Sotheby's Property From The Collection of Robert S Pirie Volumes I & II: Books and Manuscripts New York | 02 Dec 2015, 10:00 AM | N09391 LOT 9 (ALMANAC, ENGLISH) WRITING TABLES WITH A KALENDER FOR XXIIII YEERES, WITH SUNDRY NECESSARYE RULES. LONDON: PRINTED BY JAMES ROBERTS, FOR EDWARD WHITE, AND ARE TO BE SOLD AT THE LITTLE NORTH DORE OF PAULES, AT THE SIGNE OF THE GUNNE, 1598 16mo (3 5/8 x 2 1/2 in.; 93 x 66 mm). Title within woodcut border depicting Moses and Aaron, 3 leaves with woodcuts of coinage from various countries (total 6 pages), interleaved with 19 leaves containing a manuscript copy of a catechism dated 20 June 1610 and a 2–page geneaology of the Cholmeley family (1580–1601), and one leaf with the birth and death dates of one Edward Hanser (11 January 1811–10 August 1840, Arlington, Sussex), total of 38 pages; rather worn, title and last leaf frayed with loss of text. Contemporary doeskin wallet binding, blind-stamped; worn, one part of a clasp surviving only. Dark blue morocco-backed folding-case. ESTIMATE 4,000-6,000 USD Lot Sold: 16,250 USD PROVENANCE Cholmeley family (manuscript geneaology, 1580–1601) — Edward Hanser (birth and death dates in manuscript, 1810–1840) — Bromley K..., 1818–1846 (faded inscription inside rear front flap) — E.F. Bosanquet (bookplate on pastedown of case). acquisition: Pickering & Chatto LITERATURE STC 26050 (listing this copy and another at the University of Illinois); ESTC S113281 (cross-referenced to STC 26050 but naming Franke Adams as the maker in the title) CATALOGUE NOTE The eighth edition, one of two that mentions no maker of the tables in the title. The now scarcely visible arms on the binding were identified by Anthony Hobson as those of the city of Antwerp (see Pirie, "Reminiscences," in Out of Print and into Profit, ed. Mandelbrote, 2006). Property From The Collection of Robert S Pirie Volumes I & II: Books and Manuscripts New York | 02 Dec 2015, 10:00 AM | N09391 LOT 55 BACON, SIR FRANCIS MANUSCRIPT COPY OF HIS POEM COMMENCING "THE WORLD'S A BUBBLE" Divided into four eight-line stanzas and subscribed "Made by Sir Francis Bacon Kt baron Verulam Viscount St Albans & Late Lord Chancelor of England," together with other poems including a fragment from Plutarch's Moralia translated by Philemon Holland, in a single italic hand, apparently that of one Thomas Everard, with the name "Sarah Amler" also written on a top left corner, altogether two pages on a single folio leaf (340 x 225 mm) removed from a volume, c.1620s or 1630s; significant fraying at edges with slight loss of text, staining. Red morocco-backed folder ESTIMATE 2,500-4,000 USD Lot Sold: 1,625 USD PROVENANCE Sotheby's, 21 July 1992, lot 9. acquisition: Purchased at the foregoing sale through Bernard Quaritch LITERATURE CELM BaF 49.5 CATALOGUE NOTE "...Who then to fraile mortality shall trust but lymmes the water or but writes in dust..." Bacon's bleak poetic dismissal of the world was enormously popular in the first half of the seventeenth century and survives in more than 50 manuscript copies. Property From The Collection of Robert S Pirie Volumes I & II: Books and Manuscripts New York | 02 Dec 2015, 10:00 AM | N09391 LOT 81 [BINDING] — LANCELOT ANDREWS A MANUAL OF THE PRIVATE DEVOTIONS AND MEDITATIONS. LONDON: BY W.D. FOR HUMPHREY MOSELEY, 1648 12mo (4 x 2 ins.; 102 x 50 mm). Engraved folding frontispiece, with errata leaf and final blank. A late seventeenth-century English embroidered binding of cream satin, intricately threaded floral design worked in high relief in silver wire and shaded with colored paints, central flower worked in colored silks, gilt edges, some wear to satin over the board edges. Cloth slipcase. ESTIMATE 3,000-5,000 USD Lot Sold: 8,750 USD PROVENANCE Sotheby's, 19 June 1993, lot 5. acquisition: Purchased at the foregoing sale through Bernard Quaritch LITERATURE Wing 3135; ESTC R16134 CATALOGUE NOTE Andrews' most popular work, in a contemporary embroidered binding. Property From The Collection of Robert S Pirie Volumes I & II: Books and Manuscripts New York | 02 Dec 2015, 10:00 AM | N09391 LOT 125 WILLIAM CECIL, BARON BURGHLEY AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ("W BURGHLEY"), TO ROBERT DEVEREUX, SECOND EARL OF ESSEX Writing when "lame in my bed and yet occupyed with many other matters and specially with the sondry gredy offers of sondry Merchants to be dealers for apparrellyng of the soldiers in the low Countries," informing Devereux that "sir walter ralegh had my bill for 3000 l." and detailing further payments to be made to Raleigh, 1 page, folio, "at Court," 21 May 1597, integral address leaf, contemporary docketing ("L Tre[asurer] 21 May 97"); seal tears and splitting at folds professionally conserved. Green slipcase and morocco-backed folding-box. ESTIMATE 5,000-7,000 