Literary Miscellany

The Secular and The Sacred

Catalogue 293

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William Reese Company 409 Temple Street New Haven, CT. 06511 USA Phone: 203.789.8081 Fax: 203.865.7653 e-mail: [email protected] Members ABAA and ILAB 1. Acton, Harold [trans]: THE LAST OF THE MEDICI...WITH INTRODUCTION BY NORMAN DOUGLAS. Florence: Privately Printed for Subscribers by G. Orioli, [1930]. Gilt decorated boards, gilt spine label. Portrait frontis printed by Emery Walker. Plate. Boards a bit sunned at top edge, mild tanning to textblock, but a very good copy, in quite chipped and worn dust jacket.

First edition. One of 365 numbered copies (350 for sale), printed on Binda handmade paper, and published as No. 2 in the Lungarno Series. Signed by Douglas at the conclusion of his introduction, and by Acton at the conclusion of the Translator’s Preface. Certain passages in the text led to a temporary seizure of a portion of the edition at the request of the British Home Office, but the Italian court found in favor of the publisher and the copies were returned. Douglas observes in his introduction that this account of the foibles of Gian Gastone is “strong fare, indeed. I am not anxious to pose as a prude, but, absorbing as the book is, I should hesitate to recommend it to any boy under twelve years of age. There are indications, apart from the main evidence of the following pages, that His Highness had a screw loose....” RITCHIE A6. WOOLF B5. $350.

2. Adams, Mary M.: THE CHOIR VISIBLE. Chicago: Way & Williams, 1897. Pictorial cloth, decorated in gilt, t.e.g., others untrimmed. Decorative title in red and black. Spine tips a bit rubbed, a few streaks of offsetting along fore-edge of upper cover, slight dampmark around toe of spine, faint tide mark at toes of endsheet gutters, otherwise very good and bright.

First edition. Inscribed presentation copy from “the author,” dated 1898. A handsomely produced volume, printed on fine laid paper from W. King Alton Mill, with a title and binding design by Frank Hazenplug. KRAUS 53. $125.

3. Aelfric, Abbot of Eynsham: A SAXON TREATISE CONCERNING THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENT. WRITTEN ABOIUT THE TIME OF KING EDGAR (700 YEARES AGO) BY ÆLFRICUS ABBAS, THOUGHT TO BE THE SAME THAT WAS AFTERWARD ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURIE ... AND HEREUNTO IS ADDED OUT OF THE HOMILIES AND EPISTLES OF THE FORE-SAID ÆLFRICUS, A SECOND EDITION OF A TESTIMONIE OF ANTIQUTIE, &C .... : Printed by Iohn Hauiland for Henrie Seile ..., 1623. [60],[24],12-43 (duplicated),[19],14 (duplicated),[23]pp. (lacking final blank). Quarto. Old limp vellum (somewhat soiled and partially uncased), occasional minor tide marks in margins and gutters, early ink marginalia on E2v, tiny worm track in upper margin of T2 to end, one foremargin trimmed irregularly, modest tanning; a good copy. Early engraved bookplates: (“F.S.”) and Coker Court.

First edition in modern English of the first treatise, translated by William L’Isle, and preceded by a long dedicatory poem by him. The Anglo-Saxon and English texts are printed in parallel, with each having its own page numbering sequence. The supplementary works have their own divisional titles, but the register is continuous. L’Isle worked from the manuscript in the Cottonian Library, and though his reputation rests on his Anglo-Saxon scholarship, The Saxon Treatise ... was Lisle’s only work of in that field to be printed in his lifetime, his other publications being primarily translations from classical texts into French and English. ESTC S100438. STC 160. $1500.

4. [Aelfric, Abbot of Eynsham (trans)]: HEPTATEUCHUS, LIBER JOB, ET EVANGELIUM NICODEMI; ANGLO-SAXONICE. HISTORIÆ JUDITH FRAGMENTUM; DANO-SAXONICE. Oxoniæ [i.e. ]: E Theatro Sheldoniano ... Typis Jvnianis, An. Dom 1698. [8],168,32pp. Large octavo. Quarter modern black morocco and marbled boards, raised bands, gilt label. Engraved frontis, headpiece, and initial. Top margins very occasionally a trace dusty, otherwise a very good, crisp copy.

First edition of this collection of translations into Anglo-Saxon of selections from the Old Testament and Apocrypha, edited by . The translations of the Heptateuch and Job are ascribed to Aelfric. The fine frontispiece and headpiece are the work of M. Burghers. “Thwaites’s most important contribution to Anglo-Saxon studies was his 1698 edition of hitherto unedited parts of the Old Testament in , including Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, and the book of Job, together with the apocryphal Judith and the Gospel of Nicodemus. ... Although some of his contemporaries criticized Thwaites’s edition — partly because it included apocryphal material, partly for its lack of a translation and notes — it was for its time a ground- breaking enterprise and one that was not repeated until 1922, when S. J. Crawford edited the Heptateuch afresh, using a different base manuscript. Thwaites’s edition had been based on Bodleian MS Laud misc. 509, and his text was reprinted, with some emendations, by C. W. M. Grein in 1872. Thwaites dedicated his edition to , at that time still proscribed as a nonjuror, and this caused some political embarrassment to the vice- chancellor, who threatened to suppress the edition unless Thwaites cut out the dedication. He bluntly refused — and prevailed” – DNB. ESTC R4371. WING B2198. DARLOW & MOULE 1606. $1750.

5. [Aelfric, Abbot of Eynsham]: Elstob, Elizabeth: [translator]: AN ENGLISH-SAXON HOMILY ON THE BIRTH-DAY OF ST. GREGORY: ANCIENTLY USED IN THE ENGLISH- SAXON CHURCH. GIVING AN ACCOUNT OF THE CONVERSION OF THE ENGLISH FROM PAGANISM TO CHRISTIANITY. TRANSLATED INTO MODERN ENGLISH, WITH NOTES, &C. London: Printed by W. Bowyer, 1709. [10],lx (with misnumbering as per ESTC),[2],44,[4],11,[3],49,[7]pp. Octavo. Extracted from nonce pamphlet volume. Engraved frontis (here bound before Appendix) and engraved vignettes by S. Gribelin. Some foxing, first and last two leaves exhibit some dust soiling and smudging, old tidemark early and late, and scattered elsewhere, early ink ownership initials in lower fore-corner of title; just a sound copy of an interesting and important book.

First edition of the second separate (but first substantial) publication by Elstob, a highly significant figure in the development of 18th century Anglo-Saxon studies, and future author of Rudiments Of Grammer For The English-Saxon, First Given In English (1715). Elstob was as well prominent among feminists of the era, and counted Mary Astell among her circle of friends. The final leaves print a substantial list of subscribers, along with errata. This edition “is a lavishly produced book equipped with copious text- critical and explanatory notes, with a modern English translation facing the Old English text on each page and a lengthy introduction and appendix dealing inter alia with the role and enduring importance of Gregory in the English church. The historiated initial of the modern English translation of Ælfric’s text contains Elizabeth Elstob’s portrait engraved by Simon Gribelin ... Elizabeth Elstob’s scholarly œuvre is on a par with the best work produced in Anglo-Saxon studies at the beginning of the eighteenth century. Moreover, her concept of writing her Old English grammar in English, and of providing her editions with a critical apparatus, introductions, and translations—all in English—at a time when scholarly publications in the field were almost invariably written throughout in Latin, clearly pointed to the future” – DNB. The location of over one hundred copies by ESTC might be taken as demonstrative of the esteem in which Elstob’s text has been held. ESTC T86163. LOWNDES III:734-5. BRUNET II:966. $850.

6. Aiken, Conrad: THEE A POEM BY ... DRAWINGS BY LEONARD BASKIN. New York: Braziller, [1967]. Large octavo. Printed paper boards. Slight darkening to boards at extremities, otherwise near fine, without slipcase.

First edition, limited issue. According to the colophon, one of one hundred numbered copies, signed by the author and the artist, from a total of two hundred copies printed on Arches by Clarke & Way. In fact, all two hundred copies were numbered and signed. Baskin contributed five full-page drawings. BONNELL A59a. $150.

7. Albers, Josef: POEMS AND DRAWINGS. New Haven: The Readymade Press, 1958. Oblong small quarto. Pictorial wrappers. Drawings by the author. Slight tanning at extreme edges, else a very good or better copy, in typically darkened crepe dust jacket with tiny chip at crown of spine.

First edition. One of five hundred copies, designed by Norman Ives. Parallel texts in German and English. $150.

8. [Allen Press]: Hall, Basil: THE GREAT POLYGLOT BIBLES INCLUDING A LEAF FROM THE COMPLUTENSIAN OF ACALÁ, 1514-17. San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1966. Folio (38 x 27 cm). Folded signatures laid into printed wrapper. Facsimile. Marginal decorations. Fine in lightly sunned silk clamshell box with printed label.

First edition. One of four hundred numbered copies printed by hand by the Allens on Rives in Italian Old-Style. The border illustrations were gleaned from 16th century Spanish texts.

With an original leaf from the 1514-17 Complutensian Bible tipped-in (2v4). $600.

The Didot – Rahir Copy

9. [Amman, Jost, et al]: BIBLIORVM VTRIVSQVE TESTAMENTI ICONES, SVMMO ARTIFICIO EXPRESSAE, HISTORIAS SACRAS AD VIVVM EXHIBENTES, & OCULIS SUMMA CUM GRATIA REPRAESENTANTES: ADEÓQ[UE], DOCTIS & VENUSTIS CARMINIBUS EXORNATAE VT PIUS LECTOR VERÈ SACRORUM HÌC EMBLEMATVM THESAURUM POSSIT AGNOSCERE …. Francofurti ad Moenum [i.e. Frankfurt am Main:

Apud Georgium Coruinum, impensis Hieronymi Feyerabend], 1571. [208] leaves. A-Z8;a-c8 (10 leaves of text, including prelims and colophon, the remainder woodcuts with captions, printed on rectos only). Small octavo (135 x 90 mm). Full gilt brown crushed levant, raised bands, gilt inner dentelles, a.e.g., silk marker. Institutional bookplate on front pastedown, small bookplate of Ambroise Firmin Didot, as well as that of Edouard Rahir, on the verso of the front endsheet, otherwise about fine (though likely washed when bound). Board slipcase and cloth chemise.

First edition. A superb separate presentation of the suite of woodcuts after drawings by Jost Amman and Johann Melchior Bocksberger prepared for the illustrated Bible published by Feyerabend in Frankfurt in 1571, accompanied by Latin verses by Conrad Weis, the whole edited by Philipp Lonicer. Amman (1539 -1591) was one of the most celebrated and prolific woodcut artists of his era; some 1500 images are attributed to him, and although, as customary, many of the actual blocks were cut by others after his drawings, he is known to have produced blocks himself. His career overlapped the transition from the regular use of woodcuts to the implementation of engraving as the chief process for book illustration. ABPC records only two appearances of copies over the last thirty-five years, one incomplete, and one misbound. A lovely, pedigreed copy. BRUNET I:921. BM STC (German), p.124. $7500.

With an A.L.S. and an Auction Catalogue

10. Anderson, Christopher: THE ANNALS OF THE ENGLISH BIBLE. London: William Pickering, 1845. Two volumes. vi,592;xii,680,iii,[1],[8],liv,55[3]pp. Large, thick octavo. Full tan polished calf, spines gilt extra, raised bands, gilt labels. Facsimiles and illustrations. Light edge wear and a few small spots to bindings, some foxing early and late, but a very good set.

First edition. Bound into the back of the second volume is an unpriced copy of the 1852 Tait & Nisbet auction sale of Anderson’s library, and hinged in the front of the first volume is a 1 1/2pp. closely written a.l.s. from Anderson, 11 August 1851, recipient unnamed, about historical, topographical and theological matters, and mentioning in a postscript the second edition of this work. A couple of pieces of interesting but minor ephemera are laid in. KELLY 1845.1. KEYNES, p.49. $300.

11. Andrewes, Lancelot: TORTURA TORTI: SIUE, AD MATTHAEI TORTI LIBRUM RESPONSIO, QUI NUPER EDITUS CONTRA APOLOGIAM SERENISSIMI POTENTISSIMIQUE PRINCIPIS, IACOBI, DEI GRATIA, MAGNÆ BRITANNIÆ, FRANCIÆ, & HIBERNIÆ REGIS, PRO IURAMENTO FIDELITATIS. London: Excudebat Robertvs Barkervs ..., Anno 1609. [8],402pp

(bound without terminal blank leaf 3E2). Quarto. Modern three quarter calf and marbled boards, raised bands, gilt labels. Some modest tanning and light foxing (a bit heavier to the terminal leaves), 3E1 a bit creased with slight fraying at the fore-edge, but a good copy.

Second edition (printing?) of Andrewe’s reply to Roberto Bellarmino’s Matthaeus Tortus in defense of the loyalty oath promulgated by James I in the wake of the Gunpowder Plot.

This copy exhibits the reading ‘agi-’ at the end of line 11 on B2r, indicative of the form with some of the errata corrected, and 3E2 blank, rather than bearing errata. This is one of the Bishop’s most substantial controversial works, under taken as an obligation, and in which “he refuted papal supremacy and the pope’s power to dispense Catholics from moral and civil laws, and defended the king’s supremacy over the Church of . One of the views intruded into the argument by James was a defence of his position that any pope who dispensed subjects from temporal loyalties was Antichrist, an uncharacteristically shrill strain of anti-Catholicism for Andrewes which was tacitly qualified by his studied avoidance of questioning the pope’s spiritual (as opposed to temporal) powers” – DNB. Andrewes is, of course, best honored among present generations for his gifted use of the English language in his sermons and in his role in the translation and editing of the text of the King James Bible. NCBEL I:1920. ESTC S122436. STC 626.5. $950.

12. [Anonymous]: AN ESSAY UPON THE REASONABLENESS AND USEFULNESS OF THE CATHOLICK RELIGION. HUMBLY OFFERED TO THE SERIOUS CONSIDERATION OF SUCH PERSONS AS MAY BE UNHAPPILY SEDUCED, EITHER INTO ATHEISTICK DOUBTS ON ONE HAND; AS LOOKING ON RELIGION MEERLY AS A PARTY ENGINE OCCASIONALLY SET TO SERVE A TURN; OR INTO RELIGIOUS FACTIONS, FEUDS, HERESIES AND SCHISMS ON THE OTHER HAND… London: Printed and Sold by J. Roberts, 1722. [4],60pp. Octavo. Elegantly bound in contemporary black morocco, raised bands, gilt compartments, with triple ruled gilt borders, ornamental corner pieces and central symmetrical floral device, a.e.g., marbled endsheets. Minute loss at crown of spine, pencil marginalia in the text, otherwise a very good copy.

First (and only) edition of this tract. Within the text, there are a number of early ink corrections (perhaps authorial), and in a later hand, in pencil, further corrections have been made, as have some critical marginal comments. With the half-title. A rare little book: ESTC locates only two copies: British Library and the Huntington. OCLC adds a third copy: National Library of Scotland. There is a copy in the Hoe catalogue, presumably the copy now at the Huntington. ESTC T103160. $650.

13. [Anonymous Crime Narrative]: IN THE CLUTCH OF CIRCUMSTANCE MY OWN STORY BY A BURGLAR. New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1922. Red cloth, stamped in black. Bookplate, 1951 ink inscription on free endsheet, rear free endsheet has an old light discoloration, edges foxed, else a good, tight copy in chipped and internally repaired dust jacket.

First edition of this account of the criminal and prison career of the man convicted of burglarizing Mark Twain’s home, with much reference to that event. $100.

14. Antoninus, Marcus Aurelius: THE EMPEROR MARCUS ANTONINUS HIS CONVERSATION WITH HIMSELF. TOGETHER WITH THE PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE OF THE LEARNED GATAKER. AS ALSO, THE EMPEROR’S LIFE, WRITTEN BY MONSIEUR D’ACIER, AND SUPPORTED BY THE AUTHORITIES COLLECTED BY DR. STANHOPE. TO WHICH IS ADDED THE MYTHOLOGICAL PICTURE OF CEBES THE THEBAN, &C. TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH FROM THE RESPECTIVE ORIGINALS .... London: Printed for Richard Sare ..., 1708. [10],420pp. Octavo. Original paneled calf, spine labeled in manuscript, small paper shelf-label. 1711 ownership signature of William Bickford on title and on rear free endsheet, slight tanning and a bit of foxing to endleaves, institutional bookplate on front pastedown, otherwise a very good or better copy.

Second, corrected edition of ’s translation, first published in 1701 and reprinted in 1702. Most widely known for the controversy provoked by his assault on perceived immorality on the English stage, Collier seems not to have won everyone over with his translations either: “An inelegant translation, abounding with vulgar and ludicrous expressions” – Lowndes. ESTC T73928. LOWNDES I:54. $500.

15. [Apprentices and Servants]: Waugh, John: THE DUTY OF APPRENTICES AND OTHER SERVANTS. A SERMON PREACH’D AT THE PARISH CHURCH OF ST. BRIDGET, ALIAS BRIDE, AUGUST 24TH, 1713. BEING THE FESTIVAL OF ST. BARTHOLOMEW. AT A MEETING OF ABOUT 1400 PERSONS OF BOTH SEXES, BEING PART OF THOSE WHO HAD BEEN EDUCATED, AND AFTERWARDS PUT OUT TO TRADES AND OTHER SERVICES, BY THE TRUSTEES OF THE CHARITY-SCHOOLS, IN AND ABOUT THE CITIES OF LONDON AND WESTMINSTER. London: Printed for G. Strahan ... and J. Downing, 1713. 24pp. Octavo. Sewn. A couple of corner creases, old splashmark to middle of title and corner of two following leaves; a good copy.

One of three editions, or more likely impressions, published the same year. The others include a printing in quarto and a printing without Downing’s name in the imprint. ESTC locates three copies of this form in North America, three with the single imprint, and two in quarto. The imperatives of obedience, subservience and truthfulness as underpinnings for success among the working classes. ESTC N28965. $150.

16. [Art Deco Manufacturing Design]: ORIGINAL DESIGN FOR ART DECO SILVER COFFEE SET. [Westport, CT. N.d., but early 20th century]. White draughtsman’s ink, highlighted with a yellow-gold wash, on charcoal cardstock, matted. 11 x 14” (28 x 35.5 cm). Near fine, but the mat is rather soiled.

A precise and expert design rendering of a silver coffee pot, sugar & creamer, and silver server, graphically depicted in classic Art Deco style. Unsigned, but attributed by the former owner to F.E. Greene, an industrial designer holding myriad patents, the earliest among them dating from the 1920s, including those for automobile accessories such as dome lights, automobile door locks and trimplates for both. Additionally in the early 1930s he held patents for methods for precooling refrigerator cars, and ornamental designs for automobile battery storage boxes. He is also credited with being one of the early designers of the PADA radio. He is known to have lived in Westport, CT during 1938. $375.

With Typographic Labyrinths

17. Assumpçao, Jozé de: HYMNOLOGIA SACRA EM SEIS PARTES IGUALMENTE DIVIDADA PARTE PRIMEIRA [with]: PARTE SEGUNDA .... Lisbon: Vendese na logea de Jozé Francisco [and:] Na Officina de Miguel Manescal da Costa..., 1738 & 1744. Two volumes. [48],495,[1];[32],386,[2]pp. Quarto. Contemporary calf, raised bands, gilt labels, spines gilt extra (though not uniform due to separation of publication by six years).Title and two prelims of first volume printed in red and black. Occasional minor smudges, small, neat contemporary inscription in blank area of second title, later endsheets, but a very good, crisp set.

First edition of both volumes. Assumpçao (d. 1751), was Prior of the Convent of Torres-Vedras. His biographical sketch in the Cyclopaedia Of Biblical, Theological And Ecclesiastical Literature (Vol. 11, p.244) credits him with great facility at composition of Latin verse, evidence of which appears in the substantial prefatory/dedicatory matter in each volume. Of special note in each volume are prefatory typographic labyrinths: in the first volume, “Labyrintho Difficultoso em que se espede a materia da Obra,” and “Labyrintho em Louvor de Maria Santissima ...” (both printed in red and black), and in the second volume: “Labyrintho Celebre.” OCLC locates a single set, at the BN de Espana, and gives the author’s secular name as “José da Silva Baptista.” OCLC: 433835051. $2500.

A Supreme Magus’s Copy

18. [Astrology]: Aldrich, Elizabeth: THE PLANET NEPTUNE. New York: Macoy Publishing and Masonic Supply Company, 1928. 12mo. Gilt blue cloth. Portrait. Cloth very faintly soiled, otherwise near fine.

First edition. A decent association copy, with the bookplate of George Winslow Plummer, founder and Supreme Magus of the Societas Rosicruciana in America. $60.

19. Atget, Eugène, and Lee Friedlander: PARKS AND TREES. [Cologne: Galerie Thomas Zander, 2008]. Large quarto. Cloth. Black & white plates. A few faint rubs to upper board, otherwise fine, without dust jacket, as issued.

First edition. Edited by Thomas Zander, with an essay “Kindred Spirits,” by Freddy Langer. Parallel texts in German and English (the latter translated by Pauline Cumbers). The juxtaposition of images illustrates how Atget’s achievements resonate with the work of contemporary photographer Lee Friedlander. $125.

20. Bagby, Albert Morris: “MISS TRÄUMEREI” A WEIMAR IDYL. Boston: Lamson, Wolffe and Company, 1895. Gilt decorated cloth. Cloth a bit darkened and rubbed, crown of spine frayed; a good, sound copy.

First edition, second issue, being a copy of the original author’s self-published edition bound up with a cancel title leaf with the Lamson, Wolffe and Co. imprint (a pencil note by a previous owner indicates this is the first title to bear their imprint). WRIGHT III:208. $85.

21. Bangs, Lester: PSYCHOTIC REACTIONS & CARBURETOR DUNG: A LESTER BANGS ANTHOLOGY. [Np: The Editor, prior to 1981]. Two volumes. [3],xxiii,345;346-648,[2] leaves. Quarto. Photocopied typescript, printed on rectos only, comb bound in flexible vinyl wrappers. A few annotations in corner of first leaf, a few smudges and spots to fore-edges, but very good.

Edited by Greil Marcus. A pre-publication copy of the editor’s typescript, circulated on a presumed privileged basis for review and other purposes prior to publication. An unusual format for this landmark selection from the writings of the influential music critic. $150.

22. Barker, Nicolas: BIBLIOTHECA LINDESIANA THE LIVES AND COLLECTIONS OF .... London: Printed for Presentation to the Roxburghe Club and Published by Bernard Quaritch, 1978. Quarto. Blue cloth, gilt, t.e.g. Twenty-four plates, one folding. Bookplate on front pastedown offset to free endpaper, upper board rubbed and sunned, else very good.

Second (revised) printing. A study of the lives and collections of Alexander William, 25th Earl of Crawford and 8th Earl of Balcarres, and James Ludovic, 26th Earl of Crawford and 9th Earl of Balcarres. $75.

23. [Battle of Trafalgar]: Chauvel, Arthur Robinson: A SERMON, PREACHED ON THE LATE NAVAL VICTORY, IN THE PARISH CHURCH OF GREAT STANMORE, MIDDLESEX, DECEMBER 5, 1805, BEING THE DAY APPOINTED FOR A GENERAL THANKSGIVING. London: Printed by T. Woodfall ... for W. Dwyer, 1806. 21,[3]pp. Octavo. Sewn in drab wrappers, untrimmed. Early ink name on title, tidemark along fore-edge of upper wrapper and, faintly, those of the first two leaves, otherwise a very good copy.

First edition. By virtue of chronology, one might assume the occasion referred to is the Battle of Trafalgar. Published for the benefit of the seamen’s widows and orphans, and dedicated to Captain Thos. Boulden Knight. $100.

24. Bauer, Rudolf: COLOR LITHOGRAPH [THE HOLY ONE (RED POINT)]. [New York]. [nd, but possibly ca. 1936 – 1938]. Multi-color lithograph on heavy stock. Image size 19.5 x 19.5” (50 x 50 cm) plus full margins. Signed in the image. Slight crease along lower edge, not approaching the image, light use at extreme corners, blank verso shows faint signs of dust marking, else about fine.

A bold composition of geometrical patterns in brilliant colors of red, blues, yellow, grays, with the margins in silver/aluminum, in effect a refined adaptation from the artist’s 1936 oil painting. Rudolf Bauer (1889-1953) was closely associated, both creatively and personally, with Hilla von Rebay, the first Director of the Guggenheim Museum of Non- Objective Painting (art without representational links to the empirical world), later Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Ms. von Rebay introduced Guggenheim to Bauer in 1930. With financial backing by Guggenheim in exchange for paintings, Bauer founded his own gallery in Berlin. The painting from which the present print was adapted was utilized for the cover of the Guggenheim Collection’s catalogue for the second Charleston Show (1938), and again appeared as the frontispiece for the first New York show. It has been noted as the probable inspiration for the Trylon and Perisphere logo for the 1939 New York World’s Fair. $750.

25. [Beerbohm, Max]: Boyd, Charles: GEORGE WYNDHAM. London: Arthur L. Humphreys, 1913. Original printed wrappers. Spine adhesive dried out, so textblock intact but loose, wrappers somewhat creased, with faded handlettered titling to backstrip, light foxing; a good copy.

First separate edition of this tribute, first printed in The Cornhill Magazine. Inscribed by the author on the flyleaf: “Florence Beerbohm [and Max] from C.B. Christmas, 1913.” Wyndham, a statesman and man of letters, lived from 1863-1913. The author of this memorial tribute, Charles Walter Boyd (1869-1919, Scottish journalist and critic) was one of Henley’s “young men” on the National Observer. This copy is printed on atypical heavy laid paper. $175. 26. Bell, Lilian: A LITTLE SISTER TO THE WILDERNESS. Chicago: Stone & Kimball, 1895. Small octavo. Elaborately gilt decorated cloth, t.e.g., others untrimmed. Narrow splits at tips of lower joint, otherwise a very good, bright copy.

First edition, first “issue,” without the colophon, and without additional titles beneath the author’s name on the title-page. One of two binding designs by Bruce Rogers for Stone & Kimball. KRAMER 42. WRIGHT III:448. $75.

27. Berkeley, George: SIRIS: A CHAIN OF PHILOSOPHICAL REFLECTIONS AND INQUIRIES CONCERNING THE VIRTUES OF TAR WATER, AND DIVERSE OTHER SUBJECTS CONNECTED TOGETHER AND ARISING ONE FROM ANOTHER ... A NEW EDITION ... Dublin Printed, London Re-printed: For W. Innys, and C. Hitch ..., 1744 [bound with:] Prior, Thomas: AN AUTHENTIC NARRATIVE OF THE SUCCESS OF TAR-WATER, IN CURING A GREAT NUMBER AND VARIETY OF DISTEMPERS; WITH REMARKS , AND OCCASIONAL PAPERS RELATIVE TO THE SUBJECT. TO WHICH ARE SUBJOINED TWO LETTERS FROM THE AUTHOR OF SIRIS, SHEWING THE MEDICINAL PROPERTIES OF TAR-WATER, AND THE BEST MANNER OF MAKING IT. Dublin Printed, London Re-printed: For W. Innys, C. Hitch, and M. Cooper ... 1746. 174,[2]; [4],[5]-88pp. Octavo. Modern half-calf and marbled boards. Faint blindstamp and ink shelf number (the latter on verso of title) of The Library of the Society for the Home Study of Holy Scripture and Church History, first title leaf a trace foxed, otherwise a very good copy.

New (i.e. Third London) edition of the first title, Keynes’s variant A1b with “A Letter to T.P. ...” on the verso of the title. This copy has p. 160 misnumbered ‘610’. The second title is also a “New Edition” (i.e. the second London edition), and exhibits Keynes’s second (corrected) state of the title leaf: ‘Holbourn’. Berkeley first noticed the use of tar-infused water during his residence in America, and although cautious in his initial conclusions, he soon became an advocate of its use as an economical aid for the betterment of the health of the Irish people. Although by no means wanting in exposition of Berkeley’s larger philosophical considerations, the practical aspects of Siris led to its being his most popular work, and the investigation of tar-water generated a significant body of pamphlet literature in response (well delineated by Keynes), among which Prior’s work is one of the most significant. ESTC cites Bowyer’s ledger in reporting the edition of the first title consisted of 1000 copies and that of the second title 2000 copies. KEYNES (BERKELEY) 68 & 104. ESTC T45794 & T125698. $675.

28. Betham-Edwards, Matilda: ANGLO-FRENCH REMINISCENCES 1785 – 1899. London: Chapman & Hall, 1900. Original medium green cloth, lettered in gilt. Light foxing and usual offsetting to endsheets, spine extremities a touch frayed, otherwise a very good, bright copy.

First edition. An early presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endsheet: “Mme. Thierry de la None [?] from her affectionate M Betham-Edwards Dec 3 1899”. Matilda Betham-Edwards (1836-1919) was a prolific English novelist, poet, writer of children’s books and ardent Francophile. Early on she enjoyed the friendship of Dickens and the Lambs. $150.

29. [Bethel, Slingsby]: THE INTERESTS OF POLITICIANS AND STATES. London: Printed for John Wickins ..., 1680. [16],354,[4]pp., including preliminary blank and terminal adverts. Octavo. Old calf, side panels ruled in blind. Two early signatures on endsheet and first blank (“Edward Hoblyn”), another, somewhat later (“William Bickford, Dunsland”), in top margin of title (along with authorship attribution in the same hand), spine considerably chipped at crown and toe (but sound), no original pastedowns, and two bookplates (one on each inner board), but a good, internally very good, crisp copy.

First edition, being a substantial amplification of Bethel’s influential pamphlet, The Present Interest Of England Stated (1671), coupled with new considerations of the same for the principal countries of Europe, with separate treatments of Genoa and Venice. Bethel (1617 – 1697) “was among the first English authors to adopt continental interest theory, and he also developed the idea of balance in his discussions of international affairs, trade, and religion ... [he] advocated the advancement of overseas trade as ‘the principal Interest of England,’ encouraged the government to adopt more supportive policies, and implicitly criticized Charles II for not already having done so...” – DNB. ESTC R11732. WING B2064. KRESS 1508. GOLDSMITHS 2439 (2nd ed. of 1681). $1250.

30. [Bible – English]: THE HOLY BIBLE, CONTAINING THE OLD TESTAMENT AND THE NEW: NEWLY TRANSLATED OUT OF THE ORIGINAL TONGUES, AND WITH THE FORMER TRANSLATIONS DILIGENTLY COMPARED AND REVISED. BY HIS MAJESTY’S SPECIAL COMMAND. APPOINTED TO BE READ IN CHURCHES. Cambridge: Printed by Joseph Bentham, printer to the University, by whom they are sold in Cambridge, and by Benj. Dod bookseller in Ave-Mary Lane, London, 1760. Not paginated. A-3C8 3D2

3E-T8 3U2. Bound up in two volumes. Attractively bound in contemporary dark blue-black morocco, with decorated gilt panels, raised bands and compartments, a.e.g., marbled endsheets. Text in double columns. Joints, spine extremities and edges a bit rubbed, but quite sound, foretips slightly bumped, two engraved armorial bookplates in each volume, the largest having a portion of the individual’s name effaced in each instance (‘Nathanael Hillier’ remains), some early small ink annotations (see below), otherwise a very good set.

An attractive edition, published the year of the death of Cambridge editor F.S. Parris (or Paris), and two years before Bentham’s publication of the edition denoted as ‘standard’ by Darlow & Moule, crediting the final revisions by Parris and overseen by H. Therold, in folio and quarto formats. Although the index of Books includes the Apocrypha, it is not present in this copy, nor in the copy described by Darlow & Moule. The second volume commences with Isaiah, and the New Testament has its own full-title. An early, if not the original, owner charted his/her progress reading the entire text by inserting in neat ink manuscript the month and day each chapter was read. ESTC locates four copies in North America. DARLOW & MOULE (HERBERT) 1131. ESTC T90382. $1750. 31. [Bible – Latin]: TESTAMENTI VETERIS BIBLIA SACRA, SIVE, LIBRI CANONICI PRISCÆ IUDÆORUM ECCLESIÆ À DEO TRADITI, LATINI RECÈNS EX HEBRÆO FACTI, BREVIBÚSQUE SCHOLIIS ILLUSTRATI .... Londini [London]: Excudebant G. B[ishop] R. N[ewbery] & R. B[arker], 1593 – 1592. [8],177,[3 -blanks]pp; [3],104,[4],75 [i.e. 73] leaves;12pp.,13-129 leaves,[1 – blank],[6],198,[1 – blank] leaves. Folio. Contemporary, or perhaps early 17th century paneled calf, with gilt corner ornaments and central floral device, spine with gilt vertical rules and label, with decorative devices, a.e.g.. Title-page enclosed within elaborate decorative woodcut border; two sectional titles with Hermes device; the entirety ruled in red. Bound without the Apocrypha, but with original blanks. Title label chipped, some modest dust soiling to title and occasional minor marginal smudges or discolorations, 17th century and later ownership inscriptions on front free endsheet, with bookplates of William Rawlings and Viscount Mersey, and a faint stamp, on the front pastedown, ink bookseller’s note on rear pastedown, extremities a bit rubbed, with slight cracking of upper joint; still a very good copy.

The third edition of the Latin Bible printed in England, in this case printing Tremellius and Junius’s version of the Old Testament, with Beza’s translation of the New Testament accompanied by Tremellius’s version, based on the edition printed in Geneva in 1590 (see D&M 6182). Texts printed in double columns. The complete text was printed in six parts, each with a divisional title and independent pagination or foliation. The fifth part, Junius’s translation of The Apocrypha, was never bound into this copy. A variant of this edition, with the imprint for “Guliel. N.” (i.e. William Norton), appeared the same year. ESTC locates six copies in North America. ESTC S106974. STC 2061.5. DARLOW & MOULE 6185. $1100.

32. [Bible – N.T.]: THE NEW TESTAMENT TRANSLATED BY WILLIAM TYNDALE 1534 .... Cambridge: Printed for the Royal Society of Literature at the University Press, 1939. Thick quarto. Full red morocco, raised bands, gilt., t.e.g. Frontis and facsimiles. Institutional bookplate on pastedown, ink name on verso of frontis, offset from morocco turn-ins to prelims and terminal leaves, otherwise a very good copy in bumped and shelfworn slipcase.

First edition thus, edited by N. Hardy Wallis, and with an Introduction by Isaac Foot. The text of the 1534 edition, with variants from the 1525 edition. One of 500 numbered copies printed on mouldmade paper, and specially bound. $300.

In an Amsterdam College Prize Binding

33. [Bible – N.T. – Greek]: NOVUM TESTAMENTUM GRÆCUM, CUM LECTIONIBUS VARIANTIBUS MSS. EXEMPLARIUM, VERSIONUM, EDITIONUM, SS. PATRUM ET SCRIPTORUM ECCLESIASTICORUM; ET IN EASDEM NOTIS. ACCEDUNT LOCA SCRIPTURÆ PARALLELA, ALIAQUE EXEGITICA. PRAEMITTITUR DISSERTATIO DE LIBRIS N.T. CANONIS CONSTITUTIONE, ET S. TEXTUS N. FOEDERIS AD NOSTRA USQUE TEMPORA HISTORIA. Lipsiæ [Leipzig]: Sumptibus Filii J. Fridericii Gleditschii, 1723. [22],168,[2],632pp., including special presentation prelim. Folio (signed in 4s). Full 18th century gilt paneled vellum, gilt extra, with Amsterdam College arms in central panel, and variations on Amsterdam city arms as corner pieces and as central devices in 5 of 7 spine compartments. Title in red and black. Engraved title vignette; engraved headpieces; tailpieces; initials (some historiated). Greek and roman letter. Binding a bit rubbed and lightly soiled, early and careful restoration of lower 12cm of spine in vellum, ink bookseller’s annotations on front and rear pastedowns, extreme lower blank forecorner torn from 2I3 (not approaching text), small receding brown spot from A4 to B4, otherwise a very good or better copy.

Second edition of Ludolph Kuster’s revision of Mill’s New Testament text, the latter first published in Oxford in 1707. The first edition of Kuster’s revision appeared at Amsterdam/ Rotterdam (with a Leipzig imprint) in 1710. This is an interesting copy, in an elaborate prize binding, and including a specially printed singleton presentation leaf bearing an engraved vignette of the Amsterdam City arms and eleven lines of boilerplate letterpress, with the variables executed in manuscript: in this case, in 1760 to one “Joanni Meyer,” signed in ink by the examiner. Mill’s text, accompanied by its “Prolegomena” (described by D&M as “monumental”) is “perhaps the most famous Greek Testament of the eighteenth century” – D&M (4725). An attractive copy. DARLOW & MOULE 4375 OCLC: 3041133. $1750.

34. [Bible – N.T. – Wycliffe Translation]: THE NEW TESTAMENT OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST TRANSLATED OUT OF THE LATIN VULGAT BY JOHN WICLIF, S.T.P. PREBENDARY OF AUST IN THE COLLEGIATE CHURCH OF WESTBURY, AND RECTOR OF LUTTERWORTH, ABOUT 1378. TO WHICH IS PRÆFIXT A HISTORY OF THE SEVERAL TRANSLATIONS OF THE H. BIBLE AND N. TESTAMENT, &C. INTO ENGLISH, BOTH IN MS AND PRINT, AND OF THE MOST REMARKABLE EDITIONS OF THEM SINCE THE INVENTION OF PRINTING. London: Sold by Thomas Page and William Mount ..., 1731. [2],iv,[4],108,[2],[3]-156,viiipp. Folio. Old calf, rebacked and recornered in the 20th century to style in brown calf, raised bands, lettered in gilt. Two fine engraved portraits, one folding plate. Three bookplates on front pastedown, modest tanning, some very tiny worm tracks in extreme edges of the portrait of Wycliffe, divisional title and first leaf of text of the NT nearly detached at gutter and a bit creased, light occasional foxing, a few short tears at the fore-edge of the folding plate, otherwise a very good copy.

First printing in book form of Wycliffe’s translation of the New Testament, accompanied by the extensive prefatory “History...” by John Lewis. At Wycliffe’s instigation, a group of scholars prepared this translation into Middle English of the New Testament from the Latin Vulgate in 1380, and though popular, it circulated only in manuscript until this edition. Over two hundred manuscript versions are known, many of them of the revised version prepared by John Purvey. In 1409 the Wycliffe version was condemned as heretical and outlawed in Britain. This edition was published by subscription, and the edition, including some copies on large paper, is reported to have consisted of only 160 copies. An advertisement leaf, a list of subscribers, and a page of errata follow the dedication. The frontis portrait of John Lewis and the portrait of Wycliffe are signed in the plate by G. White, and the engraved folding plate is based on the frontis of the Cranmer Bible. While well represented in institutions, copies of this edition are uncommon in the market place: ABPC records only three appearances since 1999, and only one of them, the Macclesfield copy sold in 2006, was complete with both the portraits, as is this copy. ESTC T95000. DARLOW & MOULE (HERBERT) 1011. MACCLESFIELD SALE vii:2452. $18,500. The Uncommon Quarto Printing

35. [Bible – O.T. – Greek]: [Title in Greek] VETUS TESTAMENTUM GRÆCUM EX VERSIONE SEPTUAGINTA INTERPRETUM, JUXTA EXEMPLAR VATICANUM ROMÆ EDITUM, ACCURATISSIMÈ & AD AMUSSIM RECUSUM Londini: Excudebat Rogerus Daniel: prostat autem venale apud Joannem Martin & Jacobum Allestrye, sub signo Campanæ in Cometerio D. Pauli, 1653. [8],1279,[1]; 186,[2] pp. plus terminal blank. Quarto (signed in 8s), 195 X 143mm. Old vellum, titled and dated in manuscript on the spine. Terminal leaves slightly soiled, two ownership inscriptions on front endsheets, and small Lincoln’s Inn release/sale stamp, vellum a bit handsoiled, occasional modest foxing and dusting along upper margins, but a very good copy.

