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A Representative Selection 3 English History, Travel & Thought 20 Literature 38 Children’s Literature, Art & Architecture 58 Science, Economics & Natural History 70 Judaica 81 The American xperienceE 86 93 Index 103 A A Representative Selection R e p r e s e n t a t i v e

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4 S “Incomparably The Most Important Work In p The English Language”: The Fourth Folio Of r Shakespeare, 1685, An Exceptionally Lovely Copy i 1. SHAKESPEARE. Mr. William Shakespeare’s Comedies, n Histories, and Tragedies. Published according to the true g Original Copies. Unto which is added, Seven Plays, Never before Printed in Folio… The Fourth Edition. London, 1685. Folio, period-style full paneled calf gilt. $92,000. 2 Rare 1685 Fourth Folio of Shakespeare’s plays, first issue, with the 0 engraved frontispiece portrait of Shakespeare by Droeshout in neat 2 facsimile, the ten-line poem by Ben Jonson and John Milton’s first 0 poem. The folios are “incomparably the most important work in the English language” (William A. Jackson). The “four folios of Shakespeare” are the first four editions of Shakespeare’s collected plays, which were the only collected editions printed in the 17th century. At that time, plays were not considered “serious literature”; they were to be performed and attended and often survived only in manuscript form. Hence, the first collected edition of Shakespeare’s works did not appear until seven years after his death, and 17 of the 36 plays included had never been published before (and might have been lost had the folios not been printed). This Fourth Folio “contains the additional seven plays that first appeared in the 1663 [third folio] edition [only one of which, “Pericles, Prince of Tyre,” is now attributed to Shakespeare], as well as a good deal of correction and modernization of the text designed to make it easier to read and understand” (Folger’s Choice 6). It was the last edition of Shakespeare’s plays printed in the 17th century—last to appear before the editorial onslaught of the next hundred years. It became the edition of choice for future editors. The Fourth was printed on Dutch Demy Royal sheets, a larger format than any of its predecessors, and the type “is in a larger font than the three earlier editions, and more liberally spaced” (Jaggard, 497). In addition to Ben Jonson’s famous epitaph, this edition also includes the unsigned Epitaph for Shakespeare, regarded as John Milton’s first published poem, written when he was a student at Cambridge and appearing for the first time in the Second Folio (1632). Frontispiece portrait of Shakespeare supplied in facsimile. First issue, without Richard Chiswell listed in the imprint statement. For this fourth edition, Shakespeare’s text was cast off to three different printers, who typeset their sections simultaneously, thus shortening the time it took to bring the edition to market. When the work was finished, there was a shortage of 17 sheets from the second section, which were then hastily reprinted without the characteristic borders around the text. All of the relevant sheets in this present copy, however, are the original settings, with the page-borders. Although there is no accurate census of the number of folios still extant today, it is believed that copies of each printing number only in the hundreds. Two leaves of Titus Andronicus, [*Ccc6] and *Ddd, pages 299-302, bound out of order within the following play, Romeo and Juliet; two leaves of Romeo and Juliet bound out of order: *Eee3 follows *Eee4 and [*Eee6] follows [*Eee5]. Text complete. Title page skillfully remargined; marginal closed tear to leaf Y3. A clean and beautifully bound copy of one of the great rarities in English literature.

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“I Have Done And Will Do My Utmost To Make The Book… One Which Will Have Its Place In Our Literature”: Rare And Important Signed Limited Edition Of Churchill’s Scarce Marlborough, “The Most Desirable Of First Editions”—Publisher George Harrap’s Copy, Together With An Exceptional Archive Of Six Letters Signed By Churchill To Harrap Regarding Marlborough’s Composition And Publication 2. CHURCHILL, Winston. Marlborough: His Life and Times. WITH: Six letters signed by Churchill to the publisher, George Harrap. London, 1933-38. Four volumes, plus portfolio of letters. Octavo, original publisher’s deluxe full russet morocco gilt; letters housed in custom portfolio. $55,000. Signed limited first edition, one of 155 sets signed by Churchill in Volume I, with hundreds of maps and plans (many folding), plates and document facsimiles, in handsome publisher’s deluxe morocco—the only signed edition of all Churchill’s works. The copy of publisher George Harrap, with his bookplate in Volume I and II, and with a trove of six signed letters from Churchill to Harrap regarding the composition and publication of Marlborough. Churchill wrote this history of his famous ancestor to refute earlier criticisms of Marlborough by Macaulay. “Though it was a commissioned work, Churchill would not have invested nearly a million words and ten years had it not had special significance for him. For he wrote about a man who was not only his ancestor... but also a supreme example of heroism in the two vocations which mainly interested Churchill and in which ultimate triumph seemed to have eluded him— politics and war making” (Wiedhorn, 110). “It may be his greatest book... Only in [Marlborough’s] pages can one glean an understanding of the root of the speeches which inspired Britain to stand when she had little to stand with” (Langworth, 164).

6 The correspondence included with this signed limited edition of Marlborough includes four typed letters signed “Winston S. Churchill” or “W. Churchill,” two with autograph postscripts, to George Harrap, S February 1, 1931, through May 6, 1936, three on one leaf each of Chartwell, Westerham, Kent letterhead, p and one on two leaves; an autograph note initialed, and signed “Winston S. Churchill” to Harrap, with r Harrap’s autograph note, January 19 [no year], on one leaf of Blenheim Palace letterhead; a typed letter i with autograph postscript signed “W” to General Sir Bindon Blood, June 15, 1934, on one leaf of Chartwell, n Westerham, Kent letterhead; along with an Associated Press black-and-white photograph of Churchill at g lunch with Harrap, 8 by 6 inches. Notable quotations from the letters include: “I grudge these speeches which make such inroads on my 2 time”; “I am happiest in the 18th Century”; “I have done and will do my utmost to make the book which your 0 long established firm is producing, one which will have its place in our literature”; “The personal relations of Anne and Sarah and of Anne and Marlborough, the extraordinary political struggles between the Whigs 2 and the Tories, and the three great battles of Ramillies, Oudenarde and Malplaquet, should give us a very 0 good story… I shall have to be very careful to keep within two hundred thousand words”; and “Ding-dong on the India front!” Marlborough is “the only signed… edition in the Churchill canon and one of only two publisher’s leatherbound first editions… clearly this is the most desirable of first editions” (Langworth, 168-69). Issued simultaneously with the trade edition. Errata slips present in Volumes I-III, as called for. Cohen A97.1.a. Woods A40a. The copy of publisher George Harrap, with his bookplates in Volumes I and II. Interiors generally clean, spines sunned, light wear to slipcases, often not present. Letters fine. An exceptionally desirable signed association copy, with important extensive correspondence from Churchill.

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“The Most Elaborate And Beautiful Of All 17th-Century English Treatises On Anatomy”: With 105 Magnificent Large Folio Anatomical Plates By Lairesse 3. COWPER, William. The Anatomy of Humane Bodies, with Figures Drawn after the Life by the Best Masters in Europe. Leyden, 1737. Atlas folio (15 by 21 inches), contemporary full brown calf rebacked. $14,500. Second edition of Cowper’s splendid large folio anatomical atlas, one of the greatest of all artistic anatomies. Superbly illustrated with engraved title page and 114 magnificent folio engraved plates (two folding and one double-page), including 105 plates originally drawn by Rembrandt’s rival, Gerard de Lairesse for Bidloo’s Anatomia (1685). Of the 114 extraordinary anatomical plates in Cowper’s atlas, 105 were originally drawn for Govard Bidloo’s Anatomia Humani Corporis (1685) by Gerard de Lairesse, who rivaled Rembrandt in his time. Lairesse’s plates are “elegantly done and artistically perfect” (Choulant & Frank 250). Considered an “artistic meditation on anatomy,” his realistic drawings represent a total departure from the idealistic tradition inaugurated by Vesalius. Bidloo’s text, however, was widely criticized, and because of this English surgeon William Cowper, who had obtained 300 impressions of the plates, arranged to supply an entirely new text in English to accompany a reissue of the original engravings. Cowper’s text first appeared in 1698, with an appendix on the external muscles, accompanied by nine additional plates engraved by Michael Van der Gucht. The new English text was superior to Bidloo’s and quite successful: three editions were printed in the 18th century, with impressions struck from the old plates, one in English (this present copy) and two in Latin. Cowper’s edition of the atlas is considered the “most elaborate and beautiful of all 17th-century English treatises on anatomy” (Garrison & Morton 385.1). Light spotting to text, a few professional repairs and light cleaning to plates. boards with expert restoration. A handsome copy of this scarce and monumental work. 8 S p r i n g

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One Of The Most Famous Of All English Botanical Color Plate Books: Thornton’s Splendid Temple Of Flora 4. THORNTON, Robert John. Temple of Flora; Or Garden of the Botanist, Poet, Painter, & Philosopher. London, 1812. Large quarto, contemporary straight-grain red morocco gilt rebacked with original spine laid down. $29,800. One of the most original and sumptuous English botanical plate books ever produced; first “quarto” edition (actually folio size, measuring approximately 12 by 15 inches), magnificently illustrated with 28 hand-colored aquatint botanical plates, a hand-colored aquatint allegorical frontispiece, engraved title on two leaves, and two engraved allegorical plates. An exceptional copy in splendid contemporary straight-grain morocco-gilt. Thornton’s Temple of Flora is unsurpassed as a botanical example of the Romantic era. The first floral prints with a landscape background, their dramatic impact is unrivaled by any works of the traditional presentation and style. First issued as a large folio and published in parts from 1799 through 1807 (“one of the greatest prizes of collectors of fine flower-books”), the plates were re- engraved on a smaller scale for this first “quarto” edition (still much closer to a folio in size than a quarto). The plates are accompanied by prose and verse text, and each of the plants is illustrated in an exotic and romantic setting by a number of artists, including Philipp Reinagle and Peter Henderson. Abraham Pether created the moonlit background for the plate of the night-blooming cereus, Sydenham Edwards illustrated the hyacinths, and Thornton himself illustrated the rose. Without the rarely found letterpress title page. Sitwell 43. Dunthorne 302. Ray 39. Internally very clean, plates exceptionally bright, hand-coloring vivid. A superb copy, splendidly bound. 9 A

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S e l e c t i o n “The One Great Christmas Myth Of Modern Literature”: First Issue Of A Christmas Carol With Dickens’ Clipped Signature Tipped In, In Original Gilt-Decorated Cloth 5. DICKENS, Charles. A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being A Ghost Story of Christmas. London, 1843. Small octavo, original gilt-stamped cinnamon cloth. $37,000. First edition, first issue, of this Christmas classic—a most exceptional copy with Dickens’ clipped inscription (“Charles Dickens with Kind regards”) tipped onto the title page—with four hand-colored steel-engraved plates by John Leech, the only one of Dickens’ first editions to contain hand-colored illustrations. A beautiful copy. A Christmas Carol “may readily be called the Bible of Christmas… It was issued about ten days before Christmas, 1843, and 6000 copies were sold on the first day” (Eckel, 110). “It was a work written at the height of Dickens’ great powers, which would add to his considerable fame, bring a new work to the English language, increase the festivities at Christmastime, and contain his most eloquent protest at the condition of the poor” (John Mortimer). It “was the first of Dickens’ Christmas books (a new literary genre thus created incidentally)… it was an extraordinary achievement—the one great Christmas myth of modern literature.” The publication history of A Christmas Carol is bibliographically complex; “many copies are found with a mixture of features” (Gimbel A79). First issue, with blue and red title page dated 1843; half title and verso of title page printed in blue, “Stave I” on page [1], and light green endpapers, with the four color plates. First-issue copies appear with either yellow or green endpapers, no priority established; this copy has green endpapers. Binding matches Todd’s first impression, second issue, first state, with the closest interval between blindstamped border and gilt wreath equal to 12-13 “I have endeavoured in this Ghostly mm and with the “D” in “Dickens” unbroken (Smith II:4). Eckel, 110-125. Engraved little book, to raise the Ghost of an Idea, portrait of Dickens with facsimile signature affixed to Table of Contents verso of Christmas Carol. Exceptionally lovely and completely unrestored, with only a few which shall not put my readers out of spots of soiling to interior, slightest soiling and mild toning to extremities of cloth, humour… with the season, or with me.” gilt quite bright. A most desirable copy.

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“The Essence Of Hemingway”: Presentation-Association Copy Inscribed By Hemingway To His Close Paris Friend Guy Hickock, A Prototype For Several Of His Characters 6. HEMINGWAY, Ernest. Death in the Afternoon. New York and London, 1932. Octavo, original black cloth, dust jacket, custom clamshell box. $29,500. First edition of Hemingway’s masterpiece on bullfighting, inscribed by him to his close friend Guy Hickock: “To Guy, or Monsieur Tripas, with much affection, Ernest.” Recipient Guy Hickock was an American journalist who began working for the Brooklyn Eagle in 1914. After World War I, Hickock moved to France, where he opened up a Paris bureau for the Eagle in 1918. The Paris center also served as a travel hub for Americans in Paris, which is likely where Hickock met Hemingway. Despite Hickock being over a decade older than Hemingway, the two became close friends in the 1920s, with Hickock assisting the younger writer as he worked in Paris and traveled abroad. In 1927, the two traveled together to Italy, a trip which would form the basis for Hemingway’s short story “Che Ti Dice La Patria?” as well as an inspiration for Hickock’s own journal articles (The Hemingway Review 25). Fellow writer John Dos Passos praised Death in the Afternoon as “an absolute model for how that sort of thing ought to be done,” and a contemporary review in The New York Herald Tribune described it as “the essence of Hemingway.” Illustrated with over 60 full- page photogravures. Hanneman A10. Grissom A.10.1.a. Book with clean interior, mild discoloration to rear board and light rubbing to extremities, very good. Scarce unrestored dust jacket with splits along folds, some shallow creasing and edge-wear, bright and very good. A desirable presentation-association copy.

11 A “But Why Doc? Well Alright”: Most R Exceptional First Edition, Presentation e Copy, Of Cannery Row, Inscribed By John p Steinbeck And Additionally Inscribed By r Steinbeck’s Best Friend And The Basis e For The Character “Doc,” Ed Ricketts, s The Dedicatee Of Cannery Row e 7. STEINBECK, John. Cannery Row. New York, n 1945. Small octavo, original canary yellow cloth, dust jacket, custom full morocco clamshell box. t $25,000. a First edition, presentation copy, of Steinbeck’s “fine t small art, a miniature gem, a verbal minuet” (A.C. i Spectorsky), inscribed: “For Russell Zachery, Viva v La Estrella Sala, John Steinbeck,” and additionally e inscribed by Ed Ricketts, Steinbeck’s best friend, the basis for the character “Doc”, and the dedicatee of the work: “But why Doc? Well alright. Ed Ricketts,” in S a beautiful pictorial morocco clamshell box. e Steinbeck’s picaresque novel, set against the l backdrop of the sardine canneries, vacant lots, e flophouses and honky-tonks of Monterey, California, c “was as complex as [Steinbeck] was… Nowhere else t in his work is his poetry so well controlled, and i nowhere else does he cut quite so deep” (Benson, o 554-5). First edition, second-state cloth, as is usual n with inscribed copies; most if not all of the copies inscribed by Steinbeck are in second-state cloth, including the dedication copy. The first edition was printed using materials in conformity with wartime conservation measures and was issued both in paper wrappers and in cloth with dust jacket; when supplies of the light yellow/buff cloth in were exhausted, the job was finished in bright canary yellow cloth as with this copy. This extraordinary and highly desirable presentation copy is inscribed by both John Steinbeck and Ed Ricketts, Steinbeck’s best friend and the dedicatee of the work (“For Ed Ricketts who knows why or should”). “Scholars see Ricketts-like characters in many of Steinbeck’s novels—wise, all-seeing characters—like Casey in The Grapes of Wrath and Slim in Of Mice and Men. Ed Ricketts made his first appearance in Steinbeck’s 1935 short story ‘The Snake’” (NPR). However, Cannery Row was where Ricketts came into full focus. Ricketts, a marine biologist, worked on the real Cannery Row, running a lab and selling dissection specimens to schools. Steinbeck saw in Ricketts a unique quality: the ability to thoughtfully reframe others’ ideas into philosophy. Steinbeck was not alone in his admiration; John Cage and Henry Miller also considered Ricketts a friend. “Steinbeck and Ricketts were not only friends, they were collaborators... In 1940, just after Steinbeck’s epic novel The Grapes of Wrath was published, Steinbeck and Ricketts embarked on a six-week marine expedition to the Gulf of California... The following year, the book based on their expedition, Sea of Cortez, was published. It was co- written by Steinbeck and Ricketts” (NPR). Book with rear inner paper hinge split but holding firm, shallow staining to edge of text block, and minor soiling to cloth. Bright dust jacket with only slight rubbing and toning to extremities. A superb presentation copy with rare double inscription.

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“They Will Not Find A Rebellion: They May Indeed Make One”: Most Desirable Large-Paper Quarto First Edition Of The Only Collection Of Franklin’s Political Writings Printed In His Lifetime And With His Consent, Handsome In Contemporary Calf Boards 8. FRANKLIN, Benjamin. Political, Miscellaneous, and Philosophical Pieces. London, 1779. Quarto, contemporary polished brown calf rebacked and recornered. $14,800. First edition, wide-margined copy of the preferred quarto issue, of this major collection of Franklin’s writings, many printed here for the first time, containing his powerful testimony before Parliament in 1766, in which his eloquent answers to questions about the Stamp Act and other incendiary measures made Franklin “the foremost spokesman for the American cause,” complete with three plates (one folding) and folding table, an exceptional copy with a distinctive 19th-century provenance in contemporary calf boards. This important work “is the only edition of Franklin’s writings (other than his scientific), which was printed during his lifetime; was done with Franklin’s knowledge and consent, and contains an ‘errata’ [Addenda & Corrigenda] made by him for it” (Ford 342). Edited by his close friend Benjamin Vaughan and published in London while Franklin was serving as America’s ambassador, this seminal collection contains many of his writings on the rebellious American colonies and incendiary British measures such as the Stamp Act. This volume also offers first printings of many philosophical pieces that, the editor notes, “are not elsewhere extant in print.” This quarto issue precedes the octavo issue of the same year. Franklin’s famous epitaph is printed prior to a lengthy appendix, an index and Franklin’s Addenda and Corrigenda. With a frontispiece portrait of the aged Franklin, three scientific plates (one folding), and folding table of a “reformed” spelling convention. Ford 342. This memorable copy is from the library of the 19th-century American diplomat and bibliophile Henry William Lord. Appointed by President Lincoln in 1861 as a consul to England, Mr. Lord returned home to represent Michigan’s First District in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1881- 1883. Interior generally quite fresh with only light scattered foxing, minimal rubbing to boards. An especially desirable near-fine copy.

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S e l e c t i o n First Edition Of Holy Cats By Andy Warhol’s Mother, 1957, Inscribed By Andy Warhol As “Andy Warhol’s Mother’s Son” With The Phone Numbers For Warhol’s Two Studios 9. (WARHOL, Andy) WARHOLA, Julia. Holy Cats by Andy Warhol’s Mother. No place, 1957. Slim octavo, original pictorial cream paper boards; ll. 20, custom chemise and clamshell box. $16,500. First edition of Warhol’s self-published collaboration with his mother, Julia Warhola, featuring 21 offset lithographs of Warhola’s drawings and calligraphy about cats and angels, warmly inscribed by Andy Warhol with the phone numbers of his studios: “To Rose [sketch of a heart] Andy Warhol’s Mother [sic] Son. AT92198 Before 2, after 2 EL59941.” This is a collaboration between Andy Warhol and his mother, Julia Warhola. Warhola was an avid sketcher and calligrapher. Each of the multicolored leaves of this book is printed on the recto only with one of Warhola’s charming sketches of cats and, often, angels. The title page and front board also feature lithographs after Warhola’s drawings. “Julia (Andy’s mother) moved to New York City in 1952 to be with Andy. She continued her singing and drawing through the Fifties and Sixties. Andy admired her abilities and used her penmanship often. Her decorative handwriting would often accompany his illustrations. She won awards for her lettering. In 1957 she illustrated a small book called Holy Cats. It featured what she loved to draw most, angels and cats” (The Andy Warhol Family Album). The inscription in this copy, from Andy Warhol to “Rose,” features an original sketch of a heart, as well as phone numbers for Warhol’s two studios: 1642 Lexington Avenue and the iconic Factory (known for its mix of celebrities, oddballs, drugs, and—even—art and film production). Interior with just a few minor finger smudges, toning and slightest soiling to boards, spine expertly repaired. An extremely good inscribed copy.

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“When I First Saw The Book, It Looked So Long And Heavy That My Heart Sank And I Wondered If Any Reader Would Ever Toil Through Until The End”: Beautiful Signed First Edition Of Mitchell’s Classic Gone With The Wind, With Fine Typed Letter Signed By Mitchell Regarding The Book 10. MITCHELL, Margaret. Gone with the Wind. New York, 1936. Thick octavo, original gray cloth, dust jacket, custom half morocco clamshell box. $30,000. First edition, first printing, in first-issue dust jacket, signed by Mitchell and accompanied by a typed letter on Mitchell’s personal stationery about the book also signed by her. Said to be the fastest selling novel in the history of American publishing (50,000 copies in a single day), Gone with the Wind won Mitchell the Pulitzer Prize. First printing, with “Published May 1936” on the copyright page and no mention of other printings. First-issue dust jacket, with Gone with the Wind listed in second column of booklist on back panel. Laid into this copy is a 1936 booklet, Margaret Mitchell and Her Novel, produced by Macmillan “in response to a flood of requests from readers all over the country for information about the author and her book.” The accompanying letter, dated October 6, 1936, only a few months after the book was published, from Atlanta, reads: “Dear ______: How nice of you to write me that you were sorry when you came to the end of “Gone With the Wind”. When I first saw the book, it looked so long and heavy that my heart sank and I wondered if any reader would ever toil through until the end. Thank you so much for all the wonderful things you wrote me about the book—and about myself. They were all appreciated very much. Cordially, [signed] Margaret Mitchell.” It is quite unusual to find letters written by Mitchell that make reference to Gone with the Wind. Book with only slight foxing to spine. Bright, unrestored original dust jacket with closed tear to foot of spine and very minor soiling. Letter with foolscap paper attached to back. A near-fine copy with rare letter accompaniment. 15 A

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“We Owe This Assistance For The Sake Of The Good Name Of America And Above All For The Sake Of Humanity”: Extraordinary Autograph Manuscript Introduction Written And Signed By Teddy Roosevelt, With Both The Deluxe Limited First Edition Quarto Edition And The First Trade Edition Of Edith Wharton’s The Book Of The Homeless, 1916, Where Roosevelt’s Introduction Appeared, Illustrated By Bakst, Monet, Renoir, Rodin, And Others, Featuring Writings By Rupert Brooke, Jean Cocteau, Joseph Conrad, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, W.B. Yeats And Wharton Herself 11. (ROOSEVELT, Theodore) WHARTON, Edith, editor. Autograph manuscript signed (“Theodore Roosevelt”). WITH: The Book of the Homeless (Le Livre des Sans-foyer), both octavo edition and quarto edition. Oyster Bay, Long Island and New York, 1915, 1916. Three items. Two leaves of stationery, each measuring 8-1/2 by 10 inches; pp. 2. WITH: Octavo, original half gilt-stamped red cloth. WITH: Quarto, original gilt-stamped half tan cloth, together in a custom half morocco three-part slipcase. $27,500. Exceptional autograph manuscript of the introduction to The Book of the Homeless written and signed by Theodore Roosevelt, accompanied by both the regular first edition (octavo) and the deluxe large-paper first edition (quarto), one of only 125 copies on Van Gelder Paper printed and signed by Daniel B. Updike at the Merrymount Press (out of a total deluxe edition of 175 copies), of this war- relief anthology edited by Wharton, each with an introduction by Theodore Roosevelt, four facsimiles of manuscripts, and 22 illustrations by prominent artists (eight in color). The Book of the Homeless was sold for the benefit of the American Hostels for Refugees (with the Foyer Franco-Belge) and of the Children of Flanders Rescue Committee. Theodore Roosevelt wrote the powerful introduction to Wharton’s work. The signed autograph manuscript of that introduction—included here—contains many differences from the published version present in both the octavo edition and quarto edition. The most substantial change is the deletion of the following underlined words: “… even if the neutral nations, and especially the United States, should at last wake up to the [the performance of the] duty they have so shamefully failed to perform and should insist upon Belgium being restored to her own people….” The removal of those clauses removed the nationalistic sentiment and rendered the overall tone calmer and more measured. The limited deluxe edition is an out of series copy. On the colophon, “copy number” has been crossed out and the following note has been added by hand by D.B. Updike of the Merrymount Press: “Unnumbered copy for designer of decoration, R.R. [signed] D.B. Updike.” In beautiful, about-fine condition.

