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Newburyport - Boston - Mount Desert Island The Last “Black Letter” Edition of Geoffrey Chaucer The Works of Our Ancient, Learned and Excellent English Poet London - The Third Speght Edition - 1687

1 Chaucer, Geoffrey. THE WORKS OF OUR ANCIENT, LEARNED, AND EXCELLENT ENGLISH POET, JEFFREY CHAUCER ...to Which Is Adjoyn’d the Story of the Siege of Thebes, by John Lidgate...Together With the Life Of Chaucer (London: np, 1687) The third Speght edition, and the last ‘black letter’ edition of Chaucer’s works. With the famous engraved Gower portrait and genealogical frontispiece, engraved coat of arms at the beginning of the works and with woodcut initials throughout. Folio, full antique calf, the spine sometime restored to correct period style with raised bands ruled in double gilt and with a red morocco label gilt ruled and lettered. (36), 660, (24) pp. A very handsome copy, internally quite clean and still crisp, a bit of expected mellowing or age evidence, the binding handsome with some expert restoration as noted. A nice, tall copy of this important work. A SCARCE, HANDSOME AND IMPORTANT EDITION. This was the last ‘black letter’ edition of Chaucer to be published. Thomas Speght included in this edition “The Court of Love,” added to the Chaucer canon by Stow in 1561, as well as four new pieces: “The Flower and the Leaf;” “Chaucer’s Dream;” “Jacke Upland” (spuriously attributed to Chaucer); and “Chaucer’s A B C.” The text of the Tales follows that of the 1602 edition, but with the addition of the then recently rediscovered endings of the Cook’s and the Squire’s tales. There is also a twenty-four page Glos- sary, “The Old and Obscure Words Explained”, at the end of the volume. This copy with fine provenance, with the engraved bookplate of Oliver Huckel, published author and authority on Richard Wagner. Huckel was the translator into English of such works as ‘Tannhauser’ and ‘Parsifal’. With the plate of the Brook- lyn Public Library (now deaccessioned) noting it was purchased with the gift of Alexander M. White. There are none of the typical library markings other than this label noting the donor and previous owner. Pforzheimer 179; Wing C3736. $8500.

The First Trade Published Edition - Large Paper Copy And the First ‘Modern’ Translation Into English - 1819 Dante’s Divine Comedy - The Great Cary Translation

2 Dante Alighieri, (1265-1321). THE VISION; OR HELL, PURGATORY AND PARADISE OF DANTE ALIGHIERI. Translated by the Rev. Henry Francis Cary, A.M. (London: Printed for Taylor and Hessey, Fleet Street, 1819) 3 volumes. A LARGE PAPER COPY of the FIRST TRADE EDITION of the FIRST MODERN TRANSLATION of Dante into English in its complete form including all the parts of the trilogy. Preceded only by the privately printed edition issued by the author. Additionally, for this edition is affixed a Life of Dante, Notes and an Index. Tall 8vo, very handsomely and beautifully bound in three- quarter burnt-red morocco by Bayntun early in the last century, the covers with fine French marbled paper over boards and morocco at the corners, the spines decorated with raised bands ruled in blind, gilt lettered and numbered in two compartments of each volume, marbled end-leaves, t.e.g. lii, 303; xi, 309; 297, (28) index pp., with all three half-titles as called for. A fine and very handsome set in excellent condition, essentially as pristine. The bindings and text-blocks are in wonderful condition, very finely preserved. RARE FIRST EDITION AND COMPLETE SET IN A VERY HANDSOME EARLY BAYNTUN BINDING. ONE OF THE GREAT BOOKS OF ALL TIME. Cary’s famous translation has long been considered the first modern rendering of Dante’s timeless epic into English. While previous English translations prior to Cary’s had been accomplished in the 18th century, none were able to transfer into the English language, the beauty and richness of language for which Dante has forever been revered. It took Cary many years to make the complete translation. Indeed, the parts of the COMEDY were released over a number of years from 1805 on. Cary was influenced greatly by the Romantics and by Coleridge in particular. Though the text was finished in mid-1812, Cary was unable to secure a publisher and was, after some years, obliged even with his very modest means to publish the work at his own expense. It at first excited little attention, but it came under great notice primarily because of the applause of Coleridge whom Cary had met while pacing the beach reading Homer to his son. ‘Sir,’ said Coleridge, attracted by the sound of the Greek, ‘yours is a face I should know. I am Samuel Taylor Coleridge.” “During the rest of the day, the wondrous stranger discoursed on Homer making young Cary ‘feel as one from whose eyes the scales were just removed,’ and in the evening carried home the translation of Dante, of which he had never even heard. The next day he was able to repeat whole pages, and his winter course of lectures gave it celebrity. The new and first edition published by a general publisher was secured in 1819, and ever since,...it has remained the translation which, on Dante’s name being mentioned, occurs first to the mind.” Cary’s translation allowed the rediscovery of Dante’s masterpiece by the British of the Romantic Era and it was praised not only by Coleridge, but by Shelley, Byron and Wordworth as well. Copies of this, the first generally published edition of the book in its original three-decker format are extremely scarce. This is a still more scarce large paper copy As to Dante himself, “Dante’s theme, the greatest yet attempted in poetry, was to explain and justify the Christian cosmos through the allegory of a pilgrimage. To him comes Virgil, the symbol of philosophy, to guide him through the two lower realms of the next world, which are divided according to the classifications of the ‘Ethics’ of Aristotle. Hell is seen as an inverted cone with its point where lies Lucifer fixed in ice at the centre of the world, and the pilgrimage from it a climb to the foot of and then up the Purgatorial Mountain. Along the way Dante passes Popes, Kings and Emperors, poets, warriors and citizens of Florence, expiating the sins of their life on earth. On the summit is the Earthly Paradise where Beatrice meets them and Virgil departs. Dante is now led through the various spheres of heaven, and the poem ends with a vision of the Deity. The audacity of his theme, the success of its treatment, the beauty and majesty of his verse, have ensured that his poem never lost its reputation. The picture of divine justice is entirely unclouded by Dante’s own political prejudices, and his language never falls short of what he describes.” PMM $2450.

History of Herodian - The Roman Emperors after Marcus Aurelius Published in London - 1556 - Very Rare First Edition Only 13 Copies Recorded by OCLC Worldwide

3 Herodianus, Herodian the Greek. THE HISTORY OF HERODIAN, a Greeke Authour, Treating of the Romayne Emperors, after Marcus, Translated Oute of Greeke into Latin, by Angelus Politianus, and Out of Latin into Englyshe, by Nicholas Smyth. Whereunto are Annexed, the Argumentes of Euery Booke, at the Begynnyng Thereof, with Annotacions for the Better Understandynge of the Same Historye [in eight books] (London: Wyllyam Coplande, [1556?, publication date conjectured by STC.]) First Edition of the First English Transla- tion. Printed in black letter, the title-page within woodcut border and with 18 large woodcut decorative initials and one woodcut tailpiece. Small 4to (170 by 120mm), handsomely bound in antique, probably 16th century, contemporary full calf. The boards elaborately paneled in blind, the panels highly decorative, featuring flowers, wheat, vines and other ornate tooling, the spine elaborately tooled in blind and with two gilt tooled raised bands, each band framed by an elaborate gilt strip finely tooled, lettered in gilt in a wide compartment between the two bands, end-leaves marbled. Now chemised and in a quarter morocco slipcase gilt lettered. [4ff], 106ff, [17ff, annotations and errata] pp. A very handsome and well preserved copy, only a few leaves with minor and expected light soiling, one small marginal flaw, the binding solid and attractive with expert and near invisible restoration at the hinges. VERY RARE, ONLY TWO COPIES IN PUBLIC AUCTION RECORDS SINCE THE 1970’s. OCLC LIST ONLY 13 COPIES WORLDWIDE. Nicholas Smyth’s translation was the first appearance of this important history in English. Pforzheimer notes that it may actually have been printed by Tottel, despite Copland’s imprint and colophon, the date is conjectored and sometimes given as 1550 thought 1556 is believed to be more accurate. Herodianus was “[t]he author of an extant history, in the Greek language, of the Roman Empire, in eight books (all present within this volume), from the death of Marcus Aurelius to the commencement of the reign of Gordianus III. (A.D..180- 238). He states that the events described by him occurred during the period of his own life, which serves to fix his date, but of the details of his career nothing is known. He seems to have made Thucydides his model, and his narrative is characterized by sobriety, impartiality, and in general by accuracy” (Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Literature and Antiquities, p. 804). Pforzheimer 467; STC 13221. $16,950.

Very Rare First and Only Antiquarian Edition The Most Famous of Tudor Poems – The Spider and the Flie

4 Heywood, John. A PARABLE OF THE SPIDER AND THE FLIE, Made by John Heywood (London: Tho. Pow- ell, 1556) VERY RARE. First Edition, and the only edition prior to the modern era, this the Berland copy with his famous ex-libris to the upper pastedown. Approximately thirty 3/4 page woodcuts and 10 full page woodcuts, most of which are repeated several times throughout the text (for a total of 118 woodcut illustrations). In addition there are four woodcut tailpieces (each used many times, a total of 73 impressions.) There are also two full-page portraits of the author. Small 4to, in very handsome 19th c. full maroon straight grain morocco, tooled in blind and gilt on both covers and spine, titled and dated on spine in gilt, author’s name on a small gilt lettered brown morocco label, tooled edges and dentelles, very attractively gauffered edges in a pattern reminiscent of a medieval binding, sewn headbands, silk marker. Extremities a bit scuffed, end papers a bit brittle at the edges, the text-block falls open at the center. All in all, a highly ‘original’ binding, well executed and sturdy. A fine and handsomely preserved copy of this rare book, A1 (title), portrait and final page supplied in excellent lithographic facsimile. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION, WITH VERY FINE PROVENANCE, THE BERLAND COPY, AND A VERY RARE BOOK. Interpretations of this, the most famous of Tudor poems, abound. Heywood himself, who took twenty years to finish the Spider and the Flie, didn’t know quite what to make of it when it was finally completed. Whomever (or whatever) the spiders and the flies were supposed to represent (the prevailing critical interpretation has the spiders as the Protestant monarchy and the flies as the persecuted Catholics, Heywood clearly has the flies as underdogs, and heoots r for them throughout. Since the political weather in England during the period of Heywood’s composition was arguably the stormiest in the nation’s history, it isn’t surprising that the poem is difficult to interpret. He may have simply kept adjusting his loyalties, depending on whomever was being oppressed. One thing is certain, though—Heywood was forever loyal to Mary (who is represented by the maid with the broom in the last series of woodcuts). When Elizabeth accessed, Heywood fled to the Bra- bant, where he died in the 1580s. Aside from The Spider and the Flie, Heywood’s literary legacy includes books of epigrams and proverbs, a half-dozen plays, and a volume of collected works (which does not include the present poem), all of which were popular and often reprinted. Heywood was a distant cousin to Thomas More, and grandfather of John Donne. “...the illustrations and decorations as well as the general typographical excellence make this book outstanding among English work of the time,” —William A. Jackson; Catalogue of the Pforzheimer Collection, 1940. Only a very few records showing the sale of a first edition of the work in many years. Abel Berland, along with Robert Hoe, and J. R. Abbey, was a foremost collector of English literature in the 20th century, the sale of his library realized over $14 million. SIC 13308. Pforzheimer 472. $12,500. A Unique and Important Copy of Ulysses The Masterwork of James Joyce - Inscribed by Him The Most Important Novel of the Twentieth Century

5 Joyce, James. ULYSSES (Paris: Shakespeare and Co., January 1924) First Edition, the fourth printing . AN IMPORTANT AND RARE COPY INSCRIBED BY JOYCE on a preliminary blank ‘To A.K. Griggs / James Joyce / Paris/ 16.iv [1]934’ With 4 pp. of “Ulysses Additional Corrections” bound in at the end. 8vo, in a French binding of wine-red cloth, the spine with black morocco lettering label gilt, and with a fine slipcase, marbled endleaves, and with the original white wrappers printed in blue bound in. 736 pp. A fine copy, the paper lightly browned overall as is usual with this printing, some marginal tears or chips, primarily at the prelims. THE MOST IMPORTANT NOVEL OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. A RARE AND IMPOR- TANT INSCRIBED COPY OF JOYCE’S MASTER- WORK. ULYSSES can be viewed as the pinnacle of the Modernist movement, and its impact on all subsequent western literature is unmistakable. Such writers as Vir- ginia Woolf, John Dos Passos, William Faulkner, Samu- el Beckett, Malcolm Lowry, and Anthony Burgess have all paid tribute, consciously or unconsciously, to Joyce’s influence. Burgess as well pronounced it the greatest single work in the English literature of this century, and he is not alone in that opinion. According to James Spoerri, “This fortunate combination of printer and publisher resulted in the appearance of ULYSSES as a book whose physical aspect is particularly suited to its content. It is a fat and inviting volume, the blue and white of its covers subtly evocative of the Greece whose epic it so closely parallels” (quoted in the catalogue for the Garden Sale, Sotheby’s 1989, first edition, first issue). “Universally hailed as the most influential work of modern times” (Grolier Joyce 69). After working for seven years on Ulysses, Joyce, desperate to find a publisher, turned to Sylvia Beach of Shakespeare and Company in Paris. “Within a month of the publication, the first printing of Ulysses was practically sold out, and within a year Joyce had become a well-known literary figure. Ulysses was explosive in its impact on the literary world of 1922... Then began the great game of smuggling the edition into countries where it was forbidden, especially England and the United States. The contraband article was transported across the seas and national borders in all sorts of cunning ways...” (de Grazia, 27). Arthur Kingsland Griggs, the recipient of this copy of ULYSSES, inscribed by Joyce, lived from 1891-1934. He was editor and translator of Léon Daudet’s MEMOIRS (1925) and the MEMOIRS OF QUEEN HORTENSE (1928). He also published MY PARIS, AN ANTHOLOGY OF MODERN PARIS FROM THE WORKS OF CONTEMPORARY FRENCH WRITERS (1932) and wrote a popular (and often reprinted) guidebook, PARIS FOR EVERYMAN - HER PRESENT, HER PAST & HER ENVIRONS (1926). COPIES OF ULYSSES INSCRIBED BY JOYCE ARE TRULY RARE. THIS IS A HANDSOME AND DESIRABLE COPY OF A CORNERSTONE LITERARY WORK. Slocum and Cahoon A17 $28,500. Signed by Martin Luther King Jr. Stride Toward Freedom - One of the Best American Books

6 King, Jr., Martin Luther. STRIDE TOWARD FREEDOM: The Montgomery Story (New York: Harper & Row, 1958) First edition, an early issue (Sept. ‘59) printing. SIGNED with “best wishes” by Dr. King to Mr. and Mrs. Geo. B. Rayford. With eight pages of photographs. 8vo, publisher’s original blue cloth backed in black, lettered in silver on the spine and with silver publisher’s device on the upper cover, in the original dustjack- et. Now preserved in a handsome morocco backed fold-over box with black morocco labels lettered in gilt. 230, index. A very well preserved copy, inside clean and quite fine, the blue cloth with only the most minor of edge-mellowing, the jacket handsome with some small chips, minor edge wear and slight fading to the spine. AN INSCRIBED COPY WITH EXCELLENT PROVENANCE OF THIS GREAT WORK IN AMERICAN LITERATURE. This is the famous story of Rosa Parks and the resulting Montgomery bus boycott led by Dr. King. This copy belonged to George and Josephine Rayford of Charleston, WV. Mrs. Rayford was the first African American affiliated with the Kanawha County Business Education Association, serving of the Board of Directors. She was a member of many organizations and served on the State and County Curriculum Revision Committee. She was named Alumni of the Year by the West Virginia State College Alumni Association. Her work with Meals on Wheels got her named “Hometown Hero” by television station WSAZ. In 1993 at the age of 89, she was honored by the Henry Highland Garnett Foundation for years of dedication and service. $9500.

The Best Collection of Robert Frost’s Poems The Complete Poems of Robert Frost - Printed by Bruce Rogers 1950 - Signed by Frost, Nason and Rogers Beautifully Illustrated with Cuts on Wood

7 [Limited Editions Club]; Frost, Robert. THE COMPLETE POEMS OF ROBERT FROST. (New York: Limited Editions Club, printed by Bruce Rog- ers at the Marchbanks Press, 1950) 2 volumes. First Edition of the collection, One of 1500 copies for members of the Limited Editions Club, signed by Frost, Nason, and Rogers. With the original prospectus, folded and inserted at the front of Volume I. With decorations on wood by Thomas W. Nason. 4to, bound in the original dark blue cloth, the spines with black morocco labels lettered in gilt, housed in the publisher’s marbled slipcase. xliv 308; 607 pp. A very fine set, near as pristine, both internally clean and externally, with only a touch of mellowing to the spines and a bit of rubbing to the box. SIGNED BY ROBERT FROST, THOMAS NASON AND BRUCE ROGERS. FIRST EDITION OF WHAT IS CONSIDERED GENERALLY TO BE THE FINEST COLLECTION OF THE POEMS OF ROBERT FROST. Beautifully illustrated and printed. With a preface by the author, an appreciation by Louis Untermeyer and wood-engravings by Thomas W. Nason. $2950. The Rare First Edition in English - 1595 Machiavelli - The Florentine Historie Significant in Political, Diplomatic, and Intellectual Thought

8 Machiavelli, Nicholo. THE FLORENTINE HISTORIE. Written in the Italian Tongue by Nicholo Machiavelli Citizen and Secretarie of and Translated Into English by T. B. Esquire (London: by Thomas Creede for William Ponsonby , 1595) RARE FIRST EDITION in English of this important work. With an elaborate wood-engraved historiated border on the title-page and with handsome woodcut initials and head- and tail-pieces throughout. Folio in sixes, in later full dark paneled calf designed to period style, the spine with tall raised bands ruled in blind, with a single red morocco label gilt lettered and ruled, the original front black retained. xii, 222 pp. A fine, handsome, tight, clean and very well preserved copy of the very rare first printing in English. The text-block fine, with only very minor mellowing or evidence age, the paper crisp, unpressed and unwashed, the binding in excellent condition. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH OF MACHIAVELLI’S GREAT CHRONICLE OF FLORENTINE AFFAIRS, THE “FIRST EXAMPLE OF A NATIONAL BIOG- RAPHY” - Britannica. The work is significant in the history of political, diplomatic, philosophical and intellectual thought. This printing precedes the first English edition of “The Prince” by 45 years THE HISTORY OF FLORENCE was Machiavelli’s last work. Though written at the command of the Pope, who, as the head of the Medici family, was also ruler of Florence, the book treats the characters of that illustrious house with fairness and impartiality. And although it is primarily an historical work, Machiavelli was writing from a political perspective and “this gives the work its special character.” [E.B.] The history is not a straight account of historical facts but rather a critique of the way Florentine history had been told up until that time. This is the “first example in Italian literature of a national biography, the first attempt in any literature to trace the vicissitudes of a people ‘s life in their logical sequence, deducing each successive phase from passions or necessities inherent in preceding circumstances, reasoning upon them from general principles and inferring corollaries from the conduct of the future.” [E.B.] The history contains speeches related in the classical style but generally, Machiavelli’s style breaks away from the formal exercise of the times and reveals concise, direct and energetic prose. Machiavelli intended to continue the work beyond Lorenzo de Medici, but his death left that task to Guicciardini. STC 17162. Britannica $18,500.

Sir Isaac Newton’s Principia Mathematica - 1713 The Great Monument to Human Intelligence A Foundation Stone to All of Modern Science

9 [Newton, Isaac]. PHILOSOPHIÆ NATURALIS PRINCIPIA MATHE- MATICA Auctore Isaaco Newtono, Equite Aurato. Edition Secunda Auc- tior et Emendatior (Cambridge: (University Press), 1713) The second edition, the first to include the General Scholium in which Newton givesa general resume of the work. One of about 750 copies printed, of which 250 were sent to Holland and France. Engraved vignette on title, one folding engraved plate, and numerous woodcut diagrams and illustrations in the text. Large 4to, bound in full English contemporary polished calf, the spine fully gilt and very handsome, morocco lettering label gilt, compartments handsomely gilt between raised bands of the spine. 14 leaves, 484, [8]. A very handsome copy, the back expertly and exquisitely restored to style, title with usual offset from binding turn-ins in fore-margin, fore-margin of title very slightly frayed, small neat repair to upper inner corner of title. ONE OF THE GREATEST BOOKS EVER PENNED, AND A FOUNDA- TION OF ALL MODERN SCIENCE. THE CORNERSTONE TREATISE ON DYNAMICS AND GRAVITATION, “THE MOST INFLUENTIAL SCIENTIFIC PUBLI- CATION OF THE 17TH CENTURY” (Horblit) A pleasing and handsome copy of the PRIN- CIPIA. “Richard Bentley, Master of Trinity College, was instrumental in bringing out this second edition, which was edited by Roger Cotes, F.R.S. In his important preface, Cotes at- tacks the Cartesian philosophy then still in vogue in the universities, and refutes an assertion that Newton’s theory of attraction is a causa occulta. It contains a second preface by Newton and considerable additions, the chapters on the lunar theory and the theory of comets being much enlarged” (- Babson 12). Newton, in the PRINCIPIA, stated the three laws of motion that establish the relationship of mass, force, and direction; he also discussed the movement of bodies through gases and liq- uids, and defined mass and force and the corpuscular theory of light. But most importantly, he established the principal of universal gravitation and the motion of the planets. “Copernicus, Newton, and Einstein are the three corner-stones of our conception of the universe. Few could grasp Newton’s reasoning at the time, and his fame was spread on the Continent by Voltaire’s ELEMENS DE LA PHILOSOPHIE DE NEUTON, 1738” (PMM). Roger Cotes, 1682-1716, “was not only able enough to see where Principia could be im- proved, but also able to criticise Newton and correct his errors without ever antagonising him - no mean feat ... [Cotes’s Preface contains] a strong attack against Cartesian physics in general and the vortex theory of planetary motion in particular ... The most significant feature remains the number of changes introduced into this edition [including] the propositions on the resistance of fluids, the lunar theory, the procession of the equinoxes, the theory of comets ... On [Cotes’s] death Newton bestowed on him the tribute he had denied him in his life: if he had lived we might have known something”. Wallis 8: see PMM, Horblit Dibner &c. for the first edition. $35,000.

A Beautiful Edition of Ovid’s Ten Epistles Translated Into English Fitzthomas, Dryden and Others - 1807 Handsomely Bound in Decorated Contemporary Mottled Calf

10 [Ovid]. TEN EPISTLES OF OVID, Translated into English Verse, By the Late Rev. Wm. Windsor Fitzthomas with the Latin and Notes. To which are subjoined, the Epistles of Hero to Leander, and Leander to Hero, by a Different Hand; that of Sappho to Phaon by Pope; and of Dido to Eneas by Dryden. (Lon- don: Printed for C. and R. Baldwin, 1807) First of the edition. 8vo, beautifully bound in full contemporary green mottled calf, the spine in compartments between raised bands decorated in gilt, gilt decorated compartments incorporating border and center tooling, black morocco lettering label gilt, covers with gilt ruled borders surrounding an inner gilt roll, all edges gilt, marbled endleaves. lxv, 317, 2 ads pp. A crisp and clean copy in a superb state of preservation. A handsomely bound volume. RARE FIRST EDITION OF THE TRANSLATION. “As a story-teller and guide to Greek myth and Roman legend, Ovid was very influential on later Roman writers and was read, quoted, and adapted during the Middle Ages. He was the favourite Latin poet of the Renaissance, and there were many translations of his works into English.”-M.C.Howatson. His influence upon great writers through history, from Chaucer to Marlowe and Shakespeare, is well-known. This handsome edition, very attractively bound contains some of Ovid’s most famous work including the epistle of Sappho to Phaon by Pope; and of Dido to Eneas by Dryden. $895. First Edition - The North Pole - Robert E. Peary - 1910 A Fine Copy with Wonderful Association Material Tipped In Admiral Peary Fulfills a Quest of the Centuries

11 Peary, Robert E. THE NORTH POLE: Its Discovery In 1909 Under the Auspices of the Peary Arctic Club...With an Introduction by Theodore Roosevelt and a Foreward by Gilbert H. Grosvenor (New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1910) First edition. A copy WITH WONDERFUL ASSOCIA- TION MATERIAL. At the front of the book is tipped in an original photograph of Ootah, the Eskimo who had accompanied Peary on his 1906 travels nearest the pole and had reached the pole with Peary on the expedition which is recorded in this volume. Peary had spent 30 hours at the North Pole accompanied by Ootah and a few other Eskimos. With 8 full-page color illustrations, 100 black and white illustrations from photos, and a large folding color map at the rear. Large 8vo, publisher’s original navy blue cloth lettered in gilt on the spine and upper cover which also features a pictorial vignette in gilt, white, blue, gray and red, t.e.g. xxxii, 373 pp. A handsome copy, the interior very fresh and clean, the cloth bright and clean and well preserved. A very interesting 1953 owner’s notation on the front blank regarding an original photograph tipped in of Ootah, the Eskimo who accompanied Peary on his travels to the North Pole. A HANDSOME COPY OF THIS IMPORTANT FIRST EDITION, WITH FINE ASSOCIATION MATERIAL. Peary, of course, was the first to reach the North Pole, and this is the account of his expedition. Along with Amundsen’s THE SOUTH POLE, this work represents the culmination of centuries of man’s attempt to reach, literally, the ends of the earth. “Commander Peary has made all dwellers in the civilized world his debtors; but, above all, we, his fellow Americans, are his debtors” (-from the introduction by Roosevelt). Arctic Bibliography 13230 $1650.

The Five Books of Serlio - Il Libro D’Architettura Printed In Venice By Sabbio And Sessa - 1551 By One of the Greatest of All Renaissance Architects

12 Serlio, Sabastiano. IL PRIMO LIBRO D’ ARCHITETTURA, DI M. SABASTIANO SERLIO BOLOGNESE [with:] IL SECONDO LI- BRO DI PERSPETTIVA [with:] IL TERZO LIBRO...NEL QUAL SI FIGURANO, E DESCRIVONO LE ANTIQUITÀ DI ROMA... [with:] REGOLE GENERALI DI ARCHITETTURA... LIBRO QUARTO DI ARCHITETTURA... [with:] QUINTO LIBRO... (Venice: Cornelio de Nicolini de Sabbio & Marchio Sessa [and] Pietro de Nicolini de Sab- bio & Melchione Sessa, 1551) Five books bound into one volume. First editions of a number of these works. Of the first two books, it was long presumed that these undated printings preceded the Paris printing of 1545, but it is now considered that the Paris printings did in fact precede the Venetian issues of the first two texts. Illustrated throughout with magnificent architectural woodcuts throughout, and with woodcut initials. Scene designs are included in the second book. The earliest printings of scene designs are included in Book II. Folio, in fine antique Italian vellum over stiff boards with yap edges, the spine lettered in manuscript. 16ff; 32ff; 156pp; 76ff; 18ff. pp. A beautiful and well preserved copy, the paper crisp and clean with only very minor occasional toning or spotting. A HIGHLY IMPORTANT COLLECTION. RARE AND IMPOR- TANT FIRST EDITIONS. A beautiful ensemble of the first five books of Serlio, ONE OF THE GREATEST RENAISSANCE ARCHITECTS AND ARTISTS. These are the five books published during Serlio’s lifetime. Books I and II are Serlio’s treatises on Geometry and Perspective, including theatrical scenery and are thus “the first published account of modern theatrical practice.” (Hewitt, The Renaissance Stage, p. 21.) Book III is on the Roman Antiquities and IV is on the five styles or orders of buildings. Book V represents Serlio’s designs and treatise on temples and churches. Serlio’s 1537 model of the church façade crystallized a format that lasted into the 18th century. Serlio’s volumes were highly influential in France, the Netherlands, and England, as a conveyor of the Italian Renais- sance style, and quickly became available in a variety of languages. His plans and elevations of many Roman buildings provided useful repertory of classical images and were often reprinted. Serlio’s intentions were always practical, he wanted to create a handbook for architects, a place to find solutions and inspirations. These 5 books are the complete number published in Serlio’s lifetime. Fowler 304-311-319-322. $27,500.

A Beautiful Copy - The Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley With a Beautiful Split Handcoloured Fore-Edge Painting Very Finely Bound in Polished Tree Calf Gilt Extra

13 Shelley, Percy Bysshe. THE COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS... (Including Materials Never Before Printed in Any Edition of the Poems.) Edited (with Textual Notes) by Thomas Hutchinson (London: Humphrey Milford, Ox- ford University, 1919) First of the edition. WITH A FINE SPLIT FORE-EDGE PAINTING OF PERCY AND MARY SHELLEY AND LANDSCAPES. Portrait frontispiece of Shelley. 8vo, beautifully bound in full polished tree calf, the spine richly and elaborately designed gilt in panel designs within compartments separated by raised bands, lettered in gilt on a green morocco label in one compartment, the covers with gilt roll tooling at the borders, all edges, turnovers and dentelles fully gilt decorated. xxiv, 912 pp. (with notes on the text and an index of first lines). A very fine copy, beautifully presented and preserved. A BEAUTIFUL COPY IN A BEAUTIFUL BINDING, WITH A BEAUTIFUL SPLIT FORE-EDGE PAINTING. Shelley remains one of the best known and loved Romantic poets; his works such as Queen Mab, The Revolt of Islam and Prometheus Unbound have indisputably placed him amongst the greatest English poets. This handsome printing, in a fine antique binding, provides some of the greatest works of Romantic poetry. Shelley, along with Lord Byron, is considered the leading voice of the genre. Throughout much of the late 19th century Shelley had fallen somewhat into disfavor, and his fame was also overshadowed by one particular novel written by his wife. He was rediscovered and reappreciated however as the 20th century came into being. Thus, this attractive 1904 printing is not without significance. Mr. Hutchinson helped bring Shelley into yet more modern times though he used to great degree, Buxton-Forman’s prodigious amount of work on the poet. As had been written--Forman’s goal was to lay before the public “as near an approximation as may be to the text that the poet intended to issue,” a task which required Forman to decide on what authority to base the final version of any given poem. As Buxton-Forman states in his preface, “In respect of books seen through the press by [Shelley], there ought to be no difficulty whatever, except as regards isloated words and stops; but unfortunately he did not revise while at press one half of the entire bulk of his poetry, several of the volumes having been printed in England while he was abroad, and read through the press by friends. As regards the proportion of his mature works, from ‘Alastor’ onwards, which had the advantage of his personal revision when in type, we should, I think, be making a liberal allowance if we assumed that he saw proofs of one third; and the largest of the volumes seen through the press by himself is infamously printed.” $1750. The First Edition of Thoreau’s Cape Cod - 1865 A Very Pleasing Copy in Original Green Cloth

14 Thoreau, Henry David. CAPE COD (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1865) First edition. 8vo, publisher’s original green pebbled cloth lettered and decorated in gilt on spine, embossed in blind on both covers of a wreath within framed boarders. (6), 252 pp., ads (dated December 1864). A very good and handsome copy with only light edgewear or evidence of shelving to the tips, light and light mellowing internally. SCARCE FIRST EDITION. Thoreau occasionally left his beloved woods to visit and write about other places. He went to Cape Cod, “Wishing to get a better view than I had yet of the ocean, which we are told covered more than two thirds of the globe, but of which a man who lives a few mile inland may never see any trace.” Borst A5.1.a.; BAL 20115 $2450.

A Classic Work of the Highest Order The Very Rare First Complete Edition in Common English 1573 - Virgil - The Phaer-Twyne Translation and Edition Handsomely Bound and Presented

15 [Virgil]. THE WHOLE XII BOOKES OF THE AENEIDOS OF VIRGILL. Whereof the First IX and Part of the Tenth, Were Converted into English Meeter by Thomas Phaer, Esquire, and the Residue Supplied, and the Whole Worke Together Newly Set Forth by Thomas Twyne Gentleman. There is Added Moreover to This Edition, Virgil’s Life Out of Donatus, and the Ar- guments Before Every Booke (London: by Wil- liam How for Abraham Veale, 1573) SCARCE AND VERY EARLY EDITION IN ENGLISH. THE FIRST COMPLETE EDITION IN ‘COM- MON’ or ‘MODERN’ ENGLISH, THE FIRST PRINTING OF Phaer’s translation to include books 10-12, the “Life” of Virgil and The Argu- ments. Woodcut border to the titlepage, woodcut initials and head-or-tail pieces throughout. Small 4to (7 by 5.5 inches), very handsomely bound in antique full speckled calf by Riviere and Sons, gilt lettered on two morocco labels on the spine, blind ruled raised bands, blind ruled borders on the boards, t.e.g. Housed in calf-covered clamshell box gilt lettered on a rounded back between raised bands. A very handsome copy, the binding in excellent condition and the text very solid, some expert restoration to the titlepage, trimmed a bit close at top and bottom, very occasional old evidence of staining or use. AN OUTSTANDING COPY OF THIS VERY EARLY ENGLISH VIRGIL, THE TEXT COMPLETE WITH ERRATA PAGE AND COLOPHON. This is the first printing of Phaer’s translation to contain all 12 books, as the first issue of the translation contained only the first nine books. This is the first complete edition in ‘modern’ or ‘common’ English. Douglas’ 1553 translation was in the Scot’s dialect, thus making Phaer’s the first translation into British English. This would remain the primary English Virgil till Dryden, over a century later. STC24797; Pforzheimer 1027. $18,500. Edward Detmold’s Fables of Aesop The Large Paper First Edition, Signed and Limited Beautifully Bound in Full White Polished Buckram Gilt

16 Aesop; [Detmold, Edward J., Illus.]. THE FABLES OF AESOP (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1909) Limited first edition of 750 copies, numbered and signed by the artist. Illustrated with 25 beautiful plates in color by Edward J. Detmold, including two extra plates not found in the trade edition. Thick folio, publisher’s original full white polished buckram, the upper cover artfully decorated with the original gilt pictorial designs surrounded by a frame ruled in gilt and filled with intertwined vines, the spine handsomely gilt lettered and decorated with gilt device and gilt rules, t.e.g., housed and protected in the original slipcase. A fine copy with just very light age mellowing at the spine panel, the corners fine and sharp, the plates all in excellent condition, the text-block clean and white, essentially a near as pristine copy in a protective slipcase. The slipcase with some wear as would be expected. The book profiting by the pres- ence of the slipcase, with the white cloth remaining clean and the giltwork very bright. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED, SIGNED, NUMBERED AND SPE- CIALLY BOUND. This title represents, in our opinion, Detmold’s very best work. The grace and sensitivity of the illustrations reflect a certain Eastern sensibility. The artist’s powers in the delicate communication of nature’s spirit are exemplified by these wonderful paintings, rich with the wide variety of the colours in the spectrum. This is a very fine copy of the best printing of the work, numbered and signed by Detmold. $3250.

