Catalog - Friends of Princeton University Library

Book Adoption Party 

THE FRIENDS OF THE 

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY LIBRARY 

March 28, 2010, 4:00–6:00 p.m. • Chancellor Green 

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY LIBRARY • PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY

Honorary 

Chairpersons 

for This Event 

William G. and Mary Ellen Bowen 

Leslie Burger 

Mrs. James E. Burke 

Christopher L. Eisgruber 

John Fleming 

Colleen Goggins 

Anthony Grafton 

Sidney and Ruth Lapidus 

Leonard L. and Ellen Milberg 

Harold T. and Vivian Shapiro 

Lynn Shostack 

Shirley M. Tilghman 

Karin A. Trainer 

Sponsors 

Nassau Hall Level 

($10,000 and over) 

The Times of Trenton 

Firestone Library Level 

($1,500–2,500) 

Princeton University Press 

Bruce McKittrick Rare Books 

Other 

ChingFoster Designs 

Michael Ginsburg Books 

Hollinger Metal Edge 

Smith-Shattuck Bookbinding, 

Princeton

Welcome 

Welcome to the second Book Adoption Party of the Friends of the Princeton 

University Library. At this event, you will be able to view and underwrite the 

cost of acquiring or conserving selected rare books, manuscripts, maps, coins, 

and other materials in the Princeton University Library collections. You will 

also have the opportunity to meet the Library curators and conservators and 

to learn from them about the items put up for adoption. 

The following pages provide descriptions of the items you will see. Adopting 

an item of your choice helps the Library recover the price of an acquisition or 

the cost of a conservation treatment. Your donation is tax-deductible, and your 

name will forever be associated with the piece through a bookplate placed in 

it. You may adopt in your name, jointly in combination with other adopters, 

in tribute to a friend or partner, in memory of a loved one, or to celebrate an 

occasion. Further instructions about adoption appear on the next page, along 

with a map of the campus and parking areas. 

Friends and guests, we hope you will enjoy attending and supporting this 

worthy event for the benefit of the Library. 

Acknowledgments 

Producing the Book Adoption Party has been a combined effort of the curators, 

conservators, and staff of the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections 

and of the Friends of the Princeton University Library. In addition, 

this year we have included materials from the Marquand Library of Art and 

Archaeology and the East Asian Library. Accordingly, one of my most pleasant 

obligations is to acknowledge the pesons who have made this event possible: 

The members of the Friends of the Library Book Adoption Planning Committee: 

Donald Farren (Chair), Ronald Brown, Claire Jacobus, Nancy Klath, 

Alison Lahnston, Robert Milevski, Ben Primer, Ruta Smithson. 

The members of the Friends of the Library Program Committee: Claire Jacobus 

(Chair), Lisa Dunkley, Lynne Fagles, Diana Garrett, Barbara Griffin, 

Nancy Klath, Alison Lahnston, Robert Milevski, Elisabeth Morgan, Gretchen 

Oberfranc, Dallas Piotrowski, Ben Primer, Ruta Smithson. 

The librarians, curators, and staff: Ben Primer (Associate University Librarian), 

Sandra L. Brooke (Marquand Library), Tai-loi Ma (East Asian Library); 

John Delaney (Historic Maps), Stephen Ferguson (Rare Books), Martin Heijdra 

(East Asian Library), Andrea Immel (Cotsen Children’s Library), Daniel 

J. Linke (Public Policy Papers/University Archives), Julie L. Mellby (Graphic 

Arts), Gretchen Oberfranc (Friends editor), Linda Oliveira (Friends secretary), 

AnnaLee Pauls (Special Collections Assistant), Don C. Skemer (Manuscripts), 

Alan M. Stahl (Numismatics), John Walako (Senior Conservation Technician).

4 F R I E N D S O F T H E P R I N C E T O N U N I V E R S I T Y L I B R A R Y 

The Preservation Office staff: Robert Milevski (Preservation Librarian), Jody 

Beenk (Assistant Rare Books Conservator/Acting General Collections Conservator), 

Mick LeTourneaux (Rare Books Conservator), Ted Stanley (Paper 

Conservator). 

All photography is by John Blazejewski. 

Many thanks to these enthusiastic and hard workers! 

G. Scott Clemons, Chair 

Friends of the Princeton University Library 

Instructions 

for Adoptors 

1. Each acquisition and conservation item on display is accompanied by a flag 

bearing the number assigned to the item in this catalogue. If there is a red 

“Adopted” flag next to the item, it is no longer available. To adopt an item, 

bring its flag to the adoption desk and fill out an adoption form. A Library 

staff member will be available to assist you. 

2. You may share the cost of an item with a friend, or you may adopt a portion 

of any acquisition or conservation item with a minimum contribution of $100. 

A gift receipt for your records and a bookplate memorializing your contribution 

will be prepared for each adoption, full or partial (see sample bookplates 

on the inside back cover of this catalogue). 

3. Payment may be made by check (payable to Princeton University Library) 

or credit card (Visa or MasterCard only). 

4. Many of the items on display are in fragile condition. Please ask a curator 

to assist you in viewing them. 

Maclean 

House 

Henry 

House 

Caldwell 

House 

NASSAU ST. 

Burr 

185 

199 

WASHINGTON RD. 

Stanhope 

Nassau Hall 

Chancellor Green 

10 

Map of the campus. 

Parking lot 10 is 

the nearest to 

Chancellor Green 

West 

College 

East Pyne 

Firestone 

Library 

Chapel 

Dickinson 

Green 

Frick 

Lab 

Hoyt 

WILLIAM ST. 

10

Cotsen Children’s Library 

1. 

$150 

Belvès, Pierre (1909–1994). Carrousel du roy: Une frise à colorier. Paris: Flammarion, 

1946. Albums du Père Castor. 

An unusual title from the celebrated French series of activity books. This is a coloring 

book with a difference: not only are the backgrounds printed in solid colors, but the 

format is an accordion-folded strip that opens out into a frieze for display on a wall. 

2. 

$160 

Brenner, Anita (1905–1974). The Timid Ghost; or: What Would You Do with a 

Sackful of Gold? Illustrated by Jean Charlot. New York: William R. Scott, 1966. 

Long-time collaborators Brenner and Charlot were both deeply involved with the 

Mexican Art Movement of the mid-twentieth century, so this Mexican ghost story was 

a very congenial vehicle for their talents. It was published by Scott, one of America’s 

most innovative houses for children. This copy has been signed by the author. 

3. 

$450 

Brown, Margaret Wise (1910–1952). Big Dog, Little Dog. Illustrated by Leonard 

Weisgard. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday Doran, [1943]. 

One of the rarest picture books by the beloved author of the classic Goodnight Moon, 

writing under her pseudonym Golden MacDonald. Brown was herself the devoted 

owner of a succession of Kerry Blue terriers. A note printed on the rear pastedown 

endpaper states that the book was “manufactured under wartime conditions in conformity 

with all government regulations controlling the use of paper and other materials.” 

The dust jacket reveals that the volume is bound in washable red cloth! 

