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Very Rare Large Paper Issue major work in these first years.” The book is important in America as the 1 means by which many Americans became familiar with the Bewick Quad- ALKEN, Henry. The National Sports of Great Britain, … Fifty Engravings, with rupeds, and also because Anderson and other engravers “in the future used Descriptions. 50 hand-colored aquatint plates by H. Alken. Printed title, pref- Bewick’s illustrations as an encyclopedia from which they could draw in ace; each plate with letterpress text leaf; leaf with printed list of engrav- order to depict animals both native and foreign.” Roscoe devotes a substan- ings at end. Folio (14 x 10 inches), London: Thomas M’Lean, 1825. First tial appendix to this edition. ¶ Hugo, “Some of the cuts in this volume are Edition, Large Paper Issue of the Royal Octavo Edition. Bound in near truly wonderful copies of the originals, and an inspection of them would contemporary full crimson pebble-grained morocco gilt floral ornamental stagger not a few who are accustomed to attribute to Bewick every engrav- border within triple gilt fillets, spines in compartments decoratively tooled ing of more than ordinary ability produced at the time when these were in gilt, gilt turn-ins, a.e.g., by E. Riley & Son. Slightly rubbed at extremities; published.” ¶ Many Australian as well as American animals are delineated. a few surface marks to covers. Armorial bookplate of John C. Deverell on $2,500 front pastedown; traces of removal of smaller Maclay book label. Cloth slipcase. Tooley 43; Siltzer p. 72; Schwerdt IV, p. 5; Fitz Eugene Dixon sale 79 (1937);Five Centuries of Sport, Maclay sale, 1945, lot 29 ($300, this 4 copy); Mellon/ Podeschi 121. (ARABIA) Niebuhr, Carsten. Description de l’Arabie, d’après les observations Very rare issue of the Royal Octavo edition, with different plates than the et recherches faites dans le pays même. 24 plates, two of which have hand- edition published in 1820-21. Published at 6 guineas. colored diacritical marks (of Arabic text) and initials; folding genealogical table; large fold-out map hand-colored in outline. 1 f. (half-title), [i]-xliii, $11,000 [xliv-xlvi], [1]-372 pp. 4to, Copenhagen: Chez Nicolas Möller, 1773. First edition in French, with half-title. Full period raintree calf, spine gilt, boards tooled with floral border gilt. Short closed tear in folding map repaired, And No Opium Too!!! some minor dampstaining in margins. Fine. Gay 3589. 2 With the large fold-out map of Yemen hand-colored in outline. (AMHERST) Certificate of Membership in the Antivenenean Society of Amherst College. Engraved broadside with engraved cartouche. 10-1/2 x 12-1/2 $4,000 inches, Amherst: 1850s. Light spotting, very good.

Membership certificate to the Antivenenean Society, a temperance society “Thank you very much for your splendid gift of Kelmscottiana” that was active at Amherst College during the mid-nineteenth century. 5 $650 (ASHENDENE PRESS) Hornby, C.H. St. John. Autograph Letter, signed [“C.-S.”] to Sydney Cockerell (“My dear Cockerell”). 2 pp. pen and ink on folded sheet of stationery. 8vo, London: 186, Strand, January 19, 1904. Faint 3 creasing from prior folds. (ANDERSON, Alexander) Bewick, Thomas. A General History of Quadru- peds. The Figures engraved on wood chiefly copied from the original of T. Bewick, The founder of the Ashendene Press writes to Sydney Cockerell, formely by A. Anderson. With an Appendix, containing some American Animals not hith- William Moriss’s secretary at the Kelmscott Press. “Thank you very erto described. x, 531 pp. 8vo, New York: Printed by G. & E. Waite, No. 64, much for your splendid gift of Kelmscottiana. It is really noble of you. I Maiden-Lane, 1804. First American edition. Modern half brown morocco shall prize them, as you know, well and truly. I shall be much interested and cloth by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Occasional light spotting, old signature in reading some of the pamphlets, and am very glad to have the Sotheby of William S. Barnes on title. Hugo p. 24; S&S 5843; Roscoe, App. 5 (pp. catalogue of Morris’ books. I am relieved to hear that Gere’s two dia- 183-6); Pomeroy 144 (pp. 165-183). ries are safe in Hooper’s hands.” Hooper is the engraver W.H. Hooper; Charles M. Gere’s illustrations for the Kelmscott News from Nowhere were The first American edition of a classic work, with the cuts re-engraved engraved by Hooper. Gere’s most celebrated work was the illustrations to (usually in reverse) from the original Bewick edition. Dr. Alexander the Ashendene Press Dante done for Hornby. After Morris’s death in 1896, Anderson (1775-1870), America’s first wood engraver. Pomeroy identifies his collection of early books and manuscripts was purchased for £18,000 the fourth edition as the source from which Anderson worked. “It was his by Richard Bennett, who kept what he liked of the collection, consigning the rest to Sotheby’s. It is likely this sale, on December 5, 1898, to which variant of the Subscriber’s list, with the most names, ending with that of Hornby refers (cf. De Ricci, English Collectors, pp. 172-3). [With:] Rossetti, the Hon. Charles York, Esq, Attorney General. Bound ca. 1820s in full Dante Gabriel. Wood engraving intended for the title page of The Early straight-grained black morocco, spine gilt, boards gilt, gilt turn-ins, a.e.g. Italian Poets, 1861, issued as a Christmas gift by Mr. and Mrs. Sydney Cock- Gift inscription on title page dated 1822 slightly trimmed. Old repair to erell, 1907. [And:] Two Ashendene Press specimen leaves, one from the lower inner hinge. Rebacked, preserving the elaborate gilt spine. Very good first canto of Lo Inferno, from the La Divina Comedia (1902-5) inscribed by example of the monumental Baskerville Bible. Nixon, p. 184; Gaskell, Cockerell (“brought to Clifford Inn by CH SJ Hornby Nov 12 1901.”) Bibliography of John Baskerville, 26; Ramsden p. 135.

$1,500 The 1763 edition of Baskerville’s Bible has always been recognised as his masterpiece and is one of the high-points in the history of printing in Britain. 6 $11,000 ATKINSON, Brooks. Typed Letter, Signed, to Alfred Eisenstaedt, thanking him for portrait prints. One page on his letterhead. 8vo, 120 Riverside Drive, New York: 24 December 1959. Fine. 10 Fine note to photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt from Brooks Atkinson (1894- (BINDING, Cockerell, Douglas) Cellini, Benvenuto. The Treatises of 1984), New York Times journalist and dean of theater critics, and an early Benvenuto Cellini on Goldsmithing and Sculpture. 11 plates and 7 illustra- champion of Eugene O’Neill. “When you were working on me you said tions to text. 4to, London: Published by Edward Arnold [Printed by C. you were glad it was raining because it simplified the problem of lighting R. Ashbee at the Essex House Press], 1898. No. 89 of 600 copies. Full tan …” morocco, covers with gilt-ruled border, spine with raised bands, titled in one compartment, a.e.g., by Douglas Cockerell, with his stamp dated 1901 $150 on rear turn-in. Small irregularity to leather on front cover, some spotting to covers, bookplate removed.

Beaverbrook to Eisie A Douglas Cockerell binding from 1901, the year he published his seminal 7 Bookbinding and the Care of Books BEAVERBROOK, Lord (William Maxwell Aitken). Typed Letter, Signed $2,500 (“Beaverbrook”), to Alfred Eisenstaedt, acknowledging a “beautiful book of photo- graphs”. One sheet, signed in ink. 8vo, Waldorf-Astoria, New York: 6 June 1951. Wrinkle, else fine. Bound by Samuel Welcher Canadian-born Beaverbrook (1879-1964) made his fortune from Canadian 11 cement mills. He moved to England and became a Conservative MP the (BINDING, Welcher, Samuel) More, James Esq. A Narrative of the Cam- following year. During WWI he was Minister of Information and bought a paign of the British Army in Spain, Commanded by His Excellency Lieut.-General controlling interest in the Daily Mail. He was raised to the peerage in 1918. Sir John Moore. Frontispiece portrait of John Moore, 2 partially colored fold- Here he acknowledges a “beautiful book of photographs. This is the most ing maps (“Plan of the Action Near Coruña” & “Spain & Portugal with the splendid collection in my possession … My friends shall get to know the March of the British Columns”), extra-illustrated with engraved view of contents and to admire the brilliant work and spacious conception of my the wooden monument erected by Spain at the site of Moore’s grave and friend, the photographer, Alfred Eisenstaedt.” an original ink and wash drawing if the same monumemt, dated August 18, 1809, both with black ink funerary borders. xii, 238, 89, [1] pp. 4to, Lon- $250 don: 1809. Fifth edition, corrected. Full black straight-grained morocco, wide gilt and blindstamped borders composed of a Greek key motif and small floral tools on a studded background, surrounding gilt-blocked arms Beaverbrook to Eisie and motto of the Moore family and the Order of the Bath on the front 8 cover, and military tomb on rear cover, spine with double raised bands, let- BEAVERBROOK, Lord (William Maxwell Aitken). Typed Letter, Signed tered in two compartments, the rest gilt, wide turn-ins tooled in gilt, blue (“Beaverbrook”), to Alfred Eisenstaedt, on a treasure in his library. One sheet of moiré endpapers, a.e.g., by Welcher (with his yellow label on verso of front onion skin paper, signed in ink. 8vo, SHerkley, Leatherhead, Surrey: 19 free endpaper, “Bound by Welcher, 12, Villiers Strt. Strand”). Wear to front June 1951. Wrinkles, else fine. joint, just starting at lower end.