Dante Alighieri – ‘La Divina Commedia’ - Le Terze Rime The First Aldine Dante - The First Use of the Anchor Device An Excellent Copy in Fine Binding - Venice - 1502

17 [Aldine Printing] Dante Alighieri, (1265-1321). LE TERZE RIME (Lo ‘Nferno E’L Purgatorio E’L Paradiso Di Dante Alaghieri) (Ven- ice: in Aedib. Aldi. Accuratissime men. Aug MDII., (Venezia. Aldo Manuzio, 1502)) The first Aldine printing of The Divine Comedy and the Aldine “pocket book” format and the first use of the anchor device. With the famous Aldine anchor device on the final leaf. 8vo; 160mm x 95mm, in a beautiful antique binding of full polished vellum, the spine decorated with gilt ruled raised bands separating the compartments, two of the compartments with lettering labels of dark maroon morocco gilt lettered, the covers with triple gilt fillet rules at the borders, marbled endleaves, red edges. [244] leaves, and with the f.82 blank present. A very handsome and desirable copy, very nicely bound. Internally crisp and and quite bright and clean throughout, four of the leaves a bit shorter than the others, but with the same edge colour and clearly part of the text-block for a great time, last leaf with small restoration to the upper outside corner. RARE AND IMPORTANT AND ONE OF THE GREAT BOOKS IN LITERARY AND PRINTING HISTORY. The first Aldine printing of Dante’s Divine Comedy; the first edition of Dante to appear in a more handy, portable format (all previous editions were folios); the first book to contain the famous Aldine device of the anchor and dolphin (though Renouard suggests that a portion of the edition was issued without the device). According to Brunet, this is a much sought-after edition, and copies are difficult to find in complete and desirable condition. This book for all intents and purposes inaugurated the beginning of literary publishing by Aldus by which books became available to the general publis. This then is a book of the greatest importance. Printed in characteristic Aldine cursive type, this is a well margined and finely impressed copy. It was Aldus who provided the first edition of Dante to appear in a more handy, portable format (all previous editions were folios); it was the first book to contain the famous Aldine device of the anchor and dolphin (though Renouard suggests that a portion of the edition was issued without the device). According to Brunet, this is a much sought-after edition, and copies are difficult to find in complete and desirable condition. Printed in characteristic Aldine cursive type, this is a well margined and finely impressed copy. “Dante’s theme, the greatest yet attempted in poetry, was to explain and justify the Christian cosmos through the allegory of a pilgrimage. To him comes Virgil, the symbol of philosophy, to guide him through the two lower realms of the next world, which are divided according to the classifications of the ‘Ethics’ of Aristotle. Hell is seen as an inverted cone with its point where lies Lucifer fixed in ice at the centre of the world, and the pilgrimage from it a climb to the foot of and then up the Purgatorial Mountain. Along the way Dante passes Popes, Kings and Emperors, poets, warriors and citizens of Florence, expiating the sins of their life on earth. On the summit is the Earthly Paradise where Beatrice meets them and Virgil departs. Dante is now led through the various spheres of heaven, and the poem ends with a vision of the Deity. The audacity of his theme, the success of its treatment, the beauty and majesty of his verse, have ensured that his poem never lost its reputation. The picture of divine justice is entirely unclouded by Dante’s own political prejudices, and his language never falls short of what he describes.” PMM STC Italian, p. 209; Renouard 1502, #5. $23,500.

Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre - The First Edition Beautifully Bound in Full Polished Calf - Gilt Extra A Cornerstone Book of Modern English Literature The First of the Bronte Sisters’ Novels Published

18 [Brontë, Charlotte] Bell, Currer (Pseud). JANE EYRE: An Autobiog- raphy. Edited By Currer Bell (London: Smith, Elder and Co, 1847) 3 volumes. RARE FIRST EDITION of the great masterpiece by Charlotte Bronte. 8vo, in very attractive bindings of full tan calf, the spines richly gilt decorated in compartments between raised gilt decorated bands, the boards gilt framed, two of the spine compartments with contrasting red and green morocco labels gilt lettered and decorated. Publisher’s ad catalogue is retained and bound in. [xiii], 303; 304; 304; with the catalogue of advertisements pp. A very fine copy, beautifully preserved and clean throughout. RARE, AND ONE OF THE MOST SOUGHT-AFTER BOOKS OF ENG- LISH LITERATURE. JANE EYRE IS NOT ONLY THE FIRST NOVEL PUBLISHED BY CHARLOTTE BRONTE, but is also the first published of the Bronte Sisters. In an amazing year for them, all three published a work in 1847 under a ‘Bell’ pseudonym. Charlotte’s was first, the two others were Emily’s Wuthering Heights (published as Ellis Bell) and Anne’s Agnes Grey (published as Acton Bell). All three are very scarce indeed. JANE EYRE is especially scarce, the print run of the first edition was approximately only 500 copies. It is a cornerstone book of multiple collections; early novels, English literature, Women’s literature. It is a work which helped to define the novel as we know it. With its internalization of action, its focus on the gradual unfolding of Jane’s moral and spiritual sensibility it creates a heightened intensity that was previously the domain of poetry and thus it revolutionized the art of fiction. It is also considered a full generation ahead of its time for the individualistic character of Jane and the novel’s exploration of classism, sexual- ity, religion, and what has been coined ‘proto-feminism’. Sadleir 346; Smith 2; Ashley I:32; Wolff 826; Tinker 379; Grolier English 83; Parrish, pp. 87-88. $48,500. One of the Earliest Illustrated Printings of Caesar - Folio Printed In Venice By Zani - 1511 - Contemporary Binding With Title In Red And Black And Fine Large Woodcuts

19 Caesar, Caius Julius. COMMENTARIA... Nunc primum a viro docto expolite: & optime recognita. Additis de novo apostillis: una cum figuis suis locis apte disposiris (Venezia: Agostino Zani, 1511) A Very Early Fo- lio Illustrated Edition incorporating incunabular plates, of Caesar’s Com- mentaries, a core classical text of the Roman period. Illustrated with incunabular woodcuts from plates used for the 1493 edition of Livy. The title page is printed in red and there is a very fine, large woodcut to the title leaf (92 x 120 mm) within an elaborate border printed in red and repeated on the first leaf of text, within an altogether different woodcut border printed in black. There is a woodcut of approximately the same size at f. 51; twelve smaller woodcuts (each approx. 56 x 74 mm) are placed at the beginning of each chapter. Folio (mm 314x210), contemporary Italian half goatskin over wooden boards, goatskin on the sides with blind-ruled geometric designs, a pair of scallop-shaped brass fore-edge catches on front cover, vellum half pastedowns cut from a 14th-century theological manuscript, without the clasps. A very handsome copy of this rare illustrated work. RARE. ONE OF THE EARLIEST AND MOST BEAUTIFUL ILLUS- TRATED EDITIONS AND THE IMPORTANT FIRST ITALIAN PRINTING OF AN ILLUSTRATED EDITION OF THIS GREAT CLASSICAL WORK. The title woodcut depicts a battle scene; the second large woodcut shows Lentulus seated addressing the Senate. The woodblocks depicted, were first used in Giunta’s 1493 edition of Livy and were immensely successful and consequently passed on from printer to printer. Considered very rare. A superbly illustrated edition of Cæsar, apparently the first illustrated Cæsar published in Italy. The title woodcut is strongly reminiscent of Uscello’s great tryptich, “The Battle of San Romano,” and the spare line of the woodcuts at the head of each chapter is perhaps inspired by Aldus’ HYPNEROTOMACHIA POLIPHILI (1499). The text was edited by L. Panaetius. The Duc de Rivoli (Livres a figures Venitiens, p. 160) records a similar edition printed at the same press in 1517 but does not mention this one. A highly important book and a very desirable copy. BMC/STC Italian p. 135; Essling 1727; Sander 1503.BMC/STC Italian p. 135; Essling 1727; Sander 1503. $18,500.

1570 - The Orations of Demosthenes - The First English Edition Extremely Rare - In Beautiful Full Contemporary Calf A Superb Copy of This Highly Important Classical Work

20 Demosthenes, [In English]. THE THREE ORATIONS OF DEMOSTHENES CHIEFE ORATOR AMONG THE GRECIANS, in Favour of the Olynthians... with Those His Fower Orations...Against King Philip of Macedonia... Eng- lished Out if the Greeke by Thomas Wylson Doctor of the Civill Lawes (Lon- don: Henrie Denham, 1570) The first edition of Demosthenes orations in Eng- lish and also the first edition printed in England in any language. Title-page within an ornate woodcut border (used again the following year for the first Latin edition printed in England), printer’s device on colophon, half-page woodcut view of Athens, woodcut initials and head-and-tale pieces throughout. Small 4to, in excellent full contemporary calf, the boards paneled with multiple blind fillets, the spine at some time expertly and near invisibly restored to perfect period style with raised bands between blind bordered compartments, now protected in a calf backed fold-over box with marbled boards and gilt lettering and rules on the spine. [20ff], 145, [13] pp. A very handsome copy, very fine internally, still very fresh, clean and crisp, the text block solid with ample margins, the binding with minor expected age mellowing, endpapers and flies renewed. VERY RARE, THE FIRST EDITION OF DEMOSTHENES TO BE PRINTED IN ENGLAND AND THE FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, PRECEDING THE FIRST LATIN EDITION IN ENGLAND BY ONE YEAR. Starting in 352 BC, Greek orator and politician Demosthenes began a series of speeches to excite Athenians against the military encroachment of Philip, King of Macedonia (and father of Alexander the Great). Though ultimately defeated, Demosthenes continued to use his great oratory powers to fight against the Macedonians for fifteen years. Translator Thomas Wilson began work on this translation of Demosthenes in Padua in 1556. It was interrupted when, while on a visit to Rome, he was charged with heresy and imprisoned by the Inquisition. He was freed on the death of Pope Paul IV by a mob of protesters who stormed and opened the jails. Wilson then served as a diplomat and statesman for Queen Elizabeth and completed the translation in 1570. It is especially notable for his comparison of the situation of England in his own day to that of Athens in Demosthenes’ time. He tells the reader Demosthenes is, “most nedefull to be redde in these daungerous dayes of all them that love their countries libertie”. In his preface he casts Philip of Spain in the role of the Macedonian King. Two hundred years later, Dr. Johnson in the ‘Literary Magazine” of 1758 theorized that this translation had been undertaken at the request of Queen Elizabeth to rally the English against Philip of Spain. Pforzheimer 284; Harris p.47; Brueggemann, pp164-164; hoffman I, 536; Graesse II, 360; Moss, p388. $18,500.

With Fine and Extensive Provenance John Gower - Contemporary of Chaucer - 1554 De Confessione Amantis - A Source for William Shakespeare

21 [Early Printing in English]; Gower, Jo. [John]. DE CONFESSIONE AMAN- TIS [Edited by Thomas Berthelet] (London: Thomas Berthelet, 1554, March 11.) VERY RARE, only the third edition, after Caxton’s first of 1483 and Berthelet’s second of 1532. THIS COPY WITH FINE PROVENANCE: The Abel Berland Copy. Gothic type. Title within woodcut border (McKerrow & Ferguson 26), several woodcut initials throughout. 4to, in sixes (267 x 188 mm), in very fine 19th century English full red morocco gilt, the boards gilt-paneled in impressive Restoration style, the spine with esquisitely gilt tooled compartments between gilt ruled and stippled bands, lettered in one compartment and at the foot in gilt, the page edges beautifully gauffered in gilt, the board edges and turn-ins gilt tooled, endpapers marbled. A very fine and impressive binding. [6 ff], CXCL ff. A very fine and beautiful copy with many generations of fine provenance. The binding very fine and handsome, strong and in excellent state, the text quite clean and fresh and well preserved, title with lower inner margin expertly repaired, a few wormholes occasionally touching letters, N3 shaved close at head, small rust-hole on Z6 catching a few letters only, annotations in several early hands, occasional penciled marginalia, final blank renewed. VERY RARE EARLY PRINTING OF AN IMPORTANT ENGLISH WORK. John- son wrote in his Dictionary: “He that reads the works of Gower will find smooth numbers and easy rhymes, of which Chaucer is supposed to have been the inventor, and the French words, whether good or bad, of which Chaucer is charged as the inventor.” The CONFESSIO AMANTIS is a poem which uses the confessions made by an aging lover to the chaplain of Venus as a frame story for a collection of shorter narrative poems. According to its prologue, it was composed at the request of Richard II. It stands with the works of Chaucer and Langland as the great works of 14th century English literature. For sources Gower relied largely on Ovid, but others include the Bible and various other classical writers. These were sources shared by Gower’s with his close friend, Geoffrey Chaucer. CONFESSIO has two stories also told in the CANTERBURY TALES, the tale of Florent, also told by the Wife of Bath, and the tale of Constance, which in Chaucer is the Man of Lawes Tale. Another one of Gower’s narratives, ‘Apollonius of Tyre’ served as a source for William Shakespeare. Shakespeare drew from it the plot for his ‘Pericles’, and introduces Gower himself as Chorus, who opens each act with a prologue. This edition is essentially a reprint of the second edition of 1532, with some corrections and with the text of the preliminary leaves a bit compressed. This copy with exceptional provenance, Iltyd Nicholl (stamp on flyleaf and bookplate) -- Digby Nicholl (stamp on flyleaf) -- William Marchbank (armorial bookplate) -- E.M. Cox (bookplate and initials pencilled on rear flyleaf, 1904) and Abel Berland, with his famous bookplate. Pforzheimer 422; STC 12144. $15,500. Japanese Woodcut Erotica - Shunga 12 Hand-Coloured Engraved Panels of the Ukiyo-e Type

22 [Japanese Erotica]. [WOODCUT ENGRAVINGS OF JAPANESE SHUNGA, OR EROTICA, “Pillow Book”] (Japan: , circa 1920s) Japanese Shunga of the Ukiyo-e type, executed in woodblock and hand-coloured in en- pon form. With twelve beautifully rendered 8.5 by 8 inch erotic woodcuts framed by gilt paper. Oblong Folio, folding Japanese accordion style creating a 10 x 5.5 inch portfolio bound in in original stiff boards covered with patterned silk. Extremely well preserved, the images all bright and pristine, the paper on which they are printed fine, the silk covered boards beautifully preserved and just a touch mellowed. AN EXCELLENT EXAMPLE OF JAPANESE SHUNGA, an erotic art of the Ukiyo-e style which reached its pinnacle during the Edo period. Works of this type were produced from the 17th to early 20th centuries in spite of repeated govern- mental attempts to suppress Shunga. Shunga has its origins in Ancient China. It is thought that Shunga were inspired by the twelve scrolls depicting the twelve sexual acts that the crown prince had to carry out as an expression of yin and yang. Several of these prints display a common Shunga theme, the exaggeration of the size of the genital organs. The introduction of Western technologies in the later 19th and early 20th century, particularly the importation of photo- reproduction techniques, had serious consequences for Shunga. Eventually, Shunga could no longer compete with erotic photography, leading to its decline. But, it clearly provided the inspiration for the Shōwa and Heisei, the modern art known in the Western world as ‘Hentai’, which is the sexually explicit form of Manga or Anime. $4200.

Jefferson’s “Notes on the State of Virginia” A Rare Edition - The Large Folding Map in Excellent State With a Number of Other Plates and Additional Material

23 Jefferson, Thomas. NOTES ON THE STATE OF VIRGINIA (Philadelphia: R. T. Rawle, 1801) A very early printing of this great work, the first hot-pressed edition, and a very early Philadelphia issue. With the large folding map and a number of other fine plates. With the large engraved folding map, the engraved portrait frontispiece, map of Madison’s cave, the folding chart of the Indian tribes, folding engraved view of the Natural Bridge and map of the Ohio and with Jefferson’s inaugural address and his work on the Logan massacre. 8vo, in later full calf in antique style, the end-leaves preserved from an earlier binding. 436, 56 pp. A very handsome copy of this very early printing. The internal pages are very clean and bright, minor toning to the prelims less then expected, the large folding map with mild antique stain at the gutter but with no split- ting or tears. ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT BOOKS EVER WRITTEN BY A FUTURE AMERICAN PRESIDENT, AND ONE OF THE SIN- GULAR DOCUMENTS FOR WHICH JEFFERSON WISHED TO BE REMEMBERED. This is, “Unquestionably the best of the early American editions...The material in the text relative to the Logan incident has been changed in accordance with the Appendix of 1800. This appears to be the first edition to include this textual change. Jef- ferson’s Inaugural Address of March 4, 1801, is added following and numbered with the Logan Appendix” (Verner, “A Further Checklist of the Separate Editions of Jefferson’s Notes, 1950, pp. 13-14). The large folding map was engraved by Benjamin Turner and was prepared especially for this edition; it was based largely on Jefferson’s map augmented from Ar- rowsmith and includes all of the special points of reference mentioned in the text except for the Natural Bridge. The folding plate of the Natural Bridge, here present, is only found in some copies according to Verner. Verner 1801A. $7000. A Superb Copy of Sale’s Great Translation of the Koran The Best of the Early Translations - Finely Bound

24 [Koran]; Sale, George. THE KORAN, Commonly Called The Alcoran of Mohammed, Translated into English immediately from the Original Arabic; with Explanatory Notes, taken fromt he most Approved Commentators. To which is prefixed a Preliminary Dis- course. By George Sale (Bath: Printed by S. Hazard for J. John- son, Vernor and Hood, Ogilvy and Speare et al, 1795) 2 volumes. An early and very scarce printing of George Sale’s great English translation. With three engraved genealogical tables (two folding), a map and a folding plate featuring a view and the plan of the Tem- ple of Mecca, all as in the first edition. 8vo, very handsome full contemporary speckled calf, compartments of the spines elegantly decorated in elaborate panel designs with gilt decorated bands and fine central gilt ornamental devices, gilt rolled border designs, two compartments with contrasting red and green morocco labels ruled and lettered in gilt, board edges gilt stippled, covers with roll tooled borders gilt, marbled endleaves. Vol. I: xii, (2), 266, Table 14 pp. ; Vol. II: (8), 519, Table 12 pp. An especially fine and exceptionally handsome set in beautiful contemporary bindings. The bindings are in excellent condition, the text blocks and paper remain fresh, clean, unpressed and in beautiful condition, near as pristine. VERY RARE IN THIS CONDITION. Sale’s version, originally published some years earlier, is the best early translation of the Islamic holy book, and the first English translation taken directly from the original Ara- bic. The only translation published previous to Sale’s was “the despicable French version” of André Du Ryer, issued in 1649, and Alexander Ross published an English version derived from Du Ryer’s in the same year. Sale’s intent in translating the Koran was seemingly to educate Eng- lish readers (and perhaps those in power) about Islam in an atmosphere of what he perceived to be ignorance and intolerance: “...it seems as if there was something more than what is vulgarly imagined, in a religion which has made so surprising a progress.” He states, “...as Mohammed gave his Arabs the best religion he could, as well as the best laws, preferable, at least, to those of the ancient pagan lawgivers, I confess I cannot see why he deserves not equal respect, though not with Moses or Jesus Christ, whose laws came really from heaven, yet with Minos or Numa, notwithstanding the distinction of a learned writer, who seems to think it a greater crime to make use of an imposture to set up a new religion, founded on the acknowledgement of one true God, and to destroy idolatry, than to use the same means to gain reception to rules and regula- tions for the more orderly practice of heathenism already established.” He goes on to argue that “...if the religious and civil Institutions of foreign nations are worth our knowledge, those of Mohammed, the lawgiver of the Arabians, and founder of an empire, which, in less than a century, spread itself over a greater part of the world than the Romans were ever masters of, must needs be so.” $2850. The First Edition in English of This Rare Work The Secretes of the...Maister Alexis of Piemount - 1558 His Famous Work of Medical, Cosmetic and Culinary Import

25 [Piedmont; Medical; Cosmetics; Culinary; Early English Print- ing] Alexis of Piemount, [Alexius Pedemontanus, Girolamo Rus- celli]. THE SECRETES OF THE REVERENDE MAISTER ALEXIS OF PIEMOUNT. Containyng Excellente Remedies Against Div- ers Diseases, Woundes, and Other Accidents, with the Manner to Make Distillations, Parfumes, Confitures, Diynges, Colours, Fu- sions and Meltynges. A Worke Well Approved, Verye Profitable and Necessary for Every Man. Translated Out of the French into English by Wyllyam Warde (London: John Kingstone for Nicolas Inglande, 1558) The rare first edition in English of the famous book of medical, cosmetic, culinary and household recipes and the FIRST BOOK on Confectionery. With Provenance. Hand- some gothic type, with many large (7 or 8 line) historiated initials throughout, many smaller engraved initials as well. Small 4to, in very attractive full 19th century brown tree calf, the covers paneled in gilt, the spine elaborately gilt decorated in compartments between gilt ruled and stippled raised bands, one compartment with a red morocco spine label gilt lettered, ruled and decorated, marbled endpapers. [7ff], 123ff, [10ff]. Complete but for two blanks, one before “to the reader” and the other between the final leaf of text and the start of the table. A very handsome and proper copy, the text clean and very fresh, top edge trimmed close but only barely effecting the headlines on only a handful of pages, final leaf of the table with a neatly repaired tear with no loss, the binding very handsome with only minor wear and a small chip at the head of the spine, unobtrusive marks of previous owners indicating fine provenance. RARE, THE FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH of this famous book of medical, cosmetic, culinary and household recipes, PRINTED ONLY A FEW YEARS AFTER THE FIRST ITALIAN EDITION. Only two copies have appeared in auction since 1975. “The work... became very popular as a treasury of medical and other knowledge in all the countries of Europe” (DNB). An immensely popular book, “The Secrets of Alexis of Piedmont”, would eventually be published in more than a hundred editions and was still being reprinted in the 1790s. The work was translated into Latin, German, English, Spanish, French, and Polish. It is “The first book on confectionery” and “the most famous of the eceipt-books.”r It is generally assumed that Alessio Piemontese was a pseudonym of Girolamo Ruscelli, the book’s Italian publisher. Ruscelli was an engraver and grammarian. He was later to claim to have written the Secretes, which later would total four parts, all four not appearing together in English until 1568. Translated from the French by William Warde, a physician and graduate of King’s College, Cambridge, who used Christopher Plantin’s edition of a French translation (Antwerp, 1557) as his original. Alessio Piemontese was the prototypical ‘professor of secrets.’ His description of his hunt for secrets in the preface to the Secreti helped to give rise to a legend of the wandering empiric who dedicated his life to the search for natural and technologi- cal secrets. The book contributed to the emergence of the concept of science as a hunt for the secrets of nature, which pervaded experimental science during the period of the Scientific Revolution. The work unleashed a torrent of ‘books of secrets’ that continued to be published down through the eighteenth century. This copy was likely the first to appear at public sale in America. It bears the ex-libris of Herman Blum and his Blumhaven library in Philadelphia. With the earlier fine provenance of Victorian politician Edward Law, the first Earl of Ellenborough, who also served as Governor-General of India between 1842 and 1844. The present binding likely done for him and has his engraved bookplate from the library at Southam de la Bere. Osleriana 1779; STC 293; Walleriana 349; DNB; Oxford, English Cookery Books to the Year 1850, 3; See also Cagle 978 and 979. $9500. The Very Rare Boke of Surveying - Circa 1560 Copies Exist in Only a Very Few Places Worldwide A Contemporary Study of Feudalism in Decline

26 [Surveying; Early Printing]; [Fitzherbert, John, Sometimes also attributed to Sir Anthony Fitzherbert]. THE BOKE OF SURVEYING and Improuementes New- ly Corrected and Amended, Very Necessarye For All Men (London: by Thomas Marshe, [circa 1560]) VERY RARE, an early reissue, date of publication estimated by STC. The first edition was printed by Pynson in 1523. Engraved titlepage with acorn device. 8vo, (136 by 91mm), full blind paneled calf over wooden boards in period style, the spine with raised bands between compartments framed in blind. A4, B-H7, lacking final blank leaf H8 and text leaves G8 and H1. VERY RARE, OCLC SHOWS COPIES AT THE HUNTINGTON, BRITISH LIBRARY AND CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY ONLY. This edition has Berthelet’s verses and the prologue, but it does not name Fitzherbert as the author. From The Boke of Surveying and Improvements, may be learned a great deal about the economy of the feudal system at the time of its decline. Whether the judge, Sir Anthony Fit- zherbert, or his elder brother John was the author of the two tracts is a debate that has been going on for centuries, but in either case the value of these important sources for English agrarian history remains unaffected. Professor Skeat, in a positive way, championed the claims of Sir Anthony, and was met by the Rev. Reginald Fitzherbert in an article which sets forth at some length the arguments and probabilities in favor of the elder brother. The catalogue of the British Museum apparently inclines to the latter’s side, while J. M. Rigg, in the Diction- ary of National Biography, warmly espouses the cause of Sir Anthony. STC (2nd ed.), 11013.6 $6500.

Very Rare - 1575 - The Translation into English Terence - Terentius - Flowers or Eloquent Phrases - A Classic Only Four Copies Located in Institutional Holdings

27 Terence [Terentius Publius] (185-159 BCE). FLOVVERS OR ELOQUENT PHRASES OF THE LATINE SPEECH, Gathered Out of All the Sixe Comoedies of Terence: Whereof Those of the First Three Were Selected by Nicolas Vdall. And those of the Latter Three, Nowe to Them Annexed by Iohn Higgins. Very Profitable and Necessarie for the Expedite Knowledge of the Latine Tongue. (London: by Thomas Mar[s]he, 1575) RARE, the first edition that includes the expanded and updated translations of J. Higgins. The Udall translation was first published by Berthelet in 1534. Title within woodcut border. 8vo, in early 20th century full brown crushed morocco by C. Walters with raised bands, tooled in blind and titled in gilt in two compartments and with date in gilt at the tail, boards ruled and decorated in blind, with inlaid leather doublures with borders of mitered gilt filets, silk bro- cade endleaves and a.e.g. A4, [2]A2, B-Cc8, Dd2. Complete. A handsome copy, the binding in fine condition, text firm and quite clean, title rubbed with slight loss to top woodcut border, small marginal tear to title and a repair to [2]A1, far from text. Some edges stained from the glaire used to adhere the gold leaf, old repair to M5, not affecting text. Some minor marginal wear to final leaves. VERY RARE. Only four copies located; British Library, Univ. of Illinois, and two at the Folger. Terence was much studied during the Middle Ages and particularly in England where his influence can be easily seen in early English comedies. There was a revival of his popularity in England during the 16th century, largely due to Udall’s text, and his influence is also felt in the popular comedies of manners of the Restoration. A Roman writer of comedies, Terence’s works, like those of Plautus and most other Roman play- wrights, were derived from the Greeks. Terence is however known for several significant departures in classical drama. He abandoned the expository prologue and instead inserted necessary background information directly into the action. He also avoided the unnatural monologues of his Greek models in favor of a more natural flowing dialogue. He was much admired by both Cicero and Horace. Cam- bridge History of British and American Literature, Vol. V, ch. 13., London, 1910. $9850. The Very Fine Ashendene Press Spenser - The Minor Poems Large Folio - Bound in Vellum and Calf - Subiaco Type A Copy with Pleasing Provenance - A Hornby Family Copy Printed in Colours on Specially Watermarked Paper

28 [Ashendene Press] Spenser, Edmund. SPENSER’S MINOR POEMS. Con- taining The Shepheardes Calender. Complaints. Daphnaida. Colin Clouts. Come Home Again. Amoretti. Hymnes. Epithalamion. Prothalamion. Son- nets and Sundrie Other Verses. [and with, the prospectus order form for the Ashendene Spenser’s Faerie Queene]. (Chelsea: The Ashendene Press, 1925) First Edition of the beautiful Ashendene Spenser. One of 200 copies handset in “Subiaco” type. A COPY WITH FINE PROVENANCE, being a Hornby family copy with autograph presentation letter from a Hornby relation dated 1978, and with the prospectus order form for the Ashendene Spenser’s Faerie Queene. Hand printed in red, blue and black on specially watermarked (“knight-in-ar- mour”) Batchelor hand-made paper. Initials by Graily Hewitt. Large Folio, in the original Ashendene binding of vellum over heavy boards and backed in dark brown calf, lettered in gilt on the spine in compartments separated by exceptionally tall and wide raised bands. iv, 216 pp. including the colophon. Very fine and beautiful, an exceptional copy. A REMARKABLE COPY. THIS IS THE FIRST EDITION OF THE ASHENDENE PRESS PRINTING, A BEAUTIFUL BOOK SET IN THE MOST SPLENDID OF THE ASHENDENE TYPES. SUBIACO TYPE WAS FIRST USED IN THE ASHENDENE DANTE AND IS CON- SIDERED ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL DESIGNED TYPES OF THE ENGLISH FINE PRESS MOVEMENT. The “Minor Poems” is a companion volume to the “Faerie Queene”, and printed on the same paper in double column. There is a larger use of blue than in any of the other books. Parts of “The Shepheardes Calender”, as well as many of the large initials are printed in this colour. The Edward Clark Library Catalogue notes of this book that: “The goodness of the inks is a reminder of their part in fine printing”. A splendid example of a great book in the English Fine Press oeuvre. $3950.

Signed - Limited Deluxe Copy - One of Only 170 Printed Harry Clarke’s Illustrated Tales of Mystery and Imagination A Stunning Interpretation of Poe’s Classic Writing The True and Most Rare of the First Editions Offered

29 [Clarke, illus.] Poe, Edgar Allan. TALES OF MYSTERY AND IMAGINATION (London: George G. Harrap & Co. Limited, 1919) Very scarce, first edition DELUXE ISSUE ON FINE HANDMADE PAPER. Limited issue of only 170 copies SIGNED AND NUMBERED BY HARRY CLARKE. With 24 stunning full page black and white plates by Harry Clarke and with a profusion of very fine Clarke designed head and tail-pieces throughout. Large, thick 4to, in the publisher’s best deluxe binding of full vellum, the upper board decorated in gilt from designs by Harry Clarke, the spine gilt lettered, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. 383 pp. A very fine and beautiful copy, still partially unopened, the text bright and the vellum unusually fresh and clean. THE RARE DELUXE EDITION OF ONLY 170 SIGNED AND NUMBERED COPIES. Perhaps the most perfect edition of Edgar Allen Poe’s TALES OF MYSTERY AND IMAGI- NATION. Clarke’s stunning black and white plates utilize dramatic wide areas of black with intricate areas of white appearing nearly scratched out. The effect at once conveys both the beauty and horror unique to Poe’s writing and evokes the dense spiritual qualities of the exquisite text. A wonderful marriage of artist and writer and “probably the ideal interpreter of Edgar Allan Poe.” (Bowe, 53) There are twenty-nine tales including “The Pit and the Pendulum”, “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”, “The Fall of the House of Usher”, and “The Descent into the Maelstrom.” $7750. The First Sansovino Edition of Dante - 1564 Comedia and Opera con L’Espositini de Christoforo Landino A Fine and Handsome Copy in Full Italian Calf - Folio Fully Illustrated Throughout with Period Cuts

30 Dante Alighieri, (1265-1321). [OPERA] CON L’ESPOSITIONI DI CHRISTOFORO LANDINO, et D’Alessandro Vellutello. Sopra la sua Comedia dell’Inferno, del Purgatorio, del Paradiso. Con tavole, argomenti, & allegorie, & riformato, riveduto, & ridotto alla sua vera lettura, per Francesco Sansovino Fiorentino (Venice: Giovambattista Marchio Sessa, & fratelli, 1564) First of the Edition, First Sansovino edition, First edition with a portrait of Dante. With a fine woodcut title page and 96 woodcut illustrations, including three full- page, 77 large cuts in the text. Of the cuts, there are 37 for the Inferno, 24 for Purgatorio, and 27 for Paradiso, and numerous head- and tailpieces. Printer’s woodcut device on the final leaf. Folio, very fine and handsome antique Italian calf, the spine with raised bands ruled in gilt, there is a single red/brown morocco label gilt lettered and ruled. [28 ff.), 163, [4 ff.], 164-393 pp. A very handsome and very well preserved copy in a very pleasing state of preservation. Rare in full antique calf. RARE FIRST EDITION OF THIS HISTORIC PRINTING OF ONE OF THE GREAT BOOKS IN THE MIND OF MAN. This is the first edition of Dante edited by Francisco Sansovino, incorporating two commentaries: that of Christoforo Landino, which first appeared in the Florentine edition of 1481, and the noteworthy commentary of Alessandro Velutello, first published at Venice in 1544. The volume includes extensive introductory matter by all three commentators, and a running commentary that virtually overwhelms the poem itself. The woodcuts in this edition are taken from those in Velutello’s edition of 1544 and represent a departure, both iconographically and stylistically, from those in the Brescia, 1487 edition--they appear more accomplished and more confident in execution. Francesco Sansovino recovered Vellutello’s commentary, never printed in Italy again until this time (except for a Lyonese reprint of 1551). This edition, printed here first in 1564, is very important because it is richly illustrated with many woodcuts taken from the edition of 1544 printed by Marcolini. The portrait of Dante on the title-page, inspired in Vasari’s tradition, is quite famous and this edition is commonly known as ‘of the big nose’. The portrait most likely comes from two paintings by Vasari, now at the Oriel College of Oxford and at the Museum of Fine Arts in Cleveland. Harvard/Mortimer Italian 148. Koch I, 1564. Gamba 390., Mambelli 40., De Batines 1-91/2. De Batines I, pp. 91-92; STC Italian 210; Adams D, 103; Volkmann, Iconografia dantesca, pp. 72-73; Mather, Portraits of Dante, pp. 65-66; Zappella, Il riratto, I, p. 201. $14,500.

