Books & Manuscripts | Skinner Auction 2621B

Fine Books & Manuscripts Sale 2621B

November 18, 2012

Boston

Fine Books & Manuscripts

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Auction Information Auction 2621B

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1 Adams, John Quincy (1767-1848) Autograph Letter Signed, 20 April 1837.

One folded wove paper bifolium inscribed on four pages, congressional stationery. To Elijah Hayward (1786-1864), thanking Hayward for his support and explaining his absolute objection to slavery on political, philosophical, moral and theological grounds, and his hopes for the future of his country. Unframed, with old folds, and a round spot, likely from the original sealing wax, 7 3/4 x 10 in. folded. $80,000-120,000

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Elijah Hayward Esq[uire] Columbus, Ohio Washington 20 April 1837 Dear Sir, Although I have seldom had the opportunity of personal intercourse with you, I have a very distinct and pleasing recollection of you as Commissioner of the General Land Office and of the liberality and kindness which on more than one occasion I experienced in your administration of the duties of that station. I remember also that you mentioned to me once that you was [sic] a native of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, whence I also derive my birth, and of whose felicities I believe it one of the greatest, that from her originated that Ordinance for the Northwestern Territory the first abolition of Slavery on this continent, which has already given to this Union four of its most flourishing states, in which there is neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, unless as punishment for crime.

It was therefore not surprising though highly gratifying to me, to receive in your letter of the 13th instt the assurance that my speech in the House of Representatives of the United States, at the recent session of Congress on the right of petition, and the right of free discussion in Congress had been read by you with entire approbation. I regret that it has not been published in pamphlet form; that I might have the pleasure of sending you a copy of it. There is yet a possibility that it may be so published, in which case I will not fail to transmit a copy to you.

I believe with you that the debate opened by the discussion upon which that speech was delivered, is destined to descend to our posterity of the next generation and possibly to theirs. I believe the day will come when there will be neither war, slavery, nor hereditary kings upon earth. How many centuries it will take to accomplish this revolution it is not given to me to foretell. If the population of the North American continent should increase for two centuries to come in the same proportion as it has regularly done for the half century since the establishment of the Constitution of the United States, in two hundred years from this day there will be three thousand millions of the human race living on its surface. There is room for them all, and for as many more on the continent of South America. The steamboat and the railway have already approximated distances so that we travel five hundred miles in a day. Speed is power, and the multiplication of that power in the last half century has at least kept pace with that of population.

And in the same half century, notwithstanding the bloody wars that have waged, the uniform tendency of the minds and hearts of civilized men towards each other has been from cruelty to benevolence, from harshness to humanity. The question whether man has in any case whatever the right to take the life of man is sinking deeper and deeper into the consciences of men. The right of offensive war has not only fallen into disfavor but has become exceedingly problematical. Personal imprisonment for debt is gradually disappearing from all Christian codes. Even the right of defensive war has been denied in theory, and the denial has been supported by powerful arguments. The right of man to property in man has been for many years scoured out of all decent moral and intellectual company. With shame and confusion of face I ask it that countrymen of ours at this time are laboring to roll this rock of Sisyphus uphill and are heaping Pelion upon Ossa, to prove that slavery is sanctioned by the laws of nature and of God; but if Julian the Apostate, armed with genius, learning, philosophy, dauntless courage, and imperial power was unable to establish upon the throne of heaven the three hundred thousand gods of Rome, the sophists of tyranny never will reinfuse into the hearts of men the beliefe that eternal justice can approve the bondage of slavery. It shocks the moral sense of every soul not contaminated by the practice of oppression. John Randolph declared the Declaration of Independence, the great charter of mankind “a barrage of abstractions” but John Randolph died with “Remorse” upon his lips, and emancipated his slaves by his will, “because in his conscience he believed they ought to be free.”

Slavery is a part and parcel of the divine right of kings, and no thinking man can read Hobbes and Sir Robert Filmer, without perceiving that all the arguments which they urge in favour of despotic power in government, and against the theory of human rights, are the identical and only arguments by which a color of justification can be given to slavery. This must eventually be the sense of all mankind; but that in this country, with an appeal to God that all men are born with an inalienable right to Liberty; and that this is a self-evident truth, that a nation founding its existence upon the proclamation of that law, should suffer its ears to hear from its own degenerate sons, that one sixth part of its own people are chattels, to whom no rights can belong…………..my dear Sir, when Daniel O’Connell in the British Parliament, pronounces us in the face of heaven and earth a nation of hypocrites and liars, we may answer him with Billingsgate upon earth, but will Bishop England just from [hayte?] tell us what we shall say to heaven? No, never, never can slavery again be reconciled to the rights, or to the duties of man. Our slave-trading professors, and governors, and chancellors, and bishops, may cauterize their own consciences and those of their accomplices, while they live, with sophistication worthy of Belial Pandemonium, but with John Randolph, “Remorse” will be their dying word, without even the atonement of emancipating their slaves at death. They may, and I fear will wrest the chains of slavery upon their unhappy fellow creatures whom they hold in bondage. They may, and I fear will restore the extinguished curse of slavery in Mexico, and thereby fortify and reinforce and spread its odious dominion in our own country; protracting its final doom for unblest ages to come, but in the chancery of heaven that doom is sealed. Slavery shall vanish from the earth; and the race of man, descended from one father, shall live as a band of brothers upon earth; at least without shedding each other’s blood.

Your letter has led me far into futurity, and far beyond my depth. In the anticipation that for two hundred years to come the population of the North American continent will increase with the same rapidity that it has in the five decades of the last half of the last century, I am aware that this ratio of multiplication must at some stage in the progress of time fall off, and decline; but if in the space of two centuries to come, if instead of three thousand, there should be but a tenth part of that number, three hundred millions of souls upon this continent, and we contemplate what this mass of physical, moral, and intellectual congregated human power may effect for the improvement of the earth, and of the condition of its mortal and immortal inhabitant, may we not in humble hope invoke the blessing of the Father of Spirits upon every purpose intended to promote the universal emancipation of man?

Ay --- as answering to a call in the Hall of Legislation says respectfully, Your correspondent, John Quincy Adams

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2 African American History, Two Documents of the Slave Trade (1824 and 1827): Two manuscript documents, the first from Saint Louis County Missouri, dated January, 22, 1827, an “account of hire of negroes, farm and dwelling house, of James Lakenan, made by William Gardner;” the names of the enslaved people appear under the same heading as the farm and house: list of property, they are: Leman, Melvin, Henry, Edy, Mary, Betsy, Jane, and Lucy, the document was written after Lakenan’s death; the second document is from Frederick County, Maryland, in it, Caroline Shupp sells “one black man,” a bed, bedding and bedstead, one white cow, and a bureau to Elias Greshow. $300-500

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3 Album, Cartes-de-visite (c. 1860): Twenty portraits mounted in a green morocco binding with clasps, housed in a leather-covered book box. Including the 1861 Appleton portrait of Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865); and John Albion Andrew (1818-1867); William Sprague IV (1830-1915); Edward Everett (1794-1865); Charles F. Adams Sr. (1807-1886); Louis Agassiz (1807-1876); Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894); Winfield Scott (1786-1866); George McClellan (1826-1885); Nathaniel Banks (1816-1894); and others. $400-500

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4 American Presidents, Four Documents: Invitations to the presidential inaugurations of Harry S. Truman and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the two framed separately; one typed letter signed by FDR’s secretary Stephen Early, January 2, 1941; one typed letter signed by Mamie Eisenhower, September 4, 1952; all addressed to Francis A. McLaughlin. $250-350

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5 American Presidents, Four Signed Letters, Two Signature Cards: William Howard Taft (1857-1930) two typed letters signed, 1908 and 1913; Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933) typed letter signed on White House stationery as President, 1923, and signature on White House card, 2 3/4 x 4 1/4 in.; Herbert Hoover (1874-1964) signed card, 2 1/4 x 3 in.; Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945) typed letter signed as Governor of New York, 1932; and Charles Francis Adams Jr. (1835-1915) autograph letter signed, 1891. $1,500-2,000

6 Augustus III of Poland (1696-1763) Signed Letter and Envelope. Both on paper, envelope with the royal seal and address, letter is one bifolium with text in German on all four pages, 19 December 1736, delivered January, 1737, 13 x 8 in. Johann Sebastian Bach dedicated his Mass in B Minor to Augustus III of Poland. $500-700

7 Barton, William (1748-1831) Military Archive, War of 1812: Five manuscript letters and documents associated with Barton.

Barton’s appointment to colonel, dated 1785, signed by Joseph Carleton (1754-1812), Secretary of War; Barton took Prescott in 1777, during the American Revolution, and was promoted for his valor on that occasion.

Together with: three letters addressed to Barton from Gabriel Allen, written in 1813, 1814, and 1816; Allen served under Barton in the American Revolution; during this period, Barton was imprisoned in Danville, Vermont, for refusal to pay a fine. These letters from Allen concern themselves mainly with the War of 1812, with much ink given to the political underpinnings of the conflict; thoughts on treachery, contrasting Arthur Potter with Benedict Arnold, and reminiscences of the American Revolution.

Together with: a letter addressed to William’s son John Barton, from his brother Henry.

Henry wrote aboard the brig Troup, at Savannah, Georgia. The Troup, formerly a British packet ship called the Princess Amelia, was captured by the American Navy in September, 1812. It was commanded by Captain Walpole, and Barton had just been promoted to Master at Arms. $3,000-5,000

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7A Benton, Thomas Hart (politician) (17821858) Autograph Letter Signed, 11 December 1827. Single wove paper bifolium, watermarked Amies, Philadelphia; inscribed on two and half pages. To Elijah Hayward (1786-1864) expressing his enthusiastic belief that Andrew Jackson will defeat John Quincy Adams in the 1828 presidential election. With old folds, self-wrapping holograph envelope with seal and postmark, two marginal closed tears, otherwise good.

Even though Benton shot Andrew Jackson in 1813, he supported him in the presidential race against John Quincy Adams in 1824, and again in Jackson’s successful 1828 rematch against Adams. In this letter, Benton predicts that Adams “will be without one vote in the nine western states.” “The general conviction is that the game is up. [...] My own opinion is that [Andrew] J[ackson]’s election is just as certain as any human event can be, and in this I am joined by all our friends without exception.” $800-1,200

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8 Beresford, Sir John Poo, (1766-1844) Two Manuscript Notebooks, c. 1895. Two quarto volumes; one containing an account of Beresford’s life as published in The Naval Biography of Great Britain, by J. Ralfe, London, 1828, volume IV, pages 97-111; the other, an expanded treatment of the same biographical subject, composed by Sir John’s son, the Reverend John George Beresford (1821-1899) of York; both in defective softcover bindings, with associated ephemera.

Beresford was an officer in the Royal Navy, serving as captain of the HMS Poitiers during the War of 1812. His most memorable participation involved the recapture of the USS Wasp and a reversal of its capture of the HMS Frolic. $400-600

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8A Browning, Robert (1812-1889) Autograph Letter Signed, Undated. Single page, inscribed on both sides. To an unknown recipient, forwarding a signature, asking to send other letters, and to check the dead letter office, sent from Florence, Italy. Mounted with four portraits of Browning in a doubleglazed frame, 16 x 5 1/2 in. overall. $500-700

9 Bryan, William Jennings (1860-1925) Signed Photograph. Sepia-tone matte finish, profile portrait, inscribed to General Charles Sherrill, 4 March 1910, 9 1/4 x 12 in. $300-350

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10 Buchanan, James (1791-1868) Autograph Letter Signed, 11 May 1846. Large quarto bifolium. To Josiah Bushnell Grinnell (1821-1891), member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Iowa, written by Buchanan as Secretary of State, from the State Department, Washington, D.C., acknowledging Grinnell’s letter about the claim of Captain Eliphalet Robbins; old folds, 8 x 10 in.

Grinnell was the man to whom Horace Greeley advised a westerly course. $700-900 11 Buckner, Simon Bolivar (1823-1914) Signed Telegram Form. Mobile, Alabama, 2 April 1865. One page, to Brigadier Daniel Ruggles (1810-1897), apologizing for not having any infantry to spare, matted and framed, with a portrait, 11 1/2 x 14 1/2 overall. $500-700

12 Canadiana Archive, 18th to 19th Century: Including twelve separate documents: two copies of the same land deed made by the descendants of John Julian, chief of the Miramichi Indians, of New Brunswick, Andrew, Dennis, Nicola, and Noel Julian, for a parcel of land along Oxford’s Cove, down the Northwest branch of the Miramichi River, one dated 1830, unsigned, with no sale amount or buyer listed, and another copy of the same document with the buyer listed as Willard Broad, dated 1832, without original signatures and purchase price; two manuscript land deeds from Stanstead, Montreal dated 1805 and 1830; and three other printed land deeds from the same period and town; one manuscript receipt from Saint John’s, Newfoundland, 1765; another from Nova Scotia, 1783; and three printed receipts signed by Sir John Harvey, Viscount Falkland (Lucius Bentinck), and Sir John Gaspard Le Marchant. $1,200-1,500

13 Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia (1729-1796) Partially Printed Document, Signed. Single parchment sheet, printed with a military-themed engraved frame and Cyrillic letterpress text in the center, wax seal is missing, leaving red waxy residue, Moscow, 2 October 1775, 15 1/4 x 11 in., a military patent. $700-900

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14 Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia (1729-1796) Signed Document, 1791.

Single parchment sheet, with engraved border, letterpress text, and manuscript signatures, with Catherine’s wax seal on paper affixed to the lower left corner, a military appointment, in a double glazed frame, 11 1/2 x 17 in. overall. $500-700

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15 Charles I of England (1600-1649) Document Signed, 7 April 1636. Single paper sheet, framed, with old folds, seal missing, 12 x 16 1/2 in. To Sir Thomas Wentworth, first Earl Strafford, Lord Deputy of Ireland (1593-1641), countersigned by Sir John Coke (15631644), Secretary of State under Charles I, allowing Sir Gerrard Lowther, Chief Justice of the Irish Common Pleas (1589-1660) and Sir Richard Bolton, Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer (1570?-1648) to raise rents paid to the crown, and to advance the measure, the king describes a commission fee system to be awarded on the rent raisers: they are to be paid four shillings on the pound for every thousand pounds in yearly rent increases. $2,000-2,500

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16 China, Correspondence c. 1860: Ten letters total; seven sent from Newchwang, now called Yingkou, a major shipping port for Manchuria, two sent from Shanghai, and one sent from Paris; all addressed to Miss A.J. Knight of Lancaster and Boston, Massachusetts, called “Jennie” by the signer, Albert; written on blue and white stationery, some with holograph envelopes, stamps removed.

Albert provides some praise of the landscapes and humanity of his hosts, and some harsh generalizations. “All Chinese cities are dirty and full of bad odors.” He was in China on business, and intends to learn the language.

“It will only be necessary for me to acquire sufficient [Chinese language proficiency] for business purposes, so that when conversation is going on between our Comprador (a Chinaman who transacts business with Chinese, keeps run of the market and purchases according to order- such as all houses have) and a native merchant, I may detect the ‘pigeon’ (business) as well learn many important things going on about us.” $1,000-1,200 17 Churchill, Winston (1874-1965) Autograph Letter, Signed. November 30, 1949, one page, to Lytton Doolittle, of Providence, Rhode Island, thanking him for birthday wishes, one fold, in the original envelope, 7 1/2 x 4 3/4 in., on House of Commons stationery. $800-1,000 18 Civil War Documents: Archive of approximately thirty documents, including Confederate paroles and other printed and manuscript documents and letters pertaining to the war between the states, c. 1860. $600-800 19 Civil War Draft Notice Broadside, Rockingham, Vermont (1862). Single paper sheet, with old glue on the verso, 9 1/2 x 6 1/4 in.

The town of Rockingham was directed to draft thirteen men on September 10, 1862. In response, they organized a mass meeting for which this notice was devised. Their objective was “to see if the full quota of the town cannot be raised without drafting.” And the Selectmen asked that all businesses close at 9:00 am on the appointed day, “and let every man, woman and child devote the day to the service required.” $200-300

20 Civil War Photographs. Six images of soldiers mustering, assembled in outdoor groupings, and firing a large cannon from a fort, one showing a tent with log cabins, another taken at the regional camp in Georgetown, D.C., a portrait, and a winter scene on a New England town green, some faded, five framed, one mounted on card. $200-300 21 Civil War, Eben Jackson, Framed Photograph and Epaulettes. One sepia-tone image, mounted on period mat board, with an ink inscription on the mat, displayed under glass with Jackson’s Major’s epaulettes and a carved insignia, 23 x 17 in. overall.

Eben Jackson served as a Maryland volunteer from February, 1864 to March 1865. The photograph of Jackson and five other men, the operating staff of the Hospital of the Union Army of the Potomac, was taken at Hancock Station, in Petersburg, Virginia. The inscription also mentions the 1,500 wounded at the Burnside mine explosion who were treated by this group of surgeon soldiers on July 30, 1864, at the Hancock Station Hospital. $1,000-2,000 22 Clay, Henry (1777-1852) Autograph Letter Signed, 7 February 1836. Single paper bifolium, one page inscribed. To Elijah Hayward (1786-1864) agreeing with his views against the preemption system, and thanking him for sending a report. Old folds, slightly dusty, addressed and sealed on the verso, with Clay’s free frank, torn where Hayward opened the letter, 8 x 9 3/4 in. folded.

Henry Clay was violently opposed to preemption or Squatter’s Rights laws and fought against them in Congress for years.

These laws were designed to allow American citizens who had built upon or were otherwise occupying federally-owned land to which they held no title to purchase the land, and were written to facilitate the population of the “new states” Clay mentions in his letter. Feeling that the laws rewarded illegal acts, Clay repeatedly railed against them, to no avail. The Preemption Act of 1841 is credited with the settling of the Kansas and Nebraska Territories and the fulfillment of Manifest Destiny in North America. $1,500-1,800

23 Conrad, Joseph (1857-1924) Autographed Letter Signed, and Framed Portrait. January 26, 1917. One page, writing to fulfill a request for an autograph, “I only regret it is so ugly, but I am too old now to improve my handwriting,” on Capel House stationery, folds, paper slightly unevenly toned; with a framed dry point etched portrait of Conrad by Canadian artist Richard George Mathews (1870-1955) signed in pencil by the artist, framed without glass, surface of portrait soiled, 13 x 16 in. overall, neither examined out of frame. $300-400 24 Cowdin, Thomas (1754-1835) Document, Signed, Continental Army. Boston, October 26, 1779. Printed document with text added by hand, appointing Thomas Cowdin of Fitchburg as Captain in the Continental Army of Middlesex and Worcester Counties, framed and matted, with the seal of Massachusetts Bay, signed by Artemas Ward, Walter Spooner, Moses Gill, Jabez Fisher, Oliver Prescott, Aaron Wood, John Pitts, John Avery and others, folds with slight losses, toned, mounted on linen, 18 x 19 in. overall, not examined out of frame. $400-600 25 Davis, Jefferson (1808-1889) Autograph Letter Signed, Beauvoir, Mississippi, November 18, 1883. Single sheet in a doubleglazed frame, written in violet ink, slightly chipped, old folds, 5 x 8 in., addressed to J.C. Derby, an editor at Davis’s publisher, Appleton and Company, arguing about the delivery of a manuscript, referring to a case before the Supreme Court involving a “champion liar,” and asking Derby to keep his correspondence with Davis private and to “please leave me out of the newspapers.” $700-900 26 Declaration of Independence, Woodruff Broadside. New York: Phelps & Ensign, [c.

1841-1843]. Single-sheet engraving on paper, second issue, with portraits of Washington, Jefferson and Adams, and seals of the thirteen colonies in an oval oak wreath surmounted by the eagle, with facsimiles of the original signatures reproduced beneath the text of the Declaration, in a period oak frame, chipped; scattered toning, dampstaining in lower right corner, 27 1/2 x 20 1/2 in.

This broadside was the center of a copyright case in 1821. Woodruff’s image seemed to follow a pattern described by John Binns of Philadelphia in 1816, but was issued first.

Woodruff won the case; the court decided that Binns did not own the idea, and that it wouldn’t have been possible for Woodruff to copy an engraving that did not yet exist. The second issue is distinguished by the use of facsimile signatures, which replace the uniform engraved style used in the earlier version. $1,000-2,000

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27 Diplomatic Correspondence and Signed Photos: Large archive of material presented to General Charles Hitchcock Sherrill (1867-1936) including signed photographs of: Wyoming Governor and Senator Robert Davis Carey (1878-1937); Indiana Senator James Eli Watson (1864-1948); New York Senator Robert F. Wagner (1877-1953); South Dakota Governor and Senator Perter Norbeck (1870-1936); Connecticut Senator Frederic C. Walcott (1869-1949); Senator Carter Glass (1858-1946); a signed portrait of Paul von Hindenburg (1847-1934); signed photographs of Alexandre Millerand (1859-1943); Kaneko Kentaro (1853-1942); Miklos Horthy (18681957); Victorino de la Plaza (1840-1919); Kijuro Shidehara (1872-1951); Eduard Benes (1884-1948); Gustav of Sweden; Leopold of Belgian; and many others. $500-700

28 Document, West Roxbury, Massachusetts (1777). Two paper folio sheets, with text on three sides, both skillfully silked, with small corner losses neatly made up, 8 x 13 in.

On May 28, 1777, the second and third parishes of Roxbury petitioned the Massachusetts House of Representatives in an attempt to establish a separate town. The new town goes unnamed in this particular document, but a similar petition to the General Court from the same year asked that the new town be called Washington.

Neither body took any action, and the two parishes languished as an unhappy appendage to Roxbury, the inhabitants greatly inconvenienced by the distance to town meetings, until West Roxbury was finally incorporated in 1851. $1,200-1,500

29 Documents and Letters, American, Six, 1717-1813: Including a land deed from Lexington in 1717, signed by Samuel Gookin, Justice of the Peace, and members of the Winship family; two late 18th century letters written from Staten Island; an I.O.U. from 1784; a 1726 document concerned with a fornication case brought against Lydia Wyman of Woburn, Massachusetts, (“big with a bastard child”), with notes of two continuances on the verso, and a tally of the twelve guilty votes against her noted on the back; one letter from 1813 about some badtasting fish signed by J. Warren; and a title page removed from a book with his signature. $500-700

30 Documents on Parchment, Seven, 14871697: Including a French academic diploma from 1697; an English indenture from the time of James I; two from James II’s reign; two 15th and one early 16th century French documents, all on parchment, with old folds, occasional damage, largely good, two with seals, various sizes, shrink-wrapped on foamcore. $400-600 31 Documents on Parchment, Two, 1742 and 1866: Land deed with engraved portrait of George II enhanced with large surrounding calligraphic initial, with engraved borders and side pieces, ruled in red, with old folds and creases.

Together with: Royal letters patent on parchment from the reign of Queen Victoria, 1866, with engraved borders and text, names added by hand, with the queen’s 6 1/4-in. yellow wax seal attached by a braided cord, somewhat dented and chipped, the document with old creasing, and some discoloration. $300-500 32 Documents on Parchment, Two: Medici document, 7 August 1522, concerning arrangements for a wedding between Francisco Piccolomeo and his wife Catherine under Pope Adrian VI (1459-1523), old folds, small hole, 12 1/2 x 9 1/4 in., framed.

Together with: Indulgence, 1752, signed by Pope Benedict XIV (1675-1758), old folds, framed, 17 x 6 1/2 in. $700-900 33 Documents, Colonial American, Seven: Manuscript documents of various sizes, on laid paper, written by hand in brown ink, with old folds and spotting, generally good, mostly from Massachusetts.

Documents include a land deed, a freight receipt; a receipt for five years rent, Plymouth, Massachusetts, 1693; a memo cum summons for a married couple and a man charged with fornication, signed by Justice James Minot; a receipt for a debt paid in 1658; and a petition to the selectman of Watertown written by a man who feels he is too old and sick to be in prison. $2,000-3,000

34 Documents, English, 17th Century, Five: In various hands, including: verses that begin, “All in the King’s name, they did lately proclaim,” on the travesty of Charles II’s Proclamation for the Suppression of Coffee Houses in 1675; a transcription of John Cleveland’s “A Dialogue between Two Zealots”; a letter from Richard Kilvert, to Lawrence Squibb, May 1660, that mentions the king; an unpublished poem that begins, “Oh! Turne away these eies for feare they bran my tear and make my breast a warming pan” addressed to, “the soft and charming Frances”; and a twenty-five line practical verse called “Rules of Purchase,” including the advice, “First see the land which thou intendest to buy,” and other useful legal advice on the purchase of real estate. $300-500 35 Documents, English, Twelve: Various sizes, on paper and parchment, mostly 17th century, including a death certificate from 1606; a letter from 1674; four house inventories; and six other small documents. $1,000-1,500 36 Einstein, Albert (1879-1955) Signed Note.

Printed note with Einstein’s signature, dated 1952, originally sent to Ephraim Magarian, of Worcester, Massachusetts, from Einstein’s Mercer Street address in Princeton, New Jersey, with the original envelope and the canceled two-cent stamp, 5 x 3 1/4 in.

The printed text of the note reads as follows: “May I send you my warm thanks for your gracious message of congratulation on the occasion of my birthday. It was most thoughtful of you to remember me.” $300-500

37 Escher, Maurits Cornelis (1898-1972) Archive, Including Letters: Four autograph letters and notes signed, one typed letter signed, 1960s, and other associated ephemera. Four letters are addressed to Phylis Singer, author of Crystals and Crystal Growing, 1960, and were written by Escher in response to Singer sending a letter and a print in the spring of 1962. In his first letter to her, Escher includes a detailed critique of the wood- or lino-cut, and manages to maintain a warm and encouraging tone throughout.

The two notes are on Escher’s own cards, featuring his work. $3,000-4,000

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38 Fitch, John IV (1756-1807) Revolutionary War Letters and Family Archive: Five letters written during the American Revolution, 1772-1780, some stained, one held together with tape, all with old folds, but legible; with a packet of 19th century letters and other material from the Fitch family.

A letter dated November 20, 1776 contains an account of the British seizure of the American garrison at Fort Washington during the New York campaign. Fitch mentions Colonel Robert Magaw (1738-1790) and is quite explicit about Lambert Cadwalader’s (1742-1823) cowardice. “Colonel Magaw went with a party to the lower lines where he got wounded and then this party was taken prisoner.

Consequently, the command of the fort fell upon Colonel Cadwalader of Philadelphia who proved to be a rascal and acted coward as you will find. Immediately after Colonel Magaw and his party was cut off General Howe sent in a flag, a truce, demanding the fort and telling the commander that it was in vain to try to defend it for he must have it and would have it. With that, Colonel Cadwalader like a coward (as I told you before) delivered the fort into the hands of the enemy and presented themselves up prisoners of war.

General Washington was in the fort when the attack began and insisted upon staying but was forced into a boat and carried into Fort Lee. Had he stayed the fort must certainly have been ours, but it was too great a risk had he been taken. Where should we have got another Washington.”

Fitch’s letters are all addressed to his sister, Alice Fitch Marsh, who married Jonathan Marsh (b. 1754) in May, 1776. The Fitches lived in Windham, Connecticut. These letters descended through Alice’s female children. $3,000-5,000

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38A de Foleville, Jean, Mayor of Paris under Charles VI (1389-1401). Sealed parchment document, or vidimus, 1395, with old folds and some wrinkling, 11 x 13 1/2 in.

In this document, Jean is begging for tax money on behalf of “Charles the Mad” to fund the monarch’s extensive wars, including the Hundred Years’ War with England. Probably psychotic, the French king would sometimes claim that his name was George, or that he was made of glass, taking pains to protect himself against breakage. $300-500

39 George III, King of England (1738-1820) Signed Letter. One sheet, on paper, Palace of Saint James, 2 July 1765, text in German, covering front and back of the single sheet, folds, with slight toning, 8 x 12 in. $200-400 40 Godfrey, John Franklin (1839-1885) Civil War Archive: A collection of approximately forty original letters from the Maine resident and Union soldier, a framed period photograph of Godfrey with his men, a belt and buttons from his uniform, and The Civil War Letters of Captain John Franklin Godfrey, Portland Maine: Ascensius Press, 1993.

From the introduction: “[Godfrey] was a good observer and a frequent critic of military leaders. [...] [He] lived through, and participated in, some of the most exciting events in American history. His war letters, [...] even with the occasional missing word or portion offer lively testament.” $900-1,200

41 Grover Cleveland Administration, Autograph Album c. 1886. 19th century commercially produced album with padded covers, rounded corners, covered in sheepskin, 4 x 6 in., containing the signatures of Grover Cleveland; Mrs. Frances Folsom Cleveland; Chief Justice, Supreme Court, Morison Remick Waite; Speaker of the House John Griffin Carlisle; Senator John Sherman; Associate Justices of the Supreme Court, Samuel Freeman Miller, Horace Gray, Stanley Matthews, Joseph Philo Bradley, and Samuel Blatchford; U.S. Treasurer Conrad N. Jordan; Secretary of State Thomas F. Bayard; Tennessee Governor James D. Porter; Georgia Governor Alfred Holt Colquitt; actor Joseph Jefferson; President Theodore Roosevelt; and many others. $1,000-1,200 42 No lot.

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43 Hancock, John (1737-1793) Signed Document on Parchment. 8 November 1782. One page, on parchment, in brown and red ink, signed as Massachusetts Governor, appointing Joshua Wetherle Captain Lieutenant of the artillery company commanded by Robert Davis, with old folds and rodent damage, very faded, mounted and framed, Hancock’s signature legible, countersigned by Secretary of the Commonwealth, John Avery.

Joshua Wetherle operated a mint in Boston after the Revolution, producing the 1787 halfcent, and other copper coins. $300-500 44 Harding, Warren G. (1865-1923) Photograph of the Cabinet, Signed by Andrew Mellon (1855-1937). Black and white photo of the presidential cabinet members seated around a long rectangular table, with Harding at the head, mounted on original mat board, chipped, with Mellon’s signature in brown ink on the mat, inscribed to General Charles H Sherrill (1867-1936); 16 1/2 x 13 1/2 in. overall.

Harding’s cabinet included Charles Evans, Andrew Mellon, John Weeks, Harry Daugherty, William Hays, Hubert Work, Harry New, Edwin Denby, Albert Fall, Henry Wallace, Herbert Hoover, and James Davis. $400-600

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45 Harrison, William Henry (1773-1841) Autograph Letter Signed, 6 August 1813.

Single paper sheet, inscribed on one side, from Headquarters, North Sandusky, to Colonel John C. Bartlett, asking him to pay Colonel N. Travis as Issuing Commissary, during the War of 1812, in Harrison’s bold hand, evenly toned, 9 1/2 x 7 1/2 in. $1,200-1,500 46 Harrison, William Henry (1773-1841) Autograph Letter Signed, 12 August 1831.

Paper bifolium, inscribed on one page. To Elijah Hayward (1786-1864) asking for a favor in the case of two men while Hayward served as Commissioner of the General Land Office in the Andrew Jackson administration and Harrison lived as a private citizen in North Bend, Ohio. Old folds, addressed on the verso, 8 x 9 3/4 in. folded.

Hayward sat on the Ohio Supreme Court for a short time in 1830. Harrison addresses him as “Judge.”

I have a favor to beg of you, and that is that you could endeavor to save two honest men from ruin by extending to each of them that liberality in the adjustment of the claims which the government have upon them. [...] One of the gentlemen to whom I refer [...] was my Aide de Camp in the action of Tippecanoe. [...] [Referring to the other case,] It would be a horrible piece of injustice to make this honest foreigner the scapegoat to bear the burden which justly belongs to the shoulders of some of our own native citizens. [...] These gentlemen will explain their cases to you & if you can give them every aid it will greatly oblige your friend, W.H. Harrison. $1,500-1,800

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46A Harrison, William Henry (1773-1841) Autograph Letter Signed, 19 November 1832. Two bifolia inscribed over five pages.

To Secretary of the Treasury Louis McLane (1786-1857) while Harrison was a private citizen in North Bend, Ohio, attempting to resolve a debt owed by Harrison’s deceased son, John Cleves Symmes Harrison (17981830) to the U.S. Treasury Department, with reference to a report never made by General Land Commissioner Elijah Hayward, and a detailed description of Harrison’s property in Vincennes, Ohio, offered to secure the debt.

Age-toned, with old folds and some ink bleed, 8 x 9 3/4 in. $1,200-1,500 47 Henri IV, King of France (1553-1610) Document Signed. One page, on parchment, January 1594, small section trimmed away at the bottom edge, old folds, stained, writing in brown ink somewhat faded, royal signature quite faded, 12 1/2 x 9 in. An order to the treasurer to pay 1200 gold ecus. $700-900

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48 Horatio Nelson, First Viscount Nelson, First Duke Bronte (1758-1805) Autograph Letter, Signed, 4 March 1801, aboard the Saint George. Single page on paper. To Admiral Skeffington Lutwidge (1737-1814) most likely written just before the Battle of Copenhagen in the Baltic Sea, coordinating communications, nicely mounted and framed with a color portrait of Nelson, small glue stains in the upper corners of the letter, 16 1/2 x 24 in. overall.

Provenance: A prominent Cincinnati, Ohio, collector. $3,000-5,000

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49 Houston, Samuel (1793-1863) Autograph Letter, Signed, 1 November 1836.

Paper bifolium inscribed on two and a half pages. To Elijah Hayward (1786-1864) describing the current situation in Texas, and the recent elections, (Houston was elected President) and expressing Texas’s interest in joining the United States. Old folds, small stains, two holes, with the address and seal, and a New Orleans postmark on the verso, 9 3/4 x 7 3/4 in. folded. $2,000-3,000

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I have just received your letter of the 6th August, and it gives me much pleasure to know that although far removed from the most of my old friends in the United States, they still evince some interest in my own prosperity and an anxious solicitude for the success of the great cause of political and religious liberty in Texas.

The eyes of the world are upon us, and the events of the last twelve months have excited the generous sympathies of many patriots’ hearts.

We are an infant Republic just emerging from the political season, dark and gloomy have been our prospects, difficulties and dangers have attended on every side, but that gloom has in a great measure been dissipated, these difficulties and dangers have been gloriously surmounted, and the bright star of Texian [sic] independence is now moving rapidly onward to the mountain of its glory. It is indeed enough for one man to have been the leader of that noble band who achieved the ever memorable victory of San Jacinto [April 21, 1836], and under the influence of that feeling, I had determined to hold no office under the government other than that which I then held, and to retire from that as soon as the circumstances of my country would permit, to the powerful shade of private life, but the continued and increasing confidence of a grateful people has forced me from that determination, and by an almost unanimous voice called me to occupy the highest station within their gift. Placed in that peculiar position with regard to the other nations of the earth, many important duties must only devolve on me, some in the performance of which difficulties must be encountered, but relying with perfect confidence upon our ability to sustain the principles we have ordained I have reason to hope for the best results.

The people of Texas have shown through the ballot box at the late election that they are decidedly in favor of annexation to the United States, and it is a matter worthy to be made known throughout your country that with the exception of about forty votes, they are unanimous on that subject, and so nearly are as allied in feeling and interest and in a geographical point of view, and springing as we do from our common ancestry, it is all but accomplished, it cannot fail to produce the happiest consequences. I think much might be done to facilitate this grand object through the public press, should our friends in different parts of the Union take the matter in hand and urge its importance upon the people, particularly the people of these western states who are accustomed to look to New Orleans as the only market for their products, for even now, could it find its way here a portion by no means inconsiderable, of this surplus, would meet with a needy sale at infinitely better prices than can be obtained in any part of the United States.

Burnet is a poor dog, and I believe a very bad man, if not corrupt. [David G. Burnet (1788-1870) interim President of Texas] Major Ford is a clever sort of man and shall be provided for. [John Salmon “Rip� Ford (1815-1897)] Truly your friend, Sam Houston Write after to me!

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50 Illuminated Manuscript Leaves, Choral Music, Framed. Two separate parchment leaves, each in its own double-glazed frame, c. 1450-1500, music on four- and five-line staves, with words and music in red and black, each with a large decorated initial, not matted, parchment somewhat rumpled. $300-400

51 Illuminated Manuscript Leaves, Gregorian Chants, Framed. Two parchment leaves individually framed, c. 1450-1500, music on a four-line staff, with words and music in red and black, large initials in alternating blue and red, and each leaf with one multicolor initial highlighted in gold, with blue velvet mats and gilt frames, chipped, 18 x 14 in. each overall.

One leaf is taken up almost entirely with Alleluias, the other contains the beginning of the “Ego Sum Pastor” chant. $400-600

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52 Illuminated Manuscript Leaves. Three leaves removed from books: one 13th century small format Bible leaf, in a round gothic hand, two columns, in brown ink, with stylized birds in fine red and blue pen in the margins, torn and repaired with glassine tape, not visible from the other side, 6 3/4 x 4 3/4 in.; one leaf from a 15th century German book of hours, with four gilt, two-line initials with blue and pink decoration highlighted with white, chapter heads in red and blue, 6 3/4 x 4 1/2 in.; and one paper leaf from a text manuscript of a work by Thomas Aquinas, from the first quarter of the 15th century, watermarked, text in two columns, brown ink, with initials and chapter marks in red and black, 8 1/2 x 11 1/2 in. $300-500 53 Jamestown, New York. Hotel Register, Jamestown House (1862-1864). Folio, ruled in columns throughout, filled with ink and pencil signatures of hotel guests, bound in half leather with cloth boards, binding worn.

Thousands of inscriptions fill this album.

Horace Greeley’s signature appears twice.

There are entries for Brian’s Circus from Philadelphia; Hart and Simmons’ Minstrels, Gardner and Hemming’s American Circus; the Sixty-eighth Regiment Band; the Ninth New York Cavalry; W.J. Chappelle, a press agent for a troupe of performing Indians, and the names of the performers, many more await discovery. $700-900

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54 Jefferson, Thomas (1743-1826) Letter Signed as Secretary of State under Washington, 22 February 1791. Paper bifolium inscribed on one page. To Josiah Bartlett (1729-1795), President of New Hampshire, informing him that Vermont will be admitted to the Union (as the fourteenth colony to become a state) and providing copies of other acts passed at the first session of Congress.

The body of the letter is in a secretarial hand, with Jefferson’s signature below; old folds, paper toned, one margin extended, 8 3/4 x 7 1/2 in., folded, without the extension.

I have the honor to send you herein enclosed two copies, duly authenticated, of an Act for the admission of the State of Vermont into this Union; also of an Act to continue in force for a limited time, an Act passed at the first Session of Congress intituled “An Act to regulate processes in the Courts of the United States”; also of a Resolved directing in what manner new Editions of the Laws, Resolutions and Treaties of the United States shall be authenticated; and of being with sentiments of the most perfect respect, your Excellency’s most obedient and most humble servant, Thomas Jefferson $5,000-7,000

55 Johnson, Lyndon Baines (1908-1973) Signed Photograph. Black and white photograph, framed, whose central focus is the back of LBJ’s wicker rocking chair, only one foot of the President if visible between the legs of the chair, three pensive men surround him, all of whom have signed; Houston entrepreneur and philanthropist George Rufus Brown (1898-1983) sits to Johnson’s right, “Dr.” Frank Stanton (1908-2006), President of CBS from 1946 to 1973, the third man is unidentified; Johnson’s signature in blue ink directly below the chair, 10 1/2 x 13 1/2 in. $600-800 56 Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor (1678-1711) Signed Letter. One paper bifolium with royal seal on the verso, text of letter on the outside recto, Vienna, 14 February 1699, folds, stain from seal, 8 x 12 in.

At the time this letter was written, Joseph was nineteen years old. He writes to the Dominican master-general, Father Antoninus Cloche, in Rome, to announce his marriage to Wilhelmine Amalia of Brunswick-Luneburg, also of Vienna (1673-1742). $200-400

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57 Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor (17411790) Signed Letter. One paper bifolium with text in German on the recto and verso of the first leaf, and the address and red wax seal, cracked, missing two small chips, on the verso of the second, 13 1/2 x 8 1/2 in., 17 November 1788, addressed to Friedrich Karl Joseph von Erthal (1719-1802), prince-elector and archbishop of Mainz. $500-700 58 Kennedy, Edward M. (1932-2010): Archive of autograph material and associated ephemera, comprising approximately sixty letters and cards in a binder, two signed copies of Kennedy’s books, Decisions for a Decade and Our Day and Generation, and a signed photograph, all given to Lewis Weinstein. $800-1,200

59 Kennedy, Jacqueline (1929-1994). Typed letter on Mrs. Kennedy’s black-edged mourning stationery signed by her Secretary, Nancy Tuckerman, a mass card for John F. Kennedy, and post-marked envelope, March 30, 1964. To Alice J. McLaughlin. $200-300

60 Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963) Typed Letter Signed, 14 June 1954. One sheet of United States Senate letterhead. To Ann Kenney of New Bedford, Massachusetts, assuring his assistance in an unnamed matter, old folds, 8 x 10 1/2 in. $500-700

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61 Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963) Typed Letter Signed, 25 June 1954. One sheet of United States Senate letterhead. To Ann Kenney of New Bedford, Massachusetts, regretting his inability to be of further help, mentioning an enclosure from the Veteran’s Administration, old folds, 8 x 10 1/2 in. $500-700 62 Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963) Typed Letter Signed, April 4, 1961. One single-sided sheet, framed, typed on White House stationery. To Francis A. McLaughlin, an old friend of Kennedy’s grandfather in East Boston, thanking him for complimenting the President’s inaugural address, some slight discoloration to the paper, 6 1/2 x 8 1/2 in.

“Dear Mr. McLaughlin: Many thanks for your heart-warming letter. Your commendation of my Inaugural address is especially gratifying to me because it comes from you -- a Lieutenant of Grandfather Kennedy 60 years ago in East Boston. I hope my future record will sustain the confidence you express.

Every good wish to you and to your nephew, Charles McLaughlin!” $1,000-1,500

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63 Kennedy, Robert Francis (1925-1968) Photograph Signed. Black and white group shot, with Kennedy at the center, flanked by five other standing suited men, about to shake hands with one of his neighbors, signed in ballpoint pen in the lower right hand corner, “To Bob Greene, with best wishes, Robert Kennedy,” with stamp of Sleepy Hollow Studio, Elmsford, New York, on the back, 8 x 10 in. $500-700 64 Land Deed, New England, 1694. Single folio sheet, documenting the sale of a parcel of land by Ephraim Bullen (1653-1694) of Sherborn, Massachusetts, to Abraham Cossens, signed and sealed by Bullen; other contemporary signatures include Nathaniel Morse, John Holbrook, Jonathan Fairbank, and finally Francis Foxcroft (1694-1768), when the deed was registered in Cambridge on 28 March 1728, old folds, generally clean and legible, framed, 12 x 15 1/2 in. $300-500

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65 Leopold I, Emperor (1640-1705) Document Signed, Partially Printed. Paper, trimmed from a larger piece, with the printed text, “schen im Ersten: dess Hungarischen im Vierdten,” and Leopold’s signature, one small corner torn away, mounted, 4 x 5 in. $300-500 66 Lewis, Clive Staples (1898-1963) Two Letters Signed. One page each, 23 February 1952, and 20 November 1953, with holograph envelopes. Both addressed to W.W. Jackson of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, discussing philosophical matters, and how Jackson should determine whether he has a “calling” to become a priest or not; folded, one on Magdalen College, Oxford letterhead, envelopes with stamps and postmarks.

“Yes, intolerance is the devil and all! But as you are aware of the danger, you are in a position to resist it.” $600-800

67 Lincoln Assassination, Letters. Two single page manuscript letters dated 23 and 24 April 1865, from Mrs. Greenleaf, of New Sharon, Maine, addressed to “Absent Husband and Father,” describing, in a folksy style, the recent assassination of Abraham Lincoln, with old folds, 7 1/2 x 9 3/4 in.

“Our pesdant is dead he hed branes blonn out he shot in the theater right bside his wife. […]

The fellow that shot him we have not got him yet his name was Booth that use to bee one of te play acters of the theater.” $600-800

69 Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865) Signed Document, 15 September 1864. Printed land grant, single sheet, on paper, completed in manuscript, granting 160 acres of land to Jehiel Jones for his service in the Vermont Militia during the War of 1812, with official wax seal under paper, framed, old folds, 16 x 10 in. $4,000-6,000

68 Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865) Clipped Signature. In brown ink on laid paper, “Yours truly, A. Lincoln,” 1 x 2 1/4 in., matted and framed, 8 1/2 x 10 3/4 in. overall. $2,000-3,000

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70 Literary Signatures, Ten Assorted Pieces: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) two autograph letters signed, declining to read a poem in public and inviting a Miss May to dinner, both 1881; Zane Grey (18751939) signed portrait photograph, thumbtack hole in top margin, 3 1/2 x 5 3/4 in.; James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) autograph letter signed from Elmwood, Cambridge, 1890; Mary Mapes Dodge (1831-1905) author of Hans Brinker, autograph letter signed, referring to Frank R. Stockton (1834-1902) and Mary Virginia Terhune (1830-1922) and Lucia Runkle, all contributors to Dodge’s literary magazines circa 1870; Edward William Bok (1863-1930) coiner of the term, “living room,” signed note with inspirational slogan on his Philadelphia letterhead, 1929, 4 x 6 in.; Charles Hughes, autographed card; Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb (1876-1944) humorist and columnist, autographed card; Donald Baxter MacMillan (1874-1970) Arctic explorer, autographed card, 1931; and a 1952 Fraternal Order of Eagles receipt. $800-1,200

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71 Louis XII, King of France (1462-1515) Document Signed. One page, parchment, signed and dated, Bourges, 14 March 1507, an order to pay 800 “livres tournois,” the currency of the time, to the notary Jean de la Puc; 1 1/2 x 5 1/2-in. piece trimmed away at the foot, not affecting the King’s signature or the text of the document, 9 x 13 1/4 in. $600-800 72 Louis XIII, King of France (1601-1643) Document Signed. One page, parchment, signed and dated, 25 July 1621, an order of the Parlement in Rouen, with the determination that Louis XIII’s lifelong friend, Charles II of Lorraine, Duke of Elbeuf (15961657) should be in charge in the King’s absence. $500-700

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73 Louis XIV, King of France (1638-1715) Document Signed. One page, on paper, Chateau de Marly, 31 July 1715, countersigned by Jean-Baptiste Colbert (1619-1683), a little dusty, a few wormholes, some closed tears, hand is clear, with a bright overall appearance, 9 1/2 x 14 in.

