45th Anniversary Catalogue It is with great pride that I present to you the Heritage Book Shop 45th Anniversary Catalogue. It contains many high spots in science, literature, philosophy and Americana, including the earliest obtainable English edition of King Arthur. The catalogue includes important first editions of Vesalius, Locke, Darwin, Galileo, Newton, Jonson, Donne, Doyle, Twain, Dickens, Bronte, Milne and Rackham. Other interesting items are Webster’s and Johnson’s dictionaries in first editions, a first edition of McKenney and Hall’s History of the Indian Tribes, the first American atlas printed in America by Carey, Blaeu’sAmerica , Ogilby’s America, Jeffery’s 1776 American Atlas, Smith’s Wealth of Nations with a scarce supplement and Vancouver and Duflot’s Voyages.
Many of the items in this catalogue have never appeared on an internet site or in any of the past Heritage catalogues, and these items will not appear on the internet for the next few weeks in order to give Heritage clients an early opportunity to consider the books. Many of the items have come directly from discerning private collectors, which are reflected in the condition of the volumes.
I have been building this collection over the past year to celebrate my forty- fifth year in the book business. I hope you enjoy reading this catalogue as much as I have enjoyed gathering its contents. Thank you for your patronage over the past four decades. As always, I will continue to provide you with many great books, and you can count on my continued service.
Benjamin Weinstein First English Edition of One of the Most Important Works of Classical Political Philosophy
1. ARISTOTLE. Aristotles Politiques, or Discourses of Government. Translated out of Greeke into French, with Expositions taken out of the best Authors, specially out of Aristotle himselfe, and out of Plato, conferred together where Occasion of Matter treated of by them both doth offer it selfe: the Observations and Reasons whereof are illustrated and confirmed by innumerable Examples, both old and new, gathered out of the most renowmed Empires, Kingdomes, Seignories, and Commonwealths that ever have bene, and wherof the knowledge could be had in writing, or by faythfull report, Concerning the beginning, proceeding, and excellencie of Civile Government. By Loys Le Roy, called Regius. Translated out of French into English. London: Adam Islip, 1598.
First English edition. Folio (11 1/4 x 7 1/2 inches; 285 x 192 mm). [32], 393, [4, table], [1, errata], [2, blank] pp. With numerous engraved initials, head and tale pieces. Translator’s dedication signed I.D.. With initial and final blank attached to the free endpapers.
Bound to style in full brown sheep. Boards tooled in blind. Spine elaborately stamped in gilt.
ESTC S106844 . Pforzheimer 10.
HBS 64356. $12,500
“The Earliest Work of any Importance Written in English About Wines”
2. BARRY, Sir Edward. Observations, Historical, Critical, and Medical on the Wines of the Ancients. And the Analogy between them and Modern Wines. With general Observations on the Principles and Qualities of Water, and in Particular on these of Bath. London: T. Cadell, 1775.
First edition. Quarto. Engraved frontis and vignette on title-page.
Brown contemporary calf, rebacked in brown morocco Gilt lettering on red morocco spine label. Edges of boards chipped. Overall very good.
The “Directions to the Binder” erroneously call for an inserted plate between pages 160 and 161. This book has been described by wine critic Andre Simon as “The earliest work of any importance written in English about wines.”
HBS 64337. $3,500 1
Guts.indd 1 11/13/08 11:07:40 AM Baum’s First Juvenile Book and the First Book Illustrated by Maxfield Parrish
3. BAUM, L. Frank. [PARRISH, Maxfield, illustrator]. Mother Goose in Prose. Chicago: Way and Williams, [1897].
First edition, first issue (composed of sixteen-page gatherings, except for the last two gatherings of eight and four pages respectively). Quarto 265, [3] pp.. Twelve plates (including frontispiece) by Maxfield Parrish.
Original grey cloth pictorially stamped in color. Light spotting to front board. A near fine copy of this book rarely found in such beautiful condition.
“Mother Goose in Prose was the first book illustrated by Maxfield Parrish [1870-1966]. By coincidence, it was also the first [juvenile] book written by L. Frank Baum [1856-1919], who later rose to fame as the author of The Wizard of Oz and other tales of the mythical country of Oz. The volume was not a collaboration in the true sense of the word, for the author and the artist never met…Imaginative in concept and executed with confidence and originality, the illustrations for Mother Goose in Prose brought Parrish immediate recognition as a young book illustrator of ability. An expression of strong individuality, the illustrations portray a bygone era that is the unique domain of the nursery rhyme or fairy tale…This series of black-and- white drawings illustrates Parrish’s mastery of complicated technique and his ability to combine several media to achieve the desired effect.” (Ludwig, Maxfield Parrish,p. 25).
Baughman 44.
HBS 64419. $8,500 “One of the Most Valuable of Modern Voyages”
4. BEECHEY, Captain F[rederick] W[illiam]. Narrative of a Voyage to the Pacific and Beering’s Strait, to Co-Operate with the Polar Expeditions: Performed in His Majesty’s Ship Blossom, under the Command of Captain F.W. Beechey, R.N.…in the Years 1825, 26, 27, 28. Published by Authority of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. In Two Parts. London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1831.
First edition. Two quarto volumes (10 3/4 x 8 7/16 inches; 273 x 214 mm.) xxi, [1, errata], [1, directions to the binder], [1, blank], 392; vii, [1, directions to the binder], [393]-742 pp. Bound without the publisher’s advertisements ([2] pp.) at the end of Volume II. Three engraved maps, two of which are folding, and twenty-three engraved plates. Most plates with tissue guards.
Contemporary half polished calf over marbled boards.
“Beechey’s book is one of the most valuable of modern voyages and relates to extensive visits to Pitcairn Island, the Tuamotu Archipelago, the Society Islands and Tahiti, Alaska, Hawaii, Macao, Okinawa, and the coast of California. His book provides an important account of Monterey and San Francisco before the American conquest and gives his impressions of the missionaries in San Francisco. Beechey describes the Eskimos of the north and relates his meeting with John Adams, last survivor of the mutiny on the Bounty, who gave Beechey a lengthy account. In the course of this voyage, Beechey discovered several islands in the Pacific” (Hill).
Cowan, p. 42. Ferguson 1418. Hill I, p. 19. Howes B309. Lada-Mocarski 95. Sabin 4347. Zamorano Eighty 4.
HBS 64741. $10,000 2
Guts.indd 2 11/13/08 11:07:43 AM Complete With Twenty-Three Hand-Colored Maps
5. BLAEU, Joan. America, Quæ Est Geographiæ Blavianæ Pars Quinta: Liber Unus. Volumen Unidecimum. Amsterdam: Ioannis Bleau, 1662. First edition of the eleventh and final volume of Blaeu’s Atls Major. Folio (20 3/4 x 12 7/8 inches; 522 x 326 mm). [2, blank], [1, title], [1, blank], 1-19, [2], 20-287, [1, blank], [2, index], [2, blank] pp. Complete with twenty-three double-page maps, all of which are beautifully hand- colored. Title-page with a hand-colored vignette. Text in Latin. Contemporary full speckled calf. Spine elaborately stamped and lettered in gilt. Internally very clean with maps brightly colored. Head and tail of the spine worn and boards slightly rubbed. Outer hinges along the head and tail of the spine cracked but firm. Overall a very good copy of this beautiful volume. A magnificently handsome volume from the work that Dutch cartographer and bibliographer H. de la Fontaine Verwey once called “the greatest and finest atlas ever published” (cited in Koemann, I, 199). In addition to its impressive scope, accuracy, and artistic preeminence, owing to its location at the leading edge of geographical knowledge and discovery, the Atlas Major also occupies a special place in cartographic history. The twenty-three maps of America -- including the justly famous general map of the continent with pictorial side panels -- were among the first accurate maps of the continent produced, and contained the first version of John Smith’s map of Virginia to be published in Europe. It is not hyperbole to suggest that this atlas of America helped to shape contemporary European views of this part of the world more than any other source. Phillips, Atlases, 3430. HBS 64772. $75,000 Captain Bligh’s Own Account of the “Mutiny on the Bounty” Uncut in Original Boards
6. BLIGH, William. A Narrative of the Mutiny on Board his Majesty’s Ship Bounty and the Subsequent Voyage of Part of the Crew, in the Ship’s Boat, from Tofoa, one of the Friendly Islands, to Timor, a Dutch Settlement in the East Indies. Illustrated with charts. London: Printed for George Nicol, 1790. First edition. Large quarto (12 1/4 x 9 3/4 inches; 314 x 248 mm). iv, [1]-88 pp. With a folding engraved plan (“A Copy of the Draught from which the Bounty’s Launch was built”) by Mackenzie and three folding engraved charts by J. Walker after W. Harrison, one printed on pale blue paper. With two pages of advertisements. Uncut in original drab blue-green boards, rebacked with quarter paper spine. A four-inch stain to the front board. Small professional repairs to outer margin of leaves C2, C3, L4 and top margin of B2. Ferguson, Australia, 71. Hill I, p. 26. Sabin 5908a. Wantrup 61. HBS 64606. $27,500 3
03_Rev.indd 1 11/13/08 11:15:58 AM First Edition, First Issue
7. BOSWELL, James. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.. Comprehending an Account of His Studies and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order; a Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition, never before published. The whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great-Britain, for near half a century, during which he flourished. In two volumes. London: Printed by Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, 1791.
First edition, first issue, with “give” spelled “gve” in line 10 on p. 135 of Volume I and with all of the peculiarities cited by Pottle for the first issue, including the several uncorrected errors listed for Volume II and the various cancels. Two quarto volumes (10 5/8 x 9 inches; 270 x 210 mm). xii, [16, contents], 516; [2], 588 [i.e., 586] pp. Engraved frontispiece portrait by James Heath after Sir Joshua Reynolds in Volume I, two engraved facsimile plates in Volume II, as called for.
Contemporary full tan calf. Outer hinges with some minor restoration. An exceptional copy of a book almost always found rebacked.
Boswell’s biography of Johnson is a classic of the genre—a full, candid account of the life of one of the most famous eighteenth-century writers and thinkers by another. “The Life of Johnson was no single book miraculously produced by an inexperienced author. It was the crowning achievement of an artist who for more than twenty-five years had been deliberately disciplining himself for such a task” (Pottle, p. xxi).
Courtney & Nichol Smith, pp. 172-173. Grolier, 100 English, 65. Pottle 79. Rothschild 463-465. Sterling 71. Tinker 338.
HBS 64740. $11,000 First Edition in Original Cloth
8. [BRONTE, Charlotte.] Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. Edited by Currer Bell. In Three Volumes. Vol. I. [II. III.] London: Smith, Elder, and Co., 1847.
First edition. Three octavo volumes. [i-iv], [1]2-304, [1]2- 32 (catalogue dated October 1847); [i-iv], [1]2-304; [i-iv], [1]2-311[312]. With half-titles as called for and the 32- page publisher’s catalogue (dated October 1847) in Vol. I., but bound without the inset catalogue fly-title dated June 1847 and the inset leaf on thicker paper advertising The Calcutta Review. Many copies are found without these two haphazardly inserted elements.
Original dark grayish purplish brown vertically ribbed cloth, boards paneled with a conventional trellis design, spines decoratively banded in blind and lettered in gilt. Hinges professionally repaired. Very minor professional cloth restoration. A near fine copy of this highly sought- after Victorian classic, notoriously rare in such nice condition in the original cloth.
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Guts.indd 4 11/13/08 11:07:52 AM Published 19 October 1847. “Although Jane Eyre was published by the established firm of Smith, Elder, the number of first-edition copies printed was probably small because this was the first published novel by an unknown author; however, as the work proved popular with the public, as second edition was published just three months later [about 22 January 1848]” (Smith, p. xvi).
Grolier, 100 English, 83. Parrish, pp. 87-88. Sadleir 346. Smith, Brontë, 2. Wolff 826.
HBS 64519. $110,000
In Original Cloth
9. [BRONTË, Charlotte]. Villette. By Currer Bell, Author of “Jane Eyre,” “Shirley,” etc. In Three Volumes. London: Smith, Elder & Co.…,1853.
First edition. Three octavo volumes. [4], 324 plus 12 pp. publisher’s catalogue dated January 1853; [4], 319, [1, printer’s imprint]; [4], 350, [1, printer’s imprint], [1, blank] pp. No half titles called for.
Original yellowish brown morocco-grain cloth, decoratively stamped in blind. Back hinge of volume three expertly repaired. A very good copy in an unsophisticated state.
Parrish, p. 95 (publisher’s catalogue dated January 1853). Sadleir 349 (publisher’s catalogue dated January 1853). Smith, Brontë, 6. Wolff 828 (publisher’s catalogue dated March 1854).
HBS 64367. $12,500
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Guts.indd 5 11/13/08 11:07:55 AM First Edition of the First American Atlas Published in America
10. CAREY, Mathew. Carey’s American Atlas: Containing Twenty Maps and One Chart.. Philadelphia: Mathew Carey, 1795.
First edition of the first American atlas published in America. Folio (14 3/4 x 9 1/8 inches; 373 x 233 mm). With twenty maps and one chart. Eleven of the maps are folding and nine are double-paged. Two of the maps are colored.
Contemporary quarter calf over marbled boards. Title page restored at inner margin and about 3/4 of an inch trimmed from the top of the margin.
This atlas includes the first map published in America of Virginia as a state. Most of the maps include a caption reading “Engraved for Carey’s American edition of Guthrie’s Geography Improved.”
Howes C135. Sabin 10855.
HBS64765. $37,500
A Leaf from “The Chronicles of England” Printed by William Caxton
11. [CAXTON, William. LEAF. [A leaf from The Chronicles of England]. [Westminster]: [Printed by William Caxton, 1480].
One quarto leaf (11 3/16 x 8 3/16 inches), from The Chronicles of England, (leaf N3 ?). Forty lines, printed on recto and verso in Caxton’s fourth fount (the first state with the short comma); red rubrication. Leaf with a few light spots and stains, and two marginal contemporary ink annotations. A very good example of early printing in England.
A Caxton leaf from The Chronicles of England, often said to be the most popular secular work of the fifteenth century, is far more rare than a leaf from The Polychronicon, which come up quite often.
[Together with]
Jackson, Holbrook. William Caxton; An Essay by Holbrook Jackson. William Robinson Limited. London, 1933.
Limited to 100 copies signed by Holbrook, of which 68 are sold with an original leaf from The Chronicles of England. In original gray wrappers.
Housed together in a publisher’s full morocco portfolio.
De Ricci 49.
HBS 64491. $4,000 6
Guts.indd 6 11/13/08 11:08:01 AM The Definitive Churchill
12. CHURCHILL, Sir Winston [S]. The Collected Works of Sir Winston Churchill. [Together with:] The Collected Essays of Sir Winston Churchill. [London]: Library of Imperial History, [1973-1976].
Centenary Limited Edition. Limited to 3,000 sets. Together thirty-eight octavo volumes (9 1/8 x 6 inches; 232 x152 mm). Illustrated with photographic plates and maps.
Original full vellum. Each volume housed in an original green paper slipcase stamped with a gilt coat-of- arms. A fine set.
The first collected edition of Churchill’s works, produced with the approval and cooperation of the Churchill Centenary Committee and the Churchill family.
Woods Appendix VI.
HBS 64775. $10,000
With Two Miniature Paintings on Ivory by Miss C.B. Currie
13. [COSWAY BINDING]. Maxims of Napoleon. London: Arthur L. Humphreys, 1903.
Reprinted from the Collection of Napoleon’s Maxims made by A.G. de Liancourt, and translated by J.A. Manning.
Small quarto (6 3/8 x 4 7/8 in; 162 x 123 mm). [6], 187, [1, blank] pp. Title-page printed in red and black. Text in French and English.
Bound by Rivière & Son in full light brown paneled morocco ornately tooled in gilt, skillfully and almost invisibly rebacked with the original spine laid down. Upper and lower covers with a circular miniature painting on ivory under glass by Miss C.B. Currie. The colophon page states that this is #809 of the Cosway bindings invented by J.H. Stonehouse and is signed by Stonehouse and Miss Currie. In full morocco clamshell. A lovely and charming copy in excellent condition.
The circular miniature painting on the front cover is of a young Napoleon in a military suit kneeling and praying in the countryside, (2 1/2 x 2 1/2 inches; 65 x 65 mm). The back cover is more oval in shape and is of a young Napoleon standing in the countryside holding flowers, with a sword hanging by his side (3 1/4 x 2 1/2 inches; 82 x 65 mm). These two miniatures by Miss C.B. Currie exemplify her exquisite skill and elegance in the art of miniature painting.
HBS 64311. $15,000 7
Guts.indd 7 11/13/08 11:08:05 AM In The Publisher’s Original Shipping Box
14. DALI, Salvador, [illustrator]. CARROLL, Lewis. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Twelve Illustrations with Original Woodcuts and Original Etching… New York: Maecenas Press-Random House, 1969. One of 2,500 numbered portfolios printed on Mandeure paper, signed by the artist on the title-page. Large folio (16 15/16 x 11 7/16 inches; 430 x 290 mm.). [4, blank], 150, [1], [1, blank], [1, limitation statement], [1, blank], [1, colophon], [5, blank] pp. Original colored frontispiece etching plus twelve full-page color illustrations, each with an original remarque. Title printed in orange and black. “The etching and remarques were printed by Ateliers Rigal. The twelve illustrations were printed by M. Nourisson. The typography was set at the press of Ateliers Rigal. Portfolios by Cartonnages Adine” (Colophon). Loose, as issued, in the publisher’s brown cloth portfolio lettered in gilt on front cover. A fine copy. Housed in the publisher’s quarter orange leather over linen clamshell case with leather and ivory clasps. In the publisher’s original shipping box. About fine. Lovett and Lovett 383. Williams, Madan and Green. HBS 64552. $7,750 First Edition, First Issue of Darwin’s “Descent of Man”
15. DARWIN, Charles. The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex. With illustrations. London: John Murray, 1871. First edition, first issue, with “transmitted” appearing as the first word on p. 297 of Volume I, with printer’s imprint on the verso of the half-title of Volume II, and with twenty-five errata (seventeen for Volume I and eight for Volume II) on the verso of the title leaf to Volume II, and with the leaf (pp. [ix- x]) containing Darwin’s note on “a serious and unfortunate error” tipped in leaf after p. viii in Volume II. Volume one with a page of song lyrics for “Dr. Darwin” inserted in to the front of volume I. Two small octavo volumes (7 1/4 x 4 13/16 inches; 185 x 122 mm). viii, 423, [1, printer’s imprint]; viii,[ix-x, “Postscript”], 475, [1, printer’s imprint] pp. plus 16 pp. of publisher’s advertisements dated January, 1871, at the end of each volume. Wood-engraved text illustrations. Original green cloth. Top outer hinge of volume I with a ¾-inch crack. Two volumes housed in a green cloth slipcase. The first issue, of 2,500 copies, was published on February 24, 1871, and the second, of 2,000 copies, in March. “The book, in its first edition, contains two parts, the descent of man itself, and selection in relation to sex. The word ‘evolution’ occurs, for the first time in any of Darwin’s works, on page 2 of the first volume of the first edition, that is to say before its appearance in the sixth edition of The Origin of Species in the following year. The last chapter is about sexual selection in relation to man, and it ends with the famous peroration about man’s lowly origin, the wording of which differs slightly in the first edition from that which is usually quoted” (Freeman, p. 129). Milestones of Science 48. Freeman, Darwin, 937. Garrison-Morton 170. Norman Library 599.
HBS 64733. $7,500 8
Guts.indd 8 11/13/08 11:08:08 AM One of the Most Important Scientific Books of the Nineteenth Century
16. DARWIN, Charles. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. London: John Murray, 1860.
Early edition, second issue (with “fifth thousand” on title-page and three quotations on p. [ii]). Octavo. Folding lithographed diagram by W. West, facing p. 117.
