copy of this rarity.

Excessively rare. Only 250 copies of first French edition, Notre-Dame de Paris, were published and only one first American edition has sold at auction in the last thirty years. It was sold in June, 2005 for $4000 hammer.

"The Hunchback of Notre Dame [is] a romance of medieval times by Victor Hugo centered on the life of the great Parisian cathedral. The principle characters are Esmeralda, a gypsy dancer in love with with Captain Phoebus; Claude Frollo, the hypocritical archdeacon, whose evil passion for Esmeralda causes him to denounce her as a witch; Quasimodo, the 'Hunchback of Notre Dame,' a deformed bellringer, whose devotion saves Esmeralda for a time when she seeks protection from the mob in the belfry of the cathedral. Esmerelda is finally executed, and Quasimodo throws Frollo from the heights of Notre Dame." (Benét's Reader's Encyclopedia, 493). HBS 64520. $5,000 Victor Hugo’s Gothic Masterpiece 99. HUGO, Victor. Notre-Dame de Paris. Quatrième édition. Paris: Charles Gosselin, Libraire, 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.

“This first edition, in fine condition, is the rarest of all the works of Victor Hugo; it has had a resounding impact worldwide, and is one of the most difficult titles of the Romantic period to obtain” (Carteret).

Gosselin brought out the novel on 16 March 1831 in an edition of 1,100 copies, as was his general practice. This first printing was distributed into four separate issues of 275 copies each, the subsequent three issues being designated as “second edition,” “third edition,” and “fourth edition” respectively on the title-pages.

“Johannot’s title-page vignettes for the first edition of Notre-Dame de Paris show Quasimodo in the pillory receiving a drink from Esmeralda (Volume I) and Esmeralda escorted to the gallows (Volume II)” (Ray). HBS 65480. $9,500 37 The Best of Hume's Writings

100. HUME, David. An Enquiry concerning the Principles of Morals. London: Printed for A. Millar, 1751.

First edition, second state, with the first four leaves including an errata lead and with leaf L3 a cancel. Twelvemo (6 5/8 x 4 inches; 170 x 100 mm). [8], 253, [3, ads] pp. Complete with half-title and ads.

Contemporary speckled calf, rebacked to style. Boards double ruled in gilt. Spine ruled in gilt in compartments with gilt center tool and red morocco gilt lettering label. Bottom margin of title-page trimmed short about one-inch, no loss of text. Occasional old ink notes making the errata corrections. Leaf M4 with a two-inch closed tear, with not loss of text. Overall a very good copy.

Hume wrote of the Enquiry: “of all my writings…incomparably the best. It came unnoticed and unobserved into the world” (Autobiography, p. 16, quoted in Rothschild). Jessop, p. 22. Rothschild 1174. HBS 67022. $3,000

Rare First Edition of Hume's "An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding"

101. HUME, David. Philosophical Essays Concerning Human Understanding. By the Author of the Essays Moral and Political. London: Printed for A. Millar, 1748.

First edition. Twelvemo.(166 x 95 mm). iv; 256; [4, ad] pp. Contemporary brown calf, expertly rebacked to style, spine gilt-stamped with black and red morocco labels, marbled endpapers, all edges red. Some mild toning. Very good.

Better known as An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding under which title the Philosophical Essays was reprinted in 1758, the book is a reworking of the first part of Hume's Treatise of Human Nature, with the addition of his notorious essay On Miracles, which denies that a miracle can be proved by any amount or kind of evidence. The Philosophical Essays Concerning Human Understanding is "an attempt to define the principles of human knowledge. It presents in logical form the significant questions about the nature of all reasoning in regard to matters of fact and experience, and it solves the problems by recourse to association…" (Encyclopaedia Britannica). HBS 66959. $11,000

“The Most Amazing, Enduring and Endearing One-Man Feat in the Field of Lexicography” 103. JOHNSON, Samuel. A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the words are deduced from their originals, and illustrated in their different significations by examples from the best writers. London: Printed by W. Strahan, for J. and P. Knapton…, 1755.

First edition of “the most amazing, enduring and endearing one-man feat in the field of lexicography” (Printing and the Mind of Man). Two large folio volumes, tall paper copies, (16 1/4 x 10 1/4 inches; 412 x 254 mm.). Unpaginated. Text in double columns. Title-pages printed in red and black. Decorative woodcut tail-pieces.

Full brown calf, rebacked to style. Spines with original two calf spine labels, lettered in gilt. Spines ruled in gilt in compartments, six raised bands. Spine label on volume I, chipped with label professionally repaired. Boards rubbed and scuffed. Title-page and the first page of the preface with some professional restoration, not affecting text. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown. Some toning from glue to edges of pastedowns and blanks. Overall, a very nice set. Courtney & Nichol Smith, p. 54. Printing and the Mind of Man 201. Rothschild 1237. HBS 65682. $18,500

38 First Edition of the Plan for Johnson’s Dictionary

104. [JOHNSON, Samuel]. The Plan of a Dictionary of the English Language; Addressed to the Right and Honourable Philip Dormer, Earl of Chesterfield; One of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State. London: Printed for J. and P. Knapton, T. Longman and T. Shewell, C. Hitch, A. Millar, and R. Dodsley, 1747.

First edition, second issue with leaf A reset to exclude the Earl of Chesterfield's name on the first page of the dedication and leaf E in corrected state. Quarto (10 x 8 1/4 inches; 252 x 207 mm). [2], 34 pp.

Newer quarter red morocco over red cloth. Spine lettered in gilt. Newer endpapers. Edges speckled red. A bit of light soiling and foxing throughout. A small dampstain to the top inner margin of the title- page and following leaf. A tiny pinhole to title-page only affecting the top of a semi-colon. Overall a very good copy. Courtney & Nichol Smith, p 20. Rothschild 1229. HBS 67122. $6,000

One of 900 Copies

105. JOYCE, James. Ulysses. London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, [1936].

First English edition printed in England. One of 900 numbered copies printed on Japon vellum paper, out of a total edition of 1,000 copies, this being number 748. Quarto (9 7/8 x 7 1/2 inches; 252 x 190 mm). xiii, [1, blank], [1], [1, blank], 765, [1], [2, blank] pp.

Bound by Zaehnsdorf (stamp-signed in gilt on front turn-in) in full green morocco. Front cover decoratively stamped in gilt with a Homeric bow (matching the original design), spine lettered in gilt in compartments, board edges ruled in gilt, turn-ins decoratively tooled in gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut, marbled endpapers. A fine copy. Slocum and Cahoon A23. HBS 65768. $4,000

Original Gelatin Silver Print of Robert Frost, Signed by Karsh 106. KARSH, Yousuf. [FROST, Robert, subject]. Original Gelatin Silver Print of Robert Frost. 1958.

Measures 8 x 10 inches. Signed by Karsh and in original Karsh Studio folder. Fine.

Yousuf Karsh (1908-2002) was one of the most famous and accomplished portrait photographers of all time. One of the 100 most notable people of the 20th Century listed by the International Who's Who in 2000, Karsh had photographed 51 of them.

Robert Frost (1874-1963) was one of the most popular and skilled American poets of his generation. He won four Pulitzer Prizes for poetry. HBS 67047. $3,000

39 The Best Edition

107. KEATS, John. The Poetical Works and Other Writings [Hampstead Edition]. Edited with Notes and Appendices by H. Buxton Forman. Revised with Additions by Maurice Buxton Forman. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1938-1939.

The Hampstead Edition. Limited to 1,050 numbered copies, this being number 695, signed by Maurice Buxton Forman (at the end of the Prefatory Note) and John Masefield (at the end of the Introduction). Eight octavo volumes (9 3/8 x 6 1/8 inches; 238 x 150 mm). Photogravure frontispieces with tissue guards and plates.

Half blue morocco over blue cloth. Morocco ruled in gilt. Spines stamped and lettered in gilt. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Blue marbled endpapers. A few volumes with a small amount of light discoloration to cloth. A near fine set. MacGillivray H9. HBS 64942. $3,750

Possible First Edition, and Only Copy We have been Able to Locate

108. KELLEY, Hall J.. The Instructor. Designed for the Common Schools in America.. Containing the Elements of the English Language, and Lessons in Orthography and Reading. Boston: Lincoln & Edmanus, 1820.

Second edition stated (possibly the first edition). Small octavo in sixes (5 3/4 x 3 1/2 inches; 145 x 88 mm). 84pp. Engraved frontispiece.

No copy could be found of this edition at auction nor in any library. OCLC lists a third (1821), fourth (1823) and fifth (1824) edition, but nothing of this edition or earlier. Streeter had a copy of the second book, which was printed in 1826.

Quarter contemporary sheep over drab paper covered boards. Paper is quite rubbed, exposing the boards. Boards are chipped and cracked. Front boards with corners chipped. Back boards with top corner chipped and a 1/2-inch piece missing from bottom board. Previous owner Betsey H. Ross's ownership signature on ownership page, dated 1827. A closed tear to title-page, barely affecting text. A small hole to page 27/28, leaves D2 and D3 with top corners torn, slightly affecting text. Some toning and dampstaining throughout. Lacking final blank. Overall a very good copy of this very rare children's book. HBS 66120. $1,500

Rossetti’s “Ballads and Narrative Poems” 109. [KELMSCOTT PRESS]. ROSSETTI, Dante Gabriel. Ballads and Narrative Poems by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. [London: Published by Ellis & Elvey, 1893].

One of 310 paper copies, out of a total edition of 316 copies. Octavo (8 1/8 x 5 5/8 inches; 206 x 143 mm). [4, blank], [4], 227, [5, blank] pp. Printed in red and black in Golden type. Decorative woodcut borders and initials. Printed by William Morris at the Kelmscott Press.

Original full limp, yapp edges. With original silk ties. Spine lettered in gilt. The slightest crease to velum on spine. Previous owner Brian Stilwell bookplate on front pastedown. Small purple ownership stamp of Helen Ladd Corbett also on front pastedown. Housed in a custom black slipcase. A near fine copy.

Clark Library, Kelmscott and Doves, p. 29. Peterson A20. Ransom, Private Presses, p. 327, no. 20. Sparling 20. Tomkinson, p. 112, no. 20. HBS 65743. $3,000

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

110. [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.

Love is Enough was first published in 1872. Shortly before, Morris had abandoned his plan to produce an ornamented and illustrated edition, though an illustration by Burne-Jones, slightly altered and redrawn by Robert Catterson-Smith, was later adapted for use in this Kelmscott Press edition. This was the second Kelmscott Press book to be printed in three colors (see Peterson). Clark Library, Kelmscott and Doves, pp. 61-62. Peterson A52. Ransom, Private Presses, p. 331, no. 52. Sparling 52. Tomkinson, p. 121, no. 52. HBS 65752. $6,000

The Last Book Printed at the Kelmscott Press

111. [KELMSCOTT PRESS]. MORRIS, William. A Note by William Morris on His Aims in Founding the Kelmscott Press. Together with a Short Description of the Press by S.C. Cockerell, & an Annotated List of the Books Printed Thereat. [Hammersmith: 1898].

One of 525 paper copies. Octavo. [4], 70, [1, colophon], [1, blank] pp. Printed in red and black in Golden type, with five pages in Troy and Chaucer types. Decorative woodcut borders and initials. Wood-engraved frontispiece, and rejected ornaments for Love Is Enough. Bound without the erratum slip.

Original holland-backed blue paper boards. Text of title-page printed in black on front cover. Spine a bit darkened, otherwise very good.

The last book printed at the Kelmscott Press. The frontispiece, designed by Edward Burne-Jones, was engraved by William Morris for a projected edition of The Earthly Paradise in the 1860s and was “touched up” by Robert Catterson-Smith (see Peterson). HBS 66853. $1,500

The Kelmscott Edition of the First Book Printed in English

112. [KELMSCOTT PRESS]. CAXTON, William, [translator]. [LEFEVRE, Raoul]. The Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye. [Hammersmith, London: Kelmscott Press, Sold by Bernard Quaritch, 1892].

One of 300 paper copies printed by William Morris at the Kelmscott Press. Three books in two volumes. Large quartos (11 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches; 290 x 210 mm). xv, [1], 295, [1, blank]; [297]-507, [3, blank], [509]-718 pp. Printed in red and black in Troy and Chaucer type. Decorative woodcut borders and initials. Edited by H. Halliday Sparling.

Publisher's full limp vellum with yapp edges. Original green silk ties, partially missing. Spines lettered in gilt. Previous owner's bookplate. Some very light age toning to vellum. A very good set. Housed in a custom beige cloth open ended slipcase.

A reprint of the first book printed in English, which had long been a favorite with Morris. Although there had been a number of earlier editions of the Recuyell, the Kelmscott Press version was the first to go back directly to Caxton’s text. HBS 66864. $6,500

41 The Kelmscott Press “Utopia”

113. [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. Clark Library, Kelmscott and Doves, p. 26. Peterson A16. Ransom, Private Presses, p. 326, no. 16. Tomkinson, p. 112, no. 16. HBS 65744. $6,500

The Magnificent Kelmscott Chaucer, One of Approximately Fifty Copies Bound by the Doves Bindery. And with a Rare Bifolium Proof with Variant Typsetting for the Opening Page and it's Conjugate Leaf

114. [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.

Only approximately fifty copies were bound by the Doves Bindery from Morris’s design and stamped on the lower rear paste down "The Doves Bindery"; these were bound over a period of years starting just after publication. These were the only books ever issued by the Kelmscott Press in bindings other than quarter holland over blue paper boards or limp vellum with silk ties. HBS 65739. $225,000 42 An Early Baltimore Broadside Imprint of "The Star Spangled Banner"

115. [KEY, Francis Scott]. [SMITH, John Stafford, composer]. The Star Spangled Banner. Baltimore: Geo. Willig Jr., [n.d.c.a 1839-1841].

An very early Baltimore imprint of the score of the National Anthem. Two folio leaves, each with printing on recto and verso blank. (13 x 9 3/8 inches; 333 x 238 mm). With an engraved scene below the title of and artillery firing scene with a twelve-star flag and ships in the background. This engraveing as well as the title have been carefully hand-colored in a contemporary hand.

Edges of leaves with some professional restoration and some very small chips and creases. A few spots and light toning. Overall a very good copy of this important piece of American history.

This Geo. Willig Jr. Imprint is printed from the plates of the John Cole edition of 1825, with the only change being the publisher’s name. It even retains the the plate number “152” on both leaves. These editions are Carr-type editions, being they are copies from the Carr “New Edition” of 1821, with the changes that the music is redivided from the original 6/4 into 3/4 time and the flute arrangement has been excluded. Carr being the publisher of the original edition of the “Star Spangled Banner” set to music. (Muller, 7)

As in the Cole edition, the words “was” and “still” are transposed on like six. And the word “Broad” is eliminated in front of “Stripes” on line three.BAL 11081 (Section 4, Baltimore reprints). Howes. Muller 13. Streeter. HBS 66833. $2,500

First Edition With Ten Original Photographs

116. KNEELAND, Samuel. The Wonders of Yosemite Valley, and of California. With original photographic illustrations, by John P. Soule. Boston: Alexander Moore, 1871.