This letter may be addressed to Antonio de Giudice, Duke of Giovinazzo, prince of Cellamare, addressed in the letter as “Monsieur de Camore,” who was Spanish ambassador to France in 1715. In the wake of Louis XIV’s death in September, 1715, Cellamare attempted to overthrow the rule of Philippe II, Duke of Orleans, who cared for Louis XIV’s five year old son and controlled France during this period. This letter refers to Brittany, and specifically the town of SaintBrieuc, which Louis calls “ma ville.” Relations were strained between France and Brittany in this period. French wars were funded by hefty taxes, and the Bretons were ready to revolt.

In this letter, Louis refers to an upcoming visit to Saint-Brieuc in October, but by September Sun King was dead, struck down by gangrene. $500-700

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74 Louis XV, King of France (1710-1774) Document Signed. One page, on paper, Versailles, 9 October 1757, foxed at the top of the page, and lightly along the bottom outside edge, 8 x 12 1/2 in. Announcing the birth of the future King of France, Charles X (17571836), with an engraved portrait of Louis X. $300-500

75 Louis XVI, King of France (1754-1793) Partially Printed Document Signed. One page, on paper, Versailles, 4 March 1777, signed, the text of the letter written by hand, with “Tres-Saint Pere,” printed in the upper left corner, and “Votre devot Fils le Roi de France et de Navarre” printed in the lower right, folds, small water stains, 11 1/4 x 15 1/2 in. Addressed to Pope Pius VI (1717-1799) written on special pre-addressed stationery printed exclusively for writing letters to the Pope. $800-1,200

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76 Louis XVIII, King of France (1755-1824) Document Signed. One paper bifolium, Paris, 10 March 1824, countersigned by Chateaubriand, with impressed marks left by a seal, no longer present, 8 x 12 1/2 in.

After surviving the French Revolution, a convoluted line of succession, and Napoleon (twice), Louis L’Inevitable succumbed to obesity, gout, and gangrene in September 1824. $250-350 77 Mairs, James (fl. circa 1840) Two Manuscript Notebooks. Octavo-size paper covered notebooks with notes on sermons, some wear and tear, 4 1/4 x 6 1/2 in. $200-300

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78 Man Ray Archive, Paper Ephemera: Original printed document, filled out in the artist’s hand, Certificate of Naturalization granted to Max Radnitsky [aka Man Ray] by the U.S. government on July 28, 1921, signed, torn, taped on the verso, 10 1/2 x 10 in.; To Be Continued Unnoticed, 1948, an incomplete possible proof copy, with text pages 5-10 missing, numbered zero on the limitation page, 9 x 12 in.; two printed pamphlets advertising exhibitions, New York, 1936, and Paris, 1956; the catalog for the Paris exhibition of 1972, inscribed by Man Ray, “to Dora with love,” with his signature, and that of his wife Julie, dated Paris, Jan. 7, 1972, with old tape discoloration to endleaves; and a copy of The Little Review, Autumn and Winter, 1923-24, with three Rayographs, and work by Eluard, Tzara, Mina Loy, Leger, Crevel, and others. $600-800

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79 Manuscript Document, Legal Charge of Buggery, 1739. Single leaf, on laid paper, 8 x 8 in., in two distinct hands, small hole with loss.

A synopsis of the charge with special interest to the lateness of the prosecution, followed by a legal opinion on the matter in the hand of the defendant’s attorney, Simon Urluis. $200-300

80 Marconi, Guglielmo (1874-1937) Letter and Photograph, Signed. Typed letter, 20 April 1933, one page. To General Charles H. Sherrill, offering the signed photograph, and thanking him for the invitation to visit in Paris; signed as President of the Reale Accademia d’Italia in Rome on their letterhead, small rust spot from paper clip at top, 8 1/2 x 6 1/2 in.

Together with: a fine black and white photographic portrait of Marconi seated, in profile, holding his hat in his lap, with his inscription to Sherrill and signature, also dated 20 April 1933, mounted on mat board, signed by the photographer in pencil, and protected with spider web patterned glassine, 11 x 16 in. overall. $500-700

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81 Marine Archive of Captain Joseph Tirrell, Weymouth, Massachusetts: Printed documents: An Act for the Government and Regulation of Seamen in the Merchants’ Service, [completed in ink in 1810], old folds, browned, with dark stains and loss, 18 1/2 x 15 in.; certificate of insurance by the Newport Insurance Company, 1804, old folds, otherwise clean, 19 x 15 1/2 in.; Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Naval Office, Port of Boston, permission to depart, schooner Weymouth, 13 June 1785, with cargo of pickled fish, whale oil, cloth and leather shoes, barbery wax, blubber, cask nails, wool, buckets, seal leather, and chocolate; signed by Thomas Melville, 12 x 7 1/2 in.; Permission to leave Boston and Charlestown, 3 January 1807, certifying lack of weapons; two seamen’s discharges, 1806, Lisbon; legal claim against Nathaniel Bond, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, 1811; and Massachusetts census with town populations, 1833.

Manuscript documents: parchment document, issued under George III, releasing Tirrell’s ship, the Commerce, and its cargo from British, 13 September 1805; and nine other manuscript documents on paper, detailing various detentions and releases of Captain Tirrell and his ships the Weymouth and the Commerce;

by Russian privateers on Corfu, by the Italians, the Dutch, and the attendant protests, passports, and permissions, 1805-1807. $3,000-5,000

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82 McLaughlin, Francis A. (1881-1961) Unshattered Rock, and associated letters.

New York: Comet Press Books, [1956].

First edition, with dust jacket, the author’s copy with notes in his hand and an added photograph, title page taped, binding coming detached.

Together with: a typed letter signed by the Pope’s secretary, January 30, 1960; four typed letters signed by the Archbishop of Boston, Richard Cardinal Cushing, 19551961; a printed announcement of the masses offered after McLaughlin’s death, signed by Cardinal Cushing, 1961; and a laminated copy of the press release that accompanied the publication of Unshattered Rock. $150-250

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83 McLaughlin, Francis A. (1881-1961) Diaries, Four Bound Volumes (c. 19291961). Four commercially produced diaries with manuscript notes in McLaughlin’s hand, recording daily activities during the active phase of his political career, recollections of his early years, and notes made during his retirement.

McLaughlin was an important Boston political operative in the Democratic party. Originally from East Boston, his boyhood friendship with Joseph P. Kennedy (1888-1969) and other powerful figures in the Democratic and Irish Catholic communities prompted a lifelong career behind the scenes in Boston politics.

His unpublished diaries contain the myriad insights and privileged details accessible only to a key insider. $1,000-1,200

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84 Native American Land Deed, 4 December 1707, Signed by Mohegan Chief Owaneco.

Single laid-paper leaf. An agreement stating that John Mason of Stonington, Connecticut and Owaneco received four pounds from Samuel Palmer of Windham, purchase price for two hundred and ten acres of land in Windham; signed by Owaneco, with his turkey pictograph, witnessed by John Mason, Jonathan Tracy, and Joseph Fitch; with two small wax seals for Mason and Owaneco, Mason’s mostly flaked away; short inscription on verso, old folds, paper evenly toned, one tear along a fold, tacked to mat board at one small spot only, framed, 7 3/4 x 7 1/4 in.

The Mohegan Indians were made wards of John Mason by the courts when an earlier dispute over a land sale produced a series of suits. The Mohegans alleged that the sale for the town of Preston, Connecticut, signed by Owaneco in 1687, was illegal because he was intoxicated when he signed the documents. $1,000-1,500

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85 New Hampshire Militia, Two Orderly Books, 1840-50s. One in contemporary boards with a printed label on the front board, 93 pages, and another, approximately thirty-two pages, disbound, 12 1/2 x 7 3/4 in. $300-500 86 Newburyport, Massachusetts (1784) Warrant for Town Meeting. One paper folio sheet, with writing on both sides, signed by the Selectmen of Newburyport: Hodge, Coats, Coombs, Bartlett, and Wigglesworth, old folds, some ink transfer, 8 x 13 in.

This notice of May 17, 1784 concerns an impending town meeting planned for August 17 of the same year. It mentions the election of a representative in the General Court and a town moderator and four other agenda items, including a plan for the poor, the construction of a work house, a possible real estate dispute, and whether any action should be taken because Ebenezer Morrison built his ceramics building (“pot house”) on the town’s land, and whether the town should continue to allow him to dig clay near the burying ground. $1,200-1,500

87 Nicholas I, Tsar of Russia (1796-1855) Gramota [Grant of Nobility and Arms].

Folio, illuminated manuscript on parchment, c. 1840, signed on the final leaf by Nicholas I, eight pages, with text, arms, and embellishments highlighted in gold throughout, all text pages interleaved with ivory watered silk sheets, in the original green blind-tooled velvet portfolio with a large brass seal case held to the portfolio with a cord and decorated with gold tassels. $800-1,200 88 Paper Ephemera, Approximately Thirtyfive Maritime Letters and Documents, One Framed: Assorted papers, printed and in manuscript, mostly 19th century, related to whaling, steamboats, tow boats, shipping, title and insurance documents, insurance, with other miscellaneous paper of the same era. $300-500

89 Pawtuxet Rangers, Period Copy, Founding Charter (1774). Bifolium, folded, with some breaks along old folds and archival tape repairs, some chips, spots, and ink burns, in a legible hand, 12 3/4 x 7 3/4 in.

This secretarial copy of the original charter establishing the Pawtuxet Rangers, an independent militia for the colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, is written in an 18th century hand on period laid paper.

The copy is attested by John Waterman Junior, who signs as Clerk. This may be the same Waterman (d. 1812) who served as a colonel in the Rhode Island militia in 1776 and 1777. On the eve of the American Revolution, colonial militias like the Pawtuxet Rangers were established all over New England.

Royalist governors and George III approved the formation of these groups, unaware that they were ratifying a power that would assure their own destruction. $3,000-5,000

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90 Pepys, Samuel (1633-1703) Manuscript Receipt Signed, 20 May 1669.

Single sheet, on paper, also signed by John Minnes and T. Middleton concerning the sale of rags, provisions, and “old lead”; framed, old folds, not examined out of frame, signed by Pepys in the lower right corner, 11 1/2 x 16 in.

May 20, 1669 was a Thursday Pepys mentions working with Minnes and Middleton in his offices, saying they did “a great deal of business, and so my eyes might weary, and my head full of care how to get my accounts and business settled against my journey.” $1,400-1,600

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91 Perry, Mehitabel (1705-1797) Archive of Personal and Legal Papers: Collection of letters, promissory notes, inventories, land deeds, et cetera, c. 1705-1800. This collection is centered around Mehitabel Perry, nee Leonard, widow of John Willis, who married Captain Nathaniel Perry (1713-1756) in 1736. Land deeds of her father, Samuel Leonard, are included here, notes related to her first husband, and further material from the time of her marriage to Nathaniel Perry and beyond. Highlights of the archive include a letter by Perry written home from Nova Scotia in 1755, where he served during the French and Indian War (Perry died the following year on deployment in Canada, and so never returned home); a receipt from the purchase of a gun and bayonet from 1758; a complaint from colonial soldiers from 1776, during the American Revolution, addressed to Major General Sullivan asking for recompense for lost clothing; a receipt from 1753 for “blubber oil” bought in Nantucket; a receipt for payment to Perry’s troops in the French and Indian War, dated 1755, including “bounty money, 113 men” presumably for Indian scalps; land deeds for Easton, Taunton, and Stoughton, Massachusetts; and other assorted material. $2,000-3,000

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92 Polk, James K. (1795-1849) Autograph Letter Signed, 1 February 1834.

Single sheet, wove, watermarked paper, inscribed on one side. To Elijah Hayward (1786-1864), while Commissioner of the General Land Office, and while Polk served as Chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means, complaining about an unexplained $10,000 budget item; with an added note in Hayward’s hand. Formerly folded, one original ink smudge, minor marginal spots, 7 3/4 x 9 3/4 in. $1,000-1,500 93 Rockefeller, John D. (1839-1937) Typed Letter Signed, 4 December 1922.

Single page, the blank bottom of the page torn away. To General Charles Sherrill (18671936), thanking him for sending a copy of a letter Sherrill recently wrote to Secretary of State (under Harding) Charles Evans Hughes (1862-1948). $400-600

94 Rodin, Auguste (1840-1917) Portrait and Two Signatures. Framed portrait of Rodin, resting his knuckles on a book, mounted on a sheet with a short phrase and Rodin’s signature beneath, a small card inscribed

by Rodin, “avec joie en souvenir” and his signature, not examined out of frame, 8 1/2 x 14 in. overall. $200-300 95 Roland de la Platiere, Madame MarieJeanne (1754-1793) Autograph Letter, Unsigned, c. 1791. One leaf, recipient unnamed, on blue paper, a single page from the middle of a letter, with no addressee and no signature, 5 3/4 x 7 in.

Madame Roland, vocal and articulate supporter of the French Revolution, was executed because of her unwillingness to compromise her political ideals. $300-500 96 Roosevelt, Franklin Delano (1882-1945) Signed Typewritten Speech, 1936.

Roosevelt’s acceptance of the Democratic nomination for President of the United States, delivered at the Democratic National Convention, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, June, 27th, 1936; five pages, with approximately sixteen corrections to the text, and one redacted sentence, all in blue pencil, stapled at the top edge, with tape remnants, and an added strip of paper reinforcing the stapled area on the blank verso of the last sheet, 8 x 14 in.

Roosevelt closes with the following dramatic statement, typed in all caps at the end of the speech, on the fifth page, “I accept the commission you have tendered me I join with you. I am enlisted for the duration of the war,” followed by a bold signature in blue ink. $3,000-5,000 97 Roosevelt, Franklin Delano (1882-1945) Typed Letter Signed, 2 November 1933.

Single page, on White House stationery. To General Charles Sherrill, thanking him for his service as Ambassador to Turkey, one fold, 7 x 8 3/4 in. $200-400 98 Roosevelt, Franklin Delano (1882-1945) Typed Letter, Signed, Washington, D.C., 21 June 1916. One page, to Frederic L. Woods, Executive Secretary, National Security League, denying the loan of a naval defense mine, a colt machine gun, and a complete set of code signal flags for an exhibition, signed as Secretary of the Navy, matted and framed with a portrait of Roosevelt, 14 1/2 x 17 in. overall. $600-800

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99 Rouault, Georges (1878-1958) Miserere.

Pencil mock-up for title page; 20 x 25 in., on brown paper; point sizes are noted at the end of each line, typeface described as, “Initiales dix-huitieme siecle, catalogue Bernard Freres.”

A remnant of Vollard’s ill-fated publication of Rouault’s prints, this sheet dates from 1940, when Andre Suares was planning to contribute accompanying poems. Ultimately, Suares withdrew from the project, and the prints were published by Etoile in 1948. $200-300 100 Sewall, Stephen Sr. (c. 1657-1725) Land Deed Signed, 18 December 1712.

Folio bifolium, inscribed on one page.

Between Nicholas Wallingford and Caleb Hopkinson of Bradford, Massachusetts, old folds, 15 x 12 in.

Stephen Sewall Sr. was the clerk of court during the Salem witchcraft trials. He was born in England and brought to the colonies with his family when a toddler. A resident of Salem, he also served as Justice of the Peace, Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas, and Major of the Militia, when he fought in the French and Indian Wars. $500-700

101 Taft, William Howard (1857-1930) Typed Letter Signed, 8 May 1909. Single page on White House stationery. To General Charles Sherrill, introducing Dr. T.H. Pardo de Tavera.

Old folds, trimmed at foot.

Together with: Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933) Typed Letter Signed, 21 January 1925, on White House stationery, to General Sherrill, thanking him for giving Taft an honorary L.L.D. at New York University; one fold, one spot. $200-300

102 The First Great Western Empire: or The United States of America, Broadside.

Albany: Jonathan Clark, June 1812.

Single sheet, printed in red and black, by means of typographical ornaments, type, and wood engravings, including portraits of Washington, Adams, Jefferson, and Madison; framed, likely mounted, with a contained stress tear; evenly toned, with one spot in the bottom right corner; not examined out of frame, 22 x 17 1/2 in.

Although this broadside is labeled “eighth edition” in the top left corner, earlier editions have failed to present themselves. $1,000-1,200

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103 Tryon, Thomas (1634-1703) The Planter’s Speech to His Neighbors and Countrymen of Pennsylvania, East and West Jersey, and to all such as have transported themselves into new colonies for the sake of a quiet retired life. To which is added the complaints of our supra-inferior inhabitants. Manuscript copy, c. 1780.

Quarto, 23 leaves, including two final blanks, written on laid paper with a fleur-de-lis watermark, ruled in red throughout, disbound, chipping, dusty, title page torn and taped with some loss at the head.

This work was originally printed in 1684, and this copy was made from that edition. “What comparison is there to be made between a twelve penny wheat loaf and a pint of brandy, rum, or wine?” $700-900

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104 Twain, Mark (1835-1910) Autograph Letter Signed, Elmira, New York, 20 June [c.

1874]. Single paper bifolium; Farmington Avenue, Hartford stationery, with the address and Clemens’s monogram printed in red; inscribed on two pages. To an unnamed publishing firm or bookseller, asking them to hold some books for him. Old folds, clean, in a bold blackish brown ink, 7 x 9 in. unfolded.

“Gentlemen: Yes, I want them, but please lay them by for me, if it isn’t too much trouble, for I am here summering till August, & if I keep accumulating books here I’ll have too much luggage, shortly. I don’t like to stow them in our new dwelling at Hartford, because it is full of builders and plumbers, yet, & they’re a whoreson lot to thin out literature, as Shakespeare would say.

If this vol. 1 of The Chancellors [The Lives of the Lord Chancellors by John Lord Campbell] has been sent through Brown & Gross [a stationery store on Asylum Street in Hartford] for me (as the bill seems to say,) all right-- they will pay for it & collect from me. I keep an account there. Yours truly, S. L. Clemens” $1,200-1,500

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105 Twain, Mark (1835-1910) Menu. Monthly Suppers of the Male Teachers of New York at Hotel Albert. March 16, 1901. Cover signed “Mark Twain” in pencil, tied with blue silk ribbon; inner bifolium with membership information and dinner menu, theme for the night, Training of the Citizen, Clemens’s talk entitled, “Training that Pays”; with a mimeographed sheet of the Schoolmasters’ Club’s balance sheet for 1901 inserted, 3 3/4 x 6 in. $400-600 106 Tyler, John (1790-1862) Signed Document.

Washington, D.C., March 10, 1842. Engraved document completed in ink by hand appointing F.M. Dimond of Rhode Island American Consul to Vera Cruz, Mexico, signed

by Tyler as President, countersigned by Daniel Webster as Secretary of State, vellum, with two seals, folds, signatures slightly faded, 12 x 17 in.

Dimond’s correspondence with Tyler was critical during the Mexican-American War (1846-1848). $800-1,200

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107 Van Buren, Martin (1782-1862) Autograph Letter Signed, London, 8 December 1831.

Bifolium, laid, watermarked paper, two and a half pages inscribed. To Elijah Hayward (17861864) as Commissioner of the General Land Office while Van Buren served as U.S. Minister to the United Kingdom, both under Andrew Jackson, recommending a book, and sharing good will. Clean, with old folds, 7 3/4 x 9 3/4 in. folded. $400-600

108 Wallenstein, Albrecht von (1583-1634) Signed Letter. One paper bifolium, letter written in German on the recto and verso of the first leaf, continuing onto the recto of the second leaf, with wax seal with Wallenstein’s Mecklenburg arms struck through paper, and the address on the verso, 20 July 1629. $2,000-3,000

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109 Washington, George (1732-1799) Signed Invitation, c. 1783. Single-sided card. To John Van Horne (1743-1820), inviting Van Horne, his wife, sister-in-law, and a child to a family dinner; evenly toned, with some ink smudges, 2 3/4 x 4 5/8 in.

“Gen[eral] Washington presents his complim[ents] to Mr. & Mrs. Van Horne-- Miss Herd [Heard] and the little Gentleman [*] with them & requests the favor of their company at a family dinner with him tomorrow at 3 o’clock.-Monday.” Asterisk and notation added in another hand [*John Taylor Bainbridge]

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John Van Horne inherited thousands of acres of land in Rocky Hill, New Jersey, Somerset County. He married General Nathaniel Heard’s daughter on January 8, 1776 in New York.

General Heard served with distinction in many important battles under General Washington.

Heard had three sons and four daughters. The “Miss He[a]rd” referred to by Washington in the invitation is therefore most likely Mrs. Van Horne’s sister.

The “little gentleman,” John Taylor Bainbridge (b. circa 1778) was the youngest son of Absalom Bainbridge (1741-1807) and Mary Taylor Bainbridge (b. circa 1744). Absalom was a military surgeon for the British army during the Revolution and was convicted of high treason. He fled the U.S. for England in 1783. His wife stayed behind because she was ill. He did eventually return, dying in the States in 1807. J.T.’s oldest brother, William Bainbridge (1774-1833) fought famously in the navy in the War of 1812.

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George Washington sat for the teenage artist William Dunlap in 1783 at his headquarters in Somerset County, New Jersey. Dunlap’s pastel portrait of the President is amateurish, but still extant, hanging at the Office of the United States Senate Curator. The portrait was owned by the Van Horne family for more than 150 years. The Van Hornes introduced Dunlap, who was staying at Rocky Hill, their home in Somerset New Jersey, to General Washington. At that time Washington’s headquarters was near the Van Horne home, and he was known to have socialized with them during this period. The Dunlap portrait itself is proof of that, and also helps to date this invitation. J.T. Bainbridge would have been five at about this time, and recently abandoned by his Tory father. $8,000-12,000

110 Webster, Daniel (1782-1852) Autograph Letter Signed, 24 April 1845. Paper bifolium, one and a half pages inscribed. To John Taylor junior, of Franklin, New Hampshire, asking him to cut firewood. On light blue paper, with the original enveloped, with Webster’s free frank, letter with old folds and some minor discoloration, 5 x 7 3/4 in. folded. $250-350 111 Whaling Archive, Twenty Documents and Nine Photographs: Receipts and documents for supplies and whale oil, some printed, most from ships out of New Bedford, and several photographs of the Greyhound, 19th to 20th centuries. $300-400 112 Whitman, Walt (1819-1892) Two Clipped Signatures. Double-glazed frame with a return address clipped from an envelope in Whitman’s hand from his home address: 328 Mickle Street, Camden, New Jersey; and an engraved card from the Westminster Hotel in New York with Whitman’s signature and the engraved message, “At home on Thursday evening, April 15th, 1887,” 10 1/4 x 11 1/2 in. overall, not examined out of frame. $500-700

113 Wilder, Thornton (1897-1975) Autograph Letter Signed, 30 December 1927. Single page. To General Charles Sherrill, on his Davis House, Lawrenceville, New Jersey letterhead, thanking him for a clipping, mentioning return from a recent trip to Cuba and dinner that night with American Heavyweight boxing Champion Gene Tunney (1897-1978); one fold, 6 x 7 in. $200-400 114 Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924) Typed Letter Signed, 5 July 1915. Double-paged White House stationery, with writing on one page.

To Abram Elkus (1867-1947), acknowledging, with regret, Elkus’s demur of the Wilson’s offer to represent the government at the Panama Exposition, old folds, with typed White House stationery envelope, a copy of Elkus’s original letter to Wilson, and a Christmas card from Elkus.

In 1916, Wilson appointed Elkus to serve as Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire. $300-500

115 Wingate, Catherine (1858-1946) Scrapbook (1913-1939). Landscape format folio album, made in Sudan with the Khartoum bookbinder’s ticket pasted inside the back board, containing material collected in Egypt and Sudan in the nineteen-teens; including calling cards; invitations; Christmas cards; signed regimental cards; three original watercolors of the pyramids and other desert scenes, menus; diplomatic signatures; a series of ten photos taken of Marc Pourpe’s arrival in Khartoum (from Cairo) by airplane on 12 January 1914, with an especially striking one taken as the plane nears the beach, inscribed and signed by Pourpe; programs of the Khartoum Racing Club; large photograph of the winning horse (Abu Gnoob), jockey, owners (Captain John Kennedy and Ronald Hadow), and cup, signed; personal letters, and other signatures.

Catherine Wingate married Reginald Wingate, an officer in the Royal Artillery. She kept this scrapbook while her husband was serving as Governor-General of the Sudan, and Sirdar of the Egyptian Army. Between 1917 and 1919, he was High Commissioner of Egypt. During this period, while the First World War raged, Lady Wingate was president of the Cairo and Alexandria Red Cross Committee. $2,000-3,000

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116 Wright, Frank Lloyd (1869-1959) Architectural Drawing, Signed, 20 August 1949. One sheet, translucent architectural vellum, in pencil and ink, with Wright’s signature in his distinctive reddish orange shaded square; a general plan for the Pratt house, with extensions and modifications, including the complete floor plan and elevations, small tear with loss in top left corner, old tape on bottom right, both in blank margins, wrapped on foam core, 24 x 36 in.

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The Eric and Pat Pratt house still stands today in Charleston Township, Michigan. It was originally part of a development project founded in 1947 under the name “The Acres.”

The Pratts first wrote to Wright in February of 1948, asking that he design their home.

They were determined to build it themselves, from Wright’s drawings and blueprints. They began in 1950, and continued through the fall of 1954. $5,000-7,000

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117 Wright, Frank Lloyd (1869-1959) Seven Blueprints, and Other Copies. Twelve sheets total, rolled, conventional and blueprint copies of architectural drawings, floor plans, elevations, and site views of the Pratt House in Michigan.

From Wright, the Pratts received, “an awkward roll made up of sheets and sheets of blueprint paper, many of them covered with undecipherable markings.” $3,000-4,000

118 Wright, Orville (1871-1948) Typed Letter Signed, 1 March 1928. Single page, on Wright’s embossed stationery, with Dayton, Ohio printed beneath his name. To General Charles Sherrill, referring to a previous incident in which Wright carried some hat boxes across the English Channel (by air?) for Sherrill, and ending in the following manner: “The Kitty Hawk plane arrived in England the 21st of last month, so that it is not possible to send it to New York University as you suggest.

The plane was not sent to England to punish America, but as a means of self-protection in overcoming propaganda in disparagement of us broadcast by the Smithsonian at Government expense.” $700-900

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The Michael Howard Theater Collection Lots 119–198

Michael Howard As an actor, director, and educator, Michael Howard has been a significant part of New York City’s rich theatrical history for more than 60 years. He directed shows on the Great White Way for the Theatre Guild, helped pioneer the Off-Broadway Theater Movement, and has directed at regional and stock theaters across the country.

Mr. Howard has also taught at the Julliard School, Yale School of Drama, American Conservatory Theatre, and Boston University, but his most acclaimed teaching is done at his studios. He continues to train notable actors in all facets of Theatre, Film, and Television in accordance with his philosophy that each actor must develop their own method of performing.

Since 1953, Michael Howard Studios has been dedicated to nurturing diverse acting talent in preparation for professional careers. It began as a small community of actors who collaborated under the leadership of Michael Howard its founder and artistic director, and has grown into a world-class professional acting studio, as well as the longest-running privately owned acting studio in New York.

Mr. Howard believes that “…collecting is somewhere in [his] DNA,” citing the powerful formative influence of Lee Strasburg not only on his professional development, but also on his passion for collecting. In particular, Mr. Howard holds Strasburg in high esteem for his extraordinary level of scholarship as well as his deep admiration and respect for the acting profession.

Inspired by this master teacher, Mr. Howard began searching every imaginable venue for material related to the international acting profession. The fruits of this lifelong quest, begun more than 60 years ago, include some of Mr. Howard’s personal favorites—a 1790 needlework rendition of “The Seven Ages of Man” speech from Shakespeare’s As You Like It, and a needlework sampler of the Commedia dell’Arte circa 1690, as well as many others.

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119 African American Actors, Nine Items: Promotional fan with photogravure of three African-American children from the Boston production of the play “The Green Pastures,” very good; hand-colored print, 1836, of Thomas Dartmouth Rice as the character “Jumping Jim Crow”; engraved portrait of Ira Aldridge as Aaron; two copies of Aldridge’s portrait as Mungo; two clippings from 19th century magazines describing Aldridge’s performances with wood engravings; and two others. $300-500 120 Al Hirschfeld (American, 1903-2003) Buster Keaton. Signed “HIRSCHFELD” in pencil l.r., numbered “22/150” in pencil l.l.

Etching, plate size 14 3/4 x 16 1/4 in., framed. $400-600

121 Approximately 100 Prints: Juvenilia, Theater. Thirty-five sheets of color-printed backdrops for a toy theatre; eight sheets of hand-colored costume prints; eighteen Dutch children’s broadsides on laid paper depicting alphabets, accidents, and other juvenile subjects, stencil-colored; eight sheets of brightly colored lithographs depicting happy domestic scenes; eight small ads for the play, My Partner; five portraits of actors; four posters from the 1930s advertising movies, vaudeville, etc.; and approximately twenty other miscellaneous prints. Juvenilia from the Van Veen Collection. $1,000-2,000

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122 Astor Place Riot; Brooklyn Theatre Fire.

Two pamphlets: Account of the Terrific and Fatal Riot at the New York Astor Place Opera House, on the Night of May 10th, 1849, New York: Ranney, 1849; and A Thrilling Personal Experience! Brooklyn’s Horror. Wholesale Holocaust at the Brooklyn, New York, Theatre, on the Night of December 5th, 1876; one framed broadside, “To the Public of Philad’a,” 1848, concerning the Macready and Forrest argument preceding the Astor Place Riot; and one framed cover of the November issue of the Comic Monthly, entitled, “I will make Rome Howl!” $300-500

123 Autographed Photographs of Actors.

Twenty-six photographs, eighteen of which are signed, one free ticket from the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane, admitting two to box seats for King Lear, dated 1820 signed by Edmund Kean, and two autograph letters signed by Macready of the Astor Place riots, all held in a three-ring binder; autographed photographs of Macready, Alexander Moissi, Lynn Fontaine, Wilson Barrett, Ellen Terry, Joseph Jefferson, Henry Irving, Julia Marlowe, Charlotte Cushman, Lee J. Cobb, Helen Hayes, Tallulah Bankhead, Salvini, Olga Albani, and others. $800-1,000

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124 Belasco, David (1853-1931) Two copies: A Souvenir of Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice as presented by David Belasco at the Lyceum Theatre, New York, December 21, 1922, New York, printed privately, 1923, photogravure portrait frontispiece of Belasco

by Genthe, twenty-eight photogravures of the production in the text, publisher’s printed paper wraps, chipped, one in plastic cover, with Belasco’s bookplate loose, one in chipped paper covers reinforced with adhesive tape; Deburau by Sacha Guitry produced by David Belasco, [New York, 1925], profusely illustrated with photogravures, inscribed

by Belasco on ffep, with his bookplate, in publisher’s printed paper wraps, in plastic; and twenty-one photographs of Belasco, with repeats, three matted, some framed, two autographed by Belsaco, 4 x 6 to 10 x 13 in. $600-800

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125 Bernhardt, Sarah (d. 1923) Archive: Large cabinet card (13 x 10 in.) photographic portrait; two photographic portraits on paper, one removed from a 1940 magazine; Jules Bastien Le Page portrait on toned paper, water damage just touching the border; nine 4 x 6 in. cabinet cards; twenty-seven postcards featuring Bernhardt; a framed photograph with Theodor Leschetizsky; ten theater programs from her performances; a printed theater invitation from Bernhardt to a performance at the Boston Opera House from 1917, not signed; a photocopy of her contract from the fourth American tour of 1897; Ma Double Vie, Memoires, in two volumes, Paris, 1923; The Art of the Theatre by Bernhardt, London, [1930]; and other paper ephemera related to the actor. $300-500

126 British Plays, Twenty-four Volumes: London: John Bell, 1791.

Octavo, a uniformly bound set of twenty-four (of twenty-five, lacking volume ten) volumes in navy half Russia, paste paper boards and gilt spines. Each volume contains multiple plays, all published separately by John Bell, encompassing an exhaustive collection of the work of British playwrights, including but not limited to: Garrick, Milton, Arnold, Dryden, Gay, Glover, Ben Jonson, Shirley, and Steele. $200-300 129

127 Cabinet Photographs of Actors.

20th century oak recipe box containing approximately eighty cabinet photographs of famous actors from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including Joseph Jefferson, Lilly Langtry, Lillian Russell, Caroline Miskel, Robert Mantel, Eleanor Mayo, Blanche Walsh, Agnes Evans, Della Fox, Richard Mansfield, Mary F. Scott Siddons, Mabel Love, Belle Archer, Amy Arlington, Sylvia Gerrish, Jessie Bartlett-Davis, and others. $200-300 128 Cibber, Colley (1671-1757) An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber. London: John C. Nimmo, 1889.

Two volumes, new edition, with added material by Robert W. Lowe, copy number one of twenty copies printed on superfine Japanese royal octavo paper, with portraits in duplicate, bound in a signed full crushed scarlet morocco bindings by Stikeman, t.e.g., with marbled paper doublures and endleaves, joints with surface cracking. $200-300

129 Craig, Edward Gordon, ed. (1872-1966) The Mask: a Monthly Journal of the Art of the Theatre; and an Etching. Six volumes, 19081927, four in full parchment bindings, one in paper boards, one in half peach buckram and marbled boards; complete run from 1908 to 1912, all profusely illustrated throughout.

Together with: an original signed etching

by Craig, depicting a Commedia dell’Arte performance, complete with stage, audience, and backstage, c. 1901, 4 1/2 x 2 in. plate surface on a 7 1/2 x 10 in. sheet.

Craig’s journal, sumptuously produced, evocative of Renaissance printing, and copiously illustrated, represents one facet of a career that included many contributions to the theater. He is chiefly known for his innovations in stage design and presentation, including a new, non-representational approach to backgrounds, lighting from above, and an integrated notion of mise en scene design that included the performance of the actors. These publications of The Mask show Craig at his prime. $800-1,200

130 Cruikshank, George (1792-1878) A Catalogue Raisonné. ed. Albert M. Cohn London: from the Office of the Bookman’s Journal, 1924. One of 500 copies, publisher’s cloth, deckle edges throughout.

Together with: seven satirical pamphlets with caricature illustrations from the first quarter of the 19th century bound together, including: Fairburn’s Edition of the DeathBed Confessions of the late Countess of Guernsey; A Political Lecture on Heads, alias Blockheads!!; The Acts of Adonis the Great, King of Bull; The Political House that Jack Built; Trial and Execution of Mr. John Bellingham; Mr. Phillip’s Speech in the Case of Guthrie v. Sterne, for Adultery; Proposal for a Grand National Jubilee; and one other, lacking pages at the end. $300-500

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131 Denkmaler des Theatres Inszenierung.

Vienna: [c. 1924-1930]. Publisher’s portfolio in paste paper and buckram containing a stapled pamphlet and twenty loose matted plates, limited edition, portfolio torn, chipped, rubbed and abraded. $100-200 132 Diderot, Denis (1713-1784) Theater Plans from Encyclopedie. Folio, two volumes, plate sections related to theater construction and architecture removed from Diderot’s Encyclopedie, 1751-1780. Volume one contains thirty-one plates, seven doublepagedd, with the explanatory text at the beginning; volume two contains forty-two plates, fourteen double-pagedd, and four folding, and the explanatory text at the beginning, all describing “Machines de Theatre”; plates by Radel, under the direction of Giraud, theater machinist at the Opera in Paris; both volumes bound in recent quarter calfskin with marbled paper boards. $500-700 133 Doran, John (1807-1878) Their Majesties’ Servants, Annals of the English Stage.

London: John C. Nimmo, 1888.

Three volumes in publisher’s cloth, t.e.g., edited by Robert W. Lowe, illustrated with fifty portraits and eighty wood engravings.

Together with: Wyndham’s Annals of the Covent Garden Theatre from 1732 to 1897 London, Chatto & Windus, 1906, in two volumes, t.e.g., full red textured cloth, extraillustrated. $200-300

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134 Dramatic Table Talk and Theater Biography. Illustrations of Shakspeare [sic] in Two Hundred and Thirty Vignette Engravings

by Thompson from Designs by Thurston, London, [1830], calf spine, marbled boards; The Thespian Dictionary, London, 1802, front board becoming detached; An Authentic Narrative of Mr. Kemble’s Retirement from the Stage, London, 1817, with portrait and two folding plates, contemporary calf spine and marbled paper boards, first signature detached; George Moore’s The Making of an Immortal, New York, 1927, number 826 of 1240 copies, signed by the author, paper board, spine missing; The Life of Edmund Kean, London, 1835, contemporary calf spine and textured fabric boards, worn, bumped and abraded, title page and frontispiece quite foxed; Dramatic Table Talk, London, 1825, extra-illustrated, in three volumes, in half crushed brown morocco and marbled paper boards by Stikeman, well-preserved; and another copy of Dramatic Table Talk, London, 1825, also extra-illustrated in three volumes, with even more plates than the set above, in three volumes, crushed navy morocco and marbled paper boards by Stikeman. $200-300

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135 Duse, Eleonora (1858-1924) Photographs, Autograph. Five photographic portraits, mostly cabinet cards, one signed, and one loose page with Duse’s autograph; one cabinet card with old adhesions and some loss of surface.

Duse, raised in an Italian theatrical family, invented a new style of representing emotions on stage which she called “elimination of self.” Her work is preserved in the 1916 film, Cenere. $300-500 136 Early Photographs and Cabinet Cards: Approximately sixty cabinet card portraits and group shots from the late 19th century; approximately twelve photographs of machinery, vehicles, and buildings, including a New England town green and a flooded city; two signed artistic landscapes of Colorado, a picture of the artists and architects from the Panama-Pacific Exhibition; two 8 x 8 in. black and white of the area of New York City that was razed to make way for the World Trade Center towers; and other assorted photographs from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. $300-500

137 Egan, Pierce (1772-1849) The Life of an Actor. London: Pickering and Chatto, 1892.

Second edition, with twenty-seven handcolored etchings by Theodore Lane, bound in contemporary quarter green morocco and buckram boards by Bayntun-Riviere.

Together with: Percy Fitzgerald’s Life of Mrs. Catherine Clive, London: Reader, 1888, first edition, extra-illustrated, with twenty-five plates nicely mounted on blank leaves throughout the text, bound in contemporary quarter navy morocco and marbled paper boards. $300-350 138 Eleven Sheets of Jointed Paper Dolls,

by Pellerin, Imagerie d’Epinal. France, 19th century, printed in color, depicting the characters Pierrot, Colombine, Polichinelle, and various harlequins; the dolls never cut from their sheets, all matted. $300-400

139 Eleven Theatrical Caricatures. A collection of eight matted and three loose theatrical caricature prints, mostly hand-colored etchings, including four by Cruikshank: “Quadrupeds, or the Manager’s Last Kick”; “The Hostile Press, or Shakespeare in Danger”; “Ostend Packet in a Squall”; “Wolves Triumphant”; Abraham Bosse’s “Que ce Theatre est Magnifique!”; Rowlandson’s “Sports of a County Fair”; “Theatrical Pleasures Part One: Crowding to the Pit”; “A Theatrical Candidate”; “Theatrical Doctors Recovering Clara’s Notes”; “The Genius of Theatricals bringing John Bull to His Senses” featuring Mr. Kemble and Mrs. Siddons, and one other. $1,200-1,500 140 Extensive Theater-Related Ephemera Collection: Approximately seventy matted illustrations related to actors, characters, and plays, including hand-colored engravings, images by Cruikshank, and frontispieces removed from 19th century editions of Shakespeare’s plays; several portraits of Talma in character, some hand-colored; assorted portraits of Kemble and Liston; Hamlet illustrations; a collection of 20th century playbills; prints removed from books and magazines and other theater memorabilia; a group of 19th century Boston-area theater notices and broadsides; some London broadsides; and other miscellaneous paper related to the theater. $200-300 139

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141 Film and Theater Programs (Early 20th Century). Fifteen period programs for stage and motion picture productions including promotional pamphlets for the following films: D.W. Griffiths The Birth of a Nation, Cecil B. De Mille’s The Ten Commandments, The Thief of Bagdad with Douglas Fairbanks, Barrymore’s Don Juan, and Cleopatra, starring Elizabeth Taylor, some in full color. $200-300

143 Framed Theater Prints. Nine framed prints, mostly British, 19th century, some handcolored, depicting Mrs. Abington as Thalia and Roxalana; Edmund Kean as Richard III; Lekain; Frederic Le Maitre; and other scenes, some removed from British Drama, varying sizes, not examined out of frames. $300-350

142 Framed Theater Broadsides. Ten posters advertising theatrical entertainment, most from Britain in the 1840s and 50s; one each from Boston and New York, and one printed on silk, advertising a production of Julius Caesar in Dallas, Texas, starring Edwin Booth, dated 1888. $300-500

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144 Gillette, William (1853-1937). Two photographic portraits, one, sepia-toned, from earlier in his career, 11 1/2 x 9 in., and the other depicting a grayer Gillette, signed, black and white, 8 x 10 in.

Gillette was the first actor to portray Sherlock Holmes on the stage and in a now-lost silent film from 1916. Gillette invented the fundamental Holmesian phrase, “Oh, this elementary, my dear fellow,” and incorporated the bent pipe, the deerstalker hat, the magnifying glass, violin, and syringe as props for the first time. $200-300

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by Ibels. $300-500

146 Heath, William (1795-1840) Theatrical Characters. London: Published December 1st, 1829, by Thomas M’Lean, Sole Publisher of Mr. William Heath’s Etchings.

Folio, complete, with all ten etchings, handcolored throughout, in original limp paper printed wraps, with the title printed on the front and advertisements on the verso of the outer cover, taped spine, some smudges, dust and tears to the covers, contents fresh, a suite of prints rarely found in this form. $800-1,200

147 Heath, William (1795-1840), and Joseph Grimaldi (1778-1837). Two hand-colored engraved images by the artist, William Heath, depicting Joseph Grimaldi. The first, “Grimaldi & the Non-Descript in the Red Dwarf,” shows Grimaldi challenging a fantastic beast, matted, 10 x 14 in.; the second, “The Comic Dance in the Popular Pantomime of the White Cat,” shows Grimaldi dancing with a proper lady with a fan, in thigh-high boots, with a shock of black hair, as he holds an enormous black hat, matted, 9 x 12 1/2 in. $400-600

148 Heath, William (1795-1840), and Joseph Grimaldi (1778-1837). Two hand-colored engraved images by the artist, William Heath, depicting the famous English comic actor and dancer, Joseph Grimaldi, inventor of the modern white-faced clown. The first, “Grimaldi & the Non-Descript in the Red Dwarf,” shows Grimaldi challenging a fantastic beast, 10 x 14 in.; the second, “The Favourite Comic Dance,” from Grimaldi’s Mother Goose shows Mrs. Bologna Junior dancing with the clown, matted, corners chipped, 10 1/2 x 12 1/2 in. $400-600

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149 Hogarth, William (1697-1764) Two framed prints, “Mr. Garrick in the Character of Richard the 3d.” London, 1746, engraved by Hogarth and Grignion after Hogarth, 21 x 17 in.; and “Strolling Actresses Dressing in a Barn,” London, 1738, in the undescribed second state, with only one hole in the roof and Juno’s shoe not black, 21 x 16 1/2 in., both recently framed, with later hand-coloring. $300-400 150 Improvisations, Artists Equity Masquerade Ball, Four Issues: 1953, 1954, 1956, and 1957, all first editions, limited to two thousand copies, each copy numbered, each illustrated with approximately fifty original prints by American artists, some in full color, some in black and white, and some printed on colored paper, artists include Ben Shahn, Bryon Browne, Chaim Gross, Milton Avery, Reginald Marsh, Adolf Dehn, Julio de Diego, Moses and Raphael Soyers, Louise Nevelson and many others.

“First conceived in 1950 from an idea by Julio de Diego, the member-artists who illustrated this journal were in most cases selected by the advertisers from our membership list and were given complete freedom of expression.

Each page was designed by the artist directly on the litho plate, thus making this a collection of original lithographs. Spontaneity and fun, in the spirit of our annual Bal Fantastique Masquerade, was the objective, rather than orthodox merchandising.” $1,000-1,500

151 John Wilkes Booth Broadside. Advertising a Boston performance of Macbeth from October 7, 1863, trimmed closely on the bottom left edge, touching two letters, otherwise only affecting the blank margin, small corner of blank margin torn away at the top right corner, matted, 6 x 18 in. $300-400

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152 Maitres de l’Affiche, Four Posters: A La Scala by Luce; Joan of Arc; Incandescence; and Hamlet; all marked with embossed stamp, some minor tears, three of the four matted. $300-500

153 Marini, Marino (1901-1980) Marino from Shakespeare II. London: ZWR, printed by Labyrinth, 1978.

Color aquatint on paper, limited edition of 50, signed “MARINO” in pencil lower right, numbered [46 of 50] in Roman numerals in pencil, lower left; plate size 19 1/4 x 15 1/8 in.; matted and framed; margins one inch or more, not examined out of frame. $300-500

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154 Modern Cinema: An extensive collection of ephemera related to film, including a collection of actor’s cards from Player’s cigarettes pasted into an album; a Gone with the Wind cookbook; promotional material featuring screen actors; two soft-bound collections of poster art from the fifties produced by Seven Arts Associated; Shadowland magazine from December 1922; thirty-six 8 x 10-in. stills of Garbo, Rita Hayworth, Helen Hayes, Gloria Swanson, Mary Pickford, Myrna Loy, Spencer Tracy, Will Rogers, and screen stills from The Lion in Winter, The African Queen, and Von Stroheim’s The Wedding March; seventeen lobby cards including cars for Persona, The Fugitive Kind and others; fourteen large folded posters, some torn, including Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, Rebecca, and Plaza Suite; and other assorted cinematic paper ephemera. $300-500

155 Mucha, Alphonse (1860-1939) Lorenzaccio Poster. Paris: Champenois, 1896. Color lithographic poster on two sheets joined, upright rectangle, framed, some faint water stains, 81 x 29 1/2 in.

