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[1] [2] This list includes some, but not all, ephemera items. All items below are subject to prior sale.

1. Abe, Eishiro (1902-1984). Mingei Letter Set. Kobe, Japan; San Francisco: F. M. Nonaka & Co., Inc., 1957. First edition. 26 by 18 cm outer folder, which has an ink blot floral pattern on it. Within are three paper samples housed in two pockets, two being narrow envelopes, one yellow, the other, brown, and the third, hand-dyed letter-writing paper. Also a printed slip inserted bearing a three- paragraph statement by Shigemasu Higuchu calling Abe "a master of the folk-crafts ("Mingei") movement in paper-making of Japan". Abe was from a paper-making family in Izumo Province. He was the first papermaker to have been declared a National Living Treasure of Japan, eleven years after the issue of this set. We presume that none of the samples were actually used, as there are 10 each of the yellow and brown narrow envelopes and the off-white sheets are snugly fit into a paper band. The endpapers and pockets are themselves of a handsome speckled tan paper, and the whole production epitomizes the Japanese taste for the sublime and understated. Wear to the lower spine, with minor closed tearing along the joints in that area. The folder itself is also probably looser than it was originally. The contents are pristine. Very Good. Paper pastedown on card, folder. (#003937) $150.00

2. Adams, John. An Analysis of Horsemanship; Teaching the Whole Art of Riding, in the Manege, Military, Hunting, Racing, and Travelling System. Together with the Method of Breaking Horses, for Every Purpose to which Those Noble Animals are Adapted. (Three Volumes). London: James Cundee, 1805. Second Edition. 8vo. 23 by 14. 5 cm. With many engravings, the most novel one in the second volume, opposite p. 137, with actual string for reins and a movable head on the horse. Huth p. 64. Podeschi 82. Full navy blue morocco bindings by Bayntun-Riviere. Occasional fox marks, but overall clean and bright. Modern binding highly attractive with classic equine devices on spine. A beautiful set. Fine. Full Morocco. (#004921) $1,500.00

3. The Adventures of Punch and Judy Including the Baby and the Dog. London: Jarrold & Sons. Scarce shaped book (no recorded copies found on OCLC First Search), and politically incorrect with verve. N.d., circa 1890. 31 by 25 cm, at tallest and widest. 16 pp., including cover. Bright chromolithographic illustrations throughout, a half of which qualify as color plates depicting the puppet show stage. Closed tear along joint by one staple, causing some looseness. Rubbing along this joint. Some light soiling internally but generally coming off as clean and bright. Very Good. Wraps. Stapled.. (#004915) $850.00

4. [Advertising Broadside][Philately] Joseph Wild & Co. New York Boston - Chicago. Importers China & Japan Mattings Carpets & Rugs. . Decorative broadside, with 32 canceled Japanese stamps as well. N.d., circa late 19th century. Oblong, 27 by 39 cm. A few light stains. Folds, probably original to piece. Miniscule closed tears by two folds. Light wear besides. Very Good. NA. (#004890) $250.00

5. Advertising Broadside Shanghai Store Mi Li Er, 45 Nanzing Road. Shanghai. Splashy large advertisement for Shanghai curio store, with touches of humor, mocking stereotypical Chinese broken English and syntax. The business was obviously targeting American tourists. N.d., circa 1910. Measuring 61.5 by 42.5 cm. "Mi Li Er" sold, according to this ad, Chinese Joss God; Chinese Girl much pretty, twenty inch high and thirteen wide, . . . ; brass coin; copper; silver; chopsticks; etc. The English text is printed but made to look like it is handwritten and slapdash. Perfectly capturing the droll spirit is the following: "I want smart youth seal my Chinese curios. If he catch many orders he earn many cash. Write me for samples. About ten weeks it take for samples to come after you write. I send by the fast first mail steamer after your letter come to me. Send me silver or 3 bill money. In China no can sell American copper." Otherwise, the broadside is very eye catching, with a collage of colorful imagery -- an open shrine with people milling about outside, children at play butterfly hunting, such children colliding with possibly disapproving adults, butterfly and floral decoration on a Cloisonne-like daiper or patterned background. Condition: a number of closed tears and edge chips. Some roughness overall. Evidence of neat folds where formerly folded. The imagery is fully intact and bright, though. Good. NA. (#004996) $1,250.00

6. L.L. Album with Many Exceptional Watercolors and Pencil Drawings of Birds, Flowers and Human Subjects. . An unusually high level of watercolor and pencil sketch work, even by the comparatively high standards of the early 19th century when such skills were widely nurtured among the more comfortable strata of society. The watercolors in particular have a richness and nuance in coloring that jumps off the page, and they bring to mind the color plates one finds in the better botanical books of the period, while the pencil work is highly precise. N.d, circa 1830. 4to. 27 by 21.5 cm. Unpatinated, with content on 82 pages, mostly on the rectos, sometimes on versos. 38 watercolors, 17 pencil drawings. 21 of the watercolors are botanicals, 9 are of birds, 5 of butterflies, and the three remaining include a dog study and an imaginary map. The pencil drawings are mostly human studies, with a few views and animal studies. The majority of watercolors take up the entire page, although some accompany poetry or text. Most of the pencil drawings likewise dominate the page. Hinge broken. Rubbing along joints, and typical moderate wear to the blindstamped leather. Very Good. Full Calf. (#005190) $3,000.00

7. Album with green felt binding and silver foil onlays and original artwork within. Salzburg, Austria, 1813-1815. Oblong, 9 by 14 cm. 12 leaves, a few with content on both sides, and each having an artwork of some kind. Five of these are watercolors applied directly to the paper (we would say original watercolors, although two are common images and so might well be copies), one pencil drawing, four hand-colored prints, one cut-out silhouette, and arguably the most interesting of all, embroidery into the paper, with the image thus on both sides of the paper (we are counting this as one piece). We would describe the album as a fairly typical example of a Germanic album amicorum of the period -- the Napoleonic era, or more loosely, the Biedermeier period -- with the textual entries written invariably in neat yet now inscrutable hands -- the style of cursive writing is now obscure. The original pictorial content is also of a high quality, not that that is also not fairly typical of the genre. Again, we would consider the embroidered specimen, which is of folk art-ish flowers and a hummingbird and sun, as the most unique. Other imagery is of flowers, a bucolic landscape, a funereal landscape with an urned monument at its center, as the norm. In fact, the silhouette is also a roughly similar funereal landscape. The other special aspect of this album is the green felt binding. The centerpieces are of a Roman chariots made of silver foil -- there is a slight variation to the image between the front and the rear cover, and around the perimeter of both sides is a silver foil tracery of flowers contained within a narrow band. The slipcase, which is also period, has also restrained classical decoration, in this case the center pictorial cameo is of seraphs. The slipcase is moderately soiled, and there is wear to the album itself. Minor loss to the silver foil. Very Good. Felt. Decorated paper slipcase.. (#005128) $600.00

8. Alken, Henry. British Proverbs. London: E. & C. McLean, 1824. First Edition. Oblong 4to. 26 by 35 cm. Six hand-colored plates, each with four or five proverbs and then the ironic, sarcastic or absurdist burlesque pictorial illustration of the saying. As with a whole genre of Alken caricature books and folios, especially ones produced for McLean, the illustrations have a collage effect with plates at once offering one unified pictorial and four or five discreet ones, the number of the latter depending on the eye of the beholder. The hand-coloring throughout this copy is vivid and bright. And in our view, the marriage between the visual humor and the captions holds up better than generally the case with similar Alken titles. Expressions include "What your glass tells you you will not be told by counsel", "Happy is he who knows his follies in his youth", "They are poor hearts 4 that never rejoice", and "Many speak much which cannot speak well", surely maxims to live by still, and other expressions that may now be a tad obscure or obsolete, such as "He giveth twice who gives in a trice." Uncommon Alken title, seldom in commerce. Beautifully bound in full calf by Riviere & Son. Two decorative bookplates on FEP. Decoratively stamped with a floral border and gilt turn-ins. Two prevous owners bookplates on FEP. Front hinge starting but sound. Joints and extremities with some rubbing. Slipcase has "Alken", title and date written in a gold watercolor and by a free hand on the long edge. Some light marginal finger soiling, and light foxing to blank prelim page, but overall clean and bright. Very Good. Full Calf. Cloth slipcase. (#004730) $2,850.00

Several collections of original Alkens below:

9. Alken, Henry. A Collection of Seven Drawings. London, 1815-1830. A handsome modern binding of seven original Alken drawings. Elephantine oblong, 35 by 50 cm. The drawings themselves are laid in a heavy board frame within the binding, and this frame has a window of 25 by 36 cm. The drawings themselves are laid on paper, and this paper is exposed, creating a margin all around, of not quite 2 cm. The drawings are titled: "Swell and the Surrey, No. 1", "Swell and the Surrey No. 2", "Drawing the Long Bow", "Drawing a Horse", "A Cabbage Leaf Galloper", "In Such a Scene as This", and "Rider Unshipped". Most relate to riding and equestrian sports, but "Drawing the Long Bow" depicts men drinking and playing cards. Generally the scenes have a touch of humor and levity, although one can not say they are all caricature or intended to be funny. While one can find some sketchiness here and there, overall the drawings come off as satisfying works that can stand on their own -- in other words, they are closer to being finished than tentative works in progress. Bringing coherence to the group is an esprit of quintessential Alken. The modern binding is handsome and worthy of the contents. Leather title label on front board. Fine. Half Calf. Paper pastedown on boards. . (#004992) $3,875.00

10. Alken, Henry. A Set of Six Plates on Horse Riding. London: Thomas McLean, 1821. First Edition. A handsome modern binding of six hand-colored plates which were issued separately, or as a folio, and not in book-form, in 1821. Elephantine oblong, 33 by 54 cm. The plates themselves are laid in a heavy board frame within the binding, and this frame has a window of 24 by 30 cm, which exposes about 4 cm of margin all around the images. The plates are titled: "Delighted", "Dissatisfied", "Perfectly Satisfied", "Displeased", "Surprised" and "Terrified". They are humorous takes on two gentlemen riding, not necessarily foxhunting. The men are opposites in their riding style, both exemplifying ineptitude and inexperience, though. The suite is very much in the vein of Alken stylistically, and also in the vein of such print series issued in profusion at the time. Obviously, such series usually ended up decorating walls, and so it is quite unusual and nice to have the suite survive intact and to have it bound so handsomely. With also a title page. Leather title label on front board. Fine. Half Calf. Paper pastedown on boards. . (#004991) $2,400.00

11. Alken, Henry. Six Drawings of Sporting Notions. London, 1815-1830. A handsome modern binding of six original Alken drawings. Elephantine oblong, 35 by 50 cm. The drawings themselves are laid in a heavy board frame within the binding, and this frame has a window of 19 by 26 cm. The drawings themselves are laid on paper, and this paper is exposed, creating a margin all around, of about 1 cm. The drawings are titled: "I have a notion that I am not quite up to this riding in Surry [sic]", "A gad I had no notion that picking up a fox was such sharp work", "I have a strong notion that this is a coal hole", "I have a very strong notion I should not like stag hunting", "I have a strong notion that this bit of timber will impede my progress excessively", and "I have a notion that this may be called riding to the hounds at a smashing pace". All the drawings relate to foxhunting and its perils and sources of anxiety. The drawings served as the basis for some of the plates in one of the rarest of Alken's color plate books, "Sporting Notions", which was published in 5 1833 (with plates watermarked 1831 to 1833). Humor, along with a touch of pathos, pervades the artwork. The modern binding is handsome and worthy of the contents. Leather title label on front board. Fine. Half Calf. Paper pastedown on boards. . (#004998) $3,875.00

12. Alphabet en Figures. Paris: J. Langlumé et Peltier, 1835. First Edition. 12mo. 17.5 by 10.5 cm. 46 pp. 24 hand-colored plates, plus hand-colored title page. Scarce French ABC, with only copies found at Princeton, Indiana, and the BNF. (Not including digital versions.) Unusual Abecedaire as well, with entries one might not expect to presented to the young, such as "Odalisque" for "O", "Grec en guerre" for "G", or "Turk fumant" for "T", especially given the pietistic nature of some of the other entries such as "Pape" for "P" or "Confession" for "C". The religious tenor of the ABC is in keeping with the Restoration Period in France, when the Catholic Church was welcomed again into civic society. Other entries are more generic French patriotic fare, such as Napoleon and Henri IV. Le Men 274. With Romantic cartonnage paper pastedown cover. The paper pastedown is chipped along the joints, with considerable loss at the spine base, and with numerous small spots of rubbing on the boards, but with its floral Medieval Revival diaper, quite unusual and still handsome. Foxing, heavy-ish at times, on the text leaves, lighter and less frequent on the plates, which are of a heavier paper stock as well. Child's scrawl of particular letter on plate (the letter corresponding with the plate) in pencil is erasable, and mostly erased, but one can see a slight depression in the paper where the scrawl was. Good. Hardcover. Paper pastedown. (#004683) $1,200.00

13. Armorial Album. . Beautiful album of original watercolored coat-of-arms! N.d., circa 1800. Folio, 38 by 25 cm. 21 pages of these escutcheons for families whose surnames begin with "A" or "B". The names are all English names, so we can safely assume this manuscript was created in England or other parts of Britain. On most pages there are twelve coat-of-arms, but a few pages have fewer, with one page at the end devoted to a single armorial drawing, rendered in a substantially larger size. This one is the only one that is mounted, as opposed to directly painted onto the page. There are 184 designs in all, almost all the same size, with a half-dozen a larger format. Of these, there are four smaller designs that are in some way incomplete. However one tallies the designs, however, there are easily over 175 fully realized ones, richly colored, and meticulously detailed with various animal heads, weaponry, helmets, crockets, stripes, fleur-de-lys, and all the usual armorial iconology. Given the systematic alphabetical arrangement of the designs, we would conjecture that the album was created by someone in a professional capacity, but there is really no way of knowing. As there are about the same number of leaves left blank at the end, we have to think that the artist intended to carry the project further. Regardless, what we have is visually splendid, and we would posit of great appeal, even to those with no interest in heraldry and family pedigree accoutrements. Light wear to the album. Generally clean and bright within. Very Good. Half Calf, Marbled Boards. (#004953) $1,250.00

Russian and Prussian Royalty keepsake:

14. Armorial Album Created for the "Magic of the White Rose" Festival. Potsdam, 1829. Beautiful album of original watercolored coat-of-arms! 16mo, 11 by 9 cm. 49 watercolored coat-of-arms following two decorative leaves, one with the date, 13 July, 1829. This diminutive album was created in connection with a festival dedicated to the Russian Empress, Alexandra Feodorovna (1798-1860), born Princess Charlotte of Prussia (daughter of Kaiser Friedrich Wilhelm III), who became the wife of Nicholas I. The Empress was fond of balls and other festivities in her youth. This particular festival, created by Charlotte's brothers, sought to recreate medieval tournaments between knights. The white rose was Charlotte's favorite flower and her emblem ever since she became enormored as a child with the character of Blanchefleur from the novel, "The Magic Ring, by Baron Friedrich de la Motte-Fouque. This notebook was one of six commissioned by the Empress and presented to her sisters and sisters-in-lw on July 13th. In this notebook each of the 6 "knights" was asked to draw his knightly autograph in the shape of a personal shield and motto. These vignettes are thoroughly winsome. They are suggestive of heraldic escutcheons, except they are just a touch less elaborate, formal, and rigid. Here we find an seraph shooting an arrow at a bird carrying off a laurel, with the caption: "La couronne de l'amour". The red morocco binding is complementary, with a gilted rose centered in a gilt shield, on both the front and back boards. To clasp the notebook closed there is a brass pen. Near Fine. Full Morocco. (#005187) $1,975.00

15. Ascoli, Joseph. Illustrated Calligraphy Notebook. 1859. A thoroughly delightful illustrated vacation notebook on a miscellany of topics. 4to. 30.5 by 23 cm. 15 pp. with calligraphy and watercolored vignettes on each of these pages. Vignettes are of Noah's Ark, dueling swords, a apiary, farm implements arranged in a trophy, a clock, etc., always complementing the topic of the apercu on the particular page. The calligraphy is full of flamboyant swirls and loops. The work was presumably done on a vacation by Ascoli, as indicated on the final leaf, which has a larger illustration of a peacock. Blue textured notebook cover. Light scattered foxing. Very Good. Wraps. (#005172) $1,250.00

16. Atkinson, J. Clayton. Sketchbook with 45 scenes, mostly landscapes and views, mostly rendered with color pencils. . Lovely country landscapes, panaromas and cottages drawn by a sure hand with a real Impressionistic panache. N.d., circa 1900, based on the kind of album binder used. 4to. 27 by 19 cm. Most of the illustrations are done directly on the paper in the album, with some loose or attached via slits in the backing paper. And the vast majority are most of the page or one to a page, with a few pages with two illustrations. Place captions or short titles abound, although they are not always fully readable. There are mountain views, bridges, rivers, lakes, churches, gardens, streams, forests, groves, winter and summer views, and unnumerable cottages. There are also drawings of a few bouquets and flowers, and four drawings of butterflies. Finally, there is a black and white drawing of sailboats. A particular effective technique was Atkinson's use of a black pencil to provide an almost painterly sheen as well as provide some depth and motion. Wear to the cloth cover. Very Good. Cloth Binder. (#004777) $500.00

17. Austrian Album with original pencil drawings and cut-outs. Salzburg, Wien, etc., 1841-1845. Oblong, 9 by 16 cm. 24 leaves of content, 12 of which have original artwork. Two of the specimens of artwork are delicate folk art-ish cut-outs -- one, a seraph surrounded by a wreath, the other, a brown tree. The rest are pencil drawings, a few qualifying as exquisite miniatures. Of these, one is of a bridge and castle, another, a lodge atop a hill -- this one being executed with a folk art sensibility. One of the remaining images is of a barefoot beggar in a long coat. Especially pleasing to us is a drawing of a dagger of sorts inserted diagonally through a laurel. Such albums would appear incomplete without the requisite tombstone or monument and landscape with ruins, and both are present here. The album overall is fairly typical of the more attractive sort of Biedermeier period album amicorum. In this case, the box is especially lovely, with its inlays of red leather and extensive gilt ornamentation, not to mention its gilt edging. Also some blank sheets, with a ribbon pull housed within. Moderate wear generally. Very Good. Full Leather Box. (#005129) $600.00

18. басильеба, Л. П. , and Ю. А. Максимова. Амбом Трикомажных ивдемш. Москва, 1952. A catalogue, and course on, knitwear, for men, women and children, including sweaters, jackets, dresses, etc. 4to. 108 pp. 58 styles shown on 47 plates, about half of which are in color. Ex-library, with a few markings but none bothersome. Very Good. Hardcover. Cloth spine. Paper pastedown, with some texture, on boards. . (#005159) $300.00

7 19. Bayfield, Gertrude. Nursery Rhymes. . With two manuscript albums of illustrated nursery rhymes, some of which we believe are completely original, while others were known ones at the time, all of which, though, are enriched with whimsical original illustrations rendered in pen and ink and watercolor. N.d., circa 1880 and 1910. The illustrations, generally one per page, owe a special debt to Kate Greenaway, whose style they often mimic. Here and there one can see the influence of other popular illustrators such as Edward Lear. Yet these similarities do not discredit the young amateur, as many professional illustrators were just as strongly influenced by the same precursors. The smaller of the two manuscripts is the earlier of the two. It is oblong, measuring 9 by 13 cm, and it is unpaginated, with about 75 pages. Original linen boards, with a title written with calligraphy on the cover. Within are sixty illustrations rendered in pen and ink and watercolors, each signed with the initials: G.L. We would consider approximately half of the nursery rhymes as either original or highly unusual or ones with which we were not acquainted. An example in this category would by "Little Tom Nody", which goes like this: "Little Tom Nody, he had no body,/ An odd looking fellow was he/ His legs grew out from under his chin/ A comical sight to see./ He grew thinner and thinner, / Could eat no dinner,/ Till out of his eyes ran tears,/ And now he jumps without any stumps,/ And has to walk on his ears." Or a second example: "A birdie say on a chimney pot/ And listened as if he could hear and know/ What was going on in the house below./ Perhaps he could, but he would not say,/ For when I asked him he flew away Verse rendered in a neat hand throughout. "Dedicated to my two Little Sisters Bella & Kellie". Front gutter margin professionally repaired. New rear endpapers. The second, later manuscript is also oblong, 11.5 by 8 cm, and about 50 pages. Original linen boards, with calligraphic title on front cover again. Illustrated with 68 pen and ink and watercolor vignettes, the first two initialled "K.S.", and recto of first leaf with pencilled ownership name "Gertrude Bayfield". Front endpapers renewed. Again, verse neatly written. This second manuscript emulates in many respects the first one, with a good amount of the content of the first reproduced in the second. The custom box makes for a very handsome presentation. It is of a half navy blue leather, bordered with a gilt rinceaux. The boards are of blue cloth. Each of the manuscript albums is housed within the box in a well fitting them exactly. Near Fine. Clamshell Box: Half Morocco, cloth boards. . (#004957) $3,750.00

20. Bell's Common Place Book, Form'd Generally Upon the Principles Recommended and Practised by Mr. Locke. London: J. Bell, 1790. First Edition. A beautiful green vellum binding with the original metal clasps and marbled fore-edge. Such a mostly unused eighteenth notebook, one sold commercially by a stationer, is quite an unusual survivor, we believe. 4to. 25 by 20 cm. Unpaginated, seven pages of text, two page alphabet indexing key meant to be filled out and/or used by the book owner, followed by several hundred blank pages, excepting a ruled vertical line meant to demarcate the margin. The indexing method was one first propounded by John Locke and was in common use for at least a century afterward. About fifteen of the first "blank leaves" have been torn out by a prior owner -- these were the only sheets that were used. While this can be seen easily when opening the book to the first blank sheet, the loss is otherwise undiscernible, and we would regard it as a trivial defect consequently. Oval surface loss, aobut dime-sized, to vellum on rear board, now colored and relatively inconspicuous. Typical warping of the vellum, in part shaped by the pressure from the closed clasps. small corner chip to the spine label. Near Fine. Full Green Vellum. (#005131) $1,750.00

21. Berra, Guillaume. Album Comique. Concert des Artistes Papillons. Executant le Grand Air de la Muette. France. No longer must one imagine Paganini, Stockowski, Bernstein or Rachmaninoff insects! Fantastical and fun depiction of a full orchestral band of anthropomorphic insects rendered in an electric riot of colors. N.d., circa late nineteenth century. 12mo. 16 by 12 cm. 65 leaves of original watercolor, pencil and ink illustrations of insects playing all kinds of musical instruments. The anthropormorphism follows in the tradition of Grandville, Varin and other eccentric French illustrators of the nineteenth century, yet whatever debt the artist here might owe to others does not 8 detract from the brash originality of his own conception. And equally important, whether he was a professional artist or intending this work for publication or not, the quality of his execution sets this work apart from a mere amateur effort. One example of the artist's meticulousness is subtle: the careful placement of shadows. The work opens with a depiction of a butterfly conductor standing on a stack of books, followed by string players, woodwind instrumentalists, the percussion section, and finally a pianist and an organist. Interspersed are a few insects with other props such as a jester's puppet or a processional torchere. The whimsical touches include such things as two flies collaboration on the playing of the bass, a bassoon with vegetables as its accessories, dress that ranges from high collars, flamboyant bows and vests and tailcoats, to a vast array of footwear. The artist managed to somehow fuse the insect's natural features with garments seamlessly. This is a work in which the whole is greater than the sum of the parts, and there is not a touch or effect that comes off as not on the mark. Light to moderate wear to the cloth cover. The album is cocked somewhat, perhaps the result of the curvature to the heavy card stock used for the leaves. Very Good. Cloth. (#003390) $18,000.00

22. Biedermeier Period Game Board of 84 European City Views. Germany. Lovely vignette views from the Biedermeier era. N.d., circa 1830. All the cities are in Europe, with Constantinople being the partial exception, as it has an Asian side. The backgrounds of the vignettes are alternately blue, orange, pink and white, and each of the cities are numbered, 1 being Contantinople, and 84, in the dead center, being Dresden. We do not have instructions for the game nor a box or sleeve, but one can surmise that players moved pieces along in a race to the center, and one can further surmise that the game is of Saxon origin and probably from Dresden. For many of the cities, the representative view is the same today, while for just as many, it is something no longer possible to experience, whether because of war or growth. Many of the views have tiny human figures in the foreground, just like typical larger print panoramas. The game board is a square, each side being 39.5 cm, and folds twice for compact storage. The city square vignettes face in all four directions, but nonetheless, the open board would make for an appealing framed wall hanging. The light soiling does not undermine the visual charm of the board. Very Good. (#005156) $450.00

23. Bohman, Hanus. Introduction by Dr. A. Gotz-Křížanovský. Kreatury "Nové Evropy". 12 politických karikatur. Prague: Akad. Mal. H. Bohmana, 1945. First Edition. Scarce, with only two copies found on OCLC First Search (Drew U., Czech National Library). Folio, 33.5 by 25 cm. with one text leaf (on card), followed by twelve caricature plates. Caricatures depict Hitler, Göring, Himmler, Goebbels, Reinhardt Heydrich, Mussolini, Dr. Robert Ley, Hirohito, Rommel and others. The plates are black and white, with splashes of red here and there. The imagery is stark, pointed, and memorable, stylized in a manner to suggest their violence, their militarism, their sinister natures. Moderate soiling of the outer folder. Two small close tears to edge. Light wear besides. Very Good. Folder. (#004948) $2,000.00

Early miniature emblem book:

24. Borcht, Petrus van der, engraver. Paul Uten Waele, designer. Evangeliorum Dominicalium Summaria sanctorumq historiae, paucissimis verbis expressae: iuxta Kalendarium Romanum; cum iconibus in aere excusis. Antwerp: Christophe Plantin, 1584. Scarce miniature emblem book, with only three copies located on OCLC First Search. 32mo. 112 by 58 mm. Two parts in one. Content only on rectos, but pagination also on versos. 464, 111 pp. In total, 285 copperplate engravings, essentially emblems, each about two-thirds of the page, with a heading above, and a short text, or long caption, beneath, the vignette image. Images are of scenes from the life of Christ and the New Testament or from the lives of the saints, with ordering in accordance with saints' days on the calendar. Chips of some size at both the head and tail of the spine, and overall dryness to the spine leather. Front joint's leather is eaten through. Other leather loss at 9 corners and less so, along edges. Within, at least one tear repaired on the first emblem leaf. Otherwise, the leaves are age toned but mostly clean besides. Some minor dog earring here and there. Good. Full Calf. (#005077) $1,875.00