The first edition of the Septuagint printed in England (with the Scholia), the scarce printing in quarto format. The text is derived from the Sixtine text, and edited by John Biddle (1615-1662), the Unitarian controversialist who was imprisoned by the Parliamentary Commissioners for his religious views. The Scholia ... has a separate title-leaf, register and pagination. The same setting was imposed in both quarto and octavo formats, the latter with rules separating the columns of text. In regard to institutional representation, the edition in quarto is much more uncommon than that in octavo: ESTC locates 4 copies of the quarto printing in North America, as opposed to 19 of the octavo printing. Occasionally, Daniel’s reprint of the New Testament is bound up with the octavo printings to form a complete Bible. Brunet cites that format, but notes the sale of a copy on “Gr. Pap.,” presumably a copy in this format. Over the last 35 years, ABPC records sale of one copy in quarto (1999) and four in octavo. ESTC R12599 & R236817. WING B2718 (octavo edition only). DARLOW & MOULE 4692. BRUNET I:863. $4000.

First Complete Scottish King James Bible and First Edinburgh

36. [Bible & Prayer Book – Scottish]: THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER, AND ADMINISTRATION OF THE SACRAMENTS: AND OTHER RITES AND CEREMONIES OF THE : WITH THE PSALTER OR PSALMES OF DAVID. Edinburgh: Printed by the Printers to the King’s most excellent Majestie ..., 1633. [94] pp. A-F8 (-A1). Bound with: S[peed], J[ohn]: THE GENEALOGIES RECORDED IN THE SACRED SCRIPTURES ... [London: Printed by Felix Kingston], anno Dom 1633. [40]pp.

A-B8 C-D2. Woodcut charts, map, title-border. Bound with: THE HOLY BIBLE CONTAINING THE OLD TESTAMENT AND THE NEW ... APPOINTED TO BE READ IN CHURCHES. Edinburgh: Printed by the printers to the Kings most excellent Majestie [i.e. R. Young] ...

1633. [900]pp. A-2X8 2Y4; 3A-3L8 3M4. Engraved title and frontis, and separate title for NT. Bound with: [Downame, John]: A BRIEFE CONCORDANCE TO THE BIBLE OF THE LAST TRANSLATION .... London: Imprinted [by H. Lownes and R. Young], 1630. [100]pp.

*2 A-F8. Bound with: THE WHOLE BOOK OF PSALMES, COLLECTED INTO ENGLISH MEETER .... Cambridge: Printed by the Printers to the Vniversitie, 1628. [10],93,[3]pp (with errors in numbering). A-F8 G4. With music. Small octavo. Five volumes bound in one (with the Concordance bound between the O.T. and N.T.). Later gilt paneled mottled calf, gilt spine label, marbled endsheets, to contemporary style. Bookplate of Joseph Yates, Clanna House. Trimmed rather close throughout, frequently costing register and/or page numbers, some head lines and a few catchwords; some scattered loss of some bottom lines late in the N.T., early ink inscription on first title, small discoloration to first several leaves, stain to lower fore-corners of 2M8 and 2N1, some occasional foxing, soiling and minor spotting, lacking A1 (blank) to BoCP; withal, a reasonably good gathering, neatly bound.

An uncommon lot, including the first complete King James Bible printed in Scotland, and the first Edinburgh edition of the Book of Common Prayer. The Bible follows a separate printing of the New Testament in 1628. This edition, it is suggested, was printed in connection with the Coronation of Charles I in Edinburgh in June 1633. Some copies of this printing of the N.T. were accompanied by plates, but these were later additions (ca. 1638), and there are two settings of some of the sheets, which are frequently co-mingled.

In this copy, the catchword at 3G1 is ‘But’; 2F6v has the reading ‘carkases’; the catchword at 3G1r is ‘37 But’; and the headline on 3K3r is ‘Of Widows’. The Book of Common Prayer is the form with catchword ‘pride’ at B1r, and anticipates the ill-fated 1637 revision for the Church of Scotland. The editions of Genealogies, the Concordance, and the Psalms are contemporary editions of the sort that are characteristically found bound with various editions of the Bible originating from London and elsewhere. The Edinburgh Bible is scarce: ESTC locates five copies in North America: Folger, Huntington, NYPL, Newberry and Univ. of Pennsylvania. The Prayer book is also uncommon, with three copies located in North America (Harvard, Huntington and this copy, now properly deaccessioned). Of the Psalms, four copies are located in North America: Folger, LC, UT, and again, this copy. ESTC S123370; S122895; S102072; S90766; and S122325. STC 16394; 2311 & 2311a; 23039e; and 2608. BARLOW & MOULE (HERBERT). 476 RUMBALL-PETRE 135. GRIFFITHS 1633.8. $7500.

37. [Bibliography – Bibles]: [Ducarel, Andrew C., et al]: A LIST OF VARIOUS EDITIONS OF THE BIBLE, AND PARTS THEREOF, IN ENGLISH. FROM THE YEAR 1526 TO 1776 .... London: [No Imprint], 1778. [2],73,[1]pp. Large octavo (signed in 4s). 245 x 155mm. Contemporary, perhaps original marbled wrappers, wholly untrimmed and largely unopened. Some offsetting from the wrappers to adjacent endleaves at edges, crown and toe of spine of wrapper chipped away, some occasional smudges, otherwise a lovely copy in original state.

Second (enlarged) edition, after the much more modest list printed by William Bowyer in 1777. The entire work is an amplification, according to the subtitle, of “A Manuscript List of English Bibles, copied from one compiled by the late Joseph Ames, presented to the Lambeth-Library by Dr. Gifford ....,” with “later Discoveries of several Learned Gentlemen ....” The identity of the actual printer is not recorded in ESTC. Ducarel was the first lay librarian at Lambeth, serving some 27 years beginning in 1757. While well represented institutionally, copies, particularly when in this near original condition, are uncommon in commerce. ESTC T96267. $450.

38. [Bibliography – Bibles]: Cotton, Henry: A LIST OF THE EDITIONS OF THE BIBLE AND PARTS THEREOF IN ENGLISH, FROM THE YEAR MDV. TO MDCCCXX. WITH AN APPENDIX CONTAINING TRANSLATIONS, AND BIBLIOGRAPHICAL DESCRIPTIONS. Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1821. xxi,[1],168pp. Octavo. Full tree calf, gilt extra, marbled endsheets, by Clarke & Bedford. Faint foxing early and late, early ink manuscript addition in upper margin of one leaf, otherwise about fine, with the binding unsullied. Cloth slipcase and chemise by MacDonald.

First edition. At the time of the publication of this significant compilation, Cotton was sublibrarian at the Bodleian. His religious assignments took him to Ireland in 1823, and he published a second edition in 1852, after his resignation as Archdean of Cashel. “Intended as an appendix to Lewis’s History of the English Translations of the Scriptures, though it will be found a very useful publication to those who may not be possessed of that work” – Lowndes. LOWNDES, p. 533. $350.

39. [Blake, William]: Essick, Robert N.: WILLIAM BLAKE’S RELIEF INVENTIONS. Los Angeles: Printed for William & Victoria Dailey The Press of the Pegacycle Lady, 1978 Quarto. Parchment backed boards, paper label. Frontis and plates. A bit of sunning and a few stray marks to boards, bookplate on pastedown, otherwise near fine.

First edition. One of 365 numbered copies printed by Patrick Reagh in Bulmer types on Rives paper. $100. 40. [Bloody Assizes]: [Tutchin, John (attribution as editor)]: THE SECOND AND LAST COLLECTION OF THE DYING SPEECHES, LETTERS AND PRAYERS, &C. OF THOSE EMINENT PROTESTANTS WHO SUFFERED IN THE WEST OF ENGLAND, (AND ELSEWHERE,) ... WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THEIR UNDAUNTED COURAGE AT THE BARR, AND AFTERWARDS; WITH THE MOST REMARKABLE CIRCUMSTANCES THAT ATTENDED THEIR EXECUTION .... London: Printed for John Dunton, at the Black Raven .... 1689. 30,[2]pp. Quarto. Later plain wrappers, bound with the terminal advert leaf. Short snag in fore-edge, light foxing, but a very good copy.

First edition. A supplement to the collection published earlier the same year. Wing ascribes the collection to the aspiring poet, later political writer, and author of A New Martyrology, John Tutchin, who was himself tried before Judge Jeffreys in 1685. In addition to making sport of his skill as a poet, Jeffreys sentenced him “… to be whipped through all the market towns of Dorset once a year” – DNB. This collection preserves personal letters and accounts of some of those who were tried for their association with the Monmouth Rebellion. NCBEL cautions that some of Tutchin’s own accounts of the events are “often false.” ESTC locates 8 copies in North America. ESTC R32831. NCBEL II: 486 (N). WING T3383A. $375.

41. Bonnefoy, Yves, and Henri Cartier-Bresson: COMME ALLER LOIN, DANS LES PIERRES. [Crest]: La Sétérée / Jacques Clerc, [1992]. Folio (40 x 33cm). Folded signatures laid into printed wrappers. Fine, in near fine cloth slipcase with some shelf rubs on one side panel.

First edition. Illustrated with seven original monochrome lithographs by Cartier-Bresson. One of 125 numbered copies (in addition to 25 copies hors commerce), signed by Bonnefoy and Cartier-Bresson. While not as well known as his photographs, Cartier-Bresson’s endeavors in graphic print-making have been the subject of monographs and exhibitions. $1750.

Association Copy, With A Long Inscription by

42. [Book of Common Prayer]: THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER, AND ADMINISTRATION OF THE SACRAMENTS, AND OTHER RITES AND CEREMONIES OF THE CHURCH, ACCORDING TO THE USE OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND; TOGETHER WITH THE PSALTER OR PSALMS OF DAVID.... London: Printed by John Baskett ...and by the Assigns of Thomas Newcomb, and Henry Hills ..., 1715. [20,380],23,[3]pp. terminating at 3A4. Folio (465 x 285 mm). Contemporary black gilt paneled armorial goatskin, heavily gilt extra, a.e.g., marbled endsheets. Engraved frontispiece. Text in double columns, printed in black and red, the whole ruled in red. Spine and upper spine quadrant of upper board restored with black calf, edges of text block smoke- darkened, with occasional shallow isolated penetration into margins, early repair on verso of frontispiece, tidemark in upper forecorner/quadrant of last three text leaves and endleaves, small mend on verso of title at top margin, occasional handsoiling and smudging, a few minor marginal nicks or short tears; in spite of these detractions, in the main a bright, crisp copy.

One of two large folio printings of The Book of Common Prayer published by Baskett in 1715, this being the form that terminates at 3A4. This copy was associated with the family and descendants of Henry Clinton, seventh Earl of Lincoln (1684 – 1728) and his wife Lucy, daughter of the first Baron Pelham. Inserted in the front are two conjugate sheets of paper (one blank), and laid in are two folio sheets of vellum (a bit stained along the top edges). The latter are occupied on three sides with a manuscript family record, written at various times and in various hands (including births, deaths, marriages, etc) from 1744 through the death in 1794 of Henry Fienes Pelham Clinton, Duke of Newcastle. The first of the inserted paper leaves is of perhaps greater interest, as it bears a fifteen line manuscript account by White Kennett, , signed and with his seal, of his baptism at the Parrish of St. James, in Westminster, on 12 February 1718/19, of the Clinton’s first son, George, for whom “His Excellent Majestie King George was Graciously Pleased to do this Honour ... to stand Godfather in his own Royal Person and to give him His own Royal Name of George....” Apart from his clerical responsibilities, Kennett (1660 – 1728) was an active antiquary, with particular interest in events in North America. He assembled a large and important library, and based on that collection, compiled the first attempt at a catalogue of books on North America: Bibliothecae Americanae Primordia. An Attempt Towards Laying The Foundation Of An American Library.... London, 1713. His close friendship with Charles Trimnell, and one of George I’s favorites, secured him the bishopric of Peterborough in 1718. GRIFFITHS 1715.1. ESTC T81463. $2750.

Printed on Vellum

43. [Book of Common Prayer]: THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER, AND ADMINISTRATION OF THE SACRAMENTS, AND OTHER RITES AND CEREMONIES OF THE CHURCH, ACCORDING TO THE USE OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND; TOGETHER WITH THE PSALTER OR PSALMS OF DAVID .... London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, [nd. but 1910]. Two volumes. 356;357-587,[3]pp. Large, thick octavo. 260 x 195 mm. Publisher’s half pigskin, raised bands, and wooden boards, t.e.g, others untrimmed. Private bookplate on each pastedown. 1959 presentation t.l.s. affixed to first free endsheet, joints rubbed, with some narrow cracks (but quite sound), textblock quite fine.

A deluxe issue of the Book of Common Prayer marking the accession of King George V, printed on real vellum. The colophon on the verso of the title denotes this as copy #5 of six copies thus. However, Griffiths reports that there were two issues of six copies each, and notes the title-page is printed in red & black -- it is here printed in black only. Whether actually one of six, or one of a total of twelve copies on vellum, a very scarce format for this edition. GRIFFITHS 1910.1. $4500.

First Scottish Book of Common Prayer

44. [Book of Common Prayer – Episcopalian Church in Scotland]: THE BOOKE OF COMMON PRAYER, AND ADMINISTRATION OF THE SACRAMENTS. AND OTHER PARTS OF DIVINE SERVICE FOR THE USE OF THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND [with:] THE PSALTER, OR PSALMES OF DAVID: AFTER THE TRANSLATION SET FORTH BY AUTHORITY IN KING JAMES HIS TIME OF BLESSED MEMORY. AS IT SHALL BE SUNG OR SAID THROUGHOUT ALL THE CHURCHES OF SCOTLAND. Edinburgh:

Printed by Robert Young, 1637-1636. First two works not paginated. a-b8 A-Q8 R6 1a-2i8 2k6; [2],147,[1]pp. Small folio (signed in 8s). Contemporary gilt paneled calf, rebacked to style in sympathetic brown morocco, spine elaborately gilt extra, gilt label. Printed in black letter, with decorated initials, title within typographic frame, calendar and title in red and black. Woodcut initials and ornaments. Original side panels a bit crazed and darkened, with small surface chip to one fore-tip, early ink name and annotation on first title, somewhat foxed early and late, with occasional scattered foxing, mild spotting and hand-soiling elsewhere, dark discoloration in upper fore-corner of several leaves, beginning at J4 and fading again by K3, a few headlines cut into slightly, small amateurish mend to short tear in lower blank margin of A1, slight cracking between Q7-8, early ink name in lower margin of recto of terminal leaf of third part, but generally a good to near very good, sound copy.

First edition of the first Scottish Book of Common Prayer. Bound with: The Psalms Of King David: Translated By King James. London: Printed by Thomas Harper. 1636.

As usual, leaves R7-8, which were suppressed, are not present; leaf 2h3 is in second

(‘blotted’) of four settings noted by ESTC. There is no catchword on 2k6v, and in this copy

A4v, line 1, reads ‘Do-’; C1r, last line, reads ‘ye may’; D1r, line 2, ends ‘Jerusalem’; and E3v, line 5, reads ‘exam-’ as per STC. The general title to The Psalter... is the state without the word ‘Pointed.’ This controversial edition of the Liturgy was overseen by Charles I and Archbishop Laud for use by the people of Scotland. The text was drafted by John Maxwell and James Wedderburn. However, upon its first reading in churches in Scotland, the opposition was so strong that it was withdrawn from use shortly thereafter. The text eventually was influential in the compilation of the English revision of 1661-2, and served as a model for the American BoCP of 1789 and its successors. GRIFFITHS 1637:9. STC 16607 & 2736. ESTC S101893/S113851 & S122902. $4750.

45. [Book of Common Prayer – Extra-illustrated]: THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER, AND ADMINISTRATION OF THE SACRAMENTS, AND OTHER RITES AND CEREMONIES OF THE CHURCH, ACCORDING TO THE USE OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND: TOGETHER WITH THE PSALTER OR PSALMS OF DAVID, POINTED AS THEY ARE TO BE SUNG OR SAID IN CHURCHES. University of Oxford: Printed by John Baskett, 1716 [bound with]: THE WHOLE BOOK OF PSALMES, COLLECTED INTO ENGLISH METRE BY THOMAS STERNHOLD, JOHN HOPKINS, AND OTHERS, CONFERRED WITH THE HEBREW .... London: Printed by Stephen Gilbert, for the Company of Stationers, 1716. Not paginated: a-b8,c4,B – 2B8, 2C4 [40,392pp]; A-I8 [144pp]. Octavo. Bound in full contemporary black morocco, raised bands, heavily gilt compartments, covers enclosed within triple-rule and decorated inner and outer border of floral devices, a.e.g. Text printed in black only, but ruled in red. BoCP extra-illustrated with 55 plates (see below). Some of the plates are browned, some spotting and erosion to fore-margins of L4-8 and Y1-8, in one case costing a few words, some occasional thumbing, some natural vertical creases to the spine, 1723 gift inscription on binder’s blank, otherwise a good copy.

An attractive octavo printing of the Prayer Book by Baskett, here the less common variant of that year printed in black only (but ruled in red). It has been extra-illustrated with the suite of 55 engravings by Sturt after Veigne, including the portrait and engraved extra title, published by R.W. Whitledge and I. Hazard. Sturt’s own fully engraved edition of the BoCP appeared the same year. GRIFFITHS 1716.4. ESTC T127517 & T82248 (Psalms). $850.

46. [Book of Common Prayer – French – Extra-illustrated]: LA LITURGIE, OU FORMULAIRE DES PRIERES PUBLIQUES, SELON L’USAGE DE L’EGLISE ANGLICANE. Londres [but possibly Amsterdam]: Chez P. Vaillant & J. Nourse dans le Strand, 1764 xlix,[1],438pp. plus frontis and fifty-one inserted engraved plates. 12mo. Full contemporary olive green morocco, raised bands, compartments gilt with cross-hatching, covers with rolled leaf and flower borders, surrounding a central compass-like device of leaves, stems and buds, a.e.g., marbled endsheets. Text leaves adjacent to inserted plates somewhat foxed, foretips bumped, otherwise a very good copy.

One of two impressions of 1764 under Vaillant’s imprint that ESTC suggests might have been printed in Amsterdam, the other without Nourse’s co-imprint. The first Vaillant edition cited by Griffiths is dated 1748, with editions dated 1776, 1778, 1780, and 1788 following. This copy has been extra-illustrated with the suite of appropriate engravings by G.L. Smith, published in London in 1773 by William Dawson, Pater-noster Row, evidently just for this purpose (the plate utilized here for the frontis bears a caption and Dawson’s dated imprint). ESTC locates only four copies with this dual imprint, and ten with Vaillant’s name alone. GRIFFITHS 36:25. ESTC 142212. $400. 47. [Book of Common Prayer – Italian]: IL LIBRO DELL PREGHIERE PUBLICHE ED AMMINISTRAZIONE DE’ SACRAMENTI, ED ALTRI RITI E CEREMONIE DELLA CHIEFA, SECONDO L’USO DELLA CHIESA ANGLICANA; INSIEME COL SALTERO OVER I SALMI DI DAVID, COME HANNO DA ESSER RECITATI NELLE CHIESE. London: appresso Moise Pitt libraro nel Cimitero di San Paolo, 1685. [72], 312, 289-550,[3],2-24, [2] pp. 12mo. Full contemporary black morocco, side panels in gilt with decorative devices, spine heavily gilt extra, a.e.g., marbled endsheets. Lower forecorner of front free endsheet chipped away, spine sunned, light foxing and dusting, blank lower forecorner of S8 torn away, but a very good copy in a handsome binding, with the bookplate of Bibiliotheca Lindesiana.

First printed edition in Italian of the Book of Common Prayer, translated by Giovan-Battista Cappello and edited by Edward Browne. Manuscript translations by William Bedell and Alexander Amidei had circulated earlier in the century. OCLC locates ten copies in North America; no copies appear in ABPC since 1975. A choice copy, with distinguished provenance, of an uncommon book. ESTC R24273. WING C 4187. WING (2nd) B3675b. GRIFFITHS 66.2. $1250.

48. [Book of Common Prayer – Latin]: [Durel, John (editor)]: LITURGIA, SEU LIBER PRECUM COMMUNIUM, ET ADMINISTRATIONIS SACRAMENTORUM, ALIORUMQUE RITUUM ATQUE CEREMONIARUM ECCLESIAE, JUXTA USUM ECCLESIAE ANGLICANAE.... London: excudit Rogerus Nortonus, regius in Latinis, Græcis & Hebraicis typographus; væneuntque apud Sam. Mearne, regium bibliopolam in vico vulgariter dicto Little-Britaine, 1670. [382]pp. plus preliminary blank leaf. Contemporary speckled calf, raised bands, spine gilt extra. Upper joint cracked at top and bottom; corners worn, shallow loss at crown and toe of spine, a few minor marginal smudges, front free endsheet nearly loose, contemporary ownership inscriptions on endsheets, with ink name in margin of title-page, but internally a very good copy.

Second edition of this version of Book of Common Prayer, in Latin, for the Anglican Church, edited by , who signs the dedication “J.D. Editor.” First printed in 1669, this is one of two variants of the 1670 printing noted by ESTC, in this case with the imprint in five lines, ending with ‘Little-Britaine.” The translation was initially undertaken by , and , but they withdrew before the work was complete, and Durel, later Dean of Windsor, completed it. ESTC locates four copies of this variant in North America, and nine of the four line variant. ESTC R17750. WING B3637B. GRIFFITHS 87.10. $950.

49. [Book of Common Prayer – Reformed]: THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER REFORMED ACCORDING TO PLAN OF THE LATE DR. SAMUEL CLARKE TOGETHER WITH THE PSALTER OR PSALMS OF DAVID AND A COLLECTION OF HYMNS FOR PUBLIC WORSHIP. London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1774. [4],ii,130;69-336;[4],141,[11]pp. plus 20pp. of engraved music. 12mo. Full contemporary black smooth morocco, raised bands, spine gilt extra, covers with rolled floral border and decorated rule, a.e.g, marbled endsheets. Binding a bit rubbed, upper joint cracked, but sound, foretips a trifle bruised, foxing to prelims and terminal leaves, occasional tanning, but otherwise a very good copy.

Second edition, substantially enlarged. Edited by Theophilus Lindsey, based on proposals laid out in Part III of Clarke’s Scripture Doctrine. Earlier in 1774, Lindsey, with the aid of Joseph Priestley, Richard Price, and others, established a Unitarian chapel at Essex House. The first edition of this prayer book was a consequence of that new congregation, and it set the precedent for James Freeman’s 1785 Unitarian revision. At first glance, this edition/issue would appear comprised of a component of sheets from the earlier edition, coupled with additions and revisions (resulting in the eccentric collation). The advertisement leaf has been reset, with the original text dated 1 Dec. 1774, and an appended paragraph noting the additions. However, the first edition was an octavo, and this edition is signed as 12mo. The Collection Of Hymns And Psalms has its own title-leaf and independent register. ESTC locates six copies of this edition in North America. ESTC T124912. $450.

50. [Book of Common Prayer – Spanish]: LA LITURGIA YNGLESA, O EL LIBRO DE ORACION COMMUN Y ADMINISTRACION DE LOS SACRAMENTOS, Y OTROS RITOS Y CEREMONIAS DE LA YGLESIA, SEGUN EL USO DE LA YGLESIA DE YNGLATERRA: JUNTAMENTE CON EL PSALTERIO Ô PSALMOS DE DAVID .... London: Impresso por

G. Bowyer, Acosta de Fran. Coggan .... 1707. [456]pp. A8; b8; B-2D8; 2E4. Octavo. Old paneled calf, gilt label. Upper joint cracked (but cords sound), shallow losses at crown and toe of spine, front free endsheets detached (one with early ink name), small tidemark with red tinge at toe of gutter of last third of textblock, modest tanning and foxing, otherwise a good copy

The second edition of the Book of Common Prayer in Spanish, printing a revised translation by Felix Anthony de Alvorado, the minister to a congregation of Spanish merchants in London. Darlow & Moule suggest the translation was not so much a new undertaking as a simple revision and updating of Texeda’s translation. It was reprinted, with corrections, in 1715. ESTC locates seven copies in North America. GRIFFITHS 162.2. ESTC T140403. DARLOW & MOULE II:8482n. $750.

With a Provincial Bookseller’s Broadsheet Inserted.

51. [Bookseller’s Broadside]: [Vicars, William]: A COMPANION TO THE ALTAR: SHEWING THE NATURE AND NECESSITY OF A SACRAMENTAL PREPARATION; IN ORDER TO OUR WORTHY RECEIVING THE HOLY COMMUNION. WHEREIN THOSE FEARS AND SCRUPLES ABOUT EATING AND DRINKING UNWORTHILY, AND OF INCURRING OUR OWN DAMNATION THEREBY, ARE PROVED GROUNDLESS AND UNWARRANTABLE. UNTO WHICH ARE ADDED, PRAYERS AND MEDITATIONS PREPARATIVE TO A SACRAMENTAL PREPARATION, ACCORDING TO WHAT THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND REQUIRES FROM HER COMMUNICANTS. London: Printed by Assignment from E. Parker for John Beecroft, [ca. 1757]. [4],68,12pp. 12mo. Contemporary paneled sheep. Frontis and engraved title. Joints cracked (upper board close to detached), with small chips at crown and toe of spine, otherwise very good.

Just one of the many impressions / editions of Vicars’s devotional works printed by or for Beecroft, in this instance with the cutline below the engraved frontis dated 1757, and in that form not matching any of the editions noted in ESTC. This copy includes a 12pp. inserted terminal catalogue of Beecroft’s publications, and is of additional particular note for the presence of a 37-line single sheet promotional for “William Grigg, Bookseller and Book-binder, [In the Exchange – deleted in ms], Opposite to Broad-Gate in Exon,” laid down on the front pastedown. Griggs was also engaged in sales of paper goods and musical instruments, as well as a wide range of elixirs and medicines. Gill also advertises his interest in the purchase of second- hand books or their exchange for new goods, and there also exists the possibility that this binding was executed under his auspices. ESTC dates this advert [ca. 1770], noting Grig first appeared in 1765. The copy of record at the Bodleian also bears the imprint of Exeter printer Andrew Brice, though it may have been trimmed from this example, or perhaps appears on its verso. ESTC T167895 (advert). $350.

52. Bowditch, N. I.: SUFFOLK SURNAMES. Boston: Printed by John Wilson & Son, 1857. 108pp. Large octavo. Original cloth, elaborately stamped in blind, spine lettered in gilt. Minor wear at tips, otherwise an excellent copy.

First edition, denoted as “Not Published.” Inscribed and signed by the author: “John H. Thorndike Esq. with the regards of N.I. Bowditch, Boston June 19 1857.” The second, first public edition, was published by Ticknor & Fields. SABIN 7002. $125.

53. Boyle, Kay: THE SMOKING MOUNTAIN STORIES OF GERMANY DURING THE OCCUPATION. New York: Knopf, 1963. Cloth and decorated boards. Small mark at lower edge, light foxing to endsheets, else very good in pictorial dust jacket with slight tanning at edges.

First Knopf edition, following the 1951 McGraw-Hill first edition. Foreword by William L. Shirer new to this edition. Inscribed by author, “January 1963 With my devoted love to Charlie – always, Kay Rowayton – Conn.” $150.

54. [Bradley, Will]: Waterloo, Stanley: A MAN AND A WOMAN. Chicago: Way & Williams 1897. Cherry red cloth, with decorative device in black and white, t.e.g. Cloth slightly darkened at edges, otherwise very good.

“New edition” of this novel by the Chicago editor/novelist, but the first under the Way & Williams imprint. The first was published by Schulte in 1892. The binding design is by Will Bradley. KRAUS 51. WRIGHT III:5817 (first edition). BAMBACE A30. $75.

Murdered in Covent Garden

55. Bray, Thomas: THE GOOD FIGHT OF FAITH, IN THE CAUSE OF GOD AGAINST THE KINGDOM OF SATAN. EXEMPLIFIED IN A SERMON PREACH’D AT THE PARISH-CHURCH OF ST. CLEMENTS DANES, WESTMINSTER, ON THE 24TH OF MARCH, 1708/9. AT THE FUNERAL OF MR. JOHN DENT, WHO WAS BARBAROUSLY MURDER’D IN THE DOING HIS DUTY, IN THE EXECUTION OF THE LAWS AGAINST PROFANENESS AND IMMORALITY .... London: Printed by H. Hills ... for the Benefit of the Poor, 1709. 16pp. Octavo. Extracted from nonce pamphlet volume. Title nearly detached and a bit torn at gutter (no loss), but a good copy.

A modest charity reprint for the masses, published in the same year as the first edition. According to a contemporary (19-22 March, 1709) newspaper account: “Last Friday night, Mr. John Dent, who has for several years signaliz’d himself in prosecuting and convicting disorderly houses, common night-walkers, profane swearers, drunkards, Sabbath-breakers, and such like, being call’d to the assistance of the Constable, was assaulted in Covent- Garden, and barbarously murder’d by three soldiers, who attempted to rescue a lewd woman out of the hands of the Constable and his Assistants. The aforesaid soldiers are all committed to Newgate.” ESTC T86197. $125. 56. [Broadside on Silk]: THE GLOBE ... OPENING NIGHT, MONDAY, SEPT. 12TH, 1870 ... [caption title]. Boston: F.A. Searle, Printer, 1870. Narrow folio broadside, 50 x 18.5 cm (20 x 7.5 inches). Printed in black on heavy silk. Side margins slightly frayed, horizontal fold, large transparent tan stain to portion of lower half (not at all affecting legibility), otherwise a good copy.

An attractive printing on silk, of the program for the opening performance at The Globe – formerly Selwyn’s – after renovations and change of management and name. The production was Fechter’s dramatization of Dumas’s “Monte Cristo.” In May 1873, the Globe and many adjacent concerns were consumed in a disastrous fire. $75.

57. [Broughton, Hugh (trans)]: DANIEL HIS CHALDIE VISIONS AND HIS EBREVV: BOTH TRANSLATED AFTER THE ORIGINAL: AND EXPOUNDED BOTH, BY REDUCTION OF HEATHEN MOST FAMOUS STORIES VNTO THE EXACT PROPRIETIE OF HIS WORDES (WHICH IS THE SUREST CERTAINTIE WHAT HE MUST MEANE:) AND BY IOYNING ALL THE BIBLE, AND LEARNE TONGUES TO THE FRAME OF HIS WORKE. London:

Printed by Richard Field, for William Young .... 1596. [136]pp. Collation *4 A-K4 H4 L-P4. Small quarto. Modern half morocco and marbled boards. Four engraved plates. Hebrew, italic and black letter. Moderate marginal tanning and soiling, diagonal strip torn away from upper margin of A4 (costing ‘The’ in headline on verso), old repair to tear on verso of one plate, with no loss; extensive early manuscript marginalia on six leaves; a used, but good copy.

First edition. A translation of the Book of Daniel by the eminent Hebraist Hugh Broughton (1549- 1612), who the DNB describes as “the most proficient English Hebraist of his day.” Darlow & Moule note that he also considered re-translating the entire Old Testament, and though he petitioned the crown for a subsidy to undertake the project, it was never completed. Seven years before the publication of this work, after a disagreement with the , he left Britain for Germany where, with the exception of occasional visits to London, he remained until his death. The plates, which are attributed to Jodocus Hondius by Luborsky & Ingram, are the first four of the seven originally published in Broughton’s A Concent Of Scripture (between 15871 – 91), here reworked to varying degrees. A second edition appeared in 1597, though using, in part, the same setting. DARLOW & MOULE (HERBERT) 230. ESTC S106760. STC 2785. LUBORSKY & INGRAM 2785. $2250.

58. Brown, John: A PIOUS AND ELABORATE TREATISE CONCERNING PRAYER: AND THE ANSWER OF PRAYER .... Glasgow: Printed by John Robertson and Mrs. McLean Booksellers ..., 1745. [4],[5]-30[i.e. 305],[2]pp. (p. 304 misnumbered ‘305’ and 305 misnumbered ‘30’). Small octavo. Later treed calf, spine gilt extra (early typographically ruled waste sheets contemporary with the textblock utilized as blanks front and rear). Upper joint cracking, but sound, two bookplates, some uniform tanning to text stock, but a very good copy.

First printing in this format. After refusing to accept the restoration of episcopacy, Brown (c. 1610 – 1679) was banished in 1662, and moved to Rotterdam, where he joined the exile community of theologians and remained until his death, publishing several works in English from the English language presses there. His works saw frequent posthumous publication in his native Scotland during the next century. ESTC locates five copies of this edition, which is opened by a publisher’s note suggesting this is this particular work’s first publication. The errors in numbering the terminal leaves are at variance from the errors noted in ESTC, where only five copies are located. ESTC T114227. $225.

59. Bruno, Guido [pseud. of Curtis J. Kirch]: THE SACRED BAND A LITANY OF INGRATITUDE. New York: [Guido Bruno], 1921. 12mo. Cloth and decorated paper over boards, printed label. Decorative title and illustrations. Edges and fore-corners a bit rubbed and shelfworn, otherwise a very good copy.

First edition. With Bruno’s year of publication inscription, signed with initials. $125.

60. [Bruno Imprint]: Fleming, Mary: IRELAND, BROADWAY AND OTHER LOVES. New York: Guido Bruno, 1921. Cloth and marbled boards, paper label. Foretips a bit worn, usual tanning, otherwise very good.

First edition of this collection, including poems about the events of 1916, as well as a tribute to Brooke, Ledwidge and Kilmer. Copies were also issued in printed wrappers. This copy bears the author’s 1922 presentation inscription. A contemporary photograph (possibly of the author) is laid in. $125.

“ ... I am not a firm believer in the honesty of parties ....”

61. Bryant, William Cullen: AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED, TO HIS BROTHER, JOHN HOWARD BRYANT, ON POLITICS AND BLEEDING KANSAS. New York. 15 February 1856. 3 full pages on three panels of a folded quarto lettersheet. Residue of hinge along fold from having been mounted, a bit of foxing, but good.

A fine letter, to “Dear Brother” (i.e. John Howard Bryant), in which he discusses financial matters, his brother having advanced payment for a note on his behalf, his feelings about the coming political meeting in Pittsburgh – the first organizational meeting of what would become the Republican Party was held 22 Feb 1856 in Pittsburgh – and the state of affairs in regard to Kansas. After settling the money issues, he writes: “I cannot go to Pittsburgh. I do not like public meetings – I do not like consultations. I am surfeited with politics in my vocation and when I go from home I cannot bear to carry them with me. If I were not a journalist perhaps the case would be different ....” He indicates his strong preference is to look for the first fine weather after the difficult winter “...to see to some things at my place at Roslyn. The travelling on the railways is often obstructed, and the ferries are often choked with ice.” He returns to the subject of politics: “That the consultations at Pittsburg [sic] will be among honest men is probable enough, but I am not a very firm believer in the honesty of parties. All parties include nearly all sorts of men, and the moment a party becomes strong the rogues are attracted to it and immediately try to manage it. If the[y] want its help for no other purpose they want it to get into office, or perhaps simply to become notorious, which satisfies some peoples ambition.” Bryant then turns to affairs surrounding the controversy over Kansas: “As to Kansas, I am not sure that there will not be some blood shed – though I think not – but I am quite certain it will be a free state. The whole city is alive with the excitement of the Kansas news and people are subscribing liberally to the Emigrants Aid Society. The companies of Emigrants will be sent forward as soon as the rivers and lakes are open, in March if possible, and by the first of May ... there will be several thousands more free state settlers than there now are. Of course they go well armed ....” He closes with family wishes, and signs “Yours affectionately, W.C. Bryant.” John Howard Bryant (1807 – 1902) was the youngest of William’s siblings. A poet himself, as well as an abolitionist, he was active in Republican politics, and received a local appointment under Lincoln. The son of one of their other brothers, Cyrus, was one of the earliest settlers of Kansas. In terms of content and association, this is several cuts above the average for one of Bryant’s letters. $1250.

62. Bukowski, Charles: PIG IN A PAMPHLET 12 [wrapper title]. [Pittsburgh: Pig in a Poke Press, 1985]. 12mo. Printed pictorial wrappers, with facsimile drawing and signature on upper wrapper. Faint crease to lower wrapper, otherwise fine.

First edition. Signed in full by the author on the first blank. A selection of four poems. KRUMHANSL 96. $225.

63. [Burnet], Gilbert, Lord Bishop of Sarum: A SERMON PREACHED BEFORE THE KING AT WHITEHALL, ON CHRISTMAS-DAY, 1696. London: Printed for Ri. Chiswell, at the Rose and Crown in St. Paul’s Church-Yard, 1697. [4],28pp. Quarto. Contemporary stiff vellum over boards, boards ornamented with gilt frames and floral corner-pieces, a.e. gilt, marbled endsheets. Vellum boards a bit bowed, with a bit of light soiling and a few patches of surface abrasion on the lower board, a bit of light scattered foxing, punch- holes for fore-edge ties present, but ties absent; a very good, large copy.

First edition of the Scottish divine and politically conscious historian’s sermon of the occasion on Galatians IV:4, in what is, to all appearances, a contemporary presentation binding. Unfortunately, no indications of original provenance point to whether or not it ever fulfilled that role. ESTC R21549. $350.

64. Butler, Joseph: THE ANALOGY OF RELIGION, NATURAL AND REVEALED, TO THE CONSTITUTION AND COURSE OF NATURE .... London: Printed for James, John and Paul Knapton, 1736. [12],x,11-320pp. Large quarto. Modern half calf and marbled boards, raised bands, gilt label. Early ink name (“Thomas Ludlam”) on title and transcription from Plutarch on the half-title (to all appearances in the same hand), faint seminary blindstamp in blank lower forecorner of title, with 4 digit ms. number on verso of title, occasional very minor dust marking to top margins, otherwise a large (25.5 x 20.5 cm), fresh, crisp copy.

First edition of Butler’s magnum opus, one of the signal works in the controversy against deism, and “one of the bulwarks of Christian apologetics ... Hume, who sent Butler his Essays in 1741, ranked him with Locke and Berkeley as one of the originators in the experimental method in moral science ...”(PMM) and his influence was noted by figures as diverse as Mill, Newman, Gladstone and Macaulay. It would indeed be pleasant if the ownership signature confirmed to Thomas Ludlam (1727-1811), the theologian, disciple of Locke, and staunch advocate of the application of reason in the analysis of religious experiences. PRINTING & THE MIND OF MAN 193. GROLIER ENGLISH HUNDRED 44. ESTC T06797. NCBEL II:1856-7. $800.

65. Cable, George W.: THE GRANDISSMES A STORY OF CREOLE LIFE .... London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1898. Black polished buckram, t.e.g. Inner hinges cracked, but sound, otherwise a very good, bright copy.

First British edition of the author’s second book, and the first to feature an Introductory Note by J.M. Barrie. An interesting association copy, bearing two presentation inscriptions. The first is from Cable to Neil Munro, the Scottish novelist: “Remembering a delightful day among the haunts and relics of Robert Burns – To Neil Munro – the warmest best wishes of Geo. W. Cable, Glasgow July 4. ‘98.” The second inscription is by Munro: “The said George W. Cable Having, in unusual generosity or (more probably), in forgetfulness, presented me with two inscribed copies of The Grandissmes, I hereby transfer, assign, convey & dispose all rights, privileges & claims to a property in this copy of the said Grandissmes to J. Murray Smith. Neil Munro. 10 / July / ‘98.” $350.

