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on the cover: Belzoni’s Excavations In Egypt, 1820; Item No. 122

on left: Doré’s Illustrated Folio Edition Of Tennyson’s Idylls Of The King, 1868; Item No. 125

top: Hancock's Oration On The Anniversary Of The Boston Massacre, 1774; Item No. 34

history

Foxe. The Book of Martyrs; 1610. See Item #3

“Overflowed With Anecdotes Of Lust, Violence, And Idiosyncrasy”1. SUETONIUS. The Historie of Twelve Caesars, Emperors of Rome: Written in Latine by C. Suetonius Tranquillus, and newly translated into English by Philemon Holland. London, 1606. Small folio (8 by 11 inches), contemporary full limp vellum. $16,000.

First edition in English of Suetonius’ dramatic biographies of the Caesars, the important 1606 Holland translation. An excellent copy in contemporary vellum binding.

“De Vita Caesarum, from Julius Caesar to Domitian, is large-ly responsible for that vivid picture of Roman society and its leaders, morally and politically decadent, that dominated historical thought until modified in modern times by the dis-covery of nonliterary evidence. The biographies are organized by topics: the emperor’s family background, career before ac-cession, public actions, private life, appearance, personality and death… The earlier lives down to Nero, especially those of Julius Caesar and Octavius Caesar, are much the fullest, perhaps because as an antiquarian Suetonius was drawn to the documentary byways of an earlier age… [it is] exciting reading” (Britannica). Holland was considered the “transla-tor general in his age… while the plague raged at Coventry [where Holland lived] in 1605-06, Holland translated Suetonius’ Historie of Twelve Caesars” (DNB). The work was Robert Graves’ primary inspiration for his novel I, Claudius (1934). With woodcut initials and elaborate woodcut chapter headpieces incorporating medallion portraits. Without first and final blanks. Brueggemann, 703. Early owner signature on title page. Text quite clean, one tie partial. An extraordi-nary copy in original vellum.

“One Of The Great Achievements Of The 16th Century”2. (BIBLE). The holy Byble, conteyning the olde Testament and the newe. London, 1575. Small folio (8 by 11-1/2 inches), contemporary full paneled reverse calf rebacked, contemporary brass catches and renewed brass clasps. $19,000.

Sixth edition (first small folio edition) of the “Bishops’ Bible”—the Anglican translation commissioned to check the Geneva Bible’s influence and “considered one of the great achievements of the 16th century” (J. Paul Getty Museum, A Thousand Years of the Bible, 70)—with much woodcut ornamentation, complete in con-temporary reverse paneled calf boards.Queen Elizabeth I “encouraged a renewed interest in the English Bible, but the Great Bible [prepared by Miles Coverdale and published in 1540] was still the version authorized for church use. It was clear that the Geneva Bible [published 1560 by Calvinist exiles in Switzerland] was, in many ways, a superior translation; some of its notes, however, were offen-sive to the Crown. Consequently, it seemed advisable to undertake a revision of the Great Bible. Matthew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury, headed the revi-sion committee, which included many bishops and well-known biblical scholars… The new authorized

version was called the ‘Bishops’ Bible” (Bible 100 Landmarks 63). First published 1568. The 1602 edi-tion would serve as the basis of the King James Bible (1611). Ornamented with elaborate woodcut title page and part titles, decorative initials, maps before Acts and Romans, small portraits before Romans, James, 1 Peter, Jude and Revelation, and 17 small in-text illustrations in Revelation. Darlow & Moule 103. Bookplate, bookseller ticket. Old owner sig-nature to leaf [R8v] of New Testament. Occasional old ink marginalia; extensive old manuscript nota-tions to verso of [N6] and both sides of [2T8] and [4N8]. A bit of light dampstaining toward gutter of a few gatherings, occasional marginal closed and open tears, some with expert restoration, remnant of [R10], preserving colophon and brazen serpent device, mounted on later paper, expert restoration to boards. A lovely complete copy.

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“It Came To Exert A Greater Influence Upon The Consciousness Of Early Modern England And New England Than Any Book Aside From The English Bible And The Book Of Common Prayer”3. FOXE, John. Actes and Monuments of Matters most speciall and mem-orable, happening in the Church. London, 1610. Two volumes bound in one. Large, very thick folio (12 by 17 inches), contemporary full brown calf rebacked, metal furniture and clasps. $13,000.

17th-century edition (and sixth overall) of this remarkably influential work, with two elaborate engraved vignette title pages and 150 in-text woodblocks depicting scenes of martyrdom.

“Foxe’s Book of Martyrs was for more than two centuries one of the most widely read books in England” (PMM, 52). “This compilation came to exert a greater influence upon the consciousness of early mod-ern England and New England than any other book aside from the English Bible and Book of Common Prayer” (Oxford World Classics). First published in English in 1563. Without the folding plates of Windsor Castle and of the early persecutions of the primitive church and the portrait of Foxe, all of which are often not present and which may have been sold separately (see STC11227.3) and the final leaf of the index (which is supplied in neat pen facsimile). Armorial book-plate. Early owner signature at bottom of a few early leaves. Scattered mild soiling and dampstaining, last leaf of index and a corner of the previous leaf supplied in manuscript, title page backed, a few minor paper repairs. A large and impressive volume.

“One Of The Finest Specimens Of Jacobean Book-Production”4. JAMES I. The Workes of the Most High and Mightie Prince, James. London, 1616. Folio (9 by 13-1/2 inches), contemporary full dark brown calf gilt rebacked with original spine laid down. $8500.

First edition of the collected works of James I, judged to be “one of the finest specimens of Jacobean book-production,” with splendid copper-engraved frontispiece portrait by Simon Pass of James enthroned in the robes of state and elaborately engraved additional title page by Elstrack. King James I of England’s “collected works were published by Bishop Montague in 1616, with the addition of earlier speeches and state pa-pers” (DNB). “This volume is of great interest to the students of the development of the idea of the divine right of kings and other Stuart constitutional problems… Typographically this is one of the finest specimens of Jacobean book-production” (Pforzheimer 531). Without separately published 1620 supplement, often not present. Bookplate of renowned bibliophile Robert S. Pirie, widely noted for his collection of English literature before 1700. Ink marginalia in an early hand. Small expert paper repair to lower corner of engraved title page, just touching outer edge of border only. Text generally clean, contemporary calf-gilt binding nicely refurbished and very beautiful.


Boldly Signed By King Charles I5. CHARLES I. Manuscript letter signed. Hampton Court, September 30, 1635. Single sheet, measuring 11-1/2 by 7-1/2 inches; pp. 1; mounted on thin wood veneer. $3750.

Extraordinary manuscript letter written in a secretarial hand sent by Charles I in 1635, the middle of his reign, ordering payment to William Murray, once Charles I’s childhood whipping boy and later his close confidante, Groom of Bedchamber, and Earl of Dysart, boldly signed by him as “Charles R.”Dated September 30, 1635, Hampton Court, the let-ter directs the recipient to pay his “Servannt William Murray one of the Groomes of our Bedchamber.” A few years after this letter was written, with conflict over religion, monarchy, and money at a head, the English Civil Wars erupted. Charles I’s forces fought bloody battles, but were defeated in the second of the Civil Wars. In 1649, Charles was labeled “the grand author of our troubles,” tried, and executed. Slight ink smudging not affecting legibility, most minor foxing, glue bleed-through along edges barely touching signature. Near-fine condition. Rare.

1620 First Edition Of The First Complete Translation Of Cicero’s Epistles Into English—The Copy Of The King Of Hanover6. CICERO. The Familiar Epistles of M.T. Cicero. London, 1620. Thick 12mo, contem-porary full brown calf, rebacked. $7200.

First edition of the very scarce first complete translation into English of Cicero’s familiar epistles. From the library of Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover and fifth son of King George III.“Cicero wins our affections by the integrity of his public conduct, the purity of his private life, the generosity, placability, and kindness of heart, the playfulness of his temper, and the warmth of his domestic attachments... Here we see the man without disguise or affectation, especially in his letters to Atticus” (Peck, 341). A partial translation, Certain Select Epistles, appeared in 1576. Without first two leaves, both blank except for signature marks between rows of type or-naments (OCLC). STC 5305. From the library of the King of Hanover, Ernest Augustus (1771-1851), the fifth son of King George III (and uncle of Queen Victoria), with his library’s characteristic red armorial inkstamp on the verso of the title page. This volume bears Ernest Augustus’ “Fideicommiss” stamp” and bears the Hanoverian coat of arms, with evidence of the shelfmark label on the front pastedown. Interior generally clean. A very good copy.

“A Considerable Work… A Real Advance In Historical Insight”7. FIDDES, Richard. The Life of Cardinal Wolsey. London, 1724. Thick folio (9-1/2 by 14 inches), 19th-century full speckled dark brown calf re-backed. $3800.

First edition of Fiddes’ then-controversial and still valuable study of Cardinal Wolsey, illustrated with seven engraved plates, including a folding view of the Hall of Christ-Church.Cardinal and Lord Chancellor Thomas Wolsey exercised great influence in the court of King Henry VIII until the king broke with Rome; his failure to secure the annulment of Henry’s marriage to Catherine of Aragon sealed his fate. “The work of [priest and historian] Fiddes which attracted most attention in his own day, and was longest remembered in English litera-ture, a Life of Cardinal Wolsey… attempted to vindicate Wolsey’s memory… Life of Wolsey was a considerable work, and was founded upon real research; the documents appended still make the book valuable” (DNB). Lowndes, 796. Bookplate. Text and plates clean and fine. Expert restoration to boards. A beautiful copy.

“If Everything Else In Our Language Should Perish, It Would Alone Suffice…”8. (BIBLE). The Holy Bible, Containing the Old Testament and the New… Cambridge, 1661. Small, thick octavo, mid-18th century full brown gilt-paneled morocco re-backed with original spine laid down, custom clamshell box. $6000.

Handsomely bound 1661 Cambridge edition of the ven-erable King James Bible, “the most celebrated book in the English-speaking world” (Campbell, 1).The King James Version of the Bible, first published in 1611, has exercised an incalculable impact on pi-ety, language and literature throughout the English-speaking world. Macaulay praised it as “a book, which if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beau-ty and power” (PMM 114). Darlow & Moule 534. Herbert 674. Armorial bookplates. Large ink initial

“F” to front free endpaper. Old family record to verso of front free endpaper, following leaf and verso of title page. Interior quite fresh and clean, with a few minor tears. An excellent Bible in very nearly fine condition, distinguished in handsome morocco-gilt.


One Of The Great Achievements Of 16th-Century Scholarship, With 51 Double-Page Maps9. CAMDEN, William. Britannia: or a Chorographical Description of Great Britain and Ireland. London, 1722. Two volumes. Folio (10-1/2 by 16 inches), contemporary full paneled calf sympathetically rebacked. $6800.

Second edition of Edmund Gibson’s translation of this great historical work, the first comprehensive topographical, geographical and historical study of Great Britain, with frontispiece portrait, 51 double-page maps, ten full-page engravings of coins, and numerous in-text illustrations.As Elizabeth’s reign drew to an end, there was a concerted effort to document the achievements of her age. “Britannia can be seen as an attempt to depict the English landscape, monumentalize its topogra-phy, and to show how the events of national history are inscribed onto this landscape in painstaking, town-by-town detail” (Dana F. Sutton). Britannia was intended not only to glorify Elizabeth, but to satisfy the curiosity of an Oxonian audience about unfamiliar parts of their own nation. The maps were “the first collection of county maps to use the prime meridian of London throughout” (Skelton, 71). Britannia was first published in Latin in 1588; the first editions in English were pub-lished in 1610 and 1637. Gibson’s translation first appeared in 1695. Early owner signature on title pages. Text and maps quite clean and fine. Expert repair to Lincolnshire map. Expert restoration to corners of con-temporary paneled calf covers. A handsome copy in excellent condition.

“Sitting By Night In My Secret Study…”: 1672 First English Translation Of Nostradamus’ Prophecies10. NOSTRADAMUS, Michel de. The True Prophecies or Prognostications of Michael Nostradamus. London, 1672. Folio (7-1/2 by 11 inches), modern full brown morocco. $11,000.

First edition in English of Nostradamus’ famous prognostications, handsomely bound.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 fig-ure who has had an impact on later history… [His more than 1000 rhym-ing quatrains, arranged in ‘centuries’ of 100] constitute the largest body of prophetic verse prepared to that day, perhaps in all literature” (Clute & Grant, 694). “More than any other writer in modern times Nostradamus knew how to titillate the deep-seated craving, felt by potentate and ple-beian alike, to foresee the future, near and remote” (DSB). This edition, the first in English, includes the original French quatrains with accom-panying translations and annotations, and is illustrated with ornamental woodcut headpieces and initials. Without scarce frontispiece portrait, as often; without final blank. Wing N1399. Lowndes, 1708. Scattered light foxing. Occasional light edge-wear to leaves; two text leaves (pages 93-96) with paper repair to lower inner margin, affecting legibility of a few lines, a few leaves with marginal tape repairs. An extremely good copy, handsome-ly bound.


“One Of The Earliest, If Not The First, Published Collections Of Maxims Of The English Law”11. BACON, Francis. The Elements of the Common Lawes of England. London, 1630. Two volumes bound as one. Small quarto (5-3/4 by 7-1/4 inches), contemporary full brown calf rebacked with original spine laid down, custom clamshell box. $7500.

First edition of this important collection of Bacon’s maxims of English law—“in the science of the grounds and mysteries of the law, he was exceeded by none.”As Britain’s Lord Chancellor, Francis Bacon was “one of the Makers of English Law. In all the spheres that a lawyer can occupy he was preeminent” (Reams, 105). Yet the displeasure with which James I viewed his reforms pre-vented any of Bacon’s legal works from being published in his lifetime. Thus the Elements, part of Bacon’s noble plan to systematize and reform English law, appeared posthu-mously. Central to this conflict was Bacon’s belief “in a large, modern, centralized nation-state and in a power-ful, dominant monarchy” (Encyclopedia of Philosophy). Elements stands acclaimed as “one of the earliest, if the not the first, published collection of Maxims of the English Law… in the science of the grounds and mysteries of the law, he was exceeded by none” (Marvin, 83-84). With laid-in partial initial blank leaf containing early hand-let-tered, “Bacon’s Elements…” Early owner signature. Text very fresh, faint rubbing to boards. A handsome copy.

Religious Freedom And The Law12. (BLACKSTONE, William) PRIESTLEY, Joseph. An Interesting Appendix to Sir William Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England. Philadelphia, 1772. Octavo, period-style full calf gilt.. $8000.

First American edition (published only one year after the first) of this primary source on religious toleration in the context of English com-mon law, with rebuttals, replies, arguments and defenses.In his Commentaries, Blackstone classified religious non-conformi-ty as a crime, intimating that Protestant “dissenters” were disloyal citizens and that the Church of England should be the ultimate authority. First published in Dublin (1769) and in Philadelphia (1772)—the various parts were issued separately in England—this work consists of a refutation of Blackstone’s argument by lib-eral theologian and defender of religious freedom Joseph Priestley, who notes that “the manner in which Dr. Blackstone has treated the Dissenters, is such as I should not have expected from a per-son of a liberal education… who being so perfectly skilled in the laws of his country, should have been better acquainted with the inhabitants of it.” A very good copy.

Extraordinary Document Signed By Napoleon As Emperor: Napoleon Bestows A Barony, Accompanied By Extremely Rare Fully Intact Official Red Wax Seal, Silk Ribbons And Hand-Colored Coat Of Arms, Handsomely Framed13. NAPOLEON. Engraved document signed by Napoleon, with large official wax seal. Palace de St. Cloud, June 11, 1810. Engraved broadside, completed in manuscript, 24 by 18-1/2 inches; wax seal measures 5 inches in diameter, 1/4-inch thick, with blue and yellow silk ribbons affixed. Handsomley framed. $16,500.

Rare, ornately engraved document boldly signed by Napoleon (“Napol”) as Emperor of France, King of Italy, and Protector of the Confederation of the Rhine, granting a barony to Colonel Martin François Dunesme, together with the original large wax seal, featuring a bas relief portrait of Napoleon on the French throne on the obverse and the Empire’s coat of arms on the verso, with ribbons attached.After the coup of 18th Brumaire (November 9, 1799), First Consul Napoleon faced threats to his rule from both Jacobins and royalists. To ensure the continuity of his rule, he orga-nized a plebiscite that elected him Emperor of the French in 1800. Once secure as Emperor, Napoleon established his own order of nobility that would allow him to cement his power throughout the French Empire. His authority to do so was established by a constitutional decree in 1808 which gave him, as noted in the present document, “the right to give the titles… to those among our subjects who distinguished them-selves for services rendered to the State.” Documents concern-ing Napoleon’s awards of nobility are prohibitively rare. As the political winds shifted dramatically within a few years, many who were honored to receive these titles soon after had good reason to see these documents destroyed. Very few such documents come to market, and even fewer still include the original ornate wax seal. Text in French. Included is an early metal storage tube with attached compartment for the wax seal. A magnificent piece in fine condition.

Private Life And Conversations Of Napoleon, Richly Extra-Illustrated With More Than 100 Engravings, 38 Hand-Colored14. (NAPOLEON) LAS CASES, Count De. Journal of the Private Life and Conversations of the Emperor Napoleon at Saint Helena. London, 1824. Eight volumes. Octavo, contemporary full tree calf gilt re-backed. $3800.

Early edition in English of this account of the exiled Napoleon, il-lustrated with four engraved plates (folding floor plan of Napoleon’s Longwood residence, view of his birthplace in Corsica, folding map of St. Helena and folding map of the Italian Campaign), and extra-il-lustrated with a total of 106 engravings, 38 finely hand-colored.Fascinated by Napoleon, Las Cases shared his exile at St. Helena, recording the emperor’s conversations. The popularity of the Mémorial de Sainte-Hélène upon its publication in 1822-23 was “one of the earliest” signs “that the Légende napoléonienne was forming” (Harvey & Heseltine, 506). Published one year after the first edition in English, which was issued shortly after the 1822-23 French first edition. A bit of rubbing to extremities of bind-ings, occasional faint marginal dampstain. A near-fine, handsome and desirable extra-illustrated set.


Sloane’s Illustrated Life Of Napoleon, Handsomely Bound15. SLOANE, William Milligan. Life of Napoleon Bonaparte. New York, 1896. Four volumes. Folio (9 by 12 inches), contemporary three-quarter red morocco gilt. $4000.

First edition of Sloane’s monumental account of Napoleon’s per-sonal and military life, with over 300 illustrations, portraits and maps, many in color.

"Of [Historian William] Sloane's writings, that which attract-ed the most attention was his Life of Napoleon Bonaparte. It was published originally in the form of a serial… in November 1894, enlarged into four massive volumes in 1896… The product of many years of elaborate investigation, it was sump-tuously illustrated and composed" (DAB). Contemporary owner signatures. A bit of slight marginal dampstaining in last two volumes, Volumes III and IV with joints expertly repaired; contemporary morocco handsome. An attractive set.

