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PONTANUS, Johannes Jovianus (1426-1503).   Opera. Venice: Aldus, 1513. 12mo. Later calf gilt, edges stained red.  8vo (160 x 95 mm). 6-line initial spaces with guide-letters, woodcut Aldine device on title-page and verso of final leaf. (Lacking ii8, blank, 16th century calf, wide gilt border, windhead, star, wolf and flower cornerpieces, smooth spine elaborately gilt with flower and drawer-handle tooling gilt, brown and olive lettering-pieces gilt, edges stained red, decorative paper pastedowns and endleaves. Provenance: Heinrich Schoningh (Munster booklabel). The second Aldine edition, closely following the first edition of 1505.   Adams P-1858; Renouard 63:7.[Bound with:] PONTANUS.   Amorum Libri II, De amore conjugalis III... Venice: Aldus, 1518.  6-line initial spaces with guide-letters, woodcut Aldine device on title-page and verso of final leaf, with blanks s8 and x5. (Minor marginal worming to a few leaves at end, a few old marginal repairs to final leaf, rust-hole affecting one leaf.)FIRST (and only) ALDINE EDITION of the second volume of Pontanus' Latin verse.   The first volume was printed in 1505. Adams P-1864; Renouard 85:10.  Property from the Collection of Edward A. QuattrocchiFor condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

[RESPUBLICA]. Respublica, sive Status Regni Poloniae, Lituaniae, Prussiae, Livoniae... Leiden: Elzevir, 1627.  24mo (107 x 54 mm). Engraved title-page. (Some minor browning or spotting.) 17th-century vellum, upper cover blind-stamped "H. E. L. 1644," edges sprinkled red (some soiling or rubbing).   Provenance: H. E. L. (binding); Amandus Eckstrom (signature 20 October 1847); Haus Lawan? Sr. (signature 1947).FIRST EDITION, including extracts from the works of Cromer, Lasicki, De Thou, Botero, Neugebauer, and Krzysztanowicz, and including John Barclay's "Judicium de Polonia." Willems 286.Property from the Collection of Edward A. QuattrocchiFor condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

SANNAZARO, Jacopo (1458-1530). Arcadia. Venice: Niccolo Zoppino, 10 September 1524.  8vo. Title-page printed within woodcut architectural border, full-page woodcut on title verso, woodcut device on final leaf. (Some soiling or dampstaining.) Later vellum, spine gilt-lettered (covers bowed, some minor soiling). Provenance: Richard Horton Smith (1831-1919) English barrister, Masonic Lodge Officer (armorial bookplate); James V. Rice (bookplate). Later edition. The first authorized edition of Sannazaro's work, based on his 1495 manuscript, was published in Naples in 1504. In Italy alone, more than 66 editions of Arcadia were published. RARE: according to online records, only one other copy of this edition has sold at auction in the last 45 years (sold Sotheby's London, 1975). Not in Adams.Property from the Collection of Edward A. QuattrocchiFor condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

BOCCACCIO, Giovanni (1313-1375). Il Decamerone novissimamente alla sua vera e sana lettione ridotto. Edited by Lodovico Dolce. Venice: Francesco Bindoni & Mapheo Pasini, March 1541.  4to (208 x 150 mm). Woodcut printer's device on title-page, woodcut ornament on A8, 3-line initial spaces with guide letters. (F quire misbound, a few minor marginal tears.) Contemporary vellum, yapp edges, edges stained red (wrinkled, lacking ties, some minor soiling). Provenance: a few early marginal annotations; signature on title-page (partially removed).FIRST EDITION of Dolce's text. VERY RARE: according to online records, only two copies of this edition have appeared on the market at auction in the last 45 years. Not in Adams; BMC (Italy) 110; Graesse I, 450.  Property from the Collection of Edward A. QuattrocchiFor condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

SARPI, Paolo (1552-1623). Historia del Concilio Tridentino.   London: John Bill, 1619.  Folio (287 x 187 mm). Woodcut device of royal arms on title-page, woodcut initials. (Title-page laid down and slightly soiled, some spotting or browning.) Contemporary vellum, yapp edges, title hand-lettered on spine (lacking ties, hinges broken, covers slightly bowed, soiled).  FIRST EDITION of Sarpi's history of the Council of Trent, published under the pseudonym "Pietro Soave Polano," and condemned by the Vatican due to its anti-papal stance.   The manuscript was smuggled out of Italy with the help of the British Embassy and was translated into Latin, English and French. ESTC S116701; STC 21760.  Property from the Collection of Edward A. QuattrocchiFor condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

SHAKESPEARE, William (1564-1616). Mr. William Shakespear's Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies. Published according to the true Original Copies. Unto which is added, SEVEN PLAYS, Never before Printed in Folio. [London: Printed for H. Herringman, E. Brewster, and R. Bentley, 1685.]Folio (354 x 222 mm.). Woodcut initials. (Lacking the first 6 leaves, H1, 2H5, and the final leaf, all supplied in facsimile, a few leaves with mostly marginal repairs occasionally affecting border and a few letters supplied in pen facsimile, tiny wormhole in lower margin of several leaves at end, some minor soiling, a few rust-holes occasionally affecting letters.) Early 20th-century blind-stamped reversed calf, brown morocco lettering-piece gilt, edges gilt (upper cover detached). Provenance: Louis Auchincloss (1917-2010), American lawyer, novelist and historian (morocco bookplate).    FOURTH FOLIO EDITION, issue unknown. The edition was set from the second issue of the Third Folio. The Fourth Folio is the last edition of Shakespeare's plays published in the 17th century, and was regarded by 18th-century editors, readers and collectors as textually the best edition, until Samuel Johnson and especially Edward Capell demonstrated the superiority of the First Folio. The most immediately striking aspect of the Fourth Folio is its height. Herringman and his co-publishers decided on a larger paper size to increase the number of lines per page and decrease the bulk of the book; thus, including the added plays, the number of sheets in the Fourth Folio is almost exactly the same as that in the First and Second.  Greg III, 1119-21; Pforzheimer 910; Wing S-2916.Property from the Collection of Edward A. QuattrocchiFor condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

SHAKESPEARE, William (1564-1616). Much adoe about Nothing. -- Loves Labour's Lost. [Extracted from the Second Folio]. [London: printed by Thomas Cotes, 1632].Folio (300 x 207 mm). Comprising 44 pages (pp. 101-144) on 22 leaves (I3-M6). (A few rule borders slightly shaved, affecting the signature and catchword on one leaf, some minor staining to a few leaves.) 20th-century brown morocco-backed boards, brown morocco lettering-piece gilt on upper cover. Provenance: Bennett H. Jackson (bookplate). Second folio printing of these Shakespearean comedies. Much Ado about Nothing was first published in a quarto edition in 1600 which is generally regarded as being accurate and reliable.   Loves Labour's Lost was first published in a quarto edition of 1598.   The title-page of that edition states that the play was "Newly corrected and augmented by W. Shakespere," suggesting it is a revision of an earlier edition. These quarto editions of each play are the basis of the text published in the 1623 First Folio, which was reprinted nearly page-for-page and issued just 9 years later as the Second Folio. See W.B. Todd. "The Issues and States of the Second Folio and Milton's Epitaph," in: Studies in Bibliography V (1952-53), pp. 81-108. (for Second Folio).Property from the Collection of Edward A. QuattrocchiFor condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