25. Breton de la Martiniere, Jean-Baptiste Joseph (1777-1852). La Russie, ou Moeurs, Usages et Costumes des Habitants de toutes les Provinces de cet Empire (6 Volumes) Ouvrage orne de cent-onze planches, representant plus de deux cents sujets, graves sur les dessins originaux et d'apres nature, de M. Damame-Demartrait, peintre francais, auteur et editeur des maisons de plaisance imperiales de Russie et Robert Ker-Porter, peintre anglais, inventeur des Panoramas. Extrait des ourvrages anglais et allemands les plus recens par M. Breton. Paris: Nepveu, 1813. 8vo. 13.5 by 8.5 cm. With 111 engraved plates, 105 of which are hand-colored, and many are also folding. (Note that not all copies of this work, same edition, have color plates.) The plates include costume-oriented, genre scenes, architecture (yurts to palaces), and views of Moscow, St. Petersburg and small towns and countryside, and as noted in the very long title, based on artworks by French painter M. F. Damame-Demartrait (1763-1827), with the views after original works by English artist Robert Ker-Porter (1777-1842), who also, we would add, served as a historical painter to the Tsar himself. Colas 436. Brunet I 1226. The binding is a handsome contemporary (or near contemporary) navy blue full calf, with gilt ruled borders on the boards and gilt floret decoration on the spine, making this a set with a most attractive shelf presence. There is occasional foxing and soiling within, which cumulatively, scarcely detracts. The coloring in the plates is bright and rich. Very Good. Full Calf. (#004634) $6,000.00

26. Broadley, John. Problem without Answer. London, Feb 2002. Whimsical, fantastical, strange and wonderful through illustrations to inscrutable riddle-like text by a living book artist and book creator, John Broadley, a Londoner known for created small print run books, as few as 10 copies, of his exquisitely rendered books. The illustrations here bring to mind such disparate precursors and possible influences as Edward Gorey, Surrealists such as Max Ernst, and even pre-Raphaelite artists, the last, in his Medievalist imagery. Scarce, with no institutional copies known as yet based on OCLC First Search. 58 by 47 mm. Unpaginated, 14 leaves in addition to illustration on the endpapers. (#004912) $225.00

27. Bryn, M. & J. Album of Riddles, Puzzles and Word Games. Layton, England, 1825. 1825 to 1860 or so. Oblong, 11.5 by 19 cm. 99 pages, with 91 riddles and word games, virtually all in verse, with an answer key on four pages in back. In between riddles and answers are many blank pages (about half of leaves are blank). We assume that this album was compiled within a family as a form of home amusement. It is impossible to know whether all the riddles were 100 percent original, but we believe that the versification within most of the riddles surely was original. The riddles and word games vary in length from a sentence, or not even that, to a dozen lines or more. Some of the riddles are intended as funny and arch, while others are simply clever. As one would expect, many of the riddles have answers that are bound to be obscure to modern audiences, wherein arguably lies their cultural value to a modern cultural archeologist. Happily, others are more accessible, although even with ones which a modern reader will instantly understand there is bound to be some aspect of the riddle -- its word choice, its cadence -- which has a quaint archaic element. A puzzle is presented in the dating of this album. The 1825 date is based on an inscription in the front, while one of the later riddle answers refers to Dickens' "All the Year Round", a periodical first issued in 1859. This would suggest that the album was compiled gradually over a few decades. While it is obvious that more than a single pen was used, the neat cursive handwriting is extremely consistent throughout, which would be quite exceptional inasmuch as generally an individual's handwriting tends to change, and usually deteriorate, over time. The inscription suggests at least two contributors to the album, but it would seem that just one person made the entries, moreover. The Bryn family who created the album was from Layton. There is more than one place bearing that name in England; we are 10 reasonably confident that the Layton referred to was in North Yorkshire. The album is handsomely bound in full contemporary straight grained red morocco, with blind and gilt tooled borders. Near Fine. Full Morocco. (#004304) $1,600.00

28. [Buchheim] Correspondence among Lothar-Gunther Buchheim and his German and American publishers relating to the publication of his modern classic, "Das Boot", including 23 letters signed by Buchheim, a few of which are also handwritten, and additional documents such as contracts, etc. This is essentially a small archive of documents and correspondence by and between Piper, Alfred Knopf and the author. In his letters Buchheim reveals himself to be a bit of a prima donna, with no demand too trivial to warrant his attention, and reading between the lines, one can sense that the publishers felt they had their hands full just managing him. One bone of contention raised by Buchheim was the quality of the American translation compared to that of the English translation. It might surprise many that the American and the English publishers would not have joined forces to hire a single translator, but it becomes apparent in the correspondence that the two publishers had quite different views of the novel, with Knopf defending itself from Buchheim's charges of having done an inferior translation by arguing that it went for a more high-toned literary approach to the novel over the presumably more genre novel view of Collins, the London-based publisher, and backing its choice with its superior sales results over Collins. The individuals party to the correspondence, besides Buchheim, were a few of the more illustrious figures in American publishing at the time, including his agent Joan Daves, and at Knopf, Carol Brown Janeway and Robert Gottlieb. Very Good. NA. (#004686) $4,500.00

29. Buckley, J. M. A Hereditary Consumptive's Successful Battle for Life. New York and Cincinnati: Eaton & Mains; Curtis & Jennings, respectively, 1892. First Edition. Scarce, with no hard copies located on OCLC First Search (although there are digital and microfilm copies). 8vo. 18.5 by 12.5 cm. 99 pp. Advocating the need for "pure" air and deep breathing for one's health and maintaining that chronic disease is the result of small transgressions against a healthy lifestyle over an extended period of time. This is told from a "Christian" perspective, and one could view this essay as propounding an ideology somewhat akin to Christian Science, although not going to the same extreme as rejecting entirely conventional medicine. Light wear. A few minor inked scribbles. Very Good. Cloth. (#005097) $500.00

30. Buonsanti, Vito. Etica Iconologica per Formare il Cuore de' Giovanetti. Milano: Tipografia di Paolo Lampato, 1840. First Edition. Essentially a juvenile emblem book, unusual with hand-colored plates! We are aware of no other copies, in libraries or commerce, with coloring! 12mo. 14.5 by 9 cm. 264 pp. 48 hand-colored plates. (There is no plate in this volume for "Amor di Dio", suggesting a missing plate, but we have counted 48 plates, the number called for according to copies on OCLC and elsewhere. The frontis plate, we would add, would not appear to be this plate.) The book is meant to instruct children on each of the many virtues, religious, civic and ethical. The plates depict human embodiments of those traits, using symbols and icons from tradition, religion, and the artist's own license. The human figures, meant to be idealized and sometimes akin to Classic statues, have a primitive vagueness to them. The coloring, though, is very bright and greatly enhances the otherwise crudity of the artwork. Typical scattered foxing, as one finds with the papers used in Italian books of this era. Otherwise, a tight, lovely copy. Very Good. Hardcover. Cloth spine. Marbled paper pastedown. . (#004947) $450.00

31. Cheuillotte, J. World War One Sketchbook of Original Watercolor and Ink Caricature and Cartoons. The drawings are all rendered with an uncommonly precise hand, if by an amateur. Oblong, 17.5 by 25.5 cm. 29 pp. of drawings, ten of which are watercolored, the remained, ink work. Some of the ink work is credited as having come from other sources, and so the artist here copied or adapted from these sources, which include the artist Hansi, or cartoons from the Daily 11 Chronique or The Cartoon. All the watercolors bear no such crediting, and so it is assumed that these and a few of the ink drawings are entirely original. Since it is obvious that the artist, probably this J. Cheuillotte (whose name is on the front cover) had a proficiency with drawing, the purpose of the album might well have been to share some favorite cartoons with others, or to hone his own craftsmanship through emulation. The depictions of the Germans is less about showing them as sinister as much as simply absurd. Light wear and finger soiling here and there. Very Good. Cloth. (#003255) $2,250.00

32. Chinese Miao Album of Original Watercolors. . 19.5 by 14 cm. 12 leaves, including cover, with 20 original paintings (or 20 pages with paintings, as in a few instances, the two facing pages might be interpreted as a single painting). Most of the images are of provincial sorts, and the artist is at times mocking their simplicity and blockheadedness. The style, called Miao, arose in the 18th century and gained popularity among nobles and gentry. One can see in most of the images that the characters have broad features that are not associated with Han Chinese, and the figures are often underdressed, perhaps to suggest an uncouthness. The paintings here have a crudity about them, but also, great zest and color. Chinese calligraphy on the cover and the first page. Otherwise, no text. Dog-earing to the corners. General wear. Good. Paper.. (#004981) $1,250.00

33. Clark, J., illustrator. Glances at Character. London: Whittingham & Rowland, for John Carr, 1814. First edition. Small 8vo. 16.5 by 10 cm. vi, 158, [2] pp. With eight hand-colored aquatint plates. Complete, with half-title and two page ads. Light offsetting on title and text. Light foxing of endpapers. Rubbing along joints and moderate shelfwear. Very Good. Quarter Calf, Marbled Boards. (#004146) $1,050.00

34. Clia, illustrator. Kriebeltje en de Stink Stank-mannetjes. First edition. Extremely scarce explicitly Anti-Nazi Dutch children's story with gnomes, mice, spiders, fairies, etc. -- tale of purging their world of Nazis. OCLC shows only three libraries, all Dutch, as having this work. Oblong, 19 by 28 cm. 8 pp., plus wraps. Of the pages counted, two are color plates, plus the color illustration on the front cover. All other pages have black and white drawings (or on last page, ornament) beside the text. Dampstain on front cover corner. Rear cover has smallish abrasion, not greatly affecting color vignette. Some other soiling. Good. Wraps. (#005047) $1,200.00

35. Coelho, Adolpho. Illustrated by Alice Rey Colaço. João Pateta. Conto Popular. Lisboa (Lisbon): Mata. Inscribed by illustrator, with a date of 1924, although the book itself contains no date. 17 by 15 cm. Unpaginated, 28 pages, with 10 mounted color lithographs. Pictorial wrappers. Scarce, with four copies of what would appear the same edition as this registered on OCLC First Search (Cotsen, Ocean State, New York Public, Columbia), and two of other editions (an earlier, possibly un- illustrated edition, and a much later copy). Regardless, a charming adaptation of "Goofy John", with a Latin, folk art flavor . Very Good Plus. Wraps. (#004919) $165.00

36. Collection des Costumes de la Suisse et de les pays limitrophes. Zürich: Keller et Fussli. N.d., circa 1830. 32mo. 11 by 9.5 cm. 23 hand-colored plates, including title page, with its wreath of alpenrose. Costumes from the cantons and major cities plus the Black Forest. Each illustration features two or three men and women, usually performing some typical craft or activity associated with the area, or ready to do so. In other words, the portraits have some dynamism to them, and with their bright hand-coloring and diminutive scale, richly deserve the adjective of "exquisite". Scarce, with the only copies showing on OCLC First Search at the Koninklijke Bibliotheek of the Netherlands and the Zentralbibliothek of Zurich. Crack along rear joint, with possible partial repair done. Other rubbing along the edges. Plates generally clean. Original tissue guards intact. A neat inked inscription in English on the FFEP dated 1831 and sited to Lucerne. Very Good. Full Morocco. (#004917) $675.00 12 37. Compiled by the Research Department of Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer. European Circuses Scrap Books (3 volumes). 4to. 32 by 27 cm. Mostly comprised of photographs, which have generally brief captions describing what is depicted -- the buildings, the infrastructure, the performers, the audience and other denizens of the circus, etc. Most of the photos are original, with some cut-outs from other publications. Also pasted in are programs, promotions and brochures associated with these circuses. The scrap books were obviously intended as a tool for set designers, costume designers, scenarists, screenwriters, and anyone associated with a production, prospective and/or in the works, that had or could have a circus scene. While MGM was the largest studio in the thirties, we are hard-pressed to think of notable movies it was involved with during these years with circus scenes. Perhaps its best known circus-related movie up to then was "He Who Gets Slapped", a 1924 vehicle for Lon Chaney Sr. and also starring the young Norma Shearer and John Gilbert, and one can see the relevance of many of the photos to that movie. While the movie clearly pre-dates the scrapbooks, it is apparent that MGM seriously considered a sound era remake of the silent movie, as evident from the surviving library cards in the volumes. (Why the studio didn't proceed with a remake of what had been a major hit we can not answer.) In the mid-1930s MGM also bought the rights to the musical extravaganza, "Jumbo", and that particular property surely did spur the compilation of these photos. That adaptation, though, didn't come to fruition until the early 1960s when Doris Day starred in it. The major circus-related movies of which we are aware, such as "Trapeze" or "The Greatest Show on Earth", were done by other studios. Still, regardless of how much MGM capitalized on this material for actual movies is beside the point. Here we get what seems an unvarnished glimpse of the circus, and specifically European circuses, from a bygone era. Considerable wear to the bindings. The photos can have rippling. MGM has its name stamped on most pages and often on the photos themselves. Good. Hardcover. (#005074) $1,900.00

38. Comus Diamond Jubilee 1857 1931 Comus Carnival Bulletin. New Orleans: Carnival Press, 1931. First Edition. Colorful Mardi Gras commemoration, with 20 color plates depicting the whimsical parade avian or ornithological chariots of that year organized under the auspices of the Mistick Krewe of Comus. 4to. 30 by 22.5 cm. Unpaginated, 36 pp., plus wraps. Also two colorized photo plates -- one of the New Orleans City Hall, the other, St. Louis Cathedral. Only two copies located on OCLC FirstServe (Tulane, Historic New Orleans Collection). Also with advertisements -- the colorized photos are part of ads, and other ads sometimes come with black and white photos. Light wear. Near Fine. Wraps. Brochure. (#005153) $375.00

39. [Concert Program] Salute to the Red Army. Twenty-Sixth Anniversary. Wednesday, February 23rd 1944 at 3 P.M. The Royal Albert Hall. London: Printer: Fosh & Cross Ltd. , 1944. First Edition. Before the Iron Curtain fell, a program listing such pieces as "Ode to the Red Army", an original poem by John Masefield, "Solidarity", and "Two Nations". Besides a Royal imprimatur, the participation of such prestigious institutions as the London Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Choral Society, and conducted by no one less than Malcolm Sargent and including performers Peggy Ashcroft, Isobel Baillie and Roy Henderson. Ah, how soon the winds would change direction! The program opens panorama-style into three panels, with printing on both sides. Closed, it measures 20.5 by 13.5 cm and is effectively six pages. Light wear. Near fine. NA. (#004961) $50.00

40. [Conscientious Objectors] H.O. Camps. News Sheet. Issues No. 12 to 16. Prince Town or Princetown, Dartmoor, Devon, England: Central News Bureau, 1917. First Edition. (#004968) $1,750.00

A scarce newsletter put out by British conscientious objectors to the First World War. The only print copy we could find of these is at the British Library, and in a non-print format, at the 13 Staatsbibliothek in Berlin, according to OCLC First Search. While we have only five issues out of supposedly 17 that were issued, the first four issues are known not to have been printed, and the final issue, No. 17, was confiscated, and so effectively we have here a continuous run of the latter half of the publication, and surely enough issues to provide a good sense of the publication.

The publication sheds light on an overlooked or downplayed part of the war's domestic front, and it cast lights on events pertaining to conscientious objectors during the course of its run, obviously reporting those events from the objectors' point-of-view. Because the objectors were scorned, coerced, castigated and stigmatized in a manner that has not been repeated in more recent wars, the news sheet makes for some poignant, at times, depressing reading. Not only were the conscientious objectors attacked and harassed by the government, which in theory had made accommodations for C.O.s, but also by the public, and it would appear that far from receiving protection from the government, they were blamed for their own victimization, with such surely fabricated charges that they incited the crowd by jeering at wounded soldiers. The articles variously detail the pleadings (sometimes in court) on behalf of the objectors; the persecution they were subjected to, both by the state and by the public acting on its own; and the generally sorry state of the camps where C.O.s were put to work by the state doing such things as cutting timber, road building and other infrastructure projects, gardening, weaving, and so forth. In one instance chronicled, the malfeasance in the camp contributed to the death of a man. There was a camp in Dartmoor, close to where the News Sheet was published, but also news was gathered from other camps. Issues addressed also include ones that might not occur to us at a remove, such as the use of some objectors as essentially foremen to regulate the work of other objectors, something the author decries, likening it to asking a conscientious objector to engage in the punishment of other objectors and thereby support, indirectly, the war that he was objecting to in the first place.

Clearly, the purpose of the publication was to lift the spirits of objectors and to facilitate some solidarity among them in the face of widespread societal antipathy. The articles could be highly polemical, such as one likening the government board created to employ conscientious objectors to the Star Chamber and Inquisition. Not all the pieces were hard news or polemics. There could be anti-war poems, more literary reflections on warfare in human society, and the like. All but one of our issues include a page of illustration, most of which have an element of caricature and even humor.

During the First World War, there were a total of about 16,000 British conscientious objectors after the imposition of the draft in 1916. Tribunals were set up throughout the country to handle their requests for exemption from the service, but these tribunals in practice scarcely even pretended to be even-handed and objective. The majority of conscientious objectors were channeled into non- combatant roles in the military. Those who refused to do that – “absolutists”, as they were called – were initially arrested and tried in a court martial, after which they would be imprisoned in a civil prison. Upon release they would be called up again, with the cycle repeated. When this proved untenable, a system of work camps organized by the Home Office was created in which conscientious objectors could go in lieu of prison and the military. These camps notoriously had rough conditions – a major grievance running through the “News Sheet” – even though the inmates might have freedom to leave the camps at night and on Sunday. Some conscientious objectors were able to stay out of both the military and the camps by performing “work of national importance”, which took in a broad range of activities, from farming to hospital work and driving an ambulance.

Each of the issues is 4to in size, or 25 by 19 cm, and eight pages. Very Good. Paper.

41. [Costume] Anon. After Wencelaus Hollar. Aula Veneris. Sive Varietas Foeminini Sexus diversarum Europae Nationum. The Court of Venus; or, Varieties of the Female Sex of the 14 Different Nations of Europe. An exquisite manuscript copy of plates from the 1644 work by Wencelaus Hollar. While a copy, the pen-and-ink work here is absolutely exceptional, requiring a loupe or magnifying glass to fully appreciate the niceties of detailing achieved by the artist copier. It is also clear that this copier did not merely trace the original work. Heightening the pen-and-ink work are touches of watercolor. 8vo. 173 by 117 mm. Unpaginated, half-title, page with a handwritten copy of the verse from "The Merchant of Venice entitled "The Folly of Fashion, the Deceit of Ornament or Appearance", second title copied from the 1644 work, followed by 36 mounted pen and ink copies of fashion etchings from the 1644 work, and a final page with a drawing of a trophy and two musings written out. The drawings, besides being meticulous with near-microscopic detail, are austere, with the pen and ink work heightened with only touches of flesh color for the women's faces and tiny dabs of gold for jewelry, buttons and the like. The austerity, we would stress, is befitting the fashions represented, as the early and mid-17th century was a time that garments tended to be more monochromatic and sober, meant to suggest piety , as any student of portraits from this era, coincident with the Puritan Revolution and religious wars on the continent, would have absorbed. And we would add, the austerity is not just of the dress, but also, the expression on the women depicted here. The flesh color applied to the faces and also hands is just as nuanced as everything else about these portraits. There is a gradient of coloration, capturing very realistically the actual pigment of human flesh. The one exception to the limited color usage is a depiction of a woman from Virginia, a Native American, whose bare garment is painted red and who is wearing jewelry that is captured with bolder applications of gold. This exotic specimen also shows a woman with a tattoo on her arms, something that was completely alien from European cultures at the time. The Virginian is not the only non-European depicted, however, as there is a woman from Algiers, a Moresco woman, an Argentinian. Also shown is a Turkish woman, and the dress shown is from different strata of the societies represented. Short cursive handwritten captions identify for us where the model is from. All the handwriting, including on the title, the poem, etc. is rendered in a tight, minute script. Unfortunately, there is no indication who the artist copyist was, other than the initials PC by several of the drawings. In the front there is an ownership inscription of an Elizabeth Cobbett. There is a watercolored bookplate with the Hillman family crest. Very Good. Full Straight-Grained Morocco. (#004643) $3,250.00

42. Costumes de Différents Peuples. Paris: Charles Macilly, 1825. First edition. Exquisite set of miniature hand-colored costume cards. And scarce, with no copies located on OCLC First Search. The cards are 53 by 38 mm each, and fit snugly into the publisher's slipcase issued with the cards. One title card, followed by 24 hand-colored cards, and the box itself has also a title label mounted onto its front. Costumes depicted are of Spain, Italy, Greece, Germany, Turkey, Africa (sub- Saharan), England, Holland, Russia, France, India, Switzerland, with each country or region represented by a male and female card. A few cards have light soiling or foxing, but overall the cards are clean, and the box has some wear. Still near fine. Near Fine. Slipcase. . (#005075) $1,250.00

43. Corse, Carita Doggett. Drawings by Alice Johnson. Ann and Andy in Alphabet Land in Florida's Silver Springs. Silver Springs?, 1948. N.d., circa 1948. Unpaginaged, 16 pp., including wraps. Very colorful and quirky ABC geared to resort and its swampy "Jungle Cruise" attraction. Most letters have a primary and secondary word or term, with some of the words promoting aspects of the resort and its animal denizens. Light humor enlivens the verse, as do the quintessential late forties color illustrations which fill every square inch of most pages, and onto which the text is superimposed. We love in particular the letter "O", which is "for the little Owl that likes to live in a hole with snakes and gophers." Pictured is an owl with an apron serving the other animals seated at a table covered with a checkered tablecloth. Scarce, with just four copies emerging on OCLC First Search, all of which are in Florida institutions (Miami, S. Florida, Jacksonville U. and public library). Besides the resort, the brochure promotes Eastern Air Lines on its back cover which is 15 largely taken up with a fun map of the state. Moderate wear to the cover. Mostly clean within. Very Good. Wraps. (#004938) $225.00

44. Cruikshank, George, illustrator. Verse generally attributed to William Makepeace Thackeray, and prose text (Warning to the Public, Notes) to Charles Dickens. The Loving Ballad of Lord Bateman. London: Charles Tilt , 1839. First edition. Unusual copy of humorous poem, with all the eleven plates in two states, colored and uncolored -- only occasionally does one find the frontis plate colored, and only that one -- and a stunning Zaehnsdorf full decorative morocco binding. 12mo. 13 by 10 cm. vii, [2], 40 pp. Besides plates, in prelims is one page of musical notation. The binding has Orientalist decoration on the spine and the board corners, as befitting a work which is partly situated in Turkey, where Lord Bateman is imprisoned until liberated by the Turk's daughter. Original cloth binding bound within. The Zaehnsdorf binding appears to have been dated 1901, but we are not fully confident in the reading othe final digit. Rubbing along the joints, with a touch of starting, upper front joint. Minor chipping on first few pages, including the first color plate -- not affecting pictorial content -- and a few early leaves dog-eared. Some very faint film of soiling on some leaves. Near Fine. Full Morocco. (#005174) $950.00

45. Alighieri, Dante. La Divina Commedia. Milano: G. Gnocchi. Printed by Fratelli Salmin of Padova, 1878. A gorgeous decorative brown morocco binding of one the highpoints in the history of miniature book production! 55 by 40 mm. 500 pp. The two-point "flies' eyes" type used in the book was singled out by Spielman as "the smallest ever employed." Another piece of trivia relating to this book's production is that 30 pages took about a month to produce, and dealing with the miniscule type ened up hurting the eyesight of both the compositor and corrector, according to "Miniature Books: 4,000 Years of Tiny Treasures", issued by the Grolier Club. Spielmann 114. Bondy p. 95. Fine. Full Decorated Morocco. (#005086) $4,750.00

46. Defoe, Daniel. The History and Remarkable Life Of the truly Honourable Col. Jacque, Commonly Call'd Col. Jack, Who Was Born a Gentleman, put 'Prentice to a Pickpocket, Was Six and Twenty Years a Thief, and then Kidnapp'd to Virginia. Came back a Merchant, married four Wives, and five of them prov'd Whores; went into the Wars, behav'd bravely, got Preferment, was made Colonel of a Regiment, came over, and fled with the Chevalier, and is now abroad compleating a Life of Wonders, and resolves to dye a General. London: J. Brotherton, T. Payne, W. Mears, A. Dodd, W. Chetwood, J. Graves, S. Chapman, J. Stagg, 1723. First Edition. The scarcest of Defoe first editions, and a rollicking rollercoaster ride of a picaresque "memoir" as only Defoe could pen. 8vo. vii, [1], 399 pp. Portrays white slavery in America, among many other things! Last at auction, to our knowledge, in 2002. Armorial bookplate on marbled FEP. Mild, even age toning to the leaves which are otherwise clean. Rubbing along joints, with touch of starting at front extremities. Slight dryness and rubbing to the spine, which remains quite handsome with its gilt ribboning decoration and compartments separated by Greek key bands. Very Good Plus. Full Mottled Calf. (#004744) $10,000.00

47. Deltor, Fred [pseudonym for Frederico Antonio Carasso] (1899-1969). Preface by Henri Barbusse. Jeu de Massacre 12 Personages a la Recherche D'Une. Bruxelles: Les Editions Socialistes. First Edition. Signed by the artist on the front cover and dated 1928. (The album may have been issued in 1925, but bears no printed date.) 317 by 243 mm. One leaf, with playful carnivalesque preface by Barbusse on the recto and a key on the verso, with the title or subject of the following 12 pochoir plates rendered in six languages (French, Dutch, German, English, Russian, Italian and Spanish), with some power deriving from the repetitive similarities for the words in the different languages. Each plate an allegorical depiction of an enemy of the working class: militarism, property, philanthropy, social democracy, "justice", colonialism, fascism, "police spy", parliamentarism, "middle-spirit", religion and patriotism. The artwork, a heady mix of Cubist, Constructivist, Futurist 16 and Dada-ist styles, has a sculptural quality, which is no accident given that Deltor eventually gained renown for his monumental public works. Deltor was a refugee from Fascist Italy. He first settled in Paris in 1922, where he was expelled six years later for his political activism. From there he went to Brussels and eventually settled for good in the Netherlands, where he won wider recognition. Also heightening the visual excitement are the muscularity of the coloration, with metallic silvers and golds and even blues, brash reds, unusual yellows, greens and other colors. And whatever one's politics, or for that matter, view of Modernism, one is likely to succumb to the wit and zest of the imagery. The subtitle of the set, "12 Personages in Search of One", would seem a play on the Pirandello play title "Six Characters in Search of an Author," which premiered in 1921. Foxing on the folder, which has slight chipping to its spine. Minor rubbing and wear by edges. Along the spine or joint edge appears the shadow remnants of tape that might have once run along it as a makeshift repair. Marginal toning to the plates. Very Good. Folder. Paper pastedown on a heavy card stock. . (#004645) $15,000.00