Boldly Signed By Tsar Nicholas II, Magnificently Bound By Shnel16. (NICHOLAS II) KONSTANTINOVICH, Konstantin, Prince. [Golden Book of First All-Russian Exhibition of Printing Trade under Noble Patronage of His Imperial Majesty Grand Prince Konstantin Konstantinovich] (translated from Russian). Saint Petersburg, 1895. Two volumes. Folio (11 by 15 inches), original full gray morocco gilt with morocco inlays, half morocco slipcase. $12,000.

Splendid folio volume commemorating the 1895 “First All-Russian Exhibition of Printing Trade,” boldly signed by Emperor Nicholas II on the first page, and by many other attending notables, beautifully bound by the renowned Saint Petersburg bookbinder A. Shnel.This commemorative volume is largely a blank book, aside from the printed title page and the gold-print-ed border on each page, the first two leaves featuring the Imperial crowns as part of the border design. Nicholas has boldly signed the first leaf (in Cyrillic), presumably at the time of this exhibition, which was in the year following his November 1, 1894 coronation. Nicholas II, the last Emperor of the Russian Empire, was of course executed along with the rest of his family by Bolshevik revolutionaries in July, 1918. Other signatures include “Minister of Finance, Sergei Vitte,” “Viscount Jules de Cuverville” and “Prince P. A. Putyatin.” Along the lower edge of the front cover of this beautiful binding is lettered in gilt: “Binding by A. Shnel/ Gilding by K. Konyushevskiy/ Ill[ustrations] by Arch[itect] I. Ropet.” The accompanying cloth volume is a portfolio of photogravures of bindings by A. Shnel, with 33 of 34 plates; plate 5, which features an image of this very volume as part of the catalogue, is not present. Accompanying cloth portfolio worn, photogravures clean and fine. Minor wear to slipcase. The beau-tiful commemorative volume is fine, with a bold example of Nicholas II’s signature.

Fine Signed Photograph Of Winston Churchill17. CHURCHILL, Winston. Photograph signed. No place, no date. Image measures 4-1/2 by 5-1/2 inches; handsomely matted and framed, entire piece measures 14 by 17 inches. $7500.

Photographic portrait of Churchill, signed by him beneath on the mount and dated by him “1942.”Formal black-and-white portrait of Churchill in suit and bow tie, probably taken some time during World War II. A photographer’s stamp on the verso of the board reads “Walter Stoneman of J. Russell & Sons, London.” A bit of silvering to edges, top corner of mount with mild creasing.

Complete 12-Volume Collection Of First Editions Of Churchill’s WWII And Post-War Speeches, 1941-6118. CHURCHILL, Winston S. Collection of World War II and post-war speeches. London, 1941-61. Twelve volumes. Octavo, modern full three-quar-ter morocco gilt. $6200.

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 his-tory of the war which is as lively as it is author-itative; and, so far as contemporary history is of value, they may be said to be the last word upon the war” (Randolph S. Churchill). The bulk of Churchill’s speeches between late 1945, when he was voted out of the office of Prime Minister and became the leader of the opposition party in Parliament, through his second premiership of 1951-1955, up to 1959, when he gave his last public speech, make up the post-war speeches. This set contains the rare first and only printing of The Unwritten Alliance, the last of Churchill’s books printed in his lifetime. Fine condition.


Signed By Mandela In The Year Of Publication19. (MANDELA, Nelson) MAHARAJ, Mac and KATHRADA, Ahmed. Mandela. The Authorized Portrait. Kansas City, 2006. Folio (9-1/2 by 12 inch-es), original black paper boards, dust jacket. $3750.

First edition of the majestic photo-illustrated biog-raphy of Mandela, in which world leaders, activ-ists, personal friends, and fellow prisoners recount his many triumphs and offer poignant anecdotes, signed by Mandela in the year of publication.“With beautifully reproduced photographs on every double-page spread, this huge, very hand-some biography is both for those who know Mandela only as a distant icon and for those familiar with his autobiography, Long Walk to Freedom (1994), and with the history of South Africa’s struggle for democracy. More than 60 world figures (including Clinton, Annan, and Bono) and antiapartheid activists (including Tutu and Kathrada) pay tribute and remember the great freedom fighter… Most moving are the accounts by Mandela’s fellow prisoners on Robben Island” (Booklist). A fine signed copy.

One Of Only 200 Copies Signed By The Dalai Lama20. DALAI LAMA. My Tibet. Text by His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama of Tibet. Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1990. Small folio (9-1/2 by 13-1/2 inches), original red cloth, slipcase. $3500.

Signed limited first edition of My Tibet, one of only 200 copies signed by the Dalai Lama and photog-rapher Galen Rowell, with over 110 color plates, most full page, including “Rowell’s most famous image,” his photograph of a rainbow arced above the Dalai Lama’s Potala Palace.The beautifully illustrated volume contains mov-ing essays by the Dalai Lama, including “Tibet As I Knew It,” “My Life in Lhasa” and “The Meaning of Pilgrimage,” as well as an introduc-tory essay by photographer Galen Rowell, and the Dalai Lama’s 1989 Nobel Peace Prize cita-tion. With over 110 full- and double-page color plates, including a frontispiece and two maps. With slipcase; without dust jacket as issued. Gift inscription dated year of publication: on the same page as a printed Dalai Lama inscription. A fine signed copy.

“The Basis Of The Principles Of Democracy” (PMM): A Great Rarity—Exceptional Set Of Locke’s Three Letters On Toleration21. (PHILOSOPHY& ECONOMICS) LOCKE, John. A Letter Concerning Toleration. BOUND WITH: A Second Letter Concerning Toleration. BOUND WITH: A Third Letter for Toleration. London, 1690, 1692. Three vol-umes in one. 12mo Letter (3 by 5-1/2 inches), quarto Second Letter & Third Letter. Quarto, contemporary speckled brown calf rebacked. $27,000.

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Locke’s three Letters of Toleration rarely found together in one volume, featuring the rare 1690 edition of his first Letter Concerning Toleration, virtually unobtainable in the first edition, together with the exceedingly rare quarto first editions of his Second Letter (1690) and Third Letter (1692), a profound influence on Jefferson, Madison and the architecture of the American Constitution on free-dom of religion.This rare volume contains the 1690 second edi-tion, corrected, of Locke’s Letter Concerning Toleration and the first editions of his Second Letter Concerning Toleration (1690) and Third Letter for Toleration (1692), the only ones pub-lished in his lifetime. Rarely found together, they are the foundation for a principle of toler-ation that is “one of the defining topics of polit-ical philosophy... a way of thinking about First Amendment rights such as the free exercise of re-ligion and the wall of separation between church

and state” (Williams Waldron, 1). Jefferson and Madison “grounded their commitment to freedom of conscience on the foundation laid by Locke in his Letter Concerning Toleration” (Ravitch & Witeritti, 245). “The authorship of these ‘letters’ was kept secret during Locke’s lifetime and revealed in the codicil to his will” (Yolton, 2). A fourth letter was left in manuscript at Locke’s death in 1702; it was first published in the Posthumous Works of Mr. John Locke (1706). Yolton 10; 25; 27. Pacific School of Religion bookplate with deac-cession inkstamp; Second Letter title page with small inkstamp. A most rare near-fine collection.

“No peace and security among man-kind—let alone common friend-ship—can ever exist as long as people think that governments get their authority from God and that religion is to be propagated by force of arms.”

“Endeavor To Imitate The Wise”23. (PHILOSOPHY & ECONOMICS) CONFUCIUS. The Morals of Confucius a Chinese Philosopher. London, 1724. Small octavo, contemporary full speckled brown calf rebacked. $4500.

Scarce second edition in English of any of Confucius’ writings, in contemporary calf boards.The fifth-century BCE Chinese sage K’ung Fu-tzu “was in-terested in the difficult art of becoming a perfectly humane person, and regarded those who made efforts in that direction as the real gentleman, rather than those born of high rank” (Bowker, 233). Confucian philosophy dominated Chinese intellectual and ethical life until the early 20th century. Preceded by the 1691 first edition in English. Owner signa-ture and armorial bookplate of George Legh, the Member of Parliament, and of the High Legh Library. Interior generally quite nice with only light foxing to preliminaries, expert res-toration to extremities of contemporary calf boards. An ex-tremely good copy.

“His Most Important Early Philosophical Work”: Scarce First Edition Of Voltaire’s Letters Concerning The English Nation, 1733, The First Book To Relate The Story Of Newton And The Apple22. (PHILOSOPHY & ECONOMICS) VOLTAIRE. Letters Concerning the English Nation. London, 1733. Octavo, contempo-rary full paneled brown calf rebacked. $4200.

First edition of Voltaire’s commentary on English institutions, published one year before the French first edition, the first pub-lished work to relate the tale of Newton’s falling apple.Voltaire fled to England in 1726 following arguments in Paris with powerful political figures, “where he remained till early 1729, learning English, reading Shakespeare, Milton and the Restoration dramatists, making the acquaintance of Walpole, Congreve, Gay, Berkeley, and associating with Bolingbroke, Pope and Swift” (Harvey & Heseltine, 753). “Much struck by the admirable English phlegm and toleration of free thought and eccentricity, he wrote the Letters, the most sympathet-ic of critiques” (PMM 204). “Four letters deal directly with Newton and his theories and include, for the first time, the famous anecdote of the falling apple, which gave birth to the law of gravitation” (Babson 242). Of specific American inter-est is Letter IV, concerning William Penn and the founding of Pennsylvania as a haven for Quakers. Sabin 100751. Text quite fresh. A beautiful copy.

“Taxation Is Theft, Purely And Simply… On A Grand And Colossal Scale”: First Edition, Signed By Murray Rothbard23. (PHILOSOPHY & ECONOMICS) ROTHBARD, Murray. The Ethics of Liberty. Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey. 1982. Octavo, original gilt-stamped navy cloth. $6200.

First edition of Rothbard’s “second magnum opus… a pillar of the Rothbardian system” in its bold pursuit of principles introduced in Man, Economy and State, signed by Rothbard, the father of libertarianism.Building on the principles of his first book, Man, Economy and State (1962), Ethics is a “pillar of the Rothbardian system… his second magnum opus. In it, he explains the integration of eco-nomics and ethics via the joint concept of prop-erty” (Hans-Hermann Hoppe). “A scholar of lib-erty on a par with Mises and Hayek… Rothbard not only systematized and perfected the insights of Mises and his school of pure free-market eco-nomics, but also fought to establish an American beachhead for the Misesian school—and did it almost single-handedly” (Raimondo). As issued without dust jacket. An about-fine signed copy.

“One Of The Giants Of The European Philosophical Tradition”: First Edition in English of Hegel's Philosphy of Religion24. (PHILOSOPHY& ECONOMICS) HEGEL, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich. Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion. London, 1895. Octavo, original blue cloth, custom clamshell box. $3200.

First edition in English of Hegel’s posthumous work based on his key Berlin lectures on the relation be-tween philosophy and religion, translated from the 1840 German edition.“Hegel is one of the giants of the European phil-osophical tradition. Indeed, in the eyes of many the depth and sophistication of his thought are matched only in the work of Plato, Aristotle, and Kant” (Houlgate in Companion to Hegel). In par-ticular, Hegel viewed “religion and philosophy as well as religion and politics as necessarily—not just historically—complexly interconnected” (Lewis). “There were few precedents for treating philosophy of religion as an autonomous philo-sophical discipline, and Hegel’s 1821 lectures rep-resented an important step… there was no topic in which he had a deeper and more abiding con-cern” (Hodgson). He then drew from, revised and expanded the 1821 lectures in his 1824, 1827 and 1831 lectures, but they were never published in his lifetime. As issued without dust jackets. Text very fresh and clean, inner hinges expertly reinforced; light edge-wear and faint soiling to cloth with light toning to spines. Rare and desirable.

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“The First And Greatest Classic Of Modern Economic Thought”26. (PHILOSOPHY & ECONOMICS) SMITH, Adam. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. London, 1799. Three volumes. Octavo, contemporary full brown calf gilt. $6500.

Ninth edition of Smith’s landmark work—“prob-ably the most important book which has ever been written” (Buckle).“It is the first and greatest classic of modern eco-nomic thought” (PMM 221). Buckle’s History of Civilization calls Wealth of Nations “probably the most important book which has ever been written,” while economist J.A.R. Mariott as-serts that “there is probably no single work in the language which has in its day exercised an influence so profound.” First published in 1776. Kress B2209. Armorial bookplates of the Earl of Northesk, a title in the peerage of Scotland that was created in the 17th century. The family seat is Scotland’s Ethie Castle. Interior quite fresh with only small bit of marginal dampstaining in Volume I, expert restoration to beautiful con-temporary bindings.

A Cornerstone Of Any Economics Collection and the First Appearance Of

"The Invisible Hand"25. (PHILOSOPHY& ECONOMICS) SMITH, Adam. The Theory of Moral Sentiments. London, 1804. Octavo, contemporary full polished brown calf gilt rebacked. $3800.

1804 edition of Smith's Pioneering first book, a work which he himelf ranked above Wealth of Nations and which served as its foundation, both works demonstrating "a greater unifying principle...Smith's ethics and his economics are integrated by the same principle of self-command, or self-reliance, which manifests itself in economics in laissez faire" (Spiegel), scarce in contemporary calf boards. The Theory of Moral Sentiments laid the founda-tion on which The Wealth of Nations was later to be built and propsed the theory which would be repeated in the later work: that self-seeking men are often “led by an invisible hand...with-out knowing it, without intending it, to advance the interest of the society.” “The Theory of Moral Sentiments would be enough to assure the autho a respected palce among Scottish moral philo-sphers, and Smith himself ranked it above The Wealth of Nations... Its central idea is the concept, closely related to conscience, of the impartial spectator who helps man distinguish right from wrong”(Niehans, 62). First published in 1759. A handsome near-fine copy.

The Most Influential Economic Treatise Of The 20th Century27. (PHILOSOPHY & ECONOMICS) KEYNES, John Maynard. The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money. London, 1936. Octavo, original blue-green cloth, dust jacket. $13,000.

First edition of Keynes’ last major work, considered the most influential eco-nomic treatise of the 20th century, rarely found in the original dust jacket.“The world-wide slump after 1929 prompted Keynes to attempt an expla-nation 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 sub-jected the definitions and theories of the classical school of economics to a penetrating scrutiny and found them seriously inadequate and inaccurate” (PMM 423). Owner signature along upper edge of dust jacket front panel. Light foxing to edges and first few leaves, cloth near-fine. Attractive dust jacket with small chip to foot of gently toned dust jacket spine, affecting publisher’s name, shallow wear to corners. A very desirable copy in the scarce original dust jacket.

“The ideas which

are here expressed

so laboriously are

extremely simple

and should be

obvious. The

difficulty lies, not

in the new ideas,

but in escaping

from the old ones,

which ramify,

for those brought

up as most of us

have been, into

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“To Bring Lightning From The Heavens, By Means Of An Electrical Kite”: First Edition Of Priestley’s Important History And Present State Of Electricity, 1767, The Earliest History Of Electricity, Published With The Aid Of Benjamin Franklin28. (SCIENCE & NATURAL HISTORY) (FRANKLIN, Benjamin) PRIESTLEY, Joseph. The History and Present State of Electricity, with Original Experiments. London, 1767. Thick quarto, contemporary full tan calf gilt. $15,000.

First edition of the earliest history of electricity, authored by Priestley, one of Franklin’s close friends in England and published with Franklin’s assistance, featuring previously un-published details on Franklin’s revolutionary kite experiment, containing seven copper-engraved folding scientific plates, scarce and desirable in lovely contemporary calf-gilt.Priestley “was the first to investigate upon an extensive scale the chemical effects of ordinary electricity” and also isolated seven gases, including oxygen (Mottelay, 227).

“Franklin assisted Priestley by promoting the publication of his History” (Gish, 89). This pioneering work possesses a “special value... since Franklin was in close contact with Priestley”—his highly detailed account of Franklin’s kite experiment is seen as “based on information provided by Franklin himself and, since Franklin read the manuscript, must have the seal of his approval” (Cohen, 68-9). Minor offsetting from plates. Front joint and spine ends with minor expert reinforcement, gilt bright. An exceptionally handsome copy, in lovely contemporary calf-gilt.

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Rare first edition in English, with John Dee’s important preface, allegorical wood-cut title page by John Blagrave and Dee’s rare folding Groundplat. This copy with 38 of the original folding overslips (small hinged paper slips tipped onto in-text wood-cut diagrams, of an original total of 60) on 29 (of 37) figures in Book XI, by their frag-ile nature often missing.This first edition in English “is a remark-able production, a stout folio in the well-known manner of John Day whose por-trait trademark fills the last page. Apart from the introductory matter, there are 930 pages of text with diagrams well ex-ecuted. The title page is elaborately em-blematic” (Thomas-Stanford). “No work can compare to Euclid’s Elements in sci-entific importance, and its first appear-ance in English was an event of great sig-nificance” (Rosenbach 19: 225). “Euclid’s Elements of Geometry is the oldest mathe-matical textbook in the world still in com-mon use today... The Elements remained the common school text-book of geometry for hun-dreds of years and about one thousand editions and trans-lations have been published” (PMM 25). The importance of Sir Henry Billingsley’s translation of Euclid was overshadowed by John Dee’s Mathematical Preface. “Even a cursory reading of this introduc-tory piece will reveal that any simple defi-nition of mathematics would be insuffi-cient to encompass Dee’s approach to his

“Has Exercised An Influence Upon The Human Mind Greater Than That Of Any Other Work Except The Bible”29. (SCIENCE & NATURAL HISTORY) EUCLID. The Elements of Geometrie. London, 1570. Folio (9 by 13 inches), early 20th-century full blind-tooled brown calf. $60,000.

“By surveying the rich and little-known terrain waiting to be entered through the study of Euclid, Dee provokes the gener-ation of scientific narratives that would reorder the world.” — k.j. knoespel

subject” (Debus). The printing by John Day of this large folio was a monumental task. The overslips constitute 60 discrete slips of paper on 37 figures. They were originally printed as six bifolia bound in at the end of the book; in this copy they have been cut and tipped in where ap-propriate, though many are now laid in loose, and five of the slips on two figures have been supplied in a neat pen-and-ink facsimile. Elaborate woodcut initials and tailpieces. First published in Latin in 1482 in Venice by Erhard Ratdolt. STC 10560. Thomas-Stanford 41. Horblit 342. Title page mounted, with por-tions of the border affected, final leaf remargined along all four edges, folding groundplat mounted on linen, first leaf of text with neat restoration along hinge. A very good, handsomely bound copy.

1750 First Edition in English of Euclid's Elements of Geometrie

“The Best Of Them All”: 1790 First Edition Of Speechly’s Treatise On The Culture Of The Vine31. (SCIENCE & NATURAL HISTORY) SPEECHLY, William. A Treatise on the Culture of the Vine. York, 1790. Quarto, contem-porary full tree calf rebacked. $4000.

First edition of this “excellent work,” illustrated with five en-graved plates (three folding) depicting vineyards, stove plans, and growth patterns.Speechly, an agriculturalist, was gardener to the Duke of Portland on his estate in Nottinghamshire. “The best of them all is that of Speechly… a model of the sound, practical, well-written and beautifully printed manual” (Gabler, 265). Includes sec-tions on the culture and management of the grape vineyard, pruning, watering, and infestation, and a discussion of 50 va-rieties of grapes that might be grown in England. Gabler, 265. Simon, 50. With the armorial bookplate of Edward Loveden, whose name appears on the list of original subscribers. Small library “withdrawn” stamp to front free endpaper. Occasional light spotting and offsetting, repair to half title, often not present. Expert restoration to handsome contemporary bind-ing. A very good copy.