SOPHOCLES (ca 496-406 B.C.). Tragoediae Septem. Una cum omnibus Graecis scholiis, in Greek. Commentary by Joachim Camerarius (1500-1574). [Geneva]: Henri Estienne, 1568.  Two parts in one volume, 4to (243 x 144 mm). Estienne's woodcut device on title-page (Renouard 10); with ggg4 blank (lacking final blank). Greek type, Camerarius' commentaries mostly in Roman. Contemporary blind-panelled calf, edges stained red (rebacked). Provenance: Early signature on title-page (rubbed out); Reverend William Bruce (1757-1841), Irish Presbyterian minister (bookplate, Edinburgh). FIRST ESTIENNE EDITION, "a very excellent and accurate edition, and highly creditable to the editorial talents of [Henri Estienne]; it is formed on the basis of that of Turnebus, on each page of which we have the ancient Scholia of the Roman edition of 1518, and those of Turnebus, corrected by the editor...there is not an Edition in which I read Sophocles with so much pleasure" (Dibdin). The Greek text is followed by the commentary of Joachim Camerarius, and his Latin versions of "Ajax" and "Elektra." Adams S-1340; Brunet I:356; Renouard I:102; Schreiber, Estiennes 171.Property from the Collection of Edward A. QuattrocchiFor condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

STEINBECK, John (1902-1968). Cannery Row. New York: Viking Press, 1945.  8vo. Original publisher 's blue-lettered buff cloth, top edge stained blue; original dust pictorial dust jacket (edges with a few chips or tears occasionally with minor losses). Provenance: Jacob Benjamin (signature, 1947).  First edition, first state of Steinbeck 's novel set in Monterey, California on a street lined with sardine canneries. Goldstone & Payne A22.aFor condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

STERNE, Laurence (1713-1768). A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy. London: T. Becket and P.A. De Hondt, 1768.  2 volumes, 16mo (144 x 90 mm). Half-titles. Contemporary calf gilt, spine in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands, red morocco lettering-pieces gilt in one compartment, the rest gilt-decorated, turn-ins gilt, edges gilt (slight wear to joints and extremities); reddish-brown cloth slipcase.  FIRST EDITION of Sterne's successful novel which is credited with popularizing travel accounts in the late 18th century. ESTC T14747.  Property from a Private Collection, Chicago, IllinoisFor condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

SUCKLING, John, Sir (1609-1642). Fragmenta aurea. A Collection of All the Incomparable Peeces... London: for Humphrey Moseley, 1646.  8vo (180 x 104 mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece by William Marshall trimmed and mounted to front leaf. (A few page numbers or headlines shaved, small repair affecting one letter, some dampstaining.) Late 18th-century morocco gilt (rebacked preserving spine, some wear). Provenance: Fairfax Rhodes (1845-1928), English collector (armorial bookplate);   W. G. Lacy (armorial bookplate). FIRST EDITION, third state of the general title-page with the first line set in capital and lower case letters, but with the first state of "Churchyard" with an unbroken "d" and with a rule under the date, with the corresponding second state of page [vi] with "allowred" corrected to "allowed." ESTC R218856; Grolier Wither to Prior 827; STC S6126B.Property from the Collection of Edward A. QuattrocchiFor condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

TACITUS, Publius Cornelius. The Annales...The Description of Germanie. --  The End of Nero and Beginning of Galba. Foure Bookes of the Histories of Cornelius Tacitus. The life of Agricola. London: John Legat for Richard Whitaker, 1640.2 works bound in one, small folio (278 x 175 mm). One engraved plate (Shoulder notes and plate shaved affecting letters, lacking first and last blank leaves, some minor staining.) Later half calf (rebacked preserving portion of original spine, worn). Provenance: William Reeda (bookplate).Sixth edition (stated on the title-page of the second work), with Richard Greenwey's translation of The Annales. and Henry Savile's translation of The end of Nero. ESTC S117601; STC 23648.Property from the Collection of Edward A. QuattrocchiFor condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

TARKINGTON, Booth (1869-1946). Penrod. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1914.8vo. Original publisher 's pictorial blue cloth; original dust jacket (a few tears and soiling; price-clipped).    FIRST EDITION, mixed state, with "sence" on p. 19, but with p. viii unnumbered. Parley to Penrod, p.132.For condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

TASSO, Torquato (1544-1595).   La Gerusalemme liberata. Genoa: Giuseppe Pavoni, 1617.  3 parts in one volume, small 4to (284 x 197 mm). 2 engraved architectural title-pages, 19 full-page engraved plates (of 20, lacking the plate facing "Canto Secondo", replaced by a smaller plate depicting Satan mounted to a larger sheet); woodcut head-pieces, tail-pieces, and initials; text openings in the first part printed within woodcut architectural borders. (Some worming to gutter margin, some minor soiling.) Later vellum, brown morocco lettering-piece gilt. Provenance: unidentified bookplate, obscured by the bookplate of; Conte di San Martino Valperga.  A FINE ILLUSTRATED EDITION with plates by Camillo Cunigio after Bernardo Castello, and with the text and commentary by Scipio Gentili and Giulio Guastavini found in the first illustrated edition published by Bartoli in 1590 in Genoa. Brunet V: 666.Property from the Collection of Edward A. QuattrocchiFor condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

THACKERAY, William Makepeace (1811-1863). Vanity Fair. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848.8vo (207 x 130 mm). 1pp. publisher 's advertisement, engraved frontispiece, title and 38 plates, wood-engraved illustrations. 20th-century navy morocco gilt, spine in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands, gilt-lettered in 2, the rest gilt-decorated, turn-ins gilt, top edge gilt, STAMP-SIGNED BY RIVIERE & SON.    FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM FIRST ISSUE with the suppressed woodcut of the "Marquis of Steyne" on p.336, the heading on page one in rustic type, "Mr. Pitt" for "Sir Pitt" on p.45. Grolier English 87; Van Duzer 231.Property from a Private Collection, Chicago, IllinoisFor condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

VERGILIUS MARO, Publius (70-19 B.C.). Works. John Dryden, translator. London, 1697.Folio (355 x 216 mm). Title-page printed in red and black within double rule border. Engraved frontispiece by M. Vander Gucht, and 101 engraved plates after F. Cleyn, most by W. Hollar and P. Lombart. (Tears to a few leaves and ca 5 plates with repairs, some browning or spotting.) Contemporary blind-panelled calf (rebacked preserving old lettering-piece gilt, endpapers renewed).  Provenance: Hugh Earle of Loudoun Lord Machline (engraved bookplate).FIRST EDITION OF DRYDEN'S TRANSLATION, an early example of publication by subscription. 101 subscribers at five guineas had their coat-of-arms printed beneath the engravings; there were an additional 252 subscribers at two guineas. The plates in the present edition were first produced for Ogilby's Virgil of 1654. ESTC R26296; Wing V-616.Property from the Collection of Edward A. QuattrocchiFor condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

[16th CENTURY PRINTING - EUROPE]. A group of 4 works, comprising:  CLARAVACEO, Girolamo. Hieronymi Claravacaei Cremonensis ad Paulum III Pont. Max. Fastorum libri XII. Milan: Franciscum & Simonem Moschenios Fratres, 1554. 8vo. Woodcut device on title-page. Contemporary vellum (text block detached). [With:] JOVIUS, Paulus (1483-1552).   Pauli Iovii novocomensis episcopi Nucerini Illustrium vivorum vitae. Florence: Laurentii Torrentini Ducalis Typographi, 1572. Folio. Engraved Contemporary limp   vellum (endpapers renewed). Later edition. Not in Adams. --   LEROY, Louis (Regius). De la Vicissitude et variete de choses en l'univers ... Paris: L'Huillier, 1579. Folio. Contemporary vellum (endpapers renewed). Later edition. Not in Adams. -- FRIGERIO, Ambrogio (1537-1598). Vita gloriosissima et miracoli ecclesi del Beato Confessore Santo Nicola di Tolentino. Ferrara: Vittorio Baldini, 1588. 4to. (Lacking first leaf: title-page recto/woodcut verso, provided in manuscript facsimile; lacking final 8 leaves comprising index). Contemporary vellum gilt (hinges repaired). Second edition. -- Together, 4 works in 4 volumes, condition generally good.  Property from the Collection of Edward A. QuattrocchiFor condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