A Selection of Fine Decorated Ethiopian Manuscript Scrolls Hand Painted on Goatskin with Extensive Calligraphy

31 Ethiopian Talisman, Magic Scrolls. ETHIOPIAN MAGIC SCROLLS, OR TALISMANS, HAND WRITTEN, DECORATED AND ILLUSTRATED in Black and various colours on handmade Parchment, most likely goatskin, in the classical Ethiopian language of Ge’ez (Ethiopia: Manuscript, [early 20th century]) Ge’ez text decorated in traditional Ethiopian style, often with prominent human figures. Sizes vary but each roughly 2.5 to 3.75 inches wide by 4 to 5 feet long, made in segments of parchment stitched together with rawhide leather cording, rolled. One of the more fascinating traditions still surviving today in Ethiopia but abandoned centuries ago in the West is the use of Talismanic art. Talismans, such as this Magic Scroll, are items not considered to be the products of the human artist that made them. They are Holy works, part of the great mystery only reproduced by the human craftsman through revelation. They represent the connections between men and spirits, animals, demons, stars, Saints and sicknesses all translated into pictures and language. They are considered to be able to influence the spirits due to their intrinsic holy nature combined with the dreams and desires of their owners. These scrolls are magnificent examples. Priced individually, ranging from $950 to $1350 each. Galileo Galilei - The ‘Macchie Solari’ - 1655 His First Published Endorsement of the Copernican Model First Dozza Edition - Extensively Illustrated with Woodcuts

32 Galilei, Galileo. ISITORIA E DIMOSTRAZIONI INTOR- NO ALLE MACCHIE SOLARI E LORO ACCIDENTI COM- PARSE IN TRE LETTERE SCRITTE ALL’ILLUSTRISSIMO SIGNOR MARCO VELSERI LINCEO (Bologna: Per gli HH. del Dozza, 1655) First Edition of the Opere issue, second printing of the Macchie Solari preceeded only by the issue of 1613 With woodcut printer’s device of the Lincei on the title-page, woodcut initials, engraved portrait of Galileo on p. 5 and 38 full-page copper engravings of sunspots, 5 copper engraved plates of satellites of Jupiter, on copper en- graving , 8 woodcut and typographic diagrams in the text. 4to, original printed sheets, sewn and unbound. 156 pp. A very pleasing and very well preserved copy of this highly important book. HIGHLY IMPORTANT FIRST DOZZA PRINTING OF GALILEO’S FIRST PUBLISHED ENDORSEMENT OF THE COPERNICAN MODEL. The work also includes Gali- leo’s first written account of his observations of the phases of Venus and the mysteries of Saturn. In his astrological observations, Galileo observed the phenomenon of sun spots. He noticed that they always narrowed as they approached the edges of the sun. He concluded that this was the effect of foreshortening and that these were on the surface of a sun that was in rotation. Aristotle’s theory that the sun was incorruptible and pure was dashed by these discoveries while Galileo’s claim to be the first to have discovered these spots embroiled him in controversy. Another man--a powerful Jesuit- also claimed to be the first to discover the spots and came up with conclusions very different (and less heretical) than Galileo’s. It is impossible to know who was actually first, but Galileo conclusions would keep his view in public consciousness. Though Galileo has ultimately been proved correct, this work and it’s further implications of confirming the Copernican view of the universe, would bring the wrath of the Catholic church down on Galileo. His specific endorsement of the Co- pernican model foreshadowed many of his later theories and the political and religious consequences. While not jailed or formally punished, Galileo was forbidden to teach or espouse his theories. A promise that was not kept by Galileo. Cinti, n.43; Riccardi I, 509; Singer 242 (first edition) $4250.

One of the Great Books from the Press An Iconic Printing of Homer – Opera – Ilias & Odyssea – In Greek Luxuriously Bound in Deluxe Red Morocco Bindings

33 Homer, [Greek; Classics; Fine Press; Fine Bindings]. OPERA. [ILIAS & ODYSSEA. In Greek] (Glasgow: Robert & Andrew Fou- lis, 1756 [-1758]) Four volumes bound in two. The First Edition of the very famous Foulis Press printing of Homer. Folio, [320 x 197 mm], bound in contemporary deluxe straight-grained English/ Scottish red morocco, gilt-floral ornamental borders and spines. [iii]-xii, 312; iv, 336; viii, 297; iv, 336 pp. A superb copy, the finest we have ever seen. The morocco bindings in superior condition and the text-blocks well preserved. An absolutely beautiful set. General title not included as is most often the case. A spectacular copy of the quintessential eighteenth-century text of Homer in a fine English/Scottish deluxe binding. The Foulis Edi- tion of Homer has been frequently cited as one of the most accurate and typographically splendid editions of Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey in the original Greek. Printed in Wilson’s Double Pica Greek type, here in its first use; Gaskell calls the Foulis Homer: “A magnificent achievement, … a modern approach to type design.” “One of the most splendid specimens of Greek typography extant. Its accuracy is equal to its magnificence” (Lowndes, II, 1097). “The Double Pica Greek type in which it is set was specially cut for it by Alexander Wilson, the Univer- sity Typefounder; in designing this fount Wilson made the first deliberate break from the tradition of copying Ga- ramond’s grec du roi, with all its ligatures and contrac- tions” (Gaskell, Printing the Classics in the Eighteenth Century, p. 106). This beautiful Foulis edition met with the approval of no less an authority than Edward Gibbon: “As the eye is the organ of fancy, I read Homer with more pleasure in the Glasgow edition. Through that fine medium, the poet’s sense appears more beautiful and transparent.” Thomas Frognall Dibdin states that this is not only a “sumptuous” edition but also an accurate one, “each sheet, before it was finally committed to the press, having been six times revised by various literary men.” The edition was prepared by the Professor of the Greek, James Moor, and the professor of Latin, George Muirhead, at the University of Glasgow. Gaskell, Foulis 319. Moss I, 489. Dibdin II, 58. Hoffman II, 319. Scholderer, Greek Printing Types, 12. $17,500.

Dard Hunter’s Papermaking by Hand in America First Edition - Limited and Signed - Amazingly Ambitious A Superb Copy of this Masterwork of His Press

34 Hunter, Dard. PAPERMAKING BY HAND IN AMERICA (Chillicothe, Ohio: Mountain House Press, 1950) First Edi- tion, one of 210 copies signed by Dard Hunter. With a hand- coloured frontispiece, numerous illustrations, tipped-in sam- ples and labels. Folio (18 by 12.5 inches), unbound as issued, the sheets housed in a handsome red buckram clamshell case. 326 pp. A very fine copy, beautifully preserved. A VERY FINE COPY OF THIS IMPORTANT WORK BY DARD HUNTER, THE LAST AND MOST AMBITIOUS WORK TO COME FROM HUNTER’S PRESS. The colophon states 210 copies were produced ,but in his book, MY LIFE WITH PA- PER, Hunter says it had only been possible to produce 180 of them. The book took several years of work to produce. It has a hand-coloured frontispiece, 96 facsimiles on specially made paper, 27 reproductions of early American watermarks made in exacting imitation of the originals and 42 full-size reproductions of old paper labels specially printed on paper made to emulate the original labels in the Paper Museum. $11,500. First Edition - James Joyce - Finnegans Wake One of 425 Copies Only - Signed by Joyce

35 Joyce, James. FINNEGANS WAKE (London: Faber and Faber, 1939) First Edition, First Issue, Signed by James Joyce and limited to 425 copies only, of which this is number 341. 8vo, publisher’s original red buckram lettered in gilt on spine, t.e.g., other edges untrimmed. Yellow cloth slipcase expertly re- created as the original. 628. A fine copy, very handsome, bright and clean, very well preserved and without wear. The slipcase in beautiful condition. IMPORTANT FIRST EDITION SIGNED BY JAMES JOYCE. A very desirable copy of this, the best and scarcest issue of the first editions. No book has ever been more ambitiously conceived than Joyce’s FINNEGANS WAKE. If ULYSSES represents the pinnacle of the Modernist movement, FINNEGANS WAKE is a step beyond; it stands in the same relation to ULYSSES as ULYSSES does to A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST....—an extension which is also a completely new conception. Joyce envisioned the book as nothing less than a “history of the world.” Seventeen years in the writing, and composed in a sort of meta-language--”an Esperanto for the art of fiction”--it stands as a unique monument to language and literature and the modern age. Slocum and Calhoun A49; Bradbury, The Modern World, 157-176. $18,500.

John Locke - An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding The Last Edition Published in His Lifetime - PMM 164 The Most Complete Expression of the New Empiricist Spirit A Very Handsome Copy in Contemporary Calf Restored

36 Locke, John. AN ESSAY CONCERNING HUMANE UNDERSTANDING In Four Books (London: for Awnsham and John Churchil, 1700) The fourth edition, with a large number of additions. With the engraved portrait frontispiece of John Locke. Folio, full contemporary paneled calf, expertly rebacked to correct period style with tall raised bands double-ruled in gilt and a brown morocco label gilt ruled and lettered. [39], 438, [index, errata] pp. A very handsome copy, crisp and in fine order inside and out, pastedown and free-fly renewed with proper handmade paper, the binding very attractive, sturdy and sound. A VERY EARLY PRINTING WITH THE PORTRAIT, AND A VERY HANDSOME COPY OF LOCKE’S GREAT ESSAY, the “first attempt on a great scale, and in the Baconian spirit, to estimate critically the certainty and the adequacy of human knowledge, when confronted with God and the universe” (EB). This was the last edition to be published in Locke’s lifetime. The fourth edition contains all of the additions of the previous three editions, including the portrait and the index. The principal additions include an epistle to the reader on Locke’s terminology and there are two wholly new chapters. The first on the association of ideas (book II, chapter XXXII) and the second being on enthusiasm (book IV, Chapter XIX). There are also numerous minor additions and corrections. Locke’s ESSAY served as the most concrete manifestation of a new empiricist spirit, in contrast to the metaphysical phi- losophies of Descartes, Spinoza and Leibniz. Locke was inspired to write the ESSAY in 1671 after a philosophical discussion with friends in which he realized that no progress could be made before they had examined the mind’s capacities and seen “what objects our understandings were, or were not, fitted to deal with” (from the “Epistle to the Reader”). “Other philosophers had reflected on and written about human knowledge... But Locke was the first philosopher to devote his main work to an inquiry into human understanding, its scope and its limits. And we can say that the prominent place occupied in modern philosophy by the theory of knowledge is in large measure due to him...” (Copleston, A HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY). Locke’s influence was widespread and was not strictly limited to pure philosophical inquiry. In America his emphasis on rational thought versus “enthusiasm” provided ammunition and philosophical grounding to opponents of the revival- ist and itinerant preachers of the Great Awakening, and in the nineteenth century the “nature versus nurture” thesis was employed by Unitarians and other anti-Calvinist factions to argue that human nature was improvable through nurture and self-culture rather than corrupt beyond hope without conversion through a special act of divine grace. In England Locke had a strong influence on the literature of the Augustan Age, Sterne, Addison, and the members of the Scriblerus Club all acknowledging the currency of his ideas. “The art of education, political thought, theology and philosophy, especially in Britain, France, and America, long bore the stamp of the ESSAY, or of reaction against it” (Fraser, quoted in Grolier). Locke’s ESSAY has passed through more editions than any classic in modern philosophical literature and remains a cornerstone in the history of human thought. Wing L2742; Pforzheimer 599; PMM 164 (First Edition); Grolier English 36; Christophersen, 27. $4250.

Mountbatten: The Official Biography One of 25 Copies in a Beautiful Zahnsdorf Binding Signed by Philip Ziegler and by The Countess of Burma

37 [Lord Mountbatten; British Royalty; British History]; Ziegler, Philip. MOUNTBATTEN: The Official Biography (London: Collins, 1985) First edition, Special issue, one of 25 copies only, specially bound by Zaehnsdorf in London. A fine colour photograph of Mountbatten to the verso of the front cover and a fine, black and white photograph at the rear, numerous black & white photos throughout and folding plate of the Mountbatten family tree. Thick 8vo, beautifully bound in full blue crushed morocco by Zaehnsdorf of London, the spine with gilt stopped raised bands, gilt ruled panels and central gilt tooled decoration within the compartments, two compartments lettered in gilt, one with red morocco onlay, silk end-leaves and photographic pastedowns, a.e.g., in a specially made blue protective slipcase. 786 pp. A mint copy. FIRST AND LIMITED EDITION, SPECIALLY BOUND AND ISSUED IN A LIMITATION OF 25 COPIES ONLY, SIGNED BY ZEIGLER AND ALSO BY MOUNTBATTEN’S DAUGHTER, The Countess Mountbatten of Burma. A wonderful biography of Mountbatten, following both his illustrious life and professional and patriotic career. The foreword, by the Countess Mountbatten of Burma, is signed at its foot by her. For this “official” biography the author was given access to Mountbatten personal archives at Broadlands, the family home, and had the cooperation of many family members and close friends, but he was subject to no editorial limitations--the decision as to what was included was entirely his. $1650.

John Guille Millais’ A Breath From the Veldt Superbly Illustrated Africana - 1895 Large Folio - A Natural History Masterwork

38 Millais, John Guille. A BREATH FROM THE VELDT (London: Henry Sotheran, 1895) First edition. With a great profusion of full-page plates, textual illustrations and fine full-page gravures. Folio, publisher’s original white polished buckram over boards with pictorial decorations and titling on the upper cover and spine, t.e.g. x, 236 pp. Some foxing to the prelims, otherwise internally bright and clean, externally some wear and darkening to the cloth, sturdy, a very attractive copy. IMPORTANT FIRST EDITION AND A BEAUTIFULLY ILLUS- TRATED WORK BY MILLAIS. ONE OF THE BEST ILLUSTRATED BOOKS OF AFRICA. “South Africa, with its attraction for the sports- man and the naturalist, has already given birth to so many books by abler pens than mine, that some apology seems necessary for the appearance of these pages. Let me say then at once that though they are occupied in the main with dissertation on, and adventures in pursuit of big game, I have endeavored as far as possible to avoid trespassing on the domain of the standard authorities on this subject. My object has been rather t o supple- ment from personal observation what is already known of such animals as I came across during a recent tour in South Africa; to present to the best of my ability a true picture of life in that country, whether of man, beat of bird; and to give the sportsmen of that period what help I can as a guide to the hunting grounds and how to work them to advantage. My drawing will no doubt be disappointing to admirers of the grim and gory, who know the lion only as presented in picture-books, with mane trailing on the ground, claws extended, and mouth full of blood and foam. Exception too may be taken by the uninitiated to the fantastic attitudes of some of the birds and beasts here represented. But that I cannot help. I have drawn only what I have seen, and as I have seen it, and it is not my fault if my subjects declined to display themselves in the approved conventional form.” From the Author’s Preface. $1150.

Blaise Pascal - A Masterpiece of French Literature - PMM 140 Les Provincials - In Handsome Fine Full Red Morocco

39 Pascal, Blaise. LES PROVINCIALS ou les Lettres Escrites par Louis De Montalte, a un Provincial de Ses Amis & aux RR. PP. Jesuites: : sur le Sujet de la Morale, & de la Politique de ces Pères. (Cologne [Amsterdam]: Pierre de la Valle’e [Elzevier], 1657) First duodecimo edition and First Elzevier edition, same year as the first complete 4to edition printed in Paris. This is the first and uncorrected state of two nearly identical issues. 12mo, beautifully bound in regal 18th century full red morocco, the covers framed by an elaborate decorative gilt rolled border surrounding a gilt coat of arms, the spine beautifully gilt tooled in compartments between fine gilt tooled bands, one compartment with a black morocco label gilt lettered and stippled, gilt turn-ins and board edges, marbled endpapers, a.e.g. Ex-Libris of the Chateau de Sampigny. [xxiv] 398, 111 pp. A fine and beautiful copy. FIRST ELZEVIER AND EXTREMELY EARLY PRINTING OF THIS MASTERPIECE OF THE MODERN FRENCH LANGUAGE. PMM 140. “The vividness and distinction of his style recalls the prose of Milton at its best”. Elzevier’s was Pascal’s definitive version of the text. It was the first edition to gather the eighteen letters within continuous pagination, and has become the standard text for all successive editions. It also contains, attached at the end and paginated separately the ‘Advis de Messieurs les Curez de Paris “The Lettres Provinciales, as they are called, are the first example of French prose as we know it today, perfectly finished in form, varied in style, and on a subject of universal importance... Pascal’s weapon was irony, and the freshness with which the gravity of the subject contrasts with the lightness of the manner is an enduring triumph. The vividness of and distinction of his style recalls the prose of Milton at its best”. -PMM (140.) $8500. The Truly Rare First Edition, First Issue Sir Walter Raleigh’s History of the World - London - 1614 In Fine Contemporary Binding - A Classic of the Renaissance One of the Earliest English Views of the World and History

40 Raleigh, Sir Walter. THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD (London: Printed for W. Barre, 1614) First edition, first issue, with the Errata leaf at the end. With the engraved title-page and the “Minde of the Frontispiece” leaf, and 8 double-page plates and maps as issued. Folio, very handsomely bound in the original contemporary calf, the spine sometime renewed to style in an expert and sympathetic manner, fully gilt, with raised bands and morocco lettering pieces gilt. A superior, beautiful copy, the text-block very large and barely trimmed, opening leaf with some expert refurbishment and strengthening, a clean, crisp and fine copy, with the covers well preserved and the spine panel beautifully accomplished and expertly restored. Rare in contemporary binding. RARE FIRST EDITION OF RALEIGH’S MASSIVE TOME AND A COR- NERSTONE WORK IN HISTORIOGRAPHY. ONE OF THE GREAT BOOKS PRINTED IN ENGLAND AT THE BEGINNING OF THE 1600’s. This is the only volume published of the massive history Raleigh planned and began while in the Tower of London after the accession of James I. This is the earlier of the two editions having the colophon dated 1614, with the errata uncorrected. It was rigidly suppressed by order of King James I, but nevertheless passed through several editions. The engraved title was not issued with the second edition, which appeared in 1617, a printed title having a portrait of Raleigh taking its place. A reissue of the second edition appeared in 1621, and later editions in 1624, 1628, 1666, and 1684, 1687 and throughout the 18th century. This is the only volume published of the massive history Raleigh planned and began while in the Tower of London after the accession of James I. It was rigidly suppressed by order of King James I, but nevertheless passed through several editions. While most of his prose works up to then had been written fro private circulation[...] the HISTORY was intended for publication to a wide audience. Raleigh began writing it about 1607, the work was entered in the Stationers’ register in 1611 and appeared towards the end of 1614. The preface was suppressed by George Abbot, archbishop of Canterbury, on 22 December and copies were seized by the kings’ agents for this own use. According to Chamberlain the suppression came about because it was “too sawcie in censuring princes” [...] The suppression order was soon lifted and the History was reprinted in 1617. It remained popular: there were at least eleven editions in the seventeenth century, one in the eighteenth, and one in the nineteenth. Raleigh was one of the principal figures of the English Renaissance. As well as being a poet of wide repute and a successful soldier, he was one of the earliest explorers of the New World (one of its cities still bears his name). This ambitious book, which Raleigh worked on with the help of several assistants, ostensibly deals with Greek, Egyptian, and biblical history up to 168 B.C., but the preface summarizes modern European history and represents one of the earliest English views of the world and its history. It has become a classic of English Renassaince literature. The History is described as “The first part of the general history of the world”, implying, as Ralegh said, that other parts were to come. This, he admitted, was his intention and indeed he had “hewn them out”. What exists is a substantial work, of about a million words, in five books, running from the creation of the world to 146 B.C., the time of the second Macedo- nian war. The first two books are principally, though not wholly, concerned with biblical history, the last three mainly with the story of Greece and Rome. In the first two, God’s judgments are seen as the central determinants of events; in the latter three the role of man is more evident. History is regarded as moral exemplum, a classical concept appropriate ot the treatment of ancient history but unusual for the subsequent discussion of Henry VIII. The juxtaposition of the discussion of Henry with that of James must have registered as ironic with the original readers, especially later when James’s “unstained sword of justice” had Ralegh’s blood on it. The HISTORY IS FAR MORE THAN A CHRONOLOGY, ITS OPENING CHAPTERS DESCRIBED THE CREATION OF THE WORLD AND ITS NATURE BEFORE RALEGH MOVED TO THE PHILOSOPHICAL PROBLEMS RAISED BY THE CONCEPTS OF PRESCIENCE, PROVIDENCE, FREE WILL AND FORTUNE. He adopted the familiar distinction between first and second causes, God’ Will, he later wrote, determined everything [...] yet God works through second causes, “Instruments, Causes and Pipes”, which carry his will to the world. The distinction is not clear or unambiguous, but it enabled Ralegh to focus upon human actions. Essentially, he wrote for a purpose, as a man of action: it was, he said, “the end and scope of all History, to teach by example of times past, such wisdom as my guide our desires and actions” (ODNB). perhaps unsurprisingly, given his previous experiences, one of Raleigh’s principal themes was ‘the general wickedness of kings and the severity of God’s judgement upon them [...] The misdeeds of English kings were related in some detail. Of Henry VIII Ralegh wrote that “if all the pictures and patterns of a merciless prince were lost in the World, they might again be painted to the life, out of the story of this king” [...] Only one ruler in the entire history of the world receives unstinted and unadulterated praise from Ralegh: Epaminondas of Thebes, with Hannibal as proxime accessit. Although Ralegh believed that history could provide examples and precepts for rulers to follow, its events demonstrated only too clearly that they were unlikely to do so. His book ends with a paean of praise to Death: “Oh eloquent, just and mighty Death! whom none could advise, thou has persuaded; that none has dared, thou hast done; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hath cast out of the world and despised: thou hast drawn together all the far stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it over with these two narrow words, Hic jacet” (loc.cit.) The poem “The Mind of the Front’ (i.e. explanation of the allegorical frontispiece) was written by Ben Jonson, who had been tutor to Raleigh’s son at the time of the book’s production. $16,500.

With Royal Provenance an Extraordinary Silver Binding A Rare Work of Anti-Catholicism Printed in English - 1563 The Reliques of Rome

41 [Silver Binding; Early English Printing]; Becon, Thomas; [Early Printing in English]. THE RELIQUES OF ROME, Contayning All Such Matters of Religion, as Have In Times Past Bene Brought Into the Church by the Pope and His Adherentes... (London: By John Day, 1563) VERY RARE EARLY PRINTING IN SUPERB BINDING. A ‘newly corrected and greatly augmented’ edition, following Day’s earlier edition of c. 1560. A COPY OF ROYAL PROVENANCE, H.R.H. The Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester KG KT KP GCB GCMG GCVO, with his armorial bookplate. Further fine provenance of C.F.G.R. Schwerdt, with his bookplate as well. Extra-Illus- trated with a page of 19th-century manuscript on vellum illuminated in red, blue, black and abundant gold. Black letter, with woodcut title-page surround and full-page portrait of the author on title verso, handsome engraved initials and tailpieces throughout. 8vo (131 x 85mm), in a beautiful and highly skilled late 19th-century continental silver binding over red velvet, the covers gracefully chased and pierced with scrolling foliage, the figures of a huntsman and maiden, both holding hawks or falcons, and with hare, a bird and a hound grace the upper cover, the lower features a huntsman blowing a horn, a hound, hind, stag and bird, the spine in four panels with chased and pierced scrolling foliage, beaded borders, the fore-edge with a flower and foliage clasp, the clasp and upper cover struck with pseudo-marks for Augsburg, a.e.g. So well executed is this binding that the 1936 Schwerdt catalogue mistakenly described it as being a German binding of the 16th century. [28ff], 266ff. A SUPERBLY EXECUTED binding in exceptional condition, the book also very handsome and well preserved, occasionally cropped a bit close by the binder, title shaved with slight loss and neat repair along the top edge of the verso, very neat repairs to three margins, final leaf mildly worn at edges, slight worming to Mml-Nn7, some occasional old and quite faint evidence of damp. AN EXCEPTIONAL SILVER BINDING WITH ROYAL PROVENANCE, ONCE THE Property of H.R.H. The Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, KG., KT., KP., ETC., ETC., third son of King George V and Queen Mary, he was ap- pointed potential regent for his niece, Princess Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth II), when his brother, King George VI, came to the throne in 1936. He was required to stay in the United Kingdom until Elizabeth came of age in case her father died and she ascended the throne as a minor. He was also the 11th Governor-General of Australia, from 1945 to 1947. At his death in 1974, he was the last surviving knight of the Order of St. Patrick, as well as the last surviving child of King George V and Queen Mary. The work has further fine provenance of C.F.G.R. Schwerdt, famous collector who’s collection of books, manuscripts, prints and drawings relating to hunting, hawking and shooting was among the greatest ever assembled. The binding is, of course, unique and the book inside it quite rare. We know of no other copies available and this is the only one in public auction records going back to the 1970s. This “newly corrected and greatly augmented” edition was published by Day in the same year as the first edition of John Foxe’s Actes and monuments; Day had published the first edition of the work c.1560. Indeed much expanded, the edition consumes 292 octavo leaves in comparison to the earlier edition’s similarly formatted 130. Becon wrote this work after having “somewhat more sharpened [his] pen in some place against antichrist and his Babylonical brood” while in exile during the reign of Mary I. Reliques consists of a comprehensive catalog detailing Roman Catholic beliefs and practices that Becon argues were not only against the teachings of Scripture, but also indicative of the Antichrist itself. $12,500. The Golden Booke of Marcus Aurelius - 1586 John Bourchier’s Famous Translation into English

42 [Aurelius, Marcus] [Guevara, Antonio de]. THE GOLDEN BOOKE OF MAR- CUS AURELIUS, Emperour and Eloquent Oratour (London: By Thomas East, 1586) A very early printing of the first translation into English, translated by Lord Berners, John Bourchier. Title-page within woodcut border, woodcut tailpieces on the final page of text and after the colophon, which has a woodcut printer’s mark on the verso. Small 8vo, in antique full tan calf, the boards with fine blind-tooled panels, the spine richly decorated in blind between raised bands, one compartment with a red morocco label ruled in lettered in gilt, additional gilt lettering at the foot, page edges and end-leaves marbled. A1-nn8, lacking mm2-mm8. A handsome copy, quite fresh and solid, a small defect to the first leaf of the table at front effecting a few words of text, very occasional other trivial soiling or evidence of use, occasional early marginal evidence of long ago damp, very minor, the binding handsome and strong. A SCARCE 16TH CENTURY ENGLISH EDITION OF ANTONIO DE GUEVARA’S DISCOURSE ON THE IDEAL RULE OF KINGS BASED UPON THE EXAMPLES OF MARCUS AURELIUS. Guevara was an important Spanish court preacher and served as historian to the Holy Roman Emperor and King of Spain, Charles V. This work purports to be a life of Marcus Aurelius, but was an original work by him meant to use examples from Aurelius’ life to function as a discourse on ideal rule for the new King. He claimed he discovered it in an old manuscript and that his contributions and decisions as an editor were merely of style and not of real substance. It “presented a richly drawn portrait of Marcus Aurelius as an emperor and as a man. The book’s extraordinary success was owed in no small part to this human- ized characterization... in the 17th-century it was said that in its epoch, no book but the Bible enjoyed such a wide diffusion. (It] created a new dimension to the personality of Marcus Aurelius, popularizing the Emperor as the ideal prince.” Mez- zatesta, Michael. “Marcus Aurelius, Fray Antonio de Guevara, and the Ideal of the Perfect Prince in the 16th century.” STC 12447; Lowndes 1:54; Pforzheimer 2:434; ESTC S103529 $5950.

An Exceptionally Rare Autograph Presentation Copy Signed George Catlin - Notes of Eight Years’ Travels and Residence Author of The North American Indians and The Indian Portfolio Published London - 1848 - Celebrating the Catlin Gallery

43 Catlin, George. CATLIN’S NOTES OF EIGHT YEARS’ TRAV- ELS AND RESIDENCE IN EUROPE, WITH HIS NORTH AMERI- CAN INDIAN COLLECTION. With Anecdotes and Incidents of the Travels and Adventures of Three Different Parties of American Indians Whom He Introduced to the Courts of England, France, and Belgium (London: by the author, 1848) 2 volumes. First Print- ing of Volume I and the second of Volume II. The books do not differ in size or presentation and are a matching set. Both volumes have been partnered since they were presented by Catlin to the recipient. VERY RARE PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED AND SIGNED IN BOTH VOLUMES BY CATLIN IN THE YEAR OF PUBLICATION, 1848. With 24 plates after drawings by the author. 8vo, bound in the original blue cloth lettered with pictorial decorations on the upper covers in gilt and on the rear covers in blind, the borders stamped in arabesque designs, the spines lettered in gilt. xvi, xvi, 296 [including Opinions, Appendix and Catalogue of the Collection; xii, 336. An exceptionally rare presentation copy. A fine and as pristine copy internally, partially unopened, the bindings tight and clean, but with spines sympathetically replaced at a later date and the upper cover of Vol. II replaced to match. RARE AUTOGRAPH PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY GEO. CATLIN. We can find only one other copy of this book to have appeared in recent times--the Manney-Silver copy sold some years ago in the rooms. Printed at a later date as ADVENTURES OF THE OJIBBEWAY AND IOWAY INDIANS IN ENGLAND, FRANCE, AND BELGIUM.... The publishing of these volumes celebrated the opening of Catlin’s Indian Gallery in London. “ Catlin visited forty-eight tribes in the Mississippi and Missouri valleys and on the eastern slope of the Rocky Moun- tains during his eight years’ travel. His object was to paint portraits of men and women in every tribe, together with views of villages, games, etc.” The work was published as in 1841 as THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS: Being Letters and Notes on Their Manners, Customs, and Conditions, Written During Eight Years’ Travel Amongst the Wildest Tribes of Indians in North America, 1832-1839. One of the most famous of all books on the North American native Americans, it was reprinted throughout the 19th and 20th centuries and like the present work remains highly collectable and a cornerstone work in American history. $9500.

One of the Greatest and Most Important Classics on America First Edition of the Original Work - Two Volumes - 1835 Alexis De Tocqueville - De la Démocratié en Amérique A Very Handsome Set in Contemporary Calf Gilt

44 De Tocqueville, Alexis. DE LA DÉMOCRATIE EN AMÉRIQUE. (Paris: Li- brairie de Charles Gosselin, 1835) 2 volumes. RARE FIRST EDITION OF THIS CLASSIC WORK. Two further volumes were issued in 1840, but this is complete unto itself, rare, and highly important, being one of the cornerstone works on America and one of the most significant works ever penned on the American democracy. Illustrated with a folding map as called for. This particular copy hand- coloured and more rare than in the usual copies. Tall 8vo, bound in three-quarter contemporary polished French calf over royal-blue marbled boards, the spines with gilt bands and tooling, two compartments with contrasting black and dark- blue morocco lettering labels gilt. The spine panels and endleaves sometime renewed in skilled and sympathetic fashion. 4, xxiv, 367 pp. + 1 folding map; 4, 459 pp; A handsome and pleasing set, and a well preserved copy in contemporary binding. A tight and clean set, with a bit of the typical and occasional light mellowing or browning to some leaves. HIGHLY IMPORTANT TRUE FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF THE GREAT BOOKS ON AMERICA AND A SET HANDSOMELY BOUND IN PERIOD FRENCH CALF, GILT. RARE FIRST EDITION OF VOLUMES ONE AND TWO. “One of the most important texts of political literature” (PMM). Tocqueville travelled to America to examine prisons and penitentiaries in this country, and upon his return he wrote DE LA DEMOCRATIE, the first book of reasoned politics on democratic government in America, which made his reputation. The book established many of the fundamental concepts of sociology. De Tocqueville’s articulation and application of the concepts of power, social stratification, industrialism and mass culture in particular provided the theoretical framework for their more detailed treatment at the end of the century by Weber, Simmel, Tönnies, Burckhardt, Michels, Acton, Taine and Le Play. Harold J. Laski calls Democracy in America “perhaps. . . the greatest work ever written on one country by the citizen of another.” The book grew out of a trip to the United States De Tocqueville took as an assistant magistrate, with Gustave de Beaumont, in order to study the American penitentiary system for France. From New York City they travelled as far east as Boston, as far west as Green Bay, as far north as Sault Ste. Marie and Quebec, and as far south as New Orleans. Their analysis was published in 1833, and immediatly afterward Tocqueville began to write the work by which he is best remembered. The book treats specific aspects of government and politics, including the principal of popular sovereignty, the nature of the states and local government, judicial power, the American Constitution, political parties, freedom of the press, suffrage, the role of the majority and the methods used to ensure against its tyranny, and the present and possible future of the three races making up the population--whites, blacks, and the indigenous peoples. There is also a discussion of the difficulties inhibiting the creation of an aristocracy, and an analysis of the causes of prosperity. The second part was published in the following year. DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA “remains the best philosophical discussion of democracy, illustrated by the experience of the United States, up to the time when it was written, which can be found in any language. More than this is true. Notwithstanding the changes which have occurred in the material and social circumstances of the United States during the last sixty years [written in 1898], the consequent elimination of certain factors in the civilization of this country, and the introduction of new and unforeseen problems,--notwithstanding all this, the student of modern popular government must revert to Tocqueville....When his work appeared, democracy was to some an ‘ideal,’ a ‘brilliant dream;’ to others, ‘ruin, anarchy, robbery, murder.’ De Tocqueville wished to lessen the fears of the latter, the ardor of the former class. He treats Democracy as a fact” (Daniel Gilman, in his introduction to the 1898 edition, quoted by Larned 2807). De Tocqueville’s conclusions about the system of government chosen by the young nation, and the implications of that choice, have been reexamined by each succeeding generation since it was originally published. Sabin 96060; Howes T278; Clark III:111; Li- brary of Congress, A PASSION FOR LIBERTY, ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE ON DEMOCRACY & REVOLUTION (Washington, 1989) $22,500.