4. 

$400 

Dahl, Roald (1916–1990). James and the Giant Peach: A Children’s Story. Illustrated 

by Michel Simeon. London: George Allen Unwin, 1967. 

A fine copy of the first U.K. edition of Dahl’s first work for children, which grew out 

of a bedtime story to his own brood. Simeon’s line art has been overshadowed by the 

better-known sets of illustrations by Nancy Ekholm Burkert for the first edition of 

1961, and those by Lane Smith and Quentin Blake (not to mention the 1996 film produced 

by Tim Burton), but it has a certain quirkiness appropriate for this story. 

5. 

$200 

Duvoisin, Roger (1900–1980). Spring Snow. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, ca. 

1963. 

A lovely story about a surprise spring snowstorm by the creator of Petunia the wayward 

goose. A presentation copy to the graphic designer Jack Golden and his wife 

Ruth. Printed and bound in the great state of New Jersey.


6. 

$750 

Jemmy and His Mother, A Tale for Children and Lucy, or The Slave Girl of Kentucky. 

Cincinnati: American Reform Tract and Book Society, 1858. 

A pair of scarce antislavery tracts by an anonymous woman author, with illustrations 

after Henri Lovie engraved by Grosvenor. An excellent addition to the 19th-century 

works for children by or about African Americans in the Cotsen Children’s Library. 

7. 

$1,000 

Norton, Mary (1903–1992). The Borrowers. Illustrated by Diana Stanley. London: 

J. M. Dent & Co., 1947. 

Americans associate the sunny line drawings of Joe and Beth Krush with the adventures 

of Pod, Homily, and Arietty Clock. But Diana Stanley’s moody illustrations for 

the first English edition of this classic are probably truer to Norton’s imaginary world 

than those by the Krushes. Cotsen now has both for researchers to savor and study. 

8. 

$15 

Plans and Projects from a Modern School. [New York]: Rand McNally, ca. 

1927. 

This delightful brochure, which includes a recipe for oatmeal cookies, instructions for 

making bookends in the shape of rabbits, and series of diagrams for converting a chair 

into a puppet theater, is actually a promotional piece for the publisher’s magazine, 

Child Life. 

9. 

$175 

Politi, Leo (1908–1996). Three Stalks of Corn. New York: Charles Scribner’s 

Sons, ca. 1973. 

A loving tribute to Los Angeles’s Mexican-American community, with illustrations of 

a fiesta in the Pico Rivera neighborhood, a lesson in tortilla making, and recipes for 

enchiladas and tacos. Three Stalks of Corn was one of the few works the Cotsen collection 

lacked by this Italian-American artist, considered one of the first creators of 

multicultural picture books. 

10. 

$225 

The Teddy Bears’ Baking School. Compliments of the Fleischmann Co. [New 

York: Seymour Eaton and Edward Stern & Co., ca. 1906–7]. 

This poem about the enterprising bears B and G, who open a school for the eager pupils 

of Nursery Rhyme Land, sings the praises of Fleischmann’s yeast. Although the 

pamphlet appeared at the beginning of the craze for teddy bears, its ursine characters 

are clearly friendly bears and not toys. A fine addition to Cotsen’s collection of advertising 

ephemera directed at children. 

11. 

$300 

Williams, Garth (1912–1996). The Chicken Book. New York: Howell, Soskin, 

Publishers, 1946. 

This amusing story about an exasperated chicken and her impatient brood for two- to 

five-year-olds was Williams’s first book for young readers. He went on to illustrate

B O O K A D O P T I O N P A R T Y , 2 0 1 0 7 

Item 10. 

Directions were 

provided so that children 

(or their parents) could 

write away for a 

recipe booklet. 

E. B. White’s Stuart Little and Charlotte’s Web, Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House 

series, and Margaret Wise Brown’s Sailor Dog and Little Fur Family. The grumpy, 

hungry chicks on the front pastedown endpaper are delightful!

Graphic Arts Collection 

12. 

$350 

Arnold, Walter. The Life and Death of the Sublime Society of Beef Steaks. London: 

Bradbury, Evans, & Co., 1871. 

Five mounted albumen photographs illustrate this history and songbook for a society 

founded in 1735 by John Rich, harlequin and machinist at Covent Garden. The Beef 

Steaks met continuously until 1867. 

13. 

$650 

Dyer, Thomas Henry (1804–1888). The Ruins of Pompeii: A Series of Eighteen 

Photographic Views, with an Account of the Destruction of the City, and a Description 

of the Most Interesting Remains. London: Bell and Daldy, 1867. 

Eighteen original albumen silver prints tipped in. 

14. 

$230 

15. 

$30 

16. 

$550 

Éluard, Paul (1895–1952). A toute épreuve. Paris: Éditions Surréalistes, 1930. 

Éluard’s original, unadorned book of poems, printed on eight conjugate unsewn 

leaves. Joan Miró later used the poems as the inspiration for one of the greatest livres 

d’artistes of the 20th century. 

Grafton, Anthony. Codex in Crisis. New York: Crumpled Press, 2008. 

Limited edition with hand-binding. Copy 199 of 250. 

Gross, Roni, and Barbara Henry. The Vandercook Book. New York: R. Gross 

& B. Henry, 2009. 

Designed and published to celebrate the centenary of the Vandercook proofing press. 

Each portfolio contains specimens printed on Vandercooks by various contemporary 

artists. The set also includes an essay volume with a Coptic binding by Ana Cordeiro 

and Peter Schell. One of 100 copies. 

17. 

$175 

Neruda, Pablo (1904-1973). The Book of Questions. Pasadena, Calif.: Archetype 

Press, Art Center College of Design, 2001. 

Creative typesetting meets visual poetry. “This book ... attempts to portray excerpts 

from Pablo Neruda’s Libro de las Peguntas in a manner whereby the form and shape of 

both typography and the white space of the page combine to enrich the subtle nuances 

within the poet’s language” (from the introduction). One of 55 copies. 

18. 

$880 

Petrarca, Francesco (1304–1374). Thoughts from the Letters of Petrarch. [Oregon 

House, Calif.]: Petrarch Press, 2004.


This limited, fine press edition offers extracts originally chosen and translated by Johanna 

Lohse and published by J. M. Dent & Co. in 1901. The text, set in Dante with 

Goudy Lombardic Caps, was printed by hand on an 1851 Super Royal Albion press 

under the direction of William Bentley. Book design, ornaments, and binding are by 

Peter Cohen. Copy 39 of 30 (numbered 21–50). 

19. 

$300 

Probst, Georg Balthasar (active 18th century). Le Mercure, quatrieme planete 

et son influxion (Mercurius, planetarum quartus, ejusque influentia), no date. Engraving 

with hand coloring. 

This is one of more than 300 engravings designed by Probst to emphasize architectural 

perspective, so that when it was viewed through the lens of a zograscope the picture 

would appear to have great depth and dimension. Probst was famous for this kind of 

print, known as vue d’optique, or perspective print. The engraving featuring Mercury is 

one of a series of five planetary views, each printed with its caption in Latin, French, 

Item 19. This scene includes book binders, book illustrators, and book sellers juxtaposed with classical 

allegorical fi gures. At the lower right, a book’s unbound sheets are being packed into barrels, and 

at the top center the barrels are being carted to a waiting ship.