Original green ripple-grained cloth. Small portion of the bottom of the spine restored. Overall a very good copy.
One of the most important scientific works of the last two centuries, On the Origin of Species was (and still is) also one of the most controversial. The book caused an uproar immediately upon its publication, and many early copies were burned in protest of its author’s ideas. The first edition is extremely rare.
Freeman 376 (“the most important biological book ever written”). Grolier/ Horblit 23b (“the most influential scientific work of the nineteenth century”); Printing and the Mind of Man 344b (first edition).
Freeman, Darwin, 398.
HBS 64314. $5,500
A Wonderful Set of Defoe’s Masterpiece
17. [DEFOE, Daniel]. The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner… Written by Himself. London: Printed for W. Taylor , 1719.
Second edition (published the same year as the first edition). Octavo (4 1/2 x 7 1/4 inches). [4], 364, [1, blank] pp. This volume lacking ads. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Robinson Crusoe by Clark & Pine. Decorative woodcut head-and tail-pieces and initials.
[Together with:]
[DEFOE, Daniel]. The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe…To which is added a Map of the World, in which is Delineated the Voyages of Robinson Crusoe. London: Printed by W. Taylor, 1719.
Second edition, (published the same year as the first edition). Octavo (4 1/2 x 7 1/4 inches). [8], 348, [4, ads] pp.. This volume lacking folding map.
Two octavo volumes bound in modern two-tone brown paneled calf tooled in gilt. A very good set of Defoe’s masterpiece.
Crusoe 250 27. Grolier, 100 English, 41. Hutchins, pp. 122-128. Hutchins, pp. 74-78. Hutchins, pp. 97-112. Printing and the Mind of Man 180.
HBS 64475. $4,000
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Guts.indd 9 11/13/08 11:08:11 AM With Two Original Ink Drawings for the First Edition of “Dombey and Son”
18. DICKENS, Charles. BROWNE, Hablot Knight, [illustrator]. SANGORSKI & SUTCLIFFE, [binder]. Dombey and Son. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848.
First edition in book form. Octavo (5 1/4 x 8 3/16 inches; 134 x 208 mm). [v]-xiv,[1, errata], [1, blank], [1]-624 pp. With engraved frontispiece, engraved title-page and thirty-eight plates. Also with two original pen-and-ink drawing by Browne inserted, each signed “Phiz.” The original drawings are inserted facing their respective plates, page 40, “The Christening Party” and page 539, “Mr. Carker in his Hour of Triumph.” This second plate is titled in manuscript at the bottom. Each drawing is on a sheet of onion skin measuring 138 x 110 mm and then inlaid into a larger sheet to match the size of the other leaves. Original drawings for first editions of Dickens books are extremely rare. The original front wrapper for part ix bound in at the end. Without the half-title and list of plates.
Full olive morocco, bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. A near fine copy.
John Buchanan-Brown, Phiz; Gimbel. Hatton and Cleaver,. Smith, Dickens,.
HBS 64542 $16,500
A Spectacular Copy of “Oliver Twist”
19. [DICKENS, Charles]. Oliver Twist; Or the Parish Boy’s Progress. By “Boz”. In Three Volumes. London: Richard Bentley, 1838.
First edition, first state, containing the rare “Fireside” plate, and “Boz “ on the titles. Three octavo volumes (4 7/8 x 7 15/16 inches; 124 x 200 mm). Volumes I and III in twelves and II in eights. [vi], [1]-331, [1, blank], [4, publisher’s ads]; [iv], [1]-307, [1. blank]; [iv], [1]-315, [1, blank] pp. No half-title called for in Volume III. With almost all internal flaws according to Smith present, and with the illustration list in volume I. With twenty-four inserted engraved plates by George Cruikshank, including frontispieces.
Original moderate reddish brown fine-diaper cloth, front and back covers stamped in blind, spine lettered (Oliver Twist/Boz) and ruled in gilt (with gilt London/Bentley imprint). Housed in a quarter green morocco slipcase. Overall an excellent set.
For this novel, Dickens’s first in the standard three-volume form, Bentley divided the printing task between two firms: Volume I was printed in a twelvemo format by Samuel Bentley; Volume II in octavo format by Whiting; and Volume III preliminaries and signatures A-F and probably G by Whiting with the remaining text by Samuel Bentley, again in twelvemo format. The three-decker publication date was 9 November 1839, and within a week, at Dickens’s insistence, the title- pages were changed to include his name, and the “Church” version of the final plate (“Rose Maylie and Oliver”) was substituted for the “Fireside” version. This copy has both “Boz” on the title page as well as the original “Fireside” plate. The true first issue is quite rare.
Gimbel. Hatton and Cleaver,. Smith, Dickens,4.
HBS 64551. $32,500 10
Guts.indd 10 11/13/08 11:08:15 AM A Fine Copy of the First Edition of Dickens’ First Book, in the Original Cloth
20. DICKENS, Charles. CRUIKSHANK, George, [illustrator]. Sketches by “Boz,”. Illustrative of Every- Day Life, and Every-Day People. In Two Volumes. Volume I [II]. London: John Macrone, 1836. First edition, first printing (i.e., by Whiting). Two twelvemo volumes (4 7/8 x 7 15/16 inches; 125 x 201 mm). [i-iii]iv-v[vi-vii]viii, [1]2-348; [i-iv], [1]2-342 pp. With the date on the preface reading ‘February, 1836’ and with almost every internal flaw called for by Smith in both volumes. No half-titles called for; some internal pages bear no pagination as called for by Smith. Sixteen inserted engraved plates by George Cruikshank including two frontispieces, eight in each volume. The first printing of the first edition carries the imprint of Whiting, whereas the second and third printings carry those of Hazard and Vizetelly, respectively. Original dark green leaf-patterned cloth. Marginal paper flaws to leaves A, A2, C10, D10, F9, F10, K12 of volume one and to leaf R of volume two, none of these affecting text. A fine copy of this rare first edition of Dickens’ first book. Cohn. Gimbel. Hatton and Cleaver,. Smith, Dickens, 1.
HBS 64544. $35,000 The First Edition of Donne’s “Poems”
21. D[ONNE], J[ohn]. Poems, by J. D. With Elegies on the Authors Death. London: Printed by M[iles] F[lesher] for John Marriot, 1633. First edition of the principal collection of Donne’s poetical works, issued two years after his death. Small quarto (7 x 5 5/16 inches; 179 x 135 mm.). [x], 406 pp. Lacks the initial blank leaf (A1), and the final blank leaf (Fff4). With the rare two leaves (signed * and A2) containing “The Printer to the Understanders” and “Hexastichon Bibliopolæ,” not present in all copies. Leaf Nn1 with thirty-five lines of text on p. 273 instead of thirty or thirty-one, with omission of the usual running headline. Full brown paneled calf, bound to style, red morocco spine label. Spine incorrectly marked 1663 in gilt. “This book appears to have been repeatedly corrected as it passed through the press and consequently it is found in a number of different states…It seems to be clear, however, that these ‘states are really governed by chance according to the order in which the sheets were taken up for folding before making up the book. No importance, therefore, can be attached to the various combinations in which the corrections are found…One of the more conspicuous irregularities in the printing is seen on Nn1a (p. 273), where there is no running head-line between rules and there are five more lines of text than on a normal page…The two leaves with The printer to the Understanders and Hexastichon Bibliopolae (with sign. A and A2) are an insertion, and are placed sometimes after the Epistle, but more often in the centre of the first quire…Sometimes the two leaves of The printer etc. are omitted altogether. It seems probable that they were an afterthought and were inserted in only a portion of the edition” (Keynes). Grolier, Langland to Wither, 71. Keynes, Donne, 78. Pforzheimer 296. STC 7045.
HBS 64463 $30,000 11
11_Rev.indd 2 11/13/08 11:17:28 AM First Edition in a Fine Binding by Bayntun
22. DOYLE, A[rthur] Conan. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. London: George Newnes, 1892.
First edition. Octavo. 317 pp. With 104 illustrations by Sidney Paget in the text.
[Together with:]
DOYLE, A[rthur] Conan. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. Illustrations by Sidney Paget. London: George Newnes, 1894.
First edition. Octavo. 279 pp. With ninety illustrations in the text (including frontispiece).
Uniformly bound by Bayntun of Bath in full blue polished calf. Author’s signature laid in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. A fine set housed in an open-end slipcase.
Green and Gibson A10a and A14a.
HBS 64297 $4,500
“The Best Book He Had Written”
23. DOYLE, Arthur Conan. The White Company. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1891.
First edition. Three octavo volumes. viii, 311; vi, 302, [2, ads]; vi, 277, [2, ads] pp.
An excellent set in publisher’s red-brown cloth, housed in an open-end.
Although known mainly for his series of tales about Sherlock Holmes, also noteworthy are Doyle’s historical novels including, “The White Company, dealing with the adventures of a company of Saxon bowmen in the French/English war of the 14th Century.” (Benét’s 289).
“The author considered it was the best book he had written” (Green and Gison, p. 47).
Green and Gibson A8a. Sadleir 752.
HBS 64420. $12,500
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Guts.indd 12 11/13/08 11:08:22 AM A Very Scarce Classic of Pacific Voyages
24. DUFLOT DE MOFRAS, Eugene. Exploration Du Territoire De L’Oregon, Des Californies Et De La Mer Vermeille. Executee Pendant Les Annes 1840, 1841, Et 1842. Paris: Firman Didot Fréres for Arthus Bertrand, 1844. Two octavo volumes of text (9 1/8 x 5 3/4 inches; 231 x 145 mm), [xii], [4], 524; [4], 514 pp. Plus folio atlas (21 15/16 x 14 1/2 inches; 555 x 367 mm). Complete with twenty-five plates on seventeen sheets, one of which is folding, and one large inserted colored folding map. Text with eight engraved plates. Quarter red straight-grain morocco over marbled boards. Small, old library stamp on title-page of volume I, not affecting text. A near fine set. “A historical and descriptive account of the Pacific Coast of North America. Duflot de Mofras was sent to Mexico in 1839 as French ambassador, but his special mission was to explore and evaluate the commercial possibilities of California and the Oregon Territory, in order that the French government would be better able to decide whether to become involved in the conflict over Oregon between the U.S. and Great Britain. Duflot de Mofras’s work contains very little of his personal narrative. He aimed to give a complete description of the country, its past history, and its present condition.” (Hill, 496). Howes D542. Streeter. Zamorano Eighty 30. HBS 64755. $35,000 The Very Rare First American Editions.
25. DUMAS, Alexandre. The Three Guardsmen [The Three Musketeers]. Translated from the French by Park Benjamin. Baltimore: Taylor, Wilde and Company, 1846. [bound together with] DUMAS, Alexandre. Twenty Years After, or The Three Mousquetaires. A Sequel to the Three Guardsmen. Translated from the French, by E.P.. Baltimore: Taylor, Wilde and Company, 1846. The very rare first American editions, published one and two years after the first French editions respectively. Two volumes bound together in one octavo volume (5 1/4 x 9 5/8 inches; 133 x 219 mm). [2, blank], [1]-257, [1, blank]; [1]-319, [1, blank] pp. Modern half tan morocco over marbled boards. This edition probably proceeded the first English edition in 1846 for although the publisher’s date on the title-page states 1846, the copyright page on the verso of the title-page for The Three Guardsmen states “Entered according to Act of Congress, by Park Benjamin, In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States for the State of Maryland, Dec. 5, A.D. 1845.” This is the first edition of The Three Guardsmen that was translated by Park Benjamin, an American poet. The London edition was translated by William Barlow. This is also the first edition ofTwenty Years After, or The Three Mousquetaires to be translated by E.P.. It was originally thought that E.P. was Edgar Allan Poe, but it seems more likely that it is actually author Emily Percival. No copy of this rare edition has sold at auction in the past thirty years. HBS 64553. $12,500 13
Guts.indd 13 11/13/08 11:08:26 AM One of a Few Copies Printed for Friends and Signed by Thomas A. Edison, John Burroughs, and Henry S. Firestone
26. [EDISON, Thomas A., John Burroughs, and Harvey Samuel Firestone]. In Nature’s Laboratory. [Commemorating Our Vacation Trip of 1916. August 28th to September 9th]. [N.p.: n.d., ca. 1916].
One of a very small number of copies printed for private distribution by the authors, signed by Edison, Burroughs, and Firestone on the “Greeting” page. Folio (11 7/8 x 8 5/8 inches; 303 x 219 mm.). [52] leaves. Cover title. Printed on brown paper one side only. First and final leaf blank and attached to endpapers. With forty-four original mounted photographs and a facsimile letter tipped in.
Original suede over padded boards. Some very expert restoration to board tips. Overall a very good copy of this scarce item. Housed in an open-end slipcase.
A poetic trip journal, commemorating a thousand-mile camping trip organized by Edison through the Catskills, the Adirondacks, and the Green Mountains of upstate New York.
Howes. Streeter.
HBS 64404. $8,000
Ian Fleming’s Copy of Einstein’s Theory of Relativity
27. EINSTEIN, Albert. Die Grundlage der allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie. [Sonderdruck aus den Annalen der Physik, Band 49, 1916]. Leipzig: Verlag von Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1916.
First separate printing, with significant additions and revisions to the edition printed in theAnnalen der Physik. With printer’s imprint “Druck von Metzger & Witting in Leipzig” on the verso of the title, and the shorter imprint “Metzger & Witting, Leipzig” on the back wrapper. Octavo. 64 pp.
Original tan printed wrappers. Some light browning around the edges of the wrappers, but, overall, an excellent copy with none of the spine erosion or soiling usually found with this fragile item. In full black cloth portfolio. Ian Fleming’s copy, with his gilt crest stamped on the front of the portfolio. A near fine copy with an interesting provenance.
“The authorized version of Einstein’s general theory of relativity. The theory’s impact upon twentieth-century science and thought can hardly be overstated” (Norman Library 695, describing the first printing).
Grolier/Horblit 26c (describing the first printing). Norman Library 696. Printing and the Mind of Man 408. Weil 80a.
HBS 64730. $8,500 14
Guts.indd 14 11/13/08 11:08:31 AM The First Appearance Of The Fahrenheit Thermometer
28 FAHRENHEIT, Daniel Gabriel. Experimenta circa gradum caloris. In: Philosophical Transactions. Volume. XXXIII, no. 381, pp. 1-3. [London: Printed for W. and J. Innys, 1724].
The first appearance of Fahrenheit’s invention of the Fahrenheit Thermometer. Quarto (8 1/2 x 6 5/8 inches; 215 x 167 mm). [2], 37, [1, blank] pp. Also with Robert Houstoun’s “An Account of a Dropsy in the Left Ovary of a Woman” pages 8-15, and additional material. With large folding engraved plate. Unbound. Housed in a quarter morocco over marble boards slipcase.
“With his ‘Experiments concerning the Degrees of Heat’ Fahrenheit perfected the modern instrument, his principal innovation being a ‘fixed point’ of departure, namely the temperature to which water can be cooled when mixed with ice and salt. This he called zero. At the ends of his scale were normal human blood-heat-which he took as 96° -and normal freezing point of water, 32°. When this scale was later extended upwards, the boiling point of water fell at 212o. He may have been the first to use mercury as a thermometric fluid.” (PMM, 182). PMM 182. HBS 64723. $3,500 “M still hasn’t forgiven James Bond…”
29. FLEMING, Ian. Dr. No. London: Jonathan Cape, [1958].
First edition, with brown-stamped “girl” on top board (no priority). Octavo (7 7/16 x 5 inches; 189 x 127 mm). [1]-256 pp.
Black paper over boards. Front board with brown-stamped “girl” and spine lettered in silver. With original pictorial dust jacket. Near fine.
HBS 64669. $2,250
With A Double Fore-Edge Painting
30. [FORE-EDGE PAINTING]. COOKE, Thomas, [translator]. HESIOD. The Works of Hesiod. Translated From The Greek, By Thomas Cooke. London: Printed at the Stanhope Press, By Whittingham and Rowland, 1811.
Two small octavo volumes in one (4 13/16 x 3 inches; 123 x 26 mm). [4], 136; [4], 138, [2, blank] pp. With engraved frontispiece for each volume. Volume one’s frontispiece depicts Hesiod, volume two’s frontispiece depicts the birth of Venus.
Full red straight-grain morocco. With a double fore-edge painting depicting of St. John’s College in Cambridge on one side and King’s College Chapel in Cambridge on the other. Very good. In a red cloth slipcase.
HBS 64630. $1,500
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Guts.indd 15 11/13/08 11:08:34 AM The Most Important Scientic Book of Eighteenth-Century America and the Most Complete Edition of Benjamin Franklin’s Electrical Papers
31. FRANKLIN, Benjamin. Experiments and Observations on Electricity…To which are added, Letters and Papers on Philosophical Subjects. London: Printed for F. Newberry, 1774.
Fifth and most complete edition. Quarto (8 7/8 x 6 7/8 inches; 225 x 176 mm). [2, blank], [1, half-title], [1, blank], v, [1, ad], 514, [16, index] pp. Seven engraved plates, including frontispiece and a few text diagrams. Three of the plates are folding.
Contemporary full calf, rebacked to style.
Printing and the Mind of Man calls this “the most important scientific book of eighteenth-century America.” The fifth edition is themost complete of Franklin’s works on electricity and contains two more plates than the fourth edition. This classic work includes the terms positive and negative, action of pointed conductors, discharge by alternate contact, spring, seat of charge, Franklin’s pane, electric dinner, aurorae, common matter self-attractive, electrical matter self-repellent, and many more. The actual text was revised by Franklin and was the last edition published during his lifetime. “The most outstanding difference… is of course in content. The fourth and fifth editions were each more than twice as large as the first three…” I. Bernard Cohen, Benjamin Franklins Experiments. pp.148-154.
Ford, 318. Howes 320. Sabin 25506. Wheeler Gift 367c.
HBS 64589. $6,750
Across the Rockies with Fremont In the Original Cloth
32. FREMONT, John Charles. Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains. in the Year 1842, and to Oregon and North California in the Years 1843-44… Printed by order of the Senate of the United States. Washington: Gales and Seaton, Printers, 1845.
First edition, Senate issue with all the scientific data. Octavo (9 x 5 3/4 inches; 228 x144 mm). 693, [1, blank] pp. With twenty-two plates and four maps (two of which are folding) plus the very large folding map in the rear pocket.
Publisher’s vertically-ribbed dark brown cloth. Head and tail of the spine slightly chipped. Front outer hinge cracked but firm. Pocket map with a few small fold-line tears. An excellent copy of this important narrative in the original binding and with the large map in the rear pocket.