From the First Woman Printer in England The Myrrour or Glasse of Helth Necessary & Needfull Published in London - Elysabeth Pickering - 1541

45 [Early English Medical; Early Printing]; [Moulton, Thomas]. THYS IS THE MYRROUR OR GLASSE OF HELTH NECESSARY & NEDEFULL FOR EVERY PER- SON TO LOKE IN,, that wil kepe their bodye from the syckeness of the Pestilence, and it sheweth how the planettes do raygne in every houre of the daye and nyghte, with the natures and exposycyons of the xii sygnes, devyded by the xii monethes of the yere, and sheweth the remedyes for many dyvers infyrmities and dyseases that hurteth the body of man ([London: by Elysabeth [Pickering] late wyfe unto Robert Redman, 1541?]) EXTREMELY RARE, and most probably only the fourth printing after that of the printer’s husband which was issued in 1540 and those of Robert Wyer in 1539 and 1540. Copies of all early printings total only a handful in institutional holdings, many of which only fragments. The version offered here is only recorded at the British Library, Cambridge (which is lacking the colophon) and the Huntington Library. With two woodcut sun charts, and numerous large woodcut initials. Small 8vo, in a fine 20th century signed Eric Burdett binding of full calf, the boards decorated in a Grolieresque fashion featuring black morocco inlays trimmed in gilt, gilt tooling and lettering, the spine gilt tooled between gilt ruled bands. Unpaginated, 62 leaves, the last quire consisting of 5 leaves of text and the colophon supplied in later pen manuscript. REMARKABLY RARE in any condition, this copy in an excellent state of preservation but for the one signature in facsimile. The text clean and fresh with only mild age and extremely faint marginal staining on a few leaves, old marginal notations on three pages, EXTREMELY RARE, FROM ENGLAND’S FIRST WOMAN PRINTER AND THE FIRST ENGLISH “SHELF- HELP” MEDICAL BOOK. This is the first native English medical work of general scope, and the first for popular con- sumption. It is a compilation of advice on ailments ranging from the plague, leprosy, and rabies to toothache, constipation, tapeworms and `stinkyng breth’. H. S. Bennett (English Books and Readers, 1475-1557, pp. 97-98) counts only “some fifteen ... little treatises concealed with ‘health’ between Caxton and the 1530s, nearly all of them specifically on the plague or ‘pestilence’, succeeded in about 1539 by Moulton’s ‘larger work’ --a broad range of remedies which ‘evidently satisfied his readers ... [being] reprinted thirteen times by 1550’. This work is very unlike Cuthbert Tunstall’s De Arte Supputandi, which could in no way assist a lay man. Moulton chose to print his compendium in pocket-size and in English, so “every man both learned and lewde, rich and pore, may the better understand it.” All early editions of THE MYRROUR OF HELTH are conspicuously rare, some being only known of from fragments. This one, printed by Elizabeth Redman, the first woman printer in England, is recorded by STC at the British Library, Cambridge (lacking colophon) and the Huntington. No copy of ANY edition of this work has appeared at auction in the last twenty-five years. STC 18219 $14,500.

An Excellent “Chapman’s Homer” - 1616 - First Edition In a Rare Antique Calf Binding Gilt An Important Copy of This Great Text - Complete

46 (Homer) Chapman , George, translator. THE WHOLE WORKS OF HOMER, PRINCE OF POETTS, IN HIS ILIADS, THE ODYSSES, TRANSLATED ACCORDING TO THE GREEKE. (London: Printed for Nathan- iell Butter, [1616]) 2 volumes in one. The Rare and True First Edition of the two books, issued together here. This copy highly unusual in that it retains the original ILIADS title page, and with preliminary blank as called for. Engraved general title-page and engraved title by William Hole, portrait of Chapman on verso, engraved dedication to Prince Henry. Folio, in a very handsome binding of full antique calf, spine elaborately gilt in six compartments, one with a red morocco label lettered in gilt. A fine, unwashed copy in antique binding with the spine refurbished to style, unpressed and unwashed, the text complete including the full 1611 ILIADS and the complete ODYSSEYS. A VERY RARE AND COMPLETE COPY OF THIS GREAT TEXT WITH THE THE FIRST EDITION ILIAD TITLE RETAINED, RARE THUS. The final and most complete state of “Chapman’s Homer.” It took Chapman 25 years to finish his master translation, meanwhile it was published in segments as he completed them. Seven books of the ILIADS (1-2 and 7-11) first appear in quarto in 1598, then books 1-12 in folio in 1609, and finally all 24 in 1611. Books 1-12 of the ODYSSES were first printed in c.1614 and then reissued with books 13-24 in 1615. Homer’s hymns and verses were separately published, c.1624 as was the BATRACHOMYOMACHIA. As the translation progressed, these works were also published together, so the ILIADS could be found alone, with the first 12 books of the ODYSSES, with the complete ODYSSES and finally with the ILIADS, ODYSSES and CROWNE of minor poems all together. Almost all copies of Chapman’s Homer that include the CROWNE, were issued with the c.1634 second edition of the Illiad, printed by Thomas Harper for Nathanial Butter (earlier printings for Butter,Field and Jaggard had run out). As the various components were put together, the title pages for the individual works were eliminated (though in some copies one or more of these may have been retained), and in the final form the CROWNE’s was also eliminated for continuity. On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer Much have I travell’d in the realms of gold, And many goodly states and kingdoms seen; Round many western islands have I been Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold. Oft of one wide expanse had I been told That deep-brow’d Homer ruled as his demesne; Yet never did I breathe its pure serene Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold. Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken; Or like stout Cortez, when with eagle eyes He star’d at the Pacific - and all his men Look’d at each other with a wild surmise - Silent, upon a peak in Darien. -- John Keats Copies of this highly important work, unwashed AND un-pressed have become rare in the marketplace. Pforzheimer i,163. $21,500. An Important Woodblock Hand-Coloured Japanese Map From the Beginning of 1684 - Very Rare and Very Beautiful Japan Eiri Edo Oezu - Very Large Joined and Folded Paper

47 [Japanese Hand-Coloured Wood-Block Printing]; [Maps and Atlases]; [Tokyo Map], Hyoshiya Ichirobe. A WOODBLOCK HAND-COLOURED MAP OF TOKYO; JAPAN EIRI EDO OEZU (Illustrated Edo) (Edo [Tokyo]: Hyoshiya Ichirobe (Hayashi- shi Yoshinaga), First month, 1684 (But Third month, 1680)) A large woodcut map of Edo (Tokyo) with fine handcolouring, on joined and folded paper. The map is breathtaking in its detail and features many paintings of important landmarks, temples, bridges and people, who are often pictured working or fishing from boats on the waterways running through Tokyo. A stunning and very rare woodblock map beautifully and unusually handcoloured. Roads, blocks, buildings, open areas, canals and waterways, are all vividly laid out on this huge and most impressive map. 123.5 by 149.5 cm., folded within paper covers, folds to 28 by 18 cm, now preserved in a fine clamshell box. A remarkably well preserved and very rare item, with some light rubbing due to age and as to be expected. A bit of old worming or light soiling and occasional small repairs, but in all quite astonishing in its quality and beautifully preserved with bright and vivid colour and detail. AN EXTRAORDINARY ITEM, REMARKABLE FOR BOTH ITS CARTOGRAPHIC DETAIL AND ITS ARTIS- TIC BEAUTY. The wood block printing shows land tenures of Daimyo and Hatamoto. It also shows temples and shrines, includes a distance chart and descriptive listing of Daimyo showing crests and halberds. There is also a inset of the eastern portion of Edo. East Asian Library, Berkeley EA9. $23,500.

James Joyce - Ulysses The Most Beautiful Printing - Signed by Joyce First English Edition - Bound in Full Vellum - Gill Design

48 Joyce, James. ULYSSES (London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1936) First authorized English edition; one of 100 copies signed by Joyce (of a total edition of 1000) printed on mould-made paper bound in vellum. 8vo, luxuriously bound in a beautiful designed binding by Eric Gill of full vellum with his gilt decorations of a bow on the upper cover, and a gilt titled spine, t.e.g. Housed in the original publishers patterned boards slipcase. 766 pp. A very fine copy. One of the most handsome we have seen. VERY IMPORTANT LITERARY FIRST. SIGNED BY THE AU- THOR. This an extremely impressive copy of the first authorized English edition, signed by Joyce. IT IS ALSO THE FIRST EDITION of ULYSSES PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN. The superb binding executed In full vellum has been especially designed for this great book. DESIGNS FOR THE BINDING, EXECUTED IN GILT WERE DESIGNED BY ERIC GILL. The typeface is extremely attractive and very readable, the printing on fine paper makes the book unusually handsome and presents what is perhaps the most beautiful printing of ULYSSES ever accomplished. Along with the text, there are a series of appendices attached including copies of the International Protest against the unauthorized and mutilated printings of ULYSSES done especially in the United States; a copy of the injunction issued to prevent Samuel Roth from continuing his piracies of ULYSSES; a copy of Joyce’s letter to Bennet Cerf concerning the promotion, legal fight and publication of ULYSSES on the author’s behalf; a copy of the decison of the US District Court which was rendered on December 6, 1933 which lifted the ban on ULYSSES and a copy of the subsequent decision of the US Court of Appeals rendered in August of the following year which upheld the original decision; a copy of the forward to the first American editon and a bibiography of the works of James Joyce. ULYSSES can be viewed as the pinnacle of the Modernist movement, and its impact on all subsequent western literature is unmistakable. Such writers as Virginia Woolf, John Dos Passos, William Faulkner, Samuel Beckett, Malcolm Lowry, and Anthony Burgess have all paid tribute, consciously or unconsciously, to Joyce’s influence. Burgess as well pronounced it the greatest single work in the English literature of this century, and he is not alone in that opinion. Slocum & Cahoon A23 $52,500.

Rare First Edition of Melville’s Mardi - Two Volumes A Unusually Handsome Set in Publisher’s Original Cloth New York - Harper and Brothers - 1849

49 Melville, Herman. MARDI and a Voyage Thither (New York: Harp- er & Brothers, 1849) 2 volumes. First edition. 8vo, publishers original blind-stamped purple cloth, with elaborate blind-stamped decorative tooling on covers and spine, lettering and Harper’s logo in gilt to the spine panel. Housed in a pleasing dark green morocco solander case, the volumes each with their own chemise. xii, 365; xii, 387 pp., 8 pp. ads. An unusually fine copy and a very handsome pair, beautifully preserved. The cloth is bright and clean and essentially without fading, some of the typical offsetting to the pastedown and free-fly. RARE FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL CLOTH IN UNUSUALLY WELL PRESERVED CONDITION. THE BOOK IS EXCEPTIONALLY SCARCE IN THE PURPLE CLOTH IN FINE CONDITION AS IS THIS COPY. Af- ter a tiring 18 month whaling voyage in the south seas, Melville jumped ship and with his companion, Richard Tobias Greene, lived in the islands for several months. While there he was captured by but escaped from island natives. He served on an Australian trader, worked as a field laborer and enlisted on the frigate U.S.S. United States. His experiences are the basis for the Swiftian adventures of Taji and his companion Jarl in Mardi. This is one of Melville’s best written stories. BAL 13658, Wright I, 1860 $4750.

A Collection of Historyes - Romans, Greeks, Persians et. al Fortescue’s Rare English Translation of Pedro Mexia In Comtemporary Limp Vellum - 1576

50 [Mexia, Pedro. THE FOREST Or Collection of Historyes No Lesse Profitable, Then Pleasant and Necessary, Doone Out of Frenche into English, by Thomas Fortescue (London: John Day, 1576) VERY RARE ENGLISH PRINTING of Fortescue’s translation, from a French version by Claude Gruget, of Pedro Mexia’s “Silva de Varia Lecion.” Engraved title-page within a very handsome historiated border, on the verso of which is a large engraved Fortescue coat of arms, printed in English Black Letter with engraved decorated initials throughout and engraved tailpieces. Small 4to (7.5” X 6”), bound in contemporary limp vellum, the spine lettered in antique manuscript, the fore-edge with leather ties still significantly intact, and curiously, with four leaves from the 16th century work “Voyage of the Wandering Knight bound in at the rear [6], 152, [4] ff., including final blank. Lack- ing signature oo (leaves 145-148) with no evidence that this signature was ever bound in. An attractive, clean and fresh copy, the text un-pressed, occasional early scholarly notations, the contemporary vellum with some expected wear, especially at the edges. VERY RARE. PUBLIC RECORDS SHOW NO COPIES HAVE AP- PEARED AT AUCTION AS FAR BACK AS THE 1970s, and there are no other copies known to be on the market. This is apparently the most elusive of the two rare English imprints, which OCLC lists in only 16 copies. Pedro Mexia’s (1497-1551) work, in Fortescue’s absolutely wonderful Elizabethan English, of tales covering the customs, practices and beliefs of the Romans, Greeks, Persians, Hebrews and early Christians with lessons to be learned from kings and authors on philosophy, science, astrology, government, military combat, religion and life. This is the major work of the Spanish Renaissance humanist and historian. It is an encyclopedic miscellany or mixture of subjects of interest across the diverse repertoire of humanistic knowledge of the time. The work takes material from the Attic Nights by Aulus Gellius, the Banquet of the Soph- ists by Ateneo, the Saturnalia of Macrobius, the Memorable deeds and say- ings of Valerius Maximus, the Inventor of all things by Polidoro Virgilio, the Moralia and Parallel Lives of Plutarch and, above all, the Natural History of Pliny the Elder. It also contains work by Erasmus of Rotterdam, with whom he maintained correspondence. Traces of this miscellany can be found in works by Mateo Alemán, Cervantes, Shakespeare and Montaigne, to mention only a few of the authors he influenced. ESTC, S112658; STC (2nd ed.), 17850; Ticknor, Spanish Literature pp 10-15; $7500.

The Very Beautiful Nonesuch Press Herodotus The History of Herodotus of Halicarnassus - A Fine Copy Printed in Nonesuch Plantin with Perpetua and Felicity Types

51 [Nonesuch Press], Herodotus. THE HISTORY OF HERODOTUS OF HALICARNASSUS. The Translation of G. Rawlinson Revised and Annotated by A. W. Lawrence...To which is added a Life of Herodotus and the Behistun Inscription (Bloomsbury: The Nonesuch Press, 1935) LIMITED EDITION, one of only 675 numbered copies. Illustrated with 9 large wood-engravings by V. Le Campion, one colour plate, and 9 double-page maps by T. Poulton. Printed in Nonesuch Plantin with Perpetua and Felicity italic types. Folio, publisher’s original half blue vellum over blue cloth, the spine lettered and elaborately decorated in gilt designs which follow to the turnovers , t.e.g. xxvi, 778 pp. A fine copy, internally very much so, clean and fresh and solid, the binding in excellent condition with just a hint of the mellowing one expects with the blue vellum used in binding this title, but without any of the bowing typical to the book. An unusually well preserved copy, pristine and unused. LIMITED EDITION, AND ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL MOD- ERN PRINTINGS of the Greek historian. This is very pleasing copy: the gilt is brilliant, the boards are not bowed as is usual, and the volume is clean throughout. In all likelihood this particular copy has never been read. Herodotus, the Greek historian was often called the “father of history” due to his systematic collection of sources and his attempt at intellectual rigor. His merits were “...the diligence with which he collected his materials, the candour and impartiality with which he has placed his facts before the reader, the absence of party bias and undue national vanity, and the breadth of his conception of the historian’s office.” His work represents the first significant Greek writing and covers the struggle between Asia and Europe, ending in the Persian invasion of Greece (490 to 479 BC). $1950. The First History of the World Werner Rolewinck - Utrecht - 14 February 1480 Fasciculus Temporum - A Unique Handcoloured Copy

52 Rolewinck, Werner. FASCICU- LUS TEMPORUM [Text in Dutch] (Utrecht: Johann Veldener, 14 February 1480) UNIQUE HAND-COLOURED COPY of this, the First Dutch edition of Rolewinck’s great 15th century En- cyclopedia of History. With fine handcolouring to the more then 30 impressive woodcuts as well as numerous hand-coloured diagrams, coats of arms, etc. Two leaves within broad ornate hand-coloured boarders, opening leaf and colophon leaf also hand-coloured with decorative borders, rubricating all throughout in red and blue. Folio, in contemporary diced calf covered boards, the corners with brass pieces on the board edges, leather straps with brass clasps. 388 ff. leaves A unique hand-coloured copy in excellent state of preservation, the text quite fresh with only occasional and very minor marginal old flaws from use, some with neat repair, a very few leaves with repaired flaws affecting a few lines of text, some old mellowing or staining throughout, all quite minor. Occasional antique and neat manuscript notations as one would expect with a book of this scholarly importance. Werner Rolevinck’s Fasciculus Temporum - the first history of the world. The Fasciculus Temporum was first printed in Cologne in 1474. It passed through more than thirty editions in its author’s lifetime, and was apparently an indispensable work of reference until after 1532, when it was superseded by others more up-to-date. It was translated into Flemish, Ger- man, and French, and an edition appeared in Seville in 1480. THIS FIRST EDITION IN DUTCH has extensive supplements oriented to a Dutch public, relating to the history of the dukes of Brabant, bishops of Utrecht, and counts of Holland, Zeeland and Hainaut, as well as the kings of France and England. Veldener had already printed a Latin edition of the Fasciculus Temporum, the first printed chronological history of the world, at Louvain in 1475. For that edition he reprinted Hoernen’s first edition of 1474, adding one further woodcut and bringing the chronicle up to date with an entry for 19 December 1475, only ten days before printing was completed. For his Dutch-language edition Veldener worked from a manuscript; its translator remains anonymous. Twelve woodcuts, strongly based on cuts in the Rudimentum novitiorum (Lübeck 1475), and the set of coats-of-arms are original to the Utrecht edition; they are the work of the “Utrecht woodcutter” Werner Rolevinck was a German monk and historian who created over 50 titles during his lifetime, with the Fasciculus Temporum standing as his most triumphant work. As if an entire history of the world wasn’t a big enough feat in the 15th century, Rolevinck created the book with dual parallel timelines, one running from creation, the other from the birth of Jesus Christ. The work was an instant hit upon its release. It also stands as only the second book ever published by any living author, with only Robertus Valturius’ 1472 work, De re militaria, published earlier. Goff R-278; HC 6946; Oates 3323; BMC IX 12. $26,500.

Stanley’s Congo and the Founding of Its Free State The First Edition - Original Cloth - Unusually Bright Replete with Engravings and Large Maps

53 Stanley, Henry M. THE CONGO AND THE FOUNDING OF ITS FREE STATE: A Story of Work and Ex- ploration (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1885) 2 volumes. First edition. Profusely illustrated with 122 illustrations comprised of 42 full page engraved plates, 78 text vignettes and a portrait frontispiece to each volume as well as with 5 folding colored maps, 2 of which are very large and bound in the rear of each volume. 8vo, publisher’s original sage green pictorial cloth, lettered and elaborately decorated in gilt, red and black on the upper covers and spines featuring all over pictorial decorations and elaborate lettering. xxvii, 528; x, 483 including index. A very fine, very fresh and handsome set, the green decorated cloth especially well preserved, internally fresh and clean, folding maps all in fine order. THE SCARCE FIRST EDITION OF STAN- LEY’S IMPORTANT AND POPULAR WORK ON THE FOUNDING OF THE CONGO FREE STATE. This two-volume work of exploration, history, and socio-political-economy is the result of Stanley’s expedition up the Congo River in 1879-84 and his attempts to re-open the interior for King Leopold of Belgium. From this journey came the establishment of the Congo State, the first free commercial state in Equatorial Africa. Henry Stanley was one of the most popular figures of the 19th Century. Adventurer, explorer and rescuer-- the public could not get enough of this romantic figure. In true Victorian style, this volume highlights his greatest achievements, his rescues of LIvingstone and Emin Pasha and his aid in establishing the Congo Free State. Sets of this important work in original cloth have become exceeding difficult to obtain. First editions are now especially elusive. $1950.

Henry David Thoreau - Walden - First Edition A Highlight of American Renaissance Thought A Copy with Pleasing Provenance

54 Thoreau, Henry David. WALDEN, Or, Life In the Woods (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854) First edition, first state of the text, early state of the ads, May 1854. A copy with provenance having belonged to A. Pell, Jr. of West Point, a friend and col- league of William Cullen Bryant and a founder and owner of the International Ocean Telegraph Co. which received the rights from Congress to lay the cables from America to Cuba and on to Latin America. Bryant visited and stayed in touch with Pell for some years and was involved with him in the Free Trade Club. Pell is buried at West Point and owned historic property there. Illustrat- ed with the map of Walden Pond printed on a separate leaf and inserted at p. 307 8vo, publisher’s original brown cloth lettered in gilt and ruled in blind on spine, bordered and decorated in blind on all covers. Housed in a fold-over morocco backed case. 357, [8 ads (dated May, 1854)]. A handsome copy indeed, internally quite pleasing and quite fresh with very little evidence of age or use, the binding very expertly and unobtrusively refreshed at the tips of the spine panel. HIGHLY IMPORTANT FIRST EDITION OF A SEMINAL WORK IN AMERICAN LITERATURE. WALDEN has taken its place as one of the most important pieces of American literature and a highlight of American thought. In attempting an experiment in simple living Tho- reau became the embodiment of the American quest for the spiritual over the material; and his book, ostensibly a simple record of his experiment, has earned the reputation as a work of great philosophical import. An interesting note is penciled in at the rear of the volume: “Thoreau’s mother said to Mr. Henry James ... Mr. Emerson has been so much with my son that he talks & writes quite like him.” DCP[ell] Grolier 100 $12,500.

The First Clear Systematic Survey of English Plants Turner’s A New Herball - Replete With Famous Woodcuts Very Rare - 1551 - First Edition and With The Seconde Part...

55 Turner, William. A NEW HERBALL Wherin Are Con- teyned the Names of Herbes in Greke, Latin, Englysh, Duch, Frenche, and Potecaries and Herbaries Latin... [With] THE SECONDE PART of William Turners Herb- all... [With] A BOOK OF THE NATURES and Proper- ties as Well of the Bathes in England as of Other Bathes in Germany and Italy.... (London [and] Cologne: Steven Mierdman [and] Arnold Birckman, 1551, 1562, 1562) 3 books partnered and bound together. First Edition of the First Essay on scientific botany in England, First Edition of the second book with the First Edition of the work on bathes (which is typically included as park of the second book but with separate title-page). Printed in Black Let- ter, the title to first part, within elaborate woodcut border, large printer’s device on title to second part and the book on bathes. Illustrated throughout with impressive woodcut illustrations of herbs and plants. Also decorated with large initials throughout. Folio in sixes (264 X 176MM), handsomely bound in later calf in expert period style, the covers with blind tooled frames and roll tooled bands, the spines with elaborate antique style gilt tooling in compartments between wide and tall raised bands, gilt lettering in one compartment, a handsome binding. A very handsome copy of this very scarce and valuable work. Lacking A2-6 and O2 of the first book; B2, C5, Y2, Y6, Aa1, Cc1 and the blanks A4 and Ff4 of the second and the final blank after the work on bathes. Title-page to Book One mounted and bound in on a stub, with some margins cropped, some worming in inner gutter, some soiling, occasional repairs or other minor flaws, final leaf of Book 1 (table) torn at the outside bottom corner with some loss to text. VERY RARE FIRST EDITION of the first clear, systematic survey of English plants, and with their admirable woodcuts (mainly copied from Leonhart Fuchs’s 1542 De historia Stir- pium) and detailed observations based on Turner’s own field studies put the herbal on an altogether higher footing than in earlier works. At the same time, however, Turner included an account of their “uses and vertues”, and in his preface admits that some will accuse him of divulging to the general public what should have been reserved for a professional audience. For the first time, a herbal was available in England in the vernacular, from which people could identify the main English plants without difficulty. STC 24365, 24366; Garrison-Morton 1811; Henrey I, 366, 367; Hunt 65; Nissen BBI 2013; Norman 2118 $9500. Orlando Furioso - The First Folio Edition in Italian One of the Great Cornerstone’s of Italian Literature

56 Ariosto, Ludovico. [Opere] ORLANDO FURIOSO DI M. LODOVICO ARIOSTO Delle Annotazioni de’ Più Celebri Autori Che Sopra Esso Hanno Scritto, e di Altre Utili, e Vaghe Giunte in Questa Impressione Adornato, Come nell’Indice Seguente la Prefazione si Vede (Venice: nella Stamp. di Stefano Orlandini, 1730) 2 volumes bound in one. The first folio edition in Italian of Orlando Furioso. Titlepage in black and red, portrait of Ariosto by C. Orsolini and 51 full page and elaborate allegorical plates by Giuseppe Filosi and by Giuliano Giampicoli which are within one of three impressive engraved borders by Filosi. Large Folio, in fine full contemporary Italian vellum over stiff boards, the spine with a brown morocco label lettered and decorated in gilt. 25ll, 576pp; 2ll, 400. A superb copy, the best available, in an exceptional binding and wonderful state of preservation. ONE OF THE FOUR CORNERSTONES OF ITALIAN LITERATURE. Ar- iosto’s great cantos inspired by the crusades are considered his crowning achievement. Ariosto”s famous epic greatly influenced Tasso, Spenser (Faerie Queene), Cervantes (Don Quixote), Voltaire (La Pucelle), and many others. The extraordinary merits of this work cast into oblivion the numberless romantic poets which inundated Italy during this period. This is a flawless work, powerful, elegant and cultivated. In description and narrative Ariosto excites the reader’s deepest feelings and displays a vivacity of fancy with which no other poet can vie. The engravings for this Orlando Furioso are Filosi’s first documented work, he would become one of the most prolific Venician engravers of the following three decades. $7850.

One of the Greatest Renaissance Contributions The Basis for the Study of the Greek Language Budé - 1548 - Estienne - Commentarii Linguae Graecae...

57 Budé, Guillaume. COMMENTARII LINGUAE GRAECAE ... Ab eo- dem accuratè recogniti, atque amplius tertia parte aucti (Paris: Robert Estienne, 23 December, 1548) With Fine Provenance. The first issuance of the definitive and best edition, enlarged by more than a third from the original. Estienne device [Schreiber 10] on title; foliated Greek initials. Folio, bound in full 18th-century sprinkled calf, the covers with fine double fillet border lines gilt, the spine beautifully presented with raised bands gilt stopped, the compartments with fine panel designs some elaborately decorated in fully gilt presentations and others with tooled borders and central ornamental pieces, red morocco lettering label gilt, marbled endleaves. 1109, [1] pp., [21] leaves (in this copy the colophon leaf has been bound at the beginning, before the title. A superior copy beautifully preserved, the covers in excellent condition, the back sometime renewed brilliantly to style, with the manuscript ownership entry of Gouye de Longuemarre (1715-1763: see below). WITH FINE PROVENANCE. A RARE AND IMPORTANT PRINTING OF THIS GREAT RENAISSANCE MASTERWORK. The definitive and best edition, attractively printed, with extensive use of the “grecs du roi,” enlarged by more than one-third from notes left by Budé, of one of the greatest Renais- sance contributions to the study of Greek antiquity, and the book which was directly responsible for the foundation of the Collège de France. Guillaume Budé (1467-1540) was the leading humanist of the reign of Fran- çois I, and was recognized as sharing with his friend Erasmus the primacy of European scholarship. The Commentarii, first published in 1529, is Budé’s most immense and encyclopedic work, which was itself a monument or summation of Budé’s years of Greek study: “This prodigious work was a thesaurus, in the original sense of the word, a treasure utilized by later lexicographers. Far more than a Greek-Latin word list, it is a complex and rich compilation of lexicographical notes designed to help young people learn Greek” (David O. McNeil, Guillaume Budé and Humanism, p. 89). It served as the basis for Henri Estienne’s Thesaurus Linguae Graecae, a masterful reference work which has never really been surpassed. “The ‘Commentaries on the Greek Language’ formed the basis for the study of the Greek language in France. [It was] a monument of the new learning” (Printing and the Mind of Man, 60); “C’est aux Commentaires que Budé doit d’avoir été considéré, sans contestation possible, comme le prince des hellénistes” (J. Plattard, Guillaume Budé et les origines de l’humanisme en France). In his dedicatory Greek preface to François I (reprinted here from the first edition), Budé reminds the king, in very plain language, of the promise he had long before made to establish a royal college for the study of ancient languages. The king heeded the appeal and the following spring he instituted royal readers in Greek, Hebrew, and Latin, with the object of supple- menting the conservative teaching of the Sorbonne. Thus was born the Collegium Trilingue, later to become the Collège de France. In appendix is Budé’s 3-page epistle in Greek addressed to students of the Greek language. This copy was owned in the 18th century by the historian Gouye de Longuemarre (1715-1763) of Dieppe, a prominent writer on early French history; his ownership inscription on the title-page reads: “Utebatur Gouye de Longuemare Diep- pensis” (“Gouye de Longuemarre of Dieppe used [this book]”); indeed, this is attested by the numerous neat underscorings of words and phrases throughout the volume. Brunet I, 1374; Renouard 71: 7; Armstrong 69, 112f., 130; Adams B-3096; Schreiber 100; Cf. PMM 60. $6500.

Lord Byron’s Childe Harold’s Pilgrimmage Exquisitely Bound and Illustrated With Superb Engravings

58 Byron, George Gordon, Lord. CHILDE HAROLD’S PILGRIM- AGE. A Romance (London: John Murray, 1841) First edition with the illustrations. With 61 very fine engravings on steel and one fold-out map all by W. Finden. Thick 8vo, luxuriously bound by Tout in dark turquoise-blue morocco, the covers and spine with elaborate all over gilt arabesque decorations and corner tooling, the spine with raised bands separating the compartments, lettered and richly gilt designs, edges with double gilt fillet rules, elaborate gilt turnovers, a.e.g.. xvi, 311. A very fine and beautiful copy in a luxurious, very bright and clean. Some very light, quite unobtrusive and only occasional foxing. A SUPERB AND EXTREMELY APPEALING COPY of Lord Byron’s classic poetic work. The poet began writing ‘Childe Harold’ in Albania in 1809 and the first two cantos were issued in 1812. Cantos three and four appeared in 1816 and 1818 respectively. Upon its initial publication in 1812, Byron became instantly famous. “The effect wa s...electric, his fame...seemed to spring, like the palace of a fairy king, in a night.”-Moore. A fifth edition was issued later in the same year. “Just turned twenty- four he found himself famous, a great poet, a rising statesman. Society, which in spite of his rank had neglected him, was now at his feet.” -EB This volume, profusely illustrated by one of the best known steel-engravers in London, is a visual treat. Through the viewing of the illustrations, the reader is able to travel through Albania, Spain, Porugal, Greece, Belgium, Switzerland, and Italy enjoying through the lyrical voice of the poet and also through the evocative illustrations. $2500. The Workes of Geoffrey Chaucer A Handsome Copy of the Rare 1602 Speght Edition Well Bound in Antique Calf Completely Preserved

59 Chaucer, Geoffrey. THE WORKES OF OUR ANCIENT AND LEARNED ENGLISH POET, JEFFREY CHAUCER ...newly Printed. To that which was done in the former Impression, thus much is now added. 1. In the life of Chaucer many things inserted. 2. The whole worke by old Copies reformed. 3. Sentences and Proverbes noted. 4. The Signification of the old and obscure words prooved: also Caracters shewing from what Tongue or Dialect they be derived. 5. The Latine and French, not Englished by Chaucer, translated. 6. The Treatise called Jacke Upland, against Friers : and Chaucers A.B.C. (Lon- don: Printed by Adam Islip, 1602) A VERY EARLY PRINTING OF CHAU- CER. The Second Speght edition. This copy with the fine engraved armoural bookplate of William Trumbull. Title within a woodcut border (Mck & F.232), woodcut Progenie of Chaucer with Gower portrait, woodcut coat of arms on c4r, fine woodcut of the Knight with borders at head of text, historiated and decorated multi-line woodcut initials throughout the text. Double column black letter, some roman. Folio, in a fine antique binding of full brown calf, the boards with large central decorative device with initials “R D” flanking each side, the boards framed in blind double rule, the spine gilt tooled in the center of compartments between tall raised bands, one compartment with a parchment label lettered in manuscript. [a]5, WITH [a]6 the Chaucer portrait leaf which is often missing, b-c6, A-Z, Aa-Zz, Aaa-Nnn6, Ooo4, Ppp-Ttt6, Uuu8. A handsome copy, the text generally very clean and fresh with only minor evidence of use or age such as few small paper flaws occasionally, the binding with old expert restoration and expected age. A HANDSOME AND ATTRACTIVE COPY IN ANTIQUE CALF BINDING, WITH THE OFTEN MISSING POR- TRAIT OF CHAUCER INCLUDED IN THIS COPY. This is only the second edition edited by Speght, the first having been issued four years earlier in 1598. There is no priority as regards the setting of George Bishop’s name in the imprint. “This edition was considerably revised mainly with the aid of Francis Thynne. It is the earliest in which thorough punctua- tion was attempted, and in many ways was a distinct improvement upon Speght’s first edition.” Pforzheimer catalogue Chaucer’s work is the cornerstone of English poetry. Next to Shakespeare’s folio, it is probably the most influential work in English. The importance of Chaucer’s role in the development of vernacular English would take (and has taken) volumes to describe. Chaucer’s classic tale of a band of pilgrims en route to Canterbury was written in about 1387 and consisted of 17,000 lines in prose and verse of various metres, although the rhyming couplet is predominate. The importance of Chau- cer’s tale to English literary history is paramount, its themes, characters and style would be to English nearly what Homer is to Greek. Pforzheimer 178; STC 5080; Lowndes II, 425; not in Grolier $22,500.

The Worst Journey in the World First Edition - One of the Greatest Polar Narratives The Account of Scott’s Last Worst Journey Apsley Cherry-Garrard’s Cornerstone Text - 1922

60 Cherry-Garrard, Apsley. THE WORST JOURNEY IN THE WORLD: Antarctic 1910-1913 (London: Constable and Company, 1922) 2 volumes. First edition, first issue. 73 panoramas, maps and illustrations, ten of them folding,a number in colours, by Dr. Edward A. Wilson and other members of the expedition. 8vo, publisher’s original linen backed blue paper boards with manila lettering labels on the spines. This set still retains the second set of paper labels as originally provided by the publisher. lxiv, 300, [4]; viii, 301-580, index pp. An especially nice set of this scarce book, looking essentially unused. No chipping or damage to the bindings and just a bit of the typical browning to the materials used to cover the boards and to make the spine labels. Very clean internally with extremely little of the usual foxing encountered in these volumes. The plates and fold-outs are all in excellent condition. IMPORTANT FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE OF A CORNERSTONE TEXT. One of the most sought after and most difficult to find first editions in the polar canon, this is a dramatic and splendidly written account of Scott’s 1910-1913 expedition. This is the dramatic and splendidly written account of Scott’s last expedition from its departure from Eng- land in 1910 to its return to New Zealand in 1913. The expedition was comprised of three actual journeys: the depot journey, during which supplies were laid for the polar trip; the winter journey to Cape Crozier to visit the penguin rookery--the “worst journey” of the title; and the final, tragic attempt on the pole, during which Scott and three others perished. The story of Scott’s last expedition is of course a great tale, and Cherry- Garrard uses his considerable skill as a writer to heighten the drama. “And I tell you, if you have the desire for knowledge and the power to give it physical expression, go out and explore. If you are a brave man you will do nothing: if you are fearful you may do much, for none but cowards have need to prove their bravery. Some will tell you that you are mad, and nearly all will say,’What is the use?’ For we are a nation of shopkeepers, and no shopkeeper will look at research which does not promise him a financial return within a year. And so you will sledge nearly alone, but those with whom you sledge will not be shopkeepers: that is worth a great deal. If you march your Winter Journeys you will have your reward, so long as all you want is a penquin’s egg.”-Cherry-Garrard. The best written and most enduring account of exploits in the Antarctic. - Taurus Later editions omitted the numerous panoramas, color plates, one map, and most of the photographs.$7500.