Italian, and German so they could be sold in all four print markets. The title at the 

top is engraved in lateral reverse, so that it can be read correctly through the lens of 

the zograscope. 

20. 

$225 

Scheffer’s Patent Penographic or Writing Instrument, Patronised by His Majesty 

George the Fourth, ca. 1819. Broadside. 

Inscribed in plate: “Manufactured by W. Robson & Co., patentees, St. Dunstan’s Hill, 

London.” 

21. 

$350 

Sympson, Joseph (d. 1736). Benefit Ticket for Fielding’s “Pasquin.” London: 

J. Rivington and Partners, 1736. Engraving. 

This famous forgery was once thought to be printed by William Hogarth, whose signature 

is engraved into the plate. 

Historic Maps Collection 

22. 

$225 

Après de Mannevillette, Jean-Baptiste-Nicolas-Denis d’ (1707–1780). “Carte des 

côtes occidentales de France et d’une partie de celles d’Espagne, d’Angleterre, 

et d’Irlande: Avec les sondes qu’on trouve au large de ses côtes.” [Paris and 

Brest: Chez Demonville, Imprimeur-Libraire de l’Academie Francoise; Chez 

Malassis, Imprimeur-Libraire de la Marine, 1775]. 

Detailed nautical chart for the English Channel and the ocean approaches to southwest 

England and western France. 

23. 

$900 

Beaver, Philip (1766–1813). “Nautical Map: Intended for the Use of Colonial 

Undertakings on the W. Coast of Africa from Lat. 5°30´ to Lat. 14° north.” 

London: C. & R. Baldwin . . ., 1805. 

A detailed map showing areas “recommended” for British colonization. 

24. 

$215 

Bellin, Jacques Nicolas (1703–1772). “Carte particuliere de l’Isle de Juan Fernandés. 

. . .” [Paris: J. N. Bellin, 1753?]. 

The island was home for more than four years for Scottish castaway Alexander Selkirk, 

the presumed model for Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe. 

25. 

$240 

Bertius, Petrus (1565–1629). “Fretum Magellanicum.” [Amsterdam: Cornelius 

Nicolai, 1602]. 

This map of the Strait of Magellan includes an illustration of the mythical Patagonian 

giants, with an accompanying note.


Item 25. 

The note next to the 

giants states that they 

can reach 10 feet in 

height and that they 

paint their faces in 

various colors using 

diverse herbs. 

26. 

$1,700 

Braun, Georg (1540/41–1622), and Franz Hogenberg (d. 1590?). “Sevilla.” Ca. 

1598. 

This pictorial view of Seville, with people in traditional attire in the foreground, is 

from volume 4 of Braun and Hogenberg’s landmark Civitates Orbis Terrarum (Cologne, 

1572–1618), an atlas of city views that provided a uniquely comprehensive view 

of the urban world in the 16th century. Seville was both starting and end point of the 

first voyage to circumnavigate the world, led by Ferdinand Magellan. 

27. 

$1,950 

Bullinger, Louis. “Plan der Laendereien der Gloucester Landgut und Stadt 

Gesellschaft: Einschliessend einem Plan von Egg Harbor City.” New York: 

Charles Magnus, ca. 1866. 

In 1854 the Gloucester Farm and Town Association purchased 38,000 acres along the 

Egg Harbor River in southern New Jersey for “a new German home in America.” The 

developers began producing promotional pieces in 1855, and by 1860 they had agents 

in 29 American cities working to entice German-speaking immigrants and young 

families to relocate. Egg Harbor City was laid out in 1856, with the east-west avenues 

named for German philosophers, scientists, artists, and composers. 

28. 

$450 

Coleman’s Montreal House. Traveller’s Guide to Montreal and Its Vicinity: Containing 

a List of the Various Places of Interest in an [sic] about the City, Table of 

Distances, Railroad and Steamboat Routes, Tarif [sic] for Cabs and Carriages,


Advertisements of Some of the Leading Stores, &c., &c. [Montreal: Coleman’s 

Montreal House], 1857. 

A mid-19th-century guide for visitors to the most populous city in British North 

America. 

29. 

$1,500 

Happel, Eberhard Werner (1647–1690). “Die Ebbe und Fluth auff einer flachen 

Landt-Karten fürgestelt.” [Ulm, 1675]. 

A very early and important thematic map showing oceanographic phenomena. 

30. 

$210 

Hitchcock, Edward (1793–1864). “Geological Map of a Part of Massachusetts 

on Connecticut River, 1817.” [New York: J. Eastburn and Co., 1819]. 

One of the earliest American geological maps. 

31. 

$2,000 

Hughes, Matthew. “Farm Map of Hillsboro’, Somerset Co. N.J.” Philadelphia: 

Printed by T. S. Wagner, 1860. 

This wall map of a local township includes vignettes of buildings, a list of subscribers, 

and a table of distances between villages. The names of property owners are given, 

along with the number of acres owned by each. 

32. 

$850 

Morden, Robert (d. 1703). “A New Map of New Jarsey and Pensilvania.” [London: 

Printed for Robert Morden and Thomas Cockerill . . ., 1688]. 

An early map showing the division of East and West Jersey. 

33. 

$350 

Scull, Nicholas (1686?–1761?). “A Map of Philadelphia and Parts Adjacent.” 

[London, 1777]. 

Shows major roads and names of property owners. 

34. 

$240 

Smith, Roswell Chamberlain (1797–1875). “A Chart Exhibiting the Actual and 

Comparative Size of Each Country, Nation, or Kingdom: Its Population as a 

Whole and to a Square Mile: Also the Different States of Society, Forms of 

Government, Religion &c.” [Philadelphia: W. Marshall, 1837, c1835]. 

A fascinating attempt to label societies as barbarous, half-civilized, civilized, and 

enlightened.

Manuscripts Division 

35. 

$2,475 

36. 

$1,250 

37. 

$745 

38. 

$950 

English Recipe Book, ca. 1650–1750. 

This volume contains 241 recipes for particular dishes and drinks, such as “Westphalia 

Bakon of a Legg of Porke,” “Mynce pyes Mrs. Mechells way,” and “Goosberry Wine.” 

It also offers medicinal remedies, including instructions for treating scurvy, dropsy, 

whooping cough, worms, and “the King’s Evil.” 

Haswell, Alexander (b. 1798). Notebook, 1824. 

This notebook contains sections on fortune telling, word games, riddles, enigmas, and 

conundrums; a culinary puzzle; and word puzzles. The contents are suggestive of parlor 

games played in an upper-class home in Regency England. Inscribed on the front 

cover and again on the rear free endpaper, “A. Haswell, Stella House, August, 1824, 

Durham.” 

Hotten, John Camden (1832–1873). Manuscript and proofs, ca. 1871. 