“The poster advertises Lorenzaccio, adapted by Armand d’Artois from Alfred de Musset, first performed at the Theatre de la Renaissance in 1896, starring Sarah Bernhardt, she had commissioned Alphonse Mucha’s first successful poster, Gismonda, to announce her appearance at the theatre in 1894, and he subsequently designed posters for almost all of her productions. This for Lorenzaccio is typical, having tall, vertical proportions, and consisting of two halves lithographed separately. The elongated and sinuously curved figure is placed in a niche to give an icon-like effect. [...] Bernhart is dressed in a sumptuous black period costume, with a dagger hanging from her belt, holding a book.”

(Victoria Albert Museum Catalogue) $3,000-5,000 156 Nine Posters. Henry E. Dixey as Henry Irving in Adonis; John McCullough as Othello; Jas. S. Maffitt, Anatomist; John Thompson, World Famous Comedian, in On Hand, or True to the Last; Charles A. Lindbergh “WE” poster

by Einar Kverne, with airplane; Orson Welles’s Othello; Laurence Olivier’s film adaptation of Hamlet; and two posters advertising Olivier’s Hamlet. $300-500 157 Nineteen Theatre Prints. One illustration by Warren Rockwell, one by Hudiakoff, one after Caillot and Blondel, two by Alfred Frueh, and fourteen illustrations from magazines, mostly matted. $400-500 155

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158 19th Century Leather-bound Autograph Album. Album with brass clasp and cameo of a marble statue under beveled glass set into the front cover, a.e.g., the whole housed in a specially made box covered inside and out with crimson velvet, containing photographs and signatures of internationally famous actors of the period, collected in Boston between 1875 and 1883, including Sarah Bernhardt, Ellen Terry, Therese Tietjen, Tommaso Salvini, Edwin Booth, Clara Louise Kellogg, Adelaide Phillips, Mary Frances Scott Siddons, Eugenie Pappenheim, Annie Louise Cary, Ernesto Rossi, John Gilbert, William Warren, Henry Irving, and others; twenty-nine large photos with signatures, seven smaller photos of actors, unsigned, 11 x 9 x 3 1/2 in. $1,000-1,500

159 Olivier, Jean (fl. circa 1780) Fencing Familiarized. London: John Bell and C. Etherington, [1780].

Octavo, folding frontispiece, one full-paged plate, and seven folding plates, parallel titles in English and French, later binding, a.e.g., both boards detached, spine perished.

Together with: Paul Pry, as performed by Mr. Liston, London, T. Hughes, [1826], with folding colored frontispiece by Cruikshank, in a Riviere binding, both boards detached. $400-600

160 Olivier, Laurence (1907-1989). Collection of seven programs and playbills; promotional material for the cinematic productions of Henry V, Richard III, and As You Like It; approximately twenty glossy 8 x 10 in. promotional photographs, including photographs taken for Pride and Prejudice; black and white photograph, matted and framed with signature; and other paper ephemera related to the actor. $200-300

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161 Photographs and Cabinet Cards of Actors.

Eighty in a three-ring binder from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, mostly cabinet cards including the following actors and theater luminaries: George Bernard Shaw, Beerbohm Tree, Charlotte Cushman, Edwin Booth, Joseph Jefferson, Ellen Terry, Lotta, Julia Marlowe, Lillian Russell, a man in drag, a man in black face, dancers, George Sand, and General Tom Thumb Stratton, with his wife and baby. $200-300

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162 Playbills, Bound Collection (1799-1800).

Approximately eighty broadside handbills advertising every performance at the Theatre Royal in Manchester, England, from 16 December 1799 to 24 November 1800, stab sewn in contemporary limp marbled paper wrappers with a large inked “1800” on the front cover and the bookplate of James Watson of Manchester pasted inside, with a few separate notes tipped in describing any divergence from the printed bill, such as actor substitutions, et cetera, the last four broadsides badly foxed. $350-450

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163 Plays and Others, Five Volumes: Picasso’s Desire Caught by the Tail, [1950]; H.L. Mencken’s The Artist, Boston, 1912; John W. Poe’s Billy the Kind, Notorious New Mexico Outlaw, Los Angeles, [1919], second edition; Tom Wolfe’s The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, 1968, in dust jacket; and Thornton Wilder’s The Skin of Our Teeth, 1942, in chipped dust jacket. $200-300

164 Riccoboni, Luigi (1676-1753) An Historical and Critical Account of the Theatres in Europe. London: T. Waller and R. Dodsley, 1741.

First English edition, octavo, lacking the halftitle, first and last few leaves toned, contents clean.

Together with: Riccoboni’s A General History of the Stage, from its Origin. London: for W. Owen and Lockyer Davis, 1754, second edition, (a re-issue of the above title, with additional prefatory material) octavo, contemporary speckled calf, both boards detached, contents clean. $300-350

168 Shaw, George Bernard (1856-1950) Mrs. Warren’s Profession. London: Grant Richards, 1902.

First edition, original printed limp paper covers, inscribed to Lawrence Irving, with Shaw’s signature dated 10 June 1902, some creasing and minor spots to cover, in a modern red buckram chemise and slipcase in half red morocco, 7 x 4 3/4 in. $1,000-1,500

165 Russian Actors, Fifty-nine Photographs.

Including post cards, cabinet cards, and others, four signed, including a large matted portrait of Alexandra Yablochkina inscribed and signed in Russian, a group portrait of the Moscow Art Theatre Company, and two post cards of Stanislavsky. $200-300

169 Sheet Music. Approximately one hundred separate issues, mainly from the first quarter of the 20th century, featuring Frank Sinatra, George M. Cohan, Al Jolson, Judy Garland, Jerome Kern, and Ziegfeld’s Follies from the ‘teens, most with polychromatic cover art. $150-200 170 Siddons, Sarah (1755-1831) Engraved Portrait. Mrs. Siddons as the Tragic Muse, by Haward, after Sir Joshua Reynolds, 17 x 24 in.

Together with: two engraved scenes by Thew from Shakespeare, 17 x 24 in. each; and a scene from the Beggar’s Opera after Hogarth, engraved by William Blake, 17 1/2 x 21 in. $300-400

166 Shakespeare, Gherardi, and Fletcher.

Shakespeare’s Othello, London, 1778, and Life and Death of King John, London, 1734; Fletcher’s The False One, London, 1711, all three disbound.

Together with: two odd volumes from Evaristo Gherardi’s Le Theatre Italien, Amsterdam, 1701 (volume two only), and London, 1714 (volume eight only), both illustrated, in contemporary bindings. $300-400 167 Shakspeare Illustrated, by an Assemblage of Portraits and Views. London: S & E. Harding, 1793.

Folio, engraved throughout with more than 140 portraits and views, both covers detached, with the Museum of French Art in New York’s ink stamp on the verso of every plate, and their de-accession stamp on the verso of the frontispiece, some heavy foxing, 10 1/2 x 17 in. $300-500

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171 Six Framed Theater Prints. Three printed by Hodgson of London, and Turner and Fisher of New York and Philadelphia, Mr. John Reeve as Marmaduke Magog, Richard III, and Macbeth, another unsigned of Kean as Richard III, and two by Cruikshank: “The Theatrical Atlas,” and “A Theatrical Candidate,” all hand-colored, some browning, 9 x 11 to 17 x 22 in. $450-650

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172 Stereograph Cards and Viewers. Two viewers, one tin, box construction, painted, dry original surface, decorations with loss; the other open wood construction with tin viewing blind; and approximately 109 cards depicting a variety of subjects, including New York City, the West, cotton and pineapple picking, logging, and many others, including actors, scenes from the theatre, and harlequins. $400-600

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173 Ten 19th Century Prints of Theaters. Intaglio and lithographic, some colored, mostly American. $150-200

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174 Ten Theatrical Caricatures: Collection of three loose and seven matted caricature prints, hand-colored. “La Poule” by William Heath; “A Glee” by Thomas Rowlandson; and six by James Gilray, including, “Theatre Mendicants Relieved”; “Pizarro Contemplating over the Product of his New Peruvian Mine”; “Cymon & Iphigenia”; “Enter Cowslip”; “My Poll & my Partner Joe”; “Comforts of a Bed of Roses”; and two others. $1,000-1,500 175 The Life of an Actor. Title page and twentyfour colored plates by Lane removed from the book by Pierce Egan, London, 1825, all matted. $100-200 176 Theater Advertising Cards: Approximately one hundred cigarette, advertising, and trading cards, from the late 19th century, mostly printed in color, depicting actors and theaters. $300-500

177 Theater Biographies, Five Titles in Eleven Volumes: Boaden’s edition of Kemble’s Memoirs, London, 1825, first edition, in two volumes, contemporary half calf, marbled paper boards, titles spotted, waterstained; The Life of Edmund Kean, London, 1835, in two volumes, contemporary half chagrin and marbled paper boards, one spine missing; Boaden’s Memoirs of Mrs. Siddons, London, 1827, in two volumes, contemporary full green calf, head chipped, joints starting; Campbell’s Life of Mrs. Siddons, London, 1834, in two volumes, contemporary full green calf, labels perished, spine ends frayed with loss, boards scuffed and bumped; and Thomas Davies’ Dramatic Micellanies [sic] Consisting of Critical Observations on Several Plays of Shakespeare, London, 1783-1784, in three volumes, contemporary red sheepskin spines, rubbed, with marbled paper boards. $300-500

178 Theater Biography and British Stage, Four Titles in Six Volumes: Galt’s The Lives of the Players London, 1831, in two volumes, contemporary half calf, gilt spines, marbled boards; The Biography of the British Stage, London, 1824, first edition, extra-illustrated, with original autograph letters and the original printed publisher’s covers bound in, crushed and polished dark brown morocco by H. Wood, gilt doublures, ffep detached in volume one, ex libris John Neville-Cross, with his armorial bookplate; Hazlitt’s A View of the English Stage, London, 1818, first edition, straight grain red half morocco with buckram boards, a.e.g., front board and first signature detached, lacking half title and ads; and An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, London, 1822, contemporary half calf and marbled boards, scuffed, faded, rubbed, title page and portrait browned and spotted. $200-300

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179 Theater Biography, Four Titles in Eight Volumes: Memoirs of the Life of David Garrick, by Thomas Davies, London: for the author, 1781, octavo, third edition, in two volumes, extra-illustrated with a portrait of Garrick on vellum, seven watercolor drawings and 100 added engraved plates, bound in later red morocco, spines disintegrating, boards detached, housed in a battered buckram slipcase; Boaden’s Life of Mrs. Jordan, London, 1831, in two volumes, contemporary quarter navy calf, front board of volume one detached, other hinges tender; another copy of Davies’ Memoirs of the Life of Garrick, London, 1808, in two volumes, browned, untrimmed, rebacked, in contemporary marbled boards; and Symonds’ translation of the Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi, London, 1890, in two volumes, numbered 145, with a portrait and six etchings

by Lalauze, and eleven additional illustrations

by Sand, engraved by Manceau and hand-colored, in publisher’s calf spines and decorative stamped gilt green cloth boards. $200-300 180 Theater Broadsides: Approximately eighteen matted posters advertising plays; London, late 18th to early 19th centuries, featuring the actors Liston, Kean, Betty, Kemble, Siddons, Grimaldi, Macready, Grisi, Cerito, Vandenhoff, Hamblin, and Vestris; various sizes, some printed in red and black, a few with library deaccession stamps. $300-500 181 Theater Broadsides: Thirteen posters advertising plays, some matted; mostly London, 1814 to 1837, some printed in red and black, some on blue paper, mostly featuring the work of noted actor Edmund Kean, including notice of his Macbeth and Shylock performances, and the work of other actors contemporary with Kean, including Madame Vestris and Mademoiselle Taglioni, various sizes. $400-600

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182 Theater Ephemera, Theatrical Photographs and Autographs: Box of various items, containing nineteen tintypes, two in cloth cases, one in an embossed Bakelite case, and one daguerreotype in a lacquer case; two literary card games in boxes; thirteen turn-of-the-19th-century pamphlets, including cook books, almanacs, and New York City material; disbound section of a German album with photographs of actors in character; a collection of twenty-three portraits of Mrs. Siddons removed from books, nine matted; seven black and white photographs of actors on the stage, including several of Isabel Irving, 10 1/2 x 13 in.; thirty-seven glossy 8 x 10 in. stills from Peter Brook’s production of “Marat/ Sade”; approximately fifty photographic portraits of actors, some by Downey, Dover, and Bassano, including Cyril Maude, Minnie Palmer, and Maude Adams; ten photographs of Molly Picon, 10 x 13 in.; twelve actor autographs and letters: Jack Benny, Lawrence Hutton, Eleanora de Cisneros, Forrest, Macready, Henry Irving, and others, some mounted and trimmed; thirty-four photographs of actors, mostly autographed, a few with stamped or photo-reproduced signatures, including Lew Fields, Joe Weber, Edward Kipling, the Koms sisters, Mary Anderson, Basil Sidney, Richard Bennett, Jane Wyatt, Otto Kruger, Mary Ellis, Ann Pennington, Alice Joyce, Katherine Grey, Johnny Marvin, Dorothy Hall, Henry Hall, Harry Lauder, Pauline Land; a large sepia-tone signed photographic portrait of Laurence Barrett, a matted sketch of Tommaso Salvini with a signed note, and others. $600-800 183 Theater Ephemera: Large collection of theater ephemera including printed broadsides, advertising material, a broadside and program both printed on silk, and other miscellaneous loose paper items. $200-300 184 Theater Juvenilia and Actor Prints: Fortysix prints, 18th and 19th centuries, mostly colored, some matted, held in a binder, including backdrops and characters for Pollock’s “Corsican Brothers,” “Silver Palace,” “The Miller and his Men,” and “New Fairies,” and other theatrical play sets for children, hand-colored engravings of Phelps, Creswick, Kean, Macready, Cooke, Mead, Potter, Bennett, Brooke, Serle, Bland, and others in costume. $400-600

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185 Theater Prints, Four Framed Engravings.

Portrait of Baron, the actor and comedian, after De Troye, engraved by J. Daulle, Paris, 1732, 16 x 12 in.; “The Wapping Landlady,” engraved by Truchy, after Hayman, London, Sayer, hand-colored, 14 1/2 x 10 1/2 in.; “Falstaff’s Cowardice Detected,” engraved

by Truchy, after Hayman, London, Sayer, hand-colored, 14 1/2 x 10 1/2 in.; and “The Portraits of Madame Vestris, Miss P. Glover, Mr. Williams, & Mr. Liston, in the Comedy of Paul Pry,” engraved by Lupton, after Clint, browned, with tears, matted and framed, 19 1/2 x 14 in. $200-300 186 Theater Souvenirs (1899-1902): A collection of approximately twenty printed theater souvenirs, most printed by R.H. Russell in New York, c. 1899-1902, featuring large photographs and sketches of actors in the studio, in character, and on the stage, bound together in contemporary green pebbled morocco and textured cloth boards, scratched and rubbed, 9 x 12 in.

Actors include: Viola Allen, Maude Adams, Ethel Barrymore, Olga Nethersole, Blanche Bates, Julia Marlowe, Mary Mannering, William Gillette, Julia Arthur, John Drew, Annie Russell, Amelia Bingham, Alice Nielsen, and others.

Together with: Winter’s Ada Rehan: a Study, New York, 1891, one of 113 copies, illustrated, presentation copy inscribed by theater producer Augustin Daly (1838-1899) to playwright Charles Montgomery Skinner (1852-1907), with Skinner’s bookplate, bound in gray Japanese fabric block-printing in blue, lacking the ribbon, 9 1/2 x 11 1/2 in. $250-350 187 Theatre Programs and Souvenirs (Late 19th to Early 20th Centuries): Seventeen illustrated pamphlets sold to accompany theater productions, mostly in New York and London, c. 1899-1930s, many in full color, featuring Maude Adams, Mary Mannering, Annie Russell, productions of the Moscow Art Theatre, original program from the 1934 New York production of “Four Saints in Three Acts,”

by Gertrude Stein, two programs from the Ziegfeld Follies from the 1930s, and others. $400-600

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188 Theatrical Scripts for Stage and Screen, 20th Century: Twelve photocopied scripts from typed originals, on three-hole punched paper, seven bound in report covers, all others bound in the traditional format, with two brass fasteners, titles include: Tommy, by Pete Townshend; Strawhead, by Norman Mailer; On Golden Pond, by Ernest Thompson; Five Corners, by John Patrick Shanley; Sticks and Bones, by David Rabe; Jill Came Tumbling After, by Jean Kerr; Rock and Roll, by Tom Stoppard; Crimes of the Heart, by Beth Henley, four copies; and Popeye, by Jules Feiffer, with a sketch of Popeye on the cover. $150-200 189 Thirteen Large Cabinet Cards of Actors.

Six autographed, subjects include Tommaso Salvini, Gertrude Kellogg, Leslie Carter, Ada Rehan, and others, eleven are 13 x 7 1/2 in. $200-300 190 Thirty-five Theater Prints. Three circus prints, ten small later 19th century bookplates and theatre tickets after Hogarth, eleven larger Hogarth prints, three William Nicholson portraits, Raymond Poisson as Crispin, handcolored engraving of the Randall vs. Martin fight, and other miscellaneous prints. $600-800

191 Three Framed Theater Prints. “Mr. Kemble in the Character of Rolla,” engraved by S.W. Reynolds, after Thomas Lawrence, London, Boydell, 1803, hand-colored with gilt highlights, 22 x 34 in.; “The Merry Wives of Windsor,” engraved by Ryder, after Durno, London, Boydell, 1801, hand-colored, 19 x 24 in.; and “The Pit Door,” London, Carington Bowles, hand-colored, 10 x 13 in.; not examined out of frames. $200-250 192 Three Plays. Henry Irving’s (1838-1905) working copy of the printed edition of his production of King Richard II, London, 1898, with Irving’s signature on the title, the copy specially bound interleaved with blanks for notes, and with Irving’s pencil annotations throughout the text, contemporary half dark blue textured cloth; John Barrymore’s Confessions of an Actor, Indianapolis, [1926], with the printed dedicatory bookplate signed

by Barrymore pasted inside the front board, publisher’s cloth, somewhat loose; and William Faversham’s working copy of Mrs. Dane’s Defence, no title page, c. 1901, produced by Empire Theatre productions, with Faversham’s signature inside the front board, and his notes in the text throughout, bound in cloth, with the title in ink on the front cover in Faversham’s hand. From contemporary accounts, it seems that Faversham never appeared in Mrs. Dane’s Defence, as he was stricken with appendicitis just before the play was to open. $500-700

194 Twenty-four Illustrations of Theater Interiors. 19th century, colored, all matted, some taken from Pougin’s Dictionnaire du Theatre, 1885; one matted and framed. $400-500 195 Twenty-one Theater Prints. Including portraits of actors, some hand-colored, and other miscellaneous prints related to the stage. $200-300 196 Twenty-one Theater Prints. Mostly removed from late 19th century magazines, and matted, nine illustrations of theatre interiors and twelve of actors. $100-200 197 Twenty-three Prints. Fourteen hand-colored comedic prints removed from 19th century books, e.g., Cruikshank, Doctor Syntax, et cetera; and nine actor portraits removed from Vanity Fair magazine from c. 1880-1930, mostly matted. $200-300 198 Twenty-three Theater Prints. Three horsemen; five of the actor John Liston, including an original colored drawing of a print; twelve of other actors: including Kean, Thomas Harris, and others. $400-500

193 Twelve 19th Century Theater Broadsides.

All matted, one framed, including an 1820 broadside for a production of “The Hebrew” featuring Edmund Kean with a signed backstage pass signed by Kean. $1,000-1,200

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199 Adams, John (1735-1826) A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America. London: for C. Dilly, 1787.

Octavo, first edition, published as a complete work, Adams later added two other volumes; contemporary speckled calf boards, corners bumped, amateurishly rebacked, pulling on the first and last signatures, new endleaves, original fly leaf at rear with marginal stains, marginal stain on title and last leaf from turnins, some spotting to contents, 5 1/4 x 9 1/2 in.; Sabin 233; Howes A-60. $900-1,000 200 Agrippa von Nettesheim, Henricus Cornelius (1486?-1535) The Vanity of Arts and Sciences. London: Printed by R.E. for R.B., to be sold by c. Blount, 1684.

Octavo, second English edition, with frontispiece, contemporary sheepskin, boards detached, browning.

Agrippa comments on the vanity of seemingly every possible human occupation, including but not limited to stage-dancing, alchemy, court ladies, medicine, lawyers, magic, fishing, grammar, looking glasses, the inquisition, witchcraft, and scholastic theology. He concludes with “A Digression in Praise of the Ass.” $400-600 201 Americana, Three Titles Bound as One: John Taylor (1753-1824) An Enquiry into the Principles and Tendency of Certain Public Measures. Philadelphia: Dobson, 1794; title page detached with loss, stained; and Charles Caldwell (1772-1853) An Oration, Commemorative of American Independence, Delivered Before the Washington Benevolent Society of Pennsylvania, on the Fourth Day of July, 1814, Philadelphia: Office of the United States Gazette, 1814, fore-edge trimmed close, with loss of letters on the introduction page, last leaf spotted; and Thaddeus Stevens (1792-1868) Free-Masonry Unasked.

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania: Middleton, 1835, three bound in half leather repaired with cloth. $700-900 202 Americana, Three Volumes: State Papers and Publick Documents of the United States 1797-1801, Boston: Wait and Sons, 1815, contemporary marbled sheepskin, rubbed, missing spine label, boards very nearly detached; Linn’s Life of Thomas Jefferson, Ithaca: Mack & Andrus, 1834, later green three-quarter morocco, rubbed; and Wood’s Suppressed History of the Administration of John Adams (from 1797 to 1801), Philadelphia: for the editor, 1846, contemporary speckled sheepskin, rubbed, insect losses along spine, label abraded, some spotting to contents. $300-500

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203 Aprosio, Angelico, [aka Ludovico] (16071681) La Biblioteca Aprosiana Passatempo Autunnale di Cornelio Aspasio Antiviglimi Tra, Vagabondi di Tabbia detto l’Aggirato.

Bologna: li Manolessi, 1673.

First edition, 12mo, engraved frontispiece

by Striglioni after Piola depicting the Aprosio Library, and one text woodcut of a monument with Egyptian hieroglyphics, one small spot of printed surface lifted away on the engraved title, bound in contemporary sheepskin with yapp edges, spine missing, front board detached, first seventy-five pages with a fore edge corner waterstain, otherwise clean, 733 pages.

Aprosio, an Augustinian monk, amassed a library of approximately 8,000 volumes during his lifetime, it forms the core of the public library of Ventimiglia, still extant today, on the Italian Riviera. $300-500 204 Ashmole, Elias (1617-1692) Memoirs of the Life of that Learned Antiquary Elias Ashmole, Esq; Drawn up by himself by way of Diary. With an Appendix of original Letters. London: Printed for J. Roberts, near the Oxford Arms, in Warwick Lane, 1717.

12mo, first edition, lacking the half-title, but with an extra copy of the final bifolium, K2, and otherwise complete, text browned. [bound with] Lilly, William (1602-1681) Mr. William Lilly’s History of his Life and Times from the Year 1602-1681. London: Printed for J. Roberts in Warwick Lane, 1715.

12mo, second edition, printed in the same year as the first, complete, contemporary speckled calf with gilt tooling and marbled endleaves, binding worn and rubbed.

Lilly unfolds the mysteries of the black arts, including inside information on incantations and the raising of spirits. He also describes the trial of Isaac Antrobus, who was charged with baptizing a rooster (by the name of Peter) and committing adultery with a woman and her daughter. $400-600 205-207 No lots.

208 Austen, Jane (1775-1817) Letters. London: Richard Bentley & Son, 1884.

Octavo, in two volumes, first edition, edited

by Edward Knatchbull-Hugessen, first Baron Brabourne (1829-1893), in publisher’s green cloth, ex libris Henry Cabot Lodge, with his bookplate; preliminaries in volume one a bit cockled, with some discoloration.

Jane Austen’s letters speak for themselves: “Dr. Gardiner was married yesterday to Mrs. Percy and her three daughters.” “I cannot help thinking that it is more natural to have flowers grow out of the head than fruit? What do you think on the subject?” $300-500

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209 Backus, Isaac (1724-1806) A History of New England with particular reference to Baptists. Boston: by Draper, sold by Freeman, 1777.

Octavo, first edition, 544 pages, volume one only of three, in contemporary sheepskin, some worming to leather, contents evenly browned.

Together with: George Sinclair’s Satan’s Invisible World Discovered, Edinburgh, 1789, in sheepskin; and The British Chronologer, London, 1720, in a decaying mottled calfskin binding; ESTC lists two copies in U.S. libraries. $200-300 210 Baker, Samuel (c. 1711-1778) Bibliotheca Rawlinsoniana. [London]: Catalogi venundantur apud plurimos Londini Bibliopolas unius Solidi pretio, 1756.

First edition, octavo, printed by William Bowyer, one of 750 copies printed, ruled in red throughout, with prices realized and other auction notes, including totals for each sale day, and a total for the entire sale; contemporary speckled full calf, boards with gilt border, marbled endleaves; with the bookplate of the Society of Writers to His Majesty’s Signet, a Scottish legal organization, pasted inside the front board; nicely rebacked, the original label replaced, 5 x 8 in.

Baker auctioned 9,405 lots of books over fifty sale days, from March 29, 1756, to May 25, 1756, working six days a week. This title was last offered at auction in 1984. $800-1,200 211 Ballantyne, Robert Michael (1825-1894) Ungava: A Tale of Esquimaux-Land. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1859.

Octavo, with frontispiece and illustrated title, brown publisher’s cloth, with gilt pictorial spine, back hinge torn, wear at spine ends and corners, 4 1/2 x 7 in. $100-125 212 Ballard, Thomas (fl. 1698-1734) Bibliotheca Burnetiana: or a Catalogue of the Library of the late Reverend Father in God, Dr. Gilbert Burnet. [London, 1716].

First and only edition, octavo, 68 pages, untrimmed, with deckle edges throughout, title page and verso of last leaf evenly dusty, some dust in the interior leaves, ex libris David Laing and the Theological Institute of Connecticut, with their subtle blind stamp, bound in 19th century half calf and paste paper boards, rebacked, 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 in.

Very rare auction catalog of more than 1,738 lots of books from the library of Gilbert Burnet (1643-1715). ESTC lists two copies in U.K. libraries, and only one copy in the U.S., at the Beinecke. $800-1,200

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213 Bancroft, George (1800-1891) Memorial Address on the Life and Character of Abraham Lincoln. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1866.

Octavo, first edition, with steel engraving portrait frontispiece of Lincoln, in publisher’s pebbled gilt stamped cloth, foxing to endleaves and portrait. $250-450

214 Bartlett, John Russell (1805-1886) A Catalogue of Books Relating to North and South America in the Library of John Carter Brown of Providence, R.I. Parts I-III. with Notes by John Russell Bartlett.

Providence: [Riverside Press, H.O. Houghton and Co.], 1865-1871.

First edition, three parts in four volumes, privately printed in a limited edition of one hundred copies signed by Bartlett, this is copy number 31, title pages printed in black, red and gold; presented to the New England Historic Genealogical Society, by Mrs. John Carter Brown, with her inscription in one volume, and the bookplate of the society referring to Mrs. Brown’s gift, with their withdrawal stamp; all four volumes bound in uniform half buckram and paper boards with black labels lettered in gold, contents very good.

John Carter Brown’s Americana collection is unequaled, the catalog of that collection is an indispensable aid to the bibliophile, here in the rare first edition. $600-800

215 Basil of Caesarea (330-379) Opera Omnia.

Paris: Cramoisy, 1638.

Three folio volumes, all title pages printed in red and black, engraved frontispiece of Basil facing the title in volume one, text printed in parallel columns of Greek and Latin throughout, bound in uniform contemporary calf, decorated in blind with roll tools, spines with gilt lettering and tooling. $400-600 216 Beardsley, Aubrey (1872-1898) Three Volumes: Malory’s Morte D’Arthur. New York: Dutton, 1927, limited to 1600 copies, publisher’s gilt cloth, t.e.g.; Fifty Drawings

by Aubrey Beardsley,, New York, 1920, numbered 233 of 500 and signed by the publisher, ornately stamped gilt publisher’s cloth, and A Second Book of Fifty Drawings, London, 1899, limited to 1,000 copies, red publisher’s cloth, pictorial gilt stamped, spine worn and faded, all titles illustrated throughout. $400-600

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217 Beilby, Ralph (1744-1817) A General History of Quadrupeds, illus. Thomas Bewick (1753-1828) Newcastle upon Tyne: Hodgson, et al., 1790.

First edition, octavo, 456 pages, wood engravings throughout, title page torn with loss; many pages torn and patched, spotted and stained, contemporary calf boards, both detached. $300-500 218 Beza, Theodore de (1519-1605) Poemata Juvenilia. [France: no printer, no date, c.

1550].

16mo, this undated edition is noted for the death’s head woodcut compartment used for the title page, 62 pages, bound in crushed brown morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, front joint starting to crack.

An important figure in the Reformation, Beza’s juvenile verse came back to haunt him. Opposing forces in the Catholic church charged him with loose morals, and pointed to these youthful poems as proof of his corruption. $200-300

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219 Bible Commentary, Four Volumes: Cornelius a Lapide (1567-1637) Commentaria in Ecclesiasticum, Antwerp: Meurs, 1663; and Commentaria in Pentateuchum Mosis, Antwerp: Meurs, 1661, two large folios, each more than a thousand pages long, in contemporary speckled calfskin, worn, boards attached, engraved title pages in each volume, one volume with a long note in an English hand dated 1719 on ffep; Lapide was one of the most widely read and published Jesuit authors of his time.

Together with: Jean-Baptiste Du Hamel (1624-1706) Biblia Sacra Vulgatae Editionis, Madrid: Ibarra, 1767, in two large folio volumes, contemporary sponge-decorated sheepskin, peeling and rubbed, spines tooled in gilt compartments; Du Hamel was a French scientist, theologian and philosopher. $300-400

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220 Bible, English, Selections. A Curious Hieroglyphick Bible. Worcester, Massachusetts: Isaiah Thomas, 1788.

12mo in signatures of six, with the woodcut frontispiece of Adam and Eve facing the title, lacking the final leaf, M4, 143/144, otherwise complete, all third leaves signed as second throughout, stab sewn and preserved in its original limp fabric binding, protected with a contemporary paper cover, somewhat fragmentary at the foot of the spine, exposing the underlying binding, manuscript waste paper pastedowns, the text printed with dozens of woodcuts throughout, contents somewhat toned, but in period and unsophisticated condition.

The Hieroglyphick Bible is one of the earliest American children’s books. $3,000-4,000

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221 Bible, New Testament in Greek, Editio Regia. Novum Iesu Christi D. N. Testamentum ex Bibliotheca Regia. Paris: Ex officina Roberti Stephani typographi Regii, Regiis typis, 1550.

Small folio, printed in all three sizes of the special Greek font designed for the French King by Claude Garamond, with ornate woodcut head pieces and initials, some

occasional spotting and minor marginal notations, with an embossed stamp on the first title page, contents otherwise clean, bound in full 17th century French marbled calfskin, spine gilt, all edges red, marbled endleaves, front joint cracked.

This first Greek New Testament to contain numbered verses was compiled from fifteen different manuscript sources by the printer’s

son, Henri Stephanus. In 1550, Sorbonne theologians considered biblical scholarship heretical; variant readings of a divinely composed sacred text should not exist.

However, not all scholars scorned Stephanus’s achievement, the English translators of the King James version of the Bible used this edition of the Greek New Testament as one of their primary textual sources. $4,000-6,000

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222 Blagrave, Joseph (1610-1682) Blagrave’s Introduction to Astrology. London: by Tyler & Holt for Obadiah Blagrave, 1682.

Octavo, with engraved portrait frontispiece mounted, lacking the final leaf of the advertisements, otherwise complete, with many astrological symbols and figures in the text, bound in later sheepskin, rebacked, with a new label.

In addition to practical advice on reading the stars, Blagrave also provides information on how to interpret an astrological chart to answer very specific questions, such as: whether an absent family member is still alive; when an expectant mother will deliver her child; whether a person is bewitched; whether cattle are bewitched; the time of one’s death, and other important questions. $500-700 223 Blake, William (1757-1827) Six Books and One Portfolio. Gilchrist’s Life of Blake, London, 1863, in two volumes, morocco spines and buckram boards; Songs of Innocence, full-color facsimile, London, 1954, in sheepskin spine, brown paper boards, housed in matching slipcase, one of 1,600 on Arches paper; Catalogue of William Blake’s Drawings and Paintings in the Huntington Library, San Marino, 1963; Sinderen’s Blake, the Mystic Genius, Syracuse, 1949, in publisher’s white cloth spine with water color decorated boards, housed in publisher’s slipcase, full-color illustrations, one of 1,100 copies; the portfolio, Illustrations to Young Night Thoughts Done in Water-Colour by William Blake, Cambridge, for the Fogg Art Museum, 1927, one of 500 copies, with five full-color and twenty-five plain plates, in publisher’s blue folder with ties; and Notes for a Catalogue of the Blake Library, Cambridge, 1960, in gray textured limp paper. $300-500 224 Blandford, George Spencer, Marquis of (1766-1840) White Knights Library. London, 1819.

Octavo, first edition, two parts in one volume, ruled in red throughout, with buyers’ names and prices realized, changes made during the sale also noted, and an added manuscript index of high spots; bound in contemporary half sheepskin, blind and gilt decorated spine, and paste paper boards.

Spencer had a 1483 Caxton Pylgremage of the Sowle; an incunable Aesop with woodcuts; and an undated Wynkyn de Worde imprint, the first book printed on paper made in England. His books sold in over 4,700 lots, distributed over eleven days of sales. $1,000-1,200

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225 Bohn, Henry George. A Catalogue of Books. London, 1841.

Very thick octavo (4 3/4 in.), half red sheepskin, quite rubbed, back board detached, ex library copy with release stamp inside front board; Bohn’s famous “Guinea” catalogue, prepared by William Lowndes with the assistance of Bernard Quaritch, it includes descriptions of more than 23,000 titles.

Together with: Thomas Thorpe’s Catalogue of the Most Extensive, Valuable and Truly Interesting Collection of Curious Books, 1842; Catalogue of the Greater Part of the Library of Thomas Crofton Croker, 1854; and Catalogue of the Singularly Curious, Very Interesting and Valuable Library of Edward Skegg, Esq., 1842. $200-300 226 Book and Auction Catalogs, Twelve Volumes: Auction catalog of Lord Amherst of Hackney’s collection, 1908-09; Catalogue of the Collection of English and French Literature of the Sixteenth to Nineteenth Century, property of John Hayward, 1966; Catalogue of Early English Books of the Elizabethan Period, collected by William A. White, 1926; Catalog of the Library of Thomas Jefferson McKee, 1900; Jonathan Goodwin’s collection of important modern first editions, 1977; sammelband of book catalogs of George D. Smith of New York; Dean Swift’s Library, Cambridge, 1932, two copies; Catalogue of the Valuable Literary and Art Property gathered by the Late Augustin Daly, New York, 1900, part II, books; The Stephen H. Wakeman Collection of Books of the Nineteenth Century, American Writers, New York, 1924; Bibliotheca Phillippica, New Series: Fifth Part, Americana, New York, 1969, in boards; and The Library of the Late Beverly Chew, part one, 1924. $200-300 227 Book Auction Catalogs, Five Volumes: Guillaume-Francois Debure’s Catalogue des Livres, Paris, 1767, quarto, in two volumes, a clean copy, with prices realized added in manuscript throughout, bound in matching modern brown buckram.

Together with: Debure’s Catalogue des Livres de la Bibliotheque de Feu M. le Duc de la Valliere, Paris, 1783, portrait frontispiece in volume one, three untrimmed octavo volumes, bound in three-quarter red morocco, volume one, rebacked; volume two, spine detached; volume three, spine chipped. $400-600

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228 Book Auction Catalog. Charles de Rohan, Prince of Soubise (1715-1787): Catalogue des Livres, Imprimes et Manuscrits, de la Bibliotheque de Feu Monseigneur le Prince de Soubise, Marechal de France, dont la vente sera indiquee par affiches au moise de Janvier 1789. Paris: Leclerc, 1788.

Octavo, with table of contents and index, full contemporary parchment with yapp edges, marbled endleaves, prices realized, notes of multiple copies, grouped lots, and other annotations appear in a contemporary hand in ink throughout the text, 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.

Soubise’s exhaustive collection of more than 8,300 volumes in all categories contained works in every subject, and large portions of the libraries of Jean Grolier and Jacques Auguste de Thou. $300-500 229 Book Auction Catalogs, Mark Masterman Sykes (1771-1823): Catalogue of the Splendid, Curious, and Extensive Library, London: Evans, 1824, first and third parts only, octavo, bound together in modern red buckram, untrimmed throughout, first and last leaves browned and chipped.

Together with: A Catalogue of the Prints of Sir Mark Masterman Sykes, London: Davy, 1824, to be sold by Mr. Sotheby, five parts in one volume, large quarto, portrait frontispiece, ruled in red with prices realized and buyers’ names added throughout, three-quarter diced russia, front board detached, frontispiece and endleaves foxed, contents otherwise clean. $350-450 230 Book Auction Catalogs, Five Volumes: London: 1801-1833. Bibliotheca Brandiana, 1807, lacking the title page, and all after page 368, in limp cloth wraps; Catalogue of the Splendid, Choice, and Curious Library of P.A. Hanrott, Esq., 1833, parts one and two only of five, with prices realized, in full buckram; Catalogue of the Books, Paintings, Miniatures, Drawings, Prints, and various Curiosities of Samuel Ireland, 1801, defective, lacking at least one signature; A Catalogue of the Curious and Valuable Library of Amos Strettell, Esq., 1820, some spots of mold on endleaves, boards detached, prices realized and buyers’ names added; and Rare & Valuable Collection of Engraved British Portraits, 1809, contents clean, with a printed index and buyers’ names and prices realized added in ink; both boards detached. $400-600

231 Book Catalog. Richard Farmer (1735-1797): Bibliotheca Farmeriana. A Catalogue of the Curious, Valuable and Extensive Library, in Print and Manuscript, of Richard Farmer.

London: [Thomas King,] 1798.

Octavo, first and only edition, printed on blue laid paper, untrimmed, with deckle edges throughout, page 156 is correctly numbered, original blue paper wrappers bound into a modern half red morocco and buckram binding by Harcourt Bindery.

Farmer’s library, sold in 8,199 lots, included obscure Elizabethan literature, and copies of Shakespeare’s first, second, third and fourth folios, and twenty-three quarto plays, including copies of A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Merchant of Venice, both printed in 1600. $500-700

234 Book Catalog. George Hibbert (1757-1837): A Catalogue of the Library of George Hibbert.

London: W. Nicol, 1829.

Octavo, first and only edition, with the engraved frontispiece, and four engravings, three of which are folding, untrimmed and ruled in red throughout, with prices realized added by hand, in later blue buckram with a red label.

Together with: another copy, lacking the title and frontispiece, in half calf and buckram boards, very clean throughout.

Hibbert owned a copy of the Gutenberg Bible; Erasmus’ Adages, printed by Aldus in 1520, ex libris Jean Grolier; a Hypnerotomachia printed on vellum, and approximately 8,700 other fine books. $300-500

232 Book Catalog. Richard Gough (1735-1809): A Catalogue of the Entire Valuable Library.

London: Leigh and S. Sotheby, 1810.

Octavo, three-quarter leather, text ruled and with manuscript price notations throughout, extremity wear, front board starting, toned, scattered soiling. $200-300

235 Book Catalog. Thomas King (fl. circa 1800): Bibliotheca Steevensiana. London: by J. Barker, [1800]. Octavo, first and only edition, with the additional printed sixteen-page table of prices realized bound at the end, ruled in pencil, and prices noted in ink in a contemporary hand; in green straight grain half morocco and marbled paper boards, front board detached, 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 in. George Steevens owned nearly fifty Shakespeare quarto plays, including twelve first editions.

Together with: Bibliotheca Bridgesiana, or a Catalogue of the Entire Library of John Bridges, London, 1725, lacking the title page and the plate; bound in half modern morocco and marbled paper boards, untrimmed copy, ruled and priced by hand throughout, 8 3/4 x 5 1/2 in. $500-700

233 Book Catalog. Richard Heber (1773-1833): Bibliotheca Heberiana. London: Sotheby, Evans, and Weatley, 1834-1836.

Octavo, twelve parts (of thirteen) in twelve volumes, lacking the thirteenth part, first and only edition; two volumes in original paper boards, spines flaking, boards loose, the other ten volumes in recent uniform half buckram and paper boards.

Together with: thirteen additional duplicate volumes of the same, not forming a complete set, five in recent half buckram, seven in publisher’s paper, one in half green leather; of all twenty-five volumes, only two have trimmed edges, the rest are untrimmed throughout.

Richard Heber was a bibliomaniac of the highest order. His library, which filled six houses, and contained at least 200,000 volumes, was sold by three different auction houses over a four-year period, and was quite simply the most exhaustive book collection ever assembled by any one person. $2,500-3,500

236 Book Catalog. Samuel Paterson: Bibliotheca Westiana, a Catalogue of the Curious and truly Valuable Library of the late James West.

[London: n.p., 1773].

Octavo, first and only edition, title page somewhat spotted, text interleaved with ruled blank sheets.

Bound with: A Catalogue of the Entire Collection of Scarce and Curious Prints, Books of Prints, and Drawings of James West, 1773, in modern half red morocco and buckram boards by Harcourt Bindery, ex libris A.N.L. Munby, with his bookplate pasted inside the front board.

West’s collection, consisting of 4,653 lots, sold over twenty-four days, and contained thirty-six Caxtons, and other imprints by Wynkyn de Worde and Pynson. $800-1,200

237 Book Catalogs, Eleven Volumes: Lord Mostyn’s Plays, Illuminated Manuscripts, and Printed Books auction catalogs in three volumes, 1919-1920; Sale Catalogues of the Libraries of Samuel Johnson, Hester Lynch Thrale (Mrs. Piozzi) and James Boswell, Oak Knoll, 1993; Catalogue of the Renowned Library removed from Ham House, 1938; Description of an Extraordinary Volume of Shakespeareana the Property of Richard Francis Burton, 1920; an American Art Association catalog, 1935; and The Library of Charles W. Clark, San Francisco, 1916, volumes two, three, four, and five only. $200-300 238 Book Catalogs, Nine Volumes: Francis Douce (1757-1834). Catalogue of the Printed Books and Manuscripts Bequeathed by Francis Douce, Esq. to the Bodleian Library.

Oxford: at the University Press, 1840.

Folio, engraved vignette on title, some slight waterstaining, first signature becoming detached, last leaf detached, last signature chipped, top back corner of the head scorched, in half cloth and paper boards, rare.

Together with: An Appendix to the Catalogue of the Rowfant Library, limited edition, 1900; Catalogue of the Cathedral Library of Salisbury, 1880; and six assorted volumes of Bibliotheca Grenvilliana, 1842-1872, four in half red morocco with gold lettered spines and two in publisher’s cloth. $300-500 239 Book Catalogs, Seven Volumes: Bound volumes of 19th century book catalogs, including a catalogue of the Reverend Alexander Dyce collection, given to the South Kensington Museum, 1875; part four of the Brinley collection, with prices realized, Hartford, 1886; auction catalog of William Sharp’s collection of prints and drawings, Manchester, 1878; parts one, two and three of the Thomas Corser collection auction, 1868-69; and a sammelband containing auction catalogues for the Ellis, Osterley Park, Shadford Walker, Wodhull, and Cheney collections, 1885-86. $400-600 240 Book Catalogs, Ten Volumes: Bound volumes of 19th century book auction catalogs, including those of Rev. F.J. Stainforth, 1867; the Sunderland/Blenheim library auction, parts one, two, and four only, 1881-1882; the Charles B. Foote collection, New York, 1894; the Brayton Ives collection of books and manuscripts, New York: De Vinne Press, 1891; the Zelotes Hosmer collection, Boston, 1861; the Francis Freeling collection, London, 1836; the Henry Perkins collection of illuminated manuscripts, illustrated, London, 1873; and George Smith’s collection, London, 1867. $400-600

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241 Bookseller’s Catalog, 1592. Nicolaus Basseus (c. 1540-1601). Collectio in Unum Corpus, Omnium Librorum Hebraeorum, Graecorum, Latinorum necnon Germanice, Italice, Gallice, & Hispanice. Frankfurt: Nicolaus Basseus, 1592.

Quarto, three parts in one volume, with the engraved armorial bookplate of Johann Conrad Feuerlein (1725-1788) pasted inside the front board, in contemporary German blind-stamped alum-tawed pigskin over wooden boards, clasps and catches missing, large sections of the covering material missing from the back board; dampstaining with some softening of paper in the last section.

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The bookseller George Willer exhibited at the Frankfurt fair every year from 1564 to 1592, and his offerings are compiled and listed here. Organized by language and subject matter, the first part consists of more than 10,000 titles in Latin, including protestant and catholic works, law books, medicine, history, philosophy, poetry, and music. The second part contains German books, the third includes books in Italian, Spanish, and French, and the topics are little broader, including military architecture, cosmography, astronomy, and equestrian. $3,000-5,000

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242 Boudard, Jean-Baptiste (1710-1768) Iconologie. Vienna: Trattnern, 1766.

Octavo, second edition, three volumes bound as one, with 630 engraved emblems, one on each text page throughout, lacking leaf 11/12 from the first volume, otherwise complete, bound in contemporary three-quarter dark leather and marbled boards, bookplate of G. Delmay inside front board. $600-800 243 Boulton, Richard (b. 1676) A Compleat History of Magick, Sorcery, and Witchcraft.