First Edition of George Eliot’s Final and Controversial Novel Daniel Deronda - With Fine Provenance and Handsomely Bound

61 Eliot, George. DANIEL DERONDA (Edinburgh: William Black- wood and Sons, 1876) 4 volumes. First Edition, with fine provenance having come from the collection of Robert Hoe with his gilt lettered morocco ex libris. 8vo, beautifully bound by Riviere and Son in full tan calf, the covers with multi-ruled gilt fillet lines at the borders with circular tools as corner-pieces, the spines richly gilt decorated in panels between gilt ruled and stippled raised bands, two compartments with contrasting red and green morocco labels finely gilt ruled and lettered and with gilt tooled corner-pieces, beautifully gilt tooled turn-ins and ruled board edges, marbled endpapers, t.e.g. 367; 364; 388; 367 pp. A superb copy and a fine and handsome set, the text clean and fresh with two edges still untrimmed and free from any spotting, the fine binding in excellent condition. FIRST EDITION, GEORGE ELIOT’S (Mary Anne Evans) LAST COM- PLETED NOVEL AND THE ONLY ONE SET IN HER CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY AND TIME. With a mixture of social satire and moral searching, it contains a sympathetic rendering of Jewish proto-Zionist and Kabbalistic ideas. These renderings served to make it a controversial, and final, statement of one of the greatest of Victorian novelists. On its publication, Daniel Deronda was immediately translated into Ger- man and Dutch and was given an enthusiastic extended review by the Aus- trian Zionist rabbi and scholar David Kaufmann. Further translations soon followed into, Hebrew , Yiddish and Russian. Written during a time when Restorationism (similar to 20th century Christian Zionism) had a strong following, Eliot’s novel had a positive influence on later Jewish Zionism. It has been cited by Henrietta Szold, Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, and Emma Lazarus as having been influential in their decision to become Zionists. Industrialist and noted book collector Robert Hoe was preeminent among American producers of printing presses. He was one of the organizers and first president of the Grolier Club. $4000. Signed and Dated by Gandhi in 1926 An Exceptionally Early Work on Mahatma Gandhi Mahatma Gandhi - An Essay in Appreciation - 1924

62 [Gandhi, Mahatma]; Gray, R.M. and Parekh, Manilal C. Builders of Modern In- dian: MAHATMA GANDHI An Essay in Ap- preciation (Calcutta: Association Press, 1924) Rare First Edition, SIGNED AND DATED BY MAHATMA GANDHI. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece portrait and 5 additional portraits from various sources. 8vo, publisher’s original paper covered boards printed on the upper cover in black, backed in gray/blue cloth, the spine gilt lettered. 136 pp. A very attractive and well preserved copy, far better than would be expected for a Calcutta printing of the period, the prelims with a bit of age evidence, the spine just a touch toned. SIGNED AND DATED BY MAHATMA GANDHI IN 1926, one of the greatest men of the age. The work is rare in first edition and in collectable condition and we know of no other copy signed by Gandhi. This is an exceptionally early work on Gandhi, published only a few years after he had become leader of the Indian National Congress and was signed a year prior to the publication of his “MY EXPERIMENTS WITH TRUTH”. $15,000.

A Rare and Highly Important English Chronicle Grafton’s “Chronicle” - The First Edition - 1569-1568 With One of the Earliest Accounts of Robin Hood

63 Grafton, [Richard]. A CHRONICLE AT LARGE, AND MEERE HISTORY OF THE AFFAYRES OF ENGLANDE AND KYNGES OF THE SAME, De- duced From the Creation of the World Unto the First First Habitation of Thys Islande.... [and] The Second Volume, Beginning at William the Conquerour, Endeth Wyth Our Moste Dread and Soverauigne Lady Queene Elizabeth ([London: H. Denham for R. Tottle and H. Toy, 1569, 1568]) Two Volumes bound as one. The Rare First Edition of Grafton’s Chronicle, with the two first issue points on pages 1282 and 1324. Printed in Black Letter, first title within woodcut border containing eleven portraits, the second within ornamental woodcut border, seven large woodcuts by Virgil Solis and many woodcut historiated initials throughout text. Large, thick 4to, bound in fine antique style in full calf paneled on the boards in blind and featuring large corner-pieces, the spine with thick, blind ruled raised bands. [x], 192, [1], [7 table]; [2], 1369, [31 table] pp. A large sound and handsome copy, the text of the Chronicle complete. Lacking only two preliminary leaves and the five leaves of index to the second volume. Title to Volume I with backing to an edge at the verso, A1 with expert repair to the top outside corner, some mild, light, typical staining, NNN2 with a 4 inch tear without loss, a few small paper repairs or occasional wear at the corners here or there, some marginal notations in a 17th century hand. RARE FIRST EDITION OF THIS CLASSIC TEXT AND ENGLISH CHRON- ICLE. Richard Grafton, chronicler and printer was a prosperous London merchant who is well known for his arrangement of the printing of the Bible in English from the very famous translation by Coverdale. One of the most important printing events ever conceived saw the introduction of the 1538 edition which he caused to be printed in Paris and which is the earliest book to bear his name. At the last moment before publication, the presses were seized by the French government and the work was la- beled as heretical. Grafton just barely escaped to England with his life. In subsequent years he went on to print the Great Bible and a number of editions of the Coverdale Bible. He printed many editions of the New Testament and the first Book of Common Prayer in 1549 along with numerous primers and important government tracts. Before 1550 he was already known as one of the most important people in the history of English printing. His reputation stands to this day. Grafton’s career as a chronicler began in 1543 with the printing of Hardyng’s ‘Chronicle. His own chronicle, printed many times beginning in the late 1560’s was reproduced continuously up to the early 19th century. The Chronicle chiefly adapted works of his predecessors, which he credits, but also gives detailed accounts of more contemporary events. His account of Robin Hood is among the earliest and most formative. [McKerrow & Ferguson 110.; DNB; STC 12147; ESTC s121210; Luborsky & Ingram 1,409; Lowndes 924. $9850.

Signed by Field Marshal Montgomery of Alamein A History of Warfare - The First Edition - Limited Beautifully Bound by Zaehnsdorf in Full Niger Morocco

64 Montgomery, Viscount of Alamein, Field Marshall. A HIS- TORY OF WARFARE (London: Arcadia Press for the World Publishing Company, 1969) Special Limited Edition of only 265 copies SIGNED by Montgomery of Alamein, of which numbers 251-265 were not for sale. Numerous illustrations throughout in black & white and colour including 29 full page colour plates, maps and battle plans. 8vo, in the impressive full black morroco binding by Zaehnsdorf designed for this edition, with gilt dentelle inside covers, inlaid morocco design of a cannon on the upper board, spine gilt-lettered between raised bands, a.e.g., and fine marbled endpapers. 584 pp. In- cludes index. A very handsome copy, very fine with just a little rubbing along the bottom board edges from shelving. An extremely handsome book, in a beautiful binding. An in-depth look at warfare from the earliest times and most primitive societies to the Nuclear Age. Written by one of the 20th centuries greatest warriors and military minds. it also provides thoughts on the nature of war in general and thoughts on the ideal of Peace. The work is impressively designed and illustrated. $1150. A Rare and Beautiful Edition of Ovid’s Metamorphoses Two Beautiful Large Folio Volumes Profusely Illustrated Latin and French - Printed in Amsterdam - 1732

65 Ovid. LES METAMORPHOSES D’OVIDE, En Latin, Traduites en Francois, Avec des Remarques, et des Explications Historiques Par Mr. L’Abbe Banier de l’Académie Royale des Inscriptions & Belles-Lettres (Amsterdam: R. & J. Westein & G. Smith , 1732) 2 volumes. First of the edition, the French and Latin printed in double column. Extensively illustrated with figures in taille douce engraved by B. Picart and other skilled masters. The engravings consist of large pictorial illustrative chapter heads typically measuring over 22 by 17 cm. Also with engraved tail pieces and initials throughout. Folio [46.5 by 30.5 cm], in very fine and handsome contemporary mottled calf, the boards paneled in gilt featuring an outer gilt rolled frame in a fleur de list mottif around an inner gilt panel featuring large acorn corner-pieces, this surrounding a large and ornate central gilt element in finest period fashion, the spines elaborately gilt tooled in compartments between wide gilt-tooled bands, the compartments in a floral motif also featuring large acorn center tools, two compartments featuring morocco labels of contrasting red and green with extensive gilt decoration and lettering. 248; 249-524, [4] pp. A very fine and handsome set, the contemporary calf extremely handsome with only the most minor of expected age, internally very fresh, clean and wonderfully preserved. VERY SCARCE, THE LATIN AND FRENCH VERSION OF WESTEIN AND SMITH’S IMPRESSIVE ILLUSTRATED OVID. It is far rarer then their Latin/ English printing, OCLC notes only 15 copies in institutional collections and there are no auction records going back over 25 years. This a magnificent copy in full and very fine contemporary binding. Banier’s translation into French was a standard for decades and was later reprinted. There were several editions of it in 1732, but we are unaware of any earlier. Metamorphoses is mainly a collection of Greek and Roman myths, retelling classical stories such as Echo and Narcissus, Jason and Medea, and Venus and Adonis. It also includes the Eastern Babylonian tale, Pyramus and Thisbe. This great epic work has been recognized throughout the centuries for its inventiveness, charm, and originality. “As a story-teller and guide to Greek myth and Roman legend, Ovid was very influential on later Roman writers and was read, quoted, and adapted during the Middle Ages. He was the favourite Latin poet of the Renaissance, and there were many translations of his works into English.”-M.C.Howatson. His influence upon great writers through history, from Chaucer to Marlowe and Shakespeare, is well-known. $12,500.

The Scamozzi “Opera” of Andrea Palladio The Beautiful and Rare 18th Century Quarto Palladio With Fine and Impressive Copperplate Engravings

66 Palladio, Andrea. LE FABBRICHE E I DISEGNI DI ANDREA PALLADIO E LE TERME. Raccolti ed Illus- trati da Ottavio Bertotti Scamozzi Opera Divisa in Quattro Tomi, con Tavole in Rame Rappresentanti Le Piante, I Prospetti, e Gli Spaccati (Vicenza: Giovanni Rossi, 1796-1797) 5 volumes. The first Italian edition in quarto of the monumental critical “Opera” of Palladio of Ottavio Bertotti Scamozzi, the smaller and more useful format then the original folio printing of 1776-1783. With an architectural engraved portrait of Palladio as frontis to volume one and a similar engraved portrait as frontis to the “Terme de Romani” which is volume 5, an un- numbered plate at pp 35 of volume one plus a total of 234 impressive numbered copperplate engravings on 232 plates, many of which are folding. (209 in the Opere plus 25 in the Terme, engravings 32-33 and 35-36 of vol 3 on two plates as is correct) 4to [23.5 by 18 cm], in contemporary mottled paper-covered boards backed in tan calf, the spines with gilt decorated bands creating six compartments, 4 with central gilt floral tool, the remaining two with contrasting green and tan morocco labels gilt lettered, ruled and decorated. iv, 128; iv, 76; iv, 60; iv, 80; 55 pp. A fine, very beautiful and wonderfully preserved set with only a bit of the minor mellowing or rubbing one would expect on the contemporary paper-covered boards and binding tips. SCARCE AND BEAUTIFUL FIRST ITALIAN QUARTO PRINTING of the magnificent “Scamozzi Palladio” with the commentary Ottavio Scamozzi first written between 1776 and 1785. Palladio’s designs and work to this day remain the central pillar of classical architecture and all architecture which followed. ‘Palladio’s lasting influence on architectural style in many parts of the world was exercised less through his actual buildings than through this, his textbook. The book is divided into four sections: orders and elemen- tary problems, domestic building, public building and town planning and temples. Palladio’s style was directly inspired by Roman classical models through the writings of Vitruvius and Alberti. Its characteristics are those of classicism: symmetry, order, fixed mathematical relations of the parts to each other and to the whole, logic and monumentality. Palladio followed the rules of classical Roman architecture more closely than any other architect... In spite of the vogue for the baroque and the fact that Palladio left no immediate successors, his book exerted a powerful influence on contemporary architecture and classical ideals until the end of the eighteenth century. As a practicing architect Palladio worked mainly in Vicenza, Venice and the Venetian countryside, especially along the Brenta River. His Villa Capra (known as La Rotonda) near Vicenza became virtually a prototype of the Palladian style, and it was widely and faithfully copied. At the end of his life he left plans for the tour de force of trompe l’oeil, the Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza, which was finished by his pupil Vincenzo Scamozzi.’ $7500.

A Magnificent Italian Classic - The Great Gravelot Decorations Torquato Tasso - Il Goffredo...Gerusalemme Liberatadi Exquisitely Illustrated With Superb Engravings

67 Tasso, Torquato. LA GERUSALEMME LIBERATA DI TORQUATO TAS- SO. (Paris: Agostino Delalain, etc., 1771) 2 volumes. First Delalain edition, the rare LARGE PAPER COPY on papier de Hollande. The true first of the edition with the portraits in Italian rather than French. Superbly illustrated with very fine 20 finely engraved full page plates throughout and with very finely engraved full-page frontispieces of Tasso and Gravelot and engraved title pages in each volume, copiously adorned throughout with beautiful engravings including 9 full page culs-de-lame, 20 portrait vignette headpieces and 14 cul-de-lampe tailpieces by Gravelot. The “Argomentos” set in italics. 4to, in fine full mottled calf bindings of the period, the covers with triple gilt fillet borders and finely gilt turnovers, the mottling in red and green, the spineswith elaborate gilt panel designs incorporating a urn device at the centers, raised bands decorated in gilt, red and green morocco lettering labels gilt, the latter with number label inlaid with red morocco, a.e.g. (4 ff), 331; (3ff), 340. A very handsome copy in beautifully executed bindings, crisp, clean, unwashed and unpressed internally, the bindings a bit rubbed in some places, joint of one volume unobtrusively cracked, the cords, hinges and sewing all still strong. A very wide margined copy in a lovely contemporary binding. A RARE QUARTO LARGE PAPER COPY, AND AN IMPORTANT AND VERY BEAUTIFUL EDITION OF THIS CORNERSTONE CLASSIC OF ITAL- IAN LITERATURE. The edition has long been considered one of the richest and most magnificent of the many editions of Tasso printed over the centuries. It is the rare large paper copy on papier de Hollande and is beautifully printed with very fine impresions of all the plates. Perhaps the finest of the classic illustrated editions of the 18th century; Brunet states, “As- sez belle édition. “The illustrator Hubert Gravelot studied under Boucher in Paris and later was Gainsborough’s master in London. He at one time or another illustrated almost all the important books published in his day, this particular title being a noted success. De Ricci 974/5; Brunet V. 667. $4850. A True Cornerstone of American Literature Adventures of Tom Sawyer - First Edition - A Lovely Copy In the Original Cloth - One of Mark Twain’s Greatest Books

68 Twain, Mark. ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER (Hartford: The Amer- ican Publishing Co., 1876) First Edition, BAL’s early state “B” with illustration on verso of half-title and xvi foliated. Printed on wove paper. Both this and the first issue were released on the same day of publication in equal numbers. With one-hundred and sixty black and white illustrations of such memorable as Injun Joe, Aunt Polly, Becky Thatcher, and of course Tom Sawyer. 8vo, publisher’s original blue cloth elaborately decorated in gilt and black on the covers and spine. [i-xii], with [ix, x, xii mispaged xii, xiii, and xvi as called for], [17], 18-274 [-276], [4] ads pp. A very handsome copy in an unusually pleasing state of preservation, the text-block is very clean, and unusually well preserved, the binding with only very light evidence of edgewear or shelving, the rear inner hinge with very expert, essentially imperceptible closing at the join of the free-fly and pastedown. A very nice, bright and handsome copy of an iconic and cornerstone Ameri- can literary work. FIRST EDITION IN THE ORIGINAL CLOTH. A HANDSOME AND UN- COMMONLY PLEASING COPY OF THIS GREAT AMERICAN LANDMARK, it is the first novel in which the hero is a boy and the boy is the hero throughout. TOM SAWYER is now thought to be, along with HUCKLEBERRY FINN, one of the great stepping stones to the modern American novel. It, like Whitman’s LEAVES OF GRASS and Melville’s MOBY DICK, typifies and describes the American spirit. It lies at that very special moment in history when America, having challenged its past sets off on the new adventures that will force it into the coming century and the great expansion of its democratic spirit. To this day, it remains a cornerstone of American literature. BAL 3369. Grolier American Hundred $7500. The Ballad of Reading Gaol Oscar Wilde’s Last and Most Poignant Work One of 800 Copies Only - The True First Edition - 1898 69 [Wilde, Oscar]. THE BALLAD OF READING GAOL BY C.3.3. (London: Leonard Smithers, 1898) First edition, one of 800 copies printed on handmade paper. 8vo, publisher’s original quarter buff cloth over mustard coloured cloth covered boards, the spine lettered in gilt. [8] pp. plus 31 numbered leaves, printed and paginated on the recto only. A fine copy, only a hint of mellowing to the buff cloth. THE FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO 800 COPIES ON FINE, HANDMADE PAPER. Inspired by his experiences while in prison and written while in exile in France, THE BALLAD OF READING GAOL was Wilde’s last artistic gasp. Because of his sobering position at the time, the poem is free from a great deal of the affectation that colored his earlier work. “Had [it] been written a hundred years ago, it would have been printed as a broadside and sold in the streets by the ballad- mongers; it is so common as that, and so great as that” (Jackson, The Eighteen-Nineties, p. 99). “...He did not wring his hands, as do Those witless men who dare To try to rear the changeling Hope In the cave of black Despair: He only looked upon the sun, And drank the morning sun.

He did not wring his hands nor weep, Nor did he peek or pine, But he drank the air as though it held Some healthful anodyne; With open mouth he drank the sun As though it had been wine!....” $2950. Baldassarre Castiglione - Il Libro del Cortegiano - 1545 Folio - One of the Greatest Books of 16th Century Italy PMM 59 - The Renaissance Ideal - Printed by Aldus

70 Castiglione, Conte Baldassarre. IL LIBRO DEL COR- TEGIANO, Nuovamente Ristampato (Vinegia: Figlioli di Aldo (Aldus), 1545) A very early and rare printing of Cas- tiglione by Aldus in the original folio format mirroring the 1528 printing. Elaborate Aldine device impressed on the title and at the end on the verso of the colophon leaf. Dedication to Michel de Selva, vescovo di Viseo. Folio, handsomely bound in fine Italian vellum. 122 ff. pp. A beautifully preserved copy, handsome and clean. RARE ALDINE EDITION OF THE CLASSIC LAND- MARK IL CORTEGIANO. Castiglione’s great work is one of the most famous books of the Italian Renaissance and represents the highest level of committment to the prince and the new political and social order. The Courtier is the prototype of the courtesy book, written as conversation between members of the court. At the time of its composition Castiglione was at the court of Guidobaldo de Montefeltre and Elizabetta Gonzaga at Urbino, together with Bembo, Giuliano de’ Medici, Federico Fregoso and other Renaissance luminaries; members of that court feature as speakers in the conversation. Castiglione, after serving the Sforzas at Milan and the Gon- zagas at Mantua, came to the Court of Urbino in 1504 where de Montefeltre and his consort Elizabetta Gonzaga were the center of the most brilliant court in Italy, which counted among its members Bembo, Bibbiena, G. de’Medici and many other emi- nent men. This brilliant book is based on Castiglione’s experience of life among these dazzling figures. ‘The Courtier’ depicts the ideal aistocrat, and it has remained the perfect definition of a gentleman ever since. It is an epitome of the highest moral and social ideas of the Italian Renaissance and is written in the form of a discussion between members of the court. The fundamental idea that a man should perfect himself by developing all his faculties goes back to Aristotle’s ETHICS and many of the Aristotelian virtues reappear---honesty, magnanimity and good manners. The ideal man should also be proficient in arms and games, be a scholar and connoisseur of art; he should develop graceful speech and cherish a sense of honour. Relations between the prince and the courtier, forms of government, and rules for the conduct of a lady are also discussed and the book ends with the celebrated pronouncement on platonic love by Bembo. This Renaissance ideal of the free development of individual faculties and its rules of civilized behaviour formed a new conception of personal rights and obligations in Europe. The book was translated into most European languages and between 1528 and 1616 no less than one hundred and eight editions were published. It had great influence in Spain where traces of it can be found in DON QUIXOTE and in France in Corneille’s writings. But its most potent influence was probably in England. Its influence can be seen in Shakepeare, Spenser, Ben Jonson, Sir Philip Sidney, Robert Burton and Shelley. It had a great impact on the development of English drama and comedy. The beautiful and highly important printings of the house of Aldus are exceptional and revered in their own right. This, one of the most exceptional of Italian Renaissance works published by the great Renaissance printer of Italy. (PMM 59). .” Renouard 131.4. UCLA IIIa, 328. Adams C-933. BMC 156. Cens. Naz. III, 2049. $11,500. Exceptionally Rare - The Myrrour and Dyscryption of the Worlde The First Science Book Printed In English With Extremely Early Illustrations for Any English Imprint

71 [Caxton, William, Translator]; [Gossuin of Metz]. [THE MYRROUR AND DYSCRYP- CYON OF THE WORLDE WITH MANY MERUAYLLES AND THE VII SCYENCES...] ([London: Enprynted by me Laurence An- drewe dwellynge in fletestrete, at the sygne of the golde crosse by flete brydge, 1527?]) EXCEPTIONALLY RARE, EXTREMELY EARLY PRINTING AND JUST THE THIRD OF THE WORK and the first by Andrewe preceded only by Caxton’s own printings of this translation by William Caxton of “Image du monde”, sometimes attributed to Gossuin of Metz; misattributed to Vincent of Beauvais. Publication date conjectured by STC. WITH VERY EARLY ILLUSTRATIONS FOR ANY BOOK PRINTED IN ENGLISH. Black letter, with many woodcut illustrations throughout, nearly 100, many are very large, also with woodcut initials and head or tail pieces. Folio (272 by 175mm), in old vellum over stiff boards, a later paper label attractively lettered in manuscript on the spine, now housed in a folding chamois in a handsome full calf clamshell box gilt ruled, the spine of the box with tall raised bands and three brown morocco labels gilt lettered and ruled. 78 leaves (of 92). An extremely rare book, still bound in it’s contemporary vellum and a remarkable survival. Highly elusive, the book lacks the leaves prior to d2, the titlepage, prologue and start of the text. A two-page manuscript summary by a previous owner is bound in the front along with an interesting history of the Mirror and its printings. h1 and h4 have been supplied in manuscript facsimile. Marginal repairs to y1 not affecting text, to y2 affecting one woodblock and some lines of text restored in manuscript, y3 and y4 affecting several lines of text and the colophon which are restored in manuscript and the printers device on the verso. VERY RARE, This edition is nearly as rare as the exceptionally rare Caxton printings. OCLC LISTS ONLY 4 COP- IES IN PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS: The British Museum, with a mutilated titlepage and lacking A2-4; the British Library Reference Collection, with the titlepage mutilated; UCLA, which is incomplete; the Huntington and the University of Manchester. Mirror of the World was the first illustrated book, the first science book, and the first encyclopaedia printed in England. This edition is a revision of Caxton’s translation, which Caxton printed originally in 1480 and again in 1481. Some the woodcuts used in this present edition are from Caxton’s original blocks, thus are the same blocks used by England’s first printer. Caxton’s edition however had far fewer illustrations, there are nearly 100 in this edition and they came from many sources. Andrewe’s edition also differs from Caxtons in word changes, phrasing, omissions and the section on the liberal arts is expanded. MIRROR is a compendium of popular sciences, the text summarizes the knowledge of the times at a level of detail that would interest and inform the reading public without belaboring excessive details and scholastic argumentation. Its subjects include grammar, rhetoric, logic, weights and measures, geometry, Earth sciences, hydrology, meteorology, astronomy, music, etc. The fascinating woodcuts, some were originally used by Caxton, include astronomical events, moon phases and eclipses, demonstrations of gravity, a mermaid, Noah’s Ark, an earthquake, the Earth’s four major rivers flowing from Eden, Hell... There are even strange animals in India such as unicorns, dragons and elephants. Andrewe was a native of Calais, where he probably learned the art of printing from John Doesborowe or Peter Treveris before practicing the art at Fleet Street. Lowndes called this the ‘chef d’oeure’ of his press. Two variants were printed, but these can only be distinguished from the titlepage. STC (2nd ed.); 24764; ESTC (RLIN), S111980; Pforzheimer, 1025; Hodnett, E. English woodcuts 1480-1530, (1973 ed.), p. 69-70. $12,500. A Superb Example In Exquisite Binding The Greatest Printed and Illustrated Cervantes 1780 - Don Quixote de la Mancha - The First Ibarra Edition

72 Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel De. EL INGENIOSO HIDALGO DON QUIXOTE DE LA MANCHA...Nueva Edicion, Corregida por la Real Academia Española (Madrid: Don Joachin Ibarra, 1780) 4 volumes. The First Ibarra Edition, the most revered and beautifully illustrated and printed pressing of the most treasured work in all of Span- ish literature, a monument of Spanish typography. With an engraved portrait, engraved title pages in each volume, 31 fine engraved plates and 66 charming head- and tailpieces, and a large map with Quixote’s peregrinations in the first volume. Large 4to, a splendid and very beautiful binding by the firm of Simier R. du Roi in the finest dark purple morocco, adorned on the ordrs in gold and blind decoration, the spines titled and numbered in gold and with very rich and beautiful gold decorations in compartments, rich gold dentelles and edges. [iv], XIV, ccvviv, 199; [iv], 418; [ii], xiv, 306; [iv], 346. This is a superb example in the most wonderful state of preservation. A magnificent French binding. PERHAPS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL AND DESIRABLE SET AVAIL- ABLE OF THE MAGNIFICENT IBARRA EDITION. The Ibarra Edition is “the finest edition of Don Quixote that has ever been printed” (D. B. Updike). Printed for the Royal Spanish Academy in Spanish-designed types, lavishly ornamented, and containing the Prologue of the Academy, the Life of Cervantes, and a Chronological Plan and Analy- sis of the book, this is not only the finest edition of Cervantes, but is also a monument of European fine printing. What results from the combination of edition and presentation is a remarkable historical artifact whose position in the an- nals of bibliophily is perhaps unequaled except by a handful of famous books. It boils down to this: the greatest imaginative work from the Spanish mind, in its most beautiful physical manifestation, given to one of the most famous figures in military history, in gratitude for one of the most important military operations in European history. Cohen- De Ricci 218-9; Palau 52024 “magnifica edicion”; Updike Printing Types II, pp. 55-7: “so original and lively in cut”. $47,500.

A Very Rare English Herbal Printed in 1578 A Nievve Herball, or, Historie of Plants - Dodoens Published in London - With over 850 Woodcuts of Plants

73 Dodoens, Rembert. (1517-1585). A NIEVVE HERBALL, or, Historie of Plantes: wherein is contayned the vvhole discourse and perfect decscription of all sortes of herbes and plantes, their diuers and sundry kindes, their straunge figures, fashions, and shapes: their names, natures, operations, and vertues, and that not onely of those which are here growyng in this our countrie of Englande, but of all others also of forrayne realmes, commonly used in physicke / first set foorth in the Doutche or Almaigne tongue, by that learned D. Rembert Dodoens, Physitian to the Emperor: And nowe first tranisated out of French Into English, by Henry Lyte esquyer. (London: by me Gerard Dewes, dwelling in Pawies Churchyarde at the Signe of the Swanne, 1578) This is the RARE FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH of the 1554 Flemish original, “Cruydeboeck” . COPIES ARE EXTREMELY ELUSIVE IN THE MARKETPLACE. Illustrated with more than 850 quarter-paged woodcuts of plants in the text. The title is framed by an elaborate woodcut border by Arnold Nicolai after Pierre van der Borcht, depicting mythical and historical figures associated with horticulture: Apollo, Asclepius, Artemisia, Gentius, Mithridates and Lysimachus. The large vignette at the foot of the title page shows Hercules slaying the Hydra at the gates of the Garden of the Hesperides. “The fine woodcut compartment surrounding the title is the same as that of the second Flemish edition (1563) and is signed with the initials P.B. and the monogram A, the former standing for Pierre van der Borcht, mentioned above, and the latter for Arnold Nicolai, who became one of Plantin’s chief engravers.” The full-paged woodcut coat-of-arms of the translator appears on the verso of the title page and a woodcut portrait of Dodoens appears after the dedicatory verses and is inscribed with ‘Remberti Dodonaei aeta. XXXV. The woodcut printer’s device of Henry Loa appears on the verso of the final leaf. Folio, [290 X 190 mm), bound in near contemporary blind-ruled calf the spine panel replaced very attractively, probably during the past century, with raised bands gilt tooled separating the compartments which are decorated with a central gilt tool device, one compartment with black morocco label gilt ruled and lettered, the endleaves retained. [12], 779, (27)pp; *6, *6, A-Z6, Aa-Zz6, Aaa-Ggg6, Hhh-lii4, Kkk-Xxx4 (lacking Xxx and Xxx4 of the Index appellationum & nomen- claturarum), Index to Lylos Herbal Names of Plants in English and Index to Lylos Herbal Names of Diseases with reference to cures, in 8pp. manuscript and 6pp. manuscript hand, probably of the 18th century. A very good and handsome copy of this scarce title, the text in fine state of preservation with only minor occasional mellowing, top edge trimmed close affecting only a small number of headlines, the boards with some very minor expected evidence of age or use, the back handsome and strong. Small discreet library identification stamp on the front pastedown and final leaf of the index and small, discreetly positioned catalogue number at the foot of the spine panel in gilt.. VERY SCARCE FIRST AND ONLY ENGLISH EDITION OF THIS VERY IMPORTANT HERBALL. “At the end of the sixteenth-century the writings of Rembert Dodoens (Rembertus Dodonaeus), a physician and botanist in the Low Coun- tries, exercised considerable influence in England. This author was born at Malines in 1517 and died at Leyden in 1585. We are told by Meerbeck that Dodoens studied medicine at Louvain, and afterwards visited the universities and medical schools in France, Italy and Germany. He finally returned to his native city, and in 1548 was nominated town physician. Dodoens became renowned as a doctor not only in his native land but also other countries, and in 1574 he accepted an invitation from the Emperor Maximilian II to be court physician at Vienna. On the death of Maximilian he remained for a time with the new Emperor, Rudolf II. He received a Chair of Medicine at Leyden University in 1582. Dodoens, along with Clusius and Lobel, was one of the three great Flemish botanists in the second half of the 16th century. “In 1554, Dodoens published, as ‘Cruydeboeck’, a national herbarium devoted to species indigenous to the Flemish provinces. The merit of this book watirAK, that rather than proceeding by alphabetical order, as Fuchs had done, Dodoens grouped the plants according to their properties and their reciprocal affinities.” (DSB) “In 1578 there appeared., Henry Lyte’s English translation of Charles de l’Ecluse’s 1557 French version of Dodoens’ “Crtiydeboeck”. It is entitled “A Nievve herball” and is dedicated to Queen Elizabeth. It was printed by van der Loe of Antwerp, and sold by Garrat Dewes who practiced as a printer and bookseller in London from 1560 to 1591, in St. Paul’s Churchyard at the Sign of the Swan. This folio volume is printed mostly in black letter and is illustrated with many woodcuts of plants. “Lyte prepared “A Nievve herball” with care. He compared ‘the last Douch copy’ with the French version, and in places made corrections and additions. Moreover, it appears that after Lyte had finished his work, Rembert Dodoens sent fresh material, which the English translator incorporated in his edition. Lyte’s own copy of the French version is now preserved in the British Museum. It contains numerous notes [and the inscription ‘Henry Lyte taught me to speake English.’]” (Henrey) “ Dodoens is best known to English readers through translations of his work by Henry Lyte, who deserves much credit for his accuracy. Unlike most translators, Lyte was an amateur botanist who understood the material he was translating. He is credited with making significant corrections to the original text and accurately incorporating new material sent him by Dodoens during the course of his work. It is possible that Shakespeare consulted the “Nivve Herbal!” for information regarding plant lore found in his plays. Edmund Spencer’s references to flowers in his “Sheplwr.des Calendar” may have been inspired by his seeing this herbal where Lyte describes, among others, the “gillofers and pinkes.” (Patten Collection Catalogue) STC 6984; Nissen, BBI 516; Pritzel 2345; Hunt 132; Henrey no. 110 and p.32-36; Van Meerbeeck p.273 (“cette traduction est tits rare”). $10,500. The Very Rare First Edition in English - A Classical Work A Chronicle, The Lives of Ten Emperours of Rome - 1577 Sir Antonie of Guevara - Published in London

74 [Early Classical Works in English]; Guevara, Syr Antonie of. A CHRON- ICLE, CONTEYNING THE LIVES OF TENNE EMPEROURS OF ROME. Wherin Are Discouered, Their Beginnings, Proceedings, and Endings, Wor- thie to Be Read, Marked, and Remembered Wherein Are Also Conteyned Lawes of Speciall Profite and Policie, Sentences of Singular Shortnesse and Sweetenesse, Orations of Great Gravitie and Wisedome, Letters of Rare Learning and Eloquence, Examples of Vices Carefully to be Avoyded, and Notable Paternes of Vertue Fruitfull to be Followed.... Translated Out of the Spanish into English by Edward Hellowes... Hereunto is also annexed a table, recapitulating such particularities, as are in this booke mentioned (London: Ralphe Newberrie, 1577) Very Rare, the first and presumed only edition in English. Title-page within elaborate woodcut border, very large woodcut initial and woodcut headpiece on the first leaf of the dedication, smaller woodcut initials throughout. Small 4to, in 18th century mottled calf, sometime rebacked to perfect period style featuring simple gilt ruled raised bands and a single morocco lettering label gilt lettered and tooled, endpapers marbled, with the 1724 armorial bookplate of George Baillie, Lord of the Treasury, Lord of the Admiralty, and MP of both the Parliaments of Scotland and Great Britain. Later provenance of Brent Gration-Maxfield with his characteristic manuscript ex-libris and notes on the front blanks. [8], 484, [10] pp., collated as complete but for the final blank. A very handsome and proper copy of the rare book. The text quite solid and fresh with only occasional and light evidence of soiling or stain, extremely minor worming through the first quarter or so in the inner bottom margin and not effecting any text whatsoever. A copy with excellent provenance throughout the 18th and 20th centuries. VERY SCARCE, THIS COPY THE ONLY ONE IN PUBLIC AUCTION GOING BACK AS FAR AS 1972, this being the Gration-Maxfield copy, Sotheby’s, London, February 9, 1981. Fewer than 20 copies are listed in institutional holdings by OCLC, and we know of no other copy currently available. THE FIRST AND ONLY EDITION IN ENGLISH. Guevara was an important Spanish court preacher and served as historian to the Holy Roman Emperor and King of Spain, Charles V. This work, published in Spain in 1539 as Decada de los Césares, was written in imitation of the manner of Plutarch and Suetonius; and also the Epistolas Familiares. It is a collection of formal essays designed primarily to use classical examples to promote virtuous living in his own century. Like his MARCUS AURELIUS, it also served largely to argue the importance of modern sovereigns. Guevara’s influence upon the Spanish prose of the 16th century was considerable, but also of great literary controversy. Many of the characters and events depicted in both this work and the Aurelius have too-close-to-be-coincidence counterparts in the court of which he was part of, yet he claimed these works as historically accurate, referring to a “manuscript in Flor- ence” which was almost certainly imaginary. STC 12426. $12,500.

