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1 3 (ALICE IN WONDERLAND), WELLS, Carolyn. To Alice Alphabetum Aethiopicum sive Gheez et Amhharicum, cum Oratione Hargreaves. Single sheet on thick yellow paper. 4to. [New York]: May dominicali, Salutatione angelica, Symbolo fdei, praeceptis decalogi & initio 4, 1932. Housed in a green card folder with silk ties. A band of pale Evangelii S. Johannis. 32 pp. Small 8vo. Rome: Typis. Sac. Congreg. green ofset in the middle of the sheet. de Prop. Fide, 1789. Recent morocco backed boards, a.e.g. Library Alice Hargreaves is best known as the model for “Alice in Wonderland.” perforation stamp at foot of title page, else fne. Birrell & Garnett 22; She traveled to New York in 1932 to receive an honorary degree from Smitskamp PO 213; Goldschmidt 30. Columbia University as part of the celebrations that marked the $1,000 centenary of Charles Dodgson’s birth. In addition to the degree, she also received the (rather sycophantic) acrostic, composed by Carolyn Wells, author of over 170 books (including a bibliography of Walt 4 Whitman) and a noted book collector. The acrostic begins: Alphabetum Arabicum una cum Oratione Dominicali, Salutatione Angelica et Symbolo fdei. 15 pp. Small 8vo. Rome: Typis. Sac. Congreg. de Prop. Alice, who would not envy thee Fide, 1797. Recent morocco backed marbled boards, a.e.g. Fine. Not Love, Fame and Immortality? in Birrell & Garnett. Smitskamp PO 216; Brunet I, 197. In full, those gifts the life endow, $750 Child of the pure unclouded brow Elusive in thy mystery. 5 A pencil note in Wells’s hand on the verso reads “An Acrostic to Alice Hargreaves – by Carolyn Wells. May 4, 1932. Lettering by John Alphabetum Barmanorum seu regni Avensis. Editio altera emendatior. J. Tucker – 3 copies. One to Ms Hargreaves – this one – and one for Folding engraved plate of Pali text by G. Expilly, each page printed CW.” We understand that this copy was given as a gift, or inherited, within a border of typographical ornaments, numerous examples of by a female friend and fellow book collector of Wells. Burmese types. [iii]-xvi, 64 pp. Lacking [a1] blank. Small 8vo. Rome: There is no record of what happened to the other copies of the Typis. Sac. Congreg. de Prop. Fide, 1787. Second, revised edition, acrostic, this might well be the only surviving example. following the 1776 frst edition. Text rewritten, plate enlarged. Recent $1,250 morocco backed marbled boards, a.e.g. Fine. Birrell & Garnett 21; Smitskamp PO 212. $750 2 Alphabeta Indica, id est Granthamicum seu Samscrdamico-Malabaricum 6 Indostanum sive Vanarense Nagaricum vulgare et Talinganicum. 24 pp. The First Burmese Type Small 8vo. Rome: Typis. Sac. Congregationis de Propag. Fide, 1791. First edition. Recent morocco backed marbled boards, a.e.g. Fine. Alphabetum Barmanum seu Bomanum regni Avae fnitimarumque Birrell & Garnett 23; Smitskamp PO 214; Brunet I, 197. regionum. Editio altera emendatior. Folding engraved plate of Pali text With a woodcut comparative table at pp. 8-17 of the four alphabets: by Giuseppe Expilii (numbered page xlv). [2] f. [v]-xlv, 51 pp. Lacking Malabar, Sanskrit and a modifed form, and Telugu. [a1] blank. Small 8vo. Rome: Typis. Sac. Congreg. de Prop. Fide, 1776. $1,000 First edition. Recent morocco backed marbled boards, a.e.g. Fine. Birrell & Garnett 18; Smitskamp PO 209; Brunet I, 197. $1,750 7 13 Alphabetum Brammhanicum seu Indostanum Universitatis Kasi. xx, 152 Alphabetum Syro-Chaldaeum una cum Oratione Dominicali Salutatione pp. Small 8vo. Rome: Typis. Sac. Congreg. de Prop. Fide, 1771. First Angelica et Symbolo Fidei. 30 pp. Small 8vo. Rome: Typis. Sac. Congreg. edition. Recent morocco backed boards, a.e.g. Paper faw in margin de Prop. Fide, 1797. First edition. Recent morocco backed marbled of A1 (no loss), else fne. Birrel & Garnett 12; Updike, Printing Types boards, a.e.g. Fine. Birrell & Garnett 241; Smitskamp 215; Moss 1052; I (1951), pp. 181-3; Smitskamp PO 206; Brunet I, 197. Brunet I, 197; cf. Coakley, pp. 58-9. $1,500 Type specimen printed on the eve of the Napoleonic conquest of Italy, during which “there was an order from the French government for the confscation of exotic language punches and matrices from 8 the Propaganda to supply the Imprimerie Nationale” (Coakley). Alphabetum Cophtum sive Aegyptiacum [Caption title]. [4] f. Small Uncommon. 8vo. [Rome: Typis. Sac. Congreg. de Prop. Fide, n.d., 1809]. Recent $1,000 morocco backed marbled boards, uncut edges. Fine. Birrell & Garnett 25; Smitskamp PO 217. The last in the series of elegant type specimens of exotic languages 14 issued by the Propaganda Press from the 1770s onward. Uncommon. Inscribed by Susan B. Anthony to George Francis Train $750 ANTHONY, Susan B.; Elizabeth Cady Stanton; Matilda Joslyn Gage; and Ida Husted Harper, editors. History of Woman Sufrage. Ninety plates, including forty-eight steel-engraved portraits. 6 Vols. 9 Large 8vo. Rochester: 1881, 1881, 1886, 1902, 1922, 1922. First editions. Alphabetum Graecum cum Oratione Dominicali, Salutatione Angelica, Original burgundy publisher’s cloth, spines gilt, frst volume expertly Symbolo Fidei, & Praeceptis Decalogi. 15 pp. Small 8vo. Rome: Typis. rebacked, with original backstrip laid down, volumes two, three, fve Sac. Congreg. de Prop. Fide, 1771. Recent morocco backed marbled and six with institutional blindstamp on titlepage, new endpapers, boards, a.e.g. Fine. Birrell & Garnett 15; Smitskamp PO 205; Brunet and remnants of labeling on the spine, hinges a touch weak, very I, 197. clean internally, very good overall. Allibone, Critical Dictionary of $750 English Literature, 1378. The frst and fourth volumes of this set are inscribed by Susan B. Anthony, to the noted author, entrepreneur, and agitator, George 10 Francis Train. Train and Anthony spent weeks together in Kansas First Type Specimen of Malayalam in 1867 stumping for women’s rights, and later toured the country together. Train was the creator and principal backer of Susan B. Alphabetum Grandonico-Malabaricum sive Samscrudonicum. 9 folding Anthony’s important newspaper, The REvolution, published from 1868 charts. xxviii, 100 pp. Small 8vo. Rome: Typis. Sac. Congregationis to 1870. The inscription in the frst volume reads “George Francis de Propag. Fide, 1772. First edition. Recent morocco backed marbled Train / with grateful memory / of his valuable aid / in Kansas in boards, a.e.g. Fine. Birrell & Garnett 16; de Gubernaties 329; 1867 & / the Revolution 1868 / Susan B. Anthony / Madison Square Smitskamp PO 207; Brunet I, 197. / Nov. 22, 1881.” The inscription in the fourth volume reads “George First type specimen of the Grantha or Malabar alphabet, now most Francis Train / & his daughter / Stamford Ct. / See what gains have frequently known as Malayalam. / been made since — Kansas 1867 — / four states with full sufrage — $1,250 Wyoming / Colorado, Utah & Idaho — great hopes for / the future — with great respect & gratitude / Susan B. Anthony / 17 Madison St / Rochester / N.Y. / June 20, 1903.” Train’s contributions to the 11 woman’s sufrage movement, especially with regard to the campaign Alphabetum Hebraicum Addito Samaritano et Rabbinico cum Oratione in Kansas, are discussed in the second volume of this work. Dominicali, Salutatione Angelica, & Symbolo Apostolico. 16 pp. Small 8vo. $15,000 Rome: Typis. Sac. Congreg. de Prop. Fide, 1771. First edition. Recent morocco backed boards, a.e.g. Birrell & Garnett 15; Smitskamp PO 204. 15 $900 “In Africa, Armstrong is more than a band leader, he is a symbol” [ARMSTRONG, Louis]. Collection of material documenting Louis Armstrong’s visit to Accra in 1956, assembled by Jimmy Moxon. A 12 complete listing of material available on request. Alphabetum Persicum, cum Oratione Dominicali et Salutatione Angelica. A wonderful collection of manuscript and printed ephemera and 24 pp. Small 8vo. Rome: Typis. Sac. Congreg. de Propag. Fide, memorabilia, owned by Jimmy Moxon who organized Louis 1783. Recent morocco backed boards, a.e.g. Birrell & Garnett 19; Armstrong’s two day visit to Accra and hosted him and his wife, Smitskamp PO 210; Brunet I, 197. Lucille. Louis Armstrong’s two-day trip to Accra was the brainchild $900 of Ed Murrow and was sponsored by CBS. The accompanying camera crew flmed Armstrong, Lucille and the Allstars to provide material for the weekly show “See it Now.” The segment was called Satchmo the Great. Despite the brevity of the trip, Ed Murrow the james cummins bookseller booth e-3 2 producer contacted Moxon to ensure it would go smoothly. 16 Murrow had been to Accra in 1954 and Moxon states: “[his] genius The 53 Ashendene St. Francis Proofs on Japon Vellum told him — from his glimpse of Accra night life — that Satchmo and (ASHENDENE PRESS) I Fioretti del glorioso poverello di Cristo S. black Africa should be blended — and anything at all might happen. Francesco Di Assisi. Japon paper proofs of the 53 illustrations in the Everything did. And that was where I took my cue.” Accepting that book, drawn by Charles M. Gere and cut on wood by J.B. Swain. 8vo. there were only so many hours at their disposal, the cabled program London: The Ashendene Press, 1922. The 53 individual proofs are read as follows: tipped into a blank book (some leaves of which have been excised) “FIRST DAY MET AIRPORT ENTHUSIASTIC CROWDS THEN FORMAL CALLS bound in tan morocco, upper cover elaborately tooled in gilt and GOVERNOR PRIME MINISTER AFTERNOON DRIVE THROUGH CITY EVENING blue, lower cover in blind, a.e.g., probably Italian, 19th century, some PRESS PARTY NIGHT OPENAIR CONCERT THIRTY THOUSAND PEOPLE foxing to a few blank pages, the proofs, except for a faint rust stain AFTERWARDS VISIT NIGHTCLUBS SECOND DAY STUDIO INTERVIEW LUNCH in the corner of two, are in fne condition, with about one-inch UNIVERSITY THEN OPENAIR DISPLAY TRADITIONAL DANCING DRUMMING lower blank margins. Ashendene Bibliography XXXI and pp. 133-35; EVENING PRIME MINISTERS PARTY NIGHT THEATRE CONCERT FINALLY JAM Franklin, The Ashendene Press, pp. 124 et seq.; Ransom, Private SESSION PARAMOUNT THIRD MORNING ON BEACH PROCESSION TO AIRPORT Presses, p. 206, No. 34; Tomkinson, p. 7, No. 34. FOR DEPARTURE” (Raymond). The complete set of 53 woodcuts illustrating the life of St. Francis Ten thousand people turned out at to greet Armstrong at the airport of Assisi, the last Ashendene to be printed in Italian, and the last and every event on the schedule was packed. Moxon’s role in the (apart from two contributions to the Press Bibliography) to contain visit cannot be overstated. To wit, when the CBS team complained Charles Gere’s work. The book itself was published in an edition that an evening concert wouldn’t have sufcient light for f lming, of 240 copies on Batchelor paper and 12 copies on vellum, and it is Moxon not only brought the concert forward to 2pm, but “was possible that these japon paper proofs were pulled to test the designs obliged to declare over the radio a half holiday for all workers in and inking on a vellum-like surface. the capital” so that they might be able to attend. Moxon’s account RARE, AND QUITE PROBABLY UNIQUE. includes details of the concert otherwise unknown — including $2,500 some heavy-handed crowd control by the police, which ultimately brought the concert to an abrupt end. The Armstrongs stayed with Moxon during their visit and clearly 17 enjoyed their time. A card inscribed to Moxon reads: “To Jimmy Moxon, ‘Man’ it is been mighty fne for Lucille an [sic] myself as your (BEARDSLEY, AUBREY) BARING, Maurice, et al. The Cambridge guest. Bless you Brother. Louis ‘Satchmo’ Armstrong.” Moxon was A.B.C. [Nos. 1-4, all published]. 76 pp. 8vo. Cambridge: Elijah Johnson, later a guest of the Armstongs on a visit to New York and his account June 1894. First edition. Publisher’s green cloth, with Beardsley includes a humorous anecdote from that trip. design stamped in black on front cover, original parts wrappers, The importance of this trip was only heightened by its timing — each with identical Beardsley cover, bound-in at rear, and with trial Armstrong arrived on the eve of Ghanaian independence which was case binding specimen in white paper-covered boards printed with formally declared on 6 March 1957. Ghana was the frst African nation Beardsley cover. Lasner 70; Gallatin 866; Reade 326. Provenance: to declare independence from Britain. Mark Samuels Lasner. This collection is a wonderful time capsule of those few All four numbers of this short-lived periodical by Cambridge days in 1956. The heart of this collection is Moxon’s original students Richard Austen Leigh (“A”), Maurice Baring (“B”) and W. unpublished manuscript account of the visit, which includes Warre Cornish (“C). Issued in wrappers, each number illustrated on much information that is otherwise unknown. There are personal the front cover with the same Aubrey Beardsley design (for which he mementos, signed invitations and photographs, notices in the press, received 10 guineas), and sometimes found bound up in green cloth, published programs, as well as two large posters. as here. This copy has all original parts wrappers bound-in, as well as Born in Shrewsbury, England, and educated at Cambridge, Jimmy a trial binding cover printed with the Beardsley design. Moxon moved to Ghana at just 22. His wide-ranging career $2,000 included writing, bookselling and publishing, as well as serving as a colonial ofcer and Ghanaian civil servant. He’s further renowned for becoming the sole white traditional ruler and member of the House 18 of Gods of Ghana. Raconteur and restauranteur, Moxon was ideally BECKETT, Samuel. All Strange Away. Illustrated with color plates placed to receive Louis Armstrong on his visit to Ghana with the by Edward Gorey. Printed by Ron Gordon at the Oliphant Press. 4to. Allstars in 1956. Moxon was a District Commissioner, who played a New York: The Gotham Book Mart, 1976. First edition, copy “W” signifcant role in establising the Ghana Information Service, notably for Bob Wilson. Signed by Gorey and inscribed by Beckett. Quarter its flm unit. He was friendly with Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana’s frst black morocco and illustrated boards. Fine in slipcase. Toledano president, who insisted he remain in Ghana after independence B61b. and employed him as an adviser. More can be read about Moxon Inscribed by Beckett on the colophon to Robert Wilson. here: http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/ $2,500 obituaries-jimmy-moxon-1114718.html. $7,500 19 (BINDING, CATHEDRAL) Histoire de la vie et passion de nostre sauueur Jesus Christ avec les fgures et quelques refections sur le principaux mysteres. Vol. 1: title page, 74 engraved leaves; vol. 2: title page, 57 james cummins bookseller booth e-3 3 engraved leaves. 2 vols. Folio. Paris: Jean Baptiste Loison, [c.1660]. 22 Bound in 1823 in full black calf cathedral binding tooled in blind with (BINDING, POWELL, ROGER) GRAVES, Robert. Greek Myths. roll border surrounding central blind-stamped cathedral motif, fat 8vo. London: Cassell & Company Ltd, [1958]. Later edition. Bound spine in six compartments, gilt-lettered in two, stamped in blind in by Roger Powell, orange morocco covers with dark green morocco the rest, a.e.g., by T. Cunningham, Ashton-under-line (his ticket on onlays, tooled in gilt to geometric pattern with lines, gouges and verso of fep), marbled endpapers. Slightest rubbing to the joints, small repeating tulip tool, spine in dark green morocco with orange near fne. Exlibris of John Lowe, Shepley Hall in both volumes. morocco onlays, similary tooled and titled in gilt, pastedowns and Ramsden UK, p. 58. Provenance: John Lowe, Shepley Hall (bookplate endpapers lined in orange and red ink and tooled in gilt with small in both volumes). repeating tulip tool, a.e.g., signed (“Roger Powell”) in ink on verso of The original work by Loison consisted of engravings printed on the rear blank and with his printed card laid-in. Fine in felt-lined chemise recto, verso blank, and these have been mounted to larger sheets, and backed in dark green morocco and orange morocco-tipped slipcase. a letterpress title page has been added that reads thus: “This Work, Roger Powell (1896-1990), pre-eminent English book binder and of the Life, Miracles, and Passion, of our Lord and Saviour Jesus conservationist, started of as a poultry farmer, and did not start Christ, Was Published in Paris about the year 1630, by Monsieur Jean binding seriously until 1930. He studied at the London County Baptiste Loison; in two vols. was engraved by Monsieur Mathius, Council Central School of Arts and Crafts under Douglas Cockerell, Michael Natalis, and Others; the most able engravers in France at whose frm he joined fve years later, remaining a partner until he that period, from the paintings of Martin de Voss; it was brought opened his own bindery in Petersfeld, Hampshire in 1947. He soon from Paris in 1802, by an English Connoisseur, was mounted on became much sought-after by book collectors, and executed a coloured paper and bound by order of John Lowe, of Shepley-Hall, number of fne bindings, many of which were featured in various Lancashire, 1823.” The BNF gives the date as c. 1660. The catalogue exhibitions over the years; among his clients were Major J.R. Abbey of John Lowe’s collection of engravings and books of prints was in England, and John M. Crawford, Jr. in New York. As time went on, printed by Thomas Cunningham (the binder of this volume) of he specialized increasingly in the conservation and repair of early Ashton-under-Lyne, in 1829. books and vellum manuscripts — in 1953 he and his staf repaired $9,500 and rebound Ireland’s treasure, The Book of Kells, for which a grateful Trinity College, Dublin, gave him an honorary degree. In 20 addition to numerous other accolades, he was elected an Honorary (BINDING, EDWARDS OF HALIFAX) The Book of Common Prayer Foreign Corresponding Member of The Grolier Club. His designs, … with the Psalter or Psalms of David. 12mo. Paris: Printed by P.Didot, imaginative without becoming grotesque, and the perfection of Sen. and sold by W. Edwards and Sons, Halifax, 1791. Contemporary his craftsmanship brought him to the top of his profession, and his Etruscan calf by Edwards of Halifax, a.e.g, with contemporary fore- bindings are true collector’s items. As more and more of them enter edge painting under gilt of river scene with church and buildings in institutional collections, they are becoming increasingly rare on the background, in original green morocco concertina slipcase. Recased, market. with near invisible repairs to joints. Contemporary gift inscription, $7,500 “Anne Bowler. The gift of her dear sister, Lady Armytage, 1794.” In custom black cloth clamshell box. ESTC T196712. $7,500 23 (BINDING, ROCOCO) The Book of Common Prayer … Together with 21 the Psalter or Psalms of David … Parallel text in French and English. 8vo. (BINDING, PILLONE) AMMAN, Jost. Insignia Sacrae. Woodcut Oxford: John Baskett, 1717. Ca. 1770s English tree calf, covers tooled in illustrations throughout. 116 (of 144) leaves. 4to. Frankfurt: G. gilt to a rococo design, with birds, insects, grapes, fowers, columns Corvinus for S. Feyerabendt, 1579. Contemporary vellum, covers and other motifs, spine with raised bands with 6 compartments decorated with fne pen-and-ink drawings by Cesare Vecellio for tooled in gilt with small acorn tool, contemporary engraved 18k Odorico Pillone (coat-of-arms on upper cover, emblematic fgure gold clasps (lacking top upper clasp), marbled endpapers. Wear to of woman, perhaps the goddess Ceres, on lower cover), remnants head of spine, front joint starting at tail end. Provenance: Sarah of vellum ties. Recased, with new endsheets, front upper corner Motte (1728-1760, born in Charleston, SC, her signature dated 1745 on repaired, some scufng and staining to covers. Berès 131; Brooks, pp. frst blank); Jane Shubrick (1746-1841, daughter of Sarah Motte and 666, no. 3. Provenance: Odorico Pillone (cover drawings); Sir Thomas Thomas Shubrick, of Charleston, SC, her signature dated 1765); John Brooks (bookplate). Templer (1751-1832, husband of Jane Shubrick, his Lindridge, Devon, One of the few volumes with decorated vellum covers from the bookplate). Pillone library. Of the 172 volumes with fore-edge or binding A splendid rococo binding, unusual in the binder’s choice of decorations by Cesare Vecellio in the Pillone library, only 21 were so leather — tree calf — and the fact that the cover design is mirrored bound in plain vellum and adorned with ink drawings. Vecellio (1530- accross the spine (most bindings of this style having a parallel axis 1600), a cousin of Titian and author of the famous costume book running vertically on each cover). The tools and design bear a great Degli habiti antichi et moderni, was commissioned in the 1580s by resemblance to the work of John Baumgaten, who was active in Odorico Pillone to decorate the books of his library — the majority London from the 1760s until his death in 1782. were given visible fore-edge paintings. The library remained intact With notable early Charleston, South Carolina, Huguenot until the 1950s when it was purchased by Pierre Berès from the heirs provenance. of Sir Thomas Brooks and subsequently dispersed. $3,500 $45,000 james cummins bookseller booth e-3 4 24 American cause as a struggle for liberty. At every opportunity he BLESSINGTON, Marguerite, Countess of. Collection of 4 excited the nationalistic aspirations of the Italians, and suggested autograph letters to various recipients, including the artist Alfred analogies with Italy’s past and contemporary history. Botta looked Edward Chalon, and one fair copy poetical manuscript, in addition upon the creation of the United States as an example and inspiration with one autograph letter by Lord Blessington to Sir William Gell. for the formation of an Italy unifed and free of foreign rule” Pen and ink on paper, 15 pp. in total. n.p: v.d., ca. 1818-. Letters creased (Hough). “Most valuable history of the Revolution up to its date” from prior folding, generally in very good condition. (Howes). From the Copley library with James Copley’s bookplate. $3,000 $2,000