Original manuscript and corrected proofs of Hotten’s preface, introduction, and notes 

for an edition of John Wilkes’s “An Essay on Woman” (1763), a work conceived as a 

bawdy parody of Alexander Pope’s Essay on Man (1733–1734). 

Mitchell, Jacob D. (1806–1877). The Life and Religious Experience of Jacob D. 

Mitchell, Written by himself in the Form of his Private Journal, 1828–29. 

Autograph manuscript of a noted Virginia Presbyterian minister who came of age in 

Princeton during the Second Great Awakening. Mitchell (Princeton Class of 1827) 

kept the journal while attending the Princeton Theological Seminary. It ends just after 

he finished his studies and went to preach in Albany, New York. 

39–41. 

$600 

$900 

$900 

Rinehart, Frank A. (1861–1928). Photographs, 1898–1999. 

“Two Little Crows” 

“Hattie Tom” 

“Freckled Face, Arapahoe” 

The photographer Frank A. Rinehart and his brother Alfred were in partnership with 

William Henry Jackson in the early 1880s. In 1885 Rinehart opened a studio in Omaha, 

Nebraska. He is well known for his sensitive portraits of Native Americans, including 

those who attended the Indian Congress held concurrently with the Trans-Mississippi 

and International Exposition (Omaha, 1898). The Western Americana Photograph 

Collection has many examples of his work.


Item 41. 

Studio portrait of 

Freckled Face (Hannah 

Little Bird, ca. 1864– 

ca. 1920), a delegate 

at the U.S. Indian 

Congress of the 

Trans-Mississippi and 

International Exposition, 

Omaha, 1898. She 

wears a dress decorated 

with elk teeeth, a bone 

hairpipe breastplate 

necklace, and silver 

bracelets, rings, and 

earrings. Photographed 

by Frank A. Rinehart or 

his assistant, Adolph F. 

Muhr (ca. 1858–1913). 

42. 

$1,435 

Terry, Ellen (1847–1928), and Sir Henry Irving (1838–1905). Photograph Album, 

1882–1883. 

Photograph album containing cabinet photographs of English actors Ellen Terry and 

Henry Irving in costume for Shakespearean and other roles. There are 25 photographs 

of Terry and 15 of Irving, including, at the beginning, Terry in costume as Portia and 

Irving as Shylock.

Marquand Library of Art and Archaeology 

43. 

$600 

Ernst, Max (1891–1976). Exposition Max Ernst: Du 15 mars au 5 avril 1927, 

Galerie van Leer. Paris: Galerie van Leer, 1927. 

Catalogue for an early solo exhibition that helped the German surrealist painter make 

his mark in Paris. 

44. 

$685 

Guide de la ville de Florence avec la description de la galerie et du Palais Pitti: 

Orné de vues et statues. Florence: G. Ricci, 1824. 

Generously illustrated historical and cultural guide to Florence, written for Frenchspeaking 

tourists. With detailed entries on important buildings and works of art, including 

a room-by-room description of the Palazzo Pitti shortly before it opened to 

the public as a picture gallery. 

45. 

$975 

46. 

$185 

Hirt, Aloys (1759–1836). Der Tempel Salomon’s. Berlin: J. F. Weiss, 1809. 

An early attempt to reconstruct the Jerusalem temple that was destroyed by the Babylonians 

in 587–586 BCE, written by an influential German architectural historian and 

theorist whose most famous pupil was Karl Friedrich Schinkel. The last of three folding 

plates shows Hirt’s idea of the Holy of Holies in plan, section, and elevation. 

Long, Richard. Rivers and Stones. Newlyn, Cornwall: Newlyn Orion Galleries, 

1978. 

Photographic and text presentation of landscape sculptures by the contemporary British 

artist, including Throwing a Stone around MacGillycuddy’s Reeks: A 2½ Day Walk, 

3628 Throws (County Kerry, Ireland, 1977). Long says his works “inhabit the territory” 

between “making monuments” and “leaving only footprints.” 

47. 

$825 

Man Ray (1890–1976). Tableaux de Man Ray et objets des îles: Exposition du 26 

mars au 10 avril. Paris: Editions surrealists, [1926]. 

Catalog for the Galerie Surréaliste’s inaugural exhibition. Numerous quotations on the 

theme of “les oiseaux” precede a list of 24 works by Man Ray. These were shown, provocatively, 

alongside 62 Oceanic and Indonesian sculptures, masks, and other pieces. 

48. 

$950 

Politi, Raffaello (1783–1870). Esposizione di un vaso fittile agrigentino nella 

famosa collezione di S.M. Ludovico re di Baviera. Palermo: Eredi di Graffeo, 

1828. 

One of the Sicilian-based scholar and collector’s elegantly produced commentaries on 

Attic pottery.


Item 48. Politi argues that Leopold I’s vase depicts a battle of the gods and giants, and he illustrates 

the eight gods in this engraving. 

49. 

$3,000 

Re, Antonio del (16th/17th cent.). Dell’antichità tiburtine. Capitolo V, diviso 

in due parti dal dottore Antonio del Re tiburtino; nel quale si descriuono le merauiglie 

del palazzo e giardino della serenissima fameglia d’Este . . . Rome: Appresso 

Giacomo Mascardi, 1611. 

The earliest and most complete description of the famous and influential gardens of the 

Villa d’Este, Tivoli. The gardens, which had elaborate hydraulic features, were laid out 

by Pirro Ligorio in the late 16th century and restored and expanded beginning in 1605. 

50. 

$400 

Watanabe, Yoshio (1907–2000), Tachū Naitō (1886–1970), et al. Furanku Roido 

Raito “Teikoku Hoteru” = Imperial Hotel, 1921–67. Tokyo: Kajima Kenkyūsho 

Shuppankai, Shōwa 43, 1968. 

Elegiac photographic record of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, which 

captures the structure in eccentric details and panoramic views shortly before its demolition. 

The hotel had famously survived the Great Kantō Earthquake of 1923. 

51. 

$975 

Whatley, Thomas (d.1772). L’art de former les jardins moderns: ou L’art des 

jardins anglois. Paris: C. A. Jombert pere, 1771. 

A French translation of Whately’s Observations on Modern Gardening (1770), thought 

to be one of the first books to introduce English-style landscapes to the French. The 

translator augments and corrects Whatley’s text with his own discourse on garden history 

and inserts a description and plan of Stowe. 

52. 

$655 

Zacchiroli, Francesco (1750–1826). Description de la Galerie royale de Florence. 

Arezzo: Chez Catherine Bellotti, & fils, 1790. 

Second, enlarged edition of the first French-language guide to the Florentine ducal 

gallery, known today as the Galleria degli Uffizi. From 1765, the collections were 

grouped according to schools and styles. This systematic and didactic approach to art 

is evident in Zacchiroli’s guide and the accompanying fold-out plan of the museum.

Numismatic Collection 

53. 

$560 

54. 

$2,250 

Cliosophic Society, College of New Jersey. Gold key. Ca. 1830. 

There are many varieties of the eight-pointed, hand-engraved badge of the Cliosophic 

Society; this is of the earliest style. 