66. Calvin, Jean, and [Arthur Golding (translator)]: THE PSALMES OF DAVID AND OTHERS. WITH M. IOHN CALVINS COMMENTARIES. [London: Imprinted ... by Thomas East and Henry Middleton: for Lucas Harrison, and George Byshop], 1571. [6],287,[1],259,[11] leaves. Wanting 4 preliminary leaves (*3-6), but with genuine blanks 2N8 and [4L6]. Small, thick quarto. Old, possibly contemporary calf, raised bands, gilt spine label. Title within ornate border. Ownership signature in upper blank corner of title, with several dates 1735- 8 surrounding it, later ink signature on front free endsheet, 1693 ownership signature on verso of terminal blank, bookplate of H.A. Underwick on pastedown, some small rust spots to the Table and terminal blank, with consequent small patch of erosion in blank foremargin of last six leaves, shallow tidemark in top blank portion of gutter of last few leaves, otherwise (and apart from the four missing preliminary leaves), a very good copy.

The first edition of Arthur Golding’s celebrated translation of Calvin’s Commentarius In Librum Psalmorum, accompanied by the relevant selection of Psalms in English. Although the majority of his published works as translator were not literary, his wider reputation rests with his translation of Ovid’s Metamorphosis from the original Latin, which was widely influential on the likes of Marlowe, Spenser, and, of course, Shakespeare. The four missing leaves consist of the conclusion of Golding’s “Epistle Dedicatorie” and of the opening of Calvin’s Introduction “To the Reader.” An uncommon book: ABPC notes only two appearances of copies at auction in the last two decades, both of them significantly imperfect. ESTC S107215. STC 4395. $2750.

67. [Chapbook – Scottish]: THREE FAMOUS NEW SONGS CALLED EFFECTS OF WHISKY. THE VALLEY BELOW. LARRY O’GAFF. Paisley: Printed by and for G. Caldwell, Jun., Bookseller, 69, High Street, [nd but ca. 1820s]. 8pp. Printed self-wrappers. Woodcut house device on title. Extracted from bound pamphlet volume. Very good, untrimmed.

One of possibly several impressions reported in OCLC/Worldcat under this imprint, most conjecturally dated there. $50.

68. [Children’s Catechism]: THE ABC WITH THE CATECHISM; THAT IS TO SAY, AN INSTRUCTION TO BE LEARNED OF EVERY PERSON BEFORE HE BE BROUGHT TO BE CONFIRMED BY THE BISHOP. London: Printed for the Company of Stationers, 1793. [16]pp. Small octavo. Extracted from pamphlet volume. Title within elaborate decorated frame; woodcut of children being instructed on verso of

A1, opposite the alphabet table. Moderate foxing, faint seminary blindstamp in title, but otherwise, a very good copy.

A late edition, but nonetheless a genre that exposes exemplars to considerable abuse; hence, copies are scarce. Editions from the 16th and 17th centuries are rare, often represented by single imperfect copies, and while analogous texts were frequently reprinted in the 18th century (including in North America), they too are generally uncommon. This edition/ impression is not reported in ESTC; however, OCLC/Worldcat locates a copy at UCLA. Not in ESTC. $450. 69. Chouraqui, André, and Albert Woda [illustrator]: AIGLE ET PALOMBE AU SURVOL DE LA MER. [Np]: Editions de l’Eau, 1989. Oblong small quarto (25.5 x 29 cm). Folded gatherings and plates laid into printed wrappers. Fine in lightly marked silk covered slipcase.

First edition in this format, illustrated with six original engravings (“burins et manières noires”) by Albert Woda, and six calligraphic interleaves by Lalou. One of 50 numbered copies (of 70) printed on vélin de Rives, with the gravures and interleaves printed on japon Arakaji. Each plate is signed in the margin by Woda, and Woda and Lalou have each signed the colophon. $1250.

70. [Christie, Agatha]: DEATH ON THE NILE PRODUCTION NOTES. [London: EMI, 1978]. [2],125,[2] leaves. Quarto. Mechanically reproduced typescript and carbon typescript (1 leaf). Bradbound in die cut stiff wrappers. Die cut window has two snags, fore-edge of one over-size leaf a bit used, otherwise very good or better.

An exceptionally extensive promotional for the 1978 film adaptation of Christie’s novel, based on Anthony Shaffer’s screenplay, directed by John Guillermin, starring Peter Ustinov, Mia Farrow, Maggie Smith, et al. The quantity of material herein relating to the company, stars and other principals suggests this package was prepared for promotion of the film at the highest levels, rather than for the public press, etc. $95.

71. [Church of Ireland]: THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER, AND ADMINISTRATION OF THE SACRAMENTS, AND OTHER RITES AND CEREMONIES OF THE CHURCH, ACCORDING TO THE USE OF THE CHURCH OF IRELAND .... Dublin: Printed by the Executors of David Hay ... 1778 [bound with:] [Vickers, William]: A COMPANION TO THE ALTAR. SHEWING THE NATURE AND NECESSITY OF A SACRAMENTAL PREPARATION .... Dublin: Printed by the Executors of David Hay ..., 1781. First work not paginated: A-T12,U6; Second work:47,[1],[82]pp. 12mo. Flexible unlettered modern bible leatherette. Browning at edges, early blanks preserved and covered with manuscript prayers, occasional spotting and smudges, a few marginal tears with early repairs, a few pencil notes; nonetheless, a reasonably good example.

A 12mo printing of the Irish BoCP, with the “16th edition” of the second work, which incorporates the unpaginated separately signed supplement of Psalms (as noted in the ESTC entry, which calls for [83]pp.) The publisher also published a 4to edition of the first work the same year. The constituents are uncommon in institutions: ESTC locates 2 copies of this edition of the BoCP in North America, and 2 copies (only) of the second. GRIFFITHS 1778.5 (4to edition only). ESTC N63721 & N63722. BRADSHAW 906. $450.

72. Clement I, Pope: [In Greek: KLEMENTOS PROS KORINTHIOUS EPISTOLE PROTE] CLEMENTIS AD CORINTHIOS EPISTOLA PRIOR. EX LACERIS RELIQUIJS VETUSTISSIMI EXEMPLARIS BIBLIOTHECÆ REGIÆ, ERUIT, LACUNAS EXPLEVIT, LATINÈ VERTIT, & NOTIS BREVIORIBUS ILLUSTRAVIT. Oxonii [i.e. Oxford]: Excudebat Iohannes Lichfield Academiæ typographus, 1633. [24],76,[50]pp. Quarto. Contemporary stiff vellum. Printed in Greek and Latin, in black and red. Woodcut initials and headpieces. Vellum somewhat darkened, with faint manuscript title on spine, lower forecorner of A1 (blank) torn away, marginal tanning and light foxing, old bookseller’s notations in ink on front and rear pastedowns; a good, large copy (225 x 170 mm).

First edition of this edited text of Clement’s first Epistle to the Corinthians, edited from the Codex Alexandrinus by Patrick Young (1584-1652), Royal Librarian to James I & VI and Charles I, and Greek scholar. The Greek and Latin texts are printed in parallel, and Young’s editorial restorations are printed in red. The privilege leaf appears at the end of the text in this copy, rather than prior to the text, and is of the variant with ‘prout’ as the first word in the last line. A fragment of the text of the Second Epistle (not by Clement) concludes the text, and is printed in Greek only. ESTC S108071. STC 5398. MADAN I:166. $1250. A Puzzling Attribution

73. [Colman, George, the younger (attrib)]: A SERMON, FOR A GENERAL FAST, SUITABLE TO CHRISTIANS OF ALL DENOMINATIONS AND CALCULATED TO REVIVE THE GENUINE SPIRIT OF OUR HOLY RELIGION. “By a Layman.” London & Bristol: Printed for Longman, Hurst [et al] ... [nd]. [2],[3],4-25,[1]pp. Octavo. Sewn, untrimmed. A bit dusty at edges, else very good.

First and only edition. A highly uncharacteristic production, attributed to the dramatist by Halkett & Laing, based on a “Presentation copy to Mr. Douce, with the following note in Colman’s handwriting: – ‘ wrote and published this when we were making a farce of parting – G.C.’” No copies are located in OCLC/Worldcat, nor in COPAC; and not in NCBEL. If indeed by Colman the versifier and dramatist, this would appear to be his scarcest publication. HALKETT & LAING V:228. $325.

74. [Color Printing]: MAGNIFICAT IN CL LINGUAS VERSUM ET PROPRIIS CARACTERIBUS REDDITUM ET EXPRESSUM. [Nostra-Domina de Lerina, Lérins Islands, France: Typis M. Bernardi, 1887]. [389]pp. plus seven plates. Quarto. Quarter red morocco and gilt decorated red cloth boards, a.e.g. Pictorial title, and seven color chromolithographed plates, text printed in colors within elaborate pictorial borders (often in color as well). Occasional moderate foxing, institutional bookplate, small spot of color bleed (or red ink) on upper cover, but a bright, very good copy.

First edition. Conceived and edited by Dom Marie Bernard Barnouin, with the text printed and color chromolithographed at Typis M. Bernardi and the color plates printed by Benziger Frères, Einsiedeln, Switzerland and Société St.-Augustin, Brussels. A rendering of the “Magnificat” (i.e. The Canticle of Mary) in 150 different languages, set in the corresponding fonts, with pictorial borders specific to the language. On each verso is an image of a flower, with captions in six languages explaining the particular flower’s symbolic relationship to Mary. The languages include those of both hemispheres, ranging from the western European, through the Asiatic and Middle Eastern languages, as well as those of Pacific Island nations, Native American languages, etc. An ambitious undertaking in color printing. $1850.

75. Colum, Padraic, and Edward J. O’Brien [eds]: POEMS OF THE IRISH REVOLUTIONARY BROTHERHOOD .... Boston: Small, Maynard & Co., 1916. Printed green boards. Extremities lightly rubbed and nicked, otherwise a very good copy, with the 1917 ownership signature and bookplate of poet Harold Crawford Stearns.

First edition of this selection from the works of MacDonagh, Pearse, Plunkett and Casement, accompanied by a substantial introduction and bibliography. $200.

76. [Conrad, Joseph]: Fitzgerald, Benedict [screenwriter]: “HEART OF DARKNESS” A SCREENPLAY BY ... (BASED ON THE NOVEL BY JOSEPH CONRAD). [Np]: Darkheart Productions, 5 April through 9 June 1993. [6],114 leaves plus lettered inserts. Quarto. Photographically duplicated typescript, printed on white and colored stock. Punched and ringbound in loose-leaf folder, with accompaniments. Some occasional scattered highlighting, otherwise very good.

A “shooting” draft of this critically controversial adaptation of Conrad’s novella as a television movie, but shot through with dated revises spanning two months. The completed film premiered on Turner Network the following year. It was directed by Nicholas Roeg, and starred Tim Roth, John Malkovitch, Iman, et al. This copy is accompanied by a three leaf cast list, dated June 15, and the prelims include several keys to revisions and an interoffice production memo. A couple of the prelims are signed (or designated) ‘Nick’ in an unknown hand, perhaps referring to the director, or to line producer Nicky K. Barnes. $350.

77. Conz, Karl Philipp ANALEKTEN ODER BLUMEN, PHANTASIEN UND GEMÄLDE AUS GRIECHENLAND. Leipzig: P. G. Kummer, 1793. [4],243pp. Octavo. Modern unlettered quarter calf and marbled boards, wholly untrimmed. Engraved title vignette. Light occasional foxing and a bit of slight dust soiling, but a very good copy.

First edition. A relatively early work by the poet/scholar/translator, a miscellany of verse and verse drama exhibiting the manifest influence of the considerable interest he had in Greek classical studies. $150.

78. Coonley [Ward], Lydia Avery: UNDER THE PINES AND OTHER VERSES. Chicago: Way & Williams, 1895. Pictorial cloth, t.e.g., others untrimmed. Institutional bookplate on pastedown (bearing a release stamp), otherwise a very good copy.

First edition. Inscribed presentation copy from the author, dated 1900. With the recipient’s small book label on the pastedown. KRAUS 6. $75.

79. [Cosin, Richard]: AN APOLOGIE FOR SVNDRIE PROCEEDINGS BY IURISDICTION ECCLESIASTICALL, OF LATE TIMES BY SOME CHALENGED, AND ALSO DIUERSLY BY THEM IMPUGNED. BY WHICH APOLOGIE (IN THEIR SEUERALL DUE PLACES) ALL THE REASONS AND ALLEGATIONS SET DOWNE AS WELL IN A TREATISE, AS IN CERTAINE NOTES (THAT GOE FROM HAND TO HAND) BOTH AGAINST PROCEEDING EX OFFICIO, AND AGAINST OATHS MINISTRED TO PARTIES IN CAUSES CRIMINALL; ARE ALSO EXAMINED AND ANSWERED: VPON THAT OCCASION LATELY REUIEWED, AND MUCH ENLARGED ABOUE THE FIRST PRIUATE PROIECT, AND NOW PUBLISHED, BEING DIUIDED INTO THREE PARTES: TH FIRST PART WHEREOF CHIEFLIE SHEWETH WHAT MATTERS BE INCIDENT TO ECCLESIASTICALL CONISANCE; AND SO ALLOWED BY STATUTES AND COMMON LAW: THE SECOND TREATETH (FOR THE MOST PART) OF THE TWO WAYES OF PROCEEDING IN CAUSES CRIMINAL ... THE THIRD CONCERNETH OATHS IN GENERALL ... WHEREUNTO ... I HAUE PRESUMED TO ADIOINE THAT RIGHT EXCELLENT AND SOUND DETERMINATION (CONCERNING OATHS) WHICH WAS MADE BY M. LANCELOT ANDROVVES .... London: Imprinted ... by the Deputies of Christopher Barker ..., 1593. Three parts in one volume. [30],130,[10],140 [2(blank)]; [4],255,[1(errata)] pp. Small quarto. Old calf, neatly rebacked to style, raised bands, gilt label. Woodcut head and tail pieces. Title slightly smudged and soiled, old tide-mark in gutter of first two gatherings, with faint, shallow shadow of same reappearing in gathering F, visible stubs of early careful strengthening at gutters of gathering C, otherwise, generally a very good, crisp copy, complete with blank 2T4.

A revised edition of the work first privately printed in 1591, in an edition of “fourtie copies, or there abouts ...” (Epistle to the Reader). This is one of two variants noted by STC, in this case with the literal date in the title imprint. The three parts have separate titles and independent paginations, but only the third part has a separate register and legitimately appears on its own on occasion. Cosin (1548 – 1597), a graduate of Trinity College, made a considerable mark as an ecclesiastical lawyer. DNB comments on this work: “Far more important was An Apologie: of, and for Sundrie Proceedings by Jurisdiction Ecclesiasticall (1591); only about forty copies were initially printed, but in 1593 Cosin published a greatly enlarged version to refute attacks on the use of ex officio oath made by Sir Robert Beale and the common lawyer James Morice. The Apologie became the standard defence of the jurisdiction of the church courts and high commission.” preached Cosin’s funeral sermon in 1597, and appended to part three of this work is “Quæstionis: nunquid per ius diuinum, magistratui liceat, a reo iusiurandum exigere? & id, quatenus ac quousque liceat?” by Andrewes. ESTC S122948. STC 5821. $1850.

80. [Cowper, William (possible partial attribution)]: AN ACCOUNT OF THE SIEGE OF CHESTER: DURING THE CIVIL WARS BETWEEN KING CHARLES I. AND HIS PARLIAMENT. Chester: Printed by P. Broster, 1790. [8],4-72,[8]pp. plus double-page map. Small octavo. Somewhat later three quarter mottled calf and marbled boards, untrimmed. Early ink name in corner of title, very slight tanning and smudging at edges, otherwise a very nice copy.

First edition of this anonymously published account of the 1645 battle. In the main entry for the 1793 reprinting, OCLC/Worldcat identifies the antiquary William Cowper (1701- 1767) as the author, or rather, as the writer from whose papers the text was derived, based on copies at Cambridge, Nat’l Lib. of Scotland, and the Univ. of Leicester. ESTC does not follow suit, and reports no attribution for this first edition or that of 1793. The publisher’s advert refers to “a MS. in the possession of a Gentleman in this City” (Cowper’s manuscript?), and four other standard works as sources for the text. This edition is of some relative scarcity; ESTC locates only two copies: at the British Library and “Congregational Library.” OCLC locates only the BL copy (and numerous microform or electronic texts). ESTC T77405. $375.

81. [Cranbrook Press]: [Woodville, Anthony (translator)]: THE DICTES AND SAYINGS OF THE PHILOSOPHERS. Detroit, MI: The Cranbrook Press, 1901. Quarto. Publisher’s three- quarter vellum and boards, gilt label, untrimmed. Pictorial double-spread title. Decorated borders, head- and tail-pieces and initials. Boards faintly darkened, otherwise fine.

One of 244 numbered copies, designed and printed by hand on Cranbrook handmade paper by George Booth. Booth, editor of the Detroit Evening News, founded the Cranbrook Press in 1900, and through 1902 Ransom records ten imprints. His first type choice was based on Morris’s casting of Jenson, and he commissioned handmade paper with the Press’ watermark. His statement of purpose in Something About The Cranbrook Press (1902) emphasized his quest for perfection and desire to emulate Caxton and Morris. This work is an homage to the 1477 edition printed by Caxton. Inscribed presentation copy from the printer’s son, 1975. RANSOM 2. $850.

82. [Cranbrook Press]: Durer, Albrecht [illus]: THE REVELATION OF SAINT JOHN THE DIVINE, FROM THE FIRST PRINTED ENGLISH TRANSLATION, MDXXV .... Detroit, MI: The Cranbrook Press, 1901. Quarto. Publisher’s three-quarter vellum and boards, gilt label, untrimmed. Sixteen illustrations after woodcuts by Durer. Decorated borders, head- and tail-pieces and initials. Boards faintly darkened, otherwise fine.

One of 240 numbered copies, designed and printed by hand on Cranbrook handmade paper by George Booth. Booth, editor of the Detroit Evening News, founded the Cranbrook Press in 1900, and through 1902 Ransom records ten imprints. His first type choice was based on Morris’s casting of Jenson, and he commissioned handmade paper with the Press’ watermark. His statement of purpose in Something About The Cranbrook Press (1902) emphasized his quest for perfection and desire to emulate Caxton and Morris. RANSOM 4. $850. 83. [Cranbrook Press]: More, Sir Thomas: THE DISCOURSES OF RAPHAEL HYTHODAY OF THE BEST STATE OF THE COMMON-WEALTH. UTOPIA WRITTEN IN LATIN ... TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH BY .... Detroit, MI: The Cranbrook Press, 1902. 71,[1]pp. Quarto. Publisher’s three-quarter vellum and boards, gilt label, untrimmed. Fine in plain wrapper, and somewhat nicked and battered board folding box, with manuscript caption.

From an edition consisting of 210 copies, this is an unnumbered copy. Designed and printed by hand on Cranbrook handmade paper by George Booth, with the assistance of Cecil Billington. Booth, editor of the Detroit Evening News, founded the Cranbrook Press in 1900, and through 1902 Ransom records ten imprints. His first type choice was based on Morris’s casting of Jenson, and he commissioned handmade paper with the Press’ watermark. His statement of purpose in Something About The Cranbrook Press, published earlier the same year, emphasized his quest for perfection and desire to emulate Caxton and Morris. This copy bears a 1975 gift inscription from the printer’s son, in memory of his father and mother. $1000.

84. [Cranbrook Press]: Durer, Albrecht [illus]: ALBERT DURER HIS PORTRAIT, HIS HOUSE IN NUREMBERG, AND 16 PRINTS ON JAPAN VELLUM, AFTER HIS NOTED WOOD CUTS ILLUSTRATING THE APOCALYPSE OF ST. JOHN [cover title]. [Detroit, MI]: The Cranbrook Press, [ca. 1901]. Quarto (39 x 29 cm). Plates, tipped to loose sheets, laid into cloth and board portfolio, with ribbon ties and printed label. Mounting tabs for a few plates detached at top, light wear at corners of portfolio, otherwise near fine.

One of forty sets only, published coincident with the Cranbrook edition of the Revelation, with the two additional plates. The edition of the book consisted of 240 numbered copies, designed and printed by hand on Cranbrook handmade paper by George Booth. Booth, editor of the Detroit Evening News, founded the Cranbrook Press in 1900, and through 1902 Ransom records ten imprints. His first type choice was based on Morris’s casting of Jenson, and he commissioned handmade paper with the Press’ watermark. His statement of purpose in Something About The Cranbrook Press (1902) emphasized his quest for perfection and desire to emulate Caxton and Morris. This portfolio is scarce. RANSOM 5. $500.

85. Croly, George: SALATHIEL: A STORY OF THE PAST, THE PRESENT, AND THE FUTURE. Cincinnati: Published by U.P. James, 1842. Two volumes. Original cloth backed boards, paper spine labels. Inevitable foxing characteristic of this edition, evidently a married set (or perhaps the original reader never got beyond the first volume), as the boards of the first volume are darkened and rubbed, there is some fraying at the spine ends, and the label is chipped; the binding of the second volume, apart from a small surface scrape to one board, is in very good order.

First Cincinnati edition. First published in London in 1828, with a U.S. edition the same year, this now almost forgotten novel, an extrapolation on the Wandering Jew motif with oriental overtones, was immensely popular in its day. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 1349. BLEILER, p. 53. $175.

86. Cunaei, Petri [a.k.a. Petrus Cuneus, pseud. of Pietr van der Kun]: DE REPUBLICA HEBRÆORUM. LIBRI TRES. Lvgd. Batavor. [i.e. Leyden]: Ex Officinia Elzeviriana, 1632. [32],372pp. 12mo. Contemporary stiff vellum, spine lettered in manuscript, wallet fore- edges. Engraved title. Printed in roman, italic and Hebrew types. Scattered substantive neat (and tiny) ink manuscript marginal commentary, slightly dusty, but very good.

“Editio novissima.” Kun was among the leading Christian scholars of Jewish texts of his generation, and this is his masterwork, a description of an ideal Republic based on an earlier highly idealized Hebrew model. One of two editions under the Elzevier imprint to appear in 1632, the other consisting of 502pp. The first Elzevier printing appeared in 1617. With the typographic “Bibliotheca Elzeviriana” bookplate of Edward Heron-Allen. RAHIR 344. WILLEMS 362 (note). BRUNET II:442 (ref). $275. 87. Curtis, William E.: BETWEEN THE ANDES AND THE OCEAN AN ACCOUNT OF AN INTERESTING JOURNEY DOWN THE WEST COAST OF SOUTH AMERICA FROM THE ISTHMUS OF PANAMA TO THE STRAITS OF MAGELLAN. Chicago: Herbert S. Stone and Company, 1900. Large, thick octavo. Light blue cloth, lettered and decorated in white and dark blue, t.e.g., others untrimmed. Frontis and plates (chiefly photographs). Backstrip a bit bowed, inner hinges cracking slightly, but a very good copy of a book usually seen in disrepair due to the bulk of the text block.

First edition. Curtis served as foreign affairs and travel correspondent for the Chicago Record, and was the first director of the predecessor to the Pan American Union. KRAMER 259. $100.

88. [Cygnet Press]: VITA DE SANCTO HIERONYMO. [Cambridge, MA: Cygnet Press, 1928]. Small octavo. Cloth and boards, paper label. Illustrations. A fine copy in unlettered box.

The first publication of the imprint, undertaken “by a group of bookish enthusiasts, chief among them being Mr. George Parker Winship” – Ransom. The text and woodcuts were derived from the 1497 edition of St. Jerome’s Letters printed at Ferrara, and the whole printed in Goudy’s Italian Old Style. This copy exhibits the corrected state of the text above woodcut xii. RANSOM, p. 241. $125.

89. De la Mare, Walter: PRIVATE VIEW. London: Faber & Faber, [1953]. Cloth. Some offsetting to endsheets as usual (extending into the inscription), otherwise fine, in slightly edgeworn, lightly soiled dust jacket.

First edition of this selection from de la Mare’s published reviews, with an introduction by Lord David Cecil. A presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the free endsheet: “To Olive with love & a grateful heart from W.J. June 1953.” The recipient was Olive C. Jones (1907-1997), De la Mare’s secretary during the 1930s and later, editor of Methuen’s Children’s Books. Loosely inserted is an a.l.s. (2pp., oblong 8vo, The Old Park, Penn, Berks., 16 Sept. 1940) from De la Mare to The Secretary, Performing Right Society Ltd., requesting that he “...very kindly let me know when your last remittance on my account was made” and asking that any amounts due be sent to a new address, not to “my literary agents Messrs. James Pinker & Son.” The letter has a portion of the upper left-hand margin torn away (just slightly touching the date) and with the recipient’s stamp, dated 20 Sept. 1940, at the top, otherwise very good. NCBEL IV:259. $275.

90. De Voto, Bernard: TYPED LETTER, SIGNED, ABOUT HIS FIRST BOOK. Cambridge. 27 April 1945. 2/3 pages, on quarto sheet of letterhead. Folded for mailing, old punchholes in left margin, otherwise very good. Half morocco folding case.

An informative, self-deprecating account of the publication of The Crooked Mile and its measure of success, sales, royalties, etc, concluding: “I cannot imagine that this information can be of interest to anyone. If you are a collector, I ought to notify you that a $3.50 book becomes merely a second-hand copy worth 75 cents as soon as I autograph it. Sincerely yours, Bernard De Voto.” $125.

91. [Defoe, Daniel (customary attribution)]: THE CASE FAIRLY STATED BETWEEN THE TURKY COMPANY AND THE ITALIAN MERCHANTS. “By a Merchant.” London: Printed in the Year 1720. 48pp. Octavo (signed in 4s). Extracted from a bound pamphlet volume.

Trace of minor foxing and light tanning, blank lower fore-corner of E2 torn away, but a very good copy.

Third edition by Moore’s criteria, the text slightly expanded and updated over the two 44pp. editions published under the J. Roberts imprint earlier the same year. The attribution has been challenged by Furbank and Owens. Controversy over unfair practices in the silk and fabric trades. All the 1720 editions are uncommon in commerce. MOORE 429. NCBEL II:901. HANSON 2687n. GOLDSMITHS 5683. KRESS 3188. ESTC T69698. $375. 92. [Dodd, Anne (publisher)]: “Clergyman, A” [pseud]: A DISSWASIVE FROM ENTRING [sic] INTO HOLY ORDERS; SHEWING THE NATURE OF PREACHING, AND THAT THERE IS NOW WANT OF SUCH A NUMBER OF LECTURERS AND FREQUENT PREACHING ... WITH A COPY OF A WRIT TO SEIZE A BISHOP’S TEMPORALITIES FOR NON- RESIDENCE ... IN A LETTER TO A YOUNG GENTLEMAN. London: Printed for A[nn] Dodd, at the Peacock without Temple-Bar, [nd but ca. 1728?]. [2],57,[1]pp. Octavo. Extracted from pamphlet volume. Title-leaf somewhat dust-soiled, textblock uniformly tanned, with faint tide-mark at upper fore-corner. A good, sound copy.

First (?) edition, a variant issue (?). A very curious pamphlet, as the title-leaf (a singleton) is clearly a cancel, out of character both typographically and in terms of the paper stock. ESTC ascribes the possible date of 1728, due to Anne Dodd having her shop at that address in 1728. There are several possible scenarios in regard to the cancel title, particularly given Dodd’s history of, and prosecution for, distribution of anti-clerical literature. However, none of them can be readily confirmed without ascertaining if the text appeared elsewhere under a different title, on some unspecified previous occasion, or under different auspices. Whatever the case, in this form it is rare: ESTC locates three copies only: the National Trust, Emory and Harvard. OCLC notes a copy at Oxford, two at Emory, and the Harvard copy. ESTC N28598. OCLC: 15985964. $375.

93. Doré, Gustave [illustrator]: LE SAINTE BIBLE SELON LA VULGATE TRADUCTION NOUVELLE .... Tours: Alfred Mame et Fils, 1866. Two volumes. 912[i.e. 908],[1];949pp. Folio (435 x 330 mm). Full navy blue pebbled morocco, raised bands, gilt extra, marbled endsheets, by Kaufmann. Frontispieces and 228 engraved plates. Inner hinges reinforced early on, spine extremities rubbed, a couple of small surface scrapes to boards, short crack in one joint, small snag at crown of one spine, scattered light marginal foxing and a few marginal smudges, institutional bookplate, and another, but generally a very good set.

First edition, folio issue on ordinary paper, of the Doré Bible, with additional decorations in text by H. Giacomelli. The text is a new translation by J.J. Bourasse and P. Janvier. “Ouvrage capital et remarquable ....”- Carteret. One of Doré’s most ambitious illustrative undertakings, and one of his most popular, particularly after being coupled with English texts in North American and British editions. From the collection of Anson Phelps Stokes (1838-1913), and then of his son. Very substantial extra shipping charges. CARTERET III:89-90. $1000.

94. [Dreiser, Theodore]: Hoffenstein, Samuel, et al [screenwriters]: AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY REVISED CENSORSHIP DIALOGUE SCRIPT. [Hollywood: Paramount], 10 July 1931. [1],6,7,7,7,6,6,7,7,10,9,7 leaves. Legal format. Mimeographed typescript, printed on rectos only. Punched and brad bound in top margin. Title and terminal leaves chipped, torn and mended, ink stamp on title leaf, a few pencil notes, otherwise generally very good.

Denoted a “Form #2 Censorship Dialogue Script” for the 22 August 1931 screen adaptation of Dreiser’s novel, based on a script by Hoffenstein and Josef von Sternberg, who also directed. This was the first of two adaptations of the novel, the second (1951) by way of Patrick Kearney’s dramatic adaptation. This copy bears a stamp on the title-leaf indicating this was a Universal Studios file copy, no doubt dating from the transfer of the title to Universal in 1958 (though the script is vintage 1931). $150.

95. Du Bois, Henri Pène: FOUR PRIVATE LIBRARIES OF NEW-YORK A CONTRIBUTION TO THE HISTORY OF BIBLIOPHILISM IN AMERICA FIRST SERIES. New York: Duprat & Co., 1892. 119,[1]pp. Large octavo. Three quarter gilt morocco and marbled boards (by ‘David’), t.e.g. (wrappers not bound in). Frontis, tinted plates, facsimiles. Bookplate, binding a bit sunned and rubbed at extremities, else a good copy.

First edition. Preface by Octave Uzanne. One of 800 copies on Holland, from a total edition of one thousand copies printed at the De Vinne Press (this copy not numbered). Chatty ruminative meditations on selected books and works of art in the collections assembled by C. Jolly-Bavoillot, Samuel P. Avery, George B. de Forest, and another. $125.

96. Duff, Charles: A HANDBOOK ON HANGING BEING A SHORT INTRODUCTION TO THE FINE ART OF EXECUTION ... ALL VERY PROPER TO BE READ AND KEPT IN EVERY FAMILY. London: John Lane the Bodley Head, [1938]. Cloth, paper label. Second, revised and enlarged edition, after the first of 1928. A classic text, reprinted frequently in following decades. Very good, in slightly defective dust jacket. $95.

97. Dujardin, Édouard: LES LAURIERS SONT COUPÉS. Paris: Librairie de la Revue Indépendente, 1888. 139,[5]pp. Small octavo. Original printed wrappers. Engraved portrait of the author by Jacques E. Blanche. Wrappers lightly rubbed and faintly soiled, top edge foxed, with a few isolated incidents of foxing in the text, front endleaf has caused light tan offsetting to the justification leaf, otherwise a very good copy.

First edition. One of 400 numbered copies on vélin anglais mécanique, from a total edition of 420. The copy bears the small label of famed Paris literary publisher Léon Vanier on the upper wrapper, implying that he distributed at least a portion of the edition. Vanier published Dujardin’s Les Hantises in 1886. After Dujardin assumed editorship of the Revue Indépendente several of his books appeared under the imprint of the Revue, and Vanier published others through the 1890s. After being hailed as one of the influential works of proto-stream-of-consciousness narrative, this prose-work enjoyed a second life, and saw a translation by Stuart Gilbert appear in 1938 under the title We’ll To The Woods No More. Curiously, Talvart & Place’s entry is uncharacteristically vague about the size of the edition, noting only that it was “tirée à petit nombre.” TALVART & PLACE (DUJARDIN) 3a. $1250.

Important Radical Periodical

98. [Eaton, Daniel Isaac (ed. & pub)]: THE PHILANTHROPIST; OR, PHILOSOPHICAL ESSAYS ON POLITICS, GOVERNMENT, MORALS AND MANNERS. “By a Society of Gentlemen.” London: Printed and Sold by D.E. Eaton ..., 1797. Forty- three numbers (8pp. per number) bound up with publisher’s general title, and the index (occupying the last two leaves of the final number). Octavo. Contemporary calf and marbled boards (edgeworn but sound). Occasional light foxing, early ink name on free endsheet, small stamp of the “Union Circulating Library,” but a very good set.

A complete run of all numbers published of this rather important radical journal of prose and poetry, published as a penny weekly by Eaton from 16 March 1795 through 25 January 1796, at the “Cock and Swine,” on Newgate Street. The Philanthropist, or Philantropist as the first number (only) was entitled, was a successor to his earlier weekly, Hog’s Wash, Or, A Salmagundy For Swine (60 numbers, after #7 retitled Politics For The People) for which he suffered through an unsuccessful prosecution for seditious libel. As an associate and publisher of a number of the most incendiary radicals of his day, most notably Thomas Paine, Eaton was frequently the object of the Pitt administration’s ire, and he returned their anger in kind with a prolific fusillade of pamphlets in opposition and other works espousing free-thought and enlightened political theory. A conviction in 1796 for one of his publications drove Eaton into hiding, though his publishing activities continued. He spent some time in exile in America, but returned to England in 1801, and until his death in 1814, buoyed by the support of his constituency – those Burke declared ‘”the swinish multitude” – continued his activities, in spite of imprisonment, time in the pillory, and continued harassment. “Eaton’s enduring legacy lies in his publishing ... of liberal, progressive thought in politics and religion. An advocate by word and deed for freedom of expression, Eaton was hailed as late as 1883 by J. M. Wheeler as ‘one of the many sturdy champions to whose courageous labors and sufferings we owe the right of a Free Press’” – DNB. The Philanthropist is particularly noteworthy among his periodicals, as it has been often suggested, but never definitively confirmed, that William Wordsworth and William Godwin, among others, had hands in the composition of a portion of its pseudonymous content (see “Wordsworth and Daniel Isaac Eaton’s Philanthropist,” pp. 276-279, appended to Roe’s Wordsworth And Coleridge The Radical Years, Oxford, 1988). The ESTC cites locations at BL and Berkeley, and Crane notes representative issues at Yale, LC and NYPL. OCLC reports 9 locations, some incomplete. CRANE 711. NCBEL II:1289. $1750.

99. [Education of the Poor]: Smalridge, George: THE ROYAL BENEFACTRESS: OR, THE GREAT CHARITY OF EDUCATING POOR CHILDREN. IN A SERMON PREACH’D IN THE PARISH-CHURCH OF ST. SEPULCHRE, JUNE 1. 1710. BEING THURSDAY IN WHITSUN-WEEK. AT THE ANNIVERSARY MEETING OF THE CHILDREN EDUCATED IN THE CHARITY-SCHOOLS, IN AND ABOUT THE CITIES OF LONDON AND WESTMINSTER …. London: Printed for Jonah Bowyer, 1710. 32p. Octavo. Sewn, untrimmed. A bit dusty, dime-size spot in extended fore-margin of first several leaves, else very good.

First edition, printing in octavo format. Copies were also printed in 4to, with altered pagination. Smalridge (1662 – 1719), later Bishop of Bristol, was highly regarded as a poet and essayist -- he was among those suspected of having written A Tale Of A Tub, and earned praise from both Swift and Johnson. ESTC N13204. GOLDSMITHS 4638. KRESS 2676. $125.

100. , Desiderius: APOPHTHEGMATUM, SIVE SCITE DICTORUM LIBRI SEX ... NUNC PRIMUM EXCUSUM. Basel: In Officina Frobeniana [for H. Froben, Io. Hervagen, & N. Episcopium, March] 1531. [16],671,[25]

pp. a-ß4 a-z4 A-3S4. Quarto. Contemporary calf over wooden boards, five raised bands, side panels richly blind-tooled with rolled centerpiece and surrounding borders, remnants of leather straps and clasps, paper spine label in manuscript. Printer’s device on title and colophon. Historiated initials by Hans Holbein the Younger. Early ink inscription on free endsheet effaced, front inner hinge cracking, ink collation notes on rear pastedown, a few early ink marginal highlights or underscores, small

marginal paper flaw in fore-edge of O4, shallow loses at crown and toe of spine, but a very good copy.

First edition of one of Erasmus’s most widely read works, in the same league with the Adagia and the Colloguia, as exemplified by the almost immediate appearance of editions from Cologne, Lyon and Paris, translations into English, Italian, Spanish and Dutch, and reprints by Froben in the years following its initial publication. Indebted to, and partially translated from Plutarch’s Apophthegmata, it is regarded as one of the most significant collections of anecdotes from classical writers to appear up to its time. This first edition not in Adams. BRUNET II:1040. sold. Japan Vellum Issue

101. [Essex House Press]: THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER AND ADMINISTRATION OF THE SACRAMENTS, & OTHER RITES & CEREMONIES OF THE CHURCH, ACCORDING TO THE USE OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND; TOGETHER WITH THE PSALTER OR PSALMS OF DAVID .... [New York: M. Walter Dunne, ca. 1904]. [14],386,[2]pp. plus [8] pp. inserted supplement. Large quarto. Full contemporary reddish brown crushed levant, raised bands, side panels elaborately gilt extra with enamel highlights of blue, pink and cream, gilt inner dentelles and suede doublures, silk ribbon marker weighted with a bronze medallion of Edward VII. Joints very slightly rubbed, some flaking to the enamel, the medallion has caused a 2 cm crack in the front inner hinge, otherwise a very good copy.

The Japan vellum issue of the authorized U.S. redaction of Ashbee’s Essex House edition of the Prayer Book of Edward VII, with some 150 cuts after drawings by Ashbee, executed by W.H. Hooper and Clemence Housman. The proofs for this American printing were corrected by Dunne, and the text was printed at the Plimpton Press, in Norwood, Mass. The laid-in [8]pp. supplement is exclusive to the U.S. edition, is printed in red and black in a fashion akin to the main text, and records variants between the British and American texts. While the Essex House edition was limited to 400 copies on paper and ten on vellum, there is no explicit limitation stated in this edition. An unknown number of copies were also printed on handmade paper. Griffiths notes this edition in a note under the London edition, indicating (in error) that the difference between them consists of “one extra leaf.” The colophon ascribes the binding design to the bindery of M. Walter Dunne. GRIFFITH 1904.1n $1750.

102. [Essex House Press]: THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER AND ADMINISTRATION OF THE SACRAMENTS, & OTHER RITES & CEREMONIES OF THE CHURCH, ACCORDING TO THE USE OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND; TOGETHER WITH THE PSALTER OR PSALMS OF DAVID .... [London: Printed at the Press of the Guild of Handicraft / Essex House Press, for Eyre & Spottiswoode, ca. 1904]. [12],386,[1]pp. plus [8]pp. inserted supplement. Folio. Half gilt pigskin and wooden boards, with metal clasps and thong ties (most of the latter absent), untrimmed. Printed in red and black, with decorations and initials. Spine still sound but chipped at crown and toe, with cracking of joints, institutional bookplate on front pastedown, pencil gift inscription on first blank, fore-edge of insert dust darkened; internally a very good or better copy.