Important English Incunable Printing - 1498 Caxton’s Golden Legend from the Press of Wynkyn De Worde A Very Sizable Fragment With Seven Fine Woodcuts

75 [English Incunabula; Voragine, Jacobus De]. THE GOLDEN LEGEND [Fragment, containing 39 of the original 488 leaves] ([Westminster: Wynkyn De Worde, 8 January 1498]) VERY RARE AND EXTENSIVE FRAGMENT. From the fourth edition of Caxton’s translation, printed on paper produced by John Tate, the first English paper- maker. Batarde type, double columns and including seven large woodcuts including the woodcut of the circumcision of the baby Jesus. Folio, approximately 290 x 207mm, bound in very handsome modern full black crushed morocco by Weitz-Coleman, gilt lettered on spine. Leaves 2-7; 10-15; 18-19, 22; 24-37; 46; 352-354; 357-362. A fine and extensive collection of leaves from this scarce early English printing, with good and ample margins, 19th century scholarly notations on front blank, occasional marginalia and some minor soiling, woodcut excised from leaf xxviii with loss of corresponding text on the verso, lower corner of leaf xxxiiii torn with loss of a small portion of text, a few others torn in margins with varying text loss, restoration along fore edge of last several leaves, one woodcut with an unobtrusive hole in the image (leaf 32). A VERY SIGNIFICANT FRAGMENT FROM THE SCARCE 1498 Wynkyn De Worde PRINTING OF CAXTON’S TRANSLATION OF THE GOLDEN LEGEND. Leaves 2 through 7 contain ‘the Advent’, ‘the Nativity’, and ‘the Cir- cumcisyon’ of Our Lorde. Leaves 10-15 contain ‘The Epyphanye’, Septuagesima, ‘On Sexagesme’; ‘of Quinquagesima’, ‘Of Quadragesme’, Ymber Dayes (Lent); ‘The Passyon of our Lorde’. Leaves 18-19 continue with the ‘The Passyon of our Lorde. Leaf 22 contains ‘The Resurreccyon’. Leaves 24-37 begin with ‘The Letanies, ‘The Pentecoste’, and ‘The Ascencyon”, and continues to the ‘Dedicacyon of the Chyrche’. Leaf 46 contains ‘The Conception of Our Lady’ and leaves 352-354 the Lives of, ‘Saynt Katheryne’, ‘Saynt Saturnyne’, ‘James the Martyer’ and ‘Saynt Bede. Leaves 357-362 the lives of, ‘Saynt Brandon’, Saynt Erken Walde’ and ‘Saynt Pastor’. The seven large woodcuts within this fragment are particularly interesting. They are; the Nativity, the circumcision of Christ, the Crucifixion, the Ascension, the Feast of Corpus Christi, the dedication of the Church and a portrait of Saint Erken- wald, Bishop of London between 675 and 693. The Golden Legend was translated by William Caxton—his largest and most complex work of translation—and originally printed by him in 1483, going through seven full and one partial editions through 1527. He based his version principally on the Legenda aurea of Voragine, with additional sources and some of his own personal pious stories added. This is the first edition printed by Wynkyn De Worde, Caxton’s principal assistant and successor. He printed many important literary works in the 1490’s, and the catalogue of his works is evidence of bibliographical demand between 1490 and 1535. $12,500.

The First Illustrated Edition of a Cornerstone Work Higden’s Polycronicon - 1527 - The History of the World One of the Supreme Early Printed Books in English

76 Higden, Ranulph; [Early Printing in English]. POLYCRONI- CON [translated by John de Trevisa] (Southwark: Peter Treveris at ye expences of John Reynes, 1527, the 16th day of May) VERY RARE. THE FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION OF THE POLY- CRONICON and only the third issuance of the book after the Cax- ton printing of 1482 and the Wynken de Worde printing of 1495. With the exception of the woodcut of the musical notation on n5r, which first appeared in the printing of 1495 (and was the earliest printed musical notation in an English book), ALL THE WOOD- CUT ILLUSTRATIONS APPEAR HERE FOR THE FIRST TIME. Double column, black letter, zylographic title printed in red between two parts of a large woodcut block printed in red and black (Hodnett 2489, state 2), the upper portion featuring the royal arms, a portrait of Henry VIII, and the arms of London, the larger lower portion showing St. George, this block repeated in its undivided state on the verso of colophon, full page woodcut of a battle on z6v, 9 smaller woodcuts in the text (six blocks, some repeated), woodcut musical notation on n5r, many 10-line and smaller woodcut initials. John Reynes’ printer’s mark, colophon with hunting scenes. Folio (271x 191 mm), bound in correct 16th century style in full calf, the boards paneled in blind, the spine with tall raised bands blind ruled, compartments with central blind tool device but one which is gilt lettered, a.e.g. Fo. CCCxlvi. (aa8, bb-hh6, a-y8, z6, A-S8, T6, U, X8) A very handsome and complete copy of this rare and highly desirable book, interesting and early manuscript notations in two hands, one of which documented as 16th century, censor markings to Catholic references, particularly references to the Pope now faded and the print beneath now legible, faint and occasional evidence of old damp, some other minor occasional staining, a few minor paper repairs in margins or corners, not effecting text. RARE AND IMPORTANT. Only the third printing of one of the most important pieces of early English historical prose. Higden’s POLYCRONICON, a world history from the Creation to 1360 A.D., was translated by Trevisa at the command of Thomas, Earl of Berkeley (d. 1361). The work draws on over 40 sources, and synthesizes a continuous diachronic and multicultural history, beginning with the Biblical account of the Creation and moving through the history of the Semitic, Hellenic, Roman, and medieval-European cultures. It served as a model for innumerable later histories, both universal and localized. The POLYCRONICON was Caxton’s most ambitious printing project. It is his longest book in terms of page count, and the second-longest in terms of word count (after the GOLDEN LEGEND of 20 November 1483). It is also Caxton’s most ambitious work as an editor and a writer; for Caxton significantly revised the extant English translation of the POLY- CRONICON, updating its terminology considerably; and he also authored an original history of England to serve as Book 8 of the text--a writing effort which stands as Caxton’s greatest achievement as an author. This printing is only the third, after Caxton’s original in 1482, it is considered one of the best examples of Treveris’ ability as a printer. Grolier “Langland to Wither” 144; Pforzheimer 490. STC 13440; Clair. A History of Printing in Britain. P. 50. $42,500.

The Vision of Pierce Plowman - 1550 One of the Greatest Works of English Literature of the Middle Ages Second in Importance only to Chaucer

77 [Langland, William, attributed. Piers the Plowman]. THE VISION OF PIERCE PLOWMAN, Nowe the Seconde Time Imprinted by Roberte Crow- ley Dwellynge in Elye rentes in Holburne. Whereunto are Added Certayne Notes and Cotations in the Mergyne, Geuynge Light to the Reader. And in the Begynning is Set a Briefe Summe of All the Principall Matters Spoken of in the Boke. And as the Boke is Deuided into Twenty Partes called Passus: so is the Summary Diuided, for Euery Parte hys Summarie, Rehearsynge the Matters Spoken of in Ruerye Parte, Euen in Suche Order as They Stande There (Lon- don: By Roberte Crowley, dwellyng in Elye rentes in Holburne, 1550) Scarce, only the second edition, issue with “Seconde Time” on title-page. The other has “Second Tyme” and presents a rather more corrupt text. The first published earlier the same year (with the date misprinted “1505”). With a number of woodcut initials throughout, printer’s device on titlepage and colophon. Small 4to, in early 19th century embossed calf by Hering, covers ruled in gilt, with ornamental borders in blind and large central strapwork. panels stained a darker shade, spine gilt, black morocco label, a.e.g. Later book label Of Viscount Mersey of Bignor Perk on front pastedown. (8)117 leaves (foliated). A very good, handsome and proper copy, wanting a final blank; blank inner margin of the title-page neatly restored, some slight soiling occasional. The binding with expert and unobtrusive restoration of the spine retaining most of the original leather. Tipped in at the front is Hering’s receipt for the binding (1lune 2, 1819), which cost 12 shillings. SCARCE EDITION IN VERY HANDSOME EMBOSSED ANTIQUE CALF of The great English visionary poem of the 14th century. Piers Ploughman survives in two quite different version, designated by Skeat as the A and B texts; the former is known only from manuscripts, not having been printed at an early date. Little is known of Langland beyond what the printer reveals In his preface: “I have learned that the authour was named Roberte [sic) Langelande, a Shropshere man borne in Cleybitle, about viii myles from Malveme hilles.” Crowley dated the poem to between 1350 and 1409 but modem scholars have narrowed the gap to 1367-70. Very little is known for sure about the life of William Langland (c. 1362-1399]--indeed, there is discussion about whether “he” was a single poet--but his poem (or group of poems) entitled “The Vision of William Concerning Piers the Plowman” was very popular in the latter half of the fourteenth century, and remained popular throughout the fifteenth century. The leaders of the reformation in the sixteenth century considered it an inspiration and a prophecy, and in modern times it has been quoted by every historian of the fourteenth century as “the most vivid and trustworthy source for the social and eco- nomic history of the time.” $18,750.

First Edition of this Rare and Early Work on Warfare Early English Printing - Published London - 1578 John Poleman - All the Famous Battals That Have Been Fought...

78 [Military; War; Battles; Early English Printing; Polemon, John]. ALL THE FAMOUS BATTALS THAT HAVE BENE FOUGHT IN OUR AGE THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, As Well by Sea as Lande, Set Foorth at Large...Collected Out of Sundry Good Authors (London: Henrye Bynneman & Francis Coldock, [1578]) VERY RARE First Edition. Title within elaborate historiated woodcut border of military themes, printed in black letter, large engraved historiated initials throughout, head and tail pieces. Small 4to (7.5x5.75 inches approx.), bound in contemporary limp vellum, in a cloth folding case with morocco label lettered in gilt. [ii], 337, [3] pp. The original contemporary vellum binding is rather worn and the upper portion of the front cover is defective, missing a section of the vellum. The text has some expected aging, primarily at the prelims, small hole in title repaired from the verso causing very slight loss to border RARE, POLEMON’S ANTHOLOGY OF EUROPEAN BATTLES ACCRUED AND TRANSLATED FROM CONTINENTAL AUTHORS SUCH AS JOVIUS, GUICCIARDINI AND NATALIS COMES. OCLC list only 8 copies in institutional holdings, we are aware of no other copy currently available. In total Polemon’s collection of descriptions from various sources covers over 40 major battles fought in Great Britain, on the Continent, and in the eastern Mediterranean, from Tarro in 1495 to Lepanto in 1572. The translation from Guicciardini is the earliest of any part of his body of work to be done into English. Polemon’s endeavor was quite popular, enough so to warrant a continuation in 1587. His style of research, along with writing for an audience of wealthy and erudite and nonmilitary people had an impact on Tudor historical thought which lasted long afterwards. STC 20089. $8500.

With the Superb Landscape Illustrations of David Roberts The Holy Bible - A Wonderful Folio Printing With Important Commentary, Notes and Maps Handsomely Bound in Preferred Format

79 [Roberts, David Illustrator]; Bible, [Illustrated Bible]. THE HOLY BIBLE, Containing the Old and New Tes- taments, According to the Authorized Version, With the Marginal Readings, and Original and Selected Parallel References, Printed at Lenght, and a Commentaries of Henry and Scott, Condensed by the Rev. John M’Farlane (London and Glasgow: Richard Griffin and Company, ND, circa 1858) A very early issue of the Practical Family Bible printed by Collins in Glasgow but with the Griffin imprint. With 31 fine tinted lithograph landscape plates and a lithograph vignette title all after drawings by David Roberts and beautifully produced by the lithogra- phy firm of Day and Son, “Lithographers to the Queen”, and additionally, with 4 maps outlined in red, a plan of ancient Jerusalem and two double-sided leaves of decorated family register and with 28 page “Summary of Biblical Antiquities” illustrated throughout. Folio, (approx. 13.5 by 9.5 inches), publisher’s original deluxe full brown morocco, the boards with blind-stamped panels like those found on Bibles centuries earlier, the spine with substantial raised bands blind tooled separating compartments tooled in the same manner as the covers, two compartments with gilt lettering and with additional gilt lettering at the foot, edges beveled, the turn-ins gilt tooled, page edges beautifully gauffered and gilded in a tooled diamond pattern, endpapers marbled. 944; 288; (40) pp. A fine, clean, and wonderfully preserved and very handsome Bible, the paper with just a minimal bit of the toning that is typically found, some unobtrusive, very light marginal staining at the bottom edge of some leaves, small tear with no loss at the lower corner of the frontispiece just barely affecting the image. With Lang- don family notations in the register leaves indicating multigenerational attachment. A BEAUTIFUL BIBLE FEATURING THE IMPRES- SIVE FULL-PAGE LITHOGRAPHED ILLUSTATIONS BY MASTER LANDSCAPE PAINTER DAVID ROB- ERTS. The impressive binding, with its fine gauffered edges, is likely the publisher’s best format. The text is augmented by important and useful commentary, tables, notes, prefaces and arrangements. These include lengthy parallel passages, which suggest the appropriate meaning of the biblical text. The comments by Matthew Henry and Thomas Scott are equally important. $2500.

The Second Folio of Shakespeare’s Plays A Rare and Especially Beautiful Copy Printed by Tho. Cotes and Robert Allot - 1632 - London

80 Shakespeare, William. COMEDIES, HISTORIES, AND TRAGEDIES. Published according to the true Origi- nall Copies. The second Impression (London: Printed by Tho. Cotes, for Robert Allot, and are to be sold at his shop at the signe of the Blacke Beare in Pauls Church-yard, 1632) Second Fo- lio edition of what is generally considered to be the most important work of literature in the English language. Engraved portrait by Martin Droeshout on title page, woodcut ornaments and initials. Folio (335x220 mm), very fine full crimson morocco by Lloyd, the covers beautifully decorated with three gilt fillet lines at the border surrounded by a key rolled border gilt, and with central gilt heraldic device, the spine in compartments fully tooled and elaborately and very handsomely decorated in gilt with superb tooling at the borders of the compartments and with central gilt devices exquisitely decorated in gilt, separated by raised bands gilt stopped and tooled, two compartments lettered in gilt. The turnovers and edges are fully gilt with fillet lines at the edges and elaborate gilt rolled decorative borders at the turnovers. Edges of the leaves with wide borders and virtually untrimmed, gilt. An especially handsome, large and very attractive copy in a wonderful state of preservation. Fresh, clean and crisp throughout. The “To the Reader” leaf and title-page are expertly accomplished antique facsimiles on old paper and the final Cymbeline leaf as these, all done many years ago in completely unobtrusive and very skilled workmanship. A RARE AND ESPECIALLY BEAUTIFUL COPY OF THE SECOND FOLIO. And a most desirable copy. A Shakespeare folio is one of the most significant books for a collector of literature, and the Second Folio is the earliest copy still generally available to him or her, as most of the First Folios, of course, reside in institutional hands. The second folio is also significant for Milton collectors as it includes, on the Effigies leaf, his first published poem, entitled “An Epitaph on the admirable Dramaticke Poet, W. Shakespeare.” The original folio printing of Shakespeare’s works in all likelihood owes its existence to two of the Bard’s principle actors, Henry Condell and John Heminges. Prior to the first folio there had been only a few “curious and rather shabby” collections of Shakespearian and non-Shakespearian works published under the bard’s name. After Shakespeare’s death Condell and Heminges dedicated themselves to producing a folio volume of all of his plays that would be accurate and authoritative “..only to keep the memory of so worthy a friend and fellow alive as was our Shakespeare.” Their dedication, combined with help from others, eventually led to the publication of the First Folio in 1623. Without the hard work of these friends there is no knowing how many of the plays might have been lost in the years that followed. These two actor’s work not only preserved the memory of their great friend but is perhaps the single most important publishing endeavor of English literature. How much the modern English-speaking world owes to these two men will never be calculable. The Second Folio contains JOHN MILTON S FIRST APPEARANCE IN PRINT: an epitaph on Shakespeare in 16 verses, incipit: What neede my Shakespeare for his honour’d bones; it appears on the same page A5r as “Upon the Effigies” in eight verses, incipit: Spectator, this Lifes Shaddow is; To see. The inner form containing these two poems is recorded in several states (in the Bruce copy: “Comicke” in line 3, “Laugh” in line 4, “passions” with ligatured double-s in line 6 of the “Effigies” poem); the outer form contains the title (A2r), whose setting varies according to the publisher in the imprint. Like its predecessor, from which the edition was set page-for-page, the Second Folio has now become extremely elusive in the open market. Copies as beautiful as this are highly desirable. COLLATION:A6*4 (A1r blank, A1v Ben Jonson’s verses To the Reader, A2r letterpress title and Martin Droeshout’s engraved portrait of the playwright, verso blank, A3 editors’ dedication to the Earls of Pembroke and Montgomery, A4r editors’ note To the great variety of Readers, verso blank, A5 r verses Upon the Effigies of my worthy Friend, the Author Master William Shakespeare and An Epitaph on the admirable Dramaticke Poet, W. Shakespeare [the latter by John Milton (1608-743], verso blank, A6r verses To the memorie of the deceased Authorby L.DignesanUl.M.,versoblank,*1rTheNames ofthePriPcipall Actors in all these Playes, verso blank, *2 Ben Jonsons verses To the memory of my beloved, The Author, *3 verses On Worthy Master Shakespeare and his Poems by l.M.S., *4r Hugh Holland’s verses Upon the Lines and Life of the Famous Scenicke Poet, *4v A Catalogue of all the Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies contained in this Booke); 2A-Z6, Aa - Bb6 Cc2 (Comedies: 2A1r The Tempest, B4v The Two Gentlemen of Verona, D2r The Merry Wives of Windsor, F1r Measure for Measure, H1r The Comedie of Errors, I3r Much a doe about Nothing, Llv Loves Labour’s lost, Nlr A MidSommer Nights Dredme, 04rThe Merchant Of Venice, Q3r As you like it, S2v The Taming of the Shrew, V1v All s Well, that Ends Well, Y2r Twelfe Night, Or who you will, Z6v blank, Aa1r The Winters Tale, Cc2v blank); a_y6 (Histories: a1r The life and death of King John, b6r The Life and Death of King Richard the Second, d5v The First Part of Henry the Fourth, with the Life and Death of Henry Sirnamed Hot-spurre, f6v The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, Containing his Death and the Coronation of King Henry the Fift, i2r Epiiogue, i2v The Actors Names, i3r The Life of King Henry the Fift, l4v The first Part of King Henry the Sixt, n4v The second Part of King Henry the Sixt, with the death of the Good Duke Humfrey, p6r The third Part of King Henry the Sixt, with the death of the Duke of Yorke, s1r The Tragedy of Richard the Third: with the Landing of Eorie Richmond, and the Battell of BosworÉh Field, u5r The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight); aa-zz aaa-ccc6 ddd~ (Tragedies: aalr The Prologue, aa1v The Tragedie of Troyiusand Cressida, cc3v The Tragedy of Coriolaous, ee6v The Lamentabie Tragedy of Titus Andronicus, gg5v The Tragodie of Romeo and Juliet, ii6r The Lifeof Tymon of Athens, ll4v The Actors Names, ll5r The Tragedieof Jlullus Caesar, nn4r The Tragedie of Macbeth, pp2v The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke, rr6r The Tragedie of King Lear, vv1v The Tragedy of Othelio, the Moore of Venice, yy4v The Tragedy of Anthony, and Cleopatra, bbbir The Tragody o Cymbeiine, ddd4r colophan, verso blank). Greg 3:1113-5; Pforzheimer 906; STC 22274. A.W. Pol lard. Shakespeare Folios and Quartos. A Study in the Bibliography of Shakespeare’s Plays. London, 1909. W.B. Todd. “The Issues and States of the Second Folio and Milton’s Epitaph,” in: Studies in Bibliography V (1952-53), pp 81-108. W.W. Greg. A Bibliography or the English Printed Drama to the Restoration. (London, 1957), pp l I l3- 15. $185,000. Twain’s Masterpiece of American Literature Huckleberry Finn - First Edition in the Original Cloth An Unusually Nice Copy - Very Early Issue Points

81 Twain, Mark. THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN (New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885) FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, FIRST PRINTING with BAL’s first state frontispiece with the cloth visible, and very early issue points: “was” for “saw” on p.57; and the Illustrations list p.[13] shows “Him and another Man” plate as appearing on p.88; p. 155 with the final “5” dropped With 174 black and white illustrations by E.W. Kemble. Square 8vo, publisher’s original green cloth elaborately decorated in gilt and black on the covers and spine. 366 pp. A very handsome copy, bright and appealing. This copy is clean and tight and very pleasing internally, the paper fresh. The cloth is quite bright and the gilt is in really pleasing condition. Some very expert care to the cloth, spine tips strengthened or consolidated expertly and unobtrusively. Hinges firm and strong. A VERY HANDSOME AND WELL PRESERVED COPY OF THE FIRST EDI- TION OF ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT AND GREATEST BOOKS IN AMER- ICAN LITERATURE. Along with TOM SAWYER, HUCKLEBERRY FINN is considered the stepping stone to modern American literature. And along with Tom Sawyer, for the first time, the hero of the novel was a boy. These books are landmarks and Hemingway often offered his opinion that the modern novel would have been impossible without them. With Whitman’s LEAVES OF GRASS and Melville’s MOBY DICK, they provide us with a view of America transcending its past and beginning its future. BAL 3415; Grolier American 87; Johnson, pp. 43-50; Peter Parley to Penrod, pp. 75-6 $9500.

One of the Most Rare Works of Architecture Henry Wotton, Knight - The Elements of Architecture Published in London by John Bill - 1624 The Introduction of Classical Architecture to England

82 Wotton [Knight], Henry. THE ELEMENTS OF ARCHITECTURE. Collect- ed by Henry Wotton Knight, from the best Authors and Examples. (London: Printed by Iohn Bill, 1624) First Edition. A copy with fine provenance, having been owned by John George Home-Drummond of Abbots Grange, descendent of Henry Lord Kames Home (1696-1782), of George Home-Drummond of Blair Drummond. 4to, antique three-quarter black straight-grained morocco over marbled boards, the spine lettered in gilt and decorated with double gilt fillet bands. (10), 123 pp. A very pleasing copy, clean and crisp, unwashed and unpressed, the binding with some evidence of age or use with light rubbing or wear at the tips. VERY RARE FIRST EDITION OF THIS HIGHLY IMPORTANT WORK WITH FINE PROVENANCE. VERY FEW COPIES ARE KNOWN TO HAVE AP- PEARED AT AUCTION AND FEWER STILL IN THE OPEN MARKETPLACE. One of the earliest works of architecture in English, it is responsible for the introduction of classical and neo-classical architecture to the English speaking world. Wotton, who dedicated the book to Prince Henry, states in his preface that he “shall not neede (like the most part of Writers) to celebrated the Subject which I deliver. In that point I am at ease. For Architecture can want no commendation, where there are Noble Men, or Noble mindes; i will therefore spend this Preface, rather about those from whom I have gathered my knowledge.” See: Histories of Noble British Families, with Biographical Notices of the Most Distinguished Individuals in Each, Illus- trated by their Armorial Bearings Portraits Monuments Seals Etc. (Part VI, London, William Pickering, 1844) and George Edward Cockayne, The Complete Baronetage (Exeter, William Pollard & Co, 1902). $8500. Joannis Leonis Africani - De Totius Africae Descriptione The First Book of Africa - The First Book by an African The First Latin Printing - 1556 - Printed in Antwerp

83 Africanus, Johannes Leo, [Leo, John]. JOANNIS LEONIS AFRICANI, DE TO- TIUS AFRICAE DESCRIPTIONE, LIBRI IX. Quibus non solum Africae regionum, insularum, & oppidorum situs, locorumque intervalla accuratè complexus est, sed regum familias, bellorum causas & eventus, resque in ea memorabiles, tam à seipso diligenti observatione indagatas, quam in veris Maurorum annalibus memoriae traditas, copiose descripsit, recens in Latinam linguam conversi Joan. Floriano interprete. (Antwerp: Johannes de Laet, 1556) First Edition of the Latin translation of this seminal book by Hasan ben Muhamed el-Wazzan-ez-Zayyati (1485-1552), known by his Latin name Johannes Leo Africanus. Engraved title- page with the vignette and woodcut initials. 8vo, Late 17th or early 18th century French polished calf, the covers with single fillet line at the borders, elaborately decorated in gilt on the spine within compartments separated by double gilt fillet lines, red morocco lettering label gilt, period marbled endleaves, edges stained red, armorial bookplate. 332 pp. A very fine copy, text very bright and clean, a touch of very occasional toning, hinges strong and sound, the binding in very pleasing and well preserved condition. VERY IMPORTANT AND RARE FIRST EDITION OF THE PRIZED LATIN TRANSLATION OF THE FIRST GREAT WORK ON AFRICA. During the years 1511-1517 Leo Africanus traveled to Fez, Morocco, Tunis, and across the Sahara Desert to Timbuktu. He visited the native states on the Upper Niger to Kario, Houssa, Bornou and Lake Chad. He also made a voyage to Constantinople and Egypt and then crossed the Red Sea to Arabia. He was subsequently captured by the Venetians and presented to Pope Leo X whose name Leo he adopted as his surname. The Pope persuaded him to translate the Arabian manuscript account of his travels into Italian. The account was then translated by Floreanu into Latin. This is generally considered to be the first book published in Europe by a person of primarily African descent. The book was considered the most important on the geography of Africa and an especially important source for all information on the continent. The book was printed in a multitude of languages over hundreds of years after the first Italian and Latin editions were issued. The English translation did not appear until 1600. Until the great European voyages and explorations into Africa in the 1600’s and 1700’s, Leo Africanus’ work was considered the primary source for all studies on the Sudan and even of Africa. First edition copies in condition such as this are very rare on the open market. Adams L-480; Mendelsohn, South African Bibliography 884-886 (various editions); Gay, Bibliographie des ouvrages relatifs á l’Afrique et l’Arabie 258; Howgego A17 $18,500.

With Lithographs and Engraved Plates By William Bartlett With Maps in Colour and Tinted Lithographs Throughout The Holy Bible - Full Calf Beautifully Gilt Decorated

84 [Bible]. THE NATIONAL COMPREHENSIVE FAM- ILY BIBLE: the Holy Bible With the Commentaries of Scott and Henry and Containing Also Many Thousand Critical and Explanatory Notes Selected From the Great Standard Authors of Europe and America. The Commentaries Con- densed, and the Whole Edited by the Rev. John Eadie... (Glasgow and London: W. R. M’Phun, 1861) A very early edition thus. A beautifully illustrated Bible featuring 21 impressive guarded steel-engraved plates, all but one by William Bartlett and including a double-page plate of Jerusalem as frontispiece, 27 fine tinted lithographs on 9 guarded plates, 12 maps in colour and four page decorated family register printed in green on vellum. Folio, publisher’s original fine binding of full plum calf, the boards decorated in blind in a lily motif surrounded by a finely detailed gilt framework featuring sunbursts in the four corners, further paneling in blind, the spine with raised gilt ruled wide bands creating compartments double-gilt ruled framed around fine gilt tooling in a floral motif , one compartment elegantly lettered in gilt, a.e.g. xv, 1216 pp., 36 page biblical encyclopedia. Internally very fine and fresh, clean and bright with little if any evidence of use, the binding very handsome but with a bit of expected wear to the edges and extremities, front hinge a little shaken but still firm. A BEAUTIFUL MID 19TH CENTURY SCOTTISH FAMILY BIBLE, featuring impressive full page steel plates by master engraver William Bartlett and a number of fine lithographs. $950.

The Rare Wayland Printing of Boccaccio’s Tragedies - 1554-5 Retaining the Suppressed Leaf Which is Typically Lacking Handsomely Bound in Full Red Morocco With Provenance

85 [Boccaccio, Giovanni]; [Early English Printing]. THE TRAG- EDIES, Gathered by Jhon Bochas, of All Such Princes as Fell From Theyr Estates Throughe the Mutability of Fortune Since the Creation of Adam, Until His Time: Wherein May Be Seen What Vices Bring Menne to Destruction, wyth Notable Warninges Howe the Like May Be Avoyded. Translated into Englysh by John Lidgate, Monke of Burye. (London: by John Wayland, [n.d., ca. 1554-1555]) AN EX- TREMELY RARE AND EARLY PRINTING of Boccaccio’s tragedies into English, the third or fourth issuance only. Titlepage and leaf Gg4 (bound after title) with architectural woodcut borders(McKerrow 76a) and with woodcuts on leaf A4 illustrating events in the Gar- den of Eden, woodcut initials throughout. Folio [299 x 203 mm], in very fine and handsome nineteenth-century red hard-grain morocco by F.P. Hathaway of Boston, the boards elaborately framed in extensive gilt, the upper board with central gilt crest of John W. De Kay, the spine beautifully lettered and decorated with central tools in gilt in compartments between gilt ruled raised bands, elaborate gilt tooled board edges and turn-ins, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. De Kay’s armorial bookplates on front pastedown and verso of front free endpaper. (10], ctxiii, xxvii [i.e., xxxix] leaves. A very handsome and well preserved copy of this rare printing. The binding very handsome indeed, with only the most minimal wear to extremities, joints expertly and near-invisibly restored. The title-page and Gg3 laid down and reattached, the title with small ink notations at top, not affecting text or woodcut border. The inner margin of leaf Gg4 (which is bound in after the title-page in this copy, and *2 repaired, with some loss to woodcut border and a few words of text. Other minor paper repairs to several leaves, in a few cases affecting a few letters of text, evidence of old damp throughout last half of book which is fairly inoffensive. VERY RARE AND VERY EARLY PRINTING, WITH THE LEAF GG4 WHICH IS USUALLY LACKING. This is only the third or fourth printing in English of Boccaccio’s De Casibus Virorurn ILlustrium, following Pynson’s earlier printings of 1494 and 1527, Richard Tottell reissued the work in 1554 and it has not been clearly determined whether Tot- tell’s edition or Wayland’s was completed first. This especially handsome copy retains the final leaf Gg4, which is usually lacking according to STC. It is bound after the titlepage and comprises the rare title for A Memorial of Such Princes, as since the Tyme of King Richard the Seconds, Have Been Unfortunate in the Realme of England (SIC 1246), and was apparently intended for a work to be issued along with De Casibus which was suppressed for religious and political reasons during Mary’s reign. John Lydgate’s translation of Boccaccio’s moralistic tales of the misfortunes of famous people was made from the 1476 French version by Laurence de Premierfait. The Latin original text was first printed circa 1474-75. De casibus is an encyclopedia of historical biographies dealing with the calamities of famous people starting with the biblical Adam, going to mythological and ancient people, then to people of Boccaccio’s own time in the fourteenth century. The work was so successful it spawned what has been referred to as the ‘De casibus tradition’, it influenced many other famous authors, such as Geoffrey Chaucer. This copy with the provenance of John Wesley De Kay, self-made millionaire, American entrepreneur, playwright, author, and eccentric socialite. Born in Iowa to Dutch immigrants in 1872, De Kay apprenticed as a printer and eventually owned several newspapers and a sizable cattle ranch. In 1899, De Kay moved to Mexico and with the money he had made in his businesses purchased a concession for operating meatpacking plants. By 1909 De Kay’s company, Popo, was one of the largest slaughtering and meat-distribution operations in North America, with a book value of over US $22 million ($500 billion in today’s value). A published author and known socialite, his first produced play, “Judas”, managed to get itself banned in New York, Boston and Philadelphia. STC 3178; Pforzheimer 73. $20,000.

