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terms of payment: All items, as usual, are guaranteed as described and are returnable within 10 days for any reason. All books are shipped UPS (please provide a street address) unless otherwise requested. Overseas orders should specify a shipping preference. All postage is extra. New clients are requested to send remittance with orders. Libraries may apply for deferred billing. All New York and New Jersey residents must add the appropriate sales tax. We accept American Express, Master Card, and Visa. 1. AISABURO, Akiyama (publisher). Ceremonial Japan by Miss Dolly Belle (pseudonym). Title in Japanese: Onna reishiki. 9 folded crepe leaves [i.e., 18] pp. total, including front and back cover, 10 full-page color woodblocks in all, including title-page and covers. 7G x 9I inches, To- kyo: Akiyama Aisaburo, [1896]. Sewn. OCLC records only Columbia. $1,000 A fine crepe-paper Japanese color woodblock book from the same period and in the same charming tradition which produced the beloved “Japanese Fairy Tales” published by Hasegawa. According to this publisher, “The object of the present publication is to give insights into those captivating arts which are considered essential to the education of young women” (Preface). The arts, each illustrated with a colored woodblock, include: Flower Arranging (Ike- bana); Miniature Gardens (Bon-seki); The Tea Ceremonial (Cha-no-yu); Poem Composing (Uta-no-kwai); Musical Conversazione (Ongaku-kwai); Needle Work (Hari-Shigoto). James Cummins Bookseller

2. ALKEN, Henry. The National Sports of Great Britain, with Descrip- tions in English and French... Chasse et Amusemens Nationaux de la Grande Bretagne. Parallel titles and text in English and French, text leaves with numerical signatures from 1-50. Hand-colored engraved additional title, 50 hand-colored aquatint plates by I. Clark after Henry Alken. (Final two plates and final two text leaves with silver-fish loss to blank margins). Folio (18I x 12G inches), London: Published by Thomas McLean, 1823 [but later, plates watermarked 1822-1824]. First edition. Contemporary black straight-grained morocco, the covers elaborately panelled in gilt, the spine in six compartments with raised bands, lettered in the second compartment, the others with elaborate repeat pattern built up from small tools, gilt turn ins, cream-glazed endpapers, red morocco inner hinges, gilt edges (scuffed, endpapers and blanks with silver-fish damage). Tooley 41; Schwerdt I, p. 19; Podeschi 111; Litchfield #14. $30,000 A fine copy of “Alken’s most important work... It must always form the cor- nerstone of any Alken collection” (Tooley). The plates and text between them offer a thorough survey of the sports prac- ticed in Great Britain in the first quarter of the nineteenth century. The subjects covered including riding, fox, stag and otter hunting, beagling, racing, falconry, various types of dogs and horses, shooting grouse, partridge, pheas- ant, snipe, wild-fowl, bittern, pigeon, fishing for pike, and salmon, fishing from a punt, prize-fighting, cock-fighting, badger, bear, and bull-baiting and perhaps most extraordinary of all: “owling.” It is interesting to note that although both the artist and the author of the text felt that it was necessary to record badger, bear and bull baiting, they did not refrain from condemning all three as barbaric. This copy is a later issue/impression. The additional pictorial title is dated 1821 (rather than 1820, as in the first issue), a letterpress title in French has been added (only the English title is present in the first and second issues) and the explanatory text leaves are signed consecutively from 1 to 50 (Podeschi records an intermediate state/issue where only some of the text leaves are numbered). The watermarks suggest a date of 1824 or later. The plates, very carefully hand-colored, are all aquatints by I. Clark, and retain all of the liveli- ness that is such a feature of this work. The artist Henry Thomas Alken was born into what became a sporting artistic dynasty. He studied under the miniature painter J.T. Barber and exhibited his first picture (a miniature portrait) at the Royal Academy when he was sixteen. From about 1816 onwards he “produced paintings, drawings and engravings of every type of field and other sporting activity. He is best remembered for his hunting prints, many of which he engraved himself until the late 1830s ... To many, sporting art is ‘Alken’, and to describe his work or ability is quite unnecessary” (Charles Lane British Racing Prints, pp.75-76).

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alken sporting plates 3. ALKEN, Henry. Bound volume containing 85 plates from various works by Alken, many of sporting and equestrian subjects, including: Specimens of Riding [and:] Humorous Miscellanies [and:] Scraps from the Sketch Book [and:] Moments of Fancy [and:] Tutor’s Assistant. With 85 hand-colored engravings, each trimmed (usually with loss of imprint) and mounted to size, mostly 2 per page. Large folio (15 x 30 inches), London: v.d. Modern leaves in a binding of full red morocco gilt by Birdsall, rebacked and preserving most of the spine. Minor edge wear. Generally very good. $2,500 Scraps from the Sketch Book (Title leaf and 37 of 42 plates). Schwerdt p. 21. Specimens of Riding near London (complete, 18 plates). Tooley 51 (1st ed.)/52 (2nd ed.); Humorous Miscellanies (complete, 6 plates). Tooley 30; Moments of Fancy (13 of 14 plates, plus one duplicate). Tooley 40. Tutor’s Assistant (4 of 6 plates). Tooley 59. With six unidentified plates, signed “Hy Alken del.” and titled: “Post Lads,” “Fox Hunter,” “Huntsman & Whipper In,” “Earth Stop- per,” “Game Keepers,” “Poachers” (imprint trimmed away). A choice, representative album of Alken plates displaying both the comic and the realistic sides of his work.

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“i hope jack teagarden blows his horn for ever. he’s my man” 4. ARMSTRONG, Louis. Typed Letter, signed (“Louis Satchmo Armstrong”) regarding Jack Teagarden, to Howard Waters, author of Jack Teagarden’s Music, His Career And Recordings (1960). 2 pp., on two sheets of “Satchmo” letterhead, with numerous corrections in pen in the text of the letter. 4to, Corona [Queens], New York, February 6, 1956. Single vertical fold; the two sheets stapled. Very good. $5,000 One of the most resonant statements imaginable from one musician — in this case, the most important jazz musician of the 20th century — regarding another. The irrepressible Satchmo writes with uninhibited enthusiasm of his eminent collaborator and long-time friend, trombonist Jack Teagarden, about whom Waters evidently was preparing an article:

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“‘O my Gawd — I do hope that I’ve not gone and missed the grandest opportunity that I have been waiting for years … to have the thrill of telling to the wide wide world the exact way that I feel over Jack Teagarden and his trombone playings … Yea, Jack’s my man … We have so many musical memories in common … I don’t actually know where to start … First, he’s a Human Being … God knows he is … Every time Jack picks up a trombone, you can bet your bottom dollar that something’s coming out of that horn real pretty. No matter if it’s sweet hot jazzy or dixieland … He really moves me whenever he just puts his horn to his chops … the man is just born for the trombone … The trombones were all made to blend with the Jackson first ; And that’s the way it is with Ol Satchmo until some one will prove to me that I am wrong … “When i said Jack’s a Human, what I personally mean by that is, he impressed me, more than just a musician … He’s the type of Ofay Boy that you (a negroe) can work with the rest of your life and there’ll never be any thing but good music and the fondest of appreciation of each other. In other words, he can’t be not a thing but our boy and Idol … “P.S. Out on the south side of Chicago where the Regal and the Savoy used to romp, years ago, a colored fellow who had just read in the evening newspapers where Louis Armstrong and his All Stars are getting ready to make a long long tour, all through the South. This young man made it his business to ask me right away … Is Jack Teagarden going on the southern tour with you, Satch? Immediately I answered him, saying, sure Jack’s going on the tour , furthermore, who am I to tell a white man that he can’t go south …P.S. It slayed that cat … “Am yours musically, and I hope that Jack Teagarden blows his horn for ever. He’s my man, personified. Wow.”

“are you ‘loosning???????’ … wow.” 5. ARMSTRONG, Louis and Lucille. Typed manuscript, inscribed and signed (“To Mr. Howard J. Waters | Louis Armstrong”) of his diet booklet “Lose Weight the ‘Satchmo’ Way. 3 pp., on rectos of three sheets. 4to, N.p., n.d. [ca. 1956?]. Outer edges a bit worn, one corner dog-eared, other corner stapled. $1,500 Not only was Louis Armstrong an avid fan of marijuana, he was also a fre- quent user of laxatives to control his weight, a practice he advocated both to personal acquaintances and in the diet plan he published under the title “Lose Weight the Satchmo Way”, as here in the typescript inscribed by Satchmo to the writer Howard Waters, author of Jack Teagarden’s Music, His Career and Recordings (1960). Armstrong became a convert to a certain herbal laxative called “Swiss Kriss”, and he not only praised its virtues, he handed out packs of it to everyone he met, including members of the British Royal Family. Armstrong also appeared in humorous cards which he sent out to friends, which showed him sitting on

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a toilet — as seen through a keyhole — with the caption, “Satch says, ‘Leave it all behind ya!’” In this diet booklet on Swiss Kriss, he closes with the Postcript: “When the Swiss Kriss Company give me a radio show, my slogan will be … ‘Hello, Everybody, this is “Satchmo” speaking for Swiss Kriss. Are you ‘Loosning???????’ … Wow.’”

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6. (ARTHURIAN LEGENDS) The History of the Valiant Knight Ar- thur of Little Britain. A Romance of Chivalry. Originally translated from the French by John Bouchier, Lord Berners. 25 hand-colored engraved plates from illuminated drawings contained in a valuable MS. of the Origi- nal Romance. xxvii, [i], 544 pp. Re-printed by J. Moyes. 4to (9G x 7 inches), London: Printed for White, Cochrane, and Co., Fleet Street, 1814. New edition. One of a total edition of 200 copies. Contem- porary tan calf, front hinge weak, marbled edges. Bookplate of John Neeld. $2,000 An Arthurian romance translated from the French. The hand-colored plates are so richly and precisely colored that they give the appearance of illuminated miniatures.

7. ARUNDALE, F[rancis Vyvyan Jago]. Illustrations of Jerusalem and Mount Sinai; Including the Most interesting Sites Between Grand Cairo and Beirout. From Drawings By F. Arundale, Architect, With a descriptive Account

 Fall Miscellany Catalogue 107 of His Tour and Residence in Those Remarkable Countries. Portrait Frontis- piece on India paper tipped-on of “Dress of an Inhabitant of Mt. Leba- non”, map, “Plan of Jerusalem” and 19 tinted lithographs printed by either J. Graf or Hillmandel. viii, 116 pp. Printed by F. Shoberl. Folio, London: Henry Colburn, 1837. First edition. Original blind-stamped cloth, upper board titled in gilt. Finely rebacked preserving original spine. Some minor spotting. Weber, 249; Hilmy, The Literature of Egypt and the Soudan, Vol. I, 43; Tobler, Descriptiones Terrae Sanctae, p.155. Rohricht, Bibliotheca Geographica Palaestinae 1731; Not in Abbey. $2,500

annotated by the artist 8. AVINOFF, Andrey. The Fall of Atlantis. A Series of Graphic Impres- sions of the Poem by George V. Golokvastofff. [Descriptive brochure by Andrey Avinoff in collaboration with Percival Hunt]. Drawn in Wash By Andrey N. Avinoff. [xii], [42] pp. Folio (21 x16 inches), Pittsburgh, [Pennsylvania]: 1944. One of 300 reproduced in gravure for the artist by Beck Engraving. In original wrappers. Fine, in original slipcase. $2,000 Very scarce portfolio of visionary drawings — some might say homoerotic — by this brilliant Russian emigré artist and lepidopterist 1884-1949) who became director of the Carnegie Mellon Museum of Pittsburgh, and whose sister Elisabeth Shoumatoff painted the last portrait of FDR. For an account of the artist and his family, see Alex Shoumatoff’s Russian Blood (NY, 1982). Inscribed by the artist: “To Rawley (?) and Doris with friendly greeting, Avinoff.” Each plate is also signed (lower right) and each plate is also annotated in pencil by the artist on the verso, with notes on the symbolism depicted.

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calligraphic ms on vellum, ‘of gardens’ 9. BACON, Francis. Of Gardens. Illustrated calligraphic manuscript on vellum. Title lettered in gold, with vignette in black ink of Adam & Eve in the garden of Eden with gold highlights, 21 pp. text lettered in black in 17 lines, with 20 original drawings at the foot of the page, signed “Written by Freda M. Bussell, 1922”, with a drawing opposite, signed “FM” in monogram. 4to, N.p. [England, 1922]. Later tan morocco and marbled boards, green title label on upper board. Loose in binding, else fine. $1,500 Finely executed calligraphic manuscript of Bacon’s celebrated “Of Gardens”, from The Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall. The text includes botanical and landscape vignettes at the foot of the text, and the final leaf opposite the cal- ligrapher’s signature depicts Adam and Eve, chased from the garden of Eden, in misery, she with a babe in arms and he covering his ears against the infant’s screams, his shovel abandoned at his feet.

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10. BEWICK, Thomas. History of British Birds. The Figures engraved on Wood by T. Bewick. Volume I. Containing the History and Description of Land Birds. Volume II Containing the History and description of Water Birds [with:] A Supplement … Part II. xxx, [ii], [1]-335; xx, [1]-400; 49, [1] pp. 2 vols. 8vo (9 x 5L inches), Newcastle: Printed by Sol. Hodgson, for Beilby & Bewick: Sold by them, and G.G. and J. Robinson, London & Printed for Edward Walker, 1797, 1804 & 1821. First edition, first issue, indicated by the absence of the words “Wycliffe, 1791” from the figure of the sea eagle on p. 11 of Volume One. Bound in full green nineteenth century morocco, gilt spine, a.e.g. Minor rubbing at joints, internally fresh and clean, tall copy. Nissen IVB, 95; Wood p. 237; Zim- mer p. 57-58; Hugo 99-103, 109-110. $1,500 The text of Volume One is entirely written by Beilby; and Volume Two is all by Bewick. An attractive copy of a timeless classic of British illustration.

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11. (BIBLE, English) The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testa- ments …. Frontispiece. 2 vols. Folio, Cambridge: Printed by Joseph Benthem …, 1762. Folio edition, with Index and Tables at rear of vol. II. Contemporary full red morocco , gilt. a.e.g. Spine labels damaged, with loss. Hopewell Hall bookplate. Herbert 1142. $6,000 “In this Bible a serious attempt was made to correct the text of the King James’ version … Copies of this folio edition are very scarce” (Herbert).

harper bible in deluxe publisher’s binding 12. (BIBLE, English) The Illuminated Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments, Translated Out of the Original Tongues ... Embellished with Six- teen 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 (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 & Broth- ers, 1846. First book edition, first issued in parts. Bound in full brown publisher’s bevelled morocco, gilt- and blind-stamped with filigrees and tendrils, spine in five compartments, covers with four raised compartments around central raised diamond, a.e.g. Stamped on lower margin in gilt “Jacob H. DePuy,” with history and records of the DePuy and

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Hasbrouk family between Old and New Testament. Hills 1161; Hamil- ton 198; Herbert 1860; see also Exman, The House of Harper, pp. 34-35, and Weitenkampf, American Graphic Art. $3,000 “...this Harper publication was a remarkable production for its time and place, and retains its importance in the annals of American book-making” (Hills). “Drawing, engraving, and printing were all marvels at the time of this book’s production; and it well deserved the popularity it immediately obtained …” (Hamilton, quoting Linton). “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.” (Herbert 1860). “The first notable American effort to produce a richly illustrated book” (Weitenkampf).

the boyle lectures 13. BLACKALL, Ofspring. The Sufficiency of a Standing Revelation in General, and of the Scripture Revelation in Particular. Both as to the Matter of It, and as to the Proof of It; and that New Revelations cannot reasonably be desired, and would probably be unsuccessful. In Eight Sermons, preach’d in the Cathedral-Church of St. Paul, London; at the Lecture Founded by the Honourable Robert Boyle Esq; in the Year MDCC. [4], 24; 30 ; 31, [1, ad]; 68; 36; 64 pp. 7 parts in one volume, with separate title-pages and, except for the last two, with separate pagination. 4to, London: Printed by J. Leake, for Walter Kettilby, at the Bishop’s Head in St. Paul’s Church- Yard, 1700. First edition. Bound in contemporary black morocco handsomely gilt-tooled to panel design, covers with central gilt floral device, spine slightly faded, spine ends slightly worn; internally, scattered minor foxing, but remarkably clean and crisp. Handsome copy. Bookplates of Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex (1773-1843), sixth son of George III; and of Kenneth Garth Huston. Wing (2nd ed., 1994) B3055; ESTC R6615; Fulton, A Bibliography of the Honourable Rob- ert Boyle, p. 198; CH 13144. $1,250 “All but the last sermon were also issued separately in the same year” (ESTC). The Boyle Lectures were created by Robert Boyle to provide a forum for intel- lectuals discuss the nature of God, and defend Christianity from its detractors. “Their design, as expressed by the institutor, is to prove the truth of the Chris- tian religion against infidels, without descending to any controversies among Christians; and to answer new difficulties, scruples, etc.” (DNB) Blackall (1654-1716) was awarded the Boyle Lectures in 1700, partly as a result of his lengthy and highly public controversy with John Toland, who allegedly disputed the authenticity of certain passages of the New Testament. “Black- all’s altercation with Toland had brought him to prominence as a defender of revealed religion against the attacks of the deists. Consequently he was chosen to deliver the Boyle lectures in 1700.” Superb copy in a lovely contemporary binding with impressive provenance.

