Fine Books & Manuscripts | Skinner Auction 2687B

Fine Books & Manuscripts Sale 2687B

November 17, 2013

Boston

Fine Books & Manuscripts

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Auction Information Auction 2687B

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Lots 1–491

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1 Adams, John Quincy (1767-1848) Retained Secretarial Copy of Letter Signed, 1 May 1821.

Large sheet, inscribed on both sides. To Albert Gallatin, discussing discrepancies between various standardized units of measurements in great detail, with an eye to converting the English to the metric system. Single sheet, toned, with slightly darker rectangular shadow visible on the verso, slight bleed-through, and two small spots of moisture, matted and framed, with a portrait of Adams, 12 1/2 x 7 1/2 in. $300-500

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2 Adams, John Quincy (1825-1829) Autograph Letter Signed, 10 January 1832.

Single page, inscribed on one side. To Zachariah Eddy of East Middleborough, Massachusetts, acknowledging the receipt of his petition for a post office in his town, and assuring that the request will be inserted into the bill for the establishment of new post offices, and that Adams will attend to the subject when it is presented before Congress.

With old folds and some tears, offsetting, including the original envelope with Adams’s free frank and the Washington, D.C., post mark, some folds tender and separating, 10 x 8 in. $300-500

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3 Airships Ephemera Lot. A collection of photographs and ephemera related to zeppelins and their ilk, including approximately fifty 8 x 10 black-and-white photographs, mostly issued by the U.S. Navy; five fabric samples from dirigibles that crashed; approximately thirty smaller snapshots of German blimp expeditions c.

1900 (not period, later copies); approximately thirty airship-themed postcards, mostly German, and other ephemera of the same theme. $200-300

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4 Airships, Ephemera, From the Car of Andrews’ Flying-Ship, a Souvenir of her Trial Trip, 25 May 1866.

Advertising flyer, printed on mid-weight stock, with the slogan: Tempus Fugit. Tempore Fugit Homo!! printed in an arc at the top, a large wood engraving of the aircraft beneath, slightly browned, 9 3/4 x 6 3/4.

Dr. Solomon Andrews (1806-1872) of Perth Amboy, New Jersey, flew his dirigible, the Aereon, up Fifth Avenue in New York City for the first time on May 25, 1866. He threw these cards down to the onlookers below. $800-1,200

5 Artists’ Notes and Letters, France, 20th Century.

Twenty-four documents, mostly letters, from the following artists: three from Jules Cheret (1836-1932); one from Maurice Denis (18701943); eleven from Leon Bonnat (1833-1922); three from Fernand Cormon (1845-1924); four documents by Jacques Emile Blanche (1861-1942), including three letters and a mimeographed monograph with manuscript edits; one by English writer Max Beerbohm (1872-1956); and one by Maxime Dethomas (1867-1929), various sizes and shapes, generally good. (24) $400-600

7 Barbary Pirates, Letter, 13 January 1794.

Two-and-a-half page letter on laid paper. To Benjamin Bourne (1755-1808), addressing the problem of piracy on the Barbary coast. A period copy of several letters, combined into one document, with the signature of Williams Thayer, forwarded to Bourne during his term as a member of Congress, old folds, some tears, a bit dusty, wax seal has flaked away, the sheet torn with slight loss, 7 1/2 x 9 1/2 in.

A week after the date of this later, Congress moved to establish an official navy to defend American ships from the predation of the Barbary corsairs. $400-600

6 Autograph Collection, Twenty-five Frames: Extensive collection of signed documents, short letters, and clipped signatures, all framed, including material signed by Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt, John Quincy Adams, Herbert Hoover, James Buchanan, Taft, Garfield, and others, including other literary and political figures. (25) $2,000-4,000

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8 Beardsley, Aubrey (1872-1898) Autograph Postcard Signed and Program.

Postcard addressed to Otto Kylemann of 54 Doughty Street, London, postmarked 1893: “Dear Kylemann, I am all right again I am glad to say. Do come in on Thursday afternoon.

Yours, Aubrey Beardsley,” 4 3/4 x 2 7/8 in.

Avenue Theatre program, with cover illustration by Beardsley, London, 21 April 1894, advertising the 8:50 pm showing of Arms and the Man, by George Bernard Shaw, and The Land of Heart’s Desire, by W.B. Yeats, quarto format bifolium with printing on all four pages, printed in London by David Allen & Sons, in blue ink; the paper evenly toned to beige; starting to split slightly at the foot of the fold, ink offsetting to Beardsley’s illustration from the original printing procedure, 9 x 6 3/4 in. (2) $700-900 9 Bellini, Vincenzo (1801-1835) Autograph Letter Signed, 19 December 1834.

Single page, with addressed self envelope.

To Francesco Florimo (1800-1888), in Italian, introducing young Antoine Elwart (1808-1877), who is headed to Naples. Bellini asks Florimo to introduce Elwart to Niccolo Zingarelli (1752-1837) and other important musicians in Naples. In brown ink on onion-skin paper, old folds, four small thumbtack punctures, and two slight brown adhesions (tape?), 10 1/2 x 8 in.

Elwart won the Prix de Rome in the same year for his “Omaggio alla memoria di Vincenzo Bellini.” $2,000-3,000 10 Bernstein, Leonard (1918-1990) Autograph Letter Signed, 18 August 1952.

Single page. To Dr. Isadore Green of Boston, discussing how one might judge modern art, with reference to Dr. Green’s original letter to Bernstein on the subject (a carbon copy of that typed letter included). Two folds, with the original envelope, addressed by Bernstein, 10 1/2 x 7 1/4 in. $300-500

11 Bernstein, Leonard (1918-1990) Correspondence to Reneé Longy.

One autograph postcard signed, “Dear R., I fervently hope the minor operation is truly minor! What a shame you couldn’t make it. In any case, I leave here for good on the 21st, which is any minute, zut, and it’s been just a flimsy shadow of a summer, so brief, & almost all gray rain. Eh bien, alors, comme M. de la Rochefoucauld a dit... Love you & be well, Lenny,” post marked July 18, 1959, Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts.

One typed postcard signed, “Dear R: Just a rushed word to say I haven’t forgotten, and to thank you for your sweet note on the occasion of November fourteenth. What a memory! I’m so glad modern music goes so well in the Mad South, and let me hear how Longy goes in the Mad South. Love: Lenny, December 16, 1952, New York City.”

One small autograph note signed, “Chere Reneé: GLOIRE pour ‘78! Love, Lenny & Felicia Xmas ‘77.” [and] One Western Union telegram with envelope, “Madame Reneé Longy, Drs. Hospital, Coral Gables, FLO, Trying to reach you by phone sending every wish and blessing for speedy recovery and eagerly looking forward to our February reunion. Love, Spooky Bernstein,” October 27, 1962; all addressed to Reneé Longy, various sizes, age toning, tape on the Christmas note, telegram is folded. (4) $400-600 12 Bonnard, Pierre (1867-1947) Autograph Note Signed, undated.

Single page, perforated and torn all around.

To Paul Gallimard (1850-1929) asking that he loan two Lautrecs from his office to Bonnard for the Exposition des Independants. Center fold, perforations torn somewhat hastily when the note was opened, with two short tears on the left edge, the right edge torn with loss of one or two letters, and perhaps a short word, slight toning at head, with holograph address on verso, 7 x 4 in.

Bonnard asks Gallimard to loan him “deux Lautrec” that he has to the right and left of the window in his office. He notes that one has broken glass, and that he will have his own framer replace it. Bonnard thanks Gallimard on behalf of himself and “Les Independants.” $200-300

13 Burr, Aaron (1756-1836) Letter Signed, 24 January 1807.

Single page. To Acting Governor of the Mississippi Territory Cowles Mead (17761844), asking for a passport to protect his boats. The letter written in a secretarial hand, with Burr’s signature at the foot. Discoloration due to moisture in two distinct spots along the left margin, and one additional spot in the middle of the page, slight dampstain along the left edge, bottom right corner chipped with loss, the sheet toned, old folds, mounting hinges somewhat acidic and visible through the sheet, ink address on verso also visible through the sheet, framed, 10 x 8 1/4 in.

At the time this letter was written, Burr was already deeply involved in the plot that would lead to his arrest on charges of treason. A warrant for his arrest had been issued by President Thomas Jefferson in January, and his main co-conspirator had abandoned Burr’s cause. Burr found himself down in Louisiana with a meagerly outfitted flotilla of nine boats, plenty of attitude, and few options.

He had been exchanging heated letters with Governor Mead for days. Mead and Burr met on 16 January 1807, but as the tone and content of this letter suggest, little was resolved at that time. Less than a month after the writing of this letter, on 19 February 1807, Burr surrendered himself to Mead, but on January 24th, he still held the hope of his own success. (See Elizabeth Brandon Stanton’s Fata Morgana; and Buckner F. Melton’s Aaron Burr: Conspiracy to Treason).

Miss. Terr. 24 Jan. 1807.

“Sir, Colonel [Thomas] Fitzpatrick did not feel himself authorized to give a passport for the boats, nor to proscribe or interfere with their movements further than to say that they should not be interrupted by his guards. I beg therefore that you will send by Mr. [Alexander] Ralston a passport which may protect them against the military of this Territory. The tale of the twelve boats proves to be a fable destitute of the semblance of truth. I have the honor to be yours, A. Burr.

His Excy Cowles Meade.” $2,000-3,000 14 Chester A. Arthur (1830-1886) and William McKinley (1844-1901) Signed Correspondence.

Single page note signed by Arthur as Chairman of the Republican State Committee of New York, 2 September 1880, to an A. Daggett, regretfully declining an invitation to speak on behalf of Senator Conkling; framed and mounted, adhesive from the mount staining the paper in the top corners, 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 in. [and] a portrait of McKinley matted and framed with an autograph sentiment, and the fulfillment of a request for an autograph, on Ways and Means Committee stationery, 23 May 1888, the frame 17 1/2 x 13 3/4 in. (2) $400-600

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15 Chinese Illustrated Manuscript on the Production of Tea, 19th Century.

Small-format twelve-leaf book with gouache paintings depicting twelve steps of tea production, single signature, paintings on rice paper and mounted, approximately half of the mounted paintings with tears or breaks, with notes alluding to associations with Commodore Perry’s grandchildren inside the front board, and inserted letter; bound in decorated paper over boards, worn, the ties at fore-edge partially detached, 5 1/4 x 3 3/4 in.

Beginning with the harvest of tea, and ending with a gentleman enjoying a cup, this manuscript depicts the processes employed by the tea industry in the far east. $300-500

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16 Davis, Jefferson (1808-1889) Archive of Correspondence with John W. French (1808-1871) Four autograph letters signed by Jefferson Davis, written between 1856 and 1859; a document appointing French as Chaplain and Professor of geography, history, and ethics at West Point, signed by Davis as Secretary of War, with the original envelope; and two letters written by French to Davis, same period.

The first letter is an endorsement of French written by Davis on August 26, 1856, and signed twice by Davis; the second letter, also signed by Davis, with envelope and free frank signature as Secretary of War, concerns the courses taught by French at West Point; in the third letter (eight pages) Davis discusses French’s plans and aspirations for his courses at the academy in detail, signaling his own frustration at not being able to better help. “To effect anything you must have the concurrence of the Superintendent and Inspector of the Academy, without this a Secretary of War can only commence a structure with the anticipation that at the close of his brief term it will be demolished.

I have but little over two months longer to serve, for myself I wish the time was less [...].” Davis then moves on to personal news.

“My little daughter who it gives me pleasure to remember received the first sacrament of the church at your hands has improved much since you saw her, and talks now so plainly that I find her quite an interesting companion, and very naturally suppose if you could see her how you would think her a wonderful child.

Mrs. Davis has been suffering for some time past from neuralgia. We often speak of you, and can never cease to feel sorely the loss we sustained in your departure from Washington.”

The fourth letter, written from the Senate Chamber on 28 February 1859, concerns a recent setback delivered to French on a proposed curriculum. Davis sends his regrets and support for the changes made by the West Point board. $3,000-5,000

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17 Davis, Jefferson (1808-1889) and Varina Banks Howell Davis (1826-1906) Archive of Correspondence.

Three letters from Varina Davis, 1859-1861, addressed to John W. French, one written on the blank pages following a letter to French

by Jefferson Davis, one letter missing its first section; and an additional letter addressed to French from an unknown writer, small-format stationery, all letters in their envelopes, some with Jefferson Davis’s free frank (perhaps written by his wife), with toning, spots, and old folds, all envelopes torn.

Varina touches on personal and political matters, and evinces a very close personal relationship with French. In the short letter signed by Jefferson Davis, of 16 March 1859 he mentions speaking to the president (Buchanan) on behalf of French about his son’s appointment to West Point. $500-700

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18 Davis, Jefferson (1808-1889) Autograph Letter Signed, 24 December 1860.

Three pages, on a Carson’s Congress stationery bifolium, with the original envelope.

To John W. French, written from the Senate Chamber, expressing his dismay at the unfolding of political events, i.e. the December twentieth secession of South Carolina, and impending secession of Mississippi. The envelope toned with tears, the letter clean, with folds, 8 x 5 in.

“I would have written to you often if my heart had been less sad, if hope had left me one ray to guide me towards the end we both desire. Necessity confronts me, and my duty is to meet the event which I have no power to control. Whatever of good it remains for me to do, whatever of power I have or may bear rests upon the confidence felt in me as a Southern man who will sacrifice everything for the Union, save the rights, the security, and honor of my constituents. Proud of their confidence, I am insensible to any inducement to depart from the path I have trodden during the trials which gave me the regard I possess in the breasts of the people of Missi[ssippi].”

Notably, Davis first wrote the word “union” beginning with a lower case u, and then went over that original inscription, replacing the small u with a bold upper case letter. $1,500-2,000

19 Davis, Jefferson (1808-1889) Autograph Letter Signed, 22 January 1861.

Two pages, on a lined folding stationery bifolium. To John French, expressing an inability to help with a problem a West Point, and mentioning his withdrawal from the Senate because of Mississippi’s secession from the union. The paper is crisp and clean, with the original folds, and small tears where the folds converge, 9 3/4 x 7 3/4 in.

In this notable personal letter, written the day after Davis’s resignation from the Senate, in the wake of his state’s secession, he mentions these notable historic events seemingly in passing. “I do not think it very probable that anything will be done this session & I have withdrawn from the Senate because of the secession of Missi[ssippi], so that the little power I once possessed is no longer available for the service of my friends.” $1,000-1,500

20 Davis, Jefferson (1808-1889) and John W. French (1808-1871) Archive Related to their Association.

A small group of documents revealing Reverend French’s attempt to extricate himself from pre-secession association with Jefferson Davis, including: three letters in response to French’s requests to have his own original letters sent to Davis returned to him, one signed by William Seward, one from an employee at the State Department, and the third from a journalist; one original letter written by French to Davis on 9 December 1860, (twenty-four pages) discussing the idea of secession in great detail; secretarial copies produced at French’s request by the State Department of his letters sent to Davis between December 19 and 21, 1860 (twenty pages); and a copy of French’s appeal to the case against him put forward by the Secretary of War during the summer of 1861, alleging that French sided with the cause of the secessionists (thirteen pages); a typed copy of a letter sent to French by Davis on 12 December 1860; and a secretarial copy of a document detailing the plans of the militant secessionists, the errors of those plans, and strategies to defeat them (single page, inscribed on both sides).

After Jefferson Davis’s resignation from the Senate, and his state’s secession from the Union, French fell under suspicion as a possible traitor. He defended himself before the Secretary of War on July 17, 1861, declaring his loyalty to the Constitution, the Union, and the administration, and trying to distance himself from Davis, if not personally, certainly politically, with great vigor. “I expostulated with Mr. Davis in letter after letter, pointing out measures under the Constitution, and showing the dangers and folly of secession. I did this both from personal affection for Mr. Davis, and also from a desire to do what I could to save the country.” The copy of French’s statement of self-defense reveals his close connection to President James Buchanan and General Winfield Scott.

“I advised bringing President Lincoln incognito to Washington, more than a month before the inauguration, and the forming of a perfect chain of offensive and defensive measures between Mr. Buchanan, Mr. Lincoln and General Scott, known only to themselves.

Mr. Scott still has these letters of mine on this subject.” $800-1,000

21 Davis, Jefferson (1808-1889) Signed Military Commission, 1 July 1855.

Single page printed document on paper, completed by hand. Appointing the newly West Point-graduated Samuel Breck Jr. (1834-1918) to the rank of Brevet Second Lieutenant of Artillery, attached temporarily to the First Artillery in New York City, Company H. Old folds, water stains, 9 3/4 x 7 3/4 in.

Breck’s first commission, marking the start of an important military career that eventually brought him to the rank of Assistant Adjutant General. Breck was also in the same class at West Point with James McNeill Whistler (1834–1903); some of their correspondence is extant, and Breck’s recollections of Whistler at West Point are sometimes recounted. $300-500 22 Davis, Jefferson (1808-1889) Three Envelopes with Free Frank Signatures.

All c. 1860, addressed to John W. French at West Point, all with tears, two affecting Davis’s signature. (3) $400-600

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23 Declaration of Independence. Washington, D.C.: engraved by W.J. Stone, [1833].

Folio broadside, printed on rice paper, formerly folded and included in Peter Force’s (1790-1868) American Archives, an accurate, actual-size facsimile of the original document, the plate produced by Stone in 1823, at which time it was published in an edition of 200 copies, appearing at that time with a different imprint; in this, the Force Declaration, the Stone imprint is in the bottom left quadrant, under the first column of signatures; this copy has old folds, some rust spots along the left margin, and a small line along the lower-most left corner resembling mat burn, a small portion has been torn away from the blank right margin: 2 x 1/2 in.; a few light spots are also present; and some offsetting of the printed text, 25 1/2 x 29 1/4 in.

In 1820, fearing the state of preservation of the original Declaration of Independence, Secretary of State John Qunicy Adams commissioned the engraver William J. Stone to create a full-size facsimile. After three years of work on the plate, Congress ordered the publication of 200 copies on parchment.

This edition was produced after Peter Force purchased the plate, with a plan to include a folded version in his publication, American Archives. Subscription orders proved disappointing and Force saw his project cancelled by Secretary of State William Marcy in 1853. $18,000-20,000

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24 Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) Autograph Note Signed, undated.

Single leaf of notepaper with an allover grid pattern in the paper itself (as laid lines), the text written in pencil. The letter is unaddressed, however, according to citations of the text from reference works, this note was originally sent to MacGregor Jenkins’s mother, with a tiny sketch of Amherst. “I omitted the snow on the roof, distrusting the premonitionEmily,” the sheet folded into thirds, slightly toned, 7 3/4 x 5 in. [with] MacGregor Jenkins’s Emily Dickinson, Friend and Neighbor, Boston: Little Brown, 1930, signed by Jenkins on ffep, with the jacket.

For reference to this note, see Martha Nell Smith, Rowing in Eden, Austin: University of Texas Press, [1992], page 218; and Jay Leyda, The Years and Hours of Emily Dickinson, New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 1960 [2:284]. $4,000-6,000

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24A Eilshemius, Louis Michel (1864-1941) Autograph Notes Regarding Skeletal Anatomy.

Seven leaves, versos blank, inscribed in pencil on buff-colored wove stock, octavo format, “The Radius of Man,” “Radius of Cat as compared with that of Man,” “The Ulna of Man,” “Ulna of Cat as compared with that of Man,” 8 x 5 in. $200-300

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25 Escher, Maurits Cornelis (1898-1972) Signed Card with Photo, 1971.

Drawing Hands card, with a inscription added to the image by Escher, in red ballpoint pen: voorspoed in nieuwe huis en 1971; and a message inside the card: “N.B. Wat is jullie nieuwe telefoon nummer? [?] Mauk,” with a 3 1/2 x 5 in. glossy color snapshot of Escher pasted inside the card, some signs of handling, slight surface grime, 9 1/2 x 5 3/4 in. overall. $2,000-3,000

26 Gage, Thomas (1720-1787) General Return of the Number of Rations and Provisions Issued to His Majesty’s Troops in North America under the Command of His Excellency, the Honorable Major General Thomas Gage, Commander in Chief &c. between the 25th of June and 24th of December 1768.

Manuscript document on a double folio sheet of laid paper, oriented in landscape format; the content of the document expressed by means of a graph that lists the names of the posts and places in the leftmost column, with each ensuing column listing the numbers of troops in each regiment, with a column for each regiment (seventeen regiments listed), filling the page all the way across, with the total number of rations for every regiment in each region totaled in the rightmost column, so that totals can be viewed both by post and regiment, signed by Gage in the lower right corner; the sheet lightly toned, slight breaks along the central fold, generally good, tissue repairs along the breaks applied to the verso, 15 3/4 x 12 3/4 in.

The posts and places listed on the document are as follows: New York, Albany, Fort George, Quebec, Montreal, Three Rivers, Ticonderoga, Crown Point, Oswegatchie, Fort Ontario, Niagara, Fort Erie, Detroit, Michilimackinac, Fort Prince George, Elizabeth Town, Brunswick, Fort Charlotte, Fort Augusta, Fort Frederica, Charles Town, St. Augustine, Halifax, Bermuda, Fort Pitt, Fort Sigonier, Fort Bedford, Fort Littleton, Carlisle, Lancaster, Philadelphia, and Boston. A note at the bottom states that “the returns of the 18th Regiment at the Illinois, 21st at Charlestown, & 31st at Pensacola are not yet come to hand.” $1,200-1,800

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27 Hancock, John (1737-1793) Lottery Ticket, Signed, June 1765.

Ticket number 3787, Faneuil-Hall Lottery number five, marked with the letter G in the bottom corner, left of Hancock’s signature, the left margin trimmed at an angle, cutting into the typographical ornaments, with loss, framed and mounted, with an autograph letter signed by Charles Lowell Hancock (1810-1890), grand-nephew to John, fulfilling the autograph request of Alonzo Faulkner, 9 March 1861, with a portrait, and a print of Faneuil Hall; the ticket 3 1/4 x 2 in., the frame 25 3/4 x 14 1/2 in. overall.

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This Boston landmark, sometimes called the Cradle of Liberty, was originally constructed in 1742, and was witness to many incendiary pre-rebellion speeches in Massachusetts’s colonial days. It was gutted by fire in 1761, and rebuilt with the help of funds raised by the sale of these lottery tickets. $2,000-3,000

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28 Hancock, John (1737-1793) Signed Military Commission to the Rank of Major, John May (1748-1812) 1 July 1781. [and] Military Commission appointing May Adjutant of the Boston Regiment of Militia, 10 October 1778.

Two printed documents on paper, completed by hand, the first signed by Hancock as Governor of Massachusetts, both signed by John Avery as Secretary; both with the seal of the Commonwealth; the 1778 document also signed by fifteen members of the Council of Massachusetts Bay: Jeremiah Powell, Artemas Ward, J. Cushing, B. White, Benjamin Austin, Daniel Davis, D. Hopkins, Oliver Prescott, N. Cushing, Oliver Wendell, Samuel Niles, E. Brooks, and others, both toned with old folds, framed; the Hancock document 12 1/2 x 11 in.; the other 12 3/4 x 12 3/4 in. (2) John May participated in the Boston Tea Party, he served during Shay’s Rebellion, rose to the rank of Colonel of the first Regiment of the Boston Militia during the Revolution, and ventured into Ohio in the late 1780s. $3,000-5,000

29 Harding, Warren (1865-1923) Typed Letter, Signed, 9 April 1923.

Single page on White House stationery. To Postmaster General Harry Stewart New (18581937), mentioning Senator Wesley Jones’s support of the Merchant Marine, and asking New to check into “the situation” in Salisbury, North Carolina, and the Ramsay appointment.

Toned, old folds, large pencil check mark, signed in ink by the President, matted and mounted, with a portrait of Harding, 7 1/4 x 6 1/2 in., 16 1/2 x 23 in. overall. $300-400 30 Harvard University, Theses. Boston: Freeman, 1786.

Broadside, defining the following areas of study: technology, grammar, rhetoric, logic, metaphysics, ethics, theology, politics, mathematics, and physics; rare, ESTC locates four copies in American libraries, no copy at Harvard; printed within a double border, on a large sheet, signs of old folds, some breaks along the folds at the center, repaired on the verso with tissue, a general tone to the sheet, 25 x 16 in. $200-300

31 Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Sr. (1809-1894) Autograph Letter Signed, 23 April 1883.

One page. To an unnamed recipient, with thanks, for including Holmes’s work in a book of “memory quotations,” and sending along a copy. Old folds, minor marginal toning discoloration, held in place with later red sealing wax, mounted in a frame with a photographic portrait of Holmes, an image of his townhouse, and an engraved portrait; the letter 5 x 7 3/4 in. $300-500 32 Jefferson, Thomas (1743-1826) Fourlanguage Ship’s Papers for the Brig Maria, 10 July 1804, Countersigned by James Madison (1751-1836).

Single large sheet of laid paper, with the text printed in four columns, each a different language: French, Spanish, English, and Dutch; allowing the Brig Maria, lying in the port of Boston, weighing 181 tons, permission to travel to Labrador and the Mediterranean, its master Joseph Saunders, its ballast sea stones, signed in the center by Jefferson and Madison, with two paper seals, the sheet browned, mounted on silk, and framed, 20 1/4 x 16 in. $2,500-3,500

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33 Johnson, Andrew (1808-1875) Pardon, Signed, 16 March 1867.

Single page document, partially printed, completed in a secretarial hand, with Johnson’s signature. To the Secretary of State, authorizing the Secretary to affix the seal of the United States to a warrant for the unconditional pardon of James Carroll, alias Thomas Welch. Old folds, the page toned, mounted in a frame with a portrait of Johnson, 6 x 7 1/2 in., 12 x 19 in. overall. $400-500

34 Kennedy Onassis, Jacqueline (19291994) Autograph Letter, Draft, Unsigned, and Carbon Copy of Typed Version, also Draft, [Summer, 1964], Hyannisport, Massachusetts.

Five pages, written on recto sides only, in blue ballpoint pen on typing paper, and a five-page typed carbon copy, with “Dear Dick” added in Mrs. Kennedy’s hand, in pencil. To Richard Neustadt (1919-2003) containing strongly worded, impassioned, and detailed objections to the way Harvard is dealing with the organization of the Kennedy Institute, Library and Archive, the Kennedy School of Government, and the President’s legacy. All sheets with a central horizontal fold, edits in the manuscript version, slight edge toning, generally good, 11 3/4 x 9 in.

“It should not come as any great surprise to you that I am not happy with the way the Institute is going.

I would have kept this to myself, and tried to work with you to find a modus operandi which would be comfortable for you, for me, and for Harvard, had I not seen so clearly at our spring meeting that we are at cross purposes.

Every one of the trustees at that meeting was disturbed—and for the first time all voiced their concern. You tried to reassure us, and I believed you, but the next message I received from you was that you thought it unnecessary to have another meeting of the Institute for a year. Then I knew that our objectives were completely different and that I must express my thoughts to you.

They are these: I believe that rather than have the Institute have any dynamism of its own, you and Harvard would like to see it swallowed up in the School of Government.

The School of Government is meant to turn out civil servants. It has not and will not turn out men like President Kennedy. It does not value above all things the inquiring mind, the fresh and original idea. If the Institute continues as it is, it will become a monument to everything that President Kennedy was not.

That would be all right if Harvard had created the Institute on its own. I find it unacceptable when it was created by the love and grief and sacrifice and effort of those who believed in him most.

Perhaps it is partly our fault that it has turned out the way it has, because we were still in shock when we were working to create it. We remembered that he had so recently gone up to Harvard to discuss the plans for his future

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Library. So we thought his Library the best way to keep his ideas alive. Working for his Library in those days helped us to overcome our grief, because we felt that we were still working for him—that perhaps we could ensure that his vision of a world that might be did not die with him—that we could create a climate where such visions could be nurtured—a place that might turn out men like him who could inspire and lead in the even more precarious decades ahead.

To do this, we raised 20 million dollars for Harvard and we obtained for them at an unreasonably low appraisal 13 acres of land which they had always desired but could never have obtained had it not been given in the name of President Kennedy. We made it a center to which the members of President Kennedy’s administration would wish to leave their papers, thus making Harvard the repository of most of the documents of this extraordinary period of history. Also, we brought to them the papers of Ernest Hemingway, for which other Universities would have paid a small fortune.

And we let Mr. Perkins, who is Harvard’s lawyer, draw up these arrangements!

In return, Harvard eventually agreed to match our sum, and it named its School of Government after President Kennedy, thereby taking the Institute under its control.

The only member of the family who was allowed to be a trustee at the Institute was myself—because it was thought that Robert Kennedy, who worked so passionately to raise the money for the Library, and Edward Kennedy, who persuaded the state of Massachusetts to give the land in his brother’s name, might use the Institute as “a springboard for the dynasty,” or not accede to Harvard’s conception of the Institute. The trustees were not even permitted to know the names of those being considered for fellowships, until Averill Harriman objected strenuously.

This summer we have had two meetings at Hyannis Port, one of which you attended, to discuss a memorial to Robert Kennedy. After the first meeting, Byron White said that we must not let happen to Robert Kennedy’s memorial what had happened to President Kennedy’s—that we should have known what would happen once we let it become part of an Institution.

We have not yet decided what his memorial will be, but it will be more flexible than is his brother’s. I believe his papers should be where his memorial is—where his spirit will be.

I shall discourage other members of President Kennedy’s administration from leaving their papers to the Kennedy Library—something they might have done out of the same hopes that we had for it in the beginning.

It might be said that I diminish my husband’s memorial by this—but I do not think that President Kennedy needs a Library with 79 pushbuttons and an Institute to keep him remembered. He belongs to everyone now.

He will mean more and more to them with the passage of time. Seminars and dinner meetings will not fix him as a bright star

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to steer by, anymore than Round Table discussions will make King Arthur forever show the young what are “truth, honor, freedom and courtesy.”

The GSA will always run the Archive anyway.

And I do not think that his family should raise any more money for a memorial which is so little in keeping with the spirit of President Kennedy.

I think that what Great Britain has done—with the Kennedy Scholars, has a far greater chance of affecting the world for the better than does the Institute as it now is—where, it seems to me, fellows prepare papers for other fellows and recover from their empty in-box syndromes. I wish we had the Archive alone at Harvard and provided the same kind of scholarships abroad for American students.

The unfortunate term “in and outer” is often used at meetings. I have a feeling that if that is the status of the majority of fellows at the Institute, out, wishing they were still in or hoping to go back in, it becomes the guiding spirit of the Institute also. And no innovations are made because no one wishes to risk offending the administration in power, thus closing the door to a possible re-entry or to being persona grata [sic].

Please do not believe that I like controversy— that I would wish to see a long series of happenings like the MacNamara riot or Dr. Spock’s trial erupting from the Institute. That would be terrible. I would merely like to see it do something of excellence and something original—the sort of thing President Kennedy might have had it do had he been Director.

But I do not think he would ever have been permitted to be its director—because he was not “safe” enough.

The last item I would like to mention is the Hemingway papers. You know that I have asked in the past for assurances that they be in the Kennedy Library proper, because otherwise I cannot in good faith accept them from Mrs. Hemingway, who did something so noble and generous, at such a sacrifice when she offered them.

This summer my secretary, Nancy Tuckerman, called Mr. Perkins about them. She was told that Harvard did not believe that the Kennedy Library had the facilities for handling them.

I believe, as you told me in the very beginning, that Harvard would like to see them in the Widener Library, perhaps on permanent loan from the Kennedy Library—and that some things are now being said, but that that is what is eventually envisaged.

I am happy that you have made yourself such a part of the Harvard community—that they have absorbed rather than rejected this vast new transplant and all the confusion it brought them. By now they must trust you and believe that their interests are yours. I am sure that they would not be happy with any such breach of faith.

I am sorry to have had to write all this—but I could no longer keep it to myself. I shall think about it very hard—I know you will too—and perhaps at our fall meeting this impasse can in some way be broken. Thank you, dear Dick, Affectionately.” $5,000-7,000

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35 Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963) Assassination Archive.

A collection of material related to the assassination of President Kennedy, including a card signed by Oswald’s mother Marguerite (1907-1981), 22 October 1965, “My son Lee Harvey Oswald even after his death has done more for his country than any other living human being, Marguerite C. Oswald,” a typed carbon with notes attributed to Mrs. Oswald,

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and a copy of her publication, Aftermath of an Execution; thirty-three first day of issue JFK memorial envelopes with first day of issue JFK stamps with Boston cancels of 29 May 1964 signed by figures related to the assassination and the Warren Commission, including law enforcement officers, doctors who treated the President, the stonecutters responsible for his headstone, crime scene investigators, authors and challengers of the Warren Report, and

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others; additional photographs and signatures of others related to the assassination; three magazines: Cavalier, August 1961 issue; Sepia, May 1967 issue; Saturday Evening Post, September 1975 issue; and three books: The Elite Serial Killers of Lincoln, JFK, RFK, & MLK, by Robert Gaylon Ross, Sr., 2001; Four Days, American Heritage Publishing, 1964; and Bobby Dobbs’s Kennedy Chronicle, softcover. $2,500-3,500

36 Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963) Check, Signed, July 1959.

Check number 2702, drawn on the First National City Bank of New York, payee, date, and amount almost completely faded away, the check printed with Kennedy’s name on left end, and perforated stamp through the body of the check, dated 5 August 1959, presumably when it was processed by the bank, 8 1/2 x 3 1/4 in.; mounted and framed, with an oval portrait, and the “Ask not” quote, 17 1/2 x 25 overall. $2,000-3,000 37 Kennedy, Robert Francis (1925-1968) Small Archive Regarding His Assassination.

Typed letter signed by Ted Kennedy, 24 June 1968, with envelope, to Joseph Benedict, thanking him for recent condolences; two prayer cards, and the program for “An Evening to Honor the Memory of Senator Robert Francis Kennedy,” held in Boston on 10 December 1968. [with] Six prayer cards for John Fitzgerald Kennedy, three different styles, with repeats.

Provenance: By descent through the family of Joseph T. Benedict (1912-1995), former president and chairman of Worcester Federal Savings Bank and Kennedy family friend. $200-300

38 Land Deed, England, 1497.

Parchment land deed with attached hanging seal, memorializing a real estate transaction from the twelfth year of the reign of Henry VII, involving landowner Robert Breton of Wingham, regarding the sale of his lands and tenements in the parishes of Wingham and Staple, in Kent, United Kingdom; old folds, slightly dusty on the verso, matted, in a double-glazed frame, 13 1/2 x 3 in. $400-600

39 Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865) Autograph Sentiment, 31 May 1864.

Single paper sheet, with period penwork frame incorporating red white and blue shields, and a Presidential banner, matted and framed with a small (6 x 7 in.) Buttre portrait; the note: 4 1/2 x 7 1/2 in., 16 x 21 in. overall.

According to the Lincoln Log (www.thelincolnlog.org), the President responded to at least two other requests for autographs on the same day. $3,000-5,000

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40 Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885); and Rutherford B. Hayes (1822-1893): Carte-de-visites.

Photographic images of the three American Presidents; each mounted on light greenishblue card stock, with the blue ink stamp of Matthew Brady’s Washington, D.C., photography studio on the back; Hayes and Grant’s cards roughly trimmed slightly at the top, to accommodate their insertion in an album, slight foxing, surface scratches on Grant, 6 1/2 x 4 1/4 each. (3) $400-600 41 Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807-1882) Autograph Letter Signed, 28 October 1872.

Single leaf, inscribed on both sides. To an unnamed recipient, disputing a bill for work done on a pump, matted and double-glazed, with a portrait of Longfellow, the portrait foxed, the letter with ink showing through the page, otherwise good, 6 3/4 x 4 1/4 in. $200-300

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42 Louis XVI of France (1754-1793) Military Commission Signed, 4 April 1760, Versailles.

Single parchment sheet, with printed text completed by hand, and signed by Louis XVI. Central fold, some yellow and marginal finger soiling, 12 3/4 x 9 3/4 in. $300-500 43 Louis XVI of France (1754-1793) Signed Receipt, 28 February 1775.

Folio-format laid paper bifolium, inscribed on all four pages in a secretarial hand, signed

by Louis and others on the verso of the last page. Concerning sums paid to the city of Dijon in the year 1769; old folds, toning, edge crumpling and darkening, 14 1/4 x 9 3/4 in. $300-500

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44 Medical Manuscript Account Ledger of Dr. William Barber (1767-1852) and Six Surgical Lapneedle Documents.

Folio-format account book, bound in reversed calf, blind tooled, with a red label reading, “Waste” on the spine, the leaves lined, filled with the hand-written records of Dr. Barber’s work and accounts from 1825 to 1843 (which date may coincide with his retirement) the final third of the leaves left blank, with many slips of paper pertaining to his work inserted in the pages throughout, 12 1/2 x 8 in.

“Dr. William Barber, was born in Worcester, Mass., in 1767. His father’s dwelling was burnt, by accidental fire, when he was an infant, by which his life was exposed to imminent danger, from which he was saved by the courage and presence of mind of his elder sister, afterwards the wife of Mr. Josiah Flagg. He pursued his professional studies at Worcester, with Dr. Greene. He came to Mason, New Hampshire in November, 1790, and commenced the practice of physic and surgery, which he continued until disabled by the infirmities of age. He married (1) Mary Campbell, of Berlin, Conn. She died November 2, 1792. (2) Rachel Cutter, of New Ipswich, who survives him. He died July 11, 1852, aged 85 years.” (History of the Town of Mason, N.H.) [together with] Six documents related to the invention of a lap-eyed surgical needle by George Cooper of Hartford, Connecticut, c.