First edition. Octavo (10 3/8 x 6 7/8 inches; 265 x 174 mm). [iii]-xii, 13-71, [1, blank] pp. (Preliminaries are incorrectly numbered in all editions.) Complete with ten mounted albumen photographs by Soule of scenes in Yosemite, with tissue guards, and three wood-engraved text illustrations relating to Giant Sequoias, and two engraved maps. Text and photographs ruled in red.

Original publisher's green pebble-grain cloth over beveled boards with front cover and spine decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt and black and rear cover decoratively stamped in blind. All edges gilt. Bookplate on front pastedown. A bit of rubbing to extremities. Head and tail of the spine shows wear. Light foxing, mostly to preliminaries and tissue guards. A very clean and bright copy.Cowan, p. 333 (third edition). Currey & Kruska 225. Farquhar 10b. Kimes & Kimes 3, 5, 7, and 8. Rocq 5217. HBS 66696. $2,000

First Edition of George Sale's Translation of the Koran

117. [KORAN.] SALE, George. The Koran. Commonly Called the Alcoran of Mohammed. Translated into English immediately from the Original Arabic … to which is Prefixed a Preliminary Discourse. London: J. Wilcox, 1734.

First edition of the renowned Sale translation. Quarto. With four folding plates: a map of Arabia; the Temple of Mecca; and genealogical charts.

Contemporary speckled calf, sympathetically rebacked. Boards scuffed. Modest intermittent browning to protions of text, but generally bright and fresh. A very nice copy, well-margined. HBS 66775. $3,000

43 “A Very Important and Much-Prized Work”

118. KOTZEBUE, Otto von. Entdeckungs-Reise in die Süd-See und nach der Berings-Strasse. zur Erforschung einer nordöstlichen Durchfahrt. Unternommen in den Jahren 1815, 1816, 1817 und 1818, auf Kosten Sr. Erlaucht des Herrn Reichs- Kanzlers Grafen Rumanzoff auf dem Schiffe Rurick unter dem Befehle des Lieutenants der Russisch-Kaiserlichen Marine Otto von Kotzebue. Weimar: Verlegt von den Gebrüdern Hoffmann, 1821.

First edition, regular issue, with the portraits colored and the folding plates in sepia aquatint. Three quarto volumes in one. [3], [1, blank], 91, [1, blank], [4], [95]-168; 176; [2], 228, 229 [folding table, verso blank and unpaginated], 230-240, [1, printer’s imprint], [6], XVIII [list of subscribers] pp. Fifteen hand-colored engraved plates, including frontispiece in each volume and eleven plates depicting butterflies, one uncolored engraved plate, four folding aquatint sepia plates, two folding tables (one included in pagination), and six engraved maps (five folding). Bound with both the original title-page and the special cancel title-page prepared for Chamisso for the third volume.

Contemporary diced half calf over marbled boards. Rebacked with original spine laid down. Spine lettered in gilt and stamped in blind. Edges speckled brown. With newer endpapers. Some foxing and toning throughout to text block. Plates and maps very clean. Overall a very nice copy.

“The second Russian expedition into the Pacific for scientific exploration, sponsored by Count Romanzoff, was commanded by Lieutenant Kotzebue, and also included the famous artist Ludovik Choris. Kotzebue had also sailed with Captain Kruzenshtern in 1803-06. Leaving Kronstadt in 1815, the Rurik rounded Cape Horn and visited Chile, Easter Island, and the Marshall Islands. Kotzebue explored the North American coast and Hawaii and searched unsuccessfully for a passage to the Arctic Ocean. The description of the northwest coast of America is a most important contribution…A very important and much-prized work” (Hill, p. 165). Cowan, p. 334. Hill I, pp. 164-5. Howes K258. Lada-Mocarski 80. Sabin 38284. Streeter 3511. Zamorano Eighty 48. HBS 66840. $10,000

The First English Edition of the Second Russian Pacific Voyage

119. KOTZEBUE, Otto von. A Voyage of Discovery, into the South Sea and Beering's Straits, For the purpose of exploring a north-east passage, undertaken in the years 1815-1818, at the expense of His Highness the Chancellor of the Empire, Count Romanzoff, in the ship Rurick, under the command of the Lieutenant in the Russian Imperial Navy, Otto von Kotzebue. Illustrated with numerous plates and maps. 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. Abbey, Travel, 596. Cowan, p. 335. Graff 2356. Howes K-258. Sabin 38291. Zamorano Eighty 48. HBS 64735. $7,500

44 Signed, Limited Edition of “ The Photographs of J.H. Lartigue”

120. LARTIGUE, Jacques Henri. The Photographs of J.H. Lartigue. New York: 1978.

Limited edition, signed and numbered of which this is number 77 of a planned edition of 5,000. Folio. Original light blue velvet portfolio with color print mounted to inside of upper cover, gold ties. 16 pp. booklet and 10 gelatin silver print photographs. Each photograph measures approx. 15.9 x 18.7 cm. and with Lartigue's "sun" blindstamped in lower left corner, numbered 77/5000 in pencil. An about fine copy.

This porfolio consists of 10 archivally processed, gold-toned silver prints made from the original glass negatives under Jacques-Henri Lartigue's supervision. Nine of the images in this portfolio were published in the original Diary of a Century.Originally Time-Life Books planned to sponser the production of 5,000 sets in English and 2500 in French. However, only 1,000 sets were published in full and the remaining fragments of sets were destroyed to ensure the integrity of the edition. HBS 66960. $2,500

Lavater's "Psysiognomy" 121. LAVATER, Johann Caspar. Essai sur la physiognomie, destiné à faire connoître l’homme & à le faire aimer. The Hague: [Imprimé chez Jaques van Karnebeek], [1781]-1803; Volume IV: [Imprimé chez Hendrik van Teeckelenburgh], 1781-1803..

First edition in French. Four large quarto volumes (13 x 10 3/4 inches; 330 x 273 mm.). With the final errata leaf in Volume I and final leaf of directions (“Avis au Relieur”) in Volumes II and IV. Half-title in Volume IV only (as called for). With four engraved title vignettes by Holzhalb after Chodowiecki and 193 engraved plates (on 176 leaves) and numerous engraved illustrations and tail-pieces by Eckardt, Fiesinger, Haid, Lips, Rieter, Schellenberg, Schwarz, and others after Chodowiecki, Duplessis, Fuseli, Holbein, Raphael, Rubens, West, and others.

Contemporary half calf over tan boards. Gilt spines with new morocco labels. Edges stained red. Light chipping and cracking to spines. Occasional light foxing, small stain to the first plate in Volume II. Generally, an excellent copy of this rare set. Brunet III, col. 887. Cohen-de Ricci, col. 606. Garrison and Morton 154 and Norman Library 1285 (describing the 1772 first edition). HBS 67008. $4,500

The First Major Work Of Isaac Leeser 122. LEESER, Isaac. The Claims of the Jews to an Equality of Rights. Illustrated in a Series of Letters to the Editor of the Philadelphia Gazette. Philadelphia: Printed by C. Sherman & Co., 5601 [1841].

First edition. Octavo (8 1/4 x 5 1/8 inches; 210 x 131 mm). 99, [1, blank] pp.

Half morocco over contemporary marbled boards, rebacked to style. Red morocco spine label, lettered in gilt. A bit of light foxing and toning, primarily to the final signature. Inner hinges repaired. Overall a very good copy.

“Leeser first achieved national renown in 1828 for his moving response, published in The Richmond Whig, to an attack on the Jews which had appeared in the London Quarterly Review and then been re-printed in American newspapers. Leeser’s response was widely circulated and eventually re-published in book form in 1841 as The Claims of the Jews to an Equality of Rights. In 1829, with his reputation established and at the urging of Jacob Mordecai, one of Richmond’s leading Jewish figures, Leeser applied for and was elected to the post of Hazan (Cantor and Reader of the prayer service) of the Congregation Mikveh Israel in Philadelphia.” (Penn Libraries) Rosenbach 476 HBS 66894. $2,500

45 The First Edition of Leibniz’s “Nouveaux essais sur l’entendement humain”

123. LEIBNIZ, Gottfried Wilhelm von. Oeuvres philosophiques Latines & Françoises… Tirées des ses manuscrits qui se conservent dans la Bibliotheque Royale a Hanovre, et publieées par Mr. Rud. Eric Raspe. Ave une préface de Mr. Kaestner…Amsterdam: Chez Jean Schreuder, 1765.

First collected edition of Leibniz’s works and first edition of his “Nouveaux essais sur l’entendement humain” (pp. [1]-496). Quarto. [4], xvi, [4], 540, [16] pp. Title printed in red and black with engraved vignette by O. de Fries. Decorative woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials.

Contemporary quarter sheep over sprinkled boards with vellum tips. Spine ruled in gilt in compartments with two olive morocco gilt labels. Edges stained red. Occasional light foxing, marginal dampstain to final two leaves, short tear in the upper margin of the final leaf. Small circular ownership stamp on title. A wonderful copy.

“Leibniz’ Nouveaux essais sur l’entendement humain, completed in 1705 but not published during his lifetime, presented a detailed criticism of Locke’s position. By adding nisi ipse intellectus to the famous maxim, Nihil est in intellectu quod non prius fuerit in sensu (wrongly attributed to Aristotle by Duns Scotus, Leibniz neatly reversed the application of the principle by Locke. According to Leibniz, the mind originally contains the principles of the various ideas which the senses on occasion call forth” (D.S.B. VIII, p. 151). Brunet III, col. 950. Graesse IV, p. 152. HBS 66779. $3,750 One of the Rarest American Color Plate Books 124. [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.

Publication of the work was costly and time consuming. The work was originally issued in 10 parts with 8 plates per number in printed wrappers. The publisher was forced into bankruptcy while part nine was in the press, however, reducing the edition and forcing part ten to be just barely finished and sparsely distributed. A projected eleventh part would have contained "Historical and Biographical Description of the Indians," but was never completed. The title (not present here) and three advertisement leaves are therefore the only text in the work. Only one copy of the complete set has come up for auction in the past thirty years. HBS 65418. $100,000 46 First Edition In Publisher's Original Tree Sheep of "The Definitive Account of the Most Important Exploration of the North American Continent"

125. LEWIS, Meriwether & William CLARK. History of the Expedition under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark to the Sources of the Missouri, thence across the Rocky Mountains and down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean. Performed during the Years 1804-5-6. By order of the Government of the United States. Prepared for the press by Paul Allen, Esquire. Philadelphia: Bradford and Inskeep, 1814.

First edition. Two octavo volumes (8 3/8 x 5 1/8 inches). xxviii, 470; ix, [1, blank], 522 pp. With the large folding map in Volume I after Clark by S. Harrison and five engraved maps and plates.

Original publisher's tree sheep. Spine with original red morocco labels, gilt-stamped. Expert restoration along joints. Book cover of volume 2 a little concave. Contemporary signature on title-page of both volumes. Housed together in a custom quarter red morocco clamshell case.

"The definitive account of the most important exploration of the North American continent" (Wagner-Camp). "Beyond the Missouri River there lay a vast and largely unexplored territory which bordered on the western reaches of the United States. Ceded by France to Spain in 1762 and then back to France in 1800 it was at this period visited only by some British and a few French trappers. The importance of exploring this area had been evident to Thomas Jefferson as early as 1783, when he had proposed the project to George Rogers Clark; but it was not until twenty yearts later that Jefferson, then President of the United States, saw the realization of his idea. The purchase of the Louisiana Territory from France in December 1803 greatly increased the importance of the expedition, which finally began its long journey to the headwaters of the Missouri in May of the following year. That year they wintered in the Mandan villages in the Dakotas and in the Spring pushed on west across the Rocky Mountains and then down the Columbia River to the Pacific Ocean. Returning by the same route nearly two-and-a-half years after they had set out they arrived back at St. Louis in September 1806 to the amazed delight of the nation which had given them up for lost. Though unsuccessful in their attempt to find a transcontinental water route, they had demonstrated the feasibility of overland travel to the western coast" (PMM). Graff 2477. Grolier, 100 American, 30. Howes L317. Printing and the Mind of Man 272. Streeter 1777. Wagner-Camp 13; 1. HBS 66749. $185,000

Profusely Illustrated with Woodcuts 126. [LIVY]. CARBACH, N.F., [translator]. [Romische Historie] Titi Livii deß aller redsprechsten und hochberümpsten geschi. Roemische Historien mit etlichen newen translation ausz dem Latein so kurtz verschinen jaren zu Meyntz im hohen Thumbstifft sampt nun dem vierdten theyl der Roemischen Historien Mainz: Schoeffer, 1533.

Fourth German edition. Four parts in one folio volume. (12 x 7 5/8 inches; 308 x 195 mm). [14] 1-545, [1, colophon] leaves. With over 250 woodcuts in the text (with some repeat). Main title-page with headpiece and three separate title-pages with woodcuts for the other three parts, but included in the pagination. Each of these pages are demarked with a small metal marker attached to the fore-edge.

Contemporary pigskin over beveled wooden boards. Boards are ruled and stamped in blind. Old ink manuscript for title on spine. Back board with metal remnants of two clasps which are no longer intact. Old ink notes on bottom margin of title-page, not affecting text. "V.F." stamped in title-page and top edge of text block. Boards soiled and rubbed. Edges of text block dusty. But internally very clean. Overall a very good copy.

"The woodcuts date back to earlier Schöffer editions, they have been ascribed to the painter Conrad Faber of Kreuznach, who is regarded a master of landscape painting." (Ketterer Kunst) USTC, 698600, (the following all regarding the first edition) Adams L-1357. BM p. 521. Muther 645. HBS 66909. $6,000

47 A Founding Document of Democracy The First of John Locke’s Works to be Translated from His Native English 127. [LOCKE, John]. Du gouvernement civil, ou l'on traitte de l'origine, des fondemens, de la nature, du pouvoir et des fins des societe politiques. Traduit de l'Anglois. Amsterdam: Chez Abraham Wolfgang, 1691.

First edition in French of Locke’s groundbeaking work and the first of his works to be translated from his native English. Twelvemo (5 7/16 x 3 inches; 138 x 75 mm.). [12], 321, [1, blank] pp. Title page with printer’s woodcut device. Short marginal tears to M7 & 8 (repaired and with no loss).

Contemporary light salmon paper over boards, rebacked at a very early date in similar paper, manuscript spine lettering, red speckled edges. Small number of upper blank of title and front endpaper. Housed in a quarter morocco clamshell case. Overall, an excellent copy; very clean and in a contemporary binding.