London: for E. Curll, J. Pemberton, and W. Taylor, 1715-1716.

12mo, first edition, in two volumes, with the engraved frontispiece in volume one, later calf, spines perished, occasional spotting to contents.

Boulton relates dozens of stories, including testimony given in court, all meant to demonstrate the veracity of demonic possession, conjuring, and other forms of black magic. $700-900

244 Bowditch, Nathaniel (1773-1838) The New American Practical Navigator. Newburyport, Massachusetts: Blunt, 1802.

Large octavo, first edition, folding frontispiece in facsimile, all six full-paged engravings present, title page with losses in the blank margin, in old boards, rebacked, with the appearance of a book that has been well-used at sea.

Bowditch set out to edit John Hamilton Moore’s Practical Navigator, the American edition, but he found that it was so replete with errors, that it was necessary for him to start from scratch. Every American naval vessel is required to carry a copy of Bowditch (with modern updates). $2,000-3,000

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245 Bradley, William H. (1868-1962) Bradley His Book. Springfield, Massachusetts: The Wayside Press, 1896.

Volume I, numbers 1, 2, and 3; Volume II, number 1; and the original prospectus with subscription card; some issues unopened, one in intact original glassine wrapper, Vol. II, number 1 missing one insert of three, cover chipped.

Bradley gathered the most accomplished members of the book art and illustration community as contributors in this charming Aesthetic Movement/Art Nouveau publication.

At the Wayside Press, he served as illustrator, graphic designer, type designer, press manager, and editor. He was inducted into the Society of Illustrators’ Hall of Fame in 2001. $400-600

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246 British Miscellany, Three Volumes: Pufendorf’s Whole Duty of Man According to the Law of Nature, third edition, 1705, contemporary calf, spine head chipped, front joint partially split, worming to title repaired with modern tape; Taylor’s Elements of the Civil Law, third edition, [1769], contemporary calf, rubbed, leather at joints starting, but boards firmly attached, red, gilt-lettered label; and Lord Teignmouth’s Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Correspondence of Sir William Jones, 1804, with portrait frontispiece, and the engraved prayer bound at the end, contemporary diced russia, spine bumped with losses, leather splitting at joints, boards beginning to loosen.

Sir William Jones, founder of the Asiatic Society in Calcutta, studied Sanskrit, and Indian culture. $400-600 247 Brook Farm. The Harbinger, Devoted to Social and Political Progress. New York and Boston: Published by the Brook Farm Phalanx, 1845-1846.

Twenty issues of the weekly paper, loose, as printed; volume II, numbers 1-8, 11-17, 19-20, and 24-26, some with folds and stains, other copies quite clean, 8 1/2 x 11 3/4 in.

Brook Farm was a utopian community established by George Ripley and his wife Sophia in West Roxbury in the 1840s. This particular publication was inspired by the socialist Charles Fourier. Hawthorne, a founding member of Brook Farm, based his novel The Blithedale Romance on his experiences there. After a devastating fire, the farm ceased operations. By 1847, it was completely abandoned. $300-500

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248 Brouerius Van Niedek, Matthaeus (1677-1743) Adorationibus Dissertatio.

Amsterdam: Oosterwyk, 1713.

Octavo, engraved frontispiece, text vignettes, and eleven full-paged engravings of ancient seals, coins, temples and sculpture, in contemporary stiff parchment. $200-300 249 Buchanan, James, British Consul to New York (1772-1851) Sketches of the History, Manners, and Customs of the North American Indians, with a Plan for their Melioration. New York: Published by William Borradaile, 1824.

Octavo, two volumes, in original papercovered boards, mostly unopened and completely untrimmed throughout, end papers spotted, bottom blank corner of title page in volume two torn away.

Buchanan concludes his Sketches with recommendations for imposing European “civilization” on the North American Indians, and establishing a reservation that he calls a “Royal Asylum.” $300-400

250 Bukowski, Charles (1920-1994) It Catches My Heart in its Hands: New & Selected Poems 1955-1963. [New Orleans]: Loujon Press, 1963.

First edition, limited to 777 copies, signed by Bukowski in silver ink on the endleaf, hand bound with an illustrated protective cover, printed on multicolor paper with deckle edges throughout, well preserved, a striking example of well-executed artistic book production. $700-900

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251 Burchett, Josiah (1666?-1746) Memoirs of Transactions at Sea during the War with France; Beginning in 1688, and ending in 1697. London: Sold by John Nutt near Stationer’s-hall, 1703.

Octavo, first edition variant, British Museum ex library copy with their classic stamp on the verso of the title with red duplicate stamp beneath, text block broken, contemporary boards detached and quite chipped, contents clean.

Burchett served in the navy under Samuel Pepys, rising to Secretary of the Admiralty, and serving for forty-eight years at that post.

In this memoir he recalls his time aboard the HMS Britannia, and offers a first-hand view of the naval events of the Nine Years’ War. $300-500 252 Burnat, Gilbert (fl. circa 1649) Ethicae Dissertationes. Leiden: Maire, 1649.

First edition, octavo, in a contemporary speckled calfskin binding with the arms of Jacques Auguste de Thou in gilt on front and back boards, leather split at front joint.

Confusion could easily arise between the two Scottish Gilberts, Burnet and Burnat. The more famous Burnet was six years old when this book was published. Further confusion may ensue because de Thou, the French book collector, died in 1617. $200-300 253 Byzantine Empire and Constantinople, Eleven Volumes: Finlay’s History of the Byzantine Empire, London, 1853, in publisher’s cloth, two volumes; Davey’s The Sultan and His Subjects, New York, 1897, in publisher’s cloth, two volumes; Clement’s Constantinople the City of the Sultans, Boston, [1895], in gilt-stamped publisher’s cloth; Edmondo de Amicis’ Constantinople, New York & London, [1896], in gilt publisher’s cloth, two volumes; Grosvenor’s Constantinople, Boston, 1895, in gilt publisher’s cloth, two volumes; Schlumberger’s Un Empereur Byzantin au Dixieme Siecle Nicephore Phocas, Paris, 1890, in decorated publisher’s cloth, and one other. $300-500

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254 Carew, Thomas (1595?-1645?) Poems.

London: I.D. for Thomas Walkley, 1642.

Octavo, second edition, contemporary sheepskin, rebacked; Randolph, Thomas (1605-1635) Poems. Oxford: by Lichfield for Bowman, [1638], lacking the title page, and one text leaf, P1; in modern calf spine with buckram boards; Virgil Bucolica, Georgica, et Aeneis. Birmingham: Baskerville, 1766, full contemporary red sheepskin, boards gilt-ruled, spine tooled and lettered in gilt with a letter B at the foot of the spine, inner gilt dentelles, marbled and gilt edges, marbled endleaves, silk book mark, one small rubbed area on the back board, otherwise a good contemporary binding; and Madame de Stael Holstein’s Corinne, ou L’Italie, Paris, 1807, in three volumes, three-quarter calfskin with gilt spines and marbled boards. $400-600 255 Casaubon Meric (1599-1671) A Treatise Proving Spirits, Witches, and Supernatural Operations, by Pregnant Instances and Evidences. London: for Brabazon Aylmer, 1672.

Octavo, second edition, first published under the title, Of Credulity and Incredulity, with imprimatur and errata, gutter edge of the title page trimmed closely, with loss to a few letters, old boards detached. $300-500 256 Castillo, Julian del (fl. circa 1590) Historia de Los Reyes Godos. Madrid: Sanchez, 1624.

Folio, later edition, with added material up to 1624, printed in two columns throughout, stains on title and preliminary leaves, bound in contemporary limp Spanish parchment.

This work, which contains biographies of gothic kings who invaded the Holy Roman Empire and Spain, begins with Noah and continues to the date of publication. Castillo may have been a source for Cervantes; both mention the Arthurian legend suggesting that the ancient British king took the form of a crow at the time of his death, explaining the English superstition against harming the birds. $600-800

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257 Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia (1729-1796) Instruction de sa Majeste Imperiale Catherine II. pour la Commission Chargee de Dresser le Pojet d’un Nouveau Code de Loix. Petersburg: De l’Imprimerie de l’Academie des Sciences, 1770.

Quarto, polyglot edition, printed in Russian, Latin, German and French throughout, with engraved vignettes at beginning and end of text, patterned pastedowns, early ownership inscription, wax seal on the verso of the last leaf, bound in full sponge-decorated contemporary calfskin, blind tooled spine and red lettering piece.

This revision of the law, or Nakaz, was inspired

by Enlightenment thinkers like Diderot and Montesquieu, and represents a new trend in criminal law, with a marked movement away from the practice of capital punishment. “In a state protected against its foreign enemies and internally supported by the armed forces and by public opinion, where authority is in the hands of the sovereign, there can be no need to take the life of a citizen.” $300-500 258 Catullus (c. 84 BC-c. 54 BC); Tibullus (c.

55 BC-19 BC); and Propertius (50 BC-15 BC) ed. Joseph Scaliger (1540-1609) Nova Editio. Paris: Apud Mamertum Patissonium, in officina Rob. Stephani, 1577. [bound with] Castigationes in Catullum, Tibullum, Propertium. Paris: Apud Mamertum Patissonium, in officina Rob. Stephani, 1577.

Octavo, first edition, collated, complete, with blanks, a large copy, 6 3/4 x 4 1/4 in., with several contemporary signatures on ffep and title, and contemporary scholarly notes on a few pages in the text; bound in limp period parchment, detached from the textblock, parchment rumpled and dirty, contents good.

Scaliger’s edition of the relatively recently discovered Catulls, Tibullus and Propertius manuscripts established a rational approach to classical scholarship that shares more with the scientific method than the practices that preceded it. His work is still valued today. $600-800 259 Catullus, Gaius Valerius (c. 84 BC-c. 54 BC) ed. Gian Antonio Volpi (1686-1766) Novus Commentarius. Padua: Cominus, 1737.

Large quarto, first separate edition, title page printed in red and black with engraved vignette, gilt and gauffered edges, bound in contemporary parchment over stiff boards, contents very clean.

Volpi’s edition of Catullus is considered the most valuable of the 18th century. $200-400

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260 Catullus, Tibullus, and Propertius.

Fragmenta quae Extant. Amsterdam: Caesium, 1626.

Small octavo, engraved title, typographic book plate of Charles-Ignace de Mongenet, 1718, contemporary Dutch parchment, somewhat cocked.

Together with: Martial’s Epigrammaton Libri XII., Leiden: Plantin, 1606, [bound with] another edition of Catullus, Leiden: Plantin, 1601, contemporary parchment, defective; and a French translation of Catullus by Mollevaut, Paris: Louis, 1812. $150-250

261 Celsus, Aulus Cornelius (c. 25 BC-c. 50) De Re Medica. Lyons: Tornaesium & Gazeium, 1554.

Octavo, title page printed within decorative border, text printed in italics throughout, small portion of blank margin trimmed away at the head of the title, without loss; binding perished, back board missing, with the Whitfield bookplate pasted inside the detached front board.

Celsus was an ancient Roman encyclopedist whose work originally included many fields, but only the contributions to medicine survive. $300-400

262 Cesareo, Agostino (fl. circa 1568) L’Arte della Navigatione con il Regimento della Tramontana, e del sole; e la Regola del flusso, e reflusso delle Acque. [Italy, 16th century].

Quarto, manuscript on paper, written by one scribe in a careful humanistic script, 53 leaves, penwork grottesche on page one, four working volvelles, six text illustrations and other tables, ownership inscription dated 1604 on integral blank preceding the text, bound in later parchment, resembling a period binding, in good condition, text leaves clean throughout.

This manuscript of Cesareo’s work on navigation bears a strong resemblance to a different copy at the Beinecke Library. The text is divided into three parts, the first dealing with cosmography and navigation in general, the second treats the subject of navigation by the north star and the sun, part three is occupied with the action of the tides, and begins with a lovely sketch of the man in the moon, controller of tides. An especially evocative volvelle includes a sketch of a tiny ocean-going ship that circles the globe from pole to pole. $30,000-35,000

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263 Champney, Elizabeth Williams (1850-1922) Three Vassar Girls Abroad. Boston: Estes and Lauriat, 1883.

First edition, illustrated throughout, original pictorial boards, front board creased, large chunk missing from top corner of rear board; scattered soiling, extremity wear, waterstaining; 6 1/2 x 8 1/2 in. The first novel in the famous series, featuring Maud, Barbara and Cecilia, written by the Vassar graduate. $100-150 264 Chapman, Abel (1851-1929) Seven Titles: Wild Norway, London, 1897; The Borders Beyond, London, 1924; On Safari, London, 1908; Retrospect, 1928; Memories, London, 1930; Unexplored Spain, London, 1910; Bird Life of the Borders, London, 1907, all in publisher’s cloth. $200-300 265 Chastellux, Francois-Jean, Marquis de (1734-1788) Voyage en Amerique. Paris: le Francq, 1786.

Octavo, second edition, contemporary sponged calfskin, gilt spine, front joint starting slightly.

Chastellux served France during the American Revolution as the principal liaison between the French Army and General Washington. In this work, he offers his own portrait Washington.

He also describes a conversation he had with Sam Adams, a trip up the Hudson River, a visit to Governor Benjamin Harrison in Virginia, and more. $200-300

268 Connolly, Cyril (1903-1974) The Unquiet Grave. Three copies, all first editions: a hardcover copy of the Horizon edition, London, 1944, inscribed on the ffep, with dust jacket; a softcover copy of the same edition; and a hardcover copy of the first American edition, Harper, 1945, housed in a custommade green morocco and buckram slipcase and chemise.

Inside the front flap of the dust jacket, the author notes, “The correct text is the Harper Edition: U.S.A.” $400-600 269 Conrad, Joseph (1857-1924) Nostromo, a Tale of the Seaboard. New York and London: Harper and Brothers, 1904.

First American edition, in publisher’s green cloth, lettered in gilt, with orange and black design, small stain on front board.

Conrad’s Heart of Darkness may be the better known work, but F. Scott Fitzgerald said, “I’d rather have written Nostromo than any other novel.” $300-500 270 Corneille, Pierre (1606-1684) Theatre.

[Geneva: Cramer], 1764.

Octavo, twelve volumes, illustrated with a frontispiece engraved by Watelet, and fullpaged plates throughout the text by Gravelot, contemporary sponged calfskin, spines very dry, disintegrating, most labels missing.

Corneille was one of the most celebrated of the French 17th-century playwrights. He was active in the theatre for more than thirty years and is the author of Le Cid. $300-500

266 Churchill, Winston (1874-1965) Savrola.

A Tale of the Revolution in Laurania. New York, London, and Bombay: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1900.

First English edition, of Churchill’s only work of fiction; gilt-stamped blue publisher’s cloth, with some wear. $300-500 267 Classics, Four Volumes: Claudian’s Opera, Leiden: Elzevir, 1650, 12mo, engraved title, 18th century bookplate, front board detached; Suetonius’ Opera, ed. Boxhornius, Amsterdam: Jansson & Waesberg, 1668, 12mo, engraved title, intact contemporary English calf; Historiae Augustae, Leiden: Marcus, 1621, 12mo, contemporary stiff parchment, intact; and another edition of Claudian, ed. Barthius, Hamburg: Nauman, 1650, quarto, engraved title, contemporary vellum, contents browned throughout. $300-500

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271 Cotton, John III (1693-1757) Two Sermons Preach’d at Dorchester, on the Lord’s-Day, April 9, 1727. Boston: by B. Green, jun. for S. Gerrish, 1727.

Octavo, first edition, with the two advertisement leaves at the end, contemporary American sheepskin over scabbard boards, decorated in blind with a rolled tool parallel to the spine, paste downs mostly rubbed away, no endleaves, stab stitch binding with alum-tawed thongs, leather chipped at head and tail with losses at the corners, contents stained, many leaves torn; an unrestored colonial binding in well-used but typical condition for its place and time.

Cotton published only nine books during his lifetime. $2,000-3,000 272 Cummington Press, Three Volumes: Blackmur’s The Second World; Tate’s The Hovering Fly; all limited edition in original bindings. $200-300 273 Daniel, George (1789-1864) Catalogue of the Must Valuable, Interesting and Highly Important Library of the Late George Daniel Esq. London, 1864.

Octavo, half green morocco and cloth boards, rubbed, faded, peeling, with the stamp of William Stirling on the front board and his large bookplate pasted inside, with prices realized and buyers’ names added.

Together with: Catalogue of a Singularly Curious and Valuable Selection from the Library of a Gentleman [John B. Inglis], 1826, boards detached, ruled in red with prices realized and buyers’ names added in ink.

Daniel’s First Folio is now at the Folger, his quartos went to the British Library and Henry Huth. Inglis was famous for his idiosyncratic collecting, his Caxtons, and his blockbooks. $250-350 274 Daniel, George (1789-1864) Catalogue of the Must Valuable, Interesting and Highly Important Library of the Late George Daniel Esq. London, 1864.

Octavo, in contemporary half red morocco and marbled paper boards, with paper wrappers bound in, ex libris W.W. Greg and Frederick Locker, with correspondence from Locker tucked inside the front board, ruled in red with prices realized and buyers’ names added.

Together with: Catalogue of a Singularly Curious and Valuable Selection from the Library of a Gentleman [John B. Inglis], 1826, large paper copy, untrimmed, some spotting, bound in half leather and red paper boards, rubbed and scratched, endleaves dusty. $250-350

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275 Darwin, Charles (1809-1882) Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of his Majesty’s Ships Adventure and Beagle, between the Years 1826 and 1836. London: Colburn, 1839.

First edition, octavo, four volumes, illustrated with six maps and forty-eight illustrations as called for in the “Directions to the Binder” in each volume; the maps all bound into the text; maps in volume one foxed, one mounted on fabric, the other torn along the folds with one part detached; bound in contemporary half calf, all boards detached.

The observations that Darwin made while traveling on the Beagle while he was in his twenties likely planted the seed that allowed the theory of evolution to germinate in his imagination. The research he prepared subsequent to the voyages, published here for the first time, secured his place as a thorough and respected scientist and allowed him to advance his budding career. $18,000-22,000

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276 Davis, Edwin John (fl. circa 1870) Anatolica; or, the Journal of a Visit to Some of the Ancient Ruined Cities of Caria, Phrygia, Lycia, and Pisidia. London: Grant & Co., 1874.

Bound in violet cloth, stamped with the title on the front board in gilt, 32 plates, two folding maps, spine faded.

Davis made his journey in 1872. $600-800 277 De la Escosura, Patricio (1807-1878) Espana Artistica y Monumental. Paris: Hauser, 1842, 1844, 1850.

Three large folio volumes, designed by Genaro Perez de Villa-Amil, illustrated throughout with full-paged lithographs; bindings defective, some leaves detached and torn.

This large collection of lithographs of Spanish views contains the work of many different artists. Text is printed in double columns in French and Spanish throughout, prints are suitable for framing. $2,000-2,500

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278 De Ricci, Seymour (1881-1942) English Collectors of Books & Manuscripts (15301930) and their Marks of Ownership.

Cambridge: at the University Press, 1930.

Publisher’s cloth, in two volumes.

Together with: List of Catalogues of English Book Sales 1676-1900 now in the British Museum, 1915; Munby and Coral’s British Book Sale Catalogues, 1977; Psaume’s Dictionnaire Bibliographique, ou Nouveau Manuel du Libraire, two volumes, Paris, 1824; Specimens of Shakespeariana in the Bodleian Library at Oxford, 1927; Fifty-five Books Printed before 1525 Representing the Works of England’s First Printers from the Collection of Paul Mellon, 1968; and Lemon’s Catalogue of a Collection of Printed Broadsides, 1866. $600-800

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279 Deane, James (1801-1858) Ichnographs from the Sandstone of Connecticut River.

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1861.

First edition, large quarto, sixty-one pages of text followed by forty-six plates, the first fifteen are lithographs based on Deane’s drawings; plates sixteen through forty-six are salted-paper photographic prints; bound in the original textured cloth binding, with the title stamped in gold on the front board.

James Deane, of Greenfield, Massachusetts, was a surgeon who became interested in the trace footprints of extinct animals found fossilized in a quarry near his home.

Determined to study and document these trace fossils, he worked closely with an unknown photographer to create these “ichnographs,” which he describes as “exquisite specimens of art.” This is one of the first scientific works printed in America illustrated with photographic prints. $400-600 280 Decorative Bindings, Forty-seven Volumes: Assorted 19th century sets in tan, maroon, and black leather bindings, spines tooled in gilt, all boards attached, 5 linear feet. $400-600 281 Decorative Bindings, Forty-six Volumes: Sir Walter Scott’s Waverley Novels, Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1867.

Uniformly bound in three-quarter dark green morocco with marbled boards, endleaves and edges, spines ruled and lettered in gilt, all boards attached, 4 1/2 linear feet. $300-500

282 Decorative Bindings, Sixty-three Volumes: An assortment of 19th century sets in red, tan, and blue leather, with gilt-tooled spines, a few boards detached, the majority intact and clean, 7 linear feet. $600-800 283 Decorative Bindings, Twenty Volumes: Assorted 19th century sets in leather gilttooled bindings, one with covers detached, 2 linear feet. $200-400 284 Decorative Bindings, Twenty-Four Volumes: Including an eight-volume set of Knight’s Popular History of England; three bound volumes of Harper’s magazine, and other odd volumes, mostly in leather bindings. $250-350 285 Decorative Sets, Approximately Fifty Volumes: Assorted incomplete sets, decorative leather and cloth volumes, 18th and 19th centuries, including works by Thackeray, George Eliot, Lowell, Florian, and others. $400-600

286 Descartes, Rene (1596-1650) Les Passions de L’Ame. Paris: Le Gras, 1649.

First edition, octavo, collated, complete, with final blank, bound in full crushed greenish blue morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, front joint cracked, contents clean, 5 3/4 x 3 1/2 in.

This work, on the passions of the soul, was written for Queen Christina of Sweden.

Descartes believed that the soul, whose integrated function with the body originated in the brain, was the source of all human senses, thoughts, feelings, and willful acts. Such functions were more commonly attributed to other bodily organs in the 17th century. $2,000-3,000 287 Dibdin, Thomas Frognall (1776-1847) A Bibliographical Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in the Northern Counties of England and in Scotland. London: Bohn, 1838.

Two volumes bound in ornately gilt-tooled green morocco, inner gilt dentelles, a.e.g., in good condition. $200-300 288 Dickens, Charles (1812-1870) Works.

London: Chapman and Hall; Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1875.

Thirty volumes, illustrated by Marcus Stone, bound in three-quarter contemporary pebbled red morocco, with marbled paper boards and endleaves, the spines gilt ruled and lettered, t.e.g.; spines lightly rubbed and scratched, some volumes with loose leaves.

Provenance: Sold to benefit the mission and ministry of the Sisters of Saint Margaret. $250-350

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289 Diderot, Denis (1713-1784) Encyclopedie, ou Dictionnaire Raisonne des Sciences, des Arts et des Metiers, par une Societe des Gens de Lettres. Paris/Neuchatel/ Amsterdam: Various Printers, 1751-1780.

First edition, a complete thirty-five volume set, with more than 3,000 full-paged engravings, bound in uniform contemporary sponged calfskin bindings, with gilt-tooled spines, with occasional foxing to scattered leaves and plates, generally clean and fresh, a complete unsophisticated copy, in very good condition.

“The purpose of an encyclopedia is to assemble the knowledge scattered over the surface of the earth; to explain its general plan to the men with whom we live and to transmit it to the men who come after us; in order that the labors of centuries past may not be in vain during centuries to come; that our descendants, by becoming better instructed, may as a consequence be more virtuous and happier and that we may not die without having deserved well of the human race.”

(Diderot, quoted from the article on encyclopedias in the present work.)

“A monument in the history of European thought; the acme of the age of reason; a prime motive force in undermining the ancien regime and in heralding the French Revolution; a permanent source for all aspects of eighteenth century civilizations.” (Printing and the Mind of Man) $80,000-100,000

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290 Dinesen, Isak [aka Karen Blixen] (18851962) Out of Africa. New York: Random House, [1938].

First edition, orange publisher’s cloth with flamingo, black spine, in a lightly chipped somewhat faded dust jacket. $200-300 291 Donne, John (1572-1631) Love Poems.

[London] Soho: Nonesuch Press, 1923.

Limited edition, copy number 12, for the subscriber Peter A. Cruden, with a note on the limitation page indicating that the word “Soho” is not centered on the title page, in red painted vellum over stiff boards, tooled in gilt, spine faded, boards slightly reflexed. $300-500

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292 Drage, William (1637?-1669) Daimonomageia. A Small Treatise of Sicknesses and Diseases from Witchcraft and Supernatural Causes. London: by J. Dover, 1665.

Quarto, first edition, variant without the author’s name on the title (Wing D-2117); [Bound with] The Mowing-Devil: or Strange News out of Hartford-shire. Being a True Relation of a Farmer, who Bargaining with a poor Mower, about the cutting down three half acres of oats, upon the mower’s asking too much, the farmer swore that the devil should mow it, rather than he, and so it fell out, that that very night, the crop of oats appeared so neatly mow’d by the devil, or some infernal spirit, no mortal man was able to do the like.

[London?: s.n., 1678], quarto, only edition, with a woodcut of the devil mowing, three copies in U.S. libraries, 4 pages; both books bound in later half calf, joints cracked, spine becoming detached.

A rare pamphlet whose title page woodcut, depicting the devil as he mows a field of oats in concentric circles, suggests the look of a crop circle. $600-800

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293 Drayton, Michael (1563-1631) Poly-Olbion.

London: for M. Lownes, I. Browne, I. Helme, I. Busbie, 1613.

London: for John Mariott, Iohn Grismand, and Thomas Dewe, 1622.

Two folio volumes; volume one consists of the first edition, second issue, of the first part, books one through eighteen; volume two, a separate first edition with added material, containing books one through thirty; both with engraved maps by Hole, both bound in modern uniform calfskin and buckram boards.

Volume one with the engraved allegorical frontispiece by Hole and explanation thereof, lacking the portrait of Prince Henry and the typographical title page, text contains fifteen of eighteen double-paged engraved maps of the regions of Britain, one map stained, one torn with loss, dampstain on leaves 254 to 280. Volume two with portrait of Prince Henry, lacking the blank U3, with twenty of thirty double-paged engraved maps, one torn with loss, one with a leaf detached. $4,000-6,000

293A Drtikol, Frantisek (1883-1961) Les Nus. Paris: Librarie des Arts Decoratifs, [1929].

Folio, first edition, preface by Claude de Santeul; two bifolia containing half-title, title, and preface, followed by thirty heliogravure plates of Drtikol’s photographs of nudes, loose in publisher’s cloth covers; badly waterstained and damaged, covers severely warped; water damage varies from plate to plate; half-title browned. $7,000-9,000 294 Durrell, Lawrence (1912-1990) Four Novels: Justine, London: Faber & Faber, 1957, third impression; Balthazar, London: Faber & Faber, 1958, second impression; Mountolive, London: Faber & Faber, 1958, first impression; Clea, London: Faber & Faber, 1960, first impression; all copies in good publisher’s bindings and good dust jackets. $200-300 295 Duruy, Victor (1811-1894) History of Greece.

Boston: Estes & Lauriat, 1890.

Edition de luxe, number 184 of 1,000 subscriber copies printed on linen vellum paper, in eight volumes, illustrated, bound in uniform navy blue publisher’s cloth, edges untrimmed. $300-500

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296 Dwight, Edwin Welles (1789-1841) Memoirs of Henry Obookiah. New Haven, Connecticut: at the Office of the Religious Intelligencer, 1818.

First edition, 12mo, with portrait frontispiece and sermons, not included in later editions, bound in original blue paper boards, recently rebacked with paper, untrimmed, spotted throughout.

Obookiah’s parents and his baby brother were murdered “before his eyes” when he was about eleven, in Hawaii. After living with the man who murdered his family for a year or two, and then being discovered by an uncle, Obookiah decided to leave Hawaii, and traveled alone to New York while still a young teenager. $200-300

297 Edison, Thomas Alva (1847-1931) The Phonograph and its Inventor. Boston: Gunn, Bliss, & Co., 1878.

Pamphlet written by Frederick Garbit for an early trade show, with Edison’s middle name misspelled “Alvah” on the cover and the title page, 15 pages, in original paper wrappers, with wood engraved portrait of Edison on the outer cover, the same re-used as the frontispiece, and another wood engraving, entitled “Edison’s Speaking Phonograph,” with a well-dressed woman operating Edison’s invention on the back cover; some slight spotting and toning, contemporary penciled signatures on outer cover, 6 x 9 in. $800-1,000

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298 Emerson, William (1701-1782) The Principles of Mechanics. London: for Innys and Richardson, 1754.

First edition, octavo, illustrated with thirty-two folding engravings of machines, mechanical devices and other inventions, all plates with breaks along the folds, many detached, but all present, a good candidate for restoration, in full library buckram.

Emerson, who published this work anonymously, was primarily a mathematician and a schoolteacher, and the first section is filled with the formulas he used in formulating his devices. A practical mechanical physicist, he always worked with models, and never advanced an untested design. $300-400

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299 Erasmus, Desiderius (d. 1536) Adagiorum Chiliades. Basel: Froben, 1523.

Folio, collated, complete, fourth Froben edition, with woodcut title border by Urs Graf, two preliminary pages with modular borders featuring cherubs, printer’s device on final leaf within a different border, and woodcut initials used throughout the text, ruled in red throughout; in 17th century calfskin boards, rebacked, spine flaking.

Erasmus continually added to this compilation of adages throughout his life, beginning with a modest edition in 1500 of about 800 pithy sayings. The collection of proverbs had swollen to 4,151 by the final edition published within his lifetime in 1536. $1,000-1,500

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300 Erasmus, Desiderius (d. 1536) Adagiorum Opus. Basel: Froben, 1533.

Folio, collated, complete; title trimmed and crudely mounted, with numerous contemporary signatures, woodcut portrait of Erasmus on verso of title, Froben’s device on title and colophon, first six leaves with marginal paper repairs and some loss to blank margins; with contemporary manuscript notations in the margins on practically every page throughout, with a little loss to each note due to close trimming; rebound in 18th century half sheepskin, worn. $600-800

301 Erasmus, Desiderius (d. 1536) L’Eloge de la Folie. Amsterdam: Honore, 1728.

Octavo, title page printed in red and black, engraved frontispiece, full-paged engraving with portraits of Erasmus, Thomas More, and Holbein; seventy-five text illustrations and four (of six) folding plates after Holbein; in full contemporary parchment over stiff boards, with old library bookplate $200-300 302 Erasmus, Desiderius (d. 1536) L’Eloge de la Folie. Amsterdam: Honore, 1731.

Octavo, title page printed in red and black, full-paged engraving with portraits of Erasmus, Thomas More, and Holbein; and seventy-five text illustrations and six folding plates after Holbein; in full contemporary parchment over stiff boards with original marbled pastedowns, a.e.g., owner’s initials tooled in gilt on front board, contents somewhat spotted. $200-300 303 Erasmus, Desiderius (d. 1536) Lingua. [No Place]: [No Printer], [c. 1525].

Octavo, unsigned edition, printed in italic type throughout, 133 pages, internally clean, in a defective 19th century binding.

In this work Erasmus contemplates the use and abuse of language. He ponders silence and endless verbiage in the light of scholarship and the divine in a meditation on the linguistic framework that structures human thought. $500-700 304 Faulkner, William (1897-1962) The Sound and The Fury. New York: Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, 1929. First edition, in publisher’s white cloth and black and white patterned boards and end papers, in the Kollwitz dust jacket, with an advertisement for Lot Houses, by Elizabeth Manning for $2.50 on the back flap, the dust jacket with a small chip at the head of the spine in the margin before the red band, spine somewhat sunned, top board edges and head of spine slightly darkened. $3,500-5,500 305 Fenn, John (1739-1794) Original Letters Written during the Reigns of Henry VI, Edward IV, and Richard III. London: for G.G.J. and J. Robinson, 1787, in two volumes, contemporary parchment spines, blue paper boards, deckle edges throughout, hand-colored engravings.

Together with: More, Sir Thomas (1478-1535) Utopia. edited by Dibdin, London, 1808, first edition, large paper issue, in crushed brown three-quarter morocco and marbled boards, two volumes in one, illustrated. $400-600

306 Ferguson, James (1710-1776) An Easy Introduction to Astronomy. Philadelphia: Benjamin Warner, 1819 12mo, with seven folding plates and final blank, bound in full contemporary sheepskin, losses at head and tail, boards rubbed with loss surface, contents lightly browned, 4 1/2 x 7 in. $100-150 307 Fields, James T. (1817-1881) Poems.

Boston: Ticknor & Co., 1849.

12mo, Ticknor brown cloth binding, waterstained, spine chipped.

Together with: Gillies’ History of Ancient Greece, London, 1787; and The Works of Thomas Middleton, 1840, both sets odd volumes, bindings damaged, ex libris Henry Cabot Lodge. $400-600 308 Fletcher, Phineas (1582-1650) The Purple Island, or the Isle of Man. Cambridge: by the Printers to the University, 1633.

Quarto, first edition, title printed in red and black, separate title pages for the “Piscatorie Eclogs” and “Elisa,” collated complete, lacking the initial blank and the blank conjugate to the title page of the “Eclogs,” with the blank Z4, bound in 19th century crushed navy morocco, ruled and tooled in gilt, a.e.g., in a custommade cloth slipcase, a few minor rust spots in the text, bookplates of Henry Collins and Charles Butler pasted inside the front board. $400-600 309 Freher, Paul (1611-1682) Theatrum Virorum Eruditione Clarorum. Nuremberg: Hofmann & Knorz, 1688.

First edition, folio, engraved title, frontispiece portrait, typographical title printed in red and black, complete, with eighty-two full-paged engravings, each with sixteen individual portraits in a grid; two-thirds of plate 37 torn away, text complete with index; bound in full German parchment over boards, spine detached, parchment at front joint split, first few leaves detached, spotting to endleaves.

This valuable reference work includes biographies of more than 2,500 prominent contemporary catholic and protestant theologians, lawyers, judges, doctors, artists, architects, philosophers, royalty, and nobility.

The index is especially helpful. $600-800

311 Galton, Samuel John (1753-1832) The Natural History of Birds Intended for the Amusement and Instruction of Children.

London: for J. Johnson, 1791.

12mo, six parts in three volumes, containing all 116 full-paged illustrations of birds; contemporary tree calf, gilt, hinges split; spines rubbed, labels chipped; one endcap and endband missing; part of one signature starting; contents clean; ex libris Robert Napier, Alexander Young, and J.R.P. Forrest; 4 x 7 in. $800-1,200 312 Geoffroy Sainte-Hilaire, Isidore (18051861) Histoire Generale et Particuliere des Anomalies de L’Organisation Chez L’Homme et les Animaux. Paris: J.-B. Balliere, 1832-[1837].

Two text volumes, and the atlas volume, bound in half leather and decorative paper boards, text volumes with three folding typographical tables, the atlas volume illustrated with twenty full-paged lithographs.

Together with: Dareste’s Recherches sur la Production Artificielle des Monstruosites ou Essais de Teratogenie Experimentale, Paris, 1877, illustrated, contemporary cloth binding, spine becoming detached.

Both works are concerned with teratology, or the study of biological deformities, in animals and humans. These two French scientists each made important contributions to the field. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire was a second generation teratologist who created a detailed classification system for abnormal physical types and refused to view the unique individuals formed differently as ‘defective’ based on a concept of the normal. Dareste experimented with producing his own artificial birth defects in the lab, and succeeded in creating a new form of monstrosity in chickens. $900-1,200 313 Gershwin, George (1898-1937) The Theatre Guild Presents Porgy and Bess. New York: Gershwin Publishing Corporation, [1935].

First edition, folio, 559 pages, frontisportrait of George Gershwin, cast list, synopsis, with the “To my Parents” dedication on verso, paperback, with blue cloth spine, and publisher’s printer cover, chipped, waterstained, spine loosening. $250-350

310 Frost, Robert (1874-1963) Three Titles: Selected Poems, New York: Henry Holt, 1923, signed; West-Running Brook, New York: Henry Holt, [1928], in defective dust jacket; and In the Clearing, New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, [1962], signed, limited edition, in slipcase. $700-900

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314 Gilpin, Richard (1625-1700) Daemonologia Sacra: or a Treatise of Satan’s Temptations.

Edinburgh: Thomas and John Turnbull, 1800.

Octavo, third edition, lacking the back board.

Together with: Thomas Williams (1755-1839) An Historic Defence of Experimental Religion, London: Heptinstall et al., 1795, in two volumes, 12mo, first edition, contemporary sheepskin bindings, volume one warped with board detached and waterstained.

Williams’ work is composed as a series of biographies of notable religious figures.

Volume one is dedicated to historic saints and biblical characters, while volume two is concerned with more contemporary religious luminaries, including Martin Luther, John Wilmot (Earl of Rochester), William Penn, and others. $200-300 315 Giraldi, Lilio Gregorio (1479-1552) Operum Quae Extant Omnium. Basel: Guarinum, 1580.

Folio, two volumes, contemporary Italian limp parchment, loss to parchment, foot of one spine, occasional spotting to contents.

Giraldi, a native of Ferrara, received a classical education in its schools, and also studied at the academy in Naples. He describes the vernacular and neo-Latin poetry of hundreds of his contemporaries, preserving much valuable and ephemeral knowledge of 15th and 16th century European literature. $1,200-1,800 316 Gosudarstvennaya Kantselarya 1810-1910.

St. Petersburg, 1910.

Text in Russian, illustrated throughout, threequarter sheepskin and fabric boards, rubbed, spine deeply scratched, head torn, 11 1/2 x 8 1/2 in.

This work on government covers an important century in Russian history. $800-1,200 317 Greece, Four Volumes: Christopher Wordsworth’s Greece, Pictorial, Descriptive & Historical, London: Orr, 1840, illustrated, three-quarter morocco, scattered water stains; Allom’s Constantinople and the Scenery of the Seven Church of Asia Minor, London: Fisher, [n.d.], illustrated, in gold-stamped green morocco binding, a.e.g.; Williamson’s Gods and Mortals in Love, London, [n.d.], illustrated

by Edmund Dulac, in publisher’s cloth; and Puaux’s Grece, Terre Aimee des Dieux, Paris, 1932, publisher’s printed paper wraps, limited edition, number 287 of 400, illustrated. $300-500

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318 Greece, Four Volumes: Herodotus’ History, translated by George Rawlinson, New York: Tandy-Thomas, [1909], in two volumes, in three-quarter morocco bindings; Christopher Wordsworth’s Greece: Pictorial, Descriptive, and Historical, London: Orr, 1840, illustrated, in three-quarter morocco, some scattered spotting; Agnes Smith’s Glimpses of Greek Life and Scenery, London: Hurst & Blackett, 1884, in gilt publisher’s cloth. $300-500 319 Green, Henry [a.k.a. Henry Vincent Yorke] (1905-1973) Five Novels: Nothing, London: Hogarth, 1950, second impression, in red publisher’s cloth and slightly chipped dust jacket; Living, London: Hogarth, 1948, second impression, in yellow publisher’s cloth and dust jacket with drink ring and faded spine; Party Going, London: Hogarth, 1947, second edition, in gray publisher’s cloth and faded dust jacket; Concluding, London: Hogarth, 1950, second impression, in blue cloth and waterstained dust jacket; and Back, London: Hogarth, 1946, in dark gray publisher’s cloth and dust jacket with a portion of the spine missing. $300-500 320 Greene, Graham (1904-1991) Five Novels: The Quiet American, New York: Viking, 1956; A Burnt Out Case, New York: Viking, 1961; The Honorary Consul, New York: Simon and Schuster, [1973]; A Sort of Life, New York: Simon and Schuster, [1971]; The Human Factor, New York: Simon and Schuster, [1978], in tattered dust jacket; and two others without dust jackets. $300-500 321 Grose, Francis (1731?-1791) The Antiquities of England and Wales. London: Printed by C. Clarke for S Hooper, 1783.

Large quarto, six volumes, all volumes replete with engraved illustrations, floor plans and maps, smaller text engraved maps of each county hand-colored, in contemporary diced russia, spines quite dry, all boards detached. $300-500

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322 Hale, John (1636-1700) A Modest Enquiry into the Nature of Witchcraft. Boston: Printed and sold by Kneeland and Adams, 1771.

Octavo in fours, second edition, 158 pages, lacking the final blank, U4; bottom portion of title, with imprint, trimmed away and replaced with a photostatic facsimile, untrimmed throughout, title page faded, toning and spotting to contents, rebound in half red morocco and buckram boards, rubbed.

The “Epistle to the Reader” is rather chilling, as it was written in March of 1697/8 by John Higginson, pastor of the church in Salem. This critique of the Salem trials, first published posthumously in 1702, is a detailed and thoughtful refutation of the modes and methods of that disastrous escapade. $1,000-1,500 323 Hall, James (1793-1868) Sketches of the History, Life, and Manners in the West.

Philadelphia: Harrison Hall, 1835.

First edition, octavo, in two volumes, ex dono authoris, presentation copy to Edward Everett (1794-1865), politician and president of Harvard, with his bookplate in both volumes, bound in contemporary textured blue cloth.

In addition to the wealth of very early material on the American west, Sketches is also memorable for its “Indian-Hating” chapters in volume two which Melville used as a source for The Confidence-Man. $500-700 324 Hallywell, Henry (d. 1703?) Melampronoea: or a Discourse of the Polity and Kingdom of Darkness. Together with a Solution for the Chiefest Objections brought against the Being of Witches. London: for Walter Kettilby, 1681.

Octavo, first edition, bound in contemporary blind ruled sheepskin, boards detached, sewing structure perished, one signature browned.

Hallywell is a true believer in black magic. In this work he calls on classical authors and contemporary anecdotes to build his case for the existence of witches, the veracity of demonic possession and proof that devils enter into animals seeking warmth and the chance to drink blood. $600-800

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325 Hamilton, Clayton (1881-1946) On the Trail of [Robert Louis] Stevenson. Garden City: Doubleday, Page and Company, 1915 First edition, first issue, frontispiece and text illustrations by Walter Hale; with the section on Stevenson’s marriage to divorcee Mrs. Osbourne on pages 130-135 intact, the first issue was suppressed when the publisher was threatened with legal action, and this section was expurgated from subsequent editions; publisher’s cloth spine and paper boards, with labels on spine and front board, dirty; 7 x 10 1/4 in. $75-125 326 Hardy, Thomas (1840-1928) Desperate Remedies. London: Tinsley Brothers, 1871.

First edition of Hardy’s first novel, in three volumes, issued anonymously, limited to an edition of 500 copies; volume three dampstained; the three bound in 20th century uniform half red leather, marbled boards, t.e.g. $1,500-2,500

327 Hawker, Peter (1786-1853) Three Volumes: Instructions to Young Sportsmen in all that Relates to Guns and Shooting, London: Longman et al., 1825, fourth edition, frontispiece, illustrated, signature clipped from title, in faded green calf, scuffed; and The Diary of Colonel Peter Hawker, London: Longmans, Green, & Co., 1893, in two volumes, illustrated, in olive publisher’s cloth, spotting and foxing. $200-300

329 Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1804-1864) The Scarlet Letter, a Romance. Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1850.

Octavo, first edition, first issue, with the word “reduplicate” on page 21, and four pages of ads; small mark on the title and three spots in the text, contents otherwise good; modern scarlet morocco, a.e.g., inner gilt dentelles and spine, very good; BAL 7600; 4 1/2 x 7 in. $1,000-1,500

328 Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1804-1864) The Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne, with Introductory Notes by George Parsons Lathrop and Illustrated with Etchings by Blum, Church, Dielman, Gifford, Shirlaw, and Turner in Thirteen Volumes. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1891.

Printed by the Riverside Press, Cambridge; octavo, bound in blue three-quarter morocco with red floral onlays and gilt tooling, marbled boards, t.e.g., some spines with minor abrasions. $800-900

330 Hayter, John (1756-1818) A Report upon the Herculaneum Manuscripts, in a Second Letter. London: for Phillips by Sidney, 1811.

Quarto, first edition, illustrated with five fullpaged engravings of papyrus plants, four of which are hand-colored; in original printed boards, front cover detached.

In this work, sponsored by the Prince of Wales, Hayter transcribes papyri found at Herculaneum in 1752, appended to which is his description of the papyrus plant, with illustrations. $400-600

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331 Hebrew Lexicon Epitome Thesauri Linguae Sanctae. Antwerp: Plantin, 1588.

Octavo, in a contemporary Oxford binding, dark calfskin with a triple blind rule frame on each board, and the distinctive crosshatching in the panels at head and tail, with the contemporary inscription and text notes of Thomas Gatacre (d. 1593), member of Parliament for Gatton; Gatacre died without much, but the disposition of his book collection is mentioned in his will.

Together with: Clavis Homerica, sive Lexicon Vocabulorum Omnium, quae in Iliade Homeri, nec non potissima Odyssaeae [sic] parte continentur, Rotterdam: Leers, 1662, later edition, octavo, edited by Antonius Roberti and George Perkins, with proverbs of the apostle Michael in Greek and Latin, (see ESTC for English imprints of this title), bound in contemporary parchment, clean, title printed in red and black; and Ubertino Carrara, Jesuit (b. 1642) Columbus Carmen Epicum, Rome: Bernabo, 1715, first edition, octavo, in contemporary speckled sheepskin, gilttooled spine, marbled pastedowns, contents somewhat spotted. In this work, Father Carrara has constructed a new Aeneid for his time, his subject: Columbus’ discovery of the New World. $300-500

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333 Hemingway, Ernest (1899-1961) A Farewell to Arms. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1929.

First trade edition, first printing, without the legal disclaimer on page [x], publisher’s black cloth with gold paper labels, in the first issue dust jacket, with “Katharine Barclay” uncorrected on the front flap. Cloth intact, corners slightly soft, dust jacket faded and somewhat darkened, with a 2-in. piece missing from the dust jacket, at the foot of the spine. $1,000-1,500

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334 Hemingway, Ernest (1899-1961) A Farewell to Arms. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1929.

