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Click here to subscribeFine, Oronce (1494-1555) Extract from Geometriae Practicae. [from Protomathesis? Pages 50-99] Paris, 1530. Folio, with bookseller`s letter claiming that this copy belonged to the author; two contemporary inscriptions on the title, and some initials on the rear end leaf, illustrated with woodcuts throughout the text, water stain to top margin of the first ten leaves, contemporary sheepskin binding with some minor damage and old repairs.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
Guide to the Union Pacific R.R. Lands. 12,000,000 Acres. Omaha: Republican Steam Printing House, 1870. Octavo, original printed pink paper wrappers, frontispiece map, large folding map of the first 200 miles of the railway, the Nebraska land grants from 1862 to 1864; 36 pages, stab sewn; some spotting, folding, and water stains, maps with slight tears, 9 x 5 7/8 in.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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).
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).
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
Kircher, Athanasius (1602-1680) China Monumentis. Amsterdam: Joannes Jansson a Waesberg & Elizeum Weyerstraet, 1667. Folio, engraved title, engraved vignette on typographical title, typographical title torn with 1 1/2 x 2 1/2 in. C-shaped lacuna to the blank margin; full-paged engraved portrait of Kircher in his library; large folding map of China, large folding table of Eastern languages torn and repaired, two full-paged engraved plates of Syriac inscriptions; large folding map of Asia torn with slight reparable loss, tape repairs, on ink spot, detached from book; full-paged plate of the miraculous cross of Saint Thomas in India; eleven text engravings mainly depicting people; full-paged engraving of the Mughal Emperor; three text engravings of animals; full-paged standing portrait of Kam Hi, the second emperor of the Manchu Qing dynasty; two full-paged engravings of typical regional Chinese types, each with six frames; full-paged standing portrait of the Jesuit astronomer Johann Adam Schall von Bell (1592-1666); full-paged standing portrait of Matteo Ricci and Li Paulus Magnus; two full-paged engravings of a Japanese woman with a bird in two different domestic settings; text engraving of an Indian religious rite; full-paged engraving of a Chinese temple; folding engraving of a Chinese painting; text engraving depicting a Japanese religious rite; text engraving of the Buddha on a lotus; full-paged engraving of a seated many-armed Buddha on a lotus with Sanskrit inscription; two repeated text engravings: the Japanese and Indian rites; full-paged anatomical Brahma man engraving; ten text engravings illustrating a Hindu Brahman tale, the first engraving, signed, Mm, pasted over the original imprint, which was mistakenly printed upside down; five full-paged engravings of Sanskrit; three large text engravings depicting a dragon fighting a tiger, seven mountains with reference to Ursa Major, and a carved idol; text engraving of a baby floating on a small raft in the middle of a lake; ten text engravings of botanical subjects; text-size engraving printed on an otherwise blank sheet extraneous to the collation (considered full-paged: Qqq); five text engravings of animals and birds; text engraving of an underground kiln; full-paged engraving of a bridge; text engraving of the great wall, with an elephant; text engraving of two large bells; eight text engravings of Chinese characters; text engraving of a calligrapher; lacking Hh2, the middle leaf of the index, and Hh4 ?blank. Plate count: engraved title; portrait of Kircher; two folding maps; two folding engravings; twenty-one full-paged engravings; and fifty-nine text engravings; bound in later leather, boards dry, rebacked, text leaves 15 x 9 1/2 in. Occasional spotting and tears.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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).
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).
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.
Marullus, Michael Tarchaniota (1458-1500); Hieronymus Angerianus (d. 1535); and Johannes Secundus (1511-1536) Poetae Tres Elegantissimi. Paris: Du-Puys, 1582. First edition, octavo, lacking the last two leaves of text. [with a separate title page for] Girolamo Angeriano`s Erotopaegnion, Paris: Duuallium, 1582. [and] Johannes Secundus`s Poetae Elegantissimi, Paris: Duuallium, 1582; bound in contemporary stiff parchment, yapp edges, title page folded to preserve extensive manuscript note, worming, some toning, 4 1/2 x 3 in.