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first oxford octavo 14. BLACKSTONE, William. Commentaries on the Laws of England. 4 vols. 8vo, Oxford: at the Clarendon Press, printed for William Strahan, Thomas Cadell, and Daniel Prince, 1783. Fifth edition and first Oxford octavo edition. Contemporary calf, rubbed. Bookplate of Gervas Hol- mes. Rothschild 407; Printing and the Mind of Man 212; Grolier English 52 (First edition). $1,750 One of the cornerstones of our legal system, and still regarded as the best general history of English law. In these lectures which he gave as the first Vinerian Professor of Law at Oxford, Blackstone taught (as even his critic Bentham noted) “jurisprudence to speak the language of the scholar and gentleman.”

engraved on silver plates — in fine contemporary binding 15. (BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER) The Book of Common Prayer and Admin- istration of the Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church according to the use of the Church of England. Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David. xxii [Subscribers list, pp. xix-xxii, bound out-of-sequence], 166, 1 pp., entirely engraved on silver plates throughout within engraved borders, with vignettes, decorated initials, etc, by John Sturt. With volvelle, p. v. 8vo, London: J. Sturt, 1717. Full contemporary red morocco, tooled in gold to a panel design with flowers, vases and small tools, and interlacing strapwork design in panel corners. Spine in six compartments with five raised bands, comb marbled endpapers, a.e.g. Some small defects in tooling (over-deep impressions and blacken- ing), else a fine copy. Lowndes, p. 1493; Griffiths, 1717/1; ESTC T141241; cf. Foot, Henry Davis Gift, II, no. 152 for similar binding. Provenance: H.D. Lyon (pencil note on blank); Peter A. Wick (bookplate). $4,000

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16. (BRICKTOP) Smith, Ada “Bricktop.” Archive of 15 Autograph Letters, signed and 6 Autograph Notes, signed (“Brick,” “Bricky,” and “Brick Top”) to Jodi Desmond (Josephina Desimone), most with original autograph transmittal envelopes. Together with 10 pp of manuscript notes and 4 pp of typescript notes on Bricktop by Desmond, and other related clippings and ephemera. In all, 41 pages recto and verso. 4to, 8vo, and 12mo, various places including Rome, London, New York, October 13, 1958 to April 13, 1972. With minor creasing and toning throughout, otherwise fine. In black notebook. $3,000 Dancer, singer, Parisian cabaret star Bricktop was born in West Virginia, and by her teens was performing on the Pantages vaudeville circuit. From the 1920s to the 1950s, she had her own nightclub in Paris, Chez Bricktop, where she nurtured the careers of Duke Ellington, Mabel Mercer, and Josephine Baker, and entertained celebrities such as Cole Porter, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. Porter wrote the song “Miss Otis Regrets” for Bricktop. This series of letters is written to Jodi Desmond, a young woman whom Brick- top met in Rome during the 1950s. In her autobiography, Bricktop by Bricktop, she describes Desmond thus: “She was a white girl, quite young, and I don’t remember now why she was in Rome. She had something to do with the picture business. She was one of what I used to call the ‘out-real people’-the people who didn’t really belong, but who sort of hung around on the fringes. Jody was very popular, and she and I became quite close. It was she who found the cellar location on the Via Veneto that most people remember as the Rome Bricktop’s.” In this series of letters, Bricktop discusses the vicissitudes of the nightclub business as well has her Catholic faith. From New Year’s Eve, 1967: “I’m so restless keeping house going to mass, saying my rosary answering the telephone to say no no no, I don’t want to go out. It’s just another hangover next day & I must say not the hangovers we used to have & as you know the Doctors tell me I must do something at least 3 or 4 nights a week but I can’t make up my mind to work for anyone else & to put $$ in a place of my own ... could have done a lovely place in Marbella starting June but again its putting money & who knows. Darling you know I’m too old to start staying up & drinking a lot of liquor every night & if its Bricktops you know what happens ... was going to work with Charlie Beal at Georges thank God I never went back to talk business with them. They fired Charlie on a one night notice because Charlie didn’t want whores hanging around his piano. / Yes, whores in Georges.”

17. (BRITISH MILITARY) The Field of Mars: Being an Alphabetical Di- gestion of the Principal Naval And Military Engagements, in Europe, Asia, Africa, and America, Particularly of Great Britain and Her Allies, from the

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Ninth Century to the Peace of 1801. Frontispieces. With half-titles. 2 vols. 4to, London: G. and J. Robinson, Paternoster Row, 1801. Title-page and frontispiece of each volume foxed. Light scattered foxing to text. Modern half brown calf and marbled boards. In uniform tan half morocco boxes, spines gilt. Sabin 24297. $2,500 The work contains numerous entries for North American battles from the Seven Years’ War and the American Revolution, including Annapolis Royal, Beausejour, Brandy-Wine, Lake Champlain, Charlestown, Fort Frontenac, Louisbourg, etc. The entry for Bunker Hill describes the battle by quoting from a letter from General Burgoyne to Lord Stanley. In it, he writes, “‘And now ensued one of the greatest scenes of war that can be conceived.... the day ended with glory, and the success was most important, considering the ascendancy it gave the regular troops; but the loss was uncommon in officers, for the numbers engaged.’” A veritable trove of military information, with descriptions of many important battles in British - and American - history.

buck’s tribute to sun yat-sen 18. BUCK, Pearl S. Typescript, with autograph corrections, of her speech in tribute to Sun Yat-sen. 4 pp. typed with autograph corrections in pencil. 4to, ca. March 12, 1944. Oxidization from paper clip, else fine. In custom folding box. $1,000 Typed manuscript, heavily corrected in pencil, of a speech delivered at the Metropolitan Opera House on March 12, 1944, at a rally organized by Buck to commemorate Sun Yat-sen on the 19th anniversary of his death. An advance copy of this speech was published in the New York Times on the same day. Buck stresses Sun Yat-sen’s humble upbringing, his selflessness, and his love of the Chinese people, and speculates as to the origins of his political awakening. “A few souls are born who seem to have in them the comprehension of all other souls, a universal understanding … and these never are content to glorify themselves.” According to Peter Conn in his Pearl S Buck: A Cultural Biography, Buck’s speech, and the rally at which it was delivered, where intended to praise Sun Yat-sen at the expense of Chiang Kai-shek and the Kuomintang: “While she praised Sun Yat-sen effusively, she never mentioned Chiang. In the circumstances of the moment, Pearl’s silence amounted to an oblique but unmistakable rejec- tion of Chiang and the Kuomintang. Chiang had struggled for almost two decades to demonstrate that his authority descended legitimately from Sun’s. Pearl’s contrary version of history suggests that in 1944, nineteen years after Sun’s death, no legitimate successor had appeared” (p. 280). In a further jab at Chiang Kai-shek, Buck’s speech ends in praise of Sun Yat-sen’s wife Soong Ching-ling, who was of course the older sister of Madame Chiang.

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19. BURROUGHS, John; Thomas EDISON; Henry FORD. Our Va- cation Days of 1918. 74 sepia-toned silver prints mounted on card-stock. 4to, n.p., 1921. Bound in half black morocco over paper boards, slipcase worn, else fine. $2,000 Documents the camping vacation taken by Burroughs, Edison, and Ford in the summer of 1918 through the Allegheny and Appalachian Mountains, beginning in Pittsburgh and ending in Haggerstown, Maryland. Also pictured throughout the album are automotive notables such as Harvey Firestone, founder of Firestone Tires, and his son Harvey Jr. The text is provided by Burroughs, to whom the book is dedicated, and who died shortly after the trip’s conclusion. The photographs and individuals depicted therein illustrate the stunning dichotomy between unadulterated American landscape and the increasingly imposing presence of modern industry.

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rare 20. (BURTON, Richard F.) Catullus, Caius Valerius. The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus. Now first completely Englished into Verse and Prose, the Metrical Part by Capt. Sir Richard F. Burton … and the Prose Portion, Introduction, and Notes Explanatory and Illustrative by Leonard C. Smithers. Inserted Frontispiece (in 2 states). xxiii, 313 pp. Royal 8vo, London: Printed for the Translators, In One Volume, For Private Subscribers Only, 1894. First edition, Number 24 of 50 copies on unbleached Ar- nold hand-made paper with proofs before letters of the frontispiece in 2 states. Original quarter vellum and boards. some bumping to corners, else about fine. Nelson C1894.4; Penzer pp. 156-157; Booth 357; Mendes pp. 17-19. $1,000 This verse translation of Catullus was one of the final literary projects of ex- plorer-linguist Sir Richard F. Burton; it took several years for his friend and collaborator Smithers to convince Lady Burton to allow the work’s publication.

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21. CARRADORI, Francesco. Istruzione Elementare per gli Studiosi della Scultura …. Engraved title and 17 engraved illustrations on 13 leaves., with 7 leaves. descriptive text. [ii], xxxvii pp. 4to, Florence: [Tipografia della Società Letteraria], 1802. First edition. Contemporary half cat- spaw calf and decorated paper boards, flat spine divided in six compartments stamped with gilt urn tool, title label. Some light foxing throughout, very good. Cicognara 306; Brunet I, p. 1598. Provenance: Peter A. Wick (bookplate). $3,500 Important treatise on sculpture by the neo-classicist Carradori.

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22. CASSATT, Mary. Document, signed (“Mary S. Cassatt”) three times and once by the US Vice Consul General, allowing entry of a painting into France. [With:] Manuscript customs declaration, signed (“R.S. Cassatt”) by Cassatt’s father, allowing the painting’s export from Philadelphia. One page printed “Artist-Certificate” accomplished in Cassatt’s hand, with one-page customs declaration in pen and ink and one-page violet covering sheet, docketed in pen and ink. Paris: July 28, 1876. Prior folds, affixed at top edge to customs declaration. In custom cloth chemise. $3,500 Cassatt adds a two-line description of the painting on the verso, “a picture 100 [?] by 70 centimeters / representing a Musical Repetition.” This is most likely “A Musical Party,” painted in 1874 and now at the Musée Carnavalet, Paris. Cassatt’s father, who disapproved of his daughter’s vocation, signed the Phila- delphia customs declaration which valued the painting at $400 in its frame.

inscribed to the man who cast the deciding vote for women’s suffrage 23. CATT, Carrie Chapman, compiler. Woman Suffrage by Federal Con- stitutional Amendment. [At head of title:] National Suffrage Library. 100 pp. 12mo, New York: National Woman’s Suffrage Publishing Co, Inc. 1751 Madison Avenue, 1917. First edition. Original blue cloth. About fine. $2,500 Inscribed on the front free endpaper: “To Congressman Frederick C. Hicks, Compliments, Carrie Chapman Catt.” “Her unique contribution to the women’s movement was her global view and her certainty that the world’s people had to live equitably and peacefully

 Fall Miscellany Catalogue 107 together ... Her feminism was a worldwide revolt against all artificial barri- ers that laws and customs interpose between women and human freedom” (ANB). Catt succeeded Susan B. Anthony as head of the NAWSA, and her “Winning Plan” — a two-pronged approach that fought for women’s suffrage at the state and federal level — was ultimately successful with the passage of the Nine- teenth Amendment in 1920. Although modestly credited as this book’s compiler, Catt wrote four of its six chapters. She dedicates the book to the U.S. Congress, to whom she addresses her case for the necessity of a constitutional amendment granting women’s suffrage. The present copy is inscribed to a member of Congress, Frederick Hicks, representative from New York (1915-1923). The association is compelling and important: on 10 January 1918, when the vote on suffrage was before Con- gress, “[Hicks] left his wife’s deathbed on her insistence to cast his vote for the resolution He then went home to her funeral … The amendment passed by a single extra vote 274 ayes to 136 nays, one more than the required two thirds” (Van Voris, Carrie Chapman Catt, p. 148). An amazing association.

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the artist’s sketches, mock-up & proofs 24. (CHELONIIDAE PRESS) Lawrence, D. H. Tortoises. Six Poems by D. H. Lawrence … With an Introduction by Jefferson Hunter. Etched portrait frontispiece and 7 wood engravings. Includes two mock-ups signed by Alan James Robinson with illustrations, 8 original watercolor drawings, a group of 31 pencil studies, 30 proofs of the woodcuts and etchings, and a long galley proof. 4to, [Williamsburg, Massachusetts]: Cheloni- idae Press, 1983. Artist’s copy. Full vellum on straps, hand-bound by Gray Parrot. Spine lettered and gilt, top edge gilt. Watercolor drawings, engravings, and mock-up material laid into four cloth chemises. All in cloth clamshell box. Fine. $5,000 Six poems, originally published in Birds, Beasts & Flowers (1930), newly illustrated by Alan James Robinson. Unique visual archive of the genesis and execution of this fine edition.

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artist’s mock-up with complete set of pencil and watercolor drawings 25. (CHELONIIDAE PRESS) Robinson, Alan James, artist. Artist’s Watercolor Drawings and Design Maquettes for Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven. 10 ink and watercolor drawings, signed by Alan James Robin- son; 16 pencil and ink drawings, signed by the artist. First and second publisher’s mock-ups with pencil and ink drawings. Oblong 4to, [East- hampton, Mass.: Cheloniidae Press, n.d., 1986]. Published in 1986. Drawings housed in two individual chemises. First mock-up loose in sheets. Second mock-up bound in black felt with red fibers. All contained in custom cloth clamshell box. Fine. $7,500 The artist’s own copies of the mock-ups for the 1986 Cheloniidae Press edition of The Raven, with numerous variations of Robinson’s fine illustrations for Poe’s classic poem. This was the second edition of the poem from the press, with an entirely new series of illustrations.

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mock-up, 41 drawings, binder’s dummy 26. (CHELONIIDAE PRESS) Robinson, Alan James, artist. A Col- lection of Artist’s Working Drawings and Maquettes eventually published as An Odd Bestiary. Collection of 3 mock-up books in varying stages. Includes 41 pen and pencil drawings by Alan James Robinson and binder’s dummy signed David Bourbeau. Folio, Easthampton: Cheloniidae Press, 1983. One mock-up in quarter red morocco over linen cloth, bound by Gray Parrot, gilt lettering on spine. Binder’s dummy of full red morocco, blind-stampeded and hand tooled by David Bourbeau. Unbound leaves contained in chemises. All in cloth clamshell box with inset paper label on spine with calligraphic title by Susanne Moore. Fine, with some minor discoloration to clamshell box. $7,500 Dummy is inscribed and signed by late David Bourbeau: “for Cheloniidae Press in appreciation for the tremendous boost you’ve given my career by giving me such great work to do David 11.26.82” and “this dummy was made without the benefit of seeing the finished layout or prints from the finished book. Thistle Bindery Easthampton. MA. 1982 DPB.” With his notes at the back “Thistle Bindery 2-17-82....the tube on this dummy is made of ‘Gehenna Shakespeare ‘ paper which appears a bit heavy-go to a lighter weight handmade...” WITH the typescript, annotated, etc. Bound mock-up contains title “The Odd Bestiary.” This collection provides unprecedented insight into the evolution of one of the most successful books of the Cheloniidae Press.

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27. (CHINA) [Gruber, Johannes][Jacopo Carlieri, editor]. Notizie va- rie dell’ imperio della China e di qualche altro paese adiacente [Relazione della China cavata da un ragionamento tenuto col Padre Giovanni Grueber, da L. Magalotti. Alcune lettere latine del suddetto Padre toccanti l’istesse materie], con la vita di Confucio, … e un saggio della sua morale [Scientiae sinicae in- ter Confucii libros secundus latine... a P. Prospero Intorcetta].... xv, [i], 185, [3] pp. 12mo, Florence: Giuseppi Manni, 1697. First Carlieri edition. Contemporary vellum, red sprinkled edges. Very good. Gamba 1985; Razzolini 682. $1,500 Gruber (1623-1680) was a Jesuit sent to the China mission. He explored various land routes to China, visiting Western China, Tibet, Nepal, and India and attempted a northern route through Latvia and Russia. Gruber’s account of his voyages was first published in Italian and French in 1672 in Thévenot’sRela - tions Divers Voyages Curieux and reprinted here, along with a life of Confucius.

congress responds to the boxer rebellion 28. (CHINA) United States of America, 55th Congress. Printed Document, signed by the Speaker of the House (Thomas B. Reed”); and the President pro tempore of the Senate (“William P. Frye”), being a “joint resolution of inquiry concerning outrages on American citizens in China”. One page, on parchment paper. Washington, D.C.: Dec. 5, 1898. Central horizontal fold; slightly soiled. In folding cloth case. $1,500 With reports and rumors circulating about attacks on foreign missions, including Americans, in Northern China, a concerned U.S. Congress adopted the

 James Cummins Bookseller following joint resolution: “Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President be, and he is hereby, requested to communicate to Congress … all the information in his possession concerning certain alleged outrages committed upon the person of Bishop Earl Cranston and other American citizens in the city of Pekin, China, by subjects of the Emperor of China, and what steps, if any, have been taken by the State Department in the matter of demanding suitable redress and indemnity therefor.” Bishop Cranston was an American Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, elected in 1896.

the abolition of the slave trade 29. CLARKSON, Thomas. The History of the Rise, Progress, and Ac- complishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade by the British Par- liament. 3 plates (2 folding) and folding map. [4], 572; [2], 592 pp. 2 vols. 8vo (23 x 14 cm), London: Printed by R. Taylor & Co., Shoe-Lane for Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, 1808. First edition. 20th-century three-quarter roan and marbled boards. Light wear to bindings. Book- plate on front pastedowns. Light scattered foxing. Very good. Sabin 13486; Library Company of Philadelphia, Afro-Americana 2388; Kress B.5319; Goldsmith19725; Smith I, 429; see PMM 232. $3,000 Clarkson (1760-1846), along with William Wilberforce and Granville Sharp, was instrumental in convincing the British public and Parliament of the moral necessity of abolishing the slave trade. Clarkson’s Essay on the Slavery and Com- merce of the Human Species (1786) galvanized a small group of abolitionists, though they were without political clout until Wilberforce, an MP, publicly took up the cause a year later. A motion for abolition, championed in Parlia- ment by Wilberforce, was defeated in 1791. Not until 1807 did Parliament pass the act abolishing the slave trade. Though the title of Clarkson’s History is triumphant, it wasn’t until 1811 that slave trading was made a felony. In 1823 Clarkson and Wilberforce were made Vice-Presidents of the newly formed Anti-Slavery Society to continue the fight-- it was as late as 1833 that all slaves in the British Empire were finally emancipated. The book includes the large folding plate of the plan of a slave ship, displaying the horrendous accom- modations endured by the slave. When it was submitted to the House of Commons as evidence of slavery’s inhumanity, “the print seemed to make an instantaneous impression of horror upon all who saw it” (vol. II, p. 111). “Be- tween them, Clarkson and Wilberforce had achieved and seen accomplished the triumphant conclusion of a campaign, carried on by word of mouth and by means of the printing press, for one of the fundamental rights of man” (PMM).