25 27 The Suppressed Original Episcopal Book of Common Prayer BROWN, William Robinson. The Horse of the Desert. Introduction (BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER) The Book of Common Prayer, and by Major-General James G. Harbord and Professor Henry Fairfeld Administration of the Sacraments, and Other Rites and Ceremonies, Osborn. Color frontispiece after Harrington Bird and three other As Revised and Proposed to the Use of the Protestant Episcopal Church color plates, 46 halftone plates, illustrations in text. xxvii, [3], 218 pp. … [364] pp. plus 6 [of 8] pp. of music. Lacks the errata leaf. 12mo. Large 4to. New York: Derrydale Press, 1929. First edition, no. 26 of Philadelphia: Printed by Hall and Sellers, 1786. Contemporary red 75 large paper copies signed by the author. Full blue morocco with morocco, gilt, leather onlays on covers. Extremities worn. Small emblematic gilt tooling, t.e.g. by MacDonald. Fine. Siegel 25; Frazier piece of titlepage torn away at fore edge, afecting border and two B-19-D; Podeschi 364. letters of text. Light tanning and foxing. A good copy. In a half One of the great large-format Derrydale Press titles of the 1920s, and morocco box. Evans 19940; Page, The Book of Common Prayer 51; a classic work on the Arabian horse, “the aristocrat of the equestrian Grifths 1786, 9; NAIP w029995. world.” The American Protestant Episcopal Church was founded after the A superior copy of the deluxe edition. American Revolution as an adaptation of the Church of England in $9,000 the new United States. The church was founded at a convention in Philadelphia in 1785, at which it was agreed to create a separate prayer book. The present title is the result, and it caused great controversy 28 upon its publication. Among the ill-considered revisions were The First African American Travelogue “changes and omissions of such drastic nature as among other things BROWN, William Wells. Three Years in Europe or, Places I Have Seen the deletion of the Nicene and Athanasian Creeds. The Proposed and People I Have Met. By W. Wells Brown, A Fugitive Slave. With a Book proved unwelcome to clergy and laity, even its suggestion of Memoir of the Author by William Farmer, Esq. Frontispiece portrait of a prayer for the Fourth of July being taken exception to. Its use was the author. xxxii, 312 pp. 8vo. London: Charles Gilpin, 5, Bishopgate brief and not general” (Page). Street, Without. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1852. First edition. “This edition, contains the alterations which were intended to Original pictorial cloth, gilt. cloth stained, head of spine and hinges adapt the Book of Common Prayer, of the Church of England, to repaired, with new fep, some light staining and foxing to text. OCLC: the changed political conditions of this country; and is the result 2992779; Sabin 8596; not in Work. of a convention held in Philadelphia, in 1785, presided over by the William Wells Brown (1814-1884), African-American abolitionist Reverend William White. The proposed Prayer Book met with much lecturer, novelist, and historian, was born into slavery in Kentucky criticism and opposition in the church, owing to its radica. and escaped to Cleveland in 1834. He lectured in New York and $7,500 Massachusetts and wrote a best-selling Narrative (1847) before traveling to Paris and London in 1849. He remained there fve years, and Three Years in Europe is an account of this period. It is the 26 earliest African American travelogue. A Classic History of the Revolution “He went to Europe to participate in the Paris Peace congress, and BOTTA, Carlo. Storia della Guerra dell’Independenza Stati Uniti he stayed on to lecture more frequently and write more extensively d’America. [2], xi, 363; [2], 543; [2], 553; [2], 477 pp. 4 vols. Parigi [Paris]: against slavery than anyone else in Britain. He traveled more than 1809. First edition. Contemporary three-quarter calf and marbled 25,000 miles across the British Isles, by his estimate, and gave more boards; rebacked, spines gilt with leather label. Corners worn. than a thousand talks” (Ezra Greenspan, William Wells Brown, An Bookplate on front pastedowns. Lightly foxed. Very good. Sabin African-American Life, 2014). 6818; Samuel Hough, The Italians and the Creation of America 97; His novel Clotel; or, the President’s Daughter: A Narrative of Sowerby, Catalogue of Jeferson’s Library 509;Howes B636. Slave Life in the United States, was published in 1853, the frst novel Scarce frst edition of this important Italian history of the American published by an African American. Revolution. Jeferson owned a copy of this edition. In a letter to Scarce. John Adams, Jeferson wrote that Botta (despite his habit of putting $2,000 unattributed words into the mouths of his speakers), produced a history of the Revolution “with more detail, precision and candor than any writer I have yet met with.” “This work grew out of a 29 conversation held in 1806 in which those present were asked which [BRUSSEL, P.T. van]. Nederlandsch Bloemwerk door een Gezelschap modern event would make the best subject. Botta interpreted the geleerden. Hand-colored title page and 53 hand-colored plates by H. james cummins bookseller booth e-3 5 L. Myling after P. T. van Brussel. ii, [2], 125, [6] pp. Amsterdam: T.B. 33 Elwe, 1794. Sole edition. Contemporary half calf over boards. Nissen Rare Milestone of Malagasy 2219; Hunt 733; Dunthorne 215; Landwehr, Dutch Books w/ Colour [CAULIER, L’Abbé]. Catéchisme abrégé en la langue de Madagascar, pour Plates, 29. instruire sommairement ces peuples, les inviter et les disposer au Baptême. A lovely copy of the frst edition. This signifcant contribution to late 28 pp. Small 8vo. [Rome: Typis. Sac. Congreg. de Propag. Fide, 1785]. eighteenth century botanical art ably demonstrates the superiority First edition. Recent morocco backed boards, a.e.g. Grandidier 837, of Dutch horticulture in the period. The 53 plates include stunning 5326. illustrations of tulips, hyacinths and auriculas, many of them Early and important text in tracing the evolution of the Malagasy further adorned by insects. The text includes notes on breeding and language: the author notes that correct pronunciation of the distribution. language of Madagascar, “which one could write properly only in $11,500 the Arabic alphabet,” demands special orthography and attentive reading. Grandidier lists it frst in the section on works in Malagasy. It was not until 1823, with the work of British misssionaries, that a 30 standard orthography began to evolve. BURROUGHS, William. Mummies. Illustrated with 5 original full- $2,750 page etchings by Carl Apfelscnitt. Folio. Dusseldorf/New York: Edition Kaldeway, 1982. One of 70 copies on Scheufelen of an edition of 75. Black paper over boards, label by Christian Zwang. Fine. 34 Inscribed to Bob Wilson by Burroughs on the tile-page. PORT ARTHUR panorama $3,000 (CHINA, PANORAMA) Panorama albumen photograph depicting Port Arthur, China. Albumen panorama photograph in 5 sections, mounted on board and hinged with linen. 7 3/4 x 52 1/2 inches. [1890]. 31 Toned, some light foxing and stray spots, some edge wear and tiny BURROUGHS, William. The Cat Inside. Illustrated by Brion Gysin. chips to edges, but generally good. In a custom red morocco-backed Folio. New York: The Grenfell Press, 1986. First edition, one of slipcase and chemise. United Service, vol. IV, New Series (November, 115 copies on J. Green paper, signed by both author and artist on 1890), pp. 519-20. colophon page. Vellum spine and red paper over boards by Sage The Chinese government had contracted Krupp to fortify Port Reynolds. Fine, with natural faws in pastepaper. Arthur in the 1880s. They contracted some of the work to a French $1,500 syndicate where Thevenet was the chief engineer and Grifon the director of works. This panorama was evidently taken to commemorate the completion of the works and celebrate the Sino- 32 French collaboration. Written in a calligraphic hand on the back is California Caricatures “Port Militaire de Port Arthur (Chine) Construit par le Syndicat de la (CALIFORNIA) Unreasonable Rhymes Told by Anne Idyott [Cover title]. Mission de l’Industrie francaise en Chine, 1887-1890.” 80 original ink and watercolor caricature drawings, with manuscript The context is provided in the November 1890 issue of United doggerel verse below; dedication leaf “To the Children”, with Service: “When it became necessary with the establishment of a watercolor heads of 5 winsome children; manuscript index of place naval force to have also a great dock-yard and port of refuge and names; verso of fnal leaf with watercolor of stork delivering an repair, there was great hesitation among the high Chinese ofcials, infant. Oblong 8vo (7 x 10 inches). [California: 1894]. Limp green but … Port Arthur … was selected… It is situated almost at the cloth, upper cover titled in gilt. Front blank leaf detached, some extremity of the presqu’ile of Leao-Tong, and thus commands the minor wear, very clean and fresh internally (marginal tear at foot of entrance of the Gulf of Petchili. The port is small, and defended by leaf 31). Half morocco slipcase and chemise. very heavy works, and the Chinese government has there established Unique, unpublished manuscript book of eighty caricature scenes, a torpedo school and depot, with shops for the repair of those means the boldly colored, deft, busy, and highly detailed work of an of ofense, while great store-houses for general naval use are in amateur artist; the verses are less competent ditties in quasi-limerick progress of erection. The greatest part of the work, the building of form, each associated with a city and one of its eccentric residents a dry-dock on the eastern side of the port, has just been brought to (mostly in California but also Baltimore, Seattle, Jersey City, Detroit, a successful termination; and here again Frenchmen did the work, Perth, and Shanghai). Some attempts at copy editing, chiefy of under the direction of M. Thevenet, engineer of roads and bridges. punctuation, in pencil throughout. In this work he had to struggle against very considerable natural There are scenes of horse races, swimming, trains, cattle trading at difculties and obstacles.” Point Reyes, boating, battles, ghosts, undersea corpses, the courtship Port Arthur, now Lüshunkou District, was frst surveyed by of a horse and an ostrich at Kankakee, real estate swindles (sand Lieutenant William C. Arthur in 1860 during the Second Opium War. lots at Terminal Island)‚ family dining, high society at Colusa, the It’s strategic value became rapidly apparent in the First Sino-Japanese tramway at Del Mar, and many more. The last leaf depicts a balding War. The Port Arthur Massacre of Chinese soldiers and civilians was scribbler with his head in his hands beside a drafting table; the only such that Japan was immediately threatened with war if they didn’t clue to the author, “who came out here from Britain … Folks said: It relinquish the port back to China. The Chinese then leased it to cannot be Lord Lytton.” Russia where once again the Japanese successfully captured it, this Wildly imaginative and UNIQUE. time as part of the Sino-Japanese War a decade later. $11,000 It’s worth noting that upon their evacuation in 1896, Japanese forces james cummins bookseller booth e-3 6 entirely destroyed the docks completed by the French. Although to England, misread the political situation, something he denies: “I many images of Port Arthur survive from the time of the Russo- have told the German Govt repeatedly since 1904 that in case of war Japanese War, far fewer remain from this period. England would be on the side of France, either at once or later on, as $7,500 the case might be. Two Foreign Secretaries, Sir Lawnsdowne and Sir Edward Grey, had told me so in guarded but unmistakeable words” (note p. 49). 35 Churchill describes a meeting with Metternich on pages 53-5 (“One Count Metternich’s copy, With His Annotations Throughout night the German ambassador, still Count Metternich, whom I had known for ten years, asked me to dine with him …”) Metternich CHURCHILL, Winston. The World Crisis. 1911-1914. [vi], 536 pp. has extensively annotated these pages, including one note correcting Volume I only. Annotated in pencil throughout by Count Metternich, Churchill’s remark that they drank wine from the Emperor’s cellar with a manuscript note listing page numbers where annotations and (“no from my brother’s”), and one lengthy note on the question underlining occur. 8vo. London: Thornton Butterworth Limited, of whether the English navy would initiate a surprise attack on (1923). Second printing. Publisher’s blue cloth. Light shelf wear to Germany. covers. In custom blue half morocco slipcase and chemise. Bookplate. Other interesting notes include a humorous and lengthy account of Cohen A69.2(I).d. Provenance: Count Metternich (presentation a supposed German spy ring of armed waiters run by Metternich in inscription from Churchill, his notes throughout). London: “One gallant Colonel, an MP, had even found out that I was Inscribed on the frst blank, “To Count Metternich, from Winston at the head of the German waiters, drilling them and hiding arms S. Churchill, June 1. 1923.” Paul Wolf Metternich (1853-1934) was the and ammunition in the cellars of the Embassy, to be distributed to German ambassador to England during the lead-up to the First World my army of waiters in case of need” (pp. 52-3). War, serving from 1901-1912. Metternich read this volume closely and Here Metternich describes a meeting with an ailing Bismarck, annotated it at length throughout in English, making more than 75 “[Bismarck] said to me in the year of his death (1898): ‘England’s notes in pencil in the margins, some of the notes quite lengthy and muscular system is overgrown by too much fat. She will not anymore flling the entire margin of a page. Metternich engages in a running raise to a great efort.’ I did not deem it becoming to contradict conversation with Churchill’s work, ofering his opinions and frst- him although I was of diferent opinion. I had spent some happy hand recollections of the events described. time in my young days in the hunting feld in England … and knew As to be expected, Metternich often difers quite sharply with something of British energy not withstanding the fat …” (notes pp. Churchill’s assessment of the events leading to the outbreak of war, 15-16). taking the position that Germany was forced into armed confict Metternich’s opinion on the inevitability of war, “Russia had in a against her will — “She wished to be friends with her neighbors, secret agreement, if I remember right, in 1885, had conceded Bosnia but the neighbors would not be friends with her …” (note on p. Herzegovina to Austria … Had Russia gone to war on account of 23). Metternich’s notes clearly blame France for the buildup to war, Serbian grievances in 1909 Germany would have helped Austria, while downplaying the role of Austrian and Russian meddling in France would have helped Russia and England would have come the Balkans: “We thought France had not acquired an inherent right in, just as in 1914. Sir Edward Grey must have known that. It was to make of Morocco a French colony because Great Britain had a diplomatic contest of strength. In 1905 France gave way, in 1906 given her support for it … It was not wicked but perhaps unwise to Germany gave way, in 1909 Russia gave way, in 1911 Germany gave support Austria in her Balkan afairs … But after all, did Germany way, in 1914 none gave way in time and war followed” (pp. 35-6). attack England? I thought it was vice versa” (p. 24). Metternich does, With many more notes, a complete list of which are available on however, concede in other notes that the buildup of the German request. navy was disastrous for Anglo-German relations and a signifcant A fascinating and important piece of World War I history, heretofore cause of war, “Our oversea commerce was to a great extent built up unknown to scholars. on the back of the British Empire and would in all probability have $30,000 continued to prosper up to the present day without our naval policy which brought about the war with England, the defeat through America …” (p. 16). Metternich disagrees with Churchill’s assertion that England tried to 36 ease Franco-German relations in the years before the war. He always COCTEAU, Jean. Le Livre Blanc. Frontispiece and 17 drawings by saw England as frmly on the side of France and unwilling to give Jean Cocteau, each hand colored by M.B. Armington, artiste-peintre. Germany a fair deal. Metternich’s name appears in Churchill’s text 11-1/4 x 8-3/4 inches. Paris: Editions du Signe, 1930. First edition with in connection to the German reaction to the Mansion House speech these illustrations, third edition of the text, No. 29 of 380 copies of Lloyd George, then Chancellor of the Exchequer, which clearly on Velin d’Arches (total edition of 440). Cream wrappers. Fine in stated England’s intention to stand frm in the face of German original glassine. aggression. Metternich denies that he implied to Sir Edward Grey $1,250 that Germany was on the verge of military action, provoked by Lloyd George’s words: “I do not know what could have made him think so. Certainly not my words on that or any other occasion. Our 37 conversation was perfectly polite and not acrimonious although I had Inscribed by the Members of the Original Cast to complain of Mr. Lloyd George’s speech” (p. 48). Churchill claims CONNELLY, Mark. The Green Pastures. xvi, 173 pp. 8vo. New York: that the German government was blindsided by England’s resolve Farrar & Rinehart, Incorporated, [1929]. First edition. Original green to stand with France, suggesting that Metternich, as ambassador cloth. Spine a bit dulled, front hinge cracked. james cummins bookseller booth e-3 7 First edition of this Pulitzer Prize-winning play — based on Roark notes therefore provide a vital, alternate frst-hand account of the Bradford’s stories Ol’ Man Adam an’ His Chillun — a retelling of expedition and subsequent excavations. They also provide an insight Biblical stories from the point of view of a Depression-era black into the workings of British archaeologists overseas and how they child. With signatures or inscriptions from 15 of the cast members translated their experiences for audiences at home. from the original Broadway cast. The Green Pastures premiered at The otherwise unrecorded single-sheet printed “Syllabus” pasted the Mansfeld Theatre, New York, February 26, 1930 and ran for 16 to the frst leaf informs the audience that the lectures are to be months on Broadway before touring the country. Signatures include “Illustrated by numerous large Paintings (upwards of 9-feet by 6-feet) those of acclaimed early black stage and screen actors Richard B. by Mr. Cooper, from his own sketches taken upon the spot.” The Harrison (“de Lawd”), Daniel L. Haynes (Hezdrel), Jesse A. Shipp paintings are listed here but have not apparently survived. The lecture (Abraham), Inez Richardson Wilson (Eve), J. Homer Tutt (Ham) and notes are evidently those from which Cooper spoke in engagements Alonzo Fenderson (Moses) — all uncommon signatures. in the 1850s (the paper is watermarked 1853) and contain numerous $1,250 corrections, rewritten passages and performance notes. A pencil key towards the end gives cues to the frst lines of each section, suggesting the speaker had eventually learnt his text by heart. 38 $8,750 UNPUBLISHED ACCOUNT OF TRAVELS IN NORTHERN IRAQ COOPER, Frederick Charles. Nineveh & Travels in Turkey [unpublished lecture notes, including an unrecorded syllabus for the 39 lectures]. 45 pp. most rectos only, but with at least 19 pp. of additions Biblical Scenes, Illustrated and corrections on versos, some on pasted overslips. 4to. London: (CURIOSA) La Sainte Bible. Half-title, title and 12 printed caption c. 1853. Loosely bound in gatherings with cords. Upper cover with leaves with passage in Latin, each followed by an etching on papier printed prospectus laid down. Thumbed and soiled as one would de chine. 8vo. [Paris: n.d., later 19th century?]