Darwin’s Major Works In First And Early Editions, Uniformly Bound30. (SCIENCE & NATURAL HISTORY) DARWIN, Charles. Works. London, 1872-77. Ten volumes. WITH: MÜLLER, Fritz. Facts and Arguments for Darwin. London, 1869. Together, eleven volumes. Octavo, contemporary three-quarter green calf gilt. $8500.

Splendid set of nine of Darwin’s major works and one text about Darwin, including one first printing, handsomely and uniformly bound.This is a beautiful set of 11 volumes, comprising nine of Darwin’s ma-jor works as follows: On the Origin of Species (6th edition, eighteenth thousand, the first issue of the final definitive text); The Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same Species (first edition, one of only 1250 printed); The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (first edition, second printing); and Insectivorous Plants (first edition, second printing). With later editions, from the 1870s, of the follow-ing: Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited During the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle Round the World; The Various Contrivances by Which Orchids are Fertilized by Insects; The Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants; The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication (two volumes); and The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex. With a first edition of Facts and Arguments for Darwin, written by Darwin’s friend, naturalist Fritz Müller. Armorial bookplates. Interiors clean and fine, a few minor scuffs to spine ends. A special set.

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“I Do The Thing Which My Own Nature Drives Me To Do”: Signed By Albert Einstein32. (SCIENCE & NATURAL HISTORY) EINSTEIN, Albert. Out of My Later Years. New York, 1950. Octavo, original gilt-stamped navy cloth, dust jack-et, custom clamshell box. $12,500.

First edition of Einstein’s second collection of social science-related articles, addresses, speeches, letters and papers covering the period before, during, and after World War II, signed and dated “51” by him.Commenting on the potential conflict of science and politics, Albert Einstein once turned to an assistant and sighed, “Yes, time has to be divid-ed this way between politics and our equations” (DSB). Here Einstein offers further thoughts crossing that divide, mirroring his political, social, philosophical and scientific concerns. Drawn from articles, speeches, letters and vari-ous papers, all written from 1934 to 1950, with many published here for the first time, the book includes selections on science, ethics, public affairs, issues in Jewish history, the dilemma of modern war and tributes to figures such as Marie Curie, Isaac Newton and Mahatma Gandhi. This work was issued in a number of different cloths and dust jackets, and there continues to be bib-liographic uncertainty about some points; this copy’s cloth and jacket is commonly identified as first edition. Book fine, dust jacket extremely good with light toning to spine, slight edge-wear including short closed tear to front panel; tape repairs to verso. A desirable copy.

Signed By Dr. Christiaan Barnard, Rare First Offprint Of A Human Cardiac Transplant—

“The Opening Of A New Era In Medicine… As Significant As The Age Of The Atom”33. (SCIENCE & NATURAL HISTORY) BARNARD, Christiaan N. A Human Cardiac Transplant. REPRINTED FROM: S.A. Medical Journal, Vol. 41, 30 December 1967. No place, 1967. Slim quarto, modern burgundy cloth; original wrappers bound in. $9500.

First offprint, signed by Dr. Christiaan Barnard on the orig-inal front wrapper of the rare first separate printing of this groundbreaking paper on the first human-to-human heart transplant, issued shortly after its inclusion in a journal pub-lished only three weeks after his “remarkable achievement… the most publicized event in world medical history.”

“On 3 December 1967 Barnard completed the first hu-man-to-human heart transplant and earned a place in history. That operation ranks with the assassination of JFK and the first moon landing” (British Medical Journal).

“The article describing this remarkable achievement, was published in the South African Medical Journal just three weeks after the event and is one of the most cited arti-cles in the cardiovascular field… this first transplant re-mains the most publicized event in world medical history” (Cardiovascular Journal of Africa). At Barnard’s death in 2001, he was also remembered as “a man who never shied from controversy in apartheid-era South Africa… He was the first doctor to use mixed-race nurses in the operating room to treat white patients, and he transplanted the heart of a white woman into a black man.” A fine signed copy.

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First Edition Of Edison, 1910, The Only Biography Thomas Alva Edison Authorized, Boldly Inscribed By Edison To Andrew Carnegie’s Financial Secretary34. (EDISON, Thomas Alva) DYER, Frank Lewis and MARTIN, Thomas Commerford. Edison. His Life and Inventions. New York and London, 1910. Two volumes. Octavo, original blue cloth, custom clamshell box. $9200.

Elusive first edition of the first “complete, au-thentic and authorized” biography of Edison, boldly inscribed by him in Volume I to Robert Augustus Franks, Andrew Carnegie’s financial secretary (with his characteristic “umbrel-la” flourish): “To my friend Frank, Thomas Edison.”Primarily authored by Frank Lewis Dyer, who headed Edison’s legal and corporate af-fairs for over a decade, with Electrical World editor Thomas Martin, this two-volume, generously illustrated work was “long re-garded as the standard, authorized biogra-phy… [and] is a rich source of biographical details, particularly on Edison’s early career” (Burt). Recipient Franks was involved in the steel industry and also served as Andrew Carnegie’s financial secretary. Slightest rub-bing to spine ends. A fine inscribed copy.

“i believe that we are now, a-tremble on the verge of vast discoveries—

discoveries so wondrously important they will upset the present trend of human thought and start it along

completely new lines .”—Thomas Alva Edison

Striking 19th-Century Chromolithographic Portraits Of George And Martha Washington35. (WASHINGTON, George and Martha) MIDDLETON, E.C. Framed chromolithographic por-traits. Cincinnati, circa 1864. Together, two framed pieces. Paper on canvas, oval image measures 13-1/2 by 16-1/2 inches; handsomely framed, each piece measures 19 by 22 inches. $6500.

Mid-19th-century chromolithographic portraits of George and Martha Washington, laid on canvas, each in a contemporary gilt frame.Cincinnati engraver Elijah C. Middleton used a unique method of lithography—printing on canvas-backed paper in oil-based inks—to pro-duce color images of unusually high quality that were still affordable. Starting around 1861, his portraits—often of figures such as George and Martha Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Daniel Webster or General Grant—were prized not just locally, but even drew the attention of East Coast markets and competitors. A few minor cracks to frames, a few spots of discoloration to Martha Washington portrait, not touching her face. Near-fine condition.

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Tarleton’s History Of The Campaigns Of 1780 And 1781, The American Revolution And Its Southern Campaigns, With Five Large Maps36. TARLETON, Sir Banastre. A History of the Campaigns of 1780 and 1781, in the Southern Provinces of North America. London, 1787. Large quarto, contemporary full brown tree calf rebacked and recornered with original spine laid down. $12,500.

First edition of Tarleton’s significant account of the southern campaigns in the American Revolution, containing five detailed maps (three large folding) with hand-colored outlines of routes and positions, this copy with the armorial bookplate of Sir George Macartney, a contemporary of Tarleton and a highly influential British statesman and diplomat.Tarleton’s aggressive, ruthless style on the field of battle during the American Revolution earned him the name “Bloody Tarleton.” “The history is in general a com-pilation of the official letters of the British officers, both in the sea- and land-service, and of the American and French commanders, which had appeared in the newspa-pers… This book has great value, especially because it contains many documents that cannot be found elsewhere without great labor” (Church 1224). Featured in this handsome volume are five maps (three large folding), each with hand-colored outlining, that depict the sieges of Charlestown and Yorktown, the battles of Camden and Guildford, and a general map of Cornwallis’ movements in the American South. Armorial bookplate of Sir George Macartney, a contemporary of Tarleton and a lead-ing British statesman and diplomat. Contemporary marginalia to front pastedown. Interior fresh with small bit of gutter-edge cosmetic restoration to first dozen leaves not affecting text, expert archival repair to a few tiny marginal tears, light wear to contemporary calf boards. A near-fine copy.

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Splendid Archive Of Rare Ship’s Papers Signed By Fourteen Of The First Fifteen Presidents, Washington Through Buchanan, 1795-1857, Amassed Over Decades By A Single Collector37. WASHINGTON, George; ADAMS, John; JEFFERSON, Thomas; MADISON, James; MONROE, James; ADAMS, John Quincy, et al. Archive of 14 ship’s papers signed by 14 of the first 15 Presidents of the United States; 14 documents signed, par-tially printed and completed in manuscript. New York, 1795-1857. Together, 14 printed documents engrossed in manuscript. Broadsides (various sizes, most by about 16x20 inches), printed and signed on rectos, with original paper seals. Each mount-ed on a leaf in an early 20th-century full limp crimson morocco album (17 by 22 inches). $85,000.

Fantastic archive of 14 rare original ship’s papers each signed by one of the first 15 Presidents of the United States, from George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison through James Buchanan, compiled over the course of 62 years (with the only exception of the ninth president, William Harrison, who was only president for one month), with Washington’s signature particularly bold, rare and desirable. As each is also countersigned by the Secretary of State, the signatures of three presidents who served as Secretary of State under previous adminis-trations—James Madison, John Quincy Adams and James Buchanan—appear twice in this archive; along with the signatures of such notables as Edmund Randolph, Timothy Pickering, Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun, and Daniel Webster. These documents are in excellent condition, each with the fragile affixed paper seals of the United States present.Because ships leaving U.S. ports needed ship identifi-cation papers before a voyage, documents such as these were signed by the President and Secretary of State ahead of time and forwarded to the port. The Collector of the Port would then fill in the required information for each ship and the date, and the Collector of Customs at the port would typically countersign.

An old leaf of thick paper, evidently part of the wrapper that enclosed the documents before they were mounted into this large album, bears the following ink inscrip-tion, in part: “This package contains Old Documents (14 in number) which bear the Official Signatures of the various Presidents of the U.S. from President Washington to President Buchanan (except Genl Harrison who was President only one month)... Orry, may sometime hence, deem it his duty to present them to the Legislature of his native State, after framing.” The first leaf of the album bears the following typed notice, dated Lansing, Michigan, July 24, 1915, and signed by previous owner Oramel (“Orry”) B. Fuller: “This volume contains Sea Letters that were obtained by my father while he was in the Customs Service of the

government at the Port of New York prior to the Civil War. He enclosed them in a sealed package, and at his death, in 1862, they were filed with other papers and were delivered to me when I became of age in 1879... In the serious questions that created the division between the North and the South and which were settled by the Civil War, the sympathy of my father was with the South... My father’s suggestion in the note that I pres-ent the letters to the legislature of my native state (New Jersey) I have not adopted, as having come to the state of Michigan in early childhood, I feel I am a part of that state. As mementos of the early days of the Nation these letters will increase in historical value as the years pass, and hope Harold will preserve them.” Taped to this leaf is a typed note stating that “Mr. Harold B. Fuller in 1948 made a trip to New York City to have an appraisal made by a collector of rare documents and signatures. The largest offer, by one of the collectors was $450 at that time. He had decided these documents were more valuable to hold and would become more valuable in the coming years.” Taped to that note is an old news-paper clipping with the headline: “Sea Letters: $10,000 Worth Owned by Lansing Man.” Laid into the album is a typed inventory of the documents, which notes: “The above Sea Letters were bound in book form by Wm. L. Hermes, with his compliments in July 1915, and they are in my desk in the office of the Auditor General. 2-8-19.” The album is accompanied by an old portfo-lio containing numerous Fuller family photographs and memorabilia. The Thomas Jefferson document is folded once, with old tape reinforcements along the fold on the verso (the fold does not touch Jefferson’s signature); the James Buchanan document is folded twice (not touching Buchanan’s signature), with a few splits along fold and small tape reinforcements on verso. Remaining documents unfolded and fine, with fragile paper and wax seals intact. An exceptional archive, with a fascinat-ing provenance.

“Tell Me, Ye Bloody Butchers… Do Not The Injured Shades Of Maverick, Gray, Caldwell, Attucks And Carr… Fill Even Your Dreams With Terror”38. (BOSTON MASSACRE) HANCOCK, John. An Oration; Delivered March 5th, 1774... to Commemorate the Bloody Tragedy of the Fifth of March 1770. Boston, 1774. Slim quarto, modern half calf; pp. 20. $10,000.

First edition of John Hancock’s electrifying March 5, 1774 Boston Massacre Oration, delivered only a few months after the Boston Tea Party, an elo-quent call for opposing British rule in which Hancock anticipates a “strat-egy, which Jefferson later used to formulate the Declaration,” in describing Americans as voices of “order and justice” and the British as “agents of cha-os” (Hurm, Fourth of July). With the bookplate of major American collector Bella C. Landauer.

Famed as the first signer of the Declaration of Independence and President of the Continental Congress, Hancock—a “key figure in se-curing independence and creating the republic”—makes an electrifying call for America’s cause in this very scarce first edition, first printing, of his March 5, 1774 Boston Massacre Oration. The speech, “com-ing so soon after the Boston Tea Party (16 Dec. 1773), created a great stir in the town” (ANB). Throughout the Revolutionary period, the annual Boston Massacre orations “created a distinctive colonial iden-tity… Massacre orations are some of the very few Revolutionary po-litical speeches to survive in printed form” (Gustafson, Eloquence is Power, 187). Without half title as often. Sabin 30177. Evans 13314. Adams 74-35a. Adams, American Independence 117a. With bookplate of renowned collector Bella C. Landauer, whose wide-ranging collec-tions have been exhibited in museums and libraries around the country. Small institutional bookstamps. Text generally fresh with light edge-wear to title page, expert archival restoration to gutter edge and corners of title page and text leaves. A most desirable extremely good copy.

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Rare Membership Certificate From The Massachusetts Society For Promoting Agriculture, 1805, Signed By John Adams39. ADAMS, John. Document signed. Boston, July 25, 1809. One leaf, measur-ing 9-1/2 by 13-1/2 inches, printed on the recto and finished by hand. $8800.

Rare certificate of membership for the Massachusetts Society for Promoting Agriculture, one of the first American agricultural societies, signed by John Adams as president of the Society. Incorporated in 1792, the Massachusetts Society for Promoting Agriculture is one of the earliest agricultural societies in the United States; the organiza-tion still exists today. Among its founding members were Samuel Adams, Charles Bullfinch, Timothy Pickering and Benjamin Lincoln. They were soon joined by John Adams, John Hancock, Robert Treat Paine, Elbridge Gerry, Artemas Ward and other prominent figures from Massachusetts.

Always interested in pursuits that would improve the fledgling United States, Adams served as the Society’s president from 1805 to 1813. The recipient of this membership document, Gorham Parsons, was a noted Massachusetts farmer who owned two farms, raised crops and fruit, and imported and raised livestock. He became a member of the Society in 1809. Adams has signed this document as Society president and John T. Kirkland as secretary; the next year Kirkland became President of Harvard University. Small ink notation to far left margin; fragile paper seal entirely present, document in excellent condition. Very rare; public sale records do not record another of these signed by Adams in the past 40 years.

“The Clearest Of All Expositions Of The Basic Principles Of Democracy” (PMM)40. PAINE, Thomas. Rights of Man. WITH: Rights of Man Part the Second. Philadelphia, 1791, 1792. Octavo, bound together in period-style full red morocco gilt; pp. 105; 96. $12,500.


Scarce Philadelphia edition of Part I of Paine’s Rights of Man—published shortly after the London first edition and contemporaneously with several American editions—along with the similarly scarce second Philadelphia edition of Part II, issued the same year as the London and American first edi-tions. One of Paine’s most important, influential, and bestselling works, Rights of Man resulted in the prosecution in England of Paine, his publish-ers, and booksellers, forcing Paine to flee to France. This American edition of Part I was endorsed by then-Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson and “cre-ated a new explosion” as Jefferson’s letter, an excerpt of which was printed in this edition, was seen as a veiled attack on Vice President John Adams. In Part II, Paine used, for the first time, the phrase

“age of reason” and “fully developed his great politi-cal philosophy.”

Written “with a force and clarity unequaled even by Burke, Paine laid down those principles of fundamental human rights which must stand, no matter what excesses are committed to ob-tain them… The government tried to suppress it, but it circulated the more briskly… [Rights of Man is] the textbook of radical thought and the clearest of all expositions of the basic prin-ciples of democracy” (PMM 241). The second part was first published in London by Jordan on February 1792, “dealing an even stronger blow for a change of government in England” (Gimbel-Yale 66). Both parts first published in London. Gimbel 61, 66. Evans 23664, 24654. Howes P31, P32. Part I with light wear and soil-ing, a very good copy. Part II with a few spots of foxing to text, also very good. A desirable set of early Philadelphia editions.

“They Fought For Their King, Their Laws And Constitution”: Fascinating Revolutionary Broadside Describing The Battle Of Bunker Hill From The British Perspective41. REVOLUTION. Boston, 1775. One broadside leaf (6 by 12 inches); matted and framed, entire piece measures 12-1/2 by 19 inches. $21,000.

Scarce and important original 1775 broadside offering a Loyalist account of the Battle of Bunker Hill, printed a week after the fighting.The first major battle of the American Revolution, the Battle of Bunker Hill, saw the revolutionaries defeat-ed; however, their “skill and tenacity reassured colonists everywhere that the Revolution would not be stran-gled in its cradle” (Oxford Companion to United States Military History). This contemporary broadside de-scribes the conflict from a Loyalist perspective, praising the British vic-tory. While it accurately describes the action, the casualty count it contains has been heavily embroidered by the British for propaganda purposes, em-phasizing their troops’ fierce bravery and courage. Streeter 760. A fine broadside, rare and desirable.

Fine Document Signed By Benjamin Franklin 42. FRANKLIN, Benjamin. Manuscript document signed. Philadelphia, October 13, 1787. Single sheet of vellum, 16 by 13-1/2 inches, writing on recto, with fragile paper seals; window framed with portrait, entire piece measures 33 by 23 inches. $22,000.

Exceptional original manuscript deed in a secre-tarial hand, boldly signed by Benjamin Franklin as President of Pennsylvania, and with the fragile pa-per seals of Pennsylvania present and intact.Franklin was not only the state’s president, but also a delegate to the Constitutional Convention, convened in Philadelphia on May 25 of this year and lasting until September 17. Franklin is the only Founding Father to be signatory to all four key documents in America’s found-ing: the Declaration of Independence, Treaty of Paris, Treaty of Alliance with France and the U.S. Constitution. Franklin served as President of Pennsylvania from October 1785 to October 1788. It is in that capacity that he signed this doc-ument. The official signature of James Trimble,

Deputy Secretary of Pennsylvania, also appears on this document affirming a land sale, stating in part: “In Witness whereof this Excellency Benjamin Franklin Esquire President of the Supreme Executive Council hath hereto set his hand.” This document, penned entirely in manu-script in a fine and legible secretarial hand, is also signed by James Trimble, Deputy Secretary of Pennsylvania from 1777 until his death in 1836. The original fragile, ornate, eight-pointed star pa-per seal is present, faintly embossed with the seal of Pennsylvania. Typical faint fold lines, one just beneath but not touching Franklin’s signature and flourishes. Fine condition, a scarce document boldly signed by Franklin, beautifully framed.