48. [Dentistry] De Trey's Diatoric Teeth. De Trey & Co. Ltd. . Scarce catalogue for improved false teeth which allowed for articulation. N.d., circa 1910. Oblong 4to. 25 by 31.5 cm. 36 pp., wraps. No copies of this catalogue were located on OCLC First Search. De Trey was the progenitor of The Dentists' Supply Co., which still exists today as Dentsply. Spine torn and partly perished. Otherwise, besides some light wear, clean and fresh. Very Good. Wraps. (#005138) $475.00

49. Diario Ecclesiastico para o Reino de Portugal, Principalmente para a Cidade de Lisboa para o Anno de 1829. Lisbon: Impressão Regia, 1828. First edition. With a lovely blindstamped velvet binding and a hand-colored folding map of Portugal! 24mo. 10 by 5.5 cm. 191 pp. Split in velvet running down center of spine, and rubbing along front joint. Some darkening and other wear to the velvet. Clean and tight within. Very Good. Hardcover. Full blindstamped velvet. . (#004460) $575.00

50. Dolly's Review. Nelson, 1916. First Edition. Scarce First World War juvenilia, with only a single copy, at the British Library, located on OCLC First Search. 4to. 28 by 21.5 cm. 20 pp., including wraps. A playful book, with toy soldier children as soldiers, nurses, etc. An "unbreakable" book, it nonetheless has considerable wear and soiling. Still, this copy remains more than respectably well- preserved. Very Good Minus. Heavy Card (semi-rigid card), thread. . (#005105) $625.00

51. Doyle, Richard. [Watercolor] Political satire on the Crimean War using watercolor and pen and ink on paper to depict the various nations as human and anthropomorphic animals. . N.d., circa 1850. 27.5 by 37.5 cm. Russia is represented as a dancing bear, led by the animal trainer, Turkey. England is shown as a John Bull playing a horn. France is in the foreground as a midget uniformed soldier, and in the meantime, Austria is a crouching crowned monkey. Each of these nation's is captioned, so there can be no confusion about who is who. The whole painting is bright, colorful, and fun, even if the exact message Doyle was endeavoring to convey is not entirely clear. Or perhaps all he was trying to say is that all the nations involved were led by clowns and the war was absurd. Uncaptioned are figures probably meant to be Italy and some other smaller countries. Signed in ink. Very Good. NA. (#004738) $1,600.00

52. Droit, Jean, artist (1884-1961). Charles & Cie. Fourrures Pelleteries. 6, Avenue de la Toison- D'Or Bruxelles. Brussels. N.d., circa 1910. 36 by 22 cm. Folio of eight pochoir illustrations, all depicting elegantly appointed women decked in furs. The women are all on the move or active in some way -- these are illustrations meant to show how the garments work in their lifestyle. There is nothing static about the pictures. They bring to mind the breezy boulevard depictions of artists such as Sem, with the difference that these portraits aren't caricatures. The fashions hark from a period in 17 which beauty and elegance was the hallmark of high fashion while some of the shackles imposed by fashion were being loosened -- women could go out in the world on their own to a degree seldom the case a generation earlier. Jean Droit was a French and Belgian artist and writer who excelled at book illustration. He is better known for his depictions of wartime and warfare, and he incidentally played an instrumental role in the scouting movement. This collection, produced early in his prolific career, is scarce -- we have been able to locate no other copies -- and each of the plates would be very appealing matted, framed and hung on a wall. Very Good Plus. Paper folder. (#004286) $500.00

53. Ducange, Anglicus. The Vulgar Tongue, A Glossary of Slang, Cant, and Flash Words and Phrases, Used in London From 1839 to 1859; Flash Songs, Essays on Slang, and a Bibliography of Canting and Slang Literature. London: Bernard Quaritch, 1859. Second Edition, Improved and Much Enlarged. Only 250 copies printed. 12mo. 17 by 11 cm. iv, 80 pp. This edition not only combines two separate glossaries from the first edition, but adds many words and phrases. It also has an useful bibliography, four pages long. Particularly enjoyable are the "translations" from slang to standard English. The former are utterly opaque and foreign to modern readers, and probably to the educated classes of the day. Leaves are heavily age toned. Blindstamped red cloth with a stain on front, about one inch by an inch in size. Wear along the joints. Very Good. Blindstamped Cloth. (#004870) $450.00

54. [Broadside] Eberhard Faber. The Oldest Pencil Factory in America. New York. How a Lead Pencil is Made. The Evolution of a Van Dyke Eraser. . A wonderful three-dimensional broadside that shows step by step how a pencil and an eraser are made, with physical examples illustrating each of the steps, respectively. N.d., early 20th century. 44 by 35 cm. A few of the tiniest of corner chips and/or surface abrasions and a flattened corner crease. The physical specimens are all intact and well preserved. Highly unusual survival and erstwhile fun pedagogical and promotional tool. Very Good. NA. (#005072) $875.00

55. Edwards, Osman. Residential Rhymes, Sympathetically dedicated to foreigners in Japan. Tokyo: T. Hasegawa. N.d., circa 1900. Oblong, 19 by 26.5 cm. Unpaginated, 11 leaves, including front and rear cover, or 22 pages. Scenes of Europeans in various roles, such as The Merchant at Yokohama, The Journalist at Kobe, The Painter at Miyajima, The Captain at Shimabara, etc., rendered in verse that could be sung to the tune of a suggested air. The music was assuredly all known tunes back when. An idiosyncratic Hasegawa publication, and a fascinating blend of the west and the east. This is also an uncommon Hasegawa title, seldom in commerce. Soiling to the cover, and edgewear and minor chipping to the first and last leaves. Very Good. String ties. . (#004983) $1,750.00

56. Élémens de Dessin Linéaire, Français et Anglais. . Scarce, with no copies discovered on OCLC First Search, nor mentioned in Gumachian or other sources. Circa 1835. 15 by 12.5 when closed. 23 hand-colored lithographed panels. Each illustration is intended to illustrate some concept of geometry. The geometric topics include a horizontal line, a vertical line, an oblique line, a curved line, a broken line, a right angle, an acute angle, an obtuse angle, a scalene triangle, an isoceles triange, an equilateral triangle, a rectangular triangle, a square, a rectangle, a rhombus, a trapezoid, a circle, a prism, a cube, a pentagon, a cylinder, a cone and a quarangular pyramid. Each of these geometric formations is incorporated into a pretty colored illustration of a boy and girl engaged in various interior and exterior activities, with the actualization of the concept ranging from obvious to more subtle and requiring the viewer to search, but not too hard, for it. Clearly the overriding point of the lesson is to show how these geometric formations are ubiquitous in everyday life and not just things found in abstract primers. The format is also meant to give instruction an element of non- taxing fun. The imagery is delightful, if not particularly unusual for the period, but the application 18 of an overriding mathematical theme seems to us very novel, perhaps a corrollary to ABCs and arithmetic-oriented leporellos but something else all the same. Soiling on the cover. Small corner chip. Occasional light foxing. Very Good. Hardcover. Leporello. (#004932) $2,500.00

57. [English monarchs] Deck of 35 hand-colored cards depicting English monarchs from William the Conqueror to William IV. London (?). N.d., circa 1830s prior to 1837 when William IV passed away. N.p. Each card is 62 by 56 mm. The cards each contain six lines of text. Above the portrait the dynasty to which the monarch belonged is given. Below the portrait is the monarch's nme, and then his birth and death years, when his/her reign began and how many years he/she reigned, except for the card pertaining to William IV, who was still alive, and his card states, "Long Life and Happiness to Him, and prosperity to his people". The cards were surely meant as an educational tool for children. The cards come in a marbled paper covered box, probably the original issued by the publisher. The box bears a date of 1834, relating to an almanac, which was probably issued by the same publisher, but regardless is general corroboration as to the dating and the origin of the deck. The box has one edge which is torn to bottom but the box is still functionable. Moderate soiling on the cards. Very Good. Box. (#005078) $650.00

58. Faesch, Johann Ludwig Wernhard, artist. Dramatic Characters, or Different Portraits of the English Stage [bound with] The Metamorphoses of Melponene and Thalia, or Dramatic Characters of the French and Italian Comedies. Both titles are rendered on a facing title page in French: Caracteres Dramatiques, our Portraits Divers du Theatre Anglois, and Les Métamorphoses de Melpomene et de Thalie ou Caracteres Dramatiques des Comédies Française et Italienne, respectively. London: Robert Sayer and Jonathan Smith. The second title, only Robert Sayer, 1770, 1772. First Editions. 16mo. 14.5 by 11 cm. 68 hand-colored plates, many of which in the latter title are folding, depicting actors in costume of the popular plays, contemporary and classic, and sometimes in action. David Garrick is the dominant actor in the first book, the subject of twelve of the plates (sometimes with other actors), with other plates showing Samuel Foote, Charles Macklin, Mrs. Barry, The Metamorphoses is especially scarce, with only three copies coming up on OCLC First Search -- the BNF, Morgan, the National Library of Sweden -- and the last apparently not complete. We would note, also, that the first title, Dramatic Characters, was issued in one early edition with fewer plates. Here we have the full 38 plates. With a handsome armorial bookplate for "Roberts" pasted onto the FEP. Gilt border decoration and gilt fleurons on the spine, between the raised bands. The gilt is faded and rubbed. Rubbing by joints, edges and like as might be expected. Still a handsome red full calf binding. Within, the lightest of occasional foxing, but overall, clean, with the hand-coloring bright and fresh. A beautiful near miniature theatrical antique. Near FIne. Full Calf. (#005019) $5,000.00

59. Farmholme Guest Book. Binding: London: Doves Bindery, 1906. Farmholme Guest Book. Binding: London: Doves Bindery, 1906. With original caricature and artwork by famous architect and eccentric Addison Mizner. Entries dated between 1906 and 1929, with binding bearing the date of 1906. 4to. 28 by 20 cm. 92 pp. with entries, and about two-thirds of the leaves remaining blank.

Mizner's contributions include three self-caricature sketches and also a watercolor, all signed with his distinctive insignia. Besides Mizner's contributions, there are two other watercolors, one a cameo of a bucolic classical ruin, another, a dog looking out onto a panoramic view of pines and the coast, undoubtedly a view from a Farmholme prospect, or nearby, before it was overrun with suburban development. And there are several other fun drawings, including ones of a race car and of a plane.

Mizner (1872-1933) is credited with pioneering the Mediterranean and Spanish Colonial stucco architectural style in Southern Florida, and also Southern California and Beverly Hills. As virtually 19 integral as this style has become to these places and elsewhere, before Mizner designed the Everglades Country Club's clubhouse in Palm Beach in 1918, the prevailing style there was Victorian Queen Anne and Colonial Revival shingle homes such as one would have found in Northeastern resorts. Admiration for the Everglades clubhouse made Mizner the go-to architect for millionaires (Stotesburys, Vanderbilt, etc.) who competed against one another through the 1920s for the most impressive mansion in Palm Beach, formerly primarily a hotel resort, and his style was emulated by other architects hired to build less august developments. Among Mizner's legacy is the Boca Raton Resort & Club.

Mizner, though, was not your typical nose-to-the-grindstone architect but also a highly colorful figure, famed as a raconteur, a co-author of the satiric "The Cynic's Calendar of Revised Wisdom for 1903" and many sequels, and a bit of a scoundrel, who with his brother was implicated in some shady transactions relating to the Florida land boom of the 1920s, and this served as the basis for the Stephen Sondheim 2008 musical, "Road Show". It is the social animal that Mizner was, someone who was able to exploit social connections, that should give this guest book a certain resonance to those fascinated by him and his career. Also, Mizner was a somewhat unconventionally trained architect. He didn't go to a modern sort of architecture school, but apprenticed in an architectural office, and perhaps it was unorthodox training that later made him so much an original, and eccentric, architect, famous for glitches in his designs such as stairways that went nowhere. But he was regarded as a highly proficient draftsman and talented artist, abilities perhaps all too in short supply in the architectural profession, and here are examples of his quick dash art that provide some delightful corroboration of this reputation.

Another guest at Farmholme was Ethel Watts Mumford (Grant), his co-author, who in one place contributed four lines of comic verse and a drawing of two monkeys. Other guests included Elisabeth Marbury, the prominent theatrical agent and lesbian lover of Elsie de Wolfe; Mary Livingston Hunt, of the Old Knickerbocker Livingstons; and many others who were undoubtedly secure in their Social Register bona fides -- people with names such as de Forest, Alsop, Callander, Ogden, Hotchkiss.

Whoever many of these people were, the same people came back again and again over the two decades, suggesting a close knit group of friends. While many of the entries are just autographs, sometimes accompanied by an anodyne sentiment, not a few are accompanied with a few lines of appreciative verse or snippets of musical notation. One guest, an Eduardo Bucco (?) left several entries in Italian verse. The painter of the watercolor cameo signed in reverse -- one needs a mirror to make out the name, which looks something like Raymond Tumball.

As august as Farmholme must have been, based on its guests, bits and pieces hinted at in the text of entries, the painted view, the exquisiteness of the guest book itself, we were not able to discover anything definitive about the estate. In all likelihood, the estate was located in Stonington, CT where there is now a subdivision on a Farmholme Road, and this would be a coastal location consistent with the painting referred to above.

Bound beautifully, in an Art Nouveau-style binding, by Dove's Bindery of London. Gilt ruling around the perimeter and gilt floral motives set off all the corners, both inside and out. Housed in a custom clamshell box. Fine. Full Decorated Morocco. (#003950) $4,500.00

60. [Faux Book] Art Deco Compact. . N.d, circa mid-1920s to 1930s. Dimensions: 720 by 530 mm. With abstract geometric gilt decoration -- high deco style -- on the front board. Spine has written vertically, "Classic" and at foot, horizontally, "Vol. II." It opens with a snap on the fore-edge. Black or inky stains on back along edges. Minor abrasions besides. The compact was used, and the inside 20 is past its useful life. But thoroughly handsome and soigne on the outside. Very Good. Full Morocco. (#003481) $300.00

61. [Faux Book] Patent Collapsible Inks. N.d., circa 1860s. 8vo. in size. 18.5 by 12 cm, 3.5 cm thick. Gilt floral devices in spine compartments, marbled edges, and same marbled paper lining entire interior with its two wells. One opens the lid or front cover by pressing a discrete brass button on the edge. Also an empty box formerly used for Indian inks. Scuffs and rubbing to the leather, and slight sunning to upper front cover, but still highly attractive. Very Good. Full Morocco. (#004804) $275.00

62. [Faux Book] "Not Gone with the Wind" Paperweight. St. Paul, Minnesota: Brown & Bigelow. A humorist twist of the bestselling and ever popular title! N.d., mid-20th century. Measuring 103 by 72 by 11 mm. Weighing 9.5 ounces. Produced by the well-known purveyor of corporate promotional "gift" products, Brown & Bigelow, as a promotion for itself, in what is written in gilt on the back: "Remembrance Advertising serves your customer and by this service reminds him of you." Quite convincing as a book, this faux book bears some resemblance to the promotional small change banks that banks distributed to their customers. With a thin full morocco binding, and fine lined striations on the edges to suggest pages of a book. Rubbing at the corners, with a tiny amount of leather surface loss, and a dampstain running the length of the spine. Still attractive and a fun novelty. Very Good. Full Leather. (#005124) $145.00

63. [Faux Book] The Story of the Last Swallow. Germany. Highly unusual miniature book shaped liquor box. N.d., circa 1900. 53 by 31 mm. Inside the box is a miniature scotch bottle, complete with a cork. The bottle is now empty, but it looks as if it once did have the real stuff. We have seen and had book shaped flasks, but never before this have we experienced an object quite like this. The closest is a miniature box containing a perfume bottle. We can imagine that this novelty might have been a party favor of some sort, but we know nothing specific about its origin other than it was made in Germany notwithstanding the English title, which of course is meant as a joke. Light soiling on the front cover. Fading to the leather. Very Good. Full Leather. (#005079) $475.00

64. [Faux Book] Pewter Flash Shaped Like a Book with Renaissance-Style Ornamentation Decorating the "Boards" . Highly unusual and striking book-shaped flask, with "raised bands" on the "spine" and elaborate decoration on both the front and back. Impossible to date with certainty, but definitely 19th century, and probably mid-19th century when Renaissance Revival became a popular and prevalent style, especially in the Teutonic world, and while we can't place the flask's provenance with certainty either, our strong intuition is that it did come from the German-speaking world, where, we would add, Renaissance Revival was virtually adopted as a national style in an area covetous for historical roots to its nationalistic strivings. The heavy flask -- heavy in both its appearance and actual weight, which is 2 pounds, 10.8 ounces -- measures 20 by 14.5 cm, and 5 cm thick. If one measures the height from the base to the top of the handle, held up high, the height is 26.5 cm, moreover. This is no pedestrian piece of pewter work. The decoration on the front is different from the back, for example, with the rear a decidedly more formal looking armorial diaper, with a regal lion beneath the coat-of-arms. The front still has a mostly symmetrical design of floral flourishes, yet there is a freer flow to the shapes, accentuated by its slightly cocked vaguely escutcheon-shaped centerpiece. Surrounding the decorative fields both front and back are raised bands with braided metalwork and clover repeats. The flash as bent, or dinged corners, but its essential visual integrity is unimpaired and whole. Very Good. (#005168) $750.00

65. Finck, Georg Philipp. [Atlas] S: Rom: Imp: Circuli et Electoratus Bavariae Geographica Descriptio. Bairen mit Angenzenden Landen, Zu sonderbahr bequemen Gebrauch in XXVIII. 21 Auf einander zutrefenden Tabellen vorgestellt. . . . Augsburg: Johann Stridbeck Jüngern, 1684. First Edition. 8vo. 19.5 by 15.5 cm. A double paged engraving of a triumphal arch, 14 pp., followed by 27 double paged maps with hand-colored boundary lines and three other double paged plates (one containing a table of distances between different cities). Bound with "Allgemeines Register Aller Deren Laender, Staete, Marckflecken . . . ", which has a title, a note page, followed by 84 pages. The maps are the highlight, and very beautiful baroque prints indeed, with their figurative decorations, with bloated Pantagruel-ish babies and seraphs blowing air or water, and other grotesqueries, as in many a baroque fountain, drawings of castles, mountains, mounted cavaliers, scrolls and ribboning, coat-of-arms and armorial decoration, and generic drawings of hills, mountains, castles and church towers to indicate topography and towns on the map. Wormholing to the painted vellum, and some of the holes continue into the first few leaves, front and rear, with no impact on the maps or plates. Ugly old repair to corner. Some cracking of the spine. Very Good. Vellum. (#004807) $2,750.00

66. 1936: James Fitton, James Boswell, James Holland: A Triple Alliance against the Absurdities and Hypocrisies of the Existing Scheme of Things, whose Shameless Intention is to Pillory and never to Please. London: Martin Lawrence, Ltd., 1935. First edition. 4to. 24.5 by 18 cm. Unpaginated, 64 pp. First 24 rectos are cartoons by the triumvirate of then well-known left-leaning cartoonists, while the versos are devoted to a calendar with blank spaces for a user's entries -- this copy is unused. Then come mostly blank pages for notes, again with a few smaller cartoon drawings on the pages. The final eight pages are devoted to apercus and promotions for Martin Lawrence publications. Martin Lawrence was the primary publisher of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin in Britain at the time. Many of the cartoons bring to mind Georg Grosz, even ones that do not have an ostensible political statement. Scarce, with only three copies found on OCLC First Search -- Chicago, Tate, National Library of Scotland. Soiling on cover. Some paper loss on spine. Very Good. Hardcover. (#005116) $450.00

67. [Flicker Book] Health and Beauty Exercises Demonstrated by Britain's Perfect Girl. She always uses Wright's Coal Tar Soap. London. Can be flicked either front to back or the reverse to create moving image of Edonia Wallace, billed as Britain's "Perfect Girl", demonstrating two different exercises. N.d., mid-1930s. 100 pp. Diminutive in size, as not uncommon with flicker books, this one measuring 73 by 40 mm. The flicker images are photographs. Soiling on the wraps, and light to moderate wear from actual flicking over time. Very Good. Printed wrappers, of card stock thickness. . (#005082) $250.00

68. [Fore-Edge Painting] Album for Photographs with Three Fore-Edge Paintings. . A highly unusual set of fore-edges. N.d., late nineteenth century. The fore-edge paintings are views of a Swiss chalet, a lakeside scene with two sailboat at rest and rendered loosely in the style of Claude Lorrain, and a view of a lake shore. Each of the paintings is in an oval cameo that is surrounded by bright guaffered edges that contain an elaborate floral design. Since the album leaves are made of thick card, these fore-edges are fully visible when the book is closed tight -- it would be impossible to fan the leaves, and thus impossible to do fore-edge paintings that disappear when a book is shut. Yet the execution of fore-edge paintings on an album of this type had to have been uncommon and thus more than compensates for their mechanical limitations. The binding itself is in the Gothic style, with raised leather banding on the front and back together with a raised center lozenge medaillion. The spine has five raised bands and typical gilt decoration in the compartments. The album is shut firmly with two decorative brass clasps. After a chromolithographic title page with "Album for Photographs" written, the album has 24 leaves, with four slots each on the front and back of each leaf. A little over half of the slots are filled with religious imagery, photos of artwork, much of a religious nature but also including classical statuary, busts of more contemporary subjects, animal portraits, with some concentration on feline images, portraits of a few well-known 22 personages. To most these images lend some period authenticity and charm, but they will be secondary to the fore-edges and the binding. The leather is heavily rubbed along the edges and has scuffs elsewhere. The joints are rubbed. The spine has a crack line down its vertical center. The album is supposed to have four pearl studs on the front and rear boards respectively to balance it and protect the leather below; the front is missing two of these studs and the back, one. Very Good. Full Morocco. (#002407) $600.00

69. [Fore-Edge Painting] Busby, Thomas. A Complete Dictionary of Music. To Which is Prefixed A Familiar Introduction to the First Principles of that Science. With Additions and Improvements. London: Richard Phillips, 1806. Second edition. Funny dirty fore-edge painting of a Dr. Syntax type playing the violin while screwing a maid! The fore-edge surprise thus relates to the contents of the book. 12mo. 16 by 10 cm. Unpaginated. The fore-edge is unsigned, but it is well done -- one would not suspect that there is a painting when the book is closed. All edges are gilt. The binding itself has light wear but is a striking, handsome period binding. Very Good. Full Straight Grained Morocco, Gilt Border Decoration. (#004406) $650.00

70. [Fore-Edge Painting] Florian [Jean-Pierre Claris de]. Guillaume Tell, ou, La Suisse Libre. Et Éliezer et Nefhthali. London: Chez Whittaker & Co., 1838. A fore-edge painting on a near miniature, and very thin, book. The fore-edge painting is of the Château de Jarnac, which is close to Paris. 16mo. 13 by 8 cm. 148 pp. The painting is a panorama of the chateau, a pretty stone bridge leading up to it and the surrounding parkland. Some of the detail of the painting is assuredly lost as it has faded over time and with use, but the painting nonetheless retains a fairly impressive level of detail given the thin text block the artist had to work with, and we would say that a fore-edge on such a thin volume qualifies as quite the novelty. The binding itself is a lovely full brown morocco with gilt swirly decoration and an armorial centerpiece. The binding is rubbed along the joints and has other indicia of moderate wear. There is a chunky chip from the FEP (large in relation to the book's size). This endpaper nonetheless is worth retaining since it bears the calligraphic inscription made when the book was awarded as a school or academic prize. Very Good. Full Morocco. (#005169) $675.00

71. [Fore-Edge Painting] Milton, John. Life by A. Chalmers. The Poetical Works of John Milton. Printed from the Original Editions with a Life of the Author by A. Chalmers A New Edition with an Etching by Francis S. Walker, R.E. and 119 Illustrations. London: Bickers and Son. Elaborate fore-edge painting with a medallion portrait of Milton flanked by view of his residence at Chalfont and of St. Giles Church Cripplegate wherein lies his tomb. N.d., circa 1870s. 8vo. 22 by 15 cm. xxxi, 687 pp. Lovely full red morocco binding by Bickers, with gilt decoration on the spine and board corners. Rubbing to the spine extremities and light wear to the binding elsewhere. Clean and tight. Very Good. Full Morocco. (#003286) $900.00

72. [Double Fore-Edge Painting] Moultrie, John. Poems. London: William Pickering, 1837. A double fore-edge painting, featuring Windsor Castle from the Thames and Eton College from the North Terrace of Windsor. 8vo. 16 by 10 cm, 6.5 by 4 inches. 357 pp. Gilt decoration on boards featuring a six lobed pattern with fleur-dy-lys highlights. Gilt turn-in borders. The leather is soiled and rubbed but still reasonably attractive. The fore-edge paintings are done properly, with no trace of the artwork when the pages are not fanned. Very Good. Full Morocco. (#002863) $1,350.00

73. [Fore-Edge Painting] Shenstone, William. Thomas Parks, editor. The Poetical Works of William Shenstone. In Two Volumes. Collated with the Best Editions. (Two volumes bound in one). London: Suttaby, Evance, and Fox, etc. Stanhope Press, printer., 1812. Near miniature book with lovely fore-edge of a bridge and river panorama. 32mo. 12.5 by 8 cm. Two copper engraved plates

23 for frontises. The fore-edge painting is somewhat darkened, but remains evocatively appealing. Near Fine. Full Straight-grained Morocco. Cloth slipcase. (#005053) $450.00

