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Opening Selection 4 Science & Medicine 18 Travel & Exploration 28 Women 38 Americana 50 Artist’s Books & Illustrated Books 68 Literature 78 {Mark Twain 80–85} History & Thought 93 Index 107

on the cover Item No. 6 • opposite Item No. 16 • top Item No. 25

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“I don’t know where [Chagall] gets those images; he must have an angel in his head.”

—Pablo Picasso

4 Inscribed Across A Two-Page Spread By Marc Chagall To His Daughter’s Sister-In-Law With Splendid Original Color Drawing By Chagall

1. CHAGALL, Marc. Lithographe 1957–1962 (Volume II only). France, 1963. Folio, original beige cloth, dust jacket. $28,500. First trade edition, French issue, of the second volume of this catalogue raisonné, one of 500 copies printed on Grand Vélin d’Arches paper sets, richly illustrated, beautifully inscribed across the entire two-page half title spread by Chagall to his daughter’s sister-in-law, Swiss psychoanalyst Marian Von Castelberg-Meyer: “Zurich. Pour Marian en souveur. Marc Chagall” [“For Marian in remembrance.”], with a beautiful color drawing by Chagall depicting a pink dove, a green tree, a pink person, and an orange donkey. For Chagall, the medium of lithography did not come easily. Printer Fernand Mourlot ran a lithography press where such greats as Braque, Matisse, Picasso, Miró and Chagall came to have their designs printed and to learn about this still nascent printmaking process. “For many long months Chagall came and worked tirelessly, and his dissatisfaction allowed him to have only a few of his first attempts printed” (Sorlier, 45). Text entirely in French. Published simultaneously with a signed limited edition of only 150 copies on Grand Vélin d’Arches. Published simultaneously in French, German, and English. Without slipcase. Sorlier, 229. This copy is wonderfully inscribed to Marian Von Castelberg-Meyer. She was the sister of Franz Meyer, director of Basel’s Kunstmuseum from 1962- 1980. More importantly, Franz Meyer was the husband of Chagall’s daughter, making Marian Von Castelberg-Meyer Chagall’s daughter’s sister-in-law. The original drawings by Chagall include both a dove and a donkey—two well- known motifs in Chagall’s work. Perhaps most prominently, Chagall featured donkeys in his 1911 “L’ane vert” (The Green Donkey), his 1968 “La reve de l’ane” (The Donkey’s Dream), and his circa 1977 “Child with Dove” (depicting a child with a dove on his shoulder standing on the back of a donkey). Fine condition.

5 opening selection 6 see item no. 2

7 opening selection First Edition In English Of Albinus’ Superb 1749 Anatomical Atlas, Among The Greatest Illustrated Anatomical Works Of The 18th Century, With Plates “Unsurpassed For Their Beauty And Scientific Accuracy”

2. ALBINUS, Bernhard Siegfried. Tables of the Skeleton and Muscles of the Human Body. WITH: The Explanation of Albinus’s Anatomical Figures of the Human Skeleton and Muscles. London, 1749, 1754. Together, two volumes. Large atlas folio (201/2 by 27 inches), 20th-century three-quarter plum morocco; quarto, 20th-century three-quarter brown calf rebacked. $27,000.

First edition in English of one of the most famous anatomical atlases of the 18th century, with 51 superb atlas folio copper-engraved plates (measuring approximately 18 by 26 inches), drawn and engraved by Jan Wandelaar. Together with the scarce sep- arately published supplemental text volume, The Explanation of Albinus’s Anatomical Figures, anonymously translated from Albinus’ original Latin. “Albinus’ Tabulae sceleti et musculorum, based on his concept of the ‘ideal man’… is among the most artistically perfect of anatomical atlases. Albinus and his artist Jan Wandelaar used some ingenious methods to prepare the illustrations… Wandelaar placed his skeletons and musclemen against lush ornamental backgrounds to give them the illu- sion of vitality, using contrasts of mass and light to produce a three-dimensional effect. The most famous plate in the atlas depicts a skeletal figure standing in front of an enormous grazing rhinoc- eros, sketched by Wandelaar from the first living specimen in Europe, which had arrived at the Amsterdam zoo in 1741... Albinus and Wandelaar adopted the creature as a symbol of their atlas, which depicted the human body” (Norman Library 29). “The first 12 plates are some of the most beautiful plates in the history of engraving” (Norman, Medicine and the Life Sciences). The plates “established a new standard in anatomical illustration and remain unsurpassed for their artistic beauty and scientific accuracy” (Garrison-Morton, 5th ed., 399). This is the first edition in English, complete with 40 copperplate engravings. This copy has been bound with Albinus’ edition of Eustachius’ A Compleat System of the Blood-Vessels and Nerves (London, 1750), which contains 11 additional plates. The two works were often bound together, as the second work is considered a supplement to the first. The first edition of Albinus’ atlas, also with 40 engraved plates, was published in Leiden in 1747 in Latin; the second Latin edition was published in London in 1749 by the Knaptons, who published this first English translation later that same year. Choulant/Frank 27683. Contemporary ink owner signature to title page of Explanation. Atlas folio with closed tear to first title page repaired on verso; small closed tear to third title page, just affecting imprint. Text and plates generally quite clean, expert restoration to spine ends, binding sound and attractive. Quarto text volume with occasional foxing. A near-fine copy of this scarce and desirable work.

8 Extraordinary Illuminated Leaf From A French Book Of Hours, Circa 1460, Featuring A Beautiful Image Of The Martyrdom Of St. Sebastian

3. (ILLUMINATED LEAF). Illuminated Leaf from a Book of Hours. Savoy, circa 1460. Single vellum leaf (41/4 by 53/4 inches), illuminated in gold, black, white, gray, red, yellow, green, blue, and brown inks; window matted and framed, entire piece measures 13 by 10 inches. $10,750. Beautiful illuminated leaf from a French Book of Hours, circa 1460, featuring a domed miniature of the martyrdom of St. Sebastian; a four-line initial; four lines of text from the Suffrages; and a lovely border. This beautiful illuminated leaf is from a Book of Hours from Savoy circa 1460. It comprises four lines from the Suffrages and a lovely domed miniature depicting the martyrdom of St. Sebastian by two archers. The verso is similar with one two line initial and 17 lines of red and black batarde script. This leaf appears to the be work of an artist in the circle of the Vienna Roman de la Rose Master, a Lyonnaise artist first identified in 1993 by Francois Avril. Fine condition.

9 opening selection “Thou art all fair, my love; there is no spot in thee.”

—Song of Solomon 4:7

“To Visualize The Events Of The Bible In A Grand Style”: Magnificent Large Folio Extra Illustrated King James Bible, Cambridge 1660, With 128 Wonderful Double-Page Engravings After The Great Masters And Eight Large Maps Including A Double-Page Plan Of Jerusalem

4. BIBLE. The Holy Bible Containing the Bookes of the Old and New Testament. Cambridge, 1660, 1659. Two volumes. Large, thick folio (13 by 191/2 inches), contemporary full paneled black morocco gilt rebacked with original spines neatly laid down. $32,000. 10 Monumental 1660 Cambridge edition of the King James Bible, rich- Its illustrations were works of the best artists, and allowed those ly illustrated with engraved title page, 128 double-page engravings who could afford the book to visualize the events of the Bible in a by Visscher, Hollar, Lombart and others after Rubens, De Bruyn de grand style” (Museum of the History of Science, Oxford). “The fin- Vos, Tintoretto and others, eight folding maps (including a double est edition of the Holy Bible then extant” (Lowndes, 1367). The col- hemisphere by John Seller and a plan of Jerusalem), 13 engraved lation and number of plates vary greatly from copy to copy—the portraits of apostles and 12 small plates mounted on four sheets present copy is bound with the largest number of illustrations we of scenes from Revelations. Beautifully bound in nicely restored have seen offered. The most expensive of these Bibles were ruled contemporary paneled morocco-gilt. in red—as is this copy. Without the Volume II title page or sepa- The King James Version of the Bible (first published 1611) has ex- rate New Testament title page. Engraved general title page depicts ercised an incalculable impact on piety, language and literature Solomon (i.e., the restored Charles II) enthroned. Darlow & Moule throughout the English-speaking world. “In 1660, John Ogilby 525. Marginal paper repairs to title page, just touching image at reissued the large folio Bible of 1659, published by John Field, lower corner only. Occasional creasing and marginal edge-wear to the printer to the University of Cambridge, with a number of plates, with a few paper repairs to versos, particularly along splits additional engraved plates… Nicolaes Visscher supplied Ogilby at folds, expert restoration to contemporary morocco bindings. with sets of engravings from his own stock, most of which were An excellent copy of this dramatically and beautifully illustrated the work of Cornelis Visscher, after Rubens, de Vos, de Bruyn, folio Bible, with one of the largest complement of the Visscher Tintoretto and others… Ogilby’s Bible was a very expensive plates known in this edition. book… It presented the standard text of the Authorized Version in perhaps the most impressive form available in the mid-17th century. 11 opening selection 12 A Thrilling Celebration Of New York’s Metropolitan Opera, Featuring Eight Magnificent Double Elephant Folio-Size Plates For Eight Famous Operas, Signed And Numbered By Artists Including Antonio Clave and Jamie Wyeth

5. CLAVÉ, Antonio, FINI, Léonor, LINDNER, Richard, MARINI, Marino, MASSON, André, RIVERS, Larry, WUNDERLICH, Paul and WYETH, Jamie. Metropolitan Opera Fine Art. New York, 1978. Double elephant folio (23-1/2 by 31-1/2 inches), leaves laid loose in original portfolio, as issued. $28,000. Deluxe limited first edition of this splendid portfolio celebrating the Metropolitan Opera, one of only 25 copies with eight enormous color prints for eight different beloved operas by eight different artists including Antonio Clave, Larry Rivers, Paul Wunderlich and Jamie Wyeth, each signed and numbered by their respective artist. The eight works, each signed and numbered “IV” by their respective artists, are as follows: • Antonio Clavé—Carmen. A five-color embossed intaglio print editioned at the atelier Maurice Rousseau in Monaco. One of 25 on hand-made Japanese paper. Pictured opposite. • Léonor Fini—Tristan und Isolde. A 12-color seri- graph editioned at Serigraphie Michel Caza. One of 35 on hand-made Japanese paper. Pictured bottom. • Richard Lindner—Der Rosenkavalier. A 22-col- or lithograph editioned at American Atelier, New York City. One of 25 on hand-made Japanese paper. • Marino Marini—La Traviata. An 11-color lithograph editioned at Mourlot, Paris. One of 25 on Rives Moulin de Gué paper. • André Masson—Don Giovanni. A nine-color lithograph editioned at Mourlot, Paris. One of 25 on Rives Moulin de Gué paper. • Larry Rivers—Madama Butterfly. A mixed-me- dia print of eight colors in lithography and three colors in serigraphy, editioned at Styria Studios, New York City. One of 25 on hand-made Japanese paper. • Paul Wunderlich—Aïda. A five-color lithograph editioned at Mattieu Ag, Dielsdorf, Switzerland. One of 25 on BFK Rives paper. • Jamie Wyeth—La Bohème. A sixteen color lithograph, editioned at the American Atelier, New York City. One of 25 on BFK Rives paper. Pictured top. Fine condition.

13 artist’s books & illustrated books Cont. from previous page

top Rivers, Madame Butterfly

left Wunderlich, Aïda

bottom Masson, Don Giovanni

14 “Highly Successful, And Has Maintained Its Reputation”: Nash’s Mansions Of England In The Olden Time, With 106 Splendid Hand-Colored Lithographic Plates Of The “Stately Homes” Of England

6. NASH, Joseph. The Mansions of England in the Olden Time. London, 1869–72. Four volumes in two. Folio (11 by 15 inches), original full burgundy morocco gilt. $13,000. Later edition of this most desirable illustrated survey of the “stately homes” of England—one of the highpoints of English color lithography—with the 106 chro- molithographed plates printed in color and finished with beautiful hand-coloring heightened in gum arabic, in beautiful publisher’s morocco-gilt. Between 1839 and 1849 Nash published “his great work, in four series, Mansions of England in the Olden Time, which was highly successful, and has maintained its reputation” (DNB). “To prepare these 100 lithographs of surviving country houses of the 15th to 17th centuries, many of them little known, Nash roamed the country and sketched each one thoroughly on site. He… enlivened them roman- tically with scenes of Tudor domestic life, feasting, and revels that he researched carefully in the antiquarian works of Joseph Strutt… The Mansions’ combination of architectural and antiquarian accuracy with contemporary values was devas- tatingly effective” (ODNB). Nash’s romantic re-imaginings include scenes of Henry VIII wooing Anne Boleyn at her ancestral home and young William Shakespeare being brought before a neighboring landowner on poaching charges. Plates fine, coloring exceptionally vivid and crisp, minor restoration to beautiful publisher’s original morocco-gilt. A beautiful production.

15 opening selection Full First Edition Of Gibbon’s Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire, “The Greatest Historical Work Ever Written”

7. GIBBON, Edward. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. London, 1776. Six volumes. Quarto, contemporary three-quarter brown calf rebacked with original spines laid down. $27,500. First edition set, with portrait of Gibbon by Joseph Hall after Sir Joshua Reynolds and three engraved folding maps of the Western and Eastern Roman Empire and of Constantinople by Kitchin, in handsome contemporary calf. “This masterpiece of historical penetration and literary style has remained one of the ageless historical works… Gibbon brought a width of vision and a critical mastery of the available sources which have not been equaled to this day; and the result was clothed in inimitable prose” (PMM 222). “For 22 years Gibbon was a prodigy of steady and arduous application... But it is not merely the learning of his work, learned as it is, that gives it character as a history. It is also that ingenious skill by which the vast erudition, the boundless range, the infinite variety, and the gorgeous magnificence of the details are all wrought together in a symmetrical whole. It is still entitled to be esteemed as the greatest historical work ever written” (Adams, Manual of Historical Literature, 146–7). Volume I is the second state of the first edition, as often, with X4 and a4 unsigned and the errata corrected up to page 228 (all copies were offered for sale the same day, and the point is regarded by most as not of great significance. See Norton, 38–9). Map of the Western Roman Empire bound at the beginning of Volume II, along with that of Constantinople (which is full-sized and folding, rather than trimmed to fit as sometimes found); map of the Eastern Roman Empire bound in Volume III. With errata pages in Volumes I, II, III, and VI (for Vols. IV, V, and VI); bound with all half titles. Norton 20. Rothschild 942. Grolier 100. Scattered foxing, Volume VI sympathetically rebacked. A rare full first edition set of Gibbon’s classic work, most desirable in contemporary marbled boards, expertly restored.

16 “History… is indeed little more than the register of crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.”

17 opening selection Science and Medicine

“I Cannot Consider Any Facts Bearing On The Inheritance Of Mental Peculiarities In Animals As Trifling… Thank You For Communicating To Me Your Experience In Regard To Cats”: Second Edition Of Darwin’s Origin Of Species, With A Fine Autograph Letter Signed By Darwin To The Owner Of The Present Volume

8. DARWIN, Charles. On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection. WITH: Autograph letter signed by Darwin. London, 1860. Octavo, original green cloth; one-page letter, measuring 5 by 71/2 inches, custom clamshell box. $38,000. Second edition, second issue, as always (the first issue known in only a few copies), of “certainly the most important biological book ever written” (Freeman), published less than two months after the first edition. Together with an autograph letter signed by Darwin to the owner of the present volume, Laurence de Gruchy, thanking him for supplying information on heredity in cats. “This, the most important single work in science, brought man to his true place in nature” (Heralds of Science 199). Darwin “revo- lutionized 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” (PMM 344). The Origin was recognized immediately as important, revolutionary and highly controversial; the small first edition of only 1250 copies sold out very quickly and is extremely rare today. By the late autumn of 1859 the publisher Murray was asking Darwin to begin revising at once for a new edition. Darwin’s undated letter was likely written in the 1860s. Penned on Darwin’s “Down, Bromley, Kent S.E.” letterhead stationery, dated “Dec. 8,” the letter reads in full: “Dear Sir, I am very much obliged to you for your good kindness in writing to me. I cannot consider any facts bearing on the inheritance of mental peculiarities in animals as trifling, & I thank you for communicating to me your experience in regard to Cats. Dear Sir, Yours faithfully & obliged, Ch. Darwin.” Darwin wrote about how cats express their emotions and biological aspects of emotional life in The Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals (1872), his third major work on evolutionary theory, following Origin and Descent of Man. The four paragraphs that he wrote about cat and felid behavior describe how cats display feeling “savage and not terrified,” “affectionate,”

18 “terrified,” and “satisfied.” He argued that “[c]ats de Gruchy (1838–1920), was a Jurat, Constable of use their voices much as a means of expression, St Helier (on Jersey island) and co-founder of La and they utter, under various emotions and de- Société Jersiaise. The letter from Darwin was origi- sires, at least six or seven different sounds.” This nally mounted to the front pastedown of this partic- copy is the second edition, published in January of ular volume by a member of the De Gruchy family, 1860. Second issue, as usual, with 1860 on the title with evidence of the mounting on both the past- page; the first issue, with 1859 on the title page, is edown and the verso of the letter. A bit of toning known in only a few copies. Freeman 376. From the to edges of letter, evidence of mounting on verso, De Gruchy family of Rochebois, St. Aubin, Jersey. very good. Text block expertly recased in original Bookplate and ownership signature of [William] binding; front free endpaper skillfully reattached, Laurence de Gruchy; ownership inscription: “Guy with light edge-wear, light marginal dampstaining, F.B. de Gruchy, Rochebois, Sept. 1885, from his a bit of expert restoration to extremities of cloth. A father.” The letter’s recipient, William Laurence very good copy.

19 science and medicine “The Most Elaborate And Beautiful Of All 17th-Century English Treatises On Anatomy,” With 105 Magnificent Atlas Folio Anatomical Plates By Lairesse

9. COWPER, William. The Anatomy of Humane Bodies, with Figures Drawn after the Life by the Best Masters in Europe. Leyden, 1737. Atlas folio (151/2 by 211/2 inches), original blue-gray paper boards rebacked in calf. $14,500. Second edition of Cowper’s splendid large folio anatomical atlas, one of the greatest of all artistic anatomies, superbly illustrated with engraved title page and 114 magnificent folio copper-engraved plates (two folding and one double-page), including 105 plates originally drawn by Rembrandt’s rival, Gerard de Lairesse, for Bidloo’s Anatomia (1685). Of the 114 extraordinary anatomical plates in Cowper’s atlas, 105 were originally drawn for Govard Bidloo’s Anatomia Humani Corporis (1685) by Gerard de Lairesse, who rivaled Rembrandt in his time. Lairesse’s plates are “elegantly done and artistically perfect” (Choulant & Frank 250). Considered an “artistic medita- tion on anatomy,” his realistic drawings represent a total departure from the idealistic tradition inaugurated by Vesalius. Bidloo’s text, however, was widely criticized, and because of this English surgeon William Cowper, who had obtained 300 impressions of the plates, arranged to supply an entirely new text in English to accompany a reissue of the original engravings. Cowper’s text first appeared in 1698, with an appendix on the external muscles, accompanied by nine additional plates engraved by Michael Van der Gucht. The new English text was superior to Bidloo’s and quite successful: three editions were printed in the 18th century, with impressions struck from the old plates, one in English (this present copy) and two in Latin. Cowper’s edition of the atlas is considered the “most elaborate and beautiful of all 17th-century English treatises on anatomy” (Garrison & Morton 385.1). Russell 212. Waller 2192. Old dealer description tipped to front flyleaf. Two plates with expertly repaired marginal tears, text and plates quite clean, expert restoration to original board extremities. A desirable uncut copy, scarce in original boards.

20 Boldly Signed By Sigmund Freud: The 1924-38 First Collected Edition Of His Complete Works

10. FREUD, Sigmund. Gesammelte Schriften [Collected Writings]. Leipzig/Wien/Zurich, 1924, 1925, 1928, 1934. Twelve volumes. Octavo, original blue cloth. $21,000. First collected edition of the pioneering psychoanalyst’s collected works, boldly signed in Volume I: “Sigm. Freud, 1936.” “It was Freud’s fate, as he observed not without pride, to ‘agitate the sleep of mankind’” (Gay, Sigmund Freud: A Brief Life). “Freud was a brilliant apologist for his own ideas… At their best, his expository writings might be described as intellectual seductions… No other major modern intellectual—not Marx, not Darwin—rivals Freud as a popular advocate for his own views” (Stanford 1991, 69). This complete collection of Freud’s writings—with the signed first volume being completed by the final eleven volumes (which were released over a number of years) from another set— of course includes landmark works such as The Interpretation of Dreams, Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality, Totem and Taboo, Beyond the Pleasure Principle, The Ego and the Id, as well as case histories and papers on sexuality, all in the original German. A near-fine set. Scarce and most desirable signed by Freud.

21 science and medicine Exceptionally Rare Lithoprint Version Of The Smyth Report, A “Remarkably Full And Candid Account” Of The Atom Bomb (PMM), One Of Only A Few Copies Signed By Henry DeWolf Smyth

11. SMYTH, Henry DeWolf. A General Account of the Development of Methods of Using Atomic Energy for Military Purposes under the Auspices of the United States Government 1940–1945. Washington, 1945. Quarto, original cream paper wrappers, staple-bound as issued. $8500. Rare 1945 lithoprint of the Smyth Report on the creation of the atom bomb, preceding the first published version, one of only 1000 copies printed, signed by Henry DeWolf Smyth, complete and in original wrappers. Accompanied by the Offprint from the Princeton University Library Chronicle with Smyth’s account of the production of this historic lithoprint. This is the rare lithoprint version of the first account of the Manhattan Project and the creation of the atomic bomb, as docu- mented from 1944 to 1945 in this Official Report chiefly authored by the Chairman of the Department of Physics at Princeton, Henry DeWolf Smyth. This lithoprint was produced from stencils made by several typewriters in the Adjutant General’s Office, along with a virtually unobtainable 12-chapter mimeograph version and a very small number of ditto printings. Smyth recalls that only “one thousand copies were made” of the lithoprint version (Offprint, 180). Once the Smyth Report was declassified (six days after the bombing of Hiroshima and three days before the declaration of war’s end), it was issued by both the Government Printing Office and Princeton University Press in the first published editions. PMM 422(e). Coleman 3, 213. Norman 1962. A fine copy of this important report, most rare signed.