Forrer, Leonard. Biographical Dictionary of Medalists. 8 vols. London, 1904– 

1930. 

Original black half morocco binding. One of only 300 sets of the original edition. 

This indispensable reference work marks a major addition to the Numismatic Reference 

Collection; until now we have had to rely on the circulating (and very damaged) 

Firestone set of this work for cataloguing our growing collection of European 

medals. 

55. 

$1,400 

56. 

$1,750 

57. 

$3,000 

Greece. Kings of Pergamon. Silver tetradrachm of Eumenes I. 263–241 BCE. 

One of the most beautiful coins in the tradition established by Alexander the Great of 

depicting a dynastic founder on the obverse and a deity on the reverse. Eumenes ruled 

over the Asia Minor kingdom of Pergamon, founded by his uncle Philetairos, whose 

portrait appears on the obverse. On the reverse, Athena is seated with her shield. 

Italy. Republic of Genoa. Gold genovino. 1252–1339. 

Though the florin of Florence and the ducat of Venice are well known as the standard 

gold coins of late medieval Europe, the genovino of Genoa shared pride of place with 

them in being one of the first issues of gold, but it is surprisingly rare in hoards, documents, 

and modern collections. This specimen, the first example of this denomination 

in the Princeton Numismatic Collection, is of the earliest period, with no minter’s 

signs. Its obverse depicts a city gate (a pun on the Latin name of the city Ianua), and 

the reverse recognizes the 12th-century emperor Conrad III, who first gave minting 

rights to Genoa. 

Paterson family. Gold medal. Ca. 1800. 

This hand-made piece appears to have been engraved on a smoothed-down Spanish 

eight-escudo gold coin. The obverse bears the arms of the Paterson family of New 

Jersey; the reverse has the monogram the College of New Jersey. The medal was originally 

suspended by a loop, possibly for use as a watch key; later, a pin-back was soldered 

onto the reverse. It was likely made for William Paterson, Class of 1763, or for 

his son, William Bell Paterson, Class of 1801.


Item 57. 

Obverse of the Paterson 

family medal. 

Princeton University Archives/Public Policy Papers 

58. 

$275 

59. 

$50 

Autograph book. One volume belonging to Charles Dunning, Class of 1883. 

Autograph book. One volume belonging to Valentine Hummel Berghaus, Class 

of 1864. 

Undergraduates collected not only the autographs of classmates, but also good wishes, 

bits of favorite verse, letters of farewell, and reminiscences of shared events during 

their college years. 

60. 

$2,400 

61. 

$150 

Maclean, John, Jr. (1880–1886). Additional papers. Ca. 1790–1890. 

The John Maclean Jr. Papers consist of letters to and from Maclean, his family, and 

his associates; together, they document the history of the College of New Jersey during 

his time there, as well as family matters. Among the papers are financial documents, 

commencement programs, a photograph of the 20th reunion of the class of 

1876, and other college memorabilia. 

Potter, William A. (1842–1909). The Commencement Hall, Princeton College, 

Princeton N.J. American Architect and Building News, December 12, 1891. Boston: 

Heliotype Printing Co. 

Potter, who produced this rendering of his design for what is now known as Alexander


Item 61. 

Alexander Hall was 

given by Harriet Crocker 

Alexander in honor of 

her husband, Charles 

B. Alexander (1870), 

his father, Henry M. 

Alexander (1840), 

and his grandfather, 

Archibald Alexander 

(hon. D.D. 1810), all 

of whom served as 

Princeton trustees. 

Hall (1892), had previously served as the architect for Chancellor Green (1873) and 

would be chosen subsequently to design East Pyne Hall (1897). The first public lecture 

in the building was given in November 1894 by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Woodrow 

Wilson delivered his famous speech “Princeton in the Nation’s Service” in the hall 

during the sesquicentennial celebration in 1896. Although commencement exercises 

outgrew the building by 1922, Alexander Hall continues to accommodate many academic 

and artistic activities.


62. 

$950 

Wallace, Hugh C. (1863–1931). Memorandums and correspondence pertaining 

to Colonel Edward M. House. 

Wallace, one of the most influential financiers in the Pacific Northwest at the turn of 

the twentieth century, was a leader of the Democratic Party in the region and served 

on the Democratic National Committee during the campaign to re-elect President 

Woodrow Wilson in 1916. 

63. 

$900 

Witherspoon, John (1723–1794). Lectures on Criticism. 1794. 

The Lecture Notes Collection in the Princeton University Archives contains student 

notes from a broad range of courses taught by members of Princeton’s faculty. Notable 

lecturers include five University presidents (John Hibben, John Maclean, James 

McCosh, Samuel Smith, and Woodrow Wilson), and some of the more well-known 

students are John Maclean, William Magie, John Duffield, and John Hibben. The 

notes offer a sense of student academic interests, advances in learning, and the increased 

specialization of courses. 

Rare Book Division 

64. 

$300 

65. 

$125 

Berthold’s Political Handkerchief. No. 1. London, Monday, September 5, 1831. 

Henry Berthold (b. ca. 1800) led the National Union of Working Classes, which advocated 

universal male suffrage in England. He printed his newspaper on cotton to evade 

the government tax on paper. “Cotton For Ever! Cotton makes very bad paper, as we 

may see in all that comes from the United States of America; but when finely woven, 

it is a very pretty thing to print on. See of how much more worth is our news, than 

that which is printed on paper, as to the fabric on which it is printed. Paper is torn and 

wasted; but a piece of printed cotton may be read and then used for a thousand different 

purposes. It is possible, if the ink will wash out, that after six months reading, 

we may be able to buy back and use over the cotton again. We shall perform wonders 

with cotton. Truly, knowledge is spiritual and will pervade every thing. Knowledge is 

power. It makes everything minister to its purposes” (p. 3). 

Black Valley Railroad, Great Central Fast Route. New York and Boston: National 

Temperance Society, [1880?]. 

“Beyond . . . is Prisonton, Deliriumton, Demonland, the Great Black Valley. . . .” One 

of the earliest pictorial genres depicts the course of human progress from start to end, 

plotted onto the length and depth of a two-dimensional plane. By convention, the beginning 

point is in the foreground; the end is in the distance. Such images are a singlesheet 

form of the “picture story,” a means of expression developed so well by William


Hogarth (“Rake’s Progress”) and Honoré Daumier. In the case of this temperance 

broadside, cast as a railway timetable, the life of the tippler runs from “Sippington” to 

“Destruction” with 30 stops in between. 

66. 

$450 

Coolidge-Rask, Marie. London after Midnight . . . Based on the Scenario of the 

Tod Browning Production; Illustrated with Scenes from the Photoplay; A Metro- 

Goldwyn-Mayer Picture; Starring Lon Chaney. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 

1928. 

London after Midnight (1927) is said to be the first American vampire film. The sole 

known print of the film was destroyed in a fire in 1965, so the illustrations in this novelization 

provide the only available glimpses of the film. 

67. 

