inscribed by hoover to adolph lewishon

AGRICOLA, Georgius. De Re Metallica. Translated by Herbert Clark Hoover and Lou Henry Hoover. Profusely illustrated with woodcuts from the first Latin edition of 1556. [iv], xxxi, [i], 640,

[2] pp. Folio, London: The Mining Magazine, 1912. One of 3000 copies. Publisher’s vellum over boards, spine titled in black. Joints cracked, covers soiled, offsetting from morocco booklabel onto facing page, else fine. In a custom vellum-backed slipcase and chemise. Provenance: Adolph Lewisohn (presentation inscription, morocco booklabel).

The Herbert Hoover translation of the classic work on mining and metalurgy. This copy inscribed by Hoover to mining magnate Adolph Lewishon, “To Adolph Lewishon [sic] Esq, With compliments of HC Hoover.” Lewisohn (1849-1938) was a German-born investment banker, cooper mine owner, book and art collector, and philanthropist. He made signifanct contriputions to Columbia University and the Brooklyn Museum of Art. He was friendly with Presidents Coolidge and Hoover and took an automible trip through England with the latter in 1908. A superb association.

$3,000

one of 25 copies, inscribed to his wife

[ANDERDON, John Lavicount]. The River Dove; With Some Quiet Thoughts on the Happy Practice of Angling, near to the Seat of Mr. Charles Cotton at Beresford Hall, in Staffordshire. Extra-illustrated with 13 wood-engraved illustrations on india-proof paper mounted in the margins. [iv], 241 pp. Tall 8vo (11-J x 7-G inches), [N.p.: Privately Printed, 1845]. First edition, one of 25 large paper copies printed. Bound in contemporary quarter brown morocco and green cloth, titled on spine “The River Dove” between gilt rules. Front endpaper split at hinge, slightly rubbed. Westwood and Satchell p. 1; Heckscher p. 11.

author’s presentation copy, inscribed on half-title “To the most beloved from John L. Anderdon, 7th Nov. 1845”, of this colloquy on angling after the fashion of Izaac Walton and Charles Cotton, by a noted collector of Walton and Johnsoniana. Anderdon’s library included the 1653 Compleat Angler, and this discourse between Angler, Painter, and Host is both homage to the seventeenth-century masters and an attempt to elucidate some of their sources and influences. The author intended it “for the entertainment of a few gentlemen fishers”, the work being based on a tour he made along the Dove. The privately printed large-paper edition, limited to twenty-five copies, appeared in 1845; a trade edition in small 8vo format was published by Pickering two years later. The inscription is to his wife, Anna Maria (1796-1880, the second daughter of William Manning MP), whom he married on 4 March 1816. “Anderdon was an enthusiastic fisherman, and a walking tour through Dove-dale, the country of Charles Cotton, one of the earliest professors of the art of angling, gave him the idea of compiling a volume on The River Dove: with some Quiet Thoughts on the Happy Practice of Angling. Printed in 1845 for private circulation and for sale two years later, it contained many anecdotes of Cotton and his country life, with advice on successful fishing” (ODNB).

$10,000

dedication copy

ANDERSON, Sherwood. Dark Laughter. 8vo, New York: Boni & Liveright, 1925. First trade edition. Black cloth, yellow lettering, pictorial endpapers in yellow and black. A fine copy in a near fine, unclipped dust jacket. Hogan book label. Byron Price book plate. In cloth slipcase and chemise.

Lovely copy of Anderson’s best-selling novel, which the jacket blurb announces as “an intense love story superimposed upon a background of dark laughter, the mysterious, detached, strange laughter of the negro, the earth and the river …” Inscribed to the dedicatee, Jane W. Prall, the mother of Anderson’s second wife, Elizabeth Prall, whom he married in 1924. Elizabeth Prall had been the manager of Doubleday’s Bookstore in New York (where she met Anderson) and was well-known in literary circles. Dark Laughter has an important connection with Ernest Hemingway. In his novel The Torrents of Spring (1926), Hemingway parodied the styles of some of his contemporaries — in particular Sherwood Anderson and Dark Laughter.

$5,000

photographs of angkor

(ANGKOR WAT) Photograph album of the temples of Angkor, Cambodia, including Angkor Wat, Angkor Thom, Baphuon and Ta Prohm. 80 vintage gelatin print photographs (47 measuring 4-H” x 6-H” to 5-H” x 8”; 33 measuring 2-G” x 3-G”), 30 of the photographs captioned by hand in French. Oblong 4to, Cambodia: ca. 1900. Photographs mounted in original black leather Peerless photograph album. Covers worn, crease to one photo, else fine. A photograph album documenting a trip to the ancient Khmer sites in Angkor, Cambodia, dating from the period of French colonization of Indochina. The photographs, many of which have detailed captions in French, include the temples and buildings of Angkor Wat and Angor Thom, as well as locals, monks, traditional dancers and French colonials. With a collection of vintage postcards of Cambodia tipped-in at the front of the album.

$2,000

“thank you very much for your splendid gift of kelmscottiana” (ASHENDENE PRESS) Hornby, C.H. St. John. Autograph Letter, signed [“C.-S.”] to Sydney Cockerell (“My dear Cockerell”). 2 pp. pen and

ink on folded sheet of stationery. 8vo, London: 186, Strand, January 19, 1904. Faint creasing from prior folds. The founder of the Ashendene Press writes to Sydney Cockerell,

formely William Moriss’s secretary at the Kelmscott Press. “Thank you very much for your splendid gift of Kelmscottiana. It is really noble of you. I shall prize them, as you know, well and truly. I shall be much interested in reading some of the pamphlets, and am very glad to have the Sotheby catalogue of Morris’ books. I am relieved to hear that Gere’s two diaries are safe in Hooper’s hands.” Hooper is the engraver W.H. Hooper; Charles M. Gere’s illustrations for the Kelmscott News from Nowhere were engraved by Hooper. Gere’s most celebrated work was the illustrations to the Ashendene Press Dante done for Hornby. After Morris’s death in 1896, his collection of early books and manuscripts was purchased for £18,000 by Richard Bennett, who kept what he liked of the collection, consigning the rest to Sotheby’s. It is likely this sale, on December 5, 1898, to which Hornby refers (cf. De Ricci, English Collectors, pp. 172-3). [With:] Rossetti, Dante Gabriel. Wood engraving intended for the title page of The Early Italian Poets, 1861, issued as a Christmas gift by Mr. and Mrs. Sydney Cockerell, 1907. [And:] Two Ashendene Press specimen leaves, one from the first canto of Lo Inferno, from the La Divina Comedia (1902-5) inscribed by Cockerell (“brought to Clifford Inn by CH SJ Hornby Nov 12 1901”).

$1,500

in original boards

AUSTEN, Jane. Emma: A Novel. In Two Volumes. By Miss Austen …. 214, [2, blanks]; 222, [2, blanks] pp. 2 vols. 12mo, Philadelphia: Carey, Lea and Blanchard, 1833. Second American edition, one of 1250 copies printed. Original muslin backed boards, printed spine labels, untrimmed. Spine faded, label to vol. II with loss, textblocks somewhat foxed, with occasional marginal flaws. Owner signature of Sarah Wright in ink on flyleaf, in pencil on title of vol. I, and as

S.G. Wright at head of first page of text in vol. II. Gilson B7. The earliest obtainable American printing of Emma (the 1816 first

American edition is known in 3 copies), in choice and unsophisticated condition.

$15,000

in original boards

AUSTEN, Jane. Mansfield Park. A Novel. By Miss Austen … [4, ads], 200; 204. 2 vols. 12mo, Philadelphia: Carey & Lea, 1832. First American edition. One of 1250 copies printed. Original muslin backed boards, printed spine labels, untrimmed. Spines faded, label to vol. I with losses, label to vol. II perished, textblocks somewhat foxed, with occasional marginal flaws. Small ink stamp of S. B. Wright at head of title of vol. II, and another leaf. Gilson B4.

$10,000

in original boards

AUSTEN, Jane. Persuasion. By Miss Austen … 204, 204 pp. With [36] page catalogue of books “Just published by Carey and Lea” at end of vol. I. 2 vols. 12mo, Philadelphia: Carey & Lea, 1832. First American edition, one of 1,250 copies printed. Original muslin backed boards, printed spine labels, untrimmed. Spines faded, small losses to labels, textblocks somewhat foxed, with occasional marginal flaws. Owner signatures of Sarah Wright in pencil. Gilson B3.

Attractive and entirely unsophisticated copy of the first American printing.

$10,000

in original boards

AUSTEN, Jane. Sense and Sensibility: A Novel. By Miss Austen … [2, ads], 199; [2, ads], 199 pp. The advertisments bear the heading of Carey, Lea & Blanchard. 2 vols. 12mo, Philadelphia: Carey & Lea, 1833. First American edition. Original muslin backed boards, printed spine labels, untrimmed. Spines faded, label to vol. II perished, textblocks somewhat foxed, with occasional marginal flaws. Notations in pencil on flyleaf of vol. I. Owner signatures of Sophia B Wright in ink or in pencil on several leaves. Gilson B6.

$10,000

[BADCOCK, John]. The Fancy; or The True Sportsman’s Guide: Being Authentic Memoirs of the Lives, Actions, Prowess, and Battles of the Leading Pugilists, from the Days of Figg and Broughton, to the Championship of Ward. By an Operator. With 57 plates, including 47 mostly stipple engraved portraits, colored pictorial title page in each volume, and 8 plates of sporting scenes (2 colored, 2 folding). Pp. [i]-xv (contents), [i]- iv (introduction), [5]-680, [iii]- vi, [1, notice]; [i]-xii (contents), [1]- 743, [1, binder’s directions]. 2 vols. 8vo, London: Published by J. McGowan and Son 16 Great Windmill Street, 1826. First edition. Bound in full crimson morocco, with gilt stamped boxing scene on upper covers, t.e.g. by Root. Almost fine. Magriel 35 (calling for 46 portraits); Hartley 1514; Cohn 302; Plimpton, Foreword to “Selections from The Fancy,” 1977.

Substantial history of boxing and chronicle of sport in England, with portraits of pugilists, including Bitton, the Jew, and Tom Molineux, a black man from Maryland. The other plates illustrate bull baiting, duck hunting, a rowdy scene in London, and other sporting topics. The first copy we have had; only one copy in the auction records of the last three decades. There is evidence to indicate that John Bee (John Badcock) was responsible for at least the first 16 numbers of the work. Very rare and valuable (Cohn’s valuation was at £30; only the wrappers, not present here, were by Cruikshank). It was started in parts in 1821 and ran to 55 numbers. Some of the miscellaneous essays at the end of volume II are by Pierce Egan and are exact reprints of these same essays from his book “Sporting Anecdotes” (1825). rare.

