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J O H N W I N D L E A N T I Q U A R I A N B O O K S E L L E R 49 Geary Street, Suite 233, San Francisco, California 94108 S H O R T L I S T 1 (New Series) 25 RECENT ACQUISITIONS Featuring the best of our new arrivals. With regards from John, Rachel, and Annika. (415) 986-5826 | www.johnwindle.com | [email protected] J O H N W I N D L E A N T I Q U A R I A N B O O K S E L L E R Cover image: (24) SEGUY, EUGENE ALAIN. Samarkande: 20 Compositions en couleurs dans le Style oriental. Paris: Ch. Massin, [1914]. (107231) $3500. 1. AMES, JOSEPH; HERBERT, WILLIAM. Typographical Antiquities; or an Historical Account of the Origin and Progress of Print- ing in Great Britain and Ireland: Containing Memoirs of our Ancient Printers, and a Register of Books Printed by them, From the Year MC- CCCLXXI to the Year MDC. Begun by the Late Joseph Ames. Consider- ably Augmented, both in the Memoirs and Number of Books, by William Herbert. London: Printed for the Editor, 1785. 3 vols., 4to, (8), [i]-iv,[iv list of subscribers], xliv, 684, [1 index]; [ii], 685-1308, [2 index]; [ii],1309-1875, [1, directions to the binder]pp. With a frontispiece, 8 plates, and occasional cuts in the text. Old calf neatly rebacked. § First edition of Herbert’s continuation and revision of Ames’ celebrated ‘Ty- pographical Antiquities’. Joseph Ames’s work appeared in 1749. William Her- bert acquired Ames’s own interleaved copy and brought out this new edition in three volumes incorporating Ames’s con- siderable additional notes and himself approximately trebling the original text. “After 25 years spent preparing the first two volumes of this revision, the doors to the Stationers’ Company and their Reg- ister books were opened to Herbert (40 years earlier Ames had been denied ac- cess to Stationers’ Hall). It was this, more than any other single source, that enabled Herbert to rise above Ames’ previous edi- tion.” (Forest Books). (105717) $1950 2. [ASIAN MANUSCRIPTS.] Ex- amples of Oriental calligraphy and print- ing: collected and briefly described by Orien- talia, Incorporated, 32 West 58th St., New York City. New York: [c. 1926]. Folio, 19 examples in a stiff paper portfo- lio, printed label on upper cover. Exam- ples in original glassine wrappers, in fine original condition. § A rare and important collection of Orientalia, and a virtually unrecorded leaf book. Contents: Leaf from an Ara- bic Manuscript, 14th century. Expound- ing Muhammadan doctrine. * Leaf from a Javanese rubricated manuscript, early 19th century. Giving the history of Rama. * Pair of printed leaves (one with S H O R T L I S T 1 : R E C E N T A C Q U I S I T I O N S illustration) from Du Halde’s “Description Geographique, Historique...de la Chine et de la Tartarie Chinoise”, 1736. * Man- uscript leaf from a Persian Manuscript, about 1584. From the Poems of Nidhami. * Printed double leaf from a Chinese Buddhist work expounding the Sanskrit Scriptures, probably 18th century. * Printed leaf from a Japanese work on Buddhism containing, with illustration, 1675. * Printed Buddhist prayer sheet in Tibetan characters, 19th century. * Half an old Taliput manuscript leaf inscribed in Siamese characters. * Pair of printed leaves from a Japanese book, probably 18th century, appar- ently a popular edition of the Genji Monogatari. * Leaf of a Taliput manuscript in Tamil, probably 18th century. * Manu- script leaf in Chinese, copied by a Japanese priest named Joyen in 1834. From the Saddharmapundarika. * Printed leaf from a Chinese medical work of the 17th century. * Printed double leaf in Chinese characters, printed in Korea, probably 18th century. Buddhist scriptures as interpreted by the Syen sect. * Manuscript leaf in Japanese on secret Buddhist rites, 1571. * Printed leaf with a woodcut, from an old Japanese work on Buddhism. * Manuscript leaf in Siamese, early 19th century. * Printed leaf from 1648 edition of Caron’s description of Japan and Siam, in Dutch. Together 19 leaves. (107213) $12500. 3. BAYARD, GILBERT, SEIGNEUR DE NEUFVILLE, Christianissimi Francorum regis, aduer- sus imperatorem electum prorogati duelli autor[ae] defensio. [Paris: Excudebat Vidouæus, impensis G. à Prato, 1528]. Slim sm. 4to, [16] p. Title within woodcut border; initial. 19th-century polished calf, backstrip lettered in gilt, a fine untrimmed copy in a later binding. Bookplate of Robert Pirie, his pencil note at front. § Only edition, very rare -- two copies recorded, at BN (Paris) and Newberry (IL). Bayard, Gilbert, Seigneur de Neufville, fl. 1525-1547 wrote on the conflict between Francis I and Charles V. This copy was shown to Thomas Frognall Dibin in 1823: his ALS is loosely inserted. “Kens- ington Nov. 5 1823 My dear Sir, I return you your curious Latin tract with thanks for the perusal of it. The condition of it is quite piquante to a Bibliomaniac. I shall be very thankful for the promised biographical notices relating to Jonathan [illegible] and am, at all times, My dear Sir, Very much truly yours, T.F. Dibdin”. (107177) $1750. 