An Enduring Classic - The Ship of Fooles The Earliest Obtainable Edition - With Woodcuts Throughout

86 Brant, Sebastian. STULTIFERA NAVIS...THE SHIP OF FOOLES, WHEREIN IS SHEWED THE FOLLY OF ALL STATES, with divers other workes adjoyned unto the same, very profitable and fruitfull for all men. Translated out of Latin into Englishe by Alexander Bar- clay, Priest (London: J. Cawood, 1570) The second edition in English, after Pynson’s unobtainable edition of 1509. With 108 of 116 woodcut illustrations within the text, 9 repeats, and with small woodcut initials throughout. Folio (268 x 187 mm), in 20th century calf correct in style to the period of the work, the spine with tall blind ruled bands, central gilt tools in three compartments, gilt lettering in two plus date at the tail in gilt. tp, [para]3-2[para]6, A-VV6, XX4. Lacking leaves: [para] 2 (a preliminary leaf), Dd2, Ii6, Kk6-Mm2. Bound without the reprints of Barclay’s Eclogues, which are found in only some copies. A very good copy of this very rare book, printed on thick, crisp paper, with excellent margins--- a good centimeter larger all around than most institutional copies. In general, copies of this edition are substantially incomplete; the present copy is comparatively very well preserved. The title is a bit soiled, several previous owner’s signatures show ownership by John Hysop and Sarah Hamvile, who both autograph the title- page twice. Six leaves appear to have been supplied from a smaller copy: [para]6 (which has also been mended at the head of the margin); K5 (remargined at the gutter with white paper); Y2, Y3, Hh4, Hh5 (all mended, and remargined). Leaves T2, Rr5, and Uu3 and Uu5 have tears with some loss of text. There are scattered minor tears and stains. Realistically speaking, this is the earliest obtainable edition in English of Brant’s classic. Pynson’s edition is of notorious rarity and now copies of Cawood’s edition also appear only rarely on the market. Barclay’s translation is based on Jacob Locher’s Latin Version of Brant’s Narrenschiff, first printed by Richard Pynson in 1509. Little is known about Alexander Barclay, except that he was a scholar who travelled abroad and absorbed the spirit of the Reformation in Europe, knew several languages, took holy orders, and became a Benedictine Monk. All but three of the illustrations for this edition were printed from the blocks of the 1509 edition, which Pynson copied from those accompanying Pierre Rivière’s French translation (Paris, 1497). These French illustrations were in turn based on those of the editio princeps (Basel, 1494), of which many were probably made or designed by Albrecht Dürer, an attribu- tion discussed by Arthur M. Hind in his Introduction to a History of Woodcut. Pynson’s blocks remained unused until the present edition, which accounts for their extraordinary clarity. Sebastian Brant’s Narrenschiff (or Stultifera Navis, or Ship of Fools) was enormously popular in its time, going through fifteen editions before the end of the fifteenth century. Barclay’s English translation is not literal but is adapted to English conditions, giving an interesting glimpse into contemporary English life. Its Reformation spirit can be seen in the many criticisms of officials and the corruption of the courts. STC 3546; Pforzheimer 41; Christie’s Berland Sale, Part II (Oct 2001); Grolier Langland to Wither 18; Hodnett English Woodcuts 1824-1932. $28,500. Dante - 1493 - The Most Rare With These Illustrations An Especially Elusive Illustrated Edition Printed in Venice In A Superb Decorated Venetian Binding of the 17th Century With the Commentary of Cristoforo Landino

87 Dante Alighieri. LA DIVINA COMEDIA, [CON LA VITA DI DANTE E IL COMMENTO DI CRISTOFORO LANDINO] (Venezia: Matteo di Codecha du Parma, 29 November, 1493) RARE ILLUSTRATED EDITION OF THE COMMEDIA PRINTED IN VENICE, ONLY THE THIRD EDITION OF THE DANTE WITH THESE ILLUS- TRATIONS AND ICONOGRAPHY which were previously printed in two editions of 1491. This is the most un- common of the primary printings, 1491, 1493 and 1497. Illustrated with 4 splendid full-page pictorial engravings (one repeated) and with 97 engraved pictorial vignettes throughout the body of the text. Folio (305 by 210 mm), in fine 17th century full calf, richly blind tooled on the boards in geometric pattern. ff. 309. (10), I-CCXCIX, (1), quire X with seven leaves as is normal (the text is complete), pp. A very handsome and pleasing copy, tall and wonderfully preserved, a few leaves with wormholes neatly restored. THE VERY RARE 1493 VENETIAN ILLUSTRAT- ED EDITION AND THE SCARCEST TO USE THESE PLATES AND ENGRAV- INGS. The highly important commentary throughout of Chris- toforo Landino who was a member of the literary circle which surrounded Lorenzo de’ Medici is of great importance. This commentary continues to be reprinted and affixed to editions of THE DIVINE COM- EDY even up to the present day. “Dante’s theme, the greatest yet attempted in poetry, was to explain and justify the Christian cosmos through the allegory of a pilgrimage. To him comes Virgil, the symbol of philosophy, to guide him through the two lower realms of the next world, which are divided according to the classifications of the ‘Ethics’ of Aristotle. Hell is seen as an inverted cone with its point where lies Lucifer fixed in ice at the centre of the world, and the pilgrimage from it is a climb to the foot of and then up the Purgatorial Mountain. Along the way Dante passes Popes, Kings and Emperors, poets, warriors and citizens of Florence, expiating the sins of their life on earth. On the summit is the Earthly Paradise where Beatrice meets them and Virgil departs. Dante is now led through the various spheres of heaven, and the poem ends with a vision of the Deity. The audacity of his theme, the success of its treatment, the beauty and majesty of his verse, have ensured that his poem never lost its reputation. The picture of divine justice is entirely unclouded by Dante’s own political prejudices, and his language never falls short of what he describes.” PMM These very early printings of the COMMEDIA are rare and precious. Such rare Venetian printings as this of 1493 were printed in a very small numbers and are seldom encountered. BMC V, 484; De Batines I, p. 57; Sander 2315; Mambelli, 13; Goff D-34 $85,000. The True First Editions of Dickens’ First Great Books Sketches By “Boz” and Sketches by “Boz” Second Series Published in London - 1836 and 1837 - Beautifully Bound

88 (Dickens, Charles) “Boz”. SKETCHES BY “BOZ”, Illustrative of Every- Day Life and Every-Day People. WITH SKETCHES BY “BOZ”, THE SEC- OND SERIES (London: James Macrone, 1836, 1837) 3 volumes. First editions of both works. 8vo, in a fine full olive morocco binding signed by Zaehnsdorf, ruled in gilt on covers. Very fine gilt decorations and lettering between raised bands of the spine. Gilt turn-ins. Fine decorative end-papers. 348; 342; 377, 17 ads. pp. A fine set. Spines lightly toned to honey. RARE FIRST EDITIONS OF BOTH WORKS. SKETCHES BY BOZ was Dickens first work to be published in book form. “It is a fact that first books by authors that go on to attain great eminence are the most difficult to acquire in collector’s condition. Early in the collecting period of Dickens’ publications it seems that the very best copies came to the surface first. Then the state of the books began to wane until at the present period Sketches by Boz make an appearance far from satisfactory.” This is especially true with Dickens. In addition to the importance of Dickens in world literature, this ‘Sketches’ also features the light-hearted illustrations of George Cruikshank. The Second Series contains a catalogue of Macrone publications and features an ad for the novel GABRIEL VARDON by Charles Dickens, which would be reissued as BARNABY RUDGE. Dickens received only £400 as his share of the ‘Sketches’ while Macrone received ten times that amount. Because ‘Pickwick’ was by this time a “stupendous” success, Macrone decided to issue ‘Sketches’ in monthly parts. He was the absolute owner of the copyright and so decided to “press the popularity of the rising young author to the limit.” But Dickens began to consider his deal with Macrone a bad one and backed by Chapman and Hall, bought the rights for £2250. As partners they published ‘Sketches’ in parts and went on to publish the bulk of Dickens’ work. $7950.

Galileo’s Greatest Work Discorsi e Dimostrazion Matematiche...Due Nuove Scienze The First Modern Textbook in Physics First Dozza Printing of 1655 - Bologna

89 Galilei, Galileo. DISCORSI E DIMOSTRAZIONI MATEMATICHE IN- TORNO À DUE NUOVE SCIENZE ATTENENTI ALLA MECANICA & I MOVIMENTI LOCALI...con une appendice del centro di gravità d’alcuni solidi. (Bologna: per gli HH. del Dozza, 1655) First edition printed by Dozza preceeded only by the first printing of 1638. With woodcut title device and numerous woodcut diagrams and illustrations throughout. 4to, original sheets sewn and unbound. [viii], 238 [Tavola, 6] pp. A very clean and very attractive copy, beautifully preserved. FIRST DOZZA PRINTING. Considered to be Galileo’s greatest work, and the foundation of modern physics, the DISCORSI E DIMOSTRAZIONI falls into three sections. The first comprises a theoretical investigation of the strength of materials, a subject which he was able to ground in an almost correct mathematical basis. The second is a discussion of various subjects such as motion, infinity, the existence of a vacuum and the weight of air, the cohesion of bodies, and others. The final section is devoted to the science of motion. In his DIA- LOGO Galileo had treated the subject of motion philosophically; here he provides mathematical underpinnings for his definitions of uniform and accelerated motion. “It was upon his foundations that Huygens, Newton, and others were able to erect the frame of the science of dynamics, and to extend its range (with the concept of universal gravitation) to the heavenly bodies” (PMM). “After Galileo’s trial and conviction by the Holy Office in 1633, he was placed under house arrest, and the Congregation of the Index forbade the printing of any of his books. To add to his woes, he was rapidly losing his sight, and the death of his beloved elder daughter in 1634 left him seriously depressed. Nevertheless, Galileo persevered with the Discorsi, and by 1635 had virtually completed the work. A manuscript copy was smuggled into France and later taken to Holland, where the Elzeviers in Leiden undertook its publication” (Norman). “Considered the first modern textbook in physics, in it Galileo pressed forward the experimental and mathematical methods in the analysis of problems in mechanics and dynamics. The Aristotelian conception of motion was replaced by a new one of inertia and general principles were sought and found in the motion of falling bodies, projectiles, and in the pendulum” (Dibner). (First Edition) Brunet II, 1642; Carli & Favaro 162; Cinti 102; Dibner 141; Horblit 36; Norman 859; PMM 130; Riccardi I, 516.12/1: “Rarissimo”; Sparrow 75; Willems 468. $5750.

In the Most Beautiful and Most Rare Bindings The Very Fine Bremer Press Homer - The Iliads and Odyssey Printed in Munich in 1923-1924 and Specially Bound in Vellum

90 Homer, Homeros, [Greek Literature; Fine Press Books]. THE ILIAD AND THE ODYSSEY. I. Όμήρου Ποίησις. λιάς; II. Όμήρου Ποίησις. Όδύσσεια (München [Munich]: Bremer Press, 1923, 1924) 2 volumes. First Edition by the Bremer Press and THESE VOLUMES SPECIALLY BOUND BY THE PRESS IN FULL VELLUM AND PRINTED ON FINE ZANDERS HAND- MADE PAPER. Running numeration of the verses printed at the bottom of the pages. Decorative initials by Anna Simons. Two volumes in-folio (346 x 220 mm, BEAUTIFULLY BOUND IN THE VERY RARE BEST VELLUM BINDINGS. Uniform original ivory vellum, by Karl Gerhard Hampe for the Bremer Bindery. Covers framed by gilt fillet rules at the borders, to the upper cover of the Iliads is stamped in gilt a Greek helmeted warrior; and to the upper cover of the Odyssey, a Greek ship in gilt. The spines are divided by double gilt fillet rules into four compartments with the titles lettered in gilt in the second compartments, the date at bottom in gilt. T.E.G., others untrimmed. The original slip-cases in ivory pasteboard house each of the books. I. [486]; II. [372] pp. Superb copies, pristine, excellent and uncut. A wonderful copy of each volume in the best possible state of preservation. FIRST EDITION OF EACH OF THESE BRILLIANT BREMER PRESS PRINTINGS, BEAUTIFULLY BOUND BY THE PRESS IN FULL VELLUM AND VERY RARE THUS. This is the very fine edition published by the Bremer Presse, the printing house founded by Willi Wiegand (1884-1961) and Ludwig Wolde (1884-1949). In 1923 the Iliad used for the first time the distinctive Homer-Type, designed by Wiegand, and then employed in 1924 both for the Odyssey and for the Prometheus victus by Aeschylus. “The type has a degree of movement, letter strokes tilting left and right so that one almost senses a scribal hand […] Impeccably printed on a beautiful cream Zanders handmade paper, page after page of Homer’s epic sweeps along his majestic procession, enabling even those unable to read the language to sense its narrative flow. The timelessness and simplicity of design are classic” (Hunter-Kelly, A Century for the Century, p. xxxiv). The decorative elements are the initial letters by Anna Simons, who along with her collaborators designed over 1,400 titles and initials for the Bremer Presse. The Homer was printed in 615 copies, on the fine hand made paper produced by the fac- tory established in 1829 by Johann Wilhelm Zanders, at Bergisch-Gladbach. Lehnacker, Die Bremer Presse. Koenigin der deutschen Privatpressen, München 1964, 15-16; Die Bremer Presse, Han- nover 1980, 21-22; A. Simons, Titel und Initialen für die Bremer Presse, München 1926; Young, Homer, p. 306; Cave, Private Press, pp. 143-145; A M. Hunter-J. Kelly, A Century for the Century. Fine Printed Books from 1900 to 1999, Jaf- frey 2004, 12; Scholderer, Greek Printing, p. 15; H. Zapf, The Development of Greek Typefaces, in Greek Letters, ed. M.S. Macrakis, New Castle 1996, pp. 16, 19-21. $4950. The Exquisite Kelmscott Chaucer The Most Beautiful Printed Book in the English Language Magnificently Created by William Morris With Superb Designs by Sir Edward Burne-Jones

91 [Kelmscott Press] Chaucer, Geoffrey. THE WORKS OF GEOFFREY CHAUCER. From the Ellesmere manuscript of The Canterbury Tales and Professor W. Walter Skeat’s editions of the other works [edited by F.S. Ellis, printed on the colophon leaf] (Ham- mersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1896) One of 425 copies of a total edition of 438. Printed on Perch handmade paper. This the Jean Hersholt copy with his signed bookplate laid in along with the original linen from the spine with paper labels and a note, likely from the binder to a later owner, that they belong with the Chaucer. With 87 wood-engravings designed by Sir Edward Burne- Jones, cut by W.H. Hooper after drawings by Robert Cat- terson-Smith, superb wood- engraved title page, fourteen very fine large borders, eighteen different woodcut frames around the illustrations, twenty-six nineteen line woodcut initial letters, and numerous initials, decorative woodcut printer’s device all designed by William Morris and cut by C.E. Keates, Hooper and W. Spelmeyer, with shoulder and side titles. Printed in red and black in Chaucer type, double column, headings to the longer poems in Troy type. Folio (424 x 289 mm), bound in full rich pumpkin morocco in a style fitting the Arts and Crafts movement, with raised beveled panels to front and rear boards, blind-stamped in a diamond pattern, with borders and geometric dentelles also stamped in blind. Front board with large diamond leather inlay in a deep orange, with “Chaucer’s Works” stamped in gilt. Spine with five raised bands, deep orange morocco title label stamped in gilt, and compartments containing vertical lines stamped in blind. Marbled endpapers. Leaves untrimmed. Laid in is original linen spine, with remnants of original paper label. 554 pp. A handsome copy, the text is fresh and bright and fine and virtually free of the spotting with which the Kelmscott Chaucer is sometimes afflicted. FIRST EDITION AND HANDSOME COPY OF WHAT IS CONSIDERED TO BE THE MOST BEAUTIFUL PRINTED BOOK IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. The Kelmscott Chaucer is “the most famous book of the modern private press movement, and the culmination of William Morris’s endeavor” (The Artist and the Book). “[F]rom first appearance, the Chaucer gained a name as the finest book since Gutenberg. It has held its place near the head of the polls ever since... The terms which critics used in the eighteen-nineties to welcome it simply show us what an impression Morris’s printing made upon late Victorian bookmen” (Colin Franklin, The Private Presses, p. 43). Evidence of the esteem in which the book has been held lies in the fact that after the Second World War, during the rebuilding of Japan and its libraries, a copy of the Kelmscott Chaucer was the first book presented to the Japanese people by the British Government on behalf of the English nation. The Kelmscott Press produced forty-eight books in its brief life. Morris had toyed with the idea of a Shakespeare in three folio volumes; a suggestion for a King James version of the Bible was in his pending file; and preliminary work had begun on editions of Froissart and Malory, both of which would have formed a triumvirate with the Chaucer. But on October 3, 1896, Morris died, and for all intents and purposes the Kelmscott Press died with him, the Froissart and Malory unfinished. The Chaucer, regretfully, remained the only “titan” among Kelmscott books. Morris dedicated his life to poetry and the decorative arts, but he did not exhibit an active interest in the design and production of books until he was fifty-five years old. He died eight years later, but in that brief fragment of time he established a standard and prestige that still make him one of the most powerful and pervasive influences in book design in the English- speaking, English-reading world. This is the Jean Hersholt copy, with his signed bookplate laid in. Jean Hersholt (1886-1956), the Danish-born actor who had a lengthy and successful Hollywood career which spanned the years 1913 to 1955, is, perhaps, best known for his performance as Shirley Temple’s grandfather in Heidi. He helped form the Motion Picture Relief Fund which assisted in-need members of the film community, and he served as president of the American Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for four years. A popular figure in Hollywood, the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, which is presented to an “individual in the motion picture industry whose humanitarian efforts have brought credit to the industry,” was created in his honor. He is also known for his important work in translating the stories of Hans Christian Andersen from the original Danish into English, and his translations are now generally considered the standard by which all others are measured. Hersholt was an avid book collector, and many fine books were in his personal collection, including this tremendous volume, one of the most beautifully printed books ever made. It was sold by his order at the Parke-Bernet Sale, March 23-24, 1954. Abbey/Hobson 119; The Artist and the Book, 45; Sparling 40; Peterson A40. $85,000.

The Great First Edition in English - The First History of Rome The Best Translation Available of Livy’s Historie

92 [Livy] T. Livius, of Padua. THE ROMANE HISTORIE Written by T. Livius of Padua. Also, the Breviaries of L. Florus: with a Chronologie to the whole Historie: and the topogrpahie of Rome in old time. Translated out of Latine into English by Philemon Holland, Doctor of Physicke. (Lon- don: Adam Islip, 1600) First Edition in English of Livy’s highly influential history of Rome. Engraved decorations at head of each chapter, decorated title, two portraits: Queen Elizabeth and Titus Livius. Thick Folio, in 18th century three-quarter calf over marbled boards, the spine with blind ruled flat bands, a large red morocco label lettered in gilt. (x), 1404, (40 index and errata), blank. A very handsome and well preserved copy, the text fresh and unpressed, some extremely faint and unobtrusive antique dampstaining to approximately the first 100 or so pages, very minor, occasional spotting or toning, more so to the first and final leaf as is common with this title, the binding handsome with minor age and rubbing. This is the RARE FIRST ENGLISH translation of the great historian’s work on Roman history, originally written circa 20 B.C. IT IS A RARE EDITION IN ENGLISH OF SUPREMELY IMPORTANT ROMAN TEXT. Holland’s edition was widely studied in Elizabethan time and served as a major source for William Shakespeare. “(T)he only English translation of any merit is by Philemon Holland (1600).” Livy’s account is of interest because unlike others at the time [Virgil, Horace], he did not predict an upward, linear progression of Rome. Livy divided the history into decades and his further division of subjects into 142 libri or volumina is thought to be his own idea. Livy’s goal in writing a history was to write the first history of the Roman people. For the people themselves, he believed something could be learned; “they are invited to note especially the moral lessons taught by the story of Rome, to observe how Rome rose to greatness by the simple virtues and unselfish devotion of her citizens, and how on the decay of these qualities followed degeneracy and decline.” His aim is not to develop historiagraphy per se but to write in testimony to Rome’s greatness as well as attempting to ensure that Rome did not bring about its own downfall through corruption and vice. “Livy was deeply penetrated with a sense of the greatness of Rome...But, if this ever-present consciousness often gives dignity and elevation to this narrative, it is also responsible forsome of its defects. Thus, it could be said that Livy’s approach is a ”didactic view of history.” [EB] $16,500. The Liber Sententiarum of Petrus Lombardus The Earliest Dated Book From the Press of Nicholas Kesler In Fine Original Pigskin Over Boards - 1486

93 Lombardus, Petrus. LIBER SENTENTIARUM (Basel: Nicolas Kesler, 2 March 1486) The earliest dated book known to be printed by Kesler. Beauti- fully rubricated throughout in red including many large initials with trailing decoration, also with an entwined and interlacing marginal decoration on K1 which is the entire length of the column, large initial on a4 in red and blue. Printed double-column in Gothic character with large Roman numer- als. Folio, in contemporary pigskin over wooden boards, blind stamped in a diamond pattern featuring central fleurs, the spine with thick bands and lettering in manuscript, original brass clasps fully intact. 232 ff, complete with original blanks r6, z6, K10. A fine copy in its original binding, remarkable in its state of preservation. THE EARLIEST DATED BOOK KNOWN TO BE PRINTED BY KESLER, and a beautiful edition of the “Sentence” of Peter Lombard. This work, which includes decisions borrowed the Fathers of the Church, formed the basis of all theological studies throughout the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Any question of theology can find its place in the four books of the Sentences , thus divided : God’s creatures , the sacraments of the Old Law , the sacraments of the new law. Attached is a “Tabula Scoti”, Table of Sentences of Peter Lombard, Dun Scotus of 28 sheets. It is not dated but is clearly and incunabular printing. Goff P- 484. BMC III , 763. $24,500.

A Wonderful Shakespeare Folio - 1685 A Very Handsome Copy of the Fourth Folio Complete and Beautifully Preserved

94 Shakespeare, William. COMEDIES, HISTORIES, AND TRAGEDIES Pub- lished according to the true Original Copies. Unto which is added, Seven Plays, Never before Printed in Folio... (London: for H. Herringman, E. Brewster, and R. Bentley, 1685) The fourth folio edition of Shakespeare’s plays, the title- page is in first state, without Chiswell’s name in the imprint. Portrait frontispiece after Martin Droeshout with ten line poem by Ben Johnson entitled ‘to the reader’ beneath. Woodcut printer’s device on titlepage (McKerrow 263) and decorative woodcut initials. Large folio (347x225mm), bound in very handsome 19th century full brown paneled morocco, the think boards paneled in double-ruled blind and with blind stamped corner pieces, the spine with tall raised bands ruled in blind, the compartments each with a central gilt leaf device, one compartment gilt lettered, turn-ins beautifully gilt tooled, endpapers marbled, a.e.g. [12], 272, [2], 328, 303, [1]. A wonderful copy, in all very fresh and handsomely presented, the binding with only the most minor evidence of age, very minor scattered light foxing or staining, seven leaves supplied from a slightly shorter copy (D1, 2G3 & 4, 3E4 & 5, 4B5 & 6), closed 2 inch tear to M1 neatly repaired, top corner of XX6 and outside edge of S4 with minor restoration. RARE AND IMPORTANT SHAKESPEARE FOLIO, the beautiful FOURTH folio printing of Shakespeare’s plays. Considered the stateliest and most handsome of the four folios, it was printed on Royal stock larger then the third folio which was in turn larger then the first and second. It also employed a new larger type and wider spacing. The Fourth was the first folio edition to be printed including the seven spurious plays, although folio sets of the seven plays had been printed for insertion in the second issue of the third folio. It was the last edition printed in the 17th century and the last printed before the editorial endeavors of the 18th. It is especially desirable and rare in a contemporary binding with fine gilt work. A Shakespeare folio is one of the most desirable books to a collector of literature. Shakespeare is far more then England’s most famous playwrite. His effect on vernacular English is only matched by that of Geoffrey Chaucer. Our modern way speaking, and therefore thinking, has been more heavily influenced by Shakespeare then most of us may realize. From the way we sign our Valentine’s cards to the way we insult our enemies, Shakespeare is everywhere. The first folio is now considered impossible for the private collector as virtually all copies are now in institutions. The third has been considered rare for centuries as the majority of copies printed were destroyed in the fire of London. The op- portunity to purchase any of the folio editions in fully contemporary bindings, especially ones with such as small degree of later sophistication, is a very scarce occurrence. Greg 3:1119; Pforzheimer 910; Wing S2915; STC; PMM (First Edition), Jaggard p.497; Bartlett 123. $225,000.

The First English Translation of Thucydides Black Letter - 1550 - In Antique Full Calf The Hystory of the Peloponnesian Warre

95 Thucydides. (Niccolls, Thomas). THE HYSTORY WRITTONE BY THUCIDIDES the Athenyan of the warre, which was betwene the Pelo- ponesians and the Athenyans, translated oute of Frenche into the Englysh language by Thomas Nicolls Citizeine and Goldesmyth of London. (Lon- don: Imprinted the XXV day of July in the Yeare of our Lorde God a Thousande fyve hundredde and fiftye, [1550]) First Edition of the First Translation of Thucydides into English. Printed in Black Letter. Title within a woodcut border and with a profusion of illustrated or historiated initials. Folio, near contemporary calf, the spine decorated in gilt with period tools within compartments and with a brown morocco label lettered in gilt. Now housed in a very fine morocco backed fold-over box. CCxxiii + Errata. A fine unpressed and unwashed copy, some old and early marginalia, some very occasional and very small chips to edges of a few leaves, the binding with some expert and highly sympathetic restoration to the back but preserving the original spine panel. THE FIRST ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF THUCYDIDES. ‘Thucydides stands alone among the men of his own age and has no superior of any age, in the width of mental grasp which could seize the general significance of particular events. The political education of mankind began in Greece, and in the time of Thucydides their political life was still young. Thucydides knew only the small city-commonwealthe on the one hand, and on the other the vast barbaric kingdom; and yet, as has been well said of him, “there is hardly a problem in the science of government which the statesman will not find, if not solved, at any rate handled, in the pages of this universal master.”’ In an address to the great Greek scholar “Mayster John Cheke,” Niccolls asks him “not onelye with fououre to accepte this the furste my fruict in translatyon, but also conferringe it with the Greke, so to amende and correct it, in those places and sentences, whiche youre exacte lernynge and knolaige shall Iudge mete to be altered and refourmed, that thereby thys sayd translation may triumphantly resist and wythstande the malycyous and deadly stynge of the generall and most en- nemyes of all good exercyse.” This translation alone held the field until Thomas Hobbes published his in 1629, nearly a century later. STC 24056. $22,500. A Cornerstone of Polar Exploration 1910 - 1912 The Discovery of The South Pole - First Edition - 1912 Roald Amundsen Reaches the Pole - The Fram Voyage

96 Amundsen, Roald. THE SOUTH POLE: An Account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the “Fram”, 1910-1912 (London: John Murray, 1912) 2 volumes. First edition. First issue. Numerous illustrations, folding maps, plans and charts, folding maps at rear of each volume. 138 photographic illustrations on 103 plates. Thick 8vo, very handsomely bound in three-quarter red morocco over maroon cloth boards, the spine with raised bands, gilt stopped and gilt ruled, gilt lettered and numbered in three compartments. xxxv, 392; 355, 357-449 pp. A very pleasing and handsome set with plates, maps and textblocks quite clean and well preserved, the bindings in excellent condition, fine, clean, sharp and beautifully preserved, light mellowing or age evidence to the half-titles. A very nice set. RARE AND IMPORTANT FIRST EDITION. Norwegian captain Roald Amundsen had initially intended make an expedition to the Arctic, but changed his plans at the last moment and announced he would try for the South Pole instead. His explanation to the public was that if he could beat the English and Japanese expeditions to the Pole then he could secure success and funds for his extensive Arctic expedition, and also “snatch the prize” for his own country. So , unbeknownst to Scott, Amundsen sailed southward in the “Fram” to the Bay of Whales that would afford his expedition both the shortest route to the Pole and a route that would not overlap with either the Japanese or the English expeditions. From start to finish, Amundsen’s expedition ran like clockwork. He carefully planned every moment of the trip, using his experience in the Arctic and his extensive knowledge of dog-teams to help him through. His team was entirely Norwegian, accustomed to a harsh and cold climate, and were excellent ski-runners. In addition, Amundsen traveled light; he brought five men and fifty dogs on his expedition so that the latter could eventually serve as food for the former. Part of what doomed Scott’s party was the fact that he favored men and ponies over dogs, bringing twelve men, eight ponies, and only twenty-six dogs. Amundsen’s party remained in excellent health and always had enough to eat from their plentiful provisions at their well- stocked supply depots. They also supplemented their food stores with a great seal hunt just before the winter, after which 120,000 lb. of fresh seal meat were added to their stores, which helped protect them against scurvy. Unlike Scott’s party, Amundsen’s party were also fortunate enough to have favorable weather conditions on their side, so that they were able to reach the Pole using their supply depots and dog sleds in just 99 days, a distance of 1860 miles, covering an astonishing average of 19 miles a day over frozen and difficult ground. Their journey was truly an extraordinary accomplishment, and Amundsen’s account of it is no less riveting. $3750.

Koberger’s Magnificent Incunable Bible - July 30, 1477 His Second Latin Bible - Beautifully Rubricated Superb in Impressive Contemporary German Binding

97 [Bible, in Latin]. BIBLIA LATINA [With the tractate of Menardus Monachus] (Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 30 July, 1477) Very Early Printing of the Bible and only the second Latin Bible printed by Koberger, 51 lines and headline, double column, canon marginalia in the Gospels. With manuscript headlines in red, a beautiful opening initial of 10 lines with elaborate flourishes that flow from the very top to very bottom of the page in red, blue and green, numerous 6 line initials in red and blue, some with much longer extensions or flourishes, a profusion of 3 line initials in red or blue, red paragraph marks and additional rubricating throughout primarily in red. Royal folio (375 x 265mm approx), in contemporary German blind-stamped pigskin over thick wood boards, (probably a Nuremberg binding), the boards center-paneled and decorated in blind with a central tool within multiple borders, remnants of brass catches on the fore-edge. Manuscript lettering to the spine with wide tall bands. 468 leaves, complete. An unusually fine copy, especially well preserved and very handsome indeed. An important copy with full contemporary binding intact, and in great likelihood coming directly from Koberger’s workshop. A RARE AND EXTREMELY HANDSOME COPY, ESPECIALLY WELL PRESERVED. THIS BOOK REPRESENTS ONLY THE SEC- OND TIME THAT KOBERGER PRINTED THE LATIN BIBLE. This printing was issued in the second year after the first printing of 1475. Anton Koberger was for a number of years the leading publisher/printer of his time. The total list of his printings for the forty years from 1473 to 1513, when he died, comprises no less than two-hundred and thirty-six separate works, including fifteen impressions of the Biblia Latina, eight of which presented material differences of notes and commentaries which entitled them to be considered as distinct editions. “In the actual number of separate works issued, Koberger was possibly equaled by one or more of his contemporaries, but in respect to literary importance and costliness, and in the beauty and excellence of the typography, the Koberger publications were not equaled by any books of the time excepting the issues of Aldus in Venice” (Putnam II, p. 150). This printing of Koberger’s Latin Bible was printed again in1478 and is largely based on the Fust and Schoeffer edition of 1462. The tractate of Menardus is included which is a summary of the books of the Bible with a guide on how to best study them. It was first printed not after 1474. A beautiful example of the magnificent productions during the first generation of printed Bibles, the state of preservation and the impressive German binding making it all the more so. HC *3065; GW 4227; BMC II, 414 (IC. 7159); Goff B-552 $175,000.

The Greatest Book in the History of Astronomy Nicolai Copernicus - “De Revolutionibus” A Fine Copy with Great Provenance - Basel - 1566

98 Copernici [Copernicus], Nicolai. DE REVOLUTIONIBUS OR- BIUM COELESTIUM, Libri VI (Basile: Ex Officina Henricpetrina, 1566) RARE second issuance of Copernicus’ seminal work. A reprint of the first and the first edition printed in Western Europe after its transport from the east by Rheticus. This is the first printing of the work to include Rheticus’s “Narratio prima” (1540), which actually contained the first announcement of the Copernican hy- pothesis, preceding Copernicus’s own text. A COPY WITH FINE PROVENANCE, NOW ATTRIBUTED TO MAGINI. Also a very large copy, the largest copy on the market in many years according to the Gingerich Census. Folio, antique Italian vellum over boards. A very fine and handsome copy, unsophisticated, unpressed and unwashed, the binding original and in unusually pleasing condition, internally, a copy still very well preserved, interesting censor’s marks in a few places. A remarkable survival. RARE EARLY ISSUANCE OF ONE OF THE GREATEST OF ALL SCIENTIFIC TEXTS, THE CORNERSTONE OF MODERN AS- TRONOMY, A DIRECT REPRINT OF THE FIRST EDITION, THE FIRST EDITION TO BE PRINTED IN WESTERN EUROPE AND A COPY WITH FINE PROVENANCE, PRESENTLY ATTRIBUTED TO GIOVANNI ANTONIO BATTISTA MAGINI, and also Pio Giovannini, the Italian Inquisitor of Bologna, with annotations and corrections in both Magini and Pio Giovannini’s hands. “The publication of ‘On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres’ in 1543 was a landmark in human thought. It challenged the authority of antiquity and set the course for the modern world by its effective destruction of the anthropocentric view of the universe. We owe this book, which was more or less completed as early as 1530, to Georg Joachim Rheticus of Wittenberg, who persuaded Copernicus to allow him to publish it; for until 1540 the author himself had permitted only preliminary statements to circulate in manuscript. He died on the eve of its publication. Nicolaus Copernicus studied at Cracow, Bologna and Padua. Returning to his native Poland he eventually became Canon of the cathedral at Frauenberg, where he lived quietly until his death. He was a physician—having studied medicine at Padua—diplomat, economist, Doctor of Canon Law, and artist, a self-portrait survives. Renaissance mathematicians, following Ptolemy, believed that the moon, sun and five planets were carried by complex systems of epicycles and deferents about the central earth, the fixed pivot of the whole system. In Copernicus’s day it was well known that conventional astronomy did not work accurately, nor did further study of Ptolemy seem to put the matter right. Copernicus, stimulated by the free entertainment of various new ideas among the ancients, determined to abandon the fixity of the earth, and all the complexities in the treatment of the motions of the celestial bodies that follow from such a conception. With the sun placed at the center, and the earth daily spinning on its axis and circling the sun in common with other planets, the whole system of the heavens became clear, simple, and harmonious. The revolutionary nature of his theory is evident in his famous diagram illustrating the concentric orbits of the planets. Moreover, the new system worked mathematically as well as the Ptolamaic though not, indeed, much better. Like Ptolemy, Copernicus believed that the heavenly motions must be perfect, uniform and circular; he still employed epicycles. It was Tycho Brahe who finally destroyed the heavenly spheres, and Kepler who destroyed the myth of the circle. In the first book of the De Revolutionibus Copernicus explains how the daily rising and setting of the heavenly bodies is a consequence of the daily diurnal rotation of the earth on its polar axis. The course taken by the sun through the zodiacal con- stellations and the phenomena of the seasons are shown to be due to the annual revolution of the earth about the sun. Book 2 contains the mathematics of astronomy and a star catalogue based on Ptolemy; Books 3 - 6 treat of the particular motions of the earth, moon and planets. The relative distances between the earth and the planets are now determined.” -PMM This copy with FINE PROVENANCE, NOW ATTRIBUTED TO MAGINI. Giovanni Antonio Magini was an Italian astronomer, astrologer, cartographer, and mathematician.. Magini supported a geocentric system of the world, in preference to Copernicus’s heliocentric system. Magini devised his own planetary theory, in preference to other existing ones. The Maginian System consisted of eleven rotating spheres, which he described in his Novæ cœlestium orbium theoricæ congruentes cum observationibus N. Copernici (published 1589). He corresponded with Tycho Brahe, Clavius, Abraham Ortelius, and Johann Kepler. The lunar crater Maginus is named after him. In 1588 he was chosen over Galileo Galilei to occupy the chair of mathematics at the University of Bologna after the death of Egnatio Danti. Magini was not an anti-Copernican. As a matter of fact he had a great admiration for Copernicus, calling his work “Divinum opus”. Neither was he a pro-Jesuit, having written a pamphlet against them: he was simply a diplomatic character who was trying to keep peace with everybody, so he devised a system which accepted all of the current opinions. He was regarded as the best mathematician of his time, and his calculation of the meridians were used by Gilbert, Snellius and Riccioli. He had one daughter and three sons, the youngest of them, Francesco, was 14 when Magini died, and entered the Dominican Order in Bologna in 1618, with his father’s name, Giovanni Antonio. He was probably the recipient of his father’s books, including the Copernicus, which later could have passed into the possession of Giovannini, the Dominican inquisitor from Bologna. The extreme caution which Magini shows the astronomical part of the book (books 4, 5, 6), in which the few corrections are only of technical nature, leads one to think that he refrained from annotating the book out of fear of the Inquisition, which implies (if this theory is correct) the notes must be posterior to 1610-1612, when the religious issue on the Copernican theory was arising. But the book is a puzzle in itself: The annotations are definitely in Magini’s hand, because he refers to his own books, but did not write directly on the book, which could mean that either the book did not belong to him, and he annotated somebody else’s copy, or that he did that out of fear of the Inquisition. His calligraphic annotations are in a very elegant calligraphy, which could support the theory that he corrected the book for someone else. Further Provenance: 1. (f. 213) Correctus perrn[issus] s[ecundum] Pium Joaninium Bononiensem ord[inis] Praedlicatoruml sacfrael Theol[ogiae] magistrum et Inquisitorem Veronen[sem] anno 1630 (“Corrected and thus permitted according to the Dominican Pio Joani- no of Bologna, Mas-ter of Sacred Theology and Inquisitor of Verona, 1630.) 2. (tp) FVDRI(?) in early script capitals. 3. From a collector in Rome, around 1975. 4. From another Italian collection located in the north of the country. Houzeau & Lancaster 2503; Zinner 2390; Adams C-2603; Favaro.Carteggio inedito di Magini (Amici e Corrispondenti di Galileo). Padua, 1886. See also: Dictionary of Scientific biography, 9, 12; Cinti,3. $175,000.