Mason, George C. (fl. circa 1870) Newport and Its Cottages. [Boston: Osgood & Co., 1875]. First edition, folio, 109 hinged leaves, text printed on the rectos only, illustrated with forty-five full-paged heliotype plates and other text illustrations, in the original blind tooled, and gold-lettered publisher`s morocco binding, with chamfered edges and inner gilt dentelles, a.e.g., taffeta-textured endleaves and paste downs, binding intact without repairs, surface abrasions, corners bumped, foxing to fly leaves, 14 x 10 3/4 in.
Medical Books, Eighteen Books and Five Pamphlets: Including Allen`s A System of Human Anatomy, Philadelphia: Lea`s Son & Co., 1882, Sections I-VI, portfolios damaged, pages loose and chipped; de Lint`s Atlas of the History of Medicine, part one, Anatomy, London: Lewis, 1926; Killian`s Accessory Sinuses of the Nose, Jena: Fischer, 1904, first English editions, illustrations with translucent overlays, defective portfolio, all fifteen plates present; Eycleshymer and Shoemaker`s A Cross-Section Anatomy, New York: Appleton, [1911]; Sante`s Manual of Radiological Technique, Ann Arbor, Michigan: Edwards Brothers, 1935; Holmes and Ruggles`s Roentgen Interpretation, Philadelphia: Lea & Febiger, 1921; Beck`s Roentgen Ray Diagnosis and Therapy, New York: Appleton, 1908; Krafft-Ebing`s An Experimental Study in the Domain of Hypnotism: New York: Putnam`s, 1896; Ferrario`s Statistica delle Morti Improvvise, Milan, 1834; Talbot`s Degeneracy, its Causes, Signs, and Results, London: Scott, 1898, illustrated; Katz`s Electrocardiography, Philadelphia: Lea & Febiger, [1941]; an illustrated booklet on diseases in the Belgian Congo, 1926; Bhavanrao Shrinivasrao`s Urya Namaskrs, Aundh, India, 1931; and five other pamphlets, medical paper off-prints and illustrated catalogs, late 19th to early 20th century. (23).
Middle Eastern Manuscripts, Five Volumes: Risalah fi Fann al-Munazarah [Epistle on the Art of Debating]. [?Damascus, 15th Century], ten glossy laid paper leaves, small quarto format, text in black ink with some red, approximately nineteen lines per page; later inscriptions in purple ink, some side notes slightly trimmed in later marbled paper wrappers, 8 x 5 3/4 in. [Dalail al-Khayyirat, Guide to Good Deeds, Prayers, Poetry], manuscript on paper in Arabic, Ottoman Turkey, with gilt and colored illuminations of Mecca and Medina, and embellishments,18th century, rebound in later red goatskin, stamped in gold, with flap, first leaf mounted, 5 1/2 x 3 1/4 in. Dervis Ahmet Manuscript by Mehmet, Arabic manuscript on paper, six leaves, early 18th century, attributed to the court calligrapher to Sultan Ahmet III, in gilt morocco binding; some leaves with holes repaired, some leaves mounted, all guarded, resewn, 6 1/4 x 4 in. Arabic calligraphy, approximately thirty-three leaves removed from various Arabic manuscripts from 16th to 19th centuries, condition and sizes vary. Burmese Parabaik, astrological or tattoo manuscript, 20th century, single sheet accordion-style text block with lightweight blackened wood covers carved with an image of a man on one side and a cat on the other, twelve openings accessible from both sides, with polychrome images throughout, images and text in pen and ink, enhanced with crayon and colored pencil throughout, depicting mainly tigers and humans; outer covers 8 3/4 x 4 3/4 in., the sheet measuring 9 3/4 feet when the accordion is fully extended; text leaves with minor smudging throughout. (5).
Miller, Henry (1891-1980) Quiet Days in Clichy. Paris: The Olympia Press, 1956. First edition, illustrated by Brassaï (1899-1984), in original boldly printed graphic black, gray, yellow, and white limp paper wraps designed by Shinkichi Tajiri (1923-2009), illustrated throughout with Brassaï`s photographs; light softening of corners, 6 7/8 x 4 1/4 in.