“The Most Widely Read Of All American Autobiographies”43. FRANKLIN, Benjamin. Mémoires de la Vie Privée de Benjamin Franklin, Écrits par Lui-Même. Paris, 1791. Octavo, contemporary three-quarter brown calf. $7000.

True first edition (preceding the first English edition by two years), in two parts, of Franklin’s renowned autobiography, “the most widely read of all American autobiographies.”“The most widely read of all American autobiographies… [Franklin’s] holds the essence of the American way of life” (Grolier American 21). Written during four different periods from 1771 to 1789, “this ac-count is the epitome of Franklin’s spirit. In it one sees him as a typical though great example of 18th-century enlightenment” (Hart). This French translation by Jacques Gibelin constitutes the first appearance of any part of Franklin’s autobiography, covering Franklin’s life until 1731. It was apparently translated into French from one of the two manuscript fair copies sent to friends in France for further advice. The first English edition, itself a translation from this French edition, did not appear until 1793. To this day, this remains the ultimate trea-tise on man’s ability to better himself, notable for its humorous prag-matism and vivid portrayal of early 18th-century colonial America. Ford 383. Early occasional minor inked underlining, marginalia in French. Text generally fresh with light scattered foxing, slight edge-wear, rubbing to boards. A highly desirable extremely good copy.

The “First Great American”: Franklin’s Complete Works, With Engraved Portrait And Plates44. FRANKLIN, Benjamin. The Complete Works. London, 1811. Three volumes. Octavo, contemporary full brown tree calf rebacked. $4800.

1811 edition of the first collected edition of Franklin’s Complete Works, including his autobiography, “Way to Wealth,” numerous po-litical writings including “Causes of the American Discontents before 1768” and works on the Stamp Act, and adding for the first time his scientific writings, with engraved frontispiece portrait, 13 plates (ten folding), a folding table and a folding map of the Gulf Stream, a lovely copy in contemporary tree calf boards.Hailed as the “first great American” by historian Frederick Jackson Turner, America’s “first philosopher” by David Hume and “one of the most sensible men that ever lived” by Emerson, Benjamin Franklin “held true to a fundamental ideal with unwavering and at times heroic fortitude: a faith in the wisdom of the common citizen” (Isaacson). This handsome edition of Franklin’s Complete Works, published not long after his death, offers rich evidence of the pragmatic brilliance in the words of this Founding Father who was described as “a great genius” even by his adversary John Adams. Stated “Second Edition,” this is a scarce “reissue of the [1806] first edition with a change of printed titles.” Ford 551. Contemporary owner signature dated 1824 to letterpress title pages. A near-fine copy.

“The Nations Of Our Time Cannot Prevent The Conditions Of Man From Becoming Equal”45. TOCQUEVILLE, Alexis de. Democracy in America. New York, 1838, 1840. Two volumes. Octavo, original blind-stamped pebbled brown cloth, Vol. I re-backed with original spine laid down, custom clamshell box. $13,500.

Rare and important first American editions of both parts of Tocqueville’s great influential analysis of American democracy, one of the outstanding intellectual achievements of the 19th century.Tocqueville’s work originated in a trip commissioned by the French gov-ernment to study the American penal system in 1831-1832. “In 1835, the first volume appeared (in French), and throughout the intellectual circles of western Europe both democracy and America took on a new aspect and a new significance in political speculation” (NYU, 955). In his nine-month stay in the United States, Tocqueville absorbed a remarkable sense of the spirit and maintenance of democracy, and he affirms his faith in mankind’s ability to pur-sue the democratic society. The Reeve trans-lation of part I was first published in London in 1835; this contains the first American edi-tion of the second part (issued same year as the London edition), as well as the true first American edition of the first part (one of two editions from New York in 1838: easily distinguishable by the printer’s imprint on the verso of the title leaf ). Text generally fresh with light scattered foxing, expert restoration to original cloth. An extremely good copy.

Large Elaborately Ornamented Version On Silk Of The Declaration Of Independence, Circa 184046. (DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE). In Congress, July 4th 1776: The Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America. Lyon, France, 1840. Tabloid-size lithographic broadside on silk; framed. $12,000.

Ornamental version of the Declaration of Independence, an 1840 lithograph-ic adaptation of a design published by William Woodruff in 1819, with por-traits of George Washington, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson and the armorial bearings of the 13 original states.In the period following the War of 1812, Americans began to look back, for the first time with historical per-spective, on the era of the founding of the country. Several 19th-centu-ry entrepreneurs set out to meet this demand. This is a later edition of the 1819 Woodruff engraving, a litho-graphic broadside printed by H. Brunet on silk sometime between 1837 and 1843. Woodruff’s engrav-ing of the Declaration contained sig-natures in a uniform round hand, not facsimiles, and replaced the portrait of John Hancock with one of John Adams. Fine condition, handsomely framed.

“In America I saw more than America; I sought the image of democracy itself there… if only so as to know at least what we ought to hope or fear concerning it.”


“The Most Famous Of All The Shipboard Revolts”: A Great Rarity—First Edition Of A History Of The Amistad Captives, 1840, With Barber’s Large Folding Engraved Frontispiece—“The Most Famous Image Of The Amistad Rebellion”47. (SLAVERY) BARBER, John W. A History of the Amistad Captives. New Haven, CT, 1840. Octavo, modern three-quarter red morocco; original wrappers bound in. $27,000.

First edition of Barber’s exceedingly rare History documenting “one of the most important events of its time,” published the same year the New Haven court ruled the slave owners had no claim on the Amistad rebels, preceding publication of Adams’ and Baldwin’s 1841 Supreme Court Arguments. Featuring the large folding engraved frontispiece depicting the death of the Amistad’s captain, along with Barber’s 38 engraved profiles of the Amistad rebels made during his visits to jail, a map of Mendi and a Mendi village in Africa, and an engraving of nine Amistad Africans chained in the slave ship that took them to Cuba.The Amistad rebellion is “the most famous of all the shipboard revolts” (If We Must Die, 151). “In 1839, 53 enslaved Africans rose up... took control of the vessel and sailed it to Long Island, NY. These self-emancipated rebels were then captured by the U.S. Navy, towed ashore, and

incarcerated in New Haven” (Rediker). “The rebellion became one of the most important events of its time… Assisted in their legal battled by distinguished attorneys Roger S. Baldwin and former president John Quincy Adams, who made dramatic speeches before the U.S. Supreme Court in February and March 1841, the Amistad rebels won their freedom.” This rare copy con-tains the “most famous image of the Amistad rebellion” in its large frontispiece, engraved by John Warner Barber (Rediker, Amistad Rebellion). Sabin 3324. Dumond 24. Interior generally fresh with in-conspicuous expert archival reinforcement to frontispiece at foldlines, light scattered foxing. An exceptional copy of this rare work, complete with virtually unobtainable frontispiece.

“On board the vessel there was a large number of men, but the women and children were far the most numerous. They were fastened together in couples by the wrists and legs, and kept in that situation day and night.”


“We The People Of The United States”: First Folwell Editions Of The Laws Of The United States, 179648. (UNITED STATES CONGRESS). The Laws of the United States of America. Philadelphia, 1796-97. Three volumes. Octavo, modern full brown calf. $3600.

First editions of the official printings of the laws of the United States, the scarce first Folwell edi-tions, this important three-volume set containing legislation from the First Congress in 1789 and continuing through to the Fourth Congress.With texts of the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and the Treaty of Paris, this extraordi-nary set contains all Acts passed by the First through Fourth Congresses in a series of official printings published by Richard Folwell under order of Congress. The Folwell volumes feature

“one copious, luminous Index (in Volume III)… comprising in itself a complete Digest of all the Laws of the United States” (Evans). Includes sec-tions on the laws concerning copyright, crime, duties, fisheries, foreign and Indian relations, judicial and legislative powers, the military, the office of the President, and the State, Treasury, War departments, and a flag with fifteen stripes. Virtually the earliest obtainable published ver-sion of the first Congressional laws. Evans 31356, 32973. Some toning to text. Full calf bindings attractive and fine.

“The Most Controversial Decision Of The Century, And Perhaps In The History Of The Supreme Court”49. (DRED SCOTT CASE) HOWARD, Benjamin. C. Report of the Decision of the Supreme Court... in the Case of Dred Scott Versus John F.A. Sandford. New York, 1857. Octavo, contemporary full brown sheep. $3800.

First edition of the first independently published and complete Court report of the landmark Dred Scott decision that divided a nation, became “a prominent cause” of the Civil War, and ultimate-ly generated the 14th Amendment, with complete opinions of all nine judges.

“The Dred Scott decision is erroneous,” pro-nounced Lincoln in 1857, and it is “based on assumed historical facts which were not really true… The court that made it, has often over-ruled its own decisions, and we shall do what we can to have it over rule this” (Basler 355-57).

“Dred Scott was the most controversial decision of the century, and perhaps in the history of the Supreme Court…. [and] the best known U.S. Supreme Court decision of the 19th century” (Finkelman). “The decision… so inflamed sec-tional hostility… as to be a prominent cause of the War Between the States” (Grolier American 100:68). Blockson 9906. Gift inscription dated the year of publication to Ryland Fletcher, an in-fluential anti-slavery voice and eventual governor of Vermont in the 1850s. An about-fine copy.


“A House Divided Against Itself Cannot Stand”: Important First Edition, First Issue, Of The Lincoln-Douglas Debates, 186050. LINCOLN, Abraham. Political Debates Between Hon. Abraham Lincoln and Hon. Stephen A. Douglas. Columbus, 1860. Octavo, original blind-stamped brown cloth, custom chemise and clamshell box. $8500.

First edition, first issue, of the most famous debates in American history, the event that transformed Lincoln into a national presidential candidate.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. Though Lincoln lost the senatorial race, “he began collecting a scrapbook of his best speeches, particularly those from the just-concluded 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 oppor-tunity—he declined—to make corrections to his own remarks” (Morris, 121). First issue, with numeral 2 at the bottom of page 17. Monaghan 69. Text generally fresh with slight foxing main-ly to preliminaries, a bit of soiling, expert resto-ration to original cloth. A desirable copy.

“The Most Beautiful Lithographs Possible”51. (CIVIL WAR) UNITED STATES ARMY. Flags of the Army of the United States Carried During the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865. Philadelphia, 1887. Folio (12 by 15-1/2 inches), modern three-quarter polished brown calf, cus-tom slipcase. $7500.

First edition, publisher’s special large folio edition containing two additional chromolithographed plates of Regimental Colors and the Engineer Battalion, along with the lithographed title and 87 chromolithographed plates des-ignating flags carried by the U.S. Army during the Civil War and dou-ble-page title for Tabular Statements Showing the Names of Commanders of Army Corps, Divisions and Brigades.

“87 full pages of the most beautiful lithographs possible, so fine that not only the colors but the textures and fabrics are clearly distinguishable. Many have just one figure to a page but numerous others display groups of small flags” (Bennett, 42). Included are the individual flags that flew over the headquarters of Custer, Burnside, Grant, Reynolds, Averill, Kilpatrick and others. Only a few leaves with tiny bit of expert archival marginal reinforcement. A fine copy, beautifully bound.


1862 Civil War Letter Signed By General Robert E. Lee, Written To South Carolina Governor Pickens Soon After The Union’s Invasion Of Port Royal—Written, Ironically, On Union Stationery52. (CIVIL WAR) LEE, Robert E. Letter signed. Coosawhatchie, South Carolina, January 3, 1862. Single ivory leaf (7-3/4 by 9-1/2 inches) in manu-script on recto and verso. $20,000.

Exceedingly rare two-page Civil War letter signed by General Robert E. Lee to South Carolina Governor Pickens, dated January 3, 1862, written in an unidentified manuscript hand and signed by Lee shortly after a devastating Union victory at South Carolina’s Port Royal, featuring Lee’s attempt to correct Pickens’ earlier over-estimation of his state’s troop strength, and Lee’s diplomatic efforts to con-front poor troop morale—“unpleasant feelings… in the Artilly [sic].”This rare letter signed by Lee, dated January 3, 1862, speaks to Pickens’ misapprehension over the size of South Carolina’s military force, which numbered, according to Lee, not 3,240 as given by Pickens, but only 1,531 men. To clarify the discrepancy and answer a December 31 letter from Pickens, this letter from Lee reads, in part: “In mine of the 27th I only purported to give the number of S.C. troops, in the Confederate service, present with their commands… my only object was to give the number available for duty.” Docketed on leaf verso: “From the Gen” and opposite “Genl. Lee 4 Jan. 1862.” General Lee’s letter also mentions a General Roswell Ripley, who was an officer in the Army of South Carolina and participated in the bombardment of Fort Sumter. After serving in the Army of Northern Virginia, Ripley surrendered with Lee at Appomattox. Lee’s letter, ironically, is on a leaf of Union stationery watermarked with the mot-to “E Pluribus Unum” above a shield of stripes and 13 stars. Letter’s text clean and sharp, only light edge-browning from earlier prior framing, faint foldlines. A fine signed autograph letter.

Ship’s Papers Boldly Signed By Ulysses S. Grant As President, 187154. GRANT, Ulysses S. Document signed [Ship’s Papers]. New Bedford, Massachuetts, September 26, 1871. Broadside, printed, engrossed and signed on the recto. $4500.

Ship’s papers granting permission to Charles S. Holt, commander of the ship “Hunter,” to de-part from the port of New Bedford “laden with Provisions, and stores for a whaling voyage” to the Pacific Ocean. President Grant and Secretary of State Hamilton Fish have both boldly signed this document. With the fragile affixed paper seal of the United States present.Because ships leaving U.S. ports needed ship identification papers before a voyage, documents such as this one were signed by the President and Secretary of State ahead of time and forward-ed to the port. The Collector of the Port would then fill in the required information and the date. Some minor expert paper repairs and res-torations, chiefly to the verso, and not affecting any signatures. Grant’s and Fish’s signatures clear and bold. An excellent signed document.

Striking Contemporary Portrait Of Grant53. (GRANT, Ulysses S.) MIDDLETON, E.C. Framed Grant portrait. Cincinnati, 1864. Paper on canvas, oval image measures 13-1/2 by 16-1/2 inches; pe-riod-style frame, entire piece measures 17 by 21 inches. $6500.

Contemporary chromolithographic portrait of Grant, laid on canvas, in a gilt frame.Fine condition.


With Hundreds Of Folio Maps Of The Civil War55. (CIVIL WAR) COWLES, Calvin D., compiler. An Atlas to Accompany the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. Washington, 1891-95. Two volumes. Large folio (16 by 18-1/2 inches), period-style three quarter green morocco gilt, original paper wrappers bound in. $15,000.

First edition of this superb atlas, with 175 double-folio plates, con-taining 821 colored maps and charts, 106 tinted lithographs after original photographs, and 209 line drawings of equipment, uni-forms, insignia, and flags, with the original wrappers bound in.

“The most important work in the literature of the Civil War, the O.R. is the official government compilation of Civil War records, orders, dispatches, messages and correspondence re-lating to the military operations of the war… ” (Eicher 863). This atlas is an indispensable part of the Official Records, yet is equally impressive on its own as the most comprehensive collection of maps pertaining to the Civil War. The maps, printed in several colors, are remarkably detailed, and the su-perb battlefield maps (often several to a sheet) specify troop positions and movements. Originally issued in parts, in loose sheets; this copy has all of the original wrappers bound in. Several expertly repaired marginal tears not affecting maps. Early tape repair to verso of wrapper to part 11, a bit of soiling to front wrapper of part 3. Beautifully bound in period-style.

“The Indians Fought With The Utmost Boldness And Ferocity, And With The Utmost Skill And Caution” : Theodore Roosevelt’s The Winning Of The West, With Manuscript Leaf On Indian Warfare During St. Clair’s Defeat56. ROOSEVELT, Theodore. The Winning of the West. New York and London, 1900. Four volumes. Large octavo, contemporary three-quarter green morocco gilt rebacked with original spines laid down. $19,800.

Splendid Daniel Boone edition of Roosevelt’s copiously illustrated historical masterwork, one of only 200 finely bound copies with an original manuscript leaf. In 1884, Roosevelt went to the Dakota Badlands “as a refuge from tragedy and disappointment. His young wife and his mother had both died on Valentine’s Day that year, and in the summer his reformist faction had been defeated at the Republican national convention. The isolation and immen-sity of the Badlands...offered a retreat where he could pursue his interest in writing… [including his] four-volume history of the early frontier” (PBS, The West). First published 1889-96. Expert restoration to spines, with Volumes I and IV re-backed with original spines laid down. Spines evenly toned to brown. A very handsome and desirable set.


African Game Trails, One Of Only 500 Copies Signed By Theodore Roosevelt57. ROOSEVELT, Theodore. African Game Trails. New York, 1910. Two volumes. Large octavo, original three-quarter tan pigskin, textured cloth dust jackets, paper dust jackets. $9000.

Signed limited first edition, one of only 500 copies signed by Roosevelt, with 50 illustrations, including photographs, photogravures, drawings and a map, in very scarce original dust jackets.“One of the most famous of all big-game hunting epics, this, with its larger than life sportsmen, was almost con-tinuously in print until the 1930s… Roosevelt’s total bag was enormous even by the liberal standards of that era” (Czech, 138-39). Issued simultaneously in a trade edition. Wheelock, 6. Original printed paper dust jack-ets with light toning and rubbing to spines, minor loss to spine ends. Books fine.

“Why Have Majors & Colonels Make Plans For A General. All He Needed Was A Statement Of His Mission”: General George S. Patton Jr.’s Personal Copy Of Two Volumes Of The Word War I History Of The Campaign In Mesopotamia, Each Annotated And Thrice Signed By Him58. (PATTON, Jr., George S.) MOBERLY, F.J. The Campaign in Mesopotamia, 1914-1918 [Volumes I and III from Patton’s library]. London, 1923-27. Four volumes. Octavo, original red cloth. $22,000.

First editions of this four-volume official history of the Mesopotamia Campaign of World War I, with Volumes I and III coming from General Patton’s library, each signed in ink on the front board, the spine and the front free endpaper by General Patton, Volume I with a dozen passages interestingly annotated by him in the margins, and Volume III with Patton’s annotations on 31 pages, demonstrat-ing that Patton read and studied these volumes carefully. (The set is completed with Volumes II and IV from another set.).Patton’s library, which was almost entirely inherited by his son, Major General George Patton III, was given to West Point, with just a small portion of books, including these volumes, inherited by other descendants or friends. A bit of light wear and toning to cloth. Two extremely good and very desirable annotated volumes.


General George S. Patton Jr.’s Personal Copy Of The March To The Sea, Signed By Him Three Times, Recounting The Military Exploits Of One Of Patton’s Great Heroes, General William Tecumseh Sherman54. (PATTON, Jr., George S.) COX, Jacob D. March to the Sea. New York, 1913. Octavo, original blue cloth, custom clamshell box. $9000.

Later edition of General Cox’s account of Sherman’s March to the Sea and the eventual surrender of the Confederate Army of Tennessee, signed in ink on the front board and spine by General Patton and boldly signed and dated by him (“May 30 1926”) on the front free endpaper.This copy of The March to the Sea—Patton’s own copy—is thrice signed by him. No other military leader wrote so frequently in his letters or diary what he was reading, and no leader’s library was so well-documented since Napoleon’s. First published in 1882; this edition was issued as part of the “Campaigns of the Civil War” series. Only minor wear to cloth. An important volume from Patton’s library.