$250 

[Derby, Elias Hasket, III (1803–1880)]. Two Months Abroad: or, A Trip to England, 

France, Baden, Prussia, and Belgium. In August and September, 1843. By 

a Rail-road Director of Massachusetts. 1st ed. Boston: Redding & Co., 1844. 

Derby was the scion of an important Salem merchant family and president of the 

Old Colony Railroad. His travel account consists of 29 letters he wrote, each signed 

“Massachusetts.” He begins: “To one reared in a growing country like ours, with few 

memorials of the past, amid enterprise and improvement, and constant predictions 

of the future, and in the midst of the strife and turmoil of incessant competition, it is 

refreshing to enjoy, for a brief space, however rapid be our movement, the comparative 

calm and repose of the old world . . .” (p. 3). 

68. 

$100 

Princeton Bicycles. Little Falls, N.Y.: Homer P. Snyder Manufacturing Co.; 

New York: D. P. Harris Hardware Company, ca. 1909. 

Trade catalogue “marketing a line of high-grade, well-made, and up-to-date bycycles.” 

Homer P. Snyder first began manufacturing bicycles in 1895. Snyder evidently took 

over the line from the Empire Cycle Company of Syracuse. Models ranged from the 

Double Bar Model F at $55 to the Princeton Velocipede, Style 1, at $17. 

69. 

$150 

Special Instructions to Agents: How to Sell Golden Manual or Royal Road to 

Success. Philadelphia: S. I. Bell, 1891. 

Princeton University has owned a copy of Golden Manual, or, The Royal Road to Success 

by Henry Davenport Northrop (1836–1909) since before 1920. Now, at long last, 

we have the publisher’s 24-page pamphlet for book agents, with step-by-step instructions 

on how to sell this self-help manual. The agent needed two tools: a canvassing 

book (a sample copy of the Golden Manual with blanks endleaves for subscribers’ 

names) and this pamphlet. Step 1 directs agents: “Begin your canvass with the most 

influential men in your territory. After you have secured the subscription of some 

prominent man you should get him to give you the names of such persons as he thinks 

might subscribe. . . .”


Item 68. 

A serious young man 

crosses campus in style.

Western Americana Collections 

70. 

$35 

Armstrong, Margaret (1867–1944). Field Book of Western Wild Flowers. New 

York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1925. 

Includes 500 black-and-white illustrations and 48 plates in color, drawn from nature 

by the author, one of the great book designers of the 20th century and the sister of 

Hamilton Fish Armstrong, Class of 1916. Margaret designed the colophon for Foreign 

Affairs magazine, which her brother edited from 1922 until his retirement in 1972. 

71. 

$375 

72. 

$250 

Carrington, Charles, ed. A Plea for Polygamy. Paris: C. Carrington, 1898. 

This European imprint contrasts Muslim and Mormon polygamy and adds to our 

strength in Mormon history. Limited edition of 300 numbered copies. 

Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company. Big Horn Basin, Wyoming. 

Omaha: Burlington Route, Agricultural Development Department, 1929. 

Brochure published by the railroad to attract settlers with the motto “Wyoming: The 

Young Man’s State.” 

73. 

$500 

Colorado State Board of Stock Inspection Commissioners. Colorado Brand 

Book, 1928. Denver, 1928. 

The Princeton University Library has one of the finest collections of western brand 

books. 

74. 

$385 

Denison, Charles (1845–1909). Rocky Mountain Health Resorts: An Analytical 

Study of High Altitudes in Relation to the Arrest of Chronic Pulmonary Disease. 

Boston: Houghton, Osgood and Company, 1880. 

Focuses on lung disease therapy and the influence of altitude in dealing with tuberculosis. 

Includes many diagrams and a chart for evaluating a patient’s lung disease. 

75. 

$300 

Denver and Colorado Industrial Exposition, 1887. [Denver: R. G. Dill Book and 

Job Printer], 1887. 

The department has many brochures featuring expositions in the West. Heavily illustrated 

with steel engravings. 

76. 

$450 

Frazier, R. T. R. T. Frazier’s Saddlery: Illustrated Catalog and Price List. 

Pueblo, Colo.: Rocky Mountain Bank Note Company . . . , ca. 1920. 

Catalogue 34 from Frazier, “the original designer, owner & maker of the famous


Pueblo Saddle.” His company claimed to be “the Largest Manufacturers of High 

Grade Saddles in the World, Wholesale and Retail.” The catalogue consists of 136 

enamel-coated pages, profusely illustrated. 

77. 

$350 

James, Will (1892–1942). Cowboy in the Making. Illustrated by the author. New 

York: C. Scribner’s Sons, 1937. 

This heavily illustrated volume was fashioned from early chapters of Lone Cowboy 

(1930), the autobiography of the self-made cowboy artist and storyteller. With dust 

jacket and four color illustrations. 

78. 

$250 

Latta, Frank Forrest (1892–1981). California Indian Folklore, As Told to F. F. 

Latta, by Wah-noḿ-kot, Wah-huḿ-chah, Leé-mee. Shafter, Calif., 1936. 

Latta lived most of his life in the San Joaquin Valley, where he taught school and directed 

the Kern County Museum. In the 1920s, fascinated by the life and culture of the 

region, he began interviewing some of the original settlers and members of the more 

than 60 tribes that make up the Yokuts. This self-published volume, which includes 

creation stories, fire-stealing stories, mythological games, and stories of Yosemite and 

of the heavens, was his first book focused on the Yokuts. 

79. 

$175 

Leclercq, Jules Joseph (1848–1928). Un été en Amérique, de l’Atlantique aux 

montagnes Rocheuses. Paris: E. Plon, 1877. 

A scarce account of Leclercq’s travels from Liverpool to Newfoundland, to the major 

American cities on the East Coast, through the Midwest, and on to Colorado and 

Pike’s Peak. On his return journey he found much to like about Chicago, but advised 

“gens nerveux” to avoid tours of the packing houses. 

80. 

$125 

New Mexico. Governor (1906–1907: Hagerman). Message of Herbert J. Hagerman, 

Governor of New Mexico, to the 37th Legislative Assembly. Santa Fe: New 

Mexican Printing Company, 1907. 

The department has a very strong collection of territorial imprints. Hagerman (1871– 

1935), a former ambassador to Russia, later served as Special Commissioner to the 

Navajos regarding the boundaries of their reservation. 

81. 

$450 

82. 

$125 

Nic Tengg’s Indexed Map of San Antonio. San Antonio: Nic Tengg, [1909]. 

Shows wards, public streets, street railway systems, public buildings, plazas, parks, railroad 

stations, churches, schools, and places of amusement. Tengg (1847–1927), an 

Austrian, operated a bookstore in San Antonio from 1874 and produced some of the 

city’s earliest postcards. 

Plano Manufacturing Company. Harvest Equipment Brochure. Text in Norwegian. 

Chicago: Shober & Carqueville Litho. Co., 1891.


Item 82. 

Although the text 

of this pamphlet is 

in Norwegian, the 

chromolithographed 

wrapper is in English. 

