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Americana
Table of Contents
Modern Firsts, 1900-1992
Literature
History, Philosophy and Economics
Royalty
Art and Illustrated Books
Children’s Literature
Travel and Exploration
Bibles and Religion
Gift Suggestions
Index
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Section 1: Americana
american statesmen
With Original Letters And Official Documents Of Signal Importance, Including Those Signed
By Washington, Franklin, Jefferson, Hamilton, John Adams, Lincoln And Many More:
Exceedingly Rare 40-Volume American Statesmen, 1898-1917, Limited Edition,
One Of Only 500 Sets Issued, An Extraordinary Set Of 40 Volumes
1. MORSE, John T. Editor. American Statesmen. Boston and New York, 1898-1900, 1908-1917. Forty volumes.
Octavo, contemporary full brown crushed morocco gilt. $155,000.
Limited large-paper edition, number 459 of only 500 sets, an exceedingly rare set containing an exceptional additional
tipped-in collection of signed letters, official legal and fiduciary documents (in 39 of 40 volumes), including a 1787
document signed by Franklin, a moving 1820 letter signed by John Adams, a Treasury Department circular letter signed
by Hamilton detailing the enactment of his controversial 1790 Assumption Act, a fascinating autograph legal document
signed by Jefferson, a very rare official document signed by two presidents, John Quincy Adams and James Monroe, a
an 1855 autograph note by Lincoln, an 1864 cipher message from Grant, along with numerous portraits and illustrations,
uniformly bound in magnificent full crushed morocco gilt.
This most rare American Statesmen set of 40 volumes contains exceptionally rare additional signed letters and official
signed legal, governmental and fiduciary documents, tipped into each volume (excepting the Index volume), and featuring:
an official 1789 Pennsylvania document signed by Franklin, a note signed by Washington, a thoughtful 1820 letter signed
by John Adams, a most rare Treasury Department circular letter signed by Alexander Hamilton regarding his 1790

Assumption Act, a letter signed by Chief Justice John Marshall, an autograph note
signed by Jefferson regarding a controversial legal case, documents signed by Madison
and John Jay, an 1823 document signed by both John Quincy Adams and James
Monroe, the two-volume biography of Lincoln—one volume with an official 1862
document signed by him, and a fascinating autograph note concerning a legal case in
his Illinois law firm, and major documents and letters signed by leading Civil War figures, including an 1864 cipher note
signed by U.S. Grant. Limited large-paper edition, one of only 500 copies. Featuring an index and 39 biographies of America’s
founding fathers, presidents, diplomats, legislators, Supreme Court Justices, and many more: authored by figures such as
Theodore Roosevelt, Henry Cabot Lodge and Henry Adams. Each biography containing as issued a frontispiece portrait,
facsimiles and full-page illustrations. A full description, including transcriptions and detailed condition notes, is available.
A most rare and desirable set in about-fine condition.

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the federalist
Very Rare And Important First Edition Of The Federalist:
“The Most Famous And Influential American Political Work,” An Exceptional Copy
2. (HAMILTON, Alexander; MADISON, James; JAY, John). The Federalist: A Collection of Essays, Written in Favour of the New
Constitution… New York, 1788. Two volumes bound in one. 12mo, contemporary full sheep, custom chemise and full morocco
clamshell box. $260,000.
First edition of The Federalist, one of the rarest and most significant books in American political history, which “exerted a powerful
influence in procuring the adoption of the Federal Constitution.” An exceptional copy in full contemporary sheep.
“When Alexander Hamilton invited his fellow New Yorker John Jay and James Madison, a Virginian, to join him in writing the series
of essays published as The Federalist, it was to meet the immediate need of convincing the reluctant New York State electorate of the
necessity of ratifying the newly proposed Constitution of the United States. The 85 essays, under the pseudonym ‘Publius,’ were designed
as political propaganda, not as a treatise of political philosophy. In spite of this, The Federalist survives as one of the new nation’s
most important contributions to the theory of government” (PMM, 234). The Federalist “exerted a powerful influence in procuring
the adoption of the Federal Constitution, not only in New York but in the other states. There is probably no work in so small a compass
that contains so much valuable political information. The true principles of a republican form of government are here unfolded with
great clearness and simplicity” (Church 1230). “A generation passed before it was recognized that these essays by the principal author
of the Constitution and its brilliant advocate were the most authoritative interpretation of the Constitution as drafted by the Convention
of 1787. As a commentary and exposition of the Constitution, the influence of the Federalist has been profound” (Grolier American
100, 56). Of the only 500 copies published, Hamilton is said to have sent nearly 50 copies to Virginia for the ratifying convention. The
remaining 450 copies sold poorly, and “the publishers complained in October 1788, long after New York had ratified the Constitution,
that they still had several hundred unsold copies” (Maggs, 815). Without initial blanks. Sabin 23979. Howes H114(c). Streeter II: 1049.
Ford 17. Grolier American 100, 56. Early owner signature. Occasional neat ink and pencil annotations. Text generally quite clean.
Closed tear and early repair to Q2 affecting only a few letters, blank top edges of title pages with expert paper restoration, a few tiny
tears and spots barely affecting text. Headcap and joints expertly repaired, just a few minor stains and a bit of wear to contemporary
binding. A handsome copy of an exceptionally rare and important work, even more scarce in contemporary sheep.
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abraham lincoln
“There Is The Animal Himself”: Large Oil Portrait Of Lincoln,
Painted From A Plaster Bust Produced In 1860 From A Life Mask
3. (LINCOLN, Abraham) VOLK, Stephen Arnold Douglas. Portrait of Abraham Lincoln.
[Fryeburg, Maine]: 1928. Oil on canvas, mounted on masonite (22 by 30 inches), contemporary gilt frame
(entire piece measures 28 by 36 inches). $25,000.
Original oil painting modeled after the plaster bust of state senator Lincoln made from a life mask by
Douglas Volk’s father Leonard Volk in 1860. Painting signed “Douglas Volk, [19]28.”
Douglas Volk’s father, sculptor Leonard Volk “met Abraham Lincoln in 1858 when Lincoln was debating
Steven Douglass for the U.S. Senate seat from Illinois. Douglass was Volk’s brother-in-law and introduced
him to Lincoln. During that first meeting, Volk, with the eye of an artist, could see the character in
Lincoln’s face and asked him to sit for a bust. Although Lincoln good naturedly agreed, it took two more
years of insistence and perseverance by Volk to finally get Lincoln to sit. Eventually, on March 31, 1860,
shortly before Lincoln received the Republican nomination for president, Lincoln fulfilled his promise
to Volk… On the first visit, Volk took some measurements and made a mask so that he could continue
to work on the bust between sittings… Lincoln, who endured the ordeal [of the mask] in typical stoic
humor, later said that the process ‘was anything but agreeable.’ Despite the painful first sitting, Lincoln
enjoyed the sessions as an opportunity to escape the hectic campaign. Volk reported that ‘He would talk
unceasingly, telling the funniest and most laughable of stories, but he talked little of politics or religion’…
After a few sittings Lincoln looked at the bust and proclaimed ‘There is the animal himself’… Lincoln’s
secretary John Hay later said of the Volk mask, ‘the face has a clean firm outline; it is free from fat, but
the muscles are hard and full; the large mobile mouth is ready to speak, to shout, or laugh; the bold
curved nose is broad and substantial, with spreading nostrils; it is a face full of life, of energy, of vivid
aspiration.’ It is indeed the face of the man who captured the country’s favor and became our 16th
president” (James J. Nance). A copy of Volk’s cabinet bust appears in a 1931 photograph of Leonard’s son
Douglas Volk in his studio at the Fryeburg Tavern, using the bust as a model for his own oil portraits of
Lincoln (Fryeburg Historical Society). This is one of Douglas Volk’s portraits. Fine condition, with only
a bit of restoration to contemporary frame.
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theodore roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt’s Hand-Corrected Typescript Of His 1912 “Fighting Speech,”
In Which He Quotes The Gettysburg Address
4. ROOSEVELT, Theodore. 1912 Campaign speech with hand corrections. Chicago: March 27, 1912.
Typescript, 7-1/2 by 10 inches, 18 separate leaves; bound in full burgundy leatherette. $25,000.
Bound typescript of Roosevelt’s powerful 1912 campaign speech, dubbed his “Fighting Speech” by
the press, with numerous cross-outs and over 100 hand-written words and punctuation marks in
Roosevelt’s hand.
The March 28, 1912, edition of the Chicago Daily Tribune noted that “Theodore Roosevelt
delivered a ‘fighting’ speech in the Auditorium theater last night. He spoke to the biggest political
mass-meeting ever held in Chicago… Col. Roosevelt had started for Chicago intending to deliver
an address on business in its relation to politics. He had planned to take up dispassionately the
issues that have been raised between him and President Taft in the speeches thus far delivered in
the campaign. But while he was traveling westward the primaries were held in New York with
such manifestations of fraud and trickery on the part of professional politicians as to convince the
colonel the will of the people had been totally subverted. He also read of the methods practiced in
Indiana. When he got here he was mad clear through… His first act after arriving at the Congress
hotel was to tear up the set speech he had written and dictate a new one bearing on the developments of

the hour… After the newspapermen left the colonel set himself to work
on the revision of his evening address. Stenographers trotted in and out
of the suite in a string… There wasn’t a weasel word in it.”
An examination of the speech here offered reveals that, based on the size
of type and spacing between lines, there were at least three different
typists. Roosevelt read what he had dictated, made his corrections, and
ostensibly had the speech retyped. Contrary to what the “Tribune”
reported, Roosevelt did not tear up his “business” speech. Roosevelt had
planned to first speak about business and politics, and then deliver his
attacks on Taft and his supporters. In the speech here offered, Roosevelt
begins by saying “So much friends, for what I have to say about business.
It is a very important subject, but there is a still more important subject
that I wish to touch upon. Now the fundamental issue in this fight is an
issue of honesty, decency, fair play. Have the people the right to rule?
Have the masses of the Republican Party, the rank and file, the plain
people in whom Abraham Lincoln trusted, the right to express their will
as to who the nominee for President shall be? Or are they to be bled
[“bled” was an error in transcription; Roosevelt crossed it out and
handwrote “bullied”] and defrauded out of that right and the nomination
be entrusted to the representatives of political and financial privilege.”
His correction of “bled” to “bullied” indicates that this was his original dictated speech which he then corrected after it was
returned to him by the stenographers. Bookplate of John Maxwell Taylor, son of General Maxwell Taylor, Chairman of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. Final leaf is a carbon copy with a small open
tear repaired with tape, not affecting readability. A fine piece of Rooseveltiana.
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colton atlas
Colton’s Large Hand-Colored Wall Map Of The United States, 1854—
This Copy Used To Plot Troop Movements During The Civil War
5. (COLTON, Joseph Hutchins) SMITH, John Calvin. Colton’s Map of the United States of America. New York, 1854. Thirty-six
separate sections mounted on linen backing, entire map measures nearly 7 by 5-1/2 feet; custom clamshell box. $20,000.
1854 edition of Colton’s landmark steel-engraved wall map of the United States. The manuscript cover label reads, “This map hung
on the dining room wall of Schuyler Cottage at Nevis ——, N.Y. The U.S. & Confederate forces—advances & retreats marked by rows
of red and black headed pins.”
“Beginning with large wall maps of the United States in 1847, Joseph H. and George W. Colton expanded their operations to include
gazetteers and atlases” (Schwartz & Ehrenberg, 273). This large hand-colored steel-engraved wall map is representative of the
Colton firm’s reputation for producing “the best grade of geographical publications and the most extensive house in America for
many years for the manufacture of maps of every kind, atlases, [and] school geographies” (Ristow, 315). It was the Coltons’ practice
to purchase the copyrights to existing maps, rather than produce the maps themselves. First published by Colton in 1853, this wall
map of the United States, a revised version of John Calvin Smith’s 1843 map (which in turn relied upon Arrowsmith for the
American West), also shows parts of Canada and “a large portion of Texas.” Ristow, 318. See Wheat 471; Schwartz & Ehrenberg, 273.
An extraordinary cartographic production in fine condition, with intriguing Civil War association.

declaration of independence
“We Hold These Truths To Be Self-Evident…”: Important Large Broadside Force Engraving
Of The Declaration Of Independence, 1848, Perhaps As Few As 500 Copies Printed
6. (DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE) FORCE, Peter. In Congress, July 4th 1776. The Unanimous Declaration of the
Thirteen United States of America. Washington, 1848. Broadside (25-1/2 by 29 inches), copperplate engraving on thin rice paper,
Floated and framed, entire piece measures 36 by 32-1/2 inches. $48,000.
The Peter Force engraving of the Declaration of Independence, with remarkably exact renditions of the signers’ hands. One of the best
representations of the original manuscript Declaration, perhaps as few as 500 copies issued.
By 1820 the original Declaration of Independence (now housed at the National Archives in Washington, D.C.) showed serious signs
of age and wear from handling. John Quincy Adams, then Secretary of State, commissioned William J. Stone to engrave an exact
copy of the original onto a copper plate. In 1823, Congress ordered 200 official copies printed on vellum. Fewer than 40 of Stone’s
printing on vellum are known to have survived, with at least 21 of those housed in institutions and public collections. All subsequent
exact facsimiles of the Declaration descend from the Stone plate. In 1843 Congress commissioned Peter Force to compile and
publish The American Archives. Perhaps using the Stone’s original plate at first, but then most likely a copy plate, Force prepared
prints of the Declaration of Independence on special thin rice paper. Congress authorized the printing of 1500 copies of American
Archives, but subscriptions for the elaborate edition were disappointing, and in the end many fewer copies—perhaps only 500—were
issued. Most, including this copy, were folded and bound into Volume I, Series Five, published in 1848. Faint fold lines (as usual), a
bit of expert paper restoration, handsomely framed.
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ulysses s. grant
“By The Directions Of My Father, I Send You This Book”:
Exceedingly Rare Presentation/Association First Edition Of Grant’s Memoirs,
Inscribed After His Death And Prior To Publication As Per Grant’s Request By His Son Frederick
To A Prominent Friend And Supporter Of His Father
7. GRANT, Ulysses S. Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant. New York, 1885-86. Two volumes. Octavo, original deluxe full
brown morocco gilt. $15,000.
First edition, exceptionally rare presentation/association copy of “one of the most valuable writings by a military commander
in history,” inscribed by Frederick Grant five months after his father’s death to a New York merchant who was a
Presidential Elector in Grant’s 1872 election and a powerful, “conscientious and devoted admirer” of Grant. Dated seven
days before publication, Frederick Grant writes in Volume I: “With the affectionate regards of the author to Oliver Hoyt,
Esq. By the directions of my father, I send you this book with the above note, F.D. Grant, New York City, Dec-3-1885.”
This exceptionally rare presentation/association copy of Grant’s Personal Memoirs is inscribed by his son Frederick D. Grant
five months after his father’s death. Frederick, who as a young boy of thirteen had accompanied his father to his famous first
meeting in Washington with President Lincoln (Grant “arrived in a simple army coat, shorn of rank,” and, unrecognized as
commander of the Union armies, was at first given a modest room at the Willard Hotel), accompanied his father off and on
at several campaigns during the war, including Vicksburg. A graduate of West Point in 1871, Frederick served with Sheridan
on the Yellowstone Expedition and was with Custer on the Black Hills Expedition. Having resigned from the army in 1881,
Frederick was at his father’s side throughout the long months of his struggle with cancer, and, along with Mark Twain and
Adam Badeau, aided in the preparation and compilation of his father’s Memoirs. “Over the final months of his father’s life,
Fred Grant would not only prove to be an indispensable researcher, an adept historian, and an accomplished editor, he would
lead his father through the pain-wracked days when writing seemed impossible. When Grant seemed at the edge of despair,
when the pain of his illness threatened to undo his work, when visitors, family friends, and reporters pressed in on him, it
was the ever patient Fred who diverted their attention and allowed his father to work… Badeau and Fred served as Grant’s
researchers, secretaries, fact checkers, critics and readers” and worked closely with Twain on the project. Fred, along with the
rest of his family, was at Grant’s side when he died
on July 23rd (Perry, Grant and Twain).
The following December Frederick inscribed this
pre-publication copy of his father’s Memoirs seven
days before “the first volume of the book was published
on December 10, 1885” to Oliver Corse Hoyt,
a prominent New York merchant and financier who
served as a Presidential Elector in Grant’s 1872 reelection,
casting “his vote for Grant, of whom he was
a conscientious and devoted admirer.” Later, Hoyt
was a trustee of a fund of $250,000. that had was
raised by private subscription in 1881 for the benefit
of Grant and his family, to insure the General an
income for the remainder of his life. A longtime
resident of Connecticut, Hoyt served three terms as
Senator in the Connecticut legislature. “Grant’s
memoirs comprise one of the most valuable writings
by a military commander in history” (Eicher 492).
Dornbusch II:1986. Mullins & Reed 35. Bookplates of
recipient Oliver Corse Hoyt. Text and plates fresh
and clean, Volume I with detaching corner of front
free endpaper expertly reattached, expert reinforcement
to half title; some light wear to boards and
spine heads. An extraordinary presentation copy.

thomas jefferson
“One Of The Great Seminal Papers In American Political History”:
Exceedingly Rare Broadside Published Within Days Of Thomas Jefferson’s First Inaugural Address, 1801
8. JEFFERSON, Thomas. The Inaugural Speech of Thomas Jefferson. Salem, Massachusetts, March 14, 1801. Broadside, single
folio leaf of laid paper (measuring 12 by 19 inches), printed in three columns on the recto, untrimmed. $32,000.
Exceedingly rare broadside of “one of the immortal inaugural speeches,” Thomas Jefferson’s first inaugural address, a ringing
reaffirmation of American political and philosophical principles, an exceptional printing, one of the very first broadsides published
(one of the first four), issued by the editor of the Salem Register, an ardent Jeffersonian and fierce anti-Federalist.
Following the divisive election of 1800—which Jefferson deemed “as real a revolution in the principles of our government as that of
1776 was in its form” (Smith III:298)—the new president needed, in his first official address, to strike a tone both conciliatory and
authoritative. “When he spoke his voice carried to
only the first few rows of the crowded Chamber;
most of those who strained to hear his address had
to read it in the Washington papers the next day…
[And yet] his address, one of the great seminal papers
in American political history, was to have an
almost biblical impact” (Brodie, 336). Filled with
memorable and moving language—including the
coining of the phrase “entangling alliances” (Ellis,
Founding Brothers, 128)—Jefferson’s First
Inaugural remains best known for this statement of
American ideals: “But every difference of opinion
is not a difference of principle. We have called by
different names brethren of the same principle. We
are all republicans: we are all federalists. If there be
any among us who would wish to dissolve this
Union or to change its republican form, let them
stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety
with which error of opinion may be tolerated where
reason is left free to combat it.” “One of the immortal
inaugural speeches” (Randall).
Although the priority of broadside printings—
which were considerably less common than newspaper
printings—is not fully determined, this
March 14 broadside precedes printings on silk and
is possibly one of the first four broadsides issued:
preceded by a Washington, D.C. broadside, a New
York broadside “From the Office of the Mercantile
Advertiser” published Monday March 9, and issued
the same week as Mathew Carey’s Philadelphia
broadside, which appeared “a week after the inauguration”
and was advertised in Philadelphia’s
Gazette of the United States on March 12 and the
Aurora on March 14, the same day this Salem
broadside was published (Cunningham, Inaugural
Addresses, 1-20). Shaw & Shoemaker 726. See Shaw
& Shoemaker 717. OCLC lists only two copies.
Text fresh and clean, only a bit of faint dampstaining,
a few tiny pinholes at foldlines. An exceptional
untrimmed example of this very rare and
important document.
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abraham lincoln
“The Lady-Bearer Of This—A Quakeress—Wishes To Do Some Acts Of Humanity For
Secession Prisoners…”: Most Unusual And Compassionate Lincoln Autograph Note,
In Exceptional Autograph Album Of Dolley Madison’s Cousin With Over 250 Historic Signatures
9. (LINCOLN, Abraham). Autograph note signed (27 July 1863), 11 lines recto and verso of card (3-3/8 by 2 inches), from
Abraham Lincoln to Mrs. John Wethered with additional card signed (“A. Lincoln”) as President. WITH: (MADISON, Dolley)
Two-page autograph letter signed (3 June 1844), tipped-in at rear. IN: Autograph album of Mrs. John Wethered. Generic
engraved “Album” title leaf and five engraved plates interspersed. Washington, circa 1844. Square octavo, original black blindstamped
morocco rebacked with original spine laid down, custom chemise and slipcase. $55,000.
Very unusual autograph note signed by Lincoln from 1863 authorizing the bearer, a “Quakeress,” to tend to Confederate
prisoners of war, whom he here describes as “secession prisoners.” The recipient tipped this note into her original mid 19thcentury
autograph album that contains more than 250 original historic signatures, including those of Presidents Martin Van
Buren, James Buchanan, Andrew Johnson and John Quincy Adams, as well as many other figures important in politics leading
up to and during the Civil War. Also with a warm letter from the owner’s cousin, Dolley Madison, tipped in.
Lincoln’s note to Mrs. Wethered grants permission to tend to injured Confederate soldiers in Baltimore. The note reads: “The
lady-bearer of this—a Quakeress—wishes to do some acts of humanity for secession prisoners now at Baltimore. Surgeon
General please see & hear her & and allow her such authority in the premises, as is consistent with humanity, & not inconsistent
with the public service. A. Lincoln. July 27, 1863.” The accompanying album also includes a letter from Mrs. Wethered’s cousin,
Dolley Madison. As the wife of John Wethered, a U.S. Representative from Maryland, Mrs. Wethered had this album signed by
scores of politicians, providing a near-comprehensive portrait of the 1844 election season. Binding with expert restoration to
extremities. A few instances of foxing, chiefly to engraved plates. An impressive and exceptional album; a most desirable
addition to any Civil War collection.

mckenney & hall
“Truly A Landmark In American Culture”:
McKenney & Hall’s Indian Tribes Of North America,
With 120 Splendid Hand-Colored Plates
10. MCKENNEY, Thomas and HALL, James. History of the Indian Tribes of
North America. Philadelphia, 1848-50. Three volumes. Royal octavo, contemporary
three-quarter black morocco gilt expertly rebacked with original spines laid
down. $35,000.
First octavo edition of one of the most recognized and desirable American color
plate books produced in the 19th century, illustrated with 120 splendid fully handcolored
lithographic plates after Charles Bird King’s original oil paintings, “the
most colorful portraits of Indians ever executed” (Howes).
In commissioning the Indian Tribes of North America, McKenney aimed to
educate the American public about these greatly exotic warriors and chiefs and to
preserve them for posterity in a series of beautiful portraits. Most of the original
oil portraits were painted from life in the studio of Charles Bird King, to whom
McKenney brought many of the subjects. The rest were copied from watercolors
executed in the field by a young frontier artist named James Otto Lewis. The
finished portraits resided in the Smithsonian until 1865, when fire consumed the
institution and destroyed most of the paintings. As a result, the folio and octavo
editions are particularly vital in their “faithful recording of the features and dress
of celebrated American Indians who lived and died long before the age of
photography” (McKenney-Hall Portrait Gallery, 23). This first octavo edition is
notable for the richness of its coloring and quality of printing. Howes M129. Sabin
43411. Field 992. Plates bright and beautiful, coloring vivid and fresh, with only
sparse patches of foxing to text, contemporary bindings lightly rubbed. A rare and
most desirable work, in excellent condition.
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american revolution
“The Best Contemporary Account Of The Revolution From The British Side”:
Stedman’s History Of The American War, 1794, With 15 Large Maps (11 Folding)
Of “Great Interest And Value”
11. STEDMAN, Charles. History of the Origin, Progress, and Termination of the American War. London: Printed for the
Author and Sold by J. Murray, et al., 1794. Two volumes. Tall quarto (9 by 11 inches), contemporary full brown tree calf
rebacked with original elaborately gilt-decorated spines laid down. $23,000.
First edition, wide-margined copy, of Stedman’s massive contemporary two-volume History of the American Revolution—“the
standard work on the subject”—containing 15 military maps and plans (11 folding, the largest nearly 20 by 30 inches), handsomely
bound in contemporary tree calf.
Philadelphia-born military historian Charles Stedman was a Loyalist who served with the British at Lexington and Bunker Hill,
later became commissary to the army of Sir William Howe, and was with Cornwallis in the South. Taken prisoner by American
forces, he was sentenced to be hanged as a rebel but escaped. At war’s end Stedman moved to England where he authored this
authoritative two-volume History, “considered the best contemporary account of the Revolution from the British side” (Sabin
91057). As “the standard work on the subject,” Stedman’s History especially benefits from eyewitness accounts of many campaigns
(DNB). In addition, “the military maps and surveys in the History are of great interest and value” (Allibone, 2231). Ultimately, he
concludes that the American Revolution “came as a surprise to the world… no invading army, in the present enlightened period,
can be successful, in a country where the people are tolerably united” (449). These two volumes feature folding strategic plans of
the Battle of Bunker Hill, attacks on Forts Clinton and Montgomery, and the Sieges of Charleston, Savannah and Yorktown, along
with maps of Long Island and the Catawba River. Both volumes with half titles. Howes S914. Sabin 91057. Lowndes, 2504. Text and
maps generally fresh with light scattered foxing, occasional faint offsetting, expert archival repair to closed tear in folding Plan…
at Bunkers Hill (I), closed marginal tear to one leaf not affecting text (II:239), very lightest edge-wear to boards. A highly desirable
near-fine copy, especially scarce complete and in contemporary calf.

harry truman
“The Western World Has Been Freed Of Evil Forces”:
Truman’s Proclamation At Nazi Germany’s Surrender, Boldly Signed By Him
12. TRUMAN, Harry. A Proclamation. Washington, DC, May 8, 1945. Large official broadside (11 by 16 inches, matted), framed
with an original 5 by 7 inch photograph of Truman (entire piece measures 19-1/2 by 34 inches). $25,000.
Large elaborate signed three-color broadside of President Truman’s proclamation upon the Nazi surrender to the allied forces,
praising the armed forces and designating a day of prayer to offer “joyful thanks to God for the victory we have won and to pray
that He will… guide us into the ways of peace.” Handsomely set in Gothic type and boldly signed in ink “Harry Truman.”
“On the day before Hitler’s suicide, all German
troops in Italy laid down their arms. On May 4th,
German forces in Holland, Denmark and northwest
Germany surrendered to British Field Marshall
Montgomery. On the 6th, Donitz authorized
General Alfred Jodl to ‘conclude an armistice agreement’
with General Eisenhower. The Germans
wanted a separate peace with the allied troops in the
West in order to continue their battle with the
Russians in the East. Eisenhower would have none
of it. He ordered the Germans to surrender unconditionally
the next day. The Germans acquiesced,
signing the surrender document on May 7th… The
cessation of fighting took effect at 11:01 P.M. on May
8th” (Georges Blond). In this triumphal proclamation
President Truman gives special praise to the
armed forces: “The Allied armies, through sacrifice
and devotion and with God’s help, have wrung from
Germany a final and unconditional surrender. The
western world has been freed of the evil forces which
for five years and longer have imprisoned the bodies
and broken the lives of millions upon millions of
free-born men. They have violated their churches,
destroyed their homes, corrupted their children,
and murdered their loved ones. Our Armies of
Liberation have restored freedom to these suffering
peoples, whose spirit and will the oppressors could
never enslave.” Truman read this proclamation at a
news conference held in his office at the White
House on Tuesday, May 8, 1945. Before reading, he
remarked: “This is a solemn but glorious hour.
General Eisenhower informs me that the forces of
Germany have surrendered to the United Nations.
The flags of freedom fly all over Europe.” An aboutfine
copy, with only a few minor crease lines, handsomely
framed.
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alexander wilson/american ornithology
“The First Truly Great American Ornithology And The First Truly Outstanding American
Color Plate Book Of Any Type; Absolutely Basic As A Collector’s Item”
13. WILSON, Alexander. American Ornithology. New York and Philadelphia, 1828-29. Four volumes: three quarto text
volumes, one folio plate volume. Contemporary marbled boards rebacked and recornered in diced calf gilt. $25,000.
Preferred 1828-29 large-paper edition, with 76 brilliantly hand-colored large folio engraved plates printed from the original
copper-engraved plates and “colored anew from fresh or preserved material, with pigments which seem to have been of better
quality than those used by Wilson,” several heightened with gum arabic (Ayer/Zimmer).
Alexander Wilson’s American Ornithology is “the first truly great American ornithology and also the first truly outstanding American
color plate book of any type; absolutely basic as a collectors’ item” (Bennett). “This book antedates Audubon by some years and is the
first American bird book with colored plates published in America. Catesby’s Natural History of Carolina, London 1731-43, and
Levaillant’s Oiseaux de l’Amerique, Paris 1801-02, are both less comprehensive” (Sitwell, 155). “The first new edition of Wilson’s entire
work, arranged in the systematic sequence of the species, not in the irregular order of the original” (Ayer/Zimmer, 681-2). Widely held
as the pioneer of American nature literature, Wilson emigrated from Scotland to America in 1794, traveling on foot to Philadelphia.
A naturalist by inclination but not by training, Wilson was fascinated with the American landscape and seemingly endless varieties
of birds he had never seen before. A schoolmaster, in 1802 Wilson became a neighbor to naturalist William Bartram, who encouraged
him to cultivate his strong interest in nature and art. Upon securing an editorial position in 1807 with Philadelphia publisher Samuel
Bradford, Wilson persuaded Bradford to finance his monumental American Ornithology, the first significant study of birds in the New
World. Many of the plates from Wilson’s drawings were engraved by fellow Scotsman Alexander Lawson. Wilson is often called the
father of American ornithology. Wilson covered only the eastern United States, but over the next 100 years, ornithologists were able
to add only 23 more indigenous land birds to his list. First published 1808-14. Anker 533. Ayer/Zimmer, 681-82. Sitwell, Fine Bird
Books, 155. Nissen IVB992. McGill/Wood 630. Sabin 104598. Plates quite bright and beautiful with light expert cleaning; small bit of
marginal dampstaining and faint foxing not affecting images; small tape repair to upper verso of plate 67. Text volumes with lightest
scattered foxing, minor dampstaining; one expertly repaired closed tear to text leaf (II:329). Handsome period-style bindings. Fine.

“A Vast Influence Both In England And America”:
First American Edition Of Blackstone’s Commentaries—
Original Subscriber’s Copy
14. BLACKSTONE, William. Commentaries on the Laws of England.
Philadelphia, 1771-72. Four volumes. Octavo, contemporary full dark brown
sheep (Volume IV tan sheep); each volume housed in custom cloth chemise and
slipcase. $22,000.
First American edition, first issue, of this monumental treatise that greatly influenced
the development of the American legal system, this distinctive association
copy with the 22-page subscribers list, rarely found, which names leading
Revolutionary figures such as John Adams, Federalist co-author John Jay, John
Dickinson, and this set’s original owner Samuel McDowell, of Augusta County,
Virginia (signed by him and with his bookplates).
“To American lawyers of the late colonial period and the early years of the
Republic, no legal textbook was more important than the Commentaries by
British jurist William Blackstone… Jefferson, himself, when suggesting books to
be read by young men desirous of studying law, confined his choices to English
texts, led by those of Coke and Blackstone” (Schwartz, The Law in America). “Had a vast influence both in England and America”
(Holdsworth, 22). Early printed bookplates of original subscriber Samuel McDowell and of his oldest son, John in Volumes I-III.
Volumes I & II additionally signed by Samuel; Volume III signed by William McDowell (b. 1762) who became a judge. Volume IV
from another set of the same first American edition, with discrete morocco owner label to foot of spine and owner ink stamp to front
pastedown. Front joint of Volume II split, cords holding firm. Rear joint of Volume III repaired, with restoration to spine. Minor
browning and occasional staining. Overall a very desirable set in contemporary American sheep, complete with the rare subscriber’s
list, and with distinguished provenance.
“Here Began The Horrid Practice Of Forcing
Africans Into Slavery”: Scarce First Edition Of
Clarkson’s History, 1808, With Famous Folding
Plate Of The Slave-Ship Brookes
15. CLARKSON, Thomas. The History of the Rise, Progress and
Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade by
the British Parliament. London, 1808. Two volumes. Octavo,
contemporary full brown polished calf. $5200.
First edition of Clarkson’s classic history of the slave trade, with the
famous large folding engraving of the arrangement of slaves on
decks of the slave-ship Brookes according to the “humane” Dolben
Bill of 1788, scarce in contemporary calf.
Thomas Clarkson, who was “the heart and soul of the campaign for
abolition,” led a handful of fervent activists working to untie slaveholding
from the fabric of British life (Thomas, 495). His History
would prove a vital document in the abolitionist struggles of Britain
and America. The famous folding engraved plate of slaves closely fitted on decks of the slave-ship
Brookes is one of the most powerful and influential images in the history of the anti-slavery
movement. The Dolben Bill of 1788 had exacted a limit of the number of slaves per ship’s
tonnage at five slaves per three tons. Anti-slavery activists obtained the measurements of the Brookes and imposed slaves on its decks
in the ratio required by the “humane” Dolben Bill with stupefying results. Sabin 13486. Kress B5319. Goldsmiths 19725. McCulloch
316. Interiors generally fresh with light scattered foxing, occasional minor dampstaining, early expert archival reinforcement to verso
of Brookes folding plate (II); handsome contemporary calf with expert restoration. An extremely good copy of this major work.
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“Swallow Up All Us Little Folks, Like The Great Leviathan”
17. (CONSTITUTION). Debates, Resolutions and other Proceedings, of the
Convention of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts… Boston, 1788. Small
octavo, contemporary full brown sheep, custom clamshell box. $7500.
First edition of the important Massachusetts Constitutional debates, containing
lively, passionate arguments on ratification that spoke to issues of slavery, religion,
the military and the judiciary.
“Congress Shall Make No Law”: First Collected
Printing Of The U.S. Constitution And 12 Proposed
Amendments, The Declaration Of Independence,
And 14 State Constitutions
16. (CONSTITUTION) U.S. CONGRESS. The Constitutions
of the United States… Philadelphia, 1791. 12mo, contemporary
full tree sheep rebacked in period style. $12,000.
1791 edition of the Constitutions, very scarce first collection of
state constitutions published after the ratification of the U.S.
Constitution, the first to assemble a printing of the U.S.
Constitution together with 12 proposed amendments, and the
first to include the constitution of Vermont along with those of
the 13 original states, including that of Massachusetts—“the
oldest functioning written constitution in the world”—especially
scarce in contemporary boards.
Writing from Paris in December 1787, Thomas Jefferson
responded to a letter from Madison that outlined the newly
constructed federal Constitution. Though unhappy with its “omission of a bill of rights,” Jefferson approved of this “government
which should go on of itself peaceably” (LOA, Constitution I:210). This scarce volume is the first to assemble the U.S. Constitution
and the constitutions of the original 13 states. It notably “contains the constitution of Vermont, not in any previous edition” (Matyas
91-01), as well as the 1780 Massachusetts constitution authored by John Adams—“one of the great, enduring documents of the
American Revolution… the oldest functioning written constitution in the world” (McCullough, John Adams, 225). Evans 23887.
Howes C716. Sabin 16097. Contemporary owner signature above title page. Text generally fresh with minimal embrowning to edges
of a few leaves, light marginal expert restoration to title page and last leaf, expert restoration to contemporary boards. A very good
copy of this most important constitutional volume.
On January 9, 1788, the Massachusetts convention met in Boston to debate
ratification of the Constitution. Unlike other states “where the Constitution was
heavily favored” and discussions remained perfunctory, “in Massachusetts,
which had the largest number of delegates, the record of the debates is almost as
voluminous as those of the federal convention itself” (Smith, Constitution, 239).
Antifederalists were initially led by Samuel Adams and fiery arguments, here
recounted, aired concerns over slavery, the judiciary, a standing army, religion,
and fears that federal legislators “will get all the power and all the money into
their own hands, and then they will swallow up all us little folks, like the Great
Leviathan” (132). “Despite all the heavy artillery that the Federalists mustered
for their cause, the vote itself was nerve-wrackingly close. The final tally was
yeas 187, nays 168—a difference of 19 votes out of 355 cast… Had Massachusetts rejected the Constitution, it is certainly the case
that… the chances of [Virginia and New York] ratifying would have been seriously diminished” (Smith, Constitution, 239-246).
Contemporary owner signature. Light scattered foxing and faint marginal dampstaining, some age-wear to contemporary sheep.
An extremely good copy of a fascinating and key document.

“The Indian… On The Point Of Passing Away”:
Volume VII Of Curtis’ The North American Indian,
One Of Only About 30 Copies With The Plates
On Japanese Tissue
18. CURTIS, Edward. The North American Indian. Volume
VII. Norwood, Massachusetts, 1911. Folio, publisher’s threequarter
brown morocco gilt. $27,000.
Volume VII of this monumental twenty-volume work, number 239
of 500 copies (but probably only 272 copies), with 75 sepia
photogravures finely printed on delicate Japanese tissue and
mounted. This is the rarest and most desirable state of the gravures,
allowing the subtle tones of Curtis’ images to be seen to their best
effect; it is believed that only around 30 such copies were produced.
“Edward Curtis was not like most photographers. He was not the
first person to photograph American Indians, or the last…
However, there can be no doubt that he was the most prolific, the
most dedicated, and the most influential” (Pritzker, Edward S.
Curtis, 6). The 20 volumes of Curtis’ epic series are “without a
doubt… jewels of 20th-century bookmaking, hailed as ‘the most
gigantic undertaking in the making of books since the King
James edition of the Bible’” (Roth, 4-5). This volume of Curtis’
beautiful and important work is dedicated to the Yakima,
Klickitat, Interior Salish, and Kutenai tribes. The area inhabited by these tribes includes present-day Montana, Idaho, Washington
and British Columbia. Sets were more commonly issued with the photogravures printed on Japanese vellum and on Dutch Van
Gelder paper. Printing the plates on delicate Japanese tissue and mounting them would have been a painstaking and expensive
process, but truly does lend the images a depth and dimensionality not quite captured on paper. A splendid volume in fine
condition, plates exceptionally fresh and beautiful.
Signed By Amelia Earhart, With An Original Voice Recording Of
Her Account Of Her Famous Transatlantic Flight
19. EARHART, Amelia. The Fun of It. New York, 1932. Octavo, original
brown cloth. $3600.
First edition, first printing, signed by Earhart, with original silvertone
phonograph recording of her internationally broadcast speech given the day
she completed her solo transatlantic flight.
Subtitled “Random Records of My Own Flying and of Women in Aviation,”
The Fun of It covers Earhart’s life through May 20-21, 1932, “when Miss
Earhart, alone in a Lockheed Vega monoplane with a single Wasp engine,
negotiated 2,026 miles through storm and fog from Harbor Grace,
Newfoundland, to a cow pasture on the outskirts of Londonderry, Ireland.
The flight set a transatlantic record of 14 hours, 56 minutes… and stirred
such public adulation that she confided, ‘I’ll be glad when the zoo part is
over’” (ANB). With frontispiece portrait and 30 additional photographic
illustrations. Original record stored, as issued, in pocket on rear pastedown
endpaper. Without original dust jacket. A U.S. Air Mail postage stamp,
issued in 1963 and depicting Earhart standing before her Lockheed Electra
plane, is affixed below her signature. Interior fine, small ink mark to bottom
edge of text block, faint offsetting to leaf with signature. Record fine, twoinch
open tear to record sleeve. A fine signed copy.
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“Profits Good Even Now”:
Scarce 1924 Typed Letter Signed By Thomas Alva Edison
20. EDISON, Thomas Alva. Typed letter signed. Orange, New Jersey,
August 29, 1924. Single original letterhead leaf (measures 8-1/2 by 11
inches), typescript on recto. WITH: Printed business card (2 by 3-1/2
inches). $12,000.
Scarce 1924 typed letter signed by Thomas Alva Edison, discussing his
attempts to improve the marketing of his phonograph and records by
renting them to dealers as an aid to sales, also with the Edison Laboratory
printed business card of his correspondent.
Edison’s letter is typed on his company letterhead, and reads in part:
“Dear Mr. Heald… At present time phonographs in large cities in the East
cannot be sold to any extent except by planting them in homes, not in the
homes of rich people, but in the homes of those in moderate circumstances.
The profit will be doubtful just now, but when the same scheme is tried in
the country with a good canvasser, the results are still good and profits
fair… This plan is being worked by several dealers in New England. The
factory rents the machines and records to the dealer at $4.00 per month
for each sub-dealer. The sub-dealer had no expenses, but if a prospect sent
to the dealer results in the canvasser making a sale, the sub-dealer gets
about 10% commission on the list price… We only introduce this system
among dealers who canvass by truck. Yours very truly, [signed] Thos A. Edison.” As a concession to the competitive marketplace
and to maintain his phonograph’s positioning, Edison offered attachments to his phonographs so they could play the records of
competitors. Included is an Edison Laboratory business card with the printed name of correspondent P.B. Heald. Fine condition.
First Edition Of Finley’s Great 1824 New General Atlas,
With 58 Hand-Colored Engraved Maps Featuring American States
21. FINLEY, Anthony, publisher. A New General Atlas.
Philadelphia, 1824. Folio (11 by 14 inches), publisher’s threequarter
red morocco rebacked. $16,500.
First edition of Anthony Finley’s first publication, his popular
General Atlas, about half of which features maps of America and
American states. Complete with 58 hand-colored engraved maps
and two hand-colored engraved tables.
During the first half century after the Revolution there was
considerable American interest in the production of atlases. In the
four-year period beginning in 1822, six large atlases were published
in the United States, of which Finley’s was perhaps the most
notable. This General Atlas is Finley’s first publication. “All of the
atlas’ 60 plates were engraved by Young & Delleker… It contains
60 maps, about half of which are devoted to the American
continent, and the remainder to other parts of the world, chiefly to
Europe… The engraving is done almost uniformly with
remarkable distinctness and the face of the maps is frequently
beautiful, not overloaded with a confusion of useless names”
(Ristow, 268-269). The interesting map of Mexico depicts the
North American southwest from what would become Texas to
California. Phillips Atlases 4314. Shoemaker 16146. Owner pencil
signature. Maps in excellent condition with only a few small
marginal stains, hand-coloring bright and fine. A fine copy.

enjamin franklin
“Luminous Bodies, Of Magnitudes Inconceivable”:
First Edition Of Benjamin Franklin’s Poor Richard’s Improved… Almanack For 1754
22. (FRANKLIN, Benjamin). Poor Richard Improved… for the Year of Our Lord 1754. Philadelphia: B. Franklin and D. Hall,
1753. 12mo (4 by 7 inches), modern three-quarter red calf, uncut; pp. [36]. $30,000.
Rare first edition of Franklin’s famed Poor Richard’s Improved… Almanack for the year 1754, featuring “An Idea of the Creator from
his Works”—an eloquent extended essay by Franklin’s close friend James Burgh, who later authored, with Franklin as his editor, a
powerful and highly influential defense of the colonies, Political Disquisitions (1774-5). With the famed woodcut of anatomical man
“govern’d” by constellations and 12 woodcut panels, rarely found complete and uncut.
Franklin’s scientific curiosity is especially clear in this volume’s “Idea of the
Creator from his Works,” the near-verbatim reprint of a work by Franklin’s
close friend, British political reformer and colonial sympathizer James Burgh.
This extensive essay eloquently cites Isaac Newton on gravity, the scientific
value of telescopes, the orbits of the planets and the life of comets, and the
wonder of the “glorious Sun, a stupendous World of Light and Heat.” Like
other colonial almanacs, Franklin’s Almanacks were “compact little wonders,
they were printed on cheap paper and had no real binding. They were meant
for daily use, and surviving examples are often… torn apart” (Chaplin, 62).
Sabin 25567. Miller 570. Contemporary owner inscriptions to title page. Text
generally quite fresh with only light scattered foxing, a bit of faint marginal
embrowning, leaves uncut with small loss to terminal text leaf affecting a few
words. A highly desirable near-fine copy, rare complete and uncut.
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“Discourage The Practice Of Making Slaves Of Our Fellow Creatures”: 1760 Quaker Epistle
Published By Franklin & Hall, A Foundational Document In The American Abolitionist Movement
23. (FRANKLIN, Benjamin) (QUAKERS). The Epistle From Our Yearly-
Meeting… 1760. Philadelphia: Benjamin Franklin and David Hall, 1760. Folio,
single leaf (8-1/2 by 13 inches folded); pp. 4; custom clamshell box. $7500.
Rare 1760 Epistle of the Yearly-Meeting of Pennsylvania and New Jersey Quakers,
published by the firm of Benjamin Franklin and David Hall, a seminal antislavery
document by Philadelphia-area Quakers who would form the “first
abolitionist group in America”—the Society for Promoting the Abolition of
Slavery—which in 1787 named Franklin its president.
This rare 1760 Epistle on the “Yearly-Meeting” of Pennsylvania and New Jersey
Quakers calls on the Society of Friends to continue efforts against “the Practice of
making Slaves of our Fellow Creatures… we earnestly exhort that Friends do not
abate of their Diligence in this weighty Matter.” Published by the firm of Benjamin
Franklin and David Hall, this Epistle marks a foundational anti-slavery effort in
the American colonies, urging continued pressure on all those who “in any
Manner, by buying, selling or keeping them, countenance the Trade.” “Ascribed to
the Franklin and Hall press on the evidence of this entry (Nov. 6, 1760): ‘Mr. James
Pemberton Dr for printing 5000 Yearly Epistles I Sheet small Folio’” (Miller 746).
Evans 8603. With institutional inkstamp, deaccession inkstamp. Text fresh with
lightest foxing, expert archival repair to seam, foldlines minimally affecting text,
minor edge-wear. An extremely good copy.
Among The Most Important Early
19th-Century Western Explorations
24. JAMES, Edwin. Account of an Expedition from
Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains. London, 1823.
Three volumes. Octavo, contemporary three-quarter
black morocco, elaborately gilt-decorated spines. $9200.
First English edition, issued the same year as the first
American edition, of this account—along with the accounts
of Lewis and Clark and Pike, widely acclaimed
one of the three key narratives of early Western exploring
expeditions. Illustrated with one large folding map, eight
full-page aquatints (three hand-colored—the English
edition is the first with hand-colored plates) and one folding
topographic elevation.
Stephen Long’s landmark expedition, more ambitious
than any previous American expedition to the Trans-Mississippi West, resulted in a number of
historical firsts. James was Colorado’s first botanist; the first to ascend a 14,000-foot peak in North
America (James’ Peak, later renamed Pike’s Peak); and the first to relate a journey up the Platte and
down the Canadian and Arkansas rivers from above Fort Smith. His findings supplemented the explorations of Pike and Lewis and
Clark in the areas of geography, botany, natural history, and the customs, manners, and rites of a number of Indian tribes. “One of the
best books on the Mississippi Valley and its inhabitants” (Stevens 1741). First published earlier the same year in Philadelphia. Streeter
1784. Howes J41[b]. Sabin 35683. Armorial bookplates. Bibliographic annotation to front pastedown of Volume I. Occasional light
foxing and offsetting, as usual. Minor abrasions to boards. A very nearly fine set in handsome contemporary bindings.