Ashbee’s Essex House edition of the Prayer Book of Edward VII, with some 150 cuts after drawings by Ashbee, executed by W.H. Hooper and Clemence Housman. One of 400 copies on paper (and ten on vellum), printed in the Endeavour and Prayer Book types designed by Ashbee. Tomkinson asserts that only fifty copies of the insert were printed, specifically to accompany those copies sent to America. The selection of the pigskin for binding was not necessarily wise, as without careful attention, the joints dry and crack (as here). A special adapted reprint was eventually prepared for American distribution by M. Walter Dunne. GRIFFITH 1904.1. RANSOM (ESSEX) 37. TOMKINSON (ESSEX) 37 & 39. $1650.

103. [Essex House Press]: A KEY TO THE PRINCIPAL DECORATIONS IN THE PRAYER BOOK OF KING EDWARD VII., AS DESIGNED AND CARRIED OUT BY C.R. ASHBEE [wrapper title]. New York & Montreal: The Cambridge Society, M. Walter Dunne, Publisher, [1904]. Large octavo. Cream wrappers, printed in black, ruled in red, text untrimmed. Large pictorial opening initial. Wrappers browned and smudged, internally very good.

First U.S. edition, printed at the Plimpton Press in Norwood, Mass., in emulation of the Essex House edition of 400 copies. Dunne published an American reprint of the Essex House Prayer Book, and this key is printed on handmade paper with a large watermark modestly featuring his name. The colophon incorporates the details of the British edition alongside Dunne’s specifics. $150. “For a Young Gentleman going to Reside in the East-Indies”

104. Evans, John: THE CHRISTIAN TEMPER: BEING A SUMMARY OF DR. EVANS’S PRACTICAL DISCOURSES ... DESIGNED FOR GENERAL USE, BUT MORE PARTICULARLY FOR A YOUNG GENTLEMAN GOING TO RESIDE IN THE EAST-INDIES. London: Printed for J. Buckland ... and E. Dilly, 1761. Two volumes in one. xv,[1],55,[1];[2],63,[1]pp. Octavo. Sewn, and untrimmed, in original plain wrappers. Contemporary manuscript address on upper wrapper, and manuscript index on lower wrapper, two relevant manuscript insertions in text of the dedicatory letter, and a few notes in margins, some light marginal discolorations through B4, marginal tear in D3 (no loss), wrappers somewhat creased and frayed, but an unusually nice copy, in original state.

A late, but very interesting edition of Evans’s Discourses ..., first published in 1723, and in this edition, here adding to the subtitle the directive “For a Young Gentleman ....” Another edition (ESTC T212643 ) appeared the same year under the same imprint, “...designed for the use of families.” This edition is further distinguished by the addition of a five-page dedicatory letter, dated in type Jan. 21, 1761, directed to “My Dear Son,” but with a space left for the recipient’s name; the text is concluded by “Your most affectionate Father,” again with a space left for a signature. Both spaces have been filled by the original owner, J. Stonhouse MD, for Mr. Neal Stonhouse. This copy might then be associated, with some probability, with Sir James Stonhouse, physician and cleric (1716-1795). There are some further marginal annotations in a contemporary hand in the text. The text of the prefatory matter concerns the perils of the forthcoming voyage and the potential pitfalls that lay ahead in the land of “many idolatrous Temples.” Evans (1652-1724) was appointed the East-India Company’s first Chaplain in 1679, and though he was relieved of the post in 1692, he maintained ties with many of the merchants, providing an interesting context for this edition. ESTC locates ten copies. ESTC T6380. $450.

105. Fénelon, François de Salignac de La Mothe: A DEMONSTRATION OF THE EXISTENCE AND ATTRIBUTES OF GOD, DRAWN FROM THE KNOWLEDGE OF NATURE, FROM PROOFS PURELY INTELLECTUAL, AND FROM THE IDEA OF THE INFINITE HIMSELF. London: Printed for W. Taylor, 1720. [8],336pp. 12mo. Three quarter late 19th century red morocco, t.e.g. Engraved frontis portrait. Bookplate, small ink number of verso of title, residue of small paper label on spine (i.e. properly deaccessioned from an institution). Trace of gilding seepage at top extremity of fore-edge, modest tanning, otherwise a very good copy.

Denoted the “Second Edition, with large additions,” although ESTC locates copies of a 1714 edition from Taylor making the same claim. The first edition of Abel Boyer’s translation appeared in 1713. A poem by William Cavendish that was an addition to the second edition of 1714 does not make a reappearance here. ESTC T84053. $350.

106. Fenollosa, Ernest F.: EAST AND WEST THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA AND OTHER POEMS. New York & Boston: Thomas Y. Crowell and Company, 1893. x,214pp. Octavo. Elaborately gilt decorated white cloth, t.e.g. Spine a bit darkened and smudged, otherwise a very good, bright copy.

First edition of this substantial collection of the great Orientalist’s original poetry. An excellent association copy, inscribed by the author on the front pastedown: “H. I. Kimball Jr with the regards of Ernest F. Fenollosa Chicago Dec. 4th 1894.” The recipient was one of the principals of the publishing firm, Stone & Kimball. On the front free endsheet, Fenollosa has written out in pencil, and signed, fourteen lines of verse. Beyond his considerable importance as one of the preeminent Orientalists of the last quarter of the 19th century, he left an indelible influence on Ezra Pound and W.B. Yeats, who worked mightily to edit his unpublished manuscripts and notes and disseminate his ideas. Not a particularly common book, particularly when inscribed in such a fashion. $750. 107. Fleetwood, William: AN ESSAY ON MIRACLES IN TWO DISCOURSES London: Printed for Charles Harper ... , 1701. [16],277,[3]pp. Octavo. Contemporary red goat skin, raised bands, gilt label, compartments decorated in gilt, covers with elaborately ornamented panels with corner devices and floral roll within the inner panel, within triple rule border, gilt inner dentelles, a.e.g., likely by Robert Steel. Upper joint slightly tender, very shallow loss at crown of spine, upper cover shows some irregular dark discolorations, binder’s blanks darkened, textblock very bright, crisp and fresh.

First edition. The binding was attributed by the former owner to Robert Steel, who apprenticed to Samuel Mearne, and indeed, the floral roll matches that used on other bindings attributed to him (see Maggs 1212:70, for example, on a binding made for Queen Anne). Fleetwood, at the time of this publication, was Fellow of Eton-College and Chaplain in Ordinary to William III. The text was assembled to be delivered as the Boyle Lecture, which Fleetwood had been unable to deliver due to illness. In 1707, he published the more widely known work of economic analysis, Chronicon Preciosum .... To all appearances, this would qualify as a large, fine paper copy (200 x 120 mm) were it not for the fact that the dimensions seem common to decent copies of the entire edition. ESTC T83611. $1850.

108. [French, Alice]: A BOOK OF TRUE LOVERS. By “Octave Thanet” [pseud]. Chicago: Way & Williams, 1897. Pictorial cloth, by J.C. Leyendecker, t.e.g., others untrimmed. Cloth slightly darkened and faintly soiled, otherwise a very good copy.

Second edition, second state, being sheets of the Way & Williams edition bound up for distribution by Herbert S. Stone in 1899. A collection of the author’s periodical fiction, inscribed by her “To Mrs. Mary Davis A gentlewoman and a Spartan lady with a halo that other people can see but she can’t. With the author’s love [followed by a small drawing].” KRAUS 57. WRIGHT III:2041. $95.

109. Friedlander, Lee, and Jim Dine: WORK FROM THE SAME HOUSE PHOTOGRAPHS & ETCHINGS. London: Trigram Press, [1969]. Oblong quarto. Laminated printed white wrappers. Facsimile. 16 full-page photographs by Friedlander, 16 complimentary etchings by Dine, in black & white. Upper wrapper faintly rubbed, with a few dust smudges, else about fine.

First trade edition, published more or less simultaneously with the portfolio edition from St. Petersburg Press. Friedlander’s first trade publication. $350.

110. Fry, Francis: STANDARD EDITION OF THE ENGLISH NEW TESTAMENT OF THE GENEVAN VERSION. London: Reprinted for the Author from the Journal of Sacred Literature ... Williams and Norgate, July 1864. [1],2-11,[2],2-4p. Printed wrappers. Slightly creased, small tear in fore-edge of upper wrapper and small chip at lower corner, otherwise near very good.

First edition, as an author’s separate, repaginated. Inscribed on the upper wrapper: “Caroline Fry from her loving father Francis Fry.” A decent association copy of this monograph by the eminent Bible collector, bibliographer, and chocolate tycoon. $150.

111. Fuller, Thomas: THE HOLY STATE [and: THE PROFANE STATE]. Cambridge: Printed by Roger Daniel for John Williams, 1642. [10],441pp. (with some errors and duplications of page numbers, as usual). Quarto. Modern half calf and marbled boards. Engraved and printed titles, full sectional title for The Profane State, engraved plate of the feathers of Prince of Wales, portraits in text and two on separate sheets. Engraved title neatly mounted, some occasional smudges or early small ink smears, small early ink manuscript number in lower margin of A2, old repair to top fore-margin of terminal leaf, a few early ink marginal tics, bound without final blank, early mend to a clean tear at lower blank margin of portrait of Saint Joan, but a good copy.

First edition of Fuller’s most widely known work. The portraits were engraved by W. Marshall to accompany this series of character sketches and short essays on characters who might be said to represent both sides of the dichotomy set up in the titles to the two parts. It saw several subsequent editions published in short order. KEYNES IV:1. ESTC R21710. WING F2443. PFORZHEIMER 392. WITHER TO PRIOR II:34. $650.

112. [Fuller, Thomas, et al]: ABEL REDEVIVUS: OR, THE DEAD YET SPEAKING. THE LIVES AND DEATHS OF THE MODERNE DIVINES. WRITTEN BY SEVERALL ABLE AND LEARNED MEN (WHOSE NAMES YE SHALL FINDE IN THE EPISTLE TO THE READER.) AND NOW DIGESTED INTO ONE VOLUMNE, FOR THE BENEFIT AND SATISFACTION OF ALL THOSE THAT DESIRE TO BE ACQUAINTED WITH THE PATHS OF PIETY AND VIRTUE. London: Printed by Tho. Brudenell for John Stafford, 1651 [i.e. 1652]. [10],[blank],440 [i.e. 430],[2-plate],[18],441-599 [i.e. 596]pp. Small quarto. Contemporary calf, rebacked in plain calf in the 20th century, with new endsheets and gilt label. Engraved frontis, plate and portraits. Small tidemark to blank C2, worm track in fore-margin from 4R4 to end, a few scattered marginal smudges, still a reasonably good, crisp copy.

First edition, first issue, with the engraved frontis/title by Vaugahn dated 1651. The engraved portrait of Jerome of Prague is omitted from p. 21 in this copy, as is sometimes the case, blank C2 is present, and the final page is misnumbered 599. The portrait of Fuller added to the later issues of the first edition sheets is, naturally, not present here. In addition to Fuller, Daniel Featley, Thomas Gataker and others contributed biographical sketches, and Francis and John Quarles contributed occasional verse. The portrait and life of Lancelot Andrewes were also distributed as a separate. ESTC R177335. WING F2400. KEYNES (Contributions) IV. $950.

113. [Gardner, Anthony (binder)]: THE BOOKE OF COMMON PRAYER, AND ADMINISTRATION OF THE SACRAMENTS, AND OTHER RITES AND CEREMONIES OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND. London: Imprinted ... by Bonham Norton and Iohn Bill, printers to the King

..., 1627. [510]pp. A-2H8, 2I1-7 (lacking 2I8 – blank?). Quarto. Bound by Anthony Gardner, OBE, in full brown morocco, raised bands, lettered in gilt and decorated in blind, upper panel of original calf binding laid down, bearing arms of Charles I stamped in gilt. Text in black letter,. First four and last two leaves reinforced and extensively restored at the margins, textblock washed and pressed, with a few other scattered marginal repairs. A good copy, well bound.

An edition of the English Book of Common Prayer bearing the royal arms of the Stuarts. Skillfully restored and repaired by noted binder and calligrapher, Anthony Gardner, OBE, with his usual neatly calligraphed 1961 Apologia/account of the process he undertook to restore and bind the book covering the front free endsheet, signed in full by him at the conclusion. As was his custom, this binding is numbered (#636). GRIFFITHS 1627, 2. ESTC S93871. STC 16369.3. $1650.

Significant Association Copy

114. Ginsberg, Allen: YOUR REASON & BLAKE’S SYSTEM. Madras & New York: Hanuman Books, 1988. 12mo. Pale green cloth. Color frontis and plates. Cloth faintly soiled at shelf-edges, otherwise a very good copy, in shelfworn dust jacket with two ring marks on upper panel.

First edition, the very uncommon clothbound issue. One of one hundred copies thus. A first-rate association copy, inscribed by Ginsberg: “for Lucien [Carr] from [drawing] Allen 2/12/89” (the ink inscription has offset slightly in the facing pastedown and jacket flap). Ginsberg met Carr at Columbia University in 1943, and through Carr met Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady and William Burroughs. In the NYT Obituary for Carr (30 January 2005), Ginsberg’s earlier comment about Carr’s role in the circle of friendships that gave birth to the literary arm of the Beat generation was quoted: “Lou was the glue.” Carr went to work for United Press International in 1946 and was promoted to night news editor in 1956, coincident with the preparations for press of the first public edition of Howl. Carr was included, with Kerouac, Burroughs and Cassady, in the printed dedication, and when he received his copy, wrote Ginsberg expressing “one small gripe” about his inclusion there, and requesting, out of deference to his privacy, that Ginsberg avoid such mention in future books. At Ginsberg’s expense, Carr’s name was deleted from the dedication page of the second impression (then already printed), and from subsequent printings. Nonetheless, in 1982, Ginsberg dedicated Plutonian Ode to Carr, “... for friendship all these years....” Accompanied by two documents relating to the 1997 bequest from the Ginsberg Trust to Carr, and a photocopy of a photograph of a late 1970s gathering at Carr’s loft including Ginsberg and Burroughs. MORGAN A53a1. $950.

115. Ginsberg, Allen: KADDISH FOR NAOMI GINSBERG, 1894 – 1956 ... WITH TWO OTHER RELATED POEMS WHITE SHROUD AND BLACK SHROUD .... San Francisco: The Arion Press, 1992. Quarto. Black and grey silk over boards (wallet style). Illustrated with double-spread lithographed portraits by R.B. Kitaj. Fine, with publisher’s note on the binding laid in.

First edition in this format. Introduction by Helen Vendler. One of two hundred numbered copies (of 226), printed on Saunders mould-made paper, signed by the author, and by the artist in the lower margin of the lithograph. $1850.

116. [Goldsmith, Oliver]: THE CITIZEN OF THE WORLD; OR LETTERS FROM A CHINESE PHILOSOPHER, RESIDING IN LONDON, TO HIS FRIENDS IN THE EAST. London: Printed for J. Newbery, 1762. Two volumes. vi[ie vii],[1],286;[2],238,[16]pp. 12mo. Full brown crushed levant, raised bands, gilt inner dentelles, t.e.g., by Ramage. Two bookplates in each volume, as well as discoloration from a third on versos of binder’s free endsheets, slight wear at crown of one spine and patch of rubbing across one spine compartment, fore-tips a bit rubbed, else a very good set.

First edition, the issue with the integral title – another issue features cancel titles with ‘Printed for the Author’ in the imprint. In this set, page vii in the first volume is numbered ‘vi’ rather than ‘v’ as in other sets. The ‘i’ in the catchword on II:11 is out of alignment, not dropped. Goldsmith’s letters appeared anonymously in The Public Ledger beginning in late January of 1760, and concluded in August of the following year. Their considerable popularity, and their publication in book form, were significant factors in Goldsmith’s early ascent from Grub Street to what Scott describes as “the freedom of the precincts of the inner sanctuary of letters.” ROTHSCHILD 1021. SCOTT, pp. 71-4. WILLIAMS, p.123. ESTC T146035. $1250.

117. [Goldsmith, Oliver]: THE LIFE OF RICHARD NASH, OF BATH, ESQ; EXTRACTED PRINCIPALLY FROM HIS ORIGINAL PAPERS. London: Printed for J. Newbery ..., 1762. vi,234pp. Octavo. Contemporary calf. Portrait. Early ink ownership inscription in upper margin of title (noting acquisition in Dublin in 1800), spine extremities a bit worn, terminal adverts not bound in, smudge to lower margin of terminal leaf below errata, some foxing to binder’s free endsheet and verso of portrait, modest discoloration to binder’s rear free endsheets, still a near very good copy.

First edition of this work undertaken by Goldsmith during his respite from overwork in London, “an excellent and lively picture of Bath society with Nash as its leading figure, though a harmless and kindly and sartorially resplendent one” – Scott. As usual, C6 is a cancel due to the removal of an uncomplimentary passage about Nash’s sense of humour. SCOTT, pp.92ff. ROTHSCHILD 1022. $400.

118. Goldsmith, Oliver: THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD. A TALE. London: Printed by Samells and Ritchie, for E. Harding, 1792. Two volumes in one. [4],170 [i.e. 110], [111]-214,[2] pp. plus six plates. Contemporary treed calf, ruled in gilt, recently rebacked to style, gilt crimson label. Light scattered foxing, with moderate foxing to plates (largely marginal), narrow tea-splash on F4-6, otherwise a good copy, attractively bound, with the terminal blank retained.

First edition in this format, featuring six copper-plate engravings by J. Parker after drawings by Stothard. Page 110 (which terminates the first volume) is misnumbered ‘170’. “...The handsomest edition issued in that [18th] century of this tale. Copies are not common, especially in good states [sic]” – Scott. SCOTT, pp.182-3. ESTC T146199 . $275.

Inscribed to Her Daughter

119. Gordon, Caroline: THE GARDEN OF ADONIS. New York: Scribner, 1937. Cloth. Endsheets somewhat darkened and foxed, spine ends and fore-tips frayed, cloth a bit dust darkened; just a good, sound copy.

First edition of the author’s fourth novel. A well-worn copy, but an excellent family association copy, inscribed by Gordon to her daughter on or about publication: “For Nancy Tate from Mama Benfolly, October 22, 1937.” Benfolly was the 19th century home near Clarksville, Tennessee, where Caroline Gordon and Allen Tate lived in the 1930s. Nancy Tate, their only child, was born in 1925. $750.

The Dedication Copy

120. Gordon, Caroline: THE FOREST OF THE SOUTH. New York: Scribner, 1945. Cloth. Cloth rather sunned, with modest fraying at extremities, otherwise a good, sound copy.

First edition. The dedication copy, inscribed by the author on the free endsheet to her daughter and her husband: “To Nancy and Percy from Mama.” The printed dedication is “For Nancy and Percy Wood.” Nancy Tate Wood, Gordon’s only child with poet Allen Tate, was born in 1925, and married Percy H. Wood Jr. in 1944. $2250.

121. Gordon, Caroline: THE FOREST OF THE SOUTH. New York: Scribner, 1945. Cloth. Cloth rather sunned, with a few ring and splash marks on boards; a good, sound copy.

First edition. Inscribed by the author on the free endsheet to her grandson, Percy Wood III: “Percy, from Grandma.” Gordon’s daughter, Nancy, married Percy H. Wood Jr. in 1944, and are the dedicatees of this novel. They had four children. $400.

122. Grabe, J[ohn] E[rnest]: DE FORMA CONSECRATIONIS EUCHARISTIÆ, &C. OR, A DEFENCE OF THE GREEK CHURCH, AGAINST THE ROMAN, IN THE ARTICLE OF THE CONSECRATION OF THE EUCHARISTICAL ELEMENTS, WRITTEN IN LATIN ... NOW FIRST PUBLISHED, TOGETHER WITH A TRANSLATION, FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE ENGLISH READERS .... London: Printed for Richard King, 1721. xl,92,[4]pp. Octavo. Extracted from nonce pamphlet volume. Scattered light foxing, some tanning to foremargins of last four leaves, but a very good copy.

First edition. Prussian born Grabe (1666-1711) settled in Oxford in 1697, and there distinguished himself as “the most outstanding patristic and biblical scholar of late seventeenth-century England” – DNB. DNB suggests the editor of this posthumously published work was likely . ESTC locates four copies in North America. ESTC T92506. $225.

123. Grotius, Hugo: HVGONIS GROTII DE IVRE BELLI AC PACIS LIBRI TRES, IN QUIBUS JUS NATURAE & GENTIUM, ITEM JURIS PUBLICI PRAECIPUA EXPLICANTUR ... EDITIO NOVA, CUM ANNOTATIS AUCTORIS, EX POSTREMA EJUS ANTE OBITUM CURA MULTO NUNC AUCTIOR. Amsterdam: Johann Blaeu, 1650. [24],618,[45]pp. Contemporary vellum over boards, manuscript spine title. Bookplate of Arthur Houghton on front pastedown, 19th century academic ownership inscription on front pastedown, a few scattered early annotations and underscores, moderate scattered foxing, tanning and occasional spotting, bound without binder’s endsheets, otherwise a very good copy.

A corrected edition of Grotius’s masterwork of legal theory, begun by him in 1604, and completed after his escape to Paris in 1621. The first edition was published there in 1625, his reputation was soon established throughout Europe and this work was reprinted frequently and translated thereafter. Blaeu first published this text, with Grotius’s final corrections, annotations and enhancements in 1642. “This was the first attempt to lay down a principle of right, and a basis for society and government outside of Church or Scripture ... Grotius’s principle of an immutable law, which God can no more alter than a mathematical axiom, was the first expression of the ‘droit naturel’ ...and is the foundation of modern international law” – PMM. MEULEN/DIERMANSE 574. PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN 125. $1750.

124. Grotius, Hugo: HVGONIS GROTII ANNALES ET HISTORIAE DE REBVS BELGICIS. Amsterdam: Blaeu, 1658. [16],812,[34]pp. 12mo. Contemporary vellum, manuscript spine title. Woodcut printer’s device on title, decorative initials. Later armorial bookplate of “Lord Bracco” (poss. William Duff Fife, 1697-1763) on front pastedown. Small rust stain about the size of a pencil eraser to first few leaves, front free endsheet partially torn away, a couple of lines with early faint ink underscoring on A1 recto and verso, occasional faint marginal discolorations, otherwise a very good copy.

First 12mo edition. A history of the Low Countries, first completed by the eminent Dutch jurist and polymath (1583 – 1645) in 1612, revised several times thereafter, and eventually published posthumously by Blaeu in 1657, in folio, and in a second, corrected folio edition, with editions in octavo and 12mo the next year. In addition to his justly celebrated contributions to the foundations of international law, Grotius’ historical and theological works are of considerable substance. Discussions of the Dutch East- and West-India Companies expand the interest of this work to the Americas. This printing in 12mo was issued without the portrait and other illustrative matter common to the folio and octavo editions. MEULEN/DIERMANSE 744. NICHOLSON G419. JCB II:480. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 658/74. SABIN 28956. $375.

125. Guest, Barbara: THE LOCATION OF THINGS. New York: Tibor de Nagy Editions, 1960. Small octavo. Printed wrappers. Frontis by Robert Goodnaugh. Wrapper faded at spine, as usual, crown of spine slightly bumped, but a very good copy.

First edition of the author’s first book. One of three hundred copies printed. $400.

126. [Guild of Women Binders]: THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER NOTED BY JOHN MERBECKE 1550. London: William Pickering, 1844. [140]pp. Small quarto. Full medium brown morocco, side panels ruled with interlocking frames in blind, spine lettered in gilt, a.e.g. and gauffered, by the Guild of Women Binders (signed). Some natural darkening to spine and edges, moderate scattered foxing and darkening at edges of text block, bookplate of Adam Rivers Steele and later small book label of Herbert Boyce Satcher on front pastedown, bookplate of the Satcher bequest on rear pastedown, but a very good copy.

One of the several important editions of the various forms of the Book of Common Prayer published by Pickering in 1844, in this case, of the edition printed by Richard Grafton in 1550. The text was printed in red and black, with red rules, on unsized Pouncy’s handmade paper by D. Whittingham. The number of copies printed is not reported in the references. In keeping with the subject matter, the binding is restrained and elegant, without extra embellishment. KELLY 1844.10. KEYNES, p.86. GRIFFITHS 1844:33. sold.

127. Haberly, Loyd: THE CITY OF THE SAINTED KING AND OTHER POEMS .... [Cambridge, MA]: Widener Library / Harvard University, 1939. Small quarto. Full black morocco, stamped in gilt, t.e.g. Morocco has some spotted dust dulling, very faint, short ink stroke in margin of title, otherwise a near fine copy in somewhat dust marked folding cloth box.

First edition. One of two hundred copies decorated, printed and bound by the author. Inscribed by the author/printer on the preliminary blank: “To my Woodstock family 27 August 40 Loyd.” An American, Haberly became interested in the book arts while a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford. He published a number of items under the imprint of the Seven Acres Press, and was briefly associated with the Gregynog Press before returning to the U.S. shortly before the production of this work. $300.

128. [Haymarket Press]: THE BOOK OF PSALMS FROM THE VERSION OF MILES COVERDALE .... [Westminster]: The Haymarket Press, 1930. xvi,156pp. plus inserted mounts for plates. Folio (35 x 23 cm). Full tan morocco, spine lettered in gilt, t.e.g., others untrimmed. Eight color tipped in plates. Sidenotes and headings printed in red. Decorated initials. Binding modestly rubbed, bumped and darkened, internally about fine.

First printing in this format, deluxe issue. Introduction by Francis Wormald. Illustrated with eight color facsimiles of leaves from Queen Mary’s Psalter. One of fifty numbered copies specially bound, printed on heavy British handmade paper, in addition to 825 ordinary copies on “Antique-de-luxe” paper, all printed by the Alcuin Press. The fourth and evidently last title from the Press. RIDLER, p.154. $400.

129. Heber, Reginald: HYMNS, WRITTEN AND ADAPTED TO THE WEEKLY CHURCH SERVICE OF THE YEAR. London: John Murray, 1827. xii, errata slip,153,[1]pp. plus 4pp. inserted catalogue. Large octavo. Original boards, paper spine label, untrimmed. Spine worn, upper board neatly detached (along with title-leaf), occasional foxing, otherwise a near very good copy.

First edition, edited by Amelia Heber, and published the year after his death. Among the hymns is one adapted from Scott’s The Lay Of The Last Minstrel. Heber died in India on 3 April 1826, and his widow’s dedication is dated 5 July 1827. The collection proved popular and was reprinted in various formats, including illustrated editions, through the remainder of the century. The catalogue is, appropriately, for Books on India, published or distributed by Parbury, Allen & Co. NCBEL III:382. TODD & BOWDEN 402e. $250.

130. Hermann V, [von Wied], Archbishop of Cologne: A SIMPLE, AND RELIGIOUS CONSULTATION …. BY WHAT MEANES A CHRISTIAN , AND FOUNDED IN GODS WORDE, OF DOCTRINE, ADMINISTRATION OF THE DEUINE SACRAMENTES, OF CEREMONIES, AND THE HOLE CURE OF SOULES, AND OTHER ECCLESIASTICAL MINISTERIES MAY BE BEGON AMONG MEN COMMITTED TO OUR PASTORALL CHARGE, VNTIL THE LORDE GRAUNT A BETTER TO BE APPOYNTED EITHER BY A FREE, AND CHRISTIAN COU[N]SAYLE, GENERAL, OR NATIONAL, OR ELLES BY THE STATES OF THE EMPIRE OF THE NATIO[N] OF GERMANIE, GATHERED TOGETHER IN THE HOLYE GOST. [London]: Imprinted in the yere if our Lord [by John Daye], 30

October 1547. [308] leaves; a-y8 2A-2Q8 2R4. Small octavo (140 x 95 mm). Full black morocco, raised bands, a.e.g., by Bedford. Printed in black letter. Woodcut of the Last

Supper on A8r. Minor soiling early and late, washed (likely when bound), two small patches of early repair to verso of title, a few instances of marginalia or emphasis marks remain after having been “Bedfordized” (with shadows of more extensive annotations scattered in some margins), early careful restoration to the blank foremargins of g2-3, some occasional foxing or marginal smudges, ink acquisition note and cathedral blindstamp on binder’s blank, joints slightly rubbed, old bookseller’s description formerly tipped to front pastedown, otherwise a very good copy, with the bookplate of Sir J.A. Brooke.

First edition in English (translator not identified) of this compilation from the Archbishop’s writings assembled by Philipp Melanchthon and Martin Bucer, first published in German in 1543. A second edition was published in 1548, and some copies of this edition feature a woodcut of St. John the Evangelist in place of the woodcut of the Last Supper. The text is known to have exerted some influence upon Archbishop Cranmer and his associates in their compilation of the first English Book of Common Prayer. Both this edition and the second edition are uncommon in commerce. One copy of the first is recorded in ABPC in the last 35 years (1993), and two copies of the second edition. The ESTC locates fifteen copies, of which seven (including this copy) are in North America. The ink note on the endsheet traces the provenance of this copy to the Gardner sale (1854). A good example of the work of the foremost English printer/publisher of Protestant material of his generation. STC 13213. ESTC S103980. LUBORSKY & INGRAM 13213. $9500.

131. Heylyn, Peter: A HELP TO ENGLISH HISTORY; CONTAINING A SUCCESSION OF ALL THE KINGS OF ENGLAND, THE ENGLISH, SAXONS, AND THE BRITONS; THE KINGS AND PRINCES OF WALES; THE KINGS AND LORDS OF MAN; AND THE ISLE OF WIGHT. AS ALSO OF ALL THE DUKES, MARQUISES, EARLS, AND BISHOPS THEREOF. WITH THE DESCRIPTIONS OF THE PLACES FROM WHENCE THEY HAD THEIR TITLES. TOGETHER WITH THE NAMES AND RANKS OF THE VISCOUNTS, BARONS, AND BARONETS, OF ENGLAND … WITH THE COATS OF ARMS OF THE NOBILITY, ACCURATELY ENGRAVED ON COPPER PLATES, AND PROPERLY BLAZONED…. London: Printed for the Editor, and Sold by Mr. Bathurst [and many others], 1773. 14,[8],33,[5],37- 560,[2]pp plus 32,[1],22 engraved plates. Octavo. Handsomely bound in full contemporary medium green straight-grain calf, raised bands, spine gilt extra, gilt label, gilt rules with blindstamped ornamentation on boards, gilt inner dentelles. A bit of foxing to the title and prelims, otherwise a quite handsome copy, with the half-title.

Final eighteenth century edition, augmented with new material by Peter Wright, of the work first published in 1641 as Herõologia Anglorum. Or, An Help To English History under the pseudonym Robert Hall. The majority of the plates include twenty coats-of-arms. Sheets from this edition were reissued in 1786 with a cancel title-leaf, without the plates. “Best edition of this useful work” – Lowndes. ESTC T107428. LOWNDES IV:1059. $450.

132. [Hieroglyphic Bible – English]: A NEW HIEROGLYPHICAL BIBLE, FOR THE AMUSEMENT & INSTRUCTION OF CHILDREN: BEING A SELECTION OF THE MOST USEFUL LESSONS, AND MOST INTERESTING NARRATIVES; (SCRIPTURALLY ARRANGED) FROM GENESIS TO THE REVELATIONS. EMBELLISHED WITH FAMILIAR FIGURES & STRIKING EMBLEMS; ELEGANTLY ENGRAVED .... London: Printed and Published by G. Thompson ..., 1794. iii,4-144pp. 12mo. Original printed pictorial boards. Engraved frontis and title. Heavily illustrated with woodcuts. Spine a bit worn, lower board detached and then resewn early on, without rear free endsheet, boards lightly rubbed and smudged; still, an unusually nice copy.

An unusually well-preserved example of this genre, in a version evidently first published in the same year (ESTC cites both this edition, and two editions, or issues, with J. Parsons sharing the imprint). This edition includes “A Sketch of the life of our Blessed Saviour...[&c] Recommended by the Revd. Rowland Hill.” A parallel edition appeared in Boston in the same year. Curiously, the main text component of this edition compares closely with the 1796 13th edition of the version under Hodgson’s imprint, except that the cuts, though depictions of similar items, are different. The earliest edition of Hodgson’s version cited by Darlow & Moule is that of 1784; this edition by Thompson is not cited there, but the proliferation of editions of the genre under various imprints is commented on. Due in large part to their intended audience, copies of any of the 18th century editions approaching original condition are very uncommon. ESTC locates 12 copies of this edition, 6 of them in North America: Morgan, Smithsonian, Lilly, UCLA, Univ. of Regina and Univ. of Toronto. Three copies bearing the Parson co-imprint are located. ESTC T123482. $1250.

133. Holmes, Oliver Wendell: OUR HUNDRED DAYS IN EUROPE. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1887. Gray green pictorial cloth, t.e.g. (BAL’s binding A). Binding a bit darkened at spine, a few rubs and nicks at edges, but a good, sound copy.

First U.S. edition (the British edition preceded). From the library of the eminent literary agent, A.P. Watt, with his bookplate. An inscribed presentation copy: “Mr. A.P. Watt With the kind remembrance of Oliver Wendell Holmes. Boston, Nov. 5th 1887.” The inscription postdates that in the copy Holmes inscribed to his son by five days. In the passage in the text (p.242) relating to Holmes’ befuddled confusion of ‘Watt’ with ‘Watts’ while in London, the initials ‘A.P.’ have been inserted in pencil in an unknown hand to make the distinction plain. Alexander P. Watt (d. 1914); English literary agent; founded the agency A.P. Watt & Son in 1885. Holmes first visited England during his years as a medical student in Paris (1833-35). Fifty years later he returned as an esteemed literary figure, to receive honorary doctorates from both Cambridge and Oxford. The friendly chorus that greeted him during his 1886 English tour included Edmund Gosse, who wrote in a letter to Richard Watson Gilder on 18 June 1886: “I have just come from the breakfast given to Dr. O.W. Holmes at St. John’s College. The dear little man, in his scarlet doctor’s gown, with flying pink ribbands, looked beaming, and made a delicious speech which nobody took down. He said that what he had enjoyed most in England was the sense of antiquity over all things, ‘like the lichen on an old wall, or, better still, like the patina on an old coin’. He has had a triumph over here, and his heart rejoices, as one can see.” Holmes’ own impressions of this “happy summer” abroad, are recorded in Our Hundred Days In Europe (1887). See Mattheisen and Millgate, Transatlantic Dialogue (Austin: University of Texas Press, [1965], p. 188) BAL 9006. $1500.

134. [Howel (or Howell), Laurence], and John Sturt [engraver]: THE ORTHODOX COMMUNICANT, BY WAY OF MEDITATION ON THE ORDER FOR THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE LORD’S SUPPER, OR HOLY COMMUNION; ACCORDING TO THE LITURGY OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND. London: Engraven and Sold by J. Sturt, 1721. [2],I- IX,[1],82,[4]pp. comprised of engraved dedication, prefatory matter and text, and 3pp. subscribers list. Small octavo. Contemporary black morocco, raised bands, spine richly gilt, covers with gilt panels and corner ornaments, and narrow roll border, a.e.g., marbled endsheets. Joints a bit worn, with short cracks at crowns and toes and with very shallow loss at crown of the spine, bookplate scar on front pastedown, binder’s blanks a bit tanned, textblock very good or better.

Third edition of the text, but the first in this format, with all aspects of the contents executed by English engraver and calligrapher, John Sturt. Each page is surrounded by a delicate symbolic or allegorical border, and each page of the main text includes one of eighty-two different engraved scenes from the life of Christ. Sturt (1658-1730) engraved most of the works of English writing-master, John Ayres, and contributed illustrations to a number of religious or illustrated publications of his time, including a Prayer Book in 1717. ESTC notes that the text and borders were separately imposed, resulting in variations; there are also variations between copies in the placement of the dedication and the subscribers list. The binding shares common characteristics with other copies, though is somewhat more elaborate than that on the Rothschild copy, with the side panels gilt rather than blindstamped. ROTHSCHILD 1988. ESTC T119687. $600.

135. Huelsenbeck, Richard [ed]: DADA ALMANACH IM AUFTRAG DES ZENTRALAMTS DER DEUTSCHEN DADA-BEWEGUNG .... Berlin: Erich Reiss Verlag, [1920]. 160pp. Small octavo. Pictorial wrappers. Plates. Wrappers lightly soiled and dusty, with faint coffee splash on lower wrapper, text slightly tanned (as usual), with faint rippling at edges, staples a bit rusty, otherwise a very good copy.

First edition of what Hugnet denotes “the last of the important Dada publications” (Motherwell, p.152). Published shortly after the great Berlin exhibition on 5 June, contributors include the editor, Tzara, Mehring, Picabia, Ball, Soupault, Arp, Hausmann, Ribemont-Dessaignes, et al. Tzara contributed a “Chronique Zurichoise 1915 – 1919” which includes a detailed list of exhibitions, publications and events. MOTHERWELL / KARPEL 7. $3750. 136. Hume, David: PHILOSOPHICAL ESSAYS ON MORALS, LITERATURE, AND POLITICS ... TO WHICH IS ADDED, THE ANSWER TO HIS OBJECTIONS TO CHRISTIANITY, BY DR. CAMPBELL. ALSO, AN ACCOUNT OF MR. HUME’S LIFE, AN ORIGINAL ESSAY, AND A FEW NOTES .... Philadelphia: Published for the Editor by Edward Earle, 1817. Two volumes. xvii,[1],[19]-561,[3];616,[6]pp. Octavo. Contemporary calf, gilt labels. Bindings a bit scraped, with chips at spine extremities and some cracking of hinges (cords still sound), institutional bookplate, pencil erasures from prelims, and small manuscript shelf- labels at toes of spine, some foxing, but a good set.

“First American edition,” edited, with the original matter, by Thomas Ewell, M.D. However, an equivalent edition (perhaps issue?) of Ewell’s selection appeared the same year under a Georgetown imprint, also described as the “First American edition.” Ewell dedicated this collection to James Monroe, and in his Preface, asserts that the lack of any prior American edition of these essays was attributable to “...a melancholy instance of withholding many advantages on account of a few probable errors; of the success of ignorance and prejudice, of incapacity and malignancy, in opposing ambition for intellectual advancement. The bigots had raised an unfounded clamour against the work ... assuredly these Essays may, with truth, be pronounced the greatest – the best calculated to awaken enquiry, while communicating instruction – that were ever written.” Ewell (1785 – 1826) served as a Navy Surgeon, was a correspondent of Jefferson’s, and dedicated his Plain Discourses On The Laws Or Properties Of Matter ... (1806) to him. He contributed a number of publications to the scientific and medical literature of the period. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 41100. $250.

137. [Huxley, Aldous]: Thompson, Robert E.: BRAVE NEW WORLD ... TELEPLAY BY ... BASED ON THE NOVEL BY ALDOUS HUXLEY. [Np]: Universal Studios, 1977 – 1 May 1978. Two volumes. [1],118;[1],119-234 leaves. Quarto. Mechanically reproduced typescript, printed on rectos only. Bradbound. Some light used and occasional modest soiling, but very good.

A pre-producion working draft of this adaptation of Huxley’s novel for television, with an array of revises on salmon, blue, green and canary paper over the period above. It was broadcast in March of 1980, and was then co-credited to another writer, but this draft is attributed solely to Thompson, whose previous credits include a substantial body of television scripts, along with contribution to several screenplays, including They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? and The French Connection. Burt Brinckerhoff directed, and stars included Bud Cort, Julie Cobb, Keir Dullea, et al. $300.

First Book

138. [Johnson, Samuel (translator)]: A VOYAGE TO ABYSSINIA. BY FATHER JEROME LOBO, A PORTUGUESE JESUIT ... WITH A CONTINUATION OF THE HISTORY OF ABYSSINIA ... BY MR. LEGRAND. London [i.e. Birmingham]: Printed for A. Bettesworth, and C. Hitch, 1735. xii,396,[8]pp. Octavo. Modern three quarter calf and boards. Title printed in red and black. Usual foxing and darkening early and late (the book was printed on poor quality paper), marginal restoration to title leaf along fore-edge, repaired tear in

Q2 with no loss, old, light tide-mark toward gutter of first four leaves, but a sound copy.

