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Skinner Inc. Boston
Lot 71

Barker, Nicolas Aldus Manutius and the Development of Greek Script & Type in the Fifteenth Century. Sandy Hook, Connecticut: Chiswick Book Shop, 1985. Folio, first edition, with original leaves from the first Aldine editions of Aristotle, 1497; Crastonus`s Dictionarium Graecum, 1497; Euripides, 1503; and the Septuagint, 1518, in the original publisher`s binding and matching slipcase, prospectus and original receipt inserted. [and] ten titles in bibliography and the history of printing, including D.B. Updike`s Printing Types, and eight others. (11).

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Lot 73

Beckett, Samuel (1906-1989) Waiting for Godot. London: Faber & Faber Ltd., [1956]. Octavo, publisher`s slip tipped in, indicating that this edition reflects textual deletions made for the Criterion Theatre production, bound in original yellow cloth with dust jacket; acidic mark on ffep, and inside the back board/end leaves from old news clippings, old tape on inner rear panel of jacket; old clippings from 1956 consist of two mixed reviews of the play from two New York papers, and Wolcott Gibbs`s pan from The New Yorker. [with] Eugene O`Neill`s (1888-1953) Long Day`s Journey into Night, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1956, first edition, in publisher`s boards, no jacket, 9 1/2 x 6 in. (2).

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Lot 77

Biblia Latina, with the Glossa Ordinaria of pseudo-Walafrid Strabo. [Strasbourg: Adolf Rusch for Anton Koberger at Nuremberg, not after 1480]. First printed edition of the Latin Bible with the Glossa Ordinaria, or commentary, bound in four imperial folio volumes; 1,210 of 1,211 leaves, lacking only the penultimate blank, the other two blanks present; two gold-illuminated initials: one at the beginning of Genesis, the other at the beginning of the Psalms, all other initials supplied in alternating red and blue contemporary lombardic initials, larger initials enhanced with yellow tracery embellishments inside and around the letters, red and blue capital strokes and paragraph marks throughout, some contemporary notes, the set presented to an unnamed convent by Johannes Schreier in 1482, with the original notes to that effected inside the back board of each volume, and another similar notice on the front board of each volume; bound in uniform contemporary German alum-tawed pigskin bindings over wooden boards, tooled in blind; later hardware added; front boards detached, some worming, some discoloration to text pages, generally a large, fresh copy, with contemporary manuscript annotations (at times trimmed away) to help the binder assemble the pages, which would have been challenging because of the confusing signature marks used by the printer in this work; contemporary printer`s waste and text manuscript leaves used as pastedowns in all four volumes; ex libris the Franciscan Library of Ingoldstadt, with inscriptions; page size: 19 x 13 in.; bindings: 20 x 13 1/2 x 4 in.; the four together occupy 18 inches of shelf space; collation available upon request. (4).

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Lot 79

Blake, William (1757-1827) Jerusalem. London: Trianon Press, [1951], Limited edition copy number 23 of the first 250 of a total edition of 516 copies, portfolio, facsimile of the illuminated copy owned by William Stirling, illustrated with 100 colored plates, in five parts, each in blue wrappers, and housed in the original publisher`s box, with the prospectus, a catalog, and subscription card inserted, 14 1/4 x 11 1/2 in.

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Lot 83

Bouillaud, Jean-Baptiste (1796-1881) Traité Clinique des Maladies du Coeur. Paris: Balliere, 1835. First edition, two octavo volumes, illustrated with eight folding illustrations, bound in later full leather, spotting, 8 x 4 3/4 in. (2) Dr. Bouillaud is credited with making the connection between rheumatism and heart disease for the first time.

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Lot 84

Bourke-White, Margaret (1904-1971) Eyes on Russia, Inscribed. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1931. First edition, inscribed on ffep to Catharine Oglesby, illustrated with sepia-tone photographs throughout, bound in publisher`s tan cloth, spine torn and repaired, contents good, 11 x 7 1/2 in.

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Lot 85

Bruce, James (1730-1794) Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile. Edinburgh: by Ruthven for the Robinsons, 1790. First edition, five large quarto volumes, engraved vignettes on titles, fifty-eight full page and folding plates (including the three folding battle plans), and the three large folding maps; no half-titles; bound in contemporary marbled calfskin, spines dry, some joints cracked, labels flaking and fragmentary, occasional spotting, intense for three or four leaves in two volumes, 9 x 11 in. (5).