One of the most important publications on the history of the exploration of the American West. ‘On January 18, 1844, Fremont determined to cross the Sierra instead of turning eastward. Crossing over what is now known as Carson’s Pass, he reached the San Joaquin Valley and turned north to Sutter’s Fort. It was a tattered and exhausted outfit that arrived there on March 6th, 1844. Here he learned much about the conditions in California.’ Later he crossed the Tehachapi Pass into the Mojave Desert. The large map is of particular importance as it charts hitherto unknown areas. Graff 1436. Howes F-370. Sabin 25845. Streeter 3131. Wagner- Camp 115:1. Zamorano Eighty #39. HBS 64748. $3,000 16
Guts.indd 16 11/13/08 11:08:37 AM One of the Most Celebrated Polemics in the History of Science
33. GALILEI, Galileo. Il Saggiatore nel quale con bilancia esquisita e giusta si ponderano le cose contenute nella libra astronomica e filosofica di Lotario Sarsi… Rome: Appresso Giacomo Mascardi, 1623. First edition, first issue, with the shorter errata list (eight lines in two columns) on the verso of Ff6 and the absence of the introductory verses by Johannes Faber and Francesco Stelluti (a1-4) which were printed later, on different paper. Small quarto (7 13/16 x 6 inches; 199 x 153 mm.). [6], 236 pp. With engraved title and engraved portrait by Francisco Villamena. Eighteen engraved diagrams in the text, typographic head-piece ornament, woodcut initials and tail-pieces. Contemporary half vellum over red, yellow and green decorated boards. Small marginal closed tear to leaf K3 and a dark spot on leaf P2. Overall a very good copy of this important book. “Il Saggiatore was dedicated at the last minute to the new Pope Urban VIII, Maffeo Barberini, Galileo’s friend and a patron of science and the arts. Galileo was in Florence during the printing and could not supervise the corrections, so the first issue contains only 16 errata; Galileo had an additional errata leaf printed for the second issue, which was revised to a total of 137 errata for the third and final issue…The engraving on Ee1r is the earliest published illustration of the ring of Saturn, the planet Mars in inferior and superior conjunction, and the phases of Venus” (The Haskell F. Norman Library, Christie’s New York, 15 and 16 June 1998, lot 456). Carli & Favaro 95. Cinti 73. Honeyman 1405. Norman Library 857. Riccardi I (1), col. 511. HBS 64716. $40,000 “Masterpiece of Historical Penetration and Literary Style”
34. GIBBON, Edward. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. London: Printed for A. Strahan; and T. Cadell, 1776-1788. First edition. Six quarto volumes. (10 9/16 x 8 1/2 inches; 268 x216 mm). viii, [3, contents], [1, blank], [1, errata], [1, blank], 586, [1, notes], [1, ads], lxxxviii; [16], [1, blank], [1, errata], [7, contents], [1, blank], 640; [11], [1, blank], [1, errata], [1, blank], 640; [4], viii, [7, contents], [1, blank], 620; [12], 684; [14], 646, [51, index], [1, errata]pp. Volume I and II with engraved portrait of Gibbon by Hall after Joshua Reynolds, dated 1 February 1780, not usually found. Three engraved folding maps. Complete with half-titles in each volume, and the errata leaves in Volumes I, II, III, and VI (this last volume having the errata for the final three volumes). Text is uncorrected. Contemporary speckled calf, with an old rebacking. Front hinges of volumes I, II, VI. and back hinge of volume I expertly repaired. A “masterpiece of historical penetration and literary style,” Gibbon’s Decline and Fall brought to the subject a width of vision and a critical mastery of the available sources which have not been equaled to this day. “This masterpiece of historical penetration and literary style has remained one of the ageless historical works which, like the writings of Macaulay and Mommsen, maintain their hold upon the layman and continue to stimulate the scholar although they have been superseded in many, if not most, details by subsequent advance of research and changes in the climate of opinion. Whereas other eighteenth-century writers in this field, such as Voltaire, are still quoted with respect, the Decline and Fall is the only historical narrative prior to Macaulay which continues to be reprinted and actually read” (Printing and the Mind of Man). Grolier, 100 English, 58. Norton 20,23,29. Printing and the Mind of Man 222. Rothschild 942-944. Sterling 382.
HBS 64728. $28,500
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17_Rev.indd 3 11/13/08 11:17:55 AM One of the Most Famous Poems in the English Language
35. [GRAY, Thomas]. An Elegy Wrote in a Country Church Yard. London: Printed for R. Dodsley…1751.
First edition, first printing with line 4, page 10 reading “hidden Spirit,” later corrected to “kindred spriit,” with the “S” of “FINIS” partly punched through the paper and the last letter of the catchword on p. 9 in alignment. Quarto, tall copy (10 x 7 1/2 inches; 255 x 190 mm.). 11, [1, blank] pp. Woodcut mourning rules on title-page and repeated as head-piece.
Bound in nineteenth-century full calf, gilt triple rule with corner devices on covers and inner dentelles, spine lettered and tooled in gilt. Professionally rebacked, preserving original spine. A very good, clean copy of one of the most famous poems in the English language and an important precursor of the Romantic movement.
Gray had circulated his Elegy in manuscript among his friends, but had resisted publication until Horace Walpole inadvertently let the text fall into the hands of William Owen, who intended to print the poem, identifying Gray as the author, in his Magazine of Magazines. Gray advised Walpole in a letter of 12 February 1751 to “make Dodsley print it immediately…from your Copy but without my Name, in what Form is most convenient for him, but in his best Paper & Character…& the Title must be, Elegy, wrote in a Country Church-yard.” The first edition, with an anonymous prefatory “Advertisement” by Walpole was published 15 February 1751, one day before the unauthorized edition appeared in the Magazine of Magazines. The short time allowed for the printing of the poem accounts for the faulty presswork that affects the final word of virtually all copies.
Ashley II, p. 159. Grolier, 100 English, 49. Hayward 173. Hazen 41. Northrup 492. Rothschild 1056. Tinker 1165.
HBS 64394 $25,000
The State as Perfect Organization
36. HEGEL, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich. Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts. Berlin: In der Nicolaischen Buchhandlung, 1821.
First edition. Octavo (7 11/16 x 4 13/16 inches). xxvi, 355, [1, printer’s imprint] pp. With the rare additional title page: Naturrecht und Staatswissenschaft im Grundrisse. Zum Gebrauch für seine Vorlesungen.
Contemporary marbled paper over boards. Overall, an excellent, clean copy.
“The Grundlinien deals with [moral and political philosophy], and is a complete system, in which the concept of a sociology dominated by the idea of the State is laid down. It turns away from the apparent chaos of the democratic advocates of individual right in favour of an overwhelming sense that liberty cannot exist apart from order, and that the vital connexion of all parts of the body politic is the source of all good. As the family is, without contract, the instinctive realization of the moral life, so, equally without contract, the State is the fullest expression of the moral spirit, where interdependence is combined with free will. The State is the perfection of man as a finite entity, whence the spirit moves into the absolute 18
Guts.indd 18 11/13/08 11:08:47 AM existence of art, religion and philosophy. Taken apart from the rest of his system, Hegel’s political philosophy has been much misrepresented by totalitarian propagandists. He was, however, one of the most profound and intellectual thinkers of the nineteenth century. Theology, philosophy, political theory, all have been radically influenced by his system” (Printing and the Mind of Man).
This is the most important work of political philosophy before Marx, whose work is explicitly constructed as a reaction to Hegel.
Borst 1361. Printing and the Mind of Man 283.
HBS 64424. $8,500
First Edition of Helmholtz’s Announcement of His Invention of the Ophthalmoscope
37. HELMHOLTZ, H[ermann von]. Beschreibung eines Augen-Spiegels zur Untersuchung der Netzhaut im lebenden Auge. Berlin: A. Förstner’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1851.
First edition of Helmholtz’s announcement of his invention of the ophthalmoscope. Octavo. 43, [1, blank], [2], [2, blank] pp. Engraved plate by Afinger after drawings by Helmholtz.
Original yellow printed wrappers. Housed in a quarter morocco clamshell. A fine copy, rare in this condition.
“One of Helmholtz’s greatest talents was his ability to design new instruments to measure data unobtainable with existing equipment. After his friend Ernst Brücke had shown that human eyes could be made to glow with diffusely reflected light, Helmholtz realized that this reflected light could be obtained as a magnified image of the subject’s retina by means of a simple optical device. This led to the invention of the ophthalmoscope, which made it possible for the first time to study the fundus, the optic nerve and the blood vessels of the living eye, and vastly improved the capacity for diagnosing pathological conditions. Beschreibung eines Augen-Spiels contains Helmholtz’s first published account of the instrument, including the mathematical theory behind it; the treatise marks the beginning of his fruitful inquiries into the field of physiological optics” (Norman Library).
Garrison and Morton 5866. Grolier, 100 Medicine, 65. Heirs of Hippocrates (1980 ed.) 1009. Norman Library 1041. Waller 4294.
HBS 64340 $8,500
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Guts.indd 19 11/13/08 11:08:54 AM First Edition of George Herbert’s “The Temple”
38. HERBERT, George. The Temple. Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations. Cambridge: Printed by Thom. Buck, and Roger Daniel, printers to the Universitie, 1633.
First edition, first state title-page (dated, and without “And are to be sold by Francis Green, stationer in Cambridge”) of George Herbert’s poetical works. Twelvemo, tall copy (5 11/8 x 3 1/4 inches). [8], 192, [3], [1, blank] pp. Title within typographical border.
Bound by F. Bedford (stamp-signed in gilt on front turn-in) in mid- nineteenth century full dark blue morocco.
This work was edited posthumously by Herbert’s friend, Nicholas Ferrer, who was instructed by the poet on his deathbed to either burn or publish the manuscript. The collection was an instant success and went through at least eleven editions up to 1695. His verse output is almost entirely contained within The Temple. Although most of his poetry was religious in nature, his use of imagery was often ingenious, and he relished experimenting with poetic form. The poem “Easter Wings,” printed vertically on the page, the lines making the shape of angel’s wings, on pp. 34-35, is a notable early example of concrete poetry.
Grolier, 100 English, 24. Grolier, Wither to Prior, 438. Hayward 66. Pforzheimer 465. Wing H1513. Palmer 6. STC 13183.
HBS 64392. $25,000 First Edition, First State of Chapman’s “Batrachomyomachia”
39. HOMER [attributed to]. CHAPMAN, George, [translator]. The Crowne of all Homers Workes: Batrachomyomachia, or, the Battaile of frogs and mise. His Hymn’s – and – Epigrams. London: John Bill, [n.d.c.a.1624?].
First edition first state with “Worckes” on the title. Quarto, larger than the Pforzheimer copy (11 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches; 293 x 191 mm.). [10], 143, 148-179, [1], 201-207, [5] pp. With engraved title-page, hand-colored in an early hand.
Full contemporary brown calf, expertly rebacked to style. A small correction in the text, possibly in Chapman’s hand. Some minor browning, but a clean, unwashed copy
Chapman’s well-known seventeenth-century rendering of Batrachomyomachia is also rather scarce: in the past twenty- five years, just three have come up for auction. According to Pforzheimer, copies of the mock-heroic parody of the Iliad, which famously describes an epic battle between frogs and mice, “sometimes occur bound with [Chapman’s translations of] the Iliads and Odyssey with a general-title The Whole Works”; however, just one copy of this collected volume has come up for auction in the past twenty-five years.
Pforzheimer 165. STC 13628.
HBS 64465. $15,000 20
Guts.indd 20 11/13/08 11:09:00 AM The First Publication of the Famed Dresden Codax
40. HUMBOLDT, Alexander von. BONPLAND, A[imé Jacques Alexandre]. Vues des Cordilléres et Monumens des Pueples Indigénes de L’Amérique. Paris: F. Schoell, 1810.
First edition. Large folio (22 1/2 x 16 1/4 inches; 566 x 411 mm). [10], xvi, [2], [1]-350, [2, blank] pp. Complete with sixty-nine plates on sixty-eight leaves, one of which is a colored double page, twenty- four of which are colored and four of which are sepia. Plates with protective tissue guards laid in. Also with an additional title-page.
Contemporary half green morocco over marbled boards.
“This atlas was issued to accompany the first part of the Voyage de Humboldt et Bonpland. Alexander von Humboldt was an eminent German naturalist, geographer, traveler, and scientific explorer. He was the son of the King of Prussia’s chamberlain, brother of a prominent Prussian diplomat, and a friend of Georg Forster. From 1799 to 1804, he traveled with the French botanist Aimé Bonpland on a scientific journey to Spanish South America, Cuba, Mexico, and Central America. They sailed from La Coruña on board Pizarro for America, where the Orinoco River was explored by boat. The extensive scientific explorations were made in the Andes and in Mexico. Humboldt, the inventor of isothermic lines, was especially interested in climate, in particular the effects of elevations and of ocean currents, in tropical storms, and in volcanoes. One of the more spectacular plates in this work depicts the great volcano of Chimborazo in the Andean highlands. Humboldt’s expedition was fundamental to the development of the sciences of physical geography and meteorology, and he made important contributions to the study of ethnicity and culture. Local peoples and Mexican and Peruvian antiquities received attentive analysis. After his return to Europe, Humboldt spent twenty years in Paris supervising the publication of the results of his explorations. Many of the plates were engraved from Humboldt’s drawings, and he supervised the hand-coloring of the plates for accuracy. Contained herein is the first publication of any part of the famed Dresden Codex, the most extensive surviving pre-Columbian codex, as well as color plates derived from the Codex Mendoza and other important codices.” (Hill, 839).
HBS 64774. $40,000
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Guts.indd 21 11/13/08 11:09:04 AM “A Great Classic of Western Exploration”
41. JAMES, Edwin. LONG, Stephen H., [contributor]. Account Of An Expedition From Pittsburgh To The Rocky Mountains, Performed In The Years 1819, and ‘20, By Order of The Hon. J.C.Calhoun, Sec’y of War: Under the Command of Major Stephen H. Long. From the Notes of Major Long, Mt. T. Say, and Other Gentlemen of the Exploring Party. Compiled by Edwin James, Botanist and Geologist for the Expedition. In Two Vols.-With an Atlas. Philadelphia: H.C. Carey and I. Lea, [1822]-1823.
First edition. Two octavo volumes of text (9 3/8 x 5 15/16 inches; 239 x 152 mm) and one small quarto atlas (11 13/16 x 9 3/8 inches; 300 237 mm). Atlas is dated 1822. [4], [1]-5 Preliminary Notes, [1, blank], [2, contents], [1]-503, [1, blank]; [6], [1]-442, [1]-xcvii Supplement; 4, Atlas pp. Atlas complete with eleven plates in total. Two double page maps, eight engraved plates (including one colored) and two “vertical sections” in one double page plate. Some plates with tissue guards.
Volume II has a supplement at the end with a separate title page and is date 1822. Astronomical and Meteorological Records, and Vocabulary of Indian Languages, Taken on the Expedition for Exploring the Mississippi and its Western Waters, under the command of Major S.H. Long, of the United States’ Topographical Engineers, in 1819 and 1820. Philadelphia, 1822.
Text uncut in half red morocco over marbled boards. Atlas in quarter cloth over original drab boards. Front board with original printed paper spine label. One plate with professional restoration to back side, with no loss.
“The account of Long’s expedition ranks alongside those of Lewis and Clark and Zebulon Pike as one of the three great classics of Western exploration. This official account was complied by Edwin James, a naturalist and physician to the expedition. Major Stephen Harriman Long (1784-1864), a Dartmouth graduate and U.S. Army engineer, was sent to explore the western portions of the Louisiana Purchase and the Rocky Mountains. The expedition discovered and climbed several peaks, including Long’s Peak, and explored the regions of the Platte and Arkansas River Valleys. This work, with its fine atlas, is a most valuable contribution to geographical and ethnographical literature.” (Hill, 877).
Graff 2188. Hill 877. Howes J41. Sabin 35682.
HBS 64764. $30,000
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Guts.indd 22 11/13/08 11:09:08 AM The Rare “Princess Casamassima” Three-Decker
42. JAMES, Henry. The Princess Casamassima. A Novel. London: Macmillan and Co., 1886. First edition, one of 750 sets published in October of 1886. Three octavo volumes. Advertisement leaf at the end of volumes two and three. Publisher’s dark green cloth. Green coated endpapers renewed. Uncut. A very good copy. In custom cloth clamshell. “In the middle phase of his career, James wrote two novels dealing with social reformers and revolutionaries, The Bostonians (1886) and Princess Casamassima.” (Webster’s Dictionary of American Authors, 207) These novels were different in that they strayed from the usual themes found in James’ works and focused more on the poor and working-class characters and radical politics. BAL 10577. Edel and Laurence A29a. HBS 64325. $8,500
The Most Important 18th Century Atlas For America, Complete With Thirty Engraved Maps
43. JEFFERYS, Thomas. The American Atlas or, A Geographical Description of the Whole Continent of America: wherein are delineated at large, its several regions, countries, states, and islands; chiefly the British Colonies, Composed from numerous Surveys, several of which were made by Order of Government. By Major Holland, Lewis Evans, William Scull, Henry Mouzon, Lieut. Ross, J. Cook, Michael Lane, Joseph Gilbert, Gardner, Hillock, &c. &c. Engraved on forty-nine copper-plates. London: Printed and Sold by R. Sayer and J. Bennett, 1776. Large folio (21 3/4 x 15 5/8 inches; 554 x 398 mm). [2, blank], [1, title], [1, blank], [1, index], [1, blank] pp. Complete with thirty maps, of which eighteen are folding, eleven are double page, and one is a single page. Each map is hand-colored in outline. Letterpress title and contents leaf, otherwise engraved throughout. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards, rebacked with original spine and spine label laid down. Front inner hinge cracked but firm. Maps 18 and 19 with lower corners reinforced. Overall a very bright, crisp copy of a book not usually found is such beautiful condition. As a collection, the American Atlas stands as the most comprehensive, detailed and accurate survey of the American colonies at the beginning of the Revolution. Among the distinguished maps are Jonathan Carver’s A New Map of the Province of Quebec, the first map of Quebec as an English possession; Braddock Meade’s A Map of the Most Inhabited Parts of New England, the largest and most detailed map of New England that had yet been published; a map of The Provinces of New York and New Jersey by Samuel Holland, the Surveyor general for the northern American colonies; William Scull’s A Map of Pennsylvania, the first map of that colony to include its western frontier; Joshua Fry and Peter Jefferson’s A Map of the Most Inhabited part of Virginia, the best colonial map for the Chesapeake region; and Lt. Ross’s Course of the Mississipi, the first map of that river based on English sources . Howes J-81; Philipps 1165; Sabin 35953; Streeter Sale I, 72. Literature: Walter Ristow [ed.] Facsimile Atlas. Thomas Jefferys The American Atlas London: 1776. Amsterdam: 1974.
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Guts.indd 23 11/13/08 11:09:14 AM “The Most Amazing, Enduring and Endearing One-Man Feat in the Field of Lexicography”
44. JOHNSON, Samuel. A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the words are deduced from their originals, and illustrated in their different significations by examples from the best writers. To which are prefixed, a history of the language, and an English grammar. London: Printed by W. Strahan, for J. and P. Knapton…, 1755.
First edition of “the most amazing, enduring and endearing one-man feat in the field of lexicography” (Printing and the Mind of Man). Two large folio volumes, tall paper copies, (16 1/4 x 10 1/4 inches; 412 x 254 mm.). Unpaginated. Text in double columns. Title-pages printed in red and black. Decorative woodcut tail-pieces.
Expertly rebound to style using the original full brown calf covers.
”Begun in 1747, and printed over five years, Johnson’s Dictionary at once put to shame every other dictionary that had ever been written and set the standard for every dictionary that has been written since. Its genius was at once acknowledged by every hand, and the first edition of two thousand copies was instantly sold out…Perhaps the greatest innovation in Johnson’s work was his consistent reliance not on earlier word-lists and dictionaries, not on his own intuition, but on English literature itself—the vast, wonderful treasury of words that, well chosen and properly sorted and accurately quoted, became in itself almost a dictionary of the language. Indeed, after Johnson showed the way by quoting from English literature at every turn, it was even suggested that a great dictionary might be written without definitions at all—if the quotations were plentiful enough and well enough chosen and edited. This insistence on real examples from the real language as it has been really used has informed every serious dictionary every since—from Richardson and Webster to the new OED” (The Collection of The Garden Ltd., Sotheby’s New York, November 9 and 10, 1989, lot 148).
Courtney & Nichol Smith, p. 54. Printing and the Mind of Man 201. Rothschild 1237.
HBS 64564. $35,000
The First Folio Edition of Ben Jonson’s Works
45. JONSON, Ben. The Workes of Benjamin Jonson. London: Printed by William Stansby, 1616. [Together with:] The Workes of Benjamin Jonson. The second Volume…London: Printed for Richard Meighen, [1631]-1640[- 1641].