Canadian-born Beaverbrook (1879-1964) made his fortune from Canadian A narrative of General Moore’s campaign against the French during the cement mills. He moved to England and became a Conservative MP the Napoleonic wars in Spain, in a fine binding by Samuel Welcher. Moore following year. During WWI he was Minister of Information and bought a (1761-1809) was killed during the battle at Coruña, his army exhausted, controlling interest in the Daily Mail. He was raised to the peerage in 1918. badly outnumbered and short of supplies. He was celebrated as a national Back in England after the visit to Canada where Eisenstaedt photographed hero in England and Spain, where a monument was errected on the site of him, Lord Beaverbrook writes, “Dear Eisenstaedt, The picture book is his grave in Coruña (depicted here in an engraving and original drawing). greatly admired here … It is a treasure in my library.” This was likely a family copy — the arms of the Moore family are stamped on the front cover, and an autograph euglogy on the death of John Moore $200 MD (1729-1802), father of Sir John Moore, is affixed to the front flyleaf, followed by 11 pages of autograph transcriptions of encomiums on the life of Sir John Moore. 9 (BIBLE) The Holy Bible, Containing the Old Testament and the New: Trans- $3,500 lated out of the Original Tongues and With the Former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised. Unpaginated [1146 pp.]. Folio [500 x 320 x 90 mm.], Birmingham: John Baskerville, Printer to the University, 1763. The third james cummins bookseller booth 509  Inscribed Copy of a Landmark Work, in Rare Dust Jacket Presentation Copy 12 15 BLAKE, Tom. Hawaiian Surfboard. Introduction by Duke P. Kahanamoku. BURTON, Isabel. A E I : Arabia Egypt India. A Narrative of Travel. With 15 With 46 captioned Illustrations from photographs on 36 plates. [16], iv, illustrations and two maps (one folding). 8vo, London: William Mullan, 5- 95 pp. 8vo, Honolulu: Paradise of the Pacific Press, 1935. First edition. 1879. First edition. Original brown cloth, decorations in gold and silver. Original tapa-cloth binding, issue without surfers on upper covers (no Headcap chipped with loss, else fine, internally clean, with original binder’s priority). Lacking front free endpaper, first leaf reattached, externally fresh ticket on rear pastedown. and clean. In very good yellow pictorial dust jacket with two or three short tears without loss, small chips at spine-ends and corners, surface wear at Considered to be chiefly the work of her husband, Sir Richard Francis foot of spine panel. Custom slipcase. DeLa Vega B28; Toy, Adventurers Burton (this is particularly to be noted in the discussions of the Ottoman Afloat 1768. Empire and India). Presentation copy, inscribed “H Van Laun / with Isabel Burton’s / kind compliments / 21 Feb 1879.” First edition of the first title devoted to surfing. Tom Blake (1902-1994) $2,750 was a twentieth-century surfing and health food pioneer who conceived and developed the hollow surf board. Inscribed on front pastedown “To Dan, Donna & Garrett & Christine Close, Tom Blake 1902-1993”, and also 16 inscribed on one of the plates. The first definitive book on surfing, by the sport’s greatest innovator and the first person to surf Malibu Point along CAMP, Walter Chauncey. Foot Ball Records of American Teams Compiled by with Sam Reid in September of 1926. “The most important publication in … 42, [2] pp. Printed by Cashman, Keating & Co., Boston. 12mo (6-1/8 x the surfing canon.” — DeLa Vega, 200 Years of Surfing Literature. 4-1/4 in.), Boston: Published by Wright & Ditson, Fine Athletic Goods, 580 Washington Street, [1883]. First edition. Publisher’s salmon stapled $15,000 wrappers. Light wear and spotting to covers, small piece from spine head, offsetting to pp. 16-7 from laid-in c. 1880s newspaper clipping reporting Stevens Institute vs. University of Michigan game. In a custom black half Unrecorded Breviary For the Use of Chartres morocco slipcase and chemise. Provenance: Edwin Burhorn (inscription to 13 front wrapper, “Edwin Burhorn/ Stevens Institute/ Hoboken, N.J.” and his (BONHOMME, Yolande, printer) Officium horarum canonicarum … misspelled name corrected on p. 16). secundum usum ecclesiae Carnotensis [i.e., Chartres] …impressum cum ceteris Extremely scarce football record book recording the first season of play huius breviarii partibus … [from first colophon]. One full-page woodcut of under the modern rules proposed by Walter Camp and adopted by the Jesus bearing the Cross on verso of leaf P2 and printer’s device on verso Intercollegiate Football Association in 1882. Camp (1859-1925), dubbed the of final leaf. ‡8[-1] a-o8 p2; A-O8; aa-ff8; gg6. 285 of 286 leaves; lacking “Father of American Football,” played on the Yale team from 1875 to 1882 first leaf ‡1. Printed in red and black in Gothic type, two columns of 39 and later coached the team from 1888 to 1892. He was present at the Mas- lines. Small 8vo, Paris: Yolande Bonhomme, vidua … Theilmanni Kerver sasoit House conventions that established the early rules of the game. His …, 15 February 1546 [from final colophon; first colophon reads 18 January innovations, which helped define the modern game of American football as 1546]. Contemporary (?Chartres) calf, covers tooled in gilt to panel design a distinct sport from English rugby, include the line of scrimmage (versus with wide outer border of fern fronds, central panel with floral-tooled the rugby maul), the snap from center to quarterback, reduction of the frame, flat spine tooled to a similar design, edges gilt. Some contemporary number of onfield players per team from 15 to 11, a system of downs and marginalia on colophon, ownership inscription “Johannes Rolls 1824” on scoring, and the size of the field of play. In his preface, Camp notes of the flyleaf. Overall, a remarkably well preserved copy. Not in Adams; no copies present work, “being the initial movement of its kind has proven difficult” found in OCLC, the BN, Vatican Library, British Museum, etc., etc.; Romeo and that “next year’s managers will be spared the necessity of reviewing the Arbour Dictionnaire des femmes libraires en France: 1470 - 1870, pp. 304-5. hieroglyphs of last year’s correspondence.” He records 23 college and high RARE. We are unable to find any other copies of this exquisite little school football teams —including Yale, Harvard, Columbia, Princeton, breviary printed by the widow of Thielmann Kerver, Yolande Bonhomme, Dartmouth, Amherst, University of Michigan and Rutgers — lists all Har- herself descended from a distinguished family of printers. “Elle imprime vard, Princeton and Yale players and scores since 1876, records American plus de 200 ouvrages: livres d’histoire, missels, bréviaires, bibles, livres Intercollegiate Association games in 1883 (the championship going to Yale), d’heures …” (Arbour, pp. 304-305). In a contemporary, densely gilt binding and lists all non-Association team rosters and scores. An extremely scarce utilizing patterns of highy unusual tools, possibly of local (i.e., Chartres?) record of the early days of modern football — we can locate only the origin. Library of Congress copy. This copy inscribed by Stevens Institute player Edwin Burhorn on the front wrapper (“Edwin Burhorn/ Stevens Institute/ $6,000 Hoboken, N.J.”) $13,500 14 BRENNAN, William Joseph, Jr. Typed Letter, Signed, to LIFE photogra- pher ALFRED EISENSTAEDT. One page, on letterhead of the Supreme First Book Court. 8vo, Washington, D.C: 26 October 1956. Old folds. Fine. 17 CATHER, Willa. April Twilights. Title page printed in green and black. 52 Short note following a photo session in early October for Life Magazine. pp. 8vo, Boston: Richard G. Badger, The Gorham Press, 1903. First edition Brennan, appointed to the Supreme Court by Eisenhower, was famed for of her first book. Red morocco, original front of original boards bound in. his dissent from many of the majority decisions of the court. Reading in Rubbed along joints, slight marginal soiling and browning, otherwise fine. part “I certainly did not idly record ‘great artist’ in your book. You have made the impossible out of a poor subject …” This was her only book of verse and published while she was an English teacher in Pittsburgh. $200 $2,000

 2013 boston international antiquarian book fair Rare Early Map and Guide to Central Park reconciliation, Churchill was deeply unhappy with Pond’s handling of the 18 tour. “Pond’s advance work had left Winston so angry that he threatened (CENTRAL PARK) A Pocket Map and Visitor’s Guide to the Central Park, in the to call off the tour. Posters hailed him as ‘the hero of five wars,’ at least City of New York, with all the Necessary Explanations. Fold-out map of Central one too many. A reception committee of local dignitaries featured so many Park by J.P. M’Lean at rear, measuring 4-1/4 x 19-1/2 in. 24 pp. text and Dutch names that it might have been made up of Boers … Things were illustrated ads. 12mo (4-5/8 x 3-1/8 in), New York: P. Burger & Co, 1859. not off to a good start … Winston fought with Pond — he was nothing First edition. Publisher’s cloth wrappers, titled in gilt (with some loss) but a vulgar Yankee impresario, who was taking 30 percent of the fees and on the front cover, light sporadic foxing throughout, very faint embossed subcontracting some of the lectures to local agents for a fixed guarantee” stamp to title page, near fine. Sabin 54583; not in Stokes, Iconography. (Morgan, Churchill Young Man in a Hurry, pp. 141-144). With a collection of papers and notes relating to the tour and the Churchill/Pond relation- Although maps of the park were issued in Valentine’s Manual and in the ship, including: 6 p. autograph draft of notes by Pond, describing several Reports of the Park Commissioners as early as 1858, this is likely the earli- unpleasant anecdotes concerning Churchill’s lecture tour. March 5, 1901. est separately-issued pocket map of the park. The map and text were pub- “Buel [Clarence Clogh Buel, editor of The Century Magazine] asked me lished in July 1859 (evidenced by the notice to advertisers on p. 9 and a date how I ever came to bring to this country that ass of a Churchill … ‘He is on the map itself), just one month after a notice by the Park Commission- the biggest idiot you have brought here yet’ said Buel.” The note goes on ers declaring the Ramble to be complete. The preliminary 8 pages of text to relate Richard Le Gallienne’s account of Churchill’s stay with bibliophile give a history of the park, as well as a list of the commissioners and officers James Young of Minneapolis and Churchill’s imperious behavior towards in charge of construction (including Frederick Law Olmstead and Robert his host. Eastern Union telegram from Churchill to Pond in Stamphix, Vaux). The publisher writes of this map on page 7: “In getting up the map NY, announcing his decision to lecture in North America. London, July 30, of the Park, great pains have been taken to make it as clear and intelligible 1900. “… Have decided come lecture in America during December January as possible … The most prominent and intersting portions of the Park February Perhaps fortnight longer …” with address in pencil, “35a Great which are now completed, or in the course of completion, are so distinctly Cumberland Pl. London W.” Split vertically with old repair. 26 pp. typed marked on the map that they can be seen at a glance, such as the old and carbon of notes by Pond concerning Churchill’s lecture tour and their ac- new reservoirs, play ground, parade ground, promenade, arsenal, nursery, rimonious relationship, with a few notes in Pond’s hand. A fascinating and botanical garden, skating pond, cave, walks, carriage drives, bridle roads, detailed account of the breakdown of the relationship between Churchill vista rock, and last, though not least, that at present most beautiful and and Pond, with transcripts of letters and recalled conversations. The type- delightful portion called ‘The Ramble’ …” The publisher continues by sug- script focuses on Churchill’s refusal while in Canada to continue the lecture gesting that future issues of the map will chart the progress of construc- on the grounds that his percentage of the door is too small. tion; however, no other editions of the map seem to have been published. $20,000 Following the text are 15 pages of advertisements for New York businesses, including ads for the printer James Craft, engraver and electrotypist of the map Albert H. Jocelyn, and artist of the map J.P. McLean. 20 $5,000 (CONFEDERATE IMPRINT) “Audax omnia perpeti Gens Lincolna ruit per vetium nefas.” Printed broadside of poem within ornamental border, signed “B.”. 9-3/4 x 5-1/2 inches, [Confederate States of America: s.n., Churchill Lectures in America ca. 1861]. Minor creasing, else fine. Parrish & Willingham 6222; Worlcat 19 locates 6 copies and P & W adds an additional location. CHURCHILL, Winston S. Autograph Letter, signed (“Winston S. Churchill”), “Next come we to Old Daniel Tyler, Whose only synonym is ‘riler,’ But to Major James B. Pond, with related notes. 3 pp. pen and ink on three sheets of as he’s beaten let him pass, He always was a stupid ass …” The title is 105, Mount Strett, W. stationery, rectos only, with original envelope. [New adapted from Horace and translates as, “In its boldness to dare all things, York]: January 31, 1901. Creased from prior folding, small closed tears at Lincoln’s people rush into that which is wicked and forbidden.” folds, else fine. $750 On December 1, 1900, Churchill sailed for New York to begin a two month speaking tour of North America organized by Major James Pond. The young Churchill was fresh from the battlefield of four of Queen Victoria’s 21 wars, where he served a dual role as officer and war correspondent. His lec- DANIELL, Thomas and William. A Picturesque Voyage to India, by the Way ture, “The War as I Saw It,” was a telling of his views on the South African of China. 50 hand-colored aquatint plates on thick paper after T. and W. War and his escape from captivity, all illustrated with magic lantern slides. Daniell, each plate with one accompanying leaf of text. Folio, London: Major James Burton Pond (1838-1903) was a lecture promoter who, in ad- Longman, Hurst [&c.], 1810. First edition. Contemporary half Russia and dition to Churchill, represented Samuel Clemens, Arthur Conan Doyle and marbled boards. Front joint repaired, light wear to corners, light foxing to a Henry Stanley. Churchill writes to Pond on the final day of the tour, two few plates. Abbey Travel 516; Tooley 173; Colas 797; Lipperheide 1523. days before he set sail for England on the day of Queen Victoria’s funeral. Reading in part, “I am much obliged to you for the handsome volumes you “Thomas Daniell played an instrumental role in graphically documenting have presented me with, and which I shall add to my small but growing a wide geographical and cultural range of sites across the Indian subcon- library with great satisfaction … I am of course disappointed with the tinent, travelling more extensively than any of his contemporary colonial small profit [£1,600] my tour has resulted in, but at the same time I do not artists, and earning him the title ‘artist-adventurer’” (ODNB). Thomas regret my visit to these shores for I have gained a great many new ideas Daniell, accompanied by his nephew William, left England on the China- and learned and have learned a good deal that will be of value later on. I bound Indiaman in 1785, returning to England by way of India in 1794. am sorry we had a disagreement for although I am not quite convinced The journey, financed in part by the sale of oil paintings of their travels, that you have managed the lecture tour well, I fear I was unreasonable. was documented in William’s journal and by the publication of Oriental However, any annoyance I may have caused you was more than balanced Scenery in 1795-1808 and the A Picturesque Voyage to India, by the Way by the wide circulation of your unfortunate ‘interview’; so that I think we of China in 1810. The album opens with the Indiaman’s departure from may … forget the business …” Though this letter aims at something of a Gravesend, a stop at Madiera, and a rough turn around the Cape of Good james cummins bookseller booth 509  Hope. The majority of the views depict native life in Java (including One of 12 on Vellum, in a Doves Binding shark fishing) and nautical scenes along the Chinese coast and Canton 26 River, with some scenes of Chinese dress and manners. (DOVES PRESS) [Keats, John]. Keats. [Poems. Selected and Arranged by T.J. $15,000 Cobden-Sanderson]. Printed in red and black. 203 pp. 8vo, [Hammersmith: The Doves Press], 1914 [i.e., January 1915]. One of 12 copies on vellum. Full dark blue morocco gilt, a.e.g., by the Doves Bindery, spine panels and 22 boards ruled with single gilt fillet, signed “The Doves Bindery 19 CS 15” on DARWIN, Charles. The Power of Movement in Plants. Assisted by Francis lower turn-in. Fine. Ransom 45 (12 copies printed on vellum); Tidcombe, Darwin. Illustrated with 196 in-text woodcuts. 8vo, London: John Murray, The Doves Press, DP 36. 1880. First edition, first issue, with 32 pages of advertisements at rear dated Superb collection of Keats’ verse, one of twelve copies printed on vellum, May 1878 and with two lines of errata on page x. Original green cloth gilt. in a simple and elegant Doves binding. Spine is slightly darkened, but for a book whose fragile casing and bulk usu- ally result in problems with the hinges, this is a solid, bright, near fine copy. $17,500 Freeman 1325.