1863. $600-800

45 Monroe, James (1758-1831) Land Deed Signed, 16 April 1824.

Single parchment sheet, printed document, the body completed by a secretarial hand, signed by Monroe. Concerning John Wolf, his title to eighty acres of public land in Ohio, countersigned by Commissioner of the General Land Office, George Graham, with paper seal. Old folds, some surface abrasion and discoloration, framed, 15 1/4 x 9 in. $200-300

46 Monroe, James (1758-1831) Land Deed, Signed, 14 July 1819.

Single parchment sheet, printed, sealed, signed, completed by hand. For sale of land in the territory northwest of Ohio, above the mouth of the Kentucky River. With old folds, inscriptions faded, some toning and wear, rumpled beneath the velvet mat, mounted and framed with a portrait of Monroe, 7 3/4 x 12 in., 26 1/2 x 14 1/2 in. overall. $300-400

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47 New York Land Deed, Manhattan, 1684.

Large sheet of laid paper, memorializing a real estate transaction between Derick and Coenradt Ten Eyck (1617-1686) [both identified as shoemakers] for a “certain tenement and lott of ground” on the west side of Prince’s Graft [now Broad Street], in Manhattan; signed by Coenradt, by New York Mayor Gabriel Minvielle (c. 1644-1702), and others, with old folds, toning, fragmentary along some folds, with small pieces of paper loss, still legible, repaired from the verso, paper loss due to ink etching within the large calligraphic letters of the headline, 23 x 18 in. $1,000-1,500

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48 Olivier, Sir Laurence (1907-1989) Autograph Letter Signed, 22 May 1958.

Single sheet inscribed on both sides, 158 Brattle Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts stationery. To an unnamed woman (My dear Madame) accepting her invitation to speak at a luncheon on June first, mentioning “these days of dread decisions”; and “I am an actor occasionally (ha! ha!).” He also notes that he prefers coffee over tea, asking, “please don’t take away my cup to be washed before I have finished.” Single fold, brown mark from contact with acidic substrate along one margin, 7 3/4 x 5 3/4 in. $200-250

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49 Otto von Bismarck (1815-1898) and John J. Pershing (1860-1948) Letters Signed.

A secretarial note, Berlin 16 January 1874, to an A.J. Johnson of New York, thanking him for sending a copy of the Illustrated Family Atlas, old folds, some light ink smudges, mounted and framed, 11 x 8 3/4 in. [and] A typed noted signed by Pershing on American Expeditionary Forces stationery, in France 13 June 1919, marked personal and signed as Commander-in-Chief, to a Samuel S. Dennis, declining the invitation to appear at a stateside function, 7 1/2 x 6 in. (2) $400-600

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50 Pierce, Isaac and Joseph (fl. circa 1778) Memorandum Book, Central Atlantic Region, 1770s.

Sixteen-page small format note pad with slightly heavier paper covers, annotated in brown and purple ink throughout, slightly dog-eared, with some chipping and spots, 6 x 3 1/4 in.

The text begins with the ninth of September, 1777: “The American army marched from Wilmington up to Ogle’s Tavern & from thence to Stawgut [?] Lane and Crossed Brandywine and encamped at the bottom.” Pierce makes notes about the weather and his business supplying the military. “May 1, 1778, Mr. Rutterford [sic] & a light horseman came & demanded 7 dozen skins & prest a cart & ‘bore them off to his son in Newark.” “May ye 31 on Sunday 1778 there came 4 teams loaded with arms from the head of Elk to Smallwood’s headquarters.” He also includes notices of the war, “Smallwood and his army march’d from Miller’s and Mendenhall’s towards Washington’s headquarters.” $1,400-1,600

51 Pitt, William, 1st Earl of Chatham (17081778) Letter Signed, 16 October 1758.

Single page letter in a secretarial hand, with Pitt’s signature. To Captain John Moore (17181779), Commander in Chief of His Majesty’s ships at the Leeward Islands, sending secret instructions signed by the King (not included) and wishing success with the command.

Written in brown ink on laid paper, folds, slight toning of the sheet, and minor foxing, matted and framed, 11 1/2 x 7 1/4 in. visible through the mat opening.

During the Seven Years War, William Pitt sent an expedition to wrest control of Guadeloupe and Martinique from the French. $1,000-1,500

52 Portraits of British Nobility, Six Mezzotint Prints: Large late 18th to early 19th century portraits of Sir Hyde Parker (1739-1807), after Romney; George Augustus Eliott, first Lord Heathfield (1717-1790), after Reynolds; Francis RawdonHastings, Earl of Moira (1754-1826), after Shee; William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, third Duke of Portland (1738-1809), after Reynolds; John Manners, Marquess of Granby (17211770), after Reynolds; and Jonas Hanway (1712-1786), after Edwards; four of the six matted and framed, the prints of the Duke of Portland and Earl of Moira removed from their frames, glass missing; some portraits with minor discoloration, marginal tears, and other minor wear or damage. (6) This group includes portraits of important British royalists who participated in the hostilities during the American Revolution, and Queen Elizabeth II’s great-great-greatgrandfather on the maternal side. $700-900

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53 Presidents and World Leaders, Autographs: Woodrow Wilson, Winston Churchill, Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt.

Clipped signatures of Theodore Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, undated; typed letter signed by Franklin Roosevelt, 27 February 1937; and deposit slip, 30 August 1919, signed by Woodrow Wilson, each separately mounted, matted, and framed, with portraits, various sizes. (4) $400-600 54 Rachmaninoff, Sergei (1873-1943) Signed Photo.

Photographic portrait of Rachmaninoff taken later in life, he is seated, wearing a suit and tie, and looking to the right, the signature is subtle, written in black ink in the black background, oxidation from silver in the photograph creates some contrast to the shinier black ink, matted and framed, 5 1/4 x 3 1/4 in. $600-800 55 Randolph, Thomas Jefferson (1792-1875) Receipt for Moses Gillette, 1 January 1829.

Partially printed laid paper promissory note, issued by the estate of Thomas Jefferson, completed by hand, manuscript inscriptions on verso. Issued to Ira and Sydner Pellet for $545 for the purchase of the enslaved man, Moses Gillette, (1803-post 1880); signed by “Jeff” Randolph more than once on the verso, noting that if unpaid in a year, the amount due would double; and noting the receipt of payment, bottom right corner torn away, perhaps to signify the fulfillment of the contract and repayment of debt, matted and doubleglazed, old folds, dirty on the verso, spotting, 7 3/4 x 3 5/8 in.

Upon Thomas Jefferson’s death, his estate was deeply in debt. Randolph, his grandson and executor, struggled to repay this debt throughout his life by various means, and ultimately died with the estate still in the red.

This particular promissory note highlights the story of the estimated 600 enslaved men, women, and children who lived some portion of their lives at Monticello, owned

by Jefferson. Records from Monticello indicate that Moses Gillette, a skilled cooper who independently crafted pails and firkins on his own time, selling them back to the estate, was enslaved as part of Jefferson’s estate. Monticello records also establish that Gillette was purchased by the Pellets in 1829. The Pellet brothers operated a mill somewhere in Albemarle County, Virginia.

After emancipation, Gillette moved to southern Ohio, where he lived near his brother, Israel Gillette Jefferson. $1,000-1,500

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56 Rhode Island Ephemera, 18th-19th Century.

Four manuscript documents, land deeds, wills, ship’s expenses, c. 1769-1805; four printed documents completed by hand, c.

1752-1831 (three land deeds and one military commission); one printed shipping document from 1840, completed by hand; certification of a Revolutionary War widow’s benefits, 1838; four-leaf manuscript pamphlet of sermons, c.

1730; engraved world map; Boston Almanack for 1767; seven 19th century newspapers and magazines; and other assorted papers, including a Civil War-era photograph of troops mustering in front of the old railway station in Providence. $300-500 57 Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1882-1945) Signed Photograph, c. 1934.

Matte-finish gelatin silver print portrait of Roosevelt, in profile, seated, with a sheaf of papers before him, fountain pen poised in his right hand, spectacles in his left; signed in the blank margin beneath the image, with the original correspondence from Roosevelt’s private secretary, Marguerite A. LeHand (18981944), on White House stationery, dated 3 October 1934, fulfilling the request for a signed photograph made by Basil O’Connor, on behalf of William A. Rushmore, matted and framed; halo oxidation to the edges of the image, some light unidentified deposits inside the glass, signature somewhat faded, Ms. LeHand’s letter mounted on acidic paper (originally the lining from the back of the frame) and browned; 8 1/2 x 6 in. of the photograph visible through the mat opening. $400-600 58 Signatures, Portraits: Jim Thorpe, Ulysses S. Grant, and Daniel Webster.

Each matted, mounted, and framed, with a portrait: autograph letter signed by Daniel Webster, 4 February 1857; autograph sentiment signed by Jim Thorpe, 21 October 1943; and clipped signature of U.S. Grant, undated, various sizes. (3) $350-450 59 Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894) Dictated Note Signed, Vailima Samoa, 11 May 1893.

Single leaf, inscribed on one side. To James fulfilling a request for Samoan stamps (not included) adding his compliments to the addressee’s father, and those of Mrs. Stevenson and the writer of the note, his stepdaughter Isobel Osbourne Strong Field (18581953) [identified as “the lady now writing for me, Mrs. Strong” in the text of the note], the signature and closing in Stevenson’s hand, old folds, one torn through with a short closed adjacent tear, hand soiled, with a half-penny stamp on the verso, and some erased math problems, 6 1/2 x 4 1/4 in. $1,000-1,500

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60 Truman, Harry S. (1884-1972) Typed Letter, Signed, 31 March 1945.

Single page, stationery of the Vice President.

To Senator Alben W. Barkley (1877-1956), suggesting that he fill a vacancy on the Migratory Bird Sanctuary Commission, the sheet toned, slight rusty paperclip mark at the end of the sheet, two old folds, matted and framed with a portrait of Truman, 7 3/4 x 7 1/2 in., 24 1/2 x 14 1/4 in. overall. $250-350 61 University Diploma, Continental, 16th Century.

Single page parchment document, in a secretarial hand, with a coat of arms flanked by two lions, and two small portraits in rondelles at the top, the first line lettered in gold with other gilt marginal decorations, in the text, the university degree is conferred on Johannes de Arteaga, signed by the notary public and others at the foot, matted and framed, rumpled, with fading of decorative penwork, stains, spotting, and other discoloration, 14 x 9 3/4 in. $300-500

62 Washington, George (1732-1799) Letter to President John Adams (1735-1826), Signed

by Tobias Lear (1726-1816), An Account of the First President’s Death, Mount Vernon, 15 December 1799.

Single page, inscribed on one side. To John Adams, as President of the United States (noted at bottom left) announcing Washington’s death, and the circumstances thereof. Pale blue laid paper, with old folds, written in brown ink, a note of the letter’s content on the verso; smudge in left-hand margin, right edge reinforced on verso with a strip of paper, held behind clear photo corners, in a double mat, all edges of the original sheet visible, in a modern gilt frame, 9 x 7 1/4 in.

“Sir, It is with inexpressible grief that I have to announce to you the death of the Great and the Good General Washington.

He died last evening between ten and eleven o’clock, after a short illness of about twenty hours.

His Disorder was an inflammatory sore throat, which proceeded from a cold, of which he made but little complaint on Friday. On Saturday Morning, about three o’clock, he became ill. Doctor Craik attended him in the morning, and Doctor Dick of Alexandria and Doctor Brown of Port Tobacco, were soon called in. Every medical assistance was offered; but without the desired effect.

His last scene corresponded with the whole tenor of his life. Not a groan nor a complaint escaped him in extreme distress. With perfect resignation, and in full possession of his reason, he closed his well spent life.

I have the honor to be, with the highest respect, Sir, your most obedient servant, Tobias Lear.” $20,000-25,000

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63 Washington, George (1732-1799) Lottery Ticket, Signed, 1768.

Ticket number 165 in the Mountain Road Lottery, numbered by hand, with the President’s signature, matted and mounted with a reproduction portrait and map; the ticket printed with the piece of type for the letters “l” in “shall” and “entitle” upside down, i.e., with the blank end upmost; the left margin trimmed into the typographical ornaments at the left and top margins, no typographical ornaments under Washington’s signature, with two old folds, torn with minimal loss along the horizontal fold, affecting the typographical decorations to the left of the text, 1 1/2 x 3 in., the frame 14 x 25 in. overall.

Washington and Thomas Bullitt (c. 17341782) planned this lottery to raise money to build a road through the Allegheny Mountains, leading to a resort in Hot Springs, Virginia. The effort failed, with Washington’s involvement dissolved in 1771; the road and resort were nonetheless built. $5,000-7,000

64 Webster, Daniel (1782-1852) Letter Signed, 28 June 1838.

One sheet inscribed on both sides. To the Whigs of Philadelphia, declining an invitation to celebrate the fourth of July with them. Body of the text in a likely secretarial hand, old folds, matted, in a double-glazed frame, with later portraits on each side, 7 3/4 x 9 3/4 in. of the letter visible through the mat, 19 1/2 x 15 1/2 in. overall. $300-500

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Books Lots 65–310

65 Acts and Laws Passed by the Great and General Court or Assembly of the Colony of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England.

Watertown and Boston: various printers, including Ede, Adams, and Larkin, 1776-1795.

Folio, in various states of condition, including stab-sewn examples with untrimmed edges, others removed from bound volumes, or in boards, the group uncollated, with some sections lacking or duplicated.

This important group of amendments to the laws of Massachusetts begins during the colonial period, continues through the American Revolution, and into the new republic. The first act in this collection contains stirring revolutionary language, from November, 1775. “Whereas it is not only the interest, but the duty of all nations to defend their lives, liberties and properties, in that land which the supreme ruler of the universe has bestowed on them, against the unlawful attacks and depredations of all enemies whatever; especially those who are moved by a spirit of avarice or despotism: and whereas the honorable American Congress have recommended to the United Colonies to put the militia into a proper state for the defence of America.” $5,000-7,000 65A Acts and Laws Passed by the General Court of Massachusetts. Boston: various printers, including Adams & Larkin, and Young & Minns, 1795-1805.

Folio, large, stab-sewn, untrimmed copies, not collated, some with water stains, tears, and other faults, the serial publications not perfectly contiguous.

This extensive collection of amendments to the laws of Massachusetts covers a good part of the Federalist period. $2,000-3,000 66 Aesop (c. 620-564 BC) Appologi sive Mythologi cum quibusdam Carminum et Fabularum additionibus Sebastiani Brant.

Basel: Jacob Wolff of Pforzheim, 1501. First edition by Sebastian Brant (1457-1521), with added verses, fables and commentary, incomplete, 60 leaves only (of 202), with 105 woodcuts (of 335), colophon leaf and final blank present, leaves missing at the beginning of the text, and then randomly in the body; bound in limp parchment: a leaf of Medieval manuscript music; text block detached from binding; amateurish occasional contemporary color in brown and red, one leaf with a tear, one torn and missing about a quarter, most folds reinforced with old paper documents, thumbing, other signs of use, 11 x 7 1/4 in.

The presence of the colophon leaf suggests that this fragment is from the second half of Brant’s Aesop, which consists of new material contributed by the Renaissance editor. Brant weaves folk wisdom and material from post-ancient popular fables into an original work that reflects the spirit of his own time. $10,000-15,000

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67 Alcott, Louisa May (1832-1888) Little Women [First and Second Parts]. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1868 [-1869].

First editions, two octavo volumes; part one with four illustrations and six pages of advertisements; part two with four illustrations and eight pages of advertisements; the set bound in uniform full tan calfskin bindings by Goodspeed of Boston, with the oval morocco bookplate of a member of the Murdock family (?Harold), with the slogan “Omnia Pro Bono H.M.” encircling the image of a raven impaled by an arrow, 6 1/2 x 4 1/4 in. (2) $2,000-3,000

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68 Allers, Christian Wilhelm (1857-1915) Capri.

Munich [New York]: Franz Hanfstaengl, 1892.

Folio, the short introduction in German is followed by a total of sixty-four illustrations, including the title vignette, in publisher’s green cloth with blocked pictorial boards stamped in gilt and colors, partially sun faded, with darkening to a section of the front board, tattered at head and tail, English language title page detached, contents good.

Allers, originally from Hamburg, moved to Capri in the 1890s and built a villa on the island. Unfortunately, Allers was prosecuted as a suspected homosexual, and was forced to flee Capri in 1902. His drawings are detailed and evocative, his subjects typical Caprese citizens in informal settings. $300-500

69 Aretaeus of Cappadocia (fl. circa A.D. 50) De Causis et Signis Acutorum, et Diuturnorum Morborum. Leiden: Janssonios Vander, 1735.

Folio, edited by Herman Boerhaave (16681738), title printed in red and black, text in Greek and Latin, bound in mottled calfskin, gilt tooling; boards somewhat rubbed, joints tender, slight water stains to bottom edge of text, especially near the end of the text, 14 3/4 x 9 in.

This is the second edition of the writings of the first century Greek physician on acute and chronic diseases prepared by Boerhaave, the Dutch physician and botanist. $400-600

70 Balzac, Honore de (1799-1850) L’Heritier du Diable. Paris: Rene Kieffer, 1926.

Quarto, limited edition, number 217 of 500; illustrated throughout with bright hand-colored pochoir images, deckle edges, bound in contemporary, signed, hand-illuminated, three-quarter parchment with marbled paper, 9 1/4 x 7 in. $250-350

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71 Balzac, Honore de (1799-1850) Le Pere Goriot. Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, Andre Sauret, 1952.

Quarto, copy number 1,061 of 3,000, frontispiece lithographic portrait of Balzac by Picasso; in publisher’s wrappers, very good with glassine jacket and the original slip case, 6 1/2 x 9 in. $300-500

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74 Barton, Richard (1706-1759) Lectures in Natural Philosophy, Designed to be a Foundation, for Reasoning Pertinently, upon the Petrifications, Gems, Crystals, and Sanative Quality of the Lough Neagh in Ireland [bound with] A Dialogue Concerning [...] Ireland [and] Some Remarks Towards a Full Description of Upper and Lower Lough Lene. Dublin: for the author by Reilly, 1751.

First editions, large quarto, the first work is illustrated with an engraved frontispiece, three folding, and three full-paged engravings; the second work reuses the same frontis as the first, and the third work has its own frontispiece; edges untrimmed throughout; contemporary half-leather and sprinkled paper boards, almost completely perished; serious water staining to the first few leaves, that tapers off quickly, and then begins again at the end of the third work; 11 1/4 x 8 3/4 in. $300-500

75 Belzoni, Giovanni Battista (1778-1823) Voyages en Egypte et en Nubie. Paris: Galignani, 1821.

First French edition, two octavo volumes, in period half-calf, untrimmed, with deckle edges throughout, illustrated with a folding lithographic frontispiece of the author in native dress, one folding plate in volume one, and a large folding map at the end of volume two; errata leaf at the end of volume two present, along with the “Avis” about the sale of the atlas volume, pasted as a slip onto the verso of the title page in volume two; contents crisp, with varying spotting throughout, 8 1/2 x 5 in. (2) $400-600

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72 Bar, Jacques-Charles (1740-1811) Collection of Thirty Aquatints, Nuns, Priests, and other Religious. [from] Recueil de Tous les Costumes des Ordres Religieux et Militaires. Paris: Chez l’Auteur, 1778-1789.

Folio, thirty hand-colored engraved plates with no text, bound in a slim volume, in green half parchment and corners and mottled paper boards, with a manuscript table inserted in the front, very clean, 16 1/4 x 10 1/4 in. $300-500

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73 Barclay, Patrick (fl. circa 1735) The Universal Traveller. London: for Purser, Read, and Hester, 1735.

Folio, with three added maps, two smallformat and intact, the other, a large map of Asia, torn away but for a small scrap, lacking signature 8E (two leaves, pages 657-660), some leaves torn, title page toned and dusty, first few leaves detached, intermittent faults to blank gutter of the text due to the pressing of botanical specimens, in later half leather and corners, mention of the second volume (never published) trimmed away from the last text leaf, 15 1/2 x 9 1/2 in. $800-1,200

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76 Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) Oeuvres de M. Franklin. Paris: Chez Quillau, Esprit, et L’Auteur, 1783.

Third French edition, with the inclusion of hitherto unpublished material, two volumes bound as one, illustrated with frontispiece portrait of Franklin, and twelve additional fullpaged engravings, bound in full contemporary French calfskin, with sponged decorations on both boards, and a gilt-tooled and lettered spine; boards quite rubbed, both endcaps chipped with wear, front board lacking a short strip of leather, bottom corner quite worn, joints cracks, boards still attached, 9 3/4 x 7 3/4 in.

This work includes Franklin’s famous contributions to our understanding of electricity, and illustrations of some of his other famous inventions, including the Franklin stove and his “armonica,” or glass harmonica. $300-500

77 Benson, Frank Weston (1862-1951) Etchings and Drypoints. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1959.

Volume Five only, review copy, originally sent to Edgar Driscoll, of the Boston Globe, with the letter from the publisher requesting a review enclosed, along with a publisher’s subscription form for this work, in the original publisher’s binding and dust jacket, with the etched frontispiece. $200-300

78 Bewick, Thomas (1753-1828) and John (1760-1795) Select Fables. Newcastle: by Hodgson for Charnley et al., 1820.

Large paper copy in straight-grained green morocco, gilt, by Worsfeld, illustrated with a small text wood engraving at the beginning of each fable, frontispiece, portraits, vignettes, and other illustrations; some spotting and foxing, front board re-hinged, 11 x 6 3/4 in. $1,200-1,500

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79 Bloemaert, Abraham (1566-1651) Fondamenten der Teecken-Konst. [Antwerp, c. 1670].

Folio, engraved by Nicolaus Visscher (16181679) as follows: twenty-four numbered plates (including the title), followed by seven additional plates depicting fire, air, water (numbered 1-3) and spring, summer, autumn, and winter (numbered 1-4), 31 leaves, disbound, lacking the front board; title page toned, dusty, with fly specks and finger smudges, some corners bent, contents generally good, 12 1/4 x 7 3/4 in. $600-800

80 Blossfeldt, Karl (1865-1932) Art Forms in Nature. New York: Weyhe, 1929.

Large quarto, short preface, table of contents and 120 full-paged photographic illustrations of close-up details of plant parts in blackand-white, bound in publisher’s greenish-blue cloth, stamped in gold, somewhat shaken, spine sunned, 12 1/4 x 9 1/2 in.

The original German title of Blossfeldt’s seminal work, Urformen der Kunst, means The Original Art. “The plant must be valued as a totally artistic and architectural structure.”

—Blossfeldt $300-400

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81 Boileau-Despréaux, Nicolas (1636-1711) Oeuvres. Amsterdam: les Freres C. & R. Westein, 1717.

Four octavo volumes, two portraits in volume one, bound in uniform contemporary speckled calf, spines tooled in gilt compartments, with red lettering pieces, one headcap chipped, otherwise a nice set, 6 1/2 x 3 1/2 in. (4) $300-500

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82 Brinkley, Captain Francis, editor (18411912) Japan Described and Illustrated.

Boston: Millet, [1897].

Ten folio volumes, the Emperor’s edition, copy number one of seventy-five, illustrated with sixty full-paged hand-tinted albumen photographs, and 200 smaller-format handtinted photographs used as text illustrations and mounted; ten collotypes of flowers, and thirty reproductions of Japanese paintings on fabric or special paper; portrait of Emperor Mutsuhito in volume one, bound in full silk bindings, the set multicolored (in red, black, blue, olive, gray, pink, orange, etc.), with elaborate designs woven into the fabric; Japanese-style binding, with two coordinating silk ties holding each volume together; some bindings fraying, some rice paper overleaves torn with loss, generally good, 15 x 12 1/4 in.

(10) $2,000-3,000

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83 Brown, Fredric (1906-1972) The Dead Ringer. New York: Dutton, 1948.

Stated first edition, in red cloth publisher’s binding, in a good dust jacket, the spine slightly sunned, the back panel with minor foxing, 8 x 5 1/4 in.

Brown was an important an influential science fiction and mystery writer who gained the favorable attention of fellow writers from Ayn Rand to Philip K. Dick. $400-600 84 Browne, Edward (1644-1708) An Account of Several Travels through a Great Part of Germany. London: Tooke, 1677.

Quarto, first edition, five full-paged engravings (three folding), modern quarter calfskin with marbled paper boards. $400-600

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85 Bruehl, Anton (1900-1983) Photographs of Mexico. New York: Delphic Studios, [1933].

First edition, folio, illustrated with twenty-five black-and-white photographs, limited edition out of series review copy as noted on the limitation page, signed by Bruehl at the foot of his foreword, bound in publisher’s black leather spine and burlap covered boards, boldly blocked in black lettering on the front board, in the original but damaged slipcase, open at the top, 16 1/2 x 12 1/2 in. $350-450

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86 Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc Comte de (1707-1788) Oeuvres Completes Paris: Dumenil, 1837.

Nine octavo volumes, frontispiece portrait of Buffon opposite the title, volume one; volumes one through four contain Matieres Generales, volumes five and six: Histoire Naturelle [des] Quadrupedes, illustrated with forty-four plates; volumes seven through nine: Histoire Naturelle [des] Oiseaux, illustrated with fifty-six plates; all plates hand-colored; the set bound in contemporary uniform half sheepskin bindings, marbled boards, contents generally good, some spotting, some pages toned, light occasional foxing, 8 x 5 in. (9) $800-1,200

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87 Burnet, Gilbert (1643-1715) The Groans of Great Britain: a Funeral Sermon Preach’d Occasionally on the Funeral of our late most Gracious Soveraign, King William.

Exon [Exeter]: S[am]. Farley, 1702.

Duodecimo, this edition not recorded in ESTC, eight leaves, title within black mourning border, verso of last leaf with two woodcuts of skulls with cross bones, with two woodcuts of corpses in winding-sheets below, disbound, stab-sewn; title browned, folded, abraded with loss, toned, dog-eared pages throughout, holes, stains, and other damage, 6 1/2 x 4 in. $300-500

88 Burton, Richard F. (1821-1890) First Footsteps in East Africa, or an Exploration of Harar. London: Longman, Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1856.

First edition, octavo, illustrated with two full-paged maps and four chromolithographs, with the half-title, Appendix IV suppressed, as usual, in contemporary three-quarter brown morocco, t.e.g., leaves toned, minor occasional spotting, binding rubbed along the joints, corners; headcap chipped, 8 1/2 x 5 1/4 in. $1,000-1,500

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89 Burton, Richard F. (1821-1890) Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah. London: Longman, Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1855.

First edition, three octavo volumes, illustrated with fourteen plates, as follows: five chromolithographs, eight tinted lithographs, and one full-paged wood engraving; with one folding map and three plans (two folding), half-title in volume three; no ads at the end of volume one, errata slip after the preface in volume one; bound in uniform contemporary three-quarter morocco, marbled paper boards, text leaves toned, some foxing to endleaves, limited minor interior spotting, bindings somewhat dry, joints and corners rubbed, heads slightly chipped, 8 1/2 x 5 1/4 in. (3) $4,000-6,000

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90 Canada and Its Provinces, ed. Adam Shortt (1859-1931) and Arthur Doughty (1860-1936).

Toronto: Constable, 1913.

Twenty-three volumes, the author’s edition, limited to 875 numbered copies, of which this is number 763, bound in uniform navy blue crushed morocco, with a large decorative rondelle containing the arms of all the Canadian provinces, some volumes peeling, rubbed, bumped, sunned spines, 11 x 8 in.

(23) $300-500

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91 Cardonne, Denis Dominique, editor (17201783) A Miscellany of Eastern Learning.

Translated from Turkish, Arabian, and Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the King of France. London: for Wilkie, 1771.

12mo, two volumes in one, in contemporary sheep, worn, ex libris F. Olcott, with his bookplate inside the front board, 6 1/2 x 3 3/4 in. [and] Thomas Maurice’s Observations Connected with Astronomy and Ancient History, Sacred and Profane, on the Ruins of Babylon, [bound with] Observations on the Remains of Ancient Egyptian Grandeur and Superstition, London: for the Author, sold by Murray, 1816 and 1818, illustrated with six fullpaged plates, in later buckram, some spotting and foxing, 10 1/2 x 8 1/2 in. (2) $300-500

92 Certain Sermons or Homilies Appointed to be Read in Churches in the Time of Queen Elizabeth. London: Wells, Swall, & Pawlett, 1687.

Octavo, bound in full contemporary green morocco, gilt-tooled, a.e.g., some rubbing, no repairs, endcaps intact, spine a bit dry and faded to brown; [and] Nathanael Homes’s Works, London: for the author, 1652, small folio, ex libris Robert More of Linley, with his bookplate pasted inside the front board, and his [or his father’s?] signature on the ffep, dated 1666, contemporary blind-ruled English calfskin, front board detached. (2) $400-600 93 Chagall, Marc (1887-1985) Seven Coffee Table Books, 20th Century.

Lithographe III, Boston, 1969; Chagall at the Met, New York, 1971; The Ballet, New York, 1969; Daphnis & Chloe, New York, 1977; Chagall by Chagall, New York, 1979; Ceramics - Sculptures, Monaco, 1972; and Chagall in Jerusalem, New York, 1983; all with dust jackets. (7) $600-800

94 Classics, Latin and French, 1639-1739, Three Volumes.

Paterculus’s Historiae Romanae, Leiden: Elzevir, 1639, engraved title, 12mo, later halfleather; Tertullian’s Apologetique ou Defense des Chretiens, Paris: Jombert, 1684, 12mo, in contemporary speckled calf with gold-tooled spine; [and] Bruyere’s Les Caracteres des Theophraste, Amsterdam: Changuion, 1739, volume two only, octavo, contemporary calf.

(3) $300-500 95 Colletta, Pietro (1775-1831) History of the Kingdom of Naples 1734-1825. Edinburgh: Constable & Co., 1858.

Two octavo volumes, this edition translated from the Italian by Horner with a supplementary chapter continuing the history from 1825 to 1856; in uniform tan calf by Bickers & Son of London, bindings slightly rubbed, light scratches, 8 x 5 1/2 in. (2) $200-300

96 Communists, Five Woven Portraits.

Jacquard portraits of Karl Marx (1818-1883), Friedrich Engels (1820-1895), Vladimir Lenin (1870-1924), Joseph Stalin (1878-1953), and Mao Tse-Tung (1893-1976), in black and white silk, Hangzhou Silk Weaving Factory, and The East is Red Silk Weaving Factory, c. 1970, 11 x 17 in. each. $300-500

97 Conder, Josiah (1852-1920) Landscape Gardening in Japan, [and] [A] Supplement to. Tokyo: Hakubunsha, 1893.

Two folio volumes, bound in publisher’s full green cloth, pictorially blocked in gold, illustrated throughout, some light foxing, bindings rubbed, 14 x 10 1/2 in. (2) $400-600

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100 Connecticut. Acts and Laws of the State of Connecticut in America. New London: Timothy Green, 1784.

Folio, with the seal of Connecticut printed on the title page, Evans 18409; ESTC W33318; later leather binding, boards very rubbed and becoming detached, 11 3/4 x 7 in. [and] Three additional octavo volumes of Acts and Laws of the State of Connecticut in America, Hartford: Elisha Babcock, 1786; Hartford: Hudson & Goodwin, 1796 [two volumes], later bindings, worn, trimmed down, toning and spotting to contents. (4) $200-300 101 Connecticut. Acts and Laws. New London/ Hartford: various printers, 1769-1805.

Folio and octavo formats, various sections of the Acts and Laws, all printed in Connecticut, with duplicates and omissions, all disbound, some removed from bound volumes, others stab-sewn, with deckle edges; approximately twenty-five sections. $300-400

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98 Conder, Josiah (1852-1920) The Flowers of Japan and the Art of Floral Arrangement.

Tokyo: Hakubunsha, 1891.

First edition, folio, illustrated with fourteen full-paged stencil-colored plates on rice paper, and many black-and-white illustrations; bound in the original colorful publisher’s boards, Japanese-style binding, with silk ties and spine, edge wear to binding, short tears, and a little surface abrasion, 14 x 10 1/2 in.

Conder was a British architect who lived in Japan and built several important buildings there in the Victorian era. This work is the first written and published in the English language on the subject of ikebana, Japanese flower arranging. $1,000-1,500

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99 Connecticut. Acts and Laws of His Majesty’s English Colony of Connecticut.

New Haven and New London: Thomas, Samuel, & Timothy Green, 1769.

Folio, text ends at page 336, [of 345? pages] Evans 11215; ESTC W9207; bound with sixteen leaves of contemporary blank paper at the end, bound in later library buckram, contents toned with occasional minor spotting, slightly trimmed, 11 1/2 x 6 1/2 in. $600-900

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102 Connecticut. The Charter Granted by His Majesty King Charles II. New London: Timothy Green, 1750.

Folio, with Acts and Laws Passed by the General Court or Assembly of His Majesty’s English Colony of Connecticut in New-England in America, in a later leather library binding, which has failed completely, numerous contemporary annotations to integral preliminary blank and the surviving half of the final blank, intermittent foxing and stains to contents, slightly trimmed down, 11 1/2 x 7 1/2 in. $800-1,200 103 Cooke, Edward William (1811-1880) Entwickelungsgeschichte: Grotesque Animals. London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1872.

Folio, illustrated with twenty-four plates of fantastical creatures, in publisher’s giltstamped green textured boards; all text leaves disbound, the original binding was purely adhesive, and is adhesive no more; backstrip detached, 12 1/4 x 9 3/4 in.

Cooke was a serious painter and naturalist with a sense of whimsy. $600-800

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104 Couperin, François (1668-1733) Pieces de Clavecin, Premier Livre [and] Second Livre de Pieces. Paris: l’Auteur, 1713 [-no date].

First editions, two folio volumes, mixed set, the first in half leather and parchment, the second bound in full calfskin, rebacked, corners repaired; I: title page, dedication, and preface [3 leaves] 79 pages, all engraved; II: title page, dedication and preface [3 leaves], 86 pages, privilege [1 leaf], all engraved; some water stains, generally good, 14 1/2 x 10 1/2 and 15 1/2 x 10 in. (2) Provenance: Estate of Charles Paine Fisher. $3,000-5,000

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105 Cummings, E.E. (1894-1962) Four Early Titles, Two Signed.

Eight Harvard Poets, New York: Laurence J. Gomme, 1917, octavo, first edition, with six poems by Cummings, a newspaper blurb about the publication pinned to the first page of poems, and a carbon of another typed poem tipped in, foxing, original publisher’s boards, with some water drops and wear; Tulips and Chimneys, New York: Thomas Seltzer, 1923, first edition of the author’s first book, quarto, toning to endleaves, foxing, page 69/70 with fore-edge trimmed away unevenly (bad opening?) taking about a 1 1/2 inch of the blank margin, 8 1/4 x 6 1/4 in.

HIM, New York: Boni & Liveright, 1927, signed

by Cummings on ffep; in publisher’s half black cloth and illustrated front board; with a collection of related clippings taped down with yellowing cello tape, inner flap fragments of the dust jacket, and an ad for The Enormous Room, all tucked inside the front board, binding slightly bumped, sunned, with finger marks, 8 x 5 1/4 in. [and] Christmas Tree, New York: S.A. Jacobs, 1928, inscribed on ffep, “for Aunt Ellen/ Merry Christmas!/E.E.C.” original inscription in pencil, traced over in ink, in the original half red cloth, with silver label, silver free end leaf in the front, text printed in green ink, title page and colophon printed in red and green; green paper-covered boards with silver specks, the front board has lost its green color due to sun fading, 7 3/4 x 5 in. (4) $600-800

106 D’Orbigny, Charles Dessalines (1806-1876) Dictionnaire Universel D’Histoire Naturelle.

Paris: Renard, Martinet, & Co., 1849.

Thirteen octavo volumes, illustrated throughout with 287 (of 288) colored plates of natural history subjects, bound in uniform contemporary half leather, with textured fabric boards, text printed on lightweight stock, the prints on heavier paper, intermittent foxing to leaves, 9 1/4 x 5 3/4 in., occupying 29 inches of shelf space. (13) $1,000-1,200 107 Dance of Death Print.

Small illustration of Death, holding an hourglass, and draped in a cloak, appearing to a young woman in Renaissance dress beneath a barren tree; a building rises up behind her, and a city on a hill behind Death; the signature is the letter “L” on a small sign hanging from low branches to the right of Death’s right foot; printed on a small sheet mounted on a larger piece of paper, matted, 3 3/4 x 2 1/2 in. $200-300

109 Decorative Bindings, Fifty-five Volumes: Various sets and single volumes in leather bindings, gold-tooled spines, occupying approximately 4 1/2 feet of shelf space. $300-500 110 Decorative Bindings, Thirteen Volumes: Leather-bound gold-tooled sets, including Pepys’s Diary, 1854; Hallam’s View of Europe, 1846; Lecky’s Rationalism in Europe, 1884, and others, occupying 15 inches of shelf space. $250-350 111 Decorative Bindings, Thirty-nine Volumes: Several sets of octavo-format books in dark blue and tan leather, all with gilt lettered and ruled spines, including mostly works in French and a set of the works of Georges Sand, occupying approximately 4 feet of shelf space.

(39) Provenance: Estate of Charles Paine Fisher. $300-500

108 De Rossi, Giovanni Bernardo (1742-1831) Variae Lectiones Veteris Testamenti. Parma: ex Regio Typographeo, 1784-1786.

Three small folio volumes, bound in full uniform contemporary sheepskin, decorated with tan and green streaking and mottling, with gilt-tooled spines and labels, a well-preserved set, edges stained solid red, contemporary marbled endleaves, contents quite clean, 11 1/4 x 8 in. (3) This work contains variant readings of the Hebrew Old Testament. $200-300

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112 Dickens, Charles (1812-1870) A Christmas Carol, in Prose, Being a Ghost Story of Christmas. London: Chapman & Hall, 1843.