Presumably for Norwegian bachelor farmers. Near to Plano, in the Fox River Valley 

of Illinois, the community of Norway claims to be the site of the first permanent Norwegian 

settlement in America. In 1902 the Plano Manufacturing Company merged 

with the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company and others to form the International 

Harvester Company. 

83. 

$350 

Slagle, Jacob W. Westward Ramblings and Home Again. Baltimore: Educator of 

Morgan College Print, 1896. 

Across the country by train, steamboat, and stage in 1893, with stops at major cities 

and Yosemite and Yellowstone. The author and his party, all from Baltimore, brought


with them a moralizing attitude. On a side trip to Leadville, Colorado, “Our feelings 

while walking the streets of this modern Sodom, were not of the most assuring. . . . 

[I]ts revelry and rioting scenes have been replaced by law-abiding citizens. Yet the idle 

corner lounger with pistol and knife dangling from around the body are not very inviting 

to look upon. . . .” 

84. 

$100 

Vaughn, Frank E. (d. 1929). The Spirit of Leadville in Verse. Leadville, Colorado, 

1928. 

One hardly expects to find books of poetry from a mining town in the American West. 

Vaughn was for many years manager of the Leadville Herald-Democrat. In his preface 

to this volume, the “printer-poet” wrote, “Covering a period of nearly fifty years the 

writer has inflicted on the people of Leadville . . . spasms of rhyme that at times met 

with the approval of a limited number of his fellow citizens.” 

Conservation Treatments 

East Asian 

Library 85. 

$260 

Nakamura, Seiei (d. 1746). Sanpō tengen shōdan tsuika heien ritsuen shinra te kitō. 

2 vols. Illustrated with woodcuts. Kyō[to]: Akitaya Goryōbē Hōei 3, [1706]. 

Contents: Geometrical exercise book from an early Edo mathematician; Oriental style, 

title pieces wanting; includes texts in Kanbun, with reading marks. 

Treatment: Repair creased and torn paper with Japanese tissue and wheat starch paste; 

fill losses with toned tissue. Fabricate Asian wrapper for volumes. 

Total estimated treatment time: 6.5 hours. 

86. 

$340 

Okamoto, Ippō (fl. 1685–1733). Shinpen kyūhō kuketsu shinan. 5 vols. Illustrated 

with woodcuts. Edo: Nishimura Hanbē; Kōto [Kyoto]: Nishimura 

Ichirōuemon; Kyō[to] [Kyoto]: Nakagawa Mohē Jōkyō 2, [1685]. 

Contents: Guide with practical knowledge on acupuncture and moxa, put into easyto-remember 

rhymes. 

Treatment: Repair creased and torn paper with Japanese tissue and wheat starch paste; 

fill losses with toned tissue. Fabricate Asian wrapper for volumes. 

Total estimated treatment time: 8.5 hours. 

87. 

$560 

Zhongguo de mu qin wen ti. Ca. 1945–1950. 

Contents: Unique hand-colored and handwritten illustrated guide showing why Chinese 

citizens should practice family planning, for their own benefit and the benefit of 

the country as a whole; probably used in an oral rural educational setting. 

Treatment: Attach loose and detached plates using paste and Japanese tissue; consoli-


Item 87. 

Hand-drawn text 

and graph explaining 

the prosperous life 

expectancy of a Chinese 

child born to parents 

who practiceō family 

planning and the dim 

prospects of one who 

is not. 

date boards with paste and tissue; replace spine with new material if necessary; retain 

all original material. Fabricate new drop-spine box. 

Total estimated treatment time: 14 hours.


Graphic Arts 

88. 

$520 

Historic Maps 

89. 

$780 

Manuscripts 

90. 

$1,125 

91. 

$2,250 

Audubon, John James (1785–1851). Tufted Duck. Fuligula Rufitorques. 1834. 

Engraved, printed, and colored by Robert Havell (1793–1878). 

Contents: This is one of Robert Havell’s so-called pattern prints, used by the workers 

in his studio to guide them in the coloring. Two hundred or more impressions of each 

plate had to be hand-colored, so it was necessary to establish a standard for the workers 

to follow. Havell’s initials, added in ink, presumably indicate his approval. 

Condition: Tears in a number of places with surface dirt. 

Treatment: Repair tears with Japanese paper and surface dry-clean. 

Total estimated treatment time: 8 hours. 

Tanner, Henry Schenck (1786–1858). The Traveller’s and Emigrant’s Guide 

through Texas; Consisting of a General Description of the Country ... with Tables 

of Distances in All directions ... Illus. by a Colored Map of Texas.… New York: 

Tanner’s Geographical Establishment, 1846. 

Condition: Both the foldout map (hand-colored lithograph, 27 × 32 cm) and a broadside 

of the Texas charter are attached to paper/cloth boards and silked at verso, making 

support extremely brittle and fragile; the broadside has a severe tear detaching it 

from cover; and each object has some minor tears. The cover boards are not contemporary 

with the map and broadside. A remnant of original title cover page adheres to 

the front cover. 

Treatment: Examine and test map pigments; remove map and broadside from cover 

boards; remove silking from map and broadside; line map and broadside with Japanese 

paper and wheat starch paste; re-house in polyester sleeves and save cover boards. 


Teologia Indorum (Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican Manuscript no. 227). 1500s. 

Contents: Contains texts written in K’iche’, Kaqchikel, and Tzutuhil in several unidentified 

hands, all of the 16th century. 

Condition: Textblock tacketed into leather wrapper (not considered original to the text 

and does not have to be re-used); paper dirty and torn; sewing loose; in a wrapper with 

hard case. 

Treatment: Remove textblock from wrapper and disbind; clean and repair paper; resew 

and re-tacket into leather wrapper (if flexible enough to open easily to 180 degrees); 

make drop-spine box. 


Vico, Domingo de (1485–1555). Teologia Indorum (Garrett-Gates Mesoamerican 

Manuscript no. 176). 1600s. 

Contents: Brief Christian lessons drawn from the lives of the saints and the New Testament, 

with explanations of Christian concepts (virtue, prudence, and so on).


Marquand 

Library 92. 

$320 

Condition: Leather wrapper detached from textblock (not considered to be original 

to the text and does not have to be re-used; wrapped around wrapper containing textblock); 

textblock disbound; major damage along spine folds; tears and folds/creases 

along edges; cover wrapper and textblock in a wrapper with hard case. 

Treatment: Flatten creases and mend tears; create new signatures; sew and bind into 

cover; make drop-spine box that includes the leather wrapper. 


Alberti, Leon Battista (1404–1472). Leonis Baptiste Alberti De re aedificatoria 

incipit lege feliciter. Florence, [1485?]. 

Condition: There are loose and detached leaves at the first signature; the last signature 

is partly split along the fold at the bottom of the textblock; the cover paper and vellum 

are worn, and there are areas of loss. 

Treatment: Consolidate board edges and corners with Japanese tissue and wheat starch 

paste; guard detached leaves together; mend paper as needed and attach loose signature 

by sewing or hinging it onto the textblock. 


93. 