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30. CLARK, John Heaviside. View of London from the Adelphi, forming part of the Panorama of the Thames from London to Richmond. One page, folding hand-colored aquatint panorama (238 x 1714 mm), on three sheets. Small 4to, London: Samuel Leigh, nd, watermarked 1829. Original green cloth covers, letterpress title with ornamental border, mounted on upper cover, later blue morocco-backed slipcase. Some repairs to folds, else fine. $1,500 A lovely vista of early-industrial London along the Thames, stretching from Westminster Abbey to Waterloo Bridge. On the river are several varieties of Watercraft, including the barges of the City Companies in the regalia of Lord Mayor’s day. John Heaviside Clark was a celebrated painter and engraver of sea-and land- scapes, active at the Royal Academy between 1801 and 1832.

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“sweet genevieve” by stephen foster’s friend, george cooper 31. COOPER, George. Autograph Manuscript signed (“George Coo- per”), fair copy, of the lyrics to the song “Sweet Genevieve.” Two stan- zas and chorus, on one page, in ink. 4to, [First published, New York: Wm. A. Pond, 1869]. Fine. $2,000 One of the most popular songs of the 19th century, with music by Henry Tucker, “Sweet Genevieve” is one of the few surviving songs by George Coo- per (1838-1927?), whose friendship with Stephen Foster in the last few months of Foster’s life has been well documented. The two evidently collaborated on several songs together, which are now lost, and it was Cooper who discovered the prostrate body of his stricken friend on the Bowery the day before Foster died, and who informed the family of his death. Autograph lyrics of Cooper are of the utmost rarity.

32. (COROT, Jean-Baptiste-Camille) Robaut, Alfred. L’Œuvre de Corot. Catalogue Raisonné et Illustré..... 5 vols. Folio, Paris: 1965. Con- temporary green cloth, gilt leather labels. Wrappers bound in. Book- plate on front pastedowns. Fine. $6,000 A handsome catalog of the works of French artist Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796-1875), produced in a limited edition of five hundred copies. Contains historical and biographical information, as well as a complete listing of his works. Definitive and hard to find.

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33. COTON, Pierre, S.J. Devotes Oraisons pour tous Chrestiens et Catholiques. [bound after:] Bound after a contemporary printed Book of Hours in Latin and French lacking title. 3 (of ?) engraved plates by Jean Matheus depicting SS. Genevieve, Francis of Paola, and Cath- erine. 80 pages. 8vo, Paris: Gabriel Clopejau, 1637. Late 17th-century red morocco elaborately gilt-tooled to center-and-corner design of massed pointillé volutes, floral sprays, and small ornamental tools, central diamond and corner triangle onlays of black morocco, gilt edges, gauffered to floral pattern accentuated with paint (now faded) Light wear to joints, clasps removed, contents relatively clean. Morocco exli- bris of Julius Wangenheim. $2,500 Pierre Coton (7 March 1564, at Néronde in Forez – 19 March 1626, at Paris) was a French Jesuit and royal confessor.

a delightful complete set of cruikshank’s comic almanacs 34. CRUIKSHANK, George. The Comic Almanack for 1835-1853: An Ephemeris in Jest and Earnest...By Rigdum Funnidos, Gent. Each with from 6 to 12 full-page monthly plates and other illustrations by Cruikshank, 4 with fold-out color frontispieces (1850-1853). 19 vols. 12mo, London: Imprinted for Charles Tilt and later Tilt and Bogue, etc, 1835-1851. First edition, third issue of 1848 issue. Bound in half tan morocco and blue marbled boards, t.e.g. Fine, spines slightly sunned. Cohn 184 pp. 59-63. $2,500 A complete run of these amusing volumes, quintessential Cruikshank.

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fine in wrappers, as good as it gets 35. CRUIKSHANK, George. George Cruikshank’s Fairy Library. 4 vols. Small 4tos, London: David Bogue & Routledge, Warne & Routledge, v.d. First editions, first issues. Wrappers. Laid in blue cloth slipcase and chemise. Cohn 196-199. $5,000 Titles in the Fairy Library: Hop-O’ My-Thumb and The Seven-League Boots. Ed- ited and illustrated with six etchings by George Cruikshank. London: David Bogue, N.d. [1853]. First edition, mixed issue. with back cover “Preparing For Publication / Jack and The Bean-Stalk” in first issue, ii. List of Illustrations at end on separate leaf Sm. 4to. 30, [1] pp. Six plates. Original green printed wrappers, very slight soiling at sides and spine , else fine. [and:] The History of Jack & the Bean-Stalk. Edited and Illustrated with six etchings by George Cruikshank. London: David Bogue, N.d. [1854]. First edition, first issue, with all first issue points as called for including: the frontispiece is the plate “Jack, Climbing the Bean Stalk”; the plates are on white paper. Small 4to. 32 pp. Six plates. Original green printed wrappers, about fine. [and:]Cinderella and The Glass Slipper. Edited and illustrated with ten subjects, designed and etched on steel, by George Cruikshank. London: David Bogue, N.d.,. [1854]. First edition, first issue. Small 4to. 31 pp. Six plates. Original green printed wrappers. [and:] Puss in Boots. Edited and illustrated with etchings on steel, by George Cruikshank. London: Routledge, Warne and Routledge, 1864. First edition, first issue, with the all first issue points: no front fly-leaf; no plate list. There is leaf at end bearing the cover design; on white paper; the “Notice to Public” is repeated at back in different type; the imprint on the wrapper differs from that on the title-page. Small 4to. 40 pp. Six plates. Original blue (Cohn calls for green) printed wrappers, about fine.

19 india proofs, with a masterful cruikshank self-portrait 36. CRUIKSHANK, George. Set of India Proofs to the first three titles of The Fairy Library: Hop o’ My Thumb; Jack & The Beanstalk; and Cinderella and the Glass Slipper. 18 etched plates from The Fairy Library by George Cruishank, on mounted India Paper; plus one other proof (“The Triumph of Cupid A Reverie”) from Table Talk; in all, 19 etched proof plates, all on India paper. The Fairy Library Proofs measure 6H to 7 inches x 4H to 5 inches; Cupid 9H x 6G inches, [London: David Bogue, [1853; 1854; and 1855; and 1845]. Mounted to larger sheets and bound together in a folio album of three quarter in contemporary red morocco and marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt “fairy tales | g. ck| proofs”. One plate loose in binding, but all plates are clean and bright. Cohn 196, 197, 198 (Fairy Library); and 191 (Table-Talk). $2,250 Superb set of proofs for three books from Cruikshank’s perennially popular Fairy Library; with the addition -- indeed, the first plate in the album, of a Cruikshank masterpiece from Table Talk, featuring Cruikshank himself as the

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in boards, uncut 37. CRUIKSHANK, George. The Humourist. A Collection of Enter- taining Tales, Anecdotes, Repartees, Witty Sayings, Epigrams, Bon Mots, Jeu d’esprits, &c.... With 40 hand colored illustrations by George Crui- kshank. 226, [2]; 230, [2]; 222, [2]; 226, [2] pp. 4 vols. 12mo (157 x 950 mm.), London: Printed & Published by J. Robins & Co. Albion Press, Ivy Lane, Paternoster Row, 1819, 1819, 1819 & 1820. First edition, first issue, with the date on the title-page of volume one , p. 44 of vol. I has second issue title of “Epitaph on a Dyer” but with the volume number and with dates on plate 7 in volume 2 and plate 4 in volume 3. No dates on plate 5, Vol I; plates 1, 4, and 10 in Vol. II; plate 9 in Vol. III. Bound in full polished blue calf, gilt spine, a.e.g., by Root. Fine. Cohn 419: Patten, George Cruikshank...Vol I, 1792-1835. $2,500 Cruikshank’s inimitable illustrations, published 1819-20. “The Humour- ist...gave Cruikshank his first sustained opportunity to devise illustrations; Blanchard Jerrold calls it his first remarkable separate work. Robins issued forty six-penny parts, stitched into green wrappers with a colored etching in each, during 1819 and 1820. The parts were also bound in four volumes (as here). In several respects this format anticipates the one Dickens and his publishers revived for Pickwick Papers and the other serials ... “ – Patten, p. 190.

38. DARWIN, Charles. Autograph Letter, signed (“C. Darwin”), to Francis Boott, with references to Dr. A.A. Gould at Boston and news of chloroform. 3 pp. [London,] Atheneum Club: Saturday 20 Aug. 1848. Fine. Darwin Correspondence Project 1195. Provenance: Ralph Colp, Jr. $12,500 “My Dear Dr Boott, “Since I saw you I have been persuaded at the Brit. Museum to write direct to Dr. Gould at Boston, for I hear he is a very kind man & likes to assist everyone. Dr. Gould has attended to Cirripedia more than any one else & if he grants my request, I consider it superfluous to trouble any one else. Should this channel fail, I will not fail to remember your most kind offer. With my true thanks for all your sympathy & assistance about Chloriform — pray believe me “Yours very sincerely “C. Darwin” A fine early letter recording Darwin’s search for specimens for his Monograph of the sub-class Cirripedia … (1851). Augustus Addison Gould (1805-1866), con- chologist and physician, was, he served as one of the general curators from 1831 to 1838, as curator of mollusks for the Boston Society of Natural History during the mid-1840s, and was the Society’s corresponding secretary at the time of this letter. His Report (1841) “delineated about 275 land, freshwater, and ocean mollusks and some 100 other invertebrates” (ANB).  Fall Miscellany Catalogue 107

The Darwin Correspondence Project notes, “Chloroform may have been used in the delivery of Francis Darwin on 16 August. See letter to J. D. Hooker, 10 May 1848, where CD mentioned that it will be employed. During Emma’s next labour, CD administered the chloroform (letter to W. D. Fox, [17 January 1850]).” Choice letter demonstrating the range of Darwin’s scientific interests and correspondence.

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“in very great want of two books… i am come to a dead stand still” 39. DARWIN, Charles. Autograph Letter, signed (“C. Darwin”), to Richard Kippist, needing books in a hurry, specifically Boreau’sFlora du centre de la France, 1839, work at a “dead stand still”. 4 pp. pen and ink. Down, Bromley, Kent: March 10, [1858]. Fine. Darwin Correspon- dence Project 2238. Provenance: Ralph Colp, Jr. $15,000 “My dear Sir, “I am owing to a mistake which I made in very great want of two Books, which I had once before out of Library. In fact I am come to a dead stand still until I can get them. I do not know what regulations are, but I think the council would permit your being so kind as to send off the two vos. to the enclosed address tomorrow morning. WIll you so far oblige me? The Books are the vol. of Boreau’s Flora du Centre de la France which includes genus Carex. And Flora Ratisbonensis (Naturhistorische Topographie von Regensburg [Bd 2] Dr. A. E. Fürnrohr, 1839. I do hope you can oblige me in this: if sent off soonest tomorrow morning by Charing Cross Coach I shall get them on Friday morning.

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“NO. I have just thought of better plan; I will send our carrier, tomorrow morning, for the chance of you being able to give the Books to him. “My dear sir “Yours very sincerely, “C. Darwin” The recipient, Richard Kippist, was the librarian of the Linnean Society; Dar- win had borrowed these books the preceding year. The same day, Darwin had written to J.D. Hooker about tabulation of variations in large and small genera. Excellent letter showing the great scientist in the midst of inquiry.

darwin to his american publishers 40. DARWIN, Charles. Autograph Letter, signed (“Ch. Darwin”), to Appleton & Co., discussing need for a new American edition of Origin, “endless small though important corrections” in the new (i.e., 5th) London ed., and holding out the prospect of his next book. 4 pp. Beckenham: 24 Nov. 1869. Small loss in top corner margin of leaves (no loss), else fine. Darwin Correspondence Project 7007. Provenance: Ralph Colp, Jr. $20,000 “Dear Sir, “I am much obliged by your note. You say that Messrs Appleton ‘would also like to have a set of stereotyped plate of new edit of Origin of Species on same terms.’ I am not sure that I understand this, for I have not permitted the Origin to be stereotyped in England. If it means that Messrs Appleton will print a new edition in Stereotype Plates or in common type which would be much preferable) I gladly agree to his terms for this edition & for my next book. “I have long earnestly wished for a new edition of the Origin in the United States, as it is 92pages longer than the 2nd edition, besides endless small though important corrections. I feel sure that the continued large sale of this book in England Germany & France has depended on my keeping up each edition to the existing standard of science. I hope I am right in supposing that Messrs. Appleton are willing to print in some form a new edition, for though unwilling to act in a disobliging manner towards them I had resolved soon to write to Professor Asa Gray to ask him to find some publisher who would print the new edition of the Origin, on condition of my supplying him with the sheets of my new book as they were printed & which book will probably have a large sale. Will you be so kind as to let me hear how the case stands; & I should like in case the answer is favorable to send in M.S. half a dozen small corrections for the Origin. I must inform you that although Mr. Murray has inserted a notice of my new book, I do not suppose it will be printed for nearly a year, although a considerable portion is ready for the press.

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“Dear Sir, “yours faithfully, “Ch. Darwin “You will understand that I cannot agree with Mr Appleton about my new book, unless he is willing to print a new edit[ion] of Origin. The price of the latter might fairly be raised a little; as Mr Murray has by 1 s. & it will be adverted as largely added to & corrected.” A fascinating letter revealing Darwin to be an author concerned with his scientific credibility and a firm negotiator able to dangle the prospect of a new book to sharpen his publisher’s appetite. The “new book” under discussion is The Descent of Man, published by Appleton in 1871 from the Murray edition. As for the American editions of Origin, Freeman notes Appleton issues in 1869 and 1870 (though the New York fifth edition is not the Murray text).

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“i never wrote so much about myself in my life” 41. DARWIN, Charles. Autograph Letter, signed (“Ch. Darwin”), to T.W. Preyer, advocate of Darwin in Germany, a substantial and ret- rospective letter. 8 pp. Beckenham: 17 Feb. 1870. Fine (some faint pencil markings in an early German hand). Darwin Correspondence Project 7112. Published by Preyer in “Briefe von Darwin”, Deutsche Rundschau 67: 356-90 (1891). Provenance: Ralph Colp, Jr., cf. his article “I never wrote so much about myself ” in Darwin Today, E. Geisler and W. Scheler, eds. (1983). $17,500 A fascinating and deeply personal letter from Charles Darwin to one of his keenest followers, T.W. Preyer, discussing the public response to Darwin’s ideas in England, the Beagle, his education, his father and grandfather, White’s Natural History of Selborne, and the influence of other scientists; and conclud- ing: “I never wrote so much about myself in my life, & I hop it may be worth your reading but I doubt.— Believe me, my dear sir, Yours sincerely, Ch. Darwin” The recipient is Thierry William Preyer (1841–1897), a noted advocate of Dar- winism, who was born in England of German parents, educated in Paris and Heidelberg (where his doctoral thesis was the first Darwinian thesis written in Germany); he was for two decades professor of physiology at Jena. “He

 James Cummins Bookseller produced a popularized translation of On the Origin of Species and a biography of his idol, Darwin, Sein Leben und Wirken (1896); in 1891 he published copies of much of his correspondence with Darwin. … Preyer’s greatest significance is his role in popularizing Darwinism in Germany … for Preyer, all his efforts were designed to gather diverse data to support the theory as proposed and demonstrated by the British interpretations” (ODNB). A rich and detailed letter with the broadest possible range of topics, to one of the key figures in the German transmission of Darwin’s ideas.

darwin to kingsley: ‘man is clearly an old-world, not an american, species’ 42. DARWIN, Charles. Autograph Letter, signed (“Charles Darwin”), to Charles Kingsley. 4 pp. 6 Feb. 1862. Fine. Darwin Correspondence Project 3439 (first half of letter at Cleveland Health Sciences Library, Dittrick Medical History Center, Archives). Provenance: Ralph Colp, Jr. $15,000 A letter to Charles Kingsley (1819–1875), novelist, Church of England clergy- man, and controversialist. Kingsley had “welcomed the publication of Dar- win’s Origin of Species in 1859 because it seemed consistent with his own idio- syncratic theory of related moral and physical evolution which he had already illustrated in an evolutionary dream sequence at the end of Alton Locke. His most enduringly popular book, The Water-Babies (1863), began as a story for his own children and an attack on the continuing employment of climbing boys to sweep chimneys. But the story sends little Tom on an evolutionary moral journey and includes incidental satiric commentary on education, fash- ion, and current affairs, as well as mockery of post-Darwinian controversies about human descent and distinctiveness and the nature of scientific evidence” (ODNB). This is the second half of a substantial letter to Kingsley on a variety of subjects, including speculations about what might be found in Sir Charles Lyell’s next book, published the following year as Antiquity of Man (1863). “[Lyell’s] Book on the relations of men & other animals; but I do not know what his recent intentions are. “It is a very curious subject, that of the old myths; but you naturally with your classical & old-world knowledge lay more stress on such beliefs, than I do with all my profound ignorance. Very odd those accounts in India of the little hairy men! It is very true what you say about the higher races of men, when high enough, replacing & clearing off the lower races. In 500 years how the Anglo-saxon race will have spread & exterminated whole nations; & in consequence how much the Human race, viewed as a unit, will have risen in rank. Man is clearly an old-world, not an American, species; & if ever intermediate forms between him & unknown Quadrumana are found, I should expect they would be found in Tropical countries, probably islands. But what a chance if ever they are discovered: look at the French beds

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with the celts, & no fragment of a human bone.— It is indeed, as you say absurd to expect a history of the early stages of man in prehistoric times.— “I hope that I have not wearied you with my scribbling & with many thanks for your letter, I remain with much respect— “Yours sincerely “Charles Darwin “As you seem to care for all departments of N. History, I send a pamphlet with a rather curious physiological case.” The postscript likely refers to his paper on the dimorphic condition in Primula (Freeman 1717) although, as the Darwin Correspondence Project records, Kingsley’s name does not appear on the presentation list. The mention of “intermediate forms” related to man is interesting for it correctly anticipates the locale for the 2003 discovery of Homo floresiensis. Kingsley was one of Darwin’s most provocative correspondents and this letter amply demonstrates the range of their exchanges.