“We Come As Conquerors, But Not As Oppressors”:
Extremely Scarce 1944 Eisenhower WWII Broadside
Announcing The End To Nazi Rule Within The
Occupied Territory
25. (PRESIDENTS) EISENHOWER, Dwight D. Proclamation No. 1.
Military Government—Germany. No place, 1944. Printed broadside
(17 by 21 inches). Floated and framed, entire piece measures 25 by 26
inches. $5000.
1944 World War II broadside of Proclamation No. 1, General
Eisenhower’s powerful message to the German people announcing the
Allied Forces’ arrival in Germany, their intent to “overthrow Nazi rule,
dissolve the Nazi Party and… eradicate that German Militarism which
has so often disrupted the peace of the world,” text printed in both
German and English.
On September 28, 1944, two weeks after U.S. troops cross the Siegfried
line and entered Germany, Eisenhower issued Proclamation No. 1. This momentous document proclaims a turning point in history
with its immortal line: “We come as conquerors, but not as oppressors.” Eisenhower’s Proclamation further reads, in part: “We shall
obliterate Naziism and German Militarism. We shall overthrow the Nazi rule, dissolve the Nazi Party and abolish the cruel,
oppressive and discriminatory laws and institutions which the Party has created. We shall eradicate that German Militarism which
has so often disrupted the peace of the world Military and Party leaders, the Gestapo and others suspected of crimes and atrocities
will be tried and, if guilty, punished as they deserve.” With printed September 1944 date “(9/44)” present in the lower left corner;
future printings did not have a date. Text clean and crisp, a few small holes at faint foldlines, minor tape reinforcement to verso, mild
edge-wear to this near-fine broadside.
“A Landmark In History, Not Just American History”
26. (PRESIDENTS) (JEFFERSON, Thomas) U.S. CONGRESS. Journal of the House of
Representatives of the United States… City of Washington, 1802. Thick octavo,
contemporary three-quarter brown sheep, marbled boards. $2500.
First edition of the House of Representatives Journal of the First Session of the Seventh
Congress, the first to convene in Jefferson’s presidency—representing a turning point in
American politics—featuring a printing of Jefferson’s First Annual Message and key congressional
actions. Association copy, with the signatures of “Eben. Elmer” possibly those of
Jeffersonian congressman Ebenzer Elmer, New Jersey congressman (1801-7), in contemporary
sheep.
As America entered its first new century
in 1800, two fiercely opposed ideologies—
Federalist vs. Jeffersonian Republican—
collided in an Electoral College deadlock that named Jefferson as America’s third
president. That election “was a landmark in history, not just American history but
world history. It marked the first peacetime transfer of power in a republic from
one ‘party’ to another” (Bernstein, Thomas Jefferson, 133). This first edition of the
official Journal for the First Session of the new Republican-controlled House
records its resolutions, laws and actions from December 7, 1801 to May 3, 1802,
and leads with a printing of Jefferson’s First Annual Message (13-25). With both
Jefferson and Congress focused on a limited federal government, this Journal
notably contains House actions on restricting the size of a peacetime military,
taxation, establishing a uniform rule of naturalization, the use of the Library of Congress, territorial lands and relations with Indians,
and a war with Tripoli. Interior generally fresh with light scattered foxing, slight edge-wear, rubbing to contemporary boards. A highly
desirable association copy in extremely good condition.
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“This Work Will Protect The Public Industry From The Parasite
Institutions Now Consuming It…” (Jefferson)
27. (PRESIDENTS) (JEFFERSON, Thomas, translator) DESTUTT DE
TRACY, Antoine Louis Claude. A Treatise on Political Economy…
Georgetown, 1817. Octavo, period-style full tree calf gilt. $6000.
First edition, translated from the unpublished French manuscript by Jefferson
and with an introductory letter and five-page preface written by him.
This first edition preceded the publication of the original French text by
seven years. Destutt de Tracy was a member of the constituent assembly in
France and was imprisoned during the Reign of Terror. Jefferson had earlier
assisted in the publication of Tracy’s commentary on Montesquieu.
When Tracy sent Jefferson the original French manuscript of his new work
“Jefferson himself translated [it] in due course and eventually caused [it] to be
published… His efforts in connection with this work provide an admirable
illustration of his industry, zeal, and patience as a promoter of learning…
For publication in the book he wrote a letter that acknowledged his connection
with it. He said: ‘The merit of this work will, I hope, place it in the
hands of every reader in our country… it will protect the public industry
from the parasite institutions now consuming it’… He paid his respects to Adam Smith and Jean Baptiste Say in the introduction
he wrote to Destutt de Tracy’s treatise” (Malone, VI:210, 305-6). Goldsmith 21709. Sabin 96415. Faint scattered foxing to text,
only slight wear to uncut page edges. Beautifully bound.
“If The Union Is Once Severed…
The Controversies… Will Then Be Tried In
Fields Of Battle And Determined By The Sword”:
Large Silk Broadside Printing Of
President Andrew Jackson’s Farewell Address
28. (PRESIDENTS) JACKSON, Andrew. Farewell Address.
Ithaca, 1837. Broadside printed in six columns on silk, measuring
19 by 24 inches, closely framed. $8200.
Extremely rare early printing of Jackson’s Farewell to office, in
which he appeals for unity of North and South and predicts that
“if the Union is once severed, the line of separation will grow
wider and wider, and the controversies which are now debated
and settled in the halls of legislation will then be tried in fields of
battle and determined by the sword.”
In his Farewell Address, written with the help of Chief Justice
Roger B. Taney and delivered March 4, 1837, Jackson reviewed
the accomplishments of his administration and reiterated his
signature themes: condemnation of monopolies, speculation and
paper money; and above all, unity of North and South in pledging
loyalty to the Union. As if prophesizing the Civil War,
Jackson predicted: “If the Union is once severed, the line of separation
will grow wider and wider, and the controversies which
are now debated and settled in the halls of legislation will then be
tried in fields of battle and determined by the sword.” It was customary in the early 19th century to print a small quantity of a
President’s address on silk or satin “as an ornament, to adorn the parlor, while affording a rich treasure of instruction for budding
offspring” (The [Boston] Democrat). Fine condition, handsomely framed.

john f. kennedy
First Edition Of Kennedy’s Profiles In Courage, Inscribed By Him
29. (PRESIDENTS) KENNEDY, John F. Profiles in Courage.
New York, (1956). Octavo, original half black cloth, dust jacket,
custom clamshell box. $16,000.
First edition, first printing, of Kennedy’s Pulitzer-winning
examination of “that most admirable of human virtues,” with
eight pages of black-and-white photogravures, in scarce original
dust jacket, inscribed by the author, “To Dick Record with very
good wishes, John Kennedy.”
In Profiles in Courage, “a series of sketches of American politicians
who risked their careers in the cause of principle… ‘A man does
what he must,’ Kennedy wrote, ‘in spite of personal consequences,
in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures—and that is the
basis of all human morality’… The book was popular history of
high order, and it received the Pulitzer Prize for biography in
1957” (ANB). Bookseller’s small ticket. Jacket with small
inkstamp to front flap. Book fine. Original dust jacket with
expert restoration.
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“President Kennedy Was Shot Today”:
Historic Breaking News Of The Kennedy
Assassination On Original 15 Rolled AP,
UPI And Dow Jones Teletype Sheets
From That Fateful Day
30. (KENNEDY ASSASSINATION) Original
Associated Press, United Press International and
Dow Jones teletype reports of the Kennedy
assassination. Dallas, November 22, 1963. Three
items. Original typescript in blue ink on recto. One
document with 15 rolled teletype sheets measuring 6
inches wide, with varying lengths from 3-33 inches,
staple bound; two loose teletype rolled sheets each
measuring 6 by 18 inches. $16,500.
Original Associated Press, United Press International
and Dow Jones teletype bulletins with breaking news
of the Kennedy assassination, beginning with coverage
of Kennedy’s speeches in Fort Worth and Dallas, Texas, followed by the headline, “President Kennedy shot” as news reached
the wire only minutes after AP Photographer James W. Altgens “said he heard two shots” followed by a report of the First Lady
reaching for the President and crying “Oh no,” as “pandemonium broke loose around the scene.” Subsequent items record the
shooting of Governor Connally, confirmation of the President’s death, witness accounts of a gun emerging from “an upper story of
a warehouse” and reports of “three rifle shots,” the FBI search for a suspected gunman and the arrest of Lee Harvey Oswald, the
swearing-in of Lyndon B. Johnson as the nation’s 36th President, and early plans for President Kennedy’s funeral.
With 17 teletype sheets of varying lengths: 15 consecutively ordered and staple bound, and two additional teletype sheets with
ongoing news of the search Oswald and the closing of the Stock Exchange. Additionally included are the Dow Jones teletypes
reflecting the effects of the news on the Stock Exchange. Only light edge-wear to rolled sheets. A near-fine, rare and chilling record
of the earliest accounts by witnesses and reporters of the Kennedy assassination.
Deluxe Signed Limited Edition Of
President Reagan’s Autobiography,
In Original Oak Presentation Chest,
With Six Audio Tapes Of His Speeches
31. (PRESIDENTS) REAGAN, Ronald. An American
Life. New York, 1990. Octavo, original full blue morocco
gilt, oak presentation case with mounted presidential
seal. WITH: Six cassette tapes of Reagan’s addresses and
speeches. $6800.
Signed limited first edition of President Reagan’s autobiography,
number 1417 of 2000 copies signed by Reagan
for Easton Press subscribers on a tipped-in limitation
page, bound in elaborately gilt-decorated morocco and
presented in a handsome publisher’s wooden chest, with
drawer containing audio recordings of the speeches
from Reagan’s 1989 book, Speaking My Mind. A
distinctive production.
A distinguished commemoration of one of the 20th
century’s most remarkable and influential American
presidents. With original shipping material. Fine
condition.

abraham lincoln
Very Rare Unengrossed Ship’s Papers Signed By Abraham Lincoln As President And
Secretary Of State William Seward—One Of Very Few Unengrossed Examples Known
32. (PRESIDENTS) LINCOLN, Abraham. Printed document signed: unengrossed ship’s papers. Washington, DC, circa 1861-65.
Broadside, measures 21-1/2 by 16-1/2 inches, partially printed, original white wafer seal of the Presidency affixed. Handsomely framed,
entire piece measures 28 by 23 inches. $25,000.
A remarkable ship’s passport signed by President Lincoln and his Secretary of State William Seward, very rarely found in this
“unengrossed” (i.e., uncompleted) state—the very existence of which, during the Civil War, would have constituted a breach of
National Security. A fine signed document dating from the Civil War, handsomely framed.
Written authorization to sail the high seas and dock at the country’s harbors, in the form of presidentially signed ship’s papers, was a
valuable and desirable privilege. Before conferring such a license, officials were charged with establishing the legitimacy of a vessel, its
cargo and its personnel, and the ship’s papers were intended to authorize a craft’s mission and purpose. In the wrong hands, especially
during the tense and vulnerable conditions of wartime, fraudulent or forged approval could be dangerous. The present unengrossed
ship’s passport, signed by Lincoln and Seward but left completely blank elsewhere, represents what was essentially an act of treason in
its time. This exceedingly rare artifact is one of only two or three unengrossed examples known to exist. Minor, faint storage folds (as
always with ship’s papers). Signatures bold and clear. Fine condition, far better than ship’s papers are generally found. Very rare.
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abraham lincoln
Envelope In Lincoln’s Hand With His Free Franking Signature
33. (PRESIDENTS) LINCOLN, Abraham. Autograph envelope signed.
Washington, August 24, 1863. Original envelope measures 5-1/2 by 3
inches. Handsomely framed with portrait. $9000.
Autograph envelope (complete) with President Lincoln’s free franking
signature, addressed in his hand to the Assistant Secretary of the Interior:
“Hon. W.J. Otto 308 F. Street Washington.”
As a franking signature, the Lincoln signature must date from his presidency.
Although the envelope is neither postmarked nor docketed, it was
address by President Lincoln on August 24, 1863. The original enclosure was
a short dated note (not present) to Assistant Secretary of the Interior William
T. Otto, in which Lincoln requested “the name of the boy you wish to go to
West Point.” This item remained in the Otto family for almost 150 years.
Envelope with original opening tears, not affecting Lincoln’s handwriting or
signature. An exceptional Lincoln free frank.

“The Most Important Series Of American
Political Debates”: First Edition, First Issue,
Of The Lincoln-Douglas Debates, 1860
34. (PRESIDENTS) LINCOLN, Abraham. Political
Debates Between Hon. Abraham Lincoln and Hon.
Stephen A. Douglas… Columbus, 1860. Octavo, original
brown cloth, custom chemise and slipcase. $8200.
First edition, first issue, of the most famous debates in
American history, the event that transformed Lincoln
into a national presidential candidate, scarce in
original cloth.
Running as a little-known candidate for the Illinois
senatorship in 1858, Lincoln challenged incumbent and
Democratic leader Stephen Douglas to a series of
debates. The result was a memorable chain of lively
arguments in front of cheering crowds. Though Lincoln lost the senatorial race, “he
began collecting a scrapbook of his best speeches, particularly those from the justconcluded
campaign against Douglas, for possible inclusion in a book… Somewhat
surprisingly for an attorney, Lincoln did not seek Douglas’ permission to publish a
book of their combined speeches, although Douglas was later given the last-minute
opportunity—he declined—to make corrections to his own remarks” (Morris, 121).
Wessen, Debates of Lincoln and Douglas, 91-106. Interior generally fresh with light
scattered foxing. Expert restoration to cloth and front inner hinge.
“The Mystic Chords Of Memory,
Stretching From Every Battlefield, And Patriot Grave,
To Every Living Heart And Hearthstone”
35. (PRESIDENTS) LINCOLN, Abraham. Inaugural Address. Washington,
March 8, 1861. Slim octavo, disbound; pp. 10; custom clamshell box. $6000.
Rare second printing of Lincoln’s important first inaugural address, printed by
order of the Senate four days after its delivery.
“The address was a document of inspired statesmanship. He reminded the
South of his pledge not to interfere with slavery, but he firmly rejected secession—the
Union was ‘unbroken.’ Finally he issued a grave warning: ‘In your
hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous
issue of civil war… You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government,
while I shall have the most solemn one to preserve, protect and defend
it.’ Abraham Lincoln was resolved to be President of the whole Union” (Bruce
Catton). The address contains some of Lincoln’s most famous words: “The
mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield, and patriot grave,
to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the
chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better
angels of our nature.” This rare second printing was preceded only by that of
March 4th, which was handed out at the inauguration. Monaghan 102. Text
fresh with only very lightest foxing, three tiny marginal pinholes from original
stitching. A highly desirable fine copy.
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Inscribed By FDR Aboard The “Floating White House”
To His Personal Physician
36. (PRESIDENTS) (ROOSEVELT, Franklin D.) GOWANLOCH, James Nelson.
Fishes and Fishing in Louisiana. New Orleans, February 1933. Octavo, original
pictorial stiff paper wrappers, contemporary full limp black morocco gilt. $7500.
First edition of this report on the fresh and saltwater fish of Louisiana, presentationassociation
copy, specially bound for Franklin D. Roosevelt and inscribed by the
president to his personal physician, “For Ross T. McIntire, on board U.S.S. Potomac,
May 1, 1937, Franklin D. Roosevelt.”
Gowanloch—“poet, stamp collector, a considerable researcher and a splendid teacher”
and chief biologist of Louisiana’s Department of Conservation (Waite, 39)—presents
“this account of our fresh and salt water fishes… [to] emphasize the charm and pleasure
that Louisiana affords the angler as well as the remarkable richness of the commercially
important fish life of our State.” This copy was specially bound for Roosevelt’s
April 1937 fishing trip to Louisiana. “Roosevelt was an avid, lifelong fisherman… Dr.
Ross McIntire, Roosevelt’s personal physician when he was President”—and the person
to whom FDR inscribed this copy—“advised Roosevelt to go on as many vacations
as possible to improve his health” (Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum). McIntire
rose to the rank of Vice Admiral and Surgeon General of the Navy. Interior clean, front inner hinge
expertly reinforced. Light rubbing to spine head. Gilt bright. A near-fine copy, very desirable with
Roosevelt’s inscription.
Signed By Franklin D. Roosevelt As President
37. (PRESIDENTS) ROOSEVELT, Franklin D. The
Democratic Book 1936. No place, 1936. Large folio (12 by
14-1/2 inches), original full brown morocco gilt. $6200.
Signed limited first edition, number 343 of an unknown limitation
signed by President Roosevelt, with illustrated title and
limitation pages, 19 full-page portraits, dozens of in-text halftones
and illustrations, and a facsimile of the Constitution.
Sold to Democratic donors at $250 each to pay off the 1936
re-election debt, The Democratic Book 1936 contains information
such as the party’s platform, election results, and statements
from the President, his cabinet members,
the first lady, and other important members of his
administration. With dozens of contemporary
advertisements, many in color. This copy giltstamped
“Eugene R. Hoffman” on the front
board. Very occasional soiling to text, including
to signed limitation page, only a bit of wear to
morocco. A near-fine copy.

“First In War, First In Peace, And First In The Hearts Of His Countrymen”
38. (PRESIDENTS) (WASHINGTON, George) LEE, Henry. Funeral Oration on the Death
of General Washington. London, 1800. Slim octavo, later full brown blind-ruled calf, uncut
and partially unopened; pp. 28. $5000.
Scarce 1800 edition, first London printing issued the same year as the exceedingly rare
Philadelphia first edition, of Henry Lee’s immortal oration on the death of George
Washington, which contains for the first time in print the famous phrase, “first in war, first
in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen,” together with Judge Minot’s January
1800 Boston Eulogy, “considered to be the most meritorious” (Sabin).
Of the many funeral orations delivered at Washington’s death, Henry Lee’s official oration, delivered
before Congress, is the most famous and memorable. Lee, known as “Light-Horse
Harry” Lee, was personally summoned by Washington in 1776 to join the Continental Army,
in which he served Washington faithfully. At Washington’s death Lee, then a Federalist
Representative from Virginia, was charged with drafting a congressional resolution commemorating
the great leader. In the resolution and, a few days later, in this address delivered before the
Congress on December 26, 1799 in Philadelphia, Lee called Washington “first in war, first in
peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen.” This exceptionally scarce first London edition is preceded the same year by the
Philadelphia first edition. Stillwell, Washington Eulogies 137, 174. Owner inscription. Text generally fresh with lightest scattered foxing,
occasional faint marginal dampstaining, slight edge-wear, rubbing to boards. A most desirable extremely good copy.
Superb Double Elephant Folio Copperplate Engraving
Of Washington’s Farewell Address, Circa 1821
39. WASHINGTON, George. Washington’s Farewell Address
to the People of the United States. Philadelphia, circa 1821.
Large copper-engraved broadside, 28 by 38 inches. Handsomely
framed, entire piece measures 45-1/2 by 33-1/2 inches. $17,500.
Large, finely engraved broadside of Washington’s famous valedictory,
embellished with Thomas Sully’s “Liberty Displaying
the Arts and Sciences.” A magnificent piece.
Resulting from a close collaboration between Washington,
Madison and Hamilton (who recognized the need to make
the President’s announcement of retirement “importantly
and lastingly useful”), the Farewell Address, as it came to be
known, served Washington as his valedictory, as well as his
vehicle for imparting advice to succeeding generations.
“Washington’s thoughts on unity, on the love of power, on the
impact of partisan strife, on the importance of focusing on
our common interests, on avoiding entanglements with other
nations, on religion and morality, on the public credit, and on
freedom of trade have worn well when they have been observed”
(Clarence B. Carson). This masterful calligraphic
engraving of Washington’s text by Charles Toppan from the
script of Charles Parker is embellished by a vignette at the
bottom, “Liberty Displaying the Arts and Sciences,” engraved
by Gideon Fairman from a drawing by Thomas Sully. Charles
Parker was regarded as the “best engraver of script, maps and
ornament of his time” (Stauffer, 200; Fielding, 269). An empty space at the top is for Fairman’s engraving of Gilbert Stuart’s
portrait of Washington, within a frame of oak leaves (See Stauffer 995). A bright, fine impression, expert repairs to a number
of short closed marginal tears (none affecting image). Very scarce.
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Section 2: modern Firsts, 1900-1992

jack london
“You Have Always Loved Your Son And Things With Us Always Will Be Well”:
First Edition Of The Call Of The Wild, Warmly Inscribed By London To His Mother
In The Week Of Publication, In Scarce Original Dust Jacket
40. LONDON, Jack. The Call of the Wild. New York and London, 1903. Octavo, original pictorial
green cloth, dust jacket, custom cloth chemise and half morocco clamshell box. $125,000.
First edition, first printing, of one of the most desirable copies in American literature, inscribed from Jack
London to his mother within four days of publication, one of the earliest known inscriptions: “Dear Mother,
You have always loved your son, and things with us always will be well. Jack. July 22, 1903,” in scarce
original dust jacket.
“One of the first American novels to examine the quest of the pioneering individual who breaks away from
the sheltered environment of civilization and is romantically compelled to find freedom in nature. In the
early part of the century this was considered the American dream” (Parker, 16). London dated his inscription
to his mother only four days after the book’s publication on July 18, 1903. The relationship between Jack
London and his mother, Flora Wellman, was a complicated one. When Wellman became pregnant in 1875,
Wellman’s husband insisted that she have an abortion. In response, Wellman went temporarily insane and
shot herself in the head (a grazing wound). By the time she gave birth, Wellman was unable to care for the
child and gave Jack to a Virginia Prentiss, an ex-slave who had just had a stillbirth. It was over a year before
she remarried and could reclaim Jack. In that time, he had come to view Prentiss as a second mother. Yet,
for the rest of his childhood it was Wellman who would cook for Jack and clean the home. She also taught
him piano and taught him to read by the age of four. She functioned in most ways as a typical mother of the
era. In 1897, while enrolled at the University of California, Berkeley, London came across a newspaper item
related to his mother’s attempted suicide and uncovered the name of his biological father. Ultimately,
London was unable to forgive his mother for lying to him about his paternity, though she had encouraged
his writing when everyone else had told him to get a job at the post office. Disconsolate, London quit school
and went to the Klondike.
Yet, the connection between London and his mother remained. When London finally made money off his
writing, he bought his then-widowed mother a house and provided her with financial support. He inscribed
this copy to her, with a spirit of warmth, conviction in her love, and hope for their future. Their relationship,
though, remained strained, with Wellman disapproving of her son’s wife and London constantly criticizing
her appearing in the newspapers for her involvement with séances and other attention-grabbing endeavors.
BAL 11876. Morocco bookplate in chemise. Book lovely and near-fine, with inscription bold, only a few faint
spots of soiling to interior, minor rubbing to extremities, and gilt bright. Scarce dust jacket with expert
restoration to extremities. A most exceptional copy, quite rare and desirable with such an important
association and inscribed at such an early date.
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j.d. salinger
An Exceptional Rarity: Catcher In The Rye,
Inscribed By J.D. Salinger To The Mother Of His Fiancée
41. SALINGER, J.D. The Catcher in the Rye. Boston, 1951. Octavo, original black cloth, dust jacket, custom chemise and clamshell
box. $85,000.
Book club edition of Salinger’s seminal classic, inscribed by the famously reclusive writer in the year of publication, “To Marian
B.—Just that I’m pleased that you thought of asking me to sign your book. With affection, Jerry Salinger.” He has also dated the
inscription “Dec. 23, 1951.” Signed or inscribed copies of this classic are exceedingly rare.
“In American writing, there are three perfect books, which seem to speak to every reader and condition: Huckleberry Finn, The
Great Gatsby and The Catcher in the Rye. Of the three, only Catcher defines an entire region of human experience: it is… the
handbook of the adolescent heart” (New Yorker). Catcher in the Rye “captured the hearts of several generations… with its very first
sentence, the book, which came out in 1951, introduced a brand-new voice in American writing” (New York Times). “A 20th-century
classic… Salinger’s novel was, and continues to be, a phenomenal success” (Parker, 300). “This novel is a key-work of the 1950s in
that the theme of youthful rebellion is first adumbrated in it, though the hero, Holden Caulfield, is more a gentle voice of protest,
unprevailing in the noise, than a militant world-changer… The Catcher in the Rye was a symptom of a need, after a ghastly war and
during a ghastly pseudo-peace, for the young to raise a voice of protest against the failures of the adult world. The young used many
voices—anger, contempt, self-pity—but the quietest, that of a decent perplexed American adolescent, proved the most telling”
(Burgess, 99 Novels, 53-4). Book of the Month Club printing, with dot on lower board of rear panel. See Starosciak A30, Bixby A2,
Naparsteck, 37. Mary Bayes was a student at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, NY, when she met and became engaged to J.D.
Salinger. Salinger inscribed this copy to her mother, Marian Bayes, near the time of their engagement and in time for the winter
holidays. Interior clean; minor discoloration to front cover, minuscule rubs to lower corners. Unrestored dust jacket with shallow
chipping, particularly to spine ends. An extremely good copy, most desirable inscribed and with a significant personal association.

ernest hemingway
“That Musical Crystal-Clear Style, Blown Like Glass From The White-Heat Of Violence”:
Signed Limited Edition Of Hemingway’s A Farewell To Arms,
The Only One Of His Works So Issued, In Scarce Original Slipcase
42. HEMINGWAY, Ernest. A Farewell to Arms. New York, 1929. Tall octavo, original white parchment spine
and corners, slipcase, custom clamshell box. $22,000.
Signed limited first edition, one of 510 copies signed by Hemingway. A beautiful copy in very scarce original slipcase.
“Probably [Hemingway’s] best… Its success was so enormous… After it one could no more imitate that musical
crystal-clear style; blown like glass from the white-heat of violence… the beginning, like all his beginnings, seems
effortless and magical” (Connally 60). “A Farewell to Arms was the novel
that placed Hemingway, early, among the American masters… [it is], in
fact, the most satisfying and most sustained, the consummate masterpiece,
among Hemingway’s novels. It bears the mark of Hemingway’s best gifts
as a writer” (Mellow, 377-79). The only signed limited first edition of any of
Hemingway’s works. Hanneman A8b. Book exceptional, with none of the
usual soiling to vellum and only a big of light toning to paper boards.
Minor expert repair to bright original slipcase. A fine copy.
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f. scott fitzgerald
“Bibliophile, Drunkard And Good Egg”: Wonderful Presentation Copy Of
The Beautiful And Damned, Warmly Inscribed By Fitzgerald In The Year Of Publication
43. FITZGERALD, F. Scott. The Beautiful and Damned. New York, 1922. Octavo,
original green cloth, dust jacket, custom clamshell box. $75,000.
First edition, first issue, an exceptional presentation copy whimsically inscribed in the
year of publication by Fitzgerald, “For Wilbur Judd, Parisien [sic], Critic, Playrite [sic],
Bibliophile, Drunkard and Good Egg, From F. Scott Fitzgerald, St. Paul 1922,” in scarce
second-issue dust jacket (issued within months of the first-issue jacket).
“The Beautiful and Damned brought Fitzgerald accolades from those whose opinions he
valued. Mencken congratulated him for staking out new ground… Fitzgerald was
aiming high; he only wanted to be the best novelist of his generation” (Turnbull, 130-
31). Fitzgerald wrote to Zelda in 1930, “I wish The Beautiful and Damned had been a
maturely written book because it was all true. We ruined ourselves… I have never
honestly thought that we ruined each other” (Bruccoli, 180). First issue, with “Published
March, 1922” on copyright page; second-issue dust jacket with letters on front panel in
black and bolder orange circle, issued within months of the first issue to meet demand for
the book. Bruccoli A8.1.a. Text fine, only very light edge-wear to original cloth; slight
chipping, small closed tears, mild soiling to scarce unrestored dust jacket. A wonderful
extremely good copy, scarce inscribed.

f. scott fitzgerald
“For Pete Compton, A Wild Man If There Ever Was One”: F. Scott Fitzgerald’s First Book,
This Side Of Paradise, Wonderfully Inscribed By Him One Day After Publication
44. FITZGERALD, F. Scott. This Side of Paradise. New York, 1920. Octavo, original green cloth, custom half morocco
clamshell box. $63,000.
First edition, first printing of Fitzgerald’s first novel, inscribed one day after publication, “For Pete Compton, A wild man if
there ever was one — F. Scott Fitzgerald, Princeton, NJ, March 27th 1920.”
Although the inscription was written just one day after the publication of This Side of Paradise, Fitzgerald was already fast on
his way to becoming the new literary sensation: the entire first printing of 3000 copies had already sold out (ultimately requiring
two more printings in April alone). On March 30, 1920, Fitzgerald sent Zelda a telegram proposing that they should marry now:
“Talked with John Palmer and Rosalind and we think best to get married Saturday noon we will be awfully nervous until it is
over and would get no rest by waiting until Monday first edition of the book is sold out address Cottage until Thursday and
Scribner’s after that Love Scott.” On April 3rd they were married at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York. The parties in Princeton
apparently continued: “In April they went to Princeton to ‘chaperon’ houseparties. ‘We were there three days,’ Fitzgerald wrote
a friend. ‘Zelda and five men in Harvey Firestone’s car and not one of us drew a sober breath… It was the damndest party ever
held in Princeton & everyone in the University will agree’” (Turnbull, 107). The inscription is particularly appropriate in that
This Side of Paradise is a romantic evocation of Fitzgerald’s Princeton days, begun while he himself was still an undergraduate
there. “This Side of Paradise achieved immense social impact. Daring and bold for its time, the novel projected new freedom—
to flirt, smoke, pet, drink and dance. It functioned as a kind of bible for the Jazz Age among the nation’s youth, catapulting
Fitzgerald to overnight fame” (Nolan, 37-38). First issue, with all points listed in Bruccoli. Early printings of this novel (April
1920) are exceedingly difficult to obtain. Without exceedingly scarce original dust jacket. Bruccoli A5.1.a. Bruccoli & Clark
I:131. A bit of light dampstaining to top margin of some leaves, one-inch open tear to bottom margin of page 177. Some light
spotting to original cloth. An exceptionally rare inscribed copy.
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henry james
“Left To Me By Walker When He Died” (Shelby Foote): Wonderful Association Copy Of Henry James’ Works,
With Famed Coburn Photographs, One Of Only 156 Copies Of The Limited First New York Edition,
This Copy From The Estate Of Civil War Historian Shelby Foote, Received By Him
At The Death Of His Lifelong Friend, Walker Percy, And Extensively Annotated
45. JAMES, Henry. The Novels and Tales. New York, 1907-17. Twentysix
volumes. Octavo, original three-quarter navy morocco gilt. $26,000.
Limited first edition of the important 26-volume “New York Edition”
of Henry James’ Works, one of only 156 copies, an exceedingly rare
association copy from the library of Walker Percy, with his bookplates,
and inscribed in Vol. I by Percy’s lifelong friend, award-winning
historian Shelby Foote: “Shelby Foote—set left to me by Walker when
he died in Covington, 10 May 1990.” With 26 beautiful frontispiece
photogravures by Alvin Langdon Coburn and prefaces prepared by
James specifically for this edition. Extensively annotated by Foote
throughout.
This magnificent limited edition of Henry James’ Works comes directly
from the estate of novelist and historian Shelby Foote, who received it
from his lifelong friend, award-winning novelist Walker Percy, at
Percy’s death in 1990. It contains Foote’s extensive marginalia throughout, and his poignant inscription in Volume I that pays homage
to his friendship with Percy. Foote was “at his friend’s bedside at his death in New Orleans in 1990… In their six-decade friendship,
Foote and Percy exchanged scores of letters about their work.” Foote is best remembered for his magnum opus, a three-volume history
of the Civil War that is “a model of what military history can be… His mission was to tell what he considered America’s biggest story
as a vast, finely detailed, deeply human narrative… Foote created a history as written by a novelist” (New York Times). A shared
capacity for psychological insight and regard for the power of elegant prose unites Foote, Percy and James in this copy of James’
writings, which is also hailed for his special prefaces and the photogravures and portraiture of Coburn, a co-founder of the famed
Photo-Secession Group. Volumes I through XXIV, meticulously revised by James for this edition, include special prefaces, also
prepared by James specifically for this edition. With two of James’ shorter works (Fordham Castle and The Jolly Corner) appearing here
for the first time in book form. Supino 64.2.0; see Supino 64.1.0. BAL 10665. Phillips 120. With bookplates of Walker Percy. Inscribed
by Foote in Vol. I and with his extensive marginalia in nearly every volume. Interiors fresh and clean with only light scattered
foxing, minor edge-wear to boards. An especially memorable set in about-fine condition, especially scarce in publisher’s morocco.

“That Gasp Of Wonder That
Was The Asimovian Grail”:
First Editions Of The Original
Foundation Trilogy, Signed By
Asimov In Foundation And Empire
46. ASIMOV, Isaac. Foundation. WITH:
Foundation and Empire. WITH: Second
Foundation. New York, 1951-53. Together three
volumes. Octavo, original half blue cloth, dust
jackets, custom clamshell box. $8800.
First editions of “one of the most influential
works of modern science fiction” (Chronology
of American Literature), signed in the second
novel by Asimov on the title page.
Winner of a special 1966 Hugo Award for “Best All-Time Series”—an award even Asimov believed was
created solely to honor Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings—this epic saga transposes Gibbon’s Decline and Fall
of the Roman Empire into a futuristic key. Critic and fellow science fiction writer Thomas Disch praises
the Foundation books for powerfully evoking the “gasp of wonder [that] was the Asimovian grail.” The original trilogy, based on
stories published in Astounding Science Fiction between 1942-50, not only set the standard for all “future histories” to follow but also
helped secure Asimov’s status as a giant in the genre. All books of the original trilogy in “A” bindings and dust jackets (Currey, 12-13,
15). See Anatomy of Wonder II-46. Owner inscription to front pastedown of Foundation and Empire. Books extremely good
(Foundation), near-fine (Foundation and Empire) and fine (Second Foundation). Foundation with expert restoration to bright, lovely
dust jacket, Foundation and Empire dust jacket quite bright with light rubbing, mild soiling; Second Foundation jacket price-clipped
with slight rubbing, light soiling.
“Don’t Forget. Please Feed The Cat”: Breakfast At Tiffany’s,
In Exquisite Diamond-Encrusted Binding
47. CAPOTE, Truman. Breakfast at Tiffany’s. New York, 1958. Octavo,
modern full polished pink morocco, black morocco spine label, inlaid black
morocco silhouette, inlaid real diamonds, all edges silver-gilt; housed in a
custom black velvet bag. $5000.
First edition of the adventures of free-spirited Holly Golightly, in beautiful
custom jeweled binding that includes six genuine diamonds, by the Chelsea
Bindery.
“If you want to capture a period in New York, no other book has done it so
well… He could capture period and place like few others” (Norman Mailer).
With three other stories: “House of Flowers,” “A Diamond Guitar” and “A
Christmas Memory.” This beautiful custom binding features an inlaid black
morocco silhouette of Audrey Hepburn as Holly Golightly, wonderfully
accented with genuine diamonds in her hair, and a diamond necklace and
earrings. A fine copy.
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“So, Gentlemen, Consider All The Cocktails
Mentioned In This Book Drunk By Me As A Toast…”:
Signed First Edition Of Fitzgerald’s First Book,
This Side Of Paradise
48. FITZGERALD, F. Scott. This Side of Paradise. New York,
1920. Octavo, original green cloth, custom half morocco clamshell
box. $13,200.
First edition, third printing (issued the same month as the first, and
the only printing with Fitzgerald’s signature) of Fitzgerald’s first
novel, one of approximately 500 copies with the tipped-in “Author’s
Apology” leaf boldly signed in pen, “Sincerely, F. Scott Fitzgerald.”
Third printing (the only issued with the tipped-in “Apology”),
published in the same month as the first. Prepared for an American
Booksellers Association convention, Fitzgerald’s signed “Apology”
reads: “I don’t want to talk about myself because I’ll admit I did that
somewhat in this book. In fact, to write it took three months; to
conceive it—three minutes; to collect the data in it—all my life. The
idea of writing it came on the first of last July: it was a substitute
form of dissipation. My whole theory of writing I can sum up in one
sentence: An author ought to write for the youth of his own
generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward. So, gentlemen, consider all the cocktails mentioned in this
book drunk by me as a toast to the American Booksellers Association. May, 1920.” Contrary to his claim, Fitzgerald began writing the
novel in 1917, revising it several times until Scribner’s accepted it for publication in 1919. Blank front free endpaper excised. Without
rare original dust jacket. Bruccoli A5.I.c. Owner signature. Only lightest scattered foxing to preliminary and final leaves, light wear to
cloth. An extremely good copy.
“Death Is Forever. But So Are Diamonds”
49. FLEMING, Ian. Diamonds Are Forever. London, 1956. Octavo, original
black paper boards, dust jacket. $6000.
First edition of Fleming’s fourth James Bond thriller, a fast-paced, globespanning
race through the deadly world of diamond smuggling.
“In the 1950s, the mystique of America as a land of wealth and excitement held
great sway in a Britain still in the grips of austerity,” and this mystique influenced
Fleming’s fourth Bond thriller, in which the super-spy visits the States to battle
diamond-smuggling gangsters and once again meets you with his arch-nemesis
Blofeld (Black, 25). Made into the1971 film of the same title starring Sean
Connery as Bond and Jill St. John as Tiffany Case. Biondi & Pickard, 42. Interior
fine; expert repair to front inner paper hinge. Expert restoration to original dust
jacket with mild soiling to rear panel. An extremely good copy.

ian fleming
“He Must Play The Role… The Man Who Was Only A Silhouette”
50. FLEMING, Ian. Moonraker. London, 1955. Octavo, original black paper boards, dust jacket, custom
clamshell box. $11,000.
Scarce first edition of Fleming’s third novel, in which Bond must foil the attempt of a British industrialist to
destroy London with a nuclear weapon, in first-issue dust jacket.
Considered by many to be one of the best of the Bond books, Moonraker afforded Fleming “an opportunity to wax
lyrical about the England he loved—the ‘panorama full of color and excitement and romance’… [Fleming also]
skillfully reintroduced notes of ambiguity and realism into the life of his globe-trotting hero… Noël Coward read
Moonraker in proof in Jamaica and pronounced, ‘It is the best thing he has done yet, very exciting… His
observation is extraordinary and his talent for description vivid’” (Lycett, 253-54, 269). The early Bond novels are
quite scarce. “This title is extremely rare in fine condition” (Biondi & Pickard, 42). Made into the 1979 film of the
same title with Roger Moore as Bond and Lois Chiles as Dr. Holly Goodhead. Book near-fine, with only light
foxing to endpapers and edges of text block. Dust jacket with expert restoration.
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“The Scent Of Bitter Almonds Always Reminded Him Of
The Fate Of Unrequited Love”: Love In The Time Of Cholera,
Signed Limited First Edition In English
“His Masterpiece”: First Edition Of A Passage To India,
Signed By Forster, One Of Only 200 Large-Paper Copies
51. FORSTER, E.M. A Passage to India. London, 1924. Octavo, original half brown
cloth, gray paper spine label. $5200.
Signed limited first edition, one of only 200 large paper copies signed by Forster.
52. GARCIA MARQUEZ, Gabriel. Love in the Time of Cholera. New York, 1988.
Octavo, original half pink cloth, printed acetate dust jacket, slipcase. $5200.
Signed limited first edition in English, one of only 350 copies “printed on special
paper and specially bound,” of García Márquez’s “shining and heartbreaking
novel” (Thomas Pynchon), signed by him.
“Suppose… it were possible not only to swear love ‘forever,’ but actually to follow
through on it…? This is the extraordinary premise of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s
new novel Love in the Time of Cholera, one on which he delivers, and triumphantly”
(Thomas Pynchon, New York Times). García Márquez’s first major work
after winning the Nobel Prize in 1982, this romantic tale of the enduring love between
the aging Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza often ranks, among the author’s
fans, second only to One Hundred Years of Solitude. First published as El
Amor en los Tiempos de Cólera in Colombia and Mexico in 1985. Fine condition.
Forster’s 1921 return trip to India “had the effect of releasing what was to be
judged his masterpiece, A Passage to India” (DNB). Andre Gide praised
Forster’s last novel as “a miracle of intelligence, tact, irony, prudence and ability”
(Connolly, The Modern Movement 45). Without publisher’s slipcase.
Kirkpatrick A10. A few small chips to lower edge of boards, minor soiling. A
near-fine copy.
“Community, Identity, Stability”:
Signed Limited First Edition Of Huxley’s Brave New World
53. HUXLEY, Aldous. Brave New World. London, 1932. Octavo, original yellow cloth,
custom full morocco clamshell box. $8000.
Signed limited first edition, large paper issue, one of only 324 copies signed
by Huxley.
Huxley’s influential Utopian vision is a “brilliantly plausible fantasy… of which
the horror is always credible” (Connolly, 75). Without scarce plain dust jacket,
rarely found. Eschelbach & Shober 10. A bright, fine copy.

“The Clenched Fist Of Republican Spain”:
The Very Rare First Issue Of The Spanish Earth,
One Of Fewer Than 100 Copies, Extraordinary Copy In Original Glassine
54. HEMINGWAY, Ernest. The Spanish Earth. Cleveland, 1938. Slim octavo, original
tan cloth printed in black and orange, glassine. $7500.
Limited first edition, number 130 of 1000 copies—one of fewer than 100 first-issue
copies released with pictorial endpapers. An exceptionally fine copy in original
glassine.
Intended to help raise money for the Loyalist cause, this book contains a transcript of
Hemingway’s narration for the sound track for the film ‘The Spanish Earth.’ Upon
seeing the first issue from the press, Hemingway wired Jasper Wood objecting to
Wood’s introduction because it gave him credit for the film which he felt belonged to
Joris Ivens and John Ferno. He also objected to the large F.A.I. (Federacion Anarquista
Iberica) banner on the endpapers. A second issue was then bound with plain tan
endpapers and a printed statement from Wood on the rear pastedown referring to
Hemingway’s objections. This is the scarce first issue, with pictorial endpapers showing
the F.A.I. banner flying over the heads of advancing soldiers. “In a letter to the
bibliographer, Jasper Wood estimated that there were between 50 and 100 copies of the
first issue” (Hanneman A15a). Book fine; fragile original glassine, almost never present,
fine. An exceptionally fine copy of the rare first issue.
Signed By Matisse:
The First Illustrated Edition Of Ulysses
55. JOYCE, James and MATISSE, Henri. Ulysses. New York,
1935. Large quarto, original brown cloth, slipcase , custom clamshell
box. $9000.
First illustrated edition of Joyce’s landmark Ulysses, one of 1500
copies signed by Matisse. One of the 20th-century’s most desirable
illustrated books, combining the work of two great modern artists.
One of the most arresting collaborations in 20th-century literature.
“It was a great idea to bring them together; celebrities of the same
generation, of similar virtuosity” (Wheeler, 15). The 26 beautiful
full-page illustrations by Matisse accompany the text of Joyce’s
Ulysses, including six soft-ground etchings with reproductions of the
sketches on blue and yellow paper.
“One of the very few American
livres de peintres issued before
World War II. According to George
Macy [this work’s designer], who
undertook this only American
publication of Matisse’s illustrations, he asked the artist how many etchings the latter could provide
for $5000. The artist chose to take six subjects from Homer’s Odyssey. The preparatory drawings reproduced
with the soft-ground etchings (Matisse’s only use of this medium) record the evolution of
the figures from vigorous sketches to closely knit compositions” (Artist and the Book 197). Without
original acetate. Slocum & Cahoun A22. LEC 71. Interior fine; marginal expert paper repair to page
345; inner hinges with expert reinforcement. Expert restoration to original slipcase.
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“There Was A Moocow Coming Down Along The Road…”:
Lovely First Edition Of Joyce’s
Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man
56. JOYCE, James. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. New York,
1916. Octavo, original blue cloth, custom clamshell box. $16,000.
First edition of Joyce’s classic stream-of-consciousness work, published in
New York against numerous attempts to remove “offending passages”—a
defining moment in the history of free expression and the emergence of the
modern novel. A beautiful copy.
New York publisher B.W. Huebsch was the only publisher “venturesome
enough in 1916 to publish Joyce’s [novel] unexpurgated… In England, 12
publishers had refused to set [it] up the way Joyce wrote it, and Harriet
Weaver, who had published parts of the work serially in her avant-garde
magazine The Egoist, would not go along with Ezra Pound’s proposal that
blank spaces be left and, after printing, the offending passages be filled in
with a typewriter. The difficulty was exacerbated because, as everyone knew,
only a year earlier, in England, the entire edition of D.H. Lawrence’s novel
The Rainbow had been destroyed by the police. Publishers and printers on
both sides of the Atlantic were intimidated” (de Grazia, 18). The novel was not published in England until 1917. Without extraordinarily
rare dust jacket. Slocum & Cahoon A11. Interior fresh and fine, only most minor wear to spine ends of bright publisher’s
cloth. An about-fine copy, very desirable in such lovely condition.
“Passages Of Unearthly Beauty”:
Fine Signed Limited First Edition Of Finnegans Wake
57. JOYCE, James. Finnegans Wake. London, 1939. Large octavo, original
red cloth, cloth slipcase. $23,000.
First edition, one of only 425 large-paper copies signed by Joyce.
Joyce began writing Finnegans Wake in 1922, the same year Ulysses was published.
Compared to that book, Finnegans Wake “took longer to write… was
conceived and executed under a greater range of symbolic and mythic
guidelines, was dictated to more famous amanuenses, among them
Samuel Beckett, was used as a weapon of revenge by Joyce, who mocked
in it the people who had offended him… In short, it was the inscription
on the walls of eternity of James Joyce’s feelings, his prejudices and his
obsessions” (The Scandal of Ulysses, 55). “Joyce insisted that each word,
each sentence had several meanings and that the ‘ideal lecteur’ should
devote his lifetime to it, like the Koran” (Connolly, The Modern
Movement, 81). Slocum & Cahoon 49. Original slipcase with usual light wear
and soiling. A fine uncut and unopened copy.

“He Found Himself Changed In His Bed To Some Monstrous Kind Of Vermin”:
First Edition In English Of Kafka’s Metamorphosis
58. KAFKA, Franz. The Metamorphosis. London, 1937. Slim octavo,
original half blue cloth, custom clamshell box. $5500.
First edition in English of one of Kafka’s most important works.
“While critics have interpreted this chilling story variously as a description of
despair in a meaningless world, as a reaction to institutional authoritarianism,
and as an expression of conflict between the author and his father, its power
seems to rest in its resistance to explanation. W.H. Auden has said of it, ‘Had one
to name the author who comes nearest to bearing the same kind of relation to
our age as Dante, Shakespeare and Goethe bore to theirs, Kafka would be the
first one would think of’” (New York Public Library’s Books of the Century, 13).
“Kafka published few works in his lifetime and left a testamentary direction that
his unpublished writings should be destroyed, which was disregarded by his
friend and executor Max Brod,” who published The Trial (1925) and The Castle
(1926) after Kafka’s death in 1924 (Garland & Garland, 466). Kafka himself
published The Metamorphosis in German in 1915. Translated by A.L. Lloyd.
Without scarce original glassine. Bookplate; owner initials. A beautiful copy in
original paper boards.
First Edition Of ’Salem’s Lot, Inscribed By Stephen King
59. KING, Stephen. ’Salem’s Lot. Garden City, 1975. Octavo, original half
black cloth, dust jacket. $5200.
Rare first edition of King’s second novel, inscribed: “For Tim—Best, Stephen
King, 9/9/79,” in second-issue dust jacket, as always (virtually no first-issue
jackets exist).
King’s breakthrough second novel “gave birth not only to gaggles of vampire
stories… but also all kinds of creepy works in general… ’Salem’s Lot, because of
its genuineness, its verve, its originality, its willingness to reflect, expand and
celebrate its sources, and, most importantly, its establishment of Stephen King…
as a pioneer in a field ripe for re-invention, was germinal and originative of the
entire boom in horror fiction” (Horror 100 Best 72). First issue dust jackets (of
which only a very few are known to exist) had the incorrect printed price of
$8.95 and the incorrect “Father Cody”
on the front flap. The price mistake was
quickly caught while still at the printer,
and prices were clipped off these early
dust jackets. A new price of $7.95 was
added but the incorrect “Father Cody”
remained, making them second-issue jackets. Third-issue jackets were completely reprinted,
with the correct price and the priest’s name corrected to “Father Callahan.” Fantasy and
Horror 6-203. Underwood & Miller 14. Minor rubbing to edges of bright, about-fine dust
jacket. A beautiful copy, desirable inscribed by King.
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Advance Review Presentation Copy Of
Elmer Gantry, 1927
60. LEWIS, Sinclair. Elmer Gantry. New York, 1927. Octavo,
original blue cloth, dust jacket. $6000.
First edition, first issue of Lewis’s “extravagantly comic
satirical attack on the Protestant ministry” (Stringer, 392), an
advance review copy with publisher’s slip laid in and printed
presentation slip signed by the author tipped in.
“Advance copies of the book were sent to clergymen all over
the country. Needless to say, the reaction was predictable
and commercially inspirational. The novel was universally
condemned by every religious body in the United States;
better publicity could not be had at any cost. Donald Brace,
in anticipation of the demand for the book that attacked the
‘high collar,’ ordered the printer to produce 140,000 copies
of the first edition, the largest initial printing ever made in the history of book printing” (Pastore 13). Elmer Gantry enhanced
its author’s reputation among critics and thus contributed to his reception of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1930—the first
American writer to do so. First issue, with “Cantry” on book spine. Bruccoli & Clark, 214. The printed note tipped in (by means
of a two-cent stamp) to the front free endpaper reads, “I am sorry that I am going abroad before there are completed copies of
‘Elmer Gantry’ to inscribe, and I am asking my publishers to send you this copy with my warmest greetings,” and is signed
“Sinclair Lewis.” Book near-fine with very mild rubbing to spine. Original dust jacket exceptionally bright and fresh with
expert restoration. A bright, lovely copy.
“A Miracle In Prose,
An American Original”:
First Editions Of The Border
Trilogy, Each Volume Signed By
Cormac McCarthy
61. MCCARTHY, Cormac. All the Pretty
Horses. WITH: The Crossing. WITH:
Cities of the Plain. New York, 1992-98.
Octavo, original half black cloth, dust
jackets. $8200.
Scarce first editions of the three novels in
McCarthy’s acclaimed “Border Trilogy,” in
original dust jackets, each signed on the
half title by the author.
According to The New York Times, Cormac
McCarthy’s Border Trilogy is “a miracle in prose, an American original.” Composed of three
works—All the Pretty Horses, The Crossing, and Cities of the Plain—the trilogy traces the lives of two young men coming into adulthood
in the changing Southwest. “A taut, poetic evocation of the remote backcountry of south Texas and northern Mexico, [All the Pretty
Horses is] strongly imagined and beautifully rendered by a very fine writer—one of our best—who deserves far more renown” (Peter
Matthiessen). “More discursive than All the Pretty Horses, [The Crossing] presents a sharp-eyed revision of the meaning of the West in
the American consciousness” (Chronology of American Literature). “Told in both McCarthy’s signature lyrical style and his dead-on
ranchero dialogue, Cities of the Plain ends the trilogy at the height of McCarthy’s storytelling skill” (Stacey Peebles, Cormac
McCarthy Society). Issued the same year as a signed limited edition, no priority has been established with regard to The Crossing.
Additionally, signed copies of the first trade edition of Cities of the Plain are considerably scarcer than those belonging to the signed
limited edition of the same year. With “First Edition” on copyright pages of all three volumes. Faintest trace of remainder mark to
lower edge of All the Pretty Horses. A fine signed set.

Inscribed First Edition Of The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter
62. MCCULLERS, Carson. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter. Boston, 1940. Octavo,
original tan cloth, dust jacket, custom clamshell box. $16,000.
Rare signed first edition of McCullers’ first novel, inscribed: “For A.B. Hanson Jr.,
With All Good Wishes, Carson McCullers, January 14, 1942.” With laid-in letter by
Marguerite W. Smith, McCullers’ mother.
It was with this novel of a deaf mute that the young Carson McCullers “immediately
achieved great critical prominence” (Hart, 242). “No matter what the age of its
author, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter would be a remarkable book. When one
reads that Carson McCullers is a girl of 22 it
becomes… something beyond that, something
more akin to the vocation of pain to
which a great poet is born” (New York
Times). Bruccoli II:251. With laid-in letter
and envelope from Marguerite W. Smith,
McCullers’ mother, dated 1941 and addressed
to the book’s recipient, reading, “Dear Mr. Hanson: Carson McCullers has asked me,
her mother, to write and tell you, she so appreciates your good letter and is glad you like ‘The
Heart—.’ She is ill at home here for the time, but I trust and hope it won’t be long before she is
well again— With best wishes to you and Mrs. Hanson. Cordially yours, Marguerite W. Smith.”
In February 1941, only a month before her mother’s letter, McCullers suffered the first of a series
of cerebral strokes; it “temporarily impaired her vision and caused debilitating head pains”
(ANB). These strokes eventually led to her death in 1967. Inscribed copies of The Heart Is a
Lonely Hunter are most uncommon. Book fine. Minor edge-wear and lightest toning to spine of
bright, about-fine dust jacket.
“This Would Be Ten Times As Good If I Could’ve Used 1% Of The
Real Stories…”: Tales Of The South Pacific, Michener’s First Book,
Inscribed By Him To A Colleague At Macmillan
63. MICHENER, James. Tales of the South Pacific. New York: 1947. Octavo, original
pale orange cloth, dust jacket. $8000.
First edition, presentation/association copy of Michener’s first—and Pulitzerwinning—professional
writing effort, the basis of the classic musical “South Pacific,”
inscribed by the author to a colleague at Macmillan: “Dear Van: This would be ten
times as good if I could used [sic] 1% of the real stories you’ve told me in the last few
years. Jim Michener.”
“In 1940 Michener began a nine-year association, interrupted by World War II, with
the Macmillan publishing firm as a social-science editor. In October 1942 Michener
enlisted in the U.S. Navy reserve… and in April 1944 was sent to the Pacific theater of
operations. He was partly an aviator inspector but mostly a publications officer. His
visits to some 50 islands inspired his Tales
of the South Pacific (1947)… Although the book won a Pulitzer Prize for fiction, it remained
little known until South Pacific, the 1949 musical by Richard Rodgers and Oscar
Hammerstein II, made him famous” (ANB). “Macmillan apparently had little faith in the
book, because the first edition was cheaply produced, with a flimsy dust wrapper and a
high-acid-content text stock that has browned badly over the years” (Groseclose, 21).
Groseclose A.003. Inscribed to George Lippincott Van Curan, colleague and good friend
of Michener in the school textbook division of Macmillan in the late 1940s. Book with
slight rubbing to spine ends and extremities. Dust jacket lightly rubbed with three tape
repairs to verso. A near-fine inscribed presentation/association copy.
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“This Is A Love Story—Except There Isn’t Much Love In It”:
Inscribed First Edition Of Toni Morrison’s First Book,
The Comstock Copy
64. MORRISON, Toni. The Bluest Eye. New York, Chicago, San
Francisco, 1970. Octavo, original half blue cloth, dust jacket, custom
clamshell box. $9500.
First edition of this Nobel Prize-winner’s scarce first book, “an eloquent
indictment of some of the more subtle forms of racism in American
society,” inscribed to renowned book collector Rolland Comstock: “For
Rolland Comstock, Regards, Toni Morrison.”
“This tragic study of a black adolescent girl’s struggle to achieve white
ideals of beauty and her consequent descent into madness was acclaimed
as an eloquent indictment of some of the more subtle forms of
racism in American society” (Encyclopedia of Literature, 150). Rolland
Comstock, to whom this copy was
inscribed, was an avid collector of
modern first editions. At the time of
his tragic murder, he reportedly
owned an estimated 40,000 books, many of which he managed to get signed and
inscribed by flying around the country to signings or engaging in extensive correspondence
with authors. Book with minor toning and faint dampstaining to binding,
dust jacket with very faint dampstaining. A near-fine inscribed copy, with an
exceptional provenance.
“This Novel Is Like No Other”: Scarce First Edition Of
Flannery O’Connor’s Brilliant First Novel, Wise Blood
65. O’CONNOR, Flannery. Wise Blood. New York, 1952. Octavo,
original yellow cloth, dust jacket. $7000.
Scarce first edition (one of only 3000 copies) of Flannery O’Connor’s
powerful first novel, “a comic masterpiece.”
O’Connor’s extraordinary first book exemplifies her characteristically
sharp satire and gothic sensibility, deftly blending humor and the
grotesque. “This novel is like no other—the individuality is intense, the
comedy fierce, the truth undeniable” (Burgess, 99 Novels, 62). “A comic
masterpiece, Wise Blood focused on Hazel Motes, the would-be founder of
a ‘church without Christ, where the blind stay blind, the lame stay lame,
and them that’s dead stays that way’” (Davis, 1955). “Her doctrinally strict,
mordantly funny stories and novels are as close to perfect as writing gets”
(New York Times). Farmer A1.I.a.1. Bruccoli & Clark I:281. Dust jacket
near-fine with small closed tear to front panel, small chip to rear panel.
Book fine. A desirable copy. Scarce.

