J O S L I N H A L L R A R E B O O K S - C a t a l o g # 3 5 3 A Selection of Books & Ephemera for December, 2014 J O S L I N H A L L R A R E B O O K S - C a t a l o g # 3 5 3 Joslin Hall Rare Books Post Office Box 239 Northampton, Mass 01061 telephone: (413) 247-5080 e-mail: [email protected] website: www.joslinhall.com Member- Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America & the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers -Telephone reservations are highly recommended. -Standard courtesies are extended to institutions and dealers. -Postage charges are additional. -We are happy to arrange lay-away terms to fit your needs. -All books may be returned within ten days of receipt -please notify us in advance and repack the book/s carefully in the original box (if possible); please make sure that the parcel is properly insured. Checks, American Express, Discover,Visa, Mastercard & Paypal accepted. J O S L I N H A L L R A R E B O O K S - C a t a l o g # 3 5 3 1. [Ancient Ruins] Keerl, Johann Heinrich. Ueber die Ruinen Herculanums und Pompeii. Nebst einer kurzen Beschreibung von den Schauspielen der alten Römer und Griechen. Gotha: Ettinger, 1791. An uncommon work on Pompeii and Herculaneum, illustrated with 8 engraved plates, several of which are quite dramatic. Johann Heinrich Keerl (1759-1810) was a minor Bavarian government official and a poet, playwright, editor and amateur historian. This work on the ruins of ancient Pompeii and Herculaneum, with a special emphasis on their theaters and plays, was actually part of a larger literary series he wrote between 1789 and 1806 on Naples and Sicily, though this appears to be the only work dealing with the ancients. An uncommon work in the trade. Hardcover. 5"x8", 196 pages plus 8 folding engraved plates mounted on stubs, and the errata sheet. Newly bound in brown boards and quarter leather, scattered light soil. [41638] $650 “Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.” -Ovid J O S L I N H A L L R A R E B O O K S - C a t a l o g # 3 5 3 2. [Baseball] Updike, John. Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu. Published by the Lord John Press in 1977. Edition limited to 300 signed, numbered copies. A fine press edition of this iconic sports piece describing Ted Williams' last game, signed by Updike, and with an introduction by him. Hardcover. 7"x10", xii + 27 pages. Near fine. [41637] $500 “Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.” -Ted Williams J O S L I N H A L L R A R E B O O K S - C a t a l o g # 3 5 3 3. [Beecher Scandal] The Beecher Scandal! - Sung by Dick Brown. No place or date, but American, 1872-75. A rather suggestive & humorous song/poem making fun of just about everyone involved in the famous Beecher Scandal of the early 1870s. Henry Ward Beecher (1813–1887), Harriet Beecher Stowe's brother, was a leading clergyman and social reformer who had first made his mark as an abolitionist. After the Civil War he was a popular speaker, a leading supporter of Darwin's Theory of Evolution, and an outspoken opponent of Victoria Woodhull's "free-love" movement. Beecher himself had long been rumored to practice free-love in private with just about anyone in a skirt, and had the bad luck to have an affair in 1872 with Elizabeth Tilton, who later confessed to both her husband, who told Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who told her friend- Victoria Woodhull. Woodhull, annoyed at what she perceived as a gigantic case of hypocrisy in America's most self- righteous clergyman, promptly published a story in her newspaper titled "The Beecher-Tilton Scandal Case". And scandal ensued… Beecher arranged to have Woodhull arrested for sending obscene materials through the U.S. mails, and Mr. Tilton sued Beecher for adultery. The fact that everyone was eventually acquitted did not lessen the infamy the cases brought to just about everybody involved. Historian Walter A. McDougall ("Throes of Democracy", 2009) commented that the scandal "drove Reconstruction off the front pages for two and a half years [becoming] the most sensational [scandal] in American history". Broadside. 4.5"x10". Minor soil. Nice wide margins. [41641] $200 J O S L I N H A L L R A R E B O O K S - C a t a l o g # 3 5 3 4. [Book Bindery] 1848-49 Handbill Advertising the New-York Book Bindery and E. Walker's National and Pictorial Book Establishment. An attractive advertising handbill which illustrates an unlikely scene of printing, binding and packing all in the same room. Handbill. 