22 Offprints Of All Three Parts Of The Genetic Code, 1962-66, One Inscribed By Marshall Nirenberg And Two Signed By Francis Crick

12. CRICK, Francis and NIRENBERG, Marshall W. The Genetic Code. San Francisco, California, 1962–66. Three offprints. Very thin folio (81/2 by 11 inches), staple-bound as issued, original self-wrappers; pp. 8, 13, 7, custom half calf clamshell box. $9500. First offprint editions of a three-part article on DNA by Francis Crick and Marshall Nirenberg originally published in Scientific American, with Parts I and III signed by Francis Crick and Part II inscribed: “with best wishes Marshall Nirenberg.” The three offprints in this collection are: “The Genetic Code” (October 1962); “The Genetic Code: II” (March 1963), and “The Genetic Code: III” (October 1966). Despite its status as a popular science magazine, Scientific American’s long list of distinguished contributors could not be more illustrious. Crick often turned to Scientific American to work through the many questions surrounding his original breakthrough. These offprints were printed from a three-part article authored by Crick and his fellow biochemist and geneticist, Marshall Nirenberg, meant to expand on the idea of DNA as a hereditary agent and discuss information and theories such as how bases determine the order of amino acids in a protein; the nature of encoding in the manufacture of proteins; and the conversion of DNA’s four-letter language into the 20-letter language of proteins. While intended for a mainstream audience, Crick’s and Nirenberg’s writings attracted the notice of their colleagues in the field and scientists such as Pauling wrote to Crick with comments and even criticism. Part II with accession stamp (“JUN 1 1967”), stamp of Baltimore’s Southern High School (SHS) library to the front wrapper, and stamp of William A. Kulick also of SHS, who wrote to various prominent scientists requesting further information about their accomplishments—likely acquiring this inscribed offprint in the process. Part II neatly hole-punched for binder. Very nearly fine condition.

23 science and medicine 24 Browne’s 1681 Compleat Treatise Of The Muscles, With Superb Engraved Anatomical Plates

Striking Large Color Photograph Of The 14. BROWNE, John. A Compleat Doomed Challenger’s 1985 Launch, Three Treatise of the Muscles, As they appear in Months Before It Exploded, Signed By Humane Body, And arise in Dissection; 24 Members And Staff Of The Rogers With Diverse Anatomical Observations Commission Which Investigated The not yet Discover’d. London, 1681. Folio (131/2 by 14 inches), contemporary full mot- Disaster, Including Sally Ride, Neil tled calf rebacked. $5500. Armstrong, And Richard Feynman First edition, with 37 copper-engraved plates 13. (NASA). Photograph signed. No place, cir- depicting full figures and muscle groups, ca 1986. Folio color photograph, measuring 11 by and an engraved frontispiece portrait. 14 inches; matted, entire piece measures 16 by 20 One of his most notable works, Browne’s inches. $16,500. treatise “consists of six lectures, illus- Exceptional large color photograph of the Challenger trated by elaborate copper-plates… It is taking off on its last successful mission three months probably the first of such books in which before its disastrous explosion, signed and/or in- the names of the muscles are printed on scribed by 24 members of the Rogers Commission the figures’’ (DNB). His description of the (the body that investigated the crash) including muscles of the human body incorporates Sally Ride, Neil Armstrong, and Richard Feynman. William Molins’ 1648 anatomical treatise, This large color photograph depicting the Muscotomia. “Browne’s book was popular Challenger taking off is signed or inscribed on the and appeared in ten editions” (ODNB). Wing 5126. Early owner ink signa- mat by 24 members of the Rogers Commission— ture dated 1684. Bookplates; old dealer description tipped to front paste- including Sally Ride, Neil Armstrong, Richard down. A few marginal paper repairs, text and plates generally quite clean, Feynman, Gene Covert, and Al Keel—which inves- contemporary mottled calf covers in excellent condition, nicely rebacked. tigated the Challenger tragedy. Attorney General in An exceptionally good copy of this scarce title. the Eisenhower administration and later Secretary of State (1969–73), William P. Rogers was selected by President Reagan to head the commission that investigated the disastrous launch of the Space “The Best Painter And Engraver Of Insects Of His Day” Shuttle Challenger on January 28, 1986. The commission’s investigation, particularly the work of 15. HARRIS, Moses. Exposition of physicist Richard Feynman, demonstrated that English Insects. London, 1782. Quarto, the rubber O-rings used to prevent gas leaks from original marbled boards rebacked and recornered in straight-grain green mo- the solid rocket boosters were vulnerable in cold rocco gilt. $2800. weather. This item was inscribed for Lt. Col. John B. Hungerford, the former launch director of the Titan Third edition, with one plain and 51 del- rocket program. Photo agency description affixed icately hand-colored copper-engraved to verso. A few inscriptions a bit faded but still leg- plates of nearly 500 illustrations of insects, ible. About-fine condition. entirely drawn and colored by Harris. In original boards, entirely uncut—a lovely, clean, large copy. “A beautiful work in great es- ti- “Even though NASA tries to mation,” each of this scarce edition’s simulate launch, and we beautifully detailed plates was drawn practice in simulators, and colored by Harris, who was consid- it’s not the same—it’s not ered “the best painter and engraver of insects of his day” (Quaritch 2557). Text even close to the same.” in English and French. Preceded by 1776 and 1781 editions. Nissen ZBI 1838. Bookplate, bookseller ticket. Plates —Sally Ride quite fresh, reinforcement to inner hinges, light scattered foxing to text, slight occasional dampstaining to margins and rear endpapers; original marbled boards quite nice. A lovely copy.

25 science and medicine With 58 Spectacular Hand-Colored Lithographic Flower Plates: Mrs. Loudon’s Ornamental Bulbous Plants

16. LOUDON, Jane Wells. Ladies’ Flower-Garden of Ornamental Bulbous Plants. London, 1849. Thick quarto, contemporary full pebbled brown morocco gilt. $4500. Second edition of Loudon’s classic botanical work on bulbous plants, with 58 beautiful hand-colored lithographic plates by Day and Haghe, in contemporary morocco-gilt. Jane Wells Loudon was one of the 19th century’s major compilers of flower books. First published in 1841, this work, together with her Ornamental Annuals (1840) and British Wild Flowers (1846) were “much prized for their attractive illustrations” (Magnificent Botanical Books, 237). The plates were produced by the lithographic firm of William Day & Son, frequently referred to as “Day and Haghe,” because of the fine work that Belgian draughtsman and watercolorist Louis Haghe brought to the en- terprise. Text and plates generally clean and fine, coloring vivid. Light rubbing to extremities of sound and attractive contemporary morocco binding. An extremely good copy.

“We Must Cast Our Lots With A Non-Statistical Investigation Of The Individual And Achieve Whatever Degree Of Reliability Or Reproducibility We May Through The Development Of Techniques Of Measurement And Control”

17. SKINNER, Burrhus Frederic. Behavior of Organisms. An Experimental Analysis. New York and London, 1938. Octavo, original black cloth, dust jacket. $4200. First edition of the foundational work in behavioral analysis and experimental analysis of behavior, in scarce original dust jacket. This work established methods of experimentation in behavioral analysis and the theory underlying them. “The system developed in the present book is objective and descriptive. Behavior is regarded as either respondent or operant… The factual part of the book deals largely with this behavior as studied by the author in extensive researches on the feeding responses of rats” (American Psychological Association). Owner signature of Dr. Charlotte Z. Brown, a psychiatry/community health professor at the University of Pittsburgh. Book fine, scarce dust jacket with a bit of wear and toning to extremities. A near-fine copy.

26 “Morton Convinced The World, The Credit Is His” (Osler)

18. MORTON, William Thomas Green. Statements… of Wm. T. G. Morton, M.D., On His Claim to the Discovery of the Anaesthetic Properties of Ether. Washington, 1853. Thick octavo, contemporary marbled boards rebacked in three-quarter diced brown calf. $5200. First edition, an exceedingly rare presentation copy of the 1853 Senate Committee Report documenting the long and bitter controversy over Dr. William Morton’s revolutionary discovery of surgical anesthesia—inscribed by Dr. Morton to the “Franklin Institute Library, Philadelphia, Pen. With Respects of W.T.G. Morton, M.D. Boston, Mass.” “Probably no other event has had such an immediate and profound effect on medical practice as the discovery of surgical anesthesia.” Morton “intended to keep the iden- tity of his anesthetic substance a secret so that he could patent it,” but when it was revealed in 1846, he sought compensation for his discovery from Congress. His claim was disputed by the heirs of his partner Dr. Wells, and a mentally ill Dr. Jackson. In 1852 “a bill calling for an award of $100,000 to Morton was introduced in the U.S. Senate… The report of this Select Committee was passed in the Senate but failed in the House… and Morton never received any remuneration” (Heirs of Hippocrates). With 33-page Senate Committee Report No. 421 bound in at rear. Waller 14357. Library bookplate, small numerical notations. Text generally fresh with tiny bit of expert archival restoration to corner of blank front free endpaper, light edge-wear, rubbing to contemporary boards. An extremely good presentation copy.

A Pioneering Work In Psychiatry: Cheyne’s English Malady, 1733, The First Significant Book On Neuroses

19. CHEYNE, George. The English Malady: or, a Treatise of Nervous Diseases of all Kinds, as Spleen, Vapours, Lowness of Spirits, Hypochondriacal and Hysterical Distempers, &c. London, 1733. Octavo, contemporary full mottled calf rebacked. $2700. First edition of one of the most influential early books on what was to become the discipline of psychiatry, probably the most widely read and influential English- language book on the subject in the 18th century. “Cheyne’s term ‘English malady’ refers to depression, the causes of which Cheyne listed as moist air, the variable English climate, too much meat and alcohol, sedentary habits and overcrowding. Among the clinical illustrations Cheyne included his own case, which he cured by purges, a milk and vegeta- ble diet and the study of religious writings. Cheyne’s work inspired an interest in England in exploring the metaphysical relationship between mind and body” (Norman 471). Garrison-Morton 4840. Title page with minor marginal embrowning. Text clean and fine, corners rubbed. An exceptionally good copy of this important early psychiatric work.

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“Characterized By Romantic Feeling”: De Loutherbourg’s Romantic And Picturesque Scenery, With 18 Beautiful Hand-Colored Aquatint Folio Plates Of England And Wales, Scarce 1805 First Edition

20. (GREAT BRITAIN) LOUTHERBOURG, P.J. de. The Romantic and Picturesque Scenery of England and Wales. London, 1805. Folio (131/2 by 181/2), contemporary marbled boards rebacked and recornered in straight-grain dark green morocco. $8200. First edition of this splendid picturesque tour of the countryside of England and Wales, with 18 beautifully hand-colored aquatint folio plates. “De Loutherbourg’s landscapes and marine subjects are characterised by romantic feeling, and, although they have a tendency to staginess, are wholly free from vulgarity... A series of engravings in aquatint of English scenery, from drawings by him, was published in 1801 under the title of Picturesque Scenery of Great Britain, and a second and similar set was issued in 1805” (DNB). Views include Carisbrooke Castle and the Needles at the Isle of Wight, Ramsgate Harbour, Lake Windermere, Tintern Abbey, Mount Snowdon, Chepstow Castle, Cataracts on the Llugwy and Conway Castle. Plates and text with watermarks of 1801, 1802 and 1805. With second title page in French; accompanying text in both English and French. Abbey Scenery 9. Tooley 305. Only the occasional marginal smudge, images fine, with delicate hand-coloring. An excellent copy of this beautiful folio color-plate book.

28 Imperial Edition Of Views And Ruins In Rome And Its Vicinity, With 62 Lovely Folio Hand-Colored Aquatint Plates By James Merigot

21. (ITALY) MERIGOT, James. A Select Collection of Views and Ruins in Rome and Its Vicinity. Recently Executed from Drawings Made upon the Spot. London, circa 1821. Folio (14 by 20 inches), modern half red morocco. $8800. Imperial paper edition of Merigot’s classic work on Rome, with 62 magnificent, finely hand-colored aquatint engravings—a lovely uncut copy. Although many books of a similar nature were released during the late 18th to early 19th centuries due to the rise of Neo-classicism among the British popu- lace, Merigot visited each of the ruins and drew them in person, making this an important record both of Ancient Rome and the state of Roman ruins at the turn of the 19th century. First published in 1797–99; this is the third edition, undated on the title page, with plates watermarked 1819 and 1821. Text in English and French. With original printed paper cover label, with price of 15 guineas, retained and mounted on a front flyleaf. Abbey, Travel 178. Lowndes, 1537. Lewine, 356. Prideaux, 344. With a two-page typed note laid in dated 1970 discussing the volume’s provenance and rebinding. With a hand-lettered and decorated quote from Percy Bysshe Shelley mounted on the front pastedown. A fine, uncut copy of this wonderfully illustrated collection of Roman views.

29 travel, views and exploration “Of Considerable Historic Interest”: Barraud’s New Zealand, 1877, One Of The Finest Color Plate Books Dealing With New Zealand, With 24 Elephant Folio Color Lithographic Views

22. (NEW ZEALAND) BARRAUD, C.D.; TRAVERS, W.T.L. New Zealand Graphic and Descriptive. London, 1877. Elephant folio (161/2 by 21 inches), modern three-quarter black morocco. $11,500. First edition of one of the finest color plate books dealing with New Zealand, with 30 striking elephant folio lithographs—24 of them printed in color and mounted—of scenery throughout New Zealand. This copy extra-illustrated with a fine large hand-colored wood engraving by Samuel Calvert entitled “Haunt of the Lyre Bird” dated 1879 bound in at rear. “From his youth Barraud had displayed artistic talent, and for the first 26 years of his life in New Zealand he travelled widely in his spare time over a large area of the North and South Islands, sketching in the various provinces, and recording his impressions of the attractions of New Zealand... [This] book con- tained 24 full-page colour lithographs of landscapes and numerous other plain lithographs and woodcuts dealing with aspects of native life in New Zealand. Several of the lithographs are of considerable historic interest, particularly that portraying the Pink and White Terraces which were destroyed in the Tarawera eruption” (Encyclopaedia of New Zealand). With lovely color-printed title page with mounted chromolithographic vignette, and full-page wood-engraved map of New Zealand. One mount with repaired marginal tear. Plates clean and fine, with vibrant coloring. An excellent copy of this splendid work on New Zealand.

30 Two Splendid, 66-Inch Panoramic Views Of Constantinople And The Bosporus By Joseph Schranz, Along With 12 Beautiful Folio Chromolithographs Finished With Hand-Coloring

23. (TURKEY) SCHRANZ, Joseph. Le Bosphore [cover title]. Constantinople, circa 1856–58. Oblong folio (13 by 19 inches), original blind-stamped black cloth respined. $16,000. Beautiful collection of hand-colored views of Constantinople and the Bosporus, featuring two splendid large (10 by 66 inches) folding chromolithographic panoramas of the Bosphorus, each panorama consisting of four plates printed in colors and finished by hand, along with an accompanying suite of 12 lovely folio chromolithographs also finished with hand-coloring. “Joseph Schranz was a member of the Maltese family of artists which had established itself in Malta in 1817, when the head of the family, Anton, emigrated from Bavaria. He had three sons, Antonio, Joseph and Giovanni. Joseph Schranz settled in Constantinople in about 1832 and became known for his costume engravings and his large panoramas of the environs of the city” (Atabey). The two panoramas are titled “Vue Générale du Bosphore, de Roumeli-Hissari a la Mer Noire (Prise d’Asie)” and “Vue Générale du Bosphore, de Constantinople a Roumeli-Hissari (Prise d’Asie).” They each measure 66 inches wide by ten inches tall. No letterpress (as issued). Caption text in French. This appears in the catalogue of Sefik Atabey’s collectionThe Ottoman World as two separate works, the two panoramas as an item (1105) separate from the collection of 14 lithographed plates on 12 sheets (1107). Atabey notes that the panoramas were issued in at least two formats, one larger (10 by 66 inches) and one smaller (7 by 43 inches); the present copy is from the larger issue. Atabey 1105, 1107. Folding panoramas expertly rehinged along fold versos, plates clean and crisp, hand-coloring vivid. Very faint hint of a dampstain to lower outer corners, not affecting panoramas, original cloth nicely restored. A handsome and near-fine copy of this scarce work. 31 travel, views and exploration Parkinson’s Journal Of Cook’s First Voyage To The South Seas—A Beautiful Large First Edition Copy, With Over Two Dozen Copper-Engraved Plates

24. (PACIFIC) (COOK, James) PARKINSON, Sydney. A Journal of a Voyage to the South Seas, In his Majesty’s Ship the Endeavour. London, 1773. Large quarto, contemporary marbled boards sympathetically rebacked. $20,500. First edition, first issue, of Parkinson’s richly illustrated account of Cook’s first expedition, a substantial large-paper edition with a frontispiece portrait, map of New Zealand, and 26 copper engraved plates from this landmark Pacific voyage. A fine, wide-margined copy in contemporary marbled boards. “An account of the first expedition under the command of Captain Cook,” during which its young artist Sydney Parkinson became the first professional artist to set foot in Australia. “Parkinson made numerous drawings of botanical and other subjects, as well as landscape and portraits of native chiefs,” making this one of the most handsome of the unofficial accounts of Cook’s famous world voyage. The first work to identify the kangaroo by name, Parkinson’s Journal also contains extensive accounts of New Zealand and Australia. “The famous preface, although signed by Stanfield Parkinson, was penned by a ghost-writer, William Kenrick” due to Parkinson’s untimely death from dysentery. First issue, without Fothergill’s reply and extra preliminary half-sheet. Mitchell Library 712. Hill 1308. Cox I:58. Holmes 7. Howgego, 255. Kroepelien 944. Sabin 58787. Bookplate of businessman and explorer Steve Fossett. The first person to fly solo nonstop around the world in a balloon, his bookplate depicts a hot air balloon. Text and plates clean and fine, minor rubbing to corners only. A fine, wide-margined copy in nicely rebacked contemporary marbled boards.

32 33 travel, views and exploration Grindlay’s Magnificent Folio Color Plate Work On India, 1892 Edition, With 36 Lovely Chromolithographs

25. (INDIA) GRINDLAY, Robert Melville. Scenery, Costumes and Architecture, Chiefly on the Western Side of India. London, 1830 [i.e., 1892]. Large folio (131/2 by 17 inches), contemporary three-quarter green morocco gilt. $11,000. Later edition—first chromolithographic edition—of one of the finest color plate books on India, with 36 fine chromolithographic views of temples and scenery, cities such as Bombay and Hyderabad, the island of Ceylon, and cultural practices such as suttee, handsomely bound in contemporary morocco-gilt. The 1826–30 first edition, with the plates printed in aquatint and finely colored by hand, is considered by to be one of the most beautiful and desirable color plate books on India: “Next to Daniell, the most attractive color plate book on India” (Tooley). This later edition reproduces the hand-colored plates from the first edition using chromolithography, one of the earliest techniques of color printing; the first edition text is also reprinted. With vignette title page. See Abbey Travel 442. From the Library of Virginia House in Richmond with its bookplate and inkstamp, discreet call number in pencil on title page margin; plates unmarked. Owner ink signature dated 1923. Text and plates clean and fine, expert restoration to binding. A beautiful illustrated folio on India.

34 “A Book Of Uncommon Value And Interest”

26. LITHGOW, William. The Totall Discourse, Of the Rare Adventures, and Painefull Peregrinations of Long Nineteene Yeares Travayles. London, 1632. Square octavo, mid 19th-century full brown calf gilt. $7800. First complete edition, with enlarged and revised text, of this entertaining and engrossing chronicle of the “ill-tempered but courageous Scot” wandering (Baugh, et al., 623) from France to England by way of Italy, Greece, Egypt and the Holy Land. One of the most popular travel narratives of its day, Lithgow’s Discourse presents the author’s account of “his 19 years’ travel, during which he claims to have tramped 36,000 miles and odd, begin[ning] with his leaving Paris on March 7, 1610 and trav- elling to Rome, Venice, Athens, Constantinople, etc. During these wanderings he was in frequent peril from storm and shipwreck, robbers and pirates, displayed as great valor as piety... He continued onward to Bethlehem, Jerusalem, Cairo, down the Nile to Alexandria, Sicily, and eventually arrived at the English court… It is a book of uncommon value and interest” (DNB XI:1240). Lithgow’s narrative first saw print in 1614; this “first complete” revised and enlarged edition appeared in 1632. Minor foxing to preliminaries and concluding pages, a few scattered stains, expert repair to PPP1 affecting marginal note and small marginal hole to PPP2, only light wear to extremities, joints expertly reinforced. An extremely good copy, handsomely bound.

“A Valuable And Much Esteemed Work”

27. MORYSON, Fynes. An Itinerary… Containing his ten yeeres travell through the twelve dominions of Germany, Bohmerland, Sweitzerland, Netherland, Denmarke, Poland, Italy, Turky, France, England, Scotland, and Ireland. London, 1617. Folio (81/2 by 13 inches), 18th-century full polished calf gilt rebacked with original spine neatly laid down. $7500. First edition of Moryson’s fascinating account of travel through late 16th-century Europe, including Germany, Holland, Italy, Turkey, France, and the British Isles, with eight half-page woodcut plans of Venice, Naples, Rome, Genoa, Paris, Constantinople, Jerusalem and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. “One of the most important of the Elizabethan travelers” (Atabey), Moryson made two journeys to Europe and the Levant between 1591 to 1597. In 1598 he made a tour of Scotland; in 1600 he moved to Ireland at the recommendation of his brother, where he became chief secretary to the Lord Deputy Charles Blount and assisted in suppressing Tyrone’s rebellion. The first part of his tripartite Itinerary consists of a journal of his travels. “The second part is a valuable history of Tyrone’s rebellion, with documents of state” (DNB). The third part comprises essays on the advantages of travel and all necessary preparations for a successful trip, as well as discourses on each nation’s costume, custom, character, coin, traffic, agriculture, language, religion, women, and legal practice, with a special emphasis on regional diets and drinks. “A valuable and much esteemed work” (Lowndes). Title page skillfully remargined along outer and lower edges, a bit of minor marginal dampstaining to first few dozen leaves, binding nicely restored. An excellent copy of this scarce work.