$6,000

BAIGENT, Dr. W[illiam]. A Book on Hackles for Fly Dressing. With an Introduction by W. Keith Rollo. Portrait frontispiece and 4 photographic illustrations, together with 11 card mounts containing 164 sample hackles. 4to, Newcastle Upon Tyne: Privately printed, [n.d. ca. 1937]. One of approximately 40 copies. Text in blue morocco gilt, hackles in 11 captioned mounts, in original blue morocco folding box. Circular angling bookplate of F.W. Sims. Hampton’s Angling Bibliography p. 32.

Complete with the full set of 11 card mounts containing the 164 hackles described in the text, all in the original full leather folding box. A superior copy of a rare work.

$8,000

scarce

BAKER, C. Alma. Deep Sea Big Game Fishing, Bay of Islands, New Zealand. A Special Article … [Cover title:] Rough Guide to New Zealand Big Game Fishing. Illustrated with photographs. 28 pp. 8vo, Glasgow: Printed for Private Circulation by Robert Maclehose & Co., Ltd, 1937. First edition. Blue cloth, upper cover titled in gilt with pictorial onlay. Fine.

$750

carjat’s charles baudelaire (BAUDELAIRE, Charles) Carjat, Étienne, photographer. “Ch. Baudelaire”. Woodburytype bust portrait on original printed La

Galerie Contemporaine mount. 9 x 7 inches, Paris: Goupil, [1878]. Matted and framed. Fine. The iconic portrait photograph of Charles Baudelaire by Étienne

Carjat, taken c. 1863, and here printed posthumously in La Galerie Contemporaine in 1878. Carjat was rivaled only by Nadar in his portraits of 19th century French cultural figures. “Like Nadar, Carjat captured character and expression brilliantly. Indeed, some of his portraits of celebrities, e.g. Rossini, Baudelaire, Halévy and Gambetta, are livelier and more intimate than Nadar’s …”(Gernsheim, The History of Photography: 1685-1914, p. 308).

$3,500

BEAUMONT, Francis and John Fletcher. Comedies and Tragedies. Never Before and Now Published by the Authours Originall Copies. Edited by James Shirley. Engraved portrait frontispiece of Fletcher by William Marshall (in second state, reading “Vates Duplex” for “vates duplex,” and with “J.Berkenhead” in small type). [i-lii], 1-75 [76], 1-143 [144], 1-165 [166-168], 1-71 [72], 1-172, 1-92, 1-50 [i.e. 52], 1-28, 25-48 pp., with the usual mispagination. Folio in fours, London: Printed for Humphrey Robinson, 1647. First collected edition. 20th-century binding incorporating early-19th century calf gilt cover panels and the cut down spine compartments. Various repairs including to the frontispiece, title, 9-11th leaves, 2P1, 2R4, 3T2, 5A1, 7C2-4; clean tears to 5P4, 8F4; paper fault hole to 6D3; some leaves probably supplied from another copy, including 3T2, 4A1, 5A1, 8C3. Wing B 1581; Pforzheimer 53; Greg III 1013. Provenance: Arthur Barnette Spingarn (civil rights activist, 1878–1971, his bookplate designed by Ruth Reeves).

This is the last of the three great published collections of Jacobean drama. It appeared decades after the deaths of the authors, but still echoes the format of the earlier folios containing the works of their great contemporaries: Ben Jonson and Shakespeare. The present work contains 34 plays and a masque, but not all the plays are by Beaumont and Fletcher. As with the earlier folios, the printing of this work was undertaken by several printers, including Susan Islip: a rare example of a female printer in the 17th century. This copy from the library of a great champion of African-American civil rights, Arthur Barnette Spingarn, an ally of W.E.B. Du Bois and head of the NAACP legal committee. The first publication of the play The Knight of Malta (which features an African villainess) perhaps explains Spingarn’s interest in this work.

$6,500

no copy in north or south america

BELLARMINO, Roberto, Cardinal. Institutiones linguæ Hebraicæ ex optimo quoque auctore collectae; et ad quantam maximam fieri potuit breuitatem … revacatæ, a Robert Bellarmino, Societatis Jesu. Title-page and colophon with woodcut emblem of Society of Jesus. [8], 139,

[1] pp. LACKING LEAF I1 (pp. 129-30). 8vo, Romae: Apud Francis-cum Zanettum, 1578. First edition. Contemporary vellum.. Small stain affecting top edge of first 5 leaves, sporadic darkening to text and minor soiling; over all a very good copy. RARE. OCLC (one copy: British Library); not in Adams; not in the Bibliothèque Nationale; not in the Vatican Library.

Extremely rare first edition of this early Hebrew grammar by Cardinal Bellarmino (1542 -1621), famous not only for his fame as a theologian and his canonization in 1930, but for his role in forbidding Galileo to hold, teach, or defend Copernican theory in 1616. Bellarmino’s Hebrew grammar was expanded and reprinted several times over the next several decades (1580 ; 1585; 1596; 1606; 1615; 1616, etc), and even as recently as 2003 (Vienna, Anton F.W. Sommer) — but this first edition is of the utmost rarity.

$2,500

carey’s catholic bible, 1790

(BIBLE, Catholic) The Holy Bible, Translated from the Latin Vulgate: Diligently Compared with the Hebrew, Greek, and Other Editions, in Divers Languages; And First Published by the English College at Doway, Anno 1609. Newly Revised, And Corrected, According to the Clementine Edition of the Scriptures. With Annotations for Elucidating the Principal Difficulties of Holy Writ. viii,487; 280,*281-*284,281-490pp. 2 volumes bound in oneThick 4to, Philadelphia: Carey Stewart, and Co, 1790. First American Catholic Bible. Title page with loss to outer edge, text supplied in expert facsimile, affecting four letters of title and the end of the imprint line, and some words of the table of contents on verso. Moderate to heavy foxing throughout. Lacks pp.13-16 (first volume); pp.461-62, 467-90 (second volume), supplied in expert facsimile. Original calf boards, expertly rebacked in ornately tooled calf, leather label. Despite the flaws, a quite acceptable copy of one of the rarest of American Bibles. Evans 22349; Parsons 87; Hills 23; Herbert 1343; Rumball-Petrie 168; O’Callaghan, pp.34-35.

A remarkable gathering of firsts in a single volume: the first Catholic Bible printed in the United States, the first Catholic Bible printed in any language in the New World, the first Bible printed in quarto format in the U.S., the first Bible printed by Mathew Carey, and the first minority-religion Bible printed in America. Catholics constituted only a small minority of the population of the United States in 1790. Even so, Mathew Carey, an exile from Ireland, believed that America could support the publication of an edition of the English Catholic Bible. He secured approximately 475 subscribers, and it is thought the print run did not exceed 500 copies. In 1954 a census of extant copies found thirty-five copies in public and private collections. While the number of copies today may perhaps be forty-five, the volume’s continuing rarity may be understood when one realizes that the Vatican Library did not possess a copy until 1979. With good reason, Margaret Hills describes this edition as “the rarest of the notable early American editions of the Bible.” A significant edition both in the history of Bible printing and the history of publishing in the United States.

$12,500

triple dos a dos binding

(BINDING, Dos à Dos) [Kempis, Thomas à]. De L’Imitation de Jesus-Christ. Traduction nouvelle, Par le Sieur De Beüil, Prieur de

S. Val. Four engraved frontispieces. 420 pp. 4 volumes bound dos à dos in 3 volumes12mo, Paris: Chez la Veuve Charles Savreux, 1670. Seizieme edition. Contemporary triple dos-à-dos binding, full dark brown morocco, ruled and stamped in blind and gilt, a.e.g. Rubbing to binding with some dulling to gilt, wear to corners and to head of spine of middle volume. De Backer 647; OCLC: 822621766 (1 copy).

An unusual example of a French dos-à-dos binding, or “reliure trijumelle,” joing three volumes. “Très rares en France, elles [reliures dos à dos] sont mieux représentées dans les pays germaniques, au Danemark, et surtout en Angleterre, où elles sont fréquemment brodées“ (Bibliothèque Nationale de France).

$7,500

charles hering binding

(BINDING, Hering, Charles) [Berners, Dame Juliana]. The Book containing the Treatises of Hawking; Hunting; Coat-Armour; Fishing; and Blasing of Arms as printed at Wesminster by Wynkn de Worde the yeare of our Lord MCCCCLXXXXVI. [Edited by Joseph Haslewood]. Printed in red and black, black letter, woodcut plate and illustrations in the text, plate of facsimiles. [iv], 104, [202] pp. 4to (260 x 176 mm), London: Reprinted by Harding and Wright, St. John’s Square for White and Cochrane, Fleet-Street, and R. Triphook, St. James’s-Street, 1810 [1811]. One of 150 copies, the first modern reprint of the earliest English sporting book. Contemporary deep burgundy straight grain morocco, tooled in gold to a panel design with gilt-stamped corner pieces, surrounded by a blind-stamped border made up of small tools, blind-stamped center-piece, spine with 5 raised bands, compartments tooled in gilt, purple moiré pastedowns and endpapers, a.e.g., by Charles Hering (his ticket to ffep), some very light browning to text, in a custom open-faced red cloth slipcase. Schwerdt I, p. 63 (“This work contains bibliographical notices and a list of known editions of the Book of St. Albans, which are fully described”); Ramsden, London Bookbinders, p. 81. Provenance: Lord Rosebery (his bookplate).

A lovely, intricately-tooled binding for Lord Rosebery done by the leading London binder of his day, the German-born Charles Hering. Dibdin said of Hering that “till the star of Charles Lewis rose above the bibliopegistic horizon, no one could presume to ‘measure business’ with him. There was a strength, squareness, and a good style of work about his volumes which rendered him deservedly a great favourite.”

$7,500

BRIDGES, Robert. Eros & Psyche. A poem in XII measures …. Illustrated with 24 wood engravings cut after Edward Burne-Jones’ pencil drawings at the Ruskin Drawing School at Oxford. With initials in green, after Graily Hewitt’s designs; text printed in black and red. 4 ff. including title, 141 pp., plus colophon leaf. 4to, Newtown: Gregynog Press, 1935. Edition of 300 copies, of which this is one of 285 copies in the pigskin binding. White pigskin, spine and upper cover gilt, t.e.g. Fine. Harrop 33; Zilverdistel 33.

Graily Hewitt designed the typeface for the book, which was used only for this one Gregynog volume, the last volume to be produced under Haberly’s direction.