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Lot 92

Cartier-Bresson, Henri (1908-2004) The Decisive Moment. New York and Paris: Simon & Schuster and Verve, [1952]. First edition, folio, illustrated, in the original publisher`s boards illustrated by Matisse, spine damaged and fragmentary, 14 1/2 x 10 1/4 in. [and] The Europeans, New York and Paris: Simon & Schuster and Verve, [1955], first edition, folio, illustrated, in the original publisher`s boards illustrated by Miró, joints damaged, spine starting, 14 1/2 x 10 1/4 in. (2).

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Lot 93

Cartier-Bresson, Henri (1908-2004) The Decisive Moment. New York and Paris: Simon & Schuster and Verve, [1952]. First edition, folio, illustrated, in the original publisher`s boards illustrated by Matisse, in a protective plastic jacket, the pamphlet with the captions inserted, boards slightly bowed, foxing to front board, text block has shifted downward slightly within the boards, 14 1/2 x 10 1/4 in.

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Lot 101

Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of (1694-1773) Letters [.] to his Son, Philip Stanhope. London: for J. Dodsley in Pall-Mall, 1774. Octavo in four volumes, later edition, portrait frontispiece present in volume one; contemporary boards, rebacked, worn, some labels chipped, edges worn, first few signatures in volume one starting, 8 1/4 x 5 1/4 in. Chesterfield wrote more than 400 letters to his son from the 1730s until 1768, when the son died. As a study in 18th century diplomatic manners and customs, they are invaluable.

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Lot 102

Churchill, Sir Winston (1874-1965) Four Volumes: My African Journey, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1908, first edition, illustrated, in publisher`s pictorial red cloth, stamped with an image of Churchill beside a slain rhinoceros, in a plastic jacket, 7 1/2 x 4 3/4 in. London to Lady Smith via Pretoria, New York: Longmans, Green, & Co., 1900, first American edition, illustrated, bound in publisher`s red cloth with gold lettering on spine and front board, spine sunned, board surfaces lightly rubbed, in a plastic jacket, 4 5/8 x 7 5/8 in. Ian Hamilton`s March, London: Longmans, Green, & Co., 1900, first edition, with portrait frontispiece, maps, and plans, in red publisher`s binding with gilt lettering on spine and front board, and black end papers; binding somewhat bumped, scratched, spine sunned, in a plastic jacket, 7 1/2 x 5 in. Savrola, New York: Longmans, Green, & Co., 1900, octavo, half-title, twelve leaves of publisher`s advertisements after the text, in publisher`s blue cloth lettered in gilt on front board and spine, endcaps rubbed, bookplate removed from inside cover leaving adhesive behind, leaning slightly; 7 1/2 x 5 in.

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Lot 107

Clavius, Christoph (1538-1612) Fabrica et Usus Instrumenti. Rome: Grassium, 1586. First edition, quarto, illustrated with numerous woodcuts and diagrams throughout the text, old stamp on title, occasional minor spotting, bound in later stiff parchment.

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Lot 110

Comicorum Graecorum Sententiae. [Geneva]: Henri Estienne, 1569. First edition, 16mo, Schreiber 175, dedicated to the Duke of Bavaria, translated and annotated by Henri Estienne (1531-1598), with an essay on the method of their selection; part two contains readings from comic authors writing in Latin with Erasmus`s notes, 633 pages, two old ownership inscriptions on title, one inked out, the other slightly smudged, in contemporary parchment, yapp edges, 4 1/2 x 2 in.

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Lot 112

Cooper, James Fenimore (1789-1851) A Letter to His Countrymen. New York: John Wiley, 1834. First edition, in publisher`s gray paper boards, with the title printed on the front board, blue cloth spine, ex libris Mrs. Erastus Corning [Harriet Weld] (1793-1883), with the following note, "Dear Miss Cooper, I found this book among Mrs. Corning`s things [?] & thought you might like it as your brother has one also of the 1st edition. Very truly yours, M.D. [?] Corning." This may be Mary DeCamp Corning (b. 1843), who married Edwin Weld Corning (1836-1871), writing after the death of Harriet Weld Corning; contents clean, 8 3/4 x 5 1/4 in.