Mixed Lot: 1816-1921, Fine Bindings, Signed Copies, First Editions, Five Volumes. William Warden`s Letters Written on Board His Majesty`s Ship the Northumberland, and at Saint Helena; in which the Conduct and Conversation of Napoleon Bonaparte [.] are Faithfully Described and Related, London: for the author, by Ackerman, 1816, third edition, portrait, three-quarter red morocco, spotting and dampstaining. George Moore`s (1852-1933) Confessions of a Young Man, London: Sonnenschein, Lowrey, & Co., 1888, portrait, cloth from original covers and spine bound in at back, three-quarter rust-colored calf and buckram, spine sunned, dry. Walter de la Mare`s (1873-1956) Songs of Childhood, London: Longmans, Green, & Co., 1902, first edition of author`s first book, in publisher`s half cream cloth and blue cloth boards, with gilt emblem, inscribed by de la Mare on ffep, in custom stiff buckram chemise and half-morocco slipcase. de la Mare`s Memoirs of a Midget, London: Collins, [1921], publisher`s cloth, inscribed by the author to Theodore Spicer-Simson (1871-1959) on ffep, photograph of the medallion portrait Simson made of de la Mare pasted inside the front board, with Simson`s signature, in custom half-morocco slipcase and chemise, white spotting to case and chemise. William Henry Hudson`s (1841-1922) Green Mansions, London: Duckworth & Co., 1904, first edition, publisher`s green cloth, housed in half green morocco slipcase, spine faded to a tan color. (5).
Modern Poetry and Literature, Eight Volumes: Wallace Stevens`s (1879-1955) Notes toward a Supreme Fiction, Cummington Press, 1942, in publisher`s white cloth boards, lettered on both boards and spine; Dylan Thomas`s Under Milk Wood, London: Dent & Sons, [1954], with dust jacket; The Poems of Dylan Thomas, New York: New Directions, 1971, third printing, in a signed morocco binding by Maurin; T.S. Eliot`s After Strange Gods, London: Faber & Faber, 1934, first trade edition, in publisher`s cloth; Aldous Huxley`s Words and Their Meanings, Los Angeles: Ward Ritchie Press, [1940], with the dust jacket; Lawrence Durrell`s Two Excursions into Reality, [Berkeley]: Circle Edition, 1947, with the dust jacket; E.E. Cummings`s W, New York: Horace Liveright, 1931, publisher`s binding, first leaf with pencil notes; The Collected Sonnets of John Keats, illustrated by John Buckland Wright, Maastricht: Halcyon Press, 1930. (8).
Monconys, Balthasar de (1611-1665) Journal des Voyages. Lyons: Boissat & Remeus, 1665-1666. First edition, three quarto volumes, illustrated with thirty engraved plates by Claude Debarge, bound in contemporary speckled sheepskin bindings intact, some losses to leather spines, most of the gold has rubbed away. Monconys` was one of the earliest journeys taken in the name of science. He traveled to England, the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Portugal, and east to Turkey, Syria, and Egypt.
Montaigne, Michel de (1533-1592) Essays, Illustrated and Signed by Salvador Dali (1904-1989). Garden City: Doubleday & Co., 1947. First edition, number 359 of 1,000 copies, signed by Dali on the limitation page, illustrations in black and white and color, bound in original publisher`s blue cloth, stamped in gold, with newer Mylar wrapper, t.e.g., 9 3/4 x 6 3/4 in.
Morris, Earl H.; Jean Charlot; Ann Axtell. The Temple of the Warriors at Chichen Itza, Yucatan. Washington: Carnegie Institution, 1931. First edition, two folio volumes, illustrated with photographs, colored plates, and folding plans, in publisher`s light blue cloth, slightly reflexed, 12 1/4 x 9 in. (2).
Newton, Sir Isaac (1642-1727) The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy. London: for H.D. Symonds, 1803. Octavo, three volumes bound as one, first complete edition of Newton`s Principia, with his "System of the World," a comment by Emerson, and other additions, illustrated with a portrait frontispiece of Newton, seventy-four folding engravings and two folding tables, rebound in modern calf, some pages with paper repairs, browning, other slight defects, 7 3/4 x 4 3/4 in.