Large Vintage Gelatin Silver Print Of The Signing Of The Documents Of Japanese Surrender Aboard The U.S.S. Missouri, Inscribed By Admiral Nimitz59. (MACARTHUR, Douglas) NIMITZ, Chester W. Photograph inscribed. Tokyo, September 2, 1945. Vintage gelatin silver print (image 8 by 10 inches), inscribed below the image (total 11 by 14 inches). $5200.

Large vintage gelatin silver print of Chester Nimitz signing the documents of surrender on board the U.S.S. Missouri at the end of World War II, in-scribed: “To Dr. E.R. Lewis—with best wishes and great appreciation of your generous courtesy in presenting to me a personalized copy of your very important work—‘A History of San Francisco Harbor Defense Installations.’ C.W. Nimitz, Fleet Admiral, U.S. Navy.” Nimitz’ warm inscription is to Dr. Emmanuael R. Lewis, “a recognized expert on military and naval history,” who served from 1954-56 as an officer in military intelligence. A highly desirable inscribed print with a distinctive provenance.

Signed Letter From Kennedy To James Webb, Chief Of NASA, Along With A Copy Of An Official Order, Also Signed By Kennedy61. KENNEDY, John F. Typed letter signed. WITH: Typed order signed. Washington, May 25, 1961. Two items. Typed letter signed: One page, quarto, White House stationery, 7 by 9 inches, typed and signed on recto. Typed order signed: one page, folio, heavy wove paper, 8-1/4 by 13 inches, typed and signed on recto. $8500.

Typed letter signed by Kennedy as President to James Webb, second administrator of NASA, ap-pointing him to the Distinguished Civilian Service Awards Board. Offered together with a typed copy of the order appointing Webb as Chairman of this board, also signed by Kennedy.Webb oversaw the first manned launches in the Mercury through Gemini programs, coordinat-ed all the various research centers and facilitated the creation of the Manned Spacecraft Center (later the Johnson Space Center). Both letters with staple holes in upper left corners; short closed tear to lower margin of order, with sharp fold near lower edge, not touching signature. Near-fine condition.


Inscribed And Signed By The Bambino60. RUTH, Babe and CONSIDINE, Bob. The Babe Ruth Story. New York, 1948. Octavo, original red cloth, dust jacket. $12,500.

First edition of Babe Ruth’s autobiography, inscribed and signed by Ruth in blue ink on the half title, “To Paul Kirk from Babe Ruth,” with 49 photographic illustrations.

“No baseball player, despite what record books claim, has ever equaled Babe Ruth’s awesome performance.” He re-minds us “of the days when real heroes trod the base paths, heroes who played hard, lived hard and gave us everything they had on and off the field” (New York Times). “Millions of words have been written about Babe Ruth since he first donned a major league uniform in 1914, but this is the first time the Babe himself has told the incredible story of his sensational career.” Ruth signatures from 1948 are quite scarce, as he was in very poor health for much of that year and ultimately died on August 16th. Smith 18833. Interior clean and fine; minor wear to corners and ends of slightly toned spine; chipping to edges of very scarce origi-nal dust jacket. A near-fine copy, scarce and quite desirable signed by Ruth.

First Edition, Signed And Inscribed By Kennedy62. KENNEDY, John F. Profiles in Courage. New York, 1956. Octavo, original half black cloth, dust jacket, custom clamshell box. $18,000.

First edition, signed and inscribed by Kennedy: “To Bill and Bootsie—with the affectionate regards and best wishes of Jack Kennedy.”

“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 obstacle s and dangers and pressures—and that is the basis of all human morality’… the book was popular histo-ry of high order, and it received the Pulitzer Prize for biography in 1957” (DAB). Book is stated first edition, with copyright code M-E indicating first printing. Book near-fine, light edge-wear to about-fine dust jacket.

“For, in a democracy,

every citizen,

regardless of his

interest in politics,

‘holds office’;

every one of us

is in a position

of responsibility;

and, in the final

analysis, the kind

of government we

get depends upon

how we fulfill those

responsibilities. We,

the people, are the

boss, and we will get

the kind of political

leadership, be it

good or bad, that

we demand

and deserve.”

Staunton’s “Remarkable Account Of Chinese Manners And Customs At The Close Of The 18th Century” (Hill): Complete Large Folio Scarce Atlas Volume—A Beautiful Copy63. (CHINA) STAUNTON, George Leonard. An Authentic Account of an Embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China. London, 1797. Three volumes altogether. Quarto, contemporary full pol-ished brown calf gilt neatly rebacked and recornered; Elephant folio atlas (17-1/2 by 23-1/2 inches), peri-od-style half polished brown calf. $27,000.

First edition of this splendidly detailed description of 18th-century China, with engraved frontispiece portraits of the Emperor Tchien Lung and Lord Macartney, a wonderful full-page engraving of the Camellia and 25 additional in-text engravings, to-gether with the Atlas plate volume containing nine large folding charts—among the earliest accurate charts of the interior of China—and 35 folio en-gravings by William Alexander. A beautiful copy in splendid calf-gilt.The exceptional two quarto volumes and ele-phant folio Atlas of George Staunton’s Account of the British Embassy to China offer a rich “ac-count of the first British embassy to China, un-der Lord Macartney. Great Britain was anxious to establish formal diplomatic relations with China and thus opened the way for unimped-ed trade relations, but centuries of Chinese re-serve and self-sufficiency presented a formida-ble obstacle to the embassy, and the Chinese emperor effectually resisted Lord Macartney’s arguments and gifts. The visit of the British em-bassy nonetheless resulted in this remarkable ac-count of Chinese manners and customs at the

close of the 18th century, which was prepared at government expense… Staunton, a friend of Dr. Samuel Johnson and Edmund Burke, was a medical doctor who had lived for many years in Grenada. He was the secretary to Lord Macartney in both India and China, and under-tood diplomatic missions to Warren Hastings and to Tipu Sahib at Seringapatem” (Hill 1628).

This important work contains some of the ear-liest accurate charts of the interior of China and provides many invaluable geographical and cultural observations. The full-page folio engravings, including two of the Great Wall of China, were made after drawings by William Alexander, who accompanied the embassy as junior draughtsman. Hill 1628. Early owner signatures. Light penciled marginalia to one leaf (Vol. II:23). Text and plates fresh, light expert reinforcement, minor restoration to corners of several Atlas leaves without affecting images. A splendid copy in near-fine condition.

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“Among The Most Beautiful Things Ever Made”64. (INDIA) DANIELL, Thomas and William. A Picturesque Voyage to India; by the Way of China. London, 1810. Folio (10-1/2 inches by 14 inches, with actual images measuring 7-1/2 inches by 5 inches), period-style full blue straight grain moroc-co gilt. $16,000.

First edition of one of the finest and most popular hand-colored aquatint plate books of the 19th cen-tury, with 50 magnificent mounted hand-colored aquatints of views and inhabitants of China and India, with descriptive text.Originally issued in ten parts, “the aquatints of India by Thomas and William Daniell have been continuously popular ever since their pub-lication between 1795 and 1810… A Picturesque Voyage consisted of 50 aquatints depicting the places visited by the artists on their various jour-neys to and from China and to India” (Early Views of India). “One of a series of books that are surely among the most beautiful things ever made” (IPEX Exhibition of English Colour Plate Books). Text watermarked 1808; Abbey’s copy, most likely a later issue, had a mix of 1808 and 1817. Abbey Travel 516. Tooley 173. Plates and text generally clean. A beautifully bound copy in near-fine condition.

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Burton’s Falconry In The Valley Of The Indus, One Of Only 500 First Edition Copies66. (INDIA) BURTON, Richard F. Falconry in the Valley of the Indus. London, 1852. Slim octavo, original dark purple cloth. $7000.

First edition of “one of the earliest of Burton’s books of travel” (Abbey), one of only 500 copies, with four full-page litho-graphic plates (including frontispiece), in original blind-stamped cloth.In 1844, on a trek north to the Phuleli and Guni riv-ers of the Sind desert, Burton “found time to engage in some falconry… the postscript to the book gives one of the few pictures by Burton of the way in which he lived and worked among the natives” (Rice, 123). “One of the earliest of Burton’s books of travel” (Abbey). “He was a born naturalist, and if he had pursued this line alone… he might have ranked among the greatest” (Rice, 109). Penzer, 41. Abbey Travel 479. Early owner inscription. A handsome about-fine copy in original cloth.

Border Antiquities Of England And Scotland, With 95 Engraved Plates65. (BRITAIN) (SCOTT, Walter) MUDFORD, William. The Border Antiquities of England and Scotland. London, 1814-17. Two volumes. Quarto, contemporary full straight-grain brown moroc-co gilt skillfully rebacked with original spines laid down. $3800.

First edition of this picturesque survey of ruins and historical buildings along the border between England and Scotland, with introduction by (and numerous quotations from) Walter Scott, illustrated with 95 finely engraved plates, handsomely bound.In Scott’s lengthy introductory essay, he sur-veys the “strife” that, from the first century AD through the reign of Charles II, marked the “peaceful glens and hills” of his readers’ day. Illustrated with 95 plates, including frontispiec-es and additional engraved vignette title pages in both volumes, engraved by J. Greig after paint-ings by Clennell and others. First printing, with 1806 (text) and 1811 (plate) watermarks observ-able. Todd & Bowden 73Ab. Owner signature. Light rubbing to edges, some color restoration to rear cover of Volume I, occasional minor marginal foxing. An exceptionally good copy in nicely restored contemporary morocco-gilt.

“One Of The Most Illustrious Of English Navigators” (PMM): Folio History Of Cook’s And Other Major English Voyages, 1784-86, With 156 Copperplate Illustrations And Maps67. (COOK, James) ANDERSON, George William. New, Authentic, and Complete Collection of Voyages Round the World. London, 1784-86. Thick folio (10-1/2 by 15-1/2 inches), contemporary full brown calf rebacked and recornered. $8000.

Richly illustrated first edition account of the “first really scien-tific navigator,” with engraved frontispiece portrait of Cook, 124 magnificent full-page plates of elevations, views, inhab-itants, utensils, flora and fauna, and 31 maps and charts—including a large folding map of the world.

“In three great voyages Cook did more to clarify the geo-graphical knowledge of the Southern Hemisphere than all his predecessors had done together” (Hill). In addition to Cook’s voyages, this “important compilation of English voyages” includes accounts of the voyages of Sir Francis Drake, Lord Anson, Philip Carteret, Samuel Wallis, John Byron and Lord Mulgrave. This copy has the heading on page [5]: “A Genuine….” With undated four-page list of subscribers bound after “Directions to the Bookbinder” leaf at rear. Beddie 19. Sabin 52455. Title page and frontispiece remounted, occasional expert paper repair or reinforcement to extremities or hinges. Scattered light foxing, a bit of shallow wormholing to pastedowns. An attractive copy.

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Six Extraordinary Large Folio Engraved Views Of Constantinople, From The Imperial Russian Envoy’s Visit In 179368. (CONSTANTINOPLE) REIMERS, Heinrich von. Atlas Volume to Reise der Russisch-Kaiserlischen Ausserordentlichen Gesandschaft an die Othomanische Pforte im Jahr 1793. St. Petersburg, 1803. Large folio (13 by 17-1/2 inches), six double-page engraved plates loose in original heavy paper wrappers. $16,000.

First edition of this splendid large folio atlas volume issued to accompany the narrative of Catherine the Great’s Imperial Russian envoy to Constantinople, with six large (24 by 17-1/2 inches) double-page folio copper-engraved plates after paintings by Sergeeff (five plates) and Mayer (one plate). An excellent, clean copy, with fine strikes, including a panoramic view of the city, Hagia Sophia, the Imperial Russian delegation, the ruins of the seraglio, and the summer residence for foreigners.Catherine annexed the Crimea in 1783, and conducted a triumphal proces-sion there in 1786. This provoked the Ottoman Empire and led directly to the second Russo-Turkish War of 1787-92, which ended catastrophically for the Ottomans, legitimizing the Russian claim to the Crimea. This Imperial delegation would have been in essence a Russian victory tour.

Though the envoy was sent by Catherine the Great in 1793, this account and the magnificent plates to accompany it were not published until well after her death in 1796. Captions in Russian and German. This work was never trans-lated into English. Plates professionally cleaned. An excellent, bright copy, with fine impressions of these splendid plates, quite scarce and desirable.

Gage’s Travels To The West Indies, 1655, With Four Mercator Maps Of The Americas69. (AMERICAS) GAGE, Thomas. A New Survey of the West-India’s… with Maps. London, 1655. Small, slim folio (7 by 11-1/2 inches), 18th-century full paneled brown calf. $8800.

Second and much preferred edition of this noted 17th-cen-tury description of the wealth of Mexico and South America—as unprotected and ripe for conquest—with four desirable engraved maps of the region by Mercator, not pres-ent in the first edition.First published in London in 1648, Gage’s account

“urge[d] the English to seize the Spanish territories in the New World” (Hill 665). The four engraved maps were pulled from plates available to Cotes from his firm’s 1635 printing of Gerard Mercator’s Atlas Minor, and delineate the Western Hemisphere, Northern South America, Mexico, and the Caribbean. Cox II:237. Sabin 26299. Early ink notations on verso of frontispiece. Early ink underlining and marginal notations. Corner of last leaf (Table of Contents) torn with slight text loss, only minor embrowning to interior, marginal reinforce-ment to verso of frontispiece map, front joint expert-ly repaired, binding quite lovely. A handsome copy in near-fine condition.

“Has Anything Been Heard Of Sir John Franklin?”70. (ARCTIC) GOODSIR, Robert Anstruther. Arctic Voyage to Baffin’s Bay and Lancaster Sound, in Search of Friends with Sir John Franklin. London, 1850. Octavo, original blue-green cloth rebacked with original spine laid down. $3200.

Scarce first edition of Goodsir’s narrative of an eight-month expedition undertaken in 1849 in search of the author’s brother Harry, surgeon on the missing 1845 Franklin expedition, with tinted lithograph frontispiece and folding map of the route of the expedition.Goodsir provides a good description of the re-gion, ice conditions, birds observed, interactions with Eskimos, hunting polar bears, whaling pro-cesses, etc. Arctic Bibliography 5919. Inkstamp of the American Geographical Society on last leaf of text. Bookplate. Short split to frontispiece along inner hinge, not affecting image, wear to lower corners, minor color restoration to upper corners. A very good copy in original cloth of this scarce title.

“Yo-Ho-Ho, And A Bottle Of Rum!”: Rare And Beautiful First Edition Of The Definitive Pirate Adventure Story, Treasure Island, 188371. STEVENSON, Robert Louis. Treasure Island. London, 1883. Small octavo, original green cloth, custom clamshell box. $ 27,000.

First edition, first issue of Stevenson’s swashbuck-ling yarn of piracy, mutiny and courage, “the finest tale of maritime adventure that has been told since Defoe” (Prideaux, 28), an exceptionally lovely copy, far more beautiful than usually found.“Inspired by a detailed map of an island that Stevenson and his stepson drew one rainy day, with hidden treasure and cryptic instructions reverently included… Treasure Island is best en-joyed as its author intended, simply as a good tale well told” (Silvey, 631). “Here were ad-venture, suspense, drama, all set down by the hand of a recognizable genius” (Meigs et al., 238). Beinecke 240. Prideaux 11. Bookplate of Glasgow architect James Jackson Craig. Old pencil prices and other notations to endpapers. Text remarkably clean, far more so than usually found. Restoration to inner paper hinges, upper corner of last leaf of advertisements. Cloth gen-erally fresh with minor rubbing to spine ends; gilt bright. A beautiful copy in very nearly fine condition.

“of all the stories that i have ever read i place stevenson’s

treasure island first.” —Jack London

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“Shakespeare Thou Hadst As Smooth A Comicke Vaine… As Any One That Trafiqu’d With The Stage”: Superb 1627 Collection Of Michael Drayton’s Poems, With One Of The Earliest Mentions Of Shakespeare As A Poet—The Robert Hoe Copy72. DRAYTON, Michael. The Battaile of Agincourt. London, 1627. Tall octavo, early 20th-century full cit-ron crushed morocco gilt. Custom morocco pull-off case. $16,000.

First edition of Drayton’s epic poem of the battle of Agincourt, collected with several other important works including the only contemporary reference to Shakespeare as a poet by a fellow poet aside from Ben Jonson’s references, as well as one of the first and foremost examples of fairy literature, with en-graved frontispiece portrait by William Hole (often not present). The copy of renowned book collector Robert Hoe, beautifully bound.Drayton’s Shakespeare reference is not exactly effusive in its praise of Shakespeare, though the two men were known to be friends: “Shakespeare thou hadst as smooth a Comicke vaine,/ Fitting the socke, and in thy naturall braine,/ As strong conception, and as Cleere a rage,/ As any one that trafiqu’d with the stage.” This rather faint praise has helped fuel the Shakespearean

authorship debate, as it seems strange to some that this is all he says about his friend in a poem discussing the merits of a wide range of English poets. Nimphidia, included here, is one of the first and most important examples of fairy liter-ature, with its striking description of the Court of Faerie. This book includes as well an early ref-erence to Virginia and George Sandys, treasur-er of the colony. STC 7190. Pforzheimer 301. Leather bookplate of esteemed collector Robert Hoe; this copy sold at the January 8, 1912, auc-tion of a portion of his substantial and import-ant collection. Fine condition. A wonderful copy, with distinguished provenance.

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The Rare First Edition Of Pope’s Shakespeare, 1723-25, The First Quarto Edition Of Shakespeare’s Works73. SHAKESPEARE, William. The Works of Shakespear. London, 1723-25. Six volumes. Quarto, modern three-quarter speckled calf gilt. $12,000.

The rare and important first quarto edition of Shakespeare’s works, edited by Alexander Pope, one of only 750 sets printed, in beautiful period-style binding.Pope was the first editor to apply a serious scholarly approach to Shakespeare. Restoring sections that had been out of print for nearly a century, he guides the reader, in elegant, clear typography, to “the most shining passages” marked by marginal stars. Such acute attention to detail and critical opinion make this edi-tion an outstanding example of 18th-century Shakespearean research. “The first edition in quarto and the earliest edited by Alexander Pope. It embraces Pope’s preface, the life by Rowe, an index of characters, sentiments, speeches, and de-scriptions and a list of subscribers,” as well as Shakespeare’s comedies, tragedies and histories. Without the supplementary seventh volume, rarely present, which was issued by another publisher in 1725 and including Venus and Adonis, the poems and an essay on the history of drama. With one of two engraved portraits of Shakespeare (often missing), the general title page for the set (dated 1725 and printed in red and black), and the individual title pages in each volume (dated 1723). Library stamps on title pages, a few other leaves, and edges. Scattered light foxing; occasional light marginal dampstaining in Volumes II, III and VI. A beautiful set.

“He is not so much an imitator as an Instrument of Nature; and ’tis not so just to say that he speaks

from her as that she speaks thro’ him.”

-from Pope’s Preface

“How Am I Blest In Thus Discovering Thee? To Enter In These Bonds, Is To Be Free”74. DONNE, John. Poems, &c. with Elegies on the Author’s Death. London, 1669. Small octavo, contemporary full black calf rebacked. $9000.