. Three quarter citron expect. Ms. inscription in pencil “Mr Cooper / 29 Dorchester Place / levant and marbled boards, spine gilt, t.e.g., others untrimmed, by Blandford Square / London.” P. Huban. Engraved book label by Provost-Blondel, a helmet with The unpublished and hitherto unstudied lecture notes of F. C. motto Toujours en Face. First two plates with light marginal staining Cooper, ofcial artist to Austin Henry Layard’s second expedition to at lower right. Fine. Not in Darlow & Moule. the site of Nineveh (on the Tigris beside the city of Mosul) in 1849- Suite of a dozen fnely executed erotic etchings, each interpreting a 50. They contain the text of two long lectures: the frst recounting biblical passage (printed captions in the Vulgate). Layard and Cooper’s journey from Constantinople through Turkey, Genesis 3 – Adam and Eve before the tree, with sign, Defense de Armenia and Kurdistan to the Tigris; the second describing the Toucher à l’Arbre de Vits fabulous archaeological discoveries Layard made at Nineveh and Genesis 18 – group sodomy scene, three men with turbans, one the nature of the beliefs of the mighty Assyrian Empire under youth, one woman Sennacherib. Within these extensive texts (c. 25,000 words in all) Genesis 19 – two women and a bearded man at the mouth of a cave are found excellent descriptions of Cooper’s frst impressions of the Genesis 38 – desert scene, man and woman joined, another woman cities of Constantinople and Mosul in which he describes everyday attending with a fan local life with enthusiasm, especially in relation to custom, belief, Genesis 39 – oriental boudoir, woman grasping the man dress and behaviour. There are outlines of the Yazidi and Nestorian Judith 13 – classical interior, woman atop the man, on cushions religion, and several passages considering Islamic belief, funeral Daniel 13 – two old men surprising a young woman at a pool customs and law. His account of the Nineveh fnds, notably the Kings 11 – David descending the staircase with a lyre, in foreground famous winged bulls and huge carved tablets, includes various two dark women attending a fair woman at a pool anecdotes of the process of excavation which was mainly carried out John 1 – Vox clamantis in deserto. Man and woman, atop a sphinx, by local Arab workmen. bearded prophet and Egyptian hieroglyphics on the plinth Cooper worked at the Kuyunjik and Nimrud sites at Nineveh with John 1 – Et Verbum caro factum est. Angel joined with a young Layard in the early part of 1851 recording the hundreds of emerging woman leaning on a carpenter’s bench sculptures, including the vast human-headed winged bulls now in the Matthew 24 – Vidertis abominationem desolationis. Solder raping a British Museum. He also made drawings recording the progress of the woman in the foreground of a scene of military carnage excavation and scenes of daily life, and his drawings and watercolors Amen – two couples in the foreground of a walled enclosure of erect formed the basis for the illustrations in Layard’s Second Series of phalluses, with banners, Grande Exposition de Vits. the Monuments of Nineveh (1853) and Discoveries in the Ruins of $7,500 Nineveh and Babylon (1853). Falling ill, Cooper was forced to leave much of his work unfnished and return to England, exacerbating an already strained relationship with Layard. In 1851, he introduced 40 the British public to the Nineveh discoveries with a popular Diorama CURTIS, Samuel. Monograph on the Genus Camellia. Illustrated with exhibited with an accompanying lecture at the Gothic Hall (in Lower 5 hand-colored aquatints by Clara Maria Pope (1768-1838) measuring Grosvenor Street, London) and thereafter continued to paint from 27-1/2 by 20 inches. 8 pp. text. Elephant Folio. London: J. & J. Arch, his sketches and give lectures on his experiences. Though he kept 1819. First edition. Quarter calf and boards, with leather label on a diary of his travels (unpublished, and now in the British Library), upper cover. Nissen 437; Dunthorne 85; Stafeu TL2 1283; Great Cooper never published his own account of his work, quite probably Flower Books, p. 54. because he was actively discouraged from doing so by Layard. These A lovely copy of the frst monograph on camellias. Samuel Curtis, the james cummins bookseller booth e-3 8 proprietor of the Botanical Magazine, engaged the services of Clara Galapagos Islands, eventually landing at Isla Gorgona. The voyage’s Maria Pope to execute and hand-color the spectacular large-format great success came shortly afterwards in December 1709 when they aquatints. They worked together again on his other publication, The captured the Manila galleon Nuestra Senora de la Encarnacion Beauties of Flora (1820), which included ten plates. Pope’s reputation Desengano. They (understandably) renamed her Batchelor and set as a great botanical artist is confrmed in the 15 life-sized images set out west across the Pacifc, calling at Guam, the Moluccas and the against a pale background in these two works. The plates here are Cape of Good Hope, before fnally arriving home in October 1711. as follows: This relacion was prompted by two dispatches to the Marquis Castelldorsius (viceroy of Peru) dated 28 April and 24 May, 1708. 1. Single White and Single Red Camellia. The letters noted that seven British ships, each armed with between 2. Anemone fowered or Waratah Camellia. Rose colored or 44 and 64 guns, had passed through the Straits of Magellan and Middlemists Camellia. entered the Pacifc. Furthermore, they were commanded by the 3. Double White Camellia; Double Striped Camellia. English pirate, Dampier: “Milordes Ingleses, hazian un armamento, 4. Pompone or Kew Blush Camellia; Double Red Camellia. de siete Navios, desde 44. hast 64. canones para venir a cruzar este 5. Buf or Hume’s Blush Camellia; Myrtle leaved Camellia. mar del Sur, que havian de ser comandados por un flibutero Ingles nombrado Dampierre.” Pope married the artist Francis Wheatley in her late teens, for whom The report believed that the feet would most likely establish a she modeled, and they had four children together. When Wheatley’s base on Juan Fernandez island and use it to launch raids on coastal health declined, and debts were unpaid, she stepped from behind the ports and ships. As the date on this relacion attests, by the time the canvas and supplemented her modeling work by teaching drawing. dispatches arrived, the Duke and Dutchess had been making said In 1807 she married the actor and painter Alexander Pope, though raids for the better part of a year. with the encouragement of Sir John Soane, continued to teach. She Lima had already sufered from the eforts of Charles Wager and began exhibiting her miniatures at the Royal Academy from 1796 Thomas Colb and so the viceroy sought to establish a navy in order and her frst botanical works went on show in 1812. She exhibited to combat the ongoing harassment by the British. Here he outlines annually from 1816 until her death twenty years later, enjoying great what was needed to supply three ships to fght “contra a el enemigo acclaim. pirata Ingles.” Eventually, the Viceroy was able to send two ships to Little is known of Curtis prior to his marriage to Sara Curtis (his intercept Rogers and Dampier but by that time they had moved on frst cousin once removed) in 1801. She was the daughter of William to Mexico and set their sights on the Manila galleon. Curtis, who wrote Flora Londinensis and founded the Botanical Any contemporary material relating to Dampier is now highly Magazine. William died in 1799 and so upon their marriage Samuel sought after and increasingly rare. The evident secrecy of this report, Curtis succeeded as owner of the Botanical Magazine. He later and thus the small numbers in which it would have been produced, opened a nursery in Essex, though continued as proprietor of the accounts for its considerable rarity. No copy has appeared at auction magazine until 1846. in the past 35 years. OCLC locates a single copy at JCB. Rare. Just two copies have appeared at auction in 1995 and 2003. $17,500 POR

42 41 DANIELL, Thomas and William. A Picturesque Voyage to India, by THE WAR AGAINST ENGLISH PIRATES the Way of China. 50 hand-colored aquatint plates on thick paper (DAMPIER, WILLIAM) Relacion de las prevenciones … contra los after T. and W. Daniell, watermarked 1808, each plate with one Enemigos Yngleses que entraron en est Mar por el Estrecho. 30 pp. Folio. accompanying leaf of text. Folio. London: Longman, Hurst [&c.], [Lima: 1709]. Disbound. Lacking two folding tables at rear (supplied 1810. First edition. Contemporary half Russia and marbled boards. in facsimile), some browning to text. Housed in a custom made box. Front joint repaired, light wear to corners, light foxing to a few plates. Not in Sabin; Medina, J.T. Lima, 732; Palau (2nd ed.) 25964; Vargas Abbey Travel 516; Tooley 173; Colas 797; Lipperheide 1523. Ugarte, R. Impresos peruanos, 1163; Howgego R61; Carla Rahn Thomas Daniell, accompanied by his nephew William, left England Phillips, The Treasure of the San Jose (Baltimore, 2007), p190. on the China-bound Indiaman in 1785, returning to England by An exceedingly rare report on William Dampier’s fnal voyage and way of India in 1794. The journey, fnanced in part by the sale of oil circumnavigation, this time as a privateer under the command of paintings of their travels, was documented in William’s journal and Captain Woodes Rogers. The party had two ships the Duke and by the publication of Oriental Scenery in 1795-1808 and A Picturesque Dutchess. Dampier served as pilot on the Duke and Edward Cooke Voyage to India, by the Way of China in 1810. The album opens with (who published an account of the voyage) was second captain on the the Indiaman’s departure from Gravesend, a stop at Madiera, and a Dutchess. rough turn around the Cape of Good Hope. The majority of the The “expedition … was well-organised and sympathetically views depict native life in Java (including shark fshing) and nautical commanded, yet tightly disciplined,” (Howgego) and departed scenes along the Chinese coast and Canton River, with some scenes Bristol on 2 August 1708. They stopped at the Cape Verde Islands of Chinese dress and manners. and Brazil before rounding Cape Horn and entering the Pacifc. “They worked primarily in the British capital of Calcutta, restoring The voyage stopped at Juan Fernandez Islands where they collected paintings in the Council House and the Old Court House, as well Alexander Selkirk, who was promptly appointed second mate on the as producing the frst topographical series of prints of the city Duke. They successfully took ships of the coasts of Peru and then (‘Views of Calcutta’, 1786-8, aquatint and etching), which according out of Lima before they raided Guayanquil and sought refuge on the to contemporary diaries and inventories proved extraordinarily popular among both an Indian and a European clientele. It has james cummins bookseller booth e-3 9 been suggested that Thomas Daniell was among the frst British the Policeman Said (1974). This was a tumultuous time in Dick’s life. painters to use Indian assistants in printmaking; the infuence of his He had attempted suicide the preceding year and he still struggled landscape compositions and working techniques are visible in Indian to shape his fctional explorations of his mystical visions in February topography, c.1790-1850 (including oils after the Views in the Victoria and March 1974. Memorial, Calcutta). Thomas Daniell played an instrumental role in The eight letters to Joan Simpson (from May 1977 to February graphically documenting a wide geographical and cultural range of 1978) are intensely revealing of his vulnerability and his prodigious sites across the Indian subcontinent, travelling more extensively than thinking, and the archive includes The Day Mr. Computer Fell Out any of his contemporary colonial artists, and earning him the title of Its Tree, a complete short story written for her, two poems, and ‘artist-adventurer’. Assisted by his nephew, Daniell made three tours: three additional typescripts. These are at the boundary between from Calcutta to Srinagar (1788-91), a circular tour from Mysore to autobiography and fction, since they show him transforming his own Madras (1792-3), and in 1793 they visited Bombay and its temple sites- life into the sources for VALIS and The Transmigrations of Timothy always sketching, drawing, and painting intensively as they travelled” Archer. A fourteen-page typescript about psychiatric and medical (ODNB). matters discusses the life and death of Jim Pike and contains specifc $15,000 seeds of Radio Free Albemuth, the frst novel Dick wrote using the 1974 events; it was unpublished during his lifetime but served as the precursor to the breakthroughs of VALIS. (It anticipates many of the 43 topics of his January 1978 essay “Cosmogony and Cosmology.”) Dick DELAMONCE, Ferdinand-Pierre-Joseph-Ignace. Sixteen original wrote for his own use many thousands of pages of what he termed watercolor drawings for an edition of the works of Virgil. Pen and black an Exegesis of his mystical experiences. These typescripts were given ink and gray wash on paper, each drawing 5-1/2 x 3-1/4 inches,with by Dick to Joan Simpson during their time together “to establish larger margins, ink register marks at top and bottom of ruled communication.” A complete list of the contents is available on frame, drawings removed from their early mounts and re-mounted request. on acid-free paper, with original blue paper wrapper titled “de la A remarkable archive. Monce. Seize Dessins … pour Virgile.” 8vo. n.p. [Paris: ca. 1714]. $55,000 Fine, in custom brown morocco-backed clamshell box. Provenance: John Fleming (his sale, Christie’s, Nov. 18, 1988, lot 102). Kallendorf LW1714.1, LW1714.2 & FW1716.1. 45 Delamonce, architect and artist and son of the architect Jean (DRUSE) CARNARVON, Earl of. Recollections of the Druse of the Delamonce (1635-1708), was born in Munich in 1678 and spent Lebanon and Notes on Their Religion. viii, 122, [2] pp. 8vo. London: John much of his professional life in Lyon, where he died in 1753. “Il a Murray, 1860. First edition. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt and dessiné, à Paris et à Lyon, des frontispices, des détails d’architecture, lightly sunned, extremities a little rubbed. des vues de monuments qui ont été gravés par J.F. Cars, Scotin …” A very good copy of the scarce frst edition. (Benezit). The present suite of drawings, comprising dramatic and Canarvon served as Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies in elegant renderings of scenes from Virgil, was engraved by Scotin to 1858-59. Prior to that he visited Syria and Lebanon in the spring of illustrate a 1714 edition of the works of Virgil printed in Latin by 1853 with Lord Sandon, en route “towards the more eastern parts Jean-Jospeh Barbou in Paris (Publii Virgilii Maronis Operum editio of Asia Minor.” This work begins with an account of the trip where nova). Kallendorf, in his bibliography of the early editions of Virgil, he visited Beirut, Deir el Kamar and Mouktara, before discussing notes both a 4 volume and a 1 volume issue of this edition — we the Druses, who reside primarily in Lebanon, Syria and Jordan. In fnd only one copy of this edition (the 1 volume issue), located in addition to the description of the religion, Canarvon considers their the Junius Spencer Morgan Virgil Collection at Princeton. The plates role in the recent disturbances in Lebanon and their role in the Syrian were used again for Barbou’s 1716 French edition (Les Œuvres de question. Virgile, 6 vols.). $750 $25,000

46 44 With contemporary ms. medicinal recipes “is reality … sliding toward a Phil Dickian type of atmosphere?” DU LAURENS, André. A Discourse of the Preservation of the Sight: DICK, Philip K. Archive of correspondence with Joan SIMPSON, of Melancholike diseases; of Rheumes, and of Old Age. Composed by M. including Typed Letters, signed; short story, “The Day Mr. Computer Andreas Laurentius, ordinaire Phisition to the King, and publike professor Fell Out of Its Tree”; Autobiographical Typescripts; and a complete of phisicke in the Universitie of Mompelier. Translated out of French into fragment “Wink-Out!” 55 pages, typescript, with additional material English, according to the last Edition by Richard Surphlet, practitioner in by other hands. 4to. Sonoma, etc: 1977-1978. Generally fne (three phisicke [Bound after:] The Haven of Health … by Thomas COGAN … hole punched in left margins). Cf. Sutin pp. 242-250. London, 1612. [16], 194, [2, blank] pp. 8vo. London: Imprinted by Felix Spectacular archive of correspondence and original writings by Kingston, for Ralph Iacson, dwelling in Paules Church yard at the PHILIP K. DICK, to JOAN SIMPSON, his girlfriend during 1977, signe of the Swan, 1599. First edition in English. Early seventeenth- with whom he lived in Sonoma during the summer of that year. Dick century full calf, professionally rebacked in period style, covers travelled to Metz, France, for the second International Festival of blindstamped with blind ruled border and central dyed circular Science Fiction, where he was guest of honor. A Scanner Darkly was stamp. Later (19th-century) re-casing and endsheets. 8 pp. ms in published that year, following on the strengths of Flow My Tears, contemporary hand recording medicinal recipes on front blanks, james cummins bookseller booth e-3 10 and 1-1/2 pp. at rear (1/2 of last leaf torn away); early inscription on Woodcut device on title. 37, [1] pp. Small 8 vo. Rome: Typis. Sac. frst title, a few ms. markings throughout; some old stains. Overall, Congregationis de Propag. Fide, 1771. First edition. Contemporary very good. STC 7304; Wellcome I 1933; Folger Library Accession: 6941 Italian decorated paper boards, calf spine. Two small circular library (defective copy). stamps on title page. Fine, beautiful copy. First edition in English of a very early text on ophthalmology by $1,250 the French physician and anatomist du Laurens (1558-1609), one-time physician to Henri IV and Marie de Medici, and author of one of the most widely disseminated anatomies of his day, HISTORIA ANATOMICA 49 (1600). Even more popular was this earlier treatise on vision, eyesight, The Alphabet of Ancient Etruscan depression, and old age. “Intended for a lay audience, the work went (ETRUSCAN WRITING) [AMADUZZI, Giovanni Cristoforo]. through more than twenty editions, and was translated into English, Alphabetum Veterum Etruscorum et Nonnulla Eorumdem Monumenta. 37, German, Latin, and Italian.” (DSB VIII: 54). The book is divided into [1] pp. Small 8vo. Rome: Typis. Sac. Congregationis de Propag. Fide, four Discourses, treating Sight, Melancholy, Rheumatism and Old 1771. First edition. Modern decorated paper boards. Fine. Age. The popularity of du Laurens’ work — particularly his vivid $1,000 discussions of melancholy and aging (e.g., the Five Ages of Man) — doubtless played a role in shaping Renaissance notions of madness, melancholy and old age, themes forming the backdrop of some of Shakespeare’s most powerful plays. Indeed, one sure indication of 50 the importance of Du Laurens’ work toward an understanding of (EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED) A Selection from the Harleian Miscellany of Shakespeare, is the fact that a facsimile of this book was published Tracts, Which Principally Regard the English History; of Which Many are for the Shakespeare Association by H. Milford, Oxford University Referred to by Hume. Extra-illustrated with 50 engravings of notable Press, in 1938 (Shakespeare Association facsimile no. 15). No copy has fgures from English history, by S. Harding, Bartolozzi, et al. vii, [i], been recorded at auction for over 30 years. 571, [1, catalogue] pp. 4to. London: Printed for C. and G. Kearsely, Like du Laurens, Cogan (1545-1607) was a practicing physician and a 1793. Abridged edition. Contemporary full red morocco, covers follower of Galen, and in 1595 he presented Galen’s works and other tooled in gilt with Lowther cypher beneath ducal crown, a.e.g. medical books to the library of Oriel, where he became a fellow in Spine faded, else a near fne copy. ESTC T111518; Fleeman 44.4HM/3 1563. His THE HAVEN OF HEALTH, MADE FOR THE COMFORT OF STUDENTS, (noting no Johnson contributions to this edition). Provenance: Hugh was frst published in 1584, followed by editions of 1588, 1596, 1605, Cecil Lowther, 5th Earl of Lonsdale (gilt cypher and bookplate); and here in 1612 (“corrected and augmented”); it also contains a Maggs Brothers (export license, 1947, sold to); W.A Aiken. chapter on the plague which struck Oxford in 1588. Beautifully bound and extra-illustrated copy of the abridged edition $8,500 of the Harleian Miscellany, a collection of tracts and pamphlets from the library of Robert Harley, frst Earl of Oxford, frst published in 8 volumes in 1744. 47 $2,000 Treachery, the Dutch, and the Danes — West Africa, 1662 (DUTCH WEST INDIA COMPANY) Sententie gepronuncieert den 51 25 jan. 1662 tot Amsterdam iegens Isaac Coeymans, Koopman burger der selver stadt. 7pp. Small 4to. Rotterdam: Floris Willemsen, 1662. Sewn. (FOLK MUSIC) CAMPBELL, Olive Dame and Cecil J. SHARP. Slightly age-darkened, but sound. Asher 315. English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians. Comprising 122 Songs A very rare pamphlet related to the Dutch West India Company and Ballads, and 323 Tunes, with an Introduction and Notes. 