74. [Fore-Edge Paintings] Thomson, James; James Beattie; Robert Bloomfield; Hannah More; Charlotte Smith; William Hayley, and William Falconer, respectively. The Seasons; The Minstrel, and Other Poems; The Farmer's Boy; Sacred Dramas, The Search after Happiness, and Other Poems; Sonnets, and Other Poems; Triumphs Temper; and The Shipwreck (Six Volumes in Three, a Matching Set). London: Jones & Co., 1824-1826. Fine fore-edge paintings in near miniature volumes! Paintings depict a fox hunt and two village scenes, one by a river front and bridge, the other by a commons. 16mo., 9.5 by 5. 5 cm. Each title has engraved frontis. Matching blindstamped and gilt dark green full morocco bindings. Heavily rubbed along joints, and other wear. Scattered foxing within. Fore-edge paintings crisp and bright. Very Good Minus. Full Morocco. (#004141) $1,250.00

75. Le Furet des Salons. Paris: Marcilly; Firmin Didot, printer. 1st Edition. N.d., circa 1820s. (Date given as possibly 1825 or 1828 by Morgan Library which holds one of the very few known copies of this work.) Miniature book measuring 6.5 by 5 cm. 128 pp, with eight hand-colored fashion plates, including title. Text is a collection of short vignettes, many in verse, about various aspects, issues and expressions of fashion, in the broader sense of the word at times but also with a preponderance on apparel or costume. These short pieces are listed in the table of contents at the end of the text. While the plates, so exquisitely executed, are surely what would register as the first favorable impression of this precious-sized volume, the text is equally to be reckoned with, for it holds riches of insights on attitudes and the culture of the bygone era. Bondy 137 describes "La Furet des Salons" as "Perhaps the most beautiful miniature book on that subject [costume]" and the eight engravings as its "special glory". With a lovely contemporary pink "cartonnage" or paper binding, decorated with lovely Restoration period (or Regency or Biedermeier period) classical ornament on the boards and spine and somewhat different but complementary ornament on the slipcase. The printing on the slipcase is somewhat dulled or faded but still discernible. The ornamentation on the book itself is bright and vivid. Occasional light foxing within. Very Good. Hardcover. Slipcase.. (#005126) $675.00

76. [Furniture] Small Baroque-style Mahogany Book Case Cabinet with a framed glass door and a collection of eight volumes of ornamental French cartonnage bindings from the 1840s. Paris: Lehuby. The bookcase cabinet is elegant and striking, with its ornate carved wood floral ornamented pediment and floral and foliate border framing the glass door. This small piece of furniture stands 33 cm to the top of the pediment, and if we measure to the top of the "box" or case itself, 26.5 cm, and the case is 11 cm deep. The glass door can be secured with the original metal key. The legs holding up the case about 4 cm from the ground are black metal and have typical Baroque detailing. The titles are almost beside the point, but they are all titles intended for a young adult readership. All the volumes have elaborate Renaissance Revival or Rococo frilled gilt decoration on their boards, front and back, and spines. We can not say that the case/cabinet was made for these particular volumes, but it most definitely well-suits them and the volumes fit perfectly within. All the bindings were published by Lehuby of Paris and they generally have steel engraved plates. They are 16mo and 14.5 by 9 cm each. Near Fine. Cartonnage. (#005162) $1,250.00

77. Gangel Freres and P. Didion. Le Livre Magique Tombe de la Lune 1500 Ans Avant la Creation du Monde et Retrouve en 1860. Fabricants d'Images et d'Estampes a Metz. Paris: MM. Gangel Freres et P. Didion. . Although the title page declares "Se trouve dans toutes les librairies et papeteries de France", this is now a scarce magician's "blow" book, meaning a book that with the blow of air by a magician, transforms itself into a different set of images as the magician swiftly riffles through the 24 pages for the onlooker. As an "ephemeral" book, it is not surprising there wouldn't be an abundance of survivors, since to use the book as intended militated against gentle treatment. Plus, we would guess the book was not quite so ubiquitously available as the title page suggests. This copy has nine different sets of images (a bouquet, a male and female couple, a tower and a church, birds on branches, acrobats, a caricatured man and a woman with oversized heads, a group of trained monkeys and an Arab.) N.d., circa 1860. 8vo. 20 by 13.5 cm. 120 pp. 93 hand-colored plates and 12 black and white ones. A blow book works via small incisions in the fore-edge margins. Depending on where you place your thumb to flip the leaves, just one set of plates will be seen. According to bibliophile magician Ricky Jay, "This classic blow book appeared in many versions, with the year of its supposed recovery, and occasionally the images within, altered to reflect the changing times or the print stock of the publisher. . . . I have seen some six French versions, published in 1845, 1848, 1853, 1860, 1868 and 1870 . . . At least some versions of this book [as in this 1860 copy] operate from left to right and right to left only, an unusual design; in the typical construction, the book has to be inverted the second series of changes." See Ricky Jay, "The Magic Book, An Inquiry into the Venerable History & Operation of the Oldest Trick Conjuring Volumes, Designated "Blow Books" (Whitney Museum 1994), pp. 38-9. Also Gumachian 3850 (citing the 1848 version). Red and green/blue on yellow pictorial wrappers. Heavy soiling of the covers, which also have a number of closed tears and a few chips. Still, the original wraps are essentially intact. The contents within remains bright and clean. Overall a fine surviving early "blow" book. Very Good. Wraps. (#004723) $3,000.00

78. Gillray, James (1756-1815). [Caricatures of Gillray]. London and Edinburgh: John Miller and W. Blackwood. A spectacular assemblage of the master caricaturist's oeuvre! Politicians, fashion, actors and opera singers, ladies playing cards, sportsmen (skaters, hunters), connoisseurs and aesthetes, royalty, the rich and the rabble -- nothing was sacred before Gillray's acerbic eye and brush! N.d., 1818. Oblong 4to, 23 by 32.5 cm. 164 pp., plus 85 hand-colored aquatint or engraved plates, four of which are folding. The coloring is throughout rich and bright. No small part of what makes this survey a true treasure are the typically three or four pages (occasionally less, occasionally more) of droll commentary that accompany each plate. These short essays provide the context and explain the goings-on in the illustrations, which might have even been sometimes obscure then after the passage of a few years. In doing this, the text aspires to capture some of the Gillray voice but in more than clipped dialogue bubbles. At times these explanations might themselves beg for further interpretation for the reader of today, but they are also rich in cultural and social material that greatly augments the Gillray artwork. The collection is bound to be a revelation to anyone not already very familiar with Gillray in its diverse subject matter, for Gillray excelled equally at political satire and social and cultural mockery. And even when the subject matter is not immediately accessible to us, one can not but relish the imagination Gillray applied to it and the material remains highly risible regardless. Gillray was not an artist notable for his delicacy, and yet his broad, sometimes outrageous visual antics truly transcend the genre. This bound copy combines what was issued in nine separate installments. Elegantly bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in a full straight-grained red morocco, with gilt border and spine decoration, turn-ins, etc. Bearing the bookplate of "A. M. Broadley", or Alexander Meyrick Broadley (1847-1916) who was a well-known barrister, historian and bibliophile -- he wrote "Napoleon in Caricature 1795- 1821". Not incidentally, there are quite a few cartoons in this book lampooning Napoleon. Repaired front joint. A few scuffs to the binding, some edgewear and rubbing, but it remains a luxuriantly beautiful binding. Lacking a title page, but it should be noted also that this collection was not issued as a single volume, and the installments had wrap covers, not proper title pages as such. Some occasional dampstaining and heavy age toning to a few leaves, with scattered light foxing besides. Yet given the heft of the work, we would consider the collection overall quite clean, with the blemishes in balance quite minimal, or certainly not significantly marring the entirety. Near Fine. Full Straight-Grained Morocco. (#004625) $17,500.00 25 79. Glaister, W. M. Navigation. England, 1813. An exceptional manuscript on the basics of scientific navigation -- navigation using trigonometry and other mathematical principles -- that is either a very fine student notebook, the draft of a proposed textbook, or perhaps both. The writing is done in a meticulous calligraphic cursive hand, and there are many illustrations, the most outstanding being the beautiful watercolor of a ship on the title page. Also special is a fold-out manuscript map of the Atlantic Coast running from Britain to Central Africa. The prose is throughout very lucid -- one can say that the clarity and elegance of the penmanship perfectly reflects how the content is expressed. Everything is explained in a non-fussy, straightforward manner that invites quicker, non-arduous comprehension, and generally the points being made are illustrated with ample examples. Indeed, it is the felicitousness of the writing that inclines us to suspect that this was intended to become a book. The last section of the book is a "Journal of a Voyage from London to Madeira and Teneriffe, In the Endeavour of London." We do not know if this is a journal of an actual trip or merely a hypothetical trip meant to illustrate all the principles and methods imparted in the text as they would be employed in real life. It probably doesn't matter. Either way, the notebook is an excellent window on the most advanced approach to navigation at the time it was written. 4to. 26 by 21 cm. Unpaginated, about 264 pp. Very Good. Half Calf. Marbled Boards. . (#005183) $2,750.00

80. Goldsmith, John. Goldsmith, an Almanack for the year of our Lord God, M. DCC. XCIV. Being the Second after Bissextile or Leap-Year, Wherein are contained Necessary Rules, and Useful Tables. With a new Chronology of remarkable Events ; also, The proper Days and Hours for transferring Stocks and receiving Dividends; and a List of Holidays kept at the publick Offices, &c. Calculated by John Goldsmith. London: Printed for the Company of Stationers, and Sold by Robert Horsfield, 1793. First edition. Highly decorative full calf binding, with similarly decorative full calf slipcase as well. 32mo. 103 by 52 mm. 48 pp. Both the binding and the slipcase have elaborate gilt decoration -- floral motives, border swirls or rinceaus, a red oval centerpiece, etc. Some blotched stains on one side of the slipcase, and a few small stains elsewhere on the slipcase and the cover proper, with slight darkening overall on both. Still, both are highly ornamental and attractive. Clean and tight within. Very Good. Full Decorated Calf Binding and Slipcase. (#004461) $650.00

81. Goll, Iwan. Illustrated by Fernand Leger. Cover art by Hans Blanke. Die Chapliniade. Eine Kinodichtung. [On front cover, also: Kleines Kino der Menschlichkeit. Filmdichtung] Mit Vier Zeichnungen von Fernand Leger. Dresden: Rudolf Kaemmerer Verlag. Printer: Petzschke & Gretschel, 1920. First Edition. Small 4to. 22.5 by 19 cm. 42 pp. This is a work interesting from a number of angles: it is evidence of the unique spell Chaplin cast on society, setting him apart from any other movie actor of the day; it signals an early acceptance of film as an artistic medium; it represents a convergence and blurring of high and lowbrow culture of the day; it is a foray by Leger into book production and a fun, accessible application of his form of cubism. Goll (1891-1950) was a Franco-German poet, born in Lorraine, who wrote in both languages and had close social and collaborative ties with many Expressionistic and Surrealistic artists of the day, including George Grosz, Andre Breton, Marc Chagall, and of course Leger. Spine repaired but a touch of roughness to it remains, especially in contrast to the love condition of the boards. Very Good. Paper pasted onto boards. (#004682) $2,500.00

82. Grimké, Angelina Emily (1805-1879). Letters to Catherine E. Beecher in Reply to an Essay on Slavery and Abolitionism, Addressed to A. E. Grimké. Revised by the Author. Boston: Isaac Knapp, 1838. First edition. 8vo. 18 by 11 cm. 130 pp. Grimké was from a wealthy slaveholding family in Charleston South Carolina. Moving to the Northeast, she and her older sister, Sarah Grimké, became radical abolitionists as well as crusaders for women's rights and suffrage. In terms of slavery, the sisters did not merely agitate for its abolition of slavery but also for a broader racial 26 justice. Angelina fearlessly spoke before even hostile crowds at a time when public speaking was seldom conducted by women. Further setting the Grimké sisters apart from other abolitionists was that they could speak first hand about the atrocities of slavery and its effects not just on the enslaved but also the slaveholders. Angelina first came into prominence when William Lloyd Garrison published her impassioned letters, without her authorization, in his periodical, "The Liberator". This led to her crisscrossing the Northeast as an orator, speaking to groups comprised of both men and women. This was highly unusual at the time and itself, a source of considerable controversy and even violence. Angelina, though, was undaunted by those who asserted that a female speaker might undermine the cause. Catherine Beecher (1800 - 1878), the sister of Harriet Beecher Stowe, was a highly influential educator, pushing for far greater female education, for the use of women as teachers -- female teachers were extremely rare when Beecher began, but by the time of her death, had become the norm in grade schools -- and for the spread of kindergarten. However, Beecher's enlightened, visionary outlook on these issues did not mean that her thinking was similarly ahead of the larger society on everything, and in terms of both abolition and women's rights, she was far more conservative than the Grimkés. With regard to women's rights, Beecher was not for suffrage, and vis-a-vis slavery, her view during the 1830s was that the solution would be to transport them to their own colony. It was in reaction to this viewpoint that Grimké published this work, which is a stunning rebuke of such half-measures and eloquently sets forth Grimké's extensive views on slavery, racial justice and women's equality. The letters were written against the more parochial background of the slavery debate of its day yet in them, Grimké transcends the here and now to make a compelling, and far more sweeping, statement about justice and equality. While the format of the book is ostensibly epistolary, it is really a series of interconnected essays that together represent a real high point in not one, but several, of the most important social debates that ever consumed the American polity. Original covers soiled. Scattered foxing, heavier in early and final pages. Chip to rear blank. Good. Hardcover. Paper pastedowns. (#004554) $3,800.00

83. Guest Book for the Château de Suisnes. A guest book with entries by the cream of High Society, including Doris Duke, Wallis Simpson and Edward VIII, Perle Mesta (the "Hostess with the Mostess"; the entry was made while she was the Ambassador to Luxembourg), Millicent Hearst, Hohenlohes, Armours, and on and on. 4to. 32 by 26.5 cm. Over 230 pages chock-a-block with the inscriptions, followed by about 50 blank leaves. The chateau was a setting where super-rich Americans hobnobbed with European aristocrats, not a few of whom were originally American. Some other names we recognize: Marjorie Oelrichs, who married bandleader Eddy Duchin and was the mother of Peter Duchin, actress and then ur-interior decorator Elsie de Wolfe (signing as Elsie Mendl), decorator and Edith Wharton collaborator Ogden Codman, Margaret Copley Thaw -- the Countess of Perigny, A. Hamilton Rice, an Amazon explorer and husband to a Widener widow, various Houghtons, Brokaws, Dillons (including Douglas), Lewisohns, etc. It is a safe assumption that virtually all the guests were very wealthy, or believed to be, or very socially connected, and the names that may today be obscure would have been widely known from the society pages back when. Many of the guests were repeat visitors. Occasionally a guest would not just sign his name, but would write a short appreciation, a bon mot or stab at wit, sketch something cute, or the like. Also coming with the album are several pieces that were always separate but probably always resided within its cover. Given the abundance of bold lettered names, it remains a question mark who was the actual owner and host/hostess at the Chateau de Suisnes during this period. From the album we know that the owners were known to their friends as Wally and Kitty. Other than that, our best information based on a superficial Google search is that it was the property of the Baron de Noirmont, whose family name was Coffinhal. The Gruel binding is a highly decorative full brown morocco, with a wide border band of interlaced leaves, ruled lines and tiny tulip buds. In the center is a gilt crown and a ribbon flourish below bearing the name, "CHATEAU DE SUISNES", etched out of the gilt. The spine compartments, between the raised bands, have floral devices. The endpapers are a green silk moire. Thre are a few round stains on teh front board -- only one stands 27 out -- probably from a resting cup. The hinge is cracked near the front, with an unlovely tape repair. Still, a most attractive album befitting a grand chateau. (#005090) $1,250.00

84. Guimarães, Manoel Ferreira de Araujo (1777-1838). Ode Pela Restauração do Porto Offerecida a Sua Alteza Real. Rio de Janeiro: Na Impressão Regia, 1809. First edition. Scarce, with only two copies found, in Chile and Lima, Peru. 8vo. 20 by 15.5 cm. 7 pp. Patriotic poem. Modern binding, with extra strips of paper bound in so as to provide some heft to the binding. A ding on edge of front board. Light wear. Near Fine. Quarter Morocco, marbled boards. (#005035) $700.00

85. Historical Record of the Second, or Queen's Royal Regiment of Foot; Containing An Account of the Formation of the Regiment in the Year 1661, and of Its Subsequent Services to 1837. London: Clowes and Sons, 1838. First Edition. With two original paintings on vellum of colorful flags, each with fine detailing. 8vo. 21.5 by 14 cm. [14], 95 pp. Two hand-colored military costume plates in addition to the original paintings. Also special about this copy is the full straight-grained morocco binding by J. Smith, which has gilt ornamentation, the highlight of which is a blindstamped image of a horse as a large centerpiece on both the front and rear board. Yet another distinction is that there are four title pages, two of which come across as full title pages and the other two, as half title pages. The binding is considerably scuffed, with some rubbing of the gilt on the front and spine. Still a highly attractive binding. We would note that this book seemed not to have a fixed number of plates. In our judgment, this copy is exactly as it was first issued, with the glorious addition of the vellum paintings. Very Good. Full Decorated Morocco. (#005125) $350.00

86. The Home of the Motor Cab. The General Motor Cab Company Ltd. 1909. London, 1909. Scarce, with no copies located on OCLC First Search. Oblong 4to. 24 by 29 cm. 56, [2] pp. Fourteen of the pages are bright color plates generally depicting the smart set riding in beautiful vehicles, but also an illustration of the company's expansive headquarters and garage located in Kennington, a neighborhood in South London next to Vauxhall. The text presents both matter-of- fact info about the company's taxi services -- charges, policies, etc. -- but also some lighter breezer fare on such topics as a trip to the Channel or Coventry. Red cloth cover heavily soiled. Endpapers, title and final leaf grubby. Otherwise, lower band of leaves with hint of waviness that might come from a passing exposure to moisture, and perhaps a touch of soiling here and there. A few other finger smudges, minor closed tears and light wear besides. Notwithstanding these issues, a very handsome sales promotion for a cab company that was not just selling itself but also the notion of the horseless carriage as a luxury alternative to the horse drawn vehicle not yet fully vanquished in metropolitan use. Good. Hardcover. Cloth. (#004943) $575.00

87. Illuminated Manuscript Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of Rev. W. J. Slocum. 1876-1901. Waterbury, Connecticut, 1901. A beautiful appreciation of a cleric's career, with original verse rendered with calligraphic lettering and several original artworks. 8vo. 20 by 17.5 cm. Unpaginated, 9 leaves of very heavy card stock, with calligraphic text and illustration only on the rectos. Original artwork includes a watercolored profile portrait of the distinguished Slocum, a wash watercolor of Allegheny College (two principal buildings on the Pennsylvania campus), and four different churches which Slocum had served. Not to be minimized is the ornamental borders and other embellishments that enrich almost every leaf. Among the decoration are birds, an American flag, clover, and various sinewy Rococo decoration. The Victorian Era illuminated manuscripts we typically find are English or French; we encounter American ones far less frequently. The binding is soiled and somewhat rough. Large chip at spine foot. Other surface loss along front board edge and upper corner. The tissue guards are ragged but still present. Very Good Minus. Full Leather. (#005066) $675.00

28 88. Inglis, Charles S. Sketches by Chas. S. Inglis 1889 to 1904. An album of original cartoons on the par with "Punch" magazine fare. Oblong, 22.5 by 28 cm. 30 leaves of heavy card, or 59 pages of original content, with many whimsical illustrations, caricatures, etc. done in pen and ink and watercolors. Political correctness was far, far in the future here, with the title page setting the no- holds-barred tone. On it is depicted in colorful garb an Indian who is painting a stereotypical Italian (think Chico Marx), a Chinaman, a black waiter, and cornpoke. Following are stories, anecdotes, jokes, all accompanied by broad illustrations. The text and illustrations were equally important and cross-fertilizing, although, as is the nature of humor, some of the allusions in the text are now obscure and thus the humor intended might go over our heads. The mix of material is vast and impossible to sum up with a few words. However, consistent throughout is the levity and spot-on illustrations. For us a highlight are a few metamorphic illustrations, one showing a cellist gradually turning into a cello, another, a city coach becoming a snail. Or in the same vein, various human figures whose silhouettes are animals, as was the basis for an earlier book by Bennett. Very Good. Half calf. Pebbled cloth boards. . (#004949) $3,250.00

89. Irving, Washington (Diedrich Knickerbocker). Illustrations by Darley and others. [Fore-Edge Paintings] Knickerbocker's History of New York: A History of New York from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty . . . New York: R. H. Russell, 1903. Horizontal split fore-edge paintings, one of New York harbor, the other, a Colonial era street scene, 8vo. 22 by 16 cm. 472 pp. Very Good. Full Morocco. (#004914) $2,000.00

90. Israel's Messenger. Official Organ of the Shanghai Zionist Association and the Jewish National Fund Commission for CHina. A Jewish Paper devoted to the Interests of Jews and Judaism in the Far East. "A fearless exponent of traditonal Judaism and Jewish Nationalism" 2nd September, 1927. Shanghai: Printed by the Shanghai Times, 1927. First Edition. Folio, 34 by 25 cm. 16 pp., including wraps -- front and rear cover counted as pages. The bi-weekly had a scathing view of Reform Judaism, which it dismisses as "man-made theology and whose members it calls "pseudo-Zionists". Yet the periodical also seems smitten with the "Jewish Science Movement", reported in this issue, which was an attempt to address and meld aspects of Christian Science with Judaism. While happenings to the American and European Jewish communities receive a good amount of space, there are also China-specific pieces, such as a plug for a book about the Harbin Jewish community. Among the interesting articles is one that addresses anti- Semitism in Japan, where there were fewer than 700 Jews. The advertisements also hold a considerable amount of interest. Not all of them are so easy to pick out on first glance, as some resemble short articles. The publication was first issued in 1904, ceased in 1910, resumed in 1918 and then continued til 1941. Any issue of it represents a scarce relic from the then vibrant Shanghai Jewish community. Soiling of the wraps. Dog-eared corners. Other general wear. Good. Wraps. (#004976) $275.00

91. Israel's Messenger. Official Organ of the Shanghai Zionist Association and the Jewish National Fund Commission for CHina. A Jewish Paper devoted to the Interests of Jews and Judaism in the Far East. "A fearless exponent of traditonal Judaism and Jewish Nationalism" 4th October, 1929. 29th Ellul, 5689. Shanghai: Printed by the Shanghai Times, 1929. First Edition. Folio, 34 by 25 cm. 36 pp., including wraps -- front and rear cover counted as pages. The bi-weekly and the community it was serving was surely prospering, as evident in the greater heft of the publication compared to years prior. Clearly Shanghai was in the midst of a big economic and construction boom, based on articles and the ads for construction companies and the like. The cover features an engraving that brings together various aspects of the Holy Land in an inspirational pastiche -- a bright sun radiating as if perched on the pinnacle of a traditional Moorish-styled temple, and various manifestations of modern industry and transporation -- ships, a railroad, oil derricks -- arranged side-by-side. One portentous article asks "Is the Glory of Europe 29 Extinguishing?" It is elsewhere reported that Germany was advocating that the U.S. take over the Palestine Mandate from Britain. Most unusual is a report from Addis Abadi. As a staple of Jewish- oriented periodicals throughout the modern era, concern is expressed about assimilation in this magazine which frowned upon the Reform movement. Generally, this is a publication whose articles concern, in a roughly proportional split, goings-on in Palestine and the Zionist movement, America and Europe, with most of the latter concerning Britain, and Chinese Jewry. One article touches on the Jewish newspaper in India! And elsewhere, there are clippings from the Indian press about the rancor between Jews and Arabs. In terms of the China coverage, not a small amount relates to the building boom. The ads are not the least of the interesting elements of the periodical, with a mix of well-known Western brands and more local businesses. The publication was first issued in 1904, ceased in 1910, resumed in 1918 and then continued til 1941. Any issue of it represents a scarce relic from the then vibrant Shanghai Jewish community. Soiling of the wraps. Slight dog-earing of the cover. Other general wear. Good. Wraps. (#004977) $275.00

92. Jamaica D'Oyleys. With six highly unusual and beautiful mixed-media specimens of folk art, each of which is accompanied by a few lines of explanatory material on the source of materials -- and this exposition is in our view part of the value of the whole, as it makes explicit just how the doilies were made. The doilies are 16.5 cm in diameter, with a light mesh center onto which is mounted exquisite tropical fern leaves. This mesh is made of the tissue of the lace bark tree, we are told Surrounding this is a ring with original watercolored floral decoration using Jamaican flowers. The material used as the base is the papyus of a plant -- the explanation is not clear to us on this point. And the outer periphery is of fringe of fine soft fabric. The maker of these doilies, whose initials are "A. B. ?", describes the doilies as "nature in the tropics", where "she is most luxuriant", and one might also say that they are nature's trophies. With watercolored and ribboned decoration on the card cover, which has serrated edges. 4to. 24 by 22 cm. The doilies are loose, as they were intended to be. Moderate wear to the album. Joint repaired. Offsetting from the doilies onto the facing pages. The doilies themselves are perfectly preserved. Very Good. Card. (#004595) $2,750.00

93. [Japan Map] Complete Detailed Woodblock Print Map of Japan. . N.d., circa 1840. Open, the map measures about 160 cm by 35 cm when open, and closing to 18 by 8 cm. Details include all the highways of Japan, including the famous Tokaido Road. Color somewhat faded but still well- preserved. Soiling throughout, with some minor worming, abrasion, and other wear. With a few repairs as well. Good. (#004861) $1,250.00

94. [Japan Theater] Leporello of Original Paintings Depicting Characters of the Noh Theater. Simple and straightforward presentation of stock characters from Japanese Noh Theater, all appealingly colored. N.d., 19th century. 24 by 18.5 cm. 24 pp of colorful character portraits. Several are double paged and are a bit more dynamic. Noh is a traditional form of Japanese musical drama that first arose in the 14th century and employs masks heavily in its ritualized performances. Scattered light foxing, never disconcerting. Blue cloth case with color fading, moderate wear, title label partially obliterated (the upper layer with lettering is perished). Very Good. Leporello. Cloth (silk) cover. Outer case of cloth. . (#004850) $1,000.00

95. Job [Jacque Onfray de Breville]. Liline et Frérot au Pays des Joujoux. Paris: Boivin & Cie.. N.d., 1903. 4to. 32 by 23.5 cm. 59 pp. Profusely illustrated with dolls, toy soldiers, stuffed animals, tin toys, woodcarved toys, etc. all coming to life when left alone. Not an uncommon conceit, perhaps, but one realized with extraordinary charm thanks to Job's inimitable illustrations, brightly colored and springing joyously off the pages. Some fading and discoloration on the rear cover. Moderate age toning of the leaves. Overall an appealing copy. Very Good. Hardcover. Paper pastedown. . (#004922) $350.00