First edition, first issue, of Samuel Johnson’s first book publication, a translation commission he undertook for Thomas Warren, the Birmingham bookseller with whom he was staying at the time. Johnson worked from LeGrand’s French translation of Lobo’s work, producing more of an epitome than literal translation, but was more faithful to LeGrand’s “Dissertations” which comprise a major portion of the text. Although hackwork, this project did provide Johnson with the background for his novel. A second issue exists, with a cancel title-leaf in black, but is very uncommon. CHAPMAN & HAZEN, p.123. FLEEMAN 35.2LV/1a. COURTNEY & SMITH, pp. 2-4. ROTHSCHILD 1215. $1250. 139. [Johnson, Samuel]: THE PRINCE OF ABISSINIA. A TALE. London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley ..., 1759. Two volumes. viii,159,[1];viii,165,[1]pp. Small octavo. Recent three quarter calf and marbled boards, raised bands, gilt labels. Small type hole in pagination for I:A2, early ink authorship attribution in lower margin of first title, very occasional light foxing, but a very good, crisp set. Slipcase.

First edition of Samuel Johnson’s only novel, written, in the evenings of one week in an effort to raise funds for his mother’s care, and eventually, to pay for her funeral. The first edition consisted of 1500 copies. A2 in the second volume is in the second, corrected state; p.106 is signed D4, and the reading ‘indiscerpible’ appears at II:161:2. FLEEMAN 59.4R/1. COURTNEY & SMITH, p.87. ROTHSCHILD 1242-4. $2350.

140. Johnson, Samuel [translator]: A VOYAGE TO ABYSSINIA, BY FATHER JEROME LOBO, A PORTUGUESE MISSIONARY. CONTAINING THE HISTORY, NATURAL, CIVIL, AND ECCLESIASTICAL, OF THAT REMOTE AND UNFREQUENTED COUNTRY, CONTINUED DOWN TO THE BEGINNING OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY: WITH FIFTEEN DISSERTATIONS ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS, RELATING TO THE ANTIQUITIES, GOVERNMENT, RELIGION, MANNERS, AND NATURAL HISTORY, OF ABYSSINIA. BY M. LE GRAND. TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH BY ... TO WHICH ARE ADDED, VARIOUS OTHER TRACTS BY THE SAME AUTHOR, NOT PUBLISHED BY SIR JOHN HAWKINS OR MR STOCKDALE. London: Printed for Elliot and Kay ... And C. Elliot, Edinburgh, 1789. [4],248,247-500,[2]pp. Large octavo. Contemporary mottled calf, rebacked, with gilt label. Some scarring to the original calf, but a very good, clean copy.

Second edition, edited by George Gleig, and including the supplementary letters and articles by Johnson, including “The Story of the Cock-Lane Ghost ....” Gleig’s general Preface takes to task the textual sloppiness of the first edition, and criticizes the edition of the works edited by Hawkins and Stockdale. Some copies of this edition were issued with a half-title (not present here) designating it as a supplementary volume to Stockdale’s edition. The terminal advert leaf is present. COURTNEY & SMITH, pp. 3-4. FLEEMAN 35.2LV/2. ESTC T110318. $750.

“A Very Beautiful Latin Version ...” From the First Printer in Aberdeen

141. Johnston [or Johnstoun], Arthur [translator]: PARAPHRASIS POETICA PSALMORUM DAUIDIS. AUCTORE ARTURO IONSTONO, SCOTO. ACCESSERUNT EJUSDEM CANTICA EUANGELICA, SYMBOLUM APOSTOLICUM, ORATIO DOMINICA, DECALOGUS. Aberdoniae [i.e. Aberdeen]: Imprimebat

Edwardus Rabanus, 1637. pi4, A-M8 (wanting pi1 and

M8, both blanks). 198 (of 200) leaves. Small octavo. Full 19th century polished Scottish calf, raised bands, side panels ruled in blind, gilt label, by Carss & Co., of Glasgow. Early ink name on title (see below), a few shallow chips and nicks to fore-edges of first five leaves and a few internal and terminal leaves (barely affecting the blank margins), early mends to closed tears in margins of L3 (the applied paper is now loosening), last few gatherings show heavy type shadowing, but a very good copy.

First edition of the Scottish poet and physician’s celebrated translation of the Psalms into Latin. Johnston (c. 1579 – 1641) was born in Caskieben, and after studies in Aberdeen, he moved to Padua to earn his MD. He returned to Aberdeen ca. 1628, and his publication of a volume of Latin translations of the Song of Solomon attracted the attention of , who encouraged him to undertake this translation. Johnston was appointed the rector of King’s College, Aberdeen the year it, and his anthology of contemporary Scottish Latin verse, Deliciae Poetarum Scotorum, were published. For a time, Johnston’s translations rivaled those of George Buchanan. “A very beautiful Latin version ... which occasioned a good deal of controversy respecting the comparative merits of Buchanan and Johnston ... this version has been frequently reprinted” – Lowndes. Edward Raban established his press at Aberdeen in 1622, and it has been suggested that he learned his trade after serving as a soldier in the Low Countries. Samuel Johnson was an admirer of Johnston’s poems, though, in regard to this work, he took the side of Buchanan in the controversy over the superiority of one translation over another that was precipitated by William Lauder. A very scarce book: ESTC locates only five copies in North America (Folger, Harvard, Huntington, Princeton and Univ. of Illinois), and eight in the British Isles. Provenance: with the bookplate and from the library of notable antiquary and collector, Adam Sim of Coulter, in Lanarkshire; and signed on the title-page by ““, MA , King’s Coll., 1643; subsequently regent at Mareschal College in Aberdeen; and of King’s College in 1664. ESTC S102240. STC 2366. LOWNDES, p. 1991. $4500.

142. [Jones, William]: A PRESERVATIVE AGAINST THE PUBLICATIONS DISPERSED BY MODERN SOCINIANS. IN WHICH THE IMPIETY AND ABSURDITY OF THEIR PRINCIPLES ARE CLEARLY SHEWN. ADDRESSED BY A COUNTRY-CLERGYMAN TO HIS PARISHIONERS. London: Printed by J and F. Rivington ..., 1774. [2],26p. 12mo. Sewn, untrimmed. Faint old tide mark along fore-edge of title, a few bits of foxing to last leaf, otherwise a lovely copy in original state.

First edition. According to ESTC, this is a reply to Joseph Priestley’s An Appeal To The Serious And Candid Professors Of Christianity (Leeds, 1770). Jones (1726 – 1800) went on to publish his work, A Small Whole-Length Of Dr. Priestley, From His Printed Works ... (London. 1792). ESTC N21085. $175.

143. [Joyce, James]: “TWO SONGS” contained in THE VENTURE AN ANNUAL OF ART AND LITERATURE. London: John Baillie, 1903 & 1905. Two volumes. Small quarto. Pictorial tan cloth and grey boards. Pictorial endsheets, title page in red and black by RLB. Frontispiece, plates and illustrations. Bindings rubbed, a bit dust soiled, a few spots, bumped at foretips, tanning to endsheets of 1903 volume, internally very good or better.

First editions of these serial anthologies, the number for 1903 edited by Laurence Housman and W. Somerset Maugham. The number for 1903 was printed at the Pear Tree Press. The 1905 volume includes Joyce’s first appearance in a clothbound book. The two poems were later reprinted in Chamber Music as poems XII and XXVI. Illustrators include McNeil Whistler, Frank Brangwyn, E.J. Sullivan, Arthur Rackham, Sir William Orpen, Charles Ricketts, Augustus John, among others. Literary contributions include works by W. Somerset Maugham, Arthur Symons, Alice Meynell, Edmund Gosse, John Masefield, G.K. Chesterton, Thomas Hardy, Havelock Ellis, A.E. Housman, among others. SLOCUM & CAHOON B2. $850.

144. Justinianus I, Emperor: CODICIS DN. IVSTINIANI SACRATISS. PRINCIPIS PP. AVG. REPETITAE PRAELECTIONIS LIB. XII .... [with:] ...TOMVS SECVNDVS, CONTINENS SEPTEM POSTERIORES LIBROS. Lvgdvni [i.e. Lyon]: Apud Guiliel. Rouillium [i.e.

Guillaume Rouillé], 1571. Two volumes. [16],1517,[3];1520pp. plus 3D-3N8 3O4. 16mo. Contemporary limp vellum, wallet fore-edges, a.e.g. Spine titles in manuscript. Text in roman, Greek and italic. Publisher’s prominent device on title. Titles and margins ruled in red and brown. Vellum lightly soiled and rubbed, with some curling to turn-ins, bookplates, modest tanning, but very good copies.

A component of the uniform edition of Justinianus and commentators published by Guillaume Rouillé in his innovative sextodecimo format in 1571. OCLC/Worldcat reports few locations, none in North America. ADAMS J518 & J519. $1250.

Kant’s Influential Critik

145. Kant, Immanuel: CRITIK DER REINEN VERNUNFT. Riga: Johann Friedrich Hartknoch, 1787. xliv,884pp. Octavo. Contemporary three-quarter sheep and paper boards. Moderate foxing, boards rubbed and spine and foretips quite worn, chipped and crazed (but cords still sound), bookplate, but an internally good, unsophisticated copy.

Second edition of one of the fundamental works of western philosophy. The first edition appeared under the same imprint in 1781, and the text here was extensively revised by Kant, and accompanied by a substantial Foreword. “Kant’s great achievement was to conclude finally the lines on which philosophical speculation had proceeded in the eighteenth century, and to open up a new and more comprehensive system of dealing with the problems of philosophy...The influence of Kant is paramount in the critical method of modern philosophy. No other thinker has been able to hold with such firmness the balance between speculative and empirical ideas. His penetrating analysis of the elements involved in synthesis, and the subjective process by which these elements are realized in the individual consciousness, demonstrated the operation of ‘pure reason’; and the simplicity and cogency of his arguments achieved immediate fame” – Printing and the Mind of Man. PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN 226 (1st ed). $2000.

146. [Karamzin, Nikolay Mikhaylovich]: Karamsin, Nicolai: TALES FROM THE RUSSIAN OF .... London: Printed for J. Johnson ... by G. Sidney, 1804. xii,262pp. Large octavo. Contemporary boards, rebacked in the late 19th century with later printed spine label and new endsheets, untrimmed. Frontis portrait and engraved plate. Contemporary gift inscription on title (see below), foxing throughout, but a good, untrimmed copy.

First edition in English, variant issue, with cancel title and dedication. The translation is attributed to A.A. Feldborg by several references, although it appears that an issue dated 1803, also printed by Sidney, and with the same collation, bore an attribution to John Battersby Elrington (see Line, et al). In this copy, the title and dedication bifolium appears to be a cancel. With the florid ownership signature of American politician [Samuel] “Sitgreaves” with an appended denotation as a gift to another (indecipherable first name) member of the family. LINE, et al, p.21. $750.

Uncommon Edinburgh Printing

147. [L’Estrange, Roger (attrib)]: A SEASONABLE MEMORIAL IN SOME HISTORICAL NOTES UPON THE LIBERTIES OF THE PRESSE AND PULPIT: WITH THE EFFECTS OF POPULAR PETITIONS, TUMULTS, ASSOCIATIONS, IMPOSTURES, AND DISAFFECTED COMMON-COUNCILS. TO ALL GOOD SUBJECTS AND TRUE PROTESTANTS. Edinburgh: Re-printed by the Heir of Andrew Anderson..., 1680. [2],24,24-25pp. Small quarto. Extracted from bound pamphlet volume. Title and verso of terminal leaf rather dusty and soiled, two small marginal chips from title, at toe of gutter and fore-edge, a few leaves partially untrimmed, a few leaves trimmed a bit close at top edge, touching page numbers, still a reasonably good copy of a crudely printed pamphlet.

First Edinburgh printing, published in the same year as the London printing. A somewhat diffuse consideration of the press and other influences affecting civil and political events, all in defense of the controls that had expired with the Licensing Act. The London printings were included in the 1681 omnibus assemblages under the general title, A Collection Of Several Tracts In Quarto ....” This Edinburgh printing is uncommon. ESTC locates seven copies in the UK, and one in North America. ESTC R179475. WING L1302. $300. 148. [Laprade, Pierre Martin Victor Richard de (his copy)]: [A Nonce Volume of Three Works]: “G.,E.”: ONTOLOGIA AS USUAM PHILOSOPHICUM IN VITA COMMUNI REDEACTA AB... Argentorati [i.e. Strassburg]: Typis Leraultanis, 1801. 123,[1]pp. [with:] Maugras, J.B.: DISSERTATION SUR L’ANALYSE EN PHILOSOPHIE, MEMOIRE .... Paris: [Panckoucke, et al], 1806. xii,180,[2]pp. [with:] Gonod, B.: NOUVELLE EXPOSITION DE LA MÉTHODE DE M. JACOTOT, JUSTIFÉE PAR LES AUTORIT LES PLUS GRAVES .... Paris: Librairie Classique de Maire-Nyon, Janvier 1830. viii,134pp. Quarter contemporary calf and pastepaper boards. Boards sunned, occasional foxing and minor spotting, light stain to upper quadrant of two leaves in the first work, light wear to crown of spine, very good.

First editions. From the library of French critic and poet, Victor de Laprade (1812 – 1883), with his bookplate, and with an index in manuscript on a terminal blank. The third title bears a presentation inscription to another party from the author. Laprade’s bookplate notes his membership in the Académie Francaise, to which he was elected in 1858. The spine bears the general title: “Mélanges Philosophiq [sic].” OCLC/Worldcat locates only the BN copy of the first work, and affords no clue as to the identity of “E.G.” $150.

Earliest Publication

149. Law, William: A SERMON PREACH’D AT HAZELINGFIELD, IN THE COUNTRY OF CAMBRIDGE, ON TUESDAY, JULY 7. 1713. BEING THE DAY APPOINTED BY HER MAJESTY’S ROYAL PROCLAMATION FOR A PUBLICK THANKSGIVING FOR HER MAJESTY’S GENERAL PEACE. London: Printed for Richard Thurbourne ..., 1713. [2],43,[1]pp. Octavo. Extracted and bound in later decorated wrappers, without half-title. There are three revisions in the text in an early hand, a very good copy.

First edition of one of the earliest, if not the earliest, of Law’s publications. He is identified on the title as Fellow of Emmanuel College, and had been licensed as curate at Haslingfield in July of 1711. DNB notes two of his sermons from this period, one in manuscript, and one published at a somewhat later date. His entry into the pamphlet exchange surrounding the Bangorian controversy in 1717 led to his increased public visibility, as did his spirited critique of Mandeville. With the publication of A Practical Treatise Upon Christian Perfection (1726) and A Serious Call To A Devout And Holy Life (1729), he evolved as one of the primary influences on the English Evangelical revival, and made a lasting impression on individuals as diverse as Gibbon, Samuel Johnson, and John Wesley. ESTC locates only five copies in North America and only thirteen abroad. ESTC T66733. $450.

“For this is the Drift of all my Writings ...”

150. Law, William: AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED. [King’s Cliffe]. 14 June 1760. One page, closely written in ink, on recto only of 21 x 17.5 cm lettersheet, with blots and corrections. Old folds, slight darkening along top margin, with vestiges of old mounting tabs on verso, otherwise very good.

A fine letter from Law (1686 – 1761) to an admirer, written toward the end of his life, in productive and contemplative retirement in the village of his birth, ca. 150 words. He writes, in part: “I am very glad that yr Lady yr Friend has any Taste for my Books. I heartily Wish that they may help her to know & find, that wh. St. Peter knew ... For this is the Drift of all my Writings, to bring the Reader to St. Peter’s Conviction, that Christ alone hath the words of Eternal Life, & therefore neither of pious men, or pious Books are any to be lik’d, but so far as they turn us from all Adherence to your Selves & their own Words, to Him who is the WORD ... always speaking within us as never man or Angel ever did, or can speak to us ....” He continues on noting that “In this place there is no Convenience of Board & Lodging as you enquire after ...,” and suggests that such news might help prevent disappointment on the part of the recipient’s friend. He closes: “I am with Much good Wishes to her & your Self, your Obedient Servant in Christ W. Law.” Both as a controversialist in his defense of religious faith, and as an author of works of practical divinity, Law had a substantial influence on 18th century religion, particularly upon the theology and practice of John Wesley, “who reaped where Law had sown” – PMM. His best known work, A Serious Call To A Devout And Holy Life (1728) held major significance for readers as disparate as Samuel Johnson, George Whitefield, Edward Gibbon and Lord Lyttelton. Manuscript letters by Law are scarce in commerce, no examples appearing in American auction records in the last fifty years. PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN 187. $7500.

151. Lovet-Lorski, Boris: UNTITLED ORIGINAL LITHOGRAPH [HEAD AND SHOULDERS RIGHT PROFILE OF AFRICAN WOMAN]. [Paris: Ad. Braun & Co., 1929]. Original monochrome lithograph. Image size 12 1/4 x 9 3/8” (31.4 x 23.8 cm), with full margins. Fine, in lightly smudged archival matting.

One of an edition of 250 impressions printed on Montval, signed in pencil in the lower right margin. Lovet-Lorski (Lithuanian/American 1894-1973), was a major contributor to the American Art Deco style of the 1920’s. Although best known as a sculptor, in 1929 Braun & Co. published two portfolios of his lithographs, of which this lithograph was a component. Late in life, after arthritis hampered his ability to sculpt, Lovet-Lorski returned to drawing and print-making. His work is held in the collections of the Luxembourg Museum, Paris; Petit Palais, Paris; Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris; , London; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; San Diego Fine Arts Society; Los Angeles Museum of Art; Seattle Art Museum; San Francisco Museum of Fine Arts; Boston University; and Columbia University. $450. Lowell’s Copy

152. [Lowell, James R.]: Sandys, George: SANDYS TRAVELS, CONTAINING AN HISTORY OF THE ORIGINAL AND PRESENT STATE OF THE TURKISH EMPIRE ... THE MAHOMETAN RELIGION AND CEREMONIES: A DESCRIPTION OF CONSTANTINOPLE ... ALSO, OF GREECE, WITH THE RELIGION AND CUSTOMS OF THE GRECIANS .... London: Printed for John Williams, 1673. [4],240pp. Folio. Old calf. Engraved extra title, folding map and folding panorama. Engraved maps and vignettes in text. Binding worn and broken, significant tanning at edges, engraved title torn at lower gutter, small burn holes in E5,

F3 and T5, small stains to N3-4, marginal tidemarks and short tears elsewhere; a complete but heavily used copy, with provenance.

The seventh edition of this classic of 17th century travel literature, first published in 1615. With the ownership signature on the front pastedown, dated 1844, of poet, abolitionist, diplomat and critic, James Russell Lowell. There are a few scattered pencil annotations in the margins, none of such substance as to be attributed with certainty. With an earlier signature, dated 1684, on the engraved title, the 1912 signature of Esther Lowell Cunningham on the free endsheet, and an earlier owner’s pencil note of acquisition via Goodspeed’s, in 1949 ($7.50). Lowell’s ownership inscription dates from the year of his marriage. “Sandys travelled to the Levant in 1610, spending a year in Turkey, Palestine and Egypt. His observations first appeared in 1615 and his text was soon regarded as a special authority on the Levant” – Blackmer (Sale) Catalogue. ESTC R18550. WING S680. BLACKMER (SALE) 297 (2nd ed). BLACKMER 1484 (2nd ed). $1150.

153. [Lyttelton, George]: OBSERVATIONS ON THE CONVERSION AND APOSTLESHIP OF ST. PAUL. IN A LETTER TO GILBERT WEST, ESQ. London: Printed for R. Dodsley ... and Sold by M. Cooper ..., 1747. [4],110pp. Octavo. Stitched and untrimmed as issued. Light dust soiling at edges of first and last leaves, pale spotting at extreme top margin of first three leaves, otherwise an excellent copy, as issued.

First edition, first issue (printing), with the erratum at the bottom of p. 110, page 71 uncorrected, and pp. 78 and 79 properly numbered, and the bird device (rather than floral) on the title-page. One of the poet/politician’s most popular tracts, arising out of his joint investigation with his Oxford colleague, Gilbert West, of two of the essential tenets of Christian faith, Paul’s conversion (in Lyttelton’s case) and the resurrection (in West’s case). Both came to the conclusion that evidence bore out the veracity of the claims, with West publishing a separate pamphlet, and consequently professed their faith. Lyttelton’s greater fame rested with his poetry, and his close friendships with other writers, including Pope and Fielding – Lyttelton is the dedicatee of Tom Jones. In addition to its exemplary condition, this copy has some potential association interest, bearing on the half-title the neat inscription: “The gift of Thomas Billingsley Gent, to his God Son Thomas Percy.” Chronology suggests the slight possibility that the recipient might have been the then 12 year old future Bishop of Dromore and editor of Reliques .... ESTC T70158. NCBEL II:556. $450.

154. MacKay, Charles [ed]: THE HOME AFFECTIONS PORTRAYED BY THE POETS. London: George Routledge, 1858. xv,[1],391,[1]pp. Small quarto. Full medium brown morocco, elaborately gilt extra, a.e.g., unsigned. Frontis and illustrations. Tips a bit rubbed and slightly bumped, a few spots to boards, early ink name and gift inscription, some foxing and smudging early and late, otherwise a good copy.

First edition. Forrest Reid’s own copy with his ownership signature on the free endsheet. A highly characteristic anthology, featuring engravings by the Brothers Dalziel after the work of a number of artists, including themselves, Tenniel, Millais, Pasquier, et al. The texts are selected from the works of poets on both sides of the Atlantic. This work “contains two of Millais’s masterpieces, ‘There’s Nae Luck about the House’ and ‘The Border Widow’; and the fact that the latter was by some oversight omitted from his Collected Illustrations makes the book particularly desirable” – Reid (p.67). A good association copy. REID, pp. 67 & 275. $225.

155. Magalhaes, Aloisio, and Eugene Feldman: DOORWAY TO PORTUGUESE. Philadelphia: Falcon Press [& George Wittenborn], [1957]. Quarto. Pictorial wrapper over boards. Text and illustrative matter printed via color photo-offset lithography. Lightly scuffed at edges, minor discoloration at corner of one leaf, slipcase cracked at edges, nevertheless a very good copy.

First edition. One of 750 numbered copies, initialed on the colophon by Feldman. Each of the images was produced utilizing a different process, as outlined in Feldman’s afternote. Review slip laid in (formerly glued in, with brown spot from glue), with two small review stamps at lower edges, indicating that Wittenborn distributed the edition. Magalhaes, one of the pioneers of modern Brazilian graphic design, produced this book while working in the US under the auspices of the State Department. sold.

156. [Mandeville, Bernard]: THE FABLE OF THE BEES: OR, PRIVATE VICES, PUBLICK BENEFITS ... AS ALSO AN ESSAY ON CHARITY AND CHARITY-SCHOOLS. AND A SEARCH INTO THE NATURE OF SOCIETY. London: Printed for Edmund Parker, 1723. [8],428,[12]pp. Octavo. Modern dark brown polished paneled calf, raised bands, gilt label, decorated in blind to contemporary style. Some modest foxing and occasional shallow and light marginal discolorations, but a good, crisp copy, neatly bound.

The “Second edition,” declaring itself “Enlarged with many Additions.” Mandeville published his poem, “The Grumbling Hive; or, Knaves Turned Honest” in 1705, and the first edition of this, his enduring contribution to the literary analysis of human nature, grew up around that nucleus. It was first published in 1714, and a second, though concealed, edition appeared in the same year. Mandeville’s portrayal of human nature as essentially vile, through the metaphor of the bee hive that succeeds because of the rapacity of the individual constituents of the colony, elicited outraged responses from William Law, Berkeley, Hutcheson and others. Mandeville continued to expand upon the work, jousting with his critics and detractors, up to its sixth edition (1729). ESTC T77713. GOLDSMITHS 6178. KRESS 3520. $850.

157. Masefield, John: FOR AN EXHIBITION OF BOOKS OF POETRY [caption title]. No place. No date, [but ca. 1947]. Small printed broadside. 14 x 11.2 cm. Slightly creased and foxed, traces of mounting on verso, but a good copy.

First edition of this rare “privately printed poetry card.” No. 11 of an unspecified number of copies printed (but see below), this one signed by Masefield. According to Errington, “The exhibition, assembled by John Hayward, was held at the National Book League in London. Displaying editions of English poetry from Chaucer to 1947, the exhibition was opened by Masefield ... The final couplet of the verse makes a reference to the visit to the exhibition of H.M. Queen Mary ... Two copies of this poetry card were included in lot 3043 of The Library of H. Bradley Martin (sold by Sotheby’s New York, 30 April 1990). The lot comprised ‘an interesting collection of items related to the Hayward exhibition.’ A copy of Sonnets And Poems was apparently inscribed ‘For John Hayward, To mark the opening of his Exhibition of the books of English poets. From John Masefield. April 10, 1947.’ The half-title was also inscribed with the first six lines of the poem printed on this card. Copies of the card were, apparently, numbered (although Masefield’s own copy is un-numbered). There were at least seventeen copies. Copy number seventeen is illustrated within the Sotheby’s sale catalogue: Sotheby’s (New York), The Library of H. Bradley Martin -- Highly Important English Literature, 1990. It appears that copies of the verses were not printed for distribution at the exhibition for Masefield sent Hayward two copies, accompanied by a letter: ‘Would you very graciously accept from me these pulls of the lines which had the happy fortune to please you?’ (John Masefield, letter to John Hayward [1947]).” The lines begin: “These are the spoils of fishers, who have caught / In glittering nets, the slippery fish of thoughts ....” ERRINGTON D16a. $450.

158. Mason, William: THE ENGLISH GARDEN: A POEM IN FOUR BOOKS ... York: Printed by A. Ward ..., 1783. ix,[1],243,[1]pp. Small octavo. Contemporary calf, gilt spine label. 1785 gift inscription and annotations (see below), spine and extremities a bit worn (but quite sound), otherwise a very good copy.

A new edition, corrected, adding commentary and notes by W. Burgh. Inscribed in the upper margin of the title-page: “Mary Gisborne Given to her by Th. Gisborne May 26th, 1785.” Thomas Gisborne (1758 – 1846) was a central figure in the Clapham Sect, and close friends with Thomas Babington and William Wilberforce. He married Babington’s sister, Mary, in 1784. In addition to his religious works, Gisborne published an astute critique of Paley, two highly popular works on the religious, social and personal duties of women and men, and collections of poetry (see NCBEL), including Walks In A Forest (1794), describing the scenery of Needwood Forest and sharing thematic sympathy with the work in hand. This copy is annotated in ink, perhaps by Mary, perhaps by Thomas, perhaps by both, with marginal highlighting and bracketing in the text, as well as curious deletions and corrections. Mason published the first of the four parts of his immensely popular poem in 1772, and the first collective edition appeared in 1781. ESTC T96585. NCBEL II:669. $375.

The First “Hieroglyphic” Bible

159. Mattsperger, Melchior: GEISTLICHE HERZENS-EINBILDUNGEN INN ZWEIHUNDERT UND FÜNFZIG BIBLISCHEN FIGUR-SPRÜCHEN ANGEDEUTET … [bound with:] FÜNFHUNDERT GEISTLICHEN HERZENS EINBILDUNGEN ANDERER THEIL BEGRIFFEN IN ZWEIHUNDERT UND FÜNFZIG BIBLISCHEN FIGURE-SPRÜCHEN ... Augsburg: Joseph Fridrich Leopold, [nd] & 1699. Two volumes bound in one. [2],7 leaves, plus 83 leaves of engravings (a total of 250 engravings); [1],9 leaves, plus 83,[1] leaves of engravings (a total of 251 engravings), plus a terminal leaf of text. Oblong small quarto (16 x 27 cm). Contemporary half vellum and pastepaper boards (quite worn, but sound). Elaborate engraved title to each part. First title mounted (with repaired tears and 1 x 2.5 cm triangular chip missing from lower edge with some image filled in) and, with the first leaf of text, probably supplied from another copy; foremargin of second title with early remargining; text leaves of both parts rather foxed and frayed, with some tears, mends and occasional marginal loss; engravings sporadically foxed with occasional short tears, chips, isolated stains and/or tidemarks; a number of engravings in the first part show early hand coloring, as do a few in the second part; scattered handsoiling and marginal smudging throughout; an obviously flawed but reasonably sound set.

Early editions of what is generally accorded the honor of being the first published Hieroglyphic Bible for children. The first editions of each part appeared in 1686 and 1692 respectively, under the imprint of Hanns George Bodenehr. In his extensive treatment of this curious work and its publication history, W. A. Clouston suggests that the edition of the first part with the Leopold imprint and the title-leaf undated is the fourth edition overall, and the 1699 edition of the second part is the second edition. Mattsperger, according to Clouston, was an Augsburg burgomaster and merchant, and conceived the plan of the first book and took it to Bodenehr for execution of the copper-plate engravings and production of the book. His prefatory note, dated 26 May 1686 at the end, gives an account of the conception of the work, and also includes the suggestion that the individual engravings by cut out as separates and given to children to use as place-markers or otherwise used for instruction, thereby contributing to the relative scarcity of copies of all the early editions. The work and concept proved popular, leading to the publication of the second part, and a number of subsequent printings well into the first decades of the 18th century. Eventually, the adoption of the presentation of Biblical instruction in the form of rebuses or hieroglyphs spread widely, in a number of languages, over the course of the following century. Clouston’s study stresses the extreme rarity of the early editions of Mattsperger’s works, and while his tone is somewhat hyperbolic in that regard, it is interesting to note that only five examples of any of the 17th and 18th century editions appear in ABPC over the last 35 years. Clouston, HIEROGLYPHIC BIBLES THEIR ORIGIN AND HISTORY (1894), pp. 124-158. Praz, STUDIES IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY IMAGERY, p.415 (ref). $6000.

160. [Mencken, H.L.]: [Mencken], Sara Haardt: SOUTHERN ALBUM. Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1936. Gilt blue cloth. Binding quite faded and dust smudged, but internally, apart from the usual slight darkening to the endsheet gutters, very good.

First edition. Edited, with a Preface, by H.L. Mencken (the late author’s husband). With a presentation inscription from H.L. Mencken on the front free endsheet: “For Ann and John Hemphill / HLM / 1936.” Loosely-inserted is a characteristic t.l.s. from H.L. Mencken (signed with initials, one page, oblong 8vo, on printed letterhead of 704 Cathedral Street, Baltimore, 28 Feb. 1936), to Anne [sic] Hemphill, thanking her for her letter and writing: “I certainly hope to see you and John during the time of the convention in Philadelphia. I assume that he’ll be a delegate. If he is, then we’ll be meeting each other twenty times a day – sometimes in the actual hall, but probably more often in the adjacent saloons.” Ann Price Hemphill (1893-1984) was married to John Mickle Hemphill (1891-1951), a West Chester, Pennsylvania attorney, who ran for Governor of the state in 1930. He was a first cousin of Joseph Hergesheimer’s wife, Dorothy, whom Mencken once described as “one of the few females of this ghastly human race that I admire completely and unreservedly.” SCHRADER B120. $850.

161. Merrick, James: ANNOTATIONS ON THE PSALMS. Reading: Printed by J. Carnan and Co..., 1768. vi,342,[2]pp. Quarto. Contemporary calf and boards, gilt label. 20th century bookplate and ownership signature, light foxing early and late, some surface scrapes to boards (one large, on lower board), but a very good copy.

First edition of this companion work to Merrick’s celebrated paraphrase/translation of the Psalms, published in 1765, which he undertook in order to make available an alternative to Watts’s version for use in the Church of England. “The Psalms were widely admired: Merrick was a scholar and a poet, and he had the leisure to pursue the matter properly” – DNB online. This work precipitated a small pamphlet controversy about the interpretation of Psalm 110. This copy does not include the 8pp. of subscriber’s noted in one copy in the ESTC. ESTC T92159. ROSCOE A347. $350. 162. Merritt, Abraham, and Hannes Bok: THE BLACK WHEEL. New York: New Collectors’ Group, 1947. Quarto. Black cloth, lettered in gilt, with title in three lines. Plates. Text in double columns. Foretips slightly bumped, otherwise a very good or better copy, without the unprinted dust jacket.

First edition, first state of the binding. One of 1000 numbered copies, in addition to an unknown number of out of series copies. This copy has the cancel copyright notice affixed to the verso of the title. In addition to contributing the illustrations, Bok completed the work, writing chapters 8-27. CURREY, p.364. BLEILER, p.138. $100.

163. Moore, George: [Page Proofs for:] THE MAKING OF AN IMMORTAL A PLAY IN ONE ACT. London: William Heinemann, 1927. Ca. [60]pp. Period unlettered plain drab boards, edges untrimmed. Boards a bit hand smudged, faint shadow of bookplate removal from front pastedown, otherwise very good in corner worn folding full morocco slipcase.

An interesting copy, evidently comprised of proof sheets from the first edition, clipped and neatly mounted to sheets of fine handmade paper, and neatly bound. The title-page bears a slip with Heinemann’s imprint crossed through in ink, obscuring the original imprint of Bowling Green Press and Faber & Gwyer, joint publishers of this limited edition of 1240 copies printed by Rudge. This suggests the possibility that Heinemann may have considered publishing a trade edition, and though this prototype was prepared from proofs, the plans proceeded no further. The functional half-title bears Moore’s presentation inscription: “To Eliza Aria from an affectionate old friend George Moore. December 7th, 1927.” GILCHER A53a. $750.

164. Moore, Marianne: MARRIAGE. New York: Monroe Wheeler, [1923]. Pictorial wrappers. Wrapper edges sun-tanned, extreme upper fore-tip of upper wrapper chipped, with hard crease to lower corner and fore-edge; just a good copy, internally about fine.

First edition, published as Manikin Number Three. Laid in, as issued, is the [4]pp. leaflet, “Miss Moore’s Observations,” by Glenway Wescott. The colophon is the second state, with the Christopher Street rubber stamp alteration of Wheeler’s address. The least common of the pamphlets in the Manikin series. $550.

165. Moore, T. Sturge: TO LEDA AND OTHER ODES. London: Duckworth and Co., 1904. Brown wrappers, printed in black, with pictorial vignette. A few foxmarks to half-title, otherwise a nice copy, with tipped-in errata.

First edition. Inscribed by the author: “L. Binyon affectionately from his friend T.S. Moore 13/9/1904”. A very good association copy. NCBEL IV:315. $225.

166. [Morton, Thomas]: A FULL SATISFACTION CONCERNING A DOUBLE ROMISH INIQUITIE; HAINOUS REBELLION, AND MORE THEN HEATHENISH ÆQUIUOCATION. CONTAINING THREE PARTS: THE TWO FORMER BELONG TO THE REPLY VPON THE MODERATE ANSWERER; THE FIRST FOR CONFIRMATION OF THE DISCOUERIE IN THESE TWO POINTS, TREASON AND ÆQUIUOCATION: THE SECOND IS A IUSTIFICATION OF PROTESTANTS, TOUCHING THE SAME POINTS. THE THIRD PART IS A LARGE DISCOURSE CONFUTING THE REASONS AND GROUNDS OF OTHER PRIESTS, BOTH IN THE CASE OF REBELLION, AND ÆQUIUOCATION. London: Printed by Richard Field for Emond Weauer, 1606. [12],131,[1];103,[1]pp. Small quarto. Modern quarter morocco and marbled boards. Printer’s device on title and woodcut head and tail-pieces. Scattered foxing, early ink ownership inscription and author attribution on title, ownership initials in a different hand, a good copy.

First edition of this relatively early polemic by Morton, future Bishop of Durham (1564 – 1659). Following the Gunpowder Plot, Morton engaged actively in publishing such works “which drew him into early, and generally temperate, argument with Richard Broughton, Robert Persons, and the pseudonymous John Brereley; but, as he said in A Full Satisfaction, ‘we may as well expect grapes from thornes … as loyal subjection from this [Roman Catholic] religion’” – DNB. Part III is separately paginated, with a separate register; and this is the variant with pages 130 and 131 properly numbered. ESTC S112912. STC 1815. $650.

The “Spear of Destiny”

167. Murr, Christophe Théophile de: DESCRIPTION DES ORNAMENS IMPÉRIAUX ET DES RELIQUES DU SAINT EMPIRE ROMAIN, GARDÉES À NUREMBERG ET À AIX- LA-CHAPELLE. Nuremberg: Chez Adam Gottlieb Schneider, 1790. [4],74,[2]pp. plus three large folding plates. Octavo. Contemporary paper boards, later manuscript label on upper board. Two engravings. Light occasional foxing, old crease across title, bookplate residue on front pastedown, but a very good copy.

First edition. Murr was an indefatigable cataloguer of artifacts and collections in his time, as well as an art critic and historian. This particular work might be of added interest to some because of its description (and illustration) of the “Lancæ Sacræ,” just a few years prior to it being moved to Vienna for safe keeping. Its eventual role in 20th century events has been the subject of much feverish speculation and debate in some esoteric circles. OCLC locates five copies, none of them in North America. OCLC: 26233480. $450.

168. [Music]: Veillot, L. [éditeur]: ALBUM DES CONCERTS ET DES SALONS RÉPERTOIRE DES OEUVRES DE NOS PREMIERS COMPOSITEURS MODERNES, CHANTÉES DANS LES PRINCIPAUX CONCERTS. Paris: Librarie Spéciale de Chant et Magasin de Musique .... 1852 and following. Eight (of nine) volumes bound up in four, each volume comprised of twenty continuously paginated but separately printed parts. Small octavos. 19th century quarter calf and marbled boards. Five engraved plates in first volume. Extremities rubbed, but sound, widely differing paper stocks within each volume result in isolated foxing or tanning associated with a particular number within a volume, general title present only in the first volume, otherwise very good.

A curious and bibliographically elusive serial, made up of twenty numbers per volume, occasionally ranging from as little as 8-12pp. per issue, possibly issued in wrappers (if so, not present here) or self-wrappers. Only the first volume includes a formal title and date, and no explicit dates appear in the remainder – a situation mirrored in the entry in the BN catalogue, where the existence of a 9th volume is noted. Only the first volume includes the engraved plates, signed “Lesestre.” The content consists exclusively of the lyrics to then current songs in the theatres and other performances (occasionally presented in their dramatic context), with notations of the publishers of the scores and identification of the writers and singers. Representation in OCLC/Worldcat is fragmentary, at best. OCLC:460819692. $400.

169. [Music – Church]: Newte, John: THE LAWFULNESS AND USE OF ORGANS IN THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. ASSERTED IN A SERMON PREACHED AT TIVERTON IN THE COUNTY OF DEVON UPON THE 13TH OF SEPTEMBER, 1696. ON OCCASION OF AN ORGAN BEING ERECTED IN THE PARISH CHURCH. London: Printed by Freeman Collins ..., 1696. [8],44,[4]pp. Small quarto. Extracted from bound pamphlet volume. Old discoloration in upper fore-quadrant of early leaves, chiefly along the margin, but with a very narrow smear into text area of title, else a very good copy, with the half-title and terminal “advertisement.”

First edition. Newte (1656-1716) is afforded a highly laudatory sketch in the DNB for his particular generosity and devotion to the interests of his flock and the poor. The terminal “advertisement” reprints the subscription instrument whereby the funds for the organ were raised. ESTC locates only five copies of this first edition in North America (two of them at the Folger). It elicited at least one pamphlet in response, and merited reprinting in 1701. Not in McAlpin. ESTC R2838. WING N1040. $250.