1 map. Extra- and its settlements in Guinea, ofering a glimpse of the growing illustrated and annotated throughout, with additions being made competition among European powers for the slave trade between up to at least 1930. xxiii, 341 pp. 8vo. New York and London: G.P. West Africa and the West Indies. Competition was particularly sharp Putnam’s Sons, 1917. First edition. Publisher’s black cloth, titled in between the powerful Dutch West India Company and the Danish gilt. Spine ends and corners frayed, spine dulled, hinges cracked. African Company, which had also recently established settlments in Provenance: “Nancy” Anna Holmes Davis Richardson (1870-1945, Guinea. Against this background emerges the strange story of one ownership inscription “Nancy D. Richardson / 1919,” and numerous Isaac Coymans, an Amsterdam merchant who plotted to murder the notes and insertions); Margot Mayo (pencil note at front “ex libris settlers of a Dutch colony and turn it over to the Danish Crown. Margot Mayo”). He was tried and convicted, and this rare pamphlet publishes the An important copy of the frst edition of this seminal early work on sentence of the court: Coymans was imprisoned for six years, folk music in America, with 28 typescript transcriptions of ballads banished for life from the 7 Dutch Provinces, and fned 20,000 forins. and songs as performed by either Rachel Fogg or Nancy McAtee It is rare: OCLC locates only one copy in the United States (Harvard) and recorded by Nancy D. Richardson for contribution to John and four in the Netherlands. Harrington Cox’s Folk-Songs of the South (Cambridge, Mass.: 1925). $1,500 Nancy Richardson’s record of the work of two “genuine old ballad singers” is a primary source. She passed on her transcriptions to John Harrington Cox who acknowledged how important they were in the preface to his Folk-Songs of the South, where he noted that “Mrs. 48 Richardson … made a unique contribution of some thirty ballads (ETRUSCAN WRITING) [AMADUZZI, Giovanni Cristoforo]. and songs, practically all of which were procured from two genuine Alphabetum Veterum Etruscorum et Nonnulla Eorumdem Monumenta. old ballad-singers, Mrs. Rachel Fogg and Mrs. Nancy McAtee.” james cummins bookseller booth e-3 11 In the ofprint “Nancy” Richardson describes Mrs. McAtee and Fogg 53 as follows: “Two old minstrels are still living in [Clarksburg] a little Presented to Lou Gehrig from the Children of Japan town in the western foot-hills of the Alleghenies in West Virginia. (GEHRIG, LOU) Autograph Letter in Japanese calligraphic script Neither knows the other; but … they sing many of the same old to Lou Gehrig, from “the Children of Japan.” Pen and ink on long ballads, to the same old minor tunes. Mrs. Rachel E. Fogg moved folded sheet of paper. 36 x 7 in. [Japan: 1934]. Fine. Provenance: Jefrey here some twenty years ago from her childhood’s home in Upshur Quick of Whippany, N.J., son of Ruth Martin Quick, a friend of Lou County. It was sometime after I knew her before I discovered that Gehrig. she was an old minstrel in disguise, and then it was by chance … Gehrig barnstormed around Japan in 1934, joined by Babe Ruth, his she came trailing clouds of humor along with her. She was a little manager Connie Mack and a dozen other players. Gehrig brought plump, with dark glossy hair, pink cheeks, and brown eyes made to his wife Eleanor, intending the trip to be the frst leg of their delayed twinkle and laugh. The adverse winds of circumstances have blown honeymoon. Gehrig and Ruth were no longer on speaking terms, the clouds many times across her sky; but the sun was always there and an encounter between Eleanor and Ruth involving prodigious when they passed, and her laugh is easily called forth … My other amounts of champagne and caviar in the slugger’s cabin further old minstrel, Mrs. McAtee, popularly known as ‘Old Nance,’ is the cemented the estrangement. opposite in every way of Mrs. Fogg. She is tall, and thin and gaunt, The present letter, written in Japanese and presented to Gehrig from and has led a hard life, — a life in which no one would suppose there “the children of Japan,” is a touching note ofering good wishes to had ever been or now was any song. But you never can tell, and Gehrig’s mother, with whom he was very close. her small deep-set blear eyes twinkle as merrily as pretty little Mrs. Translation of the presentation letter: Fogg’s over the humorous parts of her song. She, too, was discovered Dear Mr. Gehrig: by accident.” “I am very happy to learn that you are a good flial son to your Mom. “Nancy” Davis Richardson, born in Clarksburg, W.Va., was a poet I hear that fact from someone and read about it in a magazine. I and collector of folklore, and the sister of John W. Davis (1924 like and respect my own Mother very much. So, I would like to give Democratic party Presidental nominee, and Ambassador to the something from Japan to your Mom. I was thinking and thinking, but Court of St. James). The book subsequently passed to Margot Mayo I could not know what was a good and appropriate gift.After much an important fgure in the “folk revival” movement in general and the consideration and thought, I decided it might be good to send your American Square Dance in particular (see http://squaredancehistory. Mom the Nippon Shichi Fukujin or Japan’s Seven Lucky Gods. It is org/items/show/655). A complete list of the extra-illustrations is close to Christmas — your country. So these Seven Lucky Gods will available on request. bring many happinesses to your Mom. This is really a ‘tsumaranai $3,750 mono,’ not-so-fne a thing, a trifing thing of no major importance whatsoever. I wish some Japanese person in the US to explain to you about the Seven Lucky Gods. I hope you and your Mom will have a 52 good fortune. I ask the Seven Lucky Gods to bring this gift to you. I Inscribed with the Early Poem ‘Forest Flowers’ am afraid the gift for your Mom is not so fne. Japanese children said FROST, Robert. Collected Poems. Frontispiece portrait photograph to you, Mr. Gehrig, ‘yoroshiku’ to say ‘hello’ to you and your Mom. of the author by Doris Ulmann. [xviii], 453, [1] pp. 8vo. Garden City, For a long time you have been active and working hard. Please come New York: Garden City Publishing, [1942]. Later edition. Publisher’s to Japan again. With your Mom! To have sightseeing. The children of blue cloth. Head of spine browned, else near fne in chipped dust- Japan. November.” [With:] 3 books on Japanese culture and tourism jacket with loss along top edge. Crane A23 (for frst edition). from Gehrig’s library. Inscribed by Frost to Reginald Cook with the 8-line poem “Forest From the collection of Ruth Martin Quick, a former girlfriend of Flowers.” Reginald “Doc” Cook was a Middlebury professor and Gehrig who later became a very close friend of Gehrig’s mother, friend of Frost. He was an honorary pallbearer at the funeral of Frost’s Christina. The collection included Gehrig’s jersey worn on the 1934 wife Elinor, and Cook would visit Frost during the poet’s summer Japan trip (which sold for over $500,000 at auction in 2011), a signed stays in Ripton, VT. The early poem “Forest Flowers,” which opens baseball, and other memorabilia. with the lines “Some fowers take station close to where we stay, And $2,500 some draw up on either side of the way,” was originally published in 1917 in The Pinkerton Annual, the literary magazine of Pinkerton Academy, Derry, New Hampshire, where Frost taught from 1906 to 54 1911. The poem did not appear in any of Frost’s lifetime editions, (HARDY, THOMAS) MERLET, P[ierre] F[rançois]. Le Traducteur; though a ten-line variant titled “Tutelary Elves” was published in or, Selections, Historical, Dramatic, and Miscellaneous, From the Best 1966. The original poem was separately published in 1978 as Forest French Writers, On a Plan Calculated to Render Reading and Translation Flowers: An Early Poem Recovered by the Friends of the Amherst Peculiarly Serviceable in Acquiring the French Language. 8vo. London: College Library. Frost has added a note beneath his transcription of Printed for Taylor and Walton, 1847. Tenth edition. Publisher’s brown the poem, “This was written almost earlier than anything else in this cloth. Front cover gone, rear cover detached, spine damaged, creasing book.” and damage to lower corner of pp. 175-182. Provenance: Thomas This volume is a later printing of the 1939 Collected Poems and Hardy (signed “T.Hardy” in pencil on verso of fep and “Thomas includes the 1942 collection A Witness Tree. Hardy” in pen at head of title-page, his notes in pen on margins of $5,000 pp. 32-3, underlining in pencil throughout, small pencil doodle on p. 5 and some notes on recto of rfep, red Max Gate bookplate on fep, applied by Sydney Cockerell after Hardy’s death); Frank Hollings, james cummins bookseller booth e-3 12 cat. 212, no. 43. and consolidation of French interests in the Pacifc Ocean. The Thomas Hardy’s copy of a French reader for students of the language. objectives of this voyage were to advance wherever possible French Hardy marks the story “Le Chevalier Gozon” with underlining and political and commercial interests in the Pacifc, particularly with English translations in the margins. He continues underlining the regard to Tahiti and Hawaii …” The ofcial account was published text, which comprises a series of short stories, fables and an extract in 1841-54. This is a reissue of the plates in a “deluxe limited edition from Paul et Virginie, for the next 36 pages. Hardy picks up his evidently assembled with the aid of Edmond Paris who [served reading and underlining with a 60 page abridged version of Gil Blas, as lieutenant on the voyage and later became] … a distinguished which he seems to have read in its entirety. admiral. Some authorities consider the plates better printed in this Hardy studied French, German and Latin as a schoolboy. The present edition than in the Laplace text. It has always been a very difcult volume dates from a later time, perhaps 1864, when Hardy was taking work to obtain and is found in surprisingly few collections of Pacifc evening classes in French at King’s College, London, while pursuing voyages” (Forbes, 3535). his career in architecture. The work begins with an account of the voyage, describing each port $3,500 of call, noting customs and manners of the local inhabitants along with information on their natural history. The plates, on large paper and very clean here, depict scenes in Tahiti, Hawaii, Macao, Manilla, 55 Van Diemen’s Land, Colombo, Calcutta, Bombay, Peru, Chile and HEINLEIN, Robert A. The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress. 8vo. New York: Rio de Janeiro. G.P. Putnam’s Sons, [1966]. First edition. Terracotta cloth. A fne OCLC locates 5 copies: SLNSW, Turnbull, BL, BnF and Pretoria. copy in near fne, fresh and bright unclipped dust jacket (three tiny Apparently there are no copies in America. splits at head of spine, no loss). Currey, p. 233; Anatomy of Wonder $8,250 (2004) II-512; Survey of Science Fiction Literature III, pp. 1439-43. Heinlein’s classic story of the revolt of the colony of Luna against the Earth, in superior condition. 58 Winner of the 1967 Hugo Award for best novel. HERODOTUS. Herodoti Halicarnassei Historiarum libri IX [Title in $5,000 Greek and Latin] … editio secunda. Title in red and black, printer’s famous device on title, margins hand-ruled in red. Text in Greek with facing Latin translation by Lorenzo Valla. 4 folding plans, three 56 with Latin text, one with French text. Folio. [Geneva]: Excudebat HELD, John, Jr. “Old Books to be had in ye shoppe of E.P. Dutton Henricus Stephanus [i.e., Henri Estienne], 1592. Second Estienne & Company.” Pen and ink on board, signed “John Held Jr” (lower edition [frst Estienne was 1570, but without the Latin translation right). 12 x 8 in. New York: ca. 1920s. Fine. Matted. by Valla]. Brown morocco stamped in blind and gilt, a.e.g. by the Original artwork by John Held, Jr. for an advertisement for the rare French Binders. Title-page a little dusty, neat ownership inscription bookselling division of E.P. Dut. on title of “G[eorge] C[ooper] Abbs” of the University of Oxford, $3,000 and the signature of William Lancaster (“Guil. Lancaster”, 1649- 1707), vice-chancellor of Oxford; some marginal toning to text, and an occasional stain, otherwise a remarkably fne and attractive copy, with the Kalbfeisch morocco ex-libris on the front pastedown. 57 Adams H398; Brunet III, 122; Schreiber 22. A lovely copy of the deluxe limited edition Lovely copy — complete with all of the frequently missing plates — HENRICY, Casimir. Album Pittoresque d’un voyage autour de monde. 25 of the father of modern history’s immortal classic as magnifcently engraved plates. viii pp. Folio. Paris: Administration [Imprimerie de printed by Henri Estienne of the great family of printer-scholars in Ch. Noblet], [1883]. Deluxe limited edition. Original pictorial cloth, this (frst-ever?) bilingual edition. One of Estienne’s most famous elaborately gilt. O’Reilly & Reitman 10157; Forbes, 3535 & cf 1298; not books, in fact was his 1566 printing of Herodotus in Latin, with a in Sabin; not in Ferguson; not in Borba de Moraes. controversial, highly satirical apologia by Estienne which ofended Rare. A separately published and beautiful record of the voyage many churchmen and got him arrested. of the Artemise to the Pacifc, being the second voyage (1837-40) With an appropriately distinguished scholarly provenance of owners commanded by Cyrille Theodore Laplace. associated with the University of Oxford. In addition to continuing French exploration in the Pacifc, Laplace’s $4,500 second expedition also had a political aspect. In July 1839, he delivered a manifesto (really a threat of war) on the treatment of Catholics on Hawaii. Catholicism had been outlawed in 1819 by a newly 59 converted protestant Queen, and as such Hawaiian Catholics had HOBBES, Thomas. Leviathan, or the Matter, Forme, & Power of a been imprisoned and tortured. Furthermore, in 1831, French Roman Common-wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civill. Allegorical engraved title- Catholic priests were deported. Sending Laplace was a signifcant page, one folding table at p. 40. [vi], 396 pp. A-2Z4 3A-3D4. Folio. intervention by the French and has since become known as the London: Printed [by Roger Norton and Richard Cotes] for Andrew Laplace Afair. King Kamehameha III responded quickly to the Crooke, 1651. First edition (with the distinguishing title-page threat of war with an edict on July 17, and paid $20,000 compensation ornament of a winged head). Full period calf, covers ruled in blind, for the deportation of priests and donated land for a church. red morocco lettering piece. Engraved title-page tipped-in on stub, Forbes (1298) on the ofcial account states: “This voyage of the likely supplied, printed title-page with loss at right margin with Artémise is of great importance for the part it played in the expansion james cummins bookseller booth e-3 13 repair to verso, small pieces from margin of H4, a few small signs of 61 worming, some sporadic foxing and staining towards rear, 2Z2 and JEFFERSON, Thomas. Autograph Letter, signed, from Thomas 2Z3 bound in reverse otherwise a clean, crisp copy. Macdonald & Jeferson to Secretary of War Henry Dearborn. 1 page plus integral Hargreaves 42; Wing (2nd edition) H2246; Pforzheimer 491; Printing address leaf. 4to, on a folded folio sheet, Washington, D.C: June 3, and the Mind of Man 138; ESTC R17253. Provenance: George Ware 1804. Old fold lines. Minor wear and soiling. Strip of later paper on Tracy (his bookplate). left edge verso, where letter had been tipped into an album. Very There were three separate editions (not “issues,” as they are good. In a red half morocco clamshell box, spine gilt sometimes mistakenly referred to) of Hobbes’ classic, with a title- A remarkable letter written by President Thomas Jeferson to his page dated 1651. This is the true frst, with the “head” ornament Secretary of War, Henry Dearborn, in which Jeferson swears “on on the title-page, and the errata uncorrected. A second printing, my sacred honour” that he gives no credence to slanderous gossip actually produced abroad with a false imprint, has a bear surrounded circulating about Dearborn. Dearborn (1751-1829), a soldier and by foliage; and a third edition, actually printed around 1680, has a politician, was appointed by Jeferson to the post of Secretary of War triangle of type ornaments on the title-page and modernized spelling. in 1801, a position he held throughout Jeferson’s terms in ofce. He Hobbes’ famous essay on the origin of the State created (and still was moderately successful in most of his life’s endeavors, excepting creates) a storm of controversy, since for Hobbes even the most his command during the War of 1812, in which he lost Detroit to the repugnant authoritarian government is to be preferred over that British. celebrated Hobbesian state of nature in which anarchic life is “nasty, $60,000 brutish and short.” For Hobbes “the State … might be regarded as a great artifcial monster made up of individual men, with an existence which could be traced from its generation through human reason 62 under pressure of human needs to its destruction through civil strife [JULIIS, Joseph de]. Compendiaria et facilis ad linguam Grcam proceeding from human passions. The individual (except to save his manuductio. Woodcut device on title-page. 108, [4] pp. A-O4. Text own life) should always submit to the State, because any government in Latin and Greek. Small 4to. Rome: Typis Sacr Cong. de Propag. is better than the anarchy of the natural state” (Printing and the Fide, 1696. First edition. Contemporary vellum. Front free endpaper Mind of Man). missing, binding a bit shaken, mild dampstaining to frst two leaves, $18,500 mostly marginal. Scarce and elegantly printed handbook of Greek, published by the 60 famous Society for the Propagation of Faith in Rome. OCLC locates [JAWHARI, Isma‘il ibn Hammad; Muhammed b. Mustafa al- only two copies in the United State (Penn State and St. Johns in Wani translator]. [Sihah. Turkish] [Lughat-i Wanqulu] [Arabic-Turkish Minnesota). Turkish-Arabic Dictionary]. Text printed within rules. Typographic $400 headpieces. [5], 650 ; [2], 764 pp. 2 Vols. Folio (310 x 200 mm.]. [Üsküdar, Constantinople: Dar at-Tib‘at al-Jadidah al-Ma‘mur] New Government Printing House, A.H. 1217-1218 / 1802-1803 C.E.]. Second 63 edition. Contemporary Islamic wallet binding in brown goatskin, boards stamped in silver ornamental borders and central arabesque, KATZ, William, Editor. Stamped Indelibly. A collection of fore edge fap with ornamental rule. Dampstains at end of vol. 1 rubberstamp prints, edited by William Katz. 15 prints by Robert and intermittently to vol. 2, minor staining to fore-edge, few scufs Creeley, Claes Oldenburg (2), Red Grooms, Robert Indiana (2), Josef and rubs to binding. Sound and imposing, generally clean internally. Levi, Gerard Malanga, Allen Jones, Andy Warhol, Peter Saul, Allen Provenance: Sir Gore Ouseley, polyglot and diplomat (1770-1844), Ginsberg, John Willenbecher. Each print signed in pencil, except the with his ownership signature in each volume. Özege, Eski harferle prints by Wesselmann, Grooms and Warhol (Warhol signed with 22504. rubber stamp). Printed individually on Rives paper. 8-1/2 by 11-1/2 Standard Arabic Turkish Dictionary, the Sihah of Jawhari (d. 1003 inches. 4to. New York: [Indianakatz Production], 1967. Number 15 of C.E.), translated into Turkish by Muhammad al-Wani (d. 1592), 225, numbers 1 through 110 for sale through Multiples, Inc., original deriving its title from the Turkish genitive form of the author’s price $125. Bound in full linen. Fine, with prospectus. name, Wangulu or Vankulu. With the contemporary ownership $5,000 signatures of British diplomat and linguist Sir Gore Ouseley, frst baronet, who traveled to India in 1787 and established a cloth factory. “He lived a relatively solitary existence and spent his leisure time 64 studying Persian, Bengalese Hindi, Arabic, and Sanskrit. He became Introducing the Senator from the State of Massachusetts an elegant speaker and writer of Persian.” He was an acquaintance KENNEDY, John F. Autograph notes on his family lineage and of “Oriental” Jones (Sir William Jones). Ouseley was named personal accomplishments. 1-1/2 pp. pen and ink on two sheets of ambassador-extraordinary to the court of Fath Ali Shah in Persia in United States Senate stationery (10-1/2 x 8 in.), with some notes in 1810, negotiated several treaties, and returned to England. “He was pencil by Alexis I. du Pont Bayard. 8vo. Washington, D.C: n.d. [ca. one of those responsible for the founding of the Royal Asiatic Society 1952]. Creased from prior folding, some toning to margins. in London in 1823 and was associated with the formation of the Manuscript notes in Kennedy’s hand giving a brief outline of his oriental translation committee, of which he was elected chairman. family’s history and his personal accomplishments. The notes were He became president of the Society for the Publication of Oriental prepared to aid Alex Irénée du Pont Bayard, Lieutenant Governor Texts, formed in 1842.” Uncommon. of Delaware, who was introducing Kennedy before an audience. $1,750 Reading in part, “Grandfather John F. Fitzgerald. Congressman 55 james cummins bookseller booth e-3 14 years ago from same district … later Mayor of Boston …” Kennedy more homesick for [Chicago] than for any other city in America (you then outlines his own biography, “Graduated Harvard 1940 cum see, Larchmont Manor isn’t a city) … I think you will like my poem laude. Served as Commander of P.T. Boat for the Pacifc in war. ‘Rogue Bouquet.’ I am a sergeant now, and never expect to go any Worked for newspaper — Chicago Herald … Elected to 80th, 81st, higher. For, to get a commission I’d be obliged to go to school away 82nd Congress … Elected this year [1952] to Senate, [by] 70,000 votes from the Regiment for some months and when school was over I’d …” Bayard has added here, “Brought to Democrats the luck of the be sent — whether or not I had gained a commission — not back to Irish!” With a manuscript summary of JFK’s bio by Bayard, 1-1/2 pp. this Regiment but to some strange outft. And I’d rather be a sergeant pencil on memo paper (8 x 5 in.). in the 69th than an ofcer in any other Regiment …” Kilmer was [And:] Christmas Greeting card to Bayard from Senator and Mrs. proud of his position in the “Fighting Sixty-ninth” (though by his John F. Kennedy, with stamped signature (“Best wishes, Jack”). time known as the 165th Infantry) and had requested permission to $3,500 join its ranks. Kilmer was killed in action 30 July 1918 while scouting German machine-gun positions near the Ourcq River. $2,500 65 KEPPEL, George. Personal Narrative of a Journey from India to England, by Bussorah, Bagdad, the Ruins of Babylon, Curdistan, the Court of Persia, 67 the Western Shore of the Caspian Sea, Astrakhan, Nishney, Novogorod, Inscribed to Frank Doubleday’s Son, With a Poem Moscow, and St. Petersburgh: in the Year 1824. Three hand-colored KIPLING, Rudyard. The Second Jungle Book. With decorations by J. aquatint plates (including frontispiece) and a folding map; illustrations Lockwood Kipling. 