30 96. José, Francisco, illustrator. Introduction by Humberto Pais. Souvenir of the Island of Terceira. Lembrança da Ilba Terceira. . Oblong, 9.5 by 14.5 cm. Unpaginated, 16 leaves (printing only on rectos), plus wraps. 14 color plates, including front cover. The illustrations are in a style reminiscent of Florence Upton, illustrator of the Golliwog series of books, with exuberant stick figures. The effect here is one of primitivist panache, and the splashy color captures somehow the sundrenched Azores with its Latin flavor spot-on. Only the cover illustration of a more formal, heraldic-like drawing of a caravel and mermaids does not quite fit this mold. Scarce, with no copies located on OCLC First Search or elsewhere! Light soiling to cover. Otherwise, clean, fresh, delightful. Very Good. Wraps. Ribbon tie. (#004796) $300.00

97. Kairos! Japanese Heaters. Used there for Centuries. Burns Cartridges for from 5 to 7 Hours Consecutively. No Smell! No Smoke!! No Flame!!! The Best Remedy for Toothache, Neuralgia, Cramps, &c. Particularly Adapted for Muff, Feet or Pocket. George E. Saulnier, 258 Fulton Street, Near Clinton, Brooklyn. . Scarce, with no copies of this or similar broadsides found. Around perimeter are Japanese men at work making the heaters, which essentially were pocket heaters. 33 by 24 cm. The vignette illustrations are in color, albeit somewhat limited in the palette. Soiling, or light to moderate foxing, and a few small chips. One inch tear by fold. Good. NA. (#004040) $500.00

98. Kashkeen, John, editor. F. Tahirof, illustrations and maps arranged by. New York (In Outline). Moscow: Co-Operative Publishing Society of Foreign Workers in the U.S.S.R., 1933. First edition. The mean underbelly of Gotham. A "guide" published in the Soviet Union, and so a point-of-view to a degree as one might expect. With contributions from Theodore Dreiser, John Reed, O'Henry, John Dos Passos -- we would guess that none of the authors then living actually gave their consent to their inclusion, or received royalties as a result. 8vo. 21 by 15 cm. 157, [3] pp. Two fold-out maps. Touching on black New York (where swipes at American Rascism are not themselves free of Rascism), immigrants and deportees, the tenements, the docks, Harlem, etc. Lacking the vocabulary supplement. Still uncommon -- none other listed in Internet commerce the several times we checked. Nine copies found on OCLC First Search, all in American institutions -- these copies also appear to be lacking the vocabulary supplement. Considerable wear to the cover. Creasing and edge roughness to the maps. Good. Wraps. (#005149) $1,250.00

99. Kellogg, Carrie. Silver Birch Cut-out Album. . A most extraordinary, and unique, example of American folk art. Within the covers made of silver birch bark are 43 "leaves", or pages, with intricate cut-outs of silver birch into silhouette-like illustrations, except ones to which fine penwork adds details. These also bear a resemblance to Chinese paper cut designs, but unquestionably working with the thin wood was even more demanding. Even more remarkable is that everything is threaded together in a loose pictorial narrative revolving around a countess and her pets. The illustrations themselves are enchanting, with the book opening with a depiction of her pet parrot, her pet monkey, the countess giving alms, boys chasing the cat, and on and on. The story itself is beside the point, except it does contain an element of caricature. The attention to detail is exemplified in such things as one illustration with the cat's tail raised in the air, its fur standing on end. No cat owner wouldn't recognize the fidelity to reality of the representation. The story and cut-outs are entirely on the recto, with sometimes a single picture, other times, up to four, on the page, and the facing page has offsetting, which here is entirely for the good, as the sharp offsetting, no doubt a result of the sap in the birch, is a truly silhouette impression which picks up the birch but not the inkwork, and this different but complete image is itself quite satisfying to view. N.d., circa late 19th century. It is unknown where Ms. Kellogg created this album, but it is presumed to be either New England or New York State. Oblong, 13 by 20 cm. The birch cover has had several archival tape repairs done on the inside, one to counter a split that occurred down the horizontal center in front. A similar split down the center of the first blank leaf has also been repaired, but without the use of 31 archival tape. The birch of the cover remains brittle and needs to be handled tenderly. Besides this, a few leaves have minor corner creases and/or insignifcant corner chips. Very Good. Birch Bark. (#003158) $4,500.00

100. Kengtung Occasions. Burma (Kengtung, Shan State, presumed), 1908. Oblong 8vo. 18 by 25.5 cm. 30 original watercolors. With Shan captions, presumably translated into English which is presented on pastedown sheet on front inside cover. Depicted are struggles against Chinese invaders and the rise and fall of several leaders. About half of the scenes show violence, or armed engagement and/or threat, while the other scenes tend to be more placid, with men shown praying, in meditation, listening, resting. All the pictures have the irresistible charm of folk art. From the text label on the front cover, this is presumably one of two books of scenes, but without that indication, one should find this album self-contained, and while there is a cumulative impact to the scenes, each also works very well on its own. Kengtung is in the Shan State, or Northeast of Burma, of today's Myammar, close to the Chinese and Thai borders. An unattached note contained within states that a prior owner bought the album in Hong Kong. The spine label is torn at its bottom, but we believe there is no missing text to speak of. Soiling to the binding. The illustrations are generally clean and bright. A handsome, exotic album. Very Good. Quarter Morocco, Cloth Boards. (#004626) $10,000.00

101. Kleine Hausapotheke. Ein Geschenk für Eheleute. Breslau: Eduard Pelz. First edition. Miniature with lovely floral patterned boards framed by gilt strip boards. Oblong, 43 by 83 mm. iv, 24 pp. This diminutive book was intended as a gift from a wife to her husband, and it has aphorisms rendered in German verse couplets containing sentiments and advice on how he might best please her. As an example, the second of the 24 "recipes" given is, in a more or less literal translation, without the rhymes; "Never leave your wife without a kiss and tender word, a day's work heightens one's enjoyment, and casts off one's whims." A thoroughly charming piece, perfectly capturing the Biedermeier ethos! Tiny chips at spine extremities. Very Good Plus. Decorative boards.. (#005083) $500.00

102. Kotzebue, A. von. Almanach Dramatischer Spiele zur geselligen Unterhaltung auf dem Lande (Eilster Jahrgang). Leipzig: C. J. G. Hartmann, 1813. First edition (of eleventh installment of this annual theatrical almanac). 16mo. 12.5 by 8 cm. 334 pp. With 6 hand-colored plates, illustrating the five short playlets contained herein. Also illustrated paper on boards of binding. Scattered light soilage. One small edge chip, not affecting text. Darkening of the pictorial card-stock binding. Very Good . (#005119) $300.00

103. Laforge, Lucien. Le Film 1914. Paris: Clarte, 1922. First Edition. Unsettling Dada-esque cartoons to satiric text, mocking the lead-up to the war, the war itself and its aftermath. 4to. Oblong, 25 by 27 cm. Unpaginated, 51 pp. The imagery is blunt and highly economical; its impact is harrowing and disturbing. The images come across deliberately like pieces of a puzzle, with the text written out as if by a very thick nib to look almost like graffiti. Loforge assiduously avoids the pretty and polished as he is portraying the ugly underside of society throughout. His use of long hand to elucidate the imagery is in keeping with what other surrealists were doing at the time. Here and there letters are deliberately dropped from words as if to elude a censor. Heavy age toning, as per the cheap paper that was used. Otherwise, clean. A monumental work of statement art in book form. Very Good. Wraps. (#004128) $3,750.00

104. Lumsden, Edith Shaw. Crests and Monograms. Belhelvie Lodge, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. 4to. 29 by 23 cm. 19 pp. with watercolors mixed with monograms, followed by one incompletely done page and blanks. While no one would mistake Lumsden for a professional artist, the watercolors are uniformly pleasant, and a few of the paintings stand out as meriting separate 32 mention, among them, the title page on which a man is pasting a "sign" with information about the album (the artist/collector, etc.) onto a stone wall. Other images include a diaper of serpents, a woman carrying a sandwich board sign, an archery target, a fireplace, a heavily draped window, an artist's palette, butterflies, flags, an arrangement of ornamental garments, an elaborate medal. Other than the title page, all the watercolors have monograms worked into the design, sometimes quite cleverly. Some of the imagery is comparatively standard for this sort of album, while other pictures are more original. Curiously, among the most striking collages are the ones without elaborate figurative imagery but rather the patterned diapers, especially the interlocked snakes, which is something we have never seen done quite like here. The collection of monograms and crests was a popular pastime in the nineteenth century when the use of monograms was also prevalent among the upper classes, and the collectors of these tended to be the offspring of the well-to-do with the leisure time to indulge in such a hobby. Most monogram albums are appealing yet limited in their artistry, with the compiler simply pasting the monograms into printed slots, without any extra illustration by that compiler. Far scarcer are the albums such as this one in which the compiler used the monograms as a springboard or excuse for greater flights of creativity. In this album, the surnames of the possessor of some of the monograms are pencilled into the margins. The leaves are of a fairly heavy thickness, not quite a card stock. Rebacked handsomely in brown morocco. Very Good. Half Morocco, Cloth Boards. (#004392) $3,750.00

105. [Minstrelry] Camagni, Gerard. [Movable Toy] A Minstrel Band, with a tap dancer banjo player and a seated fiddler and second banjo player. Mechanical Box, with Automaton. France: Gerard Camagni. A wonderful "sand" toy mechanical, in perfect working order. N.d., circa 1860. Dimensions, 22.5 by 18 cm, and 5.5 cm deep. You revolve the box twice and then when you rest it upright, the figures come to life, with the center figure tap dancing and arms moving to play the instruments. A glass cover, with marbled paper pastedowns on the sides and back, and instructions on the back. Light wear, with perhaps a bumped rounding of one corner, although we tend to think this was how the box always was -- it doesn't come off as an accidental ding. The glass covering has some desirable imperfections, which would confirm it was the original, and contemporary, glass. Near Fine. NA. (#005188) $1,950.00

106. 1[Movable] Comic Valentine Card on Mansell Lace Paper with a Gentleman Whose Pants Hike Up. N.d., circa 1860. The card measures 17.5 by 11.5cm. Depicted is a gentleman in a top hat, blue coat and checked pants. When you pull a tab at the bottom, his pants rise to reveal his spindly legs. The verse beneath reads: "Why are pegtops worn by noddies,/ Is't to ornament their bodies;/ Or is it__Oh! great Jove, I see/ The secret lies twixt you/ and me." Slight loss of lace at edge, by upper right corner. Light wear besides. Very Good Minus. (#005189) $300.00

107. Philippe Lagautriere. Paris: Apaar. Limited First Edition. Scarce, with no copies located on OCLC First Search. No. 22 of 100. 12mo. 16 by 11 cm. N.d., circa 2000. Unpaginated, 48 pp. of surrealistic collage plates reflecting the hodgepodge, random mix of modern life. The original illustrations within the plates often have a Liechtenstein, cartoon quality. Ambiguous, ambivalent, intriguing, inscrutable, riveting, disturbing, inviting -- all these adjectives apply. A clean, fresh copy. Fine in Fine dust-jacket. Wraps. (#004907) $200.00

108. [Linoleum Cuts] L.J. (?). Ein Mensch ward geboren. Ein Mensch im leben. Ein Mensch am ende. (Three volume set). Extremely scarce, virtually entirely unprinted "novel without words" employing paper-cuts (probably using linoleum), which approximate the look of woodcuts, in its depiction of modern man versus the impersonal, de-humanizing and ruthless modern state. 8vo. Square 21 cm. Each volume has a title page, 18 leaves of content, and a page containing the issue date. In the first volume, the first five leaves following the title contain text, followed by 12 leaves of illustrations. In the two subsequent volumes, there are no text leaves but 17 leaves with 33 illustrations in each. Only the titles on the front boards and the spine look as if they were possibly printed, but probably were not. Everything else, including all the lettering on the title pages, the date pages and the little bit of text, is of these custom cut-outs, each of which measures 7 cm square. While the medium of linoleum cuts (or whatever material was used) may not lend itself to sharp detail, the artist here actually achieves astonishingly minute detail. The compensating virtue of the material is that it so effectively conveys a stark rawness is in keeping with the grim horrors of the story. The medium also works well when the artist is playing with patterns to form what might be referred to a diaper, or a repeat, of the imagery. An example is the artist filling the frame with interchangeable heads, or identical machinery lined up, one after the other, both of these images that bring to mind an Escher geometric configuration. As a novel without words, the narrative has some ambiguity, and that was surely intended, to allow for alternative interpretations, but unquestionably the artist was casting a jaundiced eye at the evils of modern society. The little bit of text in the birth volume recounts that a mother in labor by a bridge is brought to a hospital but is cast off because she is Czech and gives a harrowing birth by the bridge. In the following volume, a boy grows up, experiences various indignities, finds romance, finds employment, it would seem, in a factory, and becomes some sort of union agitator. Or so that is our read of the images. What is made plain is that at no point is there not pain, suffering or cruelty, including in the episode suggesting sexual intercourse. In the third volume, the man is arrested, persecuted and shot. And it is here most suggestively the artist would seem to warning of the dangers of Fascist and Totalitarianism. And in doing this, surely the artist was early in addressing the darkening clouds that were descending on Europe. If this would seem to be informed by hindsight, we would point out that a few farsighted writers were sounding the same alarm about the same time, such as the Italian author, Corrado Alvaro. Arguably, the boy and young man depicted was meant to be Jewish -- it isn't clear whether he is wearing a yamaka or not -- which would add further poignancy to the story, as well as mark the author as particularly perspicaciously, but we can't assert this with complete confidence. Unfortunately, we do not know the identity of the author/artist other than the initials cut into the material, and even these initials are not 100 percent clear. Near Fine. Cloth. (#004320) $4,500.00

109. London Almanack for the Year of Christ 1801. London: Company of Stationers, 1800. A striking diagonal lined pattern on both the red morocco binding and slipcase. The pattern seems way ahead of its time, being a simple abstract geometric at a time when more elaborate designs were the norm. 60 by 35 mm. Unpaginated, about 24 pages, including endpapers. Four paged copper engraving of Guilford Street. Two engraved insignias before and after this. The leaves are almost a paper stock in their thickness. Light wear. Near Fine. Full Morocco Binding and Slipcase.. (#005087) $850.00

110. MacNiel, Stanley S. Zodiac Cocktails for All Birthdays. New York: Mayfair Publishing Co., 1940. First Edition. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Uncommon cocktail title (four institutional copies located on OCLC First Search). 8vo. 55 pp. With color vignette illustrations on almost all of the first 30 pages, with a vignette for each sign of the Zodiac. The remaining pages are mostly blanks, with headings for each of the signs and autographs and recipes coinciding with those signs. Wood planked cover with a few scratches and other light wear. Offsetting of wood grain onto title page, and a few small and light dampstains on this same page. Also an inked old price in top corner. Very Good. Wood planks. Leather string. Metal hinging. . (#005101) $600.00

111. Martin, Gerald Trice, artist (1893-1961). Poetry by Rudyard Kipling, Algernon Charles Swinburne and Sappho. Sketchbook of Gerald Trice Martin Mostly Relating to the Sea. England, 1919. Lovely, meticulously rendered vignette illustrations framing the key letter on each page, and on a few pages, two vignettes. Oblong, 9 by 13 cm. 28 pp. The album opens to a particularly nice pen and ink drawing of a schooner, framed with highly decorative foliate baroque 34 ornamentation. The first poem is Kipling's "If", each letter device accompanied by a painting of a different type of sail boat or ship. Ship motives are used again in "Love at Sea", by Swinburne. Another Kipling poem, "The Explanation", is enlivened with paintings of colorful, expressive fish. In our judgment, these are the most charismatic of the illustrations. Other poems include Swinburne's "Rondel", "Before Sunset", "Song", and "Child's Song"; and some verses by Sappho. Other illustrative motives take in dragons, flowers and floral daipers, butterflies, and coasts. The poems are rendered in a neat, calligraphic hand, and it is very easy to imagine this manuscript as something that might have been published as a gift book. Near Fine. Cloth. (#004965) $500.00

112. Mason, M. Alice (Mary Alice Mason). [Manuscript] Therapeutic Exercises and Healing. Winchester, Massachusetts. Notebook on the connection between physical exercises and spiritual health and restoration many, many decades before the introduction of yoga to Americans! A manuscript manual on relaxation, essentially. N.d., circa very early 20th Century. 4to. 22.5 by 13.5 cm. Unpaginated, 162 pages of text, not entirely sequentially arranged in notebook. Much how-to information rendered in precise detail, with sometimes specific words about the benefits of the movement. Generally written in an easily legible hand. Some wear, and a few pages torn out or loosely attached. Very Good. Hardcover. (#005064) $475.00

113. McFarlan Six. Connersville, Indiana. First Edition . N.d., circa 1920s. (The McFarlan company went out of business in 1928, although the preface speaks of 75 years, which if taken literally, would place the issuance at 1931, after the company's demise.) Oblong 4to, 23 by 31 cm. Unpaginated, 30 pp. McFarlan Twin Valve Six cars depicted are Sports Type Touring Cars, Touring Car Seven Passenger, California Type Seven Passenger, Sports Type Roadster, Sedan Seven Passenger, Knickerbocker Five Passenger, Sports Sedan Four Passenger, Limousine Five Passenger, Coupe Three Passenger, and Town Car Five Passenger. There are twelve appealingly soft-focused, slightly sepia toned, mounted photos in all, the final one being of twin valve six motors. The cars are shown generally in park-like or suburban settings, with one outlier a photo before a plant. McFarlan was founded in 1856 as the McFarlan Carriage Company, and like some other carriage companies transitioned to automobiles. Its first line of cars were produced in 1910. As is easily apparent from the photos, the company's specialized in high end luxury cars -- it was dubbed the American Rolls Royce! Among McFarlan owners were many celebrities, including the likes of boxer Jack Dempsey, movie comedian Fatty Arbuckle, bandleader Paul Whiteman and mobster Al Capone. Nonetheless, the company went bankrupt in 1928, its last year of car production as well. Corner chip (2 cm triangle) on rear wrap. Moderate edgewear besides to the wraps. Some light soiling within on front blank and scattered beyond. Mostly clean. Very Good. Heavy Card-Stock Wraps. (#004748) $350.00

114. McTaggart, Lt.-Col. M. F. Illustrated by The Wag of the Regiment. From Colonel to Subaltern. Some Keys for Horseowners. London: Country Life Ltd. , 1928. First Limited Edition. No. 65 of 150 Edition de Luxe limitation, signed by author and the illustrator (using his pseudonym). 4to. 11.5 by 9.5 inches, 29 by 24 cm. 240, [6] pp. The illustrations through the body of the work are sprightly, colorful, fun, and perfect exemplars of a twenties to thirties highball sophisticated aesthetic -- a sporting extension of the sleek look associated with thirties screwball comedies and musicals! The book makes riding and all its mishaps seem like one endless lark, a party in which nothing really bad could possibly intrude. This is the kind of work that everyone will have a favorite image, but few can not but admire the frontis of horses' heads awash with a gilt border. Much of the illustration, by the way, appears as if it were applied directly by hand, and this slapdash manuscript quality greatly adds to the charm of the production. The pigskin binding has a film of soiling but remains attractive, especially with its inked title and inkwell and feather quill pen

35 imagery. With also a letter from the publisher. Near Fine. Full Pictorial Pigskin. . (#003636) $750.00

115. [Medicine] Establishment of Officers, Pensioners, &c. Belonging to the Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich; With their Annual Salaries, Wages, and Allowances. London: T. Harrison, 1766. First edition. Scarce record of the nitty gritty of hospital management from the mid- 18th century. No copies located on OCLC First Search. 8vo. 23 by 18 cm. 32 pp. With note, in calligraphically neat hand, dated 1795, on FEP. Very Good Plus. Half Morocco. (#005182) $1,750.00

116. [Medicine] Maule, Jo., W. Bell. Establishment of Officers, Pensioners, Servants and others of the Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich; With their Annual Salaries, Wages, and Allowances in the Year 1738. London: None identified, 1739. First edition. Scarce record of the nitty gritty of hospital management from the early 18th century. Only copy located on OCLC at the National Library of Medicine in Maryland. 8vo. 23 by 18 cm. 30, [2] pp. Very Good Plus. Half Morocco. (#005181) $1,750.00

117. [Miniature] L'Amour et les Belles Pour l'Année 1818. Paris: [Marcilly] , 1817. First edition. 28 by 18 mm. 64 pp. With eight copper engraved plates. Welsh 221. Scarce (OCLC First Search shows copies only at Morgan, Arkansas, Virginia, Yale, Grolier). Publisher not given, but Marcilly. Gilt figurative decoration on front and rear board, and gilt ornamentation on spine. Light wear. Very Good. Full Leather. (#005175) $575.00

118. Montefiore, Dora B., compiled by. The People's Calendar. London: British Socialist Party. Printed by Fox, Jones & Co. and Kemp Hall Press, Oxford, 1918. First edition. 13.5 by 10.5 cm. 80 pp. A maxim, snippet of verse, or profound quote for each day of the year. The quotes are drawn from many eminent personages, from the obvious candidates such as Marx, John Ruskin, Sydney Webb, Tolstoy, Eugene Debs and Henri Bergson, to those not associated with the Socialist movement such as Oscar Wilde, Shelley, Robert Louis Stevenson and Swinburne. Moderate wear to the wraps. Uncommon piece of Socialist ephemera. Good. Wraps. Brochure. (#004963) $165.00

119. The Moon and Little Ginny In 12 Volumes. Highly unusual homemade books within a book, or faux book! N.d., circa 1940. The outer casing, or faux book, is of octavo size, 22 by 15 cm, and nearly 7 cm thick. The actual story is told in a series of a dozen miniature homemade illustrated books, which are housed behind doors within this faux book. The doors are numbered 1 to 7. These numbers don't flow sequentially as one proceeds from the front to the rear of the outer book, but rather, instructions are given on the backs of the wells in which the volumes reside, and so one might say there is an element of a treasure hunt intended for the reader. Only the first volume is not under one of these flap doors, but rather, attached to a "page" of the outer faux book. Very Good. Hardcover. Silk pastedown on outer faux book. . (#004892) $2,500.00

120. Newland, E. F. S. (mostly). Album with Twenty-Two Watercolors, Mostly Botanical, Twelve Other Original Drawings and a Few Prints and Poems. England, 1863 - 1869. 4to. 29 by 24 cm. The watercolors and other drawings, which are mostly mounted, are generally of exceptional quality. Botanicals dominate, especially in terms of the watercolors, in which eleven or twelve can be so categorized. Of these, three feature fruit prominently, and another three show bouquets. One of the most charismatic of the colored artwork is a page with illumination and Gothic calligraphy. In this, there is floral decoration and small butterfly figures. Another striking page is dedicated entirely to butterflies, with a larger watercolor done on pith paper, in a Chinese manner, at the center, and cut-outs of watercolored butterflies, also probably on the same kind of paper, in the corners. Not to 36 be overlooked are two portrayals of birds, and most unusual is a pencil and watercolored drawing of a snake. There are two portraits, one of Napoleon, which is probably printed and hand-colored, and another of William Lenthall, a seventeenth century Parliamentarian, which appears entirely painted. The pencil and charcoal drawings are more varied, with depictions of children, a steamship, ruins, bucolic settings, portraits, etc. The watercolors are often initialed, and we know the identity of the artist became it is written in Gothic calligraphy, as well as dated, on an otherwise printed page that has hand-colored ornamentation. There is one outlier, dated 1890 and initial B. A. R., and one other watercolor that stylistically would appear to have been done by the same hand, but most of the drawings were clearly done by Newland and come from the 1860s. The album itself, by which we mean the binding, is probably quite a bit older, since one of the prints within it is dated 1828, and the kind of blindstamping is typical of an earlier day. There are also several poems written out in a neat cursive. It is, though, the artwork that sets this album apart from others of the same period and genre. A few pieces are loose. The binding is heavily worn around its edges, chipped on the spine, abraded in a number of places, and repaired along its joints, yet still a handsome cover. Very Good. Full Blindstamped Morocco. (#003709) $950.00

121. A New Ritual for "Sam" Written By One Connected with The Cincinnati Times, and Updated to Sam's Numerous Friends. Cincinnati, OH: C. W. Starbuck & Co. Printed at the Cincinnati Dollar Times Office, 1855. First Edition. Anti-Catholic Nativist screed. 24mo. 133 by 76 mm. 48 pp. The booklet wsa purporting to present the ritual for a secretive organization "SAM". In fact, the document is a fiction created to advance the position of the Dollar Times. SAM was probably based on the "Order of the Star Spangled Banner" whose members were known as the "Know Nothings" because the members would assert they knew nothing when asked about the secret order. Since the actual Order was closely aligned with the Dollar Times, what is presented in this document may be very close to the actual rituals. Heavy dampstain on wrap cover. Soiling, light to heavy, throughout. The booklet is fragile and needs gentle handling. Good. Wraps. Pamphlet. . (#004475) $300.00

Two trade catalogues with hosiery material worked into illustrations:

122. Nomend Hosiery, Inc. [Trade Catalogue] Ruth L. Mills Nomend Fashion Director Presents "American Favorites" By Nomend. For Spring and Summer 1940. New York: Printer: Carey Press Corporation, 1940. First edition. Fabulous, novel and scarce trade catalogue by a hosiery company. 4to. 31.5 by 29 cm. 20 leaves of thick card. This most unusual of trade catalogues is built around a musical theme. The "American Favorite" refers to songs or theme music, with ten different selections: "Daisy", "Juanita", "Susanna", "Sweet Adeline", "Sweetheart", "Buttercup", "Annie Laurie", "Merry Widow", "Madelon", and "Dixie". To each is dedicated a two page spread, one with an inset illustration of a woman or couple dressed evocatively and nostalgically as befits the music. On the facing page, are small insets of fabric, using real fabric, and the inset cut-outs shaped meticulously like the particular accessory -- a shoe, a glove, a pocketbook -- and another inset to fit a thematic illustration -- a bicycle wheel, a moon, a bonnet, etc. -- and finally, four tallish ovals of fabric. It is these fabric insets, all executed with great fastidiously and appeal, that contribute most to the uniqueness of the production. It is not that one won't see this kind of work in some other publication, but the extent of its employment here, factoring in the ephemeral nature of the project, and the quality of the craftsmanship, surely stand out as special. This Nomend company was making a big statement about the fineness of its product here. As if this weren't enough, the outside binding is of a floral silk damask, cushioned to the boards, and a centerpiece double inset featuring an oval color portrait within a gilded square, all meant also to evoke the prior century. The table of contents provides a table suggesting color combinations for outfits, and between each of the musical entries are two pages that amount to half-titles with floral decorated corners. The binding of the cards together is with a metal spiral contained within the outer binding 37 -- one doesn't see the spiral from the outside. The book came within a large card-stock envelope, which is preserved, with a few edge closed tears, one of which is crudely repaired with scotch tape. This envelope, though, remains a handsome addition to the overall package. Fine. Hardcover. (#004956) $800.00