First folio edition. Three folio volumes, bound in two (Volume II divided into four parts, originally issued in two volumes). (Vol. I 10 13/16 x 7 1/8 inches; 275 x 180 mm.; Vol. II 11 1/8 x 7 3/8 inches; 282 x 190 mm.) [10], 1015, [1, blank]; [12], 88, [1], [1, blank], 93-170, 75, [1]; 155, [1, blank]; 292; 132 pp.. Volume I bound with rare initial blank leaf. Engraved allegorical title by William Hole.
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Guts.indd 24 11/13/08 11:09:18 AM Volume I- In this copy, the section title to Every Man out of His Humour (p. [73]) is within a woodcut border (McKerrow and Ferguson 224) and has the imprint “Printed by W. Stansby for I. Smithwicke;” the section title to Cynthias Revels (p. [177]) is within the same woodcut border and has the imprint: “Printed by W. Stansby;” the section title to Poëtaster (p. [271]) is without the border and has the imprint: “Printed by William Stansby.” Volume II- the Divell is an Asse imprint dated 1631; the end of Mortimer reads :Hee dyed, and left it unfinished”. In this copy Part III is bound before Part II and The Divell is an Asse is bound before The Staple is News.
In addition, the dedication on G2 recto is signed “By your true Honorer, BEN. IONSON’; line 6 on G2 verso reads “PUNTERVOLO”; the catchword on G5 recto is “Naked,”; on G5 verso “Where”; G6 recto begins “Where I want arte,”; and the eighth line from the bottom on G6 verso reads: “But why enforce I this? as fainting? no.”
Volume I- Full contemporary brown paneled calf, expertly rebacked to style. Volume II- Full brown calf, ruled in blind, expertly rebacked preserving the original spine.
“This book...is a handsome specimen of typography. It reflects great credit upon its printer, Stansby, who was an apprentice and then successor to John Windet, and himself a master printer. Such work entitles him to a front rank among the printers of the reign of James I. Jonson is said to have prepared the plays for the press, himself, and one or two matters of editing...certainly appear to show the author’s hand. At the end of each play, for instance, is a statement telling when it was first acted, and by whom, whether the king’s or the queen’s servants. The names of the actors are also given...All of the works not included in the first were intended for a second volume, which, however, did not appear until after Jonson’s death, in 1640” (Grolier, 100 English).
Grolier, 100 English, 17. Pforzheimer 559. STC 14751.
HBS 64464. $45,000 James Joyce’s Last and Most Revolutionary Novel
46. JOYCE, James. Finnegans Wake. London: Faber and Faber, [1939].
First (regular) edition. Large octavo. [8], 628 pp.
Original rough red cloth. Maroon dust jacket. A few minute abrasions to the top edge of the jacket. About fine.
“The ordinary edition consisted of 3400 copies of which 2255 were sold to the public, 950 in the form of sheets being destroyed. The balance were gratis, etc.” (Slocum and Cahoon).
“If Finnegans Wake is a key book, it is a key which needs a key…The ‘Wake’ reminds me of the unfinished obelisk which lies on its side at Assuan, yet it has passages of unearthly beauty…and huge comic scenes. Joyce insisted that each word, each sentence had several meanings and that the ‘idéal lecteur’ should devote his life-time to it, like the Koran” (Connolly, The Modern Movement, 87).
Slocum and Cahoon A47.
HBS 64362. $7,500 25
Guts.indd 25 11/13/08 11:09:23 AM A Shakespeare Source Book
47. [JUSTINUS]. [GOLDING, Arthur, translator]. Thabridgemente of the Histories of Trogus Pompeius, gathered and written in the Laten tung, by the famous Historiographer Iustine, and translated into Englishe by Arthur Goldinge: a work conteyning brefly great plentye of most delectable historyes, and notable examples, worthy not onely to be read but also to bee embraced and followed of al men. Newlie conferred with the Latin copye and corrected by the translator. Anno Domini 1570. London: Thomas Marshe, 1570. First complete English edition, the second edition of Goldinge’s translation. Small quarto (7 1/2 x 5 3/8 inches; 190 x 137 mm). [1, blank], [13], 7, 9-92, 94-161, leaf 159, leaf 159, 163-172, 193-200 leaves. Title-page within a woodcut border. Bound by Brentanos in modern half rust colored calf over rust cloth. Title page soiled, remounted and a small portion of the lower border is replaced with a pen and ink facsimile. Approximately thirty leaves have been remargined, with little loss of text. No copies of this or the earlier edition in OCLC. Thabridgemente of the Histories of Trogus Pompeius is a known Shakespearian source and allusions to it can be found in numerous plays by Shakespeare. Some of these plays include Henry IV, Titus Andronicus,The Taming of the Shrew, Henry V, and The Winter’s Tale. ‘‘It is a significant ‘coincidence,’ now noted for the first time, that the writer of the Shakespearean plays must also have been vividly impressed by the succinct tales from Trogus Pompeius for he alludes many times to striking incidents and unusual personalities of the ancient world that appear in this early translation by Arthur Golding...Altogether, there are ten or more clear-cut allusions in the plays to memorable characterizations and passages that appear in Arthur Golding translation of Trogus Pompeius. In addition, Shakespeare seems to have drawn heavily upon the book in naming many of his dramatic personages. Fully a dozen of the heroes of antiquity that Golding re-vitalized for the delectation of his brilliant nephew reappear in name if not in exact characterization in the Shakespearean comedies and tragedies—exclusive of the Roman plays, modeled directly upon Plutarch.’’ (Shakespeare Authorship Sourcebook, Charles Wisner Barrell, 1940). ESTC S118649. HBS 64593. $7,500 A Beautiful First Edition of Keats’ Lamia
48. KEATS, John. Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems. London: Printed for Taylor and Hessey, 1820.
First edition. Twelvemo (3 7/8 x 6 1/2 inches; 99 x 165 mm). [viii], [1]-199, [1, printer’s imprint]. With half-title and one page of ads in the front. Without final four leaves of ads.
Bound by Zaehnsdorf in full brown calf. Front joint expertly repaired.
First edition of the poet’s third and last book. Taylor and Hessey originally planned to issue the last of Keats’s poems in five separate pamphlets at a half-crown each but quickly realized that it was eminently more salable as a volume of poems at 7s. 6d. On 24 June publisher John Taylor wrote his father that “Next week Keats’s new Volume of poems will be published, and if it does not sell well, I think nothing will ever sell again—I am sure of this for poetic Genius there is not his equal living, & I would compare him against any one with either Milton or Shakespeare for Beauties.” The book resonates with not only the notable three poems mentioned in the title, but also with the unfinished epic “Hyperion” and three of the four great odes: “Ode to a Nightingale,” “Ode on Melancholy,” and “Ode on a Grecian Urn.”
Ashley 15. Grolier, 100 English, I67. Hayward 223. MacGillivray A3.
HBS 64354. $8,500 26
Guts.indd 26 11/13/08 11:09:27 AM The Kelmscott Edition of the First Book Printed in English, In an Impressive Chivers Binding
49. [KELMSCOTT PRESS]. [CHIVERS, Cedric, binder]. [LEFEVRE, Raoul]. The Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye. [Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, Sold by Bernard Quaritch, 1892].
One of 300 paper copies printed by William Morris at the Kelmscott Press. Three books in two volumes. Large quartos (11 1/4 x 8 1/8 inches). xv, [1], 295, [1, blank]; [297]-507, [1, blank], [509]-718 pp. Printed in red and black in Troy and Chaucer type. Decorative woodcut borders and initials. Edited by H. Halliday Sparling.
Bound by Cedric Chivers in a beautiful art nouveau “Vellucent” binding. Binding elaborately decorated in vivid colors and detail and all boards and spine ruled in gilt. Front covers framed by green vines with pink and orange flowers and gilt stamped detail. Inside the frame of vines, stands Helen of Troy on volume I, and Cassandra on volume II. The title of the book is shown on a scroll beneath the women’s feet. The spines of both volumes contain a similar scroll decoration, also containing the title of the book. On the back cover of each volume is an image of the towers of Troy in flames. Top edges gilt and gauffered, others uncut.
A reprint of the first book printed in English, which had long been a favorite with Morris. Although there had been a number of earlier editions of the Recuyell, the Kelmscott Press version was the first to go back directly to Caxton’s text. This was the first book printed in Troy type, and the first in which Chaucer type was used (for table of contents and glossary). All of the ornaments in the margins and the initials throughout the text are by Morris.
Clark Library, Kelmscott and Doves, pp. 18-19. Peterson A8. Ransom, Private Presses, p. 326, no. 8. Sparling 8. Tomkinson, p. 109, no. 8.
HBS 64518. $22,500
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Guts.indd 27 11/13/08 11:09:33 AM With Twenty-Three Wood-Engraved Illustrations Designed by Walter Crane
50. [KELMSCOTT PRESS]. MORRIS, William. The Story of the Glittering Plain which has been also called The Land of Living Men or The Acre of the Undying. [Hammersmith: Sold by William Morris, at the Kelmscott Press, 1894].
One of 250 paper copies. Large quarto. 177 pp. Printed in red and black in Troy type, with table of contents in Chaucer type. With twenty-three wood-engraved illustrations designed by Walter Crane. Decorative woodcut borders and initials.
Full limp vellum with original green silk ties. A lovely copy of a wonderful book.
The only title printed twice by the Kelmscott Press. Morris was so eager to get the first edition (published in 1891) into print that he would not wait for Crane’s illustrations.
Clark Library, Kelmscott and Doves, pp. 31-32. Peterson A22. Ransom, Private Presses, p. 327, no. 22. Sparling 22. Tomkinson, p. 113, no. 22.
HBS 64363. $7,500 The First English Edition of the Second Russian Pacific Voyage
51. KOTZEBUE, Otto von. A Voyage of Discovery, into the South Sea and Beering’s Straits, For the purpose of exploring a north-east passage, undertaken in the years 1815-1818, at the expense of His Highness the Chancellor of the Empire, Count Romanzoff, in the ship Rurick, under the command of the Lieutenant in the Russian Imperial Navy, Otto von Kotzebue. Illustrated with numerous plates and maps. In three volumes. Vol. I. [II. III.] London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1821.
First edition in English. Three octavo volumes (8 7/16 x 5 3/8 inches; 215 x 136 mm). [iii[-xv, [1, list of plates], [1, blank], [1]- 358; [2], [1]-433, [1, printer’s imprint]; [2], [1]-442 pp. Complete with eight hand-colored aquatint plates (including frontispieces), one uncolored plate, and seven maps, four of which are folding. Numerous tables in text. Lacking initial blank in each volume.
Contemporary half red calf over marbled boards. Front inner hinge cracked but firm. First folding map of volume II with a five-inch closed tear. An excellent copy.
“The second Russian expedition into the Pacific for scientific exploration, sponsored by Count Romanzoff, was commanded by Lieutenant Kotzebue, and also included the famous artist Ludovik Choris. Kotzebue had also sailed with Captain Kruzenshtern in 1803-06. Leaving Kronstadt in 1815, the Rurik rounded Cape Horn and visited Chile, Easter Island, and the Marshall Islands. Kotzebue explored the North American coast and Hawaii and searched unsuccessfully for a passage to the Arctic Ocean. The description of the northwest coast of America is a most important contribution.…A very important and much-prized work” (Hill, p. 165).
Abbey, Travel, 596. Cowan, p. 335. Graff 2356. Howes K-258. Sabin 38291. Zamorano Eighty 48.
HBS 64735. $9,500 28
Guts.indd 28 11/13/08 11:09:39 AM A Beautiful Copy of the Rare “Lancelot du Lac”
52. [LANCELOT DU LAC]. Lancelot du Lac. Le Premier Volume (le Second volume, le tiers volume) de Lancelot du Lac nouvellemet imprime a Paris. Paris: Philippe le Nopir libraire, 1533.
Three folio volumes in one (8 1/8 x 12 inches). [1, title], [7, table], [329, text], [1, colophon]; [1, title], [6, table], [1, blank], [260, text]; [1, title], [7, table], [322, text], [1, colophon], [1, blank] pp.. Illustrated with three engraved title pages, two woodcuts, and numerous pictorial initials.
Full vellum with black lettering on the spine. This copy contains a note from Duttons Park Avenue, New York laid in which states “On this binding of LAUNCELOT DU LAC which has just been executed, there is not a scrap of material used which is less than three hundred years old. June 20, 1938.” A very good washed, clean, bright copy.
“One of two issues printed in 1533, with the name Philippe le Noir in the colophon of the third part. The three titles are in woodcut borders, at the foot of which is a shield bearing the initials ‘I.P.,’ Jean Petit, whose woodcut device is on the recto of the last leaf (verso blank). On the verso of Aiv of the first volume is a large woodcut of Lancelot receiving his sword from King Arthur, and on the verso of the last leaf [of volume one], ddiii, is Philippe le Noir’s device.” (A Catalogue of Books Printed in Foreign Languages Before the Year 1600, Volume II. Hoe & Shipman, 12).
“The prose Lancelot was frequently printed; J. C. Brunet chronicles editions of 1488, 1494, 1513, 1520 and 1533 [all are rare] — of this last date there are two, one published by Jehan Petit, the other by Philippe Lenoire, this last by far the better, being printed from a much fuller manuscript.” (Encyclopedia Britannica, 1911).
OCLC records three copies which are the Philippe le Noir edition. These are located in the Newbury Library, University of Illinois and Cambridge University. Of these three, only two are complete.
Brunet 807.
HBS 64503. $37,500
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Guts.indd 29 11/13/08 11:09:43 AM With Fourteen Beautiful Wood Engravings, Signed by the Artist
53. LANDACRE, Paul. California Hills. And Other Wood Engravings. With a Forward by Arthur Miller. Los Angeles: Bruce McCallister, 1931.
Limited to 500 copies, signed by Landacre, this being number forty- two. Large quarto (12 5/8 x 9 1/2 inches; 320 x 240 mm). With fourteen beautiful wood engravings.
Original blue and orange patterned boards with pictorial paper label on front cover. A paper flaw to the top margin of plate number XIII, not affecting engraving. A near fine copy. In a cloth clamshell.
This is Landacre’s major book, with beautiful black and white wood engravings of Berkeley, UCLA, Malibu, Big Sur, Indio, Point Magu, Monterey Hills, the high desert and other locales.
HBS 64743. $4,000
“Contains The First View Of San Francisco”
54. LANGSDORFF, Georg Heinrich von. Bemerkungen auf einer reise um die welt, in den jahren 1803 bis 1807. Frankfurt am Mayn: Friedrich Wilmans, 1812.
First edition of the Atlas. Two small quarto volumes in one (10 x 8 1/8 inches; 253 x 205 mm). With forty-five engraved plates (one of which is folding), including two frontispiece portraits. Also with one leaf of sheet music. Each plates with a leaf of description.
Contemporary half red calf over marbled boards. A nine inch closed tear expertly repaired to the leaf of text between plates nineteen and twenty. Overall a very good copy.
“Langsdorff was a German physician with a passion for natural history. Together with Mikolai Petrovich Rezanov, chamberlain of Czar Alexander I and Russian ambassador to Japan, Langsdorff acompanied the round-the- world expedition led by Kruzenshtern until it reached Kamchatka in 1805...The German edition is very desirable, since it contains the first view of San Francisco. (Hill, 968).
Hill 968. Howes L81. Sabin 38895.
HBS 64763. $4,500
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Guts.indd 30 11/13/08 11:09:50 AM With 164 Photographs; Of These, Over One Hundred Are Of Lincoln
55. [LINCOLN, Abraham]. [MESERVE, Frederick Hill]. The Photographs of Abraham Lincoln. By Frederick Hill Meserve. New York: Privately Printed, 1911.
First edition, limited to 102 copies signed and numbered by the author, this being copy number five. With full-page frontispiece portrait. Complete with one hundred mounted photographs of Abraham Lincoln in chronological order (each photo is 3 1/4 x 2 1/8 inches and there are four per page). There is also a photographic facsimile of a letter by Robert T. Lincoln (Lincoln’s son), to the author concerning the Brady photograph, which is the frontispiece. This also contains thirty-four additional photos including Lincoln at Gettysburg (three photos), Mrs. Lincoln and sons (four photos), various political and military contemporaries of Lincoln (twenty-four photos) and one full-page photo of the ‘Interment’. Included is also a list of subscribers.
Quarto, in original loose mottled brown boards. The sheets have never been bound. (11 x 8 7/8 inches). 110pp. A few pages with printer’s smudging, not affecting photographs or text. Overall a very clean, near fine set.
[Together with]
[Lincoln, Abraham]. The Photographs of Abraham Lincoln. By Frederick Hill Meserve. Supplement Number One. New York: Privately Printed, 1917.
Cover title. Paper wrappers. (10 3/4 x 8 1/2 inches). 7pp. With eight additional photos of Lincoln numbered 101-108.
[and]
[Lincoln, Abraham]. The Photographs of Abraham Lincoln. By Frederick Hill Meserve. Supplement Number Two. New York: Privately Printed, 1938.
Cover title. Paper wrappers. (11 x 9 inches). 7pp. With eight additional photos of Lincoln numbered 109-116.
[and]
[Lincoln, Abraham]. The Photographs of Abraham Lincoln. By Frederick Hill Meserve. Supplement Number Three. New York: Privately Printed, 1950.
Cover title. Paper wrappers. (10 7/8 x 9 inches). 7pp. With eight additional photos of Lincoln numbered 117-124. This supplement inscribed by Meserve.
[and]
[Lincoln, Abraham]. The Photographs of Abraham Lincoln. By Frederick Hill Meserve. Supplement Number Four. New York: Privately Printed, 1955.
Cover title. Paper wrappers. (10 7/8 x 9 inches). 7pp. With eight additional photos of Lincoln numbered 125- 130 and A-B. This supplement inscribed by Meserve. This supplement also contains a full-page loose portrait of Lincoln.
Supplement four with light sunning to fore-edge and two small closed tears. All supplements in near fine condition.
All items housed in a beautiful black morocco and gilt clamshell case.
HBS 64421. $22,500
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Guts.indd 31 11/13/08 11:09:52 AM The First Modern Attempt to Analyse Human Knowledge
56. [LOCKE, John]. An Essay Concerning Humane [Human] Understanding. In Four Books. London: Printed [by Elizabeth Holt] for Tho. Basset, and sold by Edw. Mory, 1690.
First edition, second issue, with a cancel title-page containing the inverted “SS” of “Essay,” the type ornament composed of twenty-three pieces, and without Elizabeth Holt’s name in the imprint, with the dedication undated, and with the errata uncorrected. Folio (12 5/8 x 7 7/8 inches; 320 x 200 mm.). [12], 362, [22, Contents] pp. Pages 287, 296, and 303 misnumbered 269, 294, and 230 respectively.
Contemporary brown mottled calf. Expertly rebacked to style with corners repaired. Title page is short at the fore-edge by half an inch due to the stub being turned behind A4. Marginal paper flaws on D1, P 3 and Dd3, not affecting text. Very small marginal hole on Hh, not affecting text. The errata are corrected by hand with ink and there are two contemporary ink notes on the back free endpaper. Locke’s name is written in a contemporary hand on the title page as “IOHN LOCK: Gent:” A very clean and crisp copy in an excellent contemporary binding.
Attig 228. Grolier, 100 English, 36. Grolier, Wither to Prior, 527. Pforzheimer 600. Printing and the Mind of Man 164. Wing L2739.
HBS 64538. $42,500
A Signed Portrait of Jack London
57. LONDON, Jack (1876-1916) American Writer. Signed Photograph. [N.p.: n.d., ca. 1893].
Black and white, half length seated, studio portrait of Jack London in sailor clothes. Tipped on to stiff quarto gray mounting board. Photograph 4 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches. Frame 12 x 15 inches. Signed by London across the lower left hand corner.