Fifth edition of Donne’s poems: the best, most complete and last of the 17th-century editions, with two important ele-gies by Donne not appearing in any of the previous editions,

“Love’s Progress,” and “To his Mistresse going to bed.”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. Therefore, almost none of his poetry appeared in print during his lifetime. First pub-lished in 1633, this fifth edition of the Poems was “based on manuscripts derived from the author’s papers and pro-vided the best 17th-century text of Donne’s poems” (Adams). Keynes 84. Binder’s flyleaf at rear of an early 16th-century text printed in red and black bears a contemporary own-er signature. Bookplate. Faint dampstain affecting several leaves in latter half of text only. Contemporary calf covers a bit dry and crackled. A handsome copy of this import-ant edition.

“Licence my roving hands, and let them go, before, behind, between, above, below. O My America! My

new-found-land, my kingdom, safe-liest when with one man mann’d.”

—John Donne


“His Rhythmic Song Rings Forever In The American Air”: Leaves Of Grass, 1876 Author’s Edition Signed By Whitman75. WHITMAN, Walt. Leaves of Grass. Camden, New Jersey, 1876. Octavo, original three-quarter brown calf sympathetically rebacked. $8800.

“Author’s Edition,” one of 600 copies signed in ink on the title page by Walt Whitman, with two portraits of America’s “good gray poet.”

“Practically everything that can be said about the significance of [Leaves of Grass] has been said by its author… He was and is the poet and prophet of democracy, and the intoxication of his immense affirmative, the fervor of his ‘barbaric yawp,’ are so powerful that the echo of his… rhythmic song rings forev-er in the American air” (Grolier American 100 67). Complete with two portraits (Samuel Hollyer’s stipple-engraving of Whitman, inserted after page 28; and W.J. Linton’s wood-en-graving from G.C. Potter’s photograph of Whitman, inserted after page 284). Myerson A2.5.c2. Title page and first few leaves with expert edge repair; original boards very hand-somely rebacked. A very nice copy.

“Glows With The Fire Of A Suppressed, Secret, Feverish Excitement”76. HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter, a Romance. Boston, 1850. Octavo, original brown cloth; custom clamshell box. $7800.

First edition of Hawthorne’s American classic, one of only 2500 copies printed.The first edition of The Scarlet Letter sold out in ten days and “made Hawthorne’s fame, changed his fortune and gave to our literature its first symbolic novel a year before the ap-pearance of Melville’s Moby-Dick” (Bradley et al., 652). The novel “glows with the fire of a suppressed, secret, feverish ex-citement… a fire that neither wanes nor lessens, but keeps at its original scorching heat for years” (Allibone). Clark A16.1. BAL 7600. This copy belonged to Allie (Alberta) Laighton, a resident of Petersburg, VA, and a schoolteacher, and the copi-ous notes penciled on the preliminary blanks and occasional marginal hightlighting in pencil are presumably hers. Owner signature of Lafayette Laighton, presumably Allie’s father, on title page. Text block neatly recased in original cloth, with front inner paper hinge reinforced. Minor wear to corners and spine ends, a bit of rubbing and staining to covers, as of-ten found, gilt bright. A very good copy in the original cloth with a nice provenance.

“Trust Thyself: Every Heart Vibrates To That Iron String”77. EMERSON, Ralph Waldo. Essays. WITH: Essays: Second Series. Boston, 1841-44. Two volumes. Octavo, original cloth; custom slipcase. $9800.

First editions of Emerson’s first and second series of timeless essays, scarce in original cloth.

“Emerson’s fame… rests securely upon the fact that he had something of importance to say, and that he said it with a beautiful freshness which does not permit his best pages to grow old” (ANB). “Timeless, and without a trace of ‘dating,’ these essays are as readable, and to a considerable extent as much read, today as a hundred years ago” (Grolier, 100 American 47). The first series, which contains 12 essays, includes Emerson’s celebrated “Self-Reliance,” as well as essays on love, friendship, heroism, “the Over-Soul,” the intellect and art. The second series includes “The Poet,” “Experience” and “Nature,” in ad-dition to essays on politics, character and manners. First issue of First Series. First edition of Second Series with 20 of Myerson’s first issue points, 3 second issue points (“nearly every copy examined is com-posed of mixed sheets,” according to Myerson). Myerson A.10.1.a and A.16.1.a-b. Contemporary owner signature, bookplates in First Series. Early gift inscription in Second Series to Rufus Ellis from his Brother George—both were, like Emerson, Harvard graduates who became Unitarian ministers in Boston. Interiors fine, both volumes with mild wear to corners and spine extremities. Near-fine.


“others may…build cities, work mines, break up farms; it is yours to have been the original true captain who

put to sea...” —Walt Whitman in an 1855 letter to Emerson

First Edition, Association Copy, Of Emerson’s Letters And Social Aims, The Copy Of Emerson’s Neighbor, Bearing Both Her Signature And Emerson’s Signature78. EMERSON, Ralph Waldo. Letters and Social Aims. Boston, 1876. Octavo, original terracotta cloth, half morocco chemise and full morocco slipcase. $11,000.

First edition, first printing, association copy, of the last volume of essays published during Emerson’s lifetime, bearing the ownership signature of Emerson’s neighbor, Jeanie M. LeBrun, and additionally signed for her by Emerson and dated by him in the year of publication.This was the last volume of essays published during Emerson’s lifetime. By the 1870s, Emerson had faded and “gradually slipped into a serene senility in which his mind finally became a calm blank” (OCAL). “A longtime friend, James Elliot Cabot, was enlisted by the family to help put Emerson’s literary manuscripts in order and prepare his lectures for delivery and his writings for publication… Cabot and Emerson’s daughter Ellen put together a final volume of essays, Letters and Social Aims (1876). Myerson A43.1a. BAL 5272. This copy belonged to and bears the ownership signature of Jean M. LeBrun, a Concord neighbor of the Emersons, as well as the Thoreaus, Alcotts, and Hawthornes. LeBrun’s signature is dated Christmas day, just days after publication, suggesting that this book may have been a gift to her—one that she embellished by securing Emerson’s signature. A near-fine copy.

“All Modern Literature Comes From One Book By Mark Twain. It’s The Best Book We’ve Had” (Hemingway)79. TWAIN, Mark. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade). New York, 1885. Octavo, original green pictorial cloth, custom clamshell box. $20,000.

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 lovely copy.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 lit-erature, 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. There was nothing before. There has been noth-ing since.” 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). Occasional very light foxing, front inner paper hinge partly split, original cloth exceptionally bright and clean with slightest rubbing to spine ends, all gilt unrubbed and bright. An exception-al, unrestored copy in very nearly fine condition.

“And got to thinking over our trip down the river; and I see

Jim before me all the time: in the day and

in the night-time, sometimes moonlight,

sometimes storms, and we a-floating along, talking and

singing and laughing…and he….said I was the best friend old Jim ever had in the world, and the only one he’s got now… I

was a-trembling, because I’d got to

decide, forever, betwixt two things,

and I knowed it. I studied a minute, sort of holding my

breath, and then says to myself:

‘All right, then, I’ll go to hell.’”

The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer, Signed By Mark Twain80. TWAIN, Mark. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. New York and London, 1903. Octavo, original red cloth gilt. $8800.

“Uniform Illustrated Edition,” signed by Twain on the front pastedown.Tom Sawyer is Twain’s “most clearly autobiographical nov-el… [and has] proved to be one of the most durable works in American literature. By the time of Twain’s death, it was his top-selling book. It has been in print continuous-ly since 1876, and has outsold all other Mark Twain works” (Rasmussen, 459). The illustrations in this volume (frontis-piece and two plates) differ from the illustrations in the first edition. Johnson, 27-30. McBride, 46. Mild stain to rear free endpaper; text clean. Restoration to front inner paper hinge. Cloth with light toning to spine, gilt bright. A fresh near-fine copy, desirable signed by Mark Twain.

“Please, Sir, I Want Some More”81. DICKENS, Charles. Oliver Twist; Or, the Parish Boy’s Progress. By “Boz.” London, 1838. Three vol-umes. Octavo, period-style full speckled calf gilt, original blind-stamped brown cloth bound in. $9500.

First edition, first issue, of Dickens’ classic, with the “Fireside” plate and “Boz” title pages. “When Bentley decided to publish Oliver in book form before its completion in his period-ical, Cruikshank had to complete the last few plates in haste. Dickens did not review them until the eve of publication and objected to the Fireside plate which depicted Oliver at Rose Maylie’s knee [Volume III, p. 313]… Dickens had Cruikshank design a new plate… This Church plate was not completed in time for incorporation into the early copies of the book, but it replaced the Fireside plate in later copies… Dickens not only objected to the Fireside plate, but also disliked having ‘Boz’ on the title page. He voiced these objections prior to publication and the plate and title page were changed be-tween November 9 and 16” (Smith, 35). Expert cleaning to plates, scattered foxing and soiling to text. Very handsomely bound.

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“The Beginning Of The ‘Foreign Spy’ Convention In English Literature”82. MARANA, Giovanni Paolo. The Eight Volumes of Letters Writ by a Turksh Spy. London, 1734. Eight volumes. Small octavo, contemporary full speck-led brown calf gilt. $4500.

Early edition of this premiere narrative of a spy for the Ottoman emperor that originated “the ‘foreign spy’ convention in English literature”—prompt-ing similar tales by Montesquieu, Goldsmith and Defoe.This work is “best known as the work which inspired Montesquieu’s Lettres persanes [1721].”

“The beginning of the ‘foreign spy’ convention in English literature,” Letters Writ spurred imi-tations and continuances by prominent writers such as Oliver Goldsmith and Daniel Defoe (McBurney, PMLA, 915). This fascinating tale was largely authored by Giovanni Paolo Marana, who in 1684 and 1686 “published two small volumes of letters, the first volume both in Italian and in French translation, under the ti-tle L’Espion du Grand Seigneur..." (Betts, 97-8). Originally published in English from 1691-94 Title page owner signatures. Occasional ink an-notations. Interiors generally quite nice, a few expert repairs to spine ends, joints starting but strong, light wear to contemporary boards. An extremely good copy.

“A Girl Doesn’t Read This Sort Of Thing Without Her Lipstick”83. CAPOTE, Truman. Breakfast at Tiffany’s. A Short Novel and Three Stories. New York, (1958). Octavo, original yellow cloth, dust jacket. $3500.

First edition of the adventures of free-spirited Holly Golightly.“If you want to capture a period in New York, no other book has done it so well… He could cap-ture period and place like few others” (Norman Mailer). With three other stories: “House of Flowers,” “A Diamond Guitar,” and “A Christmas Memory.” Book fine; light rubbing, only faintest toning to spine of near-fine dust jacket, far less than usual.

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“All Animals Are Equal, But Some Animals Are More Equal Than Others”85. ORWELL, George. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story. London, 1945. Slim oc-tavo, original green cloth, dust jack-et. $11,000.

First edition, first printing, of Orwell’s “savagely ironical allegory” (Clute & Grant) on the gap between radical ideals and reality, his most fa-mous and widely read work.“A political fable that partly re-counts, in an allegorical mode, the aftermath of the Russian revolu-tion, and partly illustrates a belief in the universal tendency of power to corrupt” (Stringer, 22). “Animal Farm, which owes something to Swift and Defoe, is [Orwell’s] mas-terpiece” (Connolly 93). Because of wartime paper shortages, the first printing of this book was only 4500 copies and the dust jacket was usually printed on the reverse of Searchlight Books jackets (as here in red). Fenwick A.10a. An about-fine copy.

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“The Best And The Wisest Man Whom I Have Ever Known”86. CONAN DOYLE, Arthur. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. London, 1894. Octavo, original blue pictorial cloth gilt. $4800.

First edition of the second collection of Sherlock Holmes short stories, including his (apparent) death in “The Final Problem,” illustrated throughout by Sidney Paget.This second volume of Holmes’ cases (first published monthly in the Strand in 1893) include such memorable stories as “Silver Blaze,” one of Conan Doyle’s personal favorites; “The ‘Gloria Scott’” and “The Musgrave Ritual,” two adventures set before Holmes met Watson and narrated largely by the detective himself; and “The Greek Interpreter,” which introduces Holmes’ elder (and, so Sherlock claims, smarter) brother, Mycroft. But the book is most famous for “The Final Problem,” in which Holmes apparently meets his death in a struggle with “the Napoleon of crime,” Professor Moriarty. Fearing posterity would remember him only as Holmes’ creator, Conan Doyle had resolved to kill off his star de-tective: "[T]he clamor of his admirers forced [the author] to resurrect Holmes for several further volumes, and his popularity has waned little since” (Benet, 273). Green & Gibson A14a. Scattered light foxing, less than usual. Inner paper hinges expertly reinforced, endpapers with expert paper repairs, joints, spine ends and corners lightly rubbed, gilt brilliant.

“Sherlock Holmes is the literary embodiment… of my memory of Dr. Joseph Bell at Edinburgh University who would… di-agnose the people as they came in, before they had even opened their mouths.”

“Holmes!… Is It Really You? Can It Indeed Be That You Are Alive?”87. CONAN DOYLE, Arthur. The Return of Sherlock Holmes. London, 1905. Octavo, original gilt-stamped blue cloth, custom clamshell box. $5500.

Preferred first English edition, considered far more desirable and valuable than the American printing (which preceded it by only one month), illustrated with 16 plates by Sidney Paget.Although Holmes returned in The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902), written after Conan Doyle sent him over the Reichenbach Falls at the close of The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, Conan Doyle took care to set that adventure prior to the detective’s demise, leaving Holmes—so Conan Doyle hoped—to rest forever in peace. The author was, however, “persuaded to revive Sherlock Holmes by the generous offers made by the proprietors” of Collier’s Weekly Magazine (Green & Gibson, 140-41). Green & Gibson A29a. Scattered light foxing. Cloth with spine ends slightly worn, cor-ners lightly rubbed, front cover gilt bright. A near-fine copy.

The Coming Of The Fairies, First Edition, Inscribed By Conan Doyle88. CONAN DOYLE, Arthur. The Coming of the Fairies. London, 1922. Octavo, original navy cloth gilt. $6500.

First edition, illustrated with a dozen black-and-white photograph-ic plates—including the infamous “fairy photographs” that fooled Conan Doyle and others—inscribed by the author in the month and year of publication, “Yours affectionately, Arthur Conan Doyle, Sept. 28/22.”Although famous for creating literature’s best-known champion of intellect and reason, Arthur Conan Doyle allowed evidence manufactured by two young girls in a West Yorkshire village to persuade him that fairies were real. With much new material, The Coming of the Fairies reprints his December 1920 Strand ar-ticle about Frances Griffiths’ and Elsie Wright’s pictures of the Cottingley fairies. The account proved a sensation when pub-lished; the issue sold out in three days. Not all readers were con-vinced: “For the true explanation of these fairy photographs,” one contemporary critic claimed, “what is wanted is not a knowledge of occult phenomena but a knowledge of children.” A committed Spiritualist with an interest in Theosophy, however, and unwill-ing (as Harry Houdini was not) to question the girls’ integrity, Conan Doyle maintained belief in the pictures’ authenticity until he died. Not until she was an old woman did Elsie Wright admit the photos were a prank.” Green & Gibson B29a. Cloth with light expert restoration. Desirable inscribed.

“The Most Complex Of All Hesse’s Writings”90. HESSE, Hermann. Steppenwolf. London, 1929. Octavo, original red cloth, dust jacket. $3800.

First edition in English of the Nobel laureate’s “in-comparable and explosive book.”On earning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1946, Hesse’s body of work was praised for draw-ing so richly upon “influences from Buddha and St. Francis to Nietzsche and Dostoevsky… [that] found magnificent expression in the fan-tastical novel Der Steppenwolf ” (Nobel Prize Presentation Speech). Translation from the German by Basil Creighton. Goode, 23. Interior fresh with only lightest scattered foxing; bright dust jacket with faint toning to spine, shallow chipping to spine head and short closed tear to rear fold. A near-fine copy.

“But There Are No Absolutes In Human Misery And Things Can Always Get Worse”89. MCCARTHY, Cormac. Suttree. New York, 1979. Octavo, original half black cloth, dust jacket. $3500.

First edition of McCarthy’s celebrated, searing, semi-autobiographical novel—“like a good, long scream in the ear”—in beautiful condition. Considered by many McCarthy’s finest novel, Suttree features “a sensitive and mature protag-onist, unlike any other in McCarthy’s work… Part Stephen Daedalus, part Prince Hal—he is also McCarthy, the willful outcast” (New York Times). Like so much of McCarthy’s fiction, the book exemplifies what Saul Bellow (who sat on the committee that awarded McCarthy his 1981 MacArthur Fellowship) called the writ-er’s “absolutely overpowering use of language, his life-giving and death-dealing sentences.” In his contemporary review, Jerome Charyn said Suttree’s language “licks, batters, wounds—a po-etic, troubled rush of debris… [McCarthy’s] text is broken, beautiful and ugly in spots… Suttree is like a good, long scream in the ear.” This copy not one of the frequently found remaindered copies. A beautiful copy in fine condition.

"tonight at the magic the-atre—for madmen only—price of admittance your

mind. —not for everybody.” —Steppenwolf


“Over the lives borne from under the shadow of death

there seems to fall the shadow of madness.”

“One Of The World’s Literary Masterpieces”91. CONRAD, Joseph. Lord Jim, A Tale. Edinburgh and London, 1900. Octavo, original green cloth. $4500.

First edition, first issue, of Conrad’s brilliant ex-ploration of morality and the torment of guilt,

“second only to Heart of Darkness in renown,” in original cloth.To critic Cedric Watts, Conrad’s Lord Jim is “one of the world’s literary masterpieces… Conrad, like Britannia, rules the waves… a book of the rare literary quality of Lord Jim is something to receive with gratitude and joy.” Though he be-gan working on it in 1898, with the intent of a short story, the novel ultimately “took itself into its own hands, and swept its writer with it into a profound study of a psychic phenomenon” (New York Times Book Review). “Second only to Heart of Darkness in renown” (Joseph Conrad

Companion), Lord Jim is “the first full-length work of Conrad’s artistic matu-rity… the novel is, moreover, deeply personal, with roots in Conrad’s past… [and] has retained its place as one

of Conrad’s most widely enjoyed and studied books. It has remained so for the brilliance of its technical innovations as well.” With all first issue points. Cagle A5.a. A near-fine copy.

“Man Is Not Made For Defeat”92. HEMINGWAY, Ernest. The Old Man and the Sea. New York, 1952. Octavo, original blue cloth, dust jacket. $4200.

First edition of Hemingway’s classic story of Santiago and his epic battle with the marlin and the sharks, winning him the Pulitzer Prize in 1952 and contributing to his award of the 1954 Nobel Prize for Literature.William Faulkner, who reviewed The Old Man and the Sea for the magazine Shenandoah, called the novel Hemingway’s best: “Time may show it to be the best single piece of any of us. I mean his and my contemporaries” (Baker, 593-94).

“Here is the master technician once more at the top of his form, doing superbly what he can do better than anyone else” (New York Times). In this short novel Hemingway perfected the min-imalist style that he had been honing and refin-ing throughout his career. While working on it he wrote to Scribner, “This is the prose that I have been working for all my life that should read easily and simply and seem short and yet have all the dimensions of the visible world and the world of a man’s spirit. It is as good prose as I can write as of now” (Letters, 738). Hanneman A24a. Book with faint staining to cloth, bright price-clipped dust jacket with only light rub-bing. A handsome near-fine copy.