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43. DARWIN, Charles. Autograph Letter, signed (“Chas Darwin”), to John Gould, re: plates of Birds and small Quadrupeds for Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle. 3 pp. pen and ink on folded sheet, with address in ink “Mr. Gould”. [36 Great Marlborough Street, London]: Feb 1838. Small damage to signature from removal of seal, old repair, else fine. Docketed “Charles Darwin Feb. 1838” on cover. Darwin Cor- respondence Project 401. Provenance: Ralph Colp, Jr. $17,500

“My dear Sir

“I have just seen my publisher. we have fixed to have fifty plates of birds, so will you at once take into consideration which are most worthy being done.— “Will you also oblige me by the favour of seeing Bayfield, & see whether he will undertake the birds (which are chiefly small ones) at something less than 5d a piece, as it is rather more than our estimate calculated upon.— “If he would also undertake my quadrupeds I should be very glad.— There will be about 28 plates, chiefly small animals.— See if you cannot make for me some kind of agreement to take the whole at something under 5d.— “It will be rendering me a very great assistance if you can effect this “Yours most truly “Chas DarwinA fine early letter from Darwin to ornithologist John Gould, after visiting Smith, Elder, publishers of the Zoology and the geological volumes that resulted from the voyage of the Beagle. The birds were illustrated by Gould and also George Robert Gray; they bear a note in the text, ‘The accompanying illustrations, which are fifty in number, were taken from sketches made by Mr. Gould himself, and executed in stone by Mrs. Gould.’ Darwin also asks Gould if he would intervene with his colorist, Bayfield; and discusses the nature of the illustrations of the Mammalia.

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44. (DALI, Salvador) Montaigne, Michael Eyquem de. The Essays of Michel de Montaigne. Illustrated by Salvador Dali. 472, [2] pp. 8vo, Garden City: Doubleday, 1947. First Dali edition, 622 of 1000 copies signed by the artist. Blue cloth. Fine in rubbed original black slipcase. $1,000 45. DIAMOND, David. Autograph composition, signed, in his Al- bum for the Young, for Piano Solo. Black pen and ink notation on blue ink staves. Folio, [New York], October 16, 1948. Browned and lightly soiled, very good. $1,250 Five-bar original musical composition by David Diamond, written on the contents page of his Album for the Young, for Piano Solo, for jazz great Eddie Con- don’s daughter Maggie, on her birthday, at a time when she was ill with polio. Diamond has set the following lyrics to music “Dear Maggie, Please get well real soon — You’re such a pret-ty gir l—; and ‘Happy Birthday’ and man-y of them —! “with love from David Diamond, x-16-48”. Diamond (1915-2005) is regarded as one of 20th-century America’s greatest composers.

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46. DIAZ DEL CASTILLO, Bernal. The True History of the Conquest of Mexico, by Captain Bernal Diaz del Castillo, One of the Conquerors. Writ- ten in the Year 1568. … Translated from the Original Spanish by Maurice Keatinge Esq. Frontispiece plan of the city and lake of Mexico. viii, 514 pp. 4to, London: Printed for J. Wright, 1800. First London edition. Contemporary calf, neatly rebacked with original spine laid down. Contemporary manuscript note tipped in. Bookplates and ink stamp on front pastedown. Some minor foxing, but generally quite clean internally. Very good. Sabin 18884; Palau 72373; ESTC T145951; Hill 473. $1,000 First English edition of the classic account of the Spanish conquest of Mexico, written by one of Cortes’ officers, here translated from the original Spanish by Maurice Keatinge. “This notable eyewitness account is universally accepted as the most complete and trustworthy of the various chronicles of the conquest of Mexico and Central America” (Hill). With a handsome frontispiece plan of the city and lake of Mexico. This copy from the library of Lord Ashburton.

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engraved plate for david copperfield 47. (DICKENS, Charles) Browne, Hablot K. (Phiz”). “Changes at Home.” Steel plate for David Copperfield, showing David Copperfield peering in the doorway as his mother nurses his newborn brother. The original engraved steel plate by H.K. Browne for illustration published at p. 79 of the first edition. 8 x 5 inches, Originally published in Lon- don: Chapman and Hall, 1850. Half green morocco folding case for James F. Drake, Inc. (New York), with a print from the plate and letter of authentication from the publisher. Fine condition (some rubbing to slipcase). $2,250

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This plate illustrates a classic scene from one of Dickens’ most cherished novels: “God knows how infantine the memory may have been, that was awakened within me by the sound of my mother’s voice in the old parlour, when I set foot in the hall. She was singing in a low tone. I think I must have lain in her arms, and heard her singing so to me when I was but a baby. The strain was new to me, and yet it was so old that it filled my heart brim-full; like a friend come back from a long absence. “I believed, from the solitary and thoughtful way in which my mother murmured her song, that she was alone. And I went softly into the room. She was sitting by the fire, suckling an infant, whose tiny hand she held against her neck. Her eyes were looking down upon its face, and she sat singing to it. I was so far right, that she had no other companion. “I spoke to her, and she started, and cried out. But seeing me, she called me her dear Davy, her own boy!” complete set — the webb copy 48. DOUGHTY, Thomas and John. The Cabinet of Natural History and American Rural Sports. Engraved frontispiece portraits of Charles Wilson Peale and William Bartram and engraved titles to each volume, Engraved plate in Vol III, “Death of the Fox”. With 54 hand-colored lithographs. vii, [i], 298, [2, Index] ; vii, [i], 292, [2]; 96 pp. 3 vols. 4to, Philadelphia: J. & T. Doughty, 1830-1833. First edition. Twentieth century quarter calf and Cockerel paper over boards. Sporting book labels of Samuel B. Webb. Very minor spotting to text leaves (two gatherings of vol. II quite toned); in vol. II the Wild Turkey plate is present and skillfully colored. Superficial rubbing to boards. Fine set with distinguished provenance. Phillips p. 69; Reese, American Color Plate Books, #12; Gee, Early American Sporting Books, pp.48-49; Henderson p.37; Howes D433: Litchfield 19; Bennett 35. $10,000 “A mine of information on contemporary sport and natural history” (Phillips), as well as a landmark of American publishing, issued in parts by the brothers Thomas and John Doughty. Subscriptions dwindled after Thomas departed for Boston, and the publication ceased with the 4th part of vol. III. In 1928, Eugene Connett published a selection of articles from it, Some Early American Hunters, as one of the early Derrydale Press titles. “This was the first major book issued in the United States to be illustrated with hand-colored lithographic plates, preceded only by three minor books in the 1820s ... an amalgam of natural history, sporting accounts, travel narratives, and practical advice for the countryman” (Reese). This is a complete set with good American sporting provenance, from the library of Samuel B. Webb, a Vanderbilt descendant.

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49. (DOVES PRESS) Cobden-Sanderson, T.J. The City Planned (1910), The City Metropolitan (1910), Shakespearian Pronunciation (1911), Towards an Empire of Science (1916), On a Passage in Julius Caesar (1913), Note on a Passage in Anthony and Cleopatra (1913), The New Science Museum (1914), Note on a Passage to Shelley’s Ode to Liberty (1914), Wordsworth’s Cosmic Poetry (1914). 9 vols. 8vo, [Hammersmith, London: The Doves Press, 1910-1916]. First edition, with varying limitations. Wrappers, either self wrappers or brown printed wrappers, laid into red cloth chemise. $1,500 Each signed with initials by Cobden-Sanderson and dated in year of publication on the title-page and with note in his hand “The Doves Press 9 Pa---” tipped onto TJ C-S 1912 watermarked paper.

50. (EDGEWORTH, Maria, her copy) Bound collection of French pamphlets relating to the the French Revolution, Napoleon, the Bour- bon restoration etc. 8vo, vp [chiefly, Paris]: vd [ca. 1800]. Half calf and marbled boards, spine gilt. $1,500 An important anti-Napoleon pamphlet, Vrai Sens du Vote National by Camille Jordan, is inscribed by Edgeworth: “Maria Edgeworth / A gift of the author [Camille Jordan]” “Le Visiteur du Pauvre.” Paris, 1820. inscribed, “Maria Edgeworth / From the Author / June 182[--]” “Des Moyens Mis en Usage par Henri IV.” Paris, 1815. inscribed, “Maria Edge- worth / the gift of M. Pastoret / July 1816” in Edgeworth’s hand With a ms table of contents, in Edgeworth’s hand, bound at the front.

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an alken classic, in original boards — dixon copy 51. [EGAN, Pierce]. Real Life in Ireland; or, The Day and Night Scenes, Rovings, Rambles, and Sprees, Bulls, Blunders, Bodderation, and Blarney, of Brian Boru, Esq. and his elegant friend Sir Shawn O’Dogherty … by a Real Paddy. Hand-colored frontispiece by William Heath, 18 hand-colored plates by Henry Alken and others. vii-[viii], [2], [5]-296 pp. At foot of p. 296: J. M’Gowan and Son, Great Windmill Street. 8vo, London: Print- ed by B. Bensley, Bolt Court, Fleet Street. Published by Jones and Co., 3, Warwick Square; and J. L. Marks, Piccadilly, 1821 [i.e., 1822]. First edition, issue in book form. Original pictorial boards (frontispiece repeated in black), with “Being a sequel to Egan’s Real life in London.” stamped on the bottom of the front cover, uncut. Spine and joints re- paired. Bookplate of Fitz Eugene Dixon. In red half morocco slipcase and chemise. Abbey Life 282; Tooley 201; Garside 1821:32; Loeber E101; Dixon sale (1937), lot 180, “Very Rare in this state” (this copy). $3,750 This sequel to Egan’s Real Life in London was issued in 18 parts (known from a single copy in the J.R. Abbey collection) with plates dated variously in 1821 and 1822, as well as several undated plates. The present copy, in the publisher’s illustrated boards, is from the Fitz Eugene Dixon library, the greatest pre-war collection of Alken books, prints, and drawings. Rare.

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to trujillo, re her coronation 52. ELIZABETH II, Queen of England. Letter of State signed (“Eliz- abeth R”), as Queen, with seal, to the President of the Dominican Re- public concerning her recent coronation. Two pages, on two conjugate leaves of stationery, edges gilt, with gilt-embossed royal crest at head. Folio, “Our Court of Saint James’s”, July 30, 1953. Fine, in custom folding case. $3,000 This letter is dated only a month after Elizabeth’s highly anticipated and, for the first time, highly publicized coronation, which came more than a year after King George VI’s death. It was attended by representatives from nations around the world, as well as by many less prestigious viewers as well, being

 Fall Miscellany Catalogue 107 the first to be televised. This letter concerns the choice of Secretary of State Don Manuel de Moya Alonza as a representative of the Dominican Republic at the coronation ceremony, under President Hector Bienvenido Trujillo Mo- lina. Trujillo was elected unopposed the previous year to succeed his brother Raphael Leonidas Trujillo Molina, who had acted as dictator since 1930. This act of faux democracy left the elder Trujillo with the ultimate power over the country until his assassination in 1961. None of this comes through in the letter, which exhibits polite esteem for the leader on the part of the newly crowned Elizabeth Queen: “We have received the Letter which You addressed to Us on the Eleventh day of May the last, and in which You informed Us that, being desirous of manifesting in a special manner Your interest in the solemnity of Our Coronation, You have made choice of His Excellency General Don Manuel de Moya Alonza, Secretary of State without Portfolio, as Head of the Special Mission charged with the representation of the Dominican Republic at the ceremonies held on this occasion…We hasten to thank you for the sentiments of congratulation and goodwill to which You have thus given expression. We think it is due to General de Moya Alonzo and his colleagues to assure You that in the discharge of the Mission thus entrusted to them, their conduct has been such as to merit Our entire approbation and esteem and has been in full accordance with Our earnest desire for the maintenance and still further improvement of the relations of friendship and good understanding which so happily subsist between Our Realm and the Dominican Republic. And so we commend You to the protection of the Almighty.” It is rare to find a Letter of State signed by Queen Elizabeth II and extremely rare to find one concerning her coronation, which took place on June 2, 1953. An exceptional letter.

the theory of acting: extremely rare copy with hand-colored plates 53. ENGEL, Johann Jacob. Idées sur le geste et l’action théatrale; … suiv- ies d’une lettre, du même auteur, sur la peinture musicale. Le tout traduit de l’allemand. Avec trente-quatre planches. 34 finely etched plates by Co- pia, exquisitely colored by a contemporary hand. [4], 324; [4], 295. 2 vols. 8vo, Paris: Chez Barrois, 1788-1789. First edition in French. Contemporary tan polished calf, triple gilt-filet borders, smooth spines richly gilt with 2 black leather spine label, by Bozerien jeune. Cohen- De Ricci 346-347; Brunet III 982; Magriel, p. 179. $8,000 An extremely rare, if not unique copy of Engel’s classic treatise on acting, with the plates colored by hand. This is the very scarce first French edition of Engel’s famous Ideen Zu Einer Mimik, first printed in German in 1785-86, and one of the most important works on the theory and psycho-physiology of acting. Engel (1741-1802) was a German philosopher who was professor

 James Cummins Bookseller of moral philosophy in the Joachimstal Gymnasium in Berlin, and, following that, tutor to the crown prince of Prussia, the future Frederik William III. In 1787 he became director of the Royal Theater in Berlin, where he wrote many plays which enjoyed considerable success, as well as many essays on aesthetic subjects. One of a very few copies with hand-colored plates.

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a petition for benefits, from five of handel’s stars 54. (ENGLISH OPERA) [Heidegger, John Jakob, impresario]?. Man- uscript Petition (possibly in Heidegger’s hand), to Vice-Chamberlain thomas coke, from 5 leading opera singers of the Queen’s Theatre, Haymarket, to “regulate the order of our benefit days”, signed by: (1) jane barbier’s guardian, Steph[en] Robinson; (2) caterina galerati; (3) j.c. pepusch for “Miss Margherita” [margherita de l’epine]; anastasia robinson’s father, Thomas Robinson; and castrato valentino urbani. One page in ink on first leaf recto of a single sheet of laid paper; verso of second leaf docketed in an early hand in ink. “The managers of the opera relating to their Benefit Days | March 16th 1713”. Folio, [London]: March 16, 1713 [but 1714?]. Slight soiling, a few eearly ink smudges, a few recent pencil notes (e.g., “This document in the Au- tograph of Heidegger”). Overall, very good, a handsome document. Milhous & Hume, Vice-Chamberlain Coke’s Theatrical Papers, 1706-1715, No. 134 (citing transcriptions from Winston, p. 44, and Drexel MS, fol. 115; item 210 in the 1876 Winston Sale catalogue; and 711 in the 1905 sale catalogue). $3,000 “We underwritten beg the favour of you to regulate the order of our benefit days which by contracts are intirely [sic] left to your decision. And we promise to submit our selfs with all humility to the order you will be pleased to give. [Signed by the above].” From the important papers of Thomas Coke (1674-1727), who, beginning in 1706, served as Vice-Chamberlain under Queen Anne, and whose duties included the regulation of the London theater and opera. Coke’s duties included the “… outfitting and staffing of royal palaces, travel arrangements for royal progresses, security, and the routine business associated with the chamberlain’s regulation of the London theatres. Indeed, Coke’s theatre papers are a major source for understanding the sometimes bewildering shifts in the management of the London theatre and opera companies during the reign of Queen Anne …” (ODNB). As Milhous and Hume write, “The Coke papers are an immense addition to our knowledge of the exciting period of London theatre history in which Vanbrugh opened the Haymarket theatre, Italian opera came to England, and the Triumvirate management of Wilks, Cibber, and Booth took over at Drury Lane” (Preface). Coke’s papers (once owned by James Winston and partially transcribed by him) were dispersed at auction in 1876, but they are crucial to an understanding of this period of English theater, and many are known to exist only by transcriptions of the originals, which, like this one until now, have since disappeared. It was during this era that Italian opera was being introduced to the English public at Sir John Vanbrugh’s Queen’s Theater in Haymarket. It was there, for example that Handel’s Rinaldo premiered, and it was there that many of the

 James Cummins Bookseller singers whose autographs appear on this petition to Coke made their reputa- tions and became among the most celebrated singers in England. The petition was written only a little over a month after Handel’s ode on the birthday of Queen Anne on February 2; and it is signed by the celebrated castrato, Valen- tino Urbani; Margherita de L’Epine (d, 1746; “a linchpin of London’s operatic stage” — ODNB), signed here for her by her accompanist and future husband, the composer J.C. Pepusch (composer of The Beggar’s Opera); the contralto Jane Barbier (fl. 1711-1740; “made her first stage appearance with the opera company at the Queen’s Theatre in the Italian pasticcio Almahide in Novem- ber 1711” — ODNB) and for whom Handel composed a part in his birthday Ode to Queen Anne; the famous Anastasia Robinson (d.1755), whose father Thomas Robinson, the blind painter, signed for her here; and Caterina Gal- erati, another star from this critical era of musical theatre in England.

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magnificent colored plates 55. (EROTICA) 1775. Année Galante ou Étrenne à l’amour. Contes! En- richis de Figures et d’ariettes. 41 leaves, comprising: hand-colored engraved title, 12 hand-colored engraved erotic plates heightened with gum arabic (one for each month), and 28 leaves of text (Airs et Contes) entirely engraved on rectos of stiff cards. 11 x 7H (cards); 6H x 4 (plate- marks), [Bruxelles: 1876]. Reprint (second edition) of the original 1775 edition. One leaf of text (No. XII AIR) slightly foxed, otherwise a fine set in a contemporary quarter morocco portfolio (slightly worn). Gay I, 227. $1,500 “In this reimpression, the engravings are the same, but the text is slightly different … in a few copies, the plates are colored …” (Gay). An excellent copy of this charming erotic suite, with lovely coloring.q

56. (ETRUSCAN WRITING) [Amaduzzi, Giovanni Cristoforo]. Al- phabetum Veterum Etruscorum et Nonnulla Eorumdem Monumenta. Wood- cut device on title. 37, [1] pp. Small 8vo, Rome: Typis. Sac. Congre- gationis de Propag. Fide, 1771. First edition. Contemporary Italian decorated paper boards, calf spine. Two small circular library stamps on title page. Fine, beautiful copy. $1,250

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“… if ever there was an organic being, it was holmes” 57. FRANKFURTER, Felix. Three Letters (2 Autograph, 1 Typed), signed (“Felix” & “FF) to various recipients (Thomas Corcoran, Ben- jamin Cohen, and Harold Laski), praising Corcoran’s speech on OW Holmes, Jr. [with:] Autograph Letter, signed (“Tom”) from Thomas G. Corcoran to his father, enclosing these three Frankfurter letters. On Harvard Law School and personal letterhead. Various sizes, Cam- bridge, Mass, v.d., ca. April, 1936. . $1,500 Collection of letters praising an address delivered by Thomas G. Corcoran in April 1936 before the Harvard Law School Association on the topic of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Corcoran was a former student of Frankfurter’s at Har- vard and had clerked for Justice Holmes in the 1920s. Frankfurter writes to congratulate and praise Corcoran: “ … The School is humming with your achievement: both faculty and students had their horizons stretched and their souls invigorated. It was a moral and esthetic triumph. I cannot adequately tell you the pride I feel in you.”