Originally published in 1690 as ‘Two Treatises of Government’. “Locke’s anonymous text is here an anonymous translation, traditionally attributed to David Mazel. ‘One of the Huguenot pastors living in Holland’, of the second treatise in its 1R version with the first chapter omitted“ (Yolton). “The second treatise contains a plain statement of the principles of democracy. In an age and country in which the practice of democracy had just been triumphantly vindicated, Locke’s theories, although anticipated to some degree by the ‘Whig’ tradition of political thought-Aristotle, Aquinas, Hooker, Grotius-had all the freshness of novelty. Like Hooker, Locke presupposes an original and necessary law of reason, and bases the constitution of society on it, rather than on the de facto existence of a government based on the actual submission of the governed to the rulers. This consent is thus a prior condition of the ‘social contract’, not a result of it, so that the civil rulers hold their power not absolutely but conditionally; government being essentially a moral trust, which lapses if the trustees fail to maintain their side of the contract. Locke was to reinforce these liberal opinions by his Letters on Tolerance, and they combine with the Treatises on Government to provide a classic example of the empirical approach to the social and political economy which has remained ever since the basis of the principles of democracy” (PMM). Its influence on the development of French and American political though cannot be overstated. Graesse IV, 243. Printing and the Mind of Man, 163. Yolton, Locke 46. No copies of this edition have come up at auction in the last thirty years and OCLC only located twelve copies. HBS 66937. $6,000

Second Edition with Large Additions. An Exceptionally Clean Copy 128. LOCKE, John. An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. In Four Books. The Second Edition, with large Additions. London: 1694.

Second edition. Folio in fours (12 3/8 x 7 3/4 inches; 315 x 196 mm.). [40], 407, [1, blank], [11, index], [1, blank] pp. Complete with the engraved frontispiece portrait of Locke by Brounower.

Contemporary blind-paneled calf with corner devices, expertly rebacked with original spine compartments laid down. Spine compartments with gilt rules and central gilt devices. Tan morocco gilt lettering label. Edges speckled red. Contemporary publisher's unwanted printed sheets used as pastedowns. Previous owner Robert Duncombe Shafto (M.P. for North Durham, 1847-1868) bookplate on front pastedown. Front flyleaf with paper repair and early ink notes. Overall, an exceptionally clean copy of this classic.

John Locke (1632-1704) was the first to challenge Bacon and “to attempt to estimate critically the certainty and the adequacy of human knowledge when confronted with God and the universe…He was driven to the conclusion that our certain knowledge is limited to an ‘intuitive’ knowledge of our own existence–by an ‘internal infallible perception that we are’–from which the existence of God can be proved by ‘demonstration’” (Printing and the Mind of Man). Yolton 62B. Pforzheimer, 601. Wing, L2740. HBS 67049. $5,000

48 First Collected Edition of Locke’s " Letters Concerning Toleration"

129. LOCKE, John. Letters Concerning Toleration. London: Printed for A. Millar…, 1765.

First collected edition of Locke’s four letters on toleration. Quarto (11 3/8 x 8 3/4 inches; 289 x 222 mm.). [8], 399, [1 blank] pp. Includes the Latin “Epistola de tolerantia” (pp. [1]-28), “A Letter Concerning Toleration” (pp. [29]-66), “A Second Letter Concerning Toleration” (pp. [67]-116), “A Third Letter for Toleration” (pp. [117]-379), and “A Fourth Letter for Toleration” (pp. [381]- 399). Edited by Thomas Hollis and Richard Baron. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Locke by F.B. Cipriani after Kneller, with a Cap of Liberty beneath the portrait. Another Cap of Liberty at foot of last page of text.

Bound to style in full modern calf for front board (matching rear board) and spine. With the contemporary rear board still present. Boards ruled in gilt. Spine ruled in gilt. With original black morocco spine label, lettered in gilt. Marbled endpapers. All edges dyed yellow. Previous owner's old ink signature on title-page, dated 1789. A few light pencil marking throughout. Frontispiece portrait a bit foxed. A few neat tiny holes to title-page, and final leaf not affecting text. Small previous owner Peter Laslett, Trinity College Cambridge plate on front pastedown. Overall a very good copy. HBS 67041. $6,000

First Collected Edition of Locke's Writings on the Fundamentals of Economics

130. LOCKE, John. Several Papers Relating to Money, Interest and Trade, &c.. Writ upon several Occasions, and Published at different Times. London: Printed for A. and J. Churchill, 1696.

First collected edition of Locke's important writings on the fundamentals of economics. Small octavo (6 5/16 x 3 3/4 inches; 159 x 95 mm). [4], 4, 192; 24; [16], 111, [1, advertisement], [1, eratta], [1, blank] pp. With general title-page, and separate title-pages for Some Considerations and Further Considerations.

Contemporary full speckled calf, rebacked to style. Boards stamped in blind. Red morocco spine label, lettered in gilt. Boards a bit chipped chipped and bumped. Overall avery good copy.

Comprised of: The Second edition Corrected of: Some Considerations of the Consequences of the Lowering of Interest, and Raising the Value of Money. In a Letter to a Member of Parliament, 1691. London: for Awnsham and John Churchill, 1696.

[and]

Short Observations on a Printed Paper, Intituled, For encouraging the Coining Silver Money in England, and after for keeping it here. [1695]

[and]

Further Considerations Concerning Raising the Value of Money. Wherein Mr. Lowndes’s Arguments for it in his late Report concerning An Essay for the Amendment of the Silver Coins, are particularly Examined. London: Printed for A. and J. Churchil, 1695.

ESTC lists two variants: one has "By John Locke, Esq;" on the title-page, 'Further Considerations' dated 1695, and 111 pages. The other issue has "By Mr. John Locke" on the title-page, "Further Considerations" dated 1696, and 112 pages. This copy is a combination of the two, with 'Further Considerations' dated 1695 and "By Mr. John Locke" on the title-page. Einaudi. Goldsmiths'. Kress. HBS 66981. $11,000

49 In a Completely Un-restored First Issue Dust Jacket

131. LONDON, Jack. Burning Daylight. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1910.

First edition, second state with 3 blanks at rear. First state dust jacket with no blurbs on inside panels. Octavo. Blue pictorial cloth, original un-restored dust jacket with intricate pattern with the words “THE.” Jacketwith small chips on top of spine and corners, small scuff to front cover. Cloth rubbed along extremities, small sticker to front pastedown. Overall, a very good copy of the second issue book in a completely un-restored and very scarce first issue dust jacket. HBS 66723. $2,250 Scarce First English Edition 132. MALEBRANCHE, Father Nicolas. A Treatise of Morality. In Two Parts. Written in French by F. Malbranch, author of The Search after Truth. And Translated into English, by James Shipton, M.A. London: 1699.

First English edition. Octavo (7 1/2 x 4 5/8 inches; 190 x 117 mm). [12], 126, 114, [4, publisher's advertisements] pp. Each part with separate pagination. With two final advertisement leaves. We could not find any other copies at auction in the past 50 years.

Contemporary full calf. Boards ruled and stamped in blind. Spine with red morocco spine label, lettered in gilt. Edges stained red. Some light and mostly marginal toning and dampstaining throughout. Head of the spine repaired. Corners a bit bumped.Leaf B8 is trimmed a half-inch along the fore-edge, not affecting text. Previous owners old ink notes on front endpapers. Overall a very good copy.

This is the first English translation of the Traité de Morale.

Malebranche is now recognized as a major figure in the history of philosophy, occupying a crucial place in the Rationalist tradition of Descartes, Spinoza and Leibniz. Wing, 319, ESTC R10000 HBS 67002. $2,000 "If Only Malthus, Instead of Ricardo, Had Been the Parent Stem From Which Nineteenth-Century Economics Proceeded, What a Much Wiser and Richer Place the World Would be Today" 133. MALTHUS, T[homas] R[obert]. Principles of Political Economy. London: 1820.

First edition. Octavo. vi, [1]2-601[602].

Original boards, uncut. With original paper label on spine. Hinges expertly and almost invisibly repaired. Old bookplate from "The Library of Victoria" with no other library markings. A very clean copy, internally fine. Very scarce in original boards. Housed in a custom quarter black morocco clamshell, gilt-stamped.

First edition of Malthus' principal contribution to economic theory. Schumpeter describes Malthus' work in relation to that of his predecessors, Adam Smith and Ricardo, as follows: "Ricardo's work...started with the Wealth of Nations and recoined the latter's theoretical contents by a method that centered in the concept of value. Exactly the same thing is evidently true of the work of Malthus...except for his theory of saving and investment, which on the face of it seems to be Malthus's own, all the elements that enter into the analytic apparatus of that work, and even its terminological arrangements, point to the First book of the Wealth of Nations. Only, whereas Ricardo recoined the doctrine of Wealth by means of the labor-quantity theory of value, Malthus recoined it by the means of the theory of value that A. Smith actually used, namely, the theory of supply and demand...[whereas] Ricardo's analytic apparatus is geared to the problem of distribution...Malthus... geared his apparatus to the analysis of the whole economic process...Therefore, Malthus should...stand in the history of analysis not only as the author of a valid alternative to Ricardo's theory but as the sponsor (or rather as one of the sponsors) of the victorious one." HBS 66825. $7,500 50 The Most Powerful Book of the Century, In the Publisher's Original Cloth 134. MARX, Karl. Das Kapital. Kritik der politischen Oekonomie. Erster Band. Buch I. Der Produktionsprocess des Kapitals. Hamburg: Verlag von Otto Meissner, 1867.

First edition of volume I only. Volume I was the only volume to be completed by Marx in his lifetime and the next two volumes were completed posthumously by Engels from Marx’s papers. Octavo (8 1/4 x 5 1/4 inches; 210 x 133 mm). xii, 784 pp.

In publisher's original cloth, possibly the deluxe gift binding for the "Börsen-Clubb" (Stock Exchange Club). Publisher’s half green cloth over green pebble-grain cloth. Spine lettered and ornately stamped in gilt with "Börsen-Clubb" stamped in gilt at the foot of the spine. Board edges a bit rubbed. Some unobtrusive repair to outer hinges. . Inner hinges also repaired. A number of pages with thin blue ink underlining, or thin vertical marginal lines. Blue ink dot bleed affecting two letters on pages 69-72 snf205-206. Small old bookseller label on front pastedown. Overall, a very clean and solid copy of this very scarce and important title in a spectacular and virtually unknown binding. Chemised and housed in a custom cloth slipcase with a red morocco spine label, lettered in gilt.

No copy at auction in the last thirty years appears to have been in a publisher’s binding. This might be the first copy ever offered in the publisher’s duluxe gift binding.

In 1867 appeared the first volume of Marx’s treatise Das Kapital, in which he propounded his theory of political economy. After the death of Marx this was completed from his papers by Engels. It is a criticism of the capitalistic system under which, according to Marx, a diminishing number of capitalists appropriate the benefits of improved industrial methods, while the labouring class are left in increasing dependency and misery. Marx holds the view that the price of a commodity should be the remuneration of the labour required to produce it, and that it fails to be this because capital exacts a share of the price, while competition among the workers obliges them to accept less than their proper due. The remedy for this state of things Marx finds in the total abolition of private property, to be effected by the class war. When the community has acquired possession of all property and the means of production, it will distribute work to each individual and provide him with the means of sustenance: From everyone according to his faculties, to everyone according to his needs.

Karl Marx’s Capital can be read as a work of economics, sociology and history. He addresses a myriad of topics, but is most generally trying to present a systematic account of the nature, development, and future of the capitalist system. There is a strong economic focus to this work, and Marx addresses the nature of commodities, wages and the worker- capitalist relationship, among other things. Much of this work tries to show the ways in which workers are exploited by the capitalist mode of production. He also provides a history of past exploitations. Marx argues that the capitalist system is ultimately unstable, because it cannot endlessly sustain profits. Thus, it provides a more technical background to some of his more generally accessible works, like The Communist Manifesto.

"Vol. I is the 'Critical Analysis of Capital Production" including the central concept of surplus-value..." (PMM 359). Einaudi. Goldsmiths'. Kress. Printing and the Mind of Man 359. HBS 67195. $90,000

51 Constitucion Federal

135. [MEXICO.] Constitucion Federal. De Los Estados Unidos Mexicanos. Sancionada por el Congreso General Constituyente, el 4 de Octubre de 1824. [Mexico]: Imprenta del Supremo Gobierno de los Estados unidos mexicanos, en Palacio, 1824.

Twelvemo. [(Bound with:) Acta Constitutiva de la Federacion. Full dark green morocco, elaborately tooled in gilt on covers and spine with red morocco label. Three old library stamps, one on the title-page, one on the index and one on the last leaf. Otherwise, near fine.

Bound with:

Acta Constitutiva de la Federacion. This document marked the beginning of constitutional government in Texas and the Southwest. The Ada Constitutive is included since all Mexican territory was governed under that document from Feb.- Oct., 1824. During this time the constitution was being adopted article by article. It was the controversal Article V of the Acta Constitutiva that gave the federal form of government to Mexico. Bound with engraved plate of the national emblem not called for in Sabin. Dic-cionario Porrua, p. 363. Sabin 48379 and 48253. HBS 66895. $4,000 Complete with 70 Hand-Colored Plates "as Fine as the Monuments of Westminster Abbey"

136. MEYRICK, Samuel Rush. A Critical Inquiry into Antient Armour, as it Existed in Europe, Particularly in Great Britain, from the Norman Conquest to the Reign of King Charles II. Illustrated by a Series of Illuminated Engravings. With a Glossary of Military Terms of the Middle Ages ... In Three Volumes. Vol. I [-III]. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1842.

Second edition, corrected and enlarged. Three tall quarto volumes (14 5/8 x 10 3/4 inches; 370 x 275 mm.). [2, half-title], [2, title], vi, lxv, [2, blank], [1, errata], 179, [1, blank]; [2, half-title], [2, title], 247, [1, blank]; [2, half title], [2, title], 126, [111, glossary], [1, blank], [26, index] pp. With hand-colored engraved frontispiece and eighty full page engraved plates by R. Bridgens after the author, seventy of which are hand-colored. Also with twenty-seven illuminated capitals (many rubricated in gold and silver). The first page of each chapter with an illuminated capital and a duplicate of the page without illumination as well.

Original half red morocco over marbled boards. Boards ruled in gilt. Spines each with two tan morocco spine labels. Spines lettered in gilt and stamped in gilt with swords and armor. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. A bit of light foxing to a few text pages, but plates are extremely bright and clean. A very beautiful set. HBS 66837. $3,750

With Ten Original Prints, Signed by the Artists and Signed by the Author

137. MICHENER, James A.. The Modern Japanese Print. An Appreciation. With Ten Original Prints by Hiratsuka Un'Ichi, Maekawa Sempan, Mori Yoshitoshi, Watanabe Sadao, Kinoshita Tomio, Shima Tamami, Azechi Umetaro, Iwami Reika, Yoshida Masaji, Maki Haku. Rutland, Vermont & Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle Company, [1962].

First edition, one of 510 numbered copies, this being number 214, signed by James A. Michener and the ten contributing artists listed above. Large folio (21 1/2 x 15 1/2 inches; 547 x 395 mm). [1]-55, [1, colophon] pp. With ten original full page prints, each signed by the artist. Text is handset in Perpetua type. Printed on handmade kyokushi or Japanese Vellum.