First edition, first issue, title printed in red and blue, half-title and title verso printed in blue, “Stave I” on first page of text, hand-colored frontispiece and three plates by John Leech, four wood engravings in the text by W.J. Linton; green endleaves, one leaf of ads at the end, bound in publisher’s brown cloth, with blind and gilt stamping, a.e.g., slightly cocked, some rubbing to head and tail, small tear on spine with slight loss of fabric, back board slightly discolored, housed in a custom-made half-morocco clamshell box, 6 1/2 x 4 in. $5,000-7,000

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113 Dickens, Charles (1812-1870) Christmas Tales, Five Volumes.

A Christmas Carol, London: Chapman & Hall, 1843, second issue, title printed in red and blue, half-title and title verso printed in blue, “Stave One” on the first page of text, one page of ads after the text, hand-colored frontispiece and three plates by John Leech, four wood engravings in the text by W.J. Linton; The Chimes, London: Chapman & Hall, 1845, engraved frontispiece and additional title after Maclise, wood engravings after Doyle, Leech, and Stanfield; The Cricket on the Hearth, London: for the Author by Bradbury & Evans, 1846, engraved frontispiece and additional title, illustrations by Leech et al.; The Battle of Life, London: Bradbury & Evans, 1846, engraved frontispiece and additional title, illustrations by Leech et al.; [and] The Haunted Man, London: Bradbury & Evans, 1848, engraved frontispiece and additional title, illustrated; all five volumes bound in uniform green smooth morocco by Riviere, a.e.g., cloth from the original bindings bound in every volume at the back; spines sunned to brown, 6 1/4 x 4 in. (5) $2,000-4,000

114 Dickens, Charles (1812-1870) The DickensKolle Letters, ed. Harry B. Smith. Boston: Printed for Members of the Bibliophile Society, 1910.

First edition, presentation copy printed on parchment for Harry Smith, presented by the Bibliophile Society, with an inscription to that effect on the ffep, with negatives of the Dickens letter and portrait printed in facsimile in the book inserted; bound in contemporary full stiff board parchment, 9 x 6 3/4 in. $250-350 115 Dickens, Charles (1812-1870) Works. New York: J.A. Hill & Co., [c. 1900].

Thirty volumes in half red morocco, gilt tooled spines, t.e.g., illustrated; some headcaps chipped, occupying five feet of shelf space.

(30) $300-500

116 Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) Second Series of Poems. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1892.

First edition, 12mo, in publisher’s sage green cloth, cover and spine stamped in gilt, boards with chamfered edges, t.e.g., old silk bookmark detached, ticket from a Hartford bookseller inside back board; edges rubbed, slightly bumped, text block leaning slightly, spine sunned, 6 7/8 x 4 1/4 in. $300-500 117 Dictionaries, English/Italian and English/ French, Four Volumes, 1750s.

Joseph Barretti’s A Dictionary of the English and Italian Languages, London: for Strahan, et al., 1751, in two volumes, contemporary calf, with the label of George Gardner Lee on the front boards of both, front board of volume one detached; front joint cracked, volume two; [and] Boyer’s The Royal Dictionary, French and English and English and French, London: Brotherton, et al., 1752 [1753], in two volumes, volume one rebacked, all four volumes large quarto, not collated. (4) Provenance: Estate of Charles Paine Fisher. $300-500

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118 Dom Bedos de Celles, François (17091779) L’Art du Facteur d’Orgues. [Paris: Delatour, 1766-1778].

Folio, with the half-title only, lacking the main title page [?cancel], text not collated, 676 pages, illustrated with 137 very large engravings, mostly double-page and folding, a large copy in contemporary sponge-decorated French calf, spine tooled in gilt, worn with loss of leather at the corners, leather split along the joint, 16 3/4 x 11 1/4 in.

Provenance: Estate of Charles Paine Fisher. $2,000-3,000

119 Dugdale, Sir William (1605-1686) Monasticon Anglicanum. London: by Harbin for Browne, et al., 1718.

Three folio volumes, regular paper copy, with added engraved title in volume one, illustrated with seventy-six full-paged plates and twentysix double-page plates in volume one; sixteen full-paged plates and four double-page plates in volume two; and thirty full-paged and one double-page engravings; bound in full contemporary speckled calf, with red spine labels, gilt-decorated in compartments, losses to head and tail caps, bindings dry, joints cracked, 13 x 8 1/2 in. (3) $600-800 120 Dugdale, Sir William (1605-1686) The History of St. Pauls Cathedral in London.

London: Warren, 1658.

First edition, folio, lacking final ?blank, engraved portrait of Dugdale opposite the title, the title printed in red and black, illustrated with forty-four plates as follows: thirty-one full-paged plates, one large folding, eleven double-page plates, and one text engraving, ex libris Edward Huth, with his bookplate pasted inside the front board, bound in full straight-grained red morocco, joints tender, some loss along the joint at the foot, rubbed; some stains and discoloration to text, some leaves torn and repaired, 13 1/2 x 8 1/2 in. $700-900 121 Duret, Theodore (1838-1937) Lautrec. Paris: Bernheim-Jenue & Co., 1920.

Quarto, limited edition, number 53 of 100 copies printed on japon paper, illustrated with thirty-eight plates, including one drypoint etching, “Portrait de Tristan Bernard,” between pages 78/79; in publisher’s printed boards, protected by glassine, small tear in the glassine to lower left corner, 10 1/4 x 8 in.

Duret’s illustrated biography of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901). $500-700

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122 Early Books, Decorative Bindings, Thirteen Volumes.

Madame de Stael’s Corrine ou l’Italie, Paris: Nicolle, 1807, octavo, in three volumes, brown three-quarter leather, tooled in gilt; Dryden’s Miscellany Poems, London: for Tonson, 1727, in six octavo volumes, contents browned, front board of first volume becoming detached; Virgil’s Bucolica, Georgica, et Aeneis, Birmingham: Baskerville, 1761, octavo, in full contemporary gilt-tooled morocco, all edges gilt and marbled, inner gilt dentelles, marbled endleaves, in good condition; Oldham’s Works and Remains, London: for Hindmarsh, 1686, octavo, contemporary boards, rebacked, with gold label and gilt spine; The Most Celebrated Popish Ecclesiastical Romance: Being the Life of Veronica of Milan, London: Roberts, 1716, octavo, in modern simulated leather; [and] Three Poems upon the Death of the Late Usurper Oliver Cromwell by Dryden, Sprat, and Waller, London: Wilson, 1682, quarto, modern boards. (13) $400-600

123 Early Books, Seven.

Small-format French book of psalms, c. 1630, lacking the title page; Milton’s Paradise Lost, illustrated, 1711; Les Avantures de Telemaque, 1751, two volumes bound as one, illustrated, map; Emblem book, Spain, 16th century, defective, lacking pages, badly trimmed; Langley’s The Builder’s Jewel, 1746, frontispiece, many plates; Paradise Lost, illustrated with texts of scripture

by John Gillies, 1793; Cicero’s De Officiis, Amsterdam, 1691; [and] The Life of William III, 1703, second edition, frontis, plates, large folding plate torn, front board detached; all books are small format, varying bindings and condition, sold as is, not collated. (7) Provenance: Estate of Charles Paine Fisher. $200-300

124 Early Continental Imprints, Four Volumes, 1613-1657.

Jacques Davy Duperron’s (1556-1618) Histoire de L’Election et Couronnement du Roy des Romains, Paris: Sanlecque, 1613, octavo, in two parts, in original limp parchment, contents somewhat toned, 6 1/2 x 4 1/4 in.

Hippolito a Lapide’s [aka Philip Bogislav von Chemnitz] (1605-1678) Dissertatio de Ratione Status in Imperio Nostro Romano-Germanico, Freitag, 1647, 12mo, bound in contemporary polished parchment with yapp edges, bottom right corner of title trimmed away, contents clean, 2 3/4 x 5 in.

Lieuwe van Aitzema’s (1600-1669) Verhael, van de Nederlantsche Vreede-Handeling, Graven-Hage: Veely, 1650, large quarto, two parts bound together, titles printed in red and black, bound in full contemporary parchment, 9 x 7 in. [and] Comitologia Ratisbonensis de Anno 1654, Bremen: Bergers, 1657, quarto, browned throughout, folding table, Worldcat only describes a Frankfurt edition of the same year, multiple inky inscriptions to title, parchment boards with leather spine, 7 1/2 x 6 1/4 in. (4) $300-500

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125 Edith Wharton (1862-1937) Ethan Frome.

New York: Scribners, 1911.

First edition, first issue, in red cloth, lettered in gilt on spine and front board, top edge gilt, with four pages of ads at the end, the type in the final line of page 135 unbroken; the binding slightly bumped, with slightly frayed corners, endleaves with minor foxing, 7 3/4 x 5 in. $400-600 126 Edith Wharton (1862-1937) Five Titles.

The Greater Inclination, New York: Scribners, 1899, rebacked; Italian Backgrounds, New York: Scribners, 1905, in original decorative cloth; The House of Mirth, New York: Scribners, 1905, with illustrations by A.B. Wenzell; Sudermann’s The Joy of Living, translated by Wharton, New York: Scribners, 1920; and The Gods Arrive, New York: Appleton & Co., 1932, in the dust jacket. (5) $200-300 127 Edith Wharton (1862-1937) Italian Villas and their Gardens. New York: Century Co., 1904.

Large octavo, in decorative publisher’s boards, illustrated by Maxfield Parrish. [and] Charles Latham’s The Gardens of Italy, London: [Hudson & Kearns] for Country Life, 1905, with descriptions of E. March Phillipps, in two volumes, publisher’s giltstamped boards, rubbed, spine of volume two becoming detached. (3) $200-300 128 Edith Wharton (1862-1937) The Age of Innocence. New York and London: D. Appleton & Co., 1920.

First edition, first issue, with “Forasmuch” on page 186, line seven, and “(1).” after the text ends on page 365, in publisher’s red cloth, stamped in black, spine sunned, headcap chipped, the text block leaning forward away from the spine, no dust jacket, 7 1/2 x 5 in. $300-500

129 Edith Wharton (1862-1937) Twelve Poems.

London: for the Medici Society [in the Riccardi Press Fount by the Chiswick Press], 1926.

Signed, first, limited edition, with Edith Wharton’s signature on the limitation page, copy number 125 of 130, in blue buckram spine and paper-covered boards, the title tooled in gilt on the front board, sunning, edge wear, corners with slight loss of paper covering, t.e.g., slight foxing or smudge to limitation page, ownership signatures on pastedown and ffep, 9 1/4 x 6 1/4 in. $1,000-1,200

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130 Einstein, Albert (1879-1955) The Meaning of Relativity, Signed. London: Methuen & Co., [1950].

Octavo, fourth edition (with further appendix) Einstein’s signature dated 1951 at top of title, written with a dry pen; bound in publisher’s red cloth, with the gray dust jacket, one corner chipped with loss, other corners with wear, chipping at head and tail, 7 1/4 x 4 3/4 in. $1,200-1,800

131 Eliot, Thomas Stearns (1888-1965) Three Signed Limited Edition Titles.

Animula, London: Faber & Faber, Ltd., 1929, illustrated with wood engravings by Gertrude Hermes, large paper edition, on English handmade paper, number 382 of 400, signed

by Eliot on the limitation page, in publisher’s yellow boards, slightly sunned, minor wear, 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.

Dante, London: Faber & Faber, [1929], copy number twenty-one from a limited edition of 125, signed by Eliot on the limitation page, in publisher’s blue cloth and blue cloth slipcase, t.e.g., spine sunned, 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 in. [and] Marina, London: Faber & Faber, 1930, with drawings by E. McKnight Kauffer, number 74 of 400 copies, signed by Eliot on the limitation page, in publisher’s blue papercovered boards, with a glassine and Mylar jacket, somewhat sunned, faded along the spine, 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 in. each, both with the blind embossed stamp of Kenneth Anderson on the title. (3) $500-700

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132 English Literature, 17th Century, Three Small Folio Volumes: Francis Bacon’s (1561-1626) Sylva Sylvarum: or a Naturall Historie, London: by Haviland for Lee, 1639, engraved portrait and title, in contemporary calf boards, recently rebacked, with new label, recornered on a previous occasion, with wear to the repair, 11 x 7 1/4 in.; Sir Philip Sidney’s (1554-1586) The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia, London: by Lloyd for Du-Gard, 1662, eleventh edition, in 18th century calf, joints split, rubbed, contents toned, 11 x 7 1/4 in.; [and] Abraham Cowley’s (1618-1667) Works, London: by J.M. for Herringman, 1669, with frontispiece portrait, in contemporary boards, rebacked, 11 1/2 x 7 1/4 in. (3) $300-500

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132A Ernst, Max (1891-1976) and Paul Eluard (1895-1952) Misfortunes of the Immortals, trans. Hugh Chisholm. New York: Black Sun Press, 1943.

Quarto, limited edition (610 copies), twentytwo full-paged illustrations, publisher’s green paper boards with illustration, the text toned, 10 x 7 in.

“This edition is further augmented by three drawings Twenty Years After. The Misfortunes of the Immortals was first published in Paris in 1920, originally revealed in French by Paul Eluard and Max Ernst, and now translated into English by Hugh Chisholm. This edition has been designed and published by Caresse Crosby, handset in Spartan type twelve point and printed at the Gemor Press in the city of New York, March 1943.” $200-300

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133 Faulkner, William (1897-1962) Intruder in the Dust. New York: Random House, 1948.

Stated first printing, in a very good jacket, ex libris the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Library, Culver City, California, with their rubber stamp, paper label (“Please return to the script department”) and the embossed stamp of Howard Strickling (“Personal Property, Please Return”) all on ffep, an additional use of the MGM stamp on the page edges, at the foot, 8 x 5 1/4 in. $300-500

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134 Firishta (1560-1620) The History of Hindostan. trans. Alexander Dow (17361779). London: for Becket and de Hondt, 1770.

Second edition, two large quarto volumes, with a frontispiece in volume one and added [?] illustrations in volume two; table of contents in volume two supplied in facsimile, bound in uniform khaki buckram. [and] Thomas Maurice’s (1754-1824) The History of Hindostan, its Arts, and its Sciences, London: Bulmer & Co., 1795-98, two large quarto volumes, text not collated, lacking some plates in each volume, in uniform calf, rebacked, leather very dry. (4) $400-600

135 Five Book Safes, or “Blooks,” 18th Century.

Former books in gold-tooled leather bindings, converted to use as book safes, the insides hollowed out for hiding valuables, one folioformat, the other four, octavo and 12mo; two with inserts for coins, mostly French, one with the front cover detached. (5) $200-300

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136 Fore-edge Painting, Double, Prize Book.

Henry Drury’s Arundines Cami. Cambridge: Deighton, Bell, & Co., 1860.

Octavo, presented to Francis Champney of Winton College in July 1861, the two foreedge paintings depicting Caius College from one side, and Cambridge University on the other, red morocco school binding with coats of arms on front and back boards, a.e.g., inner gilt dentelles, rebacked, 6 3/4 x 4 1/2 in. $800-1,000

137 Fore-edge Painting, Prize Book. The Holy Bible. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1866.

Large octavo, presented by the Diocesan School in Byculla, India, to George Robottom for religious knowledge at Christmastime, 1868, painting of a bucolic scene with a cathedral, countryside, and cows; bound in full dark green morocco with gilt-tooled panels, some surface rubbing, a.e.g., fore-edge painting with two smudges in the sky, 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 in. $300-500

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138 Framed Indenture, and Printed Prayer Book Leaf, 17th Century.

A land transfer manuscript indenture on parchment, dated 7 November 1613, signed and sealed by Philip, with signatures of John, and one other member of the Shotbolt family, of Yardley, Hertford, England, matted and framed, only John’s seal intact, with a window on the verso, old folds, 19 1/4 x 16 in. [and] A single page from a folio-format Latin prayer book, printed on paper in a single column in black and red, continental, c. 1600, matted and framed, 9 1/4 x 14 in. (2) $300-500 139 Frost, Robert (1874-1963) Five Volumes.

Come In and Other Poems, New York: Henry Holt, 1943, inscribed, stated first printing, in a tattered dust jacket; On Making Certain Anything has Happened, New York: Holt [Spiral Press], 1945, smallformat pamphlet, printed wrappers; Victor E. Reichert’s Tower of David 1964, Middlebury, Vermont: Vermont Books, 1964, first edition, signed by Reichert on ffep, in the sun-faded jacket; Elizabeth Gray Vining’s Windows for the Crown Prince, Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1952, inscribed by Vining to Julia Carter, stated first edition, with two black-and-white photographs of the author and her subject inserted, in publisher’s binding and a very fragmentary dust jacket; [and] Robert Cormier’s Eight Plus One, New York: Pantheon, [1980], inscribed by Cormier, in publisher’s binding and slightly worn jacket.

(5) $200-300

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140 Gardner, Alexander (1821-1882) Photographic Sketch Book of the War. Washington, D.C.: Philip & Solomons, [1866].

Two oblong folio volumes, first edition, first issue, with the phrase, “Incidents of the War,” printed on every page below the mounted photograph; both volumes with lithographic title pages after drawings by Alfred A. Waud (1828-1891), single page preface in volume one, contents page (present in both volumes), and 100 albumen photographs (fifty in each volume), each photograph covered with a light overleaf printed with the subject and a description of the circumstances of the photograph; the photograph itself mounted on a heavy sheet printed within a tinted frame containing photo credits, title, date, et cetera; bound in uniform publisher’s full green morocco, tooled in gold, stamped with the title on the front boards, inner gilt dentelles, a.e.g.; some light marginal water staining to

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the last ten plates in volume one, and very lightly throughout volume two, affecting the mounting pages in both cases, and those only marginally; some signs of water penetration to the leather cover of the back board of volume one, and the endleaves in volume two; the overleaf for the “Ruins of Arsenal, Richmond, VA” with a closed tear close to the gutter; both bindings with surface rubbing and some loss of surface due to the peeling that often occurs with sheepskin, no repairs to bindings, which are still functional and intact, 12 3/4 x 17 in. (2) The photographic record of the Civil War created by Alexander Gardner and his collaborators reaches out across time, arresting even the twenty-first century viewer with its profound and disturbing imagery.

Although many of his contemporaries may have recognized the potential importance of documenting the great human and material sacrifices of the struggle, Gardner put himself

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directly into the conflict. He set out with equipment, materials, and a skilled crew, working under crude conditions. With glass plate negatives, all the necessary chemical solutions, and his own traveling darkroom wagon, he was able to bring the war home to Americans. Gardner’s images make the battle real, and its consequences plain. This two volume set was expensive when it was new. The cost of production itself was steep.

Each volume is essentially constructed like a scrapbook: the albumen photographs, printed on a very thin and flimsy paper, were cut by hand, and then mounted individually onto the pre-printed sheets. Marvelous for many reasons, these books come to us as original artifacts of a painful period in American history. $150,000-170,000

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141 Gay, John (1685-1732) Fables, with a Life of the Author and Embellished with Seventy Plates. London: for Stockdale, 1793.

Two large octavo volumes, illustrated with a total of sixty-eight engravings, including the frontispiece [twelve plates by William Blake (1757-1827)], bound in full uniform crushed olive-green morocco by Lloyd, Wallis, & Lloyd, a.e.g., spines sunned, joints slightly rubbed, a bit dry, contents good, 10 x 6 in. $300-500 142 Gay, John (1685-1732) The Beggar’s Opera, [bound with] Polly. London: for John Watts [and] for the Author, 1729.

Quarto, two volumes bound as one, each with typographical text followed by engraved music, bound in later three-quarter green leather, gilt-decorated, 9 3/4 x 7 1/2 in. ESTC T-13773; and T-13800. $200-300 143 Gell, Sir William (1777-1836) Pompeiana: the Topography, Edifices and Ornaments of Pompeii. London: Lewis, 1835-1852.

Three octavo volumes, illustrated throughout, bound in uniform half leather, somewhat rubbed. [and] Overbeck’s Pompeji, Leipzig: Engelmann, 1875, illustrated, disbound, folding map torn, some pages detached. (4) $300-500 144 Gentry, Thomas G. (1843-1905) Nests and Eggs of Birds of the United States.

Illustrated. Philadelphia: Wagenseller, [1882].

Illustrated with a colorful lithographic title, and fifty-four full-color plates of birds and nests, in contemporary three-quarter morocco and textured fabric boards, spine sunned, text good, one tissue guard torn with loss, a quarter-size portion adhering to the plate, 11 1/2 x 9 in. $400-600

145 George IV, King of Great Britain (17621830); Alexander I, Emperor of Russia (1777-1825); and Frederick William III, King of Prussia (1770-1840) An Account of the Visit of His Royal Highness the Prince Regent, with their Imperial and Royal Majesties, the Emperor of all the Russias and the King of Prussia to the Corporation of London, in June 1814. London: Nichols & Son and Bentley, 1814.

Folio, with hand-colored frontispiece, and a double-page plate depicting the positions of the tables set up in Guildhall for the aforementioned event; [bound with] An Account of the Entertainment for July 9th [and July 14th], London: Nichols & Son and Bentley, [1815], bound in diced russia, both boards detached, lacking the spine, preliminaries loose or detached, housed in a modern cloth clamshell box.

This historic visit of the Coalition Allied leaders to London followed the defeat of France and Napoleon Bonaparte in April of 1814. State visits were made at this time, to celebrate the peace, before the leaders began the difficult work of the Congress of Vienna, which met from September 1814 until June 1815. $300-500

146 Gerard, John (1545-1611) The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes. London: Adam Islip, Joice Norton, and Richard Whitakers, 1636.

Folio, third edition, engraved title, 1630 pages; illustrated with hundreds of woodcut illustrations of plants throughout, seventeen woodcuts of plants with careful contemporary hand-coloring; edited, with many additions and amendments, by Thomas Johnson (c.

1600-1644), in contemporary boards, nicely rebacked, front joint slightly cracked, some minor defects to the text, spotting, occasional torn or folded corners, otherwise good, 13 1/4 x 9 in.

Gerard’s was the most popular practical guide to plants in the English-speaking world in this period. The exhaustive text includes detailed descriptions of ornamentals, fruit trees, vegetables, ferns, wild plants, and even new world species. All are depicted in excellent woodcut illustrations. Gerard’s conversational style enhanced by the textual refinements contributed by Johnson, make this an enduring work that is still informative and enjoyable to read today. $1,000-1,500

147 Gilliss, James Melville (1811-1865) U.S. Naval Astronomical Expedition to the Southern Hemisphere. Washington, D.C.: Nicholson, 1855.

Volumes one and two (of four), illustrated, including colored plates, maps, fold-outs of ethnographic and natural history subjects, stains to title page in volume one, bound in contemporary half-leather and marbled paper boards, not collated, 11 1/2 x 8 3/4 in. (2) $200-400 148 Gravesande, Willem Jacob ‘s (1688-1742) Physices Elementa Mathematica. Leiden: Petrum Vander Aa & Baldiunum Janssonium Vander Aa, 1720.

Two volumes bound as one, quarto, illustrated with numerous folding plates, some extensive blocks of contemporary ms. annotation; title page, preliminaries, and final leaves browned and detached, contents toned and spotted with occasional water stains, both boards detached, 9 1/2 x 7 3/4 in. [with] Two Newton partial sets: Principia, Geneva: Barrillot & Son, 1740, volumes two and three only, quarto, in uniform contemporary speckled calf, bindings somewhat worn, contents toned; [and] Isaaci Newtoni Equitis Aurati Opuscula, Lausanne & Geneva: Bousquet, 1744, volume three only, quarto, both boards detached, heavy water staining to contents, these volumes not collated. (4) $700-900 149 Gruner, Ludwig (1801-1882) and Anna Brownell Jameson (1794-1860) The Decorations of the Garden-Pavilion in the Grounds of Buckingham Palace. London: Murray, et al., 1846.

Folio, with added engraved title printed with wood engraving, and fifteen full-paged engraved illustrations, in publisher’s boards, disbound, all leaves loose, detached completely from binding, with chipping, toning, 17 3/4 x 13 1/4 in. $300-500 150 Guthrie, Matthew (d. 1807) and Maria A Tour Performed in The Years 1795-6, Through The Taurida, or Crimea. London: for Cadell & Davies, 1802.

Quarto, with two folding maps (one is the frontispiece), three full-paged plates, and several text illustrations, bound in full leather, rebacked, some foxing, 10 1/2 x 8 in. $300-500

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151 Hambidge, Jay (1867-1924) Four Volumes: Dynamic Symmetry, the Greek Vase, New Haven: Yale University Press, [1920], inscribed by the author on the title page to W.G. Chard, with a photograph of Hambidge taken by Chard tipped in, bound in publisher’s cloth, corners bumped, front board discolored; Bound volume containing twelve issues of The Diagonal, volume one, numbers one through eleven, November, 1919 to September 1920, bound with the original limp covers in threequarter morocco and buckram boards; The Parthenon, New Haven: Yale, 1924, in full publisher’s cloth; [and] an offprint from the Architectural Record, of Claude Bragdon’s Dissertation on Dynamic Symmetry, bound in full leather. (4) $300-400 152 Hawkesworth, John (1715?-1773) An Account of the Voyages Undertaken by the Order of his Present Majesty for making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, and Successively Performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, and Captain Cook, in the Dolphi, Swallow, and the Endeavour. London: for Strahan & Cadell, 1773.

First edition, three large quarto volumes, page 139 in volume one is numbered “139-360,” the next page number is 361; pagination is continuous in volumes two and three; the text illustrated with the following engravings: nineteen folding maps; twenty-three folding plates; and nine full-paged maps; all three volumes are severely water stained throughout, with mildew and other browning, rebound in modern coated leather, 10 3/4 x 8 1/2 in. (3) $2,000-3,000

153 Heller, Joseph (1923-1999) Catch-22, Inscribed First Edition. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1961.

Stated first printing, inscribed on ffep to Rhoda Southall, with her bookplate detached, inside the front board, in a very good jacket, bound in publisher’s blue cloth, some sunning to head of spine, 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 in. $1,500-2,500

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154 Higden, Ranulph (1280-1364) Polychronicon, Leaf. Westminster: William Caxton, 1482.

Small folio, initials, capital strokes, and marginal headings added by hand in red, printed in a single column in forty lines, some smudging, one wormhole, small stain, leaf ninety-seven, part of chapter 21, chapter 22 complete, and part of chapter 23, matted, in a doubleglazed frame, 9 1/4 x 7 in. visible through mat opening. [and] A leaf from Jacobus de Voragine’s Golden Legend, Westminster: Wynkyn de Worde, 1493, with two woodcut initials, loss to one corner, just touching the text, adhesions from binding along gutter edge, matted, 9 3/4 x 7 1/4 in. (2) $300-500

155 History, French Language, Three Volumes, 1611-1761.

Carion’s Chronique et Histoire Universelle, [Geneva]: Jean Vignon, 1611, with additions

by Melanchthon and Peucer, volume one only, octavo, contemporary parchment, contemporary ownership inscription, some staining to front endleaves; Abrege de l’Histoire d’Angleterre, d’Escosse, et d’Irlande, Paris: Lyson, 1659, 12mo, in contemporary speckled calfskin binding with gold-tooled spine; [and] Memoire Historique sur la Negociation de la France & de l’Angleterre, depuis le 26 Mars 1761 jusqu’au 20 Semptembre de la meme annee, avec les Pieces Justificatives, Paris: l’Imprimerie Royale, 1761, octavo, large margins, one spot from a candle drip, bound in later three-quarter leather. (3) $300-500 156 Iapi Oaye, the Word Carrier, edited by Stephen and Alfred Riggs. Greenwood, South Dakota: Published by the Dakota Mission, January-December, 1878.

Volume VII, numbers one through twelve, lacking the October issue, number ten; each issue is a folio-sized bifolium, with four printed pages, the covers feature a decorative wood engraved masthead and a large engraving depicting a story, religious vignette, or news item featured inside; the text on the front cover and inside the paper is in Dakota, in the Santee dialect, only the final page of the paper is in English; two old rust holes from a single staple (now removed) at the back edge of each issue, 16 1/2 to 17 x 11 1/2 in. (11) $500-700 157 Incunabula and Manuscript Leaves.

Two leaves from manuscripts, both framed, one on paper, in two columns from a 15th century text manuscript, in brown and red ink; the other from a Book of Hours, with two-line initials and some gold leaf; [and] Seven leaves from incunabula, various formats, two framed, one matted, most with initials and capital strokes added by hand. (9) $400-600

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158 Incunabula Leaves. Seven separate paper, folio-format, early printed book leaves removed from the following works: 1) Saint Augustine’s Epistolae, Strasbourg, before 1471; 2) Decretalium, Venice: Jenson, 1477; 3) La Mer des Histoires, Paris: Pierre le Rouge for Vincent Commin, 1488-89; 4) Rudimentum Novitiorum, Lubeck: Lucas Brandis, 1475; 5) Glossa Ordinaria, Strasbourg: Rusch for Koberger, c. 1480; 6) Nuremberg Chronicle in Latin, 1493; and 7) Nicolaus de Lyra’s Postilla super totam Bibliam, Strasbourg: Mentelin, not after 1472; four leaves with capital strokes provided in red, and the occasional simple rubricated manuscript initial; woodcuts of a comet and some kings and pontiffs on the Nuremberg Chronicle leaf; leaves are various sizes, all folio format, generally good. [and] three leaves from the Doves Press Bible, London, 1903-1905, printed on paper, in black with red initials. (10) $300-500

159 Incunabula Leaves. Twelve separate paper, folio-format early printed book leaves removed from the following works: 1) Capreolus’s Quaestiones in IV Libros Sententiarium Petri Lombardi, Venice: Octavianus Scotus, 148384; 2 & 3) two leaves from Panormitanus de Tudeschis’s Lectura Super V Libris Decretalium, Venice: Jenson, 1477-78; 4-6) three leaves from Alliaco’s Tractatus et Sermones, Strasbourg: Husner, 1490; 7) Utino’s Sermones de Sanctis, Cologne: Zel, 1473; 8 & 9) two leaves from Valerius Maximus’s Facta et Dicta Memorabilia, Venice: de Spira, 1471; 10 & 11) two leaves from La Mer des Histoires, Paris: Pierre le Rouge for Vincent Commin, 1488-89, one with a small woodcut; and 12) an unidentified leaf. (12) $400-600

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160 Jackson, William Henry (1843-1942) Thirty Photographs of the American West and Mexico, c. 1880.

Thirty mammoth format albumen photographs, each mounted on mat board, the subjects listed below, most with major foxing, fading, chipping, tears and damage to mats, and other damage, each approximately 21 x 16 3/4 in.

Jackson was born and raised on the East coast, and served in the Union Army as a private from Vermont during the Civil War. Returning home in the aftermath of the war, Jackson, originally trained as a painter, struggled to re-integrate into civilian life. He resolved to travel west, and took the Union Pacific railroad to the end of the line in 1866.

Omaha, Nebraska, was just a stop along the way, as his journey took him further along the Oregon Trail, heading west to the Great Salt Lake. Jackson brought his photography equipment as well, and his work quickly drew the attention of Ferdinand Hayden (18291887). He was invited to accompany the government geological surveys of 1870 and 1871. When Congress chose to designate

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Yellowstone National Park, Jackson’s photographs played an important and persuasive role. Jackson was also employed by several railroad lines taking photographs in the 1890s. He eventually moved back east to Washington, D.C., where he painted several murals of the Old West for the Department of the Interior building. He died at the age of 99.

1110 Shoshone Falls, Idaho Ter. 1111 Shoshone Falls, Idaho.

1112 Shoshone Falls. Looking down the Cañon.

1114 The High Bridge in the Loop Near Georgetown Col. 1115. The Loop Near Georgetown.

1118 Plaza Dearmas, Aguas Calientes, Mexico.

1120 Market in Aguas Calientes, Mexico.

1124 A Glimpse of Guanajuato, Mexico.

1126 Queretaro, Mexico.

1127 Old Aqueduct at Queretaro, Mexico.

1130 The Cathedral of Mexico.

1134 Altar of the Church of Guadeloupe, Mexico.

1135 Montezuma’s Tree, Chapultepec, Mexico.

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1136 Grove of Chapultepec, Mexico.

1139 Popocatepetl. From Amecameca, Mexico.

1141 Ixtacchihuatl. From Amecameca, Mexico.

1142 Popocatepetl. From Tlamacas, Mexico.

1144 The Pyramid of Cholula, Mexico.

1145 Orizaba, Mexico.

1148 The Old Carreta. Laguna, New Mexico.

1149 Pike’s Peak from Near Colorado City.

1152 Torrey’s and Gray’s Peaks.

1155 View up the Blue from Rocky Point.

1157 The Spanish Peaks.

1158 The Spanish Peaks.

1403 Yellowstone Lake.

[No title or mark] Mountain range in background, scrub pines in middle ground, lake in foreground. Man fishing on right bank.

[No title or mark] Bird’s-eye view of town with two women and a girl in foreground.

[No title or mark] Boy on burro in front of an allée of deciduous trees.

No. 2. A. Platte Cañon. $10,000-12,000

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161 Jackson, William Henry (1843-1942) Twenty Photographs of the American West and Mexico, c. 1880.

Twenty mammoth format albumen photographs, each mounted on mat board, the subjects listed below, most with major foxing, fading, chipping, tears and damage to mats, and other damage, each approximately 21 x 16 3/4 in.

1050 The Palisades. Alpine Pass.

1053 Curicante Needle Black Cañon of the Gunnison.

1054 Marshall Pass - San Luis Valley and Sangre de Cristo Mts. 1060 Castle Gate Price Cañon, Utah.

1061 Valley of the Gunnison near Sapinero.

1066 San Francisco Mts. Arizona.

1068 Grand Cañon of the Colorado.

1070 Diamond River Cañon.

1071 Chihuahua Mexico.

1072 The Cathedral. Chihuahua, New Mexico.

1075 Sultan Mountain Baker’s Park.

1078 Pike’s Peak.

1081 Curicante Needle. Black Cañon of the Gunnison.

1082 Black Cañon of the Gunnison.

1083 Marshall Pass - West Side.

1085 Provo Falls. Utah.

1091 Mammoth Hot Springs. Pulpit Terraces.

1093 Tower Falls.

1095 Yellowstone Cañon.

1102 Rapids of the Yellowstone, above the Falls. $6,000-9,000

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162 Jackson, William Henry (1843-1942) Twenty Photographs of the American West, c.

1880.

Twenty mammoth format albumen photographs, each mounted on mat board, the subjects listed below, most with major foxing, fading, chipping, tears and damage to mats, and other damage, each approximately 21 x 16 3/4 in.

1001 Mount of the Holy Cross.

1005 Manitou.

1007 Tower of Babel. Garden of the Gods.

1009 The Royal Gorge. Grand Cañon of the Arkansas.

1011 The Royal Gorge. Grand Cañon of the Arkansas.

1012 The Upper Twin Lake.

1013 Head of the Arkansas. Fremont Pass.

1016 Long’s Peak. Estes Park. (label present, but very faded).

1017 Veta Pass.

1021 Toltec Gorge and Tunnel.

1023 Los Pinos Valley, Looking East.

1028 Pueblo de Taos. New Mexico.

1030 Ute Pass. W.H. Jackson & Co. Denver.

1031 Gateway Garden of the Gods and Pike’s Peak.

1032 Williams Cañon.

1036 Green Lake.

1037 Cañon of the Rio Las Animas.

1039 Cañon of the Rio Las Animas.

1040 Elk Park. Animas Cañon.

1041 Silverton Baker’s Park and Sultan Mountain. $6,000-9,000

163 James, Henry (1843-1916) Five Titles, First and Early Editions, Some Signed Copies.

Daisy Miller: a Study; Four Meetings; Longstaff’s Marriage; Benvolio, London: Macmillan & Co., 1887, signed and dated by James on ffep, 17 May 1900, publisher’s blue cloth, one page of adverts at the end; Picture and Text, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1893; in publisher’s red cloth; The Ambassadors, New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1903, first American edition, in blue publisher’s paper binding and original publisher’s blue buckram dust wrapper, t.e.g.; Notes of a Son and Brother, New York: Scribner’s, 1914, first American edition, inscribed by James to Mrs. Van Rensselear, March 1914, in brown publisher’s cloth, t.e.g., binding sunned, slightly discolored; [and] Confidence, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, [1880], sixth edition, signed by James on ffep., in publisher’s pictorial gilt stamped binding, slight sunning to spine, endcaps slightly crinkled. (5) $400-600

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164 Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Photo Album, 1907-08.

Oblong folio format pre-made album, approximately forty pages, documenting the Far East journey of a British couple at the beginning of the 20th century, containing black-and-white photographs, some massproduced, but many personal shots, some hand-colored, all mounted, leather covering peeling away from both boards, exposing the stuffing-like padding, 10 1/2 x 14 in.

Few identifying facts emerge about the travellers in this album. The woman who put the album together only refers to herself as “self,” several times scratching out her own face or applying stamps over it. She looks to be in her early 20s and travels with an older man with a handlebar mustache identified as F.D. They shipped from Tilbury or Southampton, on the S.S. Himalaya, or SS. Mongolia, visiting a Mr. Jewett in Kamakura, Japan, and the home of a Mr. Spalinger in Canton. They also visit, Kobe, Yokohama, Nagasaki, Tokyo, Nikko, and Atami. There are several nice original photos of Hong Kong, including the harbor, and some taken in Singapore, including F.D. and “self” in rickshaws (“self” has stuck stamps over her own face). $600-800 165 Japanese Books, Six Volumes.

All are small-format, bound in traditional Japanese-style bindings, with limp paper covers; all six profusely illustrated; two are children’s books; the other four concern religious subjects, with images of gods and temple items, 8 3/4 x 5 3/4 in. (6) $300-500 166 Jasper, Theodore, illustrator (1814-1897) Studer’s Popular Ornithology. The Birds of North America. [and] Ornithology; or the Science of Birds. Columbus, Ohio: Studer, 1878.