35 travel, views and exploration Paris During Reign Of Napoléon III, With 30 Lovely Hand-Colored Lithographs Depicting The People, Architecture, And Views Of Paris

28. (FRANCE) EICHOT, Charles. Paris sous Napoléon III [cover title]. Paris, circa 1860. Oblong quarto, original blind- and gilt-stamped brown cloth rebacked. $2000. Lovely 19th-century travel album of 24 lovely hand-colored lithographs of Parisian views after Charles Eichot, with an additional 6 hand-colored plates from Paris en Miniature. Emperor Napoléon III undertook to modernize and rebuild Paris. This album depicts all of the most famous landmark buildings and monu- ments as they stood at this crucial period in the City of Light’s modern history. Contemporary versions of this work exist with various plate compilations ranging from approximately 22 plates total to the 30 found here—with substantial variation in the plates included. This particular copy includes 30 (unmounted) hand-colored lithographs, comprising 24 Eichot plates commonly found in this work along with an additional six from Paris in Miniature. In all likelihood, the publisher compiled assorted versions intended to make the best use of the plates he had in stock. Only occasional—mainly marginal—spotting to interior, faint staining and light wear to cloth. An exceptionally good copy.

Bradford’s Sketches Of The Country, Character, And Costume In Portugal And Spain, 1809, With 53 Beautiful Folio Hand-Colored Plates

29. (IBERIAN PENINSULA) (NAPOLEONIC WARS) BRADFORD, William. Sketches of the Country, Character, And Costume, in Portugal And Spain. London, 1809. Large folio (111/2 by 16 inches), early marbled boards rebacked and recornered in dark brown calf. $6500. First edition, first issue, illustrated with 53 full-page hand-colored engraved folio plates, including 40 plates of scenic views of Portugal and Spain along with examples of native costume, and a supplement of 13 plates of the military uniforms of the Spanish, Portuguese, and French armies. William Bradford was the Chaplain to the British Army during the Peninsular War, England’s foray into Iberia on the side of Spain and Portugal, a central campaign of the Napoleonic Wars. First published in 1809–10 in 24 separate parts, and then again in 1810 in book form (see Abbey, Travel 135), this first issue features plates watermarked 1807 to 1809. The supplemental suite of 13 plates of military costumes always accompanies the work. With uncolored frontispiece of “The Monument to Sir John Moore,” not always present. Tooley 109. Plates and text clean and fine, with only a bit of foxing to uncolored engraved frontispiece. Hand-coloring vivid, attractively bound. An excellent, large, uncut copy of this lovely illustrated work.

36 30. Rare Nearly Nine-Foot-Long Photographic Panorama Of Constantinople In 1882. $5200

31. Exquisite 373/4 by 91/2 Inches Folding Panorama Of Late 19th-Century Jerusalem By Acclaimed Photographer Tancrède Dumas. $4800

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“We Are Spell-Bound, We Cannot Choose But Read”: First American Edition Of Wuthering Heights, Published Only Five Months After The Virtually Unobtainable London First Edition

32. BRONTË, Emily. Wuthering Heights. New York, 1848. 12mo (5 by 71/2 inches), contemporary three-quarter brown calf gilt, custom three-quarter calf clamshell box. $16,000. Extraordinarily important and rare first American edition (published less than five months after the virtually unobtainable London first edition) of Emily Brontë’s passionate masterpiece. “Like Poems, Wuthering Heights was presented to an uncomprehending public without preface, introduction or explanation and it was left to Charlotte, ever her sister’s apologist, to insist that it was simply a tale of ‘the wild moors of the north of England’… There was a constant litany of com- plaint about the brutality and violence of some of the scenes [particularly involving Heathcliff] and about the use of expletives, which, contrary to custom, Emily had written out in full… An American reviewer wrote in the Literary World: ‘Fascinated by strange magic we… are made subject to the immense power of the book… we are spell-bound, we cannot choose but read’” (Barker, 502, 539–40). “Wuthering Heights stands alone as a monument of intensity owing nothing to tradition, nothing to the achievement of earlier writers. It was a thing apart, passionate, unforgettable, haunting in its grimness… Brontë has a sure and certain place for all time” (Britannica). Although the title page of the 1848 Wuthering Heights states, “By The Author of ‘Jane Eyre,’” it was, of course, Emily’s older sister, Charlotte, who authored Jane Eyre. The first London edition, was published December 4, 1847; this edition was published April 21, 1848, simultaneously as two parts in wrappers and as a single, clothbound volume. Smith, 74–75. Early ink correction below “By The Author of ‘Jane Eyre’” on title page reading “No. By Ellis not Currer Bell.” Pencil owner signature on title page. Tiny bookseller ticket. Bookplate. Evidence of label removal. Faint dampstaining to latter half of text not affecting readability, scattered foxing to interior, rear blank excised, front joint starting but strong, wear to binding. An extremely good copy.

38 One Of Only 100 Copies Signed By Marie Curie: “One Of The Most Famous Scientists The World Has Ever Known”

33. CURIE, Marie Sklodowska. Pierre Curie. New York, 1923. Octavo, original half black cloth, custom clamshell box. $8500. Signed limited first edition of Marie Curie’s record of her life with Pierre Curie, one of only 100 copies signed by her—“the first scientist, male or female, to be awarded a second Nobel prize.” “When Marie Curie died on July 4, 1934, Einstein remarked that she was, ‘of all celebrated beings, the only one whom fame has not corrupted’” (New York Times). In this exceptional signed limited first edition ofPierre Curie, one of only 100 copies signed by Marie Curie, she writes of their life together and their momentous dis- coveries that fundamentally altered the world. In 1898 they published a paper with Gustave Bémont to announce their “discovery of radium. The Curies found this ‘second radioactive substance’ in pitchblende (uranium ore) shortly after their discovery of the radioactive element polonium” (Norman 545). “Marie Curie is one of the most famous scientists the world has ever known…. She was the first woman to win a Nobel price, for physics, which she and her husband Pierre shared with Henri Becquerel in 1903… [and] became the first scientist, male or female, to be awarded a second Nobel prize [1911], this time in chemistry” (Madame Curie, ix). Her husband’s died at the age of 46 after being run over by a horse-drawn cart in Paris in 2906. Includes “Autobiographical Notes,” in which Curie writes of the years after her husband’s death, and praises journalist Marie Meloney, who raised money for a much-needed gram of radium “to be placed entirely at my disposal for scientific research” (224). Precedes the first French edition. With photogravure of Marie Curie tipped in opposite the limitation leaf. Containing frontispiece portrait of Pierre Curie and seven full-page photographic illustrations. Translation by Charlotte and Vernon Kellog. Introduction by Meloney. Text fine, binding with stain to rear board mild toning to spine. Rare and desirable.

39 women “When We Recall The Occasion Which Brought Us To Know Each Other… How Could It Be That We Should Not Recall Each Other?”: First Edition, Presentation/Association Copy, Of The Story Of My Childhood, With A Splendid Full-Page Inscription By Clara Barton To Lt. C.H. Binckley, Who She Met In The Aftermath Of The 1900 Galveston Hurricane

34. BARTON, Clara. The Story of My Childhood. New York, 1907. 12mo, original full red sheep, custom cloth chemise and half morocco slipcase. $8000. First edition, presentation copy, of Clara Barton’s childhood memoir, very warmly inscribed to a man she met while providing Red Cross relief to survivors of the 1900 Galveston hurricane: “To Lieut. O.H. Binckley, My dear Lieut., When we recall the occasion which brought us to know each other. The scenes we lived through. The woes we witnessed, how could it be that we should not recall each other? In all the better days to come ‘Thou wilt think of me, and I will think of thee.’ Sincerely Clara Barton. Glen Echo Md. March 25 1910.” Barton was widely known for her efforts in organizing nursing and hos- pital relief efforts during the Civil War, and in 1877 she was charged by the International Red Cross with organizing the American Red Cross. “For the next 22 years, Barton was president of the American National Red Cross… Clara Barton’s own works [such as] The Story of My Childhood (1907) are important both as firsthand accounts and for gaining her perspective” (ANB). This copy is inscribed to Lieutenant O.H. Binckley. Binckley met Barton while she was engaged in hurricane relief efforts in Galveston, Texas in 1900. Barton and Binckley corresponded in the years that followed. In one letter, Barton wrote: “How the years have fled since we met, and ruined Galveston is larger and finer than ever, but the dreadful wreck that it was, neither of us desire to recollect.” A few spots of soiling to interior, wear to fragile binding, chips at spine ends and corners. A very good inscribed copy, most desirable inscribed.

40 “Virginia, December 25, 1926”: Splendid Ceramic Tile With Original Design By Vanessa Bell, Presented To Her Sister, Virginia Woolf

35. (WOOLF, Virginia) BELL, Vanessa. Ceramic Tile. 1926. Earthenware ceramic tile, 6 by 6 inches, mounted and framed. $68,000. Extraordinary tin glazed painted earthenware tile, created and executed in enamels by Vanessa Bell, given by her to her sister, Virginia Woolf as a Christmas gift. This unique artifact epitomizes the bond between two extraordinary sisters, artist and author. Virginia Woolf was still polishing To the Lighthouse in December of 1926 when Vanessa Bell gifted this personalized handmade multi-colored tile to her. The lettering is a rich blue, the decoration in green, purple, brown and black. The tile was auctioned in 2002 as part of the estate of Louie Mayer, the woman who had been the Woolf’s cook at Monk’s House in Lewes for 34 years. It has been in private hands since then. Just a few small chips to edges of tile. Colors vivid. A unique piece, beautifully framed.

41 women Beau Brummel, 1930, One Of Only 550 Copies Signed By Virginia Woolf

36. WOOLF, Virginia. Beau Brummell. New York, 1930. Tall thin folio (9 by 121/2 inches), original half gilt-stamped red cloth. $2800. Signed limited first edition of this amusing account of the 19th-century dandy, one of only 550 copies (500 of which were offered for sale), signed by Virginia Woolf in her characteristic purple ink. First published in the Nation & Athenaeum (September 28, 1929), Woolf’s essay describes the life, habits and unfortunate end of Beau Brummel, early 19th-century arbiter of fashion. Designed and decorated with two color illustrations by W.A. Dwiggins and printed by William Edwin Rudge. Without slipcase. Kirkpatrick A15. Ransom, Checklists, 227:44. Bookplate. A couple small spots of tape residue to pastedowns, mild offsetting to preliminaries, small closed marginal tear to plate at rear, only slight rubbing and toning to extremities of binding. A near-fine signed copy.

Signed Limited First Edition Of Eleanor Roosevelt’s This I Remember

37. ROOSEVELT, Eleanor. This I Remember. New York, 1949. Large octavo, original blue cloth, glassine, slipcase. $2800. Signed limited first edition, one of only 1000 copies printed on special paper and signed by Eleanor Roosevelt, a beautiful copy. “Franklin often used me to get the reflection of other people’s thinking,” wrote Eleanor Roosevelt, “because he knew I made it a point to see and talk with a variety of people.” This fascinating personal account of the Roosevelts’ extraordinary life and times contains 41 photographic illustrations of the Roosevelt family, including a frontispiece of the First Lady, after a portrait taken circa 1944 by renowned photographer Yousuf Karsh. Edens B17. One minor closed tear to original glassine. A fine copy.

42 Vintage Photographic Print Of Amelia Earhart, Signed By Her

38. EARHART, Amelia. Photograph signed. No place, no date. Vintage photographic print, measuring 4 by 5 inches; matted and framed, entire piece measures 11 by 12 inches. $4800. Lovely vintage photographic print of Amelia Earhart standing in the cockpit of her Lockheed Vega airplane, signed by her. Amelia Earhart recorded a number of firsts in her extraordinary aviation career: she was the first person, man or woman, to fly solo from Hawaii to the U.S. mainland, Honolulu to Oakland. She was the first woman to fly the Atlantic in a plane (1928); the second person, and the first woman, to fly solo across the Atlantic (1932); and the first woman to fly solo across the continental U.S. Faint vertical scratch. About-fine condition.

Inscribed By Golda Meir

39. MEIR, Golda. My Life. New York, 1976. Octavo, original blue cloth, dust jacket. $1100. Early edition of the autobiography of Israel’s first female Prime Minister, inscribed: “To Gene Marshall Greetings Golda Meir.” Golda Meir, born in Kiev and raised in Milwaukee, emigrated to Palestine in 1921 and became Israel’s prime minister in 1969. “In contrast to most politi- cians’ self-portraits, this autobiography of Israel’s former premier is both frank and very revealing of her personality and goals… She has much to say on the special problems of women in politics... Don’t mistake this for just chicken soup with riposte-noodles: it’s a model of its kind and a sure crowd-pleaser” (Kirkus). Preceded by the British first edition and the first American edition of 1975. With 16 pages of illustrations. “Gene Marshall” may refer to a consular affairs officer who served in the Middle East toward the beginning of his career. Book with faintest foxing to endpapers and sunning to spine ends, dust jacket with slight foxing to flaps and a bit of wear to extremities including small chip to rear panel. An extremely good inscribed copy.

43 women “Those Who Saw Her First, Run Away, Crying Out, ‘There Is The Devil’”: Very Scarce Contemporary English Edition Of History Of A Savage Girl, Circa 1760

40. (LE BLANC, Marie-Angelique Memmie) HECQUET, Marie-Catherine Homassel. The History of a Savage Girl, Caught Wild in the Woods of Champagne. London, circa 1760. Small octavo (4 by 7 inches), contemporary full brown sheep gilt rebacked. $3800. Scarce London edition, likely the first edition in English of the life of “a savage girl,” Marie- Angélique Memmie Leblanc, reportedly published barely a decade after the French first edition. In the 18th century legends of wild children fascinated Europe. Perhaps most famous was the story of a young girl, later named Marie-Angélique Memmie Leblanc, found in the forests of France in the early 1730s. This very scarce contemporary account of her life, anonymously published in London circa 1760, is likely the first edition in English of the life of Leblanc. “She was effectively a castaway in populous France, a mirror-image of Robinson Crusoe, a savage shipwrecked in the midst of civilization” (Newton, 114-15). Anonymously issued in France in 1755. Text fresh, only light embrowning to preliminaries, mild edge-wear to boards. An extremely good copy, scarce in contemporary boards.

“The Sentiments Of The Heart Cannot Submit To Be Directed By The Rule And The Square”: 1798 First Edition Of William Godwin’s Important Memoir Of His Late Wife Mary Wollstonecraft

41. (WOLLSTONECRAFT, Mary) GODWIN, William. Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman. London, 1798. Small octavo, 20th-century full crimson morocco gilt, custom slipcase. $4800. First edition of William Godwin’s memoir of his recently deceased wife, Mary Wollstonecraft, author of the landmark work A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, with engraved frontispiece portrait of her, handsomely bound in full morocco by Bayntun. William Godwin penned this important memoir shortly after his wife’s death in September 1797. “The first edition of Godwin’s memoir of Wollstonecraft in 1798, written in the first wave of his grief, presented a warm and generous picture of a woman whose willingness to follow her unconventional judgment, especially with respect to sexual mores, was candidly discussed and defended... Godwin badly misjudged his audience: the critical reviews attacked the book as a fundamental assault on marriage and female delicacy” (ODNB). A fine copy, handsomely bound.

44 “Generations Of Readers Have Marveled At The Modernity Of Her Work”: Jane Austen’s Works, Handsomely Bound

42. AUSTEN, Jane. Works. Boston, 1892-98. Twelve volumes. 12mo, contemporary three-quarter brown morocco gilt. $8500. Lovely limited edition, one of 250 sets of Jane Austen’s beloved novels. “Generations of readers have marveled at the modernity of her work… She is the mother of the English 19th-century novel as Scott is the father of it” (Kunitz & Haycraft, 23). Includes Austen’s novels (Emma, Persuasion, Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice among them) and letters, as well as a memoir of the author by her nephew, J.E. Austen Leigh. Each volume with frontispiece etching. A fine set.

“As He Died To Make Men Holy, Let Us Die To Make Men Free, While God Is Marching On!”: Autograph Lyrics Signed By Julia Ward Howe

43. HOWE, Julia Ward. Autograph lyrics signed. No place, July 18, 1900. One leaf, measuring 5 by 8 inches, inscribed on the recto; matted and framed with first day cover, entire piece measures 15 by 18 inches. $6800. Autograph lyrics for “Battle Hymn of the Republic,” inscribed: “In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born, across the sea, With a glory in his bosom that transfigures you and me. As he died to make men holy, let us die to make men free, While God is marching on! Julia Ward Howe. July 18th, 1900.” Handsomely framed with a first day cover with a cachet portrait of Howe. Howe’s stirring poetic hymn was set to the tune of “John Brown’s Body,” which Howe had heard soldiers singing during her visit to a Union Army camp. She was taken with its strong marching beat and wrote her famous poem the following morning. The hymn “aroused President Lincoln ‘like a trumpet blast,’ and became his best loved marching song” (Owen, 143). “Battle Hymn of the Republic” first appeared in The Atlantic Monthly in February 1862. Fine condition. Beautifully presented.

45 women Sichel’s Biography Of Emma Lady Hamilton, With Beautiful Cosway-Style Binding

44. (HAMILTON, Emma) SICHEL, Walter. Emma Lady Hamilton. From New and Original Sources and Documents. Together with an Appendix of Notes and New Letters. London, 1905. Octavo, contemporary full crushed crimson morocco gilt, Cosway-style miniature portrait behind glass inset into front board. $5000. First edition of the definitive biography of Lady Hamilton, in beautiful full morocco-gilt with a Cosway-style binding of Hamilton on the front board. Sichel give a detailed and often sympathetic account of all of Hamilton’s life, from her humble origins to her infamous love affair with Admiral Nelson and her lonely death in poverty. Cosway bindings (named for 19th-century English miniaturist Richard Cosway) were first commissioned in the early 1900s by J.H. Stonehouse from the famous Rivière bindery, who employed Miss C.B. Currie to faithfully imitate Cosway’s detailed watercol- or style of portraiture. These delicate miniature paintings, often on ivory, were set into the covers or doublures of richly-tooled bindings and protected by thin panes of glass. Front joint expertly repaired. A beautiful volume.

Beautifully Bound And Illustrated Life Of Josephine

45. (JOSEPHINE) MASSON, Frédéric. Joséphine, Impératrice et Reine. Paris, 1899. Folio, contemporary full straight-grain dark green morocco gilt. $2000. Limited edition, one of 1200 copies produced, beautifully illustrated with over 30 captioned tissue-guarded plates, including a beautiful color frontispiece portrait of “L’Imperatrice Josephine en 1806,” and eight in-text illustrations. Handsomely bound in full morocco-gilt by Durvand. Masson, best known for his works on the Bonapartes, emphasizes the romantic, personal, and dramatic sides of history through his use of detail and anecdote. Text in French. Original printed paper wrappers and spine bound in at front and rear. Bookplate of the Président of Viefville; two Parisian dealer labels. A splendid volume in fine condition.

46 “Her Mind Was Charged With Paradox”: First Edition Of Emily Dickinson’s Second Book Of Poems

46. DICKINSON, Emily. Poems. Second Series. Boston, 1891. Small octavo, original gilt-stamped olive cloth. $6500. First edition of Emily Dickinson’s second book of poetry, one of only 960 copies of the first printing. Emily Dickinson published only 11 poems during her lifetime, but upon her death in 1886, her sister Lavinia discovered 1775 manuscript poems. Mabel Todd edited and published the three series of these poems until a quarrel between the Dickinson and Todd families led to a division of the manuscripts, preventing the further publication of complete and authoritative editions of Dickinson’s poetry until 70 years after her death (Wolff). Second Series is the second of three books of Dickinson’s poetry published by Mabel Todd. Myerson’s Binding B (no priority established) with olive cloth gilt-stamped with Indian pipes design. Myerson A2.1a. BAL 4656. Owner ink signature, dated 1891; later pencil ownership signature. A bit of foxing to endpapers only, text clean, cloth only slightly darkened, gilt still bright. A near-fine copy.

“Immortal Is An Ample Word”

47. DICKINSON, Emily. Poems. Third Series. Boston, 1896. Small octavo, original green and gilt-stamped white cloth. $6000. First edition of Emily Dickinson’s third book of poems, one of only 1000 copies printed. Dickinson’s lyrics, “her letter to the world,” offer an account “of the life about her, of tiny ecstasies set in motion by mutations of the seasons or by home and garden incidents, of candid insights into her own states of consciousness, and of speculations on the timeless mysteries of love and death” (Hart, 201). Third Series is the third of three books of Dickinson’s poetry. Myerson’s binding A, with gilt rules marking the meeting of the green cloth spine and white cloth boards, as opposed to full gray or olive cloth binding (no priority established). Without ribbon marker (not issued with all copies). Myerson A4.1a. BAL 4661. Interior fine, just a hint of darkening to fresh cloth, gilt bright. A beautiful copy.