Presentation/Association Copy Inscribed By
John O’Hara To His Close Friend,
New York Post Columnist Leonard Lyons
66. O’HARA, John. Butterfield 8. New York, 1935. Octavo, original black
cloth, dust jacket, custom clamshell box. $6200.
First edition, presentation copy, of O’Hara’s third book and second novel,
inscribed to his longtime friend, New York Post gossip columnist and
theater critic Leonard Lyons: “To Len—and when they make it a 26-em
measure I’ll like it even better. Sincerely John O’Hara. New York. February
10, 1936.”
To Ernest Hemingway, O’Hara was
always a “man who knows exactly
what he is writing about and has written
it marvelously well.” Inspired by a
news article about the discovery of a
young woman’s body washed up on
Long Island, O’Hara’s Butterfield 8
became an immediate bestseller with
its well-crafted story of “the sordid and sensational lives of people on the fringe of café
society and the underworld” (Hart, 553). Elizabeth Taylor’s performance as Gloria won her
an Oscar. With a column circulation of four million before the age of 35, the recipient of
this copy, Leonard Lyons, was one of the finest newspaper writers of his day. Lyons and
O’Hara were close friends and their correspondence was rife with witty asides and inside
jokes; this inscription undoubtedly refers to one. Near-fine book with bookplate residue on
inscription page, wear to spine ends. Fragile dust jacket quite nice with light wear to extremities
and mild toning to spine, split to flap joint. A near-fine inscribed copy with a
wonderful association.
First Edition Of O’Hara’s First Novel
67. O’HARA, John. Appointment in Samarra. New York, 1934. Octavo,
original black cloth, dust jacket. $5500.
First edition of O’Hara’s first novel.
John O’Hara’s acclaimed first novel was “an instant success when it was
published in 1934… tightly constructed and fast-paced, it detailed the threeday
slide to self-destruction of a young man named Julian English… A
meticulous craftsman,” O’Hara was hailed as “‘one of the most underrated
authors in America’” by Bennett Cerf, who said that “O’Hara belongs right
up there with William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway” (New York Times).
With publisher’s errata slip tipped in after title page, as called for. Bruccoli
Clark I:285. Owner inscription. Book fine; some chipping, soiling to scarce,
very good dust jacket.
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“To Read It Is To Forget We Are Earthbound”:
Saint-Exupéry’s Wind, Sand And Stars,
Inscribed Presentation First Edition
Signed By Walker Percy
69. SAINT-EXUPERY, Antoine de. Wind, Sand and Stars. New
York, 1939. Octavo, original half blue cloth, dust jacket. $5600.
First American trade edition, inscribed by Saint-Exupéry, in French:
“Pour Laura Ingalls, Camarade de l’air. Avec toute l’aimitié d’un camarade
francais, Antoine Saint-Exupéry” (For Laura… friend of the wind,
With all the friendship of a french comrade), in original dust jacket.
68. PERCY, Walker. The Moviegoer. New York, 1961. Octavo, original
half red cloth, dust jacket. $7500.
First edition of Percy’s first book, winner of the 1961 National Book
Award, signed by him.
“In his first two novels—The Moviegoer (1961) and The Last Gentleman
(1966)—Walker Percy’s characters reflect the sensibility of the Delta people.
Unlike Flannery O’Connor’s characters, they have a societal context
and awareness; yet like hers they are an odd assortment of marginal grotesques,
whose motives are developed primarily within the drama of a
quest for salvation… Percy has not separated his imagination as a storyteller
from the southern community of memory and its fate in the modern
world. For this reason he is far more successful than Flannery
O’Connor in depth and delicacy of character depiction” (Hoffman,
181). Book with only minor wear to front corners. Price-clipped
dust jacket with faint dampstaining mainly to rear panel and wear
to extremities. A rare signed copy in extremely good condition.
“Everything went into Wind, Sand and Stars: the Saharan flights and
crashes; the South American flights and near-crashes; the Libyan adventure;
Guillaumet in the Andes; the enchanted evenings… Combinedwith
a dash of mysticism and a generous sprinkling of hymns to fraternity-those
writings make for some of the most glorious descriptions of
flight ever published…. ‘To read it is to forget we are earthbound,’ raved
the Atlantic reviewer” (Schiff, 306-8). The American Booksellers
Association voted Wind, Sand and Stars the best non-fiction work of
1939 while the French version, Terre des hommes, received the Academie
Francaise’s prize for best novel of the year. Preceded in the U.S. by a signed limited edition of 500 copies. Interior generally
fresh with tiny closed marginal tear to title page not affecting text, small stain to rear board, lightest edge-wear to spine of
near-fine book. Original dust jacket with expert restoration.

First English Edition Of One Day In The Life Of Ivan
Denisovich, Inscribed By Alexander Solzhenitsyn
71. SOLZHENITSYN, Alexander. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich.
London, 1963. Octavo, original red cloth, dust jacket. $12,000.
First English edition of Solzhenitsyn’s first published work, inscribed in
English and signed in Cyrillic.
Causing an immediate scandal when published in the Soviet Union in 1962
for its frank portrayal of life under Soviet rule, this novel propelled its
author to international fame. It is the first and perhaps the best example of
this Nobel laureate’s belief in “the indivisibility of truth and ‘the perception
of world literature as the one great heart which beats for the concerns and
misfortunes of our world’” (Solzhenitsyn, Nobel acceptance speech, 1970).
This London edition published the same year as the American, which
preceded it by only a few months. Only slightest rubbing to extremities of
fragile dust jacket. A most exceptional inscribed copy.
Extraordinarily Rare Inscribed First Edition Of
A Tree Grows In Brooklyn
70. SMITH, Betty. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. New York, 1943. Octavo,
original green cloth, dust jacket, custom clamshell box. $16,500.
First edition of Betty Smith’s scarce first novel, inscribed: “To Bill with love,
Betty Smith, June 1960, Chapel Hill, N. Car.”
Betty Smith credited Thomas Wolfe’s 1935 novel Of Time and the River
with releasing her childhood memories of tenement life in turn-of-thecentury
Brooklyn. Her first novel, A Tree
Grows in Brooklyn, was published in 1943.
“At the time of Smith’s death, six million
copies had been produced in 37 printings,
and it had been translated into 16 languages.
The novel itself is beautifully written
and unpretentious, a powerful evocation of
a time and place” (DAB). Bruccoli & Clark
III:296. New York Public Library Books of
the Century, 207. Owner signature. Interior fine; light rubbing to cloth extremities, fading
to spine. Mild wear, shallow chipping to extremities of bright dust jacket. An extremely
good copy, scarce inscribed.
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Signed By Hunter S. Thompson And Ralph Steadman:
First Edition Of Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas
72. THOMPSON, Hunter S. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. New York, 1971.
Octavo, original half black cloth, dust jacket, custom clamshell box. $8500.
First edition of Thompson’s edgy journey into the American dream, boldly signed
by him in blue ink in his characteristic “H.S. Thompson,” additionally signed by
Ralph Steadman, in scarce dust jacket.
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas “cemented Mr. Thompson’s place as a singular
presence in American journalism or, as he once called himself, ‘a connoisseur of
edge work’” (New York Times). Thompson’s second book, the embodiment of
Gonzo journalism, “is a custom-crafted study of
paranoia… a desperate and important book, a wired
nightmare, the funniest piece of American prose
since Naked Lunch” (Books of the Century, 278-80).
Illustrated by Ralph Steadman, Thompson’s hallucinogenic
saga became “a metaphor for the state of the
American nation” (Stringer, 666). Made into the
movie of the same title in 1998, directed by Terry
Gilliam and starring Johnny Depp. With “First Edition” on copyright page; first issue dust jacket with
$5.95 price. Interior fine; light foxing to text block edges. Light toning to book edges; dust jacket bright
and fine with a small stain to foot of spine panel. A near-fine signed copy.
Inscribed By Evelyn Waugh To His Sister-In-Law In The Year Of
Publication, First Edition Of Unconditional Surrender
73. WAUGH, Evelyn. Unconditional Surrender. London, 1961. Octavo, original
blue cloth, dust jacket, custom clamshell box. $7600.
First edition of the final work in Waugh’s Sword of Honour trilogy, inscribed in the
year of publication to his sister-in-law: “For Bridget, With love from Evelyn,
October 1961.”
The Sword of Honour trilogy, a fictionalized account of Waugh’s WWII experience,
is often considered his best work, and is counted among the finest depictions of the
war. Unconditional Surrender, the last volume in the series, is based on Waugh’s
participation in Randolph Churchill’s mission to aid Tito’s Communist partisans
in Yugoslavia—a situation rich in irony for the
Catholic Waugh, who was painfully aware that
he was helping to insure the ultimate rule of a
communist regime hostile to the faith of
Yugoslavia’s Catholic Croats and Slovenes. In a
review of this work, Gore Vidal called Waugh
“Our time’s first satirist,” writing “in a prose so
chaste that at time one longs for a violation of syntax to suggest that its creator is fallible, or at least
part American” (quoted in Hastings, 599). The inscribee was Bridget Grant, Waugh’s sister-in-law.
Book fine; light soiling to rear panel of bright dust jacket. A near-fine copy, scarce inscribed.

“A Woman Must Have Money And A Room Of Her Own
If She Is To Write Fiction”: Signed Limited First Edition
Of Virginia Woolf’s Classic
74. WOOLF, Virginia. A Room of One’s Own. New York and London, 1929.
Tall octavo, original red cloth, custom clamshell box. $15,000.
Signed limited first edition, one of 492 copies distinctively signed by Woolf in
her characteristic purple ink.
Woolf’s foundational essay on women and writing has become a classic
feminist text: Woolf’s “aim was to establish a woman’s tradition, recognizable
by its circumstances, subject-matter, and its distinct problems…
A Room of One’s Own charted this vast territory with an air of innocent
discovery which itself sharpens the case against induced ineffectiveness
and ignorance that for so long clouded the counter-history of
women” (Gordon, 182). “A woman must have money and a room of her
own if she is to write fiction,” said Woolf, “and that, as you will see,
leaves the great problem of the true nature of woman and the true nature
of fiction unsolved.” Printed in the U.S. by Robert Josephy and published
on October 21, 1929, this edition preceded the English edition (both trade and
signed) by three days. Without glassine wrapper, rarely found. Kirkpatrick
A12. Woolmer 215A. Text fine; slight rubbing to extremities, very mild toning
to cloth. A near-fine signed copy.
First Edition Of Virginia Woolf’s Early Short Story Collection
Monday Or Tuesday, With Four Woodcuts By Vanessa Bell
75. WOOLF, Virginia. Monday or Tuesday. With Woodcuts by Vanessa Bell.
London: The Hogarth Press, 1921. Octavo, original half brown cloth, custom
clamshell box. $5500.
First edition, one of only 1000 copies printed.
Includes “A Haunted House,” “A Society,” “An Unwritten
Novel,” “The String Quartet,” “Blue and Green,” “Kew
Gardens” and “The Mark on the Wall.” Illustrated with
four woodcuts by Vanessa Bell. Kirkpatrick A5. Woolmer
18. Usual light offsetting from woodcuts. Spine and boards
lightly rubbed. A near-fine copy.
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“To Cheryl With My Heart’s True Love”: The Rose Tattoo, Inscribed
By Tennessee Williams To The Play’s Producer, Cheryl Crawford
76. WILLIAMS, Tennessee. The Rose Tattoo. New York, 1951. Octavo, original rose
cloth, dust jacket, custom clamshell box. $9200.
First edition, inscribed by the playwright to Cheryl Crawford, who produced the
play’s first run: “To Cheryl with my heart’s true love—Tennessee.” Laid in is a flyer
for Crawford’s 1977 memoir, One Naked Individual: My Fifty Years in the Theatre,
with notes on the verso in Crawford’s hand about Camino Real and a prop list for
Rose Tattoo.
Williams wrote of his play, “The Rose Tattoo is the
Dionysian element in human life… the lyric as well
as the Bacchantic impulse… the transcendence of
life over the instruments it uses… a celebration of
the inebriate god” (Spoto, The Kindness of Strangers,
170). In his Memoirs he called it “my love-play to
the world.” He wrote the play following his 1948 trip to Italy. It opened in New York on February
3, 1951 and ran for 306 performances, starring Eli Wallach, Don Murray and Maureen Stapleton.
Crawford was the producer for the play’s 1950 Chicago premiere and for the play’s 1951
Broadway run. Crawford was one of the founders of The Group Theatre in 1931; in 1947, she
was a co-founder of The Actor’s Studio. Her first successful production was Clifford Odet’s
1937 play Golden Boy; Crawford produced Odet’s Awake and Sing! two years later. In 1959, she
produced Williams’ Sweet Bird of Youth. Crandell A10.I.a. With calculations in Crawford’s hand
on the rear free endpaper. Book fine. Some splitting along folds and one tape repair to verso of
bright dust jacket with light toning to spine. A near-fine copy with excellent provenance.
Of Time And The River, First Edition,
Warmly Inscribed By Thomas Wolfe In The Year Of Publication
77. WOLFE, Thomas. Of Time and the River. New York, 1935. Thick octavo,
original black cloth, dust jacket. $5200.
First edition of the sequel to Look Homeward, Angel, inscribed in the year of
publication: “For Stephanie Skrent. Sincerely, with best wishes, Thomas Wolfe. Sept.
21, 1935.”
“On the night of the 14th of December [1933], at about half-past eleven, Wolfe arrived
customarily late for his appointment with [editor Max] Perkins… [and] unloaded a
heavy bundle on his editor’s desk. It was wrapped in brown paper, twice tied with
string, and stood two feet high. Perkins opened it and found it packed with
typescript—more than 3000 rough-draft pages, the first part of the novel. The sheets,
all different kinds of paper, were not consecutively numbered, since the sections had
not been consecutively written… ‘You have
often said that if I ever gave you something
that you could get your hands on and weigh in its entirety from beginning to end, you could
pitch in and help me to get out of the woods,’ Wolfe wrote Perkins the following day. ‘Well
now here is your chance… I don’t envy you the job before you’” (Berg, Max Perkins, 235).
Thus the editing of Wolfe’s Of Time and the River began. Upon its highly-anticipated
publication two years later, the New York Times called the novel “a magnificent epic of
American life” and Malcolm Crowley named Thomas Wolfe “the only contemporary
American writer who can be mentioned in the same breath with Dickens and Dostoevsky”
(New Republic). Johnston A3.1.a. Book fine, only very lightest rubbing to edges of fine bright
dust jacket. A fine inscribed copy, most unusual in this condition.

“A Peak Of English Poetry”:
First Edition Of The Winding Stair, Signed By Yeats
78. YEATS, William Butler. The Winding Stair. New York, 1929.
Slim octavo, original gilt-stamped dark blue cloth. $3800.
Signed limited first edition, one of only 642 copies, signed by Yeats.
The Winding Stair, along with The Tower (published in 1928), contain
“the greatest poetry of Yeats in his difficult later manner… a peak in
English poetry” (Connolly 56B). “Many critics have felt that Yeats’
greatest achievement was the development of a symbolic language to
express an equilibrium between the conflicting demands on the poet
of the outside world and his art… This theme is central to the two
volumes which are often thought to be Yeats’ best, The Tower (1928)
and The Winding Stair (1929)” (Hamilton, 595). Both titles refer to
Thoor Ballylee, the Norman tower that Yeats purchased, restored
and dedicated to his wife Georgie Hyde-Lees. The Winding Stair
includes one of Yeats’ most resonant and best-known poems, “A
Dialogue of Self and Soul.” Book designed by Frederic Warde and
printed by William Edwin Rudge for the Fountain Press. Without
scarce original glassine, slipcase. Wade 164. Roth 213. See Ransom, 283-84. Bookplate. Light offsetting to half title and
facing page; Yeats’ bold signature clearly visible. Spine lightly toned and rubbed, a few minor blemishes to boards, small
dampstain, front inner hinge expertly reinforced.
“For The World’s More Full Of Weeping Than He Can
Understand”: Yeats’ Early Poems And Stories, 1925,
One Of Only 250 Copies Signed By Yeats
79. YEATS, William Butler. Early Poems and Stories. New York,
1925. Octavo, original half blue cloth. $4500.
Signed limited first American edition, one of only 250 copies
signed by Yeats.
Contains the poems and stories from his early books, including
The Celtic Twilight, The Secret Rose, Stories of Red Hanrahan
and others. Preceded by the British first edition of the same
year. Wade 148. Bookplates. Text fine, faint toning to paper
spine label of about-fine book.
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Section 3: Literature
william shakespeare
“Incomparably The Most Important Work In The English Language”:
The Fourth Folio Of Shakespeare’s Plays, 1685
80. SHAKESPEARE, William. Mr. William Shakespeare’s Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies. Published
according to the true Original Copies. Unto which is added, Seven Plays, Never before Printed in Folio… The
Fourth Edition. London, 1685. Folio, 19th-century burgundy crushed full morocco gilt. $225,000.
Rare 1685 Fourth Folio of Shakespeare’s plays, first issue, with the engraved frontispiece portrait of Shakespeare by
Droeshout, the ten-line poem by Ben Jonson and John Milton’s first poem. The folios are “incomparably the most
important work in the English language” (William A. Jackson). Because of their incalculable impact on the language,
thought and literature of our world, they are among the most desirable of all English language books, the prizes of any
collection. Handsomely bound by Maltby of Oxford.
The “four folios of Shakespeare” are the first four editions of Shakespeare’s collected plays, which were the only collected
editions printed in the 17th century. At that time, plays were not considered “serious literature” and thus they were not
routinely printed and often survived only in manuscript form. Hence, the first collected edition of Shakespeare’s works
did not appear until seven years after his death, and 17 of the 36 plays included had never been published before (and
might have been lost had the folios not been printed). This Fourth Folio “contains the additional seven plays that first
appeared in the 1663 [third folio] edition [only one of which, “Pericles, Prince of Tyre,” is now attributed to Shakespeare],
as well as a good deal of correction and modernization of the text designed to make it easier to read and understand”
(Folger’s Choice 6). It was the last edition of Shakespeare’s plays printed in the 17th century—last to appear before the
editorial onslaught of the next hundred years. Because the Fourth Folio had been “modernized,” it was therefore nearer
a modern text than either the Second or Third, and became the edition of choice for future editors. Shakespeare’s first
acknowledged editor, Nicholas Rowe, for example, used the Fourth as the basis for his famous 1709 edition. The Fourth

was printed on Dutch Demy Royal sheets, a larger format than any of its predecessors, and the type “is in a larger font than the
three earlier editions, and more liberally spaced” (Jaggard, 497). In addition to Ben Jonson’s famous epitaph, this edition also
includes the unsigned “An Epitaph on the admirable Dramatick Poet, William Shakespear,” regarded as John Milton’s first
published poem, written when he was a student at Cambridge and appearing for the first time in the Second Folio (1632). First
issue, without Richard Chiswell listed in the imprint statement, as in the second issue (a third issue lists Herringman alone).
For this fourth edition, Shakespeare’s text was cast off to three different printers (one of whom has been identified as Robert
Roberts), who typeset their sections simultaneously, thus shortening the time it took to bring the edition to market (and tying
up as little type as possible from any one printer). When the work was finished and the three sections of printed sheets collated,
there was a shortage of 17 sheets from the second section, which were then hastily reprinted without the characteristic borders
around the text. Copies have been found with these second state sheets. All of the relevant sheets in this present copy, however,
are the original settings, with the page-borders. A second anomaly distinguishes this edition: in
collating the sheets it was also discovered that text had been omitted from the first section, so
that leaf L1 had to be reset in a smaller point-size to accommodate the missing text. Although
there is no accurate census of the number of folios still extant today, it is believed that copies of
each printing number only in the hundreds. Shakespeare’s portrait is in the third state, as
issued, with extensive additional crosshatching in his hair and in the shadow on his ruff (see
Blayney, 19). Leaf 2C1 (King John) misbound between 2C6 and 2D1 (Richard II); all text
present. Greg III, 1119-1121. Wing S2915. Jaggard, 497. Pforzheimer 910 (second issue). Bartlett
123. Miller, 138-39. Dawson, “Some Irregularities in the Shakespeare Fourth Folio” (Studies in
Bibliography, 1951). Armorial bookplate of English physician Paulin Martin (1842-1929),
Abingdon; recent leather booklabel of Lucy [Doheny] Smith Battson, daughter-in-law of the
noted book collector Estelle Doheny. A few marginal pencil notations, misprinted headline for
The Tempest corrected in early manuscript. Portrait leaf trimmed and skillfully mounted,
with partial loss of first letter of engraver’s name only; small hole to 1C5 affecting letters but
not the sense of text on recto; a few minor paper repairs without loss, occasional minor soiling.
Binding very handsome. A very good complete copy, with no facsimile leaves.
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john donne
“For Godsake Hold Your Tongue, And Let Me Love”:
Exceedingly Scarce 1633 First Edition Of John Donne’s Poems
81. DONNE, John. Poems, By J.D. With Elegies on the Authors Death. London, 1633. Small quarto, early full speckled brown
calf. Collation: [A2]-A4 B-Z4 Aa-Zz4 Aaa-[Fff4]. $65,000.
First edition of the collected poems of the greatest of the metaphysical poets, a handsome wide-margined copy, with “Epistle” leaves,
often lacking.
Although his poetry was circulated in small bundles of manuscript copies among the cultured circles of Elizabethan and Jacobean
society, Donne deliberately kept most of it out of print, fearing to tarnish his reputation in the religious establishment. Thus almost
none of his poetry appeared in print during his lifetime. “The poetry of Donne represents a sharp break with that written by his
predecessors and most of his contemporaries… Donne’s particular blend of wit and seriousness, of intense feeling, darting thought,
and vast erudition, creates a fascination quite beyond the reach of easier styles and less strenuous minds” (Adams). This edition is “the
first collected edition of Donne’s poems, derived according to current scholarly thinking from manuscript sources in direct descent
from the author’s papers. It has been the basis of all scholarly editions since then, including the Grolier Club edition of 1895” (Pirie 81).
This copy with page 273 (Nn1) in the uncorrected state (without running title and with 35 lines of text), and with mispaginations as
in Pforzheimer. Bound with “Epistle” (A3-A4), rarely found; without “Printer to the Understanders,” “Hexastichon Bibliopolae” and
blank [A1], as often. Several lines in the Satyres on pages 330, 331 and 341, originally containing lines offensive to the king and church,
are left blank. Donne bibliographer Sir Geoffrey Keynes concludes that various corrections in the text do not differentiate earlier from
later states, but were random in the preparation of the text. Keynes 78. STC 7045. Grolier 100 25. Pforzheimer 296. Hayward 54.
Armorial bookplate of Henry Champernowne, whose family line is traceable back to William the Conqueror, and his wife Charlotte.
Bookplate of noted bibliophile Walter Hirst. Interior fresh and lovely, very minor expert restoration to top of spine and small area on
rear board, mild dampstaining to boards. A very handsome and desirable copy.

william shakespeare
“How Many Ages Hence Shall This Our Lofty Scene Be Acted Over”:
1691 Second Quarto Edition Of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar
82. SHAKESPEARE, William. Julius Caesar. A Tragedy. As it is Now Acted At The Theatre Royal. London, 1691. Quarto,
modern three-quarter burgundy morocco, custom clamshell box. $40,000.
Rare 1691 second quarto edition of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, with a brilliance fully realized in “the extraordinary lines of Brutus,
deep in thought, as he sets in motion one of the most consequential events in Western history. It’s one of Shakespeare’s first great
soliloquies,” handsomely bound.
“Something extraordinary was beginning to happen as Shakespeare wrote Julius Caesar in the spring of 1599… as if all his energies
were self-consciously focused on a new and different kind of invention… The result was a significant breakthrough” (Shapiro, 134-5)
“This was the first play by Shakespeare founded on Sir Thomas North’s translation of Plutarch’s Lives, which appeared in 1579 and
was reprinted in 1595. Shakespeare used portions of the lives of Caesar, Antony and Brutus and followed Plutarch very closely”
(Bartlett, Mr. William Shakespeare: 112n). Julius Caesar is thought to have been first performed in 1599 and was first printed in the
1623 First Folio. The quarto editions were the first separate printings of the play and are enormously desirable, as very few copies exist
in private hands. Sixteen of Shakespeare’s plays were first printed in quarto form (1594 to 1622) before they were collected in the 1623
First Folio; of the 20 plays that made their first appearance in the First Folio, only three appeared in quarto form during the 17thcentury:
Taming of the Shrew, Macbeth, and Julius Caesar (its six quarto editions being a clear indication of its immense popularity).
Four undated quarto editions were formerly thought to have been printed shortly after 1684 and before this 1691 edition; it is now
believed that they were probably printed between 1695 and 1700. The first and second 1691 quarto editions have “1691” printed on the
title page. This, the earlier of those two editions, has a comma after “Herringman” in the title page imprint statement, while the later
1691 edition does not. Wing S2922. Jaggard, 319. Bartlett 117. Spot of sticker residue to front endpaper. Early ink bracket and ink stain.
A few short closed marginal tears to title page. Tiny hole to B2 affecting two words, upper margin slightly worn affecting just a few
page numbers, mild embrowning to text. An exceptional and most desirable copy. Rare.
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giovanni boccaccio
Boccaccio’s Decameron, The First English Translation, 1620 And 1625, Handsome In Contemporary Calf
83. BOCCACCIO, Giovanni. The Modell of Wit, Mirth, Eloquence and Conversation. Framed in Ten Dayes, of an Hundred
Curious Pieces. BOUND WITH: The Decameron. London, 1625, 1620. Quarto, contemporary full brown calf rebacked with
original spine laid down, custom clamshell box. $20,000.
First complete translation into English of Boccaccio’s sparkling portrait of love, lust and exuberant life, even in the face of death—
the second edition of Volume I and the first of Volume II, as virtually always. Illustrated with an elaborate woodcut title page in
each volume as well as numerous in-text woodcuts, decorated initials and ornamental head- and tailpieces throughout.
Boccaccio composed his masterpiece sometime between 1348 and 1352. “This is the first complete translation of the Decameron
into English. The woodcut vignettes which form the title are interspersed throughout the two volumes, one being given to each
separate novel. A second edition of the first volume was issued in 1625 [here present]. The name of the translator is unknown”
(Wither to Prior 250), although some authorities suggest John Florio, who prepared an important Italian-English dictionary in 1598
and who tutored Queen Anne in Italian. “No complementary edition of the second volume was published, possibly because, when
the present was called for, Jaggard was still able to supply copies of the first edition” (Pforzheimer 72). Jaggard is also remembered
as joint publisher and printer of Shakespeare’s First Folio. Boccaccio’s influence on Shakespeare is most evident in “Troilus and
Cressida.” This is the first edition (1620) of Volume II (The Decameron) and the second edition (1625) of Volume I, as is usual. Without
initial blank in first volume and final blank in second volume. Two preliminary leaves in the second volume (the dedicatory epistle
to Sir Phillip Herbert and “To the Reader”) bound in between the eighth and ninth leaves of the Table. STC 3173, 3172. Pforzheimer
72, 71. Lowndes, 224. Faint armorial inkstamp, old ink inscriptions, occasional old marginalia. Mild marginal dampstaining to first
several gatherings. Minor loss to extreme fore-edge of leaves P1-S1. Minor marginal loss to bottom corner of [2B5], not affecting
text. Marginal wormholing toward the gutter of leaves 2M4-[2T3] in second volume. Contemporary calf quite handsome. A
desirable copy in excellent condition.

samuel johnson
“The Most Amazing, Enduring And Endearing One-Man Feat”:
1755 First Edition Of Johnson’s Landmark Dictionary, In Contemporary Boards
84. JOHNSON, Samuel. A Dictionary of the English Language. London, 1755. Two volumes. Thick folio, contemporary full
brown calf sympathetically rebacked. $41,000.
First edition of the first great dictionary of the English language, Johnson’s “audacious attempt to tame his unruly native tongue…
combining huge erudition with a steely wit and remarkable clarity of thought” (Hitchings, 3), in contemporary boards. An
exceptionally clean copy.
“Johnson’s Dictionary made him a superstar. To be sure, there had been dictionaries before his. The difference
is that, while these were compiled, Johnson’s was written… The glory of the book is that it is also a
compendium of English literature, reprinting fine examples of words from the masters, often Shakespeare
or Sir Francis Bacon. Johnson sought to ‘intersperse with verdure and flowers the dusty desarts of barren
philology’” (Smithsonian Book of Books). “Dr. Johnson performed with his Dictionary the most amazing,
enduring and endearing one-man feat in the field of lexicography… The preface ranks among Johnson’s
finest writings… It is the dictionary itself which justifies Noah Webster’s statement that ‘Johnson’s
writings had, in philology, the effect which Newton’s discoveries had in mathematics’” (PMM 201). Title
pages printed in red and black. Courtney & Smith, 54. Grolier 100. Rothschild 1237. Early armorial
bookplates. Text quite fresh and clean. Only a bit of pinprick marginal wormholing to first several
gatherings of Volume I. Contemporary calf boards with light expert restoration to corners and edges. An
exceptionally handsome and very desirable copy of a true linguistic and literary landmark.
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emily dickinson
“Tiny Ecstasies Set In Motion”:
Rare First Editions Of Emily Dickinson’s First Three Books Of Poetry
85. DICKINSON, Emily. A collection of first editions: Poems. [First Series]. WITH: Poems. Second Series. WITH:
Poems. Third Series. Boston, 1890, 1891, 1896. Together, three volumes. 12mo, First Series in original silver-stamped ivory
boards, grey cloth spine; Second Series in original gilt-stamped gray cloth; Third Series in original gilt-stamped ivory boards,
green cloth spine. $23,500.
Rare Emily Dickinson collection, consisting of first editions, first printings of the first three books of her poetry. Only 500 copies of
the First Series were printed, 960 copies of the Second Series, and 1000 copies of the Third Series. All three volumes are in original
publisher’s bindings.
Emily Dickinson published only 11 poems during her lifetime; but after her death in 1886, her sister Lavinia discovered a locked box
containing 1,775 manuscript poems. Mabel Todd edited and published the three series of these poems until a quarrel between the
Dickinson and the Todd families led to a division of the manuscripts, preventing the publication of complete and authoritative
editions of Dickinson’s poetry until 70 years after her death. Dickinson’s poems are her “‘letter to the world,’ records of the life about
her, of tiny ecstasies set in motion by mutations of the seasons or by home and garden incidents… Her artistry in the modulation
of simple meters and the delicate management of imperfect rhymes was greater than [Emerson’s]” (Hart, 108-9). Each book is a first
printing; the First Series is in binding B, Second Series in binding B and Third Series in binding A (no priority established in Second
and Third Series). Myerson A1.1a, A2.1a, A4.1. BAL 4655, 4656, 4661. Grolier American 100, 91. First editions of Dickinson’s Poems
are quite scarce; the First Series is particularly rare. Bookplates (First Series) of Carroll Atwood Wilson, the prominent literature
bibliographer and book collector, and Mary Elisabeth Hudson, the author. All three volumes with expert reinforcement to text
blocks and inner hinges. First Series with mild toning to extremities and slight rubbing to spine ends; Second Series with only slight
rubbing to edges of boards; Third Series with expertly repaired small closed tear to last leaf of text; minor foxing and soiling to cloth
and only slight rubbing and toning to spine. Overall, a rare and unusually lovely near-fine set.

mary wollstonecraft shelley
“All Men Hate The Wretched; How Then, Must I Be Hated, Who Am Miserable Beyond All Living Things!
Yet You, My Creator, Detest And Spurn Me, Thy Creature!”: One Of The Most Important And Desirable
Works In English Literature: Extremely Rare First Edition Of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
86. SHELLEY, Mary Wollstonecraft. Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus. London, 1818. Three volumes. 12mo, modern
full brown calf, custom clamshell box. $168,000.
Exceedingly rare first edition of Mary Shelley’s horror masterpiece, handsomely bound.
One stormy June evening in 1816, while the 19-year-old Mary Shelley was in Geneva with her husband Percy, her step-sister Claire
Clairmont, Claire’s lover Lord Byron and Byron’s physician John Polidori, the group’s discussion turned to the supernatural. Byron
proposed that all members of the party write a romance or tale dealing with the subject. In the days that followed, Polidori and Byron
both produced vampire stories (The Vampyre and an unfinished narrative, respectively), Claire and Percy Shelley wrote nothing, and
Mary Shelley conceived the novel Frankenstein. Frankenstein was Mary Shelley’s first published work. “Frankenstein is a mystical
morality tale about what happens when man dares to transgress the limits of knowledge… [It] is Mary Shelley’s conscious or
unconscious parable of the Romantic sensibility” (Stephen King). It is no wonder that Frankenstein has become “the most famous
English horror novel… a defining model of the Gothic mode of fiction, and… the first genuine science fiction novel, the first significant
rendering of the relations between mankind and science through an image of mankind’s dual nature appropriate to an age of science”
(Clute & Nicholls, 1099). This first edition, published anonymously, includes Percy Shelley’s Preface, written as the author. Mary
Shelley was not to add her own introduction until the 1831 third edition. Without half titles in Volumes I and III, often absent. Bound
with one half title in Volume II and advertisements in Volumes II and III, rarely found. Wise, 8. Wolff 6280. Only most minor
scattered foxing to text. A beautiful copy in fine condition of an extraordinarily rare and desirable first edition.
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“The Thing In The Coffin Writhed; And A Hideous, Blood-Curdling Screech Came From The Opened Red
Lips”: First Edition Of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Inscribed By Stoker To Mrs. W.S. Gilbert
87. STOKER, Bram. Dracula. Westminster, 1897. Octavo, original yellow cloth, custom cloth clamshell box. $205,000.
First edition, scarce first issue, presentation copy to Mrs W.S. Gilbert, with the author’s signed autograph inscription: “To Mrs W.S.
Gilbert with Bram Stoker’s very warm regards, 12/7/97.”
Contemporary reviews compared Stoker’s masterpiece favorably to Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights,
and Poe’s The Fall of the House of Usher. Since then it has engendered “arguably the most potent literary myth of the twentieth century”
(Leatherdale, 11). Scarce first issue published in May 1897, with no advertisements as issued and printed on slightly thicker stock Dalby
10a. An excellent association: Mrs Gilbert, née Lucy Agnes Blois Turner, was the wife of William Schwenck Gilbert, of Gilbert &
Sullivan fame. Each a theatrical man with some legal training, Gilbert and Stoker were close friends. They had worked together when
Gilbert’s short Comedy and Tragedy proved an admirable vehicle for the beautiful American actress Mary Anderson at the Lyceum
Theatre in 1884. Before settling in London, Stoker had married Florence Anne Lemon Balcombe, a Dublin beauty who was also being
courted by Oscar Wilde. Gilbert, who gently twitted Wilde in Patience (1881), always had an eye for the ladies (he was to die of heart
failure after swimming too rapidly to save a girl who mistakenly supposed she was drowning in his artificial lake) and he inspired
some society gossip by being seen very often in the company of the attractive Florence Stoker while her husband was busy in his job
as Henry Irving’s business manager at the Lyceum Theatre. Just a hint of fading to the spine, the cloth very slightly finger-marked,
wafer-thin crack to front inner paper hinge, a sprinkle of foxing to endpapers only. A superb copy of a book very rarely found in such
fine condition, with a very desirable inscription and association.

mark twain
“All Modern Literature Comes From One Book By Mark Twain. It’s The Best Book We’ve Had”:
First Issue Of Huckleberry Finn, A Beautiful Copy
88. TWAIN, Mark. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade). New York, 1885. Octavo, original gilt- and
black-stamped green pictorial cloth, custom clamshell box. $18,500.
First edition, first issue, of “the most praised and most condemned 19th-century American work of fiction” (Legacies of Genius, 47),
with 174 illustrations by Edward Kemble. A fresh, beautiful copy in fine condition.
Written over an eight-year period, Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn endured critical attacks from the moment of publication,
standing accused of “blood-curdling humor,” immorality, coarseness and profanity. The book nevertheless emerged as one of the
defining novels of American literature, prompting Hemingway to declare: “All modern literature comes from one book by Mark
Twain. It’s the best book we’ve had. All American writing comes from that.” This copy has all of the commonly identified first issue
points (the printer assembled copies haphazardly; bibliographers do not yet agree as to the priority of many points). First issue points:
page [9] with “Decided” remaining uncorrected (to “Decides”); page [13], illustration captioned “Him and another Man” listed as on
page 88; page 57, 11th line from bottom reads “with the was.” Debate continues over the priority of other points of issue and state. This
copy contains the following points of bibliographical interest: frontispiece portrait, bearing the Heliotype Printing Co. imprint, has a
cloth table cover under the bust; copyright page dated 1884; page 143 with “l” missing from “Col” and broken “b” in “body” on line
seven; page 155 with the final “5” in a slightly larger font; page 161, no signature mark “11”; pages 283-84 is a cancel (Kemble’s
illustration with straight pant-fly) as described by Johnson (page 48) and MacDonnell (pages 32-33). BAL 3415. Johnson, 43-50.
MacDonnell, 29-35. McBride, 93. Grolier American 87. A fine copy, text remarkably clean, cover gilt quite bright, with only minute
rubbing to extremities of original cloth, minor expert reinforcement to rear inner paper hinge.
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wilkie collins
Author Of The First Detective Novels: Extraordinary Collection Of First Editions Of
Wilkie Collins’ Works, 84 Beautifully And Uniformly Bound Volumes,
Including First Editions Of The Woman In White And The Moonstone
89. COLLINS, Wilkie. Collection of uniformly bound first editions. London, 1848-90. Eighty-four volumes. Octavo, late 19thcentury
full blue calf gilt. $38,500.
First editions in book form of 37 of Collins’ works, many with lovely engraved frontispieces, including important first editions of
The Woman in White and The Moonstone, beautifully and uniformly bound by Riviere and Son. Including his first published book,
all 23 novels published during his lifetime, his short story collections, essays, plays, etc. Including virtually every Collins first
edition save one minor work of short stories.
“Collins is considered by some to have been the first English author of bona fide detective and mystery novels” (Benet, 201) and set
the template for that genre, which has lasted for at least a century. This set includes Collins’ first published book (a biography of his
father published just after his death), all 23 of the novels Collins published during his lifetime (as well as a posthumously published
one), his short story collections, essays, and five plays, including the rare dramatization of The Moonstone, privately published for
Collins by his good friend Charles Dickens. Collins had “one of the longest and most distinctive literary careers of the nineteenth
century… In the course of nearly half a century’s writing [he] tried many new ways of reaching and expanding his audience.
Dickensian Christmas books, short stories, three-decker novels, magazine and newspaper serializations flowed from his pen with
a productivity unchecked” (Bowen 4-5). Sadleir, 142. CBEL III:480-482. Calf-gilt lovely, with several spine labels professionally
restored or replaced. An extraordinary collection of Collins’ first editions, in about-fine condition.

joseph conrad
Splendidly Bound “Sun-Dial” Edition Of Conrad’s Works,
Signed By Him
90. CONRAD, Joseph. The Works. Garden City, 1920-26. Twenty-two volumes.
Octavo, contemporary full red morocco gilt. $16,500.
Signed limited “Sun-Dial Edition” of Conrad’s works, one of 735 sets, signed in the
first volume by Conrad, splendidly bound in elaborately full morocco-gilt with
morocco doublures and silk endpapers. An exceptional uncut copy.
“Conrad’s work at its best achieved a synthesis of theme, treatment and language of
a kind without precedent in English literature… To a degree beyond the ordinary, he
owed his fame to the good fortune of a remarkable life-story which enabled him to
use as material for fiction many strange and picturesque experiences” (DNB). With
photographic frontispiece portrait of Conrad in Almayer’s Folly. Fine condition.

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The Novels Of Jane Austen,
The Noted Winchester Edition,
Beautifully Bound By Zaehnsdorf
91. AUSTEN, Jane. The Novels. Edinburgh,
1911-12. Twelve volumes. Octavo, contemporary
three-quarter dark tan calf gilt. $7500.
“Winchester edition” of Jane Austen’s works, in
beautiful contemporary bindings by Zaehnsdorf.
“The fact that she wrote comparatively little and
that that little is almost always of the highest
quality has resulted in the unique distinction
which her reputation now enjoys, that she is the
only author of her period whose works can be
read, and are read, today with delight in their
entirety” (Baugh et al., 1206). Includes Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Emma, Northanger Abbey,
Mansfield Park, Persuasion, Lady Susan (her epistolary novel), The Watsons (unfinished at her death) and her letters
(edited by her nephew). With frontispiece portrait in Volume I. Austen’s novels were first published 1811-18. The Winchester
edition of Austen’s novels was first published in 1898; this Edinburgh publication of the edition was the first to include Austen’s
letters. Gilson E91. A lovely set in fine condition.
“The Rare Imaginative Power Of William Blake”:
Blake’s Illustrations For Blair’s Grave,
One Of Only 589 Copies Of The First Edition,
For Subscribers Only
92. (BLAKE, William) BLAIR, Robert. The Grave. London,
1808. Folio, original gray-brown boards sympathetically
respined, custom clamshell box. $7500.
First edition to be illustrated by William Blake of Blair’s singular
poetic achievement, with 12 wonderful plates by Blake
and engraved frontispiece portrait of Blake. One of only 589
copies published by subscription.
In October 1805, Blake was commissioned to prepare 40
drawings for Robert Blair’s Grave, from which the publisher
planned to select 20 for this deluxe edition of the poem. While
The Grave had originally appeared in 1743, this 1808 edition
was to become famous for its illustrations, demonstrating “the rare imaginative power of William Blake” (Magnusson, 162). This 1808
first edition was printed in 589 copies on Whatman paper for subscribers only. It contains the famous Phillips portrait of Blake, Blake’s
dedicatory poem “To the Queen,” a prefatory comment on the designs by Henry Fuseli, and a concluding section “Of the Designs.”
Also present is the four-page prospectus for Stothard’s Canterbury Pilgrims at the rear, often lacking. Keynes 81. Bentley, Blake Books
435B. Ray 6. Lowndes, 215. Moderate soiling to fore-edge margins, small closed tear and crease to page [vii], marginal minor
dampstaining to a few plates (not affecting image). A wonderful about-fine large, uncut copy in about-fine condition.

“That Dialogue Of Mind, Heart And Voice”:
Handsome First Issue Of Boswell’s Life Of Johnson
93. BOSWELL, James. The Life of Samuel Johnson,
LL.D. London, 1791. Two volumes. Tall quarto, contemporary
full brown tree calf rebacked. $11,000.
First edition of the greatest of literary biographies, handsomely
bound in contemporary tree calf.
“The fascination of their dialogue, that dialogue of mind,
heart and voice round which Boswell organized his great Life,
is that it is not merely between two very different men but
between two epochs. In its pages, Romantic Europe speaks to
Renaissance Europe, and is answered” (Wain, 229). Volume I
is second state, with “gve” corrected to “give” on page 135,
line 10 (a change made before publication); cancel present at
Volume II, Qq3. Vol. II without blank A1, as often. With the
engraved portrait of Johnson by James Heath after Sir Joshua
Reynolds in Volume I and two engraved plates in Volume II.
Rothschild 463. Grolier 100. Early armorial bookplates.
Interiors generally quite fresh with only light scattered foxing.
contemporary tree calf boards with expert restoration.
“We Are Spell-Bound, We Cannot Choose But Read”:
First American Edition Of Wuthering Heights,
Published Only Five Months After The Virtually
Unobtainable London First Edition
94. BRONTE, Emily. Wuthering Heights. New York, 1848. 12mo (5 by 7-1/2
inches), modern full red morocco gilt, custom slipcase. $12,000.
First American edition (published less than five months after the virtually
unobtainable London first edition) of Emily Brontë’s passionate masterpiece,
beautifully bound by Felton.
“Like Poems, Wuthering Heights was presented to an uncomprehending
public without preface, introduction or explanation and it was left to
Charlotte, ever her sister’s apologist, to insist that it was simply a tale of ‘the
wild moors of the north of England’” (Barker, 502, 539-40). One year after
the book’s publication, Emily Bronte was dead of consumption. “Wuthering
Heights stands alone as a monument of intensity owing nothing to tradition,
nothing to the achievement of earlier writers. It was a thing apart, passionate,
unforgettable, haunting in its grimness… Bronte has a sure and certain
place for all time” (Britannica). First published December 4, 1847; this
edition published April 21, 1848. Smith, 74-75. Scattered foxing throughout.
A beautifully bound copy of this scarce classic.
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“Realizes Cervantes’ Manner More Nearly Than Any Successor”:
1675 Third Edition Of Shelton’s Translation Of Don Quixote,
Handsomely Bound
95. CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, Miguel de. The History of The Valorous
and Witty Knight Errant, Don Quixote, Of the Mancha. London, 1675.
BOUND WITH (as issued): The Second Part of the History of the Valorous
and Witty Knight-Errant. London, 1672. Quarto, modern full polished
brown calf. $11,000.
Scarce third edition of Thomas Shelton’s complete English translation of the
first modern novel—“one of those universal works which are read by all ages at
all times” (PMM 111).
The first edition appeared in two parts in 1605 and 1614. Don Quixote first saw
English translation in 1612 (the first part) and 1620 (the second part) by
Thomas Shelton—indeed, “not only the first English translation, but the first
translation in any language” (Library of Robert Hoe 670). This third edition
largely reproduces the second edition of 1652, with changes confined largely to
the second part (Río y Rico 441). Decorated with woodcut initials, ornamental
head- and tailpieces. Leaves 2K2 and 2K3 reversed (but complete). Wing
C1777 (part one). Escuerdo 1155. Mas I 107, 104. Iconografia de las Ediciones del Quijote (English) 400. Armorial bookplate. Scattered
light foxing and faint dampstaining. Occasional minor closed tears and loss to lower corners, not affecting text. Title page with
minor marginal restoration at the gutter. An excellent copy, handsomely bound. Scarce.
“Foremost Among Writers In The English Language”:
Important First Speght Edition Of Chaucer, 1598
96. CHAUCER. The Workes of our Antient and Learned English
Poet, Geffrey Chaucer, newly Printed. London, 1598. Folio, contemporary
blind-stamped contemporary brown calf sympathetically rebacked
and recornered with original spine laid down, custom clamshell
box. $19,000.
First edition of Chaucer to be edited by Thomas Speght, the
sixth overall and last of the 16th century, and the most recent
Chaucer edition available when Shakespeare was adapting
Chaucer’s Troilus to his own Troilus and Cressida (1601-2).
Featuring the first inclusion of two works, “Chaucer’s
Dream” and “The Flower and the Leaf,” now considered
apocryphal, along with the engraved title page and the oftenmissing
“first engraved portrait of Chaucer” (Grolier,
Langland to Wither 43). An exceptional, complete copy in
contemporary calf.
With double-column gothic type text, scarce copper-engraved
frontispiece portrait of Chaucer after Hoccleve.
The tales preceded by the full-page woodcut of Chaucer’s
arms, and woodcut-engraving of “The Knight.” Second
issue of this edition, according to STC. First four leaves of
Romant of the Rose (116-119) bound in inverted sequence.
Half of initial blank excised. STC 5079. Rosenbach 45:166. Early owner signature and inscription of George Mason of Oxford.
Owner signatures to general title page, terminal blank leaf, rear free endpaper. Interior fresh with a bit of faint occasional
marginal dampstaining, title page, dedication leaf and a few text leaves with small marginal tears. An exceptional copy in
nearly fine condition in contemporary calf.

With 24 Large Folio Wood-Engravings By Gustave Doré:
Poe’s Classic “The Raven,” In Original Cloth—
An Exceptional Copy
97. (DORÉ, Gustave) POE, Edgar Allan. The Raven. New York, 1884.
Slim folio (14-1/2 by 18-1/2 inches), original gilt-stamped pictorial gray
cloth, printed cardboard box. $5500.
Splendid first edition of Doré’s final illustrated book, his only commissioned
by an American publisher and illustrating an American work, with 24
full-page folio wood-engravings and two vignettes by Doré. An exceptional
copy in original pictorial cloth and publisher’s box.
“One can hardly deny that Doré is not merely one of the most popular but
also one of the greatest of all illustrators” (Ray, 327-29). This edition was
published simultaneously in England and America in December of 1883.
The British edition lists the date as 1883 on its title page and the present
Harper & Brothers American edition lists 1884, but the American edition
is preferred. The New York edition also features an elaborate cover
illustration by Dora Wheeler and a title page illustration by Elihu Vedder
depicting Poe and Doré, neither of which is included in the London
edition. Malan, 297. Interior and plates fresh and crisp with only lightest scattered marginal foxing; cloth clean, gilt exceptionally
bright; box with expert restoration. An about-fine copy of a work often found in poor condition, with rarely found publisher’s box.
Elegant Extracts, Handsomely Bound By Edwards Of Halifax
With 18 Lovely Fore-Edge Paintings,
The Estelle Doheny-Dorothy Jayne Pedrini Shea Set
98. (FORE-EDGE PAINTING) (EDWARDS OF HALIFAX) [KNOX, Vicesimus].
Elegant Extracts: from the Most Eminent Prose Writers; Elegant Epistles: from
the Most Eminent Epistolary Writers; Elegant Extracts: from the Most Eminent
British Poets. London, circa 1810. Eighteen volumes. 16mo, contemporary full
straight-grained beige morocco gilt, custom morocco-covered wooden cabinet
(measuring 7 by 18 inches). $17,000.
Early 19th century editions, elegantly bound by Edwards of Halifax, with 18 charming
fore-edge paintings. From the important fore-edge painting collection of celebrated
bibliophile Estelle Doheny, with her morocco-gilt bookplates; also with the bookplates of
collector Dorothy Jayne Pedrini Shea. Housed in a handsome morocco-covered wooden
cabinet with glass door.
Weber attributes the 18 fore-edge paintings (and therefore the bindings) to Thomas
Edwards of Halifax, who “perfected the technique of fore-edge painting” (Weber, John T.
Beer, xiv). Gift inscriptions. Bookplate of noted book collector Estelle Doheny. Starting in
1926, Doheny “was drawn to examples of the delicate art of fore-edge painting… This
collection grew to be one of the most important in the world.” Doheny eventually expanded
her collecting foci: “With innate good taste, Doheny formed one of the most impressive
rare book and manuscript libraries in the United States” (Dickinson, 95). Also with
bookplates of California collector and philanthropist Dorothy Jayne Pedrini Shea. Light
foxing to additional engraved title pages. Occasional light rubbing to joints, a few inner
hinges split or cracked; a few covers lightly soiled, gilt generally bright. A fine set, elegantly
bound and handsomely presented, with exceptionally distinguished provenance.
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henry fielding
“One Of The First And Most Influential Of English Novels”:
1749 First Issue Of Fielding’s Masterpiece, From The First Printing Of Only 2000 Copies,
Exceptional In Full Contemporary Calf
99. FIELDING, Henry. The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling. London, 1749. Six volumes. 12mo, contemporary full
brown calf gilt rebacked with original spines laid down, custom slipcase. $22,000.
First edition, first issue, of this classic English novel, one of a first printing of only 2000 copies, in exceptional contemporary
calf gilt binding.
“The book is generally regarded as Fielding’s greatest, and as one of the first and most influential of English novels” (Drabble,
988). Prepublication demand for Tom Jones was so great that the first printing of 2000 copies was immediately snapped up
by London booksellers; a second printing was completed before the official date of publication (February 28). This is a first
issue set, with the errata leaf in Volume I (c8 r ) and the errata uncorrected in the text. The second printing was issued with
the errors corrected in the text, and therefore required no errata leaf. Other first-issue points include cancels to N12 of
Volume II; H8, H9, H10, M3, and Q11 of Volume III, and N8 of Volume V; B5 in Volume VI is unsigned. Without rear free
endpapers to Volume II and IV. Rothschild 850-51. Grolier 100 English, 97. Bookplates. Interiors generally quite clean, with
only a bit of occasional light foxing. Only very light expected age wear to contemporary calf bindings. A wonderful copy of
a literary landmark, most scarce in full contemporary calf.