Bound at the Okamoto Bindery in original tri-tone linen, stamped in gilt on front boards and spine. Uncut. Housed in the original slipcase of unvarnished spruce or Japanese cedar. Japanese title burned into the wood on front panel of slipcase. Spine is sunned. Slipcase and book with some scuffs. Altogether, a very good copy of an exquisite book with ten original signed prints.HBS 66921. $3,500 52 First Edition of Milton's Last Two Poems

138. MILTON, John. Paradise Regain'd. A Poem. In IV Books. To Which is Added Samson Agonistes. London: Printed for J.M. for John Starkey, 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.

"[Paradise Regain'd] is a sequel to 'Paradise Lost', and deals exclusively with the temptation of Christ in the wilderness. According to the poet's conception, whereas Paradise was lost by the yielding of Adam and Eve to Satan's temptation, so it was regained by the by the resistance of the Son of God to the temptation of the same spirit. Satan is here represented not in the majestic lineaments that we find in 'Paradise Lost', but as a cunning, smooth, and dissembling creature, a 'Spirit unfortunate', as he describes himself. There is a comparative scarcity of similes and ornament, and only a vivid and ingenious expansion of the Biblical texts." (The Oxford Companion to English Literature 590). HBS 64381. $10,000

With the First Map to Show Counties in California and New Mexico

139. MITCHELL, S. Augustus. A New Universal Atlas of the World. Containing Maps of the various Empires, Kingdoms, States and Republics Of The World. With a special map of each of the United States, Plans of Cities &c. Comprehended in seventy sheets and forming a series of One Hundred And Seventeen Maps, Plans And Sections Philadelphia: Cowperthwait & Co., 1852.

Complete with seventy-three full colored maps, one of which is double- paged, color frontispiece, vignette title-page and table of contents, heightened in gilt. Folio (17 x 14 inches; 430 x 355 mm).

Half red morocco over marbled boards. Front board with red morocco label, lettered in gilt. Binding scuffed and bumped. Hinges professionally repaired. Some toning throughout, mainly to blank versos of maps and margin edges, only occasionally affecting the maps. Closed tear to front free endpaper. A few instances of foxing on maps, mainly to map 51 "Holland and Belgium." A small dark spot in Buenos Ayres on map 44. A small piece scraped off of map 73, "Oceana" but not making a hole all the way through. Also a marginal closed tear to this map, professionally repaired. Overall a very good copy. HBS 65704. $7,500 The Extremely Scarce First Edition of the First Dictionary Printed in the Americas

140. MOLINA, Alfonso de. Aqui comienca vn vocabula- rio enla lengua Castellana y Mexicana. Compuesto por el muy reuerendo padre fray Alonso de Molina: Guardia d'l coueto d' sant Antonio d' Tetzcuco d'la orde delos frayles Menores. Mexico: Juan Pablos, 1555.

First edition of the first dictionary printed in the Americas and one of the earliest secular books printed in America. Complete. Quarto (7 11/16 x 5 3/8 inches; 195 x 136 mm). [8], 259, [1, colophon] leaves. a8, A8, B4-ZZ4, &&4, ++4, a4- p4. Title-page printed in black and red and with woodcut vignette. With three full-page woodcut engravings. Verso of title-page with the Christly monogram "IHS", and leaf a8 with a scene of two angels, the virgin and baby Jesus holding a Franciscan coat of a rms (a shield with the Five Wounds of Christ) on the recto, and a sene of San Ildefonso of Toledo receiving a chasuble from the Virgin. (From Explore Mesolore). With engraved woodcut initials for each letter of the alphabet, starting with "A." The BL copy does not have decorative initials for the letters "A"-"C."

This is an extremely scarce book, and even more scarce to find it complete as is the present copy. Only a handful of libraries house copies of this and of them, many are incomplete, lacking title-pages and colophons. In the past 100 years we could only locate three copies at auction, one of which is the present copy. 53 Full 19th-century sheep with the gilt supralibros of the arms of Charles, third earl of Ashburnham on front and back covers. Spine lettered in gilt. Boards edges tooled in gilt. Gilt dentelles. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. A bit of minor worming to top margins of leaves CC- KK4, all expertly repaired and generally not affecting text, with an occasional very minor loss of text. Top outer corner of leaf FF8, with professional repair, barely affecting text. Leaves NN4-PP4 with more worming, professionally repaired and a bit more text affected than previous cases, but still minor. Some minor closed tears to final leaf (colophon). Leaves 71-70; 218- 217, 219-220 bound out of order. A few occasions of very light old ink marginalia. a few very light stains, discreetly washed. Overall an extremely nice copy, internally very clean and complete. Housed in a custom quarter sheep over marbled boards clamshell.

"Sabin apparently had not seen a copy with the two woodcuts on f. [8] since he does not refer to them in his collation. The two copies in the Biblioteca Nacional in Madrid both lack the title, the copy in the BL has title and colophon in manuscript, and one or both of these leaves are lacking in most known copies. This is the first dictionary printed in America though there is an earlier work on the Mexican language. The two fine woodcuts on the recto and verso of f. [8] show the Virgin and Child with a shield displaying the Five Wounds, with two angels as supporters, and the Virgin placing a chasuble on the shoulders of St. Ildefonso of Toledo. In our copy each letter of the alphabet begins with an ornamental woodcut initial, but the BL copy has no decorative initial for A, B, or C. Alonso de Molina (c. 1510--1584) went to Mexico as a child and learned the Aztec (Nahuatl) tongue, in which he attained great proficiency. He acted as interpreter to the early Franciscan friars and later wrote several books on the language, himself becoming a Franciscan. Only one other complete copy has appeared on the market in this century. Wagner records two copies in the Huntington Library, both incomplete, and states that in all only ten perfect copies are known" (Kraus 185-D; regarding present copy)

With old ink manuscript exlibris on lower margin of first text leaf of the Monastery of San Juan de Teotihuacan; and from the libraries of Charles, third earl of Ashburnham, with his gilt arms as supralibros, and with a one-page autograph note about the book attached to the fly-leaf; and that of Sir Thomas Phillipps with his shelf-mark, pencilled MHC. Previous owner's bookplates "Bibliotheca Phillippica" and "Biblioteca Hutcalco" on front pastedown. Howes. Icazbalceta 24. Palau 174351. Sabin 49866. Streeter. Wagner 23. HBS 67017. $350,000

54 “One of the Most Remarkable Works of the Eighteenth Century”

141. [MONTESQUIEU, Charles de Secondat, Baron de]. De l'Esprit des Loix, ou Du rapport que les loix doivent avoir avec la constitution de chaque gouvernement, les moeurs, le climat, la religion, le commerce, &c. à quoi l'auteur a ajouté. Des recherches nouvelles sur les loix Romaines touchant les Successions, sur les Loix Françoises, & sur les Loix féodales. Geneve: Chez Barillot, & Fils [i.e., Paris: Prault], [n.d., 1748].

Second edition, first issue, (same year as first edition, 1748) with “Barillot” spelled with one “r” on title and with the errata leaf at the end of Volume I. Two quarto volumes. [8], xxiv, 522, [1, errata], [1, blank]; [4], xvi, 564 pp.

Contemporary calf, expertly rebacked with original spines laid down, corners and ends of spine renewed. Spines decoratively tooled in gilt in compartments with raised bands and brown and red morocco labels. Gilt board edges, marbled endpapers. All edges stained red. Joints starting. Bookplates. Contemporary ink inscriptions o n titles and front fly-leaves. Occasional light marginal spotting. Still a v e r y good copy of this important work. Printing and the Mind of Man 197 (first edition) HBS 66821. $3,000

First Magazine Appearance of Moore's "A Visit from St. Nicholas," ("The Night Before Christmas")

142. [MOORE, Clement C.]. The American Monthly Magazine. January, 1837. Boston: Otis, Broaders, & Co., & New York: George Dearborn, 1837.

First magazine appearance of Moore's poem A Visit from St. Nicholas, commonly know as The Night Before Christmas, and the first time this poem has been attributed to the author Clement C. Moore. Octavo (9 1/4 x 5 3/4 inches; 235 x 145 mm). [1]-104 pp. A collection of original writings by various authors. With a prospectus printed on back inner wrapper.

Publisher's original printed tan wrappers. Wrappers a bit chipped along edges. Front lower corner with a small piece missing. Spine with a bit of chipping. A light old ink note on top margin of front cover. Pages a bit foxed. Overall a very good copy. HBS 67058. $2,500

First Appearance of “Twas the Night Before Christmas” 143. MOORE, Clement C. Poems. New York: Bartlett & Welford, 1844.

First edition, collected and published at the request of Moore’s children. Contains the first appearance of his famous poem “A Visit from St. Nicholas” (“Twas the Night Before Christmas”) in a collection of his own verse. Twelvemo (7 1/4 x 4 3/4 inches; 184 x 121 mm). xi, [1, blank], [13]-216 pp.

Uncut in publisher's original brown paper boards. Printed paper spine label. Top edge brown, fore-edge uncut. Some of the letters on the spine label have been darkened with ink as the label is a bit rubbed. Some professional restoration to spine extremities and hinges. A chip to bottom of the spine. A bit of rubbing to boards and edges. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown. Previous owner's extensive old ink notes about this edition on front free endpaper. Chemised and housed in a quarter calf slipcase. Overall a very nice copy. BAL 14348. Grolier, 100 American, 52. HBS 65100. $7,500

55 Fourth Edition of Sir Thomas More’s Utopia

144. MORE, Sir Thomas. [Utopia] De optimo reip. statu, deque nova insula Utopia, libellus vere aureus…Epigrammata darissimi disertissimicus viri Thomae Mori, pleraque è Græcis versa. Epigrammata. Des. Erasmi Roterodami.. [Basel: Apud Joannem Frobenium, November-December 1518].

Fourth edition of Thomas More’s Utopia, the second edition corrected by More, and the second edition of More’s Epigrammata. Three parts in one small quarto volume (8 1/8 x 5 7/8 inches; 149 x 205 mm.). 163, [1], 164, [4], 166-355, [1, colophon] pp. Roman and Greek types. Twenty-six lines. Woodcut Utopian alphabet on b3 recto (designed by Petrus Aegidius and later used by Geoffroy Tory in the Champfleury). Title within a fine woodcut architectural border by Hans Holbein on title (repeated on c1), full- page woodcut map of Utopia on b2 verso by Ambrosius Holbein, half-page woodcut head-piece depicting John Clement, Raphael Hythlodaye, Thomas More, and Pieter Gillis by Ambrosius Holbein opening text on d1 recto, woodcut title border to More’s epigrams by Urs Graf, woodcut title border to Erasmus’s epigrams by Hans Holbein, one of three woodcut printer’s devices at the end of each part, woodcut historiated initials by Urs Graf and Ambrosius and Hans Holbein.

Full eighteenth century English tree calf. Front cover repaired at hinge. Boards tooled in gilt. Gilt dentelles. Marbled endpapers. All edges dyed yellow. Spine stamped and lettered in gilt. Some scattered staining, mainly to leaves B2-B3 of More's Epigrams as well as signatures F and G of the same title. Small marginal paper repair to leaf S, not affecting text. A few early, neat ink annotations in margin. Three previous owner's bookplates on front endpapers. Overall a very good copy. Housed in a quarter morocco clamshell.

Provenance- According to Sotheby's who sold this present copy at the George Abrams sale: sold Sotheby’s London 17 November 1989, lot 194. "Possibly Anthony Rous (d. 1620), friend of Sir Francis Drake and one of his original executors), with contemporary inscription on title "Possessor Antho. Rous 2d"; Lord Dacre, with his bookplate and inscribed by him "This Book formerly Mr Capels given me by the Revd. Mr. Collins of Ledbury his Executor D."; Albert Ehrman, Broxbourne Library, with bookplate (sold Sothbey’s London 14 December 1977, lot 63)––George Abrams, with bookplate (sale in our rooms, I, 14 November 1977, lot 63).")

“Utopia was published in the great year of Erasmian reform, when the new enlightenment seemed about to carry all before it…It was written…as a tract for the times, to rub in the lesson of Erasmus; it inveighs against the new statesmanship of all-powerful autocracy and the new economics of large enclosures and the destruction of the old common-field agriculture, just as it pleads for religious tolerance and universal education. In this it is a work of reaction rather than progress: indeed, just as Rasselas might almost be a critique of Candide, so Utopia might seem an advocacy of the old virtues against the new totalitarianism of Il Principe…In Utopia More is concerned to show that the old, medieval institutes, if freed from abuse, are the best, not the new theoretic reforms, which he justly feared…Utopia is not, as often imagined, More’s ideal state: it exemplifies only the virtues of wisdom, fortitude, temperance and justice. It reflects the moral poverty of the states which More knew, whose Christian rulers should possess also the Christian virtues of Faith, Hope and Charity” (Printing and the Mind of Man). Adams M1757. Gibson, More, 4. Fairfax Murray, German, 304. Printing and the Mind of Man 47 (citing the 1516 first edition). HBS 66906. $45,000

56 Limited to 300 Copies Signed by the Artist

145. MOZART, Wolfgang Amadeus, [composer]. BALTHUS, [illustrator]. Cosi Fan Tutte. Xilografie di Balthus.New York: Limited Editions Club, 2001.

First edition. One of 300 copies signed by Balthus this being number 249. Folio. With numerous color woodcuts by Balthus. Also includes three compact discs containing Hans Rosbaud's opera in a pocket in the inside rear cover. Text in Italian.

Publisher's full peacock green silk. Front board with black leather label on, lettered in gilt. Fine. Housed in the publisher's matching suede-lined silk clamshell with black leather label, lettered in gilt on spine. With Limited Editions Club newsletter laid in. HBS 66037. $2,500

"The Scientific American" 1848-1849 146. MUNN & COMPANY. The Scientific American. The Advocate of Industry, and Journal of Scientific, Mechanical and Other Improvements. New York: Munn & Company, September 23, 1848 - September 15, 1849. Vol. 4, No. 1- No. 52. (Published weekly).

One year, full-run, published weekly from September 23, 1848 through September 15, 1849. Folio. (Measures 15 1/2 x 10 3/4 inches). [1]-416 pp. Contemporary half brown morocco over marbled paper boards, gilt-stamped spine. Hundreds of engravings of new discoveries and improvements throughout. Some foxing. Very good and very rare. No copies at auction of any issues before the new series of 1859 and no copies on OCLC before 1859. HBS 67063. $1,500 A Beautiful Copy of the First Guide to Yosemite, With Twenty Photographs by Muybridge. 147. [MUYBRIDGE, E.J., photographer]. HITTELL, John S.. Yosemite: Its Wonders and Its Beauties. With Information Adapted to the Wants of Tourists About to Visit the Valley...Illustrated with Twenty Photographic Views Taken by "Helios," [Edweard J. Muybridge] and a Map of the Valley. San Francisco: H. H. Bancroft and Company, 1868.