$1,250

BYRON, Lord (George Gordon). Hours of Idleness, a Series of Poems, Original and Translated. [xiv], 187 pp. Tall 8vo (8 M x 5 I in.), Newark: S. and J. Ridge, 1807. First edition, second issue, with line 2, page 22 reading “those tissues of falsehood”. Full green morocco with gilt borders, raised band, a.e.g., by HENDERSON AND BISSET. Spine uniformly faded to brown, slight rubbing at edges, remnants of removed sticker on verso of half-title, occasional light spotting or soiling. All in all, a very pretty copy. Wise Byron, I, pp. 7-8; Hayward 218; Randolph, p. 9.

$3,250

borowitz copy uncut in boards

[BYRON, Lord (George Gordon)]. English Bards, and Scotch Reviewers. A Satire. vi, 54 pp. 12mo, London: James Cawthorn, [1809]. First edition, second issue, with “Preface” leaf; p. 5 line 7 reading “despatch”; watermark “E & P 1805,” as per all authorized copies. Uncut in original drab green paper boards, printed in black. Crack in upper joint, skillful repair to foot of spine. Beautiful copy, in half blue morocco slipcase with chemise. Wise I, p. 19; Hayward

219. Provenance: H.W. Sibthorpe (signature on front pastedown); Richard Ellison, Jun. (signature on title-page); and David Borowitz (bookplate on chemise).

A fine copy in original boards of Byron’s classic takedown of the Edinburgh Review.

$3,000

inscribed to livy clemens

CABLE, George Washington. Old Creole Days. [First Series]. 8vo, New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1883. Later printing. Original blue cloth with light wear, but very good overall; with the morocco ex-libris of Estelle Doheny. BAL 2330 (note).

A remarkable Twain association, inscribed by Cable on the half-title: “To Mrs. Samuel L. Clemens / from G.W. Cable / Hartford, Nov 20, 1883.” This is a tremendous association copy, as Clemens and Cable were fast friends and mutual admirers; and Olivia Clem-ens was the frequent host of Cable when he was in Hartford. The two toured the country together twice on reading tours, the first of which being right around the time of this inscription. Furthermore, Clemens, in the winter of 1883-84, according to Paine’s biography, “took Cable’s fortunes in hand … invited him to his home, and undertook to open negotiations with the American Publishing Company, of which Frank Bliss was now the manager, for the improvement of his fortunes.” Cable was staying with the Clemens family in Hartford, recuperating from an illness, when he inscribed this to Livy; it is also the same date that a copy was deposited in the Library of Congress A superb association copy.

$3,000

cather’s set of galleys CATHER, Willa. Not Under Forty. Unbound long galleys. 50 pp., printed rectos only. 25 x 7 inches, [New York: Alfred A. Knopf,

1936]. Unbound and folded. The first and last sheet show minor soiling and some wear to the edges, otherwise fine. Crane A 21. a rare set of galleys, uncorrected and dated August 18, 1936, The

Plimpton Press. Cather’s first collected work of nonfiction including the literary essays “A Chance Meeting,” “The Novel Démeublé,” “148 Charles Street,” Miss Jewett,” “Joseph and His Brothers” (on Thomas Mann) and “Katherine Mansfield.” Cather wrote to Alfred Knopf May 1, 1936, “I have the hope that these papers are less dull than most, because they are mostly accounts of personal adventures with very individual literary personalities… the best paper among them is certainly the one called The Novel Demeuble” (Selected letters 515). Cather explained the book’s title in the preface: “it means that the book will have little interest for people under forty years of age. The world broke in two in 1922 or thereabouts…” This unmarked copy was possibly the proof retained by Cather, with her corrected copy going back to Knopf for final typesetting.

$2,500

inscribed by willa cather to her companion edith lewis

(CATHER, Willa) Poe, Edgar Allan. Poems. With charcoal frontispiece portrait. Title-page and ornaments after designs by Samuel Warner, typography by Andrew Andrews. [xvi], 58 pp. 8vo, East Aurora, New York: Roycrofters, 1901. Number 74 of 100 copies on Japan vellum, signed by Elbert Hubbard. Contemporary Roycroft binding of three quarter brown hand-stained morocco and marbled boards, rounded spine tooled in gilt with long tendrils built up from smaller tools, t.e.g. Signed “Roycroft” in gilt on front turn-in. Fine, in original felt-lined cardboard box with printed label, box worn at joints.

Inscribed by Willa Cather on the front free endpaper to her near-constant companion of 40 years, “Edith Lewis. Christmas 1907. W.S.C.” Lewis met Cather in Lincoln, Nebraska, in 1903, shortly after graduating from Smith. Lewis was in awe of the older Cather, and a friendship soon developed (which included the exchanging of books at Christmas). When in 1908 Cather moved to New York to take a job with McClure’s she settled in to Lewis’s Washington Square apartment. The two women would live together for the remainder of the author’s life. Lewis, who worked as a proofreader at McClure’s, proofread Cather’s works, and Cather would come to depend on Lewis for the sense of comfort, security and privacy that she needed in order to write. As her literary executor, Lewis continued to protect Cather‘s reputation and privacy after her death, and all but one letter between the two were destroyed. Only two other books inscribed from Cather to Lewis have appeared at auction, and both were from a much later date. This example, dated 1907, is from the first few years of Cather and Lewis’s friendship and predates their cohabitation. A very rare memento from one of the most important relationships in Cather’s life. “[Lewis] gave Cather, to use Blanche Cook’s phrase, ‘a living environment in which to work creatively and independently,” and that is not an insignificant gift” (O’Brien, Willa Cather: The Emerging Voice, p. 357).

$6,000 churchill lectures in america

CHURCHILL, Winston S. Autograph Letter, signed (“Winston S. Churchill”), to Major James B. Pond, with related notes. 3 pp. pen and ink on three sheets of 105, Mount Strett, W. stationery, rectos only, with original envelope. [New York]: January 31, 1901. Creased from prior folding, small closed tears at folds, else fine.

On December 1, 1900, Churchill sailed for New York to begin a two month speaking tour of North America organized by Major James Pond. The young Churchill was fresh from the battlefield of four of Queen Victoria’s wars, where he served a dual role as officer and war correspondent. His lecture, “The War as I Saw It,” was a telling of his views on the South African War and his escape from captivity, all illustrated with magic lantern slides. Major James Burton Pond (1838-1903) was a lecture promoter who, in addition to Churchill, represented Samuel Clemens, Arthur Conan Doyle and Henry Stanley. Churchill writes to Pond on the final day of the tour, two days before he set sail for England on the day of Queen Victoria’s funeral. Reading in part, “I am much obliged to you for the handsome volumes you have presented me with, and which I shall add to my small but growing library with great satisfaction … I am of course disappointed with the small profit [£1,600] my tour has resulted in, but at the same time I do not regret my visit to these shores for I have gained a great many new ideas and learned and have learned a good deal that will be of value later on. I am sorry we had a disagreement for although I am not quite convinced that you have managed the lecture tour well, I fear I was unreasonable. However, any annoyance I may have caused you was more than balanced by the wide circulation of your unfortunate ‘interview’; so that I think we may … forget the business …” Though this letter aims at something of a reconciliation, Churchill was deeply unhappy with Pond’s handling of the tour. “Pond’s advance work had left Winston so angry that he threatened to call off the tour. Posters hailed him as ‘the hero of five wars,’ at least one too many. A reception committee of local dignitaries featured so many Dutch names that it might have been made up of Boers … Things were not off to a good start … Winston fought with Pond — he was nothing but a vulgar Yankee impresario, who was taking 30 percent of the fees and subcontracting some of the lectures to local agents for a fixed guarantee” (Morgan, Churchill: Young Man in a Hurry, pp. 141-144). With a collection of papers and notes relating to the tour and the Churchill/Pond relationship, including: 6 p. autograph draft of notes by Pond, describing several unpleasant anecdotes concerning Churchill’s lecture tour. March 5, 1901. “Buel [Clarence Clogh Buel, editor of The Century Magazine] asked me how I ever came to bring to this country that ass of a Churchill … ‘He is the biggest idiot you have brought here yet’ said Buel.” The note goes on to relate Richard Le Gallienne’s account of Churchill’s stay with bibliophile James Young of Minneapolis and Churchill’s imperious behavior towards his host. Eastern Union telegram from Churchill to Pond in Stamphix, NY, announcing his decision to lecture in North America. London, July 30, 1900. “… Have decided come lecture in America during December January February Perhaps fortnight longer …” with address in pencil, “35a Great Cumberland Pl. London W.” Split vertically with old repair. 26 pp. typed carbon of notes by Pond concerning Churchill’s lecture tour and their acrimonious relationship, with a few notes in Pond’s hand. A fascinating and detailed account of the breakdown of the relationship between Churchill and Pond, with transcripts of letters and recalled conversations. The typescript focuses on Churchill’s refusal while in Canada to continue the lecture on the grounds that his percentage of the door is too small.

$20,000

CICERO, Marcus Tullius. Opera omnia: cum Gruteri et selectis variorum notis & indicibus locupletissimis, accurante C. Schrevelio. Engraved general title page, 4 sectional titles, woodcut headpieces and other ornaments. Text in two columns. [8], 51, [5], 1339, [53] pp. 4 volumes bound 24to, Amsterdam and Leiden: Daniel Elzeveir and Franciscus Hackius, 1661. Full red 18th-century morocco, covers with triple gilt fillet borders, spines richly gilt in 6 compartments, lettered in two, raised bands, leather doublures, marbled free endpapers. Small marginal repair to outer margin of engraved title. Beautiful set, with the morocco bookplates of Mortimer Schiff and that of Suzette Telenga, Enrique Ellinger. In full red morocco pull-off cases by Rivière. Willems 1268.

Superb copy of this Elzevir with the works of Cicero edited by Schrevelius. One notable feature is the magnificent engraved title-page showing Cicero, surrounded by other Senators, making his plea.

$4,500

richly extra-illustrated and beautifullly bound

(COSWAY-STYLE BINDING) Walton, Izaac, and Charles COTTON. The Complete Angler. Edited by Edward Jesse. Illustrated with 207 woodcuts, and an additional 26 full page engravings on steel. Extra-illustrated with numerous views, portraits, and other items of Waltoniana. One volume bound in 38vo, London: Henry G. Bohn, 1856. First Jesse edition, the issue with the additional plates. Full green levant extra gilt, Cosway style binding with miniature oval portrait of Walton inset in upper cover of vol. I, spines gilt, turn-ins gilt, watered silk endsheets, t.e.g., by Bayntun (Riviere). Half-title with publisher’s presentation inscription dated June 1856. Fine in cloth slipcase. Bookplate. Westwood & Satchell, p. 232; Coigney 71; Heckscher 2071.