“You Have Always Loved Your Son And Things With Us Always Will Be Well”: Extraordinary First Edition Of The Call Of The Wild, Warmly Inscribed By London To His Mother In The Week Of Publication, In Scarce Original Dust Jacket93. 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. $89,000.

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.”

“One of the first American novels to examine the quest of the pioneering individual who breaks away from the sheltered environment of civ-ilization and is romantically compelled to find freedom in nature. In the early part of the cen-tury this was considered the American dream” (Parker, 16). London dated his inscription to his mother only four days after the book’s publica-tion 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 sec-ond 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 func-tioned 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 attempt-ed suicide and uncovered the name of his bio-logical 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-wid-owed mother a house and provided her with fi-nancial support. He inscribed this copy to her, with a spirit of warmth, convic-tion in her love, and hope for their future. Their relationship, though, remained strained, with Wellman disapproving of her son’s wife and London constant-ly criticizing her appearing in the newspapers for her involve-ment with séances and other attention-grabbing endeavors. BAL 11876. Book lovely and near-fine, with inscription bold, only a few faint spots of soiling to interior, minor rubbing to ex-tremities, and gilt bright. Scarce dust jacket with expert restoration to extremities. A most excep-tional copy, quite rare and desirable with such an important association and inscribed at such an early date.

“the story almost wrote itself, flowing from his

imagination to sheets of white paper at… the rate of a thousand words a day. he finished it in less than five weeks. there were no revi-sions. it was a miraculous

sort of literary birth.” —Richard O’Connor


“King’s Most Ambitiously Imaginative Novel”95. KING, Stephen. The Stand. Garden City, 1978. Thick octavo, original half black cloth, dust jacket. $3800.

First edition of King’s Hugo-nominated epic tale of apocalyptic terror, in-scribed in the year of publication, “Best Christmas wishes—Stephen King, December 13, 1978.”“The book that took me the longest to write was The Stand. This is also the one my longtime readers still seem to like the best… I was writing this story near the end of the so-called Energy Crisis in the 1970s, and I had an absolutely marvelous time envisioning a world that went smash during the course of one horrified, infected sum-mer… Rarely have I seen so clearly with the eye of my imagination” (King, On Writing, 201-6). Not only a “very superior example of its genre” (Clute & Nicholls), The Stand “represents King’s most am-bitiously imaginative novel and the most fulfilling exploration of a predominant theme in his work: the behavior of groups functioning under the pressure of extraordinary situations” (Fantasy and Horror 6-206). Extremely good dust jacket lightly rubbed with small abra-sion to spine. Book fine.

First Edition Of Stephen King’s First Novel, Inscribed By Him94. KING, Stephen. Carrie. Garden City, 1974. Octavo, original burgundy cloth, dust jacket. $5500.

First edition of the novel that launched King’s phenomenal career, boldly inscribed by him, “For M— D— with best, Stephen King 9/24/80.”When King wrote Carrie, he was living in a trailer and working at a laundromat for $60 a week. “Two unrelated ideas, adolescent cruelty and telekinesis, came together… I did three single-spaced pages of a first draft, then crumpled them up in disgust and threw them away… [The next night, my wife] Tabby had the pages… ‘You’ve got some-thing here,’ she said. ‘I really think you do’” (King, On Writing, 67-68). Tabitha King was right. “Life in the trailer ended in 1973 when Doubleday bought Carrie for a $2500 advance. Hardcover sales were not spectacular, but the paperback sales—boosted by the [1976] film of the novel—were nearly 4,000,000 copies. ‘The movie made the book, and the book made me,’ King says” (New York Times). A fine copy, very scarce inscribed.


“Day Of The Jackal Has Influenced A Generation Of Thriller Writers”96. FORSYTH, Frederick. The Day of the Jackal. London, 1971. Octavo, original red paper boards, dust jacket. $3200.

First edition, precedes the American edition, of Forsyth’s ac-claimed first novel, boldly signed, “Frederick Forsyth 2015.”Winner of the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel, Forsyth’s first thriller won immediate acclaim as “a strikingly successful thriller… It makes such comparable books as The Manchurian Candidate and The Spy Who Came In From The Cold seem like Hardy Boy mysteries” (New York Times). “It is no exaggera-tion to say Day of the Jackal has influenced a generation of thriller writers, from Jack Higgins to Ken Follett… Before, thrillers were self-evidently works of the imagination. Forsyth changed all that; never before had a popular novelist created a world that seemed indistinguishable from real life. His debut had a documentary sense of realism that all but convinced the public they were reading a work of non-fiction” (Guardian). With laid-in ticket of signing event at a charity in England dated October 2, 2015. Book fine; lightest edge-wear, tiny bit of tape reinforcement to verso of about-fine dust jacket.

“A Whisper Of Someone Called Spartacus Who Has Set The World On Fire”97. FAST, Howard. Spartacus. New York, 1951. Octavo, original russet cloth, original dust jacket. $3200.

First edition, boldly signed by Harold Fast and inscribed “For L— Kirk Douglas,” the executive producer and star of Stanley Kubrick’s Oscar-winning 1960 film adaptation.Son of a factory worker, Howard Fast published his first novel before the age of 20 and quickly established himself as “a lit-erary phenomenon… the champion of the progressive novel in the United States” (Guardian). When publishers rejected this epic work after Fast was blacklisted, he published the novel himself and its immediate popularity made Spartacus “the only self-published best-seller in recent history” (Wald, “Legacy”). The 1960 premiere of Stanley Kubrick’s Oscar-winning film adaptation broke the Hollywood blacklist by awarding on-screen credit to screenwriter Dalton Trumbo. Book fine; tiny bit of tape reinforcement to verso of near-fine dust jacket.

“A Master For The Symbolists”82. RIMBAUD, Arthur. Poésies Complètes. Paris, 1895. Octavo, contemporary half vellum. $3200.

First edition of the complete verse of Arthur Rimbaud, including two litho-graphed frontispiece portraits by Paul Verlaine, who has also written the Preface. With the original printed paper front wrapper bound in.“Arthur Rimbaud, a poet of precocious genius and violent, unstable charac-ter, began writing at 15 and abandoned literature some five, or possibly ten, years later. At 37, after years as a trader and explorer at Harar and in the interior of Abyssinia, he died unaware that he had become a master for the Symbolists. He now counts as one of the strongest influences on modern, and not only French, poetry… Rimbaud went farther than any poet before him in the exploration of the subconscious and, technically, in experiment-ing with rhythm and the use of words as units, without any syntactical relationship, purely for their evocative and sensational value” (Harvey & Heseltine, 619-20). This edition contains Rimbaud’s major poetic works, including “Bateau ivre,” but does not contain the prose poems Une Saison en Enfer or Illuminations (published together in 1892). Text in French. A bit of toning to vellum and wrapper. A near-fine, handsome copy.

“The Scent Of Bitter Almonds Always Reminded Him Of The Fate Of Unrequited Love”99. GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ, Gabriel. Love in the Time of Cholera. New York, 1988. Octavo, original half pink cloth, acetate dust jacket, slipcase. $5200.

Signed limited first edition in English, number one of only 350 copies signed by García Márquez, “printed on special paper and specially bound,” his “shining and heartbreaking novel” (Thomas Pynchon).

“Suppose… it were possible not only to swear love ‘for-ever,’ 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 de-livers, 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 endur-ing 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. An exceptional signed copy in fine condition.


“Light Was A Paste Of Pigment In Our Eyes”: A Further Range, Inscribed By Robert Frost With The Entire 21-Line Poem “The Runaway” In His Hand100. FROST, Robert. A Further Range. Book Six. New York, 1936. Octavo, original maroon cloth, dust jacket. $10,000.

First trade edition, second printing, of Frost’s Pulitzer Prize-winning collection of verse, inscribed by him with the poem “The Runaway” and signed by him with the additional inscription: “For Dr. F.B Sweet, Springfield, October 1937.”In this volume, Frost’s lyrics, “though more playful in blending fact and fantasy, have beneath their frivolity a deep serious-ness” (Hart, 269). A Further Range earned Frost the Pulitzer Prize for the best book of poetry published by an American author in 1936. Published the same year as the signed lim-ited edition and the first trade edition. Crane A21.1. “The Runaway,” which does not appear in this collection, was first published in the June 1918 issue of The Amherst Monthly and first appeared in book form in Frost’s 1923 Selected Poems. The inscribed version here has variants in the last two lines: “When everything else has gone to stall and bin, Ought to be told to come and bring him in” replaces the published “When other creatures have gone to stall and bin, Ought to be told to come and take him in.” Interior fine; light fading to spine. Light wear to extremities of dust jacket. A nearly fine copy, most scarce inscribed with a poem.

“If You Really Want To Hear About It…”: The Catcher In The Rye, First Edition In First-Issue Dust Jacket101. SALINGER, J.D. The Catcher in the Rye. Boston, 1951. Octavo, original black cloth, dust jacket. $12,000.

First edition of Salinger’s first book—the now-clas-sic novel that defined the voice of young America for a generation—in first-issue dust jacket with photograph of the author on the back panel.

“The Catcher in the Rye is undoubtedly a 20th-cen-tury classic. It struck a popular note, particular-ly with young readers, who strongly identified with Holden Caulfield and his yearning for lost innocence… Salinger’s novel was, and contin-ues 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 adum-brated 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” (Anthony Burgess, 99 Novels, 53-4). Starosciak A30. Bixby A2. Book fine; bright dust jacket with light rubbing to extremities, only a couple spots of minor restoration to joints, and a few tape repairs to verso. An attractive copy.


First Edition Inscribed with Vonnegut's Large Original Self-Portrait By Him102. VONNEGUT, Kurt. Player Piano. New York, 1952. Octavo, original green cloth, dust jacket. $6200.

First edition of Vonnegut’s first novel, an “increas-ingly prescient,” darkly humorous dystopia, with a large original self-portrait ink sketch by the author featuring his signature and characteristic asterisk, and dated by him “May 29, 1998.”A “dystopia of automation, Player Piano… de-scribes the dereliction of the quality of life by the progressive surrender of production and political decision to machines. The mixture of heavy irony, bordering on black humor, and un-ashamed sentimentality displayed in the novel became the hallmark of Kurt Vonnegut’s work” (Clute & Nicholls). “The story… is increasing-ly prescient as globalism triumphs” (Anatomy of Wonder II-1202). This first edition consisted of 7600 copies “and is accordingly difficult to find today” (Reed, 41). Pieratt & Klinkowitz AA1. Book about-fine with slight sunning to spine head. Dust jacket near-fine with modest toning to spine and folds, shallow chip to spine foot, short splits to top edge along folds. A desirable inscribed copy.

“Mankind Wasn’t Alway So Lucky”103. VONNEGUT, Kurt. The Sirens of Titan. Boston, 1961. Octavo, original blue cloth, dust jacket. $5200.

First edition in cloth of Kurt Vonnegut’s influential second book, one of 2500 copies, a beautiful copy.

“The Sirens of Titan is a fine complex satire about the folly of mistak-ing good luck for the favour of God; it features the first of a num-ber of mock-religions that Vonnegut would invent—the Church of God the Utterly Indifferent—and concludes with the revela-tion of the manipulation of human history by Tralfamadorian aliens sending messages to one of their kind stranded on Titan. One leading character has an extemporal viewpoint from which all moments appear co-existent—a theme which crops up again, along with the Tralfamadorians, in…Slaughterhouse-Five” (Clute & Nicholls, 1289). Initially issued in wrappers by Dell in 1959. 100 Best Novels 31. A splendid copy in fine condition.

“Massive, Impressive”104. WARREN, Robert Penn. All the King’s Men. New York, 1946. Octavo, original maroon cloth, dust jacket. $6500.

First edition in first-issue dust jacket of Robert Penn Warren’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, a “classic cautionary tale of power and corruption” (NPR) inspired by the life of the colorful and controversial Huey Long.“Robert Penn Warren, the nation’s first Poet Laureate, won the first of three Pulitzer Prizes in 1947 for All The King’s Men, a richly detailed study of the life and times of a populist poli-tician named Willie Stark… inspired by the Louisiana Governor Huey P. Long” (New York Times). The novel was praised by Sinclair Lewis as “massive, impressive, yet so full of light sub-tleties and surprising drama that it is never pon-derous.” “One is tempted to say that the truth Warren aims at is none other than the eternal verities of the human heart Faulkner regarded as the novelist’s great charge” (Contemporary Novelists, 1438). Bruccoli & Clark I:402. Book fine; lightest edge-wear to spine ends, small bit of foxing to rear panel of near-fine dust jacket, most unusual in this condition.

‘They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back to their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”

“So We Beat On, Boats Against The Current, Borne Back Ceaselessly Into The Past”105. FITZGERALD, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. New York, 1925. Octavo, original green cloth, cus-tom clamshell box. $6800.

First edition of this landmark of 20th-century fic-tion, Fitzgerald’s haunting tale of “empty elegance and impossible love” in the Jazz Age (Julie Bosman) and one of America’s greatest novels.In 1922, having already written This Side of Paradise and The Beautiful and Damned, Fitzgerald told his publisher Max Perkins, “I want to write something new—something extraordinary and beautiful and simple and intricately patterned” (Bruccoli, 198). The tri-umphant result three years later was The Great Gatsby, published just before what Fitzgerald called the summer of “1000 parties and no work” (Fitch, 183). Noted critic Cyril Connolly called Gatsby one of the half dozen best American novels: “[Gatsby] remains a prose poem of delight and sadness which has by now introduced two gener-ations to the romance of America, as Huckleberry Finn and Leaves of Grass intro-duced those before it” (The Modern Movement, 48). Without extremely rare original dust jacket. Bruccoli A11.1.a. A fine copy.


“And What Rough Beast, Its Hour Come Round At Last, Slouches Towards Bethlehem To Be Born?”106. YEATS, William Butler. Later Poems. New York, 1924. Octavo, original half blue cloth. $3800.

First American edition, one of only 250 copies signed by Yeats.Contains all of Yeats’ non-dramatic poems writ-ten between 1899 and 1921, during which he published The Wind among the Reeds, In the Seven Woods, The Green Helmet and Other Poems, The Wild Swans at Coole, Michael Robartes and the Dancer and other works. “One should try to possess all these books… to study the develop-ment of the greatest poet of the century… [He developed] a set of ideas and images which glow through the deceptive simplicity of his verse forms and render his lightest song elusively” (Connolly, 41, 24). First published in London in 1922. Wade 135. A fine signed copy.

“To Prolong The Moment Of Contemplation, The Moment When We Are Both Asleep And Awake, Which Is The One Moment Of Creation”107. YEATS, William Butler. Essays. New York, 1924. Octavo, original half blue cloth. $1800.

Signed limited first American edition, one of only 250 copies signed by Yeats.Contains Yeats’ essays from 1896 to 1917 on such subjects as “The Philosophy of Shelley’s Poetry,” “William Blake and the Imagination,”

“The Celtic Element in Literature,” and “The Symbolism of Poetry.” Preceded by the London first edition of the same year. Roth 190. Wade 142. Closed tear to top margin of page 7, faint oval impression on rear board. A nearly fine copy.

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“They Shall Be Remembered Forever, They Shall Be Alive Forever, They Shall Be Speaking Forever, The People Shall Hear Them Forever”108. YEATS, William Butler. Plays in Prose and Verse. New York, 1924. Octavo, half blue cloth. $2800.

Signed limited first American edition, one of only 250 copies signed by Yeats.This collection contains “Cathleen ni Houlihan,” “The Green Helmet,” and nine other plays by Yeats for Dublin’s Abbey Theatre. Shortly before his death, still wondering whether “Cathleen ni Houlihan” had played an instigating role in the Easter Rising, Yeats asks in his poem, “The Man and the Echo” (1938), “Did that play of mine / Send out certain men the English shot?” Without scarce original slipcase. Wade 137. Small chip to top of paper label on spine, faint oval impression on rear board. A near-fine copy.

“A Peak Of English Poetry”109. YEATS, William Butler. The Winding Stair. New York, 1929. Octavo, original gilt-stamped dark blue cloth. $4500.

Signed limited first edition, one of only 642 copies by Yeats.The Winding Stair, along with The Tower (pub-lished 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 ex-press an equilibrium between the conflicting demands on the poet of the outside world and his art… This theme is central to the two vol-umes which are often thought to be Yeats’ best, The Tower (1928) and The Winding Stair (1929)” (Hamilton, 595). The Winding Stair includes one of Yeats’ most best-known poems, “A Dialogue of Self and Soul.” Without rare original glassine or slipcase. Wade 164. A fine signed copy.

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Comprehensive Signed Limited Edition Of Yeats’ Poems110. YEATS, William Butler. The Variorum Edition of the Poems of W.B. Yeats. New York, 1957. Large thick octavo, original red and tan cloth, slipcase. $3800.

Signed limited first edition, one of 825 copies signed by Yeats.Few poets revised as frequently or extensively as did Yeats. This volume contains variant word-ings from a wide range of published sources, from the first appearance of individual poems to their final appearance in various collections, each footnoted with Yeats’ emendations. With an appendix containing Yeats’ own notes regard-ing the poems. As was occasionally the case with popular authors, Yeats signed his name to num-ber of specially printed sheets to be tipped into publications after his death. Wade 211N. A bit of minor rubbing and toning to slipcase. Book fine.

“I Have Said All The Good I Know And All The Evil”111. YEATS, William Butler. Autobiographies: Reveries Over Childhood and Youth, and the Trembling of the Veil. New York, 1927. Octavo, orig-inal half blue cloth. $2900.

Signed limited first American edition, one of only 250 copies signed by Yeats.Illustrated with five plates, including a frontis-piece portrait of the author from a drawing by his father. Autobiographies contains two autobi-ographical works, The Trembling of the Veil, first published in 1922, and Reveries over Childhood and Youth, first published in 1915. Preceded by the 1926 English edition. Without original slip-case. Wade 152. A near-fine copy.

“things fall apart, the centre cannot hold; mere anarchy is loosed

upon the world...”—W.B. Yeats

“I Think You And Snoopy Would Do Well As A Team In An Olympic Chariot Race”: Peanuts Jubilee, Wonderfully Inscribed To Charlton Heston With Large Original Sketch Of Snoopy112. SCHULZ, Charles M. Peanuts Jubilee. New York, 1975. Oblong folio, original aluminum-covered boards, dust jack-et. $8800.

First edition, presentation copy, inscribed with a sketch of Snoopy, “ For Charlton Heston with friendship and every best wish—Charles M. Schulz.” With an additional typed letter signed by Schulz to Heston, remarking that “I think you and Snoopy would do well as a team in an olympic char-iot race.”A treasury of Schulz’ classic comic strips, illustrated with numerous photographs and comic strips, including 134 color reproductions of Sunday panels. Laid into this copy is a typed 1983 letter signed by Schulz, reading, “Dear Mr. Heston: Thank you very much for your kind note. It was exciting to hear from someone whom I have admired for so many years. I think you and Snoopy would do well as a team in an olympic chariot race. Incidentally, I am a very good friend of Chanin Hale who did a short segment with you in “Will Penny.” At the risk of being presump-tuous, I am sending you one of my books with my very best wishes. Thank you again for writing. Kindest regards, Charles M. Schulz.” Boards rubbed; bright, price-clipped dust jacket with short closed tear to front panel. Wear along bottom edge of laid-in letter. A near-fine copy with a wonderful inscription and provenance.