Photograph of the young Jack London at seventeen as a sailor on the “Sophia Sutherland” in Yokohama. Matted, framed and glazed. Very good.
BAL. Woodbridge.
HBS 64536. $2,500
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32_Rev.indd 4 11/13/08 11:16:27 AM First Edition, With Sixteen Lithographic Plates
58. M’ILVAINE, William Jr.. Sketches of Scenery and Notes of Personal Adventure, in California and Mexico. Containing Sixteen Lithographic Plates. Philadelphia: 1850.
First edition. Small quarto (9 13/16 x 6 11/16 inches; 249 x 170 mm). [2, blank], [1]- 44, [2, blank] pp. With sixteen lithographic plates including frontispiece.
Original purple cloth. Housed in a cloth clamshell with leather label. A fine, clean copy of a scarce book.
The sixteen lithographs include views of San Francisco, Sacramento City, Sutter’s Fort, Sutter’s Mill, Stockton, Prairie Scene, Wood’s Creek, Kanaka Creek, A Miner: Cañon on the Towalumne, Title page: Mexican and California Scenery, Acapulco, Ruins of a Convent at Acapulco, Chapultepec, Belen Gate, City of Mexico, City of Mexico from the Paseo, Castle of San Juan D’ulloa.
Cowan, 408. Sabin 43328. Graff 2615.
HBS 64746. $17,500
First Edition, Beautifully Bound
59. MAIMONIDES, Moses. BERNARD, Hermann Hedwig, [translator]. The Main Principles of the Creed and Ethics of the Jews, Exhibited In Selections From The Yad Hachazakah Of Maimonides, With A Literal English Translation, Copious Illustrations From The Talmud, &c., Explanatory Notes, An Alphabetical Glossary Of Such Particles And Technical Terms As Occur In The Selections, And A Collection Of The Abbreviations Commonly Used In Rabbinical Writings. By Hermann Hedwig Bernard, Teacher of Languages At Cambridge. Cambridge: Printed by J. Smith, 1832.
First English edition. Octavo (8 3/4 x 5 5/8 inches; 222 x 145 mm). [10], [i]-xxxiii, [1, blank], [1]-358, [1, errata], [1, blank] pp. With extensive notes, a list of subscribers and the errata leaf. Most text in English and some in Hebrew.
Beautifully rebound in full tan calf. Uncut.
Harris, 99.
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Guts.indd 33 11/13/08 11:10:04 AM Annotated and Signed Typescript of Malcolm X’s Famous Playboy Interview
60. MALCOLM X. Annotated and Signed Typescript. Playboy Magazine, [1963].
Typescript carbon copy, p.7 of Malcolm X’s famous Playboy interview by Alex Haley. 1 page, quarto. Signed with three lines of manuscript annotations in Malcolm X’s hand. Matted, framed and glazed with a photograph of Malcolm X and a printed leaf from the original May 1963 Playboy issue. 23 x 26.5 inches. Very good.
Alex Haley interviewed Malcolm X for the May 1663 issue of Playboy on the status of African Americans as dormant Muslims. An advanced copy was sent to Malcolm X for his approval where he made notes and signed the page.
Alex Haley asks the question “Mr. Malcolm, to what extent do you feel that the Muslims can successfully proselytize among the 20 million Negros in America?”
Malcolm X’s response was as follows:
“Sir, there are 20 million dormant Muslims in the US. A Muslim means to us somebody who is for the black man. I don’t care if he goes to the Baptist Church seven days a week. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says that a black man is a Muslim when he is born. A Muslim by nature. There are millions of Muslims not aware of it now. All of them will be Muslims when they wake up. That’s what’s meant by resurrection.”
The manuscript portion of this typescript is Malcolm X’s addition to this answer:
“The Public was shocked when they first heard this Truth, but now the public is becoming used to it. The Truth hasn’t changed; the public has!”
The manuscript addition was not published in the final article.
HBS 64317. $3,500
The Earliest Obtainable Edition of Malory’s ‘Le Morte d”Arthur,’ Printed by Thomas East
61. [MALORY, Sir Thomas]. The Storye of the Most Noble and Worthy Kynge [King] Arthur. The which was the fyrst of the worthyes Chrysten, and also of his noble and valyaunt knyghtes of the rounde Table. Newly imprynted and corrected. London: Thomas East, [n.d.c.a.1582].
Fifth edition of the rare copy printed by Thomas East. Folio (10 7/16 x 7 3/16 inches). [616]pp. Illustrated with twenty-seven woodcuts including the woodcut on the title page, and eighteen engraved initials.
Beautifully bound by F. Bedford in full dark brown morocco, elaborately paneled and embossed in blind. Lettered in gilt on spine. All edges gilt. Light rubbing along outer joint and extremities of the spine. A small rust hole on leaf G8, barely affecting text. Occasional marginal repairs to leaves Ii8-Nn6 and Nn8-Oo6, with loss of a few words of text on Oo6, however, where text is affected, expert repairs make for no loss of text. A near fine copy of this exceptionally rare edition. 34
Guts.indd 34 11/13/08 11:10:09 AM This edition is the earliest edition to sell at auction in the past thirty years. There have been two copies at auction in the past thirty years and of these, only one was a complete copy.
“This edition differs in a few phrases (but not materially) from Caxton’s.” (Lowndes 74).
Malory’s Le Morte d’Artur was first printed in England in 1485 by William Caxton. “Caxton tell us that he finished the printing of La Mort Darthur, as he entitles the book, in the abbey of Westminster, on the last day of July 1485... Two editions of this work were printed by Caxton’s successor in the art of printing, Wynkyn de Worde, one in 1498, the other in 1529. Only one copy of each is at present known to be in existence. Wynkyn de Worde entitled his editions, ‘The Booke of Kynge Arthur.’ William Copland, another well- known early English printer, reprinted this work in 1557, under the title of ‘The Story of Kynge Arthur, and also of his Knyghtes of the Rounde Table.’ This title was also adopted by Thomas East, who printed two editions, one in folio, the other quarto, both equally without date. It is probable, from the similarity of the title, that East printed from Copland’s edition.” (Sir Thomas Malory the Critical Heritage. Edited by Marylyn Parins, 110-111).
ESTC 006178654. Parins 40. Lowndes 74.
HBS 64504 $125,000
The Modern Age of British Economics
62. MARSHALL, Alfred. Principles of Economics. Vol. I. [all published]. London: Macmillan and Co., 1890.
Scarce first edition. Octavo (8 11/16 x 5 1/2 inches). xxviii, 754, [2, publisher’s catalogue] pp.
Original dark green diaper-grain cloth. Corners lightly bumped with some minor repairs to the top and bottom of the spine. Otherwise, a very good copy of a book that is almost always found rebound.
Keynes described the publication of Marshall’s Principles as one of the salient events from which the “modern age of British economics” is to be dated (Economic Journal, 1940), and Schumpeter writes that “Marshall’s great work is the classical achievement of the period, that is, the work that embodies, more perfectly than any other, the classical situation that emerged around 1900…Behind the great achievement there is a still greater message. More than any other economist—with the exception, perhaps, of Pareto—Marshall pointed beyond himself…Naturally his work is out of date, but there is in it a living spring that prevents it from becoming stale” (pp. 834 and 840).
Batson, p. 146; Einaudi 3736.
HBS 64509. $7,500
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Guts.indd 35 11/13/08 11:10:13 AM First Edition of Author’s First Book, In Dust Jacket
63. MCCULLERS, Carson. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, [1940].
First edition of author’s first book. Octavo (8 1/8 x 5 1/2 inches; 206 x 140 mm). [4], [1]-356 pp.
Original full oatmeal cloth. In publisher’s original dust jacket. Spine of dust jacket lightly sunned, and with some professional restoration to the top and bottom. Otherwise near fine.
HBS 64778. $1,750
First McKenney Business Directory
64. MCKENNEY, L.M.. Business Directory of the Pacific States and Territories for 1878. (Containing Names, Business, And Addresses Of Merchants, Manufacturers, And Professional Men; County, City, State, Territorial, And Federal Officers; And Notaries Public Of The Principal Towns Of California, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, Utah, Montana, Idaho, Arizona And British Columbia. Together With A Sketch Of The Different Towns, Giving Description, Means Of Support, Population Etc. Complete Classified And Alphabetical Lists, Convenient For Reference. Fresh, Accurate And Concise. Invaluable For All Business Men. One Reference To It Is Frequently Worth Its Cost. Over 30,000 Names.) San Francisco: L.M. McKenney, 1878.
First edition. Octavo. Brown paper spine with grey printed boards. 874 pages, but numbers go up to 892 with the difference being advertisements.
This is the first McKenney business directory and arguably one of the most important early western directories. Along with a directory of business and advertisements, as stated on the title page, it also lists a short history of each state or territory and a short history of some of the principle cities. It was printed before Washington, Utah, Montana, Idaho and Arizona became states, so they are listed as territories, and British Columbia, Canada, is listed as a colony. San Francisco has its own section that is larger than several of the other entire states put together. It also includes some illustrated advertisements from almost every major city in the states and territories. The World Library Directory lists three copies.
HBS 64294. $3,500
First Edition Complete With One Hundred And Twenty Hand-Colored Plates
65. MCKENNEY, Thomas L.. HALL, James. History of the Indian Tribes of North America. With Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes of the Principal Chiefs Embellished With One Hundred and Twenty Portraits. From the Indian Gallery in the Department of War, at Washington. Philadelphia: Frederick W. Greenough (volumes I & II), Daniel Rice & James G. Clark (volume III), 1838 (volume I & II)-1844 (volume III).
First edition complete with one hundred and twenty hand-colored plates. According to BAL, state A of volumes II and III, and state C of volume I. Three large folio volumes (20 1/16 x 14 inches; 497 x 360 mm). 36
Guts.indd 36 11/13/08 11:10:15 AM [2, blank], [1]-4, [1]-206, [1, contents], [3, blank]; [2, blank], [1]-237, [3, blank]; [2, blank], [4], [1]-196, [2, Pocahontas], [17, subscribers], [3, blank] pp. The color- plates are after Charles Bird King, James Otto Lewis, P. Rhindesbacher and R.M. Sully, drawn on stone by A. Newsam, A.H., R.T., H.D. and others, printed and colored by Lehman & Duval, or J.T. Bowen. Of the one hundred and twenty hand-colored plates, forty-eight of which are in volume I, forty-eight in volume II and twenty-four in volume III. Additionally, volume III contains one sheet with two lithographic maps and one table, and seventeen pages of lithographic facsimile signatures of the original subscribers. The “War Dance” plate is in state D and the “Red-Jacket” plate is in state F according to BAL, the order of states being “All but arbitrary.” Page 58 of volume II with errata slip inserted. All tissue guards present.
A mostly unsophisticated set bound in publisher’s original three-quarter brown morocco over brown cloth. Professionally rebacked preserving original spine. Inner hinges reinforced. Text page 172 of volume II with an 11 inch closed tear expertly repaired along bottom blank margin, not affecting text. Each volume enclosed in a marbled board slipcase. A beautiful set of this remarkable work.
‘One of the most costly and important works ever published on the American Indians’ (Field), ‘a landmark in American culture’ (Horan) and an invaluable contemporary record of a vanished way of life, including some of the greatest American hand-colored lithographs of the 19th century.
McKenney, who was superintendent of Indian trade from 1816-1822 and headed the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs from 1824-1830, collaborated with James Hall, the Illinois journalist, lawyer, state treasurer and from 1833 Cincinnati banker, to produce this book. The text, which was written by Hall based on information supplied by McKenney, takes the form of a series of biographies of leading figures amongst the Indian nations, followed by a general history of the North American Indians. The work is now famous for its color plate portraits of the chiefs, warriors and squaws of the various tribes, faithful copies of original oils by Charles Bird King painted from life in his studio in Washington (McKenney commissioned him to record the visiting Indian delegates) or worked up by King from the watercolors of the young frontier artist, James Otto Lewis. The original paintings were destroyed in the disastrous Smithsonian fire of 1865 so their appearance in this work preserves the only known likeness of many of the most prominent Indian leaders of the early 19th century.
This was the most elaborate plate book produced in the United States to date, and its publication involved a number of different printers and lithographers. The publication of volume I (in 1836) was initially undertaken by Edward C. Biddle, Biddle’s firm was taken over by Frederick W. Greenough, who re-issued volume I and published the first issue of volume II in 1838 (as in the present set). Later, Greenough’s firm was replaced by the printing form of Rice and Clark who re-issued volume I and volume II and published the first issue of volume III in 1844. The printing of the plates was chiefly carried out by Peter Duval of Lehman and Duval and James T. Bowen.
BAL 6934. Bennett, p. 79. Howes M129. Sabin 43410a.
HBS 64776. $150,000
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Guts.indd 37 11/13/08 11:10:20 AM First Edition Presentation Copy
66. MILL, John Stuart. RIVIÈRE & SON, [binder]. The Subjection of Women. London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1869.
First edition. Presentation copy with “From the Author” on half-title. Octavo (7 ½ x 4 11/16 inches; 191 x 119 mm). [4], [1]-188 pp.
Bound by Riviere & Son in full contemporary tan polished calf.
HBS 64344. $4,500
One of 350 Copies, Signed by the Author and Illustrator
67. MILNE, A[lan] A[lexander]. Winnie-the-Pooh. With decorations by Ernest H. Shepard. London: Methuen & Co., [1926].
First edition. One of 350 copies on handmade paper, signed by the author and illustrator. Small quarto. xi, [1, blank], [4], 158, [2] pp. Folding map at end. Text illustrations.
Original quarter dark blue cloth over light blue boards with printed paper label on front cover. In original dust jacket. Edges uncut. Overall, a pleasing, near fine copy.
HBS 64616. $11,000
A Fine First Edition Set of the Four “Pooh” Books Signed by the Author
68. MILNE, A[lan] A[lexander]. When We Were Very Young. London: Methuen & Co., [1924].
First edition. Small octavo. (7 1/2 x 5 inches; 190 x 124 mm). [i-vi], vii-x, [2], 99, [1] pp. With decorations by Ernest H. Shepard. Original royal blue cloth, front cover pictorially stamped and ruled in gilt, back cover pictorially stamped in gilt with spine ruled and lettered in gilt. Top edge gilt. Original pictorial dust jacket, very lightly spotted and spine very slightly sunned. Signed on the title-page by Milne.
[And:]
MILNE, A[lan] A[lexander]. Winnie-the-Pooh. London: Methuen & Co., [1926].
First edition. Small octavo. (7 1/2 x 5 inches; 190 x 124 mm). [i-viii], ix-xi, [5], 158, [2] pp. With decorations by Ernest H. Shepard. Original dark green cloth, front cover ruled and pictorially stamped in gilt and spine ruled and lettered in gilt; top edge gilt. With pictorial endpapers. With add from publisher laid in. Original pictorial dust jacket, top edge slightly creased, spine lightly sunned. Signed on the title-page by Milne. 38
Guts.indd 38 11/13/08 11:10:25 AM [And:]
MILNE, A[lan] A[lexander]. Now We Are Six. London: Methuen & Co., [1927].
First edition. Small octavo. (7 1/2 x 5 inches; 190 x 124 mm). [i-vi], vii-x, [2], 103, [1] pp. With decorations by Ernest H. Shepard. Original dark red cloth, front cover ruled and pictorially stamped in gilt, rear cover pictorially stamped in gilt, and spine ruled and lettered in gilt. Top edge gilt, with pink pictorial endpapers. Original pictorial dust jacket. Jacket very lightly soiled and sunned, slightly creased at top edge. Signed on the title-page by Milne.
[And:]
MILNE, A[lan] A[lexander]. The House at Pooh Corner. London: Methuen & Co., [1928].
First edition. Small octavo. (7 1/2 x 5 inches, 190 x 124 mm). [i-vi], vii, [viii], ix-xi, [1], 178, [2] pp. With decorations by Ernest H. Shepard. Original salmon cloth, front cover pictorially stamped and ruled in gilt, and spine lettered and ruled in gilt. Top edge gilt. Pictorial endpapers. Original pictorial dust jacket. Top edge of jacket slightly creased. Signed on the title-page by Milne.
All four volumes housed together in a full morocco case with four multicolored rounded spines, tooled and lettered in gilt. A near fine set in this condition, all in near fine dust jackets, each signed by the author.
HBS 64527. $50,000
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Guts.indd 39 11/13/08 11:10:30 AM A First Edition of Milton’s Most Influential Work.
69. MILTON, John. Paradise Lost. A Poem in Ten Books London: S. Simons, 1668.
First edition. Amory’s No. 2 issue (traditional 4th title). Small quarto (6 15/16 x 5 1/8 inches; 176 x 130 mm).
Full modern, period style paneled calf Endpapers replaced. Title page professionally restored to replace loss of several letters.
John Dryden referred to Paradise Lost as “one of the greatest, most noble and sublime poems which either this age or nation has produced.” Although the tremendously difficult circumstances under which Milton produced the work are legendary-he had been blinded by long years of service as secretary under Cromwell and was in political disfavor after the restoration of Charles II- the troubled printing history of the work is less well known. The publisher Samuel Simmons reluctantly agreed to print a small first edition of 1300 copies, as he was assuming a heavy risk in sponsoring an epic poem, for which no precedent in English publishing had been established. As payment for the first edition, Milton received a total of ten pounds. Wing M-2139
HBS 64299. $25,000 A Large Paper Copy with the Grape Cluster Watermark of “The Earliest Serious Effort to Illustrate an Important Work of English Poetry”
70. MILTON, John. Paradise Lost. A Poem in Twelve Books. London: Printed by Miles Flesher, for Jacob Tonson, 1688.
First illustrated edition, first folio edition, and the first subscription edition of Paradise Lost. Folio, large paper copy with grape cluster watermark, (14 1/8 x 9 inches; 360 x 228 mm). [4], 1-219, [1, blank], 219-250, 151-199, 300-343, [1, blank], [6, list of subscribers] pp. Engraved frontispiece portrait by R. White derived from Faithorne, and twelve engraved plates. Ten plates are signed by M. Burghers (or Burgesse) and one signed by P.P. Bouche after J.B. Medina, B. Lens, and others. The plate from book viii is not signed.
Full contemporary mottled, paneled calf, rebacked to style. Housed in a quarter calf slipcase.
In his Five Centuries of Book Illustration (p. 63), Edward Hodnett describes this as “the earliest serious effort to illustrate an important work of English poetry.” In her work, Jacob Tonson, Kit-Kat Publisher (p. 128), Kathleen M. Lynn notes that Tonson was an innovator “in rescuing from obscurity or oblivion the masterpieces of English authors…His first and best triumph in this neglected field was the fourth edition of Milton’s Paradise Lost, which Tonson published with Bentley in 1688…The 1688 edition, in the style of all of Tonson’s more elaborate books, was distinguished by excellent paper, large, clear type and ample margins.”
Coleridge 93b. Grolier, Wither to Prior, 607. Hofer, Baroque Book Illustration, 16. Wing M2147.
HBS 64546. $8,500 40
Guts.indd 40 11/13/08 11:10:36 AM First Edition of Milton’s Last Two Poems
71. MILTON, John. Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To Which is Added Samson Agonistes. London: Printed for J.M. for John Starkey, 1671.
First edition, first issue. With license and errata leaf and with the error “loah” on leaf F2 (p. 67), line 2 in the corrected state “loth”. [4], 111, [1, blank], 101, [3] pp.. Small octavo. (7 1/8 x 4 3/4 inches).
Contemporary brown paneled calf. Rebacked, preserving the original spine. New endpapers. A beautiful copy.
Coleridge 168. Grolier, Wither to Prior, 613. Hayward 73. Wing M2152.
HBS 64381. $10,000
With A Manuscript Leaf
72. MUIR, John. The Writings of John Muir [Manuscript Edition]. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1916.