This edition was originally produced in two forms: “with 203 [actually 207] Engravings on Wood, price 5s, or with the addition of 26 Engravings on Steel, 7s 6d”. The present copy is abundantly extra-illustrated with portraits, views of places mentioned in the text (several folding; some hand-colored), plates from earlier editions, angling scenes, plates of fishes (some hand-colored), an original pencil drawing of anglers at streamside, and much Waltoniana, including a ticket of the Lea Bridge Fishery, trade card of the Izaak Walton Anglers Coffee Rooms in Newman St., London, as well as Gosden’s facsimile of the 1653 title page and his other Waltonian illustrations. A superbly bound set, rich in the visual history of this landmark of angling and of English literature.

$10,000

COVARRUBIAS, Miguel. Diego Rivera and Lupe Marin. Pencil on board. Signed Covarrubias, lower right. 14 x 8-H inches (35.5 x 21.5 cm), Framed and glazed. Provenance: Lourdes Chumacero.

Lupe Marin was Rivera’s second wife (1922-1927). The Riveras and Covarrubias were part of a coterie of friends that also inlcluded Frida Kahlo, David Siqueiros and his wife Angélica, the Tomayos, etc. (see Adrianna Williams, Covarrubias p. 139, etc.).

$22,500 memoirs of a cross-dressing monk: one of 115 copies

(CURIOSA) Avantures de l’Abbé de Choisy Habillé en Femme. Quatre fragments inédits, à l’exception du dernier qui a été publié sous le titire: Histoire de la Comtesse des Barres, précédés d’un avant-propos, par M. P.L. [Paul Lacroix]. 119pp. 12mo, Paris: Jules Gay, 1862. First edition, No. 74 of 115 copies. Half tan calf and marbled boards, with the original yellow printed wrappers bound in. Gay-Lemonnyer I 315.

Memoirs of an eighteenth-century cross-dresser, published here for the first time (except for one fragment) from manuscript located in the library of Arsenal.

$450

DALI, Salvador. The Secret Life of Salvador Dali. Translated by Haakon Chevalier. Illustrated by Dali. 400 pp. 4to, New York: The Dial Press. Burton C. Hoffman, 1942. Original orange cloth. Very good.

With original drawing by Dali on the half-title of a man with a boy looking at the quarter moon and a shooting star inscribed to William Ridgway, “pour Bill Ridgway amicallement Salvator Dali 1944.” Ridgway was a partner in Ridgway, Newsome & Company on Wall Street and later Chairman of the Crum & Forster Group of Insurance Companies.

$2,500

DENISON, Alfred, translator. A Literal Translation into English of the Earliest Known Book on Fowling and Fishing written originally in Flemish and Printed at Antwerp in the Year 1492 [Dit Boecxken leert hoe men mach voghelen vanghen metten handen]. Illustrated with woodcuts. 4to, N.p.: Privately Printed for Alfred Denison, 1872. Limited to 25 copies. Contemporary red morocco-backed marbled boards, gilt lettered spine, t.e.g. In flet lined morocco-backed solander box by Aquarius. Westwood & Satchell, p.78.

$4,000

on the closing of the doves press

(DOVES PRESS) Cobden-Sanderson, Thomas James. Autograph Letter, signed (“C.-S.”), to Sydney Cockerell (“Dear S.C”). 2 pp. pen and ink on one sheet of stationery. 8vo, Upper Ifold, Dunsfold, Surrey: September 21, 1916. Faint crease from old fold.

Cobden-Sanderson writes to Sir Syndey Cockerell (1867-1962), former secretary to William Morris at the Kelmscott Press, on the imminent closing of the Doves Press. Reading in part, “I shall be very happy to send some ‘memorial’ sheets when the press closes. You have been too appreciative to be denied! As for my biography I have always been chary of that, but I may, when the press is moved, as I have nothing else to do, look back — try our memories & if they will round them off into ‘a whole’ I may perhaps give it as a last present to my friends — but nothing will appear in the final [?] lala copies but the ‘Vale’ & some letters & advertisements wh. have already appeared amongst the ephemera of the Press …” “Vale” is “Salve aeternum aeternumque vale,” Cobden-Sanderson’s farewell essay in the final book of the Press, Catalogue Raisonné, printed just two months after this letter, in December 1916. On the closing of the Doves Press, Cobden-Sanderson dumped all of the Press’s fonts and matrices into the Thames. Cobden-Sanderson closes the letter with a compliment to “your wife’s most beautiful productions” and post script, “By the way I shall not forget to return the Chaucer book.“ Cockerell’s wife, Kate Cockerell, was a manuscript illuminator and artist. Cobden-Sanderson and Cockerell’s friendship dated back to the days of the Kelmoscott Press, and Cockerell’s brother, Douglas, began his celebrated bookbinding career as an apprentice at the Doves Bindery.

$2,500

on the closing of the doves press

(DOVES PRESS) Hornby, C.H. St. John. Autograph Letter, signed (“CH S J Hornby”), to T.J. Cobden Sanderson (“Dear Cobden Sanderson”). 2 pp. pen and ink on one sheet, Shelley House stationery. 8vo, Chelsea: Shelley House, December 16, 1915. Faint creasing from prior folds, pen spill at right-hand margin.

The founder of the Ashendene Press writes to Cobden-Sanderson on his sadness on the closing of the Doves Press. Reading, “It is with a touch of sadness that I send you this cheque, as I fear it may be the last I shall send you for a Doves Press Book. They have given me a great deal of pleasure for many years, more than I like to reckon up, and I don’t like to think that the Press is coming to an end. “At least you will be able to look back upon a fine acheivement in respect both of form and matter of the books you have printed. It would be impossible to find from both points of view a more delightful series.” The Doves Press would close December of the following year, the final book being the Catalogue Raisonné, printed December 16, 1916. A touching sentiment from one giant of the Private Press movement to another.

$1,500

DÜRER, Albrecht. The Little Passion … With the poems of the first edition of 1511 by Benedictus Chelidonius Musophilus in Latin with English version. With title illustration and 36 woodcuts by Leonardo Farina after Dürer. 8vo, Verona: [Oficina Bodoni], 1971. No. 133 of 140 copies of the English version (Italian and German editions were also issued). Quarter brown pigskin and Ingres covered boards, spine titled in gilt, t.e.g. Fine in original slipcase. Prospectus loosely inserted. Mardersteig 173.

Beautiful edition of the great work by Dürer, with the illustrations newly cut by Italian artist Leonardo Farina.

$1,000

EDWARDS, George. A Natural History of Uncommon Birds, and of Some Other Rare and Undescribed Animals, Quadrupeds, Reptiles, Fishes, Insects, etc., Exhibited in Two Hundred and Ten Copper-Plates. [With:] Gleanings of Natural History, Exhibiting Figures of Quadrupeds, Birds, Insects, Plants. etc …. 362 hand-colored engravings, sequentially numbered across both works, each engraving with facing letterpress description. 7 vols. 4to, London: Printed for the Author, at the Royal College of Physicians, 1743-1764. First edition. Full late 18th-century blue crushed morocco gilt. Occasional light offsetting of plates to text, plates generally quite clean, some scattered light foxing to text, overall a beautiful set in this fine near-contemporary binding. Nissen 286-88; Wood, p. 329; Sitwell, p. 93.

“Though issued separately, they [Natural History and Gleanings] are considered as one and either must rank as imperfect without the other … At its date of issue the Natural History and Gleanings was one of the most important of all bird Books, both as a Fine Bird Book and a work of Ornithology. It is still high on each list …” (Sitwell). Of these 362 exquisitely colored plates, 318 are of birds, whith a few of insects, mammals, plants, etc.

$55,000

the kings and queens of england

(ENGLISH ROYALTY) Historical Cards, Exhibiting the History of England. 32 cards, each with a hand-colored wood-engraved medallion portrait of a ruler of England, with letterpress bio and historical timeline of important events. Cards meas. 4 x 2-L in, London: John Wallis, 16 Ludgate Street, n.d., [ca. late 18th century]. Cards lightly worn and finger soiled. In original card box with printed label, box worn and soiled. In custom card slip-case to style with facsimile label. Schreiber Collection of Playing Cards, English cards no. 157 (30 cards); OCLC: 122303029 (28 cards) & 33934210 (31 cards).

A complete set of this series of cards depicting the ruling monarchs of Great Britain, from William the Conqueror to George II, presumably to be used as a study aid. Published by the English board game publisher John Wallis, who occupied the 16 Ludgate Street address from 1775 to 1805.

$800

a milestone of botanical science

FUCHS, Leonhart. De historia stirpium commentarii insignes. Woodcut portraits of Fuchs, Albrecht Meyer, Heinrich Füllmaurer, and Veit Rudolf Speckle; and 512 woodcuts of plants after drawings from nature by Meyer, transferred to woodblocks by Füllmaurer, and cut into the block by Speckle. [xxviii], 896 pp. Folio (14-H x 19-1/16 inches ; 362 x 320 mm.), Basel: Michael Isingrin, 1542. First edition. Late 17th century Continental calf, spine gilt, joint rubbed, spine ends repaired. Near fine. In half morocco slipcase and chemise. Provenance: R.C. Du Mortier (ex libris): John Charrington, The Grange, Shenley (bookplate). Nissen 658; Adams F-1099; Dibner 19; Horblit 33b; Hunt 48; Norman 846; Parkinson p 37; PMM 69; Stillwell 640; Grolier, 100 Books Famous in Medicine 17; The great herbal of Leonhard Fuchs, H.T. Meyer ed., 1999.

“One of the most justly celebrated and highly prized of the early herbals. Leonhart Fuchs was an eminent practicing physician and Professor of Medicine at the Protestant University of Tübingen. Fuchs aimed his work at an audience of professionals in order to provide them with accurate descriptions of plants, including many recently imported into Europe from America, Africa, and Asia. Today, Fuchs’ work is prized not only for its scholarly value, but also for the surpassing beauty of its illustrations. The methodical layout, the organization of the subject matter, the spacious design, and the number, size, and beauty of the illustrations have caused the herbal to appeal to botanists and bibliophiles alike … Scholars today consider the herbal to be one of the significant landmarks of pre-Linnean literature” (Grolier 100).

$85,000

early feminist work

GRIMKÉ, Angelina Emily. Letters to Catherine E. Beecher, in Reply to An Essay on Slavery and Abolitionism, Addressed to A.E. Grimke. Revised by the Author. 130 pp. 12mo, Boston: Printed by Isaac Knapp, 1838. First edition. Original quarter embossed cloth and boards, with yellow printed paper label on front cover. Small tear to cloth at along rear joint, some staining to covers, tear from lower corner of pp. 3-4. Contemporary signature in pencil of “L.W. Keeler, Union” on ffep.