Two large folio volumes, the first illustrated with 119 colored plates of birds, the second with forty-one monochrome lithographs, bound in full morocco, with large gilt-stamped tool of nesting humming birds on all four covers, within a blind stamped geometric border, a.e.g., carefully rebacked, leather dry on the boards, chipped with loss; volume one with water stains throughout, 14 1/4 x 11 1/2 in. (2) $500-700

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167 Jordan, David Starr (1851-1931) and Barton Warren Evermann (1853-1932) The Aquatic Resources of Hawaii. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1905.

Parts two and three only, in two volumes, both copiously illustrated throughout with lithographs in color and black-and-white, photos, and other natural history plates; wellpreserved in later bindings, 11 x 7 1/2 in. (2) $700-900

169 Joyce, James (1882-1941) Tales Told of Shem and Shaun, Three Fragments from Work in Progress. Paris: The Black Sun Press, 1929.

First edition, limited, one of fifty copies issued Hors Commerce, quarto, frontispiece after Brancusi, publisher’s printed paper wraps, covered in glassine; glassine chipped, with wear to spine and edges, spine discoloration, 6 3/4 x 8 1/4 in. $400-600

168 Joyant, Maurice (1864-1930) Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901) Peintre.

Paris: Floury, 1926.

Limited edition, number 14 of 175 copies printed on japon paper, with the extra states of the prints; quarto, illustrated with three original drypoint etchings, each present in two states; fifty-five plates, each present in two states (eight of which are in color), and 138 other illustrations, bound in three-quarter morocco, with the original wrappers bound in, very good, 10 1/4 x 7 1/2 in. $1,200-1,500

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170 Kafka, Franz (1883-1924) The Trial. New York: Knopf, 1937.

First American edition, translated by Willa and Edwin Muir, in publisher’s orange cloth with black and gray lettering and illustration, in the George Salter (1897-1967) designed jacket; the jacket very good, one corner rubbed, the spine slightly sunned, 7 3/4 x 4 3/4 in. $1,000-1,500

171 Kane, Elisha Kent (1820-1857) Arctic Explorations, the Second Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin.

Philadelphia: Childs & Peterson, 1856.

First edition, two octavo volumes, frontispieces and added engraved titles in each volume, numerous wood engraved text illustrations throughout, three maps (two folding, one full-page), and eighteen full-paged steel engravings (twenty-two engravings in total, including added engraved titles and frontispieces), text leaves clean, in contemporary half-leather bindings with marbled boards, endleaves, and edges, rubbed, 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 in. (2) $200-300

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172 Kellogg, John Harvey (1852-1943) The New Dietetics, What to Eat and How, Author’s Presentation Copy. Battle Creek, Michigan: Modern Medicine Publishing Co., 1921.

First edition, inscribed by Kellogg to a Dr. Stuckey on ffep, in red publisher’s cloth, with a break along the top of the spine, rubbed, inner joints separating, text block shifted down, 9 x 5 3/4 in. $200-300

173 Kepes, György (1906-2001) 12 Photographs. Introduction by Philip Hofer.

Boston: Vision Gallery of Photography, 1977.

Large folio format, twelve gelatin silver print photographs, each signed in full and dated in pencil by Kepes, each numbered on the verso and archivally mounted in mats; image size varies, all printed on 8 x 10 in. silver paper, and housed in publisher’s clamshell box; title printed in red and black, one leaf introduction, one leaf contents, limitation page, noting that this is portfolio number 17 of 20; very slight wear to exterior of clamshell, contents very good, 18 3/4 x 15 in.

The photographs date from Kepes’s Chicago years, 1938 to 1943, with one more from Cambridge, 1948 (and Kepes has dated them using the year of their conception).

They include some of his most iconic images, including Juliet’s Shadow Caged (1938), Eyes (c. 1941), Hieroglyphic Body (1942) and Fluid Patterns (1942). $8,000-12,000

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174 Kersey, John (1616-1690?) The Elements of that Mathentical Art Commonly Called Algebra, [bound with] The Third & Fourth Books of the Elements of Algebra. London: Godbid for Passinger and Hurlock, 1673, [and] London: by Godbid for Passinger, 1674.

First edition, folio, two titles bound together, portrait frontispiece in the first work; title page printed in red and black in both, ex libris mathematics professor and author John Bonnycastle (1750-1821) with his signature on the title page, and notes in the same hand correcting the errata; contemporary or slightly later boards in very poor shape, essentially disbound, the sewing structure perished, the text block holding together based on residual glue; contents generally good, with some unobtrusive water staining to the gutter. $500-700

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175 King, Stephen (b. 1947) Carrie, Inscribed.

New York: Doubleday & Co., 1974.

Stated first edition, inscribed by King to “Steve” on half title, 8 September 1979, in burgundy publisher’s cloth and an excellent dust jacket, 8 x 5 1/2 in. $800-1,200 176 Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936) Works.

London: Macmillan & Co., 1913.

Bombay Edition, signed by Kipling on half-title of volume one, one of 1050 copies, twentysix large octavo volumes, initials printed in blue, bound in uniform smooth blue calf, inner gilt dentelles, gilt spines, t.e.g., fore-edges untrimmed; lacking labels, hinges rubbed and tender throughout, one board detached; occupying 36 inches of shelf space. (26) $800-1,000

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177 Kircher, Athanasius (1602-1680) Musaeum Kircherianum, ed. Filippo B(u)onanni (16451723) Amsterdam: Jansson-Waesberg, 1709.

Folio, engraved portrait and 171 engraved plates, lacking plate eighty, 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. $2,000-3,000

178 Kircher, Athanasius (1602-1680) Toonneel van China. Amsterdam: Johannes Janssonius van Waesberge, 1668.

Folio, illustrated with extra engraved title, two folding maps, sixteen full-paged plates and sixty text illustrations, bound in later full leather, many pages torn, some with loss, most somewhat crudely repaired, 14 1/2 x 9 in. $1,500-2,000

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179 Klinger, Julius (1876-1942) La Femme dans la Decoration Moderne. Paris: Librairie de l’Art Ancien et Moderne, [c. 1902].

Portfolio-format, all leaves loose and housed in original publisher’s portfolio, with illustrated title on the front cover; contents with bifolium title page joined to contents leaf on lighter stock, and thirty plates printed in full color on card stock, the occasional leaf browned, corners slightly bumped, the cloth spine of the portfolio frayed, 13 x 16 in. $2,500-3,000

181 Law, Canon and Dutch, 18th Century.

Andre Delvaux’s [aka Andreas Vallensis] Paratitla Iuris Canonici, Cologne: Metternich, 1700, quarto, contemporary full calfskin binding, with blind rolled decoration on the boards, and gilt tooling on the spine, contents browned, with some worming; [and] Simon van Leeuwen’s (1625-1682) Het Rooms-Hollands-Regt, Amsterdam: Boom, 1744, eleventh edition, quarto, with engraved portrait, title printed in red and black, bound in full parchment. (2) $200-300

180 Lange, Dorothea (1895-1965) An American Exodus. New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, [1939].

First edition, illustrated with 112 black-andwhite photographs, bound in publisher’s blue cloth, lettered in gold, in the dust jacket, slight water damage to binding and jacket, jacket rubbed, with an abrasion at the bottom of the front panel, and other marginal surface abrasions, 10 1/4 x 7 1/2 in. $700-900

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182 Letts, John M. (fl. circa 1850) California Illustrated: including a Description of the Panama and Nicaragua Routes by a Returned Californian. New York: Holdredge, 1852.

First edition, octavo, illustrated with fortyeight lithographs with tinted backgrounds based on drawings by George V. Cooper (Letts’s traveling companion) and transferred to the lithography stones by J. Cameron, in red publisher’s cloth, blocked in ornate gilt stamped compartments, with the figure of the prospector on both boards, a.e.g., professionally rebacked, the original spine lost, 9 x 5 1/2 in.

“Cooper has left us a pungent, graphic record of the long trip to and from the gold fields, of the young cities he found mushrooming there, of booming San Francisco and Sacramento, of the lovely vestiges of the mission-founding padres in early California, and of the actual life of the Forty-niners, with its flavor of roughing it, humor, hope, and all the luring magic of the yellow streak.” (Peters, California on Stone, pp. 103-105.) $400-600

182A Lewis, Wyndham (1882-1957) Fifteen Drawings. London: The Ovid Press, [1919].

Folio, fifteen unbound plates (seven of which are in color) mounted on heavy gray wove mounts, each titled in French and English, and stamped with the emblem of the Ovid Press, designed by Edward Wadsworth, portfolio with mounted color illustration by Lewis on front cover, colophon statement on the interior of the front cover, written in ink in John Rodker’s hand: “250 Copies/This is No. 16”; portfolio slightly soiled, slightly chipped at extremities, 16 3/4 x 11 3/4 in.

This is the second of Lewis’s three portfolios, the last was published in 1932. Fifteen Drawings is the rarest, according to Rodker, no more than 50 copies having actually been issued. Copies vary in the selection of the plate used for the cover (“Nude I” in this case), and, as noted by Pound and Grover, plates in the portfolios are sometimes matched with the wrong mounts (here two different compositions are tipped onto mounts for “Nude III”). The subjects include a famous portrait of Ezra Pound, and two other heads, four nude studies, two drawings for Timon of Athens, Blue Nudes, Group, Pole-Jump, Post-Jazz, Reading Room, British Museum, and Seraglio. $3,000-4,000 183 Lipsius, Justus (1547-1606) De Militia Romana, [and] Analecta sive Observationes Relique ad Militiam et Hosce. Antwerp: Plantin, 1598.

Quarto, illustrated with four full-paged, three text engravings, and one folding plate in the first work, and four text engravings in the second, text woodcuts in both, in contemporary limp parchment, somewhat tattered at the fore-edges, ink stains to foreedge of text, nice calligraphic title to spine, text evenly toned, with some more intense occasional foxing, contemporary ex libris on ffep, 10 x 7 in. $400-600

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184 Loder, Justus Christian (1753-1832) Anatomische Tafeln zur Befoerderung der Kenntniss des Menschlichen Koerpers.

Weimar: Industrie-Comptoirs, 1794 [-1803].

Two folio volumes: one text only, the other illustrated with engravings numbered one to 176, the actual number of plates higher, because some showing the same subjects schematically re-use the same plate number, the numbering itself is continuous, some plates printed on smaller paper stock; some hand-colored, the blood vessels picked out in red; two of the large folding plates are torn with substantial loss (between plates number XCI and XCII), other edge wear, folding, intermittent stains, and other faults, some plates in good condition; four smaller-format plates (extra?) added in the osteology section on skulls; the two volumes bound in uniform half-leather, worn, rubbed, sewing on the plate volume questionable, text volume: 15 1/2 x 9 1/2 in.; plate volume: 17 x 10 1/2 in. (2) $600-800

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185 Lodge, Sir Edmund (1756-1839) Portraits of Illustrious Personages of the Court of Henry VIII. Engraved in Imitation of the Original Drawings of Hans Holbein. London: Bulmer, 1828.

Large quarto, illustrated with eighty-four hand-colored tinted stipple engraved portraits, approximately half printed on pink paper, contents quite clean, bound in three-quarter leather, dry and cracked, a.e.g., 13 3/4 x 10 in. $400-600 186 Lupicini, Antonio (c. 1530-c. 1598) Discorso sopra la Fabrica, e Uso delle Nuove Verghe Astronomiche. Florence: Marescotti, 1582.

Quarto, 53 pages, illustrated with woodcut printer’s device on title and colophon leaf, seven large woodcuts, and nine smaller text woodcuts, lacking final ?blank, in later cloth-covered boards, lacking the spine, faint dampstaining to the foot of the last few signatures, generally crisp, 8 3/4 x 6 in. $300-500

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187 MacFall, Chambers Haldane Cooke (18601920) History of Painting. Boston: D.D. Nickerson & Co., [c. 1915].

Eight large quarto volumes, the Milan edition, number sixty-three of one hundred, in full crushed morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gold-tooled on all boards and spines, with contrasting leather onlays, inner gilt doublures, and ivory-colored watered silk endleaves, very good, t.e.g., the text illustrated with numerous color plates; bindings generally very good, slightly dusty, minor scuff on the spine of one or two volumes, 11 1/2 x 8 1/4 in., occupying 14 1/2 inches of shelf space. (8) $1,500-2,000

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188 MacKenzie, Alexander (1764-1820) Voyages from Montreal, on the River St. Laurence, through the Continent of North America, to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans; in the Years 1789 and 1793. London: for Cadell & Davies, Cobbett & Morgan, and Creech, 1801.

First edition, large quarto volume and matching clamshell box housing three folding maps mounted on linen, with the frontispiece portrait and errata, book and box in uniform three-quarter mottled calfskin, gilt-tooled spines, surface rubbing; contents of the text toned and spotted throughout, with some marginal paper repairs and tears due to the quality of the paper; maps with some toning and offsetting, 10 1/2 x 7 3/4 in.

MacKenzie’s overland transit of the North American continent at the higher latitudes, viz., Canada, was successfully achieved ten years before Lewis and Clark’s voyage of discovery. $4,000-6,000

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189 Maclaurin, Colin (1698-1746) An Account of Sir Isaac Newton’s Philosophical Discoveries. London: for the Author’s Children by Millar, Nourse, et al., 1748.

First edition, large quarto, with six large folding diagrams (V misbound between II and III), contemporary boards, disbound, leather lacking substantially from both boards and spine head, contents good, in need of resewing; a few lines from Isaac Watts inside the back board, large paper copy [?] 11 1/2 x 9 in.

Maclaurin’s work is a popularization of Newton’s Principia. $800-1,000 190 Magnetinus, Leo, Metropolitan of Mitylene (d. 1340) ed., Giovanni Battista Rasario. Magentini in Aristotelis Librum de Interpretatione Explanatio. Venice: Hieronymum Scotum, 1545.

Quarto, woodcut printer’s device on title, smaller version on colophon leaf, lacking the final blank, in modern half leather, spotting to text leaves, 7 3/4 x 5 3/4 in. $300-500

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191 Mailer, Norman (1923-2007) The Naked and the Dead. New York: Rinehart and Company, Inc., [1948].

Octavo, first edition of Mailer’s first book, with the author’s clipped signature tipped onto the title page, evidence of old rubber cement to verso of signed slip and corresponding section of title page; publisher’s “R” inside a circle printed on the copyright page; with dust jacket, illustrated by Karov, chipped at top edge of front joint, with loss, crumpled a bit at the foot, with small loss at front fore-edge and at foot of spine; bound in full publisher’s black cloth, chips with loss of surface at head and tail, corners bumped, 8 1/4 x 5 3/4 in. $1,500-2,000

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192 Manuscript Account Books, American, Two: c. 1771-1807.

Account book of Nathaniel Dean (1747-1817) blacksmith of Raynham, Massachusetts; small folio format, homemade signatures kept folder-like in the covers of an old book, one section just folded together, the binding method for the second group stab-stitching with alum-tawed leather through a support made of striped linen fabric pasted to a few layers of board, front cover perished, the text documents the business accounts of Dean, with the occasional personal note; Dean shoes horses and oxen, he makes chains, pitchforks, plowshares, nails, locks, bayonets, and many other articles, in addition to other incidental cottage work: spinning yarn, and making clothes; although the book is not used in strict chronological order, dated entries exist during the span from 1771 to 1790; the smith kept careful accounts, listing the name of “dettor” at the top of each entry, and the year, below he has a column for each month, an itemized listing of the work and the cost, and when accounts are settled, Dean and the debtor sign the book, worn, with finger smudges, some tears, and tattered edges, quite legible and handleable, 81 leaves. [and] Account book of Simeon Webster (17661807) commercially produced tall narrow folio, account book, with genealogical notes and accounts concerning the buying and selling of goods and services including livestock, corn, rye, codfish, potatoes, cotton, and indigo, shoe-making, mowing, planting, raking, and haying, framing, hewing timber, making coffins, wagons, and many other things, based on the names in the book, Webster lived in or near Dartmouth, Massachusetts, 1792-1807, water stains, tattered edges, other damage. (2) $600-800 193 Manuscript Leaf, Baroque Choral Music, Ave Maria.

Single parchment leaf, written in black and red ink, with blue used in larger initials, with three lines of music written in a four-line staff at the top of the page; fourteen lines of text in red, in a smaller hand; and a third paragraph in a larger hand, consisting of seven lines of text, the top line in red, with a three-line initial in red and blue, enhanced with tracery, in a poster frame, 17 3/4 x 13 3/4 in. $200-300

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194 Manuscript Leaves and Documents.

Six parchment leaves inscribed by hand as follows, all in Latin: 1) a folio-format single leaf from the New Testament, second Luke, written in two columns with red and blue tracery initials, the text in black ink, in places the ink has eaten through the parchment, water stained, matted; 2) a bifolium from a folio-sized copy of the Corpus Juris Canonici, c. 13th century, Italy, in brown ink, double columns, with initials in red and blue, formerly used as binding material, still in acceptable condition; 3) and 4) two English legal documents c. 1700; 5) a large Papal prebendary document from 1539; and 6) a bifolium from a Latin Gradual or Missal, 18th century; various sizes. (6) $300-500

195 Manuscript Recipe Book, Bangor, Maine, c. 1838.

Quarto-format notebook with pastry and other recipes copied by W. Coombs of Bangor, Maine, beginning in January of 1838, and continued by others, with index; most recipes identified by their original author; notations suggest that the copyist’s mother was Charlotte Le Breton (d. 1863), originally of Newburyport, Massachusetts; Charlotte married John J. Coombs (d. 1856) of Bangor in 1835; 145 numbered pages, mostly filled, in contemporary half-leather and marbled boards, binding becoming detached, few preliminary leaves loose, 8 x 6 1/2 in. $200-300 196 Mao Tse-Tung (1893-1976) Large Woven Portrait. Hangzhou: The East is Red Silk Weaving Factory, c. 1969.

Blanket-sized cotton brocade image of Mao, in shades of black and white, with caption in red, old fold marks, 78 1/4 x 50 3/4 in. $800-1,000

197 Mao Tse-Tung (1893-1976) Mao Zhu Xi Yu Lu [Quotations of Chairman Mao]. Early Editions and Related Titles, 1964-1970.

Two copies of the first regular Chinese edition, Peking: General Political Department of the People’s Liberation Army, [1964]; half-title printed in red; title in red and green, Mao’s portrait printed in brown ink, edited

by Tian Xiao Guang, with the uncorrected endorsement leaf intact, and the error at page 82/83 corrected, one in publisher’s printed paper wrappers, the other in the embossed red vinyl covers; one copy of the third edition, same title, printed in August, 1965, with the errata slip, bound in red vinyl; another copy of the same title, undated, in red vinyl; The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution Glossary Handbook, Peking: Foreign Language Department of Beijing Normal University, February, 1968, text in Chinese and English, images of and references to Lin Bao (1907-1971) have been defaced, lacking one page (13/14), supplied in facsimile, in original red vinyl, some tears, annotations, soiling, other signs of use; A compendium of inspirational quotes, key phrases, and other communist propaganda in Chinese, Russian, and English, in the original printed paper covers, China, 1970; some rodent damage to the top fore-edge corner of the text block; [and] Quotations from President Liu ShaoCh’i, Melbourne: Flesch, [1968], stated first edition, printed in Japan, in the original yellow vinyl cover, with red paper band, ribbon book mark; orange offsetting to front cover, else good. (7) $10,000-15,000

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198 Marana, Giovanni Paolo (1642-1693) Letters Writ by a Turkish Spy. London: for Wilde et al., 1770.

Eight octavo volumes, frontispiece in volume one, bound in uniform full contemporary tan calf, spines tooled in gilt, with red and green spine labels, a nice set, 6 1/2 x 3 3/4 in. (8) $200-300

199 Marquez, Gabriel Garcia (b. 1927) One Hundred Years of Solitude. New York: Harper, 1970.

Stated first edition, in a very good first state jacket (with the first paragraph on the inside flap punctuated with an explanation point), in green publisher’s cloth, the spine lettered in gilt, jacket spine slightly sunned, 8 1/4 x 5 1/2 in. $300-500

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200 Massachusetts, General Court. Resolves of the General Assembly of the State of Massachusetts-Bay. Watertown/Boston: various printers, including Benjamin Edes, John Gill, and Thomas & John Fleet, 17761778.

Five separate publications of Resolves printed during the critical Revolutionary War period, all stab-sewn or disbound, edges untrimmed, with some faults, comprising the following ESTC entries: W33204; W33209, W32210 [bound together]; W33213 [incomplete, lacking signatures L-P]; W33214 [without the Index]; and W33215 [with I2, the conjugate to I1, intact and present, see ESTC W33216, note].

As the state of Massachusetts grappled with the British, it handed down many rulings relevant to the rebellious cause, including approbation for new militia groups, sustainment for others, budgets for clothing the new army, authorization for the deployment Massachusetts units in neighboring states, and refinements of the military draft. $800-1,000

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201 Massachusetts, General Court. Resolves of the General Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Boston: Adams & Nourse, 1783-1789.

Folio, thirteen separate parts, not collated or contiguous; issues either removed from bound volumes, or stab-sewn in original wrappers, condition varies: some are in very good condition, others with wear or damage commensurate with use, stab-sewn examples are untrimmed throughout. $400-600 202 Massachusetts, General Court. Resolves of the General Court. Boston: [various printers] Thomas Adams, Young & Minns, 1790-1804.

Folio, twenty separate parts, not collated or contiguous; issues either removed from bound volumes, or stab-sewn in original wrappers, condition varies: some are in very good condition, others with wear or damage commensurate with use, stab-sewn examples are untrimmed throughout. $300-500

203 Mathematics, English, Six Volumes, 17051800.

William Beveridge’s (1637-1708) Institutionum Chronologicarum Libri II, London: Roycroft, 1705, second edition, quarto, contemporary boards, joints cracked, boards almost detached, contents good; Edward Wells’s (1667-1727) The Young Gentleman’s Astronomy, Chronology, and Dialling, London: Knapton, 1712, first edition, octavo, also issued as part of a larger work, illustrated, contemporary boards, some water staining; Colin Maclaurin’s (1698-1746) An Account of Sir Isaac Newton’s Philosophical Discoveries, London: for Millar, 1750, second edition, octavo, illustrated, contemporary half-leather, rebacked, contents good; Thomas Simpson’s (1710-1761) Select Exercises for Young Proficients in the Mathematicks, London: Nourse, 1752, first edition, octavo, later half-leather, numerous mathematical diagrams and charts, leaves evenly toned; Willem Jacob ’s Gravesande’s (1688-1742) The Elements of Universal Mathematics, or Algebra, to which is added a Specimen of a Commentary on Sir Isaac Newton’s Universal Arithmetic, London: for Paterson, 1752, second edition, octavo, rare, illustrated with folding diagrams, some water staining, in contemporary half-leather, no spine, boards still attached; Francis Maseres’s (1731-1824) Tracts on the Resolution of Affected Algebräick Equations, London: by Davis, sold by White, 1800, octavo, author’s presentation copy for members of the Mathematical Society, with inscription and stamp of the Society on verso of half-title, dated 1821, disbound; these volumes not collated. (6) $300-500

204 Matisse, Henri (1869-1954) Portraits. Monte Carlo: Andre Sauret, 1954.

First edition, limited, numbered ninety on the limitation page, quarto, lithographic frontispiece, illustrated with sixty blackand-white portraits and thirty-three tipped in colored reproductions of paintings; in publisher’s soft covers and glassine wrappers, chemise, and slipcase, all very good; slipcase slightly bumped, the top edge coming away, loss of surface paper to one corner, original price written in ballpoint pen on slipcase, 12 3/4 x 10 in. $1,000-1,500 205 Maugham, W. Somerset (1874-1965) Cakes and Ale. London: Heinemann, [1954].

Octavo, limited edition number 135 of 1,000, signed by Maugham and illustrator Graham Sutherland (1903-1980) on the limitation page, in publisher’s light colored leather spine and navy leather boards, t.e.g., other edges untrimmed, illustrated; binding rubbed, protected in a Mylar dust jacket, some offsetting to endleaves, period London bookseller’s ticket pasted inside back board, 9 1/4 x 6 in. $150-250 206 Maximilien de Béthune, first Duke of Sully (1560-1641) The Memoirs of the Duke of Sully. London: for Miller by Bulmer, 1810.

Five octavo volumes in full calf skin, gilt-tooled spines and boards, some damage, foxing, 9 1/4 x 5 1/2 in. (5) $200-300

207 Medical Books, English, Three Volumes, 1672-1698.

Lazare Riviere (1589-1655) The Practice of Physick [London, 1672?], folio, lacking the title page and all preliminaries before the table, date inferred from the list of “Books lately Imprinted” on the last leaf of the contents page, not collated, incomplete, boards tattered with loss, text water stained. [with] Sir Thomas Browne’s (1605-1682) Religio Medici, London: for Scot, Basset, Wright, and Chiswell, 1682, octavo, eighth edition, with the frontispiece, contemporary boards, a.e.g., a large copy, poorly rebacked, not collated. [and] William Salmon’s (1644-1713) Ars Chirurgica, London: Dawks, 1698, octavo, 1,352 pages, second edition, title page and preliminary leaves torn with loss, folding plate half missing, eleven of twelve fullpaged illustrations present, the first few with losses in the lower outside corner; bound in contemporary boards, with loosening and loss to the leather covering, ex-library, with stamp to title, not collated. (3) $300-500 208 Medical Books, Surgical Anatomy, Three Volumes, 1727-1802.

James Drake’s (1667-1707) Anthropologia Nova, or a New System of Anatomy, London: for W. and J. Innys, 1727, octavo, volume two only of two, bound with The Appendix to Dr. Drake’s Anthropologia Nova, London: Innys, 1726; both works illustrated throughout, in contemporary boards and near-contemporary leather dust jacket, ex libris South Scituate physician Amory Gale (1800-1873) with his stamp and signature. [with] George Smith’s (distiller) Institutiones Chirurgicae, or Principles of Surgery, London: Lintot, 1732, octavo, ex libris Dr. Caleb Rea Jr., (1758-1796) physician of Topsfield, Massachusetts, and Windham, Maine, with his signature on the title page; in contemporary boards, contents rather clean with occasional spotting, title page and endleaves toned. [and] Giovanni Veslingio’s Tavole Anatomiche, Padua, 1802, quarto, illustrated with twentyfour full-paged plates, bound in limp paper, worming, orangish stain to inner lower margins. (3) $300-500

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209 Medieval Latin Text Manuscript, Peregrinus de Opole (1260-after 1333) Sermones Peregrinus de Sanctis. Germany or Eastern Europe, 1376.

Quarto-format manuscript on paper in gatherings of twelve, 175 leaves, text written in a single column throughout, in brown ink, twenty-nine lines per page (in the first and largest section), headings and capitals in red throughout, three distinct sections exist in the manuscript, the first contains ten gatherings of twelve leaves, and ends with a note dated 1376 by the scribe, Syfridus Coppel; the second section consists of four gatherings of twelve leaves, the hand, ink, and line count change; the third section consists of one twelve-leaf gathering and a three-leaf section followed by blank leaves; bound in full contemporary alum-tawed sheepskin over wooden boards; sewn on three double alumtawed sewing supports, boards the same size as text leaves, original end bands still intact, parchment label on front board, darkened and unreadable; two holes and corresponding rust mark on back board, top center: the former location of a bracket attached to a chain, the back board cleaner and with less oxidation; pastedowns and endleaf guards from an earlier parchment manuscript, the lettering scrubbed away; small remnant of the dark green fabric [?] thong from the original clasp and brass plate still present on the back board, one nail hole from the original catch on the front board visible, lacking the catch; covering material split along both joints, loose along the spine; the lack of evidence of any secondary sewing holes, and the style of this binding suggest that this is the original fourteenth century binding; first leaf of text detached, and blanks removed from the end after the text, no later repairs to binding or text; the boards darkened and rubbed; text leaves with signs of wear and reading, one torn without loss of text, ruled in plummet, the first line of text sitting atop the first rule, bull’s head watermarks throughout, 8 1/4 x 5 1/2 in.

Peregrinus of Opole (or Oppeln) was a Polish Dominican. These popular sermons were available in manuscript copies throughout his lifetime, and persisted into the age of printing. This dated manuscript likely contains interesting variants on Peregrinus’s text and perhaps other unidentified texts; the binding is a remarkable survival. $15,000-17,000

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210 Medieval Manuscript Leaves.

Ten leaves removed from western manuscripts in Latin: six on parchment from Bibles, prayer books, and other liturgical books, 12th-15th century, in varying hands, all with alternating red and blue initials, three of the six are large format, the other three are small.

One partial leaf from a French Lectionary, from the early 12th century, with readings from Timothy and Matthew. [and] Two manuscript leaves on paper, one from the Sermones of Simon de Cremona (c.

1434), the other from a Latin manuscript on canon law produced in Britain (c. 1510). (10) $300-500

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211 Medieval Parchment Document, Ravenna Italy, 1081.

Single sheet, inscribed on one side, in brown ink in an Italian curial hand, mentioning Pope Gregory VII, Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV, and a monastery in Ravenna, Italy, with places for two signatures, unsigned; largely legible, some ink fading, evenly toned, slightly wrinkled, 6 1/2 x 17 in. $200-250 212 Memoires de L’Academie Royale des Sciences, Tome Premier. Memoires Pour Servir a L’Histoire Naturelle des Animaux et des Plantes. Amsterdam: Mortier, 1736.

Quarto, illustrated with engraved title and headpiece, and numerous folding engravings of birds and mammals before and after dissection, with at least two plates for each animal, one depicting it in the wild, and the other some of its dissected body parts, including many exotic animals: lion, chameleon, bear, leopard, shark, gazelle, lynx, beaver, otter, civet, elan, coatimundi, seal, wildebeest, cormorant, chamois goat, porcupine, hedgehog, monkeys, elk, guinea hen, eagle, bustard, ostrich, cassowary, the great tortoise, and others; in contemporary French sheepskin, speckled, losses to spine, boards dry, joints cracked, 9 3/4 x 7 3/4 in. $500-700

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213 Merian, Andreas Adolph, Baron von (17721828) and Julius Klaproth (1783–1835) Tripartitum. Vienna: Typis Haykulianis, C. Beck, 1820-1822.

Two landscape-format folio volumes, with folding linguistic tables, the text itself consisting of charts of comparative philology; bound in uniform full calf, with marbled edges and endleaves, all boards detached, spines loose and becoming detached, ex libris Bibliothecea Lindesiana, with bookplates inside both volumes, 14 x 9 1/2 in.

Merian made important contributions to the study of comparative linguistics, seeking to trace all world languages back to a common source. He even attempted to factor difficult cases like Basque and Native American languages into his work, languages that still pose a challenge to comparative philology today. (2) $300-500

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214 Merian, Maria Sybilla (1647-1717) Histoire Generale des Insectes de Surinam et Toute L’Europe. Paris: Desnos, 1771.

Large folio, two parts in one volume, handcolored added engraved title, part one with seventy-two full-paged plates, five of which are folding, all hand-colored; part two illustrated with 184 hand-colored copperplates printed on forty-seven leaves; very good condition throughout, in full speckled calfskin, rebacked, with gilt-tooled spines and boards, rebacked; some pages very neatly mended; all plates with bright hand-coloring; ownership stamp, “Que Croire� on both titles, 19 1/2 x 12 1/4 in.

Maria Sybilla Merian was a trained artist who travelled to South America to draw and paint the plants, reptiles, and especially the insects she found there. Her curiosity in the world of entomology was stimulated when she was still young. She was fascinated by the activities of the silkworms she saw in her native Germany. Her observational, scientific, and artistic abilities allowed her to gather and disseminate new knowledge about the habits and life cycles of many new world insects. Her images are stunning on compositional and technical grounds, and also valuable for their contributions to science. $45,000-65,000

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215 Millay, Edna St. Vincent (1892-1950) Seven Volumes Inscribed to Deems Taylor (18851966).

Second April, New York: Kennerley, 1921, third edition, in black publisher’s cloth, worn; The King’s Henchman, New York: Harper, 1927, limited edition, signed by Millay on limitation page and inscribed to Taylor on the occasion of his “birthday,” [February 17, 1927 was the night of the premier of this work: Taylor’s first opera for the Metropolitan Opera, with Millay’s libretto] on ffep, in decorated paper boards and tattered slipcase; Wine from These Grapes, New York: Harper, 1934, first edition, publisher’s three-quarter cloth and green paper boards; Flowers of Evil New York: Harper, 1936, translation by Millay, first edition, publisher’s black cloth, marbled endleaves; Conversation at Midnight, New York: Harper, 1937, first edition, three-quarter black publisher’s cloth; Huntsman, What Quarry?, New York: Harper, 1939, first edition, limited, copy number 476 signed by Millay on limitation page only, the only book in this group not inscribed to Taylor, in publisher’s cloth and slipcase; [and] Make Bright the Arrows, New York: Harper, 1940, first edition, in limp publisher’s navy blue leather, the inscription to Taylor defaced. (7) $300-500 216 Missal Leaves, Printed Music, 18th Century.

Approximately sixty-five disbound folio-format leaves from a printed Missal, likely Venice, c.

1717, printed in red and black throughout, laid paper, generally clean, with printed music and woodcut initials, 12 3/4 x 9 1/4 in. $300-500 222

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217 Moore, Clement C. (1779-1863) Poems.

New York: Bartlett & Welford, 1844.

First edition, with the half-title, contents toned, bound in slightly later three-quarter blue morocco and marbled paper boards, t.e.g., spine a little sun-faded, binding secure, 7 1/4 x 4 1/2 in.

This collection of poems contains the first appearance in print of “A Visit from St. Nicolas,” (see page 124), the famous Christmas verse that begins: “Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse...” $2,000-3,000

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218 Morgan, John Hill (1870-1945) and Mantle Fielding (1865-1941) Life Portraits of George Washington and their Replicas.

Philadelphia: [Lancaster Press], 1931.

Presentation copy, with inscription on ffep, “Presented to Norman M. Isham by John Hill Morgan and Mantle Fielding,” large quarto, with the original dust jacket, illustrated throughout, dust jacket with slight sunning, and a few closed tears, 12 1/4 x 9 in. [together with] five additional images of portraits of Washington, loose, in a separate folder, signed, “Compliments of Mantle Fielding,” the folder tattered, chipped with loss, some water spots, 18 1/2 x 14 1/2 in. (2) Isham was an architectural historian who taught at RISD and Brown. $400-600

221 Nabokov, Vladimir (1899-1977) Eleven Titles.

A Russian-language edition of Nabokov’s poems, printed in Paris, 1952; Conclusive Evidence, first edition, Harper, 1951; Invitation to a Beheading, Putnam, 1959; Laughter in the Dark New Directions, 1960; The Gift, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1963; King, Queen, Knave, McGraw-Hill, first edition, 1968; A Russian Beauty, McGraw-Hill, 1973; Look at the Harlequins! McGraw-Hill, 1974; Tyrants Destroyed, McGraw-Hill, 1975; The Enchanter, Putnam, 1986; and Vladimir Nabokov, by Dan Morton, 1974, ex library; mostly first editions, as noted, New York imprints unless otherwise noted, all with dust jackets, varying sizes and condition. (11) $400-600

219 Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791) Die Zauberflote, Libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder (1751-1812). [No Place: No Printer], 1794.

Octavo, 96 pages, in stiff paper wrappers, covered in paper marbleized to resemble burled wood, the paper somewhat tender, with repairs on verso of title and a few text leaves, the text block separated in the center, one text leaf loose, toning and spotting to the text, 6 1/4 x 3 3/4 in.

The Magic Flute premiered at Schikaneder’s theatre in Vienna in 1791. $1,000-1,200

222 Nabokov, Vladimir (1899-1977) Pale Fire, Signed Copy. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, [1962].

Octavo, with the dust jacket, Nabokov’s signature written with a fountain pen, in blue ink, on the title page, bound in publisher’s black cloth, stamped in silver foil on the spine, the dust jacket with a short closed tear in the top left corner of the front panel, and bottom corner of back, the jacket reinforced on the verso with tape; slightly sunned, a bit dusty, but otherwise good, 7 3/4 x 5 in. $1,500-2,000

220 Music, Early, Seven Books.

Playford’s A Brief Introduction to the Skill of Musick, London: for Playford, 1662, title page is present, lacking frontis portrait, and all preliminaries between the title and C1 (the balance of signature A and all of B), C-K8, illustrated with engravings of music and musical instruments; The Compleat Tutor for the Harpsichord or Spinnet, London: John Simpson, [no date, c.

1750], engraved throughout, title, folding plate of the keyboard, and 36 numbered pages, not in ESTC, Worldcat states that this work was originally published as part of Peter Prelleur’s Modern Musick Master, no copies with this imprint in Worldcat; The Music in the Opera of Cinderella, by Rossini, New York: Hewitt, [no date], books one through four; [and] four others, music-related, 19th century.

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223 Nabokov, Vladimir (1899-1977) Twelve Titles.

Pnin, Doubleday, 1957; Poems, Doubleday, 1959; Lolita, fourth edition, Paris: Olympia, 1959; Pale Fire, first impression, Putnam, 1962; The Defense, Putnam, 1964; The Eye, Phaedra, 1965; Nabokov’s Quartet, Phaedra, 1966; Despair, Putnam, 1966; The Waltz Invention, Phaedra, 1966; Nabokov’s Congeries, Viking, 1968; Ada, first edition, McGraw-Hill, 1969; Transparent Things, McGraw-Hill 1972; all New York imprints, most first editions, all in dust jackets, except for Lolita, which was published in Paris, in two volumes, limp paper, housed in publisher’s slipcase, with the printed admonition that it not be sold in the U.S., the U.K., or the Philippines. (12) $400-600

Provenance: Estate of Charles Paine Fisher. $300-500

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224 Nabokov, Vladimir (1899-1977) Speak, Memory, Signed Copy. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1966.