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R Beautifully Blind-Tooled e 16th-Century London Binding With The p Arms Of Henry VIII And Katherine Of r Aragon, The Bradley Martin Copy e 12. PETRUS LOMBARDUS. Textus magistri s sententiarum in quatuor sectus libros partiales. e Possibly Lyons, 1527. Octavo, contemporary n paneled calf over wooden boards, remains of two t clasps, custom chemise and half morocco slipcase. $25,000. a t Rare early 16th-century printing of Petrus Lombardus’ Sentences, in splendid contemporary i panel-stamped calf displaying the arms of King v Henry VIII and of his Queen Katherine of Aragon. e From the library of renowned collector H. Bradley Martin, with his bookplate. S Petrus Lombardus, 12th-century Italian theologian e and for a time Archbishop of Paris, is best known l for his “Sentences.” Probably written between 1155 e and 1158, it is a compilation with commentary of the opinions of earlier theologians. Lombardus’ c doctrine on sacraments elucidated in this work t was adopted as the official doctrine of the Roman i Catholic Church at the Council of Trent. By the 13th o century the “Sentences” had become the standard n medieval textbook of Catholic theology. This characteristic London panel-stamped calf binding has royal arms on both the front and back, the front panel showing the arms of England marshaled with those of Katherine of Aragon supported by two angels, the back panel showing the arms of England with Henry VIII’s Tudor emblems supported by the dragon and the greyhound, a double rose and two angels bearing scrolls above the crown, and, dependent from the shield, by chains, two portcullises. The two panels were always used together until Henry VIII’s divorce in 1533. This printing of the Textus Magistri Sententiarum is listed as held by only one institution in the United States (NUC). DNB IX:534. Davenport, 20. Cambridge/Adams P902. Bookplate of H. Bradley Martin, whose library included “major holdings in American, English and French literature and important American historical documents”—such as the first printing of the Declaration of Independence and George Washington’s copy of the Federalist Papers. His collection was so highly regarded that it was highlighted in an exhibit at Pierpont Morgan Library” (New York Times). Only a bit of slight marginal dampstaining to preliminaries, text clean and crisp, endpapers renewed, minor wear to spine of unrestored binding. A most handsome and rare Tudor period binding.

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Rare And Extraordinary Elizabethan Manuscript Letters Patent, Dated 1600, Naming The New Sheriff Of County Palatine Of Chester, With Elizabeth I’s Original Hanging Royal Wax Seal In Exceptional Condition 13. ELIZABETH I. Manuscript document, with original hanging wax seal. England, 1600. Single page of vellum with usual folds and attachments, measuring approximately 14 by 5-1/2 inches, with double-sided wax seal measuring 3 1/2 inches in diameter, custom morocco case. $16,500. Rare original Elizabethan document, written entirely in a secretarial hand and dated 1600, granting the office of sheriff of the County Palatine of Chester to Thomas Aston, Esq., with Elizabeth I’s hanging royal wax seal still attached. This manuscript secretarial document is a letters patent, dated December 9, 43 Elizabeth [i.e. 1600] granting the office of sheriff of the County Palatine of Chester to Thomas Aston, esq. Neatly attached is the warrant addressed to Thomas Aston, late sheriff, ordering him to hand over to his successor Richard Grosvenor, esq., all the writs, rolls, etc. pertaining to the office “Queen Elizabeth of famous of sheriff dated the next year, December 15, 44 Elizabeth [1601]. The obverse of the wax seal memory –we need not be represents a variation of Elizabeth’s royal arms: ashamed to call her so! ...that on the right, the quartered arms of France (fleur- de-lis) and England (lions passant guardant); Lady, that great Queen.” on the left, three sheaves of wheat (the emblem of the County of Chester), supported by feathers –Oliver Cromwell and crowned. The reverse represents Elizabeth astride her palfrey, seated upon the chair-like side-saddle. The hanging seal is attached to the document by a vellum ribbon and is preserved in a custom morocco case with gilt-lettered spine. Unusually fine condition. 19 E n English History, Travel & Thought g l i s h

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T h o u g h “Some Of The Most Attractive Work Ever Produced In Aquatint” t 14. FIELDING, Theodore Henry Adolphus. Cumberland, Westmoreland, and Lancashire. London, 1822. Large folio (11 by 17 inches), 20th-century full dark green morocco gilt, custom slipcase. $8800. First edition, first issue, large-paper copy, of this visual documentary of the Lake District, illustrated with 44 magnificently vivid hand-colored aquatint plates— proofs on India paper before letters—of Cumberland, Westmoreland and Lancashire counties. Beautifully bound by Bayntun-Riviere, with original publisher’s front wrapper and label mounted and bound in at rear. Theodore Fielding exhibited at the Royal Academy and the British Institute and was appointed teacher of drawing and perspective at the East India’s Military College at Addiscombe. He authored several valuable works on perspective, painting and engraving, among them his treatise on The Art of Engraving with the Various Modes of Operation (1841). His plates for Scenery of the Lakes are regarded as “some of the most attractive work ever produced in aquatint” (Prideaux, 11). This wonderful large-paper copy contains proof plates before captioning, printed on mounted India stock, and sumptuously and deeply hand-colored— characteristic of Fielding prints. First issue, without figures of people and animals in the foregrounds of many of the plates (see Tooley). Faint evidence of penciled captions on many plates. Some light marginal foxing or soiling to a few early plates, hand-coloring vivid, beautiful full morocco binding fine. A splendid copy with proof impressions on India paper. 20 S p r i n g

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Monastic Ruins Of Yorkshire, 1843, With Over 80 Elephant Folio Plates, Many Hand-Colored 15. RICHARDSON, William. The Monastic Ruins of Yorkshire. York, 1843. Elephant folio (18 by 24 inches), early cloth rebacked and recornered in later dark green morocco. $12,800. First edition of this monumental production, with two hand-colored title pages, a hand-colored dedication leaf, 34 hand-colored full-page plates, 24 hand-colored half-page plates, 22 uncolored full-page plates (some tinted), and a map. The dissolution of the monasteries by Henry VIII in the 16th century left Yorkshire with a rich collection of monastic ruins, captured here in a series of plates by artist William Richardson in a work that rivals the great Holy Land by David Roberts. The plates were printed by the lithographic firm of William Day, frequently referred to as “Day and Haghe” because of the fine work of Belgian draughtsman and watercolorist Louis Haghe, the foremost lithographer of his time. “The firm of Day and Haghe raised lithography to perhaps the highest point it ever attained” (Abbey, 340). (Perhaps not surprisingly, this is the same firm that printed Roberts’ Holy Land.). Issued in two versions, one entirely uncolored and the other with many of the plates hand-colored. This copy without the uncolored plate labeled number 49 by Abbey, not present (or listed) in the uncolored copies and often not present (but in the plate list) in colored copies; in this copy, Abbey’s plate number 74, “Howden, Tombs,” has been bound in its place. Abbey Life 381. Scattered foxing to some text and plates. An impressive production. 21 E n g l i s h

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T r a v e Ackermann’s Splendidly Illustrated History Of l Cambridge, With Superb Hand-Colored Plates 16. ACKERMANN, Rudolph. A History of the University of Cambridge, Its & Colleges, Halls and Public Buildings. London, 1815. Two volumes. Large quarto (11-1/2 by 14 inches), contemporary full green morocco gilt. $9200. T First edition of this illustrated history of Cambridge University, complete with 95 superb h hand-colored aquatint plates, handsomely bound in contemporary morocco-gilt. o Ackermann’s beautiful History of the University of Cambridge features an u engraved uncolored portrait of the Duke of Gloucester and 79 hand-colored g plates (64 aquatint views and 15 engravings of university figures in academic h costume) after Pugin, Westall, Mackenzie, Uwins, and Pyne. This copy complete t with the additional series of 16 hand-colored engraved portraits of the Founders, which were printed and issued separately, to be bound up with the rest of the work if desired. “The fine aquatints, with their somewhat old-world flavor, are well suited to reproduce the spirit and to recall the antique associations of the old quads and courts” (Prideaux). This work was originally issued in two formats, the present large quarto size and also in a large- paper elephant folio size; both were originally issued in 20 parts. This copy early issue, with plates watermarked 1812. Complete with half titles. Abbey, Scenery, 79- 80. Engraved armorial bookplate; dealer’s penciled annotations to verso of front free endpaper (blank). Occasional offsetting, foxing to a few signatures in Volume II, not affecting plates. Some minor scuffs and expert restoration to beautiful morocco gilt bindings. 22 With 39 Superb Hand-Colored Aquatint Views Of North Wales, 1820 Expanded Second Edition With Nine More Plates Than The First S 17. COMPTON, Thomas. The Northern Cambrian Mountains, or a Tour Through p North Wales. London, 1820. Folio (10 by 13-1/2 inches), contemporary marbled r boards sympathetically rebacked and recornered. $9800. i Second and enlarged edition, with 39 magnificent hand-colored aquatint plates n of views of North Wales—nine more than the 30 found in the first edition—with g descriptive text, handsomely bound. “The Views, which were taken during two Tours in the summers of 1814 and 1815, 2 faithfully represent… striking and beautiful scenes, which are so profusely spread 0 over this interesting portion of the Island” (Preface). Abbey’s copy includes an 2 unnumbered, out-of-series lithograph among the aquatint plates for a total of 40, 0 but notes “The lithograph is perhaps an experiment on the part of the publishers, for the plate shares one leaf of text with Plate 34, and the imprint is dated almost 12 months later than any of the others” (Abbey). The 38 aquatint plates described in the text and the frontispiece are all present. Plates watermarked 1816 and 1819; text watermarked 1819 (Abbey’s copy had plates watermarked 1820). Abbey, Scenery 523. Tooley 157 (with 39 plates, does not mention the lithograph found in Abbey’s copy). Prideaux, 346. Hand-coloring beautiful and finely shaded, contemporary marbled boards very nicely rebacked and restored. An excellent copy of this scarce and desirable plate book.

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T h o u g h “The Foundation Of Modern Constitutional Government” t 18. (MAGNA CARTA) Magna Carta in F. London, 1529 (colophon dated 1539). Tall 12mo, contemporary calf rebacked, custom clamshell box. $18,000. Rare early printing of the Magna Carta—“one of the central documents in the history of Western civilization… the symbol of political liberty… [and] the foundation of modern constitutional government” (Viorst, 112). The Magna Carta—the Great Charter of English liberties granted by King John in 1215, one of the most influential documents ever published—holds “a unique place in popular imagination; quite early in its history it became a symbol and a battle cry “Magna Carta is against oppression... In England the Petition of Right (1628) and the Habeas Corpus Act (1679) looked directly back to [it]… In the United States both the national and the a cornerstone of the state constitutions show ideas and even phrases directly traceable to Magna Carta” (New Britannica VI:485). It has “rightly [become] a sacred text, the nearest approach individual liberties that to an irrepealable ‘fundamental statute’ that England has ever had” (Pollock & we enjoy.”—Justin Fisher, Maitland I:173). Richard Pynson, royal printer to Henry VII and VIII, began publishing the earliest English statutes as early as 1508. All 16th-century printings of the Magna British Library Carta are extraordinarily rare and desirable. They are often found defective; this copy is complete. (This volume is lacking four leaves, folios 44-47 in the “secunda pars veterum statutorum,” not affecting the text of the Magna Carta.) Text is in Latin and Law French, printed in Gothic type; title page and succeeding six leaves as well as colophon printed in red and black. With ornamental woodcut initials. STC 9273. Early ink signature and inscription to title page. Bookplate. Folio 126 with closed tear. Title page and next leaf a bit browned, text quite clean. Restoration to corners. An important cornerstone of liberty. 24 S p r i n g

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1582 First Edition Of The First Roman Catholic New Testament In English, Noted Theologian John Eadie’s Personal Copy 19. BIBLE. The New Testament of Jesus Christ, Translated Faithfully Into English, out of the authentical Latin. Rhemes, 1582. Small quarto, late 19th- century full brown morocco. $29,000. Very scarce first edition of the important Rheims New Testament, the first Roman Catholic version in English, translated from the Vulgate. The copy of noted biblical scholar and pastor John Eadie. Like the Geneva Bible, the Rheims New Testament was “produced by religious refugees who carried their faith and work abroad. Since the English Protestants used their vernacular translations... as siege artillery in the assault on Rome, a Catholic translation became more and more necessary... The chief translator was Gregory Martin… Technical words were transliterated rather than translated. Thus many new words came to birth… Not only was [Martin] steeped in the Vulgate, he was, every day, involved in the immortal liturgical Latin of his church. The resulting Latinisms added a majesty to his English prose, and many a dignified or felicitous phrase was silently lifted by the editors of the King James’s Version” (Great Books and Book Collectors 108). While Martin was responsible for the translation, the controversial textual annotations in defense of Catholic doctrine are attributed to Richard Bristow; most copies of this edition were purportedly “The standard version for English- suppressed and destroyed because of these notes (some of which were removed speaking Catholics until the 20th from later editions). With ornamental woodcut title border, historiated initials, and head- and tailpieces. Without leaf Qqqqi only (pages 673-4, the final leaf of century.”—Catholic Culture 2 Peter). The Bible 100 Landmarks 65. Darlow & Moule 134. Armorial bookplate of Scottish Presbyterian biblical scholar and pastor (and noted theological book collector) John Eadie, with Latin motto “Crux mihi grata quies” (“The Cross is to me welcome rest”). Eadie was greatly interested in “the movement for a revision of the English New Testament [and] was one of the original members of the New Testament revision company” (DNB). An early owner inscription on title page notes the confirmation of Anna Rita Hill in 1713; contemporary signatures of Thomas Hill on page 381 and Mary Hill on page [748]. From the Bible collection of Bernard Engel, Esq. Occasional contemporary marginalia (presumably in Eadie’s hand). Text and binding fine. An exceptional copy of an important and rare printing, with a noteworthy provenance. Extremely scarce.

25 “The Most Remarkable Portraits Of E Elizabeth And Her Contemporaries”: n Creighton’s Queen Elizabeth, With g Chromolithographic Frontispiece l And 39 Illustrations, Most Full- i Page Engraved Portraits s 20. (ELIZABETH I) CREIGHTON, Mandell. Queen h Elizabeth. London, Paris and Edinburgh, 1896. Folio (10 by 13 inches), contemporary full straight-grain burgundy morocco gilt. $3800. H i Early edition, with color frontispiece portrait and 39 illustrations, including 23 steel-engraved plates (one s tinted, with many portraits), beautifully bound by t Roger de Coverly in full morocco-gilt. o Renowned bishop and historian Creighton is r especially remembered for this “admirable study of y personal character in the life of Elizabeth” (DNB). , The volume is illustrated with engraved portraits of Elizabeth, Ann Boleyn, Henry VIII, Mary Stuart, T Sir Philip Sidney, Raleigh and many others. First r published in a deluxe limited edition of 200 copies, a with plates in double suite. Just a touch of faint v rubbing at spine ends. A splendid illustrated volume, beautifully bound, in fine condition. e l

& An Invaluable Resource For Tudor Studies: T Camden’s Remaines, 1605 First Edition, h Containing One Of The Earliest References o In Print To The Name “Shakespeare” u 21. CAMDEN, William. Remaines of a Greater g Worke, Concerning Britaine and the Inhabitants Thereof, their Languages, Names, Surnames, h Empreses, Wise Speeches, Poesies and Epitaphes. t London, 1605. Small quarto, 19th-century three- quarter brown morocco. $6800. Rare first edition of this great work by William Camden, containing a wealth of information on the history of Britain, “introduced succinctly and without pedantry by a respected authority” (Herendeen), and with an early reference to the name “Shakespeare.” A contemporary of William Shakespeare and Ben Jonson, Camden published his Remaines as a work comprised of material collected for inclusion in his Britannia but not used. Of particular interest is one of the earliest references in print to the name “Shake-speare” in the discussion of the origins of surnames. “Full of diverse but easily accessible information” (Herendeen, 430-31). Woodcut initials. STC 4521. First few leaves, including title page, with mild dampstaining, text generally fresh and clean, trimmed a little close along upper margin, just affecting some running titles, binding sound. An attractive copy with unusually large side margins. 26 “As Valuable As It Is Amusing,” “The First English Handbook On Continental Travel”: S First Edition Of Coryats Crudities, 1611, With p Six Woodcut Plates, Handsomely Bound r 22. CORYATE, Thomas. Coryats Crudities. London, i 1611. Octavo, late-19th century full paneled brown n morocco gilt. $28,000. g Rare first edition of the legendary traveler Thomas Coryat’s “lively and informative” account (Baugh et 2 al., 623) of his prolific travels through the major cities 0 of 17th-century Europe, “the first English handbook on continental travel,” long coveted by collectors, 2 illustrated with six woodcut plates (two folding), 0 handsomely bound by Bedford. A “general eccentric” (Baugh et al., 623), Coryat in 1608 “traveled through France, Germany and Italy, walking 1975 miles, more than half of which were accomplished in one pair of shoes, which were only once mended, and on his return were hung up in the church of Odcombe… Before his roaming propensities became so strongly developed, he was in the service of Henry, Prince of Wales, and seems to have filled the honorable post of Court Fool, but it appears that he sometimes displayed

“Valuable from their conveying the ideas of an Englishman on the state of the various countries of Europe.” —Retrospective Review

more wit than those who had more reputation for wisdom” (Allibone, 431).”At least as valuable as it is amusing” (Pforzheimer 218). The volume also includes “ironical verse” (Allibone) by more than 60 of Coryate’s fellow authors. With elaborately engraved title page by William Hole (often lacking). STC 5808. Cox I:97. Bookplate of Albert Ehrman, Broxbourne Library. Title page skillfully mounted. Usual soiling on letterpress title, mended tear in leaf R8 entering but not obscuring text. Light rubbing to front joint. A lovely copy in excellent condition.

27 E n “A Field Archaeologist Much Ahead Of His Time”: Lysons’ Account Of Roman Antiquities Discovered At Woodchester, 1797 First Edition, g With 40 Lovely Elephant Folio Aquatints, 33 Finely Hand-Colored l 23. LYSONS, Samuel. An Account of Roman Antiquities Discovered at i Woodchester in the County of Gloucester. London, 1797. Elephant folio (17 by 22- s 1/2 inches), 19th-century calf with inlaid cloth covers sympathetically rebacked, h original printed title label affixed to front cover. $12,500. First edition of this survey of the second-century Roman villa at Woodchester, H an elephant folio lavishly illustrated with hand-colored aquatint title page and i dedication leaf, two large aquatint vignettes, and 40 aquatint plates, 33 hand- s colored, of which nine are double-page—including two lovely double-page views of Woodchester and the surrounding countryside. A splendid volume. t o This work on the second-century Roman villa at Woodchester in Gloucestershire r remains the principal account of the site. Lysons unearthed several fragments of sculpture, now in the British Museum, and the celebrated “Orpheus Pavement,” y which remains in situ underground in front of the church in Woodchester. “Lysons , was an artist of some skill, and between 1785 and 1796 was an occasional exhibitor at the Royal Academy of views of old buildings. He also contributed numerous etchings T to his brother Daniel’s Environs of London. A field archaeologist much ahead of r his time is revealed by the a reports of the sites upon v which Lysons worked, e such as the Woodchester l Roman pavement [the present work] and other Roman sites, including & Horkstow in Lincolnshire, Frampton in Dorset, T Bignor in Sussex, and h Bath. He was able to o illustrate these reports u quite lavishly” (ODNB). g Plates watermarked 1794, h indicating earliest issue; in Abbey’s copy some of the t plates are watermarked 1810, “which indicates that parts of the book continued to be printed without the title page being altered for at least 13 years” (Abbey). Text in English and French. Text and plates clean and fine, hand-coloring lovely with fine shading. A bit of rubbing to calf edges, nicely rebacked and restored. An excellent copy of this scarce and impressive volume.

28 “The Most Valuable Of All The Contemporary Accounts”: Clarendon’s History Of The Civil Wars In England, 1702 Folio First Edition, S Exceptional Large-Paper Copy In Full Contemporary Calf p 24. CLARENDON, Earl of [HYDE, Edward]. The History of the Rebellion and Civil r Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641. Oxford, 1702. Three volumes. Tall folio (12 by i 18-1/2 inches), contemporary full brown calf rebacked with original spines laid down. n $9500. g First edition of this “broad and lucid” history of the “Puritan Revolution,” the struggle between a king who claimed to rule by divine right and a Parliament that professed to 2 have rights independent of the crown. With half title, engraved 0 frontispiece portrait and vignette title page in each volume. A scarce large-paper copy, three impressive large folio volumes in handsome 2 contemporary mottled calf. 0 “Since its publication at the beginning of the 18th century, the Earl of Clarendon’s history of the English Civil War has remained one of the most important sources for our understanding of the events which changed the course of British history… [It] chronicles in absorbing detail the intrigues and upheavals, the alliances and confrontations, the triumphs and the tragedies, of the 1640s and 1650s. In elegant and vital prose it brings to life the personalities who shaped the era, and the principles for which a nation was divided” (Oxford University Press). Clarendon’s is “the most valuable of all the contemporary accounts of the Civil Wars” (DNB). Text generally very clean, with only a few sparse spots and occasional signs of handling, expert restoration to contemporary calf. An excellent copy, very handsomely bound.