First edition of the first guide to Yosemite. Twelvemo (7 1/4 x 4 1/2 inches; 184 x 112 mm). [i]-vi, [2], [9]-59, [1, blank], [3, ads], [1, blank] pp. With twenty original mounted black and white photographs by Edweard J. Muybridge and the scarce double-page lithographed map by Britton and Rey.

Publisher’s original green cloth over beveled boards. Boards ruled in blind. Front board lettered in gilt. Brown coated endpapers. Plate 13 with very minor traces of adhesion. Due to the mounting, pages are slightly warped, as usual. A near fine copy with no traces of foxing and very bright photographs.

"The sublimity, the variety, and the unparalleled greatness of the scenery of Yosemite, render it worthy of illustration by pen and picture. The people of California feel a general interest in the valley, which is one of the most remarkable natural features of their wonderful State. Many have visited the grand chasm, and want something to recall by association the adventures of their trip and the pleasures of their stay. Others intend going, and wish advise in regard to the most impressive views and the best method of traveling. And all desire to be familiar with the general appearance of that world-famous collection of cliffs, cataracts, domes and dells. This book is published to supply the want. It is small so that it can be used as a guidebook; it is cheap so as to be within the reach of all; it is illustrated so that the reader can see the mirror held up to nature; and the illustrations are photographs, because no engravings could do justice to the scenes, or convey perfect confidence in the accuracy of the drawings of such immense elevations as those of Tutucanala and Tissayac." (Hittell, preface iii-iv). Farquhar 8. Howes H542. Streeter 2917. HBS 64813. $32,500 57 Newton's "Principia"- Large Paper Copy

148. NEWTON, Sir Isaac. Philosophiæ naturalis principia mathematica. Editio tertia aucta & emendata. London: Apud Guil. & Joh. Innys, 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).

Third edition of “the greatest work in the history of science” (Printing and the Mind of Man). In the Principia, Newton formulated the three laws of motion from which he derived the principle of universal gravitation, “wherein all bodies, of whatever mass, attract one another in proportion to their masses and in inverse ratio as the square of the distance between them. This applies to dust particles as to the mightiest celestial bodies” (Dibner). “Copernicus, Galileo and Kepler had certainly shown the way; but where they described the phenomena they observed, Newton explained the underlying universal laws. ” (Printing and the Mind of Man 161, describing the first edition). Babson 13. Gray 9. Wallis 9. HBS 64483. $55,000

First English Edition of " Zarathustra" 149. NIETZSCHE, Friedrich Wilhelm. Thus Spake Zarathustra. A Book for All and None. Translated by Alexander Tille. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1896.

First edition in English. Octavo. xxiii, [7], 479, [1, blank], [8, publisher's ads] pp. Complete with series title and half title.

Publisher's blind-ruled sage-green cloth with gilt spine lettering. Spine lightly rubbed along extremities. Professional repair to front and rear hinges. A very good copy.

There are various ideas concerning the publication sequence of the first English edition of this title but recent scholarship has accepted this American issue of the Macmillan sheets as the first. HBS 67013. $3,000

58 A Fine Set of The Nonesuch Dickens With an Original Woodblock Illustrating Punch & Judy

150. DICKENS, Charles. [The Nonesuch Dickens.] Published under the editorial direction of Arthur Waugh, Hugh Walpole, Walter Dexter and Thomas Hatton. Bloomsbury: The Nonesuch Press, 1937-1938.

Limited to 877 copies (the number having been determined by the number of steel plates and woodblocks available). Twenty-three large octavo volumes, plus the publisher’s clamshell box containing an original woodblock and prospectus volume. Numerous plates, some in color, and text illustrations from the original steel plates and woodblocks. Printed on Worthy rag paper, imported from America, by R. & R. Clark, Edinburgh. The woodblock accompanying this set is number 321, ["Codlin and Short in the Churchyard" drawn by H.K. Brown (Phiz) from "The Old Curiosity Shop."]. The woodblock shows Codlin and Short repairing their Punch and Judy. With the woodblock is a pull and a certificate of authenticity from Chapman & Hall, signed by Arthur Waugh. Also, there is correspondence from George Macy and the previous owner regarding a small crack in the woodblock, as well as a gentleman from 1938 who wishes to one day acquire this particular set, since he is a puppeteer, a historian of Punch and Judy and acquiring his Ph. D. with a dissertation involving Punch. George Macy goes on to say that this block is "one of the nicest of his drawings, and certainly one of the most "Dickensian" of all the drawings."

Publisher’s buckram in various colors by Leighton-Straker. Black leather spine labels lettered in gilt. Top edge gilt on the rough, others uncut. The slightest of fading to spines. Otherwise, a bright, fine set.

The Nonesuch Dickens is regarded as the definitive collected edition of Dickens’ works. In addition to the individual novels, the set includes two volumes of Collected Papers (miscellaneous articles and prefaces), three volumes of Letters (edited by Walter Dexter), and a volume of Reprinted Pieces (The Uncommercial Traveller and eight stories from the Illustrated Library Edition of 1875). Dreyfus 108. Gimbel D212. HBS 67078. $15,000 A Rare Advanced Issue of the First Printing 151. PARKMAN, Francis. The California and Oregon Trail:. Being Sketches of Prairie and Rocky Mountain Life. New York: George P. Putnam, 1849.

A rare advanced issue of the first printing. Octavo (7 5/16 x 4 7/8 inches; 185 x 125 mm). [2, blank], 2, publisher's ads, [3]-448, [2, blank] pp. This is a rare advanced issue, in a trial binding with blindstamping unlike the other issues. BAL mentions two known copies like this, of which this is believed to be one of. It is bound without the frontispiece and lithographic title-page as called for in BAL. There is a letter included in with this copy from the James E. Walsh, Harvard Library to the book's owner explaining that he believes this to be an advanced issue from Putnam.

Full publisher's dark brown blind-stamped cloth. Spine lettered in gilt and stamped in blind. Yellow coated endpapers. Scattered minor foxing to interior (as to be expected in an American book of this period). Corners and edges of boards with a small amount of rubbing. Overall an about fine copy of this rare issue. Chemised and housed in a blue cloth slipcase. BAL 15446. Grolier, 100 American, 58. Howes P97. Printing and the Mind of Man 327. Sabin 58801. Streeter. Wagner-Camp 170:1b. HBS 67098. $8,500 An Autographed Note, Signed By Maxfield Parrish 152. PARRISH, Maxfield. Autograph Note Signed. An autographed note, signed by Parrish on a 3 x 5 inch card. In his distinct hand it reads: "Dear Mr. Johnson:/As far as I can remember the books I/ have illustrated are about as follows:/ The Knave of Hearts: Louise Saunders./ Arabian Nights./ Italian Villas. Edith Wharton./ Mother Goose in Prose./ The Golden Age [and] Dream Days} Kenneth Grahame./ Poems of Childhood. Eugene Field./ M.P." And on the reverse of the note is his full name, signed "Maxfield Parrish" HBS 66041. $3,000 59 "The first example of French prose as we know it today"—PMM

153. [PASCAL, Blaise]. Les Provinciales: Or, The Mysterie of Jesuitisme. Discover'd in certain Letters, Written upon occasion of the present differences of Sorbonne, between the Jansenists and the Molinists, from January 1656 to March 1657. S.N. Displaying the corrupt Maximes and Politicks of that Society. Faithfully rendred into English. London: Printed by J.G. for R. Royston, 1657.

First edition in English (first printed in French at Cologne in 1656-7). Twelvemo. [24], 409, [1, blank], [6] pp. With preliminary blank, a post-script leaf referring to the seventeenth letter, and two final leaves of errata and advertisements. Added engraved title-page by Ro[bert] Vaughan.

Eighteenth-century paneled calf, neatly rebacked, retaining old morocco lettering label. Spine lettered in gilt with decorative gilt board-edges. Eighteenth-century armorial bookplate of John Hustler of Acklam mounted on verso of engraved title-page. Early ink notations at bottom of engraved title-page. Leaves Q thru Q12 have been affected by printer's ink, mostly just a little smudging; verso of Q10 is the only page where two lines of text have been affected. Apart from the few flaws, this is a fine copy of a very rare and famous work. Printing and the Mind of Man 140. Wing P643. HBS 66919. $2,000

Sydenham's Translation Of Plato

154. PLATO. Dialogues of Plato. [Translated by Floyer Sydenham]. London: Printed for W. Sandby, 1767, 1773.

First collected edition of Sydenham's translations. Eight (of thirteen) parts, in two volumes. Quarto. Engraved folding plate in Volume II. Each part containing special title-page (Except for Meno and The Rivals) and separate pagination.

Contemporary full tan calf, rebacked to style, gilt single-rule border on covers, gilt board-edges, marbled endpapers. Brown calf spine labels, lettered in gilt. Corners worn, and boards lightly scuffed. Occasional light foxing throughout. Previous owner's armorial bookplate on front paste-down of both volumes. A very good, crisp copy.

The dedication (in A Synopsis) to John, Earl Granville, is signed by Sydenham. Sydenham's translations, the first direct translations into English of most of the dialogues were first published separately (1759-1780) and subsequently collected, and are not commonly found complete. Lowndes, p. 1877. HBS 64500. $4,000 "An Encyclopaedia of all the Knowledge of the Ancient World"—Printing and the Mind of Man 155. PLINY, the Elder. The Historie of the World. London: 1634.

Second edition in English of Holland's translation of Pliny's famous Historia Naturalis, First issue, (Imprint: Adam Islip, 1634). Two folio volumes bound in one. Folio in sixes Two large woodcut printers device on each title, with numerous woodcut initials and decorations.

Contemporary gull mottled calf. Spine elaborately stamped in gilt. Black morocco spine label, lettered in gilt. Front outer hinge cracked but firm. Fore-edge margin occasionally trimmed close, just affecting page numbers and marginal notes. A bit of worming throughout with a bit of loss to text. Pages 221/222 and 223/224 in duplicate. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown of the Royal Meteorological Society, Symons Bequest, with a label below stating it was sold by their order. Overall a very nice copy. Printing and The Mind of Man, 5, and Thorndike I, chapter 2, pp. 41-72. HBS 67042. $6,000 60 First Collected Edition of Edgar Allan Poe

156. POE, Edgar Allan. The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe: With notices of his life and genius. By N.P. Willis, J.R. Lowell, and R.W. Griswold. In two volumes. New York: J.S. Redfield, 1850. [Together with:] The Literati: Some honest opinions about authorial merits and demerits, with occasional words of personality. Together with marginalia, suggestions, and essays. With a sketch of the author, by Rufus Wilmot Griswold. New-York: J.S. Redfield, 1850. [And:] The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe. With a memoir by Rufus Wilmot Griswold and notices of his life and genius by N.P. Willis and J.R. Lowell. In four volumes. New York: Redfield, 1856.

First collected edition. First edition, second issue of Volumes I, and II; First issue of Volume III; first and only printing of Volume IV. Four twelvemo volumes (octavo size; 7 1/4 x 4 1/2 inches; 185 x 115 mm). [4], xx, 483, [1, blank], [4, ads]; vi, [7]-495, [1, blank]; xxxix, [1, blank], 607, [1, blank]; xi, [1, blank], 447, [1, blank] plus [8] pp. of advertisements (numbered 1-4, 7-10). Engraved frontispiece portrait in Volume I.

Volumes I & II in original light purple cloth (BAL binding F). Covers blindstamped with a double rule frame, cornerpieces and ornate centerpiece. Spines blindstamped with simple rules, lettered in gilt, and with a gilt-stamped rule between the volume number and volume title. Cloth is a bit rubbed on these two volumes and uniformly sunned. A small amount of shelf-wear. A tiny hole to spine hinge of volume II. Volume III in blue cloth (BAL binding F) with matching blindstamping and gilt as the previous two volumes. A bit of edge and shelfwear. Spine sunned. Volume IV in original purple cloth (BAL binding H). Covers blindstamped with five-rule frame. Spine lettered in gilt and stamped in gilt with the bust of Athene and raven. Pale yellow endpapers. Spine sunned. Vols I-III with previous owner's pencil inscription on front free endpapers. Vol. IV with previous owner's old ownership stamp on title-page. A bit of light foxing throughout, bit overall a very good set. Each books chemised and housed together in a quarter morocco slipcase. Slipcase replicates the spines of four books. A bit of soiling to slipcase. BAL 16158, 16159, and 16161. HBS 66055. $5,000

Signed by Porter 157. PORTER, Eliot. Portfolio Two: Iceland. San Francisco: [1977].

First edition. Signed by the artist. Limited to 110 copies of which 100 were for sale. This being number 104. Photographs were taken in 1975, but Portfolio was published in 1977. Consisting of eleven (of twelve) 8 x 10 1/2 - inch dye-transfer color prints mounted on 20 x 15 inch heavy backing. 4pp. introductory text (by Porter) with list of plates. Tissue guards between each plate. Stamped on the verso of each mount states "Portfolio II, (Iceland), Eliot Porter, print number, and portfolio number, and Printed by the artist, Santa Fe, New Mexico 1975. A light line of toning across title-page. Photos and mounts about fine. Housed in publisher’s blue cloth string-tied folding case. Case with a bit of light scuffing. HBS 66056. $4,500

Photograph of Five Former Presidents, Signed 158. [PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES]. Color photograph of Five Former Presidents of the United States. Signed. Simi Valley: [November 4, 1991].

Large format color photograph of Five Former Presidents Signed by George H. W. Bush, Ronald Reagan. Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford and Richard Nixon. Photo measures 19 1/2 x 14 1/2 inches. Above their respective images is found the ink signatures of the five

Affixed to the back is a certificate of Authenticity from August 10, 2010 for the Autograph Store in Hackensack, New Jersey. Overall fine.

Photo was taken at the dedication ceremony of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library on November 4, 1991 at its Simi Valley location. HBS 66866. $7,500 61 One of 250 Signed Copies 159. [RACKHAM, Arthur, illustrator]. IRVING, Washington. Rip Van Winkle. With Drawings by Arthur Rackham. London: William Heinemann, 1905.

Edition de Luxe. Limited to 250 copies, numbered and signed by the artist, of which this is number 145. Large quarto. viii, 57, [1, blank], [1], [1, printer’s imprint] pp. Color frontispiece and fifty color plates mounted on heavy brown paper, with descriptive tissue guards, the plates collected after the text.

Original vellum over boards decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt on front cover and spine. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Silk ties. An extremely fine copy.

“The 1st book illustrated wholly by Rackham to be issued in a limited edition” (Riall). Latimore and Haskell, p. 26. HBS 67000. $6,500

Limited Edition of “The Wind in the Willows” 160. [RACKHAM, Arthur, illustrator]. GRAHAME, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows. Introduction by A.A. Milne. London: Methuen & Co., [1951].

First English Rackham edition. Limited to 500 numbered copies, printed on handmade paper, of which thisis number 207. Large quarto. xii, 178 pp. Twelve mounted color plates (including frontispiece), twelve black and white vignette chapter headings, and three other black and white drawings.