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Inscribed By Schulz With Original Sketch Of Charlie Brown113. SCHULZ, Charles M. Happiness Is a Warm Puppy. San Francisco, 1962. Small square quarto, original paper boards, dust jacket. $4500.

First edition of Charlie Brown and the gang’s whimsical and often wise words on happiness, with 30 “Peanuts” cartoons by Schulz, inscribed by the cartoonist with an original sketch of Charlie listening to a radio, “‘Happiness is being on Monitor,’ Charles M. Schulz.”According to a laid-in note from a previous owner, Schulz inscribed this copy for San Francisco broadcaster Dean Mell when he in-terviewed Schulz for the NBC radio program, “Monitor.” Gift inscription. Interior clean with a few light creases; light ink mark and minor discoloration to rear free endpaper. Light wear to spine ends. Boards lightly soiled. Dust jacket fine. A desirable and delightfully inscribed copy in near-fine condition.

“…A Little Boy And His Bear Will Always Be Playing”115. MILNE, A. A. The House at Pooh Corner. New York, 1928. Quarto, original half green cloth, glassine dust jacket, cardboard box, clamshell box. $6000.

Signed limited large-paper copy of the first American edition, one of 250 copies signed by both Milne and illustrator Ernest Shepard. A beautiful copy.The stories in this volume—the de- and recon-struction of Eeyore’s house, Tigger’s arrival in the Forest, Christopher Robin’s attempted farewell in an Enchanted Place—bring to a close tales that are

“more successful as works written for children than anything else produced during children’s literature’s Golden Age” (Carpenter, 205). This edition, pre-ceded only by the English edition of the same year, is signed by Milne and by Shepard (Silvey, 462). Published the same year as the first edition. Cutler & Stiles, 116. Bookplate. Expert repairs to generally clean original cardboard gift box. Short closed tear to original glassine dust jacket. Book fine. A beauti-ful and desirable copy.

Signed By Margaret Wise Brown: Little Fur Family, First Edition, A Great Children's Rarity, Extraordinarily Scarce Signed114. BROWN, Margaret Wise. Little Fur Family. New York, 1946. 12mo, original rabbit fur, card-board box, custom clamshell box. $ 6000.

Rare first edition, bound in rabbit fur, with the original illustrated box, signed on the title page by Margaret Wise Brown—the only copy of any Margaret Wise Brown book we have ever encoun-tered signed by her.

"The diminutive 1946 rabbit-fur-bound edi-tion had proven difficult to store (moths got into Harper’s warehouse, destroying a large quantity of the first printing)” (Marcus, 33). Consequently, later editions had imitation fur or no fur at all. In the original publisher’s illustrat-ed box with circular cut-out, through which real fur shows. Later editions were also larger than this edition, as its small size made it difficult for libraries to carry on their shelves. Book about-fine, slight soiling to rear panel only of box. An excellent copy, very scarce and desirable signed by Brown.

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“…We Can Have Lots Of Good Fun That Is Funny!”116. SEUSS, Dr. The Cat in the Hat. New York, 1957. Octavo, original pictorial paper boards, dust jacket. $8200.

First edition of this rare and important children’s classic—a beau-tiful copy.

“Inspired by a thoughtful article by John Hersey in Life magazine, entitled ‘Why do Students Bog Down on the First R?,’ Seuss began to address the problem, which has since entered the pop-ular parlance as the why-Johnny-can’t-read syndrome. Hersey’s contention was that the schools were filled with ‘pallid primers’ such as Fun with Dick and Jane, featuring ‘abnormally courteous, unnaturally clean boys and girls,’ that real children found them uninspiring, and that many bookstores displayed more attractive alternatives, the ‘jaunty juveniles’ with ‘strange and wonderful animals and children who behave naturally, i.e., sometimes mis-behave.’ Seuss’ answer was The Cat in the Hat. By enhancing everyday situations with irresistible imaginary characters and telling the tales with cleverly rhymed, easily recognizable words, Seuss gave control of learning to read back to children, while providing wit, charm, comic verse, and a surprise on every page” (Dr. Seuss from Then to Now, 45). Younger & Hirsch 7. A very nearly fine copy.

“I Do So Much Want Charlotte And Fern And Wilbur—And Even Templeton!—To Be With You Christmas Eve”110. WHITE, E.B. Charlotte’s Web. New York, 1952. Octavo, orig-inal beige cloth, dust jacket. $6000.

First edition of one of the most delightful and beloved chil-dren’s books, with an autograph letter signed by Anne Morrow Lindbergh tipped in presenting the book to a close friend and neighbor, “Dear John, I do so much want Charlotte and Fern and Wilbur—and even Templeton!—to be with you Christmas Eve. Anne.”The second and most celebrated of White’s three children’s books, “Charlotte’s Web is rightly regarded as a modern clas-sic” (Connolly, 322-23). It is “resonant, lyrical, serious, pro-found. It is one of the very few books for young children that face, squarely, the subject of death. And above all it is cele-bratory” (Silvey, 677). With numerous endearing illustrations by Garth Williams. Recipient John Oldrin and his wife Jinny Oldrin were neighbors and close friends of the Lindberghs in Darien, Connecticut, where the Lindberghs had a home. With Oldrin’s owner signature on half title above Lindbergh’s note. Book fine, price-clipped dust jacket extremely good, with light toning to spine, faint circular stains to panels, and partially erased old pencil notation to rear panel. A lovely as-sociation copy.

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Boldly Inscribed By Chagall Across An Entire Leaf: Six-Volume Lithographs Of Chagall, With 28 Original Lithographs117. (CHAGALL, Marc) CAIN, Julien and SORLIER, Charles. The Lithographs of Chagall. Monte Carlo, New York, Boston, 1960-86. Six volumes. Folio (10 by 13 inches), original beige cloth, dust jackets, acetates. $20,000.

Mixed first French, German and English editions of all six vol-umes in the catalogue raisonné of Chagall’s lithographs, rich-ly illustrated with 28 original lithographs (including the dust jackets). Volume I inscribed: “To Shirlyy [sic] and Jack Mandel, Marc Chagall, N.Y. 1963.”Volumes I and II contain 24 of the original 28 lithographs published throughout the series; the dust jackets and frontis-pieces of Volumes III and IV account for the remaining four. (Volume V was published near the end of Chagall’s life, and Volume VI was published posthumously.) All were issued sep-arately over a period of 26 years and are very scarce as a com-plete set. All volumes published simultaneously in English, French and German. This set is comprised of Volumes I and III in English, Volumes II and IV in French, and Volumes V and VI in German. Cramer, 43, 56, 77, 94. The recipients of this copy, Shirley and Jack Mandel, were instrumental in operating Camp NYDA, the summer camp for diabetic chil-dren conducted by the New York Diabetes Association. A fine inscribed set.

Inscribed And Graced With Large Original Crayon And Ink Drawing By Marc Chagall 118. CHAGALL, Marc. Marc Chagall. Paris, 1979. Quarto, orig-inal marigold cloth, dust jacket. $19,800.

First edition of this retrospective of the celebrated artist’s work, illustrated with more than 200 reproductions (many in color), inscribed: “Pour Ingrid et Alfred, en bon souvenir, Chagall,” and with his large, original crayon, pen and brush and India ink drawing of himself resting under a tree across the entire ti-tle page, dated by Chagall in the year of the book’s publication, “1979.” An extraordinary volume, inscribed and with original artwork by one of the 20th century’s most acclaimed artists. This handsome volume reproduces over 200 pieces of Chagall’s striking work, frequently full- or double-page and many in color. Text in French. Original art dated and in-scribed to Ingrid and Alfred Neuman, well-known collectors and friends of Chagall. Bright dust jacket near-fine with mild rubbing to spine ends and extremities, a few small abrasions. Book fine. Original artwork bright and fine. An exceptional volume in excellent condition, most desirable inscribed and with original artwork by modern master Marc Chagall.

“Peopling The Universe With Elves And Leprechauns”: Arthur Rackham’s Fairy Book, Illustrated And Signed By Him120. RACKHAM, Arthur. The Arthur Rackham Fairy Book. London, 1933. Octavo, original full vellum gilt. $3800.

Signed limited first edition, one of only 460 copies signed by Rackham, with eight full-page color illustrations in and 60 in-text line cuts and silhouettes.One of the last books Rackham il-lustrated before his death, this love-ly volume includes 23 favorite tales such as “Jack and the Beanstalk,”

“The Ugly Duckling,” “Cinderella” and “Ali Baba.” Without extreme-ly scarce original slipcase. A lovely copy in about-fine condition.

“It Shall Not Happen Again!”: Limited Edition Of Ink & Blood, 1946, Arthur Szyk’s Famous Anti-Nazi Caricatures, Signed By Him119. SZYK, Arthur and BURT, Struthers. Ink & Blood. A Book of Drawings. New York, 1946. Folio (9-1/2 by 12-1/2 inches), original full black moroc-co, cardboard slipcase. $4200.

Signed limited first edition, one of 1000 inscribed copies, of this powerful collection, this copy inscribed to Lawrence Berman and signed on the limitation page by Arthur Szyk, with color frontispiece and 74 plates, six in color and mounted (the rest printed in sepia duotone), in scarce slipcase.Upon the German invasion of Poland in 1939, British authorities dispatched Arthur Szyk to New York City. There he was to assume the role of unofficial propagandist for the Allied powers, contributing a steady stream of anti-Nazi car-toons and caricatures that combined the precise detail and fine craftsmanship of his miniaturist illustrations with the barbed satire of political commentary. Book extremely good, with interi-or generally fine and wear to spine. With bottom panel renewed, seam repaired.

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Magnificent Signed Limited Ben Shahn Large Folio Haggadah, With Original Color Lithograph Signed By Shahn121. (HAGGADAH) SHAHN, Ben. Haggadah for Passover. Paris, 1966. Large folio (13 by 17 inches), un-sewn as issued, glassine wrappers, clasped parchment box. $8200.

Beautiful large limited folio Passover Haggadah, one of only 228 copies (out of a total edition of 292) on Arches Vergé paper, illustrated by Ben Shahn with 21 color pictorial borders and line drawings and an addition-al beautiful double-page color lithograph also signed by him.Lithuanian-born graphic artist Ben Shahn executed many of the illustrations for this Haggadah around 1930, while working on a pictorial representation of the Dreyfus case and conceiving his celebrated series of paintings of the Sacco and Vanzetti trial. Shahn’s Haggadah illustrations also highlight the struggle against oppression, a theme central to the story of Passover. In 1965 Shahn reproduced these Passover drawings, which had already been acquired by the Jewish Museum, incorporating them into this ex-traordinary Haggadah. Text in Hebrew and English. Box with usual light toning. A beautiful signed copy.

“One Of The Most Fascinating Books In The Whole Of Egyptian Literature” (Howard Carter): Superb First Edition Of Belzoni’s Excavations In Egypt, 1820, With Scarce Atlas Folio Volume Of Hand-Colored Plates122. (EGYPT) BELZONI, Giovanni Battista. Narrative of the Operations and Recent Discoveries within the Pyramids, Temples, Tombs, and Excavations, in Egypt and Nubia. WITH: Plates Illustrative of the Researches and Operations of G. Belzoni. London, 1820. Two volumes. Text volume: Quarto, contemporary full tan calf rebacked, with the original spine laid down. Plate volume: Slim atlas folio (19 by 23-1/2 inches), contem-porary three-quarter brown calf gilt, rebacked and recornered. $28,500.

First edition of this riveting account of archaeo-logical discovery by “the first man known to have excavated in the Valley of the Kings,” with large folding map of the Nile region and scarce atlas folio comprised of 44 plates on 34 sheets (two folding), including 40 superb hand-colored illustrations (19 lithographs directly after Belzoni himself and 21 other fine engravings of Egyptian antiquities and views), and four uncolored topographical maps and plans. An exceptional copy in contemporary binding with stunning plates with very vivid color and in fine condition.

“Through his Gothic experiences in the mum-my pits of Egypt… Belzoni made the myster-ies of Pharoah a part of the popular culture of England… He was the first man known to have excavated in the Valley of the Kings” (Romer, 51). A former circus strongman, Giovanni Belzoni became one of the first and greatest archaeologists of Egypt. Funded by Henry Salt, British Consul in Egypt, Belzoni sailed to Thebes, where he unearthed and removed the colossal stone bust of Rameses II, and shipped

it to England. His success prompted Salt to underwrite further investigations— at Edfu, Elephantine and Philae, Abu Simbel, Karnak, Giza and opening the sepulchre of Seti I. Upon his return to London, he arranged for the publi-cation of his account “and also for an exhibition of his finds, casts, and drawings… [which] drew huge crowds” (Clayton, 42). The superb folio plate volume has been described as “the first English work of any importance to use lithog-raphy” (Blackmer). Egyptologist Howard Carter regarded Belzoni’s work as “one of the most fas-cinating books in the whole of Egyptian litera-ture” (Clayton, 43) and praised him as “one of the most remarkable men in the entire history of Archaeology.” The plates in this copy bear the imprint “1820” and are printed on paper water-marked either 1818 or 1819. Abbey, Travel 268. Armorial bookplate. Light foxing to first and last few leaves of scarce text volume. Atlas folio quite beautiful and fine, plate impressions crisp and colors vivid. A fine copy.


“The Most Authoritative Artist And Poet Of Modern Arabia”124. GIBRAN, Kahlil. (RAPHAEL, Alice). Twenty Drawings. New York, 1919. Folio (8-1/2 by 12 inches), original half brown cloth. $3200.

First trade edition of this early critical essay on Gibran, beautifully illustrated with color frontispiece and 19 monochro-matic plates by Gibran.This first volume of Gibran’s artwork in English (and only his second book published in the United States) con-tains 20 of his early works, primarily figure drawings. This title sold only a few hundred copies at the time of pub-lication, and Gibran continued to toil in obscurity until the publication of The Prophet in 1923. Issued in the same year as a signed limited edition of 100 copies. Book near-fine, dust jacket with mild toning and expert restoration to extremities. A near-fine copy.

The Book Of The Dead, 1894 Elephant Folio With 37 Double-Page Color Lithographs123. BUDGE, E. A. Wallis. The Book of the Dead. Facsimile of the Papyrus of Ani. WITH: The Book of the Dead… The Egyptian Text with Interlinear Transliteration and Translation. London, 1894-95. Two volumes. Elephant folio (16 by 21 inches), later three-quarter green morocco gilt; quarto, original three-quarter black and dark green morocco. $6500.

Second edition of the important facsimile of the Papyrus of Ani, with 37 double-page elephant folio color lithographic plates, together with a first edi-tion of Budge’s comprehensive analysis.The facsimile of the Papyrus of Ani was first pub-lished in 1890, but unaccompanied by a transla-tion. This comprehensive translation and analy-sis by renowned Egyptologist E.A. Wallis Budge was prepared to accompany this second edition. Plates fine, scattered foxing to quarto text vol-ume; only minor rubbing to boards of both folio and quarto volumes. An impressive production.

“Powerful, Almost Overwhelming”: Doré’s Beautifully Illustrated Folio Edition Of Tennyson’s Idylls Of The King, With 37 Impressive Steel Engravings125. (DORÉ, Gustave) TENNYSON, Alfred. Idylls of the King. London, 1868. Thick folio (12-1/2 by 16-1/2 inches), contemporary full red morocco gilt. $5800.

First edition of Tennyson’s Arthurian classic with illustrations by Doré, boasting 37 masterful full-page steel engravings by him, magnificently bound in full morocco-gilt.“In 1867 and 1868, Moxon published four folio volumes, one devoted to each of [Tennyson’s] original idylls for which Doré created illustrations with powerful, almost overwhelming, landscapes and Gothic architecture” (Alan Lupack). This volume contains Enid, Elaine, Vivien and Guinevere, first published together in a single volume in 1859; the first complete pub-lication of the eventual 12 idylls together would not occur until 1891. Scattered light foxing, soiling and offsetting. A beautifully bound and il-lustrated volume.

Inscribed By Berenice Abbott, Very Scarce Presentation/Association First Edition Of Her Landmark Photobook, Changing New York127. ABBOTT, Berenice. Changing New York. New York, 1939. Quarto, original blue cloth, dust jacket. $7000.

First edition of Abbott’s groundbreaking photo-essay on New York City, a memorable presentation/association copy inscribed by Abbott to Howard Daitz, long associated with New York’s famed Witkin Gallery: “For Howard Daitz, Berenice Abbott,” with laid-in printed April 16, 1976 invitation to the Witkin Gallery, along with an April 3, 1976 invitation to a reception honoring Abbott at Washington D.C.’s Lunn Gallery.

“Changing New York not only fulfills Abbott’s criterion for the historical importance of the documentary mode, but also demonstrates its power as a medium of personal ex-pression” (Parr & Badger), providing “a distinctive interpre-tation of New York as well as a priceless document thereof” (Icons of Photography). Recipient Howard Daitz was one of photography’s most respected collectors. He was the hus-band of Evelyne Daitz, director of the Witkin Gallery, later the gallery’s owner and director. Book fine; mild toning to spine, slight chipping to spine head affecting “C” of title and to rear panel of scarce very good unrestored dust jack-et. A highly desirable inscribed presentation copy with an especially notable association.

First Edition Of Exposures Twice Signed, Inscribed With Sketch By Andy Warhol126. WARHOL, Andy. Andy Warhol’s Exposures. New York, 1979. Tall quarto, original black cloth, dust jacket. $3500.

First trade edition, American issue, of Warhol’s candid and engaging photobook, featuring 360 full-page halftones, signed by Warhol on the dust jacket front panel and inscribed by him: “To J— and B—, [small sketch] Andy Warhol,” with his large original sketch of a broken heart/butterfly.The impromptu artistry of Exposures and other photobooks, expressing “the freewheeling ex-istential exuberance and energy of Warhol… [became] a primary inspiration for the Japanese photobook” (Parr & Badger). Preceded by a signed limited edition of 1000 copies. A fine in-scribed copy in signed price-clipped dust jacket.


“Very Real People Meeting Reality Head-On And Then Stubbornly Transcending It”: 24 Original Lithographs By Hirschfeld, 1941 Limited First Edition128. HIRSCHFELD, Al and SAROYAN, William. Harlem As Seen by Hirschfeld. New York, 1941. Tall folio (14 by 18 inches), original hand-colored linen boards. $3800.

Limited first edition, one of 1000 copies, with 24 original mounted lithographs, some in color, on hand-made paper.

“No artist ever captured Harlem’s dangerous highs and bluesy lows like this Master of the Performing Curve.” Hirschfeld’s line carica-tures of Broadway personalities captured the vividness of American theater in the New York Times for al-most 75 years. With 19 lithographs of Harlem, and five lithographs of Balinese dancers. Accompanying text by William Saroyan. Without original slipcase. Early gift inscrip-tion. Plates and text fine, minor ex-pert repairs to text block and spine, some foxing to original boards. A very good copy.

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