Sammes’ Antiquities of Ancient England, With Engraved Plates Of Ancient Britain, 1676 Folio First Edition 25. SAMMES, Aylett. Britannia Antiqua Illustrata, or the Antiquities of Ancient Britain, Derived from the Phoenicians. London, 1676. Folio (9 by 14-1/2 inches), contemporary full paneled calf rebacked. $2600. First edition, with double-page engraved “Map of Europe” and 24 full-page and in- text engravings, which include depictions of historical figures, battles, and noble seals. A handsome and impressive folio volume. “Sammes’ book, which traces British history from earliest times to the Saxons of the eighth century, is one of the odder antiquarian productions of the 17th century, for it maintains that Britain was originally settled by the Phoenicians, who established a flourishing culture there” (ODNB). Owner signatures excised from title page, affecting title letterpress; paper repair to outer margin of title page. Infrequent marginal spotting; expert restoration to calf extremities. A very good copy of this handsome folio. 29 E n g l i s h

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30 Images on this page are from item 26 on page 31. The Naval Achievements Of Great Britain, 1793-1817, With 55 Splendid Large Hand-Colored Folio Aquatints S 26. JENKINS, James. The Naval Achievements of Great Britain, from the Year 1793 to 1817. London, 1817. Folio (11 by 14 inches), contemporary full straight-grain olive morocco-gilt sympathetically rebacked. $21,000. p First edition, first issue, of this dramatically illustrated record of British naval r action during the Napoleonic Wars, with vignette title page and 55 vividly hand- i colored aquatints of battle scenes by Thomas Sutherland after drawings by n William Heath. A beautiful production in attractive contemporary morocco-gilt. g “As a record of naval events spanning a period of over 20 years Jenkins’ Naval Achievements has no precedent. At no time prior to 1817 had a publisher attempted 2 such a complete volume of documentary naval prints. It is the quality of the accuracy 0 which makes Jenkins so valuable above all” (Roger Quarm, National Maritime 2 Museum). Scenes include “The Destruction of the French Fleet at Toulon” “Lord 0 Howe’s Victory,” “Battle of the Nile” (two plates), “Battle of Trafalgar” (three plates) and “Bombardment of Algiers.” Each plate is accompanied by text describing the action, often with lists of ships captured or sunk, and excerpts from contemporary bulletins, dispatches, letters and speeches. The plates for Jenkins’ Naval Achievements were reprinted several times: this first-issue copy bears watermarks of “Whatman 1811,” “Whatman 1812” and “Whatman 1816” on both text and plates, and the vignette title page is uncolored (it was colored in later issues). Without portraits of Nelson and Lord St. Vincent, as often—“the work is complete without them” (Tooley). Without list of subscribers. Without the uncolored etching, giving a key to the ships present on two of the colored plates, “Bombardment of Algiers” and “Battle of Trafalgar.” All hand-colored plates present. Tooley 282. One plate with marginal repairs, another with light marginal wear, plates generally quite clean, with vivid hand-coloring, light rubbing to joints and corners. A nicely restored copy in extremely good condition.

Pictorial Documentation Of Wellington’s Defeat Of Napoleon 27. JENKINS, James. The Martial Achievements of Great Britain and Her Allies from 1799 to 1815. London, 1814-15. Folio (11 by 14 inches), contemporary full straight-grain olive morocco-gilt sympathetically rebacked. $12,800. First edition, early issue, of this dramatically illustrated record of British military action during Lord Wellington’s Peninsular Campaign, with hand-colored frontispiece, hand-colored dedication page not present in all copies, and 51 vividly hand-colored aquatints of battle scenes by Thomas Sutherland after drawings by William Heath. A beautiful production in attractive contemporary morocco-gilt. “A brilliant and worthy record of a brilliant period in England’s history” (Hardie, 147). From the terrifying rout and retreat at Corunna to the glorious victory at Talavera, the British and their allies fought to keep Napoleon out of Spain and Portugal. In 1807 a demoralized and ill-defended Spain was at the mercy of the French Emperor. Seven years later and the loss of over a million lives, the French finally retreated over the Pyrenees, never to return. Jenkins’ work “is worthy of its theme; nor could one desire a finer record of heroic deeds” (Prideaux, 224). Scenes include “The Burning of Moscow,” “The Storming of St. Sebastian,” “The Entrance of the Allies into Paris,” and “The Battle of Waterloo.” Each plate is accompanied by text describing the action, with lists of those killed and wounded, and excerpts from contemporary bulletins, dispatches, letters, and speeches. Sutherland’s plates for Jenkins’ Martial Achievements were reprinted several times: this early issue copy bears watermarks of “Whatman 1811” on a few plates and “J Whatman 1820” on one plate, and the vignette on the engraved title page is uncolored (it was colored in later issues). Without scarce portrait of the Duke of Wellington, not present in all copies, but with the engraved dedication to him with his colored coat of arms; bound without list of subscribers. Abbey, Life 365. Tooley 281. Prideaux, 341. Two plates and one text leaf with marginal repairs, one plate backed with paper to repair a closed tear, plates generally quite clean, with vivid hand-coloring, light rubbing to joints and corners. A nicely restored copy in extremely good condition.

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T h Napoleon Responds To The Request Of An Old Soldier: Boldly Signed 1798 Document, Elaborately Framed Along With An Autograph Request Signed By Josephine o u 28. (NAPOLEON). Manuscript document endorsed and signed by Napoleon. WITH: Autograph document signed by Josephine. Bastier, August 8, 1798. Napoleon document: single sheet, measuring 7 by 10 inches; g Josephine document: single sheet, measuring 7 by 3-1/2 inches; framed together with hand-colored engraved h portraits of Napoleon and Josephine, entire piece measures 26 by 20-1/2 inches. $17,500. t Manuscript document boldly endorsed “Bonaparte,” authorizing the extension of a veteran’s salary until his pension begins, splendidly matted and framed together with an autograph letter signed by Josephine and hand- colored engraved portraits of Napoleon and Josephine. The letter to Napoleon reads, in translation: “Bastier, 20 Thermidor, fifth year of the Republic [August 8, 1798]. My General, Permit me to reveal to you that after 45 years in the services and a constant devotion to revolution I am without [compensation? bread? recompense?]. I am waiting the day of my retirement which never comes. My son who shared the procurements with me has been called back to the army and I have “His presence on the field already lost one on the field of honor. I beg you to remember my worthy general that made the difference of I have admired your talents before they had fixed the destiny of Europe. I beg you to accord me the continuation of my pay until such time as I have my pension. You will forty thousand men.” ease the mind of a patriotic family. Salutations, Charles Giovanni.” The reply reads: —Duke of Wellington “Send back a reminder to General Berthier, Headquarters of General Corfe, and order General Vaubois to keep him on duty until he [Giovanni] will obtain his pension from the minister. [signed] Bonaparte.” The Josephine letter reads, in translation: “Mr. Counselor of State & Prefect of Police, one of my women in waiting would very much like to have a moment of your time to ask your kindness in a favor for Rolland, a painter. I would be personally pleased if you would be kind enough to be useful to a distinguished artist whose situation appears to be very difficult. Malmaison, September 30, 1809. Josephine.” A splendid framed piece, bringing together the signatures of Napoleon and Josephine, in fine condition. 32 “One Of The Best Travel Books Of Its Kind” S 29. MALKIN, Benjamin Heath. The Scenery, Antiquities, and Biography, of South Wales. London, 1804. Quarto, contemporary full straight-grain green p morocco gilt. $3000. r First edition of this picturesque travelogue through the Welsh countryside, i illustrated with frontispiece and 11 full-page soft-ground etchings by J. Laporte n after views drawn on the spot by him, each hand-colored with a wash of blue, tan g or gray, and with large folding map. Beautifully bound in full contemporary morocco-gilt. 2 Malkin, schoolmaster and antiquary, was a friend of William 0 Blake, “with whom he shared an interest in radical politics” 2 (ODNB). “Malkin’s taste for the picturesque is to be seen 0 in his topographical work The Scenery, Antiquities and Biography of South Wales, published in 1804 and reissued in a two-volume edition in 1807… [I]t was one of the best travel books of its kind, displaying Malkin’s acute observation and considerable knowledge of Welsh history” (ODNB). Scattered foxing to text only, plates clean and fine, short closed tear to folding map at stub, expert restoration to spine head, joints and corners lightly rubbed, binding sound and beautiful, gilt bright. A lovely volume.

One Of Only 75 Large-Paper Copies Of Cussans’ Illustrated Folio History Of Hertfordshire 30. CUSSANS, John Edwin. History of Hertfordshire. London: Chatto and Windus, 1870-1881. Three volumes. Thick atlas folio (13 by 20 inches), contemporary three-quarter black morocco gilt. $3000. Limited large-paper first edition of this monumental county history, one of only 75 copies, with engraved frontispiece portrait, six full- page chromolithographs, 13 tinted lithographs, four engraved plates, a double-page hand-colored map, and numerous in-text wood-engravings. Published in 16 parts between 1870 and 1881, Cussans’ detailed Hertfordshire contains, in addition to the histories of the more important houses and parish churches, transcriptions of a large number of memorial inscriptions from church interiors, and in some cases the more impressive memorials in the churchyards. Cussans devoted the best part of his life to heraldic and genealogical studies, 15 years of which were spent on Hertfordshire. Bookplate. Fine condition, a splendid copy.

33 E “Many A Philosopher Has Written n The Tale Of The Soul’s Adventures, g But Now A Sage Has Appeared Who l Has... Written Its History” i 31. LOCKE, John. The Works of John Locke. London, s 1768. Four volumes. Large quarto, contemporary full polished brown calf gilt rebacked with original h spines laid down. $9000. Seventh edition, the first quarto edition, first four- H volume edition, of Locke’s collected Works, with i copper-engraved frontispiece portrait, a handsome set s in beautiful contemporary calf gilt. t “Locke had a formative influence on the principles o of the Declaration of Independence and of the r early state constitutions” (Covenanted People 37). y Jefferson, who had a fifth edition of the Works in his , library, “ranked Locke with Bacon and Newton as the three greatest men that have ever lived, without any T exception” (Sowerby 1362). Second issue with title pages reading “Volume the First” (“Second,” etc.) r instead of “Volume I” (“II,” etc.) among other minor a changes. Interior fresh with only lightest foxing v mainly to preliminaries, expert repairs to joints, spine e ends and corners of contemporary calf-gilt bindings. l

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T h “The Inequality Of Rights Between o Men And Women Has No Other Source u Than The Law Of The Strongest” g 32. MILL, John Stuart. The Subjection of Women. h London, 1869. Octavo, period-style three-quarter brown calf gilt and marbled boards. $3800. t First edition of Mill’s classic statement defining and defending the rights of women, handsomely bound. “Many of Mill’s ideas are now the commonplaces of democracy. His arguments for freedom of every kind of thought or speech have never been improved on” (PMM 345). Mill’s wife, Harriet Taylor, proved especially influential in developing this work; her 1851 essay on the enfranchisement of women directly inspired it. “No one had a more rooted hatred for all oppression [illustrated Mill’s] advocacy of the equality of the sexes” (DNB). Mill served as one of the founders of the first women’s suffrage society, which developed into the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, and he presented the first petition on the subject to Parliament. Text quite fresh with only one leaf with expert paper repair. A handsome about-fine copy.

34 “Our Long-Neglected El Dorado”: Burton’s To The Gold Coast For Gold, 1883 First Edition S 33. BURTON, Richard F.; CAMERON, Verney Lovett. p To the Gold Coast for Gold. A Personal Narrative. r London, 1883. Two volumes. Octavo, early 20th- i century full crushed brown morocco gilt; original n cloth bound in. $5000. g First edition, with two large folding hand-tinted maps and color frontispiece, in beautiful full morocco-gilt 2 bindings by Birdsall with the original cloth bound in. 0 Burton’s companion on this six-month search for gold 2 was Commander Verney Lovett Cameron, the first 0 white man to cross central Africa from coast to coast. Encouraged by Burton’s report that “there was plenty of gold and the gold mines could be easily worked,” a number of mining companies were formed with both Burton and Cameron on their Boards. “The record of a man who could become passionately absorbed in whatever he was engaged in” (Rice, 455). Penzer, 106. Short closed tear at stub to folding map opposite title page of Volume I, wear to one fold of folding map at rear of Volume I. Text clean, full morocco-gilt bindings fine and beautiful.

“Almost Beyond Belief Is The Endless Number Of Human Sacred Ideas Founded In A Supreme Reverence Or The Revolution Of The Universe Round The Axis Of The Earth” 34. O’NEILL, John. The Night of the Gods. London, 1893. Two volumes. Tall quarto, original gilt-stamped navy cloth. $3200. First edition of this popular late 19th-century work of comparative mythology focused on the rotation of the heavens, with frontispiece plates, in original cloth-gilt. The Night of the Gods “is a marvel of learned research and of scholarly insight… In a purely objective manner it investigates the mythologies and the religious symbolism of all historic nations and brings together whatever can throw light upon the cosmogonical and cosmological ideas of the early men. The result is a work which no future student of mythology of the philosophy of mythology can safely neglect” (The Methodist Review). Only one copy of this work has appeared at auction since 1947. Faint red numerical stamping to endpapers. Interior generally fine, inner paper hinges expertly reinforced, only light wear and soiling to cloth, mild toning to Volume I, gilt bright. A near-fine copy. Rare.

35 “There Before Us Lay The E Sealed Door”: Illustrated First n Edition Of Howard Carter’s g Discovery Of King Tut’s Tomb l 35. CARTER, Howard and MACE, A.C. The i Tomb of Tutankhamen Discovered by the s Late Earl of Carnarvon and Howard Carter. h London, 1923-33. Three volumes. Thick octavo, original gilt-stamped brown cloth. $4500. H First edition of Carter’s account of the discovery of King Tutankhamen’s tomb, including i the scarce third volume, with 247 dramatic s illustrations, in original gilt-stamped cloth. t When Carter entered King Tut’s tomb in 1922, o he bridged 3000 years separating the reign r of the Boy-King from the modern world. y This first detailed account, richly illustrated , with hundreds of plates after photographs taken by Harry Burton, includes images from T the discovery of Tut’s sepulchral chamber, r the excavation of the site, and hundreds of a catalogued artifacts. Because of the Depression, the third and final volume, included here, was v printed in limited numbers and is consequently e quite scarce. Without very elusive dust jackets. l With slight scattered foxing as often, trace of edge-wear, mild rubbing to bright gilt cloth. An & extremely good unrestored set.

T “They May Be The Last Word h Upon The War”: First Editions o Of Churchill’s War Speeches, u Handsomely Bound g 36. CHURCHILL, Winston. Collection h of World War II speeches: Into Battle, t (1941); The Unrelenting Struggle, (1942); The End of the Beginning, (1943); Onwards to Victory, (1944); The Dawn of Liberation, (1945); Victory, (1946); Secret Session Speeches, (1946). London, 1941-46. Seven volumes. Octavo, modern three-quarter red morocco gilt. $4000. First editions of Churchill’s separately published World War II speeches. Churchill’s speeches “constitute a contemporary history of the war which is as lively as it is authoritative; and, so far as contemporary history is of value, they may be said to be the last word upon the war” (Randolph S. Churchill). With 50 half-tone photographic plates, including frontispieces. Cohen A142.1.a; A172.1.a; A183.1.a; A194.1.a; A214.1.a; A223.1.a; A227.2.a. Fine condition.

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Archive Of Thirteen Christmas Cards From Members Of The English Royal Family, All Signed, Including Ones Signed By George VI, The Queen Mother, Queen Elizabeth II, And Prince Charles And Princess Diana 37. (ROYALTY) Royal Christmas cards archive. London, 1933-83. Thirteen Christmas cards, of varying sizes, one framed; together with three autograph letters and notes, three photographs, and a signed envelope. $12,500. Archive of 13 signed Christmas cards from members of the British royal family, including from George VI, the Queen Mother, Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, and Prince Charles and Princess Diana, together with signed photographs and autograph letters from other royal family members. Spanning 50 years, highlights from this collection include: a large 1933 Christmas card with colored photo of Elizabeth II as a child, signed by the future Queen Elizabeth and King George VI; a 1938 Christmas card signed by George VI and Elizabeth, with image of them with the Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret; a “Christmas cards have captured circa 1946 Christmas card signed by the Princesses Elizabeth and the changing face of the royal family Margaret; a 1948 Christmas card signed by George VI and Queen Elizabeth, illustrated with an image of them with the Princesses through the generations.”—Insider Elizabeth and Margaret; a circa 1950 Christmas card signed by Princess Elizabeth and Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, illustrated with a photograph of the two of them with young Prince Charles and the infant Princess Anne; a 1954 Christmas card signed by Queen Elizabeth II; and a 1983 Christmas card inscribed by Charles and signed by Diana, illustrated with a photograph of Charles and Diana with a young Prince William. Also included here is additional cards, letters, photographs and notes from Princess Mary, daughter of George III, Mary Adelaide, Duchess of Teck, Great-Grandmother of Elizabeth II, Queen Mary of Teck (wife of George V), Prince Henry (3rd son of George V) and Princess Alice (Duke and Duchess of Gloucester), Mary, Princess Royal (only daughter of George V) and Edward, Duke of Windsor. A wonderful collection.

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First Edition Of Aphra Behn’s Sex Comedy, The Feign’d Curtizans, 1679 38. BEHN, Aphra. The Feign’d Curtizans, Or, A Nights Intrigue. A Comedy. As it is Acted at the Dukes Theatre. London, 1679. Small quarto, early 20th-century three-quarter tan calf; pp. (8), 71, (1). $11,000. First edition of this play by England’s first professional woman writer, a sex comedy of mismatched lovers and mistaken identities, in which a “young lady of quality” masquerades as a prostitute. “The devil take this cursed Before taking up her career as a writer, Behn (1640-1689) was a spy plotting Age, ’T has ruin’d all in Antwerp for Charles II. Upon her return to London, “she dedicated the rest of her life to pleasure and poetry… Aphra Behn from this time our Plots upon the Stage…” forth became a professional writer, the first female writer who had lived by her pen in England, and her assiduity surpassed that of any of the men, her contemporaries, except Dryden… She was the George Sand of the Restoration, the ‘chere maitre’ to such men as Dryden, Otway, and Southerne... She possessed an indisputable touch of lyric genius” (DNB). “All women together, ought to let flowers fall upon the grave of Aphra Behn… for it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds” (Virginia Woolf). Two variants of the title page exist with unknown priority; this title page omits Richard Tonson’s name from the imprint. Wing B1733. ESTC R4074. A few tiny paper repairs to title page, small marginal chip to G2, mild embrowning to interior, wear and slight staining mainly to extremities of binding. An extremely good copy. Scarce. 38 “Tiny Ecstasies Set In Motion”: Rare First Editions Of Emily Dickinson’s First Three Books Of Poetry S 39. DICKINSON, Emily. Poems. [First Series]. WITH: Poems. Second Series. WITH: Poems. Third Series. Boston, 1890, 1891, 1896. Together, three volumes. 12mo, First Series in original silver-stamped ivory boards, grey cloth spine; Second Series in original gilt-stamped p gray cloth; Third Series in original gilt-stamped ivory boards, green cloth spine. Custom box. $29,000. r Rare Emily Dickinson collection, consisting of first editions, first printings of the first three books of her poetry. Only 500 copies of the First i Series were printed, 960 copies of the Second Series, and 1000 copies of the Third Series. All three volumes are in original publisher’s bindings. n Emily Dickinson published only 11 poems during her lifetime; g but after her death in 1886, her sister Lavinia discovered a locked box containing 1,775 manuscript poems. Mabel Todd 2 edited and published the three series of these poems until 0 a quarrel between the Dickinson and the Todd families led 2 to a division of the manuscripts, preventing the publication 0 of complete and authoritative editions of Dickinson’s poetry until 70 years after her death. Dickinson’s poems are her “‘letter to the world,’ records of the life about her, of tiny ecstasies set in motion by mutations of the seasons or by home and garden incidents, of candid insights into her own states of consciousness, and of speculations on the timeless mysteries of love and death. Her mind was charged with paradox, as though her vision, like the eyes of birds, was focused in opposite direction on the two worlds of material and immaterial values. She could express feelings of deepest poignancy in terms of wit… her artistry in the modulation of simple meters and the delicate management of imperfect rhymes was greater than [Emerson’s]” (Hart, 108-9). Each book is a first printing; the First Series is in binding B, Second Series in binding B and Third Series in binding A (no priority established in Second and Third Series). BAL 4655, 4656, 4661. A bit of foxing to endpapers of Second Series only, interiors generally clean. Expert reinforcement to inner hinges. Minor rubbing and darkening to bindings of all three. A very desirable set. First editions of Dickinson’s Poems are quite scarce; the First Series is particularly rare.

39 L i “A Girl Doesn’t Read This Sort Of t Thing Without Her Lipstick” e 40. CAPOTE, Truman. Breakfast at Tiffany’s. A r Short Novel and Three Stories. New York, 1958. a Octavo, original yellow cloth, dust jacket. $5700. t First edition of the adventures of free-spirited Holly u Golightly, an exceptionally beautiful copy in original r dust jacket. e “If you want to capture a period in New York, no other book has done it so well… He could capture period and place like few others” (Norman Mailer). With three other stories: “House of Flowers,” “A Diamond Guitar,” and “A Christmas Memory.” Book fine, dust jacket with none of the usual fading to spine. A beautiful copy in exceptionally fine condition.

“We Will Manage Our World For Ourselves Because It Is Our World, Cosa Nostra” 41. PUZO, Mario. The Godfather. New York, 1969. Octavo, original half black cloth, dust jacket. $9000. First edition of Puzo’s Cosa Nostra classic, boldly inscribed: “For S— & B— Best Regard, Mario Puzo.” Puzo’s first two books, while critically praised, had sold only modestly. “With a family to support and deeply in debt to relatives, banks, and bookmakers, he decided to abandon ‘art’ and write a ‘commercial’ novel (Godfather Papers, p. 34). During the roughly three years he worked on the book, Puzo met expenses by writing adventure stories, a children’s book…, and magazine articles. The resulting novel, The Godfather… rapidly ascended the New York Times bestseller list… remained there for 67 weeks…. [and eventually] outsold every other novel of the 1970s” (ANB). Book fine; light edge-wear, closed tear to bright unrestored dust jacket.