Original full white calf, gilt-stamped on spine, top edge gilt, others uncut. Edges bumped, the slightest of rubbing to top and bottom of spine. Otherwise, near fine in original publisher's slipcase with printed paper label mounted on. Slipcase with tape repair. HBS 67070. $2,500

Ricardo’s Bullion Plan Inscribed by the Author

161. RICARDO, David. Proposals for an Economical and Secure Currency; with Observations on the Profits of the Bank of England, as They Regard the Public and the Proprietors of Bank Stock. London: Printed for John Murray, 1816.

First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title: “From the Author.” Octavo. [4], 126, [1, blank], [1, printer’s imprint], [4, advertisements] pp.

Modern antique-style calf. Occasional light foxing. Housed in a custom full brown morocco clamshell, gilt-stamped.

“In August 1815…P. Grenfell, an influential speaker on financial questions, asked Ricardo to help him in his Parliamentary battle against what he regarded as the excessive profits of the Bank of England. Ricardo, who thought the Bank as ‘an unnecessary establishment getting rich by those profits which fairly belong to the public’…responded positively and by September had written a pamphlet, Proposals for an Economical and Secure Currency, which was published in February 1816, shortly before the debate on Grenfell’s motion on the Bank. This pamphlet contained a detailed account of his plan to make the Bank of England resume cash payments by making its notes convertible to gold ingots, instead of coins. This would have allowed Britain to go back to the gold standard, but to use paper as the actual means of payments. This plan Ricardo had first outlined in the Appendix to The High Price of Bullion, and submitted to both Government and Opposition…It was to receive much attention in 1819, when the decision was taken to return to a gold standard, and it was in fact adopted, and implemented in 1821, when the resumption of cash payments actually took place…It gave Ricardo a long-lasting fame” (The New Palgrave IV, pp. 184-185).

This is a particularly scarce pamphlet. The last copy to come up at auction was in 1979. We located no other inscribed copies of any Ricardo title at auction, going back to 1915. Kress B.6787. Goldsmiths’ 21537. Franklin and Legman, p. 3. HBS 66874. $15,000 62 First Edition of the First Announcement of the Discovery of X-Rays 162. RÖNTGEN, Wilhelm Conrad. Eine Neue Art von Strahlen. Von Dr. Wilhelm Konrad Röntgen. 2. Auflage.Würzburg: Verlag und Druck der Stahel'schen K. Hof- Und Universitats- Buch- Und Kunsthandlung, 1895.

First edition. Octavo. 10, [2, blank] pp.

Original buff printed wrappers. Wrappers toned with two vertical creases. Small ownership inscription on front wrapper. Otherwise, near fine. Housed in a half morocco clamshell.

"While performing experiments with a Crookes vacuum tube, a type of cathode-ray tube, Röntgen observed that some agent produced in the tube was causing barium platinocyanide crystals to fluorescence was caused by unknown rays (which he named "x-rays") originating from the spot where cathode rays hit the glass wall of the vacuum tube. He announced his discovery in the present paper, which described the rays' photographic properties and their amazing ability to penetrate all substances, even living flesh. Although he was unable to determine the true physical nature of the rays, Röntgen was certain that he had discovered something entirely new, a belief soon confirmed by the work of other scientists such as Becquerel, Laue and the Curies. for his discovery, Röntgen was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for 1901." —Haskell Norman Collection, 1841. Norman Library, 1841. PMM 380 HBS 66964. $12,500 An Exquisite Copy of the First Edition of Rousseau’s Confessions 163. ROUSSEAU, J[ean]-J[acques]. Les Confessions de J.J. Rousseau, suivies des Rêveries du promeneur solitaire. Geneva: 1782.

First edition of the first six books of the Confessions and first edition of all of the Reveries of a Solitary Walker. Two works in two octavo volumes [4], 471, [1, blank]; [4], 279, [1, blank], 300 pp. Woodcut head-pieces. Bound with both half-titles.

Contemporary full marbled calf; smooth spines with fillets, flourishes, and fleurons elaborately tooled in gilt; gilt red and brown morocco lettering pieces; all edges dyed red. A contemporary engraved bookplate to the front pastedowns, else an exceptionally clean and bright copy in an exquisite contempoary binding. HBS 65349. $6,500 ”Rousseau’s Most Explicit Contribution to Economic Thought”

164. ROUSSEAU, Jean-Jacques. Discours sur l’œconomie politique. Geneva: 1758.

First separate edition (first published in 1755 in the Encyclopédie with title “Economie politique”). Octavo. iv, 75, [1, blank] pp. Woodcut device on title, decorative woodcut head- and tail-piece and initial. “Rousseau’s most explicit contribution to economic thought, a contribution to the Encyclopédie entitled ‘Economie politique’ (vol. v, 1755), significantly preceded publication of the earliest published statement of the Physiocrats, Quesnay’s Maximes générales du gouvernement économique d’un royaume agricole (1758), and their positions on important issues of property and to a lesser extent taxation bear comparison but are by not means identical...The Economie discusses the relations between the family and the State. The discussions of both the family and the law would later reappear almost verbatim in Rousseau’s more mature political statement, the Contrat social (1762). More importantly, the Economie also reproduces the essence of his earlier Lockean considerations on the right of property and a lengthy discussion, comprising more than a third of the entire essay, of the problem of taxation” (The New Palgrave). [Bound (as the second work) together with:]

ROUSSEAU, Jean-Jacques. J.J. Rousseau citoyen de Genève, a Mr. D’Alembert...Sur son article Genève dans le VIIme. Volume de l’Encyclopédie, et particulierement, sur le projet d’établir un théatre de comédie en cette ville. Amsterdam: 1758.

Contemporary French mottled calf. Covers ruled in blind, spine decoratively tooled in gilt in compartments, with red morocco gilt lettering label, board edges decoratively tooled in gilt, edges stained red, marbled endpapers. Minor wear to top of spine and one corner. Very minor marginal dampstaining to a couple of leaves. A superb copy of these scarce works. No copy of the Discours has sold at auction in the last thirty years. HBS 66812. $8,500 63 "The Adventures of Johnny Newcome in the Navy" Uncut in Original Boards 165. ROWLANDSON, Thomas, [illustrator]. BURTON, Alfred. The Adventures of Johnny Newcome in the Navy;. A poem, in four canto: with plates by Rowlandson, from the author's designs. By Alfred Burton. London: W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1818.

First edition. Octavo. 18pp, adverts., 259pp. (Measures 8 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches). With sixteen hand- colored aquatint plates, including frontispiece. Original drab boards, printed paper label on spine. Bound with sixteen page advertisements in front. Edges bumped and spine extremities rubbed. A very good uncut copy. Housed in a custom full teal morocco solander case by Zucker. Abbey, Life, 330. Tooley 406. HBS 66884. $1,250

First Edition in Original Wrappers

166. [SAGE, Rufus B.] Scenes in the Rocky Mountains, and in Oregon, California, New Mexico, Texas, and the Grand Prairies; or Notes by the Way, During an Excursion of Three Years, with a Description of the Countries Passed Through, Including their Geography, Geology, Resources, Present Condition, and the Different Nations Inhabitind Them. By a New Englander. Philadelphia: Carey & Hart, 1846.

First edition without author's name on title-page (later editions contain author's name on the title-page). Twelvemo (7 3/8 x 4 1/2 inches; 187 x 114 mm). xii, 13-303 pp. With folding map.

This copy was sold at the Seibert sale in 1999 for $11,500. It is the only copy in wrappers, with the folding map to sell at auction since 1979.

In original yellow printed wrappers. Wrappers a bit soiled, and chipped. Previous owner's old ink inscription on front wrapper, and a mark from a removed label on front wrapper. Back wrapper with dampstaining. Top and bottom inch of spine chipped. Title a bit toned and upper corner missing less than a thumb nail size piece, not affecting text. Light dampstaining to the lower outer corner of the first several leaves. A small tear to outer margin of the map, not affecting the map. Still an excellent copy of the first edition of this book, particularly since "all editions are somewhat scarce" (Cowan). With the very rare folding map, usually lacking. Chemised and housed in a quarter red slipcase.

[Together with]:

An Autograph Letter Signed. 1 page,(9 3/4 x 7 7/8 inches; 249 x 199 mm) New York, October 20 1845

Written by "F.Saunders" to Sage, informing him that Harper & Brothers will not be able to publish Scenes in the Rocky Mountains,

"N York Oct 20/45/ Dear Sir, /I am instructed by Mrss Harper & Brothers/ to acknowledge reciept of your [?] of the 7th [?]/ and express their regret that the pressure of existing/ engagements render it impossible [?] for them to avail/ themselves of your kind offer of your proposed work/Doubtless such a work well executed would be very/ acceptable to the public at this moment when/ the public eye is directed to the [?] land of the Californias./ Repectfully yours/ F. Saunders./R.B. Sage Esq./ Upper Middletown Conn./Paine & Burgess of this city would doubtless be likely to meet your views"

"Sage's map seems not to have been completed until after many copies of the early issues in wrappers had been distributed. Collectors, however, insist on its presence" (Howes). Cowan, p. 197. Howes S-16. Sabin 74892. Streeter 3049. Graff, 3633. HBS 65224. $16,500

64 Hirschfeld's Harlem Caricatures 167. SAROYAN, William. HIRSCHFELD, Albert, [artist]. Harlem as Seen by Hirschfeld. New York: 1941.

First edition, limited to 1,000 numbered copies. This being number 501. 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 handmade 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. A bit of darkening to bottom right hand corner and bottom of spine. A fine copy complete with twenty-four wonderful illustrations. HBS 66947. $3,500 First Edition, First Issue in Boards, Uncut 168. [SCOTT, Sir Walter]. Ivanhoe; A Romance. By “The Author of Waverley,” &c. In Three Volumes. Edinburgh: 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. Block, p. 209. Grolier, 100 English, 71. Todd and Bowden, Sir Walter Scott, 140Aa. Van Antwerp 9. Worthington 8. HBS 65268. $7,500 With Twenty-four Lithographs, Each Signed by Shahn 169. SHAHN, Ben, [artist]. RILKE, Rainer Maria. For the Sake of a Single Verse. New York: Atelier Mourlot, 1968.

First edition. One of 200 copies, signed by Shahn out of a total edition of 950. This being number eighteen. Complete with twenty-four lithographs, on Richard de Bas hand-made paper, each signed by the artist. Large folio.

Lithographs are loose as issued. Housed in a half vellum over cloth clamshell. Clamshell is embossed on the front with an image of a hand with a pen. Spine of the clamshell lettered in gilt. A fine copy.

"I had now long ago found in Rilke the passage that came to mean so much to me. He was a writer about the processes of art who was not telling me what to do, what to think, how to paint. No; he was too engrossed in his own discoveries. He was sharing with me the doubts and the hesitations of art, the probings, the slow emergence of forms. His every line of writing was art, and yet such art was inseparable from its life content. No manifesto could ever tell me more clearly than this one paragraph of Rilke's that art is an emanation from a person; that it is shaped and formed out of the shape and form of that person. In being so acutely personal to him it achieves also a rare universality. Rilke is speaking, (is he not?) to the innermost recesses of the consciousness, an area in which we spend so much of our time and expend so much of our feeling, and yet an area that is so remote from communication with our fellow-beings, an area that is, unhappily, increasingly remote from the reaches of art. " (From the Afterward by Ben Shahn). HBS 66038. $13,500 65 From the Fourth Folio 170. [SHAKESPEARE, William]. The First part of Henry IV, with the life and Death of Henry. Sirnamed Hot-Spur. [Together with] The Second Part of Henry IV, Containing his Death: and Coronation of King Henry V. [London: 1685].

Extracted from the Fourth Folio. Folio (13 1/8 x 8 3/8 inches; 332 x 213 mm) [24] leaves, pages 41-87 [88].

Modern quarter calf over marbled boards. Spine lettered in gilt. Minimal spotting and toning to leaves. Each leaf has been reinforced along the fore-edge. The final leaf with a repair to the top edge and a small hole, professionally repaired. A few minor closed tears, professionally repaired, not affecting text. Overall very nice. HBS 65468. $2,500 “Incomparably The Most Important Work In The English Language” The Fourth Folio Edition of 'Shakespeare’s Plays' A Beautiful Tall Copy 171. SHAKESPEAR[E], William. Mr. William Shakespear’s Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies. Published according to the true Original Copies. Unto which is added, Seven Plays, Never before Printed in Folio: viz. Pericles Prince of Tyre. The London Prodigal. The History of Thomas Lord Cromwel. Sir John Oldcastle Lord Cobham. The Puritan Widow. A Yorkshire Tragedy. The Tragedy of Locrine. The Fourth Edition. London: Printed for H. Herringman, E. Brewster, and R. Bentley, 1685.

The Fourth Folio edition of Shakespeare’s plays, first state of the imprint (without Chiswell’s name). Tall copy. Large folio (14 1/2 x 9 1/4 inches; 368 x 233 mm). [12], 96, 99-160, 163-254, 243 [i.3. 253]-272, [1], [1, blank], 328, 303, [3, blank] pp. (page 33 is numbered 23, 107 is numbered 109, 109 is 111, 190 is 186, 191 is 187, 219 is 221, 246 is 234, 253 repeated is 243, and 67 is 76). Engraved frontispiece portrait of Shakespeare by Martin Droeshout, with ten-line poem by Ben Jonson, entitled “To the Reader,” underneath. Woodcut printer’s device on title-page (McKerrow 263). Decorative woodcut initials.

A large copy in contemporary full mottled calf, rebacked to style. With spine label, lettered in gilt. Boards stamped in blind. All edges speckled red. With quite generous margins. Small repaired closed tear on leaf F, barely affecting text. Occasional light soiling and a few small stains to title-page. A few tiny holes to leaves G2, affecting one letter and Cccc2 affecting two letters. A light dampstain to bottom outer corner of signature F. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown. Overall a beautiful copy of this important book. Housed in a custom 19th-century full morocco clamshell.

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.

First issue, without Richard Chiswell listed in the imprint, as he was listed on the second issue (the third issue lists Herringman alone). For this fourth edition Shakespeare’s text was assigned to three different printers (one of whom has since been identified as Robert Roberts), who typeset their sections simultaneously, thus shortening the time it took to get to market. When the work was finished and the three sections of printed sheets collated, there was a shortage of 17 sheets from the second section (for the full press run), which were hastily reprinted without the characteristic borders around the text. Copies have been found with these second state sheets. In the copy offered here all of the sheets are in the original settings and with the borders.

A second anomaly distinguishes this edition: “The copy for this edition was divided among several shops. Some miscalculation apparently occurred so that the equivalent of about one column of additional matter had to be crowded into Sig L [pp. 123/124] which is therefore printed in a much smaller type than the rest of the volume” (Pforzheimer).

Although there is no accurate census of the number of folios still extant today, it is believed that copies of each printing number only in the hundreds. Shakespeare’s portrait is in the fourth state, as issued, with verses below (see Blayney, 19).