170. [Music – Church]: Dorrington, Theophilus: A DISCOURSE ON SINGING IN THE WORSHIP OF GOD: WHEREIN THIS IS JUSTIFY’D AND RECOMMENDED; AND PARTICULARLY AS PERFORM’D ACCORDING TO THE ORDER AND USAGE OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND. London: Printed for H. Clark, for A. and J. Churchill ..., 1704. [16],261,[3]pp. Octavo. Contemporary calf, rebacked mid-20th century. Boards bowed a bit and forecorners worn, endsheets a bit frayed at edges, with bookseller’s collation (in ink!) on rear pastedown; however, the text block, apart from an early ownership signature in the top margin of the title, and an equally early notation of a price (80 p) at the lower edge of the imprint, is in very good order.

First edition. After early studies in medicine, Dorrington (1654-1715) took Anglican orders, and maintained a strong posture against dissent and in favor of the maintenance of high church doctrine and practice. This extended and uncommon polemic takes aim at the plain style of worship advocated and practiced by some dissenters. ESTC locates only two copies in North America: Folger and UCLA; OCLC increases that number to three. ESTC T79238. OCLC: 15374620. $450.

171. [Music – Church]: Dingley, W[illiam]: CATHEDRAL SERVICE DECENT AND USEFUL. A SERMON PREACH’D BEFORE THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD AT ST MARY’S IN CECILIA’S DAY, 1713 ... PUBLISH’D AT THE REQUEST OF THE LOVERS OF CHURCH MUSIC. Oxford: Printed for Anthony Peisley ..., 1713. [4],19,[1]pp. Octavo. Extracted from bound pamphlet volume. Untrimmed. Tanned, with old tide mark in lower margin and some early ink marginalia on B1r, else a good copy.

First and sole edition, dedicated to William Croft, and dealing with the subject of appropriate forms of cathedral music: “A Soft Gentle Strain, a Grave Slow Movement, much more Expressive than Sighs and Groans (the usual signs of an Ignorant Piety)....” Dingley’s publications seem to have been limited to this sermon, and a quite rare 1694 miscellany of poems and translations. ESTC T54783. $175.

172. Neal, Avon, and Ann Parker: EARLY AMERICAN STONE SCULPTURE FOUND IN THE BURYING GROUNDS OF NEW ENGLAND. New York: Sweetwater Editions, [1981]. Oblong small folio (41.5 x 28.3 cm). Full publisher’s medium brown calf, with blind-stamped pictorial vignette in upper cover. Illustrated with photographs. Bookplate on front pastedown, otherwise fine in publisher’s folding cloth clamshell box, with printed label (box a bit sunned, with short crack at toe of one joint).

First edition, deluxe limited issue. Copy #12 of 175 numbered copies bound thus, from a total limited issue of 475 copies signed by the authors. Accompanied by an original gravestone rubbing, signed by the authors, and by two original selenium-toned silver prints of photographs, signed and numbered by Parker. The work features rubbings, captions and photographs of forty-two distinctive headstones, the rubbings reproduced on Ticonderoga paper by Meriden Gravure. Among the key works in the subject and one of the most attractive in terms of the fidelity of the reproductions, expanding upon the authors’ 1963 series of portfolios and making the material more accessible. $2250.

173. [New Jerusalem Church]: THE LITURGY OF THE NEW CHURCH, SIGNIFIED BY THE NEW JERUSALEM IN THE REVELATION. TOGETHER WITH ... A CATECHISM FOR THE USE OF THE NEW CHURCH. London: Printed and Sold by R. Hindmarsh, 1791. xv,[1],[14],[31]-99,[1]pp. Small octavo. Extracted from bound pamphlet volume. Early ink underscore of two lines in preface, last leaf neatly detached, early ink caption in upper margin of title (“Swedenborgian”), light foxing and smudging, otherwise a very good copy.

Denoted the “Fourth Edition.” The earliest edition under this title recorded by the ESTC is the 1790 “third” edition and the last the 1797 “fifth” edition. All seem to be uncommon in institutions: 1 copy of the third edition is reported, 2 copies of this edition (none in North America), and 3 of the fifth edition. Another “fourth edition” appeared in Baltimore in 1792. One is somewhat hard-pressed to account for the apparent scarcity of these early editions of the New Jerusalem Church Liturgy. ESTC T123152. $375.

A Gift from Cardinal Newman

174. [Newman, John Henry, Cardinal]: Beveridge, William: SERMONS ON THE MINISTRY AND ORDINANCES OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND. Oxford: Printed by W. Baxter ..., 1837. viii,276pp. Small octavo. Contemporary polished calf, spine ruled in gilt, gilt label, marbled endsheets. Binding lightly rubbed, minor bookplate residue on pastedown, ink name on title, otherwise a very good copy.

First edition in this format, with an editorial preface (unsigned). A lovely association copy, bearing a gift inscription on the front binder’s blank from John Henry Newman: “Elizabeth Mills from the Revd J.H. Newman Oct. 27 1837.” At the time, Newman was Vicar of St. Mary’s, and the year coincides with some of the most important developments in the Tractarian movement. The recipient may have been a parishioner, and the gift on an occasion of her religious affirmation. An early ownership signature appears in the margin of the title (“Sophia Truman”) and a 1904 gift inscription to an L.J. Truman “from her dear Mother” appears well below Newman’s on the binder’s blank. $750. 175. Nin, Anaïs: LADDERS TO FIRE. New York: Dutton, 1946. Gilt cloth. Illustrations by Ian Hugo. First edition. Inscribed on the front free endsheet by the author: “For Maria Rogers Amicalement Anaïs.” Top edge slightly dust marked, but a very good copy in pictorial dust jacket (shelf-wear at edges, several nicks and mild darkening to rear panel). $250.

By An Expatriate United Irishman

176. O’Connor, Arthur: ÉTAT ACTUEL DE LA GRANDE-BRETAGNE. Paris: Chez Les Marchands de Nouveautés, An XII. – 1804. [4],168pp. Octavo. Extracted from nonce pamphlet volume. Light occasional foxing, a few light marginal smudges, half-title neatly detached, otherwise a very good, fresh copy.

First French language edition, published at the same time as the English language edition (also published in Paris). O’Connor, one of the leaders of the United Irishmen, settled in France after his expatriation from Ireland. He rose to prominence in French military and government circles, and in 1807 married the daughter of political and social theorist, the Marquis de Condorcet KRESS B.4834 (Eng. language ed). GOLDSMITHS 18804. $275.

177. Ormsby, Alan [screenwriter]: CAT PEOPLE. Universal City: Universal City Studios, Inc., 15 January 1981. [1],168 leaves. Quarto. Mechanically reproduced typescript, printed on rectos only, bradbound in studio wrappers. Ink name on upper wrapper, otherwise near fine.

A “final draft” of this reinterpretation by Ormsby of DeWitt Boden’s original story for Jacques Tourneur’s 1942 classic. Paul Schrader directed, and Nastassja Kinski, Malcolm McDowell and John Heard starred, along with the city of New Orleans (in part). $175.

178. [Overbrook Press]: Haley, J. Evetts; James Reed, et al: DECLARATION OF POSITION UNANIMOUSLY APPOINTED BY THE CONFERENCE OF THE NATIONAL JEFFERSONIAN DEMOCRATS HELD IN THE CITY OF DETROIT: AUGUST 1936. Stamford, CT: Reprinted as a tribute to its authors by The Overbrook Press, [nd. but ca. 1936]. Folio broadside (52 x 37 cm). Body text printed in double columns. Formerly matted and crudely framed, so somewhat tanned and foxed where fresh air and the light of day managed to seep in, but a sound copy.

First printing in this format. One of 2000 copies printed. An interesting and uncommon memento of the founding of the National Jeffersonian Democrats, in opposition to Roosevelt, the New Deal, and the “... collectivist state, replacing the doctrines of Democracy with the tenets and teachings of a blended communism and socialism.” The signators include Texas fire-brand historian/rancher J. Evetts Haley, who had joined with John Henry Kirby, W.P. Hamblen and Joseph W. Bailey, Jr., at a meeting at the Adolphus Hotel in Dallas earlier in August to form one of the organization’s primary antecedents, the Constitutional Democrats of Texas. Other signators to the declaration include Graham Wright (Georgia), Bainbridge Colby (New York), Joseph W. Bailey, Jr. (Texas), R. Contee Rose (Maryland), Henry Breckinridge (New York, and FDR’s defeated opponent in the 1936 primaries), and James Reed. They supported Republican Alf Landon in the 1936 election, and were defeated in a landslide on the national level. Some of the hyperbolic rhetoric and campaign tactics associated with the more extreme elements within the party have their unfortunate analogs in today’s political arena. CAHOON, p.13. $150.

179. Persius: THE SATIRES OF PERSIUS TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH VERSE; WITH SOME OCCASIONAL NOTES; AND THE ORIGINAL TEXT CORRECTED .... London: Printed for A. Millar, 1751. xxiv,154,[2]pp. Small octavo. Contemporary calf. Ink name on title, one joint cracking very slightly, otherwise a very good, crisp copy.

Second, but first collective, edition of these anonymous translations, to which is added a Life of Persius derived from Bayle. The translations are attributed to Thomas Brewster and originally appeared as a series of five quarto pamphlets 1733-42. His unsigned translator’s advertisement refers to the work having originally been an amusement undertaken when he was a young student. ESTC T143345. $250.

180. [Philips, John]: CYDER. A POEM IN TWO BOOKS. London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, 1708. [4],89,[1]pp. Octavo. Engraved frontis. Extracted from nonce pamphlet volume. Sympathetic (but extraneous) engraving tipped to verso of frontis, usual offset from frontis to title, light foxing at edges, else a very good copy.

First edition, issue on ordinary paper, with p.74 correctly numbered, pp. 44 and 46 signed with *s, and the last word in 44:12 ‘destitute.’ FOXON P237. ESTC T78745. ROTHSCHILD 1535. $400.

181. [Pickering, William (publisher)]: THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER COMMONLY CALLED THE FIRST BOOK OF QUEEN ELIZABETH PRINTED BY GRAFTON 1559. London: William Pickering, 1844. [17],109,14 leaves. Folio. Original full vellum, decorated in gilt, gilt labels, fore and bottom edges rough trimmed. Vellum dust-soiled and a bit spotted, some foxing to isolated gatherings, otherwise a very good copy.

One of the six monumental editions of the various forms of the Book of Common Prayer published by Pickering in 1844, with text printed in red and black on Pouncy’s handmade paper by D. Whittingham. “Upon these six folio volumes, printed in gothic letter on thick handmade paper and bound in vellum, Whittingham lavished the best work of his press, and they are nearly perfect of their kind” – Keynes. Griffiths notes the edition consisted of 350 copies on paper and two on vellum. KELLY 1844.3. KEYNES, p.85. GRIFFITHS 1844:28. $850.

182. [Pinkerton, John (ed)]: SCOTTISH TRAGIC BALLADS [bound with:] SELECT SCOTTISH BALLADS. VOL. II. London: Printed by and for J. Nichols, 1781–1783. Two volumes bound in one. xxxvii,[1],130;xli,[1],200pp. Octavo. Contemporary speckled calf, rebacked at a later date in fawn calf, raised bands, gilt label, new endsheets. Engraved vignette on each title. First title-leaf somewhat foxed, occasional light foxing elsewhere, foretips worn, otherwise a very good copy, with the half-title to the second volume.

First edition of each volume. A second edition of the first volume was published in 1783, denoted as Select Scottish Ballads. Vol. I, hence the variant title and volume designation on the second volume. Each is preceded by a lengthy introductory dissertation, and followed by a substantial section of notes and a glossary. Pinkerton, on account of his ambitions and scholarly endeavors as poet and miscellaneous writer, managed to offend as many as he befriended during his volatile career. “Some of the ‘ancient’ pieces, including a continuation of the poetic fragment ‘Hardyknute’, were in fact Pinkerton’s own work. This forgery earned him notoriety as a literary impostor, and the enmity of Joseph Ritson, the literary critic and historian, who exposed and condemned Pinkerton’s deception in the Gentleman’s Magazine” – DNB. NCBEL II:1766. ESTC T55178 & T55179. $500.

183. Piozzi, Hester Lynch: AUTOBIOGRAPHY LETTERS AND LITERARY REMAINS OF MRS. PIOZZI (THRALE). London: Longman, Green, Longman and Roberts, 1861. Two volumes. xiii,[1],375;vi,479pp. Octavo. Original chocolate brown cloth, stamped in blind and lettered in gilt. Frontis to each volume. Tasteful 19th century bookplate in each volume, minor rubbing to joints, else a very good, bright set.

Second edition, with a new preface, and “large and valuable” additions. Edited, with an Introduction, by A. Hayward. $185. 184. [Plantin Press]: [Bowen, Dorothy (compiler)]: A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER AND RELATED MATERIAL IN THE COLLECTION OF JAMES R. PAGE. Los Angeles: [Privately Printed], 1955. Quarto. Quarter faux-parchment and printed boards, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. Folding frontis and plates. Folding frontis creased at fore-corners, otherwise about fine, in good dust jacket with chips and tanning to the spine panel.

First edition. One of an unspecified but modest number of copies printed by Saul and Lillian Marks at the Plantin Press. Laid in is a one-page t.l.s., 11 March 1964, on Plantin Press letterhead, from Lillian Marks to an enthusiast of the press, advising her about the disposition of the Page collection subsequent to his death. $225.

185. [Pontifical – Pius V]: PIO V. PONT. MAX. PONTIFICALE ROMANVM AD OMNES PONTIFICIAS CEREMONIAS, QUIBUS NUNC UTITUR SACROSANCTA ROMANA ECCLESIA, ACCOMMODATUM. NONNULLIS INSUPER, QUE IN ANTEA IMPRESSIS NON HABENTUR ACCURATISSIME AUCTUM. AC IN TRES PARTES DISTINCTUM. QUARUM PRIMA PERSONARUM, SECUNDA RERUM CONSECRATIONES, & BENEDICTIONES CONTINET: TERTIA VERO QUEDAM ECCLESIASTICA OFFICIA, & ALIA MULTA COMPREHENDIT, QUE IN SEQUENTI TABULA, VERSA PAGINA MONSTRANTUR. NUPER SUMMA DILIGENTIA REUISUM, EMEMDATUM, & IMPRESSUM. Venetiis [i.e. Venice]: Apud Iuntas [heirs of Luc’ Antonio Giunta], 1572. [8],243 leaves. Folio (signed in 8s), 360 x245 mm. Old calf, raised bands. Set in gothic letter, printed in red and black, in double columns, ruled in red. Extensively illustrated with woodcuts throughout. Music

printed in black with red staves. Ornamented initials. Printer’s device in red on title and colophon. Binding worn, but sound; early ink name effaced from extreme upper margin of title, marginal hand-soiling to first twenty leaves, with light discolorations to upper fore- quadrant of A2-3; signs of use and occasional spotting, leaves 158-78, and 200-5 show some heavier discolorations in the lower margins; not a fine copy, but one utilized for its original purposes, sound and complete with terminal blank 2H6.

Fifth Giunta edition of the Pontifical, following the editions of 1510, 1520, 1543 and 1561. This edition is a literal reprint of the 1561 edition, except for the substitution of one woodcut on 2A8. In addition to the preliminary full-page woodcut frontis of the crucifixion, there are one hundred and sixty-two smaller woodcuts, including four quarter-page horizontal cuts as sectional headings. This edition, in company with its 1561 predecessor, are treated in detail by Mortimer. Laid down on the terminal blank is a manuscript prayer, neatly calligraphed in red and black, and quite possibly executed within a century or so of publication. MORTIMER (ITALIAN) 383n. $2250.

186. Powell, Lawrence Clark: HEART OF THE SOUTHWEST A SELECTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF NOVELS, STORIES AND TALES LAID IN ARIZONA AND NEW MEXICO & ADJACENT LANDS. Los Angeles: Printed for Dawson’s Book Shop at the Plantin Press, 1955. Large octavo. Linen and printed boards. Folding frontis map. Bookplate on front pastedown, otherwise fine in good dust jacket with sunning at edges and short snag at top edge of rear panel.

First edition of this list of 119 titles, with informed commentary. One of an unspecified but reasonably modest number of copies elegantly printed by Saul & Lillian Marks at the Plantin Press. $150.

187. Powell, Lawrence Clark: FAY TWO COMMEMORATIONS OF THE DEATH AND LIFE OF FAY ELLEN POWELL. [Tucson: Privately Printed for Friends of Lawrence Clark Powell, 1993]. Cloth and decorated boards. Portrait. Photographs. Bookplate, otherwise fine in cloth slipcase with small sticker mark in one lower corner.

First edition. One of fifty numbered copies, signed by Powell and by Ward Ritchie, the designer. $125.

“from the Author ....”

188. Priestley, Joseph: A SERMON, PREACHED DECEMBER THE 31ST, 1780 AT THE NEW MEETING IN BIRMINGHAM ON UNDERTAKING THE PASTORAL OFFICE IN THAT PLACE. Birmingham: Printed by Pearson and Rollason, for J. Johnson, 1781. x,[1],4- 34,[6]pp. Octavo. Sewn, untrimmed in original plain wrappers, labeled in ms. on recto of upper wrapper. Lightly foxed, and with a few dusty corners, wrapper spine a bit chipped, otherwise an excellent copy.

First edition. Inscribed on the verso of the front wrapper in ink “from the Author,” but not in Priestley’s hand. The manuscript caption on the upper wrapper (“Dr. Priestley’s Sermon”) is accompanied by an ownership signature, approximating “Dr. Calders.” Priestley left Calne to settle in Birmingham in mid-1780, and this sermon marks his acceptance of the post of senior minister at New Meeting at the start of a productive decade during which he continued to pursue his scientific studies, and published over thirty-five books and pamphlets. Of course, the decade ended explosively, with the Birmingham riots, and Priestley’s removal to Hackney, and eventually, in 1794 to Pennsylvania. This copy includes a [6]pp. inserted catalogue of Priestley’s publications, printed for his London publisher, J. Johnson, which does not feature in the collations reported by ESTC and Crook. Uncommon in this condition. CROOK TR/213. ESTC T9291. $650.

In Original State

189. Priestley, Joseph: A SERMON PREACHED AT THE GRAVEL PIT MEETING IN HACKNEY, APRIL 19TH, 1793, BEING THE DAY APPOINTED FOR A GENERAL FAST. London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1793. xvi,36pp. Octavo. Sewn, untrimmed in original plain wrappers, labeled in contemporary ms. on recto of upper wrapper. A few dusty corners, wrapper spine has a few tiny chips, otherwise an excellent copy.

First edition. The lengthy preface includes an important statement of principles by Priestley, and continues his dispute with Burke. After the Birmingham troubles of 1791, Priestley moved to Hackney, and eventually to Clapton, near Hackney, and for three busy years, he continued to pursue his studies and publications, and succeeded Richard Price as morning preacher at Gravel Pit. For several reasons, ranging from his sons’ job prospects to political pressures, he found the situation difficult, and in April 1794 he departed for the U.S. Uncommon in this condition. CROOK TR/212. ESTC T47611. $400.

190. “Primitive Catholick, A” [pseud]: PRIVATE DEVOTIONS BEFORE, AT, AND AFTER THE CHRISTIAN SACRIFICE, COLLECTED FROM THE HOLY SCRIPTURES, AND THE ANCIENT LITURGIES OF THE CATHOLICK CHURCH; AND RECOMMENDED TO THE ORTHODOX LAITY. [London]: Printed for J. Smith in Cornhill, 1718. [2],17,[1]pp. Octavo. Extracted from nonce pamphlet volume. Ornamental head and tail pieces. Some darkening and soiling at edges, otherwise a good copy.

First edition. An uncommon adaptation of the liturgy. A second edition was printed in 1720, and both are rare. ESTC locates five copies of this edition: National Lib. of Scotland (3 copies), Reading University and York Minster. OCLC/ Worldcat thins the representation to three copies. ESTC T180083. $350.

Ascribed to Meister Eckhart

191. [Randall, Giles (translator)]: THEOLOGIA GERMANICA. OR, MYSTICALL DIVINITIE: A LITTLE GOLDEN MANUALL BRIEFLY DISCOVERING THE MYSTERIES, SUBLIMITY, PERFECTION AND SIMPLICITY OF CHRISTIANITY, IN BELIEF AND PRACTISE ... WHERETO IS ADDED DEFINITIONS THEOLOGICALL AND PHILOSOPHICALL. ALSO A TREATISE OF THE SOUL, AND OTHER ADDITIONS NOT BEFORE PRINTED London: Printed for John Sweeting, at the Angell in Popes Head Alley, 1648. [16],176,[4]pp. 12mo. Modern polished calf, spine gilt extra, a.e.g., by Wallis. Upper board detached, institutional bookplate on pastedown, bound rather tightly at gutter, terminal leaf a bit darkened on verso, with small marginal repairs, lower blank fore-tip of G9 has small restoration, but a good copy.

Second edition in English of this anonymous classic of Christian mysticism, which has, at times, been conjecturally ascribed to Meister Eckhart. The translation by Randall is based in turn on the Latin translation by John Theophilus published in Antwerp in 1558, and according to Giles’ address to the reader, the original text “was written by a certain godly Priest of the Order of the Lords of Teutonici, in high Dutch; about two hundred and fifty years since .... “ The text greatly influenced Martin Luther who published editions in 1516 and 1518, and it was Luther who gave the treatise its modern name; in the manuscripts it is known as “Der Franckforter,” i.e. “the Frankfurter”. Luther wrote: “Next to the Bible and St. Augustine, no book has ever come into my hands from which I have learned more of God and Christ, and man and all things that are.” An uncommon book: ESTC locates eight copies in North America (including this copy), and no copies appear in ABPC for the last 35 years. OCLC/Worldcat locates 9 copies overall. The first edition appeared in 1646 and is quite rare: ESTC locates only four copies, all in the British Isles. ESTC R210095. WING T858. McALPIN II:606. $1850.

192. Rebay von Ehrenwiesen, Hilla: ORIGINAL COLOR POCHOIR [RED SHOES, GREEN HAT]. N.p.: The Artist, [ca. 1940-1949]. Folio. 17 x 13” (432 x 337 mm.), plus margins. Pochoir, stencil on wove paper, in color. Signed in the plate. Archivally mounted. Mat a bit scuffed, print about fine.

A colorful and whimsical image, sometimes appearing under the alternate title, “Artist in Her Studio.” Hilla Rebay von Ehrenwiesen (1890-1967) was the artist largely credited with exposing Solomon R. Guggenheim to avant-garde art, and as a consequence he appointed her the first director of the Museum of Non-Objective Art (MNOA), later the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. After meeting artists Jean Arp, Rudolf Bauer, Paul

Klee and Vasily Kandinsky in Europe, Rebay was converted to a new art form that Kandinsky called Non-Objective painting, which she embraced with great passion and fervor. Bauer, whose paintings she was obsessed with, was also her lover and mentor. From then on, Rebay would proselytize for Non-Objective painting until her death in 1967. $600.

193. Relandus, Hadrian: DE SPOLIIS TEMPLI HIEROSOLYMITANI IN ARCU TITIANO ROMAE CONSPICUIS .... Trajecti ad Rhenum [i.e. Utrecht]: Ex Libraria Guilielmi Broedelet, 1716. [4],138,[24]pp. plus 7 engraved plates (three folding). Small octavo. Contemporary calf, neatly rebacked to style (unlettered), with strengthening to inner hinges. Portions printed in Greek and Hebrew. Some darkening to pastedowns, a few early small marginal notes cross-referencing the errata, otherwise a very good copy.

First edition. Relandus (1676-1718) developed a facility for languages at a very early age, and excelled in scientific, theological and linguistic studies. He published widely, with particular contributions to Hebrew, Islamic and Oriental studies. The present work includes images and considerations of the iconography present on the Arch of Titus relating to the conquest of Jerusalem. BRUNET IV:1204. $850.

194. Rhodes, Harrison: A GIFT BOOK FOR MY MOTHER. New York and London: Harper & Bros., 1922. Small narrow octavo. Publisher’s parchment and boards, paper labels. Printed on Japan vellum. Light foxing to labels, joints and pastedowns, tiny bump at crown of spine, otherwise a very good copy in lightly chipped glassine. Handsome half morocco slipcase and chemise.

First edition. Inscribed by the author to his sister on the free endsheet: “Margaret because it is her book too Hal.” Harrison Garfield Rhodes (1871-1929) was, like his father before him, known to his friends as “Hal.” He was a successful American playwright and novelist, and worked as a managing editor for two of his friends and college classmates, Herbert Stone and Ingalls Kimball, who had established two magazines, The Chap Book, and The House Beautiful. He traveled widely in the U.S. and throughout Europe as both an author and a literary agent for Stone & Kimball and counted among his friends some of the most prominent authors of his time. After his mother’s death in 1918 Rhodes established seasonal residency in Daytona Beach, Florida with his younger sister Margaret and continued to write, by this time, mostly travel books. Margaret Rhodes (1875-1959), although not as prolific as her older brother, was also an author. She edited and published two of Harrison’s unfinished works, and contributed several articles to various magazines and books. In 1931, she commissioned a private reprinting of this book, with an introduction by Anthony Hope. $250.

195. Rockburne, Dorothea: LOCUS SERIES I – VI. [New York]. [ca. 1972 – 1975]. Six original folio etchings with aquatint (approx 100 x 75 cm), white on white, on folded paper. A fine set, in publisher’s original custom packing and wooden shipping crate.

Each print is example #4 from an edition of 42, signed by the artist. In 1950, Rockburne received a Merit Scholarship to Black Mountain College, and moved from her native Montreal to attend classes there. In 1955, she moved to New York, where she maintained her association with her Black Mountain classmate Robert Rauschenberg, working in his studio for five years. Her first solo exhibition took place in 1970, and her work on this series of prints was an element in the development of her work with folded paper as a material, and the series was the subject of a special exhibit at MOMA in 1981, and included in the thematic exhibition there, “Paper: Pressed, Stained, Slashed, Folded” (2009). She was represented in the exhibition, “The Women of Black Mountain” (Ashville 2008-9), and in 2011 was the subject of a career retrospective at the Parrish Art Museum in Southampton. Extra shipping charges. $5000.

196. [Seddon, John, of Warrington (editor)] A FORM OF PRAYER, AND A NEW COLLECTION OF PSALMS, FOR THE USE OF A CONGREGATION OF PROTESTANT DISSENTERS IN LIVERPOOL. [London]: Printed for the Society; and Sold by Chr. Henderson ... London; and by John Sibbald, Bookseller, in Liverpool, 1763. [4],96,[20];[2],165,[7]pp. Octavo. Old calf, rebacked and recornered, gilt label, contemporary/original marbled endsheets, a.e.g. Engraved bookplate (“Robert Nicholson Liverpool”), ownership signature of same, and descendant’s 1864 gift inscription, some modest foxing, marginal smudges to terminal leaves, old bookseller’s description affixed to pastedown, and later bookseller’s collation statement (in ball point pen!!!) on rear endsheet; a good, sound copy, with interesting provenance.

First edition, octavo format, of this Book of Prayer edited by Seddon, in collaboration with Philip Holland and Richard Godwin, for use by the congregation of dissenters assembled at the Octagon Chapel, in Liverpool. The selection of Psalms has a separate title-leaf, register and index. ESTC locates ten copies in North America, and notes that the same setting of type was utilized for copies in quarto format. The original owner, Robert Nicholson (1727- 1779), was a principal of one of the most prominent merchant families in Liverpool of the 18th and 19th centuries; coincidentally, Dorothy Nicholson (1741-1785) became the wife of the Rev. Nicholas Clayton, D.D. (1730-1797), minister of the Octagon Chapel. The later gift inscription is from Robert Nicholson’s namesake and grandson, to Albert Nicholson. ESTC T148092. $550.

197. Ségur, Alexandre-Joseph-Pierre, Vicomte de: WOMEN: THEIR CONDITION AND INFLUENCE IN SOCIETY. London: Printed by C. Whittingham [later:] T. Gillet ... For T.N. Longman and O. Rees, 1803. Three volumes. xv,[1],318; [iv],334; iv,360pp. Small octavo. Original boards, untrimmed. Spines and foretips chipped, one board detached, some foxing and spotting early and late, but a good set in original state.

First edition in English, the translation from the French not attributed. The first edition of the original text, Les Femmes, Leur Condition Et Leur Influence Dans L’ordre Social Chez Differents Peuples Anciens Et Moderne, appeared earlier the same year, and at times, the attribution to poet/dramatist Ségur (1756 – 1805) has been questioned. With the ownership signature (last name only) in each volume of U.S. diplomat and Congressman, Samuel Sitgreaves. GAY-LEMMONYER II:295. $500.

198. [Semler, Christoph]: DER TEMPEL SALOMONIS : NACH ALLEN SEINEN VORHÖFEN, MAUREN, THOREN, HALLEN, HEILIGEN GEFÄSSEN, ... NEBST ALLEN UND JEDEN IN FOLGENDER BESCHREIBUNG UND BEYGEFÜGTEN KUPFERSTÜCKEN ENTHALTENEN THEILEN DESSELBEN, IN EINEM EIGENTLICHEN MODELL UND MATERIELLEN FÜRSTELLUNG, IN DEM WÄYSEN-HAUSE ZU GLAUCHA AN HALLE, ZU ERLÄUTERUNG SEHR VIELER OERTER DER HEILIGEN SCHRIFT ANNO MDCCXVII. Halle: In Verlegung des Wäysen=hauses, Anno 1718. [2],97,[9]pp. Small quarto. Contemporary half calf and marbled boards. Engraved frontis and five folding plates. Title printed in red and black. Toe of spine chipped, boards a bit rubbed and edgeworn, minor foxing, early ink name in top margin of title, otherwise a very good, crisp copy.

First edition of this monograph on Solomon’s Temple by the protestant clergyman, educator, mathematician and astronomer, Christoph Semler (1669 – 1740). The physical aspect and the relics of the Temple are treated, and the five large folding plates include plans, interior renderings and depictions of some of the relics. Semler is also noted for having, in 1708, founded a school for the study of mathematics and the mechanical arts that established a model for future endeavors of its kind. OCLC: 53406931 (etc). $375.

199. [Seward, William]: BIOGRAPHIANA. By “The Compiler Of Anecdotes Of Distinguished Persons.” London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1799. Two volumes. viii,iv,288;[2],289-631,10pp. Old calf, competently rebacked in recent decades to style. Frontis in first volume, four portraits and 10 pages of music in second. Plates in second volume somewhat tanned at edges, occasional scattered foxing, a few corners creased, a good set.

First edition. Of modest interest to Johnsonians: an eleven page article on Johnson, printing several of his letters, appears in the second volume. ESTC T147237. $225.

200. [Sharp, William]: THE SIN-EATER AND OTHER TALES AND EPISODES. By “Fiona Macleod.” Chicago: Stone & Kimball, 1895. [6],289pp. Folded and gathered signatures, largely untrimmed, and never bound. Minor tanning to outer leaves, but about fine. Cloth slipcase and chemise.

First U.S. edition, published roughly simultaneously with the Edinburgh edition. Published in “The Carnation Series.” NCBEL III:1064. KRAMER 53. BLEILER, p.131. $165. 201. Sigourney, Lydia Huntley: GLEANINGS. Hartford & New York: Brown and Gross / D. Appleton and Co., 1860. 264pp. Large octavo. Forest green cloth, decorated in gilt, a.e. plain. Light foxing to endleaves, and occasionally in the text, coated endsheets show some dustiness, offset to front blanks from now absent floral specimen, crown of spine a trifle worn, but otherwise a very good copy.

First edition, in the usual binding with all edges plain. Inscribed by the author: “Miss Julia Seymour with the love of her friend, L.H. Sigourney. January 17th 1861.” The recipient has inscribed the following leaf, in pencil, in a very small hand, to a relative. BAL 17936. $475.

202. Simpson, Joseph W., and Wilbur Macey Stone: THE PURPLE BOOK OF BOOK=PLATES. New York: Published for the Triptych by M.F. Mansfield & Co., 1901. Oblong small octavo. Parchment boards, pictorial paper labels. Illustrations. Silk tie detached (but laid in), slight darkening to endsheets from binding adhesive, but a very good copy.

First edition, ordinary issue. One of three hundred copies, from a total edition of 350, printed on violet-tinted paper. Fifty copies were issued signed, with the illustrations hand colored. $250.

203. [Smalridge, George]: REFLECTIONS ON THE HISTORICAL PART OF CHURCH- GOVERNMENT. PART V. Oxford: Printed at the Theater, Anno 1687. [4],99,[1]pp. Quarto. Extracted from nonce pamphlet volume. Ink name on title (offset a bit to imprimatur leaf), some darkening along lower margins, a few page numbers cut into when trimmed, otherwise a good copy.

First edition of Smalridge’s reply to Abraham Woodhead’s Church Government Part V, a rather early work in his canon, published the year after his completion of his BA at Oxford. Smalridge (1662 – 1719), later Bishop of Bristol, was highly regarded as a poet and essayist -- he was among those suspected of having written A Tale Of A Tub, and earned praise from both Swift and Johnson. ESTC R21238 WING S4010C. McALPIN IV:262. $375.

204. Smith, Adam: ESSAYS ON PHILOSOPHICAL SUBJECTS ... TO WHICH IS PREFIXED, AN ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF THE AUTHOR .... Dublin: Printed for Messrs. Wogan, Byrne [et al] ... 1795. cxxiii,[1],[1]-332pp. Octavo. Modern half calf and marbled boards, raised bands, gilt label. Moderate foxing (as usual) and occasional offsetting, a few corner creases, otherwise about very good, handsomely bound.

First Dublin edition, published in the same year as the London edition. Edited by Joseph Black and James Hutton. The prefatory essay on Smith is by Duggald Stewart, and is based on two lectures he delivered to the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1793. ESTC T33501. KRESS B3037. GOLDSMITHS 1628. $650.

205. Smith, Elizabeth [trans]: THE BOOK OF JOB; TRANSLATED FROM THE HEBREW .... Bath: Printed by Richard Cruttwell ..., and sold by Cadell and Davies [et al], 1810. [4],xv,[1],188 [i.e. 206]pp. Octavo. Contemporary calf, spine decorated in gilt, with binder’s ticket of Barratt’s Library, Bond Street, Bath, on front pastedown. 1810 and 1818 gift inscriptions on binder’s blank, upper board a bit bowed, with consequent breaks at head and toe of upper joint, small chips at spine ends, internally very good and clean (the error in pagination of the final page is corrected in ms).

First edition. In spite of a somewhat rootless early life, Smith (1776-1806) seems to have been something of a largely self-taught prodigy, acquiring competence in French, Italian, Arabic, Persian, Hebrew, Spanish, German, Greek, Latin, mathematics, music and astronomy. Her knowledge of Hebrew was a consequence of a Hebrew Bible loaned to her by the mother of her friend, Henrietta Bowdler. She was praised by Hannah More, and after her premature death (from a cold), her posthumously published Fragments In Prose And Verse (1808) achieved considerable popularity. This text was edited for publication by Francis Randolph. HERBERT 1536. $250.

Very Strange Indeed ...

206. Southcott, Joanna: THE STRANGE EFFECTS OF FAITH [Parts 1-5]; WITH REMARKABLE PROPHECIES, MADE IN 1792, &C. OF THINGS WHICH ARE TO COME: ALSO, SOME ACCOUNT OF MY LIFE. London: Printed by W. Marchant, February 1812 – June 1816. Five parts in one volume. iv,[5]-288pp. Octavo. Extracted from nonce pamphlet volume.

A6-7 in first part show some old light discolorations, price on general title amended in an early hand to lower it 3p, otherwise a very good copy.

A collective issue of Southcott’s first five separate publications, gathered as the separately printed and signed but continuously paginated fascicles that were to be characteristic of many of her coming publications. In this copy, the third part is the third edition, and the others the fourth editions. The first edition of the first part appeared in January 1801. An additional three parts were published individually, and presumably as well in a cobbled together format such as the present issue. This is Southcott’s introduction to the world of her alleged prophecies, beginning in 1792, accompanied by the noted autobiographical sketch. The second part deals with the question of why she elected to present so much of her output in verse. Whether considered by modern readers as legitimate, as yet another in the long line of disappointed “prophets,” as a conscious charlatan, or perhaps as a tragic victim of a cruel form of delusional psychosis, Southcott presents one of the most interesting and controversial cases of the “prophetic” phenomenon witnessed by the 19th century. WRIGHT(SOUTHCOTT) 1e, 2e, 3c (‘not seen’), 4d & 5d. $400.

207. [Southcott, Joanna]: THE TRIAL OF JOANNA SOUTHCOTT, DURING SEVEN DAYS, WHICH COMMENCED ON THE FIFTH, AND ENDED ON THE ELEVENTH OF DECEMBER, 1804. AT THE NECKINGER HOUSE, BERMONDSEY, NEAR LONDON. London: Printed by S. Rousseau ... and sold by E. J. Field [et al], 1804. xl,[41]-152pp. Octavo (signed in 4s). Extracted from bound pamphlet volume. Minor foxing, otherwise a very good, crisp copy.

First edition of one of the central documents in the Southcott controversy: the account and transcript of the third and final trial of the prophetess and her writings to clear her from charges that she was nothing but a “deluded imposter.” The trial “was organized and carried out with all the formulae of legal procedure; there were present twenty-four judges and a double jury of twenty-four. The Attorney was one John Scott of Devon. At nine o’clock on the seventh day, Joanna sealed up the Writings to be kept till after her death, and the packet was delivered to one of the judges... [in the text] her character and prophecies are examined by a panel of 48 men. They interviewed people who had known Joanna in her Exeter days and the evidence for her prophetic powers...At the end, the 48 signed their names to a declaration that ‘her prophecies and other spiritual communications emanate wholly and entirely from the Spirit of the living Lord...” – Joanna Southcott, The Woman Clothed with the Sun (Online). The text incorporates a substantial selection of her writings in verse. WRIGHT(SOUTHCOTT) 25(a)1. $450.

208. Southcott, Joanna: FOR THE INFORMATION OF ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN [caption title]. [London]: S. Rousseau, Printer, October 1805. Printed broadside (208 x 128 mm). Extracted from nonce pamphlet volume, and therefore likely trimmed a bit from original dimensions. A very nice copy, very good or better.

An element in the dispute between Southcott and her former follower, Elias Carpenter, in which Southcott endeavors to deflate the continued legitimacy of Carpenter’s undated handbill that, in turn, asserted his actions were in accord with her wishes. Witnessed (in type) by Townley and Underwood. Scarce. OCLC locates a single copy, at Emory. Not in Wright. $350.

209. Southcott, Joanna: JOANNA SOUTHCOTT’S ANSWER TO FIVE CHARGES IN THE LEEDS MERCURY, FOUR OF WHICH ARE ABSOLUTELY FALSE; BUT AS IN THE FIRST CHARGE, HER ACCUSER MIGHT HAVE SOME ROOM FOR CAVILLING, SHE WISHES TO MAKE EVERY ALLOWANCE; AND GIVE A CLEAR ANSWER, HOW THAT WAS MISUNDERSTOOD: AND NOT ONLY TO ANSWER THE FOUR FALSE CHARGES THAT ARE BROUGHT AGAINST HER; BUT SHE HAS BROUGHT FOUR TRUE CHARGES AGAINST HER ADVERSARIES, WHICH WILL BE SEEN IN THE FOLLOWING PAGES. London: Printed by A. Seale..., [nd but ca. March 1805]. 24pp. Octavo. Extracted from bound pamphlet volume. Near fine.