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In a letter to Benjamin Cohen, another former student, Frankfurter implores him to have Corcoran dictate his speech before it is lost: “The place has been buzzing about it ever since, both Faculty and Students. It was an extraordinary psychological analysis of the workshop of Holmes’ mind, and, of course, a penetrating interpretation of the whole man. For if ever there was an organic being, it was Holmes. And the thing had beauty and loveliness. In conception and execution it was a truly beautiful performance. It can’t be recaptured. But I am appealing to you to have Tom rescue as much as can be rescued … please do make Tom dictate just for one straight hour all that he can remember …” Frankfurter writes to Harold Laski, an English political scientist who had taught at Harvard: “Just to tell you that not since Holmes spoke here, at 250th has anyone so moved Faculty & students as did Tom at Law Review Dinner …” Finally, a remarkably modest Autograph Note from Corcoran to his father, forwarding the three Frankfurter letters: “… I don’t quite remember what I said. I talked without notes — but it seemed to go over well. Here are three letters — to Ben, to Harold Laski and to me from FF. A prejudiced judge — but you may enjoy reading them …”

gambetta’s love for the american republic 58. GAMBETTA, Léon-Michel. Autograph Letter, signed (“Gam- betta Père”) to an unknown correspondent regarding his love for “la Grande République américaine.” One page, in ink, on a single folded sheet of blank stationery. Nice, June 12, 1881. Fine, in a red cloth folder. $1,250 Upon the death of the great French statesman, leader of the opposition to Napoléon III, and champion of the French Republic (1838-1882), the New York Times obituary (Jan. 2, 1883) wrote: “The energy, patriotism, and statesman- ship of Léon Gambetta made the French Republic.” In this note toward the end of his life, Gambetta writes [in our translation]:

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“From a very early age I have loved the great American republic. My son and I have contributed a bit to the foundation of the French Republic. It is my most solemn wish that the French Republic become as strong and prosperous as her elder sister, the Republic of the United States.”

‘obey no man … fear no man’: godwin’s ‘political justice’ in boards 59. GODWIN, William. An Enquiry concerning Political Justice, and its influence on General Virtue and Happiness. [xxvi], 1-368; [xxviii], [379]-895 pp. 2 vols. 4to (9 x 11H inches), London: Printed for G.G. J. and J. Rob- inson, 1793. First edition. Original drab boards, uncut. Bookplates of Joseph Robertson Raines, 1834. First and last leaves with old traces of soiling (from short endsheets), last leaf of vol. I wrinkled; paper flaws in margins of first and last leave of vol. II (not affecting text). Joints cracked but sound, head of spine a bit rough (small loss), a few flaws in the paper covering the boards. Cloth folding box. All in all, a beautiful copy. PMM 243; Rothschild 1016; Adams, Radical Literature in America 40; Goldsmiths Library 15825; Kress B2529. $22,500 ‘… it is the property of truth to be fearless.’ The great work by English political thinker William Godwin, whose carefully reasoned tract appeared in a time of political uncertainty and panic, and chal- lenged the basic assumptions of British political life while rejecting violence, coercion, and despotism. Godwin (1756–1836) was the literary heart of Eng- lish radicalism for the next several decades: he wrote Things as They Are, or, The Adventures of Caleb Williams (1794), the first of several novels; married the pioneering feminist Mary Wollstonecraft in early 1797; educated their daughter Mary, (the future author of Frankenstein) and a whole brood other children dependent upon him; and inspired Percy Shelley. Godwin’s Enquiry “was an immediate success, establishing Godwin as the undaunted champion of philosophical enquiry, private judgment, and public benevolence” (ODNB). ”… one of the earliest, the clearest, and most absolute theoretical expositions of socialist and anarchist doctrine…” (Printing and the Mind of Man). It directly provoked the Rev. Thomas Malthus to write his Essay on the Principle of Popula- tion (1798). Rare thus, uncut and unpressed, in original condition.

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60. (GRABHORN PRESS) Aesop. The Subtyl Historyes and Fables of Esope. Translated Out of Frensshe in to Englysshe By William Caxton at Westmynstre in the Yere of oure Lorde mcccc. lxxxiii. Illustrated in colors and heightened in gold, with initials in color, by Valenti Angelo. [viii], 167, [1] pp. 8vo, San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1930. One of 200 copies. Inscribed “To Al Williams from his brother printer E. Grab- horn.” Full original red morocco, fore and bottom edges uncut. In slipcase. unusually fine. Grabhorn Bibliography 142. $1,100

61. GRAUPNER, Gottlieb. Rudiments of the Art of Playing on the Piano Forte: containing elements of music, preliminary remarks on fingering with examples, thirty fingered lessons, and a plain direction for tuning. Arranged by Gottlieb Graupner. Engraved title and 40 pp. of engraved music. Folio, Boston: Printed and sold by G. Graupner, [1806]. First edition, second state. Bound in quarter contemporary calf and marbled boards, with red morocco label on upper cover “Charlotte Pierce No.1.” Joints rubbed, front joint starting. Some contemporary pencil fingerings throughout, a few leaves with chips and tears at margins, one leaf of sheet music with large horizontal tear. Very good. Shaw & Shoemaker 50544; Wolfe, R.J. Secular Music, 3202A [4 locations: DLC-badly mu- tilated, JFD, MWA (lacking pp. 1-6) and NN (lacking pp. 1-4, 23-24)]. $1,500

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Possibly the first original piano method published in America, heavily indebt- ed to Clementi and containing an introduction to theory, a dictionary of Ital- ian music terms, scales and exercises, advice on tuning, and short pieces by Handel, Haydn, Bach and other composers. Graupner (1767-1836) was born in Germany, played under Haydn’s baton in London, and immigrated to America in 1795. He established a conservatory in Boston and was that city’s principal music publisher in the early 19th-century. “Graupner’s influence on the musical life of Boston was considerable” (Grove). His piano method went into several editions and was widely used. We can locate only one piano method that may have been published previous to Graupner’s in America, an anonymous work of considerably less import titled A New and Complete Instructor for Piano Forte, [1802?] - Wolfe 4495 (see “American Music, 1801 - 1830, in Shaw-Shoemaker” (American Music Bibliogra- phy, V) D. W. Krummel). Bound with the following early American piano sheet music, published by Graupner: The Village Holy Day. Wolfe 7146; A Canadian Boat Song. Wolfe 5931; Snatch Fleeting Pleasures. Cf. Wolfe 6433 (variant first line and imprint, not noted in Wolfe); President Monroe’s March ... by M. Gilles Senr. Wolfe 3111; Washing- ton Benevolent Society’s March, Wolfe 9614, second state; Boston Cadet’s March. Wolfe 981; Bonaparte’s March. Not in Wolfe; Belisle March with Variations. Not in Wolfe; A Favorite Waltz. Wolfe 9579; German Waltz. Wolfe 2977a, second state; A Favorite Sonata Composed by Mr. Dusseck. Wolfe 2626.

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“old grimes” - a manuscript 62. [GREENE, Albert Gorton]. Autograph Manuscript, unsigned, fair copy, of his poem “Old Grimes.” 3 pages on a single bifolium, in ink. 4to, N.p. [Providence, RI?], n.d. [before 1868]. Fine. With light pencilled comment at top “A.G. Greene of Providence”. John L. Harri- son, “The Author of Old Grimes”, in The Scrapbook, Vol. 3, pp. 605-607. $2,000 Written anonymously by a 20-year-old Brown University student, A.G. Greene (1802-1868), and first published in a student newspaper in 1823, “Old Grimes” quickly became part of the popular folklore of the nation, and, when set to music, one of the country’s most familiar songs. Greene’s poem was not published in book form until 1867, with illustrations by Augustus Hoppins. By then, Greene had acknowledged his authorship of the entire poem, with the exception of the first stanza -- which was know to him as a familiar refrain or nursery rhyme, and which he used as a lead-in to the rest of the poem. The first stanza reads: “Old Grimes is dead; that good old man; “We never shall see more “He used to wear a long black coat “All buttoned down before.” A rare piece of American popular culture, indeed.

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one of 100 copies 63. HEATH, David. A Dialogue With Solitude. 82 black-and-white photographs. 4to, [Toronto]: Lumière Press, 2000. Limited signed edition, number 55 of 100 copies, signed and numbered on the title-page. With signed and numbered photogravure print, “Vengeful Sister, Chicago, 1956”. Fine, in slipcase with small split at lower edge. Parr/Badger II, p. 104 (for 1st ed.). $1,500

64. HESSE, Heinrich. Neue Garten-Lust: das ist Gründliche Vorstel- lung wie ein Lust-Küchen und Baum Garten unter unserem Teutschen Cli- mate füglich anzurichten. Title page printed in red and black. With 10 engraved (2 folding) plates. Collation: )(4 A-3I4. Pp. [1-8] (title, preface, signed “Theodorus Phytologus”), 1-416 (text), [i-xxiv] (three registers, i.e., table of contents and two indexes). Small 4to, [Leipzig]: Moriss Georg Weidmann, 1690. First edition. Contemporary vellum. Owner signature of “D:E: v Stiedtencron” on the title-page lower right, “H v. Stiedencron” on front flyleaf. Small piece of bottom corner of front flyleaf torn away, a couple of minor paper flaws in margins, a very good, fresh copy of an uncommon book. OCLC records 3 existing

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65. (HOENTSCHEL, Georges) Collections Georges Hoentschel acquises par M.J. Pierpont Morgan et offertes au Metropolitan Museum de New-York. Notices de André Pératé et Gaston Brière. Illustrated. 4 vols. Folio (18 x 12H inches), Paris: Librairie Centrale des Beaux-Arts, 1908. Laid into original brown portfolios and then into quarter brown morocco and cloth clamshell boxes. $2,000 An important and beautiful catalogue. George Hoentschel was a French architect, interior decorator, ceramicist, and collector of 18th-century decorative and medieval art. The magnificent collection he assembled was acquired by J.P. Morgan, who later gave it to the Metropolitan Museum of Art where it became the foundation of the museum’s Department of European Decorative Arts – and world famous. For the purchase, description and installation of this collection, cf. the Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, June 1907; July and August, 1908; March, 1910.

pine’s horace 66. HORACE. Quinti Horatii Flacci. Opera. Frontispiece, [14], [265]; frontispiece, [6], 191, [46] pp. With complete engraved list of European subscribers, beginning with Frederick, Prince of Wales. Engraved by Pine throughout with text, plates, portraits, vignettes, and initials. 2 vols. 8vo, London: Iohannes Pine, 1733; 1737. First Pine edition, second issue, with “potest” in medallion, p. 108, v. II. Full contemporary French red morocco, spines gilt stamped with floral and leaf tools in six compartments, covers tooled with triple-fillet border with small sun tool at corners, turn-ins gilt with flower and pomegranate roll and

 James Cummins Bookseller double fillet, a.e.g., marbled endpapers, green silk markers. Fine. Roth- schild 1548; Ray, Illustrator and the Book In England, p. 3; De Ricci- Co- hen, pp. 497-8; Brunet III, p. 320. Provenance: William G. Mack (two bookplates); Reverend Stephen Marshall, D.D., Glasgow (gift inscription “from his brother Thomas 10th April, 1815. Malta” on first text page of vol. II); H.D. Lyon (compliment slips laid-in). $3,500 The pinnacle of Augustan book illustration, in a fine French binding of the period. “Pine’s complete command of his craft makes this the most elegant of English eighteenth-century books in which text and illustrations alike are entirely engraved” (Ray).

67. HORACE. Quinti Horatii Flacci. Opera. Frontispiece, engraved dedication leaf, 35 engraved plates. [ii], vi, [iv], 166; [ii], 167-353, [1] pp. 2 vols. 8vo, London: Gul. Sandby, 1749. Royal 8vo issue. Full contemporary French green morocco, spine with raised bands in six compartments, gilt with floral tools, red morocco lettering piece and volume label, covers with triple fillet, gilt turn-ins, a.e.g., marbled endpapers. Fine. Bookplates. Lowndes, p. 1114. $1,500 Sandby also issued a 12mo set of Horace the same year, as well as uniform editions of Terence and Virgil.

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68. (JEFFERSON, Thomas) Kimball, Fiske. Thomas Jefferson Archi- tect. Original Designs in the Collection of Thomas Coolidge, Junior with an Essay and Notes by Fiske Kimball. [viii], 205; xi pp with frontispiece and 233 facsimiles of drawings on 99 pages. With tipped-in printed dedication sheet signed by Clara A. Coolidge. Folio, Boston: Printed for Private Distribution at the Riverside Press, 1916. First edition, one of 350 copies printed for Clara Amory Coolidge. Original tan buckram and green paper over boards, paper label. Minor dampstain at the lower edges of several early leaves, else Very Good. Bookplate. Roos 2705; Garrett, p. 53. $2,250 A rare and important work, based on Thomas Jefferson Coolidge, Jr’s collection of Jefferson’s architectural drawings. “No one today can hope to understand the full scope of Jefferson’s work without knowledge of Kimball’s monumental book Thomas Jefferson Architect” (O’Neal, “Checklist of writings on Thomas Jefferson as an architect”).

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69. (JONES, John Paul) Haid, Johann Elias, engraver. Mezzotint portrait entitled “Johann Paul Iones. Befehlshaber einer Schwadron in Diensten der 13. Vereinigten Provinzen von Nord-Amerika. 1779,” after an anonymous artist; signed in the plate “J.E. Haid Sculp.” 14 x 10G inches, sight, Augsburg: J.J. Haid und Sohn, n.d. [c. 1779]. Matted and framed. Provenance: Estate of Viscount David Eccles. $4,500 Jones is depicted three-quarter length, in uniform, cradling a telescope in his right arm. To the rear are a towering cliff and a burning ship. Jones is considered America’s most famous naval hero even though the British called him a pirate because of his raids along the Irish coast. His greatest victory was the capture of the British Serapis by his flagship Bonhomme Richard in 1779. The Augsburg family of Haid and sons specialized in the mezzotint portrait – and were closely associated with works by the Ridingers, also of Augsburg (see item 98 below).

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“and my hobby to leave letters unanswered if i can help it” 70. JUNG, C.G. Autographed card entitled “for autograph purpose only”, signed and dated (“C.G. Jung-Sept 19th 1951”), with an Auto- graph Sentiment on verso. In ink, on stiff card. 4H x 3H inches, np: 1951. In gray cloth folder. $1,000 Jung has penned the following note: “And my hobby is to leave letters unanswered if I can help it.”

binding by claudia cohen 71. KOCH, Rudolf. Die Schriftgiesserei im Schattenbild. Wie bei Gebr. Klingspor in Offenbach a.M. eine Druckschrift entsteht. Title leaf, 23 silhouette plates printed in black with text in red, colophon leaf. Oblong 8vo, Offenbach am Main: Gebr. Klingspor, [1936]. Second edition, originally published in 1918. One of ten copies bound thus from original sheets. Full black morocco gilt, boards ruled in gilt and in blind about a central silhouette of a printer as his press inlaid in red, spine with red morocco label, pastepaper endsheets, by Claudia Cohen. As new in cloth folding box with red morocco gilt label. $1,000 Koch’s classic visual account of the production cycle of a book, from desk to typefoundry to printing press to warehouse to the publisher’s accounting office. A few sets of the original sheets from the 1936 printing survived. Finely bound by a modern American master binder.

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woodrow wilson’s secretary of state 72. (LANSING, Robert) Portrait Photograph of Secretary of State Robert Lansing and his colleagues, Wilbur J. Carr, Breckinridge Long, Alvey A. Ader, and one other, signed in ink on the mount. 9H x 7H inches, Washington, D.C: Harris & Ewing, n.d., ca. 1915. On the photographer’s printed mount. Fine. Tan morocco backed folding case. $1,250 Robert Lansing (1864-1928) was confirmed as Woodrow Wilson’s Secretary of State in June 1915 and served until 1920. This is an informal group portrait at the State Department, depicting Lansing before a cabinet of maps and sur- rounded by junior associates Wilbur J. Carr, Breckinridge Long, and Alvey A. Ader, one of the old guard of the Department of State.

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73. LANSKY, Bernard. Collection of forty original comics for his syn- dicated comic strip, “Seventeen.” Pen and ink on card, printed title strip affixed above image, captioned in ink and/or printed label below the image, each signed (“Lansky”), and dated. Approximately 8 x 6 inches, n.p., published by Mirror Enterprises Co, from September 19, 1957 to November 12, 1958. Some adhesive stains, not affecting images. Gen- erally near fine. Housed in binder and slipcase. $2,500 Forty original one-panel comics from the early years of Bernard Lansky’s (1924-2005) popular “Seventeen” series, featuring seventeen-year-old Sheldon, his parents, his girlfriend Lori, and best friend Tank. The jokes tend to revolve around Sheldon’s TV addiction, aversion to homework, parental conflict, and, of course, girl troubles. “Seventeen” ran from 1955 to 1976.

signed 74. LARTIGUE, Jacques Henri. Diary of a Century … Edited by Rich- ard Avedon. Designed by Bea Feitler. B/w photographs throughout, unpaginated. Folio, New York: The Viking Press, [1970]. First edition. Publisher’s brown cloth, near fine, in embossed gold-paper dust jacket, worn at folds chipped at spine ends, creased and scratched as usual, price-clipped. Roth 101, pp. 200-1; Hasselblad, pp. 264-5. $1,250 Signed, “J.H. Lartigue [sun]” on the title-page.