Octavo, revised edition, in publisher’s black cloth, with the dust jacket, Nabokov’s signature on the title page, in blue ink, fountain pen; jacket slightly creased, with minor wrinkling on the back panel, the front panel bright, 8 1/4 x 5 1/2 in. $1,500-2,000

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225 Newton, Isaac (1642-1727) Opuscula Mathematica, Philosophica, et Philologica.

Lausanne & Geneva, 1744.

Three quarto volumes, edited by Jean Castillon [aka Giovanni Salvemini] (1704-1791) illustrated with sixty-four folding engravings and six folding plates (not all folding plates extraneous to collation), bound in uniform contemporary continental sponged calfskin bindings, some water damage, significant rodent chewing damage to leather on the spine of volume two, and the front joint of volume one, other losses and wear, contents generally good, title page of volume one trimmed close, cutting into the publication date, otherwise, contents toned, with some dampstains, generally good, 9 x 7 1/4 in. (3) $800-1,000

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226 Nicholson, William (1872-1949) An Almanac of Twelve Sports. New York: Russell, 1898.

Text by Rudyard Kipling, two leaves after title containing a complete calendar for 1898, followed by twelve full-paged illustrations by Nicholson, one for each month, with Kipling’s text facing, in original printed boards, cloth spine, contents toned, some offsetting, generally good, 12 1/4 x 9 3/4 in. $300-500

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227 Nieuhof, Johan (1618-1672) Gedenkweerdige Brasiliaense Zee- en Lant Reize. Amsterdam: Jacob van Meurs, 1682.

Folio, full-paged engraved title, coat of arms, and portrait, typographical title printed in red and black; illustrated with thirty-two text engravings; eighteen full-paged; twenty-seven double-paged engravings; and four doublepaged maps; missing one text engraving on page 83/84 of the second work, the image cut from the page and lacking; bound in contemporary stiff-backed Dutch vellum, tooled in blind, with water damaged spine and both boards, including a large reddishpink stain; sun damage to both boards, sewing structure failed, some leaves loose or detached, contents generally good, despite water damage to the binding, some minor water discoloration at the foot and gutter, a good candidate for restoration, 12 3/4 x 8 in. $2,000-4,000

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228 Noe, Louis Pantaleon Jude Amedee de, Count (1777-1858) Memoires Relatifs a l’Expedition Anglaise Partie du Bengale en 1800 pour Aller Combattre en Egypte l’Armee d’Orient. Paris: L’Imprimerie Royale, 1826.

First edition, octavo, half-title, illustrated with two folding maps, hand-colored; and nineteen charming hand-colored full-paged lithographs, errata slip and list of plates present at end, contemporary tan calf, rebacked, spotting and foxing to contents, a little offsetting, larger map with short tear, 8 1/2 x 5 in. $400-600

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229 Osborn, Reverend Henry S. (1814-1895) Palestine, Past and Present. Philadelphia: Challen & Son, 1859.

Octavo, illustrated with the portrait frontispiece, the full-paged steel engraving of Tyre, four of the five “chromographic engravings” called for on the contents page (lacking the flowers of Palestine), and the large folding map, bound in purple blind-stamped publisher’s cloth, the spine quite sunned, chipped at the head with loss, the map torn, with wear along the folds resulting in some separation, some areas of browning, 9 1/2 x 6 in. $200-300

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230 Ovidius Naso, Publius Metamorphoseos.

Vicenza: Hermannus Liechtenstein, 12 August 1480.

Folio, [ ]6, A10, B-U8, 168 leaves, including the first and last blanks, volume two only of a two-part edition of Ovid’s Works printed by Liechtenstein; the first part was printed in May 1480; this part contains the complete text of the Metamorphoses; edited by Barnabas Celsanus; printed in Roman letter, single column throughout, initial spaces left empty, contemporary crest drawn in ink on first leaf and last, library stamp of Gustavo Galletti on title, bound in full 18th century calfskin, worming to exterior of spine, tail cap slightly darkened and dry, occasional foxing to the text, large margins, 11 1/2 x 7 3/4 in.

HC 12141; Pr 7157; BMC 7:1037 (IB.31816); Polain 2953(2); IGI 7047; Goff 0-131; Sack 2634. $2,000-3,000

231 Panvinio, Onofrio (1529-1568) Reipublicae Romanae Commentariorum Libri Tres.

Paris: Egidium & Nicolaum Gillios, 1588.

Octavo, this edition also contains Frontinus’s works, De Coloniis, and Origo Gentis Romanae, the two works with separate title pages, bound in contemporary stiff parchment, lacking ties, somewhat rumpled, contemporary ink names on the title, blue library stamp used on verso of the first title and elsewhere, “Ex Bibl. ad aed. Mar. Magoal,” 7 x 4 1/2 in.

Panvinio was a historian obsessed with the ancient history of Rome; he also served as an Augustan Hermit and was librarian to Cardinal Alessandro Farnese. $200-300 232 Paterson, William (1745-1806) Signed Copy, Salkeld’s Reports of Cases Adjudged in the Court of King’s Bench. London: Lintot, 1742.

Folio, with Paterson’s signature on the title page, volume one only; bound in full contemporary tan calf, tooled in blind, with a red spine label, endcaps chipped, boards rubbed and scratched, contents good, 12 1/2 x 7 3/4 in.

Paterson served as Associate Justice on the Supreme Court, and Governor of New Jersey; he was a signer of the U.S. Constitution. $600-800 233 Paul of Aegina (625?-690?) [De Re Medica] Libri Septem. Basel: [Balthasar Lasius], 1538.

Narrow quarto, 637 pages, text in Latin translation throughout, translated and edited by Alban Thorer (1489-1550), with woodcut printer’s device on title and final leaf, ornamental initials and head-pieces, single column italic type throughout; contemporary ownership inscription on title and accompanying marginal notes through most of the text; bound in a dated (1545) German alum-tawed pigskin binding, decorated with single and rolled tools over paper boards; back cover and final signature affected by dark mold discolorations, binding rubbed, a little dirty, a few very minor worm punctures to boards; edges originally stained greenish blue, now mostly faded, one endcap with slight tear at the joint, endbands and caps otherwise intact, 9 x 5 1/2 in.

Little is known about the life of this Byzantine Greek physician. His work, originally published in Greek in 1528, is valuable for its contributions to surgery and influence on the medical field in the Islamic world during the Middle Ages. $400-600

234 Paulinus de Nola, Saint (354-431) Opera.

Antwerp: Plantin & Moretus, 1622.

First collected works edited by the Jesuit hagiographer Heribert Rosweyde (15691629), octavo, 896 pages, in full parchment with yapp edges, contemporary notes, some toning, generally good, 7 x 4 1/4 in. [and] Gaetano Allesandri’s (d. 1730) Confessarius Monialium Commoda, Brevi, & Practica Methodo Instructus, Venice: Balleoniana, 1764, clean, in contemporary parchment, 6 x 3 1/4 in. (2) $300-400

236 Perez de Moya, Juan (1513-1597) Libro Primero que trata de Geometria Practica. [bound with] Libro Segundo. Salamanca: Juan de Canova, 1568 [1567].

Octavo, these two parts were published as part of Perez de Moya’s larger work, published

by Canova in Salamance in 1568, Fragmentos Mathematicos; the text is incomplete: lacking at least seventeen text leaves, badly water damaged, with a failing binding, trimmed closely throughout, trimming away the edges of some catchwords, 5 1/4 x 3 1/2 in. $300-500

235 Pennant, Thomas (1726-1798) The View of Hindoostan. London: by Henry Hughs, 1798.

First edition, two quarto volumes, illustrated with nine plates in volume one (including the engraved frontispiece, first engraved vignette, and folding map mounted on linen); and fourteen plates in volume two (engraved frontis, first vignette, and one hand-colored plate); bound in three-quarter leather and marbled paper, edges stained yellow, contents somewhat toned, 11 1/4 x 8 3/4 in. (2) $600-800

237 Persian Calligraphy within Marbled Frame.

Single page of enhanced calligraphy, written in Nas’taliq script, two intertwining scripts in cobalt blue and a golden tan, both enhanced with minute floriated decoration within the strokes themselves, with diacritics in green diamond shapes, also enhanced with designs in very fine white penwork, with an additional inscription in white below, much smaller, outlined in black, a small cobalt lozenge in the upper right corner, and an older stamp in the lower left, the leaf mounted within a fancy paper frame, with a compartment of blue paper with gold flecks, and another of marbled paper, all pasted to a sheet of thin board, with a page in Persian pasted on the verso, the sheet toned, 10 1/2 x 6 3/4 in. $600-800

235A Pereira, Irene Rice (1902-1971) The Lapis, Presentation Copy. New York: Pereira, 1957.

Large folio, limited edition, one of fifty-three numbered copies signed by the author with five original watercolors inserted into a pocket inside the front board, with an additional signed inscription on the limitation page, sixteen color illustrations in the text, title page printed on uncut handmade wove paper, in publisher’s boards, stamped in gold, lightly rubbed, 20 3/4 x 14 in.

“The Lapis is an interpretation of a dream of a Lapis Lazuli stone monument with a figure incised in the stone. I was surprised myself by it. I never knew what a philosopher’s stone looked like, The diagrams, pictures and text show the contradictions between the experience of an inner image and the optical illusions of visual representation. The diagrams and text are concerned with art, objects, and gravitational centers of mind-energy in connection with world-views. Geometric systems of thought have avoided the infinite; whereas, visual and intuitive perception involves the infinite.” $2,500-3,500

238 Persian Calligraphy, 20th Century.

Single leaf with a solid blue field, the calligraphy in white ink, in maraya or muthanna (mirror-image) style, bilaterally symmetrical, within a gold border with flowers, sprinkled all over with gold, pasted on light card, with a sheet of newspaper on the verso of the card, light chipping to white portions, with some loss of surface, 14 1/2 x 6 1/4 in. $200-300 239 Persian Calligraphy, Nas’taliq.

Single paper leaf, calligraphy in black ink, with border and in-fills added in gold, the gold border with an interlocking design in black, the sheet mounted to a thin sheet of card, 8 1/4 x 5 1/2 in. $200-300

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240 Persian Lacquered Book Covers.

Two boards decorated on the exterior surfaces with glitter, and sunken lozenges with floral designs, the interior surfaces decorated with fine lacquer paintings: the first depicts an elaborately dressed bearded water carrier, the other a crowned young man holding a white peacock, the paintings within black borders decorated with flowers, the lacquer a mellow amber tone, the boards each with a strip of leather attached along the gutter edge, 10 1/2 x 7 in. (2) $1,000-1,500 241 Persian Manuscript Leaf, Calligraphy.

Single paper leaf, in a clear naskh script, in black ink, within an illuminated border, composed of interlocking vines and flowers, with bright orange and medium blue highlights, intertextual lines echoing the letter forms, and filled in with gold; the leaf mounted on card, within a paper frame edged in gold, the leaf toned, 5 1/2 x 7 in. $600-800

242 Peruvian Imprints, Three Sammelband Volumes, 1816-1867.

All octavo format, the first volume contains six titles related to Peruvian independence and Jose de San Martin (1778-1850), printed in Lima between 1816 and 1823; the second volume consists of four titles related to religious matters in South America, printed in 1817, 1831, and 1867, two of the four printed in Lima; the third volume is a collection of fifteen funeral elegies and orations 1781-1866, including Elogio del Exelentisimo Senor Don Agustin de Jauregui y Aldecoa, [originally published as part of: Cartel del Certamen Templo del Honor] all printed in Lima, except for one title, printed in Arequipa; all in 19th century three-quarter leather bindings with marbled paper boards, rubbed, wormed, dusty, with damages, contents vary greatly, should be seen. (3) $300-500 243 Plath, Sylvia [aka Victoria Lucas] (19321963) The Bell Jar. London: Heinemann, Contemporary Fiction Series, 1964.

Second edition, octavo, printed for members of the Readers Union, in green publisher’s cloth and the original white dust jacket with black and purple printing; dust jacket slightly worn with pale green stains from a time when the binding must have been dampened, no water damage to binding or pages, 7 1/2 x 5 in.

Even a year after the first edition, Plath did not want to reveal her identity, and published The Bell Jar under the false name, Victoria Lucas.

The back panel of the dust jacket reads, “Victoria Lucas is a pseudonym, and we are not in a position to disclose any details of the author’s identity.” $250-350

244 Pococke, Richard (1704-1765) A Description of the East, and Some other Countries. London: for the Author, by Bowyer, 1743.

Folio, volume one only of two, with engraved vignette on title and dedication leaf, illustrated with seventy-five plates, including maps, full-paged and folding plates; in contemporary boards, with the bookplate of Dr. D.H. Nutting pasted inside the front board, the doctor’s bookplate is printed in English and Arabic, he and his family were living in Aleppo, Syria, in the 1820s; front board detached, sewing structure cracked along the spine, water damage to text and binding, 16 1/4 x 10 in. $3,000-5,000 245 Posthius, Johannes (1537-1597) Tetrasticha in Ovidii Metam. Lib. XV. Frankfurt-am-Main: Corvinus, Feyerabend, and heirs of Gall, 1563.

Oblong octavo, title printed within a woodcut compartment, in red and black, Latin and German, illustrated with 178 woodcuts by Virgil Solis (1514-1562) to accompany the text of Ovid’s Metamorphoses; each printed within an ornate compartment, text in Latin and German throughout, with verses at the beginning and end; some staining, trimmed a little close, touching headlines, but not the illustrations, in later half-leather and paste paper boards, worn, 7 1/4 x 5 3/4 in. $1,000-1,500

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246 Priestley, Joseph (1733-1804) The History and Present State of Discoveries Relating to Vision, Light, and Colours. London: for J. Johnson, 1772.

First edition, large quarto, illustrated with folding engraved chart and twenty-four folding engraved plates, in boards, edges untrimmed throughout; paper covered boards are worn, with loss to the surface, the spine is lacking completely, sewing structure subsequently unsupported and weak, some dampstains, especially to the inner margins of leaves near the center of the text block, and the pages near the end, 8 3/4 x 11 in. $800-1,000 247 Private Journals of E.P. Stoddard 18521854.

Two quarto-format bound journals, ruled pages, inscribed with the private thoughts of E.P. Stoddard of Chester County, Pennsylvania, and Rochester, New York, a young man. (2) $200-300

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248 Proceedings of a Symposium on LargeScale Digital Calculating Machinery.

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1948.

First edition, quarto, illustrated, in navy blue publisher’s cloth binding, and the original dust jacket, the jacket with marginal chipping, rubbing, the spine sunned, surface scratches, chip to head with loss, 10 1/2 x 7 1/2 in.

“In January 1947, the Navy Department Bureau of Ordnance and Harvard University jointly sponsored a symposium at the Harvard Computation Laboratory on large-scale digital calculating machinery. It provided one of the first and most important early forums for discussion of the problems and approaches in the design, construction, operation, and application of computers. Coming before the establishment of professional journals, societies, or regular meetings in computer science, the proceedings of the symposium offer the best picture of computing technology in the early years that we have available.”

(Note provided by the MIT Press) $300-500 249 Qur’an Leaf on Paper, Persian, Kufic Script.

Single bifolium, seven lines per page, text in written in black ink, with diacritical marks in red, the sheet browned, with some small holes, 8 3/4 x 6 in. $800-1,200

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250 Qur’an Leaf on Paper, Persian, Large.

Single leaf, inscribed on both sides, written in a bold naskh script, completely in black, ten lines per page, with verses marked with abstract wheel-form flowers highlighted in gold, loss of edges, text trimmed close with loss of text, marginal surface on the verso, the sheet with surface grime, wear, 12 1/2 x 7 1/4 in. $400-600

251 Qur’an Manuscript, Excerpt, Persian.

Manuscript on paper, each page written in gold ink on a blue ground, in a clear naskh script, thirteen leaves, thirteen lines per page, the text and diacritics all in gold ink, bound in elaborate polychrome decorated lacquered boards, with a large bouquet of many different flowers within a geometric floral border, inside boards with a red floral field and three framed floral lozenges, red leather spine, housed in a blue velvet envelope, 7 1/4 x 4 1/4 in. $2,000-4,000

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252 Qur’an Manuscript, Persian, 18th Century, Excerpt.

Manuscript on paper, in a clear naskh script, twenty-five leaves, nine lines per page, the text and diacritics in black ink, with some pronunciation and reading signs in red, most highlighted with gold flowers; text within gilt border; verse markers in gold ink, with a gold and cobalt decorative headpiece on the first page, text within the compartment in red, bound in full dark brown morocco, tooled in gilt compartments, with inner boards in pinkish-red sheepskin, decorated in gilt, 8 x 5 in. $4,000-6,000

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253 Qur’an Manuscript, Persian, 18th Century.

Manuscript on paper, in a clear naskh script, 263 leaves, seventeen lines per page, the text and diacritics in black ink, with some pronunciation and reading signs in red, most highlighted with gold circles; text within gilt double border; verse markers in gold ink, with two carpet pages at the beginning of the text, decorated within elaborate borders done in cobalt and gold with highlights in red and green; bound in dark lacquered boards, decorated with a floriated design within a compartment, black morocco spine, original end bands intact, pink paste downs, some superficial water damage to the text, 5 1/4 x 3 1/4 in. $2,000-4,000

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254 Qur’an Manuscript, Persian, 18th Century.

Manuscript on paper, in a clear naskh script, 315 leaves, seventeen lines per page, the text and diacritics in black ink, with some pronunciation and reading signs in red, most highlighted by small gold circles; text within gilt double border and line rulings; verse markers in blue ink on a gold field; three double-page openings (at beginning, middle and end) decorated with elaborate cobalt and gold compartments, incorporating polychrome floriated motifs; divisional pages decorated with gilt floral borders; all extra-decorated openings separated by tissue guards, bound in lacquered boards with red and yellow roses and gilt highlights, old repairs to the leather spine and flap, endbands present, binding intact, contents generally good, 9 1/2 x 5 3/4 in. $400-600

257 Rabutin, Roger de Comte de Bussy (16181693) Lettres [and] Discours. Amsterdam: Z. Chatelain, 1752 [and] Paris: Anisson, 1694.

The Lettres in six volumes; the Discours in a single volume; all octavo, in contemporary calf bindings, the set begins with a portrait of Rabutin. (7) $400-600

255 Rabelais, François (1490-1553) The Works.

London: for Baldwin, 1694.

Third English edition, 12mo, lacking the frontispiece portrait, bound in full modern calfskin, period style, not collated, text with browning, toning, spotting, commensurate with age, 6 1/4 x 3 1/2 in. $700-900

259 Rand, Ayn (1905-1982) Two Volumes Inscribed to Deems Taylor (1885-1966) Atlas Shrugged, New York: Random House, [1957], stated first printing, in publisher’s green cloth, inscribed on ffep, “To Deems Taylor—with profound admiration—Ayn Rand, 6/18/58,” no dust jacket, binding bumped, with other spots and signs of handling; [and] For the New Intellectual, New York: Random House, [1961], stated first printing, in publisher’s black cloth, with the jacket, inscribed on half-title, “To Deems— Affectionately—Ayn,” 4/7/61; spine and back panel of jacket sunned, evidence of further handling. (2) $1,000-1,200

256 Rabelais, François (1494-1553) Les Oeuvres. Lyons: Jean Martin, 1588.

12mo, in full contemporary parchment, yapp edges, stamped fleur-de-lis, contents toned, front joint cracked, 5 1/2 x 3 in.

Rabelais, with his outrageous sense of humor, ruthless satire and insight, wrote unashamedly in a style unparalleled in any time. $2,000-3,000

258 Raffaelli, Jean-François (1850-1924) Les Types de Paris, Inscribed. Paris: E. Plon, Nourrit, et Cie., 1889.

First edition, large quarto, in a tattered silk binding, boards detached, spine missing, long inscription by the author on ffep to Blanche Haggin, New York, 27 February 1895, illustrated throughout. $600-800

260 Reland, Adriaan (1676-1718) Palaestina ex Monumentis Veteribus Illustrata. Utrecht: Broedelet, 1714.

First edition, quarto, illustrated with extra engraved title, folding portrait, nine maps (of which three are folding), and three other plates; bound in full stiff Dutch parchment over boards, blind stamped and ruled, manuscript title to spine, very good, 8 x 6 in. [and] De Spoliis Templi Hierosolymitani in Arcu Titiano, by the same author, Utrecht: Broedelet, 1716, octavo, illustrated with seven engraved plates (four of which are folding), and two text illustrations, in contemporary parchment over boards, laced case construction, surface rubbed, a bit dirty, pastedowns released from the boards, first folding plate torn, contents good, 6 x 3 3/4 in. (2) $800-1,200 261 Reports of Explorations and Surveys to Ascertain the Most Practicable and Economical Route for a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean.

Washington, D.C.: Thomas H. Ford, 1860.

Large quarto, illustrated with seventy colored plates and three folding maps, bound in contemporary cloth, joints cracked, contents with scattered foxing, 11 1/4 x 8 1/2 in. $150-250 262 Robson, Joseph (fl. circa 1740) An Account of Six Years Residence in Hudson’s Bay from 1733 to 1736 and 1744 to 1747.

London: for Payne, Bouquet, et al., 1752.

Octavo, lacking plates and maps, bound in contemporary sponge-decorated calf, with fleur-de-lis and anchors tooled in gold on the spine, joints cracked, text leaves toned, 7 3/4 x 4 3/4 in. $300-500

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263 Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919) Big Game Hunting in the Rockies and on the Great Plains, Signed Copy. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, Knickerbocker Press, 1899.

Limited edition, number 541 of 1,000 copies signed by Roosevelt beneath the portrait frontispiece, large quarto, illustrated, threequarter leather, front board detached, edges untrimmed, old tape repairs to gutters of the front endleaves and front board, contents good, 11 x 8 in. $1,000-1,500

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264 Rostand, Edmond (1868-1918) Cyrano de Bergerac. Paris: Charpentier & Fasquelle, 1898.

First edition, 12mo, with numerous clippings tipped in, along with a carte-de-visite of Benoît-Constant Coquelin [aka Coquelin Aine] (1841-1909) as Cyrano, inscribed with the line from Scene VII, “Le canon des Gascons ne recule jamais!,” bound in contemporary three-quarter green morocco, marbled paper boards, somewhat rubbed, text leaves toned, 8 x 5 in. $700-900

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265 Royal Society, Great Britain. The Philosophical Transactions and Collections to the End of the Year 1700.

London: for Knapton et al., 1731.

Fourth edition, in three large quarto volumes, illustrated with thirty-two folding plates; bound in uniform modern full calf, with red labels, text not collated, contents good, 9 x 6 3/4 in. $400-600

266 Saint-Lambert, Monsieur de. (c. 1700) Les Principes du Clavecin, [and] Nouveau Traite de L’Accompagnement du Clavecin, de l’Orgue, et des autres Instruments. Paris: Ballard, 1707.

First editions, two oblong folio volumes bound as one, with music printed throughout both volumes, in slightly later half parchment and patterned paper boards, t.e.g.; contents lightly toned, paper crisp, with strong type impressions, title of second work trimmed close, touching the first line, some other minor defects, 10 1/2 x 8 in.

Very little is known about de Saint-Lambert; what we do know comes down to us through these two publications. He was a harpsichordist, teacher, and composer who worked in Paris during the early 18th century.

His was the first work published in France concerned with playing the harpsichord.

Provenance: Estate of Charles Paine Fisher. $4,000-6,000 267 Salesman’s Sample Copy of Our New West, by Samuel Bowles (1826-1878) Hartford: Hartford Publishing Co., 1869.

Title page, frontispiece, approximately 120 pages of sample text, with illustrations, eight pages of promotional material for the book, thirty-six ruled pages for the names, addresses, and style of binding chosen by subscribers, and samples of three different spines, demonstrating binding styles, pasted inside the front and back boards; plain spine on the sample itself, cloth binding, front board stamped with gilt title logo; water stain to frontispiece, and scattered pages in text, 5 1/2 x 9 in. $150-250 268 Sandow, Eugen (1867-1925) Sandow on Physical Training. ed. G. Mercer Adam.

New York: J. Selwin Tait & Sons, 1894.

First edition, signed by Sandow with an inscription in another hand to Dr. Karl Buenz, Consul General of Germany to New York, dated January 23, 1895; in original publisher’s salmon cloth, with gilt stamping, illustrated throughout; binding worn, 7 1/2 x 10 in.

Buenz also served as managing director of the Hamburg-American Steamship Line, where he apparently formulated a conspiracy during the first World War to use his shipping business to help the Germans. He was convicted of this crime and died in an Atlanta prison in 1918.

Sandow’s pioneering career in bodybuilding has made him a household name in the sport.

The statue given to each year’s winner of the Mr. Olympia contest is modeled on this great turn of the 19th century athlete, and is simply called the Sandow. $250-350

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269 Science, Mathematics, and Philosophy, Four Volumes, 1650-1803.

Rene Descartes’s (1596-1650) Principia Philosopiae [and] Specimina Philosophiae: seu Dissertatio de Methodo, Amsterdam: Elzevir, 1650, quarto, numerous text illustrations, the two formerly bound together, now separated, lacking both boards; Histoire de L’Academie Royale des Sciences et Belle Lettres, Berlin: Haude et Spener, 1752, quarto, illustrated with folding engravings, contemporary half-leather, front board stripped of covering material, contents toned; Louis-Antoine de Bougainville’s (1729-1811) Traite du Calcul Integral, Paris: Guerin & Delatour, 1754, first edition, quarto, folding plates, contemporary sponged calfskin, rodent damage to leather at head and foot of the spine; Giuseppe Calandrelli (1749-1827) and Andrea Conti’s (1777-1840) Opuscoli Astronomici, e Fisici [bound with] Eclisse Solare del di XI. Febbrajo MDCCCIV. Osservata nella Specola Astronomica dell’ Universita Gregoriana nel Collegio Romano, Rome: Salomoni, 1803 [and 1804], large quarto, both titles with engraved vignette of the astronomy department building at the Collegio Romano, the first work with two folding plates and half-title present, ms. note bound into first work; contemporary half-leather, splitting along the joints, contents good, with limited light spotting and toning; these volumes not collated. (4) $400-600 270 Scrapbook, c. 1876.

Folio-format commercially produced album, containing the 1876 Centennial bank note printed by the American Bank Note Company of New York for the Dwight Company in 1876, mounted inside the front board; with embossed covers, old gold stamping, and color lithographs of well-dressed boys in sailor suits, compiled by Christopher McGee, with his signature inside the front board containing printed ephemera, advertising, clippings from greeting cards, newspapers, advertising, prayer cards, magazines, and other sources, including text, black-and-white, and colorprinted ephemera; pages loose, some unused, 13 1/4 x 17 in. $150-250

271 Scrapbooks, Five Volumes: 1896, 1897, 1900, 1925, and 1927.

Detailed scrapbooks compiled by James Morgan, manager of the Boston Globe, and resident of Lynn, including menus, railway tickets, letters, advertising, newspaper and magazine articles, programs, and personal snapshots documenting the following events: the Democratic National Conventions in Chicago and St. Louis, 1896, including some interesting photographs of tornado damage; the Presidential Inauguration of William McKinley in 1897; the Republican National Conventions in Philadelphia and Kansas City in 1900; a trip to Europe in 1925; and a trip to California in 1927, in five separate albums; the condition of the scrapbook pages themselves is poor, many are detached, and heavily chipped and flaking, the contents, in contrast are generally good, 12 x 9 in. each. (5) $300-500 272 Seneca, Lucius Annaeus (c. 4 B.C.-65 A.D.) Seneca’s Morals by Way of Abstract.

London: for Hindmarsh, 1693.

Octavo, edited by Roger L’Estrange (16161704), engraved frontispiece, 619 pages, with a thirteen-page “After-Thought,” ex libris Sir William Foulis, Baronet, of Ingleby Manor Cleveland, in York, with his engraved armorial bookplate pasted on the verso of the title; bound in contemporary English calfskin, speckled boards, the spine ruled in blind, with a later label, rubbed, spine head chipped, 6 3/4 x 4 1/4 in. $200-300 273 Sevigne, Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de (1626-1696) Recueil des Lettres [and] Lettres de Ninon de Lenclos.

Paris: Durand, 1754 [and] Amsterdam: Joly, 1776.

Two small-format sets of the letters of the Marquise de Sevigne, the first in six volumes, bound in full uniform contemporary spongedecorated French calf, the spines tooled in gilt; the second set in three volumes, untrimmed, in the original paper wrappers; each set with an engraved portrait frontis in volume one. (9) $400-600 274 Seymour, Henry Albert (1861-1938) The Reproduction of Sound. London: Tattersall, [1917].

Small octavo, in full publisher’s green cloth, frontispiece portrait of Seymour, illustrated, 6 3/4 x 4 1/2 in.

Seymour was Britain’s leading expert on sound recording technology at the beginning of the 20th century. He is credited with introducing Edison’s gramophone to his home country in 1913, and also developed his own prototype, the Superphone. $300-500

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275 Shay’s Rebellion. Acts and Laws Passed by the General Court of Massachusetts.

[Boston: Adams & Nourse, 1787].

Folio, comprising pages 546 through 630 of this serial publication, stab-sewn, in original blue paper wrappers, untrimmed, with deckle edges throughout; some chipping to first and last few leaves, generally clean, 12 3/4 x 8 1/4 in.

The first act in this collection, passed on 6 February 1787, authorizes the use of 40,000 pounds to raise a militia to suppress Shay’s Rebellion. This grass-roots revolt mounted

by Revolutionary War veterans who found themselves an increasingly economically marginalized group of foundering and bankrupt farmers in the years following American independence originated in Western Massachusetts. Response to Shay’s Rebellion indicated an unforeseen weakness in the newly established national government.

Under the Articles of Confederation, Congress could not raise a national army without the unanimous consent of the states. This glitch was addressed by the Constitutional Congress when they met in the summer of the same year. $3,000-4,000 276 Shay’s Rebellion. Acts and Laws Passed by the General Court of Massachusetts.

[Boston: Adams & Nourse, 1787].

Folio, comprising pages 546 through 627 of this serial publication, removed from a bound volume, trimmed, disbound, some light foxing, 10 3/4 x 7 3/4 in.

[See previous description.] $800-1,000 277 Silhon, Jean de (1596-1667) Le Ministre d’Estat avec le Veritable Usage de la Politique Moderne. Paris: Toussainct du Bray, 1633.

Octavo, second edition, 632 pages, plus the table, the text in two parts, bound in contemporary limp parchment, occasional foxing, water stains, name trimmed from top corner of title, first three leaves lightly wormed, text not collated, 7x 4 1/2 in.

Silhon worked for Cardinal Richelieu; in this work he argues (on behalf of Richelieu) in favor of raison d’etat. $300-500

278 Sketchbook, John Bryant Jr. (d. 1847) Small landscape-format sketchbook containing approximately forty drawings, mostly pen and ink or pencil, but a few done in gouache made during a trip to Europe c.

1832, many sketches loose, sewing structure perished, 8 1/4 x 5 1/4 in., some drawings slightly larger; Bryant was the son of the Boston shipping magnate of the same name, owner of Bryant and Sturgis. [and] John Smith’s The Art of Painting in Oil, London: for Hawes, Clarke, and Collins, 1769, 12mo, ex libris Robert Treat Paine (17311814), with his signature (dated 1772) on the title page, stab-sewn, untrimmed, A-E12; 6 3/4 x 3 3/4 in. (2) Provenance: Estate of Charles Paine Fisher.

N.B. John Bryant Jr.’s only surviving child, Julia (1847-1901), married Robert Treat Paine’s great grandson, Charles Jackson Paine (1833-1916). $200-300 279 Smith, Adam (1723-1790) Recherches sur la Nature et les Causes de la Richesse des Nations. London: Poincot, 1786.

Six octavo volumes, contents good, in uniform contemporary full French tan calfskin, sponged decoration on the boards, smooth spines, tooled in gilt, with red and green spine labels, solid red edges, and marbled paper endleaves, an attractive set, 6 1/4 x 3 1/2 in.

(6) $800-1,200 280 Smyth, Captain William Henry (1788-1865) Memoir Descriptive of the Resources, Inhabitants, and Hydrography of Sicily and its Islands. London: Murray, 1824.

First edition, large quarto, illustrated with fourteen of the fifteen plates called for in the list of plates (lacking plate 14: View of St. John’s Church), the plates uncolored; bound in three-quarter calfskin with marbled paper boards, gilt-tooled spine, label chipped away, some spotting and foxing to contents, 10 1/4 x 8 1/4 in. $200-300

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281 Southgate, Horatio (1812-1894) A Tour through Armenia, Kurdistan, Persia, and Mesopotamia. New York: Appleton, 1840.

First edition, two octavo volumes, illustrated with frontispiece, large folding map, full-paged map, and one text illustration in volume one, and three text illustrations, four full-paged plates, and one full-paged map in volume two; bound in original signed cloth bindings

by Colton and Jenkins of New York; contents good, folding map with tear and some browning, bindings bumped, cloth split at joints, but boards still firmly attached, generally sound, 7 3/4 x 4 1/2 in. (2) Reverend Southgate, originally from Maine, chronicles his experiences in the Middle East. He begins by traveling from New York to Constantinople, makes several stops in Turkey, moves on to Iran, visiting Kurdistan, Azerbaijan, Tehran, Baghdad, and then to Iraq, visiting Kerkuk, and then to Mardin, Turkey. $300-500 282 St. Memin, Charles Balthazar Julien Fevret, de (1770-1852) The St.-Memin Collection of Portraits, Consisting of Seven Hundred and Sixty Medallion Portraits. New York: Dexter, 1862.

Folio, illustrated with sixty-three leaves of reproduced profile portraits in rondelles, photographs taken from proof impressions of St. Memin’s copper plates, 1793-1814; each illustration mounted on the sheet, as originally issued; bound in full textured green morocco, stamped in blind and gilt; faded and rubbed, with bumped corners and worn joints, boards a bit loose, joints starting, a.e.g.; the text water stained, with foxing to plates, 15 x 11 1/2 in. $700-900 285

283 Steinbeck, John (1902-1968) East of Eden.

New York: Viking, 1952.

First edition, with the phrase, “First published

by The Viking Press in September 1952” printed on the copyright page, and “bite” instead of “bight” on page 281, three lines up from the bottom, in publisher’s apple green cloth, and the first issue dust jacket, with the author’s photograph on the back panel, and no reviews, jacket unclipped; two small chips to head of dust jacket, with loss, spine slightly sunned, back panel with coffee-type stain at foot, in the blank margin; with a ticket from Hudson’s Book Shop, Detroit, inside back board, 8 1/2 x 6 in. $600-800 284 Stephens, John Lloyd (1805-1852) Incidents of Travel in Yucatan. New York: Harper, 1843.

Two octavo volumes, illustrated with large folding frontispieces in each volume and profusely throughout; bound in full publisher’s cloth, ornately tooled in gilt on spines and front boards, the bindings in good shape, text with water stains in bottom quarter of both volumes, 8 3/4 x 5 1/2 in. (2) $300-500

285 Stereoscopic Cards of the American West, Martha’s Vineyard, San Francisco.

Fifty-one Watkins cards depicting natural features of the Yosemite Valley (including El Capitan and Half Dome, Yosemite Falls, and the Mariposa Grove); twenty-three views of the Wesleyan Grove Campground on Martha’s Vineyard; five views of San Francisco (Montgomery Street on July 4th, 1864, the Cliff House, and a panorama from Telegraph Hill); four Union Pacific Railroad views; three cards of Florida; three from Nash and Fuller (a large New York City restaurant formerly on Park Row); and two miscellaneous cards: one showing an unnamed cavern and the other a larger card from Albee in Pittsburgh, advertising a series of views taken after a railroad fire that occurred in that city in July, 1877, this view shows a series of burnt-out and derailed engines. (91) $1,000-1,500

286 Sterne, Laurence (1713-1768) The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Signed.

Volumes I through IV: London: for R. and J. Dodsley, 1760 [-1767], Volumes V through IX: London: for T. Becket & P.A. Dehondt, 1762 [-1768] Nine octavo volumes, engraved frontispieces in volumes one and three; volumes five, seven, and nine signed by Sterne, volume three with the marbled page (169/170), half-titles in volumes four, five, six, and nine; volume one with E5 (page 73/74) printed black on both sides, volume seven with errata printed on the verso of the title, bound in uniform modern calfskin, and housed in a custom leather case, contents with occasional spotting; spines of volumes five and six with a darkening of the leather, section of the compartment between the labels abraded with loss of leather, volume six, 7 1/2 x 4 1/2 x 6 3/4 in. (9) $4,000-6,000

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287 Stoddard, Charles Warren (1843-1909) Ten Titles, Many Signed First Editions.

Summer Cruising in the South Seas, London: Chatto & Windus, 1881; A Troubled Heart, Notre Dame, Indiana: The Ave Maria, [1885]; South-Sea Idyls, New York: Scribner’s Sons, 1892; The Wonder-Worker of Padua, Notre Dame, Indiana: The Ave Maria, [1896]; A Cruise Under the Crescent, Chicago & New York: Rand, McNally, & Co., [1898]; Over the Rocky Mountains to Alaska, St. Louis, Missouri: Herder, 1899; In the Footprints of the Padres, San Francisco: A.M. Robertson, 1902, the only book in this group not signed by Stoddard; For the Pleasure of his Company, San Francisco: A.M. Robertson, 1903; Exits and Entrances, Boston: Lothrop, [1903], with two fine pencil sketches of graves tucked in; [and] The Island of Tranquil Delights, Boston: Herbert B. Turner & Co., 1904; all copies in good condition, with minor shelf wear; publisher’s boards, pictorial, stamped and lettered in gold or colors, various sizes; all but one signed by Stoddard, many with the note, “his own copy,” or “the first copy.” (10) Stoddard’s homoerotic and autobiographical works are important to the development of the genre. $300-500

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288 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 slipcase, edged in morocco and lined with velvet, some slipcases bumped, with shelf wear; 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; each volume 5 1/2 x 8 3/4 in., occupying approximately 3 feet of shelf space. (16) $700-900

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289 Strutt, Joseph (1749-1802) A Biographical Dictionary Containing an Historical Account of all the Engravers. London: by Davis for Faulder, 1785-1786.