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Lot 131

Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) Le Terze Rime. Venice: Aldus Manutius, 1502. Octavo, first Aldine edition, complete, including the blank between the Inferno and Purgatorio, the first appearance of Aldus`s anchor device used on H4 verso; with the typographical error: Alaghieri on a1 verso; old manuscript numbers visible at top outside corners of leaves, in a blue morocco Riviere binding, with the anchor and dolphin on both boards, the front board re-hinged, a.e.g.; presentation inscription from the British poet and novelist Stephen Spender (1909-1995) and his wife Natasha Litvin (1919-2010) to American poet and Harvard professor, Theodore Spencer (1902-1949) on ffep; 6 x 3 3/4 in. An important milestone in the history of printing: the first portable Dante, and the first use of Aldus`s famous trademark.

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Lot 141

Dickens, Charles (1812-1870) The Dickens-Kolle 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.

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Lot 144

Diderot, Denis (1713-1784) Encyclopedie, ou Dictionnaire Raisonne des Sciences, des Arts et des Metiers, par une Societe des Gens de Lettres. Paris/Neuchatel/Amsterdam: Various Printers, 1751-1780. First edition, thirty-five volume set, with more than 3,000 full-paged engravings, bound in uniform contemporary sponged calfskin bindings, with gilt-tooled spines, with occasional foxing to scattered leaves and plates, generally clean and fresh, an unsophisticated copy, in very good condition. "The purpose of an encyclopedia is to assemble the knowledge scattered over the surface of the earth; to explain its general plan to the men with whom we live and to transmit it to the men who come after us; in order that the labors of centuries past may not be in vain during centuries to come; that our descendants, by becoming better instructed, may as a consequence be more virtuous and happier and that we may not die without having deserved well of the human race." (Diderot, quoted from the article on encyclopedias in the present work.) "A monument in the history of European thought; the acme of the age of reason; a prime motive force in undermining the ancien regime and in heralding the French Revolution; a permanent source for all aspects of eighteenth century civilizations." (Printing and the Mind of Man).

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Lot 145

Dinesen, Isak [aka Karen Blixen] (1885-1962) Out of Africa. New York: Random House, [1938]. First edition, orange publisher`s cloth with gilt flamingo, black spine, in the dust jacket, 5 /14 x 8 in.

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Lot 146

Donne, Alfred Francois (1801-1878) Cours de Microscopie Complementaire des Etudes Medicales. Paris: Bailliere, 1845. First edition, folio, illustrated with twenty plates comprising eight-six microdaguerreotype images taken by Leon Foucault, bound in the original publisher`s boards, scuffed, foxing to half-title and first plate. Cutting-edge daguerreotype technology was almost instantly pressed into the service of science. Every other scientific image reproduced in books up to this moment had been mediated by the artist`s hand and eye. Donne`s use of photographic technology facilitated a more objective view of the blood cells, crystals, sperm cells, and other subjects examined under the microscope. This work contains the first description of the microscopic appearance of leukemia, whose presence Donne linked with abnormal blood pathology.

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Lot 147

Dunmore, Charles Adolphus Murray, Earl of (1841-1907) The Pamirs. London: Murray, 1893. First edition, two octavo volumes, illustrated, bound in three-quarter green morocco and marbled boards by Maclehose, Glasgow, t.e.g., light occasional foxing, spines sun-faded, 8 x 5 in. [with] Robert Curzon`s Armenia, London: Murray, 1854, illustrated, in three-quarter tan calfskin and marbled paper boards, by H. Wood, the leather a little discolored, joints tender, 7 3/4 x 4 1/2 in. (3).

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Lot 148

Early Printing, Mixed Lot, Seven Volumes: Priapeia, sive Diversorum Poetarum in Priapum Lusus, [17th century?], small format, contemporary binding, engraved title. Jacopo Sannazaro`s Opera Omnia, Lyons: Gryphius, 1587, [bound with] Silius Italicus`s De Bello Punico, Leiden: Candidus, 1598, in a contemporary sheepskin binding with a large fleur-de-lis tooled in blind on both covers and an early monastic woodcut bookplate pasted inside the front board, front cover detached, first title page damaged. Peter Scriverius`s Histoire des Contes d`Hollande, The Hague: Vlaq, 1664, contemporary parchment, Prince of Liechtenstein`s copy. Hugo Grotius`s Poemata Omnia, Leiden: Vogel, 1645, fourth edition, engraved title, clean contents, contemporary parchment. Almanach des Muses, Paris: Delalain, 1776, untrimmed, in the original pale green paper wrappers with date stamped into front cover, half-title. Dorat`s Fables Nouvelles, The Hague/Paris: Delalain, 1776, fourth edition, illustrated with a full-paged engraving before the first page of text and numerous vignettes, contemporary marbled sheepskin, gilt-tooled spine. Catullus, Tibullus, et Propertius, edited by Scaliger et al., Utrecht: Zyll, 1680, engraved title, contemporary stiff board parchment binding. (7).