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the ambassador’s library, bound ‘in morocco’ on the barbary coast 75. (LEAR, Tobias) Collection of six classic works, uniformly bound in North Africa, comprising the travelling library of Tobias Lear, American diplomat. In all, 45 vols. 8vo, [v.p., 1789-1803]. Uniformly bound in contemporary red morocco Islamic bindings (described further below). Some light wear to bindings. Bookplate of Benjamin Lin- coln Lear, Tobias Lear’s son, on front pastedown of each volume. Con- tents described in detail below. Very good. $35,000 The forty-five volume travelling library of American diplomat Tobias Lear, comprising six classic histories, and literally bound in morocco during his time as consul general in Algiers between 1803 and 1812. Lear (1762-1816) is best known for the time he spent as General Washing- ton’s personal secretary (1786-1793 and 1798-1799). He formed a close rela- tionship with Washington and his family — he was married successively to two of Washington’s nieces. Upon Washington’s death, Lear spent nearly two years sorting out the general’s affairs. The ANB states that “controversy over his handling of the general’s papers, some of which disappeared during this period, would hound Lear the rest of his life.” After a brief term in Saint Domingue “Lear was offered the position of consul general to the Barbary Coast. His task was, with the support of U.S. warships, to negotiate treaties with the Barbary regencies. He experienced success in his dealings with Morocco and Algiers. His negotiations with Tripoli, however, were greatly complicated by the efforts of William Eaton to foment a revolution that would restore the former ruler of Tripoli to his throne and by the Tripolitan seizure of the USS Philadelphia and her crew of three hundred. After two years of negotiations, Lear signed an agreement with the Pasha on 4 June 1805” (ANB). Lear remained in Algiers until 1812, and faced criticism upon his return to Washington. The library, comprising standard historical works, has been bound in red morocco, in an Islamic-style wallet binding. Each is tooled in blind, the covers stamped with three floral medallions, and the borders tooled with a blind roll. The tooling and structure are typical of north African bindings of the period (most commonly seen on Qur’ans and manuscript prayer books). The author’s name and volume number have been written on the spine in contemporary ink, presumably by either Lear or his son, whose bookplate is inside each volume. The titles are as follows: 1) Hume, David: The History of England. from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution in 1688. Basil, 1789. 12 volumes. A new edition. Original plain blue wrappers bound in. Very minor scattered foxing, generally quite bright and clean. Very minor worming to lower margin of final volume.

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2) Smollett, Tobias: The History of England. from the Revolution to the Death of George the Second. (Designed as a continuation of Mr. Hume’s history). Basil. 1794. 8 volumes. Original plain blue wrappers bound in. Light dampstaining to volumes two and four; minor dampstaining to volume six. Minor foxing. Some very minor worming to lower margin of volume two. 3) Robertson, William: The History of the Reign of the Emperor Charles V …. Basil. 1793. 4 volumes. A new edition. Original plain blue wrappers bound in. Tobias Lear’s signature on title page of each volume. Some light dampstaining to first volume. Minor foxing. 4) Steuart, James: An Inquiry into the Principles of Political Economy. Being an Essay on the Science of Domestic Policy in Free Nations …. Basil. 1796. 5 volumes. Original plain blue wrappers bound in. Minor foxing. 5) Gibbon, Edward: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. London. 1802. 12 volumes. A new edition. Original plain blue wrappers bound in. Light foxing and toning. 6) Robertson, William: The History of America. London. 1803. 4 volumes. Tenth edition. Original plain blue wrappers bound in. Minor foxing. Tobias Lear’s signature on title-page of first volume. An unique and widely-traveled collection of books, formed by an important American diplomat, and bound for him in Algiers.

(See illustration on inside rear cover.)

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fine friendship album – with a peacock drawn by the young edward lear 76. LEAR, Edward. Drawing of a peacock, signed in pencil (“Lear”) in the image. Pencil and watercolor on card, in a young lady’s com- monplace album of the early nineteenth century. 120 leaves, with autograph poems and verse extracts in diverse hands, chiefly in ink, with more than 40 ink, pencil, and watercolor drawings on botanical and architectural subjects, three pencil portraits, as well as autograph musical compositions, and a few inserted engravings. 4to (240 x 185 mm.), England, ca. 1824-1832. Contemporary green straight-grained morocco, covers elaborately tooled in gilt and blind around a central ruled panel with corner pieces, and gilt-titled “g. m. gwilt,” within gilt floral device, spine gilt-tooled in six compartments and decorated with gilt rose and ship devices, inner dentelles in gilt and blind, a.e.g. on the rough. Spine ends and corners slightly rubbed; old repair to inner hinges. Provenance: Georgiana Matilda Gwilt, the compiler, daughter of George Gwilt the younger (1775-1856), architect in a noted family of architects; Charles M. Hutt (twentieth-century book label). $7,500 An outstanding early nineteenth century friendship album, complete as formed by a young lady, Georgiana Matilda Gwilt, over the years (without excisions), and containing a superbly executed and fanciful peacock, signed by the young artist, edward lear (1812–1888). “Lear served an unofficial apprenticeship with the ornithologist Prideaux Selby who, between 1821 and 1834, published Illustrations of British Ornithology. … The gardens of the Zoological Society of London were opened in 1829, and in June 1830 Lear applied to make drawings of the parrots there” (ODNB). The original drawings and watercolors are by amateur artists, often of considerable skill. The most accomplished include a still life of shells, watercolors of Blenheim Palace, the Temple of Erechtheion, and an “Ancient Font in Holdenfurst Church,” views of unidentified Ruins, and, interestingly, the Ladye Chapel, Southwark Cathedral, restored by Miss Gwilt’s father: “while strengthening the foundations of the church [Gwilt] discovered the remains of the original Norman building. From 1822 to 1825 he supervised the restoration of the choir and tower of Southwark Cathedral, and later (1832–3) he restored the lady chapel” (ODNB). The album also contains her father’s armorial bookplate. On the last two pages of the album are the wax seals and signatures “chang” and “eng”, the conjoined twins, born in Siam in 1811, whose career gave the world the phrase “Siamese twins”. In 1830, when the inscription was made in Miss Gwilt’s album, the twins were in the midst of a world tour. The album contains a lock of hair in a twist of blue ribbon, identified in an unknown hand

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(Miss Gwilt’s?) as, “Presented by our friends the Siamese Youths, 20th of April 1830.”

(See illustration on front cover.)

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state of the french government: louis xvi attempts reform, 1776-8 77. (LOUIS XVI) Manuscript Document: “Etat des gouvernemens tant généraux que particuliers et des Etats Majors du Royaume déter- minés par le Roi Louis XVI suivant l’Ordonnance de sa Majesté du 18 mars 1776.” Pages ruled in green and brown borders. [5], 101, [4] ff. 8vo, 1778. Contemporary dark brown morocco gilt, arms of Louis XVI on upper and lower covers within gilt ruled borders with fleurs-de- lys at corners, spine gilt with fleurs-de-lys, morocco label, a.e.g. Short start in foot of upper joint, else fine. Bookplates of Mortimer L. Schiff, Henry du Rosnel, and three others. $12,500 In a law dated 18 March 1776, Louis XVI attempted to rationalize the organi- zation of provincial governments, and the present manuscript is the resulting report on the actual ranks and classes of the various provincial government

 Fall Miscellany Catalogue 107 officials. The principal governors are listed by name, with emoluments, and the ranks and numbers of subordinate officials are also noted. The principality of Monaco, a French protectorate, gives genealogical information in addition to the names and fiscal details. The government of Corsica is described as the last of the second class provinces (ff. 99-101). The manuscript includes a table of contents for the provinces and concludes with six pages of financial sum- maries. This volume is of particular interest as it documents the French military and civil hierarchy on the eve of French involvement in the American Revolu- tion. Notable figures with connections to the French participation include the Maréchal le Duc de Broglie, governor of Metz, who refused Lafayette’s request to join. The Duc de Broglie was also patron of the Baron de Kalb. The Duc de Noailles, governor of the royal house at Saint-Germain-en-Laye, was the grandfather of Lafayette’s wife. The comte de Rochambeau, not named here, was appointed in 1776 as governor of Villefranche; his rank is given as Major-Commandant, 2,600 livres. Rare and beautiful, and dense with information on French administrative practice under the ancien régime.

“ … will probably undertake a mad publishing venture in a few months” 78. LUCE, Henry R. Autograph Letter, signed, to Henry Justin Smith, Managing Editor of the Chicago Daily News, who gave Luce his first job as a cub reporter. 4 pp., on a single folded sheet of “Manhattan Club, Madison Square” stationery. 8vo, [New York]: n.d. [ca. 1922]. $1,750 A remarkable letter from the founder of Time and Life Magazine to his first employer. When Henry Luce graduated from Yale in 1920, he had been the editor of the Yale Daily News, along with his friend Briton Hadden. Upon their graduation, Hadden went to work for the New York World, while Luce went to Oxford to continue his education. During his travels in Europe, Luce met his future wife Lila Hotz, of Chicago, and upon his return to the States he followed her to the Chicago area in search of work. He found it , for a brief while, at the Chicago Daily News, where he had a job as an assistant to Ben Hecht, who was then a young columnist. That association didn’t work out, and on Hecht’s recommendation, Luce was let go. Upon his return to the East coast, he and Hadden teamed up again at the Baltimore News, and it was during this period that the two worked out their plan to publish a weekly news magazine. On March 3, 1923 the first issue of Time hit the news stands, revolutionizing the publishing industry, and laying the foundation for today’s colossus of the industry. Luce never forgot his time in Chicago, however, and it is right around this time, just before launching Time, that he writes to his old boss, Henry Justin Smith, in this letter: “… I appreciate very deeply your efforts to give me a chance on the Daily

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News. And if I did not make the most of the opportunity you did give, I feel I owe you a personal apology. It will perhaps interest you to know that I had all but accepted the wisdom of your advice to ‘get out of newspapers’, when along came an offer from the Frank Munsey papers in Baltimore, unasked, unheralded. The want to give two of us $40 per week (with chance to make more on the side, Sunday etc) and to put us through all departments with a view to making union officials out of us in the near future. I hope you can restrain any tendency towards Rabelaisian laughter. At any rate, I am afraid I shall be unable to resist the temptation. And what makes it worse is that two of us are showing signs of pernicious insanity and will probably undertake a mad publishing venture in a few months ... Please accept my thanks for three months experience with the greatest paper West of New York!” Luce then adds a postscript: “I suppose I am not under any obligation to explain to Mr. F. Munsey’s representatives that I was ‘fired’ from the News. If you think I am, will you please let me know.” Accompanying Luce’s letter is a photocopy of the script for a Bedtime Story from the Ben Hecht Show of September 23rd, 1958 on WABC-TV, in which Hecht reminisces on his brief association with Luce: “My story tonight is about a sort of newspaperman, the publisher of Life and time, Mr. Henry Luce. A few years ago I was at a party and a man came up to me and said, ‘Remember me?’; and I said, ‘No.’ He said, ‘I’m Henry Luce.’ “And I looked at the Life publisher and I remembered … I was writing a column on the Chicago Daily News called ‘A Thousand and One Afternoons,’ and that prince of all Managing Editors, Henry Justin Smith, liked it very much. As soon as I saw he liked it, I pretended it was a great deal of work and that I needed an assistant. “I said to Henry Smith, ‘Don’t get me a reporter. A reporter doesn’t react to anything but the mangled body of a society leader. Get me a very naïve fellow who will notice everything going on and bring me back tidbits that I can work up into columns.’ “About three days later he appeared with a blond, eager-eyes young man about my own age just out of college, looking for his first job. I hired him on sight … I remember reams of copy coming in about lemonade stands and traffic jams and people who lost suitcases in railroad stations. Finally I went to Mr. Smith and said, ‘Fair is fair, but this fellow is much too naive. Nothing he writes makes any sense … I suggest you fire him.’ And Henry Smith said: ‘He wants to be a journalist badly.’ I said, ‘Don’t pay any attention to that. He’s not going to go anywhere.’ So Mr. Smith fired him and I was right. Mr. Luce got nowhere.”

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with the important american geology map 79. [MACLURE, William]. On the Geology of the United States of North America. [contained in:] Transactions of the American Philosophical Society … Vol. I. - New Series. With twelve plates (two folding, one colored) and folding map (partially colored). xix, 47, [xxi]-xxiv,454,[1]pp. 4to, Phila- delphia: 1818. Original boards, with printed paper spine label. Hinges cracked, spine chipped. 19th century ink stamp on title page. First few leaves moderately toned and foxed; two plates heavily foxed; else, some light scattered foxing to rest of text. Very good, in original boards, uncut and untrimmed, the map fine. In a half brown morocco and cloth clamshell box, spine gilt. $2,500 This volume, which is the first of a new series of the “Transactions of the American Philosophical Society,” is significant for containing the work of early American geologist William Maclure. He travelled extensively throughout the United States from the 1790s on, gathering material for his writings. His book, Observations on the Geology of the United States (1817), was the first important work on American geology, and is reprinted herein. The book and its accompanying map (which is here found in a larger version by John Melish), were immediately recognized as major contributions, and he was elected president of the Academy of Natural Sciences the same year it was published, a post he held for the rest of his life. In 1824 Maclure became deeply interested in Rob- ert Owen’s experiment at New Harmony. He moved there in 1825 and used the New Harmony press to publish his Opinions on Various Subjects, Dedicated to Industrious Producers (1831-38). He died in 1840. In addition to Maclure’s masterful work, the present volume contains over thirty additional early scientific articles, including astronomical observations by A. Ellicott, Charles Short’s description of an Indian fort near Lexington, Kentucky, Caspar Wister’s account of two fossil mammoth heads donated to the society by Thomas Jefferson, and a monograph of North American insects by Thomas Say.

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landmark of american constitutional government 80. [MADISON, James, Alexander HAMILTON, John JAY]. The Fed- eralist: A Collection of Essays, written in Favour of the New Constitution, as Agreed upon by the Federal Convention, September 17, 1787. 2 vols. 12mo in sixes, New York: J. and A. M’Lean, 1788. First edition. Recently bound in contemporary sheep over boards in period style, spine tooled in gilt. Title page of vol. I with repair at top margin, some authors identified in ink in a contemporary hand. Sabin 23979; Church 1230; Brinley Evans 21127; Grolier/American 19; PMM 234; Streeter sale 1049; Bernstein pp. 230–42. $195,000 The most influential American political book, “a classic exposition of the principles of republican government” (Bernstein). The first thirty-six Federalist papers, anonymous essays in support of the Con- stitution by Hamilton, Jay, and Madison, were collected and published by the M’Lean brothers in March 1788, and the final forty-nine, were issued in a second volume, with the text of the Consitution, two months later. The last eight essays were printed in book form before they appeared in serial publications. Authorship of the essays cannot be ascribed with certainty, but Bernstein records that it is now generally agreed that Jay wrote essays 2-5 and 64; Madi- son, essays 10, 14, 18-20, 37-58, 62, and 63; and Hamilton wrote the remaining numbers, 51 papers: 1, 6-9, 11-13, 15-17, 21-36, 59-61, and 65-85

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81. (MAP) Moll, Herman. Engraved map of South America, with an inset depiction and description of Mt. Potosi, in Peru, and a figural and armorial cartouche containing the dedication to Lord Sunderland, with hand-colored national boundary lines. Image 23 x 38 inches, matted and framed to 28H x 44 inches, London: H. Moll, 1732-35. One fold rubbed with very slight loss, else fine, and attractive250. $1,250

82. (MEXICO) Butterfield, Carlos. United States and Mexican Mail and Steam Ship Line and The Statistics of Mexico. One double-page map and one large fold-out map. 109, [2], 159 pp. 8vo, New York: J.A.H. Hasbrouck & Co., Printers 174 & 176 Pearl Street, 1860. First edition (preceded by a smaller pamphlet the previous year). Original blind- stamped publisher’s brown cloth lettered in gold. Extremities rubbed, light wear to boards. Bookplate on front pastedown. Light scattered foxing. Very good. Sabin 9666; Wheat Transmississippi 978. $1,750 One of the best statistical reviews of Mexico for the period, together with an important map. On the fine map “Each state is brilliantly colored, and the West, which takes up a quarter of the map is interesting...The Pacific Railroad Routes are all shown, and a dashed line carries the emigrant route over the Sierra Nevada...[and shows] the mail route from Boonville, in Missouri, to San Francisco...The map is a most important one for showing the political subdivi- sions of the West, and its tracing of the ‘Mail Route’ on the route of the But- terfield Stageline” (Wheat).

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first constitution of mexico 83. (MEXICO). Constitución federal de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos, sancionada por el Congreso General Constituyente, el 4 de octubre de 1824. Emblematic engraved plate by “Torreblanco”, [4], xviii, 62, [3], iii pp. plus plate. 16mo, Mexico, [1824]. Contemporary marbled wrappers. Wrappers lightly rubbed. Light dampstaining at edges of text block. Minor foxing. Very good. In a folio-size half morocco clamshell box. Howes E197. Palau 59642. Sabin 48379. Streeter Texas 1086 (ref). Streeter Sale 211. $6,500 This is the first constitution of Mexico as a sovereign state, and the constitution under which the colonization of Texas by Americans took place. “The first constitution for the Mexican Republic under which operated our present southwestern states, from Texas to California” (Howes). This copy is not bound with the Acta Constitutiva de la Federación Mexicana, as is often the case but which Howes does not include in his pagination description of the Consti- tución. Scarce.

napoleon’s flamboyant brother-in-law 84. MURAT, Joachim Napoleon. Engraved Document signed (“Na- poleone”) as King of the Two Sicilies, breveting an infantryman in the Genoese regiment. Engraved royal arms of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. One page. Folio, Naples: 13 November, 1813. Slightly faded and soiled. Matted and framed. $1,000 Handsome document signed by the gallant and flamboyant brother-in-law of Napoleon. Murat was one of Napoleon’s boldest marshals, who played a prominent role in each of the major campaigns; nonetheless, at the time this

 James Cummins Bookseller document was signed, Murat was negotiating with the Allies, and he eventually agreed to provide troops to fight against France in exchange for a guarantee of his throne and possessions. Ultimately, however, after Waterloo, he was captured by the Allies, executed, and shot. It is said that as he faced the firing squad, he shouted: ““Soldiers, do your duty! Straight to the heart — but spare the face. Fire!” “Murat was one of the most colorful figures of his time. His military talents on the battlefield, at the head of the cavalry, were considerable, but his rash initiatives robbed him of any chance of earning repute as a strategist. A vain and rather brainless man, given to devising splendid uniforms, he had many enemies among the marshalate, but was greatly admired by the rank and file for his dash and undoubted charisma …” (Chandler, Dictionary of the Napole- onic Wars, pp. 294-296).