324 pp. Printed by the DeVinne Press. 8vo. New in text. xii, 338 pp. 4to. London: Henry Colburn, 1827. First edition. York: Century, 1899. Later printing. Publisher’s green cloth, stamped Contemporary polished green calf, boards elaborately ruled and in black with elephant on front cover and lion on rear cover. Near tooled in gilt, spine gilt with raised bands and gilt morocco label, gilt fne. Richards A84 (for frst American edition). inner dentelles. Spine ends worn, corners bumped, hinges rubbed. Inscribed on the title-page from Kipling to Felix Doty, the son of his Bookplate of Stephen Hungerford Pollen on front pastedown. Early close friend and American publisher, Frank N. Doubleday, “Jack Doty, ownership signature on title-page. A couple of light marginal stains, from the Author: Mar 28: 99: Rudyard Kipling.” With a holograph but on the whole very clean and fresh internally. Very good. Not in four-line quotation on the facing page from the “Law of the Jungle,” Abbey; Blackmer 908 (third edition). “Wash daily from nose tip to tail tip — / drink deeply but never too The frst edition, which was followed by two more editions the same deep. / And remember the night is for hunting & / forget not the day year. Keppel (1799-1891), who became the sixth Earl of Albemarle, is for sleep, / R.K.” joined the army at a young age and was present at the Battle of Frank N. Doubleday, or “Efendi” — the nickname given him by Waterloo, after which he served in the Ionian Islands, Mauritius, Kipling, founded Doubleday & McClure Company in 1897, partly on and the Cape. He was ordered to India as a lieutenant in the 20th the author’s advice. Kipling was close to his American publisher and Regiment in 1821, where he served for two years as aide-de-camp to his family — it was Frank Doubleday’s son Nelson who asked Kipling the governor-general. He then returned to England by an overland to write a book of animal stories, published as Just So Stories in 1902. route, describing his experiences in this volume. “Relying on a slight The “Jack” Doty of this inscription is undoubtedly Felix Doty (1887- knowledge of Persian acquired during the long passage out to India, 1941), a Louisiana boy adopted by Doubleday. he visited the ruins of Babylon and the court of Tehran, from there $9,500 journeying to England by way of Baku, Astrakhan, Moscow, and St. Petersburg, then a rare feat. His published account is an interesting book” (ODNB). 68 A signifcant journey through Arabia. ‘very long, and rather dull’ : Subscriber Copy, with Fine ALs $3,000 [LAWRENCE, T.E.]. Seven Pillars of Wisdom a triumph. Printed in red and black. Illustrated with 66 plates, including frontispiece portrait of Feisal by Augustus John, many colored or tinted, 4 66 double-page, by Eric Kennington, William Roberts, Augustus John, With Kilmer ALS from the Front William Nicholson, Paul Nash and others, 4 folding colored maps KILMER, Joyce. The Circus and Other Essays. [viii], 79, [1] pp. 12mo. (with original linen backing), 58 illustrations in text, one colored, New York: Laurence J. Gomme, 1916. First edition, frst issue. by Roberts, Nash, Kennington, Blair-Hughes-Stanton, Gertrude Publisher’s half brown cloth and boards. Near fne, in orange Hermes and others, initials by Edward Wadsworth. In this copy, page pictorial dust-jacket with clown holding faming circus hoop, jacket XV is mis-paginated as VIII. 4to. [London: Privately Printed, 1926]. toned at spine panel, with some chipping to extremities of jacket. One of about 170 “Complete” copies for subscribers, inscribed on With obituary and other contemporary notices and poem pasted p. xix “Complete copy. 1.XII.26 TES.,” with a manuscript correction in to preliminaries and fnal leaf, and with manuscript poem, “Joyce to the list of illustrations. Also signed by the printer, H.G. Hodgson, Kilmer” by George Steele Seymour, on half-title. BAL 11108. at the end. Tan morocco gilt, gilt-lettered and ruled, edges gilt, by With a fne Autograph Letter, signed (“Joyce Kilmer”), to Miss Olson, Sangorski & Sutclife. Fine copy. O’Brien A040; Duval 8; Clements, written from the front. Headquarters Co., 165th Infantry A.E.F. p. 49 (stating that only about 100 copies were produced at 30 guineas France, n.d., but after Nov. 1917. 1-1/2 pages, tipped in after title-page. each). Nancy Campbell (original subscriber); Barbara Hutton “It was kind of you to send me the book of tickets, and I am honored (ownership inscription on fyleaf: “Barbara Haugwitz-Reventlow by thus becoming the guest of the Chicago Woman’s Club … I’m 1941”). james cummins bookseller booth e-3 15 Lawrence’s superb narrative of the Arab Revolt of 1916-1918. Invited heard all over the house — ‘Sic Semper Tyrannis’ (“so always with by Sir Ronald Storrs to the British organized conference at Jiddah, tyrants”) and fed behind the scenes-I attempted to get to the box Lawrence impressed the Arab leaders, and thereafter played his but I could not and in an instant the cry was raised ‘The President spectacular role as the revolt succeeded, entering into the mythology is Assassinated.’ “Such a scene I never saw before. The cry spread to of the twentieth century. His account is itself one of the legendary the street, only to be met by another, ‘So is Mr. Seward.’ Soldiers had books of the century, elaborately produced and illustrated with gone. Some General handed me a note and bid me go to the nearest works commissioned by Lawrence. The present copy includes the telegraph ofce and arouse the nation. I ran with all my speed and “Prickly Pear” plate, but not the two Paul Nash illustrations called for in ten minutes the sad news was all over the country. Today all the on pages 92 and 208, or the Blair-Hughes-Stanton wood engraving city is in mourning, nearly every house being in black and I have that in some copies illustrated the dedicatory poem. not seen a smile. No business and many a strong man I have seen With a remarkable and revealing clutch of correspondence about the in tears. “Some reports say Booth is a prisoner, others that he has author and his book, addressed to the original owner, Mrs. Colin made his escape, but from orders received here, I believe he is taken (Nancy) Campbell. A full description available on request. as a mob once raised now would know no end. I will not seal this $135,000 until morning and I may have some more news. “April 24th. “I have had no time to write until now, as I have been a detective. We have now 7 that are implicated. Why don’t you write? Love to all, George” 69 Several important facts regarding the movements of both the (LINCOLN ASSASSINATION) Todd, George B., M.D. Autograph President and John Wilkes Booth are recorded here: (1) This appears Letter, Signed (“George”), to his brother, giving his eye-witness to be the only eyewitness account of the President’s inspection of account of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln on the night of the “Montauk” earlier that afternoon. (2) Todd’s account of Booth’s April 14th, 1865. 4 pp. 8vo, “Montauk”, Montauk Navy Yard, Wash interaction with the “usher” sitting outside the President’s box D.C. 34: written on “April 15th, 1865, 9 P.M.”; with a Postscript dated (“took a card from his pocket, wrote something on it, and gave it to “April 24”; and docketed with a later posting, “April 30.” Slight soiling the usher”) is especially intriguing, and reveals not only something of and minor tears along old folds, otherwise in very good condition. Todd’s powers of observations, but also his proximity to the assassin Published (from a copy in the State Historical Library of Wisconsin) immediately before the shooting. Todd alone among eyewitnesses in Timothy S. Good, We Saw Lincoln Shot(U. of Miss., 1995; with the notes that the “usher” frst took the card from Booth, then went mistaken date of April 30, 1865). into the box, and that a short time later the door opened, and Booth “…About 10:25 P.M. a man came in and walked slowly along the went in. In fact, Good fnds only 7 other eye-witness accounts of the side …” A remarkably clear and dramatic eyewitness account of the Lincoln assassination as early as April 15 — most of these witnesses assassination of Abraham Lincoln from a naval surgeon who was record little or nothing regarding the events before hearing the shot close to the President’s box at Ford’s theater on that fateful night itself, and none of them noticed Booth’s interchange with the usher of April 14, 1865. In this letter to his brother written the night after (who was, in fact, Lincoln’s valet, Charles Forbes). There are three the assassination, while the details were still fresh in his memory, other accounts by eyewitnesses which partially corroborate Todd’s Dr. George B. Todd, surgeon aboard the U.S. “Montauk” at anchor observation of the Forbes and Booth interchange — but they were in the Navy Yard that day, recounts the terrible event with a clarity written much later than Todd’s. (3) Todd’s observation of the time he of observation one might expect of his profession — a rarity spotted Booth moving toward the box (“about 10:25”) corresponds to among confused eyewitness accounts. The text of Todd’s letter — Good’s own conclusion that Booth fred the fatal shot close to 10:30 one of only 7 eyewitness accounts written within 24 hours of the PM. According to James Swanson (MANHUNT, p. 419) “the exact assassination — reads: “The few hours that have intervened since time of Booth’s shot cannot be fxed … Booth may have shot Lincoln that most terrible tragedy of last night have served to give me a little as early as 10:13 or as late as 10:30” Todd’s account – again, one of clearer brain, and I believe I am now able to give you a clear account the freshest and most reliable, weighs heavily in favor of Good. (4) up to this hour. Yesterday about 3 P.M. the President and wife drove Todd, by his own account, played a role in alerting the nation by down to the navy yard and paid our ship a visit, going all over her, telegraph. (5) Although he doesn’t mention it, as a surgeon of the accompanied by us all. Both seemed very happy, and so expressed ironclad Montauk, Todd was also probably present at the autopsy of themselves, – glad that this war was over, or so near its end, and John Wilkes Booth on Thursday, April 27 in the gun room of his ship. then drove back to the White House. In the evening nearly all of us Indeed, in an article in the February issue of the Baltimore and Ohio went to the Ford’s Theatre. I was very early and got a seat near the Magazine, 1926, where the letter was frst published and reproduced, President’s private box, as we heard he was to be there. About half Todd is reported to have been “one of the surgeons who performed past nine he came in with his wife, a Miss Harris and Major Rathburn the autopsy.” That, as well as the fact that the other prisoners were and was cheered by every one. As soon as there was a silence the being held on board the ironclad “Montauk” and “Saugus”, may play went on, and I could see that the “pres.” seemed to enjoy it explain his cryptic remark near the end (“… I have been a detective very much. About 10:25 P.M. a man came in and walked slowly along …”). Todd actually mailed the letter on April 30, 3 days after the the side on which the ‘pres.’ box was and I heard a man say “there’s autopsy, and may very have participated in the actual investigation Booth” and I turned my head to look at him. He was still walking of the captives aboard the “Montauk.” very slow, and was near the box door, when he stopped, took a card AN EXTRAORDINARY AND UNIQUE RECORD OF ONE THE NATION’S GREAT from his pocket, wrote something on it, and gave it to the usher, TRAGEDIES. who took it to the box. In a minute the door was opened and he $100,000 walked in. No sooner had the door closed, then I heard the report of a pistol and on the instant, Booth jumped out of the box onto the stage, holding in his hand a large knife, and shouted so as to be james cummins bookseller booth e-3 16 70 72 MAGNUS, Charles. “Toronto, Canada West” and “The Great MUNARI, [Bruno]. [Libro illegibile]. [6] ll. tissue, each leaf with Eastern.” Hand-colored lettersheets measuring 8-1/2 x 21 inches. 4to. irregularly torn hole in center, silver foil star afxed to verso of rear New York: Charles Magnus, c. 1860. A little grubby, but very good. wrapper, as issued. 12mo. Milan: Muggiani, n.d., ca. 1949. Original Provenance: Estate of James and Katherine Abbe, Long Island, New stapled wrappers. Faint diagonal crease. Cf. Mafei, Munari I Libr, p. York. 80; cf. Castleman, A Century of Artists Books, p. 224. Provenance: The two lettersheets here are unusual productions for Magnus, most Irv Koons. of his lettersheets featured images of New York and its environs or of An early example of a “Libro illeggibile” by Bruno Munari, this copy the Civil War. The frst of these two is based on Edwin Whitefeld’s given by the Italian graphic designer to American artist Irv Koons “Toronto, Canada West” frst published in 1854. Magnus is known circa 1949, the year Munari began his series of Unreadable Books. to have reproduced it in the late 1850s. When launched in 1858, the The book, devoid of text save for a small colophon statement at Great Eastern was easily the largest ocean liner of its day. She was the rear, is comprised of a series of colored hand-torn tissue leaves. subsequently used to lay the Trans-Atlantic telegraph cable in 1865. Munari devised his Unreadable Books, which he continued to This lettersheet was almost certainly issued between those two dates. produce into the 1980s, as “useless objects … which were meant to Charles Magnus emigrated to New York with his family in the late challenge the very concept of a book” (Grove Art Online). Mafei 1840s. His older brother published the weekly German language notes that they were produced as unique copies or in limited editions newspaper, Deutsche Schnellpost, and it was there that Charles of just a few copies. In 1955, MoMA exhibited a series of Munari’s learned the trade, eventually going out on his own. In the guises of a Libri illeggibili. publisher, map dealer, bookseller and stationer, he issued more than “I ‘libri illeggibili’ progettati da Munari nel 1949 si sviluppano in una a thousand pieces of illustrated stationery — lettersheets, envelopes, serie di libri, in esemplare unico o in tiratura limitata a poche unità, song sheets, as well as prints — usually copying the work from other contraddistinti in genere dall’autore con numerazione progressive. sources without attribution, sometimes altering the images slightly. Sono volumetti assimilabili più a opere d’arte che a prodotti editoriali, He continued to use lithography and hand-coloring long after other ora per lo più dispersi” (Mafei, Munari I Libri, p. 80). publishers turned to photomechanical reproduction processes. $2,000 Lettersheets were a convenient and thrifty form of stationery in an era in which postage was calculated on the number of sheets used. 73 Folded in half, these four pages were charged as a single page. [MUNARI, Bruno]. Supplemento al Dizionario Italiano. Illustrated $500 with b/w photographs throughout. 74, [6] pp., text in Italian, English, French and German. 12mo. [Torino: Carpano, 1958]. Privately printed frst edition. Publisher’s photo-illustrated wrappers. Some creasing 71 to covers, and bump to tail end of spine. With the compliments card (MONOPOLY) Darrow, Charles. Monopoly game set. “White box” of G.B. Carpano and Bruno Munari laid-in. Mafei, Munari I Libri, game set, comprising 1 white-backed gameboard (20 x 10-1/4 in. p. 92. folded), copyright 1933, printed in original colors, “How to Play The privately printed frst edition of Bruno Munari’s inventive visual Monopoly. 1934 Rules” printed on cardboard inset, 32 green wood dictionary of the Italian language, illustrated with black and white houses, 12 red wood hotels, scrip play money in various colors and photographs of the non-verbal gestures used to puncuate and add denominations from $1 to $500, 16 Chance cards, 16 Community color to Italian speech. OCLC locates just 4 copies of this frst edition Chest cards, 28 Property Deed cards, 2 wooden dice. 40 Westview — the book has undergone several revisions and republications, most Street, Germantown, Philadelphia: 1934. Board and contents in near recently appearing in this country as Speak Italian: The Fine Art of fne condition, with very slight age toning and edgewear to board the Gesture (San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2005). and cards. In the original white pictorial cardboard box (21 x 11 x 1-3/4 “This booklet is presented by the House of Carpano in Turin, the in), printed in red and black, somewhat soiled with scufs and splits producers of the famous Punt e Mes vermouth … this is not only the at edges. oldest vermouth in Italy, but it is also the only one you can order in An early example of the frst fully printed, commercially available a bar or café without speaking a word: by means of a gesture” (from version of Monopoly as produced by Charles Darrow, with original the Introduction). cards, money and house and hotel pieces. Borrowing from similar $750 games involving the buying and selling of property, Darrow began producing a homemade version of Monopoly on oilcloth. He secured 74 a copyright in 1933 and the following year began selling the fully MUNARI, Bruno. Two Typed Letters, signed (“Bruno”) to designer printed “white box” sets, as seen here, in Wanamaker’s Department Irv Koons, regarding the proposed publication by Random House Store in Philadelphia. The game’s distinctive aesthetic and Atlantic of Munari’s L’UOMO DEL CAMION, with related materials. Two City setting were established by this point, though the game did not Typed Letters, signed (“Bruno”) to designer Irv Koons; two Typed yet include the iconic game pieces. In 1935 Darrow sold the game to Letters (one signed) from Arnoldo Mondadori Editore to Koons; Parker Brothers, who distributed it nationwide to immediate success. paper sample to be used by Mondadori in printing of the American $7,500 edition of L’UOMO. 8vo (11 5/8 x 8 1/4 in.). New York, Milan: December 9, 1947 – June 1, 1948. Light creasing, one letter docketed “Munari” in Koons’ hand; near fne. $1,500