This work is an extension of Darwin’s work on movement in climbing On the Closing of the Doves Press plants, showing that the same mechanisms hold true for flowering plants in 27 general. Darwin was assisted here by his son, Francis, who had become an (DOVES PRESS) Cobden-Sanderson, Thomas James. Autograph Letter, accomplished botanist. signed (“C.-S.”), to Sydney Cockerell (“Dear S.C”). 2 pp. pen and ink on one $2,500 sheet of stationery. 8vo, Upper Ifold, Dunsfold, Surrey: September 21, 1916. Faint crease from old fold.

23 Cobden-Sanderson writes to Sir Syndey Cockerell (1867-1962), former secretary to William Morris at the Kelmscott Press, on the imminent clos- DAVIS, Edmund W. Woodcock Shooting. Photogravure frontispiece and 38 ing of the Doves Press. Reading in part, “I shall be very happy to send some photogravure plates. 124 pp. 8vo, New York: [The De Vinne Press] Printed ‘memorial’ sheets when the press closes. You have been too appreciative to for Private Distribution to the Author’s Friends, 1908. No. 29 of 100 copies, be denied! As for my biography I have always been chary of that, but I may, printed on Imperial Japan paper. Recent half ivory calf and blue paper cov- when the press is moved, as I have nothing else to do, look back — try our ered boards, spine rulled in gilt with red morocco label, t.e.g. Fine. Riling memories & if they will round them off into ‘a whole’ I may perhaps give 1652; Phillips, p. 96. Not in Pettingill, Frauglione. it as a last present to my friends — but nothing will appear in the final [?] A splendid work of unsurpassed, almost lyrical, prose and superb photogra- lala copies but the ‘Vale’ & some letters & advertisements wh. have already vures — and of predictable rarity. appeared amongst the ephemera of the Press …” “Vale” is “Salve aeternum aeternumque vale,” Cobden-Sanderson’s farewell essay in the final book $3,250 of the Press, Catalogue Raisonné, printed just two months after this letter, in December 1916. On the closing of the Doves Press, Cobden-Sanderson dumped all of the Press’s fonts and matrices into the Thames. Cobden- Signed Sanderson closes the letter with a compliment to “your wife’s most beauti- 24 ful productions” and post script, “By the way I shall not forget to return (DELAUNAY, Sonia) Cohen, Arthur. Sonia Delaunay. rto, New York: the Chaucer book.“ Cockerell’s wife, Kate Cockerell, was a manuscript Abrams, [1975]. Orange cloth. Fine in fine dust jacket. SIgned by the artist illuminator and artist. Cobden-Sanderson and Cockerell’s friendship dated on the first blank. back to the days of the Kelmoscott Press, and Cockerell’s brother, Douglas, began his celebrated bookbinding career as an apprentice at the Doves $500 Bindery. $2,500 “he will have all his life after a feeling of the desert” 25 On the Closing of the Doves Press DOUGHTY, C[harles] M[ontagu]. Travels in Arabia Deserta. Hand-colored 28 folding map (loose, as issued), 8 folding plates, numerous illustrations in (DOVES PRESS) Hornby, C.H. St. John. Autograph Letter, signed (“CH S J the text. 2 vols. Thick 8vo (8-5/8 x 5-3/8 in.), Cambridge: At the Univer- Hornby”), to T.J. Cobden Sanderson (“Dear Cobden Sanderson”). 2 pp. pen and sity Press, 1888. First edition. Original green pictorial gilt cloth, uncut. ink on one sheet, Shelley House stationery. 8vo, Chelsea: Shelley House, Ownership signatures of Henry Grant, 1893. One plate in vol. I split along December 16, 1915. Faint creasing from prior folds, pen spill at right-hand fold (no loss), head of vol. II scuffed; inner hinges cracked. Very good. Blue margin. cloth folding box with individual chemises. The founder of the Ashendene Press writes to Cobden-Sanderson on his “And in truth if one live any time with the Arab, he will have all his life after sadness on the closing of the Doves Press. Reading, “It is with a touch of a feeling of the desert” (vol. I, p. 450). Handsome copy of one of the great sadness that I send you this cheque, as I fear it may be the last I shall send books of exploration, cherished both for its stately and peculiar language as you for a Doves Press Book. They have given me a great deal of pleasure well as its fascinating account of life among the Bedouins. Uncommon in for many years, more than I like to reckon up, and I don’t like to think that the original cloth. the Press is coming to an end. “At least you will be able to look back upon a $4,000 fine acheivement in respect both of form and matter of the books you have printed. It would be impossible to find from both points of view a more delightful series.” The Doves Press would close December of the following year, the final book being the Catalogue Raisonné, printed December 16,

 2013 boston international antiquarian book fair 1916. A touching sentiment from one giant of the Private Press movement 32 to another. DULLES, John Foster. Typed Note, Signed, to Alfred Eisenstaedt. One page $1,500 on letterhead of the Secretary of State, with embossed Great Seal. 8vo, Washington, D.C.: 2 May 1950. Fine.

He Invented Management $250 29 DRUCKER, Peter F. Two Autograph Notes, Signed, from management expert 33 Peter F. Drucker to photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt. Black ink on personal note- EDWARDS, George. A Natural History of Uncommon Birds, and of Some card and postcard of a Heron, 32 lines in a fine hand. With envelope. 3 x 5 Other Rare and Undescribed Animals, Quadrupeds, Reptiles, Fishes, Insects, inches, Claremont, California: 14 January 1980. Fine. etc., Exhibited in Two Hundred and Ten Copper-Plates. [With:] Gleanings of Author and management expert Peter F. Drucker (1909-2005), whose works Natural History, Exhibiting Figures of Quadrupeds, Birds, Insects, Plants. etc …. include The End of Economic Man (1939) and The Practice of Manage- 362 hand-colored engravings, sequentially numbered across both works, ment (1954), sent two fine thank you notes written after meeting photog- each engraving with facing letterpress description. Text in English and rapher Alfred Eisenstaedt The postcard is a seventeenth century Japanese French. 7 vols. 4to, London: Printed for the Author, at the Royal College painting of a Heron, credit line reading Peter F. Drucker Collection, of Physicians, 1743; 1747; 1750; 1751; 1758; 1760; 1764. First edition. Full reading in part “Just a brief note of thanks, friendship and admiration … late 18th-century blue crushed morocco gilt. Occasional light offsetting of an unforgettable experience to see a very great artist work”. Eisenstaedt’s plates to text, plates generally quite clean, some scattered light foxing to portrait of Drucker was used for the dust jacket of his 1980 book, The text, overall a beautiful set in this fine near-contemporary binding. Nissen Changing World of the Executive. 286-88; Wood, p. 329; Sitwell, p. 93. $250 “Though issued separately, they [Natural History and Gleanings] are considered as one and either must rank as imperfect without the other … At its date of issue the Natural History and Gleanings was one of the ‘The lasting memorial of old St. Paul’s” most important of all bird Books, both as a Fine Bird Book and a work 30 of Ornithology. It is still high on each list …” (Sitwell). Of these 362 DUGDALE, William. The History of St. Pauls Cathedral in London, from its exquisitely colored plates, 318 are of birds, whith a few of insects, mam- foundation untill these times: extracted out of originall charters, records, leiger mals, plants, etc. A BEAUTIFUL SET OF ONE OF THE GREAT BIRD books, and other manuscripts, beautified with sundry prospects of the church, BOOKS. figures of tombes, and monuments. Title-page in red and black, engraved $55,000 frontispiece portrait, 14 engraved plates (all but two double-page), and 30 engravings, all but one full-page (Dance of Death half-page), and one small mounted portrait of Sir Philip Sydney, by Wenceslaus Hollar. In 3 Haig-Brown on the Challenges of Conservation, Flyfishing Clubs, and parts, each with separate title page. Pagination irregular. Complete. Folio, English Poetry London: Printed by Thos. Warren, 1658. First edition. Old dark calf, spine 34 renewed with morocco lettering piece. Bookplate. Very good copy with HAIG-BROWN, Roderick. [Autograph Manuscript of a Speech on Flyfishing generous margins (small repairs to fold of the plate of the nave, small flaw and Conservation, given to the Theodore Gordon Flyfishers, at a Dinner in the at bottom margin of one plate). Manuscript corrections at pp. 39 & 172. Biltmore Hotel, New York, 16 March 1968]. Blue ink on paper, on 27 3 x 5 index Wing D2482; Pforzheimer 341; ESTC R16413; Upcott, pp. 694-698. cards (numbered 1-13, 13A-26), 11 lines in neat block letters, occasional “With the spectacle close at hand of the great church slowly deteriorating points of emphasis designated in red underlining, approximately 1250 from years of maltreatment and sacrilegious use, Dugdale rapidly com- words. Last card with note in another hand: “(speech of Roderick Haig- piled The History of St Paul’s Cathedral, which was published in 1658. Brown)”. 3 x 5 inches, [N.p.]: 1968. First card a bit toned, with a few tiny Not only did this book print the surviving documentary records of the rust stains from clip, last card with an old fold, otherwise fine. Custom half cathedral, it also preserved the appearance of the building. Its Norman morocco folding box. and Gothic details and the alterations made by Inigo Jones in the 1630s Autograph manuscript of a thoughtful and wide-ranging speech given by were recorded in extensive plates, once again prepared by Hollar, several angling author and pioneering conservationist Roderick L. Haig-Brown of them based on drawings made by William Sedgwick in 1641. With at the annual dinner of the Theodore Gordon Flyfishers, on flyfishing the destruction of the cathedral in the great fire of 1666 Dugdale’s book and conservation and the role of flyfishing clubs in promoting conserva- became the lasting memorial of old St Paul’s” — DNB. tion. “Forty years ago on the Pacific coast, I had it pretty good — forests $6,000 everywhere, clean streams coming through them & out of them, lots of fish. Not too many people. I worried, but my worries were for the future. I didn’t worry enough. I had no idea how fast it could all change or how 31 badly it could be handled.” Haig-Brown notes the rise of fly clubs all across (DULAC, Edmund) Rosenthal, Léonard. The Kingdom of the Pearl. 10 north America as the most encouraging development. He warns of pollu- mounted color plates by Edmund Dulac. 151, [1] pp. 4to, London: Nisbet tion, calls for its reducation and for cleanup of existing pollution, and adds & Co., Ltd, [1920]. First edition, no. 98 of 100 copies signed by Dulac. his voice to a growing call for the end to the use of DDT “that barbarous Publisher’s half vellum, t.e.g, rest uncut. Light scuffing and nick to bottom pesticide” (its use was not banned in the U.S. until 1972). He advocates edge of covers, else fine. Hughey 543b. careful stream management, and concludes with a look back to the English poets John Gay and James Thompson. The vast Haig-Brown archive at the $1,750 University of British Columbia records a two-page pen draft of excerpts of this speech (box 55-7), and notes for Haig-Brown’s speeches are also preserved (box 55A). Because so much is preserved in the archive, very little james cummins bookseller booth 509  Haig-Brown manuscript material is ever seen on the market. RARE AND on the assumption which I began with — that emancipation would be INTERESTING AND EVIDENTLY UNPUBLISHED. retarded by insurrection.” ¶ In an interesting aside, Higginson, a proponent of women’s suffrage, claims he would also not support violence in the $7,500 cause of women’s rights: “So I think women have a right to vote — but I would meet a female insurrection by coercion also.” ¶ Higginson’s opinion on the subject of violence and abolition would undergo a profound change 35 — a decade later he was one of the “Secret Six” that helped finance John HALFORD, Frederic M. The Author’s Manuscript for “Floating Flies and How Brown’s attempted slave rebellion at Harper’s Ferry. He would also serve to Dress Them”. Pen and ink, in Halford’s handwriting, with comments in with distinction in the Civil War, commanding the “first federally autho- the hand of G.S. Marryat, marked for the Printer, with some remarks by rized African-American regiment” (ANB). ¶ An important and revealing R.B. Marston and readers at Sampson Low, the book’s publisher). 4to, letter from one of the great figures of nineteenth century American radical London: 1886. Old fold across center, a few minor creases and marginal thought. No letter from such an early period of Higginson‘s life has ap- tears. In custom half morocco slipcase and chemise. Westwood & Satchell peared at auction in the last thirty years. Supplement, p. 246. $4,500 The manuscript of the first book by Frederic M. Halford, universally acknowledged as the founder of modern dry fly angling. In An Angler’s Autobiography, Halford referred to this book as the result of several years’ 38 collaboration with G.S. Marryat, and this manuscript bears signs that HIGHSMITH, Patricia. Strangers on a Train. [viii], 299 pp. 8vo, New York: Halford sent Marryat chapters for comment. Changes and insertions in Harper & Brothers, [1950]. First edition. Date code B-Z (February 1950) Halford’s hand can be found over pencilled remarks in Marryat’s writing on copyright page. Light blue cloth. Slightly toned at edges, else near fine (often rubbed out but still discernable). Chapter IV contains the greatest in bright, very good plus dust jacket (unclipped, price $2.75 present; spine number of these changes. Marryat, respected as the greatest angler of his and top edge of front panel slightly faded, bump at head of spine panel age, ultimately declined to use his name in the published book, and Halford with 2mm square loss; faint traces of rubbing to front and back panels). has changed the joint “We” to “I” throughout as necessary. Bookseller’s ticket at gutter of front endpaper. $40,000 Highsmith’s first novel, and the basis for Hitchcock’s celebrated film. $3,000 36 HICKS, F. C. Forty years among the Wild Animals of India. With 103 plates (of which 67 are colored), 25 sketch maps, numerous illustrations in text. Botanical Alphabets vi, 667 pp., plus [3] ff. ads. Tall 8vo, Allahabad: Printed at the Pioneer 39 Press, 1910. First edition. Recent full green pebbled morocco, contrasting HOROWITZ, Sarah, illustrator. Alpha Botanica. Two title-pages, 26 spine label. Signed by the author on title page, “No. (62) F.C. Hicks, 9-7-10”; capital letters of the Roman alphabet, 22 capitals of the Hebrew, and 2 with two later owner signatures in top margin. Fine. Czech Asia pp. 104-5. colophon blocks engraved by Sarah Horowitz. 2 parts in one volume. 5 x 5 inches, Wiesedruck: Wiesedruck, 2007. No. 11 of 45 copies signed by Colossal and comprehensively illustrated record of the author’s sporting Sarah Horowitz and Claudia Cohen. Full black leather stamped with an life in India, with accounts of hunting tiger, panthers, buffalo, bison, ante- undulating pattern of gilt wreaths, cloth folding box with leather spine lope, and a variety of smaller game. UNCOMMON. labels, by Claudia Cohen. $2,000 $950