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85. NAPOLÉON. Autograph endorsement signed (“Np”) granting the discharge of a soldier. On a one-page Document Signed (“duc de Feltre”) by Henri Jacques Guillaume Clarke, Minister of War, requesting the discharge. Folo, Pirna: 29 August, 1813. Some very slight soiling, otherwise very good. Handsomely mounted and framed. $3,000 At a critical moment, even as Napoleon is battling Allied forces in Germany, he grants a full discharge to a conscript whom the Minister of War, the Duc de Feltre, describes as a “young man, the eldest of 9 orphaned children for whom he is the sole means of support.”

napoleon approves surgical supplies 86. NAPOLÉON. Autograph endorsement signed (“Np”) on a Docu- ment from the Ministry of War, reporting on the need of surgical supplies for the 3me Corps in Spain. On a one-page document, “Rap- port présenté à sa Majesté l’Empereur et Roi”, signed by the “Minstre- Directeur”, [Paris], 27 juin, 1810. Folo, St. Cloud: 30 juin, 1810. Some very slight soiling, otherwise very good. Handsomely mounted and framed. $3,500 On this document requesting, among other surgical supplies for the army in Spain, “3 caisses d’instruments à – amputation,” Napoleon has penned this brief order: “Envoyez seulement deux (2) caisses. “St. Cloud le 30 juin 1810”

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a promotion from the young general, for valor at toulon 87. NAPOLÉON. Manuscript Document, copy, co-signed (“Buon- aparte”) as général de brigade, promoting an artillery officer to artillery captain for his valor at the siege of Toulon. One page on recto of single bifolium. 4to, Nice: “le 13 germinal, l’an 2 de la République” [April 2, 1794]. Somewhat soiled, one stain, but good and legible. $4,250 Interesting document early in the career of the 24-year-old Napoleon, whose signed note (in secretarial hand) at bottom reads: “I received the original of the piece if which this is a copy, to send to the commission. Brigade General, Commander of Artillery of the Army of Italy, Buonaparte.” Napoléon himself had been promoted only months before to the rank of Bri- gade General for his actions at the siege of Toulon. The original, of which this is an official copy, was signed by the two “deputés-en-mission” from the National Convention, Augustin Robespierre, younger brother of Maximilien, and Salicetti. They, in fact, were the very officials who first provisionally promoted young Buonaparte himself to the rank of brigade general; and here, the names of all three appear once again, in a document mirroring the advance of Napoleon himself at the beginning of one of the most astounding military careers ever recorded.

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morning amusements, with hand-colored etchings and plates 88. NERCIAT, Andréa de. La matinée libertine, ou, les moments bien em- ployés. Profusely illustrated with hand-colored dry point etchings and hand-colored vignette shoulder illustrations in the text, by Jean Gilles Legendre. 118 pp. Square 8vo, Paris: [euredif], 1928. First edition with these illustrations, no. 168 of 175 copies on “Vélin à la form”, from a total edition of 196 copies. Full red morocco, by Wood, raised bands, gilt-lettered spine, t.e.g. Small spot on upper cover, else fine. With an erotic morocco ex-libris on front pastedown. With the erotic green morocco large bookplate of Vyvyan Holland, son of Oscar Wilde. Slip- case. Barbier VI 83; Gay III, 79. $1,500 Lovely copy of this erotic classic, also attributed to Mérard Saint Juste, which first appeared in 1787. Exquisitely colored and beautifully bound.

a monument of historical research and modern book production 89. (NEW SPAIN) Sahagun, Fray Bernardino de. Historia general de las cosas de Nueva Espana … Primera versión integra del texto castellano del Manuscrito conocido Códice Florentino. Eighty color facsimiles hors texte. xviii, [4], 355; [6], 359-745, [1] pp. 2 vols. Folio, Mexico City: Fomento cultural Banamex, 1982. Edition of 500 copies. Uniformly bound in half morocco over silk covered boards, spine gilt and blind-stamped, gilt leather labels, a.e.g. Bookplate on front pastedown. Very fine. Each volume in its own linen-covered slipcase. $2,500 Sahagun’s Historia General is “beyond question the most important, as it is the most authentic history of events, transpiring in the New World, before its discovery by Columbus...no history was ever conceived, or brought forth with more labor” (Thomas W. Field). Sahagun devoted over thirty-five years to its

 James Cummins Bookseller compilation, and this edition is based directly upon his definitive text, referred to generally as the Florentine Codex. This scholarly edition of Sahagun’s His- toria General..., with an introduction and scholarly apparatus by Alfredo Lo- pez Austin and Josefina Garcia Quintana, was commissioned by Banamex as a presentation gift to their best customers. The edition consists of 500 copies printed on 100% rag paper made and watermarked especially for this project by Monadnock Paper Mills, with letterpress by The Press of A. Colish, and color facsimiles by Eureka Offset. The beautiful binding of half brown morocco with raised bands, gilt labels, and crimson watered silk was executed by Harcourt Bindery of Boston. Additionally, ornaments and capitals were designed specifically for this edition by Patrick Kennedy, and in many cases were individually hand-colored. In all regards, this is an exceptionally lavish, beautiful, and historically important work, and unquestionably one of the major events in American book production of the last few years. Unfortunately, due to political circumstances, the project is little known outside the circle of those involved in its production and those few people who have had the opportunity to examine a set. Virtually the entire edition was shipped to Mexico City shortly before the nationaliza- tion of the Mexican banks, and relegated to the uncertain limbo of a Banamex warehouse.

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90. NICHOLSON, William. The Square Book of Animals … Rhymes by Arthur Waugh. 12 color lithographs after original woodcuts. 14 pp. Square 4to, London: William Heinemann, 1900. First edition. Origi- nal illustrated boards, chipped at extremities, cloth spine slightly frayed at front joint, light offsetting to text facing illustrations, else near fine. $1,000 91. (NIELSEN, Kay) [Asbjörnsen, Peter C. and Jérgen E. Moe]. East of the Sun and West of the Moon. Old Tales from the North. 25 mounted color illustrations, numerous black and white illustrations in the text. 206 pp. 4to, London: Hodder and Stroughton, [1914]. First trade edition. Original blue cloth, hinges cracked, some foxing at outer margins but not to the plates. Bookplate. $1,250 Fifteen wonderful stories selected from the volume of folk tales by Asbjörnsen and Moe entitled “Norske Folkeeventyr.” Nielsen’s magical illustrations show an innate understanding of these tales.

“i have tried to make europe understand the magnitude of the strife” 92. PARIS, Louis Albert Phillippe d’Orléans, Comte de. Seven Autograph Letters, signed, to his Philadelphia publishers Porter and Coates, relating to his History of the Civil War (1874-1888). 17 pp., in all. V.p., June 1875 to July 1894. Very good. $2,000 Louis Philippe Albert d’Orléans, Comte de Paris (1838-1894), was the grand- son of Louis Philippe I, King of France. He became heir-apparent, when his father, Prince Ferdinand-Philippe, died in a carriage accident in 1842. After an

 James Cummins Bookseller unsuccessful attempt to secure him on the throne, Phillippe fled to America with his brother, where he volunteered to serve as a Union Army officer in the American Civil War. He served on the staff of Major General George McClel- lan for almost a year. His history of that war, written in French (Histoire de la guerre Civile en Amérique, Paris, 1874-1890, in 7 vols., with Atlas) and translated into English in an abridged version by the Philadelphia publisher, Coates, is still considered a standard reference work. The letters are: (June, 1875) “The necessities of an early publication of the translation of my History of the Civil War … prevented me from revising … I must leave upon Mr. Tasistro the responsibility … but his ability is a sufficient guarantee … it has … been agreed … to grant … the exclusive copyright in England … and, in America, the right of giving out your edition as the only one authorized by myself. My history has been written rather for the instruction of the European public than for transatlantic readers … if I have been obliged to judge and to censure, I have done so without any personal … feeling against anybody … I have tried to make Europe understand the magnitude of the strife … to perpetuate the memory of the … glory of the American soldier, without distinction between the blue and grey coats. (June, 1875) “The necessities of an early publication of the translation of my History of the Civil War … prevented me from revising … I must leave upon Mr. Tasistro the responsibility … but his ability is a sufficient guarantee … it has … been agreed … to grant … the exclusive copyright in England … and, in America, the right of giving out your edition as the only one authorized by myself. My history has been written rather for the instruction of the European public than for transatlantic readers … if I have been obliged to judge and to censure, I have done so without any personal … feeling against anybody … I have tried to make Europe understand the magnitude of the strife … to perpetuate the memory of the … glory of the American soldier, without distinction between the blue and grey coats. (31 Dec. 1875) “… I would be very grateful to you to end me … the most important reviews … I quite approve your putting my shield on the binding …” (14 April 1890) “… the news hat my son had been sent to a penitentiary altered my plans. I could not travel for my enjoyment … while he was treated as a … criminal … I returned at once to Europe … to be at least nearer to the prisoner …” [his young son, the duc d’Orléans, had been imprisoned for violating banishment] (Aug. 9, 1880) “I intend to pay a visit to the United States … it is my purpose to study with my son the Duc d’Orléans the field of battle of the Civil War … send me two copies of Swinton’s History of the Army of the Potomac and some maps …” (July 20, 1894) “… my great historical work on the American Civil War … makes hardly any progress … the duties which I have assumed with the

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effective leadership of the Royalist party in France take every day a greater part of the time … my health has been since a few months impaired … it is very painful for me to make such a confession. But … it is impossible for me to tell when I shall … be able to give a new volume to my editors …” This last letter is from England, where he was in exile. He died a few weeks later. With an ALS (Nov. 29, 1890) by Daniel Sickles (General in the Union Army), in praise of the Comte’s History; and a Letter, signed (Sept. 8, 1879) by G.W. McCrary, providing publisher Coates with a report to be transmitted to the Comte de Paris.

93. PÉCHEUX, B[enoît]. [Cover title:] Recueil de Trophées Militaires Anciens et Modernes …. 15 hand-colored lithographic plates by de Kaep- pelin after Pécheux depicting a total of 36 historic and exotic military costumes and munitions, all plates with publisher’s small embossed stamp at foot. 2 vols. Folio, Paris: Chez Chaillou, n.d. [ca. 1830]. Loose in blue pictorial lithographed blue paper wrappers. Light foxing at mar-

gins, else near fine. In custom folding box. Not in Colas, Lipperheide, Hiler. Provenance: Hofbibliothek, Regensburg, with faint ink stamp, old manuscript labels and pencil notes on front cover of first part . $2,500 A scarce work, published as an aid to artists for correctly representing historical and foreign military costumes. With finely hand-colored plates after Benoît Pécheux (1779- d. after 1831).

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94. PENN, William, and George WHITEHEAD. The Christian- Quaker, and his Divine Testimony Vindicated by Scripture, Reason and Au- thorities; against the Injurious Attempts, that Have Been Lately Made by Sev- eral Adversaries, with Manifest Design to Render Him Odiously Inconsistent with Christianity and Civil Society. In II Parts. The First … by William Penn. The Second … by George Whitehead. [34], 162, [1], 176 [i.e. 376], [1]pp. Folio, [London], 1674. Second edition. Rebound in full brown pan- eled calf in period style, with black leather spine label, new endpapers. Later ownership inscriptions on front flyleaf; bookplate on verso of David Newport. Signed Cabel Raper 1725 on title-page, and note on flyleaf “Caleb Raper bought this book of John Talbot ye 10th 11th mo 1725.” Light toning, foxing and dampstaining. A few leaves torn at edges. Some contemporary and later annotations to text. First and last few

 Fall Miscellany Catalogue 107 leaves worn at edges. A good copy overall, in a tan cloth box with gilt leather label. Bonner & Fraser, Penn Bibliography 22B; Smith, Friend’s Book 2:291:1; Wing P1266; ESTC R37076; Sabin 59689. $3,500 The second edition of this work - no copies of the first edition being recorded extant - by William Penn, noted Quaker and founder of Pennsylvania, in which he refutes assertions about the Quaker faith made by Baptist preacher Thomas Hicks in a pamphlet entitled A Dialogue between a Christian and a Quak- er (1673). Hicks’s pamphlet purported to be a conversation between an ortho- dox Christian and a Quaker, in which the Quaker was made to appear quite foolish. Bronner & Fraser note that it must have been quite popular, as it went through two printings and Penn felt compelled to respond to it with the present work. Penn’s essay concerns “the Light within,” which he claims is universal, dating back to the classical world even before Christ, though he notes that Christ is the ultimate expression of the Light. “WP went on to prove the universality of the Light through reason, and to summarize the character of a True Quaker, as one who is completely obedient to the Light. Biographers have called this WP’s most systematic essay written up to this point, and it was given a good reception in the seventeenth century. When WP reprinted the work in 1699 he omitted all references to Hicks and printed it under the title, A Discourse of the General Rule of Faith and Practice” (Bronner & Fraser). Bronner & Fraser note that no copies of the first edition of this work have been found, effectively rendering this the earliest obtainable edition of this Quaker classic.

one of 50, signed by all contributors 95. PETERSEN, Thomas Reed (editor). A Road Runs through It: Reviv- ing Wild Places. Illustrated with wood engravings by Claire Emery. x, 227 pp. 8vo, Boulder, CO: Johnson Books, 2006. No. 17 of 50 numbered copies (out of a total edition of 59), signed by all contributors, and with an extra suite of plates signed by the artist. Full brown leather, with matching clamshell box for the extra suite of plates. New. $1,250 Contributors include Annie Proulx, Barry Lopez, Peter Matthiessen, David Quammen, William Kittredge.

first french — one of 60 copies 96. RACKHAM, Arthur. L’Oeuvre De Arthur Rackham. 44 color plates tipped onto brown paper. 38, [2] pp. of text. 4to, Paris: Hachette et Cie, [1914]. Number 33 of 60 copies on “papier impériale du Japon”, signed by the artist, of the first French edition ofThe Works of Arthur Rackham. Original vellum, very bright, without ties and slightly bowed. Book- plate of Francis Kettaneh. $2,000

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the make of the lungs 97. REISSEISEN, Franz Daniel. Über den Bau der Lungen - De fabri- ca pulmonum commentatio. With 6 hand-colored plates. Folio, Berlin: Rücker, 1822. First edition. Original boards, with paper label. Fine. Hirsch IV, 761: “Classische Schrift”; Choulant/Frank 309. $3,000 “In 1804 the Academy of Sciences in Berlin offered a price for the best essay on the structure and the function of the lungs. The Strasburg physician, Franz Daniel Reisseisen, obtained the price; Soemmering received honourable mention. The texts of both prize essays were jointly published in Berlin, 1808. The engravings belonging to Reisseisen’s essay were published in 1822 in Ber- lin. with German text and Latin translation by Justus Friedrich Karl Hecker” (Choulant).

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portrait of ridinger 98. RIDINGER, Jean Jacques [Johann Jakob, 1736-1784]. Mezzotint portrait of his father, Johann Elia Ridinger, “dedié à Monsieur Jean Elie Ridinger, Peintre et Graveur et Directeur de l’Acadmie d’Augsbourg. Gravé par son humble obéissant fils, Jean Jaq. Ridinger An. 1767.” [Augsburg], 1767. Slight tear at lower right margin. Matted. $1,250 Fine portrait of the illustrious Johann Elias Ridinger (1698-1767), in the year of his demise, by his son.

“can a woman be elected president of the united states?” 99. ROOSEVELT, Eleanor. Typescript carbon copy, signed (“Elea- nor Roosevelt”), of an article for Cosmopolitan, answering the question, “Can a woman be elected President of the United States?.” 13 pp. typed carbon copy. 4to, n.p., n.d., ca. 1936. Paper-clip stains at upper left corner and left margin of each page, else fine. In custom morocco-backed drop box. $5,000 Mrs. Roosevelt answers the question, “Can a woman be elected President of the United States?” for an article in Cosmopolitan, published as FDR ran for his second term in 1936. Reading, in part: “This question is asked me over and over again and though I can not see why people are so interested in the answer, I have to acknowledge that they are. When my boys were at school, a master who was fond of emphasizing certain distinctions in the use of words, invariably answered the small boy’s question, ‘Can I go to the Village?’ by ‘you CAN go to the village, but

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you MAY not.’ The same seems to me applicable! Can a woman be elected President? Certainly, a woman can be elected President, in all probability some time a woman will be, but she MAY not, in my opinion, be elected at the present time, or in the near future.” She reviews the qualities required of a good president, and finds that men have been better prepared “by custom and experience” for the job, and that “A vast majority of women have not as yet attained the power to be objective about their work, and impersonal in their business contacts … there is very little use in pushing women into positions which will be made untenable for them by prejudice.” She then suggests that the president of the future will need to be a spiritual, as much as political, leader: “… a leader of the people, a President, may have to lead a spiritual, moral and mental awakening which will in itself contain enough new elements not to make so desirable the complication of a change in sex of the occupant of this important office.” An astonishing essay from one of the 20th century’s most dedicated and vis- ible advocates for women’s rights. Indeed, Mrs. Roosevelt was aware of the effect her article would have. In a letter to her journalist friend Lorena Hickok she admitted that “The feminists will be down on me and a lot of people will say it is camouflaged political partisan material, and in a way it is!”

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the madness of king george: a report to the prime minister 100. RYDER, Dudley, First Earl of Harrowby. Autograph Document, signed (“Harrowby”), a report to Prime Minister spencer perceval on the state of King George III’s mental health. 2H pp, on a single bifolium. N.p., Dec. 23, 1810. Very good. $1,500 Symptoms of the King’s mental illness had been detected as far back as 1765, and a measure was introduced by Pitt in 1788 which would allow the Commis- sioners to appoint a Regent, but in that case King George recovered his sanity before it became necessary. However, when George’s daughter, Amelia, died on November 2, 1810, the King collapsed under the shock and would never again recover. Just three days before this report was written, Prime Minister Perceval had reintroduced the Pitt bill into the House of Commons regarding the proposed Regency, and no doubt Perceval sent his trusted friend to Dudley Ryder to Windsor Castle to report on the King’s condition in order to make final preparations for the suc- cession of George, Prince of Wales, as Regent. Ryder, who had known Perceval since their days at Harrow, writes: “All the physicians were at Windsor except Sr. H*. They unite in stating that the King has had two violent fits of anger, (both with an assignable tho’ not an adequate cause) that subsequent to these fits he was as composed as he had been before — His general conversation has been pretty composed & collected, but accompanied with the usual delusions. On the whole, though the sanguine expectations which the improvement of the preceding day had suggested, are somewhat damp’d, they cannot be said to consider any alteration for the worse to have taken place … The arrangement as to the attendance of the physicians appears satisfactory both to them & to her Majesty. Dr.Willis* & Dr. Heberden** will remain at Windsor. There will be a consultation of all physicians every Saturday; & on the intermediate days, there will be always one physician besides. Sometimes more than one: but the detail of this arrangement is left to themselves. They appear to think that a closer attendance is quite unnecessary for the King, & very inconvenient to themselves.” George III never fully regained his sanity, and died 10 years later. A few weeks after this report was issued, the Prince of Wales, George, became Regent on February 5, 1811. *Henry Halford, 1766-1844; physician extraordinary to the King since 1793. **John Willis, 1751-1835; the Doctor who, according to the Encyclopedia Britannica, treated the King with “a new method of soothing and persuasive treatment.” ***William Heberden, 1767-1845; ordinary physician to the Queen since 1806 and to the King since 1809.