Olmsted, Timothy (1759-1848) The Musical Olio. Northampton, Massachusetts: Andrew Wright, 1805. First edition, oblong format, 112 pages, old boards, worn, spine repaired with old masking tape, boards detached, front board cracked, title page and preliminaries loose, title page with old yellow highlighting the title and author`s name, contents evenly toned, occasional spotting, 9 1/4 x 5 1/2 in. Timothy Olmsted played fife in the Lexington Alarm in 1775. He served as a musician during the Revolutionary War, fought in the Battle of White Plains, and later reenlisted to fight in the War of 1812.
Parker, Ann and Avon Neal. Early American Stone Sculpture. New York: Sweetwater Editions, 1981. First edition, copy number seven of 175 bound in full calf, housed in a clamshell box, signed by Neal and Parker on the limitation page, with one original gravestone rubbing taken directly from the Pompey Brenton marker in Newport, Rhode Island, signed and numbered by Parker and Neal, and two selenium-toned silver prints taken, processed, signed and numbered by Parker, very good, 17 x 11 3/4 in.
Parker, Ann, and Avon Neal. Los Ambulantes, the Itinerant Photographers of Guatemala. North Brookfield, Massachusetts: Thistle Hill Press, [1982]. First edition, number ninety-one of 100 copies signed by Parker and Neal on limitation page, with an original signed silver print by Parker, matted, in publisher`s folder, the book bound in Guatemalan fabric, in a custom clamshell case, one corner slightly bumped, otherwise very good, 14 3/4 x 10 1/4 in. overall.
Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973) Toreros, ed. Jaime Sabartes (1881-1968). New York: Braziller, [1961]. First edition, with four original lithographs (one in color), oblong format, bright publisher`s red cloth binding, stamped in black, with the dust jacket, spine slightly sunned, very good, 10 x 13 in.
Pinelli, Maffei (d. 1785) Bibliotheca Pinelliana. London: Catalogues to be had of Robson & Clarke, and Edwards, [1789]. Octavo, with half-title, bound in modern half red morocco by Harcourt; large untrimmed copy, with prices realized added by hand throughout; minor spotting, chipping, toning, generally good, 10 x 6 in. In the course of this lengthy auction, nearly 13,000 lots of rare books were sold. The auctioneers divided the work into two sessions, the first beginning on Monday, March 2, 1779, and ending on Thursday, March 26; the second resuming on Monday, April 20, and concluding on Tuesday, June 2, of the same year. The sales were held six days a week during the sessions, selling approximately 200 lots per day, and only taking Sundays off. Pinelli`s collection included a copy of the Complutensian Polyglot printed on vellum; a Fust and Schoeffer Latin Bible, dated 1462; many Greek editio princeps; and dozens of incunabula.
Pope, Alexander (1688-1744) The Rape of the Lock, Illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley. London: Leonard Smithers [Chiswick Press], 1896. First edition, quarto, seven full-paged cuts by Beardsley, and two vignettes, title printed in red and black, bound in publisher`s turquoise cloth blocked in gold with a design by Beardsley, spine slightly sunned; some spotting, not affecting the plates, 10 1/4 x 7 1/2 in.
Potter, Eliza (fl. circa 1850) A Hairdresser`s Experience in High Life. Cincinnati: for the Author, 1859. First edition, octavo, in publisher`s red cloth, block in blind on the boards, in gilt on the spine, spot on title page, and other light spotting, spine slightly torn, corners bumped, boards with a few stains, 7 1/2 x 4 1/2 in. In a classic upstairs/downstairs confessional, Potter describes the lives of her clients. She describes old New York (upper Fifth Avenue was woods), winters in New Orleans, and shares her abolitionist views. She also struggles with her conscience. "I made up my mind to settle down and be quiet--to see and not see, to hear and not hear--but I found it was impossible to do this and continue my occupation as a hair-dresser.".