“Emancipation would be retarded by insurrection” 40 37 HULL, Cordell. Typed Letter, Signed (“Cordell Hull”), to Alfred Eisenstaedt, HIGGINSON, Thomas Wentworth. Autograph Letter, signed (“T.W. Hig- acknowledging receipt of photographs. 1 page, signed in ink, on a bifolium ginson”), to Mr. Samuel Brooke of the Anti-Slavery Office, Boston. 3 pp. pen and of his letterhead as Secretary of State, with the Great Seal in blind. 8vo, ink on blue paper biofolium, integral address leaf with remnant of wax Washington, D.C.: 2 July 1937. Fine. seal. 4to, Newburyport, [MA]: September 19, 1848. Light creasing from prior folding, small stubs on p. 4 from prior mounting. Not in Letters and The American Secretary of State to the great Life magazine photographer Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, 1846-1906 (1921). Alfred Eisenstaedt.

A lengthy, early letter from abolitionist Thomas Wentworth Higginson $450 (1823-1911) to Samuel Brooke of the Boston Anti-Slavery League. Higgin- son’s letter is a continuation of a conversation on language in the Constitu- tion of the Anti-Slavery Office regarding slave insurrections and the role 41 of violence in the abolitionist cause. ¶ Reading in part, “I think a slave HUMPHREY, Hubert. Typed Letter, Signed, to Life Magazine photographer insurrection would be a terrible thing for all parties — would end either in Alfred Eisenstaedt. One page on Senate Committee on Foreign Relations let- a war of extermination or in restoring the slaves to a more hopeless slavery. terhead. Washington, D.C: 22 January 1959. Old folds. Fine. My only hope is in peaceful emancipation, hastened (among other things) by Northern agitation. So strongly do I feel this, that I should feel war- Brief note, boldly signed, thanking Eisenstaedt for the gift of color slides ranted in not merely discouraging but actively suppressing an insurrection from a photo session in New York. … In short I should interfere to *prevent* bloodshed not *create* it … If $175 I were on a plantation & the slaves proposed rebelling I would [?]distract them (I should encourage them to *run away*) — If they persisted I think I should feel free to prevent it (short of bloodshed) … This all lays of course

 2013 boston international antiquarian book fair 42 Inscribed to His Mother Rose HUNTER, Dard. The Literature of Papermaking, 1390-1800. 48 pp. Hand- 46 printed in type of Hunter’s own design on hand-made paper, and illustrated KENNEDY, Edward M. In Critical Condition. The Crisis in America’s Health with numerous text reproductions from old engravings and with 26 tipped- Care. 8vo, New York: Simon and Schuster, [1972]. First edition. Full red in facsimiles. Folio (16-1/2 x 11-1/2 inches; 41.9 x 29.2 cm), Chillicothe: morocco extra gilt, a.e.g., by the Harcourt Bindery, Boston. In full crimson Mountain House Press, 1925. Limited to 190 numbered copies, signed by morocco slipcase. Fine. the author, this being copy no. 177. Loose as issued in the original half- linen portfolio, with ties. Portfolio with spotting, occasional offsetting from In a fine presentation binding, inscribed by the author, “To Mother, who facsimiles. An incredible achievement in bookmaking and scholarship, Dard continues to inspire all the family, with my love, Ted. 25 December 1972.” Hunter’s second book on the subject. $7,500 $3,500

JFK’s First Book, Inscribed to Newsman Arthur Krock 43 47 (ISLAMIC MANUSCRIPT) Qur’an [Koran]. Illuminated manuscript on KENNEDY, John F. Why England Slept. xx, 252 pp. 8vo, New York: Wilfred polished paper, 21-line ghubar script within gilt borders, with double page opening Funk, Inc, 1940. First edition. Publisher’s rose cloth. Spine faded, light illuminated in gold, blue, and rose with floral ornaments, text fully vocalized with wear to spine ends. catchwords, gilt dot aya markers, surah headings in red within small gilt panels. Occasional marginal corrections. 215 leaves. Complete. 16mo (108 x 66 mm), The first edition of John F. Kennedy’s first book, inscribed to Arthur Krock: [Ottoman Turkey or Egypt: mid- to late 19th century C.E.]. Contempo- “To Mr. Krock. Who Baptized, Christened, and was Best Man for this rary brown leather, covers with gilt borders, with onlaid gilt lozenges and book — with my sincere thanks, Jack Kennedy.” Arthur Krock (1886-1974), cornerpieces, matching fore edge guard, blue marbled paper endsheets. the “Dean of Washington Newsmen,“ was Washington correspondent Half a dozen leaves with small smudges affecting legibility of a few lines, and bureau chief for the New York Times and wrote the “In the Nation” else fine. column. He was a close friend and political ally of Joe Kennedy and his children. He advised John F. Kennedy with the revisions of his 1939 senior A beautiful pocket Qur’an, finely executed in a tiny, legible hand. honors paper, “Appeasement in Munich,” in preparation for its publication the following year. It was Krock who suggested the new title, Why England $3,500 Slept, a response to Churchill’s While England Slept. Krock would continue to advise the young Kennedy, who thanked him In the Preface to Profiles in Courage. Ted Kennedy wrote admiringly of Krock in his tribute volume to Firuzabadi’s “Ocean of Words,” the Great Arabic Dictionary his father: ”Mr. Krock has long been one of the most respected newsmen 44 and columnists in Washington. He was won two Pulitzer Prizes for his (ISLAMIC MANUSCRIPT) Firuzabadi, Muhammad ibn Ya‘qub. [al- work. He met Dad [Joseph Kennedy] during the New Deal years and won Qamus al-Muhit wal-Qabus al-Wasit] [Arabic Manuscript Dictionary]. Black his deep admiration. Mr. Krock advised President Kennedy in the writ- ink on polished native paper, 31 lines in nasta’liq, fully vocalized within gilt ing of his first book, Why England Slept, and has been a source of valued borders, gilt polychrome floral headpiece, sectional headwords in gilt or help to my brothers and myself ” (Edward Kennedy, The Fruitful Bough: A red or blue, catchwords in dust script. 610 leaves. 4to (7 x 10-1/2 inches), Tribute to Joseph P. Kennedy, p. 112). [Ottoman Turkey or Persia: 18th century C.E.]. Contemporary Islamic [With:] As We Remember Joe. Edited by John F. Kennedy. Privately Print- binding, red leather, boards and fore-edge guard with gilt rule borders and ed: Cambridge, Mass, 1945. First edition, second issue. Original burgundy central gilt ornaments, short title in Arabic in ink on bottom edge, paper cloth. Fine copy. Inscribed, “For Martha and Arthur Krock, Bob Kennedy. spine label. Binding slightly rubbed, last half dozen leaves with marginal Christmas 1965.” Krock contributed a short reminiscence of Joe Kennedy repairs (terminal leaf and one other remargined), dampstaining, cheifly in from the 1940 Democratic National Convention, pp. 39-41. margins and not affecting text. Bookplate of E.H. Whinfield and another. KENNEDY, Robert F. The Enemy Within. Harper & Brothers: New York, Provenance: Edward Henry Whinfield (1836-1922), translator and scholar. 1960. First edition. Publisher’s cloth. Spine faded. Inscribed, “To Arthur Brockelmann, GAL, II, 233; SII, 234. Krock, With the thanks and admiration of his friend, Bob Kennedy.” Krock The great Arabic Dictionary of Firuzabadi (1329-1415 C.E.), for many years wrote the foreword to The Enemy Within. the standard work, in an attractive and legible manuscript copy, undated, The Fruitful Bough: A Tribute to Joseph P. Kennedy. Collected by Edward but most likely produced in the middle to late eighteenth century. With M. Kennedy. Privately Printed, 1965. Original blue cloth. Some scuffing to interesting provenance: British scholar E.H. Whinfield served in the Bengal front cover. Inscribed, “To Arthur Krock, Who helped make The Fruit- Civil Service and was a translator of Sufi texts, the verse of Rumi. He pre- ful Bough possible. With appreciation. Ted Kennedy. Sept 6 1965.” With pared a bilingual edition of the Rubaiyat or Quatrains of Omar Khayyam carbon of typescript of Krock’s contribution to the volume as submitted (1883), and in 1898 he published a volume of Verses and Translations. for editing. $7,500 $60,000