47 women “A Well-Researched Exposé Of Indian Mistreatment”: First Edition Of A Century Of Dishonor

48. JACKSON, Helen Hunt. A Century of Dishonor. A Sketch of the United States Government’s Dealings with Some of the Indian Tribes. New York, 1881. Octavo, original brown cloth. $3800. First edition of this “impassioned account” of the United States government’s crimes against indigenous communities, written to raise awareness and gener- ate a push for legislative reform and ethical change in society at large. “In 1879, while visiting in Boston, Jackson attended a reception for representatives of the Ponca and Omaha Indian tribes who were touring the East in an attempt to arouse public indignation over the confiscation of their tribal lands by the U.S. government. Jackson... was transformed… Her dedication to the cause of justice for Indian tribes resulted in a well-researched exposé of Indian mistreatment published in 1881 as A Century of Dishonor” (DNB). Organizations including the Indian Rights Association and the Women’s National Indian Association relied heavily on the work in their speeches. Contemporary owner gift inscription to William Saunders, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s first botanist and landscape architect. He also designed the Washington, D.C. park system. A clean, near-fine copy.

“It Is A Terrible Thing, This Kindness… We Have Nothing Else To Give”

49. LEGUIN, Ursula K. The Left Hand of Darkness. New York, 1969. Octavo, original gray paper boards, dust jacket. $5600. First hardcover edition of LeGuin’s award-winning book, “one of the three or four most influential science fiction novels of the last half-century”—a lyrical and challenging tale of politics, gender and love on an alien world, inscribed: “To Dave, with all good wishes, Ursula.” The Left Hand of Darkness helped firmly establish its author as one of the genre’s most important. “Not only does the science fiction community recog- nize how good she is, everyone else recognizes it too” (Holdstock, 181). It won both the Nebula and Hugo awards. “The Left Hand of Darkness remains Ursula LeGuin’s masterpiece” (Science Fiction 100 Best 60). This hardcover edition was preceded in the same year by a pulp paperback edition, published with very poor production standards by Ace Books. Currey, 246. Book fine, bright dust jacket very nearly so. An excellent inscribed copy.

48 “My First Memory Is Of The Brightness Of Light—Light All Around”

50. O’KEEFFE, Georgia. Georgia O’Keeffe. New York, (1976). Large folio, original beige cloth, dust jacket. $8500. First trade edition of this superbly illustrated large folio collection of paintings by O’Keeffe, presentation-association copy boldly inscribed by her in the year of publication to photographer Alan Ross, former assistant to Ansel Adams: “For Alan, Georgia O’Keeffe, 1976.” The 108 vivid full-color plates reproduced in this beautiful production were all selected by O’Keeffe for inclusion in this collection. Her accompanying text constitutes a poetic, thoughtful autobiography about her growth as an artist. Preceded by a signed limited edition of 175 copies. With 2012 letter of provenance from Alan Ross on his stationery laid in, along with a 6 by 9-inch print of the iconic photograph of O’Keeffe by O’Keeffe’s associate Juan Hamilton, used on the rear panel of the dust jacket. Ross notes in his letter of provenance: “While I was Assistant to Ansel Adams in the mid-late 1970s, O’Keeffe and her associate, Juan Hamilton, came to stay at the Adams’ home for a week in early 1976. Juan and I became pretty good friends during that visit, and when the book came out, he had O’Keeffe inscribe a copy for me.” Book fine, dust jacket near-fine. An excellent signed presentation-association copy.

49 women Americana

50 “One Of The Supreme Utterances Of The Principles Of Democratic Freedom” (PMM)

51. (CIVIL WAR) (LINCOLN, Abraham) EVERETT, Edward. An Oration Delivered on the Battlefield of Gettysburg. New York, 1863. Octavo, original printed tan paper wrappers; pp. 48, custom chemise and half morocco slipcase. $65,000. Rare first book-form appearance of Lincoln’s magnificent Gettysburg Address, corresponding almost exactly to the spoken version transcribed by Associated Press reporter Joseph L. Gilbert, in original wrappers. The Gettysburg Address, a few short lines scrawled, according to legend, on scratch-paper and enve- lopes, is one of America’s most cherished documents. This work “did unforgettable justice to the thousands of young Americans who had struggled with incredible bravery” (Bruce Catton). Lincoln’s text first appeared in the newspapers, and “when it came to the separate publication on 22 November, Everett’s ‘Oration’ was reprinted from the standing type, but Lincoln’s speech had to be set up. It was tucked away as a final paragraph on page 16 of the pamphlet. It was similarly treated when the meanly produced leaflet was replaced by a 48-page book- let published by Baker and Godwin of New York in “Discipline, Patient Endurance And Impetuous Valor” the same year” (PMM 351). This is that New York printing, with Lincoln’s Address on page 40. This 52. (CIVIL WAR) EMILIO, Luis F. History of the Fifty-Fourth Regiment edition was preceded only by the exceptionally of the Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, 1863–1865. [A Brave Black rare 16-page pamphlet, The Gettysburg Solemnities, Regiment.]. Boston, 1891. Octavo, original gilt-stamped brown cloth. known in only three copies. Wills, 191-204; 261-263. $3200. Howes E233. Sabin 23263. Streeter 1747. Monaghan First edition, illustrated with 20 photographic plates and nine maps (two 193. Grolier, American 100, 72 (note). Fragile origi- folding), a splendid copy in original gilt-stamped cloth. nal paper wraps fine with light vertical crease and Emilio’s History of the Fifty-Fourth Regiment “is the principal source of in- minor darkening at top edge. An exceptional copy formation on the celebrated regiment that attacked Fort Wagner on Morris of this important Lincoln rarity in fine condition. Island in July 1863. One of the first black fighting units to see action in the field, the 54th was commanded by Col. Robert Gould Shaw... Emilio served throughout the war as a captain in the regiment, and his insights on the “We here highly resolve that these peculiar origin of the regiment, its national composition and the youthful commander who was killed at Wagner are valuable... The narrative is tight dead shall not have died in vain— and factual, and the author offers resplendent detail” (Eicher 1068). Basis that this nation, under God, shall for the 1989 film Glory that won Denzel Washington won his first Oscar. A have a new birth of freedom…” handsome copy in about-fine condition.

51 americana “Our Cause Is Just: Our Union Is Perfect… Resolved To Die Freemen, Rather Than To Live Slaves”: Exceedingly Rare First Edition Of The 1775 Journal Of The Second Continental Congress, Detailing The Dramatic Events Of The Summer Of 1775, Including Jefferson’s Causes And Necessity Of Taking Up Arms, Dickinson’s Olive Branch Petition, And Much More

53. (AMERICAN REVOLUTION) CONTINENTAL CONGRESS. Journal of the Proceedings of the Congress, Held at Philadelphia, May 10, 1775. Philadelphia, 1775. Octavo, early 20th-century three-quarter brown calf gilt. $60,000. Extraordinarily rare first edition of the Journal of the Second Continental Congress, recording the pivotal events and resolutions from its convening the month after Lexington and Concord, on May 10, 1775, through its adjournment on September 5, 1775, meeting in “strict- est secrecy behind closed doors because of the number of British agents” in Philadelphia, with delegates including Founding Fathers Jefferson, Washington and Franklin, published by order of Congress and printed in Philadelphia by William and Thomas Bradford, official printers to the new government. Produced in very limited quantities, copies are quite rare and desirable. This copy belonged to Moses Marshall, prominent 18th-century Philadelphia botanist and horticulturist. An uncut copy complete with half title. This rare first edition of the Journal of the Second Continental Congress, spanning May 10–September 5, 1775, records the pivotal summer in American history when delegates achieved a “quite remarkable feat of making an explosion happen in slow motion… a creative act of statesmanship that allowed the United States to avoid the bloody and chaotic fate of subsequent revolutionary move- ments” (Ellis, American Creation, 20–21). While “it is hard to pinpoint precisely when America crossed the threshold of deciding that complete independence from Britain was necessary,” it was during that sweltering summer, with news that June of the bloody Battle of Bunker Hill and the British burning of Charleston, that Franklin, Adams and others realized “the point of no return had been reached” (Johnson, History of the American People, 149). Included are works such as the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms, primarily authored by Jefferson, the Olive Branch Petition, the appointment of Washington as commander-in-chief, and much more. Copies of the Journal have been found with the names of John Hancock and Charles Thomson inadvertently omitted from the foot of page 239, apparently requiring a stop-press correction. This copy is the corrected state, with the names in place. Evans 14569. Hildeburn 3229. Howes J264. Ford 74. Adams, American Controversy 75–151a. Contemporary signature of botanist Moses Marshall, whose most significant contributions were in assisting his uncle Humphry Marshall in producing his Arbustrum Americanum (1785), and in planning numerous scientific expeditions sponsored by the American Philosophical Society. Expert paper repair to half title, not affecting text, dampstain to first few leaves and loss of margin to last few leaves, also not affecting text. An American Revolutionary landmark of exceptional rarity and importance. 52 1829 First Edition Of Milbert’s Landmark Hudson River Atlas In Elephant Folio, With 54 Beautiful Lithograph Views And Double-Page Hand-Colored Map

54. MILBERT, Jacques-Gerard. Itineraire Pittoresque du Fleuve Hudson et des parties laterales de l’Amerique du Nord. Paris, 1829. Folio (213/4 by 141/4 inches), original three-quarter diced red calf. $16,800. First edition of this outstanding series of American views, which “constitute a unique and valuable record” (Sherman) of the natural splendors to be seen along the Hudson River, in New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and at Niagara Falls, with lithographed title page, 54 lovely lithographed views, and large double-page hand-colored map. “The painter Milbert set out for the United States in 1815 as a correspondent of the Museum of Natural History in Paris. He remained for seven years, sending back to France almost 8000 specimens of American flora and fauna. He also brought home many sketches from which… lithographs for his book were made by such artists as Adam, Bichebois, Sabatier, and Villeneuve. For the most part they are views of the Hudson river and the towns along its course, though other northeastern states receive some attention…. It is clear, however, that the three views of Niagara Falls (plates 34 to 36) were the successes of the series” (Ray, The Art of the French Illustrated Book 110). The hand-colored double-page map includes the northeastern United States from Ohio east to Maine and from Virginia north to the Great Lakes, as well as a significant portion of Canada; an inset depicts the Hudson River region. The 54 lithograph plates include one unnumbered plate, often lacking. Atlas volume only, without the two French-language text volumes. Howes M592. Plates and map clean and bright, occasional light marginal foxing not affecting plates, edges of contemporary binding with light expert restoration. Beautiful, important, and scarce.

53 americana “Nothing Short Of The Loss Of My Life Shall Prevent Me From Becoming Their Historian”: Catlin’s North American Indians, 1841 Second Edition, Signed And Dated By Catlin In Each Volume

55. CATLIN, George. Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians. London, 1841. Two volumes. Octavo, original brown cloth, custom clamshell box. $13,800. An exceptional copy of Catlin’s North American Indians, boldly signed “Geo. Catlin of Wyoming, Penna. 1842” in each volume. This is the second edition, published the same year as the first, and contains three maps (one folding) and over 300 plates. One of “the nation’s pioneer anthropologists,” Catlin set out for the West from his home in Pennsylvania in 1830 to record on canvas North American Indians and their way of life. His eight years among the major tribes of the Great Plains and the Rocky Mountains resulted in his “Indian Gallery,” an enormous collection of artifacts as well as more than 400 paintings—portraits and scenes of tribal life. Catlin’s Letters… one of the first detailed illustrated descriptions of the Far West, combined a travelogue of adventures with anthropological observations of ceremonies, dances, hunting methods, forms of warfare, and daily living. Illustrated with hundreds of line-cut reductions of his original paintings. Wagner-Camp 84:4. Sabin 11536. Early owner signature on title pages. “Second Edition” on title pages inked over. Joints expertly repaired. An exceptionally good copy with only light wear to extremities, scarce and desirable inscribed and signed by Catlin.

54 “A Delight To The Casual Reader And A Rich Treasury For The Historical Investigator”: Five Volumes Of Harper’s Weekly, 1861–65, Covering The Civil War Years, With Numerous Wood-Engravings By Homer And Nast

56. (CIVIL WAR). Harper’s Weekly: A Journal of Civilization. Volumes V–IX. New York, 1861-1865. Six volumes. Large thick folio (12 by 161/2 inches), publisher’s gilt-stamped brown cloth. $15,000. Critical run of one of the great contemporary historical sources of the Civil War, containing first-hand accounts from the battlefield and thousands of wood engraved illustrations by such noted American artists as Winslow Homer and Thomas Nast, including many scenes of battle and camp, portraits of officers, political cartoons, maps and battle plans. A beautiful set, quite rare in publisher’s original cloth. Begun in 1857, Harper’s Weekly remains one of the most valuable primary sources for understanding 19th-century American life. “Here is a vital illustrated history… The combination of pictures, politics, essays and fiction gives [Harper’s] first-rate importance” (Mott, 469). Issues from the Civil War years contain not only dramatic first-hand accounts from the battlefronts, but graphic scenes of engagement in the field and life in the camps. From the first encounter at Fort Sumter, through all the hard-fought campaigns and into the beginnings of Reconstruction, Harper’s chronicles the bloody years that indelibly shaped the future of the United States. Virtually every page offers insight into this pivotal era, with thousands of wood-engravings, a great many by Winslow Homer and Thomas Nast. Lomazow 648. Interior fine, just an occasional expert paper repair, bright and fresh cloth with minor expert restoration to a few spines only. A beautiful copy.

55 americana 56 “The Grandfather Of Civil War Histories”: A Stunning Copy In Scarce Publisher’s Morocco And Original Dust Jackets “The Father Of Public Relations”: Rare First Edition Of 57. (CIVIL WAR) MILLER, Francis Trevelyan, ed- Propaganda, 1928, Signed By Edward Bernays itor. The Photographic History of the Civil War. New York, 1912. Ten volumes. Quarto, publish- 58. BERNAYS, Edward L. Propaganda. New York, 1928. Octavo, original er’s three-quarter navy morocco gilt, dust jackets. navy cloth. $11,500. $16,800. First edition of Bernays’ Propaganda, signed by him, the controversial work Second edition set of Miller’s famous and important in which he boldly proclaims the “conscious and intelligent manipulation… 10-volume photographic history of the Civil War, con- of the masses is an important element in democratic society,” pivotal in de- taining “thousands of scenes photographed 1861–65, veloping “his lifelong dictum that everything is a matter of public relations, with text by many special authorities.” Splendidly whether the individual knows it or not” (Manning, 24-5), in original gilt- bound in the very scarce publisher’s morocco, and stamped cloth. with the equally scarce publisher’s dust jackets. “Edward Bernays almost single-handedly fashioned the craft that has come “This mammoth work… a necessary part of any civ- to be called public relations… the man who fathered the science of spin.” Just il war library,” contains contributions from over as his uncle, Sigmund Freud, is known as the Father of Psychoanalysis, “so 39 eminent individuals, including academicians, Bernays became known around the world as the Father of Public Relations” President William H. Taft, and veteran officers of (Tye, Father of Spin, viii–ix). Bernays “distinguished himself from compet- both Confederate and Union forces, many of whom itors by claiming that public relations was an ‘applied social science’ and… wrote from personal experience. A number of the helped establish respect for the emerging field of public relations by teach- photographs, previously unpublished, are from ing the first college course in the field at New York University in 1923” (ANB). the collections of private individuals, including “Bernays properly measured his target audience then sought creative ways the extensive Eldridge Collection of Mathew Brady to make them respond to his lifelong dictum that everything is a matter Civil War photographs. Volume X is the second is- of public relations, whether the individual knows it or not” (Manning). sue (with revised index, marked “2-Ed.” in bottom Without rarely found dust jacket. An about-fine signed copy. margin of page 323). Books pristine, the finest copies we have ever seen, with dust jackets in equally extraordinary condition, with only a few minor closed tears and one small stain. A stunning copy.

57 americana Presentation Copy Inscribed And Twice Signed By FDR—One Of Only 50 Copies Published Of A Revolutionary War-Era Manuscript That Roosevelt Owned And Arranged For Publication

59. (ROOSEVELT, Franklin D.). Minutes of the Committee and of the First Commission for Detecting and Defeating Conspiracies in the State of New York. WITH: Minutes of the Committee and of the First Commission. WITH: CARMICHAEL, Donald S. A “Thriller” of Years Ago. Hyde Park, 1925. Together, four volumes. Octavo, original half cloth and boards, dust jacket; original cloth; original staple-bound wrappers, custom slipcase. $14,500. First separate publication of the very rare FDR-sponsored print- cousin Margaret L. Suckley unearthed the remaining 35. In all, ing of a Revolutionary War-era manuscript that was in Roosevelt’s Roosevelt sent out 16 of the 35 “Suckley” copies; the rest remain possession, one of only 50 copies printed, dated, numbered and in the Library at Hyde Park. signed by Roosevelt. Presentation copy additionally inscribed The two pamphlets focus on Roosevelt’s acquisition of the man- by FDR in the year of publication: “Victor H. Paltsits Esq. from uscript. The second pamphlet is an offprint of that same article his friend Franklin D. Roosevelt 1925.” Offered together with first with a new title page, one of only 25 copies produced for the editions of both the Historical Society publication and Donald author in June 1950 “to distribute to certain FDR regulars.” Laid Carmichael’s pamphlet regarding the history of the manuscript, which prints considerable unpublished FDR correspondence into the inscribed volume is a typed letter by recipient Victor about this project. Paltsits explaining the nature of the set: “The Manuscript volume was bought at auction at Henkels of Phila., in May 1923, by On May 25, 1923, Franklin Roosevelt outbid collectors and librar- Hon. Franklin D. Roosevelt, of Hyde Park, N.Y.” Tipped to the rear ians for a 148-page manuscript of the minutes of 17 meetings endpapers are a swatch of brown wrapping paper addressed (in a held in Poughkeepsie by the New York Council of Appointment secretarial hand) to Paltsits at the New York Public Library, where between 1778 and 1779. The purchase generated a lively corre- he headed up the Manuscripts Division, and a carbon of Paltsits’ spondence with Alexander J. Wall, librarian of the New York letter of gratitude to FDR. Bookplates of Donald S. Carmichael, Historical Society, whom Roosevelt had bested at the auction. President of the Franklin Roosevelt Collectors’ Association, au- To Roosevelt’s delight, the Society agreed to include his manu- thor of the article included in this set, “A ‘Thriller’ of Years Ago.” script of the Poughkeepsie minutes in their publication for 1925. Spine of fragile original plain paper dust jacket mostly perished. Soon after, at Roosevelt’s request, the Society ran off a sepa- Books and pamphlets fine. An exceptionally rare and desirable rate printing of 50 copies. In 1925, Roosevelt distributed only 15 Roosevelt presentation copy. of the 50 copies, putting the balance into storage. In 1943, his

58 Beautiful Photographic Portrait By Fabian Bachrach Of President Kennedy—The Image Eventually Used As The Official Presidential Portrait—Boldly Inscribed By Kennedy

60. (KENNEDY, John F.). Photograph inscribed. No place, no date. Black-and-white photographic print, measuring 8 by 9-1/2 inches; matted, entire piece measures 11 by 131/2 inches. $9500. Large photographic print of Fabian Bachrach’s iconic portrait of President Kennedy wearing a pinstripe suit, boldly inscribed in the margin to the Kennedy’s family’s “numbers man”: “To Tom Walsh—with esteem and very best wishes—John Kennedy.” After a failed initial Kennedy sitting in 1959, acclaimed photographer Fabian Bachrach begged for a second session that was eventually granted. “There was time for only six photographs. One, in black and white, depicts Kennedy from the chest up, looking directly into the camera. This became the presidential portrait, reproduced by the thousands” (New York Times). This photograph is inscribed to Thomas J. Walsh, a longtime financial advisor for the Kennedy family and a treasured family friend. Inscription bold, photograph bright and fine.

59 americana The “First Full-Length English Biography Of Washington,” With The Bookplate Of Revolution-Era French Statesman Marquis De Bouille

61. (AMERICAN REVOLUTION) CORRY, John. The Life of George Washington. BOUND WITH: FONTANE, Louis. Eloge Funebre de Washington. London, 1800. Small octavo (41/2 by 7 inches), contemporary full brown tree calf. $6000. First edition of Corry’s sympathetic biography of Washington, preceded only by Weems’ American biography issued the same year, bound with the first edition of Louis Fontanes’ Éloge Funebre de Washington, commissioned by Napoleon Bonaparte. With the bookplate of prominent French statesman Marques de Bouille. This “first full-length English biography of Washington” (Howes C790) won praise on publication for its sympathetic chronicle of Washington, as well as its excerpts from his speeches and other major Revolutionary works. Life of Washington is bound in one volume with the first edition of French statesman Louis Fontanes’ Éloge Funebre de Washington (Funeral Elegy). Published in Paris in 1800, with text in French, it was “delivered at the commemorative services held by the French government upon receipt of the news of Washington’s death” (Hough’s Washingtoniana). This association copy contains the armori- al bookplate of Francois Claude Amour, Marquis de Bouille, who fought for France in the Seven Years’ War, and led forces against England in the American Revolution. A dedicated royalist who was strongly opposed to the French Revolution, he was forced into exile in England. Interior very fresh, mere trace of edge-wear to contemporary calf. A fascinating association copy in about- fine condition.

Edited By Thomas Paine: “These Are To Inform You, That We Have Undoubted Intelligence Of Hostilities Being Begun At Boston By The Regular Troops”

62. (AMERICAN REVOLUTION) PAINE, Thomas, editor. The Pennsylvania Magazine: Or, American Monthly Museum. Philadelphia, April, 1775. Octavo, stitching renewed, later plain paper wrappers, custom clamshell box. $6000. First edition of the Thomas Paine-edited Pennsylvania Magazine for April, 1775, including a graphic, eye-witness report of the first military engagement of the American Revolution (the Battle of Lexington and Concord), and also mentioning Paul Revere and his Midnight Ride. The Pennsylvania Magazine was founded on the eve of the American Revolution by Robert Aitken (subsequently printer to the Continental Congress) and edited by Thomas Paine, one of the leading Revolutionary publicists. The final pages (184–92) are devoted to “Monthly Intelligence”; among the news bulletins is a riveting account of hostilities near Boston. This volume also contains the first appearance of Paine’s “Cupid and Hymen,” a veiled political commentary on the relationship between the colonies and Great Britain. With one engraved plate (of two). Mott, American Magazines I:87–91. Occasional foxing. A near-fine copy of this scarce Revolutionary War-era periodical edited by Thomas Paine.