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Lot 149

Egan, Pierce (1772-1849) Life in London. London: for Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1821. First edition, second issue, large octavo, illustrated with thirty-six colored plates by the Cruikshanks, and three folding sheets of music, without the half-title and list of subscribers; four pages of advertisements present at end, bound in full contemporary calf, spine gilt, red label; cello tape repair to inner joint of back board, 9 1/4 x 5 3/4 in.

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Lot 153

Estinne, Henri (1528?-1598) Thesaurus Graecae Linguae. [Geneva]: Estienne, 1572. First edition, five folio volumes, text printed in Greek and Latin, woodcut device on first title page, this copy printed on the smaller paper, bound in modern half sheepskin and green buckram boards, contents with some minor defects, 8 1/4 x 12 7/8 in. (5).

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Lot 156

Evans, Walker (1903-1975) American Photographs. [New York]: Museum of Modern Art, [1938]. Quarto, glossy paper, illustrated, in publisher`s black cloth, with paper label on spine, corners abraded, cloth fragmentary at joints, torn a little along the spine, 8 3/4 x 7 1/2 in. [and] Many Are Called , Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1966, stated first edition, with the errata slip and a price-clipped dust jacket, in publisher`s black cloth, lettered in white, rubbed, jacket slightly rubbed, with small area of spine stripped away where a sticker was removed, colored over in black marker, corners bumped, slight surface abrasions, 8 1/2 x 6 7/8 in. (2).

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Lot 157

Evans, Walker (1903-1975) Message from the Interior. New York: Eakins Press, [1966]. First edition, very large quarto, with twelve full-paged photogravures of Evans`s work, the text printed in letterpress by the Stinehour Press, each photograph protected with a sheet of glassine tissue, in publisher`s gray textured cloth, with a printed label on the front board, 14 1/4 x 14 1/4 in.

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Lot 160

Faulkner, William (1897-1962) A Fable, Signed. New York: Random House, [1954]. Stated first printing, limited edition of 1,000 copies printed on rag paper, signed by Faulkner on limitation page, in the publisher`s slipcase, publisher`s blue cloth binding with chamfered edges, 9 x 6 1/8 in.

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Lot 161

Faulkner, William (1897-1962) Notes on a Horsethief, Signed. Greenville, Mississippi: The Levee Press, 1950. First edition, one of 950, signed on the colophon, copy number 696, in decorative publisher`s green cloth boards, 9 1/2 x 6 in.

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Lot 162

Faulkner, William (1897-1962) Requiem for a Nun. New York: Random House, [1951]. First edition, limited edition number 132 of 750 copies signed by Faulkner, octavo, 286 pages, in publisher`s three-quarter cloth binding with marbled paper boards, in an acetate jacket, spine slightly sunned, corners lightly bumped, 8 1/4 x 5 1/2 in.

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Lot 163

Faulkner, William (1897-1962) The Sound and the Fury. New York: Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, [1929]. First edition, with the phrase "First published 1929" printed on the copyright page, octavo, 401 pages, in publisher`s half cream cloth and black and white patterned paper boards, no dust jacket, in a custom made clamshell box, by Sangorski and Sutcliffe for Asprey, velvet inserts, half black morocco and buckram, spine ruled and lettered in gilt; taped into an old acetate cover, tape may be adhering to board edges at top and bottom, both boards; endleaves broken along the inner joint front and back, with loosening of the case, spine lettering rubbed, 7 3/4 x 5 1/4 in.

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Lot 166

Fine, Oronce (1494-1555) Opere. Venice: Senese, 1587. First Italian edition, quarto; illustrated with text woodcuts; first signature browned, in contemporary limp parchment, becoming detached from textblock.

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Lot 167

Frasconi, Antonio (1919-20013) A Whitman Portrait. [New York: Spiral Press, 1960]. First edition, number 350 of 525, signed by Frasconi on the limitation page, woodcut illustrations throughout, printed entirely on handmade Goyu paper from Japan, publisher`s original printed paper over boards, with glassine dust wrapper, some occasional, minor, faint spotting, 7 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.