123. Nomend Hosiery, Inc. [Trade Catalogue] Ruth L. Mills Nomend Fashion Director Presents "American Favorites" By Nomend. For Autumn and Winter 1940. New York: Printer: Carey Press Corporation, 1940. First edition. Fabulous, novel and scarce trade catalogue by a hosiery company. 4to. 31.5 by 29 cm. 9 leaves of thick card. This most unusual of trade catalogues is built around a musical theme. The "American Favorite" refers to songs or theme music, with seven different selections: "Sweet Sue", "Juanita", "Dixie", "Yankee Doodle", "Dinah", "Sweetheart", and "Jeanie". To each is dedicated a two page spread depicting a woman dressed evocatively and nostalgically as befits the period associated with the music. Usually the same woman is shown in two different poses, one on each page, one more a close-up. The illustrations are three tone -- say, red and blue, green and red, etc. -- are rendered with a broad, impressionistic brush that was very much the style of the period -- think the backdrop for countless movie musical numbers of the period, or a set conceived by Cecil Beaton or Jean Cocteau. On the right page, usually with the more intimate image, are small insets of fabric, using real fabric, and the inset cut- outs shaped meticulously like the particular accessory -- a shoe, a glove, a pocketbook -- and other insets to fill out details such as street light globes, a steeple, a lampshade, etc. These fabric insets, all executed with great fastidiously and appeal, are the source of more varied color and pattern, and they very much contribute most to the uniqueness of the production. It is not that one won't see this kind of work in some other publication, but the extent of its employment here, factoring in the ephemeral nature of the project, and the quality of the craftsmanship, surely stand out as special. This Nomend company was making a big statement about the fineness of its product here. As if this weren't enough, the outside binding is of a floral silk damask, cushioned to the boards, and a centerpiece double inset featuring an oval color portrait within a gilded square, all meant also to evoke the prior century. The table of contents provides a table suggesting color combinations for outfits, and between each of the musical entries are two pages that amount to half-titles with floral decorated corners. The binding of the cards together is with a metal spiral contained within the outer binding -- one doesn't see the spiral from the outside. The book came within a large card-stock envelope, which is very well preserved. Fine. Hardcover. (#004975) $900.00

124. Nowakowski, Bogdan, St. Dobrzynski, perhaps others . Ogonki Wojenne z czasów okupacji [Lines during the War of Occupation] Poswiecone ostatniemu z ogonka. Warszawa: Leona Pillati. First Edition. N.d., circa 1920. Oblong, 12 by 31.5 cm. Unpaginated, 8 pp., including title page. (Printing only on the rectos.) Satirizing the endless lines experienced by ordinary folk in Poland after the war. Scarce, with only copy found in the National Library of Poland. Heavy wear along edge, with considerable soiling of the front cover. The paper stock ws cheap, and so there is also heavy age toning. The illustrations, though, are unaffected by condition issues. Fair. Wraps. Stapled. (#004593) $475.00

125. Noticias biograficas de la enana alemana Doña Elena Briggs, la muger mas chiquita del mundo. Havana, 1857. 8vo. 32 pp. The biography of Ellen Suter Briggs, which the booklet asserts was the smallest woman in the world. Briggs was born in Germany in 1821 and immigrated with her father to Ohio in 1830, soon afterward embarking on a career as a touring circus attraction. The Spanish language pamphlet describes her friendship with Major Stevens and Tom Thumb and concludes with several pages of translated press notices from American newspapers. The curious thing about Briggs is that we have been unable to find any record of her career in English or other sources. The pamphlet is manifestly scarce, with no copies turning up on OCLC, Palau or other references. With an inserted photograph of Tom Thumb (Charles Sherwood Stratton) and his wife 38 Lavinia Warren Stratton. Lacking front wrapper, with rear worn. Soiling to the title page. Moderate dampstaining. The bottom corner, final leaf, cut out, with slight loss of text. Good. Wraps. (#004742) $2,500.00

126. Nyse. Nyse' Christmas Greeting to her American friends. France: Devambez, 1917. First edition. Scarce, with no copies located on OCLC First Search. No stated date, but obviously 1917, as the short epistlatory story speaks of the rich Americans coming to help the French without being compelled to, and Xmas was the only Yuletide when the Americans were active combatants in the war. 10 by 8 cm. Unpaginated, eight leaves, printing only on rectos. Hand-colored illustration on every page. Fine. Wraps. String binding. (#004865) $575.00

127. Optocht Fehouden te Haarlem Den 1en April 1872. Haarlem: Emrik & Binger, Lith., 1872. 29 by 36 cm, closed. With 24 panels of chromolithographic illustration of a festival procession. Among the many horses and traditional costume (men in armor, etc.) are also those dressed as jockeys. Also floats, and many men in top hats. Soiling and foxing scattered throughout. Modern cloth binding, with original pastedown cover with title, etc. preserved and mounted on front cover. Very Good Minus. Paper pastedown on boards. (#003119) $2,400.00

128. Oriental Printing, Fantasy and Art Papers. New York: Nelson-Whitehead Paper Corp.. N.d., circa 1960. (There is no zip code, thus this must predate 1963.) Oblong, 19 by 27 cm. 132 leaves of different papers, with various colors, textures, patterns. The papers, in addition to the Asian influence, tend to read as modernist. They are just the type of papers one might associate with late fifties, early sixties sleek and "mod". Impressive is the great range and variety while assiduously avoiding anything pictorial. All the papers are in pristine condition, and the album binding has only the slightest of wear. Near Fine. Paper pastedown on boards. String tie. . (#005170) $350.00

129. Osbourne, C. (Charles). H. Wallis, engraver. An Illustration of Osbourne's Pictorial Alphabet. London: C. Osbourne, and Messrs. Ackerman [sic] & Co., 1835. First edition. 28 cards, with a title and presentation card, followed by a card representing each letter of the alphabet. In addition, there is a small eight page key, or explanatory booklet. The letters are cleverly formed incorporating classical imagery. Thus the "A" emerges from the image of an angel holding onto a long bow, "B" with two Roman centurions, one of them holding a javelin, the other taking aim with an arrow. "D" by two graces, and on and on. Generally the letter intended might be missed by someone not knowing to look for it, but if aware that there is a letter being shaped, which letter is instantly obvious. The square-ish cards each measure 7.5 by 7 cm. Moderate soiling to the cards, all of which remain appealing. Th booklet's first leaf is detached. The original slipcase, with marbled papers, remains structurally sound. Very Good. Slipcase . (#005127) $1,750.00

130. Pagesmith, Gordon. Historia Cuculi Canori. Highly unusual, handsome manuscript of the scientific data, findings and proceedings of a small ornithology club dedicated to the collection and study of cuckoo eggs, enlivened with sixteen original watercolors of cuckoos, club members, etc. Folio, 39.5 by 29 cm. 171 leaves. (First part unpaginated, followed by 117 pp.) The club was called the Cuculus Canorus Club and was formed in 1943, with four members -- Gordon and Saxon Pagesmith and Douglas and Walter Kemp. A stated objective of the club was to present the collection it would be assembling to the Natural History Museum, and in fact, Gordon Pagesmith did make a significant contribution of bird eggs to that museum, separate from the club's collection. 39 The club ended up collecting about 83 clutches of eggs of cuckoos and the host birds. Besides the diligent compilation of scientific data presented in the text, a source of interest is this club's eccentric rules and proceedings. One of the most entertaining watercolors is of a dinner of the club members, in which they are caricatured. This is in addition to the charming colorful portraits of the birds, their eggs, and various locations. The front cover states it is Vol. 1. Vol. 2 is included, and this manuscript is complete. Housed in a custom half red morocco box. Heavy soiling of the front cover, and some lighter soiling on just a few other leaves. Mostly clean. The manuscript's leaves are loose, with some leaves collected into loose gatherings. A few creases along the edges. Very Good. Custom half morocco box. (#004476) $2,950

131. [Paper Toys] Chocolat Lombart Souvenir de la Fête Four toys: policeman, private or scout, jockey, clown. . N.d., circa 1900. The toy figures were meant to bring amusement by twirling them around on a toothpick. WIth their limbs attached but movable, the figures would then somersault and engage in spastic acrobatics. The figures came in an envelope along with an instruction sheet and toothpick or axle. We have all these pieces for all the figures we have. We do not know whether the company made other such figures, but we would guess that it did. The company goes back to 1760 and continued in business until 1957 when it was absorbed by another chocolatier, Menier. In the early 20th century it claimed to have the largest factory within Paris. Fine. (#005067) $575.00

132. Mrs. E. S. Patton [Emily S.] Artist unknown. Japanese Topsyturvydom. Tokyo: T. Hasegawa, 1896. One of the harder Hasegawa crepe paper books to come by (in its original format). Presumed first edition, or early, since the address given on the colophon corresponds to Hasegawa's address at the time. A light, both entertaining and informative survey of the many ways the Japanese do things differently from Westerners, often the exact opposite way, and according to Patton, not infrequently, in a manner that is somehow superior. Strictly speaking, this book is as directed at an adult audience as a juvenile one, in contrast to many other Hasegawa titles. 19.5 by 16.5 cm. 37 pp. Topics range from Japanese books, to funeral processions, manners, embroidering, equine stabling, gardens, and on and on. Patton leaves few stones unturned. Soiling of the cover. Bright and fresh otherwise. Very Good. Crepe paper. String binding. . (#004950) $750.00

133. Pelham, Nettie H. The Belles of Blackville. A Negro Minstrel Entertainment for Young Ladies, Concluding with a SPecialty Farce Entitled "Patchwork" New York: Fitzgerald Publishing Corporation (successor to Dick & Fitzgerald), 1897. First edition. 8vo. 18.5 by 12.5 cm. 20 pp., plus wraps. Meant for amateur productions, with all female casts. With directions on how to put make up on for blackface. An offering from when minstrel shows were at their zenith in terms of popularity. Considerable wear to the wraps. Pencil markings within. Good. Wraps. (#004974) $750.00

134. Playtime in Dixie Compliments of Lord & Gage. Reading, Pennsylvania; New York: Lord & Gage; Jas. McCreery & Co. . Scarce, with only one copy found on OCLC First Search (at Duke, and not identical, coming from a different department store). Stereotpyical imagery of black people playing instruments, baseball, coon hunting, etc. N.d., circa 1905. 12mo. 19 by 13.5 cm. Unpaginated, 16 pp., including wraps. The imagery is not rabidly or insultingly rascist; at the time, it might have been viewed as gentle and affectionate in its portrayal of blacks. Still, in unquestionably drew on stereotypes, and one can also not look at the drawings and fail to see a strong element of condescension towards blacks as simpler, more primitive, etc. If we suspend our latter-day judgment at the content, we can admire the straightforward and simple charm of the drawing, which is rendered in black, white and red. The style of the illustration, the lettering and the overall composition is one we find typical in the first decade of the 20th century. This brochure was

40 obviously a department store freebie hand-out, this one, as part of the Xmas season, and we can infer from the other copy of which we are aware that several department stores must have ordered copies for distribution, with some customization for their own promotions. Given the ephermeral nature of the presentation, it is not surprising that there are not an abundance of copies surviving. Moderate soiling to the wraps. Long closed tear along joint. Good. Wraps. (#004837) $475.00

135. Plunkett, Mrs. Joseph (Grace Vandeleur Plunkett) (1885-1955). "To Hold as 'Twere" Dundalk: Tempest Dundagan Press, 1920. 4to. 26 by 18.5 cm. Unpaginated, 20 leaves, with 17 being caricature plates, plus title with vignettes. Grace Plunkett, nee Gifford, was a well-known artist and caricaturist who married Joseph Plunkett, martyr of the Easter 1916 Uprising, hours before his execution. This 1920 collection includes a good number of caricatures of the Irish rebels and other notables, including de Valera, Lady Gregory, John MacCormick, Countess Markievicz, etc. The caricatures are sharp and merciless, and Plunkett was a rarity as a woman in the field of caricature at the time. Her sympathies were strongly for Sinn Fein and Irish independence, needless to say. The collection is uncommon in commerce. Heavy soiling of the cover. Moderate wear besides. Good. Wraps. (#004862) $1,250.00

136. [Political][Movable] You can pick the Winner. Pick Selz Shoes. They Win Every Time. To find THE WINNER move card very slowly. If Selz Shoes were Candidates They'd be elected every time. . As one pushes or pulls a side tab, the image morphs from one candidate in the four man Presidential contest of 1912 as if on a television screen. The morphing figures are Woodrow Wilson, Howard H. Taft, Theodore Roosevelt and Eugene Debs. The card is postcard sized: 9 by 14 cm. The mechanism works but can be a little fussy initially. Light soiling to the card. Very Good. NA. (#004703) $300.00

137. Porter, G. F. Sketch Book. Presented to the Officers Mess. XVII (Loyal) Bengal Infantry by Captain J. C. Sutherland. 1899. Wonderful, quite eccentric and fun caricatures of army officers in an unit. Oblong 4to. 28 by 38.5 cm. 12 pages of caricatures done in pen and ink, watercolors and cut-out photographs. The cartoons, for that is what these drawings are, generally will use a cut-out photographic headshot of the primary figure(s) being gently tweaked. One page with an incomplete pencil sketch, not counted above, and one pencil sketch of a man in drag, mounted onto a verso, which was counted. (All the other artwork is done directly onto rectos, with obviously the photos pasted onto the leaves.) A few of the cartoons are set in the Stone Age, with the subjects depicted as primitive men. In one, the subject is riding a wooden horse as it is being pulled by an African native. The cartoonish illustrations do not really lend themselves to a quickie description other than they glory in absurdity. The title above is somewhat misleading, as the artwork is signed by Porter, not Sutherland. We do not know whether the presentation by Sutherland would have been of the blank album or of the album enriched with Porter's work. The latter would seem to make greater sense, given that the caricatures would appear to be familiar figures of the unit. Many clean blank sheets following the 11 leaves of content. Chips, nicks and abrasions to calf binding. Rebacked, with original spine mostly preserved and mounted onto cloth. New endpapers. Good. Full Calf. (#005184) $975.00

138. Porto, Manoel Joaquim da Silva. Elogio por Occazião do Fausto e Gloriozo Successo das Armas Portuguezas Contra os Insurgentes de Pernambuco. Rio de Janeiro: Na Impressão Regia, 1817. First Edition. Early Brazilian printing of a patriotic poem. 8vo. 22 by 16 cm. 7 pp. Uncommon, with seven institutions holding this. Leaves uncut. Modern custom half green morocco binding. Near Fine. Half Morocco, Cloth Boards. (#005036) $600.00

41 139. Prang, Louis. American Card Album. Boston: L. Prang & Co., 1864. First Edition. A splendid, comprehensive collection of Prang's hard-to-find botanical and zoological chromolithographic cards issued in 1864. Folio, 35.5 by 30.5 cm. 35 leaves, with the first being a title leaf, followed by 34 leaves each containing slots for a dozen chromolithographic cards, all but four of which are filled, for a total of 404 pictorial cards, plus an additional 34 title cards on the backs of each of these leaves, or a grand total of 438 Prang cards. Cards from Prang card series pertaining to natural history, including 95 (of 96) from Wild Flowers, 36 from Sea Mosses, 72 from Butterflies and Moths, 24 from Wood Mosses, 60 from Autumn Leaves, 22 (of 24) from Flowers, 24 from Fruit Blossoms, 12 from Roses, 71 (of 72) from American Birds. At this time Prang had a few other series unrelated to natural history. This collection, though, but for the insignificant number of missing cards, is comprehensive of the nature-related series. The individual cards are all strikingly beautiful, with strong color that remains undiminished, their fidelity to the subject, and their simplicity, but together, we find that the totality is even greater than the sum of the parts, as well as presenting a full record of this area of Prang's printing activity. We believe, given the general scarcity of these albums, that this one was primarily intended as a salesman sample catalogue, but this particular copy was given to M. L. Smith as a New Year's present by her husband on January 1, 1865, as is written on the front board on a leather centerpiece label. We believe that the husband was Walter Smith, an educator who was a close collaborator of Prang, and this is certainly consistent with the pedagogical purpose of the cards, which were meant to disseminate greater knowledge of plants, birds and butterflies. The cards are age toned, and many have some light, occasionally moderate, soiling, besides -- sometimes fox marks, sometimes other stains. The card stock used for the leaves is now britle, with some minor edge chips a result. Rebacked, with appropriate brown calf that blends well with cloth boards. Raised bands on spine. Cloth of boards with some soiling, wear, and a few blister spots. Newer endpapers. Very Good. Cloth. (#005051) $3,750.00

140. The Private Theatre of Kilkenny. With Introductory Observations on Other Private Theatres in Ireland, before it was opened. Richard Power, 1825. Extra-illustrated with 120 additional plates. 4to. 28.5 by 23 cm. 134 pp., not counting the many inserted plates, some interspersed, many collected at the end. The privately printed work chronicles the amateur productions that occurred in Kilkenny between 1802 and 1811, and then, less regularly, in 1812 and 1817 to 1819. Among the additional materials added is the long excerpt of a work on private theatricals, which has a long and august history, and prior to the twentieth century, loomed as a much more significant part of theater. Extra plates include portraits of Georgian era actors and playwrights (and some earlier personages who remained important to the theater of the early 1800s), genre scenes from popular plays, both then contemporary and classic. There is a certain element of miscellany or grab bag to the extra inclusions, which we would maintain is also part of the fun. The additional plates include ones engraved or designed by Fuseli, Opie, Stodhart, Wheatley, Sharpe and other important printmakers of the day. Light wear to the binding. Near Fine. Half Morocco. Marbled boards.. (#004925) $3,000.00

141. Robinson, Frank B. "Psychiana" Moscow, Idaho: NA, 1932. A twenty course program for a "New Thought Religion", one of spiritual enlightenment promising health, wealth and happiness through an alternatively belief system, with the underlying premise being a rejection of all the major organized religions and an embrace generally of modern science. While Robinson endeavors to reason with tight logic, nonetheless a lot of mumbo jumbo still surfaces. He propounds a faith in the Law of the Universe that if subscribed to truly, would relieve many mundane cares and concerns. The verbose lessons would serve no purpose, though, without a message of self-empowerment, positive thinking, self-affirmation and motivational cheerleading. Here we have the full 20 lessons, plus a "Psychiana" Inc. Certificate of Approval having been issued to John W. McCormick. (Two duplicates also, with cover pages instead of cover letters that are attached to the lessons otherwise.) 42 The lessons are of varying length, between 10 and 15 pages generally, with single spaced typing throughout on standard 11 by 8.5 inch paper. Very Good. (#004770) $600.00

142. Putnam, George W. The Account Mr. Jonathan Bubble's First Attempt at Flying, As Related by Himself. Lynn, Massachusetts: Probably self-published, 1881. First Edition. Scarce -- no copies located on OCLC or otherwise. Inscribed by the author. 8vo. 22 by 17 cm. 16 pp., plus two illustrated plates, and wraps. Fanciful, humorous tale of flying. Gentle fun is poked at temperance, scientific ambition, and human foibles in general. With press notices pasted onto the rear of the front wrap, and short snippets of reviews of a prior work by Putnam. While this work may well have been self-published, it is a mystery how not a single copy found its way into an institutional collection, if that is indeed the case. Moderate wear to wraps. One of the two plates tipped back in. Good. Wraps. Brochure. (#004761) $2,500.00

143. Anonymous. [H]. Tales of Pollux the Rabbit. . Imaginative, whimsical verse and illustrations of an upper crust rabbit, Pollux, and his frivolous cares and activities. N.d., early 20th century and World War One era. Oblong 4to, 24.5 by 30 cm. 21 pp. (and leaves) of original pen and ink and watercolored drawings. Each page has a mounted illustration, with inked verse next to it, poking fun at Pollux's dress, his vanity, his helplessness, his manners, etc. Other characters include Jenkins, card players, a pining woman, all of whom are rabbits. While we do not know the identity of the cartoonist, the level of work is plausibly professional, with details rendered meticulously. The various verses and illustrations are somewhat loosely linked -- there isn't so much a continuous narrative as much as an overarching archness. The artist and versifier is shooting arrows at the idle nobility. Also included are 10 additional cartoons on separate sheets, only one of which involves Pollux, and only two with colored watercolors. These additional cartoons, including the one with Pollux, relate to the First World War. From these and the album proper we can infer that the artist was of a more left leaning sensibility. Very Good. Cloth. (#005171) $1,750.00

144. Raymond, L. Illustrated by Charles Jouas. Plaisir et Charité. Paris: Pairault & Cie. . Scarce, with no copies located on OCLC First Search. N.d., circa 1910. 4to. 30.5 by 23 cm. Unpaginated, 12 pp. Moralistic poem, surrounded by two tone illustration, with two color plates depicting children's picnic and game. Fine. Wraps. (#004937) $300.00

145. Raymond, L. Illustrations by Maurice Feuillet. Radic et Paddy. Histoire véridique d’un bon & d’un mauvais chien. Paris: Pairault & Cie. . Folio, 36.5 by 27 cm. Unpaginated, 16 pp., plus wraps. Touching, moralistic canine story of good and bad dog who are friends and their fates. Scarce, with no copies found on OCLC First Search, nor in the BNF when consulting its catalogue. Fine. Wraps. (#004928) $450.00

146. Das Reich der Blumenkönigen. Sinnige Unterhaltung. L’Empire de la reine des fleurs. Récréation raisonnée. The Realm of the Queen of Flowers. Rational entertainment. Leipzig: Peter Carl Geisler. Third Edition. Scarce, notwithstanding stated third edition, with only copies discovered on OCLC First Search at the LOC, Toronto, and Crystal Bridges Museum. (Given the fragility of the parts and the likely heavy use of the "toy book", and its ephemeral nature to boot, it is easy to conceive of almost all copies being destroyed eventually.) N.d., circa mid-19th century. Folio, 33.5 by 26 cm. With four color litho plates, plus 50 separate color floral pieces which are to be inserted into slots in the plates. The plates depict a vase, a bowl, a ribbon, and another large bowl, and the idea is to allow the child to play with creating different flower arrangements, in the process familiarizing himself with the flower species. The flowers are each numbered, and there is an oblong four page key, rendered in German, French and English. (This key is 21 by 27.5 cm.) For each flower is also a maxim or a short two or three line verse of sentiment associated with that flower. Heavy soiling on the cover. Text pages heavily foxed. Moderate soiling on the plates. 43 Original ribbon ties partially intact but unusable. Most importantly, though, is that all flower pieces are present and well-preserved, so the "paper toy" is as usable as it ever was. Good. Folio folder, ribbon ties. (#004934) $3,000.00

147. Remshard, Abraham. Schraubthaler Depicting the Expulsion of the Entire Protestant Community from Salzburg in 1731. Amsterdam, 1732 or 1733. The sixteen medaillon panel beautifully hand-colored engraved panorama or concertina was made, we believe, in 1733, or close to that date. The silver "shraubthaler" or outer casing we assume was made separately, at a later date, but not long afterward. The outer silver casing is 42 mm in diameter, and the panels within are 37 mm in diameter. In addition, on the inside backs of the chased silver are round maps, one of Salzburg, the other, of the principality of Lithuania, this latter map, credited to Remshard as well, and printed by an Aug. Vindel. (#004823) $12,500

A “schraubthaler” originally referred to a hollowed out coin with the two parts then screwing together. (The word is a compound of the German word for “screw” and the coin, “thaler”. In the case of the piece at hand, actual coins weren’t used, but the silver piece has the general appearance of a coin.

This Schraubthaler depicts the expulsion of Protestants from Salzburg, which culminated in a final forced exodus of very last one in 1731. From the Middle Ages into the eighteenth century Salzburg was a city state under the complete dominion of Archbishop Princes within the Holy Roman Empire, and independent then of the two far larger Catholic nations sandwiching it – Bavaria and Habsburg Austria. Salzburg and its rulers prospered through the centuries through mining, principally of salt, which to this day is an important resource of the area. While Salzburg had a Catholic majority, there were pockets of peasants outside the city who were Protestant, and many of the miners as it so happened were Lutheran. In part this was a result of recruitment from other parts of the German world where the Reformation was embraced. There was also some seasonality to the work, and so many miners traveled regularly to Lutheran strongholds and were exposed to Protestant ideas. Initially, the ruling Archbishops turned the other way or tolerated the Protestants in their midst; the accumulation of wealth and the luxury it begot was a greater concern than religious purity to them. But in the mid-seventeenth century the climate changed. In 1684, after years of book burnings, other persecutions and smaller numbers of Protestants being hounded out, there was an expulsion of 1,000 adult Protestants from the Deferegger Valley, with their children not allowed to go with them, setting a pattern. Under the Treaty of Westphalia which brought an end to the Thirty Years’ War, the ruler of a state had the right to determine what religion could be practiced publicly in his jurisdiction, but minorities were also given protections, including if they were to be expelled, they were to be accorded three years to get their affairs in order before having to leave, and they were to be compensated for the value of the real property they had to give up. In practice, though, the Archbishop skirted these requirements by branding the expellees cultists and heretics and not true dissenters. It was during this earlier period of persecution that the salt miner Joseph Schaidberger emerged as a hero and martyr. Arrested, sentenced to hard labor before he was finally expelled and forcibly separated from his children, he would pen a series of Protestant tracts which would be published in 1710 as “Der Sendbrief” which became a bestseller among German

44 Protestants and a source of inspiration for the remaining Protestant Salzburgers. He would die in 1733 shortly after the final expulsion.