45 48 KELLY, Gene. Typed Note, Signed, to Alfred Eisenstaedt. One page, on his let- KOOSMANN, Chuck. The Whale. Photographs by Chuck Koosmann. Text by terhead at MGM Studios. 7-1/4 x 6 inches, Culver City: 1949. Fine. David Ledlie. Full color illustrations from photographs. Oblong folio, [Af- ton, Minnesota]: White Pine Prints, [2012]. First edition, one of 100 copies Reading in part, “Thanks for your nice note and the reviews. … I can’t tell printed. Black cloth. As new in dust jacket. you how pleased I am to hear from you in this way … [signed] Gene Kelly.” Lavishly illustrated work on the Whale River Salmon Camp, founded $250 in 1967 by Stan Karbowski (1917-2010), the people, the flora, and the james cummins bookseller booth 509  surrounding landscape of northern Quebec. The photographer, Chuck The Nobel Laureate Thanks the Photographer Koosman, first visited the Whale in 2001. David Ledie has fished the river 52 for 18 years, and chronicles the history of the camp and the changes in the MANN, Thomas. Typed Letter, Signed, to Alfred Eisenstaedt, on Munich let- salmon runs over the decades, noting that the numbers of fish seen and terhead, thanking him for portrait photographs. One page, signed in black ink. caught came back dramatically when the Greenland and Newfoundland 4to, Poschingerstr. 1, Munich: 29 January 1930. Old folds, pinhole tear at commercial salmon fisheries were bought out. A beautiful production. center, else fine. $400 German author Thomas Mann was awarded the Nobel prize in lterature in 1929, and Alfred Eisenstaedt was there to take his picture. Mann writes the young photographer to acknowledge receipt of photographs, read- Sophia Loren to Alfred Eisenstaedt ing in part: «Die Aufnahmen sind ebenso wohlgelungen wie die vorigen, 49 besonders gefallen mir die Grossaufnahmene von mir allein und von mir LOREN, Sophia. [Group of 12 Autograph Notes, Signed, to photographer Alfred mit meiner Frau. Ich freue mich, auch diese hübschen Andenken menem Eisenstaedt]. Ink on engraved letterheads or note cards. With envelopes. kleinen nordischen Reiseerinnerungen-Archiv einfügen zu können, und 12mo and smaller, Paris, Montreux, Rome, Nice, etc.: 1962-1969. A few begrüsse Sie mit widerholten Dank.» [I am especially pleased with the old folds, else fine. large format portraits of me alone and of me with my wife. I will be happy to add these lovely mementos to the small archive of my northern tour.] Alfred Eisenstaedt photographed the great Italian actress Sophia Loren Mann (1875-1955) left Germany for Switzerland in 1933 after the Nazi rise on many occasions during their long friendship and invited him and his to power. With one-page typed letter, signed, from Walter Israel, editor of wife Kathy to visit them at the Villa Ponti in Rome — despite a ban on Funkstunde (radio magazine), introducing Eisenstaedt to radio announcer photographers. Sophia Loren addressed Eisenstaedt variously as “Dear Alfred Braun, who reported from Stockholm on the 1929 Nobel Prize One,” “Eisie,” “Dear dear one,’ or simply “Dearest friends”. These are short ceremony. expressions of good wishes or thanks over a seven-year period, with oc- casional notes connected with visits. He continued to photograph her into $1,000 the late 1980s. With the carbon copy of a letter to her from Eisenstaedt, and a 1964 Radiogram in Italian from Sophia Loren, with a typewritten translation above it, “Dear Eisie, I have always said that you are the greatest 53 and most sensistive photographer in the world …” MILNE, A. A. When We Were Very Young. Illustrations by E.H. Shepard. 100 $1,000 pp. 8vo, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co, [1924]. First American edition, one of 500 copies of Special edition. Green cloth-backed pictorial boards. Some minor soiling to boards, rubbing to spine and board edges, else very good. 50 $1,500 MACLEAN, Norman. A River Runs through It and Other Stories. 8vo, Chi- cago and London: University of Chicago Press, [1976]. First edition (less than 1200 copies printed). Original blue cloth, original dust jacket. Fine A Promotion from the Young General — for Valor at Toulon copy. 54 Written in the form of a novella, Norman Maclean‘s autobiographical title NAPOLÉON. Manuscript Document, copy, co-signed (“Buonaparte”) as général story of fly fishing and life is drawn from his early years spent mostly in the de brigade, promoting an artillery officer to captain for his valor at the siege of Rocky Mountain region. Though critically acclaimed, the work received Toulon. One page on recto of single bifolium. 4to, Nice: “le 13 germinal, little attention until its adaptation as a major film, after which it achieved l’an 2 de la République” [April 2, 1794]. Somewhat soiled, one stain, but tremendous popular success. In addition to the title story, this collection good and legible. includes “Logging and Pimping and ‘Your Pal, Jim’” and “USFS 1919: The Ranger, the Cook, and a Hole in the Sky.” A lovely copy of the first edition Interesting document early in the career of the 24-year-old Napoleon, of the author’s first book. 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. Bri- $3,250 gade General, Commander of Artillery of the Army of Italy, Buonaparte.” Napoléon himself had been promoted only months before to the rank of Brigade General for his actions at the siege of Toulon. The original, of Rare Uncorrected Proofs which this is an official copy, was signed by the two “deputés-en-mission” 51 from the National Convention, Augustin Robespierre, younger brother MACLEAN, Norman. A River Runs through It and Other Stories. Oblong 4to, of Maximilien, and Salicetti. It was they who provisionally promoted Na- Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, [1976]. Uncorrected poléon to the rank of brigade general; here, the names of all three appear page proofs. Printed blue wrappers. Fine. Morocco backed clamshell box. in a document which mirrors the promotion of Napoleon himself at the beginning of one of the most astounding military careers ever recorded. Written in the form of a novella, Norman Maclean‘s autobiographical title story is drawn from his early years spent mostly in the Rocky Mountain $4,250 region. Though critically acclaimed, the work received little attention until its adaptation as a major film, after which it achieved tremendous popular success. In addition to the title story, this collection includes “Logging and The Second Principia Pimping and ‘Your Pal, Jim’” and “USFS 1919: The Ranger, the Cook, and a 55 Hole in the Sky.” Examples of the advance proof are rare. NEWTON, Isaac. Philosophiae naturalis Principia mathematica. Auctore $4,500 Isaaco Newtonio Equite Aurato. Editio Secunda Auctior et Emendatior. Engraved vignette on title, one folding engraved plate, and numerous woodcut dia- grams and illustrations in the text. 14 leaves, 484, [8] pp. 4to, Cambridge:

 2013 boston international antiquarian book fair [Cornelius Crownfield], 1713. The second edition, expanded and correct- One of 175 signed, specially bound and with suite of prints. Black cloth. ed, and the first to include the General Scholium in which Newton gives a Plates in card folder with mounted portrait. In black cloth drop box. Lack- general resumé of the work. One of about 750 copies printed, of which 250 ing one print from the suite, one print toned along one margin, else Fine. were sent to Holland and France. Modern brown half morocco and cloth, In original mailing box. two small paper repairs to title page at right margin and one small repair to the second leaf, not affecting the text. Wallis 8; Grey 8; Babson 8; DSB X, p. Georgia O’Keeffe writing about the paintings of Georgia O’Keeffe. 64; for the first edition of the PRINCIPIA (1687), see: PMM 161; Dibner 11; $3,750 Horblit 78; Norman 1586.

The critical second edition of what is incontestably the single most impor- Oppenheimer to Eisie tant scientific work ever published, one which laid the foundations for mod- ern physics. Published in Newton’s lifetime by his friend and collaborater, 58 Roger Cotes (1682-1716), this edition contains for the first time Cotes’ Pref- OPPENHEIMER, Robert. Typed Letter, Signed (“Robert Oppenheimer”), To ace which lays out Newton’s method, a 7 pp. Index, and most importantly, Alfred Eisenstaedt. One sheet, signed in ink, on his letterhead as Director, Newton’s own celebrated conclusion entitled SCHOLIUM GENERALE Institute for Advanced Study. 4to, Office of the Director, Institute for Ad- (pp. 481-484), written in response to the objections of Berkeley and Leibniz, vanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey: 6 January 1948. Old folds, one small in which the author expresses the religious conceptions underlying and wrinkle, else fine. supporting his empirical-mathematical construct. “Copernicus, Galileo and Kepler had certainly shown the way; but where they described the Excellent letter from physicist Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967) to Alfred phenomena they observed, Newton explained the underlying universal Eisenstaedt, who photographed Albert Einstein and Oppenheimer together laws. The PRINCIPIA provided the great synthesis of the cosmos, proving for Life magazine in December 1947: “My compliments to you on the pho- finally its physical unity. Newton showed that the important and dramatic tographs in Life. They were indeed excellent and a fine example of your aspects of nature that were subject to the universal law of gravitation work. I should like to express the thanks and appreciation of the members could be explained, in mathematical terms, within a single physical theory. and Faculty of the Institute for your patience and courtesy in your dealings With him the separation of natural and supernatural, of sublunar and with us.” Eisenstaedt returned to the Institute for Advanced Study to pho- superlunar worlds disappeared. The same laws of gravitation and motion tograph Oppenheimer on several later occasions. rule everywhere; for the first time a single mathematical law could explain $1,750 the motion of objects on earth as well as the phenomena of the heavens. The whole cosmos is composed of inter-connecting parts influencing each other according to these laws” (PMM). 59 $27,500 OPPENHEIMER, Robert. Typed Letter, Signed (“Robert Oppenheimer”), To Alfred Eisenstaedt. One sheet, signed in ink, on his letterhead as Director, Institute for Advanced Study. 8vo, Office of the Director, Institute for Nixon after His Tour of Central America Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey: 17 July 1956. Fine. 56 Fine note from physicist Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967) to Alfred Eisen- NIXON, Richard. Two Typed Letters, Signed (“Dick Nixon”), to LIFE photog- staedt, who famously photographed Albert Einstein and Oppenheimer rapher Alfred Eisenstaedt, concerning Nixon’s Central American tour. Each one together for Life magazine in December 1947. Eisenstaedt returned to the page on letterhead of Office of the Vice President, signed in ink. With mail- Institute for Advanced Study to photograph Oppenheimer on several later ing envelopes. 4to, Washington, D.C: 6 April and 16 June 1955. Fine. occasions. He writes, “Thank you for remembering to send me some of the photographs you took. The two you sent to me seem very fine …” Vice President Dick Nixon writes to Life magazine photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt about the recent goodwill tour of Mexico, Cuba, El Salvador, $1,750 and Honduras. Eisenstaedt accompanied the party as photographer. The issue of LIFE for 28 February 1955 carried a feature on ‘The Muy Sim- patico Mr. Nixon’ with his photographs. Two letters: the first, dated 6 One Copy on Vellum, 9 on Colored Papers April, reads “Mrs. Noxon and I greatly enjoyed having yo uwith us and we 60 both thought that the picture story in Life was outstanding in every way. I (PANCKOUCKE, Charles-Louis-Fleury) G[aillard], E[mmanuel]. Épître don’t know when another trip will be scheduled but you can be sure that à Charles Panckoucke. 4 leaves (title leaf and 6 pages of verse signed we would be delighted to have you with us again …” The second, dated “E.G.”). 10 volumes in one4to (21.5 x 13.0 cm), [Paris]: 1819. Ten different 16 June, reading in part “… thoughtful of you to send us so many of the copies: ONE PRINTED ON VELLUM and 9 printed on different colors of colored slides you took on the Central American tour. … You have been wove paper. Bound together in contemporary gold-tooled red straight- traveling since we last saw you! … I’d like to hear about your latest trip. …” grained morocco gilt, flat spine, edges uncut. OCLC: 5586619. With the carbon copy of Eisenstaedt’s letter to Nixon dated 12 May 1955, headlined Addis Ababa in ballpoint pen, giving a brief summary of Eisie’s Extremely rare copy of this verse tribute to the great publisher Panck- travels “since I left you in Honduras” With an invitation from Vice Presi- oucke (1780-1844), who produced some of the monumental books of the dent and Mrs. Nixon to a reception at Blair House on Wednesday 2 Febru- 19th century, such as Dictionnaire des Sciences Médicales, Description de ary 1955. With a typed letter, signed, from Nixon to Eisenstaedt 23 January l’Egypte and La Flore Médicale. His wife, Anne-Ernestine Panckoucke 1958, thanking him for pictures of the visit of the King of Morocco. (1784-1860), painter and pupil of Redouté, contributed to the afore- $750 mentioned as well as to other plate-books printed by her husband; and the poems praises her charms and talents as well. Ten copies of the poem, one printed on vellum and 9 on paper of different colors (including mauve, 57 blue, green, beige, pink), are here bound together; it may be the Panck- oucke family’s own copy. The book in any form is very rare; it is not in Van O’KEEFFE, Georgia . Georgia O’Keeffe. 108 color plates. With extra suite Praet or Alston; there is no copy on any paper in the British Library; nor is comprising 15 [of 16] color plates. Folio, New York: Viking Press, 1976. the poem mentioned in the dictionaries of anonymous and pseudonymous james cummins bookseller booth 509  works by Barbier and Quérard. OCLC locates one copy only of the book smaller) is tipped to a larger sheet; two are entirely uncolored, another only (Cambridge U.) — but it doesn’t contain the issue on vellum. partially. Folio, [Italian?]: ca. 1850. Bound together in three quarter red morocco by Pawson & Nicholson, Philadelphia, with their ticket. Rebacked $6,000 in goatskin, original spine laid down, inner hinges reinforced with period cloth.