USD Lot Sold: 10,000 USD PROVENANCE Sotheby's, 28 March 1983, lot 35 — Sotheby's, 13 December 1990, lot 346. acquisition: Purchased at the foregoing sale through Bernard Quaritch CATALOGUE NOTE A letter bringing together Burghley, Essex, and Raleigh, three of the greatest figures of the Elizabethan age. Burghley was by this time an old and sick man but remained Lord Treasurer and was still a crucial presence in an increasing febrile court, which was dangerously split into volatile factions. Essex and Raleigh were enemies and rivals who had been temporarily united by leadership of a naval fleet that aimed to seize a Spanish port and capture the silver fleet. The funds for Raleigh referred to in this letter were almost certainly for this expedition, which was then in preparation. The "Islands Voyage" — which included John Donne amongst its participants — sailed in July and ended in disaster. Property From The Collection of Robert S Pirie Volumes I & II: Books and Manuscripts New York | 02 Dec 2015, 10:00 AM | N09391 LOT 191 CORKINE, WILLIAM AYRES, TO SING AND PLAY TO THE LUTE AND BASSE VIOLL. WITH PAVINS, GALLIARDS, ALMAINES, AND CORANTOS FOR THE LYRA VIOLL, LONDON: PRINTED BY W. STANSBY FOR JOHN BROWNE, AND ARE TO BE SOLD AT HIS SHOP IN SAINT DUNSTANES CHURCH-YARD IN FLEETE-STREET, 1610; THE SECOND BOOKE OF AYRES, SOME, TO SING AND PLAY TO THE BASE-VIOLL ALONE: OTHERS, TO BE SUNG TO THE LUTE AND BASE-VIOLL... LONDON: PRINTED FOR M.L[OWNES], I.B[ROWNE] AND T.S[NODHAM]. ASSIGNED BY W. BARLEY, 1612 Two volumes in one, folio (329 x 213 mm), title pages within historiated woodcut borders, with device, woodcut head-pieces and fine large initials, dedications, type-set music and lute tablature throughout, some printed in table-format, F1 verso in volume 2 printed upside down; last leaf re-margined, a few leaves reinforced at hinge (F1 in volume 1), small repair to D2 verso in volume 1, a few small stains. Modern card wrappers, morocco-backed fitted box ESTIMATE 10,000-15,000 USD Lot Sold: 40,000 USD PROVENANCE acquisition: 1962 LITERATURE STC 5768 & 5769; ESTC S116635 & S106668; Keynes (Donne) 71; RISM C 3936 & C 3937 CATALOGUE NOTE Very Rare. There is no copy of the first book in any American Library and only two copies of the Second Booke are located: in the British Library and the Huntington Library. The Second Booke contains the first edition (1612) of John Donne's poem: Breake of Day ("Tis true, t'is day, what though it be?" on B1v). On G2v, also a first edition of Donne, is the first line only of the famous The Baite ("Come live with me, and be my love"), composed as a "Lesson for the Lyra Viol." Property From The Collection of Robert S Pirie Volumes I & II: Books and Manuscripts New York | 02 Dec 2015, 10:00 AM | N09391 LOT 200 COWLEY, ABRAHAM A. COVLEII PLANTARUM LIBRI DUO. TYPIS J. FLESHER, & PROSTANT APUD NATH. BROOKS SUB SIGNO ANGELI, IN VICO VULGO CORNHIL, 1662 8vo (5 3/4 x 3 /12 in.; 146 x 89 mm). Title-page with woodcut ornament within double-ruled border, errata on A8v. Contemporary mottled calf, paneled gilt, gilt fleuron cornerpieces, smooth spine ruled gilt, plain endpapers, marbled edges; corners bumped, minor losses to spine ends, hinges cracked but intact, half of lower free endpaper torn away. ESTIMATE 8,000-12,000 USD PROVENANCE Sir Alexander Fraser (presentation inscription, with eight-line poem in Latin on front free endpaper) — John Sparrow (label on front pastedown) LITERATURE Wing C6678; ESTC R033828; Pforzheimer 230 (identifying three presentation copies, including this one) CATALOGUE NOTE First edition, presentation copy, one of four known poetical manuscripts by Cowley. The author has inscribed the work to Sir Alexander Fraser, personal physician to Charles II, and accompanied the inscription with an eight-line poem, "Helleborum," in Latin. In his preface to the first two books of the Plantarum, Cowley apologizes for the inclusion of pagan myth in a purportedly scientific work, claiming he could not address the histories of plants without alluding to their treatment in classical mythology. Property From The Collection of Robert S Pirie Volumes I & II: Books and Manuscripts New York | 02 Dec 2015, 10:00 AM | N09391 LOT 201 COWLEY, ABRAHAM — WILLIAM KING POEMS OF MR COWLEY AND OTHERS, COMPOSED INTO SONGS AND AYRES, WITH A THOROUGH BASSE TO THE THEORBO, HARPSECON, OR BASE-VIOL, BY WILLIAM KING ORGANIST OF NEW-COLLEDGE, OXFORD: IMPRINTED BY WILLIAM HALL, FOR THE AUTHOR, 1668 Folio (275 x 170 mm); type-set music throughout, last page in table format, a few editorial annotations (eg G1), including numbering of the songs, price annotated on title (7s.6d.); tears to title and some other leaves repaired, first two leaves trimmed, corners restored at the beginning and end of the volume, N2 printed upside-down.