The Scarce 1692 First Complete Collected Edition Of Ben Jonson’s Works
100. JONSON, Ben. The Works of Ben Jonon, Which were formerly
Printed in Two Volumes, are now Reprinted in One. To which is
added a Comedy called the New Inn. London, 1692. Folio, periodstyle
full speckled calf gilt. $9000.
First edition of the scarce “first complete collected edition” of Jonson’s
Works, with engraved frontispiece portrait and the first collected
printing of The New Inn, handsomely bound.
Ben Jonson was “dramatist, friend and contemporary of Shakespeare,
and perhaps the only one worthy to rank with him” (Hartnoll, 446).
This is the “first complete collected edition… and the last of the folio
editions” of Jonson’s Works (Pforzheimer 561), assembling in one
volume the 1640-41 edition and featuring the first collected printing
of The New Inn. Complete with The Devil is an Ass (from 1631 not
1641); The New Inn, printed from the separate edition of 1631. As
always with this edition, sheets Ccc and Zz2-3 are browned, attributed
to the use of a different paper. Mispagination of 369-70 as issued.
With engraved frontispiece portrait. Text in double columns. Greg
III:1692. Lowndes, 1230. Pforzheimer 561. Wing J1006. “Catalogue”
(Pt. I) with light marginalia. Occasional inked annotations. Interior
quite fresh with light scattered foxing, single closed tear to page 613
minimally affecting text. A scarce folio volume in near-fine condition.
“The Beginning Of The ‘Foreign’ Spy’
Convention In English Literature”:
1694 Edition Of Letters Writ By A Turkish Spy
101. MARANA, Giovanni Paolo. Letters Writ by a Turkish Spy,
Who lived Five and Forty Years, Undiscover’d, at Paris. London,
1694. Four volumes. 12mo, contemporary full paneled brown calf
gilt sympathetically rebacked. $16,000.
First edition of the collected volumes in this premiere narrative of a
spy for the Ottoman emperor that originated “the ‘foreign spy’
convention in English literature”—prompting similar tales by
Montesquieu, Goldsmith and Defoe, this extremely scarce 1694
edition handsomely bound in contemporary paneled calf. An exceptional
copy.
This exceptionally scarce four-volume edition brings together the
complete eight books of Letters Writ by a Turkish Spy, “best known
as the work which inspired Montesquieu’s Lettres persanes [1721]” and Goldsmith’s Chinese Letters (1760-61). Widely considered
“the beginning of the ‘foreign spy’ convention in English literature,” the popularity of Letters Writ led to its being frequently
“imitated, augmented and continued by both French and English authors” (McBurney, 915). All eight volumes of the Letters
published in English from 1691-94 assembled in this first collected edition. Wing M565EA, M565EB. Armorial bookplates. Light
marginalia. Text generally quite fresh, Volume II with minor expert repair to one leave (Q5). Contemporary calf boards handsome.
An exceptional copy.
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“Chaucer, Shakespeare And Donne All
Owe A Debt To Petrarch”: Fine Incunable
Edition Of Petrarch’s I Trionfi, 1478
102. PETRARCH, Francesco. [I Trionfi con
commentio di Bernardo Glicini da Siena]. Venice,
February 6, 1478. Small, thick folio, later full vellum
rebacked, custom clamshell box. Collation: a10, b8, c6,
e8, f10, g8, h-i6, k-J8, l6, m8, n6, o8, p-s6, t10, aa8, bbff6,
gg10. $12,000.
Early edition of the Trionfi, a touchstone for the
literature and art of Renaissance Europe, containing
Bernardo Lapini’s influential commentary, with
extensive references to Filelfo’s commentary of 1446.
Petrarch was crowned poet laureate of Rome in 1341
and is generally considered the poet who ushered in
the Renaissance. Trionfi is an allegorical cycle
composed in terza rima, the metrical form devised by Dante for his comedy. This early incunable edition of Trionfi contains the most
influential of the commentaries, that of Bernardo Lapini da Siena, with references to Filelfo’s commentary of 1446. First circulated in
manuscript form and finally published in 1470. In this 1478 edition, “the printers established a form followed in all later editions of
separating the portions of [Petrarch’s] text in rectangular spaces, the commentary filling the rest of the page” (Fiske Petrarch
Collection). Rubricated throughout with initial letters and section marks. Without first blank leaf a1; gathering k bound before
gathering J. Texts in Italian. Proctor 4429. Goff P381. Thacher 297. Running titles supplied by a later hand; a few annotations.
Occasional scattered light foxing to interior, with small worm-holes to first leaf and occasional worm-holing to inner margin, plus
occasional light dampstaining. Paper repairs to inner margins of first two gatherings and to leaves k3 and k7. A lovely incunable, in
excellent condition.
“The First Vampire Story In English Literature”:
Polidori’s Vampyre, 1819
103. POLIDORI, John William. The Vampyre; A Tale. London, 1819. Octavo,
later drab boards, custom cloth chemise and half morocco slipcase. $5200.
First edition of “the first vampire story in English literature”—first issue to
remove Lord Byron’s name from the title page, practically the earliest obtainable
issue and the first issue widely available to the public (all earlier issues having
been successfully suppressed to remove the fraudulent attribution of authorship
to Byron).
The Vampyre reached print in the April 1, 1819 issue of the New Monthly Magazine
as “The Vampyre: A Tale by Lord Byron.” This conscious fraud was perpetuated
in the first book edition, published by Colburn. This issue, the second Sherwood,
Neely & Jones issue (with 1818 watermarks) was the first to drop Byron’s name
from the title page and is the issue that was widely released for purchase and
review, all previous issues having been successfully suppressed and corrected. The
rest of the book continued to consist of sheets from the first Colburn issue (Viets,
101-02). The introductory “Extract of a Letter from Geneva” was also reset at
some point in the process to remove (1) the mention on page xiv of “two sisters as
partakers of his revels” (referring to Mary Godwin Shelley and “Clair” Clairmont), and (2) the footnote on page xvi, concerning the
publication of Godwin’s Frankenstein. This copy contains both mentions, indicating early issue. This copy also retains the earlier
misprint of “lmost” on the last line of page 36, found corrected in some copies. Bound with half title, often not present. Pencil owner
signature. Polidori’s name inked faintly on title page. Text quite clean; marginal closed tear to E7 (in the “Account of Lord Byron’s
Residence,” not the text of The Vampyre). A near-fine copy of the earliest obtainable issue, desirable with the half title and the preface
in its uncorrected state.

william shakespeare
“The Finest Set Of Shakespeare Illustrations Ever Made”: Stunning Elephant Folio Collection Of Prints
For Boydell’s 1803 Shakespeare, With 100 Magnificent Artist Plates
104. (SHAKESPEARE) BOYDELL, John. A Collection of Prints From Pictures for the Purpose of Illustrating the
Dramatic Works of Shakespeare. London, 1803. Two volumes. Elephant folio (22 by 28 inches), contemporary full straightgrain
red morocco gilt. $32,000.
Magnificent 1803 elephant folio issue3 of the prints for the sumptuous Boydell
Shakespeare, with engraved frontispieces and engraved title vignettes for each
volume and 96 splendid full-page copperplate engravings (totaling 100 engravings)
after works by the period’s most eminent English artists—including
Reynolds, Romney, Smirke, Stothard, Fuseli and Westall.
“There can be no doubt that Boydell’s Shakespeare… was the most splendid of
bibliophile editions undertaken in the 18th-century or at any other time”
(Franklin, 47-48). Originally issued with George Steevens’ revised text and in
18 parts forming nine volumes, the first part of Boydell’s Shakespeare was
published in 1791. Upon its completion, the whole was again issued in 1802. In
the same year, the 100 magnificent plates, “the production of which swallowed
up a fortune,” were issued separately for the first time. These were again issued
in 1803 and 1804 under the title A Collection of Prints from Pictures Painted
for the Purpose of Illustrating the Dramatic Works of Shakespeare. Sets were
apparently issued with different numbers of plates, up to 100; this copy’s Plate
49 in Volume II is from Act III, Scene VI of Cymbeline rather than Act III,
Scene IV, as in the plate list (Jaggard, 508). With both titles dated 1803 and
dedication dated 1805. Plate XLVIII of Volume II mounted. Jaggard, 508.
Plates fine, beautiful contemporary binding in excellent condition. A
wonderful production.
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Mary Shelley’s Important 1839 Edition Of Shelley’s
Poetical Works, In Handsome Morocco-Gilt Binding
105. SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe. The Poetical Works. Edited by
Mrs. Shelley. London, 1839. Four volumes. 12mo, late 19th-century
full tan morocco gilt. $2500.
First edition of Mary Shelley’s important edition of her husband’s
poetical works, handsomely bound.
After Percy Shelley’s death in 1822, Mary Shelley devoted herself to
writing his biography and publishing his manuscripts. She first attempted
to publish Shelley’s poems in 1824, but his father, Sir Timothy
Shelley, prevented further publication of Shelley’s writings for 15 years.
“In 1839, the obstacles to an authentic edition having been removed…
Mrs. Shelley published what was then supposed to be a definitive edition
in four volumes, enriched with biographical notes and some very
beautiful lyrics which had remained in manuscript” (DNB). With engraved
frontispiece portrait of Shelley by Finden in Volume I. Lowndes,
2374. Owner signatures and armorial bookplates of the Honourable
Henry Lloyd Gibbs, son of the 1st Baron Aldenham. Only minor spotting
to morocco. A lovely set, handsomely bound.
Scarce 17th-Century Editions In English Of
The Three Parts Of Reynard The Fox,
Illustrated With 76 Woodcuts
106. [SHIRLEY, John]. The Most Delectable History
of Reynard the Fox. Newly Corrected and Purged,
from all grossness in Phrase and Manner. Augmented
and Enlarged. ISSUED WITH: The Most Pleasant and
Delightful History… The Second Part. ISSUED
WITH: The Shifts of Reynardine. London, 1694, 1681,
1684. Three volumes in one. Small quarto, 18th-century
full brown sheep expertly rebacked with original spine
laid down, custom clamshell box. $7500.
Mixed first and sixth editions of these three 17th-century
continuations of this immensely popular European
beast fable, issued together under a general title page,
handsomely printed in Gothic type and generously illustrated
with 76 delightful woodcuts.
A medieval Latin poem as well as a 1479 Dutch served
important early printer William Caxton as sources for
the first English translation of Reynard’s adventures,
published in 1481. Scholars generally credit John Shirley
with the present version. First published in 1650. Printed
in Gothic type, with explanations of the stories’ morals and meanings in marginal glosses. The second and third titles in this issue
are the first editions of 1681 and 1684, respectively. With 76 woodcut illustrations including a few repeated blocks, signed with
initials “E.B.” Woodcut on C1r printed upside down. Wing S3513; S3512; S3436. Lowndes 2076. Early owner signature on title
page. Armorial bookplate. Interiors generally clean, with sparse scattered foxing. Light expert restoration to extremities of early
sheep. A near-fine copy of one of the earliest obtainable English versions of this popular legend, wonderfully illustrated.

“The Book That Made This Big War”:
First Issue Of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, 1852
107. STOWE, Harriet Beecher. Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or Life Among
the Lowly. Boston and Cleveland, 1852. Two volumes. Octavo, modern
full tan calf gilt; original printed paper wrappers
and spine bound in. $7500.
First edition, first issue, of Stowe’s classic and
vastly influential novel, with title vignettes and six
wood-engravings, handsomely bound by Bennett.
“Within a decade after its publication Uncle Tom’s
Cabin had become the most popular novel ever
written by an American… there is substantial
evidence that the book precipitated the American
Civil War” (Downs, 108). “Begun as a serial in the
National Era… Uncle Tom’s Cabin ran from June 5,
1851 to April 1, 1852, gaining an ever-increasing
audience as the story progressed. On March 20 of
1852, [this, the first issue in book form] was officially
published. By the time the book came out an eager
public was waiting to buy it, and over 10,000 copies of the two-volume work were sold in the first week” (Patkus & Schlosser). Original
spine bound in rear of Volume I; spine and first edition wrappers bound into rear of Volume II (BAL Variant A; no priority established).
BAL 19343. Grolier English 100, 91. Grolier American 100, 61. An exceptional copy in about-fine condition, handsomely bound.
Very Scarce 1704 First Edition Of Swift’s Tale Of A Tub
108. [SWIFT, Jonathan]. A Tale of a Tub. Written for the Universal
Improvement of Mankind… To which is Added, An Account of a Battle
between the Books in St. James’s Library. London, 1704. Octavo, contemporary
full brown speckled calf gilt. $5000.
First edition of Swift’s first major work—“an antic reductio ad absurdum of
learned discourse” (Angeline Goreau) and the brilliant beginning of his satirical
career.
The three related works gathered in this volume—the Tale itself, The Battle
of the Books and A Discourse Concerning the Mechanical Operations of the
Spirit—have their origin “in the so-called quarrel between the ancients and
the moderns. [Swift pours out] his already copious supply of contempt upon
the whole silly controversy” (Baugh et al., 859). First edition, with blank
page (recto) and page of advertisements (verso) facing the title page; this
copy with blank space before “Persons’” on page 320, line 10, as usual.
(Teerink does not indicate priority; Rothschild calls this second state).
Without final blank leaf. Teerink 217. Rothschild 1992. Lowndes, 2558.
Bookplates of collector and editor of the Pall Mall Gazette Henry Yates
Thompson and Christopher Chancellor, one time general manager of
Reuters and editor of Thompson’s Diaries (1971), with a presentation inscription from Thompson
to Chancellor. Text fine, with small tear to leaf I2, joints spine ends and corners expertly restored.
A very desirable copy with distinguished provenance. Scarce.
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First Edition Of Thackeray’s Masterpiece, Vanity Fair,
In A Splendid Cosway Binding
109. THACKERAY, William Makepeace. Vanity Fair. London,
1848. Thick octavo, early 20th-century full red morocco gilt, blue
morocco onlays, ivory miniature portrait under glass on front
doublure, custom clamshell box. $7500.
First edition, first issue, of Thackeray’s finest novel, beautifully
bound in a Cosway-style binding by Sangorski & Sutcliffe with
a miniature portrait of Thackeray on ivory under glass on the
front pastedown.
Cosway bindings (named for renowned 19th-century English
miniaturist Richard Cosway) were first commissioned in the
early 1900s by London booksellers Sotheran & Company, from
the famous Rivière bindery, who employed Miss C.B. Currie to
faithfully imitate Cosway’s detailed watercolor style of portraiture.
Cosway bindings executed by other than the original
collaborators are designated as “Cosway-style” bindings—still
splendid productions—by such esteemed binderies as
Sangorski & Sutcliffe, Morrell, Bayntun, and Bumpus. “After
that book [Vanity Fair] there could be no doubt about the greatness of its writer” (Saintsbury, 102). With 40 full-page plates and
150 in-text woodcuts. First issue, with the woodcut of the “Marquis of Steyne” on page 336 (suppressed in later issues), “Mr. Pitt”
for “Sir Pitt” on page 453, and the heading on page 1 in rustic type. Bound without advertisements. Van Duzer 231. Bookplates
of Albert Henry Wiggin and Lynde Selden, Chairmen of Chase National Bank and American Express respectively. A magnificent
production in fine condition.
“The Seminal Work Of Science Fiction”
(Edwards)
110. VERNE, Jules. Twenty Thousand Leagues
Under the Seas. London, 1873. Octavo, contemporary
three-quarter dark blue polished calf, custom
clamshell box. $13,500.
Rare first edition in English of Verne’s masterpiece of
the imagination, with 112 wood-engraved plates
including the fantastic frontispiece.
Easily the most popular and arguably the most remarkable
of his famous extraordinary voyages, Vingt
Mille Lieues sous les Mers (first published in serial
form, 1869-71) “is perhaps Jules Verne’s most deeply
felt novel; carefully and slowly composed, it introduces
Captain Nemo and his elaborate submarine,
the Nautilus, in a tale whose easy, exaggerated somberness
agreeably conflates the domesticated
Byronism of the time and expressive marvels of science”
(Clute & Nicholls, 1277). The 112 evocative
woodcuts were made after drawings by renowned French illustrators Alphonse-Marie de Neuville and Edouard Riou. First published
in French in 1870, this first edition in English was actually printed in late 1872, although the title page is dated 1873 (as
called for). Taves & Michaluk V006. Edwards, 33-34. Text about-fine with marginal toning to preliminary leaves, minor rubbing
to hinges of contemporary binding, light soiling to cloth. An extremely good copy of a most uncommon and desirable book.

mark twain
“The Artist Has Happily Caught The Most Characteristic, Most Essential Thing In The
Personality Of His Subject…”: Lovely Large Etched Portrait Of Mark Twain, Boldly Signed By Him
111. TWAIN, Mark. Etched portrait, signed “Mark Twain” with flourish. New York, 1906. Broadside (sheet measures 20 by 26
inches; platemark (image) measures 15-3/4 by 21-1/2 inches), original etching on wove paper, unframed. $8500.
Exceptional, large etched portrait of Mark Twain, boldly signed by Twain and signed in pencil by the artist Otto Schneider as well,
number seven of only 100 such etchings produced, and one of only 20 or so signed by Twain. An extraordinary signed piece, suitable
for framing.
Joseph G. Gessford was a prominent New York City photographer with a studio on Fifth
Avenue. After photographing Mark Twain, the author’s secretary relayed Twain’s
surprise that Gessford did not send prints of his work. Gessford explained, “I could no
more afford to give you these pictures than you can afford to write books for free.”
Lightly printed at the upper left edge: “From Copyrighted Photograph by J.G. Gessford
N.Y. and drawings from life.” A label explaining the signed limitation has been affixed
on the verso of the library’s etching. A few minor wrinkles, very faint mat burn from
prior matting. Fine condition.
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winston churchill
The First Collected Edition: Superb Centenary Limited Edition Of Churchill’s Works,
38 Volumes In Publisher’s Full Vellum Gilt
112. CHURCHILL, Winston. The Collected Works. Thirty-four volumes. WITH: The Collected Essays. Four
volumes. London, 1973-76. Thirty-eight volumes in all. Large octavo, original full vellum gilt, slipcases. $15,000.
Centenary limited edition of Churchill’s Complete Works, one of only 3000 sets produced, copiously illustrated with
numerous photographic plates, maps and charts. Beautifully bound in publisher’s gilt-stamped vellum and printed on
500-year archival paper.
This monumental set, the first of only two collected editions ever produced, was issued in recognition of the centenary of
Churchill’s birth. Compiled and published with the approval and cooperation of the Churchill Centenary Committee
and members of his family, this edition reproduces all of Churchill’s 50 books in 38 volumes. “To achieve publication, 11
publishing houses in Great Britain, the United States and Canada released their individual copyrights, in exchange for
the promise that no other complete collection of Churchill’s works would be published until the expiration of international
copyright in 2019” (Langworth, 362). An extremely desirable set, “the Collected Works are so rare that few can access
them” (Langworth, 364). Cohen AA1. Woods, 391. A particularly clean, bright set, with none of the usual discoloration
to vellum. A superb set in fine condition.

world war ii/u.s. nav y
An Extraordinary Offering Of Important World War II Primary Source Documents:
Set Of Original “Top Secret” D-Day Battle Maps Of Omaha Beach,
With Seven Vintage Photographs Of The Invasion
113. (WORLD WAR II) U.S. NAVY. Fine set of original battle maps for the D-Day invasion at Omaha Beach North, Sector
1003 (Colleville), dated May 21, 1944. WITH: Seven vintage photographs of the Omaha Beach invasion. European Theater of
Operations, 1944. Twelve items. Original color lithographic Chart and corresponding Profile Sheet (35 by 25-1/2 inches);
instructions for the use of the maps; cartographic index to all of the Normandy charts (15-1/2 by 12 inches); acetate overlay of
landing craft silhouettes; and seven original photographs (9-1/2 by 7-1/2 inches), custom clamshell box. $10,000.
Extremely rare set of original “Top Secret” battle maps for the landing at Omaha Beach on D-Day, comprised of a topographical
Chart of sector 1003 (Colleville), showing the latest strategic intelligence on German defenses, including mine fields, stakes, hedgehogs
and tetrahedrons, accompanied by the original acetate overlay of U.S. landing craft silhouettes to be placed over the Profile
Sheet of the ocean floor at sector
1003, a cartographic “Index” to all
of the targeted sectors on the
Normandy coast, and seven vintage
photographs of troop preparations
and the actual landing.
“Our long months of preparation
and planning for the greatest amphibious
operation in history ended
on D-Day, June 6, 1944… As dawn
came, the ships, great and small, began
to file into their prearranged positions…
There was no doubt that we
had achieved a tactical surprise… As
soon as the foremost infantry got
ashore they dashed forward towards
their objectives, and in every case
except one made good progress. On
‘Omaha’ beach, the 5th American
Corps ran into severe resistance…
Our Allies had a very stiff fight all
day to make any lodgment at all, and
it was not until the 7th that, after
losing several thousand men, they
were able to force their way inland”
(Churchill). “The task of Assault
Force O was to land assigned elements of the V Corps U.S. Army… and to support the landing and subsequent Army operations by
Naval gunfire” (Admiral J.L. Hall). This fine set of strategic battle maps of Omaha Beach, Colleville Sector (1003), depict its elevation,
physical features and contours of the ocean bottom, and are designated “Top Secret—Bigot,” which indicated the highest security
clearance, to be maintained “until departure for combat operations.” Especially rare is the accompanying acetate overlay of nine landing
craft silhouettes, which would be placed over profiles of the ocean floor, in order to determine where certain craft might bottom
out at given levels of tide. These valuable documents belonged to Belgian architect Hugo van Kuyck, responsible for aerial photographs
of the proposed landing areas that revealed the underwater contours of the beaches—which differed from the prevailing British hydrographic
maps of the English Channel. An accompanying photocopy of a letter by former General Arthur G. Trudeau documents
van Kuyck’s critical observation. Materials in fine condition, with fold lines of maps crisp and unbroken and photographs unblemished.
An extraordinary primary source of enormous historical significance.
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charles mackay
“Men… Go Mad In Herds”: Rare And Important First Edition Of Mackay’s Popular Delusions,
A Significant Force In Charting The Stock Market
114. MACKAY, Charles. Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions. London, 1841. Three volumes. Octavo, periodstyle
full plum morocco gilt. $18,000.
First edition of this highly entertaining and exceptionally influential early study of crowd behavior, a long-standing and
classic guide to both popular psychology and the stock market, handsomely bound.
Charles Mackay, a noted Scottish poet and journalist, attempted in this work to document and explain major “popular
delusions” or seemingly irrational instances of mass action and belief. “Men,” the author contends, “think in herds; it will be
seen that they go mad in herds.” In developing his theories of mass behavior, Mackay analyzes a breadth of historical examples
ranging from witch hunts, alchemists, and famous haunted houses to the South Sea Bubble of 1720 and the Crusades. The
impact of Mackay’s work has been remarkably far-reaching, influencing such diverse fields as popular psychology and the
charting of the stock market-as noted by The New York Times, which urged: “Any investor who has not read Charles Mackay’s
“Tulipomania,” from his classic Extraordinary Popular Delusions, first published in 1841, should grab this book for that
exercise alone.” Each volume with frontispieces; Volume III with two additional plates; Volume I without half title. Norman
1406. Kress C.5560. Only occasional foxing to text, beautifully bound.

francis bacon
The Birth Of The Scientific Method:
Rare First Edition Of Francis Bacon’s Novum Organum, 1620
115. BACON, Francis. Novum Organum. London, 1620. Folio, contemporary sprinkled calf skillfully rebacked and
recornered. $38,000.
First edition of Bacon’s Novum Organum (a “new instrument” to replace the old Organon of Aristotle), which had a
revolutionary impact on early modern science by laying the foundation of the inductive method.
Bacon’s “insistence on making science experimental and factual, rather than speculative and philosophical, had powerful
consequences. He saw clearly the limitations of Aristotelian and scholastic methods and the growing breach between the
thinking of his time and that of the Middle Ages is more precisely formulated than in that of, say, Tommaso Campanella or
Giordano Bruno. As a philosopher Bacon’s influence on Locke and through him on subsequent English schools of psychology
and ethics was profound. Leibniz, Huygens and particularly Robert Boyle were deeply indebted to him, as were the
Encyclopédistes, and Voltaire, who called him ‘le père de la philosophie experimentale’” (PMM). Although the engraved
allegorical title—with its evocative engraving of a modern explorer’s ship setting confident sail through the Pillars of Hercules,
the edge of the world as far as the ancients knew it—gives the title as the “Instauratio Magna”, the book constitutes the planned
second part of Part II of the Instauratio (the first part having already appeared as De Augmentis and Book I of The Advancement
of Learning). Bacon planned the greater whole in six parts, recalling the six days of the Creation (the plan of the whole work is
first printed here), but never completed it. The Novum Organum remains its most influential part. The Philosophical Transactions
of the Royal Society were soon to be filled with exactly the kind of “Histories”, careful collections of experimental data, that
Bacon here recommends. As usual, this copy is the second state, with leaf e3 cancelled and reprinted on e4 with errata added
and only the name of the printer Bill present. Gibson 103b; Grolier/Horblit 8b (1st issue); Norman 1:98; PMM 119. Some
underlining and marginal marks in the preface. From the library of the Irish classical scholar John Walker (1769–1833), with his
ownership inscription at the head of the engraved title. Very infrequent scattered light foxing, with occasional marginal pinpoint
wormholing, not affecting readability. Age-wear to contemporary calf boards, with a few cuts, wormholes on rear board. A
desirable copy in very good condition of this landmark.
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“The Most Human Of All Books…”:
1635 English Translation Of Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations
116. AURELIUS, Marcus. The Roman Emperor, His Meditations
Concerning Himselfe. London, 1635. Small quarto, 18th-century full
brown tree calf. $5000.
Second edition of the first English translation of one of the world’s great
classics, published only one year after the first edition. A lovely copy.
The Meditations have been considered by many “one of the great books of all
time… [and as] the most human of all books” (Britannica). Wisdom, justice,
fortitude and temperance are the qualities that Aurelius, stoic and practical
moralist, identifies as most essential for co-existence; his writings represent an
early and influential philosophy of humanism. His Meditations “are a collection
of maxims and thoughts in the spirit of the Stoic philosophy, which… breathe
the purist sentiments of piety and benevolence” (Peck, 90). “Once published,
these, his most intimate thoughts, were considered among the most precious of
all philosophical utterances by his contemporaries, by all Western Civilization
after they returned to favor at the Renaissance, and most especially by the
Victorian English, amongst whom The Meditations was a household book” (Rexroth, Classics Revisited, 112). This translation by
Meric Casaubon (son of the great scholar Isaac Casaubon) is the first directly into English; Casaubon’s elegant and scholarly translation
was still being reprinted in the 20th century. Without folding plate depicting Roman pottery found in some copies. Brueggemann
342-43. Palmer, 16. STC 963. Armorial bookplate. Interior clean; marginal tattering to final leaf of index. Front joint expertly repaired.
An exceptional copy.
“There Is A True Ring Of Genius About
All That He Says”: Scarce 1740 Four-Volume
Folio Edition Of Bacon’s Collected Works,
With Four Splendid Copper-Engraved
Frontispiece Plates
117. BACON, Francis. The Works of Francis Bacon.
London, 1740. Four volumes. Folio (8-1/4 by 12-1/4 inches),
contemporary full gilt-ruled brown calf. $4500.
1740 collected edition of Bacon’s Works, a handsome
four-volume folio production featuring his Novum
Organum, Essays, History of the Reign of King Henry VII
and Mallet’s Life of Francis Bacon, with four copper-engraved
frontispiece plates.
“‘I have taken all knowledge to be my province,’ Bacon
declared… He held to his course, if not ‘beyond the utmost
bound of human thought,’ at least to the uttermost edge
discernible in his day—and that, too, in every department
of intellectual activity. Bacon’s day was, perhaps, the latest
moment in history when anything like omniscience was within the limits of human
attainment; even in his day, Bacon’s was, perhaps, the only mind that could achieve it”
(Winterich, 205-6). He “stood, like a prophet, on the verge of the promised land, bidding
men leave, without regret, the desert which lay behind them… there is the true
ring of genius about all that he says” (DNB). Issued along with 50 large-paper copies, no
priority established. Containing his philosophical, literary and legal writings, along
with essays and letters, some never before published. Text in Latin and English. ESTC
T52745. Bookplate, early owner signatures. Front boards with traces of gilt-stamped
“William De Grey, 1742.” Interiors generally fresh and clean with only light scattered
foxing, minor expert restoration to contemporary calf. A most desirable handsome copy.

Scarce Complete 12-Volume Collection
Of First Editions Of Churchill’s WWII
And Post-War Speeches, 1941-61
118. CHURCHILL, Winston S. Collection
of World War II and post-war speeches.
World War II Speeches: Into Battle; The
Unrelenting Struggle; The End of the
Beginning; Onwards to Victory; The Dawn of
Liberation; Victory; Secret Session Speeches.
Post-War Speeches: The Sinews of Peace;
Europe Unite; In the Balance; Stemming the
Tide; The Unwritten Alliance. London, (1941-
61). Together, 12 volumes. Octavo, modern full
navy morocco gilt. $8000.
First editions of Churchill’s separately published
World War II and post-war speeches, including
his rare last book, handsomely bound.
Churchill’s war speeches, published between 1941 and 1946, “constitute a contemporary history of the war which is as lively as it is
authoritative; and, so far as contemporary history is of value, they may be said to be the last word upon the war” (Randolph
Churchill). Toward the end of the Second World War and after, Churchill increasingly advocated that Europe enter the approaching
Cold War era as a united and resolute voice. The speeches included in these volumes trace the development of Churchill’s call for
European unity through the abatement of socialist party power in Britain’s parliament, the start of the Korean War, rising tensions
in the Middle East, and the establishment of NATO. This set contains the rare first and only printing of The Unwritten Alliance, the
last of Churchill’s books printed in his lifetime. Occasional light foxing. A fine, handsome set.
“Churchill’s Last Great Work”: History Of The English-
Speaking Peoples, Signed By Churchill In Volume I
119. CHURCHILL, Winston S. A History of the English-Speaking
Peoples. London, 1956-58. Four volumes. Octavo, original red cloth,
dust jackets. $16,000.
First English editions of Churchill’s classic history, illustrated with
maps and genealogical tables, in the original dust jackets, signed by
Churchill in Volume I.
Churchill believed that “Every nation or group of nations has its own
tale to tell. Knowledge of the trials and struggles is necessary to all who
would comprehend the problems, perils, challenges, and opportunities
which confront us to-day… It is in the hope that contemplation of the
trials and tribulations of our forefathers may not only fortify the
English-speaking peoples of to-day, but also play some small part in
uniting the whole world, that I present this account.” “Churchill’s last
great work was published nearly 20 years after he penned its first draft
in the late 1930s, just after wrapping up [the biography of] Marlborough.
This enabled him to utilize the literary team he had assembled for the biography, to which he added dozens of outlines he had
solicited from scholars… In its final form the original single volume evolved to four, each of which was published simultaneously
in Britain, the USA and Canada—a first for Churchill’s works” (Langworth, 312). Cohen A267.1.a. Interiors fine; slightest rubbing
to cloth extremities. Very light soiling and toning to spines of bright dust jackets. A fine set, desirable signed.
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With Gilt Armorial Coat Of Arms Of
Sir Winston Churchill: Limited Folio First
Edition Of Constable And His Influence,
With 77 Magnificent Photogravures
120. (CHURCHILL, Winston) HOLMES, C.J. Constable
and his Influence on Landscape Painting. Westminster,
1902. Tall thick folio (11-1/2 by 15 inches), contemporary
full navy crushed morocco gilt, gilt armorial coat of arms
of Sir Winston Churchill to front board. $5800.
Limited first edition, one of only 350 copies, a magnificent
folio production containing 77 splendid photogravures
(over 50 full-page) of his work, bound with the gilt armorial
coat of arms of Sir Winston Churchill emblazoned on
the front board, with the Order of the Garter encircling the
shield carrying the motto of the Garter, Honi soit qui mal y
pense, above the Churchill family motto, Fiel pero desdichado
(Faithful though Unfortunate).
Bound by Bumpus with the magnificent gilt-tooled armorial
coat of arms of Sir Winston Churchill emblazoned on
the front board, with the Order of the Garter encircling the shield carrying the motto of the Garter, Honi soit qui mal y
pense (Shame on him who thinks ill of it), above the Churchill family motto in Spanish, Fiel pero desdichado (Faithful
though Unfortunate). In 1953 Queen Elizabeth knighted Churchill, investing him as a knight of the Order of the Garter,
Britain’s highest order of knighthood. Text and plates fresh with only lightest scattered foxing. A beautiful copy with a
highly desirable provenance.
Fine Signed Photograph Of Winston Churchill
121. CHURCHILL, Winston. Photograph signed. No place, circa
1940. Image measures 3-1/4 by 5-1/2 inches; original mount measures
4 by 7 inches. Handsomely matted and framed, entire piece measures
9-3/4 by 13 inches. $7000.
Photographic portrait of Churchill, signed “W S Churchill” in blueblack
ink on the mount.
The three-quarter-length photograph depicts Prime Minister
Churchill standing, wearing suit and bow tie, hand in his pocket,
boldly smiling at the camera. A fine, handsome piece of Churchilliana.

winston churchill
Churchill’s Brilliant History Of The Second World War,
Inscribed By Churchill In The Year Of Publication In Volume I
122. CHURCHILL, Winston. The Second World War. London, 1948-54. Six volumes. Octavo, original black cloth, dust
jackets. $16,000.
First English editions of Churchill’s WWII masterpiece, part history and part memoir, written after he lost reelection as
Prime Minister, in the original dust jackets, inscribed in Volume I: “Inscribed by Winston S. Churchill 1948.”
The six volumes of Churchill’s masterpiece were published separately between 1948
and 1954. With the Second World War, Churchill “pulled himself back from
humiliating [electoral] defeat in 1945, using all his skills as a writer and politician to
make his fortune, secure his reputation, and win a second term in Downing Street”
(Reynolds, xxiii). “Winston himself affirmed that ‘this is not history: this is my case’”
(Holmes, 285). Churchill was re-elected to the post of Prime Minister in 1951. “The
Second World War is a great work of literature, combining narrative, historical
imagination and moral precept in a form that bears comparison with that of the
original master chronicler, Thucydides. It was wholly appropriate that in 1953
Churchill was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature” (Keegan, 175). Although
preceded by the American editions, the English editions are generally preferred for
their profusion of diagrams, maps and facsimile documents. Cohen A240.4.
Occasional scattered light foxing to interiors and fore edges; cloth bindings fine.
Only most minor wear to extremities of bright dust jackets. A fine inscribed set.
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“The Essential Basis Of All Serious Study Of
The Art Of War”: Von Clausewitz’ On War,
First English Translation In Book Form
123. CLAUSEWITZ, Carl Philipp Gottlieb von. On War. London, 1873.
Three volumes in one. Octavo, contemporary half black cloth, custom
clamshell box. $5500.
First edition in English in book form, one of only 685 copies, of this
exceptionally influential study of the philosophy of war.
Von Clausewitz was a veteran of the Napoleonic wars, serving in
both the Prussian and Russian armies, and at one point was held as
a prisoner of war by the French. On War is considered “an exposition
of the philosophy of warfare which is absolutely unrivalled”
(Britannica). Key components in von Clausewitz’ philosophy include
the relationship between political and military objectives, the asymmetrical
relationship between attack and defense, the nature of “military
genius,” the essential unpredictability of war, and what von
Clausewitz termed the “fog” of war. On War was unfinished at von
Clausewitz’ death in 1831; it was published one year later by his widow.
This edition is a translation of the third German edition, published in 1867-69. The first English translation, by an unknown translator,
appeared in 1835 in the May and June issues of The Metropolitan Magazine (London) and the August and September issues of The
Military and Naval Magazine of the United States. Bassford, 56-7. Interior generally fresh, slight edge-wear, minor rubbing to boards.
An extremely good copy of this seminal work.
The Most Influential Economic Treatise Of The 20th Century
124. (ECONOMICS & FINANCE)KEYNES, John Maynard. The General Theory
of Employment, Interest and Money. London, 1936. Octavo, original blue-green
cloth, dust jacket. $14,000.
First edition of Keynes’ last major work, considered the most influential economic
treatise of the 20th century, rarely found in the original dust jacket.
Keynes’ General Theory ranks with Smith’s Wealth of Nations as an intellectual
event and with Malthus’ Essay on Population as a guide for public policy. “The
world-wide slump after 1929 prompted Keynes to attempt an explanation of, and
new methods for controlling, the vagaries of the trade-cycle. First in A Treatise on
Money, 1930, and later in his General Theory, he subjected the definitions and
theories of the classical school of economics to a penetrating scrutiny and found
them seriously inadequate and inaccurate” (PMM 423). Contemporary owner
inscription. Book fine. Scarce original dust jacket near-fine with closed tear and
very light dampstaining to head of slightly toned spine. A most desirable copy.

Inscribed By Friedrich Hayek: The Road To Serfdom,
“One Of The Most Important Books Of Our Generation”
125. (ECONOMICS & FINANCE) HAYEK, Friedrich A. The Road to Serfdom.
Chicago, 1945. Slim octavo, original teal cloth, dust jacket, custom clamshell
box. $5500.
First American edition, later impression, of Hayek’s classic defense of free
enterprise, “a major event in the intellectual history of the United States,” in
extremely scarce original dust jacket, inscribed in the year of publication, “To Mr.
James W. Morehouse from F.A. Hayek, April 25th, 1945.”
“Hayek has written one of the most important books of our generation. It restates
for our time the issue between liberty and authority with the power and rigor of
reasoning that John Stuart Mill stated… in his great essay, ‘On Liberty’” (Hazlitt,
82). Hayek’s analysis of the link between planning
and totalitarianism and his moral defense of
capitalism caused a sensation when it was published.
Because of its enduring influence, The Road to
Serfdom is considered “a major event in the intellectual history of the United States” (Gottfried, 10).
First published in September 1944; this copy is sixth impression, published in April 1945, on thin
paper to meet wartime standards. Evidence of bookseller ticket removal to rear pastedown endpaper.
Book fine. Some wear to extremities and chipping and toning to spine of price-clipped dust jacket
with tape repairs to verso. An extremely good copy, scarce inscribed and in dust jacket.
The First Edition Of Hayek’s First Book, Geldtheorie Und
Konjunkturtheorie, Inscribed By Friedrich Hayek To
Fellow Economist Carl Landauer
126. (ECONOMICS & FINANCE) HAYEK, Friedrich A. Geldtheorie und
Konjunkturtheorie. Wien and Leipzig, 1929. Octavo, original brown paper
wrappers respined and recornered with original spine laid down, custom cloth
clamshell box. $8500.
Important first edition, presentation copy, of Hayek’s first book, the basis for his
landmark work of the 1930s, Prices and Production, inscribed to his colleague and
friend, economist Carl Landauer: “Herrn Dr. Landauer, mit den besten Gruessen,
überreicht von verfasser [To Dr. Landauer, with best regards, presented by the
author].” Text in German.
In this book, Hayek argued that all major fluctuations in the trade cycle were caused
by monetary interventions that distorted relative price relationships. He also
critiqued opposing theories from the perspective of the Austrian School, of which he
was a prominent member. Issued at the nadir of the Great Depression, this volume
attacked American and European economists and policy makers who advocated economic planning, especially credit manipulation,
in order to “stabilize” capitalism. Because they ignored monetary factors, Hayek argued, these “stabilizers” only aggravated the
crisis. Hayek, like fellow Austrian School member Bohm-Bawerk, believed that “the individual and his wants is still the beginning
and end of the analysis” of economics (Roll, 369). The recipient of this copy, Carl Landauer,
was a prominent German economist and member of the Social-Democratic party who fled
to the United States with the rise of the Nazis. Idealogically across the spectrum from
Hayek and quite far to the left politically, Landauer helped to develop the concept of
competitive market socialism and worked extensively on the rights of workers within it. A
few pencil markings to text. Ink spot to rear wrapper, a bit of wear to wrappers. An
extremely good copy, exceptional inscribed and with such a desirable association.
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edwin lefèvre
One Of The Most Widely Read, Highly Recommended Investment Books Ever Written,
Very Rare In The First Printing
127. (ECONOMICS & FINANCE) LEFÈVRE, Edwin. Reminiscences of a Stock Operator. New York, 1923. Octavo, original
orange cloth, custom clamshell box. $18,000.
Rare first edition of “the most useful and most loved book ever written on the subject of trading and speculation,” in
original cloth.
“Stock investing is a relatively recent phenomenon and the inventory of true classics is somewhat slim. When asked, people will
always list books by Benjamin Graham, Burton G. Malkiel’s A Random Walk Down Wall Street, and Common Stocks and
Uncommon Profits by Philip A. Fisher. You’ll know you’re getting really good advice if they also mention Reminiscences of a
Stock Operator by Edwin Lefèvre. It is the thinly disguised biography of Jesse Livermore, a remarkable character who first
started speculating in New England bucket shops at the turn of the century. Livermore, who was banned from these shady
operations because of his winning ways, soon moved to Wall Street where he made and lost his fortune several times over. What
makes this book so valuable are the observations that Lefèvre records about investing, speculating, and the nature of the market
itself… Reminiscences is full of lessons that are as relevant today as they were in 1923 when the book was first published” (Harry
C. Edwards). “This is the book from which almost every subsequent general trading book is derived. If you have ever wondered
where the trading rule ‘Never average down’ came from, just turn to page 154. Where did the comparison between greed and
fear first originate? You’ll find it on page 130… It brings clarity as to why we trade and how to best go about it” (Tradingmarkets).
A few spots of soiling to interior, minor expert paper repairs to several leaves including half title, not affecting text. Expert
restoration to inner hinges and original cloth. An exceptionally good copy of an extraordinarily rare work.

“A Standard Part Of All Subsequent Commercial Applications”:
A Founding Work In The Modern Development Of Life Insurance
128. (ECONOMICS & FINANCE) MOIVRE, Abraham de. Annuities upon Lives.
London, 1725. Octavo, contemporary full calf sympathetically rebacked, custom
clamshell box. $7800.
First edition of de Moivre’s historic study of annuities and mortality statistics, a pioneering
influence on life insurance by a valued contemporary of Newton, containing
numerous calculations, along with Halley’s “Table of Observations” and de Moivre’s
Annuity table, complete with errata, in contemporary calf.
In his groundbreaking Annuities upon Lives, de Moivre pursued his “great interest in
the analysis of mortality statistics and the foundation of the theory of annuities,” a
passion partly inspired by his friendship with astronomer and fellow mathematician
Edmond Halley who, in 1693, had protested “the inane life annuities still being sold by
the British government, in which the age of the annuitant was not considered relevant”
(DBS IX: 452-4). Using newly developed statistical methods, de Moivre here formulated
his own “theory of annuities, deriving his formulas from a postulated uniform rate off mortality and
constant rates of interest on money” (Norman 1530). In this influential work, “one finds the treatment of joint annuities on several
lives, the inheritance of annuities, problems about the fair division of the costs of a tontine, and other contrasts in which both age
and interest on capital are relevant. De Moivre’s mathematics became a standard part of all subsequent commercial applications in
England” (DSB). Garrison & Morton 1690. Kress 3595. Contemporary owner inscription. Bookseller ticket. Interior quite clean. An
exceptional fine copy of a major foundational work in life insurance.
“An Immediate Success With The Mercantile
Community”: 1671 Enlarged Second Edition
Of Roberts’ Merchants Map Of Commerce,
With Four Large Folding Maps
129. (ECONOMICS & FINANCE) ROBERTS, Lewes. The
Merchants Map of Commerce. London, 1671. Small folio (8
by 12-1/2 inches), period-style full paneled calf. $8500.
Second edition, “corrected and much enlarged,” of Roberts’
major work, “one of the earliest systematic treatises on its
subject in English” (DNB), with four engraved folding maps
by John Overton of America, Africa, Asia and Europe.
This comprehensive guidebook “provided not only the
standard topographical information sought by English
travelers abroad, but also full details of local commodities,
currency, weights and measures, and rates of exchange. It
was an immediate success with the mercantile community,
and revised editions were published in 1671, 1677, and 1700” (ODNB). Roberts worked for
the East India Company, of which he became a director, and the Levant Company at
Constantinople. “The description of ‘America and the Provinces thereof,’ pp. 47-64, contains
much fuller accounts of New England, New Netherland, and other places, than that in the
first edition” (Sabin). First published in 1638. The map of America in the second state with the
“White/horse neere the Fountaine Tavern” imprint. Sabin 71907. Early owner signature on
title page inked over; early owner signature on blank verso of final leaf, another early signature
on verso of Asia section title. Marginal annotations in a neat early hand to a few leaves in Europe section. Title page rehinged and
remargined. Maps mounted on paper; most maps trimmed at margins affecting borders, some maps with holes at folds and edges;
browning to America map; large portion of Europe map missing and trimmed affecting border. Text with a few marginal tears, some
repaired, some affecting text, and a few wormholes, chiefly marginal. Handsome binding fine.
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“The Greatest Representative Of Classical Political Economy”:
The Works Of David Ricardo, Collected By Economist J.R. McCulloch
130. (ECONOMICS & FINANCE) RICARDO, David. (MCCULLOCH,
J.R., editor). The Works of David Ricardo. London, 1846. Octavo,
contemporary three-quarter polished brown calf. $6500.
First edition of Ricardo’s collected Works to include a memoir by his
follower, John Ramsey McCulloch, who is also noted for key contributions
to economic theory, featuring Ricardo’s famous Principles of Political
Economy.
David Ricardo, renowned for his Principles of Political Economy (1817),
included herein, “succeeded even more than Adam Smith in isolating the
chief categories of the economic system” [and] is without doubt the greatest
representative of classical political economy. He carried the work begun by
[Adam] Smith to the farthest point possible in his “theory of value and
distribution.” This scarce edition of his Works shows “Ricardo to have been,
on the whole, a faithful supporter of the prevailing theory of the market.”
As printings of Ricardo’s writings grew difficult to procure by the mid-19th
century, McCulloch, one of the economist’s greatest followers and noted for
his defense of “the Ricardian theory of value,” assembled this edition, the
first to include McCulloch’s valued biography of the famed economist (Roll, 155-75). McCulloch’s memoir of Ricardo was published
independently in 1825 under the title Memoir of the Life and Writings of David Ricardo. With publisher’s advertisement dated 1846.
Lowndes, 2081. Bookseller ticket. Light scattered foxing; minor rubbing and edge-wear to contemporary boards. A near-fine copy.
“Its Appearance Formed A New Era”:
First American Edition Of Ricardo’s Principles Of Political Economy.
One Of Only 500 Copies Printed
131. (ECONOMICS & FINANCE) RICARDO, David. On the Principles of
Political Economy, and Taxation. Georgetown, 1819. Octavo, contemporary
brown tree calf rebacked in period style. $8500.
First American edition of this most important work by Ricardo, “the first
‘scientific economist’” (PMM), based on the first London edition of 1817, one
of only 500 copies.
Except for the later scarce second issue of this edition in 1830, this is the
only 19th-century appearance of any work by Ricardo in America, where
his influence was nevertheless immense, spread mainly through related
texts. “Ricardo is without doubt the greatest representative of classical
political economy. He carried the work begun by Adam Smith to the farthest
point possible… His most important work is On the Principles of
Political Economy and Taxation, first published in 1817” (Roll, 155-6).
“Ricardo was, in a sense, the first ‘scientific’ economist… [His work] has
proved of lasting value” (PMM 277). “A profound work. Its appearance
formed a new era in the history of the science” (McCulloch, 16-17).
Milligan published 500 copies; of these, 250 were subscribed by members of Congress and by others impressed with the notice
in the Edinburgh Review in 1818. The remaining copies were largely unsold, then reissued with a new title page in 1830. Goldsmith
II:22323. Owner inscription dated 1895. Owner signatures and bookplate of Charles P. Crawford, a noted Georgia lawyer who
served as an officer in the Confederate army. Library bookplate. Text with slight foxing and embrowning, light edge-wear and
rubbing to boards. An extremely good copy of this seminal work, scarce in contemporary calf.