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Lot 169

Freher, Paul (1611-1682) Theatrum Virorum Eruditione Clarorum. Nuremberg: Hofmann & Knorz, 1688. First edition, folio, engraved title, frontispiece portrait, typographical title printed in red and black, complete, with eighty-two full-page engravings, each with sixteen individual portraits in a grid; two-thirds of plate 37 torn away, text complete with index; bound in full German parchment over boards, spine detached, parchment at front joint split, first few leaves detached, spotting to endleaves. This reference work includes biographies of more than 2,500 prominent contemporary catholic and protestant theologians, lawyers, judges, doctors, artists, architects, philosophers, royalty, and nobility. The index is especially helpful.

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Lot 170

French, Jacob (1754-1817) The Psalmodist`s Companion in Four Parts. Worcester: by Leonard Worcester for Isaiah Thomas, 1793. First edition, with square brackets enclosing copyright statement on title, page forty-five misnumbered fifty-four, oblong format, 100 pages; bound in original limp paper, with blue covering paper, leather spine, covering damaged with losses to paper, old signature and corner tear with loss to blank margin of title, contents evenly toned with occasional spotting, 8 3/4 x 5 1/2 in. ESTC locates four copies in American libraries, two at the American Antiquarian Society, one at the Newberry Library, and one at the University of Washington.

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Lot 173

Freneau, Philip (1752-1832) The Poems of Philip Freneau Written Chiefly During the Late War. Philadelphia: Francis Bailey, 1786. First edition, printed on the thicker paper, as noted in ESTC, distinguished by the absence of a page number on page 257, as in this copy, with the half-title, bound in contemporary marbled tree-patterned sheepskin, original label intact, front joint cracked, corners bumped, discoloration on front and rear endleaves, probably from an old adhesive; contents toned, with spotting and other signs of wear, 6 1/8 x 3 1/3 in. Freneau is considered the poet of the American Revolution, his dark and evocative work influenced the work of subsequent American poets, including Poe, Emerson, and Thoreau.

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Lot 182

Grimm, Jacob (1785-1863) and Wilhelm (1786-1859) German Popular Stories. London: Baldwyn, 1823 [and] London: Robins, 1826. First English edition, two 12mo volumes, with half-titles in both, illustrated with engraved titles in each, and twenty etchings by Cruikshank, no advertisements in volume one; one page of ads in volume two, and the following points of issue: volume one: two dots over the letter "a" in Marchen on the engraved title; the plate entitled "Travelling Musicians" has no additional text; printed list of plates on page 218; and the last of the notes refers to page seven of the preface; bound in fine crushed rust-colored morocco by Riviere, a.e.g., very good, with a sales receipt from Maggs, 1927, 6 3/4 x 4 in. (2).

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Lot 185

Hardy, Thomas (1840-1928) Desperate Remedies. London: Tinsley Brothers, 1871. First edition of Hardy`s first novel, in three volumes, issued anonymously, limited to an edition of 500 copies; volume three dampstained; the three bound in 20th century uniform half red leather, marbled boards, t.e.g.

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Lot 190

Hemingway, Ernest (1899-1961) A Farwell to Arms. New York: Charles Scribner`s Sons, 1929. Octavo, first trade edition, first issue, without the legal disclaimer, in a first issue dust jacket, with the "Katharine Barclay" misspelling inside the front flap; bound in publisher`s black cloth with gold labels on spine and front board, some surface abrasion and fading to dust jacket, spine of jacket sunned, back evenly toned; offsetting to endleaves, 7 3/4 x 5 1/4 in.

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Lot 192

Hevelius, Johannes (1611-1687) Prodromus Astronomiae and Firmamentum Sobiescianum. Danzig: Stollius, 1690. First edition, folio, two parts in one volume; part one with half-title, typographical title page mounted, repairing a closed tear; two double-page presentation plates, each mounted on a guard; small tear at the inner margin of the second plate, minor discoloration along the top blank margin due to incorrect folding; full-aged engraved portrait of the author, one engraved text illustration and many typographical tables; part two with large engraved vignette on verso of last text leaf, one full-paged engraving, and fifty-four double-paged engravings of constellations, all mounted on guards; the double-page plate depicting Andromeda [Figure V] in facsimile, on thicker paper stock consistent with the endleaves in this later binding of 18th century German sheepskin and speckled paper boards, leather at joints cracking; occasional spotting, limited discoloration along the top edge that varies in intensity, some leaves toned, spotted, marginal tears. Hevelius catalogs 1,564 stars in this celestial atlas, the most exhaustive, accurate, and important of its kind when published. Each star listed under its parent constellation and organized by stellar magnitude. He maps the heavens from the outside looking in, using latitude, longitude, right ascension, and declination as the tools of orientation.