[16th CENTURY PRINTING - VENICE]. A group of 3 works, comprising:  BEMBO, Pietro (1470-1547).   Gli asolani.... Venice: Aldus, 1505. Woodcut devices. (Lacking 4 leaves: c1, i2, n1, and n2 [blank].) Contemporary vellum (a few gatherings becoming disbound). Provenance: Ownership inscription on first leaf ("Coll. Polinani? Soc. Jesu"). FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with the dedication to Lucrezia Borgia, dated August 1504, on a1v-a2r, which was removed for the second issue. --  COLLENUCCIO, Pandolfo (1444-1541). Compendio delle historie del Regno di Napoli. Venice: Michele Tramezino, July 1541. 8vo. Woodcut device. (Upper corner repaired two leaves touching text.) Contemporary vellum gilt. Not in Adams. --  CICERO, Marcus Tullius (106-43 B.C.). Rhetoricorum ad C. Herennium libri IV, and other works. Venice: Ex Bibliotheca Aldina, 1569. Comprising ff. 184 only (lacking 34 leaves). Later vellum. See Adams C-1689. -- Together, 3 works in 3 volumes, condition generally good.Property from the Collection of Edward A. QuattrocchiFor condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

[17th CENTURY PRINTING - ENGLAND]. A group of 6 works, comprisingSANDYS, George (1578-1644).   A Relation of a Journey... London: for Andrew Crooke, 1637. Folio. Engraved title, engraved vignettes. Modern calf. Fourth edition. -- MILTON, John (1608-1674). Pro populo Anglicano defensio contra Claudii Anonymi, alias Salmasii, defensionem regiam. London [i.e., Utrecht]: Gardianis, 1652. 12mo. Woodcut device and headpieces. Contemporary vellum. Provenance: Alexander Gruntt (armorial bookplate). -- EUSEBIUS OF CAESAREA. The Ancient Ecclesiastical Histories of the First Six Hundred Years after Christ. London: Abraham Miller, 1663. Folio. (First few leaves bound in on stubs.) Modern calf. -- ERASMUS, Desiderius (1466?-1536). Adagiorum Epitome. Editio Novissima, cum triplici indice. Oxford: W. Hall, 1666. 12mo. Title-page printed in red and black (laid down with small losses touching letters). Modern calf. -- BATES, William (1625-1699). Vitae selectorum aliquot virorum... London: A. G. & J. P., 1681. 4to. Contemporary vellum. -- CATULLUS, Caius Valerius (84?-54 B.C.).   Observationes. London: Isaacum Littleburii, 1684. 4to. Title printed in red and black. Contemporary English panelled calf, "Newby Hall" gilt-lettered vertically on upper cover along spine (covers detached). Provenance: Newby Hall (binding). -- Together 6 works in 6 volumes, condition generally good.  Property from the Collection of Edward A. QuattrocchiFor condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

[18th & 19th CENTURY PRINTING - ITALY]. A group of 4 works, comprising:  OVID (43 BC-17? AD). Opera omnia. Amsterdam: Waesbergios, Boom & Goethals, 1702. 3 volumes, 8vo. Engraved frontispiece in vol. I, engraved title-pages. Contemporary vellum. -- CASTIGLIONE, Baldassarre. Opere volgari, e latine. Padova: Giuseppe Comino, 1733. 4to. Engraved portrait frontispiece, engraved vignettes. Contemporary vellum. Provenance: Conte Leonardo Vitetti (armorial bookplate). -- [BIBLE, in Greek]. Novum Testamentum, cum Verisione Latina. John Leusden, editor. Lyon and London: Wetstenios and John Nourse, 1772. 8vo. Engraved title, engraved folding map. Contemporary vellum. Provenance: George H. Culshaw (bookplate). -- ROSCOE, William (1753-1831). The Life and Pontificate of Leo the Tenth. Liverpool: J. McCreery for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1805. 4 volumes, 4to. Engraved frontispieces. Modern half calf antique. FIRST EDITION. -- Together 4 works in 9 volumes, condition generally good.  Property from the Collection of Edward A. QuattrocchiFor condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

ATWATER, Caleb (1778-1867). Remarks Made on a Tour to Prairie du Chien; thence to Washington City, in 1829. Columbus: Jenkins and Glover, 1831.8vo (175 x 105 mm). (Some browning and spotting, as usual.) Contemporary boards (modern rebacking, some wear).  FIRST EDITION, one of apparently two issues (no priority known): one as above, the other with the imprint of Isaac Whiting on the title-page with the Jenkins and Grover imprint on verso. "Some very curious particulars relating to customs of the Winnebagoes are related by Atwater... The real object of his tour was to procure as Commissioner of the government, a cession of the title of the Winnebago, Pottawatomie, Chippewa, and Ottawa Indians, in the rich mineral lands, now forming the State of Wisconsin and part of Illinois" (Field 54).   Howes A-379; Sabin 2335.Property from the Estate of Mary Patricia Reynolds, Bowling Green, KentuckyFor condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

AUDUBON, John James (1785-1851). The Birds of America, from Drawings Made in the United States and their Territories. New York: J.J. Audubon; Philadelphia: J.B. Chevalier, [1839-] 1840-1844.  7 volumes, royal 8vo (265 x 168 mm). Half-titles, 500 HAND-COLORED LITHOGRAPHED PLATES after Audubon by W. E. Hitchcock, R. Trembly and others, printed and colored by J. T. Bowen, wood-engraved anatomical diagrams in text. (Some scant spotting, primarily to text leaves and tissue guards.) 19th-century half red morocco gilt (rubbing to extremities); blue cloth slipcases. FIRST OCTAVO EDITION. Audubon 's double-elephant folio edition of The Birds of America (1827-1838) established his reputation as the greatest ornithological artist of his time. Though that edition was published in London to ensure the quality of the plates, he employed the Philadelphia firm of J. T. Bowen to produce this more commercially viable edition under the close supervision of his sons.   The original subscription price was $100, and its commercial success granted Audubon financial security. To the original plate count included in the double-elephant folio edition, the octavo edition adds 65 new images for a total of 500 plates, making it "the most extensive color plate book produced in America up to that time" (Reese). Ayer/Zimmer, p.22; Bennett, p.5; McGill/Wood, p.208; Nissen IVB 51; Reese 34; Sabin 2364.  Property from the Estate of Mary Patricia Reynolds, Bowling Green, KentuckyFor condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