$2,400 

Serlio, Sebastiano (1475–1554). Libro primo [-quinto] d’architettvra, di Sebas tiano 

Serlio Bolognese. Venetia: Appresso G.B. et M. Sessa fratelli, [1559–1562]. 

Condition: The vellum covers are grimy and broken; the volume is re-backed with a 

buckram cloth; inner cloth hinges have created a hard line that puts stress on the adjacent 

pages; the first several pages of the textblock are laminated with tape; extensive 

mold damage starts in libro quarto and goes through the pages almost to the end of 

the textblock; there is staining and surface grime on the paper and covers. 

Treatment: Remove tape and reduce adhesive residue as much as possible; remove previous 

repairs; clean entire volume with a HEPA vacuum to remove loose mold spores; 

mend mold-damaged areas with tissue as needed; wash heavily stained pages to reduce 

tide lines; repair paper as needed to re-sew the textblock and incorporate a new cover; 

retain vellum boards and enclose with book in a clamshell box. 


94. 

$480 

Taut, Bruno, 1880-1938. Die Auflösung der Städte; oder, Die Erde eine gute 

Woh nung; oder auch: Der Weg zur Alpinen Architektur; in 30 Zeichnungen. 

Hagen in West: Erschienen im Folkwang, 1920. 

Condition: The textblock paper is discolored and brittle, but is largely intact; the binding 

material is paper over board, printed using red, blue, and black inks; the entire 

spine area is covered with pressure-sensitive tape that extends approximately 4.5 cm 

onto the front of each board and covers printed text. 

Treatment: Consolidate board corners and edges with wheat starch paste and Japanese 

tissue; test solubility of printing ink on the cover; remove pressure-sensitive tape from


Princeton 

Archives 95. 

$1,000 

Rare Books 

96. 

$450 

the spine and inner gutter areas and reduce adhesive residue as much as possible. Fabricate 

enclosure to protect the book. 


Triangle Club Records. Motion picture records of annual productions for 

1936–1937 (Take It Away) and for 1937–1938 (Fol-de-Rol). 35mm film. 

Condition: Motion picture film chemically deteriorating, as evidenced by acetic acid 

smell, known as vinegar syndrome. 

Treatment: Reformat digitally and make available via the Internet. 

Denon, Vivant (1747–1825). Travels in Upper and Lower Egypt, during the 

Campaigns of General Bonaparte in That Country. Translated by Arthur Aikin. 

2 vols. New York: Printed by Heard and Forman for Samuel Campbell, 1803. 

Condition: Full tree-calf binding; tight-back binding structure; both boards detached; 

first leaves loose; board edges tattered. 

Treatment: Mend first leaves and secure to textblock with tissue guard; consolidate 

board edges; re-attach boards and reinforce inner joints with tissue strips. 


97. 

$1,800 

Haydn, Joseph (1732–1809). Collection complette des sonates de piano. 2 vols. 

Paris: Chez Pleyel, [1800?]. 

Condition: One-half vellum and paste paper bindings; all boards tattered, with damaged 

edges and corners; vellum is very thin and weak; both spines detached; board to 

textblock attachment secure; spine vellum is lined with heavy board spine piece, which 

has caused damage at joints; some losses to vellum spines. 

Treatment: Reinforce board corners with dyed tissue and paste; consolidate board 

edges; remove heavy spine lining; reinforce vellum; fill losses; re-back with reconstructed 

original spine pieces. Fabricate wrapper for each volume. 


98. 

$675 

Melville, Herman (1819–1891). Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South 

Seas. London: John Murray, 1847. 

Condition: Thin cloth binding (publisher’s cloth); both boards detached; spine piece 

missing; prior repair of heavy adhesive applied across entire exposed spine of textblock; 

first leaves detached. 

Treatment: Clean textblock spine of prior repair; reconstruct case with original boards 

and reinforced dyed tissue spine piece. Fabricate wrapper. 


99. 

$900 

Spenser, Edmund (1552?–1599). The Faerie Queene Disposed into Twelue Bookes 

Fashioning XII. Morall Vertues. [Chelsea]: Ashendene Press, 1923.


Condition: One-quarter leather and vellum binding; front board detached, rear board 

secure; both boards warping from pull of vellum; evidence of prior repairs on both 

board joints (leather joint strips); vellum lifting where it adjoins leather on board surface; 

leather endcaps damaged; textblock condition sound. 

Treatment: Flatten boards; re-attach front board via board-tacket; reinforce joints and 

endcaps; secure vellum to board along leather spine piece transition. Fabricate dropspine 

box. 


100. 

$180 

Volume of pamphlets on religious and political subjects, 1769–1777, owned by 

John Witherspoon. 

Condition: Full leather binding; boards secure; spine secured to hollow; spine joint 

broken on front board. 

Treatment: Secure spine joint via reinforced hollow and tissue strips along outside of 

joint; reinforce inner joint with tissue strips. 


Western 

Americana 

101. 

$450 

102. 

$405 

103. 

$195 

Volume of pamphlets on religious subjects, 1773–1783, owned by John 

Witherspoon. 

Condition: One-half leather and paper binding; evidence of prior leather re-back; 

leather corner pieces very deteriorated and fragile; front board detached. 

Treatment: Reinforce/consolidate leather corner pieces and board edges; secure board 

attachment with tissue strips; reinforce inner joints with tissue strips. 


Colorado. Department of State. New Colorado Brand Book. Denver: Smith- 

Brooks Printing, 1900. 

Condition: Spine deteriorated or missing; both boards loose, with weakened attachment 

to textblock; fore-edge flap deteriorated with losses. 

Treatment: Repair fore-edge flap with dyed tissue filling in losses; secure boards and 

reinforce inner joint with Japanese tissue and wheat starch paste; re-back spine with 

reinforced and dyed tissue spine piece. 


Dakota Territory, Department of Immigration and Statistics. Facts about Dakota…. 

Monthly Bulletin of the Commissioner of Immigration. Huron, Dakota, 

1887. 

Condition: Pressure-sensitive tape has been applied to the spine, front cover (at right 

edge), and back cover, creating very severe brown adhesive stains. The last leaf of this 

24-page pamphlet has a severe tear. 

Treatment: Mechanically remove pressure-sensitive tape; repair tear with heat-set


tissue; de-acidify leaves with Bookkeeper spray. Nothing can be done to reduce the 

tape adhesive stains. 


104. 

$450 

Dodson, Fisher, Brockmann Co. Illustrated Catalog No. 125: Harness, Collars, 

Saddles, Saddlery Hardware, etc. Minneapolis, 1916. 

Condition: Both covers weakened at hinge; minor paper damage on first leaves at foreedge; 

upper corner of rear cover damaged at cord; spine cloth to textblock attachment 

weak; and cloth worn at points along rear joint. 

Treatment: Paper mending of first leaves with Japanese tissue and wheat starch paste; 

repair rear cover corner at cord; pull cover and reinforce spine cloth; re-adhere to textblock, 

reinforcing cover to inner joint connection. Fabricate wrapper. 

Total estimated treatment time: 10 hours.

Catalog - Friends of Princeton University Library

Create successful ePaper yourself

Delete template?

Save as template?