5.75x8.5". Soil, some wear, bottom edge torn with slight lettering loss. [41647] SOLD 5. [Canadian Photography] 1883 Photographic Diploma from Clinton Model School, Ontario, Canada. "Clinton Model School - This Diploma was awarded to Joseph Managhan (?) For general proficiency in Junior 4th Division, at Examination held on July 13th, 1883". Signed by "D.M. Malloch - Principal" and "John Connelly - Teacher". The Clinton Model School was one of a number of "Model Schools" established in Canada in the later part of the 19th century which provided "teachers-in-training" with hands-on, supervised teaching experience before they were awarded their teaching certificates. Clinton was at the time a township in western Ontario, and later became part of Central Huron. In the 1878 Report of the Ontario Minister of Education on County Model Schools, D.M. Malloch is listed as the Principal of the Model School in Clinton. The November 28, 1931 Ottawa Journal contains the death J O S L I N H A L L R A R E B O O K S - C a t a l o g # 3 5 3 notice of John Connelly, who was born in Ireland and emigrated to Canada in 1871, and "taught for a number of years at Clinton Model School". He later became principal of the Cornwall School, and eventually was appointed as an Inspector of Schools. The Clinton Model School closed in 1916. The photo shows an attractive wooden school building with a fancy cupola surrounded by a neat fence and small trees. An interesting and unusual piece. Broadside. 11"x14". Some soil and wear, tide mark, corner chipped. [41650] $250 J O S L I N H A L L R A R E B O O K S - C a t a l o g # 3 5 3 6. [Dumbarton Oaks] The Bulletin of the Fogg Museum of Art - A Special Number Devoted to the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection. March, 1941. An entire issue devoted to the opening of Dumbarton Oaks as a research institute in November, 1940, including the text of speeches and a description of the facility and some of its collections. "Dumbarton Oaks was the residence and gardens of Robert Woods Bliss and his wife. The Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection was founded here by the Bliss couple, who gave the property to Harvard in 1940. The institute is dedicated to supporting scholarship in the fields of Byzantine, Pre-Columbian, and garden design and landscape architecture studies." Softcover. 6.5"x9.5", 25 pages, black & white illustrations. Minor soil, light wear, covers with a bit more soil. [41626] SOLD 7. [Erotic Art] A Set of 8 1920s French or German Naughty Hold-to-the-Light Cards. An interesting set of 8 hold-to-the-light cards with French & German instructions stamped at the top, featuring ladies in various states of undress doing various things with various props. One features Josephine Baker in her banana dress. The effect of the ‘hold to the light’ feature is oddly unimpressive. 8 cards. 3.5"x5.5". Minor soil, light wear. With a small period box. [41648] $350 J O S L I N H A L L R A R E B O O K S - C a t a l o g # 3 5 3 8. [Fake Art] 1891 Circular Letter from the Tanqueray Portrait Society. Brooklyn, New York, 1891. A circular letter dated October 13, 1891, introducing the Society's portrait-making skills and inviting the recipient to send photograph for a high-quality crayon portrait by a Society artist, a $25 value, free of charge. In return they hope you will recommend the Society's portrait-making skills to your friends, and display your portrait in your home. On the reverse side are a number of testimonials. An internet search brings up a few interesting facts about this firm- on August 29, 1893 they were banned from using the U.S. mails, and after that they apparently moved overseas, as a note in the June 29, 1902 Perth Sunday Times notes that the Times, and a number of readers, have received the offer of a free portrait from the Tanqueray Portrait Society in Paris. A few weeks after sending their photograph, one correspondent received a letter announcing that the portrait was complete, and so beautiful that it would look especially nice framed- and the Society has a catalog of frames for sale they would like to send. If you do not wish your portrait framed you may have it, and your original photograph, back for free, plus a “modest” (or not so modest) fee for handing & shipping… Single sheet.