BRADFORD, John (1749-1830). A General Instructor: or the Office, Duty, and Authority of Justices of the Peace, Sheriffs, Coroners, and Constables, in the State of Kentucky. Lexington, KY: John Bradford, 1800.12mo (186 x 111). (Occasional spotting, pages toned.) Contemporary calf, red leather spine label (rebacked and repaired, minor wear at joints). Provenance: George Cleveland (1760-1867), early Bourbon County pioneer (early letterpress bookplate); William B. Branham, Bourbon County magistrate (ownership signatures to title, later inscription by descendant T.W. Hedges).FIRST EDITION. Known as the "Caxton of Kentucky," Bradford was the first resident printer in Kentucky, printing the first newspaper and pamphlet published west of the Alleghenies with the first Kentucky Gazette in 1787, and Kentucky Almanac in 1788, respectively. He printed the first book in Kentucky in 1792. An early legal treatise printed in the western frontier with notable Kentucky provenance. Evans 37034; HRS Kentucky 1787-1810, 131; Jillson, Rare Kentucky Books, p.27.  Property from the Estate of Mary Patricia Reynolds, Bowling Green, KentuckyFor condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

ARIOSTO, Ludovico (1474-1533).   Orlando furioso. Venice: Felice Valgrisi, 1587.  4to (267 x 186 mm). Title within architectural woodcut border, full-page woodcut illustrations, woodcut initials and ornaments. (Some minor soiling or spotting, a few small marginal tears.) Later boards, hand-lettered labels on spine (joints repaired, some minor soiling). Provenance: Robert Lifford Harries (signature).Later edition, a reprint of Valgrisi's 1580 edition, the first quarto edition, completed at the expense of Valerio Bonelli and with plates after Dosso Dossi. See Adams A-1676 (the 1580 edition).  Property from the Collection of Edward A. QuattrocchiFor condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

[BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS]. ADLER, Elmer (1884-1962) and WINTERICH, John T. (1891-1970), editors. The Colophon. A Book Collectors' Quarterly. Vols. 1-18, 20. New York: The Colophon Ltd., Pynson Printers, 1930-1935.  19 volumes, including duplicate numbers of Vols. 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11 and 15. Together 27 volumes, 4to. Original printed boards (slight toning and soiling, light rubbing to extremities); several vols. with original glassines (some tearing with loss). Publisher 's ephemera laid in.    FIRST EDITIONS, a nearly complete run of the periodical lacking only vol.19, including the often lacking color drypoint etching entitled "Hilltop" SIGNED BY DAVID B. MILNE in pencil lower margin in vol.V and the color woodcut print "An Eagle Ceremony at Tesuque Pueblo" by Gustave Baumann in vol.XII.    [With:]  The Colophon. New Series. Vol.I Nos.1-4, Vol.III no.2. New York: Pynson Printers, 1935-1936, 1938. 5 volumes, including duplicate numbers of Vol.I nos. 3-4 and Vol.III no. 2. Together 8 volumes, 8vo. Original publisher 's printed boards or cloth; original glassine to one vol. (tearing with loss). FIRST EDITIONS. -- The Annual of Bookmaking 1927-1937. New York: Pynson Printers, 1938. 4to. Original publisher 's cloth stamped in silver and black (slight darkening to spine). FIRST EDITION. -- The Colophon. New Graphic Series. New York: Pynson Printers, 1940. Vol.I No.4. 4to. Original publisher 's cloth (slight toning to extremities). FIRST EDITIONS.For condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

BRADFORD, John (1749-1830). A General Instructor; or the Office, Duty, and Authority of the Justices of the Peace, Sheriffs, Coroners and Constables in the State of Kentucky. Lexington, KY: John Bradford, 1820.8vo (186 x 109 mm). (Some browning or spotting.) Contemporary calf, brown morocco blind-stamped lettering piece.  Provenance: George Cleveland, early Bourbon County pioneer (early letterpress bookplate); James Van Winkle (early signature); William B. Branham, Bourbon County   Magistrate (signatures); T. W. Hudges (inscription). FIRST EDITION, with the notice of copyright dated 30 September 1800, and including legal definitions, maxims and general rules, and actions and remedies.   VERY RARE: according to American Book Prices Current, only one copy (lacking 4pp. of text) has sold at auction in the last 40 years.   Evans 37034; Jillson p.27; McMurtrie Kentucky 131.  Property from the Estate of Mary Patricia Reynolds, Bowling Green, KentuckyFor condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

BROWN, Samuel R. (1775-1817).  The Western Gazetteer; Or Emigrant's Directory. Auburn, NY: H. C. Southwick, 1817.  8vo (202 x 127 mm). (Some browning and spotting.) Contemporary tree calf (rebacked preserving original morocco lettering-piece).  Provenance: Solomon Fitch (early signature); Arthur W. Hall (bookplate); Harry L. Jackson (signature, 1958).  FIRST EDITION, third issue, with 360 pages. "One of the earliest American-printed emigrant's guides" (Howes B-867). Graff 433; Sabin 8558.  Property from the Estate of Mary Patricia Reynolds, Bowling Green, KentuckyFor condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

[CHICAGO]. NORRIS, J. Wellington.  A Business Advertiser and General Directory of the City of Chicago, for the Year 1845-6, together with a Historical and Statistical Account. Second year of publication. Chicago: J. Campbell & Co. Publishers, 1845.  8vo (195 x 115 mm). Steel engraved frontispiece (torn along fold, lacking half), steel engraved map, steel engraved illustrations of buildings; numerous advertisements printed within borders and occasionally illustrated. Addenda and errata leaf and 10 pp. advertisements, some on colored paper, at end. (Some spotting, heavier to the first few leaves, some browning.   Original printed wrappers (frayed, a few tears occasionally affecting text, old tape repair front wrapper verso). A SCARCE PRE-FIRE CHICAGO IMPRINTSecond edition, with a map of Chicago in 1812, and illustrations of the First Universalist Church (Washington Street, between Clarke & Dearborn), First Methodist Church (corner of Clarke and Washington), Tabernacle Church (Lasalle St. opposite the public square), Catholic Church (corner of Wabash and Madison), Unitarian Church (Washington St. between Clarke and Dearborn), First Baptist Church (corner of Washington and LaSalle), Rush Medical College (Dearborn Street), St. James Church (Cass Street between Michigan and Illinois), and Lake House. Lacking a portion of the frontispiece, "City of Chicago,---South-West View, 1845," believed by McMurtrie to be among the earliest views of Chicago. EXCEEDINGLY RARE: According to online records, no copy of this rare pre-fire Chicago imprint has sold at auction since the Streeter sale, 1967. Rare Book Hub traces only two copies ever sold at auction.   Graff 3029; Howes N-183; McMurtrie First Printers of Chicago p. 33; Sabin 12639; Streeter sale 1483.Property of a Midwestern InstitutionFor condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

[CHICAGO] -- [DALEY, Richard J. (1902-1976), his copy]. TRUMAN, Harry S. (1884-1972). Memoirs: Year of Decisions. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1955.Volume 1 only (of 2), 8vo. Original publisher's printed cloth (upper hinge starting).   Provenance: Richard J. Daley (presentation inscription), by descent to; Richard M. Daley, gifted to; Patrick McClain (1926-2020), aide to Mayor Richard M. Daley; by descent to present owner.  FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY TRUMAN TO DALEY: "To my good friend Hon. Dick Daley the great Mayor of the Windy City 10/6/56 Harry Truman." Daley cast his vote for Truman as a delegate at the 1948 Democratic National Convention; he named the newest campus of the City Colleges of Chicago "Harry S. Truman College" in 1976.  For condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