The folios are “incomparably the most important work in the English language” (William A. Jackson). Because of their incalculable impact on the language, thought and literature of our world, they are among the most desirable of all English language books, the prizes of any collection. Bartlett 123A. Greg III, p. 1119. Jaggard, p. 497. Pforzheimer 910. Wing S2915. HBS 67106. $225,000

66 A Leaf from Each of Shakespeare’s Four Folios 172. SHAKESPEARE, William. Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: A Leaf from Each of the Four Folios.“The Second Part of King Henry the Fourth” (pp. 75/76 in the First Folio of 1623); “The Tragedy of Julius Caesar” (pp. 137/138 in the Second Folio of 1632); “The Tragedy of Cymbeline” (pp. 869/870 in the Third Folio of 1664); and “All's Well That End's Well” (pp. 225/226 in the Fourth Folio of 1685). [London: 1623, 1632, 1664, 1685].

Four leaves, the first measuring 12 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches (318 x 210 mm), the second leaf measuring 13 3/16 x 8 1/2 inches (335 x 215 mm), the third leaf measuring 12 5/8 x 8 5/8 inches (320 x 220 mm), the fourth leaf measuring 13 x 8 3/8 inches (331 x 211 mm). Some light foxing and trimming. Evidence at inner margins of having been removed from a binding. Professional edge repair to Third leaf, not affecting text. Second leaf with some darkening to edges. Housed together in a folding paper portfolio. A wonderful addition to any Shakespeare collection. Jaggard,. Shaksperiana,. HBS 66789. $2,850 First Illustrated & First Octavo Edition, With the Seventh Volume of the "Poems" 173. 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 (7 7/16 x 4 1/2 inches; 188 x 114 mm). With forty-six engraved plates

including portrait frontispiece in volume I, without the frontis portrait in the other volumes which is often the case since they are all the same portrait. According to Ford, it is only essential in the first volume. 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.

Uniformly bound in early 19th century tree calf. Spines with red morocco spine labels, stamped and lettered in gilt. Boards ruled in gilt. Board edges stamped in blind. Top margin is trimmed close, occasionally affecting the headline and page number. The volume title-page of volume I is attached by a stub. Signature "a" in volume I is a bit sprung. Occasional toning and spotting. Some old ink marginalia throughout. Front outer hinge to volume I repaired. Outer hinges to most volumes show cracks, but firm. A bit of wear to head caps. Previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown of each volume. Overall a very handsome set. Chemised and housed in two uniform cloth slipcases.

Ebisch and Schücking, p. 53. Ford, pp. 9-10. Jaggard p. 497, “In importance and interest, this edition ranks second perhaps to the editio princeps.” Shaksperiana, Part III, 6. HBS 67113. $25,000

67 A Contradictory Complement to Smith’s “Wealth of Nations” 174. [SMITH, Adam]. [GRAY, John]. The Essential Principles of the Wealth of Nations, Illustrated, in Opposition to Some False Doctrines of Dr. Adam Smith, and Others. London: Printed for T. Becket, 1797.

First edition. Octavo (8 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches; 223 x 138 mm). [1]-144, [8, Appendix], [2, blank] pp.

Original drab boards, rebacked with newer pale blue cloth. Newer printed paper label on front cover and spine. Newer endpapers. Pages uncut. Leaf G5 with a three-inch closed tear, with no loss of text partially professionally repaired. Occasional light marginal pencil markings. And some occasional light toning and marginal dampstaining. Boards a bit soiled and bumped. Overall a very nice copy.

The appendix at the rear consists of a general plan of a lease by Lord Kaimes, with some remarks upon it by Dr. Anderson, in his agricultural report for the county of Aberdeen. Lord Kaimes, Henry Home, was Adam Smith’s literary patron. ESTC T95118. Goldsmiths’ 16913. Kress B.3399. HBS 67065. $3,500

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

175. SMITH, Adam. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. London: W. Strahan; and T. Cadell, 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. Almost invisibly restored at outer hinges, and headcaps but not rebacked. 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. Kress 7261. Printing and the Mind of Man 221. Rothschild 1897. Sabin 82303. HBS 65988. $185,000 Fair Copy of "America" in Author's Hand Along with a Signed Photograph 176. SMITH, Samuel (1808-1895) American Clergyman & Writer. Autograph Manuscript Signed. America Dated July, 15 1891. (Originally written in 1832). Along with signed portrait, 1890.

Two pages, four stanzas, signed and dated by Smith. Page 2 has some soiling to right margin and weakness in the fold lines and some toning. Very good. Along with a cabinet photograph dated 1890, signed by Smith. Photograph by C.D. Mosher, Chicago. (Measures 5 7/16 x 3 7/8 inches).

Originally written in 1823 and first performed on July 4, 1831 at a Children’s Independence Day celebration in Boston and first published by Lowell Mason in The Choirin 1832. This very important piece of Americana served as one of the national anthems of the United States before the adoption of “The Star Spangled Banner” in 1931. HBS 66715. $1,850 68 A Wonderful Collection of Exquisite, Highly-Detailed Original Drawings for Stanley's 'In Darkest Africa'

177. STANLEY, Henry M. [association]. RIOU, Edouard [artist]. [Collection of five original pencil, pen and ink and gray wash drawings on tinted paper or wooden blocks, from In Darkest Africa]. [N.p.: n.d., circa1890].

Each drawing measures 6 3/8 x 4 1/8 inches; 162 x 105mm. Each is either drawn on a wooden block or the paper is mounted on a wooden block, glazed and held together with black tape. The blocks measure 7 3/8 x 5 1/16 inches; 187 x 129 mm. The original drawings by Riou for plates in Stanley's account of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition, In Darkest Africa, published in 1890.

Housed in a full morocco clamshell case. Case spine lettered in gilt. Case with respective prints of the drawings, chemised and housed with the blocks. The block of Scouts Discover The Pigmies Carrying Away The Case Of Ammunition, with glazing separated from print. Overall an excellent collection. Provenance: The Henry Morton Stanley Collection, Christie's, 24 Sept. 2002, lot 87. HBS 65227. $13,500

With Eighty-Three Plates and Maps, of Which Sixteen are Engraved by Blake 178. 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; from the year 1772, to 1777:... London: Printed by J. Johnson, 1796.

First edition, among Blake's finest work as a book illustrator. Two quarto volumes 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. This copy with a faint "Blake" signature in Volume 1 vignette on the title-page, bottom left just above the protruding cannon, which is not present in volume 2. Later editions do not have this.

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. Ray England 2.HBS 66086. $6,500

True First Edition of "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" in the Scarce Original Wrappers

179. STEVENSON, Robert Louis. Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Authorized Edition. New York: 1886.

First edition. (This American edition preceded the English edition by four days, but used the Longmans sheets). Small octavo. [8], 138, [2, blank], [14, advertisements] pp.

Original printed yellow wrappers, just slightly skewed. Spine repaired, with about a quarter inch of loss to the bottom. A nice copy of a book that usually shows up in poor condition. Housed in a black cloth clamshell case with black morocco labels lettered in gilt on spine.

This “Authorized” American edition was published on 5 January 1886—four days before the London edition (Longmans had intended to publish in December 1885, but delayed publication until January, as it feared the book would be lost in the Christmas rush). Even though Scribner’s issued 3,000 copies in wrappers and 1,250 copies in cloth, the copy in wrappers is much scarcer since it's more fragile and most likely not saved. Beinecke 346. Prideaux, 17, p. 45. HBS 67112. $7,500

69 The First Edition, First Issue of "Treasure Island" 180. STEVENSON, Robert Louis. Treasure Island. London: Cassell & Company, 1883.

First edition, first issue. Octavo (7 x 4 5/8 inches; 178 x 116 mm). viii, 292 pp. plus 4 pp. advertisements, “dated 5G-783” (the advertisements do not list Treasure Island). With the following 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 missing from 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. Frontispiece map of Treasure Island printed in three colors.

Handsomely bound by Bayntun-Riviére is full navy morocco with gilt fillet borders, spine compartments paneled stamped and lettered in gilt. Gilt board edges, turn-ins with gilt fillet rules ties by foliate corner pieces, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. With the original red cloth covers and spine bound in at the end. A very attractive presentation of this perennial adventure favorite. Beinecke 240-241. Gumuchian 5443. Morgan Library, Early Children’s Books and Their Illustration, 206. Osborne Collection II, p. 1030. Prideaux 11. HBS 66096. $5,000 An Exceptional First Edition of "Treasure Island"

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

First edition, first issue: “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 not present in the pagination on p. 83; the “7” is larger and bolder in pagination on p. 127; the period is lacking following “opportunity” in line 20 of p. 178; "worst" is mispelled as "worse" in the third line of p 197. Octavo. viii, 292 pp. plus 4 pp. advertisements, “dated 5G-783” (the advertisements do not list Treasure Island). Frontispiece map of Treasure Island printed in three colors.

Original sage green diagonal fine-ribbed cloth with covers ruled in blind and spine ruled and lettered in gilt. Original black coated endpapers. Previous owner's bookplate, headcap and tailcap slightly bumped, hinges expertly and almost invisibly repaired. Near fine. Housed in a red cloth clamshell.

“Treasure Island established itself as a classic, drawing plaudits from the widest range of literary sensibilities. In 1890 W.B. Yeats wrote to tell [Stevenson] that the book was the only one in which his seafaring grandfather had ever taken any pleasure and that he reread it on his deathbed with infinite satisfaction.’’ (Frank McLynn, Robert Louis Stevenson, p. 203). Beinecke 240-241. Gumuchian 5443. Morgan Library, Early Children’s Books and Their Illustration, 206. Osborne Collection II, p. 1030. Prideaux 11. HBS 67099. $25,000 First Edition of Dracula in Original Cloth 182. STOKER, Bram. Dracula. Westminster: Archibald Constable and Company, [June] 1897.

First edition, later issue (probably third, circa Dec. 1897). Octavo

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.

The bibliographical research on this very important title is surprisingly meager, but the following sequence is agreed upon among the most experienced dealers who have handled many copies of the book: first issue without the Shoulder of Shasta ad on p. [392]; second issue with this ad but no catalogue inserted at back; third issue with Shoulder of Shasta ad on p. [392] and the catalogue seen here (with no general date but clearly from 1897 [see bottom of page 7]); and fourth issue with inserted catalogue dated 1898. Variances in paper stock are not issue points. HBS 65726. $7,500 70 First Edition of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” in the Original Cloth 183. STOWE, Harriet Beecher. Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly. Boston: John P. Jewett & Company, 1852.

First edition, first printing, (without "Geo. C. Rand & Co. , printers" which appears only on later printings). Two twelvemo volumes. [iii]-x, [13]-312; iv, [5]-322, [2, blank] pp. (correct collation). Wood-engraved title vignettes and six wood-engraved plates.

Original brown fine-ribbed cloth (BAL binding B) with covers and spines decoratively stamped in blind, front covers pictorially stamped in gilt, and spines ruled and lettered in gilt. Original cream coated endpapers. Cloth neatly strengthened at spine extremiites, hairline fracture to front cover of vol. 1 but very sound, previous owner's bookplate on front pastedowns. A very good copy. Individually chemised and housed together in a quarter brown morocco slipcase. Uncle Tom’s Cabin is the only American novel to be included in Printing and the Mind of Man. BAL 19343. Grolier, 100 American, 61. Grolier, 100 English, 91. Hildreth, p. 8. Printing and the Mind of Man 332. HBS 67107. $4,500

First Edition

184. SUCKLING, John. Fragmenta Aurea. A Collection of all the Incomparable Peeces, Written by Sir John Suckling. And Published by a Friend to Perpetuate His Memory. London: Printed for Humphrey Moseley, 1646.

First edition. Octavo. A large copy, with separate title-pages for each of the various poems and plays, all dated 1646. With a fine portrait of Suckling by William Marshall.

Bound in old sheep, rebacked, with the original spine laid down, corners renewed. Previous owner's bookplates. H. Bradley Martin bookplate in box. Housed in a brown cloth clamshell case. A very nice, clean copy. HBS 66935. $1,750

Limited Signed "Rufino Tamayo" With Two Original Aquatints, One Signed by Tamayo

185. TAMAYO, Rufino, [artist]. GOLDWATER, Robert. Rufino Tamayo. By Robert Goldwater. New York: Quadrangle Press, 1947.

Limited, signed edition. Limited to 75 copies (of 80 total) of which this is number 46, signed by Tamayo and Goldwater. With an original signed aquatint at rear pocket and an unsigned aquatint as frontispiece, each on Velin de Hollande. Folio. (12 x 9 inches). 131 pp. Quarter blue calf over crimson cloth, lettered in red on spine and blue on front cover. Spine sunned with a bit of wrinkling to top and bottom. Publisher's original cardboard slipcase with paper color illustration mounted on front board. Box lightly scuffed. A very good copy.

Rufino Tamayo (1899-1991) A Mexican painter who combined modern European painting styles with Mexican folk themes...Tamayo spent many years of his career in New York City, first settling there from 1926 to 1928. He retained his ties to Mexico and returned there often, but the modern art he encountered in New York—especially the paintings of European artists Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, and Henri Matisse—profoundly influenced his work. Tamayo reacted against the epic proportions and political rhetoric of the paintings of the Mexican muralists, who had dominated the country’s art production since the Mexican Revolution. Instead, he chose to address formal and aesthetic issues in easel paintings, fusing European styles such as Cubism and Surrealism with subject matter that often involved Mexican culture..." (Britannica) HBS 66880. $4,500

71 “One of the Most Important Texts in Political Literature,” with a Presentation Inscription by the Author 186. TOCQUEVILLE, Alexis de. De la démocratie en Amérique, par Alexis de Tocqueville, avocat à la cour royale de Paris, l’un des auteurs du livre intitulé: Du système penitentiaire aux États-Unis. Orné d'une carte d’Amérique. Paris: 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. [4], xxiv, 367, [1, blank]; [4], 459, [1, blank]; [4], v, [3], 333, [1, blank]; [4], 363, [1, blank] pp. 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.

One of the most penetrating political and social analyses of the United States ever written, De la démocratie en Amérique is based on Tocqueville’s travels through America in 1831 and 1832 in company with Gustave Auguste de Beaumont. Charged by the French government to study the prison system of the United States, the two officials made a sweeping tour of the west and south after completing their penal studies in the east, visiting Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Louisiana, Alabama, the Carolinas, Virginia, West Virginia, and Washington, D.C.

En Français dans le texte 253. Howes T278. Sabin 96060 and 96061. No inscribed copies of this have come up at auction in the last thirty years. HBS 65329. $65,000

First Edition of “War and Peace” 187. 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. Kilgour 1195. HBS 66271. $37,500

72 44 First Edition Titles by Trollope

188. TROLLOPE, Anthony. Collection of Works. London: [1869-77]. 90 octavo volume, 43 titles. All first editions. Handsomely bound for Southern by Riviere in an art noveu style binding. Half blue morocco over blue cloth. Elaborately gilt-stamped on spines. Top edge gilt. A few headcaps repaired and a few covers have been professionally re-attached. Overall, a very handsome set. HBS 66829. $22,500

The Publisher's Prospectus for Huckleberry Finn in Fine Condition 189. TWAIN, Mark. [Publisher’s Prospectus for:] Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885.