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Lot 193

Hill, John [Botanist] (1716-1775) The British Herbal. London: for Osborne, Shipton, et al., 1756. First edition, folio, untrimmed, with deckle edges throughout, in blue paper boards, leather spine, illustrated with a frontispiece, title and other engraved vignettes, and seventy-five full-paged botanical plates, ex libris Lorande Loss Woodruff (1879-1947) Yale professor of biology, with his blind stamps and rubber stamp on some pages, signature on ffep, and an offprint of a monograph on Hill by Woodruff, with five notes and letters in a pocket inside the back cover of the monograph marked "provenance"; binding rubbed, worn and stained, contents good, 19 1/8 x 12 in.

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Lot 196

Homer (c. 850 BC) The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer translated into English Blank Verse by W[illiam] Cowper. London: for J. Johnson, 1791. Two large quarto volumes, first edition of Cowper`s translation, not collated, small stains to title, and faint water stains to preliminaries in first volume, bound in later three-quarter calf and marbled boards, spines with red labels, 11 3/4 x 9 3/4 in. (2).

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Lot 198

Hughes, Langston (1902-1967) Two Titles, Inscribed. Not Without Laughter. New York: Knopf, 1930. Stated third printing, in decorative publisher`s cloth, inscribed on ffep, library stamp on page 101, binding slightly worn, 7 1/2 x 5 1/4 in. [with] The Big Sea, New York: Knopf, 1945, inscribed on ffep, in publisher`s light blue cloth, stamped in red and greenish-blue, with the dust jacket, the text printed on yellow paper due to wartime rationing, [and] Handy, William Christopher (1873-1958) Father of the Blues, New York: Macmillan, 1941, stated first edition, inscribed by Handy on ffep, to dancer and choreographer Katherine Dunham (1909-2006), "whose talent I recognised some years ago and whose achievements are remarkable," 12 August 1941, in publisher`s blue cloth, stamped in black, with edge and shelf wear, spine sunned, inscription bold and distinctive, 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 in. (3).

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Lot 199

Hugo, Victor (1802-1885) Les Miserables. New York: Carleton, 1862. First American edition, first edition in English, in five volumes, in publisher`s purplish-brown textured cloth boards, tooled in blind on covers and spines, advertisements at the end of each volume, except for St. Denis; text printed in two columns throughout; with orange end leaves in all volumes; occasional spotting, some limited even toning to single leaves, one spine head with short tear, spines slightly sunned, 9 1/4 x 5 3/4 in. (5).

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Lot 205

Ives, Joseph C. (1829-1868) Report Upon the Colorado River of the West. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1861. First edition, illustrated with numerous illustrations, folding maps, some plates in color, in contemporary sheepskin boards, rebacked with Japanese paper, original label replaced, spotting, 11 1/4 x 8 3/4 in.

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Lot 209

Jonson, Ben (1572-1637) The Works, edited by William Gifford (1756-1826). London: for Nicol, et al., by Bulmer, 1816. Nine octavo volumes, first edition, engraved portrait in volume one, the set bound in full speckled 17th century-style calf by Root and Son, spines with two labels, and dated at the foot of each, inner gilt dentelles, t.e.g., marbled endleaves, leather a bit dry, boards attached, 9 1/2 x 6 in., one linear foot on the shelf.

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Lot 212

Josephus, Flavius The Famous and Memorable Workes. London: at the charges of G. Bishop, S. Waterson, P. Short, and Tho. Adams, 1602. Folio, first English edition, first word of title is xylographic, printer`s woodcut device on colophon, divisional title printed on singlet in signature Ggg; title page stained and mounted with loss, following two preliminaries with lessening degrees of the same large stain, contents generally good, with some slight water stains, an opening with wiped up ink stains, some random tears and incidental damage to text, last few leaves with stains, repair to hole, verso of colophon; bound in later leather boards, later endleaves, front board detached, 12 1/2 x 8 1/2 in. Seven copies in U.S. libraries, according to ESTC.