[CHICAGO] -- [DALEY, Richard J. (1902-1976), his copy]. WILSON, Woodrow (1856-1924). Leaders of Men. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1952.8vo. Original publisher's cloth.  Provenance: Richard J. Daley (presentation inscription), by descent to; Richard M. Daley, gifted to; Patrick McClain (1926-2020), aide to Mayor Richard M. Daley; by descent to present owner.  FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY FORMER GOVERNOR OF ILLINOIS ADLAI STEVENSON TO DALEY: "To Dick Daley - Harold Dodds, then President of Princeton, sent this to me for Christmas in 1952 after my first defeat - and I send it to you before your next victory! Adlai E. Stevenson Christmas 1957."  In early 1952, while Stevenson was serving as Governor of Illinois, Harry S. Truman announced that he would not seek another term as President. Stevenson was approached by Truman to run for the office and he won the Democratic nomination despite ultimately losing the election to Dwight D. Eisenhower. In 1957, Daley was serving in his first term as Mayor of Chicago; he was elected to a second term in 1959. Daley was ultimately re-elected 5 times and had been Mayor for 21 years at the time of his death. A SUPERB ASSOCATION.For condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

DUKE, Basil (1838-1916). 3 works in 3 volumes, including:  History of Morgan's Cavalry. Cincinnati: Miami Printing and Publishing Co., 1867. Provenance: James Brennan, member of Co. E in the Kentucky 2nd Infantry (inscription). -- Morgan's Cavalry. New York and Washington: Neale Publishing Company, 1906. -- Reminiscences of General Basil W. Duke, C.S.A. Garden City and New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1911. -- Together, 3 works in 3 volumes, all first edition, 8vo,  uniformly bound in 20th-century half red morocco with marbled boards, spines in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands gilt,   all in very fine condition.  Property from the Estate of Mary Patricia Reynolds, Bowling Green, KentuckyFor condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

[THE FEDERALIST PAPERS]. -- HAMILTON, Alexander (1739-1802), James MADISON (1751-1836) and John JAY (1745-1829).   The Federalist, on the New Constitution...A New Edition. City of Washington: Jacob Gideon, 1818.  8vo (213 x 126 mm). (Some browning or spotting). Contemporary sheep (worn, joints broken, a few leaves becoming disbound). Provenance: Timothy Fuller (signature dated 30 December 1830). A new edition, the first to include Madison's revisions, "one of the new nation's most important contributions to the theory of government" (PMM). Sabin 23985.  Property from the Collection of Edward A. QuattrocchiFor condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

FILSON, John (ca 1747-1788). The Discovery, Settlement and present State of Kentucke: and An Essay towards the Topography, and Natural History of that important Country: To which is added...The Adventures of Col. Daniel Boon, one of the first Settlers, comprehending every important Occurrence in the political History of that Province... Wilmington, Del.: James Adams, 1784.8vo in 4s (196 x 194 mm). Without the map, as usual. (Small tissue repair to gutter margin title page recto crossing a few letters but not affecting legibility, without final blank leaf P4, some browning or spotting throughout.) Modern calf.    FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST BOOK ON KENTUCKY, AND THE FIRST BIOGRAPHY OF DANIEL BOONE.  John Filson, one of the founders of Cincinnati, acquired 13,000 acres in Lexington, Kentucky, where he worked as a teacher and surveyor.   Daniel Boone himself (along with Levi Todd and James Harrod) vouch for the authenticity of Filson's text: "at the request of the author of this book, and map, [we] have carefully revised them, and recommend them to the public, as exceedingly good performances, containing as accurate a description of our country as we think can possibly be given." Filson's text occupies 41 pages, followed by three appendices, the first of which is "The Adventures of Col. Daniel Boon," dictated by Boone. Filson refines Boone's diction, but the resulting narrative stands as a classic account of the settlement and exploration of the frontier.   Boone concludes that "This account of my adventures will inform the reader of the most remarkable events of this country." Included here are also descriptions of the discoveries of mammoth bones and burial sites are also recounted, as are descriptions of Indian customs and manners.  Tenoor Rook's map, mentioned on the title-page, was printed separately in Philadelphia and is virtually never found with the text. According to American Book Prices Current, no copy of the book with the map has been sold at auction since the Robert Hoe copy was sold as part of the stock of George D. Smith in 1921.   Church 1202; Clark Old South II:23; Evans 18467; Field 536; Graff 1323; Howes F-129 ("d"); Jillson Kentucky 2; Sabin 24336; Streeter Sale III:1621.Property from the Estate of Mary Patricia Reynolds, Bowling Green, KentuckyFor condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

FILSON, John (ca 1747-1788). Histoire de Kentucke, Nouvelle Colonie a l'oueste de la Virginie. Paris: Chez Buisson, 1785.  8vo (202 x 120 mm). Half-title, facsimile fold-out map. (Lacking map, supplied in facsimile, small stain on title page, occasional spotting.) 19th-century quarter calf gilt with marbled boards, spine in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands, 2 gilt-lettered, the rest gilt-decorated, edges dyed red. FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH. Howes F-129; Sabin 24338. [With:] [KENTUCKY]. M'MURTRIE, Henry (1793-1865). Louisville and Its Environs. Louisville: S. Penn, 1819. 8vo. (212 x 127 mm). Folding map and   table. (Splits at creases of map, title and preliminary pages loose, spotting throughout.) 20th century tan calf (spine and front board sunned).   FIRST EDITION. Provenance: Alden Spooner (1783-1848), Brooklyn publisher of The Long Island Star (presentation slip); Brooklyn Apprentices' Library, later renamed the Youths Free Library, Brooklyn Institute (stamps, presentation slip); Long Island Historical Society (stamps, 1863 presentation slip). Howes M-174.  Property from the Estate of Mary Patricia Reynolds, Bowling Green, KentuckyFor condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

GORDON, William (1728-1807). The History of the Rise, Progress, and Establishment, of the Independence of the United States of America: Including an Account of the Late War; and of the Thirteen Colonies, from their Origin to that Period. New York: Hodge, Allen, and Campbell, 1789.  3 volumes, 8vo (208 x 130 mm). (Lacking 2 folding maps, as usual; some toning and spotting.) Contemporary calf (separation to joints, vol.II upper joint with contemporary stab-sewn repair, overall rubbing). Provenance: Garret Lydecker (signature to vol.I); Mrs. H. C. Brown (signature to vol.II).    FIRST AMERICAN EDITION with the long list of subscriber 's names to vol.III as called for by Sabin. "Gordon is deservedly reckoned as one of the most impartial and reliable of the numerous historians of the American Revolution" (Sabin). Howes G-256; Sabin 28011.  For condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

[GREAT AWAKENING]. CAMPBELL, John (1691-1761). A Treatise of Conversion, Faith, and Justification... Boston: Rogers & Fowle, 1743.  8vo (162 x 95 mm). (Some browning.) Contemporary sheep (worn, joints starting). Provenance:   G? Williams (signature dated 1744); J. Chandler Amis (signature).  FIRST EDITION of Campbell's response to the Great Awakening: "Suffer me I beseech you who are the weakest and most unworthy in the Sacred Order of the Ministry to intreat both Ministers and People of the New Scheme to desist from invading the Provinces and Districts of their Fellow Laborers and Brethren." Evans 5149Property from the Collection of Edward A. QuattrocchiFor condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

BOSWELL, James (1740-1795). The Life of Samuel Johnson.  London: Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly, 1791. [With:]  The Principal Corrections and Additions to the First Edition of Mr. Boswell's Life of Dr. Johnson.  London: 1793.  2 volumes, 4to (271 x 205 mm). Frontispiece portrait, 2 engraved plates with facsimiles of signatures. (Occasional spotting). 20th-century dark blue levant gilt, spine in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands, gilt-lettered in 2, the rest gilt-decorated, edges gilt, STAMP SIGNED BY BIRDSALL (slightly rubbed); blue morocco-backed slipcase and chemise gilt.FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE with the expected "give" reading on vol. 1, p.135, l.10,   all 7 cancels, and imprint intact below the portrait. Boswell's biography, published 16 May 1791, achieved immediate acclaim; it has never been out of print. The Corrections were published concurrently with the second edition of the Life. ESTC T064481; Grolier English 65; Rothschild 463, 466.Property from a Private Collection, Chicago, IllinoisFor condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