james cummins bookseller booth e-3 17 75 paper boards, maroon morocco label gilt, uncut. Lower corners NABOKOV, Vladimir. Lolita. 2 vols. 8vo. Paris: The Olympia Press, slightly bumped, spine lightly faded. With the book label of Charles [1955]. First Edition, frst issue, with “Francs: 900” printed on the rear Wellford Leavitt, Jr. to front pastedown. cover of each volume. Green wrappers. Spines lightly toned, small A lovely untrimmed copy of this exceedingly rare work with a scufs at foot. Very good plus, fresh set. distinguished provenance. This beautiful suite of garden designs was The original appearance of Nabokov’s immortal nymphet. apparently produced in ten parts — the frst four are here — and in $4,750 two states: colored for 4s. and uncolored (as here) for 2s. It readily shows the appropriation of English garden design, with its idealized view of nature, by the French. 76 Panseron was an architect and professor of architecture at the Ecole One of 75 Copies Militaire and served as the Prince de Conti’s inspector of buildings. He also published work on the Chinese garden and a text for young (NONESUCH PRESS) The Holy Bible. Each volume with an engraved students, Elements of Architecture, in three parts from 1772-6. title page, head piece, and tail piece by Stephen Gooden. Printed Trained as an engineer, Charles Wellford Leavitt, Jr. (1871-1928) was at the Oxford University Press by Frederick Hall (The Apocrypha, a noted American landscape architect and urban planner. Indeed he Genesis to Ruth, and Samuel to Psalms) and John Johnson (Proverbs was one of the three founding professors of Columbia University’s to Malachi and The New Testament). Typography by Francis four year degree in landscape architecture. He designed many public Meynell. 329; 418; 327; 309; 238 pp. 5 Vols. Folio. London: Nonesuch gardens in New York, New Jersey, Florida, Cuba and Puerto Rico. Press, 1924-27. One of 75 copies on Arnold unbleached paper. Bound This work is one of the better examples from his library. in full original vellum. Fine. Dreyfus 21 and 20. The Nonesuch OCLC locates a single copy at Dunbarton Oakes. APBC records a Century 21 and 20. Ransom, Selective Check Lists, pp. 163-164, nos. single copy at auction in 1990. 20 and 21. Rumball-Petre 125 (“a beautiful work of a famous press”). $3,000 Tomkinson, p. 136, nos. 19 and 19a. One of the great early books of the Press, and Stephen Gooden’s second book commission, after the Nonesuch Anacreon of 1923. 79 A superb copy. Signed by Pappas $7,500 PAPPAS, Sam C. Remember … Japan-Okinawa, Iwo-Phillipines, Guam- Palau-Saipan, Tarawa-Tinian, Marshalls-New Guinea. 100 photographs 77 on 25 plates interleaved with 26 pp. text, versos only. Oblong 4to. Chicago: np, 1946. First edition. Spiral-bound pictorial card wraps. NORTHUP, Solomon. Twelve Years a Slave. Wood-engraved A very good copy of this scarce memorial to the Pacifc theatre. The frontispiece portrait of the author and 6 wood-engraved plates. [iv, work is signed by Pappas on the inside front cover. ads], xiv, [17]-336 pp. 8vo. Auburn: Derby and Miller. Bufalo: Derby, The book opens with a captured Japanese propaganda photograph, Orton and Mulligan. Cincinnati: Henry W. Derby, 1853. First edition. apparently captioned: “The moment at which the Hawaii surprise Publisher’s embossed brown cloth, title stamped in gilt on spine. attack force is about to take of from the carrier … On the faces of Recased, with lower portion of spine replaced, original endpapers those who go forth to conquer and those who send them of there and ads preserved, some foxing throughout. Drummond, p. 86. foats only the beautiful smile that transcends death …” The frst edition of Northup’s account of his kidnapping and This is, in fact, a work of propaganda in its own right, the US ships are enslavement. Northup (1808-1863?), a free man living in New York frequently personifed: the “U.S.S. Sangamon Shakes of Kamikaze with his family, was promised employment by two con men who Hit” while “The ‘Sara’ Recovers from her Battle Wounds.” Indeed, drugged and kidnapped him, selling him into slavery in Louisiana. the recent end of the war leaves little room for pleasantries and the His book recounts the remarkable series of events that lead to his Japanese are often referred to as “nips” and there are frequent jibes, eventual freedom and was the source for the Oscar-winning flm of such as “Fanaticism not showing now, Japs stand by for ceremonies the same name. “His narrative, Twelve Years a Slave: Narrative of as they surrender the Marshall Islands …” or “The sprit of Japanese Solomon Northup, far more than just a personal memoir, provides arrogance and militarism is refected in the faces of these young a detailed and fascinating portrait of the people, circumstances, and ‘soldiers’ of Tokyo, who seem to exemplify the worst in national social practices he encountered. His account of the slave market, character.” his fellow captives, and how they were all treated is especially vivid” More importantly, the work spans the attack on Pearl Harbor to (ANB). the Japanese surrender. The dramatic photographs capture allied $4,000 bombings of Japanese positions on Tarakan Island, Borneo and the eforts of the Central Philippine Attack forces in Manila Harbour — including the attack on Mindoro in December 1944. Furthermore, 78 little known images of the invasions of Humboldt Bay and Hollandia A BEAUTIFUL SUITE OF PLATES in New Guinea are included. As well as images of Guam, Palau and PANSERON, Pierre. Cahier de Jardins Anglais dans le goût le plus Bataan. nouveau, par Mr. Panseron, Professeur d’Architecture [drop-title]. Cahiers There are US casualties too, including the destruction of the U.S.S. I-IV. 36 engraved plates by Panseron (plate IV, part four, is supplied Wasp, U.S.S. Franklin and U.S.S. Essex and the close shave of the from another smaller copy). Oblong 4to. Paris: Rue de Jardinet, No. Langley. The book necessarily concludes with the Japanese surrender 13, [1790?]. Sole edition. Printed on pale blue paper. Modern marbled and as hostilities wind down Pappas allows for some tender images james cummins bookseller booth e-3 18 of Filipino women and children. 81 Rare. OCLC locates just two copies. A second edition was published PILLEMENT, Jean. Livre de Chinois Inventé et Dessiné par Jean Pillement in the same year. et gravé par P. Canot. Etched title and 7 etched plates. Oblong 8vo. $850 London: Publish’d according to Act of Parliament, 1758. Bound to style using old materials, 19th century Chinese cloth-backed marbled paper-covered boards, facsimile title on upper cover, light foxing. Cf. 80 Berlin Kat. 4447; Guilmard pp. 188-9, no. 80; OCLC 79267088 (1 copy, Inscribed to the Honorable Mrs. Richard Howe Winterthur). PHIPPS, Constantine John, later Baron Mulgrave. A Voyage towards Delicate pastoral Chinoiserie etchings by Pierre Charles Canot (1710- the North Pole undertaken by his Majesty’s Command 1773. 3 folding maps, 1777) after Jean Pillement (1728 – 1808). OCLC locates a single copy at 12 folding views and diagrams and 11 letterpress folding tables. viii, the Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library. 253, [2] pp. 4to (284 x 223 mm). London: Printed by W. Boyer and J. $1,750 Nichols for J. Nourse, 1774. First edition. Contemporary sprinkled calf, morocco label, spine gilt, edges blue. Frontispiece map loose, small tear neatly repaired without loss. A beautiful copy. Hill, p. 207; 82 Sabin 62572; NMM 805; Lande Supplement S 1788. Provenance: Mrs. Epistles of Pope Howe (presentation inscription); with Westport House (County, POPE, Alexander, et. al. Bound volume containing 10 works, 6 by Mayo, Ireland) bookplate Case E Shelf 3; bookplate of Marvyn Pope and 4 by friends and followers. All folio. London: 1731-35. All Carton. frst editions, unless otherwise noted below. Full period panelled calf, The Phipps-Lutwidge expedition of the Racehorse and Carcass was red morocco spine labels. Light toning to text, generally in near fne to try and determine how far navigation towards the North Pole was condition. possible. They sailed as far north as 80°48°N and journeyed along Bound collection of Epistles by Pope and others, includes a frst the ice barrier from Spitsbergen to Novaya Zemlya without fnding printing of Pope’s Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, his celebrated poem in further northern passage through the ice. While not attaining as justifcation of his life and writings. much as they had hoped, Phipps did include important details of OF FALSE TASTE An Epistle to the Right Honourable Richard Earl Spitsberg’s natural history and resources. It is an “important addition of Burlington … Third Edition. L., Gilliver, 1731. Lacks fnal ad leaf. to early nautical science” (Hill). Horatio Nelson, at fourteen, was Grifth 267; Foxon P913. Captain Lutwidge’s coxswain on the Carcass during this voyage. [Epistle IV] OF THE USE OF RICHES, an Epistle to the Right Nelson and another slipped out one night to shoot a bear for the Honourable Allen Lord Bathurst. … Second Edition. L., J. Wright, skin — Nelson wanted to give it to his father — they ran out of for Lawton Gilliver, 1733. Lacks fnal ad leaf. Grifth 323; Foxon P925- ammunition and were only rescued from their difculties when the 26. Carcass fred its gun and scared the bear away. Richard Westall’s [Epistle III] AN EPISTLE TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE painting of Nelson attacking the bear is in the National Maritime RICHARD LORD VISC[OUN]T COBHAM. L., Lawton Gilliver, 1733. Museum. First edition. Lacks half-title [“Of the Knowledge and Characters of A superb contemporary binding, with a signifcant presentation, Men”] and fnal ad leaf. Page 1 soiled. Grifth 329; Foxon P920. inscribed on half-title, “To the Honble Mrs. Howe / from her [Epistle I]. OF THE CHARACTERS OF WOMEN. L., J. Wright, for obedient servant / The Author.” Lawton Gilliver, 1735. First edition, Second state of title. Lacks half- Mrs. Howe was the wife of Richard Howe, British naval ofcer and title and fnal ad leaf. Grifth 360; Foxon P917. politician. Westport, the Howe residence, is one of the great houses [Epistle II] AN ESSAY ON MAN … Epistle I [-IV]. Later edition of of western Ireland. Howe, whose ship the Dunkirk fred the frst frst part; second-fourth parts lack preliminaries. 1733 [-34]. Foxon shots of the Seven Years’ War, was MP for Dartmouth for 30 years, P827, P833, P840, P845. and in the late 1760s a member of the Board of Admiralty (hence the AN EPISTLE … TO DR. ARBUTHNOT. J. Wright, for Lawton connection with Phipps, whose uncle Augustus Hervey was also a Gilliver, 1734. First edition. Grifth 352; Foxon P802. member). The early period of the “American War of Independence [BRAMSTON, James.] The Man of Taste. Occasion’d by an Epistle when Howe was commander-in-chief in North America, was then of Mr. Pope’s on that Subject. Half-title with engraved frontispiece and is still the most controversial of his long career. For most of his on verso. Later printing. 1733 Foxon B398. command his younger brother Major-General Sir William Howe [NEWCOMB, Thomas.] The Woman of Taste. Occasion’d by a late commanded the army in the colonies. Much has been written of Poem, entitled, The Man of Taste … Second Edition. 1733. Foxon their combined approach to hostilities, torn between conciliation N283. [NEWCOMB, Thomas.] The Woman of Taste. In a Second and aggression, and the extent to which they exceeded or ignored Epistle, from Clelia in Town to Sappho in the Country. 1733. Foxon instructions” (DNB). Phipps was later a member of the Admiralty N285. board and a key adviser to Sandwich in the unsuccessful British [HARTE, Walter.] An Essay on Reason. Lacks fnal ad leaf. 1735. strategy to retain the American colonies. Foxon H93. A beautiful copy.. $2,750 $12,500

james cummins bookseller booth e-3 19 83 POPE, Alexander. The Poetical Works … xxxii, xxxviii, [39]-315; [vi], 4. PRO AND CON … London: printed for J. Roberts … 1741. FIRST 365, [1]; [iv], 402, [4, subscriber list] pp. Folio. Glasgow: Printed by EDITION. Folio, pp. 9; a very good unpressed copy. Foxon P1102. Andrew Foulis, 1785. Contemporary quarter calf and marbled boards, 5. WHAT OF THAT! Occasion’d by a pamphlet, intitled, Are rebacked to style. Gaskell 678. These Things So? and its answer, Yes, They Are … London: printed A handsome copy of the Foulis edition of Pope’s works. for T. Cooper … and sold by the pamphlet shops of London and $1,500 Westminster. 1740. FIRST EDITION. Folio, pp. 16; two catchwords just shaved. Foxon W380. 6. THEY ARE NOT … London: printed for J. Roberts … 1740. FIRST 84 EDITION. Folio, pp. 8. Foxon T150, recording three copies only. “Are These Things So?” — “Yes They Are” — “They Are Not” 7. [MORRIS, Robert.] YES, THEY ARE: being an answer to Are These Things So? The previous question from an Englishman in his (POPEIANA) Collection of nine poetical pamphlets, arising from grotto to a great man at court … London: printed for T. Cooper … James Miller’s poem ARE THESE THINGS SO? bound together. 1740. FIRST EDITION, re-impression, with sig. B under ‘wish ‘ and Folio. London: Various publishers, 1740-1741. Modern half calf, with no advertisement on last page. Folio, pp. [ii], 13. Foxon M512. an early manuscript list and bookplate of George Kenyon of Peel, 8. [MORRIS, Robert.] HAVE AT YOU ALL: being a proper and both from the original volume, bound in. distinct reply to three pamphlets just published, intitled, What of A remarkable collection of poems arising from James Miller’s poem That? The Weather-menders, and They are not. By the author of Are These Things So?, an attack on Walpole written in the voice of Yes, They Are … London: printed for T. Cooper … 1740. FIRST Pope. It generated enormous controversy and a host of responses EDITION. Folio, pp. 8. Foxon M507. and counter-attacks. Miller even penned his own response in the 9. ‘SPILTIMBER, Mr.’ THE WEATHER-MENDERS: a tale. A proper voice of Walpole (“The Great Man’s Answer,” included here), in answer to Are These Things So? By Mr. Spiltimber … London: which the Prime Minister inadvertently skewers himself. The subtitle printed for J. Roberts … 1740. FIRST EDITION. Folio, pp. 8. Foxon of the original was clearly intended to suggest Alexander Pope, and S654. probably to hint at his authorship — the Dublin editions even go $3,500 so far as to attribute the poem to him. The playwright James Miller has, however, always been identifed as responsible; but, as James McLaverty points out, the frst edition was printed by John Wright, 85 who worked closely with Pope, “and it seems unlikely that he could “It’s very difficult to keep the wolf away from the door” have been involved without Pope’s consent.” Pope was not sorry to see confusion about whether or not he had written the poem, and PORTER, Cole. Archive of letters, documents and promissory notes it is possible that he saw the frst edition through the press. In that concerning fnancial matters, mostly written to Porter’s lawyer and relative case, the many alterations of which Miller complains in this second Albert Harvey Cole. 6 typed letters, signed (“Cole”), to Albert Harvey edition were probably Pope’s own doing. Cole, on Waldorf-Astoria letterhead; 3 typed documents, signed This volume, although rebound and in some places cut too close (“Cole Porter”); three promissory notes, signed (“Cole Porter”); by the original binder, is an excellent collection of both the original 4 retained carbons; 1 typed letter, signed, from Margaret Moore, text and the many replies. Some of the poems are really rare — secretary to Cole Porter. Various sizes, letters approx. 11 x 8-1/2 in. Newcomb’s attacking Supplement (2) and the anonymous They Are New York: 10 January 1925-5 September 1952. Some light creasing, Not (6) seem to be recorded in a few copies only. tears with loss to upper right corner of two documents, not afecting See James McLaverty, Pope ‘s Printer John Wright (Oxford text, else generally near fne. Bibliographical Society, 1977), pp. 7 and 26. A fascinating correspondence, revealing that behind a nonchalant 1. [MILLER, James.] ARE THESE THINGS SO? The previous pose of indiference to money matters — “Sara Murphy commented question, from an Englishman in his grotto, to a great man at court that [Porter] never paid attention to money, assuming that everyone … The second edition corrected: with the addition of twenty lines had it” (ANB) — Porter kept a close eye on his fnances and was omitted in the former impressions. London: printed for T. Cooper … deeply concerned about his fnancial standing. In a series of 6 typed 1740. Second edition. Folio, pp. [iv], 15; outer margin of D2v cropped letters from Porter to his attorney and relative Albert Harvey Cole, afecting frst letter (only) of each line; a couple of other leaves Porter asks that money be transferred into certain accounts (in order shaved but with no loss. Foxon M237. to keep a minimum of $5,000 in his “Special Account”), inquires 2. [NEWCOMB, Thomas.] A SUPPLEMENT TO A LATE into account balances, complains about his tax liability (a whopping EXCELLENT POEM, entitled, Are These Things So? Address’d to $120,000 for the frst quarter of 1945), thanks Cole for “that life saving the **** … London, printed for J. Roberts … 1740. FIRST EDITION. loan,” and wishes he could “touch a bit” of his inheritance from his 4to, pp. 16; lower edge uncut. Foxon N271, recording three copies mother’s estate. It is clear from these letters, as well as the three only (L, OW; CtY). promissory notes in which Porter borrows over $26,000, that despite 3. [MILLER, James.] THE GREAT MAN’S ANSWER TO ARE his income and his family’s wealth, Porter was often short on funds. THESE THINGS SO? in a dialogue between [sic] his honour and the A revealing collection of letters and documents. Englishman in his grotto … By the author of Are These Things So? $5,000 London: printed for T. Cooper … 1740. FIRST EDITION. Folio, pp. [iv], 13; Dlv cropped, afecting frst letter (only) of each line, with a few letters cropped on the recto also; CI shaved barely afecting text; Dl signed ‘E’ (as in the Bodleian copy). Foxon M249. james cummins bookseller booth e-3 20 86 pennies, you can send a letter to any place on earth, to the farthest, With 7 Merle Johnson Watercolors of Piratical Scenes most desolate corner where human beings live”); and fnally, she PYLE, Howard. Howard Pyle’s Book of Pirates. Compiled by Merle enjoys the aesthetics of stamps (“the stamps of Japan are consistently Johnson. Illustrated with 36 full-page plates (of which 12 are in color) the best”). With a copy of the published article. on glossy paper, and numerous illustrations in black and white $7,500 throughout the text, this copy EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED on the endsheets with 7 watercolor drawings (5 full-page) by Merle Johnson, signed (“Merle Johnson” or “M.J.”) xvii, [1], 247 pp. 4to. New York: Harper & 89 Brothers, 1921. First edition, no. 21 of 50 copies only on Japan vellum The First Cookbook by an African American stock, signed by Merle Johnson on the limitation page. Publisher’s ROBERTS, Robert. The House Servant’s Directory, Or a Monitor for cloth spine and boards, color plate afxed to front cover. Spine soiled, Private Families: Comprising hints for Arrangements and Performance of small crease to frontispiece plate. In a custom cloth slipcase with red Servants’ Work …. xiv, 180 pp. 12mo. Boston: Monroe & Francis, 1827. morocco label. First edition. Contemporary American tree calf, black morocco spine The deluxe edition on Japan vellum of this collection of pirate tales label. Joints starting, some loss to head of spine, light spotting and and illustrations by Howard Pyle, compiled by Merle Johnson. This toning to text, dampstain to fnal three leaves. Lowenstein 107; Cagle copy marvelously extra-illustrated by Merle Johnson with 7 full – and & Staford 647; Blockson Collection 9537 (1969 reprint); American double-page watercolor illustrations of pirates. These are not the Imprints 30468. grim, hardened pirates of Pyle’s illustrations — Johnson’s pirates are “In order to get through your work in proper time, you should make drawn in a humorous, cartoon style that blends the historical and the it your chief study to rise early in the morning; for an hour before the modern. In one double-page spread a fapper in evening dress guides family rises is worth more to you than two after they are up” (p. 15). a pirate towards the end of a plank by the barrel of a gun. Another First edition of the frst cookbook written by an African American and double-page spread at the rear of the book shows a pirate burying his the frst book by a black American ever published by a commercial chest of treasure as a flm crew shoots in the background. publisher. Roberts (1780-1860) was employed for many years by $7,500 Christopher Gore, governor and senator from Massachusetts. “Some historians think this work was seminal in producing men of singular ability as caterers, and managers — rather than servants — of large 87 households” (Longone, American Cookbooks and Wine Books RAFFALOVICH, [Marc] André. Roses of Shadow. 19 pp. Tall 8vo. np: 1797-1950, p. 2). Roberts’ Directory was popular enough to warrant Privately printed and not for general distribution, nd [c. 1895]. First a second and third edition, and the book remains in print today in edition. Original printed brown wrappers. Covers soiled and worn various reprint editions. with split along spine, some light foxing and creasing to text. A handsome copy in contemporary American tree calf of an Scarce privately-printed one-act play by the salon host and pioneering important book, ofering insight into domestic work, household writer on homosexuality, Marc André Rafalovich (1864-1934). A note management, and race relations in early 19th century America. on page 19 lists the actors for performances of the play in 1893 and $7,500 1894, and the work was presumably published shortly thereafter. $3,500 90 RARE PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE NORTH RUSSIAN RELIEF FORCE 1919 88 (RUSSIA), NIGHTINGALE, G[uy] W[arneford], R[oyal] Munster. “A stamp album is a miraculous brain-restorer” “Photographs of the North Russian Relief Force. April 1919 to October RAND, Ayn. Autograph Manuscript of her article “Why I Like Stamp 1919. General H. deV. Sadleir-Jackson’s Brigade.” Approximately 100 Collecting.” 16-1/2 pp. blue ink on pale blue paper, paginated 1-14, 16 snapshots, mounted and captioned in ink. Typed order bearing the (complete, erroneously skipping 15) with additional two half pages ink stamp “Russian Relief Force” dated 9 September 1919 laid down. of inserts, extensive corrections and deletions throughout, many in Photographs measuring 6 x 4 inches and smaller. Oblong 8vo (8 3/4 red ink, with “by Ayn Rand” added in another hand. 4to (11 x 8-1/2 x 6 1/2 inches). April 1919 to October 1919. Contemporary gray cloth, in.). 