Surgical & Astrological Works of Paracelsus, Straßburg 1605 A superb collection of lovely lithographed images which, in many instances 61 are so delicately and minutely colored as to be indistinguishable from wa- PARACELSUS. Chirurgische Bücher und Schrifften … [With:] Aureoli … Opera tercolor drawings — and indeed, several of them we believe to be entirely Bücher und Schrifften … Ander Theyl. Darinnen die Magischen und Astrologischen original drawings — each in the style of the ancient art of Pompeii in its Bücher … auch von dem philosophischen Stein handlende Tractatus begriffen … frescoes, geometric mosaics, and ceramics. There are scenes of mythologi- Title page printed in red and black within woodcut border, portrait of cal figures (e.g., a satyr cavorting with a goat); scenes of purely decorative Paracelsus, woodcut printer’s devices. Ander-, Dritter-, Vierdter Theil, nature, suggestive of Pompeian vase art against a black gloss background; and Appendix of first work each have sectional title. Second work with domestic scenes of husband, wife, and children; cupids; pastoral scenes; fish 62 woodcut figures in text, numerous astrological signs and sigils. (:)8, and game; and several images of an openly erotic nature suggestive of the A-Dd6, Ee8, Ff-Aaaa6, Bbbb8, (:)4, a-Mm6, Nn4. Pp. [16], 680 [i.e., 686], relaxed style of Pompeiian attitudes toward nudity. [32], [2], 115, [5]; [8], 691, [13]. 2 volumes bound in oneFolio, Straßburg: $5,000 In Verlegung Lazari Zetzners Buchhändler, 1605; 1603. First edition of the complete Surgical Books; First Folio edition in German of the Magical and Astrological Books. Nineteenth century half calf and boards. Terminal Presidents, Politicians, Rogues, and Others leaf with repair at gutter, C6 in facsimile (with contemporary notation of 64 its absence in ink on verso of C5, “Hier fehlt ein Blatt”), contemporary an- notations. Some rubbing of spine, occasional soiling of text. Sudhoff 267, (Presidential Autographs) Group of Letters, Signed, to Life Magazine photog- 257; Wellcome Catalogue 4811, 4808. rapher ALFRED EISENSTAEDT, from U.S. Presidents, Politicians, and Scoundrels, including Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, Alexander Haig, Spiro Sudhoff praises the surgical volume of this German folio edition edited Agnew, Barry Goldwater, etc., with related ephemera. 8vo and smaller, Washing- by Huser: “Dieser chirurgische Band der deutschen Folioausgabe ist ganz ton, D.C., etc.: 1964-1994. Generally fine. anders zu beurteilen als die beiden medicinisch-philosophischen Bände: er ist abgesehen von der gr. Wundarznei ein vollständig neues Werk nach Group of correspondence and ephemera from American Presidents and Huser’s Handschrift gedruckt und von allergrößtem Werthe für die Ken- politicians to Life Magazine photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt, variously ntnis Hohenheims … eine hochverdienstliche Arbeit des bescheidenen Joh. acknowledging receipt of photographs, pleasure at Life Magazine appear- Huser” (p. 464: with the exception of the Grosse Wundartzney, a complete- ances, and other milestones in Eisie’s long, rich life. Comprising: Barry ly new work, printed from Huser’s manuscript and of the utmost value to GOLDWATER. Two typed letters, signed, on his Senate letterhead. 16 knowledge of Paracelsus). Bound with the volume of magical and alchemi- February and 12 March 1964, concerning a photo session in Phoenix, cal works edited by Huser and published in Strassburg in 1603. Uncommon questions about a lens, and a possible visit to to Eisie’s lab in New York. Goldwater was a distinguished photographer whose book The Faces of $15,000 Arizona was published in 1964. Lyndon B. JOHNSON. Telegram invitation and engraved invitation to a White house reception, June 1965. With en- velope. Telegram toned with chips along one edge. Henry A. KISSINGER. The Australian Jungle Books, Inscribed Typed letter, signed, on White House stationery, 22 January 1970. John N. 62 MITCHELL. Typed letter, signed, on his letterhead as Attorney General, 25 PARKER, Mrs K. Langloh. Australian Legendary Tales. Folk-Lore of the February 1970. Spiro T. AGNEW. Typed letter, signed, on his letterhead as Noongahburrahs as told to Piccaninnies. WITH: More Australian Legendary Tales. Vice President, 25 February 1970. Jimmy CARTER. Typed letter, autopen Collected from Various Tribes. With a Introduction to each volume by Andrew signature as President, on White House stationery, 14 December 1978, Lang. With ‘illustrations by a native artist [Tommy Macrae], and a specimen “Best wishes on your eightieth birthday …” With envelope. Alexander of the native text.’ vi, 132, 12 (illustrated catalogue) and xxiv, 104, 16 (illus- HAIG. Typed letter, signed “Al”, on his letterhead as president of United trated catalogue). 2 vols. 8vo, London: David Nutt, 1897 & 1898. Second Technologies. 9 December 1980, concerning the exhibition at National edition of the first title and first edition of the second title. Original green Museum of American Art. With envelope. Ronald REAGAN. Typed letter, cloth. Clarke, Patricia. Rosa! Rosa! A life of Rosa Praed, Novelist and Spiri- autopen signature as President, on White House stationery, 15 May 1981, tualist (Melbourne University Press, 1999). “Nancy and I deeply appreciate your kindness in sending us the album of photographs that you took of our Ranch del Cielo …” With envelope. Bill The first volume is inscribed, “To Mrs Campbell Praed In recognition of CLINTON. Engraved invitation to White House ceremony for recipients her - - appreciation of the race to whom these legends belong K. Langloh of the National Medal of Arts, 14 October 1994. With envelope. A slice of Parker Oct 1905.” The second volume is signed “R. W. Praed” Rosa Camp- American history addressed to the man whose photographs document it. bell Praed (1851-1931), prolific Australian-born novelist and spiritualist, whose fantastic novels and works on Australian subjects remain of endur- $550 ing interest. From the library of anthropologist Ashley Montagu A classic work with an outstanding Australian literary association. 65 $1,250 RADCLIFFE, Ann. The Mysteries of Udolpho. A Romance Interspersed with Some Pieces of Poetry. [ii], 428; [ii], 478; [ii], 463, [1]; [ii], 428 pp., without half- titles. 4 vols. 12mo, London: Printed for C.G. and J. Robinson, 1794. First Exquisite Images of Pompeian Frescoes edition. Contemporary quarter calf and marbled boards, red leather spine 63 labels. Slight rubbing to joints and corners, internally fine, clean and crisp. (POMPEII) Album of 55 exquisitely colored lithographs and watercolor draw- Rothschild 1701; Summers, pp. 434-35. ings in the style of Pompeiian frescoes. Each plate (8-1/2 x 10-1/2 in., and

 2013 boston international antiquarian book fair A choice copy of one of the most famous and best-selling gothic romances Nelson Rockefeller of the last 200 years, reprinted, translated, adapted, and dramatized innu- 68 merable times during the nineteenth century and into our own ROCKEFELLER, Nelson A. Group of 5 Typed Letters, signed (“Nelson”, etc.), $4,500 to Alfred Eisenstaedt. 8vo, Executive Chamber, Albany: 1959-1966. Old folds, some light toning, else fine. With two envelopes.