HENRY, Alexander (1739-1824). Travels and Adventures in Canada and the Indian Territories, between the years 1760 and 1776. New York: I. Riley, 1809.  8vo (198 x 124 mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece; errata leaf. (Some spotting and minor stains.)   Contemporary half calf gilt (rubbing, hinges loose).    FIRST EDITION of Henry 's account of the fur trade in Canada. The present copy includes not only the portrait (not issued in all copies) but also the errata leaf. Field 686; Graff 1866; Howes H420; Sabin 31383; Streeter 3661; Wagner-Camp 7.  Property from the Collection of Carol and George EngstromFor condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

LEWIS, James Otto (1799-1858). [Aboriginal Port Folio. Philadelphia: Published by the Author, 1835-1836].8 parts (of 10) bound in one volume, folio (450 x 283 mm). 63 hand-colored lithographed plates (of 80) comprising parts 1-8 (of 10, lacking 8 plates each from parts 9 and 10, and lacking the "Men-Dow-Min or the Corn" plate from part 2);   3 letterpress broadside prospectus "Advertisement" leaves for parts 1-3 [all issued]. (Tears crossing image of two plates repaired verso, a few plates with marginal losses repaired verso, a few plates with marginal tears occasionally repaired, some minor spotting). Contemporary half morocco gilt (rebacked preserving original spine, recornered and repaired. Provenance: Thaddeus P. Mott (1831-1894), Union Army soldier, member of the Egyptian and Turkish military forces (gift inscription, 7 December 1869).FIRST EDITION recording the dress of the Potawatomi, Winnebago, Shawnee, Sioux, Miami, Fox, Iowa and other tribes at treaties of Prairie du Chien, Fort Wayne, Fond du Lac and Green Bay, scarcer than Catlin's North American Indian Portfolio, Maximilian's Reise in das Innere von Nord-America or McKenney and Hall's History of the Indian Tribes.   Publication was costly, and the work was intended to be issued in 10 parts each comprising 8 plates issued in printed wrappers. The publisher's bankruptcy during the printing of part 9 caused the edition to be reduced; part 10 was barely finished and sparsely distributed. An 11th part would have contained "Historical and Biographical Description of the Indians," but it was never published.   The title (not present here) and three advertisement leaves complete the only text in the work, excluding text on the wrappers. Copies are most commonly found with 72 plates, rarely with 77, and very occasionally with 80.   Field 936; Howes L-315; Reese Stamped with a National Character 23; Sabin 40812.Property from the Estate of Sportscaster Chris Schenkel, Lake Tippecanoe, IndianaFor condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

[KENTUCKY].  Laws of Kentucky.... To which is prefixed the Constitution of the United States, with the amendments. The act of separation from the state of Virginia. And the Constitution of Kentucky. Lexington, [KY]: John Bradford, 1799, 1807.  2 volumes (of 3, lacking vol. 3, published in 1817), 8vo (201 x 114 mm). Vol. I: [3], vi-lxxvii [i.e., vi-lxxxvii], [2]-514 pp.; Vol. II: . [2] (1)-506 pp. (Some browning, spotting, or staining.) Contemporary calf, vol. II decorated in blind with brown morocco lettering-piece gilt (some minor staining or wear. covers to vol. II slightly bowed). Provenance: James Denney (ex dono inscription from his son Caleb S. Denny, lengthy pencil inscription); Strother M. Cook (bookplate, inscription). FIRST EDITION, with the pagination of the preliminary material in Volume I as found in ESTC (McMurtrie records another variant). The preliminary material in Volume I comprises a printing of the United States Constitution, the Constitution of the state of Kentucky (first printed by Bradford in 1795), and the Act of Separation from the State of Virginia, through which Kentucky gained statehood in 1792.   RARE: American Book Prices Current records only one copy sold in the last 40 years, sold Doyle, 24 November 2014, lot 200. ESTC W14034; Evans 35683; Jillson p. 24; McMurtrie Kentucky 118, 298.Property from the Estate of Mary Patricia Reynolds, Bowling Green, KentuckyFor condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

BOXHORN, Marcus Zuerius (1612-1653). Monumenta Illustrium Virorum et Elogia. Amsterdam: Joannem Janssonium, 1638.  4to (302 x 194 mm). Engraved title-page. 125 engraved plates. (Toning and dampstaining, 75 mm tear to plate 114.) Modern brown cloth (rebound). Provenance: Newberry Library (library deaccession stamp).  FIRST EDITION of Boxhorn 's collection of engraved funerary epitaphs of notable historical figures and scholars including Virgil, Erasmus, Dante, Petrarch. and Alciati. Watt I.142w.[With:] BAYARDI, Ottavio Antonio (1690-1765). Catalogo degli Antichi Monumenti Dissotterrati dalla discoperta citta di Ercolano. Naples: Regia Stamperia di S.M., 1755. Folio (460 x 360 mm). Half-title, Engraved title vignette. (Toning and scattered spotting.) Modern green cloth, edges stained red (rebound, slight rubbing to spine). Provenance: John M. Wing (1845-1917), American printer, publisher and collector, (Old Corner Library bookplate), benefactor to; Newberry Library (library deaccession stamp). Second edition of Bayardi 's catalogue of the archaeological findings from the first excavation of the ancient city of Herculaneum. Text volume only, not including 8 volumes of plates published 1757-1792 commonly found with this work.  Property from the Newberry Library, Chicago, IllinoisFor condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

[KENTUCKY--JURISPRUDENCE]. A group of 4 works, comprising:  MADISON, James and Thomas JEFFERSON. Resolutions of Virginia and Kentucky Penned by Madison and Jefferson in Relation to the Sedition Laws. Richmond: Robert I. Smith, 1832. 20th-century quarter calf with marbled boards. Provenance: Eugene Casserly (bookplate). Howes V-122; Sabin 43720. -- BATES, Daniel. Life and Trial of Dr. Abner Baker, Jr. Louisville: Prentice and Weissinger, 1846. 20th-century quarter calf with marbled boards. -- HUMPHREYS, Charles. A Compendium of the Common Law in Force in Kentucky. Lexington: William Gibbes Hunt, 1822. Contemporary tooled leather. -- TOULMIN, Harry and James BLAIR. Review of the Criminal Law of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Frankfort: W. Hunter, 1804. 20th-century brown calf. -- Together, 4 works in 4 volumes, all first edition, 8vo, condition generally good.Property from the Estate of Mary Patricia Reynolds, Bowling Green, KentuckyFor condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