Pound, Ezra (1885-1972) Provença. Boston: Small, Maynard and Co., [1910]. First edition, first issue, with "Laudante" on pages 53 and 55, partially unopened, in the dust jacket, split along front joint of jacket, and half-inch piece missing from head, bound in publisher`s tan paper covered boards, title printed on spine and front board, 6 3/4 x 4 1/8 in.
Ramsden, Jesse (1735-1800) Description d`Une Machine pour Diviser. Paris: Didot, 1790. First edition in French, large quarto, title page dusty and water stained, illustrated with seven large folding engravings bound after the text; original limp paper wrappers, stab sewn, untrimmed, with deckle edges throughout, marginal water stains to first thirteen pages of text. Ramsden was a maker of mathematical instruments; this work is a description of his "dividing engine," which was used to accurately scribe lines onto measuring devices like astrolabes, sextants, and protractors. Setting circles are the graded measurements etched onto dials on telescopes; these enable the observer to find objects in the sky by the equatorial coordinates used in celestial charts.
Rand, Ayn (1905-1982) Atlas Shrugged. New York: Random House, [1957]. First edition, in green publisher`s cloth and the dust jacket with George Salter`s illustration on the front cover, and the black and white portrait of Rand on the back, 8 3/4 x 5 3/4 in. [and] a first edition, mixed issue of The Fountainhead, Philadelphia: Blakiston Co., [1943], no dust jacket, the page number on page nine looks like a zero; on page 321, line 5, the word referred is spelled "refrred"; "Dominique" is spelled correctly on page 480; in green publisher`s cloth, 8 1/4 x 5 1/2 in. (2).
Ribadeneira, Pedro de (1527-1611) Vita del P. Ignatio Loiola. Venice: Giolito, 1586. First Italian edition, with elaborate woodcut title compartment, portrait of Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556), and printer`s device on colophon, head and tail pieces and initials, bound in parchment, worming to several signatures in the interior with loss of text, water stains, first signature sprung and detached, title page with short tear, text spotted, 8 1/4 x 6 1/2 in. This biography of the founder of the Jesuit order was composed by a Spanish member of the order who was admitted at the age of thirteen by Ignatius himself.
Russia, 18th Century, Orthodox Church, Law, Three Volumes: Orthodox Liturgical Book in Church Slavonic, c. 1762, octavo, lacking title page, printed in red and black throughout, with woodcut headpieces, bound in a later leather blind tooled binding with a large cross on the front cover, and "Heilige Schrift" tooled on the spine, this binding likely taken from a German bible and applied to this book; later light blue end leaves, spine reflexed. Alexi of Russia (1629-1676) Ulozhenie po kotoromu sud i rosprava (title and all text in Russian language/Cyrillic alphabet), Saint Petersburg: Printer of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, 1759, quarto, third edition, engraved portrait of Alexi, three-quarter leather and decorated paper boards, worn, rubbed, spotting, some minor water stains. Catherine II`s (1762-1796) Blagochestivi, Saint Petersburg: Royal Typographers, 1785, quarto, two parts in one volume, with separate title page, pagination continuous, 260 pages, half leather, marbled paper boards, some tears, old signature cut from the blank margins of the first title, repaired, some pencil underlining. (3).
Saint-Exupery, Antoine de (1900-1944) The Little Prince. New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, [1943] Limited edition, first edition in English, signed by the author, copy number 298 of 500, translated by Katherine Woods, in publisher`s peach-colored cloth binding, stamped in red, and the original dust jacket, price-clipped, torn with loss at the head of the spine and a larger section torn with loss on the back cover, other wear and minor tears, edge wear, spine sun-faded, early ownership inscription on ffep, ticket of Des Forges, Books de Luxe of Milwaukee, pasted inside the back board, 8 3/4 x 7 in. Saint-Exupery disappeared while flying a reconnaissance mission on German troop movements on July 31, 1944.
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) Works. Philadelphia: Printed and Sold by Bioren & Madan, 1795. Volume one only, of eight; first American edition, octavo, not collated, 384 pages; title page and frontispiece present, at least two text leaves torn with loss, a large copy, with deckle edges throughout, with browning and spotting; disbound, lacking the front board, original back board present, covered in blue paper, in an old paper cover, 7 1/4 x 4 1/4 in.
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