“The Mathematical Foundations For Contemporary Economics”:
Samuelson’s Foundations In Economic Analysis,
First Edition, Signed By Him
132. (ECONOMICS & FINANCE) SAMUELSON, Paul Anthony.
Foundations of Economic Analysis. Cambridge, 1947. Octavo, original
burgundy cloth, custom clamshell box. $13,500.
First edition of Nobel Prize-winner Samuelson’s first book, signed: “Paul A.
Samuelson.”
Based on Samuelson’s 1941 doctoral dissertation at Harvard, Foundations in
Economic Analysis is one of the most influential economic texts of the 20th century.
“More than anyone else he bears responsibility for the mathematical bent of
economics in the late 20th century… His doctoral dissertation is regarded by
most economists as providing the mathematical foundations for contemporary
economics… In all his professional work, Samuelson sought to provide mathematical
underpinnings for economic ideas, believing that economic theory
without formalizations was unsystematic and unclear” (Pressman, Fifty Major
Economists, 162-63). The title of this work “was meant to be exactly as ambitious
as it sounds, and the book’s impact on the profession has largely justified it… For the first time in a book in English on economic
principles, the mathematics, instead of being relegated to an appendix, provided the skeleton of the argument… Fifty years after it was
written, the Foundations (together with Hicks’ Value and Capital) is still one of the most inspiring classics of general equilibrium
economics (Niehans, History of Economic Theory, 423). Awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1970, Samuelson remains “one of
the two or three best-known and most respected economists during the last half of the 20th century” (Pressman, 166). Without scarce
original dust jacket. Only slight soiling to cloth and mild toning to spine. A near-fine signed copy.
“I Hope I Will Be Able To Confide Everything To You, As I Have Never Been Able To Confide In
Anyone”: First Edition Of Anne Frank’s Diary, Het Achterhuis, 1947
133. FRANK, Anne. Het Achterhuis. Amsterdam, 1947. Octavo, original white and
russet paper boards, custom clamshell box. $8200.
First edition of Anne Frank’s diary, in the original Dutch, one of only 1500 copies
printed.
Anne began her new diary on her 13th birthday, June 12, 1942, by writing, “I hope I will
be able to confide everything to you, as I have never been able to confide in anyone, and
I hope you will be a great source of comfort and support.” (Page 1 bears a facsimile of
this entry.) Only a month later, Anne and her family would go into hiding. Anne
envisioned the future publication of her diary—in fact, she began editing the text before
the family’s arrest on August 4, 1944 (three days after the diary’s last entry)—and chose
the title Het Achterhuis (The House Behind) herself. After its initial release, the book
was translated and published in more than 60 languages. Upon its publication in
English, Eleanor Roosevelt called the diary “one of the wisest and most moving
commentaries on war.” It remains one of the most widely read books in the world.
“Anne Frank’s diary is too tenderly intimate a book to be frozen with the label ‘classic,’
and yet no lesser designation serves” (Books of the Century, 180). Illustrated with
halftone frontispiece portrait, two photographs of interiors, and two facsimiles. Text in
Dutch. Without the exceptionally rare dust jacket. Karolides, Bald & Sova, 339-41.
Boards soiled, spine toned; spine and hinges with some expert restoration.
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“No More Graphic Account Exists Of Any Age”:
Froissart’s Chronicles Of England, France, Spain,
And The Adjoining Countries, 1839, Extra-Illustrated
With 72 Vivid Hand-Colored Lithographs By
Henry Noel Humphreys
134. FROISSART, John. Chronicles of England, France, Spain, and
the Adjoining Countries, from the Latter Part of the Reign of
Edward II to the Coronation of Henry IV. London, 1839. Two
volumes. Thick octavo, late 19th-century full red morocco gilt. $5500.
Later edition of Johnes’ celebrated translation of Froissart’s important
history of 14th-century Europe, extra-illustrated with the complete
suite of 72 finely hand-colored chromolithographs—many
heightened with gilt and silver—reproduced from miniatures in
Froissart manuscript editions by Henry Noel Humphreys.
“Froissart might be called the great interviewer of the Middle Ages. The newspaper correspondent of modern times has scarcely
surpassed this medieval collector of intelligence… He lived from 1337 to about 1410, and wrote chiefly of contemporaneous events.
The Chronicles are universally considered as the most vivid and faithful picture we have of events in the 14th century. As a picture
of the most favorable side of chivalry, the work has no equal” (Adams, Manual of Historical Literature, 334-35). “No more graphic
account exists of any age. No historian has drawn so many and such faithful portraits” (Britannica). The first printed version of the
Chronicles appeared around 1498 in Paris. The first edition in English was published in 1523-25. A landholder and Member of
Parliament, Thomas Johnes made a modern translation of Froissart his life’s work, and published his version in 1803-05. Henry
Noel Humphreys first issued his suite of hand-colored chromolithographs in 1844-45. Only occasional and faint marginal foxing.
Most plates crisp and clean, coloring vivid. Inner hinges with minor expert reinforcement. Fine condition, superbly bound.
“The Foundation Of Modern International Law”
And An Important Influence On The American Revolution:
1654 First Edition In English Of Grotius’ Masterpiece,
With An Especially Notable 18th-Century Provenance
135. GROTIUS, Hugo. Of the Law of Warre and Peace with
Annotations. London, 1654. Thick octavo, contemporary full brown
sheep, custom clamshell box. $9500.
First edition in English of this cornerstone treatise on law and government,
an exceptional copy with a distinguished provenance that reaches
back to the descendants of John Bispham, a leading Quaker and disciple
of George Fox, founder of the Society of Friends, with engraved portrait
frontispiece, handsomely bound in contemporary sheep.
Jure Belli ac Pacis, first published at Paris in 1625, “was the first attempt
to lay down a principle of right, and a basis for society and government,
outside of Church or Scripture… Grotius’ principle of an immutable
law… was the first expression of the ‘droit naturel’… the foundation of modern international law” (PMM 125). This then-radical
notion later played an important role in the build-up to the American Revolution, as colonial leaders cited Grotius as the first and
greatest authority on international law. “No legal work ever enjoyed a more widely extended reputation, and none ever exercised
such a wonderful influence over the public morals of Europe” (Marvin, 23). This first edition in English, somewhat abridged from
the original Latin, was translated by Clement Barksdale; the first complete English translation, by Evats, was published in 1682.
Revolutionary America 170. Armorial bookplate. Early marginalia to first text leaf and page 220. Early owner inscription of English
Minister Renald Tetlaw dated 1704. This copy was prominently named in Tetlaw’s will: Tetlaw bequeathed this to the family of his
son-in-law John Bispham, a prominent Quaker preacher and a disciple of George Fox, founder of the Society of Friends. Folding
leaves from an unidentified 16th-century legal text, printed in Gothic, used as endpapers. With 19th-century paper spine labels,
each lettered in a neat cursive. Interior generally fresh with light scattered foxing, faint occasional dampstaining, minor marginal
wormholing, contemporary calf binding exceptional. Inner hinges expertly reinforced. A seminal work in near-fine condition, with
a highly significant provenance.

Hume’s Four Dissertations, 1757 First Edition
Hazlitt’s Life Of Napoleon, Bourrienne’s
Memoirs Of Napoleon Bonaparte
And The Memoirs Of Madame Junot,
17 Volumes, One Of Only 75 Copies
Beautifully Bound And Illustrated,
With Hand-Colored Frontispieces
136. (NAPOLEON) HAZLITT, William. The Life
of Napoleon Bonaparte. WITH: BOURRIENNE,
Louis Antoine Fauvelet de. Memoirs of Napoleon
Bonaparte. WITH: JUNOT, Laure, Duchess
D’Abrantes. Memoirs of Madame Junot. WITH:
LEVY, Arthur. Napoleon Intime. London, circa
1900. Together, seventeen volumes. Octavo, contemporary
three-quarter green morocco gilt. $7800.
Limited “Edition Connoisseur Astrale,” one of only
75 copies printed of this 17-volume work chronicling Napoleon’s life as well as that of the Duchess
d’Abrantes, one of the most important women of Napoleon’s time, with plates in two states,
including beautifully hand-colored frontispieces.
Junot, the Duchesse d’Abrantès, was a well-known member of the French aristocracy who wrote
her revealing and occasionally spiteful memoirs toward the end of her life under the supervision
of her lover, Balzac. Though Junot’s husband was a favorite of Napoleon, Junot had allegedly
rejected an earlier proposal of marriage from Napoleon, earning his enmity. As Junot was
perpetually involved in politics, this would only increase after she sided against him during the
Hundred Days. Junot, however, knew much about the inner workings of French society and her
post-Restoration memoirs proved informative for friends and enemies alike. Spines evenly toned
to brown. Fine condition, most beautifully bound.
137. HUME, David. Four Dissertations. I. The Natural History of Religion. II. Of
the Passions. III. Of Tragedy. IV. Of the Standard of Taste. London 1757. 12mo,
contemporary full brown speckled calf gilt, custom chemise and clamshell box. $7200.
First edition, including the first appearance of Hume’s Natural History of Religion,
with scarce dedication pages present.
This classic volume includes the first appearance in print of Hume’s important The
Natural History of Religion and his only works in the field of aesthetics, Of Tragedy and
Of the Standard of Taste. “In The Natural History of Religion, Hume maintained that
there is no evidence of any specific instinct for religious belief. Some races have no
religion. In all known cases the earliest religions were polytheistic and idolatrous, with
no notion whatever of an intelligent cause of the whole frame of nature. They were as
truly atheistic as would be the beliefs of a contemporary person who acknowledged the
existence of elves and fairies but denied the existence of God” (Encyclopedia of
Philosophy), an argument which got Hume himself accused of atheism. “After
publication Hume withdrew the dedication ‘To the Reverend Mr. Hume, Author of
Douglas, a Tragedy,’ but cancelled the withdrawal four days later, 800 copies having
been sold without it. He never reprinted it” (Rothschild 1176). First edition, early state, with cancel leaf C12, and corrected readings
of “lative” as the first word (9) and “lancing” as the first word (131). Without half title; with scarce dedication pages. Jessop, 33-5.
Rothschild 1176. Text generally fresh and clean, slight edge-wear, small abrasions to contemporary boards, joints starting but sound.
A near-fine copy of this important philosophical work.
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Pictorial Documentation Of Wellington’s Defeat Of Napoleon, The Martial Achievements Of
Great Britain, 1799-1815, With 53 Splendid Large Hand-Colored Folio Aquatints
138. JENKINS, James. The Martial Achievements of Great Britain and Her Allies; from 1799 to 1815. London, circa 1825.
Thick folio, 19th-century three-quarter red morocco gilt rebacked, custom cloth slipcase. $7800.
First edition, later issue, of this dramatically illustrated record of British military action during Lord Wellington’s Peninsular
Campaign, with hand-colored frontispiece, vignette title-page, hand-colored dedication page, and 51 additional vividly handcolored
aquatints of battle scenes by Thomas Sutherland after drawings by William Heath, handsomely bound.
“A brilliant and worthy record of a brilliant period in England’s history” (Hardie, English Coloured Books, 147). From the terrifying
rout and retreat at Corunna to the glorious victory at Talavera, the British and their allies fought to keep Napoleon out of Spain and
Portugal. In 1807 a demoralized and ill-defended Spain was at
the mercy of the French Emperor. Seven years later and the loss
of over a million lives, the French finally retreated over the
Pyrenees, never to return. The Anglo Portuguese Army under a
brilliant strategist, the Duke of Wellington and supported by
Spanish guerrilla irregulars, had ground down the best equipped
and most feared army in Europe. Jenkins’ work “is worthy of its
theme; nor could one desire a finer record of heroic deeds”
(Prideaux, 224). Each plate is accompanied by text describing
the action, with lists of those killed and wounded, and excerpts
from contemporary bulletins, dispatches, letters, and speeches.
First published in 1814-15: this copy with plate stock watermarked
between 1812 and 1824. The vignette title page in this copy is not
hand-colored. Without list of subscribers. Tooley 281. A few
closed marginal tears and spots of soiling to interior, binding
quite handsome. A near-fine copy.
The Father Of Modern Political Science:
1675 First Edition In English Of Machiavelli’s Works
139. MACHIAVELLI, Niccolo. The Works of the Famous Nicolas
Machiavel. London, 1675. Folio, contemporary full mottled brown calf
rebacked. $12,500.
First edition in English of this comprehensive collection of the great Italian
statesman’s most important writings, the foundation of the modern study of
politics. Includes The Art of War, Discourses on Livy, and his primer of power
politics, The Prince.
“Machiavelli founded the science of modern politics on the study of mankind…
Politics was a science to be divorced entirely from ethics, and nothing must
stand in the way of its machinery” (PMM 63). “Machiavelli is a popular symbol
for the… completely unprincipled, and unscrupulous politician whose whole
philosophy is that the end justifies the means… From a comparative reading of
[Discourses and The Prince], one must come to the startling conclusion that
Machiavelli was a convinced republican. He had no liking for despotism, and
considered a combination of popular and monarchical government best. No
ruler was safe without the favor of his people. The most stable states are those
ruled by princes checked by constitutional limitations… His ideal government
was the old Roman republic, and he constantly harked back to it in the Discourses… It is hardly disputable that no man previous to
Karl Marx has had as revolutionary an impact on political thought as Machiavelli” (Downs, 12). “He more than any other political
thinker created the meaning that has been attached to the state in modern political usage” (Sabine 351). There are two issues of this
work in 1675: one with the imprint, “Printed for John Starkey” (as in this copy), and another, “Printed for J.S.” Three-leaf publisher’s
catalogue bound at end. Wing M128. Lightest age-wear to boards, text very clean. A near-fine copy.

“The Origin Of Modern Ideas Of Developmental Psychology”:
Very Scarce First Edition In Contemporary Calf Of Locke’s
Some Thoughts Concerning Education, 1693
140. LOCKE, John. Some Thoughts Concerning Education. London, 1693.
Small octavo, contemporary full brown speckled calf rebacked with the original
red morocco spine label laid down. $12,000.
First edition of Locke’s important anonymously published “excellent little
treatise” (DNB) on education.
“Locke’s thoughts on education have maintained their popularity and influence
since they were first published in 1693. He wrote during an era when children were
coming to be seen as children, as human beings in a family and social setting who
had not yet developed their bodies and minds. Historians and theorists of education
trace the origin of modern ideas of developmental psychology to Locke” (Attig, x).
“The work began as a series of letters written during 1684 to his friend Edward
Clarke, giving advice on the upbringing of Clarke’s children… The letters to Clarke
were full of practical advice from the pragmatic physician on such matters as
clothing and diet. Locke was also concerned with the child’s moral development,
stressed the importance of habits of mind, and cautioned against willfulness and ‘love of dominion.’ He was less concerned (in
comparison with other writers on education) with setting out a detailed course of reading and study” (Attig 522). Experts differ on
what constitutes the first edition of this work, but Yolton’s recent researches, published in 1998, have uncovered other textual first edition
issue points, all of which appear in the present copy (Yolton 165), indicating that this copy is a first edition. Pforzheimer 612 (edition
unstated). Expert restoration to top of title page, with upper rule provided in facsimile; expert paper repair to top outer corner of leaf
A2, not affecting text. Interior crisp and clean, contemporary speckled calf excellent. A beautiful copy of this landmark treatise.
“The Most Worthy Of The Great Philosophers”:
Very Handsome 1714 First Edition Of Locke’s
Collected Works
141. LOCKE, John. The Works of John Locke. London, 1714.
Three volumes. Folio (8-1/2 by 12-1/2 inches), contemporary full
paneled brown calf expertly rebacked with original elaborately
gilt-decorated spines laid down. $9500.
First edition of the collected works of Locke, “the most worthy…
of the indisputably great philosophers,” scarce in contemporary
calf.
“Locke is the most worthy… of the indisputably great philosophers.
His influence has been enormous.” Published ten years
after Locke’s death, this is the first collected edition of his
work and the earliest to put his name to the immensely important
Two Treatises of Government, “the basis of the principles
of democracy,” as well as the letters on “Toleration” and
The Reasonableness of Christianity. Also included is the
groundbreaking Essay Concerning Humane Understanding,
“the first modern attempt” to analyze human knowledge
(PMM 193, 194). With exquisite copper-engraved frontispiece
portrait by George Vertue and full-page memorial plate. Containing engraved historiated initials, head- and tailpieces. Occasional
mispagination without loss of text. Yolton 363. Attig 848. Christophersen, 87-88. With gilt arms of Earl of Drogheda on boards;
armorial bookplates of Edward Loftus Moore, son of Charles Moore, Sixth Earl of Drogheda. Minor marginalia to early leaves
of Volume I only. Interiors exceptionally fresh with only minimal trace of wormholing to rear leaves (Vol. II), expert restoration
to contemporary calf bindings. A highly desirable extremely good copy.
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“One Of The Greatest Masterpieces Of Political Theory”
142. MONTESQUIEU. The Spirit of Laws. London, 1750. Two volumes.
Octavo, period-style full speckled calf gilt. $16,000.
First edition in English of Montesquieu’s classic De L’Esprit Des Loix, an
enormous influence on American and French revolutionary thought,
translated by Thomas Nugent and published just two years after the first
French edition. Very beautifully bound.
“One of the greatest masterpieces of political theory and a pioneering
work in sociology… its emphasis on the separation of powers of government
and on a system of checks and balances profoundly influenced
constitutional thought in both America and France. Indeed, during the
early and later stages of the French Revolution, Montesquieu’s theories
were much more important than those of Rousseau” (McNamara, France
in the Age of Revolution). “His theories underlay the thinking which led up
to the American and French revolutions, and the United States Constitution
in particular is a lasting tribute to the principles he advocated” (PMM
197). Kress 5057. Text generally fresh and clean, binding splendid. An
exceptional copy.
“Sitting By Night In My Secret Study…”: 1672 First
English Translation Of Nostradamus’ Prophecies
143. NOSTRADAMUS, Michel de. The True Prophecies or
Prognostications of Michael Nostradamus. London, 1672. Folio,
contemporary full dark brown mottled calf rebacked. $11,000.
First edition in English of Nostradamus’ famous prognostications,
with scarce engraved frontispiece portrait,
often not present, and bound in contemporary
calf boards.
A physician by trade, Michel de Nostredame “began his
prophetic writings in the early 1540s with a series of
short yearly almanacs in which he made predictions in
verse. The new art of printing gratified a popular demand
for supernaturally acquired ‘certainty,’ and such
almanacs were a common literary production of the
day. It was with Les Prophéties (1555), however, that
Nostradamus became an author of contemporary reputation
and a figure who has had an impact on later history”
(Clute & Grant, 694). By blending scholarly
learning, received folklore and religious sentiment in
richly symbolic, highly poetic and frequently innovative
language—and by crafting veiled commentary on
the celebrities, scandals, warfare and pressing issues of
his day—Nostradamus captured both the public’s
imagination and the French royal family’s patronage. Includes the original French quatrains with accompanying translations
and annotations. Without final blank, as often. Wing N1399. Lowndes, 1708. Early owner signature on title page. Frontispiece
remargined, repair to verso of title page, expert repair to 3R4; a bit of marginal wormholing to a few leaves, text with marginal
dampstaining. Expected age wear to handsome contemporary boards. Rare.

“One Of The Major Scientific Contributions Of The First Half Of The 20th Century”
144. NEUMANN, John von and MORGENSTERN, Oskar. Theory of Games and
Economic Behavior. Princeton, 1944. Octavo, original brown cloth, dust jacket,
custom clamshell box. $8000.
First edition of the groundbreaking treatise on game theory, highly influential in
business, economics and the social sciences, in scarce original dust jacket.
“One of the major scientific contributions of the first half of the 20th century”
(Goldstine & Wigner). “It would be doing the authors an injustice to say that theirs
is a contribution to economics only. The scope of the book is much broader. The
techniques applied by the authors in tackling economic problems are of sufficient
generality to be valid in political science, sociology, or even military strategy. The
applicability to games proper (chess and poker) is obvious from the title. Moreover,
the book is of considerable interest from a purely mathematical point of view… The
appearance of a book of the caliber of the Theory of Games is indeed a rare event”
(World of Mathematics II:1267-84). Book fine. Scarce original dust jacket bright and
unfaded, with chipping to spine ends, light rubbing to edges; front panel split by
vertical closed tear, repaired on verso. An extremely good copy.
“A Feeble Body Weakens The Mind”: Illustrated Works Of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
145. ROUSSEAU, Jean-Jacques. Oeuvres Complètes. Paris, 1788-93. Thirty-eight volumes. Quarto, contemporary full brown tree
calf gilt. $12,000.
Superb large-paper complete set of
Rousseau’s works in the original French,
with engraved title pages, 70 full-page illustrations,
and 44 hand-colored botanical
plates, in full contemporary ornately gilt
tree calf.
The thread of Rousseau’s influence as a
philosophical thinker can be traced in almost
every treatise of modern philosophy
even today. His general philosophy focused
on the emotional and passionate side of
man, which he felt was lacking in most
earlier discussions of the human condition.
Rousseau thought that man was essentially
good, a “noble savage” when found in the
“state of nature” (that is, before the advent
of civilization and society), and that people
are made unhappy by an “artificial” and
“corrupt” society. The illustrator, Rococo
artist Jean-Michel Moreau (aka Moreau le Jeune), also produced engravings for the works of Voltaire and provided pen and wash
drawings for Diderot’s famous Encyclopédie. It was his work on Rousseau, however, that influenced his future illustrations—especially
those of stylish contemporary life, depicting “a highly idealized vision of aristocracy based on the philosophy of Rousseau”
(Heller-Greenman). “It is difficult to think of any other artist who illustrated the classical authors of his country on so wide a scale…
His is the greatest name among French illustrators of the 18th century” (Ray, 87). Text in French. Brunet IV, 1442. Graesse VI, 176.
Texts and plates very clean and bright, with only occasional faint spots of foxing. Beautiful contemporary calf with some spine ends
and just a few joints expertly repaired. About-fine condition.
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Sartre On Existentialism
146. SARTRE, Jean Paul. L’Existentialisme est un Humanisme. Paris, 1946. Small
octavo, original paper boards, printed dust jacket, custom clamshell box. $5800.
Limited first edition of Sartre’s popular—and controversial—discourse on existentialism,
the work that firmly established him as one of France’s preeminent intellectuals,
number 172 of 500 copies on fine vellum-paper.
“Sartre must be seen as a major figure of his time… His body of writing has been of
considerable importance in the post-war world, and he himself, both through his
positive contribution to intellectual life and through his questioning of accepted values,
has exerted an undoubted influence on more than one generation” (Reid, 577). This
concise restatement of tenets Sartre had put forth in his major work L’Être et le néant
(1943) “consolidated [his] position as France’s leading existentialist philosopher”
(Blackburn, 339). On October 24, 1946, “Sartre lectured on existentialism in Brussels,
and, four days later, speaking to the Club Maintenant in Paris, he took as his title
‘L’Existentialisme est un humanisme’ [‘Existentialism is a Humanism’]. Women
fainted—partly, perhaps, because of oxygen shortage—and he could scarcely make
himself heard. In the lecture he described T.E. Lawrence as an existentialist, but this
passage is suppressed in the published text” (Hayman, 235-36). Text in French. Interior
pristine. Minor soiling to dust jacket. A fine copy.
“He Loves Ireland Strongly”: 1633 First Edition Of
Edmund Spenser’s View Of The State Of Ireland,
The First Irish History From A Dublin Press
147. SPENSER, Edmund, HANMER, Meredith, and CAMPION,
Edmund. The Historie of Ireland, Collected by Three Learned Authors.
Dublin, 1633. Octavo, contemporary full speckled calf rebacked. $5000.
First edition, third issue, of Spenser’s essay on “the antiquities, art and
customs of the island” of Ireland (Baugh et al., 494), together with first
editions, first issues, of Campion’s History and Hanmer’s Chronicle, in
contemporary binding. The first Irish history to issue from a Dublin press.
Best remembered today as the poet who penned The Faerie Queene,
Spenser also produced several prose works, most important among
them A View of the Present State of Ireland, likely written in 1596 but
not published until this work. “Spenser’s treatise, containing over
60,000 words, is a well-planned dialogue on Irish laws, customs and
military government… The prose style is very fine, simple in syntax
and vocabulary, but with a periodic roll that marks it for the prose of a
poet” (Baugh et al., 493-94). “His essay will always have a certain
interest not only for historians but for students of Spenser’s poetry…
And he gives free rein to those antiquarian interests so characteristic of
his age” (C.S. Lewis). This first edition of Spenser’s View was bound in two different formats: by itself and, as here, with Campion’s
History and Meredith Hanmer’s Chronicle of Ireland. In all formats, Spenser’s View has its own title page, with elaborate woodcut
border. Third issue, with state (2) of the Spenser title page and the four added leaves of “Annotations.” With Johnson’s general
title page (4). STC 25067a. Armorial bookplate. Scattered ink underlining in second half of volume. Expertly repaired closed
tears to leaves 2T2-[2T3], affecting text. Mild marginal dampstaining to first several gatherings and to 2M1-2. Light expert
restoration to contemporary boards. A very good copy.

mary wollstonecraft
“Liberty And Equality For All Humanity”: 1792 First Edition Of Mary Wollstonecraft’s
Landmark Vindication Of The Rights Of Woman
148. WOLLSTONECRAFT, Mary. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects.
London, 1792. Octavo, period-style three-quarter brown calf. $17,500.
First edition of this classic work on freedom, equality, and education. Volume I was the only volume published. Most scarce in
contemporary boards.
“Wollstonecraft’s major work caused an outcry when it was published and is hailed as a cornerstone of feminism…. The central
theme of the work on women’s rights was that they should be educated to carry a responsibility in society equal to that of men. In
disagreement with Rousseau… Wollstonecraft urged ‘rational fellowship instead of slavish obedience’” (Legacies of Genius 64). “A
rational plea for a rational basis to the relation between the sexes… Its chief object was to show that women were not the playthings
of men but ought to be their equal partners, which they could be only if they were educated in the same way” (PMM 242). “She was
the first woman to articulate publicly a request for women’s suffrage and coequal education… Although Wollstonecraft is best
known as a feminist thinker, her philosophies are not limited to women’s issues… Wollstonecraft advocates liberty and equality for
all humanity. Advancing arguments for political rights, she argues for the removal of traditional injustices of rank, property, class,
and gender… The key to freedom lies in the reasoning individual conscience, not in laws or dogma… Wollstonecraft adamantly
asserts that education inculcating reason will eventually emancipate all humankind from all forms of servitude (political, sexual,
religious, or economic)” (Great Thinkers of the Western World, 322-327). Volume One was the only volume published. Windle A5a.
ESTC T50903. Text generally fresh and fine. Only very light rubbing to contemporary marbled boards. A handsome fine copy.
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1662 First Folio Edition Of The Workes Of King Charles,
The First Royally Sanctioned Edition Of Eikon Basilike,
In Beautiful Restoration Binding
149. CHARLES I. Basilika: The Workes of King Charles, The
Martyr. London, 1662. Two volumes. Folio, contemporary full black
morocco gilt. $8000.
First folio edition of the works of King Charles I, the first edition directly
approved by Charles II, beautifully printed with three magnificent
double-page copper-engraved plates, engraved frontispiece (by
Hollar) and title, in a sumptuous restoration binding. With a superb
provenance, with bookplates of Viscount Mersey, Walter T. Shirley,
and armorial plates of The Right Honorable Anthony Earle of Kent,
and Thomas Philip Earl of Grey.
“A few hours after the King’s execution, his Eikon Basilike was in the hands of the people… So marvelous was its effect, that
contemporary authorities declare that nothing but the Government’s ingenious and persistent condemnations of the work prevented
an immediate restoration of the crown” (Almack, 3). “The work is a masterpiece in its expression of Charles’ principles… and by
making a martyr of this Stuart king, exercised a considerable influence on English history” (Kunitz & Haycraft, 212). This collection
features the first royally sanctioned printing of the Eikon Basilike. Directly approved by Charles II, this majestic and wide-margined
folio printing was seen as the finest production of the king’s writings. Without the extra and frequently absent leaf with the epitaph;
also without the additional frontispiece, noted in some copies only. Still one of the most complete copies offered. Wing C2075. Madan
65. Text and plates generally fresh and bright, tiny bit of negligible marginal wormholing to several leaves without affecting text,
expert repair to small portion of one joint of Volume II. A beautifully bound copy of this magnificent production with a fine provenance.
Queen Elizabeth’s Copy, With Her Badge Stamped On The Covers
150. (ELIZABETH I) PAUSANIAS. Pausaniae Quinque Regionum Veteris
Graeciae Descriptio. London, 1559. Volume II (of II) only. Thick 16mo (3-1/4 by 5
inches), contemporary full dark brown paneled calf with blind-stamped badge of
Queen Elizabeth in center of both covers, custom cloth clamshell box. $16,500.
Queen Elizabeth’s personal copy of the Pausanias’
Description of Greece (Volume II only), in contemporary
calf binding with her blind-stamped badge
on both covers depicting a Tudor rose bearing a
scroll with the name ‘Elizabeth.’
Pausanias’ Description of Greece provides an eyewitness
account of that country during the 2nd century A.D., with special attention paid to art and architecture,
as well as to the unique mythological, religious, and historical underpinnings of Greek life and
culture. Without Pausanias, “the ruins of Greece would for the most part be a labyrinth without a clue,
a riddle without an answer. His book furnished the clue to the labyrinth, the answer to many riddles. It
will be studied so long as ancient Greece shall continue to engage the attention and awaken the interest
of mankind” (Sir James Frazer). Text in Latin. Woodcut device on title page. Davenport, English Heraldic
Book-Stamps, 161. With photocopy of a letter discussing this volume’s provenance by novelist Elswyth
Thane, dated 1975, laid in. Covers crackled, though Elizabeth’s badge still quite clearly visible; joints
starting, cords holding. Without clasps and catches. Minor worming to a very few leaves; text generally
clean. A very good copy, with extraordinary provenance, most rare and desirable.

From The Library Of Louis XIV, The “Sun King,”
With His Gilt Embossed Armorial Coat Of Arms On
Both Covers, Davila’s Histoire Des Guerres Civiles De France
(Volume II), 1644
151. (LOUIS XIV) DAVILA, Henrico Caterino. Histoire des guerres civiles de
France. Paris, 1644. Tall folio (10 by 14-1/2 inches), contemporary full polished
brown morocco gilt, gilt arms of Louis XIV on covers. $7500.
First edition in French, Volume II (of two) of Davila’s influential history of
French religious civil wars, from the library of French King Louis XIV, the
“Sun King,” in a sumptuous morocco binding displaying his gilt armorial coat
of arms on both covers.
Italian-born Davila was in France when the religious civil wars erupted and
fought there until 1598. On returning home, he began “writing the history of
those civil wars in France in which he had borne a part, and during which he
had had so many opportunities of closely observing the leading personages
and events. The work was completed about 1630…. The success and sale of the
work were immediate and enormous” (Encyclopaedia Britannica). Grasse
II:342. See Brunet II:539; Lowndes, 601. This rare volume from the library of
Louis XIV of France was issued only one year after he assumed the throne at
age four. Initially published in Italian in 1630. With wide gilt-rolled borders and fleur-de-lys cornerpieces enclosing the giltembossed
armorial coat of arms of Louis XIV on both covers. Armorial bookplates. Small bookseller ticket, lightly penciled
notations to front pastedown. Interior fresh with only faint marginal dampstaining mainly to rear leaves, joints starting but
sound, bright gilt boards expertly recornered, upper and lower spine panels skillfully replaced. An extremely good copy of this
splendid volume with a most rare provenance.
Dedication Copy Of Lagarde’s Aeglé, 1751,
Madame Pompadour’s Copy, In Her Armorial Gilt Binding
152. (POMPADOUR, Madame de) LAGARDE, Pierre de. Aeglé, Ballet
en un acte Représenté devant le Roi sur le Théâtre des Petits
Appartemens, a Versailles... Dedié à Madame la Marquise de
Pompadour. Paris, 1751. Folio (11 by 15 inches), contemporary full crimson
morocco gilt rebacked with original spine laid down, boards with
gilt-stamped arms of the Marquise de Pompadour. $8500.
First edition, dedication copy, of the vocal score for Lagarde’s best-known
work, fully engraved. From the library of Louis XV’s powerful mistress,
Madame de Pompadour, the dedicatee of the work and the originator of the
role of Aeglé, in her armorial binding and with a “Versailles” booklabel.
“As an ordinaire de la chambre du roi La Garde was highly regarded by
Louis XV, who made him responsible for the musical training of the
royal children… La Garde’s reputation as a composer was firmly
established when his Aeglé, a pastoral héroïque in one act, was performed
at Madame de Pompadour’s Théâtre des Petits Cabinets in 1748” (New
Grove 10:359). Madame de Pompadour herself played the role of Aeglé.
From the library of Madame de Pompadour, in her armorial binding
and with a “Versailles” booklabel, listed in the Catalogue des Livres de
la Bibliotheque de feue Madame la Marquise de Pompadour (381). The chief official mistress of Louis XV from 1745 until her
death in 1764, Madame de Pompadour was expertly schooled in music and dance: performances at Versailles’ Théâtre des
Petits Cabinets often featured her. Dealer description tipped to front pastedown. Interior quite clean, armorial binding with
mild wear, gilt exceptionally bright. A lovely volume with exceptional provenance.
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Exceedingly Rare Volume From The Library Of Marie Antoinette,
With Her Gilt Armorial Coat Of Arms On Both Boards,
First Edition Of Motifs De Ma Foi En Jésus-Christ, 1776
153. (MARIE ANTOINETTE) MUYARD DE VOUGLANS, Pierre-François. Motifs de
ma Foi en Jésus-Christ. Paris, 1776. 12mo (4 by 6-3/4 inches), contemporary full red
morocco, gilt coat of arms of Marie Antoinette to both boards. $11,000.
First edition of 18th-century French criminologist Vouglans’ major work on state and
religious authority, a most rare and exceptional copy from the library of Marie Antoinette,
with her gilt-embossed armorial coat of arms on both boards.
This important 18th-century work on the intersection of sacred and secular law is by
prominent French criminologist and jurist Pierre-François Muyard de Vouglans. A
contemporary of Marie Antoinette and Louis XIV, Vouglans has been described as “the
judicial ‘Hercules’ of the Monarchy (Dworkin), a radical conservative, in favor of the
absolutism and Catholicism as the state religion” (Simonin, Lecture: Stanford Humanities
Center). Migne, Encylopédie Theologique, 946. Gilt-embossed armorial coat of arms of Marie
Antoinette on both boards (Olivier 2508, fer 4). Marie-Antoinette formed two libraries, the
main collection at the Tuileries and a second at the Petit Trianon: details from the binding on this volume indicate it is from the library
at the Tuileries. Most of the books in this library are “said by Brunet to have been bound by a binder named Blaizot. They are usually
covered with red morocco” (Fletcher, 74). After the Revolution, most of the books in the Tuileries collection was placed at the
Bibliotheque Nationale. Bookplate. Minor penciled marginalia to early blank. Interior fresh and clean, tiny bit of repair at corners,
minimal wear to joints, spine ends. An exceptional near-fine copy with a most important provenance.
Very Rare Set Of 12 Atlas Folio Maps Of Versailles, Paris And The Surrounding ‘Imperial Hunting Grounds’
154. (VERSAILLES) BERTHIER, Alexandre. Carte Topographique des Environs de Versailles. Paris, 1807. Oblong atlas folio
(32-1/2 by 22 inches), contemporary French half dark green straight grain morocco. $12,500.
First edition of this beautifully illustrated set
of 12 finely detailed atlas folio maps of
Versailles, Paris, and the surrounding towns,
chateaux and countryside, each map measuring
30 inches wide by 16-1/2 inches tall, in
contemporary French marbled boards.
This beautiful collection of maps depicts the
city of Versailles and its eponymous palace, as
well as nearby Paris and the surrounding
countryside. The finely engraved mapwork
was commissioned and overseen by Marshal
Louis Alexandre Berthier, Napoleon’s Chief of
Staff and “most valued assistant” (Britannica,
11th ed.) from 1796 until Napoleon’s defeat
and exile. Berthier was born at Versailles and
his father, Lieutenant-Colonel Jean-Baptiste
Berthier, was an officer in the Corps of
Topographical Engineers who, from 1764-
1773, worked to prepare a map of the hunting grounds in the countryside around Versailles. During the Revolution, the younger
Berthier served as the commander of the Versailles National Guard. In 1807 Napoleon ordered the mapping of the newly styled
‘Imperial Hunting Grounds’ to be finished, and his loyal Chief of Staff produced this lovingly detailed series of maps to finally complete
the work begun by his father. A few minor creases; two small marginal closed tears to final mapsheet, not touching image.
Impressions fresh and crisp. A near-fine copy of this very rare set of maps, in contemporary binding.

marie antoinette
Exceedingly Rare Vie Privée Of Marie-Antoinette, 1792-3, Intensely Controversial,
Issued During The French Revolution, With 32 Engraved Plates, Most Licentious,
Attacking The Queen, Her Court And The Monarchy
155. (MARIE ANTOINETTE) ANONYMOUS. Vie Privée, Libertine et Scandaleuse de Marie-Antoinette D’Autriche. [Three
parts]. BOUND WITH: Vie Privée… Nouvelle Édition, augmentée d’un troisième volume. Paris, 1792-93. Together in one volume.
12 mo (3-1/2 by 5-1/4 inches), modern full crushed violet morocco. $11,000.
Anonymously issued Pamphlets, published in Paris at the height of the French Revolution as Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette were
imprisoned, then executed, one of the rarest and most highly controversial works of the era, complete with 32 full-page engravings,
many sexually explicit, bound in full crushed morocco by Wood of London.
This extraordinarily rare work, published in the two years during which Louis XVI and Marie-
Antoinette were arrested and executed, contains 32 engraved plates, many sexually explicit,
portraying Marie-Antoinette as a woman whose wild, unbridled desires sparked revolution. As
queen, she “was the first in France to live at a time when pamphlets and newspapers and other
forms of print publicity were ready to … manufacture news if necessary to satisfy an avid reading
public newly introduced to the thrills of court scandals and revolutionary politics… With the
coming of the Revolution in 1789, the floodgates opened, and a number of pamphlets attacking
the queen rapidly rose in number (Goodman, Marie Antoinette, 3-6, 127). Almost no copies
found complete with 32 engraved plates. Vie Privée (1792) is the second edition of the 1791
two-volume La Cour de Louis XVI dévoilée, a violent libel against Marie-Antoinette. Bound with
first edition of the third part of Nouvelle Édition: issued to augment the first two volumes of the
1792 Nouvelle Édition (not present). Peyrefitte 254. Pia Enger, 1516. Title pages with early owner
signatures. Faintest trace of effaced inscription to frontispiece without affecting plate. Bookplate.
Text and plates clean and fresh, minimal scattered foxing mainly to blank preliminary and
terminal leaves, occasional lightest expert archival repair to margins. About-fine.
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The Copy Of Madame De Maintenon, With Her Arms In Gilt On The Covers,
And With A Signed Autograph Letter By Her Laid In: Relation Nouvelle d’un Voyage De Constantinople,
1680 First Edition, With Engraved Illustrations
156. (MAINTENON, Madame de) GRELOT, Guillaume Joseph. Relation Nouvelle d’un Voyage de Constantinople. Paris, 1680.
Quarto, contemporary full polished calf, gilt arms of Madame la Marquise de Maintenon on covers. $13,500.
First edition of this important work, containing the earliest detailed plans of St. Sophia and other monuments in Constantinople,
with 12 (of 13) engraved plates. The copy of Madame de Maintenon, wife of Louis XIV, with her arms in gilt on the covers. Also with
a two-page autograph letter signed, penned entirely in her hand, to the Dike of Noailles, laid in.
Guillaume Joseph Grelot traveled in the Levant and Persia with Jean
Chardin from 1671-76, and provided many of the illustrations for
Chardin’s work on Persia. In Constantinople, Grelot made many drawings
of St. Sophia and other monuments, “the only reasonably accurate
delineations of the building for some 150 years” (Blackmer). Grelot
dedicated this work to Louis XIV. Françoise de Aubigné, Madame la
Marquise de Maintenon (1635-1719) was the second wife of Louis XIV,
whom he married privately in 1685 after the death of his first wife. The
letter, dated Saint-Cyr, 23 août, to Adrien Maurice, duc de Noailles, the
husband of her niece Françoise d’Aubigné, reads in part: “I would write
you all too often if I were to do it every time we hear about you but it is
good to tell you now and again of my delight in the reputation that you
have established and the services that you provide to the King. Continue,
my dear nephew, and believe that nobody is more interested… believe
me, Monsieur, with the esteem and affection that you deserve,
Maintenon.”] Without the panorama. Blackmer 750. Infrequent marginal
pencil marks. A few repaired tears to plates. Light foxing throughout,
chiefly marginal. Joints tender, cords holding firm. An excellent
copy in contemporary calf with distinguished provenance and a fine
autograph letter laid in.

The Copy Of Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor, Bound In
Contemporary Morocco-Gilt And Bearing His Elaborate Royal Arms
157. (JOSEPH II) MAISONNEUVE, Madame de. Journal des Dames. Paris, 1764.
Slim octavo, contemporary full olive morocco bearing the gilt armorial arms of Emperor
Joseph II. $5000.
First edition of this periodical consisting of works by 18th-century women writers, meant
to encourage further literary pursuits by women. The copy of Joseph II, Holy Roman
Emperor, bound in beautiful morocco-gilt and bearing his royal arms.
The Journal des Dames was a periodical that was published to encourage women to
engage in serious writing pursuits such as poetry and essays. This book was the copy of
Joseph II and is bound in his armorial binding. Joseph II, eldest son of Empress Maria
Theresa and Francis I, ruled as Holy Roman Emperor from 1765 to 1790 and also ruled
the Habsburg lands for the decade leading up to his death. Joseph II’s parentage made
him the first ruler in the Austria dominions of the House of Lorraine. He might well
have proven himself to be a great reformer and proponent of the Enlightenment, had he
not encountered such opposition during his reign. His reason-based reforms, which
included giving rights to serfs, moving toward religious tolerance, reducing censorship, and forcing out the Church, came to be
known as Josephinism. Early red stamp. Interior generally fine, armorial morocco-gilt with only a few minor areas of rubbing and
toning, gilt bright. An exceptional copy in very nearly fine condition, with a magnificent provenance.
With The Gilt-Tooled Armorial Coat Of Arms Of Louis XVI,
Superb French Almanch Royal For The Year 1790
158. (LOUIS XVI). Almanach Royal, Année Commune M.DCC.LXXXX.
Paris, 1790. Octavo, contemporary full French crimson morocco with gilt arms of
Louis XVI, custom morocco clamshell box. $6500.
Royal Almanac for the year 1790, bound in splendid crimson morocco with Louis
XVI’s gilt-tooled armorial coat of arms on both boards, issued amidst the outbreak
of the French Revolution that marked the end of the reign of King Louis XVI and
Queen Marie-Antoinette.
This rare Almanach Royal for 1790, published amidst the eruption of the French
Revolution, contains the gilt-tooled armorial coat of arms of King Louis XVI, who
was born the third son of Louis, the dauphin, and the grandson of Louis XV of
France and of his consort, Maria Leszczynska. The 1789 French Revolution
effectively brought the reign of Louis XVI to an end, culminating in his execution
by guillotine on January 21, 1792 and nine months later that of Queen Marie-
Antoinette. This yearly almanac, which was begun by Laurent d’Houry in 1699,
records the births, marriages and deaths of French royalty, the members and
offices of the Assemblée Nationale, and assembles other fascinating information
concerning the reign of Louis XV and the revolutionary birth of a French Republic. Title page with woodcut-engraved royal coat of
arms. Containing woodcut astronomical symbols head- and tailpieces. Text in French. Olivier, 2436, fer 4. Minor penciled notation
to blank preliminary leaf. Interior fresh, lightest edge-wear to boards. About-fine condition.
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léon bakst
“A Triumph And A Scandal”:
Three Spectacular Large Original Bakst Theater Posters For
Ballerina Ida Rubinstein’s Performance Of Saint Sebastien,
From Rubinstein’s Own Estate
159. BAKST, Léon. Three original posters (of five) for Le Martyre de Saint
Sebastien, written for famous ballerina Ida Rubinstein. Paris, 1911. Three
works. Large original color lithographic posters, two mounted on stretched
canvas, one mounted on board, all three framed in an antique-style. $36,000.
Three magnificent and extraordinarily rare large original posters by famous
costume designer Léon Bakst advertising the 1911 production of Gabriel
D’Annunzio’s Le Martyre de Saint Sebastien, danced by Ida Rubinstein in
the title role, with choreography by Michel Fokine and music by Claude
Debussy. Only one complete set of these wonderful posters known. Mounted
on stretched canvas and measures 30 by 53 inches each. From Rubinstein’s
own estate.
In keeping with the prevailing Decadent aesthetic in 1911, Italian poet Gabriel
D’Annunzio conceived Le Martyre de Saint Sebastien as a theatrical production
inspired by medieval religious mystery plays—part oratorio, part mime spectacle—with
music by Claude
Debussy. The work was commissioned
by Russian ballerina
Ida Rubinstein, who also
made her reputation within the Decadent style. “An idol of the fin de siècle renowned
for her beauty and mimetic powers,” Rubinstein danced to the racy and
provocative choreography of Fokine, who “capitalized on her gestural expressiveness
and sexual daring, while presenting her as an actress in a setting of perfumed
beauty” (Lynn Garafola). The magnificent scenery and costumes were created by
Léon Bakst, “who defected temporarily from Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes to apply his
sensuous curves and colors to an enterprise that was well in tune with his Russian
variant of the Decadent style” (Anna Kisselgoff).
These magnificent posters by Bakst, advertising Le Martyre de Saint Sebastien,
depict two images of seers, and one of a justice. Crayoned in bold strokes directly
on the lithographic stones, Bakst’s costume designs exemplify “his feeling for
synthesis, and his impeccable instinct for harmony” (Levinson). These three
posters are from a suite of five, the lettering at the bottom of which, when placed in
the proper order, spell out “Le Martyre de Saint Sebastien.” These posters read as
follows: “Le Mar,” “Saint,” and “stien,” indicating that they are the first, third and
fifth posters in the suite. Only one other set of Sebastien posters has been recorded—
by the Library of Congress (all five posters). Accompanied by a show program in
original wraps for the Ballet, featuring photographs of the Rubinstein and others
and reproductions of Bakst drawings. This set was part of Rubinstein’s own estate.
Original lettering (probably gray or silver) faded to black, expert restoration to all
three panels. Beautifully framed in antique style, extremely scarce and quite
extraordinary.

marc chagall
Inscribed By Chagall: “The Very Hues Of Man’s Lost Eden”:
First American Edition Of Chagall’s Second Series Of Bible
Illustrations, With 96 Heliogravures And 24 Color Lithographs
160. CHAGALL, Marc. Drawings for the Bible. New York, 1960. Folio (10-1/2
by 14-1/2 inches), original pictorial boards, dust jacket. $18,500.
First American edition of Chagall’s second series of illustrations for the Bible,
with 96 black-and-white heliogravures, as well as 24 color lithographs prepared
by Chagall especially for the present work and printed by Mourlot Frères,
inscribed, “To Shirley and Jack Mandel, Marc Chagall, N.Y. 1963.”
This breathtaking blend of Chagall’s childhood experience of the world of the
Hebrew Bible as “another world that still existed behind the world of workaday
reality” began with his experience in Palestine during a 1931 trip. His illustrations
constitute an “astonishing unity of word and image, of visual representation and
nonvisual suggestion… The picture is not there to cover, sustain or adorn the event,
but to report it plainly and yet in all its temporal and eternal significance… Chagall’s
Bible etchings have the same religious force as the Bible itself” (Meyer, 383, 388,
393). The massive undertaking occupied Chagall off and on from 1931 to 1956, and
again between 1958-59 (this edition). Cramer 42 (French edition). Sorlier 75. Expert
restoration to edges of book and dust jacket.
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joan miró
“Enchanting Chromatic Poetry”:
Miró’s Posters, Inscribed And Signed By The Artist
With Wonderful Original Color Drawings
161. (MIRÓ, Joan) CORREDOR-MATHEOS, J. Miró’s Posters.
Catalogue of the posters by Gloria Picazo. Secaucus, New Jersey,
1980. Quarto, original beige paper boards, dust jacket. $17,000.
First American edition of this catalogue raisonnée of 60 years of
Miró’s poster art, with wonderful colored crayon drawing by Miró
across the entire title page spread and inscribed: “Pour Paul Pierre,
amicalement, Miró! 5/IV/81.”
“What is there in a picture by Miró that casts such an irresistible spell
over the spectator?… It is a dreamworld transcribed by a master
technician… A poetry of the unutterable, of the unreal, of germinations
and beginnings, is the secret of his power” (Hazan, 187-188).
With essays by art critic José Corredor-Matheos and a detailed catalogue
of 119 Miró posters, complete with color reproductions.
Published in the same year in a Spanish edition. Fine condition, extremely
scarce inscribed by Miró and with his trademark drawings.

Costumes For Tchaikovsky’s Sleeping Princess, With 56 Mounted
Color Plates By Léon Bakst And A Portrait Of Bakst By Picasso
162. BAKST, Léon. Designs of Léon Bakst for The Sleeping Princess. New York,
1923. Folio, original half gilt-stamped vellum, new patterned endpapers, uncut; custom
cloth slipcase. $4500.
Limited first edition, one of 500 copies in the American issue (total edition of 1,000),
with 56 mounted color plates by Bakst (54 of costumes and sets, with letterpress
tissue-guards), and a lithographic pen-and-ink portrait of Bakst by Picasso.
A gifted painter, Bakst is best remembered for the sets and costumes he designed for
Diaghilev’s Ballet Russes in the early decades of the 20th century. His exotic and
sumptuous designs, in conjunction with Diaghilev’s radical and provocative
choreography, helped revitalize ballet and lay the framework for modern interpretive
dance. “The original version of The Sleeping Princess, at Saint-Petersburg, was due to
the collaboration of Marius Petitpa, master of the ballet, Vsevolojskoi, the director of
the Imperial Theatres, and Tchaikovsky, the composer of the score… Bakst’s greatest
claim to theatrical glory lies in his feeling for synthesis, in his impeccable instinct for
harmony” (Levinson). A few faint spots of foxing to plate mounts and text, shallow
staining to edges of text block, only faint minor soiling to binding. A near-fine copy.
A gifted painter, Bakst is best remembered
for the sets and costumes
he designed for Diaghilev’s
Ballet Russes in the early decades
of the 20th century. His exotic
and sumptuous designs, in conjunction
with Diaghilev’s radical
and provocative choreography,
helped revitalize ballet and lay
the framework for modern interpretive
dance. It was the Ballet Russes that first brought Tchaikovsky’s Sleeping
Beauty (renamed Sleeping Princess) to the west in 1921, featuring scenery and
costumes by Bakst. “Bakst’s greatest claim to theatrical glory lies in his feeling for
synthesis, in his impeccable instinct for harmony” (Levinson). Plates and text
fine, fragile original wrappers in exceptionally fresh condition. Expert restoration
to original slipcase, with cap renewed. An extraordinary copy.
Ballet Russe Costumes: Tchaikovsky’s “Sleeping Beauty,”
Signed By Bakst, With 56 Mounted Color Plates By Bakst
And Portrait Of Bakst By Picasso
163. BAKST, Léon. L’Oeuvre de Leon Bakst pour La Belle au Bois Dormant.
Paris, 1922. Large folio, original limp paper covers, slipcase. $7500.
Signed limited first French edition, one of only 500 copies signed by both Bakst and
publisher Maurice de Brunoff, with 56 mounted color plates (54 full-page costumes
and sets for the Ballet Russes, with letterpress tissue-guards), and a portrait of
Bakst by Picasso. Presentation copy, inscribed by the editor and publishe:, “á
Monsieur René Goutchot, amateur de beaux livres, tres amical et respectueux hommage
de l’editeur. Jacques de Brunhoff, 31 Decembre 1930.” A fine uncut copy.
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Original Edward Borein Engraved Plate
Splendidly Illustrated By Barbier
164. BARBIER, George. Guirlande des Mois. Paris, 1916-21. Five
volumes. 16mo, original illustrated silk gilt, dust jackets, slipcases,
custom clamshell box. $6000.
First editions of the complete series of five years of this almanac,
beautifully illustrated with 31 pochoir color plates by George Barbier
in his characteristic Art Deco style, and five color title page vignettes.
The designs in this charming production are the work of Art Deco
legend George Barbier, who began his career as a costume and set
designer for the Ballet Russes and later created décors and costumes
for music-halls, movies and the Folies Bergère. Renowned for his
fashion illustrations for the leading magazines of the time, including
the Gazette du Bon Ton and Vogue, his artistic style is recognized by a
characteristically elegant, stylized line with some classical Greek
influence. In addition to the six beautiful pochoir color plates and title
page in each volume (seven plates in Volume II), Barbier also illustrated
the bindings (in color), dust jackets, and title pages, and created
numerous in-text line drawings. Text in French. Without slipcase for
Volume two. Illustrations lovely, bright, and fine. Light wear and a few
minor expert repairs to dust jackets, inner hinges and slipcases. A
scarce, near-fine complete set.
165. BOREIN, Edward. Hopi Boys. No place (likely Santa Barbara, CA), circa 1935. Original etched plate, proof impression
mounted opposite in custom morocco clamshell box. $7500.
Original printing plate etched by renowned western/cowboy artist Edward Borein, mounted in handsome full morocco-gilt
clamshell box with a proof impression of the plate mounted opposite.
Known primarily for his paintings and drawings of cowboys,
Native Americans, and the horses and cattle they relied
on for their livelihoods, Borein’s pen-and-ink drawings
appeared in Harpers, Colliers Weekly, Sunset Magazine, The
Saturday Evening Post, and in popular advertisements.
“Borein lived his artistic life, working first as a cowboy on
cattle ranches, doing a true day’s work as a skilled cowpuncher.
The people he drew, though they existed in his
imagination, were well founded in reality, particularly the
Indians who once rode freely over the West and across
America’s desert land, and cowboys who mustered cattle of
a long-horned breed that no longer roam the range lands of
the United States. All types of riders were shown using the
animals that Borein drew with skill unmatched by any
other artist anywhere, at any time—cattle and ‘Western’
horses” (Galvin, i). Borein’s fine etchings have become increasingly
collectible and sought-after over the years. This
is the second state of “Hopi Boys,” number 187 in the
Galvin’s catalogue of Borein’s etched works. Fine condition.