[KENTUCKY & WESTERN SETTLEMENT NARRATIVES]. A Group of 7 works, comprising:  ATHERTON, William C. Narrative of the Suffering & Defeat of the North-Western Army. Frankfort, KY: A.G. Hodges, 1842. Contemporary tooled calf. Sabin 2273. -- FLINT, Timothy. Indian Wars of the West. Cincinnati: E.H. Flint, 1833. Near-contemporary calf backed blue paper boards. Sabin notes: "Stevens 'Bibliotheca Historia' quotes an 1830 edition," but no evidence of this edition has been found. Sabin 24790. Howes F-201-- [CLARKE, Lewis Garrard - CLARKE, Milton]. Narratives of the Sufferings of Lewis and Milton Clarke. Boston: Bela Marsh, 1846. Original stamped blue cloth gilt. Sabin 13434. -- M'CLUNG, John A. Sketches of Western Adventure. Maysville, KY: L. Collins, 1832. Contemporary mottled calf, gilt-lettered spine. Sabin 43052. -- THOMPSON, J.J. A History of the Feud Between the Hill and Evans Parties of Garrard County, KY. Cincinnati: U.P. James, [1854]. Original printed wrappers. Reprint of Louisville edition of the same year. -- And 2 others. -- Together, 7 works in 7 volumes, all first edition except where noted, 8vo and 12mo, condition generally very good.Property from the Estate of Mary Patricia Reynolds, Bowling Green, KentuckyFor condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

LITTELL, Charles (1768-1824). The Statute Law of Kentucky.  Frankfort: William Hunter, 1809, 1810, 1814.3 volumes (of 5, lacking vol.III,1811 and vol.V, 1819) 8vo (203 x 130 mm). (Spotting throughout.) Mid-20th century brown calf gilt by Alan Grace (lacking most spine labels).   FIRST EDITION of the first critically edited compilation of Kentucky laws and statutes, recognized as a founding documents of state jurisprudence. HRS Kentucky 340, 508, 726; Jillson Rare Kentucky Books, p.41.Property from the Estate of Mary Patricia Reynolds, Bowling Green, KentuckyFor condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

LITTELL, William (1768-1824) -- SWIGERT, Jacob (1793-1869). A Digest of the Statute Law of Kentucky. Frankfort: Kendall and Russell, 1822.  2 volumes, 8vo (206 x 129 mm). (Spotting and browning, a few creases) Contemporary sheep, red morocco lettering-pieces gilt (scuffing and light wear, creasing to spines). Provenance: Lawrence Circuit Court (ownership inscriptions in 19th century hand). FIRST EDITION of Kentucky lawyer Littell's digest report of the laws and statues of Kentucky from 1799 to 1822, which included notes and commentaries on decisions made by the Court of Appeals written with the assistance of lawyer and judge Jacob Swigert. HRS Kentucky 983, 985.Property from the Estate of Mary Patricia Reynolds, Bowling Green, KentuckyFor condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

MARQUETTE, Jacques (1637-1675). Ontdekking Van eenige Landen en Volkeren, in 't Noorder-gedeelte Van America. Door P. Marquette en Joliet. Gedaan in het Jaar 167. Leiden: Pieter Vander Aa, 1707.  8vo (178 x 112 mm). Engraved title page vignette by J. Goeree, engraved folding map "Land en Volk-ontdekking in 't Noorder ge deelte van America, door P. Marquette en Joliet"; 2 folding engraved plates. (Small wormtrack to gutter margins, stab holes from old binding in gutter margin, minor chipping with loss to lower corner of title-page). 19th-century wrappers, waste leaves from an 1867 collection of German poetry (chipping with losses); board folding case.   Provenance: Chicago Historical Society (perforated stamp and manuscript annotations, withdrawn September 1948); Wright Howes (1882-1978), Chicago bookseller and bibliographer (pencil-written note about the first edition of the present work on personal memo sheet).  FIRST EDITION IN DUTCH, BY THE CO-DISCOVERER OF THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI, a translation of Marquette 's Decouverte de quelques pays et nations de l 'Amerique septentrionale in Thevenot's Recueil de voyages published Paris,1681. The publisher, Vander Aa, published the present edition in parts and also issued them separately. Marquette first arrived in Quebec in September 1666 and later founded the mission of St. Ignace on the Straits of Mackinac, the first settlement in Michigan. In 1673, he joined Louis Jolliet's expedition in search of an overland route to the Mississippi River, during which they became the first Europeans to explore the Upper Mississippi, travelling as far south as the mouth of the Arkansas River. On their return, they travelled back to the mouth of the Illinois River and reached Lake Michigan near the site of present-day Chicago by way of the Chicago Portage. Alden & Landis 707/102; Sabin 44666n.For condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

MARSHALL, Humphrey (1760-1841). The History of Kentucky. Frankfort: Henry Gore, 1812.One volume (all published), 8vo (203 x 120 mm). (Lacking the rare plate, some browning or staining.) Contemporary calf, smooth spine gilt, red morocco lettering-piece gilt.  FIRST EDITION of the "most valuable early Kentucky history, with the fullest treatment of border wars and massacres" (Howes). Only one volume was issued in 1812, despite a note on the title-page indicating that two volumes would be published. The second edition of 1824 was complete in two volumes. The plate is not called for in most of the bibliographies (except Jillson) and is generally lacking in institutional copies. VERY RARE: according to online records, only two copies have sold at auction since the Streeter sale. Bradford 3204; Howes M-313; Jillson p.47 ("always difficult to obtain"); McMurtrie 435; Sabin 44780; Streeter Sale III: 1647 (also lacking the plate).Property from the Estate of Mary Patricia Reynolds, Bowling Green, KentuckyFor condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

[BRITISH HISTORY]. A group of 3 works, comprising:  RYMER, Thomas. Acta Regia; being the account which Mr. Rapin de Thoyras published of the History of England... London: Printed for James, John and Paul Knapton, D. Midwinter, and others, [1734?]. Folio (385 x 240 mm). Contemporary half calf (rebacked, upper board detached, wear). Later edition. ESTC T110722. -- CAMPBELL, John. A Political Survey of Britain. London: Printed for the author, 1774. 2 volumes, 4to (385 x 240 mm). Contemporary calf (upper boards detached, wear). FIRST EDITION. ESTC T90453; Sabin 10239. -- TOPHAM, John. Some Account of the Collegiate Chapel of Saint Stephen. [London: published for the Society of Antiquaries, 1795]. Large folio (628 x 460 mm). 14 engraved plates (damp-staining and spotting affecting a few plates). Half blue morocco gilt (wear to extremities). Provenance: Frederick Roach? (signature, 1855). FIRST EDITION. ESTC T105074. -- Together, 3 works in 4 volumes, folios, FIRST EDITIONS except where noted. Provenance: John M. Wing (1845-1917), American printer, publisher and collector, (Old Corner Library bookplate), benefactor to; Newberry Library (library deaccession stamps). Bindings as described, condition as described.Property from the Newberry Library, Chicago, IllinoisFor condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

METCALF, Samuel Lytler (1798-1856). A Collection of Some of the Most Interesting Narratives of Indian Warfare in the West, Containing an Account of the Adventures of Colonel Daniel Boone. Lexington, KY: William G. Hunt, 1821.  8vo (209 x 125 mm). Errata slip pasted to last page. (Some spotting or browning, ca 5 leaves with burn marks to lower corners). Contemporary calf, smooth spine gilt, red morocco lettering-piece gilt. Provenance: James Miller (early signature).  FIRST EDITION, [Metcalf's compilation] "seeking to preserve for posterity early border narratives, has become almost as rare as the originals themselves" (Howes). Included are the captivity narratives of Colonel James Smith, Jackson Johonnet, John Slover, and a description of Daniel Boone's battles with Native Americans, as well as descriptions of episodes from the French and Indian War. Howes M-560; Sabin 48166; Streeter III:1655.Property from the Estate of Mary Patricia Reynolds, Bowling Green, KentuckyFor condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