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“You See, We’ve Got All The Time In The World”: Limited First Edition Of On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, Signed By Ian Fleming—A Perfect Copy, One Of Only 35 Reserved For Presentation 42. FLEMING, Ian. On Her Majesty’s Secret Service. London, 1963. Octavo, original half vellum gilt. $25,000. Signed limited first edition, the only Bond title issued in a limited edition, one of only 35 unnumbered copies reserved for presentation signed by Ian Fleming (from a total signed limited edition of 285), of the eleventh Bond novel, in which 007 takes a bride, only to have his happiness cut short by the schemes of his archnemesis, Ernst Blofeld. The eleventh James Bond novel—the first to be published after the debut of the Bond film series—became “an immediate bestseller on both sides of the Atlantic” (Biondi & Pickard, 48, 53). “By the time of publication, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service had received nearly a quarter more subscriptions than any previous Fleming novel” (Lycett, 419). George Lazenby, in his only outing as the secret agent, starred in the 1969 film version, with Diana Rigg as Tracy and Telly Savalas as Blofeld. With color frontispiece portrait of Fleming. Published simultaneously with the trade edition. Without scarce original mylar jacket. Gilbert A11a. A fine signed copy, one of the very scarce and desirable 35 reserved for the author as presentation copies.

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“All Modern Literature Comes From One Book By Mark Twain. It’s The Best Book We’ve Had”: First Issue Of Huckleberry Finn 43. TWAIN, Mark. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade). New York, 1885. Octavo, original gilt- and black-stamped pictorial green cloth, custom full morocco clamshell box. $20,000. First edition, first issue, of “the most praised and most condemned 19th-century American work of fiction” (Legacies of Genius, 47), with 174 illustrations by Edward Kemble. Written over an eight-year period, Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn endured critical attacks from the moment of publication, standing accused of “blood-curdling humor,” immorality, coarseness and profanity. The book nevertheless emerged as one of the defining novels of American literature, prompting Hemingway to declare: “All modern literature comes from one book by Mark Twain. It’s the best book we’ve had. All American writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There has been nothing since.” This copy has all of the commonly identified first-issue points. BAL 3415. Johnson, 43-50. Text exceptionally fine and fresh, lightest rubbing mainly to spine extremities, gilt very bright. An exceptionally lovely, unrestored copy.

42 One Of Only 600 Copies Signed By Whitman S 44. WHITMAN, Walt. Complete Poems and Prose. Camden, 1888. Quarto, original three-quarter green p cloth, paper spine label, custom clamshell box. $9500. r First edition of the first collected edition of Whitman’s i works, one of only 600 copies signed by Whitman on n the Leaves of Grass title page, g in original cloth. With Horace Traubel’s hand-written limitation 2 notice (not present on all copies): “Edition: Six Hundred / Number 0 Four Hundred Seventy-seven” 2 opposite the Leaves of Grass title 0 page with Whitman’s signature. Published only four years before the poet’s death, this edition was referred to by Whitman as his “big book… essentially the book, irrespective of expensive binding: it has portraits, notes, title page—all the guarantees of my personality: it is as clearly the book as anything could make it.” Whitman also called it his “pet edition” going “straight from my hands into the hands of the reader: from my heart to your heart…” Issued for Whitman by the publisher, with four portraits of the author, including a photographic title page. Contains Leaves of Grass, Specimen Days and Collect, and November Boughs. Binding A, priority assumed. Myerson A2.7m. Evidence of erasures on front free endpaper (blank) with short closed tear. Text block neatly recased in original cloth binding, with renewed endbands and restoration to spine ends. Only minor wear to original binding, light chipping to paper spine label. Whitman’s signature bold and clear. A splendid copy.

An Exceptionally Fine Rare First Edition, First Issue Of Frost’s Second Published Book, North Of Boston, Inscribed By Him 45. FROST, Robert. North of Boston. London, 1914. Octavo, original olive cloth, custom slipcase. $9800. Rare first edition, first issue of Frost’s second published book, in the very rare Binding A, inscribed: “With real regard, Robert Frost, May 15, 1915.” Also with two small corrections to the text in Frost’s hand. This volume represents a pinnacle of Frost’s career, containing such classic poems as “Mending Wall,” “The Death of the Hired Man,” “Home Burial,” and “The Wood- pile.” Of it, Frost wrote, “I had some character strokes I had to get in somewhere and I chose a sort of eclogue form for them. Rather I dropped into that form. And I dropped to an everyday level of diction that even Wordsworth kept above… I think I have made poetry. The language is appropriate to the virtues I celebrate” (Thompson 428). Frost made two corrections to his poem “Mending Wall” on page 11. The London edition precedes all American editions. This copy in the first-issue Binding A, in coarse grass-green cloth with blind rule around all four sides. Of the 1000 copies of the first edition, approximately 350 copies were bound in Binding A. This is the most desirable of the first edition bindings. A lovely inscribed copy in fine condition.

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“That Musical Crystal-Clear Style, Blown Like Glass From The White-Heat Of Violence”: Signed Limited Edition Of Hemingway’s A Farewell To Arms, The Only One Of His Works So Issued 46. HEMINGWAY, Ernest. A Farewell to Arms. New York, 1929. Tall octavo, original white and green paper boards, slipcase. $18,500. Signed limited first edition of Hemingway’s “consummate masterpiece,” one of only 510 copies signed by him. “Probably [Hemingway’s] best… Its success was so enormous… After it one could no more imitate that musical crystal-clear style; blown like glass from the white- heat of violence… the beginning, like all his beginnings, seems effortless and magical” (Connally 60). “A Farewell to Arms was the novel that placed Hemingway, early, among the American masters… [it is], in fact, the most satisfying and most sustained, the consummate masterpiece, among Hemingway’s novels. It bears the mark of Hemingway’s best gifts as a writer” (Mellow, 377-79). The only signed limited first edition of any of Hemingway’s works. Without scarce original glassine. Hanneman A8b. Text very fresh and clean, expert repair to rear inner paper hinge, vellum fine. Slipcase with expert repairs along joints and copy number erased from label. A lovely signed copy.

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Presentation First American Edition, Inscribed By Hemingway 47. HEMINGWAY, Ernest. Across the River and Into the Trees. New York, 1950. Octavo, original black cloth, dust jacket, custom slipcase. $21,500. First American edition, preceded only three days by the first English edition, of Hemingway’s first novel since For Whom the Bell Tolls, warmly inscribed: “To Maria Altagracia best always from her friend, Ernest Hemingway, May 1957.” A decade after For Whom the Bell Tolls, Hemingway published his next novel, Across the River and Into the Trees, a work he considered “the best book he had ever written” (Reynolds, Final Years, 214) and “his best and most carefully thought-out book” (Newsweek). The title of Across the River was taken from the last words of Stonewall Jackson as he lay mortally wounded and delirious in the Chancellorsville campaign: “Let us cross over the river and rest under the shade of the trees.” To publisher Charles Scribner, the novel is “filled with ‘beauty, restraint and understanding,’ more so than in Ernest’s earlier books” (Reynolds, 214). First American edition, with Scribner’s “A” on copyright page. Grissom’s dust jacket B, with yellow lettering on spine rather than orange, no priority determined (Hanneman describes the yellow lettering as indicative of an earlier state). Preceded three days by the first English edition, this first American edition is generally preferred. Hanneman A44a. Book about-fine, dust jacket with a bit of discoloration to rear panel, otherwise bright and near-fine. A lovely inscribed copy

45 “During The Long Enforced Seclusion Of Writing Tender Is L The Night I Deflated My Horizon So Much… There Is A Limit… i To What One Can Dredge Out Of The Domestic Racket” t 48. FITZGERALD, F. Scott. Typed letter signed. WITH: All the Sad Young Men. e Baltimore, Maryland and New York, 1935 and 1926. Two sheets of unlined paper, r each measuring 8-1/2 by 11 inches; pp. 2. WITH: Octavo, original dark green cloth a rebacked with original spine laid down. $17,000. t Exceptional signed typed letter from F. Scott Fitzgerald to Dean Stewart of Independence, u Kansas discussing tuberculosis, the challenges of his home life during the writing of Tender r is the Night, and the difficulty of getting paid for his short stories, accompanied by a first e edition, first issue copy of All the Sad Young Men bearing Stewart’s personal booklabel. The signed typed letter, dated “February 28, 1935” from Baltimore, reads in full: “Dear Dean: It seems to me that somebody in the Little Colonel books, was it Joyce’s mother, had to go to Kansas on account of weak lungs and from the reference in your letter I gather that you or one of your family has been similarly afflicted. I went through that mill in undergraduate days and I can deeply sympathize—if I am right in my guess. You have a good critical mind, young lady, and your observations upon the undersigned were sharp and perhaps too much to the point to make me entirely confortable [hand- corrected: “n” to “m”] During the long enforced seclusion of writing ‘Tender is the Night’ I deflated my horizon so much that in the last few months it seemed I could hardly breathe in it; lately I’ve been going out a little more because there is a limit, as you suggest, to what one can dredge out of the domestic racket, especially as mine has been quite as melancholy as is called for by the general specifications for life. The Redbook [hand-corrected: line between “Red and “book,” “b” capitalized] story was an escape. Since you seem interested it was the beginning of a series for the Post and was prompted by the escape complex. The idea was to publish eight or ten episodes of Phillippe’s youthful career and then evolve that into a novel, a perfectly serious novel. The obstacle was the Post who were not interested. The Redbook [hand-corrected: line between “Red and “book,” “b” capitalized] paid only half the price and I was on rather a financial spot and had to write Post stories so it was four months before the next story reached the Redbook [hand-corrected: line between “Red and “book,” “b” capitalized]. However, they now have three more and will be getting on with them shortly. They have been fun to write and I do them with none of the strain that accompanies the Post stories of youth and life [hand-corrected: “love”]. So much for your guesses being right and half right. I am awfully glad that you saw Philippe was a perfectly honest beginning of something. I hope to the devil this isn’t a Greely letter. I don’t write those to such as you, lady, and I do honestly hope we meet. Faithfully, [signed: “F. Scott Fitzgerald”]. In the letter, Fitzgerald mentions the so-called “Philippe stories.” In an article about the publication of Fitzgerald’s short stories, The Guardian criticized the first of the Philippe stories stating that stories such as “the risible ‘Philippe, Count of Darkness’—based on the berserk idea of turning Ernest Hemingway into a tough-talking French nobleman in the ninth century—have never been collected and don’t merit reading, much less republishing.” Fitzgerald wrote fine novels and many fine stories, but his attempts to write for publication had mixed success. At the time of this letter, Fitzgerald was trying desperately to make money, but no one would buy his stories. The situation with The Post and Redbook (Fitzgerald’s hand-correction is incorrect throughout the letter) was typical of Fitzgerald’s experiences at the time. This letter is accompanied by a first edition, first issue of All the Sad Young Men, “Fitzgerald’s strongest collection, with four major stories (‘The Rich Boy,’ ‘Winter Dreams,’ ‘Absolution,’ and ‘The Sensible Thing’) as well as five commercial stories” (Bruccoli, Some Sort of Epic Grandeur, 272). First issue, with unbattered type on pages 38, 90, and 248.Letter with only a few tiny spots of faint soiling and original mailing creases. Book very good with expert restoration to original cloth. 46 S p r i n g

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Exceptional First Edition, First Issue, Of Steinbeck’s Classic —Presentation Copy Inscribed By Steinbeck 49. STEINBECK, John. Of Mice and Men. New York, 1937. Small octavo, original beige cloth, dust jacket, custom cloth clamshell box. $13,500. First edition, first issue, presentation copy, of Steinbeck’s “beautifully written [and] marvelous picture of the tragedy of loneliness” (Eleanor Roosevelt), inscribed to Ernest DuBray, a well- known San Francisco doctor and bibliophile: “For Dr Ernest S. du Bray, John Steinbeck,” in scarce original dust jacket. “As a young man, Steinbeck worked on ranches in the small towns around Salinas, absorbing local color later applied to the Soledad, California setting of this novel, originally entitled Something That Happened” (Salinas Public Library, 24). The author began Of Mice and Men as a children’s story. “Although the finished novelette does not seem appropriate for children—that intention was obviously abandoned— “I read plenty of books out here. Nobody the simplicity of its style and the clarity and precision of never gets to heaven, and nobody gets no its imagery may well have been prompted by this original purpose” (Benson, 326). The result is “a sophisticated and land. It’s just in their head.” artful rendering of the basic conflict between two worlds: between an idealized landscape and the real world with its pain and anguish” (Literary History of the American West, 433). This presentation copy is inscribed to Dr. Ernest S. DuBray. In addition to being a prominent San Francisco doctor, DuBray had an avocation as a bibliophile. He was a member of a San Francisco bookstore club that sent inscribed editions of new California to its members. The text block remains in virtually its original condition, while the dust jacket only bears the marks of being moved on the shelf. Book fine, fragile dust jacket with only slightest rubbing and toning to extremities. A beautiful inscribed copy. Scarce. 47 Important 1922 Standard Edition Of Melville’s L Works, Including The First Publication Of Billy Budd i 50. MELVILLE, Herman. The Works of Herman Melville. t London, 1922-24. Sixteen volumes. Octavo, publisher’s gilt- e stamped blue cloth. $12,000. r Extremely important limited Standard edition of the works of a Herman Melville, one of 750 sets, featuring the first publication of t his Billy Budd and the first book publication of many other works. u When Melville died in 1891, his obituary in the New York Times r noted somewhat ironically that “he has died an absolutely e forgotten man… In its kind this speedy oblivion by which a once famous man so long survived his fame is almost unique, and it is not easily explicable.” Perhaps almost as unique, if more explicable, was the resurgence of his reputation in the early 20th century. The publication of this Standard Edition of Melville’s work was a key component of that resurgence, and featured the important first publication of the novella Billy Budd, which had been discovered in Melville’s papers in 1919 by his biographer Raymond Weaver; it was quickly hailed as a masterpiece by figures such as D.H. Lawrence. In addition to the first publication in any form of Billy Budd, Volume XIII contains the first book publications of numerous works, including “The Cincinnati,” “Daniel Orme,” “Jack Gentian,” “The Two Temples” and “Under the Rose.” Volume XVI contains the first publication in any form of the “Author’s Note,” “Miscellaneous Poems” and “At the Hostelry.” Interiors fine, cloth with a bit of wear and two spots of paint to a few spine heads, mild toning to some spines. An exceptionally important edition.

“The First Psychiatric Encyclopedia”: Burton’s Anatomy Of Melancholy, 1638 Fifth Edition 51. BURTON, Robert. The Anatomy of Melancholy. What It Is, With All the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes, Prognostickes, & Severall Cures of It… By Democritus Junior. Oxford, 1638. Tall quarto, modern full speckled brown calf. $6200. Desirable 1638 fifth edition of Burton’s masterpiece, “one of the most popular books of the 17th century,” the last edition to be published during his lifetime, with engraved allegorical title page. “The first psychiatric encyclopedia” to be written in any language (Norman 381), helped to popularize what had previously been a mysterious and largely unexplored topic, the mental state that has come to be called depression. Burton elaborately divides the Anatomy into four main sections and numerous subsections, each of which deals with the causes, symptoms, and cures of various types of melancholy. “One of the most fascinating books in literature… There is a unique charm in Burton’s Anatomy of Melancholy. Dr. Johnson said that it was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he intended to rise… On every page is the impress of a singularly deep and original genius” (DNB). Bound with scarce half title. With rare leaf Ll1, intended to be canceled and only present (by mistake) in a few copies. First issued in small quarto in 1621. This, the 1638 edition, is the penultimate edition to contain Burton’s own additions and corrections, as Burton died in 1640, two years after the publication of this edition. Fine condition.

48 “The Argument For Freedom Has Never… Been So Magnificently S Expressed”: First Collected Edition Of Milton’s Prose Works, 1697 p 52. MILTON, John. The Works of Mr. John Milton. No place, 1697. Folio (8-1/2 by r 12-1/2 inches), contemporary full calf gilt rebacked. $4000. i First collected edition of Milton’s prose works, including his timeless Areopagitica, n a handsome folio volume in contemporary calf boards. g This massive folio volume notably includes Milton’s finest prose works: Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce, Eikonoclastes, and his landmark Areopagitica, in which 2 “the argument for freedom has never, before or since, been so magnificently or 0 forcefully expressed” (PMM 133). In his lifetime, Milton was renowned more for 2 his rhetoric than poetry: “a fiery pamphleteer in an age of religious and political 0 argument, whose tireless defense of divorce, progressive education, regicide and the Commonwealth marked him out as a natural, and brilliant, English radical” (Robert McCrum). With replaced front free endpaper, without rear free endpaper. Wing M2086. This copy is from the library of esteemed Milton scholar Edward Harold Physick, with the title page containing his owner inscription in his pen name of E.H. Visiak, used in his novels. With his lightly penciled underlining and marginalia. Small shelf label. Interior quite fresh with only tiny wormholes to lower corner of three early leaves, title page with small gutter edge-tear not affecting text, repaired closed tear at lower edge, slight rubbing to boards. A very good folio volume with a distinctive provenance.

First Edition Of The First Work Published By The Brontë Sisters: Poems By Currer, Acton, And Ellis Bell, In Original Cloth 53. (BRONTE, Charlotte, Emily and Anne). Poems by Currer, Acton and Ellis Bell. London, 1846 [1848]. Slim octavo, original blind-stamped olive cloth. $4000. First edition, second issue (as virtually always), of the Brontës’ first published work, in original cloth. Only 39 copies with the first-issue title page were sold; this is one of the remaining 961 copies issued with a cancel title page. In the autumn of 1845, Charlotte Brontë accidentally came upon a manuscript of verses by her sister Emily, the discovery of which led to the first publishing venture of the three Brontë sisters. Charlotte later explained the decision to use pseudonyms: “We had a vague impression that authoresses are liable to be looked on with prejudice” (Barker, 479). The book, containing 19 poems by Charlotte, and 21 each by Emily and Anne, was first published by Aylott and Jones in 1846 in an edition of 1000 copies; it was a commercial failure and after only a few copies were sold or otherwise distributed the remainder of the edition was put into storage. Following the success of Jane Eyre, Smith, Elder bought the 961 unsold sheets and binding cases, and reissued the work in October of 1848 with a cancel title page dated 1846. With rare errata slip and without publisher’s catalogue, both absent in most copies. Interior generally quite nice, text block split but stable, discoloration to cloth on front board, wear and toning to extremities, gilt quite bright. An extremely good copy. 49 “…Man Is Not Truly One, But Truly Two” L 54. STEVENSON, Robert Louis. Strange Case of Dr Jekyll i and Mr Hyde. London, 1886. Octavo, early 20th-century t three-quarter burgundy calf gilt; original wrappers bound in. e $5900. r Scarce first English edition of Stevenson’s “Faustian moral a fable,” with scarce original wrappers bound in. t “Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is like the sudden, mortal jab of an u ice pick” (Stephen King). Leaping to life out of a “fine bogey r dream” from which the author’s wife abruptly awakened e him, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde proved “immediately and lastingly Stevenson’s most famous story” (Baugh et al., 1499). “It is a Faustian moral fable which takes the form of a tale of mystery and horror… [It] is the prototype of all stories of multiple personality, transformation and possession… The psychological power of the writing, including Jekyll’s agonies, is patent” (Clute & Nicholls, 1165). “When we thrill to the shock and horror of the story, I think it is because we all, at least to some degree, have been torn by [Jekyll’s] internal conflict. When we recoil in terror from the selfish savagery of Mr. Hyde, I think it is because we fear our own secret selves” (Jack Williamson). Bound with scarce original wrappers, with leaf of advertisements at the rear; text complete. The New York edition preceded the London by only four days. Light foxing to preliminary and concluding pages, light wear to extremities, toning to spine. An extremely good copy.

“Light Of My Life, Fire Of My Loins”: First Edition Of Lolita, 1955 55. NABOKOV, Vladimir. Lolita. Paris, 1955. Two volumes. Small octavo, original green paper wrappers. $9600. First edition, first issue, of one of the most famous and controversial novels of the 20th century. “Brilliant… One of the funniest and one of the saddest books that will be published this year” (New York Times). The saga of Lolita began well before its publication in 1955. A number of American publishers rejected it for fear of negative repercussions if they published such a “pornographic” work. When the Olympia Press in Paris finally issued the book, its first edition sold out quickly in Europe. It was not as warmly received abroad: The British government pressured the French to ban the novel, and no American edition saw print until 1958. First issue, with the price of “Francs: 900” on the rear wrappers (brisk sales spurred the publisher to raise the price later to 1200 francs) and no evidence of an overlaid sticker. Field 0793. Juliar 428.1.1. Very light rubbing to extremities of wrappers. A lovely copy in near-fine condition.

50 Signed By Mark Twain, Theodore Roosevelt, Andrew Carnegie S And Numerous Other Authors p 56. (TWAIN, Mark, ROOSEVELT, r Theodore, et al.). Liber Scriptorum. i The First Book of the Authors Club. n WITH: The Second Book of the g Authors Club. New York, 1893, 1921. Two volumes. Thick folio, publisher’s full dark brown morocco gilt (Volume 2 I) and publisher’s gilt-stamped brown 0 cloth (Volume II). $18,000. 2 First editions, each one of only 251 0 numbered copies signed by each of the 213 contributors at their contribution, the most prominent being Mark Twain (“The Californian’s Tale,” the first appearance of this story), Theodore Roosevelt (“A Shot at a Bull Elk,”) and Andrew Carnegie (“Genius Illustrated from Burns”). Volume I is the copy of John Denison Champlin, one of the editors of the first volume. With an autograph letter signed by Carnegie to Champlin’s son expressing sympathy over his father’s death. “The Authors Club of New York, organized in 1882, was a social club for like-minded men and a support group for younger writers. In 1891, club members conceived Liber Scriptorum as a means to raise money for a suitable permanent home. Each member contributed an original essay, story or poem that would never be published elsewhere. Each author signed 251 copies of his entry, and the books were then bound. The book, published and printed by club member Theodore Low De Vinne, sold for $100—almost $2000 in 2002 dollars… With a sense of tradition, the Club planned a second book for the 25th anniversary of their premier effort, but World War I delayed publication until 1921. The second Liber Scriptorum appeared in the same format as the first, with prose articles and poems, all signed by their authors” (Carnegie Mellon University). Liber Scriptorum marks the first appearance in print of Twain’s tale about an unfortunate man’s undying devotion to his wife, later included inThe $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories (1906). Other contributors include master printer Theodore Low De Vinne, William Dean Howells, Henry Van Dyke and Frank R. Stockton. In Volume I, Percival Lowell has signed his contribution on a tipped-in slip, as have William Henry Bishop and William H. Pickering in Volume II; two other articles are unsigned, and a further nine are signed in facsimile. BAL 3438. Volume I was the copy of John Denison Champlin, one of the editors of the first volume. Laid into these volumes are a number of items related to their provenance including a printed leaf presenting the volume to John Denison Champlin, one of its three editors and an autograph letter signed by Andrew Carnegie, dated January 12, 1915, written to Champlin’s son expressing sympathy at Champlin’s death and asking him to “Pray convey to your dear Mother the profound sympathy of Mrs. Carnegie and myself.” Interior fine, both volumes with expert repairs and restoration to joints, spine ends and board extremities.

