PART I Literature No. 6 - 1. (ARABIC LITERATURE) Fabricius, Johannes; and Staudacher, Benedict Andreas . Specimen Arabicum quo exhibentur aliquot scripta Arabica partim in prosâ, partim ligatâ oratione composita. Jam primum in Germania edita, versione Latina donata, analysi grammatica expedita, notisque illustrata. Quibus accessit judicium de soluto dicendi genere Arabum proprio. Ut et coronis de poësi Arabica hactenus â nemine in Germania tradita. [and:] [Za-Yonas Nabiy]. Hoc est, Jonas Vates Aethiopicè & Latinè, cum glossario Aethiopico-harmonico in eundem & IV. Geneseos capita priora editus . First work interleaved with blanks, occasional contemporary annotations in ink, later in pencil. Pp. [8], 235, [1, errata]. Second work with Ethiopic and Latin in parallel columns. Pp. [4], 30, [2]. Small 4to, Rostock; Frankfurt am Main: Hæredum Richelianorum typis expressa ; impensis Johannis Hallervordij; Excudebatur typis Johannis Philippi Andreae, 1638; 1706. First editions. Eighteenth-century half leather binding and marbled boards. Spine worn, joints cracked. Occasional perforated library stamp of Philadelphia Divinity School. First work with repairs to margins of title page and some fore edges extended ; second work somewhat closely trimmed at for edge with loss of a few letters on title and preliminaries. Good. Schnurrer p. 222; Smitkamp 350 . $1,500 Fabricius (1608-1653) studied with Golius and taught theology and Hebrew at the Danzig gymnasium ... the work had aleady been finished six years before but publication had to be postponed owing to the difficulties in procuring Arabic types ... the first published text of al-Hariri in Europe” (Smitkamp). With an early and interesting parallel edition of the Old Testament prophet Jonas in Ethiopic and Latin. (BIBLE, Arabic) The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments, in the Arabic language . Text in Arabic. General title page in English and Arabic, New Testament with added title page. [406] ff. [ π2], a 2, A-4G 4,4H 2; [ π 1], A-Z 4, Aa 4, Bb 2. 4to, Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Printed by Sarah Hodgson, 1811. Contemporary cambridge-style panelled calf, spine gilt. Rebacked. Some minor foxing. Darlow and Moule 1663 . $2,250 “This edition, produced under the patronage of the Bishop of Durham James Cummins Bookseller (Shute Barrington), was at first undertaken by Joseph Dacre Carlyle (1759- 1806), Cambridge Professor of Arabic in 1795, and vicar of Newcastle, in 1801. On Carlyle’s death, Henry Ford, Lord Almoner’s reader in Arabic at Oxford, took up the work and saw the book through the press. The text is based, apparently, on the London Polyglot” of 1655-7 (Darlow & Moule). The Arabic text of Walton’s London Polyglot was edited by Castell and Pococke. (BIBLE, English) The Holy Bible, Containing the Old Testament and the New; with the Apocrypha: Translated Out of the Original Tongues, with Annotations . Engraved frontispiece, 9 copperplates; unpaginated [1144 pages]. Folio, Birmingham: Printed by John Baskerville, 1769-1772. Second Baskerville Bible, with first state title page (dated 1769). Full contemporary mottled calf, gilt; rubbed and scuffed, some offsetting from plates, light soiling throughout, previous owner’s note affixed to front pastedown, else a handsome, sturdy copy. Gaskell 35; Pardoe p. 105 . $5,000 The second edition of Baskerville’s masterpiece, following the 1763 first edition. Issued in parts, this copy retains the first-state title page, dated 1769. (BIBLE, English) The Holy Bible, containing The Old Testament and The New: translated out of the Original Tongues ... 8vo, Oxford: Printed at the Clarendon Press by Dawson, Bensley, and Cooke, 1800. Contemporary red straight-grain morocco, covers with border of rules and floral border, spine gilt, a.e.g. Presentation on morocco label on the front pastedown “St. Georges Hanover Square/ The Gift of the Vestry/ To Mr. Francis Laking/ Sideman/ 1803”. Hibbert 1444 . $850 . (BIBLE, English) The Illuminated Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments, Translated Out of the Original Tongues ... Embellished with Sixteen Hundred Engravings by J.A. Adams, More Than fourteen Hundred of which are From Original Designs by J.G. Chapman . Engraved presentation leaf printed in green and black I. Literature (in other copies sepia), contents leaf printed in sepia, marriages, births and deaths pages printed in red, blue and sepia respectively, engraved main title printed in sepia (in other copies blue), engraved title to New Testament printed in blue (in other copies sepia), 2 frontispieces, text in triple column, the middle column a narrow one with notations and glosses; numerous wood-engraved illus. throughout; bound without the 2 half-titles printed in red; 844, 128, 256, 4, 8, 14, 34 pp. Large, thick 4to, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1846. In full American black pebble-grain morocco, covers with triple gilt rule enclosing decorative floral outer panel (with rosettes, urns, and other decorative elements), with an ornate gilt lozenge central, gilt decorated spine in 6 compartments, gilt-lettered direct in 1, the binder’s name, J. H. Sackmann and Brother in gilt at the bottom, gilt turn-ins, and elaborately decorated endpapers with a floral and ornithological motif; small crack at the top of the upper joint, else fine and bright in a handsome deluxe American binding of the period. $8,000 Hills 1161, quoting Frank Weitenhampf: “...this Harper publication was a remarkable production for its time and place, and retains its importance in the annals of American book-making. W.J. Linton, noted wood-engraver and author, knew ‘no other book like this, so good, so perfect in all its undertakes.’ The illustrations are like paintings of history, as are so many of the old European Biblical painting and illustrations.” Hamilton 198, also quoting Linton: “Drawing, engraving, and printing were all marvels at the time of this book’s production; and it well deserved the popularity it immediately obtained...” Weitenkampf: “The first notable American effort to produce a richly illustrated book.” Herbert 1860: “This elaborate Bible was issued in parts from 1843 onwards. Many of the illustrations were made from woodcuts by the electrotype process, the first in America.” See also Exman, T he House of Harper , pp. 34-35. “ ”( ) . (BIBLE, Hawaiian) Ka Palapala Hemolele a Iehova ko kakou Akua o ke Kauoha Kahiko a me ke Kauoha Hou; I unuhiia mailoko mai O na Olelo Kahiko. Paiia no ko Amerika Poe Hoolaha Baibala . Pp. [1]-1128; [4, records pages (unaccomplished)]; [1129]-1451. 4to (28 x 22 cm), Honolulu, Oahu: Mea Paipalapala na na Misionari, 1843. Quarto Edition of the Hawaiian Bible, edition of 500 James Cummins Bookseller copies. Full maroon morocco grained and tooled to period style, boards with gilt rope borders, spine lettered in gilt, period marbled endsheets. Small blindstamp on title. Forbes 1417 . $17,500 Quarto edition of the Hawaiian Bible: “The typographical masterpiece of the Mission Press. This ‘stately volume’ was printed with great care on the finest available paper, and it was designed primarily to supply church pulpits” (Forbes). The translation of the Bible into Hawaiian was undertaken between 1828 and 1839; a duodecimo edition was published 1837-9 in three thick volumes. An octavo edition was begun in 1843, and this large format edition was produced concurrently: “the title page has been reset, and the text has been slightly repositioned to conform to the larger page size ... the printing records of the mission show that this was considered at the time to be a distinct edition” (Forbes). Two printed leaves are inserted between the Old and New Testaments: the first headed “Moohana - Na Hanau” (births) and “Moohana - Na Mare” (marriages), and both side of the second are headed “Moohana - Na Make” (deaths). Forbes records the presence of these leaves in some copies of the octavo edition but makes no mention of them in his discussion of the quarto edition. The binding on the present copy follows that of the presentation copy in Hawaiian binding in the P.M. Kahn colleciton, Hawaii State Archives, described as “the finest known copy of this edition” (Forbes). . (See illustration, p. 2) 7. BIERCE, Ambrose . Autograph letter, signed (“A.G. Bierce”) to Mrs. Curtis, regarding a manuscript submitted for publication . 2 pp, 8vo (conjoining leaves). Square 8vo, Oakland, Calif: August 13, 1887. Leaves lightly thumbed, creased horizontally . $750 Bierce, the fierce satirist and critic, writes a pleasant note to a lady who has enquired about the status of her manuscript. In part: “my duties on the Examiner are not such as would bring your manuscript into my hands. I have referred the matter of your request to the proper person, Mr. H.D. Bigelow, who has promised me-a week ago-that he would attend to it ... If he has not communicated with you perhaps a note to him would refresh his memory-he has a great many things to look after.” I. Literature 8. BOSWELL, James . An Account of Corsica, The Journal of a Tour to that Island and memoirs of Pascal Paoli . Engraved title page, large fold-out map. 8vo, London: Printed for E. and C. Dilly, 1768. Second edition, with half title. Contemporary polished tan calf, red title label. About fine. Signed Jos. Walker 1769 on flyleaf. Pottle 24 . $900 — 9. [BRATHWAITE, Richard] . Barnabæ Itinerarium, or Barnabee’s Journal ... with a Life of the Author, a Bibliographical Introduction to the itinerary, and a Catalogue of his Works. Edited from the First Edition by Joseph Haselwood . Frontispiece, plates. 2 vols. 12, London: [s.n.], 1820. One of 125 copies, privately printed. Full green morocco, gilt, by . Bookplate of Hugh Perkins and morocco ex-libris of Estelle Doheny. Lovely set of this fine edition. Lowndes I, 260 . $1,500 10 . [BRUNTON, Mrs. Mary Balfour] . Discipline. a Novel . [x], 290; [iv], 306; [iv], 292 pp. 3 vols. 12mo, Edinburgh: Printed by George Ramsey & Co. for Manners and Miller, Edinburgh and Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, London, 1814.