First trade edition, later issue, with disclaimer on verso of dedication page, publisher’s cloth, cocked, paper labels scratched; no dust jacket; 5 1/4 x 7 1/2 in. $150-200 335 Hemingway, Ernest (1899-1961) Men without Women. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1927.

First edition, bound in publisher’s black cloth with gold labels on front board and spine, in second issue dust jacket with blurbs, spine panel sun darkened, small loss to colored surface at the top of the back joint. $700-900

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336 Hemingway, Ernest (1899-1961) The Sun Also Rises. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1926.

Octavo, first edition, with “stoppped” on page 181; in black publisher’s cloth, lacking dust jacket, spine label darkened, text block leaning slightly, corners bumped with minor abrasions to the cloth.

This essential work of modernist American fiction, which includes Hemingway’s vivid description of the running of the bulls in Pamplona, was marketed in a 1927 edition, printed by Cape in London, under the title, Fiesta. $700-1,000

337 Hemingway, Ernest (1899-1961) Two Titles: The Old Man and the Sea, New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1952, with the letter “A” on the copyright page, in blue publisher’s cloth and lightly rubbed dust jacket in the first state, with mention of the Book of the Month Club, but not the Nobel Prize; and For Whom the Bell Tolls, New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, [1940], in blue publisher’s cloth and dust jacket. $300-400

338 Heraldic Manuscript, England, James I. Folio, manuscript on paper, seventy-six leaves, each with a pen and ink drawing on the rectos of heraldic shields each surmounted with a crown and surrounded by a banner with the name and title of its bearer, painted mostly in red and blue, with lighter washes of pink on the banners and gold on the crowns, with very slight offsetting to the versos, in contemporary tan calfskin, front joint starting, with the bookplate of Thomas Philip de Grey (1781-1859). $800-1,200

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339 Hobbes, Thomas (1588-1679) Leviathan or the Matter, Forme and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil. London: Printed for Andrew Crooke, 1651.

Small folio, first edition, first issue with head ornament on the typographical title page, engraved frontispiece, and folding table, 18th century calf, boards detached, ink spot on frontis and title, one blank corner of the table torn away, not affecting the text, 11 1/4 x 7 1/2 in.

Hobbes’s seminal work of political theory was composed in the midst the English Civil War, which saw the sovereign executed by an elected parliament, and replaced by a governing Commonwealth. Hobbes argues in favor of the social contract and an absolute ruler. The upheaval of the Interregnum was still unresolved when Leviathan was published.

Its influence was vast. In 1653, Cromwell established a Protectorate, and made himself direct personal ruler. England continued in this limbo until Charles II returned to replace his slain father on the British throne in 1660. $5,000-7,000 340 Hogarth, William (1697-1764) Hogarth Restored. London: for John Stockdale, John Walker, and G. Robinson, 1806.

Folio, with frontispiece, title, 70 pages of text and 111 engraved plates on 95 sheets, some folding, contemporary three-quarter sheepskin, rubbed, binding detached from text block, water stain on inner corner of plates. $600-800 341 Hooker, Thomas (1586-1647) The Poor Doubting Christian Drawn to Christ. Boston: Green, Bushell, and Allen for Henchman, 1743.

12mo, first Boston edition, collated, complete, bound in original half sheepskin and blue paper over scabbard, the whole covered over with marbled paper at a later time, boards chipped and fragmentary, contents worn, spotted and toned.

Hooker, a founding member of the First Congregational church in Cambridge, Massachusetts, eventually left the state and established the Connecticut Colony. In 1636, Hooker, Samuel Stone, and approximately one hundred followers called their new city Hartford. Hooker’s deep belief in the right to vote in the church without being subjected to an interrogation of one’s faith and personal beliefs led to his split with Cambridge, and became an indelible part of the North American political philosophy. $300-500

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342 Hughes, Thomas Smart (1786-1847) Travels in Greece and Albania. London: Colburn & Bentley, 1830.

Second edition, “with considerable additions,” in two volumes, illustrated with three folding maps, colored frontispiece, eleven full-paged and double-paged engravings, and assorted text images, minor foxing to some plates, bound in three-quarter green morocco, spines faded, corners rubbed.

Hughes visited Greece, Sicily, and Albania in 1813-14 with his friend Robert TownleyParker. $600-800 343 Hutchinson, Francis (1661-1739) An Historical Essay Concerning Witchcraft.

London: Printed for R. Knaplock and D. Midwinter, 1718.

Octavo, first edition, with half-title and final advertisement leaf present, front board missing, preliminary leaves detached.

Another voice of reason in the witch debate, Hutchinson sets out a cautionary set of arguments against the practice of witchhunting. He was especially skeptical of the testimony of child accusers, whose dramatic demonic possessions caused the Salem tragedy. $400-600 344 Hutchinson, Francis (1661-1739) An Historical Essay Concerning Witchcraft.

London: Printed for R. Knaplock and D. Midwinter, 1720.

Octavo, second edition, with half-title, advertisement leaf present in the preliminaries, contemporary boards detached.

“For an ill-grounded fear hath the same effect upon the imagination that a fear hath which is reasonable.” (Hutchinson, page 3) $400-600 345 Huxley, Aldous (1894-1963) Brave New World. London: Chatto & Windus, 1932.

First trade edition, publisher’s blue cloth, gilt lettering on spine, in a bright dust jacket with one short closed tear, some chipping at the head and foot of the spine panel, and a short tear with slight loss along the top edge of the back panel. $300-500 346 Huxley, Aldous (1894-1963) Twelve Titles: including Point Counter Point, Brief Candles, Those Barren Leaves, Along the Road, Two or Three Graces, Antic Hay, and six others, all but two in dust jackets. $800-1,000

347 Illustrated Books, Four Volumes: Michaud’s History of the Crusades, Philadelphia: Barrie, [c. 1855], illustrated by Gustave Dore, in two volumes, three-quarter red morocco and gilt-stamped boards, professionally rebacked, a.e.g., ex library, with stamps on titles and preliminary leaves only, plates unmarked; Paul Lacroix’s Military and Religious Life in the Middle Ages, and Renaissance, New York: Appleton, 1874, illustrated throughout with colored and black and white plates, in publisher’s embossed binding, spine dried out and severely damaged, sewing questionable; and Milton’s Paradise Lost, New York: Collier, [c. 1875], illustrated by Dore, in publisher’s pictorial cloth with surface damage to boards and spine. $300-500 348 Illustrated Books, Nine Volumes: Rosedale’s Queen Elizabeth and the Levant Company, London: Frowde, 1904, publisher’s boards; Moore’s Lalla Rookh, Boston: Estes & Lauriat, 1887, crushed pigskin, gilt-tooled, with silk endleaves, a.e.g.; T. Addison Richards’ American Scenery, Illustrated, New York: Leavitt & Allen, [n.d.], publisher’s embossed cloth; The American Girl as Seen and Portrayed by Hoard Chandler Christy, New York: Moffat, Yard, & Co., 1906, colored plates, pictorial cloth; The Pageant, ed. Shannon and White, London, 1897, publisher’s violet cloth with gilt tooling, corners bumped; Washington Irving’s Chronicle of the Conquest of Grenada, New York: Putnam, 1893, in two volumes, publisher’s creamcolored and ornately embossed boards; Sandeman’s Thyme and Bergamot, London: Dropmore Press, 1947, limited edition #50 of 550, in blue publisher’s cloth with dust jacket, with nine wood engravings by John O’Connor; and Old French Fairy Tales, Philadelphia: Penn, [1920], illustrated in color and black and white by Virginia Frances Sterrett, in publisher’s pictorial boards. $200-400 349 James I, King of England (1566-1625) John Adamson ed. (d. 1653) Muses Welcome to the High and Mightie Prince James.

[Edinburgh, 1618].

Folio, one of three variants, all from 1618, lacking the title page and one other preliminary leaf, otherwise complete, with the portrait, contents fresh, in a contemporary speckled calfskin binding with the spine tooled in gilt compartments and a morocco lettering piece, intact, all edges stained red, bookplate of William Constable (1721-1791) of Hull.

This work, celebrating the coronation of James I, contains speeches, poems and other literary works in praise of the new sovereign. (see STC 140-142) $300-500

350 James, Henry (1843-1915) The Literary Remains. Inscribed by William James (18421910) Boston: Osgood & Co., 1885.

Octavo, inscribed by James on ffep “with affectionate regards” to Grace Norton, sister of Charles Eliot Norton; in red publisher’s cloth, spine quite faded, chipped at head, corners bumped. $800-1,000 351 Japan, Ten Volumes: Landscape Prints of Japan, 1960; Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan, under Commodore Perry, New York, 1856, illustrated, in publisher’s cloth; Ponting’s In Lotus Land Japan, London, 1910, first edition; Kaempfer’s History of Japan, Glasgow, 1906, in three volumes; publisher’s red cloth, untrimmed; Hartshorne’s Japan and Her People, Philadelphia, 1902, in two volumes, three-quarter red morocco, professionally rebacked; and two others. $900-1,200 352 Jarves, James Jackson (1818-1888) History of the Hawaiian or Sandwich Islands.

Boston: Published by Tappan & Dennet, 1843.

Octavo, first edition, with frontispiece and wood engravings, but lacking the map, publisher’s cloth, spotting to contents.

Together with: C.S. Stewart’s Journal of a Residence in the Sandwich Islands, during the years 1823, 1824, and 1825, London: H. Fisher, Son, & P. Jackson, 1828, second edition, with the frontispiece and map, in publisher’s cloth, boards detached. $300-500 353 No lot.

354 Josephus (37-c. 100) The Whole Genuine and Complete Works. New York: Durell, 1792.

Folio, frontispiece torn with loss; illustrated throughout with full-paged plates, and one folding map, in full contemporary red straightgrained morocco, gilt-tooled, head and tail worn, some spotting to contents.

This ambitious work was published in sixty separate parts over two years. This copy has the original title page, dated 1792, others appear when the publication was finished, and are dated 1794. $400-600

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355 Justinian (c. 482-565) Codicis. Lyons: Haeredes Bartholomaei Honorati, 1590.

Folio, second edition with the commentary of Denis Godefroy (1549-1622), printed in two columns throughout, framed by the commentary, title page printed in red and black, large margins, Greek notes on ffep; bound in reversed alum-tawed skin, one corner of the covering material torn with loss, otherwise intact.

Godefroy was a jurist, Calvinist, and professor of law, born in Paris. This scholarly edition of the Corpus Juris Civilis, or Code of Justinian, was his most important work. $300-500

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355A Keller, Helen (1880-1968) The World I Live In, Signed. New York: Century, 1908.

Octavo, first edition, inscribed in pencil by Keller on ffep, “To Aunt Sophia, with love, Helen Keller,” four illustrations, in green giltdecorated publisher’s cloth, extremities worn, 4 1/2 x 7 1/2 in.

Sophia Crocker Hopkins was a housemother at the Perkins School for the Blind, and mentored Anne Sullivan. Both Keller and Sullivan visited “Aunt Sophia” on Cape Cod, at her summerhouse in Brewster, Massachusetts. Keller learned to write using a grooved letter board. $1,500-2,000

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356 Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963) Profiles in Courage, Inscribed. New York: Harper & Brothers, [1956].

Publisher’s half black cloth and blue textured cloth boards, dust jacket with tears, tape repairs, and holes, signed by Kennedy to Anthony Amari on ffep. $1,000-1,200 357 Kerouac, Jack (1922-1969) The Dharma Bums. New York: Viking, 1958.

First edition, in rubbed dust jacket with small loss at the foot of the spine, black publisher’s cloth with green and silver titling, Kerouac’s named mostly rubbed away on spine, with ballpoint pen inscription on ffep.

In this continuation of On the Road, Kerouac follows the same characters as they abide on their journey to explore art and consciousness in the post-war American landscape. $200-400

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358 King, Jr., Martin Luther (1929-1968) Stride Toward Freedom, Signed. New York: Harper Brothers, [1958].

First edition (H-H), with the inscription, “Best Wishes” and Dr. King’s signature on ffep, bound in publisher’s black cloth spine and blue cloth boards, silver stamping, in chipped dust jacket; originally presented by Dr. King to the Reverend Edward B. Blackman, noted Boston civil rights activist.

Dr. King’s first book, telling the story of the Montgomery bus boycott that started the American civil rights movement that swept the south in the 1960s. $3,500-4,500

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359 Kokoschka, Oskar (1886-1980) Die Traumenden Knaben. Vienna: Wiener Werkstatte, 1908.

Oblong quarto, first edition of Kokoschka’s first illustrated book, from an edition of 500 copies; ten leaves, with eight full-color, fullpaged lithographs and two smaller black and white lithographs on the two preliminary leaves, publisher’s cloth, Japanese-style cord binding, with another illustration set into the front board, binding somewhat rubbed, ownership inscriptions of Jean Reti Forbes (1911-1972), concert pianist; and Rudolph Reti (1885-1957), musicologist and composer on ffep; 9 1/2 x 11 3/4 in.

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The Dreaming Boys was conceived by the artist as a children’s book, and the large expanses of flat, graphic color and bold outline evoke the genre. However, Kokoschka’s angular nudes in expressions of longing and despair seem more appropriate for mature audiences. $8,000-12,000

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360 Latimer, Hugh (1487-1555) Frutefull Sermons. London: John Daye, [1578].

Quarto in eights, third edition, edited by Augustine Bernher, collated, lacking the final text leaf, Ll2; title in woodcut compartment; bound in an unusual contemporary or slightly later binding of speckled calfskin over oak boards, and strange edge decoration of green and red squiggle shapes, wormed, covering material chipped at corners, front hinge repaired, failing, cloth tape along the gutter, front and back.

Latimer was an Oxford martyr to Anglicanism, burned at the stake in 1555 under Queen Mary in her Catholic crusade. $800-1,000

361 Leland, John (c. 1503-1552) Antiquarii de Rebus Britannicis Collectanea. Ex Autographis Descripsit ediditque Tho. Hearnius. Oxford: E Theatro Sheldoniano, 1715.

First edition; one of 150 copies; six titles in five volumes, in full contemporary sprinkled calfskin, fresh and intact throughout the set; with folding plates, and engravings and woodcuts in the text.

Together with: Leland’s Commentarii de Scriptoribus Britannicis. Oxford: E Theatro Sheldoniano, 1709. First edition, two volumes, contemporary paneled calf, rebacked, corners chipped and strengthened, later endpapers, contents spotted. $300-400 362 Lemery, Louis (1677-1743) A Treatise of all Sorts of Foods, Both Animal and Vegetable: also of Drinkables. London: Osborne, 1745.

12mo, third edition, one of three variants, with the approbation leaf and title page printed in red and black; some spotting to preliminaries, occasional spots and isolated minor worming, bound in modern half leather. $200-400 363 Lengueglia, Carlo della (fl. circa 1635) L’Aldimiro del Cavaliere. Bologna: Monti, 1638.

12mo, with engraved title, in half red sheepskin and marbled boards.

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364 Leslie, Charles (1650-1722) A Reply to a Book Entitul’d Anguis Flagellatus, or a Switch for the Snake. The Opus Palmare of the Quakers. London: for C. Brome, and G. Srahan [i.e. Strahan], 1702.

Octavo, first edition, in contemporary calf, boards starting.

Author of numerous controversial pamphlets, Leslie had disdain for many religious groups, including Quakers, Jews, Roman Catholics, Socinians, and Deists. $500-700

365 Lewis, Meriwether (1774-1809) and William Clark (1770-1838) History of the Expedition Under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark, to the Sources of the Missouri, thence Across the Rocky Mountains and Down the Columbia to the Pacific Ocean.

Philadelphia: Bradford and Inskeep, 1814.

Two volumes; first edition; with five full-paged maps, lacking the large folding map; lacking one text leaf [273/274] in volume one; mixed

set, volume one in 19th century threequarter leather, worn; contents waterstained and spotted, 5 1/4 x 8 1/4 in.; volume two in contemporary sheepskin, both boards detached; ex library from the Smithsonian with their ownership and withdrawal stamps on the title, duplicate stamp of ffep; textblock broken, sewing perished; contents evenly browned; 8 1/2 x 5 1/4 in. $3,000-5,000

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366 Lewis, Sinclair (1885-1951) Main Street, Inscribed. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Howe, 1920.

First edition, presented by the author to bookseller John Kidd, signed on ffep by Lewis, “this is the great american novel.”; housed in a custom-made chemise and slipcase. $700-900 367 Lindbergh, Anne Morrow (1906-2001) Listen! the Wind. New York: Harcourt Brace, [1938].

Octavo, stated first edition, red publisher’s cloth, with some spotting to the covers; marginal wear to dust jacket, short tear, rubbed corners, scratched; pencil annotations in text; binding slightly cocked, 5 1/2 x 8 in.

A graduate of Smith College, Charles Lindbergh’s wife Anne was a noted feminist, aviator, and author. $100-150

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368 Linderman, Frank Bird (1869-1938), illus.

Winold Reiss (1886-1953) Blackfeet Indians. St. Paul, Minnesota: Great Northern Railway, 1935.

First edition, illustrated with forty-nine fullpaged color portraits of Blackfeet Indians by Reiss, in original decorative publisher’s boards and dust jacket, inscribed by both the author and illustrator to O.J. Kadlec on the front free endleaf, two of the portrait subjects have also signed in the text with pictographic signatures in ink: Short Man, Pecunnie Indian signlanguage expert (page 45), and Yellow Head, of the Montana Blackfeet (page 22). $500-700

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369 Lipsius, Justus (1547-1606) Electorum Liber I. Antwerp: Plantin, 1580.

Octavo, collated, complete, with sporadic contemporary annotations, and more consistent underlinings in red and green ink, toned throughout, two leaves torn with losses to the blank margins, in half pigskin.

Lipsius treats many subjects in this work, correcting errors of classical authors, and integrating them with the thinking of his own time. $200-300 370 Lipsius, Justus (1547-1606) Epistolarum Selectarum III. Centuriae. Antwerp: Plantin & Moretus, 1599.

Quarto, divisional title pages throughout, printer’s devices on each, browning in text, ex libris Michael Vagliani, contemporary parchment over boards, spine wormed.

Lipsius collected and published more than 4,300 letters to approximately 700 correspondents. He communicated with Grotius, Ortelius, Montaigne, Sir Philip Sidney, Joseph Scaliger, and many others; his contact list was a who’s who of late 16th century western humanism. $400-600 371 Lipsius, Justus (1547-1606) Opera. Lyons: Cardon, 1613.

Folio, in two volumes, engraved title in volume one, printed in two columns throughout, with engraved illustrations in the text, in clean contemporary Italian parchment over boards, spine titled in ink on bottom leaf-edges.

“Lipsius’s lifelong project was to transform contemporary moral philosophy through a new reading of the Roman Stoic philosopher Seneca, while also revitalizing contemporary political practice by drawing on the insights provided by the Roman historian Tacitus.”

(Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) $800-1,000

372 Lipsius, Justus (1547-1606) Politicorum Libri Sex. Strasbourg: Berneggerianis, 1641.

12mo, contemporary parchment.

Politicorum is a sequel to De Constantia. In it, Lipsius argues for the primacy of following reason, both in personal moral actions, and in the actions of government. Because a ruler “desires to subject all things to himself, he should first subject himself to reason.” $200-300 373 Lipsius, Justus (1547-1606) Sapientiae et Litterarum Antistitis Fama Postuma.

Antwerp: Plantin & Moretus, 1629.

Quarto, engraved frontispiece portrait opposite the title, contents clean, in the contemporary gilt-tooled armorial binding of one of three Sir Thomas Shirley’s, with the turk’s head and the shield, but without the little boar, with his signature on the title, one panel missing at the foot of the spine, abraded, worn at the corners, with loss of leather.

Together with: Politicorum sive Civilis Doctrinae Libri Sex. Antwerp: Plantin, 1599.

Quarto, woodcut printer’s device on separate leaf following the colophon, browned, in later half green textured cloth. $250-350 374 Lipsius, Justus (1547-1606) Saturnalium Sermonum; De Amphitheatro Liber; and De Constantia Libri Duo. Antwerp: Plantin, 1585.

Quarto, three bound as one; four folding and twelve full-paged engravings of gladiators in the Saturnalium; two double-paged, one folding, three full-paged, and one text engraving in De Amphitheatro; De Constantia browned and waterstained; the three titles in contemporary limp parchment, sewing failing, some signatures sprung. $1,200-1,500

376 Lomonosov, Mikhail Vasilyevich (17111765) Polnoe Sobranie Sochinenij. St. Petersburg: Izdivenium Imperatorskoj Akademii Nauk, 1803-1804.

Quarto, five volumes, complete works in Russian, with the fine engraved portrait frontispiece; half calfskin and blue paper boards, worn, with parts of spines missing.

Lomonosov, a true Russian Renaissance man, wrote poetry, created stunning mosaic murals, and made contributions to science as a physicist, astronomer, chemist, and mineralogist. He advanced a wave theory of light and introduced the concept of the conservation of matter. $400-600 377 Lucian of Samosata (b. 115 AD) Opera.

Basel: Petrus, 1563.

Octavo, text printed in parallel columns of Greek and Latin throughout, ex libris Jacob de Bue, S.J. (1728-1808), with another ownership signature on title, and a stamp covered with a circle of paper; bound in full contemporary parchment, yapp edges, slightly out of shape, ties lost.

Lucian was a satirist who specialized in mocking Christians. $400-600 378 Luther, Martin (1483-1546) Eyn Sermon von der Zerstorung Jerusalem. Wittenberg: [no printer], 1525.

A4, B2, C4; ten unnumbered leaves; title printed within elaborate woodcut border; disbound; Luther delivered this sermon on the destruction of Jerusalem on the tenth Sunday after Trinity, August 13, 1525, based on Luke 19:41-48. $400-600

375 Literary Sets, Eighteen Volumes: John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892), Works, in seven volumes, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, Riverside Press, [1892], limited edition #107 of 750 in half vellum with gilt-tooled spines; and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (18071882) Works, in eleven volumes, Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1886, limited edition #43 of 500, on large paper, half white cloth and blue paper boards, spines toned, some heads chipped. $300-500

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381 Man Ray (1890-1976) Les Mains Libres.

Dessins illustres par les poemes de Paul Eluard. Paris: Editions Jean Bucher, 1937.

First edition, in original illustrated paper wraps, limited edition, this copy numbered 437 of 675, signed by Man Ray on the limitation leaf, with an additional signature on the first blank endleaf, covers slightly abraded, with some short, closed tears at the top edge, front and back, contents clean, rare in the original paper covers. $1,500-2,000 382 Mann, Mary [Mary Tyler Peabody Mann] (1806-1887) Christianity in the Kitchen. A Physiological Cook Book. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1857.

First edition, octavo, publisher’s blue cloth, rebacked, with advertisements after the text, spotting.

Mrs. Horace Mann fights against the unChristian tendency to overeat. $200-300 383 Manuscript Albums, 19th Century, Two. One with music and lyrics in Spanish, cover tooled with owner’s name: J.W. Gales; the other a commonplace book, ex libris Henry Pinkney, U.S. Navy. $300-500

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379 MacGillivray, William (1796-1852) Edinburgh Journal of Natural History.

Edinburgh, 1839. [bound with] The Animal Kingdom of the Baron Cuvier. Bound in three-quarter morocco and marbled boards, rebacked, ex-Harvard library with deaccession stamps, illustrated with well over one hundred full-paged handcolored engraved plates of animals, including buffalo, whales, antelopes, monkeys, birds, insects, shells, big cats, elephants, rhinoceros, horses, zebras, and many more. $1,200-1,500

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380 Man Ray (1890-1976) Alphabet for Adults. Beverly Hills: Copley Galleries, [1948]. First edition, one of 500 copies, illustrated, inscribed by Man Ray to his sister “Do,” December 13, 1948, signed “Man,” in publisher’s half cloth and printed paper boards, cloth with two small tears along front hinge, and gouge to front board. $500-700

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384 Manuscript on Paper, Latin, ?France. De Institutione Rhetoricae Libri Tres. in gatherings of eights, 340 pages, with an original illustration as the title, like an engraved title, executed in gray washes with details picked out in brown ink, text with ornamental initials and other ornamental drawings throughout, on paper watermarked with an anchor in a circle surmounted by a star, bound in contemporary armorial gilt-tooled parchment, a.e.g., becoming detached from text block; the illustrated title and the front board both include the emblem of two bears on their hind legs pawing at a tree; ink corrosion to some leaves.

The text is divided into three parts. The first is on the principles of rhetoric, the second contains a group of orations dedicated to various people, and the third is concerned with neo-Latin poetry. $300-500

385 Marana, Giovanni Paolo (1642-1693) L’Espion dans les Cours des Princes Chretiens. Cologne: Erasme Kinkius, 1710.

Six octavo volumes, in contemporary French speckled calf, with the frontispiece in volume one, and some full-paged and folding engravings in the text, some leaves torn with loss, all boards attached, some endcaps worn with loss.

The authorship of this work, better known as L’Espion Turc, or its English title, Letters Writ by a Turkish Spy, is in dispute. The first volume is attributed to Marana, but the subsequent additions are in dispute. The loquacious author, writing between 1637 and 1682, is consumed with politics, religious controversy, and social observations. $800-1,000

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386 Martial (40-102 AD) Epigrams of Martial Englished, trans. Henry Killigrew (1613-1700), London: for Bonwicke, 1695.

Octavo, engraved frontispiece, contemporary boards, rebacked, front board detached, contents clean. $200-300 387 Marullus, Michael Tarchaniota (1458-1500); Hieronymus Angerianus (d. 1535); and Johannes Secundus (1511-1536) Poetae Elegantissimi. Speyer: Albinum, 1595.

12mo, contemporary parchment, rebacked, printed in italic type throughout. $400-600 388 Marullus, Michael Tarchaniota (1458-1500); Hieronymus Angerianus (d. 1535); and Johannes Secundus (1511-1536) Poetae Tres Elegantissimi. Paris: Du-Puys, 1582.

First edition, octavo, contemporary limp parchment, somewhat rumpled, contents evenly toned.

This is the first appearance of an important collection of neo-Latin, neo-Catullan poetry, the authors happy to occupy themselves with romantic themes. $500-700

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389 Marullus, Michael Tarchaniota (1458-1500); Hieronymus Angerianus (d. 1535); and Johannes Secundus (1511-1536) Poetae Tres Elegantissimi. Paris: Du-Puys, 1582.

First edition, octavo, contemporary stiff parchment, yapp edges, title page folded to preserve extensive manuscript note. $500-700 390 Marulo, Marco (1450-1524) Opera circa L’Institutione del Buono, e Beato Vivere.

Venice: Bindoni, 1574.

Quarto, contemporary ownership inscriptions on title, some spotting to preliminary leaves, bound in contemporary parchment over boards.

Marulo, poet and humanist, was born in Spalato, Croatia. He wrote in Latin, Italian, and Croatian and is credited with using the term psychology for the first time. This work, first published in Venice in 1506, is a moralistic treatise inspired by the Bible on ethical living. $200-300

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391 Mather, Cotton (1663-1728) Coelestinus.

A Conversation in Heaven Quickened and Assisted with Discoveries of Things in the Heavenly World. Boston: S. Kneeland for Nath. Belknap, 1723.

Octavo, first edition, in contemporary calf, front board detached, contents evenly toned.

The forward was written by the author’s father, Increase Mather (1639-1723), just before his death in August of 1723. The dedication is to London’s Thomas Hollis (1659-1731), a great friend and benefactor to the Harvard College Library in the 18th century. $2,000-3,000

392 Mather, Cotton (1663-1728) Magnalia Christi Americana. London: Parkhurst, 1702.

Folio, first edition, lacking the map, final two leaves of advertisements provided in facsimile, with a few extra illustrations added, contemporary boards, rebacked, both boards detached, spine with gilt compartments and label. $2,000-3,000

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393 Mather, Cotton (1663-1728) Ratio Disciplinae Fratrum Nov-Anglorum. A Faithful Account of the Discipline Professed and Practised in the Churches of New England. Boston: Printed for S. Gerrish, 1726.

Octavo, first edition, contemporary blind-tooled sheepskin, rubbed, with later label, discoloration at foot of spine, with several 18th century ownership inscriptions and some notes in shorthand on the back pastedown; collated, last free endleaf may be integral blank.

This clarification of the platform of New England Congregational churches was written at a critical juncture in colonial history. The first group of New England divines may have begun as a unified group, but they quickly splintered. As founding members of the First Church in Cambridge departed for other regions, disputes arose with Quakers and other Protestant dissenters, and varying interpretations of scripture and doctrine began to pull congregations apart, Mather composed this work to define and re-affirm the central mission of Congregationalism. $1,500-1,800

394 Mather, Cotton (1663-1728) The Christian Philosopher: a Collection of the Best Discoveries in Nature, with Religious Improvements. London: for Eman. Matthews, 1721.

Octavo, first edition, contemporary boards, detached, with an inscription inside the front board dated October, 1720, bolstering the argument that this book was printed in that year.

Cotton Mather writes as a scientist. “[Of spider eggs] their nidification is astonishing!” on drugs, “What admirable effects of opium well smegmatized!” and astronomy, “If our moon were bigger, or nearer the earth, or if we had more than one, we should be every now and then in hazard of being drowned.” $2,000-3,000

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395 Mather, Nathanael (1631-1697) Twenty-three Select Sermons, Preached at the MerchantsLecture, at Pinner’s-Hall, and in Lime-street.

London: Printed for N. Hiller, 1701.

Octavo, first edition, 480 pages, contemporary speckled calf, rubbed.

This Nathanael Mather was Richard Mather’s third son; emigrated to America in 1635, and graduated from Harvard in 1647. $300-500

396 Mather, Samuel (1706-1785) Abridgement of the Life of the late Reverend and Learned Dr. Cotton Mather. London: for J. Oswald and J. Brackstone, 1744.

Octavo, contemporary sheepskin, front board detached.

Together with: another edition, Boston: Samuel Gerrish, 1729, lacking the title page, in an embossed 19th century leather binding. $200-300

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397 Mather, Samuel (1706-1785) The Fall of the Mighty Lamented. A Funeral Discourse upon the Death of her most Excellent Majesty Wilhelmina Dorothea Carolina.

Boston: by Draper, sold by Henchman and Procter, 1738.

Octavo, disbound. $400-600 398 Maugham, W. Somerset. (1874-1965) Cakes and Ale. London: William Heinemann Ltd., [1930].

First edition, first state, with “won’” instead of “won’t” on page 147, line fourteen, blue publisher’s cloth, in an edge-worn, chipped dust jacket, spine panel darkened. $300-500

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399 McKenney, Thomas L. (1785-1859) History of Indian Tribes of North America.

Philadelphia: Edward C. Biddle, 1836.

Folio, volume one only, containing fortyseven of forty-eight hand-colored lithographic portraits, lacking only Waapashaw, and with Elskwatawaw’s portrait used where Tenskwautawaw’s should be, one plate badly torn, another with smaller closed tears, and some loss to the image surface, bound in three-quarter leather, boards and preliminaries detached, some foxing, staining and tears to text.

The vivid portraits in striking colors and words in McKenney’s book form an indelible image of the great civilizations of North America as they existed in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. $4,000-6,000

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400 Medical Books in German, Six: Christian Gottlieb Selle’s Medicina Clinica, Berlin, 1797, text in German, bound in contemporary half sheep with speckled paper boards, rubbed; Johannes Hiskia Cardilucius’s Der neuen Stadt-und Land-Apothecken aufs neue vermehreter zweyter Tomus, Nuremberg, 1684, with the engraved frontis, fragmentary, 592 pages only (of 640), period half calf and speckled paper boards; Johann Samuel Schroeter’s Das Alter und Untrugliche Mittel, Berlin, 1805, contemporary half calf with speckled paper boards, chipped with loss, front hinge splitting, losses to lower blank margin of title; Hippokrates Aphorismen, Vienna, 1791, in limp blue paper, uncut, paper spine worn through in spots; and Johann Christoph Fahner’s Lancisius von den Verschieden Plotzlichen Todesarten, Leipzig, 1790 and 1791, in two volumes, limp blue paper covers, uncut. $300-500

401 Medieval Text Manuscript, Delectus Opusculorum. Italian rotunda gothic book script, c. 1450.

Compilation of six short works of mystic devotion: Isaac the Syrian, Abbot of Spoleto, Italy. (mid-6th century) Ysaac abbatis de Syria liber singularis; Bernard of Clairvaux.

(1090-1153) De Contemptu Mundi Liber; [Bernardinus de Siena (1380-1444)] Liber de Stimulis Amoris in Salvatorem: et Exposition super Pater Noster; Egidio Perugini, De Humana Sapientia, sive de Divinis Fontibus; [Richard of Saint Victor] (d. 1173) De Gradibus Caritatis; and Saint Anselm (d. 1109) De Christi Passione et De Beate Virginis Passione; 218 leaves (436 pages), signatures mostly in 10s and 12s, collated, complete with blanks at the end of each work; illuminated sevenline initial depicting the author presenting his book to Christ at the start of the first work, the second work has a small drawing of a saint at the incipit, and third work begins with a small drawing of a monk; initials and headlines in red and blue throughout, later 18th century manuscript index and notes added; light worming to first few leaves; catchwords on the verso of the last leaf of each gathering throughout; 18th century limp vellum binding.

This is an agreeable compendium of short medieval devotional works, mainly misattributed in their authorship. Many works were composed as pseudo-Aquinas, or pseudo-Bonaventure in the middle ages, and it seems like that this is an apt example of that practice: a small book that merits further examination. $15,000-17,000 401

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402 Meehan, Thomas (1826-1901) The Native Flowers and Ferns of the United States.

Boston: Prang and Company, 1879.

Volumes one and two, first series, and a second copy of volume two, undated, same period, all volumes illustrated throughout with dozens of chromolithographs, in contemporary bindings, rubbed, contents good. $200-300 403 Melville, Herman (1819-1891) Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life. During Four Months’ Residence in a Valley of the Marquesas. New York: Wiley and Putnam; London: John Murray, 1846.

First American edition, original stamped cloth binding, with two pages of ads dated March, 1846 inset at back; library blind stamp on title, spine torn with loss and reglued upside down, chipped, bumped and faded; some signatures sprung.

Together with: Steinbeck, John (1902-1968) A Letter Written in Reply to a Request for a Statement about his Ancestry. Stamford, CT: Overbrook, 1940. $200-300

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404 Midgley, James, of Rochdale (1786-1852) Bibliotheca Selecta. London, 1818.

Octavo, lightly trimmed, with deckles showing, priced in a contemporary hand throughout, modern half morocco and paper boards.

Among Midgley’s treasures one may find two 16th century editions of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales; English Martyrologie printed in Douai in 1640; a 15th century blockbook; and a Lydgate manuscript of The Siege of Troy in middle English from the mid-15th century that is now held in Manchester at the Rylands University Library. Midgley went on to collect a valuable Quaker reference library. $200-400 405 Millay, Edna St. Vincent (1892-1950) Eight Volumes: A Few Figs from Thistles, [1922] with added material; The Buck in the Snow, 1928; The Harp-Weaver, 1923; Huntsman, What Quarry?, 1939; Mine the Harvest, [1954]; The Indigo Bunting, a Memoir of Edna St. Vincent Millay, by Vincent Sheean, [1951]; and Make Bright the Arrows, 1940, two copies; all Harper and Brothers, New York and London, all in publisher’s bindings. $600-800

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406 Miller, William, editor, Costume of the Russian Empire, Illustrated by Upwards of Seventy Richly Coloured Engravings.

London: Printed for E. Harding, 1803.

Small folio, first edition, with stipple engraved, hand-colored frontispiece, and seventy-two full-paged, hand-colored plates, watermarked 1802, depicting the ethnic costumes of different regions of Russia, all text in English and French, including the title page; bound in full contemporary gilt-tooled straight-grained morocco, rubbed and scratched, ex libris Carton Library 10 1/2 x 13 1/2 in.

Miller created a series of costume books in this period, documenting regional dress from countries in Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. $600-900

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407 Milton, John (1608-1674) Samson Agonistes. England: Manuscript, c. 1720.

Quarto, 62 pages inscribed, the remaining 120 left blank, with the beginning of Comus, a Mask, also by Milton, in the same hand; bound in full contemporary leather, almost completely perished, with contemporary marbled endleaves and edges of leaves stained black; two bookplates.

Together with: a manuscript commonplace book c. 1790 containing a transcription of the letter written by Lady Jane Grey to her sister on the eve of her execution, and other poems; in paper wraps. $200-300

408 Milton, John (1608-1674) The Paradise Lost. London: Septimus Prowett, 1827.

Folio, two volumes, illustrated in dramatic dark mezzotints by John Martin (17891854), bound in uniform green three-quarter morocco, gilt spines, slightly faded, a.e.g., occasional minor spotting, large margins.

Martin’s are considered the finest and most original illustrations created to accompany Milton’s masterpiece. $3,000-5,000

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409 Miniature Books, Approximately One Hundred: A large collection of small 20th century books, approximately forty smaller than one inch square; printed by Achille J. St. Onge of Worcester; Hillside Press; Somesuch Press; Tabula Rasa Press; Kinoike Press; Tamazunchale Press; Xavier Press, and others, with prospectuses and other miniature ephemera, including Autographs of Miniature Book Publishers. $1,500-2,000 410 Mixed Lot, Four Volumes: John Le Neve’s Monumenta Anglicana, 1719, three parts in one, contemporary boards, rebacked, rear board detached; James Howelle’s Epistolae Ho-Elianae, 1645, later binding, rebacked, without the engraved title; John Hopkins’ Amasia, 1700, three volumes bound as one, lacking at least ten text leaves, bound in full contemporary gilt-tooled red morocco, spine tooled in gilt compartments, marbled pastedowns, a.e.g., corner damage, rear board rubbed, split in leather at foot of spine but overall flexible and intact; and E. J. Trelawny’s Recollections of the Last Days of Shelley and Byron. London: Moxon, 1858, in full deep blue morocco Harcourt binding, with gilt moons and stars all over both boards. $400-600

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411 Montaigne, Michel de (1533-1592) Les Essais. Paris: Cousterot, 1652.

Folio, engraved portrait frontispiece, in later fancy dyed and gilt-tooled sheepskin, with red label, occasional water stains to text. $300-500 412 Montgomery, Lucy Maud (1874-1942) Anne of Avonlea. Boston: L.C. Page, 1909.

First edition, in beige publisher’s cloth with mounted portrait of Anne, rubbed, with color frontispiece, loose, some spotting to the text, 7 3/4 x 5 1/4 in.

This sequel to Anne of Green Gables follows the heroine from age sixteen to eighteen, while she teaches at Avonlea School. $200-300 413 Moore, Henry (1898-1986) Catalogue of Graphic Work 1931[-1984]. Geneva: Gerald Cramer, 1973-1986.

Three volumes, two in slipcases.

Together with: Moore’s Complete Sculpture, in six volumes, London: Lund Humphries, various editions, all in dust jackets. $300-400

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414 Mudie, Robert (1777-1842) The Feathered Tribes of the British Isles. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1853.

Octavo, two volumes, each volume with hand-colored frontispiece and vignette on title and more than twenty full-paged hand-colored illustrations heightened with gum arabic, in Bohn’s green cloth bindings, the covers spotted and streaked. $250-350 415 Muggleton, Lodowick (1609-1698) A True Interpretation of the Witch of Endor.

London: by Subscription, 1724.

Quarto, second edition, in later half calf, boards detached.

Together with: Addison’s The Drummer, or the Haunted House, a Comedy, London: for John Darby, sold by J. Roberts, 1722, disbound; and The Apparition, or the Sham Wedding, a Comedy. London: for A. Dodd, 1714, boards detached, browned. $200-400

416 Natural History, Eight Volumes: Mathews’s Fieldbook of American Wild Flowers, 1927; Davis’s Geographical Essays, 1909; Agassiz’s Letters and Recollections, 1913; Russell’s Glaciers of North America, 1901; Bowers’s Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries, 1905; Shaler’s Geology of the Narragansett Basin, 1899; Report of the Superintendent of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, 1881; Newberry’s Fossil Fishes and Fossil Plants of the Triassic Rocks of New Jersey and the Connecticut Valley, 1888; most illustrated; some ex-library with stamps; all bound in cloth. $200-400 417 Needham, Walter (1631?-1691?) Disquisitio Anatomica de Formato Foetu. London: William Godbid, 1667.

First edition, octavo, with seven folding plates, sewing perished, many leaves detached, including preliminaries, later buckram, library stamps on title.

Needham dedicates his work to Robert Boyle. $800-1,200 418 Newman, John B. (fl. circa 1840) Illustrated Botany. New York: Wellman, 1846.

Octavo, first edition, volume one only, illustrated throughout with vibrantly colored lithographic plates, cloth binding stamped in gilt, spine detached, tucked inside the front board, preliminaries and some text leaves loose and detached, sewing structure defective, 5 1/2 x 9 in.

Copies of this book vary widely in how the color was applied to the plates, some completely hand-colored, others with all of the colored added by lithographic printing, and others with varying combinations of the two methods. This copy similarly contains a mix of hand-colored and printed colors throughout. $600-800

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419 Newman, John B. (fl. circa 1840) Illustrated Botany. New York: Wellman, 1846.

Octavo, first edition, volume one only, illustrated throughout with vibrantly colored lithographic plates, in three-quarter red morocco, spine lettered and tooled in gold, binding and sewing intact.

See the previous lot. The color in this copy is mostly printed by lithography. $700-900

420 Newspapers, Boston Massacre: Providence Gazette and Country Journal.

Approximately one hundred issues, from January 13, 1770 to December 22, 1770, and January 5, 1771 to December 21, 1771, moderate damage to the first and last few in the 1770 group, serious damage to the 1771 group, internal issues are in better condition.

The entire front page of the March 10-17, 1770 issue is taken up with a report on the Boston Massacre, which occurred on the twelfth. “A Mulattoe man, named Crispus Attucks, who was born in Framingham, but lately belonged to New Providence, was here in order to go for North Carolina, also killed instantly; two balls entering his breast, one of them in special goring the right lobe of the lungs, and a great part of the liver, most horribly.” $2,500-3,500

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421 Newspapers, Receipts, 18th and 19th Centuries: One large envelope containing dozens of manuscripts receipts on paper, and a large portfolio containing more than fifty east coast American newspapers, from Providence; Worcester; Philadelphia; Dutchess and Ulster County, New York; Boston; New Bedford; New London; and elsewhere, in varying condition. $800-1,200

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422 Newspapers, Revolutionary War: The American Journal and General Advertiser.

Providence: Southwick and Wheeler, March 18, 1779–December 30, 1779.

Forty-one issues, lacking only one: volume I, numbers 1-42 (lacking number 40); all issues stab sewn together, some printed on bluish paper, all with deckle edges throughout, some issues browned, some with torn corners or marginal rodent damage, generally wellpreserved, with a rugged contemporary feel; a quarter-sheet post-press slip inserted into the October 28 issue entitled, Important Intelligence, with information from General Gates on the fall of Georgia. $2,500-3,500

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423 Newspapers, Revolutionary War: The Providence Gazette and Country Journal.

A year’s worth of weekly papers from January 3, 1778–December 20, 1778, some printed on blue paper, the first half of the year gnawed around the edges.

The War was in full swing in 1778, the British took Georgia, the fledging American state signed a treaty with France, England declared war on France, and John Paul Jones captured the Drake. $2,500-3,500 424 Newspapers: Providence Gazette and Country Journal. Approximately one hundred weekly issues from January 4, 1772– December 26, 1772 and January 16, 1773– December 11, 1773, some stains, losses due to rodent damage, condition varies.

Items in the December 1773 issue describe the building tension in the colonies preceding the Boston Tea Party. $1,200-1,500

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425 Newspapers: Providence Gazette and Country Journal. Providence: John Carter, January 7, 1786–December 30, 1786.

Approximately fifty issues, deckle edges throughout, evenly toned, stab sewn together.

Notable events of 1786 include Shay’s Rebellion and multiple treaties signed between various Indian Nations and the new United States government, which was operating under the Articles of Confederation. $2,000-3,000 426 Newspapers: Providence Gazette and Country Journal. Providence: John Carter, January 7, 1787–October 27, 1787.

Approximately thirty-five issues, toned, some issues with portions clipped out, all issues with deckle edges throughout, stab sewn together, with some spotting, light water stains.

1787 was the year of the Constitutional Convention, held at Philadelphia from May 14 to September 17. $2,500-3,500

427 Newspapers: Providence Journal and Town and Country Advertiser. Providence: John Carter, January 23, 1799–November 13, 1799.

Approximately thirty issues, including all but one signature of the book: Acts Passed at the Third Session of the Fifth Congress of the United States, Providence: John Carter, 1799, quarto, in sheets still attached to their newspaper conjugates, signatures [A]-K4, lacking L, M-Z4, Aa-Bb4, 200 pages, ESTC locates only two North American holdings for this title, at the Newberry Library, and Rhode Island Historical Society; all issues stab sewn, with deckle edges throughout, some spotting and browning. $2,000-3,000

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428 Newton, Sir Isaac (1642-1727) Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.

Amsterdam: Sumptibus Societatis, 1714.

Quarto, Amsterdam variant of the second (Cambridge) edition, with additions and revisions; folding table between pages 464 and 465, title printed in red and black with engraved vignette, illustrated with text

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diagrams throughout, armorial bookplate of the Blouet de Camilly family, light age-toning to contents; bound in full contemporary speckled calfskin, gilt-tooled spine and label, leather at front joint starting to crack, 8 x 10 in.

Newton’s Principia contains his principle of universal gravitation, his three laws of motion, and the corpuscular theory of light. $7,000-9,000

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429 Newton, Sir Isaac (1642-1727) The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy. Translated into English by Andrew Motte. To which are added, The Laws of the Moon’s Motion, according to Gravity.

London: Motte, 1729.

First English edition, octavo, in two volumes, with two folding tables and forty-seven folding plates, lacking both frontispieces, waterstained throughout, bindings defective, with large sections of leather missing, front board of volume one detached, a good candidate for restoration. $10,000-15,000 430 Niles, Samuel (1674-1762) The True Scripture Doctrine of Original Sin. Boston: Kneeland, 1757.