“There Was No Better Model For Me… Than The Universe”
166. (CALDER, Alexander) PRÉVERT, Jacques. Fêtes. Paris, 1971. Large folio
(14 by 19 inches), 12 loose gatherings containing seven color aquatints, as issued
in illustrated stiff paper wrappers and cloth
clamshell box. $12,000.
Beautiful limited “edition originale,” one of only
225 copies, of Jacques Prévert’s Fêtes, with cover
illustration and seven stunning, deeply etched
color aquatints by Calder, signed in pencil by
both Calder and Prévert. A beautiful production
in fine condition.
Calder’s development into abstraction was largely
influenced by the work of Piet Mondrian, from
whom Calder adopted a “spartan palette” of brilliant
primary colors, black and white. The seven
striking lithographs in this edition reflect this
style while intimating the symbolism and movement
of Calder’s other work, particularly his famous
mobiles. With their bold star, moon, and
spiral images, these striking aquatints are in
keeping with Calder’s artistic vision: “From the beginning of my abstract
work… I felt there was no better model for me to choose than the Universe” (DAB). “When an artist explains what he is doing,” he
wrote in 1937, “he either has to scrap what he has explained, or make subsequent work fit in with the explanation.” His large, bold
abstract aquatints for Prevert’s Fêtes require no explanation. Text in French. Logan 152. A fine copy, with only a slight scuff to
corner of original box.
Signed By Vollard, With An Original Etching By Cézanne
167. (CÉZANNE, Paul) VOLLARD, Ambroise. Paul Cézanne. Paris, 1914.
Folio (10-1/2 by 13-1/2 inches), contemporary half blue morocco gilt, inlaid
wooden boards (original wrappers bound in). $5500.
Signed limited first edition of Vollard’s illustrated biography of Cézanne, one of
only 150 copies on Japon paper (of a total edition of 1000), this copy labeled
“Exemplaire d’Auteur” and signed by Vollard, with an original etching entitled
“Tête de Femme” by Cézanne. Bound with inlaid wooden boards by B.A.
Martin.
In 1893 Henri-Louis-Ambroise Vollard opened a gallery at the center of the
Parisian art market. Regarded as one of the most important dealers in French
contemporary art at the beginning of the 20th century, this “shrewd patron
and publisher” shaped the careers of such groundbreaking artists as Cézanne,
Maillol, Bonnard, Matisse, Renoir, Picasso, Rouault, Gauguin and Van Gogh.
He arranged Cézanne’s first one-man show—“possibly the most important
exhibition of the 1890s. Cézanne’s work was virtually unknown in Paris at the
time, and Vollard took a significant financial risk in showcasing the 150
paintings that he displayed. The exhibition proved to be a success; many of
the works sold, Cézanne’s place in the pantheon of modern art was firmly
established, and Vollard soon became the leading contemporary art dealer of
his generation… playing a key role in shaping the history of modern art”
(Metropolitan Museum of Art). Text in French. The original Cézanne etching
was undoubtedly struck posthumously from the original plate. A near-fine
copy, with only light soiling to bound-in original wrappers.
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Boldly Signed By Chagall, With An Original Lithograph
168. CHAGALL, Marc. Le Plafond de l’Opéra de Paris. Monte Carlo, 1965.
Quarto, original red cloth, dust jacket, acetate, slipcase. $5500.
First edition of this richly illustrated history of Chagall’s designs for the ceiling of
the Paris Opera, boldly signed by him on the half title, with an original lithographic
frontispiece and a poster-sized color plan for the ceiling in a pocket at the rear.
In 1963 Chagall was commissioned by France’s Minister of Culture, André
Malraux, to paint a new ceiling for the Paris Opera. His choice of Chagall,
however, caused enormous controversy. Many felt a ceiling painted by a modern
artist would clash with the Baroque style of the rest of the theater.
Nevertheless, Chagall designed a sumptuous ceiling, drawing inspiration from
the works of composers
Mozart, Wagner,
Mussorgsky, Berlioz
and Ravel. This detailed
documentary
contains dozens of color lithographic sketches and preliminary designs,
as well as an original lithographic frontispiece and a postersized
color plate of the final plan for the ceiling. Following its successful
unveiling, Chagall remarked on his intention, “Up there in my
painting I wanted to reflect, like a mirror in a bouquet, the dreams
and creations of the singers and musicians, to recall the movement of
the colorfully attired audience below, and to honor the great opera
and ballet composers.” Text in French. Cramer 61. Sorlier 88. Sorlier
Collection 434. A fine signed copy.
“A Master Of The Fantastic And Exotic”
169. (DULAC, Edmund) ANDERSEN, Hans Christian. Stories from
Hans Andersen. London, 1911. Folio, original full vellum gilt. $4800.
Signed limited edition, one of 750 copies signed by Dulac, with 28
wonderful mounted color plates, bound in original vellum-gilt.
“Dulac was one of the central illustrators of the Edwardian period, a time
when fantasy illustration reached a peak of sophistication”
(Clute & Grant, 300). “Dulac remained true to the medium of
watercolor, and the critics were unanimous in their praise. He
was recognized as an illustrator of first rank, a master of the
fantastic and exotic, and ‘a dreamer of extraordinary dreams’…
Among the 28 color plates in [this volume] are several of the
artist’s most loved and celebrated illustrations: ‘The Little
Mermaid,’ ‘The Emperor’s New Clothes’ and ‘The Princess and
the Pea’” (Dalby, 82-83). This collection also includes “The
Wind’s Tale,” “The Nightingale” and “The Snow Queen.”
Without silk ties. Hughey 27b. Bookplate. Plates fine, occasional
mainly marginal soiling, original vellum unusually
lovely with only tiny crack to bottom edge. An exceptional
copy in near-fine condition.

“The Greatest Book Arts Work Ever Produced In
The United States”
170. (KENT, Rockwell) MELVILLE, Herman. Moby Dick or
The Whale. Chicago, 1930. Three volumes. Quarto, original
black cloth silver-stamped in a design by Kent, acetate dust
jackets, aluminum slipcase. $16,000.
Limited first edition of Rockwell Kent’s masterpiece and one of
the most famous American illustrated books of the 20th century,
one of only 1000 copies, with 280 magnificent wood-engravings
by Kent, many full-page, in original aluminum slipcase.
Spurned by critics and readers when published in 1851, Melville’s
Moby Dick resurfaced in the 20th century as one of America’s
greatest novels—due in no small part to this edition, “heralded
by various critics as the greatest book arts work ever produced in
the United States” (Stanley Collection 33). His prior experiences
as a ship’s carpenter; his explorations of the waters about Tierra
del Fuego in a small boat; his sojourns in Newfoundland, Alaska
and Greenland—these varied experiences all contributed to
Kent’s achievement here, “his best-known contribution to
popular American culture. In black and white, he created a
universe of emblems and symbols that incorporated elements of
both realism and abstraction” (Wien, 134). Rockwellkentiana, 62. The Artist and the Book 140. Minor loss to edges of original acetate
dust jackets; paper restoration to flaps. Usual minor abrasions to original aluminum slipcase. A fine copy of a magnificent production,
a landmark in American book arts and an impressive highlight of Kent’s distinguished career.
Jerusalem Windows, Boldly Inscribed By Chagall,
With Two Original Color Lithographs
171. CHAGALL, Marc. Vitraux pour Jerusalem. Monte Carlo, 1962. Folio,
original gray silk, dust jacket, acetate, slipcase. $9800.
First French edition of Chagall’s Jerusalem
Windows, boldly inscribed by Chagall
and dated 1965, with two original fullcolor
lithographs specially prepared by
Chagall for this edition and with numerous
beautiful color lithographic reproductions
of the artist’s work
Illustrated are various drafts as well as
the final versions of the 12 stained glass
windows (one for each of the tribes of
Israel) and designed by Chagall for the
synagogue of the Hadassah-Hebrew
University Medical Center. Issued the
same year as the very similar English-language edition titled
Jerusalem Windows. Text in French, See Sorlier, Chagall 78;
Sorlier, Chagall Lithographs 365-66; Cramer 49. Small notation
to corner of slipcase. A fine inscribed copy.
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“Amongst The Greatest Photographs Of The 20th Century”:
Man Ray’s Photographs, 1934, Inscribed By Him To Fellow Photographer Charles Fraser
172. MAN RAY. Man Ray Photographs 1920-1934 Paris. Hartford, Paris and New York, 1934. Tall quarto, original spiral
bound color-photographic stiff paper wrappers, custom chemise and clamshell box. $18,000.
First edition, second issue, of Man Ray’s first photobook, inscribed to a
fellow photographer: “For Charles Fraser with compliments of Man Ray
Paris 1960,” with 104 rich heliogravures of his photographs and
Rayographs, “regarded by some as amongst the greatest of the 20th
century” (Parr & Badger).
“This was Man Ray’s first monograph, and his friends pulled out all
the stops to herald it” (Roth, 80). It contains poetry and essays by the
leading figures of the Dada and Surrealist movements: André Breton,
Paul Éluard, Marcel Duchamp (written under his famous pseudonym
“Rrose Selavy”) and Tristan Tzara. “Man Ray’s work introduced a
particular note [to Surrealism], since he used photography and
recognized early on that this medium could reproduce the effects of
object-based art in two-dimensional form. Photography was in a
position to preserve the ordinary and to unleash surreal effects” (Icons
of Photography, 26). Text in English and French. First edition, second
issue, with the fictitious “Second Edition” on the cancel title page
placed there by the publisher, who “attempted to generate demand
where none existed by suggesting the edition had sold out” (Roth, 80).
A beautiful copy in about-fine condition.

“A Dreamworld Transcribed By A Master
Technician”: Original Signed Miró Portfolio,
With Six Folio Color Lithographs
173. MIRÓ, Joan. Céramiques Monumentales de Miró
et Artigas. Paris, 1963. Slim folio, original pictorial
wrapper, five loose gatherings (as issued), paper chemise
and slipcase, custom clamshell box. $7500.
Signed limited edition of this special issue of Derrière le
Miroir devoted to the ceramic designs of Miró and his
teacher Llorens Artigas, one of only 150 copies signed by
Miró in pencil, with six original color lithographs (a
triple-plate, two double-page plates, and three single
plates).
“What is there in a picture by Miró that casts such an
irresistible spell over the spectator?… It is a dreamworld
transcribed by a master technician… A poetry of the
unutterable, of the unreal, of germinations and beginnings,
is the secret of his power” (Hazan, 187-88). Attracted by the medium of ceramics, Miró looked to his friend
Josep Llorens Artigas as his teacher in this art form. The collaboration between the two, which began in 1944,
was one of the most fruitful symbioses in contemporary art. This splendid portfolio of six original Miró
lithographs comprise a special issue of the art magazine Derrière le Miroir devoted to avant garde ceramics,
published by French gallery owner Aimé Maeght. Designed as an art object in itself, sumptuously illustrated with original
lithographs and presented in a large format, Derrière le Miroir eventually served as the catalogue for exhibitions held at the gallery.
Text in French. Cramer 83. Portfolio and chemise fine, light soiling to original slipcase only. A splendid limited edition.
“The Mexican Suite”: Ten Magnificent Large Folio Original
Signed Lithographs By David Siqueiros
174. SIQUEIROS, José David Alfaro. “The Mexican Suite.” Paris, 1968.
Very large folio (20-1/2 by 27 inches), 10 loose lithographs, cloth clamshell
box. $14,000.
Signed limited issue, number 145 of only 300 sets, of Siqueiros’ striking
suite of large folio color lithographs depicting social conditions during
the Mexican Revolution, each impression numbered and signed by
Siqueiros in pencil.
Siqueiros focused on dynamic revolutionary themes, rooted in the Spanish
Civil War and the Mexican Revolution, in which he personally participated.
The 30-year period of 1920-50 has been called the Mexican Mural
Renaissance, and he was a key figure in an attempt to establish an indigenous
art that would be at the same time universal (see Philip Stein, 14-16).
This is Siqueiros’ “Mexican Suite,” complete with ten bold and vividlycolored
lithographs of contorted and emotional figures, reflecting the social
and polemical issues of his time. His use of montage, along with photographs
and the air-brush, created the illusion of movement, which has
become a “signature aesthetic in his work… [and] a characteristic which in
his best known works places him among the masters of the line in this
century” (Margarita Nieto). Without the accompanying text booklet. Fine
condition. Scarce.
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“A Night Of Ghostly Gondolas,
Chasing Specks Of Stars In Dim Canals…”
176. (VENICE) SMITH, F. Hopkinson. Venice of To-day.
New York, 1896. Ten portfolio volumes. Large folio (16-1/2 by
21 inches), original cloth, plates and text loose as issued, custom
half morocco slipcase. $3500.
Autograph edition, one of only 540 sets signed by the author/
artist, with 20 color and 21 black-and-white plates and over
160 in-text illustrations (many in color).
F. Hopkinson Smith was known as much for his art as for his
writing, and often combined the two in delightful travelogues.
“I have made no attempt in these pages to review the splendors
of the past… I have contented myself rather with the Venice
that you see in the sunlight of a summer’s day; the
Venice that bewilders with her glory when you
land at her water-gate; that delights with her color
when you idle along the Riva; that intoxicates
with her music as you lie in your gondola adrift
on the bosom of some breathless lagoon; the
Venice of mould-stained palace, quaint caffe and
arching bridge; of fragrant incense, cool, dimlighted
church and noiseless priest; of strongarmed
men and graceful women; the Venice of
light and life, of sea and sky and melody.” First
published in 1895; later issued under the title of
Gondola Days. Plates and text fine, with only occasional
very minor foxing. Lovely original
boards in exceptional condition, with only the
most minor wear. A wonderful production.
Strutt’s English Costumes,
With 153 Lovely Hand-Colored Plates
175. STRUTT, Joseph. A Complete View of the Dress and Habits of the
People of England. London, 1842. Two volumes. Quarto, contemporary
three-quarter brown morocco gilt. $3200.
Expanded edition of this treasury of English costume beginning with
the Saxons, illustrated with 153 hand-colored copper-engraved plates
of costumes, armor, seals, and everyday objects.
Strutt’s superb plates reproduce portraits of English personages from
illuminated manuscripts in the British Museum and the Bodleian
Library, along with richly hand-colored reproductions of the costumes,
arms, seals, and other interesting objects particular to various English
peoples from the time of the Saxons to the close of the 17th century. First
published in 1796-99, this “new and improved edition” was issued with
153 plates, in both uncolored and hand-colored versions. A few plates
bound out of sequence, as issued. Without plate 108; with two copies of
plate 110. Colas 2825. Hiler, 820. Lipperheide 1001. Armorial bookplates.
Plates and text generally fine, contemporary binding lightly worn. A
handsome copy.

Oscar Wilde/Black Sun Press First Edition
177. WILDE, Oscar. L’Anniversaire de l’Infante. Illustrations par
Alastair. Paris: The Black Sun Press, 1928. Folio, original cream paper
wrappers, glassine, slipcase. $8500.
Rare limited deluxe first edition, number II of only 10 copies on Japon
Impérial out of 110 printed, with nine full-page illustrations by Alastair
and published by Harry and Caresse Crosby’s Black Sun Press.
This special edition of Wilde’s “The Birthday of the Infanta,” originally
published in English in The House of Pomegranates in 1891, was designed
entirely by Alastair, with nine full-page and numerous marginal
illustrations by him. “Alastair” was the pseudonym of Baron Hans
Henning Voight, German-born artist, dancer and mime, who derived
his provocative style of illustration directly from Aubrey Beardsley. His
pictures are known for their combination of “decorative elegance with a
fascination with the perverse, sinister and satanic” (Peppin &
Micklethwait). Caresse and Harry Crosby’s Black Sun Press “is one of
those happy combinations of husband and wife working together,
which always lend added charm to a private press and they make a
point of providing interesting illustrations” (Ransom, 178). With
forward by Harry Crosby. Text in French. Book fine, illustrations vivid
and beautiful. Only light edge-wear to original glassine and slipcase. A
fine copy. Rare.
“Destined To Revolutionize Architectural Thought”
178. WRIGHT, Frank Lloyd. Buildings, Plans, and Designs. New York,
1963. Large folio (16 by 25-1/2 inches), 100 loose plates as issued in original
half black cloth portfolio with ribbon ties, accompanying text in original
self-wrappers, shipping carton. $4500.
First edition in English of Frank Lloyd Wright’s first major publication,
number 496D of 2600 copies—a grand portfolio of one hundred large folio
plates of Wright’s earliest designs, including the Frederick C. Robie house
(1909), “the finest of the Prairie houses.”
The first period of Wright’s career “was one of bold invention and public
acclaim. It reached its climax in 1910 with the [German] publication of his
architectural drawings in an extraordinary pair of portfolios.” Buildings,
Plans and Designs remained for many years virtually unknown in America,
because a fire in 1914 had destroyed, not only Wright’s home at Taliesin, but
also that portion of the 1910 printing intended for American distribution.
Wright authorized the publication of this edition in 1958, just a year before
his death. Included are designs for 70 buildings and projects between 1893
and 1909, including the W.H. Winslow house (1893), the Unity Temple at
Oak Park (1906) and the Frederick C. Robie house (1909), which “has
generally been regarded as the finest of the Prairie Houses” (Roth, 463).
“Entire schools of architectural design and thought were in many cases
founded on individual buildings or ideas presented in this folio” (Sweeney).
Sweeney 87. Plates fine; faintest toning to booklet wrapper. A fine copy of an
impressive production, scarce in the original shipping carton.
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Section 7: Children'S literAture
louisa may alcott
One Of The Most Sought-After Of American Children’s Books:
First Editions Of Both Parts Of Little Women, In Original Cloth
179. ALCOTT, Louisa May. Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy. WITH: Little Women, Part Second. Boston, 1868-69.
Two volumes. 12mo, original gilt-stamped terra-cotta cloth. $18,500.
First edition, first issue of Little Women, “an outstanding achievement of 19th-century American literature,” together with the first
edition, mixed state of Little Women, Part Second, in original gilt-decorated cloth.
Published separately in consecutive years, the first part of Little Women “did not sell at first. Part Second was therefore also issued in
a small edition, but it went like wildfire, and pulled Part First along with it” (Grolier 74). The original issues of each part are therefore
quite rare. Each volume is illustrated with a frontispiece and three plates; those in the first part of Little Women were created by the
author’s sister, May. First issue of Little Women with all points, including Little Women priced at $1.25 in terminal advertisements; Part
Second is mixed state, with notice about Part First on page [iv] and four entries on page [364] as in second state, and with “Handy
Volume Series” followed by diamond rule and notice of intent to publish at top of page [366] as in fourth state. BAL 158, 159. Grolier,
American 100 74. Old gift inscriptions, owner signature. Little Women expertly recased. Little Women, Part Second with expert
reinforcement to first signature. Cloth with expert restoration, gilt bright.

lewis carroll
“The Greatest Of All English Stories For Children”:
Beautifully Bound First Editions Of Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland And
Through The Looking-Glass, With Original Cloth-Gilt Bound In
180. CARROLL, Lewis. Adventures in Wonderland. WITH: Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There.
London, 1866, 1872. Two volumes. Octavo, mid 20th-century full red morocco gilt. $22,000.
First editions of “the greatest of all English stories for children,” finely bound by Bayntun Riviere in matching full morocco-gilt,
with original cloth bound in at the end of each volume.
“Historians of children’s literature universally agree that the publication of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland marks the liberation
of children’s books from the restraining hand of the moralists… The two Alice books… completed the reinstatement of the
imagination, so long disapproved of by the opponents of fairy stories, to its proper place” (Carpenter & Prichard, 102). The first
published and authorized English edition of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, preceded only by the extraordinarily rare suppressed
1865 London edition, of which only about 20 copies are known to exist, and the scarce New York edition of 1866. First edition, first
issue of Through the Looking-Glass, with “wade” on page 21. Lewis Carroll Handbook 46 and 84. Williams 46. Muir, 139. A fresh
fine set with only minor repair to gutter of last leaf of Wonderland. A beautifully bound pair of volumes.
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c.s. lewis
“The Most Sustained Achievement In Fantasy For Children By A 20th-Century Author”:
Scarce Complete First Edition Set Of C.S. Lewis’ Chronicles Of Narnia
181. LEWIS, C.S. Chronicles of Narnia. London, 1950-56. Together, seven volumes. Octavo, original colored
cloth, dust jackets, custom clamshell box. $49,000.
First editions of all seven books in Lewis’ cherished Chronicles of Narnia, “intoxicating to all but the most relentlessly
unimaginative of readers,” all in original dust jackets. Generally excellent condition.
“The stories are unforgettable not only for the excitement and suspense of the adventures but also for the strong
emotions they describe so well… [and they are] further enriched by Lewis’ skillful use of language” (Silvey, 406).
Unlike most fantasy series, “each book has something new and different to offer and there is no weakening of either
inspiration or interest” (Eyre, 132). All seven books were “illustrated by Pauline Baynes in delightful fashion. She was
also responsible for the now amazingly rare gray dust wrapper” of the first book (Cooper & Cooper, 206). “Adored by
children and academics alike, these books are extremely collectible, sought-after and scarce” (Connolly, 186). Fantasy
and Horror 5-176. Owner signatures, gift inscriptions. Booksellers’ small tickets in Dawn Treader and Horse. Small
inkstamp to rear pastedown of Last Battle. Books near-fine to fine, a few books with light toning to spines and
extreme edges of boards. Dust jackets extremely good to fine, minor restoration to Caspian and Silver Chair dust
jackets. Complete first edition sets of the Narnia books are increasingly scarce.

arthur rackham
“Rackham’s Acknowledged Masterpiece”: Deluxe Suite Of 12 Folio Plates From Peter Pan,
The Only Work By Rackham With The Plates Issued Separately As A Portfolio
182. (RACKHAM, Arthur). The Peter Pan Portfolio. London, 1912.
Elephant folio (19-1/2 by 21-1/2 inches), ribbon-laced as issued (later silk
ribbon), original three-quarter vellum, cardboard box. $18,000.
First edition, one of only 500 copies signed by the publisher and the engraver.
The only suite of Rackham’s plates to be issued in an oversize portfolio
format, with 12 beautiful folio color prints from Rackham’s Peter Pan in
Kensington Gardens mounted on card and matted.
Published in 1912 to capitalize on the popularity of the stage production Peter
and Wendy, this portfolio contains 12 pictures considered to be Rackham’s
personal favorites from the 50 original plates he designed for Barrie’s text. This
edition was limited to 500 copies signed by the publishers, engravers and
printers, numbered 101-600 (this copy is number 448); copies 1-100 were
supposed to be signed on every plate by Rackham, but “Mr. Rackham advises
that he signed only about twenty” (Latimore and Haskell, 39). The portfolio
brought Rackham’s work great public attention, “and ultimately spawned one
fine new piece of music,” Debussy’s “Les Fées Sont d’Exquises Danceuses”
(Hamilton, 97). With descriptive tissue guards. Originally issued as a gift
book in 1906 with 50 color plates but in a much smaller quarto format. Riall, 113. Ray, 100 Outstanding Illustrated Books Published
in England 99. Plates generally bright and fresh, with occasional light foxing. Interior with expert restoration to title page edges,
leaves occasionally remargined at gutter, some mats expertly restored. Vellum with light wear to spine foot, minor bumping to
extremities. Expert restoration to scarce original cardboard box. An extremely good copy.
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maurice sendak
A Great Children’s Rarity, Signed By Sendak: “Let The Wild Rumpus Start!”:
First Issue Of Where The Wild Things Are
183. SENDAK, Maurice. Where the Wild Things Are. New York, 1963. Oblong quarto, original half gray cloth,
dust jacket, custom slipcase. $25,000.
First edition, in first-issue dust jacket, of one of the scarcest and most desirable books in modern children’s literature,
signed by Maurice Sendak.
Hailed as “the Picasso of children’s books,” Maurice Sendak has produced more than 80 books, of which
Where the Wild Things Are is unquestionably the most famous, being one of the ten best-selling children’s
books of all time. At its publication, critics regarded it as dangerous encouragement for children to
explore their darker side. It received scores of negative reviews and numerous denunciations
from children’s advocates. “But, by some miracle,” Sendak wrote, “I
won the Caldecott award, which is the highest graphics award in the industry, and
almost overnight everyone loved the book.” With this children’s book, “Maurice
Sendak expanded the possibilities of the genre” (Zipes et al. C12). First-issue dust
jacket, with correct blurbs and no
mention of the Caldecott award.
Hanrahan A58. Light foxing to edges
of pictorial boards. Bright dust jacket
with minor marginal restoration. A
lovely bright copy.

The First Published Children’s Book By Two Giants Of Children’s Literature:
Baum And Parrish’s Mother Goose In Prose, 1897
184. BAUM, L. Frank and PARRISH, Maxfield. Mother
Goose in Prose. Chicago, 1897. Quarto, original giltstamped
pictorial light gray, custom clamshell box. $5500.
First edition of the rare first published book by both Baum
and Parrish—a landmark in the publishing history of
children’s books—with illustrated title page and 12 full-page
black-and-white plates.
“Imaginative in concept and executed with confidence
and originality, the illustrations for Mother Goose in
Prose brought Parrish immediate recognition as a young
book illustrator of ability. An expression of strong individuality,
the illustrations portray a bygone era that is the
unique domain of the nursery rhyme or fairy tale”
(Ludwig, 25). “Copies today are quite rare” (Franklin, 30).
Second issue, as often, with colophon on page [267]. With
the two blank leaves before rear free endpaper. Bienvenue,
159. Baughman 44. Baum Bugle, Spring 1966, 14. Interior
generally clean, text block expertly repaired. Original
cloth with light toning to spine and minor expert restoration.
An extremely good copy.
“Greetings To You… From Mr. Willy Wonka!”
185. DAHL, Roald. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. New York,
1964. Octavo, original blind-stamped red cloth, dust jacket, custom
clamshell box. $8500.
First edition, first issue, of Dahl’s deliciously delightful tale of magic and
morality, with numerous in-text illustrations by Joseph Schindelman.
“Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is already a great classic work… [and]
one of the most enduring post-war children’s books… Dahl is undeniably
special” (Connolly, 102). First issue, in full red cloth and with six lines of
publishing information on last page (instead of five). First-issue dust
jacket, with no ISBN number on rear panel. Book fine. Light wear to
extremities of bright lightly toned about-fine dust jacket with a one-inch
closed tear at bottom of front flap. Very nearly fine condition.
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Cinderella, Inscribed By Walt Disney
186. DISNEY STUDIOS. Walt Disney’s Cinderella. New York,
1950. Slim folio, original laminated pictorial boards. $15,000.
First edition of the “Big Golden Book” edition of the most celebrated of
all Disney classics, boldly inscribed: “To Gunther, Jane & Family,
With my very best, Walt Disney.”
Known as one of Walt Disney’s all-time favorite films, this version in
book form was adapted from the highly successful movie by studio
artist Retta Scott Worcester, who achieved legendary
status among animators for her handling of the
hunting dogs in Bambi. Interior fine; original front
endpaper pop-up pumpkin coach fine and fresh.
Lightest rubbing to spine head of bright boards, wear
to lamination. A nearly fine copy, most scarce inscribed
and in such excellent condition.

“Mickey Started The
Calliope, The Music And The
Parade”: The First American
Series Of Pop-Up Books
187. DISNEY STUDIOS. The
“Pop-Up” Mickey Mouse. New
York, 1933. Octavo, original pictorial
paper boards. $1200.
First edition of an early American
pop-up book, published by Blue
Ribbon Pleasure Books, the original
patent-holder for pop-ups, with
three pop-up illustrations.
Blue Ribbon was the first publisher
to market its books using the term
“pop-up.” They and paper-engineer
Harold Lentz teamed up in the 1930s
to produce a successful series of
imaginative pop-ups. These are the first modern pop-up books produced in
America, following a series of British pop-ups by Brown and Giraud in the 1930s
under the imprint Bookano. Pop-ups completely intact, with only tiny closed tear
to Mickey’s arm, occasional faint soiling to interior; only light rubbing and soiling
to boards. A near-fine copy, much nicer than usually found.
“It Will Live As Long As Aesop’s Fables”:
First State Of The First Uncle Remus Book
188. HARRIS, Joel Chandler. Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings. New York,
1881. Octavo, original gilt-stamped pictorial cloth, custom clamshell box. $7500.
First edition, first state, of the first and most beloved Uncle Remus book, with eight
plates and numerous text illustrations by Frederick Church and James Moser. “It
will live as long as Aesop’s fables” (John Bigelow).
“Of all the American writers of [the Reconstruction] period, Joel Chandler Harris has
made the most permanent contribution” (Braithwaite, in The New Negro, 32). First
state, with “presumptive” in the last line of page 9 and no mention of Uncle Remus in
the publisher’s advertisements. BAL notes four cloth variants and three endpaper
variants, no priority. BAL 7100. From Peter Parley to Penrod, 56-57. Grolier American
100 83. Pierpoint Morgan Children’s Literature 260. Owner signature dated “Xmas
1880” (prior to publication date). Expert repair to one leaf and one plate, text block
expertly recased. Original cloth with bright gilt. A near-fine copy.
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“Nielsen’s Most Spectacular And Celebrated Book”:
East Of The Sun And West Of The Moon,
Signed Limited Edition
189. NIELSEN, Kay. East of the Sun and West of the Moon.
London, 1914. Quarto, original gilt-stamped vellum, custom
clamshell box. $22,000.
Signed limited first edition, one of only 500 copies, of this classic
collection of Norwegian folk tales, illustrated with 25 superb
mounted color plates and decorative in-text line cuts by famed
artist Kay Nielsen and signed by him. A scarce and magnificent
masterpiece.
“By general consent, Nielsen’s most spectacular and
celebrated book is East of the Sun and West of the
Moon, old tales from the North, translated from the
Norwegian of Peter C. Asbjörnsen and Jörgen Moe
(devoted collectors of Scandinavian folk tales in the
mid-19th century)… Nielsen’s unique style and talent
for combining the eerie and fantastic with beautiful
decorative effect was at its peak with this set of
illustrations” (Dalby, 90). Without fragile silk ties.
Text and plates fine, light soiling and a few minor
spots to original vellum binding, gilt bright. A nearfine
signed copy.
“Here Is Edward Bear, Coming Downstairs Now,
Bump, Bump, Bump…”: First Edition Of
Winnie-The-Pooh
190. MILNE, A.A. Winnie-the-Pooh. London, 1926. Octavo,
original gilt-stamped pictorial green cloth, dust jacket, custom
clamshell box. $7000.
First edition of the beloved book of adventures in the Hundred Acre Wood, with
charming illustrations by Ernest H. Shepard.
In 1925, Milne acquired “a Sussex farmhouse for use as a weekend and holiday
alternative to the family’s London home… [that would] provide the setting for
the stories he now started to write about [his son] Christopher’s toys… Winniethe-Pooh
and The House at Pooh Corner [its companion volume, published 1928]
are, on their own terms, more successful as works written for children than
anything else produced during children’s literature’s Golden Age” (Carpenter,
201, 205). Payne IIA. Cutler & Stiles, 116. Book near-fine, with only light rubbing
to cloth and gilt quite bright. Dust jacket near-fine, with small expert repair,
only slight rubbing and soiling. A lovely copy.

“Wwee Musstt Ggo Bbehindd Thee Sshaddow”:
Exceptionally Rare First Edition Of L’Engle’s
Newbery Medal-Winning A Wrinkle In Time
191. L’ENGLE, Madeleine. A Wrinkle in Time. New York, 1962. Octavo, original
half blue cloth, dust jacket. $14,500.
Rare first edition in original dust jacket of L’Engle’s landmark novel, winner of
the 1962 Newbery Medal.
“At once a science fiction story, a philosophical meditation on the nature of Evil
and Love and a coming-of-age novel, Wrinkle broke new ground in what was
considered appropriate for young readers. Rejected by several publishers for being
too complex, this title has amply proven L’Engle’s belief that ‘children are excited
by new ideas’ and has been credited with bringing science fiction into the
mainstream of children’s literature. This is L’Engle’s best work” (Silvey, 401).
Anatomy of Wonder II-662. Book fine, dust jacket with faintest soiling to rear
panel and only light wear to extremities. A near-fine copy of a most rare title,
particularly scarce in this condition.
“My Own Favorite Amongst My Little Books”:
Tailor Of Gloucester, One Of Only 500 Privately Printed Copies,
Wonderful Association Copy
192. POTTER, Beatrix. The Tailor of Gloucester. London,
December, 1902. 12mo, original pictorial pink boards, custom
clamshell box. $12,000.
True first edition, one of only 500 privately printed copies, of
Potter’s second book, which she called “my own favorite
amongst my little books,” with frontispiece and 15 illustrations
in color, three of which do not appear in the first trade edition
of October, 1903. A wonderful association copy, with a gift
inscription to Margaret Lane, Potter’s first biographer, from
Leslie Linder, who first decoded Potter’s secret writing, written
in both English and Potter’s secret code.
“Evidently with some regret,
Beatrix Potter [deleted from
the first trade edition] eight
or nine pages of text [which appear in this edition]… This is the part of the story which contained
the majority of her rhymes and verses” (Linder 117). Quinby 3. Linder, 420. Tipped to the front
endpapers are gift inscriptions from Leslie Linder to Margaret Lane, dated 1966. Engineer Leslie
Linder wrote numerous books on Potter and is well-known for being the first to decipher the
code in which Potter wrote in her journals; the Potter collection at the Victoria and Albert
Museum was donated principally by Linder. Recipient Margaret Lane was the first biographer of
Potter, also publishing numerous works on her. Interior fine, a bit of toning to fragile original
boards and a few spots to fore-edge. An extremely good copy with a wonderful provenance.
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“A Refusal To Lament The Loss
Of Innocence”: Philip Pullman’s
His Dark Materials Trilogy,
First Editions Signed By Him
In All Three Volumes
193. PULLMAN, Philip. His Dark Materials:
Northern Lights. WITH: The Subtle Knife.
WITH: The Amber Spyglass. London, 1995, 1997,
2000. Together three volumes. Octavo, original
cloth, dust jackets, custom clamshell box. $18,500.
First editions of Pullman’s celebrated trilogy- including
the very scarce first volume, Northern
Lights—each volume signed by Pullman.
A former schoolteacher and an accomplished
playwright, Pullman followed several historical and realistic novels with this literate, sophisticated
series, “perhaps the most highly acclaimed work of fantasy for young adults published in
the 1990s… The Dark Materials series is filled with moral ambiguity rather than clear-cut didacticism, and readers as well as
[protagonist] Lyra must grapple with the difficult questions raised by the story” (Fantasy and Horror 7-311). With two bookplates
signed by Pullman, two bookmarks from the 2003 stage adaptation and publisher’s excerpt from The Amber Spyglass laid in. The
Amber Spyglass dust jacket with bookstore price sticker to rear panel. A fine set.
Signed By Illustrator Charles Robinson:
Oscar Wilde’s The Happy Prince
194. WILDE, Oscar. The Happy Prince and Other Tales. London,
1913. Quarto, original full Japanese vellum. $5500.
Signed limited edition, the first to be illustrated by Charles Robinson
(and his only signed limited edition) with 12 mounted full-color
plates and numerous in-text line drawings, one of only 260 copies
signed by the artist.
Wilde wrote that he intended these stories “partly
for children, and partly for those who have kept
the child-like faculties of wonder and joy, and
who find in simplicity a subtle strangeness”
(Hart-Davis, Letters of Oscar Wilde, 219). In addition
to the title story, this book includes The
Nightingale and the Rose, The Selfish Giant, The
Devoted Friend, and The Remarkable Rocket. First
published in 1888 with illustrations by Walter
Crane and Jacomb Hood. Mason 325. Interior
quite clean, light wear to vellum and toning to
spine. A handsome copy in near-fine condition.

“Hope You Like This One As Much”: Presentation First
Edition Of Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets,
Warmly Inscribed To Her Personal Assistant By J.K. Rowling
195. ROWLING, J.K. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. London, 1998.
Octavo, original pictorial paper boards, dust jacket, custom clamshell box. $13,500.
First edition of the second book in the phenomenally successful Harry Potter
series, warmly inscribed to Rowling’s personal assistant: “To Ella (again!), hope
you like this one as much—love from Jo (aka J.K. Rowling).”
When this, Rowling’s second book, first saw print
in 1998, “Bloomsbury was a little less cautious”
than they had been when they published Harry
Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone the previous
year, “but the first printing was still miniscule,
considering the demand. Estimates range between
1000 and 2000 copies… They have been
notably scarce” (Smiley, 52). Due to Rowling’s decreasing
number of personal appearances as the
series continued, signed and inscribed copies of the Potter books are rare and desirable. Dust
jacket with tiny tear to spine head. A fine inscribed copy with great provenance.
“Stir It! Scrape It! Make It! Bake It!”:
First Edition Of In The Night Kitchen,
Inscribed With A Sketch By Maurice Sendak
196. SENDAK, Maurice. In The Night Kitchen. New York, 1970. Tall
thin quarto, original white cloth, dust jacket, custom half morocco
clamshell box. $4500.
Scarce first edition of this wonderfully illustrated classic, inscribed: “For
Richard Schaubeck—Maurice Sendak, Dec. ’70,” with a small sketch of
Mickey, the book’s protagonist.
Sendak’s homage to New York City
and the movies of the 1930s, In the
Night Kitchen “spins the reader
through the surreal fantasy of a child’s
dream, like Alice into Wonderland or
Dorothy into Oz.” Like most of
Sendak’s work, Kitchen is “a celebration
of the primal, sensory world of
childhood and an affirmation of its
imaginative potency” (Silvey, 586). It
was a Caldecott Honor book in 1971. First-issue dust jacket, without the Caldecott medal affixed.
Hanrahan A75. Book fine; price-clipped dust jacket bright and fine, with one minuscule
closed tear at spine head. A fine inscribed copy.
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“An Elephant’s Faithful, One Hundred Per Cent”:
First Edition Of Horton Hatches The Egg,
In Rare Original Dust Jacket
198. SEUSS, Dr. Horton Hatches the Egg. New York, 1940. Quarto,
original gray cloth, dust jacket. $9000.
First printing of this “absolute delight,” Seuss’ story of one noble elephant’s
exceptional steadfastness, in the scarce original dust jacket.
After producing several prose books with black-and-white illustrations,
Seuss “returned to full color and to rhyming text in Horton
Hatches the Egg… Two years earlier, he had told almost the exact same
story in the fable ‘Matilda, the Elephant with a Mother Complex.’
Matilda was characterized as a foolish failure for her dogged and wellmeaning
but ridiculous efforts. But the world had changed in the two
years between Matilda and Horton. Germany had invaded Poland…
[Seuss] held a growing belief that the United States had to join the war
in Europe, and the concept of duty became very important to him”
(Cohen, 201). The first book that Warner Brothers adapted for a cartoon.
Younger & Hirsch 31. Contemporary owner inscription. Interior
clean. Cloth with only very light toning to spine. Exceptionally scarce
extremely good original dust jacket with some expert restoration to
extremities only, not affecting any letters.
A Great Rarity Of Children’s Literature:
First Edition Of Dr. Seuss’ First Book,
And To Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street
197. SEUSS, Dr. And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street. New
York, 1937. Quarto, original pictorial paper boards, dust jacket, custom
clamshell box. $8500.
Rare first edition of Dr. Seuss’ first book, an irrepressible celebration
of child-like imagination.
“This was a book that the unsaintly could appreciate. In comparison
with some of the rule-enforcing books that Ted read as a child, which
taught young readers how to behave and improve their manners, this
was a book that reveled in allowing a child’s imagination to run wild
and remain at odds with grown-ups who would never be able to
appreciate a child’s sense of wonder and creativity” (Cohen, 181-85).
Later state of first issue. Younger & Hirsch 1. Cotsen 10053. Book bright
and near-fine with only minute rubbing to edges. Dust jacket quite
bright and lovely with some expert restoration primarily to extremities,
not affecting any letters. Scarce.

dr. seuss
First Edition In Dust Jacket Of The Cat In The Hat, Inscribed By Seuss
199. SEUSS, Dr. The Cat in the Hat. New York, 1957. Octavo, original pictorial paper boards, dust jacket, custom
clamshell box. $20,000.
First edition of this rare and important children’s classic, particularly
desirable inscribed by the beloved author-illustrator, with his
characteristic flourish: “for PAULA, Best Wishes - Dr. Seuss.”
The Cat in the Hat was so successful that Random House, publisher of all
the Dr. Seuss books since 1937, created a special division, Beginner
Books, with the Cat in the Hat as the logo and Dr. Seuss as president of
the division” (Dr. Seuss from Then to Now, 45). “This extraordinary writer
has done more to foster literacy in children than most because he
manages to combine lunacy with sanity, fun with learning, and quality
with exuberant readability” (Joseph Connolly). First edition, with
200/200 on the inside flap of dust jacket and all other first edition points.
Younger & Hirsch 7. Pencil child owner signatures. A few stray ink marks. Interior generally fine. Boards with light
rubbing and toning to edges. Dust jacket with mild rubbing, small closed tear to spine head. An extremely good copy,
elusive inscribed.
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“Pieces Of Eight! Pieces Of Eight!”: First Edition Of Treasure Island, A Beautiful Copy
200. STEVENSON, Robert Louis. Treasure Island. London, 1883. Small octavo, original red cloth, custom chemise and
half morocco clamshell box. $27,500.
First edition, first issue of Stevenson’s swashbuckling yarn of piracy, mutiny and courage, “the finest tale of maritime
adventure that has been told since Defoe” (Prideaux, 28), an exceptional copy, much nicer than usually found.
“Treasure Island is best enjoyed as its author intended, simply as a good tale well told” (Silvey, 631). The serial publication
in Young Folks (running through January 1882) was not especially well-received, but on its appearance in book form the
following year in an edition of only 2000 copies, the story was hailed as the best tale of adventure in print. First issue, with
all the following points: “Dead Man’s Chest” not capitalized on pages 2 and 7; “rain” for “vain” on last line of page 40; “a”
lacking on page 63, line 6; the “7” in the pagination of page 127 absent; period dropped from page 178, line 20 (after
“opportunity”); “worse” for ‘worst’ on page 197, line 3; frontispiece map in three colors. With eight-page publisher’s
catalogue dated 5R-1083 at the end, and with this title listed incorrectly as having 304 pages. Issued in various colors of
cloth, no priority. Beinecke 240. Prideaux 11. Gerstley Collection 22. Osborne, 1030. Gumuchian 5443. Pierpoint Morgan,
241. Booklabel and half title owner signature of John William Mackail, the Scottish man of letters and famous Virgil
scholar. Additionally, he was married to Margaret Burne-Jones, whose name appears on the booklabel. Burne-Jones was
a first cousin of Rudyard Kipling. Only very faintest embrowning to unusually clean interior, cloth exceptionally fresh
and lovely. A most desirable copy in nearly fine condition, rarely found like this.

“I Am Eloise. I Am Six”
201. THOMPSON, Kay. Eloise. New York, 1955. Slim quarto, original cloth,
dust jacket. $4000.
First edition of the first and rarest Eloise book.
“Eloise’s birth was unexpected. At rehearsals of her act with the Williams
Brothers, Thompson [who was a professional singer] prized punctuality. Then
one day she was late. In a high, childish voice that she had never used before, she
made her apology. One of her co-workers said, ‘Who are you, little girl?’
Thompson replied, ‘I am Eloise. I am six.’ The others joined in the game, each
assuming a juvenile identity, and it became a regular rehearsal pastime” (New
York Times). That pastime became a book, with three more to follow in
Thompson’s lifetime. “Eloise became an alternative persona for Kay Thompson,
much as the dummy Charlie McCarthy was for Edgar Bergen… [allowing]
Thompson to express contrarian thoughts and ideas. Eloise took form as a lonely
and whimsical child who created her own world” (Marie Brenner). Gift
inscription. Text and boards slightly toned. Price-clipped dust jacket with light
toning to spine, minor soiling. A near-fine copy of an elusive first edition.
“The Most Original And Beautiful
Children’s Book Of The Twenties”:
The Ship That Sailed To Mars,
With Scarce Original Dust Jacket
202. TIMLIN, William M. The Ship that
Sailed to Mars. A Fantasy. London, 1923.
Large quarto, original half vellum gilt, dust
jacket, custom clamshell box. $6000.
First edition, English issue of this “magical
combination of science fiction and fairyland,”
lavishly illustrated with 48 mounted full-color
plates and 48 mounted pages of calligraphic
text, all by Timlin, with very scarce
original dust jacket.
“Excelling the production values previously
lavished on Willy Pogany and Harry Clarke,
George Harrap published this huge and
magnificent volume in November 1923, finely bound in half vellum richly decorated in gilt. The book contained 48 superb color plates
by the artist, alternated throughout with 48 leaves adorned with his fine calligraphic and poetic text… Reminiscent of Harrap’s best
pre-war editions de luxe” (Dalby, 102). Only 2000 copies were produced, of which 250 copies were distributed in America by Frederick
Stokes the following year. Occasional short closed tears to extreme edges of leaves, affecting neither text nor images. Book exceptional,
spine and gilt bright and fine, only minute bumps to corners. Most scarce original dust jacket with large chips to spine, split at rear
fold, front and rear panels near-fine.
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Section 8: trAvel And explorAtion
“There Before Us Lay The Sealed Door”:
Illustrated First Edition Of The Discovery Of
King Tut’s Tomb
howard carter
203. CARTER, Howard and MACE, A.C. The Tomb of Tutankhamen
Discovered by the Late Earl of Carnarvon and Howard Carter.
London, 1923-33. Three volumes. Thick octavo, original gilt-stamped
brown cloth. $5000.
First edition of Carter’s account of the discovery of King
Tutankhamen’s tomb, including the scarce third volume, with 247
dramatic illustrations.
When Carter entered King Tut’s tomb in 1922 he bridged 3000 years
separating the reign of the Boy-King from the modern world. Because
of the Depression, the third and final volume, included here, was
printed in limited numbers and is consequently quite scarce. Without
scarce dust jackets. Occasional scattered light foxing to interiors, more
so to preliminary and concluding leaves of Volume II. Light rubbing to
extremities, light soiling to bright cloth; some light fading to front
board of Volume II. A near-fine set.

history of travayle
“One Of The Outstanding Compilations Of Travel Literature” (Parker) And
“The Earliest Collection Of Voyages In The English Language” (Cox)
204. D’ANGHIERA, Pietro Martire. EDEN, Richard, translator. The History of Travayle in the West and East Indies, and Other
Countreys Lying Eyther Way… With a Discourse of the Northwest Passage… Newly Set in Order, Augmented, and Finished by
Richarde Willes. London, 1577. Thick octavo, full modern brown morocco gilt with fragments of contemporary brown paneled calf
covers retained, custom chemise and half morocco slipcase. $75,000.
Exceedingly rare second and best edition, with important first appearances, of Richard Eden’s translation of d’Anghiera’s crucially
important compilation of famous voyages, only the third book in English to describe America and the first edition of this work to
feature the fourth Decade and the abridgment of the fifth through eighth Decades including Cortés’ conquest of Mexico as well as
the account of Frobisher’s first voyage, the first accounts in English of China and Japan, and an account of Persia and a translation
of Varthema’s travels in the east, with a woodcut of the South Pole.
In 1555, Italian author Pietro Martire d’Anghiera, often known as Peter Martyr, appeared on the British literary scene with the first
edition in English of The Decades of the Newe World. Translated by Richard Eden, the work was a compilation of great voyages, the
first to be published in English. D’Anghiera was friends with the explorers of his day, including Columbus, da Gama, Cortés, Magellan,
Cabot, and Vespucci. He was also a member of the Council of the Indies. His unparalleled access to both the explorers and the
documentation of their voyages gave him the resources to make Decades an accurate work on early American exploration. After
Eden’s death, a poet named Richard Willes set to work on a second edition. The second edition, offered here and titled, The History of
Travayle, includes a rehearsal of d’Anghiera’s first three Decades, the first publication of the complete fourth Decade, and Willes’ own
abridgment of the final four Decades, as well as Pereira’s description of China (the first publication in English), Varthema’s travels,
Maffei’s account of Japan, and stories of travel in Central Asia. It also includes extensive discussion of Frobisher’s quest to find the
northwest passage. The eight Decades were first published together in 1530 in Latin at Alcalá. With a woodcut illustration of “the order
of the starres about the pole Antartike,” ornamental woodcut initials, and title page partially ruled in red. Leaves Z3 and Bb1, the full
gathering Lll, and final leaf of text supplied from another copy. Church 119. Hill 533. Rich 57. Sabin 1562. STC 649. Streeter I:24.
Cox I:1577. Wilson 65. Howgego E14. Early owner signatures and occasional annotations, including Thomas Walshe and Sir Thomas
Aubrey, 5th Baronet Aubrey, of Llantrithyd, Glamorgan. Only minor edge-wear to a number of leaves (not affecting text), archival
tape repair to leaf Cc1, small wormhole to gathering Xx (affecting a few letters), faint dampstain to bottom portion throughout. An
extremely good copy,
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richard hakluyt
“It Is Difficult To Overrate The Importance And Value Of This Extraordinary Collection Of Voyages”:
First Expanded Edition Of Hakluyt’s Monumental Principal Navigations, 1599-1600, The First English
Collection Of Voyages And An Essential Catalyst In The Colonization Of America
205. HAKLUYT, Richard. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation, made by Sea
or overland. London, 1599-1600. Three volumes bound in two. Quarto, early 20th-century full levant olive morocco gilt, custom full
morocco pull-off boxes. $42,000.
Greatly expanded second edition of Hakluyt’s expanded collection of voyages, the first and greatest of its kind. The esteemed
Hersholt-Greenhill-Borowitz copy, beautifully bound in full morocco by Pratt.
“This enormous work—it is said to contain 1,700,000 words—is the most complete collection of voyages and discoveries, by land as
well as by sea, and of the nautical achievements of the Elizabethans” (PMM). At the time of publication, the Earl of Essex had been
disgraced by Queen Elizabeth, and at her command the first issue of the first volume was suppressed for its inclusion of Essex’s
expedition to Cadiz. The first-issue title page (which mentioned “the famous victorie atchieved at the citie of Cadiz” and dated 1598)
was altered accordingly and the appropriate pages were excised. (Hakluyt reprinted a number of copies a short time later for those of
his friends who wished to include it.) As usual, this copy is the second issue of Volume I, with the cancel title page dated 1599. The
account of Essex’s expedition to Cadiz (often absent) is supplied in fine printed facsimile, bound in at the rear of Volume I, pages
607-620. As usual, this set does not contain the Mercator projection world map by Edward Wright, which is almost always absent and
was only issued with a handful of copies. This copy does, however, contain a fine facsimile of this large folding map, bound in at the
front of Volume I. Text embellished with numerous woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces. Church 322. Hill 743. Cox I:4. Sabin 29596,
29597, 29598. The copy of esteemed collectors Jean Hersholt and Harold Greenhill, with their bookplates; this copy was also in the
collection of David and Lulu Borowitz. A fine copy, very handsomely bound, with distinguished provenance.

james cook
“The Study Of Cook Is The Illumination Of All Discovery”:
Handsome Collection Of First And Second Editions
Of Cook’s Three Voyages, With Atlas Volume,
Including The First Attempted Mapping Of
The Northwest Coast Of America
206. (PACIFIC VOYAGES) (COOK, James). Cook’s Three Voyages.
Comprising: HAWKESWORTH, John. An Account of the Voyages
undertaken… for making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere. Three
volumes. WITH: COOK, James. A Voyage towards the South Pole, and
Round the World. Two volumes. WITH: COOK, James and KING, James. A
Voyage to the Pacific Ocean… for making Discoveries in the Northern
Hemisphere. Four volumes (three quarto volumes plus atlas folio). London,
1773, 1777, 1784. Nine volumes altogether. Quarto (atlas volume large folio,
measures 17 by 22 inches), uniform period-style three-quarter speckled
brown calf gilt. $68,000.
Scarce complete set of Cook’s three Pacific voyages, comprising the preferred
second edition of the first voyage—issued the same year as the first, and
“considered the best edition” (Hill)—along with first editions of the second and third voyages, complete with the splendid large
folio atlas volume to accompany the third voyage. Superbly illustrated with 205 engraved charts, maps and plates, many
double-page or folding. A uniformly and very handsomely bound set.
Facing challenges surpassed only by modern space flight, Captain James Cook embodied the spirit of the great age of maritime
discovery. The only 18th-century explorer to lead more than one Pacific voyage, he embarked on three circumnavigations between
1768 and 1776. In his first voyage (1768-1771), Cook observed the Transit of Venus at Tahiti, rediscovered and charted New
Zealand, and discovered and charted the east coast of Australia. This second edition is “considered the best one” (Hill 783) and
contains 52 engraved plates, maps and charts, several folding, and includes the strategically important (and previously suppressed)
“Chart of the Streight of Magellan,”
and the “Directions for placing the Cuts and
Charts,” neither of which are present in the
earliest issues of the first edition. In his second
voyage (1772-75), Cook crossed the Antarctic
Circle for the first time in history and disproved
the existence of the supposed “Great
Southern Continent”; in his third voyage
(1776-79), he searched for the North-West
Passage, charted the American west coast
from Northern California through the Bering
Strait, and discovered the Hawaiian Islands.
This especially important third voyage was
“the first voyage attempting an adequate examination
and charting of our northwest
coast” (Howes C729a). PMM 223. Sabin 30934,
16245, 16250. Occasional faint foxing. A few
plates with minor reinforcement on verso at
folds or near stubs. Marginal foxing to several
plates in atlas volume. Overall, throughout
the set, plates generally clean, impressions
dark and crisp. Handsome calf-gilt bindings
fine. An excellent set.
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“A Masterpiece Of Descriptive Travel”:
Large-Paper First Edition Of Anson’s
Voyage Round The World, 1748
207. ANSON, George. A Voyage Round the
World, in the Years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV.
London, 1748. Thick quarto, contemporary full
brown calf rebacked. $9800.
First edition of the first official account of
Anson’s expedition, with 42 folding copper-engraved
plates, maps, plans and charts (several
over 35 inches wide). “A masterpiece of descriptive
travel” (Hill).
“This famous and unfortunate expedition, consisting
at the start of eight ships, was sent under
the command of George Anson at the beginning
of the war with Spain, to harass the Spaniards on
the western coast of South America. Seven ships
were lost around Cape Horn and on the coast of
Chile and out of 900 men, 600 perished… This
account is the official one… It is a model of what
such literature should be” (Cox I:49). Illustrations include splendid folding views of Brazilian harbors and cities, Acapulco, Tenian,
Port St. Julian, the Bay of Manila and others, and large folding maps of South America, the Philippines, and the Pacific Ocean.
Contemporary manuscript notation on the title page. Light scattered foxing, expert paper repairs to some plates, some margins
chipped. An extremely good copy.
“The First French Expedition To Sail Around The World”:
Bougainville’s Voyage Round The World, 1772 First Edition In English In Original Boards
208. BOUGAINVILLE, Lewis de. A Voyage Round the World. Performed by Order of His Most Christian Majesty, In the
Years 1766, 1767, 1768, and 1769. London, 1772. Quarto, contemporary marbled boards rebacked in tan morocco. $7800.
First edition in English of this early account
noted for its detailed description
of Tahiti, with five folding maps and
one folding plate, published one year
after the French first edition.
This account of “the first French expedition
to sail around the world… is
written with simplicity and some humor”
(Cox I: 55). Bougainville had been
sent to hand over control of the Falkland
Islands to Spain. “He gives an account
of the discovery and occupation of the
islands… and a chapter devoted to their
natural history… He then proceeded
through the Strait of Magellan and
across the Pacific to the East Indies and
thence home in a three-year voyage that was France’s first official circumnavigation of the
world… This account… inspired Denis Diderot to pen his denunciation of European contact
with indigenous peoples” (Hill I:31-32). Sabin 6869. Armorial bookplate of Thomas Carter
of Edgcott, circular stamps to title page and versos of maps. Only a bit of light scattered
foxing, edge-wear to several maps. An extremely good copy.