In a Wonderful State of Preservation - A Classic Work Editio Princeps of Diogenes - Fine Contemporary Binding The Lives of the Famous Philosophers - Basel - 1533

99 Diogenes Laertius , [Greek Philosophy]. [THE LIVES OF THE FA- MOUS PHILOSOPHERS.] Διογένους Λαερτίου Περὶ βίων δογμάτων καὶ άποφθεγμάτων τν έν φιλοσοφίά εμδοκιμησάντων βιβλία δέκα... Diogenis Laertij De vitis, decretis, & responsis celebrium philosophorum Libri decem, nunc primum excusi. (Basel: Hieronymus Froben e Nikolaus Episcopius, 1533) The Editio Princeps, the first printing of the work in the original Greek. Greek and roman type. Woodcut printer’s device of Johann Fro- ben by Hans Holbein der Jünger [The Younger] on the title-page and on fol. CC4v (Heitz-Bernoulli 50). Woodcut decorated headpieces, decorated and animated initials on black ground, from different alphabets designed by Holbein; on fol. a1r 8-line initial, showing Heraclitus and Democri- tus, from the capital Latin alphabet of May 1520 drawn by Holbein and by Jacob Faber (cfr. Hollstein’s German, xivB, n. 119). 4o (210x146 mm). Collation: 1, 2, 3, 4, a-z4, A-Z4, aa-zz4, AA-CC4 (fols. 1v, CC4r blank). [8], 573, [3] pp. , In a very rarely encountered contemporary binding of Dutch blind-tooled leather over wooden boards. The covers are framed by two borders of blind tooled fillets, a floral tool at each corner; the central panel is divided into diamond designs with rosettes on the upper cover and fleur-de-lys on the rear. Turn–ins and cords fixed at the inner boards. An- tique spine and clasps renewed at a somewhat later date and accomplished with the greatest skill. The guard leaves are composed of two bifolia from a 14th-century manuscript breviary. [8], 573, [3] pp. A beautiful and fine broad-margined copy in a wonderful contemporary binding, faint waterstaining to the inner corner of the first quires, a minor repair to the gutter of the first leaves, two tiny wormholes in the last three quires. Provenance: John Alfred Spranger (1889-1968; book-plate on front pastedown and stamp on title-page). EXTREMELY RARE FIRST PRINTING OF THE EDITIO PRINCEPS OF THIS REMARKABLY IMPORTANT BOOK AND A COPY WHICH IS OF THE VERY FINEST STATE AND CONDITION. The editio princeps of Diogenes Laertius’ Lives of the Famous Philosophers, is the most important source of our knowledge in the history of Greek philosophy, from Thales to Pyrrho. The text was known only in the Latin translation by Ambrogio Traversari (1386-1439), which made its first appearance in print in Rome around 1472 and which was widely reprinted during the fourteenth and the first decades of the sixteenth century. This is the first printing of the book in its original language. The edition is dedicated by the typographers Froben and Episcopius to the scholars, and in their epistle they declare their publishing plan: to print at least a work per year able to combine usefulness and pleasure. The text follows a manuscript provided by the professor of Greek and Hebrew at the University of Wittenberg Matthaeus Goldhahn (1480-1553), called Aurigallus, probably a copy of the codex Raudnitzianus Lobkowicensis vi.F.c.38, at the time preserved in Komotau (Bohemie), in the house of the politician Bohuslav Lobkowitz von Hassenstein (c. 1460-1510), and presently in the Library Národní Knihovna of Prague. $19,500. Froissart’s “Chronicles” - Printed by Myddylton - 1542 Very Rare Printed Issues in English of this Masterwork A Very Early and Important Production in the Language

100 Froissart, Jean. [FROISSARTS CHRONYCLES]. Here begynneth the fyrst volum of Syr Iohan Froyssart of the cronycles of Englande, Fraunce, Spayne, Portyngale, Scotlaude [sic], Bretayne, Flaunders: and other places adioynynge. Translated out of frenche into our materall [sic] Englysshe tonge, by Iohan Bouchier [sic] knyght lorde Berners: at the co[m]maun- dement of our moste highe redouted souerayne lorde kynge Henry the. viii. kynge of Englande Frau[n]ce, [and] Irelande defe[n]dour of the fayth and of the churche of Englande and also of Irelande in earth the supreme heade. (London: Wyllyam Myddylton [and Richard Redman], [1542 and circa 1535]) RARE, The second edition of the translation of books 1 and 2 of the “Chroniques.” Middleton’s name and address from colophon. Pub- lication date conjectured by STC. Includes some sheets printed by Richard Redman, ca. 1535, possibly to make up a lack of sheets in first edition stock (STC). Printed in black letter, double columns, very large and fine woodcut initials all throughout. Folio in sixes, (308 x 215 mm), very handsomely bound in later half antique wooden boards backed in brown calf, the back tooled in blind with a diamond pattern, at the centers of each large medevial style tooling, the spine with tall raised bands, the beveled outside board edge with remnants of the holes and ties from earlier binding use. A1 (title) supplied in partial facsimile; A2-A6 (Preface and Table); B1-B4 [Table]; a1-ooo4 (fol. primo-fol. CCCXXII). A very handsome and textually complete copy of this extremely rare edition. Title-page facsimile bound in on a tab, the text for the most part very well preserved and fresh, occasional evidence of old damp or other minor staining, one leaf torn at outer edge with old wax repair lacking only a small hole effecting a few words, some worming, heavy at the prelims but quickly lessens to unobtrusive. The antique wooden boards with some age, the tooled backing in excellent condition. ESPECIALLY RARE, THE HUNTINGTON AND MORGAN COPIES ARE THE ONLY TWO LISTED ON OCLC. THE SECOND COMPLETE EDITION IN ENGLISH OF THE FIRST TWO BOOKS OF THE GREAT CHRONICLE OF EUROPE, AND THE MOST IMPORTANT RENAISSANCE WORK OF EUROPEAN HISTORY. Translated from the French by John Bourchier, second baron Berners (1467–1533), at the behest of King Henry VIII. “Bourchier’s English style is so vivid and so little frenchified that his translation of Froissart is justly esteemed as a classic of English literature. It was the most extensive historical work that had yet appeared in the English language, and it exercised a considerable influence on English historical writing throughout the sixteenth century and beyond. Pynson’s edition is a major monument of English printing in the sixteenth century. Complete sets are very rare; and most of the sets in institutional collections (the British Library, Ashburnham, Bodleian, Harvard and Yale copies, among others) are imperfect in some degree or wrongly made up” (quoted in the catalogue for the Garden sale, Sotheby’s New York, 8 and 9 November 1989). “Froissart might be called the great interviewer of the Middle Ages. The newspaper correspondent of modern times has scarcely surpassed this medieval collector of intelligence. He travelled extensively in the various countries of Europe; he conversed with gentlemen of rank everywhere; and he had the remarkable knack of persuading those about him to divulge all he wanted to know. He learned the details of battles from both sides and from every point of view. He delighted in the minutest affairs of every cavalry skirmish, of the capture of every castle, and of every brave action and gallant deed. He lived from 1337 to about 1410, and wrote chiefly of contemporaneous events. The ‘Chronicles’ are universally considered as the most vivid and faithful picture we have of events in the fourteenth century....As a picture of the most favorable side of chivalry, the work has no equal” (Adams, Manual of Historical Literature, pp. 334-5). “Like Froissart, Bourchier moved about amongst the noblesse; Henry VIII made him his Chancellor of the Exchequer for life and three years previous to the publication of the first volume above, he was present with that monarch at the Field of the Cloth of Gold.” STC (2nd ed.); 11396.5; PML 5004; ESTC, S121320. $17,500. Very Rare Forerunner to the Famous Chronicles at Large The Chronicles of Englande Grafton’s Own Abridgement - A Very Early Printing - 1570

101 Grafton, Richard; [Early English Printing]. GRAFTONS ABRIDGE- MENT OF THE CHRONICLES OF ENGLANDE. Newly and Diligently Corrected... Seene and Allowed, According to an Order Taken. (London: Richardi Tottyll, October, 1570) VERY RARE. This is a very early issuance of Grafton’s Abrdgement of the Chronicles of England Acorn device on engraved titlepage, large decorated engraved initials, some as tall as 12 lines, throughout. 8vo, in a fine binding of later calf over contemporary beveled wooden boards, the boards with blind ruled panels featuring tooled Acan- thus leaves framing many tooled thistle and leaf patterns in correct period style. The spine features wide, thick raised bands ruled in blind. The pastedowns and flies are leaves from an attractive incunable rubricated in red. ***8, ****4, A-Z8, Aa-Bb4, Cc3. Complete. An attractive and complete copy of this scarce issue, the text in an excellent state of preservation, minor toning or age mellowing only, the handsome binding is in very fine condition. On a blank front free-fly is an interesting nineteenth manuscript notation: “This book has a remarkable prologue against John Stow, which met with an answer from him in his summary, anno 1573”. VERY RARE AND A VERY HANDSOME AND COMPLETE COPY OF GRAFTON’S ABRIDGEMENT, originally printed by Tottel in 1562. This issue was complete shortly after the first edition of Grafton’s CHRONICLE AT LARGE was published. Grafton compiled his Abridgement while in prison, having fallen from the high status of “Printer to the King” to being cast into prison by Mary I. The 1560’s saw a flurry of abridged histories, aimed at the common reader. Grafton’s was one of the most prominent. When Grafton attacked Stow in his new abridged version, an argument about correctness and the purpose of history began, and was carried on in prefaces and subsequent editions and versions of history until 1573. Richard Grafton, chronicler and printer was a prosperous London merchant who is well known for his arrangement of the printing of the Bible in English from the very famous translation by Coverdale. One of the most important printing events ever conceived saw the introduction of the 1538 edition which he caused to be printed in Paris and which is the very earliest book to bear his name. At the last moment before publication, the presses were seized by the French government and the work deemed heretical. Grafton escaped just to England with his life. But in subsequent years went on to print the Great Bible and a number of editions of the Coverdale Bible. He printed many editions of the New Testament and the first Book of Common Prayer in 1549 along with numerous primers and important government tracts. Before 1550 he was already known as one of the most important personages ever to have graced English printing history and his reputation stands to this day. DNB; STC 12151. $8950.

Guicciardini’s Landmark of European Historical Writing The Historie of Guicciardin Englished by Geoffrey Fenton His Great History of Italy - A Friend of Machiavelli

102 [Italy, History; Guicciardini] Guicciardin, [Francesco]. THE HISTORIE OF GUICCIARDIN: CONTAIN- ING THE WARRES OF ITALIE AND OTHER PARTES, Continued For Manie Yeares Under Sundrie Kings and Princes, Together With the Variations and Accidents of the Same: And Also the Arguments, With a Table at Large Exploring the Principall Matters Through the Whole Historie. Reduced into English by Geffray Fenton (Lon- don: By Richard Field, 1599) The second issuance of the first translation into English. Engraved title with large printer’s device, several handsome engraved initials and head-or-tailpieces. Folio, in full crushed red morocco by Weitz-Coleman, the upper cover framed with a gilt rule surrounding a large central armorial styled device, the lower cover framed with a gilt rule, the spine with tall raised bands triple gilt ruled on each side creating compartments featuring a central gilt royal crown device, one compartment gilt lettered, additional gilt lettering at the foot, marbled endpapers, page edges marbled, original front blank retained. [vi], 943, [10] pp. Fully complete but for the final blank. A very fresh and desirable copy, the text firm and very clean but for some very occasional and light antique evidence of damp and some minor toning to the first and last few leaves only. Neat early 19th century signature on title-page and old manuscript notation on the translator’s background on the front blank. The binding in very fine condition. THE SCARCE SECOND ISSUANCE OF THE FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH OF GUICCIARDINI’S IMPORTANT HISTORY OF ITALY. A friend and critic of Niccolò Machiavelli, Guicciardini is considered one of the major political writers of the Italian Renaissance. In this masterpiece, The History of Italy, Guicciardini paved the way for a new style in historiography, with his use of government sources to support arguments and the realistic analysis of the people and events of his time. provides a detailed account of politics in the Italian Peninsula between 1490 and 1534. Written during the last years of his life, this work contains the historian’s observations collected over his entire lifetime and was a work intended for posterity. Guicciardini was friends with Niccolò Machiavelli and the two maintained a lively correspondence until Machiavelli’s death in 1527. Though Guicciardini was of significantly higher social standing their letters reveal a relaxed, comfortable relationship between the two. Guicciardini was critical of some of the ideas expressed by Machiavelli and both were innovative in their approach to history. None of Francesco Guicciardini’s works were published during his lifetime (1483-1540). It was not until 1561 that the first sixteen of the twenty books of his History of Italy were published. This first English translation by Sir Geffray Fen- ton was published originally in 1579 and included all 20 books. For his research Guicciardini drew upon material that he gathered from government records as well as from his own extensive experience in politics. His many personal encounters with powerful Italian rulers serves to explain his perspective as a historian: “Francesco Guicciardini might be called a psychological historian—for him the motive power of the huge clockwork of events may be traced down the mainspring of individual behavior. Not any individual, be it noted, but those in positions of command: emperors, princes and popes who may be counted on to act always in terms of their self-interest—the famous Guicciardinian particolare.” -Sidney Alexander. Gilbert, Machiavelli and Guicciardini; $6500.

Anton van Leeuwenhoek - The Father of Microbiology A Complete Set of the Works - The Majority in First Edition

103 Leeuwenhoek, A[ntoni] van. [WORKS, In Dutch; LETTERS OF LEEUWENHOEK] (Leyden & Delft: Vari- ous Publishers, 1684-1718) 4 volumes. Very rare complete set, the majority of the letters in the first edition. With 3 additional engraved titles, a portrait of the author, 99 engraved plates, of which 31 are folding, and numerous engravings in the text. 4to, now handsomely bound in vellum- backed boards to style. The works all very finely preserved and now handsomely bound. A RARE COMPLETE SET OF THE PUBLISHED WORKS OF ANTON VAN LEEUWENHOEK, THE FA- THER OF MICROBIOLOGY. HE IS BEST KNOWN FOR IMPROVEMENTS OF THE MICROSCOPE, AND FOR VAST CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE ESTABLISHMENT OF MICROBIOLOGY AS A SCIENCE. The plates attest to this and reveal whole aspects of the world unseen by the human eye. The set comprises: I. Letters nos. 28-52 first edition, nos. 53-60 second edition. Register, part I (Part II nor present). II. Letters 61-67, second edition, 68-96 first edition. III. Letters 97-146 first edition. IV. Letters I- XLVI first edition; Register (not mentioned by Horblit). Letters 1-27 were never published in Dutch; some of them were printed in Latin or English (usually abridged) in the ‘Philosophical Transactions. $22,500. First Edition of Herman Melville’s Collected Poems Original Blue Cloth Gilt - A Superior Copy in Fine Condition

104 Melville, Herman. POEMS (London: Constable & Co., 1924) Rare First Edition. Lim- ited to 750 numbered copies only. Large 8vo, publishers original blue cloth lettered in gilt and stamped in blind, t.e.g. xii, 434 pp. A superior copy of this very scarce book, fine and bright and unusually well preserved, without wear or blemish. RARE FIRST EDITION OF THE POEMS. The first publication of Melville’s collected poems and the first time that many appear in print. Appearing for the first time “Author’s note (on the use of expletives)” pg. 129, “Miscellaneous Poems” pp. 297-349, and “At the Hostelry” pp. 351- 434. Between 1875 and 1920 Melville had fallen deep into obscurity. William P. Trent’s A HISTORY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE, 1903, gives Melville but three pages out of 593, and Wendell and Greenough’s A HISTORY OF LITERATURE IN AMERICA, 1904, gives him nothing at all. The author’s star began to rise in 1921 with the publication of Weaver’s biography. The first volume of the collected works was published the following year and did much to expand American awareness of Melville’s art. It stands alone as a truly important edition with the inclu- sion of ‘The Poems’ and ‘Billy Budd,’ both of which were here published separately for the first time. ‘The Poems’ appears as Volume XVI of the Standard Edition set. BAL 169 $950.

The Most Beautiful Illustrated Ovid Produced in France Les Metamorphoses - In Latin and French - 4 Volumes Beautifully Bound - Printed in Paris - 1767

105 Ovid, [Latin Classic]. LES METAMORPHOSES D’OVIDE, En Latin et En François, de la Traduction de M. l’Abbé Banier, de l’Académie Royale des Inscriptions & Belles-Lettres; Avec des Explications Historiques. (Paris: Chez Delormel, rue du Foin, 1767 - 1771) 4 volumes. First Edition of the most famous illustrated Ovid of the 18th century and one of the most beautiful French illustrated books of the period. Profusely decorated with very fine copperplates throughout, elaborately engraved head and tail-pieces throughout, engraved title-pages and preliminary leaves. A beautiful production. 139 Plates by Boucher, Eisen, Gravelot, Monnet, Moreau and others, engraved title, 3 pages of Dedication, 4 Fleurons on Titles, 30 vignettes and 1 very finely engraved full-page cul-de-lampe at the end of Vol. 4 by Choffad & Monnet 4to, contemporary French mottled calf, the covers with triple gilt filet rules at the borders, the spines richly gilt in compartments featuring elaborate panel designs incorporated corner and center tools gilt, raised bands gilt decorated and bordered, morocco lettering pieces gilt, blue moire silk end-leaves, all edges gilt. (4), xc, (2), 264; viii, 355; viii, 360; viii, 367, 8 pp. A fine set with only light aging to the bindings, text-block and plates in excellent condition. A beautiful survival of a great book with care having been shown in the preservation over the centuries. ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS FRENCH ILLUSTRATED BOOKS OF THE 18TH CENTURY AND ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL OF ALL ILLUSTRATED OVIDS EVER PRODUCED. This work includes the magnificent plates engraved for this superb edition of Ovid’s Metamorphoses published by Le Mire and Basan 1767-1771, a book reverred during the great period of 18th century French illustration. The designs for this work were executed by a brilliant galaxy of artists such as Eisen, Boucher, Moreau, Le Prince, Monnet, and Choffard, and their designs were skillfully engraved by Le Mire and Basan. There is a significant biography of Ovid presented with this edition. The text is offered both in the Latin and in French. The romantic intersection is thus completed. Though most illustrated books published in France at this time fell into the rococo style, Ovid’s stories begged a classical treatment, and indeed this book marked the transition from rococo to neo-classical style, the latter being best exemplified by Moreau (in his later work) and Fragonard. The poem is mainly a collection of Greek and Roman myths, retelling classical stories such as Echo and Narcissus, Jason and Medea, and Venus and Adonis. It also includes the Eastern Babylonian tale, Pyramus and Thisbe. This great epic work has been recognized throughout the centuries for its inventiveness, charm, and originality. “As a story-teller and guide to Greek myth and Roman legend, Ovid was very influential on later Roman writers and was read, quoted, and adapted during the Middle Ages. He was the favourite Latin poet of the Renaissance, and there were many translations of his works into English.”-M.C.Howatson. His influence upon great writers through history, from Chaucer to Marlowe and Shakespeare, is well-known. Cohen-de Ricci 769 $9500.

The First Edition - Printed in 1482 - Rare and Highly Important William Caxton’s Printing of Ranulph Higden’s Polycronicon A Rare and Precious English Incunable - In Luxurious Binding With Outstanding Provenance and Bibliophilic History

106 Polycronicon; [English Incunabula; Early Printed Histori- cal Works]; Higden,, Ranulph. POLYCRONICON [translated by John de Trevisa] ( [Westminster]: William Caxton, [after 2 July, 1482].) THE FIRST EDITION, Caxton’s longest and most ambitious printing project. A COPY WITH OUTSTANDING PROVENANCE AND IN A SUPERB AND IMPORTANT BINDING OF FULL RED MOROCCO. 40 lines & headlines; bastarda type 4:95; Double column, black letter, beautifully rubricated throughout in red, including six and seven line initials. Small folio, in a rich and quite extraordinary mid 18th century binding unquestionably bound for James West, to his designs, in full red morocco. The boards feature a large ornamental gilt framework border identical to that used on his copy of the Caxton Chaucer (now called the Remington Chaucer and one of the most valuable English books to have ever sold at auction). This binding is known to have been replicated on at least 5 Caxton printings from West’s collection of English incunabula and for his personal collection and library. The elaborately gilt tooled spine features five raised bands separating magnificently designed gilt compartments executed in the architectural “Gothic Window” pattern designed by Mr. West and identical to those used on a number of his books. The design most likely was established to mimic the windows of the owner’s library at Alscot. Two gilt lettered and gilt decorated green morocco labels fill two compartments, there is giltwork to the board edges and gilt dentelles at the turn-ins, and all edges are gilt. The original blue endpapers and silk marker are intact. This is clearly a binding of importance and once a part of one of the greatest Caxton collections ever assembled, much of which was purchased by the King of England for his royal library at the sale of West’s collection in the late 18th century. 364 ff (of 450), nearly complete as to the text of the ‘Polycronicon’ but without, as is often true, the preliminaries, Book VIII, 18 text ff and 3 blanks. Mentioned lacking pages are: a1-8, b1-8, C1-4,11-5 and 8, 2 1-8, 3 1 and 8, 41, 27 2 and 4-8, [A]2, 46 5, 49 4, 50.52 1-8,53 1-8, 54 1-8 and 55 1-8. A HIGHLY IMPORTANT BOOK and an extremely handsome and very pleasing copy of this rare and early work, in a binding of significance and importance. With scholarly and abundant early manuscript notations throughout in English, generally a bit cropped, a few margins strengthened, some expected minor staining, first ff loosening, hole in blank inner margin of quire 28, CCClxxxvj torn with loss of a few letters.

THE VERY RARE FIRST EDITION OF THIS CLASSIC ENGLISH INCUNABLE PRINTED BY ENGLAND’S FIRST AND MOST FAMOUS PRINTER, WILLIAM CAXTON. THE POLYCRONICON was the most influential universal chronicle distributed in Britain during the 14th and 15th centuries. ISTC records 45 copies worldwide of which only 29 are complete. This beautiful copy nearly complete as to the text of the chronicle is certainly one of the last and most significant of the larger Caxtons to appear on the market The magnificent copy, with its binding especially prepared for James West’s highly important collection of Eng- lish incunabular printing, is of the greatest importance. THE POLYCRONICON as originally written by the Benedictine monk Ranulf Higden was a world history dating from the Creation up to 1360 A.D.. It is composed of seven books, in respect and honouring of the seven days of the creation as presented in the Book of Genesis. The work offered a clear and original picture of history as based on the medieval tradition. The English translation of the work, by John Trevisa, was com- missioned by Thomas, Lord Berkeley and modernized by William Caxton in his edition printed in 1482. Caxton also added a final book, to bring the history up to the current date. WITH OUTSTANDING PROVENANCE, THIS IS THE JAMES WEST COPY. IT IS FULLY ANNOTATED BY AN ENGLISH 16TH CENTURY READER. For his edition, Caxton modernized the translation and added the eighth and final book in order to cover the period which had transpired since the writing of Higden’s version. This final book was edited and created by Caxton through his use of the works of various other sources including Rolewinck’s FASCICULUS TEMPORUM and the Brut Chronicle and most of what occupies the text printed on the last three quires (from the year 1419 onwards) is reprinted from his own edition of CHRONICLES OF ENGLAND (1480). The work draws on over 40 sources, and synthesizes a continuous diachronic and multicultural history, beginning with the Biblical account of the Creation and moving through the history of the Semitic, Hellenic, Roman, and medieval-European cultures. It served as a model for innumerable later histories, both universal and localized. The POLYCRONICON was Caxton’s most ambitious printing project. It is his longest book in terms of page count, and the second-longest in terms of word count (after the GOLDEN LEGEND of 20 November 1483). It is also Caxton’s most ambitious work as an editor and a writer; for Caxton significantly revised the extant English translation of the POLY- CRONICON, updating its terminology considerably; and he also authored an original history of England to serve as Book 8 of the text--a writing effort which stands as Caxton’s greatest achievement as an author. EVEN FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES IN THE COLLECTING HISTORY OF BOOKS PRINTED IN ENGLISH, THE CAXTON PRINTINGS WERE THE MOST REVERED. AND ALL COPIES WHETHER ABSOLUTELY COM- PLETE OR LACKING LEAVES HAVE BEEN CONSIDERED PRECIOUS. This copy from one of the most famous collections of Caxton printings ever assembled in a binding for James West with tooling designed specifically for his library is of great importance. West’s “Bibliotheca Westiana” was a magnificent repository of over 30 examples, 34 of which sold at the noted 1773 auction. A great many of West’s books sold to King James III. This copy, which is not the copy sold to the King is one of three copies (posited) which he owned. An imperfect copy belonging to West is recorded as being sold in 1776 to R. Willett, and was sold again in 1813 to the Duke of Devonshire. In 1815 a copy described as Devonshire’s duplicate sold to an unrecorded buyer. And as the present copy is not the duplicate as described in the Devonshire library by the turn of the 20th century, so it may be that the Duke of Devonshire’s duplicate, which was described as being bound also in red morocco was bought by and belonged in 1817 to the Earl of Carlisle at Naworth Castle. The tools used to decorate the covers of the present copy match precisely those that that were used for the binding on West’s copy of the Caxton Chaucer. That book, also incomplete, became one of the most expensive and important English printed books ever sold at auction. The spine tooling, designed to mirror the Gothic window panes of West’s library was used on a number of his most important books. For the books of the library bound in brown calf the designs of the windows were tooled onto green leather labels while on those bound in red morocco, such as this wonderful copy of the POLYCRONICON, one of the earliest of all books printed in Eng- lish, the designs were tooled directly onto the morocco of the spine panels. Goff H - 267; GW 12.648; Grolier “Langland to Wither” 144; Pforzheimer 490. Hain-Cop 8659; Duff 172; Polain (B) 1959; Oates 4080; Proctor 9645; Needham Cx52; De Ricci, Census 49.31; Blades, 44; STC 13438; Mansion C., Life and Topography of William Caxton; Gentleman’s Magazine, volume 82, 1812; Nixon, Five Centuries of English Bookbinding; Bibliotheca Westiana. $225,000. Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queen Very Rare First Editions of Both Volumes - 1590 & 1596 In Handsome Full Crushed Morocco by Devauchelle

107 [Spenser, Edmund]. THE FAERIE QUEEN. Disposed into Twelve Books, Fashioning XII. Morall Vertues [with] The Second Part of the Faerie Queene. Con- taining the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Bookes (London: for William Ponsonby, 1590- 1596) 2 volumes. Very scarce first editions of both published parts, and the only editions of Spenser’s greatest work to be published during his lifetime. Title with large printer’s device, a full page woodcut to accompany “Legend of Sir Guyon”, head and tailpieces, initials, caption at head of each canto enclosed in ornamental border. 4to in eights, in very fine signed bindings by Alain Devauchelle of full crushed navy blue morocco, the spines with raised bands simply gilt lettered in two compartments, board edges gilt ruled, the turn-ins very finely decorated with ornate framework, fine marbled endpapers and fly-leaves, a.e.g., in a fine slipcase of marbled covered boards trimmed in matching morocco. 606, [8 dedicatory pages]; 518 pp. A very handsome, now beautifully bound copy. The bindings in excellent condition, Vol. II trimmed a bit more closely than Vol. I in order to size the bindings prop- erly, crisp, clean copies, with only a very slight bit of expected mellowing to the text-blocks, some old occasional notes or paper flaws. TRULY RARE FIRST EDITIONS IN IMPORTANT SIGNED BINDINGS. THE FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF THE GREATEST WORKS IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. Edmund Spenser stands with William Shakespeare and John Milton in the history of English poetry and litereature. He is recognized as one of the premier craftsmen of modern English verse from its infancy, and one of the greatest poets in the language. Spenser was known to his contemporaries as “the prince of poets” and was said by them to be “as great in English as Virgil in Latin”. He was greatly preferred over Shakespeare by Queen Elizabeth and many others of the day. He left behind his masterful essays in every genre of poetry, from pastoral and elegy to epithalamion and epic. A century later John Milton would call Spenser “a better teacher than Aquinas” and was greatly influenced by him. Since then, generations of readers have admired his subtle use of language, his imagination, his immense classical and religious learning and “his unerring ability to synthesize and, ultimately, to delight”. THE FAERIE QUEEN is Spenser’s best known work, and arguably his best. It is especially notable for its form: it was the first work written in what is now called Spenserian stanza, and is also one of the longest poems in the English language. An allegorical work, written in praise of Queen Elizabeth I, is is largely symbolic, the poem follows several knights in an examination of several virtues. It found, not surprisingly, great political favour with Elizabeth I and was such a public success that it quickly became Spenser’s defining work. The last six books of the twelve Spenser intended were never written. Collation: I. A-Z8, Aa-Pp8, Qq4. II. A-Z8, Aa-Ii8, Kk4 the First Booke has the following issue points: the imprint has the first digit of the date under “r” in “for,” and the dedication to Queen Elizabeth is printed on the title verso; in the Second Booke, page 309 is incorrectly numbered 319; the Welsh (and English) words in lines 4 and 5 of p. 332 (Book II, Canto 10, stanza 24, of modern editions) are not printed, spaces being left for them to be filled in by hand (see Pforzheimer copy.) In this copy, the words are filled in in a contemporary hand; in the Third Booke, pages 486-87 are numbered incorrectly; in the Dedicatory leaves, quire Qq4 (intended to cancel leaves Pp. 6-7) is bound after signature Pp. Jackson notes that the cancels contain a sonnet to Lord Burghley and six other new sonnets as well as the eight sonnets of the cancellanda. Spenser in- tentionally neglected to include a sonnet to Burghley, but anxious friends prevailed on him to rectify this offense and print the sonnet in a new gathering Qq which also printed the poems on Pp. 6-7. Ashley V, 191 and 192; Bartlett 241; Grolier Langland to Wither 231 and 233; Hayward 22; Johnson Spenser 9 and 11; Pforzheimer 969 and 970; STC 23081 and 23082; Grolier One Hundred English Books 12. $37,500. The Golden Legend of Jacobus de Voragine Printed by Wynken de Worde in London - 1527 A Largely Complete Copy in a Fine State of Preservation

108 [Voragine, Jacobus de]. [THE Legende Named in Latyn Legeda Aurea that is to saye in Englysshe the Golden Legende (Translated by William Caxton)] ([London: Wynkyn de Worde, 1527) VERY RARE EARLY PRINTING BY WYNKEN DE WORDE. Black letter, 46 lines double column, with numerous woodcuts throughout the text, some of which repeated, and with engraved initials. Folio (288 x 190 mm), in very fine full dark maroon levant morocco signed “C. McL., 1917”, with de Worde’s printer’s device in gilt in the center of both boards, the spine lettered in gilt and with thick, tall raised bands, board edges and turn-ins gilt ruled, a.e.g., from the library of Wilfred Merton with his book label on front paste-down. 417 of 438 leaves, lacking only ff. i-viii (1st foliation, lxxxviii, ccxx-ccxxi, ccclxviiii, ccclxxvi-ccclxxxiiii (final foliation), which includes the title, the full-page woodcut at the front, and the woodcut printer’s device at the end. In an especially fine state of preservation, with an early owner’s occasional underlining or marginal notations and the censoring of the words “pope” and “mass” each time they appear in the text, cxxxvi remargined with loss of a few words; clxiiii remargined; clxxxi torn with a few letters of text lost; tear repaired in clxxxxvi without loss. VERY EARLY PRINTING OF ONE OF THE MOST WIDELY READ BOOKS OF THE MIDDLE AGES, THE GOLDEN LEGEND was translated by William Caxton—his largest and most complex work of translation—and was originally printed by him in 1483, going through seven full and one partial editions by 1527. The famous medieval manual of ecclesiastical lore and one of the most widely read books of Middle Ages, consisting of the lives of the saints, commentary on the church service, homilies of saints’ days, etc. The chief source for William Caxton’s translation is the Legenda Aurea of Jacobus de Voragine (1230-98), archbishop of Genoa. The original edition of Voragine’s work appeared in 1472, followed by scores of others. Caxton’s edition, the first in English, initially appeared in 1483 and proved his most popular production. Wynkyn de Worde was Caxton’s successor and first published the work in 1493. The present edition here offered is considered very rare and is a prize of collectors. Provenance: Wilfred Merton (1889-1957) collector of Greek papryri. STC (2nd) 24880; ESTC S111988. $37,500.

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