First edition, octavo, ex libris Reverend Samuel Dunbar (1704-1783), with his signature on ffep and title, dated 1757; contemporary sheepskin, worn, corners fragmentary, endleaves chipped with loss, three Dunbar signatures; contents toned.

Samuel Dunbar was considered the oldest Son of Library, host of the Suffolk Resolution, and the first clergyman to read the Declaration of Independence from the pulpit. $500-700 431 Nuclear Physics: University of Pennsylvania Bicentennial Conference. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1941.

First edition, contributors: Enrico Fermi, Gregory Breit, I.I. Rabi, Eugene P. Wigner, J. Robert Oppenheimer, and John H. van Vleck; 68 page pamphlet, original printed paper covers, printed in red, good, ownership signature on ffep. $200-400 432 O’Neill, Eugene (1888-1953) The Provincetown Plays, third series. New York: Frank Shay, 1916.

Includes The Two Sons by Neith Boyce; Lima Beans by Alfred Kreymborg; and Before Breakfast by O’Neill, in original orange printed wraps, chipped, with a little loss at the foot of the spine, 5 1/2 x 8 in. $300-400

433 One Thousand Valuable Secrets in the Elegant and Useful Arts. Philadelphia: for Davies and Stephens, 1795.

First American edition, 12mo, original sheepskin with red spine label, front board detached, waterstaining confined to back endleaves only.

“Whilst the inhabitants of Europe are distracted by the din of arms, and their principal employment is to contrive the most expeditious means of destroying one another, let the happy citizens of these infant States turn their attention to the useful and elegant arts of peace.” Instructions for copper, brass and steel-plate engraving, glass manufactory, gilding, dying wood and bone, painting on glass, confectionary, making of wine, and many other useful arts follow. $500-700 434 Ovid (43 BC-17 AD) Metamorphosis, trans.

George Sandys (1578-1644) London: by Legat for Hebb, 1640.

Folio, with engraved title, frontispiece, and fourteen full-paged plates; lacking B3, the first page of Ovid’s biography; and the final ten leaves: Ss4 and Tt6; bound in later textured cloth, contents spotted. $200-300 435 Pancoast, Joseph (1805-1882) A Treatise on Operative Surgery. Philadelphia: Carey and Hart, 1844.

Folio, first edition, illustrated throughout with eighty full-paged lithographs of surgical procedures, mostly by S. Chicowksi, others

by Queen, Hollis, Newsam, and others, with booksellers advertisements at front and back, and a prospectus for Moreau’s Practical Treatise on Midwifery, by the same publisher; in publisher’s embossed cloth, front board and spine sunned; presentation inscription from Dr. Albert Fiske Stanley (b. 1806) to Dr. Albion Parris Snow (b. 1826), both of Winthrop, Massachusetts, on ffep, 12 3/4 x 10 1/4 in.

Pancoast’s is the definitive work on surgical practice, and includes important advances in plastic surgery. $300-500

436 Pareus, David (1548-1622) Ad Hebraeos.

Heidelberg: Rosa, 1613.

Quarto, ex libris puritan minister and poet Michael Wigglesworth (1631-1705) and Reverend Samuel Cheever (1639-1724), with both signatures on the front free endleaf, contemporary English calf, with remnants of older paper covering, mostly adhering to turnins, and early printer’s waste endleaves, back board detached, contents uniformly browned throughout.

Wigglesworth wrote the poem “Day of Doom” a mainstay of puritan devotees for more than a generation. Cheever, who served his Marblehead congregation for years, gave written testimony during the Salem witch trials on behalf of his parishioner, Sarah Buckley. $400-600 437 Passeri, Bernardino (1540-1596) Vita et Miraculi. Rome; [no printer], 1594.

Folio, engraved title and forty-three of fifty full-paged engravings, some leaves torn and repaired on the versos, a well-loved copy, with verses translated into Italian in a contemporary hand on every page; bound in contemporary limp parchment, worn and becoming detached.

This pictorial biography of Saint Benedict of Nursia (c. 480-543) is based on a text written in 593 and attributed (controversially) to Pope Gregory I. No paintings by Passeri survive, but seventy-eight prints are known, most of which appear in this publication. $1,200-1,500 438 Pennant, Thomas (1726-1798) A Tour in Scotland and Voyage to the Hebrides.

London: Printed for Benj. White, 1790.

Three large quarto volumes, fifth edition, all volumes illustrated throughout with full-paged and folding plates; bound in contemporary marbled calf, some boards detached, contents clean.

The numerous plates include maps, portraits, natural history and architectural subjects, city and pastoral views, Roman and Celtic artifacts, medieval ruins, depictions of life among rustic cottagers, and many more. $250-350

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439 Petronius (c. 27-66 AD) Petrone Latin et Francois; Traduction Entiere, Suivant le Manuscrit trouve a Belgrade en 1688.

Amsterdam: aux Depens de la Compagnie, 1756.

Octavo, in two volumes, engraved frontispiece in volume one, and full-paged illustrations throughout, bound in fine contemporary calfskin, gilt spines, marbled edges and endleaves. $150-250 440 Philo of Alexandria [aka Philo Judaeus] (20 BC-50 AD) La Vita di Mose. Venice: Bevilacqua, 1560.

Quarto, translated into Italian by Giulio Ballino, with a new dedication, dated 1560; intermittent yellow stain along the top edge on some leaves, in later half calf.

Philo was a Hellenist whose source was the Jewish Bible. For Philo, Moses was especially central as a direct conduit for divine revelation. $500-700

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441 Picart, Bernard (1673-1733) The Ceremonies and Religious Customs of the World. London: William Jackson for Claude du Bosc, 1733-1739.

First English edition, seven volumes bound in six, 223 full-paged engraved plates, thirtyone of which are double-pagedd or folding, contemporary boards, rebacked, some hinges starting, labels chipped, volume two with intermittent water stains, corners bumped, boards abraded, ex libris Thomas Western, 11 1/2 x 18 in.

The most exhaustive study of comparative religion composed to date with stunningly detailed accounts and illustrations of the rituals and practices of religions major and minor from North, South and Central America, the Caribbean, Europe, Britain, Asia, including the Indian subcontinent, Africa, and the Pacific Islands. $2,000-3,000

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442 Plato (c. 427-347 BC) Omnia Platonis Opera, edited by Marcus Musurus. Venice: Aldus, 1513.

First edition in Greek, folio, two parts in one volume, collated, complete, with both internal blanks; Aldus’ woodcut mark used on title and verso of colophon leaf; ownership stamp of the Gymnasium und Realschule in Zittal on the title, and another armorial stamp in ink on the title and in gilt on the back board; bookplate of the Bibliothecae Electoralis Publica pasted inside the front board; bound in contemporary blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards, title tooled in gold inside central compartment on front board, rebacked, clasps renewed, with extensive paper restoration throughout due to former damp and mold damage, pages strengthened throughout, lacunae repaired, restoration carried out by Universitatsbibliothek in Bern, September, 1989, with their label inside the back board.

This monumental volume, the editio princeps of the complete works of Plato, represents one of Aldus Manutius’s most ambitious projects. With plans in the works as early as 1497, Aldus and Musurus labored together to produce the most accurate edition of the Greek text by drawing from different manuscripts, scrutinizing variant readings, and making emendations and corrections as necessary, a landmark of ancient thought sustained and transmitted by the intellectual power of the Renaissance. $30,000-50,000

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443 Pliny the Elder (23 AD-79 AD) Historia Mundi. edited by Beatus Rhenanus (14851547) Basel: Froben, 1530.

Folio, 671 pages, plus index, some wormholes and marginal stains, Froben’s ornamental woodcut initials, in 17th century sheepskin, gilt-tooled spine, leather damaged.

Beatus Rhenanus is known for his biography of his friend, Erasmus. He was very active, working with the Froben on several different projects of classical scholarship. $400-600

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444 Plutarch (c. 46-120 AD), trans. Thomas North (1535-1604) The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romains. London: by George Miller to be sold by Robert Allott, 1631.

Folio, third edition of this the fullest version of North’s English translation, with woodcut portraits of each emperor within decorative cartouches at the head of each chapter, collated, lacking initial blank, A1, bound in full modern calfskin, blind tooled, with gilt labels, a.e.g., covers somewhat rubbed, the penultimate leaf with clean tear along the gutter in the blank margin, touching three lines.

Essential to Shakespeare himself, North’s Plutarch provided the raw material used by the bard to create his dramatic versions of Julius Caesar, Coriolanus, and Antony and Cleopatra. $1,000-1,500

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445 Poetry, Continental Neo-Latin, Thirteen Volumes: Delitiae C. Italorum [Belgicorum, Gallorum et Germanorum] Poetarum, edited Janus Gruterus (1560-1627). Various Printers, 1608-1614.

12mo, eight volumes bound in Hebrew manuscript leaves, the other five in plain contemporary parchment, some volumes dampstained, one with mold, most browned, 2 1/2 linear feet. $800-1,200

446 Pouchkine, Alexandre (1799-1837), illus.

Boris Zvorykin (1872-1935) Le Coq D’Or et D’Autres Contes de A.S. Pouchkine. Paris: L’Edition D’Art H. Piazza, [1925].

Printed publisher’s paper covers, limited edition, numbered 187; numerous vivid lithographs throughout, text printed in colors, with marginal decoration, polychrome gold and silver printing; sewing perished, some leaves loose, contents fresh, 9 x 12 in. $800-1,000

450 Richardson, Albert Deane (1833-1869) Beyond the Mississippi. Hartford: American Publishing Company, [1867].

Octavo, publisher’s gilt cloth, engraved title pages and folding maps, one corner torn with slight loss, illustrated throughout, bindings, worn, torn and shaken, brown endleaves, 6 x 9 in. Deane was an acclaimed journalist and Union spy, whose life ended in a scandalous murder when he was only thirty-six. $75-125

447 Rand, Ayn (1905-1982) Anthem.

Los Angeles, California: Published by Pamphleteers, Inc., 1946. The Freeman, volume III, Number 1.

Pamphlet, first edition in this form, bound in gray textured paper boards, the cover printed in red.

“The Freeman, a journal devoted exclusively to individualism, limited government, and economic liberty.” In the dystopian world of Anthem, individuality has been outlawed; those who refer to themselves using the first person pronoun are subject to execution. The narrator is called Equality 7-2521; he begins his story, “It is a sin to write this.” $600-800

451 Richer, Louis (fl. circa 1650) Agreable Conference de Deux Paisans de Saint Oven, & de Montmorency, sur les Affaires du Temps. Paris: [n.p.], 1649.

Quarto, four parts in one volume, each with its own title page; in later parchment over stiff boards.

Richer published a total of eight parts of these “mazarinades” between 1649 and 1652 under the Agreable Conference title. They are remarkable for their use of variant spellings to capture the sound of a 17th century rural French patois. $1,000-1,200

448 Rand, Ayn (1905-1982) Atlas Shrugged.

New York: Random House, [1957].

First edition, in green publisher’s cloth and a worn dust jacket with George Salter’s illustration on the front cover, and a large black and white photograph of Rand on the back. $600-800 449 Reade, Charles (1814-1884) ‘It Is Never Too Late to Mend.’ A Matter of Fact Romance.

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1856.

First American edition, octavo, two volumes, brown embossed publisher’s cloth, rubbed, with losses to cloth at corners and spine ends, yellow endleaves, spotting, contemporary ownership inscriptions in both volumes, 5 x 7 1/2 in. $75-125

452 Ripa, Cesare (1560-1622) Iconologie. trans.

Jean Baudoin. Paris: Guillemot, 1644.

First complete French edition, folio, typographical title page printed in red and black, added engraved title, divisional engraved title to part two, and ninety-nine full-paged plates by Jacques de Bie, each containing three to six rondelle emblems, for a total of 459 engraved emblems, some leaves toned, contemporary boards rebacked, spine ornately tooled, with repairs to board corners and edges, repairs dated 1898.

Ripa’s emblem book was an instant popular success. The style of illustrations in this French edition influenced the development of art in France in the 17th century. $700-900

453 Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919) The Wilderness Hunter, Inscribed to Jacob Riis (1849-1914) New York: Putnam’s Sons, [1893].

“To my beloved friend, Jacob A. Riis; may you enjoy the north woods as much as I enjoyed the great plains of the Rockies! Theodore Roosevelt, July 1901,” illustrated throughout, in worn publisher’s binding.

Riis, the Danish-American photographer, journalist, and social reformer, and Roosevelt were best friends. $700-900 454 Ross, Captain Sir James Clark. (1800-1862) A Voyage of Discovery. London: Murray, 1847.

First edition, octavo, in two volumes, with eight lithographic plates (one folding), eight engraved maps (three folding), and seventeen vignettes, in contemporary half blue morocco, binding of volume one detached, contents good, t.e.g., a good candidate for restoration. $800-1,200 455 Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (1712-1778) Lettres. Geneva: Barrillot & Fils, 1750.

Octavo, four volumes of five bound in uniform decorative contemporary sheepskin bindings.

Together with: Machiavelli’s Oeuvres, in French, Paris, 1664, part one only, in contemporary calf, with the engraved frontispiece portrait of the author. $300-400 456 Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (1712-1778) Oeuvres. Neuchatel: [no printer], 1764.

Six 12mo volumes in contemporary French sponge-decorated calf, with gilt-tooled spines; heads chipped, loss of some labels, all boards attached; a mixed set in uniform bindings, volume four is volume nine from another set. $300-500 457 Russian Books, Seven.

Biographies of Russian nobility, 19th century. $300-400

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458 Scaliger, Joseph Justus (1540-1609) Opus de Emendatione Temporum. Leiden: Plantin, 1598.

Folio, second edition, with additions, collated, complete, with text printed in Latin, Greek, Arabic, Aramaic, Hebrew and Ethiopic, ex libris Jesuit College in Ingoldstadt, with inscription on the title dated 1656 and a duplicate stamp on the verso of the title, with copious contemporary notes in brown and red ink throughout, and extensive notes added inside the back board on rear fly leaf; in contemporary parchment; [bound with] Jacques Cappell’s (1570-1624) Epocharum Illustrium, Sedan: [no printer], 1605, 32 pages, untrimmed. $800-1,200 459 Scientific American, Approximately Fifty Issues: All copies illustrated throughout, 1878-1889, not a complete sequence, some tears, stains, largely good, 16 1/4 x 11 1/4 in. $300-500

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460 Sedgwick, Catharine Maria (1789-1867) Hope Leslie. New York: White, Gallaher, and White, 1827.

First edition, in two volumes, in printed publisher’s boards, untrimmed throughout, spotting.

Together with: Letters from Abroad to Kindred at Home, New York: Harper, 1841, first edition, in two volumes, decorated cloth, somewhat faded, internal spotting. $300-500 461 Sedgwick, Catharine Maria (1789-1867) Hope Leslie. New York: White, Gallaher, and White, 1827.

First edition, two volumes bound as one, contents stained, in later half sheep, poorly trimmed.

Together with: The Linwoods, New York: Harper, 1935, first edition, in two volumes, textured blue cloth, bindings leaning slightly, some internal spotting. $200-400

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462 Selby, Prideaux John (1766-1813) Illustrations of British Ornithology.

Edinburgh: Lizars, 1833.

Octavo, the two text volumes only, bound in three-quarter green pebbled morocco, with marbled paper boards, a.e.g., front board of volume two detached. $200-300

463 Sheridan, Richard Brinsley (1751-1816) The Critic, or a Tragedy Rehearsed, a Dramatic Piece in Three Acts. London: Printed for T. Becket, 1781.

Octavo, engraved title page, 98 pages, full modern tan calf gilt spine, ruled in gilt, inner gilt dentelles, marbled endleaves, the leather scuffed. A complicated bibliography of this title reveals many pirated editions. $300-500

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464 Sibbald, Sir Robert (1641-1722) Catalogus Bibliothecae Sibbaldianae. Edinburgh: Typis Magistri Andreae Symson, 1707.

Quarto, first and only edition, 52 pages, uncut, interleaved with blanks, the first few with contemporary notes: names and monetary amounts; 19th century signatures of Archibald Constable, the Edinburgh bookseller, and David Laing, the Scottish antiquary, on ffep; old blind stamp of the Theological Institute of Connecticut showing very faintly on some leaves, bound in later quarter leather and marbled boards. ESTC lists no U.S. copies, and only three copies in the U.K., Glasgow University, the British Library, and the Bodleian.

This rare book auction catalog lists approximately 2,000 titles from the library of the noted Scottish physician and antiquary, and founding member of the Royal College of Physicians. $800-1,200

465 Sidney, Sir Philip (1554-1586) The Countesse of Pembroke’s Arcadia. London: for J. Waterson and R. Young, 1638.

Folio, later edition, STC 22550; bound in unrestored, intact contemporary speckled calf with gilt label, ex libris Lady Elizabeth Pennyman (nee Norcliffe) (1612-1678) with her dated ownership inscription on verso of title and rear blanks, most likely bound for Lady Pennyman c. 1640, some minor interior spotting typical of 17th century books, a copy in unusually good condition.

“Fool, said my muse to me, look in thy heart and write.” --Astrophel and Stella, Sonnet 1. $400-600

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466 Skelton, John (1460?-1529) Pithy Pleasaunt and Profitable Workes of Maister Skelton, Poete Laureate. Nowe Collected and Newly Published. London: Thomas Marshe, [1568].

Octavo, 342 of 384 leaves, lacking [ ]1 (title), and [ ]4 (table of contents), and text leaves: G1, G2, I8, K1, R7, R8, S1, Z1-8 and Aa1-4.

Margins trimmed throughout, touching some headlines and catchwords; bottom corner scorched throughout, with loss of some catchwords and last lines in the first fifty leaves; top and fore edge gilt, rebound in full modern calfskin; STC 22608; Pforzheimer 948; ESTC S111019.

Together with: John Skelton: Canon and Census compiled Robert S. Kinsman and Theodore Yonge, 1967; bound in full red morocco.

“For though my ryme be ragged,/Tattered and jagged,/Rudely rayne beaten,/Rusty and moughte eaten,/It hath in it some pyth.” $1,000-1,500 467 Smith, Robert, Rat-catcher. The Universal Directory for Taking Alive and Destroying Rats and other Kinds of Four-Footed and Winged Vermin. London: Printed for the Author, 1768.

Octavo, first edition, with a post-edition printed note on the verso of the title, advising copyright protection, the illustrated with six engraved plates (four folding), bound in speckled tan calfskin, spine somewhat dry and abraded, covers attached, contents mostly clean with some offsetting.

In addition to sharing his rat-catching expertise, Smith also offers advice on how one might capture various other unfortunate creatures, such as the house cat turned wild, and the sheep-killing dog. He describes how to catch otters, badgers, and owls. But he seems to have a soft spot for the dormouse.

He calls it “the most harmless and inoffensive of all the mouse-tribe. It is a very beautiful tame little animal, and is kept by many persons in small boxes or cages, and fed with crumbs of bread.” $300-500

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468 Solinus, Gaius Julius (fl. 3rd century AD); and Pliny the Elder (23 AD-79 AD) Exercitationes in Polyhistora, ed. Claude Saumaise (1588-1653); Utrecht: Johannes vande Water, et al., 1689.

Folio, in two volumes, title pages printed in red and black with engraved vignettes, occasional botanical text woodcuts, text printed in double columns throughout; contemporary paneled calf, spines dry and flaking.

Pliny’s work is derived mostly from Solinus, and this edition was Saumaise’s most important contribution to classical scholarship.

He learned Arabic so he could be as accurate as possible with the botanical component of the work. $300-400

469 Spanheim, Ezekiel (1629-1710) Dissertationes de Praestantia et Usu Numismatum Antiquorum. Amsterdam: Elzevir, 1671.

Quarto, second edition, 917 pages, title page printed in red and black, with engraved text illustrations throughout, bound in full contemporary stiff Dutch parchment, blind tooled, parchment cracked at joints, boards still attached. $300-400 470 Stanley, Thomas (fl. circa 1813) Bibliotheca Stanleiana. London: Bulmer, 1813.

Octavo, first edition, ruled in red throughout, with prices realized, bound in modern half morocco, dark brown, with marbled paper boards.

Colonel Stanley collected travels, and had many fine illustrated and hand-colored works of natural history; his sale also featured a section on magic and witchcraft, including Shee Devil of Petticoat Lane, and Newes from the Dead. $200-300

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471 Steinbeck, John (1902-1968) Of Mice and Men. New York: Covici-Friede, [1937].

First edition, first issue, with the words, “and only moved because the heavy hands were pendula” on page nine, and the dot between the two eight’s on page 88, beige publisher’s cloth with labels printed in orange and black, in the dust jacket with the “$2.00” on the front flap, spine of the dust jacket tanned from sun exposure, colors on the front of the dust cover are bright. $700-900

472 Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894) 13 Photographs Taken in Hawaii and Samoa.

New York: Kenneth Alexander, [c. 1890].

Portfolio with contents page and thirteen loose plates housed in the publisher’s cover, set number 37 of 150, with the original label on the front board, signed by the publisher on the contents page, lacking ribbon, corners slightly bumped, spine fabric frail but intact, 10 1/4 x 12 1/2 in.

Stevenson is unmistakable in this compelling series of photographs taken in relaxed settings with King and Queen Kalakaua, and with other friends, playing cards, making music, talking, and sharing meals. After this limited edition of 150 copies, the original plates were destroyed. $1,200-1,500

473 Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894) Kidnapped. [London]: Cassell & Company, Limited, 1886.

First edition, first issue, with half-title, folding color-printed frontispiece map, and advertisements at the end dated “4.86,” ads unopened, in green publisher’s cloth, with black endleaves, binding a little sunned, slightly chipped at the foot of the spine.

Together with: Catriona, a Sequel to Kidnapped, London, Paris & Melbourne: Cassell and Company, 1893, first edition, first issue, with half-title and advertisements at the end dated “8.93,” in blue publisher’s cloth with beige daisy printed endleaves, back hinge becoming loose. $700-900 474 Stillman, Samuel (1738-1807) A Sermon, Occasioned by the Death of George Washington, Late Commander in Chief of the Armies of the United States of America.

Who Died December 14, 1799, Aged 68.

Boston: Printed by Manning & Loring, SpringLane, [1800].

Octavo, first edition, collated complete with the half-title and the final blank, untrimmed, stab sewn, half-title chipped and stained, first few leaves with spots.

Although well-represented in American libraries, this title is very rare on the auction market. $200-400

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475 Strickland, Agnes (1796-1874) Lives of the Queens of England. Philadelphia: George Barrie and Sons, 1902-1903.

Sixteen volumes, number six of seven deluxe sets of the Alexandra edition, bound for the author Agnes Carey in full navy blue morocco, with her gilt monogram, a.e.g., silk endleaves, hand-colored portraits set inside the front board of each volume; throughout the set, each plate is printed four times, on Japanese paper, India paper, papier de Chine and handcolored on Holland handmade paper, each volume housed in a navy buckram slip case, edged in morocco and lined with velvet, some slipcases bumped, with shelfware; two heads and one foot chipped with loss, back board of volume one becoming detached, three volumes with spine starting to come away, otherwise a good example of a rare set. $5,000-7,000

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476 Tacitus (AD 56-AD 117) Annalium, ed.

Beatus Rhenanus, Basel: Froben, 1544.

Folio, second edition, reprinted from the Froben edition of 1533, some spotting and staining, last leaf of index damaged, mounted, with text in pen facsimile on verso, in a mediterranean limp parchment binding, detached from textblock. $300-500 477 Tacitus (AD 56-AD 117) Opera Quae Exstant, ed. Justus Lipsius, Antwerp: Plantin, 1668.

Folio, title page printed in red and black, with engraved vignette, contents toned, bound in contemporary tight-backed parchment over boards. $400-600

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478 The Ohio Railroad Guide. Columbus: Ohio State Journal Company, 1854.

Half title, folding frontis, engraved title, all plates called for on the list of illustrations and five others not listed, totaling thirty-one fullpaged lithographs in the text; octavo, original embossed navy blue cloth with gilt spine, head chipped, contents spotted, folding frontis with slight tears, slightly shaken, one signature starting, 5 x 8 in. Howes O52; Thomson 887; Sabin 56994.

Together with: Oss, Salomon Frederik van (1868-1949) American Railroads as Investments. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1893. First American edition, octavo, with all five folding colored maps, and seven pages of ads at the back, largely unopened, in full maroon cloth, spine lettered in gilt, head worn, spotting on front board, back board scratched, spine bumped, 20th century inscription on endleaf, 5 1/2 x 9 in. $300-500

478A The Printing Art. Volume I, Numbers 1 and 2.

Cambridge, Massachusetts, March and April 1903.

Edited by Henry Lewis Johnson, both copies in original wrappers, the March issue with marginal water stains on the cover, a showcase for the printer’s art at the turn of the 20th century, with multicolor printing by various graphic processes and other printing samples throughout, many illustrations and advertisements printed on different paper stocks and tipped in, and illustrations by Maxfield Parrish, Edward Edwards, and others from New England area fine presses, engravers, printing press, ink, and paper manufacturers, and other related suppliers to the craft. $200-300

479 Thomas, Robert Bailey (1766-1846) The Farmer’s Almanac. 1793-1899.

A complete set of every Farmer’s Almanac, from issue number one, in 1792, continuously to number 107, in 1899, uniformly bound in eleven volumes by decade; the first thirty-seven issues, up to 1829, untrimmed throughout; front board of volume one starting.

The first issue of the Farmer’s Almanac, printed in Boston by Belknap and Hall at the Apollo Press in 1792, is rare in American libraries, ESTC locates only five copies.

Complete collections are seldom seen. $5,000-7,000

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480 Tomasini, Jacopo Filippo (c. 1597-1655) Illustrium Virirum. Padua: Pasquarum, 1630.

First edition, quarto, collated, complete, illustrated with added engraved title, and fortyseven engraved portraits of illustrious men, with forty-four emblematic devices printed in the text, bound in an unusual contemporary mottled parchment binding with yapp edges, and the gilt arms of the Signet Society on the front board.

Tomasini writes brief biographise of seventyfour contemporary luminaries from all disciplines, including Tycho Brahe and Gabriel Fallopius. $200-300

481 Troja, Michele (1747-1828) De Novorum Ossium. Paris: Didot, 1775.

12mo, first edition, with the folding typographical table and three folding engraved plates illustrating bone setting, in contemporary half leather and marbled boards, spine decorated in gilt, slightly wormed, folding illustrations waterstained, sewing structure starting.

Troja was a specialist in several medical fields.

In this work on the setting and healing of bone fractures, he delves into the importance of nutrition on the regeneration of bone and the practical mechanics of proper reduction. $400-600

482 Twain, Mark (1835-1910) Innocents Abroad, Inscribed. New York & London: Harper, 1905.

In publisher’s red cloth, spine faded, head worn, inscribed on front pastedown, “To S.B. Pearmain with the kindest regards of the Author. It is best to rest, on the to-days; it makes us fresh for work on the to-morrows.

Truly Yours, Mark Twain, Oct. 27/05.” $2,000-3,000

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483 Twain, Mark (1835-1910) The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg, Inscribed. New York & London: Harper, 1902.

In publisher’s red cloth, spine faded, head worn, endpaper split over inner joint, preliminaries loose, inscribed on front pastedown, “To S.B. Pearmain with the kindest regards of the Author. Every person is a moon, & has a dark side which he never shows to any one. Truly yours, Mark Twain.

388 Beacon St. Boston, Oct 27/05.” $2,000-3,000 484 20th Century Literature, Three Volumes: Sinclair Lewis’s Main Street, 1920, in blue publisher’s cloth with orange printing, spine sunned; John Steinbeck’s The Moon is Down, 1942, in a good dust jacket with minor faults, ownership inscription of ffep; Robert Frost’s Steeple Bush, 1947, in a good dust jacket with minor faults, ownership inscription of ffep. $400-600

485 Valeriano, Giovanni Piero (1477-1558) Hieroglyphica. Lyons: Frelon, 1602.

Folio, title page printed in red and black, illustrated with portrait of Valeriano facing the first leaf of the text, and numerous text woodcuts, collated, complete, in modern leather with the panels from the old boards preserved, new endleaves, edges trimmed.

Horapollo’s Hieroglyphica, found on the island of Andros in 1419, was very popular among 16th century humanists who were intrigued by symbology. The original author may have had accurate knowledge of the ancient Egyptian symbols, but his work accumulated a layer of western symbolism and theology that confuses the old meanings and has more to tell about early modern western culture. $600-900

486 Vallet, Pierre (c. 1575-1657) Le Jardin du Roy tres Chrestien Loys XIII Roy de France et Navarre dedie a la Royne Mere de Sa M[ajes]t[ie]. Paris: P. Vallet, 1623.

First edition; engraved title, portrait of John Robin, portrait of Vallet, two leaves of dedication, including poems to the King’s mother, seventy-three full-paged engraved plates of flowers; plates lightly waterstained throughout, bound in full contemporary French sheepskin, gilt spine, label and adjacent compartment missing, front hinge broken; marbled endleaves; bookplate of Nantucket watercolorist Edgar Whitfield Jenney (18691939) presenting this book to Andover artist George Walter Dawson (1870-1938) in 1926. $5,000-8,000 487 Vedder, Elihu (1836-1923) and Porter Edward Sargent (1872-1951) Correspondence: Collection of ephemera relating to the publication of the works of Elihu Vedder, including prospectuses, press, and other ephemera; letters from other publishers; copies of letters written by Sargent; bills for printing and supplies associated with the publication of Vedder’s books from the Four Seas Company Publishers; letters from Houghton Mifflin, and several from Anita Vedder, the artist’s daughter, who handled his affairs after his death. $200-300 488 Vedder, Elihu (1836-1923) Author and Publisher’s Mockup for Doubt.

Boston and Rome, c. 1922.

249 loose sheets, mimeographed and typed, with mechanically reproduced illustrations and notes, vignettes, sketches, corrections, edits, and illustrations in the artist’s hand, 9 x 11 1/2 in. $300-500

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489 Vedder, Elihu (1836-1923) Author and Publisher’s Mockup for Miscellaneous Moods. Boston and Rome, c. 1914.

Mimeographed sheets of typed text bound with green silk ribbon, 127 leaves, with photographic reproductions of the illustrations for the book, with added notes and corrections in Vedder’s hand, original drawings, transcriptions of poems and other notes; the front cover chipped and detached from the ribbons, some water spots, 8 3/4 x 11 in.

This working copy was edited by Vedder and his publisher Porter Sargent in advance of the 1914 Boston imprint. $300-500

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490 Vedder, Elihu (1836-1923) Nine Volumes: Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1886, in publisher’s cloth, signed by Vedder on the title page, with a drawing and inscription to the publisher, Porter Sargent, signed by Vedder; Miscellaneous Moods, Boston: Porter Sargent, 1914, edition deluxe, on large paper, copy number one, with dedicatory inscription to Porter Sargent, and a drawing on the ffep signed

by Vedder; and another copy, regular edition; two copies of The Digressions of V., Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1910, publisher’s cloth, second impression; and four copies of Doubt and Other Things, Boston: Porter Sargent, 1922, all from the limited edition of 500, unnumbered, in various conditions, the best in its original box with the publisher’s label and pricing, in glassine wraps, unopened, the white paper cover clean; another clean copy, no wraps, top of box missing, binding clean, unopened, and the last two with smudged bindings. $1,500-2,500

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491 Vedder, Elihu (1836-1923) Original Correspondence, c. 1914: Including more than seventy pages in Vedder’s hand, mostly letters to Porter Sargent and original copies of poems, all letters signed, many letters and poems with added drawings, doodles and other illustrations; and other material related to Vedder’s works, including the list of subscribers to the deluxe edition of Miscellaneous Moods. $900-1,200 492 Vedder, Elihu (1836-1923) Original Correspondence, c. 1915: Including more than one hundred pages in Vedder’s hand, mostly letters to Porter Sargent and original copies of poems, all letters signed, many letters and poems with added drawings, doodles and other illustrations; and other material related to Sargent’s publication of Vedder’s Doubt. $900-1,200

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493 Vedder, Elihu (1836-1923) Original Drawings and Poems: A collection of more than sixty sheets with original poems and sketches in pencil, pen and ink, and colors; mostly illustrations, text and vignettes for use in Vedder’s books, with notes relating to their placement, reduction percentages, and other editorial information; many on small pieces of paper. $2,000-3,000

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494 Vedder, Elihu (1836-1923) Six Matted Pastels: Original renderings used in Doubt, and other works; two on gray toned paper and three on black paper, including “Folly Enthroned” and “Enchanted between Heaven and Hell.” $2,500-3,500 495 Vedder, Elihu (1836-1923) Twenty-six Halftone Illustrations: Mechanically reproduced versions of original artwork for book illustration, retouched in pencil, and black and white ink in Vedder’s hand, some signed, all mounted on mat board; with a glass negative of a portrait of Vedder, and other material. $800-1,200

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496 Vedder, Elihu (1836-1923) Two Printed and Retouched Halftones: Both appeared in Doubt: “Those Days,” retouched in black and white, matted, with a border drawn in Vedder’s hand; and a large halftone reproduction of “The Endurer” with added color in Vedder’s hand, 5 1/2 x 12 1/2 in. $200-400 497 Velleius Paterculus, Caius (c. 19 BC-c.

31 AD) [Historiae Romanae]. Amsterdam: Elzevir, 1678.

12mo, edited by Daniel Heisius (1580-1655), engraved title, contemporary parchment, good.

Together with: Aristotle Logica, Lyons: Vincetium, 1562, large octavo, printed in italic type throughout, one text leaf with a large portion torn away, contemporary limp parchment, contents somewhat waterstained. $200-300 498 Verne, Jules (1828-1905) Castle of the Carpathians. New York: The Merriam Company, [1894].

Octavo, first American edition, illustrated with wood engravings, bound in maroon publisher’s cloth, with the titular castle and the dragon-like nyctalops on the front board, binding somewhat shaken, preliminaries starting, head chipped, contents good. $1,000-1,200

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499 Virgil (70 BC-19 BC) Opera. Basel: [No Printer], 1684.

12mo, with index; bound in contemporary green vellum, 3 x 4 in. $150-250

500 Vonnegut, Kurt (1922-2007) Slaughterhouse-Five. [New York]: Delacorte Press, [1969].

First edition, first printing, with dust jacket dated “0369” on rear panel, price clipped, in bright publisher’s turquoise cloth, with Vonnegut’s signature on front board in gilt, and spine stamped in gold, red, and black. $500-700

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501 Vossius, Gerardus (1577-1649) Historicis Latinis. Leiden: Maire, 1627.

Quarto, ex libris Mather descendant and infamous tory Mather Byles (1706-1788), and American scholar and diarist William Bently (1759-1819), with both signatures on the title page, Tufts College bookplate inside front board, stamped withdrawn, bound in defective contemporary calf, not collated. $300-400 502 Walker, James P. (1829-1868) The Madonnas of Raphael. New York: Leavitt & Allen, 1860.

Illustrated by E. Hufnagel, with mounted albumen photographs; lacking front board; 8 x 10 1/2 in. The plates of Raphael’s Madonnas are accompanied by poems on the Virgin Mary by Poe, Chuacer, Dante, Goethe, Shelley, Tennyson, and others. $75-125

503 Walton, William (1740-1824) A Narrative of the Captivity and Sufferings of Benjamin Gilbert and his Family, Who were surprised by the Indians, and taken from their farms, on the frontiers of Pennsylvania, in the spring, 1780. Philadelphia: Printed and Sold

by Joseph Cruikshank in Market Street, between Second and Third Streets, 1784.

Octavo, first edition, collated complete, sometimes attributed to Thomas Austin, in a signed Bradstreet binding, three-quarter red morocco and marbled paper boards, contents with slight spotting, a large copy with many deckle edges throughout.

Fifteen members of Benjamin Gilbert’s Quaker family were abducted by Mohawk Indians in 1780, including Gilbert, his wife, children, their spouses, a hired man, a neighbor, and two grandchildren. They were not freed until September 28, 1782. Gilbert did not survive the ordeal. $1,000-1,500

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504 Warhol, Andy (1928-1987) Andy Warhol’s Index Book. New York: Random House, 1967.

Soft printed silver covers, first edition, with fold-outs, pop-ups, removable pieces to construct, a record with an image of Lou Reed, and other bits and pieces, including the original balloon, now dried up and stuck between two pages; some adhesive residue from an old price sticker on front cover. $600-800

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505 Warhol, Andy (1928-1987) Catalog of the Exhibition, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston. October 1-November 6, 1966, introduction by Alan Solomon.

Stapled single signature catalog with silver cover with portrait of Warhol, text mostly on white paper with some sheets on deep neon pink paper, clean and crisp throughout, 8 1/2 x 11 3/4 in.

The catalog includes illustrations of iconic Warhol images like Marilyn, Elvis, Jackie O., soup cans, Brillo boxes, cow wallpaper, and floating silver pillows. The penultimate leaf features a photograph of the Plastic Inevitable (Velvet Underground) performing with enormous images of Nico projected behind them. The band was scheduled to perform at the I.C.A. on October 29, 1966. $300-500

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506 Washington, George (1732-1799) Engraved Portrait. Matted and framed, engraved on steel by W.L. Ormsby, New York, after the Gilbert Stuart painting, 20 x 28 in. overall. $300-500

507 Washington, George (1732-1799) Newspaper Announcements of his Death.

Newport Mercury, Newport: Henry Barber, December 31, 1799, silked, marginal tears with loss, bound in half morocco.

Together with: Providence Gazette, Providence: John Carter, January 18, 1800, loose, inserted with the above, deckle edges, old folds, small hole in printed mourning border at top. $2,000-3,000

508 Wenham, Jane (d. 1730) The Case of the Hertfordshire Witchcraft Consider’d.

London: for John Pemberton, 1712.

Octavo, first edition, first two leaves browned, text untrimmed throughout, in boards.

This account of the witchcraft trial of Jane Wenham is popularly thought to be the last trial of its kind conducted in England. This is inaccurate, other trials were pursued in the courts subsequent to Wenham’s conviction.

Happily, although Jane was found guilty, she ultimately escaped a death sentence, and lived out her natural life under the protection of William Cowper (1665-1723). $200-300

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509 Whitman, Walt (1819-1892) Leaves of Grass. Including Sands at Seventy, GoodBye my Fancy, a Backward Glance o’er Travel’d Roads, and Portrait from Life.

Philadelphia: David McKay, [1919].

A check drawn on the National State Bank of Camden, dated Nov. 2, 1887, for thirty dollars and no payee, signed by Whitman pasted inside the front board, in dark green publisher’s cloth and gilt lettered spine, rubbed, a bit shaken, boards worn, the check with tears in the center, and a little brown discoloration from the glue. $500-700

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510 Williams, Theodore (d. 1827) A Catalogue of the Splendid and Valuable Library of the Rev. Theodore Williams. London, 1827.

Octavo, first edition, ruled in red with prices realized and buyers’ names added in manuscript throughout; bound in half period morocco and marbled paper boards, rubbed.

Reverend Williams owned a 14th century Greek manuscript of the New Testament; a ninth century Bible; and a Hebrew Bible manuscript from the 13th century, among the other 1,900 lots offered in this sale. $500-700 511 Witchcraft, Seven Volumes: David Young’s Wonderful History of the Morristown Ghost, Newark, 1826; Mercy Disborough, a Tale of New England Witchcraft, Bath, New York, 1844; Witchcraft Detected and Prevented; or the School of Black Art, Peterhead, 1823; Welby’s [a.k.a. Timbs’] Signs before Death, 1825; and three others. $200-300

512 Witchcraft, Six Volumes: Armstrong’s A Syllabus of Lectures on the Visions of the Revelation, Morristown, New Jersey: Johnson, 1815, disbound; Quitman’s A Treatise on Magic, Albany: Balance Press, 1810, half calf; MacCleod’s History of Witches, New York: James Oram, 1802, with the frontispiece, in full sheepskin; From Authentic Documents, a History of the Witches of Renfrewshire, Paisley: by Neilson for Millar, 1809, marbled sheepskin; A Short Compilation of the Extraordinary Life and Writings of Thomas Say, New York: by John Langdon, 1805, half sheep; and Ptolemy’s Tetrabiblos or Quadripartite, by Ashmand, London: Davis and Dickson, 1822, spine missing. $200-300

513 Witchcraft, Ten Volumes: Sir Walter Scott’s Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft, New York, 1855, in textured book cloth; Mrs. Blair’s Dreams and Dreaming, London: Groombridge, [n.d.], in textured cloth with printed paper label on the front board; Ollier’s Fallacy of Ghosts, Dreams, and Omens, London: Charles Ollier, 1848; Upham’s Lectures on Witchcraft, comprising a History of the Delusion in Salem in 1692, Boston: Carter, Hendee and Babcock, 1831, in smooth blue cloth with printed paper label on the spine; Thacher’s An Essay on Demonology, Ghosts and Apparitions, Boston: Carter and Hendee, 1831, in faded purple cloth with publisher’s label; Goodwin’s Lives of the Necromancers, New York: Harper, 1835, cloth; The Supernaturalism of New England, by the author of The Stranger in Lowell, London: Wiley and Putnam, 1847, embossed cloth; Howard Williams’ Superstitions of Witchcraft, London: Longman, Green, et al., 1865, in cloth; and two on the same topic by Mathers, 19th century editions. $200-300

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514 Witchcraft, Ten Volumes: Soulie’s Les Memoires du Diable, Paris: Dupont, 1857, disbound; Worthington Hooker’s Lessons from the History of Medical Delusions, New York: Baker & Scribner, 1850, in boards; Walter Scott’s The Existence of Evil Spirits Proved, London: Jackson & Walford, 1853, publisher’s cloth; Ghostly Colloquies, New York: Appelton & Co., 1856, in embossed cloth; Zschokke’s Alamontade, or the Galley Slave, Philadelphia: Grubb and Reazor, 1845, disbound, water damaged; Jung-Stilling’s Theory of Pneumatology, London: Longman, Rees, et al., 1834, publisher’s cloth, sewing loose; Frederick George Lee’s Glimpses of the Supernatural, New York: Carleton, 1875, gold embossed cloth with creepy hand design; Rufus Blakeman’s Philosophical Essay on Credulity and Superstition, and Animal Fascination or Charming, New York: Appleton, 1849, half cloth; Catherine Crowe’s The NightSide of Nature or, Ghosts and Ghost-Seers, New York: Redfield, 1850, in a signed cloth binding by George W. Alexander of New York; and Raphael’s Familiar Astrologer, London: Bennett, 1841, illustrated throughout, with hand-colored engravings, in embossed cloth with fancy gilt-stamped spine. $200-300

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515 Witchcraft, Twelve Volumes: Delusion, or the Witch of New England, Boston, 1840, textured cloth, spotting to endleaves and preliminaries; Henry Christmas’ The Phantom World, Philadelphia: A. Hart, 1850, in embossed publisher’s cloth binding; Clayton’s Angelology, New York: Kernot, 1851, in green cloth, illustrated; Begbie’s Supernatural Illusions, London: Newby, 1851, two volumes bound as one in embossed cloth; Letters to the Rev. William E. Channing on the Existence and Agency of Fallen Spirits, Boston: Marvin, 1828, in half cloth; Mrs. Crowe’s Ghosts and Family Legends, London: Newby, 1859, in green cloth; Newnham’s Essay on Superstition, London: Hatchard, 1830, half cloth; Wright’s Narratives of Sorcery and Magic, New York: Redfield, 1852, cloth; Dendy’s Philosophy of Mystery, New York: Harper, 1845; Corinne L’Estrange’s Woman’s Witchcraft, Philadelphia: Hazard, 1854, in embossed cloth with the title in gilt on the front board; and two others. $200-300 516 Wood, John Turlte (1821-1890) Discoveries at Ephesus. Boston: Osgood, 1877.

Illustrated throughout, some plates in color, bound in full publisher’s green cloth, some plates loose and frayed, Wood’s magnum opus.

Together with: Schlielmann’s Troy and its Remains, New York: Scribner, Welford & Armstrong, 1876, illustrated; half calf, label missing; and Mears’ Greece Today, the Aftermath of the Refugee Impact, Stanford: University Press, 1929, in dust jacket. $300-500

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517 Woolf, Virginia (1882-1941) Orlando. New York: Crosby Gaige, 1928.

First edition, signed by Woolf in purple ink on the verso of the half-title, limited edition, copy 580 of 800 numbered signed copies, in publisher’s cloth, sunned, with a little loss at the head, and a short tear in the cloth.

Orlando decides, while a youth in the court of Queen Elizabeth I, that he will never grow old.

Escaping gender completely, Orlando lives sometimes as a man and other times as a woman, right into the 20th century. $1,200-1,500 517A Wowern, Johann van der (1574-1612) Dies Aestiva sive De Umbra Paegnion. [No place]; Hering, 1610.

Octavo, engraved vignette on title, textblock detached from vellum wraps, sewing failing, edges stained green.

Wowern collaborated with Johan van der Does on this unusual book on shade and shadows. $300-500

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The History of Science From the Collection of a New England Scientist and Maker of Scientific Instruments Lots 518–624

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518 Accademia del Cimento Saggi di Naturali Esperienze, ed. Lorenzo Magalotti. Florence: Cecchi, 1691.

Folio, second edition, title page printed in red and black, engraved vignette on title, with halftitle, engraved portrait of Cosimo III, engraved vignettes throughout the text, seventy-five fullpaged engravings of experiments throughout, occasional light browning, generally good, on substantial paper; bound in contemporary limp parchment.

The Accademia del Cimento was an organized scientific society, like the Royal Society in Britain. This collection describes recent experiments made by its members, who were working out theories on the physical properties of air and air pressure, sound velocity, and the behavior of fluids under different conditions. $800-1,200

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519 Adams, George (1709-1772) Micrographia Illustrata. London: for the Author, 1771.

Large octavo, fourth edition, seventy-four plates, many folding, one bound as the frontispiece, untrimmed throughout, including the continuously signed but separately paged Catalog of the Mathematical, Philosophical, and Optical Instruments, made for George Adams and for sale at the sign of Tycho Brahe’s head, at number 60 Fleet Street, bound in contemporary half calf and marbled boards, joints split. $1,000-1,500 520 Adams, George (1750-1795) Plates for the Essays on the Microscope. London: Hindmarsh, 1787.