First edition, two volumes bound as one, illustrated with an engraved frontispiece opposite the title in each part and eighteen additional full-paged plates, four of which depict artists’ monograms and signatures; all plates printed in sepia-colored ink; bound in old diced russia, rebacked, large water stain to boards, which does not affect the contents, with attendant leather loss, especially to the back board, 10 1/2 x 8 in.

Royal Academy graduate and antiquary, in addition to this biographical work on engravers, Strutt also made important contributions to the history of costume. $300-500 290 Sudek, Josef (1896-1976) Josef Sudek.

Prague: Edice Mezinarodni, 1977.

Silver folder containing a stapled pamphlet and thirteen silver gelatin photographs printed on twelve sheets, loose in the folder, 12 x 9 1/2 in. $300-500

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291 Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745) Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.

London: for Benj. Motte, 1726 [1727].

Four parts in two octavo volumes, volume one is a second edition, volume two is mixed; engraved portrait of Lemuel Gulliver in volume one in the second state, with a Latin inscription on the table beneath; six full-paged engraved plates; pagination in parts one and two is continuous, but restarts in parts three and four; no ad before the title in volume two; part one, page 17, line 22 “Potion”; line 8 on the general title page of volume one reads “Cap-”; title page of volume two does not say “second edition”; part four, page 62 is numbered correctly, likely Teerink-Scouten 290 and 291; both volumes in contemporary blind-ruled and speckled boards, decorated with different tools, both rebacked, edges and corners worn, spotting and stains to some text leaves, 7 1/2 x 4 1/2 in. (2) $2,000-3,000

292 The Bar Sinister and Licit Love. The First Biennial Proceedings of the Legitimation League. London: Reeves, 1895.

Octavo, edited by Oswald Dawson, portrait frontispiece of Edith Lanchester, two additional portraits between pages 152 and 153 as called for on the contents page, and a portrait of Lillian Harman just inside the back cover, in publisher’s limp card covers, printed boldly in gold and black over green covers, the cloth spine somewhat worn, the boards rubbed, 7 1/4 x 4 3/4 in.

The Legitimation League was an organization first formed by Individualists, Socialists, Communists, Anarchists, and other freethinking Victorians to argue in favor of the rights of illegitimate children in 1893. Shortly thereafter, the group began to focus on the advancement and promotion of freer sexuality that did not require marriage. $200-300

294 The Colophon: a Book Collectors’ Quarterly. New York, 1930-1948.

Forty issues in original boards including a complete run for 1930 through 1934; two issues only for 1935; three issues for 1936 and 1937; and four issues each for 1938, 1939, and 1948; the first five years housed in custom-made chemises and slipcases, the leather dry, damaged, some chemises broken at the joints; all issues good in publisher’s boards, some with glassine dust jackets in varying condition: chipped, damaged, fragmentary, and sometimes lacking. (40) The Colophon was a monument to and celebration of literature, art, and the printing arts, producing a consistently quality publication that survived the Depression and highlighted American fine printing, graphic illustration, type design, paper-making, bibliographic scholarship, and book collecting in the mid-20th century. $300-500

293 The Boston Directory. Boston, 1848-1887.

Nine octavo volumes of the Boston Directory from 1848, 1854, 1855, 1857, 1858, 1859, 1861, 1862, and 1887, mixed bindings, including publisher’s cloth, later buckram, and sheepskin, occupying approximately 16 inches of shelf space. (9) $300-500

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295 The Pawnbroker’s Magazine & Record, a Monthly Journal for the Trade. London: April 1891-January 20, 1892.

Bound volume containing a complete run of the publication, from issue number 1 running continuously through number 29, ending with a notice from T.J. Whiting & Sons, Ltd., announcing the cessation of publication, dated January 26, 1892, pasted onto the rear free end leaf; Worldcat locates four copies worldwide, three of which are held in the U.K.; bound in three-quarter leather, joints cracked, rubbed, contents good, 10 1/2 x 7 1/4 in. $300-500 296 Theological Works, French Language, Five Volumes.

Les Confessions de S. Augustin, Paris: de Hansy, 1737, large octavo; Francis de Sales’s Traicte de l’Amour de Dieu, Lyons: Rigaud, 1626, octavo, title printed in red and black, with an engraved vignette, bound in full contemporary red sheepskin, tooled in gilt, marbled pastedowns; Histoire et Concorde des Quartres Evangelistes, Paris: la veuve de Charles Savreux, 1669, 12mo, front board detached; Lettres du Pere Quesnel, lacking the title page, bound with, Reponse aux Deux Lettres de Monseigneur l’Archeveque de Cambrai au Pere Quesnel, 1711 [-1716] etc., and several other titles, all published separately on the same topic, bound together, 12mo, contemporary boards; [and] Adam Theveneau’s Commentaires sur les Ordonnances, [Lyons, 1666] lacking the title page, quarto, contemporary boards, text browned. (5) $400-600 297 Theological Works, Latin, Three, 16231764.

Thomas Sanchez’s (1550-1610) Opus Morale in Praecepta Decalogi, Lyons: Cardon & Cavellat, 1623, folio, engraved title, two parts in one, text printed in two columns throughout, 320 and 374 pages, browned, in contemporary parchment, worn, with losses, peeling; Jean Morin’s (1591-1659) Commentarius Historicus de Disciplina, Venice: Pezzana, 1702, folio, title printed in red and black, two columns throughout, 674 pages, contents good, some worming, full contemporary parchment; [and] Aloysius Bellecius’s (1704-1757) Medulla Asceseos seu Exercitia S.P. Ingnatii de Loyola, Augsburg: Wolff, 1764, octavo, 686 pages, contemporary scaleboard (or scabbard) with blue paper covering, browning to text. (3) $600-800

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298 Trademark Album, India, 19th Century.

Oblong folio album of thin paper collecting more than 1,000 heraldic trademarks of individuals, state establishments, corporations, clubs, banks, hotels, military orders, and many others, all related to India, in English, Arabic, almost all with raised printing, with multiple colors, trimmed and pasted onto the album pages, 13 x 8 in. $800-1,200 299 Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Held at Philadelphia, for Promoting Useful Knowledge. London: Small, 1818.

Quarto, volume one, with the large folding geological map of the U.S., hand-colored, with other full-paged and folding illustrations, including insects, inventions, a woman with a large tumor, and two animal skulls “found in a morass called Big Bone Lick” by Thomas Jefferson, and others; original boards heavily damaged, contents with spotting and water staining, map with some strong old folds, 10 x 8 in. $300-500

300 Triplett, Colonel Frank (fl. circa 1880) History, Romance, and Philosophy of Great American Crimes and Criminals. Hartford: Park Publishing Co., 1885.

Octavo, illustrated, 659 pages, bound in publisher’s blue textured boards, elaborate allegorical illustrations stamped in black and gold, contents evenly toned throughout, binding tight, corners and edges slightly rubbed, 8 1/2 x 5 3/4 in. $200-300 301 Twain, Mark (1835-1910) A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court. New York: Charles Webster & Co., 1889.

First edition, octavo, illustrated with text and full-paged wood engravings by Dan Beard throughout; with the ornamental “S” between “The” and “King” on the illustration facing page 59, no printed half-title in this copy, bound in olive green publisher’s cloth, with the title, A Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, stamped in gilt, with other illustrative stamping in gold, black, and gray; corners and headcap bumped and frayed, small fragment of the original publisher’s stamp only remains, pasted at the gutter edge on the back free endleaf, 8 1/4 x 6 1/2 in. $200-300

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302 United States. The Laws of the United States of America. Philadelphia/Washington, D.C.: Folwell, Ross, Smith, Carey, Duane, and Weightman, 1796 [-1811].

Ten octavo volumes, contemporary sheepskin bindings, worn, with losses to endcaps, four volumes with both boards detached, hinges tender on others, most labels intact, bindings dry and dusty with some interior foxing, not collated.

This group includes the original three-volume set of the Laws from 1796, and the additional volumes published in 1797, 1801, 1804, 1806, 1807, 1809, and 1811. (10) $800-1,200 303 Verlaine, Paul (1844-1896) Four Volumes.

Romances sans Paroles, Paris: G. Cres & Cie., 1924, limited edition, number 1619, printed on Rives paper, bound in half leather with marbled boards, original limp wrappers bound in; Oeuvres Completes, Paris: Messein, 1925, octavo, in two volumes, bound in yellow morocco by a Prague binder (gilt stamp inside back pastedowns), with blue Roma paper endleaves; original wraps bound in; 7 1/4 x 5 in. [and] Choix de Poemes, Paris: Editions a la Belle Etoile, 1932, in half parchment and marbled paper boards, text printed in black and red, 5 1/4 x 8 in. (4) Provenance: Estate of Charles Paine Fisher. $200-300

304 Vogue Magazine, 1910-1930s.

A large archive of Vogue, including fortyseven separate issues (three from 1909; fourteen from the teens; fourteen from the 1920s; eleven from the 1930s; and five from the 1940s), five bound volumes, containing six months of issues in each, representing a complete run from January 1914 through June 1916; eleven framed covers (teens to thirties); and fifty covers in an album, 1910-1940 (mostly teens to thirties).

This collection documents an important and influential era in women’s fashion. The many notable covers, advertisements, and articles portray the period with candid details that sometimes escape our incomplete image of the past. A notable inclusion is the 1 June 1939 issue, with a cover by Salvador Dali. In this Vogue collection, one sees the diverse looks of fashionistas from the World War I era, through the flappers, roaring twenties, the jazz age, the Depression, and into the war years in the ‘40s. $800-1,000

305 Wanamaker, Lewis Rodman (1863-1928) Presentation Album, Signed Portraits of British Peerage, c. 1925.

Large folio volume bound in full crushed navy morocco by Zaenhsdorf, a.e.g., lacking the watered silk doublures and endleaves in the front, fragmentary at the back, each photograph signed by the subject, set into a hand-ruled mat, thrown out on fabric joints, with a handwritten curriculum vitae in a calligraphic hand facing, 20 1/4 x 16 1/4 in.

The following fifteen members of Parliament are included: Edmund FitzAlan-Howard (1855-1947); Algernon Keffington (18731952); James Caulfeild (1880-1949); George Monckton-Arundell (1844-1931); Henry Upton, Viscount Templetown (1853-1939); Frederick Smith, Viscount Hambleden (1868-1928); William Peel (1867-1937); Charles Colville (1854-1928); Herbert Gladstone (18541930); Richard Burdon Haldane (1856-1928); Montolieu Oliphant-Murray (1840-1927); John Bigham, Viscount Mersey (1840-1929); Sir Edward Grey (1862-1933); Weetman Pearson (1856-1927); Ivor Churchill Guest (1873-1939). The portrait of the Earl Jellicoe (1859-1935), called for on the contents page, has been removed. $700-900

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306 Washington, Booker T. (1856-1915) Working with the Hands, with Typed Letter Signed. New York: Doubleday, Page, & Co., 1904.

Octavo, bound in burgundy publisher’s cloth, lettered in gilt, t.e.g., rubbed; with several clippings inserted, along with the letter, on Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute letterhead, dated 30 December 1896, single page, to Edwin Hunt Frost (b. 1874), accepting Frost’s offer to send copies of Engineering News and other material for the students, enclosing a copy of the school’s last annual report (not present), and commenting that the graduates of the Institute do not usually form clubs, but they are having some success of late, although less so with political clubs. “As to political clubs among colored people in the South [I] would say that just previous to the election they spring up in great numbers and die just about as they were organized.” The typed portion in a blue ink, with one manuscript correction in the same ink color used in the signature at the foot of the page, tipped onto ffep, 8 1/2 x 11 in. $600-900

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307 Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963) A Voyage to Pagany, Signed. New York: Macaulay, 1928.

First edition, signed by Williams on half-title, in publisher’s beige cloth, stamped in black and brown, with a tattered jacket, signed leaf with acidic burns probably from the long insertion of an old newspaper clipping, the jacket with flaps detached, and large sections missing from the spine, blind embossed ownership stamp to title, 8 x 5 1/2 in. $400-600

308 Wilson, Alexander (1766-1813) American Ornithology. Philadelphia: by Bradford and Inskeep for Carr, 1808-1814.

First edition, nine folio volumes bound in three, illustrated with seventy-five of seventysix hand-colored full-paged engravings of birds (lacking Plate LXVIII), most illustrations with arrangements of several birds, larger birds sometimes pictured alone, bound in uniform three-quarter red morocco and buckram boards, the volumes of different sizes, significant plate off-setting throughout, coloring bright, browning to plates and text leaves, water stains, and other defects; page 43/44 in volume IV supplied in manuscript facsimile, page 65/66 torn with loss; in volume VIII title page is torn and repaired, the bottom half of page 13/14 torn away, the text supplied in pen facsimile, and in the same volume, page 47 torn with loss of text made up in pen facsimile; lacking Plate LXVIII (ducks); plate LXIX torn, amateurish repair on verso, page 119/120 badly torn and crudely repaired, in the first six volumes text trimmed close, sometimes touching the edge of a bird, at least two obvious cases of a print being moved from one location to another in the same volume, with old offsetting as evidence.

(3) The first American bird book with colored plates by the father of American ornithology, Alexander Wilson. $1,000-1,500

309 Wilson, Professor [James] (fl. circa 1850) Scotland Illustrated in a Series of Eighty Views. Edinburgh: Fullarton & Co., 1859.

Quarto, illustrated with eighty steel engravings, bound in full dark blue morocco, with blind stamped compartments and central gilt coat of arms on both boards, gilt-tooled spine, some foxing, endleaves with waxy discoloration in gutter, 10 1/2 x 8 1/4 in. $200-300

310 Zeit-Echo, Ein Kriegs-Tagebuch der Künstler. Munich: Graphik Verlag, 1914-1916.

Thirty-eight issues: continuous runs for numbers 1-23/24 (1914-1915), and 1-15 (1915-1916); each in limp publisher’s wraps, stapled or sewn with colored thread, with the original publisher’s wrap-around bands and inserts for many issues, all illustrated throughout, 9 1/2 x 6 1/2 in. (38) Zeit-Echo was started as a response to the violence of World War I, and included the work of contemporary artists, such as Oskar Kokoschka, Paul Klee, Alfred Kubin, Hans Richter, Richard Seewald, and many others.

The journal set out to show the effect war had on painters and writers, and accepted work from across the political spectrum, without an editorial agenda. $2,500-3,500 311 No lot.

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312 Barrie, Sir James M. (1860-1937) The Little White Bird, Signed Copy. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1902.

First American edition, first appearance of the Peter Pan character, octavo, signed by Barrie on the blank before the title, “Yours Sincerely J. M Barrie,” in publisher’s green boards, stamped in gilt, top corner front board badly bumped, end paper starting to split at rear; ownership inscription of Lyman Spitzer, dated 1902 on ffep, 7 1/2 x 5 in. $8,000-10,000

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313 Children’s and Young Adult Books.

Approximately forty volumes, American imprints from the mid-20th century, many signed or inscribed by the authors or illustrators, some award winners, all in publisher’s bindings of varying condition, some with dust jackets.

Provenance: From the collection of Julia F. Carter (1884-1980). Ms. Carter worked under Anne Carroll Moore, the first full-time children’s librarian at the New York Public Library; she directed the formation of a post-Armistice library for American soldiers in France in 1918, and spent twenty years serving the children’s department for the libraries in Cincinnati and Hamilton Counties, Ohio. She also presented the first Caldecott Medal in 1938.

Her collection of children’s books includes many inscribed first editions of Caldecott and Newbery award winners and honorees. $300-500

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314 Children’s Books, Group of Smallformat Illustrated Chapbooks including Greenaway, Caldecott and Others.

Approximately twenty-six books, many miniature, all children’s and illustrated, mostly American imprints, 19th-early 20th century.

Provenance: From the collection of Julia F. Carter (1884-1980). $200-300

315 Children’s Books, Seven, Signed or Inscribed.

Wanda Gag’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, New York: Coward-McCann, [1938], inscribed, second impression, with the dust jacket; Wanda Gag’s Nothing at All, New York: Coward-McCann, [1941], inscribed, no jacket; Alison Baigrie Alessios’s Round the Mulberry Hill, illustrated by Alma Wentzel Froderstrom, New York: Longmans, Green, & Co., with review slip inserted, and a signed card from Alessios to Carter, stated first edition, with the dust jacket; Berta and Elmer Hader’s The Cat and the Kitten, New York: Macmillan, 1940, inscribed, with the jacket; Mary Gould Davis’s The Handsome Donkey, New York: Harcourt, Brace, & Co., [1933], illustrated by Emma Brock, inscribed; in yellow publisher’s cloth, no jacket; Berta and Elmer Hader’s The Big Snow, New York: Macmillan, 1948, inscribed, fourth printing, with the jacket; [and] Maud and Miska Petersham’s The Rooster Crows, New York: Macmillan, 1945, signed by both Petershams, no dust jacket. (7)

316 Children’s Books, Three, Signed and Inscribed.

Margaret Wise Brown’s (1910-1952) [aka Golden MacDonald] The Little Island, illustrated by Leonard Weisgard (1916-2000), New York: Doubleday & Co., 1946, first edition, signed by Weisgard; in publisher’s pictorial cloth, with the slightly worn and chipped dust jacket, Caldecott Medal sticker on the front panel; Weisgard won the award for this book in 1948; James Thurber’s (1894-1961) Many Moons, illustrated by Louis Slobodkin (1903-1975), New York: Harcourt, Brace, & Co., 1943, inscribed by Slobodkin to Julia Carter, “to my good friend, with deep affection,” in publisher’s red cloth, with the jacket, slightly sunned, chipping, with a small piece missing at the head of the spine; Slobodkin won the 1944 Caldecott for his illustrations in this work; [and] Marie Curtis Rains’s (1884-1953) Lazy Liza Lizard, illustrated by Vera Neville, Chicago: Winston, 1938, inscribed to Carter on half-title, “[the author] is honored deeply that Julia should have squandered her worldly wealth in the purchasing of the foregoing,” in blue publisher’s cloth, without the jacket. (3)

Provenance: From the collection of Julia F. Carter (1884-1980). $400-600

Provenance: From the collection of Julia F. Carter (1884-1980). $300-500

317 Children’s Books, Three, Signed.

Marguerite Henry’s (1902-1997) King of the Wind, Chicago: Rand McNally & Co., [1948], signed by Henry on the half-title, in red publisher’s cloth, dust jacket is slightly chipped, wear and sun to spine, with slight losses at head and tail, Newbery sticker, the head of the horse traced in pencil; winner of the 1949 Newbery Medal; Barbara Cooney’s (1917-2000) Chanticleer and the Fox, New York: Crowell, 1958, inscribed by Cooney on the title; in publisher’s red cloth with a bold rooster blocked in black on the front board; in a clean jacket, with the Caldecott sticker; winner of the 1959 Caldecott; [and] Robert Lawson’s (1892-1957) Mr. Revere and I, Boston: Little, Brown, & Co., 1953, stated first edition, limited to 500 copies signed by Lawson on the limitation page, in blue cloth and publisher’s slipcase, with eight full-size prints of the original drawings printed separately, loose, in an envelope, the slipcase sunned. (3) Provenance: From the collection of Julia F. Carter (1884-1980). $300-500

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318 Children’s Books, Three, Signed. William Pene Dubois’s (1916-1993) The Twenty-one Balloons, New York: Viking, 1948, signed

by Dubois on ffep, stated second printing, in publisher’s red cloth spine and illustrated basket-weave boards; in a bright jacket, the spine slightly sunned with minor chips at head and tail; this title won the Caldecott in 1948; Lois Lenski’s (1893-1974) Strawberry Girl, Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1948, signed by Lenski on the half-title, stated third impression, with the dust jacket, which is slightly chipped with losses at head, tail, and bottom front corner, Newbery Medal sticker on front panel, publisher’s green cloth binding; Lenski won the Newbery for Strawberry Girl in 1946; [and] Carolyn Sherwin Bailey’s (1875-1961) Miss Hickory, illustrated by Ruth Gannett, New York: Viking, 1946, signed by Bailey on the half-title, in light beige publisher’s cloth and dust jacket with a Newbery sticker on the front panel, the jacket with slight wear at head and tail, sticker torn, and some brownish stains on Miss Hickory’s dress; this title was the Newbery award winner for 1947. (3) Provenance: From the collection of Julia F. Carter (1884-1980). $400-600

319 Collodi, Carlo (1826-1890) Le Avventure di Pinocchio. Florence: Paggi, 1888.

Octavo, early edition, in publisher’s pictorial boards, stamped in gold and black on green cloth, faded, with ink spots, the text quite browned, frontispiece and endleaves detached, 7 x 4 3/4 in. $3,000-5,000

320 D’Aulaire, Ingri (1904-1980) and Edgar Parin (1898-1986) Abraham Lincoln, Inscribed. New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1939.

Stated first edition, inscribed by the D’Aulaire’s to Julia Carter on copyright page, “with hearty thanks for all the help she offered to two shy speakers,” with the dust jacket, an 8 x 10-in. black-and-white photograph of the D’Aulaires with their son inserted, and a printed notice of the awarding of the Caldecott Medal to the D’Aulaires for this book, and the Newbery Medal to James Daugherty for Daniel Boone on 28 May 1940; bound in publisher’s pictorial boards and blue cloth spine, worn, sunned, the jacket with chipped top edge and corners, small pieces missing from the head and tail of the spine; [and] James Daugherty’s Daniel Boone, New York: Viking, 1939, stated first edition; inscribed to Julia Carter on the half-title, “in appreciation of your royal consummate hospitality,” in publisher’s terra-cotta cloth, with a chipped jacket, with missing portions at head and tail of spine, a piece torn away from top left corner, and along the top edge on the back. (2) Provenance: From the collection of Julia F. Carter (1884-1980). $1,000-1,500

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321 D’Aulaire, Ingri (1904-1980) and Edgar Parin (1898-1986) Leif the Lucky, and Autograph Letter Signed. New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1941.

Stated first edition, illustrated in color and black-and-white, bound in full color publisher’s pictorial boards, with green cloth spine, the jacket slightly faded, with some chipping along the top edge; [with] a letter from the D’Aulaires, on their Fifth Avenue stationery, dated 12 June 1940, addressed to Julia Carter, thanking her for her hospitality, with the holograph envelope.

Provenance: From the collection of Julia F. Carter (1884-1980). $200-300

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322 de Angeli, Marguerite (1889-1987) Four Printed Books and Correspondence.

The Door in the Wall, New York: Junior Books, Doubleday, [1949], inscribed to Julia Carter on copyright page, stated first edition, in blue publisher’s cloth and slightly rubbed dust jacket, with some edge wear, winner of the 1950 Newbery award; Skippack School, New York: Junior Books, Doubleday, 1939, stated first edition, in reddish brown cloth, with a slightly worn jacket; Butter at the Old Price, New York: Doubleday, 1971, inscribed by the author to Carter, stated first edition, with the dust jacket, some wear, closed tears; Four notes by de Angeli addressed to Carter; an invitation to the Children’s Library Association presentation of the Newbery and Caldecott Medals for 1950, awarded to de Angeli for The Door in the Wall, and Leo Politi for Song for the Swallows; and a program, from the 1969 festivities, signed by Lloyd Alexander, who won the Newbery that year for The High King; Four Christmas cards with printed illustrations and hand-written sentiments from Dorothy P. Lathrop (1891-1980); [and] Elinor Parker’s A Birthday Garland, New York: Crowell, [1949], with the dust jacket, a birthday book with the names of Carter’s friends added in their own hands.

323 Edmonds, Walter D. (1903-1998) The Matchlock Gun, Inscribed. New York: Dodd, Mead, & Co., 1941.

Stated first edition, inscribed by Edmonds to Julia Carter on half-title, bound in publisher’s homespun style beige cloth, with the dust jacket, which is slightly rubbed, with corner wear and a short tear on the back panel; Edmonds’s book won the Newbery Medal in 1942; [and] Leo Politi’s (1908-1996) The Mission Bell, New York: Scribner’s 1953, inscribed in bold blue ink to Carter on ffep, with added illuminations in yellow, purple, red, magenta, blue, and green; bound in publisher’s blue cloth, in a good jacket with only slight chipping, and wear, the joint adjacent to the spine discolored, with some foxing, more brownish discoloration along the gutters just inside the front and back boards. (2) Provenance: From the collection of Julia F. Carter (1884-1980) $400-600

324 Gag, Wanda (1893-1946) Elevated Station, 1926.

Lithographic print on paper, signed by Gag in pencil in the lower right margin, matted and framed, with visible mat burn, 13 3/4 x 16 in. visible through the mat opening.

Gag was a celebrated children’s book author and illustrator; this print was chosen as one of the fifty best prints of the year by the American Institute of Graphic Arts in 1926. $600-800 325 Grahame, Kenneth (1859-1932) Dream Days, illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard (1879-1976), Signed. London: John Lane, the Bodley Head, [1930].

Large paper copy, limited edition, number 234 of 275, signed by Grahame and Shepard on the limitation page, bound in publisher’s halfparchment and marbled paper boards, t.e.g.; free endleaves toned, spine a bit dirty, 8 1/2 x 5 3/4 in. $300-400

Provenance: From the collection of Julia F. Carter (1884-1980). $200-300

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328 Hellé, André [aka André Laclôtre] (18711945) L’Arche de Noé. Paris: Granier Freres, [1925].

Large quarto, in full-color illustrated publisher’s boards, blue cloth spine, with mono- and polychrome illustrations throughout the text; binding worn and chipped, an ex-library copy with bookplate, embossed blind stamp to title, unobtrusive library numbers, and the card pocket pasted inside the back board, 12 3/4 x 9 3/4 in. $200-300

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326 Gumuchian, Kirkor (1886?-1949) and Paul Gavault, Les Livres de l’Enfance du XVe au XIXe Siècle, Inscribed. Paris: Gumuchian, [n.d., 1930].

First edition, inscribed by Gumuchian and Gavault to Ronald Reader on ffep of volume one, with added illustrated color titles in both volumes, bound in uniform contemporary three-quarter red morocco and red marbled paper boards, with the original paper wrappers bound in at the back, t.e.g.; volume one contains text, volume two is the plate volume, with photographic illustrations in color and black-and-white; the bindings are a bit dry, rubbed, joint repair to the front board of volume two, extra titles loose, contents good, 11 x 8 1/2 in. (2) This work is the first bibliography dedicated to children’s books; inscribed copies are uncommon. $600-800

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327 Handforth, Thomas (1897-1948) Mei Li, Signed. New York: Junior Books, Doubleday, Doran, & Co., 1938.

First edition, signed by Handforth on ffep, in publisher’s red cloth, with the dust jacket, somewhat tattered along the top edge, with one missing piece, approximately one inch square. Handforth’s Mei Li was awarded the 1939 Caldecott Medal for illustration. [and] Kate Seredy (1899-1975) The White Stag, New York: Viking, 1937, first edition, inscribed by Seredy to Julia Carter on the half-title, bound in publisher’s red cloth, with the jacket, which is rubbed, chipped along the top edge, with two small portions of the spine lacking. Seredy won the Newbery Medal for The White Stag. (2) Provenance: From the collection of Julia F. Carter (1884-1980). $300-500

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329 Lawson, Robert (1892-1957) They Were Good and Strong, Signed. New York: Viking, 1940.

Second printing, October 1940, signed by Lawson on the half-title, bound in publisher’s beige cloth, blocked in blue, in the dust jacket, with the Caldecott Medal sticker affixed to the lower left front, the jacket slightly sunned, chipped, small portion missing at the head of the spine, brownish offsetting to endleaves/ pastedowns; Lawson won the 1941 Caldecott for this title.

Provenance: From the collection of Julia F. Carter (1884-1980). $500-700

330 Leaf, Munro (1906-1976) The Story of Ferdinand, illustrated by Robert Lawson (1892-1957). New York: Viking, 1936.

Quarto, with “First Published September 1936,” on the copyright page, in publisher’s off-white cloth spine and illustrated boards, in a later jacket, the spine of the binding foxed, the boards a little worn and faded, text with signs of gentle handling, 8 1/8 x 6 3/4 in.

Provenance: From the collection of Julia F. Carter (1884-1980). $1,500-2,000

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331 Lent, Blair (1930-2009) Artist’s Idea Notebooks.

Two small quarto-format softcover notebooks, marked Research #1 and #3, approximately 40 leaves each; the first filled with various drawings and notes in pencil and ink, the other with drawings and notes on about half of the pages; with Lent’s name and address written in his own hand inside the front cover of each volume, a Boston address crossed out in the first notebook, replaced with 10 Dana Street, Cambridge; the Cambridge address only in the second; some wear and browning, a few chips, outer covers worn, taped, becoming detached, pages removed (likely blanks) from the second notebook.

Lent is known for his children’s book illustration, especially Tikki Tikki Tembo, 1968, and The Funny Little Woman, which won the Newbery in 1973. These idea books likely date from the 1970s as well. In them, Lent has theme-based sketches that range broadly. He sketches ancient Mesoamerican civilizations, the circus, Japan, American Indians, Quakers, Christmas, Baba Yaga, Aztecs, Russian folk art and costume, hedgehogs, Assyrian motifs, the Middle East, lighthouses, American Indians of the Pacific Northwest, Hopi, India, Vietnam, Ferris wheels, and miscellaneous flower forms. $600-800

332 McCloskey, Robert (1914-2003) Make Way for Ducklings, First Edition, Inscribed. New York: The Viking Press, 1941.

First edition, folio, inscribed on title page, “To Miss Carter--Robert McCloskey,” with Carter’s bookplate pasted inside the front board, dust jacket with a 1 1/4-inch piece missing from the head of the spine, and a larger 4-inch piece torn from the foot of the spine, tear extending about an inch onto the front cover irregularly, two old tape marks on the back panel, adjacent to the missing portion of the spine; some wear at corners and fore-edges of the jacket as well; no Caldecott emblem on the jacket; beige publisher’s cloth, with ducklings and title stamped in turquoise; binding and text with signs of handling; paste downs and endleaves somewhat browned, 12 x 8 3/4 in.

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335 Moore, Anne Carroll (1871-1961) Archive of Letters, Biography, and Two Pamphlets.

Twelve handwritten letters, all addressed to Julia Carter, from the 1930s to the 1950s, some undated, mostly written on residential stationery, some rather long, one black-andwhite snapshot of Moore; Pamphlets Children’s Books of Yesterday, New York: NYPL, 1933, (an exhibition catalog), and Seven Stories High, off-printed from Moore’s article in Compton’s Pictured Encyclopedia, both stapled; and Frances Clarke Sayers’s Biography of Anne Carroll Moore, New York: Atheneum, 1972, inscribed by the author to Carter, in the dust jacket.

Moore and Carter were both originally from Maine, graduates of the Pratt library science program, and worked at the new children’s department at the New York Public Library.

Moore pioneered the idea of establishing a children’s section in American public libraries; she also reviewed and recommended books for children, generally with good results, with the notable exception of her infamous rejection of Charlotte’s Web. Provenance: From the collection of Julia F. Carter (1884-1980). $200-300

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333 McCloskey, Robert (1914-2003) One Morning in Maine. New York: Viking, 1952.

First edition, the text printed in blue throughout, bound in gray publisher’s cloth, with a sunrise over the ocean blocked in white on the front board, in a sun-faded and tattered jacket, missing a large chunk from the spine and adjacent section of front panel, a smaller portion missing at the foot of the spine, some tape repairs on verso; Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867-1957) Little House on the Prairie, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1935, illustrated by Helen Sewell, stated first edition with “E-K” on copyright page, no jacket, bound in publisher’s gray cloth, blocked in brown, spine sunned, cloth beginning to fray along the spine; [and] Mary Norton’s (1903-1992) The Borrowers, New York: Harcourt, Brace, & Co., [1953], stated first edition, bound in publisher’s light blue cloth, the spine discolored, in a nice jacket with bright colors, minor wear and chipping, the spine slightly sunned. (3)

334 Milhous, Katherine (1894-1977) The Egg Tree, Signed, with a Drawing. New York: Scribner’s, 1950.

First edition, signed by Milhous on verso of ffep, with Julia Carter’s name inside a Pennsylvania-Dutch-style heart, surmounted by another smaller heart sprouting a yellow tulip, all in red, yellow, and green colored pencil; bound in turquoise publisher’s cloth, with the dust jacket bearing the Caldecott sticker, the sticker torn away at the top, the jacket with a large tear, extending from the inside of the front panel, down to the bottom left corner of the front, repaired on the verso with cello-tape without loss, otherwise good with minor chipping to corners and spine ends; winner of the 1951 Caldecott award for children’s book illustration.

Provenance: From the collection of Julia F. Carter (1884-1980). $200-400

Provenance: From the collection of Julia F. Carter (1884-1980). $400-600

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336 Outhwaite, Ida Rentoul (1888-1960) Bunny & Brownie, the Adventures of George & Wiggle. London: A. & C. Black, Ltd., [1930].

First edition, with sixteen illustrations on printed on glossy stock, extraneous to the collation (eight in color, eight black-and-white), bound in publisher’s textured mottled paper boards with a blue cloth spine, illustrated title label pasted on the front board, with ads for other works by the same author at the back, boards slightly rubbed and sun-faded, 10 1/4 x 7 3/4 in. $300-500 337 Sendak, Maurice (1928-2012) Prints and Posters.

Original two-color stone lithograph, the stone drawn by Sendak, At Home with Jack and Guy, Corridor Press, 1999, signed by Sendak, number 125 of 200, with print documentation; Harper & Row poster printed in 1981 to promote Outside Over There, signed by Sendak; Brooklyn Children’s Museum poster, 1998, signed; original posters designed for the Girl Scout Council of New York, 1990, and the Houston Grand Opera, 1997-98; and a poster promoting the 1996 Sony holiday windows by Sendak, various sizes, all as new. (6) $300-500

338 Sendak, Maurice (1928-2012) Signed Posters, Proof Sheet, Book.

We are All in the Dumps with Jack and Guy, New York: Harper Collins, 1993, stated first edition, signed, dust jacket, excellent; an untrimmed press sheet of Sendak’s illustrations for Heinrich von Kleist’s (17771811) Penthesilea, New York: Harper Collins, 1998, 25 x 19 in.; two signed posters, and another, unsigned; all as new. (5) $300-500

339 Seuss, Dr. [Theodor Geisel] (1904-1991) And to Think that I Saw it on Mulberry Street, Inscribed. New York: Vanguard, [1937].

Quarto, stated second printing, inscribed on ffep to George Salter (1897-1967), “For Georg [sic] Salter, with many thanks for pulling the color out of the doldrums. -Dr. Seuss”; with the boy’s shorts on the front cover blue; lacking the dust jacket, ffep detached, boards scratched, worn, faded, the spine repaired with masking tape, 11 x 8 1/4 in.

Salter was an illustrator and designer of German extraction who created jacket designs for approximately 185 books. $1,800-2,000

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340 Seuss, Dr. [Theodor Geisel] (1904-1991) Cat in the Hat Drawing, Signed.

Single sheet of wove paper, likely a free endleaf removed from a book, with the iconic cat in his bow tie and red striped hat, in permanent felt-tip, red and black marker, signed, “Best Wishes! Dr. Seuss,” the red bleeding through to the back, fingerprint fragment in red ink just above the hat, the sheet slightly toned, uneven where it was removed from the book, slight horizontal fold, matted, 7 1/2 x 5 in. $600-800

341 Taylor, Deems (1885-1996) Walt Disney’s Fantasia [and] The Nutcracker Suite. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1940 [and] Boston: Little, Brown, & Co., 1940.

First editions, two volumes in good condition, in publisher’s bindings with good dust jackets, both illustrated in color throughout. (2) $1,200-1,500

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342 Travers, Pamela Lyndon (1899-1996) Mary Poppins Comes Back, Inscribed Copy.

London: Lovat Dickson & Thompson, Ltd., [1935].

First edition, octavo, inscribed by Travers to a Miss Marion Dodd on ffep, with a letter to Dodd from Reynal and Hitchcock in New York, dated 16 December 1935, explaining that this inscribed copy of the first English edition is meant from the author and American publisher to be a Christmas gift for Dodd for “all you have done to establish [Travers’s] success here in America”; in the dust jacket, with some slight offsetting to the endleaves, and light sunning and chipping to the jacket, 7 1/4 x 4 3/4 in. $2,500-3,500

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343 Travers, Pamela Lyndon (1899-1996) Mary Poppins. London: Gerald Howe, Ltd., [1934].

First edition, octavo, with the dust jacket, in publisher’s bright yellow cloth, with the portrait of Mary stamped on the front board in blue, dust jacket is price clipped, with a short tear to the foot of the front joint, and chipping at the tail, 7 1/4 x 4 3/4 in. $2,000-3,000

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344 White, E.B. (1899-1985) Charlotte’s Web. New York: Harper & Brothers, [1952].

First edition, with “I-B” on the copyright page, octavo, 184 pages, in tan publisher’s cloth with the title in spider webs on the front board and spine, in a first issue dust jacket with four blurbs for Stuart Little on the back panel, minor abrasions, slight bumping to head of spine and top edge of jacket, 8 x 5 1/4 in. $300-500

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345 Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Thirty-seven octavo-format colored lithographs removed from Birds of America. $300-500

346 Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Bison, Plate LVII. [from] The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America. Philadelphia: J.T. Bowen, 1839-1844.