60 The Book That Prompted Thomas Paine’s Famous Letter To Abbé Raynal

63. (AMERICAN REVOLUTION) RAYNAL, Abbé. The Revolution of America. London, 1781. Small octavo (41/2 by 73/4 inches), original marbled boards rebacked in sheep, orgiinal red morocco spine lable. $2300. First edition in English, simultaneous with the first French edition, of the book that sparked Thomas Paine’s influential defense of the American Revolution, in original marbled boards. A French historian sympathetic to Great Britain, Abbé Raynal here argues “that the American Revolution, like previous revolutions in history, was a temporary upheaval generated by exaggerated anxieties about piffling taxation increases” (Keane, 230). “Moreover, Raynal… [declares] that the British had offered peace terms as early as 1778 but the Americans had refused them, because they had already entered into an alliance with the French” (Fruchtman, 143). “The translator procured a copy of the original unpublished manuscript from the Abbé Raynal, and without his knowledge or consent, published it in French, at the same time with this translation” (Sabin 68104). Raynal’s treatise is especially famed for rousing “the ire of Thomas Paine [who read a Philadelphia edition] because of its many false statements. He answered this work in his Letter to the Abbé” (Gimbel-Yale 33). Text very fresh, expected edge-wear to boards. Very desirable in original marbled boards.

One Of The “First Modern Political Thinkers To Universalize A Single Revolution”: Very Scarce First Edition Of Paine’s Letter… To The Abbe Raynal, 1782

64. (AMERICAN REVOLUTION) PAINE, Thomas. Letter Addressed to the Abbe Raynal on the Affairs of North-America. In Which The Mistakes in the Abbe’s Account of the Revolution of America are Corrected and Cleared Up. Philadelphia, 1782. Octavo, period-style full tree calf gilt. $7200. First edition of Paine’s important rebuttal of Raynal’s pro-British work, a major work that established the American Revolution as a turning point in human history and Paine as one of the “first modern political thinkers to universalize a single revolution.” When Raynal’s 1780 Révolution de l’Amérique appeared in English in 1781, it sparked controversy by claiming Americans “declared independence only because they objected to paying British taxes.” On reading Raynal, Paine issued this emphatic response, published close to a year after Yorktown. “Letter to the Abbé Raynal was among the most eloquent, tightly argued, and insightful of Paine’s essays… Paine was among the first modern political thinkers to universalize a single revolution” (Keane, 230–31). Precedes the first English edition. Sabin 58222. Text very fresh and clean, beautifully bound.

61 americana Important First Edition Of Thomas Cooper’s Major Treatise On The Law Of Libel And The Liberty Of The Press, 1830

65. (HAMILTON, Alexander) (JEFFERSON, Thomas) COOPER, Thomas. A Treatise on the Law of Libel and the Liberty of the Press; Showing the Origin, Use, and Abuse of the Law of Libel. New York, 1830. Octavo, period-style half brown calf, marbled boards. $3800. First edition of Cooper’s exemplary work on freedom of the press, attacking the 1798 Sedition Act that saw him tried and imprisoned for libel, citing the powerful impact of Alexander Hamilton’s historic 1804 defense of Harry Croswell, and including the printing of a letter from Jefferson defending America’s revolutionary and constitutional rights, handsomely bound. Cooper was already a known radical when he left England for America in the early 1790s, quickly becoming “one of the leading public intellectuals of post-revolutionary America.. an incisive commentator on free speech” (Volokh, 374-7, 381). After passage of the infamous 1798 Sedition Act, Cooper was arrest- ed and tried for seditious libel, based on a 1799 handbill that criticized Adams. In this influential Treatise he cites his own trial and imprisonment, as well as the influence of Hamilton and Jefferson in defending freedom of the press. Text fresh with only lightest foxing, mainly to preliminaries. A handsome near-fine copy.

First Edition Of Custer’s Classic Account

66. CUSTER, George A. My Life on the Plains. New York, 1874. Octavo, original gilt-stamped green cloth, custom cloth slipcase. $4500. First edition of this scarce classic of western Americana, illustrated with eight full-page wood-engravings by A. Roberts, including a portrait of Custer and four portraits of chiefs. Custer’s fascinating autobiography of life as a caval- ryman fighting Native American tribes on the plains appeared in book form only two years before his last stand at Little Bighorn. A handsome, about-fine copy.

62 “An Entire History Was Yet To Be Told”: First Edition Of W.E.B. Du Bois’ Magnum Opus

67. DU BOIS, W.E. Burghardt. Black Reconstruction. New York, 1935. Thick octavo, original black cloth, dust jacket. $4900. First edition of Du Bois “monumental” epic history that fundamentally altered views of Reconstruction—an especially handsome copy in the original dust jacket. With Black Reconstruction, the work he considered his magnum opus, Du Bois “helped to launch the long attempt to rescue black history in America from what many scholars have called a ‘structural amnesia’… to Du Bois the broadest significance of slavery lay in its definition of the limits of American democracy” (Fabre, 58–63). Du Bois “set reconstruction historiography up- right after finding it standing on its head… Analytical yet intuitive, densely researched but impressionistic, judicious and sweeping… the book represent- ed one of those genuine paradigm shifts periodically experienced in a field of knowledge” (Lewis, 367). Book fine; mere trace of dampstaining, faint toning to about-fine price-clipped dust jacket.

“A Legend In The Tradition Of Robin Hood”

68. ANONYMOUS. (JAMES, Jesse). Jesse James: The Life and Daring Adventures of this Bold Highwayman and Bank Robber. Philadelphia, 1883. Small octavo, original pictorial purple wrappers, custom box. $3000. First edition of one of the earliest accounts of the life and death of Jesse James, with eight full-page woodcut engravings, scarce in fragile original pictorial wrappers. “On April 3, 1882, Jesse James was shot dead in his home at St. Joseph, Missouri by Robert Ford, as the outlaw leader stood on a chair straightening a picture. James’ career of robbery and murder was over, but the headlines of the Kansas City Journal—‘Goodbye Jesse’—heralded the beginning of a legend in the tradition of Robin Hood” (Lamar, 565). As reported in this anonymously authored tale—one of the earliest accounts of James’ life and death—“He was a man who never knew fear… That he was brutal none will deny who knew him, yet there was something about him that compelled admiration” (19). Adams, Six- Guns 558. Interior quite clean, fragile wrappers with only minor edgewear and dampstain, short closed tear to bottom of front wrapper, extremely good.

63 americana “One Of The Most Important Photobooks Ever Published”

69. RIIS, Jacob. How the Other Half Lives. New York, 1890. Octavo, original half blue cloth. $4000. First edition of this pioneering work by Riis—“the first photographer to use the power of the image as a tool for reform”—with over 45 illustrations, including 18 halftone photographic images and numerous line drawings, most based on photographs by Riis, in original pictorial boards. With this work, Riis became “the first photographer to use the power of the image as a tool for reform” (McDarrah & McDarrah, 381). Expanded from his 1889 magazine article, How the Other Half Lives “shocked the nation, prompt- ing the city to pass the first important legislation imposing health standards to make tenements more livable” (New York Times). The book’s power derives from its “deeply felt—always picturesque, sometimes sentimental—vignettes of the lives of slum-dwellers” (ANB). “One of the most important photobooks ever published” (Parr & Badger I: 53). A handsome copy.

Coaching Advice From The Namesake Of The Heisman Trophy

70. HEISMAN, John W. Principles of Football. St. Louis, 1922. Octavo, original pictorial cloth, dust jacket. $3500. Second edition of this classic volume of football strategy by one of the great college coaches of all time, with numerous in-text diagrams of plays, expanded to include a frontispiece portrait and 18 full-page game-play photographs. Scarce and desirable in original dust jacket. “One of the sport’s chief innovators, Heisman developed one of the first shifts, which was named for him. He was probably the first coach to have both guards pull to lead an end run, a forerunner of the Green Bay Packer power sweep of the 1960s. And he may have been the first to have the center toss the ball back instead of rolling or kicking it, though others claimed that honor. An early advocate of legalizing the forward pass, Heisman was also a proponent of dividing a game into quarters instead of halves” (College Football Hall of Fame). First published in 1921 without photographic illustrations. Book bright and near-fine, dust jacket with chipping to spine ends and corners, archival reinforcement to spine folds, very good.

64 First Edition Inscribed In The Year Of Publication By Jackie Robinson

71. ROBINSON, Jackie and ROWAN, Carl T. Wait Till Next Year. New York, 1960. Octavo, original half black cloth, dust jacket, custom box. $6800. First edition of Robinson’s inside story of overcoming racial antagonism and dis- crimination in baseball, inscribed in the year of publication: “6-10-60 To John King with best wishes. I hope you enjoy ‘Wait Till Next Year’ Jackie Robinson,” along with the inscription of his co-author Carl T. Rowan below: “I add my good wishes, Carl T. Rowan.” “Probably no other athlete has had a greater sociological impact on American sport than did Robinson. His success on the baseball field opened the door to black baseball players and thereby transformed the game” (ANB). On publication, Wait till Next Year was immediately praised as “absorbing and exciting… not only the biography of a great athlete but of a spirited, dedicated American.” Book fine; slight edge-wear mainly to spine ends, mild soiling to colorful extremely good dust jacket.

Robert Louis Stevenson’s A Christmas Sermon, Inscribed By President Roosevelt To His Long-Serving Private Secretary And Beloved Friend, Missy LeHand

72. (ROOSEVELT, Franklin D.) STEVENSON, Robert Louis. A Christmas Sermon. New York, 1923. Octavo, original gray paper boards, custom half morocco clamshell box. $8500. Later edition of Stevenson’s thoughtful musings on death and morality, inscribed by President Roosevelt to his longtime private secretary: “M.A.L. Xmas 1924 from F.D.R.” This copy is inscribed from President Roosevelt to “M.A.L.,” better known as Missy LeHand. LeHand was Roosevelt’s private secretary for 21 years. Many historians believe that their relationship went somewhat further—with LeHand and Roosevelt having a romantic relationship, the parameters of which remain unclear. This copy might have had considerable meaning at the time it was given; Roosevelt was recovering from polio and likely shared many of the same sentiments as Stevenson. LeHand, who had been sickly since childhood, might well have found special meaning in the gift. In addition to Franklin Roosevelt and Missy LeHand, this copy once belonged to (and bears the bookplate of) Donald S. Carmichael, a corporate executive who began collecting Roosevelt memorabilia in 1932. A near-fine inscribed copy.

65 americana From The Library Of FDR, Signed By Him

73. (ROOSEVELT, Franklin D.) DE WORDE, Wynkyn. The Treatyse of Fysshynge wyth an Angle. London, 1880. Quarto, original 15th century-style blind-stamped vellum sympathetically rebacked, custom slipcase. $8800. Outstanding association copy of this facsimile of the first book in English on fishing, from the personal library of President Franklin D. Roosevelt—an avid bibliophile and fisherman—signed by him: “Franklin D. Roosevelt, The White House—1935.” “Roosevelt was an avid, lifelong fisherman. After his mobility became limited when he contracted polio in 1921, FDR spent a great deal of his leisure time either sailing or fishing” (F.D.R. Presidential Library & Museum). Roosevelt was also an ardent bibliophile. He was a member of such book collectors’ organizations as the Club of Odd Volumes and the Grolier Club. At his death, his personal library numbered more than 21,000 volumes; the vast majority of FDR’s personal library and papers remain intact in the FDR library. Books from the personal libraries of presidents are scarce and desirable and volumes from the libraries of 20th century presidents’ personal libraries are extremely scarce as all such volumes are typically given to their presidential libraries. This book probably left Hyde Park in 1951 when Elliott Roosevelt negotiated the sale of some family books to the Rosenbach Company. A fine copy, with an outstanding presidential association.

Signed By All Members Of The Burger Court, Circa 1971

74. (SUPREME COURT) BURGER, Warren E., et al. Photographic portrait signed. Washington, circa 1971. Black-and-white photographic print, measuring 13 by 81/2 inches; mounted on board, entire piece measures 17 by 12 inches. $3800. Large photographic portrait of the “Burger Court” just prior to the 1971 deaths of Black and Harlan, signed by all nine justices on the mount. “Burger has a place in judicial history as head of the Court that consolidated, often against the chief justice’s wishes, what Justice Abe Fortas termed ‘the most profound and pervasive revolution ever achieved by substantially peaceful means,’ the revolution brought about by the Warren Court” (ANB). In addition to Chief Justice Burger (who served in that capacity from 1969 until his retirement in 1986), the portrait also shows Associate Justices Hugo Black, William O. Douglas, John Marshall Harlan II, William H. Brennan, Potter Stewart, Byron White, Thurgood Marshall and Harry Blackmun. Fine.

66 Large Color Photograph Of Four Presidents At The White House In 1981, Signed By Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford, Richard Nixon, And Ronald Reagan

75. CARTER, Jimmy; FORD, Gerald; NIXON, Richard; and REAGAN, Ronald. Photograph signed. Washington, 1981. Color photograph, measuring 7 by 91/4 inches; matted, entire piece measures 11 by 14 inches. $8500. Original color photograph of Presidents Carter, Ford, Nixon, and Reagan at the White House prior to leaving for Anwar Sadat’s funeral, signed on the mat by all four. This signed photograph of the 37th through 40th Presidents of the United States was taken at the White House, where Presidents Carter, Ford, Nixon, and Reagan gathered in preparation for attending Anwar Sadat’s funeral in Egypt. Ultimately, the circumstances of Sadat’s assassination were thought to present too great a security risk to Reagan, the sitting president, so Presidents Carter, Ford, and Nixon traveled along with a delegation of American officials and briefly paid their respects to Sadat in his place. A handsome signed photograph.

Inscribed By President Obama

76. OBAMA, Barack. Dreams from My Father. New York, 1995. Octavo, original half gilt-stamped black cloth, dust jacket. $16,000. First edition of President Obama’s first book, his “provocative autobiography,” inscribed by him: “To Carey and Chris — All the best to you and your valuable work! Warm Regards, Barack Obama.” “All men live in the shadow of their fathers—the more distant the father, the deeper the shadow. Barack Obama describes his confrontation with this shadow in his provocative autobiography… and he also persuasively describes the phenomenon of belonging to two different worlds, and thus belonging to neither… At a young age and without much experience as a writer, Barack Obama has bravely tackled the complexities of his remarkable upbringing” (New York Times). A beautiful inscribed first edition.

67 americana Artist’s Books and Illustrated Books

Signed By Joan Miró: One Of Only 150 Copies Beautifully Printed And Signed By The Artist

77. MIRÓ, Joan. Sculptures. Paris, 1970. Folio (111/2 by 151/4 inches), unbound signatures; ll. 14, original portfolio pictorial paper wrappers, paper board portfolio, slipcase. $7500. Signed limited first edition of Miró’s sculpture, one of 150 copies beautifully printed on Lana wove and signed by the artist, with six striking double-page color lithographs (four lithographs after Miró and two original lithographs accomplished by Miró) and 12 photographic images of Miró’s sculptures. “What is there in a picture by Miró that casts such an irresistible spell over the spectator?… It is a dream- world transcribed by a master technician” (Hazan, 18–88). This work was a production of Derrière le Miroir, a French fine art publication. Derrière le Miroir was founded in 1946 and continued publication by Galerie Maeght until 1982. For each issue, Galerie Maeght would commission a gallery artist to design and create a limited edition publication such as this one. Cramer 134. A fine copy.

68 Dalí’s Large Folio Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland, Signed By Him, With An Original Etching And 12 Full-Page Color Photogravures

78. (DALÍ, Salvador). CARROLL, Lewis. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. New York, 1969. Large folio (13 by 181/2 inches), loose signatures laid into brown cloth portfolio, half morocco clamshell box with later leather and bone fore-edge ties. $13,500. Beautifully printed limited edition of the brilliant and beloved children’s classic, one of 2500 copies signed by Salvador Dalí, with an original etching and 12 full-page color photogravures after his paintings—as breathtakingly imaginative as the text they illustrate. Dalí’s twisting dreamscapes and semi-hallucinatory images superbly complement Carroll’s astonishingly inventive fantasy (first published in 1865) and exemplify the artist’s entire oeuvre. “Dalí’s images have become icons of the fantastic, signposts (not maps) that point the way inward to that realm” (Clute & Grant, 246). This magnificent production, printed on Mandeure paper, contains an original three-color etching as a frontispiece and 12 striking full-page color photogravures (heliogravures) after Dalí’s original gouache paintings. Michler & Löpsinger 321–333. Field 69–5. Plates and text fine, box clasps and ties renewed. A fine copy.

69 artist’s books & illustrated books “A Turning Point In His Career”

79. (RACKHAM, Arthur) IRVING, Washington. Rip Van Winkle. London, 1905. Quarto, original full pictorial vellum gilt, custom clamshell slipcase. $11,000. Deluxe signed limited first edition, one of only 250 copies signed by Rackham, one of the smallest lim- itations for a Rackham title and “the first book illustrated wholly by Rackham to be issued in a limited edition” (Riall), with 51 full-color mounted plates by Rackham. One of the most scarce and desirable Rackham titles. “Rip Van Winkle of 1905 was a turning point in Rackham’s career because of its 51 color plates. Known previously as a black-and-white artist, Rackham with this book achieved preeminence as an illustrator working in the three-color process… Rackham’s Rip Van Winkle is among the most thoroughly illustrated of English books… His 50 illustrations, which are grouped at the end, come at a rate of one to every two or three sentences… presenting Rip’s story in the most ingenious and engaging detail” (Ray, 203–04). Ribbon ties renewed. A beautiful copy of this scarce Rackham classic.

70 “His Acknowledged Masterpiece”

80. (RACKHAM, Arthur) BARRIE, J.M. Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. London, 1906. Quarto, original full pictorial vellum gilt, custom slipcase. $12,800. Signed limited first separate edition, one of only 500 copies signed by Rackham, with 50 mounted color illustrations. “The 50 color plates were unanimously praised by all who saw them. One critic wrote: ‘Mr. Rackham seems to have dropped out of some cloud in Mr. Barrie’s fairyland, sent by special providence to make pictures in tune with his whim- “Rackham’s detailed work sical genius’” (Dalby, 76–77). The book—with which the “gift book” genre orig- is pure fantasy, alternately inated (Eyre, 41)—established Rackham’s worldwide reputation and remains beautiful, romantic, haunting, “his acknowledged masterpiece… [Barrie praised] Rackham’s rendering of the fairy world… but the book has much more to offer. The glimpses he provides of and sinister.” stylized London reality effectively set off the fairy life that exists in unsuspect- ed conjunction with it, and he captures the loveliness of the Gardens them- —The Paris Review selves with masterly skill” (Ray 329). “A much-sought-after volume” (Quayle, Early Children’s Books, 87). Frontispiece plate bound before title page, as called for; other mounted plates bound together at the end of the text rather than throughout as suggested by plate list, as often. A beautiful copy.

71 artist’s books & illustrated books “Snow-Capped Peaks And Gemlike Mountain Lakes”: Sierra Nevada, One Of Only 500 Signed By Ansel Adams

81. ADAMS, Ansel. Sierra Nevada: The John Muir Trail. Berkeley, 1938. Large folio (13 by 17 inches), original ivory cloth. $14,000. Signed limited first edition, one of only 500 copies signed by Adams, who “realized in his pictures what Walt Whitman celebrated in his poetry,” featuring 50 luminous mounted halftone prints including “Half Dome,” very scarce in original cloth. To Ansel Adams, the open vistas of the American West were “an event, an ephemeral, continuing drama. The protagonist of the drama is the light.” Adams photographed these “snow-capped peaks and gemlike mountain lakes… so persuasively that it has seemed to most younger photographers of ambition that that book has been closed” (Szarkowski, American Landscapes, 13–14). In the luminous images of Sierra Nevada, this superlative landscape photographer affirms his renown for elevating “the act of photography to a religious -ex perience. He realized in his pictures what Walt Whitman celebrated in his poetry: the uniqueness of American landscape and nature” (Icons of Photography, 96). Included is “Half Dome,” widely considered his first masterpiece and “one of Adams’ most famous mountain subjects” (New York Times). Each separate- ly mounted halftone print measures nine by seven inches. Without extremely scarce dust jacket. Plates and text fine, cloth with a few minor marks and rubs, near-fine. A magnificent production.

72 Exquisite Signed Limited First Edition Of Corps Perdu, With 32 Stunning Folio Illustrations By Picasso, One Of Only 219 Copies Signed By Picasso

82. PICASSO, Pablo and CESAIRE, Aime. Corps Perdu. Paris, 1950. Folio (113/4 by 153/4 inches), original half vellum-gilt portfolio, loose signatures, slipcase. $24,000. Striking first edition of this powerful celebration of black pride, one of only 177 copies (out of a total edition of 219 copies) signed by poet Aime Cesaire and artist Pablo Picasso, featuring poetry by Cesaire and 32 beautiful illustrations by Picasso (one etching, one etching and drypoint, 10 aquatints, and 20 engravings with burin). “In 1941, Andre Breton went to the West Indies accompanied by the Cuban painter, Wifredo Lam. In Fort-de-France, while looking through an issue of a Martinique magazine, Tropiques, they discovered the black poet Aime Cesaire, who was to become one of the great poets of negritude” (Goeppert, et al. 56). Negritude was a black pride movement that strived to elevate the black community by drawing on the power and excitement of its great moments—from the Harlem Renaissance to the Civil Rights Movement to “Black Is Beautiful.” “It may well have been Breton who suggested to Picasso that [he] illustrate Corps perdu.” Picasso, however, also knew Cesaire personally. Picasso and Cesaire met at the World Congress of Intellectuals for Peace in 1948. They discovered a shared interest in politics, art, and some of the ideas underlying sur- realism—namely, the idea of a powerful unconscious mind. Picasso’s illustrations in Corps Perdu strive to find the intersection of the African diaspora and Picasso’s own art. “The engravings, which were done in March, 1949, depict plants, insects, pictographic images of copulating couples, and faces in the form of leaves, animals or crescent moons… Finally, the artist added—as frontispiece—a superb etching and drypoint of a black man’s head in profile: this is the poeta laureatus of negritude” (Goeppert, et al. 56). A beautiful signed copy. 73 artist’s books & illustrated books Dalí’s Cookbook, Les Diners De Gala, Boldly Inscribed By Dalí With An Original Sketch Of A Shooting Star

83. DALÍ, Salvador. Les Dîners de Gala. New York, 1973. Thick folio (9 by 12 inches), original color-printed pictorial cloth, dust jacket. $13,500. Desirable first edition of this extravagant, lavishly illustrated cookbook created by Dalí in honor of his wife Gala, an exceptional copy boldly inscribed in black felt pen by Dalí across two pages to “Josefine,” with his sketch of shooting star above his name: “Dalí, 1975.” “When six years old I wanted to be a cook.” At age 68, Dalí fulfilled that ambition in this book. His careful selection of menus and recipes, “with its precepts and its illustrations, is uniquely devoted to the pleasures of Taste. Don’t look for dietetic formulas here. We intend to ignore those charts and tables in which chemistry takes the place of gastronomy. If you are a disciple of one of those calorie-counters who turn the joys of eat- ing into a form of punishment, close this book at once; it is too lively, too aggressive and far too impertinent for you.” Gala was Dalí’s wife and muse. With color plates and in-text photographs and illustrations on nearly every page. A fine signed copy.