A choice group of letters from Gov. Nelson Rockefeller to photographer Two by the Great Rafinesque Alfred Eisenstaedt on personal topics including praise for photographs by 66 Eisie in connection with several photo shoots, a trip out West, and gift of a RAFINESQUE, Constantine. Précis des découvertes et travaux somiologiques book. With a typed note, signed (“Happy Rockefeller”) on Executive Man- de Mr. C. S. Rafinesque-Schmaltz, entre 1800 et 1814 … en Zoologie et en Bota- sion letterhead dated 30 August 1965, concerning the photos of her and nique, pour servir d’introduction à ses ouvrages futurs. [With:] Circular Address Nelson, Jr., in Life magazine i nthe summer of 1965. on Botany and Zoology; followed by the prospectus of two periodical works, Annals of Nature and Somiology of North America. 55, [1]; 36 pp. 2 works in one $750 volume12mo (136 x 92mm), Palermo; Philadelphia: printed for the author, 1814; 1816. First editions of both works. Near-contemporary blue leather- backed marbled paper-covered boards, spine gilt. Upper joint split but hold- Rowlandson & Woodward Present ... ing, infrequent light foxing. BM Nat. Hist. p. 1638; Circular Address: Sabin 69 67448; Eberstadt 138-604; Meisel III, p. 377. (ROWLANDSON, Thomas) Stevens, Geo. Henry. A Lecture on Heads ... with Additions, as Delivered by Mr. Charles Lee Lewes. To which is added, An Two rare and early works by the polymath naturalist Constantine Essay on Satire. Folding handcolored frontispiece delivering ‘A Lecture’ to a Rafinesque (1783-1840), born in Constantinople and raised in Marseilles, crowded audience at Covent Garden, and 24 engraved plates of “heads” in though his name is forever associated with American botany, zoology, and rear by THOMAS ROWLANDSON, after drawings by GEORGE WOOD- linguistics. After an American apprenticeship, Rafinesque lived in Palermo WARD. xii, 96 pp. 12mo, London: Printer for Vernorn, Hood, and Sharpe from 1805 to 1815 and published classifications of new plants and animals ..., 1808. First edition. Uncut in the original drab wrappers. Spine defective in Sicily. The first title, printed in Palermo, reviews his work during the and sewing loosening - but a remarkable copy of a fragile book, as such, preceding decade and “serves as an introduction to his future works.” The in red cloth slipcase with chemise, black leather spine label. Grego, pp. second title, his first publication in America, announces an amibitious serial 117-118. publication to record the natural history of North America. Rafinesque’s Florula Ludoviciana (1817) provoked controversy and a hostile reception. A rollicking, collaborative romp by Woodward & Rowlandson, with the “Rafinesque’s ‘natural’ system, adapted from French prototypes developed designs attributed to Woodward and the engravings to Rowlandson. As by Michel Adanson and Antoine de Jussieu, grouped plants according to for the text, according to Grego, “George Stevens ... was a very indifferent their perceived morphological relationships, a system that prevailed by the actor, but a man of humorous parts, and in himself was considered, by his middle of the century … But his life’s work was totally ignored by his con- contemporaries, most entertaining company. The idea of the lecture was temporaries, most of whom agreed with fellow botanist L.D. von Schwein- given him by a country carpenter, who made the character-blocks which itz, who wrote in 1832 that ‘he is doubtless a man of immense knowledge formed the subjects of illustration. Ir proved an extraordinary success in — as badly digested as may be & crack-brained I am sure’ … His reputa- the hands of its originator ... after he retired more than one actor at- tion was rehabilitated about the middle of the twentieth century when it tempted it, with poor results. Lewis [grandfather of George Henry Lewes, was acknowledged by most botanists that most of Rafinesque’s 6,700 Latin George Eliot’s partner] was the most succesful of Stevens’ imitators …” plant names had been validly published according to rules since adopted by From the library of anthropologist Ashley Montagu, who was, due to his the botanists themselves” (ANB). Rafinesque, who is also well known for early training in anatomy, a notable connoisseur of “heads.” his work on the fishes of the Ohio and his studies of the mound-builders of the Ohio valley, was an early observer of the impermanence of species. $850 Darwin cited him in Origin of Species (6th ed.) as one of three American naturalists who recognized that “species undergo modification.” RARE. 70 $8,000 SCHREINER, William H. Schreiner’s Sporting Manual. A Complete Treatise on Fishing, Fowling and Hunting … Wood-engraved frontispiece, and other illustrations. 147 pp. 12mo, Philadelphia: [Stereotyped by S.D. Wyeth], Winner of the 1928 Nobel Prize in Physics 1841. First edition. Original brown cloth stamped in gilt and blind. Some 67 rubbing to spine ends and lower joint, minor foxing, chiefly at first and last RICHARDSON, Owen Willans. Autograph Letter, Signed (“O.W. Richard- leaves. Very good plus, bright copy. Bookplate. Cloth folding box. Gee, p. son”), to Alfred Eisenstaedt, concerning Nobel laureate F.W. Hopkins. One page, 80; Henderson, p. 218; Phillips, p. 334; Westwood & Satchell, p. 189; Good- in ink, on a bifolium letterhead. 12mo, Haverstock Hill, Hampstead, Lon- speed, p. 158. don: 30 December 1929. Fine. The work is divided into two parts, the first concerning fishing and the Owen Willans Richardson (1879-1959) was a leading British physicist and second dealing with shooting, hunting, dogs, etc. A scarce book, especially winner of the 1928 Nobel Prize in Physics who ‘kept a good table and a in the original cloth. It is, as Goodspeed points out, “THE FIRST OF well-stocked cellar (wherein whisky was drawn from the wood)” (ODNB). OUR SPORTING BOOKS TO TREAT OF THE ANGLER’S NEEDS IN A He accepted his prize during the 1929 ceremony. Attractive autograph SYSTEMATIC WAY.” He goes on to say, “In orthodox fashion Schreiner letter from the Nobel laureate to Alfred Eisenstaedt thanking him for begins with an eulogy on sport, but on the unusual ground of its thera- photographs of the Nobel award ceremony in Stockholm and providing an peutic value — ‘it is a well established fact that by a judicious indulgence in address for 1929 Nobel laureate in medicine Frederick Gowland Hopkins, the favorite sciences of fishing and gunning, many important diseases may discoverer of glutathione. be removed; among which are cited indigestion, nervous derangement, nervous pains, and debility, rheumatism, and spinal affections, and even the $500 indomitable, though very prevalent and alarming complaint of the lungs.’” james cummins bookseller booth 509  A FASCINATING CONTRIBUTION TO THE POPULARIZATION OF published, and now a recognized classic. Emerson famously declined to SPORT IN AMERICA. review his friend’s book; but the present copy makes it clear that some did commit their opinions to print: tipped in at the verso of the announce- $3,000 ment for Walden is a 500-word review of the ‘Week’, signed in type “F.”, and with initials “O.B.F.” in ink below, in the hand of Octavius Brooks Frothingham (1822–1895), Harvard class of 1843, Divinity School class of Hoe Copy of Shelley’s verse drama 1846, and in 1849 the minister of the North Church in Salem, Mass. It is 71 likely from a Salem paper, possibly the Observer. Thoreau’s lectures were SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe. The Cenci. A Tragedy. 104 pp. 8vo (9-1/8 x 5-3/4 announced in the paper, and in the early 1850s, Frothingham had pam- inches: 232 x 146 mm.), [Livorno], Italy: Printed for C. and J. Ollier Vere phlets printed at the Observer print shop and his discourses were reported Street, Bond Street, 1819. First edition, one of 250 copies, without initial in the paper. Frothingham’s biographer Caruthers (page 28): “One wonders blank. Bound in full green morocco, gilt spine, t.e.g., by Riviere & Sons, what he thought of Henry Thoreau, who in Frothingham’s later History of professionally rebacked in invisible fashion, spine gilt (very slightly sunned, Transcendentalism, received a mere parenthetical reference.” This can now else fine). Bookplate of Robert Hoe and Blairhame. Granniss 50; Ashley V be answered. The review opens as follows: “In looking over this book we 69; not in Tinker. have been agreeably disappointed. […] With all this, however, Mr. Tho- reau’s book has rare merits.The author is an enthusiast and a scientific one First edition of Shelley’s dramatization of this dark tale of parricide, child upon the works and scenes of Nature […]” After he moved to Jersey City abuse, and incest - based on actual events - and arguably the most endur- and New York, Frothingham became a champion of nonsectarian religious ing Romantic verse-play. Only 250 copies were printed, according to Shelley thought, and wrote frequent criticism, reviewing, for example, Renan’s Life himself. According to Grannis, “With the exception of Queen Mab, The of Jesus for the Christian Examiner in 1863. He was also the first historian Cenci is the only one of Shelley’s works which reached a second edition of Transcendentalism, whose work, Transcendentalism in New England during his lifetime [see the following item] ...” On the other hand, the play (1876), remains the most comprehensive in its historical scope (yet even was never staged until the Shelley Society produced it on the occasion of when it first appeared, it was faulted for neglecting Thoreau), This review Robert Browning’s birthday, on May 7, 1886. is not recorded in Borst’s Henry David Thoreau, A Reference Guide (1987), $7,500 nor in Scharnhorst (1992) or Cameron’s two Supplements (1997). It is notable that no reference is made to Thoreau’s theology, which so incensed other contemporaries; and that the reviewer has identified Thoreau as an State of the Art, 1600 important writer on nature in the line of Gilbert White. A contemporary 72 copy with AN UNREPORTED REVIEW OF THOREAU’S FIRST BOOK. TAVERNER, John. Certaine Experiments Concerning Fish and Fruite: Practiced $7,500 by John Taverner, Gentleman, and by him published for the benefit of others. Woodcut device on title, printed mostly in black letter. [6], 38 pp.; lacking the initial and final blanks A1 and f4. Small 4to (7-1/4 x 5-1/8 inches), Thoreau on the Autumn Leaves [London]: Printed for William Ponsonby, 1600. First edition. Bound in full 74 red morocco, a.e.g., by Riviere. Bookplates of Henrick Cunliffe Armiger & THOREAU, Henry David. Autograph Manuscript on Autumn Leaves and the Arthur Howard Thompson. In red cloth slipcase and chemise. STC 23708; first frost, ca. 1857 [inserted in:] The Writings in Twenty Volumes. Manuscript: Westwood & Satchell, p. 205; Heckscher lot 1895 ($125.00, 1909); Gee, 58 lines in ink, approx. 375 words, recto and verso of a single leaf, inserted Sportsman’s Library, p. 102; Kress 237; Robb, Notable Angling Literature, before the frontispiece. With 3 portraits of Thoreau, map of Concord and pp. 90-91; Litchfield p. 1. environs, 101 full-page photogravure plates after photos by Herbert W. The rare first edition of Taverner’s practical work, based upon his own Gleason; as well as color frontispieces and a colored carbon photograph of experiments in stocking a fish pond. The work, seemingly Taverner’s a flower in each volume, after Gleason. 20 vols. 8vo, Boston: Houghton, only publication, is dedicated to Sir Edmond Anderson, to whom Edward Mifflin, 1906. The MANUSCRIPT EDITION, No. 146 of 600 sets with an Churchey’s translation of Dubravius was dedicated in 1599. Taverner as- inserted leaf of autograph manuscript. Three quarter green morocco and sumes that “any practiser of these delights, I meane making of fishponds, and cloth, t.e.g. Handsome set, near fine overall (some heads repaired). or planting of fruite, I doubt not but you shall in this little treatise, find Borst B3; BAL 20145. somewhat your delight that way augmented.” Substantial leaf of manuscript written recto and verso demonstrating the $15,000 keen eye of Thoreau the naturalist, who writes of the change of season and the effects of the first frost (about the first of October) on the leaves of trees, shrubs, fireweed, and the cinnamon fern. The text corresponds Thoreau’s First Book, With an Unrecorded Contemporary Review closely but is not identical to the text of the Journal for early October 73 1857; there are also similarities to the late essay Autumnal Tints. A choice Thoreau manuscript on a classic American topic in an attractive set of the THOREAU, Henry David . A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. standard edition of Thoreau. 413, [3] pp. With terminal advertisement leaf announcing “Will Soon Be Published Walden, or Life in the Woods …”. 8vo, Boston and Cambridge: $15,000 James Munroe and Company, 1849. First edition of the author’s first book. Original brown blindstamped cloth. Spine perished, boards edgeworn and detached. Textblock clean and sound. Review of the book tipped in at end Concord’s Greatest Literary Address: F.B. SANBORN and the THOREAU on verso of advertisement leaf and facing blank (clipping partly toned). Family Home, 1873 Half morocco slipcase and chemise. BAL 20104; Borst A1.1.a; for Frothing- 75 ham, see: Caruthers, Octavius Brooks Frothingham, Gentle Radical (Univ. (THOREAU, Henry David) Lease agreement, signed and dated 31 May of Alabama Pr., 1977). 1873, between Sophia THOREAU and F.B. SANBORN, for the Family Home of A notable copy of Thoreau’s first book, largely overlooked when initially Henry David Thoreau in Concord, Massachusetts. [With associated archive of 11 Autograph letters to Francis Henry Underwood]. Lease: [1]p. partly printed