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Lot 215

Keats, John (1795-1821) Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems. London: for Taylor & Hessey, 1820. First edition, 12mo, with half-title and advertisement leaf dated June 26, 1820, no ads at end, with half-titles for each poem/section, and colophon on the verso of K3, the last leaf; bound in half morocco, ex libris Daniel Fuller Appleton (1826-1904), with his bookplate pasted inside the front board and a note that it was a souvenir from the sale of Appleton`s books, April 13-14, 1903, by his son Colonel Francis Randall Appleton Jr. (1885-1974), later presented to John Hay (b. 1915), F.R. Appleton`s nephew, son of his sister Alice Appleton (b. 1894), who married Clarence Leonard Hay (1884-1969); occasional minor spotting, front board almost completely detached, 6 1/4 x 3 3/4 in. [with] Keats`s Hyperion, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1905, folio, number 125 of 225 copies printed, a facsimile of the original manuscript, in publisher`s boards, ffep browned, and torn with loss. (2).

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Lot 219

Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1963) The Jungle Book. London: Macmillan & Co., 1894. First edition, with frontispiece, illustrated throughout by Kipling, Drake, and Frenzeny, bound in publisher`s blue cloth with gold stamping, three elephants with riders on the front cover; Rikki Tikki and Nagaina on the spine, a.e.g., bookplate inside front board and an inscription dated 1894 on ffep, "Jack Alden, Paris"; text block shifted forward slightly, outer cloth cracking a little along the back joint, some scattered foxing to title and occasionally to text leaves, 7 1/2 x 5 in.

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Lot 220

Kircher, Athanasius (1602-1680) Ars Magna Lucis et Umbrae. Rome: Scheus, 1646. Folio, first edition, engraved title, separate title for the second part, illustrated with forty engraved plates extraneous to the collation, some folding, and four of which are engraved tables, page 513 contains a large typographical table, and was folded by the original binder to assure that it was not trimmed too closely; Jesuit geographical family tree repaired on the verso, ownership inscription of Stephan Spleiss (1623-1693) on ffep, with a few notes in the text; contents generally good, in contemporary blind-tooled alum-tawed pigskin over paper boards, ties lost, edges stained blue, 12 x 7 3/4 in.

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Lot 227

Lange, Dorothea (1895-1965) An American Exodus. New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, [1939]. First edition, illustrated with 112 black and white 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.

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Lot 229

Laurenzi, Giuseppe (1583-1647) Amalthea Onomastica. Venice: Balleonium, 1690. Quarto, title page printed in red and black, Latin-Italian dictionary, printed in two columns throughout, half-title; contemporary Italian tight-backed parchment, tear to spine, early inscription on ffep, small water stain on title and first few preliminaries. [with] Eight other small-format volumes in parchment bindings, including a 17th century edition of papal bulls; 17th and 18th classics, and others. (9).

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Lot 230

Lawrence, David Herbert (1885-1930) Sons and Lovers. London: Duckworth & Co., 1913. First edition, with date title page tipped in, the stub of the cancel visible on at the gutter on the verso of the title, bound in full morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, some spotting to contents, binding is very good, 7 1/8 x 4 1/2 in.

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Lot 231

Lawrence, Thomas Edward (1888-1935) Crusader Castles. [London]: Golden Cockerel Press, 1936. First edition, quarto, in two volumes, limited edition numbered 770 of 1,000 copies; with two folding maps loose in an envelope, three-quarter red morocco and cream-colored fabric boards, t.e.g., illustrated; boards slightly toned, spines sunned, in acetate jackets, 7 1/2 x 10 in. In this work, Lawrence`s undergraduate thesis, originally composed in 1910, he argues that the Crusaders, after seeing the fortifications built in the Middle East, went back to Europe to build their own battlements along the same lines.

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Lot 233

Lewis, Meriwether (1774-1809) and William Clark (1770-1838) History of the Expedition Under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark, to the Sources of the Missouri, thence Across the Rocky Mountains and Down the Columbia to the Pacific Ocean. Philadelphia: Bradford and Inskeep, 1814. Two volumes; first edition; with five full-page maps, and only a torn fragment of the large folding map, in uniform contemporary marbled sheepskin, slightly abraded, with the original red labels on the spines, end caps chipped; contents spotted throughout, 4 3/4 x 8 1/2 in. (2).