74 One Of Only 105 Copies Signed By Margery Williams Bianco

84. (RACKHAM, Arthur) BIANCO, Margery Williams. Poor Cecco. New York, 1925. Quarto, original cream and blue paper boards, custom cardboard slipcase. $9500.

Signed limited large-paper first edition of this en- chanting toy adventure, one of only 105 copies signed by Margery Williams Bianco, with seven full- page mounted illustrations and numerous in-text line drawings by Rackham. “Margery Williams Bianco’s third children’s book, the much admired Poor Cecco, is the story of a wooden toy, a ‘loose-jointed thing like a dog,’ who gets out of the toy cupboard and has a lengthy series of adventures with his friend Bulka the rag puppy” (Carpenter & Prichard, 60). First published in serial form in Good Housekeeping. No English limited edition was ever published. Without original slipcase. A very lovely near-fine copy.

“The Sensation I Felt As A Child”

85. (RACKHAM, Arthur) ANDERSEN, Hans Christian. Fairy Tales by Hans Andersen. London, 1932. Quarto, original full vellum gilt. $5400. Signed limited first edition of this classic fairy tale collection, one of only 525 copies signed by Rackham, illustrated with 12 full-page color plates and 59 delightful in- text line cuts by him. Rackham’s publishers sent him to Denmark for a week “to collect Danish at- mosphere” (Hamilton, 144) for this charmingly illustrated gift book. It collects “The Little Mermaid,” “The Ugly Duckling” “The Emperor’s New Clothes,” “The Princess and the Pea” and others. Rackham said the trip “did give me just that nearer view of the author’s country that I needed—a view that helped me to realize again the sensation I felt as a child when I first read Andersen” (Hudson, 132-33). “The ‘gift’ book was really something for a child to receive… to be looked at with awe and handled with care” (Lewis, 186). Without scarce slipcase. A near-fine copy.

75 artist’s books & illustrated books “To My Friend… Who Knows The West And May Care To Follow My Trails Through These Pages”

86. REMINGTON, Frederic. Pony Tracks. New York, 1895. Octavo, original pictorial russet cloth, custom slipcase. $3900. First edition of Remington’s first book, with 70 full- page and in-text halftones after his sketches, inscribed: “To my friend Mr Jas Hill—who knows the west and may care to follow my trails through these pages. Frederic Remington. New York Oct. 9 ‘96.” A handsome copy. “The triumvirate of Theodore Roosevelt, Owen Wister and Frederic Remington was foremost” in creating the mythic figure of the cowboy, and es- tablishing the West as a metaphor for America (Literary History of the American West, 515). The work of Frederic Remington, consummate illustrator of the West, “is notable for its swift action and rendering of character… Though there were de- lineators of the West and frontier before Frederic Remington—notably Karl Bodmer, F.O.C Darley, George Catlin… none have surpassed him” (ANB). A near-fine inscribed copy.

“One Of The Greatest Of American Illustrated Books”

87. SAUNDERS, Louise. The Knave of Hearts. New York, 1925. Folio, original black cloth, mounted cover illustration, box. $5500. First edition of “one of the greatest of American illustrated books” (Porter, 84), the last and most lavish children’s book illustrated by Maxfield Parrish, with mounted cover design, pictorial endpapers, 14 full-page color plates, and nine in-text color illustrations. By 1900, Maxfield Parrish had become “recognized as one of America’s most successful artists, achieving national popularity for his distinctively elegant style, detailed backgrounds and glowing colors” (Dalby, 42). He agreed to illustrate his friend Saunders’ play “on account of the bully op- portunity it gives for a very good time making the pictures. Imagination could run riot, bound down by no period, just good fun and all sorts of things” (Yount, 86–88). Without very scarce glassine. Scarce box with expert ripping some wear, book fine. A beautiful and most desirable copy.

76 Boldly Signed By Marc Chagall With An Original Self-Portrait Sketch

88. (CHAGALL, Marc) BIDERMANAS, Izis, photographer, and MCMULLEN, Roy, author. The World of Chagall. Garden City, New York, 1968. Folio (101/2 by 131/4 inches), original gilt-stamped gray cloth, dust jacket. $6500. First edition of this acclaimed biographical photobook illustrating Chagall at work in the studio and on site, signed in the year of publication: “Marc Chagall 1968 Filadelphie N.J.,” with an original self-portrait sketch also by Chagall. “Bidermanas’ photographs of Chagall at work and informal portraits from [the] 1950s and 1960s are joined with some of Chagall’s works, quotations from his writings, a chronology, and a biographical and critical essay by McMullen” (Burt). “The chosen photographer, Izis Bidermanas, was considered one of Europe’s best and most poetic. A member of the French Resistance, Izis had become Chagall’s Boswell ever since he’d met him on an assignment for Paris Match in 1950. Some of his stunning photographic sequences for the book showed Chagall in the process of creating the mu- rals for the Metropolitan Opera House in new York, the ceiling of the Paris Opera House, the tapestries for Israel’s Parliament and the scenery for the ballet Daphnis and Chloe” (Robson, Under Cover: A Poet’s Life in Publishing). This signature and drawing were completed during Chagall’s visit to the Philadelphia Museum of Art on November 27, 1968. A fine copy.

“The Most Handsome Book Produced In The Whole Of The 19th Century”

89. SHAW, Henry. Dresses and Decorations of the Middle Ages from the Seventh to the Seventeenth Centuries. London, 1843. Two volumes. Quarto, contemporary three-quarter red morocco gilt. $3200. First edition of this beautifully illustrated study of costumes and decorations by Shaw, one of the greatest illuminators of the 19th century, with 94 plates of finely tailored and crafted French and English Medieval dress and accou- trements, many exquisitely hand-colored. A lovely copy in contemporary morocco-gilt. Shaw “used a variety of processes to reproduce his drawings: copper engravings, lithographs, chromolithographs, wood engravings, and woodblocks printed in color. Dresses and Decorations of the Middle Ages… is one of the finest of his works” (Ray 102). Appearing in monthly parts from 1840, this was Shaw’s “most ambitious work… [with] plates highly finished and heightened in gold… It is a magnificent production. There are 94 plates… mostly on copper, hand-colored in the most sumptuous way... It has a considerable claim to be called the most handsome book produced in the whole of the 19th century” (McLean, 66). Some light foxing, most notably to blank fly- leaves. A bit of color restoration to joints and extremities. An extremely good copy, handsome in contemporary morocco-gilt.

77 artist’s books & illustrated books Literature

Beautiful Four-By-Six Inch Photograph Of Oscar Wilde By Acclaimed New York Photographer Napoleon Sarony, Signed By Oscar Wilde

90. WILDE, Oscar. Photograph signed. New York, 1882. Photographic print mounted on card, measuring 41/4 by 61/4 inches; matted and framed, entire piece measures 11 by 13 inches. $16,800. Exceptional cabinet-sized photographic portrait of Oscar Wilde, captured in 1882 by famous New York photographer Napoleon Sarony, signed in the same year at the top of the image: “Oscar Wilde. Jany. 23 ‘82,” handsomely framed. “Napoleon Sarony, an acknowledged master of ce- lebrity photographs, succeeded Mathew Brady as the best-known portrait photographer in New York. Opening his first studio on Broadway in 1866 and moving to more elaborate premises on Union Square in 1871… When this photograph was taken in January 1882, Oscar Wilde had not yet written The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891) and the plays that would make him famous in the next decade… He had, however, created a position for himself in London society as a wit and a dandy, promoting the cause of the English aesthetic movement through his dazzling conversa- tion. Wilde went to America in 1882… to give a series of lectures on the English Renaissance to promote the opening of D’Oyly Carte’s production of the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta ‘Patience,’ in which aestheticism and Wilde himself were brilliantly sat- irized… Wilde appeared in Sarony’s studio dressed in the attire he would wear at his lectures: a jacket and vest of velvet, silk knee breeches and stockings, and slippers adorned with grosgrain bows “ (The Metropolitan Museum of Art). While the most famous of these images features Wilde leaning thoughtfully toward the viewer, Sarony shot at least 28 known images of Wilde. This photograph—a bust-length portrait taken from the side—is notable for its tight focus on Wilde’s face and his Mona Lisa-esque facial expression. A couple of faint crease marks including one to Wilde’s forehead, shallow chipping to corners partially colored on mounting card, frame handsome. Near-fine condition.

78 Finely Bound And Illustrated Deluxe Set Of Tolstoy’s Works

91. TOLSTOY, Leo. The Complete Works. Boston, 1904. Twenty-four volumes. Octavo, contemporary three-quarter green morocco gilt. $10,000. Beautifully bound “Edition de Luxe,” one of only 1000 sets, of Tolstoy’s entire canon, finely printed and wide-margined, with title pages on Japanese vellum and over 100 engraved, etched, and photogravure illustrations. “The present translation contains everything given in the Russian complete edition… and all the publications of Tolstoy’s prohibited works which have appeared in Switzerland and in England. The only works omitted are those which Tolstoy himself translated from other languages.” The final volume contains a life of Tolstoy, index and bibliography of works and articles on Tolstoy in English, German and French. Bookplates. Spines evenly toned to brown. Fine condition.

“If the world could write by itself, it would write like Tolstoy.”

—Isaak Babel, The Literary 100

79 literature Mark Twain

“One Of The Most Durable Works In American Literature”

92. TWAIN, Mark. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Hartford, 1876. Square octavo, original black- and gilt-stamped blue cloth, custom clamshell box. $30,000. Rare first American edition, first printing, first state, of one of the universally recognized masterpieces of American literature, Twain’s irrepressible and unforgettable “true boy’s book.” “The first novel Mark Twain wrote without a co-author,Tom Sawyer is also his most clearly autobiographical… Enlivened by extraordinary and melodramat- “To promise not to do a thing ic events, it is otherwise a realistic depiction of the experiences, people and places that Mark Twain knew as a child” (Rasmussen, 459). “Publication of is the surest way in the world Tom Sawyer was little noticed… The book has, however, proved to be one of to make a body want to go and the most durable works in American literature. By the time of Twain’s death, do that very thing.” it was his top-selling book. It has been in print continuously since 1876, and has outsold all other Mark Twain works” (Rasmussen, 459). “This was a true boy’s book, and surviving copies are proof of how rough little boys can be on books” (MacDonnell, 40). Tiny tears to corners of pages 215, 243, and 245, only occasional marginal soiling to generally clean interior, more so to the rear endpapers, front inner paper hinge expertly reinforced, corners and spine ends expertly restored, only slight rubbing and soiling to original cloth, mild toning to spine, gilt bright. A desirable first-issue copy of this landmark in American literature. 80 “The Most Praised And Most Condemned 19th-Century American Work Of Fiction”: Huckleberry Finn, With Rare “Curved Fly” Illustration, One Of Only About 500 Copies In Publishers Morocco

93. TWAIN, Mark. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade). New York, 1885. Octavo, original three-quarter brown morocco gilt, custom half morocco clamshell box. $26,000. First edition, first issue, of “the most praised and most condemned 19th-century American work of fiction” (Legacies of Genius, 47), with 174 illustrations by Edward Kemble, one of approximately 500 copies bound in publisher’s three-quarter morocco binding. Written over an eight-year period, Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has endured critical attacks from the moment of its publication. Ernest Hemingway praised it when he declared, “All modern literature comes from one book by Mark Twain. It’s the best book we’ve had. All American writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There has been nothing since.” Copies in the original publisher’s leather bindings are quite rare: “The relative rarity of the cloth and leather bindings is clear. Less than two weeks before publication, [publisher] Webster announced that he was binding 20,000 copies in cloth, another 2500 in sheep and 500 copies in three-quarter leather. The remaining 7000 copies of the first printing were probably bound up in similar proportions… Leather copies dried out, cracked apart, and have survived in even fewer numbers than the original production numbers would promise” (MacDonnell, 35). This copy has all commonly identified first issue points: page [9] with “Decided” remaining uncorrected (to “Decides”); page [13], illustration captioned “Him and another Man” listed as on page 88; page 57, 11th line from bottom reads “with the was.” Debate continues over the priority of other points of issue and state. The leaf containing pages 283-84 is the rare con- jugate (Kemble’s illustration is the version with “curved” pant-fly, prior to defacement. The “curved fly” was straightened in subsequent issues). Only slightest wear to binding (boards only; morocco spine and corners exceptional). A beautiful copy in the rare publisher’s three-quarter morocco.

81 literature “Camelot… Name Of The Asylum, Likely”: Very Scarce Signed First Edition Of Twain’s Connecticut Yankee

94. TWAIN, Mark. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court. New York, 1889. Octavo, original pictorial green cloth, custom clamshell box. $19,000. First edition, second issue, of Twain’s comedic critique of Arthurian legend and 19th-century America, inscribed: “Truly Yours Mark Twain.” After reading Malory’s Morte d’Arthur, Twain wrote this work to explore “a number of implicit parallels between Arthur’s England and the American South: slavery; an agrarian economy which came into armed conflict with an industrial economy; a chivalric code which, Clemens said, was second- hand Walter Scott and kept the South mawkish, adolescent, verbose and addicted to leatherheaded anachronisms like duels and tournaments. In both frameworks a civil war destroys the old order, and the Yankee has as acute a sense of loss as Mark Twain did” (Kaplan, 297). “The novel is a characteristic Twainian amalgam of fantasy and fun, observation and satire, that both amuses and provokes powerful reflection as it confronts the customs of olden times with the brash values of the New World” (Lacy, 478). This title is Twain’s first collaboration with illustrator Beard. “Since Twain enthusiastically approved every drawing in the novel, it should be read as a full collaboration between the author and artist. The pictures are as essential to an understanding of the work as are the words” (LeMaster & Wilson, 64). Second issue, without scroll-like ornament between the words “The” and “King” of the caption on page [59]. A near-fine copy, scarce and desirable inscribed and signed by Twain.

82 From Mark Twain’s Research Library, Signed By Twain And With His Annotations On The Final Page, Extensively Used By Him While Writing The Prince And The Pauper And A Connecticut Yankee

95. (TWAIN, Mark) TAINE, Hippolyte. The Ancient Regime. New York, 1876. Octavo, original green cloth, custom clamshell box. $25,000. Mark Twain’s signed copy of Hippolyte Taine’s The Ancient Regime, signed “Saml. L. Clemens, Hartford 1876” and annotated by him: “Finished Jan 29th” and beneath that note: “Finished Sept. 10th,” indicating that he read the book twice. With the bookplate prepared by Anderson Auction Company in 1911 stat- ing, “This book is from the Library of Samuel Longhorne Clemens (Mark Twain)” signed by Twain’s literary executor and biographer Albert Bigelow Paine. Twain scholar Sherwood Cummings wrote of this book, “[Twain] not only referred to it during the next decade in his notebooks and correspondence, but borrowed liberally from it for materal and incidents in both The Prince and the Pauper and A Connecticut Yankee. “Moreover Twain scholar Stephen Railton (Professor at the University of Virginia) writes in his endnotes to A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (New York, Barnes & Noble Classics, 2005): “As Hank implies here and more explicitly on page 256, ‘le droit du siegneur’ (the privilege of the lord) was to have sex with an untitled woman on her wedding night before her husband. The list of aristocratic abuses here is derived from material Twain originally found in Hippolyte Adolphe Taine’s The Ancient Regime… which was also a source for several other passages in the novel” (Endnote 13). This is the first American edition of Taine’s history, translated by John Durand, originally appearing in France under the title L’Ancien Régime. Estate bookplate of Samuel Longhorne Clemens (Mark Twain), indicating that this volume was sold in February, 1911 at Anderson Auction Company, signed by Twain literary executor Albert Bigelow Paine, with an ink annotation indicating that it was sold to William Duncan Cheney of San Francisco. Light dampstain to the final few leaves, wear to spine ends, inner paper hinges tender, binding sound, a very good copy. Scarce and most desirable, a working volume from Twain’s research library, instrumental in the writing of two of his all-time favorite works.

83 literature “To Understand America, Read Mark Twain”

96. TWAIN, Mark. The Writings of Mark Twain. London, 1899–1907. Twenty- five volumes. Octavo, publisher’s three-quarter brown morocco gilt. $21,000. First English issue of the “Author’s Édition de Luxe” of Twain’s works, one of 620 copies signed by him as “SL Clemens (Mark Twain).” With two autograph leaves— the first in Twain’s hand, the second in the hand of Charles Dudley Warner, with whom Twain co-authored the book—in The Gilded Age (Volume 10). “To understand America, read Mark Twain. No matter what new craziness pops up in America, I find it described beforehand by him... He was never inno- cent, at home or abroad” (Garry Wills). Illustrated with over 150 tissue-guarded plates on Japan vellum, including etchings, photogravures and engravings, with numerous frontispiece portraits of Twain. With two leaves of autograph manuscript from The Gilded Age tipped into Volume 10, The Gilded Age. As always with this set, the second leaf is in the hand of Charles Dudley Warner, with whom Twain co-authored The Gilded Age. The first leaf, entirely in Twain’s hand, reads, in full: “148 …property for $15,000 cash, I to go in with them & own an individual interest of one-half the concern,— or the stock, as you may say. I’m out of business & I’d just as soon help run the thing as not. Now how does that strike you?’ ‘Well, I am only an agent of these people, who are friends of mine, & then I am not even paid for my services. To tell you the truth, I have tried to persuade them not to go into the thing; & I have come square out with their offer, without throwing out any feelers— & I did in the hope that…” Spines uniformly lightly darkened, extremities with expert restoration; a few inner hinges expertly reinforced. Quite handsome.

84 “One Of Mark Twain’s Most Important Books”

97. TWAIN, Mark. Life on the Mississippi. Boston, 1883. Octavo, original pictorial cloth. $4500. First American edition, first state “intermediate A,” with hundreds of illustrations, many by Edmund Henry Garrett. During an 1872 visit to the Midwest, the author “was struck by the great diminution of steamboat traffic on the Ohio River and became anxious to document the steamboat era before it vanished altogether… [The resulting volume is] widely regarded as both one of Mark Twain’s major works and a classic on the Mississippi itself. Its early chapters especially are unrivaled in evoking the excitement of their time… According to Howells, Mark Twain regarded Life on the Mississippi as his greatest book” (Rasmussen). “One of Mark Twain’s most important books… It usefully supple- ments [his] fictional works about the river and includes much else of value” (LeMaster & Wilson). First state, intermediate A, with first state of tailpiece illustration on page 441, of Twain’s head in flames (removed in later states at the request of Mrs. Clemens, who found it morbid); caption on page 443, reading “The St. Charles Hotel.” An exceptionally beautiful copy in fine condition.

“It Seemed Plain To Me That Too Much Space Was Given To Poetry And Romance And Not Enough To Statistics And Agriculture”

98. TWAIN, Mark. Mark Twain’s Memoranda. From the Galaxy. Toronto, 1871. Octavo, original dark brown cloth expertly rebacked with original spine laid down. $3200. First edition of this unauthorized Canadian publication of some of Twain’s earlier pieces that originally appeared in the New York literary periodical Galaxy (May 1870-February 1871). Among the rarest of Twain’s early publications. “The Galaxy, an ambitious New York magazine of that day, proposed to Twain that he conduct for them a humorous department. They would pay $2400 a year for the work, and allow him a free hand… In his Introductory he outlined what the reader might expect, such as ‘exhaustive statistical tables,’ ‘Patent Office reports,’ and ‘complete instructions about farming, even from the graft- ing of the seed to the harrowing of the matured crops.’ He declared that he would throw a pathos into the subject of agriculture that would surprise and delight the world” (Paine, Life). “Inoffensive ignorance, benignant stupidity, unostentatious imbecility will always be cheerfully accorded a corner, and even the feeblest humor will be admitted, when we can do no better; but no circumstances, however dismal, will ever be considered a sufficient excuse for the admission of that last and saddest evidence of intellectual poverty, the Pun” (page 4). This pirated edition thus created a new Twain title that never saw publication in the United States. A near-fine copy.

85 literature “For Alan Lerner, John Steinbeck”: Signed And Inscribed Association First Edition Of Steinbeck’s Grapes Of Wrath

99. STEINBECK, John. The Grapes of Wrath. New York, 1939. Octavo, original pictorial beige cloth, dust jacket. $29,500. First edition of Steinbeck’s most important novel, his searing masterpiece of moral outrage and “intense humanity,” winner of the 1940 Pulitzer Prize, inscribed: “For Alan Lerner / John Steinbeck.” “It is a long novel, the longest that Steinbeck has written, and yet it reads as if it had been composed in a flash, ripped off the typewriter and delivered to the public as an ultimatum… Steinbeck has written a novel from the depths of his heart with a sincerity seldom equaled” (Peter Monro Jack). “The Grapes of Wrath is the kind of art that’s poured out of a crucible in which are mingled pity and indignation… Its power and importance do not lie in its political insight but in its intense humanity… [It] is the American novel of the season, probably the year, possibly the decade” (Clifton Fadiman). Lerner was a major figure in Broadway circles during the greatest age of the American musical, having written lyrics for My Fair Lady and Camelot. First issue, with “First Published in April 1939” on copyright page and first edition notice on front flap of dust jacket. A fine presentation copy of this American classic in exceptionally bright original dust jacket with three tiny closed tears along bottom edge. A beautiful and desirable copy.