This final expulsion of the more than 20,000 remaining Protestants was ordered by Archbishop von Firmin, who again initially attempted to squeeze the Protestants in violation of the treaty protections, giving them but eight days to depart. This time, though, the king of Prussia, Friedrich Wilhelm, interceded on behalf of the Protestants. Besides forcing the Archbishop to honor something closer to the spirit of the treaty, Friedrich Wilhelm offered the Protestants land in Prussian-controlled Lithuania, which had become depopulated as a result of the plague (and the expulsion of Mennonites), and safe passage through his territory to get there, and even some money to get started once there. Thus did most of the Protestants embark on the long trek that took several months in several large contingents. The over 800 march took several months, with a few hundred participants not making it. The marchers incited curiosity wherever they went, with church bells, cheers and offers of food greeting them in Protestant towns, and hissing and denunciations the reception in Catholic strongholds.

The concertina here essentially has three phases. The first four medaillons show Biblical scenes. The next section of seven pieces concerns Joseph Schaidberger, and the remaining five are about the 1731 expulsion. (There is overlap in the sense that some of the persecution depicted in the Schaidberger panels could apply equally to the last section.)

The exterior of the coin has two chased images. On one side is a portrait of Schaidberger, and the other, of the expellees, with the caption, “Gehe aus deinmen Vatterland”, or “Go from your fatherland.”

The artist responsible was Dutch artist Abraham Remshard – credited on the final panel and also the Lithuania map.

This is a scarce item, with no copies found on OCLC or any book sites. Via Google we have turned up the possibility, as yet unverified or refuted, that copies of the engravings are owned by the Salzburger Museum for Kunst und Kunstgeschichte, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. We do not know whether these copies are just the printed content or also encased in a Shraubthaler, or whether the engravings are hand-colored.

The concertina is very delicate, but all the pieces are attached. (A professional restoration reattached some pieces that were detached or attached improperly in presumably a poor prior restoration.) The backs of the engraved pieces are painted a solid color. Some color fading or 45 smudging to the coloring, but overall, the illlustrations are crisp and bright. Typical wear and light tarnish to the silver – the latter can be cleaned with polish, but in our judgment, it is better not touching the silver at this time.

148. Roberts, James & Henry (drawn and engraved by). The Sportsman's Companion: or Portraitures, Pedigrees, and Performances, of the Most Eminent Race Horses and Stallions, Represented in Variety of Attitudes. Interspersed with Tail Pieces and Embellishments Alluding to the Sport. Calcuated for the Utility of Entertainment of the Nobility, Gentry, Breeders, &c. London: C. Brown, 1820. 8vo. 22.5 by 14.5 cm. 40 hand-colored plates, numbered, each featuring a different champion horse, with a portrait of said horse on the top third of the page, followed by a biography of the horse and his resume of achievements. Often the bottom has a vignette, some equine related, others, more allegorical and/or decorative in nature without direct relevance to the subject. There are a total of 34 such tailpieces, all of which are also hand-colored. This book was first issued, it is generally believed, in 1760 (see Huth 38, which cites the 1760 and this edition, which had slightly different titles) and was quite possibly the first book of its kind, celebrating the finest race horses of the earlier part of the century with carefully drawn portraits minutely hand-colored. Any edition of the book, though, is hard to come by and highly desirable. (Eight institutions have physical copies of one of the editions according to OCLC First Search.) The original longer title noted that the plates could be made into the "most elegant & pleasing Furniture", and indeed, this exhortation was most certainly followed by many buyers of the book, for it is easy to picture the plates as being used as decoration on box tops and the like, not to mention the obvious wall hanging, and this active harvesting of the plates helps to explain the scarcity of surviving intact copies of the work. Also Podeschi 62-3, which has the most detailed bibliographic infomation on the book. With the cover replicating, without the coloring, part of the final plate featuring the Bay Arabian, and the rear containing a publisher's ad. Two 1837 equine articles are pasted respectively on the front and rear endpapers. Some minor abrasions of the cover, and moderate, acceptable wear besides. Housed in a modern, handsome quarter morocco box, with equine devices on the spine, blue cloth boards, marbled paper interior. Very Good. Hardcover. Paper pastedown. Cloth spine. Quarter morocco box. (#004920) $6,500.00

149. Rolls-Royce Adaptability. Long Island City, New York. Exquisite sales catalogue with beautiful pochoir images of the ultimate luxury car! N.d., circa 1920s. Oblong 4to. 30 by 42 cm. Unpaginated, nine leaves, plus outer (blank) wraps. Models depicted include the Trouville, the Regent, the Huntington, the Newmarket, the Derby, the Riviera, the Avon, the St. Andrew, the St. Regis and the St. Regis Landaulet, with one page per model for the first six, and the last four on a single page. The first four share a background illustration of the front portico of a stately home, with cut-out windows on the first three leaves, and the next two have their own pochoir lifestyle illustration. The pochoirs are superimposed over a bronze-ish Rolls statuary emblem. The illustrations were supposedly done by artist Barry Mayer, but there are no credits to him within the publication. We have also been told that there was an unusual watercolor printing process used for the illustrations, but to us the illustrations are simply the finest of pochoir specimens. Still, the plain wraps conceal the most opulent of car catalogues and one befitting the monarch of automobile brands. Soiling on the plain cover. Clean and bright within. Near Fine. Wraps. String tie. . (#004753) $1,500.00

150. Rompopo Rompopo Presents Levitatia 8th Wonder of the World. . Unpublished, but with a touch of editing, a publishable level original illustrated story of a levitating circus act. Oblong, 26 by 38 cm. 21 leaves, with pen-and-ink drawings on most pages (rectos and versos) and original accompanying text. Rompopo is the producer of a small traveling circus whose chief attraction is

46 Levitatia, or Mildred, who has the amazing ability to fly until she puts on too much weight because the coachman who is in love with her has been spoiling her with candies. When she falls is love with a loyal spectator Pastrami, Rompopo chases the young man away. Disconsolate, Levitatia soon sheds the excess weight, allowing her to fly better than ever and become an even bigger sensation. The story ends with her flying to Pastrami, leaving Rompopo in the lurch. The illustrations bring to mind Edward Gorey and other slightly surreal illustrators. As well done as everything about this work is, we do not know who wrote and illustrated the story. Very Good. NA. (#004910) $750.00

151. Les Roses de Vaudeville. Paris: Chez Le Fuel, 1822. 12mo. 12 by 8 cm. 173, [2] pp. With eleven exquisite hand-colored plates of actors in costume in addition to hand-colored title. Also hand-colored allegorical vignettes on the cover, front and back, and a different one on the slipcase, with elaborate neo-classical ornamentation around the perimeter of both. This is a collection of short plays done by the Vaudeville theater. Vaudeville is a term that has evolved. In the eighteenth century in France it referred to songs or poems recited in a theater, and here it essentially refers to an early form of musical comedy. Scarce, with only institutional copies located on OCLC First Search in Chicago and Morgan. Slipcase and cover with moderate soiling, less on cover proper. Scattered foxing. Plates, though, are clean. Very Good Plus. Cartonnage. Slipcase. . (#004971) $600.00

152. Rudolf en Susanna of Beloonde Ouderiefde. Deventer, The Netherlands: A. Tjaden. First Edition. Novelty children's book with actual fabric used for clothing on couple illustrated. N.d., circa 1865. 8vo. 26 by 19.5 cm. 40 pp. With four chromolithgraphic plates, each with separate figures of Rudolf and Susanna pasted down, and these figures wearing garments of actual fabrics, giving the imagery a dimensionality and texture. The couple are shown in childhood, later courtship and finally, marriage. The fabric cut-outs of silk, netting, linen and felt are impressively intricate, although there is an oddness to the result for sure. Color lithography by Emrik & Bingen. Recased in cloth, with original color lithographic cover and rear vignette preserved and pasted down. Neat tear (severing) in outstretched arm of Susanna in first pastedown. Very Good. Cloth. (#004633) $900.00

153. [Saleman's Sample Album] Méry Hungarian Industry-Arts Budapest. . Probably a salesman's sample album showing original designs for napkins or handkerchiefs, all with decorative, generally colorful and representational artwork. N.d., circa 1930s. Oblong album, 29 by 34 cm. 17 samples, including the one on the front cover, and one sample which is essentially repeated, with minor variations. Stylistically there is considerable variety, from folk art-ish and cartoon-ish to more fluid and fluent Art Deco stylized imagery. We don't know whether Méry was the artist or the name of the company, or both, but clearly these are samples of commercial artwork. That is not pejorative, for the images are delightful, evocative and even humorous and fun at times. Here there is the further intensification of the original watercolors. The papers the large square watercolors are laid on are brittle, as the norm of such albums. Chipping to thw wax paper pastedown on the cover. Very Good. Hardcover. String ties. . (#005145) $1,750.00

154. "Santiago de Cuba". Extraordinary group of ten original "postcards" with mixed media artwork depicting the sights of Santiago de Cuba. N.d., 1950s. With each folk art-y depiction of a monument, building or the like there is a combination of wafer thin pieces of wood pasted down and watercolors and pen and ink applied directly to the card. On to the wood is applied inkwork as well. The sights include the Jose Marti monument, the Abel Santa Maria monument, the cathedral, the Moncada, the Pdre Pico stairs, the Castello del Morro, the Diego Velazquez balcony, the Plaza de la Revolucion Antoni Maceo, the Granjita Siboney, and the City Hall. Homemade box, with faux wood panels -- the faux finish is carried over to the interior of the box as well -- alligator trim and 47 card label made to look like sign nailed down. We would guess that the cards and box were made by a local artist for sale to a visitor, but we can't say for sure that they were not made by an enthusiastic, talented tourist. Either way, does it really matter? Somehow, to the whole production, something of the improvisational, original and quirky spirit of Cuba itself is captured! The box measures 14 by 12 by 2 cm. The cards are 13.5 by 10 cm. Very Good. Box. (#004490) $1,000.00

155. Sassone, Felipe. Illustrations by Viera Sparza, Rikardo, Mairata, Baldrich, Victorina Duran, R. Drivan, Barbero, Lopez Rubio, etc. Disfraces. Spain, 1935. Whimsical, often colorful, magazine publication on masks and masquerade costumes of all types -- Romantic costumes, humorous costumes, ballroom garb, fantasy attire, historical, juvenile, Hispanic and other national types, etc. Folio. 36 by 27 cm. Unpaginated, 22 pp., including wraps. With a few black and white photos of models in some of the costumes. These photos were taken by various photographers in Vienna, which makes us think the magazine, while Spanish, borrowed from other similar publications. We have not been able to find other copies of this publication, this issue or another, on OCLC First Search. Notably absent too is any information on where exactly it was published, when, by whom. Very Good. Wraps. Stapled. . (#005103) $350.00

156. Scheffer, Jean Gabriel . Ce Qu'On Dit et Ce Qu'On Pense. Paris, London: Gihaut Frères, Villain, Charles Tilt. Circa 1830. Folio, 35 by 26.5 cm. 48 hand-colored lithographed plates illustrating many manifestations of hypocrisy. The plates are numbered consecutively up to 36, at which point they jump to 49 and then continue consecutively up to 60, for a total of 48. As the three copies of this work found on OCLC First Search (Morgan, Neuchatel, Geneve) have at most 48 plates, and there is no evidence whatsoever that anything was excised from this book, it is our belief that the missing numbers were deliberately withdrawn, or are early versions of the final group of plates. Providing some circumstantial backing for this theory is that Plate No. 49, the first of the final group, depicts a crowd greeting Louis Philippe with "Vive le Roi!" after the July Revolution in which he rose to power. In any case, there is no title page, nor would there ever have been one, we believe, as this was essentially a collection of plates. Four of the early plates were lithographed by Villain. Almost all the plates, including one of the ones credited to Villain, are also marked by Gihaut, unless there are no names at all. Adding to the confusion or complexity of the printing is that Charles Tilt, the London publisher, is credited, along with Gihaut, on a number of the later ones. Abrasions and rubbing to the morocco. Soiling to the cloth boards. Scattered soiling to the margins, most evident on the first plate. Last plate with two paper repairs. Imagery is however uniformly bright and clean. Very Good. Half Morocco. (#004960) $2,950.00

157. Schoppe, Amalia (geboren: Weise). Der Kleine Lustgarten, oder: belehrde und erbeiternde Erzählungen für liebe Jugend beiderlei Geschlechts von 8 bis 10 Jahren. Berlin: Carl Friedrich Amelang. Scarce -- OCLC lists the book but gives no libraries as holding it. N.d., 1830. 16mo. 13 by 10.5 cm. 168 pp. 7 hand-colored plates. Containing 19 stories. Illustrations by Ludwig Wolf and engraved by Meyer and Wachsmann. Wegehaupt I 1982. Seebass I 762 dates book a decade earlier. Very Good. Cloth. (#005132) $600.00

158. Schwarz, Armin [pseud. here: Jean Qui Rit]. Illustrations by Art [Artur] Scheiner. Ein Märchenbuch für Erwachsene. Budapest: G. Grimm. Printed by Viktor Hornyanszky, 1908. First edition. A gorgeous custom art binding of a scarce work of Art Nouveau or Secession era erotica -- "fairy tales for grown-ups" -- written in German but published in Budapest! Scarce, with only copies located on OCLC First Search at the National Library of Poland and a Dutch library. 8vo. 20.5 by 15 cm. 77, [1] pp. With a dozen "fairy tales", each accompanied with a provocative color plate and black and white illustrations interspersed. The binding is an abstract explosion of stars, and with its symmetrical geometric scheme, anticipatory of the Art Deco movement that would 48 soon secede or perpetuate the artistic movement known as Secession. The original pictorial wraps are bound in. Fine. Full Leather. (#005147) $1,950.00

159. Sézille, L-P. Illustrators: M. Mercier, Maurice Meslin and André Popot. Pochoir by Jean Saudé. Devantures de Boutiques 48 Planches Publiées sous la Direction et Avec une Introduction de L.-P. Sézille. Collection Documentaire d'Art Moderne. Paris: Éditions Albert Lévy, 1927. First edition. Beautiful folio of Parisian shop windows epitomizing the pinnacle of Art Deco design. Folio, 33 by 26 cm. [12] pp., including introduction and table of contents, followed by 48 plates of Parisian shop windows from the 1920s, each on a heavy card stock. 24 of the 48 plates are pochoir color plates executed by the great master of the pochoir print, Jean Saudé. The shops depicted are of a wide variety: perfumeries, furriers, jewelers, furniture stores, ceramic or china stores, hatters, hair salons, etc. With each the designer(s) is credited. The folio was intended to make the case for modern design, and one can not deny it succeeded magnificently. Condition: occasional light foxing in the margins, never disconcerting. Rebacked appealingly. Light wear to paper pastedown of folio boards. Very Good Plus. Folio. Ribbon tie. Paper pastedown on boards. Cloth reback.. (#005009) $2,750.00

160. da Silva Portilho, João Anastacio de Sousa Pereira . Colleccão de Principios Geraes para o Estabelecimento, Conservação, e Augmento de Hum Imperio, ou Elogio a’Nação Portugeza, Offerecido a Sua Alteza Real o Senhor D. Pedro de Alcantara Principe Real. Rio de Janeiro: Na impressão Regia, 1817. First Edition. Early Brazilian imprint, one justifying the Portuguese monarchy and the political system then in place. Portugal had at that time had relocated its capital to Rio de Janeiro. 8vo. 18.5 by 14 cm. 66 pp. Scarce in actual book form, with only physical copy located at Harvard. Modern red half morocco binding. A few fox marks on fore-edge. A few leaves with wormholing by the hinge, hardly noticeable. Otherwise, fine. Near Fine. Half Morocco. Marbled paper on boards.. (#005034) $550.00

161. Illustrations of the First Sino-Japanese War (8 volumes). . Oblong, 17 by 23.5 cm. The First Sino-Japanese War, in 1894 to 1895, was fought over control of the Korean Peninsula. We believe this account to be complete. We have eight volumes, numbered, in Japanese numbers, 1 to 8. With a colored map and 150 color plate illustrations -- two of the plates are folding; a number of the plates are double paged, yet those that were double paged we counted as two each. Each volume has about ten leaves of text in Japanese. However, the captions to the illustrations are rendered also in English, suggesting that the series was intended for the tourist market in part. Moderate wear and soiling to the covers. The illustrations are all clear and clean. Very Good. String. . (#005152) $1,950.00

162. [George Smith] Catalogue of Architectural and Ornamental Castings, Manufactured by George Smith & Co., Architectural Ironfounders and Sanitary Engineers, Contractors, By Special Appointment, To Her Majesty's War Department. Section VI. Spray Fountains, Drinking Fountains, &c. Glasgow (and London and Dublin): George Smith & Co., Sun Foundry. William Gorman & Co., draughtsmen and Lithographers. N.d., circa 1880. Elephantine folio, 43 by 28 cm. Frontis rendering of the Sun Foundry elevation, title page, [2], 39 plates with a wide variety of fountains, some monumental and spectacular, and their component parts (sculpture, pools, canopies, aquarium fountains, etc.) A few of the illustrations are full page, and two are double paged (counting as two plates each). While the illustrations are simple line scaled drawings and straightforward lithography, the elaborate fountains, with their seraps, dolphins, cranes, acanthus and other Beaux Arts detailing, are visually arresting and make this an extraordinary trade catalogue. There are other George Smith catalogues to be found on OCLC First Search, but none are this particular one or in this large a format, and the total number of Smith catalogues in book form is also not large. (Other catalogues, presumed slightly earlier, can be of a fuller line offered by 49 the company.) Soiling on the blue paper pastedown. Some looseness of the hinge. General wear. Good. Hardcover. (#004852) $950.00

163. Smith, Thayer. Sketches for A.H. from S.T.S. [Album of Comical Pen-and-Ink Sketches Mostly (23 ink drawings, one pencil, and one photo)]. . Sketches that effortlessly transport us back to Victoria England as experienced by the upper classes. N.d., circa 1870s to 1880s. Folio, 36 by 27.5 cm. The drawings were dedicated to Anna Hill, who herself was the subject of many of them, beginning with the title page illustration which depicts her in Egypt reading a letter from home. This title page reveals instantly the cleverness of the artist's conception as well as his proficiency in executing his artistic vision. A contemplative Anna is in the center, surrounded by vignettes of ancient Egypt that somehow are of one piece but also distinct from one another and interspersed with the title lettering. Hovering above, as in a cloud, is a picture of a High Head Castle, Anna's home in Cumberland (Cumbria). Thanks to a penciled caption beneath this mounted title illustration, we also know some of the details of the Hill family. The illustrations that follow are almost all comical, some broadly so, others, more subtly, some relying entirely on the visual depiction, while others derive their humor in part from a caption. One can easily imagine almost any of these illustrations as coming from "Punch" or another satirical magazine. In "A nice set (?) of audience", a man is reciting something to a small party of women and one older man. One of the woman is listening with a large horn hearing aid, while another is fast asleep. The others are completely ignoring the speaker as the older man endeavors to flirt with them. We especially like an illustration of a woman frightened by a headless scarecrow who appears to be pointing a handgun in her direction. Or another, showing "an interruption in an afternoon billiard party", which has the middle aged and older men staring out the window as two comely young women are playing on a swing, one of whom appears quite cognizant of the effect she is having on the men. Other subjects include a wedding, a flooded basement, the hiring of a cook and a maid, a lady on a high wheeled early bicycle, a knight and a barbarian with a club, etc. One can only fully appreciate the quality and fun of the illustrations by actually beholding them. The photo is of "the George Inn", with a horse and card waiting outside, and the final sketch is of a lady with a parasol reading a letter. This illustrations is dated June 2, 1881. Thayer Smith was the godfather to the Hills Family of High Head Castle, Cumberland, in England -- the castle was destroyed by fire in the 1950s. One of the children for whom this story was prepared, John Waller Hills (1867-1938) was a British Liberal MP from 1906 until his death and was due to be conferred a baronetcy but died prior. Scattered light soiling of the card stock onto which the drawings are mounted. Rubbing and wear to the morocco and edgewear to the boards. Very Good. Half Morocco. Marbled paper pastedown on boards. . (#004969) $4,000.00

164. Socialist Sunday Schools. Aims, Objects, & Organisation. With a List of Publications issued by the movement. Glasgow: National Council of British Socialist Sunday Schools, 1914. 8vo. 21 by 14 cm. 16 pp., plus wraps. An attempt to replicate religious Sunday school for the atheistic Socialist families. Full of idealistic Socialist pronouncements. Curious is the inclusion of eugenics in its suggested program. The brochure speaks of counteracting the "insidious effects of the 'Boy Scout' organisation" with "Peace Crusaders". With a two page "List of Publications". Also of note is the suggested reading list for children based on their age. At 16 or 17, for example, it is proposed they tackle "The Jungle", "Looking Backward", etc., to be followed with a course that includes Marx, Ruskin, Tolstoy, Henry George, Edward Carpenter, etc. Scarce. According to OCLC held in book form only at Wisconsin and Edinburgh and a few other libraries in microfiche. Soiled cover, and some soil spots within. Flattened fold down vertical center. General moderate wear. Good. Wraps. (#004962) $225.00

165. Souvenir des Dames. Paris: Chez Marcilly. Exquisite Regency period mother-of-pearl and gilded metal bound monthly appointment book, with original pencil-like writing implement. N.d., 50 circa 1810. 32mo. 9 by 6.5 cm. 19 leaves, most of which are blank. Each month is labeled in a graceful cursive script, above which is a small engraved vignette. Endpapers in front are a silk moire and surely original. In back, the same is now concealed by several leaves pasted down (we didn't count these leaves). This was a notebook in which whatever was written with the accompanying "pencil" could be easily erased so the leaves could be re-used again and again. The pencil is of a metal, and has a roller-like tip. It is housed in a metal spiral on the side, and when resting there, secures the notebook shut. The mother-of-pearl front cover is framed and secured by the gilded metal on its perimeter. Directly on the front piece of the mother-of-pearl is gilt floral decoration on all sides, with "Souvenir" written with decorative lettering in the center, and a small vignette of a man on a horse below. The rear piece of mother-of-pearl has a floral vignette as a centerpiece. The spine is of gilt metal and along with the rest of the metal, is ornately decorated. The booklet has some interior soiling and light wear on the outside. It remains an extraordinary example of a de luxe lady's notebook. Near Fine. Hardcover. Metal, Mother-of-Pearl.. (#005016) $650.00

166. Spanish Legal Manuscript and Patent of Nobility Regarding the Cordoba Family. Valladolid, Spain, 1571. Folio. 32 by 21 cm. 46 numbered vellum leaves, 49 vellum leaves in total, plus a few paper blanks front and rear. On an early page is a painting of the elaborate Cordoba family coat-of-arms, within which are several towers and armored figures depicted, and radiating out from are 25 banners. Also containing by our count 84 instances of illuminated lettering, most often a single letter but not infrequently a word or more, almost always in either case enclosed in a box or rectangle with other ornamentation surrounding the letter. The manuscript itself is essentially a record of a lawsuit involving the Cordoba family which brought to recover property improperly seized by the city of Talamanca in the collection of tax. In the suit the Cordobas asserted that on account of their nobility they were exempt from taxation. The family was able to establish their noble status and thereby prevail in the lawsuit. Thus the document is strictly speaking, not a straightforward patent of nobility, which is a document that accompanies an ennoblement or elevation in noble status ab initio but rather a testament to noble status that long predates the document. For many, the primary interest of the document, though, is not its literal contents but rather its age and beauty. As to the latter, there is the writing, the illumination and the illustration. The writing is in a Gothic script then in common use but to the untrained eye, quite inscrutable when it comes to reading it. Few would not recognize its elegance, and here the writing is rendered with a preternaturally neat hand. The full calf binding is certainly early, if not contemporary, with the document. It is decorated with gilt Baroque devices on both the front and back. The front also has the name "Cordoba" impressed in gilt. The binding itself is heavily rubbed and abraded. Ribbon ties but for a tiny remnant are perished. Still, an appropriate and handsome complement to the contents. 18th century endpapers, either from the 1700s or 1800s. The document appears to have once been folded and the vellum is wavy throughout. Some leaves are heavily soiled and dampstained, but never is the text obscured. The modern slipcase and chemise are in fine condition but even with the leather title label on the spine, are nothing more than a good functional method to preserve the prize within. Good. Contemporary Full Calf. Modern buckram cloth chemise and slipcase. . (#005073) $5,000.00

167. [Spanish Manuscript] Royal Grant of Arms. Very beautiful Spanish Grant of Arms, with four full-page fetchingly naive paintings on vellum. These include one of a knight jousting, in addition to the the expected coat-of-arms, etc. Dated 1760, the manuscript bears the stamp of King Charles III. Folio, 32.5 by 22 cm. Three vellum leaves (one with painting on both sides), followed by 60 paginated leaves of paper, then 50 unpaginated leaves of paper. The unpaginated pages are given over to official correspondence, notarizations, and legal confirmation and the like. In addition to the full page paintings, there are two other pages with elaborate rococo watercolored decoration, plus occasional uses of red or green watercolor to mark a name or section break. These are less 51 elaborate than might typically be associated with these Spanish patent illuminated manuscripts, in part, perhaps, because of the later date. But compensating for what might be seen as a lack in this area are the paintings, which definitely strike us as almost folk art, in the best sense of that descriptive rubric. This is undeniably a relative matter -- we are comparing this manuscript to others of the same purpose. The artwork brings to mind what is sometimes referred to as peasant Rococo. Surely this level of artistry would almost seem paradoxical to the august function of the particular document, and therein resides its especial charm and singularity. The vellum leaves are separated by yellow silk tissue guards. Also containing a family tree. The writing is throughout, and especially in the primary document, a very neat cursive calligraphy. Throughout there are tiny inconspicuous holes, and sometimes straight lines at the base of the leaves, where the writing instrument or ink has bore through the paper. Nonetheless the written document remains handsome and thoroughly legible. Light wear to the binding. Very Good. Full Blindstamped Morocco. (#005070) $4,750.00

168. The Story of the Saragossa Sea. . Wonderful, wicked children's story with fun, idiosyncratic and eccentric illustrations about a funny man's moustache, mermaids, and details that can not be properly related without presenting the entirety of the narrative, told largely, but not entirely, in verse. N.d., circa 1900. Oblong, 18.5 by 28 cm. 16 pp., plus wrap covers. Including cover, back and rear, nine (or ten, if one counts the inside of the front cover which has printed cut- outs pasted, whereas elsewhere the artwork is done directly onto mounted paper or is original but cut-out and pasted, as on the outside of the cover). In our view, the story and illustrations were done by an adult for the benefit of a child or grandchild -- a first page dedication suggests so much. And the illustrations are intentionally done in a somewhat naive and slapdash manner, to suggest the handiwork of a child. The illustrations unfailingly please, and they evoke the artwork of Lear, Tenniel, and countless other Victorian artist humorists. Very Good. Wraps. (#005148) $450.00