One of 750 numbered copies, this being number 70. Ten octavo volumes. Volume I with an inlaid autograph manuscript leaf from “Mountains of California.” Photogravure frontispieces and plates (some sepia, some tinted blue), photographic plates, maps (some folding). Descriptive tissue guards. Each volume with an additional hand-colored frontispiece (duplicating one of the plates in the volume).
Beautifully bound at The Riverside Press in publisher’s three-quarter burgundy morocco over red cloth.
BAL 14774. Kimes & Kimes 341-344. Howes. Streeter.
HBS 64758. $7,500
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Guts.indd 41 11/13/08 11:10:43 AM The Last Edition Published in Newton’s Lifetime
73. NEWTON, [Sir] Isaac. Philosophiæ naturalis principia mathematica. Editio tertia aucta & emendata. London: Apud Guil. & Joh. Innys, 1726.
Third edition. One of only 1250 copies printed. Tall quarto (9 11/16 x 7 9/16 inches; 246 x 193 mm.). [2, half-title], [2, Royal Privilege], [2, frontis portrait], [2, title], [2, dedication to the Royal Society], [2, Halley Ode], [22, prefaces], [2, index and corrigenda], 530, [6, index] pp. Engraved frontispiece portrait (facing title) by George Vertue after I. Vanderbank. Numerous diagrams in the text and one engraving of cometary orbit on p. 506. Title printed in red and black. Collates as copy 1 of Babson.
Contemporary tan calf. Rebacked, preserving original spine.
“This edition was the last published during the author’s lifetime and the basis of all subsequent editions. It was edited by Henry Pemberton, M.D., F.R.S., and contains a new preface by Newton and a large number of alterations, the most important being the scholium on fluxions, in which Leibnitz had been mentioned by name. This had been considered an acknowledgement of Leibnitz’s independent discovery of the calculus. In omitting Leibnitz’s name in this edition, Newton was criticized as taking advantage of an opponent whose death had prevented any reply” (Babson, p. 12).
Babson 13. Gray 9. Wallis 9.
HBS 64497. $27,500 Newton’s “Principia”- Large Paper Copy
74. NEWTON, Sir Isaac. Philosophiæ naturalis principia mathematica. Editio tertia aucta & emendata. London: Apud Guil. & Joh. Innys, 1726.
Third edition. One of 200 Large-Paper copies on “General Royal paper with the “CC” watermark. Quarto (28.9 x 22.2 cm). [34], 530, [6, index] pp. With engraved frontispiece portrait and numerous diagrams. Bound without rear ad, but with initial privilege leaf and half-title leaf. Collates as copy 2 of Babson.
Contemporary full vellum, front board expertly reattached. Housed in a custom slipcase. A very nice large, clean copy.
“This edition was the last published during the author’s lifetime and the basis of all subsequent editions. It was edited by Henry Pemberton, M.D., F.R.S., and contains a new preface by Newton and a large number of alterations, the most important being the scholium on fluxions, in which Leibnitz had been mentioned by name. This had been considered an acknowledgement of Leibnitz’s independent discovery of the calculus. In omitting Leibnitz’s name in this edition, Newton was criticized as taking advantage of an opponent whose death had prevented any reply” (Babson, p. 12).
Babson 13. Gray 9. Wallis 9.
HBS 64483. $55,000 42
42-2_Rev.indd 5 11/13/08 11:17:00 AM First Edition in English of this Classic Early Work on the Americas Including One of the First Views of New York City
75. OGILBY, John, [editor, translator]. MONTANUS, Arnoldus [author]. America: Being The latest, And Most Accurate Description Of The New World; Containing The Original of the Inhabitants, and the Remarkable Voyages thither. The Conquest Of The Vast Empires Of Mexico and Peru, and Other Large Provinces and Territories, With The Several European Plantations In Those Parts. Also Their Cities, Fortresses, Towns, Temples, Mountains, and Rivers. Their Habits, Customs, Manner, and Religions. Their Plants, Beasts, Birds, and Serpents. With An Appendix, containing , besides several other considerable Additions, a brief Survey of what hath been discover’d of the Unknown South-Land and the Arctick Region. Collected from the most Authenntick Authors, Augmented with later Observations, and Adorn’d with Maps and Sculptures, by John Ogilby, esq; His Majesty’s Cosmographer, Geographick Printer, and Master of the Revels in the Kingdom of Ireland. London: Printed for the Author, 1671.
First edition, first issue in English of this classic early work on the Americas including one of the first views of New York City. Folio (16 3/16 x 10 3/4 inches; 411 x 274 mm). [2, blank], [2, frontis], [vii], [1, blank] 674, [1, binder’s instructions], [3, blank] pp. Title printed in red and black. Complete with fifty-eight engraved plates, including engraved frontispiece, two folding maps, two folding plates, six full-page plates and forty-seven double-page plates. Also with sixty-six inter-textual plates. Also with numerous engraved head- and tail-pieces and initials
There is some confusion over the correct number of plates and maps, Sabin calls for a total of 65 but then gives a breakdown of portraits maps, views and plans which totals 55, the present copy includes 57 which accords with the plate list given at the end of the volume, and one additional plate, a map of Barbados, has also been included in this volume, but is not called for on the list of plates. There are two issues of this work. The earlier includes a view titled `Arx Carolina’ between pp.204 and 205 (as in this copy), in the later issues this is replaced by a map of Carolina.
Contemporary mottled calf, rebacked preserving the original spine. A superior copy of a book not usually found in such an unsophisticated state.
Sabin 50089. Wing O165.
HBS 64766. $65,000
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Guts.indd 43 11/13/08 11:10:54 AM A Beautiful Copy of the Founding Publication in the History of the Californias
76. PALOU, Francisco. Relacion Historica de la Vida y Apostolicas Tareas del Venerable Padre Fray Junipero Serra y de las misiones que fundo en la California Septentrional, y nuevos establecimientos de Monterey. Mexico City: Felipe De Zuniga y Ontiveros, 1787.
First edition. Octavo (7 5/8 x 5 3/4 inches; 194x 145 mm.). [28] 344 pp. With the copper-engraved allegorical portrait of Serra performing apostolic labors and the folding copper-engraved map: Californias: Antigua y Nueva Notas.
Contemporary vellum. This is a highly desirable copy of a highly important book; wonderfully clean and in a absolutely appropriate binding.
The letters from Father Serra to Father Palou, which form the main portion of this volume, give not only an account of the founding of the California missions, but interesting details on the various tribes and their manners and customs, together with descriptions of the country. Palou’s biography is the principal source for the life of Junipero Serra. Palou, a fellow Majorcan, was Serra’s pupil and constant companion during the whole course of his career as a missionary in California. The two missionaries were among the earliest to arrive in Alta California, establishing the first missions there. They had a profound influence on the Indians of the region. This work has been called the most noted of all books relating to California.
A choice Mexican colonial imprint with superb content, printed by the noted firm of Zúñiga y Ontiveros, with an engraved map of California and portrait by Diego Troncoso. Mathes says that the portrait of Serra is the first published portrait of a European living in Alta California (Cortés lived in Baja California for a year and his portrait was published on several occasions in the sixteenth century; there are painted portraits of Cortés, Porter y Casanate, Salvatierra, and Ugarte, but they were published only in modern editions and not contemporarily). “Troncoso’s map depicts the extent of European settlement in Nueva, the present-day California, at this time, eighteen years after the Spanish occupation of California in 1769. Troncoso’s map shows the location of nine missions, of the ultimate number of twenty-one, founded by Father Junípero Serra during his lifetime. The missions are connected by El Camino Real—The King’s Highway—a route still largely followed by U.S. Highway 101. The four Presidios at San Diego, Santa Barbara, Monterey, and San Francisco are located.... Although this map is simply drawn and has some geographical distortions, it shows the ‘islands, ports, and rivers’ of the coast region of California, the region of Spanish occupation. The representation of San Francisco Bay is based on the Spanish survey made at the time of their first entry into the bay.... The map is one of the earliest known maps to show a boundary between the two Californias. This line, just below San Diego, demarks the religious jurisdictions of the Dominicans (Antigua) and Franciscan (Nueva) religious orders” (Alfred W. Newman in California 49: Forty-Nine Maps of California from the Sixteenth Century to the Present 17, illustrated p. 35)
Barrett 1947. Graff 3179. Howes P-56. Sabin 58392. Zamorano Eighty 59.
HBS 64752. $13,500 44
Guts.indd 44 11/13/08 11:10:57 AM A Beautiful and Complete Set of Paxton’s Magazine
77. PAXTON, Joseph. Paxton’s Magazine of Botany and Flowering Plants. London: Orr & Smith/William S. Orr & Co., 1834.
Sixteen octavo volumes (9 ¼ x 6 ½ inches; 236 x 166 mm). With 717 hand-colored engraved or lithographed plates. Numerous wood engravings in the text. Including the rarely present volume XVI.
Half green morocco over green cloth boards. Overall a very good, complete set.
Joseph Paxton was the head gardener to the Duke of Devonshire for whom he cultivated and developed one of the most famous European gardens. Nissen 2351
HBS 64304. $25,000
Sydenham’s Translation Of Plato
78. PLATO. Dialogues of Plato. [Translated by Floyer Sydenham]. London: Printed for W. Sandby, 1767, 1773.
First collected edition of Sydenham’s translations. Eight (of thirteen) parts, in two volumes. Quarto. Engraved folding plate in Volume II. Each part containing special title-page (Except for Meno and The Rivals) and separate pagination.
Contemporary full tan calf, rebacked to style.
This set contains: A Synopsis, or General View of the Works of Plato. Io, a Dialogue of Plato, concerning Poetry. The Lesser Hippias, a dialogue of Plato concerning the Voluntary and Involuntary Error. The Greater Hippias, a Dialogue of Plato concerning the Beautifull. The Banquet, a Dialogue of Plato concerning Love. The First Alcibiades, a dialogue concerning Human Nature. Meno, a Dialogue concerning Virtue. The Rivals, a Dialogue concerning philosophy.
The dedication (in A Synopsis) to John, Earl Granville, is signed by Sydenham. Sydenham’s translations, the first direct translations into English of most of the dialogues were first published separately (1759-1780) and subsequently collected, and are not commonly found complete.
Lowndes, p. 1877.
HBS 64500. $4,000
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45_Rev.indd 6 11/13/08 11:18:28 AM First English Edition
79. PLATO. [CHARLETON, Walter, translator]. His Apology of Socrates, and Phaedo or Dialogue concerning the Immortality of Mans Soul, And Manner of Socrates his Death: Carefully translated from the Greek, and Illustrated by Reflections upon both the Athenian Laws, and ancient Rites and Traditions concerning the Soul, therein mentioned. London: Printed by T.R. & N.T. for James Magnes and Richard Bentley, 1675.
First English edition. Engraved frontispiece by R. White entitled Socrates Triumphans. Octavo (4 1/2 x 7 1/16 inches). [4, blank], [40], 300, [4, blank]pp.
Full modern speckled calf, ruled in blind. Repair to inner bottom corner of title- page, minimal loss of text. Bottom outer blank corner missing from leaf F and I2. A very good, complete copy.
ESTC R12767
HBS 64473. $8,500
The Connoisseur’s Arnheim Edition in a Superb Binding
80. POE, Edgar Allan. COBURN, Frederick Simpson, [illustrator]. RICHARDSON, Charles F., [editor]. The Complete Works [Connoisseur’s Arnheim Edition]. Edited and chronologically arranged on the basis of the standard text, with certain additional material and with a critical introduction by Charles F. Richardson… Illustrated by Frederick Simpson Coburn. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1902.
Limited to two hundred numbered sets, this being number forty-six. Ten octavo volumes. Photogravure frontispiece and plates with descriptive tissue guards. Numerous textual illustrations.
Full dark green morocco. Spines uniformly sunned. Hinges of volume one expertly repaired. A near fine set.
BAL 16171.
HBS 64594. $7,500
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Guts.indd 46 11/13/08 11:11:07 AM Signed Limited Arthur Rackham
81. [RACKHAM, Arthur, illustrator]. The Allies’ Fairy Book. With an introduction by Edmund Gosse C.B. and illustrations by Arthur Rackham. London: William Heinemann, [n.d., 1916].
Limited to 525 numbered copies, signed by Rackham. This copy is number 369. Quarto. xxii, 121, [1] pp. Twelve color plates mounted on heavy brown paper, with descriptive tissue guards, and twenty-four drawings in black and white.
Publisher’s original blue buckram, front cover decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt. A fine copy.
Latimore and Haskell, pp. 45-46. Riall, p. 128.
HBS 64455. $2,000 Limited Edition, Signed by Rackham
82. RACKHAM, Arthur, [illustrator]. The Arthur Rackham Fairy Book. A Book of Old Favourites With New Illustrations. London: George G. Harrap & Co., [1933].
Limited to 460 numbered copies, signed by Arthur Rackham. This being number 356. Octavo (6 1/4 x 9; 159 x 228 mm). 286 pp. Eight color plates and numerous drawings in black and white.
Full original vellum, ruled and lettered in gilt on front cover and spine. Partially unopened. Original gold and cream pictorial endpapers. Vellum of spine slightly wrinkled, otherwise a near fine copy. Housed in the original numbered slipcase.
Latimore and Haskell, p. 69.
HBS 64543. $2,000
Signed Limited Edition of “Arthur Rackham’s Book of Pictures”
83. RACKHAM, Arthur. Arthur Rackham’s Book of Pictures. With an introduction by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch. London: William Heinemann, [1913].
One of 1,030 signed copies. With 44 mounted color plates. White cloth stamped in gilt on cover and spine. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Spine lightly sunned. A near fine copy.
Limited edition of 1,030 numbered copies signed by Rackham of which 1000, numbered 1-1000, are for sale in Great Britain, Ireland and Colonies, and thirty copies, numbered 1001-1030, are for presentation, this is number 1030. Quarto. 43 pp. Forty- four color plates (including frontispiece) mounted on brown paper, with descriptive tissue guards. With ten black and white drawings, and a sketch of a bookplate on front paste-down.
Original full white cloth, pictorially stamped in gilt on front cover and spine. A near fine copy.
Latimore and Haskell, 41.
HBS 64446. $2,500
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Guts.indd 47 11/13/08 11:11:12 AM The Four Very Rare Rackham Christmas Books, Signed by Arthur Rackham
84. [RACKHAM, Arthur, illustrator]. MOORE, Clement C. The Night before Christmas. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. London, George G. Harrap & Co., [1931].
Deluxe edition. One of 275 numbered copies for England (out of a total edition of 550 copies), signed by Rackham. [2, blank], 35, [2], [1, blank] pp. Four color plates (included in pagination) and seventeen drawings in black and white. Printed in red and black.
Original limp vellum lettered in gilt on front cover. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Pictorial endpapers in red and white. A fine copy. In the slightly worn white cardboard slipcase with printed paper label on spine (with matching limitation number).
Latimore and Haskell, p. 66. Riall, p. 174.
[Together with:]
[RACKHAM, Arthur, illustrator]. ROSSETTI, Christina. Goblin Market. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. London: George G. Harrap, [1933].
Deluxe edition. One of 410 numbered copies, signed by Rackham. Octavo. 42 [6, blank]pp. Four color plates and nineteen drawings in black and white.
Original limp vellum lettered in gilt on front cover. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Pictorial endpapers in yellow and white. A fine copy. In original glassine, glassine torn. In the original publisher’s cardboard slipcase.
Latimore and Haskell, p. 69
[Together with:]
[RACKHAM, Arthur, illustrator]. RUSKIN, John. The King of the Golden River. London: George Harrap & Co. Ltd., [1932].
First limited edition, copy no. 493 of 570 copies signed by Rackham. Octavo. [2, blank], 47, [1 blank]pp.. With four full page color illustrations and fifteen black and white illustrations within the text.
48
48_Rev.indd 7 11/13/08 11:15:01 AM Original limp vellum lettered in gilt on front cover. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Pictorial endpapers in green and white. A fine copy. In original glassine, glassine torn. In the original white cardboard slipcase with printed paper label on spine (with matching limitation number).
Latimore and Haskell 67.
[Together with:]
[RACKHAM, Arthur, illustrator]. BROWNING, Robert. The Pied Piper of Hamelin. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. London: George G. Harrap & Co., [1934].
Limited to 410 numbered copies, signed by Rackham. Octavo. 44 pp. Four color plates and fourteen drawings in black and white (including one double-page).
Original full limp vellum lettered in gilt on front cover. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Pictorial endpapers in tan and white. A fine copy. In original glassine, glassine torn. In the original white cardboard slipcase with printed paper label on spine (with matching limitation number).
Latimore and Haskell 71.
HBS 64459. $7,500
One of 250 Signed Copies
85. [RACKHAM, Arthur, illustrator]. IRVING, Washington. Rip Van Winkle. With Drawings by Arthur Rackham. London: William Heinemann, 1905.
Edition de Luxe. Limited to 250 copies, numbered and signed by the artist. Large quarto. viii, 57, [1, blank], [1], [1, printer’s imprint] pp. Color frontispiece and fifty color plates mounted on heavy brown paper, with descriptive tissue guards, the plates collected after the text.
Original vellum over boards decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt on front cover and spine. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Silk ties. Overall, an excellent copy.
“The 1st book illustrated wholly by Rackham to be issued in a limited edition” (Riall).
Latimore and Haskell, p. 26.
HBS 64422. $7,500
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Guts.indd 49 11/13/08 11:11:21 AM One of 500 Copies, Signed by the Artist
86. [RACKHAM, Arthur, illustrator]. MALORY, [Sir Thomas]. The Romance of King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table. Abridged from Malory’s Morte d’Arthur by Alfred Pollard. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. London: Macmillan and Co., 1917.
Limited to 500 copies, numbered and signed by Rackham. Quarto. [2], xxiv, 509, [1, blank] pp. Sixteen mounted color plates on white textured paper, with descriptive tissue guards, and seventy drawings in black and white.
Original full vellum over boards pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt on front cover and spine. Top edge gilt, others uncut. A near fine copy.
Latimore and Haskell, p. 47.
HBS 64444. $4,500
Illustrated and Signed by Arthur Rackham
87. RACKHAM, Arthur, [illustrator]. LAMB, Charles. LAMB, Mary. Tales from Shakespeare. By Charles and Mary Lamb. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. London: J.M. Dent & Co., 1909.
Deluxe limited large-paper edition, number 734 of 750 copies signed and illustrated by Rackham. Quarto. With thirteen mounted full-page color illustrations, two full-page illustrations in black and white, 20 chapter headings, 14 tailpieces and pictorial endpapers, all by Rackham.
Original cream cloth, lettered in gilt on front board and spine. Top edge gilt, others uncut. With original silk ties and pictorial endpapers. Plates beautiful, interior clean, gilt bright. A lovely copy, near fine.
Latimore and Haskell, p. 33.
HBS 64425. $2,500
One of 460 Copies, Signed by the Artist With An Original Drawing by Rackham
88. [RACKHAM, Arthur, illustrator]. POE, Edgar Allan. Tales of Mystery & Imagination. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. London: George G. Harrap & Co., [1935].
Limited to 460 numbered copies, signed by the artist. Large quarto. 317, [1] pp. Twelve mounted color plates, with descriptive tissue guards, seventeen black and white plates, and eleven small drawings in black and white. Half- title and title-page printed in black and olive. With an original 1/2 page pen and ink drawing on half title depicting a demon sneaking up on a woman holding a candle, walking up stairs. Signed and dated year of publication.
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Guts.indd 50 11/13/08 11:11:27 AM Original vellum over boards pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt on front cover and spine. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Black and white pictorial endpapers. A near fine copy.
Latimore and Haskell, pp. 72-73. Riall, p. 189.
HBS 64617. $11,500
Signed Limited Edition
89. RACKHAM, Arthur, [illustrator]. HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel. A Wonder Book. London: Hodder & Stoughton, [n.d.1922].