4. BRET, ANTOINE. Memoires sur la vie de Mademoiselle de Len- clos “Amsterdam” [i.e., Rouen?]: Francois Joly, 1751. 12mo (175 x 100 mm), [2] ff., viii, 120 pp. Half-title, title printed in red and black, woodcut title ornament and two head-pieces. Late 19th-century dark blue morocco-backed marbled boards, spine gold- tooled with crowned monogram ?LPV. § Early, possibly second, edition of this best-selling biography of one of the great Parisian heart-stoppers, the femme de salon and pro- to-feminist Anne or Ninon de Lenclos (1616-1706). A woman of out- standing intellect and musicianship, Ninon’s seductive charms were legendary and larger than life. Her countless lovers, enjoyed in rapid sequential monogamy from the age of 16 to 70, were said to include every man of distinction of her time; her salon also welcomed women and became in her later years the most desirable invitation of even the most proper social aspirants. The dramatist Antoine Bret’s account of her exploits dwells at length on the tragic tale of her natural son the Chevalier de Villiers, who, raised by his father the Marquis de Gersay in ignorance of his mother’s identity, fell in love with her when admitted to her salon in young adulthood. Her vices stopping short of incest, she was obliged to reveal their relationship, driving him to suicide. This story alone may have been enough to send Bret’s book to - 3 - J O H N W I N D L E A N T I Q U A R I A N B O O K S E L L E R the “top of the charts”. The present edition, attributed to Rouen by the BnF cataloguers on the basis of the type, ornaments and paper, followed soon after the probable first edition with imprint Amsterdam & Paris: Bauche & Rollin, 1751. Querard and Gay mention an edition of 1750, apparently in error, since no such copies are located and a “permission tacite” was granted to Bauche in late 1750-early 1751, for publication of these memoirs (BnF, ms. fr. 21994, n° 40: cf. BnF online cata- logue). Many other editions followed, often issued in conjunction with the spurious Lettres de Ninon de L’Enclos au marquis de Sevigné, of which the earliest recorded edition dates to 1750 and bears the same false “Amsterdam: François Joly” imprint as this edition, but was printed in France, according to the BnF analysis of its printing materiel. As was common in clandestine printing of this period, more than one edition may have appeared under the same false imprint and with the same pagination; the BnF catalogue describes an edition with this imprint as having a copper-engraved title vignette, whereas the title ornament of this copy is woodcut. (Description by Musinsky Rare Books.) (107262) $575. 5. BURNS, ROBERT. Poems chiefly Scottish. Edinburgh: Creech, 1787. 8vo, xlviii, 368 pp. With a portrait frontispiece. Full red morocco extra, richly gilt, covers and backstrip stamped with thistles etc., gilt edges, cloth box, a very fine binding by Root. Text washed and pressed. § First Edinburgh edition, the “skinking” issue (p. 263). A beautifully bound copy of the first regular printing of Burns’s poems (after the Kilmarnock edition). Egerer 2. (107230) $5250. 6. CAROL, MARK PHILIP. Ancient Needs. Illustrat- ed by Alan James Robinson. Foreword by Brian Davies. Northampton: ABCedary Letterpress, 1989. Folio, 35 leaves, including a map of the Magdalen Islands, and 11 aquatint & drypoint etchings in black, blue, & green. Wood engravings in the text. Full limp vellum, window in upper cover frames a wood engraving of a harp seal pup. With a separate suite of the 11 etchings and 5 wood engrav- ings, each numbered and signed by Robinson, in ice blue cloth folder. Both volumes fine in matching tray case (spine faded). With prospectus. § First edition. One of 25 copies of the “full vellum edition”, this is Copy H/2 -- the binder Claudia Cohen’s copy. Signed by Cohen, Robinson, Carol, Davies. There were 76 copies printed in all, most bound in handmade paper. The title & colophon are hand calligraphed in blue by Suzanne Moore. The fictional narrative of a young boy’s experience with the harp seals is printed in Centaur type on Saunders paper; it is interleaved with the seals’ poems printed in Arrighi italic on blue Moriki paper. Published price. (107261) $2750. - 4 - S H O R T L I S T 1 : R E C E N T A C Q U I S I T I O N S 7.