First edition. A response from the prophetess to an article taking issue with four (okay, maybe five) of her prophecies, including one relating to a French invasion of England, another to a crop failure, etc. OCLC locates thirteen copies. WRIGHT(SOUTHCOTT) 27. $200. 210. Stevens, Wallace: THREE ACADEMIC PIECES THE REALM OF RESEMBLANCE SOMEONE PUTS A PINEAPPLE TOGETHER OF IDEAL TIME AND CHOICE. [Cummington, MA]: The Cummington Press, 1947. Small octavo. Pale blue-green paper over boards. Spine and edges sunned, with a few smudges to boards, a bit of foxing to endsheets and rarely in the text, but a good copy.

First edition, unsigned issue. Woodcut initials by Wightman Williams. Copy # xvii of xcii numbered copies printed on Beauvais Arches paper, with the initials hand colored, from a total edition of 246 copies. With a small card laid in, bearing in Wightman Williams’s hand: “with the compliments of the author -.” Although nowhere noted in the book, the recipient was Allen Tate, long-time backer of the press. EDELSTEIN A12. $750.

Arthur Swann’s Copies

211. [Stevenson, Robert Louis]: McKay, George L. [compiler]: A STEVENSON LIBRARY CATALOGUE OF A COLLECTION OF WRITINGS BY AND ABOUT ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON FORMED BY EDWIN J. BEINECKE. New Haven: Yale University Library, 1951-8. Volumes one, three and four (of six published). Large, thick octavo. Gilt pebbled blue cloth, t.e.g., others untrimmed. Portrait, plates, facsimiles. Bookplate laid in to each volume. Contemporary book reviews laid into Volume One. Very good, or better.

First editions of the first, third and fourth volumes of the Beinecke Collection catalogue. Each is one of five hundred copies printed. Excellent association copies, the first inscribed by Beinecke to fellow collector, and then vice-president of Parke-Bernet Galleries, Arthur Swann, with a t.l.s. of presentation. Each has Swann’s distinctive book label laid in, and the fourth is signed by him. The first volume is devoted to printed books, pamphlets, broadsides, etc. and volumes three and four are devoted to the wealth of manuscript material included in the collection. The first volume is uncommon. $400.

Executed in Silverplate Engravings

212. Sturt, John [engraver]: THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER AND ADMINISTRATION OF THE SACRAMENTS AND OTHER RITES AND CEREMONIES OF THE CHURCH ACCORDING TO THE USE OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND .... London: Engraved and Printed by the Permission of John Baskett ... Sold by John Sturt, Engraver ..., 1717. xxii,162,[2]pp. comprised of engraved dedication, prefatory matter and text, advert leaf and 4pp. subscribers list. Octavo. Richly bound in contemporary black morocco, raised bands, spine gilt extra, gilt side panels with decorative corner devices, a.e.g., marbled endsheets. Trace of minor rubbing to spine extremities, bit of foxing to binder’s blanks, tiny ink name in corner of binder’s blank, minor, shallow tidemark in extreme top margin of a few leaves, otherwise near fine, with the paper volvelle on p. v unsullied by time or abuse.

First edition, printing in octavo format. This is the variant/impression with cherubs only halfway between each corner of the border on p. V and ‘VII’ at the top. All aspects of the contents were executed by English engraver and calligrapher, John Sturt via silverplate engraving. Each page is surrounded by a delicate border, and many pages of the main text include one or more of a total of 129 different engraved scenes relevant to the particular text. Sturt (1658- 1730) engraved most of the works of English writing-master, John Ayres, and contributed engravings to a number of religious or illustrated publications of his time. The advert leaf enumerates several of them, including the 1721 edition of The Orthodox Communicant – suggesting that the advert leaf was revised as copies were bound and sold in the years following publication. There were also an unspecified number of copies imposed in 4to format, and yet other copies appear with red rules enhancing the borders and text blocks. ROTHSCHILD 1987. ESTC T141242. GRIFFITHS 1717.2 (illustrated). LOWNDES, p.1493. $2000.

213. Swedenborg, Emanuel: A BRIEF EXPOSITION OF THE DOCTRINE OF THE NEW CHURCH, UNDERSTOOD IN THE APOCALYPSE BY THE NEW JERUSALEM; WHEREIN IS ALSO DEMONSTRATED, THAT THROUGHOUT ALL THE CHRISTIAN WORLD THE WORSHIPPING OF THREE GODS IS RECEIVED, FROM THE CREED OF ST. ATHANASIUS. London: Printed by M. Lewis, 1769. 159,[1]pp. Octavo. 19th century calf and marbled boards, gilt label. Small marginal snag in last leaf mended on blank verso, endsheets a bit foxed, tiny tidemark in upper forecorner of terminal leaf, binding a bit rubbed, bookseller’s collation note and comment (in ink) on endsheets, otherwise a very good or better copy.

First edition in English of Swedenborg’s Summaria Expositio Doctrinae Novae Ecclesiae, published within the same year as the first edition, published in Latin in Amsterdam. The translation is attributed to John Marchant, and Swedenborg read the proofs and underwrote its publication. As often, the error on p.103 (not included in the errata on p. 159) is corrected in manuscript. In this late work, the influential scientist-turned-mystic attempted a point by point comparison of fundamental Catholic and Protestant doctrines with the teachings of the New Church. An uncommon book: ESTC locates eight copies, four of them in North America (Yale, UT, Huntington, and the Academy of the New Church). A new translation was published in 1789. ESTC T137426. HYDE 2477. $950.

Inscribed to His Daughter

214. Tate, Allen: REACTIONARY ESSAYS ON POETRY AND IDEAS. New York & London: Scribner, 1936. Pale red cloth, printed spine label. Cloth rather faded and soiled, endsheets darkened, some pencil notes on rear pastedown; just a sound copy.

First edition. A well-used copy, but a fine family association copy, inscribed in the year of publication to his daughter, and his only child with Caroline Gordon: “To Nancy with love from Daddy May 4, 1936.” Nancy Tate, later Nancy Tate Wood, was born in 1925. $750.

215. Thompson, Francis: UNCOLLECTED VERSES. London: Privately printed by Clement Shorter, July 1917. Quarto. Printed red wrappers. Wrapper slightly bumped at lower foretip, else fine. Lightly worn half red morocco slipcase and cloth chemise, with the bookplate of W. Van R. Whitall.

First edition. Ostensibly, one of twenty-five copies printed on handmade paper for distribution by Shorter to his friends. NCBEL III:598. sold.

An Important Defense of Reason

216. [Tindal, Matthew]: AN ADDRESS TO THE INHABIANTS [sic] OF THE TWO GREAT CITIES OF LONDON AND WESTMINSTER: IN RELATION TO A PASTORAL LETTER, SAID TO BE WRITTEN BY THE … OCCASION’D BY SOME LATE WRITINGS IN FAVOUR OF INFIDELITY. London: Printed and Sold by J. Peele, at Locke’s Head..., 1728. 72pp. Octavo (signed in 4s). Extracted from nonce pamphlet volume, lower edges partially untrimmed. Some modest foxing early and late, extremely faint tidemark to lower portion of a number of leaves, but otherwise a very good copy.

The rare first edition of this response to Bishop Gibson’s pastoral letter – one of two attributed to Tindal – in which the noted freethinking Deist takes to task the Bishop’s implicit elevation of faith above reason, and defends in general freedom of thought and discourse against subjugation to religious authority. In an interesting side note to Tindal’s response to Gibson’s assertion “That in some late Writings publick Stews have been openly vindicated...,” he makes reference to the celebrated pseudonymously published 1724 pamphlet by Mandeville, A Modest Defence Of Publick Stews .... This 1728 printing is rare: ESTC locates only seven copies, of which four are in North America (BYU, UCLA, Huntington and General Theological). It was reprinted in 1729 (a much more common edition, with the spelling error on the title corrected), and again in somewhat revised form, in 1730. NCBEL notes only the 1729 and 1730 editions. ESTC N29243. NCBEL II:1868. $1250.

Illustrated Calligraphic Manuscript Executed as “a memento of many pleasant hours in San Francisco ...” in the early 1850s.

217. [Townsend, General Edward Davis (artist and calligrapher)]: Middleton, Conyers: A LETTER FROM , SHEWING AN EXACT CONFORMITY BETWEEN POPERY AND PAGANISM ... BY ... LONDON M,DCC,XLI. San Francisco. Completed 18 February 1854. [6],244pp. plus blanks and plates. Original illustrated manuscript, executed on rectos and versos of lined octavo paper stock in black, red and brown inks, then bound in full 19th century beveled calf, raised bands, decorations in blind, spine lettered in gilt, decorated endsheets, with binder’s ticket of “J. Tretler, Binder. Washington City.” Binding rubbed, small shelf-label removal mark, bookplate (properly deaccessioned from a theological institution), else very good, the manuscript in fine state.

A remarkable artifact, being an illustrated manuscript transcription of Middleton’s work, executed as a diversion by then Captain Edward D. Townsend while stationed in San Francisco with the U.S. Army’s Division of the Pacific, under the command of General Ethan A. Hitchcock. A 2 1/4 page Preface by Townsend, signed and dated by him at the conclusion in San Francisco outlines the origin and intent of the undertaking, indicating that he was loaned an 18th century printed edition of the book by General Hitchcock in the course of their casual discussions about religion, and he made the elegant transcription so that he might return the original, retain a copy, and produce “a memento of many pleasant hours in San Francisco....” The manuscript is illustrated with an elaborate pictorial extra-title, and eight illustrations in the body of the work, hors texte, executed with considerable skill in ink and pencil, chiefly of religious subjects. However, one drawing might easily be considered a scene in the western mountains.

Townsend (1817 – 1893), an 1837 West Point graduate, had an active and distinguished military career, including service in the Florida War, the Cherokee Removal, and along the Canadian border 1838-41. He transferred to the Adjutant General service in 1846, and was assigned to California from 1851-1856. During his eventual assignment to Washington, he was Adjutant General to General Winfield Scott, and during the course of the Civil War, filled many senior positions (including acting Secretary of War), and eventually was promoted to the rank of Major General. He was in charge of the Honor Guard for Lincoln’s burial, and oversaw the official collection of the war records.

As this manuscript attests, Edwards was a deeply religious man, and among his later publications is Catechism Of The Bible ... (NY: Episcopal Sunday School Union, 1859). His Anecdotes Of The Civil War ... appeared in 1883, and in 1970, the Ward Ritchie Press published The California Diary Of General E.D. Townsend, edited by Malcolm Edwards. The illustrations from his diary exhibit the same significant skill evident in the present drawings, although they, of course, relate directly to California. The diary provides ample context for the present manuscript and confirms Townsend’s preoccupation with theological matters during his posting in California; however, as a consequence of an unfortunate gap in the printed narrative from 8 February 1853 to 15 September 1854, there is no specific mention of this manuscript.

In all, this highly unusual manuscript records one of the off-duty preoccupations of a ranking military figure of significance posted to Northern California coincident with one of the region’s most historically important decades. Accompanied by a copy of the 1970 California Diary.... $6785.

218. Traill, Catherine Parr: THE CANADIAN CRUSOES. A TALE OF THE RICE LAKE PLAINS. New York: G. Francis & Co., 1853. 376,[20]pp. Small octavo. Original publisher’s pale red cloth, decorated with a tightly spaced horizontal serrated pattern, with pictorial stamping in gilt to spine and covers, a.e.g. Frontis and illustrations. Ink gift inscription, dated Jan. 1853, small ink spot in margin of frontis, endsheets lightly foxed, spine a shade darkened, with a bit of wear at the tips, otherwise a very good copy.

First U.S. edition of this Canadian juvenile classic, in what is to all appearances a publisher’s gift binding. Illustrated by Harvey, and edited by Agnes Strickland, the author’s sister. The first edition appeared in London in 1852; Watters does not cite a contemporary North American edition. WATTERS, p.291. $225. 219. [Tucker, Abraham]: “Search, Edward” [pseud]: FREEWILL, FOREKNOWLEDGE, AND FATE. A FRAGMENT. London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley, [1763]. xxxi,[1 errata],268pp. Octavo. Modern half calf and marbled boards, raised bands, gilt label. Old divinity school stamp on title, minor foxing, but a very good copy, very neatly bound.

First edition. The pseudonymously published prelude to Tucker’s magnum opus, The Light Of Nature Pursued. This “1763 fragment was strongly criticized in the Monthly Review, to which Tucker provided a humorous reply, Man In Quest Of Himself, under the new pseudonym Cuthbert Comment. In 1768, again using the pseudonym Edward Search, he published the first four volumes of his book; the last three volumes were posthumously published under the editorship of his daughter Judith in 1778 ... Although an occasionally eccentric and digressive text, The Light Of Nature Pursued enjoyed a high reputation from its first appearance. In the introduction to his Moral And Political Philosophy (1785) William Paley emphasized his deep indebtedness to Tucker in expounding his ethical theory. Paley considered Tucker to be a very original thinker. His work was also highly praised by Sir James MacIntosh, who had used his ideas in his lectures on ethics ...” – DNB. Tucker’s writings were also read and admired by, among others, Coleridge, Godwin and Hazlett, and the latter undertook an abridgement of the full work, published in 1807. ESTC locates ten copies in North America, and OCLC adds a few more, but this work is uncommon in the trade. ESTC T117455. NCBEL II: 1893. $950.

220. Twisse, William: OF THE MORALITY OF THE FOURTH COMMANDEMENT, AS STILL IN FORCE TO BINDE CHRISTIANS BY WAY OF ANSWER TO THE TRANSLATOR OF DOCTOR PRIDEAUX HIS LECTURE, CONCERNING THE DOCTRINE OF THE SABBATH .... London: Printed by E. G. for Iohn Rothwell ..., 1641. [22],246,[22]pp. Small quarto. Contemporary unlettered calf, ruled in blind. Institutional bookplate and two ink shelf annotations on prelims, shallow loss at blank fore-edge of B4, binding worn at extremities with shallow loss at crown of spine, very faint tide-mark in upper quadrant of first few gatherings and intermittent light foxing and tanning thereafter; still, a good, sound copy.

First edition. Appended to the main work, with its own register and caption title, is “Doctor Lake Bishop of Bath and Wells, Theses de Sabbato,” as issued. Twisse (1577/8 – 1646), at the time of writing serving as Pastor of Newbury, was noted for his intellect as a controversialist: “Even the Anglican polemicist described him as ‘the mightiest man’ in the controversies of his age” – DNB. After the Royalists captured Newbury, he fled to London and allied himself with the Parliament. ESTC R5702. WING T3422. McALPIN II:87. $475.

221. [Updike, D.B.]: THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER AND ADMINISTRATION OF THE SACRAMENTS AND OTHER RITES AND CEREMONIES OF THE CHURCH ACCORDING TO THE USE OF THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TOGETHER WITH THE PSALTER OF PSALMS OF DAVID. New York: Printed for the Convention, 1893. [28],566,[2]pp. Folio. Original heavily gilt decorated vellum over boards, with brass fore-clasps, t.e.g., others untrimmed, ribbon marker. Printed in red and black, with floriated borders by Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue, title in black letter. Binding faintly dust-smudged, institutional bookplate on front pastedown, small ink accession date in corner of title (“1893”), otherwise about fine.

The limited issue of the revised Book of Common Prayer, overseen by D.B. Updike, and with facsimiles of the signatures of many of the principals associated with the revision approved at the 1892 General Convention on the verso of the title. The limited edition was prepared in two forms, one being the Canonical Edition, intended for distribution to each diocese and jurisdiction within the Church, with the text and borders enclosed within red rules, and with original signatures on the verso of the title. This standard limited edition of 500 copies on handmade paper does not feature red rules, and has the signatures of the principals in printed facsimile. Updike comments at length on this project in his introduction to Notes On The Merrymount Press, and about his role in the attempted rescue of an ill-conceived effort to produce a decorated edition from the plates of the 1892 printing: “The best things about the book were the cover and charming end-papers which Goodhue designed for it. Sad to relate, the edition had an immediate and resounding success! We were congratulated, and we blushed. Our shame was taken for modesty and we were congratulated more! While the book is indeed a strange one, it is by no means so strange as the designs originally made for it” (see pp. 9-10). Nonetheless, the experience was an important prelude to the production in 1928 of Updike’s own edition, widely regarded as his finest work. GRIFFITHS 1893.7. $3250.

222. [Updike, D.B. – The Merrymount Press]: THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER AND ADMINISTRATION OF THE SACRAMENTS AND OTHER RITES AND CEREMONIES OF THE CHURCH ACCORDING TO THE USE OF THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TOGETHER WITH THE PSALTER OR PSALMS OF DAVID. [Boston]: Printed for the Commission [by the Merrymount Press], 1928 [i.e. 1930]. xli,[1],611,[3]pp. Thick folio. Original dark brown pigskin, raised bands, decorated in blind, t.e.g., others untrimmed. Printed in red and black. Tips and spine extremities a bit rubbed, dark offsetting from binding to margins of endsheets and prelims, including a shallow semicircle of bleed at the fore-edge of the front free endsheet and blank, hand-sized patch of darkening to mid-section of upper cover, otherwise a very good or better copy.

One of five hundred copies printed in Janson types on handmade paper, in addition to five copies on vellum. Updike’s masterful production of the Prayer Book incorporating the revisions of the 1928 Commission stands at the pinnacle of his career. Drawing on the successes and leapfrogging the shortcomings of the Prayer and Altar Books of the 1890s in favor of the uncluttered modern elegance of the present edition, he accomplished one of the unquestioned monuments of American fine printing between the wars. The production spanned the two years between approval by the Commission and final publication, and like the 1893 edition, was underwritten by J.P. Morgan. Laid into this copy is one of the original printed presentation slips from the Commission. BIANCHI 713. GRIFFITHS1930.3. $4000.

223. [Vidal, Gore]: [Sarne, Michael (screenwriter & director)]: GORE VIDAL’S “MYRA BRECKINRIDGE.” [Century City]: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp., 17 September 1969. [2],146 leaves. Quarto. Mimeographed typescript, printed on rectos only of pale green paper. Bradbound in printed studio wrappers. Wrappers a trifle used along the extended overlap edges, title hand-lettered on spine, production number stamped on upper wrapper, otherwise very near fine.

Denoted a “Final” draft of this adaptation of Vidal’s controversial novel. Vidal was initially charged with the adaptation, but his script was deemed too difficult to tackle. Director Sarne then took the reins and wrote the script, with some degree of participation by David Giler. This draft is not attributed to any one of the three possibilities, but the proximity of the above date to the release date (24 June 1970) would strongly suggest it is Sarne’s work. The cast included Mae West, Rex Reed, Raquel Welch, John Huston, Farrah Fawcett, John Carradine, Andy Devine, et al, and the final film, which earned an ‘X’ rating at the time, quickly achieved status as something of a train wreck. And four decades later, its claim to status as a camp classic is yet hotly debated. $300. 224. Wagstaffe, Thomas: VINO EUCHARISTICO AQUA NECESSARIÒ ADMISCENDA. RESPONSIO AD CONCIONEM HABITAM AD CLERUM IN TEMPLO B. MARIÆ CANTABRIGIÆ, À SAMUELE DRAKE. Londini [i.e. London]: Prostat aput T. Bickerton ..., 1719. [4],59,[1]pp. Octavo. Extracted from bound pamphlet volume. Woodcut head and tail pieces. Faint tanning, else a very good copy.

First edition of this early publication by Wagstaffe, (1692–1770), “clergyman of the nonjuring Church of England and theologian ... the son of Thomas Wagstaffe (1645–1712), bishop of the nonjuring Church of England, and Martha Broughton (fl. 1687–1692). He was probably educated at home by his father, and became a well-read divine and classical scholar. A superior Latinist, he could speak seven languages besides English, and was an able scholar in Hebrew, Arabic, and Syrian. He was ordained deacon in 1718 and priest on 25 April 1719 by the nonjuror Bishop Jeremy Collier at Roger Laurence’s chapel in London. He served the nonjuror community as the keeper of records, succeeding Thomas Deacon...” – DNB. Uncommon: ESTC locates only two copies in North America: Illinois and Penn. ESTC T50913. $175.

225. [Waln, Robert, Jr.]: SISYPHI OPUS: OR, TOUCHES ON THE TIMES. A SATIRE ... AND OTHER POEMS. By the Author of “American Bards.” Philadelphia & New York: Published by J. Maxwell and Moses Thomas ..., 1820. [4],[5]-62,[2]pp. Large octavo. Modern boards, paper spine label. Untrimmed, with the terminal advert leaf. Light foxing, light discoloration toward lower fore-corner of first two leaves, otherwise a very good copy.

First edition of the second poetry publication by the Quaker historian and satirist, best known for his biographical works, and The Hermit In America and The Hermit In Philadelphia. His poetry is somewhat uncommon, and largely forgotten. WEGELIN 1190. $150.

226. Walton, Brian: THE CONSIDERATOR CONSIDERED: OR, A BRIEF VIEW OF CERTAIN CONSIDERATIONS UPON THE BIBLIA POLYGLOTTA, THE PROLEGOMENA AND APPENDIX THEREOF. WHEREIN, AMONGST OTHER THINGS, THE CERTAINTY, INTEGRITY, AND DIVINE AUTHORITY OF THE ORIGINAL TEXTS, IS DEFENDED, AGAINST THE CONSEQUENCES OF ATHEISTS, PAPISTS, ANTISCRIPTURISTS, &C.… London: Printed for Tho. Roycroft, 1659. [8],293,[3]pp. Small octavo. Contemporary unlettered sheep, gilt device on each board. Title trimmed a bit close at bottom edge, cutting into last line of imprint, early ink name and foliation of prelims, spine and upper joint a bit chipped (but sound), old tidemark in fore portions of T1-4, small ink notation on final leaf of text; a good copy.

First edition. Walton (1600-1661), in company with Ussher, Lightfoot and others, produced a new Polyglot Bible, published in six volumes, 1654-57, which they hoped would be improved over, and less expensive than, previous undertakings. This work is an answer to criticisms of unorthodox dogma levied against it by . ESTC R204072. WING W657. $600.

227. Watts, Isaac: A SERMON PREACH’D AT SALTERS-HALL, TO THE SOCIETIES FOR REFORMATION OF MANNERS, IN THE CITIES OF LONDON AND WESTMINSTER, OCTOBER 6TH, 1707. London: Printed by J. Humfreys, 1707. [4],[5]-56pp. Octavo. Extracted from bound pamphlet volume. Reside of old spine, somewhat foxed, title trimmed a bit close at fore-margin, just touching a portion of the inner frame, but a good copy, with the half-title.

First edition. A relatively early publication by Watts, a sermon delivered before the influential activist association pursuing the suppression and prosecution of what they perceived as public and private immorality in behaviour, commerce and the arts. ESTC locates only three copies in Britain, and six in the U.S. OCLC locates a total of ten original printed copies. Not in NCBEL. ESTC N22787. $600. 228. Watts, Isaac: THE HOLINESS OF TIMES, PLACES, AND PEOPLE UNDER THE JEWISH AND CHRISTIAN DISPENSATIONS CONSIDER’D AND COMPARED, IN SEVERAL DISCOURSES .... London: Printed for R. Hett, and J. Brackstone, 1738. vii,[5],215 [i.e. 214],[2]pp. 12mo. Extracted from bound pamphlet volume. Residue of old spine present, signature F somewhat foxed, still a very good copy.

First edition. A collection of five discourses: “ I. On the Perpetuity of a Sabbath, and the Observation of the Lord’s-Day. II. The Administration of the Lord’s-Supper, at Noon or Evening. III. The Holiness and Consecration of Places of Worship, consider’d in a Sermon at the opening of a new Meeting-Place. IV. Forms of Worship, and Holy Things more exactly prescribed in the Old Testament than in the New. [and] V. The Difference between the visible and invisible Church, the Jewish and the Christian; and the Holiness of each of them.” ESTC locates seven copies in North America. Not in NCBEL. ESTC T66323. $475.

229. [Watts, Isaac]: THE HARMONY OF ALL RELIGIONS WHICH GOD EVER PRESCRIBED: CONTAINING A BRIEF SURVEY OF THE SEVERAL PUBLICK DISPENSATIONS OF GOD TOWARD MAN, OR HIS APPOINTMENT OF DIFFERENT FORMS OF RELIGION IN SUCCESSIVE AGES .... London: Printed for James Brackstone, 1742. xii,102,[6] pp. Octavo. Extracted from bound pamphlet volume. Residue of old spine, faint trace of dustiness and minor foxing, but a very good, crisp copy.

First edition, published anonymously. An interpretive work, aimed particularly at delineating and reconciling the different views of the relation of Judaism to Christianity. ESTC locates six copies in North America. Not in NCBEL. ESTC T82972. $600.

230. [Weather Bird Press]: Gerry, Vance: SAN PASQUAL PRESS. Fallbrook, CA: The Weather Bird Press, 1986. Cloth, paper labels. Photographs. Bookplate on front pastedown, small pencil erasure in corner of free endsheet, otherwise fine in dust jacket.

First edition. One of 150 copies printed on untrimmed Johannot and signed by Gerry. Foreword by Ward Ritchie. A history and checklist of this short-lived California imprint with an eye toward quality in regional trade publishing. $125.

231. Wesley, Charles: AN EPISTLE TO THE REVEREND MR. JOHN WESLEY. London: Printed for J. Robinson, 1755. 16pp. Small octavo. Extracted from bound pamphlet volume, occasional foxing and light smudges, one word deleted in an early hand, but a good copy.

First edition of this epistle in verse, written and published the same year as the composition of his verse epistle to George Whitefield. BAKER 173 [A] & [B]. ESTC T32862. NCBEL III:1630. $350.

232. [Wesley, John]: REMEMBER THE SABBATH-DAY, TO KEEP IT HOLY [caption title]. [London. nd. but ca. 1750?]. 4pp. 12mo. Extracted from nonce pamphlet volume. Tanned, with light discolorations, else very good.

One of a number of 18th century printings of this characteristic leaflet by Wesley, printed for broad distribution among the faithful. Baker suggests 1745 as the earliest date of publication; the printing in hand features catchwords: ‘beginning’, ‘O what’, and ‘his’. ESTC locates a single copy of this printing, at Duke, and all printings are scarce. ESTC N26214. BAKER 79E. $350.

233. Wesley, John: THOUGHTS ON THE IMPUTED RIGHTEOUSNESS OF CHRIST. Dublin: Printed by S. Powell, 1762. 11,[1]pp. 12mo. Extracted from nonce pamphlet volume. Slight tanning, but a very good copy.

First edition, published in the same year as the London edition, which is denoted the “Second Edition.” An uncommon edition: ESTC locates four copies in North America, and six in the British Isles (3 of them at Manchester). OCLC only adds a handful of additional possibilities. NCBEL cites only this edition. ESTC T16613. BAKER 211. NCBEL II:1632. $1250.

234. [Wesley, John]: A WORD TO A DRUNKARD [caption title]. [London? nd. but ca. 1750s – 1770s]. [4]pp. 12mo leaflet. Extracted from nonce pamphlet volume. Tanned and lightly discolored; a good copy.

One of a number of 18th century printings of this tract, first published in the 1740s and frequently reprinted thereafter for dissemination to those in need of its message. This copy does not conform to any of those recorded in ESTC: the catchwords are ‘Now’, ‘to’, and ‘you’, and there is a solid rule between the caption title and the first paragraph of text. The majority of the printings are scarce, and some might even be described as rare. BAKER 77 (ref). $500.

235. Wesley, John: A SERMON ON 1ST. JOHN, V.7. Dublin: Printed by William Kidd, for William Whitestone, 1775. [6],[7]-31,[1]pp. Small octavo. Extracted from nonce pamphlet volume. Typographic decorative title border. Early ink name on half-title, half-title neatly detached, faint tanning and occasional minor spots, but a very good copy, printed on unusually heavy paper.

First Dublin edition. A Limerick edition is tentatively dated the same year, and the first London edition followed in 1776. Wesley’s prefatory “Advertisement” is dated at Cork, 8 May, 1775, and refers to requests that the sermon be rendered in print before he left that city, requests that he was unable to fulfill due to circumstance. Scarce: ESTC locates 7 copies, 3 of them in North America, and OCLC does not expand that count. ESTC T45856. BAKER 306. $1250.

236. [Wesley, John, et al.]: MINUTES OF SOME LATE CONVERSATIONS, BETWEEN THE REVEREND MR. WESLEY, AND OTHERS [caption title]. [London 1766]. 23,[1]pp. 12mo. Extracted from nonce pamphlet volume. Typographic ornamental headpiece. 1766 ownership inscription on A1 recto, light foxing and tanning, but a good copy.

First (?) edition. ESTC notes two forms of this tract: this is the form (edition?) with page numbers in parentheses and catchword ‘31’ on page 3. The “Minutes” are dated “Leeds, Aug. 12 &c. 1766” and conclude at London, 22 August. The topics range from the appointment and rating of preachers, to the enforcement of rules pertaining to “Ruffles, Lace, Snuff and Tobacco” in Britain and Ireland. Rare: ESTC locates three copies, at Manchester, Duke Univ. and Victoria University. OCLC adds a copy at Drew University and another at Queen’s College Library in Australia. ESTC N1133. BAKER 237. $650.

237. [West, Richard]: A DISCOURSE CONCERNING TREASONS, AND BILLS OF ATTAINDER. London: Printed for J. Roberts, 1716. [4],111,[1]pp. Octavo. Extracted from nonce pamphlet volume, wholly untrimmed. Tanned, small paper flaw in lower blank margin of last two leaves; a good copy.

First edition of this tract by the future Lord Chancellor of Ireland and wannabe dramatist, written in response to the introduction of legislation by Parliament in 1708 expanding the definitions. ESTC T31938. $400. 238. Whitbread & Company, Brewers: [THE WHITBREAD LIBRARY (Series title)]. London: Whitbread & Co., Ltd, [1947 – 1953]. Numbers 1 -11. Eleven volumes. Large octavos. Pictorial boards. Heavily illustrated, including some in color. A very nice set in the pictorial dust jackets (a few nicks and short tears to jacket spine ends, an occasional dust smudge and small chip, one ownership signature).

First editions. A well appointed series of illustrated books intended “to take the reader ‘behind the scenes’ and give him a picture of the history and present day workings of ... the brewing trade.” Introductions by Ivor Brown and Bernard Darwin are credited, but most texts are unsigned. Compliments slip laid into 10th volume. Whitbread brewery was founded in 1742. $75.

239. Wieners, John: THE HOTEL WENTLEY POEMS. [San Francisco: Auerhahn Press], 1958. Small quarto. Pictorial wrappers. Lower wrapper a bit tanned, moderately rubbed along the spine fold, otherwise a good copy.

First edition, first printing, of the author’s first book, with the censored text leaving a blank space in place of the problematic word in the title “A poem for suckers.” In this copy, which Wieners signed and inscribed in 1959, he inserted the missing word in ink. $150.

240. [Wilde, Oscar]: Symons, : OSCAR WILDE: A PROBLEM IN BIOGRAPHY. Council Bluffs, Iowa: Yellow Barn Press, 1988. Cloth and paper-covered boards, paper spine label, extra spine label tipped to rear pastedown. Title-page printed in red and black. Wood engraved frontis and three text-illustrations by John De Pol. Bookplate on front pastedown, otherwise fine. Errata laid in.

First edition. One of 200 numbered copies (the entire edition) of the text of Symons’s Lurcy Lecture delivered at Amherst College in April 1988. $100.

241. Wither, George: HYMNS AND SONGS OF THE CHURCH ... A NEW EDITION REPRINTED FROM THE ORIGINAL PUBLISHED IN THE REIGN OF K. JAMES I .... London: Printed by T. Bensley ... For Longman [et al], 1815. lxvi,305,[1]pp. Small octavo. Contemporary three quarter straight-grain morocco and marbled boards. Extremities slightly rubbed, fore-tips worn, verso of front free endpaper partially adhered to first binder’s blank, but a very good copy, with the bookplate of Beverly Chew.

First printing of this edition, with a preface by the editor, “A Lover of Old Poetry, S.E.B.” [i.e. Samuel Edgerton Brydges]. Lowndes asserts that the edition consisted of only one hundred copies, “many of which were destroyed at the fire at Bensley’s Printing Office.” Bensley printed another edition the same year, for another group of publishers, with a portrait. LOWNDES X:2965. $150.

242. Woda, Albert [illustrator]: LA MATIÈRE EST UN VOILE. By Moïse Maimonide. [Np]: Editions de l’Eau, 1988. Oblong small quarto (28 x 19 cm). Folded gatherings and plates laid into printed wrappers. Fine in lightly marked silk covered slipcase.

First edition in this format, with the Hebrew text calligraphed by Daniel Woda, en face with the French translations, illustrated with five original engravings (“burins et manières noires”) by Albert Woda. One of 50 numbered copies (of 55) printed on velin d’Arches, with the gravures printed on “papier à la forme du Moulin Richard de Bas.” Each plate is initialed in the margin by the artist, who has also signed and numbered the colophon. $1000.

Association Copy

243. [Woodhead, Abraham]: TWO DISCOURSES. THE FIRST, CONCERNING THE SPIRIT OF MARTIN LUTHER, AND THE ORIGINAL [sic] OF THE REFORMATION. THE SECOND, CONCERNING THE CELIBACY OF THE CLERGY. Oxford: [Obadiah Walker], An. 1687. [8],104,[4],39,[1]pp. Quarto. Contemporary speckled calf, gilt labels. Boards detached, old snag in blank portions of A1-2,costing some paper but no letterpress, but internally generally a very good copy.

First edition, posthumously published, and most likely printed by Woodhead’s friend, Obadiah Walker, who enjoyed a license to print Catholic works, and after being denied access to the university press, established his own printing shop in University College until he was obliged to flee after William of Orange’s invasion. This copy conforms to the first setting cited by ESTC of B1. The second title, which has its own title-leaf and register, was also distributed separately. An auspicious association copy, from the library of the Henry, third Baron of Arundell, with his bookplate and a contemporary inscription on the title (“Lord Arundell”). Arundell was one of those accused and imprisoned as suspects in the “Popish Plot.” He was finally granted liberty in 1685, and remained active politically and as an advocate of Catholic causes until his death in 1694. ESTC R838320. WING W3445 & W3460. $650.

244. [World War II]: ... IF THE INVADER COMES WHAT TO DO – AND HOW TO DO IT [caption title]. [London]: Ministry of Information in co-operation with the War Office and the Ministry of Home Security, [ca June 1940]. Quarto typographic broadside (27.5 x 21 cm). Printed on recto and verso. Folded across middle, else very good or better.

A handbill outlining seven points to direct the actions of the British citizenry if the Germans invade Great Britain, with specifics about what to do if the invaders arrive by parachute, organizing the defense of factories, denying resources to the enemy, etc, etc. While no doubt millions of copies were printed and distributed, the survival rate could not have been large. $60.

245. Wotton, William: THE OMNISCIENCE OF THE SON OF GOD, AN UNDOUBTED ARGUMENT OF HIS DIVINITY: BEING A DISCOURSE UPON ST. MARK XIII. 32. London: Printed by W. Bowyer for Tim. Goodwin, 1720. [6],54,[2]pp. Octavo. Extracted from nonce pamphlet volume. Woodcut head and tailpieces. Light foxing, but very good.

First edition of this somewhat late tract by the colorful linguist, theologian and object of Swift’s criticism, published at a point when creditors were still his adversaries and his proclivities toward excess a cause for concern. ESTC locates five copies in North America. ESTC N10355. $300.

246. [Wright, Thomas]: Harris, Eileen: ARBOURS & GROTTOS A FACSIMILE OF THE TWO PARTS OF UNIVERSAL ARCHITECTURE (1755 AND 1758), WITH A CATALOGUE OF WRIGHT’S WORKS IN ARCHITECTURE AND GARDEN DESIGN. London: Scolar Press, [1979]. Oblong folio. Green linen and fabriano over boards, paper spine label. Twenty-four full page plates. Front endpaper creased, small private book label on front pastedown, else about fine in green linen slipcase, with printed paper label

First facsimile edition. One of 375 numbered copies, of which this is denoted copy #1. Thomas Wright (1711–1786), an English astronomer, mathematician, instrument maker, architect and garden designer, was the first to describe the shape of the Milky Way and speculate that faint nebulae were distant galaxies. He later became an amateur architect and landscape garden designer, contributing to the development of Badminton, Cassiobury, Shugborough, and other English estates. $450.

247. Wyatt, Edith: EVERY ONE HIS OWN WAY. New York: McClure, Phillips and Company, 1901. Blue boards, with ornate decoration in white, edges untrimmed. Endsheets and decorations by William Jordan. Small ink notation on title, minute wear at tips, otherwise a fine copy in lightly sunned and frayed decorated dust jacket with short edge tear.

First edition. An early collection of short stories by Howells’ friend and protégé, written while she was teaching at Hull House. In addition to her future decades of social activism and journalism, she continued her literary career, and was instrumental in the founding of Harriet Monroe’s Poetry. Uncommon in this condition. SMITH W-949. $250.

248. Zapf, Hermann: TYPOGRAPHIC VARIATIONS ... ON THEMES IN CONTEMPORARY BOOK DESIGN AND TYPOGRAPHY IN 78 BOOK- AND TITLE-PAGES. New York: Museum Books, 1964. Quarto. Quarter vellum and boards. Facsimiles, including tipped-in specimens. Bookplate on front pastedown, top edges of boards sunned, else about fine in faintly worn dust jacket.

First edition, U.S. issue. Prefaces by Paul Standard, G.K. Schauer, and Charles Peignot. Commentary, notes and specifications. From a total edition of one thousand copies printed on Hahnemühle paper at the printing office of the Stempel Foundry, this is one of five hundred numbered copies for America, signed by Zapf on the colophon. $350.

249. Zenker, J[ulius]. Th.: BIBLIOTHECA ORIENTALIS. MANUEL DE BIBLIOGRAPHIE ORIENTALE. I. CONTENANT 1. LES LIVRES ARABES, PERSANS ET TURCS IMPRIMÉS DEPUIS L’INVENTION DE L’IMPRIMERIE JUSQU’ À NOS JOURS .... Leipzig: Chez Guillaume Engelmann, 1846. xlvii,[2],264pp. Modern cloth and marbled boards. A few short marginal tears, most noticeably one at the top of the gutter of the title-leaf, ink ownership signature of a bibliographer, otherwise very good.

First edition in French of the first volume (of two) of this pioneering work, recording over 1800 titles, occasionally with comments and annotations. The second volume appeared in 1861. Zenker (1811-1884) was an accomplished German orientalist, and in 1867 published a substantial German/French Dictionary of Turkish, Persian and Arab. $150.

250. Zimmermann, J[ohann] G[eorg]: ESSAY ON NATIONAL PRIDE. TO WHICH ARE ADDED MEMOIRS OF THE AUTHOR’S LIFE AND WRITINGS .... London: Printed for C. Dilly, 1797. xl,260,[28]pp. Octavo. Contemporary tree calf, modern gilt spine label. Extremities worn, with slight cracking at joints and shallow loss at toe of spine, light scattered foxing, but a good copy.

First edition of this new translation by Samuel Hull Wilcocke, accompanied by an extended account of Zimmermann’s life and work, published two years after his death. An earlier translation of the 1758 German text had appeared in 1771 and was reprinted in North America in 1778. Its meditative exploration of the legitimate and illegitimate sources and modes for exercise of national pride turns toward humility and genuine accomplishment in the important areas of human endeavor, and spurns arrogant and careless jingoism. ESTC T140011. NCBEL II:158. $225. ADDENDA

Allen Tate’s Copy

251. Beatty, Richard C. [ed]: A VANDERBILT MISCELLANY. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1944. Large, thick octavo. Gilt cloth. Spine ends rubbed, front inner hinge cracked, a few marks to cloth, otherwise a near very good, sound copy.