“Wherever they’s a fight so hungry people can eat, I’ll be there.”

86 “The Supreme Comic Novelist In England After World War II”: Inscribed In Four Volumes

100. POWELL, Anthony. A Dance to the Music of Time. London, 1951–75. Twelve volumes. 12mo, original red cloth, dust jackets. $21,000. First editions of all 12 books in Powell’s vast multi-volume “A Dance to the Music of Time” novel, inscribed in the years of publication by the author to bookseller and member of the social set Powell portrays in these novels, Handasyde Buchanan, in four volumes: Casanova’s Chinese Restaurant—“For Handy Buchanan, with an author’s deep gratitude, Tony Powell, July, 1960”; The Kindly Ones—“For Handy Buchanan, with infinite thanks from the author for untiring efforts to market these works, Tony Powell, May, 1962”; The Valley of Bones— “Handy from Tony with deep gratitude over the years, April 1964”; and Books Do Furnish a Room—“Handy, who lives in well furnished circumstances, and with the usual grateful thanks, Tony, May 1971.” “The last surviving member of that prolific, gifted generation of English writers who came out of Oxford in the mid-1920s,” Powell “produced plays, literary criticism, biography and 50 years’ worth of book reviews for the Daily Telegraph, but will be best remembered for a sequence of 12 novels written between 1950 and 1975, the roman-fleuve A Dance to the Music of Time… It is Powell’s ability to create a universal fiction out of the dynamics, in- teractions and interrelations of his own relatively narrow upper-class set that accounts for the breadth of the books’ appeal… When future generations wish to understand the texture of 20th-century English life, their best source will be Powell, and A Dance to the Music of Time” (John Perry). “The supreme comic novelist in England after World War II” (New York Times). A Buyer’s Market in second-issue dust jacket, with slightly shorter front flap. Recipient Handasyde “Handy” Buchanan was the co-owner of renowned bookshop G. Heywood Hill—hence the reference in Powell’s inscription to Buchanan’s “untiring efforts to market these works.” Buchanan was known as an opinionated Scottish socialist who also corresponded with Evelyn Waugh. Overall a very attractive set, most desirable inscribed by Powell in four volumes.

87 literature “Among The Very Great Novelists In The Language”

101. CONRAD, Joseph. The Collected Works. Garden City, 1925–26. Twenty-three volumes. Octavo, contemporary three-quarter green morocco gilt. $13,500. Signed limited “Memorial Edition,” one of only 99 sets signed by Conrad, with engraved frontispiece plate in each volume. Sets of the complete works of Conrad are scarce; signed sets are particularly rare. “Among the very great novelists in the language” (Drabble, 225). “Conrad’s work at its best achieved a synthesis of theme, treatment, and language of a kind without precedent in English literature… His stories had excitement of a new kind, and his style, by its very queerness, could allure… powerfully… achieving a perfect equilibrium of pictorial and narrative style” (DNB). This edition was originally intended to be 377 copies, each signed by Conrad. As he died after having only signed 99 sets, the plan was changed and the signed sheets became part of this Memorial Edition. This copy is unnumbered. Spines uniformly toned. Fine condition.

“Come, Fill The Cup”: The Rubáiyát Of Omar Khayyam, With 12 Beautiful Hand-Colored Plates After Art By Gilbert James, In A Splendid Kelligram-Style Binding

102. KHAYYAM, Omar. The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam. London, circa 1908. Octavo, contemporary full purple morocco gilt, elaborate morocco onlays. $4500. Beautiful deluxe edition of this timeless classic, depicting the simple man who finds solace by escaping into material pleasures, and treats the universal and ageless themes of doubt, fear, and regret, with 12 striking hand-colored Art Nouveau plates after drawings by Gilbert James, in splendid Kelligram-style on- laid pictorial morocco-gilt by Bayntun. “The favorite gift book of Edwardian times probably was Edward FitzGerald’s rendering of The Rubaiyat” (Hodnett, 226). Composed in 12th-century Persia and rendered into English by Edward FitzGerald, these stanzas express “the desire to snatch the utmost of pleasurable sensation from the irretrievable passing moment” (Baugh). A beautiful copy in fine condition.

88 “I Caught This Morning Morning’s Minion”

103. HOPKINS, Gerard Manley. Poems. London, 1918. Small octavo, original half raw linen, custom clamshell box. $6000. Rare first edition, one of only 750 copies, containing the first appearances of many of Hopkins’ poems, with two photogravure portraits and two double-page facsimiles. “Hopkins’s poetry with its religious faith, his experiments in versification, his ‘dark night of the soul’ would have reduced all his Victorian contemporaries to immediate insignificance— like Rimbaud’s in France— had they but known of him” (Connolly, The Modern Movement, 33). Hopkins, widely considered the first modern poet, remained largely unappreciated in his lifetime. After converting to Catholicism from the Church of England, he entered the Jesuit order and resolved “to write no more.” Seven years later, when a shipwreck claimed the lives of five Franciscan nuns, Hopkins’ rector requested a poem in their honor. “The Wreck of the Deutschland” reversed Hopkins’ self-imposed silence. Other equally startling poems followed. After his death in 1889, his friend, the Poet Laureate Robert Bridges, began to publish a few of the poems individually, and in 1918, edited and published this first collected edition. Without very scarce dust jacket. Interior clean, light soiling to binding and a bit of toning to extremities, spine label rubbed. An extremely good copy. Rare.

First Edition Inscribed By Thomas Wolfe

104. WOLFE, Thomas. Look Homeward, Angel. New York, 1929. Octavo, original navy cloth, dust jacket, custom cloth clamshell box. $15,000. First edition, first issue, of Wolfe’s first and most important novel, inscribed by him: “Sincerely, Thomas Wolfe. Feb 1, 1938.” “Here is a novel of the sort one is too seldom privileged to welcome. It is a book of great drive and vigor, of profound originality, of rich and variant color… Wolfe has a great gift—the ability to find in simple events and in humble, unpromising lives the whole meaning and poetry of human existence” (NYT Book Review, October 27, 1929). First issue, with lower case “g” on page 308, line 26, and missing “t” in “stationed” on page 506, line 23. Rare first-state dust jacket, with photograph of Wolfe on rear panel. Only 3500 copies of the first printing were issued with the first-state dust jacket. Johnston A.2.1.a. The owner (presumably) has added “For N. Halliwell” above the inscription. Book fine with interior generally quite clean, bright dust jacket with light wear to spine ends and only mildest toning to extremities. A near-fine inscribed copy.

89 literature “Light Of My Life, Fire Of My Loins”

105. NABOKOV, Vladimir. Lolita. Paris, 1955. Two volumes. Small octavo, original green paper wrappers. $9800. First edition, first issue, of one of the most famous and controversial novels of the 20th century. The saga of Lolita began well before its publication in 1955. A number of American publishers rejected it for fear of negative repercussions if they published such a “pornographic” work. When the Olympia Press in Paris finally issued the book, its first edition sold out quickly in Europe. It was not as warmly received abroad: The British government pressured the French to ban the novel, and no American edition saw print until 1958. First issue, with the price of “Francs: 900” on the rear wrappers (brisk sales spurred the publisher to raise the price later to 1200 francs). Minor indentation to front wrapper of Volume I, only very light rubbing to extremities of wrappers, and most minor toning to spines. A lovely copy in very nearly fine condition.

“But There Are No Absolutes In Human Misery And Things Can Always Get Worse”

106. MCCARTHY, Cormac. Suttree. New York, 1979. Octavo, original half black cloth, dust jacket. $9800. First edition of McCarthy’s celebrated, searing, semi-autobiographical novel—“like a good, long scream in the ear”—signed by him. Considered by many McCarthy’s finest novel, Suttree features “a sensitive and mature protagonist, unlike any other in McCarthy’s work… Part Stephen Daedalus, part Prince Hal—he is also McCarthy, the willful outcast” (New York Times). Like so much of McCarthy’s fiction, the book exemplifies what Saul Bellow called the writer’s “absolutely overpowering use of language, his life-giving and death-dealing sentences.” In his contemporary review, Jerome Charyn said Suttree’s language “licks, batters, wounds—a poetic, troubled rush of debris… [McCarthy’s] text is broken, beautiful and ugly in spots… Suttree is like a good, long scream in the ear.” This copy not one of the frequently found remaindered copies. Privratsky, 27. A fine signed copy.

90 “An Honorable Place In Any Library Of Children’s Books”

107. KIPLING, Rudyard. The Jungle Book. WITH: The Second Jungle Book. London and New York, 1894-95. Two volumes. Octavo, original gilt-stamped pictorial blue cloth, custom slipcase. $7500. First editions of Kipling’s classic Jungle Books, “replete with adventure and excitement.” An excellent, bright set. “Among the 15 stories in [these volumes] are some of Kipling’s most memorable narratives” (Abraham, 36). “The child who has never run with Mowgli’s wolf pack, or stood with Parnesius and Pertinax to defend the Northern Wall… has missed something that he will not get from any other writer” (Carpenter & Prichard, 297). Illustrated largely by W. H. Drake and Kipling’s father, J. Lockwood Kipling, “this most desirable pair… will always fill an honorable place in any library of children’s books” (Quayle 87). First English edition of Second Jungle Book, issued only three days after the American edition. Without rarely found dust jackets. Livingston 104, 116. Owner signature. Usual faint foxing to text, rear inner paper hinge of Second Jungle Book partially split, binding sound. Both volumes with clean cloth, bright gilt. A lovely set in about-fine condition.

“They Went Home And Broke Their Bread, Brushed Their Teeth And Went To Bed”

108. BEMELMANS, Ludwig. Madeline. New York, 1939. Slim folio, original pictorial boards and endpapers, dust jacket. $4000. First edition, first issue, of the first book about the irrepressible Madeline. “The original inspiration for Madeline was the convent where Bemelmans’ mother was educated as a child, along with the author’s own experience in boarding school, where he walked with his classmates in two straight lines” (Silvey, 55). First issue, with 12 girls instead of 11 in the “They went home and broke their bread” illustration. Pomerance A24a. Contemporary owner signature. Book with only slightest soiling to rear board and light wear to extremities. Dust jacket with light wear and toning to extremities. A near-fine copy.

91 literature “One Of The First To Have Read This—So I’m Flattered!”: First Edition Of Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, Wonderfully Inscribed By J.K. Rowling

109. ROWLING, J.K. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. London, 1998. Octavo, original pictorial paper boards, dust jacket. $13,500. First edition, first printing, of the second book in Rowling’s phenomenally successful Harry Potter series, warmly inscribed: “To N— who is one of the first to have read this—so I’m flattered! J. K. Rowling.” When this, Rowling’s second book, first saw print in 1998, the publisher “was a little less cautious” than they had been when they published Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone the previous year, “but the first printing was still miniscule, considering the demand. Estimates range between 1000 and 2000 copies… They have been notably scarce” (Smiley, 52). Due to Rowling’s decreasing number of personal appearances as the series continued, signed and inscribed copies of the Potter books are rare and desirable. A fine inscribed copy.

“Voldemort Has Returned”

110. ROWLING, J.K. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. London, 2000. Octavo, original boards, dust jacket. $5500. First edition of the fourth book in the extraordinarily successful Harry Potter series, signed by J.K. Rowling. “The emergence of each of the remaining books in the series of seven deserves to become a major an- nual event. Rowling creates a complete and perfect story” (The Times). Rowling seldom held signings for the later books in the Harry Potter series, making signed copies such as this increasingly scarce and desirable. “First Edition” on copyright page; first issue with no number line. This is the preferred printing by Omnia in Scotland. First-issue dust jacket with price of £14.99 on front flap. A fine signed copy.

92 History and Thought

“Redesigning The Shape Of History… Augustine Would Dominate Western Thought For The Next Millennium”

111. AUGUSTINE. Of the Citie of God. London, 1620. Folio (81/2 by 121/2 inches), 18th-century full paneled brown calf rebacked with original spine neatly laid down. $12,500. Second edition in English of Augustine’s monumental “scheme of universal history… providing a vocab- ulary for Christian thinking in the West for centuries” (Boorstin, The Creators). When, more than 1100 years after the founding of the “Eternal City,” Rome fell to the barbarian hordes of Alaric in the year 410, Christian mono- theism was blamed for precipitating the catastro- phe by inciting the wrath of the protecting gods. These accusations became for Augustine “the point of departure for his Christian view of history… The 13 years (413–26) he spent on his City of God created a new kind of defense of the new religion… Augustine proceeded to create his own philosophy of history, which would dominate Western thought for the next millennium. And he provided the most potent weapon against historical pessimism and the classic cycles. His ideas would show an uncanny power to be transformed into a modern idea of progress” (Boorstin). Significantly, his writings formed, with the Bible, the cornerstone of Protestantism for Luther and Calvin. First published in English in 1610. Endpapers lifted but pres- “Virtue and vice are not the ent, text unusually clean and fine. Corners expertly renewed on nicely refurbished early calf binding. same, even if they undergo the An exceptionally handsome and most desirable copy. same torment.”

93 history & thought Beautiful 15th-Century Illuminated Leaf

112. (ILLUMINATED LEAF). Illuminated Leaf from a Book of Hours. Rouen, France, circa 1470. Single vellum leaf (41/4 by 61/4 inches), illuminated in gold, black, white, gray, red, pink, green, blue, and brown inks; window matted and framed, entire piece measures 13 by 10 inches. $12,750. Beautiful illuminated leaf from a French Book of Hours, circa 1470, featuring a complex miniature of the Coronation of the Virgin, four lines of the Compline, stunning borders, and elaborate four- and one-line initials. This beautiful illuminated leaf is from a Book of Hours from Rouen, France, circa 1470. In Marian devotion, the mother of Jesus is also the Queen of Heaven. Since at least the 12th century, the Virgin Mary has borne the title Regina Coeli in much Roman Catholic liturgy and piety, as well as art. Her coronation proved a popular subject for medieval painters, scribes, and illuminators. This leaf comprises four lines from the Compline, one four-line initial, one one-line initial, elaborate borders, and an intricate arched miniature of the Coronation of the Virgin. Mary, dressed in her iconic blue robes highlighted with gold, kneels at the foot of God as he blesses and prepares to crown her. Mary is attended by three angels engaged in crowning her with a halo, praying, and playing the harp. Fine condition. 94 “There Was Never Any Prince That Got A Greater Name Than Alexander”: Botero’s Observations Upon The Lives Of Alexander, Caesar, Scipio, 1602 First Edition In English Of This Precursor To Locke And Adam Smith

113. BOTERO, Giovanni. Observations upon the Lives of Alexander, Caesar, Scipio. London, 1602. Small octavo, modern full speckled calf. $9800. First edition in English of Italian philosopher and diplomat Giovanni Botero’s treatise on the exemplary lives of Alexander, Caesar and Scipio, penned by Botero when he was the tutor to the sons of the Duke of Savoy and doubtless intended for their use. The Jesuit-trained Italian philosopher and diplomat Giovanni Botero (circa 1554–1617) was dismissed from the order in 1580 and became secretary to Carlo Borromeo, Bishop of Milan. In 1589 he completed his most famous work, Della Ragion di Stato, arguing that “State is a stable rule over a people and Reason [or the Principle] of State is the knowledge of the means by which such a dominion may be founded, preserved, and extended.” His ethical concept of statecraft can be contrasted with Machiavelli’s principles: Botero argued against the amoral political philosophy of The Prince on religious grounds. Inspired more by Aquinas, Botero’s basic philosophy was more liberal and a precursor to the work of Locke and Adam Smith. Less typical of his time are discussions of the labor theory of value and the theory of population that mark him as a pioneer in political economy. A decade after Della Ragion di Stato, Botero’s Observations upon the Lives of Alexander, Caesar, Scipio, offers a practical illustration of his principles though the lives of three military commanders. The anonymous English translation is dedicated to Nicholas Strangways. First published in Italian in 1600. Without two blanks only. Bookplates. Occasional spotting or faint staining to text. Binding attractive and fine. An excellent copy of this scarce title.

95 history & thought “Sitting By Night In My Secret Study…”: 1672 First English Translation Of Nostradamus’ Prophecies, Very Handsomely Bound

114. NOSTRADAMUS, Michel de. The True Prophecies or Prognostications. London, 1672. Folio (8 by 12 inches), 20th-century full green morocco gilt. $13,000. First edition in English of Nostradamus’ famous prognostications, with engraved frontispiece portrait, in handsome full morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. A physician by trade, Michel de Nostredame “began his prophetic writings in the early 1540s with a series of short yearly almanacs in which he made predictions in verse. The new art of printing gratified a popular demand for supernaturally acquired ‘certainty,’ and such almanacs were a common literary production of the day. It was with Les Prophéties (1555), however, that Nostradamus became an author of contemporary reputation and a figure who has had an impact on later history” (Clute & Grant, 694). By blending schol- arly learning, received folklore and religious sentiment in richly symbolic, highly poetic and frequently innovative language—and by crafting veiled commentary on the celebrities, scandals, warfare and pressing issues of his day—Nostradamus captured both the public’s imagination and the French royal family’s patronage. The doctor-seer’s influence continues: readers believe his prophecies foretell such crises as the French Revolution and both World Wars, and one have interpreted his reference to war erupting in the Balkans or the Middle East as a glimpse at the end of the world. “More than any other writer in modern times Nostradamus knew how to titillate the deep-seated craving, felt by potentate and plebeian alike, to foresee the future, near and remote” (DSB). Wing N1399. Lowndes, 1708. Frontispiece with neatly repaired closed tear to lower margin, just touching lettering but not image. A few leaves with faint marginal dampstaining, text generally clean. Full morocco binding exceptionally handsome, front joint just starting.. A most desirable copy.

“All prophetic inspiration derives its initial origin from God Almighty, then from chance and nature.”

96 “A Mighty Commonwealth, Redeemed From Bondage, And Rejoicing In Her Redemption”

115. (NAPOLEON) MUDFORD, William. An Historical Account of the Campaign in the Netherlands, in 1815. London, 1817. Folio (11 by 13 inches), early 20th-century straight-grain crimson morocco gilt rebacked with original spine neatly laid down. $11,000. First edition of this beautifully illustrated history of the final battles against Napoleon’s forces in the Netherlands, including his historic defeat at Waterloo. With double-page plate depicting the raging battle of Waterloo, engraved extra title page, a large folding map, a double-page map, and 26 full-page plates, all save the maps aquatint engravings with vivid hand-coloring. A handsomely bound copy. Mudford’s work chronicles in detail and unabashedly celebrates the fall of Napoleon and the victory of the Allied forces. “In this volume [Mudford] received assistance from the Duke of Wellington, to whom it was dedicated” (DNB). The frontispiece, engraved title, double-page engraving of the battle, and the “Flight of Bonaparte” were all drawn by George Cruikshank. The remaining plates were made after paintings by James Rouse. This copy with the plate “Portraits of the General Officers” (bound as frontispiece in this copy) instead of the “Waterloo, in Memory of the Heroic Deeds of Shaw”; copies are found with either, but not both, with no priority determined. Tooley 336. Minor tape repairs to verso of folding map only. Text clean, plates with vivid hand-coloring. A splendid, very handsomely bound copy.

97 history & thought 98 “The First Extended Historical And Literary Study Of Homosexuality In English,” One Of Only 10 Copies Privately Printed By Author John Addington Symonds, With Signed Autograph Presentation Letter To Richard Burton And Splendid Unpublished Four-Page Signed Autograph Letter From Burton To Symonds Regarding The Subject

116. (BURTON, Richard F.) SYMONDS, John Addington. A Problem in Greek Ethics. Privately printed, 1883. Octavo, contemporary full green calf sympathetically rebacked. WITH: SYMONDS, John Addington. Autograph letter signed. WITH: BURTON, Richard F. Autograph letter signed. Symonds ALS: Three pages on one folded leaf, measuring 7 inches by 41/2 inches folded; Burton ALS: Four pages, each measuring 63/4 by 5 inches, housed together in a custom box. $45,000. Limited first edition, one of only 10 privately printed copies, of this first substantial study of homosexuality in England, the copy of explorer and author Richard F. Burton; together with a fine signed autograph presentation letter from author John Addington Symonds to Burton and with an unpublished four-page signed autograph letter from Burton to Symonds—written just two months before Burton’s death—acknowledging receipt of the book and discussing its content. With a number of ink emendations to the book, presumably in Symonds’ hand, along with pencil underlining and occasional marginal notations presumably in Burton’s hand. One of Symonds’ “most important works, A Problem in Greek Ethics… was written in 1873, though not printed until 1883, in an edition of ten copies. It is the first extended historical and literary study of homosexuality in English. In 1890 Symonds sent a copy to Sir Richard Burton, after reading the latter’s Terminal Essay to The Thousand Nights and a Night published in 1888,” which featured a 14,000-word section entitled “Pederasty” (Rictor Norton). Problem is recognized today as a groundbreaking work, one of the first to argue for tol- eration of homosexuality—albeit conflating it with pederasty—in part because of homosexuality’s status as “a social phenomenon of one of the most brilliant periods of human culture”—that is, Ancient Greece. The autograph letter from Symonds presenting this copy of A Problem in Greek Ethics to Burton reads, in part: “August 15 1890. Dear Sir Richard, As I mentioned to you that I had written an essay on paederastia among the Greeks... It was composed some while ago, before I had seen either Meier’s article in the Leipzig Encyclopaedie or your own Terminal Essay... you will see that I have treated the subject from a literary & historical point of view, without attending to the psychology & physiology of the phenomenon... take it as a very little sign of my respect for you; & anyhow believe me sincerely yours, John Addington Symonds.” Burton response to Symonds reads, in small part: “Dear Mr. Symonds, On the evening after I had the pleasure of meeting you, the ‘Problem’ found its way to me... I am so glad that you are holding to the opuscle and hope that you will see fit now to print if not to publish it. Especially interesting it would be to trace the gradual degradation of the Achilles–Patroclus ideality through the Latin writing and down to Shakespeare. Will you kindly give me the name of the French (? German ?) physicist who explains Le Vice by a third sex. It would correspond with my masculo-feminine temperament. I feel most flattered by your sending me No. 6. It will be most useful to me if I ever carry out my design of producing a detailed study of paiderastia [written in Greek] ancient and modern... Sincerely yours, R.F. Burton.” Burton died two months later. In 1896 Symonds published an essay arising out of A Problem in Greek Ethics entitled A Problem in Modern Ethics, Being an Inquiry into the Phenomenon of Sexual Inversion, a more circumspect treatment of the subject of homosexuality which explicitly references this exchange with Burton. Symonds did not publicly claim authorship of A Problem in Greek Ethics until 1908 when he published it with significant changes from the 1883 text. Symonds letter fine with glue remnants and paper mounting strips on blank verso of last page; Burton letter with expert paper restoration along folds, small expertly repaired tear to upper corner of pp. 2–3 with loss to three words; book interior clean, text complete, with title page and two preliminary leaves excised at an early date (a 1933 auction description notes their absence), contemporary green calf boards expertly restored. A unique and important triad.

