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NEW YORK INTERNATIONAL Antiquarian BOOK FAIR 2020 March 5–8, 2020 | Park Avenue Armory | Stand E17 NEW YORK INTERNATIONAL ANTIquARIAN BOOK FAIR 2020 march 5–8, 2020 | park avenue armory | stand e17 (preview) thursday, 5pm–7pm |friday, noon–8pm | saturday, noon–7pm | sunday, noon–5pm Amis Apollonius Rhodius ADDAMS, Jane. Twenty Years at Hull-House. ANTHONY, Susan B. History of Woman Suffrage. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1910 Rochester: Susan B. Anthony, 1886 & 1902 First edition, limited issue, one of 210 copies signed by the First editions, presentation copies of vols. III and IV of the author. The first American woman to be awarded the Nobel “bible” of the women’s suffrage campaign, the only two volumes Peace Prize (in 1931), Addams was the founder of the social published by Anthony herself; inscribed in both by the author on work profession in the US and, among her many roles, she the occasion of her 85th birthday to her cousin Joshua. 2 vols., was vice president of the National-American Woman Suffrage original maroon cloth. An excellent set. Association. Original vellum-backed brown boards. An internally $15,500 [132954] crisp, clean copy. $1,600 [137440] APOLLONIUS RHODIUS. Argonautica. Florence: [Laurentius (Francisci) de Alopa, Venetus,] 1496 AMIS, Kingsley. Lucky Jim A Novel. Editio princeps of the most important Greek epic of the 3rd London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1953 century bce, the definitive telling of the story of Jason and First edition, presentation copy inscribed by Amis, “To John, all the Argonauts and their quest for the Golden Fleece. Late the very best from Kingsley Amis, January 1954”. Only two other 18th-century English green straight-grain morocco gilt, from presentation copies with the inscription dated January 1954 are the library of the English bibliophile and keen student of recorded at auction. Original green boards, with dust jacket. palaeography and early printing George Dunn. $7,500 [138024] $50,000 [136329] Beach BEACH, Sylvia. Shakespeare and Company. London: Faber and Faber, 1960 First UK edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author three months after publication, “With many good wishes for Louis Davis and Mark Davis affectionately their friend Sylvia. Bacon Paris. September 1960”; additionally with Beach’s bookplate, annotated by her. Original blue cloth, with the dust jacket. ASCHAM, Roger. The Scholemaster. $8,000 [136528] London: printed by John Daye, 1570 First edition of the most important Tudor work on education. BOSWELL, James. The Life of Samuel Johnson, 4to, 18th-century polished calf; the Bradley Martin copy. LL.D. [together with:] The Principal Corrections and $32,500 [114919] Additions. London: by Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, 1791 & 1793 AUDUBON, John James. The Raven, plate 101, from First editions, both presentation copies to Andrew Lumisden, The Birds of America. London: R. Havell, 1826–38 a Jacobite friend of Boswell’s who had assisted in preparing the Etching and aquatint copper-plate engraving on Whatman 1834 Life, inscribed in Boswell’s hand in each work. Together 2 works paper by Havell after Audubon, original hand-colouring. From bound in 2 vols., 4to, contemporary tree calf, neatly rebacked the New York Society Library (sold, Sotheby Parke-Bernet, 1980). with original spines laid down. Framed and glazed. $240,000 [119415] $15,000 [138401] AUSTEN, Jane. Sense and Sensibility; Pride and Prejudice; Emma; Mansfield Park; Northanger Abbey and Persuasion. London: Richard Bentley, 1833 First collected edition of Jane Austen’s novels, also the first English editions to be illustrated. Five vols, contemporary green calf, expertly rebacked to style. $16,500 [136404] BACON, Francis. [Novum Organum.] Instauratio Magna. London: J. Billium, 1620 First edition, second state as usual. Folio, in its first binding of limp vellum, spine titled in manuscript. Engraved title page by Simon de Passe. A fine copy, the contents crisp and clean, with generous margins. $85,000 [138351] Boswell – 2 – Busch BUSCH, Wilhelm. Max und Moritz: eine Bubengeschichte in sieben Streichen. Cervantes Munich: Braun und Schneider, [1865] Rare true first edition of the book widely regarded as the CERVANTES, Miguel de. De voornaamste Gevallen prototype of the children’s comic. After Struwwelpeter, Max und van den wonderlyken Don Quichot. The Hague: Pieter de Moritz is the best-known German children’s book. Busch’s style Hondt, 1746 is generally recognized as the precursor of modern comic strips, An extraordinary example of one of the most significant particularly influential on German émigrés to America like illustrated Cervantes editions of the 18th century. A fine, Rudolph Dirks, whose Katzenjammer Kids is a close imitation. large paper copy of the lavish 1746 Hague edition of Don Contemporary sheep-backed boards.. Quixote translated by Jacob Campo Weyerman, each of $60,000 [138250] the 31 copperplates illuminated by a beautiful contemporary hand and heightened with gold, presented in an elaborately CARROLL, Lewis. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. worked Dutch binding. Tall folio. Near-contemporary Dutch London: Macmillan and Co., 1866 mottled calf. First published edition. A beautiful copy, entirely unrestored, $85,000 [137295] in bright original pictorial cloth, original pale blue endpapers (earliest state; later copies have dark green). CHAUCER, Geoffrey. [The workes, newlie printed.] $51,500 [136032] London: by Thomas Godfray, 1532 First complete collected edition: the first attempt to collect into a single volume the complete writings of an English author. Folio, contemporary blind-tooled calf carefully restored, much the most complete copy in commerce in the past 45 years. $195,000 [108308] CHERRY-GARRARD, Apsley. The Worst Journey in The World. New York: Lincoln MacVeagh, The Dial Press, 1930 First U.S. edition, inscribed by the author to Alice Cairnes, a family friend. Original buff linen, in supplied dust jacket. $11,000 [133368] CHURCHILL, Winston S. The Second World War. London: Cassell & Co. Ltd., 1948–54 First editions of Churchill’s masterpiece, signed or inscribed contemporaneously in each volume, and exceptionally uncommon thus. 6 volumes, original black cloth, in dust jackets. Chaucer $36,000 [137316] – 3 – Dickens, Oliver Twist DICKENS, Charles. Oliver Twist. London: Chapman & Hall, 1841 A superb presentation copy, inscribed by the author to his close friend, the actor and theatre-manager William Charles Macready: “W. C. Macready from his affectionate friend Charles Colnett Dickens Christmas 1841”. Macready was the dedicatee of Nicholas COLNETT, James. A Voyage to the South Atlantic Nickleby (1839) and the godfather of Dickens’s daughter Kate. Third edition, 3 vols., original purple cloth (primary binding). and round Cape Horn into the Pacific Ocean. London: printed for the author by W. Bennett, $125,000 [136304] and sold by A. Arrowsmith [& 4 others], 1798 DICKENS, Charles. Pictures from Italy. London: First edition of Colnett’s account of his second Pacific voyage, one published for the author, by Bradbury & Evans, 1846 of the most important to the history of whaling. Contemporary First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author the day polished calf, engraved portrait frontispiece, 3 plates. after publication to one of his oldest friends, Thomas Beard. $16,500 [132480] Small 8vo, original blue fine-diaper cloth, rebacked with original spine laid down; the Suzannet copy. DARWIN, Charles. The Variation of Animals and $110,000 [130416] Plants under Domestication. London: John Murray, 1868 First edition, from the library of Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, the celebrated Russian physiologist, famed for his classic work on conditioning, with his library shelfmark stamps to titles and c1 recto. Two volumes, in original green cloth. $14,500 [137811] [DEFOE, Daniel.] An Essay on the South-Sea Trade. London: printed for J. Baker, 1712 First edition of Defoe’s tract on the newly-formed South Sea Company. Early 20th-century brown quarter calf. $14,500 [134890] DESCARTES, René. Discours de la Methode. Leiden: Jan Maire, 1637 First edition of the author’s fundamental work in philosophy and on the method of science. Small 4to, contemporary Dutch vellum over pasteboard. A crisp copy with generous margins. $195,000 [134577] Descartes – 4 – Dumas EUCLID. Elementa Geometriae. Venice: Erhard Ratdolt, 1482 First edition of the oldest mathematical textbook still in common use. The text is preceded by a dedicatory letter by Faulkner, Light in August Erhard Ratdolt to Giovanni Mocenigo. Chancery folio, 137 unnumbered leaves, without the final blank. Modern vellum. DOYLE, Arthur Conan. A Study in Scarlet. London: $195,000 [136914] Ward, Lock & Co., 1888 Rare first edition of the first Sherlock Holmes story; preceded FAULKNER, William. The Marble Faun. only by the story’s appearance in Beeton’s Christmas Annual 1887. Boston: The Four Seas Company, 1924 Contemporary red pebbled cloth, with 6 plates by Charles Doyle, First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author, the author’s father. “To Dink Cearley from Bill Faulkner”, additionally signed and $97,500 [138371] dated 31 December 1924 on the title page. The author’s first book, of which only 500 of the projected 1,000 copies were DUHAUT-CILLY, Auguste. Voyage autour du monde. printed and some 300 of those were later pulped. Original Saint-Servan: de l’imprimerie de J.-M. Lebien; chez Arthus mottled green boards, with the dust jacket. A fine copy of a Bertrand, Paris, & chez D. Lemarchand, Saint-Servan, 1834–5 famously vulnerable publication. First edition of this rare work, particularly important for its $75,000 [118733] detailed examination of California during the last phase of its Spanish period. Two volumes in one, octavo, in contemporary FAULKNER, William. Light in August. New York: French quarter calf. Each vol contains 4 plates. Harrison Smith & Robert Haas, 1932 $32,500 [132373] First edition, presentation copy, inscribed to the author’s close childhood friend, “For Myrtle Ramey, Oxford Miss 30 May 1934, DUMAS, Alexandre. Les Trois Mousquetaires. William Faulkner”. Beginning with The Marble Faun in 1924, Ramey was one of a select few to whom Faulkner sent copies of his books. Paris: Baudry, 1844 Inscribed copies of this work are notably uncommon.
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