Deluxe edition, limited to 600 copies signed by Rackham. Quarto, viii, 206, [1], [1, printer’s imprint] pp. Twenty-four color plates, sixteen of which are mounted on cream paper (with descriptive tissue guards), and twenty drawings in black and white.
Original full white cloth, Front board and spine decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Original tan and white pictorial endpapers. Spine very slightly darkened. Near fine.
BAL. Browne, Clark. Latimore and Haskell, 55.
HBS 64434. $2,250
With Sixty-Five Hand-Finished Color Plates
90. REDOUTÉ, Pierre-Joseph. ROUSSEAU, Jean-Jacques, [artist]. La Botanique de J.J. Rouseau. Ornée de Soixante-Cing Plances, Imprimées en Coleurs d’apres les Peintures de P.J. Redouté Paris: Delachaussé and Garnery, 1805.
Folio. With sixty-five hand-finished color plates and a black and white engraving on title-page. Full contemporary green morocco tooled in gilt and blind on boards.
The hand colored-plates by Redouté illustrate the multiple varieties of plants covered by Rousseau in his “Lettres Elementaires sur la Botanique.” These letters written to Marguerite-Madeline Delessert are what make up much of the text in this book.
Dunthorne 252. Nissen 1688
HBS 64302. $8,500
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Guts.indd 51 11/13/08 11:11:32 AM The Second and Best Edition of Repton’s Most Popular Work on Landscape Gardening.
91. REPTON, H[umphry]. Observations on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening . Including some remarks on Grecian and Gothic architecture, collected from various manuscripts, in the possession of the different noblemen and gentlemen, for whose use they were originally written; the whole tending to establish fixed principles in the respective arts. London: J. Taylor, 1805.
Second edition (first published in 1803). 16, 222, [2] pp. Stipple engraved frontispiece portrait by W. Holl after S. Shelley, Ten hand-colored aquatints including nine with overlays (one folding); four tinted aquatints including one double page; ten uncolored aquatints including three with overlays; one engraved plate; two maps including one colored; additional aquatint or woodcut illustrations in text including one colored and two with overlays. Large quarto (13 1/4 x 11inches).
Half calf over marbled boards with a later rebacking. Endpapers replaced.
The second and best edition (contains more plates than the first edition) of Repton’s most popular work on landscape gardening. This volume was the only one of his works to be reprinted in his lifetime. The plates are based on the manuscript “Red Books” which he prepared for clients. The ingenious, carefully detailed overslips show landscapes before Repton’s improvements, then lift up to show the same views after them.
The preface contains a rare tribute to the labor that made color-plate books possible: “The art of colouring plates in imitation of drawings has been so far improved of late, that I have pleasure in recording my obligations to Mr. Clarke, under whose directions a number of children have been employed to enrich this volume.”
Abbey, Scenery, 390 (describing the first edition). Tooley 399 (describing the first edition).
HBS 64301. $13,500
Hirschfeld’s Harlem Caricatures
92. SAROYAN, William. HIRSCHFELD, Albert, [artist]. Harlem as Seen by Hirschfeld. New York: The Hyperion Press, 1941.
First edition, limited to 1,000 numbered copies. Folio. Illustrated with twenty-four captioned plates by Hirschfeld.
Publisher’s original cream cloth, lettered on the front cover and spine, and with an illustration from the book reproduced and colored by hand on the front cover. Some minor spotting and soiling to the cloth as is often seen, else a very good, handsome copy complete with twenty-four wonderful illustrations. Plates are clean and bright.
Kherdian.
HBS 64449. $3,000 52
Guts.indd 52 11/13/08 11:11:39 AM Serlio’s Seven Books of Architecture
93. SERLIO, Sebastiano. Tutte l’Opere d’Architettura. Di Senastiano Serlio Bolognese; Doue si trattano in disegno, quelle cose, che sono piú necessarie all’ Architetto; Et ora Di Nuovo Aggiunto (oltre il libro delle porte) gran numero di case priuate nella Cittá, & in villa, Et Un’ Indice Copiosissimo Raccolto per via di considerationi Da M. Gio domenico Scamozzi. Venetia: Presso Francesco dé Franceschi Senese, 1584.
First collected, complete edition of Serlio’s seven books of architecture. Quarto (7 x 9 1/2 inches). [48], [440], [2, blank], [54], [2, blank], [6],, [2, blank], 243, [1, colophon]. Heavily illustrated with numerous woodcuts, both plates and text illustrations, showing architectural design. Books I-V and VI “Estraordinario” are from the same woodblocks as the 1566 first edition. Book VII is reduced from the 1575 folio edition.
Full 18th century vellum. Paper spine label.
Sebastiano Serlio, an Italian architect, painter and theorist is considered one of the most important architects of the Sixteenth century. He studied under Baldassare Peruzzi and was a consultant for the building of the Palace at Fountainebleau. Because of his experience first hand with the High Renaissance in Rome, his treatise on architecture titled Tutte l’Opere d’Architettura has become extremely influential throughout Europe. The treatise is composed of seven books, which focus on geometry, perspective, Roman antiquity, the Order of columns, church and domestic design. It also deals with many design problems that were ignored by theorists in the past. (Architectural Theory: from the Renaissance to the present. Evers and Thoenes. 76-78).
HBS 64524. $8,500
From the Fourth Folio
94. [SHAKESPEARE, William]. The Tragedy of Hamlet Rpince [Prince] of Denmark. [London: Printed for H. Herringman, E. Brewster, and R. Bentley, 1685].
Extracted from the Fourth Folio. Folio (14 1/8 x 9 inches; 358 x 229 mm). [14] leaves, (pages 59-86).
Modern half tan sheep over cloth. A small one inch closed tear to the bottom margin of leaf 2, not affecting text. Otherwise a very good copy of this important work.
The Fourth Folio was the stateliest of all the folios, being printed on a Royal stock, distinctly larger than the sheets of the Third Folio, which in turn is on a larger sheet than the First and Second. The last edition of Shakespeare’s plays printed in the seventeenth century and the last to be printed before the editorial endeavors of the eighteenth century.
Bartlett 123A. Greg III, p. 1119. Jaggard, p. 497. Pforzheimer 910. Wing S2915.
HBS 64785. $4,500 53
Guts.indd 53 11/13/08 11:11:46 AM From the Fourth Folio
95. [SHAKESPEARE, William]. The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet. [London: Printed for H. Herringman, E. Brewster, and R. Bentley, 1685].
Extracted from the Fourth Folio. Folio (14 1/8 x 9 inches; 358 x 229 mm). [12] leaves, (pages 305-328).
Modern half tan sheep over clothSix leaves with margins professionally reinforced. Leaf 4 with a 2 1/2 x 1 inch piece missing from outer margin, barely affecting text. Very good.
The Fourth Folio was the stateliest of all the folios, being printed on a Royal stock, distinctly larger than the sheets of the Third Folio, which in turn is on a larger sheet than the First and Second. The last edition of Shakespeare’s plays printed in the seventeenth century and the last to be printed before the editorial endeavors of the eighteenth century.
Bartlett 123A. Greg III, p. 1119. Jaggard, p. 497. Pforzheimer 910. Wing S2915.
HBS 64784. $4,500
The First Samuel Johnson Edition
96. SHAKESPEARE, William. [JOHNSON, Samuel, editor]. The Plays of William Shakespeare. In Eight Volumes, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators; To Which is added Notes by Sam. Johnson. London: Printed for J. and R. Tonson, H. Woodfall..., 1765.
First Samuel Johnson variorum edition, later issue, with the paginated preface. Eight octavo volumes (8 1/4 x 4 15/16 inches; 209 x 125 mm). clv, [1, blank], [1]-488; [4], [1]-557, [1, blank]; [4], [1]-504; [4], [1]- 589, [1, blank]; [4], [1]-493, [1, blank]; [4], [1]-627, [1, blank]; [4], [1]-547, [1, blank]; [4], [1]-473, [1, blank], [53, appendix], [1, blank] pp. Volume one with engraved frontispiece portrait. With all half-titles except in volume one.
Contemporary full speckled calf. Back outer hinge of volume eight expertly repaired. A handsome set of this important edition.
Johnson included the prefaces of Pope, Theobald, Warburton and Hanmer in this edition, along with Rowe’s Life, and Shakespeare’s Will, as well as his own sixty-eight-page preface.
Ebisch and Schücking, p. 54. Jaggard, p. 501. Shaksperiana, Part III, 16.
HBS 64682. $7,500
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Guts.indd 54 11/13/08 11:11:51 AM “The First and Greatest Classic of Modern Economic Thought” A Beautiful Clean Copy of Adam Smith’s “Wealth of Nations” With The “Additions and Corrections” Supplement.
97. SMITH, Adam. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. London: Printed for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell, 1776.
First edition. Three large quarto volumes (sheet size-11 3/8 x 9 1/16 inches; 289 x 230 mm.). [12], [1]-510, [2, blank]; [4], [1]-587, [1, advertisements]; [1]-79, [1, blank] pp. Complete with half-title in Volume II (no half- title called for in Volume I), and the final blank leaf at the end of Volume I. Volume III is the Additions and Corrections to the First and Second Editions of Dr. Adam Smith’s Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
Two main volumes bound in contemporary speckled calf, rebacked preserving original spine. In volume I, leaf YY3 with a three inch closed tear in top margin, not affecting text. Leaves ZZ3 and ZZ4 bound in reverse. Both volumes housed in cloth slipcases. A very clean, near fine set. Supplement volume bound in full contemporary speckled calf. Some internal foxing to supplement pages. Overall an exceptional copy.
Adam Smith (1723-1790) spent ten years in the writing and perfecting of The Wealth of Nations. “The book succeeded at once, and the first edition was exhausted in six months…Whether it be true or not, as Buckle said, that the ‘Wealth of Nations’ was, ‘in its ultimate results, probably the most important that had ever been written’…it is probable that no book can be mentioned which so rapidly became an authority both with statesmen and philosophers” (D.N.B.).
Grolier, 100 English, 57. Kress 7261. Printing and the Mind of Man 221. Rothschild 1897. Sabin 82303.
HBS 64762. $150,000
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Guts.indd 55 11/13/08 11:11:57 AM The Complete Edinburgh Edition
98. STEVENSON, Robert Louis. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson. Edinburgh: Printed by T. and A. Constable for Longmans Green and Co.…, 1894-1898. Twenty-eight volumes. [Together with:] The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson to His Family and Friends. Selected and edited with notes and introductions by Sidney Colvin. London: Methuen and Co., 1900. Two volumes. [And:] [And:] BALFOUR, Graham. The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson. London: Methuen and Co., 1901. Two volumes. [And:] Stevensoniana. Edited by J.A. Hammerton. London: Grant Richards, 1903. [And:] PRIDEAUX, Colonel W.F. A Bibliography of the Works of Robert Louis Stevenson. London: Frank Hollings, 1903.
Edinburgh Edition. One of 1035 numbered sets, this being number 969. Initialed by Charles Baxter, Stevenson’s business representative. Together thirty-four octavo volumes (8 1/2 x 5 7/8 inches; 215 x 149 mm). Frontispieces in many volumes, including photogravure portraits and maps (some color).
Bound at the Riverside Press in three-quarter modern light brown morocco over marbled boards. A fine set.
The Edinburgh Edition is considered the best collection of Stevenson’s works. It was edited by his friend, Sidney Colvin, with all emendations and corrections approved by Stevenson himself.
Prideaux, 239
HBS 64732. $6,500
The ‘Burger‘ Court
99. [SUPREME COURT JUSTICES]. Signed Photograph, of the United States Supreme Court. [N.p. (Washington, DC): n.d., ca. 1972-1975].
Harris & Ewing photo measures 9 7/16 x 6 13/16 inches on an 11 x 14 inch mat. The photograph is in excellent condition. All the ink signatures are all dark and clear.
Signed by nine “Burger Court” Justices in their judicial robes, with five Justices seated in front and four Justices standing behind them. All nine members of the Court have signed on the lower white border of the mat. The signatures include Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, Lewis Franklin Powell, Jr., Thurgood Marshall, Harry Blackmun, William Rehnquist, Potter Stewart, William O. Douglas, William J. Brennan, Jr., and Byron White.
HBS 64526. $5,000
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Guts.indd 56 11/13/08 11:12:01 AM With 400 Hand-Colored Plates
100. SWEET, Robert. Geraniaceæ. The natural order of Gerania, illustrated by coloured figures and descriptions; comprising the numerous and beautiful mule-varieties cultivated in the gardens of Great Britain, with directions for their treatment. By Robert Sweet, F.L.S. author of Hortus Suburbansu Londinensis, Botanical Cultivator, &c. &c Vol I [II, III, IV]. London: James Ridgeway, 1820-1828.
Four (of an eventual five) octavo volumes. [x], [200], [5, index], [2, errata]; [iv], [200], [8, index]; [iv], [200], [10, index]; [ii], [200], [12, index] pp. Four hundred full-page hand-colored plates (100 plates per volume) engraved by S. Watts after E.D. Smith, each accompanied by a leaf of descriptive text.
Bound in half calf over contemporary marbled paper boards. Rebacked, preserving the original spine that is lettered and tooled in gilt. Some minor offsetting and foxing in text (as is most often the case). Overall, a near fine set.
Nissen, BBI, p. 178. Sitwell p. 141.
HBS 64305. $15,000
With Sixty-Eight Hand-Colored Plates
101. SWEET, Robert. Don, Professor. [SANGORSKI & SUTCLIFFE, binder]. The Ornamental Flower Garden and Shrubbery, Containing Coloured Figures and Descriptions of the Most Beautiful and Curious Flowering Plants and Shrubs Cultivated in Great Britain...To Which are Added English Descriptions, and the Most Recent Practical Hints on Culture, Propagation, etc. By an Eminent Floriculturist. Vol. I. London: G. Willis, 1852.
A reissue, volume one only. Octavo (9 7/8 x 6 1/8 inches; 250 x 155 mm). With sixty-eight beautifully hand- color plates, including one folding plate. Most after drawings by Miss Drake.
Bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe in full green morocco. Tip of back board repaired with tan morocco. A very good copy.
HBS 64583. $900
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Guts.indd 57 11/13/08 11:12:07 AM A Lovely Copy of Huckleberry Finn
102. TWAIN, Mark. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade). New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885.
First American edition, early issue [with the following points: Title-page, BAL state B (earliest in book form); p. 13, first state; p. 57, first state; p. 283 BAL third state (earliest possible in cloth book form); p. 155, BAL second state; frontispiece, BAL second state.]. Octavo. 366 pp. Portrait frontispiece inserted. Text illustrations by E.W. Kemble.
Original dark green cloth, lettered and pictorially stamped in black and gilt. Light rubbing to spine and corners, minor soiling. Overall, a very nice copy.
BAL 3415. Johnson, Twain, pp. 43-50.
HBS 64343. $7,500
A First Edition of Twain’s Classic
103. TWAIN, Mark. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Hartford: The American Publishing Company, 1876.
First American edition, second printing, BAL’s issue A. [i-xii] (with [ix], [x], and [xii] mispaged xii, xii, and xvi), [17], 18-274[-276], [4] ads. On laid paper. Illustrated.
In publisher’s original blue cloth. Front cover and spine decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt and black, rear cover stamped in black. Original endpapers. Head and tail of the spine frayed, with 1/2 inch split at the outer top rear joint. Rear hinge repaired. Some rubbing and some light wear, especially to corners. Inner joints slightly loose. Overall a very good copy.
BAL 3369.
HBS 64566. $3,000
One of 620 Copies Signed by Twain
104. TWAIN, Mark. The Writings of Mark Twain. London: Chatto & Windus, 1899-1907.
Author’s Édition de Luxe. Limited to 620 copies, this being number ninety-nine. Volume I signed by S.L. Clemens/Mark Twain. Twenty-five octavo volumes (7 13/16 x 5 7/16 inches;198 x 138 mm). Extra-engraved titles, numerous engraved plates with tissue-guards, frontispieces.
Bound in modern full burnt orange calf, probably by Bayntun- Riviere. A fine set.
Johnson, Twain, p. 151.
HBS 64731. $18,500 58
Guts.indd 58 11/13/08 11:12:11 AM The First Appearance of the Idea of the ‘Missing Link’
105. TYSON, Edward. Orang-outang, sive homo sylvestris. or, the anatomy of a pygmie compared with that of a monkey, an ape, and a man. To which is added, a philological essay concerning the pygmies, the cynocephali, the satyrs, and sphinges of the ancients. Wherein it will appear that they are all either apes or monkeys, and not men, as formerly pretended. London: Printed for Thomas Bennet...and Daniel Brown, 1699.
First edition of this landmark of comparative anatomy. Quarto (10 1/2 x 8 5/8 inches; 267 x 220 mm). [12], 108, [2], 58, [2, publisher’s ads] pp. Complete with all eight folding engraved plates by M. Vander Gucht after William Cowper, and two pages of publisher’s advertisements.
Contemporary speckled blind-paneled dark brown calf. Rebacked to style.
Up to this time little was known of the higher anthropoid apes and their anatomy. Tyson compared the anatomy of men and monkeys, and he placed between them what he thought was a typical pygmy-it was, in fact an African Chimpanzee, the skeleton of which survives to this day in the Natural History Museum in London. The chimpanzee first appeared in zoological literature in 1625 and was described by Dr. Tulp (of Rembrandt’s ‘Anatomy Lesson’) while the orang-outang, mentioned in 1658, was first scientifically described by Camper in 1778 and 1782”.
Tyson’s work is less important for its anatomical descriptions than for the fact that he established a new family of anthropoid apes standing between monkey and man, and recognized that man was probably a close relative of certain lower animals. Popularized as the ‘missing link’, the theory that man shares some remote common ancestry with the apes was not clearly expounded until the publication of Huxley’s ‘Man’s Place in Nature’ in 1863 and Darwin’s ‘Descent of Man’ in 1871. Tyson did not for see the theory of evolution; but his work contributed substantially to its formulation and in the sense that he was a forerunner of Blumenbach, Buffon, Huxley and Darwin. In literature Sir Oran Haut-Ton in Peacock’s novel ‘Melinncourt’ 1817, and the orang-outang in Shelley’s ‘Queen Mab’, derive from Tyson-even if at second hand.
Norman Library 2120. Printing and the Mind of Man 169. Wing T3598.
HBS 64717. $16,500
One of the Most Important Voyages of the Eighteenth Century
106. VANCOUVER, George. A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean, and round the World…performed in the years 1790, 1791, 1792, 1793, 1794, and 1795, in the Discovery sloop of war, and armed tender Chatham… London: Printed for G.G. and J. Robinson, and J. Edwards, 1798.
First edition. Three quarto volumes (11 7/8 x 9 7/16 inches; 301 x 239 mm.) plus folio atlas volume (22 x 16 3/4 inches; 560 x 430 mm). [8], xxix, [1, blank], [2, ads], [4, contents], [2, list of plates], 432; [10], 504; [10], 505, [3, errata] pp. Eighteen engraved plates, one of which is a map in the text. Ten folding maps and six plates of profiles in the atlas volume. Complete with half-titles and errata. 59
Guts.indd 59 11/13/08 11:12:17 AM Text volumes bound in contemporary tan polished calf. Volume I with some slight cracking to front outer hinge, but still firm. Atlas bound in modern half blue straight-grain morocco over marbled boards. Overall, an excellent set; tall, clean and complete.
“His voyage is important not only for the magnificent charts and splendid views that accompanied it, but also for the valuable and extensive amount of information that it provided on the Spanish settlements, the Indian tribes, and the physical features of the countries that he visited. It is one of the ‘classics’ of late eighteenth- century geographical literature” (Howell).
Cowan, p. 655. Graff 4456. Hill I, p. 303. Howes V23. Sabin 98443.