Oblong folio, typographical title page, and thirty-one pages of engraved plates, sometimes with two to a page; title page toned, slight water stain to top blank margin, in later half calf, rubbed at head. $1,000-1,500

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521 Adams, George Senior (1709-1772) Essays on the Microscope. London: Dillon and Keating, 1798.

Large quarto, second edition, engraved frontispiece, 724 pages of text; thirty-two double-paged plates; contemporary marbled calf, rebacked.

Adams was an optician and maker of scientific instruments. $1,000-1,500

522 Albumasar (787-886) Introductorium in Astronomiam. Venice: Leuco for Sessa, 1506.

Quarto, title with woodcut, printed in gothic letter throughout, woodcut initials, forty-three small woodcuts (with twenty-two repeats), stamp on title, contemporary marginal notes, Sessa’s printer’s woodcut on colophon leaf, added manuscript index, William Stirling Maxwell’s bookplate pasted inside the front board, bound in later parchment over stiff boards, collated, complete.

Albumasar furnished the west with Aristotelian thinking. $6,000-8,000

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523 Apianus, Petrus (1495-1552) Cosmographicus Liber. Antwerp: Arnold Birckman, [1533].

Quarto, collated, complete, sixty-six leaves, illustrated with many woodcuts throughout, including four constructed and intact volvelles, minor water stains, bound in later vellum over stiff boards.

In addition to contributions to astronomy and navigation, Apianus also mentions the recent explorations of America, using Vespucci’s name and describing it as an island. His work contributes to important emerging sciences and is a monument to 16th century book production. $6,000-8,000

524 Baker, Henry (1698-1774) Employment for the Microscope. London: Dodsley, 1753.

Octavo, second edition, illustrated with seven folding engravings, contemporary boards, leather split along the joints, occasional marginal spotting.

Baker’s microscopic observations focus on salts, crystals, and minute aquatic life. $300-500 525 Baker, Henry (1698-1774) The Microscope Made Easy. London: Dodsley, 1743.

Octavo, second edition, illustrated with fourteen full-paged and folding engravings, and one folding typographical table, contents good, in contemporary boards, original label, leather at joints split, boards still attached.

Baker brings the microscope to everyone with his handy manual and its modern-sounding title. $400-600

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526 Bayer, Johann (1572-1625) Uranometria.

Ulm: Gorlini, 1661.

Folio, engraved title, and fifty-one doublepaged plates of the constellations, some marginal browning, bound in contemporary parchment over stiff boards, damage to head of spine, otherwise intact.

Bayer’s was the first star atlas based on Tycho Brahe’s Astronomiae Insturatae. He chose Greek letters to designate important stars, a practice still in use today. $15,000-20,000

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527 Besson, Jacques (1540?-1573) Theatre des Instrumens. Lyons: Vincent, 1578.

First French edition, folio, collated, complete, engraved title, nineteen unnumbered leaves of text, and sixty full-paged plates of inventions, text evenly toned, bound in contemporary limp parchment.

Besson’s popular work contains many ingenious devices, including mills, presses, pumps, a musical instrument, an adjustable book stand, a hoist for listing ships from the sea, and many more. $2,500-3,500 528 Bion, Nicolas (1652-1733) L’Usage des Globes. Paris: d’Houry, 1699.

Octavo, illustrated, occasional browning, bound in full contemporary calf, gilt-tooled spine, good. $1,000-1,500

529 Bion, Nicolas (1652-1733) Traite de la Construction et des Principaux Usages des Instrumens de Mathematique. The Hague: Husson et al., 1723.

Large quarto, engraved title, title page printed in red and black, with thirty folding engravings (twenty-eight numbered, and two unnumbered), contemporary parchment over board, sewing failing, a good candidate for restoration. $600-800 530 Biringuccio, Vannoccio (1480-c. 1539) Pirotechnia. Venice: Comin da Trino di Monferrato, 1559.

Quarto in eights, collated, complete, woodcut title and numerous woodcuts throughout the text, title page printed within woodcut border, somewhat dirty, final thirty pages waterstained at top margin, in later parchment over stiff boards, intact.

Chapters in this unusual early book treat topics in alchemy; metallurgy, including bronze casting; mining; and of course, explosives. $2,000-3,000

531 Born, Ignaz Edler von (1742-1791) Uber das Anquicken der Gold und Silberhaltigen.

Vienna: Wappler, 1786.

First edition, large quarto, engraved vignette on title, illustrated with three text engravings, and twenty-one folding engraved plates; bound in contemporary calf, spine tooled in gilt, good.

Born in Transylvania, Ignaz Elder von Born moved to Vienna, where he studied metals and minerals. In this work, he advances a new method for extracting metals by amalgamation, i.e., by combining the metalcontaining ore with a salt and mercury, and then heating the mixture in shallow vessels to extract the target metal from within the ore. $500-700

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532 Brahe, Tycho (1546-1601) Tychonis Brahe Dani Astronomiae Instauratae Progymnastica. Frankfurt: Tampachium, 1610.

Second edition, two quarto volumes, with the engraved portrait bound halfway through volume two, at the beginning of the letters; illustrated with woodcuts, diagrams and tables throughout, collated, complete; occasional browning and spotting; ex libris the Jesuit College in Paris, with their 17th century bookplate and inscription on the title page in both volumes, bound in contemporary speckled calf with gilt arms of the Jesuit College and the Signet Society, with withdrawn stamps in both volumes; spines dry, leather at joints cracking.

Brahe’s accurate astronomical observations, facilitated by his capable assistant, Johannes Kepler, enabled him to describe the laws of planetary motion. $6,000-8,000

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533 Brisson, Mathurin Jacques (1723-1806) Dictionnaire Raisonne de Physique. Paris: Hotel de Thou, 1781.

Three large quarto volumes, bound in full contemporary sponged French sheepskin, spines tooled in gilt, good; the plate volume (three) contains ninety full-paged and folding engraved illustrations. $1,000-1,500

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534 British Microscopy, Five Titles, 18th-19th Centuries: Quekett’s Practical Treatise on the Use of the Microscope, London, 1852, illustrated, half green morocco, worn; Pritchard’s List of Two Thousand Microscopic Objects, London, 1835, pamphlet, disbound; Martin’s Description and Use of a New Invented Pocket Reflecting Microscope, Chichester, [1738], illustrated, in blue paper boards; Varley’s Improvements in the Microscope, London, 1832, three folding plates, pamphlet, disbound; and Clarke’s Directions for Using Philosophical Apparatus, London, [c. 1830], illustrated, with sale catalogue, pamphlet, disbound. $400-600

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535 Buonanni, Filippo (1638-1723) Observationes circa Viventia. Rome: Hercules, 1691.

First edition, quarto, engraved title to second part, and sixty-nine engraved plates, some folding, clean, bound in contemporary speckled calf, gilt-tooled spine, leather consolidator applied to the spine in the last century.

Buonanni, a Jesuit scientist, and student of Athanasius Kircher, records microscopic pollination for the first time in this work, although he continued to argue against Redi, in favor of spontaneous generation. $3,000-5,000 536 Cherubin D’Orleans, Le Pere [Michel de Lassere] (1613-1697) La Dioptrique Oculaire. Paris: Jolly & Bernard, 1671.

Folio, engraved title by Eddelink after Le Pautre, with sixty engraved illustrations, some folding, bound in full contemporary red morocco, a.e.g., marbled endleaves, water damaged, back board warped, discolored, text also waterstained.

This work on optics covers microscopes, telescopes, cameras obscura, and the effects that can be achieved by combining different lenses. $5,000-7,000

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537 Cherubin D’Orleans, Le Pere [Michel de Lassere] (1613-1697) La Vision Parfaite.

Paris: Mabre-Cramoisy, 1677.

Folio, presentation inscription from the author on ffep, engraved title, sixteen plates in the text, four of which are double-paged or folding, ex libris Andrade, with his bookplate, slight worming to text, original French calfskin binding, spine tooled in gilt, joints starting, corners bumped with some loss of leather. $2,000-3,000 538 Chevalier, Charles Louis (1804-1859) Notice sur l’usage des Chambres Obscures. Paris: Chevalier, 1833.

Octavo, untrimmed, in original paper wraps, ex libris Library of the University of Vermont, embossed stamp to title, bookplate pasted inside front board, illustrated.

Chevalier made meniscus lenses for the first Daguerreotype cameras. $400-600

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539 Clavius, Christoph (1538-1612) Fabrica et Usus Instrumenti. Rome: Grassium, 1586.

First edition, quarto, collated, complete, illustrated with numerous woodcuts and diagrams throughout the text, old stamp on title, occasional minor spotting, bound in later stiff parchment. $2,500-3,500 540 Clavius, Christoph (1538-1612) In Sphaeram Joannis de Sacro Bosco Commentarius. Venice: Basam, 1596.

Quarto, enlarged and corrected edition, large woodcut armillary sphere on title, illustrated with numerous text woodcuts, bound in later stiff parchment, leaves in good condition throughout.

Clavius, the capable Jesuit astronomer and mathematics professor here comments on the work of Sacro Bosco. The work is also noteworthy for its references to Copernicus, whom Clavius describes as “another Ptolemy.” $600-800

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541 Danfrie, Philippe (1532-1606) Declaration de L’Usage du Graphometre. Paris: Danfrie, 1597.

First edition, first state of dedication, quarto, collated, complete; one of two books printed with Danfrie’s second and fourth Civilite type; illustrated with fourteen engravings and four woodcuts; in good condition, bound in a wellexecuted and well-preserved later parchment binding.

Danfrie was a successful graphic artist, engraver, and type designer, who cut bookbinding tools and worked for the French mint designing coins. In this work he shows off his remarkable Civilite types, patterned after formal French handwriting, his draughtsmanship, with the engraved and woodcut illustrations, and his skills as an inventor and instrument-maker, with the graphometer, a surveying instrument. $6,000-8,000 542 Della Torre, Giovanni Maria (1710-1782) Nuove Osservazioni Microscopiche. Naples, 1776.

Quarto, illustrated with fourteen folding engravings after the text, some minor spotting, bound in contemporary limp patterned paper wraps, housed in a modern chemise and slipcase; ex libris Charles Atwood Kofoid (1865-1947) and Herbert McLean Evans (1882-1971), with their bookplates pasted inside the front. $500-700

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543 Descartes, Rene (1596-1650) Principia Philosophiae. Amsterdam: Elzevir, 1644.

First edition, quarto, collated, complete, with blanks, illustrated with woodcuts throughout, contents good, bound in contemporary parchment with yapp edges.

Descartes sketches out the core principle of the first fundamental law of motion in his Principia, later borrowed by Newton. $5,000-7,000 544 Diderot, Denis (1713-1784) [extract] Encyclopedie, ou Dictionnaire Raisonne des Sciences, des Arts et des Metiers, par une Societe des Gens de Lettres. Paris/ Neuchatel/Amsterdam: Various Printers, 17511780.

Folio, the section on scientific instruments, thirteen leaves of text and approximately ninety-five full-paged engraved illustrations; disbound, in paper wraps. $700-900

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545 Donne, Alfred Francois (1801-1878) Cours de Microscopie Complementaire des Etudes Medicales. Paris: Bailliere, 1845.

First edition, folio, illustrated with twenty plates comprising eight-six microdaguerreotype images taken by Leon Foucault, bound in the original publisher’s boards, scuffed, foxing to half-title and first plate.

Cutting-edge daguerreotype technology was almost instantly pressed into the service of science. Every other scientific image reproduced in books up to this moment had been mediated by the artist’s hand and eye.

Donne’s use of photographic technology facilitated a more objective view of the blood cells, crystals, sperm cells, and other subjects examined under the microscope.

This work contains the first description of the microscopic appearance of leukemia, whose presence Donne linked with abnormal blood pathology. $4,000-6,000

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546 Drebbel, Cornelius (1572-1633) Grundliche Auflosung von der Natur und Eigenschafft der Elementen. Frankfurt: Issingin, 1715.

Together with: Ozanam, Jacques (1640-1717) Usage du Compas de Proportion. Paris: Didot, 1794.

Both volumes octavo, contemporary leather bindings, the second with folding tables. $300-500 547 Ellis, John (c. 1710-1776) Essai sur L’Histoire Naturelle des Corallines. The Hague: Pierre de Hondt, 1756.

First edition, large quarto, hand-colored engraved frontispiece, and thirty-nine fullpaged and folding hand-colored engravings of corals and other sea life, and one of the microscope Ellis used; bound in full contemporary calf, spine tooled in gilt. $400-600

548 Fabri, Ottavio (fl. circa 1670) L’Uso del la Squadra Mobile. Padua: Gattella, 1670.

Quarto, engraved title, folding plate, numerous engravings in the text, some discoloration, original limp paper covers, stained and worn. $300-500 549 Fine, Oronce (1494-1555) De Re Praxi Geometrica. Paris: Gourbinus, 1556.

First separate edition, quarto, collated, complete, with final blank, illustrated with numerous text woodcuts and diagrams, contemporary ownership inscriptions from a Jesuit institution on the title, bound in contemporary limp parchment, occasional spotting to text.

The illustrations depict geometrical instruments in use in the field, including the cross staff, the quadratum geometricum, and the astrolabe. $1,500-2,000 550 Fine, Oronce (1494-1555) De Solaribus Horologiis. Paris: Cavellat, [1560].

First separate edition, quarto, title within woodcut border, numerous woodcuts in the text, and the large folding illustration meant to be constructed and placed between pages 204 and 205 intact, as printed, and bound after the text, collated, complete; in later limp parchment. $2,000-3,000 551 Fine, Oronce (1494-1555) Extract from Geometriae Practicae. [from Protomathesis?

Pages 50-99] Paris, 1530.

Folio, with bookseller’s letter claiming that this copy belonged to the author; two contemporary inscriptions on the title, and some initials on the rear endleaf, illustrated with woodcuts throughout the text, water stain to top margin of the first ten leaves, contemporary sheepskin binding with some minor damage and old repairs. $800-1,200

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552 Fine, Oronce (1494-1555) In Sex Priores Libros Geometricorum Elementorum Euclidis Megarensis Demonstrationes.

Paris: Simon de Colines, 1536. [bound with] Arithmetica Practica, Paris: Simon de Colines, 1542.

Folio, first edition of the Euclid, third edition of the Arithmetica, both titles illustrated with woodcuts throughout, woodcut borders, crible head and tail pieces and initials; notes in a contemporary hand throughout, ex libris William Stirling, with his bookplate inside the front board, and his binding, later calf, both boards detached. $4,000-5,000

553 Fine, Oronce (1494-1555) Opere. Venice: Senese, 1587.

First Italian edition, quarto; illustrated with text woodcuts; first signature browned, in contemporary limp parchment, becoming detached from textblock. $1,000-1,500

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554 Fine, Oronce (1494-1555) Sphaera Mundi.

Paris: Vascosan, 1551.

Quarto, collated, complete, illustrated throughout, one woodcut printed in red and black, wormhole through top right corner in the last thirty leaves; bound in contemporary limp parchment. $1,500-2,000

555 Flamsteed, John (1646-1719) Atlas Celeste, ed. Nicolas Fortin. Paris: Des Champs, 1776.

Second edition, octavo, eight pages of text, thirty double-paged plates of constellations, and a forty page catalog of stars; clean throughout, in contemporary sponged calfskin, corners bumped, head and tail worn.

Flamsteed’s Atlas builds on Bayer’s Uranometria, laying out the constellations using equatorial and ecliptic coordinates. $2,500-3,500

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556 French Microscopy, Seven Titles, 19th Century: Dujardin’s Nouveau Manuel Complet de L’Observateur au Microscope, Paris, Roret, 1842, plate volume, half sheepskin, and the following disbound Parisian pamphlets: Villars’ Memoire sur la Construction et L’Usage du Microscope, 1806; Microscope Achromatique, [c. 1825]; Fresnel’s Rapport sur le Microscope Achromatique, 1824; Lerebours’ Description des Microscopes Achromatiques, [c. 1840]; Lerebours’ Description d’un Microscope Achromatique Simplifie, 1839; Fontenelle’s Guide pour les Recherches et Observations Microscopiques, 1836; and Chevalier’s Note sur un Microscope Simple Perfectionne, [c.

1833]. $400-600

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557 Galileo, Galilei (1494-1555) Dialogo.

Florence: Landini, 1632.

First edition, quarto, with engraved title and cancel slip pasted on page ninety-two; manuscript letter H added to the diagram on page 192; Ff6 with errata collated, lacking the final blank, untrimmed throughout, with occasional browning, blank margin at foot of title formerly trimmed away, very neatly restored, barely noticeable; bound in solid 18th century Italian parchment over stiff boards, flaky red label on spine; ex libris R.W. Martin, Grolier Club member, pasted inside the front board.

Galileo overturns the order of the universe and runs afoul of the Holy See. $15,000-17,000

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558 Galileo, Galilei (1494-1555) Le Operazioni del Compasso Geometrico. Padua: Frambotto, 1649.

Quarto, third edition, collated, complete, illustrated with numerous woodcut text diagrams and large folding engravings, fresh, with deckle edges throughout, in its original paper wrappers.

Galileo’s first published work, here in the third edition, in which he describes the expanded use he devised for the geometric compass.

Galileo has pressed the compass into use as a tool that can perform mathematical calculations by mechanical means. This application was especially useful for the military, because calculating the ratios between linear dimensions of solid and planar bodies facilitated trajectorial projections for munitions. $3,000-4,000

559 Galileo, Galilei (1564-1642) Opere, ed. Carlo Manolessi. Bologna: Per gli HH. Del Dozza, 1656.

First edition of Galileo’s collected works, quarto, volume one only (of two), engraved title, engraved portrait, folding plate of the geometric compass, numerous text illustrations, collated, complete; some toning, generally good, in contemporary limp parchment. $3,000-5,000

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564 Gleichen-Russwurm, Wilhelm Friedrich von (1717-1783) Decouvertes les Plus Nouvelles dans le Regne Vegetal ou Observations Microscopiques. [Nuremberg]: Veuve de Chretien de Launoy, 1770.

First French edition, folio, three parts in one volume, illustrated with fifty-one hand-colored, full-paged engravings by Keller after GleichenRusswurm, with three large engraved headpieces, contents good, bound in original half calf and speckled paper boards, paper peeling, leather spine lifting away. $1,000-1,500

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560 Gallucius, Johannes Paulus (1538-1621) De Fabrica, et usu Novi Horologii Solaris; [and] De Fabrica, et Usu Cuisdam Instrumenti; Venice: Ciottum, 1592.

Quarto, collated, complete, numerous woodcuts in the text, volvelles unconstructed, with extra prints for their completion still pasted in place, spotting and water stains, later vellum.

Gallucius’s is the most practical of handbooks, with copious illustrations to aid the budding instrument-maker. $2,500-3,500

561 Gassendi, Pierre (1592-1655) Institutio Astronomica. London: Jacobi Flesher, prostant aupd Gulielmum Morden, 1653.

Second edition, one of three London variants, octavo, collated, complete, final blank pasted down inside back board; title page printed in red and black, numerous woodcut illustrations throughout, separate title pages for Galileo’s Sidereus Nuncius, and Kepler’s Mathematici Dioptrice, contents clean, in contemporary Cambridge calf, front board detached; contemporary inscription on title dated Cambridge, 1702, and sporadic notes in text. $4,000-6,000

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562 German Microscopy, Two Volumes, 18th-19th Centuries: Grummert’s Beytrage zum Wachsthum der Natur und Grossenlehre, Dresden & Leipzig, 1747; [bound with] Meyen’s Kurzer Unterricht von der Beschaffenheit, Dresden & Leipzig, 1747, both illustrated, contemporary half leather; and Barfuss’s Theorie der Spiegelmikroscope, Weimar: Voigt, 1840, 12mo, in paste paper boards. $300-500 563 Gleichen-Russwurm, Wilhelm Friedrich von (1494-1555) Histoire de la Mouche Commune. Nuremberg, 1766.

First French edition, folio, illustrated with four hand-colored plates by Johann Christoph Keller after von Gleichen-Russworm, collated, complete, in contemporary half red morocco and red paste paper boards. $800-1,200

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565 Gravesande, Willem Jacob’s (1688-1742) Mathematical Elements of Natural Philosophy.

London: Senex, et al., 1737.

Two octavo volumes, fifth edition, title pages printed in red and black, illustrated with thirty-three folding plates in volume one, and twenty-five folding plates in volume two, contents clean and fresh throughout both volumes, contemporary bindings with all four boards detached. $800-1,000 566 Grew, Nehemiah (1641-1712) Musaeum Regalis Societatis. London: Rawlins, 1681.

First edition, folio, engraved frontispiece portrait, A6 (the second page of the table) misbound between the text and engravings; illustrated with thirty-one full-paged plates, including those for The Comparative Anatomy of Stomach and Guts, minor worming, bound in a defective later binding. $500-700 567 Grew, Nehemiah (1641-1712) The Anatomy of Plants. London: Rawlins, 1682.

First edition, folio, illustrated with eightythree full-paged engravings (some folding), water stains at head affecting leaves at the beginning and end; contemporary dark brown calf boards, rebacked with a rust-colored leather, old leather sides peeling up. $800-1,000

568 Griendel von Ach, Johann Frantz (16311687) Micrographia Nova [German].

Nuremberg: Zierger, 1687.

First edition, quarto, illustrated with twentynine folding plates of microscopic subjects, many portrayed for the first time in this publication, bound in later speckled paper over boards covered with a glassine wrapper. $2,000-3,000 569 Griendel von Ach, Johann Frantz (1631-1687) Micrographia Nova [Latin].

Nuremberg: Zierger, 1687.

First edition, quarto, illustrated with twentynine folding plates of microscopic subjects, many portrayed for the first time in this publication, spotting, bound in later half leather. $2,000-3,000

570 Harris, John (1667?-1719) Lexicon Technicum. London: for Dan Browne et al., 1716.

Folio, third edition, title printed in red and black, text printed in two columns throughout, illustrated with numerous text diagrams, five full-paged and two folding engravings, original half leather, joints splitting.

John Harris was secretary of the Royal Society at this time; in this work, he compiles the latest scientific knowledge of the day into the first technical dictionary. $500-700 571 Hawks, Francis (1798-1866) Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan. Washington: Nicholson, 1856.

First edition, three large quarto volumes, illustrated throughout with many color lithographs, including the suppressed bath house plate (after page 408 in volume one); and maps, bound in original blind-stamped cloth, loose and shaken, spines faded. $700-900

572 Hero of Alexandria (c. 10-70 AD) Spiritalium Liber. Urbino: [Frisolino], 1575.

First edition, quarto, collated, complete, illustrated with numerous woodcut diagrams in the text, minor spotting, in contemporary Italian limp parchment; surface worming confined to the exterior of the back cover.

Hero’s pneumatic inventions, working mainly due to atmospheric pressure, include many ingenious passive pumps that operate fanciful fountains, and other devices. With the addition of steam to the mix, he designs an automatic door-opener. Once he adds a piston, things get more complicated and ambitious, including his invention of the first reactive steam turbine. $2,000-3,000

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573 Hevelius, Johannes (1611-1687) Prodromus Astronomiae. Danzig: Stollius, 1690.

First edition, folio, two parts in one volume; collated, complete, with half-title, typographical title page mounted, repairing a closed tear; two double-paged folding plates, both with Urania at the center, surrounded by astronomers; in the first, Hevelius bows before the others, who have assembled on a cloud, he presents his work; in the second, Urania and a select six (among them Hevelius, Ptolemy, Brahe, and Riccioli) are seated around a table; full-paged engraved portrait, one engraved text illustration, large engraved vignette on verso of last text leaf, one fullpaged engraving, and fifty-four double-paged engravings of constellations; occasional spotting, limited discoloration along the top edge that varies in intensity; bound in 18th century German sheepskin and speckled paper boards, leather at joints cracking.

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Hevelius catalogs 1,564 stars in this celestial atlas, the most exhaustive, accurate, and important of its kind when published. Each star listed under its parent constellation and organized by stellar magnitude. He maps the heavens from the outside looking in, using latitude, longitude, right ascension, and declination as the tools of orientation. Much of Hevelius’s work was destroyed in a fire at his observatory in 1679; luckily this portion of his efforts was preserved. $80,000-100,000

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574 Hevelius, Johannes (1611-1687) Selenographia. Danzig: for the Author, 1647.

First edition of the first complete lunar atlas, folio, collated, complete, illustrated with engraved title, and engraved portrait; 107 full-paged engravings (including one constructed volvelle); three double-paged engravings, and twenty-six text engravings; all illustrations engraved and signed by the author; typographical title printed in red and black, 2 x 4-in. portion clipped from the blank right bottom corner of the title; contents occasionally spotted, bound in original polished parchment over stiff boards, tooled in gilt on boards and spine, all edges gilt, very good.

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Hevelius’s work on the moon is stunning. He engraved a plate for every night from the first glimmer of a crescent after no moon, through to the full moon, and then again the waning moon back to the last visible scrap before no moon again. He also describes his tools and methods in detail, and includes illustrations of the interior of his observatory in Danzig. $25,000-30,000

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575 Hooke, Robert (1635-1703) Micrographia.

London: Martyn, 1667.

Second edition, folio, collated, complete, with half-title, and thirty-eight engraved plates, half of which are folding, the others fullpaged, some tears, water stain on the first plate; bound in a very good contemporary tan Cambridge calfskin binding, front board detached.

As he composed his microscopic observations, Hooke described the units that compose skin as “cells� for the first time.

His shocking flea and louse, presented in unnatural enormity, are still frightening today. $10,000-12,000

576 Hooke, Robert (1635-1703) Microscopic Observations. London: Wilkinson, 1780.

Folio, reissue of the 1745 Micrographia Restaurata with cancel title page; illustrated with thirty-three full-paged and folding plates; bound in contemporary half calf with marbled boards. $2,000-3,000 577 Joblot, Louis (1645-1723) Descriptions et Usages de Plusieurs Nouveaux Microscopes.

Paris: Collombat, 1718.

First edition, quarto, two parts in one volume, first page of text engraved, illustrated with thirty-four full-paged engravings of views through the microscope, notably protozoa; bound in contemporary French calf, gilt-tooled spine, leather is dry, joints starting. $2,000-3,000

578 Joblot, Louis (1645-1723) Observations d’Histoire Naturelle. Paris: Briasson, 1754.

Quarto, illustrated with fifty-three folding engravings, some water stains, some leaves loose, contemporary French boards, waterstained, both detached. $1,000-1,500 579 Kawamoto, Komin (1810-1871) Kikai Kanran Kogi. Japan, 1856.

Five volumes, illustrated, printed in Japanese on rice paper throughout, soft cover, bound in original green patterned paper covers, stab sewn in the traditional Japanese manner.

Kawamoto was a scholar of western thought, with special focus on the Dutch. This is an expansion of a Chinese translation of Johannes Buijs’ Natuurkundig Schoolboek, and brought western science to Japan. $300-500

580 Kircher, Athanasius (1602-1680) Ars Magna Lucis et Umbrae. Rome: Scheus, 1646.

Folio, engraved title, illustrated with forty engraved plates extraneous to the collation, some folding; Jesuit geographical family tree repaired on the verso, ownership inscription of Stephan Spleiss (1623-1693) on ffep, with a few notes in the text; contents generally good, in contemporary blind-tooled alum-tawed pigskin over paper boards, ties lost, edges stained blue.

Kircher covers the waterfront again, with sections on optics, astronomy, cameras obscura, magic lanterns, and any other topics related to darkness and light. $4,000-5,000

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581 Kircher, Athanasius (1645-1723) Mundus Subterraneus. Amsterdam: JanssonWaesberg, 1678.

Folio in two volumes, third edition, engraved title in each, portrait in volume one, illustrated with twenty-one plates, thirteen folding, eight full-paged, with two unconstructed volvelles, two full-paged and two doublepaged typographical tables extraneous to the collation; bound in full parchment, damaged, with three large holes in the parchment, singed around the edges. $3,000-5,000

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582 Kircher, Athanasius (1645-1723) Musaeum Kircherianum, ed. Filippo B(u)onanni.

Amsterdam: Jansson-Waesberg, 1678.

First edition, folio, engraved portrait and 171 engraved plates, contents clean, in contemporary speckled sheepskin, worn and defective.

Kircher presided over the collections Alfonso Donnino left to the Jesuits when he died in 1651. This illustrated catalog provides a snapshot of the diverse interests of European collectors in the early modern period. $3,000-5,000

583 Lansberg, Johan Philip (1561-1632) In Quadrantem. Romanum, 1635.

Quarto, large engraved illustration of two gentlemen using quadrants on the title, collated, lacking final blank, one large and two smaller woodcut illustrations in text, intermittent browning; bound in modern marbled paper over thin boards. $700-900

584 Ledermuller, Martin Froben (1719-1769) Physikalische Beobachtung derer Saamenthiergens. Nuremberg: Monath, 1756, with eight folding plates; [bound with] Ledermuller’s Versuch zu einer Grundlichen Vertheidigung dere Saamenthiergen.

Nuremberg: Monath 1758, with six folding plates; [bound with] Peter Ernst von Asch’s (b. 1730) Natura Spermatis Observationibus Microscopicis Indagata. Gottingen: Eliam Luzac, [1756]; quarto, contemporary marbled and paste paper in earth tones, good.

This sammelband contains works on embryology, including microscopic views of sperm cells, and a sequence of chicken embryo development. $2,000-3,000

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585 Ledermuller, Martin Froben (1719-1769) Mikroskopische Gemuths- und AugenErgotzung. Nuremberg: Launoy, 1760-1762.

First edition, three quarto volumes, illustrated with engraved titles in each volume (one of three hand-colored), and 150 full-paged hand-colored engravings, some with metallic highlights, fifty in each volume, the coloring accurate, fresh, and beautifully executed, a few plates in volume two printed in colored ink instead of black; contents very good throughout; bound in uniform contemporary German half calf and paste paper boards, spines letter and tooled in gilt, joints cracked, boards holding, spines beginning to lift.

Ledermuller’s book is a beautiful example of the synergistic relationship between science and book illustration. $4,000-6,000

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586 Leeuwenhoek, Anton van (1632-1723) Ontledingen en Ontdekkingen. Leiden: Boutestein, 1696.

Quarto, illustrated with portrait and engraved title, seven folding and four full-paged plates, and dozens of text engravings, some nearly full-paged; many parts in one volume, all with separate title pages dated in the 1680s and 1690s, one marginal stain over a few pages near the beginning, otherwise good, in clean, contemporary stiff, blind-tooled Dutch parchment over boards.

This is a collection Leeuwenhoek’s letters to members of the Royal Society in London on his recent microscopic discoveries and observations, text in Dutch. $2,000-3,000 587 Lyonet, Pierre (1706-1789) Traite Anatomique de la Chenille. The Hague: Gosse & Pinet, 1762.

First edition, large quarto, title page printed in red and black, illustrated with an engraved frontispiece of Lyonet’s microscope and eighteen folding engravings by Lyonet; occasional browning; bound in contemporary mottled calf, gilt-tooled spine.

Lyonet’s exhaustive microscopic appraisal of the goat moth caterpillar (Cossus cossus) represents an important 18th century development in the western approach to science, as the specialist takes the place of the polymath. It takes five years for a goat moth to go from egg to moth. They get their name from a strong “goat-like” smell they emit in the larval state. $700-900

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588 Malpighi, Marcello (1628-1694) Opera Omnia. London: Sawbridge, 1686.

First edition, folio in two volumes bound as one, each with several parts, first title with engraved vignette, titles printed in red and black; illustrated with engraved title to part one; 116 full-paged engravings, and seven supplementary engravings, mostly of the tongue, printed on smaller slips; ownership inscription of British botanist Henry Trimen (1843-1896) on title, occasional minor spotting, in 19th century half leather and marble boards, rebacked.

Malpighi’s enduring contributions to science lie primarily in microscopic analysis, study, and description of minute physical structures of living creatures from plants and insects, to birds (especially embryological investigations of the development of chicks), frogs, and humans. $1,000-1,500

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589 Manzini, Carlo Antonio (1599-1678) L’Occhiale all’Occhio. Bologna: Herede del Benacci, 1660.

First edition, quarto, engraved portrait bound after first signature, illustrated with several text woodcuts, one depicting the lens grinder at work occupies most of the page, small worm trail, confined to blank margin, and affecting fewer than twenty leaves, slight dampstain to blank top margin, otherwise good, with some contemporary notes, bound in original gilttooled limp Italian parchment, all edges gilt.

Manzini, who makes mention of Galileo and Kepler in his preface, created this working manual to describe practical lens-grinding, and the basic principles of optics, with instructions for making optical instruments from eyeglasses to microscopes and telescopes. $4,000-6,000

590 Martin, Benjamin (1704-1782) Biographia Philosophica. London: Owen, 1764.

First edition, octavo, originally issued in monthly installments in The General Magazine of Arts and Sciences, 1755-1763; 565 pages, with the index leaf, contemporary half calf, board detached. $250-350 591 Martin, Benjamin (1704-1782) Philosophia Britannica. London: Cooper et al., 1759.

Octavo in three volumes, second edition, title pages printed in red and black, illustrated throughout with seventy-eight folding plates, contents of all volumes well-preserved in uniform contemporary English speckled bindings, heads lightly chipped, spines somewhat dry, good overall. $400-600

592 Molyneux, William (1656-1698) Dioptrica Nova. A Treatise of Dioptricks. London: Tooke, 1692.

First English edition, quarto, collated, complete with half-title, errata, advertisements, and forty-three folding engraved illustrations, minor marginal worming and dampstain, four plates accompanying the appendix on browned paper, original boards, rebacked with gilt spine.

This rare work by Irish founder of the Dublin Philosphical Society Molyneux has only been offered at auction twice in the last forty-six years; it is his most famous work. Molyneux started making astronomical observations in the 1680s, after procuring a telescope from Flamsteed. Molyneux also associated with Sir Edmond Halley (1656-1742), and reproduces his colleague’s theorem for calculating the foci of lenses in this work. $8,000-10,000

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593 Monconys, Balthasar de (1611-1665) Journal des Voyages. Lyons: Boissat & Remeus, 1665-1666.

First edition, three quarto volumes, illustrated with thirty engraved plates by Claude Debarge, bound in contemporary speckled sheepskin bindings intact, some losses to leather spines, most of the gold has rubbed away.

Monconys’ was one of the earliest journeys taken in the name of science. He traveled to England, the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Portugal, and east to Turkey, Syria, and Egypt. $2,000-3,000 594 Monge, Gaspard (1746-1818) Description de L’Art de Fabrique les Canons. Paris: L’Imprimerie du Comite de Salut Public, [1794].

First edition, large quarto, illustrated with sixty folding plates and four tables, later half vellum, intact, some plates on blue paper, some edges browned, generally good. $700-900

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595 Montucla, Jean-Etienne (1725-1799) Histoire des Mathematiques. Paris: Agasse, [1799-1802].

Four large quarto volumes, most complete edition, illustrated with two portraits and fortyfive folding plates, bound in fine uniform half calf, marbled paper boards. $500-700 596 Musschenbroek, Pierre Van (1692-1761) Essai de Physique. Leiden: Luchtmans, 1751.

Two large quarto volumes, second edition, engraved portrait in volume one, illustrated with thirty-three folding engraved plates, generally clean, bound in uniform intact 17th century sponge-decorated French calfskin, spines tooled in gold, some wear.

Musschenbroek was interested in electricity, the vacuum, optics, sound, and light, and he was an instrument-maker. The plates include illustrations of his tools. $700-900 597 Needham, John Tuberville (1713-1781) Nouvelles Decouvertes Faites avec le Microscope, first French edition, trans. A. Trembley. Leiden: Luzac, 1747.

Together with: Nouvelles Observations Microscopique. by the same author, Paris: Ganeau, 1750; both volumes octavo, the first illustrated with seven folding plates, the second with eight; in contemporary bindings. $400-600

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598 Newton, Sir Isaac (1642-1727) Opticks: or a Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light. London: Smith and Walford, 1704.

First edition, first issue, without Newton’s name on the title, quarto, two parts in one volume, title printed in red and black, with nineteen folding engraved plates, pages very clean throughout; in contemporary English blind-tooled, speckled, paneled binding, gilttooled spine, beautifully restored, with original spine and label relaid, by J. MacDonald Company of Norwalk, Connecticut, with their stamp inside the front board, one plate with a tear carefully mended from the verso.

Newton examines all aspects of optics in this important contribution to the discipline. He advances the corpuscular theory of light for the first time. The work itself was written in the 1670s, and Newton showed the manuscript to microscope pioneer and fellow Royal Society member Robert Hooke, whose criticisms were so withering that Newton elected to stall publication until after Hooke’s demise. $40,000-60,000 599 Niceron, Jean Francois (1613-1646) Thaumaturgus Opticus. Paris: Langlois, 1646.

First edition, folio, half-title, illustrated with engraved title and forty-two full-paged engravings, minor water stain in the gutter of the last few signatures, 18th century limp parchment, later endleaves.

Niceron was an artist and a Minim friar, with an interest in perspective and optics. This copy bears Minim order library ownership inscriptions dated 1673. $2,000-3,000 600 Nollet, Jean-Antoine (1700-1770) L’Art des Experiences. Paris: Durand, 1770.

First edition, in three duodecimo volumes, illustrated with fifty-six folding plates of mechanical devices and scientific instruments throughout, contents good, bound in contemporary French mottled calf, spines tooled in gilt, intact, leather cracking at the foot of the front joint of volume two; with the c. 1780 bookplate of the bookselling Freres Perisse of Lyons pasted inside the front board. $800-1,000 601 Optics and Astronomy, French, Four Volumes, 18th-19th Centuries: Bailly’s Histoire de L’Astronomie Ancienne et Moderne, Paris, 1805, in two volumes, contemporary calf, rebacked; de la Caille’s Lecons Elementaires D’Optique, Paris, 1756, contemporary sponged calf, missing label, joint starting, twelve folding plates; and Rivard’s Traite de la Sphere, Paris, 1743, contemporary sponged sheepskin, good, with three folding engravings; all volumes octavo. $400-600

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602 Piccolomini, Alessandro (1508-1578) Della Sfera del Mondo. Venice: Bevilaqua, 1561.

Quarto in eights, collated, complete, signature F misbound, typographical star charts in the text, title page stained, with messy ink crossed out inscriptions, occasional spotting and browning, bound in contemporary Italian parchment over boards, ink smudges and holes in the covering material on front board. $700-900 603 Porta, Giovanni Battista della (1535-1615) Magiae Naturalis Libri Viginti. Frankfurt: Wechel, 1591.

Octavo, ink inscriptions to title, paper toned, bound in German blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards with intact clasps, originally bound with patches to the covering material, peeling slightly, otherwise an intact binding.

Porta was in the first generation of polymath early modern scientists. His work is a collection of notable and largely unexplained qualities of the natural world. Optics, magnetism, medicine, poison, alchemy, earthquakes, fossils, early scientists had many things that needed understanding. Porta, by collecting and presenting the inexplicable, takes the first step in that direction. $700-900

604 Power, Henry (1623-1668) Experimental Philosophy. London: T. Roycroft for Martin and Allestry, 1664.

First edition, quarto, collated, complete, with the imprimatur leaf, errata, and final blank; illustrated with one folding engraving and one full-paged woodcut, in later crushed threequarter dark morocco and buckram boards, spine and joints very dry; text with an isolated stain on the last leaf of the preface and the first leaf of text, largely good.

Experimental Philosophy was Power’s only published work, it is divided into three parts: microscopy, corpuscular theory, and experiments involving the vacuum. $5,000-7,000

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605 Ptolemy, Claudius (c. AD 90-c. AD 168) Omnia Quae Extant Opera. Basel: Petrus, [1551].

Folio, printed in two columns throughout, illustrated with text woodcuts, leaves toned, title page with contemporary Jesuit college ownership inscription, old paper pasted to title, later full sheepskin, slightly cocked, gilttooled spine, red label.

Ptolemy, a citizen of Egypt under Roman and Hellenistic rule, composed some of the earliest works of astronomy. His Almagest is the only comprehensive treatise on astronomy that survives from the ancient world. It comes down through Arabic manuscripts; Latin translations were made as early as the 12th century. $2,000-3,000

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606 Radinus, Thomas Todischus (1488-1527) Sideralis Abyssus. Paris: Kees, 1514.

Quarto, second edition, title page printed in red and black, illustrated with charming text woodcuts of the constellations, and a twicerepeated full-paged woodcut of an armillary sphere, collated, complete as described in the register, eighty pages, some spotting to contents, worming of inner margins, paper repairs to first four leaves; bound in later parchment over boards. $3,000-5,000

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607 Ramelli, Agostino (1531-1600) Le Diverse et Artificiose Machine. Paris: Casa del’Autore, 1588.

First edition, folio, engraved title, portrait, illustrated with 195 engravings (174 full-paged, twenty-one double-paged), text printed within typographic borders throughout, in French and Italian on facing pages throughout, title page and two double-paged plates with library stamp in blank margins; engraved title page/ portrait leaf with three old glassine paper repairs, text with marginal toning; corner stain on the last eighty leaves; bound in contemporary tight-backed parchment over boards, rebacked.

In addition to applying basic mill technology (driven by water, man, or beast) to everything conceivable, Ramelli also contributes a section to the art of breaking and entering, with machines for raising doors off their hinges, devices to release portcullises, and several cranks designed to spread iron bars. Among book lovers, the wheel of many open books is the most coveted of Ramelli’s inventions.

The section on weapons of war is also worthy of note. $15,000-17,000 607

608 Ramsden, Jesse (1735-1800) Description d’Une Machine pour Diviser. Paris: Didot, 1790.

First edition in French, large quarto, title page dusty and waterstained, illustrated with seven large folding engravings bound after the text; original limp paper wrappers, stab sewn, untrimmed, with deckle edges throughout, marginal water stains to first thirteen pages of text.

Ramsden was a maker of mathematical instruments; this work is a description of his “dividing engine,” which was used to accurately scribe lines onto measuring devices like astrolabes, sextants, and protractors.

Setting circles are the graded measurements etched onto dials on telescopes; these enable the observer to find objects in the sky by the equatorial coordinates used in celestial charts. $600-800

609 Reaumur, Rene Antoine Ferchault de (16831757) L’Art de Convertir le Fer Forge en Acier.

Paris: Brunet, 1722.

First edition, quarto, illustrated with seventeen folding engraved plates, ex libris Augustus Denis Fougeroux de Bondaroy (1732-1789), with his bookplate inside the front board, a large fresh copy in contemporary mottled French calfskin, spine tooled in gilt, head chipped.

Reaumur made many contributions to science. In this work he focuses on iron and steel forging, with practical experiments, information, and illustrations. $1,000-1,500

610 Reaumur, Rene Antoine Ferchault de (17041782) Memoires pour Servir a L’Histoire des Insectes. Paris: L’Imprimerie Royale, 1734-42.

Five quarto volumes only of six, illustrated with folding plates throughout, in contemporary mottled calfskin, with gilt-tooled spines. $700-900

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611 Rojas Sarmiento, Juan de (fl. circa 1550) Commentariorum in Astrolabium. Paris: Vascosan, 1551.

Quarto, second edition, collated, complete, with the blank Mm6, illustrated with text woodcuts throughout, many near full-paged; leaves carefully restored with deft corner paper repairs, 16th century document used as endleaves, front and back; bound in modern red morocco, neat marginal notes, especially in the first half.

Printing, type design, layout, and illustrations that can only be described as elegant, the first edition of this work appeared in 1550. $2,500-3,500 612 Sacro Bosco, Johannes de (d. 1256) Textus de Sphaera. Paris: Simon de Colines, 1538.

Small folio, thirty-five leaves, illustrated with large woodcuts on title and a3 verso, smaller marginal illustrations, two leaves with margins somewhat tattered, bound in later blind-tooled dark brown sheepskin, edges and joints rubbed, ex libris Luis Bardon, with his bookplate inside the front board.

A basic schoolbook of astronomy, De Sphaera was widely published through the incunabula period and well into the 17th century. $2,000-3,000

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613 Scaletta, Carlo-Cesare (1666-1744) Epitome Gnomonica. Bologna: Pisarri, 1702.

First edition, quarto, illustrated with text woodcuts and engravings, a full-paged, and an added manuscript chart, contemporary soft marbled paper covers. $500-700

614 Schott, Gaspar (1608-1666) Magia Naturalis Naturae et Artis. Bamberg: Schonwetter, 16741677.

Four quarto volumes, collated, complete, each with an engraved title, and illustrated with full-paged and folding engravings throughout, I: twenty-five; II: thirty-three; III: twenty-one; IV: thirteen; for a total of ninety-two plates; text with occasional browning, as usual, sometimes heavy; bound in contemporary French calfskin, speckled boards, gilt-tooled spines, headcaps chipped, all boards attached; ex libris Carmelite Convent of Paris, with their early stamp in black ink, placed discreetly, and blending in with the typography, and ex libris a Jesuit institution, with their blue stamp on titles. $3,000-5,000

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615 Smith, Robert (1689-1768) A Compleat System of Opticks. Cambridge: for the Author, 1738.

First edition, large quarto, two parts in one, illustrated with eighty-three folding engraved plates, errata, advertisements and instructions to the binder present; bound in worn contemporary calf, leather split at joints. $1,000-1,500

616 Stelluti, Francesco (1577-1652) Persio Tradotto in Verso. Rome: Mascardi, 1630.

First edition, quarto, engraved title, portrait, one full-paged engraving, and five smaller text engravings; collated, lacking final blank; some browning and waterstaining to text leaves, in full contemporary limp parchment.

This Italian translation of the Satires of Persius is the first book to contain an illustration of an object as viewed through a microscope. The full-paged plate of the magnified bee includes views of the insect from top, bottom, and side, details of the head, legs, and mouthparts, and is in all, more scientific than literary. $1,500-2,000

617 Stoeffler, Johannes (1452-1531) Calendarium Romanum Magnum.

Oppenheim: Kobel, [1518]. [bound with] Elucidatio Fabricae Ususque. Oppenheim: Kobel, 1513.