Grimké’s Letters to Catherine E. Beecher began as a series of essays made in response to Beecher’s An Essay on Slavery and Abolitionism with Reference to the Duty of American Females, which was written to Grimké. She published them first in The Emancipator and The Liberator before being put in book form here by The Liberator’s printer, Isaac Knapp. Grimké (1805-1879) argued against Beecher’s belief that women, as subordinate to men, should not participate in the abolitionist movement and should be absolved of such moral duties. Her Letters were “a scorching response to a pamphlet opposing engagement by her sex in political activism. Her Letters to Catherine Beecher was much ahead of its time. It argued that women should be allowed not only to help write the laws of the land but to sit in the seats of its government” (ANB). One of the most important early feminist and suffragist works. Rare on the market, with no copies at auction in the last 30 years.

$5,000

haig-brown on the challenges of conservation

HAIG-BROWN, Roderick. [Autograph Manuscript of a Speech on Flyfishing and Conservation, given to the Theodore Gordon Flyfishers, at a Dinner in the Biltmore Hotel, New York, 16 March 1968]. Blue ink on paper, on 27 3 x 5 index cards (numbered 1-13, 13A-26), 11 lines in neat block letters, occasional points of emphasis designated in red underlining, approximately 1250 words. Last card with note in another hand: “(speech of Roderick Haig-Brown)”. 3 x 5 inches, [N.p.]: 1968. First card a bit toned, with a few tiny rust stains from clip, last card with an old fold, otherwise fine. Custom half morocco folding box.

Autograph manuscript of a thoughtful and wide-ranging speech given by angling author and pioneering conservationist Roderick L. Haig-Brown at the annual dinner of the Theodore Gordon Flyfishers, on flyfishing and conservation and the role of flyfishing clubs in promoting conservation. “Forty years ago on the Pacific coast, I had it pretty good — forests everywhere, clean streams coming through them & out of them, lots of fish. Not too many people. I worried, but my worries were for the future. I didn’t worry enough. I had no idea how fast it could all change or how badly it could be handled.” Haig-Brown notes the rise of fly clubs all across north America as the most encouraging development. He warns of pollution, calls for its reducation and for cleanup of existing pollution, and adds his voice to a growing call for the end to the use of DDT “that barbarous pesticide” (its use was not banned in the U.S. until 1972). He advocates careful stream management, and concludes with a look back to the English poets John Gay and James Thompson. The vast Haig-Brown archive at the University of British Columbia records a two-page pen draft of excerpts of this speech (box 55-7), and notes for Haig-Brown’s speeches are also preserved (box 55A). Because so much is preserved in the archive, very little Haig-Brown manuscript material is ever seen on the market. rare and interesting and evidently unpublished.

$7,500

inscribed to guy hickok

HEMINGWAY, Ernest. A Farewell to Arms. 355 pp. 8vo, New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1929. First edition, first issue with publisher’s seal on copyright page and no disclaimer on page [x]. Original black cloth, gilt paper printed labels. Wear to bottom edge of covers, with boards showing throw, dark burn stain and wear to lower corner of textblock. Pictorial dust-jacket designed by Cleonike (first issue with “Katherine” spelling on flap); rubbed and faded with loss at spine ends and top margin of rear panel. Hanneman 8A.

Inscribed to his close friend Guy Hickok, “To Gros Hickok, with much affection, trusting him to fill in the balnks — Ernest Hemingway.” Hemingway met Guy Hickok in 1922, when they foreign correspondents for North American newspapers in Paris. Hemingway, working for the Toronto Star, began what would become an enduring friendship with the good natured Hickok, who was on assignment for the Brooklyn Daily Eagle. Hickok even provided the inspiration for Hemingway’s short story “Che Ti Dice La Patria?” (collected in Men Without Women, 1927). Hemingway’s reference to filling in the blanks refers to the book’s censorship. “Guy Hickok , who read the novel in manuscript, recognized something of Hemingway’s second wife, Pauline, in the character of Catherine …” (Harold Bloom).

$15,000

“please remember me to scott [fitzgerald] when you write him.” HEMINGWAY, Ernest. Typed Letter, signed (“Ernest Hemingway”), to George Norton Northrop. 1 p. typed with 2 corrections in manuscript. Oblong 8vo, Hendaye, France: September 8, 1927. Old folds. Letter is tipped-in at rear of later printing (1927) of The Sun Also Rises.

Not in Selected Letters (ed. Baker). Provenance: by descent through the Northrop family. Hemingway writes to George Norton Northrop, former Head

master of The Brearley School. Hemingway and Northrop had a mutual acquaintance in F. Scott Fitzgerald, who is referred to in the letter as “Scott.” Reading in part, “I was very sorry not to have gotten your note enclosing Scott’s card until it was too late to answer … When you come to Paris again you must let me know beforehand and dine with us … Please remember me to Scott when you write him. I owe him a letter and many other things …” Hemingway would have considered himself in debt to Fitzgerald for several reasons. In a letter dated April 1927 Fitzgerald had sent Hemingway a check for $100 to help him get by while we waited for income from Men Without Women. Fitzgerald had advised Hemingway on the opening chapter of The Sun Also Rises, published the previous year: “He showed the carbon copy of the Sun Also Rises to Scott Fitzgerald who now, in full sobriety, said it was an excellent book. But he recommended a number of internal cuts in the opening chapters. His arguments were so persuasive that Ernest resolved at once to lop off the first fifteen pages …” (Baker, Ernest Hemingway,

p. 170). Fitzgerald had also persuaded his editor Maxwell Perkins to take The Torrents of Spring and The Sun Also Rises sight-unseen after Boni & Liveright had rejected Torrents. Hemingway wrote to Fitzgerald the following week, in a letter dated December 15, 1927, and belatedly thanks his friend for the loan of $100 and mentions his correspondence with Northrop, “I got your check cashed it like a son of a bitch without writing and never wrote … Please Scott forgive me for being such a turd about not writing or acknowledging the check. I had a note from Northrup [sic] in Santiago enclosing a card of yours — it came just as he was sailing. So I w[rote] him in Chicago …” A fine letter, documenting the period of earnest friendship and mutual support in the Hemingway-Fitzgerald relationship.

$12,500

HENSHALL, James A. Bass, Pike, Perch and Others. Illustrated. 8vo, New York: Macmillan, 1903. First edition, one of 100 large paper copies. Publisher’s olive green half morocco, t.e.g. Fine copy. Wetzel p. 155; Bruns pp. 497-8.

From The American Sportsman’s Library, edited by Caspar Whitney. A classic title, here in the handsome large paper issue.

$550

HENTY, G. A. The Queen’s Cup. [iv], 250, [ii]; [iv], 253, [3]; [iv], 221, [3] pp. + 32 pp. ads at back of vol. III dated Nov. 1896. With half-titles in all vols. Expert facsimile title-page to vol. III. 3 vols. 8vo, London: Chatto & Windus, 1897. First edition. Original green embossed cloth, spines lettered in gilt, brown leaf endpapers. Spine gilt rubbed with some loss to vol. III, slight lean to vol. I, occasional light soiling, previous owner’s pencil inscription to each vol., still a near fine copy. Dartt, pp. 108-109; not in Sadleir or Wolff.

A sharp copy of Henty’s rare novel on yachting, among the last triple-deckers to appear in Britain.

$6,500

audrey hepburn in vertigo?

HITCHCOCK, Alfred. Typed Letter, signed (“Hitch”), to Herbert Coleman. 4-G pp. typed, rectos only, on Paramount British Productions letterhead, with an autograph postscript, “Herman has a copy of this letter”. 4to (11-H x 8 in.), Claridge’s, Brook Street, London: 6 November 1955. Light rust stain from staple at upper left corner, light crease from prior folding. In custom half grey morocco and blue cloth folding case.

A long, discursive letter from Hitchcock to “My dear Herbie,” assistant director Herbert Coleman. Hitchcock opens with a description of the command performance of To Catch a Thief, “… Alma [Hitchcock] managed to curtsy without falling over, and the Queen merely asked me where the film had been made … The film played well, as usual, the laughs all came at the right places and there was good applause at the end — which the locals told me had not occured before at a Command Performance.” Hitchcock then goes into detail about the ticket sales for the six-week run of the British run of To Catch a Thief (“a house record”) and writes about the mixed results of test runs of his new picture, The Trouble with Harry. After touching on several other subjects (“I think that about covers most of what I have in my mind at the moment”), Hitchock mentions that he may be considering Audrey Hepburn for Among the Dead (the working title of Vertigo). She was presumably to be considered for the part of Judy Barton, played by Kim Novak.

$5,500

HOLYOKE, Edward. Integrity and Religion to be principally regarded, by such as design others to stations of publick trust. A sermon preach’d before His Excellency, Jonathan Belcher, Esq; His Majesty’s Council, and the Assembly of the province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England, on the anniversary for the election of counsellors for said province, May

26. 1736. By Edward Holyoke, M.A. Pastor of a Church in Marblehead. [Eleven lines of quotations]. [iv], 51, [1] pp. 8vo, Boston: in New-England : Printed by J. Draper, printer to His Excellency the governour and Council, for J. Eliot, 1736. First Edition, no half-title. Disbound. Evans, 4026, Sabin, 32669; ESTC 20544.

Edward Holyoke (1689-1769) was an American clergyman and the president of Harvard College (1737-1769), whose notions of democracy and government by the people preceeded and foreshadowed the Declaration of Independence. As Harvard president, a position that required teaching, Holyoke would have crossed paths with a number of Revolutionary War leaders, such as John Adams, Samuel Adams, John Hancock, and Joseph Warren. Holyoke’s position was expressed thus: “That those whose Providence it is, to design others, to Stations of publick Trust, should have a principal Regard ro their Integrity and Religion” (p. 5), and that “All forms of Government originate from the People; that is, God in his Providence hath influenced them; some to fix on one form of Government, and some upon another” (p. 12).

$900

the hammer of witches — the rare first edition INSTITORIS, Henricus, & Jacobus Sprenger. Malleus Maleficarum. 129 [of 130] leaves, 48 lines, double-columned, gothic type, rubricated with initial capitals in red and blue, occasional pen flourishes, paragraph marks at beginning of chapter headings, captial strokes. Lacking final blank. Folio, [Speyer: Peter Drach, before April 1487]. First Edition. Nineteenth-century white paper boards with printed paper spine label. Upper cover stained and soiled, first three pages of text with some soiling and staining, neat repair to final printed leaf. Full green morocco gilt clamshell box. All in all, a remarkably

fine, clean copy. HC* 9238; Goff I-163; British Library (IB.8581, acquired in 1867 but not recorded in BMC); ii00163000. First edition of the “the most important and most sinister work on

demonology ever written. It crystallized into a fiercely stringent code previous foklore about black magic with church dogma on heresy, and, if any one work could, opened the floodgates of the inquisitorial hysteria … [it was] the source, inspiration, and quarry for all subsequent treatises on witchcraft.” — Robbins, Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology. The book was published and republished in at least 13 editions up to 1520, then revived from the late 16th century, undergoing at least 16 editions between 1574 and 1669, as well as numerous editons in German, French and English. Complete copies of the first edition are rare, and only a few copies are found in American institutions.