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“Somewhere In This Favoured Land The Sun Is Shining Bright…”: Rare First Separate Edition, 1901, Of This Legendary Baseball Poem, In Original Pictorial Wrappers 57. THAYER, Ernest. Casey at the Bat. New York, 1901. Thin octavo, stitched as issued, original pictorial beige paper wrappers, custom chemise and clamshell box. $11,000. Rare first separate edition of this classic of American popular poetry, with vignette illustrations printed in red and a dedication to the poem’s popularizer, actor DeWolfe Hopper, in original pictorial paper wrappers. This classic American poem first appeared in an 1888 issue of the San Francisco Examiner, and was popularized by the stage performances of actor DeWolfe Hopper. In 1901 this edition was published separately in pamphlet form. While the 1912 hardcover edition is often considered to be the first “fully illustrated” edition due to its full-page line cuts, this earlier “But there is no pamphlet does in fact contain illustrations—lovely vignette illustrations in brick red on every page. This joy in Mudville— is also the first edition to bear a dedication to DeWolf Hopper. Printed on rectos only; versos blank. Only mighty Casey a few spots of soiling to text, text block and spine has struck out.” expertly repaired, unusually clean wrappers with only light restoration. A beautiful copy.

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2 Exceptionally Rare Conrad Item: The Four-Act Secret Agent, 0 1921—One Of Only 52 Copies—Warmly Inscribed By Conrad To 2 His Friend, Fitzwilliam Museum Director Sydney Cockerell 0 58. CONRAD, Joseph. The Secret Agent. Drama in Four Acts. Canterbury, 1921. Quarto, contemporary half vellum original, custom cloth clamshell box. $13,800. Extremely rare first edition of Conrad’s stage adaptation of his 1907 novel, one of only 52 copies published, inscribed to Sydney Cockerell, Conrad’s friend, the director of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, and a member of the literati: “To Sydney C. Cockerell with friendly regards from Joseph Conrad,” extra-illustrated with a photo-printed drypoint portrait of Conrad, three photographic prints of Conrad, a telegram from Conrad’s wife to Cockerell informing him of Conrad’s death, and a lengthy autograph letter to Cockerell written and signed by Conrad. Conrad published The Secret Agent as a novel in 1907. He then adapted the material to the stage in this dramatic, four-act version. In 1922, “the play opened at the Ambassadors Theatre the night of November 3, was damned by the critics and public and closed November 11 after 11 performances” (Cagle). Conrad published only 52 copies of this four-act version. In 1923, the author would publish a signed limited edition of the play in three acts. This copy has been inscribed to Sydney Cockerell, who first entered literary circles through correspondence with John Ruskin, and later by acting as William Morris’ private secretary. For nearly three decades, Cockerell served as Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, in Cambridge. He was known for holding modern literary salons and had close relationships with a number of the period’s literati. Conrad, however, was a particularly close friend, with whom he regularly corresponded. Notably, unlike many of Conrad’s friends, Cockerell was accepting of Conrad’s somewhat uncultured wife, Jessie, perhaps because of his own early background in the coal industry. Additionally, this copy has been illustrated with four Conrad-related items. First, a photo-printed drypoint portrait by noted artist Muirhead Bone has been tipped in as a frontispiece. Three black-and-white photographic prints, tipped onto the front pastedown, depict Conrad with two friends at his home in 1924. A telegram to Cockerell has also been tipped in. It reads “Our dear Conrad died suddenly yesterday morning. My mother and the boys are here. My love, Jessie.” Finally, the tipped-in letter, written by Joseph Conrad on his own stationary, reads in part: “My dear Cockerell,... I doubt whether I will have time to see any museum or collections during my stay with the Doubledays in Oyster Bay—which will be short. I ask myself at times what I have to do ‘dans cette galere’ [in this mess].... It is not that I do not appreciate the extreme kindness of Mr & Mrs Doubleday, or doubt the general friendliness of my reception—but I fear I may disappoint or even displease unwittingly of course. You who know me well by this time will understand my feelings. Jessie joins me in love to you both and in my thanks to dear Mrs Cockerell and yourself for the offered in hospitality. Affect’ly yours. Joseph Conrad.” Tiny owner notations to inscription and captioning of the photographs, possibly by Cockerell. Toning to letter. A few tiny spots of foxing, light foxing to rear boards, mild toning to spine. Near-fine condition. 53 “A Landmark Volume In Modern American L Poetry”: Very Scarce First Edition Of i Harmonium, One Of Only 500 Copies In t The Rare First Binding And Dust Jacket e 59. STEVENS, Wallace. Harmonium. New York, r 1923. Octavo, original half blue cloth, dust jacket. a $9500. t First edition of Wallace Stevens’ first collection of u poems, one of only 500 copies in the rare first binding, r especially rare and desirable in the original dust jacket. e Although Stevens had been publishing poems in magazines for almost ten years, Harmonium, published when he was 44 years old, was his first collection. Harmonium includes some of Stevens’ most famous poems, such as “The Emperor of Ice Cream,” “Peter Quince at the Clavier,” “Ploughing on Sunday,” “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird,” “Sunday Morning,” and “The Snow Man.” “Harmonium is a landmark volume in modern American poetry… ‘The poet’s subject is his sense of the world,’ Stevens once wrote…he believed in the ultimate value of imagination, in the ability of the imagination to transform reality” (Hamilton, 520). First issue, with red top edge. A bit of foxing along fore-edge, book about- fine; rarely present original dust jacket with a bit of expert reinforcement on verso, some closed splits along folds, slightly toned spine, front panel clean and bright, exceptionally good.

“The only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream.” 54 “Yes, Everybody’s Happy Now” S 60. HUXLEY, Aldous. Brave New World. London, 1932. Octavo, original blue cloth, dust jacket. $9200. p r First trade edition of Huxley’s haunting dystopian classic, a handsome copy in the original dust jacket. i n “A nightmarish prognostication of a future in which humanity has been destroyed by science… easily Huxley’s most popular (and g many good judges continue to think his best) novel” (DNB). “After the success of his first three novels, Huxley abandoned the fictional 2 milieu of literary London and directed his satire toward an imagined 0 future. He admitted that the original idea of Brave New World was 2 to challenge H.G. Wells’ Utopian vision… The novel also marks 0 Huxley’s increasing disenchantment with the world, which was to result in his leaving England for California in 1937 in search of a more spiritual life. The book was immediately successful” (Parker & Kermode, 161-62). “Along with Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, it is one of only two futuristic novels to have made a considerable contribution to the social and political rhetoric of the 20th century” (Anatomy of Wonder II-558). Preceded by the signed limited edition of 324 copies. Book fine; light edge-wear, small closed tears to very bright and colorful nearly fine dust jacket.

“When The Cannot Becomes The Should-Not” 61. HAMMETT, Dashiell, editor. Creeps by Night. New York, 1931. Octavo, original black cloth, dust jacket. $2500. First edition of this anthology of weird horror, selected by Dashiell Hammett, including the first book appearances of “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner and “The Music of Erich Zann” by H.P. Lovecraft. “This business of making the reader feel that what cannot happen can and should not is a tremendously difficult one for the author… Usually all the most skilled author can hope for are some shivers of apprehension as his reader feels himself led towards the thing that cannot happen and the culminant shudder as he feels that the cannot has become the should-not. This shudder is almost always momentary, almost never duplicated” (Hammett’s Introduction). This anthology of 20 tales—“none of which has ever before appeared in book form”—includes William Faulkner’s classic horror story, “A Rose for Emily” and “The Music of Erich Zann” by the master of weird horror, H.P. Lovecraft. Also includes tales by Donald Wandrei, Frank Belknap Long, Ian Fleming’s older brother Peter, prolific thriller writer Philip MacDonald, German horror pioneer Hanns Heinz Ewers’ classic “The Spider,” occultist—and cannibal—William Seabrook, S. Fowler Wright, Conrad Aiken and Stephen Vincent Benét. Book near-fine, scarce original dust jacket some chipping and edge-wear, including a large chip to rear panel, very good.

“So the next day we all said, ‘She will kill herself’; and we said it would be the best thing…” 55 L i “The Most Utter Blackness That t Human Eyes Will Ever Know” e 62. (SIBSON, Francis H., et al.). Tales of Dread. r A Collection of Uneasy Tales. London, 1936. Octavo, a original orange cloth, dust jacket. $3500. t First edition of this collection of nine “uneasy tales,” u an excellent copy in the bright original illustrated dust r jacket by T. Cundall. e Includes nine tales: “Bathysphere Number 7” by Francis H. Sibson, “Angela” by Charles Lloyd, “The Green Taxi” by Anne Edgar, “The Secret of the Graves” by Oswell Blakeston, “The Silver Lady” by Sidney Denham, “The Dead Watch” by David Lord, “Dispossessed” by Harold Markham, “The Tiger” by Francis Bruguiere, and “The False Trail” by Kenneth Ingram. Small white-lettered “M” on lower portion of spine. A few minor smudges to boards, original dust jacket with minor edge-wear, bright and clean. An excellent, near-fine copy.

“Quite Simply A Novel Which Has Changed The World” 63. ORWELL, George. Nineteen Eighty-Four. London, 1949. Octavo, original green cloth, red-and-white dust jacket, custom clamshell box. $8200. First edition of Orwell’s powerful and influential dystopian novel, in preferred red dust jacket. Written while Orwell suffered severely from tuberculosis and published shortly before the disease claimed his life, the novel is a work “of hectic, devilish, claustrophobic intensity… nightmarish in the telling” (Clute & Nicholls, 896). Writing of Orwell, Christopher Hitchens said, “‘the three great subjects of the 20th century were imperialism, fascism and Stalinism… Orwell got all three right” (New York Times). It was this aptitude for politics that enabled Orwell to create a cautionary tale at once remarkably profound and widely accessible. For its enrichment of the English language—bequeathing such words as “doublethink,” “Newspeak,” and, of course, “Big Brother”—and its warning about the dire consequences of unchecked power in any hands, 1984 remains a literary landmark. “It is quite simply a novel which has changed the world” (Pringle, 100 Best Science Fiction Novels 1). First-edition dust jacket issued in both green and red (this copy) versions, no priority established. Text very fresh, front hinge barely starting, book about-fine; light edge-wear, mild toning to spine, tiny open tear to front flap seam, faint dampstaining to rear panel of unrestored preferred red dust jacket.

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“They Owed It To Literary History To Couple”: Extraordinary Association First Edition Of On The Road, Gore Vidal’s Personal Copy With His Estate Stamp 64. KEROUAC, Jack. On the Road. New York, 1957. Octavo, original black cloth, dust jacket. $16,500. First edition of Kerouac’s second and most important novel, “a physical and metaphysical journey across America,” in colorful original dust jacket. Gore Vidal’s personal copy with his bold estate stamp. “Between 1947 and 1950, Neal Cassady and Jack Kerouac took off on a freewheeling journey through the USA and Mexico in search of something outside their domestic experience. Ten years later their adventures were related in On the Road… The novel’s composition has become a well-known anecdote in its own right. Returning home from his wanderings, Kerouac spent almost a year pondering how (specifically, in what form) he might convey the life he had been living. Several false starts were made, but in April 1951 he fed a 120-foot roll of teletype “Whither goest thou, into his typewriter, typed for three weeks and the result, largely unrevised, was On the Road” (Parker, 339). This copy belonged to Gore Vidal and bears America, in thy shiny car his estate stamp. Despite Vidal’s notorious promiscuity, his involvement with Kerouac took on a different character. “The sex with people he knew is rare in the night?” and striking: he and Kerouac ‘both thought, even then (this was before On the Road), that [they] owed it to literary history to couple’” (New York Times). Their encounter appeared in a Kerouac novella called “The Subterraneans” just a year afterOn the Road, with Gore Vidal recrafted as a successful novelist named Arial Lavalina. Vidal was deeply annoyed with Kerouac’s piece and actually confronted him about his failure to include the specific details of their encounter. Ultimately, Vidal would share the story in detail in one of his memoirs, Palimpsest. Bookseller ticket. Book with a few spots of soiling to interior and spine leaning slightly. Dust jacket with a bit of wear to extremities. A near-fine copy with extraordinary provenance.

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A r c Wonderful Silver And Ivory Hornbook With The Swinburne Family Crest h 65. (HORNBOOK). Silver and ivory hornbook with original red ribbon. No place, 1814. Measures 2-1/2 by 4 i inches, custom full morocco, velvet, and silk-lined case by Riviere & Son. $12,500. t Rare silver and ivory hornbook with the boar crest of the Swinburne family engraved on the handle, with a e London 1814 hallmark. c The hornbook was “a form of ABC book common in England from the 16th to the 18th centuries. [The few t continental examples known to exist were probably destined for English schoolchildren.] The alphabet, with other printed matter that the child was to learn, was printed on a piece of paper which was then mounted on u a tablet of wood with a projecting handle. In order to protect the lettering, a thin sheet of translucent horn was r fixed over the paper” (Carpenter & Pritchard, 260). Eventually, the horn-book evolved in the 19th century to e become the battledore. The present exceptionally rare and unusual hornbook differs in that the alphabet has been engraved on silver, rather than printed on paper and then overlaid with translucent horn. On the front of this hornbook an ivory frame encloses a silver inlay upon which the alphabet is engraved in capital and lowercase “Yes, yes, he teaches boys the letters. The back is composed of intersecting lines forming a pattern Horne-booke: What is Ab speld backward of squares, possibly for use as a game board. With the bookplate of Elizabeth Willetts Lambert (laid in); old typed dealer description with the horn on its head.” laid in as well, front hinge of box expertly repaired. Small age cracks with no loss of ivory. An extremely handsome hornbook —Shakespeare, Love’s Labour’s Lost with an unusual Swinburne association, rare and desirable. 58 “He Was Very Fond Of Animals And Kept Many Kinds Of Pets”: 1920 First Edition Of The Story Of S Doctor Dolittle, In Scarce Original Dust Jacket p 66. LOFTING, Hugh. The Story of Doctor Dolittle. New York, 1920. Octavo, r original orange cloth, dust jacket. $8800. i First edition of the first Doctor Dolittle title, with color frontispiece, two plates, n and 30 in-text black-and-white illustrations. A lovely copy in the very scarce g original dust jacket. Author Hugh Lofting was “creator of the 2 most famous vet of all time (pace James 0 Herriot)—and what a wonderfully sane 2 loony Dr. Dolittle is. The books are absolutely 0 irresistible and deathless—as well as being immensely stylish… Very much collected, as is right and proper” (Connolly, 189). Peter Parley to Penrod, 138. Book with minor bump to lower corner and two short closed tears to front free endpaper and flyleaf, cloth fresh and near-fine; unrestored original dust jacket with chip to rear panel, shallow wear to ends of slightly toned spine and corners, but quite clean and bright, extremely good. A lovely and desirable copy in the very scarce dust jacket.

First Edition Of Robert McCloskey’s First Book, Signed By Him 67. MCCLOSKEY, Robert. Lentil. New York, 1940. Folio (9-1/2 by 12-12 inches), original beige cloth, dust jacket. $6000. First edition of McCloskey’s first children’s book, signed by him. Written by the acclaimed, Caldecott-winning author of Blueberries for Sal and Make Way for Ducklings, Lentil, McCloskey’s first book, is about a boy who longs to perform music but can’t sing. Set in McCloskey’s home state of Ohio, the uniquely personal work features the bold, detailed charcoal drawings for which McCloskey would later become known. A bright, beautiful copy in fine condition.

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L i t e “With Whom I Used To Roller-Skate… During The Most Wonderful r Years Of My Young Life”: First Edition Of Scrambled Eggs Super!, a Wonderfully Inscribed By Seuss To A Childhood Friend t 68. SEUSS, Dr. Scrambled Eggs Super! New York, 1953. Quarto, original pictorial u paper boards, dust jacket. $6200. r First edition of Seuss’ tenth book, his riotous recipe for a most unusual breakfast, e warmly inscribed by him to a childhood friend: “For Judy Kay, with whom I used to , roller-skate down Wonderview Drive during the most wonderful years of my Young Life.—Best Wishes—Dr. Seuss.” A Seuss’ bright, whimsical pictures and bouncing, tongue-twisting text follow a r young boy on his epic quest in search of the ingredients for “Scrambled Eggs t Super-Dee-Dooper-dee-Booper, Special de luxe à-la-Peter T. Hooper.” Devoted Seuss enthusiasts will note that this book contains his first reference to a Grinch & (though not the one who would later attempt to steal Christmas). Younger & Hirsch 68. Book with expert repairs to joints and extremities; bright dust jacket with expert restoration to extremities. A very good inscribed copy. A r c h “That’s A Long Long Time To Be Missing Good Friends…”: On Beyond i Zebra, First Edition, Inscribed By Seuss To Family Friends t 69. SEUSS, Dr. On Beyond Zebra. New York, 1955. Quarto, original pictorial boards, dust e jacket (supplied from another copy). $5500. c First edition of Seuss’ paean to free thinking, warmly inscribed: “For Judy, Marian and Joe, t Whom I haven’t seen since they were all 3-1/2 years old. That’s a long long time to be missing u good friends—Dr. Seuss.” r “The story of the boy whose philosophy is ‘most people stop with the Z but not me!’ encapsulates e all that has made Dr. Seuss so important and endearing. Fundamentally, the book posits the empowerment of children through the use of their imagination. Instead of rote memorization of that which has been given to them, there is excitement to be found in what has come to be known as ‘thinking outside the box’… This kind of thinking was, for the times, downright radical” (Cohen, 316). Younger & Hirsch 63. Interior generally fine, only slight wear to extremities of bright boards with expert restoration to spine head and inner hinges; bright dust jacket with only minor wear. A very attractive copy with a wonderful inscription by Dr. Seuss. 60 S p r i n g

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“You’ll Be Surprised How You’ve Changed The Appearance Of The Cat-In-The-Hat…”: Extraordinary Archive Of Dr. Seuss Letters On His Personal And Beginner Books Letterhead, Comprising Two Typed Letters (One With An Original Color Illustration Of The Cat In The Hat) And One Autograph Letter, All Written And Signed By Dr. Seuss To Children’s Author “Mrs. Dr. T” A.K.A. Cecilia Turullols 70. SEUSS, Dr. Archive, comprising one autograph letter signed and two typed letters signed. La Jolla, California, 1972. Two sheets of pale blue Dr. Seuss letterhead, each measuring 7 by 10-1/4 inches, each p.1., and two sheets of cream Beginner Books letterhead, measuring 8-1/2 by 11 inches, pp. 2, with original mailing envelopes. $12,500. Fascinating archive of letters from Dr. Seuss to an admirer, children’s author Mrs. Dr. T, comprising one signed autograph letter with an original color illustration by Seuss and two signed typed letters, discussing Mrs. Dr. T’s Christmas book, expressing gratitude for a box of presents, and explaining the philosophy of Beginner Books and its reason for avoiding educational endeavors. The first letter, a signed typed letter dated “April 25, 1972” and addressed to Mrs. Dr. T, pseudonym of Cecilia Turullols, the author of A Helper for Santa, reads: “Dear Mrs. Dr. T: Thank you for taking the time and the trouble to send me such a charming letter. And such a delightful book, so beautifully inscribed! Very few writers seem to know how to give something positive to the story of Christmas… and you are among that fortunate few. With very best wishes, [signed] T.S. Geisel, Dr. Seuss.” The second letter, written entirely in Dr. Seuss’ hand and dated “May 18, 1972,” thanks Mrs. Dr. T. and Dr. T. for sending a gift box including some hospital-themed novelty items: “You’d be surprised how you’ve changed the appearance of the Cat-in-the-Hat, who is now in surgery, wearing both appurtenances.” He also notes his regret that he hasn’t listened to their tape as he is on his way to Hollywood to work on Dr. Seuss on the Loose and then to Yugoslavia. Seuss’ trip behind the Iron Curtain was relatively unsurprising, though admittedly quite adventurous. He wrote both Horton Hears a Who and The Butter Battle Book, works dealing with the Cold War. The final lengthy letter, typed on “Beginner Books” stationery and dated “August 28, 1972,” firmly explains Beginner Books’ policy of fostering a love of reading—a policy that would preclude it from providing teaching guides as Mrs. Dr. T. suggested. With photocopies of Turullol’s original letters to Dr. Seuss, as well as the teaching materials she suggested adding to Seuss’ books. Original mailing creases, faint soiling to first letter, staple and paperclip marks to third letter. Very nearly fine condition. 61 C Signed By Walt Disney And His Daughter h 71. MILLER, Diane Disney. The Story of Walt Disney. i New York, 1957. Octavo, original half light blue cloth, l dust jacket. $5000. d First edition of this biography of Walt Disney by his r daughter, boldly signed by Walt Disney and additionally e signed by his daughter, Diane Disney Miller. n Disney’s daughter Diane (ghosted by journalist Pete ’ Martin) relates her father’s career, from his humble beginnings as a paper boy who drew doodles through s his revolutionizing of animated film and the opening of Disneyland. Illustrated with 16 pages of black-and- L white photographs. Book with only slight soiling to i edges of text block and mild toning to extremities. t Bright, price-clipped dust jacket with minor soiling, e one chip to rear panel, and a couple tape repairs to r verso. A near-fine signed copy. a t u r e ,

A r t Inscribed With Large Original Sketch Of Snoopy By Schulz & 72. SCHULZ, Charles M. Peanuts Jubilee: My Life and Art with Charlie Brown and Others. A New York, 1975. Oblong folio, original aluminum boards, dust jacket, shipping carton. $7800. r c First edition of this celebration of Peanuts’ silver anniversary, boldly inscribed with a large original h sketch of Snoopy: “Best wishes—Charles M. Schulz.” i In this treasury of his classic comic strips, t Schulz reflects on his life and career, stating, “It e really does not matter what you are called, or c where your work is placed, as long as it brings t some kind of joy to some person someplace. To u create something out of nothing is a wonderful r experience. To take a blank piece of paper and e draw characters that people love and worry about is extremely satisfying. I hope very much that I will be allowed to do it for another 25 years”—and, in fact, he did. Illustrated with numerous photographs and comic strips, including 134 color reproductions of Sunday panels. Laid into this copy is a typed letter on Schulz’ letterhead signed by Schulz’ secretary explaining how to buy a signed copy of the book. Fine condition. 62 Wonderful Original Sketch S Of Charlie Brown p Blowing Out The r Candles On His i Birthday Cake, n Inscribed By g Charles Schulz 73. SCHULZ, Charles 2 M. Original large 0 sketch inscribed. No place, no date. Single 2 sheet of buff paper, 0 measuring 8-1/2 by 11 inches; matted and frame, entire piece measures 16 by 18 inches. $6500. Original sketch of Charlie Brown blowing out the candles on his birthday cake, rendered in blue marker, inscribed in a speech bubble: “Happy Birthday, John!” and additionally signed by Charles Schulz. “Novelist Jonathan Franzen has written that ‘Peanuts was steeped in Schulz’s awareness that for every winner in a competition there had to be a loser.’ Charlie Brown was that loser. But of course most of us are that loser, which is why we love Charlie Brown. We see ourselves in his struggle, and admire his stoicism in the face of defeat… Charlie Brown keeps on keeping on, undaunted and decent, seemingly with the attitude that if he can survive being himself each day, he can probably survive anything at all” (Sydney Morning Herald). Sketches such as this one are unusual—its subject matter and the detail of its execution both reflect that Schulz spent an unusual amount of time on it. Only faint staining to inscription. A handsome inscribed original sketch, beautifully framed.

