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We accept American Express, Master Card, and Visa. 1 AUSTEN, Jane. Novels. The Text Based on the Collation of the Early Editions by R.W. Chapman. With Notes, Indices. Illustrations (some in color) from contemporary sources. 5 vols. Large 8vo, Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1923. Large paper edition. Limited to 1000 sets. Original blue-grey cloth over marbled boards, untrimmed edges. Extra label at end of each volume. Some toning to spines, bookplates; mixed set (vol. 5 with rubbing to spine label, small ecclesiastical library stamp on fyleaf, otherwise unmarked). Overall very good plus. The best edition (and the source for many Oxford re-issues), comprising Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfeld Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion. The plates include fashions, views, and reproductions of title-pages. $1,750 2 (BIBLE, N.T., English) Wyclife, John (translator). The New Testament Of Our Lord And Saviour Jesus Christ Translated Out of the Latin Vulgat by John Wiclif, S.T.P. Prebendary Of Aust In The Collegiate Church Of Westbury, And Rector Of Lutterworth, About 1378. To Which Is Præfxt A History Of The Several Translations Of The H. Bible And N. Testament, &C. Into English, Both In Ms And Print, And Of The Most Remarkable Editions Of Them Since The Invention Of Printing. Two fne engraved portraits, one folding plate. [2], iv, [4], 108, [2], [3]-156, viii pp. Folio, London: Sold by Thomas Page and William Mount …, 1731. First printing in book form of Wyclife’s translation of the New Testament. Old calf, rebacked and recornered in the 20th-century to style in brown calf, raised bands, lettered in gilt. Three bookplates on front pastedown, modest tanning, some very tiny worm tracks in extreme edges of the portrait of Wyclife, divisional title and frst leaf of text of the NT nearly detached at gutter and a bit creased, light occasional foxing, a few short tears at the fore-edge of the folding plate, otherwise a very good copy. ESTC T95000; Darlow & Moule (Herbert) 101; Macclesfeld Sale vii:2452. Accompanied by the extensive prefatory “History …” by John Lewis. At Wyclife’s instigation, a group of scholars prepared this translation into Middle English of the New Testament from the Latin Vulgate in 1380, and though popular, it circulated only in manuscript until this edition. Over two hundred manuscript versions are known, many of them of the revised version prepared by John Purvey. In 1409 the Wyclife version was condemned as heretical and outlawed in Britain. This edition was published by subscription, and the edition, including some copies on large paper, is reported to have consisted of only 160 copies. An advertisement leaf, a list of subscribers, and a page of errata follow the dedication. The frontispiece portrait of John Lewis and the portrait of Wyclife are signed in the plate by G. White, and the engraved folding plate is based on the frontispiece of the Cranmer Bible. While well represented in institutions, copies of this edition are uncommon in the market place: ABPC records only three appearances since 1999, and only one of them, the Macclesfeld copy sold in 2006, was complete with both the portraits, as is this copy. sold 3 BODIN, J[ean]. The six bookes of a common-weale … Out of the French and Latine copies, done into English, by Richard Knolles. Woodcut border title-page (McKerrow & Ferguson 223). [xii], 794, [ii] pp. (frst and last leaves blank). 4to, London: G. Bishop, 1606. First edition in English. Contemporary full calf, covers stamped in gilt with central medallion, rebacked and recornered. Covers scufed, light browning to text, wormhole to margin of frst four leaves, generally a very clean copy. Armorial bookplate of Thomas Greer. Kress 269; Goldsmiths 350; PMM 94 (for frst ed.). First English edition of the frst modern attempt to create a complete system of political science. Bodin’s theory of sovereignty was the frst clear formulation of the fundamental political argument of the next two centuries. “Law is merely an expression of the sovereign will, but where this reposes in an absolute monarch, it must be mitigated by a customary or natural law. When the lawgiver’s law becomes unjust, it ceases to be valid and must be resisted” (PMM). The translator, Richard Knolles (1550-1610), was best known for his History of the Turks. His translation draws from both Bodin’s original French and the author’s Latin translation. $2,500 2 | James cummins bookseller 4 5 BROWNE, Thomas. Pseudodoxia Epidemica: or, Enquiries into BROWNE, Thomas. The Works of the Learned Sr Thomas Very many received Tenents, And commonly presumed Truths. [xx], Browne, Kt. Doctor of Physick, late of Norwich. Containing I. 386 pp., lacking fnal blank. 