First state, with list of illustrations with "him and another man" listed on page. 88. Octavo. With sample text, illustrations, and order sheets, including the rare braodside. Publisher’s morocco and sheep backstrip samples affixed to front pastedown, with cloth spine design stamped on rear board.

Original green cloth, decoratively gilt- and black-stamped boards. Usual offsetting on front free endpaper from backstrip samples, spine lightly bumped and rubbed on top and bottom. An unusually bright, fine copy of this very scarce item in first state with the rare broadside. HBS 67105. $15,000

The Rare First American Edition, First issue of Tom Sawyer 190. TWAIN, Mark. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Hartford: The American Publishing Company, 1876.

First American edition, first printing on wove paper. Octavo. [i-xi]xii-xiii[xiv-xv]xvi, [17]18-274[-276], [4]pp. ads. Illustrated.

Original blue cloth, blocked and lettered in black and gilt. Original peach endpapers. Triple flyleaves. Half-title on separate leaf, wood engraved frontispiece and numerous text vignettes by True Williams and others, two leaves of publisher’s ads at end. Small split near bottom of spine. Overall, a very nice copy of a title rarely seen in the first issue. Housed in a custom blue cloth slipcase.

First American edition, issued some six months after Chatto and Windus’s London edition. First printing, with points: printed on wove paper; versos of half-title and preface blank. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is now thought of a juvenile classic, though when it was written, it was an attempt by Twain to appeal to the current vogue for local-color fiction. In contrast to his earlier satirical work, this is a nostalgic and sentimental story based on the author’s own youth in an antebellum river town” (Lilly/ Karanovich). References: Lilly/Karanovich 90; BAL 3369; Grolier/American 79; Johnson p. 27; Peter Parley to Penrod 43. BAL 3369. HBS 67100. $30,000 First American Edition of “Huck Finn,” Later Issue 191. TWAIN, Mark. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade). With one hundred and seventy-four illustrations. New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885.

First American edition, later issue. In the publisher’s rare green cloth pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt and black on front cover and spine. Minor rubbing to corners and extremities, especially on top and bottom of spine, previous owner's bookplate. A fine copy. BAL 3415. Grolier, 100 American, 87. Johnson, Twain, pp. 43-50. McBride, pp. 92-112. HBS 67091. $6,000

73 First American of the Blue Cloth Edition of “Huck Finn,” Early Issue 192. TWAIN, Mark. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade). With one hundred and seventy-four illustrations. New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885.

First American edition, early issue, with the following points: the title-page is a cancel, with the copyright notice dated 1884 (BAL second state, with the first state only noted in publisher’s prospectuses and advanced sheets); p. [13], the illustration captioned “Him and another Man” is incorrectly listed as at p. 88 (BAL first state); p. 57, the eleventh line from the bottom reads “with the was” instead of “with the saw” (BAL first state); p. 283 is a cancel, with the engraving redone and the line indicating the fly on Silas Phelps’s trousers a straight vertical line (BAL third state, the earliest known to appear in cloth- bound copies of the book); p. 155, the final “5” in the pagination is lacking (BAL first state); the frontispiece portrait has the imprint of the Heliotype Printing Co. and the tablecloth, or scarf, on which the bust rests is clearly visible (BAL first state). Octavo. 366 pp. Inserted frontispiece portrait and wood-engraved text illustrations. First American of the Blue Cloth Edition of “Huck Finn,” Early Issue

In the publisher’s rare blue cloth pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt and black on front cover and spine. Minor rubbing to corners and extremities, especially on top and bottom of spine. Occasional minor soiling. An excellent copy. BAL 3415. Grolier, 100 American, 87. Johnson, Twain, pp. 43-50. McBride, pp. 92-112. HBS 67093. $12,500

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

193. 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.

With this work Veblen also launched a radical critique of conventional economics, which he viewed as an assemblage of intellectual fictions, out of touch with economic reality-and worse, used to camouflage injustice in the name of natural laws. In place of traditional theory, Veblen introduced the concept of "Institutionalism," according to which economic behavior is conditioned by particular cultural value systems. Veblen's challenge to conventional economic analysis achieved immediate and lasting influence. But unlike such Institutionalists as Commons and Ely, Veblen offered no program of practical reform. For Veblen change was at best evolutionary and impersonal, dependent at this historical moment on the rise of a new class of technocrats whose predilection for rational efficiency might replace the pecuniary values of the captains of industry. "One of the most provocative books written by an American intellectual" (Adams, Radical Literature, 59). Grolier, 100 American, 100. HBS 66008. $4,000

74 Fourth Edition and Third Folio Edition

194. 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.

"Fine American medical provenance: John Hill Brinton (1832-1907) was a prominent American surgeon from Philadelphia and friend of painter Thomas Eakins. He succeeded Dr. Samuel D. Gross (who was featured in Thomas Eakins' The Gross Clinic), in the chair of surgery at Jefferson College, and also served as the chairman of the Mütter Museum Committee of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. He also founded the Philadelphia Pathological Society, and served as the first curator of the National Museum of Health and Medicine in Washington, D.C." (Christie's NY 12/7/12) Adams V606. Choulant/Frank, pp.182. Cushing, Vesalius, VI.A.-4. Osler 569. NLM/Durling 4580. Printing and the Mind of Man 71 (first edition). Waller 9902. HBS 66126. $18,500 With Over One Hundred Beautiful Sixteenth Century Woodcut Illustrations

195. 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.

A notably clean and attractive copy of the 1544 Venice edition of Virgil's Opera, this compilation is impressive not only for its comprehensiveness, including versions of The Aeneid, Georgics, and Eclogues, but also its copious accomplished woodcuts, the majority of which are half- to nearly full-page illustrations. The woodcuts are closely based on those of the Grüninger edition which was published in Strasbourg om 1502, and may have possibly been printed using the same blocks (Adams, T371).

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

75 A Special Copy With More Photos Than Any Other Known Copy

196. VISCHER, [Edward]. Pictorial of California. Landscape. Trees and Forest Scene. Grand Features of California Scenery, Life, Traffic and Customs.San Francisco: Joseph Winterburn & Co., 1870-1872. [Album]: First edition, later and best issue with nearly double the amounts of plates of the first issue. Large quarto (13 7/16 x 12 inches; 343 x 305 mm). With 209 photographs on 202 plates. Printed in red, brown, purple and gold. First mounted photo is a map of California, followed by " Sixty Views of California" with sixty numbered plates. Followed by twenty- eight unnumbered plates titled "Trees and Forest Scenes," followed by eighteen unnumbered plates entitled "Supplement. Grand Features and Characteristic Ranges of California Scenery," followed by ninety-six unnumbered plates entitled "Review of California's Progress...Mining, Agriculture and Industry, Traffic, Commerce an Shipping." Photographs are from original pencil drawings, and some are reproductions of photographs.

Publisher's beautiful deluxe binding by Bartling and Kimball of San Francisco, full black morocco, with raised center panels on both boards. Whole binding elaborately stamped in gilt on boards and spine. 'California" lettered in gilt on front board. Title lettered in gilt on spine. Thick heavily decorated gilt dentelles. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Printed on heavy paper. Head and tail of the spine very slightly rubbed. Two previous owner's bookplates of front pastedown. Near fine. [Together with Text:] Small quarto (11 5/8 x 9 1/8 inches; 295 x 232 mm). [10], [1]-8, [6], [9]-132, iii, [1, blank] pp. With title-page from "Album" printed on heavy paper in red ink. Verse from "California" printed in gold ink.

Uniformly bound with album using black pebbled cloth over beveled boards. Same elaborate gilt stamping on boards. "Vischer's Pictorial Of California San Francisco 1870" printed in gilt on front board. Spine stamped in gilt. All edges gilt. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown. Some slight chipping to outer hinges. Near fine. [Together with Mission Supplement]:

VISCHER, Edward. Missions of Upper California, 1872. Notes on the California Missions, A Supplement To Vischer's Pictorial Of California, Dedicated To Its Patrons. San Francisco: Winterburn & Co., 1872.

Octavo (9 1/8 x 5 15/16 inches; 231 x 151 mm). [2], 44, iv, [2] pp. In original peach printed wrappers. Preserved in a red cloth chemise and slipcase. Some very light foxing to wrappers, otherwise near fine. HBS 64760. $35,000

First Complete English Edition

197. VITRUVIUS POLLIO, Marcus. The Architecture of M. Vitruvius Pollio. Translated from the Original Latin. London: 1791.

First English edition. Two folio volumes bound in one. Tall copy (19 x 13 1/4 inches; 479 x 335 mm). With engraved frontispiece and forty-six engraved plates. [4], xix, [1, blank], [6], 122; [2], 280, [4, appendix] pp. With publisher's imprint, listing the book sellers carrying the book pasted to title-page above the date as usual.

Contemporary full tree calf, excellently rebacked preserving the original spine and spine label and original endpapers. Edges dyed brown. Spine and board edges stamped in gilt. A bit of bumping and rubbing to boards and spine label. A few instances of very light dampstaining and foxing and a bit of toning. Overall a very handsome and clean copy. HBS 66835. $7,500

76 An Account Of The Beginnings Of Mormonism

198. 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.

"The work is an account of the beginnings of Mormonism and the settlement in Missouri; the war of extermination waged against the Saints; the removal to Nauvoo; the atrocities, murders, and other outrages committed by the soldiers and mobs under Generals Doniphan and Lucas; the Massacre at Haun’s Mills; the Martyrdom of Joseph and Hyrum Smith; and the final exodus and march across the wilderness to Utah. In 1850 or thereabouts, he went to Australia, where he wrote and published this tract." (Parke- Bernet) Howes W84 HBS 66114. $3,750 The First Edition of Webster’s "American Dictionary of the English Language" 199. WEBSTER, Noah. An American Dictionary of the English Language:...New York: Published by S. Converse. Printed by Hezekiah Howe…, 1828.

First edition. Two large quarto volumes (11 1/16 x 9 inches; 280 x 229 mm). Engraved frontispiece portrait (the portrait of Webster painted by S.F.B. Morse) by A.B. Durand printed by J.R. Burton. With the final leaf of “Additions” and “Corrections” at the end of Volume II, which is often lacking.

Contemporary tree calf, with outer hinges restored but not rebacked. Spines ruled in gilt in compartments with red and black morocco gilt lettering labels. Occasional light foxing and off-setting to first and last few pages. Binding extremities lightly rubbed. Previous owner’s bookplate and a library bookplate on front paste-down of each volume, but with no library markings. Overall, an excellent copy of a book almost always found rebacked because of its size.

“‘The most ambitious publication ever undertaken, up to that time, upon American soil.’ Webster began work on his Dictionary in 1800. Grolier, 100 American, 36. Printing and the Mind of Man 291. Sabin 102335. Skeel 583. HBS 64738. $25,000

Walt Whitman Signed Check 200. WHITMAN, Walt. Walt Whitman Signed Check. [New York: 1868].

(Measures 2 5/8 x 7 3/4 inches). Dated January 3, 1868. Filled out in another hand and signed by W.C. & F.P. Church (Publishers) payable to Whitman for $100.00. Endorsed on the reverse in black ink by Whitman. In very good condition with several vertical folds, cancellation cut to center, scattered light toning and soiling and a revenue stamp affixed to the front. This is Whitman's requested price for articles written by Whitman for Church. HBS 67044. $2,750

77 The Philadelphia Edition of "American Ornithology;. or, the Natural History of the Birds of the United States"

201. WILSON, Alexander. BONAPARTE, Charles Lucian. American Ornithology;. or, the Natural History of the Birds of the United States. Illustrated with Plates. Engraved and Colored from Original Drawings From Nature...With a Sketch of thr Life of Wilson, By George Ord, F.L.S., and a Classification of the genera and Spieces of American Birds... Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, 1871.

Three super-royal octavo volumes (measuring 257 x 163 mm.) and two atlas volumes bound in one folio volume (measuring 424 x 325 mm). [iii]-viii, 9-390; [vi]-viii, xvi, 9-426 pp. Atlas; title page for each volume, 3 pp. index of plates and 103 hand colored lithographed plates (being the full 76 of Wilson and 27 of Bonaparte) featuring nearly 400 figures of birds, most by Aleaxander Lawson after Wilson, T.R. Peale and Rider. (Part of plate 10 in Bonaparte after J.J. Audubon).

Publisher's half brown morocco over marbled paper boards, gilt-stamped spines with five raised bands, all edges gilt. Previous owner's bookplates on front pastedown of all volumes. Repair to front outer hinge of Atlas volume. Overall, an excellent set with very clean plates and text.

"The Ord-revised edition of 1828-29 with the material from all four volumes of Bonaparte 1825-33, and combined index , 103 coloured plates (being the full 76 of Wilson and 27 of Bonaparte) in all. The 'Philadelphia Edition'." -Sitwell, p. 157 Copenhagen/Anker. Copenhagen/Anker. Fine Bird Books,. Fine Bird Books,. Nissen, IVB,. Nissen, IVB,. Nissen, SVB,. Nissen, SVB,. HBS 66956. $15,000

Set of First Editions Beautifully Bound in Five Volumes

202. [WOLLSTONECRAFT, Mary]. Posthumous Works of the Author of A Vindication of Rights of Woman. [Edited with a preface by William Godwin]. London: Printed for J. Johnson, and G. G. and J. Robinson, 1798.

First edition. Four small octavo volumes (6 x 3 3/4 inches; 152 x 96 mm). [17], [1, errata], [1]-181, [1, blank]; [4], [1]-196; [9], [1, errata], [1]-192; [4], [1]-195, [1, blank] pp. Works include: The Wrongs of Women, or Maria; a Fragment: to which is added, the First Book of a Series of Lessons for Children. Letters and Miscellaneous Pieces. With in Letters are also found Extract of the Cave Fancy. A Tale; On Poetry, and Our Relish For the Beauties of Nature; and Hints.

[Together with:]

[WOLLSTONECRAFT, Mary]. GODWIN, William. Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. London: 1798.

First edition. Small octavo (6 x 3 3/4 inches; 152 x 96 mm). [2], 199, [1, blank], [1, errata], [1, blank], [2, publisher's ads] pp. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin.

All five volumes in modern full sprinkled calf. Rebacked preserving original spines. Boards ruled in gilt. Spines eloaboarately decorated in gilt. Spines with red morocco labels, lettered in gilt. Gilt dentelles. All edges yellow. Marbled endpapers. An excellent set. Housed in a custom open-end slipcase. HBS 64592. $7,500 TERMS

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Item 171. Mr. William Shakespear’s Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies. London: Printed for H. Herringman, E. Brewster, and R. Bentley, 1685.