63 First Edition Signed By Sendak C 74. SENDAK, Maurice. In the Night Kitchen. New h York, 1970. Tall thin quarto, original white cloth, i mounted cover illustration, dust jacket. $2800. l First edition of this wonderfully illustrated classic, d signed by Maurice Sendak, in colorful dust jacket. r Sendak’s homage to New York City and the movies e of the 1930s, In the Night Kitchen “spins the reader n through the surreal fantasy of a child’s dream, like ’ Alice into Wonderland or Dorothy into Oz.” Like s most of Sendak’s work, Kitchen is “a celebration of the primal, sensory world of childhood and an L affirmation of its imaginative potency” (Silvey, 586). i It was a Caldecott Honor book in 1971. First-issue dust jacket, without Caldecott medal affixed. Hanrahan t A75. Mild soiling to cloth; dust jacket with only most e minor wear. An about-fine copy. r a t u r e ,

A r t “A Master Of The Fantastic And Exotic”: Stories From Hans Andersen, Illustrated And Signed By Edmund Dulac & 75. (DULAC, Edmund) ANDERSEN, Hans Christian. Stories from Hans Andersen. London, 1911. Folio, original full vellum gilt. $5200. A Signed limited edition, one of 750 copies signed by Dulac, with 28 wonderful r mounted color plates, bound in original vellum-gilt. A beautiful copy. c “Dulac was one of the central illustrators of the Edwardian period, a time when h fantasy illustration reached a peak of sophistication” (Clute & Grant, 300). i “Dulac remained true to the t medium of watercolor, and the e critics were unanimous in their praise. He was recognized as an c illustrator of first rank, a master t of the fantastic and exotic, and u ‘a dreamer of extraordinary r dreams’… Among the 28 color e plates in [this volume] are several of the artist’s most loved and celebrated illustrations: ‘The Little Mermaid,’ ‘The Emperor’s New Clothes’ and ‘The Princess and the Pea’” (Dalby, 82-83). This collection also includes “The Wind’s Tale,” “The Nightingale” and “The Snow Queen.” Original slipcase repaired. Book quite clean and fine. An exceptional copy. 64 “I Am Not Really Much Interested In The Books I Illustrated Before S Rip Van Winkle”: The First Of p Rackham’s Deluxe Signed Limited r Editions, Rip Van Winkle, A i Beautiful Copy, With A Rackham n Autograph Letter Signed g Mentioning The Work Laid In 76. (RACKHAM, Arthur) IRVING, 2 Washington. Rip Van Winkle. London, 0 1905. Quarto, original full pictorial 2 vellum gilt, custom slipcase. $14,500. 0 Deluxe signed limited first edition of “the first book illustrated wholly by Rackham to be issued in a limited edition” (Riall), with 51 full-color mounted plates by Rackham, one of only 250 copies signed by Rackham. One of the most scarce and desirable Rackham titles. With a two- page autograph letter signed by Rackham regarding Rip Van Winkle. “Rip Van Winkle of 1905 was a turning point in Rackham’s career because of its 51 color plates. Known previously as a black-and-white artist, Rackham with this book achieved preeminence as an illustrator working in the three-color process… Rackham’s Rip Van Winkle is among the most thoroughly illustrated of English books” (Ray, 203-04). The laid-in autograph letter by Rackham, dated 8.1.28, reads: “Dear Sir, I think the fullest list of books with my illustrations has been made by the Grolier Club of New York. They have found out many not included in Mr. Birnbaum’s list: and among them are several of whose existence I was not aware. I am not really much interested in the books I illustrated before Rip Van Winkle: and there are several of which I have no copies, & even no record… I think if you wrote to Mr. Henry Smith of Dutton & Co., V Av., New York, he would be able to help you. I know he has been interested in complete collections of my work (& is a member of the Grolier Club)… with many thanks for your good wishes, yours faithfully, Arthur Rackham.” Ribbon ties renewed. Ray 328. A bit of foxing to endpapers only, text and plates clean and fine; vellum clean, gilt bright. A lovely copy, desirable with an autograph letter signed by Rackham mentioning Rip Van Winkle laid in.

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the Prussian King, Friedrich Wilhelm IV. As a result he was made Painter to the Royal Court, and was supported on his subsequent extensive (and expensive) travels. In 1844-45 he visited America and Brazil; in 1847 he was in England, Portugal, Spain, and the Canaries and Madeira; in 1851 in Italy, Egypt, Palestine, Turkey and Greece; and from 1862-64 he was on his “Reise um die Erde”—his Journey Around the World—from Trieste through Suez to India, and on to China, Japan, the Pacific and back via California and Central America. His dispatches from the trip were published by the Berlin Montagspost, and subsequently in book form. The original watercolors from the voyage were exhibited in London in 1866 and at an exhibition at the Crystal Palace in 1868, a year before his death in Berlin. Images in this set include scenes from Alexandria, Benares, Bombay, Cairo, Bangkok, Rangoon, Hong Kong, Macao, Peking, Singapore, Manila, Japan, and two famous views of San Francisco. The large folio plates were produced by R. Steinbock and W. Loeillot after the original watercolors by Hildebrandt using the Aquarelle process, with each color added manually by applying watercolors through stencils, each color requiring a different stencil. With a duplicate plate of plate #12, “Strasse in St. Francisco.” Plates lovely and fine, minor restoration to publisher’s deluxe box. A stunning production, rarely found complete, in the extremely rare publisher’s deluxe box.

67 Planché’s Cyclopaedia Of Costume, With 24 Vibrant C Chromolithographs And Hundreds Of In-Text Illustrations h 78. PLANCHÉ, James Robinson. A Cyclopædia of Costume or Dictionary of i Dress, Including Notices of Contemporaneous Fashions on the Continent. l London, 1876. Two volumes. Quarto, contemporary full tan morocco gilt. $3500. d First edition of this richly illustrated compendium of medieval dress, costume, armor r and weaponry, with hundreds of in-text wood-engravings, 18 full-page lithographed e plates, and 24 vibrant full-page chromolithographs. Handsomely bound in full n contemporary morocco-gilt. ’ Planché was a renowned scholar of s antiquaries and costume history, as well as a leading author of London’s Lyceum theatre. His L Cyclopaedia covers military and i religious costume as well as day- t to-day ‘civilian’ clothing. Volume e I is the “Cyclopædia” proper, r with 10 chromolithographs, and a Volume II provides “A General t History of Costume,” with 14 u chromolithographs. Armorial r bookplate; library stamp of the e Moore Institute School of Design on the verso of the front free , endpapers (not on any plates). Text and plates clean and fine. Expert A restoration to joints and extremities. r An exceptionally good copy of this t lovely illustrated work.

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68 With Six Original Miró Lithographs: Limited Edition Large Folio Signed By S Miró, One Out Of Only 150 Copies p 80. MIRÓ, Joan. Peintures Murales. Derriere le r Miroir. Paris, 1961. Large folio, stiff paper portfolio i with 19 loose gatherings and three sheets, original n cloth box and chemise. $3800. g Special signed limited edition of Derriere le Miroir, one of only 150 copies signed by Miró in pencil, with his 2 original cover design and six original lithographs (one 0 double-page, one folding), all printed by Maeght. 2 Miró’s lithographic works often display “a whimsical 0 or humorous quality, containing images of playfully distorted animal forms, twisted organic shapes, and odd geometric constructions. The forms of his lithographs are organized against flat neutral backgrounds and are printed in a limited range of bright colors, especially blue, red, yellow, green, and black [as here]. Amorphous amoebic shapes alternate with sharply drawn lines, spots, and curlicues, all positioned on the stone with seeming nonchalance” (Lenin Gallery). Miró’s images are accompanied by contributions from Josep Lluis Sert, Joan Brossa and Joan Prats. Text in Catalan. Cramer 68. A lovely production in fine condition.

Boldly Inscribed By Salvador Dalí With A Highly Desirable Original Drawing Of Don Quixote 81. DALI, Salvador. Dalí. Edited and Arranged by Max Gérard. New York, 1968. Large square quarto (11-1/2 by 12 inches), original pictorial brown cloth, dust jacket. $7200. First edition, a very scarce presentation copy, of this richly illustrated volume of Dalí’s work, boldly inscribed across the entire title page and opposite page by Dalí and dated 1974, with a wonderful large original sketch of Don Quixote. This magnificent volume, produced under Dalí’s supervision, includes many works never before reproduced, as well as his thoughts on subjects such as war, space-time, his wife and muse Gala, eroticism and mysticism. Edited and arranged by Max Gérard. With 271 illustrations, including over 80 plates in color and 23 in toned gravure (many double page). Issued the same year as first French edition, no priority established. This very scarce presentation copy features a large original sketch of Don Quixote. Dalí first illustrated Don Quixote in 1946, producing 38 original illustrations drawing on his Spanish heritage and cultural knowledge. Book very nearly fine, dust jacket near-fine with only minor wear to extremities. A lovely inscribed presentation copy with desirable original sketch.

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N a t u r a l “We’ll Buy Your All, Provided You’ll Agree / To Drown Your Purchase H Money In The South Sea”: Spectacular Complete Set Of 1720 Satirical i “South Sea Bubble” Playing Cards, Published At The Height Of s The Bubble And Satirizing Duplicitous Ventures And Gullible t Investors, One Of The Most Valuable Decks Of Cards In The World o 82. BOWLES, Thomas, publisher. South Sea Bubble Playing Cards. London, r 1720. Full deck of 52 original playing cards. $47,000. y Complete vintage deck of 52 playing cards satirizing the infamous South Sea Bubble, published by Thomas Bowles at the height of the investing mania. This set—especially complete and in such excellent condition—is extraordinarily rare, considered one of the most valuable decks of cards in the world. The South Sea Bubble Playing Cards were first published in London by Thomas Bowles in 1720. The cards bear satirical portrayals of the speculators involved in various commercial projects started during the South Sea Bubble of 1720, providing a unique contemporary record of the feverish atmosphere of the time, as well as the fashions of dress. The cards were printed from copper plates, with the spades and clubs printed in black, the diamonds and hearts printed in red. The court cards contain interesting miniature versions of the standard full-length figures used on playing cards at the time. The backs are plain.

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“The South Sea Bubble is often described as England’s first great financial crash… The South Sea Company was founded in 1711 to trade with Spanish colonies in the Americas. The company came to prominence in 1719 with a scheme to deal with the spiraling national debt, which had been worsened by decades of war. Under the direction of John Blunt, one of the company’s directors who became the driving force behind the Bubble, the South Sea Company proposed to take ownership of the national debt and convert it to South Sea stock, in which the public would be able to buy shares... Blunt’s plans depended on an ever-increasing share price to generate profit and he worked tirelessly to inflate the value of South Sea stock. His plans worked and in the summer of 1720 South Sea mania gripped Britain... Stock also began to be sold on credit, a fairly novel concept in the early 18th century... In autumn 1720, the bubble burst. Ironically, the crash was in part brought about by John Blunt himself, who persuaded the government to clamp down on other bubble companies to reduce competition for South Sea stock. “Thomas Bowles’ Bubble Cards were issued at the height of the Bubble… Each card bears an image and verse satirizing a bubble company. The cards are functional as playing cards, with a full set of suits and numbers. At three shillings and sixpence, they were priced at the expensive end of mid-range prints and would likely have been purchased by the middle and upper classes (Clayton, 235). The Bubble Cards are an example of a new trend in political and social commentary in the early 18th century: satire. The 18th century was the heyday of the satirical print and the South Sea Bubble helped to spur the development of British satire (Atherton)” (Hargrave, 197). Without title card as almost all examples known. Usual duty stamp on ace of spades. Nine of diamonds mistakenly printed in black and colored red by hand. Slight flaws to 6 of clubs only. Probably the finest known set. Very rare and desirable. 71 E c o n o m i c s ,

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N a t u r a l “Smith Himself Ranked It Above The Wealth Of Nations”: Adam Smith’s Landmark Second Edition Of Theory Of Moral Sentiments, 1761, The First To Contain His Extensive Revisions Of Key Concepts H i 83. SMITH, Adam. The Theory of Moral Sentiments. London, 1761. Octavo, period-style full speckled calf gilt. $16,000. s t Important second edition of Smith’s first book, the first with Smith’s major additions and revisions at the core of “his central concepts of sympathy and the impartial o spectator” (Tribe, 14), a work increasingly regarded as “one of the truly outstanding r books in the intellectual history of the world” (Amartya Sen), beautifully bound. y First published in 1759, Smith’s Theory of Moral Sentiments laid the foundation for Wealth of Nations and proposed the theory repeated in the later work: that self-seeking men are often “led by an invisible hand… without knowing it, without “Hatred and anger are the greatest intending it, to advance the interest of the society.” Smith poison to the happiness of a good mind.” created “not merely a treatise on moral philosophy and a treatise on economics, but a complete moral and political philosophy” (Palgrave III:412-13). This very important second edition is the first with Smith’s extensive additions and revisions. Prompted by the critical insights of Hume and Sir Gilbert Elliot, Smith expanded and altered “central concepts of sympathy and the impartial spectator” (Tribe, 14). “Strahan printed 750 copies of the second edition” (Tribe, 14). Kress 5983. First few leaves only expertly cleaned. Beautifully bound in period-style full calf-gilt.

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“A Few Days Before His Death… He Gave Orders To Destroy All His Manuscripts, Excepting Some Detached Essays, Which He Entrusted To The Care Of His Executors” 84. SMITH, Adam. Essays on Philosophical Subjects… To Which Is Prefixed, an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author by Dugald Stewart. London, 1795. Large quarto (9 by 11-1/4 inches), period-style full speckled brown calf, custom slipcase. $13,800. First edition of this core volume of Smith’s essays, issued posthumously, featuring the important first publication of History of Astronomy that seeks “to explain what drives ‘philosophers’ to ask the questions they do,” an impressive wide-margined volume handsomely bound. Though Essays on Philosophical Subjects appeared five years after Smith’s death, most were likely written before the publication of his Theory of Moral Sentiments in 1759. Essays was compiled by his literary executors, “His political and moral physicist Joseph Black and geologist James Hutton. Prior to his death Smith “instructed them to destroy his manuscripts but allowed them, at writings have long engaged the their discretion, to publish a set of essays” (Berry, Cambridge Companion, 116). As noted herein, Smith had begun work early in his career on “a admiration of Europe.” connected history of the liberal sciences and elegant arts,” but “found —Analytical Review it necessary to abandon that plan as far too extensive.” These writings thus represent Smith’s longstanding attempts at such a “connected history,” and range over philosophy, aesthetics and the history of science (including his important “History of Astronomy”). One of 1,000 copies. Containing the first publication in book form of Dugald Stewart’s Account of the Life and Writings of Adam Smith, which had appeared in the Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1794. Stewart’s Account “formed the basis… for biographies of Smith that began to appear in the early 19th century” (Tribe 55). Trace of early owner signature above title page. Interior very fresh, period-style calf fine. An elemental Adam Smith work. 73 “One Of The Founders Of Modern E Economics”: Important First Expanded c Edition Of Malthus On Population, o 1803, Handsomely Bound n 85. MALTHUS, Thomas Robert. An Essay on the o Principle of Population. London, 1803. Quarto, m period-style full crushed brown morocco gilt. $12,800. i Second and greatly expanded edition, the first to c carry Malthus’ name, of one of the landmark works in s economics— four times larger than the first edition and extremely important, embodying “Malthus’ mature , views of his subject,” handsomely bound. This 1803 edition, the first with Malthus’ name, was S four times larger than the first—“practically a new c book” (Osler 1297). “Malthus was one of the founders i of modern economics. His Essay was originally the e product of a discussion on the perfectibility of society n with his father, [who] urged him to publish… later c editions were considerably altered and grew bulkier as e Malthus defended his views against a host of critics… The Essay was highly influential in the progress & of thought in early 19th-century Europe [and] his influence on social policy was considerable… Both Darwin and Wallace clearly acknowledged Malthus as N a source of the idea of ‘the struggle for existence” (PMM a 251). The first edition was published in 1798. Garrison t & Morton 1693. Occasional marginal bracketing in u pencil. Only lightest scattered spotting. A lovely, near- r fine copy, beautifully bound. a l “The First Systematic Treatise On Economics H From The Pen Of An American” i 86. RAYMOND, Daniel. Thoughts on Political Economy. Baltimore, 1820. s Octavo, modern three-quarter brown calf. $9500. t First edition of Raymond’s pioneering work on political economy, boldly challenging o Smith’s Wealth of Nations, praised by John Adams as “a proud monument of r American literature,” one of only 750 copies, a very scarce uncut copy. y Daniel Raymond, “America’s first systematic economic thinker, rejected the extreme individualism of the classical political economy” (Frey, Good Samaritan). Thoughts on Political Economy, his first book, challenges Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations (1776). Praised by John Adams in a February 1821 letter, calling Political Economy “a proud monument of American literature,” publication was nevertheless so contentious that barely 750 copies were issued in this rarely found first edition. “The importance of Raymond’s work is not alone in that it is the first systematic treatise on economics from the pen of an American, but also in that it shows the influence of American conditions, and in consequence presents a theory of political economy opposed at all points to the prevailing system as developed by the dominant school of Adam Smith (Neill, 8). Harriet Beecher Stowe and Raymond (also an abolitionist) were in the same social circle and “the injustice of selfish economic motivations is everywhere in Uncle Tom’s Cabin” (Lee, 61). Interior generally fresh with lightest scattered foxing, minor expert archival repair to title page and several leaves (163, 209-220), A highly desirable near-fine uncut copy of a foundational work in American economics.

74 “One Of The Most Influential Modern Works Of The History And Philosophy Of Science”: S First Edition Of Kuhn’s Structure Of Scientific p Revolutions, In Original Wrappers r 87. KUHN, Thomas S. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. i Chicago and London, 1962. Tall octavo, original yellow paper n wrappers, custom clamshell box. $7800. g First edition, first issue, of Thomas Kuhn’s landmark work, an exceptionally pristine copy in original wrappers. 2 “Great books are rare. This is one” (Ian Hacking). Structure of 0 Scientific Revolutions is “one of the most influential modern 2 works of the history and philosophy of science… Kuhn 0 stresses that the history of science is not a smooth progressive accumulation of data and successful theory, but the outcome of ruptures, false starts, and imaginative constraints that themselves reflect many different variables. In his account, science during a normal period works within a framework of assumptions called a paradigm, but in exceptional and revolutionary periods an old paradigm breaks down and after a period of competition is replaced by a new one” (Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy, 209). Conceived to be published in the International Encyclopedia of Unified Science, this book was released as Volume II, number 2 in their series. First issue, with yellow wrappers. Fine condition.

“The ‘Preventative’ Treatment For Rabies Will Be Continued By Me”: Fascinating Signed Autograph Letter, Circa 1887, Written By Louis Pasteur To A Colleague Interested In The State Of A Patient Receiving Rabies Treatment After Being Mauled By A Rabid Animal 88. PASTEUR, Louis. Autograph letter signed. Paris, circa 1887. Single sheet of paper, folded in half measuring 5-1/4 by 9 inches; p. 1; elaborately matted and framed with portrait, entire piece measures 19-3/4 by 22-1/4 inches. $12,500. Fascinating autograph letter, circa 1887, written and signed by the “Father of Microbiology,” Louis Pasteur, regarding the condition and prognosis of a severely bitten patient who was receiving Pasteur’s experimental preventative rabies treatment, in an unusual inlaid Arts and Crafts Movement frame. This letter concerns pasteurization pioneer and acclaimed microbiologist Louis Pasteur’s extensive experiments toward creating a rabies vaccine. In 1885, Pasteur had the opportunity to test his vaccine when a nine-year- old Alsatian boy, Joseph Meister, was bitten by a rabid dog. Meister survived, indicating the viability of a rabies vaccine. The result was that patients were sent from as far as America—imminently possible given rabies’ month- long incubation period—to receive treatment. This letter concerns one such German patient. Faint evidence of tape repair at middle of letter, faint fold crease. A most desirable letter, handsomely framed. 75 E c o n o m i c s ,

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Quain’s Complete Five-Part Series Of Anatomical Plates In Lithography, With 204 Beautiful Full-Page Elephant Folio Lithographs, Almost All Hand-Colored 90. QUAIN, Jones and WILSON, William James Erasmus. A Series of Anatomical Plates in Lithography. London, 1836-42. Text and five suites of illustrations bound as three volumes. Elephant folio (13 by 20 inches), period-style three-quarter tan calf gilt. $16,000. First edition of this forerunner to Gray’s Anatomy, with frontispiece and 203 elephant- folio lithographs by William Fairland, almost all of which are hand colored. Rarely found complete. Jones Quain’s early knowledge of human anatomy was informed by Martinet’s Manual of Pathology, which he translated into English in 1826. In 1828, he published his extraordinarily successful Elements of Descriptive and Practical Anatomy— “the standard text-book on the subject in all English-speaking countries” (DNB). The work of an “elegant and accomplished scholar,” Quain’s anatomical plates would serve as the basis of all major anatomy books for decades (DNB), including Gray’s famous Anatomy (1858). This first edition of the Series, edited by Quain’s pupil W.J.E. Wilson, acknowledged founder of modern dermatology, is comprised of a text volume and five plate-volumes (bound in two), each with a separate title page: Vessels (1837) with 50, [1] plates, Nerves (1839) 38 plates, Bones and Ligaments (1842) 30 plates, Muscles (1836) 51 plates, and Viscera (1840) with 32, [1] plates. Choulant, 404.Bookplates in plate volumes. Hand-coloring quite vivid, occasional scattered foxing as often, minor edge-wear to contemporary marbled boards. An exceptionally good copy.