Hand-colored lithograph, imperial folio, good color, background with light foxing, toning, small water stain in bottom right corner, minor darkening along the outermost millimeter or two of the sheet, framed, 28 x 22 in.

This plate depicts an adult male and female bison with a calf; in the dramatic hilly fields behind them the herd grazes. $7,000-10,000

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347 Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Black American Wolf, Plate LXVII. [from] The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America.

Philadelphia: J.T. Bowen, 1839-1844.

Hand-colored lithograph, imperial folio, good color, a few minor background spots; corrugated cardboard backing used in the past (not mounted), the sheet with subtle corrugated discoloration from the backing, minor darkening along the outermost millimeter or two of the sheet, framed, 27 3/4 x 21 1/2 in. $800-1,000 348 Audubon, John James (1785-1851) BlackWinged Hawk, Plate 16. [from] The Birds of America, New York: Bien, c. 1860.

Chromolithograph plate on wove paper, unframed, the sheet toned, with significant chipping along the top margin, with losses to top right corner, large dog-ear fold to bottom right corner, with damage repaired, but still visible, one short closed tear (smaller than a half-inch) on the left side, and two, about an inch long each, on the right, 39 x 26 in. $400-600

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349 Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Brown Creeper, Plate CCCCXV. [from] Birds of America. London: R. Havell, 1826-1838.

Hand-aquatinted copper-plate engraving, good color, unframed, the sheet lightly toned, mat burn, chips to upper margin, one dark spot approximately 4 inches beyond the top plate mark, 25 x 37 1/2 in. $300-500

350 Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Cervus Leucurus, Long Tailed Deer, Plate CXVIII. [from] The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America. Philadelphia: J.T. Bowen, 18391844.

Hand-colored lithograph, imperial folio, the sheet toned, with slight foxing and minor blemishes, framed, 21 1/2 x 27 1/2 in. visible. $1,500-3,000

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351 Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Connecticut Warbler, Plate CXXXVIII. [from] Birds of America. London: R. Havell, 18261838.

Hand-aquatinted copper-plate engraving on paper, bright colors, full sheet with a few spots, may be laid down, plate mark still visible, framed, 24 1/2 x 37 3/4 in.

Provenance: Estate of Charles Paine Fisher. $800-1,000

352 Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Green Heron, Plate CCCXXXIII. [from] Birds of America. London: R. Havell, 1826-1838.

Hand-aquatinted copper-plate engraving, framed, the sheet browned, foxed, 32 1/2 x 25 in.

Provenance: Estate of Charles Paine Fisher. $5,000-7,000

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353 Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Hermit Thrush, Plate LVIII. [from] Birds of America.

London: R. Havell, 1826-1838.

Hand-aquatinted copper-plate engraving, the sheet quite clean, with good color, in recent museum-quality gilt and hand-ruled mat and frame, plate mark and 19 3/4 x 12 1/2 in. of the sheet visible through the mat, 41 1/2 x 29 in. overall. $400-600 354 Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Nashville Warbler, Plate LXXXIX. [from] Birds of America. London: R. Havell, 18261838.

Hand-aquatinted copper-plate engraving, clean, with good color, in recent museumquality gilt and hand-ruled mat and frame, plate mark and 20 x 13 in. of the sheet visible through the mat, 42 1/2 x 29 in. overall. $500-700

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355 Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Northern Meadow Mouse, Plate CXXIV. [from] The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America. Philadelphia: J.T. Bowen, 1848.

Hand-colored lithograph, imperial folio, matted and framed, light foxing, 24 3/4 x 18 1/2 in. $300-500

357 Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Prairie Dog, Plate XCIX. [from] The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America. Philadelphia: J.T. Bowen, 1839-1844.

Hand-colored lithograph, imperial folio, matted and framed, good color, no obvious faults, 26 x 19 1/2 in. visible through the mat opening. $300-500

356 Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Plumed Partridge, Plate CCCCXXIII. [from] Birds of America. London: R. Havell, 1826-1838.

Hand-aquatinted copper-plate engraving, the sheet quite clean, with good color, in recent museum-quality gilt and hand-ruled mat and frame, plate mark and 21 3/4 x 13 1/4 in. of the sheet visible through the mat, 41 1/2 x 29 in. overall. $3,000-5,000

358 Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Prairie Dog, Plate XCIX. [from] The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America. Philadelphia: J.T. Bowen, 1839-1844.

Hand-colored lithograph, imperial folio, clean sheet with good color, surface scratch with loss of color to the area just above the prairie dog peeking out of its burrow, framed, 27 1/2 x 21 1/2 in. $300-500

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359 Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Rathbone’s Warbler, Males, Plate 65. [from] Birds of America. London: R. Havell, 18261838.

Hand-aquatinted copper-plate engraving, the sheet very clean, hand-coloring somewhat faded, framed, with full sheet visible, slightly rumpled, 26 1/2 x 39 in. $1,000-2,000

360 Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Red-tailed Hawk, Plate 53. [from] Birds of America. London: R. Havell, 1826-1838.

Hand-aquatinted copper-plate engraving, good color, in recent museum-quality gilt and hand-ruled mat and frame, small area of restoration or surface disturbance to upper left corner, two closed tears (repaired) along left margin, one approximately 1 inch, the other 2 1/2 inches, minor foxing, 37 1/4 x 24 3/4 in. of the sheet visible through the mat. $4,000-6,000

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361 Audubon, John James (1785-1851) Stanley Hawks, Plate 36. [from] Birds of America.

London: R. Havell, 1826-1838.

Hand-aquatinted copper-plate engraving, clean, with good color, in recent museumquality gilt and hand-ruled mat and frame, plate mark and 24 3/4 x 36 3/4 in. of the sheet visible through the mat, 38 1/2 x 50 in. overall. $3,000-5,000

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362 Audubon, John James (1785-1851) The Birds of America. New York: by J.J. Audubon; Philadelphia: J.B. Chevalier, 1840.

First edition, seven large octavo volumes, illustrated with 500 color lithographs of birds, with lists of subscribers in all volumes; bound in full uniform red morocco, lettered in gilt on the spines, and tooled in blind; two plates bound out of order, one plate with brownish paper tape repair, leaves with some light foxing, two plates trimmed closely, with plate numbers trimmed away, three text leaves with marginal paper repairs done with the same paper gummed tape; front board of volume four detached, the bindings lightly rubbed, with loss of surface, some headcaps a little bruised, some hinges tender, 10 1/4 x 6 1/4 in. (7) $30,000-35,000

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363 Audubon, John James (1785-1851) The Birds of America. New York: V.G. Audubon, 1856 Second edition, seven octavo volumes, illustrated throughout with five hundred chromolithographs of birds, all volumes with the half-titles, bound in uniform full black pebbled morocco, with elaborate gilt stamping to boards, a.e.g., inner gilt dentelles, rebacked sympathetically and carefully, the old spines laid down, the leather in good condition, corners still crisp, contents with foxing throughout, to text leaves and tissue guards, plates generally spared, some water staining, 10 1/2 x 6 3/4 in. (7) Provenance: Estate of Charles Paine Fisher. $8,000-10,000

364 Audubon, John James (1785-1851) The Quadrupeds of North America. New York: V.G. Audubon, 1849-1854.

Three octavo volumes, illustrated with 155 full-paged hand-finished lithographs, plates 58 and 59 bound out of order, bound in later three-quarter black pebbled morocco and brown cloth-covered boards, marbled edges, some tissue guards lacking, the text leaves toned, good color on the plates, the bindings are completely solid, with some shelf wear, 10 1/4 x 7 in. (3) $4,000-6,000

365 Audubon, John James (1785-1851) The Quadrupeds of North America. New York: V.G. Audubon, 1849-1854.

Three octavo volumes, illustrated with 155 full-paged hand-finished lithographs of the four-legged mammals of North America, from mouse to buffalo, including all of the herbivores, omnivores, and carnivores in between; plates 58 and 59 bound out of order, tissue guards mostly intact, bound in full pebbled green morocco, tooled in gilt, a.e.g., with a small member of the squirrel family perched on a birch tree tooled in gold on the front board of each volume, and on the back in blind, inner gilt dentelles, glossy white endleaves; without the lists of subscribers, front boards of volumes one and three detached, boards rubbed with surface damage, contents generally good, 10 x 6 3/4 in. (3) $3,000-5,000 366 Audubon, John James (1785-1851) The Quadrupeds of North America. New York: V.G. Audubon, 1852.

Three octavo volumes, illustrated with 152 of 155 full-paged hand-colored lithographs, lacking plates 85: jumping mouse; 86: ocelot; and 89: Say’s squirrel; no lists of subscribers; half-titles in volumes two and three only; all volumes disbound, all boards detached, lacking spines, contents generally good, a.e.g., 10 1/2 x 7 in. (3) $3,000-5,000

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367 Bellows, George (1882-1925) Punchinello in the House of Death. [New York]: Bolton Brown, [1923].

Large lithograph on paper, signed by printer Bolton Brown (1864-1936) in the lower left, titled in the center, signed by Bellows in the lower right, all inscriptions in pencil; this illustration was created to accompany Donn Byrne’s From The Wind Bloweth, matted and framed, 17 x 20 in. visible through the mat opening, not examined out of frame. $1,000-1,200

368 Benson, Frank Weston (1862-1951) Blackbirds and Rushes.

Original drypoint etching, 1920, signed in the plate, the plate cancelled, the image defaced by a large “X� and grid lines in the plate, matted and framed, 10 1/4 x 14 1/2 in. $400-600 369 Besler, Basilius (1561-1629) Aloe. [from] Hortus Eystettensis, 1613.

Copper-plate engraving of a variety of aloe, in bloom, printed on laid paper, hand-colored, with letterpress text on the verso, the sheet lightly toned, some darkening along the edges, 21 1/4 x 17 3/4 in. $500-700

370 Besler, Basilius (1561-1629) Caryophyllus Sylvestris. [from] Hortus Eystettensis, 1613.

Copper-plate engraving of three examples of carnations (dianthus caryophyllus) in pink, red, and white; printed on laid paper, handcolored, with letterpress text on the verso, the sheet lightly toned, some darkening along the edges, 21 1/4 x 17 3/4 in. $500-700

371 Besler, Basilius (1561-1629) Fraga. [from] Hortus Eystettensis, 1613.

Copper-plate engraving of three varieties of strawberry, a large-fruited cultivar, a wild strawberry, and one with white fruit; printed on laid paper, hand-colored, with letterpress text on the verso, the sheet lightly toned, some darkening along the edges, 21 1/4 x 17 3/4 in. $600-800

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372 Besler, Basilius (1561-1629) Hydrangena et alia. [from] Hortus Eystettensis, 1613.

Hand-colored copper-plate engraving printed on a large folio-sized sheet of laid paper, with typographical text on the verso, 20 x 16 in., in a molded giltwood frame. $400-600 373 Besler, Basilius (1561-1629) Muscari. [from] Hortus Eystettensis, 1613.

Copper-plate engraving of three varieties of grape hyacinth; printed on laid paper, handcolored, with letterpress text on the verso, the sheet lightly toned, corners slightly soft, 22 3/4 x 17 1/2 in. $300-500

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374 Besler, Basilius (1561-1629) Paliurus [et] Colchicum Albo [et] Rubello. [from] Hortus Eystettensis, 1613.

Hand-colored copper-plate engraving of paliurus in the center, flanked by white and pink colchicum bulbs in bloom; printed on a large folio-sized sheet of laid paper, with typographical text on the verso, 21 1/4 x 18 in. $400-600

375 Besler, Basilius (1561-1629) Rosa. [from] Hortus Eystettensis, 1613.

Copper-plate engraving of four varieties of rose: Rosa sylvestris odorata incarnato flore; Rosa sylvestris flore rubro; Rosa milesia umbra flore simpl; and Rosa eglenteria, printed on laid paper, hand-colored in red, pink, and white, with letterpress text on the verso, the sheet lightly toned, some darkening along the edges, 21 1/4 x 17 3/4 in. $500-700

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376 Besler, Basilius (1561-1629) Stramonia, Halimus, and Botris Dracontiae Major. [from] Hortus Eystettensis, 1613.

Copper-plate engraving of Jimson weed (Datura stramonium), Mediterranean saltbush (Atriplex halimus), and a seed head of Jackin-the-Pulpit (Arisaema triphyllum, aka Brown Dragon) printed on laid paper, hand-colored, with letterpress text on the verso, the sheet lightly toned, some darkening along the edges, 21 1/4 x 17 3/4 in. $300-500 377 Besler, Basilius (1561-1629) Teucrium Verum, Thlaspi Cappadocium. [from] Hortus Eystettensis, 1613.

Copper-plate engraving of Catnip (Teucrium marum), and white and pink varieties of Penny-cress (Thlaspi), printed on laid paper, hand-colored, with letterpress text on the verso, the sheet lightly toned, edge chipping with slight corner loss, 22 3/4 x 17 1/2 in. $300-500

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378 Camellia Prints by Oudet After J.J. Jung, Three Prints. [from] Iconographie du Genre Camellia, by Berlese, AbbĂŠ Laurent (17841863) Paris: Cousin, 1839-1843.

Three engraved and stipple-engraved plates, partly hand-colored and finished by hand, printed by Remond, plates numbered 19, 150, and 159, depicting Camellia Clovesiana, Camellia Juliana, and Camellia Anemoneflora warrata Alba; all are white flowers, some with pink streaks, 14 x 10 1/4 in. (3) $300-500

379 Caricatures: James Gillray Print and Book of French Lithographs, 19th Century.

A collection of thirty-seven hand-colored lithographic caricatures and cartoons by Charles-Marie de Sarcus [aka Quillenbois] (1821-1867), fragmentary at the beginning and end, but contents clean, with good color, 13 x 9 3/4 in. [and] James Gillray’s (1757-1815) Harmony before Matrimony, London: Humphrey, 1805, hand-colored, matted and framed, depicting a man and woman singing together, the woman playing the harp, 14 3/4 x 10 3/4 in. (2) Provenance: Estate of Charles Paine Fisher. $300-500

380 Catesby, Mark (1682-1749) Pluvialis Vociferus, [from] The Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands.

London: Marsh and Wilcox, 1754.

Hand-colored engraving of the chattering plover, matted and framed, platemark and 11 1/4 x 15 in. of the sheet visible. $300-500 381 Dali, Salvador (1904-1989) Signed Poster, The Broken Bridge and the Dream. New York: Shorewood Reproductions, [1970s].

Full-color poster signed by Dali with a black magic marker, formerly rolled, some edge tears and folds, and other wear, 25 1/2 x 21 1/2 in. $300-400

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382 Early Automobiles, Transcontinental Crossing: Seven Photographs and One Flip-book, c. 1910.

A group of framed black-and-white photographs depicting an automotive crossing of North America, including a shot taken in a southwestern desert, several shots of the car stuck in very deep water, a radiator fill performed on railroad tracks, and a nice shot of the adventurers’ campsite with car, 11 x 14 in. each; [and] A flip-book, with images of the same car coming at and then passing the viewer along a winding road, 4 1/4 x 2 3/4 in. (8) Horatio Nelson Jackson made the first transcontinental crossing of the United States by automobile in 1903, at the time the U.S. boasted a total of 150 miles of paved roads.

The journey chronicled here most likely occurred within a decade of that maiden voyage. The beloved auto, which appears in every photo, has the number 373 on the front grille. $200-300

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383 Encampment of Piekann Indians near Fort McKenzie.

Hand-colored lithograph, [from] McKenney & Hall’s History of the Indian Tribes of North America, Philadelphia: Rice & Clark, 1842, framed, one corner creased, dusty around the edges, light minor smudges, 20 1/4 x 14 1/2 in. $800-1,200 384 Engravings and Etchings, English and Continental, 18th Century.

Approximately thirty-five intaglio prints mounted in a pre-made album of about 100 pages, many others have been removed, many pages of the album are cut away and missing. $200-300

385 Gandolfi, Mauro (1764-1834) (engraver), After Raphael (1483-1520) S[aint] Cecilia, c. 1833.

Large-format engraving on paper after the c.

1516 painting The Ecstasy of Saint Cecilia, with the dedication at the foot of the page, plate mark visible, some very light foxing, generally good in a period gilt frame, 33 3/4 x 23 1/2 in.

In this image, the patron saint of musicians holds her flute and gazes toward heaven, with St. Paul, St. John the Evangelist, St. Augustine, and Mary Magdalene around her.

Provenance: Estate of Charles Paine Fisher. $300-500 385

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386 Gould, John (1804-1881) Aguila Naevia.

[Spotted Eagle] [from] The Birds of Europe, London, 1873.

Hand-colored lithograph, in a gilt mat, nicely framed, with 20 1/4 x 13 1/4 in. of the sheet visible, with the text leaf. $300-500 387 Gould, John (1804-1881) Black-Winged Kite. [from] The Birds of Europe, London, 1837.

Hand-colored lithograph, in a hand-ruled mat, framed, with 19 x 13 in. of the sheet visible, with the text leaf. $300-500 388 Gould, John (1804-1881) Phalacrocorax Carbo [Great Black Cormorant]. [from] The Birds of Europe, London, 1837.

Hand-colored lithograph, in a gilt, hand-ruled mat, framed, with 21 x 14 1/4 in. of the sheet visible, with the text leaf. $300-500

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389 Gould, John (1804-1881) Pteroglossus Haemanotus. Blood-rumped Groovebill Araรงari. [from] Monograph of the Ramphastidae, London, 1834-35.

Hand-colored lithograph, in a hand-ruled gilt mat, framed, with 20 x 14 in. of the sheet visible.

This a bright green member of the toucan family with bright red tail markings and an aubergine bill is now known as a crimson-rumped toucanet (Aulacorhynchus haematopygus). It occupies the Andean rainforests of Central America. $200-300 390 Gould, John (1804-1881) Sula Bassana.

[Northern Gannet] [from] The Birds of Great Britain, London: Walter, 1862-1873.

Hand-colored lithograph, in a hand-ruled gilt mat, framed, with 20 3/4 x 14 in. of the sheet visible, with the text leaf. $200-300

391 Hicks, Thomas (1823-1890) Authors of the United States, engraved by Alexander Hay Ritchie (1822-1895) New York: Thomas Hicks, 1866.

Large-format engraving on paper, some dampstaining and spotting, the sheet slightly crinkled around the edges, framed, 38 3/4 x 25 in. $300-500

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392 Joseph Tayadaneega called the Brant, the Great Captain of the Six Nations. London, 1779.

Mezzotint portrait engraved by John Raphael Smith (baptized 1751-1812) after the painting

by George Romney (1734-1802), the sheet toned, plate mark visible, recently cleaned, restored, matted, and framed, with the report from the conservator, all edges of the sheet visible, 14 1/2 x 20 1/4 in.

This sensitive portrait of the Mohawk Chief, Captain Joseph Brant, or Thayendanegea (1743-1807) derives from a portrait painted

by Romney when Brant visited London with the British Superintendent of Indian Affairs in the province of New York, Sir William Johnson (c. 1715-1774). In London, dressed in his traditional Mohawk clothes, Brant participated in something of a publicity tour. He was interviewed by James Boswell and received his Masonic apron directly from King George III. Brant is shown here wearing a feathered headdress, armbands, a sash, a gorget, and other embellishments; he holds a tomahawk in his right hand. The original painting is now housed at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa. Lord George Germain (1716-1785), the unfortunate Secretary of State for America, representing the Crown during the American Revolution, arranged to have this print version of the Romney portrait engraved, and gave Brant a box of the copies as a gift. $3,000-5,000

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395 Kent, Rockwell (1882-1971) Illustrated Endpaper Proof. [from] World Famous Paintings. New York: Wise & Co., 1939.

Single illustrated sheet with the text from the beginning of the book of Genesis, and images of the hand of God touching shining orbs, uncreased, the sheet printed as a proof, never used, small piece of tape and portion of paper adhering to verso, 11 1/2 x 17 in. $700-900

396 Koranyi, Anna So’os (1870-1947) Congres International pour le Suffrage des Femmes.

Budapest, 15-20 June 1913.

Poster printed on cream-colored paper in grayish green and yellow, depicting Atlas holding the world assisted by a woman, mounted on linen, some old tears, top right corner torn with loss, the border restored, framed, 37 x 24 3/4 in.

This poster was also printed with the text in English and German. $600-800 397 Lincoln, Abraham Engraved Portrait by John Chester Buttre (1821-1893). [New York, 1861].

Steel-engraved portrait of a bearded Lincoln, full-length, standing with his hand resting on a table, facsimile signature in bottom margin, with marginal tears and chips, framed, 28 x 21 in. $300-500

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393 Kent, Rockwell (1882-1971) Christmas Seals Proof and Poster, 1939.

Window card promoting the sale of Christmas seals, in full color, 11 x 15 in.; and a signed proof sheet of 100 Christmas seals, imperforate, signed in the center by Kent, numbered 82 (of 100) on the verso, 8 1/4 x 10 1/2 in. (2) $1,000-1,500

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394 Kent, Rockwell (1882-1971) Five Proofs for Kent LP Record Jacket Covers, 1960s-1970s.

Proof prints of cover art for Alfred Deller’s The Three Ravens, The Wraggle Taggle Gipsies, and Erich Kunz’s German University Songs, volumes 1-3; in full color, all for the Vanguard Recording Society, 15 x 11 in. each. (5) $1,000-1,500

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398 Lydekker, Richard (1849-1915) The Deer of All Lands. London: Rowland Ward, 1898.

Limited edition, signed by the author, illustrated with twenty-four color lithographs of deer, in publisher’s green cloth, damaged; the back board badly water stained and mildewed, spine damaged with loss; damage to contents begins at page 306, just after the last plate, and extends to the end; the appendix leaves mostly fused together due to mildew damage, plates generally unaffected, slight occasional foxing, colors in the illustrations are bright, 11 1/2 x 9 3/4 in. $300-500

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399 Mucha, Alphonse (1860-1939) Les Saisons.

Small-format poster, with all four seasons printed on one sheet, the titles in French, starting with Hiver, on the left, each image within a rectangular cartouche, printed in colored and metallic inks; mounted on acidic board, chipping to margins, old thumbtack holes in the four corners, framed, 17 1/4 x 24 in. $2,500-3,500

400 Musical and Theater Prints, Four, Framed.

One full-paged engraving of woodwind instruments in their parts; Capar Philips Jacobsz’s (1732-1789) De Nieuwe Hofzaal, Amsterdam: Joannes Smit, [1766?] depicting a scene from Julius Caesar; Adolf van der Laan’s (1690-1742) De Aloude Hofgallery, Amsterdam: Smit, [1736-38]; [and] Simon Fokke’s Afbeelding der Vorstelyke Loge, Amsterdam: Smit, 1768, water stain in lower right corner, not affecting the image. (4) Provenance: Estate of Charles Paine Fisher. $200-300

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401 Natural History Prints, Twenty-two.

Portfolio containing loose natural history prints, including eight John Gould chromo lithographs of birds (mid-19th century); ten unidentified, smaller-format color lithographs of birds; a plate from a German book of the 19th century depicting lizards; a largefolio sheet of hand-colored lizards from Gravenhorst’s Uber Phrynosoma Orbicularis, and two hand-colored engravings of owls from Johann Leonard Frisch’s Vorstellung der Vogel in Teutschland, 18th century; varying sizes and conditions. (22) $500-700

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402 New Yorker Cartoon, George Price (19011995) Original Artwork, 1967. I haven’t the heart to tell them that it has stopped transmitting.

Pen and ink drawing with light blue washes on paper, pencil erasures and touch up in white, signed, camera-ready art, matted, depicting a family of space aliens posing before an extraterrestrial camera, while the cameraman makes his confession, with stamps, notes, and instructions to the printer on the verso, 21 x 22 in. $300-400

403 New Yorker Cartoon, George Price (19011995) Original Artwork, 1967. We figure the family that gets its kicks together sticks together.

Pen and ink drawing with light blue washes on paper, pencil erasures and touch up in white, signed, camera-ready art, matted, depicting an older man at a gas station astride a motorcycle that contains his nuclear family, surrounded by hippies and bikers, declaring his plan to the station attendant, with stamps, notes, and instructions to the printer on the verso, 25 1/2 x 21 1/4 in. $300-500

404 New Yorker Cartoon, George Price (19011995) Original Artwork. Will you be right home after the peccadillo?

Pen and ink drawing with light blue washes on paper, pencil erasures and touch up in white, signed, camera-ready art, matted, 15 3/4 x 22 in. $300-400 405 RedoutĂŠ, Pierre Joseph (1759-1840) Three Hand-colored Botanical Prints. Paris: Langlois, [19th century] Plates of Crocus Sativus (the cultivated saffron crocus); dandelion; and Sambucus Nigra (the black elderberry), plate numbers 4, 35, and 33; slight foxing, toned and chipped edges, slightly dusty, good color, 14 1/4 x 11 in. (3) $200-300

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406 Russell, Andrew Joseph (1830-1902) Eighty-four Photographs of the American West, c. 1869.

Albumen photographs developed from glass negatives, mostly 12 x 9 1/4 in., mounted on mat board, many of these images were published in Russell’s The Great West Illustrated in a Series of Photographic Views across the Continent, c. 1869, which consisted of fifty photographs, this group includes additional photographs; images include two shots of the joining of the east and west bound rail lines, various cuts, stations, tunnels, and bridges, several shots of railroad workers gathered around trains and along the tracks; images of natural features, geological monuments; images of new buildings in Salt Lake City; Laramie; Bitter Creek; Echo Canyon; and other locations, some identified in a contemporary hand, others unlabeled; some condition issues, including fading, fly specking, foxing, spotting, tears, and other faults, the group should be viewed. [and] Eleven other mid-19th century photographs, including three photographs of Cuba, two shots of the construction of a very long trestle bridge; and six others. (95) Russell was born in New Hampshire and grew up in New York, he served as a photographer for the military railroad during the Civil War. The Union Pacific Railroad employed Russell to record its transcontinental progress in evocative images that documented both remarkable engineering efforts and an equally impressive natural scenery. $3,000-5,000

407 Steinlen, Theophile Alexandre (1859-1923) Compagnie Francaise des Chocolats et des Thes, Plate 170. Paris: Maitres de l’Affiche.

Small-format poster, with the embossed stamp of Les Maitres de l’Affiche in lower right corner, matted and framed, 15 x 10 3/4 in. $800-1,200

408 Theater Broadside, Silk, The Marriage of Figaro, 1830.

Navy blue silk broadside, printed in gold ink, with the royal arms at the top, blue silk fringe, advertising the Thursday evening performance, October 28, 1830, in the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London, of three shows, the abovementioned, The Brigand, and The Illustrious Stranger, with the frame removed, 19 x 16 in. $800-1,200

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409 Vatican Loggia, Twelve Hand-colored Plates by Giovanni Ottaviani (1735-1808) After drawings by Ludovico Teseo (17311782) After frescoes by Raphael (14831520) [from] Loggie di Rafaele nel Vaticano, 1772-1777.

Twelve copper-plate engravings, numbered I through XII, depicting twelve ceiling panels from the Vatican Loggia, each carefully and completely hand-colored in very good contemporary gouache, the group still bound together, with front marbled endpaper present, blank endleaves only at the end, the plates interleaved with blanks, contents generally good, with slight loss of surface on some pages, marginal tears, finger marks, old folds, 25 1/2 x 29 1/4 in. $400-600

410 Weinmann, Johann Wilhelm (1683-1741) Ten Hand-colored Botanical Illustrations [from] Phytanthoza Iconographia, Regensburg, 1737-1745.

Folio-format copper-plate engravings with hand coloring, various sizes, including New World species, bulbs, trees, and ornamentals, good color. (10) $400-600

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411 Africa, West Coast. Johannes van Keulen (1654-1715) Pas Caarte vande Gryen-Cust.

Amsterdam: van Keulen, [c. 1715].

Double-page folio map, engraved, printed on paper, with hand-coloring, sea chart of the west coast of Africa from Sierra Leone to Cape Three Points, Ghana, including Liberia and the Ivory Coast; legend cartouche depicts ethnically diverse characters in lower left, a large elephant ridden by ivory hunters in the central title cartouche, two sailing ships in the sea, the sheet slightly toned, with offsetting and some spotting, 25 1/4 x 21 in. $300-500

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412 Azores. Johannes van Keulen (1654-1715) Niewe Pascaert van alle de Vlaemse Eylande. Amsterdam: van Keulen, 1681.

Double-page copper-plate engraving on paper, hand-colored, with insets in the two top corners only (a later issue adds another inset to the bottom right), with a ship battle in the lower center, 24 3/4 x 21 in. $300-500

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413 Bahamas and Coastal Cuba. Carte Reduite d’une Partie du Vieux Canal de Bahama.

Paris: Depot de la Marine, 1801.

Large double-page folio chart, engraved

by Etienne Collin, lettering by Besancon, uncolored, priced two francs in the bottom right corner, very clean, with old central fold, some marginal edge-crinkling, and slight offsetting, 37 x 25 1/2 in.

A clean example of a rare map commissioned by the French colonial Ministre de la Marine. $300-350

414 Baja California and Mexico. Heinrich Scherer (1628-1704) Delineatio Nova et Vera Partis Australis Novi Mexici, cum Australi Parte Insulae California Saeculo Priori ab Hispanis Detectae. Munich, c.

1700-1720.

Double-page quarto map on paper, copperplate engraving, uncolored, showing the southern tip of Baja California as an island, and the adjacent coast; from Scherer’s Jesuitthemed Atlas Nova, toned along the central fold, slight marginal water stain, 15 1/4 x 10 1/2 in. $700-900 415 Balloon View of Narragansett Bay. Providence: Pabodie & Son, [c. 1890].

Hand-colored folding chart in publisher’s tan covers, printed in green ink with an image of a balloon over the bay, corners slightly chipped, chart with fold wear, small hole, some light toning on verso, 11 3/4 x 13 in. $150-250 416 Boston. Jacques Nicolas Bellin (1703-1772) Carte de la Baye de Baston [sic]. [from] Petit Atlas Maritime. Paris, 1764.

Engraving printed on a single small-format folio laid paper sheet, coastlines outlined in green, the sea tinted an ivory color, large margins, the sheet slightly rumped, with minor foxing, framed, 12 x 8 3/4 in. of the sheet visible through the frame. $300-500

417 Canada. Three Maps. Giambattista Albrizzi’s Carta Geografica del Canada nell’America Settentrionale, Venice, 1740, uncolored, with toning along the fold; Nicolas De Fer’s Quebec, Ville de l’Amerique Septentrionale, Paris, 1705, engraved by Herman van Loon, showing Sir William Phips’s 1690 attack, uncolored; [and] Barbiellini’s Stabilimenti Inglesi in America, Turin: Chianale, Amati, e Tela, [late 18th/early 19th century] outline color, foxing, water stains. (3) $300-500 418 Caribbean and Coastal Venezuela.

Heinrich Scherer (1628-1704) Archipelagus Americanus. Munich, c. 1700-1720.

Double-page quarto map on paper, copperplate engraving, uncolored, showing the Florida Keys, Cuba, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, the Caribbean islands, Panama, and the northern Venezuelan coast, toned along the central fold, 15 1/4 x 10 1/2 in. $300-500

419 Caribbean Islands. Pieter Goos (1616-1675) Pascaert Vande Caribes Eylanden. [from] De Zee-Atlas. Amsterdam: Goos, 1672.

Large copper-plate engraved map with central fold, hand-colored, with gold highlights, matted, in a modern gilt frame, the sheet evenly toned, some slight offsetting adjacent to the fold, 21 1/2 x 17 1/2 in. $700-900 420 Chile. Panoramic View from the Summit of Santa Lucia, Santiago. [from] Gilliss’s (18111865) U.S. Naval Astronomical Expedition to the Southern Hemisphere, Washington, D.C.: Nicholson, 1855. [Plate printed by T. Sinclair, Philadelphia.]

Folding colored lithographic view printed on three joined sheets, drawn from “camera sketches” by E.R. Smith, folded, with toning, and other cosmetic defects, 11 1/2 x 67 in. $250-350

421 Cologne. Georg Braun (1540-162) and Franz Hogenberg (fl. circa 1540-1590) Colonia Agrippina urbs ampla florens. [from] Civitates Orbis Terrarum, Cologne, 1572-1618.

Double-page copper-plate engraved bird’s eye view of the city, with three cartouches, and two coats of arms, hand-colored, matted, and framed, typographical text on the verso, old central fold, 19 1/2 x 13 3/4 in. visible through the mat opening. $300-500 422 Colton, Joseph Hutchins (1800-1893) Colton’s General Atlas. New York: Colton, 1859.

Large folio, illustrated with extra engraved title and all numbered maps as called for on the contents page, maps hand-colored; ex libris John H. Dodge (1828-1863), Massachusetts missionary to Africa, with his dated signature on ffep; text leaves not collated, in publisher’s contemporary half-leather and stamped cloth boards, damaged, boards becoming detached, frayed, water stains to boards; contents toned, with occasional spotting, 17 1/2 x 14 3/4 in. $2,000-2,500 423 Diderot, Denis (1713-1784) Complete Set of Ten Maps from the Encyclopedie. Paris: c. 1780.

Ten folding copper-plate engraved maps, all uncolored, on large clean sheets with deckle edges, disbound; including: Carte des Parties Nord et Ouest de l’Amerique; Cartes des Parties Nord et Est de l’Asie; Nouvelle Representation des Cotes Nord et Est de l’Asie; Carte de la Californie et des Pays Nord-ouest; Carte de la Californie; Carte des Nouvelles Decouvertes; Carte Generale des Decouvertes de l’Amiral de Fonte; Carte Generale des Decouvertes de l’Amiral de Fonte Passage au Nord-ouest; Carte [des] Terres Arctiques; Partie de la Carte du Capitaine Cluny. (10) $400-600

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424 Early New England, Three Maps: Herman Moll’s (d. 1732) New-England, New York, New Jersey and Pensilvania, [from] Atlas Minor, copper-plate engraved map on laid paper, with the number “54” in the top right corner of the plate, outside of the border, a capital letter “A” just under the 70 degree longitude mark on the bottom margin, and the signature mark, “EEE” in the bottom right corner of the plate, also outside of the border, with sixteen lines of text in the lower right corner, describing postal routes, hand-colored, folds, bottom right text box with slight blurriness due to an original printing fault, 11 1/2 x 8 3/4 in. [and] Robert Morden’s (d. 1703) A New Map of New England and New York, [page 605/606] and his New England and New York, [page 373/374] removed from 17th century quarto-format editions of his atlas, with seven contiguous text leaves from the same book, pages 599 to 614, [page 605/606 is one of the maps listed above], including the descriptions of West and East New Jersey, and New York, slight worming to the New Map, and minor loss to the outermost border when the page was torn from the book, general age toning, 7 3/4 x 6 1/4 in. each. (3) $400-600 424

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425 Europe, Ten Maps: Including maps the Holy Land, and other old world locales, mostly 18th century, mostly engraved and hand-colored, mostly small format, including a framed copy of Cary’s 1806 map of France with handcoloring. (10) $200-250

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426 Europe. Nicolas Sanson (1600-1667) and Alexis-Hubert Jaillot (1632-1712) L’Europe divisee suivant l’estendue des ses principaux estats. [from] Atlas Nouveau. [?Paris], c. 1690.

Large folio copper-plate map, cartouche in upper left corner, hand-colored and outlined, on a clean sheet, with old folds, matted and presented in a modern gilt frame, 35 1/4 x 23 1/2 in. visible through the mat opening. $400-600

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427 Florida. Guillaume de l’Isle (1675-1726) Carta Geografica della Florida nell’America Settentrionale. Venice: Albrizzi, 1740-50.

Double-page folio map, copper-plate engraving, uncolored, showing the East Coast of the U.S. from Florida up to Maryland, the Gulf Coast, and the corresponding interior, stopping just before the Great Lakes, slight toning on the fold, otherwise good, 18 1/2 x 14 1/2 in. $400-600

428 Florida. Joannes De Laet (1581-1649) Florida et Regiones Vicinae. [?Leiden, c.

1630].

Copper-plate map, double-page, handcolored, the sheet browned, with vertical breaks to the sheet, with loss, mainly in the ocean near the panhandle, one break travels North into the continent; the sheet mounted, matted, and framed, 11 x 14 in. visible through the mat opening. $1,200-1,500 429 Folding Maps, Two. Map of Central America. Compiled from materials furnished by the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate of the U.S. Executed at the Office of the U.S. Coast Survey, New York: Bien, 1856, hand-colored, folded into publisher’s covers; some small holes, breaks along intersections in folds; [and] Prang’s map of Boston, 1872, in publisher’s boards, badly torn. (2) $200-300 430 France. Abraham Ortelius (15281598) Gallia Vetus, ad Iul. Caesarius Commentaria. [Antwerp, c. 1601].

Double-page folio map, hand-colored copperplate engraving, with printed text on the verso, the sheet toned, darkening along central fold, outline color, text highlighted in red, 23 1/4 x 18 in. $250-350 431 French Views, Two Framed Engravings: Orleans, Montpellier, Tours, and Poitiers.

Two copper-plate engravings, colored by hand, the first a bird’s-eye view of Orleans, the second a compound image, with smaller views of Montpellier, Tours, and Poitiers, all taken from Braun & Hogenberg’s town book, Civitatus Orbis Terrarum, matted and framed.

(2) $300-500

432 Geneva, View. Alfred Guesdon (1808-1876).

Paris: Lemericier, c. 1859.

Large full-color lithograph on paper, showing a bird’s-eye view of Geneva, matted, in a modern gilt frame, 18 x 24 1/2 in. visible through the mat opening. $400-600 433 Granada, Spain. Georg Hoefnagel (15421601) Granata.