Nieuhof’s 17th-Century Account Of Travels To The East
Indies And Brazil, Richly Illustrated First Edition In English
209. (BRAZIL) NIEUHOFF, John. Voyages and Travels into Brasil and
the East-Indies. London, 1703. Folio, modern full brown calf. $7500.
First edition in English, with engraved frontispiece, engraved additional
title page, 40 (of 41) full-page copper engravings (24 large folding), 30
engraved in-text vignettes, four folding engraved maps and three in-text
vignette maps. Very attractively bound.
“Nieuhof, a Dutch traveler and official, left two very interesting accounts
of his years spent in Dutch Brazil and the Dutch East Indies. In his several
travels in the East, he visited Dutch South Africa, Sumatra, Java, Amboyna,
Formosa, China, Malacca, India, Ceylon, Persia, and St. Helena” (Hill
1227). Nieuhof’s work was first published (in English) as the second
volume of the 1704 first edition of Awnsham and John Churchill’s fourvolume
Collection of Voyages and Travels (thus the “Vol. II” at the foot of
the title page), although the present volume is at times offered separately,
as here. One plate excised, opposite page 328. Ex-library stamp page 79.
Frontispiece, title pages and advertisement leaf rehinged; light wear to
edge of one folding plate only. Interior generally quite clean. A very good,
attractively bound copy.
First Edition Of Hall’s Voyage To China And The Yellow Sea,
With Eight Beautiful Hand-Colored Aquatints
210. (CHINA) HALL, Basil. Account of a Voyage of Discovery
to the West Coast of Corea, and the Great Loo-Choo Island.
London, 1818. Quarto, rebound in period calf boards, modern
elaborately gilt-decorated spine. $5500.
First edition of this expedition to the East China and Yellow Seas,
with eight lovely hand-colored aquatints by William Havell, two
black-and-white engravings and five charts and maps (two folding).
Scottish-born Basil Hall entered the British navy in 1801, and in
1815 “was appointed to the Lyra and ordered to China where, in
consort with the Alceste, he accompanied Lord Amherst’s embassy”
(Howgego H3). The expedition “explored the relatively little-known
East China Sea and the Yellow Sea. Visits were made to Korea and
the Ryukyu Archipelago… On the homeward passage, the Alceste
was wrecked in Gaspar Strait off Sumatra” (Hill 749). “Hall brought
the Lyra back to England in October 1817 and during the return
voyage interviewed Napoleon at St. Helena” (Howgego). Abbey
Travel 558. Bookplate. Scattered light patches of foxing. An aboutfine
copy, handsomely bound.
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Rare Nearly Six-Foot Long Photographic Panorama, Of Constantinople, Circa 1890
212. (CONSTANTINOPLE) SEBAH, J. Pascal and JOAILLIER,
Polycarpe. Souvenir de Constantinople. Photographes de la Cour Royale
de Prusse. Constantinople, circa 1890. Oblong quarto, original gilt-stamped
pebbled red cloth, accordion-folded (leporello) panorama of ten vintage
albumen prints (each measures 5 by 7 inches; total measures 5 by 70 inches),
mounted on card stock, cloth hinges. $6500.
Rare photographic album of Constantinople, circa 1890, by the renowned
studio of Sébah & Joaillier, with ten mounted vintage albumen prints linked
in the original cloth hinges, offering a wonderful accordion-fold panoramic
image of the city spanning nearly six feet in length, an exceptional view of
majestic mosques, churches and palaces, in original gilt-stamped binding.
Prints quite clean and fresh with only mild toning at hinges, cloth unusually
nice and bright. A most desirable about-fine vintage photographic album.
“The Most Compelling Justification For Cook’s Voyages”
211. KIPPIS, Andrew. The Life of Captain James Cook. London, 1788.
Quarto, contemporary brown tree calf gilt rebacked with the original spine
laid down. $8000.
First edition of the first biography of Captain James Cook, with frontispiece
portrait by James Heath, bound in contemporary tree calf.
“This work contains an admirable precis of the three voyages, with valuable
information from the original sources. It introduces most of
Samwell’s Narative of Captain Cook’s Death, and also gives accounts of
the various tributes to Cook’s memory” (Cox I:64). “Kippis went further
than most writers in transforming Cook’s voyages from scientific missions…
to expeditions motivated wholly by the urge to civilize and improve
the world… [Kippis’ Life] became the most compelling justification
both for Cook’s voyages and for continued European involvement in the
Pacific in years to come” (Withey, 406-7). Bound with the half title.
Beddie 1962. Howgego C176. Text generally fine, some foxing to frontispiece,
inner hinges reinforced, contemporary calf quite handsome.

tombs at thebes
The Tombs At Thebes: Elephant Folio Limited First Edition Of The Robb De Peyster Tytus
Memorial Series, With Over 180 Plates Featuring Ancient Egyptian Tombs, Art, And Artifacts
213. (EGYPT) DAVIES, Norman DeGaris. Robb de Peyster Tytus Memorial Series. Volume I: The Tomb of Nakht at
Thebes. Volume II: The Tomb of Puyemre at Thebes. Part I: The Hall of Memories. Volumes III: The Tomb of Puyemre
at Thebes. Part II: The Chapels of Hope. Volume IV: The Tomb of the Two Sculptors at Thebes. Volume V: The
Ramesside Tombs at Thebes. New York, 1917-27. Five volumes. Elephant folio (15-1/2 by 20 inches), modern three-quarter
brown calf. $17,500.
Limited first edition of this catalogue of the tombs at Thebes published by the Metropolitan Museum of Art from 1917-27,
one of 500 atlas folio sets beautifully printed on handmade Van Gelder paper, with five frontispieces (four in color), 178
plates (21 in color), and numerous figures, handsomely bound. A magnificent uncut set.
Published between 1917 and 1927, this set was published by the Metropolitan Museum of Art to shed light on the
magnificent artistic treasures of the tombs at Thebes. With only slight occasional foxing to generally fine text. A
beautiful uncut set in fine condition.
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With Exceptional Large Folding Map:
1810 British Reconnaissance Into
Iran And Afghanistan
215. (IRAN AND AFGHANISTAN) POTTINGER,
Henry. Travels in Beloochistan and Sinde. London,
1816. Quarto, period-style full brown speckled calf
gilt. $6000.
First edition of this British secret mission into the
region between India and Teheran, with wonderful
hand-colored aquatint frontispiece of “Sindian Foot
Soldiers” and large folding map (37 by 26-1/2 inches)
of “Beloochistan and Sinde, with Parts of Kutch,
Seistan, Khorasan, [and] Persia,” with routes
outlined in color.
Birch’s Translation, With Life-Size
Facsimile, Of The Inscriptions On
The Coffin Of Amamu, 1886
214. (EGYPT) BIRCH, Samuel. Egyptian
Texts of the Earliest Period from the Coffin of
Amamu in the British Museum. London, 1886.
Atlas folio (measures 20-1/2 by 27-1/2 inches),
original boards rebacked in cloth. $4800.
Scarce atlas folio first edition of this superb facsimile
of the inscriptions found on the coffin of
Amamu, with 32 large folio color lithographs
reproducing exactly the inscriptions and decorations
found on the exterior and interior of this
coffin, with English translation by renowned
Egyptologist Samuel Birch.
Samuel Birch served as the curator of oriental
antiquities at the British Museum from 1844
until his death in 1885. “The first elementary grammar of Egyptian, the first hieroglyphic dictionary, the first treatise on Egyptian
archaeology, the first popular history of Egypt, and the first set of popular translations from the Egyptian into English, were written
by him… His skill in finding out the meaning of a text was remarkable” (DNB). The first 11 plates reproduce the deeply incised and
colored inscriptions found on the exterior of the wooden coffin; the remaining plates show the decorations and detailed inscriptions
that covered the interior lid and sides of the sarcophagus. From the Library of the House of Lords, with its deaccession stamp. A few
creases to text leaves. Lithographs clean and fine, with only occasional marginal markings. Light wear to original boards, neatly
rebacked. An extremely good copy of this very scarce work.
Disguised as Muslim horse-traders, British secret
service officers Henry Pottinger and Charles
Christie, in 1810 followed orders “to explore the
Baluchi country and the east of Persia, tracts at that time were wholly unknown to Europeans” (Elphinstone), as well as “to collect
information on roads and other means of moving troops and to study the political situation in Herat… noted for its strategic
position, which at that time was the trading crossroad of central Asia” (Howgego, 489). The mission was undertaken in order to help
prepare the Persian army against foreign invasion, a promise Britain had made in return for the Shah’s influence on the Afghans in
negotiating peace with the British in India. Based upon his official report to “the Right Honorable Governor-General in Council,”
Howgego P43. Faint library stamp of the Governor General’s Office in Baluchistan on the title page, page 99 and the verso of the last
leaf. Light offsetting in map. Text generally clean, with only a few stray spots of foxing and occasional faint underscores. An about-fine
copy, handsomely bound in period style.

First Edition Of Malcolm’s Sketch Of The Sikhs, 1812
216. (INDIA) MALCOLM, John. Sketch of the Sikhs. London, 1812. Octavo,
later three-quarter brown calf gilt. $5000.
First edition of this learned account of Sikhism written by an officer in the army
of the East India Company.
Written by East India Company army officer and diplomat John Malcolm, this
work strives to expose the underpinnings and rituals of Sikhism. On an expedition
with Lord Lake toward the Punjab in pursuit of Jaswant Rao Holkar, Malcolm
had the opportunity to come into contact with Sikhs. He was one of the first
European writers to express an interest in Sikhism and to attempt to read the
primary Gurmukhi sources. Ultimately, this account of the Sikh’s proved to be
superior to any written by his predecessors. Malcolm was the first to fully embrace
historical methodology, modern scholarship, and advanced analysis. This book
remains among the finest books on Sikhism ever written. Small closed marginal
tear to page 23, faint scattered foxing and dampstaining to interior, binding
lovely. A near-fine, wide-margined copy.
Viscount Valentia’s Splendidly Illustrated Voyages And Travels Through India And Egypt,
With Plates After Henry Salt
217. (INDIA) (EGYPT) (ABYSSINIA) VALENTIA, George Viscount. Voyages and Travels to India, Ceylon, The Red Sea,
Abyssinia, and Egypt. London, 1809. Three volumes. Large quarto, modern half pebbled black morocco. $6000.
First edition, illustrated with 69 superb engraved plates and maps, 12 folding, including two large folding charts of the Red Sea.
Viscount Valentia left England in June 1802 on the Minerva, for a Grand Tour
of the East and “the first British mission to Abyssinia… to conclude an alliance
to obtain a port in the Red Sea in case France, under Napoleon, should seize
Egypt” (Abbey, Travel 515). Henry Salt had earlier finished his training with
the topographical draughtsman and diarist, Joseph Farington, and Valentia
appointed him to be his official artist and secretary for the tour. The plates in
this edition were engraved after Salt’s magnificent drawings. Many of Salt’s
drawings for his own Twenty-Four Views in St. Helena, the Cape, India, Ceylon,
the Red Sea, Egypt and Abyssinia (1809) were made while on this expedition
with Valentia; a large part of the text contains his narrative. Bound with all
half titles. Also with engraved vignette illustration at the beginning of each
volume. Large folding map of the Red Sea at rear of Volume II and of Alexandria
at rear of Volume III each with skillful repair to closed tear near stub. Only a
handful of plates lightly foxed. Wide-margined text and plates generally quite
clean and fine. An attractively bound copy in excellent condition.
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First Edition Of Perry’s A View Of The Levant, 1743,
With 33 Beautiful Plates Of Plans And Views
218. (NEAR EAST) PERRY, Charles. A View of the Levant: Particularly
of Constantinople, Syria, Egypt, and Greece. London, 1743. Folio (10
by 15-1/2 inches), modern full brown calf. $6500.
First edition of this narrative of travel throughout the Middle East and
Southern Europe, with 33 lovely plates (six folding) depicting art, architectural
features, and views spread over 24 pages, handsomely bound.
A physician, author, and traveler, Charles Perry was one of the most
prolific and talented travel writers of his day. This work was spurred by
a 1739 journey he took to France, Italy, and the Middle East. In particular,
he spend time in Constantinople, Egypt, Palestine, and Greece, where
he learned much about the landscape, cultures, and customs of those
who inhabited the various location. “On his return he published his
valuable View of the Levant, particularly of Constantinople, Syria, Egypt,
and Greece, 1743” (DNB). This work was tremendously popular. It went
through two editions in German and even a 1770 quarto printing
dedicated to the Earl of Sandwich. Very mild embrowning and some foxing to interior, binding fine. A lovely copy in near-fine
condition, handsomely bound.
One Of The Greatest
Lithographic Works Ever Printed:
Beautiful Copy Of Roberts’
Holy Land, Egypt And Nubia
219. (NEAR EAST) ROBERTS, David. The
Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, &
Nubia. London, 1855-56. Six volumes in three.
Quarto, original full dark brown morocco gilt
expertly recased. $19,000.
First quarto edition of this monumental early
visual record of the Middle East by the first
Westerner permitted to enter sacred sites, with
250 magnificent tinted lithographs, a lovely set
in publisher’s full morocco-gilt.
Inquisitive Western minds first glimpsed the mysteries of Egypt and the
Middle East in detail through David Roberts’ folio-sized Holy Land, issued in
41 parts from 1842 to 1849 and containing 250 full-page hand-colored
lithographs produced from his magnificent, on-site drawings. Roberts was
the first Westerner to be granted permission to enter whichever sacred
mosque or monument he desired. His images of these sacred places established
what many people even today envision as the aura of Egypt and the Holy
Land. This is the first quarto edition of 1855-56, containing all 250 lithographic
plates contained in the folio edition, including a frontispiece portrait of
Roberts, six pictorial title pages, and two engraved maps. A considerable
number of plates are printed in two tints; plates 213 and 240 printed in three.
Interiors expertly cleaned, text blocks recased into original bindings with
renewed endpapers and headbands. Beautiful contemporary morocco-gilt
with minor restoration, gilt bright. An exceptional copy.

“A Classic Of Travel Literature”: First Editions Of Franklin’s
First And Second Arctic Journeys, With Fine Hand-Colored Plates
220. (POLAR EXPLORATION) FRANKLIN, John. Narrative of a Journey to
the Shores of the Polar Sea, In the Years 1819, 20, 21, 22. London, 1823. WITH:
Narrative of a Second Expedition to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in the Years
1825, 1826, and 1827. London, 1828. Together, two volumes. Quarto, contemporary
three-quarter polished brown calf gilt rebacked with original spine laid down,
marbled boards (Journey), matching period-style three-quarter brown calf gilt,
marbled boards (Second Journey), custom quarter leather slipcase. $9200.
First editions of John Franklin’s first and second overland Arctic expeditions, an
outstanding chronicle of a journey whose “harrowing obstacles—all stamp him
as one of the true, one of the most persistent Arctic explorers” (Mirsky), profusely
illustrated with ten large engraved folding maps (one outlined in color) and 61
fine engraved plates (11 vividly hand-colored).
Franklin’s “two expeditions together added 1,200 miles of coast line to the
knowledge of the American continent. The views of Arctic scenery are of extreme
beauty” (Hill, 111-12). The extensive appendices, not included in later editions,
include geological, astronomical and botanical and zoological sections. Journey
with errata slip. Arctic Bibliography 5194, 5198. Sabin 25624, 25628. Field 560, 561.
Graff 1406, 1407. Streeter 3699. Wagner-Camp 23:1, 35.1. Abbey Travel 635. Bookplates. Journey with early owner signature, small
bookseller tickets (one tipped to contents leaf); Narrative with institutional inkstamps to title page. Interiors generally fresh and
clean with light scattered foxing; two maps with small closed gutter tears; expert archival repair to one leaf minimally affecting text
(Narrative, 237). Extremely good condition, hand coloring vibrant.
First Edition Of Shores Of The Polar Sea, With 16 Handsome
Chromo-Lithographic Plates After Drawings By Edward L. Moss
221. (POLAR EXPLORATION) MOSS, Edward L. Shores of the Polar Sea. A
Narrative of the Arctic Expedition of 1875-6. London, 1878. Folio (14 by 19-1/2
inches), original black- and gilt-stamped blue cloth rebacked with original spine laid
down. $8500.
First edition, with 16 handsome mounted chromo-lithographic plates and numerous
engravings after illustrations made on the spot by Edward L. Moss, and a map of the
expedition route, in beautiful publisher’s cloth.
“Moss was a naval surgeon aboard Nares’ flagship, Alert, but also served as artist for the
expedition, producing this sumptuous volume two years after the expedition returned.
Although his Preface disclaims a narrative intent for the book and places his emphasis
on pictorial efforts, the book still provides a substantial and engaging account of the
Nares expedition (1875-76). Fitzgerald 489. Library stamp on title page. Faint scattered
foxing and soiling to text and plates, only light wear and soiling to original cloth. An
exceptional copy in near-fine condition, nicer than usually found.
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Signed By Scott: Four-Page Autograph Account Of
His First Antarctic Expedition, Written Upon His
Return In 1904, Framed With Portrait
222. (POLAR EXPLORATION) SCOTT, Robert F. Autograph
manuscript draft for a telegram signed (“Rob. F. Scott”) to an
unknown recipient. Auckland Island, circa March 20, 1904. Four folio
pages. Framed, entire piece measures 34 by 37-1/2 inches. $16,500.
Fine four-page autograph account intended for telegram of Scott’s
expedition to the Antarctic written upon his return in 1904,
handsomely framed.
Scott launched his journey of exploration in 1901 and remained
within the frigid reaches of the southern hemisphere for the next
three years. Scott takes note of several expeditions that met with
varying degrees of success. He happily notes that “these journeys
performed under very unfavorable conditions of weather & surface
have added much to our information.” The official account of the expedition was not
published in book form until 1905 (The Voyage of the ‘Discovery’). Scientifically speaking, this first expedition was the more
important of Scott’s two expeditions, although historically it is overshadowed by his tragic second journey, during which he
perished. Perforation in upper left corner of each leaf, small loss to corner and edge of page 3, not affecting text. An exceptional
document in excellent condition, handsomely framed.
“An Important Addition To Nautical Science”: Phipps’ Voyage To The North Pole, 1774
223. (POLAR EXPLORATION) PHIPPS, Constantine John. Voyage Towards the North Pole Undertaken by His Majesty’s
Command 1773. London, 1774. Quarto, contemporary full specked light brown calf sympathetically rebacked. $7500.
First edition of the official account of Phipps’ polar voyage, with three folding
maps, 12 engraved folding plates and numerous charts and tables, 11 of which
are folding.
Commodore Phipps, later Lord Mulgrave, led this expedition in June 1773 “for
the purpose of discovering a route to India through the North Polar regions.
North of Spitzbergen the sea was absolutely blocked with ice and the vessels
had to return. Although unsuccessful the voyage was an important addition to
nautical science… The expedition is also of interest from the fact that Lord
Nelson, then 14, accompanied it as a midshipman” (Maggs II:870). The account
includes “the valuable appendix to the work [which] gives geographical
and meteorological observations, zoological and botanical records, accounts
of the distillation of fresh water from the sea, and astronomical observations”
(Hill, 206-07). Sabin 62572. Fitzgerald 560. Delgado, 55. Lowndes, 1860.
Bookplate of a Matthew Lewis, Esq., father of the Gothic novelist, Matthew
“Monk” Lewis. Bookplate of “Panshanger,” referring to the Earls Cowper. Ink
shelf number. Occasional marginal pencil markings. Maps and plates fine, text
generally fine, tiny hole to folding plate at page 182, light expert restoration to
contemporary boards. An about-fine copy.

Duggan-Cronin settled in South Africa in 1897 to take a job with De Beers Consolidated
Mines in Kimberly. Later, on vacation in Ireland in 1904, he bought a 10-shilling box
camera, and upon returning to Africa, pursued “what he called a ‘sympathetic interest’ in
the different tribal people he met working at the mines. They became his first subjects and
his photography might have remained there, had it not been for a push from Dr. Maria
Wilman, Director of the McGregor Museum. Wilman sent him off to photograph the
Bushmen of the Langeberge in Griqualand West” and he was later supported by grants and
subsidies, which also enabled the publication of these volumes. Without Volume I
(Bavenda) and Volume III, Sections I-III (Ciskei, Transkei, Mpono, Mpondomise and
Zulu). Hosken, 52-53. Text and plates fine, contemporary morocco boards with only light
expert restoration. A near-fine set.
An Achievement Likened To The Groundbreaking
Work Of Edward Curtis In America,
Duggan-Cronin’s Bantu Tribes Of South Africa
224. (SOUTH AFRICA) DUGGAN-CRONIN, Alfred Martin. The
Bantu Tribes of South Africa. Reproductions of Photographic
Studies. Cambridge, 1929-54. Seven volumes. Quarto, contemporary
full black morocco gilt (monogrammed “H.W.R.”) rebacked (Volume
III in original stiff gray paper covers, custom clamshell box). $9800.
First editions of seven (of 11) volumes in Duggan-Cronin’s photographic
masterpiece, an exceptional collection of 235 (of 376) collotypes
printed on heavy card stock, a record of the lives and cultures of
the Bantu peoples—including
the Suto-Chuana,
Bechuana, Nguni, Swazi,
Baca, Hlubi, Vathonga,
and Vachopi tribes.
Barrow’s Voyage To Cochinchina, 1806,
With Fine Hand-Colored Plates
225. (VIETNAM) BARROW, John. A Voyage to Cochinchina,
in the Years 1792 and 1793. London, 1806. Large quarto, periodstyle
full diced burgundy calf gilt. $9500.
First edition of Barrow’s account of the Macartney Mission to
present-day Vietnam, with 18 hand-colored plates, folding map
hand-colored in outline, and two hand-colored folding charts. A
lovely copy.
En route to Cochin China, now known as Vietnam, this groundbreaking
diplomatic mission traveled to Madeira, Jamaica, Rio de
Janeiro, various islands along the coast of South America, and
Java and Djakarta. The latter part of this narrative describes
Barrow’s travels to the Booshuana Nation, the region now known
as Botswana in southern Africa. The handsome color plates include
views of Rio and Santa Cruz, the plants of Java, and an
African woman, while the folding map shows the southern tip of
Africa. “The aquatinting is of excellent quality” (Abbey, Travel
514). Plates vivid and lovely. Small open tear to fold of plate at 135,
expert reinforcement to verso of folds of a few plates and map, a
few spots of foxing and offsetting to text. Beautifully bound.
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vinegar bible
Baskett’s Magnificently Illustrated 1717 Elephant Folio “Vinegar Bible”
226. BIBLE. The Holy Bible Containing the Old Testament and the New. Oxford, 1717, 1716. Thick elephant folio (14-1/2 by
22 inches), contemporary full red morocco gilt rebacked and recornered with original elaborately gilt-decorated spines laid
down. $19,500.
First edition of the monumental, splendidly illustrated “Vinegar Bible,” with 60 detailed copper engravings, handsomely bound
in contemporary, elaborately gilt-decorated morocco.
In 1709 John Baskett purchased the exclusive royal patent to print Bibles in England, control of which his family retained until
1799. This magnificent edition of the Bible is Baskett’s most important work, highly regarded for its large, elegant type; its 60
striking copper-engraved vignette head- and tailpieces depicting some of the most dramatic moments of Scripture; and its many
delicately engraved historiated initials. “Unfortunately the book contained many misprints and earned the nickname ‘A Baskettfull
of Errors’” (Darlow & Moule). Most notably, this edition takes its name from a misprint found in the headline above Luke
20 that mentions the parable of the “vinegar” instead of the “vineyard.” Typographical mistakes notwithstanding, scholars and
collectors alike today esteem the “Vinegar Bible” as one of the most beautiful and legible editions of Scripture ever published.
This copy with additional engraved general title page bound in as frontispiece, with view of Oxford on other general title page,
and with vignette title page for New Testament depicting the Annunciation dated 1716. Includes Apocrypha. Darlow & Moule
735. Herbert 942. Bible 100 Landmarks 70. Bookplates of H.E. The Governor of Bengal. Interior fine, stunning contemporary
morocco with expert restoration. A beautiful copy.
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“The Definitive Layout Of One Of The World’s Most Historic Cities”:
Adrichom’s Influential Theatrum Terrae Sanctae, With Landmark Large Folding Maps Of
The Holy Land And Jerusalem—A Beautifully Hand-Colored Copy
227. (HOLY LAND) ADRICHOM, Christian von. Theatrum Terrae
Sanctae et Biblicarum Historiarum. Cologne, 1593. Folio (10 by 15
inches), period-style full vellum. $28,000.
Second edition of Adrichom’s important and influential atlas and
history of the Holy Land, published only three years after the first,
with two landmark large folding maps that would be imitated by
subsequent mapmakers for two centuries, one of Palestine and one of
Jerusalem, along with ten other folding maps of the tribes of Israel
that provide greater detail. An excellent copy with skillful
contemporary hand-coloring, not only in the maps, but in the woodcut
initials and typographic head- and tailpieces as well.
“This famous work, published posthumously, is divided into three
main parts: the geography of Palestine; an important description of
Jerusalem and a history of the world up to the death of St. John the
Evangelist. Von Adrichom is thought to have been engaged for some
30 years in the compilation of this work” (Blackmer). “Christian von
Adrichom’s delineation of Jerusalem is the most dramatic and
important of the 16th century. Oriented to the north, the large-scale
plan illustrates Jerusalem and its immediate surroundings at the time
of Christ. The most important divisions of the city, and the walls and
gates, are labeled… Until the discoveries of 19th-century archeologists,
this was the definitive layout of one of the world’s most historic cities”
(Nebenzahl). Likewise, Adrichom’s map of the Holy Land impressed
the leading cartographers of Europe as soon as it appeared. Jan
Jansson, Nicholas Visscher and Thomas Fuller all published adaptations of Adrichom’s delineation with only minor alterations—
mostly in the decoration. “Maps after Adrichom’s, which was the most fully developed of the biblical school, account for more
delineations than any other until well into the 18th century, 200 years after his death” (Nebenzahl). The first edition was published by
Birckmann in 1590; this is a page-by-page reprint of that edition. Nebenzahl, Plates 33 and 35. See Blackmer 7; Tobler, 234; Röhricht,
Bibliotheca 101:2. Ex-libris Societatis Iesu Monastery, with contemporary ink ownership marks on title page and colophon, dated
1597; another owner signature dated 1840. A few ink underlinings in “Chronicon” only. Folding maps with some early reinforcement
to versos and minor expert repairs to a few minor splits at folds. Text clean. Large folding maps of Jerusalem and Palestine tipped back
in on new stubs; all maps in excellent condition, with vibrant contemporary hand-coloring. A splendid copy of this influential work.

“Redesigning The Shape Of History…
Augustine Would Dominate Western
Thought For The Next Millennium”
228. AUGUSTINE. Of the Citie of God.
London, 1610. Small folio (8 by 11 inches), early
18th-century full paneled calf rebacked with
original spine laid down. $12,500.
Scarce first edition in English of Augustine’s monumental
“scheme of universal history… providing
a vocabulary for Christian thinking in the West
for centuries” (Boorstin, Creators, 59). Because of
the innovative conception of history he presents in
this work, Augustine was considered “the founder
of a new science, to which Voltaire assigned the
name ‘philosophy of history.’ For the first time a
comprehensive survey of human history is presented”
(PMM 3).
When, more than 1100 years after the founding of the “Eternal City,” Rome fell to Alaric’s
barbarian hordes in the year 410, many people blamed Christians for provoking the wrath of the city’s protecting gods and thereby
bringing catastrophe upon it. In such accusations Augustine discovered “the point of departure for his Christian view of history…
The 13 years (413-26) he spent on his City of God created a new kind of defense of the new religion… Augustine proceeded to create
his own philosophy of history, which would dominate Western thought for the next millennium. And he provided the most potent
weapon against historical pessimism and the classic cycles. His ideas would show an uncanny power to be transformed into a
modern idea of progress” (Boorstin). The work exercised enormous influence throughout the Middle Ages and well into the 18th
century. “This translation of Vives’ text and commentaries of Augustine’s great work is the only one published in English until the
latter half of the 19th century” (Pforzheimer 19). With the rare index and errata, often lacking. Bound with first and final blank leaves.
STC 916. See PMM 3. Early paper shelf label affixed to spine head. Short early manuscript inscription on final blank. Scattered
manuscript additions to the index and pencil annotations in the margins. Minor ink stain to title page. Occasional foxing and
staining, a very few minor closed tears, not affecting legibility. Expert restoration to handsome 18th-century calf binding. An
extremely good copy of this scarce work, quite desirable in early calf binding.
Handsome 1611 Barker Geneva Bible
229. BIBLE. The Bible, Translated according to the Ebrew and Greeke… London,
1611, 1610. Thick octavo, contemporary full blind-tooled paneled brown calf over
wooden boards rebacked, brass central bosses, cornerpieces and catches. $8500.
1611 edition of the Geneva Bible (the “Breeches Bible”), bound with a contemporary
edition of the eloquent Book of Common Prayer in handsome full contemporary
tooled calf and original brass fittings.
Set in double columns of Gothic type, with marginal notes in Roman type. With
elaborate woodcut general title page and separate, similar New Testament woodcut
title page (dated 1610). Includes Apocrypha. Bound with contemporary editions of
the Book of Common Prayer (with title page printed in red and black), Speed’s
Genealogies, Sternhold and Hopkins’ popular metrical psalter, and concordances.
Darlow & Moule 238. Herbert 307. STC 2214. Griffiths 1613:3. Old owner inscriptions
and marginalia. Interior with scattered light marginal dampstaining, occasional
light foxing and soiling. Prayer book with marginal restoration to first few leaves.
Map at front of Bible with minor marginal restoration to fore-edge. Bible with minor
worming, affecting lettering but not sense of text. Metrical psalter with restoration
to a few corners. Handsome contemporary binding without clasps, catches present.
A distinguished and excellent Bible.
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“Of Cardinal Importance For Its Influence On
The English Language, Literature And Thought”
230. BIBLE. The Bible, Translated according to the Ebrew and Greeke…
London, 1594. Small thick quarto, contemporary full blind-tooled paneled
brown calf over wooden boards rebacked, brass central bosses, cornerpieces,
clasps and catches, custom clamshell box. $8500.
1594 Barker quarto edition of the Geneva Bible (popularly known as the
“Breeches Bible”)—arguably the most significant Protestant translation of
Scripture prior to the King James Version—with beautiful, ornate woodcut
title pages and numerous in-text woodcuts, handsomely bound in contemporary
blind-tooled calf and brass fittings.
Upon Queen Mary’s accession in 1553, “publication of the English Bible ceased
in England. Many Protestants who fled to the Continent were attracted to
Calvin’s Geneva. Among these exiles were eminent English Bible scholars who
began work on a new translation” (Bible 100 Landmarks 62). First published in
1560, the Geneva Bible—often called the “Breeches Bible” for its rendering of
Genesis 3:7—as “more scholarly than any previous translation… [It] achieved
immediate popularity and exerted an extremely powerful influence… The
Geneva Version included prefaces, maps and tables; and for the first time in an English Bible the verses were divided and numbered…
It has been more properly called the Elizabethan family Bible, since it was this version which was the first to enter the English home”
(PMM 83). “It became the textus receptus for the Puritan element in England. It was read by Shakespeare, Bunyan and the soldiers of
the Civil War, and is thus of cardinal importance for its influence on the English language, literature and thought” (Great Books and
Book Collectors, 105-8). Printed in double columns of Gothic type. With elaborate engraved general title page, separate New Testament
title page (misdated 1495), woodcut initials, woodcut head- and tailpieces. With Apocrypha and Concordances. Darlow & Moule 168.
Herbert 219. Old owner initials to title page and top edge of text block, occasional ink marginalia and owner inscriptions. Some loss
to pastedowns. Leaves trimmed close, affecting marginal notes only but usually not the biblical text itself. Scattered mild foxing and
dampstaining. Closed tear to F4, touching text. Small burn hole to leaf [D5] of Concordances, affecting adjacent leaves. Small tape
repair to verso of general title page. An exceptional volume in 16th-century tooled and brass-fitted binding.
“The Most Celebrated Book In The English-Speaking World”
231. BIBLE. The Holy Bible, Containing the Olde Testament, and the New…
London, 1614. Thick 12mo, contemporary full embroidered binding over wooden
boards, all edges gilt and gauffered, custom chemise and slipcase. $6800.
Early edition of the magisterial King James Bible in contemporary embroidered
binding.
First published in 1611, the King James Version of the Bible has exercised an incalculable
impact on piety, language and literature throughout the English-speaking world. It is
“the most celebrated book in the English-speaking world… Other translations may
engage the mind, but the King James Version is the Bible of the heart” (Campbell, 1,
275). This early edition has been lovingly bound in embroidered cloth over wooden
boards, worked in silver, yellow, green and red threads featuring a floral motif. The
highly decorative and unusual style of emboridered binding reached the height of its
popularity and the pinnacle of its artistic development in the first half of the 17th
century. It is rarely found after the Restoration. Professional members of the Guild of
Embroiderers executed the majority of such bindings. Includes Apocrypha. Illustrated with elaborate woodcut general and New
Testament title pages (the latter dated 1615), woodcut headpieces, decorative woodcut initials. Bound with contemporary editions
of John Speed’s Genealogies Recorded in the Sacred Scriptures (first published 1611)—a collection of 34 engraved charts and a map
and description of Canaan—and Sternhold and Hopkins’ popular metrical psalter. Entire volume ruled in red throughout. Darlow
& Moule 259. Herbert 334. STC 2236. Occasional light foxing and marginal dampstaining. Genealogies with repair to gutter of title
page, mild edge-wear to first few leaves. An excellent Bible in striking embroidered binding.

king james bible
The King James Bible, 1619, In Magnificent 17th-Century Embroidered Binding
232. (BIBLE) (BOOK ARTS). The Holy Bible, Containing the Old Testament and the New. London, 1619. Thick 12mo,
contemporary full white satin fully embroidered in colored silks and silver thread, all edges gilt and gauffered, custom
clamshell box. $16,000.
Early edition of the King James Bible, bound with the Book of Common Prayer, Metrical Psalter and the Genealogies, which
includes 34 pages of woodcut genealogies and a double-page woodcut map of the Holy Land (with an inset map of Jerusalem),
in a splendid contemporary embroidered binding.
This early edition of the magisterial King James Bible, which was first published in 1611, has been lovingly bound in embroidered
red satin. On both covers, a floral centerpiece in white, red, light green and dark green silks is surrounded by intricate silver
thread work and smaller floral designs in blue, white and green. The spine is similarly adorned in floral designs of silver thread
and multicolored silks. A roll border worked over with silver thread ornaments the outer edges. Bible bound with an edition
from the same year of Sternhold and Hopkins’ Metrical Psalter (bound after the New Testament), and with an edition from
the same year of the Book of Common Prayer and the Genealogies (both bound before the Bible). With separate woodengraved
New Testament and Book of Common Prayer title pages. Includes Apocrypha. Text hand-ruled in red throughout.
Darlow & Moule 287. Herbert 369. STC 2257. Early owner signature. Interior exceptionally clean. A few signatures partially
sprung, cords holding. Far less than the expected age-wear to beautiful and delicate embroidered binding; colors still bright
and beautiful. A splendid volume.
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With Over 200 Engravings, Folding Maps Of The Holy Land,
And Book Of Common Prayer
233. (BIBLE) (BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER). The Holy Bible. London,
1723. Thick folio (9 by 14 inches), contemporary full red paneled morocco
gilt rebacked with original spine laid down. $6000.
Impressive 1723 King James Bible, illustrated with over 200 copperplate
engravings by James Cole, handsomely bound, together with the Book of
Common Prayer, in beautiful full contemporary morocco-gilt. A magnificent
volume with fine folding maps.
This edition is illustrated with more than 200 copperplate engravings by
James Cole, arranged four per plate. “Before 1750… the illustrations in most
English Bibles came from separately published suites of designs engraved by
John Sturt (1716) and James Cole (1724) and added to plain texts of the Bible
by the bookseller or the purchaser” (Oxford Companion to the Bible). This
Bible also contains six folding maps with a separate title page, printed in red
and black, “Sacred Geography Contained in Six Maps” (also published by
Ware, 1727). Bound before the biblical text is an Oxford 1726 edition of the
magisterial Book of Common Prayer. Bible with additional engraved title
page and separate New Testament title page (dated 1722). Prayer book with
engraved frontispiece portrait of King George II and additional engraved
architectural title page (by Sturt). Includes Apocrypha. Also bound with a 1726 edition of Downame’s Concordance. Darlow &
Moule 754. Herbert 965. Griffiths 1726:2 (prayer book). Folding map of Paradise with closed tear, loss to lower left corner; closed tear
with loss to folding map of Jerusalem; text and plates generally quite clean with only minor marginal dampstaining; contemporary
morocco-gilt very handsome. A beautiful Bible in excellent condition.
Beautiful 18th-Century Dutch Stained
Vellum Binding
234. DURAN, Simeon ben Zemah, et al. Sefer ha-
Tashbets. Amsterdam, 1738-39. Four volumes in
one. Small, thick folio, contemporary full Dutch
vellum. $5200.
Handsome Dutch stained vellum paneled binding,
with gilt centerpieces depicting Moses with the
tablets and Abraham sacrificing Isaac, on Simeon
Duran’s four-part Tashbez (1738-39).
In the 17th century, under the auspices of the Guild
of Saint Luke, Dutch bookbinders perfected the
techniques of mottling, sprinkling and staining vellum.
This wonderful vellum binding is designed with
rose-colored cover-panels containing gilt-stamped
corner and centerpieces, surrounded by wide rose
and green mottled borders. The intricate centerpiece
stamps depict Moses with the Ten Commandments
on one cover and the Sacrifice of Isaac on the other. This splendid Dutch binding holds the four parts of Simeon Duran’s Tashbez
(abbreviation of Teshuvot Shimon ben Zemah), the first three parts being rabbinic exchanges of letters on halakhic matters, and the
fourth part, called Hut ha-Meshullash, being the letters of three rabbis of North Africa, including Simeon’s descendant Solomon.
Texts in Hebrew. Bookplate. Internally quite clean and bright, with minor edge-wear to first and last few leaves, inner hinges expertly
reinforced. Covers of contemporary stained vellum binding near-fine, gilt centerpieces slightly rubbed, spine darkened. A
wonderful example of 18th-century Dutch craftsmanship, in extremely good condition.

“Perhaps The Most Important Landmark In
Doré’s Career”
235. (DORÉ, Gustave). The Holy Bible. With
Illustrations by Gustave Doré. London and New York,
circa 1867. Two volumes. Thick folio (12 by 15 inches),
contemporary full crimson pebbled morocco gilt. $7200.
One of the earliest editions in English (all undated) of
Gustave Doré’s great folio Bible, splendidly illustrated by
him with 238 full-page wood-engravings and beautifully
bound in contemporary full morocco-gilt. A fine copy.
“In the 1870s, The Doré Bible was perhaps the most treasured
(and expensive) book in the world” (Malan, 81).
Certainly, it proved a milestone in the artist’s career. “The
Bible was enthusiastically sponsored by one of the greatest
French publishers of illustrated books of the day, Mame of
Tours… Looking through these illustrations today it is
impossible to recapture the positive furor of enthusiasm
with which they were received on their first appearance…
A second edition of the Bible was called for almost at
once… Editions appeared in almost every European country…
One of the first off the mark was an English edition from Cassell, Petter and Galpin,
1867. This caused an even greater sensation than the French edition, and the demand
among collectors for any and everything by Doré was clamorous” (Muir, 224). Because
of the demand, a number of editions in English saw print between 1867 and 1903 in a
variety of formats, none of which were dated on the title page. This set is among the
earliest editions, containing 238 plates (later editions had only 205) and in the large
format of 12 by 15 inches. Malan, 239. Herbert 1977. Text and plates clean, with none of
the foxing often found. A splendidly bound and illustrated Bible in fine condition.
“Chief Among The Guiding Spirits Of The First Generation
Of The Massachusetts Bay Colony”
236. COTTON, John. The Way of the Churches of Christ in New England.
London, 1645. Small quarto, modern half brown morocco gilt. $6500.
Scarce first edition of Cotton’s strong, scriptural defense of Congregational
church polity—and a revealing witness to growing, pre-Revolutionary tensions
between imperial England and her democratic colonies, even in matters of faith.
“Chief among the guiding spirits of the first generation of the Massachusetts Bay
Colony in New England was the Reverend John Cotton, teacher of the First
Church in Boston” (Tuttle, 363). In addition to his long and influential preaching
ministry from that pulpit, Cotton played a major role in translating the psalms as
published in the Bay Psalm Book (1640)—the first true book printed in America.
His Way of the Churches “is an answer to Cotton’s critics (unnamed) as well as a
description of American [ecclesiastical] practices…[Cotton] recognizes that it
may sound dangerously like democracy for the people to have so much power [in
governing their congregations], but he protests that he is compelled to accept the
principle since Christ gave the power of the keys to the church” (Emerson, 47-8). Tuttle 38. Sabin 17090. Wing C6471. Institutional
inkstamps to title page. Scattered light foxing. Leaves occasionally closely trimmed, affecting signature marks. Title page with
marginal restoration at top toward gutter. An excellent copy, handsomely bound. Scarce.
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“The Spokesman Before God Of A Virile,
Unconquerable Humanity”
237. DONNE, John. LXXX Sermons Preached By That
Learned And Reverend Divine, John Donne, Dr. In Divinity.
a London, 1640. Folio (9-1/2 by 14 inches), contemporary full
brown calf rebacked. $8000.
Rare first edition of the first collection of sermons by “the outstanding
preacher of his day” and one of the greatest poets in the
language (Baugh et al., 613), a landmark of English literature
and piety.
Donne remains a towering figure in English literature no less for
his preaching than for his poetry. “Of Donne’s estimated 180
sermons, the extraordinary total of 160 survive—monumental
evidence that he was both a prolific and a popular preacher. The
reasons for his popularity are clear: the sermons are not only
rich in learning and curious lore; they are characteristically
personal and powerful in their phrasing… At his most characteristic,
he is the spokesman before God of a virile, unconquerable
humanity” (Norton, 913, 918). Now considered “very rare,”
this volume of sermons is one of three folios issued posthumously
by Donne’s son between 1640 and 1660 (Allibone, 513).
In addition to Donne’s addresses for major Christian festivals
and his masterful expositions of the penitential psalms, LXXX Sermons also contains the first appearance of Walton’s Life of Donne,
the standard biographical text, “written with an extraordinary grace and spontaneity” (Keynes, 239). Engraved title page supplied
in facsimile; without the first and last blank leaves. STC 7038. Keynes 29. Grolier Club 62. Lowndes, 660. Text remarkably clean and
bright, only minor rubbing to corners of contemporary calf. An about-fine copy.
Beautifully Illustrated 1716 Judeo-Italian
Haggadah, Printed In Venice
238. (HAGGADAH) Seder Haggadah shel Pesah.
Venice, 1716. Folio, 19th-century Dutch marbled paper
boards; ff. 25. $8500.
Beautifully illustrated 1716 Venice Haggadah, with
Italian translation printed in Hebrew characters.
Includes Leone Modena’s commentary (Tzli Esh), based
on Isaac Abrabanel’s earlier commentary, Zevah Pesah.
This early 18th-century Venice Haggadah was printed in
the esteemed tradition established in the same city in the
previous century. “Among its visual highlights were a
magnificent architectural border surrounding every page
of text, woodcut initials enclosing miniature figures and
scenes, and large woodcut illustrations placed at the top
or bottom of almost every page… arranged into a
meaningful biblical cycle that begins with Abraham and
later focuses on the narratives actually recalled in the text
of the Haggadah” (Yerushalmi 44-55, regarding the
extremely scarce 1609 and 1629 Venice editions, accurate
for this edition as well). Title page and each page throughout with decorative architectural woodcut border. Yaari 81. Yudlov 131.
Most leaves remargined or repaired along edges, at times affecting decorative border and text (supplied in neat facsimile). A very good
copy of this lovely illustrated Haggadah, an excellent example of the Venetian tradition.