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“One Of The Most Elegant Works Of The 19th Century”: Rare First Edition Of The Atlas Volume For John Lizars’ Famous Work On Human Anatomy, With 101 Folio Plates, 15 Vividly Hand-Colored 92. LIZARS, John. A System of Anatomical Plates of the Human Body. Accompanied with Descriptions, and Physiological, Pathological, and Surgical Observations. Edinburgh, 1822-27. Atlas volume only. Folio (11 by 17 inches), contemporary three-quarter calf rebacked. $6000. First edition of this highly successful medical sourcebook, a collaboration between innovative 19th-century surgeon John Lizars and his artistic brother William Home Lizars, with 101 folio plates of the human body, 15 vividly hand-colored. “Although it contains no new discoveries, this superb atlas is certainly one of the most elegant works of the 19th century” (Richard Eimas). “In the days before antiseptics and anesthetics [Lizards] was the first in Britain to perform ovariotomy, to ligate the innominate artery for aneurysm, and to remove the lower jaw. His boldness as a surgeon is revealed by such prophetic proposals as ‘to puncture the brain in acute hydrocephalus, and to treat prostate by cutting out the entire gland’” (Simon Behrman). Lizars is also remembered for his article “The Use and Abuse of Tobacco” in the Medical Times and Gazette for 1854, an early work identifying the dangers of tobacco. First published in 12 parts between 1822-27, “the sale of [Lizars’ System] in its various forms was reported to be immense” (Roberts & Tomlinson, 505). This first edition of the atlas is an early issue, with all plate numbers printed. The atlas was issued in both colored and uncolored versions—the plates of the brain and nervous system were colored for both issues. Due to the high cost of hand-coloring, it is likely that only a small number of copies of this edition were colored. Without the three octavo volumes of text, as often. In later editions the text was reset in folio and the plates were incorporated into the text. Plates generally clean, occasional light foxing, faint marginal dampstain toward rear not affecting images, some scuffing to contemporary boards. An extremely good copy of this impressive folio volume. 79 E c o n o m i c s ,

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Of Exceptional Rarity: 1814 First Edition Of The First Hebrew Bible Published In America 94. (HEBREW BIBLE) Biblia Hebraica... Editio Prima Americana, Sine Punctis Masorethicis. Philadelphia, 1814. Two volumes. Octavo, modern full dark brown calf. $28,000. Very rare first edition of the first Hebrew Bible published in America, of major importance in the field of American Judaica, handsomely bound. “After the ‘lean’ years which followed the Revolutionary War, in the early decades of the 19th century America was in the throes of a great religious revival. As part of its intellectual aspect, the study of the Hebrew language was renewed… Grammars, lexicons, and chrestomathies were published, as well as books on the Bible and the Holy Land. The Jewish community was wary of these activities because the same scholars and divines were also involved in missionary activity. The appearance of a work in the Hebrew language which bore approbation from both leading Christian clergymen and leading Jews marked the beginning of friendlier intellectual discourse” (Karp, 291-292). Bound with half titles. Occasional light spotting, early ink stain along lower edge of Volume I text block (not affecting text). Bindings fine and handsome. Rare.

81 J u d a Rare 17th-Century Amsterdam i Hebrew Bible For Jews Of The c Spanish Diaspora, Exquisitely Bound a In Tortoise-Shell And Silver 95. (PENTATEUCH) Cinco Libros de la Ley Divina Con Las Aphtarot de Todo el Año. Amsterdam, 1691. Small octavo, early full tortoiseshell, solid silver floral ornamental cornerpieces, hinges & clasps. $17,000. Splendid and rare 1691 Pentateuch in Spanish, in exquisite tortoise-shell binding with silver fittings, clasps and catches, and with engraved title page. A lovely volume. Printer David B. Abraham de Castro de Tartas (1625-1700) helped produce the earliest known Jewish newspaper in Spanish, intended for the Marrano diaspora. David Tartas was the brother of Isaac de Castro de Tartas, martyred during the Inquisition. News of Isaac’s death

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“occasioned deep mourning” in Amsterdam, the place of this Bible’s publication and the location of a large concentration of Spanish Jews (Encyclopedia Judaica V:247, II:613). Some mispagination, text complete. Laid in is a small note from 1900, a bequest that passes on this Bible. Some embrowning toward rear of text, minor tear to top edge of title page for Haftarah, one-inch fracture in tail of spine, thin crack in upper rear corner, upper front corner silver cornerpiece expertly reattached. Despite minor flaws, the tortoise-shell and detailed silverwork are in exceptional condition. Rare.

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Splendidly Bound Hebrew Bible, 1720: The First Attempt At A Critical Edition 97. (HEBREW BIBLE) Biblia Hebraica. Halae Magdeburgicae, 1720. Two volumes. Thick octavo, period-style full dark blue polished calf gilt. $2900. First edition of the first attempt at a critical edition of the Hebrew Bible, with engraved frontispiece and title vignette. Very handsomely bound. J.H. Michaelis (1668-1738), the editor, used five manuscripts and 19 other editions, ultimately basing his text on Jablonski’s 1699 Berlin edition, which itself was a collation of all the cardinal editions as well as manuscripts. This polyglot Bible in Hebrew has the notes surrounding text, preface, and title page in Latin. Title page in red and black. With errata list. Darlow & Moule 5144. A beautifully bound copy of this splendid production in fine condition.

83 The First Comprehensive History Of The J Jews Of England—The Yerushalmi Copy u 98. TOVEY, D’Blossiers. Anglia Judaica: Or the d History and Antiquities of the Jews in England. a Oxford, 1738. Quarto, period-style full tan calf gilt. i $5500. c First edition of the first comprehensive history of a the Jews of England, very handsomely bound. From the library of renowned scholar and author Yosef Yerushalmi, with his inkstamp. “Though concentrating on the medieval period, the work contains a section on the resettlement and on the English Jews of his own day. It shows appreciation of the magnitude of royal exploitation of the Jews in the Middle Ages and a healthy skepticism of ritual murder charges” (Encyclopedia Judaica 15: 1291). Roth A3:42. From the library of Yosef Yerushalmi, famed Harvard scholar and author of Haggadah and History, among other works, with his red inkstamp on title page; infrequent ink marginalia. A fine wide-margined copy, very handsomely bound, with distinguished provenance. Rare.

1762 Haggadah, Beautifully Illustrated With Woodcut Engraved Title Page And 13 Large In-Text Engravings 99. (HAGGADAH) Haggadah Seder shel Pesach. Fuerth, [Fürth, Bavaria], 1762. Slim folio, period-style full brown morocco. $8000. 1762 Haggadah with important commentary by Abravanel— “the outstanding historical figure among Jews in the closing period of the Middle Ages”— beautifully illustrated with woodcut title page and 13 woodcuts depicting scenes from the Bible and the Passover story. This handsomely illustrated 1762 Haggadah, which follows the Roman rite, is notable not only for its beautiful woodcut engraved title page and large in-text engravings, but also for its commentary by Don Isaac Abravanel (1437-1508), “the outstanding historical figure among Jews in the closing period of the Middle Ages. Statesman, diplomat, courtier and financier of international renown, he was, at the same time, an encyclopedic scholar, a philosophical thinker, a noted exegete and a brilliant writer” (Netanyahu, ix). Also of note is this volume’s engraved title page, which features a vignette of King David above and figures of Moses and Aaron at either side of the title, a positioning similar to that found in a famed Haggadah printed in Frankfurt am Main in 1710: “among the most imposing to be found in 18th-century Hebrew books” (Yerushalmi 64). Unlike that 1710 work, however, this vignette at the bottom of this title page shows not the Binding of Isaac but an image of Jacob’s Ladder. Text and engravings generally fresh with minor expert archival repair to edges and corners of several leaves. An extremely good copy, handsomely bound. 84 S p r i n g

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1765 Illustrated Amsterdam Haggadah, Beautifully Bound 100. (HAGGADAH) Seder Haggadah Lepesach. Amsterdam, 1765. Quarto, period-style full red morocco, elaborately gilt-decorated spine and boards. $9000. 1765 illustrated Amsterdam Haggadah, with 14 half-page woodcuts and numerous historiated initials. Beautifully bound in period-style morocco gilt. With commentary and instructions in Yiddish, prepared by Solomon Zalman London. Title within typographical border. Yudlov 244. Yaari 155. Text expertly cleaned with expert paper repairs to top edges of several leaves, not affecting text. A very good copy of a scarce edition, beautifully bound.

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“A Revolution Which Has No Parallel In The Annals Of Human Society” (Madison): Rare Collection Of Five December 1787 Issues Of The Pennsylvania Packet—With The First Pennsylvania Printing Of A Key Section Of Madison’s Federalist Essay XIV, An Early Printing Of Washington’s Letter On Ratification, And The First Printing Of Hopkinson’s Constitutional Essay, The New Roof 101. (CONSTITUTION) The Pennsylvania Packet, and Daily “1787 was… the most fateful year in the history of the United States” Advertiser. [Five Issues]. Philadelphia, December 25, 27-29, 31, (Rossiter, 11-12). For it was in 1787 that the Constitution “was first presented 1787. Five newspaper issues. Folio, original tabloid-size sheets of to the American public on September 19, 1787, in the Pennsylvania tan paper; each issue four pages (11-1/2 by 18 inches folded), custom Packet” (Meyerson, 140). This rare collection of five December 1787 portfolio. $18,500. issues of the Pennsylvania Packet stands out for its coverage of debates Five December 1787 issues of the Pennsylvania Packet (December in Delaware, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. The December 25 issue 25 & 27-29, 31), containing an exceedingly rare chronicle of fierce contains the first Pennsylvania publication of a substantial passage from debates in state conventions over ratification of the proposed federal Madison’s Federalist essay No. 14; Madison’s Federalist Essay No. 14 Constitution, with the first Pennsylvania printing of the substantial first appeared in the November 30, 1787 issue of the New-York Packet. and eloquent passage from Madison’s Federalist Essay No. 14, According to historian Elaine F. Crane, it first appeared in its entirety together with key speeches by pro- and anti-ratification leaders, in Pennsylvania in a February 1788 issue of the Pennsylvania Gazette coverage of ratification conventions in Pennsylvania, Delaware and (William and Mary Quarterly 21:4, 592). Also included in these five issues New Jersey—the first three states to ratify—and first publication of the pro-ratification allegory, “The New Roof,” by Francis Hopkinson, are articles on the slave trade, international politics, various executions signer of the Declaration, and much more. An important collection of and trials, crime reports and much more. Brigham II:942. Each issue Americana, together housed in a custom portfolio. generally fresh with only light marginal dampstaining, trace of edge- wear. A very rare extremely good collection.

86 “He Possessed The Gift Of Words” S 102. ROOSEVELT, Theodore. Complete Writings. Philadelphia, 1902-03. Twenty- two volumes. Octavo, contemporary full red morocco gilt rebacked with original p spines laid down. $16,800. r “Author’s” limited i edition, one of 26 n lettered sets signed g by Roosevelt and the publishers, of 2 the writings of the adventurous 26th 0 president of the United 2 States, with engraved 0 plates in double suite and in a handsome deluxe binding. Includes Roosevelt’s histories, biographies, essays and hunting stories published up to the year 1903, including the important The Rough Riders and The Winning of the West. Around 30 of the final engraved plates have been signed in pencil by the artists. Interiors fine, light age wear to beautiful full-leather binding. An excellent signed set.

“He was a great patriot, a great man; above all, a great American.” —Henry Cabot Lodge

87 T h Boldly Presented e To A Suffragette And Signed A By Edison: m Scarce Vintage e Photographic r Portrait i 103. EDISON, c Thomas Alva. Photograph signed. a No place, circa 1920. n Vintage silver print, measures 6-1/2 by E 8-1/2 inches, mounted x on heavy card, mount measures 10 by 12 p inches; framed, e measures 12 by 14 r inches. $9200. i Very scarce vintage e photographic portrait n of Edison seated in a c library, inscribed and signed by him with e a bold flourish on the mount: “To Mrs. Blauvelt, from a believer in woman suffrage, Thos A Edison.” This scarce vintage photographic portrait of Thomas Edison is an especially splendid portrait of “the patron saint of electric light” (Stross 1:284). The “father of many new industries, including phonograph and sound recording; dictating machines; electric lighting and associated electric utilities; electrical manufacturing; and motion pictures… Edison stands tall “Thomas Edison was the man who among the pantheon of American heroes” (ANB). Recipient Adele Picot Wilson Blauvelt (1867-1938), of Syracuse spoke at a Republican party convention in singlehandedly created the modern July 1918 in support of national suffrage for women. Blauvelt’s daughter, Adele technological age.”—Forbes Blauvelt Barnes (1893-1995), was also a supporter of women’s suffrage and a 1916 graduate of Radcliffe College. Light wear to upper corner of mount only, print fine, inscription and signature bold.

88 “Liberty And The Laws Depend Entirely On A Separation Of [Powers]” S 104. ADAMS, John. A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the p United States of America. London, 1787. Octavo, early 19th-century three-quarter r brown calf rebacked with original spine laid down. $12,500. i First edition of Adams’ important work on a constitutional separation of powers, n his reasoned yet impassioned “rendition of the case for checks and balances in g government” (McCullough). While acting as America’s minister in Great Britain, John Adams “felt an urgency 2 like that of 1776… A constitutional convention was in the offing, and as he had 0 been impelled in 1776 to write his Thoughts on Government, so Adams plunged 2 ahead… By early January 1787, Adams had rushed the first installment of his 0 effort to a London printer. TitledA Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America… copies were sent off at once to the United States and to Jefferson in Paris” (McCullough, 374). On its receipt, Jefferson replied, “I have read your book with infinite satisfaction and improvement. It will do great good in America” (Sowerby, 3004). The following year Adams wrote a second and third volume, and the entire work was issued in London in 1788 under a slightly expanded title. Occasional early inked annotations. Text generally fresh with scattered foxing, mild edge-wear, rubbing, soiling to boards. A very good copy of this core work by America’s second president.

“These Are The Times That Try Men’s Souls”: First American Collection Of Thomas Paine’s Crisis 105. PAINE, Thomas. The Crisis: In Thirteen Numbers. Written During the Late War. By the Author of Common Sense. Albany, 1792. Octavo, modern paper wrappers. $7000. First collected American edition of Paine’s famous series of essays. The 13 numbered articles that form The Crisis were originally written between December 23, 1776 and April 19, 1783, but it was not until this 1792 Albany printing (as part of the first edition of the Writings of Thomas Paine) that the articles appeared together in America. Of the original 13 numbers, only five were issued in pamphlet form; the rest were submitted directly to the newspapers. This edition contains numbers 1-9, 11, 13, and the unnumbered Crisis Extraordinary (often called number 10). A footnote explains that “the publishers have not been able to procure [numbers 10 and 12], after the most diligent search and enquiry in the principal cities and towns” (p. 168). “When Washington’s troops floundered in the War of Independence to which Paine had given birth, he rejuvenated the dispirited soldiers… opening with the flaming watchword ‘These are the times that try men’s souls.’ Washington was so impressed that he ordered it read to all the troops at Valley Forge” (Gimbel-Yale, 405). Occasional browning and spotting. Extremely good condition.

89 “A Final Testament To The Human T Values He Cherished Most” h 106. WASHINGTON, George. The Last Will and e Testament of Gen. George Washington. Boston, 1800. Small octavo, original blue paper wrappers. $9800. A Early edition, issued the same year as the Alexandria first m edition, of Washington’s will. Rare in original wrappers. e This remains “one of the most historically significant r and personally revealing documents he ever wrote… his i final instruction concerned [his personal servant] Billy c Lee, who had been hobbling around Mount Vernon a for over a decade on two badly damaged knees. He n should be freed outright upon Washington’s death and provided with a small annuity along with room and board, ‘as a testimony to my sense of E his attachment to me, and for his faithful services x during the Revolutionary War.’ There it was, a clear p statement of his personal rejection of slavery… e He was, in fact, the only politically prominent r member of the Virginia dynasty to act on Jefferson’s i famous words in the Declaration of Independence e by freeing his slaves… He knew that posterity n was watching” (Ellis, 261-4). First published in c Alexandria earlier in 1800. Original wrappers worn but intact, with closed tear to rear cover; moderate e foxing to interior, very good. Scarce and desirable in original wrappers.

First Edition Of The First Collection Of Jefferson’s Writings 107. JEFFERSON, Thomas. Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, from the Papers of Thomas Jefferson. Charlottesville, 1829. Four volumes. Octavo, contemporary full marbled calf. $6800. First edition of the first published collection of Jefferson’s writings, edited by his grandson, with engraved frontispiece portrait after Gilbert Stuart’s painting and with four-page folding facsimile of Jefferson’s manuscript of the Declaration of Independence, in contemporary calf. An invaluable window into arguably the foremost intellect of early America, these four volumes of Jefferson’s memoirs “begin with a short fragment concerning [Jefferson] himself, drawn up at the age of 77; and close with a… journal kept by him while Secretary of State during Washington’s administration. The rest consists exclusively of a voluminous correspondence, ranging from 1775, after the blood had been spilt at Boston, to June 1826, ten days only before his death” (Sabin). Bound with half titles. Howes R60. Early owner ink signature in Volume I. Scattered foxing and occasional embrowning. Volume I rebacked with the original spine neatly laid down. Desirable in contemporary calf.

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“First Important Historical Work By An American Woman”: 1805 First Edition Of Warren’s Famous History of The American Revolution, In Original Boards 108. WARREN, Mercy. History of the Rise, Progress and Termination of the American Revolution. Boston, 1805. Three volumes. Octavo, original half ivory paper spines and blue-gray boards, custom box. $13,900. First edition of Mercy Warren’s pioneering three-volume history, offering a rare “insider’s view of the Revolution,” begun in the earliest days of America’s struggle for independence, an entirely uncut copy, largely in original boards. Mercy Warren, the premiere first-generation Revolutionary historian, possessed “the most systematic understanding of the relationship between ideology and ethics, the best developed interpretation of how corruption operated in history, and the “Among the preeminent female clearest insight into the historian’s role as a social and political critic” intellectuals of the British (William and Mary Quarterly). Atlantic.”—Jason Shaffer Hers remains the “first important historical work by an American woman” (Howes W122). Warren began her account at the earliest stirrings of the Revolution and “worked steadily on the three volumes that were finally published—when Warren was 77… Her work not only provided an insider’s view of the Revolution, but also set an important precedent for women authors” (Weatherford, 365). Warren corresponded with notables such as Samuel Adams, Abigail Adams and Thomas Jefferson, who owned a copy of her History and commented, “I have long possessed evidence of her high station in the ranks of genius” (The Library of Thomas Jefferson 508). Interior generally fresh with light scattered foxing, V.III with replaced period-style paper board, moderate loss to paper labels, spines. A highly desirable extremely good uncut copy, housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. 91 T h e

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With Hundreds Of Large Folio Maps Of The Civil War: The Atlas To Accompany The Official Records 109. COWLES, Calvin D., compiler. An Atlas to Accompany the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. Washington, 1891-95. Three volumes. Large folio (16 by 18-1/2 inches), period-style three-quarter brown calf gilt. $12,500. First edition of this superb atlas, with 175 double-folio plates, containing 821 colored maps and charts, 106 tinted lithographs after original photographs, and 209 line drawings of equipment, uniforms, insignia, and flags. “An historical gold mine… more than “The most important work in the literature of the Civil War, the O.R. is the official worth the price.”—Military Review government compilation of Civil War records, orders, dispatches, messages and correspondence relating to the military operations of the war… The monumental task of compiling records of the Civil War began with a joint resolution of Congress on 19 May 1864 and was continued by many individuals under the supervision of 16 successive secretaries of war” (Eicher 863). This atlas is an indispensable part of the Official Records, but is equally impressive on its own as the most comprehensive collection of maps pertaining to the Civil War. It consists of four sections, the largest of which details military operations in the field. The maps, printed in several colors, are remarkably detailed, and the superb battlefield maps (often several to a sheet) specify troop positions and movements. Originally issued in parts, in loose sheets. Nicholson, 47. Several plates with expert paper repairs to versos or to perforated library stamps. A beautiful copy of an important and impressive work. 92 “Left On The Field To Be Taken Prisoner Or Killed There”: Extraordinary Archive S Related To Major General James Ricketts p And His Experiences In Libby Prison r 110. RICKETTS, James Brewerton and RICKETTS, i Fanny. Civil War archive. No place, 1861-86. Archive, n housed together in a binder; and framed flag fragment. g $15,000. Fascinating archive pertaining to Major General (then 2 Captain) James Ricketts’ experiences as a Union POW in 0 Libby Prison, including a lengthy manuscript written by his wife, Fanny Ricketts, who accompanied him there as 2 a nurse; a signed autograph letter by Fanny Ricketts to 0 the sister of a slain soldier recounting the circumstances of his death; three autograph letters written and signed by James Ricketts; a telegram form filled out and signed by Ricketts; a signed cabinet card photograph of Ricketts; a framed and captioned fragment of the last United States flag to fly over Richmond until the end of the Civil War; and assorted ephemera including a letter to Fanny Ricketts from Rear Admiral John Almy. This archive contains items pertaining to one of the Civil War’s most prominent officers, Major General (then Captain) James B. Ricketts, who was shot four times and captured at the First Battle of Manassas (Bull Run) on July 21, 1861. “During the Civil War, Frances ‘Fanny’ Ricketts achieved a respectable notoriety for her dedicated nursing of her critically wounded husband after the Battle of Manassas… To pass through Confederate lines, she drew upon her relationships with Confederate officers... Colonel J.E.B. Stuart issued her a pass to travel through the Confederate lines, and General Joseph Johnston granted her permission to reach the battlefield. On July 26, Fanny located her gravely wounded husband at a makeshift hospital... For one week, she nursed him and other wounded captives. In August, James was transferred to a Richmond hospital. When prison officials attempted to prevent Fanny from accompanying her husband, she appealed to General Johnston... In November, the Ricketts were transferred to Libby Prison where Fanny learned her husband had been selected as a hostage for captured Confederate privateersmen. Because the Federal government viewed the Confederate captives as traitors subject to execution, Confederate authorities threatened selected captives with the same fate. Fanny appealed to the wife of the Confederate adjutant and inspector general; her intervention played a role in the commutation of her husband’s sentence. Fanny’s imprisonment ended when her husband was released” (Kinsey I:479). The centerpiece of this archive is a compelling and powerful eight-page summary. The contents of this archive were passed down through Ricketts’ family for many years. A fascinating archive in exceptional condition.