169. Street, Aileen. Chinese Whimsy. 4to. 25 by 16 cm. Unpaginated, 21 leaves, or 21 pp. with content. (11 pages with original watercolors, and the balance of pages with calligraphy employed in original verse.) The illustrations are very striking, especially the several of masks. Also striking is a colorful, flamboyantly winged chicken and a pig-faced man. The images are set starkly in the center of the page, with no surrounding decoration, and thus hew to an Oriental minimalism that allows them to leap off the page. The verse is a perfect complement, and the two work together seamlessly, paying homage to an Oriental style and flair while never entirely embodying it. We have no information on Aileen Street, the creator Small vellum tear by lower spine. Otherwise, clean and crisp. Fine. Limp Vellum (folded over). (#004847) $750.00

170. Strube, George and W. F. Blood. The Kaiser's Kalendar for 1915. Or The Dizzy Dream of Demented Willie. "'Hun'-Easy Lies the Head--" London: The Daily Express, 1914 . First edition. Oblong, 14 by 22 cm. 12 pages, plus wraps, with a large cartoon for each month mocking the megalomania of the Kaiser as he takes London by storm, plus a final coup de grace cartoon on the inside rear wrap. Alongside the monthly cartoon is a monthly calendar with a notable birth, death, event or occasion noted for each day. Soiling to the cover, and moderate wear besides. Very Good Minus. Wraps. (#004964) $350.00

171. Sugden, Alan Victor and John Ludlam Edmondson . A History of English Wallpaper 1509 - 1914 With 70 Plates in Colour and 190 Illustrations in Half-Tone. London: B. T. Batsford Ltd., 1925. First edition. Georgeous full vellum binding, with gilt lettering, and a special autographed copy, numbered 5 (of an unspecified number), signed by both authors and presented to "The Wall Paper Manufacturers Ltd". Folio, 33.5 by 26.5 cm, 13 by 10 inches. xiii, 281 pp. Lavish book on subject, with heavy paper, beautiful plates, 70 in color, with an extensive history that makes this 52 work serve well as both a scholarly treatise on the subject and a pleasurable "coffee table" book as well, inviting casual dips into its pages. Minor soiling on the vellum, with also trivial rubbing of the gilt lettering. Slight looseness of the front hinge. Near Fine. Full Vellum. (#005143) $650.00

172. Syberkrop, Louis. Satan Abdicates in Favor of Wilhelm. From the Cradle to the Mad House. The Boa Constrictor of Modern Times. Walk with Me Through the Valley of Death. God Deliver Us from Premature Peace. Des Moines, Iowa: Louis Syberkrop, 1918. Louis Syberkrop. Oblong, 15 by 23 cm. 31 pp. A screed against Wilhelm II by an impassioned Midwesterner. Starts with a slanted but recognizable brief history of German militarism from Frederick the Great to the First World War, and a dissection of the psyche of Kaiser Wilhelm -- his religiousity, his worship of Frederick the Great, his pontifications, his wildly contradictory pronouncements, etc. Following comes more imaginative pieces, such as a letter from Satan in which the devil expresses obeisance to Wilhelm, and then a polemic likening Wilhelm and Germany to a boa constrictor. The final piece in the publication is a series of damning quotes by the Kaiser over the years, all of which are meant to reveal his blatant hypocrisies and convict him for his martial actions by using his own words against himself. This self-published brochure perfectly reflects the strong jingoistic and anti-German strain in America at the onset of the American entry into the First World War. Scarce, with only a single copy found on OCLC First Search, and that copy, curiously in a French Library (Nanterre). Not without interest is a long note dated Oct. 28th 1926 written in long-hand by someone to whom Syberkrop apparently gave a copy of this. The note fills the entire first blank. This unknown recipient describes Syberkrop as "about the most intelligent person in Miami" and having "some good practical experience with Spiritualism . . . " and with original ideas on the subconscious, the latter topic not inconsequential in this particular screed. Then the note's writer speaks of Syberkrop's preparedness to take his own life when feeling old and useless and how a doctor gave him "stuff" marked "FINAL" on the bottle to accomplish this end. Yet another point mentioned is how Syberkrop, who would seem to have aspired to be a mouthpiece for American anti-German propaganda when this booklet was issued, decried the materialism of Americans. Moderate wear to the wraps. Very Good. Wraps. (#004945) $200.00

173. Keppell, Lieutenant Hon. Rupert, Lieutenant Geoffrey Campbell, Major John Ponsonby. The Syce [together with an original cartoon and manuscript promotion for the publication pasted into a blank preliminary page] A fortnightly review of Sport in Egypt. Cairo: Costagliola, 1911. A very scarce relic of English Colonial life -- an unrecorded sporting periodical produced by Coldstream Guards stationed in Cairo in 1911! Folio, 36 by 26 cm. (The final two issues are slightly smaller.) 46, 6 pages, each with three columns. Only six issues of the magazine were issued, between January 5 and March 10, 1911, a complete run of the short-lived magazine, or so we presume. Yet these six issues provide a wonderful snapshot of the leisurely life of British Colonials. Sporting activities recounted include polo, golf, croquet, football, boxing, racing (horse, but also camel, bedouin horse) and shooting, but every bit as much a concern, and providing much of the flavor to the publication, are bridge games, dancing, concerts, dinner parties, fashion and clothes -- in short, society! Enlivening the reportage is the arch, flippant tone of the editors, and also, at times, disarmingly self-deprecating and humble. And clearly they threw much energy into their editorials, which still delight. The magazine was started, it is stated in the first issue, because "We have always marvelled greatly that there has never existed in Cairo a paper in which the doings of the very large English community (who love seeing their names in print -- at least we do, even if we come in a bad last in every race, or some thoughtless little murder gets into the papers) . . . " We mention that in the Society section, clothes are a topic. The curious thing here, though, is that the peacocking spoken of is often that of the members of the Coldstream Guards -- in other words, men! Each issue has a section entitled "Songs and their Singers", which has snatches of lyrics attached to truncated 53 names of officers -- to us, this section appears intended as a droll puzzle of sorts, although we ourselves haven't figured out what exactly is going on. In all the issues are interspersed touches of serendipitous whimsy. One example is "A Racing A.B.C." in the second issue, which indeed is a humorous rhymed ABC. A high spot among the imaginative pieces might be an account in the fifth issue of a golf match among four English ladies, Mrs. Madraquet, Mrs. Fappin, Hon. Mrs. Quack- Bunum and Mrs. Bulgefad, in which bitchery and torrential rain were the salient elements. The final issue was created after "The Syce" changed hands on account of its originators having been sent back to England. We don't know who was responsible for this final issue, but the spirit of the earlier issues is maintained. No copies of this publication were found on OCLC, nor on COPAC. Surely there would not have been an enormous print run, and given the ephemeral nature of the content, the readers would have regarded its frivolous content as worth preserving for eternity. The title word, "syce", means an equine groom, and it is a term that was used in Colonial India particularly. The primary writer according to an inked inscription on the FFEP was Lieutenant Hon. Keppel (1886- 1964) who was the third son of Lord and Lady Albemarle. He would be wounded during the First World War at Mons and taken prisoner. Lieutenant Geoffrey Campbell died at Ypres in 1914. Major Ponsonby (1866-1952) served as a combat officer in the Second Boer War and the First World War, retiring in 1928 at the rank of Major General. This was his copy -- his bookplate is pasted onto the FEP. Some wear, and tiny chipping, at spine head, with small amount of leather replacement at spine base. The mounted caricature promotion is of a befuddled looking man with a pear-shaped head and a single lock of hair standing upright on his pate. It is rendered in black and red chalk or pencil. Also mounted on the following leaf is the authorization by the Minister of Interior, Mohammed Said Pasha (1866-1928), for the publication. Said Pasha would become the Prime Minister of Egypt in 1914 after the assassination of Boutros Pasha, and again in 1919. The limp leather tends to roll up at the edges similar to the way vellum does. The leaves within have light age toning; clean otherwise. Very Good. Full Limp Morocco. (#004615) $2,500.00

174. [Trade Catalogue] Jean Cussac Imprimeur-Editeur d'Art. 40 Rue de Reuilly, Paris Editions Artistiques En Noir & En Couleurs. Publicite -- Annonces -- Dessins -- Magazines -- Revues Techniques. Plaquettes et Catalogues De Luxe. Stunning catalogue from printing company, replete with specimen plates, some in full color, others partially colored. N.d., circa 1914. (List of medals won at International Expositions up to Gand or Ghent 1913, and fashions within are of the teens.) Folio. 32 by 24.5 cm. Unpaginated, ten leaves. Issued in conjunction with the firm's name change from Imprimier Chaponet to "Jean Cussac", the catalogue displays specimens of various printing methods, including wood engraving, similigravure, chromotypography, (trichromie) chromolithography, with full page "ads" for pencils, shaving accessories, women's fashion, Art Nouveau lamps and a touring car. Other photos show a selection of the catalogue covers the company was responsible for, and a few of the company's operations in a newly opened plant. Throughout, the typography, the decorative devices and other ornamentation and the overall production exemplifies Gallic panache, and make this a catalogue that transcends its ephemeral origin and purpose. Scarce, with no copies found on OCLC. Decorated embossed wrappers with string tie. Small tear at bottom of one leaf. Very Good. Wraps. (#004759) $300.00

175. [Trade Catalogue] R. Desgrais. Fabrique d'Appareils acoustiques et microphoniques contre la Surdité. Ententrd c'est Vivre. Paris. Unusual trade catalogue for horns and other equipment to aid the hard of hearing -- but no modern hearing aids. N.d., circa 1920. Oblong, 15.5 by 25 cm. Unpaginated, 13 leaves, two different paper stocks -- one light and newspaper thin, the other, glossy and thicker. With different equipment recommended based on the amount of hearing loss, and a questionnaire for the hearing impaired to evaluate for himself his level of loss. Fine. Wraps. (#005167) $250.00

54 176. [Trade Catalogue] Jobbé-Duval, Félix (1879-1961). Delion Chapelier. Delion & Caron. Paris: Breger & Lang, 1912. First Edition. Lovely hat catalogue with equestrian flavor. All the vignette illustrations atop each page depict horses, riders, coachmen, and the like, and many of the hats are styled for equestrians in one way or another -- this is long before the equestrian protective helmet! 4to, 27.5 by 18 cm. 20 pp., including wraps. Eight of the leaves, or 16 pages, are on a glossy stock, and these all show two or three photographed samples, and feature the headpiece two- toned evocative scene drawn by Jobbé-Duval, who was a prolific French book illustrator and commercial artist and the son of a noted painter. The Delion firm dated back to 1847. This catalogue was issued in conjunction with its opening its third store, this one on the Boulevard St.- Germain. Light soiling of the cover. Small edge ding insignificantly affecting leaves. Perhaps a touch of finger soiling. Very Good. Wraps. (#004946) $250.00

177. [Trade Catalogue] Fabbrica Italiana Automobili Torino (F.I.A.T.). Milano: Alfieri & Lacroix, 1913. First edition. Sumptuous car catalogue of Italian automotive giant rendered in English. 4to. 30 by 22 cm. 26, [8] pp., plus four mounted color plates, representing the four elements (earth, water, air, fire) as exemplified by modern vehicles -- cars for earth and fire, a zeppelin for air. Surveys the history of FIAT, its growth in production and its physical plant, followed by a long list of the racing medals it has won and a list of its many royal and high noble patrons. The next section goes into some detail about the car's features, especially internal specs. Finally, after a page devoted to illustrations of models from 1900 to 1913, there is a five page spread of the then new models. Besides the bright plates and the profuse illustrations interspersed throughout the text, the luxuriant nature of the catalogue is signaled by the mounted round medallion on the cover that mimics majolica. Light edgewear to the wraps, with a flattened dog-ear in a corner. Otherwise, clean and crisp. Near Fine. Wraps. (#004942) $450.00

178. [Trade Catalogue] Каталог Маслобойно-жировой промышленности [Catalogue of the cooking oil and fat industry] Министерство промышлениоси продоволботвенных Товаров ссср. Москва: художехтвенно-оформительскии комбинат, 1957. Very handsome catalogue of Russian cooking oils and fat products. 4to. 29.5 by 22.5 cm. Only partially paginated, 32 leaves. 26 color plates (we are counting a few double page plates as two plates). The products, in addition to cooking oils, include such things as mayonnaise and soaps. Moderate wear to the binding. Clean within. Very Good. Hardcover. Cloth spine. Paper pastedown, with some texture, on boards. . (#005160) $450.00

179. [Trade Catalogue] Косметика Cosmetics Produits cosmétiques. Москва or Moscow presumed. Very handsome Russian cosmetics catalogue, conveniently in three languages (Russian, French and English). 4to. 26 by 17.5 cm. Unpaginated, 17 leaves. A color plate on every recto (other than one with title page), and facing verso with a trilingual description of the product(s) shown. Most of the plates, besides the product, have a backdrop of a famous Moscow landmark -- the University, the Bolshoi -- or some other pretty touch such as branches with cherry blossoms, a pagoda, a harbor view at nighttime. The various bottles, tubes, boxes, bars of soap, etc. are all lovely to behold as physical objects, and this catalogue certainly represents that commercial art during the Soviet era, far from dreary, could at least in some instances rise to a high level. Whatever the virtues of the beauty products on display, the catalogue itself most definitely deserved to be cherished. Foxing on the front cover. Otherwise, clean and bright. Very Good. Card. Spiral. . (#005161) $400.00

180. [Trade Catalogue] W. P. Love Coach Builder, Commercial Road, Paddock Wood. . Scarce, with no copies located on OCLC First Search. N.d., circa 1890. Oblong 8vo, 15.5 by 25 cm. With 40 color plates of various coaches and carts, many of which were more utility and/or cargo, 55 non-passenger-oriented, or non-luxury passenger vehicles. One is likely to be struck at the sheer variety of such vehicles, all from a single make. And while the vehicles are mostly utilitarian, with the color one is also bound to be impressed with the neatness and beauty of design. Bound with staples within, and these stapes are now rusty, leaving some stains near the hinge. Moderate soiling to the cloth cover. Otherwise, the plates are clean. Very Good. Hardcover. Cloth. . (#004842) $950.00

181. 2[Trade Catalogue] A la Grande Maison. Spécialités pour Enfants. Été 1910. Exposition Universelle Paris 1900 Premier Grand Prix. Paris: La Grande Maison, 1910. Squarish 8vo. 17.5 by 15.5 cm. 24, [2] pp. Illustrations of fine tailored clothing for boys and girls back when sailor suits and more formal adult dress was lightly pared down for children. There are also knickers and riding habits. Most of the plates show idealized handsome, composed children, all exuding confidence, and the older ones very ready to assume positions of status and responsiblity in the adult realm. The outfits all have evocative names as well, such as the Maxime, the Roosewelt [sic], the Norfolk, the Chantilly, etc. Several plates are just of hats and shoes. With the color image of a boy hunter accompanying a pack of dogs, this is a most charming trade catalogue. Fine. Wraps. (#004927) $185.00

182. [Trade Catalogue] Model Gowns Displayed by The Charlton Company, 175 North State Street, Chicago, Spring & Summer 1920. New York: The Charlton Company. Designed, engraved and colored by The Mode Art Company. Small folio, 32.5 by 25 cm. Title, followed by 40 leaves (printing only on rectos), each with a color plate illustration of a svelte woman in a gown. One sees in the elegant assortment of these dresses the transition to the styles of the teens to those of the twenties, as hemlines have just moved northward, and the emphasis is moving toward less structure, an idealization of the boy-ish, less curvaceous statuesque woman. Charlton appears to have been a major importer of garment materials such as laces, silks, other dress goods, linings, notions, etc. and so this catalogue was a promotional vehicle to showcase designs, which the recipients might emulate and then order the materials needed from Charlton. Depicted are gowns and dresses by top designers of the day: Molyneux, Chanel, Lanvin, and a host of designers known by their first names: Jenny, Agnes, etc. (Think of "Irene", as in the musical.) Also fashions of Charlton itself and the Fashion Art League are featured. We do not believe that Charlton was looking to sell these designs then -- this was still an era when the major Parisian couturiers were just that and not the designers for ready-to-wear. Charlton's clientele would have been knock-off designers and manufacturers in the U.S. Mounted onto the FEP is a typed letter from Charlton asking to be paid its cost for the album or return it postage credited. Near Fine. Full Leather. Semi- rigid. . (#005137) $650.00

183. [Trade Catalogue] Poëlerie Réfractaire Fabrication Française. Utzschneider & Cie. Faïenceries de Sarreguemines Digoin, Vitry-le-François, St. Maurice Album de Poëles Portatifs. Paris: Utzschneider & Cie. Printer (?): G. Bataille, 1913. 4to. 27.5 by 22 cm. 2 pp., followed by 66 color plates of highly decorative faience tiled ovens and poles and the tile samples (variants or alternative color schemes). The Art Nouveau aesthetic dominates in the tiling, with a smattering of other, then more traditional styles such as Delftware and heavier Renaissance diaper patterns. A truly beautiful trade catalogue, and a scarce one, with no copies located on OCLC or elsewhere. Moderate wear to the paper pastedown cover, and a bit of griminess to the edges of the first few leaves. Very Good. Hardcover. (#005114) $485.00

184. [Trade Catalogue] Rules of the Game. With Notice concerning Roulette. Up-to-Date- Games. Nevers, France: Printer: Chassaing et Fils. Unusual early gaming catalogue -- we have been not able to locate other copies. Unusual, in that no prices are given, but there can be no question this brochure was intended as a sales promotion for the company's games and tables, and unusual 56 inasmuch as the company doesn't prominently pitch itself, although we can assume the issuer would have been well-known to the recipients of this publication at the time. N.d., circa 1900. 21 by 14 cm. [4], 8 pp., wraps. The first four unpaginated pages, printed on pink paper, impart the rules of roulette. Following is a listing and description of gaming or gambling games, well-known and obscure and forgotten, including roulette, of course, mascotte, petite boule, petits chevaux, steeple chase, nicolas, stroklet, castouillet, rabbit hunt, assiette au beurre, loto and raffling, chapchis, backgammon, etc. Each of the gameboards, tables or apparatuses are shown in small black and white photos. Considerable soiling to the wraps. Loosely to the leaves from the stapled binding. Good. Wraps.. (#005133) $350.00

185. [Trade Catalogue] Cardunets, A., artist. Tallada Llofriu y Cia. Seccion D/E Botamen Decorado para Farmacia. Letra D. Barcelona: Nicolas Miralles. N.d., circa 1900. Oblong 8vo. 19.5 by 28 cm. 31 bright chromolithographic color plates of pharmaceutical jars, bottles and urns. Each of the plates has typical Art Nouveau border decoration, and some of the bottle specimens also exhibit Art Nouveau style, while the majority are simply colorful with a less specific period styling. In all, the color of the bottles and jars, heightened at times with the background color, is very eye- catching. Scarce catalogue, with only one copy of possibly a later version of the catalogue found on OCLC First Search (at the Biblioteca Universitat de Barcelona). A small closed tear repaired. One small abrasion on a single plate. Light soiling to the cloth. Very Good Plus. Decorated Cloth. (#004841) $950.00

186. A Trip through the Colortype Plant of the Zeese-Wilkinson Company 424 West Thirty third Street, New York. New York: The Zeese-Wilkinson Company, 1916. First Edition. Folio, 32 by 24 cm. Unpaginated, 80 pp. (including title), 32 of which are examples, or color plates, mostly of advertisements, generally ones of considerable beauty, or book covers, catalogue pages, etc. The product photographs are especially striking. Discussions of plate making with color (followed by the examples), color printing, many black and white photos of the company's plant, a brief discussion of the New York City location, and a few ads for the enterprises that contributed to the book (inks, electrotypes, etc.) Overall, this is a lovely production on color printing by a color printer, and is a hybrid between an exposition on printing and trade promotion. Light wear. Tiny corner chip on rear cover. Pristine within, with the thick glossy leaves immaculate. Near Fine. Wraps. String tie. . (#004413) $200.00

187. Peacock, Mary and Yolanda Cuomo. View. Preview Issue. A fashion magazine. Fashion High & Low. New York, 1985. A highly scarce prototype dummy of a Village Voice fashion supplement intended to be issued ten times a year but in fact running just five times the following year, with a slight modification of the title to "Vue". By scarcity, we mean there are only two copies currently residing in institutional libraries (the Met, NYU). Folio, 37 by 27.5 cm. 30 pp., plus wraps, with many photos, photo-montages, and the like, and a good amount of color. A photo spread by Nan Goldin is surely a high point of this preview, and with its pregnant women prancing around without a thought to personal vanity, captures the gritty, edgy essence that suffuses this offbeat publication. This was meant to conjure up a counter-culture, rebellious, underground and/or ironic spirit and approach to fashion that started around this time to crop up in the mainstream publications such as "Vogue" but here is the entire game. This is what one might expect of "The Village Voice" as it conjures up its original slant on things. The magazine is as much a comment on fashion and fashion coverage as it is a sales vehicle for fashion, we might add. Other aspects that stand out are the arresting cover, and a spread on dogs and human legs -- looking at the world through canine eyes. Fine. Wraps. (#005045) $750.00

188. von Perckhammer, Heinz, photographer. The Culture of the Nude in China With 32 Original Photographs. Berlin: Eigenbrödler Verlag, 1928. First edition. 4to. 27.5 by 21 cm. 7 pp., 57 followed by 31 photographic plates. The 32nd photograph is on the dust jacket, making this copy complete. A gravure process was used for the photos, creating a slightly gauzy, dreamy feel. The composition of each is striking, with a single prop generally and a plain background. The photos are arresting in their Sino minimalism. The nudity, it seems to us, is about this paring down of distraction and not meant to be erotic. We wonder what the nude woman might be thinking or what she is about, but she remains an fascinating enigma. Foxing on dust jacket edges, and some miniscule tears (one mm at most) along edges of DJ. Very slight light foxing on edge of a few leaves. Mostly clean. Very Good in Good dust-jacket. Wraps. . (#005042) $2,000.00

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189. Wain, Louis, illustrator. Described by Nora Chesson. With Louis Wain to Fairyland. London, Paris and New York: Raphael Tuck & Sons, 1904. First Edition. Among the scarcest of Wain's works! Only four copies located on OCLC First Search (Harvard, Princeton, Toronto Public, British Library). Folio, 33.5 by 24.5 cm. Unpaginated, title, 35 pp. 12 color plates of feline doers, along with text illustrations on all other pages. Stories recatted include "The Forty Thieves", "Jack The Giant-Killer", "Robinson Crusoe", "Bluebeard", "Robin Hood", "Cinderella", "Red Riding Hood", "Aladdin", "Sinbad the Sailor", "Jack and the Beanstalk", "Sleeping Beauty" and "Beauty and the Beast". The illustrations are incomparable -- as inspired as any by Wain. And not to be given short shrift are the clever verse adaptations by Chesson. The thick paper is heavily age toned and brittle, with a few chips. The text block, originally bound with gutta percha, is now solid thanks to a rebinding. The chromo board pastedowns heavily soiled. Some small holes in the cloth spine. Original endpapers, with rear FEP missing, and substituted is a plain sheet. Good. Hardcover. (#004829) $1,250.00

190. Whalley, M. [Minnie]. Maps of English Counties. A splendid manuscript fun atlas. N.d, circa 1930. Oblong 4to. 25.5 by 36 cm. With 29 manuscript maps, done in pen and ink and watercolors, plus a hand-done large title lable with pen and ink border decoration and title page with floral ornamentation for borders. There is one map for each English shire, plus London, with each map surrounded by many vignette illustrations highlighting points of interest and activities (industry, agriculture, cultural, sports) associated with the particular area. The number of these vignettes can vary, with London, which has the greatest number, featuring by our count 33, with pictures of Parliament, Buckingham Palace, St. Paul's,, and other landmarks, of a Beafeater, a radio announcer, an equestrian, a bobby, zoo animals, paintings to mark galleries, a painter before a canvas to suggest Chelsea, and on and on. In some of the maps, there are additional tiny vignettes worked into the map, such as a fly fisherman or a golfer, over and above the many tiny cottage illustrations to mark villages, towns and cities in the particular county. London may have the greatest number of these vignettes, but we ourselves find the other maps surpassing it in charm and winsomeness. As in example, Hertfordshire has marching vegetables to signify market gardens, small planes for "aerodromes", rather precise representations of Haileybury & Imperial S. College, and on and on. In contrast to the typical whimsical map one finds printed say by tourism boards and found on diner placemats, these maps are actually rather accurate in their scale, and notwithstanding the imagery, they do not have the clutter or anarchic dizziness we would associate with these others. Minnie Whalley was a listed Cornwall artist, which is where she was originally from. She studied at the Gloucester School of Art and the Birmingham Central School of Arts and Crafts, and exhibited at the Clfton Arts Club, of which she was a member, the Dundee Society of Artists and the Royal West of England Academy, the oldest art gallery in Bristol, where she came to reside, and the St. Ives Art Gallery. Besides painting, Whalley worked in pewter and embroidery. She was included in the 1929 edition of "Who's Who in Art." Moderate soiling to the cloth cover. Near Fine. Semi-soft bound cloth. . (#005186) $3,950.00

58 Scarce Woodward:

191. Woodward, George Moutard, illustrator. Author: William Henry Ireland. Something Concerning Nobody Edited by Somebody. Embellished with Fourteen Characteristic Etchings. London: Robert Scholey, 1814. Scarce satire, with only copies located on OCLC First Search at the British Library and the Huntington! 8vo. 18.5 by 12 cm. 191, [1] pp. 14 hand-colored plates. Modern full morocco roan reddish binding by Chris Arnison. An account of the travails, indignities, foibles and fooleries of the ordinary man, or Mr. Nobody. More of a series of lightly satiric sketches than a novel or novella. While today the Woodward caricatures -- scarce specimens from a caricaturist whose work is often hard to find -- are likely to excite greater interest among collectors, but the text is in fact every bit as worthy, and provides an excellent glimpse of Regency society and mores. A generally clean copy, in a lovely modern full roan colored morocco. Near Fine. Full Morocco. (#005113) $2,500.00

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