First edition, folio, collated, complete; title page and dedication leaf printed within woodcut borders, fourteen leaves of preliminary matter, including index; seventyfour leaf section, Propositiones in Calendarium Romanum, with calendrical tables; six leaf section printed in two columns, in red and black, with geographical coordinates for dozens of European cities, and a small woodcut city view at the bottom of each column; the calendar follows, printed on thirteen leaves, in red and black, one page for each month, with the zodiacal sign in a woodcut rondelle at the fore edge, and a woodcut illustrating the common activities for the month printed at the foot of each page, calendars for 1518, 1537 and 1556 on the verso of each; the next eleven pages are taken up with illustrated tables of partial and total solar and lunar eclipses, printed in red and black, for the years from 1518 to 1573; fortyseven pages of tables printed in red and black of moveable feasts, solar and lunar cycles, and the positions of the signs of the zodiac up to 1579; followed by four full-paged black and red woodcuts of astronomical instruments.

[Elucidatio Fabricae], title page printed within architectural woodcut compartment; woodcut arms of George Simler; nineteen large woodcut diagrams, with extension slips on several, fifteen woodcuts depicting perspective and measurement techniques; six smaller text woodcuts and five astrological charts, a few leaves brown, some occasional stains; the two bound together in parchment over boards, edges stained red.

Stoeffler’s was the most exhaustive work of its time concerning the astrolabe, and measurement of distance, taking the convergence of meridians into account. In the first work, the mathematics professor from Tubingen seeks to align the proposed Julien calendar with astronomical events. $20,000-25,000

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618 Swammerdam, John (1637-1680) The Book of Nature. London: Seyfert, 1758.

First English edition, large folio, two parts in one volume, title page printed in red and black, with engraved vignette on title, illustrated with fifty-three full-paged engravings, large copy, untrimmed, with deckle edges throughout, bound in contemporary half leather, sewing perished, both boards detached. $500-750 619 The New Royal Cyclopaedia, ed. George Selby Howard. London: Alex Hogg, [c. 1790].

Three large folio volumes, engraved frontispiece, title page printed in red and black, illustrated throughout, bound in mottled calfskin, rebacked, with original labels, leather dry; an English response to Diderot. $400-600 620 Tortoni, Carlo Antonio (1640-1700) Istruzione delle due Sorti di Microscopii Tortoniani. Rome: Komarek, 1687.

Quarto pamphlet, one six-leaf signature, with one full-paged engraving only (of two); deckle edges, some spotting, 17th century ink ownership inscription on title; bound in modern wood-grained paper covered boards.

Tortoni invented this new screw barrel microscope in 1685, but kept the details under wraps until this publication. $1,000-1,500 621 Trembley, Abraham (1710-1784) Memoires pour Servir a L’Histoire d’un Genre de Polypes d’Eau Douce. Leiden: Jean & Herman Verbeek, 1744.

First edition, large quarto, illustrated with thirteen folding engraved plates, fine engraved head- and tail-pieces throughout; contents clean, bound in full sponge-decorated French sheepskin, gilt-tooled spine, green silk bookmark, edges stained red, period marbled endleaves.

Trembley was the first scientist to identify the hydra, a simple, predatory, microscopic freshwater animal with a tubular body and one to twelve tentacles. He studied and reported on its asexual reproduction, its ability to regenerate limbs (thus the name), and its sensitivity to light, despite its lack of eyes.

Through the lens of his microscope, for the first time in the history of science, Trembley witnessed cell division and also made successful tissue grafts. $300-500

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622 Valturio, Roberto (1405-1475) Les Douze Livres de Robert Valturin. Paris: Perier, 1555.

First French edition, folio, collated, complete, large woodcut printer’s mark on title, illustrated with ninety-seven fine woodcut illustrations, many full-paged, portion of the bottom corner of the title torn away with loss, repaired, with good pen facsimile making up the excised portion of the imprint, smaller paper repairs in the corresponding blank margins of the following two leaves; bound in full 17th century French speckled calfskin, spine tooled in gilt, edges red, marbled endleaves, spine dry. $8,000-10,000 623 Wilkes, Charles (1798-1877) Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition.

Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard, 1845.

Five imperial octavo volumes, illustrated throughout, some spotting, bound in uniform publisher’s gold- and blind-stamped cloth.

Wilkes surveyed the Northwest coast of the United States by sea, over a four-year period, making inland forays at regular intervals. $500-700 624 Zahn, Johannes (1641-1707) Oculus Artificialis Teledioptricus. Nuremberg: lochnerus, 1702.

Folio, second edition, engraved title, typographical title page printed in red and black, engraved portrait of the dedicatee; illustrated with six folding or double-paged engravings, approximately twenty-eight fullpaged engravings or woodcuts, integral to the collation, seven double-paged typographical tables, and numerous text woodcuts Zahn, as compiler and popularizer, presents a full picture of the state of the science of optics for his time. He begins with basic information about eyes, before moving on to the artificial eyes of his title. These books were manuals for do-it-yourself scientists, the microscope and telescope builders of the 18th century, and included every construction detail necessary, starting with lens-grinding. Notably, Zahn describes a portable camera obscura with fixed lenses and an adjustable mirror. $1,500-2,000

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625 Audubon, John James (1785-1851) American Redstart. [from] Birds of America.

London: R. Havell, 1826-1838.

Hand-aquatinted copper-plate engraving, mounted on board, sheet: 24 3/4 x 34 in., plate mark: 12 x 19 3/4 in.; some spotting, evenly toned; No. 8; Plate 40, American Redstart Male 1. F. 2., Muscicapa Ruticilla, Plant Vulgo. Scrub Elm. Ostrya Virginica.

The scrub elm in full bloom has attracted the attention of some paper wasps, whose nest hangs from the same branch; the male redstart is captured with its beak open, ready to snatch the insect from behind. $800-1,200

626 Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Bachman’s Warbler and Worm Eating Warbler. [from] Birds of America. London: R. Havell, 1826-1838.

Two hand-aquatinted copper-plate engravings, both mounted on board, each sheet: 24 3/4 x 36 in.; No. 7, Plate 34, and No. 37, Plate CLXXXV; the Bachman’s warbler plate is spotted overall, with old white dots, where spotting was covered at the time the sheet was mounted on the board; the worm-eaters plate is in better condition, with only some marginal mottling and two small tears, both well outside of the plate mark, easily covered by a mat.

The worm-eating warblers are depicted eating poke-berries; the Bachman’s warblers perch on a blooming gardenia. $700-900

627 Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Birds of America 1840. New York: J.J. Audubon; Philadelphia: J.B. Chevalier, 1840.

First edition, in seven octavo volumes, threequarter brown calfskin and marbled boards, neatly rebacked in the 1950s, with half-titles in all volumes, illustrated throughout with 500 hand-colored lithographs after Audubon’s drawings, printed and colored in Philadelphia

by Bowen, tissue guards, clean, with only occasional minor spotting. $40,000-50,000

628 Audubon, John James (1785-1851) BlackCapped Titmouse. [from] Birds of America.

London: R. Havell, 1826-1838.

Hand-aquatinted copper-plate engraving, mounted on board, loose, in a protective sleeve, sheet: 20 x 29 in., No. 32, Plate CLX, platemark visible, one marginal stain, and a few small spots, the sheet browned evenly but noticeably.

The male and female titmice are shown working on their hanging nest. $800-1,200 629 Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Blue Eyed Yellow Warbler. [from] Birds of America.

London: R. Havell, 1826-1838.

Hand-aquatinted copper-plate engraving, loose, in a protective sleeve, sheet: 25 1/4 x 38 in., No. 19, Plate 95, two sheets joined, a clean copy, with a very faint old mat burn approximately 3 in. beyond the plate mark, sheet edges toned.

The Yellow warbler clings to a wisteria vine, the flowers tumbling below. $700-900

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630 Audubon, John James (1785-1851) BrownHeaded Nuthatch. [from] Birds of America.

London: R. Havell, 1826-1838.

Hand-aquatinted copper-plate engraving, matted and framed, with 23 1/2 x 36 in. of the sheet visible through the mat opening; watermark is visible; plate mark is 12 1/4 x 19 1/2; text in top left corner: No. 25; top right: Plate CXXV; bottom: Drawn from Nature by J.J. Audubon F.R.S. F.L.S. Brown-headed Nuthatch Sitta Pusilla. Lath. Male 1. Female 2.

Engraved, Printed, and Coloured by R. Havell, London; a very clean example, the paper lightly and evenly toned to a shade of ivory, very slight ripple along one edge, where the print meets the mat. $1,000-1,500

631 Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Canis Familiaris, Hare Indian Dog. [from] The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America.

Philadelphia: J.T. Bowen, 1839-1844.

Hand-colored lithograph, matted and framed, with 19 1/2 x 26 in. of the sheet visible, some marginal foxing in the sky, not affecting the dog; top left: No. 27; top right: Plate CXXXII; bottom right: Drawn from Nature by J.W. Audubon; bottom center: Canis Familiaris, Linn. (var. Lagopus.) Hare-Indian Dog. Male.; bottom right: Lithd Printed & Cold. by J.T. Bowen, Philad. 1848. $1,200-1,800 630

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632 Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Cat Bird. [from] Birds of America. London: R. Havell, 1826-1838.

Hand-aquatinted copper-plate engraving, mounted on board, loose, in a protective sleeve, sheet: 17 1/2 x 22 1/2 in., No. 26, Plate CXXVIII, clean, with discernible platemark and no spotting, an evenly ivorycolored sheet.

Male and female cat bird feast on blackberries. $800-1,200

634 Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Great Footed Hawk, or Peregrine Falcon. [from] Birds of America. New York: Bien, 1860.

Chromolithographic plate, matted and framed, only the image is visible, 23 x 36 in.

The male and female goshawk devour a male and female duck.

633 Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Common Flying Squirrel. [from] Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America. Philadelphia: Bowen, 1845-48.

Hand-colored lithograph, framed, 21 x 26 1/2 in.; top left: No. 6.; top right: plate XXVIII; bottom left: Drawn from Nature by J.J. Audubon, F.R.S. F.L.S.; center: Pteromys Volucella, GMEL. Common Flying Squirrel.

Natural Size, 1, 2, Males. 3, 4, Females, 5.

Young; bottom right: Lit. Printed & Cold. by J.T. Bowen, Philada. 1843. $1,200-1,500

635 Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Jackall Fox. [from] The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America, octavo edition. Philadelphia: Bowen, 1854.

Hand-colored lithograph, matted and framed, with 6 x 8 3/4 in. visible; top left corner: No. 31; top right: Plate CLI; bottom left: Drawn from Nature by J.W. Audubon; bottom center: On Stone by Wm. Hitchcock, Jackall Fox; bottom right: Lith Printed & Cold. by J.T. Bowen, Phil. $300-500

Provenance: By descent within a New England family. $800-1,200

636 Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Lapland Long-spur.

Plate CCCLXV, no. 73, Fringilla Laponica, Male spring plumage, male in winter, female; not examined outside of frame, watermark not visible, plate mark not discernible, perhaps due to washing and pressing, toned, framed, 15 x 22 in. of sheet visible. $500-700

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637 Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Oregon Flying Squirrell. [from] Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America. Philadelphia: Bowen, 1845-48.

Hand-colored lithograph, framed, 21 x 26 1/2 in.; top left: No. 3.; top right: Plate XV.; bottom right: Drawn from Nature by J.J. Audubon, F.R.S. F.L.S.; center: Pteromys Origonensis, Bachman. Oregon Flying Squirrell. Natural Size; bottom right: Lith. Printed & Cold. J.T. Bowen, Phila. $1,200-1,500 637A Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Ornithological Biography. Edinburgh: Adam Black, 1831.

Octavo, companion text volume to Audubon’s Birds of America, bound in half cloth and marbled paper boards. $500-700

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638 Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Raven, Male. [from] Birds of America. London: R. Havell, 1826-1838.

Hand-aquatinted copper-plate engraving, on Whatman 1830 paper, in an antique craftsman style oak frame; No. 21, Plate CI, sheet: 38 1/2 x 25 3/4 in., frame: 46 x 33 in.; a striking image, recently restored, in very good condition.

The raven dominates the sheet. His beak open, he is caught with his wings just unfolding, either recently landed or preparing to take flight. The feathers have been masterfully colored with a clever combination of blues, blacks, grays, and whites that suggest the sheen and iridescence of the original. $9,000-12,000

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639 Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Snow Bird. [from] Birds of America. London: R. Havell, 1826-1838.

Hand-aquatinted copper-plate engraving, loose, in a protective sleeve, sheet: 25 1/2 x 38 1/2 in., Plate 13, No. 3, sheet is clean overall, light toned and chipped at the outer edges, one small tear in the blank margin, more than seven inches outside the platemark.

Male and female snow birds perch on a leafless swamp ash, with pendant fruit. $800-1,200

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639A Audubon, John James (1785-1851) The Quadrupeds of North of America. New York: V.G. Audubon, 1851-1854.

Three octavo volumes, illustrated throughout with full-paged color lithographs of the fourfooted mammals of our continent; bound in contemporary half morocco, first volume boards and spine detached, contents good, 7 1/2 x 11 in.

Creator of the most ambitious projects of natural history and book illustration, Audubon shows his prodigious talents again in this publication. He traveled the American continent, including Canada and the far west, documenting all known quadrupeds, including the most familiar rats, squirrels and raccoons, and hitherto unknown species from newly explored regions. In the course of this undertaking, Audubon’s health began to flag, and his son, John Woodhouse took his place as the main illustrator for the series. Another son, Victor, served as publisher and editor and handled Audubon family business affairs. $4,000-6,000

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640 Audubon, John James (1785-1851) The Viviparous Quadrupeds. New York: by J.J. Audubon, 1846.

Volume one text only, purple cloth publisher’s binding, rebacked. $300-500

640A Audubon, John James (1785-1851) White Weasel, and Common Flying Squirrel. [from] Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America.

Philadelphia: Bowen, 1845-48.

Two hand-colored lithograph, matted and framed, No. 12, Plate LIX; and No. 6, Plate XXVIII; tear and pencil mark visible in the top corner of the flying squirrel plate, white weasel with some folds. $1,000-2,000 641 Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Yellow Throat Warbler. [from] Birds of America.

London: R. Havell, 1826-1838.

Hand-aquatinted copper-plate engraving, loose, in a protective sleeve, No. 17, Plate 85; two joined sheets: 37 1/2 x 25 1/4 in. overall, one minor puncture in the sheet, four inches outside the platemark.

The lone male warbler squints up at the chestnut-like fruit of the chinkapin oak. $700-900 640A

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642 Audubon, John James (1785-1851) YellowCrowned Heron. [from] Birds of America.

New York: Bien, 1860.

Chromolithographic plate, matted and framed, No. 15-2, Plate 364, visible: 37 x 24 in.; overall 49 x 36 in.

The female stands elegantly with one leg drawn up, with only the clawed foot visible, the male, on a branch below, cranes his neck in her direction, his beak open.

Provenance: A prominent Cincinnati, Ohio, collector. $1,500-2,000

644 Catesby, Mark (1682-1749) Green Sea Turtle. [from] The Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands. London: Marsh and Wilcox, 1754.

Hand-colored engraving, matted and framed, platemark and 10 1/4 x 15 in. of the sheet visible, marked, “T 38” and “Testudo, &c.”

Taken from Catesby’s most famous book, which included 220 plates of insects, amphibians, fish, birds, reptiles, plants and mammals. $800-1,200

643 Catesby, Mark (1682-1749) Arbor Populi.

Harengus. The Pilchard. [from] The Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands. London: Marsh and Wilcox, 1754.

Hand-colored engraving, matted and framed, platemark and 11 x 14 in. of the sheet visible. $400-800

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645 Catlin, George (1796-1872) Catlin’s North American Indian Portfolio. London: George Catlin, [1875].

Eight hand-colored lithographic plates only, 17 1/2 x 11 3/4 in. each, tipped onto new board, loose in original portfolio, with the title page, and the table of contents, both chipped and torn, portfolio with defective leather spine; plates include: Buffalo Hunt, Chase [6]; White Wolves Attacking a Buffalo Bull [9]; Wounded Buffalo Bull [16]; Dying Buffalo Bull in Snowdrift [17]; Bear Dance [18]; Archery of the Mandans [24]; Scalp Dance [27]; and War Dance [29].

Catlin’s striking images of Native American life in the 19th century were based on original paintings created during numerous forays into the west. Catlin accompanied William Clark into Indian territory as early 1830. He eventually visited fifty tribes, collecting artifacts and producing more than 500 oil portraits, scenes of daily life, ceremonial dances, hunts, and the natural landscapes of North America. $8,000-10,000

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646 Curtis, William (1746-1799) Four Handcolored Botanical Illustrations. [from] Flora Londinensis, 1777.

Nine loose sheets, four with hand-colored engraved illustrations by Samson, and five with printed text describing the plants, disbound, some edges chipped, 11 1/2 x 19 in. $200-400

648 Gould, John (1804-1881) Casuarius Westermanni. [from] The Birds of New Guinea. London: Walter, 1875-1888.

Hand-colored lithograph, matted and framed, with 13 1/2 x 19 in. of the sheet visible. Westermann’s Cassowary depicted dramatically in profile, and straight on, with two in the background. $300-500

647 Four Framed Ornithological Prints. Three hand-colored lithographs after John Gould (1804-1881): the bower bird Gould calls Ailuroedus Arfakianus, now called Ailuroedus Melanotis, or white-eared catbird, of Indonesia and Papua New Guinea; the red-breasted paradise kingfisher eating a lizard, Tanysiptera Nympha, from the same region; and the spotted laughing thrush, or Ianthocincla Ocellata, of the Himalayas; and one handcolored lithograph of an anomalous cuckooroller, Leptosoma Discolor, by the Dutch bird illustrator John Gerrard Keulemans (18421912). $1,000-1,500

649 Gould, John (1804-1881) Larus Glaucus and Otis MacQueeni. [from] The Birds of Great Britain and The Birds of Asia. London: Walter, 1862-1873.

Two hand-colored lithographs, one of the Glaucous Seagull, of Greenland and the polar regions, depicted on a rock covered with seaweed, featuring a small starfish, with a juvenile gull in the water behind the rock and another soaring in the distance, and the other of MacQueen’s Bustard, showing a male and female; both prints matted in matching rusticstyle oak frames, 32 x 38 in. overall. $600-800

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650 Herford, Oliver (1863-1935) Pen and Ink Cartoon Jungle Book.

Six panels on one sheet, depicting a character out on safari, reading The Jungle Book, stalked by wild animals who eventually frighten the human away so they may read the book themselves; matted and framed, 19 1/2 x 26 in. $400-600

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651 Mazell, Peter (1761-1797) Two Framed Natural History Prints. [from] Thomas Pennant’s British Zoology. London, 1766.

Two hand-colored engraved plates after Peter Paillou, one image depicting the male goatsucker, plate 97, and the other illustrating a bat, a water rat, a short tailed mouse and a long tailed mouse. $400-600 652 Mother Goose (1890) Through the Alphabet.

Original pen, ink, and gouache illustration depicting Mother Goose riding a horse, breaking through a paper hoop decorated with the letters of the alphabet, attended by geese dressed as clowns, signed “R.H.” in the lower right corner, dated 1890; 7 x 9 in., mounted on acidic mat board; original art work for a children’s book, or a box of building blocks or a game. $400-600

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653 Murdoch, John (1813-1871) Sixty-four Drawings, c. 1840: Collection of pen and ink sketches, in various stages of completion, a few in pencil only, all on ivory-colored wove paper, 9 1/2 x 12 in., including contemporary narrative illustrations, renaissance-style subjects, children, cartoons, scenes of domestic and office life, and some biblical motifs. Murdoch attended Harvard, class of 1833; he lived an itinerant life, working mainly as a semi-successful clerk and a frustrated artist. $600-800

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654 Russian Prints, Seven in Frames.

Large engraving of the Battle of Poltava, fought in June 1709, after the Pierre-Dennis Martin (1663-1742) painting; sky tinted blue, some tears, stains and losses, mounted, 20 3/4 x 28 3/4 in.; Prise de Colbert par L’Armee Russe aux ordres du General Roumazowz, 1761, from a campaign in Poland fought during the Seven Years War (1756-1788), light tinting, surface abrasions, 8 1/2 x 15 1/2 in.; a lithograph of the Winter Palace, by Schutz, printed by Velten, 12 x 14 in.; a mezzotint portrait of Catherine the Great, in a fur cap with tassel, engraved by James Walker, 1789, after the painting by Schebanoff; Arnold Houbraken’s portrait of Peter the Great, after the Carel de Moor painting, c. 1735, evenly toned; a small plan of Moscow, 1720, by Bodenehr; and one other. $400-600

655 Selby, Prideaux John (1788-1867) Cinerous Eagle, Young. [from] Illustrations of British Ornithology. Edinburgh, 1819-1834.

Hand-colored etching, matted and framed, with the plate mark and 22 1/2 x 16 1/4 in. of the sheet visible. The young sea eagle is depicted with its beak open and tongue extended. $1,000-1,500

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656 Selby, Prideaux John (1788-1867) Common Buzzard. [together with] Whimbrel.

Two hand-colored engravings, matted; plates XIV and VI from Selby’s British Ornithology, London: Bohn, 1841, each with a title page from the same work. $200-300

657 Selby, Prideaux John (1788-1867) Golden Eagle, Female. [from] Illustrations of British Ornithology, c. 1830.

Hand-colored etching, of Plate I*, depicting the female golden eagle, wings poised as she’s just landed with an unfortunate rat gripped in her talons, matted and framed, with part of the plate mark and 16 3/4 x 21 1/2 in. of the sheet visible. $1,000-1,500

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658 Selby, Prideaux John (1788-1867) Goshawk, Adult. [from] Illustrations of British Ornithology. London: Henry Bohn, 18211834.

Hand-colored etching, matted and framed, with plate mark and 16 1/4 x 22 in. of the sheet visible; marked Plate XII in top right corner, title in bottom left corner, with P.J. Selby’s signature etched into the plate, on the stump under the goshawk’s left foot. $1,000-1,500 659 Selby, Prideaux John (1788-1867) Merlin, Female. [from] Illustrations of British Ornithology. London: Henry Bohn, 18211834.

Hand-colored engraving, dated 1821, matted and framed, with the plate mark and 14 x 19 1/2 in. of the sheet visible. $1,000-1,500

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660 Selby, Prideaux John (1788-1867) Young Goshawk, Male. [from] Illustrations of British Ornithology. London: Henry Bohn, 18211834.

Hand-colored etching, matted and framed, with 16 1/2 x 21 in. of the sheet visible; marked Plate XII in top right corner, title in bottom left corner, with P.J. Selby’s signature etched into the plate, dated 1821. $1,000-1,500 661 Werner. Ptarmigans.

Two matted framed lithographs of ptarmigans, 14 3/4 x 17 in. overall.

Provenance: A prominent Cincinnati, Ohio, collector. $300-500

662 Wolf, Joseph (1820-1899) Bubo Maximus. [from] John Gould’s Birds of Great Britain, London: Walter, 1862-1873.

Hand-colored lithograph by Henry Constantine Richter after Joseph Wolf depicts an eagle owl bringing a rabbit to her nest of three chicks, the other adult watches from a tree in the distance, matted and framed with 13 1/4 x 22 in. of the sheet visible. $300-500 663 World War I Recruiting Poster: Boys and Girls! You Can Help your Uncle Sam Win the War. James Montgomery Flagg (18771960).

Lithograph on paper, wrapped on foam core, with one tear at the head.

Uncle Sam, with a grave face, looks to the children. $200-300 664 World War I Recruiting Poster: Boys and Girls! You Can Help your Uncle Sam Win the War. James Montgomery Flagg (18771960).

Lithograph on paper, wrapped on foam core, with one tear at the head. $200-300 665 World War I Recruiting Poster: Gee!! I Wish I Were a Man, I’d Join the Navy. Howard Chandler Christy (1873-1952).

Lithograph on paper, wrapped on foam core, with some old folds and marginal tears, with the stamp of the recruiting station.

Christy’s iconic image of the would-be female sailor, with energetic painterly text in red and blue. $1,000-1,500 666 World War I Recruiting Poster: Men Wanted for the Army. Isaac Brewster Hazelton (18751943).

Advancing foot soldiers charge through a tawny field, lithograph on paper, with space at the foot to add the recruiting station, mounted on linen, tacked to a wooden stay at the bottom only, 1914; 29 3/4 x 40 1/2 in. $600-800

667 World War I Recruiting Poster: Men Wanted for the Army. Isaac Brewster Hazelton (18751943).

Advancing foot soldiers, lithograph on paper, with space at the foot to add the recruiting station, mounted on linen, tacked to a wooden stays at the top and bottom, 1914; 29 3/4 x 40 1/2 in. $600-800 668 World War I Recruiting Poster: Men Wanted for the Army. Michael P. Whelan (fl. circa 1915).

Cavalry scene, a mounted soldier plays the bugle, another officer stands with his rife at the horse’s shoulder, lithograph mounted on canvas, Philadelphia recruiting station stamp in the cartouche at the foot of the image, some losses to paper in the blank margins, one corner folded during the mounting process, causing a little damage, wood stay tacked at the bottom only, 29 1/2 x 40 1/2 in. $600-800 669 World War I Recruiting Poster: Men Wanted for the Army. Michael P. Whelan (fl. circa 1915).

Fort top artillery battery, lithograph on paper, mounted on linen, tacked to wooden stays at both ends, with space at the foot to add the recruiting station, some loss of surface, c.

1910-1915; 29 3/4 x 40 1/2 in. $500-700 670 World War I Recruiting Poster: Men Wanted for the Army. Michael P. Whelan (fl. circa 1915).

In the middle ground, two soldiers operate an artillery battery from the top of a fort, in the distance, another pair scan the horizon, in the foreground, two officers confer; mounted on linen, tacked to wooden stays at both ends, with space at the foot to add the recruiting station, c. 1910-1915; 29 3/4 x 40 1/2 in. $600-800

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671 Asia. Johann Baptist Homann (1664-1724) Asiae. Nuremberg, 1720.

Engraved, hand-colored double-paged folio with join, matted and framed, with cartouches in the upper right and bottom left corners, small repair along fold at the foot, and two small wormholes, includes all of Asia and the Arabian Peninsula, the East Indies, Scandinavia, the northern coast of Australia; land forms are sketchy in the northeast corner; 19 x 23 in. $300-600

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672 Asia. Willem Blaeu (1571-1638) Asia Noviter Delineata. Amsterdam: J. Blaeu, 1635.

Engraved copperplate map, colored by hand, printed on two sheets pasted together, matted and framed, 16 x 22 in. Nine city plans run across the top in small ovals, scenes of Syrians, Arabs, Persians, Sumatrans, Javans, Chinese, Moscovites and others depicted in ethnic outfits flank the sides, and ships sail the seas, from the Horn of Africa to Japan, north to the Arctic circle and south to Java. $1,000-1,500

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673 Atlas. Brender a Brandis, G. Nieuwe Natuur-Geschied en Handelkundige Zak en Reis-Atlas. Amsterdam: Gravius, [1790].

Tall octavo, with forty-three folding doublepagedd, hand-colored engraved maps, and two distance tables, in half contemporary calf, joint split, and speckled paper boards, contents good. $800-1,200

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674 Atlas. Compleete Zak-Atlas, van de Zeventien Nederlandsche Provincien.

Amseterdam: Elwe en Langeveld, 1786.

Tall octavo, second, enlarged edition, text in Dutch throughout, hand-colored doublepaged engraved title, 243 pages of text, twenty-nine (of thirty) folding, engraved, hand-colored maps (lacking map XI, one of twenty-three maps of the Low Countries), and two folding engraved charts of distances, also hand-colored, bound in contemporary half leather, speckled paper boards, worn.

In addition to a world map, and detailed maps of Europe, this atlas also contains maps of Europe, North and South America and Africa compiled with information obtained through Captain Cook’s recent explorations. $800-1,200

675 Atlases and Maps, Nine Bound Volumes, and Assorted Loose Maps: Smith’s First Book in Geography, an Introductory for Children, 1847; Mitchell’s Primary Geography, 1854; Peter Parley’s Method of Telling about Geography to Children, c. 1829; Mitchell’s School Geography, 1862; Route-Atlas van de Rotterdamsche Lloyd, 1925; Peerless Atlas of the World, 1899; Mitchell’s School Atlas, c.

1839; Mitchell’s School Atlas, c. 1852; Atlas of Canada, 1909; and loose maps; some books incomplete. $800-1,000

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676 Baist, G. William (1859-1927) Atlas of New Castle County Delaware. Philadelphia: Baist, 1893.

Large folio, in three-quarter red morocco publisher’s binding with gold stamped cover, with a gilt-tooled leather tab for each doublepaged map, all maps mounted on canvas, as issued, and hand-colored, complete and well-preserved, with all sixteen plates. $200-300 677 Baldwin, Thomas. A New and Complete Gazetteer. Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo & Co., 1854. Octavo, 1364 pages, with the large folding map of the United States pasted inside the front board, highlighting in bright colors along the borders of the states, map is torn in half, with other tears along the folds, full sheepskin, rubbed and worn, marbled edges. $250-350

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678 Bay of Cadiz and the Straits of Gibraltar.

Henri Michelot and Laurent Bremond Nouvelle Carte de la Baye de Cadis et du Detroit de Gibraltar. [from] Carte Generalle de le Mer Mediterranee, Se vendent a Marseille chez Joseph Roux, 1718.

Two folio sheets joined, engraved by Peter Starckmann, with subtle hand-coloring, some spotting and marginal water stains, matted and framed, 18 1/2 x 27 in.

At the Straits of Gibraltar, Europe is separated from North Africa by a little less than eight nautical miles. $300-500 679 Bellin, Jacques Nicolas (1703-1772) Plan de la Ville de Boston, and Carte de la Baye de Baston [sic]. from Petit Atlas Maritime.

Paris, 1764.

Two small folio engraved maps, numbers thirty and thirty-one with wide margins, some foxing, uncolored, sheets are 10 x 13 in. each overall.

The map of Boston Harbor includes everything from Nahant to Hull, all of the harbor islands, and depth soundings. $300-500

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680 Blaeu, Johannes (1596-1673) Oxonium Comitatus, vulgo Oxfordshire. [from] Atlas Maior. Amsterdam: Blaeu, 1662-65.

Hand-colored double-pagedd folio engraved map, matted and framed, 15 x 20 in.

Oxford dons are featured flanking the cartouche, the arms of the colleges make vertical borders on both sides of the map. $300-500

681 Blaeu, Johannes (1596-1673) Wiltonia sive Comitatus Wiltoniensis; Anglis Wilshire. [from] Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. Amsterdam: Blaeu, 1650.

Hand-colored double-pagedd folio engraved map, matted and framed, 15 x 20 in.

These carefully executed Dutch maps from the 17th century regulary contain topographical and other features of interest. Because Stonehenge is found in Wiltshire, this map boasts a beautifully drawn miniature version of the ancient stone circle. $300-500

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682 Coastal New England. Levinus Hulsius (1546-1606), after John Smith (1580-1631) New England Die mercklichsten dheile, also genennet Durch den Durchl. Frankfurt, 1617.

Single sheet folio engraved map, matted and framed, with restoration along two edges, and the adjacent outer rules done in pen facsimile, cleaned, old folds just barely visible, 13 3/4 x 11 3/4 in.

This map was published in the German translation of John Smith’s New England in 1617. It is one of the earliest maps to focus exclusively on the New England coast. $4,000-6,000

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683 Georges Bank. Charles Wilkes (1798-1877) Chart of Georges Shoal & Bank. New York: Stiles, Sherman & Smith, 1837.

Large folding map printed on sixteen separate squares of paper, mounted together on linen backing, evenly toned, 44 1/2 x 40 in.

Wilkes was a controversial figure whose shipboard behavior some consider Melville’s model for Captain Ahab. During the 1830s, he was head of the Department of Charts and Instruments for the American Navy, and produced accurate and reliable data for many detailed marine charts. He also explored the south seas, the west coast of North America, and thereby circumnavigated the globe under sail, logging 87,000 miles at sea, although he was court-martialed when he returned. $300-500

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684 Italy. A New Map of Antient Italy, together with the Adjoyning Islands of Sicily, Sardinia, and Corsica. [Oxford: Printed at the Theater, 1700]. Dedicated to William Duke of Glocester, plate 14 from Edward Wells’s A New Sett of Maps both of Antient and Present Geography, engraved by Sutton Nicholls, hand-colored, matted and framed, 28 1/2 x 23 in. overall. $300-500

685 La Perouse, Jean Francois Galaup de (1741-1788) and Jacques Julien Houton de Labillardiere (1755-1834) Atlas pour Servir a la Relation du Voyage a la Recherche de la Perouse. Paris: Jansen & Dien, [1800].

Folio, atlas volume only, engraved title, illustrated with large folding map and forty-four full-paged plates, of which fourteen depict botanical subjects after Redoute; three birds after Audebert, and twenty-six portraits and views of native peoples of New Zealand, Papua New Guinea; Tonga; New Caledonia; and the Moluccas, after the drawings of Piron; slight spotting, some pages thumbed; bound in contemporary half calf and marbled, joints cracked. $4,000-6,000

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686 Lake Como. Abraham Ortelius (1527-1598) Larii Lacus Vulgo Comensis Descriptio.

Auct. Paulo Jovio. Antwerp, 1587.

Double-paged folio engraved map with discreet join, hand-colored, framed, with Lake Como at the top, and the two bottom thirds with insets of the region surrounding Rome and a portion of Friuli.

Ortelius’s characteristic attention to detail is heightened by the hand-coloring. The Lake Como portion is done in trompe l’oeil style with tackheads and curling edges. $300-400 686A Massachusetts. Walker, O.W. Atlas of Massachusetts. Boston: George Walker, 1891.

Folio format imprint; title page, index, and approximately fifty-four large color-printed maps of Massachusetts, rolled in a canvas and pigskin cover, with a carrying handle, some maps loose, some chipped, wear to leather cover, 28 x 20 1/2 in. $400-600

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687 North America. Nicolas Sanson d’Abbeville (1600-1667) L’Amerique Septentriolae Divisee en ses Prinipales Parties.

Amsterdam: Hubert Jaillot, 1692.

Large hand-colored engraved map, two sheets pasted together, some offsetting from when the map was folded, and a bit of discoloration from tape adhesive on the verso just barely showing below Costa Rica along the bottom edge, framed, 34 x 22 in.

In this first state, Sanson’s map depicts California as an island and shows a confusing mass of open-ended Great Lakes. Much information about North American Indian tribes is included, the Caribbean is illustrated in great detail, and the west is dominated by a large blank expanse. $1,000-1,500

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688 North America. Robert Seale (fl. circa 1745) A Map of North America with the European Settlements & Whatever else is Remarkable in ye West Indies from the latest and best Observations. London, c.

1745.

Double-paged folio, with old folds, small closed tear, evenly toned, 15 x 19 in. In this map, California is depicted as an island; all lands west of the Rockies are completely unknown, and the territories of the many aboriginal North Americans are carefully noted. $500-700

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689 Nova Scotia and Cape Breton. Thomas Jeffreys (1719-1771) A New Map of Nova Scotia and Cape Britain with the adjacent parts of New England and Canada. London, c. 1755.

Engraved hand-colored map, printed on two sheets neatly pasted together, 18 1/2 x 24 in., with a decorative cartouche featuring fish nets, with the southern coast of Labrador to the north, a bit of Newfoundland to the east, Boston just showing at the southwest corner, and Lake Champlain and Montreal to the west. The main focus of the map is Nova Scotia, Saint John’s Island and Cape Breton, with careful renderings of the Saint Lawrence River, Maine, New Hampshire, and northern Massachusetts. $300-500 690 Russia. Gerard Mercator (1512-1594) Russia cum Confiniis. Duisberg, 1609.

Double-paged folio, engraved, hand-colored, old folds, text printed on the back, evenly toned, especially on the verso, sheet: 19 x 22 1/2 in.; plate: 14 x 19 in.

This map covers all of Russia from Scandinavia to the Black Sea, and includes an inset of Moscow. $400-600 691 Russia. Willem Blaeu (1571-1638) Tabula Russiae. Amsterdam: Blaeu, c. 1644. Handcolored, double folio page map of Russia, after the Hessel Gerritsz map of 1614, from the Blaeu Atlas, with text in Dutch printed on the verso, featuring the Russian Empire as it existed in the 17th century, with an inset aerial view of Moscow, an armorial cartouche, three Russian characters in regional garb, and a sea view of Arkhangelsk (called Archangel on this map), nicely matted, framed, 16 1/2 x 21 1/2 in. $1,500-2,500 692 Siena, Italy. Giovanni Antonio Magini (15551617) Territorio di Siena. Venice, 1620.

Double-paged folio hand-colored engraved map, matted and framed, 13 1/2 x 18 1/4 in. $300-500

693 The Dakotas. Silas Chapman (1813-1899) Sectional Map of the Surveyed Part of Dakota. Milwaukee: engraved by J. Knauber, 1872.

Large folded hand-colored map printed by a steam powered lithographic printer, insets of the territory some old folds and browning, wrapped on foam core, 29 x 21 in. overall.

This rare map was originally given away to subscribers to the Dakota Herald. $375-500

694 The English Pilot. Describing the West India Navigation from Hudson’s Bay to the River Amazones. Particularly Delineating the Coasts, Capes, Headlands, Rivers, Bays, Roads, Havens, Harbours, Streights, Rocks, Sands, Shoals, Banks, Depths of Water, and Anchorage, with all the Islands therein; as Jamaica, Cuba, Hispaniola, Barbadoes, Antigua, Bermudas, Porto Rico, and the rest of the Caribbee and Bahama Islands. Also a New Description of Newfoundland, New England, New York, East and West New Jersey, Dellawar Bay, Virginia, Maryland, Carolina, &c. London: Printed for Mount and Davidson, on Tower Hill, 1794.

Folio, collated complete, 66 pages of typographical text, and a total of twenty-five maps, twenty-one on separate sheets, all but one folding, and five full-paged engraved maps printed on text pages. Contemporary sheepskin on the front board, back board missing, last two signatures with some stains, water stains, some maps with minor tears.

The following maps are included: A New and Correct Chart of the Western and Southern Oceans, North America from Newfoundland to Hudson’s Bay, the West Indies, the Atlantic Ocean with Europe and Africa to the west and east to North and South America and the West Indies, Casco Bay, Newfoundland, the Southeast coast of Newfoundland, New England, another of New England with an inset map of Boston, New York Harbor, Virginia, St. Christopher’s, Barbados, South Carolina and Georgia, Antigua, the Caribbean islands, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico and Zachee (one folding edge damaged with loss), Cuba, Cuba’s Bay of Matanzas, Jamaica, Guiana with the mouths of the Oronoco and Amazon rivers, and the Trading Part of the West Indies, in addition to numerous smaller woodcut maps and sketches of coastal features, and one woodcut of swimming penguins: Note, these fowls never fly, for their wings are very short, and most like the fins of fish, having nothing upon them but a sort of down and short feathers.

An extraordinary collection of maps and piloting instructions for 18th century navigation in the Atlantic, The English Pilot went through six editions between 1755 and 1794, all are rare. Only one copy exists of the first, second and third editions, two copies of the fourth edition are known, three copies of the fifth edition, and five copies of this particular edition. $25,000-30,000

695 The Mapping of the Great Lakes in the Seventeenth Century, ed. Kevin Kaufman Providence: John Carter Brown Library, 1989.

Folio, slipcase with soft cover book and twenty-eight bifolium facsimile maps, some with multiple images within the same number, the maps themselves numbered one through twenty-two. $200-300 696 The Netherlands. Abraham Ortelius (15271598) Descriptio Germaniae Inferioris.

Antwerp, 1584.

Double-paged folio engraved map, handcolored, in a double-glazed frame, with Latin text on the verso, water stain on the right quarter, 17 x 21 in. $300-400 697 Utrecht. Caspar Specht (c. 1654-1710) Caerte Vande Vryheyd de Stadt Utrecht.

Amsterdam: Ottens, 1690-1699.

Copper-plate engraved double folio page, hand-colored, mounted on board, minimal foxing. $300-500 698 Wall Maps. Two rolled 19th century maps mounted on linen, for instructional use, one of the United States, and the other of Worcester County, some cracking and discoloration. $700-900

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From the South: Take 93-N to Exit 20 for I-90 W toward Worcester. Follow signs for Chinatown/South Station. Bear left at the fork to continue towards Kneeland Street. Turn left onto Kneeland Street. Kneeland Street becomes Stuart Street. Turn right onto Charles Street South. Turn left onto Park Plaza. Skinner is at 63 Park Plaza, one block up on the right.

From Logan Airport: Take the Ted Williams Tunnel. Take Exit 25 toward South Boston and bear left at the fork in the ramp. Bear right onto B St. Turn left onto Northern Ave which becomes Seaport Blvd. Turn left onto Surface Rd. Turn right onto Kneeland Street which becomes Stuart Street. Turn right onto Charles Street South. Turn left onto Park Plaza. Skinner is at 63 Park Plaza, one block up on the right.

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The Taj Hotel Parking Garage 2 Newbury Street Located three blocks from Skinner, valet drop-off and pick-up Up to 24 hrs/$42

City Place Parking Garage Transportation Building 12 Charles Street Located at the end of Park Plaza Underground multi-level garage All day–closes at 2:30 a.m.

First hr/$5, after 2 hrs/$14 AllRight Parking Boston Common Garage Located on Charles Street, on the Common, two blocks from Skinner 1 hr/$6, up to 24 hrs/$25, Evenings (4pm-10am)/$10 The Four Seaons Hotel Parking Garage 200 Boylston Street Adjacent to Skinner, valet drop-off and pickup, up to 24 hrs/$30

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Fairmont Copley Plaza 138 St. James Avenue Boston, MA 02116 Tel: 617-267-5300 Fax: 617-375-9648 Four Seasons 200 Boylston Street Boston, MA 02116 Tel: 617-351-2036 The Liberty Hotel 215 Charles St. Boston, MA 02114 617-224-4000 Marriott Copley Place 110 Huntington Avenue Boston, MA 02116 Tel: 800-228-9290 Fax: 617-236-5885

(recommended for trucks) Pin Stripe Parking Arlington Street 617-338-7984 All day/$14, after 6 p.m. and weekends/$10, overnight/$15 Billy’s Parking 222 Stuart Street 617-423-7781 8am-5pm/$18, after 5pm/$20

Motor Mart Garage 26 Park Plaza (Same building as Legal Sea Food) Up to 1 hr/$8, 1 to 2 hrs/$12, 2-3 hrs/$16, 3-12 hrs/$20, 12-24 hrs/$31, weekends up to 3 hrs/$8

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Boston Hotels Boston Harbor Hotel 70 Rowe’s Wharf Boston, MA 02110 Tel: 800-654-2000 Fax: 617-345-6799

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Taj Boston 15 Arlington St. Boston, MA 02116 617-536-5700 Westin-Copley Plaza 10 Huntington Avenue Boston, MA 02116 Tel: 800-228-3000 Fax: 617-424-7483

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Fine Dining Dante Royal Sonesta Hotel 5 Cambridge Parkway 617-806-4200 Mediterranean restaurant with great views of the Charles River and Boston skyline.

Davio’s 75 Arlington St. 617-357-4810 Northern Italian steak house.

Grill 23 & Bar 161 Berkley Street (Stuart Street) 617-542-2255 Great steak, seafood, wine list, and service.

L’Espalier 774 Boylston St. 617-262-3023 Fine French dining and wines with a wonderful pre-fixe menu.

No. 9 Park 9 Park St. 617-742-9991 Barbara Lynch’s bistro showcases inspired French and Italian influenced food and wine on Beacon Hill.

Radius 85 High St. 617-426-1234 Features a modern French menu focusing on seasonal ingredients accompanied by a thoughtful wine list.

Scampo The Liberty Hotel 215 Charles St. 617-536-2100 Lydia Shire’s latest restaurant, featuring Italian fare produced in an open kitchen upstairs at the Liberty Hotel.

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140 Boylston St. 617-695-9463 French restaurant and wine bar perched at the edge of the Boston Common and the theatre district.

50 Dalton St. 617-867-9955 Jasper White serves well-executed seaside favorites in a casual Back Bay setting.

Via Matta 79 Park Plaza 617-422-0008 Elegant Italian fare and beautiful wines in a vibrant dining room - the best of Italy in Boston’s Back Bay creates an unforgettable experience.

Moderate Aquitaine 569 Tremont Street 617-424-8577 Parisian bistro style fare.

The Bristol Lounge at Four Seasons Hotel 200 Boylston St. 617-338-4400 Breakfast, lunch, and dinner served in an elegant yet comfortable lounge setting with views of the Boston Public Garden.

East Ocean City 25-29 Beach St. 617-542-2504 Outstanding Chinese food restaurant highlighting seafood dishes with a full-service bar.

Lala Rokh on Beacon Hill 97 Mt. Vernon Street 617-720-5511 Authentic regional Persian cuisine, handselected wine list, knowledgeable waitstaff.

McCormick and Schmick’s Seafood Restaurant 36 Columbus Ave 617-482-3999 Fresh seafood offerings that change daily.

Inexpensive Au Bon Pain 26 Park Plaza (across the street from Skinner) or 431 Boylston Street (at Berkeley Street) 617-338-8948 Casual café offers quick service.

Davio’s To Go 10 St. James Galleria Atrium 617-357-4810 Casual Italian take-out lunch spot with daily special pastas, soups, and salads.

Flash’s 310 Stuart St. 617-574-8888 American comfort food served with classic cocktails in a casual setting.

Parish Café 361 Boylston St. 617-247-4777 American restaurant with seasonal outdoor seating features sandwiches created by renowned local chefs.

Piattini 226 Newbury Street 617-536-2020 Italian wine bar with an eclectic menu; specializes in Italian-style tapas.

The Upper Crust 20 Charles Street 617-723-9600 Gourmet thin crust pizza.

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