4to, London: Printed by T.H. for Enquiries into vulgar and common errors. II. Religio medici: with Edward Dod, 1646. First edition. Old calf boards, rebacked. annotations and observations upon it. III. Hydriotaphia; or, Urn- Joints cracked, binding split at pp. 380-1. Keynes 73; ESTC Burial: together with the garden of Cyrus. IV. Certain miscellany R1093. tracts. With alphabetical tables. Engraved frontispiece portrait by Robert White, printed general title in red and black, and The frst edition of Browne’s Pseudodoxia Epidemica, separate titles for each part. Folio, London: Printed for Tho. commonly referred to as Vulgar Errors. Contains the most Bassett, Ric. Chiswell, Tho. Sawbridge, Charles Mearne, and unusual collection of commonly held errors, discussing Charles Brome, 1686. First collected edition. Early brown superstitions (that a salamander is able to live in fames; that mottled calf, neatly rebacked with original lettering piece hares are each of both sex; and of basilisks and grifns), preserved. Except for faint signs of marginal damp-staining, religious errors (navels on Adam and Eve; that the Tower an exceptionally fne, clean copy, almost entirely free of of Babel was erected against a second food; and that the foxing, with the armorial bookplate of Edward Davenport earth was slenderly peopled before the Flood), medical on the front pastedown. Keynes 201; Wing B5150; ESTC errors (the custom of blessing after a sneeze; that drowned R19807; Wither to Prior 110. men will foat on the ninth day) and chapters on Pygmies and Gypsies. “Hydriotaphia,” Browne’s treatise examining first collected edition of one of the great masters of Eng- various funereal practices in Britain, is often referred to as lish prose, collecting Pseudodoxia Epidemica, Religio Medici, his masterpiece of rhetoric. “Religio medici having made Hydriotaphia, and Miscellany Tracts. [Browne] famous for piety and wit, Pseudodoxia now earned $1,500 his reputation as scholar and naturalist. In this, his most substantial work, almost an encyclopaedia of seventeenth- century misconceptions and new knowledge, Browne took up numerous false beliefs” (ODNB). $1,000 catalogue 126 | 3 6 BURROUGHS, William. Ali’s Smile. Oblong 8vo, [Brighton]: Unicorn Books, 1971. First edition, no. 54 of 99 copies, signed by Burroughs. Original brown cloth, stamped in gilt. Fine. (Lacking the phonograph record which was issued with the book. According to the publisher, many of the records were destroyed by heat, so not all of the 99 copies were accompanied by the record.) One of Burroughs’ scarcer titles. one of 99 copies $5,000 4 | James cummins bookseller 7 BURTON, Richard F., translator. A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, now entitled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night [With:] Supplemental Nights. Extra-illustrated throughout with frontispiece portrait of Burton and plates after paintings by Albert Letchford (Remarque Proofs on Japan vellum numbered 1 to 71, with captioned tissue guards), inserted lists of the Letchford plates in each volume; 21 plates after Lalauze (A through U, with captioned tissue guards); and the plates by Stanley L. Wood with captioned tissue guards. 16 vols. Tall 8vo, Benares: Printed by the Kamashastra Society for Private Subscribers Only, 1885-1888. First edition, including the Supplemental Nights, the rare unexpurgated edition. With Volume 3 & 4 with the copyright notice changed from Ellis Spear to Philip Justice. The Letchford plates in Remarque Proof state, one of 25 so issued. Bound in full olive-green morocco, spines heavily gilt, gilt dentelles, white moiré silk endpapers with gilt ornaments, t.e.g., original black cloth covers and spines bound in, by H.S. Nichols Ltd. Spines uniformly toned, else fne. Penzer, pp. 114-116, 121; Casada 74; Spink 73 & 76-77; Nelson, Publisher to the Decadents, pp. 27-30 et passim. the original burton nights, unexpurgated, and extra-illustrated with letchford remarque proofs First edition of Capt. Sir Richard F. Burton’s translation, which has been variously assailed since its publication by prudes and pettifoggers and has weathered the storms of criticism.