13 February 1971. A few minor spots of soiling. Laid into a quarter ms. title to upper board, upper joint wearing but holding nicely. red morocco dropbox with a red leather label on upper cover. A rare survival from a distinguished World War One veteran. Born in A heavily reworked manuscript draft of Rand’s article on stamp India, Nightingale was educated at Rugby and Sandhurst and joined collecting, “Why I Like Stamp Collecting,” published, with some the Royal Fusiliers in 1910. He survived the landing on V beach (Cape changes, in 1971 in Jacques Minkus’ Stamp Journal (vol. IV, no. 2). Helles, Gallipoli) April 25th, 1915, and the following year he was Rand recounts how a meeting later in life with a young stamp awarded both the Military Cross and the Legion D’Honneur for his collector revived her interest in a hobby she had begun when ten services. years old but had to give up when she fed the Russian Revolution. Nightingale subsequently served with the 46th Battalion Royal Rand gives her many reasons for stamp collecting: an hour spent Fusiliers in the North Russian Relief Force, part of the invasion of working on her collection is a remedy for mental fatigue; it is a Russia by the English, Irish and the Americans. The operation was hobby for “busy, purposeful, ambitious people”; there is a pleasant conducted under the command of General H. de V. Sadleir-Jackson. fraternity among stamp collectors; collecting can have the thrill of Arriving in Archangel on 5 June 1919, the 46th proceeded along the the treasure hunt; stamp collecting enlarges one’s perception of the Dvina River to Osinova where preparations were made for an attack world and is a testament to the technical brilliance of man (“for a few on rail and river transport. The objective was to repel the Red Army james cummins bookseller booth e-3 21 from their established positions and generally improve the position with Babe Ruth — a legendary lover of hot dogs — was close. of the White Russian forces. The hope was that the NRRF would After a long and successful career as a concessionaire, Stevens died be able to subsequently withdraw without signifcant casualties. in 1934, and in 1996, 166 items of his baseball memorabilia were In addition, smaller raids on Red Army positions were carried out auctioned of in New York. Among these was a photograph of Babe to the south, partly to destabilize them, partly as reconnaissance. Ruth, estranged from his parents from childhood, hitting his 60th Nightingale was in command of the Borok Column on the right home run. The photo was inscribed: “To my second dad Harry M bank of the Dvina River for the August 10 ofensive. Stevens from Babe Ruth, December 25th 1927.” A magnifcent — and The frst photos are of the H.M.T. “War Summit” & H.M.T. quintessentially American — association item. “Pretorian” chugging through the Arctic Ocean and White Sea $37,500 in Midsummer, June 1919 on its way to Archangel. They were billeted at Troitsa and among the many images of the town and its surroundings is one of where the mutiny of Dyer’s Battalion took 92 place. Equally, there are shots of Russian batteries, Allied defenses, SAGARD [THEODAT], Gabriel. Le Grand Voyage du Pays des Hurons, company headquarters and regimental aid posts, as well as images of situé en l’Amérique vers la Mer douce, és derniers confns de la nouvelle the Dvina River, Yaroslovskoe and Selso. A page is devoted to “Col. France, dite Canada … Avec un dictionaire de la langue Huronne. [bound Davies Headquarters at Commencement of Action Aug 10th” and with:] Dictionaire de la Langue Huronne. Extra engraved title; [22], shows how the British troops organized themselves in the Selmenga 380, [2]; 12, [146], [14] pp. (a8, e8, A-Z8, a-k8). 8vo (6-9/16 x 4-1/4 in.), Forest, namely with three shots of “Piccadilly Circus (Selmenga Paris: Chez Denys Moreau, ruë St. Jacques, à la Salamandre s’Argent, Forest) with Shaftesbury Avenue and Regent Street.” 1632. First edition. Modern crushed red morocco by Palomino, in The attack commenced at noon and, despite the difculty of the blue morocco chemise and marbled slipcase. Sabin 74881 & 74883; terrain, was successful. We know that Borok (Nightingale’s objective) European Americana 632/86; Arents 181; Bell S33; Church 421; Field was reported captured, along with 80 POWs, by eleven o’clock that 1341 & 1342; Harrisse (Nouvelle France) 52 & 53; JCB II: 243-44; Lande evening. Nightingale was evacuated in late September. S2012; Pilling, Iroquoian, p.147; Streeter I, 93; Vlach 661; TPL 6305; This is not only a record of the battle but includes many poignant Greenly, Michigan 10; 100 Michigan Rarities 1; Howgego, S9. personal touches too. Namely, there are several shots of men with This “work of great interest and importance” (Sabin), an account of whom he served and the Russians with whom he stayed. The captions Récollet lay-brother Sagard’s missionary work in Huronia, contains not only name the men in each photograph, but in many cases reveal the FIRST PRINTED DICTIONARY OF THE HURON LANGUAGE and is the their fate: “Lt Taylor (killed Aug 10th) Lt Grant (wounded Aug 1st) primary non-Jesuit source on Huron life and life on the Récollet Capt. Driver (killed Aug 10th).” mission to Canada from 1615 to 1629 (Streeter). The album also includes a typed order — dated September 9, 1919 — This “work of great interest and importance” (Sabin), an account of which is a reminder that, despite the success of the August attack, Récollet lay-brother Sagard’s missionary work in Huronia, contains the Russian Civil War was ongoing and would ultimately be won the FIRST PRINTED DICTIONARY OF THE HURON LANGUAGE and is the by the Bolsheviks. “You will send one platoon to SELMENGA to primary non-Jesuit source on Huron life and life on the Récollet hold the SELMENGA BRIDGE and the beach road to GORODOK. mission to Canada from 1615 to 1629 (Streeter). The enemy are known to be in force in the vicinity of BOROK and Sagard was a missionary to the Huron nation from 1623-24, and GORODOK and may attempt an outfanking movement … The this work is based on his time in Huronia as well as the accounts, platoon remain in position there, and will withdraw when Captain documents, and letters of his contemporaries. He travelled with de Miremont with the GORODOK Infantry comes through there Nicolas Viel and arrived in Quebec at the end of June 1623. They tonight … The Platoon should form a right fank guard to Captain followed the Ottawa River to Georgian Bay where a mission to the de Miremont from SALMENGA to PLESS.” Hurons had been established by Joseph Le Caron. It was from Le The photographs of Russia occupy the frst half of the album, Caron that Sagard acquired the basics of the Huron language so as to the rest is devoted to Nightingale’s time in Ireland with the 7th embark immediately on baptizing the Indians. “In the spring of 1624, Cadet Battalion. Despite his distinguished service in the military, he was permitted to return to Quebec for provisions, but by then was Nightingale’s fate was a melancholy one. He died in 1935, reportedly so popular with the Indians that he had to give them his word that he either by suicide (using his own revolver) of from alcoholism. would return. However, a letter from his superior, ordering him back $5,000 to France, forced him to break his promise” (Howgego). Greenly states: “Sagard and Champlain were the frst explorers to give any very defnite statements about the Huron Indian country 91 and what they had learned from these Indians about the Great Lakes (RUTH, BABE) Portrait of Babe Ruth. Pencil, pen and ink on artist’s Country.” It is an engaging, sympathetic portrayal of Huron life board, signed lower right by the artist (“Slanuzto”?). 15-3/4 x 17-1/2 and an exhaustive document of Huron culture. He also states that inches (Irregular). [New York?]: ca. 1932. Framed. traders were doing much to harm the eforts of the missionaries and The cartoon depicting the head of Babe Ruth descending from a asks that a more robust order take over the mission. Accordingly, the cloud, with ticker-tape machine spitting out Ruth’s yearly batting Jesuits commenced work there in 1625. averages, beside a “Gus Hemmingway Fan” reading the May 19th A work of immense importance and scarcity, rarely found complete quotations at lower right. Beside his portrait is the ink inscription: and “One of the most important early works on the North American “To my Pal Hal Stevens Sincerely Babe Ruth.” Indian” (Church). Caterer Harry M. Stevens, born in Derby, England in 1855, emigrated $32,5000 to the United States in the 1880s, and introduced the hot dog at a baseball game at the Polo Grounds in 1907. Clearly, his relationship james cummins bookseller booth e-3 22 93 96 SALE, George. The Koran, commonly called the Alcoran of Mohammed, The Rare Third Folio, J.P. Morgan Copy Translated Into English immediately from the Original Arabic; with SHAKESPEARE, William. Mr. William Shakespeare’s Comedies, Explanatory Notes, taken from the Most Approved Commentator. To which Histories, and Tragedies. Published according to the true Original Copies. is prefxed, a Preliminary Discourse. Title page printed in red and black. The third Impression. And unto this Impression is added seven Playes, never Folding map, folding Table of Tribes, folding plan of Mecca. xvi, before Printed in Folio [Works]. Engraved portrait by Martin Droeshout 248, 266, [14]; [8], 519, [10] pp. 2 Vols. 8vo. London: for L. Hawes, W. in Hind’s second state, woodcut head – and tail-pieces and initials. Clarke, & R. Collins, at the Red Lion in Pater Noster; and T. Wilcox, Text printed in double columns within box-rules. Collation: A4 b6; at Virgil’s Head, 1764. Second edition. Old calf, neatly rebacked with A-Z, Aa6 BB8; Cc-Zz Aaa6; Bbb-Zzz Aaaa-Daaa6 Eeee4; a6 b4 *-****4, gilt spine, red morocco labels. Some toning of margins of frst and ¶A-¶B6 ¶C-¶F4 ¶G6 = 514 leaves. Complete. Folio (12-3/4 x 8-1/2 in.; last leaves, else very good plus. 324 x 215 mm). London: Printed for P[hilip] C[hetwinde], 1664. Third $1,250 folio edition, second enlarged issue, of Shakespeare’s plays, generally regarded as the rarest of the seventeenth-century folio editions. Full red crushed morocco, triple fllet border, spine richly gilt with gold- 94 stamped title, gilt turn-ins, marbled endsheets, a.e.g., by F. Bedford. SUNNY FITZ’S COPY — seabiscuit’s first trainer Finely rebacked with original spine laid down. Portrait leaf with Ben (SEABISCUIT), BECKWITH, B.K. Seabiscuit. The Story of a Great Jonson verses inlaid; long tear in title skillfully mended (afecting a Champion. Color frontispiece of Seabiscuit from a painting by F.B. few letters in list of plays and frst O in imprint), with fore-margin Voss. Drawings by Howard Brodie. Foreward by Grantland Rice. extended; Dedication leaf [A3] signed “A2” repaired in gutter and Oblong 4to. Wilfred Crowell, Inc, 1940. First edition, no. 121 of 300 near lower corner margin; lower margins of preliminary leaves A4, copies. Padded red morocco, some wear. With the gold-stamped b1-6 extended, a few small stains on leaves Dd5 and Ee3; occasional name of owner James R. Fitzsimmons (undoubtedly James E. leaves heavily inked. A choice copy with excellent provenance. “Sunny Fitz” Fitzsimmons, famous horse trainer). Provenance: J. Pierpont Morgan, with his gilt-stamped red leather Signed by Charles Stewart Howard at the bottom of his short armorial bookplate (fyleaf verso with pencilled shelfmark “W 11 A introduction, for presentation to the friends, family and business copy 3” at top and “dupe PML CR” at bottom corner; shelfmark 5130 associates of Charles Howard, the owner of Seabiscuit. From the on verso of title). Greg III, p. 1118-1119; Pforzheimer 908 ; Wing S-2914. library of “Sunny Fitz” (James E. Fitzsimmons), Seabiscuit’s frst An unknown number of copies is thought to have been destroyed in trainer. the Great Fire of London of 1666. $2,500 The Third Folio is a reprint of the second edition (1632), but this second issue contains seven additional plays; of which only Pericles Prince of Tyre is now considered to be the work of Shakespeare. In the frst issue, the portrait was printed on the title page and the 95 verses “To the Reader” appeared opposite on the verso of the frst SELENUS, Gustavus [pseud. of Augustus II, Duke of Brunswick- leaf. For this second issue, the frst two leaves were cancelled and Luneburg]. Das Schach-oder Koenig-Spiel. Von Gustavo Seleno. 5 parts replaced by a conjugate pair, with the portrait printed above the in one, with general engraved title and engraved title to each part, Jonson verses on the frst leaf, facing the title page now listing the letterpress folding table, 3 engraved folding plates (one split at seven plays (printed by Roger Daniel on eleven supplementary fold), numerous engraved illustrations in the text. [xii], 495, [3] pp. quires): Pericles Price of Tyre, The London Prodigall, The History Collation: ()4, ):(4, (?)4, A4-3H4, 3I6, 3K4-3Q4. 4to. Leipzig: [Lorentz of Thomas Ld. Cromwell, Sir John Oldcastle Lord Cobham, The Kober … Henning Grosz], 1616. First edition. 18th century vellum, Puritan Widow, A York-shire Tragedy, The Tragedy of Locrine. remnants of ties. Some staining and wear to covers, text browned $500,000 throughout, small dampstain to fore-margin of frst few leaves, old paper repair to margin of general title, 2 preliminary leaves on stubs, faded contemporary inscription at head of title. In custom burgundy 97 cloth clamshell box. Van der Linde I, 350; Niemeijeriana 364; Schmid 118; Brunet V, 270. STEINBECK, John. The Grapes of Wrath. 619 pp. 8vo, New York: An important early book on chess, the frst book of its kind in The Viking Press, [1939]. First Edition. Original cloth, pictorial dust German, and still an important source for the history of the game jacket. Fine copy in custom morocco backed slipcase and chemise. and for several of its derivatives. “This work is a translation of Tarsia’s Goldstone & Payne A12a Italian version of Ruy Lopez, but the Duke has made large additions Very attractive copy of this 20th-century American highspot. of an historical character, which make his book of value.” (Murray, A $10,000 History of Chess, p. 852). Inscribed by the author (as Augusts) on the verso of the title-page, dated Lunaeburgo, 6 February 1617. $11,250 98 Corrected by W.E. Henley STEVENSON, Robert Louis and William Ernest HENLEY. Deacon Brodie, or, The Double Life: A Melodrama, Founded on Facts. In Four Acts and Ten Tableaux. [ii], 97, [1] pp. 12mo. [Edinburgh: Privately printed by T. and A. Constable], 1880. First edition, printed for private circulation. Original printed wrappers. Rebacked, some staining to james cummins bookseller booth e-3 23 covers. Prideaux 4; Beinecke & MacKay 58; Parrish/Princeton 9. colors. Each illustration is accompanied by a cryptic title in Japanese The frst edition, unpublished and printed for private circulation, of with translations in English. Blade types include mostly daggers this play co-written by Stevenson and Henley, an important precursor (tanto) and sabers (tachi). to the former’s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and its exploration of the $7,500 duality of man’s nature. Based on the historical Deacon Brodie — a respectable Edinburgh cabinetmaker who copied his client’s house keys to rob them at night — the play was frst performed at Pullan’s 101 Theatre of Varieties, Bradford, December 28, 1882 and multiple One of 25, with 10 Signed Plates by Tissot times therafter, including performances in North America. A second (TISSOT, JAMES), GONCOURT, Edmond et Jules de. Renée privately printed edition was issued in 1888, the frst regularly Mauperin. Édition ornée de dix compositions à l’eau-forte. Illustrated published edition appeared in 1892 in Three Plays by W.E. Henley with 10 etched plates by James Tissot. 12mo. Paris: Charpentier et Cie, and R.L. Stevenson. This copy with corrections and annotations in 1884. One of 25 copies numbered 21-50, this being no. 39 (total edition pen and pencil by W.E. Henley, marking changes that would appear 550 copies) with the plates in two states: before numbers signed in in subsequent editions. pencil, and after numbers with the artist’s red paraph. Three quarter $3,500 brown morocco and marbled boards, t.e.g. Very slight sunning to edges, one small dampstain to blank corner of frontispiece; overall, a fne copy. Ray, The Art of the French Illustrated Book 275. 99 James-Jacques Tissot’s “reputation as a painter is refected in the Uncle Tom in the Original Cloth, Early Ownership enhanced standing of his etchings. He is remembered as an illustrator STOWE, Harriet Beecher. Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly. chiefy by his designs for this novel of French society which the Illustrated vignette on title pages and 6 plates by Hammatt Billings. Goncourts had written in 1864. His interest derived from the parallel [iii]-x, [13]-312; iv, [5]-322 pp. 8vo. Boston: John P. Jewett, 1852. First which he discerned between the slow decline of its heroine and that edition (with Hobart & Robbins on the copyright pages). Publisher’s of Kathleen Newton, the woman with whom he lived …” (Ray). brown cloth (BAL binding B) front covers gilt-stamped with vignette, $5,000 spine lettering gilt. Wear to spine ends and corners, wear to rear joint of vol. II, some intermittent foxing and spotting throughout, still a very attractive set, in custom brown cloth chemises and a morocco- 102 backed slipcase. BAL 19343; Wright 2401; PMM 332; Grolier American TRAIN, Russ & Aileen. Back to Africa 1958. Illustrated title page, map, 100, 61; Sabin 92457. Provenance: Lucy Curtis (her inscriptions on vignette. [ii], [ii], 119 pp. rectos only. 4to. Washington, D.C: Privately pastedowns, “Lucy Curtis / Newton, March 26, 1852”). published,, 1959. Sole edition. Lacking front wrapper. A bright, clean A sharp copy in original publisher’s cloth of the frst edition of copy. Czech, p.286. one of the most important works of American literature. With With a Christmas card from the Trains in Aileen’s hand. contemporary ownership inscriptions on the front pastedowns dated The Trains engaged the services of renowned adventure outftters only 6 days after the book’s publication, “Lucy Curtis / Newton, Syd Downey and Donald Ker for both of their month-long safari March 26, 1852” (BAL notes that Uncle Tom’s Cabin was advertised in July-August 1958. They went after elephant and, unsuccessfully, for March 20). for bongo in 1958 — travelling near Lake Tana and the forests near “In the emotion-charged atmosphere of mid-ninteenth-century Mount Kenya. America Uncle Tom’s Cabin exploded like a bombshell. To those It was on this safari that Train noticed the dramatic changes to the engaged in fghting slavery it appeared as an indictment of all the Kenyan landscape. “On our second safari in the summer of 1958, it evils inherent in the system they opposed; to the pro-slavery forces it was obvious to us that the game situation had deteriorated seriously was a slanderous attack on ‘the Southern way of life.’ Whatever its during the two years that had elapsed since our earlier visit. Areas weakness as a literary work – — structural looseness and excess of which had abounded in wildlife were now devoid of game. Certain sentiment among them — the social impact of Uncle Tom’s Cabin species, lion and rhino in particular, were in critical circumstances. on the United States was greater than of any book before or since” Commercial slaughter of game by gangs of native poachers remains (PMM). the primary culprit in this situation […] The need is desperate to act $10,000 now before this magnifcent heritage which belongs to all the world is lost forever.” On his return to the United States, Russ Train founded The African 100 Wildlife Foundation and two years later in 1961 the World Wildlife Japanese Swords in Watercolor Fund. His eforts caught the attention of President Nixon who asked . Watercolor album of Japanese swords. 18 ink and watercolor double- him to chair his Task Force on Environment. Train was also integral page spreads (4-1/2 x 16 in.) some folding, with kanji character titles to the founding of the Environmental Protection Agency and served and English translation in manuscript. Oblong 12mo. [Japan: later as its second administrator. 19th century]. Decorated paper wrappers. Chipping and wear to His papers are held at the Smithsonian, which records copies of both edges of covers, some soiling to pages, but illustrations bright and of these titles. Two other copies of Back to Africa are held at Oxford vibrant. and Witwatersrand (South Africa). Hand painted and manuscript album containing 18 representations $1,500 of Japanese blades in scabbards (saya) with formal mountings (kochirae). Executed in ink (sumi) with richly applied polychrome james cummins bookseller booth e-3 24 103 C. 1661 (141 x 83 mm). Contents: small repair to upper outer corner [VERMEIRE], Robert. Cocktails. How to Mix Them. 112, [16, ads] pp. of title (no loss to text). Mid-19th century green morocco, spine 12mo. London: Herbert Jenkins, 1922. First edition. Publisher’s orange gilt with fshes, attractive binding. Provenance: 1. Edward Vernon cloth stamped in red. Binding soiled and darkened, gutter cracked at Utterson (1776-1856, noted bibliophile, booklabel, typical ms. note half-title, sporadic foxing, some soiling along outer margin at rear dating purchase to 1836); 2. Edward Hailstone (1818-1890, booklabel, of volume, previous owner’s inscription on fep in pencil, “Love and Walton Hall Library sold at Sotheby’s, Feb., Apr.-May 1891); 3. Dean Kisses George,” and punch recipe in pencil on pp. 80-1. Noling, p. 348 Sage (of Albany, NY. ms. note by Heckscher noting purchase from (later printings only). Sage in Jan 1891); 4. John Gerrard Heckscher (bookplate, lot 2011, sale Scarce frst edition of this important and popular cocktail manual, Merwin-Clayton Sales Company, New York, 2-5th Feb. 1909); 5. D.B. small but densely packed with recipes (including the frst appearance Fearing (bookplate). in print of the Sidecar), with special attention given to the home D. 1668 bound with Cotton 1676. (142 x 85 mm). Contents: O6 with bartender. The author, Belgian bartender Robert Vermeire, worked lower outer corner repaired with some loss: 6 words with some at London’s Royal Automobile Club, the Criterion and Embassy characters supplied in ms facsimile, pp. 214/215 music slightly shaved Club, as well as bars in France and Belgium, including his own (as often). Green morocco gilt by Riviere & Son. Provenance: 1. J.B. Robert’s Bar. He was recently named one of the 25 Most Infuential Fisher (bookplate); 2. John Gerrard Heckscher (bookplate, lot 2013, Cocktail Personalities by Imbibe. sale Merwin-Clayton Sales Company, New York, 2-5th Feb. 1909 ); 3. $1,250 Daniel B. Fearing (bookplate). E. 1676. 3 parts in one (as issued). (146 x 88 mm). Contents: with blank V4 at end of 1st part. Binding: 19th-century brown calf, spine lettered 104 in gilt, joints repaired. Provenance: 1. W. Wright (signature); 2. R. The Five ‘Lifetime’ Editions of the Compleat Angler Hindley (signature). $125,000 WALTON, Izaak. The Compleat Angler: A fne set of the frst fve editions. 