Double-page copper-plate engraving from Brun and Hogenberger’s Civitates Orbis Terrarum, Cologne, 1572-1618, hand-colored, matted, and framed, old folds, some surface loss along the fold, the sheet lightly toned, 15 x 20 1/4 in. visible through the mat opening. $200-400 434 Gualdo Priorato, Conte Galeazzo (16061678) Historia Ferinando Terzo Imperatore.

Vienna: Cosmerovio, 1672.

Folio, engraved title; typographical title page printed in red and black (with engraved vignette); a different vignette at the head of each chapter, one full-paged portrait; with nineteen folding maps and plates of views and battles, with no other portraits; lacking at least one text leaf (page 241/242); this is volume one, the second volume was never published; a large, clean copy in vellum (boards replaced, due to worm damage, re-covered with the original parchment) many straight-through worm holes in first and last few leaves only, the maps and plates in good condition, 15 x 10 1/2 in. $1,000-1,500 435 Guinea. Johannes Janssonius (1588-1664) Guinea. [from] Atlas Novus. Amsterdam: Janssonius, [c. 1660].

Double-paged engraved folio map, handcolored, with old central fold, surface dusty, toning; framed, with many African animals depicted in the landscape, 22 1/4 x 17 in. visible through frame. $300-500

436 Haiti, South Coast and Venezuela, North Coast. Johannes van Keulen (1654-1715) Pas-kaart van de Zuyd Kust van Espaniola.

Amsterdam: van Keulen, [1697-1709].

Double-page folio map on paper, handcolored copper-plate engraved map of the sea coasts of southern Hispaniola (Haiti), the Dutch Antilles (Aruba and Curacao), and the northern coast of Venezuela, at the northwesternmost shore of the Bay of Venezuela; with a small sailing ship, cartouche and legend at the foot and lower right corner with cherubs and a cockatoo, the sheet toned, with some spotting, 24 3/4 x 21 1/4 in. $400-600

437 Istanbul. Georg Braun (1541-1622) and Franz Hogenberg (fl. circa 1540-1590) Byzantium nunc Constantinopolis. Cologne, c. 1570 Double-page folio copper-plate engraved map on paper, typographical text on verso, hand-colored, the earliest state, with the last rondelle on the bottom right corner empty, matted and framed, fading along central fold, small tear with loss at the top center of the border, slight surface dust, 19 1/2 x 13 1/2 in. $700-900 438 Italy. John Cary (1754-1835) A New Map of Italy. [from] Cary’s New Universal Atlas.

London, 1809.

Double-paged folio engraved map on paper, hand-colored, dated 1799 in the plate, geographical relief depicted, the ocean tinted an olive green, international and provincial borders outlined in color, in addition to Italy, the map also depicts Malta, Corfu, and the islands along the eastern edge of the Adriatic Sea, framed, 23 3/4 x 21 1/2 in. visible through the frame. $300-500 439 Jamaica. Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (17031772) Carte Reduite de l’Isle de la Jamaique. Paris: [Imprimerie du Departement de la Marine], 1753.

Large double-page folio map, copper-plate engraving on paper, uncolored, with old central fold, slight toning, 37 1/4 x 25 1/4 in.

This detailed map of Jamaica includes topographical details, and adjacent coastlines of southern Cuba and western Haiti. $300-500

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440 Johnson’s New Illustrated (Steel Plate) Family Atlas. New York: Johnson and Browning, 1861.

Large folio, illustrated with vignette title, and thirty-eight maps, lacking twenty-two maps (missing maps include the world maps from the beginning, North America [continental], Mexico, Central America, most of the maps of Europe, all of the maps of Asia [save Australia], the map of Africa, and the map of the ancient world); the individual states are all present, as is the new military map, not called for in the table of contents, and an extra map of Washington, D.C.; the map of Cuba is torn; toning throughout, some minor water stains, tears to text leaves, text not collated, in the original boards, quite worn, with losses to spine, 18 3/4 x 15 in. $400-600

441 Johnson’s New Illustrated (Steel Plate) Family Atlas. New York: Johnson and Browning, 1861.

Large folio, illustrated with vignette title, and all maps as called for on the contents page, the map of Vermont and New Hampshire torn in half, one half of the two page map of Massachusetts torn out and chipped but present, worming to inner gutter, bound in publisher’s boards, leather spine, water damaged throughout, text not collated, 18 1/2 x 14 1/2 in. $600-800

442 London. Edward Hatton (b. ?1664) A Plan of London Westmr. and Southwark.

London, 1708.

Double-page engraved copper-plate map, hand-colored, with central fold, seals in the top corners, a central cartouche at the foot, with text boxes flanking it, matted and framed, 19 1/2 x 13 1/2 in. visible through the mat opening.

This plan is based on the Braun and Hogenberg view of the city from 1572. $600-800

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443 London. George Frederick Cruchley (17961880) Cruchley’s New Plan of London. 81 Fleet Street, London: Cruchley, 1840.

Folding engraved map on paper, with colors added by hand, the edition noted in the lower right hand corner of the map, “a new edition improved to 1 January 1840,” old folds, a little tender, some toning and stains, trimmed to the border, 23 1/4 x 16 1/4 in. $300-500

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444 Louisiana, Texas, Gulf Coast, Great Lakes, and the Mississippi. John Senex (16781740) A Map of Louisiana and of the River Mississippi. [London, undated, c. 1721].

Large double-paged engraved map on laid paper, dedicated to William Law, handcolored, lightly evenly toned, the cartouche uncolored, 22 3/4 x 19 1/4 in.

Senex’s map follows De l’Isle’s 1718 version of the same region, with very good details that include information about local Native Americans (“Wandering Indians and Maneaters”), routes of the explorers, existing trails, forts, settlements, Native villages and encampments, inlets and ports, and rivers and their many tributaries. $1,000-1,500

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445 Lyons and Vienne, France, Views. Georg Hoefnagel (1542-1601) After the Master of the Fabriczy Drawings. [from] Civitates Orbis Terrarum. Cologne: Braun & Hogenberg, c.

1590.

Single folio sheet with copper-plate engraved views of the two cities, hand-colored, matted, and framed, 18 1/2 x 15 in. visible through mat opening, in a modern frame. $200-400

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446 Map Lot. Five engraved maps on paper, including: 1) the Isles of Skye and Lewis-Harris, by Jansson, Tabula Leogi et Haraiae, Amsterdam: Valk & Schenk, [c. 1690], with hand-coloring and shading; 2) Expeditiones Hannibalis, including the Iberian peninsula, Italy, and Parts of France and Africa, by Pierre Duval, [Paris], 1666, with hand-colored outlining; 3) a large folding map of ancient Egypt removed from an octavoformat English book; 4) a map of the Russian Empire taken from Chambers’s edition of Guthries’s New System of Geography, with some hand-coloring, browned; and 5) J. Calvin Smith’s Map of the State of New York, Albany: Disturnell, 1847, steel-engraved, hand-colored, with two insets: the St. Lawrence River, and New York City (including lower Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Williamsburg), matted and framed, old folds, minor tears, some darkening along folds, loose in frame, various sizes. (5) $400-600

447 Massachusetts, Five Maps.

One hand-colored map of Massachusetts, 18th century; two copies Samuel Lewis’s State of Massachusetts map from Guthrie’s Geography Improved, uncolored, one framed, the other unframed; another color-printed James Monteith Massachusetts map from 1878, framed; and a color reproduction of Champlain’s map of New France, printed in Albany in 1850, framed. (5) $300-500 448 Massachusetts, Twenty-seven Maps.

Twenty-seven maps, mostly from late-19th century atlases, many with hand outlining in color, including: two maps of Medfield; nine maps that include parts of Needham, Wellesley, Dover, Hyde Park, and Dedham; eight maps of Brookline; five maps of Buzzard’s Bay, south of the Cape, and islands, c. 1913; one map of the Boston area; Hough’s U.S. map, 1872; and a French topographical map of Pennsylvania with an inset of Philadelphia; varying condition, mostly large format, some damage, some repeats. (27) $300-500

449 Massachusetts. Osgood Carleton (17411816) Map of Massachusetts Compiled from Actual Surveys. Boston: Joseph Callender and Samuel Hill, 1801.

Second edition, the first official state map of Massachusetts approved by the legislature (the first edition, prepared by Carleton in 1798, was rejected); engraved, printed on paper, counties outlined by hand in color, dissected into thirty-two panels, mounted on a linen backing, with the original leather-covered slipcase, made to house the folded map; the map browned, with foxing, the case worn, disintegrating, with loss of leather, 32 x 47 1/2 in. $12,000-14,000

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450 Mitchell’s New General Atlas. Philadelphia: S. Augustus Mitchell, Jr., 1863.

Folio, title-page, index, forty-nine maps, as called for on the index leaf, four of which are double-paged; insets also numbered, such that the index lists eighty-four maps, including insets, list of U.S. post offices and other information, 26 pages; maps handcolored throughout; in original boards; sewing perished, textblock disbound, decased, front board dirty, with abrasions, gold stamped title faded, rubbed; all maps with a brown stain in the lower right corner throughout, generally outside of the ornamental frame surrounding each map, some wear and chipping due to mis-folding, and loose leaves, stains to the three separate maps of New England states, otherwise dusty with smudges, 15 1/2 x 12 3/4 in. $300-500

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451 Mitchell’s School Atlas. Philadelphia: Cowperthewait, 1839.

Large quarto format, incomplete, containing seventeen hand-colored maps, in publisher’s printed boards and green leather spine, worn, stains and defects to covers and contents, 11 3/4 x 9 1/2 in.

Provenance: Estate of Charles Paine Fisher. $200-300

452 Morant, Philip (1700-1770) engravings by John Pine (1690-1756) A Chart Shewing the Several Places of Action between the English and Spanish Fleets. [from] The Tapestry Hangings of the House of Lords: representing the several engagements between the English and Spanish fleets in the memorable year 1588. London: J. Pine, 1739.

Copper-plate engraved map within an elaborate compartment, with a map of the British Isles, and the coast of France, with the relevant ships, fleets, and storms in place, within an elaborate allegorical frame featuring four rondelles to represent important battles and events of the 1588 battles between the Spanish and English; hand-colored, matted, the central fold reinforced on the verso, printed on heavy paper, 26 1/4 x 16 1/2 in. $300-500

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453 Morant, Philip (1700-1770) engravings

by John Pine (1690-1756) The Tapestry Hangings of the House of Lords: representing the several engagements between the English and Spanish fleets in the memorable year 1588. London: J. Pine, 1739.

Copper-plate engraved map within an elaborate compartment, with a portrait of Queen Elizabeth I at the top, two inset images of skirmishes between the Spanish Fleet and the English Fleet just south of Land’s End, and the Cornish and Devon coast at Plymouth; with Neptune in the cartouche at the foot of the page; hand-colored, matted, the central fold reinforced on the verso, printed on heavy paper, 26 1/4 x 16 1/2 in. $300-500

454 Morant, Philip (1700-1770) engravings

by John Pine (1690-1756) The Tapestry Hangings of the House of Lords: representing the several engagements between the English and Spanish fleets in the memorable year 1588. London: J. Pine, 1739.

Copper-plate engraved map within an elaborate compartment, with a portrait of Charles Lord Howard of Effingham Lord High Admiral at the top, two inset images of skirmishes between the Spanish Fleet and the English Fleet just south of the Cornish and Devon coast, with the names of Spanish officers listed in the cartouche at the foot; hand-colored, matted, the central fold reinforced on the verso, with slight separation and loss of surface on the recto, printed on heavy paper, 26 1/4 x 16 1/2 in.

Pine’s work is the only surviving representation of the original tapestries. The originals, designed by H.C. Vroom and woven by Francis Spring of Haarlem, were destroyed by fire in 1834. $300-500

455 New England, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, Four Maps.

Herman Moll’s (d. 1732) New England, New York, New Jersey, and Pensilvania, uncolored, central fold, matted and framed, 7 1/4 x 10 1/4 in.; Olney’s New England map from the 1830 Atlas, hand-colored, matted, and framed 10 1/4 x 8 1/4 in., and two others, 19th century, of Vermont and New Hampshire. (4) $200-300 456 New England, Three Maps.

Daniel Neal’s (1678-1743) A New Map of New England According to the Latest Observations, dated 1720 in the cartouche, [from] The History of New England, soft wear with loss along one fold, with repair to verso; adhesive tape in bottom blank margin, old folds, toning, small tear to right margin, and slight loss of outermost printed border, 14 x 10 1/2 in.

Boston with its Environs, Philadelphia: by J. Vallance for C.P. Wayne, 1806, [from] The Life of Washington, folded folio-sized engraving, slight breakage along the fold, reinforced on the verso with adhesive tape, 17 1/2 x 10 3/4 in. [and] Map of the Northern, or New England States of America, by John Russell, London: Symonds, 1795, old folds, repairs to verso, marginal crumpling outside of the plate mark, offsetting to the Atlantic Ocean, 19 1/4 x 15 1/2 in. (3) $300-500

457 New England, Twelve Maps.

Twelve 19th century maps of New England, mostly colored, engravings and lithographs, matted, including two early Vermont maps, the Amos Doolittle plate, printed in New Hampshire, and J. Reid’s New York imprint.

(12) $300-500 458 New England, Virginia, Washington, D.C., Seven Atlas Maps.

Three hand-colored maps of Massachusetts, one uncolored map of Virginia and Maryland, one colored map of Georgetown, and two colored maps of New Hampshire, one of which includes Vermont, all 19th century. (7) $200-300

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459 New England. Braddock Mead (c. 16881757) and Thomas Jefferys (1695-1771) A Map of the Most Inhabited Part of New England. London: Jefferys, 29 November 1774.

Copper-plate engraved map on four separate paper panels, hand-coloring, with outlines, the cartouche fully colored, framed; sun fading to the hand coloring, the sheet toned, with limited foxing, most notably along the overlap of sheets that meet in the north/south direction, down the center of New Hampshire, 39 1/2 x 42 in.

The Jefferys map, created with the notorious Mead, has been valued for its accuracy and detail since it was new. $4,000-6,000

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460 New England. John Russell (c. 1750-1829) Map of the Northern or New England States of America. London: Symonds, 1795.

Double page folio copper-plate engraved map, hand-coloring, old folds, matted and framed, 18 1/4 x 16 3/4 in. visible through mat opening.

This map includes Maine and Vermont with indistinct northerly borders with Canada; Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island, along with part of New York, out to the Finger Islands, including the Hudson River Valley. Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket are also mapped, along with Jeffrey’s Ledge. $200-300

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461 New England. Thomas Bowles (1714-1763) Bowles’s New Pocket Map of the most Inhabited Part of New England. London: Carington Bowles, [1771].

Second state, double-paged folio engraving on paper, hand-outlined, matted and framed, with an inset of Boston Harbor; the paper evenly toned, not examined out of the frame, frame loose, coming apart, 20 1/2 x 25 in. $3,000-5,000

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462 New England. Thomas Bowles (1714-1763) Bowles’s New Pocket Map of the most Inhabited Part of New England. London: Carington Bowles, [1771].

Second state, copper-plate engraved map printed on laid paper, hand-colored and outlined, framed, central fold, the sheet somewhat rumpled, short tear to right margin along the horizontal center fold, the sheet toned, 20 1/4 x 25 in. $3,000-5,000

463 Newfoundland, Marine Chart, Grand Banks. Gerard van Keulen (1678-1726) Nouvelle Carte Marine du Grand Banq.

Amsterdam: van Keulen, [c. 1728].

Large double-page folio chart, uncolored, engraved, showing depths for the fishing area off the southeastern coast of Newfoundland, including the southernmost part of the coastline of the Avalon peninsula, stain in the outer margins, old fold, sheet toned, 26 x 21 1/2 in. $300-500

464 Newfoundland. Gerard van Keulen (16781726) New Found Land of Nieuw Vrankryk, of anders Genaamt Terra Neuf. Amsterdam: van Keulen, [c. 1728].

Large double-page folio map with eight insets that depict different portions of the Newfoundland coast, lower edges outside the borders tattered, stain in outer vertical margins, old fold, sheet toned, 26 x 21 1/2 in. $200-400 465 North America, Eighteen Maps.

Large-format maps, mostly of New England states, colored, 19th century, removed from atlases, including a hand-colored copy of the map of the Western Territories from the Olney Atlas of 1847, which depicts states with familiar names and unrecognizable borders. $300-500

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466 North America, Gulf Coast, Central America, Caribbean. Jan Jansson (15881664) Insulae Americanae in Oceano Septentrionali cum Terris Adiacentibus.

Amsterdam: Jansson, [c. 1636].

Double-page folio engraved map on paper, typographical text on the verso, hand-colored, the state without the names for Florida and Virginia, formerly folded in quarters, browned along the central vertical fold, toning, 23 x 19 1/4 in. $600-800

470 North America. Heinrich Scherer (16281704) Religionis Catholicae in America Boreali Disseminatae Repraesentatio Geographica. Munich, c. 1700-1720.

Double-page copper-plate engraved map, uncolored, slight splitting along the central fold, and toning, cartouche depicts a group in native dress prostrating themselves beneath the cross, sea serpents and ships in the sea, California is shown as an island, 15 1/4 x 10 1/2 in. $500-700

467 North America, Nova Scotia to Northern Florida. George-Louis e Rouge (17071790) Carte d’Une Partie de l’Amerique Septentrionale pour servir a l’Histoire de la derniere Guerre. Paris, 1787.

Large folding engraved map on laid paper, third issue, with insets of Louisiana, the Gulf Coast, and a view of Niagara Falls; fairly evenly toned, some pale hand-coloring, water stains, non-archival reinforcements on the verso that do not show on the map side, slight spotting, 26 x 20 1/4 in.

This map was originally issued with François Soules’s Histoire des Troubles de l’Amerique Anglaise. $500-700

471 North and Central America. Heinrich Scherer (1628-1704) America Borealis.

Munich, c. 1700-1720.

Double-page quarto map on paper, copperplate engraving, uncolored, showing California as an island, from Scherer’s Jesuit-themed Atlas Nova, toned along the central fold, slight marginal water stain, 15 1/4 x 10 1/2 in. $700-900

468 North America. Franz Ludwig Guessefeld (1744-1807) Charte uber die XIII vereingte Staaten von Nord-America. Nuremberg: Homann Heirs, 1784.

Large double-page folio map, copper-plate engraving, with faint hand-tinting, barely visible, the sheet evenly toned, mounted on canvas, 23 1/2 x 19 1/4 in.

The first map of the newly independent states published in Germany after the American Revolution, executed with remarkable detail. $600-800 469 North America. Guillaume de l’Isle (16751726) Carta Geografica dell’America Settentrionale. Venice: Albrizzi, 1740-50.

Double-page folio map, copper-plate engraving, uncolored, showing North America from the Arctic Circle, down to Venezuela, one small spot, slight toning on the fold, otherwise good, 18 1/2 x 14 1/2 in. $500-700

472 North and South America. Guillaume de l’Isle (1675-1726) Carte D’Amerique. [from] Atlas Nouveau. Amsterdam: Covens et Mortier, 1739.

Double-page engraved folio map on paper, borders outlined in hand-coloring, capitol cities in red, map also covers part of western Europe, West Africa, and several South Pacific islands; with old folds, some minor offsetting, 26 1/4 x 20 1/2 in. $300-500 473 North and South America. Johannes Baptistat Homann (1664-1724) Totius Americae Septentrionalis et Meridionalis.

Nuremberg, [c. 1720] Folio double-paged engraved map, handcolored, showing California as an island, printed without the privilege in the bottom left cartouche between Homann’s name and the city of imprint; some faint water stains and other slight discoloration, matted and framed, 22 3/4 x 19 1/2 in. visible through the mat. $300-500

475 North and South America: Two Maps.

Richard William Seale (1703-1762) A Map of North America [and] A Map of South America.

London: [c. 1745].

Two separate maps, each double-page folio, copper-plates on paper, uncolored, toned, with slight offsetting, 19 x 15 3/4 in.

The map of North America still shows California as an island; very detailed depiction of the Caribbean, and the bulk of the continent west of the Mississippi still labeled as “Parts Unknown.” The South American map more complete, especially on the west coast, but the huge central section, containing all interior parts of Brazil, the Amazon rain forest, and the Patagonian desert are still unmapped. (2) $400-600 476 Ogilvy, John (1600-1676) The Continuation of the Road from Bristol to Chester. [from] Britannia, London, 1675.

Double-paged folio map, the surface treated with a semi-gloss finish, hand-colored, the map, with the road highlighted in red, is shown trompe l’oeil style, as though it was inscribed on a narrow parchment scroll that unwinds in a spiral from left to right. This portion of the map covers the road from Ludlow to Chester, framed, old folds, the paper slightly cockled within the old frame, 16 1/4 x 14 in. $300-500 477 Paris, Two Views.

Vue Generale de Paris prise de la Colonne de Juillet, hand-colored lithograph by Charles Fichot (1817-1903) from Souvenirs de Paris et de ses environs, Paris: Lemiere, c. 1850, matted, in a modern gilt frame, 18 x 24 in. visible through frame opening. [together with] Vue de la Ville de Paris prise de la Lanterne Napoleon, dans le jardin de St. Cloud, Vienna: Artaria & Co., [1812], engraved by Kelin after Runk, with very good hand-coloring, marginal tears and faults, unobtrusively repaired, matted, in a modern gilt frame, 28 1/4 x 19 in. visible through the mat opening. (2) $200-400

474 North and South America. Matthaus Merian (1593-1650) America Noviter Delineata.

[Frankfurt, 1638].

Small folio-format double-page map, with central fold, uncolored, 14 3/4 x 13 1/4 in.

This map shows the state of New World exploratory progress through various cartographical achievements and irregularities: Baja California has resolved into its peninsular form, but the west coast of the continent threatens to connect directly to Asia, and the Great Lakes are missing. $400-600

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478 Paris. L’Abee Jean Delagrive (1689-1757) Environs de Paris, leves geometriquement.

Paris, 1740.

Nine separate sections, 33 3/4 x 25 in. each, copper-plate engravings, uncolored, in nine frames, mounted on the wall, approximately 9 feet wide by 7 feet high.

This group of maps was published in an atlas by the same title, and is the first to give detailed and accurate representations of all of the small villages, farms, buildings, parks, roads, and fields around Paris. (9) $2,000-3,000

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479 Rome, View. Aspect General de Rome.

Paris, 1840.

Hand-colored etching by A. Appert after Jacques Alphonse Testard (b. 1810), matted and framed, four or five cracks repaired along the top margin, with the sky color touched up, unobtrusive horizontal fold beginning halfway down the right margin, good color and overall appearance, 34 x 22 1/2 in. visible through the mat opening, in a modern gilt frame. $1,000-1,500 480 Schmidt, Johann Jacob (1690-1757) Biblischer Geographicus. Zullichau: Frommann, 1740.

Octavo, illustrated with engraved portrait frontispiece and fifteen folding maps, all colored in outline, in contemporary half leather and speckled paper boards; leather and paper covering material mostly perished and lacking, sewing structure seemingly intact, some thumbing, water stains to maps, 7 1/2 x 4 3/4 in. $300-500 481 South America. Heinrich Scherer (16281704) Religionis Catholicae Australi Americae Implantatae. [from] Atlas Novus.

Munich, c. 1700.

Small folio double-page engraved map, two sheets joined at the center, slight toning along the join, 15 x 10 1/2 in., the sheet.

Almost as much space is devoted to the map of the continent of South America as to a striking image of natives prostrate before a crucifixion. $600-800 482

482 Spain, Portugal, Pyrenees. Pieter Mortier (1661-1711) Theatre de la Guerre en Espagne. Amsterdam, [c. 1700].

The right (or easterly) half only of the original map, this half includes the elaborate militaristic cartouche, and the eastern portion of Spain, the Pyrenees, and a piece of southern France; hand-colored in outline, engraved map on two joined sheets, each double-folio size, the country borders outlined in color; a clean, dark impression of the plates, the paper slightly rumpled where the sheets are joined; framed, 38 1/2 x 23 3/4 in. $300-500

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483 St. George’s Channel, Coast of Wales.

Lewis and William Morris (fl. circa 17501800) Chart of St. George’s Channel &c.

Shrewsbury: William Morris, 1800.

Very large copper-plate engraved map on paper, printed on two sheets pieced together, with central horizontal fold, hand-colored, framed, 35 x 35 1/2 in.

The Morrises, father and son, made important contributions to Welsh map-making with this and many other detailed charts, published in atlases in 1748 and 1801. $200-300

484 Stradanus, Johannes (1523-1605) Americae Retectio, Four Engravings.

Copper-plate engravings printed on laid paper, c. 1585, plate marks visible, the plates numbered one through four, edges slightly crumpled, with minor discoloration, 11 1/4 x 8 3/4 in. each. (4) The four images engraved by Adrian Collaert for Galle’s Americae Retectio in 1585, after Stradanus’s drawings, the first plate shows the globe, with Flora and Janus parting the curtains to reveal Europe, Africa, and the Americas, with boats travelling the sea between; the second plate is a tribute to Christopher Columbus, and shows him aboard ship while a riot of sea creatures revels in the sea around him; the third shows Amerigo Vespucci sailing toward the horizon, his mast is broken, but he seems unconcerned, with his astrolabe; the final image has Magellan as its subject, he too is involved in navigational pursuits, although he suffers from a broken mast, the fires of Tierra de Fuego burn on the coast to the left; in all three plates, hordes of allegorical sea creatures and fanciful New World inhabitants romp, in the Magellan print, a bird is flying off with an elephant, and a man wearing nothing but grape leaves is swallowing arrows. $1,500-2,000

485 Tartary: China, Japan, and the West Coast of North America. Abraham Ortelius (15271598) Tartariae sive Magni Chami Regni Typus. [from] Theatrum Orbis Terrarum.

Antwerp, [c. 1600].

Copper-plate engraving on large folding folio paper sheet, hand-colored cartouches, outlining; Latin text printed on the verso of one panel, this copy was formerly matted with old masking tape on the verso on the edges only, with discoloration, visible mainly on the verso, 21 3/4 x 17 1/4 in.

This interesting map identifies a part of the North American continent as “Californio,” and identifies the coast as “Sierra Nevada.” The extensive depiction of the kingdom of the Tartars includes many fascinating notes on the people and history of Central Asia. $700-900 486 Three City Views: Zurich, Dordrecht, and Limburg.

Engraved views on paper with hand-coloring, all from Braun & Hogenberg’s Civitates Orbis Terrarum, matted and framed. (3) $300-500

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487 Two Italian City Views: Milan and Caiazzo.

Engraved views on paper with hand-coloring, all from Braun & Hogenberg’s Civitates Orbis Terrarum, matted and framed. (2) $600-800

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488 Venice, Views, Georg Hoefnagel (15421601) Augusti apud Venetos Templi D. Marci Accuratissima Effiguratio [and] Palatii Senatorii aupd Venetos Conflagratio, 1578.

Braun & Hogenberg, c. 1578.

Single folio sheet with two panels, copperplate engravings, hand-colored, matted, in a modern frame, old folds and slight rumpling, visible closed tear outside the top margin, 20 x 15 in. visible through the mat opening.

In this interesting juxtaposition of images, the left panel shows strolling Venetians conversing in Saint Mark’s Square, with the basilica in the background. The right panel shows the dramatic fire at the Doge’s Palace in 1577. $200-400

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489 Vienna, View. Vue Generale de la Ville de Vienne. Vienna: Artaria & Co., [c. 1820].

Hand-colored mezzotint by Leopold Beyer (1789-1877) after J. Alt, matted, in a modern gilt frame, the sheet slightly rippled, toned, most noticeably in the margins, some small confined areas of foxing in the sky, 28 1/4 x 18 3/4 in. $600-800

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490 View of London from Waterloo Bridge.

Joseph Schutz after Friedrich Runk, Vue de la Ville de Londres. Vienna: Artaria & Co., [1811].

Hand-colored etching on paper, matted, in a large modern gilt frame, 18 3/4 x 28 1/2 in. visible through the mat opening. $600-800

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491 Zeeland, Frederick DeWit (1629/30-1706) Comitatus Zelandiae Tabula emendata a Frederico de Wit. Amsterdam, c. 1680.

Large double-paged folio map with central fold, hand-coloring mostly faded to brown, the sheet evenly toned to a deep beige, likely mounted; matted and framed, 22 1/2 x 18 1/4 in. visible through the mat opening. $300-500

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Seder Haggadah shel Pesach, Pressburg (now Bratislava, Slovakia), copied and illustrated by Aaron Wolf Herlingen, 1735.

This 1735 Haggadah is an unrecorded manuscript by one of the finest Jewish calligraphers of the 18th century renaissance of Hebrew manuscripts. His earliest recorded manuscript is dated 1720 and his body of work (last recorded manuscript of 1752) includes only 40-50 examples.

Sold for $450,000, Fine Judaica, October 3, 2013

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FOR OFFICE USE Marlborough

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63 Park Plaza Boston, MA 02116 617.350.5400 Fax 617.350.5429

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274 Cedar Hill Street Marlborough, MA 01752 508.970.3000 Fax 508.970.3100

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Board of Directors

Administration

Chairman of the Board - Nancy R. Skinner Richard Albright John Deighton Barnet Fain Stephen L. Fletcher Karen M. Keane Andrew Payne President/Chief Executive Officer - Karen M. Keane Chief Financial Officer - Don Kelly Executive Vice President - Stephen L. Fletcher Vice Presidents - Eric Jones, Marie Keep, Gloria Lieberman, Carol McCaffrey, Kerry Shrives, Stuart G. Slavid, Robin S.R. Starr

Expert Departments

20th Century Design - Jane D. Prentiss Assistant: Shannon M. Ames American & European Paintings & Prints - Robin S.R. Starr Assistants: Kathy Wong, Elizabeth C. Haff, Michelle Lamunière American Furniture & Decorative Arts - Stephen L. Fletcher Deputy Director: Chris Barber; Assistants: Karen Langberg, Kelli Lucas Stewart American Indian & Ethnographic Art - Douglas Deihl Antique Motor Vehicles - Jane D. Prentiss Asian Works of Art - Judith Dowling Assistants: Karen Mak, Suhyung Kim Books & Manuscripts - Devon Gray Bottles, Flasks & Early Glass - Stephen L. Fletcher Ceramics - Stuart G. Slavid Clocks, Watches & Scientific Instruments - Robert C. Cheney Assistant: Jonathan Dowling Couture - Anne Fallon Discovery Auctions - Anne Fallon Assistants: Melissa Riebe, Kyle Johnson European Furniture & Decorative Arts - Stuart G. Slavid Assistants: Leah Kingman, Stephanie Opolski Fine Wines - Marie Keep Assistant: Michael J. Moser Historic Arms & Militaria - Joel Bohy Jewelry - Victoria Bratberg Assistant: John Colasacco Judaica - Kerry Shrives

63 Park Plaza Boston, MA 02116 617.350.5400 Fax 617.350.5429

Musical Instruments - Director Pro Tem: Jill Arbetter Assistant: Horst Kloss Oriental Rugs & Carpets - Lawrence Kearney Assistant: Erika Jorjorian Silver - Stuart G. Slavid

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Toys & Dolls - Anne Fallon Auctioneers - LaGina Austin, Chris Barber, Robert C. Cheney, John Colasacco, Stephen L. Fletcher, Karen M. Keane, Marie C. Keep, Gloria Lieberman, Jessica R. Lincoln, Kerry Shrives, Stuart G. Slavid, Robin S.R. Starr, Laura V. Sweeney

Exhibitions & Property Distribution

Marlborough:

Warehouse Manager - Fred Trottier, 508.970.3261

Auction Coordinator - Melanie Trottier-Mitcheson, 508.970.3103

Boston:

Property Distribution Manager - Jessica R. Lincoln, 617.874.4308

Auction Coordinator - Benjamin Evans, 617.874.4329

Marlborough:

Accounts Receivable - Denise Johnson, 508.970.3269

Accounts Payable, Consignment - Kathleen Hayes, 508.970.3268

Accounts Payable, Trade - Kevin Rota, 508.970.3283

Credit Supervisor - William Madden, 508.970.3266

Subscriptions

Marlborough:

Jessica Turner, 508.970.3240

Service Departments

Appraisal & Auction Services - LaGina Austin, Christine E. Finn, Rachel Kingsley, Ava Pandiani

Finance Department

Advertising Production - Pamela Van de Houten Boston Gallery Director - Laura V. Sweeney Assistant Gallery Director: Paige Lewellyn Catalog Production - Pamela Van de Houten, Kristina Harrison Consignment Services - Patricia Walker King, Carol Zeigler, Kealyn Garner Customer Relations - Carol McCaffrey Institutional Relations - L. Emerson Tuttle Human Resources - Carol McCaffrey Information Technology & Internet Auctions - Kerry Shrives Assistants: Timothy Shaughnessey, Melissa Riebe Managing Director - Marie C. Keep Marketing & Public Relations - Kate de Bethune, Kathryn Gargolinski, Jessica Turner Photographers - Stanley P. Bystrowski, Jeffrey R. Antkowiak, John Cornelius Receptionists - Marlborough: Katie Fitzgerald Boston: Bridget Spears Staff Portraits - Cheryl Richards Photography Transportation - Eric Jones

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Directions to Skinner’s Boston Gallery/63 Park Plaza, Boston, MA 02116 617.350.5400 From the West: Take the Massachusetts Turnpike to the Prudential/Copley exit located in the Prudential tunnel. Once on the exit ramp, stay in the right hand lane and follow the signs for Copley. The ramp exits onto Stuart Street. Drive straight through five sets of lights and take a left onto Charles Street South. Take your first left off of Charles St. South onto Park Plaza. Skinner is at 63 Park Plaza, one block up on the right.

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.

From the North: Take I-93 South towards Boston. Take exit 26 towards Storrow Drive.  Merge onto MA-28 South via the ramp on the left. Turn left onto Beacon Street. Turn right onto Arlington Street. Turn left onto Boylston Street. Turn right onto Hadassah Way. Skinner is on the right at 63 Park Plaza.

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Parking Indoor Parking

Outdoor Parking

City Place Parking Garage 8 Park Plaza (access on Charles Street) Mon.-Fri.: up to 1 hr.-$8, $4 each additional hr., to max $20 Evenings (5pm-2:30am): $20 flat rate Sat & Sun (6am-5pm): $5 per 1/2 hr.

MCCA Boston Common Garage Zero Charles Street (between the Boston Common & Public Garden) Mon.-Fri.: up to 1 hr.-$10, $4 each additional hr., up to 10m hrs. $23, to max $28 Evenings & Weekends: $12 flat rate The Four Seaons Hotel Parking Garage 200 Boylston Street $26 up to 2 hrs., $30 up to 3 hrs., $35 up to 6 hrs., $49 all day

LAZ Parking Back Bay Garage 500 Boylston Street (222 Berkeley Street) 617.266.7006 Night & Day rates: 1/2 hr.- $8, 1 hr.- $10, 1 1/2 hr.- $18, 2 hrs.- $20, 2 1/2 hrs.- $26, 3-24 hrs.- $37 Weekend Rates: 1/2 hr.- $8, $2 each additional 1/2 hr., to max $22 Motor Mart Garage 201 Stuart Street Up to 1 hr.-$8, 1 to 2 hrs.-$12, 2-3 hrs-$16/3-12 hrs.-$20/12-24 hr.-$31 weekends up to 3 hrs/$8 200 Stuart Street Garage At Revere Hotel Boston Common 200 Stuart Street 3-12 hrs.-$22 12-24 hrs.-$40

(recommended for trucks) LAZ Parking 130 Arlington Street 617.426.0604 $7 per 1/2 hr. $20 all day (weekdays only) $15 nights (starting at 4pm) and weekends Billy’s Parking 222 Stuart Street 617.632.2881 Mon-Fri 7:30am-5pm-$6 each 1/2 hr., $20 max $30 vans or trucks $25 during events in area Sat., Sun. & evenings $20 flat fee

The Taj Hotel Parking Garage 15 Arlington Street Up to 24 hrs.-$44

Boston Hotels with Skinner Corporate Rates

Boston Hotels Boston Harbor Hotel 70 Rowe’s Wharf Boston, MA 02110 Tel: 1.800.654.2000 Fax: 617.345.6799

Nine Zero Hotel 90 Tremont St. Boston, MA 02108 617.772.5800

Fairmont Copley Plaza 138 St. James Avenue Boston, MA 02116 Tel: 617.267.5300 Fax: 617.375.9648

The Ritz-Carlton Boston Common 10 Avery Street Boston, MA 02111 Tel: 617.912.3315 Fax: 617.912.3375

Four Seasons 200 Boylston Street Boston, MA 02116 617.351.2036

Taj Boston 15 Arlington St. Boston, MA 02116 617.536.5700

The Liberty Hotel 215 Charles St. Boston, MA 02114 617.224.4000

Westin-Copley Plaza 10 Huntington Avenue Boston, MA 02116 Tel: 1.800.228.3000 Fax: 617.424.7483

Beacon Hill Hotel & Bistro 25 Charles Street Boston, MA 02114 617.723.7575

Loews Boston Back Bay Hotel 350 Stuart Street Boston, MA 02116 1.855.495.6397

The Colonnade Hotel 120 Huntington Avenue Boston, MA 02116 617.424.7000 800.962.3030 www.colonnadehotel.com

The Park Plaza 64 Arlington Street Boston, MA 02116 617.426.2000

Eliot Hotel 370 Commonwealth Ave. Boston, MA 02215 617.267.1607

The Revere Hotel Boston Common 200 Stuart Street Boston, MA 02116 Tel: 617.482.1800 Fax: 617.451.2750

Marriott Copley Place 110 Huntington Avenue Boston, MA 02116 Tel: 1.800.228.9290 Fax: 617.236.5885

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Restaurants 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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Summer Shack

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 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.

Casual 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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