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first public account of the manhattan project 101. SMYTH, Henry De Wolf. A General Account of the Development of Methods of Using Atomic Energy for Military Purposes under the Auspic- es of the United States Government 1940 - 1945. With graphs and tables. 4to, Washington, D.C: At the Adjutant General’s Office, August, 1945. Lithoprint edition. First edition, first issue, with the broadside “Future Release/For Release in Morning Papers, Sunday, August 12, 1945” notice for the press laid in. Original printed stapled wrappers. this copy with the stamp of “Allan V. Hazeltine Lt. Col. General Staff Corps” on upper cover. Some minor wear and soiling, but generally fine, “Fu- ture Release” is laid loose and separated from three staples on upper cover. Printing and the Mind of Man 422e; Norman 1962; Coleman 37. $2,250 Published six days after Hiroshima (August 6, 1945), this is “…the remarkably full and candid account of the development work carried out between 1940 and 1945 by the American-directed but internationally recruited team of physicists … which culminated in the production of the first atomic bomb.” (PMM) Smyth was chairman of the Department of Physics at Princeton, and his account of the “Manhattan Project” is the first officially published description of the immediate history of atomic reaction following Hahn and Strass- man’s Discovery of Nuclear Fission, 1939. For reasons of security during the war, no papers relating to the project were allowed to be published This issue was set by typewriter and printed on mimeograph machines in of- fices at the War Department.

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signed by binder james brockman & fritz kredel 102. (STAMPERIA DEL SANTUCCIO) Hall, Joseph. Samson, Selec- tions from a contemplation on an historical passage in the Old Testament. With 8 line drawings by Fritz Kredel printed in red black and blue on handmade Magnani paper. 28 pp. 4to (270 x 195 mm.), (Lexington, Kentucky: Stamperia del Santuccio, 1972). Number 54 of 60, signed by Fritz Kredel. Designed and printed by Carolyn Hammer in Samson Un- cial in black, red and blue. Custom full crimson morocco, with suede onlays, gilts stamped upper cover and spine, suede doublures edges gilt on the rough. by James R. Brockman, The Eddington Bindery, 1974. Contained in suede-lined crimson clamshell case. Fine. Holbrook, Varia 10; Holbrook, An Introduction to Victor and Carolyn Hammer 15. $2,500

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the allied occupation of the rhine — the american point of view, 1921 103. STONE, David L., American Representative to the Interallied Rhineland High Commission. Two Typed Letters, signed, to Edward A. Filene, of the American Chamber of Commerce, regarding the work of the Commission in Germany. 10 pp., and a 3 pp. cover letter, on “Interallied Rhineland High Commission” stationery; the first with numerous corrections in ink; both marked “Personal” in pencil. 4to, Coblenz, Germany: 14 October, 1921. Some wear at edges, slight soiling, old pinholes; overall, quite good. $2,000 The Interallied Rhineland High Commission was a civil body formed after World War I to govern occupied Germany on the Rhineland. During the summer of 1921, representatives of the American Chamber of Commerce visited the Commission in Coblenz to voice their concerns about the lack of a Eu- ropean market for American exports — both agricultural and industrial — which was being hampered by an allied policy that made a point of preventing German redevelopment. Following that visit, Stone writes this lengthy, and confidential analysis to Boston merchant Filene, outlining America’s goals, the goals of the various members of the Commission, and the divergence of national interests among the allies: in particular, the policy of the French being to ensure its security against any future German aggression; the policy of the US, Stone assures the Chamber of Commerce, being one of opening markets. Stone writes, prophetically: “The relations between France and Germany are the key to the situation in Europe at the present time.”

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104. (THOREAU, Henry David) Hosmer, A.W. “Fred”, photographer. Cabinet card photograph of Henry David Thoreau, after a 1856 daguerreotype by Benjamin.D. Maxham. Albumen print mounted on cabinet card, with photographer A.W. Hosmer’s stamp on verso. Im- age: 5H x 3G in, New York, Fredericks 770 Broadway, n.d. [after 1880]. Image somewhat faded, framed and glazed. $1,250 Photographic copy of Maxham’s 1856 daguerreotype portrait of Thoreau, by the Concord native and early Thoreauvian, Fred Hosmer. An amateur photographer, Hosmer specialized in views of Concord and places and homes significant to Thoreau’s life. Raymond Adams credits Hosmer, along with Henry Salt and Dr. Samuel Arthur Jones, as laying “the foundation for Tho- reau’s modern reputation” (cf. Oehlschlaeger & Henrick, Towards the Making of Thoreau’s Modern Reputation, 1979). Thoreau sat for three daguerreotypes and one ambrotype. As these first gen- eration photographs of Thoreau are now unobtainable, this is the closest one can get, in terms of association and significance, to an image of the author from life.

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supreme court justice’s copy 105. THORNTON, Henry, Esq., M.P. An Inquiry into the Nature and Effects of Paper Credit of Great Britain. 8, 8, 17-272 pp. 8vo, Philadel- phia: Published and Sold by James Humphreys, Change Walk, Corner of Second and Walnut-street, 1807. First American edition. Bound in contemporary American mottled calf, leather spine label, slight wear at front fore-edge, foxed internally. Booklabel of Robert Trimble of Paris, (Ky.) No. 93 on the front pastedown. Kress B.5270; Shaw & Shoe- maker 13700. $1,250 “It is not too much to say that the appearance of Paper Credit in 1802 marks the beginning of a new epoch in monetary theory. Although Thornton’s mer- its have long been overshadowed by the greater fame of Ricardo, it has now come to be recognised that in the field of money the main achievement of the classical period is due to Thornton” (Friedrich von Hayek, Introduction to the 1939 new edition of Paper Credit). Mill described it in his Principles of Political Economy as “the clearest exposition that I am acquainted with, in the English language, of the modes in which credit is given and taken in a mercantile community.” This is the first American edition of this monetary classic, with a distinguished provenance: Robert Trimble was the only nominee of John Quincy Adams to the Supreme Court (on the advice of fellow Kentuckian, Henry Clay). He served from 1826 until his death 2 years later in 1828.

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greece in 1830 106. TRANT, Thomas Abercromby. Narrative of a Journey Through Greece in 1830. With remarks upon the actual state of the naval and military power of the Ottoman Empire. Engraved frontispiece & 5 plates, wood engraved illustrations in the text. x, [ii], 435 pp. 8vo, London: Hen- ry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1830. Bound in full contemporary brown calf, gilt spine, edges marbled. Some minor foxing, gilt on spine slightly faded. Very good. Engraved bookplate of Herbert Squiers on front pastdown. BMC 25:392.894; Atabey 1234; Weber I, 192; Droulia 1859; Contominas 747; Blackmer 1671 (Sale 1050). $1,500 “This scarce work contains interesting comments on the presidency of Ioannis Capodistrias [first President of independent Greece]; Trant states that he had gone to Greece with a favourable view but seems to have found him over- ambitious and misguided.” (Blackmer Sale).

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cholera epidemic in turkey, 1894 107. (TURKEY) Collection of photographs of the cholera quarantine camp at Sivas, Turkey, and related subjects. 17 albumen prints mounted on board and captioned in English above the image. Images measure 4H x 6I in, Sivas, Turkey: ca. summer 1894. Images lightly faded, some wear to mounts. $1,500 Sivas, Turkey experienced a cholera epidemic in the spring and summer of 1894. M.A. Jewett, the U.S. Consul in Turkey (who is pictured here), wrote a report of the outbreak, and of its probable causes and remedies, which is collected in The Weekly Abstract of Sanitary Reports (Washington, 1895). He estimated the number of cases at 5,000 and the number of deaths at 1,500. Jewett goes into some detail about the appalling living conditions and lack of sanitary water in Sivas, and he condemns the superstitious and fearful attitude towards Western medicine that makes treatment and prevention difficult. Subjects include the quarantine camp at Sivas, the hanging of a “Turkish mur- derer,” Armenian Christian women, graduates and teachers of the Sivas Nor- mal School, Seljuk architecture, and U.S. Consul M.A. Jewett.

108. (TURKEY) Sebah, Jean Pascal & Policarpe Joaillier, et al., pho- tographers. Collection of photographs of Constantinople. 47 albumen prints mounted on card recto and verso, most signed, numbered, and captioned in the plate in French, and captioned in English on the mount. Constantinople, Turkey: c. 1900. Some slight warping and chipping to mounts, images generally fine. $2,000 Most images are by the well-known Turkish firm Sebah and Joaillier, one is by

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the Abdullah Frères, and one is signed “Rubellin.” Images include St. Sophia: Mosque of Ahmet; Troops on the Way to the Semalik, Constaniople; Interior of the Castle of the Seven Towers; Christian Symbols over the door of the Vestibule of St. Sophia; Vestibule of St. Sophia; Boaten of the Golden Horn; Galata Bridge; Burden Bearers; Fire Brigade; Reader of the Koran; Date Seller, Constantinople; Sultan’s carriage of the Medjidîeh Mosque; Fountain of Ze- ineb Sultan; Plane-Tree of the Janissaries; Roman Aqueduct, Smyrna; Bridge of Caravans, Smyrna; Smyrna. General View of the Harbor; Street in Stam- boul; Palace of the mouth of the Sweet Waters of Asia, Bosphorus; Castle of Europe and Candili (Beacon Village) on the Bosphorus, etc.

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109. [UPTON, Elizabeth (Boughton), Lady Templetown]. The Birth- day Gift, or, The Joy of a New Doll, From Papers Cut by a Lady. [At head of title:] To Her Royal Highness, the Princess Amelia, This Book, Representing …. Engraved title & 7 plates engraved by P. W. Thomkins. Oblong quarto, London: P. W. Tomkins, 1796. Bound in half contemporary brown calf over marbled boards, with Westport House (County, Mayo, Ireland, residence of the marquess of Sligo) bookplate. Minor foxing, darkest on title page. Very good. Osborne Collection, v. 2, p 953. $2,250 Engravings done by Peltro William Tomkins, historical engraver to the Queen, depict the joy of a young child upon receiving a new doll through seven plates with narrative captions. Illustrations show the child finding the doll, “feeding” the doll, and dressing the doll for bed, in addition to other playtime scenes involving the beloved toy.

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waterhouse to the army surgeon general: “there will be hard fighting & many a wound” 110. WATERHOUSE, Benjamin. Autograph Letter, signed (“Benjn. Waterhouse HS”), to Dr. James Tilton, Surgeon General of the United States Army. 5 pp. pen and ink on 3 leaves. Cambridge: September 7, 1814. $2,500 Waterhouse (1754-1846), an American physician, author, and professor of medicine at Harvard, is most remembered as the first to test Jenner’s smallpox vaccine in America. “In addition to being the leading early champion of vac- cination in America, he was the most important popularizer of science in New England from the 1780s to the early 1800s, the leading link between Boston and the British medical community during the quarter century after the revo- lutionary war, and an important literary figure” (ANB). Waterhouse writes to Surgeon General of the United States Army Dr. James Tilton, discussing preparations to attend to wounded soldiers in the Boston area during the War of 1812. Waterhouse had been appointed hospital surgeon to the First Military District in 1813. Waterhouse was known as feisty, opinionated, and stubborn — traits that come through in this letter. Reading, in part: “The Apothecary General has at length arrived here, and is making arrangements much to my satisfaction. We shall have things like clockwork in a little time. I see the whole business before me in Systematic connection … When I drew up that minute topographical account of Charlestown, Boston Harbor, Charles & Mystic River & Cambridge, I anticipated what is now near at hand, namely, the occupation of the peninsula of Charlestown with two or three thousand militia, & volunteers … our Charlestown hospital will probably be made my headquarters. Should the enemy attempt the destruction of these Ships [‘the New 74, & the frigate Constitution’] there will be hard fighting & many a wound, & I am preparing for whatever may happen. What do you think of supplying every Sargeant with two or three field tourniquets, when placed in a station that renders an action probable? … I suspect we shall have a little more trouble with militia Surgeons than with troops of the line, but I am determined not to indulge them beyond the rules, especially as regards instruments … Some of these fellows destroy more lancets in one month than you or I should, with the same patients, in a year, of pocket instruments. I sometimes receive fretful letters from surgeons for curtailing their monstrous lists of medicines … I have … dismissed the war master, & do not think I shall ever employ another. The Steward must do such duty. We can make a ward master out of a disabled Sargeant; but we cannot make a Steward from such a material. We must have a man of higher grade who understands the markets & must be a resident citizen & not a transient soldier …”

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royally fleeced: “we were fools and gave him practically all power over our finances …” 111. WINDSOR, Wallace Warfield Simpson, Duchess of, wife of former King Edward VIII. Autograph Letter, signed (“W”), to Mrs. Robert R. Young, in Palm Beach, Florida. 6pp., in ink, on blue personal stationery. 4to, Paris: Wednesday, January 7, 1959. Slightly wrinkled, olds folds, but clean and sound. With envelope. $1,250 A revealing letter to the widow of their old friend, Robert R. Frank, the railroad magnate and financier: “…I shan’t bore you with our troubles, but we have had a great blow in the person of [Victor] Waddilove [the Duke’s private secretary], who we put complete confidence in for 11 years. We were fools and gave him practically all power over our finances and only this year certain things gave rise to suspicion and we decided to have an audit. It showed many, many discrepancies and we have had a large sum of money taken. There is nothing we can do as the chances of recovery are slim and the sensation in the press would be awful plus appearing in court. The advice is to take it on the chin.... Keep it under your hat. We have been through quite a strain since September and as things always come at once we have had domestic upheavals. To replace Robert at the hill is very difficult. which of course takes a lot of pleasure away from going there. Sydney has become the Duke’s valet; the other left and really it’s too much having these young ones for a

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year and a half and off they go. We have not had much time or money for winter in Paris but have decided at our age we ought as well ‘dig deep.’ So we are arriving on Jan. 30th staying until Feb. 26th when off we go to Tucson, Arizona to lose ourselves in the desert for a month. I feel it will do us both good.... I do not think we are in the mood for Palm Beach this year but if you will ask us next year I am sure as you say things will be different …” “listen to the mocking bird” 112. WINNER, Septimus. Autograph Manuscript, fair copy, signed and dated, of his lyrics to “Listen to the Mocking Bird”, with an accompanying Autograph Note of presentation, and 3 bars from the Chorus. In all, 4 pp. on 2 folded sheets of personal stationery, with Winner’s stamped address. 12mp, Philadelphia: Dec. 20, 1899. Fine. $1,500 Beautifully presented transcription of this song, familiar to generations of Americans, by its composer, the Hall of Fame Songwriter Septimus Winner (1827 -1902). Winner published the song and lyrics in 1855 under the pseudonym of Alice Hawthorne, and for over a hundred year it has been a staple of the American musical diet. Winner was the composer and publisher of hundreds of songs, including “Ten Little Indians,” “Oh where, oh where has my little dog gone?”, etc.) In 1970 Winner was inducted into the Songwriter’s Hall of Fame.

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inscribed with drawing of “the islander” 113. WYETH, Jamie. Jamie Wyeth. Illustrated in color throughout. 143, [1] pp. Oblong 4to, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1980. First edition. Illustrated wrappers, corners bumped, bookplate, else near fine in custom chemise. $2,000 Inscribed on the title page: “For Rev. and Mrs. James Brooks — / Jamie Wyeth” With a pen drawing of a ram, after “The Islander,” reproduced on the front cover.

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Americana 19, 58, 75 Mexico & Central America Afro-American History 16 46, 82, 83, 89 American Revolution 69 Military 17, 87 Constitution, U.S. 80 Monarchs, Royalty, Rulers Harvard 57 100, 111 Kentucky 105 Napoleon 84, 85, 86, 87 Massachusetts 103 Naval 69 Pennsylvania 19 WW I 103 Philadelphia 22 WW II 101 Presidents, U.S. 68 Illustrated 7, 47, 91, 98 Princeton 101 British 10, 34, 35, 36, 37, Architecture 68 66, 90, 96 Art 65 Color Plate 2, 3, 6, 48, 51, 53, American 22, 113 93, 97 British 76 Erotica 55, 88 Cartoons 73 Extra-Illus 37 French 32, 44 Photography 63, 74, 104, 108 Russian 8 Law 14, 57, 80, 83 Sculpture 21 U.S. Supreme Court 105 Bible 11, 12 Literature Bindings 75 American 104, 112 Boards 51, 97 British 50 British 10, 13, 76, 88, 102 Homoerotic 8 French 33 Poetry 112 Books of Common Prayer 15 Maps 81 Books & Printing 71 Medicine 97, 107, 110 Calligraphy 9 Psychoanalysis 70 Typography 56 Surgery 86 Children’s Books 35, 60, 90, 109 Music 16, 54, 61 Classics Composers 45 Latin 20, 66, 67 Jazz 4, 5 Costume Popular Song 31, 62, 112 Military 93 Natural History 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, Economics 19, 59, 105 43, 48, 95 Education Birds 10 Women 1 Gardening 64 History Geology 79 British 2, 6, 14, 29, 52, 100 Performing Arts Diplomacy 72 Theater 53 French 50, 58, 77, 92 PMM Books 80, 101 London 30, 54 Private Press 24, 25, 26, 49, 60, 102  James Cummins Bookseller

Science Atomic Energy 101 Sets 34, 37 Sporting 2 Theology & Religion 13, 33 Quakers 94 Time-Life, Inc 78 Travel & Exploration 30, 106, 107 China 18, 27, 28 Japan 1 Mexico 83, 89 North America 19 South America 81 Women 1, 9, 16, 22, 99 Suffrage 23

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