HBS 64761. $65,000
“The First Book in English Completely Devoted to California”
107. VENEGAS, Miguel. A Natural and Civil History of California. Containing an Accurate Description of that Country, Its Soil, Mountains, Harbours, Lakes, Rivers, and Seas; its Animals, Vegetables, Minerals, and famous Fishery for Pearls. The Customs of the Inhabitants, their Religion, Government, and Manner of Living, before their Conversion to the Christian Religion by the missionary Jesuits. Together with Accounts of the several Voyages and Attempts made for settling California, and taking actual Surveys of that Country, its Gulf, and Coast of the South-Sea. Illustrated with Copper Plates, and an Accurate Map of the Country and the adjacent Seas. Translated from the original Spanish…published at Madrid 1758. In Two Volumes. London: Printed for James Rivington and James Fletcher, 1759.
First edition in English of the first history of California. Two octavo volumes (7 3/4 x 4 5/8 inches; 196 x 117 mm). [20], 455, [1, blank]; [8], 387, [1, blank] pp. Four engraved plates including both frontispieces, and a folding engraved map of California. According to Cowan, “these four plates appear to have been issued with but a few copies of the work, as two is the number usually found.” This copy has all four plates
Contemporary tree calf, rebacked to style preserving the original red and green calf spine labels. A very good copy of the most important book on Baja California.
“This first translation gave the English-speaking world its earliest thorough account of the little-known areas of the west coast of North America. This work has been cited as the first book in English completely devoted to California” (Hill). Cowan considers this work “the foundation of a library of Californiana” and Wagner states that it “contains more on Lower California than almost any other book that had been published in one hundred and fifty years.”
Cowan, pp. 237-8. Graff 4471. Howell, 50: 247. Howes v69. Sabin 98845. Streeter 2435.
HBS 64742. $5,000
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Guts.indd 60 11/13/08 11:12:23 AM The Most Prized Of All California Books
108. VENEGAS, Miguel. Noticia de la California y De Su Conquista Temporal, y Espiritual Hasta el Tiempo Presente, Sacada de la Historia Manuscrita, Formada en Mexico Año 1739. por el Padre Miguel Venegas, de la Compañia de Jesus; y de otras Noticias, y Relacioes antiguas, y modernas. Añadida de Algunos Mapas Particulares, y uno general de la America Septentrional, Asia Oriental, y Mar del Súr intermedio, formados sobre las Memorias mas recientes, y exactas, que se publican juntamente. Dedicada Al Rey N.tro Señor Por La Provincia de Nueva- España, de la Compañia de Jesus. Madrid: Viuda de Manuel Frnandez, y Del. Supremo Consejo de la Inquisicion, 1757.
First edition, first issue (with pp. 476-480 in Vol. II misnumbered) ofthis “foundation of a library of Californiana.” Three small quarto volumes (8 x 5 9/16 inches; 203 x 141 mm). [24], 240; [8], 564; [8], 436 pp. Complete with all four engraved folding maps. Numerous engraved head- and tailpieces.
Contemporary Spanish tree sheep. Front hinge of volume I starting to crack, but firm. Overall a fine set.
The large folding map in Volume I (Mapa de la California su Golfo, y provincias fronteras en el continente de Nueva Espana) measures (15 1/44 x 13 inches; 388 x 333 mm), with three sides bordered by ten pictorial vignettes of local scenes and animals. It is one of the most handsome maps of California ever printed and is surrounded by engraved vignettes that are among the few eighteenth-century printed images of things Californian.
Graff 4470. Hill p. 307. Howes V69. Streeter III.,363. Zamorano Eighty 78.
HBS 64745. $15,000
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Guts.indd 61 11/13/08 11:12:29 AM The Most Important Book in the History of Anatomy
109. VESALIUS, Andreas. De humani corporis fabrica libri septem. Basle, [colophon:] Johannes Oporinus, June, 1543.
Folio (15 5/8 x 10 6/8 inches; 397 x 277 mm.).[xii], 659, (actually 663), [1, errata], [36] pp., with a fine woodcut title, woodcut portrait of the author, two double page-size woodcuts (within pagination and folded; one printed on both sides).
Old vellum with burgundy morocco lettering label. While most copies do not contain the ‘Charta parvas’ leaf (another m3), which was comprised of eight anatomical woodcut figures that were meant to be cut out and pasted on the human figure on folding m3, this copy has five ofthe eight figures. These five figures have been cut out and mounted on the appropriate places on the human figure and have been colored ina contemporary hand. Leaf P4 with old paper repair at bottom edge, Q4 with short tear at upper margin, R1 & S1 with a few small brown spots, signatures c & d with a small stain to lower blank margin, e4 with a spot in the text, paper repairs to the versos of both folding plates (one of which is printed on both sides), bit of marginal worming to f, g & q, old marginal repairs to last signature (Mm). Some contemporary owner’s marks on the head of the title page and in the title panel and to the last leaf. Bottom and top part of title page remargined (not affecting any text) and next two leaves with outer margins strengthened. Some worming to lower gutter of last eight leaves and last three leaves with an ink stain across the middle of the index (covering up the text somewhat on the first five page and eating into the text on the last page). Overall, a very attractive and sound copy of this keystone book for any serious medical library.
‘The Fabrica, a handsomely printed folio, is remarkable for its series of magnificent plates, which set new technical standards of anatomical illustration, and indeed of book illustration in general. They have generally been ascribed to an artist of Titan’s school... No other work of the sixteenth century equals it... It was translated, reissued, copied and plagiarized over and over again and its illustrations were used or copied in other medical works until the end of the eighteenth century’ (PMM).
‘Published when the author was only 29 years old, the Fabrica revolutionized not only the science of anatomy but how it was taught. Throughout his encyclopedic work on the structure and workings of the human body, Vesalius provided a fuller and more detailed description of the human body than any of his predecessors, correcting errors in the traditional anatomical 62
Guts.indd 62 11/13/08 11:12:30 AM teachings of Galen. Even more epochal than his criticism of Galen and other medieval authorities was Vesalius’ assertion that the dissection of cadavers must be performed by the physician himself’ (Garrison-Morton).
Adams V603 (without the Charta parvas); Barchas Collection 2081 (without the Charta parvas); Durling 4577; Cushing, A Bio-Bibliography VI.A.-1 (pp. 79- 88, Cushing’s own copy without the Charta parvas); Dibner 122; Garrison- Morton 375; Heirs of Hippocrates 281 (lacking the portrait); Horblit 98; PMM 71; Roberts and Tomlinson pp. 125-165 (the eight woodcuts cut out and pasted onto the folded sheet); Sparrow, Milestones of Science 192; Stillwell, The Awakening Interest in Science 710; Wellcome 6560.
HBS 58164 $375,000
A Special Copy With More Plates Than Any Other Known Copy
110. VISCHER, [Edward]. Pictorial of California. Landscape. Trees and Forest Scene. Grand Features of California Scenery, Life, Traffic and Customs. San Francisco: Joseph Winterburn & Co., 1870-1872.
[Album]:
First edition, later and best issue with nearly double the amounts of plates of the first issue. Large quarto (13 7/16 x 12 inches; 343 x 305 mm). With 209 photographs on 202 plates. Printed in red, brown, purple and gold. First mounted photo is a map of California, followed by “ Sixty Views of California” with sixty numbered plates. Followed by twenty-eight unnumbered plates titled “Trees and Forest Scenes,” followed by eighteen unnumbered plates entitled “Supplement. Grand Features and Characteristic Ranges of California Scenery,” followed by ninety-six unnumbered plates entitled “Review of California’s Progress...Mining, Agriculture and Industry, Traffic, Commerce an Shipping.” Photographs are from original pencil drawings, and some are reproductions of photographs.
Publisher’s beautiful deluxe binding by Bartling and Kimball of San Francisco, full black morocco, with raised center panels on both boards. Whole binding elaborately stamped in gilt on boards and spine. ‘California” lettered in gilt on front board. Title lettered in gilt on spine. Thick heavily decorated gilt dentelles. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Printed on heavy paper. Head and tail of the spine very slightly rubbed. Two previous owner’s bookplates of front pastedown. Near fine.
[Together with]:
[Text]:
Small quarto (11 5/8 x 9 1/8 inches; 295 x 232 mm). [10], [1]-8, [6], [9]-132, iii, [1, blank] pp. With title-page from “Album” printed on heavy paper in red ink. Verse from “California” printed in gold ink.
Uniformly bound with album using black pebbled cloth over beveled boards. Same elaborate gilt stamping on boards. “Vischer’s Pictorial Of California San Francisco 1870” printed in gilt on front board. Spine stamped in gilt. All edges gilt.
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Guts.indd 63 11/13/08 11:12:32 AM Previous owner’s bookplate on front pastedown. Some slight chipping to outer hinges. Near fine.
[Together with]:
[Mission Supplement]:
VISCHER, Edward. Missions of Upper California, 1872. Notes on the California Missions, A Supplement To Vischer’s Pictorial Of California, Dedicated To Its Patrons. San Francisco: Winterburn & Co., 1872.
Octavo (9 1/8 x 5 15/16 inches; 231 x 151 mm). [2], 44, iv, [2] pp. In original peach printed wrappers. Preserved in a red cloth chemise and slipcase. Some very light foxing to wrappers, otherwise near fine.
Together this set of three volumes is particularly interesting. It is complete with the scarce mission supplement, the verse “California” is printed in gold ink which was only done to “special copies” according to Farquhar, and the Album contains more photographs than any other known copy. Howes calls for copies to have between 100-120 mounted plates and Cowen notes that “Few copies contain precisely the same number of plates.” According to a census done by John Howell Books, no other copy in public knowledge has as many as 202 plates such as this copy, making it safe to assume that this is the most complete and finest copy known.
HBS 64760. $40,000
First Edition with Engraved Plates and Full-Color Maps
111. WALLACE, Alfred Russel. Geographical Distribution of Animals. With a Study of the Relations of Living and Extinct Faunas as Elucidating the Past Changes of the Earth’s Surface...With Maps and Illustrations. London: Macmillan and Co., 1876.
First edition. Two octavo volumes (8 3/4 x 5 15/16 inches; 224 x 150 mm). xxi, [1, blank], [2, list o plates & errata], [1]-503; viii, [1, list of plates], [1, blank], [1, errata], [1, blank], [1]-607, [1, blank] pp. With twenty engraved plates and seven colored maps, three of which are folding.
Original full green cloth. Mostly unopened. About fine.
HBS 64744. $3,000
First Edition in Original Cloth
112. WARREN, M.D., John C.. Etherization; With Surgical Remarks. By John C. Warren, M.D. Emeritus Professor of Anatomy and Surgery in the University at Cambridge; Surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital; Honorary Member of the Medical and Chirurgical Society of London; Corresponding Member of the Royal Academy of Medicine at Paris, and of the Academies of Naples, Florence, etc. Boston: William D. Ticknor & Company, 1848.
First edition. Twelvemo (4 3/8 x 7 3/16 inches; 111 x 182 mm). [4], [i]-v, [1, blank], [1, half- title], [1, blank], 100, [4, Publisher’s ads], [2, blank] pp. Without front free endpaper.
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Guts.indd 64 11/13/08 11:12:36 AM Publisher’s full brown cloth.
“Warren’s Etherization provides a fascinating account of the early use of sulphuric ether in surgery, including a detailed description of the epochal first operation using anesthesia, which he performed on Octo-ber 16, 1846.” (The History of Surgery in the United States, 1775-1900, Rutkow, 23).
“[Etherization gives]the results derived from a year’s experience of this agent, and from over two hundred cases in which it was used, or its employment witnessed, by Warren. It forms a neat little volume of one hundred pages, and gives an account of the operations of importance in which it had been used. At the hospital and in private practice, it had continued to be used with uniform success.” (The Life of John Collins Warren vol. 1 387).
Sabin 101475.
HBS 64562. $2,500
The English of America
113. WEBSTER, Noah. An American Dictionary of the English Language: Intended to exhibit, I. The origin, affinities and primary signification of English words, as far as they have been ascertained. II. The genuine orthography and pronunciation of words, according to general usage, or to just principles of analogy. III. Accurate and discriminating definitions, with numerous authorities and illustrations. To which are prefixed, an introductory dissertation on the origin, history and connection of the languages of western Asia and of Europe, and a concise grammar of the English language. In two volumes. New York: Published by S. Converse. Printed by Hezekiah Howe…, 1828.
First edition. Two large quarto volumes (11 1/16 x 9 inches; 280 x 229 mm). Engraved frontispiece portrait (the portrait of Webster painted by S.F.B. Morse) by A.B. Durand printed by J.R. Burton. With the final leaf of “Additions” and “Corrections” at the end of Volume II, which is often lacking.
Contemporary tree calf, with outer hinges restored. Overall, an excellent copy of a book almost always found rebacked because of its size.
“This dictionary, which almost at once became, and has remained, the standard English dictionary in the United States, was the end-product of a stream of spelling books, grammars, readers and dictionaries which flowed from the pen of the industrious Noah Webster… Webster’s great dictionary, all the 70,000 entries of which he wrote with his own hand, has been reprinted and brought up to date innumerable times…the book marked a definite advance in modern lexicography, as it included many non-literary terms and paid great attention to the language actually spoken. Moreover, his definitions of the meaning of words were accurate and concise (Sir James Murray, editor of the Oxford English Dictionary, called him ‘a born definer of words’) and have for the greater part stood the test of time superbly well” (Printing and the Mind of Man).
Grolier, 100 American, 36. Printing and the Mind of Man 291. Sabin 102335. Skeel 583.
HBS 64738. $27,500 65
Guts.indd 65 11/13/08 11:12:42 AM The Atlantic Edition of the Works of H.G. Wells
114. WELLS, H.G. The Works of H.G. Wells. London: T. Fisher Unwin, Ltd., 1924-1927.
Atlantic Edition. One of 1050 numbered sets for America, signed by the author. Twenty-eight octavo volumes (8 13/16 x 6 inches; 224 x 152 mm). Photogravure frontispieces.
Original half red morocco over red cloth, decoratively gilt-stamped on spine. Top edges gilt, others uncut. Marbled endpapers. A fine set.
Hammond, pp. 153-157.
HBS 64502 $10,000
115. [WHITE, Gilbert]. The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne. in the County of Southampton: With Engravings, and an Appendix London: Printed by T. Bensley for B. White and Son, 1789.
First edition. Quarto. v, [1, blank], 468 (i.e., 466), [12, index], [1, errata], [1, blank] pp. Folding engraved frontispiece, two engraved title vignettes, and six engraved plates (one folding). Engravings by Peter Mazell and Daniel Lerpinire after drawing by Samuel Grimm.
Bound by Riviere & Son in full olive morocco.
Grolier, 100 English, 62. Martin, pp. 90-94.
HBS 64383. $2,750
116. [WOLLSTONECRAFT, Mary]. Posthumous Works of the Author of A Vindication of Rights of Woman. [Edited with a preface by William Godwin]. London: Printed for J. Johnson, and G. G. and J. Robinson, 1798.
First edition. Four small octavo volumes (6 x 3 3/4 inches; 152 x 96 mm). [18], 181, [1, blank]; [4], 196; [10], 192; [4], 195, [1, blank] pp.
[Together with:]
[WOLLSTONECRAFT, Mary]. GODWIN, William. Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. London: Printed for J. Johnson, and G. G. and J. Robinson, 1798.
First edition. Small octavo (6 x 3 3/4 inches; 152 x 96 mm). [2], 199, [1, blank], [1, errata], [1, blank], [2, publisher’s ads] pp. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin.
Modern full sprinkled calf. Boards ruled in gilt. Spines elaborately decorated in gilt. Spines with red morocco labels, lettered in gilt. Gilt dentelles. All edges yellow. Marbled endpapers. An excellent set.
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Guts.indd 66 11/13/08 11:12:46 AM With 100 Hand-Colored Caricatures
117. WOODWARD, George Moutard, [illustrator]. CRUIKSHANK, Isaac, [illustrator]. RIVIÈRE & SON, [binder]. Eccentric Excursions. or, Literary & Pictorial Sketches of Countenance, Character & Country, in different parts of England and South Wales. Interspersed with Curious Anecdotes. Embellished with upwards of One Hundred Characteristic & Illustrative Prints. London: Published by Allen and Co., 1807.
Later issue (first published in 1796). Large quarto (10 3/16 x 8 inches; 259x 204 mm.). iv, v, 6-217, [1, “Directions to the Binders for placing the Plates”) pp. Engraved title (included in pagination) and 100 hand-colored etched plates (on ninety-nine leaves) by Isaac Cruikshank after Woodward, including frontispiece and three folding plates (Plates 1, 2, and 3).
Bound by Riviere & Son in full maroon morocco. Plate 3 and 13 with repairs, no loss to illustrations. Some color loss to boards, spine edge lightly rubbed. An excellent copy.
“Another popular caricaturist of the day was George Moutard Woodward, commonly called ‘Mustard George.’ Woodward, according to his friend [Henry] Angelo, was the son of a land agent and spent his youth in a country town, where nothing was less known than everything pertaining to the arts. ‘A caricaturist in a country town,’ said Mustard George, ‘like a bull in a china shop, cannot live without noise; so, having made a little noise in my native place, I persuaded my father to let me seek my fortune in town.’ Thanks to a small allowance from his father, supplemented by his own earnings, George was able to enjoy life in his own Bohemian fashion, and ultimately took up his quarters at the ‘Brown Bear,’ Bow Street, where he was able to study the inhabitants of the roundhouse and the regular attendants at the police-court. At the ‘Brown Bear’ he died suddenly, departing in character with a glass of brandy in his hand, and was long mourned by his tavern associates. In his Eccentric Excursion[s], which appeared in volume form in 1796 (the designs engraved by Isaac Cruikshank), there are several domestic subjects, such as The Polite Congregation, Showing Family Pictures, and The Formal Introduction. Among other popular designs by Woodward are Raffling for a Coffin, The Club of Quidnuncs, Babes in the Wood, A Goldfinch and his Mistress…and a series called Six Ways of Carrying a Stick. The majority are marred by extravagant hideousness, but Angelo was of opinion that ‘had this low humourist studied drawing and been temperate in his habits, such was the fecundity of his imagination and perception of character that he might rivaled even Hogarth” (Paston, Social Caricature in the Eighteenth Century, pp. 137- 138).
Rosenbach, Cruikshank, p. 207.
HBS 64477. $7,500
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118. [VOYAGES]. New Discoveries Concerning the World and Its Inhabitants. In Two Parts. Part I. Containing a circumstantial Account of all the Islands in the South-Sea, that have been lately discovered or explored; the Situation, Climate, and Soil of each; their natural Productions, including many Species of Animals and Vegetables hitherto unknown; the Persons, Dresses, extraordinary Manners and Customs, Manufactures, Buildings, Government, and Religion of the various Inhabitants; their domestic Utensils, and Weapons of War; their Ingenuity, mental Endowments, Skill in Navigation, and other Arts and Sciences. Comprehending all the Discoveries made in the several Voyages of Commodore (now Admiral) Byron; captains Wallis, Carteret, and Cook, Related by Dr. Hawkesworth, Sydney Parkinson, Mr. Forster and Captain Cook. Together with those of M. de Bougainville. The Whole compared with the Narratives of former celebrated Navigators, viz. Mendoza, Quiros, Tasman, Le Maire, Schouten, Dampier, Roggewein, Anson, and Others. Part II. Containing a summary Account of Captain Cook’s Attempts to discover a Southern Continent, in 1773, 1774, and 1775. Also the Voyage of the Honourable Constantine John Phipps, (now Lord Mulgrave) towards the North-Pole, in 1773. With Maps and Prints. London: J. Johnson, 1778.
First edition. Octavo. Illustrated with two folding maps and two folding plates. Contemporary full brown marbled calf. Rebacked, preserving the original spine.
Sabin 52591.
HBS 64328. $3,000
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