$125,000

actor john barrymore’s copy of jonson’s works JONSON, Ben. The Workes of … With engraved allegorical title by William Hole and woodcut initials and head-pieces throughout. [10], 1015 pp. Lacking blank leaf A1. With occasional mispagination; several leaves with blank verso (Fl, F6), blank recto (F2. F7), without loss of text. Folio, London: Printed by W[william] Stansby, 1616. First edition. Full green morocco by Riviere and Sons, gilt ruled, spines lettered and decorated in gilt, a.e.g. Mild toning and thumbing throughout, title-page remargined, last leaf with restoration at blank corners; spine uniformly toned to tan; expert, nearly imperceptible repair to joints. Provenance: John Barrymore’s copy, signed by him and additionally annotated with bibliographic information “Engraved title in compartments by Hole / Bound by Riviere….” and with his bookplate. STC 14751; Pforzheimer 559;

Greg I:163(d), 176(b), 181(b), 186(b)*, 216(b), 256(b), 304(b)*, 303(b), 296(b). Grolier 100 English. First edition of the Workes of Ben Jonson, the publication of which

was closely supervised by Jonson, a landmark of English literature. “The publication of the 1616 folio in the very year of Shakespeare’s death consolidated Jonson’s position as England’s foremost living author … Jonson was granted a royal pension of 100 marks … establishing him in fact if not in name as Britain’s poet laureate” (ODNB).

Jonson was the most celebrated author for the stage and court in Jacobean England, and his work was widely performed through the early eighteenth century. Dryden wrote that if “Shakespeare was the Homer or father of dramatic poets, Jonson was the Virgil,” and if he now stands in the shadow of Shakespeare, his literary achievements have been consistently valued through the centuries, and he was praised by Oscar Wilde and James Joyce. The Workes comprises nine plays: Every Man in his Humor, Every Man out of his Humor, Cynthias Revells, Poetaster, Seianus, Volpone, Epicoene, The Alchemist, and Catiline; together with a collection of his Epigrammes, Poetry, and Masques. Personally supervising the preparation of the contents of the Folio, Jonson “used the quarto texts wherever available but scrupulously and systematically revised them, cutting out many marginal notes, altering the spelling, typography and punctuation in accordance with a consistent if somewhat pedantic plan and introducing considerable editorial matter. The result is that this folio edition may be regarded as authoritative. Moreover Jonson attended the press while it was being printed and introduced many corrections and alterations at that time” (Pforzheimer 559). The engraved title is rich in allegorical significance to “the scope and diversity of Jonson’s authorial ambitions” (Donaldson 2011, p. 327 ff.). It was the success of Jonson’s Workes that encouraged the consortium of London booksellers to produce the First Folio Shakespeare of 1623, to which Jonson contributed the celebrated verses “To the Memory of My Beloved the Author, Master William Shakespeare …” Poems are invariably a mirror of the poet as well as of the nominal subject and it is plain that Jonson intended himself as well as Shakespeare when he wrote “He was not of an age, but for all time.” With a notable modern theatrical provenance: from the library of renowned stage and film actor John Barrymore, signed by him and bearing his distinctive bookplate. Barrymore (1882-1942), “the most conspicuous member of of America’s ‘Royal Family’ of actors” (ANB), who achieved international stardom with his stage performances as Richard III and Hamlet in the 1920s on Broadway and in London. and a meteoric film career. This is Pforzheimer’s preferred small-paper copy with the following points: “C” engraved title page; Every Man Out of his Humour title page: one of two states without border, with imprint: “London, Printed by William Stansby for John Smithwicke. [rule] M.DC. XVI.”; with first issue of dedication leaf (G2), signed, with “By your true Honorer, Ben Jonsoif ” and with other Pforzheimer points “found only in small-paper copies”; Cynthias Revells engraved title page, first (of two) Pforzheimer issues, with “Printed by W. Stansby”; Poetaster title page, first (of three) Pforzheimer issues, with “Printed by W. Stansby, for M. Lownes. 1616” and with all Quire Yy6 (525-40) small-paper points; last two pages of the Golden Age with song headed “Astraea” preceding that headed “Pallas.”

$25,000

the founding president of stanford university

JORDAN, David Starr. An album of 32 original drawings of freshwater fish, all by Jordan, on variously sized sheets of paper, most identified beneath, most of species found in Georgia. 32 drawings (6 x 8 1⁄2 inches and smaller) tip-mounted recto only to 32 album leaves, preceded by two related facsimiles tip-mounted to recto and verso of a single album leaf. Oblong quarto (11 x 7 inches), [Georgia: ca. 18761877]. Tied between original decorated cloth covers. Provenance: Dr. George Sprague Myers (1905–1985, ichythyologist, inscription

dated 1950). A rare chance: a well-presented selection of original drawings from the most influential American ichthyologist, David Starr Jordan (1851-1931) Some of the subjects are as follows: 1. Moxostoma … Ockmulgee [River, Georgia] (6 x 8 1⁄2 inches) 2. Moxostoma euryops (5 x 8 1⁄2 inches) see Henry Fowler “Study of the Fishes of the Southern Piedmont and Coastal Plain” p. 338 where it is noted that

M. euryops was first described by Jordan in 1876 (1877) 6. studies of fins of Aminus nigricans (5 x 6 inches) or black catfish 8. Erogalia eurystoma Chattahoochee [River, Alabama, Georgia, Florida] (5 3⁄4 x 6 inches) 9. …. Etowah [River, Georgia]. 11. Hybopsis (5 1⁄4 x 6 inches) i.e. Chub 13. Rhini thys … Etowah [River, Georgia] No. 8. (6 x 5 M inches) ? loach 14. Lythrurus etrus Etowah [River, Georgia] (6 x 5 M inches) 15. ….. White R.[iver] Ind.[iana] (5 1⁄2 x 6 inches) ? sunfish 23. Catonotus ceneolatus (6 x 6 inches) ?darter 24. Catonotus flabellatus (5 J x 6 1⁄4 inches) ?darter 25. Microperca punctulata (5 3⁄4 x 6 1⁄4 inches) ?least darter, renamed by Jordan in 1888. “The writer has been engaged during the two past summers (1876-1877) in collecting fishes in the upper waters of the different river basins in the Southern States, with a view to ascertaining the fish fauna of each and to throw as much light as possible on the laws which govern the distribution of the species … Some forty-three species new to science were obtained by us in these Southern rivers, among them several singular and interesting forms” (Jordan, ”On the Distribution of Fresh-Water Fishes,” 1877).

$4,000

virgil thomson’s copy — one of 150 on large paper JOYCE, James. Ulysses. xii, 740 pp. Tall 8vo (26.2 x 20.1 cm.), Paris: Shakespeare and Co, 1922. First edition, No. 234 of 150 numbered copies on vergé d’Arches (total edition, 1000 copies). Original blue wrappers printed in white. Wrappers slightly rubbed at edges, skillfully rebacked, preserving most of original spine. Very good, in quarter morocco slipcase with chemise, and the original Shakespeare & Co. prospectus laid in. Composer virgil thomson’s copy, signed in light pencil by him on the flyleaf: “Virgil Thomson Paris 1922”. Slocum A17; Connolly Modern Movement, 42; v. Horowitz,

p. 121. The first printing of Ulysses consisted of 1000 copies in three limitations: the first 100 were printed on Dutch handmade paper, numbered, and signed by Joyce, price 350 francs; 150 large paper copies numbered 101-250, printed on Vergé d’Arches, unsigned, at 250 francs; and the final 750 were numbered 251-1000 and printed on a lesser grade of handmade paper, at 150 francs Arguably the most significant and celebrated English language novel of the 20th Century, the publishing trials and tribulations of Ulysses are legend. Stymied by obscenity charges that prevented its serial publication in The Egoist, Joyce’s masterpiece was published instead by Sylvia Beach in the winter of 1922 under her imprint at the Shakespeare and Company bookshop in Paris. In 1922, a young Harvard music student, Virgil Thomson, was on leave from school to study with the great Nadia Boulanger in Paris; a month before his return to America in August, Thomson purchased this copy on July 1, 1922, according to Sylvia Beach’s notebook (v. Horowitz catalogue). A few years later, Thomson returned to Paris, where he became acquainted with the circle of experimental artists, writers, and

musicians who gathered at Sylvia Beach’s famous bookshop, and it was there that he came to know James Joyce. “After the success of ‘Four Saints in Three Acts,’ Joyce asked Thomson to compose a score for a ballet to be presented at the Paris Opera with choreography by Leonide Massine based on the children’s games chapter of Finnegan’s Wake. Thomson demurred, not wanting to wound his good friend Gertrude, who thought Joyce a rival” (Anthony Tommasini, Virgil Thomson: Composer on the Aisle, p. 139). A remarkable association copy of this modernist classic.

$75,000

signed by both joyce and matisse

JOYCE, James. Ulysses. With an Introduction by Stuart Gilbert. Illustrated With 6 original soft-ground etchings and 20 reproductions of preliminary drawings by Henri Matisse. xvi, [ii], 735 pp. 4to, New York: Limited Editions Club, 1935. First edition thus, no. 804 of 1500 copies, and one of only 250 copies signed by both joyce and matisse. Original brown cloth, spine and upper board blocked in gilt. Gilt spine a bit dulled, endpapers somewhat browned, otherwise very good. In the original sliding case (worn). Custom morocco backed slipcase and cloth chemise. Slocum & Cahoon A22; Quarto-Millenary 71; Garvey 197; Duthuit 235.

With six soft ground etchings by Matisse created for this edition, with reproductions of his preliminary drawings. One of the most famous and desirable productions of the Limited Editions Club, as Joyce, plagued by failing vision, only signed 250 sheets for Macy.

$25,000

jfk’s first book, inscribed to newsman arthur krock KENNEDY, John F. Why England Slept. xx, 252 pp. 8vo, New York:

Wilfred Funk, Inc, 1940. First edition. Publisher’s rose cloth. Spine faded, light wear to spine ends. The first edition of John F. Kennedy’s first book, inscribed to

Arthur Krock: “To Mr. Krock. Who Baptized, Christened, and was Best Man for this book — with my sincere thanks, Jack Kennedy.” Arthur Krock (1886-1974), the “Dean of Washington Newsmen,“ was Washington correspondent and bureau chief for the New York Times and wrote the “In the Nation” column. He was a close friend and political ally of Joe Kennedy and his children. He advised John

F. Kennedy with the revisions of his 1939 senior honors paper, “Appeasement in Munich,” in preparation for its publication the following year. It was Krock who suggested the new title, Why England Slept, a response to Churchill’s While England Slept. Krock would continue to advise the young Kennedy, who thanked him In the Preface to Profiles in Courage. Ted Kennedy wrote admiringly of Krock in his tribute volume to his father: ”Mr. Krock has long been one of the most respected newsmen and columnists in Washington. He was won two Pulitzer Prizes for his work. He met Dad [Joseph Kennedy] during the New Deal years and won his deep admiration. Mr. Krock advised President Kennedy in the writing of his first book, Why England Slept, and has been a source of valued help to my brothers and myself ” (Edward Kennedy, The Fruitful Bough: A Tribute to Joseph P. Kennedy, p. 112).