First edition of this retrospective anthology partaking of the heritage of The Fugitive, Pursuit, etc., with an historical introduction by the editor. A standout association copy, inscribed by the editor to Allen Tate: “For Allen, who, if I recall, is the Pappy of this baby. Dick Beatty.” Of course, Tate looms large in the editor’s introductory essay, “By Way of Background,” and his poetry and prose feature among the contributions, including “Ode to the Confederate Dead.” $750.

252. [Bible – Gaelic]: LEABHRAICHEAN AN T-SEANN TIOMNAIDH AIR AN TARRUINO O’N CHEUD CHAINAIN CHUM GAELIC ALBANAICH ANN AN DA’ ERRAN. Edinburgh: Printed by C. Stewart ... for The Society in Scotland for Propagating Christian Knowledge ..., 1807. Two volumes. [bound with:] TIOMNADH NUDADH AR TIGHEARNE AGUS AR SLANUIGHIR IOSA CRISOD EADAR-THEANGAICHTE O’N GHREUGAIS CHUM GAELIC ALBANNAICH. Edinburgh: Printed for the British and Foreign Bible Society, 1813. Three volumes bound in one. Very, very thick octavo. Contemporary paneled calf, with central blindstamp of the British and Foreign Bible Society. Backstrip detached (and laid in – cords and sewing quite sound), light foxing, endsheets spotted, but internally generally very good and crisp.

The Old and New Testaments translated into Gaelic, the Old Testament being a revision by Alexander Stewart of the translation from the Hebrew by John Stewart and John Smith originally published in four parts from 1783 through 1801. As Darlow & Moule note, “the N.T. of 1813 ... is often found bound up with this [1807] edition of the O.T. so as to form a complete Bible,” as cumbersome as the resulting volume might be. DARLOW & MOULE 4084 & 4086. $450.

253. [Bible – Illustrated]: THE HOLY BIBLE CONTAINING THE OLD & NEW TESTAMENT & THE APOCRYPHA. London & Edinburgh: The Ballantyne Press, [nd. but ca. 1911]. Three volumes. Large octavo. Full plum morocco, raised bands, gilt extra, with gilt decorated book, crown and serpent device within green morocco inset on each board, a.e.g., silk doublures and free endsheets by Zaehnsdorf (1912). Engraved frontispieces and color plates. Printed on India paper. Bindings sunned, joints a trifle rubbed, a couple of rubs to spine compart- ments, but a good, sound set.

Foreword by the Lord Bishop of London (“Why should not the Bible de printed as well as the best of other books?”). The plates are by R. Talbot Kelly, J. Fullelove, et al. There is no stated limitation, but Herbert asserts 750 sets were printed. HERBERT 2159. $400.

254. [Bible – N.T. – Wycliffe Translation]: THE NEW TESTAMENT, TRANSLATED FROM THE LATIN, IN THE YEAR 1380 ... TO WHICH ARE PREFIXED, MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE, OPINIONS, AND WRITINGS OF DR. WICLIF; AND AN HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE SAXON AND ENGLISH VERSIONS OF THE SCRIPTURES, PREVIOUS TO THE OPEN- ING OF THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY. London: Printed by Richard Edwards, and Sold by T. Hamilton [et al], 1810. [2],lxxii,[2],275pp. Quarto. Original boards, untrimmed. Portrait. Text in double columns. Ink inscription on pastedown, portrait and prelims foxed, with intermittent foxing and tanning (the latter characteristic of isolated signatures), spine chipped and boards detached; just a good copy, perhaps, partially unopened.

First printing of this edition of the Wycliffe text, edited by H.H. Baber from the text of the rare 1731 edition. The decorated initials replicate those of the 1731 subscribers’ edition of 160 copies. An unknown number of copies were printed on large, fine paper -- of which this is not an example. DARLOW & MOULE (HERBERT) 1537. $250. 255. [Bold, John]: THE SIN AND DANGER OF NEGLECTING THE PUBLICK SERVICE OF THE CHURCH, PLAINLY SET FORTH: AND THE COMMON PRETENCES, FOR SUCH NEGLECT, CONSIDER’D, AND THEIR WEAKNESS EXPOS’D. BY A PRESBYTER OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND. Coventry: Printed by J. Jopson ..., 1745. 48pp. Octavo (in 8s). Extracted from nonce pamphlet volume. A couple leaves trimmed close at lower edge, costing a catchword or signature mark, otherwise very good.

Denoted the second edition – however, neither ESTC, nor COPAC, nor OCLC locate an ear- lier edition. Bold (1659 – 1751) seems to have lived a quiet and frugal life, fully in service to his parish at Stoney Stanton, near Hinckley, for nearly fifty years. This work was frequently reprinted in London in following decades, and was distributed by the SPCK well into the 19th century. One assumes a half-title or other may be wanting (though this collates as per

ESTC), as the title leaf is [B1]. A scarce provincial printing: ESTC locates four copies only (BL, Hull Central, and York Minster). ESTC T87061. $400.

256. [Book of Common Prayer – Ordinal]: THE FORME AND MANER OF MAKING AND CONSECRATING BISHOPS, PRIESTS AND DEACONS. London: Imprinted ... by Bonham Norton, and Iohn Bill, deputies and assignes of Robert Barker... 1618 [bound after]: Mason, Francis: OF THE CONSECRATION OF THE BISHOPS IN THE CHVRCH OF ENGLAND: WITH THEIR SUCCESSION, JURISDICTION, AND OTHER THINGS INCIDENT TO THEIR CALLING: AS ALSO OF THE ORDINATION OF PRIESTS AND DEACONS .... London:

Imprinted ... by Robert Barker, Anno 1613. [10],269,[2];[28]pp. A8 B6. Folio. Contemporary calf, with typographic wastesheets utilized in binding. Rebacked and recornered to style in the 20th century, with gilt labels. Woodcut head and tailpieces and decorative initials in first work; second work printed in black letter, title with elaborate frame, elaborate initials and tailpiece. Institutional bookplate inside upper board, accession notations on verso of title and in gutter of A3 of first work, blank [A1] of first work rather ragged and browned at edges, occasional tide marks and modest soiling, but generally good and supple.

The second work is a rare separate printing of the Ordinal, the third of three (1596, 1607 and 1613) printings by Barker and his assignes in this format. ESTC locates a total of 9 copies, of which 4 (including this copy, now properly deaccessioned) are in North America. Archdeacon Mason’s work is the first edition, and is a vigorous defense of the Anglican episcopacy. It is not uncommon and saw an expanded edition, in Latin, in 1625. ESTC S93933 & S114294. STC 16468 & 17597. McALPIN I:265 $750.

257. Bradbury, Thomas: [AN ATTRACTIVE CONTEMPORARY NONCE VOLUME OF SEVEN SERMONS]. London. various dates 1708 – 1714. [2],22; 32; [4],9-43,[1]; [4],9-56; [2],[3]- 32; [4],22,[2]; [10],25,[1]pp. Octavo. Contemporary paneled calf, gilt spine label. Joints a bit rubbed, front inner hinge cracking, florid 1715 ownership inscription on free endsheet, bookplate leavings on front pastedown; generally very good and fresh

A representative contemporary assemblage of sermons by this immensely popular Congre- gational minister and controversialist, including several politically significant titles, consisting of the following: a) The Son Of Tabeal. A Sermon Occasion’d By The French Invasion In Favour Of The Pretender. 1708. First edition. ESTC T16435; b) A Sermon Preach’d At Salters-Hall, June 28, 1708, Before The Societies For The Reformation Of Manners. 1709. Second edition. ESTC T173247. Title a bit tanned and spotted; c) Readiness For Death, Urg’d From Our Not Knowing The Time Of It. In A Sermon Occasion’d By The Death Of Mr. Norwich Salisbury, Jun. Who Was Kill’d Aboard A Merchant-Ship Near Gravesend, By A Cohorn, On Friday The 22nd Of October, 1708. 1709. Half-title and title with mourning border. First edition. ESTC T85112; d) The Divine Right Of The Revolution:In Two Sermons On The Fifth Of November 1707, And 1708. 1708. First edition, with the half-title. ESTC T34758.; e) Theocracy: The Government Of The Judges, Considered And Applied To The Revolution, 1688. 1712. First edition. ESTC T6339. ; f) The Ass; Or, The Serpent. A Comparison Between The Tribes Of Issachar And Dan, In Their Regard For Civil Liberty. Nov. 5. 1712. [1713?]. Third edition. ESTC T22541; and g) The Lawful- ness Of Resisting Tyrants, Argued From The History Of David, And In Defence Of The Revolution. Nov. 5. 1713 .... 1714. Fourth edition. ESTC T85107. $500.

258. Cartwright, William: COMEDIES [,] TRAGI-COMEDIES, WITH OTHER POEMS .... London: Printed for Humphrey Moseley, 1651. [122],148,[2],1,[2],2-306,301-320pp. Octavo.

Modern full calf, gilt label. Engraved portrait by P. Lombart. Leaf **7 canceled, as usual, U1 in canceled state, blank F4 bound in. Occasional tanning and marginal smudging, trimmed a bit close, costing some headlines, the ‘,’ after COMEDIES on the title, and affecting the fore- edge of the text on [a]8; and, as often, the side notes and binder’s instructions in the prelims have been trimmed. A faint old tide-mark appears intermittently in some lower forecorners of the text block, but a good, sound copy.

First edition. The collected works of one of the more prominent of the successors to Jonson, notable for the extensive array of commendatory verses that introduce it, including poems by Walton, Brome, Vaughan and others. Although Greg treats the collation of this collection at considerable length, he notes “the variations in this perplexing volume are too complicated to permit of formal analysis or a complete record of the copies in which they occur.” ESTC R208874. HAYWARD 104. GREG III:1027-31. $950.

259. [Church of England]: CONSTITVTIONS AND CANONS ECCLESIASTICALL, TREATED VPON BY THE BISHOP OF LONDON, PRESIDENT OF THE CONUOCATION FOR THE PROUINCE OF CANTERBURY, AND THE REST OF THE BISHOPS AND CLERGIE OF THE SAYD PROUINCE: AND AGREED VPON WITH THE KINGS MAIESTIES LICENCE IN THEIR SYNODE BEGUN AT LONDON ANNO DOM. 1603. AND IN THE YEERE OF THE RAIGNE OF OUR SOUERAIGNE LORD IAMES BY THE GRACE OF GOD KING OF ENGLAND, FRANCE AND IRELAND THE FIRST, AND OF SCOTLAND THE 37. AND NOW PUBLISHED FOR THE DUE OBSERUATION OF THEM BY HIS MAIESTIES AUTHORITIE, VNDER THE GREAT SEALE OF ENGLAND London: Imprinted ... by Robert Barker ... Anno 1604 [but ca.

1608?]. [120]pp. Collation: A-P4. Quarto. Extracted from pamphlet volume. Elaborate floral headpiece on title. Light dust soiling, faint tidemark affecting last third of text block toward gutter at top, a few early ink annotations, but a good, crisp copy.

One of the six printings of the English text dated 1604 distinguished by STC and ESTC. The copy in hand has the catchword ‘Reuerence’ on D1r, and STC suggests it may have been printed in 1608. ESTC locates four copies in North America (including the present copy). STC 10071.5. ESTC 2623. McALPIN I:179. $500.

260. [Clemens, Samuel L.]: THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER. By “Mark Twain.” Hartford [etc]: American Publishing Company, 1876. xvi(sic),[17]-274,[2]pp. with mispagination in the prelims. Square octavo. Frontis and illustrations. Neatly bound in mid-20th century crimson crushed morocco, raised bands, spine gilt extra, t.e.g. (unsigned), bound without the terminal adverts. Some occasional marginal spotting, with a couple of tiny mends to marginal tears, a couple of minor nicks or rubs to binding, but a good copy.

First U.S. edition, second printing, BAL’s issue A, printed on laid paper throughout. BAL 3369. $1950.

With an Early Lithograph By Currier after Bufford

261. [Currier, Nathaniel (lithographer)]: Holbach, Paul-Henry Thiry, Bardon de: THE SYS- TEM OF NATURE; OR, LAWS OF THE MORAL AND PHYSICAL WORLD ... New York: Published by G.W. and A.J. Matsell, 1835. Two volumes in one. x,[11]-368,xiv,[2]pp. Octavo. Contemporary calf and boards. Text in double columns. Lithographed plate. Spine extremities worn and slightly chipped at crown, pencil ownership signature repeated in prelims, usual foxing, but a good copy.

First printing in this format of Robinson’s translation, first pub- lished in an abridged form as New York Monthly Philosophi- cal Library. No. 1, January, 1833. This is denoted the “Free En- quirers’ Family Library Edition.” Of particular note is the lithographed plate (182 x 122 mm, mounted) which oc- curs here between pages 160 and 161: “Reason Enlightening the Nations. Drawn for the F.E. Family Li- brary.” The plate was lithographed by “Cur- rier’s Press” (i.e. Na- thaniel Currier) after a design by John H. Bufford. Currier es- tablished his shop in New York in 1835, and produced several litho- graphs after drawings by Bufford, including, most notably, “View of the Great Conflagration ...,” his earliest best seller. This particular lithograph is not noted in Currier & Ives A Catalogue Raisonné. While the collation of record in OCLC for this edition does not men- tion a plate, it appears as a frontispiece in at least some copies, is alluded to in the adverts to the series, and AAS has an example of the lithograph conjoined with the title-page of the book. The Matsell firm published a range of similar free-thinking, if not overtly atheistic texts, along with enlightened works of political and social theory. The separate sequence of pages at the end includes the title page and preface of Matsell’s edition of Hume’s Essays.... $350.

262. [Dickens, Charles]: THE CHARLES DICKENS DINNER. AN AUTHENTIC RECORD OF THE PUBLIC BANQUET GIVEN TO MR. CHARLES DICKENS, AT THE FREEMANSON’S HALL LONDON, ON SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1867, PRIOR TO HIS DEPARTURE FOR THE UNITED STATES. WITH A REPORT OF THE SPEECHES FROM SPECIAL SHORT- HAND NOTES. London & Boston: Chapman and Hall / Ticknor and Field, 1867. Original printed self-wrappers, stitched. Some slight splitting to lower half-inch of spine; a little soiled, foxed and worn, otherwise about very good.

First edition. Dickens’ speech on the occasion of this dinner appears at pp. 17-20. The text also includes the first printing of a toast given by Anthony Trollope. Prefatory note by Charles Kent. Together with an original nicely-printed admission ticket (no. 186) to the Dickens dinner, engraved on green glazed stiff paper, in fine condition. ECKEL, p.236. GIMBEL B296. $750.

Early Work on Opium and Narcotics

263. Döring, Michael (d. 1644): AKPOAMA MEDICO-PHILOSOPHICUM, DE OPII USU, QUALITATE CALEFACIENTE, VIRTUTE NARCOTICA, ET IPSUM CORRIGENDI MODO ... Jena: Typis Johannis Beithmanni ..., 1620. [16],164,[9]pp. Small octavo. Contemporary gilt vellum. Printed on extremely poor paper, so consequently foxed, and with signatures G-L very heavily browned, early ink name and underscore on title partially tranferred to follow- ing leaf and with ink erosion from the underscore; occasional marginal discolorations, short edge tears, minute worm track in upper margin of four leaves, first two leaves a bit torn at gutter; frankly, only a fair, but textually complete, copy.

A scarce edition of this very early work on the medicinal use of opium and other narcotics, with a long dedication to Abraham Seiller. This title is also found coupled with another work by Döring, and a third by Niccolo Muroni, in a collective volume entitled Mithridateiotech- nia; Hoc Est, De Mithridatii Legitima Constructione (Beithmanni, 1610 & 1620), and in both forms, it is uncommon. Döring, a contemporary and friend of Daniel Sennertus, made several contributions to the contemporary literature in the form of reports or letters about specific unusual cases as a consequence of his own practice. NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE (17th Century) 3306. $400.

264. Fabricius, Franciscus: CHRISTOLOGIA NOACHICA ET ABRAHAMICA, EXHIBITA DUODECIM DISSERTATIONIBUS PHILOLOGICO-EXEGETICIS AD SELECTOS TEXTUS VET. ET NOV. TESTAMENTI .... Lugduni Batavorum [i.e. Leiden]: Apud Samuelum Lucht- mans, 1727. [20],677,[23]pp. Quarto. Contemporary vellum over boards. Title in red and black. Decorative printer’s device, head and tail pieces and initials. Printed in roman, italic and Hebrew. Vellum somewhat dust soiled, a few smudges in upper margin of early leaves, small ownership stamp on pastedown, otherwise a very good copy.

First edition. With a florid presentation inscription on the title from the “Auctor” to one “D. Juannis van Eyken” (partially cut into in the course of binding). Fabricius (1663 – 1738) served as Professor of Theology at the University at Leiden, and the present work appends his correspondence from Jacobus Perizonius (1651-1715), the eminent Dutch classical scholar. OCLC: 44820690, etc. $400.

265. [Ferrier, Susan Edmonstoune]: THE INHERITANCE. By the Author of Marriage. Ed- inburgh & London: William Blackwood / T. Cadell, 1824. Three volumes. Old plum polished calf, gilt spines and labels. Half-title in each volume. Front binder’s free endsheet excised from first volume, upper inner hinge of volume two cracking (but sound), a few gatherings a bit extended at fore-edges, some foxing and occasional light spotting, but a good, sound set, with an 1824 ownership signature on pastedown and “Courtown” bookplate.

First edition of the author’s second novel, published anonymously, as were both her first and her third (and last). Ferrier was a close friend of Scott’s, their acquaintance being made through her father’s post at the Court of Session. WOLFF 2234. NCBEL III:720. $300.

266. [Gordon, Caroline]: Agee, James: LETTERS OF JAMES AGEE TO FATHER FLYE. New York: Braziller, 1962. Gilt cloth. Crown of spine a bit bumped, bit of foxing to endsheets, otherwise a very good copy in lightly chipped, moderately shelfworn dust jacket.

First edition. A fine association copy, from the library of novelist Caroline Gordon, inscribed to her by Father Flye: “To Caroline: In deep regard. James Harold Flye.” $450. 267. Hamilton, Elizabeth: LETTERS ON THE ELEMENTARY PRINCIPLES OF EDUCATION. Alexandria, VA: Printed by Cotton & Stewart, for Samuel Bishop, 1803. Two volumes. xviii,[19]- 434;vi,[7]-451,[3]pp. 12mo. Contemporary mottled calf, gilt labels. Institutional bookplate on each pastedown obscuring a 19th century inscription; front binder’s endsheet excised from volume two, upper joint of volume two cracked (but cords still holding) and with shallow chips at toe of spine and lower edge of upper board, dark receding discoloration in lower fore quadrant of the two blank endsheets and the first four leaves of letterpress in volume one, usual scattered foxing; July 1803 ownership inscription on each title; still a reasonably agreeable set, seldom seen significantly better.

First American edition, “from the Second London Edition.” The first and second editions were published in Bath, with subsidiary London imprints. Perhaps the Belfast-born novelist, poet and essayist’s most widely read non-literary work, offering “detailed theoretical explorations of how children learn ... [this work owes] at least as much to the philosophical theories of John Locke as it does to the era’s standard conduct-book advice on girls’ education” – DNB NCBEL III:729. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 4328. OCLC: 53169618. $225.

Important Work on Bell-Ringing

268. Jones, William, et al: CLAVIS CAMPANALOGIA OR A KEY TO THE ART OF RINGING DEDICATED TO THE LOVERS OF THE ART IN GENERAL BEING THE RESULT OF MANY YEARS STUDY DILIGENTE APPLICATION & CONSTANT PRACTICE. London: Printed for the Authors, and Sold by T. Blakemore ... and L. Bowtell ..., 1788. [2],xvi,298,[2]pp. 12mo. Modern calf and marbled boards, raised bands, gilt label. Engraved title. Very minor foxing, small ink drop on retained original binder’s blank at end, otherwise a very good, crisp copy.

First edition of one of the classics in the literature of bell-ringing, cowritten by Jones with John Reeves and one of the publishers, Thomas Blackmore. Pages ii-viii consist of a subscribers list, including among them several bell-founders and hangers, and it has been suggested that the edition consisted of 500 copies. A second edition, with additions, appeared in 1796, and it was reprinted in various forms into the 20th century. Of particular note are the four appended poems, including “Campanalogia. A Poem in Praise of Ringing” (here unsigned, but generally attributed to William Woty). ESTC locates only six copies (3 in North America), and COPAC six; OCLC expands that count somewhat. Four copies appear in ABPC since 1977, the last in 1999. ESTC T115302. CCCBR, ESSAYS FOR THE FRIENDS No. 7, p.1. $2250. 269. [Mellon Alchemy Collection]: MacPhail, Ian, et al [compilers]: ALCHEMY AND THE OCCULT A CATALOGUE OF BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS FROM THE COLLECTION OF PAUL AND MARY MELLON GIVEN TO YALE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY. New Haven: Yale University Library, 1968 – 1977. Four volumes. Large, thick quarto. Cloth, gilt spine labels. Plates, facsimiles and illustrations (some color). Color frontis to volume three. Very slight rippling to spines of volumes three and four from use, otherwise about fine in publisher’s matching cloth slipcases, with paper labels.

First editions. The monumental catalogue of the Mellon alchemy collection, each component being one of five hundred copies printed after a design by Joseph Blumenthal. The first two volumes are devoted to printed books, compiled by Ian MacPhail, with essays by R.P. Multhauf and Aniela Jaffé; the third and fourth, devoted to manuscripts, were compiled by Larry Witten and Richard Pachella, with an introduction by Pearl Kibre. Both components feature additional notes by William McGuire. The collection described in this catalogue was inspired by Carl Jung’s collection on the subject and was an intimate component of Mary Mellon’s intellectual pursuits and her co-founding of the Bollingen Foundation. Because of the span of years between publication, and the private distribution of a significant portion of the edition, the first two volumes are quite uncommon. Paul Mellon’s presentation card is laid into the first volume. Substantial shipping charges. $1250.

Corrected and Revised

270. Palmer, Charles: A PERSWASIVE TO PAROCHIAL COMMUNION. WHEREIN IS PROVED, FIRST, THAT THE COMMON AND ORDINARY ATTENDENCE OF PARISHIONERS UPON GOD’S PUBLICK WORSHIP SHOULD BE WITH THAT PASTOR AND CONGREGA- TION, WHICH BY THE PROVIDENCE OF GOD AND THE LAWS OF THEIR GOVERNOURS, THEY ARE JOYN’D OR BELONG UNTO, AND THE COMMUNION WHERE OF, IS LAW- FUL. SECONDLY, THAT TO IMITATE THE PRIMITIVE CONVERTS TO CHRISTIANITY, AND TO LIVE IN PAROCHIAL COMMUNION, ACCORDING TO ITS DUE EXTENT AND OBLIGATION; IT IS NOT ENOUGH TO HEAR SERMONS ONLY, BUT WE ARE TO JOIN IN PUBLICK PRAYERS, AND IN RECEIVING THE LORD’S SUPPER, WHEN WE HAVE OP- PORTUNITY AND CAPACITY SO TO DO. London: Printed for G. Strahan at the Golden-Ball ..., 1702. [4],60pp. Quarto. Extracted from pamphlet volume. Somewhat foxed and tanned, occasionally very much so. A sound copy, though without the half-title, and terminal [2]pp. called for by ESTC.

First and only edition. The author (d. 1734) is identified as the Vicar of Towchester, and this copy bears scattered corrections and revisions, most of which are relatively minor, but are of such a number as to suggest some degree of early intent to prepare a corrected text, perhaps for the 1706 edition. Uncommon: ESTC locates only six copies, with Yale’s being the only copy in North America. ESTC N36128. $225.

271. [Parr, Samuel]: GULIELMI BELLENDENI MAGISTRI SUPPLICUM LIBELLORUM AU- GUSTI REGIS MAGNÆ BRITANNIÆ, &C. DE STATU LIBRI TRES ... EDITIO SECUNDA LONGE EMENDATIOR. London. 1787. [2],lxxvi,[18],44,[8],48,[8],216pp. plus three engraved portraits and two plates. Octavo. 19th century quarter vellum and marbled boards, gilt spine label. Two bookplates, scattered foxing and dusting, portraits a bit foxed and offset to opposite page, old bookseller’s description (of another copy) pasted to endsheet verso, otherwise a very good copy.

First edition of this curious work, a contribution to classical scholarship concealing a con- temporary political agenda. “Henry Homer, a classical scholar, wished to publish a new edition of three treatises by William Bellenden, a sixteenth-century Scottish professor and diplomat, and asked Parr to write a Latin dedication and preface for the book. Bellenden’s unfinished treatise De tribus luminibus Romanorum suggested to Parr that Britain had its own luminaries, and Homer agreed that the venture should be used to support the contem- porary whig cause by having the treatise dedicated to the ‘tria lumina Anglorum’ – Burke, North, and Fox. The preface was then enlarged into a political tract supporting the coalition of these three politicians and attacking the younger Pitt and his government. The Praefatio ad Bellendenum appeared anonymously in 1787, but gradually the authorship became known first to scholars and then was more widely publicized when the work was translated into English” – DNB. The portraits of Burke, Pitt and North were engraved by J. Jones and bear his 1787 imprint as publisher. A faux title-leaf for the first section of text includes a Paris 1625 imprint and is faced by a mock frontispiece, and there is also a terminal engraving, “In Tribvs Vnvm,” dated 1612. This copy includes the 60-line errata, one of four states reported by ESTC. The 22pp. addenda, published a year later, is not present in this copy. NCBEL II:1827. ESTC T108216. $375.

272. [Pigott, Charles]: THE JOCKEY CLUB, OR A SKETCH OF THE MANNERS OF THE AGE...PART THE FIRST [with:] ...PART THE SECOND [with:] PART THE THIRD. Dublin: Printed for P. Byrne [et al], 1792-3. [8],87; [16],24,43-74,67-102; [12],[9]-112pp. Octavo. Three volumes. Extracted from nonce pamphlet volume. Ownership signature (“Sitgreaves”) on each title (U.S. Congressman and diplomat Samuel Sitgreaves) cut into in binding, scattered foxing and mild tanning, chip from lower blank gutter corner of title, otherwise very good.

The “second” (but first Dublin) edition of the first part, and the first Dublin printings of the second and third. A very popular collection of gossip about, and invective toward, the upper classes, its tone well in line with its author’s revolutionary sympathies. The London editions and their many reprintings appeared in 1792 and following. ESTC T125821 & T188741 & T188744. $350.

273. [Pigott, Charles]: THE FEMALE JOCKEY CLUB, OR A SKETCH OF THE MANNERS OF THE AGE .... BY THE AUTHOR OF THE FORMER JOCKEY CLUB. London: Printed for the Author, 1794. xix,[1],119,[1]pp. Octavo. Extracted from nonce pamphlet volume. With the ownership signature (“Sitgreaves”) on the title of U.S. diplomat and Congressman Samuel Sitgreaves (‘es’ cut away when trimmed).

First (?) edition. This popular sequel to Pigott’s earlier work appeared both in this form, and with Eaton’s imprint. That they are separate editions is suggested by substantially different pagination. The form bearing Eaton’s imprint saw seven editions (or printings) in 1794, in this form “Printed for the Author,” only one. Pigott died in the year of publication, which would likely explain the assumption by Eaton of the rights; H.D. Symonds published the three parts of The Jockey Club. ESTC N5028. $225.

With an Array of Charming Woodcuts

274. [Reynard the Fox]: THE MOST DELECTABLE HISTORY OF REYNARD THE FOX. NEWLY COR- RECTED AND PURGED, FROM ALL GROSSNESS IN PHRASE AND MATTER. AUGMENTED AND EN- LARGED WITH SUNDRY EXCELLENT MORALS AND EXPOSITIONS UPON EVERY SEVERAL CHAPTER. TO WHICH MAY NOW BE ADDED A SECOND PART OF THE SAID HISTORY: AS ALSO THE SHIFTS OF REYNARDINE THE SON OF REYNARD THE FOX, TOGETHER WITH HIS LIFE AND DEATH, &C. London: Printed by Tho. James, for Edward Brewster ... 1694. Bound with: THE MOST PLEASANT AND DELIGHTFUL HISTORY OF REYNARD THE FOX. THE SECOND PART. CONTAINING MUCH MATTER OF PLEASURE AND CONTENT. WRITTEN FOR THE DELIGHT OF YOUNG MEN, PLEASURE OF THE AGED, AND PROFIT TO ALL. TO WHICH IS ADDED MANY EXCELLENT MORALS. London: Printed by A.M. and R.R. for Edward Brewster ... 1681. Bound with: THE SHIFTS OF REYNARDINE THE SON OF REYNARD THE FOX, OR A PLEAS- ANT HISTORY OF HIS LIFE AND DEATH. FULL OF VARIETY, &C. AND MAY FITLY BE APPLIED TO THE LATE TIMES. NOW PUBLISHED FOR THE REFORMATION OF MENS MANNERS. London: Printed by T.J. for Edward Brewster ... and Thomas Passenger ...,

1684. Three parts bound in one volume. [80] leaves, A-U4; [56] leaves A-O4; and [8],160pp. Quarto. Modern blind paneled calf, raised bands, gilt label. First two parts illustrated with spirited woodcuts. Occasional foxing and mild spotting, marginal smudges to first title, usual tanning, lower forecorners of E2-3 in first part torn away and replaced, with a few letters and a few words in the sidenote in ms, a few upper margins dust-soiled, last three gatherings in third part supplied from another copy and trimmed slightly shorter at lower margin; a good, sound copy, neatly bound.

First edition of the third part. An omnibus gathering of these three separately printed editions, each with independent register, and with the title of the first part taking into account the pres- ence of the latter two. The terminal advert leaf to the first part is present. Wing attributes the text of the first part to John Shirley, and that for the third is occasionally attributed to the publisher, Edward Brewster. The first part is illustrated with 62 woodcut illustrations (signed ‘E.B.’), of which 23 are repeats; the second part includes 15 woodcuts, all of which appear as well in the first part. The first part was first printed in this form in 1667, and the second in 1672; the first part was reprinted again in 1701. Among the most widely adapted of the beast fables, the tales of Reynard the Fox originated in the 12th and 13th centuries, with early versions in French, Dutch, Latin, and German being notable. Caxton printed a transla- tion based on a Flemish text in 1481. The character of Reynard, an anthropomorphic fox and trickster, has since become almost an archetype in the literatures of several languages. ESTC R24532 & R218371 & R40614. WING S3513 & M2912 & S3436. BRUNET IV:1228. LOWNDES VII:2076. $10,000.

275. Ross, Alexander: MYSTAGOGVS POETICVS, OR THE MUSES INTERPRETER: EXPLAINING THE HISTORICALL MYSTERIES, AND MYSTICALL HISTORIES OF THE ANCIENT GREEK AND LATINE POETS. HERE APOLLO’S TEMPLE IS AGAIN OPENED, THE MUSES TREASURERS THE SECOND TIME DISCOVERED .... London: Printed for Thomas Whitaker at the Kings Arms ..., 1648. [12],2,418,[34]pp. Octavo. Frontis (attributed to William Faithorne). Contemporary paneled calf, rebacked in sympathetic style some decades ago, frontis mounted and a bit soiled, clean tear in upper edge of title mended on verso; occasional early ink annotations and stray, small ink drops; stubs of once tipped in ms. leaf in one margin; joints rubbed (but sound); a good copy.

Second edition, first published the previous year. The present copy exhibits a variant imprint from that recorded in Wing and ESTC (without the printer’s initials). A semblance of a diction- ary of mythology by the prolific Scottish vicar and controversialist, including an abstract of the original myth followed by Ross’s interpretation of it. Ross is remembered for his criticisms of Hobbes, Browne, Digby and Harvey, and for having prepared, based on Sieur Du Ryer’s French text, the first, albeit flawed, translation into English of the Qur’an. ESTC R1748. WING R1964. $475.

276. Smith, Adam: THE THEORY OF MORAL SENTIMENTS, OR AN ESSAY TOWARDS AN ANALYSIS OF THE PRINCIPLES BY WHICH MEN NATURALLY JUDGE CONCERNING THE CONDUCT AND CHARACTER, FIRST OF THEIR NEIGHBOURS, AND AFTERWARDS OF THEMSELVES. TO WHICH IS ADDED A DISSERTATION ON THE ORIGIN OF LANGUAGES. London: Printed for W. Strahan [et al]..., 1781. [8],478,[1]pp. Octavo. Modern half calf and marbled boards, raised bands, gilt label. Scattered foxing (occasionally moderate), lower forecorner of title creased, with old stamp of a divinity school on title, early ink ownership signature in upper margins of A2 and B1, otherwise a near very good copy.

Fifth edition of Smith’s first book, the work that established his reputation as a philosopher both in London and on the Continent. “One of Adam Smith’s major claims to fame, in some ways his greatest, is his development of a unified concept of an economic system with mutu- ally interdependent parts. His development of this came well before the Wealth of Nations; it is in the Theory of Moral Sentiments of 1759 and the Lectures of 1762-3...” (O’Brien, The Classical Economists, p. 29) ESTC T95113. $500.

277. [Tate, Allen]: Van Doren, Mark: THE PRIVATE READER SELECTED ARTICLES AND REVIEWS. New York: Henry Holt and Company, [1942]. Large octavo. Cloth. Corners bumped and worn, top edge shows spill mark; just a sound copy.

First edition. Inscribed by Van Doren to Allen Tate: “To Allen who insisted Mark 2/13/42.” There are a number of pencil underscores and marginal highlights in the Preface and several of the essays on poetry, and a four word marginal comment in the former. $225.

278. Torshel [or Torshell], Samuel: A DESIGNE ABOUT DISPOSING THE BIBLE INTO AN HARMONY. OR, AN ESSAY, CONCERNING THE TRANSPOSING THE ORDER OF BOOKS AND CHAPTERS OF THE HOLY SCRIPTURES FOR THE REDUCING OF ALL INTO A CONTINUED HISTORY. THE BENEFITES. DIFFICULTIE. HELPES. London: Printed by A. Miller for John Bellamy, 1647. [4],30pp (wanting final blank). Small quarto. Extracted from pamphlet volume. Small ink drop on title leaf, obscuring one letter, tiny rust hole in A2 touching a couple letters, top blank edge of two leaves trimmed carelessly, otherwise a very good copy.

First edition. Torshell (1605-1650), served as tutor to the King’s children beginning in 1644, and his prefatory dedication to Parliament indicates that his experiences in that role led to this plan. McALPIN II:530. ESTC R201360 WING T1936. $300.

279. [Updike, D.B.]: THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER AND ADMINISTRATION OF THE SACRAMENTS AND OTHER RITES AND CEREMONIES OF THE CHURCH ACCORDING TO THE USE OF THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. New York: Printed for the Convention, 1893. [28],566,[2]pp. Folio. Original heavily gilt decorated vellum over boards, with brass fore-clasps, t.e.g., others untrimmed, ribbon marker. Printed in red and black, with floriated borders by Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue, title in black letter. Binding rubbed and somewhat dust-soiled, some bleed-through on the title from the array of original ink signatures on the verso, otherwise very good or somewhat better.

Copy #5 of the limited issue of the revised Book of Common Prayer, overseen by D.B. Updike, and signed in ink on the verso of the title of many of the principals associated with the revision approved at the 1892 General Convention, including financier J.P. Morgan, who helped fund the edition’s publication. The limited edition was prepared in two forms, one being this form, intended for distribution to each diocese and jurisdiction within the Church, with original signatures on the verso of the title and with a variant title, all in black letter, without border. The standard limited edition of 500 copies on handmade paper has the signatures of the principals in printed facsimile, and a foliated border around the title resembling those around the main text, and the central “Laudate Dominum” device, and the two lines: “Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David.” Updike comments at length on this project in his introduction to Notes On The Merrymount Press, and about his role in the attempted rescue of an ill-conceived attempt to produce a decorated edition from the plates of the 1892 printing: “The best things about the book were the cover and charming end-papers which Goodhue designed for it. Sad to relate, the edition had an immediate and resounding success! We were congratulated, and we blushed. Our shame was taken for modesty and we were congratulated more! While the book is indeed a strange one, it is by no means so strange as the designs originally made for it” (see pp. 9-10). Nonetheless, the experience was an important prelude to the production in 1928 of Updike’s own edition, widely regarded as his finest work. Laid into this copy is the 4pp. leaflet, On The Decora- tions Of The Limited Edition Of The Standard Prayer Book Of Mdcccxcii, and tipped to the second blank is the original bifolium printed presentation slip, with the recipient denoted in manuscript (a now defunct divinity school). GRIFFITHS 1893.6. $6500.

280. [Victorian Wood-Engraving]: THE NEW TESTAMENT OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST. WITH ENGRAVINGS ON WOOD FROM DESIGNS .... London: Longman, Green and Co., 1864. xvi,540pp. Thick small quarto. Elaborately gilt decorated red morocco, a.e.g., attributed by an early owner to John Leighton. Illustrated throughout with wood-engraved borders, illustrations and decorations (see below). Joints and extremities worn, and upper joint split 5 cm. toward crown, some foxing to prelims, but a good copy

First edition, one of 250 copies printed on large paper. One of the more ambitious undertak- ings in the era of Victorian woodcut illustration, including engravings by Linton, Cooper, the Dalziels, and many others, engraved after work by Raphael, Leonardo, Titian, Fra Angelico, et al. The project was overseen by Henry Shaw, who designed many of the decorations, which were then engraved by Orland Jewitt. It was reprinted several times. $1250.

281. Whiston, William: AN ESSAY ON THE REVELATION OF SAINT JOHN, SO FAR AS CONCERNS THE PAST AND PRESENT TIMES. TO WHICH ARE ADDED TWO DISSERTA- TIONS, THE ONE UPON MARK II. 25, 26. THE OTHER UPON MATTHEW XXIV. AND THE PARALLEL CHAPTERS. WITH A COLLECTION OF SCRIPTURE-PROPHECIES RELAT- ING TO THE TIMES AFTER THE COMING OF THE MESSIAH. Cambridge: Printed at the University Press, for B. Tooke..., 1706. [4],395,[1]pp. plus folding plate. Small quarto. Modern half calf and marbled boards, raised bands, gilt label, side-panels decorated in blind. Old ink stain on top edge, occasionally creeping into the upper margin (and the upper forecorners of the first third of text), occasional light foxing, a few old ink scribbles on last leaf, otherwise a good copy, neatly bound.

First edition of the first of the eminent mathematician’s publications on biblical prophesies. An early proponent and friend of Newton, Whiston succeeded him as Lucasian professor of mathematics, a post he held until his unorthodox religious views and disinclination to bow to authority in his publications cost him that post in 1710. Page number 287 is misnumbered ‘277’ and like the variant noted in ESTC, page 229 is misnumbered ‘220’. ESTC T116538. $550. 282. Whiston, William: ST. CLEMENT’S AND ST. IRENÆUS’S VINDICATION OF THE APOS- TOLICAL CONSTITUTIONS, FROM SEVERAL OBJECTIONS MADE AGAINST THEM. AS ALSO AN ACCOUNT OF THE TWO ANCIENT RULES THEREUNTO BELONGING, FOR THE CELEBRATION OF EASTER ... IN THIS SECOND EDITION IS ADDED A LARGE SUPPLEMENT. London: Printed for the Author, and are to be sold by J. Roberts ..., 1716. [2],48,47,[1]pp. Octavo. Extracted from bound pamphlet volume. Early ink price and date on title, light foxing and tanning; very good.

The second edition, enlarged by the addition of the 47pp. separately printed and signed supple- ment. The first edition was dated 1715. A somewhat uncommon pamphlet by the polymath: ESTC locates six copies of this edition in North America, and only three of the first edition. ESTC T48523. $250.