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Lot 234

Lewis, Sinclair (1885-1951) Main Street, Inscribed. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Howe, 1920. First edition, presented by the author to bookseller John Kidd, signed on ffep by Lewis, "this is the great american [sic] novel"; housed in a custom-made chemise and slipcase.

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Lot 235

Lilienthal, Otto (1848-1896) Der Vogelflug. Berlin: Gaertners, 1889. First edition, illustrated with colored frontispiece of birds flying, text illustrations, and eight folding tables in the back; in very good blind and gold-stamped publisher`s brown cloth, ex libris Greeley Stevenson Curtis (1871-1947) with his signature on ffep and notes in the text, with an off-print of an article by Lilienthal presented to Greeley, from the Journal for Airship Flight & Atmospheric Physics, February/March, 1895; and a German stamp featuring Lilienthal, 9 1/4 x 6 in. An early practitioner of gliding flight, Lilienthal pioneered a hang glider design that allowed him to make sustained flights lasting as long as five hours from jumping-off places around Berlin. A fellow enthusiast, Harvard graduate Greeley visited Lilienthal and glided with him in Germany. Lilienthal`s valuable experiments were cut short when he crashed while gliding and sustained a serious cervical break that ended his life prematurely at the age of forty-eight.

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Lot 236

Lincoln, Abraham, Assassination; Benjamin Pitman (1822-1910) compiler. The Assassination of President Lincoln and the Trial of the Conspirators. Cincinnati: Moore, Wilstach, & Baldwin, 1865. Octavo, first edition, engraved frontispiece with portraits of the accused conspirators, map, defective publisher`s cloth binding, title and preliminaries water stained, occasional spotting to contents, 9 1/2 x 5 3/4 in.

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Lot 238

Lorca, Federico García (1898-1936) The Poet in New York and other Poems. New York: Norton & Co., [1940]. First edition, translated by Rolfe Humphries (1894-1969), in bright orange publisher`s cloth with lettering on the spine, contemporary book ticket of Gates & Gates booksellers of Worcester, in the dust jacket with two small chips, one small water spot, spine very slightly sunned, back outside of dust jacket slightly shelf worn, 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.

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Lot 239

Mackay, Charles (1812-1889) Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions. London: Richard Bentley, 1841. First edition, three octavo volumes, extra illustrated with 294 added plates, bound in uniform three-quarter toffee-colored morocco bindings by Bayntun, with buckram sides, signed, "Bayntun, Binder, Bath, Eng." a.e.g., spines lettered and tooled in gilt, very good condition, 8 3/4 x 5 1/2 in., occupying 6 1/2 linear inches on the shelf. Mackay`s efforts to debunk the prevalent urban legends of his day include careful examinations of superstitions, old wives` tales, and folk wisdom. He also delves into economic bubbles, witchcraft, ghosts, alchemy, Nostradamus, and the mania that precipitated the incursion of European christians into the Middle East during the Crusades, among other subjects. The work is still in print today. (3).

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Lot 240

Magic, Early 20th Century, Two Volumes: T. Nelson Downs`s The Art of Magic, Buffalo: Downs-Edwards, [1909], inscribed by the author on front pastedown, To my friend R. H. Huntley, the first copy off the press," illustrated, bound in publisher`s red cloth blocked with a fanciful art nouveau winged fairy. [and] Maskelyne and Devant`s Our Magic, New York: Dutton, [1911], first American edition, illustrated, in publisher`s blue cloth, front board stamped in gold, with a rabbit coming out of a hat in white; a clean, tight copy, binding rubbed, with loss of surface to joints, tips rubbed. (2).

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Lot 245

Marnix van St. Aldegonde, Philips van (1538-1598) The Bee Hive of the Romish Church. London: by Dawson to be sold by Simmons, 1636. Octavo, edited by John Stell (fl. 1580); translated by George Gilpin (1514?-1602); index signed by Abraham Fleming (1552?-1607); a reply to Gentian Hervet`s (1499-1584) Missyve oft Seyndbrief, sixth English edition, lacking a woodcut plate mentioned in the ESTC, title page torn with slight loss to the imprint, made up in pen facsimile, several paper repairs to verso of title, repeated signatures on endleaves and in blank margins throughout of Peter Pauer, 1666; spotting and toning in keeping with normal use; contemporary blind-ruled calf, with old fabric reinforcement of front board, both joints cracking. A student of Calvin and Beza, Marnix composed one of the most popular and influential anti-Catholic tracts of the Reformation. The Bee Hive was first published in English in 1579.

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