RAMSAY, David (1749-1815). The History of the American Revolution. Philadelphia: R. Aitken & Son, 1789.  2 volumes, 8vo (112 x 195 mm). (A few wormholes to endpapers and flyleaves; a few leaves loose vol.I, toning and spotting.) Contemporary calf, spine gilt (rubbed, upper board detached vol.I; upper joint separating vol.II; wear to head of spine vol.II). Provenance: John Clarion? Jr. (signature); M.S. Jones (signature).    FIRST EDITION of Ramsay 's account of the Revolution, drawn from materials collected by the author while serving as a member of the Continental Congress in the years 1782, 1783, 1785 and 1786. Evans 22090; Howes R-35; Sabin 67687.For condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

BUONAMICI, Francesco (1533-1603). Discorsi Poetici Nella Accademia Fiorentina In Difesa d ' Aristotile. Florence: Giorgio Marescotti, 1597.  4to (197 x 134 mm). Title-page printed within architectural woodcut border, woodcut initials. (Title trimmed short, a few quires browned.) Contemporary vellum (endpapers renewed). Provenance:   Sticker with shelfmark on title verso.  FIRST EDITION of Buonamici's response to Ludovico Castelvetro's 1570 commentary on Aristotle, which was widely known for its inaccuracy. Adams B-3278.For condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

STOWE, Harriet Beecher (1811-1896) -- HENSON, Josiah (1789-1883). Father Henson's Story of His Own Life. Boston and Cleveland: John P. Jewett and Henry P. Jewett, 1858.8vo. Portrait frontispiece. (Spotting to preliminary leaves.) Original publisher's brown cloth gilt (slightly leaned, minor chipping to extremities). FIRST EDITION of Henson's autobiography, with an introduction by Harriet Beecher Stowe, of the work widely believed to have inspired Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin. Sabin 31433.Property from the Estate of Mary Patricia Reynolds, Bowling Green, KentuckyFor condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

WASHINGTON, George (1732-1799).  The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources 1745-1799. John C. Fitzpatrick, editor. Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1931-1944.    39 volumes, 8vo. Original blue cloth (minor soiling to a few volumes, spines slightly sunned).  FIRST EDITION of the "George Washington Bicentennial Edition."  For condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

WEBSTER, Delia Ann (1817-1904). Kentucky Jurisprudence. [sic] A History of the Trial of Miss Delia A. Webster. Vergennes, VT: E. W. Blaisdell, 1845.12mo (189 x 113 mm). (Spotting throughout.) Original printed wrappers, stab-sewn (corners creased). FIRST EDITION of Webster's own account of her trial in which she was convicted of aiding the Hayden Family, 3 self-emancipated fugitives from slavery in Kentucky. She was sentenced to "2 years hard labor," however, she was pardoned just 2 months later on February 24, 1845. She returned to Vermont and published this account, which Jillson calls, "an unusual item of much interest." Webster would later become an active participant in the Underground Railroad and served as a nurse during the Civil War. Jillson, Rare Kentucky Books, pp.108-109. RARE: OCLC locates only 3 copies; according to online records, only 2 other copies ever sold.  Property from the Estate of Mary Patricia Reynolds, Bowling Green, KentuckyFor condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

[WESTERN EXPANSION]. A group of 5 works, comprising:  [McAFEE, Robert Breckinridge]. History of the Late War in the Western Country. Lexington: Worsley & Smith, 1816. FIRST EDITION. Contemporary leather; modern leather gilt and marbled paper slipcase. Sabin 42929 -- DRAKE, Samuel G. Biography and History of the Indians of North America. Boston, New York, and Philadelphia: O.L. Perkins, G. & C.   & N. Carvill, and Grigg & Elliot, 1834. Contemporary leather. -- [PRITTS, Joseph]. Incidents of Border Life. Lancaster, PA: G. Hills, 1841. Contemporary mottled calf. Howes P-622. Sabin 65719. -- BUTTERFIELD, C.W. An Historical Account of the Expedition Against Sandusky. Cincinnati: Robert Clarke & Co., 1873. Contemporary half leather gilt with marbled boards. -- THOMPSON, Ed Porter. History of the Orphan Brigade. Louisville: Lewis N. Thompson, 1898. Original printed brown cloth rebacked with brown sheep gilt. -- Together 5 works in 5 volumes, 8vo, condition generally very good.Property from the Estate of Mary Patricia Reynolds, Bowling Green, KentuckyFor condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

WITHERS, Alexander (1792-1865). Chronicles of Border Warfare. Clarksburg, VA: Joseph Israel, 1831.12mo (178 x 105 mm). Advertisements at end. (Scattered spotting, a few marginal pencil annotations.) Contemporary marbled calf, smooth spine gilt in 5 compartments, leather gilt-lettered spine label (a few scuffs, some creasing on spine).FIRST EDITION of Wither's "scarce book [of which] very few copies are complete or in good condition. Having been issued in a remote corner of Northwestern Virginia, and designed principally for a local circulation, almost every copy was read by a country fire-side until scarcely legible...The author took much pains to be authentic, and his chronicles are considered by Western antiquarians, to form the best collection of frontier life and Indian warfare, that has been printed."(Field 1690). Howes W-601; Sabin 104928.  Property from the Estate of Mary Patricia Reynolds, Bowling Green, KentuckyFor condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

ADAMS, Ansel (1902-1984). Images 1923-1974. Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1974.  Oblong folio. 115 extended range photolithographic reproductions. Original leather-backed grey cloth; publisher's pictorial dust jacket; unopened in original shrink wrap; original silver-stamped folding case (slight fading to extremities).  FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 196 of 1,000 copies of the "De Luxe Edition" SIGNED BY ADAMS.    [Laid into slipcase:] ORIGINAL GELATIN SILVER PRINT PHOTOGRAPH.  Fern Spring, Dusk, Yosemite Valley, California, ca. 1961. LIMITED EDITION, number CXCVI of 500 copies numbered in Roman numerals of a total edition of 1,000. SIGNED BY ADAMS in pencil on mount, dry mounted on archival board.  Property from the Collection of Michael and Kay MeletFor condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

ADAMS, Ansel (1902-1984). -- AUSTIN, Mary (1968-1934). Taos Pueblo. Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1977.Folio. 12 reproductions of Adams ' photographs. Quarter tan morocco over orange cloth, matching orange cloth slipcase (very minor scuffs).  LIMITED EDITION, number 895 of 950 copies SIGNED BY ADAMS, a later facsimile edition of Adam 's first book originally published in 1930 by the Grabhorn Press in an edition of 108 copies.  For condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

CASTIGLIONE, Baldassare (1478-1529). [The Courtier.]  Il Libro del Cortegiano. Florence: Benedetto Giunta, 1537.  Small 8vo (154 x 102 mm). Woodcut device on title-page, 5-7 line initial spaces with guide letters.   (Title laid down, lacking a portion of upper margin and soiled, A2 with repair recto, some spotting, lacking B8, blank.) Contemporary vellum, hand-lettered on spine and edges.   Provenance: Arthur Mullin (bookplate).  FIRST BENEDETTO GIUNTA EDITION of the first book to appear with his imprint.   The first Giunta family press was established in Venice by Lucantonio Giunta in 1489; some thirty members of the family became printers or booksellers. RARE: according to online records, only three copies of this edition have sold at auction in the last 40 years.  Property from the Collection of Edward A. QuattrocchiFor condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com

CALDER, Alexander (1898-1976). LIPMAN, Jean and FOOTE, Nancy, editors. Calder 's Circus.  New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc. in association with the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1972.  4to. Numerous illustrations. Publisher 's yellow pictorial boards; dust jacket (price-clipped); slipcase.  FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY CALDER.  Property from the Collection of Michael and Kay MeletFor condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com