“I cannot describe the horrors of those weeks beginning with my first night when the startling nearness of broken cries for water shrieks for help, curses and prayers from the opposite room, when a stream of blood flowed into ours.” 93 Rare Complete “Shoulder Strap” T Set Of Civil War Memoirs h 111. GRANT, Ulysses S., MCLELLAN, George B., e et al. Shoulder Strap Set. New York, 1885-92. Ten volumes. Octavo, original green cloth. $8200. A Complete Shoulder Strap set of seven Civil War m histories printed by Twain’s publishing house in its e short-lived but impressive decade of operation, each r volume with the trademark gilt-decorated “shoulder strap” on the spine. i c This exceptional ten-volume “Shoulder Strap” a series is named for each work’s gilt-decorated spine band that evokes the stars on an officer’s “shoulder n strap.” Featuring the finest of contemporary Civil War histories, this series pays tribute to Mark Twain’s brief E but impressive venture into publishing. In 1884 Twain x joined with Charles Webster in an effort, at first, to p publish “his own books, and he began successfully e with Huckleberry Finn in 1885. Almost fortuitously he r got the contract to publish U.S. Grant’s Memoirs [1885- i 86]— a huge success… Other Civil War generals preparing their memoirs naturally hoped to appear with their great commander”(Paine, e 831). Most volumes first editions, with the “shoulder strap” editions of Tenting on the Plains (first published 1887) and Sherman’s Memoirs (enlarged fourth edition, with revisions by Sherman, of the 1875 first edition). Crawford with bookplate; library pocket affixed to rear free n endpaper. Interiors generally clean, several volumes with expert restoration to text block, inner hinges, and original cloth. Overall a very c good set, especially rare complete with the Hancock edition. e

“The Mystic Chords Of Memory, Stretching From Every Battlefield, And Patriot Grave, To Every Living Heart And Hearthstone” 112. LINCOLN, Abraham. Inaugural Address. Washington, March 8, 1861. Slim octavo, disbound; pp. 10, custom chemise, slipcase. $7000. Rare second printing of Lincoln’s important first inaugural address, printed by order of the Senate four days after its delivery. On the morning of March 4, 1861, Abraham Lincoln was escorted with little fanfare to his inauguration. Anticipating violence, riflemen were stationed on housetops along the parade route. On the platform erected at the Capitol’s east portico, “Lincoln put on a pair of steel-bowed spectacles and began reading his inaugural address in a clear, high-pitched voice that carried well out to the crowd of 25,000. The address was a document of inspired statesmanship. He reminded the South of his pledge not to interfere with slavery, but he firmly rejected secession—the Union was ‘unbroken’” (Bruce Catton). Monaghan 102. Left margin slightly rough with occasional stains from removal from book, faintest foxing. Near-fine condition.

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“If Sec. Of Treasury Recommends This Appointment…”: Autograph Endorsement, Signed By President Abraham Lincoln 113. LINCOLN, Abraham. Autograph endorsement signed (“A. Lincoln”). No place, July 31, 1862. Single unlined sheet of paper, measuring 2-3/4 by 2-1/4; handsomely matted and framed with portrait, entire piece measures 14 by 21 inches. $12,000. Autograph endorsement written and signed by Abraham Lincoln: “If Sec. of Treasury recommends this appointment, I will make it. A. Lincoln. July 31, 1862,” handsomely matted and framed with hand-tinted engraved portrait of Lincoln. The end of July 1862 marked a busy time for Lincoln and the U.S. Treasury. Earlier in the month, the public debt had risen to an unprecedented $500 million. By the beginning of August, the government had levied an income tax—3% on earnings over $800. The overrun was the result of massive Civil War spending. Not only did Lincoln need to sustain the troops with food, uniforms, and other necessities, but Lincoln also had to subsidize the railroad to provide the movement of troops and mail—both crucial to the war effort. Framed with a handsome hand-tinted engraved portrait of Lincoln by prominent Civil War-era New York engraving firm Kimmel & Forster. Fine condition, beautifully framed.

95 “Man Has Never Had The Right Of Possessing Man, And The T Possession Itself Has Always Been And Still Is Unlawful” h 114. TOCQUEVILLE, Alexis de. Report Made to the Chamber of Deputies e on the Abolition of Slavery in the French Colonies. Boston, 1840. Slim octavo, original blue paper wrappers, custom clamshell box. $5600. A First edition in English of Tocqueville’s embattled work on the rights of m enslaved men and women in French colonies, initially authorized by and e presented to a French parliamentary commission that set it aside without r debate, prompting Tocqueville to send his Report to America for publication. i “Tocqueville opposed slavery throughout his public life. His carefully c reasoned style and his deliberate avoidance of appeals to emotion a foster the impression that his opposition to slavery was based only on n its economic failure… [but] Briefly put, Tocqueville thought that the owning of one human being by another contradicted both Christian belief and tradition and the political philosophy of the rights of man” E (Gershman, in French Historical Studies V.9, No. 3:467). A member of x the French Societé pour l’Abolition de l’Esclavage, Tocqueville “was p elected to the French Chamber of Deputies in March 1839, and he soon e joined other abolitionists on a parliamentary commission charged r with developing a report on the gradual emancipation proposals i of Passy and Destrutt de Tracy. Tocqueville wrote the commission’s e final report, which was presented in July 1839” (Jetté in Encyclopedia n of Emancipation and Abolition in the Transatlantic World, 525-26). On learning that the Chamber never discussed the report, Tocqueville c sent it to friends in America who published it there. Sabin 96072. e Interior fresh with only tiny abrasion at lower edge of title page, expert restoration to fragile original wrappers. Rare and desirable.

“His Soul Is Marching On” 115. BROWN, John. The Life and Letters of Captain John Brown. London, 1861. Small octavo (4-1/2 by 6-3/4 inches), original blind- stamped brown cloth. $6500. First edition of one of the very first biographies of John Brown, published in the first year of the Civil War, including writings by Emerson and William Lloyd Garrison, correspondence, and the text of an interview with Brown after the raid at Harpers Ferry, featuring a mounted vintage albumen frontispiece of Brown. Brown’s Harpers Ferry raid “was for many a jeremiad against a nation that defied God in tolerating human bondage. It sent tremors of horror throughout the South and gave secessionists a persuasive symbol of northern hostility. It hardened positions over slavery everywhere. It helped to discredit Stephen A. Douglas’ compromise policy of popular sovereignty and to divide the Democratic party, thus ensuring the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860” (ANB). Editor Webb was a Dublin, Ireland printer and abolitionist. Mounted vintage albumen frontispiece of Brown after the original daguerreotype (now lost) taken by photographer Benjamin Battels in 1855. Contemporary owner signature on title page. Text very fresh with only light foxing to frontispiece as is typical, bright gilt-lettered cloth. A splendid about-fine copy.

96 “This Is A New Era… Every Eye Is Now Turned To S The South, Looking For Another Nat Turner” p 116. BROWN, William Wells. The Black Man, His Antecedents, r His Genius, and His Achievements. New York, 1863. Octavo, i original brown cloth. $2800. n First revised and expanded edition, issued the same year as the g first, of Brown’s groundbreaking volume with biographies of over 55 black men and women across history, including his controversial 2 biography of Nat Turner, along with four biographies not in the first edition, a handsome copy in original cloth. 0 2 “Born into slavery, Brown escaped to freedom and became the first African American to publish a novel and a play. 0 Throughout his life he fought against slavery as a writer and orator, gaining international fame” (Rodriquez, 95). The Black Man, an exceptional volume of over 55 leaders, includes figures such as Toussaint L’Ouverture, Phillis Wheatley and Frederick Douglass. Brown notably devotes a lead biography to Nat Turner that is, in many ways, his challenge to views of Turner’s role in the 1831 rebellion. This first “revised and enlarged edition,” second edition overall, contains four biographies not present in the same year’s first edition, including that of Union Captain Andre Callioux, now recognized as “the first black warrior-hero of the Civil War” (New York Times). Occasional soiling and foxing, trace of rubbing, faint soiling to boards. A near-fine copy, highly desirable in original cloth.

“The Most Daring, Legendary, And Courageous Conductor On The… ‘Underground Railroad’” 117. (TUBMAN, Harriet) BRADFORD, Sarah H. Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman. Auburn, 1869. Small octavo (5 by 7-1/4 inches), original gilt- stamped russet cloth. $7800. First edition of the groundbreaking first book on the life of Harriet Tubman, with the famed woodcut-engraved frontispiece of Tubman with rifle in hand. “Harriet Tubman was the most daring, legendary, and courageous conductor on the human network of self-freed blacks called the ‘Underground Railroad.’ A Civil War freedom fighter and woman suffrage advocate, African Americans called Tubman ‘Moses’” (ANB). Scenes in the Life, the first book on Tubman’s life, “is a major watershed in the evolution of the Tubman legend… the principal textual source for information about Tubman for more than a quarter-century” (Sernett, 4, 107). The frontispiece portrait of Tubman with her rifle “has long been fixed in the public mind as emblematic of Tubman as a freedom fighter” (Sernett, 107, 75). Interior fresh with only light scattered foxing, minimal edge-wear mainly to spine ends of bright gilt cloth. A near-fine copy, highly desirable in unrestored original cloth.

97 “The Most Influential Of American T Works On Economics” h 118. GEORGE, Henry. Progress and Poverty. e San Francisco, 1879. Octavo, original brown cloth rebacked with original spine laid down, custom A chemise, slipcase. $11,500. m Limited first edition of Henry George’s “most famous e work,” the rare “Author’s Edition” of only 200 copies, r the work that prompted the Single Tax movement, with the very rare advertisement leaf asking that no reviews i be published. c “The most influential of American works on a economics, Progress and Poverty gave its author an n international reputation as prophet and reformer. He proposed to abolish poverty and secure fair E distribution of the rewards of labor by appropriating x all economic rent by taxation, and abolishing all p taxation except upon land values. Today the slogan e of the single tax still unites the followers of Henry r George” (Grolier 100 Influential American Books i 81). “Progress and Poverty is George’s most famous work” (Roll, 387). With the rarely found publisher’s e review slip. Interior with a bit of marginal toning, n rare original cloth rebacked with original spine laid c down. Quite rare and important. e

“We Must Meet Our Duty And Convince The World That We Are Just Friends And Brave Enemies”: Inscribed By Robert Kennedy 119. KENNEDY, Robert. Just Friends and Brave Enemies. New York, 1962. Octavo, original black cloth, dust jacket. $3000. First edition, inscribed: “For Ann King, With gratitude and warmest regards, Robert Kennedy.” Robert Kennedy’s account of his trip around the world in 1962, including his speeches and conversations. The profits from this book were to be used for scholarships for students in Japan, Indonesia, and Berlin. Contains 16 pages of black-and-white photogravures. Recipient’s pencil signature on front free endpaper. A near-fine inscribed copy.

98 “Snow-Capped Peaks And Gemlike Mountain Lakes” S 120. ADAMS, Ansel. Sierra Nevada: The John Muir Trail. Berkeley, 1938. Large folio (13 by 17 inches), original ivory cloth. $14,000. p r Signed limited first edition, one of only 500 copies signed by Adams, who “realized in his pictures what Walt Whitman celebrated in his poetry,” featuring 50 luminous i mounted halftone prints including “Half Dome,” very scarce in original cloth. n Commissioned by a president of the Sierra Club to assemble a book of g photographs in tribute to his son, who died in a climbing accident, Adams created this outstanding volume, whose striking halftones set a new high standard for 2 photobooks. Included is “Half Dome,” 0 widely considered his first masterpiece 2 and “one of Adams’ most famous 0 mountain subjects” (New York Times). “It is through his foresight Each separately mounted halftone print and fortitude that so much measures nine by seven inches. Without extremely scarce dust jacket. Owner ink of America has been saved signature to title page. Light foxing to for future Americans.” endpapers and edges of text block, plates fine, a bit of toning to cloth, as often, —Jimmy Carter minor expert repairs to spine ends. A most desirable copy.

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E x p e r i e n c e “Air Force, Pacific Fleet. Do Not Use For Navigational Purposes. Restricted” 121. (WORLD WAR II) (SALISBURY, Fred R.). Two World War II Pacific Maps. No place, September, 1944 / circa 1945. One map: one sheet, measuring 28-1/4 by 21-1/2 inches, with hand coloring; Second map: Eight pieces, each measuring 6 by 6 inches, combining to form a map 12 by 24 inches, labeled in pencil, in original U.S. Navy envelope. $9500. A large original map—labeled “restricted”—dated September 1944, used during the war to record the activities of the USS Salamaua in the Pacific theater, together with a second large original map in eight sections—labeled “TOP SECRET” on its envelope— showing the Pacific theater during World War II, with major details labeled in pencil. The first map, from the collection of Lt. Commander Fred R. Salisbury II of the escort carrier USS Salamaua, features a map of the western Pacific Ocean from China to Hawaii and from the Kurile Islands to northern Australia. Major land masses and islands are hand-bordered in color. The printed map includes air distances between major islands in the Pacific theater. Additional colored lines show additional sea routes, likely followed by the USS Salamaua. Marginal notes indicate several missions by the USS Salamaua, including providing air support for Okinawa operations from May 13-31, 1945, and the typhoon that damaged the ship on June 5. The note “8/7-Suicide Subs” indicates the ship’s anti-submarine duties from August 5-15. Task Force 94.17, of which the Salamaua was a part, cleared naval mines and destroyed at least two and perhaps three Japanese midget submarines. The second map, also from the collection of Salisbury, is in eight pieces attached to card stock, and covers the exact same area, with grid lines showing every 10 degrees of longitude and latitude, and handwritten labels identifying major bodies of water and island groups. Between the Philippines and Guam is a small mark and the word “Indianapolis,” marking the approximate location that the heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis was sunk by a torpedo from a Japanese submarine. First map with expected folds; a few shallow closed tears along edges, a few very faint stains. The second map with tape on edges of map sections; some stains and soiling. A fascinating pair of original World War II maps.

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An Early Military Newsletter Announcing The Japanese Surrender: Fascinating Mimeographed Newsletter Dated September 3, 1945 From The USS Salamaua 122. (WORLD WAR II). Mimeographed typescript of the USS Salamaua News. No place, September 3, 1945. Two sheets of beige paper, staple-bound as issued, each measuring 8 by 13 inches; pp. 2. $9500. Original mimeographed USS Salamaua News newsletter containing detailed news of Japanese surrender, preliminary reports on POWs in Japan and their treatment by the Japanese, Japanese reactions to the surrender, brief news from around the world, and baseball standings. This newsletter was issued for crewmen on the USS Salamaua, a Casablanca- class escort aircraft carrier launched on April 22, 1944. This ship newsletter kept the crew of approximately 570 officers and enlisted men informed of world events—particularly those relevant to their service. This issue of the newsletter provides details of the Japanese surrender; initial reports on prisoners in Japanese prison camps; and other world news including standings for the National League and American League baseball teams. From the collection of Lt. Commander Fred R. Salisbury II of Minnesota; Salisbury enlisted in the U.S. Navy in February of 1942 and was assigned to be lieutenant commander of the Salamaua. Laid-in photograph of Salisbury in Guam in 1945. A fascinating World War II artifact. 101 “We Found There Were A Number T Of Laws Highly Discriminatory h Against The Jewish Population” e 123. EISENHOWER, Dwight D. Typed letter signed. Gettysburg, PA, June 9, 1966. Two sheets of cream A “DDE” letterhead, each measuring 7-1/4 by 10-1/2 m inches; pp. 2. $7500. e Wonderful typed signed letter by Eisenhower regarding r WWII-era attempts by the allies to create equality for i the Jewish population in North Africa. c The letter, typed on “DDE” stationery, address a to Eisenhower’s chairman of the Atomic Energy n Commission Lewis L. Strauss, and dated “June 9, 1966,” reads in part: “Dear Lewis: The story that I once mentioned to you deals with a problem that came E up concerning the Jewish population in North Africa x during late 1942... Once we had time to look around in p the region, we found that there were a number of laws e highly discriminatory against the Jewish population... r Quite naturally, the Allied Headquarters was unhappy i with this situation and we set about steadily to repeal or e modify the pertinent laws and regulations. This process has been going on for some time when I got a n message... from a man who was identified as the Grand Rabbi of Constantine... The gist of the message c was a request that we slow up materially in trying to carry out these particular reforms. The reason given e was that... both Jews and Arabs had become accustomed to them. Any rapid change would therefore be unsettling and the Rabbi feared that if the excitable Arab population should believe we were trying to set up a government (as Nazi propaganda alleged) real difficulty would occur; possibly even a pogrom. He therefore suggested that both the local French Government and the Allied Headquarters should, in advance, confer with Jewish authorities before any radical reforms were attempted... As ever, [signed] Ike.” Two tiny pencil notations. Original mailing creases, minor staple marks. About-fine condition.

Deluxe Signed Limited Edition Of Speaking My Mind, Signed By President Reagan, With Audio Tapes Of His Speeches 124. REAGAN, Ronald. Speaking My Mind. New York, 1989. Large octavo, original full blue morocco gilt. WITH: Six cassette tapes in publisher’s wooden chest. $6800. Signed limited first edition of eagan’sR selected speeches, one of 5000 copies signed by President Reagan, in publisher’s deluxe morocco-gilt binding, presented in a handsome publisher’s wooden chest, with drawer containing audio recordings of the speeches from the book. With its contents selected and annotated by Reagan, this anthology opens with one of his first public talks, delivered in 1951, and includes the many speeches that helped to define the “Reagan Revolution” and his two terms as President. The gilt-stamped cover features the Great Seal, the White House, and Reagan’s facsimile signature. Published simultaneously with the first trade edition. In fine condition. 102 Index

ACKERMANN, Rudolph ...... 22 HAGGADAH ...... 84, 85 QUAIN, Jones ...... 77 ADAMS, Ansel ...... 99 HAMMETT, Dashiell ...... 55 ADAMS, John ...... 89 HEBREW BIBLE ...... 81, 83 RACINET, Auguste ...... 68 ANDERSEN, Hans Christian ...... 64 HEMINGWAY, Ernest ...... 11, 44, 45 RACKHAM, Arthur ...... 65 AUDUBON, John James ...... 80 HILDEBRANDT, Eduard ...... 66-67 RAYMOND, Daniel ...... 74 HORNBOOK ...... 58 REAGAN, Ronald ...... 102 BACHMAN, John ...... 80 HUXLEY, Aldous ...... 55 RICHARDSON, William ...... 21 BEHN, Aphra ...... 38 HYDE, Edward ...... 29 RICKETTS, Fanny ...... 93 BELL, Charles ...... 76 RICKETTS, James Brewerton ...... 93 BIBLE ...... 25 IRVING, Washington ...... 65 ROOSEVELT, Theodore . . . . 16-17, 51, 87 BOWLES, Thomas ...... 70-71 ROYALTY ...... 37 BRADFORD, Sarah H...... 97 JEFFERSON, Thomas ...... 90 BRONTE, Charlotte, Emily and Anne . . 49 JENKINS, James ...... 30-31 SALISBURY, Fred R...... 100 BROWN, John ...... 96 SAMMES, Aylett ...... 29 BROWN, William Wells ...... 97 KENNEDY, Robert ...... 98 SCHULZ, Charles M...... 62, 63 BURTON, Richard F...... 35 KEROUAC, Jack ...... 57 SENDAK, Maurice ...... 64 BURTON, Robert ...... 48 KUHN, Thomas S...... 75 SEUSS, Dr...... 60, 61 SHAKESPEARE ...... 4-5 CAMDEN, William ...... 26 LINCOLN, Abraham ...... 94, 95 SIBSON, Francis H...... 56 CAMERON, Verney Lovett ...... 35 LIZARS, John ...... 79 SIDDUR ...... 83 CAPOTE, Truman ...... 40 LOCKE, John ...... 34 SMITH, Adam ...... 72, 73 CARTER, Howard ...... 36 LOFTING, Hugh ...... 59 STEINBECK, John ...... 12, 47 CHURCHILL, Winston ...... 6-7, 36 LYSONS, Samuel ...... 28 STEVENS, Wallace ...... 54 CLARENDON, Earl of ...... 29 STEVENSON, Robert Louis ...... 50 COMPTON, Thomas ...... 23 MACE, A.C...... 36 CONRAD, Joseph ...... 53 MAGNA CARTA ...... 24 THAYER, Ernest ...... 52 CONSTITUTION ...... 86 MALKIN, Benjamin Heath ...... 33 THORNTON, Robert John ...... 9 CORYATE, Thomas ...... 27 MALTHUS, Thomas Robert ...... 74 TOCQUEVILLE, Alexis de ...... 96 COWLES, Calvin D...... 92 MCCLOSKEY, Robert ...... 59 TOVEY, D’Blossiers ...... 84 COWPER, William ...... 8 MCLELLAN, George B...... 94 TUBMAN, Harriet ...... 97 CREIGHTON, Mandell ...... 26 MELVILLE, Herman ...... 48 TWAIN, Mark ...... 42, 51 CUSSANS, John Edwin ...... 33 MILL, John Stuart ...... 34 MILLER, Diane Disney ...... 62 WARHOL, Andy ...... 14 DALI, Salvador ...... 69 MILTON, John ...... 49 WARHOLA, Julia ...... 14 DICKENS, Charles ...... 10 MIRÓ, Joan ...... 69 WARREN, Mercy ...... 91 DICKINSON, Emily ...... 39 MITCHELL, Margaret ...... 15 WASHINGTON, George ...... 90 DULAC, Edmund ...... 64 WHARTON, Edith ...... 16-17

EDISON, Thomas Alva ...... 88 NABOKOV, Vladimir ...... 50 WHITMAN, Walt ...... 43 EISENHOWER, Dwight D...... 102 NAPOLEON ...... 32 WILSON, William James Erasmus . . . . 77 ELIZABETH I ...... 19, 26 WORLD WAR II ...... 100, 101 ORWELL, George ...... 56 FIELDING, Theodore Henry Adolphus . . 20 O’NEILL, John ...... 35 FITZGERALD, F. Scott ...... 46 FLEMING, Ian ...... 41 PAINE, Thomas ...... 89 FRANKLIN, Benjamin ...... 13 PASTEUR, Louis ...... 75 FROST, Robert ...... 43 PENTATEUCH ...... 82 GEORGE, Henry ...... 98 PETRUS LOMBARDUS ...... 18 GRANT, Ulysses S...... 94 PLANCHÉ, James Robinson ...... 68 GRAY, Henry ...... 78 PUZO, Mario ...... 40 103 Shakespeare’s Fourth Folio. Item No. 1

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