Lovely Illuminated Leaf From A Medieval French
Book Of Hours, Depicting King David In Prayer
240. ILLUMINATED LEAF. Illuminated leaf from a Book of
Hours. France, circa 1450-75. One vellum leaf, measuring 4-1/2
by 6-1/2 inches, matted and framed; entire piece measures 14 by
16 inches. $12,500.
Lovely illuminated leaf from a mid 15th-century French Book of
Hours, with a miniature depicting King David on the recto and
the Latin Vulgate text of Psalm 6 with a leafy, colorful border on
the verso, handsomely matted and framed.
This lovely, illuminated vellum leaf from a mid-15th century
French Book of Hours (a medieval book of prayer containing
“offices,” or sets of psalms, lessons, antiphons and prayers for
recitation during each of the eight liturgical hours of the day)
features, on its recto, a lovely miniature (measuring 2 by 3-1/4
inches). Done in red, blue, green and gold, it depicts King David,
repenting of his affair with Bathsheba, kneeling at an altar on
which sit the tablets of the Law, praying to God, who is signified
by the rays of light shining on him from above. David’s golden
harp appears behind him. The three lines of text are the opening
verse of Psalm 6 in the Latin Vulgate (the first of the seven
penitential psalms): “Domine, ne in furore tuo arguas me, neque
in ira tua corripias me” (O Lord, do not rebuke me in your fury,
nor chastise me in your anger). A splendid piece in fine condition.
1765 Illustrated Haggadah Printed In Furth,
“Little Jerusalem”
239. (HAGGADAH) Haggadah Seder shel Pesach. Furth,
1765. Slim folio, 20th-century boards; ff. 14. $4200.
Very scarce 1765 Haggadah, containing important commentary
by Abravanel, “the outstanding historical figure
among Jews in the closing period of the Middle Ages,” illustrated
with decorative title page and 13 woodcuts depicting
scenes from the Bible and the Passover story.
Published in Fürth, Bavaria, the Haggadah reflects the
area’s importance as refuge to a number of Viennese Jews
in 1670 following their expulsion by Emperor Leopold I. By
1840 Fürth became home to more than half of all Bavarian
Jews. Text also embellished with woodcut initials. Expected
wine stains and other signs of ritual use, including light
wear to pages edges, not affecting text or illustrations. A
very good copy of this scarce edition.
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illuminated leaf
Illuminated Leaf From A Medieval French Book Of Hours,
Depicting The Prophet Nathan And King David In Prayer And The Slaying Of Goliath
241. ILLUMINATED LEAF. Illuminated leaf from a Book of Hours. Rouen, France, circa 1480-90. One vellum leaf, measuring
4-1/2 by 6-1/2 inches, matted and framed; entire piece measures 13 by 16 inches. $13,500.
Lovely illuminated leaf from a late 15th-century French Book of Hours, boasting two exceptional miniatures depicting King David
and the slaying of Goliath on the recto and the Latin Vulgate text of Psalm 6 with a leafy, colorful border on the verso, handsomely
matted and framed.
This lovely, illuminated vellum leaf from a late 15th-century French Book of Hours, according to the practice of Rouen, features a
full-page miniature (measuring 4-1/2 by 6-1/2 inches). Done in red, blue, green and gold and executed in the style of the Playfair
Hours (a noted contemporary illuminated manuscript, also from Rouen), it depicts, in its upper portion, King David, having been
confronted by the prophet Nathan about his affair with Bathsheba, kneeling and praying to God for forgiveness (2 Samuel 12:13-
16). The lower, much smaller portion (bas-de-page) depicts David slaying Goliath (1 Samuel 17). In between the images are three
lines of text, the opening verse of Psalm 6 in the Latin Vulgate (the first of the seven penitential psalms): “Domine, ne in furore tuo
arguas me, neque in ira tua corripias me” (O Lord, do not rebuke me in your fury, nor chastise me in your anger). A splendid piece
in fine condition.

Extremely Large 14th- Or 15th-Century
Illuminated Persian Manuscript Koran Leaf
242. ILLUMINATED LEAF. Manuscript Koran leaf.
Persia, 14th or 15th century. Single large leaf, measuring 11-1/2
by 15-1/2 inches; handsomely matted, entire piece measures 20
by 24 inches. $7500.
Lovely and extremely large 14th- or 15th-century illuminated
manuscript Koran leaf from Persia, with nine lines of bold
black naskhi script and illuminated rosettes between verses
executed in gold, blue, and black inks, as well as a large illuminated
marginal device in blue, gold, black, white, and orange
inks, handsomely matted.
This highly desirable and quite large leaf is from a 14th or
15th-century Koran of Persian origin, a magnificent calligraphic
example. It bears nine lines of bold and elegant black
naskhi script with diacritics and vowel points also in black
ink. The lovely illuminated rosettes between verses are rendered
in gold, black, and blue inks. The large marginal device
with a circular center medallion is rendered in blue, black,
gold, white, and orange inks. Tiny marginal paper repair, very
occasional smudging, and a bit of very faint waterstaining and
discoloration mainly to margins. An exceptionally early and
desirable piece.
First Edition Of Sale’s Landmark English Translation
Of The Koran, 1734
243. SALE, George. The Koran, Commonly Called the Alcoran of
Mohammed. London, 1734. Quarto, contemporary full brown paneled
and speckled calf gilt rebacked. $4500.
First edition of George Sale’s important translation of the Koran, the first
to translate directly from the Arabic into English, with genealogical charts,
folding map of Arabia and folding plan of the Great Mosque of Mecca.
For Muslims, Islam’s sacred scripture can only truly be read in Arabic, for
it is the literal, revealed word of God. Among English translations, however,
George Sale’s remains an important landmark. “As a translator, Sale had
the field almost entirely to himself. The only full translation of the Koran
in any modern language previously published was the despicable French
version by Du Ryer, issued in 1649. A very poor English rendering of Du
Ryer’s from French was issued by Alexander Ross in London in the same
year… Sale’s translation is remarkably accurate. Throughout he has made
full use of native commentators, as regards both the interpretation of the
text and its illustration in the notes… His version remains the best
[translation] in any language” (DNB). English readers regarded it as the
standard through the 19th century. With engraved folding map of Arabia by R.W. Seale, folding plan of the Great Mosque of Mecca
and three genealogical plates (two folding). Title page printed in red and black. Occasional marginal annotations. Occasional scattered
light foxing, some marginal damp staining; text with expert paper repairs to wormholing; expert restoration to contemporary calf
boards. An extremely good copy, handsomely bound.
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18th Or Early 19th-Century Illuminated Manuscript Qur’an
244. (KORAN). Illuminated Qur’an [Koran]. Iran or northern India, 18th or
19th century. 24mo (2 by 4 inches), later half red morocco and hand-painted floral
boards. $8000.
Illuminated 19th-century manuscript Qur’an, beautifully bound in exquisite
hand-painted floral boards.
Likely a commercial production by a highquality
atelier, this Qur’an in small Arabic and
Persian script contains a three-page index in
red, black and gilt, four pages of additional
prayers, a medallion leaf (with the date) and
the text. The text (within ruled borders of
black and gilt) is written in 22 lines of fine
naskhi script per page of polished paper and is
fully vocalized, with two gilt polychrome
opening pages for al-Ftihah and al-Baqarah
within elaborate borders of red, blue, black and gilt, opposite ornamental notes in nasta’liq
script within gilt arabesques. The script may have been accomplished with a starched hair
brush; it is remarkably legible for its size. According to one source, there are callouts referring
to Shi’a notables, for example, Iman Ja’far [al-Sadiq, the fifth Shi’a Imam of 12]. Interior
generally very clean. A superb small-format Qur’an in a fine, highly legible naskhi script with
extensive commentary. About-fine condition.
19th-Century Miniature Illuminated Manuscript Qur’an
245. (KORAN). Illuminated Qur’an [Koran]. Iran or Northern India, mid- to late
19th century. 64mo (2 by 3-1/2 inches), later hand-painted botanical expertly rebacked
with brown morocco, hand-painted botanical doublures. $4000.
Illuminated 19th-century manuscript Qur’an, beautifully bound in hand-painted
botanical boards.
This Qur’an’s beauty derives from its uncomplicated
script and lovely hand-painted
boards. Portions of the Qur’an are clearly
indicated. Written in 22 lines per page of
fine, fully vocalized ghubari (or “dust”)
script on polished paper (easily legible with
magnification). The script is quite tiny and
more easily legible with magnification. With
gilt polychrome opening page of al-Baqarah,
titled in red, gilt dot ayah markers, small
polychrome illuminations at hizb and juz’ sectional markers, and short, three-line pious
concluding formula after the final surah. Text within ruled borders in black, blue and gilt.
Without first leaf (colophon and first surah). Interior generally very clean, with only a few
smudges to text. A lovely miniature Qur’an.

illuminated qur’an
Beautiful Early 19th-Century Illuminated Manuscript Qur’an
246. (KORAN). Illuminated Qur’an [Koran]. Persian or Ottoman, early 19th century. Thick 12mo, contemporary full gilt-tooled
burgundy morocco rebacked, matching fore-edge flap remounted. $9000.
Illuminated early 19th-century manuscript Qur’an, handsomely bound in
contemporary gilt-tooled “wallet-style” morocco.
Islam’s sacred scripture and, for Muslims, the literal, revealed word of God, the
Qur’an is also “the most extraordinary beautiful discourse… The Arabic is extraordinary
and it does evoke a significant response… [The Qur’an] invades us [and]
gets below the level of rational, cerebral judging of content to a core of receptivity
that we sometimes don’t even know that we have” (Karen Armstrong). This undated
and unsigned manuscript Qur’an has 15-line fine black naskhi calligraphic script
on polished paper (fully vocalized in black and red, with catchwords) within gilt
borders, with double page opening elaborately gilt with pink, blue and green floral
motifs and frames; also with gilt disc markers (aya markers) between verses and
elaborate floral sectional markers (juz’ markers), some with faint color. Scattered
old marginalia. Text with only very rare smudges of occasional letters. Occasional
closed tears along edge of gilt borders. Archival tissue repairs toward gutter of approximately
the last 35 leaves. Mild rubbing to boards. An excellent and attractive
manuscript Qur’an.
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Section 10: giFt SuGGestions and
otHer interestinG Books
Give a Great Book
What gift could be more personal than a book that has been loved throughout the recipient’s life? Especially
a copy of the book that has significant value—a copy that is rare, original and, in some cases, unique?
This gift guide includes some of our recommendations for books that will be treasured by the recipient for
years to come. We offer books in a wide range of subjects and prices; please don’t hesitate to ask about
authors and titles not included here. Our staff will be delighted to answer your questions and to help you
find a book that matches the interests of the recipient.
Signed By Ansel Adams
247. ADAMS, Ansel. Yosemite and the Range of Light.
Boston, 1979. Oblong folio, original red and blue cloth,
dust jacket, shipping carton. $2000.
First trade edition, first printing, of Adams stellar
photobook, containing 116 striking black-and-white
photogravures, most full-page, boldly signed by him. An
exceptional copy in original dust jacket and shipping
carton. Preceded the same year by a signed limited
edition of 250 copies. Fine.
247

“A Beautiful And Esteemed Edition”
248. ADDISON, Joseph. Works. Birmingham, 1761. Four
volumes. Quarto, contemporary full mottled brown calf
rebacked. $1100.
First Baskerville printing of the works of a writer of exceptional
influence on 18th- and 19th-century literature, illustrated
with ten plates. The first edition of Addison’s works was
published in 1721. Without the Directions to the Binder leaf in
Volume I (as often) and the frontispiece portrait.
Scattered light foxing, a bit of rubbing to
original label. A handsome copy.
“We Are Talking Now Of Summer
Evenings In Knoxville, Tennessee…”
249. AGEE, James. A Death in the Family.
New York, 1957. Octavo, original blue cloth,
dust jacket. $650.
First edition, first issue, of Agee’s Pulitzer
Prize-winning novel. Fine.
Signed By Edward Albee
250. ALBEE, Edward. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? New
York, 1962. Octavo, original black cloth, dust jacket. $2500.
First edition of Albee’s award-winning play, signed by the
playwright. Albee described his first three-act play as the
depiction of the desire to “try to claw our way into compassion”
(Hart 9). The Tony Award-winning play premiered on
Broadway in October 1962. In 1966, Mike Nichols directed
Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton in the Oscar-winning
film adaptation. Book fine, dust jacket near-fine.
Inscribed By Woody Allen And
Actor George Segal
251. ALLEN, Woody. Without
Feathers. New York, 1975. Octavo,
original half black cloth, dust
jacket. $950.
First edition of Woody’s Allen’s timeless
collection, boldly inscribed by
him: “Dec 18—1978, To Don—Woody
Allen,” along with an inscription by
actor George Segal: “To Don—George
Segal.” This book’s recipient is very
251
possibly Don Vappie, the famed New
Orleans jazz musician and banjo player. Fine.
“The Ideal Prince”
252. AURELIUS, Marcus. The Golden Book of Marcus
Aurelius. London, 1906. 16mo (measuring 3-1/2 by 5-1/2
inches), contemporary full diapered brown calf gilt, cardboard
slipcase. $600.
Charming gift edition of the popular, “richly drawn portrait of
Marcus Aurelius as an emperor and as a man,” attractively
bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Purportedly composed in antiquity,
The Golden Book is actually a work of
imagination (first published in 1528, first translated
into English in 1535) offering “a richly drawn
portrait of Marcus Aurelius” (Mezzatesta). Fine.
Signed By Richard Avedon
253. AVEDON, Richard. An Autobiography.
New York, 1993. Folio (11-1/2 by 14-1/2 inches),
original brown cloth, mounted photographic
self-portrait, printed acetate wrapper, shipping
carton. $2200.
249 First trade edition of this impressive retrospective,
containing over 280 full-page and doublepage
plates in tritone black and white, boldly signed and
dated by Avedon in the year of publication. First trade edition,
published same year as signed limited edition of 250
copies. Fine.
Inscribed By Russell Banks
254. BANKS, Russell. The Sweet Hereafter. New York, 1991.
Octavo, original half blue cloth, dust jacket. $300.
First edition, inscribed: “for Deborah, Russell Banks.” With
remainder mark. Fine.
“Ma Terrible Passion”
255. BAUDELAIRE, Charles. Les Fleurs du Mal. Paris,
1935. Quarto, contemporary full brown morocco, colorprinted
wrappers and spine bound in, custom quarter
leather slipcase. $1600.
Lovely illustrated limited edition of Baudelaire’s
masterpiece in the original French, number 446 of
3000 copies printed, with 16 full-page lithographs
by Carlo Farneti, hand-colored en pochoir by
Charpentier, and 100 in-text wood-engravings,
handsomely bound by Max Fonseque. This edition
includes the six “notorious” poems that were censored
after the 1857 first issue. The ban was not officially
lifted until 1949. Text in French. Fine.
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“Baskerville’s Books Were
Unusually Beautiful”
256. (BASKERVILLE, John). The Book of
Common Prayer… Together with the Psalter or
Psalms of David. Cambridge, 1761. Octavo, contemporary
full straight-grain red morocco gilt. $2400.
Beautifully bound second octavo edition of
Baskerville’s Book of Common Prayer. Baskerville
produced three octavo editions of the prayer book
between 1760-62. The title page (Gaskell’s Group 3)
is a cancel, reflecting a change in price; leaves B7 and
[C6] are in the earlier, uncancelled state. Nearly fine.
“The King James Version Is
The Bible Of The Heart”
257. BIBLE. The Holy Bible, Containing the Old,
and New Testaments. London, 1661. Thick 12mo,
contemporary full paneled black calf gilt. $3000.
1661 London edition of the magisterial King James
Bible, bound with a contemporary edition of the
beloved Book of Common Prayer in distinguished
contemporary calf-gilt with silver clasps and catches.
Without Apocrypha (not called for). With separate
New Testament title page (London: John Field,
1660). Bound with contemporary editions of the
Book of Common Prayer (1665) and Sternhold and
Hopkins’ popular metrical psalter (1666). Upper
clasp engraved with previous owner’s name. Interior
with scattered light foxing, occasional minor
worming. Light rubbing to spine and wear to spine
ends, minor abrasions to boards.
FineLy Bound BiBLes
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Very Handsomely Bound 1647 King James Bible
258. BIBLE. The Holy Bible, Containing the Old Testament and the New.
London, 1647. Thick 12mo, contemporary full black morocco gilt. $3200.
1647 edition of the magisterial King James Bible, ruled in red throughout,
very handsomely bound in contemporary full morocco-gilt. Bound with a
1647 edition of Sternhold and Hopkins’ popular metrical psalter. Expert
restoration to spine ends, gilt bright. A lovely Bible.
“If Everything Else In Our Language Should Perish,
It Would Alone Suffice…”
259. BIBLE. The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments.
Oxford, 1743. Two volumes. Small 12mo (3 by 5-1/2 inches), contemporary
full black morocco gilt. $1400.
Lovely 1743 Oxford edition of the King James Bible, handsomely bound in
contemporary morocco-gilt. Without Apocrypha. Interior generally fine,
contemporary morocco-gilt binding in exceptionally nice condition.
Handsomely Bound Pictorial Bible,
With 828 Woodcut Illustrations
260. BIBLE. The Pictorial Bible; Being the Old and New Testaments
according to the Authorized Version: Illustrated with Many Hundred
Woodcuts. London, 1836-38. Three volumes. Quarto, contemporary full
polished navy calf gilt. $3200.
First edition of this generously illustrated Bible, a notable Victorian
attempt to interpret the Scriptures in their original, ancient Near
Eastern contexts, featuring 828 wood-cuts after numerous notable
artists, most half-page or larger, bound in distinguished polished calfgilt.
Artists whose work is represented include Michaelangelo, Raffaelle,
Rubens, Poussin and Rosellini. Volume III with map of the Sinai
peninsula painted on the fore-edge. Without Apocrypha. Rear inner
hinge of volume III expertly reinforced. Very handsomely bound.
260

Illustrated Edition Of Lorna Doone,
Handsomely Bound
261. BLACKMORE, Richard D. Lorna Doone: A
Romance of Exmoor. Boston, 1894. Two volumes.
Octavo, contemporary three-quarter brown morocco
gilt. $750.
Later edition of Blackmore’s classic novel of manners,
with 30 photogravures of sites mentioned in the text,
numerous historiated and floriated initials, a map of
Exmoor and 75 vignettes, handsomely bound. Fine.
Boccaccio’s Decameron, Illustrated Limited
Edition, Beautifully Bound
262. BOCCACCIO, Giovanni. The Decameron…
Faithfully Translated by J.M. Rigg. London, 1921.
Two volumes. Small folio, contemporary full tan
paneled calf gilt. $1850.
Limited edition, one of 1000 copies, of Boccaccio’s
sparkling portrait of love, lust and exuberant life,
even in the face of death. Illustrated with 15 full-page
aquatints by Art Nouveau artist Louis Chalon, beautifully
bound by J.P. Gray & Son, Cambridge. Limited
to 1000 copies, this fine private-press edition first appeared
in the late 1890s as an imprint of the Navarre
Society, which specialized in publishing classical literature.
Fine.
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“One Of The Great Books Of American Illustrations”
263. BRYANT, William Cullen, editor. Picturesque America.
New York, 1872-74. Two volumes. Thick folio, original full brown
morocco gilt. $2500.
First edition in book form, illustrated with 49 full-page steel-engraved
early American views, including title pages and frontispiece plate of
Niagara Falls, together with numerous in-text wood engravings, in
handsome publisher’s deluxe morocco-gilt bindings. “The best landscapes
engraved in this country are to be found here” (Hamilton, 216).
First published in 48 parts. Near-fine.
“If I Should Die, Think Only This Of Me:
That There’s Some Corner Of A Foreign Field That
Is For Ever England”
264. BROOKE, Rupert. The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke: With
a Memoir. London, 1931. Octavo, contemporary full red calf gilt. $500.
Later printing, with two photogravure portraits of Brooke and two
poems not included in the 1918 edition, beautifully bound by Sangorski
& Sutcliffe. First published in 1918, this edition with the newly revised
chronological order of the 1928 edition, and the poems “Fafaïa” and
“It’s not going to happen again,” not included in the first edition. Laidin
bookplate of Marie-Louise and Samuel Robert Rosenthal, Chicago
philanthropists and book collectors. Fine.
Inscribed By William Blatty
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265. BLATTY, William Peter. The Exorcist. New York, 1971. Octavo,
original half maroon cloth, dust jacket. $900.
First edition of Blatty’s “landmark of modern horror fiction,” inscribed:
“To Dan with good wishes, William Peter Blatty.” “An intelligent
exploration of possession and exorcism… an intense and dark theodicy”
(Clute & Grant, 119). Horror 100 Best 68. Near-fine.
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“The Man Who Can Create
Tarzan… Should Not Be Taken
Too Lightly!” (Arthur C. Clarke)
266. BURROUGHS, Edgar Rice.
Tarzan Lord of the Jungle. Chicago,
1928. Octavo, original green cloth, dust
jacket. $2200.
First edition of Burroughs’ twelfth
Tarzan novel, a wonderful tale of
“knighthood-in-flower, swashbuckling
and… African adventure,” in scarce
original dust jacket. “The most desirable
of all the ERB hardbacks are the… A.C.
McClurg first editions” (Zeuschner, 255).
Text and plates fresh, light edge-wear, bit
of loss to spine seam. Slight soiling, small
closed tears along dust jacket flap.
Extremely good.
269
“This Was The Lair Of The
Great Lizard”
267. BURROUGHS, Edgar Rice. A
Fighting Man of Mars. New York,
1931. Octavo, original red cloth, dust
jacket. $1800.
First edition, first issue, of Burroughs’
seventh novel in the “exotic and dangerous”
Martian world of his Barsoom series,
where Hadron of Hastor battles
menacing green warriors and ships
armed with death rays, with scarce
original Metropolitan dust jacket displaying
the bright blue wraparound art
of Hugh Hutton. Serialized in Blue Book
Magazine (April-September 1930). Book
fine; light edge-wear, mild crease to
spine of bright dust jacket, with most of
front flap supplied in facsimile.
“What Strange Lands And
Stranger People Lay Off There
Beyond The Beyond?”
268. BURROUGHS, Edgar Rice.
Pirates of Venus. Tarzana, California,
1934. Octavo, original blue cloth, dust
jacket. $1100.
First edition of the first novel in
Burrough’s fascinating interplanetary
adventure, his first Carson Napier
adventure on Venus, a world of giant
spiders, winged men, evil spies and
the secret of perpetual youth, with
dust jacket design and illustrations by
J. Allen St. John, in scarce dust jacket.
Small “First Edition” stamp, trace of
label removal to front free endpaper,
not affecting illustration. Front flap
from another dust jacket tipped to
verso of half title. Near-fine.
“A More Than Respectable Rank As A Man Of Letters”
269. BURTON, John Hill. The Book-Hunter. Edinburgh and London, 1862.
Octavo, early 20th-century full brown crushed morocco gilt. $800.
First edition of Burton’s behind-the-scenes tour of the world of book collecting,
handsomely bound in full crushed morocco-gilt by Riviere & Son. Here, a
distinguished antiquarian and bibliophile praises the “mighty book-hunters” of
the past; presents a taxonomy of collectors including “the bohemian of literature,”
“the scholar,” “the gleaner” and “pretenders”; and takes readers inside the world of
elite book clubs. Near-fine.

“A Measure Of Byron’s Increasing Skill”
270. BYRON, George Gordon, Lord. The Prisoner of
Chillon, and Other Poems. London, 1816. Tall thin octavo,
original paper boards neatly rebacked. $1400.
First edition, one of 6000 copies, of Byron’s popular poem about
imprisoned Swiss patriot François Bonivard. With final
advertisement leaf, but without half title. This copy Randolph’s
state A, no priority established. Text fine, with foxing to title
page and concluding advertisement leaf. Rubbing to extremities
and shallow chipping to spine ends. Extremely good.
271
Two Signed By Truman Capote
271. CAPOTE, Truman. The Thanksgiving Visitor. New
York, 1968. Octavo, original blue cloth, slipcase. $1200.
Signed limited edition, one of only 300 copies signed by Capote.
The first separate printing in book form of this childhood
memoir, which first appeared in McCall’s magazine. Fine.
272. CAPOTE, Truman. One Christmas. New York, 1983.
Octavo, original maroon cloth, slipcase. $1500.
First trade edition, advance review copy, signed by Truman
Capote. One Christmas tells the redemptive story of a young
Capote’s first Christmas with his estranged father. With
publisher’s review slip laid in. Fine.
Signed By Raymond Carver
273. CARVER, Raymond. Cathedral. Stories. New York,
1983. Octavo, original half gray cloth, dust jacket. $1100.
First edition of Carver’s best known collection of short stories,
signed by Raymond Carver. Includes Carver’s much
anthologized stories, “A Small, Good Thing,” the first-place
winner in 1983 of the prestigious O. Henry Award, as well as
“Where I’m Calling From,” and the title story. Very nearly fine.
“One Of The Most Picturesque Figures Of
The Renaissance”
274. CELLINI, Benvenuto. The Life of Benvenuto Cellini.
London, 1888. Two volumes. Octavo, mid 20th-century full
red crushed morocco gilt. $1250.
First edition of John Addington Symonds’ translation of
Cellini’s celebrated autobiography, one of only 750 copies,
illustrated with portrait and eight etchings by Laguillermie
and reproductions of the artist’s works, very handsomely
bound by Bayntun-Riviere in full morocco-gilt. Fine.
With Two Original Chagall Lithographs
275. CHAGALL, Marc. The Jerusalem Windows.
New York, 1962. Folio, original red cloth, dust jacket,
acetate. $2800.
First American edition, with two original color lithographs
specially prepared by Chagall for this edition,
and with numerous beautiful color reproductions of
the artist’s work. Issued the same year as the first edition,
entitled Vitraux pour Jerusalem (text in French),
and the first edition in English. Without original
cardboard slipcase. Book fine, dust jacket and acetate
near-fine.
275
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Hans Christian Andersen’s What The
Moon Saw, With Over 80 Wood
Engravings By The Brothers Dalziel
276. (CHILDREN’S LITERATURE) ANDERSEN,
Hans Christian. What the Moon Saw: And Other
Tales. London, 1866. Square octavo, original giltstamped
red cloth. $1600.
Early edition, with frontispiece, illustrated title
page, and 80 in-text wood engravings by the
Brothers Dalziel after artwork by A.W. Bayes.
Intended as a sequel to Andersen’s
1864 Stories and Tales and aimed
at slightly older children. The first
edition of this collection was
published in 1865; the title story
was first published in 1840 in
Danish and then in English, in
1865, in Andersen’s Picture-Book
without Pictures (also 1865).
Occasional slight foxing, text
block recased, small split to rear
inner paper hinge, binding
sound, light toning to spine, light
rubbing to cloth. Extremely good.
“Madeline, Madeline, Where Have You Been?
We’ve Been To London To See The Queen”
277. (CHILDREN’S LITERATURE) BEMELMANS, Ludwig.
Madeline in London. New York, 1961. Slim folio, original
pictorial red cloth, dust jacket. $950.
First edition of the fifth book in Bemelmans’ beloved series.
This fifth adventure finds our irrepressible heroine on the
other side of the Channel amidst “tea and crumpets” and “the
sound of trumpets.” Near-fine.
278
“For Gypsies Do Not Like To Stay—
They Only Come To Go Away”
278. (CHILDREN’S LITERATURE)
BEMELMANS, Ludwig. Madeline and the
Gypsies. New York, 1959. Slim folio, original
green cloth, dust jacket. $850.
First trade edition of the fourth book in the
series. Madeline and the Gypsies first
appeared in abbreviated form as a 16-page
insert in the Christmas 1958 McCall’s
magazine, with a different set of full-color
illustrations. Book fine, dust jacket near-fine.

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“The Range Of His Talent As An Illustrator For
Children Is Most Evident”
280. (CHILDREN’S LITERATURE) CRANE, Walter. The
Baby’s Own Æsop… Pictorially Pointed by Walter Crane,
Engraved & Printed in Colours by Edmund Evans. London and
New York, circa 1880. Square octavo (7 by 7-1/2 inches), original
half green cloth; pp. 56. $550.
First edition of Crane’s third popular collection of nursery rhymes,
beautifully designed and illustrated with color wood-engraved
frontispiece, 15 full-page color wood-engravings and charming
decorations on every page, all cut by Edmund Evans, considered a
forerunner in the use of color prints for children’s books. None of
Crane’s early books are dated by the publishers. Frederick Warne
and George Routledge broke up their partnership in 1865 and
both new firms seem to have retained rights to publish Crane’s
works. Fine.
“One Of The Great Children’s Novels Of All Time”
281. (CHILDREN’S LITERATURE) BURNETT, Frances
Hodgson. The Secret Garden. New York, 1911. Octavo, original
black-, gold- and rose-decorated green cloth, mounted cover
illustration. $1250.
Deluxe illustrated “gift issue” of “one
of the greatest children’s novels of all
time,” beautifully illustrated by
Maria Kirk with five mounted color
plates and a mounted color cover illustration.
The first edition was issued
in August 1911; this deluxe issue
(not listed in BAL) was printed
shortly after in a larger format with
five beautiful color tipped-in plates.
Plates and text clean and fine, cloth
with minimal rubbing and slight
spotting to front board.
“If There Is A Universal Symbol For Childhood,
Babar The Elephant Is Probably It”
279. (CHILDREN’S LITERATURE) BRUNHOFF, Jean de. Histoire de Babar, Le Petit
Éléphant. Paris, 1931. Folio (11 by 15 inches), original half blue cloth. $3500.
First edition, first issue, of the first Babar book, with the author’s wonderful color illustrations,
one of the great classics of children’s literature. “The original Babar books were
oversized in format, with the text printed in script. Subsequent editions have taken every
imaginable shape and form, but the luxuriously large volumes are still the best way to fully
appreciate Jean de Brunhoff’s mastery of the picture-book form” (Silvey, 191). A few small
closed tears and faint spots of foxing to interior, usual light wear and soiling to bright
lovely boards. Extremely good.
281
Signed By The Original Alice:
Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland
282
282. (CHILDREN’S LITERATURE) CARROLL, Lewis.
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. New York, 1932. Octavo,
original full red morocco gilt, slipcase. $4800.
Limited edition, one of 1500 copies, signed by Alice Hargreaves
(née Liddell), for whom Carroll wrote the classic. The first
edition was published in 1865. Not all copies of this edition
were signed by Alice as is this copy; the precise number she
signed is unknown. Additionally signed on the limitation
page by typographer and binder Frederic Warde. Fine.
“The Crayon Is As Much A Character As Harold”
283. (CHILDREN’S LITERATURE) JOHNSON, Crockett.
Harold’s Fairy Tale. New York, 1956. 12mo, original half
black cloth, dust jacket. $2500.
First edition of the second book in Johnson’s popular Harold
series. In his second outing, Harold uses his trusty purple
crayon to draw a castle, a king, a witch, a flying carpet and a
good fairy. About-fine.
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“Watch Out, I Say, Or He’ll Lixivate The Lot Of Us!”
284. (CHILDREN’S LITERATURE) DAHL, Roald.
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator. New York,
1972. Octavo, original half blue cloth, dust jacket. $600.
First edition of the space-based sequel to Charlie and the
Chocolate Factory. Very nearly fine.
Inscribed By Roald Dahl
285. (CHILDREN’S LITERATURE) DAHL, Roald.
Matilda. London, 1988. Octavo, original red paper
boards, dust jacket. $4500.
First edition of Dahl’s popular story of a young girl, her
genius, and her indifferent parents, boldly inscribed: “Claire,
Love Roald Dahl.” With in-text illustrations by Quentin
Blake. Near-fine.
Get Into Books Book Week Poster,
Signed By De Paola
286
286. (CHILDREN’S LITERATURE) DE PAOLA, Tomie.
Get Into Books. No place, 1983. Tall poster; framed,
entire piece measures 18 inches by 23 inches. $750.
Original poster depicting nine mimes in bookish pursuits,
signed by acclaimed children’s book illustrator
De Paola. This is the National Book Week poster for
November 14-20, 1983. Fine.
“This Is Olivia. She Is Good At Lots Of Things”
287. (CHILDREN’S LITERATURE) FALCONER,
Ian. Olivia. New York, 2000. Quarto, original pictorial
paper boards, dust jacket. $2000.
First edition of this Caldecott Honor book, signed by
the author-illustrator. Fine.
“The Best I Have Written”
288. (CHILDREN’S LITERATURE) MONTGOMERY,
Lucy Maud. Anne’s House of Dreams. New York, 1917.
Octavo, original purple cloth, mounted color cover
illustration, dust jacket. $2200.
First edition of the fourth volume in the immensely popular Anne of
Green Gables series, illustrated with front cover label and color
frontispiece by Maria L. Kirk, in scarce original dust jacket, with
vintage publicity postcard laid in. Book fine, dust jacket near-fine.
“An Honorable Place In Any Library Of
Children’s Books”
289. (CHILDREN’S LITERATURE) KIPLING, Rudyard. The Jungle
Book. WITH: The Second Jungle Book. London and New York,
1894-95. Two volumes. Octavo, original pictorial gilt-stamped blue
cloth, custom chemises and half morocco slipcase. $6500.
First editions of Kipling’s classic Jungle Books, “replete with adventure
and excitement,” in lovely original cloth-gilt. “Presentation
Copy” stamped to Volume II. “Among the 15 stories in [these volumes]
are some of Kipling’s most memorable narratives” (Abraham,
36). “Presentation Copy” with circular blindstamp to title page of
Second Jungle Book. About-fine.
“That’s Why Whenever It’s Foggy And Gray,
It’s Rudolph The Red-Nose Who Guides Santa’s Sleigh”
290. MAY, Robert L. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. No place,
1939. Small quarto, original pictorial paper wrappers. $1800.
First edition of the very first appearance of this beloved Christmas
character, written exclusively for Montgomery Ward by Robert
May, with 41 illustrations by Denver Gillen. This
booklet, delightfully illustrated by Chicago-based
artist Denver Gillen, proved so popular that
Montgomery Ward continued to publish
it until 1946. May subsequently sent a
copy of Rudolph to his friend, songwriter
Johnny Marks, who wrote
the tune Gene Autry made famous.
Near-fine.

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“This Is A Fierce Bad Rabbit; Look At His Savage Whiskers, And His Claws, And His Turned-Up Tail”
291. (CHILDREN’S LITERATURE) POTTER, Beatrix. The Story of a Fierce Bad Rabbit. London and New York, 1906.
16mo, original green cloth wallet, mounted cover illustration. $2200.
First edition, first issue, one of only two Potter stories first published in this special wallet form, with 14 full-page illustrations
and 14 pages of text in one long accordion folder with green linen backing. This accordion style of this book was not popular with
booksellers; customers tended to leave them unrolled and the books were inconvenient to re-fold. Consequently, these titles went
out of print after the first two printings. They were not reissued until 1916, and then in book form only. Near-fine.
“It Is Said That The Effect Of Eating Too Much Lettuce Is ‘Soporific’”
292. (CHILDREN’S LITERATURE) POTTER, Beatrix. The Tale of the Flopsy
Bunnies. London and New York, 1909. 16mo, original brown paper boards, mounted
cover illustration. $2000.
First edition, first or second printing, of the further adventures of Peter Rabbit and
Benjamin Bunny, with color frontispiece and 26 color plates. First edition, first or second
printing, with notice board on page 14, Quinby’s Plate VII endpapers and Evans imprint
on page 86. Without scarce original dust jacket. Fine.
“Tiddly, Widdly, Widdly, Mrs. Tittlemouse!”
293. (CHILDREN’S LITERATURE) POTTER, Beatrix. The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse. London and New York, 1910.
16mo, original blue paper boards, mounted cover illustration. $1800.
First edition of this scarce Potter title, with color frontispiece and 26 color plates. This book is one of Potter’s “comedies
of manners… [and] the most subtle” of them (Carpenter, 148-49). Near-fine.
“The Nest Is So Snug, We Shall Be Sound Asleep All Winter”
294. (CHILDREN’S LITERATURE) POTTER, Beatrix. The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes. London
and New York, 1911. 12mo, original green paper boards, mounted cover illustration. $1800.
First edition of Potter’s gift to her devoted American readers, with color frontispiece and 26
color plates. “It is believed that The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes was written primarily for American
children because they would be familiar with both chipmunks and bears. They would also be
familiar with grey squirrels like Timmy Tiptoes and his wife Goody” (Linder, 208). Without
extremely scarce original glassine. Very nearly fine.
291
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“One Of Literature’s Most
Poignant And Convincing
Portraits Of Childhood”
295. (CHILDREN’S LITERATURE)
RAWLINGS, Marjorie Kinnan. The
Yearling. New York, 1938. Octavo, original
pictorial cloth, dust jacket. $1000.
First edition, first printing, of the beloved,
Pulitzer Prize-winning classic.
“Rawlings’ evocative descriptions of rural
Florida and its people make The
Yearling regional fiction at its best, yet
the novel is universal in its depiction of
the human experience. The book was
awarded the Pulitzer Prize and made
into a 1946 motion picture starring
Gregory Peck and Jane Wyman” (Silvey,
551). Near-fine.
Inscribed By Schulz With Large,
Original Snoopy Sketch
296. (CHILDREN’S LITERATURE)
SCHULZ, Charles M. Charlie Brown’s
Yearbook. New York and Cleveland,
1969. Square octavo, original pictorial
red paper boards, dust jacket. $3600.
First edition of this Charlie Brown television
storybook compilation, boldly
inscribed with a large original sketch of
Snoopy: “For Jean — Charles M.
Schulz.” This anthology brings together
the color illustrated storybooks of not
only It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie
Brown (1967) but also He’s Your Dog,
Charlie Brown! (1968), You’re in Love,
Charlie Brown (1968) and Charlie
Brown’s All-Stars (1966). Near-fine.
296
“Stories Are Made Of Words, And Words Are Made Of Letters”
297. (CHILDREN’S LITERATURE) REY, H.A. Curious George Learns the
Alphabet. Boston, 1963. Small quarto, original gray cloth, dust jacket. $2400.
First edition of the sixth book in Rey’s enormously popular series. In this sixth book
in the series, Curious George stumbles upon books full of little black marks and,
with the help of the man with the yellow hat, learns about the alphabet. Near-fine.
“So His Parents Left Him There. They Didn’t Take Him Anywhere”
298. (CHILDREN’S LITERATURE) SENDAK, Maurice. Nutshell Library:
Pierre, A Cautionary Tale; Alligators All Around: An Alphabet; One Was
Johnny: A Counting Book; Chicken Soup with Rice: A Book of Months. New
York, 1962. Four volumes. 24mo (2-3/4 by 3-3/4 inches), original pink cloth, dust
jackets, slipcase. $500.
First edition of this wonderfully illustrated little set of classics for children. A
fine copy.
Signed Limited First Edition Of Sendak’s Illustrated Nutcracker,
With Original Lithograph Signed By Sendak
299. (CHILDREN’S LITERATURE) (SENDAK, Maurice) HOFFMAN, E.T.A.
The Nutcracker. New York, 1984. Quarto, original gray cloth, cloth slipcase.
WITH: Mounted lithograph (“Faithful Nutcracker”) measuring 5 by 5 inches;
matted, entire piece measures 9-1/2 by 9-1/2 inches. $2500.
Deluxe limited first edition, one of only 250 copies signed by Sendak, with ten
double-page full-color illustrations and numerous other color illustrations after
watercolors by Sendak, and a mounted lithograph numbered and signed by
Sendak. The signed limited edition includes a lovely original lithograph—
“Sendak’s only published lithograph to date, and its small limitation made it
highly desirable even before issuance, pre-publication orders numbered 12 times
actual production” (Hanrahan A120). About-fine.
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Scarce First Edition Of McElligot’s Pool
300. (CHILDREN’S LITERATURE) SEUSS, Dr. McElligot’s
Pool. New York, 1947. Quarto, original light blue-green paper
boards, dust jacket. $3200.
Scarce first edition of Dr. Seuss’ homage to the ol’ fishing hole.
This book garnered Seuss a nomination for the Caldecott Medal
in 1948. Binding is variant b. Interior with light soiling and
faint dampstaining, abrasion to one page affecting image.
Boards lightly soiled, slightly bowed. Dust jacket with both
panels price-clipped; mild loss to spine ends, light rubbing to
edges, colors bright. Very good.
“Those Stars Weren’t So Big. They Were Really
So Small You Might Think Such A Thing
Wouldn’t Matter At All”
301. (CHILDREN’S LITERATURE) SEUSS, Dr. The
Sneetches and Other Stories. New York, 1961. Quarto, original
pictorial paper boards, dust jacket. $1200.
First edition of this collection of four Seuss stories, including the
title tale, his pointed parable about “the shame of prejudice”
(Cohen, 220). In 1953, Geisel published in Redbook a threestanza
poem entitled “The Sneetches.” The book version of “The
Sneetches,” found in this volume, retains the punch of the
original; the remaining tales similarly teach tolerance, openmindedness
and the celebration of individuality. Near-fine.
“The Truth Of The Matter Was, The Baby Looked
Very Much Like A Mouse In Every Way”
302. (CHILDREN’S LITERATURE) WHITE, E.B. Stuart
Little. New York and London, 1945. Octavo, original pictorial
olive cloth, dust jacket, custom slipcase. $1800.
First edition of White’s “outstandingly funny and sometimes
touching” first book for children (Carpenter & Prichard, 568).
About-fine.
End of Children’s Literature section
301
“The Effect Is Rawther Extraordinaire”
303. (CHILDREN’S LITERATURE) THOMPSON, Kay.
Eloise in Paris. New York, 1957. Slim folio, original black-
and silver-stamped blue paper boards, dust jacket. $950.
First edition, with whimsical illustrations by Hilary Knight.
This, Thompson’s second Eloise book, bears Noel Coward’s
endorsement, “Frankly, I adore Eloise.” Dust jacket near-fine,
book fine.
304
“OOOOOOOOOOOOO!
I Absolutely Love
Christmas”
304. ( C H I L D R E N ’ S
LITERATURE) THOMPSON,
Kay. Eloise at Christmastime.
Drawings by Hilary Knight.
New York, 1958. Slim folio,
original pictorial red boards,
dust jacket. $900.
First edition of the third book
in the wonderfully illustrated series of Eloise stories. Eloise
creates holiday gifts—and havoc—at the Plaza Hotel. Dust
jacket near-fine, book fine.
Inscribed By Chris Van Allsburg
305. (CHILDREN’S LITERATURE) VAN ALLSBURG,
Chris. The Polar Express. Boston, 1985. Oblong quarto,
original maroon cloth, dust jacket. $2600.
First edition of Van Allsburg’s lushly illustrated, enchanting
tale of wonder and hope, winner of the 1986 Caldecott Medal,
inscribed: “To Peter, Chris Van Allsburg.” Fine.
305
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“Written In Letters Of Fire”
306. (CIVIL WAR) DUYCKINCK, Evert A. National
History of the War for the Union, Civil, Military and
Naval. New York, 1862-65. Three volumes. Quarto, original
deluxe full embossed dark brown morocco gilt. $1500.
First edition of this contemporary Civil War history, with
engraved frontispieces, title pages and over 75 illustrations
engraved from paintings by Alonzo Chappel and Thomas
Nast. A handsome copy in publisher’s deluxe morocco.
These three illustrated volumes provide valuable, in-depth,
contemporary accounts, drawn from official documents
and first-hand narratives, of the war years. Near-fine.
civiL War
306
“A Triumph Of Scholarly Tribute”:
Freeman’s Biography Of Lee, Scarce Presentation/
Association Copy Inscribed By Freeman,
Also With A Signed Letter From Freeman To
Civil War Historian William Gavin
307. (CIVIL WAR) (LEE, Robert E.) FREEMAN, Douglas Southall.
R.E. Lee: A Biography. New York and London, 1947. Four volumes.
Octavo, original gilt-stamped red cloth, box. $1600.
Later edition of Freeman’s profusely illustrated Pulitzer Prizewinning
biography, an exceptional presentation/association copy
inscribed by him in Volume I to a fellow Civil War historian, then
serving as an officer in the U.S. Army: “Autographed for Capt.
William G. Gavin, U.S. Engineers, with the best wishes of Douglas
Southall Freeman,” also with his laid-in typed letter to Gavin,
typewritten on Richmond News Leader letterhead, dated
February 20, 1947 and signed by Freeman. In original box
with printed label. Freeman served as editor at The Richmond
News Leader from 1915-49. First published in 1934. Profusely
illustrated with full-page photographs, facsimiles, maps and
battle plans. With original box. Also containing the
Richmond News Leader envelope. With occasional penciled
marginalia. Interiors generally fresh with only lightest scattered
foxing, bright gilt cloth; expert repairs to original box.
“One Of The Epic Works On The Confederate
Armies”: First Edition Of Lee’s Lieutenants,
Signed By Freeman, Accompanied By
A Signed Typed Letter From Freeman To
The Wife Of A Prominent Marylander
Thanking Her For A Lee Letter
308. (CIVIL WAR) FREEMAN, Douglas Southall. Lee’s
Liuetenants: A Study in Command. New York, 1942-44.
Three volumes. Octavo, original black cloth. WITH:
Typed letter signed. Richmond, Virginia, September 20,
1934. Single sheet of letterhead, measuring 8-1/2 by 11
inches. $2500.
First editions of all three volumes of Freeman’s important
study of Lee’s officers, profusely illustrated with numerous
full-page photographs, as well as many maps and battle
plans, including a double-page map and a large folding map
of the Army’s battlegrounds, signed by the author in Volume
I. Accompanied by a 1934 typed letter to a Mrs. Robert
Goldsborough Henry of Easton, Maryland, on Richmond
News Leader letterhead, thanking Mrs. Goldsborough for
sending copies of letters by General Lee and asking once
again to pay for the price of having them copied, signed by
Douglas Southall Freeman. Books nearly fine, letter with
only a few faint spots to verso.
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309
“A Classic Civil War Autobiography”
310. (CIVIL WAR) GRANT, Ulysses S. Personal Memoirs
of U.S. Grant. New York, 1885-86. Two volumes. Octavo,
original deluxe three-quarter brown morocco, circular giltstamped
medallions. $3000.
First edition of “one of the most valuable
writings by a military commander in history,”
illustrated with numerous steel engravings,
facsimiles, and 43 maps. In handsome
publisher’s deluxe binding. “Grant’s memoirs
comprise one of the most valuable writings
by a military commander in history”
(Eicher 492). About-fine.
“A Necessary, Primary Source…
It Should Be Read Carefully
And Often”
311. (CIVIL WAR) JOHNSON, Robert
Underwood, and BUEL, Clarence Clough.
Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. New York, 1887-88.
Four volumes. Quarto, contemporary three-quarter polished
burgundy calf gilt. $2800.
First edition of this essential Civil War reference, composed of
narratives of leading military “survivors” (many generals),
with hundreds of in-text illustrations (including those of
Winslow Homer), maps, plans, and facsimiles. So vivid are
the accounts in Battles and Leaders that Stephen Crane based
Red Badge of Courage largely on his reading of this work.
Interiors clean and fine. Light expert restoration, mostly to
joints and extremities. A handsome set.
“The Grandfather Of Civil War Histories”
309. (CIVIL WAR) MILLER, Francis Trevelyan, editor.
The Photographic History of the Civil War. New York,
1911-12. Ten volumes. Quarto, original giltstamped
blue cloth. $3000.
Early mixed edition set of Miller’s famous and
important 10-volume photographic history of
the Civil War, containing “thousands of scenes
photographed 1861-65, with text by many special
authorities.” First published in 1911. Index
is third issue, issued one year after the first.
Vols. 4, 8, 9 and 10 are second edition; all others
are first edition. Fine.
“Grant Used The Weapon That McClellan
Forged To Defeat Lee”
312. (CIVIL WAR) MCCLELLAN, George B. McClellan’s
Own Story. The War for the Union. New York, 1887. Octavo,
original green cloth, gilt and red cover medallion. $550.
312
First edition of the Civil War memoirs of
Lincoln’s controversial commander of the
Army of the Potomac, with steel-engraved
frontispiece portrait, nine illustrations,
three full-page maps, and a two-page facsimile
letter. “This controversial Union general’s
memoirs are really an explanation of
his wartime activities and decisions… It is
seldom remembered that Grant used the
weapon that McClellan forged to defeat Lee
and win the war” (Union Bookshelf 56). Fine.
“When The Battle Waged Hottest,
Sheridan Was At His Best”
313. (CIVIL WAR) SHERIDAN, P.H. Personal Memoirs
of P.H. Sheridan. General United States Army. New York,
1888. Two volumes. Octavo, original full tan sheep. $1500.
First edition of Sheridan’s military autobiography, with
27 maps (many folding) and 17 plates, handsome in original
full sheep. “Often ranked with Grant and Sherman as
the foremost Union commanders” (Mullins & Reed 82),
Sheridan completed this work just days before his death in
1888. Occasional marginal soiling. Light wear to publisher’s
original sheep binding.
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Inscribed By Pat Conroy
314
314. CONROY, Pat. The Prince of
Tides. Boston, 1986. Octavo, original
half blue cloth, dust jacket. $600.
First edition, inscribed: “to Jim and
Leland, Merry Christmas, Pat
Conroy.” “The ambition, invention
and sheer energy in this book are admirable”
(New York Times). Conroy
adapted his bestseller for the 1991
film starring and directed by Barbara
Streisand. Book fine, dust jacket
about-fine.
“Old Colonial Is At Present
The Only Proper Style For A
Country House”
315. DRAKE, Samuel Adams. Our
Colonial Homes. Boston, 1894.
Octavo, original gilt-stamped pictorial
red cloth. $700.
First edition of this survey of 20 important
New England houses including
those of Paul Revere, John
Hancock, John Adams, and other
important historical figures, with
frontispiece and 20 in-text illustrations.
This in-depth work discusses 20
of the most famous houses in New
England, from The Quincy Mansion
to the early home of John Howard
Payne. Bookplate of Washington D.C.
art and architectural historian James
M. Goode. Near-fine.
Signed By Tom Clancy
316. CLANCY, Tom. The Hunt for Red October. Annapolis
1984. Octavo, original red cloth, dust jacket; custom half morocco
clamshell box. $2500.
Scarce first edition of Clancy’s “breathlessly exciting” first novel
(Washington Post), signed by him. Near-fine.
First Edition Of Dickens’ Hard Times, Beautifully Bound
317. DICKENS, Charles. Hard Times. For These Times. London, 1854. Octavo, early
20th-century full red polished calf gilt. $1800.
First edition in book form of Dickens’ attack on the conditions of life in England’s
industrial cities, beautifully bound by Bayntun of Bath. First published serially in
Household Words from April to August, 1854, followed immediately by this first
edition in book form, Hard Times focuses on the inadequacy of a lifestyle that
emphasizes only the human intellect at the expense of the imagination and “the
heart.” With half title. Fine.
“A Deathless Niche In The
Temple Of Fame”
318. DICKENS, Charles. Works. London, circa
1887. Thirty volumes. Octavo, contemporary threequarter
brown calf gilt. $4800.
Illustrated “Library Edition,” with over 400 blackand-white
plates after the original illustrations,
handsomely bound by Bickers & Son. This edition
includes all of Dickens’ major works—including The
Pickwick Papers, Great Expectations, A Tale of Two
Cities, Oliver Twist, David Copperfield and the
Christmas books. Armorial bookplates of Fiennes Stanley Wykeham Cornwallis,
Member of Parliament. Scattered light foxing and offsetting. Volume 22 rebacked with
original spine laid down, several other volumes with expert restoration. A handsome set.
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318
318

“Better To Reign In Hell Than Serve In Heaven”
319. (DORÉ, Gustave) MILTON, John. Milton’s Paradise Lost.
London and New York, 1870. Large folio (12 by 15 inches),
contemporary three-quarter russet morocco gilt. $2400.
Second English edition of Doré’s interpretation of Paradise Lost,
with 50 stunning full-page folio engravings, “matched only by his
illustrations for Dante’s Inferno.” Doré’s His wood-engravings
have taken beautiful impressions on the coated stock of this
edition (not used in most of the nearly 200 other editions). First
published in 1866, Doré’s version was the first to contain Milton’s
Life by editor Robert Vaughan. Text and plates fine, added
coloring to hinges and corners of contemporary morocco.
320
“Hoofers, Blues Singers,
Prostitutes…”
320. DURANTE, Jimmy and
KOFOED, Jack. Night Clubs. New
York, 1931. Thick octavo, original
pictorial black cloth, illustrated endpapers,
uncut, dust jacket. $1200.
First edition of this revealing account
by famous comedian Jimmy
Durante—of “everything that goes
on behind the scenes… in places
that were Durante’s hangouts for 20
years,” with eight pages of photographs. Faint stamp of the Authors’
Motion Picture and Radio Bureau. Near-fine.
319
Signed By Don DeLillo
321. DELILLO, Don. Americana. Boston, 1971.
Octavo, original half blue cloth, dust jacket. $2500.
First edition of DeLillo’s first novel, signed by him. “Don
DeLillo’s swift, ironic witty cross-country American
nightmare doesn’t have a dull or unoriginal line”
(Nelson Algren, Rolling Stone). Fine.
Signed By Umberto Eco
322. ECO, Umberto. On Literature. Orlando,
Flor