99 history & thought “Here Is This Rotten Little Book… It’s Only Published To Get Me Out Of Debt, And When The Debts Are Paid Off, Its Publication Will Stop… With Deepest Apologies For Being So Poor A Writer”: Desirable First Edition, Presentation Copy, Of Revolt In The Desert, With A Wonderful And Humorous Tipped-In Autograph Presentation Letter Signed By T.E. Lawrence

117. LAWRENCE, T.E. Revolt in the Desert. London, 1927. Quarto, original brown cloth, dust jacket. $17,500. First trade edition, very rare presentation copy, of this popular abridgement of Seven Pillars of Wisdom, illustrated with 16 portraits and a large folding map, with signed autograph presentation letter from Lawrence explaining the finan- cially driven circumstances of publication, insulting the book’s quality, and explaining his intentions not to sign any copies of the title. Revolt in the Desert, Lawrence’s own abridgement of Seven Pillars of Wisdom, achieved immediate popular success, but was only agreed to by Lawrence because of the ballooning costs associated with Seven Pillars. The tipped-in autograph presentation letter, dated in the year of publication, reads in large part: “Dear Mrs Donnat, Here is this rotten little book. I’m sorry to have to put you off with so poor a thing. It’s only published to get me out of debt, and when the debts are paid off, its publication will stop. You will notice that it is not signed. No copy of ‘Revolt’ ever will be signed. That’s the way I feel about it. Cape insisted on putting my old ‘Lawrence’ name on the title-page. I wanted to leave it blank, or to put Shaw, my legal name... With deepest apologies for being so poor a writer. Yours, TE Shaw.” Tipped-in advertising leaf at page 434 for Doughty’s Travels in Arabia Deserta. Prospectus pamphlets laid “You will notice that it is in for both Revolt in the Desert and Murry’s The Life of Jesus. Book near-fine, with interior generally lovely and fine, mild toning to extremities of cloth, not signed. No copy of ‘Revolt’ and boards bowing slightly. Dust jacket extremely good, with foxing mainly ever will be signed. That’s the to front panel, stray pen mark, wear to extremities, and a few tape repairs to way I feel about it.” verso. A desirable presentation copy with fine signed autograph letter.

100 “Hume’s Ideas About Money, Interest, And The Balance Of Trade Were Among The Most Important Contributions To The Enlightenment And Post-Enlightenment Economic Thinking, Not Least Because Of The Use Smith Was To Make Of Them In The Wealth Of Nations”

118. HUME, David. Political Discourses. Edinburgh, 1752. Small octavo in fours (41/2 by 61/2 inches), contemporary full brown calf rebacked. $16,800. First edition of Hume’s seminal volume of 12 essays. Called “the cradle of political economy,” Hume’s Political Discourses “introduced important refinements to Smith’s thinking” and also influenced Founding Fathers Madison and Hamilton. The essays in Political Discourses—including “Of Commerce,” “Of Luxury,” “Of the Balance of Trade,” “Of Money,” “Of Interest,” “Of Taxes” and “Of Public Credit”—demonstrate the deep influence of Hume’s work had on Adam Smith, who deemed Hume “by far the most illustrious philosopher and historian of the present age” in Wealth of Nations. Thomas Huxley also writes of Hume’s primary importance in economic thought, noting that Wealth of Nations “did not appear before 1776, so that, in political economy, no less than in philosophy, Hume was an original, a daring, and a fertile inno- vator” (Collected Essays, 35). “Most important of all, for Adam Smith, Hume quietly introduced important refinements to Smith’s thinking… In the Political Discourses, Hume was at his most acute, elegant and allusive… He wanted to show that economic questions were, properly speaking, questions about labor and the way in which it was deployed, and that these in turn were questions about human nature… Hume’s ideas about money, interest and the balance “In every page of David of trade were among the most important contributions to Enlightenment and Hume, there is more to post-Enlightenment economic thinking, not least because of the use Smith be learned than from was to make of them in the Wealth of Nations” (Phillipson, Adam Smith). Hegel’s, Herbart’s and The economic principles Hume develops in Political Discourses had impact as well on America’s Founding Fathers. This volume’s concluding essay, “Idea Schleiermacher’s complete of a Perfect Commonwealth,” was a major influence on James Madison—espe- philosophical works.” cially Hume’s proposal “that areas be divided into communities of sizes where representatives remained aware of each other’s needs. Adapting this view to —Arthur Schopenhauer the American states, Madison argued that their very size must be a guaran- tee of stability under a constitution” (Klieforth, et al., Scottish Invention of America, 270). Hamilton, as well, is known to have consulted Hume’s Political Discourses. Text generally fresh with expert archival repair to title page and occasional leaves, embrowning from pressing of a leaf or similar, handsomely bound. Extremely good in contemporary calf boards.

101 history & thought Late 16th-Century Edition Of The Geneva New Testament

119. BIBLE. The Newe Testament of Our Lord Jesus Christ. London, 1589. Quarto, 19th-century full paneled reverse brown calf rebacked. $6000. Attractively bound 1589 edition of the Geneva version of the New Testament, the important translation that shaped Protestant piety for some five decades, with woodcut title page. William Whittingham, a Protestant exile who sought refuge in Geneva during Queen Mary’s reign, published his translation of the New Testament in 1557. As part of the “Geneva Bible” (complete in 1560), it proved the dominant English translation of the Scriptures until the advent of the King James Version in 1611. The Geneva Bible as a whole “became the textus receptus for the Puritan element in England… and is thus of cardinal importance for its influence on the English language, literature and thought” (Great Books and Book Collectors, 105–8). Biblical text set in Gothic type, marginal notes set in Gothic and Roman type. Text generally clean, a few running head- ers trimmed a little close, lower corner of Psalter title page torn away, affecting imprint and woodcut emblem. An extremely good copy.

“Exceedingly Rare”

120. (RALEIGH, Walter) BACON, Francis. Declaration of the Demeanor and Cariage of Sir Walter Raleigh. London, 1618. Small quarto, modern half brown morocco. $8500. First edition of this rare and significant early 17th-century Americanum, prosecutor Francis Bacon’s attempted justification of the execution verdict against Sir Walter Raleigh featuring important details related to Raleigh’s last voyage to America and mentioning Raleigh’s attempt to find El Dorado. The “exceedingly rare first edition of Bacon’s book details Sir Walter Raleigh’s conduct during his last voyage to America in 1618. After Raleigh failed to locate the source of Spanish treasure, he captured the island of St. Thomas, and killed the Spanish governor. Upon his return to England, Raleigh was brought to trial for his attack on the Spanish, with Bacon as prosecutor. However, because Raleigh was already under sentence of death for a 1603 conviction, he could not be tried for his misdeeds in St. Thomas. King James therefore ordered Raleigh executed under the 1603 verdict. This volume is Bacon’s attempt to justify the execution of Raleigh in the face of public outcry against the sentence” (University of Rochester, Rush Rhees Library Department of Rare Books and Special Collections). Dampstain in lower inner corner of A3, interior and binding otherwise lovely and fine. A beautiful copy in very nearly fine condition.

102 Eighteenth-Century Spanish Missal, With Magnificent Elaborate Pure Silver Corners, Centerpieces And Clasps

121. (CATHOLIC MISSAL). Missale Romanum. Madrid, 1791. Folio (9 by 12 inches), modern full red velvet, original elaborate sliver centerpieces, cor- nerpieces and clasps. $9500. 1791 Madrid missal, with nine full-page engraved plates, two in-text engravings of saints and an engraved vignette on the title page, magnificently bound with large elaborate pure silver corners, centerpieces and clasps, likely from a much earlier date. Illustrated with nine full-page engraved plates of scenes including the Annunciation, the Crucifixion, Pentacost, the Last Supper and the Assumption of the Virgin and two in-text engravings. At the rear of the volume are individual votive masses from a variety of publishers and dates, from the late 19th century up to 1926. Interior exceptionally clean, with one instance of wax stains and just a few other stray marks, two tabs torn. The binding includes magnificent extensive pure silver armature in beautiful condition.

An Important Source For The Story Of King Lear And The Legend Of King Arthur

122. JEFFREY OF MONMOUTH. The British History. London, 1718. Octavo, modern full paneled speckled brown calf. $4800. First edition in English of Jeffrey of Monmouth’s vastly influential History of the Kings of Britain, the most important source for the story of King Lear and the legend of King Arthur. Handsomely bound. Jeffrey (also “Geoffrey”) of Monmouth wrote his monumental Historia Regum Brittaniae sometime before 1139. Drawing in part from other chroniclers’ books but mostly from his own imagination, Jeffrey provided stories that became source material for some of England’s greatest literature. The Historia includes the earliest known story of King Lear; here called “Leir,” he is “arguably the most successful of Geoffrey’s creations” (DNB). The book is also famous for presenting one of the earliest and most elaborate accounts of King Arthur. Merlin’s prophecies and magical machinations to bring about Arthur’s birth, Arthur’s war against the Emperor of Rome, and his final battle against treason- ous Mordred—after which Arthur is borne “to the Isle of Avalon to be cured of his Wounds”—all figure prominently (Books VIII–XI). First published in Latin in 1508, this edition of the Historia is the first in English. Interior generally quite clean. A fine copy, handsomely bound.

103 history & thought “Instructive, Full Of Anecdote And Interest”

123. (ERASMUS) JORTIN, John. The Life of Erasmus. London, 1758-60. Two volumes. Quarto, contemporary marbled boards rebacked in tan morocco. $3500. First edition, wide-margined copy, of Jortin’s life of Erasmus, with lovely mezzotint frontispiece portrait of Erasmus by Holbein and six copper-engraved plates of facsimile autographs of Erasmus and his contemporaries. John Jortin (1698–1770) was an ecclesiastical historian, musician, and literary critic. “Written in the form of annals, showing where Erasmus was, and what he did, and what befell him from year to year. Large portions [of the annals] consist of extracts from his letters, interspersed with explanatory and critical remarks. The memoir… is followed by a copious index, and by an extended review of Erasmus’ characters and works… instructive, full of anecdote and interest, touching upon the characters and works of the friends and correspondents of Erasmus, who were the most distinguished men of his age” (Park & Taylor, Bibliotheca Sacra and Biblical Repository, 106). Text and plates generally clean, contemporary boards with expected light rubbing, attractively rebacked. A beautiful copy in fine condition.

Sloane’s Illustrated Life Of Napoleon, Handsomely Bound

124. (NAPOLEON) SLOANE, William Milligan. Life of Napoleon Bonaparte. New York, 1896. Four volumes bound in eight. Folio, contemporary three-quarter burgundy morocco gilt. $5500. First edition of Sloane’s monumental account of Napoleon’s personal and military life, with over 300 illustrations, portraits and maps, many in color, very handsomely bound by Bickers. Historian William Sloane was professor of history at Princeton University and president of the American Historical Association. “Of Sloane’s writings, that which attracted the most attention was his Life of Napoleon Bonaparte. It was published originally in the form of a serial in the Century Magazine, beginning in November 1894, enlarged into four massive volumes in 1896… The product of many years of elaborate investigation, it was sumptuously illustrated and composed” (DAB). Fine condition.

104 “Each Man Sees A Tumult From A Different Point Of View…”

125. CHURCHILL, Winston. The River War, An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan. London, 1899. Two volumes. Thick octavo, original gilt-embossed navy cloth. $9000. First edition, first issue of Churchill’s second book, rare and most desirable in the original cloth, one of only 2000 copies printed, illustrated with numerous maps and photographic plates. Churchill served in the Twenty-first Lancers during Lord Kitchener’s campaign on the Upper Nile in the late 1890s and was a participant there in the last great cavalry charge of the British Army. “Hopping on a ferry, and not bothering to trou- ble his commanding officer in distant South India for leave, Winston turned up in the Abbasya barracks in Cairo on August 2, 1898, and joined the 21st’s A Squadron. He was fully outfitted, had bought a horse, and was, most important of all, equipped with a commission from the Morning Post to send dispatches at £15 a time” (Keegan, 46). Many marginal pencil annotations. Scattered light foxing to interiors. Mild wear to cloth extremities. Expert repair to rear joint of Volume I, and reinforcement to hinges. A handsome, near-fine copy, extremely desirable in original cloth.

“Our Reign In India Or Anywhere Else Has Never Stood On The Basis Of Physical Force Alone”

126. CHURCHILL, Winston. India. Speeches and an Introduction. London, 1931. Octavo, original orange cloth, dust jacket. $8500. First edition in book form of this volume of ten Churchill speeches on the issue of the emancipation of India, in the very rare original dust jacket. With the publication of this collection, Churchill wanted “to gain support for his campaign against the India Bill, over which he had broken with his party leadership, believing these relatively modest reforms would lead to the loss of India to the Empire… [however] when the India Bill had passed Parliament in 1935, Churchill even sent Gandhi his best wishes for success, and lent tac- it approval to Attlee’s plan to grant India Dominion status (thus de facto independence) in 1948. Printed in both softbound and cloth formats, with the vast majority of copies in the softbound binding; India is “among the rarest of Churchill’s hardbound volumes” (Langworth, 150). Book with a bit of foxing to first few leaves, slightly toned spine, but bright and about fine. Dust jacket with chipping to spine ends and corners, toning along spine, expertly reinforced on verso in several areas, including repaired closed tear across front panel, very good. Very rarely found in the original dust jacket.

105 history & thought “I Was Not Born With A Hunger To Be Free. I Was Born Free”

127. MANDELA, Nelson. Long Walk to Freedom. Boston, 1994. Thick octavo, original half black cloth, dust jacket. $5500. First American edition, first printing, of the stirring autobiography of the esteemed Nobel Peace Prize winner and South Africa’s first black president, signed by Nelson Mandela. “The Nelson Mandela who emerges from his memoir… is considerably more human than the icon of legend… Mandela is, on the evidence of his amazing life, neither a messiah nor a moralist nor really a revolutionary but a pragmatist to the core, a shrewd balancer of honor and interests. He is, to use a word unhappily fallen into disrepute, a politician, though one distinguished from lesser practitioners of his calling mainly by his unwav- ering faith in his ultimate objective, ending white minority rule” (New York Times). This edition was issued simultaneously in England and the United States and in the same year as the South African edition. Illustrated with 24 pages of black-and-white photographs. Book near-fine with small closed tear to endpaper and soiling to rear joint, dust jacket fine. A handsome signed copy.

Irving Fisher’s Landmark Doctoral Dissertation Mathematical Investigations In The Theory Of Value And Prices, Inscribed By Fisher To An Economics Professor

128. FISHER, Irving. Mathematical Investigations in the Theory of Value and Prices. New Haven, 1926. Octavo, original navy cloth. $6000. Photo-engraved later printing of Irving Fisher’s groundbreaking doctoral dissertation at Yale, presentation copy, with numerous diagrams for the design of a hy- draulic mechanism demonstrating equilibrium prices in a multi-market economy, inscribed to an economics professor at UNC: “To Mr. Frank R. Garfield with the compliments of Irving Fisher. January, 1927.” The first edition of this work was published in the Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1892 and subsequently went out of print. This photo-engraved reprint edition was published in 1925 in respond to demand; this is the second printing of that edition. This copy is inscribed to Frank Richard Garfield, who was an assistant professor of economics at the University of North Carolina and who co-authored the textbook, Problem Economics (1928). Bookplate of Erwin Tomash, who founded the technology company, Dataproducts Corporation; co-created the Charles Babbage Institute; and established The Adelle and Erwin Tomash Fellowship in the History of Information Technology and The Erwin Tomash Library. Only mild toning to spine. A handsome signed copy.

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ADAMS, Ansel 72 FINI, Léonor 12–14 NABOKOV, Vladimir 90 ALBINUS, Bernhard Siegfried 6–8 FISHER, Irving 106 NAPOLEONIC WARS 36 ANDERSEN, Hans Christian 75 FONTANE, Louis. 60 NAPOLEON 97, 104 ANONYMOUS 63 FORD, Gerald 67 NASA 24–25 AUGUSTINE 93 FREUD, Sigmund 21 NASH, Joseph 15 AUSTEN, Jane 45 NIRENBERG, Marshall W 23 GIBBON, Edward. 16–17 NIXON, Richard 67 BACON, Francis 102 GODWIN, William 44 NOSTRADAMUS, Michel de 96 BARRAUD, C.D. 30 GRINDLAY, Robert Melville 34 BARRIE, J.M. 70 O’KEEFFE, Georgia 49 BARTON, Clara 40 HAMILTON, Alexander 62 BELL, Vanessa 41 HAMILTON, Emma 46 PAINE, Thomas 60–61 BEMELMANS, Ludwig 91 HARRIS, Moses 25 PARKINSON, Sydney 32–33 BERNAYS, Edward L. 57 HEISMAN, John W. 64 PICASSO, Pablo 73 BIANCO, Margery Williams 75 HOPKINS, Gerard Manley. 89 POWELL, Anthon 87 BIBLE 10–12, 102 HOWE, Julia Ward 45 RACKHAM, Arthur 70–71, 75 BIDERMANAS, Izis 77 HUME, David 101 RALEIGH, Walter 102 BOTERO, Giovanni 95 RAYNAL, Abbé. 61 BRADFORD, William 36 ILLUMINATED LEAF 9, 94 REAGAN, Ronald 67 BRONTË, Emily 38 IRVING, Washington 70 REMINGTON, Frederic 76 BROWNE, John 25 RIIS, Jacob 64 BURGER, Warren E. 66 JACKSON, Helen Hunt 48 RIVERS, Larry 12–14 BURTON, Richard F. 98–99 JAMES, Jesse 63 ROBINSON, Jackie 65 JEFFERSON, Thomas 62 ROOSEVELT, Eleanor 42 CARROLL, Lewis 69 JEFFREY OF MONMOUTH 103 ROOSEVELT, Franklin D. 58, 65–66 CARTER, Jimmy 67 JORTIN, John 104 ROWAN, Carl T. 65 CATHOLIC MISSAL 103 JOSEPHINE 46 ROWLING, J.K. 92 CATLIN, George 54 CESAIRE, Aime 73 KENNEDY, John F. 59 SAUNDERS, Louise 77 CHAGALL, Marc 4–5, 77 KHAYYAM, Omar 88 SCHRANZ, Joseph 31 CHEYNE, George 27 KIPLING, Rudyard. 91 SHAW, Henry 77 CHURCHILL, Winston 105 SICHEL, Walter 46 CLAVÉ, Antonio 12–14 LAWRENCE, T.E. 100 SKINNER, Burrhus Frederic 26 CONTINENTAL CONGRESS 52 LE BLANC, Marie-Angelique Memmie 44 SLOANE, William Milligan 104 COOK, James 32–33 LEGUIN, Ursula K. 48 SMYTH, Henry DeWolf 22 COOPER, Thomas 62 LINCOLN, Abraham 50–51 STEINBECK, John 86 CONRAD, Joseph 88 LINDNER, Richard 12–14 STEVENSON, Robert Louis 65 CORRY, John 60 LITHGOW, William 35 SUPREME COURT 66 CRICK, Francis 23 LOUDON, Jane Wells 26 SYMONDS, John Addington 98–99 COWPER, William 20 LOUTHERBOURG, P.J. de. 28 CURIE, Marie Sklodowska 39 TOLSTOY, Leo 79 CUSTER, George A 62 MANDELA, Nelson 106 TRAVERS, W.T.L. 30 MARINI, Marino 12–14 TWAIN, Mark 80–85 DALÍ, Salvador 69, 74 MASSON, André 12–14 DARWIN, Charles 18–19 MASSON, Frédéric 46 WILDE, Oscar 78 DE WORDE, Wynkyn 66 MCCARTHY, Cormac 90 WOLFE, Thomas. 89 DICKINSON, Emily 47 MCMULLEN, Roy 77 WOLLSTONECRAFT, Mary 44 DU BOIS, W.E. Burghardt 63 MEIR, Golda 43 WOOLF, Virginia 41–42 EARHART, Amelia 43 MERIGOT, James 29 WUNDERLICH, Paul Wunderlich 12–14 EICHOT, Charles 36 MILBERT, Jacques-Gerard 53 WYETH, Jamie 12–14 EMILIO, Luis F. 51 MILLER, Francis Trevelyan 56–57 ERASMUS 104 MIRÓ, Joan 68 EVERETT, Edward 51 MORTON, William Thomas Green 27 MORYSON, Fynes 35 MUDFORD, William 97

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