 2013 boston international antiquarian book fair document, signed, docketed on verso. Letters: [19] pp. Folio and smaller, London: Longman, Brown, 1848. First edition. Original green cloth gilt. Concord, Massachusetts: 31 May 1873. Lease: Brief marginal losses affect- Pencil ownership inscription of J. Stewart Hardy (presented to him on July ing a few words; expert tissue mends; very good. Custom morocco backed 21, 1864, by J. Walton Roberts), Spine very slightly faded, small brown spot folder. Letters: very good. Erlich and Carruth, The Oxford Illustrated on a few leaves at front. Fine, fresh copy in superior condition. Preserved in Literary Guide to the United States (New York, 1982); “Francis Henry solander box. Westwood & Satchell, p.210; Bibliotheca Salmo Salar 34. Underwood,” Encyclopaedia Britannica Online, accessed November 2013; New York Times, June 5, 1909. The very scarce first edition of the finest British work on Norwegian an- gling. Issued at the instigation of J. Jones, a tackle dealer of Jermyn Street, A literary relic of the Concord, Massachusetts, home of Henry David Tho- who wrote the introduction. AN OUTSTANDING COPY. reau (1817–1862) and his circle of fellow Transcendentalists. ¶ In 1873, So- $15,000 phia Thoreau (1819–1876), last surviving sibling of Henry David Thoreau, let the family home at 255 Main Street to Transcendentalist and Thoreau acolyte F.B. Sanborn. What an opportunity to be so intimately connected The ‘Ara’ in Southern Waters, 1925 & 1930: Cruising, Deep Sea & Tarpon to this great man! The Thoreau family had lived there from 1850. In the ad- Fishing dition at the back of the house, Thoreau helped his father conduct the fam- ily’s pencil business. Thoreau died in this house in 1862. Sanborn’s lease 77 was for a term of three years. The docketing shows it was renewed for one (VANDERBILT, William K., II) . [Photograph album of yachting and deep-sea more year beginning June 1, 1876. In 1877, the house was bought by Louisa fishing cruises with manuscript titles:] Southern Cruise of the Yacht “Ara” [to the May ALCOTT. Alcott lived in the Thoreau house in the 1880s and there Bahamas and Cuba], Feb. 1925 [and:] Southern Cruise of the Yacht “Ara” from wrote Jo’s Boys (1886). ¶ In this instrument, the Thoreau home is leased by Miami (Fisher’s Island) Fla. [to Haiti, Jamaica, and Cuba] on March 6th to April Sophia E. Thoreau to Frank B. Sanborn for a term of three years with an 2nd, 1930. With 155 photographs (86 3-1/2 x 6 inches; 69 3 x 4-1/2 inches) option to buy. The New York Times called Sanborn (1831–1917) the “Last corner mounted on album leaves, 2 to 4 per page, captioned in ink by of the Transcendentalists” and he is remembered, in part, for so assiduous- Muriel Vanderbilt. 94 numbered pages, of which pages 49-80 additionally ly trying to be the custodian of Thoreau’s papers and writings. Sophia is re- contain 63 mounted post cards (10 real photo post cards, 32 printed color membered for her iconic drawing of Thoreau’s Walden Pond cabin for the cards, 21 black & white cards). With 5-page typescript log of 1930 cruise title page of Walden; or, Life in the Woods. Sophia removed to Vermont, inserted at p. 28. Oblong 4to, 1925; 1930. Black leatherette album, with possibly the last Thoreau family member to leave Concord. Like Thoreau, leaves on two posts, tied with cord. Condition generally very good to fine, Sanborn was a graduate of Harvard and a friend of Ralph Waldo Emerson. some photos with fading or silvering. For the Ara cf. Toy 608 & 758 (for “[Sanborn] knew intimately all the men and women who made Concord 1924 & 1926 cruises); Morris & Howland p. 148. famous, was their sympathetic, helpful friend while they lived and their loyal, intelligent editor and biographer after their death” (DAB). He was A private family album documenting two of the tours of the celebrated the biographer of Thoreau, abolitionist John Brown, Emerson, Bronson yacht Ara, owned by William K. Vanderbilt II. Although Vanderbilt Alcott, and Nathaniel Hawthorne. ¶ Accompanying the Thoreau Home published numerous volumes recording his cruises, these voyages do not document is a group of 11 autograph letters, signed, dated 1853–1879 and appear among his published logs. The photographs are captioned by his addressed to Francis Henry Underwood (1825–1894), founding editor of daughter Muriel, who records numerous details in a neat hand. The cast of The Atlantic Monthly, lawyer, author, and anti-slavery activist. He studied characters in 1925 includes “Pops” (Wm. K. Vanderbilt II), “Self” (Muriel), law in Kentucky and became an antislavery advocate. As a literary editor, her sister Consie (Consuelo), Muriel’s fiancé Freddy (Frederic C. Church, he championed writers Harriet Beecher Stowe, poets Henry Wadsworth Jr., whom she married in July 1925 and divorced in 1929), Ellen, & Dick. Longfellow and James Russell Lowell, and Transcendentalists Ralph Waldo Muriel’s uncle Harry (Harold S. Vanderbilt) makes a walk-on appearance Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. The letters are all from Massachusetts in Key West. Among the party’s activities was fishing, with more than a abolitionist, political, or literary figures. Correspondents include historians dozen photographs showing the sisters working the rod, members of the Charles Francis Adams, Sr. and Francis Parkman; Edward Everett; Irish- party with the morning’s catch (variously tuna, barracuda, shark, and a American poet John Boyle O’Reilly; U. S. Attorney General Ebenezer R. sea turtle), and portraits of the three young ladies, Dick, and Freddy, each Hoar; and abolitionist Thomas Wentworth Higginson. ¶ That the Thoreau holding a trophy catch. ¶ The 1930 cruise to Haiti, Jamaica, and Cuba, with Home lease was preserved among Underwood’s letters adds an intriguing a party including Muriel, “Pops”, Rosie (his second wife, Rosamund), and layer of literary association to this superb relic of Concord, Massachusetts. Tony, comprises views from the yacht and at ports of call, as well as many ¶ Summary list of accompanying correspondence: 1853 1p. Charles Francis scenes of rafting on the Rio Grande River and a few snapshots of fishing Adams [Sr.] (1807–1886), historical editor, politician, diplomat 1858 3pp. on the Demaji River (where the log details three days of successful tarpon John Townsend Trowbridge (1827–1916), author 1872 3pp. [Ditto] 1861 fishing, not illustrated).¶ The group of post cards includes scenes in Cuba, 1p. Edward Everett (1794–1865), politician, diplomat, orator 1864 1p John Haiti, Lake Tahoe, and the Monterey coast in California, including several Albion Andrew (1818–1867), Governor of Massachusetts 1872 2pp. Thomas real photo cards of the Pebble Beach area, among them a shot of woman Wentworth Higginson (1823–1911), abolitionist, author: with mention golfer Marion Hollins on the 7th Green. ¶ A window into a lost world of E. A. Poe. 1875 1p. John Boyle O’Reilly (1844–1890), Irish-born poet, of private travel and an excellent visual record of two Vanderbilt family Boston journalist and editor 1876 3pp. George William Curtis (1824–1892) cruises, with good sporting content. writer and orator 1879 1p. Francis Parkman (1823–1893), historian 1879 $6,000 2pp. William Henry Hurlbert (1827–1895), journalist [no date] 1p. Ebenezer R. Hoar, lawyer, Massachusetts justice, U. S. Attorney General. The Five ‘Lifetime’ Editions of the Compleat Angler: Fearing - Sage - Heck- $4,000 scher Provenance 78 Landmark of Norwegian Angling WALTON, Izaak. A FINE SET OF THE FIRST FIVE EDITIONS of the Com- pleat Angler. 5 vols. 12mo, London: 1653-1676. First through Fifth editions. 76 First edition in early 19th century green morocco; others variously bound TOLFREY, Frederic, editor. Jones’s Guide to Norway, and Salmon-fisher’s in green morocco (fifth ed. in 19th-century brown calf). Custom pull off Pocket Companion. Additional lithographed title, lithographed frontispiece, cases. Provenance: Daniel Fearing; Yale Kneeland. and 8 hand-colored engraved plates of flies by J. and H. Adlard. 16mo, james cummins bookseller booth 509  An outstanding group of the first five editions of Izaak Walton’s ‘Compleat vellum with yapp edges, gilt vignette of Lord Fish after Whistler on upper Angler’, a landmark of English literature and the cornerstone of an angling cover, endpapers with Whistler vignettes printed in green, t.e.g. Beautiful, collection, here with superb American provenance, from the library of unfaded copy in the original dust jacket with Whistler’s design on the front collector Daniel B. Fearing (1859-1918), who was one of the great angling panel. Rare. collectors of the first part of the twentieth century. This set includes copies from the libraries of Fearing’s fellow collectors Dean Sage and J.G. Heck- Beautiful copy in its rarest state. Five magical fairy tales from Walter de la scher; it was sold to bibliophile Yale Kneeland before 1918 (as recorded in Mare, including the title story about the strange adventures of lazy young correspondence to this effect from Fearing’s widow to the widow of Yale man who loves, and lives, only to fish. With Rex Whistler’s delightful il- Neeland) ; upon Fearing’s death, his other set of the Compleat Anglers lustrations. (uniformly re-bound by Riviere) went to Harvard. A. 1653, issue with $2,000 “contention”. (140 x 84mm) Attractive binding: early 19th century green straight-grained morocco, spine titled in gilt with simple rules, boards with single rule border, a.e.g. Contents: some old light-medium damp- Inscribed by Lady Bird Johnson staining, repaired tear to outer blank margin of the second leaf and to an 81 old worm hole at inner top margin B4-D4 (none of the repairs approach- ing text). Provenance: 1. Compton family, Minstead Manor, nr. Lyndhurst, (WHITE HOUSE) The White House Library. A Short-Title List. [Foreword by Hampshire (18th century armorial bookplate); 2. Scrope Berdmore, warden James T. Babb]. 219 pp. 8vo, Washington, D.C: The White House Historical of Merton College, Oxford (armorial bookplate dated 1790, the date he Association [Printed by the Spiral Press], 1967. First edition. Blue cloth. became warden); 3. Daniel B. Fearing, Newport, R.I. (bookplate signed Fine in tan dust jacket. Quarter green morocco slipcase and chemise. ‘S.[idney] L.[awton] S.[mith] Feb. 1899’, label with red ink note of purchase Inscribed “For Jane Engelhard - with so much appreciation for all you in New York on 19 March 1909 for “$STOO” written by Fearing). B. 1655 have done to enhance the beauty of this house - Lady Bird Johnson.” Jane (138 x 74 mm). Contents: close shaved, occasionally touching the headlines, Engelhard, cosmopolitan book collector and philanthropist of Cragwood, generally attractive. Late-19th/early 20th century French binding by Marce- Far Hills, New Jersey, and her husband, Charles Engelhard, chairman of the lin Lortic (signed ‘Lortic fils’ and therefore after 1891): green morocco gilt. multi-national minerals conglomerate Engelhard Industries and the model Provenance: 1. W.B. Tarbutt (bookplate); 2. John Gerrard Heckscher (Tif- for Ian Fleming’s tycoon Goldfinger, were close friends of the Johnsons and fany & Co. bookplate dated 1899, featuring a leaping Tarpon, ex-lot 2010, prominent supporters of White House restoration campaigns. sale Merwin-Clayton Sales Company, New York, 2-5th Feb. 1909); 3. Daniel B. Fearing (bookplate). C. 1661 (141 x 83 mm). Contents: small repair $1,250 to upper outer corner of title (no loss to ‘text’). Mid-19th century green morocco, spine gilt with fishes, attractive binding. Provenance: 1. Edward Vernon Utterson (1776-1856, booklabel, typical m/s note dating purchase 82 to 1836 purchase, noted bibliphile); 2. Edward Hailstone (1818-1890, [WHITMAN, Walt]. As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free. And Other Poems. [At booklabel, Walton Hall Library sold at Sotheby’s, Feb., Apr.-May 1891); 3. head of title:] Leaves of Grass. Pp. [i]-[xiv], 1-14, [15]-[16], 1-8, Advertise- Dean Sage (of Albany, NY. m/s note by Heckscher noting purchase from ment. 8vo, Washington, D.C: 1872. First edition. Dark green cloth, grey Sage in Jan 1891); 4. John Gerrard Heckscher (bookplate, lot 2011, sale endsheets. Extremities a bit rubbed, occasional marginal stains. Very good. Merwin-Clayton Sales Company, New York, 2-5th Feb. 1909); 5. D.B. Fear- BAL 21408. ing (bookplate). D. 1668 bound with Cotton 1676. (142 x 85mm). Contents: O6 with lower outer corner repaired with some loss: 6 words with some Supplement to the 1872 Washington edition of Leaves of Grass. Uncom- characters supplied in m/s facsimile, pp.214/215 music slightly shaved (as mon. often). Green morocco gilt by Riviere & Son. Provenance: 1. J.B. Fisher $2,750 (bookplate); 2. John Gerrard Heckscher (bookplate, lot 2013, sale Merwin- Clayton Sales Company, New York, 2-5th Feb. 1909 ); 3. Daniel B. Fearing (bookplate). E. 1676. 3 parts in one (as issued). (146 x 88mm). Contents: Inscribed to William Linton with blank V4 at end of 1st part. Binding: 19th-century brown calf, spine lettered in gilt, joints repaired. Provenance: 1. W. Wright (signature); 2. R. 83 Hindley (signature). [WHITMAN, Walt]. Leaves of Grass [issued with:] Passage to India. 8vo, Washington, D.C.: 1872. Fifth edition, second issue. Later full green $125,000 morocco, covers with gilt double-rule outer border, spine with raised bands and six compartments, four with inlaid red morocco and gilt floral device. Spine toned, joints and head repaired. BAL 21407. Signed 79 Reprint of the Washington, D.C., edition of 1871 (BAL 21403), with revi- (WARHOL, Andy) Feldman, Freya, and Jörg Schellmann, editors. Andy sions and alterations (see BAL list); issued with the 2nd printing of Passage Warhol Prints. A Catalogue Raisonné. Illustrated in color. 119 pp. 364 entries. to India. The present copy is inscribed from Whitman to artist and activist 4to, New York: [1985]. Black cloth titled in silver. Fine in near fine dust WIlliam Linton (1812-1897), “the finest wood engraver of his generation, jacket. Signed on the front flyleaf and on the front panel of the dust jacket. as well as an important figure in political and literary circles” (ANB). “W.J. Linton, from Walt Whitman, 1872” and inscribed below, “W.J. Linton from W.J.L. Dec: 21, 1872”. The 1876 re-issue of Leaves of Grass, known vari- $750 ously as the Centennial Edition or the Author‘s Edition, included a new portrait of the poet engraved by William Linton from a recent photograph. A choice Whitman association. 80 (WHISTLER, Rex) De la Mare, Walter. The Lord Fish. Engraved title $7,500 page, 4 tinted,full-page plates, and seven black-and-white headpieces, by Rex Whistler. 8vo, London: Faber & Faber, [1933]. First edition, No. 15 of 60 copies SIGNED by the author and specially bound. Full purple

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