[With:] As We Remember Joe. Edited by John F. Kennedy. Privately Printed: Cambridge, Mass, 1945. First edition, second issue. Original burgundy cloth. Fine copy. Inscribed, “For Martha and Arthur Krock, Bob Kennedy. Christmas 1965.” Krock contributed a short reminiscence of Joe Kennedy from the 1940 Democratic National Convention, pp. 39-41.

KENNEDY, Robert F. The Enemy Within. Harper & Brothers: New York, 1960. First edition. Publisher’s cloth. Spine faded. Inscribed, “To Arthur Krock, With the thanks and admiration of his friend, Bob Kennedy.” Krock wrote the foreword to The Enemy Within.

The Fruitful Bough: A Tribute to Joseph P. Kennedy. Collected by Edward M. Kennedy. Privately Printed, 1965. Original blue cloth. Some scuffing to front cover. Inscribed, “To Arthur Krock, Who helped make The Fruitful Bough possible. With appreciation. Ted Kennedy. Sept 6 1965.” With carbon of typescript of Krock’s contribution to the volume as submitted for editing.

$60,000

KEROUAC, Jack. Typed Letter, signed (“Jack Kerouac”), to Irving Rosenthal of the Chicago Review. One page typed on paper. With original mailing envelope and carbon copy of Rosenthal’s letter. 8.5 x 8.5 inches, 1418-H Clouser St, Orlando, Fla: postmarked January 29, 1958. Creased from prior folding, small holes at left margin from removed staples.

Kerouac writes in response to a letter from Irving Rosenthal of the Chicago Review (a carbon of the letter is included here), who had requested a submission for an upcoming Zen-themed issue, “I do have something for your summer issue of Zen, five pages of prose about Buddhistic meditation in the woods, an excerpted chapter from my novel-in-progress entitled The Dharma Bums. Let me know if you want me to send you that, and please sorta promise you’ll print it (it’s highly publishable) before I type it up in the midst of 1,000 harassments and details … (5,000 word letters being exchanged with Hollywood producer, completion of novel-in-progress, etc. etc. ) (albums with Norman Granz, etc. etc.).” Kerouac would oblige Rosenthal with an excerpt of The Dharma Bums, which appeared in the Chicago Review under the title “Meditation in the Woods.” Kerouac goes on to suggest that Rosenthal contact Gary Snyder and Phillip Whalen for more material for the Zen issue, and he mentions Zen scholar Alan Watts. “… I would suggest you contact that young man [Gary Snyder] because he is now on a round the world freighter on his way home from the Shokokuji Monastery in Kyoto Japan and can provide your issue with direct Zen material, the latest, poems or prose … Another strong suggestion, is, get material, prose or poetry, from a contemporary Zen Master (lay) name of Phillip Whalen … Mention to [Alan] Watts that I said that it was his duty to furnish something for your issue in order to turn the wheel of the Dharma in 1958.” Whalen and Watts both appeared in The Dharma Bums (Whalen would later criticize Kerouac’s “Beat Zen”), and Snyder was the model for the novel’s main character, Japhy Ryder, and the embodiment of the novel’s counter-culture “rucksack revolution” of wandering Zen Lunatics. “As Jack saw it, Gary’s alternative life style was basically a religious way of life in The Dharma Bums …” (Charters, Kerouac, p. 293). Kerouac writes this letter from his sisters’s home in Orlando, where he had gone to write The Dharma Bums, writing the entire novel in ten sittings in November of 1957 — “he thought of himself like an athlete, sticking to his typewriter grinding out 15,000 or 20,000 words at a time” (Charters, Kerouac, p. 293). Kerouac closes with a remarkable testimony to his Buddhist practice and its very close relationship to his writing, “No, I haven’t made a semi-serious study of Buddhism but a very serious one indeed, in fact I’ve had visions and reassurances and all kinds of wild gnostic certainties handed to me. My prose will explain that.” An outstanding letter, written at the height of Kerouac’s fame.

$12,500

(MARIE ANTOINETTE) Boileau Despréaux, Nicolas. Oeuvres. Illustrated with engraved plates after Picard. Volumes 1-2 ONLY [of 4]12mo, a la Haye: Vaillant, Goosse, Hondt …, 1722. Bound in full 18th-century tan calf, gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt spines with raised bands; the arms of MARIE ANTOINETTE stamped in gilt on upper and lower covers; and with the gilt-stamped letters “C[hateau] T[rianon],” surmounted by a crown, at the foot of each spine. Upper joints starting, spines slightly darkened, but overall, quite attractive. No. 469 (pp. 85-86) of Bibliothèque de la Reine Marie Antoinette au Petit Trianon by P. Lacroix, 1863. Provenance: Morocco ex-libris of the 19th-century bibliophile, Baron L. Double, in each volume; and bookplate of Samuel Putnam Avery in Vol. II; and from the library of louis auchincloss.

There are 561 identifiable items in the Library of Marie Antoinette at Petit Trianon in Lacroix’s census, as well as 175 missing books. This is number 469 in his inventory. Although books from the Queen’s library at the Petit Trianon surface from time to time, they are quite scarce and difficult to come by.

$10,000

mather on the conduct of virtuous women

MATHER, Cotton. Ornaments for the Daughters of Zion, Characters and Happiness of a Virtuous Women. [12], 1-130 [i.e. 140, with other mispaginations], 143-144 pp. Pages 33-40 (C5-8) misbound after

p. 64 (D8), lacking first of two leaves of Thomas Parkhurst ads at the rear, pp. 141-2. 12mo, London: Printed by Tho. Parkhurst at the Bible and Three Crowns, 1694. First English edition. Bound in contemporary blind-ruled sheep. Binding worn, with loss to top third of spine, front hinge split. Text browned and edge-worn, with some small horizontal tears at outer margin. Holmes 266-B (locating 6 copies); ESTC R39691; Sabin 46442. Provenance: Sarah Pratt (inscription dated 1698); Sarah Upham (from her “Aunt Smith,” March 15, 1793); B[——] Kelly (gift inscription from Sarah Upham, August 30, 1871).

The scarce first English edition of Mather’s manual of conduct for women wishing to lead a virtuous life. “Mather accepts a social order in which women are discreet, submissive, and silent and tries to shape their future behavior accordingly. But, unlike his Puritan ancestors and contemporaries, he speaks highly of women — past and present — who had already demonstrated great virtue and personal piety. Here he draws upon women in the Bible to dismiss any claim that women are evil and to elevate their status” (MacHaffie, ed., Readings in Her Story: Women in Christian Tradition, p. 92). We find only two copies at auction, an imperfect copy in the 1879 Brinley sale, sold to the American Antiquarian Society, and a complete copy sold by Sotheby’s London in 1951. OCLC locates just 7 copies in the United States. The first edition was published in Cambridge, MA, 1691, and it is interesting to note that the following year Mather published his infamous defense of the Salem witch trials, Wonders of the Invisible World.

$10,000

MILTON, John. Paradise Lost. A Poem in Twelve Books [and:] Paradise Regain’d. A Poem in Four Books. With 20 wood-engravings by

D. Galanis and inital letters designed by Anna Simons. 2 vols. 4to, London: The Cresset Press [Printed by Bernard Newdigate at the Shakespeare Head Press], 1931. Edition of 195 copies, this copy unnumbered. Original full pigskin vellum. Minor natural variations in vellum. Fine in cloth slipcase. Ransom 22.

Lovely copy of the imposing and beautiful Cresset Press Milton, printed at the Shakespeare Head Press. The text of Paradise Lost is from the second edition of 1674; Paradise Regain’d is set from the first edition of 1674.

$4,000

r.b. marston’s copy

(NEW YORK STATE) First Annual Report of the Commissioners of Fisheries, Game and Forest of the State of New York. Numerous chromolithographic plates after Sherman F. Denton on heavy card, photographic plates, other illustrations. [10], iv, [5]-376 pp. 4to, [Albany, New York: Fisheries, Game and Forest Commission, 1896]. Original pebbled morocco, upper cover tiled in gilt with Robert Bright Marston below, a.e.g. Rebacked, pereserving upper portion of original spine, soem minor edge wear, very good, internally fine. Inscribed on first blank, “Robert B Marston with best wishes from his friend A. Nelson Cheney”. Bruns N38.

“Some of the top names contribute to this report, including the Englishman Marston, and Nelson Cheney” — Bruns. The Englishman Marston (1853-1927) was founding editor of the Fishing Gazette; his chapter is on The Brown Trout; Cheney, New York State Fish Culturist, wrote chapters on Food for Fishes, Mascalonge and Pike, and Shad of the Hudson River. With a two-page autograph letter, signed, from Cheney to Marston, noting that “a copy of the report in morocco was finally sent off to you by express, and I presume it is now in your hands …” He discusses a Sportsman’s Exposition at Madison Square Garden and being a judge at the fly casting. He closes, Hardy is making me a rod and I am looking for someone who is coming over to bring it for me.” And a three quarter length portrait photograph of Cheney, inscribed on the back “R.B. Marston from A.N. Cheney.”

$1,500

NORTON, Hon. Mrs. English Bijou Almanac for 1841. London: Schloss, Albert, [1840]. In publisher’s slipcase with magnifying glass and original morocco box. Spielmann 448; Bondy 42, 165; Welsh 2660.

With portraits of Napoleon, Marie Taglioni, Princess Marie of Hesse, Sheridan Knowles, and the author/artist herself, Mrs. Caroline Norton, as well as a view of Caernarvon Castle. All are celebrated in verse by Mrs. Norton. Also contains a calendar, lists of royal birthdays, European sovereigns, Queen’s Ministers, and the Royal Household. The pages were all engraved on a single steel sheet, then transferred to a lithographic stone. Tinier and more finely printed than its peers in England or on the Continent, the English Bijou received rave reviews from the contemporary press. Spielmann described it as “a miracle of fine and delicate en.