5 Vols. 12mo. London: 1653-1676. First through ffth editions. First edition in early 19th century green morocco; others variously bound in green morocco (ffth ed. in 19th-century brown calf ). Custom pull 105 of cases. Provenance: Daniel Fearing; Yale Kneeland. Capt. Philip Broke’s copy with his distinctive signature An outstanding group of the frst fve editions of Izaak Walton’s (WAR OF 1812), JAMES, William. Full and Correct Account of the ‘Compleat Angler’, a landmark of English literature and the Chief Naval Occurrences of the Late War between Great Britain and the cornerstone of an angling collection, here with superb American United States of America … [With:] James, William, A Full and Correct provenance, from the library of collector Daniel B. Fearing (1859- Account of the Military Occurrences of the Late War Between Great 1918), who was one of the great angling collectors of the frst part Britain and the United States of America. 3 engraved plates (1 folding); of the twentieth century. This set includes copies from the libraries 4 folding engraved maps. [i-] xv, [xvi, errata], [1-] 528, [i-] cxx, “cxx,” of Fearing’s fellow collectors Dean Sage and J.G. Heckscher; it cxxii – ccxvi, [i-xvi, index]; [i-] xxxii, [1-] 476; [i-ii, 1-] 582, [i-xvi, index] was sold to bibliophile Yale Kneeland before 1918 (as recorded in pp. 3 Vols. 8vo. London: T. Egerton & for the Author, 1817-18. First correspondence to this efect from Fearing’s widow to the widow of editions. Uniformly bound in contemporary diced calf, spine gilt, Yale Neeland) ; upon Fearing’s death, his other set of the Compleat “Naval” rebacked with original spine laid down, joints a little weak. Anglers (uniformly re-bound by Riviere) went to Harvard. Some occasional spotting throughout. Very good copies. Gagnon I A. 1653, issue with “contention.” (140 x 84 mm) Attractive binding: 1775; Howes J-52 & J-53; Lande 467; Sabin 35717 & 35718; TPL 1057; A. early 19th century green straight-grained morocco, spine titled in gilt T. Mahan, Sea power in its relation to the war of 1812 (1905). with simple rules, boards with single rule border, a.e.g. Contents: An excellent set with a highly important provenance, belonging some old light-medium damp-staining, repaired tear to outer blank to the Captain of the Shannon, Philip Broke. Sets of James’s work margin of the second leaf and to an old worm hole at inner top including both the “Nava …” and the “Military Occurrences” are margin B4-D4 (none of the repairs approaching text). Provenance: rare, but this set — the victor’s set — of the most celebrated Naval 1. Compton family, Minstead Manor, nr. Lyndhurst, Hampshire engagement of the war is unique. (18th century armorial bookplate); 2. Scrope Berdmore, warden of From 1801 to 1813, James was engaged as an attorney of the supreme Merton College, Oxford (armorial bookplate dated 1790, the date court in Jamaica, and practiced as a proctor in the vice-admiralty he became warden); 3. Daniel B. Fearing, Newport, R.I. (bookplate court. At the time of the declaration of war between Great Britain signed “S.[idney] L.[awton] S.[mith] Feb. 1899,” label with red ink and the United States in 1812, James happened to be visiting America note of purchase in New York on 19 March 1909 for “$STOO” written en route to England, and was taken prisoner. Shortly thereafter, by Fearing). towards the end of 1813, he managed to escape to Halifax, where he B. 1655 (138 x 74 mm). Contents: close shaved, occasionally touching published a pamphlet entitled An Enquiry Into The Merits of the the headlines, generally attractive. Late-19th/early 20th century principal Naval Actions between Great Britain and the United States French binding by Marcelin Lortic (signed “Lortic fls” and therefore (1816), of which the present frst work is a greatly expanded version. after 1891): green morocco gilt. Provenance: 1. W.B. Tarbutt His harsh and uncomplimentary remarks aimed at the Americans (bookplate); 2. John Gerrard Heckscher (Tifany & Co. bookplate aroused much angry criticism in the American press. James later dated 1899, featuring a leaping Tarpon, ex-lot 2010, sale Merwin- became one of the standard authorities on British naval history and Clayton Sales Company, New York, 2-5th Feb. 1909); 3. Daniel B. this is regarded as “[o]ne of the best books for the military events of Fearing (bookplate). the war of 1812” (Henry Stevens). Philip Broke’s ownership of this set is particularly signifcant as james cummins bookseller booth e-3 25 it includes a detailed description of his pivotal role in the most 106 celebrated sea battle of the War of 1812. See pp. 211 – 251 in the frst WEBSTER, Charles Montague. 4 albums of 87 watercolors and work, and a number of entries in the appendix in the same work for drawings of Life and Sport in Ceylon. 87 mounted sheets of original an account and discussion of the battle. watercolors (57) and pen, ink or pencil drawings (30), most signed, As diplomatic relations sufered between the US and Britain and war together with a 1 page typed letter signed from the Manager of the appeared likely, Broke had been ordered to Halifax in 1811. The US Queens Hotel in Kandy, addressed to Webster, reproving him for his declaration of war came on 18 June 1812 and, due to the superiority of behavior “in the Hotel Dining Room last Sunday night,” Webster has their naval feet (the ships were larger and more powerful), enjoyed added a number of pen and ink thumbnail sketches illustrating what victory over Britiain in the naval battles during the frst nine months he had got up to. 4 Vols. Oblong 4to. no place, but Sri Lanka: circa and six or so engagements though early 1813. 1925-1930. Bound in various commercial albums: 2 in “The Beacon During this time the Shannon had cruised without encountering any Album” & 2 in “The Cambrian Album.” With a small obituary notice American ships. However, it was during this fallow period that Broke on front pastedown of one volume. instituted a training regimen in gunnery that laid the foundation for One album opens with a typed letter from the manager of The victory over the Chesapeake. The men were trained six days a week Kandy Queens Hotel, Oct. 1927, assessing Mr. C.M. Webster of (Saturdays excepted) when either by watches or in their entirity Ellamulla, Kandapola for 5/ for breakage. A tea planter by trade, they were execised at quarters fring at targets until they became Webster has masterfully annotated the letter and the verso with pen unusually profcient. and ink drawings of the goings on. This training paid of handsomely when in June 1813, the Shannon Although Webster was clearly an amateur, the best images in this engaged the Chesapeake within sight of Boston. “The Shannon collection are funny and very well designed and executed. He was able quickly overwhelmed the Chesapeake. Broke, calling out ‘Follow me to adopt a number of diferent styles, from pure Art Deco to images who can!’, sprang on board the latter, followed by some ffty or sixty echoing the dynamic rhythm of the woodcuts of Claude Flight. The of his men. The struggle was short. The Americans, bewildered and subjects depicted include baseball(!), fencing, hunting, shooting and panic-stricken, were beaten below without much difculty. Broke riding. Various places are referred to: Galella, Ellamulle, Kandapola was seriously wounded on the head by a cutlass blow; but within (all tea plantations), and the Hunter’s Arms. A friend, Lionel S. Boys, ffteen minutes from the frst gun being fred by the Shannon the who appears to have visited Webster, comes in for some “ribbing.” It Chesapeake’s colours were hauled down, and the British colours is noted online that C.M. Webster worked as the Assistant Manager hoisted” (ODNB). 56 sailors on the Chesapeake were killed and 85 on the Ellamulle (or Yellamalle in Tamil) Plantation from 1927 to wounded, including her captain James James Lawrence who died of 1930. As a whole, the drawings ofer some indirect insight into the his wounds on 4 June. Lawrence’s last command was reported to be, of-duty antics of British colonials in Sri Lanka. Webster died “at “Don’t give up the ship.” his home Wrantage, Somerest, former tea planter and writer. Dear Broke caused a sensation in both America and England commanding father of Diana and Glenys and grandfather of Lyndsley and dear the Shannon’s victory over the Chesapeake on 1 June 1813. It was the brother of Anthony.” frst English victory at sea during the War of 1812. On the Shannon, $7,500 24 were killed and 59 wounded, including Broke. The crew of the Chesapeake lost 56 men and had another 85 injured. Captain James Lawrence’s fnal command to his crew was “Don’t give up the ship.” 107 He died of his injuries three days later. A Fine Copy of the Second Edition of Leaves of Grass The ship returned to Halifax where Broke recovered at the Commissioner’s residence. Recognition came quickly for Broke [WHITMAN, Walt]. Leaves of Grass. Frontispiece portrait. [1] f. and he was created a baronet on 25 September of that year. In 1815 (blank), pp. [i]-iv, [5]-384, [1, advertisement (verso blank)], [1] f. (blank). he became Knight Commander of the Order of Bath and was just 12mo. Brooklyn, New York: [Fowler and Wells], 1856. Second edition, one of eight men to be awarded the Naval Gold Medal. His wounds with an additional 20 poems not published in the 1855 edition. precluded further naval service, but he continued to as a gunnery Original green cloth, spine stamped with leafy title and the celebrated specialist and was promoted to Rear Admiral in July 1830. Emerson quote in gilt, upper board titled in gilt within ornamental ODNB concludes his entry with the following: “He was the worthy border in blind, lower board in blind. Fine, fresh copy, with just a few victor of the fnest single ship action in the history of naval warfare minute spots of rubbing at corners. In a custom green half morocco under sail. His training methods, professionalism, and commitment clamshell box. Wells & Goldsmith, pp. 5-6; BAL 21396; Myerson A2.2. reversed the trend of American victories, restored national pride, Provenance: John Stuart Groves (his morocco book label). and laid the foundation for the post-war navy.” A fne copy of the second edition of Leaves of Grass. As well as Provenance: Rear Admiral Sir Philip Bowes Vere Broke, 1st Baronet the additional poems, Whitman has included a fnal section of KCB (1776-1841), Captain of the Shannon, signature on the title page Correspondence and Review, called “Leaves-Droppings,” beginning of the frst work, and on the dedication page of the frst volume with the famous letter from Emerson containing the salutation “I of the second work, marginal notes in pencil on p. xxxvi of the greet you at the beginning of a great career …” which Whitman “appendix” in the frst work. had rather boldly stamped on the spine of the original binding. $12,500 The Christian Examiner of November, 1856, was not amused, and wrote: “… Thus the honored name of Emerson, which has never before been associated with anything save refnement and delicacy in speech and writing, is made to indorse a work that teems with abominations.” $30,000 james cummins bookseller booth e-3 26 108 110 WILDE, Oscar. Autograph Note, signed (“Oscar Wilde”), to John Ehret WILLYAMS, Cooper. A Voyage Up The Mediterranean in His Majesty’s Dickinson. One page (5 lines) on “Solora” stationery. London: ‘94 Ship The Swiftsure. One of The Squadron Under The Command of Rear [1874]. Fine, with integral blank, on recto of which is the “shadow,” – Admiral Baron Nelson of The Nile, And Duke of Bronte in Sicily, With or faint image, of a key. A Description of The Battle of The Nile On The First of August 1798 and A note to John Ehret Dickinson (1860-1896), the grandson of the a detail of events that occured subsequent to the battle in various parts of founder of the famous paper-making frm, and a friend of Wilde. the Mediterranean. 43 hand-colored plates. xxiii, 309 pp. 4to (285 x 230 Dickinson “had aesthetic tastes and deplored his family’s connection mm). London: T. Bensley, 1802. First edition. Modern three quarter with trade” (v. Holland/Hart-Davis, The Letters, p. 295, footnote) red morocco and cloth, spine gilt. Very slight shelfwear. Quite clean, and the family frm provided paper for the endsheets of some of fresh, and unblemished internally. A handsome, near fne copy. Wilde’s books, including those for the deluxe issue of The Sphinx. Abbey 196; Blackmer 1813; Hilmy II:335; Prideaux, pp.223 & 357; Cox Reading in full: “For John Ehret Dickirson [sic], in admiration of II:448; JCB Maritime hand-list 1235; NMM 5:1657. his incomparable art and his incomparable personality, from Oscar A lovely, fully-colored copy of this important account of Nelson’s Wilde. London ’94.” victory at the Nile, and of travels in the Mediterranean. Willyams Two of Wilde’s books, inscribed to Dickinson in 1888, were sold at served as chaplain of the Swiftsure, a ship in Nelson’s squadron, and Sotheby’s in 1910 and Wilde often stayed at Dickinson’s Hertfordshire he was present at the Battle of the Nile. country home, Abbots Hill. The wording of the note nearly exactly “Placed as he was in the midst of a battle as splendid and extraordinary matches Wilde’s inscription to the actress Mrs. Patrick Campbell in as the page of history has ever recorded, an attendant of the chase a frst edition of The Sphinx (1894), and it is conceivable that Wilde which preceded it, and of many interesting occurrences and scenes penned this note to include in a presentation copy of that work. The which the shores of the Mediterranean exhibited for nearly two ofset “shadow” of a key also suggests that Wilde was returning a years after its termination, he daily minuted with his pen and pencil key, perhaps to Abbots Hill. the observations and images which obtruded themselves upon him. The note is written on “Solora” stationery — heretofore unknown to The authenticity of such memorials, and the views of places and us — which includes an image of the Sphinx at top left, surrounded people, which the present as well as the past has rendered subjects of on three sides by phrases in an unknown code or language, with such warm curiosity and interest, may, as his friends fatter him, give “SOLORA” printed beneath. a value to his simple diary, and the sketches, even if unskilful, of a $6,000 self-taught artist” (preface). The ODNB calls this book “the frst, the most particular, and the most authentic account of the battle.” Willyams was a talented 109 topographer and artist, and this is a handsomely produced book, HEAVILY ANNOTATED BY DONALD WINDHAM showing the skill of the printer, Bensley. The plates are after drawings done by Willyams and include a plan of the battle, as well as views WILLIAMS, Tennessee. Memoirs. Illustrated. 264 pp. 8vo. Garden in Sicily, Syracuse, Egypt, Alexandria, Syria, Venice, Gibraltar, and City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1975. Book Club edition. other locations around the Mediterranean. The text includes well- Cloth and boards. Near fne in very good dust-jacket. written descriptions of all these places and more. Tennessee Williams’ Memoirs, heavily annotated and corrected by $4,000 Donald Windham, former collaborator and friend, for Bob Wilson of the Phoenix Bookshop. With a note on the fep by Windham, “Annotated by Donald Windham in response to the request on page xviii [‘This “thing,” as I have come to call it, will need your 111 interpretation …”] … annotations made 1976-8 …” with a further John Sparrow’s Copy note dated 1989 announcing more “corrections.” [YOUNG, Edward]. The Universal Passion. Satire I-V, and “Satire Windham (1920-2010) collaborated with Williams in 1946 on the play the Last.” Folio. London: J. Roberts, 1725-1726. First editions. You Touched Me!, though their relationship had soured by the time Contemporary calf, spine with gilt morocco label. Joints rubbed, Williams published his memoirs. A photo of Windham reproduced fep loose, pages of Satire the Last toned, still an attractive copy in facing page 99 is captioned by Williams, “Donald Windam … an original condition. Bookplate of John Darner, possibly the profigate early friend in New York; whose present disafection I much regret.” husband (committed suicide in 1776) of Anne Seymour Darner, Windham, who was clearly ofended by Williams’ Memoirs, has sculptress and friend of Horace Walpole; and the bookplate of the copiously annotated this copy, pointing out all manner of factual and notable bibliophile and Oxford don, John Sparrow. Rothschild 2612 chronological errors, often with reference to Williams’ own words (collected second edition only). in his collected letters. Windham later published his correspondence “The great achievement of Young’s early career” (ODNB) and an with Williams — which contains some of the writer’s most revealing important infuence on Pope, the seven satires entitled The Universal letters — without his permission. In 1989 Windham published a Passions were published as separate folios between 1725 and 1728 and brutal look at Williams’ later years, Lost Friendships. were collected in a second edition in 1728 under the title Love of Laid-in is a typed and partially manuscript review of the book by Fame. Wilson, who casts doubt that Williams could be responsible for such Satire VI, not present here, was actually printed in 1728, after “Satire a poorly written work. Wilson’s review was published in Bibliognost: the Last,” in 1726. Laid in is a retained copy of a Typed Letter, The Book Collector’s Little Magazine II (II), pp. 73-4 (1976). unsigned from 12 May, 1955, almost certainly by JOHN SPARROW, to A fascinating artifact of a famous literary feud. an Edward Young scholar regarding the seemingly strange absence $2,500 of Satire VI in this contemporary binding: james cummins bookseller booth e-3 27 “It occurs to me that, since the seventh satire is called “Satire the Addendum Last” and is not numbered [underlined phrase] and is anterior in date (1726) to Satires V (1727) and VI (which I understand was published NEILL, John R. A selection of John R Neill’s original zinc plates for un 1728, though it is missing from my copy), it may be that Young the Oz series, most from The Patchwork Girl of Oz. wrote and published the last Satire, either intending the whole poem Born in Philadelphia in 1877, Neill was a essentially a self-taught to consist of fve Satires only … or without having made up his mind artist. He joined the Philadelphia Inquirer in the mid-1890s and was whether or not he was going to add further Satires … It is to be selected to illustrate a sequel to L. Frank Baum’s Wizard of Oz, the noted that Satires V and VI are the only ones which carry an actual Marvelous Land of Oz (1904). Neill’s illustrations were immediately title (“On Women”) on their title page. I would suggest, on this successful and he illustrated the rest of Baum’s Oz series until his hypothesis, that the original owner of my copy bought the Satires death in 1919. Neill continued to illustrate the post-Baum Oz titles, as they came out and had them bound up in 1727, fondly supposing eventually taking over the writing toward the end of his life. that he had the complete set; later, Young published Satire VI, to be “It had long been assumed that all of the original printing plates for interposed before ‘Satire the Last.’” the Oz books had been destroyed over the years, frst during the scrap The contents of this fascinating copy are as follows: metal drives of World War II and after Reilly & Lee was purchased by YOUNG, Edward. THE UNIVERSAL PASSION. Satire I. To his Henry Regnery, who eventually dropped all of the Oz titles except Grace the Duke of Dorset … London: printed for J. Roberts in Baum’s. Unexpectedly, last December a signifcant number of these Warwick-Lane. 1725. FIRST EDITION. Folio, pp. [iv], 15. Foxon Y122. long forgotten plates turned up in New York. They came from the THE UNIVERSAL PASSION. Satire II … London: printed for J. internationally renowned Richard Manney collection of rare books Roberts in Warwick-Lane. 1725. FIRST EDITION, Folio, pp. 17, and comprise the only set known to survive” (Hearn). bound without the half title. Foxon Y125. THE UNIVERSAL PASSION. Satire III. To the right honourable Mr. Forty-fve plates are available for purchase, thirty-seven individual Dodington … London: printed for J. Roberts in Warwick-Lane. 1725. page plates and eight double-page. Each is housed in a custom FIRST EDITION. Folio, pp. [iv], 15. Foxon Y128. morocco clam-shell box, includes a same size proof of the plate THE UNIVERSAL PASSION. Satire IV. To the right honourable Sir itself, and a copy of Michael Patrick Hearn’s essay, “Joseph R. Neill: Spencer Compton … London: printed for J. Roberts in Warwick- Imperial Illustrator of Oz” (printed by the Ascensius Press in a Lane. 1725. FIRST EDITION. Folio, pp. [iv], 14, [2] blank. Foxon Y130. limited edition of just 80 copies.) THE UNIVERSAL PASSION. Satire V. On Women … London: Individual descriptions and price of each plate is available on request. printed for J. Roberts in Warwick-Lane. 1727. FIRST EDITION. Folio, pp. [iv], 28. Foxon Y134. See cover illustration and below THE UNIVERSAL PASSION. Satire the last. To the right honourable Sir Robert Walpole … London: printed for J. Roberts in Warwick- Lane. 1726. FIRST EDITION. Folio, pp. [iv], 12. Foxon Y132. $2,000

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