$3,000

the suppression of the jesuits

(PAPAL BULL) Clement XIV, Pope. Dominus ac Redemptor [bound with:] Gravissimis ex causis. Extra-illustrated with engraved frontipiece portrait of Clement XIV by Alexius Giardoni. A-C4 D2; xxvii, [i]. *2; iv pp. Text in Latin with facing Italian translation; two columns. Text of both works (22.5 cm.) inlaid to larger sheets. 2 works bound in one4to, Romae: ex Typographia Rev. Cam Apostolicae, 1773. First edition (?) of the first title (one of four editions in 1773). Remboitage of contemporary pink satin over pasteboards, embroidered with gold thread to a design of interlacing ribbons and leafy curls, in the center the arms of Pope Clement XIV on a blue ground. First four leaves of first work slightly dampstained. Preserved in a cloth box. OCLC: 746303288; 311452482; 34770313; 22239891.

A fundamentally important text in the history of the Catholic Church and its long and contentious history with the Society of Jesuits — expelled in this decree by Clement XIV — whose arms are beautifully embroidered on the covers.

$5,000

rare peacock satire in early cloth binding

[PEACOCK, Thomas Love]. Melincourt. By the author of Headlong Hall … In Three Volumes. Half titles present, D6 a cancel. 3 vols. 12mo, London: For T. Hookham Jun. and Co. Old Bond Street; and Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, Paternoster Row, 1817. First edition. Dark blue green textured cloth over boards, printed paper spine labels (minor chipping), bottom edge slightly trimmed, others uncut. Fine. Sadleir 1957e; not in Wolff; Garside & Schöwerling 1817:46. Provenance: English scholar and collector E.H.W. Meyerstein (his monogram and date of acquisition, 1944, “from J.R.T. E—”) ; bookseller and bibliographer Graham Pollard (1903-1976); given to Marilyn Butler (wife of his nephew David), author of Peacock Displayed (1976).

“Anthelia Melincourt, at the age of twenty-one, was mistress of herself and of ten thousand a year, and of a very ancient and venerable castle in one of the wildest valleys in Westmoreland.” The opening line of Melincourt is indisputably a rejoinder to Austen’s celebrated gambit in Pride and Prejudice (1813), and Peacock’s sharpest satire of wealth, fortune-hunting, and politics, recounts the fortunes of the heiress and her social climbing friends, as well as the bon-vivant Sir Telegraph Paxarent, his philosophical friend Mr. Forester, and the career of Sir Oran Haut-ton — a “specimen of the natural and original man” and an orang-utan of high fashion, “heightened by a pair of enormous whiskers, and the folds of a vast cravat” — who is elected as one of the MPs for the venerable rotten borough of Onevote. A rare work that is almost invariably seen in worn half leather bindings, the present copy of Melincourt is in a nicely preserved near contemporary binding of dark green cloth, with printed spine labels (the publication date is too early by a few years for this to to be publisher’s cloth), a very handsome triple-decker with good provenance. A note from Esther Potter to Marilyn Butler quotes Victor Schulderer of the British Museum who called Meyerstein (1889-1952) a “poet, novelist and musician outstandingly gifted and eccentric.”

$12,500

(PERKINS, Maxwell E) Photograph of Maxwell E. Perkins … by Inco NY. New York: Inco., 227 East 45th Streeet, In original folder.

$4,000

POE, Edgar Allan. The Raven and Other Poems. pp. 91. Bound without ads. 8vo, New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1845. First edition. Later full red morocco by Taffin with inlaid raven to upper cover, spine titled in gilt, t.e.g., other edges untrimmed. Finely rebacked to highest standard. A beautiful clean copy. Grolier American 56; BAL 16147; Heartman & Canny, pp. 97-108.

Students all over the world know of the title poem, and many know others as well: “The Conqueror Worm,” “Eulalie,” “Leonore,” “To Helen,” etc. “The most important volume of poetry that had been issued up to that time in America … ” — Grolier American 56.

$15,000

RADCLIFFE, Ann. The Mysteries of Udolpho. A Romance Interspersed with Some Pieces of Poetry. [ii], 428; [ii], 478; [ii], 463, [1]; [ii], 428 pp., without half-titles. 4 vols. 12mo, London: Printed for C.G. and

J. Robinson, 1794. First edition. Contemporary quarter calf and marbled boards, red leather spine labels. Slight rubbing to joints and corners, internally fine, clean and crisp. Rothschild 1701; Summers, pp. 434-35.

A choice copy of one of the most famous and best-selling gothic romances of the last 200 years, reprinted, translated, adapted, and dramatized innumerable times during the nineteenth century and into our own.

$4,500

presentation copy to conservative columnist ruth alexander

RAND, Ayn. The Fountainhead. [ii], 753, [1] pp. 8vo, Indianapolis, New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1943. Third printing. Publisher’s red cloth, lettered on cover and spine in gilt. Slight sunning to spine and trifling wear to spine ends and tips, else near fine. In a custom maroon cloth clamshell box with leather spine label. Perinn A3a; Vinson, 1139..

Inscribed on the front free endpaper: “To Ruth Alexander — cordially — Ayn Rand. May 9, 1945.” Alexander was a popular conservative columnist for Hearst and an early supporter of Rand’s writing and political organizing (cf. Burns, Goddess of the Market, pp. 70-1). Alexander “became Rand’s lifelong friend and once called her (undoubtedly to her delight) ‘America’s Joan of Arc’” (Heller, Ayn Rand, p. 133). A choice, early inscription on Rand’s breakthrough novel.

$4,500

Recueil des Loix Constitutives des Colonies Angloises, Confédérées sous la Dénomination d’États-Unis de l’Amérique-Septentrionale. Auquel on a joint les actes…du Congrès General, traduit de l’anglois … [10], 370pp. Half title. En Suisse [i.e. Paris]: 1778. 19th-century blue half morocco and marbled boards. Howes R111, “aa.”

The earliest collection of the constitutions of the constituent American states published in France, and the predecessor for the more generally known translation by the Duc de la Rochefoucauld of The Constitutions of the Several Independent States Of America (Philadelphia, 1781 and Paris, 1783). This work was compiled by Régnier and dedicated via a letter (printed herein) to Benjamin Franklin, who ordered the publication of the 1783 collection. Included also is an exceptionally early appearance in book form, in French, of the Declaration of Independence. An important early gathering. Interestingly, this title appears under two false imprints: the imprint “A Philadelphie” and “En Suisse,” the latter of which the present copy bears. The practice of using false imprints during pre-Revolutionary France was a common one, and is evidence of the flexibility in the government’s relationship with the printing press - often giving the government the safety net of official denial, should any objections be raised in the face of a controversial publication. Though published in Paris, Switzerland, a country popularly conceived of as a bastion of non-Monarchical and therefore liberal, even inclusively representative government, would have provided plausible support for the books’ counterfeit origin.

$2,500

RIIS, Jacob. Autograph Manuscript Draft Outline of the The Making of an American. Pen and ink on paper, 8 pp. stapled booklet (chapters I-VII) and 2 pp. on single sheet (portions of chapters XII-XV). 4to, c. 1900. Light toning.

The autograph outline of the first seven chapters of Riis’s autobigraphy, The Making of an American (1902), as well as outlines for parts of chapters twelve through fifteen. The opening chapters recount stories from Riis’s boyhood in Denmark, meeting his future wife Elizabeth Gortz, and his arrival in America. “The story commences on a bridge over the river Nibs on the outskirts of the ancient town of Ribe, which is on the Danish north seacoast. A boy & girl have met …”

$7,500

presentation copy with original photograph

RIVERA, Diego. The Frescoes of Diego Rivera. Frontispiece portrait of Rivera by Edward Weston, numerous b/w reproductions of frescos; 36, [108] pp. 4to, New York: Harcourt Brace, [1929]. First edition. Publisher’s gilt-stamped black cloth; light scuffing to extremities, toning to preliminaries, red stain to one fly-title; near fine in custom green morocco-backed slipcase and chemise.

SIGNED by Rivera on the front free endpaper for “Senorita Vail” in memory of a visit to her home, dated 13 November 1931. Laid in loose is a vintage photograph (3 G by 5 H inches) of Laurence Vail, Diego Rivera, and Frida Kahlo in a Mexican courtyard. Laurence Vail was Peggy Guggenheim’s first husband and an important Surrealist writer.

$9,000

inscribed

(ROGERS, Bruce). The Song of Roland. Folio, [Boston: Printed by The Riverside Press for Houghton, Mifflin & Company, 1906]. Limited Edition, Number 39 of 220 copies, signed by Bruce Rogers. Printed in red, blue, brown, gilt, and black. Patterned tan paper boards, vellum spine with brown lettering, tan cloth sliding case. Morocco book label of LeRoy Sugarman. A few small trifling tape stains on end leaves, some offsetting from book label. Fine. Blumenthal, p. 17.

Inscribed by Bruce Rogers to LeRoy Sugarman. “The Song of Roland . . . , one of the most popular of the Rogers books, was notable for drawings made by Rogers from the stained glass windows of the cathedral of Chartres, printed from line blocks and hand colored” (Blumenthal).

$4,000

ROOSEVELT, Franklin D. D-Day Prayer by President Franklin D. Roosevelt from the White House. June 6, 1944. Here printed for his friends at Christmastide 1944. Text in black, red and blue. 8vo, Washington,

D.C: U.S. Government Printing Office, December 1944. Limited edition, no. 45 of 100 copies. Original vellum-backed marbled boards, black morocco spine label, t.e.g., others uncut. Light toning to spine, else fine. In a custom chemise and morocco-backed slipcase. Halter, pp. 193-4.

Presentation copy, inscribed by FDR to his youngest son and daughter-in-law on the front free endpaper, “For Johnny and Anne with love from Pa Christmastide 1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt.” FDR delivered this prayer on the evening of June 6, 1944 after Allied forces began their invasion of German-occupied Normandy. The President had 100 copies printed and bound at his own expense to distribute to close friends and family at Christmas — continuing a tradition of book-giving that he had begun in 1935 (see Halter, pp. 193-4). “Almighty God: our sons, pride of our Nation, this day have set upon a mighty endeavor, a struggle to preserve our Republic, our religion, and our civilization, and to set free a suffering humanity …”

$25,000

inscribed to lady jane swinburne

ROSSETTI, Dante Gabriel. Ballads and Sonnets. 335, [1], [1, ad] pp. 8vo, London: Ellis and White, 1881. First edition. Original blue cloth, stamped in gold Rossetti design, fine. Cloth open-faced slipcase.

Inscribed to Algernon Charles Swinburne’s mother, Lady Jane Henrietta Swinburne (1809-1896): “To The Lady Jane Swinburne With the most sincere and heart-felt regards of Theodore Watts.” Watts was the dedicatee of this book and Algernon Charles Swinburne’s companion. great association.

$2,250

one of 100 copies